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Thomas Paine

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • BALKANS: The Turks Return
    It's not often that the leading Belgrade daily Politika devotes two of its four foreign pages to the praise of one nation, but it did so for the visit of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan last month.
  • JAPAN: Foreign Caregivers' Language Exam Triggers ...
    Wahyudin dreams of becoming a full-fledged caregiver, if not a certified nurse, in Japan. But the Indonesian worker must first pass the required Japanese-language national certification examination, which is far from easy.
  • PHILIPPINES: Gov't Smokes Out Tobacco Industry wit ...
    Tobacco multinational Philip Morris may have had good reason to send out victory smoke signals when Filipinos elected Benigno Aquino III to be president in May. After all, he is a regular smoker who has said he will not quit the habit.
  • U.N. Chief May Be Heading for Showdown with Israel
    When the Israeli government gave its blessings to a U.N. panel of inquiry probing the military attack on a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza last May, there was widespread speculation that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon may have struck a backdoor deal over its mandate.
  • Trial of "Child Soldier" Opens at Guantanamo
    Omar Khadr was only 15 when he was captured by U.S. forces in 2002 in Afghanistan. Now, eight years later, the 23-year-old is on trial in Guantanamo Bay, in the first military commission trial since the beginning of the Barack Obama administration.

Scoop - NZ

  • The Lies Of Hiroshima Are The Lies Of Today - John ...
    The most enduring lie is that the atomic bomb was dropped to end the war in the Pacific and save lives. "Even without the atomic bombing attacks," concluded the United States Strategic Bombing Survey of 1946, "air supremacy over Japan could have exerted sufficient pressure to bring ab ...
  • AEP: Europe beats America at property bubbles
    Once and for all, let us nail the lie that the global credit crisis was basically a US sub-prime property bubble that went wrong, and that Europe was merely an innocent bystander hit by shrapnel. This is the property bubble chart on Page 12 of the IMF's latest report (Article IV) on France. If you r ...
  • Jones&Engelhardt: In Bed With the US Army
    As the WikiLeaks document-dump week ends, perhaps the real significance of what happened lay not in the specific revelations in those 92,000 pieces of raw data from American frustration-ville in Afghanistan, 2004-2009 (much of which would have been no news to anyone reading TomDispatch all these yea ...
  • Hollow Men of Economics
    Left unaddressed during the past 3 years in most of the debates between economists has been the problem of energy. The reason is simple: post-war economists don't do energy, except as an ever-expanding resource that the credit system and technology makes available. For the post-war economist, the su ...
  • Record US CRE deterioration in June
    In continuing with the trivial approach of actually caring bout fundamentals instead of merely generous (and endless) Fed liquidity, we peruse the most recent RealPoint June 2010 CMBS Delinquency report. The result: total delinquent unpaid balance for CMBS increased by $3.1 billion to $60.5 billion, ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Barcoding life
    Biologist Paul Hebert couldn’t believe his eyes when a colleague found a species of moth native to Mexico fluttering over the tundra at the fringes of Hudson Bay in Churchill, Man., one summer day in 2006. The huge black witch moth with a 20-centimetre wingspan had never before been found that far n ...
  • Building smarts
  • Send in the bacteria
    The video clip is the stuff of science fiction: a swarm of 5,000 bacteria lift microscopic epoxy bricks and assemble them one by one to form a pyramid, as if they were building a tower of blocks. A computer directs their movement by controlling magnetic fields.But for Sylvain Martel and his team of ...
  • Seeing red
    Ram Krishna of Toronto has had type 2 diabetes for almost 25 years, but he only started taking insulin a couple of years ago to help better control it. Since the insulin regimen began, he has had to test his blood glucose level more regularly — about three to five times a week. To do so, he does wha ...
  • Making (brain) waves
    Imagine your brain as a bustling city. The grey matter in your head could be compared to a dense network of mixed-use buildings, with snaking utility lines and connecting sidewalks throughout. Steam delivers heat through pipes out of the main utility centre, lights blink on and off, and information ...

Signs of the times

The Galloping Beaver

  • David Attenborough gives Discovery Channel a kick ...
    David Attenborough has produced some of the finest natural science series to be seen on television. Part of what makes them interesting, aside from the great camera work and detailed information is the narration by Attenborough himself. Unless you watched his series Life or Planet Earth on the US ...
  • NEVER harass the HPOA . . .
    THE CHIVE has a great report of how a lovely young woman decided it was time to move on. According to THE CHIVE, Yesterday morning, Jenny quit her job with a (flash)bang by emailing these photos to the entire office, about 20 employees we're told. Awesome doesn't begin to describe this office heroin ...
  • And so it goes . . . .
    It's crap like this that validates my decision to leave the Excited States. "They" just don't get it. Kind of makes one crazy, eh ? ? ? ? And so it goes , ya'll . . . .
  • University extortionistic bullshit for a Saturday ...
    Thesis submission without having to register in September for Aug 31, 2010 Fall 2010 Convocation Last day for students in thesis-based programs to submit Oct 1, 2010 theses to FGSR to ensure graduation at Fall 2010 Convocation These are lines in a mass email to gradstudents received from ...
  • Saturday Morning Cartoons
    Good morning, darlings -- a little Bugs Bunny with your coffee?

Media Matters for America

  • Conservatives disappear GOP's Clinton impeachment ...
    Conservative media figures have repeatedly claimed or suggested that it would be unprecedented and "corrupt" for Democrats to address "controversial" issues during Congress' lame duck session following the 2010 elections. But in 1998, Republicans impeached President Clinton during such a post-elect ...
  • Conservative media forecast dark results if Dems r ...
    Conservative media figures have used extreme and violent rhetoric to drum up support for the GOP in the midterm elections and have warned of the consequences of continued Democratic majorities in Congress. Conservatives warn of dire consequences of midterm elections Blankley: "[T]he country ...
  • Beck spins flatly denied rumor into fact to accuse ...
    On Fox & Friends , Glenn Beck falsely suggested that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are changing their lending rules so that they may "lower the mortgage so you don't have to worry about being upside-down," which Beck claimed represents "the intentional destruction of our country." In fact, Beck's s ...
  • Beck, Geller push falsehood that Ground Zero "mosq ...
    Glenn Beck and Pamela Geller advanced the false claim that the New York City�Islamic�cultural center will open on September 11, 2011. In fact,�both the executive director of one of the groups spearheading the project, as well as the Imam involved, have flatly denied that the center is slated to ope ...
  • Comparing Prop. 8 judge to Emperor Nero just the ...
    The Washington Times has an extensive history of promoting anti-gay smears, falsehoods, and distortions. In the latest example, the Times compared Judge Vaughn Walker, who found California's Proposition 8 unconstitutional, to "brutal" Roman Emperor Nero, writing that Nero, "like Judge Vau ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Jeffrey Goldberg Probes Israel's Iran Strike Optio ...
    In an important article to be published in The Atlantic tomorrow, national correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg recounts something many people didn't realize at the time and still have a hard time believing. President George W. Bush knocked back Dick Cheney's wing of the foreign policy establishment - bot ...
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  • Confessions Of A Class Worrier
    The decline of America's middle class can be charted directly. In the three decades after World War II, the median wage (smack in the middle) grew rapidly, right along with productivity gains. Even as late as 1980, the richest 1 percent of Americans received only about 9 percent of the nation's tota ...
  • Education & The New Federalism
    I've been suggesting for a while that America is developing a new sense of frugality, where savings and investment are replacing debt and consumption.  This led me to doubt the strength of the recovery.Bill Gross has called this the Ne w Normal . Some unusual suspects, like Glenn Hubbard, dean of ...
  • Economists: The Missing Heroes of the State and Lo ...
    The latest cool thing for the Washington elite is to beat up on school teachers and firefighters for their overly generous pensions. It turns out that some of these public sector employees get enough money in their pensions that they can actually enjoy a decent retirement. This is an outrage in m ...

TruthOut

  • Decentralizing Global Finance
    Every economic crisis buries some practices and gives rise to new ones. What we see today is a move away from what Robert Wade called the “High Command “of global finance and the rise of less formalized institutions. The G-20 may be one of these. read more
  • Former Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska Is Dead at 86
    Washington - Former Sen. Ted Stevens has died after a plane crash late Monday in Dillingham, Alaska. Stevens, 86, was the longest-serving Republican senator when his 40-year Senate career came to an end in 2008. On trial in Washington D.C. for corruption in the weeks leading up to that year’s elect ...
  • We Need a New Language to Provide a Vision for a N ...
    The late Tony Judt's last book focuses on ending concentrated wealth and creating an economy that works for all. I was saddened to read of historian Tony Judt's death at too early an age. He was the type of historian from which we need to hear more. He confronted the myths on which governments and ...
  • Google and Verizon Usher in the Internets
    Monday's announcement that Verizon and Google will create a distinct wireless experience put net neutrality discussions not so much on the back burner as in the recycling bin. read more
  • Mosque Mania: Anti-Muslim Fears and the Far Right
    There is a distinct creepiness to the controversy now raging around a proposed Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan. The angry “debate” over whether the building should exist has a kind of glitch-in-the-Matrix feel to it, leaving in its wake an aura of something-very-bad-about-to-happen. It’ ...

Planetsave

  • Greenest Cell Phone Companies
    What are the greenest cell phone companies in the world. Dan Harding of CalFinder Home Solar Power tells us n this great guest post.
  • Chemicals and Obesity Speeding up Puberty in Girls ...
    Chemicals in food are causing obesity and causing babies to grow breasts. Great cartoon on this matter from Joe Mohr.
  • ‘Harmless’ Fish Species Survives &#821 ...
    The 'bearded goby' (Sufflogobius bibarbatus), a small, common, prey species of fish, has become adapted to the "toxic" conditions near the sea floor of this pelagic zone. Analysis of the fish's gut has shown that up to 60% of its diet consists of jellyfish--a marine creature few animals prey upon du ...
  • Oiled Blue Crabs Hint at Tainted Food Chain in Gul ...
    Biologists are concerned of the longterm effects of oil droplets found in blue crab larvae along the Gulf of Mexico.
  • 70% of Human DNA Same as Sea Sponges
    Ever wonder how much you have in common with a sea sponge? Probably not. Probably assume “not much.” Well, it turns out 70% of your DNA is the same as theirs. Apparently, Australian scientists have determined this after completing the genetic sequencing of sea sponges from the Great Barrier Reef. Th ...

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Axis of Logic

  • AGUA FOR HAITI QUARTERLY REPORT AND APPEAL - Activ ...
    AGUA FOR HAITI It has been 3 months since we launched the appeal for our new project, Agua for Haiti. The response from many of you has been wonderful. Our first objective (financial) for this project is to raise $4,000 which will enable us to send a full truckload of potable water...
  • Haiti: A Six-Month Report Without Cute Baby Pictur ...
    Well, yes. July tends to come six months after January. All agree that little has been done to help the 1.5 million Haitians rendered homeless by the January earthquake. So why pick July 12th as a milestone? Why not May 27th, or August 8th, for example? Thankfully, the recent press...
  • US - Venezuela: The Empire Strikes Back (and Lose ...
    Introduction US policy toward Venezuela has taken many tactical turns, but the objective has been the same:  to oust President Chavez, reverse the nationalization of big businesses, abolish the mass community and worker based councils and revert the country into a client-state. Washington fund ...
  • The Quiet Revolution. Venezuelans experiment with ...
    Selling goods to passersby on the street, Jenny Caraballo describes her local communal council. “Some of our members are homemakers who want their community to be pretty,” Caraballo says while trying to make eye contact with potential clients in 23 de Enero, a barrio popular that is one of many... ...
  • The US tank crew wanted for murder - World News
    The Spanish government wants a three-man US army tank crew to stand trial for the death of cameraman Jose Couso in Baghdad in 2003. High Court judge Santiago Pedraz has issued three international arrest warrants for the soldiers after they fired at the Telecinco employee, fatally wounding him. ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Yes, of course the judge admitted a false confession elicited by torture and a rape threat. Playing the farce of a trial adds constitutional destruction to a war crime abomination. "A former child combatant has gone on trial at Guantanamo Bay, the first detainee to face military justice under Presid ...
  • Political Suicide by Hippie-Punching
    Really, Robert Gibbs ? Have you and the maladministration you represent really forgotten what happened the last time Democrats took their liberal base for granted? Digby: But what's dangerously myopic about going ballistic as Gibbs did in his statements is that just 10 years ago we had a little even ...
  • As Older Americans Become Paupers, Talk Of Cutting ...
    I turned 54 late last month. Where I work, nearly half the work force we had 30 months ago has been laid off or pushed into buyouts. Many of those who hit the sidewalks were about my age, and from what I've heard, they've had trouble finding work. If you're over 50, people don't want to hire you. An ...
  • Happy 189th Birthday, Missouri!
    Today is Missouri's birthday. We entered the Union as a slave state on this date in n1821, along with Maine as a free state, �under the compromise that we all learned about in sixth grade civics that bears the state's name. The area that would become the state of Missouri was acquired in 1803 as pa ...
  • New Front Opens in the Class Wars
    It's started: employers are using the continued high unemployment rate to destroy middle-class wages. Want a job? Then you better pull your forelock, bite your tongue and count yourself lucky to get shitty, dangerous work at minimum wage with no benefits. �It's the Randian wet dream, and it's coming ...

Care 2

  • Not all milk is from cows
    If youve strolled past the dairy case lately, you might have noticed that it has grown to ranch-size proportions. Dozens of products are labeled milk, and they spill over onto the nonrefrigerated shelves. Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 30 Strangest Presidential Gifts Ever Exchanged
    One of the little-known facts about the office of President of the United States is that the president doesnt usually keep the gifts given to him during his time in office. Submitted by Sophie Smith to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Galactic collision captured by Nasa's 'Great Obser ...
    Nasa's so-called Great Observatories, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Spitzer Space Telescope, have witnessed the collision of two galaxies in unprecedented detail.... Submitted by Mary Coleman to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • NASA Plans Visit to Asteroid on Collision Course W ...
    There's a mountain-size asteroid on a potential collision course with Earth, and NASA plans to pay it a visit. The asteroid 1999 RQ36 made headlines last week with the announcement that the space rock could hit our planet in 2182. But a handful of sci... Submitted by Mary Coleman to Science & Tech ...
  • Around the World Candlelight Wave for World Peace ...
    On September 21, 2010, International Day of Peace, Care2 members around the world will light a candle for World Peace during their local time of 8-10 P.M. A wave of candlelight will slowly move around the world for 25 hours. Submitted by Gary G. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

  • "Pop" Poplawski, the High-Def Hucksters, and the D ...
    This is not good news. Richard "Pop" Poplawski has fans now. You probably remember Poplawski, or if you don't it won't take much to refresh your memory. He's the aimless, unemployed 22-year-old man, living in a red-brick, working class neighborhood of Pittsburgh, who went off on the morning of April ...
  • Serial Denial and the Permanent War System
    Two months ago, I wrote that the Obama administration and the U.S. command in Afghanistan faced an "Iraq 2006 moment" in the second half of 2010 - a collapse of domestic political support for a failed war paralleling the political crisis in Bush's Iraq War in 2006. Now comes Republican Congressman ...
  • Weed Weirdness: Pot Legalization Measure Creates S ...
    San Francisco - Two friends debated the merits of California's pending referendum on pot legalization as they smoked marijuana through a hi-tech electric pipe while sitting inside a swank house where floor-to-ceiling windows artistically framed the glittering night skyline of this city known for its ...
  • Let's just agree that Mexicans shouldn't be public ...
    It’s interesting to watch the blogosphere erupt in snickering whenever another Republican (most recently John Boehner ) calls for the repeal of the 14th amendment. Senators Mitch McConnell, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Jeff Sessions and Jon Kyl have all suggested the country needs to reexamine the ...
  • Conservanomics: A Church Without Bishops (But it's ...
    Conservative economics has often felt like religious dogma, with its elevation of "a rising tide lifts all boats" to unintended extremes and its unfounded belief that lower tax rates create higher revenue. But, at least as far as that second article of faith is concerned, Conservanomics is becomin ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Greg-Alogue Open Thread
    “Greg’s Gregalogue” Introducing a gay bar for Muslim men Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com The proposal to build a gar bar next to the Islamic Center near Ground Zero has taken on a life of its own (see here and here). I find this absolutely hilarious. By the way, some people like David F ...
  • “That’s It!”
    Jet Blue flight attendant Steve Slater, 39, is a folk hero after exploding in a tantrum onboard a just-arrived-from-Pittsburgh Jet Blue aircraft at JFK. The story so far is that a female passenger, unnamed, broke rules and reached for her overhead luggage while the plane was still taxiing t ...
  • Sec. Clinton Speaks Out About Relief Workers Gunne ...
    As you may know by now, ten relief workers were murdered in Afghanistan over the weekend, six of whom were Americans. The Taliban is taking “credit” for their murders. These people were there for no other reason but to help people. They were medical personnel – doctors, dentists, nurses, and other ...
  • Military Tidbits
    Let’s start with the fun video. Remember when Israel attacked Gaza a couple of years back? They justified their invasion because the Palestinians (probably Hamas) were firing rockets into Israel. I strongly criticized their attack then as an overreaction and wondered at the time why they didn’t u ...
  • Extremists Open Thread
    Press secretary Robert Gibbs socked it to Obama’s far left critics — and how — in an interview with The Hill: [L]iberal naysayers … would never regard anything the president did as good enough. âI hear these people saying heâs like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested,â Gibbs said ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Hope Tunnel: The Trainwreck Pulled From the Seicha ...
    Zhang Huan's installation of a forlorn railway carriage commemorates the unimaginable scope of a cataclysmic natural event... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Dream On: The Mysteries of the Sleeping Mind
    Ever wondered why your dreams are so odd? Why do we dream? Why do we even sleep for that matter? Where do these dreams come from? It's a deep and complex topic that takes read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
  • Why We Have 10 Fingers And Toes
    Ever wondered why we have an exact number of digits on our hands and feet? Find out why here... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Tips For Extending Your Dog's Lifespan
    Here are five simple and easy ways to keep your puppy happy and healthy into a ripe old age! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Most Incredible Albino Animals on Earth
    They are so rare and beautiful that seeing one can take your breath away. The unintentional 'ghosts' of the natural world - genetically flawed albino animals. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

  • "No Mosque in My Backyard" Syndrome and the Perils ...
    Opposition to the "Ground Zero mosque" has emboldened Americans to oppose mosques in their own towns.
  • Iran Gains as Arabs' Obama Hopes Sink
    United States President Barack Obama has suffered a sharp drop in popularity in the Arab world over the past year, and Iran may be reaping the benefits, according to a major new survey of public opinion in five Arab countries.
  • The Gambia: A Dictator's Anti-Media War
    Since the 1994 coup d'etat that saw President Yahya Jammeh rise to power, the Gambian media has been forced to work under repressive and restrictive conditions.
  • Whose Hands? Whose Blood? Killing Civilians in Afg ...
    Consider the following statement offered by Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a news conference last week. He was discussing Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks as well as the person who has taken responsibility for the vast, still ongoing Afghan War document dump a ...
  • An Urgent Need to Stabilize Kyrgyzstan
    After ethnic rioting erupted in Kyrgyzstan this summer, continued international engagement in the country is crucial to reduce the likelihood that violence will break out again, causing more casualties and unpredictable consequences for regional stability.

Global Elite

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Green Inc. - NYT

  • 8,000 People? E.P.A. Defers Hearing on Fracking
    Onondaga County officials express concern that they were not given enough time to prepare security in anticipation of rallies and protests.
  • No-Fishing Area Shrinks in Gulf
    Since July 3, no oil has been observed in the area, federal officials say.
  • The Lessons of Copenhagen
    Ban Ki-moon reports progress on a limited number of issues, including deforestation, sharing of technology and financial payments to poorer nations from the developed world to help them overcome the effects of climate change.
  • Beyond Fossil Fuels: Costs and Benefits
    The cost-benefit analysis for renewable energy varies, depending on the technology used, and also depends strongly on highly local factors like the abundance of wind or sunshine.
  • On Our Radar: Russia's Heat Wave
    Scanning the scientific record, meteorologists find no heat wave to parallel Russia's current one in the last 1,000 years.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • First Amendment issue of our Time; Google & Verizo ...
    Currently the Internets, at the lowest level, is a freeway. That is, when I want to get traffic from site A B or C, there is no corporate toll structure slowing my traffic down. But obviously, the owners of the telecom pipes, and increasingly the bigger, more monopolistic and oligopoly-friendly play ...
  • Heads Up to Quigley's Apex: Bank of International ...
    From the shadier side of Switzerland comes the bank where the Nazis put plenty of dental gold they pillaged... Now with another gold-related operation for the 21st Century! One of the shadiest institutions in the world, the obscure Bank of International Settlements, was initially set up in 19 ...
  • An affordable price
    Goldman Sachs Settlement 'Victory' Ushers Change to Wall Street BusinessWeek - ‎1 hour ago‎ July 16 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s $550 million settlement with US regulators yesterday will benefit the firm by ending three months of uncertainty at an affordable price. ****** Another nice ...
  • Food autonomy and building resilient communities i ...
    I got a few new followers from the Oakland/Bay Area after the tweets & post on the protest & stuff that went down after the Oscar Grant verdict. Police and state violence in many urban areas is an ongoing structural product of the way things are run in places like the Bay Area and other cities, but ...
  • Hot night in Oakland: Oscar Grant killed by Mehser ...
    NadiartTwo : RT @ phyrecracker : Once the protest is labelled as a riot it's time for pocs to keep it movin #oscargrant "riots" began before they started. A good point there. Kind of like how the Toronto police recently parked a couple cars in front of the ragin' black bloc and vanishe ...

Daily Censored

  • Fed begins monetizing the deficit – buying US Trea ...
    By Numerian The Federal Reserve, in announcing the results of this week’s meeting of the Open Market Committee, surprised the market by revealing it will begin purchasing US Treasury notes and bonds with the principal income it receives from its vast holdings of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage s ...
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    CENSORED IN 1994: AMERICAâS DEADLY DOCTORS The trust Americans put into their doctors may be sorely misplaced. According to estimates, five to ten percent of doctors — some 30,000 to 60,000 — could be hazardous to your health. A study by Public Citizenâs Health Research Group concluded that medi ...
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    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.

PDA AMERICA

  • Video: TimDeChristopher, on trial for defending t ...
    bout Tim DeChristopher… In December 2008, Tim DeChristopher disrupted an oil and gas auction to allay further climate change. By registering as a bidder, Tim drove up prices on many parcels and eventually won over a ...
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    Kalb, Segal and Tudor Endorsed by Progressive Democrats of America Last Thursday on the Inside the Party conference call, PDA awarded our national endorsement to three great progressive Democrats running for Congress: Larry Kalb in Washington’s ...
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    On this call we ratified the national endorsement of the following candidates: 1) David Segal (RI-01) who has been endorsed by RIPDA chapter under Brian Hull's leadership. 2) Larry Kalb (WA-02) who has been endorsed by ...
  • Deja vu all over again!
    From Cleveland to Congress via Arizona At the PDA Grassroots Leadership Conference in Cleveland, Salvador Reza, co-founder of Puente Arizona, spoke about Arizona’s regressive immigration bill SB 1070 and the growing movement to prevent its enforcement. ...
  • Property Rights and Public Accommodations
    Property Rights and Public Accommodations Ernest Partridge, Co-Editor The Crisis Papers July 28, 2010 � In the early sixties, the young black students in the South had had enough. Enough separate drinking fountains, enough all-night drives because no motel would provide a room, and ...

Marler Blog

  • Fresh Express Announces Recall of Veggie Lovers Sa ...
    According to a Press Release - Fresh Express is voluntarily recalling 2,825 cases of Veggie Lovers Salad with a Product Code of I208 and Use-by Date of August 10, 2010 out of an abundance of caution due to a possible health risk from Listeria monocytogenes. No other Fresh Express salads are include ...
  • Survey of State Raw Milk Product Regulations
    Over the last months we have been following the in and out of state raw milk regulations.� I thought I would share the thirteen pages as a link here - Survey of State Raw Milk Product Regulations .� I would appreciate any comments or corrections.
  • Taco Bell Salmonella Outbreak - Perhaps Ingredient ...
    Last week I gave a speech at IAFP - "Is Ingredient a 10-letter word for financial disaster?" At the time we had been monitoring what appeared to be a nationwide Salmonella outbreak involving two rare strains – Baildon and Hartford. We were somewhat unclear as to the source, but several of the peopl ...
  • Outbreaks, illnesses and recalls linked to raw (un ...
    So far since January there have been 15 recalls and/or outbreaks involving raw milk products sickening 101 people. �There have also been 3 recalls and/or outbreaks involving pasteurized milk Queso fresco cheese sickening 5. � Download full chart with references.
  • Fast Food Maven weighs in on Salmonella Taco Bell
    I spoke to Ms. Luna a hour or so ago about “Irvine-based Taco Bell [being] the prime suspect in a nationwide food scare that has sickened more than 150 people in 21 states."   Her story in part : The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said victims were made ill with two rare strains of salm ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 08.11.10
    VW admits diesel hybrids simply "dont make good business sense" Harsh reality. Rightwing pundits attack the Volt, which forces Fox to change definition of who's "rich" What's $200,000 mean a ...
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    Report: Nissan dealer expected to sell Leaf $1,000 below MSRP Competition could make it happen. Is Obama administration hampering auto industry's progress by focusing on EVs? It's the whole ...
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    GM's Larry Nitz: finding buyers for the $41,000 Volt will be easy Confidence has never been GM's problem with this vehicle. Elon Musk rips into Nissan Leaf's "primitive" batteries The quote ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 08.06.10
    At Witz' End - Electric vehicle progress, prospects and challenges We're off to a great start, but there's a long road ahead. Tesla reports second-quarter loss of $38.5 million Will continue ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 08.05.10
    Should the Volt have direct mechanical drive of the wheels? We still don't know whether the GM engineers made the right decisions, but this is some of the thinking. Here's an idea for a bus so big you can ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Reporters' Roundtable: Security report on Black Ha ...
    We sent three reporters to the dual security conferences, Black Hat and Defcon , last week in Las Vegas. Each has a different coverage area and perspective: Elinor Mills is CNET's security reporter. Declan McCullagh covers government and policy, and Seth Rosenblatt is an editor and reviewer for C ...
  • CNET to the Rescue: Cleaning up the cable mess
    Today we get wrapped up in cables. We're talking about the best ways to manager an unruly rat's nest of data and power wires into a thing of beauty and logic. With bonus rat's nest pictures from listeners--so watch the video for the full experience. Also, questions about moving from and to Andro ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable: How to start a tech busines ...
    Today we're talking about how to start a company in 2010 and 2011. A little background: I started covering startups in 1998 at a magazine called Red Herring. I wrote a daily column about startups called Catch of the Day. Over three years, I interviewed the leaders of over 1000 companies. Most o ...
  • CNET to the Rescue: No matter where you go, here w ...
    On our show today: our favorite smartphone apps to help find stuff to do, things to eat, and people to connect with. Also, your questions and calls answered, including tips on painting laptops. But not until Josh shows off his USB-powered warning lights and a beer cooler that looks like a laptop ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable: The state of blogging
    Blogs: What are they good for? Where are they going? We have three experienced guests today to discuss. Don't miss this look into the current and future state of the blogosphere. Our guests: Anil Dash of Expert Labs , an independent nonprofit which creates new Web technologies to help policy ma ...

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!

  • Why Did Obama Fire Dan Choi?
    “As we mark the end of America’s combat mission in Iraq,” President Barack Obama said this week, “a grateful America must pay tribute to all who served there.” He should have added “unless you’re gay,” because, despite his rhetoric, weeks earlier the commander in chief fired one of those Iraq vets: ...
  • WikiLeaks' Afghan War Diary
    Wikileaks.org has done it again, publishing thousands of classified documents about the U.S. war in Afghanistan. The website provides a secure platform for whistle-blowers to deliver documents, videos and other electronic media while maintaining anonymity. Last March it released a video shot from a ...
  • Amy Goodman on CNN's _John King, USA_
    Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman appears live from Las Vegas on CNN’s John King, USA , on Thursday, July 22nd at 7pm Eastern Time.
  • Part II: Kashmiri Journalist Basharat Peer, Author ...
    Indian troops and police have killed fifteen people in Kashmir since June, sparking widespread protests. The Indian government has imposed a strict military curfew in the area as well as a media gag order on local journalists. The international community has remained silent on the human rights abus ...
  • Deficit Doves
    Getting out of the red is the new black. Deficit hawks have swooped down on the U.S. budget. This week, they attacked unemployment benefits. Ultimately, they are going after Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid, the venerable programs once considered untouchable “third rails” of U.S. politics. Th ...

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

  • Nuclear Carriers on the Move
    An Open Letter to President Barack Obama By Arno J. Mayer, Counterpunch, August 9, 2010 Dear Mr. President: As Commander-in-Chief you have ordered the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier U.S.S. George Washington to carry out major naval exercises off the coast of Japan and the Korean Peninsula before p ...
  • The Noxious Transformation Of The Conservative Mov ...
    Days of Rage — The Noxious Transformation of the Conservative Movement into a Rabid Fringe Crusading to restore a holy social order, Tea Partiers have promoted disorder. Claiming to protect democracy, they smashed windows of elected representatives. Nation Books / By Max Blumenthal August 10, 2010 | ...
  • VANUNU
    The Guardian Jo Adetunji guardian.co.uk, Sunday 8 August 2010 Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli whistleblower who spent 18 years in jail for exposing Israel’s nuclear capabilities  was released today after completing a further three-month sentence. Vanunu, 56, a former technician at a secret nuclear pla ...
  • The End Of The Internet As We Know It?
    Google-Verizon Deal: The End of The Internet as We Know It Huff Post-  Josh Silver – President, Free Press Posted: August 5, 2010 09:26 AM For years, Internet advocates have warned of the doomsday scenario that will play out on Monday: Google and Verizon will announce a deal that the New York Times ...
  • Right-Wing Digg Conspiracy: A Lot Of Conservative ...
    A Vast Right-Wing Digg Conspiracy Expose Shows JournoList Scandal to Be a Lot of Conservative Hot Air AlterNet / By Zach Carter Take note, right-wing scandalmongers, this is what a politically motivated media conspiracy looks like. August 7, 2010 |Finally, a real media conspiracy! After weeks of rig ...

Solari

  • Quote du Jour
  • Ted Stevens and Sean O’Keefe in Alaska Plane ...
    Sean O’Keefe-------------------Ted Stevens Former Alaska Republican Senator Ted Stevens and former NASA administrator Sean O’Keefe were among seven others on a small plane that crashed monday evening in Alaska. So far, officials say that five of the nine aboard the plane died and that two are badly ...
  • Uh Oh! - Animal “Traceability” is Back
    [More proposals and meetings in the "grind down your time and resources" mode - CAF] Come to the meeting and make your voice heard! Wednesday, August 18 Crowne Plaza Madison 4402 East Washington Avenue Madison, WI 53704 Meeting on Animal Traceability (PDF) Meeting Purpose To allow the industry an ...
  • Food Inflation Coming To A Household Near You
    By Joe Weisenthal Nothing to see here, except yet another sign of the food inflation that’s the story of the moment. JPMorgan retail analyst Charles Grom reports: We recently conducted another round of supermarket pricing in Virginia comparing a 31 item like-kind basket at a Wal-Mart Supercenter, K ...
  • More Wealthy Migrate South to Avoid Tax Hikes
    By Hilary Johnson For years, wealthy retirees from high-tax states in the Northeast and Midwest have been streaming to sunny, low-tax Florida. That stream is now turning into a flood. We haven’t had a situation like this in quite a few years,â said Greg Rosica, a tax partner at Ernst & Young LLP. ...

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

  • Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
    The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign , challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
  • Brit mums strict about eco-chores
    Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
  • UK venue offers rainforest weddings
    Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project .
  • Battery recycling 'too difficult'
    The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
  • 10 green resolutions to save you money
    By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become obsol ...

