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Thursday, July 8, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • CHINA: Giant Seeks to Play Superman
    As China's aggressive acquisitions in Europe and beyond create ripples of unease in a global economy gripped by fear of another recession, many commentators are discerning a unified strategy for expansion orchestrated by Beijing.
  • ICELAND: The Ash Comes Down Like a Blessing to Som ...
    "It's unbelievable, the eruption has had a very good effect on the grass," says farmer Finnur Tryggvason in Raudafell, just beneath the Eyjafjallajokull glacier that erupted in April and continued till late May.
  • EGYPT: Corruption Watchdogs Bite Selectively
    Anti-corruption watchdogs have shown their teeth, but Egypt's fat cats appear safe from prosecution as long as they stay in favour with the regime.
  • THAILAND: Sexuality 101 Exhibit Says It Straight
    Teenage boys gape at a coloured photograph of a vagina, while girls give embarrassed smiles as they watch a cartoon that showed penises 'talking' about masturbation. Young girls crowd around a display panel about love and relationships, as a boy embraces a female mannequin with all his might ...
  • Bolivian Lowlands Get Life-Saving Flood Warning Sy ...
    An early warning system to alert people living in the lowlands of the northern Bolivian department of Beni about imminent flooding of the mighty Mamoré and Ibare rivers is saving lives, food and goods, and overcoming the uncertainty that led to enormous losses in the past.

Scoop - NZ

  • Gulf Seabed Life: Many Unknowns
    The deep seabed was once considered a biological desert. Life, the logic went, was synonymous with light and photosynthesis. The sun powered the planet's food chains, and only a few scavengers could ply the preternaturally dark abyss. Then, in 1977, oceanographers working in the deep Pacific stumbl ...
  • China property market braced for 30% drop
    Stephen Green, the bank's China economist, said a glut of newly built homes were hitting the market just as buyers are restrained by higher down-payments and curbs on speculation. "We believe developers will be forced to cut prices," he said. Kenneth Rogoff, ex-chief economist for the IMF ...
  • Sinking oil threatens historic Gulf shipwrecks
    Not just flora and fauna are getting caked in oil. So is the Gulf of Mexico's barnacled history of pirates, sea battles and World War II shipwrecks. The Gulf is lined with wooden shipwrecks, American-Indian shell midden mounds, World War II casualties, pirate colonies, historic hotels and old fishi ...
  • Sea Shepherd at Deepwater Ground Zero
    Everyone is wondering whether BP and the US government are doing enough to protect and clean up the Gulf of Mexico from the horrendous spill originating at the Deepwater Horizon oilrig. After 10 hours of flying over the disaster area, we can tell you that they are not. There was a brief break in th ...
  • What's in an ecolabel ?
    whats does that label really mean ? Anything ? ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Keeping phones focused
    The transparent silicon wafer is smaller than a pencil’s eraser tip and as thin as a sheet of paper. But the LensVector autofocus camera lens — the world’s tiniest — has big prospects. And it may soon turn the cellular-phone industry on its ear. Developed by Tigran Galstian, a physics and engineerin ...
  • Fertilizer from the sea
    When the first European settlers arrived to scratch out a living on the thin soils across Atlantic Canada, they quickly made use of the seaweed on the beaches around them as a plentiful source of crop fertilizer. This age-old European practice continues in the region to this day, and now a Nova Scot ...
  • i2eye with Rick Hansen
  • i2eye with Stephen Hawking and Neil Turok
    It takes a special kind of communicator to make physics understandable to the average person. But more than 20 years ago, Stephen Hawking did just that with the publication of “A Brief History of Time,” a popular account of what was known about the origin and evolution of our universe. The book beca ...
  • Paleo art
    All that’s left of the most numerous, diverse and successful creatures that ever walked the face of the Earth are bones. Dinosaurs left behind on YouTube videos, photographs or even cave drawings. Yet we can get a glimpse into the natural existence of these “terrible lizards” through the work of Alb ...

Signs of the times

  • Scientists Claim Fish "Talk" to Each Other
    Fish communicate with each other in a secret language of grunts, growls, chirps and pops, researchers in New Zealand have discovered. Far from being a place of deep silence, the underwater world is abuzz with the sound of fish sweet-talking the opposite sex, warning others of danger, giving direct ...
  • UK: Only One in Seven Parents Sees Smacking Childr ...
    Just one in seven parents sees smacking as a "very high risk" to children, according to a survey. The poll by The Children's Society also found that only a third of adults thought being slapped posed a "high risk" to young people. A similar proportion thought that being hit by their parents had l ...
  • Russia and U.S. Preparing Spy Swap
    Russia and the United States are preparing to carry out a Cold War-style "spy swap" as early as Thursday to free 10 people the FBI accuses of being Russian agents, it was claimed on Wednesday. Under the terms of the alleged deal, the Kremlin would hand over Igor Sutyagin, a Russian academic jailed ...
  • Richard Nixon Planned Nuclear Strike on North Kore ...
    The United States drew up plans for a tactical nuclear strike against North Korea in 1969, but quickly stepped back from the brink fearing it would trigger an all-out war, newly declassified documents in Washington have shown. The planned strike saw US bomber pilots being put on high alert followin ...
  • AT&T iPad 'hacker' breaks gag order to rant at cop ...
    Double standards damned by purported scapegoatse A member of the group that publicised the recent AT&T iPad security breach has violated a gag order to protest his treatment by the authorities. Andrew Auernheimer, 24 (aka Weev), claims he has been thrown into a Kafkaesque nightmare after he helped ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • The Harper Model
    In parliament, this involves ignoring, subverting, or deliberately misrepresenting established procedure, regulation, and custom in the interests of further consolidation of power and disruption of any legitimate Opposition effort to hold the government to account. In public policing, this involves ...
  • Letter of the day, and Kelly McPoll-land finds a p ...
    First the letter : "What is the difference between being told that you do not have the right to public assembly and being told that if you do assemble you run the risk of being injured or arrested? In the first instance, your right has been taken away. In the second, if you stay at home, you have g ...
  • G8/G20 meet the Public Safety Committee
    Via Kady . As per an SO 106(4) request filed earlier today, the chair is now obliged to convene a special meeting of the committee within the next five days "in order to examine all issues surrounding security at the G8 and G20 summits, including but not limited to, the conduct of security per ...
  • Bandananeurism
    Stageleft experiences police on Canada Day in the wake of the G8/20. I don't know what bothers me more about the exchange, the series wired cops growing dimmer by the second as they process the simple equation of 'man + bandana' and come up with 'probable window smasher'. Or their abject rudeness o ...
  • It's dangerous, out there . . .
    JALOPNIK shows us that life does have its dangers, besides the Black Bloc. Alas, for one unfortunate, it was a Porta-Potty.

Media Matters for America

  • Fox's Angle baselessly suggested Berwick wants " ...
    Fox News' Jim Angle baselessly suggested that Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator Dr. Donald Berwick wants "government bureaucrats" to make end-of-life care decisions instead of patients. In fact, Berwick has urged doctors to work with patients and families to make those de ...
  • Conservative media use New Black Panthers case ...
    Right-wing media have seized on an opportunity for race-baiting with the manufactured scandal surrounding J. Christian Adams' accusations that President Obama's Department of Justice engaged in racially charged "corruption" in the New Black Panther Party case. Adams: DOJ's action in New Black ...
  • Beck U: Check his credentials before you enroll
    Glenn Beck has touted his online Beck University "academic program" as a "unique academic experience bringing together experts in the fields of religion, American history and economics." But Beck's history of bizarre claims, distortions, and downright false statements on a variety of subjects migh ...
  • MacCallum and Fox News "brain room" can't find Bu ...
    While criticizing the Justice Department's lawsuit against Arizona over the state's controversial immigration law, Fox "straight news" anchor Martha MacCallum claimed that she and Fox News' "brain room" couldn't find "[a]nother case where the federal government sued a state." However, the Bush ...
  • Right-wing media rehash tired attacks on CMS pick ...
    The right-wing media responded to news that President Obama intends to use a recess appointment to install Donald Berwick as head of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services about the U.S. and U.K. health care systems and manufactured outrage about recess appointments, which are a common practic ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • The End Of A Two-State Solution?
    Over the past six months, a number of influential articles have raised the question of whether a two-state solution is, or was ever, feasible. Consider this nuanced article by Meron Benvenisti in Haaretz , or this overtly skeptical article by John Mearsheimer, a version of which was published in Fo ...
  • Netanyahu 1, Obama 0
    Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said it best at his joint press conference with President Barack Obama yesterday. Speaking of the urgency of beginning talks with the Palestinians, he said "we need to begin negotiations in order to end them." One has to wonder if it will even get that f ...
  • Goldberg Watch: Jeff Moves Toward Call For Bombing ...
    Watch this space. I guess the reports that Jeff Goldberg is about to publish a neocon magnum opus calling for bombing Iran are true. He is now reminding readers that the United Arab Emirates supposedly favor Pearl Harboring Iran. And he says that the Arabs pretty much all want the Israelis or ...
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  • Liberal-Libertarian Breakthrough
    I've been writing for a while on the possibility of a Liberal-Libertarian coalition on issues like our imperial overstretch, This morning Reps. Barney Frank and Ron Paul have written a very strong piece in the Huffington Post on this very subject. As members of opposing political parties, we disag ...

TruthOut

  • McChrystal Probe of SOF Killings Excluded Key Eyew ...
    Washington - The follow-up investigation of a botched Special Operations Forces (SOF) raid in Gardez Feb. 12 that killed two government officials and three women, ordered by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal Apr. 5, was ostensibly aimed at reconciling divergent Afghan and U.S. accounts of what happened dur ...
  • When Will America Be Free from BP?
    On July 4th, Americans are supposed to celebrate their independence. We may no longer have to worry about a greedy, distant monarch. But our country is still held in thrall to powerful interests that prize profit over individuals and their freedom—the energy industry comes to mind. As Jason Mark put ...
  • BREAKING: Alyeska CEO Steps Down Following Truthou ...
    Kevin Hostler, the chief executive officer of Alyeska Pipeline, informed company employees at the company Wednesday morning that he "plans to retire to Houston and to spend time with his family."� The announcement comes one day after Truthout published an extensive investigative report that w ...
  • Mitigating Annihilation
    From the air, the area north of Grand Isle, Louisiana, much of it around Barataria Bay, looks like scorched earth. This area has been and is heavily afflicted by BP's oil. The so-called cleanup efforts, including laying out booms to supposedly prevent oil from destroying more marsh and killing more ...
  • The Charge of the Media Brigade
    Washington - The TV anchorwoman was conducting a split screen interview with a journalist who had volunteered to be a witness at the execution of a man on death row in Utah for 25 years. "He had a choice," said the journalist, "lethal injection or firing squad." "Wow!" said the anchorwoman. Cue a bl ...

Planetsave

  • New Research Points to Healthy Breathing Earth
    Two recent international studies have explored the relationship between Earth’s climate and the carbon cycle to investigate Earth’s deep breaths of carbon dioxide. The two reports, to be published online by the journal Science , shed light on the amount of carbon that our planet is able to breathe ...
  • BP and Oil Spill Jokes from David Letterman, Jay L ...
    Some of the best BP and oil spill jokes (so far) from David Letterman, Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon, Bill Maher, and other leading comedians. With big news comes big jokes, even when the news is completely depressing and disheartening. Or perhaps because the news is such and we need a way to lighten up ...
  • Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global ...
    Latest news from the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. Rep. Ed Markey is a true environmental and energy leader. I don’t think I have seen anyone in government more focused on solving our fossil fuel and foreign oil addiction than him. As an intro to the 4th of July weeken ...
  • Dry Times for Western North America, Climate Trend ...
    Get ready Western North America, climate change is well upon us and the trends so far spell D-R-Y, as in very dry. Researchers Overpeck and Udall*, writing in a recent ‘perspectives’ report in Science Magazine ( Climate Change: Dry Times Ahead , 25 June, 2010), cite a litany of  troubling trends t ...
  • Mercy for the Gulf
    “MERCY” just released by multi-platinum recording artist Pauli Carman “Champaign” to benefit restoration/preservation from BP Gulf disaster. We got a sneak peak of Pauli Carman’s new single geared at helping oil spill clean-up efforts in the Gulf of Mexico last month, a beautiful cover of Marvin G ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Suspended term for whaling activist - World News
    A New Zealand anti-whaling activist�has been�handed a suspended two-year prison term in Japan for offences relating to his boarding of a Japanese whaling vessel in Antarctic waters Peter Bethune, a former activist of the US-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society,�was accused of injuring ...
  • Bettencourt tax-evasion scandal rocks French gover ...
    7 July 2010 Popular disgust is mounting over revelations that, while demanding huge social cuts from working people, top French officials took money from billionairess Liliane Bettencourt and helped her evade taxes. The 87-year-old Bettencourt’s net worth of €17 billion, largely in holdings of st ...
  • EPA announces proposal to cut power-plant pollutio ...
    The EPA announced a proposal today that will cut power-plant pollution in 31 states, replacing a Bush administration cap-and-trade system overturned by the courts. The announcement comes as the chatter on Capitol Hill has turned to a utility-only approach to cap-and-trade. The targets of EPA' ...
  • Pentagon buys $82 million a month in fuel from BP, ...
    Defense Department says it has $980 million in contracts with BP for current fiscal year; Oil giant was largest provider of fuel to Pentagon in the world in 2009 The organization charged with helping BP plug and clean up a leaking oil drill hole in the Gulf is also providing...
  • Quake victims protest in Italy - World News
    July 7, 2010 (Reuters) - Demonstrators from the quake-stricken city of L'Aquila clashed with police on Wednesday before reaching Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's house to demand more state help to rebuild their lives. The protest by some 5,000 people paralyzed the center of the Rome and was a ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • They didn't have to die
    By now you have surely heard about the Afghan soldiers who were killed in the early morning hours of Wednesday by a NATO airstrike. The pilots mistook Afghan soldiers who had set a trap for Taliban militants as those militants and opened fire, killing at least five of them. Apparently, the Afghan s ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    So tasteless we doubt even Karl Rove would do it Capitol police are investigating after at least three Democratic Senators were the victims of hoax press releases that announced their deaths from cancer over the holiday weekend. The releases were targeted to media outlets in the Senators' home state ...
  • White House Conference Call Preview of President O ...
    We'll be covering President Obama's visit to Kansas City tomorrow, both at the Smith Electric Vehicle plant and at one of the fundraising events for Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan's U.S. Senate campaign. As a prelude to tomorrow's activities the White House offered a media conference cal ...
  • Not Enough
    Click here for larger image. So the liberal-marginalizing circle is complete: If you criticize the corporatist compromises in Obama's legislative successes, you're a purist "firebagger" even worse than obstructionist repugs. �If you praise Obama's historic successes, you're a blindly worshipping " ...
  • When Reid's First Amendment Rights are Upheld, Wil ...
    � The Nevada Democratic Party and Harry Reid have restored therealsharronangle.com , essentially daring the right-wing fringe candidate to sue him for publishing her stated, published positions as they appeared on her original website, before she won the primary and her DC handlers scrubbed it. The ...

Care 2

  • Feeling Sunny? 25 Health Benefits of Sensible Sun ...
    Radiology technicians know that there is radiation everywhere. And we all know that radiation comes from the sun. Indeed, we have received so much information in recent years about how excessive sun exposure can lead to skin cancer, and how excessive tann Submitted by Suzane dsouza to Health & Welln ...
  • Beet, Citrus and Avocado Salad
    This is a beautiful salad of contrasting flavors and textures. The juicy, acidic grapefruit plays off against the earthy beets and the creamy, nutty avocado. Submitted by Suzane dsouza to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • BP Claims Czar: No compensation for most victims ...
    Among those not entitled to compensation from the $20 billion fund, according to Feinberg, are fishermen who operated on a cash basis and tourism and home owners not directly affected by the oil spill. Submitted by Barbara D. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Plague-infected rats reported in Myanmar's capital
    Myanmar's health ministry has circulated a warning among government departments about rat-borne plague after finding infected dead rodents in a compound of a government office, an official said. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Solar plane cruises to historic flight!
    Confidence soared among the crew of an experimental solar-powered aircraft on Wednesday as it cruised above Switzerland in a historic bid to fly around the clock and prove the value of solar energy. Submitted by Rooibos Bird to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

  • Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: Capitalism is dead, ...
    Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico | As an Anglo European white guy from a very long line of white guys, I want to thank all the brown, black, yellow and red people for a marvelous three-century joy ride. During the past 300 years of the industrial age, as Europeans, and later as Americans, we have managed to ...
  • Consumers unlikely to spend cash as government rip ...
    Team Internet has been doing a great job all day of ripping apart Bobo’s embarrassing op-ed, which he apparently wrote to demonstrate how not much has changed since he flunked high school math ( seriously .) Dean Baker ‘s take down is particularly good, and he raises an interesting point that I have ...
  • The Audacity of Ruin: Risk-Adverse President Enabl ...
    Iraq and Afghanistan are not yet wholly "Obama's wars," but the White House's piece-meal, deferential retreat from out-of-control Gulf deluge has become his and his alone. The Big Spill dramatizes, furthermore, how a once savvy politician squanders his first, best opportunity to redeem a steadily f ...
  • Shock And Awe: Fireworks, Smiley Faces, and The De ...
    Two days after a jobs report showed how many Americans are down, the nation was looking up — at fireworks signaling the anniversary of American independence (even as the BP disaster shows how dependent we've become). On July 4th, here in New York, my block was jammed with oo-ing and aah-ing onlooker ...
  • Fourth of July Sparks Thoughts of Progressive Patr ...
    � from Truthout Our annual Fourth of July backyard barbecue this year was bigger and better than ever. We had our American flag flying on the front porch. Plenty of our guests showed up wearing red, white and blue - though their politics ranged from quite liberal Democrat to very radical way-to-the- ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • The Boys of Iwo Jima
    Editor’s Note: Republished from Hearttouchers.com with the express permission of the author. The Boys of Iwo Jima(From the book: Heart Touchers “Life-Changing Stories of Faith, Love, and Laughter”) by Michael T. Powers Each year my video production company is hired to go to Washington, D.C. with the ...
  • Surrendering to the Worst
    When it comes to the art of compromise in the political world today, the measure of success is visible good. If you can see good at the end of the deal, then you can point to it and call it a win. Because, as everyone knows, you “don’t let the best (or the perfect) be the [...]
  • Cemetery Ridge, California
    Barbara Boxer of California is the Cemetery Ridge of the Democrats in the Senate. You recall, the high-water mark of Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia on July 1, 2, 3 1863. The GOP long-shot odds to take control of the U.S. Senate in November hangs on the long-shot odds of Carly Fiorina defe ...
  • The “New” Black Panthers * Suicide & U ...
    “BREAKING: Former DOJ Officials Stepping Forward to Support J. Christian Adams (Updated),” Pajamas Media. You all know that Adams resigned as a DOJ attorney and became a whistleblower after watching the politicalization of the case of voter intimidation by New Black Panthers. As an example of the ...
  • Democrat Hypocrisy
    Glenn Beck did a good job today pointing out the absurd double standard that Democrats apply when it comes to race (which some of you will find shocking given I’m not a fan of Beck). When Trent Lott made harmless remarks about Senator Strom Thurmond, he was immediately pilloried and got a taste of ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • An Interview with Photographic Artist Deux Animaux
    Up and coming artist Kyle Zeto tells Environmental Graffiti about his post-environmentalist work. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Eco-Friendly Beds To Help You Sleep Soundly
    Promote your green lifestyle as you literally lie down on the job. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Mystery Behind the Sailing Stones of Death Val ...
    Stones, some of which weigh 700lbs, strangely move across a flat, dry lake bed in Death Valley National Park. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 13 Most Poisonous Dishes You Can Eat
    What is it about living life on the edge that we intelligent humans seek to eat things that could potentially harm us, paralyze us, and maybe even kill us? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Hypnotism: The Cure for a Broken Heart
    "You are getting ver-r-r-y sleepy." A common phrase for a not-so-common practice. Hypnotism has made lasting strides into the medical world. It may even be the long sough 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

  • A Flush of Funding for Carbon Capture
    The Energy Department has announced $67 million for 10 projects aimed at reducing the "energy and efficiency penalties" of carbon capture and storage technology.
  • A Plucky Solar Plane Faces the Night
    With favorable weather and a forecast of clear, sunny skies, the Solar Impulse, an experimental solar-powered plane, took off from an airfield in Switzerland early Wednesday morning with a goal to stay aloft for a full 24 hours.
  • A New Look for the Spill on the Web
    The federal government has opened a new Web site for all oil-spill related news and will soon phase out the site that it jointly ran with BP from the start of the Gulf of Mexico disaster in April.
  • On Our Radar: A Warming Antarctic
    The Antarctic Peninsula is warming at five times the global average, according to a new study in the journal Science.
  • British Panel Clears Climate Scientists
    A panel in Britain has issued a sweeping exoneration of scientists caught up in the controversy known as Climategate, saying it found no evidence that they manipulated their research to support preconceived ideas about global warming.

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

  • Ray McGovern and Robert Parry on Truth Unflinching ...
    Michael Collins (Washington, DC) Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern and investigative journalist Robert Parry spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, DC last night. They were guests of The McClendon Group which holds periodic meetings at the press club featuring investigative reporters and news ...
  • CENSORED IN 1999: MONSANTO’S GENETICALLY MODIFIED ...
    CENSORED IN 1999: MONSANTO’S GENETICALLY MODIFIED SEEDS THREATEN WORLD PRODUCTION Over the 12,000 years that humans have been farming, a rich tradition of seed saving has developed. Men and women choose seeds from the plants that are best adapted to their own locale and trade them within the communi ...
  • Project Censored Needs Your Support!
    For 34 years Project Censored has been committed to bringing the most vital stories to public awareness with the belief that genuine democracy depends on freedom of the press. The new Censored 2011 yearbook has been written and will be released from Seven Stories Press in September of this year.  Pl ...
  • Arne Duncan and his privatizing cohorts not invite ...
      No invite for Secretary of Mis-Education, Arne Duncan at The National Education Association The National Education Association Convention is still going on this week in New Orleans with resolutions remaining be turned in.  What is interesting is that not one of the Obama administration’s cohorts ...
  • Wisconins as public funding for schools falls stat ...
    From Larry Miller’s blog: July 5, 2010 Many Wisconsin School Districts Hit Hard By Economy School Finance State aid to schools expected to drop Eleven local districts will receive more than 10% less funding By Amy Hetzner of the Journal Sentinel July 1, 2010 General state aid is expected to decreas ...

