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Thomas Paine

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Friday, August 13, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • POLITICS-BURMA: After 20 Years, Junta Picks Novemb ...
    By finally announcing the date of the country's first general election in 20 years, Burma's military regime has lived up to a promise it made in its seven-step "roadmap", a blueprint in its desperate quest for political legitimacy.
  • SOUTH SUDAN: Children Too Hungry to Return to Civi ...
    When Timothy was forced into the southern Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) at age 11, the first thing they did was beat him. Then they took him to a military base where his tasks were to carry other soldiers' bags, wash their clothes, collect firewood for them, and cook their food.
  • TRADE-NEPAL: Carpet Industry Frayed at the Edges
    It was an industry pioneer and had even proved itself successful in the export market. But these days Jawalakhel Handicraft Centre (JHC) is barely able to sustain itself on retail sales, and general manager Chimi Dorjee has been reduced to just recalling how things had been when the going ...
  • DRC Farmers Welcome Support
    Farmers in the southwestern Democratic Republic of Congo are looking forward to increased production after 16 tractors and 200 ox-drawn carts were distributed across three regions in the province of Bandundu.
  • MALAWI: A Cellphone, a Bicycle and Sound Agricultu ...
    It is 11 am and Mary Jusa seems unconcerned by the sun beating hard on her back. Humming a traditional tune, she carries on uprooting weeds in her maize field between two water canals.

Scoop - NZ

  • Irish debt under fire, fresh bank jitters
    Ireland's borrowing costs have begun flashing warning signs again on fears the full damage from the country's banking crisis has yet to surface. Spreads on Irish 10-year bonds reached 297 basis points over German Bunds on Wednesday amid reports the European Central Bank (ECB) is intervening to shor ...
  • Economists Cut U.S. Growth Forecasts
    A lack of jobs will shackle consumer spending and restrain the U.S. recovery more than previously estimated, according to economists polled by Bloomberg News. Gross domestic product will expand at an average 2.55 percent annual rate in the last six months of 2010, according to the median of 67 esti ...
  • The long fall of Berlusconi
    The European press is convinced that the definitive rift between the Italian leader and his main ally Gianfranco Fini announced on 29 July will herald a full-blown crisis in the system of power controlled by Il Cavaliere. Shaken by scandals and, according to Fini, the "moral question" they ...
  • NWF: US Oil Disasters Report
    Introduction The BP catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, with its tragic loss of life and devastating impact on the Gulf Coast economy, has brought the risk and high cost of oil development to the public's attention. Predictably a round of oil industry executives have testified before Congress offerin ...
  • Funny Joke: 40 year curse
    An old man goes to the Wizard to ask him if he can remove a curse he has been living with for the last 40 years. The Wizard says: "Maybe, but you will have to tell me the exact words that were used to put the curse on you. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

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

  • Perseids Meteor Shower Lights Up Night Sky
    Star-gazers witnessed the climax of one of the year's most spectacular meteor showers last night as a new moon and cloud-free night in some areas produced perfect conditions for seeing the Perseids. The display of shooting stars is created by debris from the Swift-Tuttle comet burning up in the Ea ...
  • Illinois, US: 4 Sisters Have 4 Babies in 4 Days
    Four sisters from one family have each given birth within four days. That's four sisters, four babies, four days. The same obstetrician delivered the babies of three of the sisters - 27-year-old Lilian Sepulveda, 29-year-old Saby Pazos and 24-year-old Leslie Pazos - in the same suburban Chicago ho ...
  • OAPs' Banned From Cricket Match For Carrying Metal ...
    Two pensioners have criticised "pettiness" for being refused entry to a cricket match because they were carrying metal spoons. Lancashire fans Carole and Mike Russell wanted to eat strawberries at Glamorgan's NatWest Pro 40 tie in Colwyn Bay. Glamorgan will apologise to the retired teachers, 70 ...
  • MoD 'at risk of cyber attacks'
    The accounting officer for the Ministry of Defence has said that data losses and weaknesses in the department's information infrastructure has left it vulnerable to virtual attacks In the MoD's resource accounts for 2009-10, Bill Jeffrey says that although the department is working to improve aware ...
  • Google, Boffins Crack Rubik's Cube Mystery
    The ultimate answer - or is it? Has Google finally cracked it? Revealed today, courtesy of the massed ranks of Google computing, the answer to the ultimate question - not the old one about Life the Universe and Everything - is 20! We're talking God's Number here, or more prosaically the maximu ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Russia is burning
    From NASA's Resource Management System of Fire Information , five days ago.
  • A history of junk food . . .
    THE NEW YORK TIMES has an interesting article by Manny Fernandez, "Let Us Now Praise the Great Men of Junk Food" . It's a history of munchies. Ours is a nation that has given the world baseball, the airplane and the electric light, but also Kool-Aid (Edwin Perkins, 1927), Pizza Hut (the Carney broth ...
  • And who doesn't love a nice Musical Ride ?
    After senior RCMP complained about the leadership style of Harper-appointed Commish William Elliott - allegedly that he is an arrogant ass slow to introduce reform - Steve appointed former CSIS director Reid Morden to look into things. The optics of that inquiry so far, via Senator Colin Kenny : 1 ...
  • Know thy enemy . . .
    SOME OF YOU MAY KNOW about Emily Dee; then again some of you may not. She's a really smart lady with a blog: Aberhart and Harper on Crusade — History of the Conservative Party of Canada which emerged from the Social Credit Party of William Aberhart, not the Tory Party of Sir John A MacDonald. Here s ...
  • As FSM is my witness ...
    ... I have no idea where to go with this .

Media Matters for America

  • Hannity falsely claims Imam Rauf wants to "shred ...
    Sean Hannity falsely claimed that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf wants to "shred our Constitution" and replace it with Sharia law. In fact, Rauf has said that the American political system, including the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, is Sharia compliant. Hannity also took Rauf's writing ...
  • Dr. Laura Schlessinger's racial rant latest i ...
    Dr. Laura Schlessinger has apologized after launching into a racially charged rant, during which Schlessinger, in her�own words, "articulated the 'n' word all the way out -- more than one time."�Schlessinger's rant followed her attacks on homosexuality as "deviant" and "dysfunctional behavior," for ...
  • NY Post falsely suggests state aid b ...
    A� New York Post� editorial misleadingly claimed that the Congressional Budget Office said the recently passed�state aid�bill "will bloat the deficit another $13 billion over 10 years, using 'pay as you go' accounting." However, that figure excludes much of the savings used to pay for the bill, and ...
  • Beck smears Rauf with falsehoods, innuendo and hyp ...
    Glenn Beck falsely claimed that Feisal Abdul Rauf, who is heading efforts to build a community center in New York, currently "employs" an imam who blamed "the Jews" for 9-11; in fact, the imam resigned in 2001 prior to making those comments. Beck also absurdly claimed Rauf was "connected to Ha ...
  • Fox finds new way to blame Obama for Bush-era pol ...
    Stating that President Obama's policies have "clearly failed," Fox Business stocks editor Elizabeth MacDonald falsely suggested that Obama has been in office for three years. This follows a pattern of Fox hosts and guests blaming President Obama for Bush-era policies such as TARP, the AIG bailo ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • A Foreign-Policy Confab That Yale Should Host
    "APPEASEMENT!" What a powerful term it has become... It is much stronger a form of opprobrium than even the loaded 'L' word," writes Paul Kennedy, the distinguished assessor of empires at Yale and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, in his provocatively titled "Time to Appease," in The N ...
  • Making the World Safer Through Better Budget Prior ...
    Today marks the release of a new report that advocates cutting a little over 10% of the country's post-World War II record military budget. The report, A Unified Security Budget for the United States, proposes shifting at least half of the savings from reductions in Pentagon spending into diplomacy, ...
  • America's Biggest Jobs Program -- The U.S. Militar ...
    America's biggest -- and only major -- jobs program is the U.S. military. Over 1,400,000 Americans are now on active duty; another 833,000 are in the reserves, many full time. Another 1,600,000 Americans work in companies that supply the military with everything from weapons to utensils. (I'm not ...
  • The Way Forward
    In their groundbreaking essay, The Death of Environmentalism (2004), Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger called for an end to enviro-scare tactics and the beginning of a positive vision of a low carbon energy future. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I have a dream speech" is famous because it put fo ...
  • Modern Art, Modern Jews
    This may be proof of the perversity of summer daydreams, but I visited the " Picasso Looks At Degas " exhibition at the Clark Institute in Williamstown a few days ago, and I found myself thinking about, of all things, how I've been meaning to revisit an argument I made in response to Peter Beinart's ...

TruthOut

  • Judge Lifts Stay on Overturning California Gay Mar ...
    A federal judge lifted a temporary stay preventing same-sex couples in California from getting legally married, but gay couples cannot be married yet - the stay will remain in effect until August 18 to give the defendants time to appeal. Several gay couples spent Thursday morning waiting to be the ...
  • Gulf Health Problems Blamed on Dispersed Oil
    Dauphin Island, Alabama - BP says it is no longer using toxic dispersants to break up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Gulf Coast residents claim otherwise, and say they have the sicknesses to prove it. On Aug. 5, Donny Mastler, a commercial fisherman who also works on boats, was at the Dauphin Island ...
  • Truthout's Union: New Media and the Labor Movement
    Editor's Note: From the beginning of our original organizing effort, Truthout's union representative, Shannon Duffy, has supported Truthout staff throughout the unionizing process. He continues to guide our members towards solidifying our groundbreaking contract as the first online-only media organi ...
  • Is Wall Street Making Life or Death Decisions?
    Is your health insurance company traded on Wall Street? If so, is Wall Street deciding your medical care? It's hard to recall that for-profit corporations were once kept out of health care - in fact, for most of the 20th century. During this time, the nation's medical system was built largely by ...
  • Obama Administration Sued over Secrecy Surrounding ...
    After President Obama announced back in February that his administration would provide $8.3 billion in taxpayer-financed loan guarantees to the Southern Company to build two new nuclear reactors at its Plant Vogtle in Georgia, the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy sought details about the deal unde ...

Planetsave

  • U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Capture, Regiona ...
    Courtesy of American Society of Agronomy A new report provides regional assessment of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane across America’s major agroecosystems A new report, Agriculture’s Role in Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Capture, commissioned by the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Scie ...
  • Study to Examine Rising Sea Level’s Impact o ...
    Courtesy of University of Central Florida A new University of Central Florida study will examine how rising sea level could harm estuaries and coastal communities along the Florida Panhandle and Alabama and Mississippi coasts. The research, led by Scott C. Hagen, an associate professor of Civil Engi ...
  • Suffering Models in Oil Spill Photo Shoot
    Is Steven Meisel's new "Oil & Water" photo shoot for Vogue creative or tasteless?
  • Alicia Silverstone Naked PETA Video and Pamela And ...
    What do you think of the new PETA ads -- a naked Alicia Silverstone video ad and another nearly naked Pamela Anderson ad? Are they useful and positive or degrading and harmful?
  • Going Green Tip #3: Go Vegetarian or Vegan!
    Going green tip #3 is go vegetarian or vegan! But doing so helps more than the environment and the animals you don't eat. It also helps your health and happiness!

Water Quality - WordPress

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Axis of Logic

  • The “humanitarian” campaign for the war in Afghan ...
    The US media has launched a full-scale effort to suppress growing popular opposition to the war in Afghanistan, using one-sided propaganda about Taliban atrocities to conceal the murderous character of the American intervention. Beginning with the cover of Time magazine, showing a young woma ...
  • Chavez: Obama’s Ambassador Nominee “Disqualified H ...
    Mérida, August 10th 2010 – In his written testimony to the US Senate, President Barack Obama’s nominee for ambassador to Venezuela, Larry Palmer, weighed in on a regional diplomatic controversy by saying Venezuela supports Colombian insurgents and violates human rights, prompting President Hugo Chav ...
  • Rumi's "Say I Am You" with Eternity and a Day Soun ...
    Say I Am You is a poem by Rumi. The musical score, "Eternity and a Day" is from the movie, Aggelopoulos. Rumi's poems elegantly and consistently touch our inner being and inspire us to go beyond our limitations towards the Divine. A note on the music: This entire video was constructed...
  • 22 Statistics About America’s Coming Pension Crisi ...
    As the first of the 80 million Baby Boomers have begun to retire, it has become increasingly apparent that the United States is facing a pension crisis of unprecedented magnitude.  State and local government pension plans are woefully underfunded, dozens of large corporate pension plans either have ...
  • "MIRAL" Trailer for the Movie - Culture and Art
    Julian Schnabel's "Miral" - Trailer. Stars Freida Pinto, Willam Dafoe, Hiam Abbass and Vanessa Redgrave. Based on the novel by Rula Jebreal, the movie revolves around a real-life orphanage established by a Palestinian woman (Abbass) following the 1948 creation of the Israeli state. (Pinto) was se ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Point: Yes, Obama IS to blame for foreclosures AND ...
    Yeah, tell me again how we dirty fucking hippies are being so MEAN to that nice black man in the White House. That nice black man in the White House who threw desperate homeowners to the wolves and then gave the wolves billions of new tax dollars for dessert. Kevin Drum: Atrios on the Obama admini ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    See "Katrina, elections following" No, Zardari isn't to blame the way Bush was, but they're still going to punish him the same way. "Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has tried to fend off public anger at his handling of the country's floods crisis by visiting affected areas for the first time. M ...
  • The Employment Crisis - A Horror Story
    Bob Herbert had a great op-ed piece in the Monday NYT that puts the employment crisis... and yes there is one... in a bit better perspective than the releases from the various federal agencies concerned. I think most of us have known for years that the unemployment figures that the government puts o ...
  • Rand Paul: E. KY Drug Problem? What Drug Problem?
    I honestly didn't think Rand Paul could say anything more out of touch with Kentucky reality than claiming that people threw beer on speakers at booze-free Fancy Farm, but boy was I wrong. Sooooooo wrong. Republican U.S. Senate nominee Rand Paul said he doesn't think the drug problem in Eastern Kent ...
  • Mythbusting Made Easy
    Via Digby: Bill in Portland Maine compiled a very useful list of myths --- and links that bust them. Suitable for bookmarking: > Tea Party'ers are not more likely to have racist tendencies than other conservatives. (Except they are .) > Democrats are scheming to hit 94 percent of small business own ...

Care 2

  • TAKE ACTION: Today, It's time to commit to vote fo ...
    Pres. Obama wants a commitment, to VOTE. Please Copy & Paste into the 'Why I'm voting' box: I am commiting to vote for the candidate that promises to END PROHIBITION! JUST SAY NOW! Submitted by John C. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Meet Britain's first wild-born beaver in 400 years ...
    It's been a gnawfully long wait.But the newborn beaver gently nudging its mother is the result of a £2million project to reintroduce the species to Scotland, more than 400 years after it was hunted to extinction in Britain. Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • India threatens to suspend BlackBerry by 31 August
    India has given the maker of BlackBerry phones a deadline of 31 August to provide the government access to all of its services or face being shut down. Submitted by Sophie Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Urge Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to Retire the Ala ...
    The National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to move almost 200 chimpanzees to the Southwest National Primate Research Facility in San Antonio, Texas, where they will be subjected to painful, invasive experiments. Submitted by Borg Drone to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • No. 1 cause of food poisoning: poultry
    Cooking chicken on the grill this summer? Be careful. Poultry is still the leading culprit in food poisoning outbreaks, health officials said Thursday. Submitted by Katie Miller to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

  • The Libertarian War on Free Speech: It's the Econo ...
    SOMEWHERE IN AFGHANISTAN--Two months ago long-time White House correspondent Helen Thomas got fired by her employer, the Hearst newspaper conglomerate, in response to her off-the-cuff slam at Israel. I criticized the firing on free speech grounds. "Free speech must be defended no matter what--even t ...
  • If you pay in cash or draw your curtains, you migh ...
    I’m taking a break from my shameless America-bashing to highlight a ridiculous yarn from across the pond. A radio advert urging listeners to report suspected terrorists has been banned by a watchdog for potentially offending law-abiding people. The anti-terrorist hotline ad lists “suspicious” behavi ...
  • The Bad Old Days
    � from Truthout Someone once told me that I'm the kind of guy who runs toward a fight. He said it like it was a bad thing - pretty much because I was fighting with him at the time - but I never forgot it, and have since taken it as a badge of honor. There's nothing wrong with running to the sound of ...
  • If We Put 10 Million Americans Back to Work, That ...
    There's a great deal of alarmist talk these days about the fact that Social Security won't be adding to its surplus this year. Instead it will call in some interest payments (and possibly other monies, too) on the money Uncle Sam borrowed from its fund. (When a rich person retires on interest inco ...
  • Robert Gibbs is NOT a Dildo
    I figured it out. I figured out why White House press secretary Robert Gibbs is so pissed off at the professional left. It's because the P.L.'s thought that Barack Obama was sincere when he promised to close Guantanamo, end the war in Iraq, pass a decent health care bill, clean up Wall Street, push ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • A COUP, THROUGH and THROUGH
    © 2010 jbjd Introduction The Democratic National Committee Services Corporation, disguised as the DNC, installed Barack Obama into the Office of President of the United States of America by committing massive election fraud that played out uniquely during each of these 3 (three) phases of the 200 ...
  • [Update] Oh, Who Really Needs Food Stamps In This ...
    UPDATE: When I wrote this a few weeks ago, I thought, surely, there is no way the Democrats will go through with this. How wrong I was. Not only did Speaker Pelosi go through with it, but she demanded everyone return from their summer break, when they are supposed to be meeting with [...]
  • Is Obama Deaf to Our Soldiers’ Needs?
    If you have lived though several election cycles, you know that candidates are unlikely to keep all of their splendid promises. But Obama was different. Many relied on his assurances of unprecedented sweeping change. (He couldn’t tout, after all, what he had already accomplished because there was ...
  • Marshall Hell-Knocking
      Sensational new video from Dan and Martha Quayle’s son, Ben Quayle, who is campaigning for the purely Red Arizona 3rd District (John Shadeqq retiring) the way you might run for Territorial Marshall in 1910. In other news of the youthful Mr. Quayle, it appears that he once had ambitions to cha ...
  • Maxing Out The Race Card? **Open Thread**
    Two prominent members of the House of Representatives, Charlie Rangel, and Maxine Waters, are both facing a number of Ethics charges. Both are fighting these charges, and Rep. Waters has also intimidated these charges are based on race, not any wrong doing on her part. Yeah. Okay. I am sure it wi ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Why You Should Use Green Credit Cards
    Why should you actually use green credit cards instead of the regular ones and what are they? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Nuclear Option: In Defence of Nuclear Power
    Nuclear energy is widely feared, hated and opposed. It is time for us to reconsider this opinion. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Lava Fountains Erupting from the Earth's Crust
    The lava formations and spewing eruptions are a sight to behold. This article shows pictures, videos and facts about the most famous volcanoes known to man. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Giant Head Appears in British Forest
    Not something you expect to come across during your average woodland walk, but this fantastic giant sculpted head will certainly leave you thinking. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Rainbow Dance of the Jumping Peacock Spider
    Even tiny creatures can really push the boat out when trying to attract a mate. The Jumping Peacock Spider may be tiny, but what an anazing show he puts on for the ladies read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • The Pentagon Officially Hatez William Mitchell, Ga ...
    A hat tip to the William Mitchell College of Law, which despite a few shady cats hangin round the faculty (lookin at you ex-CIA attorney 2002-2004 & neocon pal John Radsan). BTW Radsan CYA yabbin on CIA tapes coverup in a rlly bad Flash encode: Anyhow besides that guy (who is oft spotte ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • Gibbs Outed as Republican Mole
    Michael Collins (Satire) White House Press Secretary, Robert “the mole” Gibbs, was outed last night for his lead role in throwing the 2010 congressional election to the Republican Party. The White House refused to return calls to comment on the charge or verify the outline of the carefully orchestra ...
  • TEACHER IS STILL ON THE BOARD: IS THIS WHAT THEY ...
    As a law abiding citizen, I had to follow Judge Kumar’s order to step down from my teaching position in March if I was going to serve on the Pontiac School Board.  Since I have been serving on the board, there has been a conspiracy to keep information from me.  Obviously, the decision that I [...]
  • Drive-by predatory colleges put students into debt ...
    Even the supplicant Wall Street Journal can’t turn their head from the crime scene.  If you get under the yellow tape and put on your forensic gloves you will find that Americans now owe more on their student loans than their credit cards and this bodes very badly for both working students and socie ...
  • Kaplan University is a criminal enterprise that mu ...
    If you have read my article on Kaplan University: Blood Bank for the Washington Post you will see that the Post is being kept alive by the Kaplan subsidiary. Yet Kaplan University is a criminal enterprise.  Not only should it be shut down but it should be prosecuted under the federal RICCO Act for c ...
  • 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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    Bill Wilson's VAT motion to the Scottish Parliament reads as follows: That the Parliament notes the warning issued by Save the Children in Scotland that raising VAT to 20% could mean a £31 a week bill for the poorest families in Scotland and that the poorest 10% of the population currently spend ...
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    Daily Telegraph reports on bold moves in the public sector . But what about the private sector which originated the "crazy" bonus system and still leads the way on excessive top pay...?
  • Splendid: government targets second homes
    As reported in today's Daily Telegraph , proposed hike in capital gains tax aims to part-fund increase in tax allowances for those on lower incomes. David Cameron describes second homes as "not .... necessarily splendid" for the economy.

PDA AMERICA

  • IOT: Economic and Social Justice Aug Call
    On August 10th, the Economic and Social Justice IOT resumed monthly conference calls. The Issue Organizing Team was re-organized and energized at the July PDA Grassroots Conference in Cleveland. Alice Chan, a leader of the ...
  • IOT: End War and Occupations, Redirect Funding Au ...
    On this call we introduced the new co-chairs of this IOT – Marcy Winograd and Steve Carlson. We aplogize for the poor quality of this recording. 1. We reviewed both the Cleveland and Albany conferences. 2. Discussed ...
  • 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 ...
  • Lucky 7
    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 ...
  • Inside the Democratic Party July Call
    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 ...