Fabius Maximus

  • Judges did not discover the 14th amendment and the ...
    Summary:  A follow-up to Another American judge weakens the Republicâs foundation, responding to comments that display serious amnesia about our history. I’ve received dozens of comments saying that Judge Walker’s decision overturning Californiaâs Proposition 8 (the opinion) was equivalent t ...
  • Exaggerations and false predictions are good; trut ...
    Summary:  One reason Americans observation-orientation-decision-action loop is broken:  we love people to give us bad information.  Even outright lies are acceptable, if interesting or flattery.  As in the media trope “he was wrong, but made us think.”  Today’s example is the late Matthew Simmo ...
  • Today’s propaganda: we must fight in Afghanistan t ...
    Summary:  An amnesic American public provides easy subjects for propaganda.  Coincidentally this media campaign appears several months after a CIA memo proposing it.  Part one of a series about women as a casus belli for the Af-Pak War. America fights in Afghanistan as women’s protectors, acc ...
  • The coming “Slam Dunk” stimulus
    Summary:  Having missed the last opportunity for legislation to avert the possible double-dip in late 2010 or early 2011, rumors fly that Team Obama plans a massive unconventional stimulus.  I suspect these rumors represent the flotsam and jetsam from serious discussions held in secret. After the gl ...
  • An Appalling Threat to Civil Liberties and Democra ...
    Summary:  A guest post by Bernard Finel of the American Security Project, looking at America’s drift into a strange space, away from our traditions and principles. What is most bizarre is how many appalling practices have become essentially ânormalizedâ over the past several years.  The âwar ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Pakistan floods: supercharged jet stream ‘causing ...
    The Telegraph-A highly-charged jet stream is contributing to the worse floods Pakistan has seen in decades, meteorologists have said. The jet stream, a massive ring of high speed winds, is moving quicker than usual over north western Pakistan, causing wet monsoon air to be sucked faster and higher i ...
  • Videos indicate Israel played a role in killing of ...
    Irish Times – HIZBULLAH SECRETARY general Hassan Nasrallah has accused Israel of being behind the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri and has backed up his charges with circumstantial evidence. In a three-hour televised press conference on Monday night, Sayyed Nasrallah presen ...
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    Send an e-mail to thehistorian@openyoureyesnews.com with the subject heading “Mailing List” to receive our periodical newsletter summarising the biggest stories of the previous weeks, and also receive other updates on developments at Open Your Eyes News.
  • UK: Two million children ‘wrongly labelled’ with f ...
    The Times – More than two million children are wrongly labelled as having a food allergy and are being placed on unnecessary and potentially harmful diets, according to the NHS watchdog. The National Institute for health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) is issuing the first ever guidance to GPs on ho ...
  • Oil Industry Gets Disclosure Jolt
    Wall Street Journal – U.S. energy companies are steaming about a disclosure rule added at the last minute to the new financial regulation law requiring companies to disclose their payments to foreign governments. The provision in the Dodd-Frank law compels companies to reveal royalties, bonuses and ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Mordechai Vanunu released from Israeli prison, imp ...
    Mordechai Vanunu released from Israeli prison, imperialists and lackeys are hypocrites (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Mordechai Vanunu is the Israeli nuclear scientist who has spent a total of 18 years in prison over the years for exposing the Israeli nuclear program. He was just released after ...
  • West turns up heat on Iran
    West turns up heat on Iran (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The European Union last week imposed a new round of sanctions against Iran. E.U. foreign policy chief Lady Catherine Ashton stated that the measures “sent a powerful message” that Iran’s “nuclear program is a cause of serious and growing ...
  • Israel destroys whole Bedouin village, hundreds ho ...
    Israel destroys whole Bedouin village, hundreds homeless (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Three hundred Bedouins in the Negev desert were made homeless last Thursday as hundreds of Israeli police razed their village and demolished their homes. Chaya Noach, head of Negev Coexistence Forum for Civi ...
  • Michael Rakulski – O powstaniu arystokracji ...
    Michael Rakulski – O powstaniu arystokracji pracy (trzeciswiat.wordpress.com) âNasza epoka, epoka burżuazji, wyróżnia siÄ jednak tym, że uproÅciÅa przeciwieÅstwa klasowe. CaÅe spoÅeczeÅstwo rozszczepia siÄ coraz bardziej i bardziej na dwa wielkie wrogie obozy, na dwie wielkie wrÄcz pr ...
  • Maoism-Third Worldism on the Environment (español)
    HD-mp4 torrent title: Maoism Third Worldism On the Environment (Spanish)

PakAlert

  • 40 Bizarre Statistics That Reveal The Horrifying T ...
    Most Americans still appear to be operating under the delusion that the "recession" will soon pass and that things will get back to "normal" very soon. Unfortunately, that is not anywhere close to the truth. What we are now witnessing are the early stages of the complete and total breakdown of the ...
  • Castro Warns Of Imminent Nuclear War
    That was the purpose of the Cuban Revolution leader’s address to the Cuban parliament summoned for an extraordinary session in Havana, due to the urgency of mobilizing the world, faced with the danger of a nuclear war that would be triggered by a US-Israeli led aggression on Iran.
  • Pakistan Flood PHOTOS: HAARP Fingerprints Found Al ...
    All started suddenly and thousands died, millions displaced, hundreds of villages vanished forever in the matter of just 4 days!!...astonishingly there were no weather warnings, no alarms.. these are the worst floods in the history of Pakistan BUT no one from Global MET offices couldn't even trace w ...
  • WIKILEAKS: AN INDO-ZIONIST CONSPIRACY?
    It may be noted that among the over 92000 secret documents compiled in five years, there is not a single line written about India. The documents are silent about role of RAW, RAAM and Mossad in destabilizing Pakistan. Nobody in USA and entire western world has noticed these glaring oddities as to ho ...
  • ‘Samson Option’ and Islamic Republic
    The term ‘Samson Option’ created in the 1960s – applies to Zionist regime’s strategy of massive nuclear retaliation against its real or perceived enemies, whom it consider to be threat to its existence as ruler of Palestine and the sole representative of the world Jewish population. Like the name of ...

Andy Worthington

  • Apparently, they don’t have wireless broadband in ...
    So thatâs it, Iâll be out of touch until I tire of the pre-21st century isolation, and head into town for un caffé (o due), some dolci and somewhere with internet access. Iâm away in Italy â- a remote location in Puglia the first week, a rooftop apartment in Napoli the second — so contact [ ...
  • Will Poland’s Former Leaders Face War Crimes Charg ...
    The mainstream media in the United States (and in the UK) has ignored the release last week of documents in Poland confirming that planes chartered by the CIA flew to the site of a secret CIA prison in north eastern Poland in 2002 and 2003. The documents, released by the Polish Border Guard Office, ...
  • New Evidence About Prisoners Held in Secret CIA Pr ...
    On Friday, the Polish Border Guard Office released a number of documents to the Warsaw-based Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, which, for the first time, provide details of the number of prisoners transferred by the CIA to a secret prison in Poland between December 5, 2002 and September 22, 2003 ...
  • UK Judges Endorse Double Standards on Terror Depor ...
    Last Thursday, in a little-noticed ruling in the Court of Appeal, three judges — Lord Justice Jacob, Lord Justice Sullivan and Sir David Keene — turned down appeals submitted by eight foreign nationals against the Home Secretaryâs decision to deport them âon grounds of national security.â The ...
  • Take Action for Ahmed Belbacha, at Risk of Enforce ...
    Since the US Supreme Court ruled on July 17 that there was no legal obstacle to the involuntary repatriation of Algerians at Guantánamo, and one man, Abdul Aziz Naji, was promptly flown back to Algiers, opponents of a ruling that saw the Supreme Court playing as fast and loose with the UN Convention ...

Environment _ National Geographic

  • Wildfire Pictures: Russia Burns, Moscow Chokes
    NoneThe worst known Russian heat wave is fueling hundreds of fires across the country and driving up Moscow's death rate. See just how bad it is. Russia - Moscow - Heat wave - Mortality rate - Travel and Tourism
  • Gulf Spill Still Threatens Millions of Migrating B ...
    Despite the BP Gulf spill cap, millions of migrating birds this fall, and for years to come, may face oil threats—starvation in particular. Video. BP - Oil spill - Bird migration - Environment - Oil
  • Photos: Ten Most Wanted "Extinct" Amphibians
    NoneFrom the golden toad to the Turkestanian salamander—the quest begins for the ten likely extinct amphibian species conservationists most want to rediscover. Amphibian - Species - Salamander - Biology - Flora and Fauna
  • Ice Island Breaks off Greenland; Bigger Than Manha ...
    Four times bigger than Manhattan, a new ice chunk calved from the Petermann glacier may represent the biggest glacial collapse in recorded history. Greenland - Glacier - Manhattan - Petermann Glacier - University of Delaware
  • Oyster Herpes: Latest Symptom of Global Warming?
    Don't worry—it isn't a side effect of eating oysters. But a virulent new herpes strain could continue spreading as seas warm, experts say.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • "Does Probate = Masterb-te," or "Are We Getting Je ...
    What's the deal with this primary for Probate Judge? Have you ever seen such energy put into an election campaign (Oops - I mean other than this spring's budget referendum)? Why are New Milford Republicans putting so much energy behind Judge Marty? Who stands to lose here - probate should be pretty ...
  • When we have a fire...
    The flames are going about twenty five feet in the air right now. If there is one thing every Boy Scout knows how to do? Start a really BIG FIRE.
  • The view from here
    My perspective as we wrap up the Bloggers meet up with Rep. Rosa DeLauro. Video coming soon.
  • Loving Books, Libraries, and the Internet
    If you read certain local blogs, or letters to the editor of local papers, you may notice a recurring theme from some disgruntled citizens. Libraries, and the books they contain, are our enemy. (Who knew?) And the best way to save money and preserve democracy from socialism is to stop buying books ...
  • Boston Tea Party Punked
    Buzzfeed has a whole bunch of signs from the Boston Common Tea Party getting punked but here are a few for your viewing pleasure:

SPL Center

  • Alleged Serial Killer was Member of Neo-Nazi Natio ...
    William Dathan Holbert, who was arrested last week in Nicaragua along with his girlfriend, Laura Michelle Reese, has reportedly confessed to killing five Americans so he could take over their businesses and other properties in a Panamanian resort area. Holbert, a native North Carolinian, has so far ...
  • Black-on-Latino Hate Crimes Broil Staten Island
    It has been an agonizing summer for Latino residents of Staten Island. Since April, there have been 11 known instances of racially motivated violence against Latinos in the New York City borough, most of it taking place in the economically depressed Mexican-immigrant neighborhood of Port Richmond. T ...
  • Prime Islam-Basher Pam Geller Outdone by Colleague
    As head of New York-based Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA), “Atlas Shrugs” blogger Pamela Geller has certainly gotten her share of publicity, thanks to her inflammatory rhetoric and stunts like wearing a bathing suit four years ago to make a videotaped harangue about Palestinian terrorists. G ...
  • Another Long, Hot Black Nationalist Summer at Fox ...
    It must be July, because Fox News is once again hyperventilating over a racially charged non-story. One year ago, it was Glenn Beckâs crusade against Van Jones, the White House environmental advisor who, the host charged, day after day and against all available evidence, was a black nationalist us ...
  • Expanding A3P Absorbs Another Hate Group
    The American Third Position (A3P), a fledgling but important Southern California-based white supremacist political party, has expanded its base by merging with another relatively new racist and anti-Semitic organization. The latter group, the New Jersey-based League of American Patriots (LOAP), was ...

change: org.

  • Big Coal Wants To Mine Away Dark History at 1920s ...
    Have you ever heard of the Battle of Blair Mountain? Neither had I, despite its being the largest armed conflict on American soil since the Civil War and the largest labor confrontation ever. Well the Appalachian coal industry wants to keep it that way, as the Los Angeles Times reports . In fact, no ...
  • Newt Gingrich: Straight Adultery Fine, Gay Marriag ...
    There's that old cliché, "Do as I say, don't do as I do." For Newt Gingrich, that's not just a cliché. It's practically a life motto. At least if you believe what Gingrich's ex-wife, Marianne, has to say in a new Esquire profile . Newt, who has been married three times and openly cheated on his firs ...
  • Strippers Protest Ohio Church With Super Soakers a ...
    Dancers at the Foxhole strip club in Ohio complain that a church has protested outside their venue for years, offering unwanted "salvation," harassing customers, and calling the women who work there and club owner various insulting names. So far, nothing too out of the ordinary for religious extremi ...
  • A Transgender Woman Fights for Straight Marriage R ...
    In Hong Kong, transgender individuals can undergo hormone therapy and a sex change operation subsidized by the government. It sounds like a dream to trans folks in other countries, where expensive sex change operations are not even included in most health insurance plans. But while eliminating some ...
  • Senate Raids Food Stamps — Again
    As blogger Greg Plotkin has just reported , the Senate has once again decided that food stamp benefits should be cut to help pay for an otherwise worthy, though overly stingy piece of legislation. First, it was the two-part jobs amendment . Now it's the bill (pdf) to reauthorize the Child Nutrition ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Greenland Ice Sheet Faces 'Tipping Point in 10 Yea ...
    by Suzanne Goldenberg WASHINSTON - The entire ice mass of Greenland will disappear from the world map if temperatures rise by as little as 2C, with severe consequences for the rest of the world, a panel of scientists told Congress today. Greenland shed its largest chunk of ice in nearly half a c ...
  • House Passes State Aid Bill; Obama Signs into Law
    by Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved, and President Barack Obama promptly signed into law, an election-year bill providing $26 billion to struggling states by closing tax loopholes for multinational companies and cutting food aid to the poor. The Democratic-c ...
  • Former US Senator Stevens, Others Killed in Alaska ...
    WASHINGTON – Legendary former US Senator Ted Stevens was killed when a small plane carrying nine people slammed into a remote Alaska mountainside leaving five passengers dead, officials said. Stevens, 86, the longest-serving Republican in Senate history before being voted out of office in 2 ...
  • U.S. Supersizes Afghan Mega-Base as Withdrawal Dat ...
    by Spencer Ackerman BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan - Anyone who thinks the United States is really going to withdraw from Afghanistan in July 2011 needs to come to this giant air base an hour away from Kabul. There's construction everywhere. It's exactly what you wouldn't expect from a transient p ...
  • Target Faces More Heat Over Political Donation
    by Tom Webb Randi Reitan planned to spend Friday caring for her grandchildren. But something came up: She had to lead a protest against Target Corp. Reitan, of Eden Prairie, has become the public face in a growing controversy over a $150,000 Target political contribution. When she heard Target ...

Lifehacker

  • Save Significant Cash and Keep the HD Video with a ...
    Starting with a post on Lifehacker pointing to a guide for building a long-distance HDTV antenna , reader Jeff Chastain started on a DIY journey that's left him with a great HD signal and a lot more money in his pocket. More�� ...
  • Use Character Tags to Remember Bookmark Keywords [ ...
    We've sung the praises of the art of keyword bookmarking before, but the number of keywords in your setup can quickly get out of control. Reader Swc oxcart shows us an easy way to keep track of all your bookmark keywords. More�� ...
  • Caffeine Dependency is Easier to Develop Than You ...
    If you've read up on how caffeine affects your brain , you know it's easy for daily fixes to become necessary rather than energizing. One coffee-loving writer details how hard it is to measure your intake, given the nature of coffee and soda. ...
  • Use Maximus to Go Full-Screen in Ubuntu [Distracti ...
    Ubuntu's Netbook remix offers a one-app-at-a-time, no-border view that readers like Duane find very handy. You can get a similar no-menu, no-border effect by quickly installing the package "maximus" in the plain old Ubuntu Linux desktop. Mo ...
  • Silent Boot Quiets Android Boot-Up Sounds [Downloa ...
    Android only: If you're fairly sick of hearing your phone announce itself as a "Drooiiiiiid" or make other sounds during boot-up, Silent Boot is the handy single-use fix. It's an app that mutes your phone when shutting down, then un-mutes afte ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Serial Denial and the Permanent War System
    By Gareth Porter Two months ago, I wrote that the Obama administration and the U.S. command in Afghanistan faced an “Iraq 2006 moment” in the second half of 2010 – a collapse of domestic political support for a failed war paralleling the political crisis of Bush’s Iraq War in 2006. Now comes Republi ...
  • War Crimes In Afghanistan...Who Is Accountable?
    By Steve Hynd Amnesty International rightly says that Taliban members who perpetrate atrocities should be charged with war crimes. But it's method for that accountability would have wider implications (emphasis mine): "The Taliban and other insurgents are becoming far bolder in their systematic kill ...
  • Invitees to President Obama’s UT-Austin Speech: Ge ...
    By Derrick Crowe Today, President Obama came to my town to give an invite-only speech at the University of Texas. Lacking an invite, I wondered what people with invites had to say about the Afghanistan War. What I found is reflected in the video above. All the people who had tickets to the event who ...
  • Iran Sanctions and...Afghanistan
    By Steve Hynd Kevin Drum passed on a piece from the LA Times today that suggests sanctions on Iran aren't working out too well. Efforts by the United States and its European allies to build a united front to halt Iran's nuclear program are facing increasingly bold resistance from China, Russia, Indi ...
  • Terrible Crime, Faulty Narrative
    By Steve Hynd The big Afghanistan news today is the robbery and execution of 10 NGO medical workers in the Northern province of Badakhshan. By any account, it's a heinous crime against humanity. The group — a medical team of six Americans, a Briton, a German and four Afghans — had just finished eati ...

Water Wars

  • Rockford River Days...let the countdown begin
    The city of Rockford is preparing of its annual celebration "River Days" which runs Friday, Aug. 13 through Sunday, Aug. 15, in Riverside Park in downtown Rockford (most events).
  • Shovel ready
    In its early years, it was mired amid allegations of collusion. More recently, it has been deemed unnecessary at times as well as a detriment to the environment, seen as a savior to regional water woes during the recent drought and a burden during the current harsh economic times.
  • Shovel ready
    In its early years, it was mired amid allegations of collusion. More recently, it has been deemed unnecessary at times as well as a detriment to the environment, seen as a savior to regional water woes during the recent drought and a burden during the current harsh economic times.
  • Wildlife habitat a major investment
    "Grass is not just grass," says Stephen Smith, president of the Morgan County Chapter of Pheasants Forever.
  • Rockford River Days...let the countdown begin
    The city of Rockford is preparing of its annual celebration "River Days" which runs Friday, Aug. 13 through Sunday, Aug. 15, in Riverside Park in downtown Rockford (most events).

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

  • Personal Information: episode 24
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy: Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
  • Arguments against life extension
    Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate tow ...
  • Daddy, where does innovation come from?
    Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor that h ...
  • Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
    Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of years ...
  • How to be a futurist
    The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...] Follow ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • U.S. Security Vulnerabilities at Nuclear Labs Not ...
    “Sad to say, Russia has it right,” observes Glenn Walp, the former Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner hired by the Los Alamos National Lab to improve lab security post-9/11, about allegations from Russia’s Foreign Ministry that the U.S. has violated dozens...
  • Agency Meant to Increase DoD Cost Savings Cut Beca ...
    The Pentagon agency that outsourced thought leadership will be no more if Defense Secretary Robert Gates gets his way: The Business Transformation Agency was formally established in 2006 to foster the reform and modernization of this department's business practices. Since...
  • Morning Smoke: Could the Government's Natural Gas ...
    by Kate Sheppard []
  • Out of Many, One Database: Fixing a Weakness in a ...
    POGO is all for the recently proposed National Institutes of Health (NIH) rule that would require each university and medical school in the NIH's extramural program to publicly disclose the financial arrangements of its taxpayer-funded researchers. There are notorious examples...
  • Rep. Issa Challenges SEC on FOIA Exemptions
    On Friday, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent a letter to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Mary Schapiro challenging her on the need for blanket FOIA exemptions in the financial overhaul legislation, and...

Digital Journal

  • Winery of Mission Hill, Okanagan Valley, BC
    Mission Hill is a special place very famous in central Okanagan Valley. The catching phrase of “the New World wine region” can easily bring anyone here who will take a short drive off Hwy 97, the main communication vein of the region.
  • Six days after accident Chilean miners still trapp ...
    Today, six days since the cave-in of a tunnel in a copper and gold mine buried 33 mining workers near the city of Copiapó in the Atacama Desert, intense efforts to contact and rescue the workers have not succeeded.
  • Sexually abused former inmate in Canada sues gover ...
    A class action lawsuit is demanding compensation for inmates at the former Lower Mainland Regional Correctional Centre (Oakalla) in Burnaby who were the victims of a staff sexual predator.
  • Escort robbed in Toronto
    A Toronto escort was robbed when she opened her apartment door for a pre-arranged date with a man on Tuesday evening in the downtown core.
  • Marko Pandurevic still being sought by police
    On Saturday, July 31 police responded to a murder at an apartment at 12 St. Dennis Drive in Toronto. Since that time they have been looking for Marko Pandurevic as a murder suspect.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • New Law Finally Recognizes That Crack and Cocaine ...
    Finally some good news for both drug treatment and poverty advocates. On August 3, President Obama signed legislation that reduces sentencing disparities between persons arrested for the possession of crack and those arrested with cocaine. It took 23 years, but the powers that be are finally realizi ...
  • Meet a Teen Mom Turning Her Life Around
    This new video comes from Mark's InvisiblePeople.tv  30-city, 11,000-mile, 75-day road trip , going on now. Raquel has been homeless since 17. She's now 19, and this is her first week trying to get her life back together by living in a youth homeless shelter in Denver, Colorado. Raquel made some bad ...
  • Help Us Crown the NIMBY Capital of the United Stat ...
    For the past week, the writers on this blog — a diverse group that includes current and formerly homeless individuals, social workers, a shelter director, a professor of peace studies and more — have been united against a common enemy: NIMBYism, or the prevailing attitude of "not in my backyard" tha ...
  • Witness the Generational Cycle of Heroin Addiction
    This new video comes from Mark's InvisiblePeople.tv  30-city, 11,000-mile, 75-day road trip , going on now. As I watch Shawn's story I cannot help but think of the disclaimer on the header of InvisiblePeople.tv that says, "Caution: Some content may be offensive. Our hope is you'll get mad enough to ...
  • Animal Houseless: The Rise in Homeless College Stu ...
    College students have always struggled to make ends meet, often working part-time jobs while juggling a full-load of classes. But colleges like UCLA, one of the most expensive and prestigious in the country, are seeing an increase in students who are also juggling homelessness. Antonio Sandoval, hea ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • New UN Report: Afghan Civilian Deaths on the Rise
    According to a new UN report, the number of civilian casualties for the first six months of 2010 was 1,271 deaths, up from 1,013 deaths that occurred in the first six months of 2009.  (A recent Afghan human rights agency report put the total civilians killed between January and July at 1,325). The p ...
  • New strategy ideas in U.S. peace movement
    Peace activists from around the United States gathered in Albany, NY in July to discuss a new comprehensive strategy for peace activism in the U.S. “The plan includes a new focus and some promising proposals for building a coalition that includes the labor movement, civil rights groups, students, an ...
  • August 6 is Hiroshima Day
    Sixty-five years ago, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The blast killed 80,000 people immediately, and injured 70,000 more. Tens of thousands of others died in the years that followed from the effects of radiation. Three days later, a second nuclear bomb w ...
  • Countdown to Zero - the Movie
    Countdown to Zero reveals the truth behind an issue on which human survival itself hangs - the very real possibility of nuclear disaster. From the producers of An Inconvenient Truth, Countdown is a chilling wake up call about the urgency of the nuclear threat.
  • Global cluster bomb ban takes effect August 1st
    A global treaty that bans the use of cluster bombs, a weapon containing multiple â often hundreds â of small explosive submunitions or bomblets, will take effect today, August 1st, when the treaty, signed by 107 countries, becomes legally binding. Steve Goose, who is the co-chair of the Cluster ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 8-10-10
    Everything Kevin: Become An Insider! Support Kevin! Kevin is on YouTube! Sign Up For Kevinâs FREE Podcast Follow Kevin on Twitter Become Kevinâs Friend on Facebook Kevin’s Film Club Kevin’s Book Club Take Trudeau on the Go! Click here to download this show to your iPod, mp3 player, or PC throu ...
  • Biofuels Emit 400% More Than Regular Fuels
    August 10, 2010 Natural News By: Ethan A. Huff A recent report issued by the European Union has revealed that biofuels, or fuel made from living, renewable sources, is not really all that beneficial to the environment. Rather than reduce the net carbon footprint as intended, biofuels can produce ...
  • FDA Admits Millions Prescribed Unapproved Drugs By ...
    August 10, 2010 Natural News By: David Gutierrez In 2009 alone, more than four million prescriptions were written for nitroglycerin tablets that had not been approved by the FDA, the agency has said, representing 80 percent of all prescriptions written. Nitroglycerin tablets are commonly prescrib ...
  • Vitamin D Improves Overall Immune Function
    August 10, 2010 Natural News By: Ethan A. Huff A recent study out of the University of Tampere in Finland has found that vitamin D helps to prevent respiratory infections. In the study, supplementing with vitamin D resulted in more than half the participants who took it staying healthy throughout ...
  • White Button Mushrooms Enhance The Immune System
    August 10, 2010 Natural News By: S.L. Baker Scientists have long known that certain types of mushrooms have anti-tumor activity. But what about widely available, common white button mushrooms (WBMs)? Known by the botanical name Agaricus bisporus, they are a tasty addition to everything from salad ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • Stephan Salisbury: extremism at Ground Zero (again ...
    Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com Hand it to Muslim terrorists, at least when it comes to truly long-term planning and the Fourteenth Amendment — according to Texas Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert.  On the floor of the House of Representatives, he recently offered the following expl ...
  • The Israeli bastion of fear
    The prefix anti- has become tarnished — no longer the signal of vital dissent. To be anti-war is to be dismissed as belonging to an ineffectual movement that paraded its political impotence until the marching lost all conviction and withered away. To be anti-American or anti-Israel is to be condemne ...
  • Remembering Tony Judt: 1948-2010
    “The problem with Israel, in short, is not — as is sometimes suggested — that it is a European ‘enclave’ in the Arab world; but rather that it arrived too late. It has imported a characteristically late-nineteenth-century separatist project into a world that has moved on, a world of individual right ...
  • America’s wars of indifference
    David Bromwich writes: Something is rotten in our democracy. Like a family where everything goes wrong and nobody says a word, we suffer a load of unasked questions that have under them still more questions. Do Americans always need a war? That is a first question. It did not seem so before 2001. A ...
  • What happened before we left Afghanistan
    “What Happens if We Leave Afghanistan” predicts the latest Time magazine cover, yet Time has not mastered a new art — taking photographs of the future. The image reflects what has happened under our watch and rather than representing the dreadful fate for Afghan women should the US and its allies pr ...

Watts Up With That?

  • NASA to get a GRIP on hurricane formation
    NASA’s Hurricane Global Hawk Grail Quest In less than two weeks, NASA scientists will begin their quest for the holy grail of hurricane research. The exact conditions required to kickstart a tropical depression into a hurricane largely remain a mystery. … Continue reading →
  • More Gunsmoke, This Time In Nepal
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I read the excellent and interesting guest post by Marc Hendrickx about the IPCC and the Himalayas. My first big surprise was the size of the claimed warming. He cites IPCC Table 10.2 which says: … Continue reading →
  • Perseid meteor shower under way, peaks Thursday
    You know it’s a good night when a beautiful alignment of planets is the second best thing that’s going to happen. Thursday, August 12th, is such a night. The show begins at sundown when Venus, Saturn, Mars and the crescent … Continue reading →
  • Gore concedes, National Wildlife Federation calls ...
    Gore concedes on climate this year By Steve Milloy GreenHellBlog, August 10, 2010 Speaking about the likelihood of climate bill being passed by Congress in 2010, Al Gore told a conference call of supporters tonight that, âthis battle has not been … Continue reading →
  • Klotzbach on: Atlantic Hurricane Season Analysis
    Guest post by: Dr. Philip Klotzbach,  Research Scientist, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University As an author on the Colorado State University (CSU) seasonal hurricane forecast, I read with interest the blog regarding âGlobal Tropical Cyclone Activity still at … Continue rea ...

Dandelion Salad

  • US Military Threat Against Iran
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ PressTVGlobalNews | August 09, 2010 Press TV-Iran Today-US Military Threat Against Iran -08-06-2010(Part1) Press TV-Iran Today-US Military Threat Against Iran -08-06-2010(Part2) see Targeting Iran: Is the US Administration Planning a Nuclear Holocaust? by Michel ...
  • Something’s Wrong Somewhere: Pimps, Whores and the ...
    By Gary Corseri Featured Writer Dandelion Salad August 9, 2010 âSomethingâs wrong somewhereâ –Clifford Odets (âGolden Boy,â 1937) âSomethingâs wrong somewhereâ –William Saroyan (âMy Heartâs in the Highlands,â 1939) Itâs unlikely that Michelle or Barack Obama have read or give ...
  • Hurrah for Hugo Chavez By Mike Whitney
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Mike Whitney Information Clearing House August 09, 2010 It’s no fun being on Washington’s enemies list. Just ask Hugo Chavez. Last week, the Venezuelan president had to cancel a trip to Cuba after he was told that a coup was underway and his life was in danger ...
  • Venezuela pushes for peace By Coral Wynter
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Posted with permission from Green Left Weekly By Coral Wynter, Caracas Green Left Weekly Sunday, August 1, 2010 On July 29, the leaders of the 12 countries belonging to the Union of the Southern Nations (Unasur) held an emergency meeting in Quito, Ecuador, to dis ...
  • Truth In Labeling: It’s “Anti-Empire”& ...
    by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad August 9, 2010 photo by Dandelion Salad Not ‘ Anti War ‘ . You see, labeling is very important when products are involved. Yes, each time our government introduces a new product as an extension of its empire, labeling is involved. They have sold ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    "Mommy! Get The Oil Off!" By Darryl Mason Fucking hell. Thousands of Americans are swimming around in this toxic shit : Morons like this guy below are telling Americans it's okay to swim, and to take their children swimming, and for people from other states to come and swim in this oily stick ...
  • No title
    "Today, I Weep For My Country" Senator Robert Byrd was called everything from a traitor to treasonous, anti-American to Saddam comfort giver for this incredible, powerful speech the night American bombs began to slam in Baghdad, back in March 2003. Senator Byrd was right, of course, about almost e ...
  • No title
    Police violence against Sydney anti-war protesters 2004 - 2007 : The song is Prisoner Of Society by The Living End.
  • No title
    If Robots Design Their Own Religion, We Should Probably Evacuate The Planet By Darryl Mason Very impressive early generation of a homecare robot, loaded with sensors and wi -fi : Not only can this robot get back up when knocked over, this story claims it as the first robot capable of recognisi ...
  • No title
    "Go Get Drums! GO!" I could give you a detailed round up of world events, dramatic as they've been, I could compile a list of communities whose livelihood has been destroyed, for the foreseeable future, along hundreds of miles of American coastline, I could introduce you to yet more evidence that w ...

Wired - Science

  • Asteroid Crater Hunting From Your Home
    Just days after a Google Earth–aided discovery of a meteor impact was announced in Science, yet another crater has been found using Google Maps and open-access software. The age of armchair crater hunting has arrived. Physicist Amelia Sparavigna of Politecnico di Torino in Italy found a 6-mile-wide ...
  • Russian Heat, Asian Floods May Be Linked
    Russia’s killer heat wave and monster South Asian monsoon floods could be more than isolated examples of extreme weather. Though separated by a continent, they could be linked. Monsoon rains drive air upward, and that air has to come down somewhere. It usually comes down over the Mediterranean, pro ...
  • Russian Fires Approach Nuclear Plants
    Russia is, at the time of writing, being consumed by wildfires caused by the worst heatwave the country has endured in a millennia. A state of emergency has been declared in 35 regions of the country — seven for the fires themselves, and another 28 for crop failures caused by the [...]
  • Removing a Barrier to Regrowing Organs
    Disabling an evolutionary backup plan for protecting against cancer could be part of a future means to regrow lost limbs or regenerate damaged organs. A protein called ARF, which acts as a fail-safe mechanism to protect against cancer, also prevents regeneration in mammals, a study published August ...
  • Science + Geek + Beer = Awesomely Geeky Science Be ...
    << previous image | next image >> SAN FRANCISCO — What do you get if you cross a beer geek with a science geek? Really good beers with really geeky names. I’ve already proven the connection between beer and geologists, but the number of brews out there with awesomely geeky s ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Jonathan Cook: US arms ‘bonanza’ in Middle East
    Two of the US closest allies in the ME, Israel and Saudi Arabia, are on the brink of signing large arms deals with the US in a move designed to ratchet up the pressure on Iran, according to defence... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Chris Hedges: The Tears of Gaza Must Be Our Tears
    I would like to remind [Israelis] that it is they who hide in darkness. It is we who stand in the light. It is they who deceive. It is we who openly proclaim our compassion and demand justice for... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Amira Hass: A soldier’s word
    The violence of the occupier is the norm that no one questions, so much so that it becomes invisible. Only the response to that norm is presented and perceived as criminal, and the occupying nation... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Midnight on the Mavi Marmara (new book)
    Henning Mankell, aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla: "We have been attacked while in international waters. That means the Israelis have behaved like pirates … The moment they start to steer this ship... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • US to Sell F-15s to Saudis
    The Obama administration plans to sell advanced F-15 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia but won't equip them with long-range weapons systems and other arms whose inclusion was strongly opposed by Israel,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Rate of Health-Care Associated MRSA Infections Dec ...
    An analysis of data from 2005 through 2008 of nine metropolitan areas in the U.S. indicates that health care-associated invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections decreased among patients with infections that began in the community or in the hospital, according to a study ...
  • Osteoporosis Drugs do not Increase Risk of Esophag ...
    Although some reports have suggested a link between the use of oral bisphosphonates (drugs that prevent the loss of bone mass) and esophageal cancer, analysis of medical data from more than 80,000 patients in the United Kingdom found that use of these drugs was not significantly associated with new ...
  • Prevalence of Eye Disorder High Among Older U.S. A ...
    Nearly 30 percent of U.S. adults with diabetes over the age of 40 are estimated to have diabetic retinopathy, with about 4 percent of this population having vision-threatening retinopathy, according to a study in the August 11 issue of JAMA.
  • Visits to Emergency Departments Increases in Recen ...
    From 1997 to 2007, the rates of visits to emergency departments in the U.S. increased significantly, particularly among adults with Medicaid, according to a study in the August 11 issue of JAMA.
  • Analysis Finds Sunscreens Containing Retinyl Palmi ...
    Despite previous concerns about the cancer-causing potential of sunscreens containing retinyl palmitate (vitamin A), an independent analysis published online in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology determined that there is no evidence that the inclusion of retinyl palmitate in sunscree ...

Natural Health News

  • More Proof that Whittling Your Waist Adds Years to ...
    Having a large waist circumference has previously been associated with inflammation, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, abnormal cholesterol levels and heart disease. But a new report in the August 9/23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine indicates that individuals with a large waist circumfere ...
  • FDA Warns: This Hot Flash Medicine Can Cause Prema ...
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning that children exposed to a drug prescribed to menopausal women for hot flashes has the potential to cause premature breast development in girls, and breast enlargement in boys. According to an FDA advisory, Evamist is a topical drug that contains est ...
  • First Wild Canola Plants with Modified Genes Found ...
    Two young scientists at the University of Arkansas have stumbled upon wild canola that have genetically modified genes – meaning they have cross-bred on their own with laboratory-created, herbicide-resistant plants. Graduate student Meredith Schafer told Newswise.com that she and Cynthia Sagers spo ...
  • The Real Scoop on California Whooping Cough -- Usi ...
    Inaccurate and misleading information about B. pertussis whooping cough and the pertussis vaccine is being spread by the very people who should know better – medical doctors and public health officials. High-profile physicians such as NBC’s chief medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman are saying at lea ...
  • Could Staying Up Too Late Be the Cause of Your Hig ...
    When the circadian rhythm gets thrown off, it could come with an unexpected side effect: high triglycerides. New research on mice whose internal “clocks” don’t function has helped scientists understand the normal rise and fall in triglycerides, which happens at about the same time each day. Accordi ...

