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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • MIDEAST: Barriers Rise Between Ramadan Gatherings
    For seven years Majda Abdul Qader Sheikh, 38, has not been allowed to visit the home of her parents, just a few hundred metres from her house.
  • POLITICS-INDIA: In Kashmir, Tensions Put Life on H ...
    The doctors at the hospital that Khalida Begum's husband brought her to in the frontier district of Kupwara knew she was in a dangerous state. They thus recommended that she be transferred soonest to the maternity hospital here in Srinagar, where she was sure to receive far better care.
  • Ruling Against US Access to Bases Helps Ease Colom ...
    When the Colombian government announced in November that it had reached a deal to give the U.S. armed forces access to seven military bases, the news provoked surprise and protests, like when an unfair clause is discovered in a contract that was blindly signed.
  • Need and Risks Never Higher for Humanitarian Work
    The United Nations and other relief organisations will observe World Humanitarian Day Thursday amid steadily increasing attacks on aid workers.
  • AFRICA: Woman Researcher Tackles Aflatoxin Poisoni ...
    Despite a bumper harvest of maize just a few months ago, many residents in the eastern part of Kenya are facing hunger and starvation. While granaries in the region may be full, the grain cannot be sold, let alone be eaten.

Scoop - NZ

  • Climate change: Asian megacities at risk
    Asia's coastal megacities are increasingly vulnerable to flooding disasters resulting from the combined effects of climate change (manifested as sea level rise, intensified storms, and storm surges), land subsidence, and rapid urban growth. Development of risk-management strategies, such as improved ...
  • Pakistan's Flood Catastrophe: Images
    When water and food are lacking or disease starts to spread, it is always the children who first feel the affects. On Sunday, local news outlets reported that five children had died of starvation in the northwestern region of Pakistan. Aid organizations fear that many more children could perish as a ...
  • Showcase mission turns into Afghan debacle
    An ambitious military operation that Afghan officials had expected to be a sign of their growing military capacity instead turned into an embarrassment, with Taliban fighters battering an Afghan battalion in a remote eastern area until NATO sent in French and American rescue teams. The fighting has ...
  • UK youth 'given up' looking for work
    The UK has one of the worst youth inactivity rates in Europe, as young people who would like to work have "given up" looking in a dismal labour market, research has revealed. A report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), published today, warns that the number of people discoura ...
  • Baker: Borat Economics, USA
    The Washington Post and most of the important people in Washington want the United States to be like Kazakhstan. Unfortunately, this is not another Borat movie; this is the about central focus of economic policy in the United States today. Because Kazakhstan has a debt to GDP ratio of just 14.2% - o ...

Independent - London

  • Robber nabbed after mocking police in email
    A German bank robber led his pursuers straight to him after taunting police in an email over their efforts to catch him.
  • 30 hurt as bull leaps into Spanish crowd
    A bull turned the tables on spectators at a bullring in Spain, leaping into the stands and injuring at least 30 people.
  • Obama wants Burmese rulers to face UN war crimes i ...
    The administration of US President Barack Obama has decided to throw its crucial support behind moves to establish a special UN commission to investigate alleged war crimes perpetrated by the military rulers of Burma.
  • Ballet tour brings US one step closer to Cuba
    Just as officials in Washington ponder a partial easing of the ban on Americans travelling to Cuba at least for cultural, educational or research exchanges, the American Ballet Theatre has revealed that it is to perform in Havana this November for the first time in half a century.
  • Foxconn gets the pompoms out to raise morale at 's ...
    Young workers who normally spend their days assembling iPhones and other high-tech gadgets packed a stadium at their massive campus yesterday, waving pompoms and shouting slogans at a rally to raise morale following a string of suicides at the company's heavily regimented factories. The outreach to ...

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

  • Women With Osteoporosis Suffer More If They Have P ...
    Osteoporosis is more common in women who have fractured bones when they were younger -- and they experience a similar loss in health-related quality of life as those with arthritis, lung disease, diabetes and other chronic diseases. In an international study, led in the UK by scientists from the un ...
  • Stress in Middle Age Could Contribute to Late-Life ...
    Psychological stress in middle age could lead to the development of dementia later in life, especially Alzheimer's disease, reveals research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Based on data from a study which followed women for 35 years, this is the first research in Sweden to indicate a lin ...
  • Overweight American Children and Adolescents Becom ...
    Overweight American children and adolescents have become fatter over the last decade, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and National Institute on Aging (NIA). They examined adiposity shifts across socio-demographic groups over time and found U.S. childre ...
  • Fishermen Find Oil and Dispersants on Mississippi ...
  • Can Anthony Blair's five million pounds resurrect ...
    Either Anthony Blair and Alastair Campbell hounded the weapons inspector Dr David Kelly to suicide for his objections to their lies about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction or, alternatively, Dr Kelly was murdered by professional, government sponsored assassins from America, Israel or the UK, in ord ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Here's your new and improved Harper Defence procur ...
    In action . The multibillion-dollar plan to buy new armoured vehicles for the military, which the federal government launched with much fanfare last year, has already run into a roadblock, with every vehicle offered now being rejected by Public Works and the Defence Department. Ugly. Especially f ...
  • Apparently we the public are "annoying" to Steve n ...
    “They don’t bother us. It’s just that they are annoying,” a "senior Conservative official" told the G&M's Dear Jane this morning about the public uproar in reaction to the scrapping of the compulsory long-form census. "Census freedom," this same anonymous Conbot amusingly called it. Apparently we t ...
  • If Julius Streicher were alive, CTV would give him ...
    And why not ? They seem to think someone described by the National Post as "one of Canada's most notorious white supremacists" can add something valuable to an immigration debate. Read Big City Lib .
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  • 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 ...

Media Matters for America

  • "Ex-terrorist" Walid Shoebat is too sketchy for De ...
    As part of Fox News' ongoing attack on Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and the Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan,� Fox & Friends �hosted Walid Shoebat, a self-professed "former terrorist" and born-again Christian, to smear Rauf as a supporter of terrorism. Shoebat has a history of making inflamma ...
  • Malkin, other conservatives voice support for Dr. ...
    Following Laura Schlessinger's announcement that she will end her radio show in the wake of widespread criticism for her use of a racial slur, Michelle Malkin and other conservatives have responded by praising Schlessinger and her comment that, by quitting the show, she will regain her First Ame ...
  • Fox News silent on News Corp.'s huge donation to ...
    Following reports that Fox News' parent company News Corp. donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association, Fox News has not mentioned the contribution, according to searches of the TVEyes and Nexis databases. Several other news outlets have covered the donation, which is reportedly " ...
  • Beck falsely claims that Obama wants "to force doc ...
    Glenn Beck falsely claimed that President Obama wants to rescind a Bush-era regulation so that "doctors can't refuse to" perform abortions. In fact, even without the regulation -- which was approved in December 2008 -- federal law prohibits public officials from requiring recipients of public funds ...
  • Conservatives continue to accuse NYC Islamic cen ...
    Conservative media have continued to accuse the imam leading the initiative to build an Islamic community center in lower Manhattan of being a "secret radical," pointing to his remark that "the United States' policies were an accessory" to the 9-11 attacks. In fact, Rauf has condemned terro ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Should We Bury Macroeconomists at Ground Zero?
    That is the question that millions are no doubt asking after the publication of a new study from the Boston Fed. The study examines the arguments from those warning about the housing bubble, as well as the deniers and the agnostics. It concludes by exonerating the economics profession for failing ...
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  • Israel's Defenders & The Anti-Muslim Blow-Up Here
    I don't know why I am at all surprised that the American Right - including the Republican Party - has decided that scapegoating Muslims is the ticket to success. After all, it's nothing new. I remember right after 9/11 when the columnist Charles Krauthammer, now one of the most vocal anti-Musli ...
  • The 'Can' v. 'Should' of Building a Mosque
    In my post earlier this afternoon, I was too cursory in accusing critics of the Cordoba project of chucking the Constitution. Not wrong, mind you, just slow in spotting the brazen hypocrisy of their position. One of the big talking points is to distinguish between the legal right to build the center ...
  • Beinart on "Ground Zero" Mosque: Brilliant Again
    Read Peter Beinart on the so-called "Ground Zero" mosque controversy. No one else has come so close to getting it exactly right. Yes, Peter was wrong about Iraq. I can relate. I was wrong about Israel/Palestine and he came to his senses at a younger age than I came to mine. ( His piece on young ...

TruthOut

  • Praise for Truthout
    Check out what people are saying about Truthout! We're telling the stories that no one else is telling - and shaking up the power structures that impede democracy. During this week's urgent donation drive, please consider joining the Truthout community. Keep this one-of-a-kind organization goin ...
  • Detainee Torture Cases Proceed Overseas as US Ston ...
    WASHINGTON — In June, the Supreme Court refused to hear the case of a Canadian man who contends that U.S. authorities mistook him for an al Qaida operative in 2002 and shipped him to a secret prison in Syria, where he was beaten with electrical cables and held in a grave-like cell for 10 months. ...
  • Regulatory Agencies’ Attempts to Sweep Oil Under t ...
    Washington, DC - A recent report by the Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center (a collaboration between the federal government and BP) claiming that only 25 percent of spilled oil remains in the Gulf has been refuted by researchers with the Georgia Sea Grant and University of Georgia, w ...
  • US Support Boosts Calls for UN Burma War Crimes In ...
    Bangkok - An international campaign seeking a war crimes inquiry into the alleged systematic abuses by Burma’s military regime finally has a strong ally in U.S. President Barack Obama. Washington revealed Tuesday that the Obama administration is throwing its weight behind the creation of a U.N. com ...
  • The United States Is No Germany
    EDITOR'S NOTE: Truthout is proud to begin bringing you a twice-weekly Paul Krugman column, thanks to Paul's service, Krugman & Co. This is new material, not available from The New York Times. Happy reading! ms/TO The debate regarding fiscal stimulus over the past year and a half has, frankly, made ...

Planetsave

  • Americans Divided on Gulf Oil Spill
    A new poll by Gallup clearly shows that America is split down the middle when considering the implications and responsibilities of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. First and foremost for Americans to decide is whether the federal government should maintain the moratorium on offshore drilling in the Gul ...
  • Samoa Tonga Earthquake was actually Three
    The magnitude 8.1 earthquake and tsunami that killed 192 people last year in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga triggered another two earthquakes. The massive 8.1 earthquake that hit the South Pacific region on September 29, 2009 triggered another two major quakes of magnitudes 7.8 which, when combined ...
  • New Climate Computer Model Advances Research
    A new and powerful computer model released by the National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) will help study climate change in far greater detail. The Community Earth System Model (CESM) will be one of the primary climate models used when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) mak ...
  • Second Warmest July and Warmest Year-to-Date Globa ...
    Courtesy of NOAA The combined global land and ocean surface temperature made this July the second warmest on record, behind 1998, and the warmest averaged January-July on record. The global average land surface temperature for July and January-July was warmest on record. The global ocean surface tem ...
  • Oldest Fossil Creatures Found, Preceded Ancient Ic ...
    A team of geoscientists working on a separate geological project in South Australia accidentally stumbled upon the oldest evidence of animal life yet found. Previously, the oldest fossil evidence of non-unicellular, "hard bodied" life forms dates to about 550 million years ago. This new discovery ...

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Axis of Logic

  • There Is No 'Ground Zero Mosque' - Race and Ethni ...
    American Fascists Association: "No More Mosques. Period!" It's not about the mosque! It's America's war on "the Other." Five months later, the American political debate -- in a time of crushing 9.5-percent unemployment, record foreclosures and bankruptcies, and climate chan ...
  • Colombia declares US base share deal unconstitutio ...
    A Colombian court has declared as unconstitutional a deal which gives US troops access to its military bases. The constitutional court ruled the 2009 accord should be redrafted as an international treaty and sent to Colombia's Congress for approval. The deal allows the ...
  • Palestinian minors held 3 weeks on suspicion of ar ...
    Palestinian minors suspected of perpetrating even minor crimes against settlers are subject to extreme pressure during detention and interrogation in an effort to extract a confession, the Palestinian branch of Defense for Children International claims. The group, which represents hundreds of min ...
  • IDF soldier posts images of blindfolded Palestinia ...
    A former Israel Defense Forces soldier has raised a storm on the internet after posting photographs of herself posing next to blindfold Palestinian prisoners on Facebook. Photographs uploaded by Eden Abergil from Ashdod and labeled "IDF – the best time of my life" show her smiling next to Palesti ...
  • Where have all the flowers gone..? - India
    "It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it." - Dr Aung San Suu Kyi SRI LANKA is struggling to come to terms with the post-war 'peace'.  War...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Yet 50,000 troops remain, plus even more contractors like rape-enabler KBR and murderer Blackwater. "The last American combat troops in Iraq have left the country, the US military has said. The 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division began crossing by land into Kuwait in the early hours of the mo ...
  • Not celebrating yet
    If there is a god, he or she knows that I want to be popping the champagne corks and celebrating tonight as the world watches the "last combat brigade" withdraw from Iraq . But I just can't. Not while there are still fifty thousand American Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines still in-country. And ...
  • Why Alex is Going to Win and Jack is Going to Lose
    Talking Points Memo: Democratic Illinois Senate nominee Alexi Giannoulias has come out in support of the Cordoba House project near Ground Zero in New York City, the Associated Press reports. "Are we going to talk about tolerance, talk about freedom of religion or are we actually going to practice i ...
  • Another would-be domestic terrorist shot dead
    A Texas man quit his job a few days ago and attempted to attack his local police station this morning. He was killed, but no one else was injured. A man apparently bent on destroying the police headquarters in McKinney was shot and killed this morning after spraying the building with bullets. Poli ...
  • Foxvestia: Neither Fair nor Balanced
    The thin veil of objectivity has been ripped from the craggy face of Rupert Murdoch and Fox News, thrown to the ground and stomped into the mud. If you had any doubt before that they are not a news organization, but the propaganda arm of the republican party, it should be dispelled now that "News" C ...

Care 2

  • Israel's infamous spooks have met their match
    The country's foreign ministry workers have cut off funding for the spy agency. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Samantha the Gorilla Dies
    Samantha, the oldest female Western Lowland gorilla with a perpetual pout died at the Toronto Zoo Monday morning. That afternoon, the gorilla troop visited her body to say goodbye. They thought she was still asleep. They touched her, tried to rouse her Submitted by Michelle Matthews to Animals � ...
  • BLM Killing More Wild Horses (despite Congressiona ...
    Our friend George Knapp called me over the weekend to inform me that the BLM is at it again. As we covered in our ATSNews Video series, the BLM has been rounding up the Federally Protected Wild Mustangs because they claim the range cant sustain them. Submitted by R T Fitch to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...
  • Hunting A Key Factor in Orangutan's Decline
    Humans entering the forests of Borneo 150 years ago were six times more likely to encounter wild orangutans than they would today, a new study finds. The researchers suspect that heavy hunting over the years is to blame. Submitted by Michelle Matthews to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 228M eggs recalled following salmonella outbreak
    An Iowa egg producer is recalling 228 million eggs after being linked to an outbreak of salmonella poisoning. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said eggs from Wright County Egg in Galt, Iowa, were linked to several illnesses in... Submitted by Tarequl I. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Bombing the Pakistan Flood Victims Into Submission
    Now, this doesn't seem to make a lick of sense. ISLAMABAD, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- A total of 13 suspected militants were killed during a U.S. drone attack launched Saturday night in northwest Pakistan, reported local media Express on Sunday. According to the report, the U.S. drone fired three missiles ...
  • Ann Coulter, "The Judy Garland of Right Wing Gaydo ...
    It may not be as controversial as the building of a mosque two blocks from Ground Zero, but if history tells us anything about the Religious Right's relationship with The Gay, there should be a hot time, not only on the evening of September 25, when GOProud, the organization that claims to be "t ...
  • Blagotown USA in Washington, D.C.
    Now that the verdict is in, let’s tell it like it is: Blagojevich is everywhere in American politics, and in every corner of this capital in Washington, D.C. Principled conservatives and principled liberals know the truth, that pay for play is everywhere. Washington is Blagotown. Principled conserva ...
  • You've Got to Be Carefully Taught
    As citizens of the nation continue through the summer, distracting themselves from difficult truths by howling at the moon and one another, I spent this past weekend in Manhattan seeing revivals of two classic period pieces of American theater. Magnificent productions of Our Town and South Pacific a ...
  • NOMA: The Face of Poverty
    � from Axis of Logic The following article is based on a report "The tragedy of Noma 1", prepared by Mr. Jean Ziegler, Vice-President of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee. Unless otherwise noted, the quotes in this article are all excerpted from this report by Jean Ziegler. Malnutrition an ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Come to America
    / Bumped Up / ALL politicians, Obama included. I don’t know where you are. Dear Mr. Obama I heard that you are tired of philosophical BS and that you might want to be like me. You went swimming in dirty water and flew, in a private jet to the Vinarad. Yea. I do that. [...]
  • Twittering Amish vs. Muslims * Open Thread
    Reverend Amy is right. We DO need a break from the Ground Zero mosque story, endlessly debated on cable news. But not when Nancy Pelosi announces that she supports an investigation into groups opposed to the mosque. Ed Morrissey’s brain was in cynicism overdrive as he asked, “What better way to def ...
  • New On The Job At West Point
    I don’t know about you, but I am ready for a break on all of the mosque brouhaha (e.g., are they building it or aren’t they, will they consider a different location, or won’t they?), Obama’s “incoherent message,” the continuing economic woes, and all the rest. So about that new person at West Point. ...
  • Mosque at Ground Miami Beach
      The hard-pressed Rick Scott, running for Republican nomination for governor in Florida, gets to the Ground Zero mosque story swiftly and plainly. Harry Reid does the Democrats a service late in the news cycle by declaring, through a spokesman, that he thinks the mosque should be built “somep ...
  • Red Eye Open Thread
    Here’s a snippet of the conclusion to Greg’s Monologue on “Red Eye,” titled “Should We Tolerate Intolerance?”: The mosque developers know this; it’s why they embrace the progressive decoy of choice: tolerance. They desire that we tolerate a doctrine that enforces intolerance. And if you don’t tolera ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Moss Your City Project Greens Up South London
    Cities would be much nicer places to live if nature was part of building design. 'Moss Your City' is an installation which highlights just how good this can look. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • The Crazy World of Voodoo Wrestling in the Congo
    Congolese culture sees a bizarre intersection between voodoo and wrestling. These pictures illustrate the strange relationship between muscle and magic! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Most Incredible Volcanic Eruptions Ever Capture ...
    There may be more spectacular sights on earth than explosive volcanic eruptions... but it's hard to imagine what they might be! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Capturing the Spectacular Sunset of Manhattanhenge
    Mother Nature's own lighting effect during the summer, with the help of a few tall skyscrapers. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Geological Marvels of Zion and Bryce National ...
    Utah's Bryce and Zion National Parks offer some of the most amazing views anywhere in the western US. Discover new panoramas of beauty around every corner! 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

Global Elite

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Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • LinkBatch for August 19th 2010: In-Q-Tel CIA front ...
    Let's start with the FDA's plan to kill everyone: Junk food-addicted rats chose to starve themselves rather than eat healthy food . Kind of amazed that the Iraq 'combat mission' officially ended, as this seven-year epic dominated my college experience & well basically shaped a whole era. But did FOX ...
  • Big Brother GPS tracking nets Epic Dissent from 9t ...
    There is something creepy and un-American about such clandestine and underhanded behavior. To those of us who have lived under a totalitarian regime, there is an eerie feeling of déjà vu. This case, if any, deserves the comprehensive, mature and diverse consideration that an en banc panel can provid ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • VISITING GERARDO
    By Danny Glover and Saul Landau From the Ontario California airport some 60 miles east of downtown Los Angeles we drove north on Highway 15, the road to Las Vegas. Cars with expectant amateur gamblers and loaded big rigs climb and descend the mountains where the Angeles and San Bernadino National Fo ...
  • The Middle Class
    By anaxarchos posted by Michael Collins Capitalism does not elevate⦠it expropriates and impoverishes. Its urban slums and shanty towns are a step down from the rural, quasi-capitalist material it begins with. Worldwide, it expropriates wealth from the many instead of creating âprosperityâ. Th ...
  • Whistleblower Exposes How Kaplan University Cheats ...
    Private Vocational CollegeâKaplan operates vocational training programs that over enroll students using Federal loans that leave low-income student indebted and unemployed. A whistleblower source has come forward to expose how CHI/Kaplan, in Broomsall, Pennsylvania over-enrolled students by the hu ...
  • If a tree falls…
    It is the old question answered.  “If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one  around to hear it, did it really fall?”   If there is oil in the Gulf an no one can see it, is it really there?  I believe the answer lies in the tree’s or oil’s impact. Has [...]
  • Fox News and John Bolton Violate International Law
    Fox News and John Bolton violate International Law. Tuesday, August 17th 2010. Lew Brown Today in the media, amidst a backwash of junk food stories regaling us with the harrowing experience of Tila Tequila at an Insane Clown Posse concert, more outrage over a planned Mosque somewhere in the general ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

  • Where's Our Money?
    If Robert Gibbs can't answer the simple question -- where's our money -- voters will do what they usually do in elections and let their pocketbooks determine their choices.
  • Averting the Next Mortgage Meltdown While Cooling ...
    A creative solution to the predicted commercial real estate crisis could boost both energy efficiency and tax receipts.
  • The Lineup: Week of August 16-22, 2010
    This week's editorial package includes an op-ed by Daphne Wysham about an innovative concept for slashing greenhouse gas emissions from buildings while helping to avert some of the fallout from the coming commercial real estate crisis.
  • North Korea: Why Engagement Now?
    Geopolitics drove the U.S.-China detente. It could do the same between Washington and Pyongyang.
  • Chernobyl: The Gift That Never Stops Giving
    The threats to human health and the environment from Chernobyl fallout, scientists are now finding, will persist for a very long time.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

  • Major march in Motor City!
    Join us in Detroit for jobs, justice, and peace! It’s time for some good, old-time street heat. Please join the United Auto Workers and the National Rainbow/PUSH Coalition on August 28th in Detroit to march for âJobs, ...
  • Santana Rocks Greek Theater 80th Birthday Tribute ...
    by “Organize!” That was the imperative delivered to Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman on Wednesday by civil rights, human rights, women’s rights and workers rights icon, Dolores Huerta – two days before Huerta’s 80th ...
  • The Agitator: Voices of PDA Episode 10 from the PD ...
    Episode 10: The Agitator Voices of PDA is a montage of audio clips recorded at the July 23-25 Sixth Annual Grassroots Leadership Conference in Cleveland, Ohio. Listen to Pentagon whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, PDA Advisory Board ...
  • Audio: Connect the Dots with Lila Garrett
    Guests: Tim Carpenter-PDA, John Amato-CrooksandLiars.com and Jane Hamsher-Firedoglake.com. Tim discusses the upcoming election season for PDA and reviews the recent National PDA Conference in Cleveland, OH.
  • 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 ...

Marler Blog

  • Wisconsin adds 21 to the National Salmonella Enter ...
    California has been at 266, Minnesota at 7, Nevada at 30 and according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , Wisconsin State health officials today confirmed a Salmonella outbreak that sickened 21 diners at a Kenosha restaurant in June to the nationwide recall of 228 million eggs (now increased to 380 ...
  • Umpqua Dairy recalls pasteurized milk and juice du ...
    Oregon Public Health officials have recalled Umpqua Dairy brand Milk, half and half, cream and buttermilk as well as Umpqua Dairy brand gallon orange juice and fruit drinks. Umpqua Dairy Products Co., are sold in Oregon, southwest Washington and northern California. All Umpqua Dairy products are p ...
  • Wright County Egg seems to be in some hot water - ...
    AP reports a moment ago that "[h}undreds of people have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak linked to eggs in three states and possibly more, and health officials on Wednesday dramatically expanded a recall to 380 million eggs."  Goodness! Earlier today I was reading Philip Brasher’s Blog (yes ...
  • Foodborne Illness Surveillance in the time of HB 2 ...
    In the middle of yet another nationwide recall of food (228,000,000 eggs to be exact) and an outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis linked to those eggs that appears to have begun in the Spring and announced in August, I had memory of House Bill 2749 (passed Jul7 2009), Sec., 121 and Senate Bill 501 (to ...
  • Salmonella in Pickles?
    According to press reports, contaminated pickles have been linked by the Cook County Illinois Department of Public Health to an outbreak of Salmonella poisoning (no serotype announced). According to public health officials, six confirmed cases of Salmonella have been linked to pickles purchased fro ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 08.19.10
    Greenlings: Why do automatic transmissions now get better fuel efficiency than manuals? Going from fluid coupling to Lock-up converters to DCTs has a big effect. Paris 2010 preview: Kia adding fizz with a ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 08.18.10
    Overweight and overfueled - fat America uses more gas Excuse us, we're going out for a job. Pint-sized Buddy electric vehicle stops 80-ton freight train in its tracks Old EV, new tricks. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 08.17.10
    80-day, 'round-the-world electric car Zero Race takes off in Geneva today Anyone want to go for a spin? Nissan dealer says only 3,300 Leafs will be available in U.S. by end of March Japan ge ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 08.16.10
    AutoNation warns its Chevrolet dealers to sell the Volt at MSRP or else... They will not be permitted to price gouge simply because the vehicle may be in short supply. Martin Eberhard predicts 500-mile ra ...
  • 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

  • CNET to the Rescue: Leave the world behind
    If you're heading out of town and leaving the electronic world behind, don't forget that your e-mail contacts, Facebook friends, and Farmville plants will still be expecting to see you around online, interacting with them. Here are some tips for managing your electronic world when you step away ...
  • 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 ...

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!