Marler Blog

  • S 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, is s ...
    Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, today issued the following statement on the manager’s package for The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. Harkin has been working on a bipartisan basis with HELP Committee Ranking Member Mike Enzi (R- ...
  • Salmonella Outbreak linked to Goya Frozen Mamey Fr ...
    Investigators linked traces of salmonella typhi, the bacterium that causes typhoid fever, to a Goya brand frozen fruit product containing mamey fruit pulp. The fruit, also known as zapote and sapote is grown in Central and South America and often used in shakes and smoothies. Typhoid fever has infe ...
  • Online Food Safety Resources
    It seems that there are more recalls and outbreaks than ever, touching every community. As time and resources are short, I wanted to make you aware of new and retooled resources on food safety, foodborne illness, and food policy. Marlerblog :  Is my view as a food safety insider and litigator. I ...
  • Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - 2007 Surve ...
    This CDC report summarizes epidemiologic data for the 1,097 reported outbreaks occurring during 2007 (the most recent finalized data), which resulted in 21,244 cases of foodborne illness and 18 deaths. Outbreaks – Single Etiologic Agent Among the 497 outbreaks (12,767 illnesses) with a confirmed s ...
  • Long-term Salmonella Infection Complications - Irr ...
    Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) A recently published study surveyed the extant scientific literature and noted that post-infectious irritable bowel syndrome (PI-IBS) is a common clinical phenomenon first described over five decades ago. The Walkerton Health Study further notes that: Between 5% and ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 08.13.10
    Toyota-Lexus combine to capture 73.9% of hybrid sales in July Prius wins, again. U.S. car buyers want large vehicles, SUVs again thanks to "stabilizing gas prices" Forget about that price sp ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 08.12.10
    J.P. Morgan analysts predict Tesla stock price could jump 30% by end of 2011 This is not a recommendation to buy, btw. Michigan Gov. says Limbaugh's Volt hate is "un-American" Jennifer Granho ...
  • 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 ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 08.10.10
    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 ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 08.09.10
    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 ...

Rafe's Radar

  • CNET to the Rescue: How to look sharp
    We've got an interesting topic to talk about before getting into questions today. It's how to look good in your pictures. Dating site OkCupid has aggregated 11.4 million opinions on what its members classify as "great" or otherwise attractive photos. Listen now: Download today's podcast ...
  • 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 ...

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!

  • News at 11: How Climate Change Affects You
    Our daily weather reports, cheerfully presented with flashy graphics and state-of-the-art animation, appear to relay more and more information. And yet, no matter how glitzy the presentation, a key fact is invariably omitted. Imagine if, after flashing the words "extreme weather" to grab our atten ...
  • The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Tour Across the ...
    The Modern Day Slavery Museum explores the history and evolution of modern day forced labor in the agriculture industry and the long legacy of slavery in the food that we eat. The Museum is the latest campaign by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. Housed in a box-truck, the museum is on a 60 tou ...
  • 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.

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

  • Glenn Beck, Dick’s Army, WASP’s, Corru ...
    Wordgeezer August 12, 2010 Yeh right Gland, I mean Glenn, like we haven’t seen the corruption brought on by the homeland security act and the presidential dirextives of the George Duhbya Bu$h administration. We haven’t noticed that there are at least 6 (six) lobbyists for every congressman. Nor have ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Meet Rothschild Giraffe Nora’s Newborn Foal
    (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Continue reading the article . . .
  • Elvis New Hall of Fame Exhibit
    By  Daniel Kreps The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will celebrate its 15th anniversary in part with a new Elvis Presley exhibit set to open this September 13th. “Elvis 1956: Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer” will feature intimate photos of the King in the studio and at home, just as he was on the bri ...
  • Scott Rasmussen’s Report: Housing
    Scott’s Report: Housing
  • “Flash Crash”
    While analyzing HFT (High Frequency Trading) quote counts, we were shocked to find cases where one exchange was sending an extremely high number of quotes for one stock in a single second: as high as 5,000 quotes in 1 second! During May 6, there were hundreds of times that a single stock had over 1 ...
  • Superman on the 500 Block of S. 48th St. in Philly
    The latest Superman comic book (701, Sep ‘10) starts out in my old Philly neighborhood. The address of my childhood home was 503 South 48th Street. This is the block portrayed in this story of Superman’s walk through Philadelphia as he seeks to inspire people to resist injustice, cruelty and murder ...

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

  • Dragging American Military Culture into the 21st C ...
    Summary:  Our soldiers fight using 21st century weapons but ancient methods.  Under the stress of a decade-long and running long war against adaptive but poorly equipped enemies, our military slowly evolves from its WWI doctrines (massed firepower, 2GW), towards methods used by the Wehrmacht in WWII ...
  • The economy speaks – and votes
    There is no most important economic statistic.   The key number varies depending on the conditions and trends.  Now the weekly new claims for unemployment insurance (UI) deserves that honor.  Reported weekly (high frequency data) Accurate (among the hardest of numbers, with only small revisions to t ...
  • More about our sudden concern for Afghanistan’s wo ...
    Summary:    Part two of a series women in the Af-Pak War.  Part one looked at our past efforts, trashing women’s rights in Iraq and Afghanistan — and the CIA’s recommendation about women as a  casus belli.  Now we examine the moral basis of a war to help women. David Rothkopf (Wikipedia bio) ...
  • The trade deficit is growing. That tells us somet ...
    The trade deficit excluding oil has returned to where it was before the recession.  (Including oil, it is better than Dec 2007 — as the recession has given a respite to the approach of peak oil).  This is more evidence that the recession — and our response to it — produced no structural changes. ...
  • 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Reclusive Myanmar sets date for elections
    Reuters – Myanmar will hold its first parliamentary elections in two decades on November 7, state media said on Friday, ending speculation over the timing of a poll criticized by rights groups as a sham to entrench military power. The United States, Britain and human rights groups have said the elec ...
  • Russia’s LUKOIL resumes gasoline supply to Iran -t ...
    Reuters – Russian oil giant LUKOIL (LKOH.MM: Quote) has resumed gasoline sales into Iran in partnership with China’s state-run firm Zhuhai Zhenrong, even as the United States urges the international community to be tough with Tehran. Iran is the world’s fifth-largest oil exporter but lacks adequate ...
  • German economy sees ‘record’ growth of 2.2%
    BBC – The German economy grew by 2.2% in the three months to the end of June, its fastest quarterly growth in more than 20 years, official figures show. “Such quarter-on-quarter growth has never been recorded before in reunified Germany,” the national statistics office, Destatis, said. The main reas ...
  • Firefight kills civilian woman in southern Afghani ...
    CNN – An Afghan woman was shot and killed during a firefight between coalition forces and insurgents in the country’s south, NATO’s International Security Assistance Force reported Thursday. Read Article
  • Fallible DNA evidence can mean prison or freedom
    New Scientist – You are the juror: would you trust DNA evidence? Most people regard it as near infallible- it produces the right result or no result, exonerating the innocent and securing convictions where other evidence fails. But DNA is not as objective as you might think. In the first of a two-pa ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Typical imperialism.. Nixon wanted prisoners murde ...
    Typical imperialism.. Nixon wanted prisoners murdered in Uruguayan (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Typical barbarism. Recent cables between the United States and Uruguayan governments, disclosed through the Freedom of Information Act, reveal that the Nixon administration urged that leftist priso ...
  • Африка в кризисе — Сотни миллионов страдают от жаж ...
    Африка в кризисе — Сотни миллионов страдают от жажды, «нездоровой воды» и нехватки продовольствия (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (English) (français) (Russian) Африка, особенно Западная и Центральная, в кризисе. Согласно недавнему сообщению УНИСЕФ, более 155 млн, примерно 40 % населения Западно ...
  • 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 ...

PakAlert

  • World War 3: Confrontation Builds On Multiple Fron ...
    On July 21, the present writer offered the evaluation that an attack on Iran by the United States and Israel was now emphatically back on the agenda after a two-year hiatus.1 More than two weeks after issuing that warning, it is possible to offer a second installment of evidence to buttress the ori ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Pictures: Bushy-Bearded Titi Monkey Discovered
    NoneThe "fascinating" new species of monkey mates for life—and may be critically endangered by habitat loss in the Amazon rain forest. Endangered species - Amazon Rainforest - Habitat destruction - Biology - Flora and Fauna
  • Russia Fires, Pakistan Floods Linked?
    The ongoing, deadly Russian wildfires and Pakistan floods may be connected by powerful atmospheric forces that are being boosted by global warming, scientists say. Global warming - Wildfire - Pakistan - Environment - Opposing Views
  • 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

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Image of a word bomb
    If a picture is worth a thousand words than this one speaks volumes about where a pretty darn liberal America is right now: Though I embrace many of the progressive ideas that those who have embraced the name "progressive" espouse, I have always preferred to stick to the name liberal. For the mos ...
  • For those who argued against Catholic Parishioners ...
    to the Catholic Church... Is it more than just political donations and actions that the church is trying to hide? A Roman Catholic priest in Connecticut has been arrested on charges he stole $1.3 million in church money over seven years to use for male escorts, expensive clothing, and luxury hotel ...
  • Not that we should Wonder about McMahon's 5$ bount ...
    But it kind of has to make ya wonder what McMahons' real intentions were when she put a bounty on college students' registration : DA to team with Secretary of State on voter registration probe A Register investigation published Friday online and in Sunday’s newspaper exposed how signature gather ...
  • primary colors
    Primary season is finally over in CT. (Only 82 more days until the November elections!) The New Milford results are in. And while there's nothing particularly surprising about how the town voted, I am shocked at the low turnout. According to the tallies at the Danbury News-Times: 1497 registered R ...
  • "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 ...

SPL Center

  • Religious Freedom at Stake in Ground Zero Controve ...
    Nine days after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, President George W. Bush addressed the nation to say, in part, that while the murder of nearly 3,000 people came at the hands of radical Muslims, Islam was not to blame. âWe respect your faith,â Bush told Muslims. âItâs prac ...
  • ‘Burn a Koran Day’ Fan Page Stays Up, Grows, Despi ...
    On July 22, Hatewatch reported the announcement of a provocative spectacle planned for Sept. 11 by Dove World Outreach Center, a twisted little ministry based in Gainesville, Fla. Just about everything you need to know about the event is contained in its title, “Burn a Koran Day”; everything else, i ...
  • New Intelligence Report Spotlights ‘Sovereign Citi ...
    Today, we’re releasing a major report on “sovereign citizens,” a radical-right movement that has grown to include as many as 300,000 adherents who believe that the government has no right to tax or impose laws on most Americans. Adherents can be incredibly dangerous, especially to police officers, a ...
  • Los Zetas Still Not Seizing Laredo Ranches
    There’s an old jest in the news business: Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story. Some anti-illegal immigrant zealots in the blogosphere are taking the joke to heart. Two-and-a-half weeks after reporting with no factual basis that members of a dangerous Mexican drug gang had seized two A ...
  • Felon, Angry at ‘Left-Wing’ Drift, Said to S ...
    A California felon whose mother said he was disgruntled by “the way Congress was railroading through all these left-wing agenda items,” was shot several times and arrested after he allegedly began shooting at highway patrol officers who stopped him for a traffic citation. Byron Williams, 45, of the ...

change: org.

  • Gay Canadian Icon Heading Up Canada's Olympic Team
    The 2012 Olympics just got a little bit gayer, at least up here in Canada. You see, a Canadian former-Olympian and openly gay swimmer has been named chef de mission for the Canadian Olympic Team. Cool beans, right? I'll be honest and confess that I'm sports-illiterate. I had to google chef de missio ...
  • Will Officials Science-Wash Wolf Hunts to Bypass F ...
    Last week, Rocky Mountain gray wolves got their Endangered Species Act protections back , much to the dismay of the anti-wolf crowd in Idaho and Montana. With the news that wolf season was cancelled, wolf-hunting proponents put their heads together to find a way around the federal protections. One o ...
  • Say it Loud, Say it Proud: I Used to Be Homeless
    Halle Berry, Jim Carrey, Kelsey Grammer, Kurt Cobain, Drew Carey, Don Imus, Daniel Craig, Jewel, Lil' Kim, Dr. Phil, William Shatner, Martin Sheen, Hilary Swank, Jean Claude Van Damme, Shania Twain and more . Surely there is someone for you to admire or appreciate in this list, no matter what your t ...
  • Christina Hendricks and the Danger of Substituting ...
    Christina Hendricks has become an icon. But the question is, for what, exactly? As The Telegraph would have it, she's a "curvy role model," a new vision of the body ideal. As ABC News sees it, she's a "poster girl for [a] new brand of beauty." For New York Magazine , she's a harbinger of things to c ...
  • Is U.S. Food and Water Aid to Pakistan Motivated b ...
    Pakistan has been wrecked with flooding this month from unusually intense monsoon rain. The situation brought massive crop destruction and resulting skyrocketing fuel prices, causing more and more Pakistanis to face starvation. Despite the gravity of the predicament, U.S. government officials seem m ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Errant Climate May Be Sign of Breakdown, Scientist ...
    by Charles J. Hanley NEW YORK — Floods, fires, melting ice, and feverish heat — from smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Iowa and the High Arctic, the planet seems to be having a midsummer breakdown. It is not just a portent of things to come, scientists say, but a sign of troubling climate chang ...
  • Congress Spends Another $600 Million for Border Mi ...
    by Julianna Hing Now we know: Congress can pass an immigration bill in two days if it really wants to. The Senate just passed another $600 million for border security after Senators Chuck Schumer and Claire McCaskill proposed it last week . The House returned this week from summer recess to appr ...
  • Why is the World Unmoved by the Plight of Pakistan ...
    by Andrew Buncombe Surrounded by brown, fast-shifting water on all sides, the 40 or so families in the village-turned-island had received no food, no medicine and no news as to when they might be rescued. "We're dying of hunger," shrieked the woman, Sughra Bibi, as volunteers on the boat handed over ...
  • 99ers Rally For Unemployment Extension
    by Annie Lowery After 99 weeks, or more, of unemployment, traveling to a political rally is a luxury. Across the country, thousands of 99ers, Americans who have exhausted the maximum weeks of unemployment benefits, have written letters or called Congress advocating for legislation extending bene ...
  • UN Chief May Be Heading for Showdown with Israel
    by Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS - 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 ...

Lifehacker

  • The Best Airlines for Getting a Frequent Flyer Sea ...
    Just because you've earned a free ticket through an airlines' rewards program doesn't mean you can actually use it. One consulting firm checked how often free ticket seats were available across 60,000 flights this year and charted the sometime ...
  • iOS 4.0.2 Update Kills JailbreakMe and PDF Exploit ...
    Apple's released updates for iPhones, iPod touch models, and iPads that closes a nasty PDF-based exploit. That same exploit is what made one-click jailbreaking possible, of course, so upgrade if you'd like a sanctioned, secure, warranty-stable ...
  • Calculate the Perfect Handbrake Video Encoding Set ...
    Handbrake is an amazing tool for ripping your DVDs and converting your video files, but figuring out the right settings can be a challenge. Let our Handbrake Video Bitrate calculator do the work for you. More��
  • Cloud Notes Saves Notes to Google Docs Right from ...
    Windows 7: Cloud Notes is a handy sidebar gadget that puts a Google Docs-powered scratch pad right at your fingertips. More��
  • Matrix Is the No-Nonsense Flight Pricing Engine th ...
    ITA Software's Matrix is the software that powers Orbitz, Kayak, CheapTickets, and lots of airlines and travel agents' tools. But you can skip all their ads and come-ons and search Matrix itself for the no-nonsense scoop on flying cheap. ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • General Kayani Gets Cheeky
    By Steve Hynd From the intended irony files: Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has called for adequate steps to purge Afghanistan of the terrorists’ havens. ...Sources were of the view that General Kayani called upon the allied commanders of ISAF and ANA for elimination of the terrori ...
  • 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 ...

Water Wars

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  • Eagle Raceway Results
    EAGLE A near capacity crowd braved very warm August temperatures to participate in Scout Night and Fan Appreciation Night at Eagle Raceway Saturday, Aug. 7.
  • DigiWall (Innovative Leisure Ltd)
    For 2008, Innovative Leisure has introduced the exciting new DigiWall, which offers a completely new take on the more traditional climbing wall attraction. It is a climbing wall brought to life with handholds that light up and allow climbers to play a wide range of software based games.
  • UMOJA quick hits: Unity festival starts Friday
    The UMOJA Festival opens today in downtown Johnson City, bringing out what organizers hope is a crowd of 30,000 people to hear live music, gorge on festival food, check out arts and crafts, play in the kids area and lob water balloons on each other, play in the cornhole tournament, watch African dan ...
  • Opinion: $11 billion bond to replumb state should ...
    None of this is pretty: a gigantic water bond measure costing taxpayers $765 million per year, a pork-laden list of projects and political sharpshooters on all sides. Yet the $11 billion bond to re-plumb California's...

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Afghanistan Sun

  • Reporters critical of Wikileaks owner
    The Wikileaks owner, Julian Assange, has been criticised by Reporters Without Borders for his "incredible irresponsibility" in allowing the names of Afghans who had assisted coalition troops to be published.
  • US army to ask Obama to slow down Afghan withdrawa ...
    The US Army will ask President Barack Obama to slow down the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan as they need more time to complete the work there, a media report said.
  • Petraeus hedges on July 2011 Afghan pullback goal
    WASHINGTON The new U.S. commander in Afghanistan says the goal of starting an American pullback by July 2011 will depend on conditions at the time. In an interview taped for NBC's "Meet t...
  • Showcase Afghan army mission turns into debacle
    KABUL, Afghanistan � An ambitious military operation that Afghan officials had expected to be a sign of their growing military capacity instead turned into an embarrassment, with Taliban fighter...
  • 'Taliban Has Benefited from West's Respo ...
    The floods in Pakistan are devastating and 6 million people need emergency assistance. But donations from the international community have been slow and insufficient. German commentators wonder why th...

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 ...

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on Government Oversight

  • FACA Lift: House Passes Bill to Increase Accountab ...
    As we , President Obama took an important step toward restoring balance to federal advisory committees by directing agencies not to appoint any new registered lobbyists to their advisory committees.
  • IG Finds Los Alamos Still Lagging in Safety System ...
    In June, we wrote that the Department of Energy Office of Inspector General (IG) was taking a hard look at safety protocols at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Today the report was released: "Nuclear Safety: Safety Basis and Quality...
  • Afternoon Smoke: New Tool for Tracking Energy Indu ...
    Follow the (Dirty Energy) Money by Kate Sheppard [Mother Jones] Chamber of Commerce, Other Biz Lobbies Drill Big Oil for New Cash Gusher by Peter H. Stone [Center for Public Integrity] Standard Coding Next Big Step in Contracting Oversight by...
  • Morning Smoke: FINRA Under Pressure to Increase Tr ...
    FINRA faces calls to lift veil on finances, pay by Joseph Giannone [Reuters] Do Feds Make Twice What Private Sector Workers Do? by Tom Shoop [FedBlog] Implementation of Financial Overhaul Gets Off to Rocky Start by Michael Crittenden [The Wall...
  • 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...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Diet Is a Double Whammy for the Poor and the Homel ...
    I don't particularly like Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pies, but because a box of 12 is $1, I ate them often when I was homeless. They kept well in the heat, they took the edge off my hunger and most importantly of all, they were cheap. I'm not alone. Millions of Americans buy cheaper, more filling, ...
  • Say it Loud, Say it Proud: I Used to Be Homeless
    Halle Berry, Jim Carrey, Kelsey Grammer, Kurt Cobain, Drew Carey, Don Imus, Daniel Craig, Jewel, Lil' Kim, Dr. Phil, William Shatner, Martin Sheen, Hilary Swank, Jean Claude Van Damme, Shania Twain and more . Surely there is someone for you to admire or appreciate in this list, no matter what your t ...
  • D.C. Cracks Down on Corrupt Landlords
    While many people become homeless due to their inability to pay rent after the loss of income, there are also those who lose their places after refusing to pay landlords who fail to properly maintain rental units. The latter has been the case all too often in Washington, D.C. But when landlords take ...
  • Will a Schizophrenia Diagnosis Help Him?
    This new video comes from Mark's InvisiblePeople.tv  30-city, 11,000-mile, 75-day road trip , going on now. Levi lives in a youth homeless shelter in Denver. He's 20 and has lived on and off the streets for two years, ever since he was kicked out of Job Corps. Levi is full of youthful energy. He's ...
  • When the Homeless Don't Want Help
    "No thanks." No one has firm numbers, but it's a generally accepted truth that that's sometimes what outreach workers and other homeless advocates are told by people they're trying to help. What to do then? Reason with the person, who might be saner than you or who might be suffering from a debilita ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Ceasefire.ca launches first advertising campaign
    After overwhelming response from our members, Ceasefire.ca published the first of a series of ads asking Prime Minister Harper to call off the planned U.S. and NATO offensive against the city of Kandahar, which risks many more civilian casualties.
  • 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.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Antidepressants Do Nothing For Children With Autis ...
    August 13th, 2010 Natural News By: Jonathan Benson A new report published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews has once again found that the antidepressants commonly prescribed to children with autism are not effective at improving behavior. After evaluating seven different studies abou ...
  • 10 Reason Why Obama Presidency Is Collapsing
    August 13, 2010 Telegraph By: Nile Gardener The last few weeks have been a nightmare for President Obama, in a summer of discontent in the United States which has deeply unsettled the ruling liberal elites, so much so that even the Left has begun to turn against the White House. While the anti-estab ...
  • US Food Crops Absorb Toxins From Treated Wastewate ...
    August 13, 2010 Natural News By: Ethan A. Huff Several major reports have come out in recent years about the dangers of pharmaceutical drug residues being found in the nation’s water supplies. But a new study has shown that major American food crops like soybeans are also absorbing these chemical ...
  • Iran’s Nuclear Plant Will Start Next Week
    August 13, 2010 MYWAY By: VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Russia’s nuclear agency said Friday that it will load fuel into Iran’s first nuclear power plant next week, defying U.S. calls to hold off the start of the launch. Rosatom spokesman Sergei Novikov said Friday that uranium fuel shipped by Russia will be l ...
  • Mushrooms Are Made Into Green Packaging Material
    August 13, 2010 Natural News By: S.L. Baker It sounds like a futuristic sci fi idea: a non-toxic, earth friendly packing material that grows itself and, after it’s used, makes a great garden compost. But this isn’t fiction — it’s mushrooms. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), ...