Antemedius

  • Dear Mr. Gibbs
    Do you really think that with this kind of rhetoric and then the non-apology walk back , that you are going to win the hearts and votes of the Left, the Independents and Moderate Republicans? Come on, Bob. Do you even recognize the man in the Oval Office as being the same man from the campaign tr ...
  • Shorter Gibbs: Left Wing Pressure is Working
    No one likes to have to do all of the work of changing paradigms in the middle of the stream. When Obama took office, the voters had had enough of Republicans. But as a nation we were still trapped in the very powerful cultural and political atmosphere of fear imposed by the Republicans after 9/11. ...
  • Future? What Future? Where Did It Go?
    These are three of the cheerful passages in the article. If you've never read the whole thing I'd recommend it... The Delusion Revolution: We're on the Road to Extinction and in Denial By Robert Jensen Imagine that you are riding comfortably on a sleek train. You look out the window and see that ...
  • Washington 'Protecting' Iraq From...Washington
    In a perhaps unintentional and obtuse twist of sardonic wit and possibly complete unawareness of the irony of his own words, Commander of United States Forces - Iraq (USF-I) General Ray Odierno said on Sunday in an interview with ABC's Christiane Amanpour that the 50,000 US troops that will remain i ...
  • If We Raise The Retirement Age, Millions More Will ...
    Dad, Uncle Otho, Uncle Kenny, all died before they were 70, Mom and my mother-in-law are both likely to die before that age as well. They all died relatively young for various reasons, but none of them lived to see the retirement age radical Republicans like Minority Leader John Boehner and his econ ...

Climategate

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks more tr ...
    ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
  • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
    What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoking g ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Report ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of global wa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

  • Ruth Wedgwood on Rwanda’s Faux Democracy
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Hell must have had central air conditioning installed, because I find myself in complete agreement with Ruth Wedgwood’s recent post at EJIL: Talk! on Paul Kagame’s rapid descent into authoritarianism.  Here is a snippet: The Westâs failure to address Tut ...
  • Chevron’s Explosive Filing on Collusion Between Pl ...
    by Roger Alford The ongoing saga regarding Chevron’s legal travails in Ecuador took an interesting twist this week. As I reported earlier , Chevron has secured key outtakes of the movie Crude that appeared to show alarming collusion between the plaintiff lawyers and the Court-appointed expert. A ...
  • Colombia, the ICC — and a Twist!
    by Kevin Jon Heller I've argued for the past couple of years that the ICC should open a formal investigation into the situation in Colombia, because it is a non-African situation that satisfies most, if not all, of my criteria for situational gravity : (1) crimes committed with government involv ...
  • ACLU and CCR Sue OFAC over Expenditures Related to ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Adam Serwer has a post up flagging a new suit by the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) against the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) over funds expended over the question of whether the Obama administration ca ...
  • The World Court’s Non-Opinion
    by John Cerone by John Cerone [John Cerone is Professor of International Law, and Director of the Center for International Law & Policy at New England Law | Boston] The World Courtâs conclusion that Kosovoâs declaration of independence was not unlawful is being with a resounding “duh” by most ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Free book - The Divinity Code
    Three years ago I published The Divinity Code, a response to the works of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, John Spong and Karen Armstrong, among others. The book remains available internationally through Amazon US and Amazon UK in hard copy, but...
  • Has Climatedepot crashed?
    As of writing, am getting a VisualBasic error on http://www.climatedepot.com Is it just my computer network that can't see it? UPDATE 1pm NZST: Back up and running. Marc must have hit wrong button somewhere :)
  • Arctic heading for major freeze - new NOAA forecas ...
    More evidence pointing towards a significant global cooldown, with even NOAA modelling now picking a brutal northern hemisphere winter.
  • Air Con Climategate Edition now avail in NZ
    Due to an ongoing series of requests, we've decided to import the US version of the Air Con Climategate Edition. It's now available direct from the Howling At The Moon website, in either hard copy for $39.90, or PDF for...
  • Ray Stevens Global Warming Song
    They may call him the Streak, but you can't keep Ray Stevens down evidently...witness his lastest on Global Warming

The World We Live In

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

Center for Food Safety

  • San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Fails to ...
    A recent study commissioned by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (PUC) seeks to mislead and confuse San Francisco residents about the quality of sewage sludge-derived compost distributed by the PUC. The PUC claims that this sewage sludge-derived compost “compares favorably” to several br ...
  • The Story of Cosmetics
    In the latest installment of her “Story of Stuff” videos, Annie Leonard walks us through “The Story of Cosmetics,” and the ugly truth of toxics in, toxics out. Visit the website for an annotated script, viewing party materials, fact sheets and more. As she explains in the Huffington Post, “It turns ...
  • Announcing the True Food Shoppers Guide Mobile App
    The Center for Food Safety today launched a new mobile application that will help shoppers to quickly and easily identify foods made with ingredients from genetically modified (GM) organisms.  The free app, “The Center for Food Safety’s True Food Shoppers Guide”, is available for mobile devices thro ...
  • 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 ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • The problem of mercenaries
    No Right Turn: The problem of mercenaries : Back in the C16th, Nicolo Machiavelli warned in The Prince of the risks of using mercenaries, calling them useless and dangerous... disunited, ambitious and without discipline, unfaithful, valiant before friends, cowardly before enemies; they have neit ...
  • Why raw data sites need journalism
    Why raw data sites need journalism | John Keenan | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk : "According to Alfred Harmsworth, founder of both the Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, news is 'what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; the rest is advertising'. By this yardstick, Harmsworth would have agreed that t ...
  • Doin’ the Oka Shuffle
    Doin’ the Oka Shuffle - mediaINDIGENA : "You’ve probably heard via the news media that “Oka is heating up again”. That there are “rising tensions with Mohawks on the 20th anniversary of the Oka Crisis”. Maybe you’ve heard that “Mohawks are angry with a developer” who wants to build on land he says ...
  • SPLC Fights for Guestworker Teachers Defrauded in ...
    SPLC Fights for Guestworker Teachers Defrauded in International Labor Trafficking Scheme | Southern Poverty Law Center : Hundreds of Filipino guestworkers lured to teach in Louisiana public schools were cheated out of tens of thousands of dollars and forced into exploitative contracts by an internat ...
  • Reflections of Fidel: A call to the President of t ...
    Reflections of Fidel: A call to the President of the United States | United States |Axisoflogic.com : A few days ago, an article was published that really contained many facts related to the oil spill that occurred 105 days ago. President Obama had authorized the drilling of that well, trusting in ...

Pensieve

  • Asleep (a short story)
      Photo by eye of einstein I am holding a thread and staring into a labyrinth. Darkness is falling, and the gold of sunset begins to fade from the moss that drapes its walls. Ancient stones lose their friendliness and succumb to moist cold. Only the sky remains cheerful. Inside the labyrinth darknes ...
  • Criminal Rule in Honduras
    Photo by markarinafotos While Rome is burning, everyone is hypnotized by the fiddling emperor Chavez. Crime and impunity in Honduras, which steadily worsened during Manuel Zelaya’s administration, has only gotten worse under Porfirio Lobo. But Mr. Lobo is busy courting international opinion, in the ...
  • 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 ...

Green Times

  • Recycled plastic containers
    Plastic containers, very practical and you can keep them for life! But what plastic are they made of? and are they recyclable?Recycling plastic (glossary/categories/recycling-waste/recycling-plastic.html) is an easy way to protect the environment.Always be aware of what you buy an make sure your pur ...
  • Environmental News 11/08/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Tony Abbott's Archaic Views
      "Politicians will be judged on everything they say". Let's see if they can be judged on everything they do...For more information read the article: The Greener Vote (climate-change/the-greener-vote.html)Found on the website: Get Up! Action for Australia (http://www.getup.org.au/)   ...
  • Organic coton djellaba
    Djellabas are usually made of cotton or wool.They have become a true fashion item and green fashion designers (lifestyle/green-fashion-designers.html) now make them with organic cotton.For more on this topic, read : Guide to Organic Cotton Clothing (lifestyle/guide-to-organic-cotton-clothing.html) ...
  • Environmental News 10/08/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • U.S. commander stresses importance of funding Iraq ...
    ShareThis More contractor bl*wjobs we can believe in: U.S. commander stresses importance of funding Iraq security forces 10 Aug 2010 The outgoing commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said Tuesday that Iraqi security forces will continue to rely heavily on American funding as the U.S. troop drawdown acce ...
  • British government pays US lobbying firm to improv ...
    ShareThis British government pays US lobbying firm to improve transatlantic relations --The controversial arrangement has been ordered by the Ministry of Defence, although official records show the contract is being handled by the British Embassy in Washington . 11 Aug 2010 British taxpayers are pay ...
  • Blast kills 8 soldiers in central Iraq
    ShareThis Blast kills 8 soldiers in central Iraq 11 Aug 2010 A bomb explosion has targeted a house in the province of Diyala in central Iraq, killing eight army soldiers on their quest for militants on the run. The blast occurred at around 5:00 a.m. (0200 GMT) on Wednesday in the town of Saadiyah, 1 ...
  • Robert Gibbs says leftwing critics of Obama 'ought ...
    ShareThis Robert Gibbs says leftwing critics of Obama 'ought to be drug tested' --White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says Obama's critics on the left are 'crazy' - and then tries to apologise 11 Aug 2010 The Obama administration's most public face, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, has ...
  • White House unloads anger over criticism from 'pro ...
    ShareThis White House unloads anger over criticism from 'professional left' 10 Aug 2010 The White House is simmering with anger at criticism from liberals who say President Obama is more concerned with deal-making than ideological purity. During an interview with The Hill in his West Wing office, Wh ...

Daily Loaf

  • Movie Review: Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The ...
    What to make of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World , the latest from Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright? On the one hand, Pilgrim is an audio/visual feast drawing vast inspiration from videogames and comic books, with a healthy dose of Japanese Manga thrown on top. But one man's audio/vi ...
  • Faking it: does everyone really do it?
    Many are confused when it comes to the ethics of faking an orgasm.  When I recently asked hundreds of people if it’s ok to fake an orgasm, I got a barrage of ugly messages and emails claiming the act of faking it is completely wrong. Yet when I asked if it was alright to fake [...]
  • Do It Today: The Wiggles and St. Somewhere Night a ...
    See Australia's uber-famous and uber-giddy song-and-dance men for kids or drink some locally brewed Belgian ales. Or both, but take the tyke home first.
  • Ringing Hell’s bells: Rays rookie rocks in 8-0 shu ...
    Rays rookie Jeremy Hellickson goes from "lights-out" to "shut-down" in his second start, pasting the Detroit Tigers for the second straight win for the youngster and Tampa Bay.
  • Weezer titles new album Hurley, puts the Lost acto ...
    Not to be out-done by their last album’s collaboration with Jermaine Dupri and bizarre choice of Raditude as the album title ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • It’s getting deep in here…
    Last month a post appeared on the Jewish Daily Forward’s blog “the sisterhood: where jewish women converse” entitled “Code Pink: Slinging Mud and Hate at Ahava,” which got the target of CODEPINK’s boycott campaign correct, but not much more. Debra Nussbaum Cohen’s blog presented a falsely black-and ...
  • Israeli and Palestinian Women Find New Way to Chal ...
    I will forgo my tendency for long introductions, and start with the actual news. We Do Not Obey More women follow Ilana Hammerman`s footsteps: we shall not obey illegal and immoral laws. (posted as a paid advertisement in Hebrew on Haaretz, August 6) On Friday, July 23, we went on a trip – a dozen ...
  • Travel Warning: Israel Offended
    Reading Haâaretz this morning, my eyes were diverted to an article about the indignation of the Israeli Tourism Ministry about â guess what? Anti-Israel bias, of course.   Apparently, in the wake of the rocket attacks earlier this week, the US government issued a travel warning to Israel (part ...
  • TODAY: Day of Solidarity with Sheikh Jarrah!
    Today has been declared a Day of Solidarity with Sheikh Jarrah, and activists from all over Israel will protest the eviction of Palestinian families from their homes in this East Jerusalem neighborhood.  What’s happening in Sheikh Jarrah is just one example of the harmful Israeli policy of building ...
  • “If I needed something to confirm I am going ...
    By Jesse Bacon I inteviewed about Yonatan Shapira of Boycott from Within and Combatants for Peace after he was called in for an interrogation by the Israeli Security Services. Part 1: Yonatan talks about his activism with the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement, and how the Gaza War changed his ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • iPhone app. Mapquest
    Not just any map app, this free Mapquest app gives spoken prompts telling you when to turn, etc.
  • Concentrating Solar Power
    Renewable Energy World has a comprehensive overview of Concentrating Solar Power. Spain is the big player now, the US plans multi-gigawatts of CSP soon. Progress has been slow due to permits and delays, but production should be ramping up fast in the next few years. CSP uses mirrors to focus the sun ...
  • A turd by any other name is still a turd
    Wall Street goes back to selling crap again. Oh, pardon me, I meant to call them by their official name, “structured notes.” They are opaque, difficult to understand securities promising high yields but with minimal disclosure. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? They’re just a new version of the toxic was ...
  • White House unloads anger over criticism from ‘pro ...
    Hey, if you you read Polizeros, then you’re probably a member of the “professional left” the White House has its knickers in a twist over. Be proud.
  • Role of the Democratic Party in co-opting dissent. ...
    “Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee” — Helen Keller From The Avocado Declaration, by Peter Camejo, written in Spring 2004 as he was running for vice p ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Hopium and Hypocritium by Cindy Sheehan
    Cindy Sheehan 8/10/2010 The arrogance of the Bush administration could never be surpassed, right? Wrong! Today, Whore House (again, with my apologies to my sex-worker friends) spokeswhore, Robert Gibbs, was quoted as saying this of the “professional liberals” who liken Obama to his predecessor: “(Th ...
  • Robert Gibbs says leftwing critics of Obama &#8216 ...
    The Obama administration‘s most public face, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, has tried to climbed down from angry remarks he aimed at leftwing critics, calling them “crazy”. In an interview with The Hill newspaper in Washington DC, Gibbs revealed frustration at attacks on the administratio ...
  • Ron Paul & Lew Rockwell “We Have A Dictators ...
    Ron Paul & Lew Rockwell “We Have A Dictatorship When It Comes To Foreign Policy” Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d14732').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
  • Deadline Live – August 10 2010
    First Hour: Breaking News from Deadline Live.Info. Second Hour: Harley Schlanger Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d14730').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
  • This Day In History – August 11
    1934 – First civilian prisoners arrive at Federal prison on Alcatraz Island. 1965 – Race riots (the Watts riots) begin in Watts area of Los Angeles, California. 1972 – The last United States ground combat unit departs South Vietnam. 1988 – Al-Qaeda is formed. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d14727'). ...

The Air Vent

  • Report Card – by McKitrick
    In the recent weeks Ross McKitrick has been tearing through climate science⢠like a wrecking ball.  He and others have been pointing out one flaw after another in ground temperatures, models, and now the alleged reviews of climategate.  Reader Don B left a link to Bishop Hill’s blog which then l ...
  • West Caicos 1991
    A fun post in the comments from Phillip Mulholland. ————- Philip Mulholland said August 9, 2010 at 7:21 pm e The Carbonate Beach Factory: Memories of a Warm World. It is a mid-June day in 1991, West Caicos, a small uninhabited tropical island in the Turks and Caicos archipelago, bakes in the hot sum ...
  • Up is Down, Down is Up and Left is right
    BBC Apologizes for Accuracy in Reporting Today at Bishop Hill, I learned that instead of UEA apologizing to the world for the lies, distortions, manipulations, alarmism, wasting of tax money and general malfeasance, the BBC (leftists extraordinaire), have apologized to the UEA for —— wait for it… wa ...
  • Time to Fix the thermometers
    I was reading at Niche Modeling today and ran across another McKitrick, McIntyre paper on the trends vs measurements in models.  This is the first published correction to the Santer08 paper which made the claim that models were supported by the data.  It’s published in a Atmospheric Science Letter ...
  • Sea Ice Update, August 2010
    This is an updated sea ice video, created in R from the NSIDC gridded data.  It’s useful for looking at weather patterns and understanding the annual variability of sea ice.  The first link is a short version, the second will be added later and runs at 2X speed from 2005.  It’s still uploading.

Focal Point

  • Ross Douthat's Aesthetic Case Against Gay Marriage
    Conservative columnist Ross Douthat opposes gay marriage because he cares more about his aesthetic ideals than he does about equality. In his latest New York Times op/ed Douthat rejects all the usual rationalizations for giving more rights to straight couples. Some conservatives argue only opposite ...
  • Ross Douthat's Aesthetic Case Against Gay Marriage
    Conservative columnist Ross Douthat opposes gay marriage because he cares more about his aesthetic ideals than he does about equality. In his latest New York Times op/ed Douthat rejects all the usual rationalizations for giving more rights to straight couples. Some conservatives argue only opposite ...
  • Ross Douthat's Aesthetic Case Against Gay Marriage
    Conservative columnist Ross Douthat opposes gay marriage because he cares more about his aesthetic ideals than he does about equality. In his latest New York Times op/ed Douthat rejects all the usual rationalizations for giving more rights to straight couples. Some conservatives argue only opposite ...
  • Andrew Breitbart's Favorite Race-Baiting Penis Enh ...
    A little Friday afternoon fun from Media Matters... A profile of Dr. Kevin Pezzi , a contributor to Andrew Breitbart's website Big Government. Update: Shrinkage has occurred at Big Government . Is it cold in here? � [Photo credit: Flickr user Paul Holloway , licensed under Creative Commons.]
  • Dear Prudence: The Government Needs to Butt Out of ...
    Emily Yoffe , aka Slate advice columnist Dear Prudence, has evidently been driven to distraction by the prospect of an Islamic cultural center/mosque two blocks from the former World Trade Center. Yoffe is concerned about Mayor Bloomberg's curt dismissal of Republican Rick Lazio's demand that the A ...

Inside Facebook

  • A Facebook Location API Could Be Coming Soon
    We’ve been covering Facebookâs upcoming location-based service for months. Today, CNET says location APIs will be coming in a few weeks, potentially sooner. Location-based application developers are already using Facebook’s platform to let people sync accounts with Facebook, and share check-ins ba ...
  • Facebook Introduces Official Korean-Language Page
    Facebook’s official Page now has a Korean version, featuring how-to guides to the site and a directory of Korean Pages, all in Korean. The Page could help spur growth in South Korea by giving fellow Korean Facebook users a common place to find each other, and explaining the site’s features and uses ...
  • Credits Landscape, Platform Growth, Ad Growth, and ...
    [Editor's Note: The following article presents analysis from Inside Facebook Gold, our research and data membership service tracking Facebook's traffic growth and demographic landscape in global markets.] Now that Facebook has crossed the 500 million user mark and Google appears serious about buildi ...
  • Webtrends Acquires Transpond Facebook, Mobile, and ...
    Web analytics provider Webtrends today announced its acquisition of self-service and full-service web, mobile, and social app creator Transpond. Webtrend clients can now use Transpond, rebranded as Webtrends Apps, to build, publish and measure performance of content, engagment, and conversion-centri ...
  • This Week’s Top 20 Pages: Eminem, YouTube, ‘House’ ...
    Music dominated our list of Top 20 Facebook Pages this week, taking up almost half, while the rest of the list consisted of big name brands and entertainment-related Pages. Our list is genereated by our PageData tool, which counts the number of fans added to a Page each day. Making the list this wee ...

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ReDress News

  • Israel’s pillars of Samson: not quite Armageddon b ...
    Alan Sabrosky considers the relationship between the subservience of successive US presidents, including Barack Obama, to Israel and Israel’s ongoing access to US nuclear codes and systems, and its ability to override safeguards in the US to obtain command and control over at least US land-based str ...
  • Iran, Israel and the Holocaust
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the phenomenon of Holocaust questioning in Iran and elsewhere in the Muslim countries is directly linked to Israel’s cynical exploitation of the Holocaust to justify its policies and bludgeon its critics.
  • Legalizing injustice in the Negev and implications ...
    Nasser Rego considers the legal and political framework of the escalating ethnic cleansing of the Negev – or Naqab – by the Israeli authorities and argues that, given the fracturing of the “solomonic pillar of law propping up Israel’s democratic facade”, the time has come for the international commu ...
  • Suspected Israeli torturer gets key police job in ...
    A police officer known as “Major George” who is accused of torturing Arab prisoners in his previous role as chief interrogator in a secret military jail has been appointed to oversee relations with Jerusalem’s Palestinian population, Jonathan Cook reports.
  • Who will take out the garbage if our courts of jus ...
    Stuart Littlewood considers the impunity with which state-sponsored murderers and war criminals operate and argues that if universal jurisdiction is not made to work, then upright, socially responsible citizens may have to dispense justice themselves. “Assassination may not remain the private playgr ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Jamiol Presents
  • Podcast Show #30
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Carlos Miller Carlos Miller provides us with an overview of the history, purpose and mission of his award-winning website Photography is Not a Crime. He talks about First Amendment violations against photographers throughout the country, which occur on a shockingly regul ...
  • Is WikiLeaks the antidote to the Washington K Stre ...
    The acid test for Washington’s beltway experts Since the end of the cold war, the U.S. had been looking for an enemy to match the Soviet Union and came up empty handed until 9/11. Refocusing the efforts of the world’s largest and most expensive military empire on Al Qaeda would provide the incentive ...
  • Obama Appoints a Not-Too-Long-Ago-Hatched Neocon L ...
    Matthew Bryza: Azerbaijan Ambassadorship & a Tangled Web of Conflicts President Obama appears to have run out of Non-Neocon candidates to appoint for crucial positions. After one year with no ambassador to fill the position in Azerbaijan, the President reached out to and appointed a young neocon wit ...
  • Another ‘Viable’ Candidate Bites the Dust …
    Maksim Bakiyev: A Groomed Puppet Who Never Came to Be King Kyrgyzstanâs Wanted Fugitive: Maksim Bakiyev. The story is more or less the same – the one that has been repeating itself for many decades.  The one based on a script written by the very same conductors who wrote the ones before, and who ...

Afro Spear

  • What A WarriorGirl Looks Like – The Wisdom o ...
    CAN A YOUNG TEENAGED GIRL TEACH A WOMAN ANYTHING?  There is a beautiful young, black, West Philly girl, originally from Cote d’Ivoire somewhere in the blogosphere.  She’s set up her shop and she’s teaching us critically important truths about ourselves.   Her name is Sojourner, and she’s don ...
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  • “Rapper is No Friend of Haiti-Wyclef Opposed ...
    Scathing commentary by Charlie Hinton of the Haitian Action Committee. Click on image for article.                                                                                                                                                                                                           ...
  • Poetry Thursday Deux
    Some comments need their own posts: Hi : Wondering if I can submit a poem written by a powerful sister El Jones: Since it is Poetry Thursday. Thank you and keep up the good work! Robyn El Jones: Ain’t I a Woman? For Caster Semenya Ain’t I a Woman? For Caster Semenya Share Thursday, September [...]
  • Byts and Bytes
    1. “It is easy enough to dismiss those who persist in believing that the first successful African slave revolt took place in Haiti. Arab historians have themselves established the contrary, and in contemporaneous detail, so that it is near common knowledge that a revolt of epical dimensions took pla ...

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

  • CORPORATE STATES OF AMERICA
    Do you want to continue to have a say, albeit, not very much, in what goes on in this government? If you do, you must act, as outlined below, as soon as possible. We have got to give it a try, even if we go down, we must stop the corporate takeover. This is so [...]
  • TEABAGGERS REFRAIN
    Government is the only thing standing between us and all those who would harm us, in one form or another! Be it war, medicine, unsafe products, the list is endless. Corporate America has taken over our Government and it is the reason we’re in such a mess. Don’t blindly get on a bandwagon of non-thin ...
  • Doomsday: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered ...
    A huge gash on the ocean floor—like a ragged wound hundreds of feet long—has been reported by the NOAA research ship, Thomas Jefferson. Before the curtain of the government enforced news blackout again descended abruptly, scientists aboard the ship voiced their concerns that the widening rift may go ...
  • BP BLOCKED WORKERS
    BP blocked workers cleaning up the oil disaster in the Gulf from wearing protective respirators.
  • Jim Geer in handcuffs!
    Chair Karen Thurman has repeatedly demanded a full and independent investigation. But the Republicans who control Tallahassee are trying to block the investigations into their culture of corruption, instead trying to make Jim Greer the fall guy for their misdeeds.

Unsuitable Blog

  • Monthly Undermining Task, August 2010: Crash The M ...
    They (350.org) refuse to countenance the idea that industrial civilization is the problem – every action leads to the Senate, even requests to non-US “members” lead to the Senate. They are like a stuck record – a really dated record, like Alice Cooper trying to down with the kids when he spends mos ...
  • Can a Shopping Voucher Skew Survey Results?
    A couple of weeks ago I – or rather our house – received a letter from an organisation called the National Centre for Social Research, inviting us to take part in an annual survey called British Social Attitudes. I like filling in surveys when I have time because it lets me think more about what [. ...
  • Hello Green Tomorrow: Avon Conveniently Forget The ...
    Sitting in my inbox for four months, one would expect a story to go stale, but despite coming at a particularly hectic time of my life, and being revisited just this morning, it seems that some stories are destined to keep going simply because the parties involved are in such deep denial. One such ...
  • Hackers Shut Down EU Carbon-Trading Website [From ...
    Sorry for all the reposts recently, but it’s been a very busy time at Unsuitablog HQ, and I also can’t top this bit of news from The Guardian covering an excellent example of Undermining. Emissions Trading, like all forms of offsetting, is a method of ensuring that the industrial system can keep op ...
  • Greenwash of the Week: The Sustainability Consorti ...
    Another winning post by David at The Good Human, exposing a magnificent example of Astroturfing. I suspect one reason these things keep turning up is because of “Fluorescent Tabard Syndrome”: the psychological oddity that allows anyone wearing an extremely bright item of work clothing to go virtual ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
    Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constructi ...
  • Wealthy Far More Likely To Default On Mortgages
    crossposted at Political Correction For much of the past two years, Congressional Republicans have wasted few opportunities to blame poor and working class Americans for the financial meltdown and the subsequent recession. They’ve argued that through well-intentioned government initiatives, includ ...
  • GOP House Candidate: Mosque Near Ground Zero Is A ...
    Conservative activists and the Muslim-baiters among them are furious about a proposed Islamic community center to be built near Ground Zero.  The debate has become entirely unhinged and some of the more hateful folks are using the controversy as a rallying cry to oppose the construction of all futur ...
  • Ex-Muslim Ergun Caner Is A Fraud
    Ergun Caner is one of the most prominent figures in the evangelical movement. He is also one of the most deceptive. A self-professed Muslim convert to Christianity, Caner plays an important, and arguably dangerous, role in the community. After the 9/11 attacks, when many Americans were searching for ...
  • Aliou Kumbaya
    My brother Aliou Niasse has saved the day.  He was the first to spot smoke coming out of the Nissan Pathfinder that Faisal Shahzad intended to detonate in crowded Times Square. Thankfully, the incompetence of Shahzab and the alertness of Niasse and two other gentlemen, both of whom are Vietnam War v ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Front Porch Forum: Connecting Strangers in the Nei ...
    Mention the Internet, and most people think of the World Wide Web, of reaching out across the globe for news, long-lost friends, or low-price bargains. But in dozens of Vermont towns, residents are using the web to connect with their back-fence neighbors. In an era where national and global informat ...
  • TileMill: Custom Maps to Help with Data Dumps, Hyp ...
    TileMill is an open source toolkit that helps you create beautiful custom maps in the cloud, built by Development Seed . We recently won a Knight News Challenge award (a.k.a. “Tilemapping” ) to help us release a new version of TileMill that will make it even easier for people to design highly custom ...
  • DocumentCloud Helps Arizona Paper with Annotated I ...
    We opened the DocumentCloud floodgates less than six months ago and we're still working hard to make DocumentCloud a better tool. We're rolling out improvements at a healthy clip including SSL support , better documentation , and support for cross-newsroom collaboration . We continue to listen to fe ...
  • Creating a Participatory, Open Source Map of an En ...
    For the past few weeks I've been working from Tbilisi, Georgia -- the other Georgia -- with a fascinating organization called OpenMapsCaucasus (OMC for short), which has been hard at work creating the first participatory, public domain road map of an entire country. Created by JumpStart Inte ...
  • Councilpedia In Private Pilot, Overcoming Tech Cha ...
    Over the last several months, Gotham Gazette has made major strides on its Councilpedia project, which will help New Yorkers keep tabs on their local officials and share their knowledge with others. Over the last year, the project has evolved and -- we think -- improved from our original plan. C ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Education Edge - Education is the Silver Bulle ...
    America’s once proud public education system is officially broken. Just about every study, statistic, expert, and professional agrees that without serious changes, our schools and our students will continue to fall further and further behind the world standard. But although parents, politicians, and ...
  • BDS--the New Anti-Jewish Boycott - Isolation as a ...
    Since 1948, Israel has been relatively isolated. In contrast to the Arab League, there is no "Jewish" League, and alliances depend on shared interests and values. European support has generally been problematic, and close cooperation with the United States only developed after 1967, with periodic fr ...
  • The Obama Edge - Browner on Energy Bill and Gulf C ...
    White House Energy Adviser Carol Browner said Sunday that while the Obama administration is “deeply disappointed” that an energy bill was unable to make its way through Congress, the president has not given up hope that it can get done this year. In an exclusive interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” ...
  • America Must Suspend Military Assistance to Lebano ...
    I have been concerned for sometime about reported Hezbollah influence on the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and its implications for our military assistance program for Lebanon. For that reason, on August 2, I placed a hold on a $100 million dollar security assistance package to the LAF. The incident o ...
  • The Toxic Edge - Brazil's Lone Heroine Fights for ...
    Inching along at rush hour in her battered black Chevrolet Corsa, Fernanda Giannasi joked about the pariah status she’s attained with the Brazilian asbestos industry. “I have no name,” she said. “I’m just ‘That woman.’” No wonder. Giannasi, an inspector with the federal Ministry of Labor and Employm ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • 10 Common Sense Principles For A New Economy
    By David Korten Its time we the people declare our independence from the money-favoring Wall Street economy
  • The Tears Of Gaza Must Be Our Tears
    By Chris Hedges Chris Hedges made these remarks Thursday night in New York City at a fundraiser for sponsoring a U.S. boat to break the blockade of Gaza
  • Igniting Armageddon In The Middle East
    By DR. Elias Akleh An Israeli strike would ignite Armageddon in the Middle East, and it would spread to the rest of the world. The question that poses itself is: Is the American Congress really crazy to support such an Israeli strike?
  • Pakistans Devastating Floods Are President Zardari ...
    By Fatima Bhutto Pakistans government is facing rising national anger as the devastating floods along the Indus River show little sign of abating. Some 1,600 people have died, and upwards of six million people are directly affected, according to the latest estimates from the United Nations, which h ...
  • Grisly Photos Reveal The Genocide Of Tamil People ...
    By Muthamizh Vendhan Peviously banned photos from May 2009 Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka is published with this report: they are EXTREMELY GRAPHIC, not appropriate for kids

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Vigiling in Afghanistan
    More amazing work from Our Journey to Smile
  • 92219 Pieces of my Broken Afghan Heart
    The following letter was sent to me from the young people in Afghanistan who tried to come to the U.S. this summer for our speaking tour. The U.S. embassy flatly denied them, but their voices continue to cry out. The official narrative of the Afghan War is that it has greatly served the people of A ...
  • The other side of Afghanistan
  • Days 9-11: Solitude, Mountains, and Humanity
    The first time I talked to Ymani, one of our hosts in Asheville, NC, I was at Salam’s house in Berkeley, CA. The first cross-country trek that I embarked on was drawing to an end and I was entering all kinds of scenarios into google maps to try to incorporate Asheville into the plans before [...]
  • 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 ...

Yid With Lid

  • Harry Reid Stuck On Stupid-Wonders How Any Hispani ...
    There is something weird about Harry Reid and the issue of race. He seems to bring it up at the most inopportune times, like when he said that senators who opposed Obamacare were like the supporters of slavery. On Tuesday, Senator Harry Reid, once again pulled the racial/ethnic card out o ...
  • Party Leaders Tried To Talk Charlie Rangel Out of ...
    It was supposed to be a day of victory for the House Democratic Caucus, they were called back from vacation to give a giant gift to their union friends, but instead of victory they got a shot of reality when Charlie Rangel took the House floor today and went on a half hour rant that could only be de ...
  • Wall Street Comes Back From The Dark Side-Moving T ...
    Wall Street executives who endured two years of Democratic party blame for everything from the financial crisis to health care costs to the collapse of the NY Mets have finally had it and are turning against their Democratic party tormentors by shifting campaign contributions to Republicans. L ...
  • AFL-CIO President Loses Touch With Reality
    Maybe he can't take the pressure of running the AFL-CIO, or maybe it was something he inhaled when he was working in the mines, Richard Trumka head of the AFL-CIO has lost all touch with the real world. In the video below the union bigshot is being interviewed for the C SPAN Newsmakers program and s ...
  • NASA's James Hansen is Making Up Global Warming N ...
    James Hansen of NASA is not just any global warming Moonbat, he is Al Gore's global warming Moonbat. It was Hansen's data that was used in Gore's Oscar/Peace prize winning film. Hansen's work is ruled by one motto: "If God deals you bad numbers--fudge them." In October of 2008, Hansen made t ...