  • Mosque-Issippi Burning
    Salman Hamdani died on Sept. 11, 2001. The 23-year-old research assistant at Rockefeller University had a degree in biochemistry. He was also a trained emergency medical technician and a cadet with the New York Police Department. But he never made it to work that day. Hamdani, a Muslim-American, wa ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Risk Of Double-Dip Recession?
    Economists See Increased Chance Of Double-Dip Recession Huffington Post |  Ryan McCarthy First Posted: 08-16-10 01:19 PM   |   Updated: 08-16-10 01:51 PM Buried amidst the increasingly gloomy economic news of the last few weeks — which includes stubbornly high unemployment, rising foreclosur ...
  • Afternoon Jukebox- They Call Us the Working Class, ...
    Walter Trout – “They Call Us the Working Class, (But We Ain’t Working No More)
  • Tea Party Activists Rally Along Arizona-Mexico Bor ...
    Tea Party Activists Rally Along Arizona-Mexico Border To Protest Illegal Immigration JONATHAN J. COOPER | 08/15/10 04:57 PM |  Via- Huff Post HEREFORD, Ariz. â Tea party groups converged on a remote section of the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday to show support for Arizona’s controversial new immigr ...
  • Raina: Kashmir Now Or Never
    By Badri Raina, ZNet, August 13, 2010 “Kashmir may be conquered by the force of spiritual merit but not by the force of soldiers.” —–(Kalhana Pandit) So total has been the loss of hegemony of Kashmirâs elected representatives, in government and in the legislature, over the last two months, and so ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • U.S. Ends Combat Operations in Iraq
    Near the Iraq-Kuwait border — The last U.S. combat troops were crossing the border into Kuwait on Thursday morning, bringing to a close the active combat phase of a 7½-year war that overthrew the dictatorial regime of Saddam Hussein, forever defined the presidency of George W. Bush and left more th ...
  • The Safest Cities For Children
    Research By: Lisa Lombardi Some places are just too dangerous for children: crocodile ponds, stores that sell barbed wire, Jacksonville. . . . Okay, the Sunshine State’s largest city may not be that unsafe, but it’s probably riskier than its residents realize. When we looked at perils posed to chil ...
  • Harvard University Fund Sells All Israel Holdings
    By Hillel Koren No reason for the sale was mentioned in the report to the SEC. In another blow to Israeli shares, the Harvard Management Company notified the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday that it had sold all its holdings in Israeli companies during the second quarter of 201 ...
  • Financing Farming in the U.S.
    Financing Farming in The U.S.(PDF) INTRODUCTION A member of our network asked me to read and comment on a new study, “Financing Farming in the U.S.: Opportunities To Improve the Financial and Business Environment for Small and Midsized Farms Through Strategic Financing.” The report was sent t ...
  • The Sanders Family Most Bodacious Hoedown 2010
    4 September a.d. 2010, 1:00 p.m. till 10:00 p.m. Watercress Farm (Top of the World Farm) 842 Waterloo Road, Westpoint, Tennessee 38486 (between Lawrenceburg & Waynesboro, Tennessee) Direct inquiries to Justin Sanders, (888) 218-9226 ADMISSION: $4 per person, children 4 & under free. If you are car ...

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

  • Climate science: the debate, the eventual solution ...
    Summary:  A look at the public’s view of the debate among climate scientists, and what it shows about us. Debates among layman about technical matters say nothing about the actual issues — but reveal much about the state of the American public.  So it is with the debates about climate and economic ...
  • “We are often more dangerous to ourselves th ...
    Summary:  This is another post in the long series about our military — an army near the breaking point.  Links at the end go to the reference page, which has links to news articles, studies, and more information.  We can all help a little with this.  Thank a vet.  Support the Blue Star Mothers ...
  • About the legacy of SecDef Gates (and his rumored ...
    Summary:   This post by GI Wilson (Colonel, USMC, retired) discusses the legacy of SecDef Gates.  Following that is Gates’ enigmatic statement about resigning, and the official denial. Gates’ departure will be noticed. Gates clearly discerns the insidious effects of the paradox of power. The p ...
  • Damn the research! We need to act now to stop glo ...
    Summary:   A reader’s comment about Breaking news: a new analysis blows more holes in the âhockey stickâ temperature reconstruction. Excerpt from a reader’s comment: OK, so the data is not as clear as the hockey stick graph shows. The authors still conclude: “Our model provides a similar rec ...
  • Best geopolitical analysis of the year
    Here is the best geopolitical analysis I’ve read in a long time:  “The Craziest Thing I’ve Read In A Very Long Time“, Michael Cohen, Democracy Arsenal, 13 August 2010.  His conclusion is what I’ve said for many years:  “I read things like this and I really start to believe that the entire foreign ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Tons of gold imports turn to dust on arrival
    Gulf – Several tons of gold imported into the UAE by traders and investors turned out to be fake on closer inspection, resulting in millions of dirhams in losses and high levels of stress to the victims. Speaking to Emirates 24|7, Mohamad Shakarchi,, Managing Director of Emirates Gold, said: “A lot ...
  • Toxic BPA detected in 91 percent of Canadians: stu ...
    AFP — The toxic chemical Bisphenol-A, or BPA, is detectable in the urine of more than nine in 10 Canadians, according to a study released Monday. The Canadian Health Measures Survey of 5,600 Canadians aged six to 79 years, conducted by Statistics Canada between 2007 and 2009, found Canadian teens h ...
  • US: More companies switch sweeteners
    LA Times – First it was calories, then it was fat and sodium. The latest health concern: high-fructose corn syrup, and the trend is accelerating. As the country struggles with obesity issues, ingredients in food have been under increasing scrutiny, bringing some confusion to the marketplace but als ...
  • Green taxes could treble by 2020, costing taxpayer ...
    Dailymail-Taxes to pay for contentious climate change policies are set to treble over the next decade, soaring to more than £16billion a year. The hike is the equivalent of 4p on the current rate of income tax, a report from think tank Policy Exchange claimed. By 2020 the tax take from green levies ...
  • Outrage in Philippines over police torture video
    AFP – The Philippines’ independent rights body launched a probe into the national police amid public outrage over a cellphone video showing an officer torturing a naked man. The graphic video, which ABS-CBN television said it obtained from an unidentified informant, shows the officer in civilian clo ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Israel “purchasing” advanced aircraft from U.S. fo ...
    Israel âpurchasingâ advanced aircraft from U.S. for Use Against Iran (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Israel is purchasing roughly 20 F-35I strike jets from the United States. Four billion dollars will be used to purchase the Lockheed Martin “Joint Strike Fighters,” along with services, parts ...
  • 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 ...

PakAlert

  • Video: EXPOSED! Fluoride Truth Hits Mainstream Aus ...
    Fluoride is a deadly poison being used in our drinking water in order to pacify and dumb down the general public. Sodium fluoride was used by the Nazis who gave fluorinated water to their prisoners in the concentration camps so they would be docile and passive and would therefore be more manageable. ...
  • 10 Signs The U.S. is Becoming a Third World Countr ...
    The United States by every measure is hanging on by a thread to its First World status. Saddled by debt, engaged in wars on multiple fronts with a rising police state at home, declining economic productivity, and wild currency fluctuations all threaten America’s future. We can speculate about who a ...
  • No Way Can US Win A Non-Nuclear War With Iran
    The end would be an embarrassing retreat by the United States, and the definitive establishment of Iran as the dominant power of the Gulf region. That was the outcome of every wargame the Pentagon played, and Mike Mullen knows it. So there is a plan for an attack on Iran, but he would probably rathe ...
  • New satellite images reveal the full extent of the ...
    These satellite pictures show the effects of the catastrophic floods which have left up to 20 million people homeless in Pakistan. The images, taken with Nasa’s Aqua satellite, use a combination of infrared and invisible light to increase the contrast between water and land.
  • Is the CIA playing the HAARP in Pakistan?
    Following up on and keeping pace with HAARP technology is a ponderous and monumental task. Most analysts feel that there is more to the bizarre freak weather anomaly causing such devastation across Russia, China & Pakistan/Kashmir. Almost every year there are strange and focused disastrous weather a ...

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

  • Toxic Oil Lurking Deep on Gulf Seafloor?
    A signature glow detected in seafloor samples may be from Deepwater Horizon oil—and sea life may be suffering, preliminary results suggest. Deepwater Horizon - Seabed - Oil - Gulf of Mexico - Energy
  • New Public Road to Split the Serengeti?
    The proposed road in Tanzania would cut through the Serengeti, possibly disrupting the annual wildebeest migration, conservationists say. Tanzania - Serengeti - Africa - Serengeti National Park - National park
  • A Fuel That Doesn’t Go to Waste
    In the ultimate "closed loop" energy project, a garbage truck fleet near San Francisco runs on the methane produced by decomposing landfill trash. Landfill - San Francisco - United States - Waste management - Business
  • Why Antarctic Sea Ice Is Growing in a Warmer World
    Experts have cracked the mystery of why Antarctic sea ice has grown despite warming—but the results suggest the trend may rapidly reverse. Antarctic - Polar Regions - Sea ice - Climate change - Environment
  • Fires Can Create "Volcanic" Thunderclouds
    A strong blaze can create thunderclouds that funnel smoke and particulates into the stratosphere, scientists say. Until now, the clouds had been mistaken for volcanic ash clouds. Volcanic ash - Stratosphere - Particulate - Earth Sciences - Volcanoes

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Landmark Ruling Last Week that YOU may not have he ...
    Zach Carter takes note of recent ruling in a case that shows pretty clearly how the banks, not just Wells Fargo BUT all banks, purposely rigged their overdraft system against you: Wells Fargo Overdraft Scam Makes Elizabeth Warren More Important Than Ever A landmark court ruling on Wells Fargo's ou ...
  • 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 ...

SPL Center

  • The FAIR Files: Marielitos are ‘Criminals, Homosex ...
    Sometimes, pictures really are worth a thousand words. In the 1980s, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) — a restrictionist group that insists it is not bigoted despite a small mountain of evidence to the contrary — put out an untitled, undated booklet of cartoons that featured on ...
  • Coming Soon: ‘International Burn a Koran Day’
    After years of having the field all to himself, Westboro Baptist Church leader and gay-basher extraordinaire Fred Phelps might finally have some competition for the title of America’s most media-hungry hate-church preacher. On Sept. 11, Terry Jones’ Dove World Outreach Center will hold the first “In ...
  • Cult Leader to be Retried on Rape Accomplice Charg ...
    A proponent of multiple wives, polygamous prophet Warren Jeffs appears destined to have multiple trials. The Utah Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed Jeffs’ two convictions on charges of rape as an accomplice and ordered that he be tried again. “He was thrilled,” said Jeffs’ attorney, Wally Bugden. “H ...
  • Former Wheaties Spokesman Said to Back Racist Part ...
    There was a time when former Olympic athlete Bob Richards seemed the personification of the all-American man: A two-time gold medal winner in the pole vault, he was the first jock to appear on the front of boxes of Wheaties — “the breakfast of champions” — as well as the first spokesman for the cere ...
  • Conservatives’ Gestures Toward Gays Infuriates Far ...
    Conservative columnist and author Ann Coulter’s decision to be the featured speaker next month at a “Homocon” gathering of homosexual conservatives has gotten her axed as a keynote speaker at a meeting of prominent far-right personalities. Joseph Farah’s decision to cut Coulter from his Taking Ameri ...

change: org.

  • The End of Chivalry as We Know It
    Woe to women, bewails the Washington Times . For all feminists' claims about improved gender equality and gains for women, they say, things "are pretty dismal." The conservative Times cites a recent Harris Poll, which finds that 7 out of 10 respondents don't believe women receive equal pay for equal ...
  • Cyndi Lauper Gives a Damn About Homeless LGBT Yout ...
    The phone rings, in the middle of the night. Your father asks: "Whatcha gonna do with your life?" Twenty-five years ago, Cyndi Lauper answered that question with a thunderous "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun." But nowadays, the divine Ms. Lauper would probably answer a different way. And it would probably ...
  • Corruption With a Small "C"
    You hear a lot about bribes and extortion in Africa, but in my own experiences reporting in Africa, I find those words are too strong for what I've witnessed. True, I’m not trying to open a business or build a hotel, or something.  I'm just a reporter, wandering around some post-conflict countries f ...
  • Republicans Ask Fellow Republicans to Stop Using I ...
    A group of Muslim-American Republicans are asking the GOP to stop attacking the Muslim Community Center in downtown Manhattan, which members of their own party have inaccurately dubbed the " Ground Zero Mosque ." In their letter , they say exactly what this Islamophobic fear-mongering is: an underha ...
  • Five Ways "President" Gingrich Would Weaken Nation ...
    Considering there will be a number of midterm Congressional seats up for a vote in two months, and a critical Presidential election only two years from now, this fall is an important time to restore movements for progress. Many of you are already rallying for the global good and against those who fi ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Congress Members Deliver Smackdown to Google and V ...
    by Preston Gralla Four Democratic congressmen have joined together to denounce a Google-Verizon proposal that they believe will spell the death of net neutrality. They've written to the head of the FCC, asking that he act soon, and not allow "two large communications companies with a vested inte ...
  • Government Report on Gulf Oil Spill Inaccurate, Sc ...
    by Sean Alfano Think the Gulf oil spill is over? Think again, say some scientists. Researchers from the University of Georgia called a recent government report "inaccurate" on Monday for claiming that three-quarters of the oil leaked from BP’s blown-out underwater well had either been collected, ...
  • Court Halts California Gay Marriage
    by Romain Raynaldy LOS ANGELES – Gay couples in California scrapped wedding plans Tuesday after a court halted same-sex unions until the completion of an appeals process expected to end up in the US Supreme Court. A week after a landmark decision overturned a ban on gay marriage, the Ninth Ci ...
  • 'Why Can't We Say No?' City Councilman Pushes Back ...
    by Joe Smydo Pittsburgh City Councilman Doug Shields today plans to unveil legislation to ban natural gas drilling in the city, saying he's wants to test a municipality's right to self-government, even if that means inviting a legal challenge from the drilling industry. "Why can't we say no? Why ...
  • Labor’s Popularity Declines Amid Criticism Of Publ ...
    by Akito Yoshikane With increasing attacks on public sector unions, it’s not surprising that labor has become unpopular in the court of public opinion. A new Gallup survey reveals that approval ratings for labor unions continues to struggle one year after their popularity reached a historic low. re ...

Lifehacker

  • How to Disable Facebook Places [Facebook]
    Yesterday Facebook rolled out a new feature called Places that lets you and your friends check in to locations, Foursquare-style. If you'd prefer to keep your location private, or at least stop your friends from posting it, here's how. Mo ...
  • EpicWin Turns Your To-Do List into a Role-Playing ...
    iPhone: If playing a game wins out over crossing items off your to-do list every time, consider EpicWin, a new iPhone app that turns your to-do list into a full-on role-playing game, complete with to-do driven XP and level ups. More�� ...
  • Yogile Simplifies Group Photo Sharing [Photo Shari ...
    Yogile is a free, ridiculously simple photo sharing service that lets you create public or private albums and let others easily contribute. More��
  • Predict Running Injuries by Tracking and Analyzing ...
    With all the ways you can track your run and great mobile fitness options , we're sitting on a ton of data about our exercise. Blogger René Ghosh has figured out how to use his data to predict future injuries. More�� ...
  • DIY Ultimate Note-Taking Notebook [DIY]
    For those of us who are picky about what we write on, finding a quality notebook that meets your specific needs can be tricky. Here's how to make your own personalized, customized notebook. More��

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Record A-level passes as one in 12 get new A*
    A-level pass rate rises for 28th year, sparking intense battle for university places A-level pass rates today rose to another record high of 97.6% while an unprecedented 27% of entries achieved an A, in results which will sharpen the intense battle for places at university this year. Just over 8% of ...
  • US combat troops exit Iraq
    Operations officially end two weeks ahead of Barack Obama's deadline for withdrawal down to 50,000 non-combat soldiers The last US combat troops have left Iraq, seven-and-a-half years after the US-led invasion, and two weeks ahead of President Obama's 31 August deadline for withdrawal from the count ...
  • Retail sales in July top expectations
    • City had expected sales growth to slow to 0.4% • Sterling rises against dollar and euro as a result • More good news as manufacturing slide slows and public borrowing falls to £3.8bn Retail sales grew at the fastest pace since February last month and nearly three times as much as the City expected ...
  • Gender pay gap 'will last 57 years'
    Chartered Management Institute data shows that gender wage differential still wide – 40 years after equal pay laws Working women who thought they might live to see Britain's pay gap finally close will have to hold out another 57 years, according to research published today. Forty years after the Equ ...
  • Agency loses gay adoption appeal
    Catholic Care sought exclusion from the 2007 sexual orientation regulations on grounds of religious beliefs A Catholic adoption agency has lost its attempt to restrict its service to heterosexual couples after the Charity Commission found there was no justification for barring gay and lesbian parent ...

McClatchey

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

  • Who Is Still Uninsured In Massachusetts?
    A new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation of the uninsured in Massachusetts holds important lessons for federal regulators and lawmakers as they plot ways to implement the individual health insurance mandate in 2014. Massachusetts, which implemented an individual requirement to purchase h ...
  • Fox News Pushes Tax Cuts For The Rich, Tax Increas ...
    Last month, Wall Street Journal editorial board member Stephen Moore explicitly called for raising taxes on the poorest Americans in order to finance tax cuts for the rich. And he is not the only member of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire that thinks taxes need to be cut for the rich but increased for ...
  • Health Insurers Lobbying To Make Profits Seem Smal ...
    Yesterday, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) adopted relatively robust draft definitions for calculating the medical loss ratios (MLR), prohibiting “insurance companies from considering costs related to fraud prevention and detection, utilization review, and individual welln ...
  • Don Blankenship: The Science Of Climate Change Is ...
    Coal baron Don Blankenship, the CEO of Massey Energy, perhaps perturbed by the recent opprobrium received by BP CEO Tony Hayward, wants to remind us that he is still the most evil man in America. The explosion of the Blankenship’s Upper Big Branch mine after deliberate safety violations killed 29 mi ...
  • Senate Hopeful Randy Parraz Sues Arizona Sheriff J ...
    Today, civil and labor rights activist and senatorial candidate Randy Parraz (D-AZ) served Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio with a civil lawsuit. In the suit, which was filed earlier this month, Parraz claims that he was wrongfully arrested by the sheriff’s deputies in 2008. Arpaio’s spokesman has indica ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Well, That Sucked.
    So what was the turn-out at the rally "demanding" a public inquiry into the $1 Billion dollars worth of incompetence and brutality at the G20? You remember that one don't you? It was in all the papers. Remember stephen harper, before blowing $16 billion on new fighter-planes to protect us from Al ...
  • Correlation Between US Aid & Colombian Death Squad ...
    What else is new ? The results were obtained by comparing the number of reports of such killings in the two years prior to the start of Plan Colombia -- the multibillion-dollar U.S. military aid package -- in 2000 with the number of killings after the launch of that counterinsurgency and anti-dru ...
  • thwap is back!
    But I don't have time to say anything today! Keep 'em flying!
  • 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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • OSHA sues Kwick Stop in Shawnee, Oklahoma
    The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has announced that it filed a lawsuit in Oklahoma City against Modern Oil Company, the operator of 30 Kwick Stop convenience stores.� The lawsuit alleges that after OSHA investigated a workplace safety complaint at one of its stores in Shawnee ...
  • Dr. David Lewis' story of the Iron Horse of Scienc ...
    My client Dr. David Lewis has written a story about his experience blowing the whistle at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It is called, "EPA Fired Oil-Degradation Expert Concerned about Deepwater Oil Rigs: The Iron Horse of Science." It appears in the current issue of the monthly Pen ...
  • Metro employees already have whistleblower protect ...
    One of the problems of our current patchwork approach to whistleblower protection is that much of the public is unaware of the protections that do exist in the law today. A case in point would be yesterday's story in the Washington Examiner . In a story called, " Metro strengthening protections for ...
  • 60 Minutes to re-air piece on UBS whistleblower to ...
    60 minutes will re-air their piece on UBS�whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld tonight. Please tune in to watch at 7:00 pm EST then Take Action by sending a letter in support of Mr. Birkenfeld's clemency petition. �
  • 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 ...

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

  • Does Checking Your Email On Your BlackBerry Count ...
    We've had plenty of stories over the years about how the whole barriers between "work" and "life" continue to blur , and that's causing problems in some areas. Two years ago, we noted that some employees were upset to have to sign documents making it clear that checking email on Blackberries would ...
  • Superman Lawyer Claims Warner Bros. Lawsuit Is A S ...
    Earlier this year, we wrote about the odd decision of Warner Bros. studio to personally sue Marc Toberoff , the lawyer who successfully represented the heirs of the creators of Superman to win back some of their copyright, by using copyright's termination rules. Toberoff is making a career of this, ...
  • More Research: Competition Makes Groups More Creat ...
    One of the key elements of things like copyright and patent laws, are that they are really attempts to eliminate certain forms of competition. That's always struck me as an odd idea, since it's competition that leads to greater innovation -- as has been shown over and over again in the economic res ...
  • Industry Groups Back To 'Negotiating' Net Neutrali ...
    Following Google and Verizon's announced framework for net neutrality (a framework that has no real meaning), the FCC announced that it was no longer holding closed door meetings with industry lobbyists, as they were not fostering the "robust framework to preserve the openness and freedom of the int ...
  • Professor Says News Should Get Special 24 Hour Pro ...
    We've seen all sorts of really bizarre and downright dangerous plans to change copyright law to favor newspapers, but a new one, posted at Henry Blodget's Business Insider may be the most ridiculous of all. It starts off with a bunch of really bad assumptions, and then suggests special copyright pr ...

VacTruth

  • Part II: Rockefeller Vaccine Secret Revealed
    Many people understand the Rockefellers, along with corporate interests, manipulate the United States money supply through the private Federal Reserve Bank. The Rockefeller Institution also had heavy influence pushing through a vaccine as the only answer to the false-flag polio epidemic.
  • Penn and Teller kick out at anti vaccine lobby
    In a recently released video 'Penn and Teller Bullshit – Vaccination', the pair of magicians Penn and Teller, use their usual male chauvinistic and pratt like abilities, to go all out to prove to the world that vaccines are safe, that they have eradicated illnesses, that they are super efficient and ...
  • 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 ...

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Really important post over at Womanist Musings on the rape of an elderly woman and how we treat rape in general – in society, in the media… Read it. And then there are the perpetrators.  Or are they victims? Smoke em if you got em, ladies.  Looks like weed might treat breast cancer. Speaking of sm ...
  • 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.  [...]

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

  • Get Bisphenol A Out of the Grocery Store (Are You ...
    Photo credit yanyanyanyanyan via flickr . Bisphenol A, which seems to contribute to a wide variety of yucky ailments , is in 91% of Canadians, this study shows. And as we've already documented in TreeHugger, it's
  • Gross, Weird, and Frightening Fashion from Ripley' ...
    Image courtesy of Ripley's Believe It or Not! A dress made from slimy salami and meaty bacon? An entire wardrobe made from one woman's hair? A 22-story pair of pants? These tales and more in Ripley's Believe It or Not's recently published book called "Enter If You Dare!" The annual collection o ...
  • World's Largest Ice Art on Siberia's Lake Baikal
    Images from the anthropologist Lake Baikal is the "pearl of Siberia" , the world's deepest freshwater lake. Because of its age and isolated location in Siberia, it contains unusual collections of freshwater flora and fauna and 1,700 plant and animal species. It has had a controversial histo ...
  • Whisky Biofuel Available in a Few Years: 30% More ...
    Image credit: Future Atlas /Creative Commons The food versus fuel debate already has many people worried that we can't feed the world and power our cars . but some folks are claiming we can power (some of) our cars, feed the world and have a drink in the process. Karin already reported on Scott ...
  • "The Majestic Plastic Bag": Documentary on the Pla ...
    Image credit: Heal the Bay I've wondered before whether plastic bags are a distraction , and Bonnie has marveled at the lengths people will go to to get a designer reusable grocery bag instead. But having just watched a fascinating online documentary, I am never going to look at the humble plas ...

Biosingularity

  • Multiple personal genomes await
    Genomic data will soon become a commodity; the next challenge — linking human genetic variation with physiology and disease — will be as great as the one genomicists faced a decade ago, says J. Craig Venter. via Multiple personal genomes await : Article : Nature.
  • Low Vitamin D Level Tied to Cognitive Decline
    Two new studies add to evidence that older people with low levels of vitamin D may be more likely to suffer from cognitive impairment. The hope is that vitamin D supplements may be able to slow mental decline — an intervention that one research team plans to put to the test this summer. Vitamin D [. ...
  • Essentials of Genetics | Learn Science at Scitable
    Why does a commercial dairy cow produce four times as much milk as most other mammals? Why do we look like our cousins? Why do roses come in so many different colors? The answers to these and other questions about the diversity of living things involve processes that occur at the level of genes. Ess ...
  • Replacement Bones, Grown to Order in the Lab
    IF a lover breaks your heart, tissue engineers can’t fix it. But if sticks and stones break your bones, scientists may be able to grow custom-size replacements. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, a professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, has solved one of many problems on the way to succe ...
  • Seeing a Bionic Eye on Medicine’s Horizon
    Television’s Six Million Dollar Man foresaw a future when man and machine would become one. New research at Tel Aviv University is making this futuristic “vision” of bionics a reality. Prof. Yael Hanein of Tel Aviv University’s School of Electrical Engineering has foundational research that may give ...

