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Sunday, August 15, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Food Cartels Feast on Ramadan Profits
    Opportunistic food traders have been blamed for soaring food prices across the Middle East that have added a financial burden on families observing the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
  • BIODIVERSITY: An Ocean of Crustaceans
    What lives in the world's oceans? Crabs mostly, according to the Census of Marine Life, a 10-year research effort.
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: Land Reform Underfinanced and Fai ...
    Mavis Muchena sits on the veranda of her mud hut, a middle-aged single mother of four with a face worn beyond her years and hands creased from working the soil. She should represent the future of a renewed farming boom in Zimbabwe, but instead she represents its failure.
  • HEALTH-INDIA: Infant Units Go A Long Way in Saving ...
    Banita's heart sank when she first saw her prematurely born twin girls. One weighed 500 grammes and the other 700 grammes, both way below the 2.5-kilogramme benchmark for low-birthweight newborns. But their clenched, coin-sized fists seemed to show they were clinging to life. "There is hope," said ...
  • Americas Social Forum Calls for Agriculture Based ...
    Small-scale agriculture based on the principles of solidarity and cooperation is the only way to guarantee food sovereignty in Latin America, said peasant and indigenous activists meeting in the Paraguayan capital this week.

Scoop - NZ

  • Fish head south as sea temps rise
    Scientists say fish on Australia's east coast are moving further south in line with an increase in ocean water temperatures. A report in Global Ecology and Biogeographyby researchers from the CSIRO claims south eastern Australia has become a climate change hotspot with well documented changes in th ...
  • REMAX closes in Sth. Florida
    RE/MAX Partners, headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, is ceasing operations and closing its offices after nearly two decades in business, owner Ray Glynn said in a letter to agents Tuesday. In the letter, Glynn said five years of declining sales after Hurricane Wilma coupled with a 29 percent drop in ...
  • 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 ...

Independent - London

  • Ban Ki-moon in Pakistan as flood crisis worsens
    UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in flood-ravaged Pakistan today to boost relief efforts as the 20 million people made homeless grew increasingly desperate.
  • Ban Ki-moon in Pakistan as crisis worsens
    UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in flood-ravaged Pakistan today to boost relief efforts as the 20 million people made homeless grew increasingly desperate.
  • Man charged after US restaurant killing spree
    Eight people leaving a party at a US restaurant were shot, four of them fatally, including a man returning to his hometown to celebrate his first wedding anniversary, police said.
  • Eight killed in California off-road race
    A vehicle ran into a crowd and killed eight people during an off-road race in the Southern California desert, police said today.
  • Portfolio: Kalpesh Lathigra
    Kalpesh Lathigra, 39, is an award-winning documentary photographer whose projects often explore forgotten communities. While shooting one such group - widows in India - he began to think about visual representations of spirituality, resulting in a series about the holy city of Varanasi, from which ...

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

  • Dan Fanelli Challenges Congreeman Alan Grayson Wit ...
    This is a classic illustration of the propaganda Americans are subjected to. Alan Grayson is being targeted as someone who is "soft on terrorism" because he draws attention to the psychopaths on Wall Street.
  • U.S. Weapons Sale to Saudi Arabia Said to Reach $6 ...
    A proposed U.S. weapons sale to Saudi Arabia of Boeing Co. F-15 fighter jets also includes as many as 132 Boeing Apache attack helicopters and United Technologies Corp. UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters that bring the total value of the package to around $60 billion, according to a government official fa ...
  • Lebanese security forces kill Sunni Fatah al-Islam ...
    Lebanese security officials say they have shot and killed the suspected leader of the militant Sunni Islamist movement Fatah al-Islam. Abd-al-Rahman Awad and an associate were intercepted on a main road in eastern Lebanon and died in an exchange of fire with security forces. Fatah al-Islam fought ...
  • Who Owns General Petraeus?
    Anyone who has ever served in the military would confirm that to become a general in the armed forces of the United States requires highly developed political skills. One must be politically astute to guide large military forces while at the same time answering to largely ignorant constituencies in ...
  • Lucky prisoners of the Gaza strip
    The 20th Century chronographer Alexander Solzhenitsyn made a paradoxical remark in his book The Gulag Archipelago: "Be blessed, prison! You've made a man of me!" It's hard to understand this wisdom living in a safe world. It's easier to understand it in Russia and, strange as it is, in Palestine. T ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Toews' Terrorists
    I've been watching with disgust Vic Toews spew his rotten rhetoric about "terrorists" into the ship load of Tamil migrants now being dutifully processed by Border Services and Immigration people. I don't know what exactly it is about the dark-skinned, usually desperately poor "other" that froths up ...
  • Fort Mac in the absurd
    For some reason this , Officials estimate at least fifty cars and trucks have been left in the woods and swamps around the city. Most are stolen and have been burned. Many are leaking fuel. reminded me of a quote: "We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them t ...
  • still more censuslessness
    Harper must mean: We don't think the unreported criminals for our new prisons should be unenumerated Canadians. But seriously, when has anyone been sent to jail for not filling out the form? The Conservatives could have just quietly changed the law around penalties, but no, they had to cancel the wh ...
  • Aristo-con games . . .
    ACCORDING TO THE GLOBE & MAIL , Connie's gonna sue: "Conrad Black gets okay to sue for libel". Jacquie McNish and Cigdem Iltan report that Conrad Black has won court approval to sue prominent U.S. politicians and business people such as Henry Kissinger and Richard Breeden under Canada’s strict libel ...
  • We've come a long way baby
    35 years ago, this was comedic exaggeration, now it's pretty much par for the course on any cable news program and is restrained compared to the rhetoric on the blogosphere or at Tea Party rallies. crossposted from the Woodshed -- now ensconced in our home on native land back in Canada at last!

Media Matters for America

  • Right-wing media blast President Obama's support ...
    Right-wing media are attacking President Obama's statement that he "believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country" and are entitled to build a mosque in Lower Manhattan. President Obama supports Muslims' constitutionally protected right to ...
  • The right-wing race-baiting revue: Schlessinger' ...
    Dr. Laura Schlessinger's racially charged rant, in which she "articulated the 'n' word all the way out -- more than one time," is only the latest in a year of public displays of racially loaded rhetoric by right-wing media figures. Dr. Laura's N-word rant rounds out a year of racially charged ...
  • Conservative media invent controversy over Ra ...
    The�conservative media have repeatedly attacked Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf for his remark that "the United States' policies were an accessory" to the 9-11 attacks. However,�Rauf's comments are not outside the mainstream; indeed,�the former chairman and vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission have stated t ...
  • Conservative media falsely warn of "racial quotas ...
    Conservative media have falsely warned that a provision in the Wall Street regulatory reform law institutes racial quotas for hiring and used that claim to revisit the smear that lending to minorities caused the economic crisis. In fact, the law sets no racial or gender quotas for hiring or len ...
  • Fox promotes false claim that 14th Amendment was ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • 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 ...
  • Jeffrey Goldberg Probes Israel's Iran Strike Optio ...
    In an important article titled " The Point of No Return " to be published in The Atlantic tomorrow, national correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg recounts something many people didn't realize at the time and still have a hard time believing. President George W. Bush knocked back Dick Cheney's wing of the ...
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  • Confessions Of A Class Worrier
    The decline of America's middle class can be charted directly. In the three decades after World War II, the median wage (smack in the middle) grew rapidly, right along with productivity gains. Even as late as 1980, the richest 1 percent of Americans received only about 9 percent of the nation's tota ...
  • Education & The New Federalism
    I've been suggesting for a while that America is developing a new sense of frugality, where savings and investment are replacing debt and consumption.  This led me to doubt the strength of the recovery.Bill Gross has called this the Ne w Normal . Some unusual suspects, like Glenn Hubbard, dean of ...

TruthOut

  • A Dictator And The "Largest Democracy"
    I see I hear I know I beat I hit I touch I kill I kill the monks are dead . That was the chant of Than Shwe, Burma's military dictator, as he meditated recently at Bodhgaya, the place in India where Gautam Buddha attained enlightenment. Or, so says the satirical verse doing the rounds on the In ...
  • What Social Security Can Teach Us About the Future ...
    At the heart of the right-wing attack on the new health care law’s individual mandate is the fact that law has the potential to become like Social Security, a popular entitlement that is an integral part of the American social fabric. Whether that promise is realized depends on no small measure on w ...
  • Noncooperation with Evil in the Streets of Arizona
    The history of nonviolent social change is filled with injunctions to refuse compliance with unjust laws and policies. As Gandhi once famously said, “non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.” Reflecting on the Montgomery bus boycott, Martin Luther King, Jr. observed t ...
  • Record Summer Heat Wave a "Sample of What's to Com ...
    Washington D.C. is projected to see 100 summer days above 90 degrees by 2050, if emissions continue unabated. Washington - When "snowmageddon" buried the nation's capital in February, Sen. Jim Inhofe's grandchildren delved into the record-shattering drifts to construct an igloo near the U.S. Capito ...
  • In Southern Africa, Land Reform Is Underfinanced a ...
    Raffingora, Zimbabwe - Mavis Muchena sits on the veranda of her mud hut, a middle-aged single mother of four with a face worn beyond her years and hands creased from working the soil. She should represent the future of a renewed farming boom in Zimbabwe, but instead she represents its failure. read ...

Planetsave

  • Important Media Weekly Roundup
    As always, I'm rounding up some top news stories from around the Important Media network on Planetsave again this weekend. Though, one thing is changing.
  • Hawking Declares ‘We Must Abandon Earth&#821 ...
    ‘Earth Rise’ In an interview posted on the Big Think website this past Monday, August 9, famed physicist Stephen Hawking declared that “Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.” Hawking warns that the Earth’s human populatio ...
  • Green Living and Green Tech News of the Week
    Following up on global warming news of the week (one of the biggest environmental problems), here is some uplifting green tech and green living news from this week.
  • Global Warming News of the Week
    Here is our latest global warming weekly roundup. A lot of big news this week, but what is to be expected?
  • Costco Adopts Sustainable Seafood Policy
    Costco has responded positively to its shareholders' suggestions in a letter posted on its website last month. Costco has, as of 2009, voluntarily disclosed more information about its seafood suppliers). Additionally, Costco has begun working with suppliers of farmed salmon to insure compliance wi ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Study ties race to death penalty - Death Penalty
    GREENSBORO — The future of capital punishment in North Carolina could hinge on a question most people find odious: Does the court system think a white person’s life is worth more than a black person’s? A recent study of Tar Heel courts — led by prominent death-penalty researcher Michael Radelet.. ...
  • Afghan villages protest over Nato 'civilian killin ...
    Editor's Comment: Notice how the UN and the BBC attempt to cover these NATO atrocities by attributing "76% of civilian deaths" to the Taliban. When one considers the mayhem and confusion taking place in the war and occupation in Afghanistan, statistics like these simply beg credibility. Who is doing ...
  • Is this finally the economic collapse? - Economy
    Editor's Note: Compare this capitalist view of the economic "crisis" with James Petras new article, Crisis. What Crisis? Profits Soar! It looks like there is a crisis after all but the question is, "Whose crisis?" - LMB FORTUNE (CNN Money) -- The Great Depression. Wall Street in 1987. J ...
  • Crisis. What Crisis? Profits Soar! - Economy
    While progressives and leftists write about the “crises of capitalism”, manufacturers, petroleum companies, bankers and most other major corporations on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific coast are chuckling all the way to the bank. From the first quarter of this year, corporate profits ...
  • Obama mortgages the Gulf of Mexico to BP - British ...
    12 August 2010 In a deal that has sweeping, long-term implications for millions of people living and working along the US Gulf Coast, the Obama administration has agreed to base the payments by BP to the oil disaster fund on the oil giant’s profits from its drilling operations in the...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Terror of the Liberal Bogeyman
    For all the hysteria the Frightwingers create with fake issues like terror babies and terror community centers and terror European vacations and terror health care and terror net neutrality, the fake issue that gets the most attention from the agenda-setting biddies in Village comes from the Democra ...
  • Burn A Confederate Flag Day
    Here's a good election-season activity that's fun and educational for the whole family. �Invite all your friends! Burn the Confederate Flag Day is a protest against the right's exploitation of racial prejudice for political gain. �We urge you to burn the Confederate flag, a long-time symbol of raci ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    The toll always rises in the aftermath. "Pakistan's PM Yusuf Raza Gilani says 20 million people have been affected by the country's floods, a much higher estimate than the UN's 14 million. He was addressing the nation during much muted celebrations of Pakistan's independence from the UK 63 years ago ...
  • Low Expectations Dashed
    Steve M. says it best: I expected Obama to move to the center and disappoint me on a number of issues. I didn't really ever expect him to "take up the fight" and be the scourge of business-as-usual. But I did expect him not to be a complete and utter failure at easing the economic pain of ordinary c ...
  • Teach the Village a Lesson: Support Alan Grayson
    I don't usually make political contributions to candidates who don't need my help. �As huge a fan of Alan Grayson as I am, I know he can get re-elected without my couple of bucks. But now The Village , represented by filthy whore Politico, has decided that Alan Grayson must be taught a lesson. �Alan ...

Care 2

  • Plastic Jar Removed from Fla. Bear Club's Head
    A black bear cub in Florida affectionately known as "jarhead" can finally enjoy a good meal. Submitted by Naoko I. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Poster Raises Funds for Disabled Gamer Charity
    AbleGamers(http://www.ablegamers.com/), a charity dedicated to making sure that games are accessible those with disabilities, announced a new fund-raising campaign Monday. The organization is offering 350 limited-edition 18″ x 24″ posters Submitted by John C. to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Ad ...
  • ACTION ALERT: Help Free Rocky the Roo!
    You may have seen this blog highlighting the pathetic plight of Rocky the red kangaroo. This magnificent Aussie animal is stuck in a boxing ring in Texas, forced to wear a costume and spar with audience members watching the Rocky Show Circus. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! � ...
  • Animal photos of the week
    This week's roundup of awesome animal photographs is sure to remind you of nature's awe-inducing specialty. Highlights include a seal getting its teeth brushed, cats on exhibition, a dog trying to stay safe in the Moscow smog, and sea turtles being Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note ...
  • 30 Destroyed Ancient Amazing Civilizations - God i ...
    30 Destroyed Ancient Amazing Civilizations - God is Real, .. America ,.. ... Everyone makes their own choices. He who endures to the end, shall have Salvation. Submitted by Mike Tedesco to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

  • Techno-Thriller: Why Was Goldman Sachs So Worried ...
    It sounds like the plot to a dozen movies: Picture a corporation so powerful that its tentacles circle the globe and reach into the highest corridors of power. Yet a single sentence on an ex-employee's obscure website forces it to move into action. That sentence is so important that it leaves th ...
  • Harry Reid versus Sharron Angle: Here's the differ ...
    Let's talk about the Nevada Senate race and what it suggests about the future of Nevada and the state of the union in 2010. In one corner stands Harry Reid, with his efforts to save 8,000 Nevada jobs at the CityCenter of Las Vegas. In the other corner stands Sharron Angle, who opposes Reid's efforts ...
  • "What Happens If We Stay In Afghanistan"
    Response to TIME Magazine from the South Asia Solidarity Initiative The August 9, 2010 issue of TIME magazine featured a striking cover photograph of an 18-year-old Afghan woman , Aisha, who was disfigured by the Taliban last year. The cover title read, "What happens if we leave Afghanistan." Whil ...
  • Environmental issues should be beyond politics
    "Think globally, act locally" is a phrase that is more than just a bumper-sticker bromide. In a summer when the eyes of the world have been focused on a devastating oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, a chemical spill here in Athens has caused concern and questions from local citizens. After firefighter ...
  • Cartoon: The Stimulus Finally Reduces Unemployment
    [click image to enlarge] But not by enough to make a difference. read more

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Obama, Stupid is as Stupid Does
    Unbelievable. No sooner had I written a piece on Obama being an idiot and he wastes no time in providing another example of empty headedness that has even Democratic pros shaking their heads. If you have not taken time to read Amy’s monster piece, It Isnât About âFreedom To Practice Religion,â ...
  • It Isn’t About “Freedom To Practice Religion,” Oba ...
    As we all know by now, President Obama felt compelled to weigh in on the building of a mosque near Ground Zero. And a number of people are responding to Obama’s Friday Night Ramadan Dinner chat. I might say, no one has written more brilliantly than Larry Johnson at No Quarter. If [...]
  • The Queen of (No) Hearts
    I think Michelle Obama is a stunning looking woman. I think she is very smart. But I ran across something I hadn’t seen for a while yesterday, and it made my blood boil lava hot. Much has been said already about our First Lady’s lavish trip to Spain, to which you and I contributed [...]
  • Barack Obama, A Drunken Drive By?
    How can such a supposedly smart person be so goddamn dumb? Is he hitting the firewater? There is no denying that Barack did well at Harvard Law. So we know that he is not a moron or devoid of intelligence. But book smarts ain’t common sense and on that count Obama [...]
  • And Now For The Rest Of The Story
    On the alleged honor killing in Texas of two young women by their father, Yaser Said. It doesn’t get any easier, friends. Again, this is a very difficult subject matter. Please be forewarned. The video below contains the 911 call on it from one of the daughters. It is not easy [...]

Environmental Graffiti

  • Pit Bulls: The Victims of Dog Fighting
    Most people imagine that Pit Bulls are naturally vicious dogs. However, it isn't their fault that the have been bred for savage pit fighting... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • If Giants Ruled the Earth...
    We all know the story of the tiny people in Lilliput, and what happened when the giant Gulliver came to town, but how might it be if this fairy tale became reality? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Chinese Face Reading: Revealing The Secrets Behind ...
    The art of Chinese face reading is an ancient one - but perhaps its predictions have something to tell us about our destiny? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The G-List: The Greenest Buildings of Our Generati ...
    The G-List is the result of architecture columnist Lance Hosey's survey of some of the best green buildings of the past 30 years. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • On the Trail of the Fur Trade
    This infographic follows the cruelty of the fur trade from the animals' backs to the buyers' designer clothing. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

  • North Korea: Why Engagement Now?
    Geopolitics drove the U.S.-China detente. It could do the same between Washington and Pyongyang.
  • Hikers in Iran
    The three U.S. hikers seized by the Iranian government are progressive activists, and the progressive community should demand their release.
  • Wanted: an Accurate Assessment of Arab-Iran Animos ...
    Is Arab-Iran animosity underestimated or overhyped?
  • Missile Defense: Pie in the Sky
    NATO is proposing to adopt missile defense as a new mission even though it doesn't work, costs lots of money, and angers Russia.
  • START Now
    There is no more fitting way to observe the anniversary of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki then to ratify the new strategic arms reduction treaty, argues columnist Frida Berrigan.

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

  • Chief Judge of 9th Circuit: “1984 here at last,” e ...
    â1984 may have come a bit later than predicted, but itâs here at last.â âIf you have the a cell phone in your pocket, then the government can watch you.â âAre Winston and Julia’s cell phones together near a hotel a bit too often? â¦.The FBI need no longer deploy agents to infiltrate gro ...
  • Re: Obama’s decision to back the mosque
    I am not a big fan of organized religion.  I do not care for Islam because of its misogynistic stances and the fact that I am considered an infidel—not really small issues.  But, I also believe in religious freedom as one of the most important tenets of this country’s foundation.  I am also not a [. ...
  • Obi Egbuna Challenges Obama to a Debate!
    http://blip.tv/file/4002906 US Correspondent to the Zimbabwe Herald, Mr. Obi Egbuna, granted us an exclusive interview this week where he discussed some of the many contradictions US President Barak Obama has regarding Zimbabwe and the lifting of sanctions. Mr. Egbuna also professionally challenged ...
  • 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 [...]