The Real Agenda

  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Massively Financin ...
    Gates gave $6,661,364 to the racist organization for education, according to the foundation’s website. La Raza has also received financial support from the Ford Foundation. For instance, in 1968, the globalist foundation gave La Raza $600,000, according to research conducted by Philip Brennan.
  • Google Takes Spying to the Air, maintains net snoo ...
    A Google spokesperson writes that Google hasn’t purchased and is not testing any Microdrones: “This was a purchase by a Google executive with an interest in robotics for personal use.”
  • High Fructose Corn Syrup poison promotes Obesity, ...
    beverages made with high-fructose corn syrup contain high levels of reactive carbonyls, which can damage cells. Still others have noted that the fructose in high-fructose corn syrup is chemically unbonded and thus spreads through the body more freely than the fructose in table sugar.
  • Costa Rican Shill Heading UN Climate Fraud Negotia ...
    By Luis R. Miranda Cristiana Figueres, a descendant of a Costa Rican elite family is the top United Nations climate official in charge of conducting negotiations to impose a worldwide tax on humanity for the purpose of funding the World Climate Fund, a United Nations organ that would rule over every ...
  • Medicamentos Psiquiátricos: Uma Descoberta Surpree ...
    Por Ellison Shane Master of Science Tradução: Luis R. Miranda Faço perguntas para tentar encurtar as  conversas. Evito contato visual com estranhos, com medo (talvez seja ansiedade) de  aprender muito sobre eles. Secretamente, acho que Metallica estaria fazendo música melhor se eles usaram ...

Wind Watch

  • Human noise ‘leads fish from habitats’
    Noise pollution from shipping, drilling for oil or wind farms could lead fish away from their natural habitat into areas where they could die, potentially devastating future fish stocks. A British-led team made the discovery while working on the Great Barrier Reef â as well as debunking the myth t ...
  • Villagers ready for another battle against giant t ...
    Villagers have stepped up their latest campaign against a wind farm plan believed to be among the most unpopular planning applications Dorset has ever seen. Two years ago, a record 1,987 people wrote to North Dorset District Council to object to plans to build six giant turbines – each 120 metres (3 ...
  • JCIDA: all jurisdictions must agree to PILOTs
    Jefferson County could see repeats of the rancor that accompanied the Galloo Island Wind Farm payment-in-lieu-of-taxes approval at the county Legislature after changes made Tuesday morning. A payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement for any wind power project will need approval from all of the involved ta ...
  • Lightning strike burns down wind turbine
    PETERSON, Iowa — A lightening strike started a fire in a wind turbine Saturday morning, destroying the turbine and one of three new blades that had been laid out on the ground beneath it in order to be installed as replacements. Damages totaled $760,000, according to Peterson Fire Chief John Winterb ...
  • Wind farms could face new restrictions as Governme ...
    Energy companies could face new restrictions on wind farm projects after ministers launched a review of the way noise pollution is taken into account by planners. The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has admitted noise regulations are applied “inconsistently” by councils and planning ...

Not My Tribe

  • Interesting wording: Taliban blamed for Afghan civ ...
    First the generic word Taliban. Which translates, if I’ve got the wording right, according to the State Department, “soldier”. More or less. Then “blamed for”. Is that a tacit admission that they’re catching the rap but not in fair measure? Then there’s the notion that the “Taliban” in general and a ...
  • Ted Stevens, Person of Interest in Sarah Palin cor ...
    Died in a plane crash. Very sudden, very tragic, very convenient. Much like the bulk of the anti-war contingent in the Senate died in a plane crash with Senator Wellstone (D, MN) Meanwhile, Mrs Palins son in law Levi is running for mayor. Whether to bolster mum-in-laws Propaga errr “publicity” level ...
  • Missionaries say they don’t proselytize
    No, and that’s not why the Christian International Aid Mission was banished from Afghanistan, and why the US invasion reinstated it. Ask its volunteers why they don’t exert their humanitarian impulses for non-religious operations, then you’ll be getting past these pleas of feigned victimization. Mis ...
  • BP Says “top-kill” worked, but drillin ...
    Supposedly to ease the pressure. How about THIS supposition instead. BP trashed the ocean very thoroughly, the bottom-up killoff of marine life is in progress, the species that are being more than merely decimated provide the food for every other life form. There’s an investigation supposedly happen ...
  • Bus service with a couple of links.
    When and why to picket City Hall Ok. so that one seems to link but not embed the video. GRRRR.. But it’s good. That from friend Ed. Then there’s this from Bruce Gagnon in Bath, Maine and he even mentions our Lights Out and school cuts and bus cuts but not everything. To mention everything [...]

Debunking the Debunkers

  • A Hypothetical Timeline of WTC 7's Destruction
    Related info: Last Building Standing Stunning Video of WTC7s Damaged South Face Discovered on a 9/11 Truth Debunking Website Was 10:45 a.m. the Originally Planned Demolition Time of WTC 7?
  • Hello Joseph Nobles
    Mr. Nobles just recently addressed my latest post about his website. Yet again , he doesn't seem to think I'm addressing all that I should. As we will see, Mr. Nobles has a talent for addressing one point out of a huge argument and acting as if it is the central point to the whole argument. Thus, ...
  • Debunking Joseph Nobles: Other Buildings
    Mr. Nobles’ latest addition to his website is a page attempting to show how other skyscraper fires are not comparable to the Twin Towers and Building 7. He focuses on the skyscraper fires featured in the AE911Truth power point. Because Mr. Nobles uses similar arguments for more than one of the liste ...
  • Why do you even need to "debunk"?
    There are a lot of sites out there "debunking" 9/11 truthers, global warming "deniers", natural health "quacks", "anti-vaxers" and anyone who questions the dogma of Darwinism. My question is, why? If the mainstream view is so obvious, why bother? I mean you don't see many "Debunking Holocaust Denial ...
  • WTC Pre-Collapse Bowing Debunks 9/11 "Controlled D ...
    YouTube user " Moreofthesamez " recently posted the following response to the video " 9/11 Debunked: World Trade Center's Collapse Explained " by " RKOwens4 .": The points raised by RKOwens in his video are akin to points raised by RepresentativePress.org in their article " WTC Pre-Collapse Bowin ...

Fooducate

  • Mom’s Best Toasted Cinnamon Squares – A good break ...
    We got this request from Jennifer, a Facebook friend of Fooducate: “Can you guys do a breakdown of the brand…Mom’s Best Naturals – specifically the Toasted Cinnamon Squares. I am hoping to find a better choice for my kids and I who love Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Thanks!!” Sure thing Jennifer. Here’s w ...
  • Gerber Graduates Healthy Meals for Preschoolers. I ...
    We’ve gotten some requests from readers to review baby / toddler foods over the past few weeks, so we’ll try to oblige. I strongly urge you read a previous posting entitled Do Children Need Kids Food?, Children meaning toddler from one year up. Before Gerber and other companies discovered this beaut ...
  • Free Webinar Today! How to Use Nutrition Labels
    What’s %DV and why is it important? What’s the relationship between serving size and total calories? Does this cereal make me look fat? If you find yourself befuddled trying to make the right choices at the supermarket, today is your chance to learn something and enjoy the benefits of your tax doll ...
  • Save Your Kids from Obesity Before They’re Born
    The obesity epidemic is hitting all Americans, at all ages, and is especially frightening when we see the growth rates in childhood obesity. That’s why parents are encouraged to create the right eating environment at home for their children, setting up a lifelong habit of healthy eating. We often w ...
  • Why Does Europe Deserve Safer Food than the US?
    Remember Kellogg’s stinky cereal we wrote about last month? A few weeks after recalling millions of boxes due to a strange odor coming from the packaging, the company announced the reason: a petroleum based chemical, methylnaphthalene, was used in excess in the waxy liner of the plastic package hol ...

Traffikd

  • 5 Facebook Apps That Really Make Money
    Guest post by Alexis Bonari If you aren't on Facebook by now, you are probably the only one who isn't. My grandmother has a Facebook page and anyone who can type, is able to start their own page with no problem. Most everyone uses Facebook as a social meeting place, but did you know that you coul ...
  • 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 ...

Clearreaching

  • Farewell
    Dear friends, As time passes it is getting harder and harder for me to keep the English part of my blog. I will therefore have to stop it here. Thank you very much for reading it and commenting. Special thanks to Meow, ersi and James for their insightful inputs. It was my honour to receive them. ...
  • Not our fault
    I had to write an article on Lacan for a Greek magazine recently. In the past couple of months that I’ve been reading all related literature, I was impressed by the way Lacan tried to solve the riddle of human psychology. At the root of every want/desire that we feel, he said, there is a primary wan ...
  • Happiness super market
    I’ve been into the triptych “love-beauty-enlightenment” since I was 18. I’ve tried many methods, among which: the Emin Way , Reiki , SRT , channeling and divinations of sorts. I’ve read tons of New Age books about spirituality, enlightenment, immortality and so on and so on. I boasted that I knew th ...
  • Test your EQ!
    I am going on vacation for a week, but I’ll leave you with a little test which is supposed to measure the EQ: There is a woman and a man, who love each other but live on two different islands. The man shares his island with a savage. The woman seeks a way to get to the man’s island, because she lov ...
  • Predisposition
    For the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, the soul had something that was called “fora”, meaning direction. In other words, the soul was thought to have taken up, long before the birth of the body it inhabited, the direction of good or evil. Thus, man was considered to be born good or bad. Quite som ...

Worldpress - Africa

Canadian Encyclopedia

  • Trudeau, Pierre Elliott
    Pierre Elliott Trudeau, politician, writer, constitutional lawyer, prime minister of Canada 1968-79 and 1980-84 (b at Montr�al 18 Oct 1919; d at Montr�al 28 Sept 2000). Trudeau was born into a wealthy family, the
  • Hydroelectricity
    Hydroelectricity is obtained from the ENERGY contained in falling water; it is a renewable, comparatively nonpolluting energy source and Canada's largest source of ELECTRIC-POWER GENERATION . In N America in the 1850s the
  • Champlain, Samuel de
    Samuel de Champlain, cartographer, explorer, governor of New France (b at Brouage, France c 1570; d at Qu�bec City 25 Dec 1635). The major role Champlain played in the St Lawrence River area earned him the title of
  • Carr, Emily
    Emily Carr, painter, writer (b at Victoria 13 Dec 1871; d there 2 Mar 1945). Her parents were English people who had settled in the small provincial town of Victoria, where her father became a successful merchant and respected
  • King, William Lyon Mackenzie
    William Lyon Mackenzie King, politician, prime minister of Canada 1921-26, 1926-30 and 1935-48 (b at Berlin [Kitchener], Ont 17 Dec 1874; d at Ottawa 22 July 1950), grandson of William Lyon MACKENZIE. Leader of the LIBERAL PARTY

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 ...
  • How can I find the perfect – green – k ...
    (First, sorry for the lack of posts for the last two days – it was my birthday on Tuesday and so I’ve had two days off. Back to the grindstone now though ;) ) We’ve had an email from Su: Sorry about this, as it’s not about recycling or repairing, but I thought some like-minded [...]
  • Recent recommended reducing, reusing and recycling ...
    (mmm, alliteration) I love this simple but cute idea for baked gifts – using an old food can as a baking container and gift packaging in one. I first thought it was biscuits/cookies in the can – it would work well for those too, protecting them from getting crushed. These lamps from old piping are [ ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle walnut shells?
    Echoing the pistachio shells that started this site, I was thinking about walnut shells recently. It’s advised not to compost walnuts/walnut shells because the trees contain a chemical called juglone, which is toxic to some trees, plants and vegetables (especially members of the Solanaceae family – ...
  • This week’s reducing, reusing & recycling ro ...
    I’m a big fan of reusing milk bottles for all sorts of things and this idea for using them as stationery organisers is fantastic. If they were for use by little delicate hands, I’d be tempted to sticky-tape the cut edges to make them less sharp. Kristin from Craft Leftovers used the offcuts from ...

Mondoweiss

  • How to pressure an American president? (Read Haare ...
    1. On July 8, Haaretz's Ari Shavit explained how Netanyahu got the upper hand of Obama:After 18 wasted months during which Obama was the president who exerted pressure, he has become the president who embraces. Obama is embracing the State of Israel and the prime minister of Israel. What happened ...
  • How would Iran respond to American attack?
    Realist Mahan Abedin of Jamestown writing at Juan Cole's site on the Illusion of a limited war with Iran:A top priority for the IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] high command is to respond so harshly and decisively so as to deter the Americans from a second set of strikes at a future point. ...
  • Passive president, busy lobby
    Haaretz got the early copy of Jeffrey Goldberg's September story in the Atlantic that seems to justify an Israeli strike on Iran under the nose of the passive president.Based on dozens of interviews the Atlantic correspondent conducted in recent months with Israeli, American and Arab officials, Gol ...
  • New Reut Institute ‘case study’ tacit ...
    When the well-connected Israeli policy group, the Reut Institute, released a February 2010 report on what it labeled the "delegitimization challenge" from the global Palestine solidarity movement, Ali Abunimah of the Electronic Intifada pointed out that the report "never considers for a moment that ...
  • Israel razes Negev village, again
    And other news from Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Israel razes Negev village again Witness talks of "unnecessary force" in demolition of Bedouin homes. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/08/20108108292506226.htmlIsraelis Bulldoze Village, ...

Media Consortium

  • Slate Labs - Blog
    this site will serve as a home base for all of Slate’s experiments with multimedia journalism. We’ve been doing a lot of them over the past few years, so we’ve collected a gallery of our favorite interactives from the Slate archives. To keep things fresh, we’re also posting projects currently in dev ...
  • Introducing Crowdmap – The Ushahidi Blog
    "Crowdmap is a service provided by Ushahidi with all the benefits of Ushahidi out of the box but with nothing to install. It takes all of five minutes to get a vanilla deployment up and running on crowdmap.com subdomain. You will have full administrative access to your deployment, just as you would ...
  • Seventeen.com Launches Augmented Reality Shopping ...
    Now, the website has launched an augmented reality shopping application as part of JC Penney's back-to-school collaboration with Hearst. The application is made possible by metaio, a company specializing in augmented reality applications. Through motion capture technology, visitors to the site can ...
  • Glamour Targets e-Commerce With iPad App
    Glamour’s iPad app, which goes on sale Aug. 3, comes with an e-commerce feature that could help the mass women’s magazine compete with a growing number of shopping apps filling up the Apps Store.
  • Magda Abu-Fadil: Funding Journalism in the Digital ...
    Finding money to pay for news is an obsession haunting media executives worldwide, a constant in journalism-related conferences, and it's not likely to disappear any time soon. That's because the very essence of journalism is going through metamorphoses causing its traditional producers sleepless n ...

Reality Asserts Itself

  • A "STINKER" OF A JOBS REPORT AND HARPER SAYS IT'S ...
    "It's a stinker," says Bill Gross about the latest report on Canadian unemployment.� As manager of the world's largest mutual fund (based in California), I guess Gross knows a thing or two about money. As reported in Bloomberg, Gross also said commodity-based economies like Canada's aren't doing as ...
  • CIA AND ISI NURTURED MUJAHIDEEN AND TALIBAN
    Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, a husband and wife team, began their experience in Afghanistan when they were the first American journalists to acquire permission to enter behind Soviet lines in 1981 for CBS News and produced a documentary, Afghanistan Between Three Worlds, for PBS. In 1983 the ...
  • ECONOMIC CRISIS AND RACISM HAUNT ARIZONA IMMIGRATI ...
    On Wednesday, a last-second injunction from Judge Susan Bolton temporarily stopped the most aggressive provisions of state bill SB1070 from going into effect. This is the Arizona law that will target undocumented immigrants. In particular, the judge struck down the section that compels police office ...
  • G20: INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM AND ARBITRARY STATE ACTION
    In a murder trial, if the police obtain evidence illegally and can't make their case otherwise, most of us accept the principle that a person we believe to be guilty should go free. We do this because we don’t want to live in a police state. Our right to privacy, to avoid arbitrary search and seiz ...
  • BURSTING 'OFFICER BUBBLES'
    In the last few days, a video produced for The Real News by my colleagues Nazrul Islam and Jesse Freeston has officially gone viral - over 200,000 views on YouTube. The following is a blog that Jesse wrote giving context to the "Officer Bubbles" story. You will find links to the key videos at the en ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Former NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe in plane cr ...
    Sean O’Keefe, former NASA administrator and current head of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) was on board a private plane that crashed in Alaska on 9 August. The plane was carrying nine people , including former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens. Though survivors are reported and ...
  • Harvard morality researcher investigated for scien ...
    A 3-year investigation has found evidence of scientific misconduct in publications by prominent Harvard University psychologist Marc Hauser , the Boston Globe reports today. Hauser’s research, which has frequently been highlighted in newspapers and on television, has addressed the evolutionar ...
  • H1N1: the pandemic is over
    The world is no longer in the middle of an H1N1 pandemic, the World Health Organisation has announced. We are now in the “post pandemic period”, Margaret Chan, director-general of the WHO, has announced. An expert committee meeting today decided that influenza is now moving to a pattern of season ...
  • Temperature increases damage rice yields
    Rising global temperatures are slashing rice production in many parts of Asia, including India and the Philippines, scientists have found. ( BBC , AP ) Over 0.5 billion of the world’s poorest people depend on rice as their staple food. But as temperatures have warmed over the past 25 years, rice ...
  • Greenland ice sheet yields biggest glacier in deca ...
    Posted on behalf of Kate Larkin A 260 square kilometre iceberg has broken free from the Petermann Glacier, one of the two largest remaining glaciers in Greenland. Shedding in the early hours of August 5, 2010, the 600ft thick iceberg is drifting 1000 km south of the North Pole and is an ice ...

new geography

  • Mass Transit: The Great Train Robbery
    Last month promoters of the Metropolitan Transit Authority's Los Angeles rail projects, both past and future, held a party to celebrate their "success." Although this may well have been justified for transit-builders and urban land speculators, there may be far less call for celebration among L.A.'s ...
  • Guys Gone Wild: Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Begins To ...
    Today marks the opening of the outrageous phenomenon known as the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, a week-long, $987 million party for about 500,000 people. Every year in early August my sleepy hometown, Sturgis, population 6,500, hosts a half million biking enthusiasts who swarm here for a combination ca ...
  • The Golden State’s War on Itself
    C alifornia has long been a destination for those seeking a better place to live. For most of its history, the state enacted sensible policies that created one of the wealthiest and most innovative economies in human history. California realized the American dream but better, fostering a huge middle ...
  • Flexible Forecasting: Looking for the Next Econom ...
    Last autumn I gave a talk in California's San Fernando Valley. I was the last of three economists speaking that day, and I watched the other economists’ presentations, each a rosy forecast of recovery and imminent prosperity. So, I was a bit nervous when it was my turn to speak, because I had a for ...
  • Melbourne: Government Seeking Housing Affordabilit ...
    Once a country known as “lucky” for its affordable quality of life, Australia has achieved legendary status as a place where public policies have destroyed housing affordability for the middle class. Draconian land rationing policies (called "urban consolidation" in Australia and more generally "com ...

GM Watch

water.org

  • Bono Street Team: Water.org
    Bono Street Team: Water.org (Bono Street Team) – Water.org is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization committed to providing safe drinking water and sanitation to people in developing countries. They have featured projects in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Read full Bono Street Team arti ...
  • Join the Day of Action & achieve the MDGs (ONE)
    Join the Day of Action & Achieve the MDGs (ONE) – In September of 2000, leaders of the 191 United Nations member countries met in New York City and formulated a plan to halve extreme poverty by 2015. Unanimously, these leaders agreed upon eight comprehensive, holistic, and attainable goals, the Mill ...
  • Klean Kanteen special edition bottles (Klean Kante ...
    Klean Kanteen Special Edition Bottles (Klean Kanteen) - Klean Kanteen is part of a growing marketing trend that supports earth-friendly causes with a percentage of the profits from their product sales. (Think TOMS shoes – for each pair purchased, they send one to a child in need; or Boxed Water, whi ...
  • Getting the most from FaceBook fans (Chron. Phil.)
    Getting the Most From Your Facebook Fans (Chronicle of Philanthropy) – By following the lessons of social game developers, Chase engaged more than 2-million Facebook users in a dialogue on philanthropy. We found that these types of interactions could easily evolve into creative fundraising solutions ...
  • Rich Thorsten on sustainable sanitation (PRLog)
    A clean bill of health? How humanitarian agencies can remedy approaches to nutrition and sanitation (PRLog) – Rich Thorsten, Director of International Programs at Water.org and one of the panellists, asserts: âSanitation has finally begun to receive more attention in the international development ...

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

  • Hundreds of Israelis stranded in India appeal for ...
    Hundreds of Israelis stranded in the Ladakh region of Indian-administered Kashmir following severe flooding contacted the Israel Travel Agents' Association on Sunday asking to be rescued from the disaster-stricken area. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Restraint is not weakness
    The government and IDF must understand that not every time is right for demonstrating Israeli sovereignty right up to the last millimeter, certainly not when tension is rising on both sides of the northern border. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The problem is constitutional
    Perhaps with Jewish and democratic identity enshrined, we can lay some fears to rest: We can provide full equality to citizens, without the terror of losing ourselves. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Peres sparks U.K. backlash after labeling England ...
    "[T]hey think the Palestinians are the underdog. In their eyes the Arabs are the underdog. Even though this is irrational. Take the Gaza Strip. We unilaterally evacuated the Gaza. We evacuated 8,000 settlers and it was very difficult… Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Co ...
  • Hezbollah: We have evidence linking Israel to Hari ...
    Ibrahim Mousawi said that the group's leader would reveal "thunderous news" in a press conference scheduled for Monday, presenting what he called "comprehensive, revealing conclusive information" linking Israel to Hariri's 2005 assassination. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Historical Notes

libcom

  • From Cordoba CNT-AIT, Solidarity in the conflict a ...
    P3300005.JPG The conflict started in the University of Córdoba where EULEN has a contract for maintenance and gardening services. After several unsatisified demands, a case was started against EULEN and ...
  • International Day of Strike and Action
    october7-2-v3-1.jpg In the United States, the Obama administration has led a direct attack on public education. Hundreds of schools have been closed across the country, tuitions are being raised, teacher ...
  • 1. Libertarian Media Fair for the German speaking ...
    banner_724.png Another blank area on the map of anarchist book fairs is about to be disappear with the 1. Libertäre Medienmesse (Anarchist media fair) taking place at Oberhausen, Germany from september 3 ...
  • UK strike roundup
    tmcprisonstrike_sheppey_4aug10_sm.jpg Recent weeks have seen a number of strikes and sucessful strike ballots in the UK Factory workers strike in Coventry Hundreds of employees of ...
  • Anarchist houseproject in flensburg (ger) raided b ...
    copcarfire.jpg On Wednesday July 28th, , 5 Police Officers of K5 (criminal investigation department – political Police) accomplished a house search at 'black mosquito – anarchist mailorder' in “Senffabr ...

Free Range International

  • The Good Don’t Always Die Young
    The Godfather of Free Range International – the man who pioneered the techniques, tactics and procedures we use to travel in remote districts was executed last week in Badakhshan Province. Dan Terry was a good man.  He was humble, self-effacing, and competent.  He lived in Afghanistan with his fam ...
  • Getting After It
    One of the Chim Chim’s dropped in for a visit last month.  He was on some sort of training inspection type team which I didn’t ask too much about and told us that every-time he asked officers from the unit he was looking at what they were doing the reply was “getting after it.”  They [...]
  • Losing Hearts and Minds
    Ben Arnoldy at the Christen Science Monitor penned an excellent tale on reconstruction efforts going pear shaped and the consequences resulting from such folly.  It is an excellent piece of reporting from one of the truly professional foreign correspondents working the country today.  The report was ...
  • Restrepo
    Last week Kanani Fong at The Kitchen Dispatch arranged an interview for me with Tim Hertherington, who along with Sebastian Junger produced the award winning documentary Restrepo.   Kanani signed onto the Restrepo team to spearhead a public relations effort, in conjunction with National Geographic, ...
  • Riding with Ghosts
    Editors Note:  This article is too good not to share in its entirety.  The reporter, Mitch Potter, was kind enough to give me permission to do so.  Mitch contacted me through the blog and Panjwaii Tim told me he was a great guy with lots of experience and knowledge who he was happy to host. [...]

The Story Behind the Story

  • Dov Zakheim Retires — OH PLEASE!!!!
    Dov Zakheim retires from Booz Allen Hamilton Jerry Mazza Online Journal Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:22 EDT For those of you who don’t know who Dov Zakheim is, let me refresh your memory. The ordained rabbi served as comptroller of the Pentagon from May 4, 2001, to March 10, 2004, when he resigned to go [... ...
  • OBAMA —- The Changeling
    Obama — The Changeling (Change you can REALLY Believe In.) By A. True Ott, PhD In a standard deck of playing cards, the Joker card is wild.  It can be anything you want or need it to be, from an ace to a lowly deuce.   Jokers are great to have in the deck when playing [...]
  • Washington Post Article — Post 9-11 World &# ...
    http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/ http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/a-hidden-world-growing-beyond-control/print/ A hidden world, growing beyond control Monday, July 19, 2010; 1:53 AM The top-secret world the government created in response to ...
  • America the Great??
    America is Great —– Because America is Good!! By  A. True Ott, PhD, June 1, 2010 The famous French statesman and historian Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) traveled widely through America in the year 1832.  Following his tour of America, he wrote extensively about what he saw and experienced here ...
  • Reuters on BP Manipulations by Paul Noel
    If you read this story (Link) http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64Q1KL20100527?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a49:g43:r2:c0.156425:b34398576:z0 You get a stunning story.  You find out that BP was buying up oil to cause the price to stay high.  In their fiscal emergency they are having to let the oil go and the ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

  • Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny hou ...
    Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plans fo ...
  • Air powered environmentally friendly car being pro ...
    Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re in ...
  • Deforestation – environmental & human effect ...
    There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain temper ...
  • Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here’s ...
    Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing to do ...
  • Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
    It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM says t ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Robert Fowler, Held Hostage by al Qaeda in Africa ...
    Kidnapped by al Qaeda. The very thought causes shudders. But it happened to this week's guest: one of Canada's former senior diplomats in Africa on a special mission for the United Nations. The challenge: solving a dispute between the government of Niger and the rebel movement MNJ. This week, the Un ...
  • Steve Nash, Two-time NBA MVP (Sept 19, 2009)
    He's one of the best basketball players on the planet, and he's made millions at it. But there's more to this week's guest than just the game. A lot more. This Canadian now makes his name on the courts, in the movies, and doing some pretty good things around the world. This week, he's our guest.
  • Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada (Sept ...
    We know it was a recession, but do we know if it's really a recovery? And what about that huge deficit? A dollar again approaching parity with its US counterpart? And the unemployment rate -- could it soon be in double digits? Difficult questions for this week's guest, the man who has to consider th ...
  • Dr. Shana Kelley, University of Toronto (October 3 ...
    Research labs around the world are on the constant hunt for new ways of fighting one of the world's great killers - cancer. In one lab in Toronto, exciting promise on a new technique for early detection. The possibilities are endless: for fighting cancer, and other diseases, both here in our world, ...
  • Dr. Susy Hota, Infectious Diseases Specialist (Oct ...
    Are you tired of hearing about HINI -- the swine flu? That's not surprising because there's been a half year of information coming your way -- some of it contradictory, much of it confusing. This week's guest helps us get down to basics -- what you need to know, and why you need to know it.

Scotts Contracting

  • Small Space Design Secrets and Photos
    How to incorporate function into small spaces. In the following article are photos and tips for creating useful space saving solutions for maximizing a Small Space. Scotts Contracting is available for the construction of your next project. Design Tricks For … Continue reading →
  • 8/8/2010 Update-Guest Post-Advertising Invitation- ...
    St Louis Renewable Energy Updates Aug 8, 2010- Advertising Fees Updated- Weekly-Monthly-Quarterly Fee Schedule If you would like to share your info here are some Web Page Analytics for St Louis Renewable Energy.Blog Spot July 8-Aug 7, 2010 1.952 Page … Continue reading →
  • Join the movement to Separate Oil and State!
    I’ve just joined Oil Change International in the movement to Separate Oil and State by writing my Representatives to demand that they stop taking cash from and giving cash to the oil industry. Go to http:/priceofoil.org/action and join us!
  • Dirty Money-Our Missouri Government Leaders
    Another Letter to: Rep. Russ Carnahan, Sen. Kit Bond, Sen. McCaskill, Dear Mr. Carnahan, Mr. Bond, and Ms, McCaskill- I encourage ‘Leading by Example’. When I read that my Elected Leaders have a combined Political Contributions of $455,759.00-From the Oil … Continue reading →
  • Fossil Fuel Subsidies
    What is a fossil fuel subsidy? A fossil fuel subsidy is any government action that lowers the cost of fossil fuel energy production, raises the price received by energy producers or lowers the price paid by energy consumers. How much … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

  • New Orleans Federal Judge to Hear Consolidated BP ...
    A federal judge in New Orleans will preside over the multidistrict litigation arising from the BP oil spill. On Tuesday, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ordered the wrongful death and economic and environmental damages actions against BP PLC and other defendants sent to U.S. Dist ...
  • In Ugly Economy, Age Bias Claims Are a Tough Sell
    As the recession grinds into its third year, the number of age bias suits is spiking in California. Few cases make it to a jury, and when they do, the awards have been modest. Employment lawyers say jurors -- many of whom have endured layoffs themselves -- aren't inclined to award large payouts to w ...
  • Alleged Effort to Push Generic Drug Deal Puts FTC ...
    Steven Sunshine was representing a generic drug company that was under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission for a private settlement over brand-name sleep disorder drug Provigil when an FTC official called him and asked about having his client team up with another generic drug maker to take ...
  • How Fulbright Transformed Its Document Review
    Attorney Laurie Weiss and Tom Barce of Fulbright & Jaworski describe how the firm's deployment of Recommind's Axcelerate eDiscovery with predictive coding functionality, concept clustering and data analytics automated e-discovery workflows and reduced the time and cost of document review.
  • Online Viewer of Child Pornography Ordered to Pay ...
    A man caught with pornographic images of a girl being sexually abused by her uncle has been ordered to pay restitution of nearly $50,000 to the victim, although the defendant has never met the uncle or the girl. A New York federal judge decided that a mere "consumer" of child pornography is culpable ...

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Climate Change for Dummies – Part II
    Unpacking the Carbon Cycle For me an understanding of the carbon cycle and the Ocean Conveyor Belt that oxygenates our oceans – which doesn’t rely on complex measurements or computer models – has been key to getting my head around the current climate change controversy. Thanks to the ABC documentary ...
  • Climate Change for Dummies - Part II
    Unpacking the Carbon Cycle For me an understanding of the carbon cycle and the Ocean Conveyor Belt that oxygenates our oceans – which doesn’t rely on complex measurements or computer models – has been key to getting my head around the current climate change controversy. Thanks to the ABC do ...
  • Climate Change for Dummies - Part I
    Maori TV (New Zealand’s alternative public TV station) played the fantastic ABC documentary Crude last week. I was in New Zealand when it first aired in 2007 and didn’t see it. The previews all make it out to be a crash course in geology – an explanation of how oil is laid down in the earth’ ...
  • Hugo Chavez vs Subcomandante Marcos
    Subcomandante Marcos Last night I dreamt that Subcomandante Marcos (the elusive Zapatista leader) was running against Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. I often have really bizarre dreams when I fall asleep to the BBC World Service (I know it’s a bad habit, but the cricket scores always send m ...
  • Toxic Skin Products: Buyer Beware!
    I am always on the look-out for good examples of medical censorship. Recently I came across a 2010 Friends of the Earth report on preliminary studies into the health effects of the nanosized particles present in many popular sunscreens and so called “natural” mineral foundations. sex sel ...

Free Movement

  • PBS decision not being appealed
    The Points Based System test case, Pankina, is not being appealed by UKBA. This has been confirmed by Treasury Solicitors. Interim guidance has apparently been issued to UKBA caseworkers. More information and links if/when I get a chance.
  • New rules sidestep Pankina and English UK
    The Government has laid a new Statement of Changes (HC 382) that incorporates the parts of the Points Based System policy guidance ruled unlawful in the Pankina and English UK cases. This reinstitutes the three month £800 requirement and the minimum of level of English language qualification require ...
  • More big cases
    I can’t keep up! If things ever quieten down I’ll do a few more weighty analysis posts but in the meantime these alerter ones must suffice. Firstly, the Medical Justice challenge to no-notice removals has succeeded: R (on the application of Medical Justice) v Secretary of State for the Home Departm ...
  • Damning reports by Chief Inspector
    The concisely monikered Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency yesterday published two very critical reports on UKBA operations. One was on the visa operation in Pakistan and the other was on removals of families. These reports were actually completed before the election, but publication was put ba ...
  • Right to work for asylum seekers confirmed
    The Home Office appeal to the Supreme Court in ZO (Somalia) [2010] UKSC 36 has been dismissed. This confirms that in cases where a fresh asylum claim has been made and no decision was reached for a year, the asylum seeker obtains a right to work under European law. This applies in the vast majority ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • The Tears of Gaza Must Be Our Tears
    Chris Hedges made these remarks Thursday night in New York City at a fundraiser for sponsoring a U.S. boat to break the blockade of Gaza. More information can be found at www.ustogaza.org . When I lived in Jerusalem I had a friend who confided in me that as a college student in the United States s ...
  • Revolution in the air
    Time is short. The stakes are enormous. The nation is angry. The jobs are dying. The mood is depressed. Democrats must get off their knees and fight. They should cancel the week of recess before Labor Day, go to the floor of Congress and fight for American jobs, rally the party base, and go to the c ...
  • The AIG Bailout Scandal
    The government’s $182 billion bailout of insurance giant AIG should be seen as the Rosetta Stone for understanding the financial crisis and its costly aftermath. The story of American International Group explains the larger catastrophe not because this was the biggest corporate bailout in history bu ...
  • Democracy Now! on George Weller's Censored Rep ...
  • A 99er Uprising? Those Without Unemployment Benefi ...
    Every movement has to begin somewhere, and sometimes several somewheres. The political reaction to the unemployment extension situation is no different. It is difficult to pinpoint where and when 99ers, the name acquired by the unemployment recipients who remain jobless after their benefits and emer ...