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

  • What do Arabs really think about Iran?
    At Foreign Policy, Amjad Atallah writes: Ever since Iran’s revolution in 1979, Arab governments have been concerned about the possibility of the revolution being exported. The idea that millions of citizens of a state would engage in mass scale non-violent resistance against a U.S.-backed authorita ...
  • America and Iran: strikes, sanctions and scapegoat ...
    Gary Sick writes: For the pundits, there are only two questions about U.S.-Iran relations that are of any importance: (1) Will Israel and/or the United States attack Iran? and (2) will the new sanctions have enough bite to persuade Iran to change its nuclear policy? Despite all the printers ink spi ...
  • You must do what we can’t, because if you don’t, w ...
    There are those who would have us believe that: [O]ne day next spring, the Israeli national-security adviser, Uzi Arad, and the Israeli defense minister, Ehud Barak, will simultaneously telephone their counterparts at the White House and the Pentagon, to inform them that their prime minister, Benja ...
  • 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 ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Chicago Climate Exchange still flatlining – ...
    From the “unsustainable business” department, who wants carbon at 10 cents a ton? Apparently, nobody. Data below as of August 8 2010: Source: http://www.chicagoclimatex.com/market/data/summary.jsf From Reuters, news of layoffs. At least their carbon footprint will be lower… ICE cuts staff … Continue ...
  • Timing is everything
    Tom Nelson writes: On the same day that the USDA forecasts bumper crops for corn, soybeans, and wheat, they try to convince us that carbon dioxide is devastating our crops Analysis: Extreme weather plagues farming, talks flounder | Reuters But … Continue reading →
  • The Three Chinas and World Energy Demand
    Guest post by Thomas Fuller I have been broadly correct about two important things in my career as an analyst. (I wasn’t the only one and I wasn’t the first–just far enough ahead of the curve to make a difference.) … Continue reading →
  • When Saving the Planet, You Have to Streeeetch The ...
    By Steve Goddard “I’m a Real Boy!“ The National Wildlife Federation has quite a history of stretching the truth when it comes to “global warming.” But I think they have outdone themselves. This summer’s stifling, deadly heat along the Eastern … Continue reading →
  • When the sun goes TILT
    The Heliospheric Current Sheet Tilt Angle and Implications for Friis-Christensen and Lassen Theory Guest post by David Archibald The Chairman of NOAAâs Solar Cycle 24 review panel, Douglas Biesecker, said back in March 2007 that the flattening of the heliospheric … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Manufacturing Consent (1992)
    Reposting again, in case you missed it. Dandelion Salad Posted previously on my old blog. So, in case you’ve missed it or would like to watch it again, here it is. 2:47:37 – Mar 27, 2007 The classic Canadian documentary Manufacturing Consent based on the Noam Chomsky/Edward Herman book by the same n ...
  • Keiser Report №68: William K. Black on Fraud in th ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RussiaToday | August 12, 2010 This week Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at Tier Terra and future crimes. In the second half of the show, Max talks to former banking regulator William K. Black about rackets and fraud in the financial sector. Keiser Repor ...
  • The GOP’s Immigration Problem by Steven Jona ...
    by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash.com August 11, 2010 The GOP’s biggest problem with the undocumented aliens — illegal immigration — problem, whatever you want to call it, is that someday it might be solved. After all, the current legislation was put ...
  • Central Asia: U.S. Military Buildup On Chinese, Ir ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism Aug. 11, 2010 On August 4 the chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Italian Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, concluded an official visit to Australia during which he met with the nation’s acting Chief of ...
  • Why WikiLeaks Won’t Stop the War by Noam Chomsky
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Noam Chomsky In These Times Aug, 3, 2010 The War Logs—a six-year archive of classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan, released on the Internet by the organization WikiLeaks—documents a grim struggle becoming grimmer, from the U.S. perspective ...

Your New Reality

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    "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 ...
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    "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 ...
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    Police violence against Sydney anti-war protesters 2004 - 2007 : The song is Prisoner Of Society by The Living End.
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    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 ...
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    "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

  • New Titi Monkey Species Discovered In Amazon
    A newly discovered species of titi monkey purrs like a cat and looks like a leprechaun. Although it was first spotted in 1976 by biologist Martin Moynihan in the southern Caqueta province of Columbia, frequent armed conflict in the region has prevented scientists from being able to confirm its exis ...
  • Haiti Quake Occurred on Previously Unknown Fault
    IGUAÇÚ FALLS, Brazil — The devastating quake that slammed Haiti on January 12 occurred on a previously unrecognized fault zone, report scientists who are still trying to determine the implications for the region’s long-term seismic risk. The newly discovered fault hasn’t been officially named yet b ...
  • Citizen Scientists Make First Deep Space Discovery ...
    While your computer is running idle, it could be finding new pulsars and black holes in deep space. Three volunteers running the distributed computing program Einstein@Home have discovered a new pulsar in the data from the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope. Their computers, one in Iowa (owned by ...
  • Why Russians Don’t Get Depressed
    The saddest short story I’ve ever read is “The Overcoat,” by Gogol. (It starts out bleak and only gets bleaker.) The second saddest story is “Grief,” by Chekhov. (Nabokov famously sad that Chekhov wrote âsad books for humorous people; that is, only a reader with a sense of humor can really appreci ...
  • Planets Align for Best Meteor Shower of Year Thurs ...
    If you’re looking for low-tech star gazing action, Thursday night is the time to grab a blanket and head outside to watch the Perseid meteor shower. Just after sunset Thursday evening, Venus, Saturn, Mars and the crescent moon will huddle very close together in the western sky after months of movi ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Joseph Dana: The “banality of evil” and Israel’s d ...
    In the early hours of 10 August, Israeli forces destroyed — for the third time — the Bedouin village of al-Araqib in the northern Negev desert. Israel had first destroyed the village on 27 July as... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Veritas Handbook: a new guide puts Palestine histo ...
    The Veritas Handbook: For 62 years, the Palestinian people have been misunderstood and oppressed, and in a small way, we hope to change that. It is in the spirit of justice that we found the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
  • Just get out: Palestine’s Jerusalem MPs
    If Israel’s latest order to deport the Hamas MPs was intended to curb support for the movement, it has failed. An array of prominent figures ... have flocked to the Red Cross’s doors to offer... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now i ...
  • Palestinian women smuggled into Tel Aviv for day o ...
    A group of Israeli women smuggled 12 Palestinian woman and four children, among them a year-old baby, into Tel Aviv for a day of fun about two weeks ago. The women, among them writers Ilana... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now i ...
  • “Major George” and Israel’s Abu Ghraib
    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... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Acetaminophen Use in Adolescents Linked to Doubled ...
    New evidence linking the use of acetaminophen to development of asthma and eczema suggests that even monthly use of the drug in adolescents may more than double risk of asthma in adolescents compared to those who used none at all; yearly use was associated with a 50 percent increase in the risk of a ...
  • Remember That Feeling of Finally Getting Your Driv ...
    Remember that feeling of finally getting your drivers' license? That feeling of freedom and independence is also connected to reaching many of our day-to-day activities. Yet a disability, illness or aging can affect our ability to be a safe driver by impairing our decision-making skills and our abil ...
  • Expensive New Blood Pressure Meds No Better than G ...
    Expensive brand-name medications to lower blood pressure are no better at preventing cardiovascular disease than older, generic diuretics, according to new long-term data from a landmark study.
  • Wax, Soap Clean Up Obstacles to Better Batteries
    A little wax and soap can help build electrodes for cheaper lithium ion batteries, according to a study in August 11 issue of Nano Letters. The one-step method will allow battery developers to explore lower-priced alternatives to the lithium ion-metal oxide batteries currently on the market.
  • Not all Kidney Patients Treated Equal: Differences ...
    Kidney disease patients insured by some federally sponsored national health care organizations are more likely to undergo an important predialysis procedure than patients with other types of insurance, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrol ...

Natural Health News

  • Why Your Heart Attack Risk May Increase This Winte ...
    Cold weather may increase your risk of a heart attack, according to new research from the UK. Each 1.8 degree Fahrenheit reduction in temperature on a single day was linked to about 200 additional heart attacks. The greatest risk came within two weeks of cold-weather exposure, and those aged 75-84, ...
  • Antacids Pose Unique Dangers for Seniors
    Antacid drugs like Zantac, Pepcid, Prevacid and Nexium are among the most widely prescribed medications in the world. However, physicians with Britain’s National Health Service are warning seniors of serious side effects associated with the drugs, especially as you get older. Antacids are linked to ...
  • Media Finally Starts to Catch on to Gluten Free
    The latest hot diet trend to make headlines, including making an appearance at Chelsea Clinton’s recent wedding, may turn out to be surprisingly good for your health: gluten-free. Caterers and specialty bakeries alike are serving up increasing numbers of gluten-free cakes and other goodies to meet ...
  • 7-Year-Old Inspiration Shares His Heartwarming Suc ...
    This 7-year-old, born with cerebral palsy, shares his excitement at his latest accomplishment: learning to walk without crutches!
  • American Drugs are Price Fixed to Keep Them Expens ...
    A bill that would end an underhanded tactic that delays the introduction of generic drugs in the marketplace is pending in the Senate. The tactic, known as “pay for delay,” occurs when a brand-name drug makers pays a significant sum of money to a generic drug maker in exchange for delaying the marke ...

Antemedius

  • Whose Hands? Whose Blood? Killing Civilians in Af ...
    Originally published at TomDispatch.com 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 ...
  • Obama's Iraq Withdrawal Kabuki
    Gareth Porter is an historian and investigative journalist and US foreign and military policy analyst. He writes regularly for Inter Press Service on US policy towards Iraq and Iran. Porter is author of four books, the latest of which is Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in ...
  • Constructive Criticism
    Dear Mr. President, Thank you for all you have accomplished in your time in office. I sincerely appreciate all of the many ways you are different than George Bush. Your wife and children are beautiful and vivacious and a pleasure to watch and in Michelle's case, listen to. And by the way, that tie r ...
  • Alarmist
    She sat rocking her baby in her arms, looking out the window at the rain, hoping that its ferocity would drown out the scream rising within her. The scream was the kind you feel when you realize that you may have made a huge, irreversible mistake. With someone else's life. The kind of rising scream ...
  • Judge Walker Destroys Bigoted Arguments, Sets Up E ...
    Depending on what study and what definitional criteria one wants to use the number of LGTB citizens is between 4% and 20%. It does not matter at all to me what this number is as I have had gay and lesbian family members, close (best) friends and acquaintances all my life. They were never “my lesbian ...

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

  • John Bellinger Reflects on the 61st Anniversary of ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson John Bellinger reflects on the meaning of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 in today’s world, in a post at Foreign Policy: Today, 12 August, is the 61st anniversary of the signing of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, the international treaties designed to ...
  • Will Brain Science Develop Alternative Mechanisms ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Via FuturePundit, who observes that this is really much more broadly about lie detection, note this press release from Northwestern University: For the first time, the Northwestern researchers used the P300 testing in a mock terrorism scenario in which the ...
  • Kate Gibson on Erlinder’s Arrest in Rwanda
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Two commenters on my previous post on Kagame’s increasing authoritarianism questioned whether Rwanda arrested Peter Erlinder because of his representation of defendants at the ICTR.  Fortuitously, Kate Gibson — my colleague on the Karadzic case and a defen ...
  • The Case of the Wrong Seal: Was Korea Legally Anne ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Just in time for the 100th anniversary of the Korea-Japan Annexation treaty, a Korean scholar has new evidence that the treaty was never properly ratified by the Korean king. Hence, according to the scholar, the 1910 annexation treaty was never legal and Japan’s annexat ...
  • 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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • 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...
  • 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...

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

  • UK soldier: Jail better than Afghan war
    UK soldier: Jail better than Afghan war [presstv.com] A former British soldier who was previously jailed for refusing to fight in Afghanistan has told an anti-war rally that every second he spent behind bars was worth his decision. Lance Corporal Joe Glenton, 27, told a gathering of anti-war campai ...
  • U.S.-backed War in Somalia Comes to Uganda, Threat ...
    U.S.-backed War in Somalia Comes to Uganda, Threatens to Set Whole Region Aflame | Black Agenda Report A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The U.S. war against Somalia expands outwards and “has now blown back to Uganda,” the U.S. ally that, “along with the minority Tutsi dictatorship in Rw ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Environmental News 13/08/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Electric Cars – Driving Down Emissions
    As we strive to reduce our emissions, the government incentives on electric cars lead us one step forward and 2 steps back…
  • Environmental News 06/08/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Elephant, treasured yet threatened
    Despite being most treasured for its fundamental role in culture and religion in Asia, and despite the ban on ivory traffic, the elephant remains an endangered species. (wildlife/endangered-species.html) For more on this topic, read: Elephant on the brink (housing-building/elephant-on-the-brink.htm ...
  • The Story of Cosmectics
      All those alluring beauty care products promise to bring about youth, glamour and beauty, and look oh-so-pretty on the bathroom shelf with their delightful packaging. But have you ever stopped and considered just how these products might really affect you and the environment?   F ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Senate passes border security bill
    ShareThis Senate passes border security bill --Obama�expected to sign�measure, which will add 1,500 troops and immigration officials to beef up security along� border with Mexico 13 Aug 2010 Congress gave final approval Thursday to a $600-million 'border security' package that President Obama had so ...
  • Leaking Sarin Rocket Discovered at Kentucky Depot
    ShareThis Leaking Sarin Rocket Discovered at Kentucky Depot 12 Aug 2010 The U.S. Army said Tuesday a leaking sarin nerve agent-filled rocket had been discovered during inspections of chemical weapons storage structures at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky. "The low-level agent vapor was confined ...
  • BP renewed insurance policy to cover its directors ...
    ShareThis BP renewed insurance policy to cover its directors just ahead of rig explosion -- BP nears deal to continue drilling in Gulf of Mexico --BP was on Tuesday night close to safeguarding its future in the Gulf of Mexico as it neared a break-through deal aimed at smoothing relations with the Ob ...
  • Sen. Michael Bennet fends off primary challenge in ...
    ShareThis Sen. Michael Bennet fends off primary challenge in Colorado 11 Aug 2010 Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Wall Street) of Colorado turned back a sharp challenge from former state House speaker Andrew Romanoff on Tuesday night on a busy day of primaries that offered fresh clues about the anti-establis ...
  • As Gibbs Attacks Progressive Critics, ACLU Says Ob ...
    ShareThis As Gibbs Attacks Progressive Critics, ACLU Says Obama White House Enshrining Bush-Era Policies (Democracy Now!) 12 Aug 2010 As White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs attacks progressives for comparing President Obama’s polices to George W. Bush's, we look at a new ACLU report on how the ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Palestinian on Hunger Strike in Berlin for Family ...
    From the Palestinian rights group Al Haq. (Ed’s note: As many of us celebrate the ruling supporting marriage equality in the case of California, it bears remembering how Palestinians still face discrimination based on who they choose to wed.) 12 August 2010 As a Palestinian NGO committed to the pr ...
  • Summing-up Sheikh Jarrah solidarity day
    reprinted from the Just Jerusalem Blog. August 8, 2010. A year has passed since the eviction/expulsion of the Ghawi and Hanoun families from their homes. A year in which we have struggled together, not only in solidarity with the families, but also for the future of us all: against the attempt t ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Role of the Democratic Party in co-opting dissent. ...
    From The Avocado Declaration, by Peter Camejo, written in Spring 2004 as he was running for vice president on the Green Party ticket, with Nader as presidential candidate. Camejo explains how real change in the US invariably originates from third parties and independent movements, and how the histor ...
  • 8,000 marijuana plants found near Cedar City UT. I ...
    Right here in peaceful Cedar City UT, police found 8,000 marijuana plants in a nearby canyon. Two Hispanic males,age 16 and 18 were caught. They were in the country illegally. Two others escaped. [Sheriff] Gower said without exception, the large marijuana grows law enforcement have discovered in rec ...
  • No foreclosure peak until 2011
    RealtyTrac says foreclosure notices rose 4% last month, the 17th straight month filings have exceeded 300,000. And RealtyTrac’s Rick Sharga tells MarketWatch News Break that foreclosures may not peak until 2011 AR, NV, FL top the list, with Nevada being the poster child for foreclosures. High proper ...
  • Glenn Beck supports gay marriage
    In a chat with Bill O’Reilly, [Glenn Beck quoted] Thomas Jefferson in a libertarian vein saying, “If it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket, what difference is it to me?” Many right-wing libertarians support gay marriage (as well as drug legalization) because they support personal freedom and ...
  • The state of WBAI (dire)
    Doug Henwood hosts Behind the News, a left economics show on Pacificia affiliate WBAI in New York. He just sent an open letter to the chair of the WBAI board about the station’s disintegrating situation. He’s been there over 20 years. Whatever you’ve heard about the decline of Pacifica lately, well, ...

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

  • This Day In History – August 13
    3114 BC â According to the Lounsbury correlation, the start of the Maya calendar. 1516 â The Treaty of Noyon between France and Spain is signed. Francis recognises Charles’s claim to Naples, and Charles recognises Francis’s claim to Milan. 1792 â Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the ...
  • Israeli Terrorist Attacks America… Let&#8217 ...
    Oh wait. It’s only terrorism when it’s a Muslim…my bad “American/Israeli citizen kills 5 and injures 15 others in stabbings across America” Which looked very much like a man or an “Agency” trying to inflame racial tensions in the U.S.A. Man… If he were only an Iranian instead. Maybe Next time… Suspe ...
  • New World Order: Bailouts Helped Foreign Firms
    THAT was the headline on Drudge today… The “Foreign Bankers” referred to in this story are actually the same men who own our “Federal Reserve” (which is neither Federal or has any reserves) First they ignore you, then the ridicule you, then they fight you, THEN YOU WIN! ~ JB Watchdog panel cites glo ...
  • The UK Fined £150 Million For Not Flying The EU Fl ...
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  • Obama Serves Dispersant and Oil Filled Gulf Seafoo ...
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The Air Vent

  • Sea Ice Update
    When I read about sea ice two years ago, it was alarming.    I mean, I’m enough of a realist to know that data is data and nobody would write that the polar ice was melting unless they was a serious problem.  The sea-ice was in as much trouble as a semi-crystalline block of H2O [...]
  • Id’s crazy
    I believe the IPCC was setup with intent to provide an exaggerated science for the unstated purpose of increased government control over the global economies, to repress capitalism, and promote socialistic ideals under the guise of environmentalism.  The creators knew that the scientists would go al ...
  • 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 ...

Focal Point

  • Plagiarism is a Big Moral Deal
    Stanley Fish argues that plagiarism is not a "big moral deal" because the taboo against passing off someone else's work as your own is just an arbitrary disciplinary convention. Fish asserts that "the rule that you not use words that were first uttered or written by another without due attribution ...
  • 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.]

Inside Facebook

  • Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job B ...
    Recently, we launched the Inside Network Job Board – dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at DeNA Global, Meteor Games, A Bit Lucky, Elec ...
  • Combat Malaria With Nothing But Nets and Facebook ...
    Malaria is one of the leading causes of death in Central Africa, and every year, it claims an unacceptable number children’s lives; statistically, one every 30 seconds. However, today it’s easier than ever for Facebook users to make a difference as they can now use their Facebook Credits to make don ...
  • Brazil, Latin America’s Largest Country, Sees Face ...
    [Editor's Note: The following article presents analysis and data excerpts from Inside Facebook Gold, our research and data membership service tracking Facebook's traffic growth and demographic landscape in global markets.] Brazil is on its way up in the world. A growing powerhouse of 192 million cit ...
  • Facebook Adds Graph API, OAuth 2.0 Integration to ...
    The iPhone SDK, renamed the iOS SDK to match Apple’s mobile operating system name change, has a couple new product updates. One is that developers can now integrate the Graph API with their apps, allowing for simpler connections from mobile to a wide range of Facebook data. The other addition is tha ...
  • How Contests Can Create Long-Term Engagement with ...
    [Editor's note: We've been covering a wide range of contests on Facebook Pages over the years, as brands, non-profits and many other organizations have used experimented more with ways of gaining fans, then growing the relationship with them. In the guest column below, Kevin Tate, cofounder and prin ...

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ReDress News

  • Ignorance, apathy, parochialism and the US nationa ...
    Lawrence Davidson shows how popular apathy and parochialism, combined with control of the information flow by the US government and its allied mass media, has led to a situation whereby the American public views injustice and illegality with complete indifference.
  • Another insult to Christianity: meet the Methodist ...
    Stuart Littlewood looks at how Israel’s mouthpieces in the UK, from Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council to a band of dangerously naive simpletons called Methodist Friends of Israel, have grouped together to denounce the Methodist Church ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • “We badly need to free the mindset of our ru ...
    Before delving in what I am intending to write, I must happily congratulate Kenyans on their choice for changes and development. Thanks for giving us a new constitution, the move by which other countries in the region with bad constitutions will ape and follow. Now let me go where I intended before ...
  • “And how are the children?”
    “All the children are well” Adapted by Pat Hoertdoerfer from an excerpt of a speech by Rev. Dr. Patrick T. O’Neill Among the most accomplished and fabled tribes of Africa, no tribe was considered to have warriors more fearsome or more intelligent than the mighty Masai. It is perhaps surprising, then ...
  • 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.                                                                                                                                                                                                           ...

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

  • Greenwashing In The BBC [Guest Article]
    Greenwashing has a habit of making it into every facet of our society, not just from the obvious sources such as the PR offices of polluting corporations, but also for example from major charities and in the media. A recent example I came across is a blog post from last October by the BBC’s [...]
  • 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 ...

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

  • NowSpots: Working to Make Local Web Ads That Work
    NowSpots are beautiful online ads that feature the latest social media updates from advertisers, and make it easy for a reader to follow and share their content across the web. For the last year at WindyCitizen.com , a social network for Chicago news aficionados and urban explorers, we've been s ...
  • Programmer-Journalists Apply Talents to News21 Mul ...
    Manya Gupta and Andrew Paley are the first Knight "programmer-journalist" scholarship winners to participate in the News21 multimedia reporting project, an initiative in its fifth year that engages some of the nation's top journalism master's students. The Northwestern University team that Manya an ...
  • 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 ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The New Iraq - How to Form a New Iraqi Government ...
    In an August 2 speech, President Obama confirmed that regardless of the status of government formation in Iraq, the U.S. military remained committed to the withdrawal of all combat forces by the month's end. Meanwhile, Iraq is still struggling to form a government in the long wake of the March elect ...
  • Middle East on the Edge - Brushfire or Spark? Inci ...
    On August 3, Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) soldiers opened fire on an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) unit removing a tree near the border security fence. In the resulting fighting, a senior IDF officer, two Lebanese soldiers, and a Lebanese journalist were killed, making the clash the most intense milita ...
  • Mideast Peace on the Edge - Palestinian Leader Abb ...
    The Palestinian Authority is under heavy international pressure, mostly American, aimed at facilitating the transition from proximity talks to direct negotiations with Israel. The written message recently sent by President Obama to Palestinian Chairman Mahmud Abbas indicated that the American admini ...
  • Book Review - Girls On The Edge: The Four Factors ...
    Girls On The Edge: The Four Factors Driving the New Crisis for Girls. Leonard Sax. Basic Books. 2010. 272 pages. When Leonard Sax , doctor, psychologist and promoter of single sex education, wrote his second book, Boys Adrift , in 2005 he tapped into a widespread concern that boys were doing badly i ...
  • Movie Review - No. 4 Our Lady Street: A Reflection ...
    It is not every day that we sit down to watch a documentary, especially one with such serious subject matter as the Holocaust. With work, friends, spouses, children, pets and the many other numerous tasks that make up our daily lives, it's hard to make time for anything besides recreational viewings ...