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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

  • American Community Gardening Association Building ...
    “What you’re doing here is so very important for the future of our country,” asserted First Lady Michelle Obama, on a video message at the opening session of the American Community Gardening Association’s (ACGA) 31st Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Click here to read this article
  • Research Suggests Link Between Pesticides and ADHD ...
    Marc Weisskopf, assistant professor of environmental and occupational epidemiology, discusses a study that finds children exposed to higher levels of pesticides known as organophosphates could have a higher risk of being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Click here to r ...
  • Answer to Declining Bee Population Sought in N.D. ...
    Hannaford, N.D. - The wind races through the grass as Marla Spivak swings her insect net across a patch of thistles in a roadside ditch. She kneels to carefully examine the catch. "Lots of flies, there's a grasshopper, there's a dragonfly," Spivak said. But no bees. And that's not surprising. Th ...
  • Monsanto's War-Zone Harvest
    In last month's blitzkrieg tour of Central and Southeast Asia, two of the four stops made by United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton share the unfortunate bond of enduring an invasion by US air and ground forces. In the space of a few days, Clinton visited Vietnam and Afghanistan, thus phys ...
  • Protect Nature for World Economic Security, Warns ...
    "What we are seeing today is a total disaster," said Ahmed Djoghlaf, the secretary-general of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. "No country has met its targets to protect nature. We are losing biodiversity at an unprecedented rate. If current levels [of destruction] go on we will reach a t ...

fotoFrontera

  • Jardines y residencias (lugares para vivir en paz)
    ¿Le gustaría vivir en paz alejado del bullicio de la gran ciudad? No se preocupe, el día de hoy, le comparto 7 bellísimos lugares donde sin duda alguna usted podría vivir en completa libertad y en contacto siempre con lo natural. Asómese y viaje conmigo hacia estos mágicos parajes de ensueño donde q ...
  • Papel tapiz para decorar tu compu
    Ahora que regreses de vacaciones, sería buena idea cambiar el fondo o papel tapiz de tu ordenador. Para eso, permíteme compartir contigo 6 bonitas imágenes que lo harán lucir realmente diferente. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada im ...
  • Autos para coleccionistas (6 imágenes de lujo)
    Nuestro compromiso con todos los coleccionistas de imágenes continúa y para muestra tenemos en este momento 6 hermosos wallpapers de autos con los cuales podrá hacer lucir aún mejor el monitor de su laptop o equipo de escritorio. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fot ...
  • Las cascadas más famosas del mundo (parte final)
    Aquí tenemos para usted la parte final de nuestra colección con más de 200 fotos de las cascadas más famosas del mundo . En esta última entrega, reciba 12 bellísimas postales y una hermosa panorámica de las cataratas del Niágara que yo mismo tomé en mi viaje a la ciudad de Toronto en Canadá. Nota: H ...
  • Fotografías de Francia (6 postales inolvidables)
    Con anterioridad, le hemos ofrecido a usted fotos de países como Alemania , Brasil , Turquía , México , Estados Unidos y Canadá . En esta ocasión y para dar continuidad a nuestro proyecto, le traemos 6 bonitas postales de Francia . Disfrute nuestras fotografías y por favor pase la voz. Nota: Haz cli ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Government officials sent ‘clarifying’ letter from ...
    Congressional testimony by two high-ranking government officials in April revealed some misconceptions about the mounting evidence over the use of antibiotics in industrial farm animal production and links to antibiotic resistance in humans. To clarify the case, Keeve Nachman, PhD, MHS, and directo ...
  • 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 ...

Norwegianity

  • More
    There really is no getting around it, Pam Geller is Katherine Kersten’s Jewish soul sister. Reading the interview with her at TPM I lost track of the lies and distortions almost immediately. Most offensive? “There’s no reciprocity,” Geller said. “It’s a two-way street. It can’t be only one way. Buil ...
  • O.J. Blagojevich and the DeLay effect
    A funny thing happened on the way to Rod Blagojevich’s burning at the stake for corruption. The jurors mistook him for OJ Simpson and refused to convict on all but one count. While the mainstream Heathers recompose themselves, it seems that the establishment media is beginning to back away from the ...
  • I.C. wieners
    Not what I wanted to write about this morning but once the tantrum machine gets started, it’s hard to hear anything else. Harry fucking Reid has joined the anti-mosque crowd which means that as much as I despise Chuck Schumer, Schumer would be preferable to Reid as Majority Leader in the next Congre ...
  • TV-free but nano-raped
    I think the voters have Obama’s back if he lets go some generals and admirals. It’s just a stupid WaPost online poll so it doesn’t really mean much other than maybe, just maybe Americans care as little for overly ambitious generals as they do excessively greedy CEOs. I mean both care for their subor ...
  • Using the word establishment repeatedly
    Coffee, three mornings in a row now. Didn’t even think about tea as I stood over the bathroom sink flushing out my sinuses. 64° pollen-packed degrees this morning. In August. So don’t even think about trying to tell me global warming is real because the Farmer’s Almanac says we’ll have a foot of sn ...

Public News Service

  • Report Catalogs Oil and Gas Disasters: AZ on the L ...
    Report Catalogs Oil and Gas Disasters: AZ on the List Phoenix, AZ – A new report (from the National Wildlife Federation) looks back at ten years of oil and gas production accidents, spills, fires and other incidents across the country, including a major pipeline break in Arizona. Comments from Tim W ...
  • New Website Critical for Arizona Dieters
    New Website Critical for Arizona Dieters Phoenix, AZ – These days many Arizonans have questions about nutrition, like what does trans-fat mean? How much sodium is required daily? There is now a website that can answer those questions and more. Comments from Joan Enderle, registered dietitian wit ...
  • Social Security 75-Year Milestone This Weekend
    Social Security 75-Year Milestone This Weekend Phoenix, AZ - Tomorrow (Saturday) marks the 75th birthday of Social Security. It's a program that was created during the depths of the Great Depression. Since then, it's been credited for keeping millions of seniors out of poverty. Comments from Len Ki ...
  • County Chief: AZ Public Health Threatened by Ballo ...
    County Chief: AZ Public Health Threatened by Ballot Measure Phoenix, AZ – Arizonans will decide in November whether to reverse their 2006 decision to tax cigarettes an extra 80-cents a pack for early childhood health and education programs. Lawmakers want that money to instead help remedy the state’ ...
  • CA Activists Support Working Arizonans Against SB ...
    CA Activists Support Working Arizonans Against SB 1070 Phoenix, AZ – Some 600 California activists came to Arizona Thursday, the effective day of SB 1070, to show their support for low-wage workers. The activists say Arizona’s new law is an attack on immigrants, similar to a California initiative in ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Bureaucrats stonewall veterans: ombudsman
    Retired colonel Pat Stogran and several disabled veterans painted a Dickensian picture Tuesday of veteran's care. Lou Gehrig's disease is a condition members of the military are more likely to develop - not recognized by Canada Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Sodium Bicarbonate, helping to reach PH balance
    Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) is the ultimate heavyweight workhorse medicine to diminish toxic poisoning from the Gulf disaster.Combining this with magnesium chloride, selenium and iodine treats exposure to harsh chemicals from the oil disaster. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness �|� ...
  • The Fraud of Public Opinion
    Humanity is not served by the idea of "the public." Individual freedoms require free individuals, who are not part of a colossal "public" that is formless, and ignorant. I can't speak for the public or God. Anyone who claims to do either is a fraud. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �| ...
  • U.S. Scientific Establishment Throws Down Gauntlet ...
    I don't often find much to cheer about when I read the food and farming news. But a new report from the influential National Research Council (NRC) on the future of U.S. farming had me reaching for my pom-poms. Submitted by Kathy B. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Manipulating Mankind
    If only Mark Twain were alive today, he would have a field day commenting on what the U.S. Department of Agriculture considers to be "scientific". Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Corrupt Nigerian police use torture to extort cash ...
    Corrupt Nigerian police use torture to extort cash: HRW - Yahoo! News: "LAGOS (AFP) – Nigerian police corruption has led officers to regularly detain innocent people to extort cash, with some... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • N.Korea sought summit after warship sinking: repor ...
    N.Korea sought summit after warship sinking: report - Yahoo! News: "SEOUL (AFP) – North Korea proposed a summit with South Korea even after tensions mounted dramatically over the deadly sinking of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Court says US-Colombia base deal unconstitutional
    The Raw Story | Court says US-Colombia base deal unconstitutional: "Colombia's constitutional court Tuesday declared a US-Colombian accord that gave the US military access to at least seven Colombian... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Rogue Arizona sheriff refuses to comply with Feds
    Rogue Arizona sheriff refuses to comply with Feds | Raw Story: "Sheriff Joe Arpaio is at it again.A lawyer for the rogue Arizona sheriff who's staked his position as one of the most vociferous... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Gregory Taylor, Homeless Man Sentenced To 25 Years ...
    Gregory Taylor, Homeless Man Sentenced To 25 Years For Stealing Food, Ordered Released From Prison: [huffingtonpost.com] "LOS ANGELES — After 13 years behind bars for trying to break in to a church... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Farm Wars Launches Public Service Announcements
    Introducing Farm Wars Public Service Announcements. Whenever you see the following, just click on the link to hear the weekly Farm Wars Public Service Announcement (PSA) Farm Wars Public Service Announcement
  • Monsanto Shills get the Stinkfly Boot
    If you are a Monsanto PR shill who tries to slip in advertisements for your genetically modified filth and want to put in a good word for Monsanto on my site, you get the Stinkfly boot!
  • 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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Iran Threatens 'Israel’s Existence' If It Attacks
    ShareThis Iran Threatens 'Israel's Existence' If It Attacks 17 Aug 2010 Iran will respond if Israel attacks its first nuclear power plant, which will begin loading fuel Aug. 21, according to the Persian Gulf country’s defense minister. "In that case we will lose a power plant, but Israel’s existence ...
  • Giant Turtle Lobbies For Ban On Single-Use Plastic ...
    ShareThis Giant Turtle Lobbies For Ban On Single-Use Plastic Bags By Ryan ZumMallen 17 Aug 2010 A giant sea turtle appeared in the courtyard of Long Beach City Hall on Tuesday afternoon, pleading with the human race to ban single-use plastic bags in California because they pose a threat to his envir ...
  • U.S. to Double Mercenary Forces in Iraq After 2011 ...
    ShareThis U.S. to Double Mercenary Forces in Iraq After 2011 Military Pullout --'It is unprecedented in scale.' --Some veteran Iraq hands suggest that thousands of additional troops will be needed after 2011 . 19 Aug 2010 By October 2011, the State Department will assume responsibility for training ...
  • Scores of seals are washed up dead with horrific ' ...
    ShareThis Scores of seals are washed up dead with horrific 'corkscrew' injuries 18 Aug 2010 [ Warning! Graphic images accompany article. ] For animal lovers, the sight is as heartbreaking as it is mysterious. Scores of dead seals have been washed up on shore with terrible ‘corkscrew’ injuries, as if ...
  • Feds: Alaska couple had 20 names on hit list
    ShareThis Feds: Alaska couple had 20 names on hit list 16 Aug 2010 A rural Alaska couple accused of domestic terrorism compiled a hit list of 20 targets, including members of the military and media, and had moved to the operational phase of their plan, according to documents filed in federal court M ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • Brits to get hit with 4% income tax hike to pay fo ...
    From Benny Peiser's heads-up: Climate Taxes May Treble By 2020, Costing Taxpayers More Than £16 Billion A Year Gary Peev, Daily Mail, 17 August 2010 Taxes to pay for contentious climate change policies are set to treble over the next...
  • Amazon puts Air Con Climategate on special
    The most difficult thing about marketing titles on Amazon is breaking through the price barriers. The cheaper your book, the better it sells, but it's Amazon that decides on retail price, not the publisher. Despite my best efforts I couldn't...
  • New study: sea levels NOT rising rapidly
    The Hockey Schtick has alerted the world to new peer reviewed research showing sea levels are not rising at an accelerated level, despite what NIWA's Andy Reisinger and Massey's Ralph Sims would have the world believe: JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH,...
  • Have you read this, Nick Smith?
    Looks like the world is bailing on ETS schemes faster than Nick Smith can say "sustainable". This from Terence Corcoran in The Financial Post: From Washington to Cancun to British Columbia, the climate issue is heading for the deep freeze....
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Mondoweiss

  • Poll: Israel continues to lose support in the US, ...
    Haaretz is reporting on a new poll conducted by the Israel Project. Among the findings:One of the questions that the poll presented was "Does the U.S. need to support Israel?" In August of 2009, 63% of Americans polled said that the U.S. does need to support Israel. In June of this year, 58% of resp ...
  • I am a Palestinian-American, and people tell me ab ...
    Flipping through a book of I.D.s from each country and territory in the world we keep around at my job (the number one capitalist and pro-American entity: a bank), I look for a picture of a Palestinian I.D.� It is a thick book with multiple pictures from each country, detailing the special feature ...
  • Deutscher saw the future before he died in ‘ ...
    Tariq Ali, quoting Isaac Deutscher in the Guardian (some years ago). Note that Deutscher died shortly after the '67 War:In his last interview - after the 1967 six-day war - the historian Isaac Deutscher, whose next-of-kin had died in the Nazi camps and whose surviving relations lived in Israel, sa ...
  • Mosadegh and the Iranian standoff
    As usual, mainstream media coverage of the U.S./Israel/Iran fracas ignores one of the most important facts at the heart of it all... the U.S./U.K./British Petroleum 1953 overthrow of Iran's great democratically-elected leader, Mohammed Mosadegh, which led to decades of a U.S.-backed Iranian governme ...
  • Ethnic states are common these days. But
    Rick Congress writes at his blog: I used to use the argument "Israel as an ethnic-based exclusively Jewish state is a throwback to earlier centuries, and modern states are secular and non-exclusive." I used it until someone completely tore it to pieces. He was right.The issue isn't that the stat ...

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

  • Get Bisphenol A Out of the Grocery Store (Are You ...
    Photo credit yanyanyanyanyan via flickr . Bisphenol A, which seems to contribute to a wide variety of yucky ailments , is in 91% of Canadians, this study shows. And as we've already documented in TreeHugger, it's
  • Gross, Weird, and Frightening Fashion from Ripley' ...
    Image courtesy of Ripley's Believe It or Not! A dress made from slimy salami and meaty bacon? An entire wardrobe made from one woman's hair? A 22-story pair of pants? These tales and more in Ripley's Believe It or Not's recently published book called "Enter If You Dare!" The annual collection o ...
  • World's Largest Ice Art on Siberia's Lake Baikal
    Images from the anthropologist Lake Baikal is the "pearl of Siberia" , the world's deepest freshwater lake. Because of its age and isolated location in Siberia, it contains unusual collections of freshwater flora and fauna and 1,700 plant and animal species. It has had a controversial histo ...
  • Whisky Biofuel Available in a Few Years: 30% More ...
    Image credit: Future Atlas /Creative Commons The food versus fuel debate already has many people worried that we can't feed the world and power our cars . but some folks are claiming we can power (some of) our cars, feed the world and have a drink in the process. Karin already reported on Scott ...
  • "The Majestic Plastic Bag": Documentary on the Pla ...
    Image credit: Heal the Bay I've wondered before whether plastic bags are a distraction , and Bonnie has marveled at the lengths people will go to to get a designer reusable grocery bag instead. But having just watched a fascinating online documentary, I am never going to look at the humble plas ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

  • Toxic Oil Lurking Deep on Gulf Seafloor?
    A signature glow detected in seafloor samples may be from Deepwater Horizon oil—and sea life may be suffering, preliminary results suggest. Deepwater Horizon - Seabed - Oil - Gulf of Mexico - Energy
  • New Public Road to Split the Serengeti?
    The proposed road in Tanzania would cut through the Serengeti, possibly disrupting the annual wildebeest migration, conservationists say. Tanzania - Serengeti - Africa - Serengeti National Park - National park
  • A Fuel That Doesn’t Go to Waste
    In the ultimate "closed loop" energy project, a garbage truck fleet near San Francisco runs on the methane produced by decomposing landfill trash. Landfill - San Francisco - United States - Waste management - Business
  • Why Antarctic Sea Ice Is Growing in a Warmer World
    Experts have cracked the mystery of why Antarctic sea ice has grown despite warming—but the results suggest the trend may rapidly reverse. Antarctic - Polar Regions - Sea ice - Climate change - Environment
  • Fires Can Create "Volcanic" Thunderclouds
    A strong blaze can create thunderclouds that funnel smoke and particulates into the stratosphere, scientists say. Until now, the clouds had been mistaken for volcanic ash clouds. Volcanic ash - Stratosphere - Particulate - Earth Sciences - Volcanoes

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Peru judge revokes parole of US woman held for inv ...
    [JURIST] A Peruvian judge on Wednesday revoked the parole of Lori Berenson [advocacy website], a US citizen held since 1995 for collaboration with a Marxist rebel organization. Berenson was granted parole [JURIST report] in May after serving 14 years of her 20-year sentence with the judge citing goo ...
  • Colombia high court suspends US base agreement
    [JURIST] The Colombian Constitutional Court [official website, in Spanish] announced [press release, in Spanish] Tuesday the suspension of a base agreement [text, PDF] between the US and Colombia, stating the agreement must receive congressional approval before it can legally take effect. The agreem ...
  • Bangladesh to release 1000 inmates to relieve pris ...
    [JURIST] The Bangladesh Ministry of Home Affairs [official website] announced Wednesday that it will release almost 1,000 prisoners in an effort to resolve the issue of overcrowding [JURIST news archive] throughout the nation's jails. Most Bangladeshi jails currently house three times their designed ...
  • Germany prosecutors charge former Rwanda mayor wit ...
    [JURIST] German federal prosecutors announced Wednesday that they have charged a former Rwandan mayor with genocide relating to his involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide [HRW backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. According to prosecutors, Onesphore Rwabukombe [Trial Watch profile] allegedly coordin ...
  • Second Circuit rules foreign diplomatic housing ex ...
    [JURIST] A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Tuesday that foreign diplomatic missions are not required to pay property taxes on real property used for housing staff and not diplomatic purposes. The ruling overturned judgments ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • What the White House Really Thinks About Bombing I ...
    This post is part of our forum on Jeffrey Goldberg's September cover story detailing the prospects and implications of an Israeli strike against Iran. Follow the debate here . According to Elliott Abrams : If Iran acquires a nuclear weapon during his tenure, Obama would -- in his own eyes -- see ...
  • Why Gary Johnson Isn't Taken Seriously
    Conor Friedersdorf wonders why no one is taking former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson's proto-presidential campaign seriously.� Were our criteria for viable presidential candidates more sane, however, he'd be a strong contender, due to his experience, desire to reform obviously broken policies, a ...
  • Virginia Has a Budget Surplus
    From an AP News Alert: RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Gov's aide says VA state budget surplus� nearly $404 million, almost double prior estimate. Does former VA governor (and now DNC chairman) Tim Kaine get credit for his careful husbanding of the state's economy? Or does current Gov. Bob McDonnell get a ...
  • Under the Radar: Supporting the Next Bailout
    Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) has once again introduced legislation in the House that would, in effect, backstop more private pension funds by expanding the U.S. Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp to include "orphan pensions" -- those pension plans that have been abandoned by their parent companies ... who a ...
  • Who's Defending Marginalized Muslims? Chris C ...
    So, of course, it's a recess, and recesses bring vacuums, and vacuums bring ridiculous, even odious issues to the front-burner. Stipulating that it's OK to oppose the Ground Zero mosque, that Imam Rauf is fashionably moderate (and yet was eager to fault Americans for 9/11 and had trouble describin ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Im Tirzu Accuses Israeli Blogger of Incitement to ...
    My friend, Dena Shunra brought me word of the amazing news that our mutual friend, Yossi Gurvitz, who writes the Hebrew language blog, Friends of George, has been accused of incitment to murder.  Though I have never met Yossi personally, from the writing in his blog and his picture there, he appear ...
  • Links for 2010-04-03 [Digg]
    Anat Kam-Uri Blau Top Secret Israeli Leak Case The foreign media continue to open up the gagged Anat Kam-Uri Blau case with new stories in The Guardian, The Times, and The National.
  • Houston Jewish Federation, Jewish Agency Fund Im T ...
    What do the Houston Jewish federation, the Jewish Agency, John Hagee, and Im Tirzu have in common?  They’re all either directly or indirectly funding a major assault on academic freedom on Israeli campuses. Im Tirzu is on the warpath once again.  Not to be outdone by the BDS movement, one of whose ...
  • Links for 2010-08-17 [Digg]
    Israel Wakes Up and Discovers Its Soldiers Abuse Palestinian Yesterday, a major scandal erupted in Israel over an IDF soldier, Eden Aberjil, who posted pictures on her Facebook account of her abusing bound Palestinian...
  • Israel Wakes Up and Discovers Its Soldiers Abuse P ...
    Yesterday, a major scandal erupted in Israel over an IDF soldier, Eden Aberjil, who posted pictures on her Facebook account of her abusing bound Palestinian prisoners.  All Israel appears to be SHOCKED, I say shocked, to discover that its soldiers actually taunt and gloat over Palestinians in such ...

Ode Magazine

  • Our greatest natural resources are within us
    By: DDREHER Randy Wayne White was a Florida fishing guide and charter boat captain for 13 years. He lost his job when his marina closed in 1987 and responded by writing his novel Sanibel Flats , and went on to become a best-selling author. Creative peop ...
  • Cancer research gets a boost from venture capital
    The “war on cancer” has been going on for decades, yet victory is still nowhere in sight. Andy Rachleff, a venture capitalist turned philanthropist, is trying to speed things up by funding research by young scientists with new ideas. After he watched several good friends ...
  • Harmful chemicals we can do without
    Companies need to start caring as much about human health as they do about profits. When I was a child, my parents gave me a “science kit” that contained samples of rocks, minerals and metals. It was wonderful. I’d pull out a sample of quartz and memorize what it looked l ...
  • Video: How technology is empowering the poor
    Quadir presented a broad outline of development in order to give context for his belief that technology can alleviate poverty at a Long Now Foundation event. Issue: April/May 2010 Related Reading The GreenHouse project True Education Starts ...
  • The song remains the same
    Two tales about the magic of music. The stand-in singer (Sent by Murali) The story goes that tickets were all sold out for the presentation by a famous tenor, but on the big day, with the house filled to capacity, it was discovered that a traffic problem would ...

OpEd News

  • Maintaining the empire
    The left is attacked for not going along with the tragic decision to pursue more war in Afghanistan. General Petraeus means to stay a long time.
  • Bobby Thomson, who hit 'Shot Heard 'Round the Worl ...
    Bobby Thomson, the man immortalized with his "Shot Heard 'Round the World" in 1951, died Monday night at his home in Savannah, Georgia. He was 86 and had been in failing health for several years, the Fox & Weeks funeral home said Tuesday.
  • Photo-Essay: Haiti After the Earthquake, Part 12: ...
    In Part 12 of my Haiti series, we returning to Port-au-Prince, noting the signature of Hugo Chavez along the way, before heading up to well-to-do P--tionville.
  • Why Growth Is Good
    Growth doesn't depend on plunder. Rich nations have the capacity to extract resources responsibly. That they don't is a measure of their irresponsibility and the weakness of international law.
  • Have Republican economic policies once again made ...
    What began three months ago as a $50 billion emergency spending bill limped to the president's desk at half that size and was largely paid for -- "offset'' in the clinical terminology of the budget -- by cutting $12 billion from the food stamp program! In other words, a measure designed to help one ...

Switchboard

  • Our Water is Shark Water
    Every time I surf in chilly Northern California waters, I am conscious that I enter a domain where fierce predators lurk.  Although it gives me pause to think of the “landlords” cruising in the depth below my feet, I also embrace the humility that comes from the reminder that, for all ...
  • Los Angeles Bike Summit: A Dialogue Between Mayor ...
    On Monday morning, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa hosted a bike summit in response to an accident a few weeks ago that left him with a permanent plate in his elbow.  The Mayor and representatives from the Department of Transportation, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportat ...
  • Contrived Controversy over Diesel Soot
    The Sacramento Bee buzzed yesterday over a “ diesel soot saga ,” spinning a colorful tale that questions whether diesel soot is a major health hazard.  Yes, diesel soot is a major health hazard, according to every major air quality and public health authority (if you’re unsure, please ...
  • NRDC approves first solar project: Lucerne Valley ...
    We share exciting news this week as environmental groups, including NRDC, support our first utility scale solar energy project – the Lucerne Valley Solar Project near Victorville in San Bernardino County. This is the first solar power project, and the second renewable energy project th ...
  • Gulf spill health and drilling concerns, and savin ...
    Many outlets, including the Wall Street Journal online and Miami Herald , reported on the commentary by Gina Solomon and Sarah Janssen about the long-term health effects of the Gulf oil spill published in the Journal of the American Medical Association yesterday; the Wall Street Journa ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Further DF-21 Thoughts
    Geoff Forden wrote a fantastic post on the technical challenges that the Chinese DF-21 anti-ship ballistic missile system faces, and poses. Make sure to read the comments as well. Related posts:Some Details on Chinese Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile Program Cheonan Damage Consistent with a Torpedo ...
  • Mission Accomplished
    This is the way the war ends. Grasping the precise semantic distinction between “combat troops” and “the 50,000 remaining U.S. troops that will go on combat missions with Iraqi troops (if asked), plus an unspecified number of special forces that will continue to engage actively in combat operations ...
  • Dispatches from Nerd Camp II
    Among nuggets of wisdom about social networking tools that I’ve picked up under the tutelage of one Stanley Wasserman is this: not only can you network electronically, but now so can your poodle. Related posts:Dispatches from Nerd Camp I In Other Nerd News… "Maureen Goes To Fantasy Camp? Her Who ...
  • Are There Even Four Votes For A Right To Same-Sex ...
    A commenter on the recent thread about Kennedy says probably not: I see no reason why anyone would assume that Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kafan would be votes to affirm. Nothing in their records suggests it, as far as I can see. As for Ginsburg and Breyer, see Washington v Glucksberg. As for Ka ...
  • Creeping Palinism
    Sarah Palin’s fascinating theory that the First Amendment should exempt her from criticism gains another adherent in odious busybody Laura Schlessinger: Well, I’m here to say that my contract is up for my radio show at the end of the year and I have made the decision not to do radio anymore. The rea ...

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

  • Spike In Ocean Temperatures Causes Massive Coral B ...
    A spike in ocean temperatures has devastated coral reef populations off the Indonesian coast this summer, bleaching more than 60 percent of the coral off Aceh province, scientists say. Coral bleaching, which occurs when heat drives out algae living within coral tissues, is an indicator of stress tha ...
  • U.S. Public is Clueless On Best Ways to Save Energ ...
    Many Americans believe they can conserve energy by taking relatively inconsequential steps, such as turning off lights, while ignoring far more important measures , according to a new survey. The survey of residents in 34 states, conducted by researchers at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, sai ...
  • The U.S.’s Greenest Colleges
    The Sierra Club has ranked the most environmentally friendly colleges and universities in the United States, with tiny Green Mountain College in Vermont heading the list because it produces much of its electricity from burning biomass and cow manure. Other schools in the top ten include Stanford Uni ...
  • LEED Building Standards Fail to Protect Human Heal ...
    LEED certification has emerged as the green standard of approval for new buildings in the United States. But the criteria used for determining the ratings largely ignore factors relating to human health, particularly the use of potentially toxic building materials. BY JOHN WARGO
  • Beaver Born in UK Wild for First Time in Four Cent ...
    Scottish conservationists say the first beaver born in Britain in nearly 400 years emerged from its lodge last month, a significant step in the reintroduction of the species that was hunted into extinction centuries ago. Officials with the Scottish Wildlife Trust say at least two young beavers, know ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

  • CSKA will have to play without Honda
    CSKA star midfielder Keisuke Honda will have to miss his team’s Europa League play-off tonight. They face Cypriot side Anorthosis in Moscow for the first leg of their tie, which will decide the group stages.
  • FIFA inspectors leave Russia impressed
    Russia has been going all out to win the football World Cup bid for 2018 or 2022. Inspectors from FIFA have wrapped up their tour across Russia assessing whether or not it could be chosen to host the tournament.
  • Northern city of Arkhangelsk – from ships to diamo ...
    Once the country's only sea port, now Arkhangelsk is recognized as the capital of northern Russia with a budding industry and a great historical past.
  • Russian swoops “math Nobel”
    Russian mathematician Stanislav Smirnov has become one the four laureates of the prestigious Fields Medal, the world’s highest prize in mathematical sciences.
  • World leaders gather at Global Policy Forum in Yar ...
    On September 9-10, 2010 the Russian city of Yaroslavl will host Global Policy Forum “The Modern State: Standards of Democracy and Criteria of Efficiency.”