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Equality Trust

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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

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

Marler Blog

  • More Buffalo Recalled in Nevada Due to E. coli O15 ...
    The July 2 Recall has been expanded to include approximately 776 additional pounds of Bison Products that were distributed to a firm in Nevada for further processing. FSIS became aware of the problem during the course of an on-going investigation into a cluster of E. coli O157:H7 illnesses in Color ...
  • Ready Pac Foods Announces Voluntary Spinach Recall ...
    Ready Pac Foods, Inc. of Irwindale, California is recalling 702 cases of the Baby Spinach variety of Spinach Temptations 6 oz. bagged salads with Use-by Dates of July 4 with Product Code I1707B, IR127121 and July 8 with Product Code I2007B, IR130373 because they could be contaminated by Escherichia ...
  • I'm Vacationing as the President works on Food Saf ...
    The rumors are flying around here on the Eastside of Crete that President Obama and family will be staying here in Elounda soon.  If true, I must admit that it is not that bad of an idea.  The weather is perfect, the water clear and warm, the food fresh and healthy and ancient history at every turn. ...
  • The Doctor, Sanjay Gupta, tries to get the Senate ...
    Here is the transcript from Dr. Gupta's recent show on Health: Welcome to a place where you can learn how to live longer and stronger. I'm your doctor. I'm also your coach. �First up, an exclusive story: Imagine a woman who almost died -- why -- because she ate raw cookie dough. Foodborne illnesses ...
  • 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

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

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Farming Pathogens

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

Suzie-Q

  • First Amendment suspended in the Gulf of Mexico as ...
    Yep, this sort of Conscientious behaviour is no longer allowed, if you want to see the wildlife, you had better keep your distance. If, however, you happen to accidently spot an oil covered bird, be sure to contact BP’s Wildlife Response Service,  for expertise and downright honest concern for any m ...
  • AMERICA: HAPPY 4th OF JULY!
    “There, I guess King George will be able to read that.”   – John Hancock (h/t- Huff Post)
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Solari Report - Options For Storing Precious Metal ...
    Excerpts from “Options For Storing Precious Metals” By Catherine Austin Fitts and Carolyn Betts “With prices for gold denominated in US dollars at record high levels, increasing discomfort with prolonged global financial market uncertainties and increasing recognition of the risks inherent in inves ...
  • Money & Markets Charts ~ 7.07.10
    View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report this Thursday, July 8, 2010. Click here to view all charts as a pdf file. See previous Money & Markets Charts blog posts here. Currency charts ar ...
  • Home Ownership And The Banks
    Dear Jim, Allow me to chime in here and bolster your comments to CIGA Arlen. First and foremost, what your readers need to understand is that no one who has a loan secured by a mortgage on his home is safe.  Mortgage servicing companies, including Wells Fargo Bank, CitiBank, JPMorgan Chase, and Ban ...
  • BIS Engaged in Gold Swaps to About 380 Tonnes
    By Jesse These swaps have significance because of the speculation that the public sale of gold by the IMF, which was secretive and selective, was not a legitimate sale to raise funds, but a means of bailing out the bullion banks who had taken gold previously on lease and sold it into the public mar ...
  • Quote du Jour
    “The future is created by the people who build it, not the people who predict it will not exist.” ~ Catherine Austin Fitts

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

  • Sporting glory 'is hereditary'
    New research suggests that athletic people are more likely to pass on their sporting prowess to their children. Doctor Tony Vernon of the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, has published a study suggesting that genetics play a more significant role in determining how sporty an individu ...
  • Grow your own drugs in the garden
    Instead of popping to the local pharmacy every time he feels a sore throat coming on, ethnobotanist James Wong gets his medical fix from his own back garden. The 27 year old believes that safe, cheap natural remedies for ailments like sore throats, eczema and insomnia can be made from common plants, ...
  • Being a culture vulture boosts wellbeing
    Taking part in artistic hobbies such as dancing, painting or playing a musical instrument can make people feel healthier and happier, according to new research.
  • Autonomy encourages kids to have passion
    Children are more likely to pursue pastimes such as sport and music if they are left to nurture their own passions, according to a new study.
  • 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 ...

Fabius Maximus

  • Cutting through the fog to clearly understand the ...
    Summary:  the housing crisis can only dimly be seen through the fog of disinformation.  Much of which comes from the desperate real estate industry.  Their heavily spun news gets eagerly accepted because we love housing — and want to believe the happy days will soon return. Sales of existing hous ...
  • FM newswire for July 7, interesting articles about ...
    Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis.   If you find this useful, please pass it to friends or colleagues. “The Making of Manhattan’s Elite Welfare Farmers“, Yasha Levine, New York Press, 15 June 2010 — “Want fiscal reform? Let’s start by targeting the fattest farm subsidy checksâwhic ...
  • Looking at one of the most popular books in the co ...
    Summary:    The Road to Serfdom has rocketed to become a best-seller.  Hayek’s warning that government economic planning leads to totalitarian-like societies.  His theories are certainly politically useful to the Right.  But are they accurate? Perhaps the worst effect of WWII on America was ...
  • FM newswire for July 6, interesting articles about ...
    Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis.   If you find this useful, please pass it to friends and colleagues. “Japan Past the Point of No Return“, Vitality Katsenelsen, undated — 15 slides, PDF “The OECDâs growth prospects and political extremism“, Markus Brückner and Hans Peter Grün ...
  • Let’s play round 2 of “Name That Liber ...
    Summary:  Americans know so little of our own history, our own politics.  So it’s fun and educational to play Name That Liberal. This man was one of the 20th century’s most effective Presidents — and certainly that century’s second most liberal President  in terms of his deeds (but not his word ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Brain’s Energy Restored During Sleep, Suggests Ani ...
    Science Daily – In the initial stages of sleep, energy levels increase dramatically in brain regions found to be active during waking hours, according to new research in the June 30 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience. These results suggest that a surge of cellular energy may replenish brain proces ...
  • Enviro groups stunned that govt ignoring 27K wells
    AP -Leading environmental groups and a U.S. senator on Wednesday called on the government to pay closer attention to more than 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells in the Gulf of Mexico and take action to keep them from leaking even more crude into water already tainted by the massive BP spill. The ca ...
  • UK Road pricing could become yet another tax
    Telegraph – The last time road pricing was suggested, Downing Street’s website crashed as 1.8 million motorists visited it to register their opposition. But the idea has not gone away. A new report from the RAC Foundation says that charging drivers for each mile they travel is “inevitable” if future ...
  • Western food fuelling SE Asia diabetes boom: resea ...
    Physorg – Studies found about 11 percent of men and 12 percent of women in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City had type 2 diabetes without knowing it, on top of the four percent of people who are diagnosed sufferers. “Dietary patterns have been changing dramatically in Vietnam in recent years, particularly i ...
  • Fish deformities report release years away, say la ...
    ABC-A Queensland Government taskforce was set up last year to investigate claims mist from chemicals used on a Noosa macadamia nut farm caused fish deaths and deformities at a neighbouring hatchery. The Government says a legal dispute between the hatchery owner and the macadamia nut farmer means the ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Book review of Malcolm Caldwell’s The Wealth of So ...
    Book review of Malcolm Caldwell’s The Wealth of Some Nations by Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Malcolm Caldwell was one of the only Westerners to have ever visited Cambodia under the “Khmer Rouge” regime. He is mostly remembered as the academic activist who was assassinated in Demo ...
  • Organisasyong Komunistang Patnubay Liwanag
    Mapulang Pagbati! Ang makasaysayang unang kongreso ng kilusang Maoista-Third Worldista ay naganap nitong nakaraang maagang tag-init. Nagtipun-tipon ang mga lider mula sa iba’t-ibang bansa upang planuhin ang ating estratehiya sa mga susunod na taon. Ang ating kilusan ay nasa panahon ng matatag na pag ...
  • Video: Lin Biao’s Long Live the Victory of P ...
    Lin Biao’s 1965 article Long Live the Victory of People’s War! is one of the most important works produced by the Chinese revolution. Here is MSH’s video adaptation of Lin Biao’s important work in Tagalog. HD-mp3 torrent title: Long Live the Victory of People’s War Part 1 (Tagalog) HD-mp4 torrent ti ...
  • First Congress of the Leading Light Communist Orga ...
    Red Salute! The historic first congress of the Maoist-Third Worldist movement took place over the early summer. Many leaders convened from around the world to plan out our strategy for the coming years. Our movement is in a period of strong growth at the moment. Many within our movement decided that ...
  • W sprawie cytatów
    W sprawie cytatów – MichaÅ Rakulski (trzeciswiat.wordpress.com) WydawaÄ by siÄ rzecz oczywista mogÅo, że zagadnienie używania cytatów z osób trzecich w różnego rodzaju polemikach należy jeÅli nie do sfery omówienia czysto formalnych zagadnieÅ polemiki, to na pewno do zagadnienia czyst ...

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/

ecogeek

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Buzzflash

  • 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 ...
  • The War Drones On, Ceaselessly Without End
    BOB KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH “Complaints about civilian casualties have also stirred concern among human rights advocates.” The problem is that a sentence like this — arguably a dead sentence, with a few quasi-facts entombed in an inert moral sensibility — parades as serious news. I mean, it’s lif ...
  • Can Boehner's Barhopping Reputation Explain His Id ...
    Hmm, having seen the press conference when John Boehner, "criticized the financial overhaul yesterday , describing the attempt to regulate financial institutions as being like 'killing an ant with a nuclear weapon.'", Boehner didn't actually look or sound like he was dealing with a full deck.� ...
  • Proof Mainstream Corporate Media is 100% Conservat ...
    Would the powers that be please take note: " Torture' study reveals appalling cowardice of America's newspapers ---On the one hand, waterboarding is torture. On the other hand....there is no other hand. Waterboarding is torture, period."� Waterboarding always has been and always will be TORTURE and ...
  • Republican Angle Threatens Legal Action Against O ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH Did Harry brazenly lie about her record? Is that what's filled her with such dread? Sadly, it’s actually far worse than that --- He posted things that she really said. � Did Reid’s staff steal them from dumpsters? We know that familiar refrain. No, all of these documents we ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Adventures in media transparency
    Journalists like to claim that they are devoted to transparency, but it's striking how so many of them exempt themselves and their own media outlets from those "principles."� Here are five recent, somewhat similar episodes illustrating that syndrome: (1) �On Monday,� I noted that this Associated ...
  • Rules of America's rule of law
    The�U.S. today charged Bradley Manning with a variety of crimes relating to his alleged leaks of classified material to WikiLeaks, most prominently including the Apache attack video that spawned worldwide debate over the�American occupation. �The 22-year-old whistle-blower faces 52 years in prison . ...
  • The crux of our endless War on Terror
    As I wrote last week , the Obama administration finally purported to defend its presidential assassination program aimed at American citizens, when Obama's Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Michael Leiter, offered patently misleading claims to justify it.  Yesterday, Newsweek 's Mich ...
  • The BP/Government police state
    (updated below) Last week, I�interviewed Mother Jones ' Mac McClelland , who has been covering the BP�oil spill in the Gulf since the first day it happened. �She detailed how�local police and federal officials work with BP�to harass, impede, interrogate and even detain journalists who a ...
  • AP owes China an apology
    (updated below - Update II) From an Associated Press article today on the conviction in China of an American citizen accused of spying and collecting "state secrets": BEIJING – An American geologist held and tortured by China's state security agents was sentenced to eight years ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Wot gorilla?
    The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons. This book by the psychologists who ran the famous Gorillas in our midst experiment tell us that they found that half the people asked to count passes among one team missed seeing a person in a g ...
  • The hidden, invisible, and private web
    Everyone knows that Google and the other search engines between them crawl, spider, and slurp up the whole internet, right? Wrong! The millions of websites that are obviously available on the internet are readily searchable, Google Bing, Yahoo, and their ilk have seen to that, we can usually find do ...
  • DNA search, iPhone chemistry, electronic waste
    Latest bookmarked science news, including my current Alchemist column on ChemWeb.com: How to build a better DNA search engine – The techniques for indexing Chinese language websites could dramatically improve the speed of bioinformatic searches, according to research by SOSO, the third largest Chine ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Report Exposes Irregularities of Obscure State Dep ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 8, 2010 Government Accountability Project A report released by the Government Accountability Project (GAP), based on documents obtained through nearly three years' of U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, exposes the highly irregular manner in which the Foundat ...
  • Tackling the Global Food Crisis: A Mission Unaccom ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 8, 2010 Oakland Institute A new report released today, The High Food Price Challenge: A Review of Responses to Combat Hunger, by the UK Hunger Alliance and the Oakland Institute, reveals that a major initiative, launched by the Group of 8 (G8), in July 2009 has failed t ...
  • Britain Announces Investigation Into Complicity Wi ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 6, 2010 ACLU British Prime Minister David Cameron today announced an independent investigation into allegations that U.K. agents were complicit in the torture of detainees in United States custody, and said the U.K. government would compensate torture survivors if the ...
  • FBI Asked to Probe Arson at Georgia Mosque
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 6, 2010 The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on the FBI to investigate a possible bias motive for a fire at a Georgia mosque that officials say "appears" to be intentionally set. CAIR reporte ...
  • 66,608 Americans Call on Yellowpages.com and Super ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 6, 2010 NARAL Pro-Choice America Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation, today sent a petition with more than 66,000 signatures to the chief executive officers of Yellowpages.com and Superpages.com that calls on the sites to enforce their polici ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Russia’s Public Conservation Lands Under Threat
    by Erik Hoffner Three Aprils ago, in early 2007, a Russian regional governor announced plans to construct a new road connecting Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Though everyone agreed on the need for the road, no one in the north Moscow suburb of Khimki could understand why part of it needed to be ro ...
  • Stage-Managing the War on Terror
    by Stephan Salisbury Informers have by now become our first line of defense in our battles with the evildoers, the go-to guys in the never-ending domestic war on terror. read more
  • What’s Up with All the Teacher Bashing?
    by Rethinking Schools Editors It's hard not to take it personally: A few months ago, the cover of Newsweek consisted of 11 sentences in chalk on a blackboard. They all said the same thing: "We must fire bad teachers." Big yellow text in the center called it "The Key to Saving American Education." re ...
  • Human Rights are Everyone’s Law
    by Laura Finley Imagine your livelihood is farming. You grow a variety of products that have sustained you and your family for generations. Then imagine that the army decides to erect a long fence that blocks you from accessing your farm. They say you will be able to get a permit to enter your own l ...
  • Keep the Internet Open for All
    by Joseph Torres Perhaps the greatest freedom in a democracy is freedom of speech. Throughout our nation's history, people have died fighting not only for our right to speak, but for our right to be heard. read more

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Gove says sorry for school cuts gaffe
    25 schemes originally listed as going ahead have been scrapped, and education department publishes corrected names The education secretary, Michael Gove, made an unreserved apology in the House of Commons yesterday for dashing the hopes of scores of schools after mistakenly promising them new buildi ...
  • Private schools win tax reprieve
    Charity Commission rules Derbyshire school can keep charitable status after raising subsidised places from one to three A private school that faced being stripped of its charitable status has won a reprieve in a crucial ruling which could allow hundreds of independent schools to continue claiming mi ...
  • Live review: Arcade Fire
    Hackney Empire, London There's something striking about the behaviour of Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler at the show to launch the band's third album, The Suburbs. Between songs, he jokes with the crowd: "Well, I still think England have a pretty good shot at this World Cup", he smirks to a chorus o ...
  • Volcano fears boost travel insurance
    Experts says further eruptions are possible as insurers unveil a raft of add-ons to cover flight disruption Holidaymakers hoping for a trouble-free trip may yet find their travels disrupted by further Icelandic volcano activity this summer, according to volcanologists. Magnús Tumi Gudmundsson, profe ...
  • What made Andrea, 18, kill herself?
    After a childhood in care, Andrea Adams was ill-equipped to fend for herself and quickly consumed by despair. But it was a catalogue of failures that led to her lonely death at 18 The note, written on a scrap of paper, was left on the kitchen table. "To anyone who even cares, bye," it read. Later th ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Climate data: what's hidden?
    I started Monday's post with the words "it's beginning to look like a pattern"... and already, by Wednesday, the pattern is in evidence once more. Another inquiry into allegations made against climate science has reported - and again, the conclusions are broadly along the lines that there have been ...
  • Dutch courage for climate mainstream
    It's beginning to look like a pattern. An apparent scandal is unveiled that threatens to rock climate science to its very core, a scandal that usually ends in the suffix "-gate". Himalaya , Amazon, and Climate itself are just three of the stems that have borne the suffix in recent months. Sectio ...
  • Petrolheads steer for green track
    I know some regular readers have me pegged as a bleeding heart liberal who's racked with pangs of self-hatred if I should so much as cycle over a worm or eat anything more technological than home-knitted organic muesli; so it may come as a shock that I really enjoy the high-octane buzz and top-end t ...
  • Whaling commission: What's missing?
    En route from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Agadir, Morocco: So the whales have been put to bed for another year ; and at Agadir airport, amid all the tanned Europeans making their way back from their beach holidays (well, lobster-red in the case of Brits, obviously) I'm thi ...
  • 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 ...

The Wonk Room

  • States Considering Contracting With Managed Care F ...
    The Washington Post’s Alec MacGillis looks at some of the pitfalls and challenges states that outsource their Medicaid programs to private managed care companies will face as they try to cover some 16 million people over the next 10 years: With an expanded Medicaid absorbing at least half of those ...
  • Defense Contractor: It’s ‘Important&#8 ...
    Last month, the House of Representatives passed the fiscal year 2011 defense authorization, including funding for a second engine for the F-35 fighter jet that the Department of Defense has repeatedly said it doesn’t want. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has gone so far as to recommended that Preside ...
  • Barrasso And Coburn Working Very Hard To Ensure Th ...
    Just days after House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) released a 43-page health care reform report card, The Senate Doctors — Sens. Tom Coburn (R-OK) and John Barrasso (R-WY) — are out with their own 32-page booklet on all of the problems one can anticipate from the yet-to-be implemented provisi ...
  • Kobach Claims There Is ‘Complete Consistency ...
    Since the federal government filed a suit yesterday challenging Arizona’s immigration law, SB-1070, the right has remained overly confident that SB-1070 does not usurp federal authority as the Department of Justice contends. One of the most common arguments used to defend SB-1070 against the federa ...
  • Lugar Says He Will Not Filibuster ‘Don&#8217 ...
    rom Metro Weekly’s Chris Johnson comes word that Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) “wonât support an attempt to remove the language from a larger defense bill“: U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) told the Blade last week that he isnât concerned about the âDonât Ask, Donât Tellâ repeal language in t ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Mass Starvation and Mass Extinctions
    That's the forecast . stephen harper thinks it's a better idea to spend $1.1 billion on a two-day summit than to seriously address global warming.
  • stephen harper is Evil
    Example Number 62,547: Three Canadian CITIZENS, identified as "terrorist suspects" by mouth-breathing CSIS cretins during the Liberal era, tortured by the Syrian government (whereupon the aforementioned mouth-breathing CSIS cretins passed along other questions for the Syrian torturers to ask them, ...
  • A Depressingly Accurate Description of the State o ...
    " Living the Regressive Dream " If the product of this slow and silent coup wasn’t so bloody and so ruinous to so many lives, you’d really have to hand it to these guys for their political acumen and patience. It took a while, and it required the building of a broad and robust infrastructure, sp ...
  • The Rot Starts From the Top
    Y'know, all the needle-dicked pigs expressing their rape fantasies and living out their sadistic masturbation fantasies were only playing around with the situation their superiors gave them. And the G20 ISU took its orders from stephen harper. And stephen harper takes his orders from BP, Monsanto, ...
  • 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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Peace Warriors visit NWC
    I just had a delightful visit this morning from the Peace Warriors.� They are a group of middle and high school students from the Southeast neighborhood of Washington, DC.� They are spending the summer learning about how individuals can make a positive difference through nonviolent action. Today the ...
  • Jamaica encounters opposition to whistleblower bil ...
    The Jamaica Gleaner News is reporting that parliamentarians pushing a new whistleblower protection are facing opposition. The majority's latest draft of the proposed bill will protect whistleblowers only if they have made their disclosures through certain official channels. If any officials in any o ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Death At A Funeral Leads To Lawsuit In A Courtroom
    It's pretty common for people who think that "ideas" can be owned to get upset when someone else makes a movie or a book that has a similar idea to one they had. These often lead to lawsuits that quickly go nowhere. It's actually quite rare to find a lawsuit over the idea of a book or movie that h ...
  • Newspapers Doing Well With Membership Clubs Instea ...
    One of our biggest complaints with news publications that insist "a paywall is the answer" is the fact that they never seem to actually add any more value to their publication that makes it worth paying. They're so focused on getting people to "pay for content," they miss the fact that there's plen ...
  • Revolving Door: Administration's ACTA Defender Jum ...
    You may remember Steven Tepp, from the US Copyright Office, who just recently defended the administration's position on ACTA by mocking the very legitimate concerns of many people about ACTA's exporting of stronger copyright laws, without any corresponding exceptions, combined with the fact that it ...
  • Jim Brown Appeals Case Over Whether Or Not EA Can ...
    Back in September last year, we wrote about an important district court ruling that said video game maker EA was within its rights to use a likeness of football player Jim Brown in its video games. In the past few decades, there has been a dangerous expansion in so-called "publicity rights," like t ...
  • European Top Court Tells Monsanto It Can't Abuse P ...
    Seed giant Monsanto is a case study in how abusing patent laws can create serious anti-competitive results . Monsanto, of course, patented various genetically modified seeds, and then aggressively used patent laws around the world to make it so that it was effectively impossible to do much without ...

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
    It still burns, the treatment I got as a teen.  I think the guy who wrote the Case Against Adolescence is still pissed too.  Glad he did something constructive with it. This article on reconciliation is a must read for anyone who cares about ending conflicts, especially genocidal ones. I hope you al ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    This article kinda freaked me out.  I’m going to have to step up my training a la Sarah Connor. (HT @PunkJohnnyCash) Very cool video on Spontaneous Order.  (HT @JamesTulsaALL) So here is a question for you.  Can you have multiculturalism – respect for other cultures – without succumbing to moral ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I don’t know how I never heard about Spot.us.  I love that. Also loving that India plans to seek extradition of the former chairman of Union Carbide for the Bhopal disaster.  What amazing things could happen if states no longer gave protection to businesses. This article Against School that has be ...
  • Growing up Jewish – Kosher Edition
    I’ve shared with you all the tortures of Sabbath and Passover.  But I have not yet shared with you the biggest torture of all. My mother keeps kosher. Being kosher means no shellfish and no pork.  Shellfish and pork are, as you may have heard, an abomination! The food that you can eat is classifie ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I don’t often get to say nice things about my home state of Florida.  Usually it is only in the news when somebody is stealing an election or trying to ban transpeople from bathrooms.  So I would just like to give props to my fellow Floridians who have decided to take matters into their own [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • Loomstate, Rogan, Tommy Hilfiger, DVF, and Vena Ca ...
    Elle handbag designed by Diane von Furstenberg. Image courtesy of Elle. Nine top fashion designers--including TreeHugger favorites Loomstate and Rogan -have teamed up with fashion mag Elle to create bright, stylish, solar-powered handbags. The one-of-a-kind creations are available through an eB ...
  • Green Corners Rewarded for Making a City More Plea ...
    Image from Foyle's This such a delightful idea. The Conservation Foundation has launched its Green Corners Awards which celebrate the unusual, unexpected, witty and beautiful corners of London. The corners have to be green, and do their bit for the birds and insects as well as the passers-by w ...
  • CBO Says Climate Bill Will Cut Deficit, Emissions ...
    photo via flickr There's a lot of jostling right now in the Senate for lead position on energy reform. Just which Senator will catch the eye of President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Reid and get their bill picked is anyone's guess. Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) rec ...
  • In Defence of Squatting: If It's Unused, Is It You ...
    Image credit: The Guardian Oh dear. I suspect I am going to reawaken the age-old "is environmentalism socialist " debate with this post. Because there's nothing like discussing property rights to get people to back into their respective political corners. But try as I might, I can't avoid the f ...
  • Avoiding a BP-Style Disaster on the Bosphorus
    A tanker passing underneath one of the Bosphorus bridges. Photo by Jennifer Hattam The sight of dozens of mammoth tankers anchored off the coast of Istanbul, or of lone ones passing underneath the two high Bosphorus bridges as they steam their way to or from the Black Sea, is undeniably impress ...