High Country News

  • The life and death of Desert Rock
    The Navajo Nation's proposed 1,500-megawatt coal plant always rested on shaky ground. Now, it may collapse entirely.
  • We keep trying to stop the fires
    Campground and other fee increases ought to come with some kind of improvement in products or services.
  • When you bike in Boise, "STOP" means maybe
    Boise, Idaho, is doing its best to encourage both drivers and bicyclists not to act like jerks.
  • Monstertruck alley
    Imperial Oil's plan to transport gigantic equipment to Alberta, Canada, will require major work on highways in Idaho and Montana.
  • Crude combat
    Can U.S. environmentalists derail a huge Canadian tar sands project that affects this side of the border?

CounterCurrents

  • Signals From Vijayawada And Lalgarh: And Challenge ...
    By Dipankar Bhattacharya The CPI(M) will have to pay the price for its opportunist sins and revolutionary communists can have no sympathy for it on this score. Any meaningful defence of the legacy and gains of the Indian communist movement and resistance to the anti-Left offensive of the ruling cla ...
  • FAQ On Boycott, Divestment, And Sanctions
    By IMEU What is BDS? What are the goals of BDS? Who is calling for BDS? What are some examples of how BDS was used during Apartheid in South Africa?
  • Gaza, Soweto And African American Thought: A Messa ...
    By Bishop Donald Corder We can choose to educate ourselves or not. All do not have same access to the political apparatus and even fewer are heard and respected. But, we can touch the lives of those persons who cross our paths and maybe conversation will ensue and the rippling effects of such dial ...
  • Disasters Could Push Food Prices Up
    By Aljazeera Fires, floods, locusts and droughts - a combination of crises that could mean higher food prices around the world over the next 12 months. The US agriculture department will release a report on Thursday assessing world grain supplies. Many analysts expect it will forecast a two-year lo ...
  • Can We Calculate The True Cost Of Our Dependence O ...
    By Mark Engler By the mid-2000s, BP was making some $20 billion per year in profits. The numbers looked good. Of course, these are not the only numbers to consider. In fact, in the wake of BPs disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, they dont seem like the right numbers at all. Its time for a different ac ...

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

  • Chuck Schumer's Arrogant State of Denial
    If Chuck Schumer was not a United States Senator, he would be one of those slimy lawyers who chase ambulances and funeral processions ignoring the feelings of crash victims and/or their families just so he can hand off his business cards and gain more business. But Politics was the NY Senator's ch ...
  • New TARP Report: US Funded OTHER Countries' Bank R ...
    If you are the type of person who starts flipping out every time you think about TARP program and what its done to the federal deficit stop reading now, because this will make you bleed from your ears. Issued today, the Congressional Oversight Panel's August oversight report , called "The Globa ...
  • The Week Lebanon Became Part of the Anti-Western A ...
    By Barry Rubin History will record that Lebanon was integrated into the Iran-Syria empire in early August 2010. Here are some of the stories that mark that turning point, and also show how Western willingness to make concessions and eagerness to avoid confrontation are interpreted by modera ...
  • MAN UP MR. PRESIDENT!! New Poll Shows America is ...
    UH-OH it looks as if the American People are not as stupid as the progressive Democrats in power believe. The Democrats don't realize that George Bush is no longer president, but the American people do. According to a new Fox News poll, by a whopping margin of 76-18% Americans believe that its ...
  • Rangel Adjusts His Ethics "Story" To Use As a Camp ...
    Congressman Charlie Rangel began his campaign for reelection this morning with an event in Harlem. Front and center in his campaign pitch was a repetition of parts of the strange speech he made on the house floor the other day. Rangel did his best to turn the tables and make the debate about the way ...

The Real Agenda

  • Xarope de Milho de Alta Frutose causa Câncer, Obes ...
    Este ingrediente encontra-se em refrigerantes e muitos produtos processados
  • The Wikileaks Intelligence Operation
    The demonization of nuclear Pakistan, the character assassination of Hamid Gul and the claim that Osama Bin Laden is alive are some of the pieces of disinformation contained in the documents Wikileaks allegedly 'revealed' to the public.  It is the typical government intelligence operation filled wit ...
  • US. Tax payers Bailed-out World’s Corporatio ...
    The fastest money transfer in history came about after the approval of the TARP legislation in the United States Congress. Legislators were threatened with Martial Law, if they did not approve the bank written and sponsored 'rescue' package.
  • America Is ‘Bankrupt Mickey Mouse Economy&#8 ...
    "Last night's news from the Fed simply creates the right conditions for dollar weakness and a reduction in US liabilities to foreign investors and governments," Wermuth said.
  • Jarábe de Maíz Alto en Fructosa causa Obesidad y d ...
    Otro estudio relacionado al jarabe de maíz alto en fructosa específicamente causó la aparición de heridas del hígado conocidas como enfermedad de hígado graso no alcohólico (EHNA).

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

  • You just gotta love those De-Motivational posters.
    I know I do. They’re a website where you upload your pictures, and a smart-ass saying to go along with it, and it generates something like this: Thanks to a friend I’ve never met, why3342 of alfrankenweb for that one.
  • Reid asks: Why would Hispanics Vote GOP, GOOPers u ...
    Like, Jews voting for Hitler. Seriously, it’s THAT obvious. The GOOPers actually are getting all bent out of shape because somebody pointed out that a) They’ve made official oppression of dark-skinned people a Platform Priority Plank ever since the only Good Republican was assassinated at Ford’s The ...
  • 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 ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • WTC 1 - The Obvious Case Against the Collapse/Crus ...
    By Anders Björkman (M.Sc) Just drop Anything on Something Start with a solid rubber ball, mass m (kg) and drop it on the floor from height h = 3.7 meters height = the height that WTC1 upper part is assumed to drop. The ball free falls with acceleration g (9.81 m/s²) due to gravity, makes contact w ...
  • 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 ...

Fooducate

  • Cool Fruit [Literally]
    Ever get stuck with over-ripe fruit? In these hot summer months, a day or two in that nice bowl on your countertop may be all that’s needed to turn a picture perfect specimen into a messy mush. The Amazon Fresh blog has a few pointers: Tomatoes – Tomatoes need room temperature to ripen, and that’s ...
  • Times Square Besieged by Pop-Tart Sushi
    In a bold and expensive branding move, Kellogg’s has leased 3000 square feet of  prime real estate in New York’s Times Square to set up a Pop Tarts store.  From the company press release: Customers will be able to eat Pop-Tarts “sushi,” order a customized pastry or create a custom box filled wit ...
  • 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 ...

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 ?

  • Upcycling advice: how can I reuse/recycle cans to ...
    We’ve had an email from Pauline: I would like to use steel and aluminium cans to make jewelery. Do you know how to cut the metal out? Should the can be crushed first? Do you know how to smooth the edges so they don’t cut? If you could throw any light on this or point [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle paint roller trays?
    Is there a word for when you’re window-shopping skips? I was skip-gazing (?) around the corner the other day and as well as having a mighty fine looking pallet in there (yoiiiiink), there were several old paint roller trays flung on top. Compared to rollers, paint trays are super easy to clean (espe ...
  • 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 [ ...

Mondoweiss

  • Arab students at Tel Aviv U are denied dorm space ...
    and other news from Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing 17 Palestinian homes, park declared illegal TULKAREM (Ma'an) -- Stop-work orders targeting 17 homes, a workshop, factory and municipal park were delivered to Tulkarem-area residents on Wednesday, village ...
  • Updated comments policy
    We've hit a couple of impasses on comments policy at this site in the last two years. Now we're at another. As the site has grown more popular, we've gotten more enthusiastic debate, but also more invective, profanity, and racism and anti-Semitism, all of which drive off reasonable people. We bounce ...
  • The borders of the Palestinian ’state’ ...
    An article this week in The Jerusalem Post suggested that "when the construction freeze in Judea and Samaria ends on September 26", Israeli PM Netanyahu intends to build mainly in the so-called settlement blocs "Israel will likely keep under an agreement with the Palestinians". Further down, the pie ...
  • Richard Cohen says that Arabs want to exterminate ...
    I get a circle-the-wagons feeling from Israel's defenders in Washington. Thomas Friedman's column the other day was unhinged, lumping Oliver Stone with the British Prime Minister, and not acknowledging what has changed world opinion, the slaughter of civilians and denial of human rights to Palestini ...
  • The hasbarapocalypse hits YouTube
    As first reported on Mondoweiss:

Media Consortium

  • Times Builds 'Jargonator' to Help Readers Decipher ...
    Apparently the Times Interactive News Technologies team also realized that the two dozen or so documents they were unleashing on their Web site weren't going to have much impact if their readers couldn't make head or tails of them. So they quickly developed a nifty roll-over tool, which internally t ...
  • All Our Ideas facilitates crowdsourcing — of opini ...
    Meet All Our Ideas, the “suggestion box for the digital age“: a crowdsourcing platform designed to crowdsource concepts and opinions rather than facts alone. The platform was designed by a team at Princeton under the leadership of sociology professor Matt Salganik — initially, to create a web-native ...
  • A Magazine Meant for Mobile - NYTimes.com
    The magazine, called Nomad Editions and created by a New York start-up of the same name, will feature the work of freelance journalists with expertise in a specific area, like surfing or movies. Every Friday, starting in October, subscribers will receive through a mobile application what amounts to ...
  • 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 ...

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 )

  • State halts UC Berkeley’s gene testing plans
    A controversial program at the University of California, Berkeley, inviting incoming freshmen and transfer students to receive a personal analysis of three genetic variants in their DNA cannot proceed as planned, the state public health department told university officials yesterday. At a late ...
  • State halts UC Berkeley’s gene testing plans
    A controversial program at the University of California, Berkeley, inviting incoming freshmen and transfer students to receive a personal analysis of three genetic variants in their DNA cannot proceed as planned, the state public health department told university officials yesterday. At a late ...
  • Journal, heal thyself
    There have been a number of retractions from the scientific literature recently, but the Virology Journal 's swift (one might say miraculous) withdrawal of a paper on biblical influenza has set the speed record. The paper , "Influenza or not influenza: Analysis of a case of high fever that happe ...
  • Tremor comes to Cascadia
    Posted on behalf of Naomi Lubick A swarm of tiny earthquakes known as a tremor event (among other monikers) arrived right on schedule beneath Puget Sound this week (see last month’s feature in Nature : The secret chatter of giant faults ). On 8 August, 5 hours of infinitesimally small shak ...
  • Repairs on ISS move forward but delay research
    After their second marathon space walk in five days, astronauts on board the International Space Station are one small but significant step closer to resolving their troubles with a faulty ammonia pump. Spacewalkers Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Douglas Wheelock managed to remove the 350-kilogram pump f ...

new geography

  • Millennial’s Are Looking for Something Completely ...
    As the country’s political distemper grows, many commentators, reflecting their own generational biases, mistakenly assume that voters are looking for less government as the solution to the nation’s ills. But survey research data from Washington think tank , NDN, shows that a majority of Americans ( ...
  • A Localist Solution
    By Richard Reep “There is a great deal of historical evidence to suggest that a society which loses its identity with posterity and which loses its positive image of the future loses also its capacity to deal with present problems, and soon falls apart.” --Kenneth Boulding, economist and philosop ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Jaime Semprun has died
    Jaime Semprún has died. Jaime Semprún (26 of July, 1947-Aug 3rd 2010) Jaime Semprúm was born in Spain and was the son of the writer Jorge Semprún and the actor Loleh Bellon but lived most of his life in France. He was a radical essayist, a translator and a French Publisher.
  • 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 ...

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

  • BARRACK OBAMA INDICTED FOR MURDER???
    Mom of Murdered Obama Gay Lover Speaks Up Mom of Murdered Obama Gay Lover Speaks Up Posted on July 25, 2010 by Eowyn Donald Young http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.c…ver-speaks-up/ In late May, Wash. DC-based investigative journalist Wayne Madsen had a bombshell revelation about Obamaâs membershi ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Solar Power- Gateway Drug to Energy Efficiency
    A lot has been written about the so-called âPrius Effectââ the fact that the Prius helps save gas not just because of its hybrid technology, but also because people drive much more efficiently when they see their performance on the … Continue reading →
  • Green Roofs for Homes
    Scotts Contracting is available for the building of your Green Roof. Scotty is available to supply a Free Green Estimate for your Roofing Projects- large or small. With more than 50 different Green Roofing options available at my preferred Roofing … Continue reading →
  • Repower America-Clean Energy Movement 8/13
    Dear Scotts, Thousands of Repower America supporters joined Vice President Al Gore on Tuesday for a Virtual Town Hall to discuss where we should direct our movement in the weeks and months ahead. Together, we laid out some powerful steps … Continue reading →
  • Free Solar Panels for 2.5 million-UK
  • 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 →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

  • A Litigious U.S. Might Be Driving Business to Law ...
    Are U.S. law firms losing international business opportunities because a surprising number of in-house lawyers prefer to seek counsel in other countries? That's the conclusion of a survey that suggests global companies would rather be advised by British firms -- which is especially bad news for thei ...
  • 2nd Circuit Finds Attorney Violated Drug Document ...
    New York federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein had every right to block a lawyer who was not involved in the Zyprexa product-liability litigation before him from disseminating documents that were subject to a protective order, the 2nd Circuit ruled Thursday. The court agreed that the attorney, James B. Go ...
  • Judge Seals Rothstein File Posted on PACER
    A U.S. bankruptcy judge agreed to seal a file released by web services company Qtask that Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler's bankruptcy trustee said contained privileged work product as well as passwords and logons to the system. The info was posted on PACER, the court's document system.
  • In the Case of the Billion-Dollar ERISA Typo, 7th ...
    When a class of Bell Atlantic pension plan participants filed suit claiming Bell successor Verizon miscalculated -- by $1.67 billion -- the lump-sum cash payments they were due, it turned out that the sentence in the ERISA plan that implied the multiplier should be applied twice was a drafting error ...
  • Hunton & Williams Sued for $150 Million in Contra ...
    Hunton & Williams has been hit with a $150 million lawsuit claiming that the law firm maliciously squeezed a broker out of a contract and should pay up for the company's losses. The lawsuit alleges that the firm and client Insight Equity Holdings ousted plaintiff Minerals Development & Supply from a ...

Iranian.com

  • رسیدگی به پرونده کودتای انتخاباتی رابه دیوان عالی ...
    نوروز: جبهه مشارکت ایران اسلامی با انتشار نامه ای خطاب به صادق آملی لاریجانی رئیس قوه قضائیه از وی درخواست کرده است دیوان عالی کشور را را مامور رسیدگی به کودتای انتخاباتی سال گذشته که سردار مشفق نیز بر آن صحه گذاشته است بنماید. read more
  • سرقت تاج سلطنتي ژاپن
     اين سرقت سال دو هزار و هفت صورت گرفته است و حميد رضا صلحي ، چهل و يك ساله ساكن توكيو ، به دريافت رايگان قطعات فلزي اين تاج پادشاهي از يك زن تبعه آمريكاي لاتين مظنون است.
  • Why have Western feminists been so muted in their ...
    Many human rights groups have criticised the Iranian authorities for their brutal treatment of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, including Amnesty International and the International Committee Against Stoning. The mother of two has already received 99 lashes for committing adultery and according to her l ...
  • Despite Tightening Up Of Society, Iranian Art Sees ...
    The Persian word for "love" is spelled out in Swarovski crystals and glitter, with a small footnote from the artist: "A picture is worth a thousand words and a word a thousand pictures." The estimate wasn't high enough. When the acrylic painting on canvas sold at Bonhams in Dubai two years ago for ...
  • یک سال خشم حکومت از افشاگری مهدی کروبی
    رضا معینی از سازمان گزارشگران بدون مرز می گوید که در یک سال اخیر، این سازمان چهار مورد تجاوز به زندانیان ایرانی را مستند کرده و به این نتیجه رسیده است که این اعمال توسط نیروهای خودسر صورت نگرفته است. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Climate Change for Dummies - Part III
    What the Media Doesn’t Tell Us (About Ocean Acidification, Global Dimming and Methane) Ocean Acidification Ocean acidification, another direct effect of increasing carbon dioxide levels, is rarely mentioned in the mainstream media. Even though it threatens to cause a collapse in global fish ...
  • Climate Change for Dummies – Part III
    What the Media Doesn’t Tell Us (About Ocean Acidification, Global Dimming and Methane) Ocean Acidification Ocean acidification, another direct effect of increasing carbon dioxide levels, is rarely mentioned in the mainstream media. Even though it threatens to cause a collapse in global fish stocks ...
  • 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’ ...

Free Movement

  • Rights of children a primary consideration
    Yet more good news, this time for children and their parents. In LD (Article 8 best interests of child) Zimbabwe [2010] UKUT 278 (IAC) the President of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal has found that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is highly relevant to Article 8 ...
  • Post flight spouses of refugees
    Some tremendously good news for many refugees: in the new case of FH (Post-flight spouses) Iran [2010] UKUT 275 (IAC) the tribunal has found that Article 8 appeals by the spouses of refugees who married the refugee after the refugee left the country of origin should normally be allowed. Ever since r ...
  • 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 ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Billboard in Arizona Reads: 'Have Your Papers ...
    On July 28, District Court Judge Susan R. Bolton seemingly stripped out most of SB 1070's draconian provisions. Yet the battle around Arizona's freshly enacted anti-immigration law is still pretty much alive. Whether it is via the $1.5 million Gov. Brewer has raised on the back of anti-immigrant ...
  • 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 ...

Salon

  • Fifty thousand pot plants seized in Wisconsin fore ...
    Authorities estimate they seized at least 50,000 marijuana plants during a sweep through a northeastern Wisconsin national forest.
  • Bill Bennett will save our children from "sexting"
    Former education secretary, drug czar, and gambling addict Bill Bennett has set his sights on the single greatest threat to our children today: Sexting.
  • Hewlett Packard cooperating in bribe probe
    Hewlett-Packard Co. said Thursday it is cooperating with U.S. and German authorities investigating allegations that three company executives used bribes to win a contract to sell computer gear to the Russian prosecutors' office.
  • Why cable news never punishes liars
    It's not exactly surprising, but it's always good to be able to point to specific evidence that there are, in the mass media, absolutely no consequences for blatant, constant lying. Today's evidence is cable news crime expert Wendy Murphy.
  • Florida Republican: Put immigrants in "camps"
    In an interview with Salon today, a Republican candidate for the Florida state Legislature stood by her controversial idea to arrest illegal immigrants and send them to "camps"�where they can be held en masse.

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

  • 11 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Is Bad
    The following are 11 reasons why the Federal Reserve is not good for the United States....
  • Will Quantitative Easing By The Federal Reserve Un ...
    What we will concern ourselves with in this article are the negative effects that could be unleashed as the Federal Reserve further abuses this power.
  • US food crops absorb toxic pharmaceuticals and per ...
    Several major reports have come out in recent years about the dangers of pharmaceutical drug residues being found in the nation’s water supplies. But a new study has shown that major American food crops like soybeans are also absorbing these chemicals, and others, from the treated wastewater that fa ...
  • FCC Using Cybersecurity To Regulate Internet
    Yet another federal agency envisions a possible broader role for itself in securing private sector Internet infrastructure. The Federal Communications Commission issued on August 9 a notice (.pdf) soliciting public comment on an anticipated FCC plan to address vulnerabilities to core Internet protoc ...
  • Turkey Accused of Using Chemical Weapons against P ...
    German experts have confirmed the authenticity of photographs that purport to show PKK fighters killed by chemical weapons. The evidence puts increasing pressure on the Turkish government, which has long been suspected of using such weapons against Kurdish rebels. German politicians are demanding an ...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Mainstreaming war with Iran
    Summary: Stephen M. Walt You'll recall that a similar process of "mainstreaming" occurred over Iraq: What at first seemed like the far-fetched dream of a handful of out-of-power neoconservatives in 1998 had become a serious option by 2001. By 2003, aided in no small part by the efforts of jour ...
  • War or jaw-jaw?
    Summary: Iran Israel US The current escalation in US and Israeli sabre-rattling against Iran is probably no more than that source: Al-Ahram Weekly read more
  • The Illusion of a ‘limited war’ against Iran
    Summary: The frank admission by Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and America’s highest ranking officer, that the U.S. has plans to attack Iran to prevent that country from acquiring nuclear weapons, is being treated with the utmost seriousness in political, intelligen ...
  • Who Says Iran Is Becoming Isolated in the Middle E ...
    Summary: Obama Mideast If Americans want to find a big "loser" in this year's Arab Public Opinion Poll, the results identify him quite clearly -- President Barack Obama. source: Huffington Post read more
  • The Weak Case for War with Iran
    Summary: war with Iran Jeffrey Goldberg's new article in the Atlantic is deeply reported -- and deeply wrong about the Middle East. But it's his misunderstanding of America that is most dangerous of all. source: Foreign Policy Magazine read more

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...
  • Jupiter Won Early Planetary Rollerball -Devouring ...
    Last summer a massive mystery object struck Jupiter and disappeared into it's opaque atmosphere. Now, research led by Shu Lin Li of Peking University in China have revealed that billions of years ago Jupiter’s core might have been vaporised in...
  • EcoAlert: "The Hottest Summer in a 1,000 Years" - ...
    While Kremlin leaders are grappling with Russia's deadliest wildfires since 1972 and a drought that has destroyed crops after what weather monitoring officials say was the country's hottest summer in a millennium, fires have scorched forests contaminated with radiation from...