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

  • Hawking Makes Waves At SETIcon
    It seems that Dr. Hawking’s statements about nomadic ETIs being voracious hunters has created quite a stir in the mainstream science community. Especially the crowd Uncle Seth Shostak is in charge of at the recent SETIcon in California: Even if humanity could reach out to an intelligent alien civili ...
  • On the Cusp of Wormhole Technology?
    Wormhole technology, or any kind of faster-than-light space travel is considered tin-foil hat fantasy with current technology. But Gary S. Bekkum of STARstream research interviewed a young Iranian physicist in May of this year who just might’ve discovered a way using present day tech of producing wo ...
  • The Politics of Fear
    The 21st Century is one of William Gibson’s dystopic tales. Or maybe Philip K. Dick, I can’t tell. Anyway, one can’t deny the fear and anxiety that permeates the air like a thick cloud of smog. Couple that with technology accelerating toward a Technological Singularity that seems to want to ensla ...
  • The US Taking Up UFO Study? Fuh-getta-bout It!
    When it comes to UFO Disclosure, people leave their brains at the door. For decades folks have waited with baited breath, hoping for each new Presidential administration will take up the Disclosure Banner, and give the word that aliens have been on Earth for years and admission into the Galactic Fed ...
  • 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 ...

Tippers News

  • Bisphenol A is found in most plastic food containe ...
    Not only is it found in plastic containers, but also in the lining of most cans. BPA is essentially a synthetic estrogen that enters the body when one consumes food or beverages out of plastic or plastic-lined containers Submitted by Robyn R. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Mobile phone which can monitor heart problems and ...
    A new mobile phone could help millions of people who suffer from heart-related medical problems monitor their conditions.The H'andy Sana is a touch-screen phone that also includes an application called Heart Suite, Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Do-it-yourself solar power for your home
    Imagine outfitting your house with small, affordable solar panels that plug into a socket and pump power into your electrical system instead of taking it out. Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Why Videogames Need Exercise Ratings
    In the next few months, Sony and Microsoft will introduce motion controls and exercise-based games to their game machines, to keep up with Nintendos Wii. In this guest column, child psychiatrist Paul Ballas argues for a new rating system Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! � ...
  • 50 Best Blogs & Links for a Macrobiotic Lifestyle
    If youre wondering about the medical benefits or risks of macrobiotic living, or if youre curious about a new diet and eating plan thats focused on local, sustainable and clean foods, check out these blogs and links. Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Commen ...

The Freeman

  • Obama Fights with Own Party Over Trade
    “Eight months after he called for action on a string of stalled free-trade deals, President Obama is battling fierce opposition from his own party and concerns over a rising trade deficit in a rush to meet his own self-imposed November deadline for finishing a major accord with South Korea.” (Washin ...
  • British PM Calls for Government Cut-Back
    “[British PM] David Cameron’s 100-day-old ruling coalition is launching an effort to reduce the role of government, seeking to vest communities and individuals with fresh powers and peddling a new era of volunteerism to replace the state in running museums, parks and other public facilities. Support ...
  • Saving Jobs Means Saving Us from Prosperity
    One of the most pernicious fallacies in popular economic discussions is that we should adopt policies designed to save jobs.
  • Bankers Want Big Government in Mortgage Lending
    “The Obama administration invited banking executives Tuesday to offer advice on changing the government’s role in the mortgage market. Their response: Stay big.” (USA Today) There’s a surprise. FEE Timely Classic “Nationalization of the Mortgage Market” by Robert P. Murphy
  • GOP Urged to Back Small-Business Loans
    “President Obama called on Senate Republicans today to end their filibuster of a small business loan program after the August recess, arguing that jobs depend on the legislation.” (USA Today) Make small business even more dependent on government. FEE Timely Classic “Producing Jobs: Thoughts on Obama ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • A fresh look at reporting skills
    In June I posted a ranked list of skills needed by todayâs journalists . In reviewing it today, I wondered whether it would be different if instead of saying journalist we said reporter . Say you want to hire a reporter — for a Web-only organization, a magazine, a newspaper, a TV or documentary o ...
  • Getting started with WordPress
    Here’s a new, stripped-down, easy-to-follow introduction to WordPress — the free blogging platform that also works as a versatile content management system: WordPress Basics This short tutorial is based on the second installment in my Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency , but I have shorten ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

  • Construction workers quenching a thirst for justic ...
    By Kevin Lynch, Labor Notes In oppressive heat, Austin construction workers labor without breaks -- some without even water. Workers and allies involved with the Workers Defense Project, which works with immigrant day laborers in the city, symbolically endured similar conditions in their creativ ...
  • Almost 80 percent of BP's spilled oil still threat ...
    The recent federal report claiming that the "vast majority" of the estimated 200 million gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico by the BP catastrophe has either evaporated or been burned, skimmed, recovered or dispersed sounded almost too good to be true. As it turns out, it was t ...
  • Obama, Katrina and human rights
    President Obama plans to be in New Orleans on Aug. 29 to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina -- a prime opportunity to put disaster recovery issues back atop the national agenda. Obama is scheduled to deliver a speech at Xavier University, the nation's only historically ...
  • Incoming paymaster for spill claims outlines chang ...
    By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica Kenneth Feinberg, the independent administrator appointed by President Barack Obama to oversee compensation for the Gulf oil spill, last week described broad changes to BP's claims system that he will put in place when he takes over the process. At a public meeti ...
  • 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 ...

Survival International

  • Brazilian Indians celebrate creation of their own ...
    Yanomami woman. Yanomami Indians and Indians of many other tribes are celebrating the creation of their own health service © Fiona Watson/Survival Tribal peoples all over Brazil are celebrating the creation of a new branch of the Ministry of Health which will be responsible for providing health ...
  • Philippine mining plans blocked
    Palawan children scoop-fishing in Singnapan river, Ransang, Rizal Municipality. © Dario Novellino The Palawan tribe of the Philippines is celebrating after a local government panel refused to give the go-ahead to mining giant MacroAsia to mine on their traditional territory. Survival supporter ...
  • Vedanta’s India mine slammed in devastating govern ...
    A Dongria Kondh woman. © Jason Taylor Plans by Vedanta Resources to mine on Dongria Kondh land in eastern India âthreaten the survivalâ of the tribe, according to an official government investigation whose report has just been released. In a devastating report , a committee set up by Indi ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Separation of Church and Hate:The Kate Mosque Solu ...
    by Greg Palast Since everyone seems to have an opinion about the mosque near Ground Zero (and President Obama has two), I like to ask you all a couple of questions: Given that white Christian supremacist Tim McVeigh bombed the Oklahoma City Federal Building, shouldn't we ban white churches from th ...
  • 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 ...

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Tai Chi better for Fibromaglia than drugs
    Imagine that. What’s remarkable, actually, is how often some form of exercise is better for a variety of conditions than pharmaceuticals.  From depression to osteoperosis to preventing the effects of Alzheimer, getting active generally works as well or better than drugs. In terms of societal health ...
  • Oh for God’s Sake: US combat troops have NOT left ...
    This is positively Orwellian, and people on the progressive side should not be cooperating with it. There are still 50,000 US troops in Iraq and they include brigades which are, absolutely, combat troops.  Call them “advisers”, but nothing has changed, they are combat troops. Update: Oh hey, the p ...
  • Accelerating balance sheet clean-ups
    The big problem in the US economy right now is consumers are cleaning up their balance sheets.  People are either dealing with debt overhangs from the previous consumption binge or they fear for their future incomes due to either wage cuts or job loss and thus they pay down debt and [...]
  • The Freedom Mosque
    I’ve avoided this controversy because it’s so profoundly stupid, but since it won’t die and go away, let’s put it in terms even knuckle-draggers can understand. Freedom of religion is a fundamental American value. If you are against a mosque near the World Trade Center you are against freedom of rel ...
  • Talking with the Taliban
    The Karzai government in Afghanistan has been making a series of back-channel and plausibly deniable conversations with Quetta Shura Taliban(QST) leaders for most of a year now.  Karzai and his coterie of cronies know that the Americans, NATO and the rest of ISAF will be drawing down their suppo ...

Age of Autism

  • US Senate Hearing on Autism: It's The Environment ...
    "We should also look back to the history of drug regulation. It took the Thalidomide epidemic for us to take action. Perhaps autism is the equivalent for environmental chemicals." By Anne Dachel We woke up to a different world on...
  • New Site "Lives Lost to Autism" Launched
    A new site called Lives Lost to Autism remembers and pays respect to children, young adults and adults whose life has been cut short due to their autism. There is no commenting on the site. If you have a local...
  • 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...
  • New York, Politics and Autism
    By John Gilmore Thank goodness the 2010 New York legislative session is finally over. Last night the second latest budget in New York history was finally finished, 125 days overdue, and the members of the Assembly and Senate can now...
  • 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...

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

  • Farm Wars Launches Public Service Announcements
    Introducing Farm Wars Public Service Announcements. Whenever you see the following, just click on the link to hear the weekly Farm Wars Public Service Announcement (PSA) Farm Wars Public Service Announcement
  • Monsanto Shills get the Stinkfly Boot
    If you are a Monsanto PR shill who tries to slip in advertisements for your genetically modified filth and want to put in a good word for Monsanto on my site, you get the Stinkfly boot!
  • 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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Tons of gold imports turn to dust on arrival
    Gulf – Several tons of gold imported into the UAE by traders and investors turned out to be fake on closer inspection, resulting in millions of dirhams in losses and high levels of stress to the victims. Speaking to Emirates 24|7, Mohamad Shakarchi,, Managing Director of Emirates Gold, said: “A lot ...
  • Toxic BPA detected in 91 percent of Canadians: stu ...
    AFP — The toxic chemical Bisphenol-A, or BPA, is detectable in the urine of more than nine in 10 Canadians, according to a study released Monday. The Canadian Health Measures Survey of 5,600 Canadians aged six to 79 years, conducted by Statistics Canada between 2007 and 2009, found Canadian teens h ...
  • US: More companies switch sweeteners
    LA Times – First it was calories, then it was fat and sodium. The latest health concern: high-fructose corn syrup, and the trend is accelerating. As the country struggles with obesity issues, ingredients in food have been under increasing scrutiny, bringing some confusion to the marketplace but als ...
  • Green taxes could treble by 2020, costing taxpayer ...
    Dailymail-Taxes to pay for contentious climate change policies are set to treble over the next decade, soaring to more than £16billion a year. The hike is the equivalent of 4p on the current rate of income tax, a report from think tank Policy Exchange claimed. By 2020 the tax take from green levies ...
  • Outrage in Philippines over police torture video
    AFP – The Philippines’ independent rights body launched a probe into the national police amid public outrage over a cellphone video showing an officer torturing a naked man. The graphic video, which ABS-CBN television said it obtained from an unidentified informant, shows the officer in civilian clo ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Gulf oil spill: Tests still needed before troubled ...
    Engineers will conduct more tests on BP's troubled oil well before deciding how to proceed with a plan to kill it for good, a government officials said Wednesday. Thad Allen, the federal spill response chief, told reporters that crews planned...
  • Gulf oil spill: Possible health effects assessed i ...
    Days after a vacationing President Obama swam in gulf waters and tasted fish caught off the coast of Florida, scientists with the Natural Resources Defense Council said the gulf oil spill probably still will have far-reaching health effects on both...
  • 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...

water.org

  • Water.org at TEDxKC (Brainzooming)
    What the World Needs Now â Innovative Ideas from TEDxKC â Part II (Brainzooming) – For whatever reason, McCamonâs TEDxKC presentation was incredibly brief. It provided staggering statistics about the amount of solid human waste thatâs left untreated globally in a world where more people have ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Tony Judt's Jewish identity
    As a result both Judt and Arendt were accused of being "self-hating Jews" or even anti-Semites, an accusation that is ignoble, intellectually shallow and ultimately dangerous, because it is used to delegitimize the majority of Jews worldwide, whether secu Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �N ...
  • Citizens, but not equal
    It's easier for Netanyahu to extend Ramadan greetings than it is to put a stop to the Museum of Tolerance, built on the site of what was once a Muslim cemetery in central Jerusalem. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • IDF trying something new in West Bank: politeness
    "I wanted to see if it was possible to see Palestinians as human beings and not as potential threats who suddenly take out knives or pipe bombs," said Eliezer Cohen, a poet and social worker who initiated the idea. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Muslim leaders to abandon plans for Ground Zero co ...
    The decision follows a high-profile campaign against the project that included advertisements on New York buses showing images of the burning Twin Towers, an iconic landmark razed when al-Qaida terrorists flew packed passenger planes into them in 2001. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Go ...
  • IDF soldier posts images of blindfold Palestinians ...
    "That looks really sexy for you," says a comment posted by one of Abergil's friends on the social networking site, alongside a picture or the soldier smiling in front of two blindfold men. " Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Historical Notes

libcom

  • South Africa: over a million public sector workers ...
    1224277150526_1[1].jpg More than one million South African state workers have gone on strike to press for an increase in pay, a move that threatens to paralyse Africa's biggest economy. Schools were clos ...
  • Been there, done that - a look at the US banking " ...
    garnish-someones-wages-800X800.jpg There’s a reason American workers aren’t paying much attention to the new financial regulations. And no, it isn’t out of “apathy.” Despite making ...
  • 5,000 migrants riot at Malaysian factory
    31354973.jpg More than 5,000 migrant workers tore down a guard tower during rioting at the facility where they were staying in Malaysia’s industrial city of Johor Baru today. Durin ...
  • 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.

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

  • Chinese Drywall-Warning Signals-Detection
    Warning Signals There are several problems caused by the Chinese drywall. How can a problem be detected? Look for these signs: The drywall releases sulfur dioxide gas creating sulfuric acid. There is a smell like rotten eggs. Unfortunately, not all … Continue reading →
  • Renewable Energy Facts
    By sampurl Renewable Energy will soon become second nature Below are some Renewable Energy facts that you might find interesting. We would also like to hear from you if you have additional facts that we have not included. You can … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

  • Federal Judge Approves $298 Million Settlement Bet ...
    A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday approved a $298 million settlement between Barclays Bank and the Justice Department to resolve allegations the bank violated government sanctions in processing financial transactions with countries that include Cuba, Iran and Sudan. But he had plenty ...
  • Investor in Madoff Feeder Fund Wins $1.5 Million A ...
    A New York state judge on Tuesday confirmed a $1.5 million arbitration award in favor of an investor in Ascot Partners, which was set up by hedge fund operator J. Ezra Merkin, who had turned over management of the fund to convicted Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff. The lawyer for investor Noel M. Weide ...
  • Howard Rice Sued for Deferring, Then Dumping, New ...
    In the summer of 2008, with the United States jittery over the financial crisis, Sarah Martinez found herself among the unlucky crop of bright law school graduates whose big-firm job offers were deferred. Now she's suing San Francisco's Howard Rice, the firm her lawyer says strung her along until pa ...
  • Fla. Bar Website Rules Face Challenge in State Hig ...
    Proposed Florida Bar rules for web advertising would require law firms to redo websites, push clients to law firms in other states, and violate the First Amendment. Those are a few of the objections that eight large law firms submitted to the Florida Supreme Court in a 66-page comment.
  • Delaware Ruling Lets Investors Team Up Against Hed ...
    A Delaware Supreme Court ruling against a defunct hedge fund affiliated with the Perot Family Trust will make it easier for hedge fund investors to investigate legal claims against closed hedge funds. The ruling has "far-reaching implications outside of Delaware" because many U.S. companies are inco ...

Iranian.com

  • An Israeli Strike Against Iran: In the Spring, in ...
    We have all read and heard about the Iranian nuclear program and its possible capability to produce nuclear weapons; about the diplomatic, economic, and other ongoing efforts to get Iran to come clean on its nuclear weapons intentions; and about the threat such a capability would pose to Israel ...
  • UN welcomes operationalization of Iran’s nuclear f ...
    A senior official at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) welcomed Tuesday coming on stream of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant in southern Iran. Senior Researcher and Project Manager of the UNIDIR Yuri Yudin told IRNA in Geneva, Switzerland, that becoming operational of the ...
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  • In Iran, Green Movement Has 'Ceased To Exist'
    Reporter Jon Lee Anderson visited Iran, and spoke with members of the reform movement as well as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. His conclusion: Under intense pressure from government supporters, "the Green Movement has effectively ceased to exist as a visible political force." NEAL CONAN, host: read ...
  • Iran distances from Bahrain unrest
    Manama: Iran has distanced itself from the recent wave of clashes in Bahrain, saying that countries with an agenda targeting the region were behind the incitement to acts of violence, arson and destruction of property. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Is Capitalism Doomed? - Part III
    Fascism In The Coming Struggle for Power , Strachey also writes about the important role of fascism associated with end stage capitalism. He explains how declining profits and growth will result in reduced wages, poorer working conditions and a claw back of social welfare benefits enacted d ...
  • Is Capitalism Doomed? – Part III
    Fascism In The Coming Struggle for Power , Strachey also writes about the important role of fascism associated with end stage capitalism. He explains how declining profits and growth will result in reduced wages, poorer working conditions and a claw back of social welfare benefits enacted during mor ...
  • Is Capitalism Doomed? - Part II
    Why Capitalism Didn’t Fold in 1933 S tagnation Theory In 1966 Paul Sweezy, founding editor of the Monthly Review , and economist Paul Baran first set out what they describe as “stagnation theory” in their book Monopoly Capital . In later writings, Swezey describes how the massive “financializ ...
  • 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 ...

Free Movement

  • UKBA seek feedback on settlement application proce ...
    Anyone with recent experience of applying for settlement may wish to help UKBA by completing a feedback form, available here.
  • 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 ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • VIDEO: Amir Bar-Lev, Director of 'The Tillman ...
  • You and I Can't Yield – Not Now, Not Ever
    Back in March, I delivered a speech to an NAACP Freedom Fund banquet in my home state of Georgia. I drew on my personal life story to urge poor people, white and black, to pull together and overcome racial divisions. We have to understand that our struggle is against poverty and against those who ar ...
  • Rebuilding the Democratic brand with jobs
    Not to be difficult, mind you, but what is it that the Democrats see themselves running on in the next 75 days -- or, for that matter, the next two years? Health-care reform? Since many of its benefits don't kick in until 2014, it exists in the minds of millions of Americans chiefly as a nebulous th ...
  • Julian Assange: WikiLeaks and the State, Media Mon ...
    Julian Assange: WikiLeaks is not a stateless organisation... all of our parts are in some state, all of our people are in some state, we've won every court case in every state that we've been [in court] in. It is true that we do play some kind of arbitrage between these states, and that affects the ...
  • Meet Dylan Ratigan, That Guy on MSNBC Who Can Talk ...
    Financial markets had just opened on a Thursday morning in mid-November, but business journalist Dylan Ratigan was nowhere near his old stomping grounds on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. He was wearing a huge, ridiculous black wig, gold-rimmed aviator sunglasses, and a white broad ...

Salon

  • Press hopeful second Blago trial will finally be e ...
    When former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich went on trial for corruption, Washington-based political reporters salivated at the distant possibility that something embarrassing for the White House would be revealed. Because, see, many people in the White House are from Chicago, the biggest city in t ...
  • Sarah Palin defends Dr. Laura
    On the same day Sarah Palin trashed the "cackle of rads" who "hijacked feminism," she also came to the defense of a staunch anti-feminist, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, on Twitter.
  • Baby slapping aboard flight sets off debate
    America's latest folk-hero flight attendant may be the one on a Southwest Airlines jet who took a 13-month-old baby from her mother after the woman slapped the crying child for kicking her.
  • Who will stand up to the GOP's war on Islam?
    "It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
  • WaPo blames bloggers for "ground zero mosque" hyst ...
    Today, the Washington Post had a really terrible headline on its front page: " Bloggers turn mosque into national spectacle ." Here's a shot:

SMB News

  • New flood tide roars into Dera Allah Yar
    JAFFERABAD: High flood tide raged its way into Jafferabad area of Dera Allah Yar, rendering thousands of people homeless, these stranded people are waiting for help, Geo News reported Monday. The new flood tide further exacerbated the situation in the area where people are present on the high places ...
  • Enraged flood victims get physical with police, Ra ...
    SUKKUR: Floods continue to cause devastation in Sukkur and rendered thousands of people stranded in various areas while enraged flood victims burned tyres, blocked road and exchanged blows with police and Rangers after one of the affectees died in a relief camp here at Sukkur-Shikarpur Road. The wat ...
  • 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 ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • Show Tamils some kindness
    Canadians can sleep soundly tonight, knowing that federal officials have clapped a woman with only one hand behind bars as they process a boatload of migrants from Sri Lanka.
  • Talibanizing Toronto
    The Taliban were the first to ban kites in Afghanistan. Now, Toronto is following Mullah Omar’s lead in keeping this city safe from the menace of kite-flying.
  • Animal cruelty case bungled
    The agency empowered by the province to enforce animal cruelty laws suffered a stinging rebuke this week when the biggest case in its history never made it to court. Rather than accepting responsibility and fixing what went wrong, the Ontario Socie ...
  • The politics of power
    The Liberals have made two significant decisions on hydro rates in their efforts to move Ontario towards a greener energy future. One is a reasoned move to help keep our big industries competitive and encourage them to shift their energy use to off ...
  • Veterans deserve better
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper is courting a potential firestorm of public anger by sloughing off criticism from Veterans Ombudsman Pat Stogran that the Conservative government is selling our wounded warriors short.

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • Chavez said will have no peace until US gets its h ...
    The Washington Post by-line was “How Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez tries to hide the truth about his government!” So I would like to rephrase the question: “Is the Washington Post attempting to hide the REAL truth about the Hugo Chavez government by innuendo instead of merely giving us the facts?” I am we ...
  • ABC 7: America’s Education System is Failing ...
    Young black males around the country are graduating at much slower rates than their white counterparts, according to a national educational study released Tuesday. The graduation rates for black males in Oakland mirrors the national numbers in this report. But this is a problem Oakland educators are ...
  • France to deport 700 Roma gypsies
    The French government has announced plans to deport 700 Roma gypsies as Romania warns about the possibility of a xenophobic backlash. “I am worried about the risks of populism and xenophobic reactions in a context of economic crisis,” Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi said in an interview w ...
  • Iran will block Hormuz if attacked
    A senior Iranian military official says Iran will take full control of the Strait of Hormuz should Washington opt to launch aggression against Iran. “The country’s armed forces which are under the (Islamic Revolution) Leader’s command are in the highest state of preparedness.” head of the Operations ...
  • Obama plan to help US mortgage giants warned to co ...
    The Obama administration held a conference Tuesday about how to reform mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Reform could involve adding Fannie and Freddie’s roughly $5 trillion in obligations, in effect, to the federal balance sheet. The Obama administration turned its focus squarely on a $5 ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Voyeurism And Television: Feeding our ravenous app ...
    The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. ~Ray Bradbury, The Golden Apples of the Sun
  • Fidel Castro Fascinated By Book On Bilderberg Club
    The 84-year-old former Cuban president published an article Wednesday that used three of the only eight pages in the Communist Party newspaper Granma to quote - largely verbatim - from a 2006 book by Lithuanian-born writer Daniel Estulin.
  • When Police Videos Go Missing
  • U.S.-China Crisis: From "Gunboat Diplomacy" to Con ...
  • The UN Security Council Regime of Tribunals and Sa ...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

  • Mosadegh and the Iranian standoff
    Summary: As usual, mainstream media coverage of the U.S./Israel/Iran fracas ignores one of the most important facts at the heart of it all… the U.S./U.K./British Petroleum 1953 overthrow of Iran’s great democratically-elected leader, Mohammed Mosadegh, which led to decades of a U.S.-backed Irania ...
  • Let’s talk about an attack on Iran
    Summary: When Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and the highest-ranking American officer, was asked recently on NBC’s “Meet the Press” show whether the United States has a military plan for an attack on Iran, he replied simply: “We do.” source: Japan Timesread more
  • GOP Blank Check for War?
    Summary: The Pentagon has made clear that with two wars of nearly a decade?s duration bleeding us, we do not want a third war with Iran. For while easy to predict how such a war begins, with air and missile strikes on Iran?s nuclear facilities, no one can know how it ends. source: Chronicles Ma ...
  • Flickers of Hope for Nuke Abolitionists
  • US Muslim Leaders Condemn Holocaust Denial, Anti-S ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Mosadegh and the Iranian standoff
    Summary: As usual, mainstream media coverage of the U.S./Israel/Iran fracas ignores one of the most important facts at the heart of it all... the U.S./U.K./British Petroleum 1953 overthrow of Iran's great democratically-elected leader, Mohammed Mosadegh, which led to decades of a U.S.-backed I ...
  • Let's talk about an attack on Iran
    Summary: When Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and the highest-ranking American officer, was asked recently on NBC's "Meet the Press" show whether the United States has a military plan for an attack on Iran, he replied simply: "We do." source: Japan Times read mor ...
  • GOP Blank Check for War?
    Summary: The Pentagon has made clear that with two wars of nearly a decade’s duration bleeding us, we do not want a third war with Iran. For while easy to predict how such a war begins, with air and missile strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, no one can know how it ends. source: Chronicles ...
  • Bolton was Contradicted by Bush on Iran’s Bushehr ...
    Summary: Juan Cole There is no point in attacking Bushehr and the attack on OSIRAK backfired big time. Bolton and others on the American Right are playing on people’s ignorance in this warmongering. source: Juancole.com read more
  • Cambodia says sanctions on Iran not a good solutio ...
    Summary: Cambodia Speaking to reporters on Monday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hor Namhong, deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs said "to impose sanctions against Iran is not a solution" and that he suggested " negotiations and engagement" sh ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Jupiter's Europa -Will a Robotic Space Probe Find ...
    "The reason I like Europa so much is that it’s a world whose orbital dynamics with Jupiter, its orbital resonances with the other Galilean moons, and its own rigid-body dynamics have a strong hand in creating its surface features –...
  • Is Space Silicon Valley's Next Frontier?
    Pete Worden, head of NASA Ames Research Center, a facility just down the road from Google in Mountain View was interviewed last week by TechCrunch.com The theme was how Ames can work more with Silicon Valley—whether that’s playing a role...
  • New Ocean Life Discovered at the 'Hadal Zone' (Dee ...
    In the "hadal" zone, which at 11,000 meters is deeper than Mount Everest is high – the pressure rises to 1,000 bar, or a ton per square centimeter. And as there is practically no light, and plants cannot grow, there...
  • The Pando -World's Oldest Organism: 80,000 or 800, ...
    The Pando aspen clone in Utah is thought to be 80,000 years old, but some think it could be ten times older. It’s hard to guess age and long-term research would have had to begin when humans were starting to...
  • Image of the Day: Saturn's Enigmatic Moon, Encelad ...
    On Saturn's small, icy moon Enceladus, “the mother lode of all discoveries was discovered at the South Pole,” said Carolyn Porco in a talk at Harvard University. Porco is director of flight operations and imaging team leader for the Cassini...