Biosingularity

  • Essentials of Genetics | Learn Science at Scitable
    Why does a commercial dairy cow produce four times as much milk as most other mammals? Why do we look like our cousins? Why do roses come in so many different colors? The answers to these and other questions about the diversity of living things involve processes that occur at the level of genes. Ess ...
  • Replacement Bones, Grown to Order in the Lab
    IF a lover breaks your heart, tissue engineers can’t fix it. But if sticks and stones break your bones, scientists may be able to grow custom-size replacements. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, a professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, has solved one of many problems on the way to succe ...
  • Seeing a Bionic Eye on Medicine’s Horizon
    Television’s Six Million Dollar Man foresaw a future when man and machine would become one. New research at Tel Aviv University is making this futuristic “vision” of bionics a reality. Prof. Yael Hanein of Tel Aviv University’s School of Electrical Engineering has foundational research that may give ...
  • Addicted to Fat: Overeating May Alter the Brain as ...
    Like many people, rats are happy to gorge themselves on tasty, high-fat treats. Bacon, sausage, chocolate and even cheesecake quickly became favorites of laboratory rats that recently were given access to these human indulgences—so much so that the animals came to depend on high quantities to feel g ...
  • RNA-Loaded Nanoparticles Fight Cancer
    specialized nanoparticle filled with an RNA-based cancer therapy can successfully target human cancer cells and silence the target gene, according to results from an early clinical trial. The research, published today in the journal Nature, is the first to demonstrate this type of tissue targeting a ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

  • U.K. cancels airport plans over global warming fea ...
    Climate Depot's Morano on FNC's July 2, 2010 'Your World'
  • Obama’s deliberate Katrina
    Bungling the BP oil spill cleanup? Or never letting the crisis go to waste?
  • Offshore drilling: Policy reform vs political gran ...
    Obviously, there is a lot with off-shore drilling that has gone right. Just as obviously, the Deepwater Horizon spill is catastrophic and there are vital safety lessons to be learned. But those lessons will take some serious review, detailed analysis, and targeted investigation.
  • Once a government pet, BP now a capitalist tool
    Now that BP̢۪s oil rig has caused the biggest environmental disaster in American history, the Left is pulling the same bogus trick it did with Enron and AIG: Whenever a company earns universal ire, declare it the poster boy for the free market.
  • CFACT update from Bonn climate talks
    Discord, blame and profiteering at UN Bonn climate conference as UN scrambles to get climate treaty back on track; calls for developed nations to repay 'climate debt' and an 'international court of climate and environmental justice' to prosecute developed world.

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Pruning Shears

  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Harvard released a study about the New York Times’ unwillingness to call waterboarding torture when the US began using it. What followed was one of those “bless the blogs” moments because there was a lot of great commentary. Glenn ...
  • Why Looking Back Matters
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Washington has generally been an accountability-free zone, most glaringly in the case of war crimes. George Bush, Dick Cheney, David Addington, John Yoo, and all the other high level architects of our torture program have been allow ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Since I wasn’t around for the first half of the week I didn’t have the usual accumulation of links to go through. From Marcy a couple weeks ago: In other words, this was one of the few torture briefings CIAâs Office of Congressiona ...
  • 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!

Organic Consumers.org

  • Dupont, Monsanto, and Obama Versus the World's Fam ...
    The Obama administration has indicated a shift in US development policy from "food aid" (dumping our excess production overseas) with "food security" (improving food production in foreign countries). This would be great for farmers if Obama's plan were to ensure their access to clean water, arable l ...
  • Congress Reviewing Cuban Sanctions, May Lift Trave ...
    Mojitos at Varadero Beach . . . fishing in the waters Hemingway immortalized . . . dinner and a show at the Tropicana: A long list of currently forbidden pleasures will become legal for Americans under pending legislation that would lift central provisions of the United States' half-century embargo ...
  • Organic Grocery Co-ops Increasing Across the U.S.
    When David Harde opened Noah's Ark in Placerville in 1993, it was the only place in the area for a good selection of organic produce. Melisa Clark started shopping there immediately, then worked there as a cashier, and now is the store's general manager. When Harde decided to sell the store, Clar ...
  • Local and Organic: Locavores Take Their Passion fo ...
    Organic, sustainable, local - everyone talks the trendy talk, but some Bay Area foodies are taking the locavore message to heart. They're not only frequenting farmers markets, they're launching locavore supper clubs and recipe-rich blogs, and subscribing to CSAs - small, local farms whose Community ...
  • More bad news for BP as arsenic levels rise around ...
    Beleaguered energy giant BP was hit with further bad news this morning as it emerged dangerous arsenic levels have been found in seawater around the Gulf of Mexico. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Las fotos más recientes y bonitas en 1x.com
    Hoy por hoy, 1x.com se ha convertido al igual que sitios como Flickr , Smugmug, DeviantArt , Panoramio , Etc., en un lugar de visita obligada para quienes siempre estamos en la búsqueda de nuevas fotografías para distraer un poco nuestra mente y darle gusto a la pupila. Por eso y sólo por eso, aquí ...
  • Grandes talentos; Ami Vitale por el mundo...
    Ami Vitale , es un extraordinario fotógrafo que ha invertido varios años de su vida a viajar por el mundo visitando países como Afganistán, China, África, India, Guinea Bissau, Kosovo, Turquía y muchos lugares más. De sus visitas, ha surgido una maravillosa colección de fotos que hoy les quiero comp ...
  • 14 fotos inéditas a color de la FSA-OWI 1930-1940
    Incluso hoy, algunos fotógrafos le dirán que fueron influenciados por los trabajos de la Administración de Seguridad del Campo (FSA). Sin embargo, existen muchas fotos en blanco y negro , pero muy pocas a colores como es el que caso de la colección que hoy les presento. Verdaderas obras de arte. Not ...
  • Yo quiero ir ahí y sé que tú también...
    A través del blog de Krisatomic , tenemos la oportunidad de disfrutar una bonita colección de paisajes fantásticos, pero reales . Cada lugar incluye los datos de ubicación y de verdad que se antoja estar ahí aunque sea un fin de semana. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas ...
  • Playas paradisiacas parte I (20 lugares sugeridos)
    Algunas personas ya están de vacaciones y otras empiezan a prepararse para descansar un poco de la rutina diaria. Para todos ellos, aquí les tengo 20 fotografías de playas paradisiacas que seguro le darán ideas más claras sobre qué lugar o lugares podrían visitar. Las aguas azules y cristalinas de e ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Antibiotic Resistance in Food Animals: FDA Takes S ...
    Leadership at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made it abundantly clear last week that the low-dose usage of antibiotics in food animals, simply to promote growth or improve feed efficiency, needlessly contributes to the emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria and poses a serious threa ...
  • ‘Diet for a Hot Planet’ Explores Links between Die ...
    Anna Lappé’s new book Diet for a Hot Planet is critical. It is critical because it helps fill a significant gap in the literature that was previously identified by the Johns Hopkins Center for Livable Future. And thus, in an accessible and comprehensive manner, Diet for a Hot Planet is critical to ...
  • Baltimore School District Food Survey Reveals Pare ...
    As the Baltimore City Public Schools system continues the transformation of its food service for more than 80,000 kids (see food revolution), a new survey reveals that students and parents are hungry for more. Melissa Mahoney, the district’s “top chef”, nutritionist and dietitian, sent out the surve ...
  • 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 ...

Norwegianity

  • Twi not (lest ye be Twi’ed)
    I’ve been trying to figure out new ways of covering up large piles of links with extraneous text but it all comes down to style over substance. This blog affords me all the opportunities to speak out anyone could ever want. The links speak for themselves, I just cull and sort. Having said all that, ...
  • Skip this post
    This isn’t a post you want to read but I’m uploading it because I want my email to MinnPost to be published somewhere, and it sure as hell isn’t going to be posted at MinnPost. To the editor: In all candor I no longer believe you have a civility policy at MinnPost other than to [...]
  • Restaurant owner outs Emmer as liar
    Sweet. Jon Tevlin disembowels Tom Emmer’s ridiculous assertion that some servers make six-figure incomes. “I don’t want people thinking we have people making $100,000 a year here, because we don’t,” said [part owner Joe Kasel, who had to call his 29 employees that morning to prevent a mutiny. "No wa ...
  • Borrowed rant with a consternation of links
    Republicans lost the election, but they have been able to block or emasculate virtually every reform the majority of voters wanted. In the Senate, one member can stop a critical appointment. A minority can leave millions without unemployment checks…. President Obama has been content to largely go wi ...
  • No, nothing got better over the weekend just becau ...
    Sweet. Wall Street’s mad and is threatening to withhold their money tit from Democrats. Please do. Cut them off entirely. Let’s see how Congress votes when half the Dems aren’t in Wall Street’s back pocket. Do it. Do it do it do it. Then maybe we can get more legislation like the changes in overdraf ...

Public News Service

  • Latino Rights Advocate: AZ Politicians Pandering O ...
    Latino Rights Advocate: AZ Politicians Pandering Over SB 1070 Lawsuit Phoenix, AZ – A long-time Arizona Latino rights leader is accusing politicians of grandstanding over the federal legal challenge to the SB 1070 immigration law, saying they're putting their re-election ahead of solving the problem ...
  • Summer Heat + Kids Alone in Cars = Deadly Combina ...
    Summer Heat + Kids Alone in Cars = Deadly Combination Phoenix, AZ - According to Safe Kids USA- there have been at least 18 cases of children dying from "heat stroke" as a result of being left in unattended vehicles since March of this year. That includes a Phoenix toddler who died on Sunday. Lorri ...
  • Website Pinpoints Summer Fun Facilities for Kids
    Website Pinpoints Summer Fun Facilities for Kids Phoenix, AZ – Parents looking for a place to keep their kids active during the hot summer months now have a one-stop tool to help them. It’s a website listing public recreational facilities in Maricopa County and beyond. Comments from Shawna Hubbard, ...
  • Oil Disaster Pushes Florida Event to Arizona and W ...
    Oil Disaster Pushes Florida Event to Arizona and Worldwide Phoenix, AZ – An event that started in Florida aimed at warning of the dangers of offshore oil drilling has been pushed into the international spotlight, after the drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The first "Hands Across the Sand" e ...
  • Turmoil Over Texas Textbooks in Arizona?
    Turmoil Over Texas Textbooks in Arizona? Phoenix, AZ - Just who should call the shots when it comes to writing textbooks will be on the agenda when Arizona educators meet thousands of their counterparts in New Orleans at next week's National Education Association Representative Assembly. Comments fr ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Afghani Twist : 30 years later
    Russian textbook account of the circumstances of the USSR being drawn into the war in Afghanistan.... because of fear of Islamic terrorism Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 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 ...
  • Climate Change: what do we know about the IPCC?
    It represents a narrow range of disciplinary expertise. It represents a narrow range of the worlds nations. It poorly describes the certainties and uncertainties in our knowledge. It provides an illusion of consensus. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 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

Angry Indian News

  • Egypt destroys Gaza 'survival tunnel'
    Egypt destroys Gaza 'survival tunnel'-presstv.comEgyptian authorities have destroyed another cross-border tunnel along Rafah used as a conduit for vital supplies to the besieged Gaza Strip.According... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Noriega sentenced to 7 years in prison
    Noriega sentenced to 7 years in prison-presstv.comThe deposed Panama ruler Manuel Noriega has been convicted of money laundering charges, receiving a seven-year imprisonment sentence.The court, which... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Poles to extradite Israeli 'linked to Dubai murder ...
    BBC News - Poles to extradite Israeli 'linked to Dubai murder': "A Polish court has ruled that an alleged Israeli Mossad agent can be extradited to Germany. Uri Brodsky is suspected of helping... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Terror suspect Abid Naseer held on US warrant
    BBC News - Terror suspect Abid Naseer held on US warrantThe alleged leader of an al-Qaeda plot to bomb British targets, who won the right to stay in the UK, has been arrested.Abid Naseer was held... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Ted Nugent calls Africa a ‘country’, quotes MLK to ...
    Ted Nugent calls Africa a ‘country’, quotes MLK to defend Tea Party | Raw StoryRocker and gun advocate Ted Nugent has found a new cause in the tea parties. He also apparently thinks Africa is a... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • CODEX ALIMENTARIUS: The Elephant in the Room that ...
    Why is there so much denial by consumer advocate groups such as the National Health Federation(1) (NHF) about Barry Soetoro implementing the U.S. Codex council via Executive Order(2)? What is it that they don't want you to see? Just do the research, and you will discover that we have been up to our ...
  • Rosa Delauro cranks up her broom: The wicked witch ...
    Marti Oakley (c) 2010 All Rights reserved ________________________________________ DeLauro (D) CT  http://delauro.house.gov From the statements by Rosa Delauro to the House committee: While the administration asked for $14.2 million for this program, we do not feel it is a good use of resources to f ...
  • Water theft and the beginning of the end of indepe ...
    While many a cattleman (not all) in the west are cheering the unlawful herding and slaughter of wild horses and burros believing that ending the existence of these animals would somehow increase their access to below fair market value grazing permits, a wholly separate plan was being put in place by ...
  • First Amendment suspended in the Gulf of Mexico
    VIDEO
  • Drought as a Weapon?
    Why would "drought" and "weapons activities" even be mentioned in the same sentence of an emergency supplemental funding bill?

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Three UN staff killed in Afghanistan
    ShareThis Breaking: Three UN staff killed in Afghanistan 08 Jul 2010 Three staff members of the United Nations have been killed after a bomb went off in Afghanistan.
  • Six years in jail, no charge: war on terror's forg ...
    ShareThis Six years in jail, no charge: war on terror's forgotten victim speaks 08 Jul 2010 Babar Ahmad, 35, is the longest-serving prisoner held without charge or trial in the UK. In his first media interview since his arrest on a US extradition warrant in 2004, Mr Ahmad tells Robert Verkaik that h ...
  • 'US will attack Iran if it must'
    ShareThis Triumvirate of sociopaths speak: 'US will attack Iran if it must' 07 Jul 2010 There is wide support in Congress for using all means to keep Iran from becoming a nuclear power, “through diplomatic and economic sanctions if we possibly can, through military actions if we must,” visiting US S ...
  • Michael Rectenwald interview - Bush policies conti ...
    ShareThis Michael Rectenwald interview - Bush policies continue under Obama --Discussion of Obama's continuation and extension of the Bush policies, practices and atrocities . 07 Jul 2010 Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D.�was interviewed on 'The Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show Podcast'�regarding the continuat ...
  • Louisiana authorities report oil sightings from Gu ...
    ShareThis Louisiana authorities report oil sightings from Gulf of Mexico spill 07 Jul 2010 Here is a list, released by Louisiana emergency officials, of areas where oil was sighted Wednesday. The list is not a comprehensive tally of areas affected by oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill. Jefferson Pari ...

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

  • Wash. Post column suggests that discovering the &# ...
    The Washington Post's Dana Milbank has a splendid/witty column on the Obama-Netanyahu meeting characterizing it as a "surrender" by Obama, pointing out that a reporter had to bring up settlements, Obama didn't. And this:Four months ago, the Obama administration made a politically perilous decision t ...
  • Thaddeus Russell defends his piece on Israel&#8217 ...
    Yesterday we posted twice on Thaddeus Russell's groundbreaking and hugely popular piece on Daily Beast saying that Israel has proved to be a dangerous creation. Russell has gotten a ton of flak on the piece, and he offered us his response "to the criticisms I've received -- from The Israel Project, ...
  • Today in Palestine: Only democracy in Middle East ...
    And other news from Today in PalestineLand theft and destruction/Ethnic cleansing Israel to demolish 3 houses in Nablus Nablus, July 7, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) - Israeli authorities delivered demolition warrants to Palestinian residents in Barqa village north of Hebron in the West Bank, notifying them ...
  • ‘Times’ prints call for ethnic cleansi ...
    Can we agree that calls for a government to violate international law are not a helpful contribution to the public debate? That’s what the New York Times offered when it published a call for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land in a letter from Richard Gertler of Teaneck, New Jersey. ...
  • Viral IDF dancing video unwittingly reveals realit ...
    The above video has been an internet sensation. Originally called "Rock the Casbah in HEBRON," it's been viewed over 1.6 million times, and was featured today on Yahoo's homepage.� It has also drawn the wrath of IDF officials who say the soldiers involved could face disciplinary action. Funny enough ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • Polio – United Nations & The Great Cull
    According to the World Health Organization vaccines aren’t to blame for the spread of Polio in Nigeria; but rather low vaccine uptake amongst the poorest communities. This despite the fact that, by their own admission, children receiving the LIVE POLIO VIRUS MIST will continue shedding the virus amo ...
  • Vaccine Resistance Movement To Launch Major New Au ...
    Vaccine Resistance Movement is spearheading a worldwide census type study over the coming months to determine the number of unvaccinated autistic children vs those unvaccinated kids who have not become autistic. Parents in vaccine court need more leverage as the Pharmaceutical Industry & Media houn ...
  • VRM: The Vanishing Sperm Count
    There has been an alarming drop in the male sperm count over the past few decades; as much as a 50% reduction in most studies. As vaccine uptake continues, the systemic exposure to Bisphenal A Plastics, Sodium Fluoride, toxic chemicals & pesticides, GMO foods coupled with the widespread elimination ...
  • 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 ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

  • Loomstate, Rogan, Tommy Hilfiger, DVF, and Vena Ca ...
    Elle handbag designed by Diane von Furstenberg. Image courtesy of Elle. Nine top fashion designers--including TreeHugger favorites Loomstate and Rogan -have teamed up with fashion mag Elle to create bright, stylish, solar-powered handbags. The one-of-a-kind creations are available through an eB ...
  • Green Corners Rewarded for Making a City More Plea ...
    Image from Foyle's This such a delightful idea. The Conservation Foundation has launched its Green Corners Awards which celebrate the unusual, unexpected, witty and beautiful corners of London. The corners have to be green, and do their bit for the birds and insects as well as the passers-by w ...
  • CBO Says Climate Bill Will Cut Deficit, Emissions ...
    photo via flickr There's a lot of jostling right now in the Senate for lead position on energy reform. Just which Senator will catch the eye of President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Reid and get their bill picked is anyone's guess. Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) rec ...
  • In Defence of Squatting: If It's Unused, Is It You ...
    Image credit: The Guardian Oh dear. I suspect I am going to reawaken the age-old "is environmentalism socialist " debate with this post. Because there's nothing like discussing property rights to get people to back into their respective political corners. But try as I might, I can't avoid the f ...
  • Avoiding a BP-Style Disaster on the Bosphorus
    A tanker passing underneath one of the Bosphorus bridges. Photo by Jennifer Hattam The sight of dozens of mammoth tankers anchored off the coast of Istanbul, or of lone ones passing underneath the two high Bosphorus bridges as they steam their way to or from the Black Sea, is undeniably impress ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Turkish court annuls parts of constitutional refor ...
    [JURIST] The Turkish Constitutional Court [official website, in Turkish] on Wednesday annulled portions of the government-approved [JURIST report] constitutional amendments [text, in Turkish] aimed at limiting the power of the judiciary and bringing the traditionally-secular military and judiciary u ...
  • Obama administration asks appeals court to reinsta ...
    [JURIST] The Obama administration filed a brief [text, PDF] Tuesday asking a federal appeals court to reinstate the offshore drilling ban ordered after the BP oil spill [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] in the Gulf of Mexico. The filing in the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit [officia ...
  • Srebrenica victims file complaint against Dutch pe ...
    [JURIST] A complaint was filed with the Dutch prosecutor's office on Tuesday alleging that three Dutch soldiers, operating as UN peacekeepers, were complicit in the commission of war crimes and genocide during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre [BBC timeline; JURIST news archive], which resulted in the de ...
  • Citizens file suit against Chicago gun control ord ...
    [JURIST] A group of Chicago citizens on Tuesday filed suit [complaint, PDF] against the city and Mayor Richard Daly [official website] claiming the the city's new gun control ordinance infringes on their constitutional rights. The new ordinance bans gun shops in Chicago and prohibits gun owners from ...
  • Germany agrees to accept 2 Guantanamo detainees
    [JURIST] German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere [official website, in German] announced Wednesday that Germany would accept two detainees from the Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detention facility. The announcement came after months of negotiations with the Obama administration, which ori ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Palin Pushes Mama Grizzly Meme
    Sarah Palin's political action committee, Sarah PAC, has produced its first web video of the season, called "Mama Grizzlies."� As a rule, this column does not generally notice web videos, but this one is special. It's...well, an advertisement, if you will, for brand Sarah, and the variant of brand S ...
  • Mike Pence Returns To Iowa
    Oh, he's definitely thinking about running for President. (That's because, so far as I'm aware, he's not writing a book.)� Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) will return to Iowa as the guest of Steve Scheffler's Iowa Christian Alliance on Oct. 2. (The ICA was last known for getting mad at Sarah Palin for backin ...
  • Obama Speaks to Israel's 'Skepticism&#03 ...
    Below are excerpts of an interview with President Obama by Channel 2's Yonit Levi. It'll air in full at 1:00 pm ESat T. Levi : I'd like to actually open up by asking you about hope, which was such a prominent notion in your campaign and in your presidency. And how can you convey that concept ...
  • Food Fight? Plus: FNU LU Arrested for Terrorism
    The Night Beat tonight is following the California earthquake, a 5.0 on the Richter scale, but there's no significant damage to report. And even though I'm putting my best veepstake-search FAA-database-sleuthing skills to the test, I have not been able to figure out where LeBron is traveling for "Th ...
  • Why Are Latinos Turning to Whitman?
    Why are Latino voters shifting their allegiances toward Meg Whitman? A new Field poll out today shows a tie race between the Republican and Democratic nominee Jerry Brown. Whitman has gained traction among Latino voters -- Brown leads by only 11 points with that demographic -- to a degree that has t ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • NY Times ‘Discovers’ $200-Million American Jewish ...
    It only took them three years since bloggers like Phil Weiss and I first covered this issue and wrote about it intensively, but you’ve got to give credit to the NY Times.  They’ve finally discovered that the funding network among pro-settler American Jews who abuse U.S. tax law in order to funnel h ...
  • Rightist Ben Gurion Professor Derails Faculty Cand ...
    Assaf Oron is a research statistician at the University of Washington.  He is also an Israeli peace and human rights activist who blogs at Daily Kos, the Villages Group, and was a IDF sarban, refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories.  Before he was named to his current academic post, he appli ...
  • Luntz Calls Israel’s Gaza Hasbara Lame
    Didi Remez translates a Channel 10 news report of a Frank Luntz survey leaked to the prime minister’s office about the Gaza flotilla attack.  I reported here earlier on an e mail blast disseminated by The Israel Project’s director which warned that Luntz’s survey would be disheartening to supporter ...
  • B’Tselem: One-Fifth of West Bank Settlement Buildi ...
    B’Tselem will be releasing a study on Tuesday (perhaps timing it to coincide with Bibi’s meeting with Obama the same day) revealing that fully one-fifth of the built landscape in the settlements sits on privately owned Palestinian land.  The territory claimed by settlements occupies fully 42% of th ...
  • Links for 2010-06-05 [Digg]
    MV Rachel Corrie Forcibly Seized by Israeli Navy, Towed to A Malaysian NGO funding Rachel Corrie trip to Gaza reports she was seized a few mintues ago by Israeli navy and is being towed to Ashdod.