Natural News

  • Mushrooms made into green packing material
    (NaturalNews) It sounds like a futuristic sci fi idea: a non-toxic, earth friendly packing material that grows itself and, after it's used, makes a great garden compost. But this isn't fiction -- it's mushrooms. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), two former Rensselaer Polytechn ...
  • US food crops absorb toxic pharmaceuticals and per ...
    (NaturalNews) Several major reports have come out in recent years about the dangers of pharmaceutical drug residues being found in the nation's water supplies. But a new study has shown that major American food crops like soybeans are also absorbing these chemicals, and others, from the treated wast ...
  • Even a low-dose vitamin D pill cuts breast cancer ...
    (NaturalNews) A recent research study on vitamin D has shown that even low-dose vitamin D supplementation plays a big role in preventing breast cancer. According to the study, which was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition , women who take at least 400 international units (IU) of ...
  • Healthy living video site launches: NaturalNews.TV ...
    (NaturalNews) A new video sharing site, NaturalNews.TV, officially launched this week. The site serves up videos covering natural health, green living, exercise and fitness, holistic living, food and nutrition, environmental protection and other similar topics. Co-founded by Mike Adams, the editor o ...
  • Learn how to eliminate cancer on the next NaturalN ...
    (NaturalNews) The NaturalNews Talk Hour presents Cancer, Fraud and the FDA - Part 3 of its series, "American Heroes - Cancer Experts Speak Out" - with our special guests Stanislaw Burzynski, MD, Ph.D. and Eric Merola, Director of Burzynski - the movie . This show will reveal the untold truth about c ...

Threat Level

  • Alleged Carder ‘BadB’ Busted in France — Watch His ...
    An alleged old-timer in the international carding community and one of the top sellers of stolen bank card data has been arrested in France, and faces extradition to the United States on an indictment unsealed Wednesday in Washington, D.C. Vladislav Anatolievich Horohorin, 27, aka BadB, holds dual- ...
  • Prior Restraint Lives: Newspaper Blocked From Publ ...
    We’re not sure what’s more alarming: that a local California judge has barred the Los Angeles Times from publishing lawfully obtained photos of a murder defendant, or that an appeals court has just decided not to immediately reverse this clear exercise of prior restraint. Prior restraint smacks at ...
  • ‘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 ...

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  • Republicans Defend States' Rights - to Economic Mi ...
    Back in February, 42 governors signed a letter pleading with Congressional leaders to extend the federal matching assistance program for Medicaid. And with good reason. 30 cash-strapped states, including Republican bastions Georgia and Alabama, had already assumed new federal Medicaid funds in the ...
  • New Study Shows Bush Tax Cut Windfall for Wealthy
    Last year, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann summed up what would become the de facto Republican platform for the 2010 midterm elections when she fretted, "We're running out of rich people in this country." Now, as the GOP demands a $700 billion Treasury-draining tax cut for the wealthiest Americans ...
  • 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 ...

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  • Texas sends Hot-headed letter to EPA on CO2: parti ...
    On Monday Aug 2, the Texas Attorney General and TCEQ Commissioner sent a strongly-worded (read: childish and churlish) letter to the EPA saying in no way would Texas comply with regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. But their ploy reeks more of politics than sound public policy.
  • Could Texas’ Continued Defiance of EPA on Regulati ...
    Public Citizen Calls For A Moratorium On Permitting All New Sources Of Greenhouse Gases Until Texas Gets Plan In Place EPA issued proposed rules today that will require Texas to modify its state implementation plan to cover Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG).  If Texas does not, then EPA is proposing a ...
  • Join your friends from Public Citizen Texas at Net ...
    Yes, friends, it is that time again: Netroots Nation!  Your favorite convergence of bloggers most likely to be called Lenin’s Pioneers by Fox News.  And this time it’s in lovely Las Vegas, Andy’s personal least favorite city in the US (don’t drink, don’t smoke- what do you do?).  Hey, I have an i ...
  • PUC Chair’s TX Tribune Interview: Needs Lege Direc ...
    Public Utility Commission Chairman Barry Smitherman recently sat down with Texas Tribune reporter Kate Galbraith to talk about energy efficiency, CREZ, smart-meters, non-wind renewables, the switch-hold rule, the Lege, and Federal climate legislation (or lack thereof?). It’s a good read/listen if yo ...
  • Press Release: Perry Government Mishandles Program ...
    Public Citizen, Environmental Defense Fund Call for Independent State Agency to Coordinate Stateâs Energy Efficiency Efforts AUSTIN – In response to the Public Utility Commissionâs (PUC) planned adoption of new energy efficiency goals, Public Citizen and Environmental Defense Fund today called f ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Stone Age Lucy changes history
    Scientists have found evidence that stone tools were used to cut meat almost 1 million years earlier than thought. The discovery which was made in Eth...
  • Silk 'invisibility cloak' created
    Researchers have developed an invisibility cloak out of silk that can bend certain types of light around solid objects. While it doesn't work for visi...
  • Cattle 'cloned from dead animals'
    It has been revealed that some of the cattle cloned to help food production in the US used cells from dead animals. The technique was used because onl...
  • Doctor finds plant growing inside man's lung
    Doctors attempting to diagnose a man with a severe cough discovered a pea plant growing inside one of his lungs. His symptoms were suspected to be the...
  • Ancient language mystery deepens
    Mystery surrounds a series of drawings and symbols on a Pictish tablet that could be an ancient language. Some experts believe the symbols represent w...

Grassroots

Climate

  • August 13, 2010
    EPA Proposes Rules on Greenhouse Gas Permits (Reuters) The EPA on Thursday proposed new rules to ensure factories and power plants will be able to obtain permits they will need to emit greenhouse gases starting next year. Decision Expected on Plug for BP's Broken Oil Well (AP) Off ...
  • August 12, 2010
    Illinois Town Backs Out of 'Clean Coal' Project (Wall Street Journal) An Illinois town on Wednesday refused to provide land to store CO2, dealing a blow to the Obama administration's plan to fund a carbon-storage facility in the town as a substitute for providing $1 billion to construct a ...
  • 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 ...

GreenBiz

  • Belgium Considers a Greener Alternative to Cremati ...
    Funeral directors in northern Belgium want the country to give the green light to resomation, a water and alkali-based process that turns bodies into a mix of liquid and minerals. Resomation uses less energy than cremation and emits significantly fewer greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Filling the Glass Recycling Void in Kansas City
    �Recycling glass used to be challenge in Kansas City, but a non-profit, brewery and insulation maker have turned that around with Ripple Glass, a company that has its sights set on doubling the city's glass recycling rate.
  • Passing the Efficiency Baton at ServiceMaster
    Any member of a sprint relay team knows how important the baton handoff can be for the success of the team, even if the goal is to improve energy efficiency, not win a race.
  • 10 Ways to Prevent Your Building from Making Peopl ...
    As property owners tighten building envelopes to make facilities more energy efficient, they also need to be more vigilant about properly maintaining cooling, heating and ventilation systems. Buildings owners and operators who do the former and neglect the latter run the risk of making occupants sic ...
  • Mushroom-Based Packaging Uses 98% Less Energy than ...
    �A packaging material made of mushroom roots and agricultural waste is lowering its energy footprint further with new sterilizing technology.

Reuters Global

  • Resurgent Taliban target women and children
    Civilian casualties in the worsening war in Afghanistan are up just over 30 percent in the current year, the United Nations said in a mid-year report on Tuesday, holding the Taliban responsible for three-quarters of the deaths or injuries. More worrying women and children seem to be taking the brun ...
  • Can export bans be challenged at the WTO?
    As countries move to protect their food supplies, experts say the World Trade Organization is unlikely to have the authority to stop them banning grain exports
  • Risks to watch in Asia: Country guides
    Risks to watch: Asia country guides
  • Irony the clear leader in Australian election camp ...
    Australia's election campaign has been mostly dull and stage-managed, leaving a lot of us bored and cynical, but it has at least served up one delicious irony. In a land of immigrants, the two main candidates are promising to crack down on immigration if elected -- even though both were themselve ...
  • The Islamists and the Great Flood of Pakistan
    Pakistan's floods are now considered to be more damaging than the massive earthquake that devastated its part of Kashmir in 2005, not least because of the inability of the administration to respond quickly to the crisis. And once Islamist groups have stepped in to fill the breach, offering aid to t ...

Booman Tribune

  • Why the GOP is Acting Crazy
    If alienating the Latino vote is guaranteed to kill the Republican Party in future elections, why are they going so overboard to do it? Well, what gets the biggest applause line in this little GOP get-together? [hint: it comes at about the 5:30 minute mark]. The whole episode is a path ...
  • G.M. is Back on its Feet
    This has to be very disappointing for Republicans. The quarterly profit reported on Thursday marked G.M.s strongest financial performance since 2004, and set the stage for the automaker to file for an initial public offering, possible as soon as Friday. It was G.M.s second consecutive quarterly ...
  • Assisting Pakistan
    In the battle for hearts and minds, this will do more than any military action: The Pakistanis rescued Wednesday were among more than 2,700 picked up over the past week by six U.S. choppers that have also delivered bags of flour and biscuits to stranded residents of the flood-ravaged Swat Valley, ...
  • The Oddball Candidates
    While I consider a lot of the progressive anger at the administration to involve a degree of naïveté about how Congress functions, the Tea Partiers are no more informed. Alexander Burns examines in Poltico the question of whether the GOP will be hurt by all its oddball candidates. Even Republicans ...
  • Casual Observation
    There is a recommended diary at Daily Kos by a user named puakev that does something I've been wanting to do all year. It goes back and looks at how liberals and progressives reacted and interacted with the FDR administration during its first term. It is almost spooky how closely the rhetoric and ...

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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

  • India Observes First National Mental Health Awaren ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline NPR recently ran a two-part series about mental health in India, exploring various cultural and religious beliefs that influence how mental health issues are perceived. Statistically, India has just one psychiatrist for every 400,000 people, but many say that stigma i ...
  • Sitting with your Love Addiction
    By Mou Wilson, MFT, Sexuality / Sex Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Mou and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Addiction often at its root develops out of a need to relieve an anxiety, psychological pressure or stress. I often akin addictions to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ...
  • Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Cosmetic Surgery
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline People dealing with body dysmorphic disorder, or BDD, often pursue cosmetic surgery and other procedures in an attempt to control or ‘improve’ an element of their physical appearance that they perceive to be defective. BDD is characterized by a preoccupation with such ...
  • Social Networking & Sex Addiction Challenges
    By Janie Lacy, LMHC, NCC, CSAS, Sex Addiction Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Janie and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile. Social Networking is a great way to connect with so many individuals! It connects you with your family, friends from the past, current friends and even allows yo ...
  • Cancer and Sexuality Part Two
    By Norma Lee M.A., M.D., Cancer Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Norma and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile As noted last month, cancer treatments can have a significant effect on a person’s sexuality and desire to be intimate. Common side effects of chemotherapy include nausea, whi ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • BTL:Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining No. 1 Issue fo ...
    BTL: Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining No. 1 Issue for West Virginia's US Senate ... Bay Area Indymedia Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus caught up with Hechler by phone as he traveled around his state calling for an end to mountaintop removal mining and ... and more��
  • DEP issues new valley fill permitting guidance - W ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) DEP issues new valley fill permitting guidance West Virginia Public Broadcasting It set a numeric conductivity level for water downstream of mountaintop removal sites. Environmentalists praised the EPA's standard, but Huffman says it was ... DEP hopes new mining policy hea ...
  • Back to School: - Treehugger
    Back to School: Treehugger Sierra Club provides a handy permit tracker that allows viewers to see where mountaintop removal projects are in the approval process. ...
  • Mr. President, There is No Such Thing as Clean Coa ...
    Triple Pundit Mr. President, There is No Such Thing as Clean Coal Triple Pundit Coal slurry ranks right up there with mountaintop removal in terms pure environmental ugliness. Slurry is coal refuse and water; waste which is derived from ... and more��
  • Rand Paul: Controversial Mountaintop Removal Coal ...
    Salon Rand Paul: Controversial Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Isn't So Bad Huffington Post (blog) Mountaintop removal is a wonderful thing....maybe for you since you don't have to live with it...and your investments profit from it.....watch Coal Country ... Rand Paul: Controversial Mountaintop Rem ...

Memeorandum

  • Sacrilege at Ground Zero (Charles Krauthammer/Wash ...
    Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post : Sacrilege at Ground Zero   —  A place is made sacred by a widespread belief that it was visited by the miraculous or the transcendent (Lourdes, the Temple Mount), by the presence there once of great nobility and sacrifice (Gettysburg), or by the blood of mart ...
  • FULL AUDIO: Dr. Laura Schlessinger's N-word rant ( ...
    Jeremy Holden / Media Matters for America : FULL AUDIO: Dr. Laura Schlessinger's N-word rant   —  On August 10, Dr. Laura Schlessinger launched into a racially charged rant, during which Schlessinger — in her own words — “articulated the ‘n’ word all the way out — more than one time.”  Among other ...
  • Pentagon Slams WikiLeaks' Plan to Post More War Lo ...
    Wall Street Journal : Pentagon Slams WikiLeaks' Plan to Post More War Logs   —  U.S. defense officials on Thursday responded angrily to WikiLeaks' plan to post additional Afghan war logs, with Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggesting that the move could further endanger the lives of Afghans who he ...
  • 'Professional left' not ready to back an Obama pri ...
    Sam Youngman / The Hill : ‘Professional left’ not ready to back an Obama primary challenger in '12   —  As angry as they might be, the professional left isn't ready to back a primary challenger to President Obama just yet.  —  Two high-profile liberals on Thursday said they are not interested in ru ...
  • Elizabeth Warren, likely to head new consumer agen ...
    Brady Dennis / Washington Post : Elizabeth Warren, likely to head new consumer agency, provokes strong feelings   —  Somewhere along the line, Elizabeth Warren became a symbol.  —  She's either the plain-spoken, supremely smart crusader for middle-class families that her supporters adore, or she's ...

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China Dialogue

  • Spotlighting the shadow economy
    For too long, fighting corruption has been left off the sustainability agenda – but battling sleaze is fundamental to meeting social and environmental goals, argues John Elkington. Many years ago, I visited the managing director of a leading electronic goods company in Tokyo. I was with a Japanese c ...
  • Dangers of the deep
    The US oil disaster has laid bare the ugly side of offshore drilling. As China steps up its extraction capabilities, it is hoping to avoid America’s mistakes, say Li Yi and Feng Jie. In the early weeks of the BP oil spill , the company’s chief executive, Tony Hayward, responded to the growing tide o ...
  • 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 ...

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  • Alleged Carder ‘BadB’ Busted in France — Watch His ...
    An alleged old-timer in the international carding community and one of the top sellers of stolen bank card data has been arrested in France, and faces extradition to the United States on an indictment unsealed Wednesday in Washington, D.C. Vladislav Anatolievich Horohorin, 27, aka BadB, holds dual- ...
  • Prior Restraint Lives: Newspaper Blocked From Publ ...
    We’re not sure what’s more alarming: that a local California judge has barred the Los Angeles Times from publishing lawfully obtained photos of a murder defendant, or that an appeals court has just decided not to immediately reverse this clear exercise of prior restraint. Prior restraint smacks at ...
  • ‘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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • BlackBerry assures India on messenger access: offi ...
    NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The maker of BlackBerry smartphones has assured India of giving access to its messenger service and is working to address the government's security worries, a senior security official said on Friday.
  • Optimistic on resolving India security concerns: R ...
    NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Research In Motion is optimistic that it will be able to resolve the Indian government's security concerns, a senior company official said on Friday.
  • Analysis - Slovakia flirts with EU censure by oppo ...
    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Slovakia's decision to drop out of an aid package for Greece undermines euro zone unity but it will not affect the bailout for Athens, and Bratislava may well have calculated that the repercussions will be slight.
  • Shares and euro dip as investors lock in post-GDP ...
    LONDON (Reuters) - European stocks fell on Friday while the euro also slipped as assets considered to be higher risk relinquished early gains after initial euphoria from a surprisingly strong German economic growth data fizzled out.
  • India to target Google, Skype messaging next - FT
    SINGAPORE, Aug 13 (Reuters) - India may shut down Google and Skype Internet-based messaging services over security concerns, the Financial Times reported on Friday, as the government threatened a similar crackdown on BlackBerry services.

IntelNews

  • Analysis: Russian-Czech spy scandals show new dire ...
    By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | Last July saw the resignations of three Czech Generals, including the head of the president’s military office and the country’s representative to NATO, following revelations that one of their senior staffers had a relationship … Continue reading →
  • CIA hid terrorism prisoners from US Supreme Court
    By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | The Central Intelligence Agency purposefully concealed at least four terrorism detainees from the US legal system, including the Supreme Court, according to an exclusive report by the Associated Press. The news agency has revealed … Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #412
    British Prime Minster says Iran âhas got a nuclear weaponâ. British leader David Cameron has been criticized after he told a town hall audience in the English seaside town of Hove that “Iran has got a nuclear weapon”. Obama nominates … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

After Downing Street.org

  • Modern War Makes Veterans of Us All
    Human Toll of Violence in Central African Republic Documented ScienceDaily (Aug. 4, 2010) — Using a combination of scientific methodology and old-fashioned legwork, human rights researchers based at the University of California, Berkeley, have systematically canvassed nearly 2,000 households in the ...
  • Federal Nuclear Waste Panel Overlooks Public Mistr ...
    ScienceDaily (Aug. 12, 2010) — According to 16 social science researchers from across the country, a renewed federal effort to fix the nation's stalled nuclear waste program is focusing so much on technological issues that it fails to address the public mistrust hampering storage and disposal effort ...
  • Evangelical Christian Bias in the Military
    Air Force Academy Faculty and Students Go Public against Evangelical Christian Bias in the Military August 18, 2007 - Three faculty members from United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) in Colorado Springs, Colorado--one of whom is also a former cadet--have gone public today with their criticisms of ...
  • Experts call for David Kelly inquest
    Official cause of David Kelly's death is 'extremely unlikely', say group of legal and medical experts An inquest into the death of David Kelly was suspended before the Hutton inquiry and not resumed afterwards. Photograph: Ian Waldie/Getty Images Europe 13 August 2010 - A group of prominent legal an ...
  • Afghanistan! Elections?
    Easy to answer the subject title. So called repubs, who've been changing their labels since greatly defending the previous admin and those congresses, to libertarian at first and now tea party, don't want to be reminded of the failed policies and all the proof that showed they were wrong on everythi ...

Grist - News

  • Obama panel urges U.S. backing for clean coal
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- A task force established by President Obama called Thursday for a strong government role to promote clean coal, potentially accepting liability over carbon-storage sites for thousands of years to come. Obama had asked the panel to recommend how to promot ...
  • Mosque near Ground Zero will be greenest in the na ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. The Cordoba House in lower Manhattan will be the nation's first "green" LEED-certified mosque, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin reports at Daily Beast . It's also been rechristened as " Park51 ": The mosque (which is more accurately a community center with a prayer space) is located on P ...
  • Will BP and the White House become strange bedfell ...
    by Randy Rieland. Remember that $20 billion escrow account that BP is supposed to create to cover damages in the Gulf of Mexico? You know, the account that one Republican called a "slush fund" until he was told it made him look too chummy with a company that had dumped 4.1 million barrels of o ...
  • BP relaunches Gulf well-sealing effort after storm
    by Agence France-Presse. NEW ORLEANS -- BP on Thursday relaunched operations to finish a relief well and permanently seal its catastrophic Macondo well after a brief suspension due to a storm in the Gulf of Mexico. The remnants of a weakened tropical system halted work on the busted well on W ...
  • Americans and Europeans want more regulation of oi ...
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- Wide majorities in the United States and Western Europe support greater regulation of oil companies, with concern about the environment rising since the BP oil spill, a poll said Thursday. The Financial Times/Harris Poll covering Britain, France, Germany ...

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Washington Independent

  • Florida Republicans Move to the Right on Immigrati ...
    After Florida Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum proposed Arizona-style immigration legislation, his primary opponent argued he proposed the bill as a political stunt. New polling data indicates that McCollum’s new tough-on-immigration stance may be winning voters: Two poll ...
  • Jeff Greene Threatens to Sue Florida Paper
    The St. Petersburg Times, which has been responsible for the majority of investigative barbs directed against Florida’s Democratic senate candidate Jeff Greene, received some return fire in the form of a libel suit yesterday. Greene’s letter, available here, demands a retraction of “equal” size to t ...
  • Bromwich: Minerals Management Service Leaned Too M ...
    Michael Bromwich, who is heading up offshore drilling activities in the Interior Department, said yesterday that the now-defunct Minerals Management Service should not have been so dependent on the oil and natural gas industry in developing standards. According to The Wall Street Journal, Bromwich, ...
  • Obama Family to Vacation in the Gulf
    President Obama and his family will travel to Florida on Saturday to spend some time at Panama City Beach. The “vacation” comes as tourism in the Gulf is down significantly due to the oil spill. Gulf officials and lawmakers have been pleading with Americans not to cancel their trips to the region, a ...
  • House Starts Push-Back on Defense Spending Cuts
    Earlier this week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced a series of Pentagon spending cuts, designed to trim the military’s budget by $100 billion over five years by slowing the rate of spending growth. Initial criticism, if any, came from deficit hawks who view the cuts as too small, and indeed ...

Digg Green

  • University balloon tracks dairies' acrid gases
    An orange balloon floated 50 feet above California State University, Fresno's small dairy herd last week, helping in the unsavory task of gathering air samples from a plume of pungent gases.
  • How Tornadoes Work [w/video]
    ...of all the destructive powers in our world, none resembles the ferocity and form of those mythic monsters quite like tornadoes. These storms descend like a dagger from the clouds. They tower over the tallest buildings like titans. And when they lash out at their surroundings, they often seem to a ...
  • Do your civic duty: Eat this fish!
    Humans armed with knives and forks enlisted to control lionfish invasion.
  • SAP Boosts Renewable Energy Use to 50 Percent
    The software maker also shrank its carbon footprint by improving the energy efficiency of its buildings and data centers, but an uptick in business growth means SAP is keeping a wary eye on its business travel.
  • It's No Cars Go In San Juan, Puerto Rico, Makeover
    The government has decided to infuse the city with $1.5 billion dollars to re-develop San Juan and, most of all, make it a walking city, with no cars allowed.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Official: Satellite Failure Means Decade of Global ...
    By John O’Sullivan US Government admits satellite temperature readings âdegraded.â All data taken offline in shock move. Global warming temperatures may be 10 to 15 degrees too high. The fault was first detected after a tip off from an anonymous member of the public to climate skeptic blog, Clim ...
  • 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 ...
  • How They do it and The Solution to their Evil Inte ...
    By Les Visible There are two reasons why Israel dominates American domestic and foreign policy. They control the mass media that gives the intentionally dumbed down American public their news and their world view. They control the money supply by controlling the central banks that issue currency via ...
  • A (Not Quite) Complete List Of Things Supposedly C ...
    Acne, agricultural land increase, Afghan poppies destroyed, Africa devastated, Africa in conflict, African aid threatened, African summer frost, aggressive weeds, air pressure changes, airport malaria, Agulhas current, Alaska reshaped, moves, allergy season longer, alligators in the Thames, Alps mel ...
  • Chemicals in water supply near Chicago linked to c ...
    A report by the Chicago Tribune has revealed that officials in the village of Crestwood, just outside Chicago, have been secretly introducing tainted well water into the town water supply for years. “I feel deceived,” village resident Tom Parkis said. For years before the story broke, town residents ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Chemicals and Obesity Speeding up Puberty in Girls ...
    The news that chemicals and obesity causes premature puberty in girls is the latest of thousands of red flags waving high above our food production and consumption status quo. Of course, things are changing, but are they changing fast enough? Nope. The only thing changing quickly is the level of t ...
  • 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 ...

