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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Monday, August 23, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

Scoop - NZ

  • US: Jobs for middle class expansion long gone
    Most Americans realize that having a job is a prerequisite to gaining entrance into the middle class.  If you work hard enough, chances are you would have access to some of the things promised to the middle class; access to affordable housing, a good education, and the ability for some sort of reti ...
  • Carbon credits create action on the forestry front
    Forests have taken on a whole new economic value as carbon has a value attached to it . Businesses are seeing their value as well ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Tales From The Northwest Frontier
    One of my favorite movies is The Tailor of Panama, based on the tongue-in-cheek novel written by John Le Carre which was in turn derived from Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana. In the film, Pierce Brosnan was featured as a corrupt British intelligence officer who fraudulently convinced the CIA to ...
  • BP: Relief wells delayed over fears of a new spill
    As of Monday, BP had yet to resume drilling of two relief wells which aim to permanently seal off its Macondo well. The latest delay arose over concerns that the operation might create a new spill. It had been widely reported that the completion of the relief wells would begin on Tuesday, but Natio ...
  • US Home Builder Confidence Tanks Amid Economic Con ...
    Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes edged down for a third consecutive month in August, reaching levels not seen since March of 2009, according to a report released Monday. The latest National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) fell ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Painless parenting
    Taking a child to the emergency room or to get a routine immunization is an experience most parents dread. Instinctively, they seek to soothe their children by telling them that everything will turn out fine. But Dalhousie University researchers Meghan McMurtry and Christine Chambers have some surpr ...
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • Fox News co-owner funded 'Ground Zero mosque' imam
    The second largest shareholder in News Corp. -- the parent company of Fox News -- has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to causes linked to the imam planning to build a Muslim community center and mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan, says a report from Yahoo!News. According to the report fr ...
  • Mississippi Shrimpers Refuse to Trawl, Fearing Oil ...
    Biloxi, Mississippi - The U.S. state of Mississippi recently reopened all of its fishing areas. The problem is that commercial shrimpers refuse to trawl because they fear the toxicity of the waters and marine life due to the BP oil disaster. "We come out and catch all our Mississippi oysters right ...
  • All 8 tests find submerged oil in Mississippi wate ...
    An August 20 article by WLOX in Biloxi reports that the Coast Guard was searching for submerged oil off the coast of Mississippi on Thursday and "did not find any evidence of oil all day." "The method and means of testing for oil is straight forward. With an anchor on one end, and a series of a ...
  • Material washing ashore from Perdido Pass to Petit ...
    Scientists are intrigued by the heavy sheen and persistent clouds of dingy brown water washing up in pockets from Perdido Pass to Petit Bois Island since July. Waves carrying the brown water ashore leave a conspicuous amber stain on the white sand. A recent snorkeling trip along Fort Morgan found t ...
  • South Pacific sea levels - Best records show lit ...
    Are the small islands of the South Pacific in danger of disappearing, glug, under the waves of the rising ocean? Will thousands of poor inhabitants be forced to emigrate, as desperate refugees, to Australia and New Zealand? Has any of this got anything to do with man-made emissions of CO2? By looki ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Scary people . . .
    THE NEW YORKER has a frightening article by Jane Mayer, " Covert Operations ". It's about the machinations of the Koch brothers, a nasty pair of troglodytes. According to Jane, Koch is best known as part of a family that has repeatedly funded stealth attacks on the federal government, and on the Oba ...
  • Strange fruit . . .
    The lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, a large gathering of lynchers. August 7, 1930, Marion, Indiana. THE TEA PARTY AND THE AMERICAN RIGHT have a scary mindset about Obama, and it brings to mind the halcyon days of yore. According to THE LYNCHING CALENDAR , From 1865 to 1965 more than 6,000 ...
  • Professional armies and mercenary whores
    It's the world stage these fuckers crave, and they're happy to tell her what she wants to hear to get her to bed, use her as arm candy for the cameras , and show her the stars. But when she starts feeling nauseous in the mornings, maybe shows a little bump round the tum and asks them to keep their ...
  • Misanthropic happy-smashing
    Veterans, off-white refugee migrants who don't arrive through airports, Canadians in foreign dungeons, poor people, people living in non-Conservative ridings, civil servants doing their job have all fallen afoul of the Conservative government and the rabid gharial-brained instincts of their base. M ...
  • Saturday Morning Cartoons.
    Odds my bodkins, darlings -- I need more coffee.