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    As reported in today's Daily Telegraph , proposed hike in capital gains tax aims to part-fund increase in tax allowances for those on lower incomes. David Cameron describes second homes as "not .... necessarily splendid" for the economy.

PDA AMERICA

  • 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

  • Vernon Foods of Louisiana Recalls 500,000 pounds o ...
    Veron Foods, LLC of Prairieville, La. is recalling approximately 500,000 pounds of “ready to eat” sausage and hog head cheese products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes , the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry’s Office of Animal Health and Food Safety announced today ...
  • Hepatitis A Cluster in Waldo County, Maine
    The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) is investigating a third case of acute hepatitis A . All three are residents of Waldo County and at least one attended a number of social functions in different areas of Maine while infective which included attendees from across the st ...
  • Hepatitis A
    Hepatitis A is one of five human hepatitis viruses (hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E) that primarily infect the liver and cause illness. An estimated 80,000 cases occur each year in the U.S., although much higher estimates have been proposed based on mathematical modeling of the past incidence of infecti ...
  • Listeria
    Listeria monocytogenes (Listeria) is a foodborne disease-causing bacteria; the disease is called listeriosis. Listeria can invade the body through a normal and intact gastrointestinal tract. Once in the body, Listeria can travel through the blood stream but the bacteria are often found inside cells. ...
  • Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS)
    The following is a comprehensive description of the hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), its symptoms, and the complications and long-term risks associated with HUS.  (A glossary of terms can be found at the bottom of this entry). Hemolytic uremic syndrome is a severe, life-threatening complication of ...

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

  • Reporters' Roundtable: Net neutrality
    Today we're talking about an issue that's been in the news a lot in the past few days: Net neutrality -- the concept of a network infrastructure that is nondiscriminatory when it comes to types and sources and the content of Internet traffic. To support Net neutrality is to support freedom, o ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • A Sign of the Times
    I was walking through the card section at Wal-Mart last night and noticed that they have a new section of cards. Typical sections are “Sympathy,” “Thank You,” and “Get Well.” The new one is called “Recession Humor.” Next to it they have a modification called “Job Loss.” One of the cards was a cartoo ...
  • Oldies but Goodies - the 1989 Campaign
    I was going through old pictures looking for one of my childhood home in West Philadelphia and came upon this photo from the 1989 campaign. I figured you would get a kick out of this one!
  • Dan Winter - Biological Architecture For Sustainin ...
    Youtube Related watching: Video [2/6] Video [3/6] Video [4/6] Video [5/6] Video [6/6]
  • Quote du Jour
    “Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that [...]
  • Child Conflict Seems to Differ Among Nations
    By Robert Preidt American parents are more likely than European parents to have conflicts with their adult children, finds a new study. Researchers examined parent-adult child relationships in six countries (England, Germany, Israel, Norway, Spain and the United States) and found that most older pa ...

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

  • Breaking news: another analysis blows holes in the ...
    Breaking news about the third outside analysis of the statistics in the Mann et al “hockey stick” temperature reconstruction.  Published in a prestigious peer-reviewed journal, the results are not pretty — and confirm the two earlier reviews.   It’s worth reading if you’re interested in this ...
  • Are Israel’s leaders insane? Jeffrey Goldbe ...
    Summary:  The award for the most accurate title of the year:  “The Point of No Return“, Jeffrey Goldbert, The Atlantic, September 2010.  Yes, attacking Iran would the point of no return for Israel.  I doubt they’ll do it.  The leders of neither Iran nor Israel are psychos. Godlberg’s research f ...
  • A non-violent crusade to bring rights to the world ...
    Summary:    Part three 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.  Part two examined the moral basis of a war to help women.  Part three examines the practica ...
  • 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Obama signs $600 million border security bill
    Reuters – President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law a $600 million bill to beef up security on the U.S. border with Mexico, and his aides pressed lawmakers to set aside election-year politics and work toward broader immigration reform. With illegal immigration seen as a key issue in the Nove ...
  • Iraq’s Deadly Legacy
    SBS – The number of babies born with severe deformities and children developing leukaemia is rising dramatically in parts of Iraq. US forces used Depleted Uranium weapons to attack the city, which locals say has left them with this devastating legacy. One report even says the number of such illnesse ...
  • USA’s Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on Two Co ...
    New York Times – At first, the news from Yemen on May 25 sounded like a modest victory in the campaign against terrorists: an airstrike had hit a group suspected of being operatives for Al Qaeda in the remote desert of Marib Province, birthplace of the legendary queen of Sheba. But the strike, it tu ...
  • Traders in Asia consider force majeure on Russia w ...
    Reuters – Trading companies that have sold Russian wheat to millers in Asia are considering declaring force majeure on supply contracts after Moscow slapped on grain export curbs, traders said on Friday. U.S. wheat futures jumped more than 6 percent, taking gains this week to more than 26 percent in ...
  • British Army to use ‘Dirty Harry’ bullet against t ...
    Daily Mail – British troops are to be issued with a new ’super-bullet’ to fight the Taliban as their current ammunition does not have the punch to kill the enemy at long range. The high-performance round will be fired from standard-issue SA80 assault rifles. Nicknamed the ‘Dirty Harry round’ after t ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Who and What are Trotsky-cons?

    [An earlier, choppier version of this article was published in September 2006 under a slightly different title. It was removed shortly after its original publication for various reasons.  The article has been cleaned up in the newer version.  Parts of the article may seem dated with the passing of t ...
  • Leaked ‘Afghan War Diary’ Causes Reaction in US
    Leaked ‘Afghan War Diary’ Causes Reaction in US (www.antiimperialism.wordpress.com) On July 25th, 2010, the website Wikileaks released the âAfghan War Diary,â over 200,000 pages detailing the USâs terroristic role in Afghanistan. (1) The documents, allegedly collected and leaked by Bradley Man ...
  • 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 ...

PakAlert

  • Russian S-300s in Abkhazia to block Israeli Hit On ...
    US and Israeli military sources told debkafile Thursday, Aug. 12, that a threat from Georgia was not the reason why Russian posted advanced S-300 interceptor batteries Russia in Abkhazia and air defense weapons in South Ossetia on the northern shore of the Black Sea -as Moscow officially maintained, ...
  • New World Order & Weather Weapons – New Phase of G ...
    Andrei Areshev a renowned Russian Scholar and the deputy head of the Strategic Culture Foundation warns that the current devastating fires raging throughout Russia could have been triggered by American weather weapons what is now becoming the infamous HAARP Technology.
  • 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.

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

  • Ocean Color Can Deflect Hurricanes, Study Suggests
    When seas change color, storms change direction, a new study suggests. Earth Sciences - Oceanography - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Tropical cyclone - Meteorology
  • 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

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Just between Bluegal and me...
    I'd still say Bluegal and her own blogging Wonder Woman personae wins hands down regardless of her twitter note and in almost any photoshop contest up. My effort, a much deserved kick at The Economist can be found at ePluribus Media (+++ a bit more) while Bluegal's vastly superior effort can ...
  • Image of a word bomb
    If a picture is worth a thousand words than this one speaks volumes about where a pretty darn liberal America is right now: Though I embrace many of the progressive ideas that those who have embraced the name "progressive" espouse, I have always preferred to stick to the name liberal. For the mos ...
  • 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 ...

SPL Center

  • Religious Right Reacts With Fury to Prop 8 Knockdo ...
    In the hours since a federal judge struck down California’s ban on same-sex marriage yesterday, religious-right organizations have sent up an angry howl of protest, accusing the judge of doing everything from overruling the Constitution to laying the groundwork for a contemporary version of Sodom an ...
  • Neo-Nazi Official Patrolling Arizona Border Lauds ...
    As if Arizona wasnât already unfriendly enough territory for immigrants, now they have to face angry, armed neo-Nazis. Incredibly, a small group of heavily armed racists patrolled for migrants and drug cartels last week on the Southern border. Led by J.T. Ready â a recent member of the neo-Nazi ...
  • Tea Partiers Should Reject Racists Who Recruit fro ...
    Are the organizations that make up the Tea Party movement fundamentally racist? If not, are they too lackadaisical about addressing hard racist elements among their overwhelmingly white memberships? Controversy over these questions was recently sparked anew when Ben Jealous of the NAACP accused Tea ...
  • Latest Nativist Horror Story: Once More, It’s a Fa ...
    It had the makings of a dramatic story: Members of a Mexican drug cartel on Saturday took control of two ranches in Laredo, Texas, as the ranch owners fled for their lives. If only it were true. The tale, reported by Dan Amato, a Pennsylvania anti-immigration blogger, gained traction throughout the ...
  • A Kinder, Gentler Lou Dobbs?
    Ever since he was bounced from his high-profile gig at CNN nearly nine months ago, we have seen a kinder, gentler Lou Dobbs than the commentator who became synonymous with vilifying undocumented immigrants. The latest from Dobbs came this week, when he told Megyn Kelly at Fox News and George Stephan ...

change: org.

  • Is Grass-Fed Fast Food the Future of Sustainabilit ...
    There's something extremely satisfying about cooking a meal from scratch with food you can trace back to the farms they came from. It enhances my appreciation of what I'm eating like nothing else, and it's not just because the ingredients are fresh. But just like most people, I occasionally find mys ...
  • Should We Just Stop Talking About Race?
    Recently, I read the following comment on CNN message board: âIf you really want racism to disappear, don't mention it!â I understand the emotion here. I also think that it's dead wrong. Frequently, commenters weigh in with varieties of that sentiment, which basically amount to: âStop playing ...
  • The Lowest-Paying College Degrees
    Broke? Blame your major. Despite our firm belief that no one who goes to college should end up living in poverty (it stems from our zany belief that no one period should end up living in poverty), many college grads have a tough time getting by. Sometimes it's crippling student loans , sometimes a t ...
  • A Homeless Policy X Prize?
    Innovation prizes are (re)gaining popularity . Although they've been around since the eighteenth century, incentives for technological advancement have become more mainstream than ever as of late. The X Prize Foundation , a clearinghouse for large innovation prizes, promotes entrepreneurial competit ...
  • Are Majestic Bison Doomed to Feedlot Life?
    Years ago when I used to live in northern New Mexico in a small Airstream trailer huddled up close to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, I had the great privilege of having a herd of bison as my neighbors. The majestic creatures grazed a huge expanse of land belonging to Taos Pueblo . While I was livin ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Gay Rights Groups, Progressives Push to Exploit Ta ...
    by Martiga Lohn ST. PAUL, Minn. - Protestors have been rallying outside Target Corp. or its stores almost daily since the retailer angered gay rights supporters and progressives by giving money to help a conservative Republican gubernatorial candidate in Minnesota. Liberal groups are pushing to make ...
  • ‘Professional Left’ Not Ready to Back an Obama Pri ...
    by Sam Youngman As angry as it 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 running against the president in 2012, and liberal bloggers say any challenge to Obama would be f ...
  • Gulf Health Problems Blamed on Dispersed Oil
    by Dahr Jamail 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, ...
  • Ground Zero Mosque Plans 'Fuelling anti-Muslim Pro ...
    by Chris McGreal The battle over plans to build a mosque near the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York is fuelling a surge in anti-Muslim protests across the US, including opposition to new Islamic centres from California to Georgia. Religious leaders and civil rights activists warn th ...
  • 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 ...

Lifehacker

  • DIY Air Conditioner and Air Filtration System [DIY ...
    We've featured a number of DIY air conditioner projects before, but this particular model is perfect for smokers and those living in polluted areas. Not only will it cool down a room, but it will filter out the smell of smoke. More�� ...
  • Top 10 Ways Your Brain Is Sabotaging You (and How ...
    An unexamined brain is a tricky thing to carry around. You've got unintentional biases, marketing weaknesses, "overclocking" issues, and all kinds of other mental bugs you may not know about. Here's a helpful list of the mind's weird ways. ...
  • Preserve Old Paperback Books by Turning Them Into ...
    Paperback books have their conveniences, but they can also get easily destroyed. If you'd like to keep some of your near-death paperbacks around, kid-centric blog Ohdeedoh shows us how to give them some custom, protective hard covers. More� ...
  • Be a Perfect Guest in the 21st Century [Etiquette]
    Your mother's missive to "Be polite!" might suffice to help you get by as a tolerable guest. But if you really want to shine as an exceptional and always-welcome guest, you may want to add a trick or two to your traveling bag. More�� ...
  • Meteor Showers and Net Neutrality in This Week's O ...
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Newshoggers - AfPak

  • "America will lose in Afghanistan even if the curr ...
    By Steve Hynd General Petraeus is expected to argue in an upcoming D.C. media blitz (hey, he can afford the time, it's not as if he has a war to run...) that NATO forces will have to stay longer in Afghanistan so that they can train the Afghan army and police further. The idea is that "they will sta ...
  • Afghanistan This Friday 13th
    By Steve Hynd It's a Black Friday for those who support the ongoing occupation in Afghanistan. Just days after NATO proudly touted getting to an arbitary number of trained Afghan Army recruits two months early, that Afghan Army proved that its training should've gone on longer. The NYT reports: An a ...
  • 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 ...

Water Wars

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    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.
  • Broun vocal, but didn't vote, in opposing aid for ...
    WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Paul Broun , the Republican from Athens, seemed hopping mad. The U.S.
  • Shovel ready
    In its early years, it was mired amid allegations of collusion. More recently, it has been deemed unnecessary at times as well as a detriment to the environment, seen as a savior to regional water woes during the recent drought and a burden during the current harsh economic times.

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Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

  • Large oilfield discovered in Afghanistan
    Officials said Sunday that an oilfield containing an estimated 1.8 billion barrels of oil have been discovered by geologists in northern Afghanistan.
  • Now 'Dirty Harry' bullet to kill Taliban
    A new bullet, which packs more punch and is called the 'Dirty Harry round', has been developed for use against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
  • UK military scientists develop "Dirty Harry&q ...
    UK Military scientists have developed a 5.56 mm "Dirty Harry round" bullet to be issued to British troops to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan, as they complained that their current ammunition 'SA80 rifle' does not have the punch to kill the enemy at long range.
  • Afghans blaming NATO troops for rise in civilian d ...
    Though American and NATO forces are using the alarming spike in Afghan civilian deaths in 2010 to denounce the Taliban to win popular support for an increased presence, ordinary Afghans have largely rejected this good guy-bad guy narrative and continue blaming the civilian deaths on
  • Afghanistan finds new oilfield
    Afghanistan said on Sunday it had discovered an oilfield with an estimated 1.8 billion barrels in the north of the U.S. war-ravaged country. The discovery of the basin between northern Balkh and Shibe...

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

  • New Podcast: On the Hunt for Savings at the Pentag ...
    This week Secretary of Defense Robert Gates proposed several initiatives to trim Pentagon bloat and make Department of Defense operations more efficient (for example, eliminating the agency that famously outsource "thought leadership"). But do these proposals mark steps towards genuine...
  • Is DCMA in the Tank for Contractors?
    Do you remember all of those complaints about the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) lacking the independence they need to be effective? The Department of Defense Inspector General has found similar problems at the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA). Over...
  • Morning Smoke: New MMS Director Says Agency Relied ...
    Chief Concedes Drilling Regulator Relied on Industry by Siobhan Hughes [The Wall Street Journal] Sen. Jeff Bingaman: No bills before November by Darren Samuelsohn [Politico] BP to Pay Record Fine for Refinery by Steven Greehhouse [The New York Times] House...
  • 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...

Digital Journal

  • Titanic expedition to assess wreckage and create 3 ...
    A new expedition to the Titanic to evaluate the wreck’s condition and map it in 3D begins next Wednesday. Billed as the most advanced mission ever undertaken, progress reports will be available on social media.
  • Green onions sold at Highland Farms may contain Sa ...
    A warning is being sent from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency that some green onions sold at Highland Farms Supermarket, 4750 Dufferin Street in North York, Ontario may be contaminated with Salmonella.
  • Edmonton Institution reports apparent suicide
    An inmate at Edmonton Institution in Alberta was found hanging from his cell by Correctional Officers Friday evening at 9:15 p.m.
  • Panorama India presents Toronto with Indian cultur ...
    The Panorama India Organizations presented the India Day Parade, the cultural vendors and shows in downtown Toronto at the Yonge-Dundas Square. Visitors had another opportunity to experience South Asian culture, but specifically to India.
  • Toronto sizzles at the Hot and Spicy Food Festival
    Love the nuclear meltdown in your teeth? Or the runny nose after taking a bite of hot food? The Hot and Spicy Food Festival in downtown Toronto gave food lovers a taste of the spicy and sultry cuisine from around the world at the Habourfront Centre.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • A Homeless Policy X Prize?
    Innovation prizes are (re)gaining popularity . Although they've been around since the eighteenth century, incentives for technological advancement have become more mainstream than ever as of late. The X Prize Foundation , a clearinghouse for large innovation prizes, promotes entrepreneurial competit ...
  • Homeless and College-Bound
    This new video comes from Mark's InvisiblePeople.tv 30-city, 11,000-mile, 75-day road trip , going on now. Jonathan looks like most young adults. Hard to imagine him living on the streets of Denver homeless. I was impressed with his honesty when talking about the issues with his family that caused h ...
  • Striker Goes from the Homeless World Cup to Manche ...
    Manchester United signing its eighth striker in an estimated  $12 million deal is big news to soccer fans everywhere, but it's making even more headlines because that striker used to be homeless. When 20-year-old Tiago Manuel Dias Correia, better known as "Bebe," launched his soccer career, he still ...
  • Can We See Some ID?
    This new video comes from Mark's InvisiblePeople.tv  30-city, 11,000-mile, 75-day road trip , going on now. Imagine you are homeless and your backpack, with all of your identification, gets stolen. Try getting a job without ID. Or opening a bank account, cashing a check, traveling, renting a hotel ...
  • 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, ...

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

  • Gut Germs May Underlie Western Allergies
    August 13th, 2010 Yahoo! News By: Maggie Fox Germs living in the gut may cause higher rates of allergies, chronic stomach upsets and even obesity among children living in rich industrialized countries, researchers reported on Monday. They compared intestinal bacteria between European Union childr ...
  • WHO Says Swine Flu Pandemic Is Over… What A ...
    August 13th, 2010 PharmaPro By: Frank Jordans The World Health Organization says the swine flu pandemic is over. WHO Director-General Margaret Chan says the world is now moving into the “post-pandemic” phase. She told reporters on Tuesday that the pandemic has “largely run its course.” Last week W ...
  • Low-Dose Vitamin D Pill Cuts Breast Cancer By 24%
    August 13th, 2010 Natural News By: Ethan A. Huff 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 l ...
  • 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 ...

Pambazuka News

  • Global: Afro-Colombian women fight prejudice by em ...
    On an improvised stage “Bombón de chocolate” (Chocolate Candy) is being performed. The play, which narrates the story of an African-Colombian girl who feels rejected because of the colour of her skin, is one of the events at a special day on drug add...
  • Global: May for the Cuban 5
    The month of May started with a great number of activities in support of the Cuban 5. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on International Workers Day in Havana and other cities. They were joined by hundreds of internationalists in de...
  • Haiti: Where solidarity means survival
    Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could include equitable distribution of resources, high levels of employment with fair...
  • 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
    Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...
  • Haiti: Private contractors 'like vultures coming t ...
    Critics are concerned that private military contractors are positioning themselves at the centre of an emerging "shock doctrine" for earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Next month, a prominent umbrella organisation for private military and logistic corporation...