Inhabitat

  • Yard-Scraper Seeks to Change the Face of Brooklyn ...
    Brooklyn is well known for its magnificent brownstones and tree lined streets, and compared to its Manhattan counterpart, it tends to stick with lower-height buildings. But a group of architects see something very different for this borough’s future. Designed by Rogers Marvel Architects, the Brookly ...
  • Fascinating Museum with Trees Growing Right From I ...
    Read the rest of Fascinating Museum with Trees Growing Right From Its Facadehttp://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: "living wall", Art, Au ...
  • Concrete Re-visioned at the Elegant Hanil Visitors ...
    Read the rest of Concrete Re-visioned at the Elegant Hanil Visitors Centerhttp://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: BCNO Architects, cement, ...
  • 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 ...
  • Morphosis’ New Perot Museum is Where Science and N ...
    Read the rest of Morphosis’ New Perot Museum is Where Science and Nature Meethttp://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: green museum, green r ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • New Titi Monkey Species Discovered In Amazon
    A newly discovered species of titi monkey purrs like a cat and looks like a leprechaun. Although it was first spotted in 1976 by biologist Martin Moynihan in the southern Caqueta province of Columbia, frequent armed conflict in the region has prevented scientists from being able to confirm its exis ...
  • Haiti Quake Occurred on Previously Unknown Fault
    IGUAÇÚ FALLS, Brazil — The devastating quake that slammed Haiti on January 12 occurred on a previously unrecognized fault zone, report scientists who are still trying to determine the implications for the region’s long-term seismic risk. The newly discovered fault hasn’t been officially named yet b ...
  • Citizen Scientists Make First Deep Space Discovery ...
    While your computer is running idle, it could be finding new pulsars and black holes in deep space. Three volunteers running the distributed computing program Einstein@Home have discovered a new pulsar in the data from the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope. Their computers, one in Iowa (owned by ...
  • Why Russians Don’t Get Depressed
    The saddest short story I’ve ever read is “The Overcoat,” by Gogol. (It starts out bleak and only gets bleaker.) The second saddest story is “Grief,” by Chekhov. (Nabokov famously sad that Chekhov wrote âsad books for humorous people; that is, only a reader with a sense of humor can really appreci ...
  • Planets Align for Best Meteor Shower of Year Thurs ...
    If you’re looking for low-tech star gazing action, Thursday night is the time to grab a blanket and head outside to watch the Perseid meteor shower. Just after sunset Thursday evening, Venus, Saturn, Mars and the crescent moon will huddle very close together in the western sky after months of movi ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Boosting Afghan Agriculture
    Spencer Ackerman reports on American efforts to boost agricultural productivity in Afghanistan : The rows on the farm were neat and parallel, just as they should appear: red tomatoes that started out as Iranian seeds; bulbous watermelons ripening on the vine; even peanuts. Peanuts aren’t typically ...
  • Clinton Calls Out GOP Obstruction for Putting ‘Our ...
    Yesterday, Secretary Clinton called out the Senate GOP on their efforts to obstruct or delay the New START treaty . She noted that this obstructionist effort has real national security consequences : This is a critical point. Opposing ratification means opposing the inspections that provide us a vit ...
  • Iraq's Military Requests US Forces Stay Until 2020
    Iraqi Chief of Staff Gen. Zebari Iraq’s Army Chief of Staff told Agence France Presse that the United States military needed to stay in Iraq until 2020 . General Babaker Zebari repeated an often made claim that Iraq’s security forces would not be ready until then to protect the country from e ...
  • Iraq's Military Requests U.S. Forces Stay Until 20 ...
    Iraqi Chief of Staff Gen. Zebari Iraq’s Army Chief of Staff told Agence France Presse that the United States military needed to stay in Iraq until 2020 . General Babaker Zebari repeated an often made claim that Iraq’s security forces would not be ready until then to protect the country from e ...
  • Imperial Empire Justifies Itself
    Prof Walt remarks upon the state of current affairs in Iraq : On the latter point, I hope you caught the delicious irony on General Ray Odierno's statement that U.S. forces in Iraq were now there "to prevent foreign powers from meddling with Iraq's new government" (h/t Yglesias and Greenwald) . ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Two Steps Forward, One Step Back.
    Sarah Blustain asks if women have the clout that they ought to in progressive politics : The disheartening news isn't limited to the fact that women's election to Congress has plateaued around 17 percent, putting the United States 84th in the world in terms of women's representation in the national ...
  • When Racial Slurs are the Least Racist Thing About ...
    A few days ago, Dr. Laura Schlessinger -- who still seems to have a radio show -- took a call from a distressed listener. The caller -- a black woman -- is in an interracial marriage with a white man, and is increasingly frustrated with the racist jokes and comments made by her husband's friends and ...
  • Broadband Adoption Flattening?
    (Flickr/ adrienneserra ) According to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, broadband adoption seems to have plateaued in the last year, after steady growth. The number of adults with broadband at home in this year's survey was 66 percent, not statistically different from las ...
  • Time To Re-Repeal the 18th Amendment.
    You've heard about the� conservative effort �to repeal the 14th amendment. It's never going to happen -- three-quarters of Congress and two-thirds of the states would need to get behind it -- but it sure does serve one purpose: Riling up the Republican base about illegal immigrants coming to America ...
  • Lightning Round: Future of American Politics Is Ex ...
    There's some debate in libertarian circles over whether libertarian-ish candidates are running away from the libertarian label, mostly prompted by this Rand Paul op-ed . David Boaz is optimistic that the public sympathizes with the libertarian agenda and Matt Welch sees progress being made given th ...

Buzzflash

  • Katrina Plus Five Years: The Devastation Continues ...
    BILL QUIGLEY, DAVIDA FINGER AND LANCE HALL FOR BUZZFLASH It will be five years since Katrina on August 29. The impact of Katrina is quite painful for regular people in the area. This article looks at what has happened since Katrina not from the perspective of the higher ups looking down from their ...
  • Toxic Nightmare: Where are the Tons of BP’s Oil-sp ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH � Municipal landfills, often located near majority minority communities, have become the final resting place for tons of toxic debris from BP’s Gulf Coast oil spill. What’s happening with the hazardous waste from the Gulf gusher – the biggest environmental disaster ...
  • Some Thoughts About The Non-Coffee Party and the R ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH Card players who reveal what they’re thinking All gamblers know all too well Accidentally put their cards on the table Because they have a “tell.” � Maybe they scratch their nose or blink a lot Maybe it’s a cigarette they’re puffing. Whatever it is manages to reveal to othe ...
  • What if Verizon Could Censor Your Telephone Conver ...
    PAUL ROGAT LOEB FOR BUZZFLASH Imagine if you were talking on the phone and Verizon or ATT decided they didn't like where your conversation was going. You'd be in the middle of a sentence and suddenly disconnected. Or maybe they didn't like the person you were talking to, or the subject. You'd be una ...
  • Religion as a Political Agenda
    Body Have we always been this crazy, our political aspirants so intellectually vapid and mendacious? Perhaps, but today’s rapid-fire communications network has made it more apparent then before or so it would seem. The Mark Twain advice that “it is better to keep your mouth shut and h ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • How propagandists function: Exhibit A
    Jeffrey Goldberg, in the new cover story in The Atlantic, on an Israeli attack on Iran : Israel has twice before successfully attacked and destroyed an enemy's nuclear program. In 1981, Israeli warplanes bombed the Iraqi reactor at Osirak, halting -- forever, as it turned out -- Saddam Huss ...
  • The Omar Khadr travesty
    The only real reason I�thought Robert Gibbs' comments yesterday merited a response is not because of the ephemeral melodrama it created -- the�White House said Fox-copying, mean things about the Left� -- but because of the "substantive" claim he made that comparisons of Bush and�Obama were so blatan ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Food & Water Watch Accepts Delay of Water Bond Unt ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 11, 2010 Food & Water Watch “Monday night, the California Legislature voted narrowly to postpone Proposition 18, the $11 billion water bond, to the 2012 ballot. This vote was an admission that the bond is wildly unpopular with voters — something that will not change i ...
  • Situation Room Scaremongering: CNN's Social Securi ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 11, 2010 FAIR The August 5 reports from the Social Security and Medicare trustees declared Social Security's long-term financial outlook mostly unchanged from the previous year, and the projections for Medicare were greatly improved from previous forecasts. But on CN ...
  • Would Google-Verizon Deal Hurt Innovation and Inde ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 11, 2010 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)   SUSAN CRAWFORD read more
  • 21 Percent Rise in Stop-and-Frisks for Second Quar ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 11, 2010 Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the statement below in response to a summary of stop-and-frisk statistics for April, May, and June 2010 made available to the press. CCR receives the complete raw ...
  • Insurance CEOs, after Pocketing $1 Billion, Push ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 11, 2010 US PIRG For months, lobbyists for big health insurers have mounted an all-out press to weaken a provision in federal law requiring that insurers spend 80% of health insurance premiums on care, not on themselves. Today’s report from Health Care for America Now, B ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Jobs Crisis: What Hit Us?
    by Bob Burnett The US is stuck in an economic quagmire featuring near ten percent unemployment.  As politicians argue about the solution - massive tax cuts or increases in Federal spending - what's missing is a succinct analysis of the problem.  Why has America lost 8 million jobs? read more
  • Guantánamo: A Prison That Stains US Moral Authorit ...
    Editorial/The Independent UK The barbed wire fences of Guantánamo's infamous Camp X-Ray have been reclaimed by tropical vegetation and the detainees have been released from their steel shackles. But, as our series of special reports this week highlights, there are still 176 men held in custody in op ...
  • Gibbs' Attack on Progressives Misses the Point Ent ...
    by Robert Kuttner ON TUESDAY, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs railed against what he called "the professional left.'' "They will be satisfied when we have Canadian health care and we've eliminated the Pentagon,'' he told The Hill, a Washington publication. "That's not reality.'' Later, Gibb ...
  • Global Warming and the Pakistani Flood
    by Matthew Rothschild It's impossible to look at the images coming out of Pakistan and not shake your head at the brutality of Mother Nature. But is it Mother Nature's fault-or our own? Is this just a freak occurrence, or the result of global warming? I was speaking with Brian Tokar this morning. He ...
  • Missing the Boat on Cuba
    by César Chelala On one of my visits to Cuba on UN-sponsored health-related missions I received one of my most useful foreign policy lessons from a young Cuban. On learning that my group came from the U.S., he told us, "Americans don't understand Cuban reality. They can get more changes in Cuba with ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Bankers Petroleum Announces Second Quarter Financi ...
    $56 Million Capital Investment in Albania in First Half 2010 CALGARY, Aug. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Bankers Petroleum Ltd. ("Bankers" or the "Company") (TSX: BNK, AIM: BNK) is pleased to provide its second quarter 2010 Financial and Operational Results, together with an operational update. The co ...
  • Doyon Utilities Chooses GE Intelligent Platforms E ...
    GE Intelligent Platforms today announced that Doyon Utilities, LLC of Fairbanks, Alaska, has embarked on a major multi-year project involving GE's Proficy Process Systems for a major utility privatization project
  • India: The Right to Food
    Supreme Court has ordered on the 27th of July, 2010, that not a single grain should be wasted and its should be distributed to the hungry, so I would like to give a call to all the people, dalit, adivasis that since the Government will never distribute ...
  • State Tallies Loss - or Gain - from Initiatives
    The state has released its findings on the financial impacts of six initiatives and a referendum facing voters this fall, and, in short, some of the measures, if passed, could cost taxpayers...
  • 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.

Guardian

  • German economy surge fuels eurozone growth
    • Germany's 2.2% growth helps eurozone to outpace US • Every eurozone country except Greece now out of recession • Euro strengthens, with potential threat to Europe's competitiveness The German economy grew at its fastest pace in the second quarter since the country was reunified two decades ago, f ...
  • Fox takes aim at military top brass
    Defence secretary says number of senior military officers could be reduced as Ministry of Defence faces 'difficult' cuts The number of senior military officers could be cut in an attempt to curb spending in the Ministry of Defence, the defence secretary, Liam Fox, said today. In a speech setting out ...
  • Tourists stranded as Sun4U collapses
    Birmingham-based firm Sun4U's demise leaves around 1,200 holidaymakers to find alternative means to return home The travel company Sun4U has collapsed, leaving around 1,200 holidaymakers abroad facing uncertainty as to how to return home. The Birmingham-based firm, believed to have been hit hard by ...
  • Philip Green to review spending cuts
    Government enlists fashion chain billionaire to head team of Cabinet Office and Treasury officials carrying out audit The government has asked Sir Philip Green, the billionaire owner of high street retail chains including Topshop and Dorothy Perkins, to carry out an external review of its drive to c ...
  • Experts call for David Kelly inquest
    Official cause of David Kelly's death is 'extremely unlikely', say group of legal and medical experts A group of prominent legal and medical experts today called for a full inquest into the death of the government scientist David Kelly in 2003. An inquest was suspended by Lord Falconer, then lord ch ...

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

  • Clinton Calls Out GOP Obstruction For Putting &#82 ...
    Yesterday, Secretary Clinton called out the Senate GOP on their efforts to obstruct or delay the New START treaty. She noted that this obstructionist effort has real national security consequences: This is a critical point. Opposing ratification means opposing the inspections that provide us a vital ...
  • Smoggy Senators Protest EPA Plan To Save Thousands ...
    In a startling act of fealty to polluter interests, several senators are fighting scientifically guided smog limits that would save thousands of lives a year. Under the guidance of administrator Lisa Jackson, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is working to clean up one of George W. Bush’s mos ...
  • Rubio Claims It’s ‘A Misnomer’ T ...
    Republicans have been defending their desire to preserve the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy — which the Obama administration would like to see expire at the end of the year — by falsely claiming that they will affect a multitude of small businesses. Florida’s Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio i ...
  • Insurers Lobbying To Weaken Regulations, Despite R ...
    Over the last several months, I’ve noted that even while the economy is in recession and a growing number of Americans are going without health insurance coverage, the big health insurers are posting higher profits. Americans are actually using less care — filing fewer claims — but still paying more ...
  • One Year Extension Of The Bush Tax Cuts For The Ri ...
    This week, the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation released an analysis of what would happen to the tax code if the Republican proposal to extend all of the Bush tax cuts were adopted. The tax cuts are scheduled to expire at the end of the year, and the Obama administration has proposed renewi ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • France Sues Group That Said France Would Do the Ri ...
    This story isn't hot off the presses, but I thought I'd bring it to the attention of anybody who didn't see it the first time around: A group of Canadian, US and French activists calling itself the Committee for the Reimbursement of the Indemnity Money Extorted from Haiti (CRIME) is taking credit ...
  • Free From Arbitrary Search and Seizure
    "Human Rights" are a legal construct. But our enjoyment of our human rights are one of the claims that Canada's rulers have to justify their legitimacy and our system's legitimacy. Unless we (at least) stand and be counted as saying that we protest the blatant violation of these rights (as occurred ...
  • I Agree With Andrew Sullivan! (Hat-tip to Brian!)
    So there's this pro-war putz named Brian Platt who I used to keep on my blog-roll as a source of decent-minded pro-war information until he turned out to be a dishonest, cowardly hack/crybaby. For a lark, I went to check out his response to the Wikileaks story and his first entry was some sputt ...
  • James
    James is my youngest boy and I think that he's going to be astonishingly good-looking. And the first time I heard this song, I got this idea in my head that he would unintentionally break somebody's heart when he got older. Just thinking of him off to university in 2030, ... doing his own thing . ...
  • Standing Up to the Financializers (Important Artic ...
    Once again, CounterPunch offers excellent analysis. (I've paid for their newsletter on occasion, but I can't right now.) Mark Weisbrot: " Hungary Defies IMF and European Authorities " This is the great fear among the defenders of European “pro-cyclical” policies – that is, policies that weaken the ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Blowing the Whistle on Corruption
    FBI whistleblower Jane Turner appeared on Fox Business last night to speak about her experience as a whistleblower. After twenty years as a FBI Special Agent, Jane Turner led efforts to force the FBI to provide protection for child sex crime victims on the North Dakota Indian Reservations.  In ret ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Newscaster Continues To Use Twitter To Connect Wit ...
    A few weeks back, I wrote about how a evening newscaster in Detroit named Stephen Clark was successfully embracing Twitter to break down the typical walls between newscaster and audience, and discovering some interesting things at the same time -- such as the fact that the community doesn't just wan ...
  • Research Claims Hackers Could Figure Out Your Smar ...
    There's all sorts of interesting security research being done out there, but sometimes you just sort of shake your head. A new report has come out that folks with fancy new smartphones that have large touchscreens may face a threat because the smudges left on the screen could indicate passwords . ...
  • French Court Orders ISPs To Block Gambling Website ...
    While there's a lot of attention being paid to the French "three strikes law," and the organization, Hadopi, that is planning a system for implementing it , it appears that another form of internet censorship is happening via the courts in France. Reader JJ sends over the news that ISPs in France a ...
  • Don't Put The Words 'Rugby' 'World' And 'Cup' Toge ...
    Not again. What is it with major international sporting events and governments' willingness to bend over backwards to give them extraordinary intellectual property protections? We all know about how the Olympics seems to always get intellectual property rights that go beyond any standard trademark ...
  • Company That Had The Largest Ever Credit Card Data ...
    Remember Heartland Payment Systems? It's the giant credit card clearinghouse that was involved in the largest ever security breach in terms of the number of credit card numbers exposed. They were successfully targeted by the same guys who had also set the previous record for largest credit card da ...

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

  • Who Will Notice?
    I met a Palestinian woman who came to the United States for her graduate degree.  She picked the U.S. because she wanted to see imperialism from the inside.  She wanted to understand the richest, most powerful country on earth.  Imagine her surprise when she learned that the kind of economic develop ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Waste as Resource: The Unintended Consequences of ...
    Image credit: Just for Sharing Ideas I was chatting with a friend who took objection to my post on anaerobic digestion . He had no problem with the concept of finding uses for waste, but cautioned that we often think uncritically about what happens next. After all, once you start using waste, i ...
  • Is This Ecotopia? Life at Findhorn Ecovillage (Vid ...
    Image credit: The Journey TV It's been a while since I checked in on The Journey TV —the travelling documentary project that brought us videos on an underused train station turned gardening hub , one man's efforts to restore 600 square miles of ancient forest ,
  • Solar Transforms School Performance in East Africa ...
    Image credit: Solar-Aid From the launch of SolarAid to the massive expansion of its SunnyMoney micro-finance operations , TreeHugger has been excited about this charity's work to harness clean technology for economic development. We've already seen a great video about how solar can be a life-sa ...
  • World's Sixth-Largest River Discovered Under the B ...
    This color-augmented 3-D radar image shows where the undersea channel enters the Black Sea from the Bosphorus. Photo by University of Leeds via the Daily Mail The broad and powerful Bosphorus defines Istanbul, splitting the city into two continents and solidifying its importance over centuries ...
  • The Week in Pictures: 17 Nations Beat All-Time Hea ...
    Here is a sweaty stat to start your weekend off right: This summer 17 nations have already set or matched their all-time heat records; not to mention an all-time hottest temperature for Pakistan, and possibly all of Asia. In other green news, NASA has launched Google phones into space as cheap s ...

Biosingularity

  • Exercise, calorie restrictions can rejuvenate olde ...
    Harvard researchers have uncovered a mechanism in mice through which caloric restriction and exercise delay some of the debilitating effects of aging by rejuvenating the connections between nerves and the muscles that they control. The research, published online by the journal Proceedings of the Nat ...
  • Researchers discover that gut bacteria affect mult ...
    Biologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have demonstrated a connection between multiple sclerosis (MS)—an autoimmune disorder that affects the brain and spinal cord—and gut bacteria. The work—led by Sarkis K. Mazmanian, an assistant professor of biology at Caltech, and postdoc ...
  • HIV prevention science scores a victory — th ...
    Today at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, members of the International Rectal Microbicide Advocates (IRMA) and thousands of other HIV advocates and scientists cheered a long-awaited, much anticipated success in the quest for new HIV prevention technologies. Researchers ann ...
  • Novozymes reveals knowledge on new antibiotic agai ...
    Scientists from Novozymes have now found the mechanism by which plectasin, an anti-microbial peptide, kills bacteria that cause severe infections in humans. Peptide antibiotics such as plectasin have retained antibiotic activity throughout evolution. The new knowledge shows that plectasin and other ...
  • First Self-Replicating, Synthetic Bacterial Cell C ...
    Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute JCVI, a not-for-profit genomic research organization, published results today describing the successful construction of the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cell. The team synthesized the 1.08 million base pair chromosome of a modified Mycoplas ...