Ode Magazine

  • Pioneers of the Possible: Mark Retzloff
    By: Ode Mark Retzloff, the Chairman of Aurora Organic Dairy , original co-founder of Horizon Dairy , and one of Ode's Pioneers Of The Possible tells us about solutions he's bringing to the world. Related Reading Movie tip! The world accordi ...
  • Profit with a purpose
    As earnings, bonuses and stocks creep back to pre-crisis levels, will markets resume business as usual? A plea for a new kind of investing that blends good sense, good causes and good financial returns. From the moment she arrived in the U.S. from Trinidad and Tobago in 1994, ...
  • Q&A: Albert-László Barabási
    As the director of the Center for Complex Network Sciences at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, Hungarian physicist Albert-László Barabási researches what he calls “the hidden pattern behind everything we do.” Barabási’s Bursts (Dutton), out in April, exp ...
  • A new legacy for Watts
    The wiry spires of the Watts Towers seem almost obtrusive on the working-class skyline of South Los Angeles. While the historic landmarks remind some of the artistic innovation of Italian architect Simon Rodia, who built the sculptures out of steel; mortar; and a mosaic of re ...
  • Beyond organic
    Made famous by The Omnivoreâs Dilemma , Polyface Farm is the destination of choice for discerning tourists with a passion for great foodand sustainable agriculture. “I’m from a long line of out-of-the-box thinkers, and we’ve been on this lunatic train for a long, long time ...

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • Hot Enough For You?
    The oppressive heat wave gripping the Eastern United States, by itself, shouldn’t have any influence on what policymakers think about global warming. But after the ridiculous spectacle of climate science deniers claiming that last winter’s blizzard disproves global warming, I hope that ...
  • Flying over Gulf Marshes: The Spill Is Vast, the B ...
    I learned a new word on my first day on the Louisiana Gulf Coast: marshballs. Flying over what used to be vast stretches of marshland, our pilot said that after decades of blocking the Mississippi River from releasing more sediment into the wetlands and years of dredging canals for oil ...
  • Saying no to large hydropower and yes to solar and ...
    The Gulf oil disaster has provided us with a moment for reflection on the costs of what has been our energy policy globally – to allow large companies to go after the sources of energy they know best: fossil fuels, large hydropower, and nuclear.  This is a path that takes us backwards ...
  • Gulf Coast Disaster - Morning News Roundup, July 7
      Day 79 Highlights in this issue -Tarballs coming in the back door to New Orleans, now at Lake Ponchartrain -Texas asks for oil cleanup money -Crews made progress in hooking up third containment vessel -Air quality looks very bad -Coast Guard now strained -27,000 oil wells abandoned ...
  • Energy efficiency (including smart growth) is esse ...
    According to NRDC’s chief energy scientist David Goldstein, “the National Academy of Sciences, along with other scientific and business organizations, has estimated that efficiency could produce 30 percent of the energy America would otherwise need by 2030.”  This would be the case, Da ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • ISA: Polisci and Blogging
    Jeremy Young has an excellent post on blogging, peer review, and tenure/promotion decisions in the academy. The post is similar in focus to the presentation I delivered on the Carpenter-Drezner-Walt panel at the International Studies Association. The particularly interesting bits: [Laurel Thatcher ...
  • Let’s Make This Happen…
    Cliff Lee would sure look pretty in a Reds uniform… Related posts:Simply Because Something Must Happen Doesn’t Mean it Will Happen 2008 Reds Preview Was Griffey Lied To? Related posts: Simply Because Something Must Happen Doesn’t Mean it Will Happen 2008 Reds Preview Was Griffey Lied To?
  • Another Originalism Problem
    John Elwood, with respect to the trend toward more recess appointments by the president, and especially the recent intrasession appointment of Donald Berwick: It is certainly not without controversy, however; Attorney General Daugherty said in dicta in one opinion that an adjournment for “5 or even ...
  • Lessons Learned
    So, we have essentially completed the long-extended transition from Blogger to Wordpress. Regular readers over the past few months know that this transition has not gone particularly well. In particular, we suffered severe problems with our server that substantially increased download times and of ...
  • Airpower, Terror, and Alienation
    Spencer, noting the recent research indicating that civilian deaths in Afghanistan generate hostility towards the United States: Additionally, some in the military consider a preoccupation with civilian casualties to be a media-driven phenomenon. Last December, the Air Force’s intel chief, Lieutenan ...

Desert Research Institute

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • 5th Circuit judges looking at drilling moratorium ...
    The Obama administration's appeal of a decision blocking a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf comes before the 5th Circuit on Thursday. The administration likely wished for a three-judge panel without ties to the oil and gas industry — which turns out to be hard to find in the 5t ...
  • Booted for a bumper sticker, two seek Supreme Cour ...
    A five-year-old incident in which two Denver residents were bounced from a town hall meeting held by President George W. Bush because of the bumper sticker on their car has reached the U.S. Supreme Court's door.
  • Major retailers and tech companies support Netflix ...
    Netflix Inc.'s bid for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to hold an en banc hearing on the legal standard for district court awards of attorney fees in patent cases is generating a groundswell of support from major technology and Internet retail companies.
  • Appeal court stays closure of medical marijuana di ...
    A California appellate court has granted a temporary stay that allows two medical marijuana dispensaries to remain open in the city of Lake Forest, Calif., where a newly enacted municipal code has forced most dispensaries to shut down.
  • Deadline may loom for oil-spill claims under pollu ...
    Time could be running out for some companies hoping to file an insurance claim over damage caused by the Gulf Coast oil spill. Jenner & Block has issued a practice advisory noting that some insurers are claiming a July 8 deadline to file pollution claims for current or future damages.

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

  • Interview: A Scientist Foretells the End For Hudso ...
    No polar bears have been more closely studied than Canada’s western Hudson Bay population. Biologists have compiled an impressive store of data on everything from the weight of females at denning, the decreasing body mass of bears of all sexes, the diminishing length of time the bears spend annually ...
  • For Hudson Bay Polar Bears, The End is Already in ...
    The polar bear has long been a symbol of the damage wrought by global warming, but now biologist Andrew Derocher and his colleagues have calculated how long one southerly population can hold out. Their answer? No more than a few decades, as the bears’ decline closely tracks that of the Arctic’s disa ...
  • ‘Climategate’ Panel Concludes That Scientists Did ...
    A six-month inquiry into the conduct of some of the world’s leading climate scientists has concluded that they did not manipulate data or distort the results of their studies of global warming . The independent panel, headed by former British civil servant Sir Muir Russell, was formed by the Univers ...
  • High Above the Earth, Satellites Track Melting Ice ...
    The surest sign of a warming Earth is the steady melting of its ice zones, from disappearing sea ice in the Arctic to shrinking glaciers worldwide. Now, scientists are using increasingly sophisticated satellite technology to measure the extent, thickness, and height of ice, assembling an essential p ...
  • 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 ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Now We’re Being Blamed for Climate Change 15,000 y ...
    Humans were fiddling with climate thousands of years before the onset of agriculture - albeit unwittingly.If humans played a role in the extinction of the mammoths, then they had a hand in the climate change that followed. "I see it as humans’ first big impact on the planet," says Doughty.
  • Pentagon plans ’flying submarine’
    Pentagon researchers are attempting to develop a military vehicle which can travel underwater like a submarine before bursting out of the waves and flying like an aeroplane. The manta ray-like flying submarine from The Incredibles. Photo: PIXAR The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), ...
  • The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street - Welcome to ...
    The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and the thoughtless, frightened search for a s ...
  • ProPublica Photographer Detained By Law Enforcemen ...
    BP in Control of the Gulf Here's more on BP's ongoing efforts to harrass journalists in the Gulf Region. Over the weekend, ProPublica filed this report on a BP refinery in Texas City, Texas: Two weeks before the blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, the huge, trouble-plagued BP refinery in this coastal tow ...
  • Intelligent cars will report accidents to authorit ...
    Intelligent cars fitted with aircraft-style black boxes that can send video footage and information about driving behaviour during accidents to the police and insurance companies are being developed by computer scientists. The car, which is being developed by researchers at computer chip giant Intel ...

Russia Today

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

  • Asteroid Living
    In spaceflight (and sci-fi lore), nothing can be more basic than setting up an asteroid colony. The idea can be traced back to Konstantin Tsiolkovsky himself, but it wasn’t fleshed out until J.D. Bernal proposed his ‘Bernal Spheres’ in 1929 the concept of using extra-planetary materials to construc ...
  • Martian Structures 2
    Here is part two of Martian Structures in which we ask the old question: Do intelligent beings currently occupy Mars, are they long dead, or are we just hallucinating? Answer: We love the Google-Plex! Huh? ]:/ … ]
  • Martian Structures
    For years NASA (Never A Straight Answer) has denied any strange structures or any evidence for intelligent life on our Moon, or Mars. Now, with the miracle of YouTube, Google Mars and other technical wonders, ordinary folks can pick apart released photos from the aforementioned organization. Is it r ...
  • 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 ...

Tippers News

  • Billy: Carriage Horse to Sanctuary
    Last week, horse rights advocates purchased a lame, long-toothed former carriage horse named Billy who had just been sold at an auction in New Holland, Pa., that many advocates say is often the last stop before the slaughterhouse. Billy had recently been Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it ...
  • Little Willie Wont… Go Home
    The 4th (and, in Utah, 24th) of July holidays are always a tough time for our 4-legged friends. The noise, bright explosions and excitement of summer festivities can cause them to panic and run away. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Shipment of animals from Zimbabwe to North Korea i ...
    Following our May report about the animals being captured in Hwange National Park for the purpose of being sold to Pyonyang Zoo in North Korea, we are now delighted to announce that the shipment has been cancelled. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Fritillary butterflies boost in Devon
    Devon Wildlife Trust has been awarded £257,469 to help boost numbers of fritillary butterflies on Dartmoor. The trust has been awarded the money (spread over three years) by Viridor Credits Environmental Company, through the Landfill Communities Fund. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! ...
  • Critically endangered hawksbill turtle sees eight- ...
    Critically endangered Hawksbill numbers jump in Seychelles Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Why Optimism Seems so Irrational
    People seem all too ready to snap up the latest book or article predicting the next disaster.
  • Book Review: Protecting America’s Health: Th ...
    Protecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation by Philip J. Hilts Alfred A. Knopf/University of North Carolina Press ⢠2003/2004 ⢠410 pages ⢠$26.95 hardcover; $14.95 paperback Reviewed by Sam Kazman George Stigler once compared regulating on the basis of ...
  • Book Review: You Can’t Say That! The Growing ...
    You Can’t Say That! The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws by David E. Bernstein Cato Institute ⢠2003 ⢠166 pages ⢠$20 Reviewed by George C. Leef The chiseling away of constitutional limits on government power is a topic familiar to readers of these pages. For a l ...
  • Book Review: The Roads to Modernity: the British, ...
    The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb Knopf ⢠2004 ⢠304 pages ⢠$25.00 hardcover Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling In 1945, Austrian economist F. A. Hayek delivered a lecture on what he called “Individualism: True and False.” The gist of ...
  • Education is the Effect, Not the Cause, of Affluen ...
    Despite its abysmal record, the United Nations wears a mantle of legitimacy in the popular discourse. Almost every daily newspaper or nightly newscast reports some UN-sponsored agency’s activities regarding world hunger, climate change, disease, or some other problem. All too often the UN is on the ...

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

  • Cameras not allowed in Alabama wildlife refuge aff ...
    The latest video from the BP oil disaster by Hurricane Creekkeeper John Wathen of Alabama shows the difficulties reporters and others face in trying to document the effects of the catastrophe. Footage posted to YouTube today finds Wathen at the entrance to the Bon Secour National Wildlife ...
  • BP vows to do a better job of hiring commercial fi ...
    During our recent reporting trip to the Gulf Coast, we met with commercial fishermen who complained that the oil cleanup jobs they so desperately needed were going instead to recreational fishermen. A BP spokesperson acknowledged the problem with its Vessels of Opportunity program -- and ...
  • Lawmakers demand answers on toxic trailers housing ...
    U.S. Reps. Charlie Melancon (D-La.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) want to know why trailers found to have exposed hurricane survivors to potentially dangerous levels of toxic fumes are now being used to house workers cleaning up the BP oil spill. Originally provided to displaced Gulf Coast ...
  • Obama v Bush: Who has a better record in using for ...
    In attacking President Obama's response to the BP oil spill, Republicans and conservatives are echoing a criticism made of President Bush's handling of Hurricane Katrina: That he's not making use of generous offers of aid from other nations to clean up and recover from the disaster. Is the criticis ...
  • Blast at BP Texas refinery in '05 foreshadowed Gul ...
    By Ryan Knutson, ProPublica TEXAS CITY, TEXAS -- Ever since the Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, David Senko has been tallying the similarities between what he calls "my blast" in 2005 and this new BP disaster. "His" blast erupted on a clear March afternoon at an antiquated B ...

Survival International

  • Tribe fights rainforest destruction with blockade
    Penan armed with blowpipes block road as Shin Yang logging trucks approach. © Survival 2009 Nomadic tribespeople in Borneo are blockading a road to stop loggers destroying their rainforest. Members of the Penan tribe have mounted the blockade in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, to stop the destructi ...
  • Spotted: the tribe that hides from man
    Four Ayoreo-Totobiegosode men make first contact with the outside world in 2004. © GAT / Survival A man belonging to the only uncontacted tribe in South America outside the Amazon basin has been sighted near a region targeted for deforestation by Brazilian cattle-ranchers. When spotted, th ...
  • Peru expels British environmental activist
    Paul McAuley has spoken out against oil exploration and logging on indigenous land. © © 2005 FUNAI Peru’s government has announced plans to expel the British environmentalist Brother Paul McAuley from Peru. McAuley has spoken out in defence of the Amazon rainforest and indigenous rights in P ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Another journalist down for saying something “inap ...
    Latest victim is Octavia Nasr, who tweeted: “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah… One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot.” Hezbollah, of course, are designated terrorists by the US state department, for the 1983 bombing of marine barracks in Lebanon. Two things about ...
  • UNIFIL presence in Lebanon will increase civilian ...
    Intentional, or a side effect? In the last war, much of the fighting took place on open scrubland, Merli said. But the deployment of United Nations forces in southern Lebanon had forced Hezbollah into built up areas where troops from the international UNIFIL force have no authority. Not good.  No ...
  • Some scenarios for Mexico
    Mexico is in trouble. It is facing a significant narco-insurgency that is threatening the state’s monopoly on legitimate force, there are cartels (La Familia for instance) that are taking the Capone model for Chicago as an instruction manual, and its hard currency earning sectors are either in d ...
  • Serious People Notice Banks Are Gouging Consumers ...
    Well, better late than never: rates on 10-year Treasury bonds are only about 3 percent, many consumers still carry tens of thousands of dollars of credit card debt at 20 percent or more. This burden has been a continuing drag on spending. The federal government could reduce it by borrowing at 3 ...
  • American War Economics 101
    I recently wrote that Obama has chosen to stay in Afghanistan because war spending is one of the only reliable forms of stimulus he has. I am baffled by many of the responses to that article. What do readers think would happen to the US economy if all that spending stopped and wasn’t replaced [...]

Age of Autism

  • Buy "The Autism Cookbook" from Susan Delaine and G ...
    From our friends at Skyhorse Publishing, publisher of Dr. Wakefield's book Callous Disregard and Kim Stagliano's November release All I Can Handle; I'm No Mother Teresa A Life Raising Three Daughters with Autism. Dear friend, We have an important recommendation...
  • Osler’s Web – A Prequel to Autism?
    By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. For a long time I believed there was no group more wretched and abandoned by mainstream medicine than children with autism and their families. However, after reading the magnificent book Osler’s Web – Inside the Labyrinth...
  • New Age of Autism T-shirts are Black!
    Hi, friends. We've ordered a new batch of AofA t-shirts. As you can see on model/runner/AofA fan Amy Belknap, they are black! The front features our logo and the back has all of our sponsors on it. Wasn't that a...
  • Boston.com Tackles Comment Moderation and the Anon ...
    Interesting post about the ramifcations of the anonymous commenter, the ins and outs of moderation and the effect on the Blogosphere. Read the full post at Boston.com ...After years of letting anonymity rule online, many media heavyweights, from The Washington...
  • UPI Reports Woman Contracted Genital Lesions After ...
    This is when herd immununity isn't quite what one would have hoped for, and becomes hurt immunity. Note how vaccine injury was initially overlooked. Sound familiar? Woman ill after sex with vaccinated man Published: July 1, 2010 at 10:41 PM...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • CODEX ALIMENTARIUS: The Elephant in the Room that ...
    Why is there so much denial by consumer advocate groups such as the National Health Federation(1) (NHF) about Barry Soetoro implementing the U.S. Codex council via Executive Order(2)? What is it that they don't want you to see? Just do the research, and you will discover that we have been up to our ...
  • Rosa Delauro cranks up her broom: The wicked witch ...
    Marti Oakley (c) 2010 All Rights reserved ________________________________________ DeLauro (D) CT  http://delauro.house.gov From the statements by Rosa Delauro to the House committee: While the administration asked for $14.2 million for this program, we do not feel it is a good use of resources to f ...
  • Water theft and the beginning of the end of indepe ...
    While many a cattleman (not all) in the west are cheering the unlawful herding and slaughter of wild horses and burros believing that ending the existence of these animals would somehow increase their access to below fair market value grazing permits, a wholly separate plan was being put in place by ...
  • First Amendment suspended in the Gulf of Mexico
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  • Drought as a Weapon?
    Why would "drought" and "weapons activities" even be mentioned in the same sentence of an emergency supplemental funding bill?

Open Your Eyes News

  • UK Road pricing could become yet another tax
    Telegraph – The last time road pricing was suggested, Downing Street’s website crashed as 1.8 million motorists visited it to register their opposition. But the idea has not gone away. A new report from the RAC Foundation says that charging drivers for each mile they travel is “inevitable” if future ...
  • Western food fuelling SE Asia diabetes boom: resea ...
    Physorg – Studies found about 11 percent of men and 12 percent of women in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City had type 2 diabetes without knowing it, on top of the four percent of people who are diagnosed sufferers. “Dietary patterns have been changing dramatically in Vietnam in recent years, particularly i ...
  • Fish deformities report release years away, say la ...
    ABC-A Queensland Government taskforce was set up last year to investigate claims mist from chemicals used on a Noosa macadamia nut farm caused fish deaths and deformities at a neighbouring hatchery. The Government says a legal dispute between the hatchery owner and the macadamia nut farmer means the ...
  • Banks Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Bail Out: Roubin ...
    CNBC – European governments face the quandary of being unable to afford to bail out banks that are still considered too big to fail, while the global economy is heading for a slowdown in the second half of the year, economist Nouriel Roubini of Roubini Global Economics told CNBC Tuesday. Read Articl ...
  • Now men have the perfect excuse to avoid shopping& ...
    Daily Mail – Finally men have a perfect excuse to avoid shopping… it could make them impotent. Researchers have made the startling discovery that a gender bending chemical compound is present on some till receipts. And the levels of hazardous substance Bisphenol A (BPA) can be high enough to suppres ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Gulf oil spill: Fishermen sing and pray together a ...
    The New Orleans-based Vietnamese American Fishermen Assn. sponsored a concert for oil spill victims in New Orleans East on Sunday night that drew about 300 people, including fisherman Tam Le, 43, of Baton Rouge, La. Le, a father of three...
  • Climate-change scientists in e-mail scandal cleare ...
    An independent panel has determined that scientists accused of improprieties in their research into climate change conducted their studies according to high academic standards but failed to respond openly to criticism. The so-called Climategate scandal involving researchers at Britain's University.. ...
  • Gulf oil spill: Obama administration argues for dr ...
    The Obama administration will take its case for a moratorium on deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico to a federal appellate court, which is holding an unusual hearing before a panel of three judges Thursday. In a filing on...
  • Gulf oil spill: Tar balls found on Texas beaches
    A top Texas official said Monday that tar balls from the gulf oil spill have been found on state beaches, marking the first known evidence that gushing crude from the Deepwater Horizon well has now reached all the gulf states....
  • Gulf oil spill: Initial tests of massive skimmer a ...
    A test of the massive super-skimming ship sent to the Gulf of Mexico to help with the oil cleanup is "inconclusive" because of choppy seas in deep waters, a spokesman for the ship's owner said Monday. The modified oil tanker...

Mark I. Moore | Deepwater Horizon

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Cryptogon

  • German Government Takes Legal Action Against Faceb ...
    Via: BBC: German officials have launched legal proceedings against Facebook for accessing and saving the personal data of people who do not use the site. Facebook could face fines of tens of thousands of euros under privacy laws. The social networking firm confirmed it had received a letter about th ...
  • Relief Payments Get Slashed if Fishermen Refuse to ...
    That’s life in a company town. Via: Raw Story: Any relief payment plan established in the wake of the worst environmental accident ever was bound to have its flaws, but this goes to a whole new level of wrong. According to Gulf resident Kindra Arnesen, who turned whistleblower and full-time activist ...
  • Corexit
    Research Credit: JoKerHill
  • Bradley Manning Charge Sheet
    Bradley Manning charge sheet – PDF Bradley Manning charge sheet – HTML Via: bradleymanning.org: CHARGE I: VIOLATION OF THE UCMJ, ARTICLE 92 SPECIFICATION 1: In that Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, U.S. Army, did, between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 27 May 2010, at or near Co ...
  • Europe Seeks to Ban Food From Clones
    Via: New York Times: The European Parliament asked on Wednesday for a ban on the sale of foods from cloned animals and their offspring, the latest sign of deepening concern in the European Union about the safety and ethics of new food technologies. The chamber, meeting in Strasbourg, France, also ca ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Budget Cuts?
    As violent protests erupted outside, the leaders of the world's largest economies plotted the future course of the global economy at this weekend's G20 summit.  So what was decided?  Well, according to various reports in the mainstream media, it was the "deficit hawks" who got their ...
  • The Death Of Las Vegas
    There are quite a few U.S. cities that are complete and utter economic disaster zones in 2010 (Detroit for example), but there is something about the demise of Las Vegas that is absolutely stunning.  In recent decades, Las Vegas has become a symbol for the over-the-top affluence and ...
  • 12 Reasons Why The U.S. Housing Crash Is Far From ...
    Over the past several months, many in the mainstream media have hailed the slight improvement in the U.S. real estate market as a "housing recovery".  But the truth is that the small improvement in the numbers was primarily due to a significant number of Americans attempting to sque ...
  • Recession 2010?
    If you watch any mainstream news program these days, it is almost a certainty that someone will mention the word "recession" before a half hour passes.  In fact, it seems like almost everyone is either predicting that we are going into a recession, or they are warning of the need to ...
  • 16 Burning Questions About The Gulf Of Mexico Oil ...
    The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is a national nightmare that seems to have no ending.  Every day new details come out that are even more shocking than what we learned the day before.  The truth is that life will never be the same in the Gulf of Mexico or for those who live along [...]