Salon

  • Clinton urges Iran to release political prisoners
    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday called on Iran to release all political prisoners and expressed alarm about the fate of several specific detainees.
  • "Randy" Paul denies drug-fueled cult kidnap
    Rand Paul categorically denies kidnapping and blindfolding a woman and forcing her to smoke from a bong and worship "Aqua Buddha."
  • Huge turnout for Colorado primary, Romanoff does F ...
    According to the Colorado secretary of state, as reported by the National Review , turnout for the Colorado primaries is on pace to exceed the 2008 record. Thirty-six percent of Democrats and 40 percent of Republicans have returned their ballots. (Most ballots were sent by mail.)
  • Let them play golf
    It's been a rough week for House Minority Leader John Boehner. On Tuesday he denounced the $26 billion state-aid bill, to stop the layoffs of teachers and other public employees, saving 300,000 jobs, as "irresponsible" and a "bailout to the teachers unions." (Remember? Frank Luntz told the boys t ...
  • Defiant Rangel: "Fire your best shot"
    Despite warnings from friends not to speak out, embattled Rep. Charlie Rangel took to the House floor early this afternoon and insisted that he won't resign -- and dared his colleagues to kick him out.

SMB News

  • Do they lock Geo More news from Zardari to throw s ...
    Karachi: Geo News blocked the transfer of the road at night in a cold portion of the new country after the news sent threw shoes at President Zardari’s party time in Birmingham, Geo News reported sources as kabelexploitanten zeggend. Meanwhile, many of the singer kabelexploitanten in Karachi was bad ...
  • News unrest throw shoes around the resort for PPP
    LONDON, PPP activists, that anger has riots, arson, and Karachi and the country’s answer to the remaining sadness news, President Asif Ali Zardari that they air during the party, its Birmingham, Sunday morning, said the old shoes make a show. All newspapers and newspaper vendors, robed Thenews Jang ...
  • Strike, Shangla / 145 due to rain, floods, mounted ...
    SWAT unprecedented rain and flood of a permanent, a devastating flood was to strike at any time, Shangla and Malakand divisions, including the destruction is open to all Pakhtunkhwa khyber,  News Smbarticles said Sat 300 innocent people in both communities, with more rain and floods, and the flesh o ...
  • Outbreak of diseases, such as toll from floods up ...
    Islamabad / Peshawar: The death toll from the worst flood in living memory of the 1400 outbreak of waterborne disease is crowned Sunday broke and poor, the survivors refuge from the raging torrents. “Floods have killed more than 1,100 people in various parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa affected and more t ...
  • E.U. It is a party to negotiations in Afghanistan: ...
    Washington: Senate Foreign Relations Committee president John Kerry insisted on Sunday that the United States is a party in any negotiations with the Taliban in Afghanistan, adding that opponents information about troops in Afghanistan, but military commanders on the ground and asked to help. CNN Fa ...

    Blacklisted News

  • The Dark Side of Vitamin Water
    Now here’s something you wouldn’t expect. Coca-Cola is being sued by a non-profit public interest group, on the grounds that the company’s vitaminwater products make unwarranted health claims. No surprise there. But how do you think the company is defending itself?
  • Iran says to drop trade in 'filthy' dollar, euro
    Iran is to stop all trade and oil exports in dollars and euros in retaliation against Western sanctions over its nuclear programme, a top official was quoted as saying Tuesday.
  • Many Girls Now Begin Puberty at Age 7, 8
    Scientists have proved for the first time that a cheap form of sugar used in thousands of food products and soft drinks can damage human metabolism and is fueling the obesity crisis.
  • How Disney Magic and the Corporate Media Shape You ...
  • Pentagon to shut military command, cut jobs
    Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he hoped the shakeup would show Congress that the Pentagon would spend tax dollars wisely during tough economic times and address long-standing concerns about wasteful expenditure.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • US-Iran 'double swap' points to peace
    Summary: Kaveh L Afrasiabi In light of the recent slew of sanctions after sanctions imposed by the United Nations, the United States, the European Union, Canada, Australia and others, its seems that chariots are blazing down the fork in the road toward more conflict. However, there is a glimmer ...
  • Producing good while scheming ill
    Summary: It is painful that the present circumstances get more and more out of hand; it is painful that despite all advances of the modern man, it is still so difficult to find the truth of a case; it is painful that the idea of war and military attack has been so frequently mentioned in politic ...
  • Targeting Iran: Is the U.S. administration plannin ...
    Summary: Hiroshima, 9 August 1945 The US and its allies are preparing to launch a nuclear war directed against Iran with devastating consequences.This military adventure in the real sense of the word threatens the future of humanity. While one can conceptualize the loss of life and destruction r ...
  • It’s the intangibles that count with Iran
    Summary: Rami Khouri My main conclusion is that the Iranian-American tensions and their ramifications will not be resolved mainly through technical negotiations that reflect cost-benefit analyses by both sides. Rather, they will be resolved when both sides achieve their bottom line national inte ...
  • Fidel Castro calls on the World to persuade Obama ...
    Summary: Fidel Castro Former Cuban President Fidel Castro has delivered a speech to the country's parliament to warn against US threats against Iran and the danger of a global nuclear war that could lead to a "nuclear holocaust": “President Barack Obama is the one who would give the order to st ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • The Milky Way Orbit Biodiversity Link (A 'Galaxy' ...
    If future studies confirm a Milky Way galaxy-biodiversity link, it would force scientists to broaden their ideas about what can influence life on Earth. "Maybe it's not just the climate and the tectonic events on Earth," says UK paleontologist Bruce...
  • Hitchhiker's Guide to Clouds of the Solar System
    Scientists have observed Earth-borne bacteria surviving high in the clouds or in acidic environments, and the fact we haven't seen both at the same time is only because Earth doesn't have places like that. Some suggest that Venus's conversion from...
  • "The Earth Strain" -Spreading Life To The Stars
    When the Apollo 11 astronauts splashed down in the Pacific they were immediately whisked off into quarantine, spending three weeks in a rather unglamorous steel shell for fear that they'd contracted lethal space-plagues. A recent paper by Professor Cockell of...
  • Has the Missing Link Between Organic and Inorganic ...
    Philosophers and scientists have argued about the origins of life from inorganic matter ever since Empedocles (430 B.C.) argued that every thing in the universe is made up of a combination of four eternal 'elements' or 'roots of all': earth,...
  • EcoAlert: Massive Greenland Glacier Sheds a 100 Sq ...
    "In the early morning hours of August 5, 2010, an ice island four times the size of Manhattan was born in northern Greenland," said Andreas Muenchow, associate professor of physical ocean science and engineering at the University of Delaware's College...

Natural News

  • US almond growers achieve court victory in fight a ...
    (NaturalNews) Three years after the USDA destroyed the U.S. raw almond business by forcing almond producers to fumigate or pasteurize their nuts, a significant victory has been achieved that could overturn that onerous regulation. A federal appeals court has ruled that California almond farmers may ...
  • Vitamin C puts the brakes on cancer cell growth
    (NaturalNews) A half century ago, Linus Pauling began his pioneering research into how vitamin C impacts health (http://www.naturalnews.com/025802.html). Now, almost 25 years after Pauling's death, a new study backs up his contention that vitamin C has remarkable healing and protective benefits. In ...
  • Some experts say barefoot is best for small childr ...
    (NaturalNews) Many parents love to buy cute shoes for their small children, but some experts are now warning that doing so may disrupt a child's cerebral development The best option, they say, is to let children simply walk barefoot. Tracy Byrne, a podiatrist specializing in podopediatrics, explaine ...
  • Vitaminwater revealed as non-healthy beverage by C ...
    (NaturalNews) Do you ever wonder things like "Who is actually gullible enough to think that Vitaminwater is healthy?" Although that question may seem demeaning or even arrogant, it turns out that the Coca-Cola company (which owns the Vitaminwater brand) is essentially asking that exact question. How ...
  • White button mushrooms enhance the immune system t ...
    (NaturalNews) Scientists have long known that certain types of mushrooms have anti-tumor activity. But what about widely available, common white button mushrooms (WBMs)? Known by the botanical name Agaricus bisporus , they are a tasty addition to everything from salads to pizzas -- and, it turns out ...

Threat Level

  • ‘John Doe’ Who Fought FBI Spying Freed From Gag Or ...
    The owner of an internet service provider who mounted a high-profile court challenge to a secret FBI records demand has finally been partially released from a 6-year-old gag order that forced him to keep his role in the case a secret from even his closest friends and family. He can now identify him ...
  • Comcast.net Hijacker Gets 4 Months
    A former member of the hacker gang Kryogeniks was sentenced to four months in prison Monday for his role in a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast’s homepage with a shout-out to other hackers. James Robert Black Jr., 21,was known as “Defiant” when he and two other hackers hijacked Comcast’s domain nam ...
  • FBI Lab Gives Short Shrift to Missing Persons Case ...
    The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving short shrift to processing DNA from missing persons cases, taking as long as two years to handle profiles, according to a Department of Justice Office of Inspector General report. Overall, about 40 percent of the FBI’s backlog of processing 3,200 DNA pro ...
  • Suspect in $9 Million RBS WorldPay Hack Extradited ...
    One of the alleged ringleaders behind the 2008 hack of RBS WorldPay has been extradited to the U.S., where he was arraigned Friday in the Northern District of Georgia on charges that he helped coordinate the global $9.5 million bank card heist. Sergei Tsurikov, 26, of Tallinn, Estonia, has been cha ...
  • Appeals Court Rules Against Secret Police GPS Trac ...
    A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the police can’t covertly track a suspect’s car using a GPS device for an extended period of time without getting a warrant. The ruling in the D.C. Court of Appeals overturned the conviction of a suspected cocaine dealer, saying that the use of a secret GPS ...

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  • GOP Repeats Balanced Budget Amendment Farce
    Historical events, it is said, occur twice: first as tragedy, then as farce. Sometimes, though, as with the latest Republican call for a balanced budget amendment , the farce is double. Even as they call for a budget busting $700 billion tax cut windfall for the wealthiest two percent of Americans ...
  • Media Push Trickle-Down Tax Cuts for the Rich
    At a time of record income inequality and massive budget deficits , how do you justify a $700 billion plus tax cut for the wealthiest Americans? By claiming that the fate of the economic recovery depends on the rich - and the rich alone . And with the very top income earners facing a return of the ...
  • Watergate Deniers Whitewashing History at Nixon Li ...
    Back in 2007, the National Archives took over the Richard Nixon Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California. Among its first tasks in setting the historical record straight regarding the Richard Nixon Foundation's presentation of Watergate as "a 'coup' engineered by Nixon enemies." Now three ye ...
  • On Deficits, Republicans Can't Hide Their Ryan Eye ...
    The two weeks have not been kind to the ersatz deficit hawks of the Republican Party. First, the preposterous claims of John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and the legion of new Republican alchemists that tax cuts pay for themselves were thoroughly debunked . Making matters worse, Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) ...
  • Romer's Legacy: The Stimulus That Might Have Been
    On the day Christina Romer had the unenviable task of announcing another grim jobs report , Americans learned the chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisers is leaving the Obama administration . Coming just weeks after the departure of popular Obama budget chief Peter Orszag, Romer's exit will ...

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • Netroots Nation Day Dos
    Melissa Sanchez of Public Citizen Texas tells us about karaoke last night, Van Jones, and lots of good panels today. Links: Van Jones Breakfast Keynote this morning Speaking in Tongues movie site Se y’all tomorrow for our final update from Vegas. Filed under: green jobs Tagged: climate change, docum ...
  • Smitty: Austin and San Antonio took different path ...
    This is Andy checking in from Vegas and Netroots Nation: sheesh, we leave Texas for a few days and the wheels start to come off the bus, don’t they?  Of course, our fearless and tireless leader, Tom “Smitty” Smith is there to handle everything, as he has done for the last 2 and a half [...]
  • What’s the frequency, Kenneth? In this case it’s 6 ...
    Come close together, cats and kitties, and gather ’round, while the Powerman gets his story-telling hat- the one with the fine white brim- slips it on and talks about what’s going down with a happening riff:, with a tip o’ the hat to Lord Buckley for those yet to be hip to the flip, we [...]
  • Ramon A Sanchez: Solar Intern at Public Citizen [F ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Ramon Sanchez majors in math at the University of Texas at Austin.
  • Ali Rawaf: Media and Campaign Finance Intern at Pu ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Ali Rawaf studies Government and International Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Climate

  • August 11, 2010
    Storm Delays BP Relief Well by 2-3 Days (Reuters) An approaching storm in the Gulf will delay by two to three days BP's work on a relief well, the final step in permanently killing the source of the world's worst offshore oil spill, the top U.S. spill official said on Tuesday. Louisian ...
  • August 10, 2010
    BP Moves to Well Kill and Kicks Off Compensation Fund (Reuters) BP advanced on the final lap toward permanently killing the source of the Gulf oil spill and kicked off a $20 billion compensation fund with a $3 billion initial deposit on Monday. Enbridge to Begin Repairing Line (Calgary ...
  • August 9, 2010
    Browner: Energy Bill Success Still Possible Before End of the Year (The Hill) White House Energy Adviser Carol Browner said Sunday that while the Obama administration is "deeply disappointed" that an energy bill was unable to make its way through Congress, the president has not given up ho ...
  • August 7-8, 2010
    Huge Ice Island Calves Off Greenland Glacier (Reuters) An ice island four times the size of Manhattan broke off from one of Greenland's two main glaciers, scientists said on Friday, in the biggest such event in the Arctic in nearly 50 years. Markey: Warming Skeptics Should Move to Ice I ...
  • August 6, 2010
    U.S. Changes Plan for Capturing Emissions From Coal (New York Times) The Energy Department abruptly shifted course on Thursday on a flagship federal effort to capture and sequester carbon dioxide from coal plants, saying it would not finance construction of a new plant in Mattoon, Ill.  ...

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  • Election Night Thread
    I would say it has been a bad night for the Republicans, and it could get worse. Down in Georgia, the run-off race for governor is so close that it could be headed to an Franken-Coleman style recount. Likewise, in Colorado, Dan Maes, the UN-bicycle conspiracist, has a 600 vote lead in the gubernat ...
  • Too Funny
    My life is complete. I can retire now.
  • The Morally Upright Newt
    Newt is such a classy guy. He divorced his first wife (his high school geometry teacher, who he started dating when he was sixteen years-old) while she was recovering from uterine cancer. Then he dumped his second wife at the same moment she discovered she had multiple sclerosis. But he told her ...
  • Three Questions, Pt 1.: Can we?
    Part I of III When caught at something, I believe it's always best to come clean. And so, I must admit that I've been caught by the Crow, who in a post responding to my earlier post about power outages and our politics of powerlessness saw where I've been going with some of my posts, and asks ...
  • Gibbs Walks it Back
    I got this directly from the White House New Media shop. I watch too much cable, I admit. Day after day it gets frustrating. Yesterday I watched as someone called legislation to prevent teacher layoffs a bailout -- but I know that's not a view held by many, nor were the views I was frustrated abo ...

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Futurismic

  • Personal Information: episode 24
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy: Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
  • Arguments against life extension
    Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate tow ...
  • Daddy, where does innovation come from?
    Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor that h ...
  • Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
    Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of years ...
  • How to be a futurist
    The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...] Follow ...

Therapy News

  • Anger Management Counseling: Necessary for Both Me ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline When anger management is mentioned, people may assume the clients entering this type of counseling are men, but women struggle with managing anger, too. An increasing number of women’s anger management groups are popping up around the country. Just as the causes and m ...
  • Thin Eats Fat – And the Practice of Mindfulness
    By Yael Schweitzer, LCSW, BC-DMT, Mindfulness Based Approaches / Contemplative Approaches Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Yael and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Joseph, the beloved son of Jacob was famous for his ability to interpret dreams. The biblical story tells us that when ...
  • Addressing Psychological Health Needs Within the F ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Children in the foster care system are at risk for a number of both short- and long-term mental health issues. This is even more the case for kids who were maltreated before entering foster care. Among these kids, depression is particularly prominent, and untreated thr ...
  • Depression, Mania, and Eating Disorders
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A survey of more than 800 people with symptoms of bipolar (frequent changes between depression and mania, or low and high moods) finds that people with these traits are more likely than the general population to struggle with an eating disorder. Binge eating disorder ...
  • Whiffling Through the Tulgey Wood
    By Yvonne Sinclair M.A., MFCC Click here to contact Yvonne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Alice seemed confused, as was I, when the Hatter told her she was “much muchier before.” When he pointed to her indicating the “muchness” came from inside, I began to wonder. What is this “muchness?” Do ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • McKinley Touts Coal As Answer - Wheeling News Regi ...
    Change.org (blog) McKinley Touts Coal As Answer Wheeling News Register And McKinley supports the idea of mountaintop removal mining. "I don't know of a better way to get coal out of the ground," he said. ... Big Coal Wants To Mine Away Dark History at 1920s Labor Battle Site Change.org (blog) New c ...
  • Rand Paul's anonymous accuser - Salon
    Rand Paul's anonymous accuser Salon To use Paul's phrase on mountaintop removal mining: who cares about a little hill (of possible bullshit) here and there? based on on his up-front, ... and more��
  • Democrats, Mountain Party Senate candidates oppose ...
    Democrats, Mountain Party Senate candidates oppose cap and trade Charleston Gazette His campaign focuses almost solely on his opposition to mountaintop removal , the practice in which mine operators blast off hilltops, dumping rock and dirt ... and more��
  • Rand Paul: Mountaintop Removal Increases Land Valu ...
    Kansas City Star Rand Paul: Mountaintop Removal Increases Land Value The State Column (blog) In an upcoming interview with a Kentucky magazine, Republican Rand Paul expresses his view on mountaintop removal –a controversial process of extracting ... Rand Paul: Government should not regulate mine in ...
  • Selenium hearing is underway in federal court - We ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) Selenium hearing is underway in federal court West Virginia Public Broadcasting Selenium is a naturally-occurring element that ends up in rivers and streams when rock and soil from mountaintop removal sites are discarded. ... Patriot Coal's selenium cleanup lags, court tol ...

Memeorandum

  • For Those With Jobs, a Recession With Some Benefit ...
    David Leonhardt / New York Times : For Those With Jobs, a Recession With Some Benefits   —  One of the distinctive features of the Great Recession has been the enormous number of people who have been out of work for months on end.  Almost 45 percent of today's unemployed workers have been without a ...
  • Deal stops short of declaring victory (Gmathis/Geo ...
    Gmathis / Georgia Elections News : Deal stops short of declaring victory   —  Republican Nathan Deal stopped short of proclaiming victory over Karen Handel late Tuesday night in the GOP gubernatorial runoff.  —  The former congressman said he was “encouraged by the numbers.”  —  With 99 percent of ...
  • Bennet wins; Buck leads (Jennifer Brown/Denver Pos ...
    Jennifer Brown / Denver Post : Bennet wins; Buck leads   —  Former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff has conceded to Sen. Michael Bennet in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, an hour after polls closed tonight.  —  Supporters at Bennet's watch party at Mile High Station were giddy and shout ...
  • Levi Johnston for mayor. . . really (Michael Schne ...
    Michael Schneider / Variety : Levi Johnston for mayor. . . really   —  Reality show follows Palin player's bid for office  —  Levi Johnston is setting his sights on the dysfunctional family business.  —  Johnston will run for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska — yes, the same job that propelled Sarah Palin ...
  • Large Number of Governors' Races Grips Both Partie ...
    Monica Davey / New York Times : Large Number of Governors' Races Grips Both Parties   —  CHICAGO — For all the talk of midterm elections and control of Congress, the political parties are obsessing this year more than ever over the nation's 37 races for governor.  —  The Republican Governors Assoc ...

Energy & Environment News

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  • M 5.1, Vanuatu
    Tuesday, August 10, 2010 11:49:18 UTC Tuesday, August 10, 2010 10:49:18 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
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    Tuesday, August 10, 2010 09:53:59 UTC Tuesday, August 10, 2010 08:53:59 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
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    Monday, August 9, 2010 03:34:15 UTC Monday, August 9, 2010 10:34:15 AM at epicenter Depth : 594.90 km (369.65 mi)
  • M 5.0, eastern Xizang
    Monday, August 9, 2010 02:54:52 UTC Monday, August 9, 2010 10:54:52 AM at epicenter Depth : 52.80 km (32.81 mi)
  • M 5.2, Guam region
    Saturday, August 7, 2010 11:17:58 UTC Saturday, August 7, 2010 09:17:58 PM at epicenter Depth : 50.10 km (31.13 mi)

China Dialogue

  • A delicate balance
    Environmental activists have united with industrialists to oppose a World Bank study into a project to transport water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea. Harriet Sherwood reports. In a plastic-lined hole in a spit of sand stretching out into the Dead Sea , something is growing in the water. Flo ...
  • Mining for data
    The financial and political backlash against Chinese metals giant Zijin following its toxic spill in Fujian underscores the value to investors of environmental transparency, argues Ina Pozon. When news first broke that Zijin Mining Group was forced to shut down its copper plant in Shanghang in China ...
  • The dark side of the boom
    Amid a booming economy, polluting factories in China’s rural communities are forming a deadly toxic cocktail for villagers, leading to surging rates of cancer. Jonathan Watts reports. Zheng Gumei thought she was down with a cold until the doctor told her to wait outside the room so he could talk to ...
  • Minding the enforcement gap
    The dismissal of six environmental-protection officials in Anhui – simply for doing their job – is a sorry reminder of the chasm between central government ambition and local realities, says Ma Jun. On June 17, China Central Television (CCTV) reported that six environmental-protection officials in G ...
  • Power shift
    Two US researchers have declared that solar electricity in their home state is now cheaper than next-generation nuclear power. Olivia Boyd looks at their study – and its global implications. The sunshine of North Carolina , a state on America’s Atlantic seaboard, has long been a draw for tourists se ...

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Threat Level

  • ‘John Doe’ Who Fought FBI Spying Freed From Gag Or ...
    The owner of an internet service provider who mounted a high-profile court challenge to a secret FBI records demand has finally been partially released from a 6-year-old gag order that forced him to keep his role in the case a secret from even his closest friends and family. He can now identify him ...
  • Comcast.net Hijacker Gets 4 Months
    A former member of the hacker gang Kryogeniks was sentenced to four months in prison Monday for his role in a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast’s homepage with a shout-out to other hackers. James Robert Black Jr., 21,was known as “Defiant” when he and two other hackers hijacked Comcast’s domain nam ...
  • FBI Lab Gives Short Shrift to Missing Persons Case ...
    The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving short shrift to processing DNA from missing persons cases, taking as long as two years to handle profiles, according to a Department of Justice Office of Inspector General report. Overall, about 40 percent of the FBI’s backlog of processing 3,200 DNA pro ...
  • Suspect in $9 Million RBS WorldPay Hack Extradited ...
    One of the alleged ringleaders behind the 2008 hack of RBS WorldPay has been extradited to the U.S., where he was arraigned Friday in the Northern District of Georgia on charges that he helped coordinate the global $9.5 million bank card heist. Sergei Tsurikov, 26, of Tallinn, Estonia, has been cha ...
  • Appeals Court Rules Against Secret Police GPS Trac ...
    A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the police can’t covertly track a suspect’s car using a GPS device for an extended period of time without getting a warrant. The ruling in the D.C. Court of Appeals overturned the conviction of a suspected cocaine dealer, saying that the use of a secret GPS ...

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IntelNews

  • German ex-spies to be fined for advertising skills ...
    By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | At least a dozen German former intelligence officers are to face disciplinary action after they were found advertising their past spy careers on a job-seekersâ professional networking Web site. The German government authorized the … Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #411
    Third Lebanese telecom worker charged with spying for Israel. A Lebanese prosecutor has charged a third state telecommunications employee with spying for Israel. Milad Eid, who worked at the state-owned fixed-line operator Ogero, is accused of “dealing with the Israeli … Continue reading →
  • Mossad operative to avoid jail in extradition deal
    By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | An operative of Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, who was arrested in Poland on charges of forging a German passport, will avoid prison time for the offense, under a suspected Polish-German-Israeli secret deal. The man, … Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #410
    Clapper confirmed as US DNI in Senate-White House deal. Retired general James Clapper has been unanimously confirmed by the Senate as US National Intelligence Director, after a series of last-minute deals between objecting Republican Senators and the White House, which nominated Clapper several mont ...
  • Swapped spy says he is not Russian, wants to move ...
    By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | One of the 11 Russian spies arrested in the US in June, and later swapped with CIA assets held in Russian prisons, claims he is not Russian, speaks no Russian, and wants to move to Peru, where he lived in the 1970s. Juan Lazaro was arrested by the FBI [...]

After Downing Street.org

  • 50 States & Congress: Legislating
    Not just Virginia!! EDITORIAL: A lesson about legislating: Bizarre U.S. Navy Vets story should give Virginians pause. � Aug. 10 2010 -- The latest turn in the increasingly bizarre U.S. Navy Veterans Association saga should make no one feel good about Virginia's legislative process. When a Florida ne ...
  • Sir John Chilcot wants soldiers
    Chilcot inquiry wants evidence from Iraq war veterans Sir John Chilcot wants soldiers – past and present – to have 'their voices heard' on how campaign was run. 11 August 2010 - The Iraq inquiry's chairman today invited British veterans of the conflict to submit their views on how the war was run. S ...
  • Guantanamo Trial: Omar Khadr
    First Guantanamo Trial Under Obama Opens � Courtroom sketch of Canadian defendant Omar Khadr (l) at his pre-trial hearing in the courthouse for the U.S. military war crimes commission at the Camp Justice compound on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, 9 Aug 2010. 10 August 2010 - Jury selection ...
  • America's Gulf: A Toxic Crime Scene
    America's Gulf: A Toxic Crime Scene - by Stephen Lendman On August 4, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a Department of Commerce agency, reported that: "The vast majority of the oil from the BP oil spill has either evaporated or been burned, skimmed, recovered from the well ...
  • Obama Versus Obama

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  • New Walk Score assumes you won’t swim to the ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. I love the simplicity of Walk Score , the tool that calculates how walkable a neighborhood is and ranks it on a 100-point scale. For example, Washington Square in Manhattan gets a rare 100 , while the rural town of Washington, Conn., gets an 18 . And I love how transparent Wa ...
  • Does one bad-ass summer prove climate change?
    by Randy Rieland. It's been a brutal summer. Hellish heat and smog in Russia . Apocalyptic floods in Pakistan . Monstrous mudslides in China . And yesterday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that this May to July has been the hottest three month span on record in t ...
  • Moscow deaths double in Russia’s ‘wors ...
    by Agence France-Presse. MOSCOW, Russia -- The daily mortality rate in Moscow has doubled and morgues are overflowing amid an acrid smog caused by the worst heat wave in Russia's thousand-year history, officials said Monday. The smog from the peat and forest fires burning in the countryside a ...
  • The spill is gone, but uncertainty haunts the Gulf
    by Randy Rieland. The "Where's the oil?" rant made for good headlines. But two tougher questions about the Gulf Coast are floating out there and neither will get an answer any time soon: Will life under the sea be permanently changed by the massive amount of oil and dispersants dumped into it? ...
  • BP relief well to be ready this week; Obama praise ...
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- BP's relief well on Monday was days away from intercepting the blown-out Macondo well shaft and conducting the "bottom kill," as President Obama welcomed news that the battle with the undersea gusher "is just about over." With U.S. incident commander Thad ...

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Washington Independent

  • Rangel Mars Passage of Dem’s State Aid Bill
    With the House reconvened in a special session to pass a crucial state aid bill yesterday, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) took to the floor to deliver a rambling and emotional 37 minute long defense of the ethics charges held against him — against the wishes of Democratic leadership and his own lawyer ...
  • Yesterday’s Primary Roundup
    The story out of Colorado is that the Tea Party’s favored Republicans will face the Democrats’ chosen candidates in November, while Connecticut Republican senate candidate Linda McMahon won her race and the Georgia GOP governors’ runoff is still too close to call. From Colorado, the victories of Tea ...
  • As Midterm Campaigning Heats Up, Anti-Abortion Adv ...
    “I think that the groups that are doing this have a political agenda and it’s a partisan political agenda and they’re not particularly interested in the truth," says Timothy Jost, law professor.
  • Pelosi: Obama Administration Will ‘Restore&# ...
    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) just sent out a statement responding to criticism for renewable energy advocates about the state aid bill that passed earlier today. As I noted in a previous blog, the renewable energy industry is furious that the bill cut $1.5 billion in energy loan guarantees ...
  • Obama Signs State Aid Bill Into Law
    This afternoon, President Obama signed the $26.1 billion state aid bill into law — meaning local governments will get some immediate fiscal relief. The bill is estimated to save or create 300,000 jobs. The House had reconvened, interrupting the six-week August recess, to pass the provision earlier t ...

Digg Green

Invisible Opportunity

  • Murder of Aid Workers in Afghanistan A Convenient ...
    By Cheryl Beckett The tragic murder of 10 medical workers in northern Afghanistan could very well have been done by thugs and thieves or is there a military/CIA/Mossad psyops at work? A mysterious Taliban leader, Zabihullah Mujahed, reached by phone from an unknown location said the group claimed re ...
  • Hezbollah chief: Israel killed Hariri
    Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah accused Israel on Monday of having been behind the 2005 killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. “We accuse the Israeli enemy of this assassination,” said Nasrallah, who spoke with reporters in Beirut via a video link from an undisclosed location. “Is ...
  • Climate Change Fraud – US Government in Mass ...
    By John O’Sullivan Global warming data apparently cooked by U.S. government-funded body shows astounding temperature fraud with increases averaging 10 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit. The tax-payer funded National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has become mired in fresh global warming data s ...
  • Biofuels emit 400 percent more CO2 than regular fu ...
    By Ethan Huff A recent report issued by the European Union has revealed that biofuels, or fuel made from living, renewable sources, is not really all that beneficial to the environment. Rather than reduce the net carbon footprint as intended, biofuels can produce four times more carbon dioxide pollu ...
  • Vitaminwater revealed as non-healthy beverage by C ...
    By Mike Adams Do you ever wonder things like “Who is actually gullible enough to think that Vitaminwater is healthy?” Although that question may seem demeaning or even arrogant, it turns out that the Coca-Cola company (which owns the Vitaminwater brand) is essentially asking that exact question. How ...

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 ...

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Twilight Earth

  • BP’s Getting All Cap-Happy (cartoon)
    If only BP would put all of this new found cap success to work to stop other toxic gushers… Follow Joe on Twitter @GreenCartoons Follow all of his green cartooning at JoeMohrToons.com. Related posts:Monsanto: They Made good WMD’s–I bet They Make Healthy Food! (cartoon) If Climate Change Was ...
  • If Climate Change Was a Dog (cartoon)
    We did know about climate change back in the 50’s, as evidenced by this Frank Capra Video on Global Warming. But even though it was a monster of a dog back then, it was still just a harmless little puppy. Today, well, it’s different. And I don’t know how much I trust the little man controlling [... ...
  • Genetically Modified Truths (cartoon)
    The biotech and agrochemical industries are KILLING us! Well, atleast they are well aware of that and are working hard to clean up their act. Oh wait, now I’m not telling the truth… More relevant info: The Killing Fields of Multi-National Corporations How Toxins Are Making Our Children Chronical ...
  • Fragile Day Song by Wilderland Benefits Gulf BP Oi ...
    The Song Fragile Day by Wilderland is going to benefit the Gulf BP oil spill cleanup efforts. Related posts: NOAA Collecting Seafloor and Water Column BP Oil Spill Data Shell is Busy Today Cleaning up its Mess – 1,400 Barrels in the Gulf BP Oil Spill Gushing 10 Times More Oil Than Official Es ...
  • Ashley Judd on her Hillbilly Pride and Mountain To ...
    Ashely Judd is a Hillbilly, and proud of it! She's on a mission to protect her heritage from the devastation of Mountain Top Removal. Related posts: Ending Streamlined Mountaintop Coal Removal Permits Is Not Enough Idaho Wolf Hunt Video with Ashley Judd and Defenders of Wildlife Wendys Rest ...

Inhabitat

  • World’s Largest Artwork Created on Frozen Lake Bai ...
    Read the rest of World’s Largest Artwork Created on Frozen Lake Baikal!http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: anthropologie, art info, ar ...
  • Italy’s Tilting Hypo Alpe-Adria Bank Creates its O ...
    Read the rest of Italy’s Tilting Hypo Alpe-Adria Bank Creates its Own Shadehttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architectu ...
  • Get a “Bike-Safe” Sticker for Your Vehicle
    Show your solidarity for your brothers and sisters on two wheels with a sticker that encourages safe driving and safe cycling. More than 44,000 cyclists are injured in traffic accidents every year, with over 700 fatalities, according to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration. As a ...
  • Crank-Powered Sidewinder Purifies Water With UV Li ...
    For outdoorsy people who hate bothering with packs of environmentally-unfriendly plastic water bottles, we’ve got a great alternative that’s sure to quench your thirst. Recently debuted at this year’s Outdoor Retailer Expo, SteriPEN’s new Sidewinder portable water purifier is an ingenious product th ...
  • Ecosystem: 100% Recycled Paper Notebooks in Vibran ...
    If you’re feeling bummed about having to head back to school (yes, it’s almost that time already!), cheer yourself up with these vibrant and stylish notebooks, planners and journals from ecosystem. Made from 100% post-consumer recycled paper, they’re clearly a smarter choice than notebooks that are ...

Pogue's Posts

  • At Snopes.com, Rumors Are Held Up to the Light
    David Pogue interviews David Mikkelson of Snopes.com, where Internet veterans go to get the truth about online rumors.
  • Q&A: Rumors, Cyberbullying and Anonymity
    David Pogue talks to John Palfrey, Harvard Law School professor, co-director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and author of "Born Digital."
  • Loosening the iPhone Death Grip
    Predictably, Mr. Jobs's gesture did nothing to satisfy the most vocal Apple bashers, but most reasonable people will agree that this is a decent good-faith gesture on Apple's part.
  • What Isn't There an App For?
    Surely there are apps no one has invented yet. What do you want on your phone?
  • Line2 Phone App Gets Even Better
    Line2, iPhone app that makes and receive calls either using the AT&T airwaves or the Internet, now takes calls automatically over Wi-Fi so you don't use any AT&T minutes at all.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Asteroid Crater Hunting From Your Home
    Just days after a Google Earth–aided discovery of a meteor impact was announced in Science, yet another crater has been found using Google Maps and open-access software. The age of armchair crater hunting has arrived. Physicist Amelia Sparavigna of Politecnico di Torino in Italy found a 6-mile-wide ...
  • Russian Heat, Asian Floods May Be Linked
    Russia’s killer heat wave and monster South Asian monsoon floods could be more than isolated examples of extreme weather. Though separated by a continent, they could be linked. Monsoon rains drive air upward, and that air has to come down somewhere. It usually comes down over the Mediterranean, pro ...
  • Russian Fires Approach Nuclear Plants
    Russia is, at the time of writing, being consumed by wildfires caused by the worst heatwave the country has endured in a millennia. A state of emergency has been declared in 35 regions of the country — seven for the fires themselves, and another 28 for crop failures caused by the [...]
  • Removing a Barrier to Regrowing Organs
    Disabling an evolutionary backup plan for protecting against cancer could be part of a future means to regrow lost limbs or regenerate damaged organs. A protein called ARF, which acts as a fail-safe mechanism to protect against cancer, also prevents regeneration in mammals, a study published August ...
  • Science + Geek + Beer = Awesomely Geeky Science Be ...
    << previous image | next image >> SAN FRANCISCO — What do you get if you cross a beer geek with a science geek? Really good beers with really geeky names. I’ve already proven the connection between beer and geologists, but the number of brews out there with awesomely geeky s ...