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Pruning Shears

  • Raise Their Pay and Make Them Stay
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Congressional sessions have been in the news twice this week, and in both cases Republicans were opposed. Tuesday’s special session and the prospective lame duck session were both the object of bitter complaints. Neither was surpri ...
  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Battle Against Chicken Factory Farms Making Progre ...
    Erik Eckholm reported in today’s New York Times that, “Concessions by farmers in this state [Ohio] to sharply restrict the close confinement of hens, hogs and veal calves are the latest sign that so-called factory farming — a staple of modern agriculture that is seen by critics as inhumane and a thr ...
  • Italian Activists Storm Field, Crush GM Maize
    A group of 70 global activists on Monday staged a lightning strike against a field of genetically modified (GM) maize, crushing all the plants and effectively preventing their harvest. Click here to read this article
  • Trillions for War and Wall Street Subsidies, But $ ...
    Philip Brasher reported yesterday at the Green Fields Blog (The Des Moines Register) that, “Anti-hunger activists are criticizing Congress by rolling back food-stamp benefits to pay for saving teacher jobs and to fund higher spending on school lunches and other child nutrition programs. Click here t ...
  • BP's Bad Breakup: How Toxic Is Corexit?
    When the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, BP was presented with a stark choice: Let the oil float to the surface, reach the shore, and allow the world to see the full scope of the damage; or hit as much of the oil as possible with toxic substances called dispersants to break it up into trillions of t ...
  • Top 10 Reasons to Use Organic Cosmetics
    Non-Organic Cosmetics... 10. Fuel Oil Addiction 9. Spawn Super Bugs 8. Unleash Biocides 7. Contaminate Water 6. Make Us Fat 5. Speed Up Puberty 4. Increase Infertility 3. Cause Birth Defects 2. Give Us Cancer 1. Aren't Regulated Click here to read this article

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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

  • Media finally notices bank gouging and employment ...
    It’s maddening. For decades we’ve known how banks manipulate check processing so as to maximize overdraft fees. A federal judge has finally gotten around to noticing. Late Tuesday, a judge in California blasted Wells Fargo’s practice of processing larger checks and debit-card payments before smaller ...
  • Beaten, not bowed
    So here’s the deal here in Jinxville. 98.85% of the counties (86 out of 87) have reported their vote tallies, but that means 5.03% of the precincts are still outstanding. 432,086 votes have been cast so far on the Democratic side. Simple math would suggest there are 21,700 odd votes left to count. D ...
  • 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, [...]

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

  • A Psychiatrist Searches for Sanity in a Crazy Worl ...
    Book Review : Dr. Stuart Jeanne Bramhill, a psychiatrist with involvement in Seattle leftist politics describes her phone wiretaps, break-ins and attempts on her life. Chose to be locked away for 'observation' a week and medicated to keep license. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't � ...
  • Rich Countries Farm Subsidies Benefiting Royals
    Subsidies for agriculture in the industrialised countries of the world grew again in 2009, benefiting the largest companies and land owners, such as Prince Albert of Monaco and Queen Elizabeth of Britain. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Iran Propaganda Debunked in Under Seven Minutes
    Featured on a panel at the University of California, Riverside, Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio calmly and confidently debunks the accusations against Iran. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Pets Vital to Human Evolution Without cats ...
    Pets Vital to Human Evolution Without cats, dogs, cows and chickens, we may not have made it this far. Submitted by Vivien Green to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • GENETICALLY MODIFIED SOY LINKED TO STERILITY, INFA ...
    "This study," could end up as the understatement of this century. 91% of US soybean fields, problems in growth or reproduction.hamsters lost the ability to have babies,eating GM soy.reproductive disorders, mother rats fed GM soy died within three weeks Submitted by Tippers A. to Health & Wellness � ...

Angry Indian News

  • US wants Iraq to pay bill for war victims
    US wants Iraq to pay bill for war victims - Yahoo! News: "RAMADI, Iraq – Off a dusty street flanked by piles of rubble and bombed-out car skeletons, the Saleh family is rebuilding their home with... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Pingpu tribes demand recognition on UN indigenous ...
    Pingpu tribes demand recognition on UN indigenous day - CNA ENGLISH NEWSTaipei, Aug. 9 (CNA) About 30 Pingpu tribespeople gathered in front of the Presidential Office on the United Nations'... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Huge Oil Deposit Discovered in Northern Afghanista ...
    Huge Oil Deposit Discovered in Northern Afghanistan [tolonews.com] Officials in the Ministry of Mines and Industries say their studies have shown that a large deposit of oil with the capacity of 2... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Pingpu tribes demand recognition on UN indigenous ...
    Pingpu tribes demand recognition on UN indigenous day - CNA ENGLISH NEWSTaipei, Aug. 9 (CNA) About 30 Pingpu tribespeople gathered in front of the Presidential Office on the United Nations'... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Pingpu tribes demand recognition on UN indigenous ...
    Pingpu tribes demand recognition on UN indigenous day - CNA ENGLISH NEWS: "Taipei, Aug. 9 (CNA) About 30 Pingpu tribespeople gathered in front of the Presidential Office on the United Nations'... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Senate passes border security bill
    ShareThis Senate passes border security bill --Obama�expected to sign�measure, which will add 1,500 troops and immigration officials to beef up security along� border with Mexico 13 Aug 2010 Congress gave final approval Thursday to a $600-million 'border security' package that President Obama had so ...
  • Leaking Sarin Rocket Discovered at Kentucky Depot
    ShareThis Leaking Sarin Rocket Discovered at Kentucky Depot 12 Aug 2010 The U.S. Army said Tuesday a leaking sarin nerve agent-filled rocket had been discovered during inspections of chemical weapons storage structures at the Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky. "The low-level agent vapor was confined ...
  • BP renewed insurance policy to cover its directors ...
    ShareThis BP renewed insurance policy to cover its directors just ahead of rig explosion -- BP nears deal to continue drilling in Gulf of Mexico --BP was on Tuesday night close to safeguarding its future in the Gulf of Mexico as it neared a break-through deal aimed at smoothing relations with the Ob ...
  • Sen. Michael Bennet fends off primary challenge in ...
    ShareThis Sen. Michael Bennet fends off primary challenge in Colorado 11 Aug 2010 Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Wall Street) of Colorado turned back a sharp challenge from former state House speaker Andrew Romanoff on Tuesday night on a busy day of primaries that offered fresh clues about the anti-establis ...
  • As Gibbs Attacks Progressive Critics, ACLU Says Ob ...
    ShareThis As Gibbs Attacks Progressive Critics, ACLU Says Obama White House Enshrining Bush-Era Policies (Democracy Now!) 12 Aug 2010 As White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs attacks progressives for comparing President Obama’s polices to George W. Bush's, we look at a new ACLU report on how the ...

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

  • Arab students at Tel Aviv U are denied dorm space ...
    and other news from Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing 17 Palestinian homes, park declared illegal TULKAREM (Ma'an) -- Stop-work orders targeting 17 homes, a workshop, factory and municipal park were delivered to Tulkarem-area residents on Wednesday, village ...
  • Updated comments policy
    We've hit a couple of impasses on comments policy at this site in the last two years. Now we're at another. As the site has grown more popular, we've gotten more enthusiastic debate, but also more invective, profanity, and racism and anti-Semitism, all of which drive off reasonable people. We bounce ...
  • The borders of the Palestinian ’state’ ...
    An article this week in The Jerusalem Post suggested that "when the construction freeze in Judea and Samaria ends on September 26", Israeli PM Netanyahu intends to build mainly in the so-called settlement blocs "Israel will likely keep under an agreement with the Palestinians". Further down, the pie ...
  • Richard Cohen says that Arabs want to exterminate ...
    I get a circle-the-wagons feeling from Israel's defenders in Washington. Thomas Friedman's column the other day was unhinged, lumping Oliver Stone with the British Prime Minister, and not acknowledging what has changed world opinion, the slaughter of civilians and denial of human rights to Palestini ...
  • The hasbarapocalypse hits YouTube
    As first reported on Mondoweiss:

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

  • Waste as Resource: The Unintended Consequences of ...
    Image credit: Just for Sharing Ideas I was chatting with a friend who took objection to my post on anaerobic digestion . He had no problem with the concept of finding uses for waste, but cautioned that we often think uncritically about what happens next. After all, once you start using waste, i ...
  • Is This Ecotopia? Life at Findhorn Ecovillage (Vid ...
    Image credit: The Journey TV It's been a while since I checked in on The Journey TV —the travelling documentary project that brought us videos on an underused train station turned gardening hub , one man's efforts to restore 600 square miles of ancient forest ,
  • Solar Transforms School Performance in East Africa ...
    Image credit: Solar-Aid From the launch of SolarAid to the massive expansion of its SunnyMoney micro-finance operations , TreeHugger has been excited about this charity's work to harness clean technology for economic development. We've already seen a great video about how solar can be a life-sa ...
  • World's Sixth-Largest River Discovered Under the B ...
    This color-augmented 3-D radar image shows where the undersea channel enters the Black Sea from the Bosphorus. Photo by University of Leeds via the Daily Mail The broad and powerful Bosphorus defines Istanbul, splitting the city into two continents and solidifying its importance over centuries ...
  • The Week in Pictures: 17 Nations Beat All-Time Hea ...
    Here is a sweaty stat to start your weekend off right: This summer 17 nations have already set or matched their all-time heat records; not to mention an all-time hottest temperature for Pakistan, and possibly all of Asia. In other green news, NASA has launched Google phones into space as cheap s ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Election date announced
    The much anticipated date for the first election since 1990 has been announced, later than expected, it is however not lacking in numerological significance
  • Talking about my generation
    On the 10th International Day of Youth DVB reflects on a generation with the constraint of coming of age under the SPDC and trying to live with hope in the lonely wilderness of military rule
  • Na Kham Mwe: “we will pay with our lives&#82 ...
    On Karen Martyrs day, 60 years since Saw Ba U Gyi was martyred, DVB caught up with the leading dissenting voice against the Burmese military government’s Border Guard Force (BGF), DKBA commander Na Kham Mwe.
  • Election Commission ‘designates’ constituencies
    Government mouth-piece announces that the Election Commission has designated constituencies for this year's elections, as the bumpy road to the elections moves slowly forward
  • HRW: EU states should publicly support UN enquiry ...
    Human rights group calls on EU states to push for a commission of inquiry into the military's alleged war crimes & crimes against humanity

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

  • Pictures: Bushy-Bearded Titi Monkey Discovered
    NoneThe "fascinating" new species of monkey mates for life—and may be critically endangered by habitat loss in the Amazon rain forest. Endangered species - Amazon Rainforest - Habitat destruction - Biology - Flora and Fauna
  • Russia Fires, Pakistan Floods Linked?
    The ongoing, deadly Russian wildfires and Pakistan floods may be connected by powerful atmospheric forces that are being boosted by global warming, scientists say. Global warming - Wildfire - Pakistan - Environment - Opposing Views
  • 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

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Federal judge to lift stay on California same-sex ...
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California [official website] on Thursday refused to issue a stay pending appeal [order, PDF] on last week's decision overturning Proposition 8, the California ban on same-sex marriage [JURIST news archives]. Last week, Judge Va ...
  • Press group: South Africa media tribunal threat to ...
    [JURIST] The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) [official website] sent an open letter to South African President Jacob Zuma [official profile; JURIST news archive] on Wednesday expressing concerns over plans by the African National Congress (ANC) [party website] to create a special co ...
  • Texas AG challenges drilling moratorium
    [JURIST] Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott (R) [official website] on Wednesday filed a legal challenge [complaint, PDF] to the Obama administration's new offshore drilling moratorium [JURIST news archive], claiming it violates federal law. The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the South ...
  • Federal appeals court dismisses suit over Armenian ...
    [JURIST] A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit [official website] on Wednesday unanimously dismissed a lawsuit [opinion text] challenging the exclusion of materials questioning the Armenian genocide [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] from a school curriculum. The lawsuit [cas ...
  • Turkey to conduct investigation into flotilla raid
    [JURIST] The Turkish Foreign Ministry [official website] announced Wednesday that it will conduct an investigation [press release, in Turkish] into the May flotilla incident [JURIST news archive], in which Israeli forces raided several Turkish ships bound for the blockaded Gaza Strip [BBC background ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • White House, Bennet Moving in Opposite Directions
    Barack Obama's endorsement was a net plus for Michael Bennet's primary campaign, but less than 24 hours after Bennet's victory, the senator and the White House are at cross-purposes. Immediately after it became clear that Bennet would cruise to victory in Colorado, Democratic officials in Washingt ...
  • About Last Night: 5 Questions
    1. Will Ken Buck be a duct-tape-across-the-mouth Tea Party candidate, or will he find a way to incorporate Tea Party energy into a coherent and appropriate general election campaign for Senate in Colorado? 2. Will Michael Bennet ask Barack Obama to campaign for him in the general election? Does Ben ...
  • 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 something 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 true 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 ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • The Race for Ramat-Kal
    Every four years or so there is an amazing beauty contest that goes on inside Israel to determine who will be the next IDF chief of staff (Ramat-Kal in Hebrew).  It’s a cross between a U.S. presidential race and the naming of a new pope.  There’s no white smoke coming out of a chimney at [...] R ...
  • Links for 2010-03-30 [Digg]
    Overseas Media Begins Reporting Kam Case An Israeli journalist disappears into the maw of the intelligence services. A gag order prevents newspapers reporting the story. Only overseas media can do so, but they hesitate since so little is known. That's why blogs exist and that's the role that ...
  • Links for 2010-03-21 [Digg]
    Happy Passover: Settlers, Immigrants, and Jewish Values "You shall not oppress the stranger because you know the soul of the stranger for you yourselves were immigrants in the land of Egypt (Exodus 23:9)"
  • Shin Bet Releases Accused Jewish Terrorist, Pearlm ...
    Today, the Shin Bet released accused murderer Chaim Pearlman from prison after a judge refused to extend his detention for an additional eight days.  Such refusal is quite unusual in a judicial system which grants utmost deference to security considerations. Haaretz noted the news approvingly, as i ...
  • Netanyahu Rejects Return to 1967 Borders, Proximit ...
    Israeli rightists and those echoing their formulations are fond of saying about the Palestinians: “There is no partner for peace.”  Well, now the Palestinians can legitimately say the same about the current Israeli government.  Haaretz today reveals that Bibi Netanyahu, in George Mitchell’s latest ...

Ode Magazine

  • Embracing imperfection
    By: VictoriaKlein Sometimes, things need to be just so. Most of the time though, good (not great) is good enough. This doesn’t mean you are settling for second best or short-changing yourself – you’re being realistic, because people are imperfect. The As ...
  • Online group restores sense of abundance and conne ...
    By: Dalaimama Three months into my unemployment, a constricting sense of scarcity, isolation, and helplessness crept into me. It got me thinking about how our current economic model and consumer culture can promote an illusion of scarcity by limiting our p ...
  • A little sugar goes a long way
    By: VictoriaKlein My daily confession: I like sugar. No, scratch that – I love sugar. I’d wager that few folks have a sweet tooth stronger than mine. As you might expect, being so drawn to sweets has caused me some weight issues in the past (i.e. 40 pounds ...
  • Beyond organic
    Made famous by The Omnivoreâs Dilemma , Polyface Farm is the destination of choice for discerning tourists with a passion for great foodand sustainable agriculture. “I’m from a long line of out-of-the-box thinkers, and we’ve been on this lunatic train for a long, long time ...
  • Capitalism to the rescue!
    Whatâs the best way to fight poverty in the developing world? Treat people like producers and consumers, argues Bangladeshi entrepreneur Iqbal Quadir. Iqbal Quadir has nothing against low salaries. “That’s not a bad thing,” he says calmly, though his eyes are piercing. ...

OpEd News

  • Do Politicians Have to Hunt to Get Elected?
    Even though sport hunters account for only four percent of the nation -- not much more than vegetarians and considerably less than LGBTs -- many candidates, even dove candidates, feel compelled to don Blaze Orange and show the nation their Davy Crockett (or Annie Oakley) side.
  • The Jobs Crisis: What Hit Us?
    The US is stuck in an economic quagmire featuring near ten percent unemployment. As politicians argue about the solution - massive tax cuts or increases in Federal spending - what's missing is a succinct analysis of the problem. Why has America lost 8 million jobs?
  • Danny Schechter Dissects Wall Street in "Plunder: ...
    We don't teach financial literacy in our schools. Money is a mystery for most of us.We think that when you put money in a bank,it sits in a safe until you take some out. That's not the way it works. Our media is at fault because it's increasingly reliant on advertising from the finance sector-- lend ...
  • There is no "Professional Left" on Cable
    Maybe it's because there is no "Professional Left" on cable. This bickering between cable outlets is designed to keep the American people separated and entwined in "straw man" issues while the real problems of the militarization of the United States goes on and we stay embroiled in a kind of economi ...
  • Countdown To Collapse: The Recovery Is Not Recover ...
    There seems to be more fury on the left with Robert Gibbs than the collapsing Economy. That's not a good thing writes Danny Schechter

Switchboard

  • Instantly see average transportation costs, emissi ...
    The latest in the snazzy series of useful tools and research on housing and transportation published by the Center for Neighborhood Technology is called Abogo .  It works like Walk Score : you enter an address and the site produces a GIS-coded map and data for that address, including t ...
  • China Environmental News Alert
    NRDC has been working in China for over twelve years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental governance and public participation, and green supply chain issues. This China Environmental News Alert is a weekly compilation of news fr ...
  • Gulf Coast Disaster - Thursday, August 12
    Day 115 Highlights in this issue - Another false weather alarm in Gulf - Is the relief well really needed? - Feinberg hires firm to administer oil spill claims - Fake fishermen filing for compensation This afternoon’s summary Drilling of the relief well and the Gulf oil cleanup are e ...
  • Lawsuit to Compel Clean Air in Los Angeles
    Today, NRDC and the Coalition for a Safe Environment filed a lawsuit in Federal Court in Los Angeles against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its failure to ensure that California complies with the Clean Air Act.  One of EPA’s main responsibilities under the Clean Air ...
  • The little brown bat and the big white problem
    Last week a new study came out that predicts the regional extinction of the little brown bat from the eastern United States due to the emerging fungal pathogen called white-nose syndrome.  As we have detailed here in the past, white-nose syndrome is a mysterious disease that has caused ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Speaking of the Geneva Conventions…
    Yesterday was the anniversary of their signing, and Shadow Government’s John John B. Bellinger III has a piece worth reading this week: Today, 12 August, is the 61st anniversary of the signing of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, the international treaties designed to protect soldiers and civilians du ...
  • The Revelations, They… Don’t Seem Very ...
    Michael Oren and Yossi Halevi: An Israeli assault could only delay Iran’s nuclear program, not eliminate it. That’s because Israel cannot sustain an air campaign against such remote targets for days on end. This can only be accomplished by the United States, perhaps together with NATO allies, by mou ...
  • Again With Wikileaks
    OK, I know some of you are sick to death wearying of the Wikileaks story. A few commenters have argued that I’ve already spent a disproportionate amount of time on it. (What can I say? I follow stories more closely when they happen to dovetail precisely with at least three of my five areas of [...] ...
  • Thickfreakness
    Dear Ross Douthat: Please, for the love of Christ, desist from using the word “thick.” cheers, Everybody in the World Related posts:A Minor Correction Win-Win Reactionary Hack of the Day Related posts: A Minor Correction Win-Win Reactionary Hack of the Day
  • Thanks to Peter Kirsanow…
    …you can now purchase a 100-proof version of your favorite overblown conservative rhetoric. (After all, he is clearly, and spectacularly, drunk on it.) Related posts:Drunk Peter the Great on the Way! I Always Suspected That Peter Mandelson Was a Wanker Related posts: Drunk Peter the Great on t ...

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.

  • Hollywood couple get six months in prison in bribe ...
    A federal judge sentenced a Beverly Hills, Calif., film producer and his wife to six months in prison and six months home confinement each in the first criminal case involving FCPA charges against individuals in the entertainment industry.
  • SUPREME COURT REVIEW: Sizing up the Supreme Court' ...
    A panel of practitioners who argued before the Supreme Court last term gathered on July 7 for our ninth annual review of the Supreme Court term.
  • 1st Circuit: Removal of materials disputing Armeni ...
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit recently ruled that a Massachusetts education agency's decision to remove materials disputing the existence of an Armenian genocide from a curriculum guide did not violate the First Amendment.
  • Hunton & Williams sued for $150 million in contrac ...
    Hunton & Williams has been hit with a $150 million lawsuit in Wisconsin claiming that the law firm maliciously squeezed a broker out of a contract and should pay up for the company's losses.
  • University of Florida forms oil spill task force
    A group of professors and students at the University of Florida Levin College of Law is researching legal and policy questions related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The working group is focusing on admiralty law, federal environmental law, state law and government policies, and examining the e ...

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

  • New Species of Monkey Discovered in Remote Colombi ...
    A new species of titi monkey has been discovered in the Colombian Amazon, according to a report in the journal Primate Conservation . Scientists from the National University of Colombia say they discovered the monkey , dubbed the Caquetá titi ( Callicebus caquetensis ), during an expedition in the D ...
  • 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 ...
  • China to Close 2,000 Factories In Drive to Improve ...
    The Chinese government has ordered the closure of 2,087 aging steel and cement mills and other factories in an aggressive push to improve the country’s energy efficiency. The closings — which target “backward” facilities that produce steel, coke, paper, and other products — are part of a drive to re ...
  • The Legacy of the Gulf Spill: What to Expect for t ...
    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 ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Author and Researcher Laurence Gardner Has Passed
    We're sad to announce that author and Red Ice Radio guest Laurence Gardner has died after battling illness for a long time. This was reported by William Henry to Whitley Streiber's Unknown Country website. Laurence was the author of "Bloodline of the Holy Grail", "the Grail Enigma", "Genesis Of The ...
  • Ancient language mystery deepens
    A linguistic mystery has arisen surrounding symbol-inscribed stones in Scotland that predate the formation of the country itself. "The carvings must have some kind of purpose - some kind of meanings, but... it’s very difficult to determine if their conclusion is contained in the raw data or if it’s ...
  • Russia fires pose nuclear threat
    The Russian government warned on Thursday (6 August) that raging wildfires could pose a nuclear threat to neighbouring countries, with the natural disaster already spilling across Russian borders in terms of food markets. Russian emergencies minister Sergei Shoigu said heat from fires near the front ...
  • Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images
    Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial images after all. The U.S. Marshals Service admitted this week that it had surreptitiously saved tens of thousands of images recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse.
  • Google denies testing out unmanned spy drones
    Google has denied reports that it is looking to use unmanned flying spy drones to augment its Street View and Maps features in the future. Earlier news reports claimed that Google was working with one German manufacturer, Microdrones with the latter company claiming to have sold an unmanned flying d ...

Russia Today

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

  • Jung the Occultist
    When people discuss Carl Gustav Jung, it’s generally about his famous split with Freud in 1912, or his theory of cultural archetypes. But as I’ve been reading about him lately through his 21st Century disciples (Christopher Knowles and Christopher O’Brien..hmm..”Christophers”…), the theory of archet ...
  • Google and the NWO
    By now most folks have heard about the Google and Verizon deal to create a multi-tiered Internet and eliminate Net Neutrality. That news alone is disheartening. Now there’s proof that Google is going to end street privacy, under the guise of ‘street mapping’: Citing a German news report, Techeye.ne ...
  • 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 ...