Desertification

  • How to prevent the Sahel’s next food crisis ...
    Read at : IRIN http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=89734 HOW TO: Prevent the Sahel’s next food crisis DAKAR, 5 July 2010 (IRIN) – Another food crisis is unfolding in West Africa’s arid Sahel region, putting 10 million people at risk of hunger. Preventing such … Continue reading →
  • Mixed blessing of first rain in Niger (IRIN News)
    Read at : IRIN http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=89664 Mixed blessing of first rain DAKAR, 29 June 2010 (IRIN) – The beginning of the rainy season in the arid Sahel region of West Africa is bringing hopes of renewed grazing land and harvests, but … Continue reading →
  • SYRIA: Drought over but crops still failing (IRIN ...
    Read at : IRIN http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=89642 SYRIA: Drought over but crops still failing DAMASCUS, 27 June 2010 (IRIN) – More rain has signalled the end of three years of a devastating drought in Syria’s north-eastern region but it is not falling … Continue reading →
  • Ghana: 10m People Go Hungry (NGO News Africa / Oxf ...
    Read at : NGO NEWS AFRICA Ghana: 10m People Go Hungry Posted: 05 Jul 2010 07:14 PM PDT Ghana: 10m People Go Hungry Oxfam, an international aid agency, last week reported that some 10 million people in West Africa, including … Continue reading →
  • WeForest Newsletter
    Read at : WeForest Newsletter July 2010 newsletter: Partnering with Nobel Charitable Trust! WeForest and The Nobel Charitable Trust have partnered for a unique collaboration to halt Climate Change and secure energy for millions of people. You know that our … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

  • ENVIRONMENT:  Florida Lawsuit Cites Center&#8 ...
    A class-action lawsuit against BP seeking compensation on behalf of Florida condominium owners for decreased property values as a result of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill cites Center for Public Integrity data analysis as part of an effort to show willful criminal conduct by the oil giant.
  • INTERNATIONAL: Investigations Around the World
    Here is this week's round up of Investigations from Around the World by the Center's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists :
  • FINANCE: Big Banks Sued Over Credit Card Protectio ...
    In 2008, Anna Trachtenberg, a 53-year-old unemployed Pennsylvania homemaker, enrolled in a payment protection service for her credit card from Citigroup Inc. The plan promised to make the minimum monthly payment on her credit card balance for one year if she experienced certain “life changing” event ...
  • 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.

backofthebook.ca

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

Worldnews

  • World Cup 2010: Xavi determined to enjoy Spai ...
    • 'We dedicate this victory to Spain,' says midfielder • David Villa: 'It's the best game we have played' Xavi, right, congratulates Carles Puyol after the Barcelona centre-half scored for Spain against Germany. Photograph: Clive Mason/Getty Images Spain's midfield fulcrum Xavi has said he is d ...
  • Inactivity doesn't lead to childhood obesity ...
    Inactivity doesn't lead to childhood obesity Share ARTICLEURL Obesity may lead to inactivity, but inactivity does not lead to obesity, says a new study. A new report from the EarlyBird Diabetes Study suggests that physical activity has little, if any, role to play in the obesity...
  • Dhoni, wife arrive in Kolkata
    Dhoni, wife arrive in Kolkata Share ARTICLEURL Jul 8: Newly-wed Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his wife Sakshi arrived here on Thursday from Ranchi to meet friends and relatives....
  • Team India leaves for Colombo tomorrow
    Team India leaves for Colombo tomorrow Share ARTICLEURL Chennai, Jul 8: The Indian cricket team, sans newly-married skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, will leave for Sri Lanka from here tomorrow to play three Tests and a...
  • World Cup 2010 Comment: How Spain, The Best T ...
    Goal.com's Cyrus C. Malek reflects on Spain's heroic win against Germany to reach an historic World Cup final in South Africa... By Cyrus C. Malek Share Euphoria has overrun the Iberian Peninsula. As Spanish president José Luis Zapatero proudly announced mere moments after Spain’s historic 1-0 ...

Alex in Wonderland

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Obama Administration: Israel Has ‘Right’ to Nukes
    Summary: Dimona nuclear plant A statement released yesterday by the Obama Administration has made public America’s long-standing support for the Israeli government’s large, undeclared nuclear arsenal, and insists that Israel has an inherent “right” to possess such an arsenal for “deterrence purp ...
  • UAE envoy statements on Iran misquoted
    Summary: UAE Assistant Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Tareq Al Haidan said “the statements attributed by the Washington Times to the UAE Ambassador to the United States Youssef Al Otaiba are not precise.” source: Khaleej Times read more
  • UK and US misread the intentions of the Iranian re ...
    Summary: Sir Richard Tony Blair "very much exaggerated" Iran's role in supporting al Qaida insurgents in their attacks on British and American forces in Iraq, a former ambassador to Tehran has said. Sir Richard Dalton added that the UK and US misread the intentions of the Iranian regime, believi ...
  • U.S. not seeking solution to Iran’s nuclear issu ...
    Summary: Apparently the U.S. is not seeking a solution to the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program, MP Kazem Jalali said on Tuesday. source: Tehran Times read more
  • Iran MP Slams U.A.E. Envoy Remarks, Says Tours May ...
    Summary: July 7 (Bloomberg) -- Iran may bar trips to the United Arab Emirates after the U.A.E.’s envoy to the U.S. said his country supports military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities. source: Bloomberg Businessweek read more

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Busted: Wyeth Used Ghostwriters To Place Over 40 " ...
    (NaturalNews) Documents unsealed as part of a lawsuit against drug giant Wyeth Pharmaceuticals reveal that the company used ghostwriters to prepare at least 40 medical journal articles promoting the use of its hormone-replacement drug Prempro. Hormone replacement therapy drugs such as Premarin and P ...
  • Chokeberry extract helps maintain proper weight
    (NaturalNews) Researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently released the results of a study which found that the chokeberry, a Native American fruit also known as Aronia, assists in regulating proper weight and helps balance out blood glucose levels. Native to eastern North Ame ...
  • Official recommended intake for vitamin D is too l ...
    (NaturalNews) Official government recommendations on vitamin D intake are far too low for optimal health, the director of the Sunlight, Nutrition, and Health Research Center has warned. "The current dietary guideline, approximately 400 IU/day, was based on the amount of vitamin D in a spoonful of co ...
  • Gulf Coast now a BP police state as law enforcemen ...
    (NaturalNews) Normally I would open this article by explaining this is the story the mainstream media won't dare report. Except in this case, they are reporting it. It's right on CNN, on the Anderson Cooper "360" report. What happened is that Lance Rosenfield, a photographer working for ProPublica ( ...
  • Pecans provide neurological protection, could help ...
    (NaturalNews) One of the hottest areas of medical research currently is also one of the nuttiest -- literally. For example, as NaturalNews recently reported, nuts have been found to lower cholesterol (http://www.naturalnews.com/028831_natural_health_technology_renewable_energy.html). What's more, pi ...

Threat Level

  • Is Breaking CAPTCHA a Crime?
    Prosecutors in a New Jersey ticket scalping case are pushing the envelope on the federal computer hacking law, setting a precedent that could make it a felony to violate a website’s terms-of-service and fool a CAPTCHA, according to electronic civil rights groups intervening in the case. At issue i ...
  • Army Intelligence Analyst Charged With Leaking Cla ...
    A U.S. Army intelligence analyst suspected of leaking videos and documents to Wikileaks was charged Monday with eight violations of federal criminal law, including unauthorized computer access, and a single count of transmitting classified information to an unauthorized third party. Pfc. Bradley Ma ...
  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Berwick Pick Highlights GOP's Rationing of Health ...
    Back in February, Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan defended his " Roadmap for America's Future ," which among other things would privatize - and inevitably ration - Medicare. "Rationing happens today!" Ryan revealingly protested, "The question is who will do it? The government? Or you, your doctor an ...
  • An Offer Republicans Can't Refuse on Jobless Benef ...
    During the comparatively mild 1991 recession, President George H.W. Bush twice vetoed the extension of unemployment insurance because the $5.3 price tag would add to the deficit. After taking a pounding in the polls, he eventually made a deal with Democrats, who funded the program in part through h ...
  • A Constitution Only the Tea Party Could Love
    On Friday, Gallup became just the latest pollster to confirm the obvious: "Tea Party supporters overlap the Republican base." Despite the fact that the Tea Party movement is simply a continuation of the losing 2008 GOP presidential campaign by other means, the Washington Post today examined how its ...
  • Michael Steele and the GOP's Inside Poop on Medica ...
    Republican leaders are calling for Michael Steele's head in the wake of his remarks calling the conflict in Afghanistan "a war of Obama's choosing" which is destined to fail. But it's hardly the first time the GOP threatened Steele with the chopping block for bucking the party line. Last year, whe ...
  • 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 ...

Blackspot News Feed

Consortium News

  • What Eisenhower Could Teach Obama
    President Obama could have learned from President Dwight Eisenhower's skepticism toward the Pentagon, says Melvin A. Goodman. July 5, 2010
  • America's First Spymaster
    In the tense days before the American Revolution, Joseph Warren built a sophisticated intelligence network, recalls Robert Parry. July 4, 2010
  • A Musical Message from '1776'
    An amusing -- and oddly inspiring -- way to celebrate July Fourth is watching the musical "1776," suggests Michael Winship. July 2, 2010
  • Video Captures Another Border Killing
    The U.S. official account of another Mexican border killing has been undermined by a cell-phone video, reports Dennis Bernstein. July 2, 2010
  • Rethinking Iran-Contra
    The recent collapse of the long-running October Surprise cover-up shifts the history on the Iran-Contra scandal, writes Robert Parry. July 1, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

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

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Brazilian Land Rights Activist in Boston
    mst.gif Grassroots International and U.S. Friends of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (FMST) are delighted to host Ana Justo, from the Florestan Fernandes National School of the Landless Workers Movement (MST), a Grassroots Internationa ...
  • The Haitian Delegation to the U.S. Social Forum Se ...
    4752513083_4efa842e78_b1.jpg Grassroots International recently supported a delegation of Haitian social movements to attend the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit. This diverse group represented several of our partners and allies on the ground in Ha ...
  • The Popular Struggle at the Heart of the Capitalis ...
    Subheadline:� Twelve thousand people gather at the US Social Forum to present an alternative to U.S. policies Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Joao Alexandre Peschanski is a Brazilian ...
  • 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 ...

Climate

  • July 7, 2010
    New Rules Issued on Coal Air Pollution (New York Times) Acting under a federal court order, the Obama administration proposed new air-quality rules on Tuesday for coal plants that officials said would bring major reductions in soot and smog in 31 states from Texas to the Eastern Seaboard. ...
  • July 6, 2010
    Tar Balls From Gulf Oil Spill Turn Up in Texas (AP) A top Texas official said Monday that tar balls from the Gulf oil spill have been found on state beaches, marking the first known evidence that crude from the Deepwater Horizon well has now reached all the Gulf states. Obama Decried, T ...
  • July 5, 2010
    Rough Weather Curtails Some Gulf Cleanup Work (AP) Cleanup crews across the Gulf of Mexico surveyed damage done by last week's hurricane while contending Sunday with choppy seas that idled many of the boats dedicated to keeping oil from hitting vulnerable beaches and marshes. BP Oil Spi ...
  • 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 ...

GreenBiz

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

Reuters Global

  • Pakistan’s Zardari in China; nuclear deal in ...
    Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari is in China this week, making good his promise to visit the "all weather ally" every three months. During his previous trips his hosts have sent him off to the provinces to see for himself the booming growth there, but this trip may turn out be a lot more produc ...
  • Kashmir protests: another tragedy of timing
    The latest protests in Kashmir are a tragedy of timing; and also symptomatic of an unravelling of regional stability across Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.
  • In scramble for Afghanistan, India looks to Iran
    India renews efforts to win Iranian support in Afghanistan to offset Pakistani influence. Yet its opening to Tehran coincides with U.S. moves to impose sanctions on Iran, bringing together some of the most explosive issues in global politics.
  • Pakistan searches for a response to Lahore shrine ...
    Pakistan has yet to find a response to last week's bombing in Lahore. For all the popular outrage, the battles over Afghanistan, between Pakistan and India, Saudi Arabia and Iran, and within Islam, have gained too much momentum.
  • Nervous Afghan capital awaits “King David&#8 ...
    As America's "warrior scholar" General David Petraeus jets into Kabul to take command of the war against the Taliban, Afghan soldiers at the city's ruined monument to past kings have little faith the growing insurgency can be turned, even in the capital.

Booman Tribune

  • Win Now or We're Doomed
    It's kind of important that we do well in this year's Senate elections. To demonstrate why, let me fast forward to 2012. It will be a presidential election year and therefore senators running for reelection will benefit if their candidate wins their state. For example, Kristen Gillibrand (assumin ...
  • Casual Observation
    He's probably less popular at home than Harry Reid but Mitch McConnell doesn't need to worry about getting reelected until the 2014 midterms. He'll actually benefit, I think, if the Senate Republicans lay an egg and fail to pick up seats in the Senate this fall. That's because he almost certainly w ...
  • World Cup Thread
    So it will be Spain versus the Netherlands in the World Cup final. I have to say that that is an excellent matchup and I couldn't have asked for more. I was rooting for Germany but the match with Spain was dull until the Spaniards finally scored off corner-kick header in the second half. I was sh ...
  • Disaster Capitalism In Ireland ... And America
    It probably seems like I'm "a day late and a dollar short," with a post about Ireland's economic disaster days after the New York Times story about the high cost of austerity measures in Ireland echoed all over the progressive blogosphere. But I'm not. It just took me a few days to recover from the ...
  • Steele is Like a Zombie Chairman
    Since they can't fire Michael Steele they will just pretend he doesn't exist and take away all his job responsibilities. "Everyone is basically working around him," said former GOP Rep. Vin Weber of Minnesota, who added that Steele has marginalized himself further with every gaffe. "Republicans ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Gonzo Augmented Reality
    Thomas Carpenter of Games Alfresco was pretty impressed by the AR app that superimposes an oil slick on any BP logo within the frame of its image capture, and started riffing on the idea of gonzo AR – a sort of “the world as seen by [x]” idea, taking the idea of reality being defined [...] Project ...
  • There’s Always Another Way To Write It
    In Star Wars: Episode I, Qui-Gon Jinn quips “There’s always a bigger fish.” Admittedly he’s wrong, because since there are not an infinite number of fish in the universe, so one of them has to be the biggest. And I’m probably wrong too when I say “there’s always another way to write it”–but as with ...
  • Chronoslexia: new British indie sf movie in the wo ...
    In the Futurismic post-bag this week comes news of a new independent science fiction movie called Chronoslexia. It’s being made here in the UK by an outfit with the very Marxist moniker Opiate Of The People Films, and its plot is summed up as follows: What if in your everyday life you experienced gl ...
  • Another thing to worry about: anxiety breeds extre ...
    Does anxiety breed religious extremism [via FuturePundit]? Across all studies, anxious conditions caused participants to become more eagerly engaged in their ideals and extreme in their religious convictions. In one study, mulling over a personal dilemma caused a general surge toward more idealistic ...
  • Free preview of Ian McDonald’s The Dervish House
    I’ve never read an Ian McDonald novel I didn’t love*.As such, I commend unto you this Tor.com preview of a chapter from Mister Mcdonald’s newest novel, The Dervish House, courtesy of those nice people at Pyr Books. Continuing his ongoing project of setting near-future sf in developing/non-WASP natio ...

Therapy News

  • For People With Eating Disorders, Virtual Food Is ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A new study finds that for people diagnosed with an eating disorder, interacting with virtual high-calorie foods elicits the same physiological stress as being presented the same high-calorie foods in real life. The study, which was published in the online journal Ann ...
  • How Can Married Couples Respond When They Discover ...
    By Susan Heitler, Ph.D., Conflict Resolution Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Susan and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile All couples sometimes have different viewpoints. All couples, especially in the early years of marriage, discover areas where his way and her way differ. T ...
  • The Upside of Your Problems: Some Surprising Benef ...
    By Lindsey Antin, M.A., MFT, Solution Focused Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lindsey and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile We all likely have our favorite personal qualities that we secretly (or publicly) admire about ourselves. While many of these characteristics are proba ...
  • Think Yourself into Health
    By Martha Lee, DHS Click here to contact Martha and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile The Buddha is purported to have said “What we think, we become.” If your thoughts could change your life for the better, wouldn’t you do it? Of course! But, what thoughts do you change? All of us have an inner vo ...
  • Therapy and the 12 Steps
    By Marc Handelman, Ph.D. Click here to contact Marc and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile People with addiction issues might hear this from a therapist: “Twelve-step programs are a good start, but only therapy will help you understand yourself and address deeper issues.” And they might hear this in ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Manchin/Big Coal 2010? - Mother Jones
    Washington Post Manchin/Big Coal 2010? Mother Jones ... mounting science of climate change," and was critical of mountaintop removal , a mining practice that has brought environmental devastation to the state. ... In final days, Byrd took coal industry to task Pittsburgh Post Gazette Senator Byrd a ...
  • Ashley Judd comments stir controversy - WYMT
    Ashley Judd comments stir controversy WYMT A controversial sign in response to actress Ashley Judd's remarks about mountaintop removal was put up at StoneCrest golf course in Floyd County and it has ... and more��
  • Coal supporters respond to comments from Ashley Ju ...
    Coal supporters respond to comments from Ashley Judd with a controversial sign WYMT A controversial sign in response to actress Ashley Judd's remarks about mountaintop removal was put up at StoneCrest golf course in Floyd County and it has ...
  • My Old Kentucky Home: Threatened by Mountaintop Re ...
    My Old Kentucky Home: Threatened by Mountaintop Removal OnEarth Magazine I'm talking about mountaintop removal coal mining. The Appalachian Mountains are the oldest in North America; they may well be the oldest mountains in the ...
  • EPA Okays First Mountaintop Removal Mining Project ...
    EPA Okays First Mountaintop Removal Mining Project Under New Guidelines SolveClimate (blog) The EPA has given tentative – and quiet – approval to a new mountaintop removal mine in West Virginia. ...

Memeorandum

  • Obama's interview with Israel TV (Laura Rozen/The ...
    Laura Rozen / The Politico : Obama's interview with Israel TV   —  President Barack Obama gave his first interview to an Israeli outlet since taking office, to Yonit Levi, of Israel's Channel 2 TV.  Conducted Wednesday at the White House, it airs today at 1pm EST on Israel's Channel 2.  While there ...
  • Federal Reserve weighs steps to offset slowdown in ...
    Neil Irwin / Washington Post : Federal Reserve weighs steps to offset slowdown in economic recovery   —  Federal Reserve officials, increasingly concerned over signs the economic recovery is faltering, are considering new steps to bolster growth.  —  With Congress tied in political knots over wheth ...
  • Gov. Bobby Jindal signs bills allowing guns in chu ...
    New Orleans Times-Picayune : Gov. Bobby Jindal signs bills allowing guns in church, changing sex-solicitation penalty   —  Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed into law one of the more controversial bills from the recent legislative session, one allowing guns to be carried into houses of worship.
  • President Obama Attacks Congress for Delaying His ...
    Jake Tapper / Political Punch : President Obama Attacks Congress for Delaying His Nominees — Is He Right?   —  In announcing the recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services — and two other nominees — today President Obama said in a statement that ...
  • CNN Drops Editor After Hezbollah Comments (Brian S ...
    Brian Stelter / Media Decoder : CNN Drops Editor After Hezbollah Comments   —  CNN on Wednesday removed its senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs, Octavia Nasr, from her job after she published a Twitter message saying that she respected the Shiite cleric the Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fad ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 6.3, Vanuatu
    Friday, July 2, 2010 06:04:04 UTC Friday, July 2, 2010 05:04:04 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
  • M 5.0, Southern Alaska
    Thursday, July 8, 2010 03:15:49 UTC Wednesday, July 7, 2010 07:15:49 PM at epicenter Depth : 20.80 km (12.92 mi)
  • M 5.2, Solomon Islands
    Tuesday, July 6, 2010 01:16:22 UTC Tuesday, July 6, 2010 12:16:22 PM at epicenter Depth : 46.00 km (28.58 mi)
  • M 5.0, Carlsberg Ridge
    Monday, July 5, 2010 23:58:49 UTC Tuesday, July 6, 2010 03:58:49 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.0, Macquarie Island region
    Monday, July 5, 2010 21:47:28 UTC Tuesday, July 6, 2010 07:47:28 AM at epicenter Depth : 11.00 km (6.84 mi)

China Dialogue

  • China’s green washout
    The launch of environmental disclosure rules was hailed as a turning point for eco-protection in China's business world. But two years on, they have all but been forgotten, says Huo Weiya. When chinadialogue organised a talk last May to mark the first year since publication of China’s environmental ...
  • Game-changing China (2)
    In the second instalment of their report on disruptive innovation, David Tyfield, Jin Jun and Tyler Rooker consider seven Chinese case studies and the lessons they hold for policymakers. In the Chinese game  Go , a single unexceptional move may alter the direction of play such that it turns out to s ...
  • Game-changing China (1)
    A novel approach to innovation – where social redefinition of existing technologies is taken as seriously as new inventions – could boost our ability to fight climate change, say David Tyfield, Jin Jun and Tyler Rooker. Big hydro, big solar photovoltaic (PV) and big wind – these are the usual focu ...
  • 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 ...

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Threat Level

  • Is Breaking CAPTCHA a Crime?
    Prosecutors in a New Jersey ticket scalping case are pushing the envelope on the federal computer hacking law, setting a precedent that could make it a felony to violate a website’s terms-of-service and fool a CAPTCHA, according to electronic civil rights groups intervening in the case. At issue i ...
  • Army Intelligence Analyst Charged With Leaking Cla ...
    A U.S. Army intelligence analyst suspected of leaking videos and documents to Wikileaks was charged Monday with eight violations of federal criminal law, including unauthorized computer access, and a single count of transmitting classified information to an unauthorized third party. Pfc. Bradley Ma ...
  • 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • China may take action on stocks if slide worsens
    SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's stock market has slid 26 percent this year, making it one of the world's worst performing markets and raising questions whether authorities may take action to prevent the market from tumbling much more sharply.
  • BP aims to fix leaking oil well by July 27: report
    (Reuters) - Besieged energy giant BP Plc aims to fix its leaking Gulf oil well by July 27, ahead of its earlier target of mid-August, to show investors it has limited its burgeoning oil spill liabilities, the Wall Street Journal said, citing company officials.
  • Earnings optimism boosts global stocks
    LONDON (Reuters) - World stocks rose on Thursday while the euro hit a two-month peak against the low-yielding dollar on rising expectations the forthcoming earnings season would show strong corporate performance.
  • BP says does not expect to halt oil spill until Au ...
    LONDON (Reuters) - BP does not expect to plug its leaking Gulf of Mexico well until August, a spokeswoman for the company told Reuters on Thursday, following press speculation that it could happen earlier.
  • French heiress affair is half drama, half farce
    PARIS (Reuters) - You couldn't make this stuff up. The political funding scandal gripping France is a thriller mixing the high drama of Corneille and the farce of Moliere.