The Progressive Realist

  • An Opportunity to Demilitarize Public Diplomacy
    Last week, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) convened the third annual Magharebia.com Writers Workshop. The workshop is a professional development course for new and established writers for AFRICOM's Maghreb-centered news and information website, www.Magharebia.com . According to AFRICOM public affairs, ...
  • Gitmo Inmate Omar Khadr: A Lose-Lose Situation
    The trial of Gitmo detainee Omar Khadr, the first of the administration's revised military commissions, was always going to be a lose-lose situation if it ever actually took place. Khadr is accused of throwing the grenade that killed U.S. Army Specialist Christopher Speer during a firefight in Afgh ...
  • Conflicting Comments in Iranian State Media Over W ...
    Ramin Mehmanparast, spokesperson for Iranâs Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said August 10 that Iran is ready to resume talks with the Vienna group about providing fuel for Tehranâs nuclear reactor, but only based upon conditions Iran outlined in the Tehran Declaration. But Ali-Asghar Soltanieh, I ...
  • Iran, Syria and Turkey vs. the PKK
    Syrian forces detained 400 people last month in connection with the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Meanwhile Syria, Turkey and Iran have seemingly stepped up their coordinated response to the militant group. In an e-mail interview, Aliza Marcus, a writer based in Washington, and the auth ...
  • Continued Problems Integrating the Sons of Iraq
    SOI manning a checkpoint south of Baghdad, August 2010 The new Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) report to Congress notes continued problems integrating the Sons of Iraq (SOI). In 2009 the Americans transferred control of the SOI to Baghdad. The Iraqi government promised to ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Epistemological Relativism Foreve ...
    I stopped reading Daily Kos years ago, but it's sad to see that founder Markos Moulitsas ' newest book is not only superficially similar to Jonah Goldberg 's Liberal Fascism but substantively similar: "In American Taliban , Markos Moulitsas pulls no punches as he compares how the Republican Party a ...
  • The Racial Graduation Gap.
    Via The Quick and the Ed , the Education Trust releases �a report about the racial gap in graduation rates at different universities. The worst offender: Wayne State in Detroit, where about a third of students are black but only 9.5 percent graduate in six years or less, compared with 43.5 percent o ...
  • President Obama Should Give Katherine Miller a Cal ...
    Katherine Miller was a cadet at West Point, among the top ten in her class. Yesterday, she resigned after coming out as a lesbian, writing that she was "unwilling to suppress an entire portion of my identity any longer because it has taken a significant personal, mental, and social toll on me and de ...
  • The Little Picture: Charlie Rangel Isn't Budging.
    Facing ethics charges, the embattled New York representative took to the floor of the House today to defend himself. In a speech calling his actions "stupid" but "not corrupt," Rangel refused to resign. He acknowledged the difficult position he's put the Democratic caucus in and expressed eagernes ...
  • Lagging in Food Safety.
    In January, after leaving the post open for a year, President Obama nominated Dr. Elisabeth Hagen to be undersecretary for food safety at the USDA. But Hagen's nomination hasn't been confirmed, and only recently got through �the Agriculture committee. While it's possible there are objections to Ha ...

Buzzflash

  • If Obama Does Not Appoint Elizabeth Warren to Head ...
    LORENZO A CANIZARES FOR BUZZFLASH Should President Barack Obama Not Appoint Elizabeth Warren to Look Out for Consumer Financial Interests But Go with a Geithner and Summers Approved Candidate Instead, Will It be the Straw that Broke the Camel's Back with the Progressive Base that Put Him Into the Wh ...
  • Learning About Reality from Fiction, "The Girl wit ...
    THOM HARTMANN'S INDEPENDENT THINKER REVIEW OF THE MONTH FOR BUZZFLASH/TRUTHOUT: August 2010 Each month or so, BuzzFlash is privileged to have nationally syndicated progressive talk show host Thom Hartmann review a progressive book or DVD exclusively for BuzzFlash. See other progressive pr ...
  • Will Sharon Angle Shove Her Radical Religious Thin ...
    BARBARA'S BUZZ FROM ATLANTA http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/opinion/04weiner.html?_r=1&th&emc=th http://www.truth-out.org/article/jason-leopold-bush-ignored-911-warnings http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0823-03.htm I would like to say Thank You to Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner for s ...
  • The Industrial Wars of the Last Century Have Creat ...
    BOB KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH “I’m going to be killing people. I’m actually joining the Marines and will be doing this in real life.” War springs eternal. Compare the words of the 18-year-old boy quoted above by Philadelphia radio station WRTI, as he was wielding a pretend machinegun at a video-gam ...
  • Sears Sells "Smut," American Family Association Ch ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH The AFA’s Tim Wildmon is targeting Sears for allegedly "offering giant posters of total nud**y." The headline of its recent “Take Action Now” email reads: “You won't believe what Sears is selling: Sears is content to sell pornography. And, if you are offended, they ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Robert Gibbs attacks the fringe losers of the left
    (updated below - Update II) You may think that the reason you're dissatisfied with the Obama administration is because of substantive objections to their policies:  that they've done so little about crisis-level unemployment, foreclosures and widespread economic misery .  Or because of ...
  • Imperial ironies
    (updated below) I'm having a great deal of difficulty choosing which of these is the Most Ironic Headline of 2010. Please be so kind as to help me decide: CHOICE�A - from Politico , today : CHOICE�B�- from TPM, last week : ...
  • Marriage and the role of the state
    Ross Douthat uses his New York Times column today to put what he undoubtedly considers to be the most intellectual and humane face on the case against marriage equality.  Without pointing to any concrete or empirical evidence, Douthat insists that lifelong heterosexual monogamy is objectively superi ...
  • What collapsing empire looks like
    (updated below) As we enter our ninth year of the War in Afghanistan with an escalated force, and continue to occupy Iraq indefinitely, and feed an endlessly growing Surveillance State, reports are emerging of the Deficit Commission hard at work planning how to cut Social Security, Medi ...
  • The alleged political benefits of moderation
    My advocacy against the choice of Elena Kagan to replace Justice Stevens largely ceased once she was selected because, as I always acknowledged , her confirmation would be virtually inevitable if she were chosen.� So uninspiring was Kagan's nomination that one should be forgiven for not having notic ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Social impact of science
    The social impact of science and knowledge evolution – New research that analyses 500 years of scientific history comes to the perhaps obvious conclusion that those nations that support science and the evolution of knowledge through education, infrastructure and funding, produce stronger societies t ...
  • Spectroscopic science news
    These are my links for July 30th from 18:21 to 18:27: Space balls redux – I've reported on this briefly elsewhere, but here are more details of the research involving infrared spectroscopic data from the planetary nebula Tc 1 in the southern constellation Ara that revealed convincing evidence that t ...
  • Are spiders repelled by conkers?
    Arachnophobics the world over have often turned to a folk tale that suggests placing conkers along one’s skirting boards or at the edges of doorways might somehow deter spiders from entering a building. The modern scientific brain might wonder whether it is some odour chemical released by the fruit ...
  • Risky teams, forged banknotes, frost-proof frogs
    An eclectic mix of science snips from Sciencebase: Novel algorithm cuts the risks of choosing ineffectual team members – The risky business of putting together a team Counterfeit spectroscopy – Banknote counterfeiting is a growing problem for fraud investigators across the globe and criminals involv ...
  • Cialis in glass and a shortage of helium
    These are my links for July 23rd through July 26th: ACS and RSC Sustainability Alliance – The Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Chemical Society have joined forces to launch a sustainability website. Be interesting to know what is the carbon footprint of this endeavour and the server elect ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • 300,000 Call on Google: Don’t Sell Out the Open In ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 9, 2010 Free Press Free Press, MoveOn.org Civic Action, CREDO Action, the Progressive Campaign Change Committee and ColorofChange.org today delivered petitions on behalf of more than 300,000 people challenging Google to stand by its "don't be evil" motto and to call ...
  • Ecuador: Modify Proposed Communications Law
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 9, 2010 Human Rights Watch (HRW) Ecuador should amend provisions of the proposed Communications Law to ensure that it meets its obligations to protect and promote free speech, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Fernando Cordero, president of the National Assemb ...
  • Bid to Hike Sewage Content of New Jersey Rivers
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 9, 2010 Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) Wastewater treatment companies have asked the Christie administration to allow more pollutants to be discharged into New Jersey's rivers and streams.  The Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissio ...
  • Veterans & Peace Activists Rally in Quantico Base ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 7, 2010 CODEPINK � read more
  • Company Claims to Support Open Internet but Remai ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 6, 2010 Free Press Internet giant Google is trying to deflect criticism of an agreement the company is reportedly striking with Verizon that could transform the way the open Internet works. On Thursday, the New York Times reported the deal would allow "Verizon to spe ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Left Owes a Very Big Thank You to Robert Gibbs
    by John Nichols Progressives should, of course, thank White House press secretary Robert Gibbs for the small favor of distinguishing the Obama administration from the left. 　 In what he admitted was an "inartful" diatribe , the press secretary unleashed on lefties who have objected to Obama's many c ...
  • Serial Denial and the Permanent War System
    by Gareth Porter Two months ago, I wrote that the Obama administration and the U.S. command in Afghanistan faced an "Iraq 2006 moment" in the second half of 2010 - a collapse of domestic political support for a failed war paralleling the political crisis in Bush's Iraq War in 2006.  Now comes Rep ...
  • 'Clean Coal' Bottom Feeders: Chu Hands Out $1 Bill ...
    by Jeff Biggers The demise of the climate and clean energy bill be damned! Welcome to Meredosia, Illinois, catfish capital of the world! And now, home to the next installment of bottom-feeding Big Coal welfare -- a check for nearly $1 billion to retrofit a decrepit old plant from Energy Secretary ...
  • Republicans and Political Madness
    by Christopher Brauchli Under every stone lurks a politician. -- Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae read more
  • Are We In a Recession or Not?
    by Matt Taibbi "Everyone agrees that the recession is over." - Larry Summers, director of the National Economic Council "Of course not." - Outgoing Council of Economic Advisers Chairwoman Christina Romer, when asked if the recession was over. The two senior White House economic advisers made their ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Harry Thomas Jr.'s challengers say deep roots aren ...
    This is part of a series of articles on the D.C. Council primary elections Sept. 14. Stories in the series will appear on Wednesdays through August. Harry Thomas Jr - Council of the District of Columbia - United States - Organizations - Religion and Spirituality
  • Peter Gleick With More Reasons to Stop Drinking Bo ...
    World renowned water expert Peter Gleick has a new book--released in May 2010--outlining the scientific evidence that bottled water use in the U.S. has become unsustainable. The book is called Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind our Obsession with Bottled Water. Peter Gleick: Twenty five years ago in ...
  • Village debates privatizing wastewater treatment p ...
    Village staff presented the results of a preliminary investigation into potential privatization of the villages wastewater treatment plant at its council meeting last week.
  • Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: General Electric, H ...
    Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: General Electric, Honeywell International, Siemens AG, United Technologies and Scripps Networks Interactive
  • Choose Language �
    The Faith and Freedom Award was established as part of the Acton Institutes tenth anniversary celebration in 2000. The award recognizes an individual who exemplifies commitment to faith and freedom through outstanding leadership in civic, business, or religious life.

Guardian

  • Jobless claims down as inflation report published
    Unemployment figures, the Bank of England's inflation report and the latest US trade data will all provide a better picture of the stuttering global economic recovery - Richard Wray brings you the latest news, views and reaction 9.59am: The jobs data "hints that the improvement in the labour market ...
  • Take gap year, rejected students told
    Many universities already have no places left to offer through clearing, with record numbers expected to be disappointed Teachers and students have urged A-level pupils to "be selfish" if they miss their grades for university, warning they will need to think strategically to maximise their chances f ...
  • US asks for Megrahi's health records
    Senators holding inquiry want Scottish government to hand over advice that led to release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi US senators have called on the Scottish government to disclose the Lockerbie bomber's full medical records so they can examine why he was released early. In a letter to the Scottish fir ...
  • Prices slashed on summer getaways
    Big discounts on offer to British holidaymakers as travel companies offload unsold flights and hotel rooms A mixture of the austerity budget, cabin crew strikes and volcanic ash have combined to produce a late summer bonanza of bargain basement holidays as tour operators slash prices to offload unso ...
  • 'If I did this, would you hit me?'
    VisitBritain tourism agency tells Londoners how to welcome foreign tourists to the 2012 Olympics. Adam Gabbatt puts the tips to the test Adam Gabbatt Alice Salfield

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Delivering biochar's triple win
    Last year, there seemed to be an unwritten rule in enviro-circles: whenever two or more enviro-folks were gathered together in a place of meeting, talk must turn to biochar . Accounts would be exchanged of articles half-read and half-digested...the pros would be arrayed against the cons...the words ...
  • Noaa: The right answer to the wrong question?
    While listening to the latest briefing on the Gulf of Mexico oil leak , I've been wondering whether the questions being answered are the right ones. The key factoid presented by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) is that about three-quarters of the 4.9 million barrels that e ...
  • An equal partnership with the land?
    The journal Nature this week debates one of the most important questions of our age: how can we feed the Earth's growing population such that no-one goes hungry and nature is left with some land and water of its own? Being a science journal, you'll not be surprised to hear that one of the things it ...
  • Climate campaigns down the pan
    Apologies issued by two campaign groups, WWF and Oxfam , may or may not bring to a close one of the more bizarre yet telling episodes that have materialised within the UN climate convention. At the convention's annual two-week session in June in Bonn , activists removed the nameplate of the Saudi A ...
  • Common climate in Canberra and Washington
    Turn the clock back four years, and you could not have slipped a cigarette paper between the climate policies of the administrations in Washington DC and Canberra. With the election of Kevin Rudd in December 2007, paths diverged. Against the backdrop of opinion polls showing climate change as a m ...

The Wonk Room

  • Bachmann, King Introduce Resolution Condemning Jud ...
    Several commentators have noted the GOP’s muted response to Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision overturning Proposition 8 and argued that Republicans must be more interested in attracting independent voters with messages about the economy and job creation than re-energizing the base with social issues li ...
  • McCollum Walking Away From Gay Foster Parents Comm ...
    On Monday, Florida Baptist News published an interview with Florida Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum from August 3rd, in which the candidate said he would expand Floridaâs discriminatory adoption laws to prohibit gay people from serving as foster parents. “I think that it ...
  • REPORT: Whitman’s Economic Plan Blows A Hole ...
    In an interview yesterday, California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman (R) said “what I want to convince voters of is I am the very best person to fix the economy in California.” “I am not actually a politician. I am a businessperson. I have created jobs, I have met budgets, I have done, figured ...
  • Republicans’ Economic Solutions Pamphlet Doe ...
    Although the House held a one-day session today in order to pass a bill giving $26 billion in badly-needed aid to states, members will be heading right back to their districts to continue talking to voters during the August congressional recess. Last week, as an aid to its conference, the Republican ...
  • Fiorina Hides Behind Farmers To Push Billions In T ...
    Last month, Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina (R) said, “let me propose something that may seem crazy to you: you don’t need to pay for tax cuts. They pay for themselves, if they are targeted, because they create jobs.” That is, in fact, crazy, but it’s not the only tax bamboozling that Fior ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Miley Cyrus Rules For-evah!!!!!
    Here's a little something from the mail-bag that was written by a regular reader who appreciates my present fixation with Miley Cyrus: I see you have finally hit the brick wall where our zombie nation is concerned. If you look beside you that dried brownish blood stain is where I hit the wall a wh ...
  • Jon Lajoie - Two Girls One Cup
    A word of explanation. I think I first encountered Jon Lajoie with his song about smoking marijuana, "High as Fuck." Somebody else hepped me to "Sunday Afternoon." So one day i decided to go through his YouTube videos and I found something called "Two Girls, One Cup" and I wondered what the hell tha ...
  • So That's What "Rope-a-Dope" Meant
  • The Smart Slave's Tips For Other Smart Slaves
    We smart slaves have learned to sleep on our crossed arms, chest down. That way, the open sores from the lashes across our backs don't get dust and dirt in 'em. ... This has been another handy tip from the Smart Slave for all those other smart slaves out there. Keep on doing what smart slaves do! T ...
  • It's Time For a Revolution
    Yes, the global environmental crisis is upon us. At the same time, capitalism isn't capable of meeting the challenge (a la "green industries" to accommodate ecological reality) because capitalism is now at a stage where only financial wealth meets the demands of the profit maximizers. They aren't g ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • ARB protects duty speech, but not investigating du ...
    The Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) has released eleven (11) decisions issued in July, four (4) of which address substantive law.  That is down from seven (7) substantive decisions issued in July 2009. At this rate, it will be difficult for the ARB to bring its backlog down b ...
  • False Claims Act Seminar Will Include Presentation ...
    The curriculum for our upcoming seminar titled “Integrating the False Claims Act into Your Law Practice” has been updated to include a presentation on the on the numerous whistleblower provisions contained in the new Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act. It is approved for CLE credit in Pennsylvania ...
  • California Supreme Court smacks down abuses of sum ...
    Last week, the California Supreme Court issued a blunt decision decrying the way that employers and too many lower court abuse summary judgment to prevent employees from getting their cases to a jury.� The case is Reid v. Google, Inc ., Case No. S158965 (8/5/2010). Brian Reid has a Ph.D. in computer ...
  • Russia's YouTube Whistleblower
    Alexei Dymovsky, a Russian police major, fed up with rampant corruption decided to use YouTube to report his grievances. He blew the whistle on his superiors forcing officers to investigate nonexistent crimes and arrest innocent people to improve crime statistics. Shortly after his video was posted ...
  • Study shows benefits of anti-retaliation policies
    The Ethics Resource Center has just released a report from its 2009 National Business Ethics Survey. The report, called " Retaliation: The Cost to Your Company and Its Employees ," documents how companies that tolerate retaliation suffer increased levels of employee misconduct. The report documents ...

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

  • Compare And Contrast Google To Microsoft On The Pr ...
    Last week, we wrote about a WSJ article that discussed some of the tensions inside Microsoft over whether to side with advertisers or consumers when it came to privacy features in Internet Explorer. This week, the WSJ appears to have a similar article, about a similar debate within Google . I actu ...
  • UK Supermarket Starts Making Its Own Movies
    Whenever we talk about new business models, we get questions about how company x can stay in business with such a business model -- often with the implication being that if company x (e.g., a record label or a movie studio) can't do this, then it can't possibly work for the overall industry. But th ...
  • If You Have A Generic Domain Name, Don't Expect Tr ...
    I remember, when first learning about trademark law, thinking how bizarre it was that having your name be considered "generic" was a bad thing. After all, when your brand became synonymous with the product you were selling (think Kleenex, Xerox, Band-Aid etc.) it meant that you had really dominated ...
  • ISP Owner Finally Able To Admit That He Stood Up T ...
    We've noted, repeatedly, that the feds have been caught abusing National Security Letters (NSLs) to try to get information they had no legal right to get. Because these NSLs usually contained an immediate gag order and no judicial review, basically the FBI could request whatever it wanted, and no o ...
  • Project Vigilant: One Nearly Homeless Guy Talking ...
    So there was a lot of attention paid last week to a newly unveiled "Project Vigilant," which supposedly had a bunch of security experts secretly monitoring internet traffic privately for the US government. However, the more people looked at the details, the more sketchy the whole thing became, and ...

VacTruth

  • Autistic girl uses laptop to break silence
    A child displaying autistic behaviours suddenly, at aged eleven, broke out of her autistic state and with the help of a computer, describe exactly what was making her act in this way. Here suddenly was the breakthrough that scientists have been waiting for.
  • Mothers are killing their Autistic children
    Support and care for the families with an autistic child is a battle daily. Often they feel isolated from friends and family who do not understand and with no one to understand they feel pressured to take the only way they can see out of their situation.
  • Parents in China were beaten when they tried to ge ...
    In March 2010 it was reported From the New York Times that China had been selling 'tainted vaccines'. These vaccines had not had adequate storage and yet were sold to the public of China, subsequently allowing the vaccines to be administered to children. As a result, as many as eighty children suffe ...
  • Vaccine Trial Targets Kids
    Parents are being asked to register their children for a worldwide vaccine trial aimed at preventing a common cause of chest infections. These children will receive three doses of a vaccine for bronchiolitis, through nasal drops and will require a follow up blood test. The babies to be used in the f ...
  • Pharmaceuticals contributing to AIDS crisis
    While scientists from around the world gather in Vienna to discuss how to fight AIDS at the 18th International AIDS Conference, there are a lot of AIDS skeptics doubt that official medicine will be able to find a solution. Robert Scott Bell says that the scientists at the conference are wrong becaus ...

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    You have probably heard about the seven year old whose lemonade stand was protected by anarchists and who subsequently raised enough cash to go to Disney.  Somehow I think that little girl will never have a bad view of anarchists. And on the opposite end of the spectrum, this article explains perfec ...
  • Where are the Men Do-Gooders?
    I signed up to be a literacy tutor with an organization here in DC.  The program requires a half day training class.  Looking around at the other trainees, I noticed a huge gender imbalance.  Sure enough, the trainer soon confirmed that, while 55% of the learners are male, only 22% of the tutors are ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Hello people.  Did you miss me?  I missed you.  I think I have finally gotten things under control now.  I’m going to have to cut my posts to two a week, instead of three, in order to make time for my literacy tutoring.  But I should be able to get back on a regular schedule.  [...]
  • Drug War Ping Pong
    Lately, I’ve seen several articles holding up Colombia as some kind of model for how to deal with drug war violence.   The latest one is this piece in Foreign Affairs in which Robert Bonner claims that Mexico should follow Colombia’s example. Really people?  Colombia? Colombia is ranked number 13 ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    It still burns, the treatment I got as a teen.  I think the guy who wrote the Case Against Adolescence is still pissed too.  Glad he did something constructive with it. This article on reconciliation is a must read for anyone who cares about ending conflicts, especially genocidal ones. I hope you al ...

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

  • Fresh Flowers in Food Taste Blooming Delicious
    Image from the Atlantic When your guests ask what's for dinner, you can say marigolds, primroses and violets. Just as the use of fresh herbs has come back into fashion and has proven to be more than a passing fad: edible flowers are all the rage. The flowers are tasty, fresh and couldn't be ...
  • Artificial Bee Eye Helps Mini Flying Robots See Be ...
    Image via New Scientist The use of biomimicry has become increasingly helpful in robotics, but it's mainly been helpful in devising better ways for robots to move, whether swimming like a fish , flying like a butterfly , or
  • "North America's Greenest Hostel" Opening in Toron ...
    Tom Rand, green entrepreneur and author of Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit:10 Clean Technologies to Save Our World , practices what he preaches. He and hostelier Anthony Aarts are opening what is being called "North America's greenest hostel" this month and it goes a lot farther than Pablo's answer to t ...
  • Vogue Fashion's Night Out Takes an Eco-Friendly Sp ...
    Image via Shicon . How do you interpret "Eco Fashion" style in your everyday life? Come up with the best graphic answer and you could win a piece of a €3,000-prize pot! Vogue and Fiat have launched a competition to design a bike helmet for the Fiat 500 folding bike, which fits in the truck of t ...
  • Recycled Jewelry Funds Gulf Coast Cleanup
    Image courtesy of Real Jewels. Eco-friendly and philanthropic jewelry that looks good and aids Gulf Coast cleanup? Enter New York City-based Real Jewels . The makers of fine jewelry, from 100% recycled precious metals, fair trade stones, and conflict-free diamonds, have created the Save our Sh ...

Biosingularity

  • Cancer vaccines may be on the verge of wider use
    One of the persistent frustrations in cancer treatment has been the way that tumors can evade our immune systems as they grow and multiply inside our bodies. Even though cancer cells have special surface markers, known as antigens, the body often doesn’t seem to be able to mount a full-fledged attac ...
  • Insulin-producing Cells Can Regenerate In Diabetic ...
    Replacements for some diabetics’ missing insulin-producing cells might be found in the patients’ own pancreases, a new study in mice suggests. Alpha cells in the pancreas can spontaneously transform into insulin-producing beta cells, researchers from the University of Geneva in Switzerland report on ...
  • Prostate Cancer Results While You Wait
    In an office park in Woburn, MA, a volunteer presents his fingertip for a quick finger stick. A phlebotomist wicks up the small drop of blood with a specially made square of plastic, then snaps the plastic into a credit-card sized microfluidics cartridge and feeds it into a special reader. Fifteen m ...
  • To starve a tumor
    Since the 1920s, scientists have known that cancer cells generate energy differently than normal cells, a phenomenon dubbed the “Warburg effect” after its discoverer, German biochemist Otto Warburg. However, the field of cancer-cell metabolism has been largely ignored since the 1970s, when researche ...
  • Smart Pill Reports Back
    The medicine cabinet of the future could help make sure patients take their medications on time via a myriad of smart technologies. There are already pill bottles that wirelessly report to a computer when a cap has been opened, and devices for automatically dispensing medicine at the right time, and ...

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Pruning Shears

  • Summer Travel Season
    Surprisingly enough, August in Tennessee is warmish.
  • This Week in Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post I didn’t post last Sunday and have been largely offline this weekend. So I’ve mixed some older links in and included lots of quotes. Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. Every m ...
  • The Problem Isn't Fast News, It's Dumb News
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Walter Shapiro picked this week to lament the sorry state of the media. He believes we have become ignorant and easily distracted by an Internet-bred culture that cultivates short attention spans. There have always been good and ba ...
  • Putting Geneva Down the Memory Hole
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post On Tuesday former Attorney General Michael Mukasey attempted to justify America’s military commissions, and did so extremely dishonestly. For instance, he conflates Guantánamo detainees with those “accused of the Sept. 11, 2001, att ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Carol Rosenberg reported ( via ) on the military commission of Omar Khadr. He rejected a plea deal because doing so would “give an excuse to the government for torturing me and abusing me as a child.” Since most of the detainees at ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Independent Testing Finds Toxic Contaminants In Sa ...
    WASHINGTON -- After 14 years of work, unceasing attacks from critics, and a $50 million investment without a penny of profit, a small New England biotech company stands on the doorstep of history - seemingly poised to join agriculture's "green revolution" as a game-changer in feeding the world. Clic ...
  • DoJ Urged to Complete Monsanto Case
    Top Democratic lawmakers on Monday urged the Department of Justice to "expeditiously complete" its antitrust investigation into Monsanto, injecting a dose of politics into what could become the Obama administration's most significant competition case. Click here to read this article
  • When Agrochemical Corporations Invented Nature
    BERLIN - A civil society protest against a British agrochemical company that claims it has invented a particular sort of broccoli has again focused attention on the question who owns natural biodiversity, especially vegetables, seeds, and many forms of meat and animal food products. Click here to r ...
  • Want Grass-Fed Meat to Replace Factory Farming? Th ...
    Arapaho Ranch produces the kind of beef your inner cowboy wants to eat. With 595,000 acres sprawling across Wyoming's wild and rugged Owl Mountains, the ranch is home to native grasses, wolves, mountain lions, and grizzlies. The cattle are herded by Indian cowboys, each with his own fleet of seven h ...
  • Are Household Cleansers Linked to Breast Cancer?
    A study has found a potential link between the use of household cleaners and air fresheners and breast cancer. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Las mejores imágenes del mundo (Parte I, 12 fotos)
    Con el único objetivo de hacerle llegar a usted las mejores colecciones de imágenes y fotografías, hemos iniciado nuestra serie titulada 'Las mejores imágenes del mundo'. Para empezar, le ofrecemos 12 fotos que seguramente serán colocadas de inmediato entre sus favoritas. Disfrute nuestros contenido ...
  • Las cascadas más famosas del mundo (Parte IV)
    Hola mis queridos suscriptores y visitantes en general. No sé si lo sabían o no, pero en lo personal, soy un verdadero fanático de las cascadas, cataratas o caídas de agua . Por eso mismo y por algo más, les traigo ya la cuarta parte de fotos sobre estas bellezas naturales donde se puede respirar la ...
  • Pequeños bichos del huerto (10 fotos)
    Caminando por mi jardín, encontré una gran variedad de pequeñas criaturas. Dicen que la curiosidad mató al gato y no dejé ir la oportunidad de tomarles algunas fotos que hoy con ustedes comparto. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada im ...
  • Encuentro de felinos (4 fotos de la vida salvaje)
    Como complemento especial a la serie de wallpapers que hoy les he presentado, tengo esta bonita colección con cuatro fotografías de felinos . Disfrute al máximo nuestros contenidos y por lo que más quiera, no olvide compartir este blog tan interesante llamado ' Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas '. Si es s ...
  • Hipopótamo (Hippo Hippopotamus)
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para ampliar el tamaño de este wallpaper.

Center for a Livable Future

  • Maryland public hearing on proposed oyster policy ...
    Citizens descended on the small town of Wye Mill, Maryland at Chesapeake College Thursday, August 5th to attend the final public comment period for Maryland’s sweeping new oyster policies. The overcast and muggy weather provided a sober backdrop for intense discussions on how Maryland will manage th ...
  • NPR’s Morning Edition Focuses on Meatless Monday
    Some 14 million listeners tuned in this morning to hear National Public Radio’s most popular program, Morning Edition, give extensive coverage to the Meatless Monday campaign. The 8-1/2 minute segment, “Campaign Aims To Make Meatless Mondays Hip,” included an interview with Meatless Monday Founder, ...
  • Biogas digesters for industrial agriculture in Chi ...
    While researching meat consumption and production in China last month, I visited two farms that have installed large-scale biogas digesters. These intriguing, bulbous contraptions capture animal waste, prevent pollution, make use of a renewable source of energy (methane), and transform the icky stuf ...
  • Baltimore City Data Day Aims to Empower Baltimore ...
    As I intend to dedicate the better part of my career to research, I am often confronted with the fear that even the highest quality data can end up out in the ether of peer-reviewed publications that never make their intended splash, seen by a limited few and impacting even fewer. Last Friday I atte ...
  • CLF is reading…
    Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher by Frederick L. Kirschenmann A collection of Kirschenmann’s greatest writings on farming, philosophy, and sustainability Theologian, academic, and third-generation organic farmer Frederick L. Kirschenmann is a celebrated agric ...

Norwegianity

  • DFL gets one right
    OK, this is enough precincts reporting in. It’s a rout. The polls couldn’t have been more wrong. Yes, I’m smiling. UPDATE: Shit, I am such a jinx. Yes, 45.98% of counties reporting, but that’s only 26% of the vote. Dayton is still within reach. If this was Texas or Illinois we’d be up all night. [.. ...
  • Minnesotans vote today, + IOKIYNMW
    It’s our new moved up super special primary day in here in Minnesota, and I was thrilled to see that most of the Entenza-Robinson green online ads have been replaced with UM Gopher burgundy Margaret ads this morning. It’s election day, her efforts are peaking, and that speaks to a superior campaign ...
  • Lit envy
    This week’s Clusterfuck Nation is so good I made a .pdf out of it. If Kunstler ever put his blog behind a firewall I’d scrape and republish it just like I did with Krugman. People need to read what these guys are saying, Krugman for most folks, Kunstler for the more twisted. My blog readers, [...]
  • To go oldly where no blogger has gone before
    Max  Sparber in this morning’s Daily Glean: Speaking of campaigning, blogger Mitch Berg, republished here on MinnPost, discusses Joel Demos’ recent ad in which the candidate, who is running for Rep. Keith Ellison’s seat, is shown dragging a monster truck toward a finish line. “f great ads won elect ...
  • All the etc. that’s fit to link
    Yes, a big steaming pile of what you came here for earlier, but which are only now being served but first, a word about Republican hypocrisy from Steven Benen and Joe Conason…. Because DemocRATS are DESTROYING AMERICA! Just sayin’ . . . . (Both cartoons link to news stories, btw.) - Politics: If you ...