Media Matters for America

  • Steve Hayes latest to cover up conservative a ...
    On� Fox News Sunday , Steve Hayes joined a long line of commentators whitewashing conservative attacks on Muslims' religious freedom by falsely claiming that "[n]obody's making the argument" that the organizers of the proposed Islamic community center in Lower Manhattan "don't have the constitution ...
  • Right-wing media smear Park51 as potential haven f ...
    In their relentless attacks against the planned Park51 Islamic community center in Manhattan, right-wing media have smeared the center as a potential haven or recruitment center for terrorists and extremists. Right-wing media smear Islamic center as potential haven or recruitment center for terrori ...
  • Right-wing media just can't quit attacking Obama' ...
    Following polls showing that an increasing number of Americans wrongly believe President Obama is a Muslim, right-wing media figures have used the opportunity to continue to sow doubts about Obama's religious convictions. Right-wing media seize on opportunity to further attack Obama's religious ...
  • Two months later, Fox discovers O'Reilly was used ...
    Fox News and Bill O'Reilly have denied knowing until this week that right-wing website Newsmax was using an interview with O'Reilly to sell its financial schemes. But Newsmax has used O'Reilly to sell financial products for months, and Fox News' Dick Morris has shilled for various Newsmax schemes f ...
  • Behind Obama Muslim myth stands the right wing
    Two recently released polls show that an increasing number of Americans believe the falsehood that President Obama is a Muslim. According to the Pew Research Center, 60 percent of people who believe this false claim cite the media as the source of that information -- and, indeed, the right-wing med ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Republican Treason?
    The Wall Street Journal suggests that Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin are "aiding and abetting the enemy"--Al Qaeda. Islamic radicals are seizing on protests against a planned Islamic community center near Manhattan's Ground Zero and anti-Muslim rhetoric elsewhere as a propaganda opportunity and are ...
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  • We Are A Nation of Pinheads
    "He who rides with the Klan Is a Devil And not a man . . . " -- Gil Scott-Heron What else can be concluded? Leaders of one of our two major parties are able to repeatedly lie about a mosque that is not a mosque to be built where the WTC used to be but isn't being built there by an extremist ...
  • Economic emptiness in Palestine and Israel 
    Israelis and Palestinians have agreed to enter direct negotiations (yet again) in Washington on September 2. The Obama administration is sure to hail this as a significant breakthrough. Jerusalem, refugees, settlements, and borders will all be on the table. But substantive Palestinian economic growt ...
  • Obama should embrace Islam as part of his - and ou ...
    Liberals have reacted with surprise to the recent Pew survey showing that a large and increasing number of Americans believe that Obama is a Muslim -- shocked to think that Americans could be so misinformed about the president's religion. The issue here though is not about information, but about po ...

TruthOut

  • E.J. Dionne, Jr. | The Politics of "No"
    Washington -- In an election, a solid "no" usually beats an uneasy "yes, but." That's the heart of the problem Democrats and President Obama face this fall. read more
  • How Has it Come to This?
    The scene is post-apocalyptic. Under a grey sky, two families play in the surf just off the beach in Grand Isle, Louisiana. To get to the beach, we walk past a red, plastic barrier fence that until very recently was there to keep people away from the oil-soaked area. Now, there are a few openings th ...
  • Skepticism Widespread in Mideast Over New Peace Ta ...
    Jerusalem - As the Obama administration heralded a new round of face-to-face talks on Mideast peace, the abiding reaction across the region Friday was skepticism, with many expressing doubt that conditions are ripe for much to come from negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian leaders. The talk ...
  • A Permanent Housing Collapse?
    The recent chaos that erupted when 30,000 people waited hours in the Atlanta, Georgia, heat to receive applications for subsidized housing is a mere symptom of a worsening national problem. The housing market appears to be on a never-ending downward spiral, with the much-discussed "recovery" a ...
  • Three Pillars of a Food Revolution
    As marketers learn to fake climate-friendly food, how do we spot the real thing? Anna Lapp� says it's a question of values. read more