Natural News

  • Blagojevich, political corruption and health care ...
    (NaturalNews) Thanks to a lone, holdout juror, former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich narrowly escaped being found guilty of trying to sell a U.S. Senate seat. He was found guilty on only one charge: Lying. Stop the presses! A politician lied? Say it ain't so... If that crime were widely prosecute ...
  • Ben and Jerry's 'natural' ice cream filled with un ...
    (NaturalNews) Consumer watchdog group Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is calling out popular ice cream maker Ben and Jerry's for using artificial and chemically-altered ingredients in its "All Natural" premium ice creams. According to CSPI at least 90 percent of the flavors used in ...
  • Obesity linked to poor sperm quality
    (NaturalNews) Young men now have a new incentive to stay lean and fit. According to a new report in the journal Fertility and Sterility , overweight young men have poorer sperm quality than their peers of a more healthy weight do. The findings reveal that not only do overweight men have lower sperm ...
  • Walgreens announces flu shot gift card; give the " ...
    (NaturalNews) Summer isn't even over yet and the big push for the mass vaccination of the entire population is already under way. The CDC started the push by recently urging vaccine shots for everyone -- including infants, pregnant women and immune-compromised people. Adding to the vaccination hoopl ...
  • SAMe supplement effective at treating depression, ...
    (NaturalNews) Researchers recently completed a study revealing that the increasingly popular supplement S-Adenosyl Methionine (SAMe) is an effective treatment for people with depression. The substance, which occurs naturally in the body, exerts influence on the brain in ways that improve brain funct ...

Threat Level

  • Mississippi Lawyer Drawn Into WikiLeaks Intrigue
    A civil litigation attorney in Mississippi who has lent advice to WikiLeaks on occasion has found himself embroiled in intrigue and headlines after initiating conversation with the government over the secret-spilling site. Timothy Matusheski, who specializes in litigation around False Claims Act vio ...
  • Court OKs Covert iPhone Audio Recording
    Using an iPhone to secretly record a conversation is not a violation of the Wiretap Act if done for legitmate purposes, a federal appeals court has ruled. “The defendant must have the intent to use the illicit recording to commit a tort of crime beyond the act of recording itself,” (.pdf) the 2nd U ...
  • Prosecutor: No Charges in Webcam Spy Scandal
    Federal authorities announced Tuesday they will not prosecute administrators connected to a webcam spying scandal at a suburban Philadelphia school district. Prosecutors and the FBI opened an inquiry following a February privacy lawsuit accusing Lower Merion School District officials of spying on st ...
  • Army Spy Planes Not Used to Track New York Bomb Su ...
    The U.S. did not use military surveillance planes to siphon the cell phone calls of the Times Square car bomb suspect earlier this year, according to responses to FOIA requests by Threat Level. In May, Faisal Shahzad was arrested for allegedly attempting to set off a car bomb in Times Square. The l ...
  • Hate Blogger Convicted of Threats After Three Tria ...
    Three trials later, authorities have finally won a criminal conviction against Hal Turner, the New Jersey hate blogger charged with threatening to kill federal appeals court judges. Turner was convicted in federal court in Brooklyn on Friday of threatening to assault or murder a federal official or ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Recession Forcing Americans to Cut Back on Health ...
    With the first wave of its new provisions set to begin in September, Americans' support for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is gradually growing. And with good reason. A Commonwealth Fund study released last month concluded that the health care reform law will be especially beneficial to women. And ...
  • Right-Wing Special Offer: Bomb Iran, This Week Onl ...
    From the same people who sold you the American calamity in Iraq comes a new offer. At no cost to you, Israel will bomb Iranian nuclear facilities. But the special promotion ends this week , after which a regional war with Tehran and its proxies returns to its suggested retail price of an American ...
  • Bush Speechwriters Back Obama on Mosque
    Addressing Congress on September 20, 2001, President George W. Bush reminded the American people that in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, "We're in a fight for our principles, and our first responsibility is to live by them," adding, "No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or unkind words be ...
  • Who Owns Ground Zero?
    On Sunday, Republican Senator John Cornyn promised to make opposition to the so-called Ground Zero mosque a campaign issue, proclaiming, "This is not about freedom of religion." No, it's about much more than that. It is, as President Obama explained Friday, "essential to who we are." Because Grou ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Mosque Furor Endangers US Troops
    The Right is making political hay over a mosque near Ground Zero, but US troops may pay with their lives, writes Robert Parry. August 18, 2010
  • Old-Time Bigotry Alive in America
    The screaming over a mosque near 9/11's Ground Zero reflects America's deepseated nativism, observes Michael Winship. August 17, 2010
  • Making the US Look Small to the World
    Right-wing operatives whipping up anger over a Lower Manhattan mosque make America look hypocritical, says Alvaro Vargas Llosa. August 17, 2010
  • Letting the Banksters 'Settle'
    Instead of jail time, the banksters who tanked the global economy are settling for cash payouts, writes Danny Schechter. August 17, 2010
  • The Truth about Pat Tillman's Death
    A documentary recounts how the US government exploited the death of NFL-star-turned-soldier Pat Tillman, says Rory O'Connor. August 17, 2010

CounterPunch

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Grassroots

Climate

  • August 19, 2010
    More Tests, Preparation Ahead of Final BP Well Kill (Reuters) BP has more testing ahead before it can finally kill its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well, the top official overseeing the spill response said on Wednesday. AP Poll: BP Image Recovering from Spill, Still Low (AP) BP's i ...
  • August 18, 2010
    Gulf Surface Cleaner, But Questions Lurk Far Below (AP) Researchers are warning that the Gulf spill is a bigger mess than the government claims and that a lot of crude is lurking deep below the surface, some of it settling perhaps in a critical undersea canyon off the Florida Panhandle. ...
  • August 17, 2010
    Old-Style Coal Plants Expanding Across U.S. (AP)  Utilities across the country are building dozens of old-style coal plants that will cement the industry's standing as the largest industrial source of climate-changing gases for years to come. U.S. to Tighten Reviews for New Offshore Dril ...
  • August 16, 2010
    BP on Cusp of 'Bottom Kill' to Permanently Plug Source of Oil Spill in Gulf (Washington Post) BP and the U.S. government may decide as soon as Monday to move ahead with a four-day process to permanently plug the source of the Gulf spill through a "bottom kill" of the Macondo. La. Shri ...
  • 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 ...

GreenBiz

  • Mohawk Sets 2020 Green Goals with First Sustainabi ...
    Flooring company Mohawk Industries is aiming to reduce by 25 percent the intensity of its energy and water use along with its greenhouse gas emissions and the amount of landfill waste it creates.
  • Sunny Delight Goes Zero Waste
    The Ohio-based juice maker also made strides in other 2011 environmental goals, Sunny Delight explained its 2009 Sustainability Report released this week, which spans several areas of its operation, including transportation and logistics, packaging, energy and water use, and waste.
  • Most Americans Unsure of Most Effective Ways to Sa ...
    Most Americans overlook efficiency as the most effective means of reducing energy consumption. At the same time, poor public perception of the amount of energy needed by appliances and certain activities may be preventing consumers from making more informed choices when it comes to energy-saving b ...
  • Gender-Bending Chemical Detected in 91 Percent of ...
    The industrial chemical Bisphenol A, which has been linked to developmental and reproductive problems and mimics estrogen, is present in roughly 91 percent of the Canadian population, particularly in teens aged 12 to 19.
  • 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.

Reuters Global

  • Did Bloomberg inspire Obama’s speech about N ...
    President Obama's support for the Cordoba House Muslim center near the site of the 9/11 attacks is consistent with his views on constitutional rights, religious freedom, diversity and outreach to Muslims.
  • 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

Booman Tribune

  • Casual Observation
    I guess I picked the perfect week to go on vacation because it seems like the news cycle stood still. People are still talking about the Islamic Center in lower Manhattan. Who gives a shit? I've been around thousands of midwesterners in the last few days and I have not overheard one comment relat ...
  • Blago Rides Again
    Marty Aussenberg (a/k/a "Gadfly), formerly a columnist for the alternate newsweekly, The Memphis Flyer, is a lawyer in Memphis, Tennessee. Back when Rod Blagojevich's troubles first surfaced (January, 2009), I wrote an article for The Memphis Flyer about the legend "Blago" had become. Here's ...
  • The Latest Global Warming Conspiracy Theory
    For sheer amusement there is nothing like going to a climate denialist blog (i.e. Climate Change Fraud) and seeing the latest "proof" that NOAA is involved in a massive conspiracy to lie and defraud the American people about fake satellite data that shows global warming is a scam. The headline says ...
  • How Much Oil Remains in the Gulf?
    The University of Georgia provides a gloomy observation:Athens, Ga. A report released today by the Georgia Sea Grant and the University of Georgia concludes that up to 79 percent of the oil released into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon well has not been recovered and remains a threat ...
  • Why Care About Beck Rally on 8/28?
    The Washington Post has a story today about the [planned Glenn Beck rally at the Lincoln Memorial on the Mall scheduled for August 28, 2010. August 28th, for anyone unfamiliar with its symbolic meaning is the date that Martin Luther King, a man much demonized in his time by conservatives, gave his ...

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

  • BP Finally Agrees To Fund Psychological and Behavi ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline After pressure from the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the American Psychiatric Association, and state and federal government, BP has finally agreed to provide funding to address the psychological and behavioral health fallout of this summer’s massive oil leak i ...
  • ADHD Diagnosis Often Based On Age, Results in Over ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Two new reports, soon to be published in the Journal of Health Economics, suggest that as many as 1 million children have been incorrectly diagnosed with ADHD because of their age rather than because of behavioral issues. According to the studies, children with fall b ...
  • What Makes Therapy Work?
    By Rachel Stein, LCSW Click here to contact and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Since the very first therapy session, people have questioned whether talking to someone about your feelings actually helps you to feel better. People who have gone to therapy and not gotten the results they sought ha ...
  • The Family Bed
    By Lynne Silva-Breen, MDiv, MA, LMFT, Family Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lynne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Young parents, especially exhausted moms, relish the moments when their children fall asleep in their arms. Ask any parent of teenage children: those long ...
  • Research Suggests Change in Approach Needed For Sm ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Quitting smoking or overcoming reliance on other behaviors—such as eating, drinking alcohol, drinking caffeine, sex, excessive exercise, and others—can be difficult. From addiction counseling and group therapy to nicotine-reduction aids and cold-turkey self motivation, ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • The True Cost of Coal: an illustration by The Beeh ...
    The True Cost of Coal: an illustration by The Beehive Collective is coming to ... OregonLive.com (blog) "The True Cost of Coal" is an elaborate illustration that tells the story of mountaintop removal coal mining. It took the political nonprofit The Beehive ...
  • Wall Street Backs Away From Mountaintop Removal Co ...
    Wall Street Backs Away From Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining, Says Rainforest ... Trading Markets (press release) "Money talks - and it is saying loud and clear that mountaintop removal coal mining is a bad investment. With the move away from mountaintop removal coal ... and more��
  • Should US Coal Be Phased Out in Favor of Wind and ...
    RenewableEnergyWorld.com (blog) Should US Coal Be Phased Out in Favor of Wind and Solar? RenewableEnergyWorld.com (blog) And yet, we do not have consensus to choose wind turbines over mountaintop removal . How can this be? I take seriously the CEO of Massey Energy, ...
  • Gulf Drilling Just One Facet Of South's Surfeit Of ...
    Gulf Drilling Just One Facet Of South's Surfeit Of Heavy Industry RedOrbit That method has since given way to strip mining and surface mining and, most recently, to wholesale mountaintop removal — each system "more devastating to ...
  • Will WVDEP's new water guidance reduce the damage ...
    Will WVDEP's new water guidance reduce the damage done by mountaintop removal ... Charleston Gazette (blog) ... response to what was really my main question about the agency's guidance: Will this guidance reduce the environmental impacts of mountaintop removal ? ...

Memeorandum

  • Poll: 1 in 5 Americans thinks Obama is a Muslim (W ...
    Washington Post : Poll: 1 in 5 Americans thinks Obama is a Muslim   —  The number of Americans who believe — wrongly — that President Obama is a Muslim has increased significantly since his inauguration and now account for nearly 20 percent of the nation's population.  —  Those results, from a new ...
  • NRSC: 'The Next Time Democrats Call You Extreme, S ...
    Jim Geraghty / National Review : NRSC: ‘The Next Time Democrats Call You Extreme, Show Them This Video.’   —  You see it here first, folks: the new web video from the NRSC about just whose views are “extreme” around here.  —  Their closing sequence, showcasing that the so-called extreme candidates ...
  • In flap over mosque near Ground Zero, conservative ...
    Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post : In flap over mosque near Ground Zero, conservative writers gaining influence   —  Long before President Obama waded into the vociferous debate over a proposal to build a mosque near Ground Zero, a group of conservative writers and bloggers critical of Islam h ...
  • US matches Indian call centre costs (Financial Tim ...
    Financial Times : US matches Indian call centre costs   —  By James Lamont in New Delhi and Joe Leahy in Mumbai  —  Call centre workers are becoming as cheap to hire in the US as they are in India, according to the head of the country's largest business process outsourcing company.
  • Petraeus: Here's My Afghan Redeployment Strategy ( ...
    Spencer Ackerman / Danger Room : Petraeus: Here's My Afghan Redeployment Strategy   —  KABUL, Afghanistan - General David Petraeus isn't planning to wake up one morning after July 2011 and order his troops out of Afghanistan's provinces all at once.  Instead, his idea is to slowly and deliberately ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.1, Solomon Islands
    Thursday, August 19, 2010 05:12:08 UTC Thursday, August 19, 2010 04:12:08 PM at epicenter Depth : 91.10 km (56.61 mi)
  • M 5.2, Kermadec Islands, New Zealand
    Tuesday, August 17, 2010 10:43:57 UTC Tuesday, August 17, 2010 10:43:57 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
  • M 5.0, Java, Indonesia
    Monday, August 16, 2010 22:19:15 UTC Tuesday, August 17, 2010 05:19:15 AM at epicenter Depth : 61.60 km (38.28 mi)
  • M 6.2, Fiji region
    Monday, August 16, 2010 19:35:48 UTC Tuesday, August 17, 2010 07:35:48 AM at epicenter Depth : 594.80 km (369.59 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)

China Dialogue

  • Not just a natural disaster
    The Pakistani state has failed its people, writes Kamila Shamsie. Environmentalists have long warned of the power of the illegal timber mafia and the susceptibility of deforested areas to flooding, landslides and soil erosion. First came the Taliban. Then the army. And now the floods. The people of ...
  • The struggle for green computing
    China’s campaigners against pollution in the IT industry are bringing tall tales about clean computing back down to earth, writes Bill Thompson. A tale is sometimes told of clean computing and the power of information technology to save the world through the effective management of resources, the ac ...
  • China’s heavy-metal challenge
    A green coalition has been pressing the world’s IT giants to bring their polluting suppliers in China under control. Environmental advocate Ma Jun tells the Asia Water Project about its progress. In April this year, 35 Chinese NGOs, concerned about the growing number of heavy-metal poisoning inciden ...
  • “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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Mississippi Lawyer Drawn Into WikiLeaks Intrigue
    A civil litigation attorney in Mississippi who has lent advice to WikiLeaks on occasion has found himself embroiled in intrigue and headlines after initiating conversation with the government over the secret-spilling site. Timothy Matusheski, who specializes in litigation around False Claims Act vio ...
  • Court OKs Covert iPhone Audio Recording
    Using an iPhone to secretly record a conversation is not a violation of the Wiretap Act if done for legitmate purposes, a federal appeals court has ruled. “The defendant must have the intent to use the illicit recording to commit a tort of crime beyond the act of recording itself,” (.pdf) the 2nd U ...
  • Prosecutor: No Charges in Webcam Spy Scandal
    Federal authorities announced Tuesday they will not prosecute administrators connected to a webcam spying scandal at a suburban Philadelphia school district. Prosecutors and the FBI opened an inquiry following a February privacy lawsuit accusing Lower Merion School District officials of spying on st ...
  • Army Spy Planes Not Used to Track New York Bomb Su ...
    The U.S. did not use military surveillance planes to siphon the cell phone calls of the Times Square car bomb suspect earlier this year, according to responses to FOIA requests by Threat Level. In May, Faisal Shahzad was arrested for allegedly attempting to set off a car bomb in Times Square. The l ...
  • Hate Blogger Convicted of Threats After Three Tria ...
    Three trials later, authorities have finally won a criminal conviction against Hal Turner, the New Jersey hate blogger charged with threatening to kill federal appeals court judges. Turner was convicted in federal court in Brooklyn on Friday of threatening to assault or murder a federal official or ...

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IntelNews

  • Comment: What Can the US Do To Stop WikiLeaks?
    By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | Ever since whistleblower site WikiLeaks published 77,000 classified US military documents on the war in Afghanistan, several pundits have urged US government agencies, including the Pentagon, to take action. Late last week, former George … Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #414
    Arab nations challenge US support of Israel’s nuclear secrecy. Ignoring a US warning, Arab nations are urging Washington and other Western powers to end support of Israel’s nuclear secrecy and to push for international inspections of Israel’s nuclear program. CIA, … Continue reading →
  • Russian alleged CIA spy gives interview
    By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | Of the four Russians alleged spies that the US and the UK received from Moscow in exchange for the 11 Russian illegals in July, only one is talking to the media. The Russian government … Continue reading →
  • Strike causes rift in Israeli diplomat-spy relatio ...
    By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | Members of Israelâs striking diplomatic community say they will refuse cooperation with Israeli spies, after the latter stepped in to take over some of the striking diplomatsâ tasks. The ongoing strike by the Diplomatic … Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #413
    Complex politics behind Ugandan spy chief’s removal. The recent sacking of Dr Amos Mukumbi from heading Uganda‘s Internal Security Organisation (ISO) was the handiwork of politics, intrigue and suspicion within the countryâs intelligence community and between politicians. It was also … Continue re ...

After Downing Street.org

  • Why aren't we?
    Other countries probing Bush-era torture — Why aren't we? 18 August 2010 - In June, the Supreme Court refused to hear the case of a Canadian man who contends that U.S. authorities mistook him for an al Qaida operative in 2002 and shipped him to a secret prison in Syria, where he was beaten with elec ...
  • Why we are still fighting-Fanaticism
    'Fused' People Eager to Die and Kill for Their Group, Research Shows ScienceDaily (Aug. 13, 2010) — People with extremely strong ties to their countries or groups are not only willing, but eager, to sacrifice themselves to save their compatriots, according to new psychology research from The Univers ...
  • Why we are still fighting-Patriotism
    People Who Cannot Escape a System Are Likely to Defend the Status Quo, Study Finds ScienceDaily (Aug. 16, 2010) — The freedom of emigration at will is internationally recognized as a human right. But, in practice, emigration is often restricted, whether by policy or by poverty. A new study published ...
  • Why we are still fighting-Oil
    Many Americans Are Still Clueless on How to Save Energy ScienceDaily (Aug. 17, 2010) — Many Americans believe they can save energy with small behavior changes that actually achieve very little, and severely underestimate the major effects of switching to efficient, currently available technologies ...
  • Killing "Hajis" Where They Pray; Support Ft. Hood ...
    As soldier after soldier steps forward to reclaim his humanity in the midst of the wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East, we are getting a peek at the brutalization process which the Army employs to divorce young men from their natural resistance to doing the kinds of things required to maintain a ...

Grist - News

  • Americans don’t know jack about saving energ ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Breaking: Americans don't know squat about how to save energy. A new survey quizzed people on what steps make the biggest difference in cutting energy use and found loads of confusion. Participants greatly overrated low-impact moves like flipping off light switches and unplug ...
  • Mother Earth not invited to housing summit
    by Jonathan Hiskes. No surprise here, but Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner & co. gave no mention to sustainability at Tuesday's summit on housing and what to do about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. No talk of location-efficient mortgages , which make the costs of transport in a particular neighb ...
  • Living in ‘the latest Hollywood global disas ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Save your $10 and skip the movie theater this summer. "The litany of weather incidents during the summer of 2010 reads like the latest Hollywood global disaster movie," Nathanial Gronewold writes at Climatewire : The hottest summer ever recorded in 130 years has sparked th ...
  • Scientists say figures on spilled oil in Gulf too ...
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON - - A new analysis suggests that nearly 80 percent of the crude that leaked into the Gulf of Mexico may still be in the ocean, throwing into question government estimates that were significantly lower. On Aug. 4, the U.S. government said cleanup efforts and na ...
  • Enviros and Big Oil take their battle on the road
    by Randy Rieland. Now that our summer with the Senate is over -- it was a lot like watching reruns of a show you didn't like the first time around -- it's time to move on to something with a pulse. And what could be better than dueling road shows? Tools on the Hill: On one side you have the envi ...

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Washington Independent

  • In Louisiana, Candidates Fight For – And Ove ...
    “The moratorium is the biggest issue that has cropped up in the reelection campaign,” says the Louisiana Republican Party's Aaron Baer.
  • Another Group Takes Issue With Administration&#821 ...
    A community group in the Gulf of Mexico is the latest organization to take issue with the Obama administration’s rosy assessment of the status of the Gulf oil spill cleanup. The Gulf Coast Fund, which was founded after Hurricane Katrina to support grassroots organizations in the region, said today “ ...
  • New Group Fights Jeff Greene’s Money with Mo ...
    The Center for Responsive Politics reports that Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-Fla.) is getting some serious help in his Senate primary contest against billionaire Jeff Greene from a group called “Florida Is Not For Sale,” one of the seven new independent expenditure committees approved by the FEC last month ...
  • Obama Administration Officials To Visit Gulf Coast
    Obama administration officials are heading down to the Gulf tomorrow to oversee the ongoing recovery efforts there. The officials will stop in at the Delta National Wildlife Refuge in Venice, La., which is scheduled to reopen on Sunday for the first time since the BP oil spill. Interior Secretary Ke ...
  • The Engine of Job Growth, the Engine of Job Loss
    The Wall Street Journal takes a look at a new Bureau of Labor Statistics analysis of what kind of businesses are gaining and shedding jobs. As is often true, small businesses are both the biggest creators of new jobs and the biggest destroyers of existing positions. Small businesses are managing to ...

Digg Green

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Anacondas and the Jesus Jumping Girl
    By Les Visible This world is exactly what it is until people can no longer tolerate their conditions, then the money moves to the other side of the fence. That is where you have to catch them. Just take their money and do the right thing. Putin understood this and is one of the few [...]
  • A Message From Transport Canada
  • Dr David Kelly was on a Hitlist
    By Miles Goslett and Arthur Martin 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 [...]
  • Egypt seizes explosives on ship coming from Israel
    Egyptian security forces seized a ship loaded with explosives coming from Israel and arrested its owner in Port Said, Egypt’s independent Al-Shorouk daily reported on Monday. The explosives were loaded inside containers on board of the ship, the newspaper reported without providing further details a ...
  • Satellitegate: Scientists Speak
    From John O’Sullivan, via Canada Free Press, we get further information on Satellitegate. Satellitegate refers to problems that have been discovered with old satellites, satellite data, and even problems with satellites that have yet to be launched. This evidently has caused lots of action about thi ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

  • Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon)
    A victory for anyone who likes healthy food, soil, and water! Monsanto’s sour plans for the sweet beet were spoiled as a federal judge banned genetically modified sugar beets. This is great news and hopefully a large step forward to getting food production back on a less toxic track. Sugar beet, ...
  • 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 ...