Public News Service

  • AZ Social Workers: Limiting Park Access Threatens ...
    AZ Social Workers: Limiting Park Access Threatens Body and Soul Phoenix, AZ – State and local government budget cuts are limiting public access to parks for recreation and leisure. Arizona social workers are concerned about resulting negative impacts on mental and physical well-being. Comments from ...
  • AZ Community Centers Take Lead in Health Reform
    AZ Community Centers Take Lead in Health Reform Phoenix, AZ – It’s National Health Center Week, the first observance since enactment of the new health care reform law. Arizona’s 37 community-based health organizations are expanding to serve the uninsured and victims of the economic recession. Commen ...
  • Report: Arizonans Have Chance to Save Big on Elect ...
    Report: Arizonans Have Chance to Save Big on Electric Bills Phoenix, AZ – Future electric rate hikes can be blunted with widespread adoption of energy efficiency strategies, according to a new report from the Arizona Public Interest Research Group (PIRG). It says energy efficiency is a proven, relia ...
  • AZ School Boards Chief: Drop-out Gains Threatened ...
    AZ School Boards Chief: Drop-out Gains Threatened by Budget Cuts Phoenix, AZ – The latest Kids Count Data Book released this week shows a 50-percent reduction in Arizona’s high school dropout rate since the year 2000. But the head of a major education group says that progress is in jeopardy because ...
  • Wall Street Home “Resale” Fees Raise I ...
    Wall Street Home “Resale” Fees Raise Ire, and Eyebrows Phoenix, AZ – A coalition including the National Association of Realtors, AFSCME, and the Property Rights Alliance is calling foul on a new Wall Street real estate investment device called a “private transfer fee covenant.” Kurt Pfotenhauer (FOT ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Fungi Digest Plastic Trash
    Fungi Digest Plastic Trash Submitted by Vivien Green to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Drug-Resistant Flesh-Eating Germs More Common with ...
    We have not only destroyed big chunks of our planet but it would appear that we have now overcooked our cake by letting Bacteria become immune to our anti-biotics through overuse and this has led to an explosion of flesh eating bugs. Will we ever learn? Submitted by Kevin C. to Health & Wellness �| ...
  • Iranian Revolutionary Guards commanders supporting ...
    General Hossein Musavi and Colonel Hasan Mortezavi, both senior officers in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps - Qods Force, were designated on Aug. 3 as terrorists under Executive Order 13224 "for their roles in the IRGC-QF's support of terrorism" Submitted by Rick M. to World �|� �Note-it! ...
  • Hot off the Web
    I added more RSS alternative news sources. RSS SnapShot! is also up. Blogs I'm Following will be up later today - likely late evening Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Wikileaks War Logs & the Gov't's Reaction
    War veteran Mike Prysner's amazing speech. 3 days after documents of 8 years of war crimes against the people of Afghanistan were leaked Pentagon Launches 'Manhunt' for Document Leaker. For war budget vote another $59 billion! Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...

Angry Indian News

  • Who Killed More People in the Bible...God or Satan ...
    God vs. Satan: hennessy.id.au [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • How is it that Hillary Rodham Clinton can speak ag ...
    Hillary Rodham Clinton wants Iran to stop executions: "US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has appealed to Iran to stop executing people.Ms Clinton has added her plea to the growing chorus... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Solitary Confinement Is a “Challenge for Medical E ...
    Solitary Confinement Is a “Challenge for Medical Ethics” � Solitary Watch: "Anyone interested in solitary confinement should be aware of this article in the most recent issue of the Journal of the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Army chief: Israel should use 'precise fire' on ne ...
    Army chief: Israel should use 'precise fire' on next Gaza flotilla | Earth Times News: Jerusalem - Israel's military chief of staff said Wednesday that the next time ships try to break his country's... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • White Woman Assaults African Fast Food Employees a ...
    BBC News - Woman starts fight over chicken nuggets: "Melodi Dushane was so frustrated that she couldn't order chicken nuggets - because the restaurant was serving breakfast - that she attacked the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • The Codex, Fluoride, Auschwitz, Monsanto Connectio ...
    What do Codex Alimentarius with its official food standards, the fluoridation of our water and food supply, genocide at the Auschwitz concentration camp, and Monsanto, the company responsible for genetically altering the world's food supply all have in common?
  • Marti Oakley and Barb Peterson: The Truth Squad, w ...
    Paul will be reporting on the current premises registration (NAIS) cases in Wisconsin involving NAIS and Raw Milk.
  • The BP Oil gusher was only the “crisis” used to sh ...
    The PPJ Gazette                                     Live Link: OPEN SECRETS.Org Clients lobbying on H.R.3534 61 unique organization(s) has/have registered to lobby on this bill. Click on a client’s name to view all the bills on which they reported lobbying. Click on the number of reports to view all ...
  • The ClEAR ACT: They are stealing it all: Land, wat ...
     Marti Oakley (c)copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved The PPJ Gazette Another assault on the American public is under way; this one will enlarge and increase the power of the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management to such a degree that none of us will be safe from these corrupted ...
  • Could Genetically Modified Crops be causing E-Coli ...
    It is possible that a mutated form of e-coli resulting from the cloning process used in creating GMOs could get into the gut of a person or animal that eats a transgenic plant.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • U.S. commander stresses importance of funding Iraq ...
    ShareThis More contractor bl*wjobs we can believe in: U.S. commander stresses importance of funding Iraq security forces 10 Aug 2010 The outgoing commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said Tuesday that Iraqi security forces will continue to rely heavily on American funding as the U.S. troop drawdown acce ...
  • British government pays US lobbying firm to improv ...
    ShareThis British government pays US lobbying firm to improve transatlantic relations --The controversial arrangement has been ordered by the Ministry of Defence, although official records show the contract is being handled by the British Embassy in Washington . 11 Aug 2010 British taxpayers are pay ...
  • Blast kills 8 soldiers in central Iraq
    ShareThis Blast kills 8 soldiers in central Iraq 11 Aug 2010 A bomb explosion has targeted a house in the province of Diyala in central Iraq, killing eight army soldiers on their quest for militants on the run. The blast occurred at around 5:00 a.m. (0200 GMT) on Wednesday in the town of Saadiyah, 1 ...
  • Robert Gibbs says leftwing critics of Obama 'ought ...
    ShareThis Robert Gibbs says leftwing critics of Obama 'ought to be drug tested' --White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says Obama's critics on the left are 'crazy' - and then tries to apologise 11 Aug 2010 The Obama administration's most public face, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, has ...
  • White House unloads anger over criticism from 'pro ...
    ShareThis White House unloads anger over criticism from 'professional left' 10 Aug 2010 The White House is simmering with anger at criticism from liberals who say President Obama is more concerned with deal-making than ideological purity. During an interview with The Hill in his West Wing office, Wh ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • Quote of the month: We must not think that food is ...
    Had the good fortune to have a head to head debate with climate scientists from both NIWA and New Zealand's Massey University recently, at a forum organised by NZ church administrators. They were trying to come up with an informed...
  • Free book - The Divinity Code
    Three years ago I published The Divinity Code, a response to the works of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, John Spong and Karen Armstrong, among others. The book remains available internationally through Amazon US and Amazon UK in hard copy, but I thought I would make it available to a wider ...
  • Has Climatedepot crashed?
    As of writing, am getting a VisualBasic error on http://www.climatedepot.com Is it just my computer network that can't see it? UPDATE 1pm NZST: Back up and running. Marc must have hit wrong button somewhere :)
  • Arctic heading for major freeze - new NOAA forecas ...
    More evidence pointing towards a significant global cooldown, now picking a brutal northern hemisphere winter.
  • Air Con Climategate Edition now avail in NZ
    Due to an ongoing series of requests, we've decided to import the US version of the Air Con Climategate Edition. It's now available direct from the Howling At The Moon website, in either hard copy for $39.90, or PDF for...

Mondoweiss

  • How to pressure an American president? (Read Haare ...
    1. On July 8, Haaretz's Ari Shavit explained how Netanyahu got the upper hand of Obama:After 18 wasted months during which Obama was the president who exerted pressure, he has become the president who embraces. Obama is embracing the State of Israel and the prime minister of Israel. What happened ...
  • How would Iran respond to American attack?
    Realist Mahan Abedin of Jamestown writing at Juan Cole's site on the Illusion of a limited war with Iran:A top priority for the IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] high command is to respond so harshly and decisively so as to deter the Americans from a second set of strikes at a future point. ...
  • Passive president, busy lobby
    Haaretz got the early copy of Jeffrey Goldberg's September story in the Atlantic that seems to justify an Israeli strike on Iran under the nose of the passive president.Based on dozens of interviews the Atlantic correspondent conducted in recent months with Israeli, American and Arab officials, Gol ...
  • New Reut Institute ‘case study’ tacit ...
    When the well-connected Israeli policy group, the Reut Institute, released a February 2010 report on what it labeled the "delegitimization challenge" from the global Palestine solidarity movement, Ali Abunimah of the Electronic Intifada pointed out that the report "never considers for a moment that ...
  • Israel razes Negev village, again
    And other news from Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Israel razes Negev village again Witness talks of "unnecessary force" in demolition of Bedouin homes. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/08/20108108292506226.htmlIsraelis Bulldoze Village, ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: New Generation Cancer Vaccine Will Cause Infe ...
    In the race to the top of the Vaccine manufacturing foodchain product side effects such as infertility are being overlooked in favor of scientific advancement. One competitor, U.S. firm Celldex Theraputics are vying for major positioning in the ranks with a radical new generation cancer vaccine now ...
  • VRM: United States 2010-11 Flu Vaccine Affluria &# ...
    The United States flu vaccine for 2010-2011/AFLURIA® will be manufactured by CSL Laboratories in partnership with Merck Pharmaceuticals. Ingredients: 24.5 mcg of thimerosal mercury (safe level for a 2450 pound adult), Neomycin & Polymyxin (antibiotics associated with Kidney Failure, hazardous to ...
  • VRM: Multi-Virus Vaccine Quinvaxem Proving Deadly
    Quinvaxem, a powerful 5 in 1 vaccine currently being distributed in India, containing live Diphtheria, Tetanus, Hib oligosaccharide (Haemophilus influenzae) & Hepatitis B virus plus an inactivated B. pertussis virus (heat treated or attenuated), has already caused the deaths of at least 5 children i ...
  • VRM: The Rockefeller Foundation – Rulers of ...
    “Will you walk into my parlour?” said the Spider to the Fly, ‘Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy; The way into my parlour is up a winding stair, And I’ve a many curious things to shew when you are there.” Oh no, no,” said the little Fly, “to ask me is in vain, For who goes [...]
  • VRM: Britain’s National Health Service &#821 ...
    Britain’s National Health Service is rapidly destroying the UK Health Care system; dismantling local programs, stripping hospitals of essential service staff, downsizing hospitals altogether, refusing to upgrade old equipment – all under the guise of tightening the belt, preserving what’s left of di ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. � If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner fo ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new low- ...
  • 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 ...

Michael Yon

  • Perspective
    Published: 21 July 2010 Apologies that this article is available only in Thai language. Please click here to view the entire article. {loadposition user8}
  • Even as the World Watched IV: Peaceful, or Pistol?
    12 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand During the Thailand fighting in May, the rain of media mixed with the dust of politics, creating mud that left honest people feeling bogged down.  People desiring clarity slogged knee deep, then waist deep, and it kept coming. My reports avoided politics largely ...
  • Even as the World Watched III: Getting Hit to Get ...
    Published: 07 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand During the Bangkok fighting in May, radio interviewers back America kept asking about the overuse of force by the Thai Army.  I answered that’s not happening, and there seem to be hundreds of journalists crawling over the streets, and I see them with ...
  • Even as the World Watched II: Tasting the Kool-Aid
    Published: 05 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand This journalist was all over the place.  She stood out from the crowd for obvious reasons.  One evening, as the sun was setting, she was walking down a mostly desolate street not far from Dusit Thani hotel, and she was alone with that little camera.  ...
  • Big Guns
    28 April 2010 The intention was to write a detailed dispatch on the 3-17th Field Artillerly.  Unfortunately, General Stanley McChrystals’ crew broke an agreement I had with the Army to stay until 5/2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team leaves Afghanistan, and so the research on this dispatch was not comp ...

The Killing Train

  • The Rwandan Election
    Paul Kagame is headed for a landslide victory at the Rwandan polls. Exit polls indicate 93% of the electorate voted for him. If some Western media commentators could vote in Rwandan elections, the number would likely be even higher. Take Stephen Kinzer, who wrote a biography of Kagame subtitled “Rwa ...
  • The Afghan War Diary Data - an initial look
    An initial look at the first 76,000 records in the "Afghan War Diary" leaked by Wikileaks yields some important information, much of which has been known or suspected by analysts for years. Given the sheer size of the database, there is a great deal more to be learned, but here are some initial find ...
  • The Drug War in Afghanistan - the Dyncorp connecti ...
    Just reading some of the 800+ hits on the drug war in Afghanistan, and these are real - the US is fighting a drug war in Afghanistan. There are DEA agents running around arresting people, there are troops eradicating poppy in farmers fields, and they are finding and burning piles of opium, heroin, h ...
  • Reading the incidents in Pakistan - some notes
    [Analysis of the Wikileaks Afghan War Diary]. I pulled out the 170-or-so incidents that mention Pakistan and are actually in Pakistan. A lot of them involve coordination with the Pakistani military, getting it, failing to get it, etc. An observation post comes under indirect fire, they track the poi ...
  • Afghan War Diary incidents in Pakistan
    [Analysis of Wikileaks's Afghan War Diary]. I thought it might be useful to show a map of the (approx. 170) incidents in the Afghan War Diary that mention Pakistan and also take place within Pakistan's borders. I will be reading the summaries to see what happened here, but take a look at it - there ...

treehugger

  • Fresh Flowers in Food Taste Blooming Delicious
    Image from the Atlantic When your guests ask what's for dinner, you can say marigolds, primroses and violets. Just as the use of fresh herbs has come back into fashion and has proven to be more than a passing fad: edible flowers are all the rage. The flowers are tasty, fresh and couldn't be ...
  • Artificial Bee Eye Helps Mini Flying Robots See Be ...
    Image via New Scientist The use of biomimicry has become increasingly helpful in robotics, but it's mainly been helpful in devising better ways for robots to move, whether swimming like a fish , flying like a butterfly , or
  • "North America's Greenest Hostel" Opening in Toron ...
    Tom Rand, green entrepreneur and author of Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit:10 Clean Technologies to Save Our World , practices what he preaches. He and hostelier Anthony Aarts are opening what is being called "North America's greenest hostel" this month and it goes a lot farther than Pablo's answer to t ...
  • Vogue Fashion's Night Out Takes an Eco-Friendly Sp ...
    Image via Shicon . How do you interpret "Eco Fashion" style in your everyday life? Come up with the best graphic answer and you could win a piece of a €3,000-prize pot! Vogue and Fiat have launched a competition to design a bike helmet for the Fiat 500 folding bike, which fits in the truck of t ...
  • Recycled Jewelry Funds Gulf Coast Cleanup
    Image courtesy of Real Jewels. Eco-friendly and philanthropic jewelry that looks good and aids Gulf Coast cleanup? Enter New York City-based Real Jewels . The makers of fine jewelry, from 100% recycled precious metals, fair trade stones, and conflict-free diamonds, have created the Save our Sh ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

  • Wildfire Pictures: Russia Burns, Moscow Chokes
    NoneThe worst known Russian heat wave is fueling hundreds of fires across the country and driving up Moscow's death rate. See just how bad it is. Russia - Moscow - Heat wave - Mortality rate - Travel and Tourism
  • Gulf Spill Still Threatens Millions of Migrating B ...
    Despite the BP Gulf spill cap, millions of migrating birds this fall, and for years to come, may face oil threats—starvation in particular. Video. BP - Oil spill - Bird migration - Environment - Oil
  • Photos: Ten Most Wanted "Extinct" Amphibians
    NoneFrom the golden toad to the Turkestanian salamander—the quest begins for the ten likely extinct amphibian species conservationists most want to rediscover. Amphibian - Species - Salamander - Biology - Flora and Fauna
  • Ice Island Breaks off Greenland; Bigger Than Manha ...
    Four times bigger than Manhattan, a new ice chunk calved from the Petermann glacier may represent the biggest glacial collapse in recorded history. Greenland - Glacier - Manhattan - Petermann Glacier - University of Delaware
  • Oyster Herpes: Latest Symptom of Global Warming?
    Don't worry—it isn't a side effect of eating oysters. But a virulent new herpes strain could continue spreading as seas warm, experts say.

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Taliban should face war crimes charges over civili ...
    [JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] on Tuesday called for the Taliban [CFR backgrounder] and other insurgent groups in Afghanistan to be tried for war crimes [press release] for targeting civilians. The statement was released following the 2010 Mid-Year Report on Protection of Civ ...
  • South Korea police raid Google office over data co ...
    [JURIST] The South Korean National Police Agency (SKNPA) [official website, in Korean] raided the Google [corporate website] South Korean headquarters in Seoul on Tuesday morning in connection with accusations that the company has been illegally acquiring user data. Representatives from the SKNPA's ...
  • Scotland lawmakers call for release of Lockerbie b ...
    [JURIST] The opposition Scottish Labour Party [party website] called Tuesday for the publication of all medical evidence related to the release of convicted Pan Am Flight 103 [BBC backgrounder] bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi [BBC profile]. The demand comes one year after al Megrahi was rele ...
  • Jury selection begins in Khadr military trial
    [JURIST] The military trial of Canadian Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archives] detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] began Tuesday with jury selection, despite international criticism of the proceedings. Khadr pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and terrorism [JURIST reports] M ...
  • Japan PM apologizes for Korea colonization
    [JURIST] Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan [official website] on Monday apologized to South Korea [statement] for Japan's 20th-century colonization of the Korean peninsula. The statement was timed to coincide with the anniversaries of the 1910 annexation of the peninsula and the 1945 South Korean in ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • How The Democratic Party Helped Michael Bennet
    A Democratic official passes along the following list of ways that the party assisted Michael Bennet, a candidate who, unlike Arlen Specter and Blanche Lincoln, the White House had a personal -- as in, they really like Bennet -- stake in electing. Note how the White House political team was able to ...
  • Michael Bennet Wins His First Race
    The current senator from Colorado, Michael Bennet,� did some he's never done before tonight: he won an election.� He won by a good eight percentage points or so. Good analysis is victory agnostic, so here are truths that would also have been truths even if Andrew Romanoff had won: (a) Democratic ...
  • What Was Rangel Doing?
    Charlie Rangel is getting the headlines he wanted, but he's not getting the news he arguably deserves: at the end of his bewildering, passionate, and attention-grabbing 37-minute speech, Rangel admitted guilt -- not so much that he deliberately broke ethics rules, but enough that ethics rules had ...
  • Gibbs Reflects on 'Inartful' Comments
    White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs's frustrated ventilation against the "professional left," delivered in an interview with the Hill's Sam Youngman, provoked predictable outrage against the slighted few, who've taken to Twitter and their columns to counter-ventilate . Gibbs defines the profes ...
  • Google, Verizon Want Congress to Get Off Its Duff
    The technorati seem to dislike the "joint policy proposal" from Google and Verizon today. Company representatives insist it's about an "open Internet" -- albeit one from which companies can continue to innovate and profit. The "albeit" automatically triggers suspicions that Eric Schmidt, Google's CE ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Major IDF Manuevers in Northern Israel Threaten Le ...
    Israel has decided to rattle sabers after losing one of its senior officers in the tree-trimming incident on the Lebanese border. In a story that was removed from its website (possibly by the military censor), Maariv reports that the IDF is engaged in major manuevers in the Beit Shean region with tr ...
  • J.J. Goldberg, Mahmoud Darwish: Brothers from Anot ...
    Forward’s former managing editor, J.J. Goldberg Now here’s a slightly scary thought: the tired, liberal Zionist newspaper editorialist could be a brother of Palestinian national poet, Mahmoud Darwish.  Food for thought? Related posts:Jeffrey Goldberg: Take That, You ‘Hard-Core Anti-Zionist Leftist! ...
  • Links for 2010-05-04 [Digg]
    Dershowitz Incites Hate Against Michael Lerner It is absolutely no accident that Alan Dershowitz singled Rabbi Michael Lerner out for special opprobrium in his most recent Jerusalem Post and Huffington Post column...
  • Druze Spy Arrests ‘Payback’ for Decades-Old Shin B ...
    An Israeli source brings me a fascinating take on the recent arrests of three Golani Druze for allegedly spying against Israel on behalf of Syria.  The Shin Bet arrested three residents of thevillage of Majdal Shams charging them with espionage.  The case has all the markings of the trumped-up cha ...
  • Tony Judt, May His Memory Be for a Blessing
    Today, we have lost one of the bravest public intellectuals engaged in the Israeli-Arab conflict. I just noticed in his NY Times obituary that he was born in that seminal year, 1948, an irony that undoubtedly would not have been lost on him. During Operation Cast Lead, he was one of the first of the ...

Ode Magazine

  • Earn more, then give it away
    By: VictoriaKlein Wouldn’t we all like to make a bit more money? Maybe we could finally pay off those last few debts that hang over our heads or buy that new gadget we’ve really been wanting … or maybe we would give it all away. In April, Hong Kong, Chin ...
  • Visionaries, movers and shakers of the Bay Area
    By: sheasteinberg Here at Ode Magazine we are all about discovering the creative brains behind innovate ideas. So when we heard that fellow San Francisco magazine, 7x7 was on a search to find the "Hot 20 Under 40," we couldn’t help but join in on the fun! ...
  • Forget finicky food
    Instead of scanning labels, give the kids some authentic home cooking. It’s really not fair to label kids as finicky eaters if lactose makes them break out or preservatives make them itch. We should, instead, focus on finicky food. All things considered, it’s a minor mira ...
  • Get HIP with your money
    How to build a better world and make bigger profitsthrough investing. Capitalism used to be easy. Discover, acquire and defend a unique resource. Pay people the least you can get away with. Offload as many liabilities and risks to government as possible. And, of course, c ...
  • Your brain is a rain forest
    People with conditions like ADHD, dyslexia and mood disorders are routinely labeled "ÂÂdisabled". But differences among brains are as enrichingâand essentialâas differences among plants and animals. Welcome to the new field of neurodiversity. Imagine for a moment t ...

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • Disturbing Oil Sticking Around in the Gulf
    On Thursday I traveled with a charter boat captain, a reporter from Channel 2 in Baton Rouge, and several NRDC colleagues and friends to see for ourselves the island where oil is literally bubbling up from the ground . In Some Places All Appears Well We cruised out of Myrtle Grove Ma ...
  • First victory for the Chicago River: Pollution Co ...
     NRDC and its coalition partners won an important first-stage victory last week in our battle to make the Chicago river safe for recreation.   Over loud protests from the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District , the Pollution Control Board found what’s fairly obvious to anyone who’s e ...
  • Should the U.S. Enter into a Collateral Agreement ...
    The Wall Street Journal reported on August 10, 2010 that the Obama administration was close to sealing a deal with BP that would make the U.S. business partners with BP’s operations in the Gulf of Mexico.  The idea is that the U.S. would take as collateral a security interest (like a m ...
  • Carbon is Crack: There goes another ice chunk in t ...
    Thank you Kirk Smith, for laying out that black carbon is the equivalent of crack compared to other pollutants (see slide #67 of the presentation).  Last Friday, amidst reports of international climate change negotiations slipping , a 100 square mile chunk of ice slipped into the Nares ...
  • Wikipedia article on Ming Dynasty used to support ...
    There have been a lot of ludicrous moments in the whole Asian carp affair---but last week’s “This is Your Life” presentation on one of the fish that was caught troublingly close to Lake Michigan was particularly rich. Scientists had been analyzing  the fish to find out what some en ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • “New Law Requires Women To Name Baby, Paint ...
    New Law Requires Women To Name Baby, Paint Nursery Before Getting Abortion I’m not sure which is more dead-on: the satire of arbitrary abortion regulations, or the satire of the pundit reaction… Related posts:Should We Ban Abortion For Non-Affluent Women? That Is The Only Question How To Ban Abor ...
  • Statecraft and the State
    Reading this post reminded me that I had thoughts, a year or so ago, about the disconnect between how the academic literature breaks down the state and the way that policymakers consistently seem to fail to understand that other states have domestic politics. In particularly, I was frustrated by th ...
  • Could Simple Automated Tools Help Wikileaks Protec ...
    Julian Assange has a problem. When pressed by human rights organizations to redact any current or future published documents because they too feared the effects on Afghan civilians, he reportedly replied that he had no time to do so and “issued a tart challenge for the human rights organizations the ...
  • Gibbs
    It’s not just that his comments were foolish on the merits. They would seem to demonstrate that he’s completely incompetent. I’m pretty dubious about the efficacy of the “Sister Souljah” routine in any case, but in this specific case it’s all downside and no upside. How many of the [...] Rel ...
  • On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for e ...
    RIP Ted Stevens. [UPDATE BY ROB] I’m sure that Dave intended to post this… Related posts:On the "Cancer Survival Rate" Factoid “We Can’t Even Get Into a Second-rate Motel!” The Former AG As Fourth-Rate Wingnut Blogger Related posts: On the "Cancer Survival Rate" Factoid “We Can’t Even Get Into ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Dr. Henry Sun: Looking for Life on Mars
    The Viking landers found strange evidence that suggested the presence of life on Mars (later disproven). A new study about life's preference for left- or right-handedness could help scientists design better versions of the Viking life tests.
  • DRI Assists with West Point Cadet Training
    Dr. Eric McDonald his group of DRI scientists have partnered with West Point to develop a curriculum to teach cadets how to take soil samples and measurements with different geotechnical equipment, as well as manage large data sets.
  • DRI Researcher Named to National Committee
    Duane Moser, Ph.D., has been elected to the Executive Committee for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory Research Association (DuRA).
  • Scientists Use Tahoe Work to Protect Guatemalan La ...
    A team of scientists including DRI's Dr. Alan Heyvaert have been working at Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan to find solutions to algae blooms that have assailed the ecosystem and the locals' drinking water.
  • Kendrick Taylor Named Chief Scientist for Antarcti ...
    The National Science Foundation has again selected DRI's Kendrick Taylor, Ph.D. to be chief scientist for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core Project, a crucial step in defining the influence of changes in greenhouse gases on climate.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Massachusetts high court finds Jackson Lewis and W ...
    Massachusetts' high court has ruled that Jackson Lewis and Winokur Serkey & Rosenberg of Plymouth, Mass. are liable for a $1 million-plus verdict against a telecommunications company in an employment discrimination case.
  • Best Best & Kriger subpoenaed as clients run for t ...
    California Attorney General Jerry Brown Jr. has subpoenaed records from Best Best & Krieger in an investigation of the pay packages for city officials in Bell, Calif., where a scandal involving high salaries has spiraled into possible civil and criminal actions and raised questions among officials i ...
  • BP oil spill cases consolidated before Judge Barbi ...
    The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on Tuesday ordered the wrongful death and economic and environmental damages actions against BP PLC and other defendants sent to U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier in the Eastern District of Louisiana.
  • Christian law school planned in Louisiana
    Louisiana may soon have its fifth law school. Louisiana College, which is owned by Louisiana Baptist Convention, has announced plans to open the Judge Paul Pressler School of Law in Shreveport.
  • ASSOCIATE MOVERS
    Associate promotions to partner at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel; new arrivals at Bayard, Blank Rome, Harter Seacrest & Emery; Quarles & Brady; and Ruden McClosky.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Marcellus Shale Drillers in Pennsylvania Amass 143 ...
    952 Identified as Most Likely to Harm the Environment The Pennsylvania Land Trust Association has reviewed environmental violations accrued by Marcellus Shale drillers working in Pennsylvania between January 2008 and June 25, 2010.  The records were obtained via a Right to Know Request made to the P ...
  • Up In the Air
    I made an announcement shortly after Memorial Day weekend, that I would be putting my home in DISH on the market.  This decision was made by my family after several instances of both of my children having nosebleeds during the night.  These nosebleeds correlated with strong odors and spikes in the c ...
  • DEP’s Unauthorized Water Withdrawal Program
    July 26, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:  Cathy Pedler – (814) 454-7523 Bill Belitskus – (814) 778-5173 Ryan Talbott – (503) 887-7845 Department of Environmental Protection Unlawfully Permitting Water Withdrawals For Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling in Western Pennsylvania Only riparian owners can ...
  • DEP has proposed tougher standards for Oil & Gas d ...
    The Public Comment Meetings are finished and there are only about ten days to get in your comments by e-mail. These regulations call for more stringent standards for O&G drilling operations. These regulations are vital.  They upgrade requirements for testing, well casing, welding, cementing and othe ...
  • Gas Stock 2010!
    http://www.gasstockconcert.com/ This is an environmental concert and rally. Music and like minded folks who are concerned about the gas drilling in PA. Check it out.

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Interview: New Sierra Club Chief On Charting a Mor ...
    Earlier this year, 38-year-old environmental activist Michael Brune became head of the United States’ largest conservation organization, the Sierra Club. Now, as the group works to wean the country off fossil fuels, Brune says it’s time to move beyond the overly accommodating strategy that failed to ...
  • The Sierra Club’s New Leader On Charting a More As ...
    Earlier this year, 38-year-old environmental activist Michael Brune was named the unlikely choice to take over as head of the Sierra Club, the largest U.S. conservation organization. In an interview with Yale Environment 360 �Brune says it’s time to move beyond overly accommodating strategies like t ...
  • EPA Sets Mercury Limits On Cement Producers in the ...
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has established the first regulations for mercury emissions from cement factories , a step the Obama administration says will produce $7 to $19 in health benefits for every dollar in costs. Federal officials say the regulations, set to take effect in 2013, wi ...
  • Past Disasters Offer Lessons On Legacy of Deepwate ...
    The Gulf of Mexico’s capacity to recover from previous environmental assaults — especially the 1979 Ixtoc explosion — provides encouragement about the prospects for its post-Deepwater future. But scientists remain worried about the BP spill's long-term effects on the health of the Gulf and its sea l ...
  • Scientists Find First Evidence Of GM Crops Reprodu ...
    Scientists conducting research in North Dakota have found the first evidence of established populations of genetically modified crops in the wild . After testing and photographing 406 canola plants found along more than 3,300 miles of roads, the researchers discovered evidence of transgenic plants i ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Churchill Ordered UFO Cover-Up, Archives Show
    With a civilian population haunted by the Blitz and the Second World War still in the balance, it was one development Winston Churchill could have done without - An incursion into British airspace by an arrow-shaped metallic object feared to contain an invasion force of little green men.
  • Should Videotaping the Police Really Be a Crime?
    Anthony Graber, a Maryland Air National Guard staff sergeant, faces up to 16 years in prison. His crime? He videotaped his March encounter with a state trooper who pulled him over for speeding on a motorcycle. Then Graber put the video — which could put the officer in a bad light — up on YouTube.
  • Unilever Stalks its Customers with GPS Trackers Se ...
    The household cleaning product giant Unilever has secretly placed GPS tracker transmitters in laundry detergent boxes to track consumers to their homes. With an array of electronic sensors, team of Unilever agents can now pinpoint the exact location of the GPS trackers and walk right up to your fron ...
  • Three Bright Planets Visible in Night Sky Triangle
    A spectacular gathering of three of the brightest planets will be the chief celestial attraction in the evening sky during the next few days. Anyone with a clear and unobstructed view of the west-northwest horizon will be able to Venus, Mars and Saturn in a single glance. These three planets are des ...
  • Solar tsunami to trigger northern lights across Ca ...
    Stargazing doesn’t get much better than this. The northern lights are expected to make an appearance in the night sky across Canada and the northern United States this week, thanks to a spectacular eruption on the surface of the Sun. Early on Sunday, the sun’s surface exploded in a phenomenon called ...

Russia Today

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

  • More interstellar wisdom from Stephen Hawking
    Stephen Hawking just keeps bringing it on. Hawking is known to advocate space exploration,  colonization and warning about meeting alien cultures. Now he again advocates for spreading out into the Galaxy. Hopefully within a century: The renowned astrophysicist said he fears mankind is in great dang ...
  • The Paracast: Philip J. Imbrogno
    This week’s Paracast guest is paranormal investigator Philip J. Imbrogno, author of âFiles From the Edge: A Paranormal Investigator’s Explorations into High Strangeness.â From what I heard of the interview, Imbrogno mainly investigated UFO sightings and paranormal strangeness in the Hudson Valle ...
  • Lunar Probes on a shoestring/Aqua-Net = Pre-Atlant ...
    While NASA is in the throes of budgetary Purgatory, they did manage to come up with an unique, inexpensive way to put a couple of probes that have finished their primary mission into Lunar orbit to do some extra science: A pair of Earth-orbiting satellites designed to study the auroras are making a ...
  • A Repackaging of an Old Idea
    The present Big Bang Theory of the formation of the Universe has been in trouble since the 1990s, since it was discovered that the Universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. Since then, the terms ‘dark energy’ and ‘dark matter’ have entered the scientific lexicon, although there’s no evidence ...
  • Some Reasons for the Roswell Crash
    Suppose you’re just starting to study the UFO phenomenon and you start reading about the 1947 crash at the Matt Brazel ranch. After studying things for a while you wonder; “If these things are so advanced, why do they crash?” Well, Anthony Bragalia over at the UFO Iconoclast(s) lists some possible r ...

Tippers News

  • GOP Opposes Federal Fracking Regs Regardless of Wh ...
    As natural gas exploration expands throughout our energy-starved nation -- from the West and now into the South and Northeast -- many folks living in drilling country are rightfully expressing concern that their groundwater may be susceptible to pollution Submitted by Kathy B. to Environment �|� �N ...
  • Top 5 Eco-Friendly Cleaning Recipes
    We all know that baking soda can be used to clean everything from your counter tops to your teeth. But did you know that there are plenty of other eco-friendly cleaners that you can whip up with a few common kitchen ingredients? Submitted by Kathy B. to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comm ...
  • Men's accident rates climb with women's hemlines
    Men's car accident rates rise along with women's summer hemlines, says a new study by a U.K. insurance company. Submitted by Kathy B. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Obama Foodorama
    Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has issued a proclamation lauding the community collectives, and declaring August 1-7 as National Farmers Market Week, a new holiday for the American calendar. Submitted by Kathy B. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Demand that News Corp.'s major shareholders renoun ...
    It's time for those who profit from Beck to take responsibility for his incitements to violence. Beck's paranoid, dishonest and incendiary rhetoric doesn't just reflect on Beck -- it reflects on News Corp., Fox News' parent company, and its shareholders. Submitted by Kathy B. to Business �|� �Note- ...

The Freeman

  • Cause, Effect, and the Current Depression
    All too often people confuse cause and effect, claiming the effect really is the cause.
  • Fed to Discuss Stalling Recovery
    “The Federal Reserve will meet on Tuesday faced with a pivotal decision about whether to abandon its presumption that the economy is gradually picking up steam and begin to consider new steps to keep the recovery from sputtering out. A string of developments, including the weak jobs report last Frid ...
  • Freddie Mac Needs More Taxpayer Money
    “Mortgage finance giant Freddie Mac said Monday that its loss in the second quarter narrowed but that taxpayers would still be on the hook for the foreseeable futureâ¦. As a result of the losses, Freddie will need $1.8 billion in government aid on top of more than $60 billion already provided by ta ...
  • Scramble Is on for Government School Money
    “With the Obama administration pouring billions into its nationwide campaign to overhaul failing schools, dozens of companies with little or no experience are portraying themselves as school-turnaround experts as they compete for the money.” (New York Times, Tuesday) The public trough is wide open. ...
  • Of Fallible Umpires and Rogue Judges
    There is a striking similarity between blown calls by umpires in baseball and blown calls by judges in our legal system.