Planetsave

  • World Naked Bike Ride Video from Portland
    Great video of this year’s World Naked Bike Ride in Portland. I wrote on the 2010 World Naked Bike ride awhile back here on Planetsave. Great, fun bicycling event. A friend of mine just shared this cool video of this year’s World Nake Bike Ride event in Portland. Too cool to not share. Makes you... ...
  • Funny, Funny Video of Australian Senator
    This video is both 1. extremely funny, and 2. extremely sad. It looks like the Onion in video format, except it, apparently, is real. You have to watch this video, but make sure you aren’t drinking anything when you do. (If it turns out this is not real, please let me know so that I... Read More...
  • Going Green Tip #5: So How’s About a Bicycle ...
    Going Green Tip #5 comes from guest author Chip Haynes. Chip is author of Wearing Smaller Shoes: Living Light on the Big Blue Marble and The Practical Cyclist: Bicycling for Real People (New Society Publishers). More info on Chip is below the post. Enjoy this great follow-up to Going Green Tip#4: Gr ...
  • “Super’ Bacteria Defies Normal Aging
    In a recent paper entitled 'Robust growth of Escherichia coli', published in the journal Current Biology, researchers discovered that E. coli bacteria are able to maintain a "steady state" growth rate despite the accumulation of genetic errors.
  • Mexico City Bans Plastic Bags
    Mexico City joins the growing number of cities worldwide who are banning plastic bags. I recently wrote about the largest state in India banning plastic bags, and about bag monsters in California pushing for a California-wide plastic bag ban, and I just mentioned that the richest Hindu temple in the ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Australian election delivers first hung parliament ...
    23 August 2010 Saturday’s Australian federal election has produced a hung parliament, the first since 1940, triggering an enormous crisis for the Australian ruling elite and presaging heightened political and social instability. Such was the extent of popular disaffection with the e ...
  • New provocation against WikiLeaks - Critical Analy ...
    23 August 2010 The World Socialist Web Site denounces the ongoing campaign by the US government and its military and intelligence agencies against WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange. The rape charges against Assange, announced Friday by Swedish prosecutors and then withdrawn Saturday, bear ...
  • The Violent "Agrarian Counter-Reform" Conspiracy i ...
    Editor's Note: There is much more to be learned about the ;paramilitary death squads in Colombia and the underlying motives for murdering ;tens of thousands of Colombian peasant farmers during the 1990s and the first decade of 2000. Throughout this period, Alvaro Uribe was involved, first as mayor o ...
  • The Guns of August - Lowering the Flag on the Amer ...
    In 1962, the historian Barbara Tuchman published a book about the start of World War I and called it The Guns of August. It went on to win a Pulitzer Prize.  She was, of course, looking back at events that had occurred almost 50 years earlier and had at her disposal...
  • No Afghanistan Withdrawal in 2011 - Engdahl: "US w ...
    Russia Today talks with political economist and author F William Engdahl, author of "A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order" and "Full Spectrum Dominance", about his thoughts on the Afghanistan occupation and the 30 year war scenario to prevent the independent ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Stupid Freakazoid Tricks
    One of the challenges of being an out-and-proud atheist is responding to smug freakazoids who demand you explain how-without-god "mysteries" the rest of us figured out in high school science class. PZ Myers gets them constantly, and every once in a while responds publicly with a smack-down that's mo ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Are even the right-wing mental defectives figuring out Sister Sarah's scam? Mayhaps so. An event that she is supposed to headline next week in Florida has been moved from a theater that seats nearly 3000 to a much smaller venue that only seats about 600 - because ticket sales have been lackluster at ...
  • Quote of the Day
    From the Society of Professional Journalist's 100th Anniversary issue of Quill: "If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. �But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if the laws exis ...
  • Freeloading Anti-taxers Cutting Their Own Throats
    The selfish fuckers deserve every bit of dystopian nightmare they're about to unleash on themselves. �May they be a horrific example to the rest of the nation. From Down with Tyranny: Remote Modoc County, the extreme northwest corner of California has around 10,000 people. Most of it is ghost towns ...
  • "M is the new BP"
    From tristero: That's M as in Monsanto: One of the primary concerns with transgenic (aka genetically modified) crops is the risk of genetic contamination, i.e. the transfer of engineered genes to wild versions of the same plant. The corporations involved in genetic engineering, such as Monsanto and ...