War in Context

  • Why silence over Kashmir speaks volumes
    Pankaj Mishra writes: Once known for its extraordinary beauty, the valley of Kashmir now hosts the biggest, bloodiest and also the most obscure military occupation in the world. With more than 80,000 people dead in an anti-India insurgency backed by Pakistan, the killings fields of Kashmir dwarf th ...
  • Pakistan floods
    BBC News reports that Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani says 20 million people have been affected by the country’s floods, a much higher estimate than the UN’s 14 million.
  • A campaign for war with Iran begins
    In response to Jeffrey Goldberg’s Atlantic article, “The Point of No Return,” Trita Parsi writes in Salon: Whether characterizing it as “mainstreaming war with Iran” or “making aggression respectable,” Goldbergâs article serves to create a false narrative that claims that the two failed meetings ...
  • What would George Orwell say about the US withdraw ...
    By Hannah Gurman As the Second World War drew to a close, George Orwell looked back on the various prognoses of war and peace that had emerged in recent years: “All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way,” he observed. “People can foresee the future only when it coinc ...
  • Fears of al Qaida return in Iraq as US-backed figh ...
    The Guardian reports: Al-Qaida is attempting to make a comeback in Iraq by enticing scores of former Sunni allies to rejoin the terrorist group by paying them more than the monthly salary they currently receive from the government, two key US-backed militia leaders have told the Guardian. They sai ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Thoughts on 2010 hurricane season so far
    by Steve Goddard The Atlantic Hurricane Basin remains dead quiet, and is now falling below the 1944-2005 average. http://www.weatherstreet.com/hurricane/2010/Hurricane-Atlantic-2010.htm I have not spent a lot of time studying hurricanes, but I have read that the “purpose” of hurricanes is to … Conti ...
  • BREAKING: New paper makes a hockey sticky wicket o ...
    Sticky Wicket – phrase, meaning: “A difficult situation”. Oh, my. There is a new and important study on temperature proxy reconstructions (McShane and Wyner 2010) submitted into the Annals of Applied Statistics and is listed to be published in the … Continue reading →
  • More on the Russian heat wave – satellite an ...
    By Steve Goddard Dr Pielke’s excellent post gave me an idea. NASA said : Not all parts of the Russian Federation experienced unusual warmth on July 20â27, 2010. A large expanse of northern central Russia, for instance, exhibits below-average temperatures. … Continue reading →
  • Saturday Satire
    Introducing iPanic, the latest app for that: From Josh at www.cartoonsbyjosh.com Of course, you can always get a functional no panic app here
  • Monckton: Why current trends are not alarming
    Since there has been a lot of discussion about Monckton here and elsewhere, I’ve offered him the opportunity to present his views here. – Anthony Guest post by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley At www.scienceandpublicpolicy.org I publish a widely-circulated and vigorously-debated … Continue reading ...

Dandelion Salad

  • The Other US Eco Disaster: Mountain Top Removal (2 ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RussiaToday | August 15, 2010 A multi-award winning film, Mountain Top Removal documents one of the greatest environmental and human rights catastrophes in American history. In the coalfields of Appalachia, West Virginia, individuals, families and entire communit ...
  • Hemp, and Empire by Rand Clifford
    by Rand Clifford Featured Writer Dandelion Salad August 15, 2010 “…the continuous consolidation of money and power into higher, tighter and righter hands.” That was GHW Bushâs answer to reporter Sarah McClendonâs question in 1992 regarding what Iran-Contra was all about. He also told her that, ...
  • My Testimonial: Eid al-Fitr, 9/11, and my status i ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Sami Kishawi Sixteen Minutes to Palestine August 15, 2010 I came across a rogue news headline that said “Eid festival expected to fall on 9/11. US protesters demand it be moved to another day out of respect for victims”. This isn’t just ridiculous or absurd. T ...
  • Come On Down! It’s Time to Play “Socia ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Richard (RJ) Eskow OurFuture.org Aug. 3, 2010 A broad coalition of groups has been formed to defend Social Security, and the videos announcing it are all worth watching. Of all the ideas proposed, my personal favorite comes from AFSCME President Gerald W. McEn ...
  • There is no “Professional Left” on Cab ...
    By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com Aug. 13, 2010 The arguments between the Progressives on the left and the Conservatives on the right are mostly straw-man arguments when it comes to cable shows. FOX News on one hand can’t bash the Democrats enough, while MSN ...

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

  • The Psychology of Power
    I’ve got a short essay this weekend in the Wall Street Journal on the dismal psychology of power: When CEO Mark Hurd resigned from Hewlett-Packard last week in light of ethics violations, many people expressed surprise. Mr. Hurd, after all, was known as an unusually effective and straight-laced exe ...
  • Ecosystem Engineering Could Turn Sprawl Into Sanct ...
    For over a decade, University of Arizona ecologist Michael Rosenzweig has preached a gospel of what he calls reconciliation ecology: designing everyday landscapes to support as many plants and animals as possible. He says it’s the only way of averting ecological catastrophe, which standard approac ...
  • Video: The Different Shapes of Iciclology
    A team of Canadian iciclologists has put to rest the notion that one frozen cone of drips is exactly the same as the next. By growing lots of icicles in controlled laboratory conditions, the scientists have uncovered evidence that runs counter to an earlier theory saying that all icicles should, by ...
  • Dark Energy and Exoplanets Top List of Astronomy P ...
    Dark energy and extra-solar planet studies received strong endorsement today in a once-a-decade astronomy and astrophysics prioritization report. The National Research Council recommended that the highest priority large-scale projects for the next decade should be the $1.6-billion Wide-Field Infrar ...
  • 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Omar Barghouti: Besieging Israel’s siege
    Despite Israel's siege of Gaza, and the escalating displacement in the Negev and East Jerusalem, Palestinians have some reason to celebrate. In Washington [state] a food co-op has passed a resolution... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Jeff Halper: Ramadan Kareem from the Netanyahu and ...
    Yesterday, the day before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan began, at 2:30 in the morning, workers sent by the Israeli authorities, protected by dozens of police, destroyed the tombstones in the last... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • IMEU: FAQ on Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (B ...
    A primer on BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions), its history, participants, and recent successes. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • 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 ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

Natural Health News

Antemedius

  • Fox News Poll: 71% Say Anti-Gay Marriage Propositi ...
    Fairly Unbalanced Steve Doocy - Fox News It's hard work promoting bigotry these days, I guess. Fox News Online Poll - 71% View Anti-Gay Marriage Proposition 8 as Unconstitutional by Steve Clemons of The Washington Note Is it possible that even the center-right tilting viewing audience of Fox ...
  • CIA: Enforcement Bureau of the Military-Industria ...
    When John F. Kennedy was running for president in 1960 he used to say, “Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a good neighbor in Latin America because he was a good neighbor right here at home.” Kennedy was referring to Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy which increased America’s popularity to people in that ...
  • Time to Declare Global War on Flooding
    More GRITtv The flooding in Pakistan has displaced 2 million people, killed at least 1600 and affected 14 million.� It should be affecting all of us. A disaster of global proportions, requiring a global response, as Gwynne Dyer noted on our show not long ago, it offers a hint of what we can expect ...
  • Waterboarding and Rendition? Old Hat for CIA Glob ...
    Shock resounded through America when it was learned that waterboarding and rendition were among the international crimes being conducted on the pretext of fighting the war on terror. The 9/11 tragedies had been used in addition to generating the Iraq War to justify virtually any action, no matter ho ...
  • The Canary In The Coal Mine: Climate Change in Tim ...
    " Ninety five percent of the glaciers in the world are retreating or shrinking... there is no scientific dispute about that " Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey , a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of ...

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

  • Bleg: How Would You Define ‘National Security Law ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Further to a mysterious correspondent, who asks what would be a clear, simple, and brief - as in one to three sentences - definition of the field of national security law, of the kind you might include in a law school, grad school, or undergrad course catal ...
  • How to Define Piracy Under U.S. Law and the “Law o ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The WSJ has a nice discussion of the tricky legal arguments in the upcoming trial of alleged pirates in U.S. federal court.  Apparently, the prosecutors and defense attorneys are battling over the fact that U.S. statutes criminalizing piracy leave the definition to “the ...
  • 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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

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  • 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.

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

  • Federal Court Rescinds USDA Approval of Geneticall ...
    Order Bans Planting or Sale of Controversial Crop. Court Denies Monsanto Request to Allow Continued Planting. Today Judge Jeffrey White, federal district judge for the Northern District of California, issued a ruling granting the request of plaintiffs Center for Food Safety, Organic Seed Alliance, H ...
  • 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 ...

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 12/08/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Recycled plastic containers
    Plastic containers, very practical and you can keep them for life! But what plastic are they made of? and are they recyclable?Recycling plastic (glossary/categories/recycling-waste/recycling-plastic.html) is an easy way to protect the environment.Always be aware of what you buy an make sure your pur ...
  • Environmental News 11/08/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Tony Abbott's Archaic Views
      "Politicians will be judged on everything they say". Let's see if they can be judged on everything they do...For more information read the article: The Greener Vote (climate-change/the-greener-vote.html)Found on the website: Get Up! Action for Australia (http://www.getup.org.au/)   ...
  • Organic coton djellaba
    Djellabas are usually made of cotton or wool.They have become a true fashion item and green fashion designers (lifestyle/green-fashion-designers.html) now make them with organic cotton.For more on this topic, read : Guide to Organic Cotton Clothing (lifestyle/guide-to-organic-cotton-clothing.html) ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • U.S.-Saudi Arms Plan Grows to Record Size
    ShareThis U.S.-Saudi Arms Plan Grows to Record Size --Addition of Apaches, Black Hawks Swells Deal to $60 Billion 14 Aug 2010 The Obama administration plans to include attack helicopters in an expanded arms package for Saudi Arabia, swelling the size of the proposed deal to as much as $60 billion ov ...
  • Ill.-based bank is 110th U.S. failure of the year
    ShareThis Ill.-based bank is 110th U.S. failure of the year --FDIC: Bank's failure will cost the deposit-insurance fund $72 million 13 Aug 2010 Palos Heights, Ill.-based Palos Bank and Trust Company was closed by regulators Friday, marking the 110th U.S. bank failure of 2010. Palos Bank and Trust Co ...
  • Obama Signs Border Bill to Increase Surveillance
    ShareThis Obama Signs Border Bill to Increase Surveillance 14 Aug 2010 President Obama signed into law a $600 million bill on Friday to pay for 1,500 new border agents, additional unmanned surveillance drones and new Border Patrol stations along the southwest border. The measure sailed through Congr ...
  • 2 killed, 16 wounded in violence in northern Iraq
    ShareThis 2 killed, 16 wounded in violence in northern Iraq 13 Aug 2010 Two people were killed and at least 16 people were wounded in multiple bombings targeting police and anti-al Qaeda fighters in the city of Samarra, Iraq, Friday evening, according to local police. Several bombs exploded outside ...
  • U.S. sends help as fires close in on Russian nucle ...
    ShareThis U.S. sends help as fires close in on Russian nuclear base 13 Aug 2010 The United States is sending firefighting equipment to Russia to help deal with 500 wildfires burning across the country, one of which threatens a nuclear base. The blazes have been sparked by the hottest summer ever rec ...

Daily Loaf

  • Concert review: Norah Jones serenedes Bay area aud ...
    After ditching Lilith Fair dates, Norah Jones came to Tampa solo and staged an amazing show.
  • Shoppach thunder: Rays rock Orioles 7-3 courtesy o ...
    The Rays catcher provided plenty of firepower with a grand slam and a solo bomb to top this resurgent Baltimore club, setting up Sunday's rubber match with Rays ace-in-the-making Jeremy Hellickson getting the start.
  • On the Radar: clash of the cult classics
    Welcome to On the Radar where we preview upcoming events to mark on your calendar …     Remember those high school seminars wholly revolving around horrifying stories meant to deter us from naughty behavior? You know, tales of prom queens and future NBA stars maimed and ruined by the likes ...
  • Jeff Greene takes issue with Obama on mosque at gr ...
    Last night, President Obama came out full square in support of the proposed Muslim cultural center and mosque near ground zero in Manhattan, and Greene is objecting to those comments early Saturday afternoon.
  • Gays & Religion: Are you treating us right?
    I find it interesting that homosexuality is mentioned in a handful of sentences in religious texts, possibly less, and it is the most intensely debated topic in this nation across the four decades of my lifetime parallel to war.

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

  • DIY cabin in the woods
    130 square feet off the grid vacation nook. Sunset shows how they did it.
  • Overextended social climber vs blood sucking vampi ...
    How dare that blood sucking vampire realtor suggest they may lose the house. “We are in the middle of a loan modification so we are just fine.”
  • Hybrid solar panel. Electricity and hot water
    The Turkish company, Solimpeks Corp., has launched its Volther hybrid photovoltaic-solar thermal collector, which produces electricity and hot water simultaneously. The hybrid system allows extra module heat to be absorbed to produce hot water while optimising efficiency, the company says.
  • The mystery of Jerry Brown’s pension
    The Orange County Register Watchdog, certainly no friend of Democrats, has uncovered some, um, discrepancies about what Jerry Brown will receive as a pension. Brown has 16 years of service however it certainly appears that he has been credited with 25 to 29 years, raising his pension from $73,000 to ...
  • Pakistan. ‘The enormity of the calamity is beyond ...
    CBC 20 million homeless in Pakistan floods Hundreds of thousands of homes gone. Some communities are marooned. Help can not get through due to bridges being destroyed. 1.7 million acres of farmland and crops wiped out. Outbreaks of cholera due to contaminated water. The Indus River is 25 kilometers ...

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

  • Oil washes ashore on Brazil beach
    Oil washes ashore on Brazil beach Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d14822').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
  • Dr David Kelly was on a hitlist, says UN weapons e ...
    A leading UN weapons inspector last night added his voice to the growing clamour for a full inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly. Dr Richard Spertzel claimed Dr Kelly was on a ‘hitlist’ in the final years of his life. The former head of the UN Biological Section, who worked closely with Dr [...]
  • BP officials “DON’T BELIEVE” mayor’s tests that pr ...
    The Press-Register reports, “BP has rejected claims from Orange Beach that city contractors are regularly encountering and collecting oil from inshore waters, including Cotton Bayou, Terry Cove and Bayou St. John, city officials said.” “BP keeps telling us there is no oil, to skim or otherwise, and ...
  • Coast Guard Trying To Pull Out Oil Skimmers From G ...
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  • FBI’s racist shock jock Hal Turner convicted of th ...
    A US Internet radio host was convicted Friday of threatening to assault and kill three judges who upheld a ban on handguns in Chicago, the US Justice Department said. Hal Turner, 47, was arrested in June 2009 for an Internet posting that said of the three federal judges who had upheld Chicago’s hand ...

The Air Vent

  • Mann 07 Part 4 – Actual Proxy Autocorrelatio ...
    I hope this is the last post for a while on Mann07 variance loss.  The difference between this post and my originals is simply the use of pseudoproxies  created from models plus noise rather than just using a single straight line.  Mann provided 100 pseudoproxy curves on his website from his 07 work ...
  • A long time ago, in a university far far away&#823 ...
    A  brief history of the battle with activist science. The Climate Wars … ending? by Brady Caldwell Check it out.
  • 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 ...

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

  • Facebook Roundup: Data Center, Credits, eBay, Spot ...
    Rumor: AOL, Facebook Talk Ad Alliance – The New York Post reports that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong have been discussing a “strategic alliance” that would boost the companies’ respective online ad businesses. Discussions have purportedly been on for months, and a deal might ...
  • Note on Facebook’s Application Stats Reporting Bug
    As many developers may have noticed over the past couple weeks, starting around the beginning of the month, Facebook began reporting some suspect traffic numbers for certain applications. For example, some applications have seen steep increases in reported traffic numbers that do not match stats tha ...
  • Booshaka Social Search Catagorizes Facebook Pages ...
    Booshaka is a new Facebook search engine and trend aggregator. Users can search through publicly available personal and Page updates and view them according to what’s most recent, most popular in terms of likes, most buzz, or trending now. What differentiates Booshaka is that it has classified many ...
  • Facebook Job Postings this Week: Engineering, Ads, ...
    Facebook has filled many positions in online operations and ads since our post last week on the company’s most recent hires. This week, it is looking for more ad, legal, online operations and software engineering positions to its Careers Page. Advertising sales positions in Austin and London, a stra ...
  • Parature For Facebook Manages Customer Support For ...
    Facebook Pages have become the new connection between brands and their customers. Instead of going to a company’s website, users experience and communicate with brands via Facebook using channels they’re used to. This familiarity has led many brands to see their Facebook Walls fill with customer ser ...

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ReDress News

  • All is not quiet on the Lebanese front
    Lawrence Davidson considers calls within the US Congress to punish the Lebanese army for defending Lebanese territory against Israeli violations and asks: “What will it take to make ordinary Americans ... grasp the danger of allowing their Middle East policy to be made by a special interest that has ...
  • 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.

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

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  • Mitrice Richardson’s remains found
    Thanks to Yvette @ Spatterblog! for forwarding this to us: Remains of Missing Los Angeles Woman Found Mitrice went missing last year on September 17 after being released in the early hours of the morning by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. She had been arrested for an unpaid restauran ...
  • Wall Street creates and profits from starvation
    Disturbing article and video explaining how Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms, created and then profitted from the 2005-2008 food crisis. In the words of that old Jamaican adage: “Hell gwaawn full!” Article: Johann Hari: How Goldman gambled on starvation Video: The Food Bubble: How Wall S ...
  • “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 ...

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

CounterCurrents

  • Harakiri?
    By Uri Avnery Uri Avnery on the Turkel commission testimony given by Binyamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak and Gabi Ashkenazi on the Gaza flotilla massacre
  • 2010: A Summer Of Global Issues
    By Gulam Mitha This is the summer that Mother Nature has begun to issue strong global warnings in various languages. Our politicians should be listening to these warnings and give up war preparations and instead work towards peace. The worlds greedy businessmen should stop amassing horrendous wealt ...
  • Two Killed In Fresh Kashmir Clashes
    By Sheikh Imran Bashir Two youths were killed as fresh clashes erupted on Saturday between protesters and security forces in Kashmir, where 59 civilians have died during two months of unrest
  • Bollywood Superstar Aamir Khan Shines The Spotligh ...
    By Sonali Kolhatkar An interview with Aamir Khan about his new film, Peepli Live, which explores the deadly consequences of Indias shift to a neo-liberal economic model
  • Superpower Democracy Mass-Murders Abroad! Largest ...
    By Jay Janson US media have never called millions killed in their own homes, by US military during invasions and occupations since Korea through Iraq, mass murder. Likewise, the annually legislated starvation of millions of Indians in the largest democracy in the world, is never called mass murder ...

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

  • New Lockerbie Shocker, Release Doctor Says " I Did ...
    This Friday is the one year anniversary of the release of the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi. He was released on "humanitarian grounds," because he was given only three months to live by leading cancer specialist, Professor Karol Sikora.� Sikora's prognosis was a bit off as the mass-murdere ...
  • There Is No Such Thing as a Pre-1967 Israeli Borde ...
    The word is that Palestinian President Abbas is refusing to have face to face talks with Israel unless those talks are based on Israel returning to the pre-1967 borders. What Abbas knows but won't admit is that there is no such thing as pre-1967 borders. That "green line" running through the Wes ...
  • "WAR" Breaks Out at Civil Rights Commission Meetin ...
    The US Commission of Civil Rights investigation of a possible Justice Department cover-up relating to the New Black Panther voter intimidation case is heating up big time . Today's regularly scheduled meeting of the Commission almost turned into a a hockey game as an argument broke out over the poss ...
  • A Look Ahead at the U.S.-Israel and "Peace Process ...
    By Barry Rubin What will be the next developments regarding U.S.-Israel relations and the Israel-Palestinian “peace process,” and Israeli politics. It’s possible to make some good predictions, or at least to present the most likely scenarios. � On September 26, Israel’s one-year freeze on ...
  • Obama Gets Rid Of Useless Position--TRANSPARENCY C ...
    Remember this from Whitehouse.gov ? Transparency like you’ve never seen before October 30, 2009 at 04:31 PM EDT ..Today marks a major milestone in government transparency -- and an important lesson in the unintended consequences of such vigorous disclosure. We previously announced that the Whi ...