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

  • 5 key issues to watch in the BP disaster recovery
    "It's just like Katrina -- it's when the media leaves that the public needs to be paying attention." -- A community leader in south Louisiana, about the BP oil spill When the Institute launched its Gulf Watch project five years ago, weeks after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, ...
  • Some Gulf fishermen protest re-opening of fishing ...
    As the Gulf Coast's seafood industry works to bolster public confidence in the safety of its product, fishermen from four Gulf states held a press conference over the weekend to voice concerns about what they consider to be the premature opening of commercial fishing grounds following the BP oil dis ...
  • In Florida, slavery still haunts the fields
    By Mischa Gaus, Labor Notes The trailer, 24 feet deep by 8 feet wide, is muggy this early August afternoon in Manhattan. Eight of us -- church ladies, iPhone-wielding denizens, curious tourists -- mop our brows as we clamber inside for a look at one the most shameful secrets of the American syst ...
  • Senate votes down measure to raid Katrina recovery ...
    Two weeks ago Facing South reported on a measure moving through Congress that would have taken $400 million from Louisiana's Road Home program to fund a spending that included $304 million for BP disaster response. The proposal was swiftly met with howls of outrage from Gulf residents, who arg ...
  • Duke Energy cancels controversial plans to build n ...
    Duke Energy announced this week that it would move the planned location of an electrical substation it's building out of the direct view of the sacred Cherokee site of Kituwah in western North Carolina. The decision comes after protests from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians , who consider Kituw ...

Survival International

  • Anti-Vedanta tribal leaders abducted
    Lodu Sikaka has been abducted by gunmen. © Survival Two leaders of an Indian tribeâs resistance to a controversial mine have been abducted and are now missing, according to local reports. Lodu (Lado) Sikaka and Sena Sikaka, two Dongria Kondh men from Odisha, eastern India, have been leading ...
  • "Green" energy boom destroys tribes – new report
    Tribal peoples will be devastated by the current boom in dam-building. © E. Lafforgue/Survival To mark the UN Day of Indigenous People, Survival has released a new report highlighting the devastating impact on tribal people of a massive boom in dam-building for hydropower. Drawing on examples ...
  • Colombian indigenous leader shot dead by hitman
    Wayúu woman, la Guajira. © Alejandra Quintero Sinisterra A Colombian indigenous leader has been shot dead outside his family home in the Colombian city of Riohacha, in the northern province of la Guajira. Luis Alfredo Socarrás Pimienta of the Wayúu tribe was allegedly shot by a paramilitary hi ...
  • European Investment Bank abandons Ethiopia mega da ...
    In profile, this Mursi woman's lip plate protrudes dramatically. © Eric Lafforgue/Survival The European Investment Bank ( EIB ) has announced it is no longer considering funding Africa’s tallest dam, in Ethiopia. The hydroelectric dam, called Gibe III , has drawn international criticism because ...
  • Former UN water advisor condemns Botswana’s treatm ...
    Maude Barlow's attack comes a week after the UN declared water a fundamental human right. © IISD Maude Barlow, former UN advisor on water, âAlternative Nobelâ prize winner and founder of the Blue Planet Project, has condemned the Botswana governmentâs failure to allow Bushmen to access w ...

Greg Palast

  • Behind Bush's Wyly Billionaire Burglars... Hint: B ...
    by Greg Palast Card illustrations by Bob GrossmanSam Wyly is one of the planet's "Ten Greenest Billionaires," according to Forbes. And, the magazine should have added, the one that deserves the most prison time. Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged billionaire Sam and his bil ...
  • Palast on GRITtv: Fighting Toxic Oil Companies
    Last week, Mike Papantonio told us on GRITtv that there was no fund from BP to pay for the oil disaster, and raised some questions about Kenneth Feinberg, the administrator of the damages to Gulf residents. Today investigative journalist Greg Palast answers some of those questions--and raises a f ...
  • Shoot BP:The Amazon to Arctic Investigation
    Alaska Native Henry Makarka©1997James Macalpine-PIF At Tatitlek Village, Alaska Native Henry Makarka told me, "If I had a machine gun I'd shoot every one of them white sons of bitches." Makarka was talking about the executives who came to him and his tribe 40 years ago to purchase their land at Va ...
  • Shoot BP:The Amazon to Arctic Investigation
    At Tatitlek Village, Alaska Native Henry Makarka told me, "If I had a machine gun I'd shoot every one of them white sons of bitches." Makarka was talking about the executives who came to him and his tribe 40 years ago to purchase their land at Valdez.  They were from the companies now known as Exxo ...
  • Getting into Massa's Drawers:Truly Creepy Detailsa ...
    Exclusive for Buzzflash.com by Greg Palast For the two weeks before tickle-and-grope charges busted open on him, and before his resignation from Congress, our BBC Television investigations team was hunting for Representative Eric Massa. We wanted to know what he had hidden in his drawers. Not his ...

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Fed to print more money
    Here we go again: The Federal Reserve acknowledged on Tuesday that its confidence in the economic recovery had dimmed, and announced that it would use the proceeds from its huge mortgage-bond portfolio to buy long-term Treasury securities. This after all the money they printed to directly help out b ...
  • COIN and NGOS
    American, and thus ISAF counter-insurgency doctrine holds that the population is the ultimate prize between the counter-insurgent and insurgent forces.  Whomever can make the population more loyal (willingly or unwillingly) to its positions, officials and intelligence collection networks will wi ...
  • No We Aren’t In A Recession, We’re In ...
    Seriously, does this look like a recession to you? (image from CR.) And 2001 was a depression too, it was just a very shallow depression.
  • No We Aren’t In A Recession, We’re In a Depression
    Seriously, does this look like a recession to you? (image from CR.) And 2001 was a depression too, it was just a very shallow depression.
  • Brutal Animation of Unemployment Rates
    Extraordinarily depressing, and this doesn’t even use the measures I’d use, like participation rates or U-6.

Age of Autism

  • Another! How Many Autism Murder/Suicides Before Na ...
    Four children with autism under the age of 21 have been murdered by their parents in a single summer. Two in Dallas, TX, one in The Bronx, NY, and now Christopher Melton of Howard County, Maryland. What more can I...
  • Time For Psychiatrists to Release Autism To Immuno ...
    Read the full article at PsychCentralNews. Someone tell our friends at that midwestern fish wrapper they should check out the emerging evidence of harm, since they are so protective of our children. The use of antidepressant medication to improve symptoms...
  • What’s Behind Ben Goldacre?
    By John Stone After years of secrecy on the matter confirmation has finally come to light that Guardian ‘Bad Science’ journalist Ben Goldacre is the son of Oxford professor of public health Michael J Goldacre (HERE). Prof Goldacre has been...
  • Win Lunch with Dr. Andrew Wakefield
    Click HERE to visit the SafeMinds MercuryFree Kids 2010 Auction. Care to wine and dine with Dr. Andrew Wakefield? Start bidding! The Mercury Free Kids 2010 Auction is now open. The auction will run from July 20, 2010 to July...
  • Autism is Not The New Normal: Bronx Mother (Allege ...
    By Kim Stagliano This morning Tanner's Dad (Tim Welsh) Tweeted a blog entry HERE from a pediatrician who talked about autism, and that it's "normalized" for him. Really doc? Autism is not the new normal. Asperger's or autism - the...

Global BDS Movement

  • Imaging Apartheid - Poster Project for Palestine
    call for submissions: Montreal July 2010 http://imagingapartheid.org/downloads/imagingapartheid_call.pdf As the global movement in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation continues to grow, we are calling on graphic designers and artists to submit their work to IMAGING APARTHEID: ...
  • 6,000 Irish shoppers demand supermarket stops stoc ...
    Today, Thursday 29th July 2010, at 1pm, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) delivered a petition to Dunnes Stores signed by 6,000 shoppers across Ireland. The petition demands that Dunnes Stores stop stocking Israeli products, until Israel respects Palestinian rights and international l ...
  • Palestinian civil society salutes Olympia Food Co- ...
    Occupied Palestine, 26 July 2010 – Palestinian farmers unions, agricultural organizations and popular committees struggling against Israel’s colonial Wall and settlements warmly salute the historic decision taken on July 15th [1] by the Olympia Food Co-op to remove all Israeli products from its shel ...
  • Action Alert: Support the Olympia Food Co-op Now! ...
    Just last week the Board of Directors of the Olympia Food Co-op took thecourageous step of instituting a boycott of Israeli goods, the firstgrocery boycott of Israel in the US. Already, there is a movement afoot tocondemn the Co-op for taking this important stand. Board and staff arereceiving aggres ...
  • IKEA contributes to a better everyday life for the ...
    IKEA delivers goods to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory. IKEA’s answer to the critique is that "IKEA stores have existed in Israel for the many people since 2001" and that "IKEA’s vision is to contribute to a better everyday life for the many people." read more

Farm Wars

  • The Codex, Fluoride, Auschwitz, Monsanto Connectio ...
    What do Codex Alimentarius with its official food standards, the fluoridation of our water and food supply, genocide at the Auschwitz concentration camp, and Monsanto, the company responsible for genetically altering the world's food supply all have in common?
  • Marti Oakley and Barb Peterson: The Truth Squad, w ...
    Paul will be reporting on the current premises registration (NAIS) cases in Wisconsin involving NAIS and Raw Milk.
  • The BP Oil gusher was only the “crisis” used to sh ...
    The PPJ Gazette                                     Live Link: OPEN SECRETS.Org Clients lobbying on H.R.3534 61 unique organization(s) has/have registered to lobby on this bill. Click on a client’s name to view all the bills on which they reported lobbying. Click on the number of reports to view all ...
  • The ClEAR ACT: They are stealing it all: Land, wat ...
     Marti Oakley (c)copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved The PPJ Gazette Another assault on the American public is under way; this one will enlarge and increase the power of the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management to such a degree that none of us will be safe from these corrupted ...
  • Could Genetically Modified Crops be causing E-Coli ...
    It is possible that a mutated form of e-coli resulting from the cloning process used in creating GMOs could get into the gut of a person or animal that eats a transgenic plant.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Pakistan floods: supercharged jet stream ‘ca ...
    The Telegraph-A highly-charged jet stream is contributing to the worse floods Pakistan has seen in decades, meteorologists have said. The jet stream, a massive ring of high speed winds, is moving quicker than usual over north western Pakistan, causing wet monsoon air to be sucked faster and higher i ...
  • Videos indicate Israel played a role in killing of ...
    Irish Times – HIZBULLAH SECRETARY general Hassan Nasrallah has accused Israel of being behind the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri and has backed up his charges with circumstantial evidence. In a three-hour televised press conference on Monday night, Sayyed Nasrallah presen ...
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    Send an e-mail to thehistorian@openyoureyesnews.com with the subject heading “Mailing List” to receive our periodical newsletter summarising the biggest stories of the previous weeks, and also receive other updates on developments at Open Your Eyes News.
  • UK: Two million children ‘wrongly labelled&# ...
    The Times – More than two million children are wrongly labelled as having a food allergy and are being placed on unnecessary and potentially harmful diets, according to the NHS watchdog. The National Institute for health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) is issuing the first ever guidance to GPs on ho ...
  • Oil Industry Gets Disclosure Jolt
    Wall Street Journal – U.S. energy companies are steaming about a disclosure rule added at the last minute to the new financial regulation law requiring companies to disclose their payments to foreign governments. The provision in the Dodd-Frank law compels companies to reveal royalties, bonuses and ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Element Power proposes Antelope Valley wind and so ...
    Nothing says Alfalfa Festival like solar panels and wind turbines. So says Element Power U.S., the Portland, Ore.-based renewable power company sponsoring this year’s festival paired with the Antelope Valley Fair later this month. Maybe it has something to do...
  • Gulf oil spill: BP starts last leg of relief well ...
    BP resumed work Friday on the drilling operation meant to spell the ultimate end of its notorious gulf well as it continued to scale back its massive cleanup operation. “We’re far from finished,” said Doug Suttles, the company’s outgoing cleanup...
  • Pinnacles National Monument: California's new Nati ...
    Pinnacles National Monument, a 26,000-acre swath of spectacular volcanic rock formations outside Soledad, Calif., would be elevated to a National Park under legislation introduced Thursday by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) Pinnacles is a nesting place for the endangered California condor,...
  • Gulf oil spill: BP starts cementing well
    BP began pumping a stream of cement into its well Thursday morning, taking another in a series of final steps to ensure the broken well never again spouts polluting oil into the gulf. After jamming the offshore well with heavy...
  • Western Climate Initiative: California, New Mexico ...
    California, joined by New Mexico and three Canadian provinces, outlined a detailed plan Tuesday to curb greenhouse gas emissions in a regional cap-and-trade program by January 2012. The Western Climate Initiative, two years in the making, comes as Congressional legislation...

Mark I. Moore | Deepwater Horizon

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Cryptogon

  • Fed to Buy More of Its Own Debt
    *chortle* Via: Bloomberg: Federal Reserve officials decided to reinvest principal payments on mortgage holdings into long-term Treasury securities, making their first attempt to bolster growth since March 2009 to keep the slowing U.S. economy from relapsing into recession. “The pace of economic reco ...
  • Student-Loan Debt Surpasses Credit Cards
    Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble: Look at overall inflation vs. college education inflation. Via: Wall Street Journal: Consumers now owe more on their student loans than their credit cards. Americans owe some $826.5 billion in revolving credit, according to June 2010 figures from the Federal Reserve ...
  • Elizabeth Warren Uncovered What the Government Did ...
    Unless the AIG imbroglio is untangled, the rest of this is nonsense. —Cryptogon, April 20, 2010 Here’s another one for your voluminous Captain Obvious file. Via: Alternet: The governmentâs $182 billion bailout of insurance giant AIG should be seen as the Rosetta Stone for understanding the financi ...
  • ‘Buy and Bail’
    Via: Bloomberg: Harvey Collier, a mortgage broker in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, says he gets as many as 10 calls a month from people planning to default on their loans. The twist: They first want financing to buy another home. Real estate professionals call it “buy and bail,” acquiring a new house be ...
  • Google Raided by Korea Police in Probe of Street V ...
    Via: Bloomberg: South Korean police raided Google Inc.’s Seoul office as part of an investigation into possible breaches of privacy laws resulting from the company’s collection of data for its Street View mapping service. Law-enforcement officials confiscated materials from Google in a raid today an ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Mortgage Horror Stories: The U.S. Housing Industry ...
    Back about five or six years ago, when the housing bubble was still rising, just about anyone could get a mortgage.  Lending institutions were handing out ridiculously bloated home loans to almost anyone who breathed.  It didn't matter if you had a rotten credit history, it didn't m ...
  • 103 U.S. Banks Have Collapsed So Far In 2010 &#821 ...
    Have you ever noticed how almost all U.S. bank closings are now announced over the weekend?  It is almost as if someone wants to keep the increasing number of bank closures out of the news cycle as much as possible.  The Obama administration continues to use phrases like "green shoo ...
  • 15 Economic Statistics That Just Keep Getting Wors ...
    A little over a week ago, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner penned an article for the New York Times entitled "Welcome To The Recovery" in which he touted the great strides that the U.S. economy was making.  But with unemployment still dangerously high and with foreclosures a ...
  • The Horrific Derivatives Bubble That Could One Day ...
    Today there is a horrific derivatives bubble that threatens to destroy not only the U.S. economy but the entire world financial system as well, but unfortunately the vast majority of people do not understand it.  When you say the word "derivatives" to most Americans, they have no id ...
  • The U.S. Economy Is A Dead Horse And The American ...
    The economic frustration of the American people is reaching a fever pitch.  Millions of Americans can't seem to get a good job no matter what they do.  Millions of others are working as hard as they can but find that they keep coming up short at the end of the month.  Record numbers ...

Desertification

  • China-Africa agriculture forum (Afrique Avenir)
    Read at : http://www.afriqueavenir.org/en/2010/08/09/china-africa-agriculture-forum-opens-wednesday-in-beijing/ China-Africa agriculture forum opens Wednesday in Beijing APA-Nairobi (Kenya) The China-Africa Agriculture Cooperation Forum bringing together representatives of Chinese and African politi ...
  • More food production, but not enough (IRINNews)
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=90125 ZIMBABWE: More food production, but not enough JOHANNESBURG, 10 August 2010 (IRIN) – Zimbabwe’s production of maize, its staple food, has improved “significantly”, but the country is still food insecure and about 1.68 million people will … ...
  • UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative (IISD)
    Read at : Sustainable Development Announcement List UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative releases its Annual Progress Report 2009 The Poverty-Environment Initiative (PEI) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) i ...
  • Harvest rain to mitigate water shortages (IRIN New ...
    Read at: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=90122 YEMEN: Failing to harvest the rain SANAA, 10 August 2010 (IRIN) – Despite record rainfall in the Yemeni capital Sanaa and other areas this summer, very little is being done to harvest this water to mitigate water … Continue reading →
  • Clouds and Rain to make the Desert Green (Alpenpar ...
    Seen at : http://www.alpenparlament.tv/playlist/289-der-gruene-garten-in-der-wueste Video (German, French, Arab) Der grüne Garten in der Wüste (The Green Garden in the Desert) 02. August 2010 | Dipl. Ing. Madjid Abdellaziz |

The Paper Trail

  • FINANCE: Republican Seeks Hearing on Fannie Mae Wh ...
    The top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee is asking for a hearing on a whistleblower’s claims that Fannie Mae put its own bottom line ahead of helping distressed homeowners with a federal foreclosure prevention program, allegations reported last week by the Center for Public Integ ...
  • MONEY & POLITICS: After 15-Month Wait, White H ...
    The White House quietly informed the U.S. Senate late last week that it has withdrawn the nomination of labor lawyer John J. Sullivan for a seat on the Federal Elections Commission. The nomination of Sullivan, a Service Employees International Union (SEIU) lawyer, was announced over 15 months ago an ...
  • ENERGY: OSHA Urged to Get Tough with BP in $90 Mil ...
    Citing a Center for Public Integrity investigation of BP refineries having the most egregious safety violations in the industry, Democratic Sens. Patty Murray and Al Franken want the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to demand stricter worker safety requirements in its negotiation ...
  • DEFENSE: Earmarks Lobbyist Indicted for Illegal Ca ...
    A master pay-to-play defense lobbyist in the center of a controversial web of Capitol Hill relationships highlighted by the Center for Public lntegrity was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury.
  • DEFENSE: Alleged Traumatic Brain Injury Research M ...
    The Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) is reviewing allegations of research misconduct in a mild traumatic brain injury clinical trial with U.S. Marines in Iraq, according to documents and interviews.

backofthebook.ca

  • Stelmach sticks his head in the oil sands
    By Alison@Creekside Four "Rethink Alberta" billboards in Denver, Portland, Seattle and Minneapolis proclaim the "Alberta Tar Sands Oil Disaster" is worse than the Gulf Oil Spill Disaster. There's also a vid.   Alberta Preme Ed Stelmach is pledging $268,000 to mount a public relations offensiv ...
  • Day on crime: screw the stats, let’s just go ...
    By Alison@Creekside Doris ("Stockwell") Day's cheery crime shoppers' philosophy on prisons seems to be: If you build them, they will come. According to Shockwell Doris and JusticeMin Rob Nicholson, we're going to need more prisons to deal with the "alarming" increase in "unreported crime" .  . ...
  • Airshow Mackay and the Red Barons
    By Alison@Creekside Frankly I don't think we can be expected to write a whole new blogpost every time Flying Ace "Airshow MacKay" and his trusty sidekick Woodstock Kory climb up on top of the Con doghouse to fight off the Red Baron yet again in the Arctic, so this time we're ...
  • Am I on Blackett’s “crap” list?
    By Brian Brennan I applied to a provincial government agency – twice — to fund my next history book project, and was turned down, twice. Why? First, let me tell you the reason I applied for this money. You don’t make big money writing history in this country. It is the sport ...
  • No jokes please, we’re Canadian
    By Alison@Creekside Vancouver company The Cheeky.com says their humorous suitcase stickers featuring bags of cocaine, US bills, sex toys and a bound-and-gagged flight attendant will help you find your luggage more easily, but Transport Minister John Baird's spokesy says: "Joking about potentia ...

Worldnews

  • Iran plans help to Lebanon army as U.S. locks ...
    BEIRUT (Reuters) – Iran has offered support to Lebanon's army, a week after a deadly cross-border clash between Lebanon and Israel which prompted U.S. lawmakers to block funding to the Lebanese military. The offer from Iran, which supports Lebanon's militant Shi'ite group Hezbollah, could fuel ...
  • Winehouse blames herself for dad's hospitaliz ...
    London, Aug 11 (ANI): English singer Amy Winehouse is blaming herself after her dad Mitch was rushed to hospital following her latest bender.� The troubled singer is devastated her father, a London cabbie, who has been struggling to rescue Amy from her drugs and booze lifestyle, suffered severe ...
  • Justin Bieber smacked in the face by water bo ...
    London, August 11 (ANI): Justin Bieber was once attacked with a water bottle on stage, a video has shown.�...
  • Sensex down 150 pts on negative global cues; ...
    MUMBAI: The BSE benchmark Sensex on Wednesday fell by 150 points on sustained selling of blue-chips, led by IT stocks, after the US Federal Reserve expressed concern over the state of the American economy. Amid a weakening trend in Asia and a lower opening on European bourses, the Bombay Stock ...
  • Spot yuan ends down as China's economy slows ...
    SHANGHAI: Spot yuan ended down against the dollar on Wednesday as the central bank fixed a weaker mid-point and after data showed China's economy was gradually slowing. Before trade began, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) set the yuan's reference rate against the dollar at 6.7768, down from Tu ...

Alex in Wonderland

  • Khadr Show-’Trial’ Blacked Out of NY T ...
    The first military commissioned trial of a detainee renditioned to the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay under the Obama Administration opened Tuesday. Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen, was kidnapped eight years ago in Afghanistan at the age of 15 by the U.S. military, threatened with rape in d ...
  • Dictatorship, War and the Federal Reserve (Video)
    Rep. Ron Paul and Mises Institute President Lew Rockwell, Jr., earlier today, discussed the connection between the U.S. government's war and monetary policy with Judge Andrew Napolitano on his FOX Business Network program, "Freedom Watch."
  • Daily Briefing—10th Aug 2010
    News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
  • Ethics, Congress and War (Video)
    Sooo, Congress is bothered by a little corruption? Hah! Also, will there be war with North Korea and/or Iran?
  • Daily Briefing—9th August 2010
    News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire

MY Daily Apple

  • DEXTROAMPHETAMINE SACCHARATE, AMPHETAMINE ASPARTAT ...
    Updated Date: Aug 10, 2010 EST
  • Scientists Unravel Secrets of Sound Sleep
    Bursts of brain activity called 'spindles' may keep loud noise from disturbing sleep, study suggests Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Page: Sleep Disorders
  • Oil Firms, Rig Owners Navigate Drilling Moratorium
    A federal judge in New Orleans is scheduled to hear arguments Wednesday over whether the government's moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is legal. The six-month moratorium has cast uncertainty on the entire Gulf oil industry � and what could it mean for the businesses that oper ...
  • The Cell Phone Boom In Africa Can't Trump Dire Nee ...
    The fast-growing use of cell phones in Africa - where many people lack the basic human necessities - has made headlines worldwide the past few years. The surprising boom has led to widespread speculation - and hope - that cell phones could potentially transform the impoverished continent. But new re ...
  • Breakthrough in spinal cord regeneration offers ne ...
    Scientists have regenerated spinal cord nerves for the first time by removing a 'biological brake' on their growth. The team were from a research centre named after actor Christopher Reeve who died in 2004.

Common Dreams

  • Greenland Ice Sheet Faces 'Tipping Point in 10 Yea ...
    by Suzanne Goldenberg WASHINSTON - The entire ice mass of Greenland will disappear from the world map if temperatures rise by as little as 2C, with severe consequences for the rest of the world, a panel of scientists told Congress today. Greenland shed its largest chunk of ice in nearly half a c ...
  • House Passes State Aid Bill; Obama Signs into Law
    by Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved, and President Barack Obama promptly signed into law, an election-year bill providing $26 billion to struggling states by closing tax loopholes for multinational companies and cutting food aid to the poor. The Democratic-c ...
  • Former US Senator Stevens, Others Killed in Alaska ...
    WASHINGTON – Legendary former US Senator Ted Stevens was killed when a small plane carrying nine people slammed into a remote Alaska mountainside leaving five passengers dead, officials said. Stevens, 86, the longest-serving Republican in Senate history before being voted out of office in 2 ...
  • U.S. Supersizes Afghan Mega-Base as Withdrawal Dat ...
    by Spencer Ackerman BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan - Anyone who thinks the United States is really going to withdraw from Afghanistan in July 2011 needs to come to this giant air base an hour away from Kabul. There's construction everywhere. It's exactly what you wouldn't expect from a transient p ...
  • Target Faces More Heat Over Political Donation
    by Tom Webb Randi Reitan planned to spend Friday caring for her grandchildren. But something came up: She had to lead a protest against Target Corp. Reitan, of Eden Prairie, has become the public face in a growing controversy over a $150,000 Target political contribution. When she heard Target ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

  • Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recuse Hi ...
    With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been selec ...
  • Law360 Calls Lawyer-Owned Shell Company a "Public ...
    seems to have a pretty flexible definition of that term. Last month, it included . Who is so concerned about such fairness? That would be , the Texas law firm that owns Americans for Fair Patent Use, which is a limited liability company set up to prosecute a false marking lawsuit filed in E ...
  • Eben Moglen on Bilski, software patents, and big p ...
    Moglen's position on the subject of software patents—that they should be banned—is, to say the least, outside the mainstream in legal circles. It has, however, garnered support among software developers and other techies, especially those who work in the world of open-source and free softw ...
  • Patent Litigation Weekly: International Trade Comm ...
    Over the past two decades, the question of what constitutes a domestic industry has typically been heard by the same ITC administrative law judges who ultimately rule on the patent disputes that come before the agency. It's rare that the full commission considers the issue. On April 14, th ...
  • Patent enforcement companies speak at SF conferenc ...
    Earlier this month, MDB Capital Group--an that promises to help investors understand "the hidden value of intellectual property assets and future technological leadership"--held what it billed as its first annual "Bright Lights" intellectual property conference, bringing together IP-centric ...

Peoples Voice

  • America's Gulf: A Toxic Crime Scene
    by Stephen Lendman On August 4, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a Department of Commerce agency, reported that: "The vast majority of the oil from the BP oil spill has either evaporated or been burned, skimmed, recovered from the wellhead or dispersed, much of whi ...
  • International Call for FREEDOM for Vanunu and Naga ...
    Eileen Fleming Many hundreds of people from around the World have signed an International Petition humanrights.change.org , calling on President Obama, Prime Ministers Netanyahu and Cameron, and other world leaders, to ‘do all they can’ to gain the release from Israel of Mordechai Vanunu (the Israe ...
  • The Charade Begins: Netanyahu's Flotilla Massacre ...
    by Stephen Lendman On August 9, Israel's self-appointed Turkel Commission, its planned whitewash, began hearings into the Freedom Flotilla massacre, a humanitarian mission delivering essential aid to besieged Gazans, Israeli officials blaming the victims, not themselves. After the incident, Def ...
  • ISRAEL’S PILLARS OF SAMSON: NOT QUITE ARMAGE ...
    By Dr. Alan Sabrosky As the US edges toward an unprovoked and utterly needless war with Iran, some remarks by an eminent and experienced observer of that part of the world caught my attention. First, he noted that Israel and the US realize that the next war will burn much of the Middle East and may ...
  • US -- Venezuela: The Empire Strikes Back (and Lose ...
    James Petras Introduction US policy toward Venezuela has taken many tactical turns, but the objective has been the same: to oust President Chavez, reverse the nationalization of big businesses, abolish the mass community and worker based councils and revert the country into a client-state. Wash ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • All the latest on the census long-form debacle
    On June 30th, the CCPA's Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan was among the initial voices leading the criticism over the government decision to eliminate the census long-form questionnaire. Since then, a groundswell of alarm has turned into a wall of opposition, across the political spectrum. Stay tu ...
  • Apply now for the Next Up youth leadership program
    Applications are now being accepted for the fourth year of Next Up: A Leadership�Program for Young People Committed to Social and Environmental Justice . This is an amazing, intensive and transformative program for young social change activists between the ages of 18 and 32. This year we're exci ...
  • New Report: In the Red: The Green Behind Nuclear P ...
    Regina — The Saskatchewan office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has released a new study on the economic costs of pursuing nuclear power in Saskatchewan. "In the Red: The Green Behind Nuclear Power," authored by policy researcher Heath Packman, critically examines the economic costs ...
  • Meaningful training programs for welfare recipient ...
    Check out the new paper by CCPA-BC research associate Shauna Butterwick: Meaningful Training Programs for BC Welfare Recipients . Shauna examined the experiences of welfare recipients participating in two types of pre-employment programs: the BC Employment Program (BCEP) and the Community Assista ...
  • Carbon footprint from fossil fuel exports at odds ...
    The CCPA-BC office released another Climate Justice Project brief today, this one finding that greenhouse gas emissions from exported coal and natural gas generate more than double the emissions from combustion within BC. Read the news release and the study ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Now I’m All Confused
    LA Times Concludes: Withdrawal From Gaza Was not Smart | Israel National News Five years after, a major U.S. newspaper summarizes Israelâs Disengagement from Gaza: âIt was a big mistake.â Entitled âLessons and Legacies of Israel’s Gaza Withdrawal,â the August 8th Los Angeles Times piece by ...
  • RIM Ain’t No Apple
    RIM Reportedly Bows To Pressure From Saudi Arabia, Hands Over Blackberry Access | Mobile Crunch Even when you’re one of the largest mobile companies in the world (and certainly the largest for the business elite), things change when you have to do with a sovereign nation. Or a few. That’s the situat ...
  • Love and Fear
    When I am at a crossroads in my life, I more often than not step back, think, meditate and make a conscious effort to get to the root of what I am feeling. I have had some knee jerk reactions in my life that have resulted in bad decisions. When I am able to get [...]
  • Fox News: Dead Last
    Fox News: DEAD LAST In Online Ratings | Daily Kos For much of the last decade Fox News has dominated the Nielsen ratings for cable news networks. They spend a great deal of their time on air bragging about it too. In reality they haven’t got that much to boast about. Their audience is relatively lar ...
  • Michelle’s Mission of Mercy
    Why Michelle Obama Vacationed in Spain: To Be With Grieving Friend | Politics Daily Michelle Obama returned to Washington on Sunday from five days on Spain’s Mediterranean coast, taking a mother-daughter trip with Sasha, 9, that stirred controversy. A White House source told me, however, that Mrs. O ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • Thinking Outside the Lines, the Battle of Cowpens
    The Battle of Cowpens, South Carolina, January 17, 1781. Fought more than 200 years ago, this decisive battle of the American Revolutionary War is all but forgotten today. Hell, I bet few Americans could name even one battle in the Revolutionary War, and even then most would name Yorktown, where Cor ...
  • The Shoe Tossed Round the World.
    I had a post written for today that will have to wait, some of the stuff that’s going on in Pakistan is pretty incredible, and incredible as in “horrible” and “bad” and “this isn’t going to end well.” In fact I think the MSM is so overwhelmed by the extent of the catastrophe that is [...]
  • The Bombs of August
    Today is the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in World War Two. And for the first time, the USA sent a representative to the ceremony at the  site. Note however that the USA is not offering an apology for the nuclear attacks on Japan. Predictably there are those on the right outra ...
  • Alien Conspiracy Theories, is the US Government Co ...
    I started this post, like so many others, with research. Well, even a modicum of research shows that a huge percentage of the US population believes the government knows more about aliens than they are letting on. Maybe 50% or more of the population, though depends on the poll and just what is being ...
  • Crop Circles! What Would a UFO Week be Without Cro ...
    Ah, crop circles. I remember when crop circles were the latest greatest thing and there was speculation among all sorts of people as to what was going on. Even the tech people at the dot com I worked for were intrigued. Then two people admitted they had hoaxed the whole thing, the case was solved, [ ...

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Crisis Maven

  • Economic Musings VI: Modern Economies – Dyin ...
    There is a great debate in the history of economics whether there can be under-consumption in any real historic moment of the state of an economy and if so, whether it has detrimental effects and if so, what is to be done about it. And modern economists seem to have found a magic wand with [...]
  • Blogs and Web Sites you may want to follow
    The following is a list of blogs and websites that CrisisMaven has followed and observed over the last few months and that readers may want to check out from time to time. Note: neither the sequence of how the blogs are listed here nor any comments by CrisisMaven are an endorsement nor criticism of ...
  • Economic Musings VII: Marketing doesn’t adve ...
    Have you ever wondered if marketing and advertising are the same, if not, what’s the difference and which is the more important of the two? And why should you care? The most successful economic model is without doubt the market economy. It is the consequence of the wealth effects of the division of ...
  • CrisisMaven’s Blog News 2010-03-07: Over 25,000 We ...
    Yesterday around 16:37 GMT we passed the 25,000 threshold … - next report will probably be posted when we’re past the 50,000 mark. Thanks to all avid readers: on 2010-03-18 at around 19:25 GMT we went past our first 20,000 views on our blog in about eight weeks since we began publishing! After that, ...
  • Economic Musings VIII: Is there a limit to economi ...
    Something which puzzles many thinkers and frightens many young people concerned about waste or the pillaging of our natural resources is the question: can “an economy” (whatever that is – we’ll come to that in a minute) grow indefinitely? How can there be unlimited economic growth if we’ve never hea ...

Capital Flow Analysis

  • Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further evid ...
    In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted. The following ...
  • Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagflatio ...
    The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest bus ...
  • How long would it take to work off the US trade de ...
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