Care 2

  • RETRIAL IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING CASE
    Two men convicted of kidnapping and holding an illegal immigrant mother and her child in a Costa Mesa motel for ransom in 2005 will get a retrial after a panel of judges ruled jurors were not given proper instructions before reaching their verdict. Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Send letter of protest against Toro de la Vega / / ...
    On Sept. 15, the bull named 'Moscatel' will be persecuted and tortured by the enraged inhabitants of Tordesillas. Spears pierced his body repeatedly, until I fall dead on the field. The guy who handed the last spear, will be awarded and may take the te Submitted by Animalib No Emails Please to Anima ...
  • 10 Business Heroes We Can Still Look Up To
    Here are 10 business heroes we can still look up to, and who should motivate you to get the most out of your online college courses. Submitted by Katie Miller to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Biggest Lessons Learned from the Gulf Spill
    We should take this horrible catastrophe and learn something positive from it now and forever. Here are the biggest lessons learned from the Gulf oil spill. Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Tell Congress to increase funding for global clean ...
    Safe drinking water is essential for human health and economic development, but dirty water causes disease and death around the world, especially in children.... Submitted by Mariana M. to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

  • Can Urban Farming Stop the Wars? No, but someday i ...
    Urban farming is a powerful way to advance the radical notion that even poor people can resist learned helplessness, the moreso the younger you start. Here, a small school built in a refurbished greenhouse on Boston's north shore is helping to teach urban kids about the miracles of growing food. Agr ...
  • Conflicts of interest: Secret Qi Gong self-massage ...
    By the time I get done trying to entertain my two-year-old granddaughter all day, I don't have much energy left for blogging. Sure, I write a lot of stuff down -- but when I read back what I just wrote, it all seems like dookie. But even if I could somehow manage to write meaningful prose of Shakesp ...
  • Obama's "Recovery Summer" hits a snag
    The Obama administration is too busy pouring over their own rosy economic projections to pay attention to the bleak forecasts of contrarian economists and bloggers on the Internet. That's why the White House public relations team decided to dispatch the president on a "Recovery Summer" junket, to c ...
  • War Crimes for Fun and Debating Points
    After hastily writing a column based on a viewing, last Friday evening, of the WikiLeak video, titled “ Collateral Murder ,” of a shooting in Iraq, this writer delayed posting it early Saturday monring. In reconsidering the implications of what we had seen and what the event meant as Saturday progr ...
  • On The Immorality of Christianity
    The languid success of logic and facts to dislodge believers from their mistaken beliefs, calls for a new course in the claim for morality’s mantle; religion fails humanity on ethics. There appears to be no amount of reason or facts that will extricate believers from their cognitive biases, or the n ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Mission Accomplished Deja Vu in Iraq?
    The media was at the Iraq Kuwait border on Thursday to celebrate and record the “withdrawal” of U.S. combat forces from Iraq. Now that the last U.S. combat brigade has left Iraq two weeks ahead of schedule, many commentators are contrasting this orderly withdrawal from Iraq with the chaotic scene wh ...
  • Sunday Night Open Thread
    Check the directions to listen to Larry Johnson on John Batchelor’s syndicated radio show tonight. “Why Obama’s Failing,” Doug Schoen, The Daily Beast: The net result of Obama’s failed policies is that consumers are reluctant to spend, entrepreneurs are reluctant to invest, and employers are relu ...
  • Target as Target
    Since the Supreme Court has declared that corporations are pretty much the same as human citizens when it comes to donating to political causes, it’s left up to us “small people” to try to set that ruling back a pace or two. Our tools are few, but we can refuse to support [...]
  • Observations on My Afternoon in New York City
    I spent yesterday afternoon in New York City meeting with a variety of people. Without violating any confidences, there were a number of common themes that came from all my conversations. The themes included: 1. The financial system remains very fragile. 2. The economy remains in very tough shape. ...
  • Jobless Venom
    Madeleine Lim, DowJones, tells colleague Simon Constable that the corporations will not hire until there is a solution to Regime Uncertainty — chiefly taxes to pay for the deficits as well as the healthcare and the FinReg geniuses. This is an official observation by a professional who is paid t ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Top 5 Environmental Steampunk Books
    On its most superficial level, steampunk showcases the ingenuity and artistry of advanced technology. These five books probe deeper to illuminate the consequences of prog read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
  • The Strange Phenomenon of the Bowling Ball Beach
    Beaches are not always sea and sand. Sometimes they can be home to really amazing and unusual features. California's bowling bowl beach is a wonderful example. read more
  • The Bewildering World of Narcolepsy and Cataplexy
    Narcolepsy with cataplexy is a bizarre disorder that renders the sufferer suddenly helpless and paralyzed, yet awake. These videos and pictures show what it's like. read more
  • How to Fight an Infestation of Bed Bugs
    Bed bugs made headlines in 2010. Here you can learn about these insect pests and how exterminators eliminate their infestations. read more
  • New Fish Species Found in the Gulf Oil Spill
    The discovery of two new species of fish in the Gulf of Mexico underlines the terrible damage that man-made disasters can cause... read more