Inhabitat

  • Stunning Kuokkala Church Showcases Locally-Sourced ...
    Read the rest of Stunning Kuokkala Church Showcases Locally-Sourced Materialshttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architec ...
  • Upcycled Coin Cufflinks Make a Lot of Cents
    With Mad Men mania sweeping the nation, why not do like Don Draper and freshen up your wardrobe with a pair of classy cufflinks, made from upcycled coins? World Cufflinks has created a beautiful series of cufflinks using recycled coins from over 20 different countries, many of them now out of circul ...
  • Banana Guard Saves Your Fruit From the Mushpot
    We don’t monkey around when it comes to picking out our organic fruit. And one year-round favorite that always finds itself in our bags is that yellow little delight you could easily call nature’s miracle fruit. We love bananas for their self-containing peel and super nutritious snack ready state, b ...
  • CAST Architecture Unveils Solar Powered Pocket Par ...
    Seattle’s network of obsolete, decommissioned electrical substations are poised to become a network of neighborhood-friendly, solar powered pocket parks capable of generating more than a megawatt of solar power each year. CAST Architecture’s prototype design envisions a 32kH solar array floating ove ...
  • Plug-N-Go EV Charging Station Showcased at Green E ...
    The world’s first factory built-to-order solar-powered EV charging station was recently unveiled at the 2010 International Green Energy Expo in Korea in a bid to raise awareness and push the potential for electric vehicles in Asia. Developed by SunPods SP-300, the ready-to-use solar powered platfor ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Doubly Whammy Earthquake Caused Tsunami
    A giant earthquake that triggered a deadly southwest Pacific tsunami was actually two great temblors, finds a pair of new studies in the Aug. 19 Nature. These results uncover an unusual sequence of geological events that is the first of its kind to be observed by scientists, the study authors say. ...
  • Giant Terror Birds Used Stabbing Beaks to Kill Pre ...
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience586426320001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); When South America was still an isolated continent, terror birds were the creatures you didn’t want to mess with. Flightless, standing up to seven feet tall, and with gian ...
  • Spacesuit Thief Pleads Guilty
    A Texas man charged with stealing a NASA flight suit once worn by astronaut Sally Ride as she trained to be the first U.S. woman in space, plus thousands of dollars worth of other NASA equipment, pleaded guilty yesterday. Calvin Dale Smith of Houston is believed to have walked off with the light bl ...
  • Perforated Blobs May Be Earliest Known Animals
    Little asymmetric whatsits from Australia may be the oldest fossils of full-fledged animal bodies yet discovered, beating the previous contenders by tens of millions of years and pushing the evidence for animal life into an earlier geologic time. The newly unveiled fossils, which resemble sponges, ...
  • Sex Is Stressful, But Good For You
    There’s a predictable narrative to a lot of discoveries in molecular biology. The story begins when a scientist discovers that Molecule X causes Phenomenon Y. Perhaps we’re talking about CREB and long-term memory, or serotonin and depression, or cholesterol and heart disease. At first, the data look ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Cuba Travel on the Horizon?
    Rumors that the Obama Administration is preparing to announce measures that will ease travel restrictions to Cuba have been circulating for several weeks, but the news now seems to be official with multiple knowledgeable sources indicating that the announcement will come within the next week or two ...
  • Pakistani SOS
    If Shakespeare were to write a tragedy today, it could well begin: "Alas poor Pakistan. I knew it well." Facing existential economic and security threats, it hardly needed a third, in this case the catastrophic "super flood" that became a massive watery wound in Pakistan's underbelly. Estimates a ...
  • Islam and Assimilation
    Radley Balko takes a look at that 2007 Pew poll on American Muslims and finds: In contrast to many of the minority Muslim populations in Europe, American Muslims embrace modernity, are better educated, and earn more money than their non-Muslim fellow citizens. A 2007 Pew poll suggests American ...
  • Orange Peels: Ukraine After Revolution
    Five years ago, post-Soviet Ukraine, a critically placed country of some 46 million people, seemed to be on the fast track toward modernity. The Orange Revolution, the spontaneous mass protests against fraud in Ukraine’s November 2004 presidential election, presaged a mature civil society and free m ...
  • In South Ossetia, Russia Digs In
    Ghia Nodia, a professor of politics at Ilia State University, has a rather oddly argued piece in RFE/RL suggesting that Russia's war with Georgia in 2008 has brought few benefits for Moscow. Without going too much in to the contours of Professor Nodia's argument, I would say that the opposite ass ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Real Men Reject Social Progress.
    Happy 19th Amendment Anniversary Day! To celebrate, here's a shorter U.S. Chamber of Commerce: there was more equality when "one partner" "chose" to stay home to cook, clean, and reproduce. Or this post from The Corner �on the 19th Amendment� entitled , "Some Things Do Not Get Better with Time." It ...
  • Today's Depressing Space News.
    In most sci-fi movies, the problem with the long time periods required for inter-stellar travel is solved by putting those traversing the stars into some kind of "stasis," often in a comfy pod. Upon waking, they rub their necks, stretch their arms, and within about 30 seconds are good to go fight al ...
  • The Little Picture: Palestinian Rights In Lebanon.
    Palestinian refugees in Lebanon have won the right to claim free work permits for employment in the private sector. The status of the refugees has played a deeply divisive role in Lebanon's politics, and until now the government limited them to menial labor. While experts describe the new law as a ...
  • When Cops Get Annoyed.
    Via Gothamist , the video above shows a cop breaking up a party and then threatening to arrest a videographer, Vladimir Teichberg , who documents the event. As Gothamist notes, it's perfectly legal to record or photograph police activity as long as you're not interfering with the officer or office ...
  • Fixing Fannie and Freddie.
    Tim Fernholz counsels that the first step is admitting you need (government) help : Were the United States to ditch federal involvement in housing finance completely, as some critics have suggested, some of the trade-offs would include rising mortgage interest rates, reduced access to home loans, a ...

Buzzflash

  • A Nation That Spends More Money on War Than Life i ...
    LAWRENCE S. WITTNER FOR BUZZFLASH The August 9 announcement by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates of cost-containment measures at the Defense Department should not obscure two underlying facts.� First, as he conceded, these proposed economies will not result in cutting the overall Pentagon budget, wh ...
  • The Propaganda Mill
    Body An increasingly disquieting feature of today’s political discourse is that bits and pieces of misinformation are regurgitated endlessly, indulging the feeding frenzy that fills the airwaves and print media. Constant polling and partisan talking points are the order of the day whe ...
  • South Carolina is Perhaps the Wackiest, Most Moral ...
    MARK SANFORD Glory be, Mark "Adulterer in Buenos Aires" Sanford was a leader in the GOP rebellion against federal stimulus money.� Well, that was until a short time ago when he accepted stimulus funds for South Carolina's unemployment fund. As the New York Times noted: The governors [including Sanfo ...
  • Why BuzzFlash Joined Forces with Truthout.Org: Wel ...
    BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG, BY MARK KARLIN It's not easy being a progressive, as readers of BuzzFlash know.� I started the site in May of 2000 in large part because Democratic leaders in D.C. and elsewhere wouldn't vigorously stand up to Republicans.� I also felt that the Democratic leadership was fail ...
  • The American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer is ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH “The most compassionate thing we can do for Muslims who have already immigrated here is to help repatriate them back to Muslim countries, where they can live in a culture which shares their values …Why force them to chafe against the freedom, liberty and civil rights ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Howard Dean: "Mosque" should move
    (updated below - Update II) Certain things are disappointing and surprising even for the most hardened cynics. �Hearing Howard Dean -- the former liberal standard-bearer -- join�Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin by saying the following is definitely one of them: � ...
  • What political courage looks like
    (updated below) The toxic right-wing campaign to impose a Muslim-free zone around�Ground�Zero intensified today, while Democrats -- following in the cowardly footsteps of Senate Majority "Leader"�Harry Reid, whose book is one of the most ironically titled in history -- ran faster and fa ...
  • A CNN anchor expresses the crux of "mosque" opposi ...
    CNN�anchor Don Lemon hosted a "debate" this weekend over the Park 51 Community Center in Lower Manhattan (misleadingly described everywhere as the "Ground Zero mosque") in which Lemon dropped his mask of journalistic objectivity completely and, in doing so, perfectly captured the crux of the ugly ca ...
  • The two faces of Winston Churchill
    In the Sunday NYT Book Review, the always-excellent Johann Hari has a fascinating review of a new book by historian Richard Toye, Churchill's Empire , which examines the two very different Winston Churchills.  That dichotomy is epitomized by the very divergent treatment accorded the British Prime Mi ...
  • The fear campaign and Social Security
    (updated below) Associated Press, Saturday : Obama claims GOP trying to destroy 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 ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Drug testing, solar fullerenes, chemicalization
    These are my recent science picks, including my latest contributions to spectroscopyNOW.com Drug testing – A simple analytical approach to identifying drugs of abuse would be a boon to forensic scientists and law enforcement agencies. A collaboration between researchers in the US and Europe demonstr ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • After Deaths, BLM Permits Bigger Off-Road Race Thi ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 17, 2010 PEER Still reeling from the death of eight spectators at an off-road vehicle race this past Saturday, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is slated to host an even bigger, faster and more wide-open race this weekend.  The "Vegas-to-Reno" Race is even ha ...
  • EPA Chief cites the e-Waste Problem as one of the ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 17, 2010 Basel Action Network EPA Chief Administrator Lisa Jackson declared yesterday that preventing e-waste and its irresponsible management was one of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s top six newly announced global priorities.  The other five priorities we ...
  • Equality California Disappointed in Ninth Circuit ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 16, 2010 EQCA Today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a stay pending appeal of the federal district court’s decision in the Proposition 8 federal challenge. The district court had ruled that Prop. 8 was unconstitutional, and that marriages of sam ...
  • Offshore Oil Drilling Reforms Are Positive Step, B ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 16, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity The Obama administration announced today that it will no longer exempt certain deepwater offshore oil-drilling projects from environmental review. However, non-deepwater drilling operations may continue to be approved without e ...
  • Free Press Lauds House Leaders for Supporting Open ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 16, 2010 Free Press Today, senior members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee outlined a set of open Internet principles in a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski. The letter, from Reps. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), Jay Inslee (D ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Dissing T-Shirts
    by Linh Dinh Lumpens are parading in underwear. What a concept, We'll charge them real money for a kind of tube sox for the torso. Male, female, one size fits all. (Actually three, Rotund, Super Rotund and Outta Here.) We don't pay, but triple the price if they advertise for us. In every corporate s ...
  • Dear Mr. President...
    by Progressive Caucus of the California Democratic Party President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, D.C. 20500 August 14, 2010 Dear Mr. President: Your Press Secretary has recently been quoted as strongly criticizing those of us Democratic Party activists who f ...
  • Out of Fashion: Green Lawns
    by Laura Vanderkam Diane Faulkner's lawn was always causing her trouble. This Jacksonville, Fla., resident traveled frequently, and in her absence, her thirsty, fussy grass would go brown or otherwise run afoul of her neighborhood association's rules. She hated returning home to a $50 fine, but t ...
  • Obama’s Two-Step on NY Mosque
    by Derrick Z. Jackson PRESIDENT OBAMA had it right the first time in talking about the mosque proposed near ground zero of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Speaking last Friday at the White House celebration of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Obama said, "The 9/11 attacks were a deeply ...
  • Petraeus’s New Offensive: Preparing the Way for Ob ...
    by Matthew Rothschild General David Petraeus is in the midst of his Afghanistan offensive. But it's not against the Taliban; it's against those in Congress, and those of us in the public, who oppose the ongoing-and escalating-Afghan war. Petraeus is preparing the battlefield for next summer, when ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • It's A Plan B For Afghanistan, But...
    By Steve Hynd Dan Froomkin has the news in an exclusive for HuffPo: "An ad hoc group of disillusioned foreign policy experts is offering President Obama a serious, well thought-out alternative to his current failing strategy there." The group was led by Steve Clemons and included 40 other "scholars, ...
  • The Endless Recycling Afghan War
    By Steve Hynd The Washington Post's editorial today repeats the conventional wisdom among the VSP set - a wisdom carefully calculated to conceal their own failures - that the war in Afghanistan is not a nine-year war, it's just nine one-year wars. Gen. Petraeus also made clear that for many of those ...
  • Can You Say No To Angelina Jolie?
    By Steve Hynd Over six million people are affected by the flooding in Pakistan, a humanitarian disaster bigger than Katrina, the Indonesian tsunami or Haitian earthquake. But foreign aid is lagging. With hundreds of villages marooned and highways and bridges cut in half by swollen rivers, food ratio ...
  • Liberal Hawks - Doing It Wrong
    By Steve Hynd Our own Eric Martin, writing at his home base Obsidian Wings today, has an absolute must-read post exploring America's overly militarized foreign policy in the context of "liberal inteventionism". Liberal hawks, he says, are doing it wrong: Leaving aside the issue of the massive loss o ...
  • 575. That Number Means Afghanistan Is Definitely O ...
    By Steve Hynd Robert Naiman writes at HuffPo: 575. That's how many U.S. soldiers have lost their lives in the Afghanistan war since Barack Obama became President at noon on January 20, 2009, according to the icasualties.org website, which tracks U.S. soldiers' deaths using reports received from the ...

Water Wars

  • [news] Upstream Battle : Ratepayer advocates fight ...
    Water wars and rate hikes remain constants in Monterey County. It works like this: every three years, California American Water asks the state to let it raise customers costs. This time around, Cal Ams 40,000 Monterey District households face about a 35 percent increase in water rates. Then the Divi ...
  • Podcast: Will disputed Tea Party candidates stay o ...
    Podcast crew also discusses the Islamic center proposed two blocks from Ground Zero.
  • Keep it together
    One of the leitmotifs of contemporary Egyptian foreign policy is that Cairo must engage more intensely with nations that it has tended to ignore in the past. President Hosni Mubarak spelt out the importance of fostering relations between Egypt and the Nile Basin nations.
  • Davis County Fair makes a splash
    FARMINGTON -- "Dad, he got my foot wet," said 6-year-old Julissa Gamon after a dog made a big splash jumping into a large pool of water. Related Content Davis County Fair at the Fairgrounds in Farmington on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. read more
  • Low flow limits gas industry withdrawals, says riv ...
    As the flow of the Susquehanna River and its tributaries...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • Issa Proposes Financial Data Standards Bill
    Several important sunshine provisions that evaporated as the ink dried on the financial regulatory reform bill have been given new life. The provisions, initially submitted as four FinReg amendments by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), have been reincarnated into into a...
  • BOEMRE Launches Hotline for Reporting Misconduct a ...
    The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE—the agency formerly known as the Minerals Management Service) today unveiled a new hotline for reporting misconduct and unethical behavior: Allegations of misconduct or unethical behavior involving BOEM personnel or persons.. ...
  • Brokerages Demand Greater Transparency from Self-R ...
    You don’t often hear about regulated entities calling on a regulator to be more open and transparent about its oversight activities. Yet that’s exactly what happened last week at the 2010 annual meeting of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA),...
  • Morning Smoke: White House Ends Regulatory Exempti ...
    Obama Admin: No More Regulatory Shortcuts for Deepwater Drilling Projects [ProPublica] Obama seeks new design for housing, Fannie/Freddie [Reuters] Can the S.E.C. Avoid Scrutiny of Its Settlements? [The New York Times] Homeowner Questionnaire Shows Banks Violating Gov't Program Rules [ProPublica]...
  • Disappearing Act: Senate Passes Intel Authorizatio ...
    The movement to increase oversight of the intelligence community suffered an unfortunate setback this month with the passage of the Senate's FY 2010 Intelligence Authorization Act. The Act moved forward without a key provision that would have clarified the authority...

Digital Journal

  • Two disabled vets raising money for others by comp ...
    They were severely wounded during their time in Afghanistan. That hasn't stopped the pair from inspiring others or giving back. In September these heroes will be going all out in one of Canada's most difficult events to raise money for disabled vets.
  • House stops car this morning in Ontario
    A pick-up truck ran into an Oshawa house early this morning on Ritson Road South. Residents on the street were awaken just after midnight by screeching tires and a loud crash.
  • He's no Superman, man wanted for Toronto robbery
    A man wearing a Superman T-shirt is wanted for robbing a woman, 52, of her iPhone at knife point after chasing her down an apartment hallway.
  • Student asking to learn English sexually assaulted ...
    A foreign exchange student from Korea was hoping to learn to speak English. She posted an ad hoping for assistance with that goal. Instead of help the young woman, 25, was sexually assaulted by a respondent to the ad.
  • Rob Ford's immigration remarks prompt unity among ...
    The Toronto mayoral candidates have unified after the top candidate, Rob Ford, made remarks about immigration at the recent CP24 mayoral debates when he stated: "How are we going to welcome another million people in?"

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • When He Can't Find a Friend With a Couch, He Sleep ...
    This new video comes from Mark's InvisiblePeople.tv  30-city, 11,000-mile, 75-day road trip , going on now. Marty has been homeless for two years, ever since his mom told him he was trash and kicked him out. He is 19 now. He completed Job Corps but that wasn't enough to help him get on his feet and ...
  • Beggar Bags — Bad Idea or Just Bad Marketing?
    Beggar Bags — for when you want to be compassionate but don't want to get your hands dirty. The bags are filled with sanitary wipes and snacks like granola bars, raisins and beef jerky. Do-gooders can buy four bags for $4.99 and hand them out when they're asked for change. When I originally wrote ab ...
  • Homeless Workers Want to Clean Up Oil Spill
    Gulf Coast shelters have been filling up in recent weeks as homeless people continue to flood in looking for work cleaning BP's spill. Lyn Manz-Walters, a director of a homeless shelter in Mobile, Alabama, says that for the last two months her shelter has been averaging two new residents a day. Many ...
  • National Guard Members Protect Our Country, But Ar ...
    This new video comes from Mark's InvisiblePeople.tv  30-city, 11,000-mile, 75-day road trip , going on now. Jamie has lived homeless off and on since she was 14. She is 19 now, living in a rundown weekly-rate hotel. At least for the four days that a local church paid for. Please watch her powerful s ...
  • Back to School: Help Homeless Students Get Ready f ...
    Summertime seems to really pick up speed once you start seeing ads for "Back to School" promotions. As reluctant as I was to say goodbye to lazy fun in the sun when I was growing up, there was always a certain buzz of excitement when stocking up on new supplies for the classroom. Unfortunately, for ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • BATTLE FOR KANDAHAR IS ON - Real News Network
    In Afghanistan, the battle for Kandahar is on. That's receiving strangely little attention in the American media—quite low-key if you compare it to other major American campaigns in Afghanistan. Joining us from England, from Essex, is Muhammad Junaid, who's a research scholar studying the Pashtun na ...
  • Ceasefire.ca ad campaign continues in the Hill Tim ...
    The Ceasefire.ca ad campaign continued this week, targeting political circles in Ottawa by running a second ad in the Hill Times. The ad calls on Prime Minister Harper to "Call off the attack on Kandahar," an Afghanistan military offensive expected at the end of the summer.
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 8-18-10
    Everything Kevin: Become An Insider! Support Kevin! Kevin is on YouTube! Sign Up For Kevinâs FREE Podcast Follow Kevin on Twitter Become Kevinâs Friend on Facebook Kevin’s Film Club Kevin’s Book Club Take Trudeau on the Go! Click here to download this show to your iPod, mp3 player, or PC throu ...
  • Brandy comes clean about Kevin…
    When I first became Kevin’s producer a little over a year ago, I, like others, was a little skeptical about who this man really was. Between all the bad press, Wikipedia and what other outside influences told me, I was unsure of who to trust. Nevertheless, I’m always up for an adventure, so I wanted ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 8-17-10
    Everything Kevin: Become An Insider! Support Kevin! Kevin is on YouTube! Sign Up For Kevinâs FREE Podcast Follow Kevin on Twitter Become Kevinâs Friend on Facebook Kevin’s Film Club Kevin’s Book Club Take Trudeau on the Go! Click here to download this show to your iPod, mp3 player, or PC throu ...
  • Russian Scholar Warns Of Secret US Climate Change ...
    August 17, 2010 RFERL.org by Ashley Cleek As Muscovites suffer record high temperatures this summer, a Russian political scientist has claimed the United States may be using climate-change weapons to alter the temperatures and crop yields of Russia and other Central Asian countries. In a recent arti ...
  • Author Bradbury: “Our Country Is In Need Of ...
    August 17, 2010 LA Times by Susan King Ray Bradbury is mad at President Obama, but it’s not about the economy, the war or the plan to a construct a mosque near Ground Zero in New York City. âHe should be announcing that we should go back to the moon,â says the iconic author, whose 90th birthday ...

Pambazuka News

  • Black Congress to convene in D.C. to set black age ...
    As criticisms of President Obama’s war and economic policies mount, the group that first questioned his intentions regarding the concerns of the black community is holding a national Congress to define a black agenda to serve the interests of black p...
  • Haiti: Women demand role in reconstruction
    Women's civil society groups were noticeable by their absence from the landmark Haiti donor conference on 31 March, which secured pledges of US$5.3 billion over the next two years to support the country’s post-quake recovery. Their lack of a presenc...
  • African diplomats reject anti-Cuba resolution pass ...
    The ambassador of the Republic of Congo to Cuba, Pascal Onguemby, rejected the lies included in an anti-Cuba resolution recently approved by the European Parliament. Addressing participants in the inauguration of the Eleventh International Conference...
  • USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. war ...
    A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...
  • Brazil: Bloggers on why there is still racism in t ...
    Two weeks ago, Global Voices Online reported the story of Januário Alves de Santana, a black man who had been beaten and punched by security guards of one of the largest international retailers in Brazil. He was waiting for his family in the car park...

War in Context

  • Defending sacred ground
    At Foreign Policy, Stephen Walt enters the fray on the Cordoba House controversy and notes that America’s founders understood that “trying to impose religious orthodoxy on the new republic was a recipe for endless strife.” The principle of religious tolerance is not a piece of clothing that one can ...
  • Chalmers Johnson: portrait of a sagging empire
    Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com In September 1998, I was handed a submission for a proposed book by Chalmers Johnson.  I was then (as I am now) consulting editor at Metropolitan Books.  9/11 was three years away, the Bush administration still an unimaginable nightmare, and though the p ...
  • “Ground Zero mosque” is the new “death panels”
    Jeffrey Feldman writes: Cordoba House is not some sudden and new issue, but the latest attempt by the Republican Party to displace meaningful political debate with pitch-fork-and-torches style mass hysteria. The themes of these newest wave of delirium are familiar: Muslim conspiracy; infiltration ...
  • In Iraq, Western clocks, but Middle Eastern time
    Anthony Shadid writes: Iraq today is replete with American-ordered deadlines, timetables and benchmarks that sought to create realities where realities never existed. The administration is leaving now on its own terms. Perhaps staying would make an already traumatized Iraq worse; much of its dysfun ...
  • Goldberg willing to bet on a “better” chance that ...
    Fox News reports: Israel has until the weekend to launch a military strike on Iran’s first nuclear plant before the humanitarian risk of an attack becomes too great, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said Tuesday. A Russian company is expected to help Iran start loading nuc ...

Watts Up With That?

  • NCAR’s new 2010 climate model for the next I ...
    New computer model advances climate change research From an NCAR/UCAR press release BOULDERâScientists can now study climate change in far more detail with powerful new computer software released by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Modeling climateâs complexity. This … Conti ...
  • Solar-Terrestrial Coincidence?
    Guest post by Paul Vaughan, M.Sc. – August 18, 2010 Scientists characterize Earth rotation velocity using a variable they call length of day (LOD). The rate of change of LOD (LOD’) is related to global average wind patterns. Changes in … Continue reading →
  • Hump day hilarity
    From the Fail Blog, a reminder that some people think CO2 is lighter than air: Source here This reminds me of the failed Alliance for Climate Protection advert video, also showing CO2 as lighter than air with the help of … Continue reading →
  • Arctic Toolbox: Did 300,000 km2 of ice suddenly me ...
    August 16, 2010 offered a great opportunity to put all the Arctic data together in a coherent picture. DMI showed a large drop in extent. http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php You can see the drop between August 15 and August 16 clearly in red … Continue reading →
  • Geography is hard
    My local alternate weekly in Chico has a “Green Guide”. This week’s lead story was “Scientists break ice in Greenland”. There’s only one problem. They included a picture of Antarctica with the story. While also an island of ice like … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Noam Chomsky: U.S. and Israel
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ StartLoving3 | August 17, 2010 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathlee… Huffington Post, Noam Chomsky on Israel, August 16, 2010 Noam Chomsky – US Subordination (1), Israel Self Destruction, Genocide on Palestine Noam Chomsky – US Subordination (2), Israel Self De ...
  • Why Wikileaks must be protected by John Pilger
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by John Pilger Information Clearing House www.johnpilger.com August 19, 2010 On 26 July, WikiLeaks released thousands of secret US military files on the war in Afghanistan. Cover-ups, a secret assassination unit and the killing of civilians are documented. In fil ...
  • Going Republican By Robert S. Becker
    by Robert S. Becker Featured Writer Dandelion Salad rbecker@cal.net August 19, 2010 The tirade from Press Secretary Gibbs, nicknamed “Bozo the spokesman” by Rep. Grayson, is a boon to all those who favor reality over wishful thinking, or delusion. This White House invective settles it: the presiden ...
  • U.S.-China Crisis: Beyond Words To Confrontation, ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism Aug. 18, 2010 On August 16 the U.S. and its South Korean military ally began this year’s Ulchi Freedom Guardian military exercises in South Korea. The ten-day warfighting drills involve 56,000 troops f ...
  • Isaiah 53: Who is Isaiah speaking of in this chapt ...
    Thought I’d repost this as I replaced the music video on this post. Dandelion Salad Updated: Aug. 18, 2010 replaced video.  I first posted this just over a year ago on my myspace blog and thought I’d repost when I watched the following video by Aviad Cohen.  Who is Isaiah speaking of in this chapt ...

Your New Reality

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    Okay, Here We Go Just launched the YouTube channel for FTW : The Movie In 2003, during anti-War On Iraq protests, the Australian prime minister was kidnapped by an activist and interrogated for 24 hours. The disappearance of the prime minister was officially covered up as an "unexpected visit ...
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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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    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 ...

Wired - Science

  • Doubly Whammy Earthquake Caused Tsunami
    A giant earthquake that triggered a deadly southwest Pacific tsunami was actually two great temblors, finds a pair of new studies in the Aug. 19 Nature. These results uncover an unusual sequence of geological events that is the first of its kind to be observed by scientists, the study authors say. ...
  • Giant Terror Birds Used Stabbing Beaks to Kill Pre ...
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience586426320001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); When South America was still an isolated continent, terror birds were the creatures you didn’t want to mess with. Flightless, standing up to seven feet tall, and with gian ...
  • Spacesuit Thief Pleads Guilty
    A Texas man charged with stealing a NASA flight suit once worn by astronaut Sally Ride as she trained to be the first U.S. woman in space, plus thousands of dollars worth of other NASA equipment, pleaded guilty yesterday. Calvin Dale Smith of Houston is believed to have walked off with the light bl ...
  • Perforated Blobs May Be Earliest Known Animals
    Little asymmetric whatsits from Australia may be the oldest fossils of full-fledged animal bodies yet discovered, beating the previous contenders by tens of millions of years and pushing the evidence for animal life into an earlier geologic time. The newly unveiled fossils, which resemble sponges, ...
  • Sex Is Stressful, But Good For You
    There’s a predictable narrative to a lot of discoveries in molecular biology. The story begins when a scientist discovers that Molecule X causes Phenomenon Y. Perhaps we’re talking about CREB and long-term memory, or serotonin and depression, or cholesterol and heart disease. At first, the data look ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Descendants appeal to UN over latest Mamilla Cemet ...
    Yesterday, parties defending a 12th century Muslim burial ground in Jerusalem from disinterment and desecration provided new information on the latest demolitions by Israel’s Jerusalem Municipality... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Tel Aviv University and Sheikh Muwanis: Israel and ...
    Tel Aviv University was partially built on the lands of the Palestinian village of Sheikh Muwanis... Zochrot, an organization that encourages the Israeli state and its institutions to recognize the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Chris Hedges: Formalizing Israel’s Land Grab
    UN special rapporteur, Richard Falk: “[The Occupation] is presently a de facto annexation. The creation of a single state would give the arrangement a more legalistic cover. It would seek to resolve... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • US [popular] support for Israel is decreasing, new ...
    American support for Israel is waning, a poll presented to senior Israeli officials in Jerusalem last week revealed. [And it is even lower in western Europe.] The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA we ...
  • Zuheir Andreus: We are all Zuabi
    The Palestinians in Israel will not agree to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. The Palestinians, the authentic owners of the land here, are an inseparable part of the Arab nation. They were here... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Sigvaris Joins Vascular Disease Foundation
    The Vascular Disease Foundation is proud to announce its newest National Corporate Round Table member, SIGVARIS, an internationally active medical device group.
  • Team Approach to Foot Care Lowers Risk of Amputati ...
    People with diabetic foot problems can lower their risk of leg amputation by relying on coordinated care that includes a podiatrist, according to a recent study.
  • Prenatal Pesticide Exposures Linked to Attention D ...
    Exposure to organophosphate (OP) pesticides before birth can increase susceptibility to attention disorders such as attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to new research published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP). The new study is part of a growing body of ...
  • Consumers Need Protection from Unrealistic Claims ...
    In a perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine, UNC medical geneticist James P. Evans, MD, PhD and co-authors write that medical professionals "must ensure that rapidly evolving and multiplying genomic technologies are responsibly harnessed and that their promise is not oversold to the publ ...
  • Ancient "terror bird" used powerful beak to jab li ...
    The ancient "terror bird" Andalgalornis couldn't fly, but it used its unusually large, rigid skull--coupled with a hawk-like hooked beak--for a fighting strategy reminiscent of boxer Muhammad Ali. The agile creature repeatedly attacked and retreated, landing well-targeted, hatchet-like jabs to take ...