The Real Agenda

  • Biocombustíveis emitem 400 por cento mais CO2 do q ...
    Embora o CO2 não é o poluente que retratam os ambientalistas loucos, onde está a solução ambiental no uso atual dos biocombustíveis que emitem mais CO2 do que a gasolina ou o diesel? Não há nenhuma. Trata-se de manter um modelo corporacionista para manter um monopólio e o controle dos combustíveis e ...
  • Biocombustibles Emiten 400 por ciento más CO2 que ...
    Según el informe, la soja estadounidense tiene una 'huella de carbono' indirecta de 340kg de CO2 por gigajulio (GJ), mientras que el diesel y la gasolina crear sólo 85kg/GJ.
  • Biofuels Emit 400 percent more CO2 than Regular Fu ...
    Although CO2 is not the pollutant crazy environmentalists portray it to be, where is the environmental solution on the current use of biofuels if they emit more of that ‘pollutant’ than gasoline or diesel?  There isn’t any.  It’s all about monopoly and control. By Ethan A. Huff A recent report iss ...
  • Fundación Gates Financia Masivamente Consejo de La ...
    El sitio web de La Raza admite que "la organización recibe dos tercios de su financiación de las corporaciones y fundaciones, y el resto del gobierno." Para el período 1992-1996, la cantidad total de "regalos, donaciones y contribuciones" a La Raza fue más de $ 38 millones.
  • “Unregulated Greed has Destroyed the Capital ...
    What deregulation did was to permit Wall Street to push the deregulated industries-- phone service, airlines, trucking, and later Wall Street itself-- to focus on profits and not on service. Profits were increased by curtailing service, by pushing up prices and by Wall Street creating fraudulent fin ...

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

  • Racists show true colors, Headline screams “ ...
    Yep, people who owned the property BEFORE 9/11 and are putting up a community center are transformed into Muslim Extremists with the spin of a headline. President Barack Obama, who hasn’t admittedly backed ANYTHING “forcibly” since taking office, is transformed automatically into an Islamo-Fascist D ...
  • Failed Musicians, Earning Potential and Tort Refor ...
    Charlie Manson, David Koresh… described as âfailed musiciansâ because they played the guitar, and like the vast thundering herd of people who pick the git-fiddle they didnât make a career of it. Adolf Hitler, a âfailed artistâ even though, in the economic blight of inter-bellum Vienna, he ...
  • Private “security” PIG strangling a ma ...
    on the sidewalk OUTSIDE the property he’s supposed to be “protecting”. Telling the guy, who can’t see him because the PIG is standing on his back with a chokehold on him to “stop resisting and calm down” even though he’s being STRANGLED by the coward-ass TYPICAL PIG scumbag. And can’t hear the PIGS ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • The Problematic Promise of Nutritionism
    A commentary in last week’s Journal of the American Medical Association brings us a rematch between “nutritionism” and food. Written by leading health experts David S. Ludwig and Dariush Mozzafarian, Dietary Guidelines in the 21st Centuryâ a Time for Food, is the more rigorous, scientific backing ...
  • Massachusetts Doctors Write Prescriptions for … Ve ...
    Here’s an encouraging story from the commonwealth of Massachusetts. Doctors at three medical centers are literally prescribing produce to families with weight problems. Low income families receive actual coupons for redemption at local farmers markets. âA lot of these kids have a very limited rang ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Neocon inadvertently lets cat out of bag
    This is funny. While engaged in a standard Zionist whine about the media's unfairness to Israel, D.C. attorney Paul Mirengoff of the neocon blog Powerline lets the cat out of the bag--albeit without elaboration. The piece is called, "Name that ethnicity" and is about the fact that the Washington P ...
  • Goldberg’s war drums
    A few more takes on Goldberg's piece that seeks to rationalize an attack on Iran. First, Trita Parsi at Salon says that the piece represents a "campaign for war": It is important to note that the aim of this unfolding campaign may not be to pressure Obama into military action. It could just as [... ...
  • I ruin ‘Seven Samurai’
    My wife ordered Seven Samurai because it's one of my all-time favorite movies and now and then she makes an effort to appreciate what I like. We watched it last night. The first half hour of the Kurosawa classic is taken up with the farmers' pilgrimage to a provincial Japanese city to find some samu ...
  • ‘NYT,’ Bloomberg, Lehrer lead mainstre ...
    The weather is changing. Obama has at last crept out on the limb of supporting the mosque in downtown New York. The liberal media are preparing the ground for him. The other day Brian Lehrer of WNYC (whom I assailed repeatedly for the interview he did grilling the wife of the imam of the mosque [... ...
  • Birthright travel diary: Offering a Palestinian pe ...
    Last month, activist Rachel Marcuse spent 10 days in Israel as part of the�Taglit-Birthright program�-- a fully sponsored trip for young North American Jews to learn more about the country. She went to bear witness and ask questions about the Israeli state's treatment of Palestinians, and [ ...

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

  • Investing in schools and infrastructure is the bes ...
    In Washington, a great debate has broken out. The Republicans want to keep the Bush tax cuts in place, saying that it's a good stimulant for the economy. Others are saying direct funding by states in infrastructure and schools is a much better form of stimulus and growth. A new study by Jeff Thompso ...
  • 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 ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • France catches up as Kyoto crunch time looms
    Why have we seen two decades of static emissions in France? A report from France's ministery of sustainable development states that between 1990 and 2007 France carbon emissions have not declined. This is a little puzzling given that France is signed up to the Kyoto Protocol, an environmental treaty ...
  • India denounces report on politically incorrect su ...
    The Indian government is up in arms about a Lancet Infectious Diseases paper (subscription required) that traces the movements of an insensitively named superbug. The “New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase 1 (NDM-1) positive Enterobacteriaceae” comprise a new breed of multidrug-resistant bacterium. Ger ...
  • And the winner is… Harvard!
    The Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China has released its Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) , one of the top university rankings in the world. The ranking uses six indicators to rank universities, including the number of Nobel Prize winners, and the num ...
  • Ranbaxy CEO quits as profits fall
    Indian drug giant Ranbaxy announced yesterday that its CEO had resigned and its profits had fallen. Ranbaxy, over 60% of which is owned by Japanese pharma company Daiichi-Sankyo, is one of the largest generic pharma companies in the world but its recent travails have included accusations from the ...
  • 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 ...

new geography

  • In California Cool is the Rule, but Sometimes, Bad ...
    Californians value cool. I’m not sure how this came to be. It might be the weather. It might be the entertainment industry. Whatever the reason, Californians don’t get excited. Better to go with flow than to get excited. Things will be ok. Concerned about the economy? Stay cool Dude. It’ll ...
  • Syria: Luxury Rentals With A Turkish Backstory
    In looking for winners in the war in Iraq, a good place to start is the Damascus real estate market, which went from being a subprime, Axis-Of-Evil neighborhood to one where Iraqis with flight capital could stash their money. I had not connected the cost of a Syrian two-bedroom with those Iraqis wh ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

water.org

  • Matt Damon’s trip to Ethiopia for water (Top Cel.)
    Matt Damonâs trip to Ethiopia to advocate for clean water (Top Celebrity Headlines) – Matt Damon is advocating for clean water and plumbing throughout the world as part of the charity he co-founded, Water.org. He appeared in a video for CNN to show how difficult it is for people in rural northern ...
  • Barclay Martin helping Kenya with Water.org (Pitch ...
    Listen to the Barclay Martin Ensemble’s first single from its new album (The Pitch) – This record represents a culmination of years of study, practice, writing and love of making music together. It is a departure stylistically from our previous releases, perhaps a deeper understanding after years of ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Civil society groups protest possible banning of M ...
    Singling out the only organization on campus dedicated to the issues and concerns of Muslim students not only devalues the Muslim community as a whole, but also evinces political and religious discrimination on the part of UCI administrators. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� � ...
  • Israeli and Palestinian Women Find New Way to Chal ...
    Most of our Palestinian guests had never seen the sea [located less than 60 km from their homes - AO]. Most of them have never had the chance to pray in their holy places in Jerusalem/Al-Quds, and watched them longingly from Mount Scopus. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • Hamas creates volunteer program for Gaza's idle yo ...
    "We have noticed that the energy of Gaza's youth is being depleted by useless things, so we thought that their energy should be directed into useful activities. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Uribe's appointment to flotilla probe guarantees i ...
    Uribe's scorn for human right defenders is notorious. According to Human Rights First, "President Uribe and other administration officials have branded [human rights defenders] as terrorist sympathizers. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • No guns? They must be terrorists
    According to the Jersusalem Post the IDF told the inquiry that the group on the boat were "well-trained and likely ex-military" because "each squad of the mercenaries was equipped with a Motorola communication advice, so they could pass information... Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note- ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze


libcom

  • The Work of Violence: a timeline of armed attacks ...
    The School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal has just published an academic report on the attack on Abahlali baseMjondolo in the Kennedy Road settlement last year. Chance, K. (2010) The Work of violence:a timeline ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Response to your message to Organizing for America
    From: Organizing For America Date: Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:50 AM Subject: Response to your message to Organizing for America To: scotty Dear Friend, Thank you for contacting Organizing for America, the grassroots movement that’s working to help … Continue reading →
  • Guest Post: PETE-Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emissi ...
    Guest Post: I’d like to take a minute to discuss PETE with you and the readers of http://www.stlouisrenewableenergy.com/. Guest Post by:Jack Lundee j.lundee@gmail.com http://everythingleft.wordpress.com http://www.twitter.com/j_lundee New Device Out Of Stanford Combines Light And Heat Solar energy, ...
  • 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 →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

  • $55 Million Suit Against Paul Hastings Over Acquis ...
    A $55 million lawsuit by a unit of Cerberus Capital Management L.P. can proceed against Paul Hastings over allegations the firm gave faulty advice on a loan made in connection with a private equity firm's 2008 acquisition of bankrupt retailer Steve & Barry's. A New York judge said the law firm had n ...
  • Citing Improper Interrogations, Judges Reject Evid ...
    The government has lost eight of 15 cases in which Guantanamo detainees have said they or witnesses against them were forcibly interrogated, according to a review by nonprofit newsroom ProPublica. These cases offer the most detailed accounting yet of how information obtained by controversial tactics ...
  • Could Proposition 8 Case Fizzle Before Reaching S ...
    The high-profile battle over California's Proposition 8 has been touted as the case that could force the Supreme Court to face the issue of same-sex marriage. But now that Judge Vaughn Walker has ruled that Prop 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California, is unconstitutional, the possibility is ...
  • Video Copyright Owners Must Police the Internet
    With video cameras and players everywhere, it's no surprise that video sharing has become an industry with legal controversy. The much-anticipated decision in Viacom v. YouTube continues a trend: owners of video copyrights have the burden of policing their rights on the internet.
  • In Third Trial, Blogger Found Guilty of Threatenin ...
    A New York federal jury has found blogger Harold "Hal" Turner guilty of threatening to kill three 7th Circuit judges. After two mistrials, the third jury needed only 95 minutes to reach a decision. The jury was so quick to find that Turner's postings constituted a threat that the verdict was rendere ...

Iranian.com

  • Iran changes Ashtiani stoning sentence for adulter ...
    In a move apparently designed to deflect growing international criticism, Iran ’s government appears to be quietly moving away from death by stoning. Iran recently commuted a death by stoning sentence in the high-profile case of a 43-year-old mother of two convicted of adultery.
  • دفاع اداره سیاسی سپاه از اظهارات 'سردار مشفق'
    � سرتیپ یدالله جوانی، رئیس اداره سیاسی سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی ایران، اصالت اظهارات منسوب به "سردار مشفق" را تلویحا تأیید و از آن دفاع کرد. read more
  • Fall of the Islamic Republic, Pros and Cons
    The Islamic regime in Iran is now on a path to demise and it is time to discuss the arguments for and against its survival. Every observer of Iran’s political developments will consider the advantages and disadvantages of this demise. read more
  • کاهش ۷۳ درصدی فروش بنزین ترکیه به ایران
    خبرگزاری رویترز با استناد به آمار انجمن صادرکنندگان استانبول می‌گوید که اجرای تحریم‌های آمریکا علیه ایران باعث کاهش ۷۳ درصدی فروش بنزین ترکیه به ایران در ماه ژوئیه، ماه گذشته میلادی، شده ‌است. read more
  • The unintended consequences of Iranian trade sanct ...
    As the Iranian government continues to resist American political pressure to abandon its nuclear program, the United States and her allies have once again turned to economic sanctions as a method of enforcing their will — or, at least, so they intend. On June 9, 2010, the United Nations Security Cou ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Is Capitalism Doomed? - Part I
      The long taboo topic of the end of capitalism seems to be in fashion recently – a consequence of the deepening economic crisis that shows no signs of going away. In fact there’s even a website now www.theendofcapitalism.com . I distinctly recall talk of the federal government “nationalizi ...
  • A Psychiatrist Searches for Sanity in a Crazy Worl ...
    For OpEdNews: Michael David Morrissey – Writer Review of The Most Revolutionary Act: Memoir of an American Refugee , by Dr. Stuart Jeanne Bramhall (Eloquent Books, 2010) This is a frightening book. Much of it reads like a thriller, but unfortunately it is a true story. Dr. Stuart Jeanne ...
  • Is Capitalism Doomed? – Part I
    The long taboo topic of the end of capitalism seems to be in fashion recently – a consequence of the deepening economic crisis that shows no signs of going away. In fact there’s even a website now www.theendofcapitalism.com . I distinctly recall talk of the federal government “nationalizing” Wall St ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • The Gulf at the Gas Station
    This might be an opportune time to make a disclosure: I am a BP shareholder. Admittedly, I’ve never attended the company’s annual meeting, and if I did, I would have very little weight to throw around. I own two shares of BP stock . I received my stake in the company as a Christmas gift in 1989, whe ...
  • President Obama Promises to Protect Social Securit ...
    Remarks of President Barack Obama As Prepared for Delivery August 14, 2010 Washington, DC Seventy-five years ago today, in the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt signed Social Security into law, laying a cornerstone in the foundation of America’s middle class, and assuring gener ...
  • 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 ...

Salon

  • Feds: Teen 'sextortion' rising
    The nightmare began with a party: three teenage girls with a webcam, visiting an Internet chatroom and yielding to requests to flash their breasts. A week later, one of the girls, a 17-year-old from Indiana, started getting threatening e-mails.
  • Obama: GOP aims to kill Social Security
    President Barack Obama used the anniversary of Social Security to trumpet Democrats' support for the popular program and accuse Republicans of trying to destroy it.
  • This week in crazy: Dan Maes
    It seems scarcely possible to be too crazy for a state Republican Party in 2010, but the Colorado GOP is now trying to muscle gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes off the ticket.
  • Politics, bigotry and prison policy
    With headlines like " Obama Administration Promoting the Transmission of AIDS " and " The Justice Department Wants You to Get AIDS and Die ," there has been more heat than light in some of the responses to the news that the U.S. Department of Justice may sue the South Carolina Department of Corre ...
  • Obama defends "Ground Zero mosque"
    (updated below)

SMB News

  • Qaeda’s cause is gross distortion of Islam: Obama
    Qaedaâs cause is gross distortion of Islam: ObamaWASHINGTON: In a passionate defense of religious freedom, President Barack Obama on Friday waded into a bitter controversy by defending the right of Muslims to build a mosque just blocks from Ground Zero. “As a citizen, and as president, I believe t ...
  • 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 ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • The Bloc problem
    Canadians watch with frustration as Bloc Québécois celebrates it longevity.
  • Sri Lanka’s telling exodus
    Canada doesn’t have a Tamil “problem,” whatever critics of our refugee system may say about the arrival here of the cargo freighter MV Sun Sea with some 500 asylum-seekers. We processed 34,000 refugee claims last year; these arrivals won’t overtax ...
  • Enough ice follies
    Few Torontonians would dispute the city’s need for more community hockey rinks. Booming interest in girl’s hockey and foot-dragging on construction of new rinks have made ice time scarce. So a new four-pad skating complex proposed for Toronto’s wat ...
  • Copyright bill needs changes
    Copying someone’s work rather than paying for it is tantamount to theft. That’s why we have copyright laws to protect the producers of original works.
  • The real housing issue
    When the watering hole dries up, the animals start to look at each other differently. Rather similar is the situation today with Ontario’s severe affordable housing shortage.

    Blacklisted News

  • MOB RUSH FOR FED AID DRAWS RIOT POLICE
    30,000 line up for housing vouchers, some get rowdy
  • Student-Loan Debt Surpasses Credit Cards
    Americans owe some $826.5 billion in revolving credit, according to June 2010 figures from the Federal Reserve. (Most of revolving credit is credit-card debt.) Student loans outstanding today — both federal and private — total some $829.785 billion, according to Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid. ...
  • Google’s Secret Internal Vision Statement Reveals ...
    A confidential, seven-page Google Inc. “vision statement” shows the information-age giant in a deep round of soul-searching over a basic question: How far should it go in profiting from its crown jewels—the vast trove of data it possesses about people’s activities?
  • Russia deploys air defence missiles in Abkhazia
    Russia has deployed sophisticated air defence missiles in Georgia's pro-Moscow rebel region of Abkhazia, the air force commander said Wednesday, in a move that risks stoking tensions with Tbilisi.
  • Bloomberg: U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don't Even Know ...
    Let’s get real. The U.S. is bankrupt. Neither spending more nor taxing less will help the country pay its bills .

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Israeli Generals and Intelligence Officials Oppose ...
    Summary: Gareth Porter But Israel clearly cannot afford to risk a war with Iran without the assurance that the United States being committed to participate in it. That is why the Israeli lobby in Washington and its allies argue that Obama should support an Israeli strike, which would mean that h ...
  • The Atlantic ´s Iran debate . . . or echo chamber?
    Summary: Jeffrey Goldberg’s article in The Atlantic, “The Point of No Return”, laying out the neoconservative case for attacking Iran, is attracting a lot of attention and comment. source: The Race for Iran read more
  • The crisis of confidence between Iran and the Wes ...
    Summary: Interview with Francois Nicoullaud, former French ambassador in Tehran source: Iranian Diplomacy read more
  • “US wants to return Iran to its sphere of imperial ...
    Summary: Recent sanctions against Iran are an attempt by the US to return the country to its sphere of influence, claims veteran journalist John Pilger. source: Russia Today read more
  • Towards a World War III scenario? The role of Isra ...
    Summary: In a very real sense, the war plans against Iran, which has been on the Pentagon's drawing board for more than five years, threatens the future of humanity. This war can be prevented if people forcefully confront their governments, pressure their elected representatives, organize at th ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • The Daily "140" Insight: Richard Dawkins on 'On Sp ...
    "We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep...
  • EcoAlert: Massive New Greenland Iceberg Drifting T ...
    The Canadian government's top ice experts have begun planning how to deal with the massive iceberg that broke off a Greenland glacier last week and is expected to drift south over the next two years into East Coast shipping lanes...
  • Supernova Reveals a Stunning Fossil of the Early U ...
    At first, like an opening scene scene out a scifi classic, there didn't seem anything odd or unusual about the tiny point of light blinking in the southern Californian night sky in early April 2007. Only the robotic eyes of...
  • Novas in Milky Way Discovered Emitting Huge Gamma ...
    The story of the discovery of novas emitting gamma rays thought previously to come only from the more massive supernovas, opened in Japan during the predawn hours of March 11, when amateur astronomers Koichi Nishiyama and Fujio Kabashima in Miyaki-cho,...
  • Image of the Day: Russia's Fires Creating "Brown C ...
    This image was taken by the European Space Agency’s Envisat Earth-observing satellite. Moscow is in the lower left corner of the frame, and the field of view is several hundred kilometers across. Dozens of plumes from forest and peat bog...