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Judge Presses 9/11 Lawyers on Fees
    "The reasonableness and appropriateness of this expense has not been shown," a judge says in a court order.
  • 'Missing Plastic' in the Atlantic
    No increase is seen after comparing debris gathered in plankton nets with 22 years of similar data on marine debris.
  • Dust Bowl Haunts Wheat Farmers
    Many wheat farmers are nervous about planting more wheat this year, fearing that prices that have recently soared could fall back to earth -- or that commodity speculators and investment funds might be exaggerating the shortfall in Russia.
  • Europe's Brisk Energy Transition
    Renewable energy now accounts for 18.4 percent of energy production in the European Union, just behind natural gas, which provides 19.3 percent
  • Warming Seas Threaten Coral Off Indonesia
    The bleaching is attributed to a spike in sea temperatures in May that left waters in the area about 7 degrees Fahrenheit above average.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Kanye West Masonic/Egyptian "Power"; Viktor Bout's ...
    "In the threatening situation of the world today, when people are beginning to see that everything is at stake, the projection-creating fantasy soars beyond the realm of earthly organizations and powers into the heavens, into interstellar space, where the rulers of human fate, the gods, once had the ...
  • Barclays Bank: The design of criminal banking oper ...
    Crossposted - Barclays Bank Forfeits $298 Million for Aiding Rogue Nations 18 August 2010 Court filings: http://cryptome.org/0002/barclays/usa-v-barclays.htm Barclays Bank Forfeits $298 Million for Aiding Rogue Nations http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2010/August/10-crm-933.html Department of Ju ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • Organize Independent Mass Actions and Build the Ne ...
    Dear Education Activist, Greetings from the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) and the Equal Opportunity Now (EON) Caucus of the AFT/NEA. This has been an exciting summer. Attempts to impose mayoral control on ...
  • Who Says Immigration Is a Crisis?
    The crisis that is not a crisis, immigration.  As I understand it, there are two parts to this border crossing thing.  One part is the drug smuggling.  Given the size of the American drug habit, we are looking at convoys of container ships making their way into this country.  We are definitely not t ...
  • Film Alleges Fed ‘Fraud’ Against Victims of $3.65 ...
    Victims of a massive financial fraud will unveil a documentary Aug. 25 in Minneapolis that portrays federal authorities as helping bankruptcy lawyers and the government feast on dwindling victim assets without adequate protections for fairness. The Second Fraud, spiked last December from planned sho ...
  • The Muslim Center at “Ground Zero”
    As elections for state and local offices are approaching, American politics is hitting a new low. There are huge issues facing US society. These include the expanding US occupation of Afghanistan as well as the failed occupation in Iraq, the Gulf of Mexico/BP oil disaster and its long term consequen ...
  • Fox News and John Bolton violate International Law ...
    Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000105 EndHTML:0000010569 StartFragment:0000002482 EndFragment:0000010533 By Lew Brown Yesterday 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 Mosq ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

  • Rotten Egg Farming
    Dirt-cheap protein is a fine ideal that it isn't worth risking our lives.
  • The Lineup: Week of August 23-29, 2010
    Our latest editorial package includes an op-ed on the upcoming and lackluster U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and a column by Donald Kaul about unlikely advocates for ditching the Bush tax cuts for the most affluent Americans.
  • Fatherless Children
    Single motherhood by choice is challenging but hardly doomed to failure.
  • 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.