IntelNews

After Downing Street.org

  • A Century Later Autobiography
    AIR DATE: July 7, 2010 Mark Twain's Autobiography Set for Unveiling, a Century After His Death � � SUMMARY Mark Twain's autobiography is set to be published for the first time, 100 years after the famous author and humorist's death. Correspondent Spencer Michels reports on the effort to edit and pu ...
  • Trust is hard to come by in Afghanistan
    Rachel Maddow does her show live from Afghanistan, she traveled there last week and the first show was aired last night, 6 July 2010. � We came to Afghanistan because we wanted to understand whether the American war strategy makes sense, whether the continuing and growing presence of U.S. troops is ...
  • Ray McGovern and Robert Parry on Truth Unflinching ...
    Michael Collins (Washington, DC) Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern and investigative journalist Robert Parry spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, DC last night. They were guests of The McClendon Group which holds periodic meetings at the press club featuring investigative reporters and ...
  • Jeffrey Blankfort: “I was an ‘Espionage Target’ of ...
    Jeffrey Blankfort: “I was an ‘Espionage Target’ of the ADL!” from William Hughes on Vimeo . read more
  • Ending War Funding Before It Ends Us
    By David Swanson The U.S. corporate media pronounces our nation a "democracy" so frequently that sometimes its spokespeople stumble. They can't be unaware that virtually every act of Congress diverges significantly from what the majority of Americans favor. Yet the assumption that somehow the g ...

Grist - News

  • My statement at sentencing
    by Ted Glick. Yesterday, I was sentenced in Washington, D.C. for my conviction on two misdemeanors for hanging "Green Jobs Now" and "Get to Work" banners in the Hart Senate Office Building last September. I was facing up to three years. Instead, Judge Frederick Weisberg sentenced me to one yea ...
  • Fannie and Freddie to clean-energy program: Drop d ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Grist has been covering Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's attack on Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE), a promising tool that helps homeowners finance green improvements to their properties. Here's the latest: On Tuesday, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ended their radio silence nin ...
  • Fannie and Freddie won’t let this teacher gr ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have shut down most of the nation's programs using Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE), an innovative tool that helps Americans finance green improvements to their homes. Here's a homeowner's perspective on the story: Kayla Thomason spent last w ...
  • EPA takes aim at power-plant pollution
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed rules Tuesday to reduce toxic emissions from power plants across 31 states on the U.S. eastern seaboard and the nation's capital. The aim, said the EPA, is for sulfur dioxide (SO2) levels to be reduced by ...
  • If Bingaman is the climate bill’s best hope, ...
    by Randy Rieland. Could Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) be the savior for Senate climate legislation? That's the latest chatter inside the Beltway . Bingaman has been pushing an energy-only bill, passed by his Energy Committee last year, that wouldn't put a cap or a price on carbon. But he's also n ...

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Washington Independent

  • With Income Gap at 80-Year High, Solutions Remain ...
    New data show that in just under three decades, the after-tax income for the top one percent of earners rose by 281 percent, compared with 25 percent for the middle quintile and 16 percent for the bottom fifth.
  • Video: Legal Experts Duke It Out Over Free Speech ...
    Today at the Heritage Foundation, legal experts debated the merits of the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision — with Justice Anthony Kennedy joining the liberal wing in the majority — in the Christian Legal Society v. Martinez case. The Court ruled that public universities may deny funding to student organ ...
  • Raising the Social Security Retirement Age
    According to Brian Beutler at Talking Points Memo, Republicans and — new development here — Democrats are getting behind the idea of slowly raising the retirement age. The change would go into effect only for workers who are middle-aged or younger now, all as part of a plan to reduce the national de ...
  • Might Unemployment Benefits Shrink the Deficit?
    At The Wall Street Journal, Sara Murray makes an interesting argument — that expanded unemployment benefits might reduce the deficit, by keeping people working and off of other government programs, like disability. Once older workers are laid off they take the longest to find new jobs. For workers ...
  • Obama Says Exports on Track to Double in Five Year ...
    In his State of the Union address in January, President Obama laid out a bold initiative to double the United States’ exports in five years, helping create American jobs, bolster American companies and correct the country’s trade imbalance. Today, he gave a six-month report card, and said the countr ...

Digg Green

  • Debunking the Top 10 Energy Myths
    The road to clean energy is full of enticing opportunities—and perilous pitfalls. Picking the best path requires avoiding both starry-eyed hype and cynical fatalism. In this special report, PM debunks 10 of the most pernicious myths that could derail our progress.
  • Earth at Farthest Distance From Sun - Why the Heat ...
    This week Earth is farther from the sun than it will be at any other time in 2010. So why the heat wave in the U.S. East?
  • APOD: 2010 July 7 - Concept Plane: Supersonic Gree ...
    NASA Design Contest: Future aircraft aim to have relatively little impact on our environment, including green limits on pollution and fuel consumption. In terms of noise reduction, the future aircraft features an inverted V wing over its engines to reduce the sound of sonic booms. Similar real world ...
  • The Dirty Truth about Plug-in Hybrids [Interactive ...
    This Web-only article is a special rich-media presentation of the feature, "The Dirty Truth about Plug-in Hybrids," which appears in the July 2010 issue of Scientific American.
  • Shocking Aerial Footage & Photography of the Gulf ...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxDf-KkMCKQ Original Clip -- "This was the most emotionally disturbing video I have ever done! A flight over the BP Slick Source ..."

Invisible Opportunity

  • Wondering What’s Going on Behind the Curtain ...
    By Les Visible I’ve been thinking about the things that have been going on and… knowing that the string pullers do all sorts of things to get the public moving in a particular direction and getting the public to believe certain things, I’ve been wondering and wondering and… wondering. I realize that ...
  • Gulf Coast now a BP police state as law enforcemen ...
    By Mike Adams Normally I would open this article by explaining this is the story the mainstream media won’t dare report. Except in this case, they are reporting it. It’s right on CNN, on the Anderson Cooper “360″ report. What happened is that Lance Rosenfield, a photographer working for ProPublica ( ...
  • The World of Most People and the Power of the Unse ...
    By Les Visible It’s hard to find something to write about anymore. Of course, there are many situations and subjects that keep moving toward some unknown destination. All over the world there are conditions and pressures that interconnect with other conditions and pressures around the world. Perhaps ...
  • Deet Finally Exposed as Neurotoxic
    By David Gutierrez New research shows that the insect-repelling chemical deet actually functions in the same way as deadly nerve gases and dangerous pesticides, by attacking the nervous systems of both insects and mammals. “These findings question the safety of deet, particularly in combination with ...
  • BROKEN ARROW, THE MOST DANGEROUS WEAPONS OF ALL
    By GORDON DUFF There are nuclear weapons out there, maybe in terrorists hands, two or five, as many as seven or more. Iran and North Korea didn’t build them. North Korea’s nuclear program is a sham and Iran may simply be a scapegoat. Iran is not building nuclear weapons, they don’t possess the neces ...

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

  • Look Inside the FY2011 Budget Reveals Climate Chan ...
    The budget for FY2011 has been released and there are some interesting things happening in reference to Climate Change expenditures. Related posts: Oil Executive Epiphany Leads to $125 Billion Climate Change Funding White House Follow-up on Global Climate Change Impacts Technology Transfer ...
  • Photo Sunday – 4th of July 2010 – with Declaration ...
    It's the 4th of July, 2010 and we bring you not only photos this week, but the text of the Declaration of Independence. Related posts: 5 Great Articles on How to Green Your 4th of July Photo Sunday – Washington DC Fireworks Photo Sunday – Tahiti and Polynesia
  • The Petrolholics 12 Step Program to Oil Addiction
    I ran across an excellent blog by Wallace J Nichols this morning called Petroholics Anonymous. Check out the 12 step Program to Oil Addiction. I ran across an excellent blog by Wallace J Nichols this morning called Petroholics Anonymous. Check out the 12 step Program to Oil Addiction. Relate ...
  • 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 ...

Inhabitat

  • Warsaw Library Sprouts a House on a Tree
    Designboom points us to this quirky House on a Tree art installation, which recently sprung up at the University of Warsaw Library. Designed by the Warsaw Art-curator Collective konarska-konarski the morphic public installation is intended to raise awareness of sustainable development and consists o ...
  • Los Angeles Planning a West Coast “High Line” Park
    New York’s High Line has been a smashing success — so much so that other cities are now trying to emulate it. The Architect’s Newspaper tells us that Los Angeles is working on its own version called the Harry Bridges Boulevard Buffer — a 30 acre, 9-block wide swath of land in the Port of [...]
  • LAcarGuy Jumpstarts LA’s Electric Vehicle Charging ...
    Last week at a preview event for one of Fisker’s first showrooms, the LAcarGuy made his move to become the first automotive dealer in the US to offer “Level 2″ electric vehicle charging stations for any plug-in or hybrid vehicle — and Inhabitat was invited to join in the festivities! It’s good news ...
  • New Light Bulb Labeling Program Coming Next Year
    The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has just announced a new labeling program for light bulbs that will help consumers compare the wide range of products available. Although CFL and LED bulbs have been available for a while now, they offer a bewildering number of choices and have vastly different per ...
  • New York City to Recycle Clothing, Shoes, Textiles ...
    Starting this September, New York City will be installing 50 clothing-collection bins around the city to make recycling outgrown or unwanted clothes, shoes and fabrics easier than ever. Now we won’t have any excuse not to recycle our old threads! READ MORE > Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Magnetic Nanoparticles Can Remotely Control Worms
                        runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience110173949001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); Using magnetic nanoparticles, scientists have found a way to remotely control neurons and affect animal behavior. The nanoparticles, which are targeted to attach to cell m ...
  • Stone Age Europeans Get Older and Colder
    Stone tools and animal remains found on England’s coast suggest that humans arrived in northern Europe at least 150,000 years earlier than was previously thought. Maybe the toolmakers stayed. Maybe they were part of successive migrations that went north during Ice Age thaws, then retreated south wh ...
  • Leafy Green Coherence: Quantum Physics Fuels Photo ...
    Not so long ago, quantum physics at room temperature was mostly found in discussion in a classroom or over science-geek cocktails. But these mind-bending mechanics seem to be present in many everyday phenomena — including photosynthesis, the driving force behind life’s harvest of solar energy. A pr ...
  • ‘Horrendously Intense’ Laser Shrinks the Proton
    New laser-assisted measurements find that the fundamental building block of matter, the proton, is about 4 percent smaller than previously thought. The new size could poke holes in one of the pillars of the standard model of particle physics. “It’s a big deal,” commented physicist Jeff Flowers of t ...
  • Predicting the Next Deadly Manhole Explosion
    Every so often in New York City, a disk of cast iron weighing up to 300 pounds will burst out of the street and fly as high as several stories before clattering back to the blacktop. Flames, smoke or both may issue from the breach, as if somebody had pulled hell’s own pop-top. Manhole explosions ar ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Conflict Management in Côte d'Ivoire
    Last month, 600 soldiers from the Forces Armées des Forces Nouvelles, a coalition of rebel movements in Côte d'Ivoire, laid down their arms as part of a process to disarm rebel groups and integrate them into the national army. In an e-mail interview, I. William Zartman, professor emeritus at Johns H ...
  • Things You Can Say About Muslims
    Well this seems like a rather Anti-Semitic editorial from the Washington Times : Judaism's meager contribution to human technological advancement is no accident. In his new book "The Closing of the Jewish Mind," former Voice of America director Robert Reilly describes the brief flourishing of inte ...
  • Some Imagination About Afghanistan Strategy
    Over at Politico, Robert Blackwell, who was deputy national security advisor in the Bush Administration, lays out a possible alternative to our present strategy in Afghanistan. After years of faulty U.S. policy toward Afghanistan, there are no quick, easy and cost-free ways to escape the curren ...
  • John Kerry Eviscerates Mitt Romney's Critique of t ...
    In the Washington Post today John Kerry responds to Mitt Romneyâs oped by accusing him of putting scoring cheap political points above the safety and security of the American people. Kerry takes Romney to task for making ânarrow, uninformed political objectionsâ to START. Kerry goes through ea ...
  • Intervention in the Congo?
    At the Daily Beast, Congolese activist Annie Rashidi-Mulumba laments that the United Nations has not played a more constructive role in resolving Congo's civil war.  She also seems to welcome the forthcoming exit of UN peacekeeping troops, engineered by Congolese president Joseph Kabilla. She write ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: World's Tiniest Violin, And All T ...
    As I understand it, conservatives are freaking out about the recess appointment of Don Berwick to head the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services because a) he has spoken favorably about the British National Health Service, and b) the recess appointment itself is unseemly because it circumvents ...
  • The Senate's Advise and Consent: Use It Or Lose It ...
    Republicans (and Senator Max Baucus ) are in a tizzy because President Obama is using a recess appointment to put Donald Berwick , his choice to administer the Medicare and Medicaid systems as they implement the new health care law. Here's the thing: As Jamelle � points out , this is a broken syst ...
  • Reforming a Broken Confirmation System.
    Not to spend too much time on confirmations, but it really is stunning to think about how many people the Senate is responsible for confirming. The Washington Post 's Al Kamen points out that there are still 43 Senate-confirmable jobs open in Cabinet-level agencies (out of a total of 369), and at F ...
  • Chamber of Horrors.
    The Washington Monthly has an interesting article by James Verini about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its president, Thomas Donohue . You already know that the chamber is a major player in Washington -- they spent $120 million on lobbying in 2009 and have pledged to drop $50 million on races this ...
  • Are Democrats Really Lining Up Behind Charlie Cris ...
    Rumors are flying that Florida Democrats might line up behind an independent Senate candidate this fall, but appearances may be deceiving. In the race -- in which Republican Speaker of the state House� Marco Rubio is firmly established as his party's conservative standard-bearer and former Republic ...

Andy Worthington

  • Bin Laden Cook Accepts Plea Deal at Guantánamo Tri ...
    In an alleged victory for the Military Commission trial system for terror suspects at Guantánamo, revived by President Obama last year despite the fact that he suspended the Commissions on his first day in office, a Sudanese prisoner, Ibrahim al-Qosi, accepted a plea bargain yesterday, and made a gu ...
  • Torture Complicity Under the Spotlight in Europe ( ...
    Last week, in the first of two articles examining how “War on Terror”-related complicity in torture is under intense scrutiny in Europe, I ran through the history of Britain’s post-9/11 involvement in US torture, and its extensive forays into holding people without charge or trial in the UK, attempt ...
  • Calls for Review of Punitive Sentences for Ex-Guan ...
    Back in August 2007, I reported the story of Muqit Vohidov and Rukhniddin Sharopov, Tajik prisoners in Guantánamo, released in March 2007, who had just been sentenced to 17 years in “high-security penal colonies” (aka labor camps) for “serving as mercenaries in Afghanistan.” The two men were convict ...
  • Who Are the Three Ex-Guantánamo Prisoners on Hunge ...
    A week last Thursday, three former Guantánamo prisoners who were released in Slovakia in January this year, after the US government concluded that it was unsafe for them to be returned to their home countries, which all have poor human rights records, embarked on a hunger strike to protest about the ...
  • Fighting Ghosts: An Interview with Husein Al-Samam ...
    Three weeks ago, as I explained in an article at the time, the BBCâs Newsnight broadcast an extraordinary insight into the bleak conditions under which Hussain Alsamamara, a Jordanian terror suspect held under a form of house arrest, is obliged to live. Like a few dozen other terror suspects — bot ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Congressman’s Immigration Remarks Prompt Calls for ...
    Posters on neo-Nazi forums are publicly calling for the torture and murder of Congressman Pete Stark (D-Calif.) over comments he made on June 26 during a Fremont, Calif., town hall meeting. The Youtube video of the event has gone viral among racist and anti-immigration groups. During the meeting, St ...
  • Arkansas Cop-Killer Apparently Part of ‘Patriot’ M ...
    Jerry Ralph Kane Jr., the man who was killed with his son Thursday after apparently gunning down two West Memphis, Ark., police officers , traveled the country before the encounter giving classes in âredemption foreclosure mortgage fraudâ â an apparent variation on a scheme common among antigo ...
  • ‘Voice of the Patriot Movement’ Backs Property Req ...
    The last couple of years have been boom times for the far right’s distinctive rhetoric of dispossession. From backwoods militias who believe foreign troops are training on U.S. soil to take away their constitutional rights, to suburban Tea Party weekend warriors who heatedly promise to “take the cou ...
  • Calling All Racists: It’s Poetry Contest Time!
    Sharpen your pencil and summon your muse, it’s time for the annual “Redneck Poetry Contest.” That’s right. The call has gone out for the best redneck rhymin’ around. And according to the entry form received by the Hatewatch staff, the winning poet will take home a “brand new wood-fired deep-fry cook ...
  • Conspiracists Accuse Bill Gates of Seeking Mass St ...
    When most people think about Bill Gates, what comes to mind is his great technological success and his resulting great wealth. Many also have warm feelings toward him because of the decision by Gates and his wife to donate the bulk of their multibillion-dollar estate to the Bill and Melinda Gates Fo ...

change: org.

  • Can Entrepreneurial Collaboration Bring Peace in t ...
    It's hard to follow Middle Eastern politics for very long without becoming frustrated and pessimistic at the seeming intractability of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Yet for those willing to look a little closer, there are citizens on both sides who refuse to let the conflict defi ...
  • Woman Kills Dogs, Blames Her Kids
    Deborah Kyles, a 52-year-old Pennsylvania woman, was charged last month with two counts of animal cruelty and one count of filing a false police report. Kyles killed her Chihuahua and her Pomeranian in a horrible and premeditated way — the dogs were discovered bound, with plastic bags over their hea ...
  • TV Advertising to Kids Switches From Sugar to Grea ...
    Kids are now seeing fewer TV commercials for sweets and sugary beverages than before, says a new report in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine . But this good news is tempered by an increase in the number of TV ads for fast food. The research team looked at television advertising targ ...
  • What is the Responsibility to Protect? Making Civi ...
    After spending this past week working on an article about the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), I found myself wondering if in the past I had missed opportunities to share R2P with those who might be the least familiar and yet most interested in civilian protection. Perhaps scholars, activists and hu ...
  • "It's Lonely"
    "It's lonely." That's what Chris has to say about homelessness in Hollywood, one of the busiest, most populated places in the country. He tends to see the bright side of things, too. He just received some food and a lead on a possible job opportunity, which is his way out of homelessness. After five ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Back at the Interior Department Ranch: Salazar Has ...
    by Tom Kenworthy No question, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has his hands full these days with the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. Holding BP’s feet to the fire and rooting out the oil-soaked culture at the Minerals Management Service is more than a full-time job. But back at the Interior Department r ...
  • The Big Lie: BP, Governments Downplay Public Healt ...
    by Riki Ott PENSACOLA BEACH, Florida -- When Ryan Heffernan, a volunteer with Emerald Coastkeeper, noticed a bag of oily debris floating off in Santa Rosa Sound, she ran up to BP's HazMat-trained workers to ask if they would retrieve it. "No, ma'am," one replied politely. "We can't go in the oc ...
  • 'Climategate' Inquiry Mostly Vindicates Scientists
    by Raphael G. Satter LONDON - An independent report into the leak of hundreds of e-mails from one of the world's leading climate research centers on Wednesday largely vindicated the scientists involved, saying they acted honestly and that their research was reliable. But the panel ...
  • Report: Secret Document Affirms U.S.-Israel Nuclea ...
    by Haaretz Service, Barak Ravid and Reuters Israel's Army Radio reported on Wednesday that the United States has sent Israel a secret document committing to nuclear cooperation between the two countries. According to Army Radio, the U.S. has reportedly pledged to sell Israel materials used to produc ...
  • Court Asked to Stop Planting of Genetically Engine ...
    FORT PIERCE, Florida - An alliance of conservation organizations is suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture over its approval of open-air field tests of a genetically engineered hybrid of eucalyptus tree across the southern United States. The permit, issued to a company called ArborGen, which is a ...

Lifehacker

  • Persistent Max Google Calendar Keeps GCal Maximize ...
    Firefox with Greasemonkey: If you like seeing just your Google Calendar without all the sidebar clutter and widgets this simple Greasemonkey script puts a persistently maximized calendar interface a single button press away. More�� ...
  • Get Great Images from a Not-So-Great Camera [Photo ...
    It's not a new idea, but it bears repeating: Setup and skill are usually a lot more important than how expensive your camera is. A photo shoot using only an iPhone 3GS camera puts the lie to camera stat obsessions. More�� ...
  • QuickCal Adds Calendar Events with Natural Languag ...
    iPhone/iPod touch: QuickCal, a smart appointment-making app that understands exactly what "Lunch at noon tomorrow at Swifty's for 45 minutes" means, is now available in the App Store. It worked wonders as an OS X widget , and definitely surviv ...
  • Change Firefox 4's Toolbar Button Color or Make It ...
    There's a lot to like about the redesigned Firefox 4 beta , but some folks may not love the very orange, ever-present main menu button in the upper-left corner. Fortunately some light CSS tweaking can change its color or make it transparent. ...
  • Get Our Newsletter for a Condensed Daily Read [Ann ...
    Try to feign surprise, but there are people out there—people you may know—who can't read Lifehacker multiple times per day. For them and anyone else looking for a condensed daily shot of how-to, we recommend the Lifehacker Newsletter. More  ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Obama - In Hock To The Hawks
    By Steve Hynd Andrew Bacevitch: "Whereas Bush sought to eliminate terrorism by pursuing his ‘freedom agenda’ (liberty imposed at the point of a bayonet), Obama has demonstrated an inclination to consult, engage in give-and-take, and make room for issues to which Bush gave short shrift. Yet for all t ...
  • Still, With The Cover-Ups
    By Steve Hynd This kind of thing makes me wish McChrystal could be recalled to duty, only so that he can be court-martialled, busted to private and fired again: The follow-up investigation of a botched Special Operations Forces (SOF) raid in Gardez Feb. 12 that killed two government officials and th ...
  • They Hate Us For Our Killing Them
    By Steve Hynd Ackerman at Danger Room has the news that a new study confirms -- as if anyone other than a few military morons doubted it -- that killing civilians does indeed create new insurgents. “When ISAF units kill civilians,” the research team finds, referring to the U.S.-led coalition in Afgh ...
  • Actually, Afghanistan Was A War Of Choice
    By Ian Welsh Michael Steele's comments on Afghanistan remind me of my favorite definition of a gaffe: "saying the truth in the worst way possible." To wit, 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 q ...
  • 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 ...

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

  • Gonzo Augmented Reality
    Thomas Carpenter of Games Alfresco was pretty impressed by the AR app that superimposes an oil slick on any BP logo within the frame of its image capture, and started riffing on the idea of gonzo AR – a sort of “the world as seen by [x]” idea, taking the idea of reality being defined [...] Project ...
  • There’s Always Another Way To Write It
    In Star Wars: Episode I, Qui-Gon Jinn quips “There’s always a bigger fish.” Admittedly he’s wrong, because since there are not an infinite number of fish in the universe, so one of them has to be the biggest. And I’m probably wrong too when I say “there’s always another way to write it”–but as with ...
  • Chronoslexia: new British indie sf movie in the wo ...
    In the Futurismic post-bag this week comes news of a new independent science fiction movie called Chronoslexia. It’s being made here in the UK by an outfit with the very Marxist moniker Opiate Of The People Films, and its plot is summed up as follows: What if in your everyday life you experienced gl ...
  • Another thing to worry about: anxiety breeds extre ...
    Does anxiety breed religious extremism [via FuturePundit]? Across all studies, anxious conditions caused participants to become more eagerly engaged in their ideals and extreme in their religious convictions. In one study, mulling over a personal dilemma caused a general surge toward more idealistic ...
  • Free preview of Ian McDonald’s The Dervish House
    I’ve never read an Ian McDonald novel I didn’t love*.As such, I commend unto you this Tor.com preview of a chapter from Mister Mcdonald’s newest novel, The Dervish House, courtesy of those nice people at Pyr Books. Continuing his ongoing project of setting near-future sf in developing/non-WASP natio ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • Debarment for BP? Don't Be Fuel-ish!
    The long-running ad campaign of British oil giant BP rebrands the company as “Beyond Petroleum.” What many are now wondering is if the company should really be called “Bullet Proof” for its ability to continue receiving lucrative federal contracts despite...
  • Louisiana Legislature Passes Resolution to Get BP ...
    Here's an interesting piece of legislation that escaped our notice until our friend David Marcello, Adjunct Professor of Law at Tulane Law School and Executive Director of the Public Law Center, brought it to our attention—a few weeks ago the...
  • Morning Smoke: Wall Street Reform Bill Calls for 6 ...
    Congress fixes Wall Street - and orders up 68 studies by Jennifer Liberto [CNN] Should The Government Scrap Its Mortgage Modification Program? by Daniel Indiviglio [The Atlantic] Republican Emerges as Obama’s Annoyer-in-Chief by Mark Leibovich [The New York Times] Boeing,...
  • Morning Smoke: Pentagon Continues to Do Business w ...
    BP has steady sales at Defense Department despite U.S. scrutiny by R. Jeffrey Smith [The Washington Post] A Fault in Reg Reform: Deciding Who's Accountable When Things Go Wrong by Heather Landy [American Banker] Companies Find Ways to Bypass Ban...
  • 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...