Natural News

  • Guess where your fluoride comes from? China!
    (NaturalNews) Much of the fluoride added to municipal water supplies across the United States is imported from China, and is contaminated with heavy metals, according to a warning by Bernard Miltenberger, president of the Pure Water Committee of Western Maryland. In a letter published in the Cumberl ...
  • Offshore wind turbines could power the entire plan ...
    (NaturalNews) Offshore wind turbines could provide enough electricity for the entire world if connected into the right kind of grid, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Delaware and Stony Brook University and published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of ...
  • Achieving muscle fatigue, not lifting heavy weight ...
    (NaturalNews) A new study out of McMaster University says that lifting heavy weights is not the best way to gain healthy muscle mass. Lifting lighter weights until your muscles are tired is better, they say. "Rather than grunting and straining to lift heavy weights, you can grab something much light ...
  • Doctor urges fast food restaurants to hand out sta ...
    (NaturalNews) It sounds like an April Fool's joke, but it isn't: A doctor from Imperial College London whose study was published in the American Journal of Cardiology has proclaimed that people who eat burgers and milkshakes at fast food restaurants should be given free statin drugs (like ketchup pa ...
  • Eating well-done meat doubles your risk of develop ...
    (NaturalNews) You may want to think twice about cooking that meat well-done, according to a new study out of the University of Texas. Researchers there have found that charring meat by frying, barbecuing or otherwise heavily cooking it can lead to the formation of cancer-causing chemicals in the mea ...

Threat Level

  • Cyberwar Against Wikileaks? Good Luck With That
    View WikiLeaks insurance seeders in a larger map Should the U.S. government declare a cyberwar against WikiLeaks? On Thursday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told a gathering in London that the secret-spilling website is moving ahead with plans to publish the remaining 15,000 records from the A ...
  • Oracle-Google Suit Attacks Open-Source Software
    Oracle’s suit against Google over its Android mobile operating system signals a major reversal in the stewardship of Java under new management, and could be the first of many battles over the ubiquitous Web programming language, open source developers fear. Java was created by Sun Microsystems in 1 ...
  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • On Social Security, Angle Takes Both Sides in One ...
    The 2000 presidential campaign witnessed a fierce battle over the future of Social Security , pitting the private, personal accounts of George W. Bush versus Al Gore's "lockbox." Ten years later, Nevada Republican Senate hopeful Sharron Angle has taken both sides in a single day. In her just-relea ...
  • GOP's Paul Ryan Doubles Down on Medicare Rationing
    No doubt, Wisconsin Republican Congressman Paul Ryan's dashing good looks make the Washington chattering classes weak at the knees . But his policy proposals make most Americans - including most of his party leadership - sick to their stomachs. After all, the past week highlighted how Ryan's suppo ...
  • 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 ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Untitled
    Bidding is still running on these beautiful Eliza Gauger art pieces.
  • New York State Senate passes gas drilling (frackin ...
    ByJerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted atOnline Journal www.jerrymazza.com August 13, 2010 It isnt often these days that the good guys win one. But heres a beautiful example of a successful effort so far by the activist groupCatskill Mountainkeeper and friends. The fight to preven ...
  • The Women Who Won't Abandon the Gulf
    While the two main industries on the Gulf Coast, oil and fishing, are both male-dominated, it’s women who are now in leadership roles picking up after this latest mess.
  • Gas Is Really Costing Us About $15 a Gallon
    Calculating the true cost of living in a country built on oil.
  • EPA defers hearing on fracking By Jerry Mazza
    ByJerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.jerrymazza.com August 13, 2010 The New York Times and Catskill Mountainkeeper have reported that the EPAs last hearing on fracking, held in Canonsburg, Pa. in July drew over 1200 people without a hitch. Unfortunately, the follow-up, all-day hearing t ...

Consortium News

  • A Neocon Preps US for War with Iran
    Neocon writer Jeffrey Goldberg lays out Israel's case for why the US should join a new war with Iran, observes Ray McGovern. August 12, 2010
  • why Israel Wants a US War with Iran
    Neocons are beating new war drums, this time over Iran, to boost Israel's regional interests, write Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett. August 12, 2010
  • Don't Try These GOP Alibis at Home
    When powerful Republicans are in a pinch, they can use crazy alibis that would make anyone else look guiltier, says Robert Parry. August 12, 2010
  • Manning, Khadr: Cases of Conscience
    Two young men -- Bradley Manning and Omar Khadr -- are in jail for reacting to U.S. invasions, writes Lawrence Davidson. August 11, 2010
  • The Mosque, the Wall, and America
    The bitter protests against an Islamic center near Ground Zero remind Michael Winship of the fight over the Vietnam Wall. August 10, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Netroots Nation Wrap-Up
    Check out our final vlog on our visit to Las Vegas and Netroots Nation! ### By promoting cleaner energy, cleaner government, and cleaner air for all Texans, we hope to provide for a healthy place to live and prosper. We arePublic Citizen Texas. Filed under: Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, g ...
  • Great Texas Clean-Up Festival y’all!
    The Great Texas Clean-Up Festival is coming to Houston! The Sierra Club and Texas Environmental Justice are rolling out the Great Texas Clean-Up Festival, from 4-10 at the Discovery Green in Houston, an event expected to kick off a larger campaign to clean up Texas. Public Citizen is a coalition par ...
  • Arizona Corporation Commission Unanimously Approve ...
    Phoenix, AZ – Today, the Arizona Corporation Commission acted to save consumers and businesses money by unanimously approving a final Energy Efficiency Standard Rule. âThere was strong support from all five commissioners to significantly increase Arizonaâs commitment to energy efficiency via thi ...
  • Texas’ Dirty-Energy Money Affects California’s Cle ...
    Not only does the pollution of dirty energy companies extend across other states but so does their influence. Not far from Texas, California is fighting two big Texas oil companies to keep its air cleaner. To give you some background, California passed historic legislation in 2006 that mandates the ...
  • 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.

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

Climate

  • August 14-15, 2010
    BP Could Get Final "Go" to Kill Well by Tuesday (Reuters)  BP will get the go-ahead to finish a relief well to finally seal its blown-out oil well but is doing a last batch of testing and planning first, the top government official overseeing the Gulf spill said on Saturday. With BP Spil ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Helping Pakistan; not if, but how
    If there is a common thread to the relatively slow western response to one of the worst catastrophes in Pakistan’s history, it is a sense of confusion, not about whether to help, but how to help.
  • 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 ...

Booman Tribune

  • When You Lose the Grunts ...
    ... you've already lost the war: After months of deadly and often demoralizing fighting alongside mediocre Afghan forces in one of the Taliban's most intractable strongholds outside Kandahar city, the Americans in this Army company are asking themselves if it had been worth it. "I'm ready to g ...
  • Travel Notice
    All of my biological grandparents have passed away. That happens when your mother is 37 years-old at the time she gives birth to you. My maternal grandfather lived the longest. He was born in Hoboken in 1902 and I think he died in 1999, but maybe it was 2000. His wife (my grandmother) died in 19 ...
  • Doing the Right Thing
    I'm proud of Obama for doing the right thing and for doing so in such eloquent form. There's a lot of political pressure to make concessions to fear and bigotry and hate, but he didn't flinch.
  • Limbaugh Nonsense
    I have a kind of unwritten rule that I don't respond to right-wing talk radio hosts. That's why you so seldom see Rush Limbaugh mentioned at the Frog Pond. But apparently he's now arguing that it is the Democratic Party, not the Republicans, who want to keep black people out of positions of power ...
  • Stupid Craphammer
    Even if I agreed with Charles Krauthammer that the site of the former World Trade Center (ground zero) has the same meaning to Americans as Treblinka does for Jews, the proposed mosque is not at ground zero, but several blocks away. If someone actually proposed building a mosque at ground zero no ...

European Tribune

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

  • Father-Son Relationships Influence Adult Stress-Co ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Parent-child relationships influence how children grow up to see the world. Strained relationships can result in resentment and insecurity, and are a common topic of exploration and discussion when adults meet with therapists and counselors. But positive relationships ...
  • Stereotyping Has Long-Term Psychological Repercuss ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A new study looks at how being stereotyped influences people’s mental health and behavior, even after leaving the negative environment. In the study, people were given a task to perform, and half received subtly-stereotyped instructions that indicated they would do po ...
  • Not Just Shy: Shedding Light on Childhood Anxiety
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Plenty of kids are shy when put into a new situation, but for some children, shyness is part of a larger struggle with anxiety, which also manifests through worry and even depression. A new study suggests that childhood anxiety may be inherited, so learning what to lo ...
  • Depression: Do Our Habits Make Us More Vulnerable?
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Depression is a very common problem, with some estimates stating that one in four Americans will experience a major bout at least once in their life. In some cases, depression develops during a low period in one’s life, such as the loss of a loved one, the end of a lon ...
  • 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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Banks and Mountain Top Removal - Care2.com (blog)
    Care2.com (blog) Banks and Mountain Top Removal Care2.com (blog) While coal itself is a major contributor to climate change and water pollution, many companies use the process of mountain top removal (MTR) to acquire coal ...
  • EPA issues more new mountaintop removal guidance - ...
    EPA issues more new mountaintop removal guidance Charleston Gazette (blog) This entry was posted on Friday, July 30, 2010 at 5:01 pm and is filed under Mountaintop Removal . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS ... and more��
  • Wind vs. Coal: The Fight for a Mountaintop - New Y ...
    New York Times Wind vs. Coal: The Fight for a Mountaintop New York Times Mountaintop removal and other surface mining have redrawn landscapes in the West Virginia-Kentucky border region. Environmentalists propose a wind farm to ... and more��
  • Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) Cuts Off Mountaintop ...
    Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) Cuts Off Mountaintop Removal Mining Companies American Banking News Now, Wells Fargo is the last of the large-cap banks to enact policies which will prevent mountain top removal mining companies from receiving credit. ... and more��
  • Citizens talk about environmental impact and healt ...
    Southwest Virginia Today Citizens talk about environmental impact and health effects of mountaintop ... Southwest Virginia Today Mountaintop removal is a form of strip mining in which the summits of mountains are blown off in order to expose underlying coal seams for extraction. ... Inside the Mind ...

Memeorandum

  • 3 Republicans Criticize Obama's Endorsement of Mos ...
    Edward Wyatt / New York Times : 3 Republicans Criticize Obama's Endorsement of Mosque   —  WASHINGTON — Three leading Republicans reacted negatively to President Obama's statements in favor of a mosque and Muslim community center whose construction has been proposed for a building near the site for ...
  • Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on Two Continen ...
    New York Times : Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on Two Continents   —  WASHINGTON — At first, the news from Yemen on May 25 sounded like a modest victory in the campaign against terrorists: an airstrike had hit a group suspected of being operatives for Al Qaeda in the remote desert of Marib Pr ...
  • Hear Washington Speak (Josh Marshall/Talking Point ...
    Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo : Hear Washington Speak   —  We now have official Washington's response and take on the President's speech last night stating that Muslim-Americans have every right to build an Islamic center on private property near Ground Zero.  It comes in the form of Politico ...
  • Crist backs Obama on controversial Islamic center ...
    CNN : Crist backs Obama on controversial Islamic center   —  Florida Gov. Charlie Crist backed President Obama Saturday, saying the President's statement on a plan to build a controversial Islamic center and mosque near ground zero was correct.  —  Panama City, Florida (CNN) - In a boost …
  • Obama's comments take mosque story national (The P ...
    The Politico : Obama's comments take mosque story national   —  President Barack Obama on Saturday sought to defuse the controversy over his remarks on plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero, insisting that he wasn't endorsing the specific project but making a general plea for religious toleranc ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.2, Tonga
    Sunday, August 15, 2010 11:53:18 UTC Monday, August 16, 2010 12:53:18 AM at epicenter Depth : 7.30 km (4.54 mi)
  • M 5.1, Mariana Islands region
    Sunday, August 15, 2010 08:46:56 UTC Sunday, August 15, 2010 06:46:56 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.20 km (6.34 mi)
  • M 5.2, Neuquen, Argentina
    Sunday, August 15, 2010 07:50:36 UTC Sunday, August 15, 2010 04:50:36 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.0, Mariana Islands region
    Saturday, August 14, 2010 18:39:16 UTC Sunday, August 15, 2010 04:39:16 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.7, Mariana Islands region
    Saturday, August 14, 2010 16:35:44 UTC Sunday, August 15, 2010 02:35:44 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

  • “We must learn to want less”
    Following the frugal example set by our hunter-gatherer forebears is the best way to combat today’s environmental challenges, says geneticist Spencer Wells. He spoke with Robin McKie. Spencer Wells has a job that most people would kill for. He is explorer-in-residence for National Geographic and his ...
  • 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 ...

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Threat Level

  • Cyberwar Against Wikileaks? Good Luck With That
    View WikiLeaks insurance seeders in a larger map Should the U.S. government declare a cyberwar against WikiLeaks? On Thursday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told a gathering in London that the secret-spilling website is moving ahead with plans to publish the remaining 15,000 records from the A ...
  • Oracle-Google Suit Attacks Open-Source Software
    Oracle’s suit against Google over its Android mobile operating system signals a major reversal in the stewardship of Java under new management, and could be the first of many battles over the ubiquitous Web programming language, open source developers fear. Java was created by Sun Microsystems in 1 ...
  • 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • U.S. hopeful Pakistan can avert big cholera outbre ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. aid official said on Saturday he was optimistic a serious cholera outbreak could be averted in flood-hit Pakistan after emergency steps taken by international and Pakistani relief groups.
  • U.S.-South Korea drills anger North, worry China
    SEOUL (Reuters) - The U.S. and South Korean militaries will stage their second joint exercise in less than a month from Monday, fuelling tensions with the prickly North and angering regional power China.
  • U.N. chief urges faster foreign aid for Pakistan
    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged foreign donors to speed up aid to Pakistan after the country's worst floods in decades disrupted the lives of more than a tenth of its 170 million people.
  • Apple manager charged with taking kickbacks
    CHICAGO (Reuters) - A manager at Apple Inc has been charged in California with taking kickbacks he received after leaking corporate secrets to Asian companies that supplied iPhone and iPod accessories, court documents showed.
  • China paper warns military thinking outmoded
    BEIJING (Reuters) - China's military thinking is outmoded and should learn from others, especially the United States, when it comes to modernizing its vast armed forces, a leading armed forces newspaper said on Sunday.

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

  • Needing You
    Officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs believe that more than 6000 veterans will commit suicide in 2010. According to an article in Foreign Policy , an average of one soldier a day committed suicide in June. When Barack Obama spoke to Disabled Veterans of America (DVA) in Georgia on August ...
  • State and Local Stimulus Monies, drip....drip...dr ...
    Big chunk of economic stimulus yet to be spent by state, local governments August 14, 2010 - As Americans puzzle over why the economic stimulus package enacted more than a year ago has failed to restore vigorous job growth, one explanation has emerged from new reports: A lot of the money is not yet ...
  • The Costs of Wars Only Grow
    Iraq war winds down, but costs soar August 15, 2010 - President Obama announced recently with much fanfare that the number of U.S. troops in Iraq will be down to 50,000 by the end of August. All troops will withdraw by December next year. Clearly it is good news that the United States is finally ex ...
  • Universal Jurisdiction to Hold Israel Accountable
    Universal Jurisdiction to Hold Israel Accountable - by Stephen Lendman The well-established universal jurisdiction principle (UJ) holds that certain crimes are too grave to ignore, including genocide, crimes of war and against humanity. Thus, under UJ, nations may investigate and prosecute foreign n ...
  • A March of Folly
    The Afghanistan war is turning into a march of folly 14 August 2010 - When the WikiLeaks exposé of raw United States intelligence data and reports from Afghanistan hit computers worldwide, commentators in Pakistan reacted with vitriolic broadsides. One spoke of “Neocon vampires … blood-thirsty Islam ...

Grist - News

  • Urban guerrillas ‘fix’ São Paulo stree ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. This summer a group of bicycle and pedestrian activists in São Paulo, Brazil, grew tired of waiting on officials to fix the cities famously traffic-clogged streets. Instead they formed an "urban repair squad" and painted unauthorized makeshift crosswalks, bike lanes, and mes ...
  • Giant Greenland iceberg a climate ‘warning s ...
    by Agence France-Presse. PARIS -- A giant iceberg that snapped away from Greenland last week is a signal that global warming is causing the island's continent-sized ice cap to melt faster than expected, scientists say. The 100-square-mile chunk, four times the size of Manhattan, broke away fro ...
  • 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 ...

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Washington Independent

  • Ensign Blames CREW for Ethics Woes
    Senator John Ensign (R-Nev.) is raising money for a legal defense fund to fight the numerous ethics charges against him. In his appeal he blames Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which he refers to as “a liberal organization,” for his present troubles, and says he’s been “ ...
  • Treasury Announces Participants for Housing Confer ...
    Next week, the Treasury Department is holding a conference on the future of housing finance as Washington gears up to reform the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — which stabilize the housing market and whose bailout has cost $150 billion thus far — this fall. Yesterday, T ...
  • Conyers, Kaptur Bash Fannie for Penalizing Strateg ...
    This week, Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Edward DeMarco, the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, asking them to justify Fannie Mae’s policy of penalizing or suing strategic defaulters — those who can pay their ...
  • Why Are the Rangel and Waters Hearings Happening N ...
    The Ethics Committee has known about Rep. Charlie Rangel’s (D-N.Y.) violations since September 2008 and Rep. Maxine Waters’s (D-Calif.) misdeeds since June 2009, so why is it only making its findings available now? That’s the legitimate question that Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for ...
  • EPA Gets Into the Rapping Game
    The Hill brings us the perfect Friday afternoon August recess post. Yes, it’s true. The Environmental Protection Agency is rapping about climate change and conservation. Here’s a taste, from The Hill’s blog: âCome on and click, flip it, turn the handle to the right, turn off the water, twist the ...

Digg Green

  • Top 5 Endangered Sharks
    Even as sharks instill fear in the minds of beach goers, the ever-increasing reach of human impact on the oceans has placed several species in danger.
  • Genetically Modified Organisms Found in the Wild
    For the first time in the United States, populations of genetically modified organisms were found to be growing in the wild in North Dakota.
  • Mankind Must Abandon Earth or Face Extinction: Haw ...
    Mankind's only chance of long-term survival lies in colonising space, as humans drain Earth of resources and face a terrifying array of new threats, warned British scientist Stephen Hawking on Monday.
  • Climate change 'partly to blame' for sweltering Mo ...
    Global climate change is partly to blame for the abnormally hot and dry weather in Moscow, cloaked in a haze of smoke from wildfires, researchers say.
  • The Rise of Walking and Biking (Infographic)
    There are more people walking and biking year round, and the Department of Transportation is responding by dramatically increasing the amount of money spent on projects for pedestrians and cyclists. This is a look at the rise of foot-powered travel in America.