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

  • PDA Weekly Field Report 8/13/10 – 8/20/10
    It’s time to focus all our attentions to Florida as two of our nationally endorsed candidates Doug Tudor (FL-12) and Marleine ...
  • We need your help!
    Let’s give voters a reason to go to the polls! Dear Friend, On August 24, two of PDA’s endorsed candidates are facing primary elections. Each of these candidates represents PDA’s core values and embraces PDA’s positions. And ...
  • What a lineup! August’s ‘The Agitator& ...
    The Agitator: Voices of PDA Episode 10: Featuring a montage of voices from PDA’s Grassroots Leadership Conference Dear Bryan, Leading lights from the worlds of progressive politics, media, and activism enriched ...
  • Video: Terror Babies? Really?
    Rep. Louie Gohmert loses control when Anderson Cooper asks for evidence on the ‘Terror Babies’ Conspiracy. Obviously Rep. Gohmert has no evidence. Anderson did a decent job keeping calm and insisting Gohmert give ...
  • 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, ...

Marler Blog

  • CNBC "Quote of the Day" Food Safety between Odiern ...
    I am not sure this is something that CNBC does often, and I am not sure how I feel about it. "A strong democratic Iraq will bring stability to the Middle East, and if we see Iraq that's moving toward that, two, three, five years from now, I think we can call our operations a success." — Gen. Ray Od ...
  • Salmonella Egg Fiasco - House and Senate Agricultu ...
    As I said to the Associate Press yesterday - "The history of ignoring the law makes the sickening of 1,300 and the forced recall of 550 million eggs shockingly understandable." I was talking about the owner of the largest egg farm at the center of this massive recall and outbreak of Salmonella Enter ...
  • Chickens and Chicken Feed link Quality Egg to Wrig ...
    MARY CLARE JALONICK, of AP , (A.K.A., “the egg gal,”) confirmed this morning what everyone speculated, that “both farms (Hillandale and Wright County Egg) are linked to businessman Austin "Jack" DeCoster, who has been cited for numerous health, safety and employment violations over the years.” She ...
  • Salmonella can be much more than a "tummy ache"
    In the middle of a nationwide Salmonella outbreak, last week Elizabeth Landau of CNN asked if she could talk with one of my clients who had been stricken by Salmonella and had suffered complication – more than just a “tummy ache.” Fortunately for Elizabeth, but unfortunately for my clients, it is n ...
  • Wright County Egg owner, DeCoster, seems to be one ...
    I spoke with Alec MacGillis this morning about the 550,000,000 eggs being recalled and the 1,300 people sickened and the company, Wright County Egg, in the middle of it. His story, “Before salmonella outbreak, egg firm had long record of violations,” and the violations he cites is even shocking to ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 08.23.10
    Fisker's new ad: Karma is "Designed to get you hot, not the planet" Look at the curves. EV sellers will have to teach drivers to treat their car like their phone, plug it in! New habits die ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 08.20.10
    Does driving make you fat? Can public transportation, biking and walking keep you skinny? Wouldn't hurt to take the A Train, apparently. One stock analyst says Tesla will fail like internet groceries ...
  • 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 ...

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!

  • Amy Goodman to appear tonight on CNN's _John King, ...
    Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King, USA , on Friday, August 20th at 7pm Eastern Time.
  • Amy Goodman on CNN's John King, USA
    Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNNâs John King, USA , on Thursday, August 19th at 7pm Eastern Time.
  • Amy Goodman to appear on CNN's _John King, USA_
    Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King, USA , on Thursday, August 19th at 7pm Eastern Time.
  • 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 ...

Farming Pathogens

  • Imperial Storm Scientists
    The Red Army Faction was a communist guerilla group operating 1970-1998 in, of all places, West Germany. The RAF engaged in a variety of operations in the 1970s, including assassinations and bombings, primarily around the German government’s material support of the U.S. war in Vietnam. As depicted i ...
  • 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 ...