Tippers News

  • victim got a more severe sentence than the rapist. ...
    Not all women are as sexty iin India. In a lonely room in a crowded Mumbai hospital, the woman turning 60 today remains trapped in the perennial midnight hour into which she was pushed on November 27, 1973. Do her a favour. Wish her a happy deathday. Submitted by Riyaz ul Rehman W. to World �|� �No ...
  • Never ending Tragedies-Kashmir remembers Chota Baz ...
    It was on this date in 1991 that 28 civilians were shot and killed by the paratroopers of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) at Srinagar's Chotta Bazar.This is one in many of masscre in Indian Controlled kashmir Submitted by Riyaz ul Rehman W. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Unfortunate Mothers of Conflict Zones Of India
    In India,from Kashmir to Manipur in the Conflict Zone,it is Women and Children who Pay the price often a heavy one.It is Conflict which cascade from one Generation to another.see the Unfortunate women and theirs sons ,Their Tale will moist your eyes. Submitted by Riyaz ul Rehman W. to World �|� �N ...
  • Killing Fields of South Asia.
    In a dangerous pattern, 12 persons, mostly teenagers, were killed since January this year in disproportionate use of force mainly by Indian paramilitary CRPF troopers while maintaining law and order.This is done Under a draconian law Called AFSPA. Submitted by Riyaz ul Rehman W. to World �|� �Note ...
  • Over 2.5 million Muslims threaten to quit Facebook ...
    Angry over the removal of certain Islamic pages from Facebook ,over 2.5 million Muslim have threatened to quit the social networking website.FB had removed four extremely popular Islamic pages from the website,including 'I love Mohammed" & "Quran Lovers'' Submitted by Riyaz ul Rehman W. to World �| ...

The Freeman

  • Border-Security Bill to Be Signed by Obama
    “President Obama will sign a bill Friday that provides $600 million in emergency funding to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border.” (CNN, Friday) Another inconvenience for motivated, ambitious people looking for a better life. FEE Timely Classic “Borders and Liberty” by Andrew P. Morriss
  • Government Employees’ Pay Outpaces Private Sector
    “At a time when workers’ pay and benefits have stagnated, federal employees’ average compensation has grown to more than double what private sector workers earn, a USA TODAY analysis finds.” (USA Today, Wednesday) The parasitic class. FEE Timely Classic “Government-Sector Unionism” by Charles W. Bai ...
  • Who’s Afraid of Socialism?
    It is not obvious to me a priori that the American variant of the welfare state is superior in every respect to the European variant.
  • Recovery Sputtering All Over
    “As economic recovery wavers in the United States, evidence is mounting that growth abroad is also slowing and may be unable to sustain the fragile rebound here.” (New York Times, Thursday) Hello? Haven’t the politicians failed? FEE Timely Classic “Keynesian Budgets Threaten Recovery” by Hans F. Sen ...
  • Home-Equity Loan Delinquency Climbs
    “During the great housing boom, homeowners nationwide borrowed a trillion dollars from banks, using the soaring value of their houses as security. Now the money has been spent and struggling borrowers are unable or unwilling to pay it back.” (New York Times, Thursday) More fallout from the governmen ...

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

  • Senate fails black farmers again
    Despite repeated promises to take action, the U.S. Senate adjourned for summer recess without funding the federal discrimination settlement for black farmers. "All we have heard are words from the Senate," said John W. Boyd Jr., a third-generation farmer from Virginia and president and fo ...
  • Lessons from the Gulf: How can we better prepare f ...
    "Strictly speaking, there are no such things as natural disasters." So reads the U.N.'s International Strategy for Disaster Reduction , which lays out how countries can better prepare for things like hurricanes, tsunamis or other catastrophes. As the U.N. points out, there are only "natural hazards" ...
  • Obama administration sued over secrecy surrounding ...
    After President Obama announced back in February that his administration would provide $8.3 billion in taxpayer-financed loan guarantees to the Southern Company to build two new nuclear reactors at its Plant Vogtle in Georgia, the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy sought details about the deal unde ...
  • 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 ...

Survival International

  • Abducted Dongria Kondh released
    Lodu Sikaka was released three days after his abduction. © Survival The two Dongria Kondh tribesmen abducted by gunmen on Monday have both been released. Sena Sikaka was dumped at the side of the road on Tuesday evening, while Lodu Sikaka was released yesterday. Lodu and Sena both claim thei ...
  • UN expert demands governments enforce indigenous r ...
    Innu children, Canada. The Canadian government does not yet support the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. © Serge Jauvin/Survival The UN expert on Indigenous Peoples, Professor James Anaya , has challenged governments to respect international standards for tribal rights. Spea ...
  • Hundreds of Brazilian Indians gather for protest
    The gathering will highlight the plight of the Guarani. © João Ripper/Survival Hundreds of Brazilian Indians from across the country are gathering to highlight the killing of their leaders, the theft of their land for industrial projects, and other threats to their survival. Around 800 India ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Politico notices Hispanics Leaving Democrats
    This is something I’ve been on about for a while, because the Hispanic activists I know are almost all absolutely livid about Democrats in general and Obama in specific.  The reason isn’t just that comprehensive immigration reform appears dead in the water, it’s that Obama not only continued Bush’s ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

Age of Autism

  • Child with Autism and Mom with Multiple Sclerosis
    By Sarah Lapinski Does your child have autism? Do you have MS? No one talks about it, but there seems to be a link, a link between parents of children with autism being diagnosed with MS. I can’t find anyone...
  • Dr. Nancy Snyderman: Using Fear & Prejudice to Att ...
    Read a Never Before Published Partial Transcript of the May 12, 1986 Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). HERE Parents of babies, who died following DPT vaccine reactions or were been brain injured, questioned the Committee 25...
  • Dr. Andrew Wakefield on The Len and Joe Radio Prog ...
    Dr. Wakefield will be on the Len and Joe show today from 3-4 pm Eastern time to discuss his book Callous Disregard. You can call the show at 877-427-5774. Visit www.lenandjoe.com for details.
  • Bugzy and the Rabies Shot
    By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. (Author's note - Since we're in the dog days of summer and I need to let several brewing stories develop on their own timetable I submit the following shaggy dog story.) As a science teacher my...
  • Autism and Heavy Metals: An Interview With Mary Ca ...
    By J.B. Handley “I am sure that only an open debate, searching for new mechanisms and many more experiments may solve the problem of what caused the rise of the incidence of autism that is becoming more and more real...

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Reclusive Myanmar sets date for elections
    Reuters – Myanmar will hold its first parliamentary elections in two decades on November 7, state media said on Friday, ending speculation over the timing of a poll criticized by rights groups as a sham to entrench military power. The United States, Britain and human rights groups have said the elec ...
  • Russia’s LUKOIL resumes gasoline supply to I ...
    Reuters – Russian oil giant LUKOIL (LKOH.MM: Quote) has resumed gasoline sales into Iran in partnership with China’s state-run firm Zhuhai Zhenrong, even as the United States urges the international community to be tough with Tehran. Iran is the world’s fifth-largest oil exporter but lacks adequate ...
  • German economy sees ‘record’ growth of ...
    BBC – The German economy grew by 2.2% in the three months to the end of June, its fastest quarterly growth in more than 20 years, official figures show. “Such quarter-on-quarter growth has never been recorded before in reunified Germany,” the national statistics office, Destatis, said. The main reas ...
  • Firefight kills civilian woman in southern Afghani ...
    CNN – An Afghan woman was shot and killed during a firefight between coalition forces and insurgents in the country’s south, NATO’s International Security Assistance Force reported Thursday. Read Article
  • Fallible DNA evidence can mean prison or freedom
    New Scientist – You are the juror: would you trust DNA evidence? Most people regard it as near infallible- it produces the right result or no result, exonerating the innocent and securing convictions where other evidence fails. But DNA is not as objective as you might think. In the first of a two-pa ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Gulf oil spill victims applaud choice of New Orlea ...
    A federal judicial panel's decision to consolidate lawsuits arising from the gulf oil spill in New Orleans has been praised by lawyers representing victims who have lost livelihoods and loved ones in the environmental disaster. Commercial fishermen, gulf shore property...
  • 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...

Mark I. Moore | Deepwater Horizon

spiked

Cryptogon

  • 2010 Bohemian Grove Membership List and Maps
    Via: NorCal Truth Upload to ScribD: To view clearly, you must downlaod this document. This list is now available for public research. Not all who visited the Bohemian Grove in 2010 are listed, only members. Example: Arnold Schwarenegger is not listed – yet visited and gave a lakeside talk. — More at ...
  • Pat Tillman’s Father To Army Investigator: & ...
    Via: Huffington Post: “You are a General,” Tillman’s father writes Jones after being presented with a briefing book of his findings. “There is no way a man like you, with your intelligence, education, military, experience, responsibilities (primarily for difficult situations), and rank… believes the ...
  • Georgia: Thirty Thousand People Show Up at Shoppin ...
    Holy shit. Via: Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Thirty thousand people turned out in East Point on Wednesday seeking applications for government-subsidized housing, and their confusion and frustration, combined with the summer heat, led to a chaotic mob scene that left 62 people injured. At the Tri-Ci ...
  • CNN/Fortune: “Is this finally the economic c ...
    Via: CNN: The Great Depression. Wall Street in 1987. Japan in 1997. Points of economic collapse are generally crystal clear in the rear-view mirror. Professional politicians in Japan have been telling stories for 20 years as to why they can prevent economic stagnation. In the US, the storytelling st ...
  • U.S. Judge OKs Confession Extracted by Threatening ...
    Via: Raw Story: In one of the first military commissions held under the Obama administration, a US military judge has ruled that confessions obtained by threatening the subject with rape are admissible in court. The case involves Omar Ahmed Khadr, a citizen of Canada who was apprehended in Afghanist ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 22 Statistics About America’s Coming Pension ...
    As the first of the 80 million Baby Boomers have begun to retire, it has become increasingly apparent that the United States is facing a pension crisis of unprecedented magnitude.  State and local government pension plans are woefully underfunded, dozens of large corporate pension p ...
  • 50 Random Facts That Make You Wonder What In The W ...
    Our world is changing at a pace that is so staggering these days that it can be really hard to fully grasp the significance of what we are witnessing.  Hopefully the collection of random facts below will help you to "connect the dots" just a little bit.  On one level, the facts belo ...
  • It’s A Great Time To Be A New College Gradua ...
    Today, America's best and brightest are graduating from college full of hopes and dreams, but cold, hard economic reality is rapidly crushing many of them.  Record numbers of college graduates cannot find jobs.  Hordes of others have been forced to take very low paying service jobs. ...
  • Will Thousands Of Police Layoffs Unleash Chaos And ...
    Thousands of police officers have been laid off all across America since the current economic crisis began.  Thousands more are getting ready to be laid off.  So could we be on the verge of a new era of chaos and anarchy in America as crime runs wild and there are just far too few p ...
  • Will Quantitative Easing By The Federal Reserve Un ...
    Prior to the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008, the Federal Reserve could always count on being able to stimulate the U.S. economy with a quick cut to interest rates.  But now with interest rates just barely above zero, the Federal Reserve is searching for other ways to pump life in ...

Desertification

  • Despite ongoing rains still widespread food gaps ( ...
    Read at : IRIN http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=90154 DJIBOUTI: Widespread food gaps despite ongoing rains NAIROBI, 13 August 2010 (IRIN) – The northwest and southeast regions of Djibouti should receive good rains from July to September, but thousands of pastoralists will still need … Co ...
  • Monitoring of Desertification in Inner Mongolia Ba ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/ICIC.2010.267 2010 Third International Conference on Information and Computing Monitoring of Desertification in Inner Mongolia Based on MODIS Data Wuxi, Jiang Su, China June 04-June 06 ISBN: 978-0-7695-4047- ...
  • JRC-IES: UNCCD Regional Reference Center on Desert ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/index.cfm?id=2820&dt_code=HLN&obj_id=516 Desertification: JRC-IES nominated UNCCD Regional Reference Center The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has established 15 Reference Centres worldwide on the basis ...
  • Poverty and chronic food insecurity: although more ...
    When reading the former posting on this blog (NGO News Africa 2010-11-13 : Zimbabwe: External Help Raises Food Production but Some Still Hungry), my attention was drawn to some of the facts described in a joint report of the FAO … Continue reading →
  • Zimbabwe: More cereals, but reduced diversity of c ...
    Read at : NGO News Zimbabwe: External Help Raises Food Production but Some Still Hungry An estimated 1.68 million Zimbabweans still require agricultural assistance and food aid despite an improvement in the country’s food production thanks to Government efforts and … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

  • ENVIRONMENT: BP to Pay Record Fine, Spend $500M to ...
    BP will pay a $50.6 million penalty and spend at least $500 million to upgrade its Texas City, Texas, refinery where a 2005 explosion killed 15 workers.
  • MONEY & POLITICS:  Chamber of Commerce, O ...
    What do the U.S. Chamber of Commerce , the Business Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC), and the new American Crossroads group have in common this summer?
  • 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 ...

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

  • HODGSON: MASCH DASH NOT IMMINENT
    Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson insists he does not want Javier Mascherano to leave the club and that new signing Christian Poulsen has not been brought in as a replacement for the Argentinian. Poulsen was presented to the media after signing a three-year contract following his �4.5million move f ...
  • Back-to-school savings
    August 13, 2010: 10:11 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- It's that time of year again ... back to school time! And for anyone with kids, that means shopping for everything from new clothes to notebooks to lunch boxes. Parents will spend an average of $606 to send just one child back to school th ...
  • IBM Agrees to Buy Unica for $480 Million
    Filed at 10:08 a.m. ET NEW YORK (AP) -- IBM Corp. said Friday it has agreed to buy Unica Corp., a marketing services company, for $480 million, or $21 per share. The acquisition brings IBM deeper into the advertising business, a relatively new area for the company. In June it agreed to buy Core ...
  • Katy Perry Prefers Gay Bars, Loves Lady Gaga ...
    Katy Perry recently opened up in an interview with The Advocate and talked about Lady Gaga, going to gay bars, and marriage equality. On her recent Twitter controversy with Lady Gaga: ADVOCATE: After you tweeted, “Using blasphemy as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling a fart joke,” ...
  • Lee-Hesh in India’s CWG tennis team
    New Delhi: Multiple Grand Slam winners Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi were named in India’s men’s squad for the Commonwealth Games. The four-strong team, which has Somdev Devvarman and Rohan Bopanna as the other two members, was announced after a meeting of the selection committee, headed by ...

Alex in Wonderland

  • Daily Briefing—12th-13th Aug 2010
    News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
  • Ameri-Paki-Talistan (Video)
    Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, the husband-wife couple behind Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story (2009) and Crossing Zero: The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire (2010), recently discussed the C.I.A connections with Afghan militant networks through Pakistani intellig ...
  • Weekend Briefing—30th July-1st Aug 2010
    News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
  • Daily Briefing—11th Aug 2010
    News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
  • 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 ...

MY Daily Apple

  • Avandia Approval: FDA's Drug-Safety Protection in ...
    A TIME investigation of Avandia's journey from lab to pharmacy reveals serious flaws in the way the Food and Drug Administration protects consumers from harmful medicines
  • Superbug with new gene found in Scotland
    A CASE of a new drug-resistant bacteria that could lead to the end of antibiotics was diagnosed in Scotland last year, health experts have revealed. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)
  • Fears over £65bn 'NHS mortgage'
    The NHS in England is facing a £65bn bill for its new stock of hospitals, figures obtained by the BBC indicate.
  • [Book Review] Exhibitions: Skin Overlooked
    An exhibition at London's Wellcome Collection offers a variety of thought-provoking perspectives on skin, ranging from 16th-century anatomy to contemporary art; Lovric's novel is provoking on its own. Author: Caroline Ash
  • Correction
    The News Feature 'Inside the hothouses of industry' (Nature 466, 548–551; 2010) contained an incorrect statement about Monsanto's partnership with the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF). Monsanto has granted the AATF a perpetual royalty-free licence to its technology for developing d ...

Common Dreams

  • Errant Climate May Be Sign of Breakdown, Scientist ...
    by Charles J. Hanley NEW YORK — Floods, fires, melting ice, and feverish heat — from smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Iowa and the High Arctic, the planet seems to be having a midsummer breakdown. It is not just a portent of things to come, scientists say, but a sign of troubling climate chang ...
  • Congress Spends Another $600 Million for Border Mi ...
    by Julianna Hing Now we know: Congress can pass an immigration bill in two days if it really wants to. The Senate just passed another $600 million for border security after Senators Chuck Schumer and Claire McCaskill proposed it last week . The House returned this week from summer recess to appr ...
  • Why is the World Unmoved by the Plight of Pakistan ...
    by Andrew Buncombe Surrounded by brown, fast-shifting water on all sides, the 40 or so families in the village-turned-island had received no food, no medicine and no news as to when they might be rescued. "We're dying of hunger," shrieked the woman, Sughra Bibi, as volunteers on the boat handed over ...
  • 99ers Rally For Unemployment Extension
    by Annie Lowery After 99 weeks, or more, of unemployment, traveling to a political rally is a luxury. Across the country, thousands of 99ers, Americans who have exhausted the maximum weeks of unemployment benefits, have written letters or called Congress advocating for legislation extending bene ...
  • UN Chief May Be Heading for Showdown with Israel
    by Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS - 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Is a Cohesive Energy Vision for Canada Possible in ...
    June 2010 marked the sixth consecutive year of minority government rule in Canada, the second longest run of consecutive minority governments in Canadian history (second only to an nine year stretch in the 1920s).� While the past six years have produced an ample serving of political drama, the legis ...
  • Hyundai Solar Coming to Arizona in a Big Way
    Hyundai solar power plant, Spain
  • By Executive Order
    I recently ran across a mention in the New York Times of a new study suggesting a variety of energy and climate measures the administration could undertake on their own, without requiring new legislation passed by Congress. I've been thinking about this during some long stretches of driving this wee ...
  • Solar power shines on U.S. Manufacturing Council
    In announcing his new appointments to the U.S. Manufacturing Council yesterday, Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke singled out the Council’s new leader, Bruce Sohn. First Solar's Bruce Sohn
  • DOE: Strengthening America’s Energy Future through ...
    America’s energy crisis could be worsened by �a looming education crisis. � The DOE, as well as AEL, have expressed concern in the past over a lack of education and work force training in energy related fields.

Green House - USA Today

  • Has the Gulf well been killed?
    BP will conduct a pressure test on the well's condition to determine if the company needs to go through with the "bottom kill" procedure or if the "top kill" has already done the job of killing the Gulf of Mexico well, the U.S. point man on the spill response said Thursday.
  • Report: Bottled water increasingly comes from the ...
    As U.S. sales of bottled water decline, a report today finds that almost half of those n PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic bottles now come from municipal tap water.
  • Markey asks BP to stop 'low-balling' oil flow esti ...
    Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., sent a letter to BP Wednesday, asking for the company to publicly accept the government's latest flow rate estimate as a basis to determine how much it may pay in fines.
  • Dumpster swimming takes off on New York City's Par ...
    New York City is offering its residents, for the first time, the chance to swim (but not dive) in repurposed garbage dumpsters on -- of all places -- Park Avenue.
  • LED lighting expands to Habitat for Humanity homes
    As competition for LED lighting expands, new Habitat for Humanity homes for the low-income are benefitting. One such house broke ground this weekend in Durham, N.C. that will have only LED fixtures.

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

  • Snow in Brazil! Millions of Dead Fish, Alligators, ...
    from: Lisa Long The tropical part of South America seem to be experiencing a mini ice age. Who would have thought of that? Fishes, alligators, turtles, dolphins.. dying of freezing temperatures in Bolivia (see video). Could the breaking down of the Gulf Loop Current be the reason . The Gulf Loop Cu ...
  • From Goldstone to Uribe
    by Stephen Lendman Despite a credible start, the fix is in. Expect justice again to be denied. After the Gaza War (Operation Cast Lead), the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) appointed Justice Richard Goldstone to lead an independent four-person fact-finding Commission to investigate human rights an ...
  • The Checking Account Scam - How Wells Fargo Gouged ...
    By Numerian posted by Michael Collins We’ve often talked here about the bank practice of extracting equity from customer accounts. Now comes a 90 page ruling from Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California against Wells Fargo Bank, showing in detail exactly how the bank engaged i ...
  • Net Neutrality Threatened
    by Stephen Lendman This article follows two previous ones, accessed through the following links: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2009/11/struggle-for-net-neutrality.html http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/07/under-threat-free-and-open-internet.html Free Press.net is a national, nonpartisa ...
  • AMERICAN IRAQ VET SAYS - ENOUGH, NO MORE!
    Allen L Roland The illegal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan will only end when the Veterans themselves take a stand against the out of control Military Industrial Complex and greed driven financial elite, as Iraq Vet Mike Prysner has, and say ~ Enough, No More! WH Press Secretary Robert ...

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

  • Taliban Execute Pregnant Woman
    Taliban Execute Pregnant Woman | Huffington Post Taliban execute pregnant woman. Taliban insurgents flogged and publicly executed a pregnant Afghan widow for alleged adultery Saturday, according to reports. The woman, Sanum Gul (also reported as Bibi Sanubar by DAWN), was killed in Badghis province ...
  • Palin Joins Armey
    Palin Joins Armey as Lifelong Republicans Boost Tea Party Hostile Takeover | Bloomberg The pitch came at the end of Rand Paul’s conference call with 2,000 potential supporters: Go online to donate to Paul, the Kentucky Republican Senate candidate who is courting Tea Party activists. Or press seven t ...
  • Pittsburgh in the 60’s
    What can you do when you can’t do anything? We’ve all been there. You know those times, whether days or weeks or months, when there really isn’t a good solution to a problem or there is one but you can’t get people to see it as you can. Are there stages of acceptance like there are [...]
  • Europe can’t even be bothered to hate America any ...
    Post-Anti-Americanism | Newsweek You can still buy an American newspaper at the kiosk in Rome’s Piazza Colonna, but you have to ask the lady behind the counter. She turns from the window, paws through a stack on the floor, and produces an International Herald Tribune, holding it at arm’s length like ...
  • Legalization? That’s Crazy… Crazy Like ...
    Vicente Fox backs Mexico drugs legalisation | BBC Former Mexican president Vicente Fox has called for the legalisation of drugs, arguing that prohibition has failed to curb rising drug-related violence and corruption. Mr Fox said legalisation did not mean that drugs were good. But he said it was a s ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • Ira’s Ghost, Another Space Mystery …
    Ever since my “Hanny’s Voorwerp” post I’ve had my eye open for more cosmic mysteries. There’s a fair number of them actually, I also covered the Axis of Evil and Dark Flow as well. And there’s many more to be found no doubt. The Universe is a big place, and the Hubble Telescope has only [...]
  • 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 ...

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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 ...

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