Digital Journal

  • Council of Canadians asks Harper not to obstruct U ...
    The Council of Canadians is concerned that Prime Minister is working behind the scenes to weaken the UN General Assembly's resolution of declaring the human right to "safe and clean drinking water and sanitation."
  • Toronto man murder at car wash
    A Toronto man was involved in a shooting Tuesday at a local car wash after asking the suspect to leave. He later died at hospital.
  • Toronto Police release pictures from G20
    On Wednesday the Toronto Police's G20 Investigative Team released several pictures of persons of interest involving criminal acts during the G20 summit riots.
  • Two arrested in camel, tiger thefts
    Two Quebec men are being held by police in connection with the theft of three exotic zoo animals in Ontario last month.
  • Small black hole creates massive 1,000 light-year ...
    Astronomers have stumbled upon a small black hole that releases astronomical amounts of energy from powerful jets and are slamming into interstellar gas, which has created a large bubble of hot gas that reaches 1,000 light-years across.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • "It's Lonely"
    "It's lonely." That's what Chris has to say about homelessness in Hollywood, one of the busiest, most populated places in the country. He tends to see the bright side of things, too. He just received some food and a lead on a possible job opportunity, which is his way out of homelessness. After five ...
  • A Homeless Bill of Rights Picks Up Steam in Santa ...
    When homeless Santa Barbara resident Ross Stiles was murdered last year, the police closed the investigation before the coroner's report was finished . It was just one of 28 known homeless deaths in Santa Barbara in 2009. In response, local social worker Ken Williams drafted a ten-point Homeless Bil ...
  • Please Don't Feed Our Homeless, Many Cities Say
    A quaint Dickensian imperative, known virtually to all, implores us to remember that charity begins at home. But a modern day trend, in evidence from coast to coast and in cities large and small, would have it end there, too, according to a newly-released report from the  National Coalition for the ...
  • 617 Days of Peace
    617 days of peace in the tiniest place you could imagine to serve homeless people. Almost two years of peace in a place that is 1,250-square-feet and where 125 people (at least) visit during the course of a day. They visit this place with large frame backpacks, wheelchairs and crutches. At times the ...
  • Formerly Homeless Families "Boomerang" Back to She ...
    "Have rehousing policies become their own worst enemy?" This is the question posed, and convincingly answered, in a new opinion brief released by the Institute for Children, Poverty & Homelessness entitled " Boomerang Homeless Families " (pdf). The brief puts New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's ...

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

  • Mike Sigel – World Champion Pool Player
    Click the picture or link below to hear Kevin’s interview with ten time world champion pool player, Mike ‘Captain Hook’ Sigel.     Mike Sigel on The Kevin Trudeau Show 07/07/10   
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 7-7-10
    Today, Kevin and ten time world champion pool player, Mike ‘Captain Hook’ Sigel, start their fishing trip early by reliving their past adventures. Plus, Mike reveals the secret to his success and how he was able to inspire Tom Cruise & Paul Newman. Self Help: Learn From The Best   Cleanse The Toxins ...
  • Kevin Is Back In The Sunshine State!
    July 7, 2010  - CHICAGO, IL – The Kevin Trudeau show is proud to announce that starting July 9th, 2010, it will be airing on WWPR 1490 AM in Bradenton, FL! The show will air on WWPR every Friday from 4pm-7pm! Listeners have compared Kevin Trudeauâs radio show to the best parts of Michael Savage, ...
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    Click the banner above to make a donation to the Kevin Trudeau legal defense fund!
  • Billiards Virtuoso, Mike Sigel, LIVE in the Studio ...
    Kevin welcomes his long-time friend, and Billiard Champion, Mike Sigel LIVE in the studio! Mike has won over 102 major pool tournaments, including three US Open Nine-ball Championship tournaments and five world pocket billiard championship titles. He was named “Player of the Year” three times by Bi ...

Pambazuka News

  • Global: May for the Cuban 5
    The month of May started with a great number of activities in support of the Cuban 5. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on International Workers Day in Havana and other cities. They were joined by hundreds of internationalists in de...
  • Haiti: Where solidarity means survival
    Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could include equitable distribution of resources, high levels of employment with fair...
  • 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
    Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...
  • Haiti: Private contractors 'like vultures coming t ...
    Critics are concerned that private military contractors are positioning themselves at the centre of an emerging "shock doctrine" for earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Next month, a prominent umbrella organisation for private military and logistic corporation...
  • How NGOs are profiting off a grave situation
    It's now more than a month since the earthquake that laid waste to Port-au-Prince, killing more than 200,000 people and thrusting millions of people into the most desperate conditions. But according to the U.S. government, Haitians have a lot to be ...

War in Context

  • Who’s pushing to strike Iran?
    After an exchange between the UAE ambassador to the US Yousef al-Otaiba and Jeffrey Goldberg on Tuesday we learn that “the UAE would sooner see military action against Iran’s nuclear program than see the program succeed” — at least that’s what Goldberg says. But the ambassador also said: “There are ...
  • Integrity — now you see it, now you don’t
    Anyone who believes a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict hinges on the actions of Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu, might as well turn their attention elsewhere — The moral bankruptcy of both men was on full display at the White House yesterday. If before engaging in their vacuous pe ...
  • The war Israel can’t win
    At The Daily Beast, historian Thaddeus Russell writes: When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the White House Tuesday, President Obama will have the chance to be the first American president since the founding of Israel to ask The Question. The Question is never addressed by Israel’ ...
  • Israel bans parachutes from Gaza
    If Hamas had plans to form a paratroopers brigade, these will now need to be put on hold. Israel’s long-awaited release of its blacklist of items banned from importation into the strip include parachutes. How exactly parachutes might be used in Gaza, if the ban gets lifted, is hard to envisage. Wha ...
  • Petraeus: mission will be accomplished
    Predicting what will happen in Afghanistan is about as wise as declaring “mission accomplished.” As he arrived to take over command of US forces in what has become America’s longest war, Gen David Petraeus might not have actually predicted the outcome of the war but he certainly narrowed what can be ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Now it’s CO2 killing “Nemo”
    From the “CO2 is the most deadly omnipotent force in the Universe department”, comes this tragic story of poor Nemo the clownfish, so disoriented by CO2 that he can’t choose the right path to swim. Rebuttal(s) follow in subsequent posts, … Continue reading →
  • Road surface purifies air by removing nitrogen oxi ...
    From the Eindhoven University of Technology. This is a neat idea that helps to solve a real pollution problem by automobiles. Cost of course is a factor, but considering some other schemes this may be a bargain. Now if they … Continue reading →
  • First They Came For The Scientists….
    Mike Lorrey looks at the PNAS skeptics paper and some historical issues related to it. – Anthony My primary area of accomplishment in life, other than virtual worlds development, is in political activism. Despite my technical training, I am a … Continue reading →
  • An FOI Ruling More Significant than the Russell Re ...
    Guest post by David Holland via the GWPF At the request of the University of East Anglia the Information Commissioner has this morning issued his Decision Notice, FER0238017, on my complaint that UEA did not deal with his 2008 requests … Continue reading →
  • We’re still having fun, and we’re stil ...
    Wikio rankings for science blogs are out for July. I was concerned that time spent on my Australian tour and the reduction in posts might knock us out of the #1 slot. This is testament to the people who kept … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Born Of The Sun – Egypt (must-see)
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ photo by Dandelion Salad journeymanpictures | July 07, 2010 September 2009 At Sekem Farm a delicately balanced relationship between workers and nature exists which, in a world suffering from rapidly increasing population, may lead the way for the future of farmin ...
  • Woe to you, Christian Zionists, hypocrites! by Jer ...
    by Jeremy R. Hammond Featured Writer DandelionSalad Jeremy R. Hammond 8 July, 2010 photo by Dandelion Salad I love it when Christian Zionists invoke God’s Holy Word to justify the Israeli theft of Palestinian land, such as this from Reverend John Hagee: “Israel exists because of a covenant God made ...
  • The Charge of the Media Brigade By John Pilger
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By John Pilger Information Clearing House New Statesman July 07, 2010 The TV anchorwoman was conducting a split-screen interview with a journalist who had volunteered to be a witness at the execution of a man on death row in Utah for 25 years. “He had a choice,” ...
  • Left-Leaning Despisers of the 9/11 Truth Movement: ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by David Ray Griffin Global Research, July 6, 2010 An Open Letter to Terry Allen, Noam Chomsky, Alexander Cockburn, David Corn, Chris Hayes, George Monbiot, Matthew Rothschild, and Matt Taibbi.1 According to several left-leaning critics of the 9/11 Truth Movement ...
  • I’m sick and tired of this thing called &#82 ...
    by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org 5 July, 2010 The Anti-Empire Report Some thoughts on “patriotism” written on July 4 Most important thought: I’m sick and tired of this thing called “patriotism”. The Japanese pilots who bombed Pearl Harbor were being patriotic. The ...

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

  • Magnetic Nanoparticles Can Remotely Control Worms
                        runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience110173949001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); Using magnetic nanoparticles, scientists have found a way to remotely control neurons and affect animal behavior. The nanoparticles, which are targeted to attach to cell m ...
  • Stone Age Europeans Get Older and Colder
    Stone tools and animal remains found on England’s coast suggest that humans arrived in northern Europe at least 150,000 years earlier than was previously thought. Maybe the toolmakers stayed. Maybe they were part of successive migrations that went north during Ice Age thaws, then retreated south wh ...
  • Leafy Green Coherence: Quantum Physics Fuels Photo ...
    Not so long ago, quantum physics at room temperature was mostly found in discussion in a classroom or over science-geek cocktails. But these mind-bending mechanics seem to be present in many everyday phenomena — including photosynthesis, the driving force behind life’s harvest of solar energy. A pr ...
  • ‘Horrendously Intense’ Laser Shrinks the Proton
    New laser-assisted measurements find that the fundamental building block of matter, the proton, is about 4 percent smaller than previously thought. The new size could poke holes in one of the pillars of the standard model of particle physics. “It’s a big deal,” commented physicist Jeff Flowers of t ...
  • Predicting the Next Deadly Manhole Explosion
    Every so often in New York City, a disk of cast iron weighing up to 300 pounds will burst out of the street and fly as high as several stories before clattering back to the blacktop. Flames, smoke or both may issue from the breach, as if somebody had pulled hell’s own pop-top. Manhole explosions ar ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Brian Klug: Ending the ‘War of Narratives’
    This book does not put forward solutions to the conflict; that is not its business. But it does conduce towards a climate of debate in which solutions can be sought. It is impossible to talk peace... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Amira Hass: Disloyalty on the part of the occupied
    Were it not for Mohammed Abu Tir's red beard, this would perhaps be only a marginal news item: Israel is working to expel four Palestinian residents of Jerusalem affiliated with Hamas from the city... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • B’Tselem: ‘Settlements control 42% of West Bank’
    Unhappy settlers: “The fact that B’Tselem decided to publish it on the day of Netanyahu’s meeting with Obama to try to make it go badly reveals the organization’s face as a systemic harmer of Israeli... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Israel worried coastal gas facilities may make tem ...
    The defense establishment is demanding that the state delay approval for the construction of gas reception terminals on a strip of Israel's coastline. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website fo ...
  • IDF soldiers face penalty after uploading Hebron d ...
    Video of IDF soldiers, armed and wearing bulletproof vests, patrolling as a Muslim call to prayer is heard. Then the music changes and they break into a Macarena-like dance. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. G ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

Natural Health News

  • Late Start Time at School Benefits Teens
    A delay in school start time is associated with significant improvements in adolescent alertness, mood and health, according to a new study. This is at least in part due to the fact that beginning with the onset of puberty, adolescents develop as much as a two-hour sleep-wake phase delay� -- later s ...
  • The Surprising Link Between Depression and Alzheim ...
    Depressed people are twice as likely to develop certain forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease. A new study found that 22 percent of participants who had depression at the beginning of the study ended up developing dementia, compared to about 17 percent of those who were not depressed. Foo ...
  • California Assembly Bans Plastic in Baby Bottles
    The California state Assembly has passed a bill banning the chemical Bisphenol-A (BPA) from baby bottles and other items that come in contact with small children. BPA has been linked with health problems including infertility, autism, asthma, hyperactivity and breast cancer. In January, the U.S. FD ...
  • Public Protests Expand as GMOs and Biotech Wreak H ...
    In the U.S., people spend the least amount on food in the world, in terms of percentage of total earnings.� However, the incidence of food borne disease is the highest in the world.� The statistics in Canada are similar. The main source of food borne disease during the last 50 years is the direct ...
  • Think You're Operating on Free Will? Think Again
    Studies have found that people talk more softly when there is a picture of a library on the wall and they keep their desks tidier when there is a scent of cleaning agent in the air. But they are not consciously aware of the influence of their environment. There are few things more fundamental to hu ...

Antemedius

  • America Detached from War
    Originally published at TomDispatch.com Bush’s Pilotless Dream, Smoking Drones, and Other Strange Tales from the Crypt Admittedly, before George W. Bush had his fever dream, the U.S. had already put its first unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drone surveillance planes in the skies over Kosovo in t ...
  • ProPublica Photographer: I Was Followed by BP Secu ...
    from Lance Rosenfield , ProPublica ( view source ) Freelance photographer Lance Rosenfield was working on assignment for ProPublica in Texas City, Texas, last week, when a BP security guard began following him. Rosenfield was later detained by police after taking photos for two ProPublica stories. ...
  • BREAKING: Alyeska CEO Resigns Following Truthout E ...
    According to employees, Kevin Hostler, the chief executive officer of Alyeska Pipeline, informed staff of his resignation Wednesday morning - one day after Truthout published an extensive investigative report that was highly critical of his management of the company and revealed details of alleged ...
  • War Escalation Funding Fight This Week
    House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, who will openly tell you he does whatever President Obama and Speaker Pelosi instruct, can bring the war escalation funding to the House floor despite the opposition of Appropriations Chairman David Obey. This is because the House passed the bill without the war e ...
  • Fighting Global Malnutrition Locally
    Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet blog. Every year, 5 million children worldwide die from malnutrition-related causes, including immune-system deficiency, increased risk of infection, decreased bone density, and starvation. But a variety of local efforts are hoping to t ...

Climategate

Opinio Juris

  • Gabriella Blum and Philip Heymann on Targeted Kill ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Harvard professors Gabriella Blum and Philip Heymann have a new, short article online at the Harvard National Security Law Journal (which, by the way, is doing many interesting things), Law and Policy of Targeted Killing (June 27, 2010).  A version of it wi ...
  • More on US Lawsuit to Squash AZ Law (Less Wishy-W ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Julian’s link to the WSJ blog post forces me to aim for something a little more coherent (apologies, I didn’t know they were doing the interview format - thought they were on the usual fishing expedition for a soundbite or two).  The bottom line: I think there’s a p ...
  • Peter Spiro on the U.S. Lawsuit Against Arizona
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Our own Peter Spiro talks to the Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog on today’s filing of a federal lawsuit against Arizona’s immigration law.  The grounds for the lawsuit, as expected, is preemption, even though most of the political debate about the lawsuit is concerned wi ...
  • More on US Lawsuit to Squash AZ Law (Less Wishy-W ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Julian’s link to the WSJ blog post forces me to aim for something a little more coherent (apologies, I didn’t know they were doing the interview format - thought they were on the usual fishing expedition for a soundbite or two).  The bottom line: I think there’s a p ...
  • Peter Spiro on the U.S. Lawsuit Against Arizona
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Our own Peter Spiro talks to the Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog on today’s filing of a federal lawsuit against Arizona’s immigration law.  The grounds for the lawsuit, as expected, is preemption, even though most of the political debate about the lawsuit is concerned wi ...

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

  • The Palm Island Uprising
    by Anonymous We've had enough mate, this is ridiculous.The system not only is not working for us, it has never ever worked for us or delivered justice. What is going on on Palm Island is a genuine reflection of how all Aboriginal people are feeling at this stage across Aboriginal Australia. ...
  • The Orientalism of Israeli Troops Dancing
    The Orientalism of Israeli Troops Dancing | Informed Comment Some comments on the semiotics. The piece begins with the Muslim call to prayer in al-Khalil, a Palestinian city in the Palestinian West Bank, which Israelis call Hebron. Some 30,000 Palestinians are being kept in an urban prison for the ...
  • 3 Weeks After Arrest, Still No Charges in Wikileak ...
    3 Weeks After Arrest, Still No Charges in Wikileaks Probe :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [reg.de] An Army intelligence analyst suspected of leaking classified information to Wikileaks has still not been charged with any crime, three weeks aft ...
  • WHO’S KNOCKING ON EASTERN DOOR?
    MNN. Nov. 7, 2009. Are we Mohawks unwitting pawns in a power struggle between colonial thugs? We are the Keepers of the Eastern Door of Great Turtle Island. Agents are hanging around us all the time trying to gather information. Why? How to disrupt a Mohawk community. Kanehsatake was declared as hav ...
  • Radio Utopie Interview mit Uri Avnery vom 01. Juni ...
    Radio Utopie Interview mit Uri Avnery vom 01. Juni 2010 | Radio Utopie Transkript von Mahaf. RU: Schönen guten Tag, hier ist Radio Utopie. Wir haben heute einen sehr bekannten israelischen Friedensaktivisten und Dissidenten zu Gast, ich würde mal sagen, vielleicht sogar den bekanntesten – den alter ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Three UN staff killed in Afghanistan
    ShareThis Breaking: Three UN staff killed in Afghanistan 08 Jul 2010 Three staff members of the United Nations have been killed after a bomb went off in Afghanistan.
  • Six years in jail, no charge: war on terror's forg ...
    ShareThis Six years in jail, no charge: war on terror's forgotten victim speaks 08 Jul 2010 Babar Ahmad, 35, is the longest-serving prisoner held without charge or trial in the UK. In his first media interview since his arrest on a US extradition warrant in 2004, Mr Ahmad tells Robert Verkaik that h ...
  • 'US will attack Iran if it must'
    ShareThis Triumvirate of sociopaths speak: 'US will attack Iran if it must' 07 Jul 2010 There is wide support in Congress for using all means to keep Iran from becoming a nuclear power, “through diplomatic and economic sanctions if we possibly can, through military actions if we must,” visiting US S ...
  • Michael Rectenwald interview - Bush policies conti ...
    ShareThis Michael Rectenwald interview - Bush policies continue under Obama --Discussion of Obama's continuation and extension of the Bush policies, practices and atrocities . 07 Jul 2010 Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D.�was interviewed on 'The Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show Podcast'�regarding the continuat ...
  • Louisiana authorities report oil sightings from Gu ...
    ShareThis Louisiana authorities report oil sightings from Gulf of Mexico spill 07 Jul 2010 Here is a list, released by Louisiana emergency officials, of areas where oil was sighted Wednesday. The list is not a comprehensive tally of areas affected by oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill. Jefferson Pari ...

Daily Loaf

  • Sox fans weep as Rays get the sweep, beat Boston 6 ...
    The Tampa Bay Rays took the third and final game of this home series from the Boston Red Sox on the strength of excellent starting pitching by David Price. The hard-throwing lefty picked up 10 strikeouts and allowed two runs on eight hits. Relievers Grant Balfour and Randy Choate were each charged ...
  • On the Radar: Bob Preston: A Life in Photographs a ...
    Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview upcoming events to mark your calendars for. Beginning tomorrow, the Studio@620 offers a tale of two Prestons with exhibitions of black-and-white photography by former St. Petersburg Times shooter Bob Preston and color photography by his daughter, Patrici ...
  • Do It Today: Becloud (Vaho) at the Global Lens Fil ...
    Is the summer Hollywood box office disappointing you? Are you tired of cliché chick flicks that end happily ever after (lucky assholes)? If you see Tom Cruise in one more film, are you tempted to jump on and then off your own couch … and over a balcony? Fear not and take no drastic actions [...]
  • Dunedin Brewery’s 14th Anniversary party this Frid ...
    Dunedin Brewery, Florida's oldest continually-run microbrewery, will be throwing a brew bash to celebrate its 14th year in business this Friday, July 9.
  • Straight Dope: Is “clean coal” really clean?
    This week’s question on Straight Dope: I’ve been reading about clean coal technology — in particular, coal gasification and its use in power production. Everyone touts the clean emissions consisting of CO², which gets sequestered underground, and water vapor. But what about the other by-products, ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Bunnydrums. Closed Eyes
    I saw Bunnydrums a few times in the 80′s and thought them amazing. This is from a reunion concert at Brotherly Shove Fest at Trocadero, Phila. July 5, 2007 and is their signature song. It starts slow, then builds.
  • On America’s birthday 2010: Jefferson’s epiphany a ...
    (I meant to post this on the 4th, but was traveling and forgot… – Bob) The tides were shifting in the founding era that brought forth our nation in the Revolutionary Year of 1776. On New Year’s Day, after a speech by King George III is read condemning the colonist’s rebellion, General Washington unf ...
  • British panel clears climate scientists
    A British panel on Wednesday exonerated the scientists caught up in the controversy known as Climategate of charges that they had manipulated their research to support preconceived ideas about global warming. But the panel also rebuked the scientists for several aspects of their behavior, especially ...
  • Pakistan’s “Strategic Depth” and endless war in Af ...
    Pakistan's national security policy of supporting terrorist groups and militias as proxies against India, known as "strategic depth," is accelerating out of control, and they are either deliberately or inadvertently engineering a globalized religious war, a Clash of Civilizations. If pressure on con ...
  • Mexico bishop on the drug wars
    In an interview with the Reforma newspaper on election day, Sunday July 4, Raul Vera Lopez, Bishop of the Saltillo Coahuila Diocese said the upsurge in violence in the states is derived from agreements between the drug cartels and elected officials, whether motivated by corruption and greed or just ...