Suzie-Q

  • Gainesville Pastors Plan Readings From Quran In Re ...
    Republicans Whip Anti-Muslim Hysteria While Gainesville Pastors Plan Readings From Quran in Response to Planned Burning FDL- By: Jim White Saturday August 21, 2010 7:21 am On September 12, at least sixteen Gainesville area pastors will read from the Quran as a response to the Gainesville church that ...
  • Israel and Palestinians to resume peace talks in W ...
    Hillary Clinton hopes a peace agreement can be reached within a year, in first direct negotiations since 2008 Chris McGreal in Washington guardian.co.uk, Friday 20 August 2010 16.59 BST Israel and the Palestinians are to resume direct peace talks next month, Hillary Clinton has announced. The US sec ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Money & Markets - Week of 8.22.10
    Packing for College, 2010 Style The Wall treet Journal (14 Aug 10) Natural Gas - Expanding Triangle Financial Sense (5 Feb 10)
  • Geopolitical - Week of 8.22.10
    YouTube America’s Insurgent Pollster The Wall Street Journal (21 Aug 10) Hundreds of Millions in Katrina Funds Remain Unspent msnbc (20 Aug 10) Why is the U.S. Government Protecting BP? USA Watchdog (20 Aug 10) Our Forecast for Bush Tax Cuts in 2011: A Hit on the Wealthy Kkiplinger (10 Aug 10) Mex ...
  • Food & Health - Week of 8.22.10
    FDA: Egg Contamination Source Unclear abcNews (23 Aug 10)
  • Life - Week of 8.22.10
    Slideshow: Virtual National Park Tour The Weather Channel
  • Resource Demand Spurs M&A Deal Surge
    By Javier Blas and William MacNamara The rise of China and India has sparked a renewed surge in aggressive dealmaking in the resources sector, with more than $50bn in proposed take­overs this week alone wagering on continued strong commodities demand. BHP Billiton on Friday tabled formally its $39b ...

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

  • Sad news about the CIA
    Summary:  The CIA used to overthrow governments.  Now they cannot even frame a rape charge against the leader of Wikileaks.  Here are some useful sources about still-breaking story of what looks like an attempted frame of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.  Soon we’ll see what the US news media ...
  • Why a Marine Corps?
    Summary:  G.I. Wilson and guest author H. Thomas Hayden explain why America needs a Marine Corps.  As GW said on elsewhere, “The USMC’s future lies its creative intellect, professionalism in the study and application of maneuver warfare, and delivering what the Nation needs post in a crisis b ...
  • Another FM smack-down: chemicals are not causing e ...
    Summary:  Another day, another error uncovered.  To see others go to the reference page FM Smackdowns (corrections to and attacks on FM posts). While writing another post about chemicals affecting human’s sexuality — especially as a cause of earlier puberty — two articles torpedoed the theory (p ...
  • The biggest re-branding exercise in the history of ...
    Summary:  What is the face of America, the image we present to the world?  In many of the key areas we’re conducting a massive effort to re-brand America.  Perhaps still as a force for order, but as a dark force. The image we project to the world is an important aspect of our grand strategy.  [. ...
  • Justice for slavers (esp sex traffickers): hang t ...
    Summary:  Macho conservatives often advocate hanging pirates (although most are in the ransom business, unlike rape/pillage business model of their 18th century predecessors).   Too bad they show little interest in that other back-from-the-past scourge:  slaving.  Perhaps because it involves propert ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Foreign Office rejects human rights report concern ...
    Telegraph – While the Foreign Office admitted it was looking at alternatives to the âexpensive glossy colour publications of the pastâ, it said that human rights and poverty reduction would remain the âirreducible coreâ of British foreign policy. âIt is not in our character as a nation to ...
  • Nuns donate their brains to Alzheimer’s research
    LA Times – By taking yearly tests and giving their brains to science after they die, members of religious orders help doctors understand more about the disease. Read article
  • Arthritis protein ‘guards against Alzheimer’s dise ...
    BBC – A protein produced in cases of rheumatoid arthritis appears to protect against the development of Alzheimer’s disease, US scientists have said. In the Journal of Alzheimer’s Research study, mice with memory loss given the protein fared better in tests. A synthetic version of GM-CSF protein i ...
  • Venezuela, More Deadly Than Iraq, Wonders Why…
    NY Times — Some here joke that they might be safer if they lived in Baghdad. The numbers bear them out. In Iraq, a country with about the same population as Venezuela, there were 4,644 civilian deaths from violence in 2009, according to Iraq Body Count; in Venezuela that year, the number of murders ...
  • Iceland volcano affecting economy
    BBC – The eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland four months ago caused disruption for thousands of travellers in Europe and rest of the world. But while air travel is back to normal, Icelanders are still suffering the aftereffects, with farming and tourism badly hit – and it is feared ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Cholera epidemic, a symptom of underdevelopment in ...
    Cholera epidemic, a symptom of underdevelopment in Nigeria and the Third World (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Cholera has killed 87 and infected 1,315 over the past month in Nigeria. The two northern states affected most are Bauchi and Borno. In Bauchi alone 47 are dead and 1,200 infected. Born ...
  • O sekciarstwie
    O sekciarstwie (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (Polski) (English) „Drodzy trzecioświatowi maoiści, Wasza strona internetowa jest sekciarska. Krytykujecie tak wiele innych grup. Jak można traktować was poważnie? * Dziękujemy za twoje pytanie. Wielu liberałów bierze krytykę wobec innych grup za de ...
  • A spy and the use and abuse of history
    A spy and the use and abuse of history (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Poland is likely to extradite Uri Brodsky to Germany. Uri Brodsky  is suspected of being part of an Israeli death squad that has recently been in the spotlight. The Israeli agent, likely a member of a Mossad hit team, was inv ...
  • 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 ...