Natural Health News

  • Monsanto Caused an Estimated 150,000 Farmer Suicid ...
    India is in the midst of a flood of suicides among farmers.� A new feature film written and directed by Anusha Rizwi and produced by Bollywood megastar Aamir Khan, called Peepli Live , takes a look at this grim topic. The vast majority of people in India still farm for a living, but are caught betw ...
  • Warning: Prescription and OTC Drug Recalls Soarin ...
    Recalls of prescription and over the counter drugs are surging in the U.S.� The FDA reported more than 1,700 recalls last year, compared to less than 430 in 2008. One single company, drug repackager Advantage Dose, accounted for more than 1,000 of those recalls. But even excluding Advantage Dose, r ...
  • Vivid Dreams Improve Your Memories
    People who enjoy a dream-filled sleep are better at recalling information when they wake.� However, a shallow nap does not offer this mental boost. An average night’s sleep includes four or five sessions of REM (dreaming) sleep, but these bursts tend to be lengthier towards the end of the night.� ...
  • Expensive New Blood Pressure Drugs No Better than ...
    Expensive brand-name medications designed to lower blood pressure are no better at preventing cardiovascular disease than older, generic diuretics, according to new long-term study. More than 33,000 patients with high blood pressure were randomly assigned to take either a diuretic or one of two ...
  • Hug for the World
    This is one of the most inspirational videos I have ever seen. It features music by Enigma and is titled "Hug for the World".

Antemedius

  • Mr. G Is Right
    White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs ranted that "the professional left" needed to be drug tested for their complaints and attacks on the Obama administration after all the good things Obama has done. I agree. We "professional leftists" do indeed need drug testing because apparently the colorful ...
  • No Afghanistan Withdrawal in 2011 - Engdahl: "US W ...
    "The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan says he is not bound by the July 2011 date set for a troop pull-out. General David Petraeus said he could well advise President Obama not to go ahead if he believes it's the wrong time. American public support for the war is at an all-time low, w ...
  • Census Workers Could Be Hosed By Unemployment Rule ...
    This spring and summer there was a bit of a employment boost due to our once a decade counting of the nation. For many it came at just the right time as the benefits available from unemployment are fairly minimal and the census paid the enumerators (the folks doing the actual door-to-door work) $16. ...
  • GOP Declares War on One Quarter of Earth's Populat ...
    Facing a changing demographic and a population slightly more educated about Republican fear campaigns has forced the GOP to try to go "over the top" on fear mongering. It is now apparently the mainstream Republican position that it was NOT .... NOT ....19 fanatics guided by Osama Bin Laden and Khali ...
  • Why Progressives Should View Robert Gibbs' Rebuke ...
    In place of approaching White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs’ recent well publicized rebuke of progressives in a troubling context, how about instead examining the positive side? My response is, congratulations progressives, you earned the rebuke. Now take a well deserved bow. How long were pr ...

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

  • The Chickens Come Home to Roost — U.S. v. Sa ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I have to respectfully disagree with Dave’s interpretation of Judge Jackson’s decision.  The decision is almost certainly incorrect from the standpoint of the law of nations; as Dave rightly points out, the definition of piracy in the High Seas Convention ...
  • How to Define Piracy (Cont’d): A Critique of ...
    by David Glazier by David Glazier [We are pleased to have David Glazier, a professor of law at Loyola Law School Los Angeles, share his thoughts on the U.S. District Court's recent interpretation of the piracy statute in U.S. v. Said] As I read Judge Jackson’s decision, the crux of his holding b ...
  • How to Define Piracy (Cont’d): U.S. Judge Di ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku In the first U.S. court opinion on piracy since 1820, a U.S. judge in Norfolk, Virginia has dismissed piracy charges against Somali defendants in United States v. Said. The Court held that attempted piracy is not piracy for the purposes of U.S. criminal law.  (h/t  Eugen ...
  • Welcome to the Blogosphere, Multilateralist!
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Foreign Policy has added a new blog to its roster that should be of interest to readers.  Here is the description of the blog, named The Multilateralist and run by David Bosco, an assistant professor at American University’s School of International Service ...
  • How to Define Piracy (Cont’d): A Critique of U.S. ...
    by David Glazier by David Glazier [We are pleased to have David Glazier, a professor of law at Loyola Law School Los Angeles, share his thoughts on the U.S. District Court's recent interpretation of the piracy statute in U.S. v. Said] As I read Judge Jackson’s decision, the crux of his holding b ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Brits to get hit with 4% income tax hike to pay fo ...
    From Benny Peiser's heads-up: Climate Taxes May Treble By 2020, Costing Taxpayers More Than £16 Billion A Year Gary Peev, Daily Mail, 17 August 2010 Taxes to pay for contentious climate change policies are set to treble over the next...
  • Amazon puts Air Con Climategate on special
    The most difficult thing about marketing titles on Amazon is breaking through the price barriers. The cheaper your book, the better it sells, but it's Amazon that decides on retail price, not the publisher. Despite my best efforts I couldn't...
  • New study: sea levels NOT rising rapidly
    The Hockey Schtick has alerted the world to new peer reviewed research showing sea levels are not rising at an accelerated level, despite what NIWA's Andy Reisinger and Massey's Ralph Sims would have the world believe: JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH,...
  • Have you read this, Nick Smith?
    Looks like the world is bailing on ETS schemes faster than Nick Smith can say "sustainable". This from Terence Corcoran in The Financial Post: From Washington to Cancun to British Columbia, the climate issue is heading for the deep freeze....
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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

  • France's racial intolerance comes from the very to ...
    France's racial intolerance comes from the very top | France |Axisoflogic.com : "A disturbing video showing French police evicting immigrants of African descent is causing an uproar in France. The video shows police dragging away women who were demonstrating against their eviction from a block of fl ...
  • Gilad Atzmon: PressTV Under Attack�
    Gilad Atzmon - Writings - Gilad Atzmon: Press TV Under Attack� Britain Cannot Handle the Truth To tell the truth about Israeli barbarism is a breach of impartiality. The Guardian and the Jewish Chronicle reported today that, Ofcom, the UK broadcasting standards body, has ruled that Iranian-backed Pr ...
  • Burn Qur'ans On 911
    Last night I listened to a talk show here in Pretoria that sought to solicit views on a proposal by a Florida church that intends to burn Qur'ans on the 9th anniversary of 911. The vast majority of folks who called in repudiated the plan. Several Christian callers pointed out that the plan was not ...
  • Female Israeli Soldiers Release Film Confessing to ...
    Female Israeli Soldiers Release Film Confessing to Atrocities and War Crimes, Say They Are Ashamed of Themselves > New World Order Report : "Female Israeli soldiers Share what they have done to Palestine people . how they kill Children how they humiliate how they degrade and after doing all the crim ...
  • “After God, Come the Cubans”: Haiti, Six Months Af ...
    “After God, Come the Cubans”: Haiti, Six Months After the Earthquake � haiti-cuba-venezuela : Leticia Martínez Hernández SIX months have passed, but it seems like yesterday when, on that January 12, the faces of this agitated, forgetful world turned toward Haiti, the poorest nation of the American ...

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

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Iran Threatens 'Israel’s Existence' If It Attacks
    ShareThis Iran Threatens 'Israel's Existence' If It Attacks 17 Aug 2010 Iran will respond if Israel attacks its first nuclear power plant, which will begin loading fuel Aug. 21, according to the Persian Gulf country’s defense minister. "In that case we will lose a power plant, but Israel’s existence ...
  • Giant Turtle Lobbies For Ban On Single-Use Plastic ...
    ShareThis Giant Turtle Lobbies For Ban On Single-Use Plastic Bags By Ryan ZumMallen 17 Aug 2010 A giant sea turtle appeared in the courtyard of Long Beach City Hall on Tuesday afternoon, pleading with the human race to ban single-use plastic bags in California because they pose a threat to his envir ...
  • U.S. to Double Mercenary Forces in Iraq After 2011 ...
    ShareThis U.S. to Double Mercenary Forces in Iraq After 2011 Military Pullout --'It is unprecedented in scale.' --Some veteran Iraq hands suggest that thousands of additional troops will be needed after 2011 . 19 Aug 2010 By October 2011, the State Department will assume responsibility for training ...
  • Scores of seals are washed up dead with horrific ' ...
    ShareThis Scores of seals are washed up dead with horrific 'corkscrew' injuries 18 Aug 2010 [ Warning! Graphic images accompany article. ] For animal lovers, the sight is as heartbreaking as it is mysterious. Scores of dead seals have been washed up on shore with terrible ‘corkscrew’ injuries, as if ...
  • Feds: Alaska couple had 20 names on hit list
    ShareThis Feds: Alaska couple had 20 names on hit list 16 Aug 2010 A rural Alaska couple accused of domestic terrorism compiled a hit list of 20 targets, including members of the military and media, and had moved to the operational phase of their plan, according to documents filed in federal court M ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Two laws for two people in the same Place: Intervi ...
    By Jesse Bacon Interview with Fathy Khdirat,  organizer for Jordan Valley Solidarity. I have just finished reading Grapes of Wrath, this group definitely reminded me of the spirit of Tom Joad. Part I: All his life under occupation, personal and family stories. Part II: A government-made water sh ...
  • Israel continues efforts to destroy Palestinian vi ...
    From Jordan Valley Solidarity: Al Farisiya to be razed again In the morning of Sunday 15th August 2010, the Israeli Civil Administration came to Al Farisiya yet again, with two warning documents stating that people have to leave this so-called ”closed area”. The two documents don’t state wh ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Thank God global warming is a hoax
    I am delighted to be reassured by the fringe right wing that the piles of dead bodies, millions of lost homes, and even the very sun itself are part of a vast conspiracy, a plot to form an evil one-world government, a lefty liberal charade even in places that don’t understand or care what the [...]
  • Howard Dean joins Harry Reid, wishes Muslims weren ...
    Firedoglake The preferred location, I gather, would be somewhere that didn’t function as a litmus test for whether a politician has a genuinely principled adherence to the US Constitution. After all, it’s awkward when our leaders must prove they actually understand why the Founders found religious i ...
  • Nanotech tea bag filters water
    It combines ultra-thin nanoscale fibers to filter harmful contaminants, while grains of activated carbon to kill bacteria. Simply put the tea bag in the neck of a water bottle and drink the water through it. The bags cost less than a penny. This could save lives in areas with no clean water and back ...
  • Juarez Cartel using beautiful young women as assas ...
    Most are teenagers. Interesting ploy. But I wonder how willing they actually are.
  • America’s Broken Response to Pakistan
    The ability for the United States to project power abroad - to protect its national security interests - is broken.

Coteret

  • Hudson Inst primary financial backer of NGO behind ...
    Shira Beery provided significant research for this post. —– Newly uncovered documentation reveals that The Hudson Institute, an influential and activist neoconservative think-tank, has provided nearly $500,000 to the Institute for Zionist Strategies (IZS), an Israeli NGO at the forefront of an ongo ...
  • Israeli Ambassador not invited to Erdogan’s ...
    Israel’s Ambassador to Turkey is not invited to the Erdogan’s Iftar for the diplomatic community and Israeli [Foreign Ministry sources are] shocked at this immature behavior: Jerusalem was angered by the fact that the ambassador was not invited to the dinner. âTurkey is again causing relations to ...
  • Knesset outsources US campus public diplomacy to m ...
    An article in this morning’s Yediot (full translated text at the bottom of this post) reports that that a bi-partisan group of MKs has partnered with a Christian Zionist organization to recruit evangelical students to represent Israel on US campuses: MKs who are members of the lobby to promote rel ...
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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 ...

Deadline Live

  • FOUR! Seattle Cops Beat Mentally Disabled TEEN Ove ...
    August 18, 2010 KONG TV News Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d14947').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
  • Blackwater/Xe founder relocating to UAE
    Erik Prince, the founder of the notorious security company Blackwater/Xe, has left the United States and is settling with his family in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. Prince, 51, personally is not facing any criminal charges for now, but his company, now known as Xe Services LLC ...
  • Deadline Live – August 18 2010
    First Hour: Breaking News from Deadline Live.info Second Hour: Michael Boldin joins us from www.tenthamendmentcenter.com Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d14942').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
  • Economic Hitmen
    An animated interview of John Perkins, author of ‘HoodWinked’ and ‘Confessions Of An Economic Hitman’ Copyright of the audio belongs to John Perkins. For more visit www.studiojoho.com email info@studiojoho.com Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d14940').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{dur ...
  • FACT CHECK: Islam already part of WTC neighborhood
    WASHINGTON – A New York imam and his proposed mosque near ground zero are being demonized by political candidates — mostly Republicans — despite the fact that Islam is already very much a part of the World Trade Center neighborhood. And that Muslims pray inside the Pentagon, too, less than 80 feet f ...

The Air Vent

  • MW10 – Some thoughts
    Most of you probably were wondering if I would comment on this recent paper/book.  AOAS1001-014R2A0 A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE TEMPERATURE PROXIES: ARE RECONSTRUCTIONS OF SURFACE TEMPERATURES OVER THE LAST 1000 YEARS RELIABLE? BY BLAKELEY B. MCSHANE∗ AND ABRAHAM J. WYNER† In my opinion it is ...
  • Molecular Radiation and Collisional Lifetime
    DeWitt Payne has kindly completed a nice post explaining how re-absorption of photons emitted by CO2 or other molecules doesn’t appreciably affect the ratio of energy transfer in the atmosphere due to IR emission vs absorption (or molecular collision).  It’s another commonly debated topic often imp ...
  • 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 [...]

Focal Point

  • Hal Turner Diaries: Radio Host Guilt of Threatenin ...
    A jury in Brooklyn found right wing radio talk show host and blogger Hal Turner guilty of threatening to murder three federal judges, Friday: "Turner was arrested and charged in June 2009 for writing Internet postings that month that proclaimed “outrage” over a handgun decision by Chief Judge F ...
  • "Cathy" was not a Feminist Trailblazer
    Is Mary Beth Williams playing madlibs with "...feminist trailblazer"? That would explain her post entitled "Goodbye Cathy, feminist trailblazer" . The "Cathy" in question is Cathy Guisewite's syndicated strip about a desperate, sad sack single woman named Cathy. Guisewite announced last week that sh ...
  • 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 ...

Inside Facebook

  • Initial Facebook Places APIs Going Live for Platfo ...
    At Facebook’s Places launch earlier tonight, Facebook said that read and search APIs would be going live soon for all developers, while write APIs would indefinitely remain in “private beta” with a limited set of partners for now. Now, Facebook’s Graph API documentation says that the read and search ...
  • With Facebook Places, Serendipitous Interactions w ...
    As location-based checkin services have gained steam amongst early adopters over the last couple of years, many users have discovered that they can lead to serendipitous interactions between friends that wouldn’t otherwise have occurred. For instance, if you’re at a coffee shop, and a friend checks ...
  • Facebook’s Places Location Service Is Using Maps f ...
    The latest example of Facebook’s strategic partnership with Microsoft arrived today, along with the company’s new Places location service. Maps from Bing will now be featured as the default maps when in all Places interfaces. This means the web site, mobile web site and in mobile apps including the ...
  • Facebook Taking the Platform Approach to Location ...
    Facebook is taking a platform approach to location, launching its new service with developer partners including Booyah, Foursquare and Gowalla in tow. In this sense, while Facebook is positioned to be the biggest player in social, location-sharing with its 500 million users, it isn’t aiming to put o ...
  • Facebook Introduces New Privacy Norms Around Locat ...
    One of the thorniest issues Facebook is confronting with the launch of its long-awaited location features has been privacy. After concerns erupted earlier this spring that the company was being too cavalier with privacy, Facebook’s engineers and product managers have been careful to announce a thoro ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • BBC’s gift to Israel: a distorted documentary abou ...
    Kenneth O’Keefe, who witnessed the Israeli assault on the Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship, the Mavi Marmara, highlights the prejudices, distortions and lies of the BBC, whose Panorama programme on 15 August propagated the Israeli line regarding the assault on the aid ship and murder of nine peace activi ...
  • Hamas must rebrand and take the wind out of Israel ...
    Stuart Littlewood calls on Hamas – indeed, on all Palestinians – to hone their long-neglected public relations strategy, arguing that “whoever rules in Palestine will never win any battles with Israel or the US without a proper media set-up and an effective communications strategy”.
  • Can Anthony Blair’s five million pounds resurrect ...
    Christopher King argues that Tony Blair’s decision to pay blood money to a UK servicemen’s charity should not detract from the need to release the postmortem report on the death of Iraq war whistleblower and UN weapons inspector David Kelly, who allegedly committed suicide but is suspected of having ...
  • UK Zionists target children’s paintings to minimiz ...
    Gilad Atzmon considers the attempts by British Zionists stop an exhibition of paintings by children from Gaza from being shown in UK schools in order to minimize the impact of Israeli war crimes on the British public. “… what the Jewish community leaders who rush to assist the Jewish state are doin ...
  • No room for Arab students at Israeli universities
    Jonathan Cook reports on new discriminatory practices by Israeli universities designed to further tighten the screws on the country’s Arab citizens by excluding them from university higher education.

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
  • 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 ...

Afro Spear

  • 3 Things About Islam You Didn’t Know
    Someone sent me this. A further perspective on Islam:
  • Happy Birthday Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr.
    Jamaican National Hero, Black Nationalist, Pan-Africanist, founder of Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL), as well as a major influence and inspiration to many of our African, African-American and Caribbean leaders and intellectuals, Marcus Mosiah Garvey ...
  • A Move Towards Religious Tolerance
    This post was inspired by this article by brotherpeacemaker: “In The Name Of Freedom Build The Mosque”  In regards to the controversy surrounding the building of a mosque and cultural center two blocks away from the site of Ground Zero, America has a golden opportunity to lead in the march towards ...
  • Lucky Dube South Africa’s Reggae Legend
    I was properly introduced to the great South African Reggae legend Lucky Dube by my husband BNO.  I had heard of Lucky for many years, but had just not gotten my hands on any of his music in all those years.  I regret now that I didn’t because his music is some of the most beautiful [...]
  • Convicts as a Protected Class
    Federal Agency Thinks Background Checks Can Discriminate Against Blacks, Hispanics Op-ed submission by Project 21 Washington, D.C. – Attorneys at the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission believe new technology that makes it easier for employers to check the criminal and credit histories ...

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

  • Pat Michaels Lets His Funding Veil Slip
    After umpteen years denying the (civilized) human influence on climate change, and in parallel denying he was influenced financially or otherwise by fossil fuel interests, uber-denier Pat Michaels let slip some of the source of his funding – and by implication, some of the source of his climate chan ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Iran's Nukes - The East Asian Loophole in Iran San ...
    Starting in August, U.S. officials are visiting East Asia, Latin America, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to garner support for tightening Iran sanctions under UN Security Council Resolution 1929. Robert Einhorn, the U.S. State Department's special advisor for nonproliferation and arms control, a ...
  • Turkey and Israel - Turkey in Cyprus vs. Israel in ...
    In light of Ankaraâs recent criticism of what it calls Israelâs âopen-air jailâ in Gaza, July 20, which marks the anniversary of Turkeyâs invasion of Cyprus, has special relevance. Turkish policy toward Israel, historically warm and only a decade ago approaching full alliance, has cooled s ...
  • Iran's Nukes - Major U.S.-Saudi Arms Deal to Bolst ...
    When Congress returns from its summer recess after Labor Day, the Department of Defense will provide informal notification of the U.S. intention to sell up to $30 billion in military equipment to Saudi Arabia. The likely deal is part of a U.S. commitment predating the Obama administration to strengt ...
  • Book Review - Memories of “The Forgotten War” Invo ...
    Bruce Cumings. The Korean War: A History. Random House, 2010. 320 pages. Overshadowed by World War II and Vietnam, the Korean War has long been the “forgotten war” in American memory. Apart from a few notable exceptions, American historians have predominantly accepted the standard propaganda that th ...
  • Edge of Climate Change - Drought, Fire, and Grain ...
    Three interlocking crises are striking Russia simultaneously: the highest recorded temperatures Russia has seen in 130 years of recordkeeping; the most widespread drought in more than three decades; and massive wildfires that have stretched across seven regions, including Moscow. The crises threaten ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Facebook Scandal Escalates As Group Posts New Phot ...
    By Maan news An Israeli human rights group has released pictures of Israeli soldiers and border guards alongside blindfolded and handcuffed Palestinian detainees -- some of them dead
  • Collusion: The Greatest Untold Story Of Our Times
    By Dan Glazebrook British state collusion with loyalist death squads in Northern Ireland. Around 1100 people have been killed by loyalists as a result of collusion with the agencies of the British state
  • NOMA - The Face Of Poverty
    By Siv ONeall Malnutrition and hunger are not only direct killers of children and adults all over the developing world. A lesser-known but horrible result of the negligence and callousness of the rich Western world is a cruelly disfiguring disease called noma , a scourge which is destroying lives i ...
  • Devastating Flooding In Ladakh
    By Helena Norberg-Hodge Message From A Devastated Ladakh
  • Did Lebanon Grant Palestinian Refugees The Right ...
    By Franklin Lamb Unfortunately Lebanon did not grant its Palestinian refugees meaningful civil rights on 8/17/10 or even significantly improve their work prospects. What it did do was cancel the work permit fee ( which was never a big problem) and allow for the setting up of a private Social Secur ...

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

  • The West Thinks Palestinian Leaders Do It a Favor ...
    By Barry Rubin Reportedly, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has just made two itty-bitty requests (or should I say, demands?) in order to return to direct negotiations. First, Israel must agree in advance that the Palestinian state�must get roughly all the land that before 1967 was part ...
  • Pelosi Tries to "Walk Back" Her Call to Investigat ...
    Last night Nancy Pelosi went off the deep end, she weighed in on the mosque controversy by telling San Francisco’s KCBS-AM radio that “there is no question there is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some.” “I join those who have called for looking into how is this oppos ...
  • World Net Daily Shows Intolerance, Boots Ann Coult ...
    World Net Daily has decided to drop conservative pundit and author, Ann Coulter as the keynote speaker for WND's "Taking America Back National Conference" next month.� Because of her plan be the keynote speaker at "HOMOCON," an event put together by GOProud the first genuinely conservative group for ...
  • Rasmussen: Angle Catches Reid, Underlying Numbers ...
    After dropping down from an 11% lead right after the primary to a 2% deficit a few weeks ago, Nevada� Republican candidate for the US Senate, Sharron Angle has clawed her way back to a tie with Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid as the race heads into its last six weeks. The survey of likely voters ...
  • What is the Threat: Islam, Islamism, or Western Si ...
    By Barry Rubin The current debate over the roots of Islamist revolution, clashes in the Middle East, and conflicts between forces in that region and the West involves two critical issues of interpretation: First, is there a threat to the West from groups whose members are Muslims or does t ...

The Real Agenda

  • The People of the World Reject Genetic Pollution
    The French vineyard is the same field attacked last year when the plants were only cut. But the security features installed after that incident kept authorities at bay while the group accomplished its mission yesterday.
  • U.S. FEDS Threaten Sheriff Arpaio for Enforcing Im ...
    By Jerry Markon and Stephanie McCrummen A federal investigation of a controversial Arizona sheriff known for tough immigration enforcement has intensified in recent days, escalating the conflict between the Obama administration and officials in the border state. Justice Department officials in Washi ...
  • Obama’s Deep CIA Connections Revealed
    President Obama’s own work in 1983 for Business International Corporation, a CIA front that conducted seminars with the world’s most powerful leaders and used journalists as agents abroad, dovetails with CIA espionage activities conducted by his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham in 1960s post-coup Indonesi ...
  • Russian Scholar Warns Of ‘Secret’ U.S. ...
    Asked whether or not Russia was also experimenting with climate-control methods, Areshev said since he was not a member of the government, he did not have information about such projects.
  • Costa Ricans Massively against U.S. Military Invas ...
    By Luis R. Miranda In the latest survey released by a Costa Rican polling firm, it is confirmed that most of Costa Rica does not welcome on arrival and permanence of U.S. troops in their country. In recent weeks, the Congress of Costa Rica agreed to allow the arrival of military ships, planes and th ...