Coteret

  • [video] Birthright group visits (Jewish Settlement ...
    The “Hebron” account at WeJew.com (a kind of Jewish YouTube wannabe) has just (July 5 2010) uploaded a video purportedly documenting a visit of this month of an Australian Birthright group to the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. This site is the stated raison d’être of the extremist Jewish Settle ...
  • Hasbarapocalypse — Leaked Frank Luntz memo: ...
    The Israel Project (TIP), an American Hasbara outfit, commissioned Republican political consultant Frank Luntz to examine the effectiveness of Israel’s public diplomacy in the US on the Flotilla debacle. TIP gave the memo to the Prime Minister’s Office, where someone promptly leaked it to Chico Mena ...
  • Israeli Ministry of Justice endorses extremist int ...
    On Friday, July 9, the Ministry of Justice and the Jewish Legal Heritage Society will present a two-day seminar on Jewish laws concerning the Land of Israel.  [An invitation in Hebrew can be seen here and a translation is appended at the bottom of this post. H/T Dena Shunra.] While I am not an exper ...
  • 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 ...

Deadline Live

  • This Day In History: July 8
    1099 – First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in a religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on. 1775 – The Olive Branch Petition signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies. 1776 – The Declaration of Independence is read aloud in Philadelphi ...
  • Deadline Live – July 6 2010
    Tuesday – Hour One: Breaking news from DEADLINELIVE.INFO. Hour Two: Jack interviews Brent Johnson. Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
  • Whistleblower: Relief payments get slashed if fish ...
    Any relief payment plan established in the wake of the worst environmental accident ever was bound to have its flaws, but this goes to a whole new level of wrong. According to Gulf resident Kindra Arnesen, who turned whistleblower and full-time activist when she saw how many people were put out of w ...
  • RIP Bill “Sputnik” Strain – Aust ...
    ED Note: I had the great Pleasure of meeting Sputnik many times and he was just as True Blue as everyone said he was! His efforts made the world a better place. We will miss ya Sputnik! I Know that you will be just as Bold in the afterlife! See ya there (but not too [...]
  • French court sentences Noriega to 7 years in priso ...
    AP PARIS — A Paris court on Wednesday convicted former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega of laundering drug money in France in the 1980s and ordered him to spend seven years behind bars — a sentence that comes on top of his two decades already spent in a U.S. prison. The three-judge panel also orde ...

The Air Vent

  • Review of the Decline
    Well as you are probably all aware, the Muir Russell  report came out today.  Despite the fact that they somehow managed to conclude that ‘hide the decline’ and the endless discussions of the intent to make the story consistent in the emails, did not constitute ‘hide the decline’.   Just to make ...
  • Pielke Jr. on Russell
    Roger Pielke Jr. has a nice post which summarizes the beginning of the misconceptions from the Russell review.  Click the title below for the full article. ——————– The Muir Russell Review The Muir Russell Review is out (here in PDF), and it has plenty in it for everyone on all sides of the debate o ...
  • Shoot yourself — or not (Poll)
    The true colors of the progressive movement have come out yet again.  I’m an Aero engineer as most here know. As a young boy I loved the idea of space travel.  As a middle age man, not much has changed.  Why travel to space when we have problems here, you ask?  The reasons are endless [...]
  • Hockey Stick Explanation
    There is quite a bit of confusion about the nature of hockey stick temperature constructions.  Currently, many non-paleo climate scientists seem to want to avoid the discussion altogether.  However, these studies are still freely passed through review, which seems to me a very biased point of view.  ...
  • 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 ...

Focal Point

  • Olivia Munn, Sexism, and the Daily Show
    Will wonders never cease: professional self-promoter Emily Gould recently accused feminist blogs of stoking their readers' outrage to " gin up page views ." Gould's case in point is a reported piece by Jezebel's Irin Carmon about how the Daily Show , every liberal's favorite fake newscast, is actual ...
  • 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 ...

Inside Facebook

  • In Depth: New Facebook CTO Bret Taylor Discusses P ...
    Five weeks ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appointed Bret Taylor, who joined the company when Facebook acquired FriendFeed in August 2009, as its new CTO. We sat down with Taylor to talk about Facebook’s vision for the future of the Facebook Platform, and how it’s affecting everything the company ...
  • Developer Note: Facebook Making Minor Change to Mu ...
    Six weeks ago, Facebook added a contact importer to the multi-friend-selector to enable application users to invite their friends outside of Facebook as well. Of course, adding the contact importer to apps is a move that will help Facebook grow as well, particularly in those regions and demographic ...
  • The Facebook Global Monitor July 2010 Edition is N ...
    The Facebook Global Monitor is available through your membership to Inside Facebook Gold We’ve just released the July 2010 edition of the Facebook Global Monitor. The Facebook Global Monitor is our data report tracking Facebookâs audience growth around the world, and is a part of the Inside Facebo ...
  • Gigya Releases Stats On Social ID Use, Talks About ...
    Gigya, a company that has transformed from widget-maker to social media optimization service, has released a new infographic detailing which social IDs people use most frequently to login to different types of Gigya-optimized websites. Facebook leads with 46% of Gigya logins across all sites, and wa ...
  • Windows Messenger Leads This Week’s List of Fastes ...
    For several weeks now, Windows Live Messenger has been climbing its way through the growth charts. Now the instant messaging app is at the top of our weekly list of fastest Facebook gainers by daily active users, with 334,214 new DAU. The really impressive point about Live Messenger is that well ove ...

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

  • There is a lion in the way
    the cemetery is the richest place on earth because billions of brilliant unfulfilled dreams are buried there. If you’re anything like me or the billions buried, the problem is not having a dream. The problem is being strong enough to fulfill them.
  • Frederick Douglass: “The Meaning of July Fou ...
    Fellow Citizens, I am not wanting in respect for the fathers of this republic. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men. They were great men, too Ñ great enough to give frame to a great age. It does not often happen to a nation to raise, at one time, such a number [...]
  • “Did Nyamwasa fall on his own sword?” ...
    Recent attempt on  the life of diplomat-turned former Rwandan Chief of Staff, Lt-Gen. Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, in Johannesburg, dented Rwandan reputation a great deal more. When did it all began? Fall-out and now attempt on lives of compatriots! When cronyism and nepotism ceased to pay back. The ro ...
  • Fela Kuti The Relentless Revolutionary Is On Broad ...
    There’s a New Show on Broadway, the likes of which has never been seen on the stage before! Fela! by Bill T. Jones, famous director and choreographer, along with others have brought to the story of outspoken Nigerian Afrobeat musician and revolutionary social activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti to the Amer ...
  • “Baby Got Back!” aka Racism in the Fas ...
    I found this documentary, The Colour of Beauty over at MsAfropolitan. This National Film Board of Canada produced short film (it’s about 17mins) by Elizabeth St. Philip is very revealing in regards to the marketing of beauty.

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

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

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

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Iran's Nukes - UAE Ambassador Endorses Preemptive ...
    In an extraordinary exchange, the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the United States, Yousef al-Otaiba explained his views – and fears – of a nuclear Iran.� Speaking on July 6, 2010 at the Aspen Ideas Festival, the Ambassador expressed openly to the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg and� The �Was ...
  • China on the Edge - China's Xinjiang Province Thro ...
    Police officers patrol a street in Kashgar, in western China's Xinjiang region, . Teams of police patrolled streets in the western region of Xinjiang as stringent security was imposed for the one-year anniversary of China's worst ethnic violence in decade, 3 Jul 2010 Teams of paramilitary police are ...
  • The Deaf Edge - Settled Case of Predatory Cochlear ...
    The United States Department of Justice has announced the settlement of a case that will come as no surprise to many who have been following the story behind the Colorado based manufacturer, Cochlear Americas. The whistleblower case, brought forth by the company's Former Chief Financial Officer Bren ...
  • The Edge of Energy Reform - U.S. Energy, Mining Co ...
    Tucked near the end of the more than 2,000-page final version of the financial reform bill is language requiring energy companies to submit the payment information annually to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The provision was added by Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, a long-tim ...
  • Venezuela on the Edge - Venezuela’s Media War: Is ...
    On March 1st, 2009, Hugo Chávez announced on his popular Sunday television show, Aló Presidente, that he would commence a kind of “media war” to determine which news bodies were controlled by the oligarchy. Chávez further maintained, “If it weren’t for the attack, the lies, manipulation and exaggera ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Oceans Demise Near Irreversible
    By Les Blumenthal A sobering new report warns that oceans face a fundamental and irreversible ecological transformation not seen in millions of years as greenhouse gases and climate change already have affected temperature, acidity, sea and oxygen levels, the food chain and possibly major currents ...
  • Peak Oil, Time, And Population
    By Peter Goodchild We begin with two basic facts. The first is that the worlds present annual consumption of oil is nearly 30 billion barrels. The second is that the worlds present population is nearly 7 billion. From there we can add some reasonable estimates of both oil decline and population de ...
  • Graduating From Graduating From College: The Ivory ...
    By Carolyn Baker The ivory tower is crumbling, but increasing numbers of innovative youth are constructing a new paradigm and new ways of utilizing their gifts. In the process they are redefining education and employment and revolutionizing our increasingly obsolete notions of what it means to bec ...
  • The Sheep Look Up
    By Gray Brechin There will be no escape or refuge for the hyper wealthy in their pre-fueled private jets as the life support systems of Planet Earth go down. Sybaritic retreats like Atlantis in the Bahamas could soon submerge under dead and oily water. Each person may soon be forced to decide what ...
  • Stone Pelting An Inevitable Affair In Kashmir
    By Inshah Malik In a recent Bharat Bandh protest staged against the hike in price initiated by the opposition political parties in India, 78 buses were burnt by the angry protesters and 24 drivers were injured in Mumbai alone but no CRPF was sent to control the unruly mobs in Mumbai. Even in the w ...

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

  • Hamas Says: You've Given Us Gaza, Now on to More W ...
    By Barry Rubin Here is what President Barack H. Obama said after his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "We believe that there is a way to make sure that the people of Gaza are able to prosper economically, while Israel is able to maintain its legitimate security needs ...
  • Did Census Double-Count the Homeless?
    Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding ...
  • Limited Posting
    Sorry for the limited posting over the past few days folks. My computer finally died, I will continue to try and post but as I am using a borrowed computer through the weekend "The Lid" will be operating on a limited basis throughout the weekend. Please email me at yidwithlid@aol.com to be put onto ...
  • Obama's Pro-Union Construction Rules are Extending ...
    Traditionally it is housing starts and residential construction employment that lead the economy out of a recession. To date, the best you can say about those indicators in this recession is that they have leveled out near their low points. While the insecurity surrounding future tax rates and th ...
  • Rasmussen Reports It Is A Long Shot But Senate IS ...
    Rasmussen has just released its first report projecting the balance of power in the Senate after the the mid-term elections. Using their Senate race polls for a base, Rasmussen shows the Democrats with a 49-41 seat lead with ten seats up for grabs and the real campaign season won't begin for another ...

The Real Agenda

  • How the Green Movement Failed Us
    Attention should be turned to the criminals that are robbing the middle class and re-appropriating our wealth for personnel gains. Shame on you Mr. Gore, your carbon footprint is probably higher than all the readers of this article combined. A lavish life, with a couple of mansions and a dozen cars, ...
  • Monsanto loses dispute on modified soy in European ...
    The judges state that the Community rules in the EU that supports biotechnological inventions protects such products as long as "the genetic information that the product contains performs its function effectively in that matter." This means that the Court considers that although the seeds had tra ...
  • Costa Rica Occupied by U.S. Military *UPDATE*
    By Luis R. Miranda In an interview to a local newspaper, the Vice Minister of Security of Costa Rica, JORGE CHAVARRÍA said the alternative solution to letting the American occupiers move around the country is “too expensive”.  ”It would require the whole national budget to fully equip the Coast Guar ...
  • Costa Rica Occupied: Congress Surrenders Sovereign ...
    By Luis R. Miranda For the first time since it abolished its Army in 1948, Costa Rica decided to allow the invasion of United States ships into its harbor and effectively renounce to its sovereignty.  In an illegal move, the Costa Rican Congress approved the arrival of the American troops which incl ...
  • Spy tech ‘monitors conversations’ launched in Euro ...
    The surveillance system, dubbed Sigard, has been installed in Dutch city centers, government offices and prisons, and a recent test-run of the technology in Coventry, England, has British civil rights experts worried that the right to privacy will disappear in efforts to fight street crime.

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

  • The Lakota saw six grandfathers where Mt Rushmore ...
    A recurring discussion at the base of Mount Rushmore is whose face next belongs alongside America’s fantastic four. There’s room for more obviously, as the mountain’s Lakota name was the Six Grandfathers. They saw resemblance enough in the rocks without the Denver Mint faces. Visitors can be excused ...
  • DumFox Noose beating the Racist Anti- Immigrant Dr ...
    But of course it’s not “racist” to give known Klan-affiliated PIG groups like the Arizona cops the power to arrest people who can’t produce proof of citizenship, based solely on the appearance of the people being arrested. The Border Patrol has harrassed me on several occasions, sometimes at Gunpoin ...
  • “What would actually taxing the Predatory Oi ...
    If they had asked the question honestly…. But they didn’t and don’t. By the way, that means the aforementioned Predatory Oil, Gas and Coal companies are still fighting, with the full blessings of Washington Insiders, any regulation on their practices or repayment of the debts they owe. In a laughabl ...
  • The Army claiming Manning “mentally ill&#822 ...
    “ostracized by peers, distrustful of (so-called) ‘authority’, alone, embittered and once charged with assault” Because, you see, you would have to be CRAZYto oppose Mass Murder or do anything about it. Only, they’re not actually calling it “crazy”, but “borderline personality disorder”. I’ll say, di ...
  • there seem to be a few people who have missed this ...
                Fighting for Freedom —->   Now, these pictures represent the actuality of the “Fighting for Freedom of Speech and other Rights” that our noble and glorious Military and Police do. These scenes, the one where the cop has an elderly gentleman in a choke-hold, an ILLEGAL chokehold which the ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • 911 Truth in 5 minutes: The Key Evidence vs Mainst ...
    The Hard Science: There IS overwhelming physical evidence that reveals explosives were used to bring down the 3 WTC buildings on 911. There is nothing theoretical about the claim - forensic proof has sealed the case. Simply put, it is IMPOSSIBLE to find Molten Steel , Thermite traces , plus actual ...
  • 7/7 - Five Years On
    Yesterday the Queen who doesn't sweat (I wonder how long before the David Icke fans pick up on that!), visited ground zero and addressed the UN for the first time since 1957. Is it possible for a reigning monarch to commit treason? Coz some would argue that just by associating with the globalist c ...
  • Why James Randi, Michael Shermer and other Pseudos ...
    SCEPCOP YouTube.com June 10, 2010 To learn more about why James Randi, Michael Shermer, the CSICOP crowd, and other Pseudoskeptics are NOT real skeptics, visit my website and treatise at: http://www.debunkingskeptics.com Related Info: Debunking PseudoSkeptics - CSICOP, James Randi, Michael Sh ...
  • When False Flags Don't Fly
    From corbettreport
  • An Irresponsible Response
    For the last few days I was out of town enjoying an early 4th of July weekend with my family and didn't have any internet during that time. So imagine my surprise when I got back home today to find that I was sent a message from infamous debunker RKOwens4. Here is what he wrote to me. "Hey buddy. J ...

Fooducate

  • Chewing Gum Health Claim Shot Down [Wrigley]
    Wrigley, the gum behemoth, is settling a  class action suit out of court for a cool $7 million. The lawsuit pertains to misleading advertising claims for Eclipse gum made with magnolia bark extract, that has been “scientifically proven to help kill the germs that cause bad breath”. Or not. Accord ...
  • Harvard, USDA: Soda Tax Will Cut Obesity
    It may take a year or two or five or twenty, but eventually some sort of levy will be placed on the liquid candy purveyed by the  beverage industry. In the past few weeks, two additional voices were heard in the argument for consumer (and legislator) mindshare on this issue. A Harvard experiment, i ...
  • FOODFIGHT: Is a McDonald’s Big Mac Healthier Than ...
    This is a guest blog post by Mariana Cotlear. Is a McDonald’s Big Mac better for you than a Chipotle Burrito?  So claims James McWilliams in a recent article in The Atlantic. His straight nutritional comparison of the above mentioned menu items leads him to this conclusion: Despite Chipotle’s s ...
  • Clif Bar Q&A
    In our recent comparison between Larabar and Clif bars, Lara won the upper hand. In response, the Clif team sent us some information and clarifications: Clif Bar & Company doesn’t source genetically-modified ingredients for any of its foods. The natural flavors found in CLIF BARs are sourced from ...
  • The 80/20 Rule. Why You Shouldn’t Feel Guilty at t ...
    Happy Independence Day! Some of our regular readers may be expecting a post on best practices for 4th of July dining. Perhaps a suggestion or two regarding the meat cuts to choose. Or better yet, vegetable alternatives. A listing of sides that are calorie bombs and salads that are full of fats. Not ...

Traffikd

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

Clearreaching

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

Worldpress - Africa

Canadian Encyclopedia

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How do you make sure you use the last bit of every ...
    This is cross-posted to my new frugal/growing/making/cooking blog, The Really Good Life. I’ve reached the end … of my shampoo bottle and our mayonnaise jar. And it made me wonder… Every vaguely-frugal/green family has their own tricks for getting those last bits of gloop, sauce, oil or whatever out ...
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make an irrigation ...
    I’m lucky because, working from home, I can take a plant-watering break pretty much whenever I or they need it – but I thought it was worth asking for people who have to leave their veggies baking in their greenhouse all day without a comfort break. Above ground sprinkler type things (like the one i ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle foam water pipe lagging ...
    This is usually the other way around – we usually suggest things that can be used to insulate water pipes – but I saw some foam water pipe lagging on the road today while walking the dog. I imagine it had blown off a nearby skip or been taken off by kids (because reuse [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle “Swiffer” m ...
    We’ve had an email from Kelly, asking about reusing a “Swiffer” handle: I’m sick of having to buy Swiffer cloths so am swapping to a regular brush and mop instead. What can I do with an old Swiffer then? Disposable branded cloths aren’t the only option for using with Swiffers and the like – there ar ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle overcooked barbeque mea ...
    Inspired by thinking about barbeque-related food packaging on Monday, we’re having a bit of an impromptu bbq themed week here on Recycle This. This is a less a “reuse or recycle” and more a “how do you use it up?” question… There always seems to be a few burgers or sausages leftover at barbecues – ...

Mondoweiss

  • Wash. Post column suggests that discovering the &# ...
    The Washington Post's Dana Milbank has a splendid/witty column on the Obama-Netanyahu meeting characterizing it as a "surrender" by Obama, pointing out that a reporter had to bring up settlements, Obama didn't. And this:Four months ago, the Obama administration made a politically perilous decision t ...
  • Thaddeus Russell defends his piece on Israel&#8217 ...
    Yesterday we posted twice on Thaddeus Russell's groundbreaking and hugely popular piece on Daily Beast saying that Israel has proved to be a dangerous creation. Russell has gotten a ton of flak on the piece, and he offered us his response "to the criticisms I've received -- from The Israel Project, ...
  • Today in Palestine: Only democracy in Middle East ...
    And other news from Today in PalestineLand theft and destruction/Ethnic cleansing Israel to demolish 3 houses in Nablus Nablus, July 7, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) - Israeli authorities delivered demolition warrants to Palestinian residents in Barqa village north of Hebron in the West Bank, notifying them ...
  • ‘Times’ prints call for ethnic cleansi ...
    Can we agree that calls for a government to violate international law are not a helpful contribution to the public debate? That’s what the New York Times offered when it published a call for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land in a letter from Richard Gertler of Teaneck, New Jersey. ...
  • Viral IDF dancing video unwittingly reveals realit ...
    The above video has been an internet sensation. Originally called "Rock the Casbah in HEBRON," it's been viewed over 1.6 million times, and was featured today on Yahoo's homepage.� It has also drawn the wrath of IDF officials who say the soldiers involved could face disciplinary action. Funny enough ...

Media Consortium

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

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Medical isotopes to flow again from Canadian react ...
    The world’s leading supplier of medical isotopes is back in business. In a statement released 7 July, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has approved the restart of the National Research Universeral Reactor (NRU) at Chalk River, Ontario. Until it shut down last year, the facility produced more ...
  • Proposal to scale back Brazilian forest code advan ...
    A special congressional commission approved a proposal to scale back Brazil's forest code on Tuesday, making way for a broader discussion about agriculture and rural development in the Amazon and beyond. "Ruralistas" and the agricultural community argued for additional flexibility and leniency in or ...
  • US geologist jailed in China
    An American geologist has been charged with stealing Chinese state secretes and sentenced to eight years in jail in China. ( BBC News , the Telegraph ) Xue Feng was born in China but trained at the University of Chicago according to media reports. He was detained in 2007 after he arranged the sal ...
  • The Bering Sea Project: Phytoplankton, micropoop, ...
    Posted on behalf of Wendee Holtcamp, blogging for Nature aboard the research vessel Thomas G. Thompson After leaving the Pribilofs, we cruised west and sampled near the largest submarine canyon in the world, Zhemchug Canyon; it’s 20% wider and deeper than Arizona’s Grand Canyon, dropping vertical ...
  • DNA patent ruling balks Monsanto
    The agricultural biotech giant Monsanto was today told by Europe's top court that it can’t stop soybean meal being sold in Europe that contains a Monsanto-patented DNA sequence. The ruling by the Court of Justice is a strong affirmation of the 1998 EU Biotechnology Directive , which distinguishes ...

new geography

  • Singapore's Demographic Winter
    Over the past half century arguably no place on earth has progressed more than the tiny island state of Singapore. A once impoverished, tropical powder keg packed into 268 square miles at the foot of the Malay Peninsula, the Mandarin-led republic has ascended from its difficult founding in 1965 to o ...
  • The Myth of the Back-to-the-City Migration
    Pundits, planners and urban visionaries—citing everything from changing demographics, soaring energy prices, the rise of the so-called "creative class," and the need to battle global warming—have been predicting for years that America's love affair with the suburbs will soon be over. Their voices ha ...
  • "Little Monsters"?: Children and the Environment
    The idea has bubbled around the edges of the environmental pond for a while: choosing to be childfree expressly for the purpose of reducing one's carbon footprint. An environmental correspondent at Mother Jones , for example, has pointed out that "…Nothing else you can do — driving a more fuel ef ...
  • The Economic Significance of Village Markets
    Flea markets and garage sales have been around for years. But for most New Zealanders, produce markets have been associated with old European villages, or the ethnic markets of Hong Kong and other exotic locations. Village markets focus on locally made crafts, while Flea Markets are essentially cent ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

water.org

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

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

  • Lift the Blockade of Gaza Now! Take Action
    Amnesty International is deeply concerned that it appears that Israeli armed forces may have used excessive force the morning of May 31, 2010 when entering boats protesting the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip. Submitted by Daf Yanez to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Strenger Than Fiction / Israel must admit to its m ...
    "That his life is being dissipated, squandered in a pointless struggle, and that his identity and self-respect and the one life he has to live are being endlessly expropriated from him in a conflict that could have been resolved long ago. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • Leading Israeli figures accuse police of targeting ...
    A number of prominent jurists, intellectuals, writers and leftist public figures have co-signed a letter that accuses the Jerusalem District police of "illegal and inequitable" conduct toward protesters in the predominantly Arab neighborhood .. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Constitution Preamble - Schoolhouse Rock
    Remember Schoolhouse Rock? This one on the constitution was my absolute favourite. Happy Birthday US! Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The Shot Heard Around The World
    In honour of July 4th, here is Schoolhouse Rock's "The Shot Heard Around the World. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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