Invisible Opportunity

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

  • Sea Change Environmental Photography at Wassaic Pr ...
    ‘Burnt Tree’ photograph by Rob Hann The Wassaic Project in Dutchess County, NY, opens its doors to the public this weekend, and as part of their community-focused, multidisciplinary arts agenda, the exhibit Sea Change aims to push the boundaries of environmental art photography and investigations o ...
  • Egregious Packaging Hall of Shame: The Oral B Puls ...
    Brushing your teeth is a relatively simple task that requires 30 seconds or so of arm movement. Are we so lazy and out-of-shape that we need battery-operated contraptions to move our toothbrushes now? Oral B apparently thinks so. They’ve launched a new automatic Pulsar Toothbrush, that not only t ...
  • How Many Green Jobs Make Up Today’s Economy?
    Where are all the green jobs? The government has been trying to quantify today’s emerging green economy, and while we’re glad that the figures appear to be on the rise, we can’t help but wonder how accurate the accounts really are. A study conducted by the U.S. Department of Commerce in 2007 showed ...
  • Mini Modular Eco-Homes from Modern Playhouse
    Todayâs kids are quite the lucky bunch – not only are they more tech savvy than any other generation before, but theyâve got some awesome parents who are die hard to instill a little bit of modernism into them as well. Designed by San Franciso based environmentalist Gitane Royce, the Circle Hou ...
  • Rainbow OLED Origami Lights Fold to Make New Hues
    These dazzling lights, called Triangle Light Objects or Transparent Light Origami, are rainbow-colored OLED panels that are evocative of stained glass windows. Created by Emory Krall for Universal Display, their hinged design makes them interactive – you can actually fold different colors over one a ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • The Psychology of Power
    I’ve got a short essay this weekend in the Wall Street Journal on the dismal psychology of power: When CEO Mark Hurd resigned from Hewlett-Packard last week in light of ethics violations, many people expressed surprise. Mr. Hurd, after all, was known as an unusually effective and straight-laced exe ...
  • Ecosystem Engineering Could Turn Sprawl Into Sanct ...
    For over a decade, University of Arizona ecologist Michael Rosenzweig has preached a gospel of what he calls reconciliation ecology: designing everyday landscapes to support as many plants and animals as possible. He says it’s the only way of averting ecological catastrophe, which standard approac ...
  • Video: The Different Shapes of Iciclology
    A team of Canadian iciclologists has put to rest the notion that one frozen cone of drips is exactly the same as the next. By growing lots of icicles in controlled laboratory conditions, the scientists have uncovered evidence that runs counter to an earlier theory saying that all icicles should, by ...
  • Dark Energy and Exoplanets Top List of Astronomy P ...
    Dark energy and extra-solar planet studies received strong endorsement today in a once-a-decade astronomy and astrophysics prioritization report. The National Research Council recommended that the highest priority large-scale projects for the next decade should be the $1.6-billion Wide-Field Infrar ...
  • 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 ...

The Progressive Realist

  • President Obama Gets It Right on Mosque
    President Obama gets it right on the Mosque at Ground Zero during his remarks at last evening's White House Iftar Dinner . Was very pleased to see that our good friends Representatives Keith Ellison and Rush Holt were at the dinner. Yours truly was quoted by Sheryl Gay Stolberg in this morning's Ne ...
  • Obama on Religious Freedom
    Waking up, I’m also glad to see that the President took a strong stand in defense of religious freedom last night: “But let me be clear: as a citizen, and as President, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country. That includes the right to bu ...
  • Helping Pakistan Helps Ourselves
    As my colleague Shuja Nawaz has eloquently argued, massive American aid to help Pakistan recover from the humanitarian disaster of the recent flooding "may help improve America's image among a population that generally resents the United States."� But the converse is true, too:� doing too little ...
  • Diehl Assists in Netanyahu’s "Settlement Moratoriu ...
    When reviewing history, there’s interpretation, and then there’s just flat-out misleading your readers. Jackson Diehl’s editorial today is an example of the latter : Eighteen months ago, when the then-new Obama administration tried to jump start Middle East peace negotiations, the Palestinian presi ...
  • A Message for You, Hu Jintao
    One common interpretation of the message behind Jeffrey Goldberg’s Atlantic article is that Israeli officials are trying to scare the United States about the consequences of an Israeli attack on Iran in order to inspire us to take more dramatic anti-Iranian action. That’s very plausible. But I w ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The TAP Five.
    The five TAP pieces that have made a stir around the web this week. " A 20-Year Tug-of-War " " NYT On The So-Called Ground Zero Mosque " " But It's Awesome Broccoli for the Rich! " " All Politics Is Identity Politics " " How to Make a Liberal Foreign Policy "
  • Lightning Round: Evidence of our Far-Right Nation ...
    To riff off of David Weigel 's article explaining why crazy Republican candidates aren't necessarily doomed this Fall, what we're seeing in these candidates is an element of uncertainty added to what would ordinarily be a fairly predictable midterm election. Harry Reid , for instance, was toast unt ...
  • Yes, Local Races Are Mostly Local.
    In The New York Times today, Paul Bass writes that few broad lessons can be drawn from Tuesday's Connecticut primary. On the Democratic side, former Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy closed a big gap in the Democratic gubernatorial primary between him and front-runner Ned Lamont , who ran a self-financed ...
  • Release the Recess Appointments!
    After noting that Senate Republicans have blocked the nomination of Frank Ricciardone , a veteran diplomat slated to become the United States' next ambassador to Turkey, Nick Beaudrot expresses his frustration with the GOP's senseless obstructionism: I'm rapidly approaching the point where I thin ...
  • The Little Picture: Possible BlackBerry Ban in Ind ...
    The Indian government is currently threatening to shut down BlackBerry service within its borders if the device's maker, Research In Motion, does not provide it with access to data and encryption codes. The government is reportedly eyeing Skype and Google for similar demands as well. National-secu ...

Buzzflash

  • Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Scalia are (RATS) Protecti ...
    RICHARD STITT FOR BUZZFLASH Both Supreme Court justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas describe themselves as "originalists," meaning that they believe they possess the innate knowledge of exactly what the Founding Fathers intended when they penned the U.S. Constitution. Given such ...
  • Google-Verizon Pact Worse than Feared: Democracy o ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT The following is an August 9th news release from FreePress.net about the betrayal of Google, in its violation of net neutrality, with Verizon. "“This is not real Net Neutrality. And this pact would harm the millions of Americans who have pleaded with our leaders in Washington ...
  • Destruction is Coming from the Republican Radical ...
    BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZ FROM ATLANTA http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/paul-mcconnell-and-paul-warn-gopers-at-ky-breakfast.php?ref=fpb Destruction is coming from the Repuglican radical right side of the aisle and they want to continue to annihilate American Democracy and the Middle-Class!� Don ...
  • Martin Luther King’s Niece Calls Gay Marriage “Gen ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH I hear a comment like that and What occurs to me Is sometimes the apple does fall Far from the tree. � http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/dr-kings-niece-calls-gay-marriage-genocide-video.php?ref=fpb �
  • During World War II, Churchill Buried Reports Of U ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH � by Tony Peyser � “I have nothing to offer but Blood, toil, tears and sweat. Oh, and little green men are Actually our biggest threat.” � http://www.uncoverage.net/2010/08/winston-churchill-and-the-ufo/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood,_toil,_tears,_and_sweat � �

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Obama defends "Ground Zero mosque"
    (updated below) This is one of the most impressive and commendable things Obama has done since being inaugurated: President Obama delivered a strong defense on Friday night of a proposed Muslim community center and mosque near ground zero in Manhattan, using a White House dinne ...
  • Does the past record of journalists matter?
    The Atlantic 's James Fallows, whose analysis I often find worthwhile, yesterday defended Jeffrey Goldberg and his Iran article from unidentified critics �(emphasis added): Is this article warmongering? Or to put it more delicately, is it meant to condition the American public and politicia ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Drought in Russia; Floods in Pakistan and China; H ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 12, 2010 Union of Concerned Scientists A number of extreme weather events have been happening around the world this summer, including record flooding in Pakistan that has killed more than 1,000 people and displaced millions of others; the worst drought in Russia in de ...
  • Greenpeace Launches Three-Month Ship Expedition to ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 12, 2010 Greenpeace Greenpeace today launched a three-month ship expedition to support independent research into the impacts of the Gulf oil disaster on marine life, as well as researching the unique environments and marine life that are at risk. read more
  • Most "All Natural" Ben & Jerry's Flavors Have Unna ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 12, 2010 CPSI At least 48 out of 53 flavors of Ben & Jerry’s “All Natural” ice cream and frozen yogurt contain alkalized cocoa, corn syrup, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, or other ingredients that either don’t exist in nature or that have been chemically modified ...
  • Study: 60% of Species Recovery Plans Identify Glob ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 12, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity A scientific review of federal endangered species recovery plans finds that scientists are increasingly identifying global warming as an extinction threat but government agencies have yet to respond with any national s ...
  • Share of Popular Bottled Water from Municipal Supp ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 12, 2010 Food & Water Watch New analysis of industry data released today by the national consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch finds that almost half of all bottled water sold in U.S. retail outlets in PET plastic bottles now comes from municipal tap water suppli ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • 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 ...
  • Fox News, Making the "Dull Paragraph" Extinct
    by David Benjamin GREAT NECK, N.Y. - Over dinner last week, I lost an argument with a crack journalist over the failure of what I called the "mainstream media" - primarily TV news - to edify the public on complicated issues. I lost the argument, mostly because I spoke out of frustration. read mo ...
  • Countdown to Collapse: The Recovery is Not Recover ...
    by Danny Schechter Financial journalist Charles Gasparino whose career trajectory took him from Newsweek to CNBC to Fox News was on with Bill O' Reilly doing what the host of the factless Factor likes to do the most: promote Fox News. In the course of their self-promotional banter, Gasparino let si ...
  • Wikileaks and War Crimes
    by Jeremy Scahill Four months before WikiLeaks rocketed to international notoriety, the Robin Hoods of the Internet quietly published a confidential CIA document labeled "NOFORN" (for "no foreign nationals")-meaning that it should not be shared even with US allies. That's because the March "Red ...
  • The Fight Against Fracking
    by Maura Stephens When politicians refer to natural gas as a "clean" alternative to oil and coal , they seldom mention a commonly used technique called horizontal hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. read more

Karl Burkart

Empty newsfeed.

Water Privatization

  • Power firm urged to stop power rate increase
    DAVAO CITY Councilor Leah Librado expressed opposition over Davao Light and Power Company's (DLPC) pending imposition of an eight-centavo power rate increase, saying it will only burden majority of Dabawenyos, specially the poor. read more
  • With Obama address, Democrats revive specter of GO ...
    Reviving a political tactic that Democrats have used before, President Obama said in his radio address Saturday that "some Republican leaders in Congress" want to privatize Social Security -- even though few GOP lawmakers today support the idea. Democratic - United States - Politics - Barack Obama - ...
  • Social services in jeopardy says Obama
    President Barack Obama has accused Republicans of trying to bring down the social security system in the US.
  • With Obama address, Democrats revive specter of GO ...
    Reviving a political tactic that Democrats have used before, President Obama said in his radio address Saturday that "some Republican leaders in Congress" want to privatize Social Security -- even though few GOP lawmakers today support the idea.
  • Government Urged to Review MWSS Privatization, Uph ...
    By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL The Water for the People Network is blaming the privatization of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage Systems for the water shortages. It warns that the plans of the Aquino administration to fast track more privatization projects, through its planned public-private partner ...

Guardian

  • Pakistan floods: UN urges world to step up aid eff ...
    Secretary general Ban Ki-moon visits affected regions and meets government leaders as fears of further flooding grow The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, has urged the world to speed up aid efforts to Pakistan as the country braces itself for further flooding with the waters of the swollen Indus r ...
  • Red Cap murders: charges dropped
    Iraqi judge rules that five arrested this year have no case to answer in death of six Royal Military Police officers in 2003 Five Iraqis accused of the murder of six British Royal Military Police officers in 2003 have had their charges dropped, the Ministry of Defence confirmed today. Armed forces m ...
  • Tributes to soldier killed in crash
    Relatives and colleagues remember 'brave, determined and dedicated' Rifleman Remand Kulung Tributes were paid today to a soldier who died last week following a helicopter accident at a British base in Afghanistan. Rifleman Remand Kulung, from 1st Battalion the Mercian Regiment, was injured while on ...
  • Howard backs calls for Kelly inquest
    Former Conservative leader says 'growing number of questions' have emerged over death of weapons expert in 2003 The former Conservative leader Michael Howard today backed calls for a a full inquest into the death of the government weapons expert Dr David Kelly .His call came after a group of promine ...
  • Liverpool v Arsenal
    * Click F5 to refresh or tick the auto-refresh box * Send your thoughts to Chris Laws: "The fantasy football season is back upon us once again! By interest, who have you gone for as captain this week? I went for a steady Lampard, bit disapointed with only one goal and no assists our of six mind!" Pr ...

McClatchey

  • Commentary: We have no right to judge
    He had no right to judge.
  • Commentary: You can't legislate acceptance
    After nearly 50 years of civil-rights legislation, where do we stand? Ask my friend Eric Deggans, the television critic at the St. Petersburg Times. When Eric, who is black, returned home from a trip last week, he found a message on his phone from an irate reader suggesting he get a TV show titled A ...
  • Earmarks a central theme in Washington state's U.S ...
    WASHINGTON — As he runs for the U.S. Senate from Washington state, Republican Dino Rossi loudly criticizes his opponent, incumbent Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, for earmarking hundreds of millions of dollars for the state in federal spending bills.
  • Gitmo trial suspended as lawyer hospitalized
    GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- Omar Khadr's Army defender was at Walter Reed Army Medical Center outside Washington D.C. Saturday undergoing tests after collapsing at the war court two days earlier.
  • Union protests Schwarzenegger's furlough outside h ...
    A line of purple filled a Sacramento sidewalk Friday evening as state workers protested Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's latest furlough order outside a theater showing his latest movie.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Mea culpa and au revoir
    As several readers have pointed out in comments on my previous post , and several more by e-mail, I made a schoolboy howler in this week's article about how rice yields are responding to temperature rise in Asia. There are 101 reasons I could bore you with as to why it happened, but essentially it ...
  • 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 ...

The Wonk Room

  • Will Record High Youth Unemployment Lead To A Lost ...
    Our guest blogger is Sabina Dewan, Associate Director of International Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Dorian Gray sold his soul for eternal youth. If he had to make the choice all over again in today’s economy, would he do it? Youth – a term that generally embodies ...
  • If Doctors Were Climate Scientists, We’d Be ...
    In a case of climate malpractice, too many journalists and scientists are now overemphasizing the difficulty of understanding anthropogenic warming’s influence on weather. Right now, this is how many climate scientists and the journalists who cover climate are talking about the unprecedented weather ...
  • New Housing Policy Brief Shows GOP Is More Interes ...
    Next week, the Obama administration is hosting a meeting focused on finding ways to begin addressing the country’s broken housing finance system. For the last year or so, the Treasury Department has been saying that the next big effort following financial regulatory reform would be figuring out what ...
  • Diehl Assists In Netanyahu’s ‘Settleme ...
    When reviewing history, there’s interpretation, and then there’s just flat-out misleading your readers. Jackson Diehl’s editorial today is an example of the latter: Eighteen months ago, when the then-new Obama administration tried to jump start Middle East peace negotiations, the Palestinian presid ...
  • Helping Pakistan Is In US National Interest
    The flooding in Pakistan is an immense catastrophe and has overwhelmed the ability of the Pakistani government to respond. As the Progress Report today explains, âmassive monsoonal flooding continues to ravage the country, leaving one-fifth of Pakistan underwater. After weeks of flooding, about 14 ...

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

  • Which Is Better: A Tiny Number Of Creators Hitting ...
    When we point to examples of musicians or other content creators embracing new business models to make a living, one of the complaints sometimes is that the amount of money they're making is not huge. They're making a living, but they're not living the rockstar lifestyle. We sometimes get snide co ...
  • Why Waiting Until A New Business Model Is Proven D ...
    One of the criticisms of our business model discussions here is something along the lines of "but how will this replace the $x billion already made." Or, alternatively "well, how can you expect anyone to switch until you show that it will replace what they already are doing?" The answer, of course ...
  • Teacher Loses Defamation Lawsuit Against Student J ...
    One of the points of a student newspaper is to teach kids about journalism, and it looks like one student at Churchill High School in Nevada got quite the lesson when the school's music teacher sued the student for defamation , after an article that was critical of the music teacher was published. ...
  • National Youth Rights Association Looking For Exam ...
    With the Supreme Court getting ready to hear the case on the constitutionality of California's anti-violent video game law , lots of different folks are preparing their amicus briefs. The National Youth Rights Association is pointing out that most of the people involved in the case -- likely all of ...
  • Anonymous Mexican Blog Becomes Go To Source For Dr ...
    A few years back, we had noted that Mexican gangs were actually some of the earlier adopters of YouTube , using it as a communications platform, posting videos of the different crimes they had committed and communicating with and taunting other gangs. So, perhaps it's no surprise that a recently la ...

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

  • Is Zero-Waste Fashion Penetrating the Mainstream?
    Loomstate's Scott Mackinlay Hahn (center) with a five-pocket jean pattern. Photo: Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times About 15 to 20 percent of fabric used to produce clothing ends up in the nation's landfills. Pioneers behind zero-waste fashion have a solution: designing clothing patterns that u ...
  • Facebook Petition to Save Lake Skadar Made a Dam D ...
    Image: chrn, Flickr TreeHugger joined our friends at Wild Wonders of Europe in putting out the call for signatures on a FaceBook petition to Save Lake Skadar . Thanks to all of you who signed, the strategy is bearing fruits. WWF has announced that the Montenegrin government has decided to call ...
  • U.S. Cancels Some of Brazil's Debt in Exchange For ...
    photo via flickr If only Visa treated my debt the way the U.S. is treating debt from developing countries. On Friday, the Obama Administration announced that it will cancel debt from Brazil in exchange for forest protection. The U.S. has done the same for Bangladesh, Belize, Botswana, Colombia, ...
  • Can Great Design Redeem the Parking Garage?
    Image Courtesy of: archdaily.com Parking garages are generally considered to be a necessary evil: necessary because everyone drives; evil because they are usually drab, ugly concrete structures that take up valuable urban space. Yet in recent years, architects and designers have been working to ...
  • Amazon Tribe Battles Rabid Vampire Bats
    Image credit: Zeusandhera /Flickr At the edge of the Amazon, a remote tribe suffers a plague of rabies spread by desperate vampire bats. It sounds like the plot from a bad B-movie, but the reality is far more grim: More than 500 people have been infected and at least four children have died. ...

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 ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

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

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Scott Horton on the depressingly cynical logic behind the Guantánamo show trials : “You can count on it that the convening authority will not get around to announcing the actual sentence until sometime after the midterm elections in ...
  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Victory! Judge Revokes Approval of Modified Sugar ...
    A federal district court judge revoked the government's approval of genetically engineered sugar beets Friday, saying that the Agriculture Department had not adequately assessed the environmental consequences before approving them for commercial cultivation. Click here to read this article
  • Bollywood Superstar Aamir Khan Shines the Spotligh ...
    An interview with Khan's about his new film, "Peepli Live," which explores the deadly consequences of India's shift to a neo-liberal economic model. Click here to read this article
  • States Make Anti-Union, Preemptive Strike Against ...
    PHOENIX - With Washington silent for now on legislation championed by unions, the debate is playing out instead in the states. Click here to read this article
  • Ignoring the Obvious: The Floods and Fires, the Dr ...
    You may know I've just returned from Niger. There, tens of thousands of people are facing extreme hunger because of the droughts of the last two years. The rainy season is under way but the rains around the capital of Niamey have been torrential and persistent. It's not what is needed. The water is ...
  • U.S. Unsure if Cloned Meat has Been Sold in North ...
    OTTAWA - The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture on Tuesday said he doesn't know whether cloned cows or their offspring have made it into the North American food supply. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

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

  • Stuff I forgot to post
    It was Annie Oakley’s 150th birthday yesterday. (No, the video didn’t load for me either.) That and I’ve been forgetting to post cartoons the last few days. -
  • Autres de jour
    Slow getting going this morning. Started with tea but after an hour of not getting past the “who cares” mark on the outrage-o-meter, I gave up and made another half pot of coffee. Start with Tim Rutten today: There were vulgar Nativist firebrands from the 1840s forward who indulged in hysteria about ...
  • Caffeinated
    Busy morning compounded by a ringing phone and seasonal pollen, not to mention the usual bad behavior from the right. That and the new Firefox build won’t let me run AdBlock, and I’m rediscovering the Flash-driven ads that made my life hell before. So yes, I cheated and made a pot of coffee. It’s ki ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • U.S. judge bans planting of genetically engineered ...
    A federal judge on Friday banned the planting of genetically modified sugar beets engineered by Monsanto Co in a ruling that marks a major setback for the biotech giant. Submitted by Rodger Ricketts to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The Council of Canadians
    25 years ago a group started an alternative information network for political activism. Realizing they were outfinanced by business to bamboozle the public into promoting candidates for office they decided to uncover the shortcomings of those in power. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-i ...
  • Canadas problem child
    Omar Khadr's historic trial before a discredited American military tribunal promises to shame not only U.S. President Barack Obamas administration but also Stephen Harpers acquiescent Conservative government. And it may well bring the law into disrepute Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & G ...
  • There are no liberals
    Ed Martin : all self-defined Republican conservatives have defined us as liberal/progressives. Does it make sense to you to allow people who haven't been right about anything to define for you who you are? Of course not. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Commen ...
  • Fungi Digest Plastic Trash
    Fungi Digest Plastic Trash Submitted by Vivien Green to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • A Death in Solitary: Did Corrections Officers Help ...
    A Death in Solitary: Did Corrections Officers Help an Inmate Kill Himself? | Civil Liberties | AlterNetWhen Matthew Bullock, a 32-year-old convicted killer, fashioned a noose from a bed sheet that he... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • 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...]]