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

  • Dr Laura quitting in order to take higher paying j ...
    “Professional Victim”. Now all she and her accomplices like local Heroin (she’s a Dope) Michelle Malkin have to do is scream that they’re Demonized by the Right Wing “liberal” MSM because the liberal MSM didn’t do a good enough job of suppressing the controversy over Ms Laura’s constant racial and r ...
  • News sources, MSM and the mouths of horses…
    See, we constantly get told, on this site and any other site that opposes the wars and the occupations and such, that we’re listening to the “Liberal Mainstream Media”. Huh? The most frequently criticized “Liberal” media are as rabid a War-mongering Mob as Fox, they’re just more polite about it. Som ...
  • Job Openings for Sadistic Perverts, in CIA Torture ...
    The youngest prisoner at Guantanamo was arrested when he was 15, for defending his home. Remember that propaganda film “Red Dawn” where a heroic group of Boy Scouts form a resistance movement against the Communist Invaders? Yeah. Only the roles are reversed, the kids who were propagandized by that b ...
  • US-Pakistan Police-state exploits floods to attack ...
    Of course that’s not the way the AP (Army Propaganda) headline worded it. The way their article is worded, those Meanies in the Pakistan Resistance refused to bow down and Worship their U.S. Military Masters even though their country is devastated by flooding, floods the U.S. Military is exploiting ...
  • Mornin’ Joe gives left-handed endorsement of ...
    Sort of. Scarborough ended up his comments on the Right Wing Lunatic Fringe and their Retarded “Ground Zero Mosque” anti-freedom anti-Muslim Racist Rants. But at the end, he says, “that’s what freedom is about, not just people you like, but PEOPLE you hate as well”. Meaning, he’s not hating on Islam ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Debunking Joseph Nobles: Thermal Conductivity and ...
    Joseph Nobles' newest additions to his site-- FEMA Steel and Wick The Heat Away -- attempt to address some of the issues of how the steel in the WTC was affected by heat. As we will see, Mr. Nobles' assertions are, once again , either false or misleading. Wick The Heat Away One of the primary faul ...
  • 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 ...

Fooducate

  • Dieting Trumps Sex, Career, and TV. Really?
    Americans are struggling with their weight, we all know that. A recent survey by Kelton Research on behalf of Nutrisystem reveals some interesting numbers and facts. The phone survey took place between April 10 and April 21, 2010 among 1,001 adults age 18 and over. Feeling fat. Nearly a third of ...
  • Sara Lee Bread Loses High Fructose Corn Syrup. So ...
    Behemoth food processor Sara Lee announced yesterday that it will cease using high fructose corn syrup in its Soft & Smooth and 100 percent Whole Wheat bread lines. The reason – consumers, especially moms, have asked the company to make this change. But will this change make the bread any healthier? ...
  • Kashi “Natural” Cereals Examined
    Kashi is a high end food brand, with an impressive number of cereals in its lineup. It was founded in 1984 in Southern California and acquired by Kellogg’s in 2000. The company advertises their products as “natural”, containing a blend of seven whole grains and sesame. There is a strong emphasis on ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • New France
    France was a colonial power in North America from the early 16th century, the age of great European discoveries and fishing expeditions, to the early 19th century, when Napol�on Bonaparte sold Louisiana to the US. From
  • Fur Trade
    Fur trade in Canada began as an adjunct to the fishing industry. Early in the 16th century fishermen from northwest Europe were taking rich catches of COD on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and in the Gulf of St Lawrence (
  • Native People: Eastern Woodlands
    Major Language and Tribal GroupsEastern Woodland Indians spoke languages belonging to 2 unrelated families, Iroquoian and Algonquian. At the onset of the historic period, Iroquoians occupied much of southern Ontario, northern
  • Canadian Pacific Railway
    Commencement of a transcontinental railway within 2 years and completion within 10 years were conditions of British Columbia's entry into Confederation in 1871 (seeRAILWAY HISTORY). Competition for the lucrative contract for the
  • War of 1812
    On 18 June 1812, at the height of the Napoleonic conflict ( see NAPOLEONIC WARS ), the US declared war on Great Britain and struck at the only British possession on the continent: Canada. Most of the battles that followed

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I “repair” too runny/too solid ...
    It’s very definitely jam season at the moment (in the UK at least) and I thought it might be fun to hear people’s favourite fixes for sticky situations (ho ho!) when the preserves don’t come out quite as you’d hoped. How do you test for the set point? The most common method seems to be [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle trade-size ice cream tu ...
    The other day, John and I were hanging around a dumpster at the back of an ice cream parlour — as you do — and spotted it was full of 5ltr plastic ice cream tubs. In our house, ice cream tubs are one of our favourite plastics to reuse – rectangular 1ltr square tubs are [...]
  • How can I build a barbecue reusing or recycling st ...
    In a bit of an impromptu barbecue-themed week, I thought I’d ask about building the key part of the experience: the barbecue itself. This is partly because I’m interested in hearing bbq ideas and partly because I’m thinking of building myself a little smokehouse for my birthday and I suspect there w ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle old vitamin tablets?
    We’ve had an email from Andi: Can I Compost vitamin tablets? I have two jars in date but have gone moist from the air. What can I do with the bottles? We’ve covered pill bottles already on the site but the vitamin question is a good one – and I’m not sure of the answer. [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle an old wall year planne ...
    We’ve had an email from Alex asking: Can big paper wall planners be recycled? We’ve got at least a dozen at my school to get rid of now but I didn’t know about recycling them in the paper bins because they’re laminated. No, it’s very unlikely that they’ll be accepted for paper recycling. Most wipe-c ...

Mondoweiss

  • Poll: Israel continues to lose support in the US, ...
    Haaretz is reporting on a new poll conducted by the Israel Project. Among the findings:One of the questions that the poll presented was "Does the U.S. need to support Israel?" In August of 2009, 63% of Americans polled said that the U.S. does need to support Israel. In June of this year, 58% of resp ...
  • I am a Palestinian-American, and people tell me ab ...
    Flipping through a book of I.D.s from each country and territory in the world we keep around at my job (the number one capitalist and pro-American entity: a bank), I look for a picture of a Palestinian I.D.� It is a thick book with multiple pictures from each country, detailing the special feature ...
  • Deutscher saw the future before he died in ‘ ...
    Tariq Ali, quoting Isaac Deutscher in the Guardian (some years ago). Note that Deutscher died shortly after the '67 War:In his last interview - after the 1967 six-day war - the historian Isaac Deutscher, whose next-of-kin had died in the Nazi camps and whose surviving relations lived in Israel, sa ...
  • Mosadegh and the Iranian standoff
    As usual, mainstream media coverage of the U.S./Israel/Iran fracas ignores one of the most important facts at the heart of it all... the U.S./U.K./British Petroleum 1953 overthrow of Iran's great democratically-elected leader, Mohammed Mosadegh, which led to decades of a U.S.-backed Iranian governme ...
  • Ethnic states are common these days. But
    Rick Congress writes at his blog: I used to use the argument "Israel as an ethnic-based exclusively Jewish state is a throwback to earlier centuries, and modern states are secular and non-exclusive." I used it until someone completely tore it to pieces. He was right.The issue isn't that the stat ...

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

  • "Martial Law" G20 charge disappears
    It appears government doesn't want to test Public Works Protection Act in court. [View:http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRealNews#p/u/3/ZdFj9EsKM5Y:640:360]
  • 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 ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Four mathematicians reap Fields Medals
    The four winners of this year’s Fields Medals in mathematics have been announced. The Fields Medals – often called ‘the Nobels of the maths world’ – were awarded to Elon Lindenstrauss, Ngô Bảo Châu, Stanislav Smirnov, and Cédric Villani at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad ...
  • Human hunters off the hook? Climate change caused ...
    Climate change, rather than human hunters, drove the wooly mammoth to extinction. That’s the claim from scientists who say that the hairy beasts lost their grazing grounds as forests rapidly replaced grasslands after the last ice age, roughly 20,000 years ago. The researchers used palaeoclimat ...
  • Journal just says no to supplementary info
    A published scientific report used to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Lately, though, in many a journal, the boundaries of a paper have blurred, with bits of methods, data or other material finding their way into the amorphous category of “supplementary" material appended to the paper itsel ...
  • Has the FDA’s first attempt to flex postmarketing ...
    One way or another, time may finally be running out for ProAmatine , a drug that became a case study for the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) failure to enforce clinical trial requirements after drugs come to market. ProAmatine (midodrine) was approved in 1996 to treat patients whose blood ...
  • International Space Station in the clear
    A final spacewalk to finish repairs on a broken ammonia pump brought the International Space Station back to working order on 16 August. Crew members hooked up power and fluids to a spare pump module, which ground control confirmed was in healthy condition. This was the third demanding spacewalk ...

new geography

  • City Thinking is Stuck in the 90s
    The 1990s proved to be quite a nice decade indeed for most of America's largest cities. It was an era of general prosperity in all of America to be sure, but in contrast to previous decades, the turnaround also extended from the suburbs to many of the nation's biggest cities, notably New York, Chica ...
  • Sarah Palin: The GOP's Poison Pearl
    Sarah Palin has emerged as the right's sweetheart, a cross between a pin-up girl and Joan of Arc. For some activists, like the American Thinker 's Lloyd Marcus , she's "my awesome conservative sister" who the mainstream media wants to "destroy at any cost." On a more serious note, leading right-wi ...
  • Urban Legends: Why Suburbs, Not Dense Cities, are ...
    The human world is fast becoming an urban world -- and according to many, the faster that happens and the bigger the cities get, the better off we all will be. The old suburban model, with families enjoying their own space in detached houses, is increasingly behind us; we're heading toward heavier r ...
  • New York Commuting Profile: From Monocentrism to E ...
    The US Bureau of the Census has just released detailed county to county and place (municipality) to place work trip flow tables. This new data is the most comprehensive since the 2000 census and covers 2006 to 2008. The county to county data is particularly useful for analysis in the nation's large ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • U.S. Army to Help WikiLeaks Censor Files?
    Your what hurts? Via: CBC News: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says the U.S. Army has expressed willingness to discuss the online whistleblower’s request for help in reviewing classified documents from the Afghan war and removing information that could harm civilians. Assange told The Associated P ...
  • Collapsing Marsh Dwarfs BP Oil Blowout as Ecologic ...
    Via: Bloomberg: Long before BP’s blowout menaced the Gulf of Mexico, an oil industry-related coastal crisis of another kind began unfolding all over the Mississippi River coastal delta. Dredging for navigation, oil and gas drilling and pipeline construction has ripped apart the estuary’s fragile sys ...
  • Toshiba Increases Drive Capacity by 5X; ETA 2013
    Don’t drink the water, eat the food or breathe the air, but… Via: PC World: Toshiba will detail a breakthrough in data storage later Wednesday that it says paves the way for hard drives with vastly higher capacity than today. The breakthrough has been made in the research of bit-patterned media, a m ...
  • Mind-Controlling Parasites Date Back Millions of Y ...
    Via: Live Science: Mind control by parasite sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but not only have scientists revealed that it is real across a range of animals – including perhaps humans – they now even have fossil evidence suggesting it has taken place for millions of years. An unnerving vari ...
  • Mumpreneurs Mind Store from Home
    I had to laugh because my wife’s water kefir (and other fermentable cultures) business is doing great! Via: NZ Herald: Businesses started from home by new mums are a growth sector. Online selling has provided the springboard for products designed or made by new mums and demographic changes have also ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Rare Earth Elements: The World Is Rapidly Running ...
    Most people have no idea what rare earth elements are, but a wide array of the technologies that we use every single day are dependent on them.  Without rare earth elements, we would have no hybrid car batteries, flat screen televisions, cell phones or iPods.  Without rare earth ele ...
  • Shipping Our Economy, Our Jobs And Our Prosperity ...
    As the U.S. economy continues to implode, large American corporations are investing billions upon billions of dollars in China.  But all of this investment comes at a price.  Over the past several decades, hundreds of factories and manufacturing facilities that would have been const ...
  • 5 Trillion MORE Dollars To Fix Fannie Mae And Fred ...
    Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have become gigantic financial black holes that the U.S. government endlessly pours massive quantities of money into.  Unfortunately, if the U.S. government did allow Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to totally implode, both the mortgage industry and the housing ...
  • The American People Don’t Need More Handouts ...
    Without millions more good jobs, the U.S. economy is simply never, ever going to recover.  But at this point, there is every indication that the U.S. economy is going to continue to bleed jobs.  In the past, employment would bounce up and down as the economy went through various cyc ...
  • One Economic Chart That You Should Permanently Bur ...
    Today most Americans are completely obsessed with the silliest of things.  They wonder how Lindsay Lohan is going to fare in jail and they agonize over who LeBron James is going to play basketball for.  But when it comes to the things that really matter, most Americans are completel ...

Desertification

  • Where is the promised money: Waiting for GODOT ? ( ...
    Read at : Facebook and You Tube VIDEO : 56 seconds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vRGyJ5ZrA4 Farmers Fighting Poverty: where is the promised money? MY COMMENT (Willem Van Cotthem) If only one could spend 20 MILLION dollars for the creation of small family gardens … Continue reading →
  • The environment and the banks (B. DHALUIN)
    In a message from a friend : ‘If the environment and poverty were a bank, they were already saved.”
  • The majestic plastic bag – a mockumentary (F ...
    Read at: Facebook Brigit Strawbridge Excellent 3 min spoof wildlife film about ‘The Plastic Bag’ narrated by Jeremy Irons The majestic plastic bag – a mockumentary | Environment | guardian.co.uk bit.ly Campaigners Heal the Bay’s spoof wildlife documentary on the … Continue reading →
  • Allotment gardens for daily fresh food (Philippine ...
    A message from Willy GOETHALS, President of the Belgian allotment gardens ‘Slotenkouter’ in St. Amandsberg (Ghent) : ‘We have been supporting the ‘Hillside Allotment Garden’ in Cagayan de Oro, Mindanao, Philippines.  This garden is now self-supporting. The local community showed … Continue reading ...
  • MORE RESOURCES TO HUNGER-STRICKEN POPULATION IN NI ...
    Read at : NIGER: UN EMERGENCY FUND ALLOCATES MORE RESOURCES TO HUNGER-STRICKEN POPULATION New York, Aug 16 2010 12:05PM In an effort to alleviate alarming food shortages that have caused high malnutrition rates among children in Niger, the United Nations … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

  • ENVIRONMENT: EPA Says New Rules Coming for Chemica ...
    The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it would issue new rules for three chemicals used in dyes, flame retardants, laundry detergents and other consumer and industrial products.
  • MONEY & POLITICS: End of DeLay Probe Raises Br ...
    The Justice Department’s probe of the biggest Congressional target in the sprawling Abramoff scandal, ended not with a bang, but with a whimper. And the reasons why likely speak to larger issues plaguing prosecutors at 950 Pennsylvania Avenue.
  • FINANCE: Transparency Emphasized As Government Mul ...
    More transparency about the overall U.S. mortgage securitization market must be part of the Obama administration’s eventual plan to reform finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a real estate expert urged Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner today.
  • ENVIRONMENT: Treasury Dept. Subpoenas TransOcean A ...
    TransOcean Ltd., the offshore drilling company facing numerous investigations about its rig explosion and the ensuing BP oil spill, says the U.S. Treasury Department subpoenaed the company for information about its operations in Myanmar, the country formerly known as Burma.
  • ENVIRONMENT: Science Panel Investigates Firefighti ...
    A panel of National Academy of Engineering scientists is examining technical issues behind the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, including chaotic firefighting attempts preceding the collapse of the offshore drilling rig that were spotlighted in a Center for Public Integrity investigative story la ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Canada: Please stop annoying Steve.
    By Alison@Creekside “They don’t bother us. It’s just that they are annoying,” a "senior Conservative official" told the G&M's Dear Jane yesterday about the public's uproar in reaction to the Cons' scrapping of the compulsory long-form census. "Census freedom," this same anonymous Conbot amusin ...
  • 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 ...

Worldnews

  • Kapur sets pace in Czech Open
    Golf:�Indian Shiv Kapur had six successive birdies and raced into an early three-stroke lead in the Czech Open at the Prosper Resort in Celadna today. The 28-year-old has missed his last three halfway cuts and seven of the last nine, but made his burst...
  • Ovulation really does change women's behavior ...
    Washington, Aug 19 (ANI): Ovulation changes a woman's behavior in a startling number of ways from the way she walks, talks and dresses to the men she flirts with, according to a new study.� According to experts, the new findings might offer some practical tips for women to boost their online da ...
  • Hugh Grant greeted by ex Liz Hurley's son for ...
    London, Aug 19 (ANI): Hugh Grant and Elizabeth Hurley may have split 10 years back, but they still share close ties-the actor joined the...
  • Naomi Campbell owes tax bill
    2010-08-19 15:42:09.0Naomi Campbell owes tax billNaomi Campbell1159103Celebrities2@webnews/enpproperty--> Naomi Campbell reportedly owes $63,487 in unpaid taxes. The Detroit News claims the...
  • Lindsay Lohan turns to art
    2010-08-19 15:41:58.0Lindsay Lohan turns to artLindsay Lohan1159103Celebrities2@webnews/enpproperty--> Lindsay Lohan is spending her time in rehab sketching. The troubled actress' mother Dina Lohan has revealed her daughter is making good progress since...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Congress Members Deliver Smackdown to Google and V ...
    by Preston Gralla Four Democratic congressmen have joined together to denounce a Google-Verizon proposal that they believe will spell the death of net neutrality. They've written to the head of the FCC, asking that he act soon, and not allow "two large communications companies with a vested inte ...
  • Government Report on Gulf Oil Spill Inaccurate, Sc ...
    by Sean Alfano Think the Gulf oil spill is over? Think again, say some scientists. Researchers from the University of Georgia called a recent government report "inaccurate" on Monday for claiming that three-quarters of the oil leaked from BP’s blown-out underwater well had either been collected, ...
  • Court Halts California Gay Marriage
    by Romain Raynaldy LOS ANGELES – Gay couples in California scrapped wedding plans Tuesday after a court halted same-sex unions until the completion of an appeals process expected to end up in the US Supreme Court. A week after a landmark decision overturned a ban on gay marriage, the Ninth Ci ...
  • 'Why Can't We Say No?' City Councilman Pushes Back ...
    by Joe Smydo Pittsburgh City Councilman Doug Shields today plans to unveil legislation to ban natural gas drilling in the city, saying he's wants to test a municipality's right to self-government, even if that means inviting a legal challenge from the drilling industry. "Why can't we say no? Why ...
  • Labor’s Popularity Declines Amid Criticism Of Publ ...
    by Akito Yoshikane With increasing attacks on public sector unions, it’s not surprising that labor has become unpopular in the court of public opinion. A new Gallup survey reveals that approval ratings for labor unions continues to struggle one year after their popularity reached a historic low. re ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

  • The Middle Class
    By anaxarchos posted by Michael Collins Capitalism does not elevate… it expropriates and impoverishes. Its urban slums and shanty towns are a step down from the rural, quasi-capitalist material it begins with. Worldwide, it expropriates wealth from the many instead of creating “prosperity” ...
  • The Fire of Resistance VS Nuclear Weapons
    eileen fleming http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshjmac/ [Kansas City] On Monday morning, August 16th, 14 nonviolent peace activists were arrested after blocking a Caterpillar truck on the site of a proposed WMD Facility in Kansas City, Missouri. Ex-Catholic priest, Frank Cordaro of the Phil Berrig ...
  • As Radical As Reality: An Interview with Mickey Z
    by Frank Joseph Smecker Mickey Z is a self-educated writer, activist and lecturer living in New York City. He is the author of nearly ten books, and is probably the only person on the planet to have appeared in both a karate flick with Billy “Tae Bo” Blanks and a political book with Howard Zinn. Aw ...
  • Fighting with Writing, Political Activism and Soci ...
    By Silvia Duarte Khet Mar. Photo � Since she was 17-years-old, Khet Mar has been persecuted by the Burmese government. She has been arrested, tortured, incarcerated, and threatened, but she has remained a warrior without guns. She fights with her writing, her political activism, and her social wo ...
  • Separation of Church and Hate: The Kate Mosque Sol ...
    by Greg Palast Since everyone seems to have an opinion about the mosque near Ground Zero (and President Obama has two), I'd like to ask you all a couple of questions: Given that white Christian supremacist Tim McVeigh bombed the Oklahoma City Federal Building, shouldn't we ban white churches fro ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Housing Crisis in Saskatchewan: PATHS Report
    In Saskatchewan, homelessness has become a grave concern and a serious reality for�many women and children. Saskatchewan now has the highest rates of homelessness in the country�with one in five people saying that they are homeless or at risk of being homeless. �In the past 3 years in Saskatchewan ...
  • New videos on the facts & myths of medicare sustai ...
    Canadians are being told that public health care financing is not sustainable, and that the solution is a shift to more private health insurance and private delivery of services. On June 17, 2010 the CCPA and the Canadian Health Coalition hosted a breakfast lecture on the sustainability of medicar ...
  • Medicare Sustainability: Facts & Myths - with poll ...
    Canadians are being told that public health care financing is not sustainable, and that the solution is a shift to more private health insurance and private delivery of services. Renowned pollster Nik Nanos reviews the numbers, and Canada's pre-eminent health economist, Dr. Robert G. Evans, ...
  • The dangers of cutting municipal taxes
    On Policy Note, Keith Reynolds argues against the anti-tax logic of the Taxpayers' Federation. If municipalities go further down the road of tax cuts, we could end up like California: in deep financial trouble, with social services in disarray. Go to Policy Note to read Keith's full post on the dang ...
  • Canadian incomes flatlined; poverty unchanged
    Statistics Canada released 2008 income data for Canadians and finds median after-tax family incomes were flatlined and the number of families living in poverty remained virtually unchanged compared to the year before. Striking findings, considering most of 2008 represented an economic growth period ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Dope Job, Dude
    Mapping The Legal Marijuana Industry | Forbes Welcome to Oaksterdam, California’s newest, least orthodox tourist attraction. Welcome, possibly, to the future of a multibillion-dollar business around legal marijuana. Spread over an eight-block area of formerly disused downtown Oakland, the self-descr ...
  • CHARLES DARWIN AND BARACK OBAMA: SEEKERS AFTER THE ...
    My last piece in this series was going to be about the CHARACTER of Barack Obama. However, I watched this most incredible new DVD about the struggle that Charles Darwin had in finishing THE ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES. In his “seeking after the Truth”, he got caught between his Science and his Religion, m ...
  • As If
    The other day as I climbed into the passenger seat of our trusty truck, lovingly known as The Ashtray, I reached for the buckle of the seatbelt, but couldn’t find it. My friend and I were already deep into a laughing fit and righteously stoned, as we struggled to pry the stubborn buckle from between ...
  • Ramadan Overlap Sparks Fear
    Ramadan clash with 9/11 anniversary raises fears of anti-Islam backlash | Guardian Celebrations to mark end of Muslim fasting could be deliberately misinterpreted to spark hostility, religious groups warn. Islamic groups in the US fear an overlap between the end of Ramadan and the anniversary of 9/1 ...
  • Hippie Eats
    Two Hippies Pizzeria opens in Glendale | AZ Central Can three hippies expand their empire into near-chain proportions and still keep their hippy credibility? Kim and Andy Goldstein, and their new partner, Roy Bergold, are trying to maintain their non-corporate status even as they expand the Two Hipp ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • Putting Things in Perspective … the Battle o ...
    Ah, the battle of Towton. One of my favourite battles of all time, and likely the bloodiest battle ever fought in England. And as might be expected, probably the largest battle ever fought in England. Upwards of eighty thousand men met in battle that day, including about half of the Lords in England ...
  • A Macabre Mystery, What’s Killing Seals off ...
    Warning: If graphic descriptions of animals dying horrible deaths bothers you, skip this post. What’s been happening to some seals is right out of a horror movie. And no, this isn’t about seal clubbing and skinning, nasty though that may be. With that out of the way, there is a macabre mystery brewi ...
  • The Ground Zero mosque controversy … WOW!
    I find the controversy over the proposed Islamic cultural centre near the WTC site in New York fascinating on so many levels. I didn’t really think it would get to this level, but no, it’s a national story now that has a lot of traction in the popular mind. And like any glittering trinket one [...]
  • 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 [...]

FourWinds10

  • Uncovering the Lies That Are Sinking the Oil
  • Gulf Health Problems Blamed on Dispersed Oil
    DAUPHIN ISLAND, Alabama, Aug 12, 2010 (IPS) - BP says it is no longer using toxic dispersants to break up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Gulf Coast residents claim otherwise, and say they have the sicknesses to prove it. On Aug. 5, Donny Mastler, a commercial fisherman who also works on boats, was at ...
  • Commander equivocates when grilled over BP using d ...
    Press Briefing by National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen, August 9, 2010: � Elizabeth Cook: Yes. My question, Admiral Allen, is that there are persistent rumors from fishermen in Louisiana that dispersant is still being sprayed both offshore and in the marshes of Barataria Bay. And I have a ...
  • Mekong River / Catfish
    VIEW VIDEO http://www.vimeo.com/11817894 August 9, 2010
  • Photographer captures firefighter losing his life ...
    July 16, 2010, an oil pipeline explosion accident happened in Dalian, the fire was put out after 15 hours of burning.� The cause of the accident was still under investigation.� According to CCTV, about 400,000 gallon of oil was spilled into the Yellow Sea, which heavily polluted over 160 square kilo ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

  • Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further evid ...
    In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted. The following ...
  • Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagflatio ...
    The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest bus ...
  • How long would it take to work off the US trade de ...
    The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
  • Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy porte ...
    In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the current crisis. This articl ...
  • Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
    No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings were ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Range Fuels Produces Something
    Join the forum discussion on this post I began to hear rumors about a week ago that Range Fuels had started to produce some methanol from their plant in Soperton, Georgia. This week they announced that they have indeed begun to make some product: Range Fuels Finally Gets its Cellulosic Plant Runni ...
  • BP, Exxon, and Peak Lite
    Join the forum discussion on this post My vacation is over, so it’s back to work. I am still working on the followup to the MixAlco story, but there is a lot of material to digest. I am exchanging e-mails with Professor Holtzapple just now, trying to get answers to questions around the energy balan ...
  • The Ethanol Question I Did Ask
    Join the forum discussion on this post Last December, I received an intriguing request from the Public Relations Director at the world’s largest ethanol producer. Nathan Schock asked if I would be interested in posing a video question that would be answered by POET CEO Jeff Broin. He said that any ...
  • Biomass to Fuel via the MixAlco Process
    Join the forum discussion on this post Previously, I described a portion of my role in the early development of the MixAlco Process. Developed in the laboratories of Professor Mark Holtzapple at Texas A&M University, the process has undergone significant further developments, which I report on in t ...
  • Is Matt Simmons Credible?
    Claims like "BP will file for Chapter 11 by July 9," and that "the 'real, untold story' is another leak that is 5-7 miles away spewing 120,000 barrels per day" are ruining Matt Simmons' credibility.

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