Farm Wars

  • Cow farts, road dust and the Environmental Protect ...
     The PPJ Gazette Marti Oakley (c)copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved _____________________________________________________________ I recently wrote concerning the CLEAR Act: They are Stealing it all and noted in that article one of those strange little insertions appearing to have no real bearing on ...
  • Marti Oakley and Barb Peterson: The Truth Squad th ...
    Our topics for the first half of the hour will be the Codex, Fluoride, Auschwitz, Monsanto connection, as well as Dust Regulations, No Till, and Monsanto's Monopoly. On the second half of the show we will be talking with Paul Griepentrog, our guest from last week,about the Organics Illusion.
  • Cargill in the Crosshairs
    In the Crosshairs with Barb Peterson Cargill is dumping toxic waste into our water supply. To listen, click this link: Cargill in the Crosshairs more info
  • Inspirational Horsemanship
    This is what horsemanship looks like.
  • Dust Regulations, No Till, and Monsanto’s Food Mon ...
    It looks like our friends in the Monsanto-controlled government corporation are up to their eyeballs in promoting GMOs again. This time by making it so costly and difficult to grow normal crops, that farmers are shoved right into the waiting maws of Monsanto again.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • U.S.-Saudi Arms Plan Grows to Record Size
    ShareThis U.S.-Saudi Arms Plan Grows to Record Size --Addition of Apaches, Black Hawks Swells Deal to $60 Billion 14 Aug 2010 The Obama administration plans to include attack helicopters in an expanded arms package for Saudi Arabia, swelling the size of the proposed deal to as much as $60 billion ov ...
  • Ill.-based bank is 110th U.S. failure of the year
    ShareThis Ill.-based bank is 110th U.S. failure of the year --FDIC: Bank's failure will cost the deposit-insurance fund $72 million 13 Aug 2010 Palos Heights, Ill.-based Palos Bank and Trust Company was closed by regulators Friday, marking the 110th U.S. bank failure of 2010. Palos Bank and Trust Co ...
  • Obama Signs Border Bill to Increase Surveillance
    ShareThis Obama Signs Border Bill to Increase Surveillance 14 Aug 2010 President Obama signed into law a $600 million bill on Friday to pay for 1,500 new border agents, additional unmanned surveillance drones and new Border Patrol stations along the southwest border. The measure sailed through Congr ...
  • 2 killed, 16 wounded in violence in northern Iraq
    ShareThis 2 killed, 16 wounded in violence in northern Iraq 13 Aug 2010 Two people were killed and at least 16 people were wounded in multiple bombings targeting police and anti-al Qaeda fighters in the city of Samarra, Iraq, Friday evening, according to local police. Several bombs exploded outside ...
  • U.S. sends help as fires close in on Russian nucle ...
    ShareThis U.S. sends help as fires close in on Russian nuclear base 13 Aug 2010 The United States is sending firefighting equipment to Russia to help deal with 500 wildfires burning across the country, one of which threatens a nuclear base. The blazes have been sparked by the hottest summer ever rec ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

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  • 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.

Mondoweiss

  • Neocon inadvertently lets cat out of bag
    This is funny. While engaged in a standard Zionist whine about the media's unfairness to Israel, D.C. attorney Paul Mirengoff of the neocon blog Powerline lets the cat out of the bag--albeit without elaboration. The piece is called, "Name that ethnicity" and is about the fact that the Washington P ...
  • Goldberg’s war drums
    A few more takes on Goldberg's piece that seeks to rationalize an attack on Iran. First, Trita Parsi at Salon says that the piece represents a "campaign for war": It is important to note that the aim of this unfolding campaign may not be to pressure Obama into military action. It could just as [... ...
  • I ruin ‘Seven Samurai’
    My wife ordered Seven Samurai because it's one of my all-time favorite movies and now and then she makes an effort to appreciate what I like. We watched it last night. The first half hour of the Kurosawa classic is taken up with the farmers' pilgrimage to a provincial Japanese city to find some samu ...
  • ‘NYT,’ Bloomberg, Lehrer lead mainstre ...
    The weather is changing. Obama has at last crept out on the limb of supporting the mosque in downtown New York. The liberal media are preparing the ground for him. The other day Brian Lehrer of WNYC (whom I assailed repeatedly for the interview he did grilling the wife of the imam of the mosque [... ...
  • Birthright travel diary: Offering a Palestinian pe ...
    Last month, activist Rachel Marcuse spent 10 days in Israel as part of the�Taglit-Birthright program�-- a fully sponsored trip for young North American Jews to learn more about the country. She went to bear witness and ask questions about the Israeli state's treatment of Palestinians, and [ ...

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

  • Is Zero-Waste Fashion Penetrating the Mainstream?
    Loomstate's Scott Mackinlay Hahn (center) with a five-pocket jean pattern. Photo: Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times About 15 to 20 percent of fabric used to produce clothing ends up in the nation's landfills. Pioneers behind zero-waste fashion have a solution: designing clothing patterns that u ...
  • Facebook Petition to Save Lake Skadar Made a Dam D ...
    Image: chrn, Flickr TreeHugger joined our friends at Wild Wonders of Europe in putting out the call for signatures on a FaceBook petition to Save Lake Skadar . Thanks to all of you who signed, the strategy is bearing fruits. WWF has announced that the Montenegrin government has decided to call ...
  • U.S. Cancels Some of Brazil's Debt in Exchange For ...
    photo via flickr If only Visa treated my debt the way the U.S. is treating debt from developing countries. On Friday, the Obama Administration announced that it will cancel debt from Brazil in exchange for forest protection. The U.S. has done the same for Bangladesh, Belize, Botswana, Colombia, ...
  • Can Great Design Redeem the Parking Garage?
    Image Courtesy of: archdaily.com Parking garages are generally considered to be a necessary evil: necessary because everyone drives; evil because they are usually drab, ugly concrete structures that take up valuable urban space. Yet in recent years, architects and designers have been working to ...
  • Amazon Tribe Battles Rabid Vampire Bats
    Image credit: Zeusandhera /Flickr At the edge of the Amazon, a remote tribe suffers a plague of rabies spread by desperate vampire bats. It sounds like the plot from a bad B-movie, but the reality is far more grim: More than 500 people have been infected and at least four children have died. ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • A wave of dissent-activists start campaign opposin ...
    Generation Wave, a group of young Burmese activists, start a campaign to boycott 'unfair and undemocratic' 2010 elections in central Rangoon
  • 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

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

  • Ocean Color Can Deflect Hurricanes, Study Suggests
    When seas change color, storms change direction, a new study suggests. Earth Sciences - Oceanography - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Tropical cyclone - Meteorology
  • 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

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Blogger convicted for death threats against federa ...
    [JURIST] A right-wing blogger from New Jersey was convicted by a federal jury Friday for death threats made on his blog against federal judges who upheld a gun control law. Harold "Hal" Turner [advocacy website], a one-time FBI informant on white-supremacist groups, was convicted [NJ Record report] ...
  • Obama signs bill to increase US southern border se ...
    [JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official website] Friday signed legislation designed to increase security along the US-Mexico border. The Act [HR 6080 materials] allocates an additional $600 million toward hiring 1,000 new Border Patrol [CPB officlal website] agents and 200 special agents, build ...
  • UN rights committee calls for repeal of anti-lepro ...
    [JURIST] The UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee [official website] on Friday called for the repeal [press release] of all laws that discriminate against people affected by leprosy. The committee also drafted a recommended set of principles and guidelines [UN News Centre report] to be used by ...
  • Guatemala corruption commission issues arrest warr ...
    [JURIST] The International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) [official website] on Wednesday announced that it had issued arrest warrants for former government officials in relation to the extrajudicial killing of several inmates following a 2007 prison riot. The CICIG issued 18 warra ...
  • Former Sri Lanka army chief Fonseka convicted of e ...
    [JURIST] A Sri Lanka court martial on Friday found former army chief Sarath Fonseka [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] guilty of engaging in politics while on active duty. Sentenced to a dishonorable discharge, Fonseka was accused of trying to secure a place in a political party [Al Jazeera report] ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Pentagon Wants to Secure Dot.Com Domains of Contra ...
    To better secure unclassified information stored in the computer networks of government contractors, the Defense Department is asking whether the National Security Agency should begin to monitor select corporate dot.com domains, several officials and consultants briefed on the matter said. Und ...
  • Would a Payroll Tax Holiday Stimulate the Lame Duc ...
    The White House is stuck.� There's no reason for consumer spending to grow now, demand for financial instruments is high, businesses won't lend, the official unemployment rate remains short of 10 percent, and the White House seems to have run out of big ideas. After November, Democrats and Republica ...
  • The Optics of Petraeus's Media Blitz
    What's the reason for General David Petraeus's media blitz this week? A spokesperson said that it was "simply time to start doing media again," now that the general has had time to get a more granular picture of the war in Afghanistan. In other words: get out of the way, journalist. Media blitz is y ...
  • 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 ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Man May Propose and God Dispose, But in Israel the ...
    There is a saying that Man proposes and God disposes (in U.S. politics it’s “the President proposes, Congress disposes”).  But in Israel the IDF proposes AND disposes.  This is a process of which I have long been especially critical.  In most democracies the military echelon answers to the politi ...
  • U.S. Claims PA to Return to Direct Negotiations, Q ...
    If the Haaretz headline is right (which I by no means concede) and the U.S. claim that the PA is about to return to direct peace negotiations, and that the Quartet will issue a statement saying that 1967 borders are the basis for such a negotiation–are all correct…then how does that square with Isra ...
  • Israel Continues Effort to Turn MK Zoabi into Terr ...
    Readers of this blog will recall a post I wrote after the Mavi Marmara massacre in which Israeli Palestinian MK Haneen Zoabi was physically assaulted as she attempted unsuccessfully to address the Knesset on her return from her participation in the flotilla.  Subsequent to that, the Knesset further ...
  • Mossad’s Brodsky Too Hot for Germany to Handle
    Germany decided that helping solve the al-Mabouh assassination was one potato that was too hot to handle when it released Mossad spy “Uri Brodsky” on bail and told him he could leave Germany immediately for Israel.  The German ‘cave’ is breathtaking in its abjectness.  I presume that Angela Merkel ...
  • 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 ...

Ode Magazine

  • A new look at the bygone beauty of planet Earth
    By: VictoriaKlein Past the strip malls, highways, and shrinking public parks, there’s a side of the Earth you’ve never seen. At 4.5 billion years old, planet Earth has been around a lot longer than you or me (obvious, no?). Before some companies attempt to ...
  • Cultural healing
    Chris Ntombemhlophe Reid cuts off the neck of a chicken. Its blood drips into the river that winds through the Pondoland region in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is a gruesome act, yet one that is carried out with respect and ceremony—an offering to his an ...
  • Getting back to the land
    Other sustainable farms around the world ripe for the visiting. Herrmannsdorfer Landwerkstatten Glonn, Germany Forty minutes southeast of Munich sits a 450-acre sustainable farm and food complex started by Karl Ludwig Schweisfurth after the former “sausage king” sold hi ...
  • “Cultural activities improve mental health”
    Sweden has recently launched a pilot project to help patients suffering from chronic depression; stress; anxiety; or back, shoulder and neck pain by prescribing cultural activities. Karin Berg, project manager at Capio clinic in Helsingborg, which hosts the trials, explains. ...
  • Teaching kids to be thoughtful citizens of the wor ...
    By: VictoriaKlein The wired generation, the hope for the future, and the apple of our eye – they’re kids. Whether you have your own, adopt, or decided to be child-free, there will always be kids that need good role models to teach them the ways of the worl ...

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • Thousands Rally For Jobs And Public Transit In L.A ...
    Thousands of workers and union representatives, a smaller contingent of environmentalists and transportation advocates, and a host of elected officials including Senator Barbara Boxer and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa converged on L.A. City Hall's south lawn earlier today for a massive ...
  • Obama CCS Task Force releases its report
    On February 3, 2010, President Obama established an Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) with the goal of developing a comprehensive and coordinated Federal strategy to speed the commercial development and deployment of carbon capture and storage technologies in l ...
  • Asian Carp: "Oh crap, they hurt" on the Wabash Riv ...
    Brendan Kearns can’t stop giggling. What he saw on a recent river tour with his pal Mark Kirby is indeed amazing, the water was alive with massive jumping fish that eventually pelt their boat. It is so amazing that his only reaction is to laugh in wonder. I can’t ...
  • Gulf Coast Disaster - Friday, August 13
    Day 116 Highlights in this issue: - Work on relief well to continue - Poll: Gulf spill more damaging than Katrina - BP moves to restoration phase - Too soon to cheer about oil spill success - Jindal convinces Coast Guard to stay put for a week This afternoon’s summary Not yet The ...
  • Strong recovery plan needed for gray wolves; China ...
    Matt Skoglund explained to the Associated Press that a sustainable plan is needed to ensure a strong recovery for the gray wolf population in the Northern Rocky Mountains… Alex Wang spoke with United Press International about China’s dramatic announcement that it will be closing more t ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Tendentious people are tendentious (and frequently ...
    It will surprise no one who read my previous post to learn that the folks at Big Hollywood loved The Expendables exactly as much as they are ideologically required to anticipated. Still, John Nolte’s review is a teleological marvel. What he likes about the film is the simple straight-forward plot, ...
  • Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives
    I wonder where this rates?  Sadly, this sort of invective, especially the advice to not marry out of one’s race, will likely enhance her ratings. And hell, we have a black President, right, so racism is over now, not worse, right? Related posts:The Conservative Race Contradiction It’s The Turnout ...
  • The Right Thing
    Good: âI understand the emotions that this issue engenders. Ground zero is, indeed, hallowed ground,â the president said in remarks prepared for the annual White House iftar, the sunset meal breaking the dayâs fast. But, he continued: âThis is America, and our commitment to religious freedom ...
  • Who does Aaron Burr have to blow to get on this li ...
    Via John Cole, I see that an intrusion of C-list wingnut bloggers have compiled a 1list of the worst Americans evah. It’s just as unimaginative as you’d expect — James Earl Carter secures top honors, with almost four times as many votes as Mr. and Mrs. Clenis, both of whom share 23rd place with [.. ...
  • It’s here! It’s finally here! Today I ...
    And by “it,” I mean the day when white men and white male interests are finally represented in American cinema again, for today is the day that The Expendables is released. Given my interests and the past few months of my life, you might think I’d be more excited about the film based on [...] Rel ...

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.

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 ...
  • As Fires Continue to Burn, Carbon Monoxide Levels ...
    This NASA satellite image, compiled using sensors that measure pollution in the troposphere, shows that carbon monoxide levels have reached high levels in Western Russia as forests and peat bogs have burned during the nation’s worst heat wave in history. The image shows levels of carbon monoxide — a ...
  • Plastics and Detergents May Contribute to Lobster ...
    Waterborne chemicals leached from plastics and detergents, including bisphenol A (BPA), may have contributed to significant lobster die-offs in the waters of Long Island Sound over the last decade, researchers say. As many as half of the lobsters tested in areas where lobster populations have plunge ...
  • Interview: New Sierra Club Chief On Charting a Mor ...
    In March, 38-year-old environmental activist Michael Brune took over as the unlikely head of the the Sierra Club, the largest conservation organization in the United States. Now, as the group works to wean the country off fossil fuels, Brune says it’s time to move beyond the overly accommodating str ...
  • Massive Iceberg in Greenland
    An ice island four times the size of Manhattan has broken off from the Petermann Glacier in Greenland, the largest calving of an iceberg in the Arctic since 1962. The iceberg covers at least 100 square miles and is roughly 700 feet thick — about half the height of the Empire State Building. Universi ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Why have the Northern Lights moved south?
    The Northern lights, it seems, have moved further south and have been visible from countries including Germany and Denmark. So what exactly is causing this spectacle? And how long will it last? The Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, are caused by charged gas particles - that flow away from the Sun ...
  • Cloned cow offspring meat in UK food chain
    Meat from the offspring of a cloned cow was eaten in the UK last year, the Food Standards Agency has said. As part of an inquiry into milk from a cow produced from a cloned parent, it identified two bulls born in the UK from embryos of a US cloned cow. Both bulls were slaughtered but meat from one e ...
  • Biologist using Noah’s Ark idea to save sealife
    On the chance that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill threatens some sea creatures with extinction, naturalist Jack Rudloe hopes his laboratory can save them. Rudloe has launched Operation Noah’s Ark, using his four-acre facility an hour south of Tallahassee to preserve more than 350 different specimens — ...
  • Violent spacequakes shake Earth from above
    Like an earthquake in space, so-called spacequakes are temblors in Earth’s magnetic field caused by plasma flying off the sun that could help generate the colorful auroras that dance high in Earth’s atmosphere, a new study suggests. While felt most strongly in Earth orbit, these quakes can also reac ...
  • Marilyn Monroe’s last weekend: Behavior that signe ...
    On Sunday, August 5, 1962, her body was found naked and face-down on her bed at her home on Fifth Helena Drive, at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in California. Long before she was officially discovered dead on the Sunday, neighbours had seen a mysterious - and still unexplained - ambulance parked in ...

Russia Today

  • Train with liquefied gas blasted in Dagestan
    An explosion occurred at 10am Moscow time on a train on the Kaspiysk-Tarki block section of Dagestan’s rail system. A bomb detonated under an eight-carriage goods train transporting liquefied gas.
  • Cameron to take the plunge in Russia
    The father of “Avatar”, James Cameron, is set to dive into the waters of the deepest and oldest lake in the world, often referred to as “The Pearl of Siberia” - Lake Baikal.
  • Islamophobia, America’s new anti-communism
    Islamophobia was quick to rise after the 9/11 attacks in the US but recently it has emerged again, following controversial plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero, with President Obama backing the decision.
  • Wildfires in Russia devastate forests and pockets
    Firefighters in Russia say they have turned the corner in their battle against hundreds of wildfires that have been raging across the country.
  • “Russia & China cooperate much better than ever be ...
    Vice Chancellor of research and international relations at the Russian Foreign Ministry's Diplomatic Academy, Evgeny Bazhanov, spoke with RT about China’s overwhelming growth and the challenges it faces.

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

  • Lose your property for growing food?GROUND CONTRO ...
    Food Safety Modernization Act House Resolution 875, or the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009, was introduced by Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., in February. DeLauro's husband, Stanley Greenburg, conducts research for Monsanto the world's leading produc Submitted by Robyn R. to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Born pre-polluted
    A U.S. Environmental Working Group study looked at the umbilical cords of 10 babies back in 2004. They detected on average 200 industrial chemicals and pollutants which included pesticides, plasticizers, PCBs, lead, mercury and dioxins. Submitted by Julie P. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
  • Wild Salmon in Trouble Video: The Link Between Far ...
    A video explaining the importance of wild salmon to wildlife and the ecosystem and the negative impacts of farmed salmon. Submitted by Julie P. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • U.S. Keeps Tiger on Endangered Species List
    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will not review whether the tiger should be removed from the Endangered Species List, because there is not enough information in the request indicating removal may be warranted. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Police charge 12 with animal cruelty at Westport t ...
    The allegations detailed by Westport Police Detective Jeff Majewski include ill-fed dogs left to wallow in their own feces and urine in poorly ventilated sheds, pigs being fed garbage, a horse shelter consisting of an upside down Dumpster, a cow with a fe Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �No ...

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

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: BP's oil-spill waste dumped on co ...
    Number of Gulf Coast landfills that the Environmental Protection Agency has approved for taking waste from BP's oil spill: 9 Number of those that are located in communities where a majority of residents are people of color: 5 Tons of BP's waste disposed of at the Springhill Regional ...
  • 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, ...

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

  • The Wait of the World
    By Cathy Jameson Stories in the media usually carry some sort of hype. It’s how the newspapers and magazines sell. Printed pages with flashy one-liners catch a reader’s eye, drawing them further into the article. I don’t care so much...
  • Order Ready, Set, Potty! By Brenda Batts for Autis ...
    Toilet training a child with autism. Scary stuff, isn't it? There's a new book that hits the bookstores on August 15th. It's called Ready, Set, Potty! by Brenda Batts. I met Brenda at the NAA conference in early November of...
  • Young Man With Autism Dies, Forgotten in Hot Car
    20 year old Bryan Nevins died after being left in a hot car by his "caregivers" who didn't notice he was missing until his meds were due. Didn't notice he was missing until his meds were due. Didn't notice he...
  • Another! How Many Autism Murder/Suicides Before Na ...
    Four children with autism under the age of 21 have been murdered by their parents in a single summer. Two in Dallas, TX, one in The Bronx, NY, and now Christopher Melton of Howard County, Maryland. What more can I...
  • Time For Psychiatrists to Release Autism To Immuno ...
    Read the full article at PsychCentralNews. Someone tell our friends at that midwestern fish wrapper they should check out the emerging evidence of harm, since they are so protective of our children. The use of antidepressant medication to improve symptoms...

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

  • Cow farts, road dust and the Environmental Protect ...
     The PPJ Gazette Marti Oakley (c)copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved _____________________________________________________________ I recently wrote concerning the CLEAR Act: They are Stealing it all and noted in that article one of those strange little insertions appearing to have no real bearing on ...
  • Marti Oakley and Barb Peterson: The Truth Squad th ...
    Our topics for the first half of the hour will be the Codex, Fluoride, Auschwitz, Monsanto connection, as well as Dust Regulations, No Till, and Monsanto's Monopoly. On the second half of the show we will be talking with Paul Griepentrog, our guest from last week,about the Organics Illusion.
  • Cargill in the Crosshairs
    In the Crosshairs with Barb Peterson Cargill is dumping toxic waste into our water supply. To listen, click this link: Cargill in the Crosshairs more info
  • Inspirational Horsemanship
    This is what horsemanship looks like.
  • Dust Regulations, No Till, and Monsanto’s Food Mon ...
    It looks like our friends in the Monsanto-controlled government corporation are up to their eyeballs in promoting GMOs again. This time by making it so costly and difficult to grow normal crops, that farmers are shoved right into the waiting maws of Monsanto again.

Open Your Eyes News

  • South Africa considers sending troops to back Soma ...
    The Guardian – The South African cabinet is on the brink of sending troops into the ongoing conflict in Somalia, an official has told the Observer. The revelation comes after the United Nations last week said that it was also considering sending in soldiers â Ban Ki-moon, the secretary general, ta ...
  • Edinburgh festival comedians stand up for Burmese ...
    Guardian – Edinburgh comics have come together to support a new Amnesty International campaign to free a comedian jailed for 35 years for criticising the Burmese government. Amnesty’s Stand Up for Freedom show on 19 August will highlight the situation of Zarganar, 49, who was imprisoned after speaki ...
  • FDA OKs new “morning-after” pill
    Reuters – Health officials on Friday approved a new, longer-lasting “morning-after” pill to prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex. The prescription drug, called ella, is made by French company HRA Pharma and will be sold in the United States by Watson Pharmaceuticals. It is the first emergency c ...
  • U.S. missile strike kills 12 in Pakistan
    Reuters – A pilotless U.S. drone aircraft fired missiles into Pakistan’s North Waziristan, an al Qaeda and Taliban sanctuary on the Afghan border, killing at least 12 militants on Saturday, intelligence officials said. Read Article
  • Cars hacked through wireless tire sensors
    ARS – The tire pressure monitors built into modern cars have been shown to be insecure by researchers from Rutgers University and the University of South Carolina. The wireless sensors, compulsory in new automobiles in the US since 2008, can be used to track vehicles or feed bad data to the electron ...

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

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Cryptogon

  • 61 Trucks Loaded with 300 Tons of Explosives Missi ...
    Via: Xinhua: Some 61 trucks loaded with over 300 tons of explosives have gone missing in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, a senior police official said Friday. “The trucks were sent from a state-owned factory, Rajasthan Explosives and Chemicals Limited, in Dholpur to a private company cal ...
  • But Will It Make You Happy?
    In the “normal” world, in our “normal” careers, we would have an annual combined income of roughly US$100,000. What horror would the U.S. government commit with the portion of the taxes it would demand from us? We now live well on a tiny fraction of what we would make in our “normal” careers. We hav ...
  • Experts Urge Full Inquest Into Death of David Kell ...
    Via: AFP: A group of prominent experts on Friday called for a full inquest into the death of government weapons inspector David Kelly, whose apparent suicide in July 2003 plunged then prime minister Tony Blair into crisis. The eight senior figures said in a letter to The Times newspaper that the off ...
  • The Hidden Tragedy of the CIA’s Experiments ...
    Via: TruthOut: Shortly after deciding to initiate her own LSD experiments on children, Bender attended a conference sponsored by a CIA front group, the Josiah Macy Foundation. The conference focused on LSD research and featured Dr. Harold A. Abramson as a presenter. In 1960, Abramson conducted his o ...
  • Radioactive Smoke from Fires in Chernobyl Fallout ...
    Via: Independent: Radiation levels near Chernobyl could rise and pose long-term health dangers as deadly forest fires spread to land contaminated by the world’s largest nuclear-reactor disaster, Russian environmentalists said yesterday.

The Economic Collapse

  • The Death Cross: Another Sign That We Are On The V ...
    The Standard & Poor's 500 50-day moving average stands poised to cross beneath the 200-day moving average.  To those in the financial industry, this is known as a "death cross", and it is a very powerful indicator that we could be entering a bearish period.  So is this yet another s ...
  • The Russian Bear Awakens
    Today most Americans consider the United States to be "the sole remaining superpower" - absolutely unparalleled economically and militarily.  But the truth is not anything close to that.  As we detailed in a previous article, China has become a very dominant economic and military su ...
  • Foreclosures Continue To Dramatically Increase In ...
    In a very alarming sign for the U.S. economy, foreclosures have continued to dramatically increase in 2010.  But there has been a shift.  Back in 2007 and 2008, experts tell us that most foreclosures were due to toxic mortgages.  People were being suckered into mortgages that they c ...
  • Credit Crunch 2010
    Over the past several decades, one of the primary engines of U.S. economic prosperity has been a constantly expanding debt spiral.  As long as the U.S. government, state governments, businesses and American consumers could all continue to borrow increasingly large amounts of money, ...
  • 11 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Is Bad
    Millions of Americans are waking up to the fact that the Federal Reserve is bad, but very few of them can coherently explain why this is true.  For decades, an unelected, privately-owned central bank has controlled America's currency, run our economy and has driven the U.S. governme ...

Desertification

  • One family, one family garden (Willem van Cotthem)
    Imagine that every family on this world would have a small kitchen garden to produce some vegetables and some fruits.  Now calculate the quantity of food produced all over the world. What about the problem of hunger and malnutrition? See … Continue reading →
  • Biodiesel Feasible Within 15 Years (Science Daily)
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100812171943.htm Industrial Production of Biodiesel Feasible Within 15 Years, Researchers Predict ScienceDaily (Aug. 13, 2010) â Within 10 to 15 years, it will be technically possible to produce sustainable and economically viable biodiesel fr ...
  • Antibiotics for the Prevention of Malaria (Science ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100720101347.htm Antibiotics for the Prevention of Malaria ScienceDaily (Aug. 13, 2010) â If mice are administered an antibiotic for three days and are simultaneously infected with malaria, no parasites appear in the blood and life-threatening ...
  • Stop child malnutrition: offer a family garden (Wi ...
    You want charity to be effective? You want international aid to lead to sustainable development? Think at offering a family garden to smallholder farmers in the drylands: results visible within a few months, e.g. small family gardens in the Sahara … Continue reading →
  • The shifting sands (CNN)
    Read at : http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/04/25/es.desertification/index.html Desertification: How to stop the shifting sands (CNN) — When a ‘Yellow Dragon’ roars, Beijing listens. These huge, sky-blackening dust storms sweep across Asia in March and April, bringing with them millions of t ...

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

  • Book Review: Freedom (TM), by Daniel Suarez
    By Eric Pettifor FreedomTM is the sequel to Daniel Suarez’s book Daemon which I reviewed previously, giving it four stars out of five. The sequel likewise is a very good read, progressing logically from the foundation laid in the first novel. The reason I didn't give Daemon a full five stars ...
  • 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 ...

Worldnews

  • Obama gives personal assurances of Gulf's saf ...
    By JULIE PACE Associated Press Writer PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (AP) - With a quick family trip to the Gulf Coast, President Barack Obama is offering his personal assurance that the region is a safe, clean vacation destination despite the massive oil spill. Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, daugh ...
  • New setback for Yuvraj
    Struggling Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh has been ruled out of Monday's tri-series encounter with Sri Lanka after being diagnosed with dengue fever. Yuvraj has had issues with both form and fitness for most of this year, and has at various times lost his place in the Test and one-day teams. On Tu ...
  • India prime minister appeals to Kashmir prote ...
    NEW DELHI – India's prime minister appealed Sunday to the people of Indian-controlled Kashmir to end violent protests and said his government is ready to hold talks to resolve their long-standing problems. "The years of violence should now end. Such violence will not benefit anyone," Manmohan S ...
  • The Truth about Michelle Obama's Trip
    The Republicans and the right wing media...
  • As bacon appears in more dishes, pork belly p ...
    Posted �|�Comment �|�Recommend | | | � By Larry Crowe, AP Bacon has become a round-the-clock food showing up in all manner of dishes, such as this watermelon salad with basil and bacon. By Dan Piller, Des Moines Register DES MOINES � Americans have stuck loads of bacon on their sandwiches and s ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Technique To Preserve Fertility In Young Women May ...
    Although the use of ovarian tissue cryopreservation and transplantation has lead to 13 live births in women with lymphoma or solid tumors, this method of fertility preservation may be unsafe for patients with leukemia, according to a recent study published online in Blood, the journal of the America ...
  • HYDROCODONE BITARTRATE AND ACETAMINOPHEN (Hydrocod ...
    Updated Date: Aug 13, 2010 EST
  • Health Sense: Success rate elusive on frozen eggs
    The chances of bringing home a baby after harvesting and preserving a woman's eggs remain unknown. Often eggs are never retrieved. Freezing eggs for non-medical reasons — in which a healthy woman harvests and preserves her eggs for later conception — is new enough that there are few reliable s ...
  • Good Form: Strength in combination
    Develop a strong core with this simple yet challenging move. If you're new to exercise, do this move without dumbbells; as you become more comfortable with the move, hold a pair of dumbbells for added resistance.
  • Outlets Should Offer Free Statins With Junk Food S ...
    Imagine this: order a cheeseburger and fries, and pick up a free cholesterol-busting statin tablet along with the other free condiments, that's what a group of UK researchers suggests you should be able to do at fast food outlets as a way to offset the increase in heart attack risk from eating jun ...

Common Dreams

  • Gay Rights Groups, Progressives Push to Exploit Ta ...
    by Martiga Lohn ST. PAUL, Minn. - Protestors have been rallying outside Target Corp. or its stores almost daily since the retailer angered gay rights supporters and progressives by giving money to help a conservative Republican gubernatorial candidate in Minnesota. Liberal groups are pushing to make ...
  • ‘Professional Left’ Not Ready to Back an Obama Pri ...
    by Sam Youngman As angry as it 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 running against the president in 2012, and liberal bloggers say any challenge to Obama would be f ...
  • Gulf Health Problems Blamed on Dispersed Oil
    by Dahr Jamail 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, ...
  • Ground Zero Mosque Plans 'Fuelling anti-Muslim Pro ...
    by Chris McGreal The battle over plans to build a mosque near the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York is fuelling a surge in anti-Muslim protests across the US, including opposition to new Islamic centres from California to Georgia. Religious leaders and civil rights activists warn th ...
  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • First E85 Stations Open In Long Island
    What an ethanol blender pump for
  • Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS): The Rodney Dang ...
    ���� The report of the U.S.
  • Slowing CO2 emissions cannot end global warming, b ...
    Scarcely a day goes by without some announcement as to yet another effort to limit CO2 emissions, here or there, for the purpose of fighting global warming. Yet, all such attempts are futile given that so much CO2 has already accumulated in the atmosphere that even if we ended all CO2 emissions toda ...
  • NGVA Calls for Legislative Action in Washington
    NGVsNow Also Offers Grassroots Support BOSTON – The Natural Gas Vehicles for America program here in Boston has focused largely on energy legislation, extending tax credits beyond 2010, and support for the Natural Gas Act. With the high visibility BP Oil Spill, the nation is turning to alternative f ...
  • 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 ...

Green House - USA Today

  • Home showcases extreme green remodeling
    One of the nation's greenest home rehabs -- in Wilmington, N.C. -- has perhaps a surprising origin: the housing market's collapse.
  • Obama: Gulf beaches open for business
    The Obamas traveled to the Florida's Gulf Coast on Saturday for a weekend trip in an effort to help boost the area's tourism industry hurting after the oil spill.
  • Allen: Work to drill relief well must go forward
    BP and government officials are in agreement that crews need to proceed with the relief well and bottom kill procedure, the U.S. point man on the spill said Friday.
  • Has 'Vogue Italia' gone too far with oil-inspired ...
    The Gulf of Mexico oil spill has inspired various art forms, including a stirring photo spread in the August issue of Vogue Italia that depicts model Kristen McMenamy as a casualty of the environmental disaster.
  • 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.

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

  • Israeli belligerence prompts fascist support in th ...
    By Khalid Amayreh, Occupied Jerusalem Khalid Amayreh It is one of the paradoxes of Israel that the Jewish state has a lot of support amongst right-wing and fascist groups in the West. The common factor appears to be hostility towards Islam and Muslims; in short, Islamophobia. Israel's belligerenc ...
  • Universal Jurisdiction to Hold Israel Accountable
    by Stephen Lendman The well-established universal jurisdiction principle (UJ) holds that certain crimes are too grave to ignore, including genocide, crimes of war and against humanity. Thus, under UJ, nations may investigate and prosecute foreign nationals when their country of residence or ...
  • We Hold These Truths...
    By Timothy V. Gatto I was on the Michael Medved show yesterday and we got into a discussion of wealth. I told him that a University of Southern California study by Professor G. William Dumhoff made in 2007 and revised in 2010 showed that 80% of Americans retain only 7% of America’s wealth. He then ...
  • Iran, Tajikistan and Afghanistan: Diplomacy of Bro ...
    Kourosh Ziabari The trilateral summit of the presidents of three Persian-speaking countries of Iran, Tajikistan and Afghanistan wrapped up on August 5 in Tehran and recorded another unforgettable event in the memory of the three brother nations. With innumerable cultural, religious, social, lingu ...
  • Crisis. What Crisis? Profits Soar!
    James Petras While progressives and leftists write about the “crises of capitalism”, manufacturers, petroleum companies, bankers and most other major corporations on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific coast are chuckling all the way to the bank. From the first quarter of this year, corporat ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Quebec earnings gap at 30-year high
    A groundbreaking new report shows the earnings gap between the rich and the rest of Quebeckers is at a 30-year high. The report, co-published by Institut de recherche et d’informations socio-economiques (IRIS) and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), looks at income inequality among ...
  • New study outlines path to renewable electricity i ...
    Regina —The Saskatchewan office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ series "Transforming Saskatchewan's Electricity Future" was launched with the publication of "Sustainability is Achievable, But How Do We Get There?" by Mark Bigland-Pritchard and Peter Prebble. The report – developed i ...
  • Time for a living wage
    Thanks to groundwork laid by our B.C. CCPA office, a city in that province has enacted Canada's first living wage policy. Drawing on that development, and using CCPA Research Associate Hugh Mackenzie's living wage estimates, Toronto Star columnist Carol Goar looks at how Toronto falls short of provi ...
  • 2010 living wage shows the real costs of raising a ...
    The BC Office has released a 2010 update to the living wage calculation for Metro Vancouver. Read about it here: www.policyalternatives.ca/livingwage2010
  • NFB Film showcases the growing gap in Canada
    What does the growing gap look like in Canada? Class consciousness , an NFB film, explores the issue.

World Wide Hippies

  • FBI Gag Order Rescinded
    ‘John Doe’ Who Fought FBI Spying Freed From Gag Order After 6 Years | Wired 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 ...
  • What If We Had God’s Phone Number?
    Would Evidence for God Mean the End of Atheism and Christianity? | Huffington Post A complaint often voiced by scientific atheists is that there is simply no evidence for God and therefore belief in the old codger is thoroughly unjustified. Frightened witless by this snort, creationists (and I inclu ...
  • Gold. Tax cuts. Debts. Wars. Fat Cats. Class gap. ...
    Reagan insider: ‘GOP destroyed U.S. economy’ | Market Watch “How my G.O.P. destroyed the U.S. economy.” Yes, that is exactly what David Stockman, President Ronald Reagan’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed piece, “Four Deformations of the Apocaly ...
  • You can see W the Movie for free
    This isn’t the Oliver Stone garbage, this is hip, surreal and answers the question: What if the Crime Family Bush came from outer space to rule the world wouldn’t that explain a lot of things? I mean, wouldn’t it? On You Tube at: I wrote 38 scenes, played 4 roles, (including myself) and am an assoc ...
  • JONATHAN ALTER AND EARLAND LILLY’S BARACK OB ...
    I could like Alter in his very encouraging but fair assessment of the first 100 days or so of President Barack Obama’s time in office in THE PROMISE, start with establishing Barack Obama as AUTHENTIC, REAL and a MAN OF CHARACTER who is an extremely PRAGMATIC and INTELLIGENT Politician, without being ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • The Eridanus Void … a Cosmological Conundrum
    Well, the readers have spoken. Today’s post will be about a space mystery. Good thing too, Afghanistan is such a  depressing subject. And there will be lot’s of time to discuss Afghanistan, as I understand it our new mission there is “We are staying forever.” Still, took me awhile to come up with a ...
  • 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 ...

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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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