PakAlert

  • Videos: Survival Scenarios – Prepare For The Worst
    For all who have some sense of the worldclock it is obvious that very troublesome destructive times are right in front of us. It is clear that our time is up and we must do whatever we can, to find shelter and make sure we survive. Make no mistake, it truly is every man for himself. I will try to ...
  • Walking dead: Ongoing BP Gulf disaster may be kill ...
    “I think the media now has to...tell the American people who’s getting money for poisoning the millions of people in the Gulf." - Hugh Kaufman, senior EPA analyst, admits millions have been poisoned in the Gulf states. A biochemical bomb went off in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010—a bomb tha ...
  • 1934 Film ‘The House Of Rothschild’ – Videos
    If you are even semi-awake to the Zionist threat this movie will blow your mind (I had to pick my jaw up several times). While this 1930ish Hollywood movie is only semi-accurate it certainly shows more then the PTB would like you to know today. I think this film was made as a response to the anti-R ...
  • Iran unveils ‘ambassador of death’ unmanned bomber
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Sunday inaugurated the country's first domestically built long-range unmanned bomber aircraft, calling it an "ambassador of death" to Iran's enemies.
  • 94,000 Evacuated Following China Floods – Photos
    Flooding has forced the evacuation of 94,000 people in the north China port city of Dandong after heavy rains caused the Yalu river to breach its banks, state media said today. More rain was expected to pound the region, which borders North Korea, and threatened to trigger more flooding today, the o ...

Andy Worthington

  • I’m Back, and Catching Up on Two Weeks of Guantána ...
    Yesterday, I was in Napoli, sipping sweet, strong coffee, munching on a sfogliatella (delicious ricotta and candied fruit wrapped in a flaky pastry shell), and sweating in the humid 35-degree heat from which there was little or no escape. A week in this mind-bending city — crumbling and filthy, on t ...
  • 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

  • "Snot Otter" Sperm to Save Giant Salamander?
    To save North America's biggest salamander, conservationists are freezing its sperm, which luckily comes "pouring out of the animal." Giant salamander - Biology - Flora and Fauna - Chordata - Animalia
  • Ocean Garbage Patch Not Growing—Where's "Missing" ...
    The "soup" of plastic trash in the North Atlantic hasn't gotten thicker in two decades, says a new study that's puzzling ocean scientists. Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Atlantic Ocean - Oceanography - North Atlantic - Earth Sciences
  • Photos: Honeycomb Clouds "Communicate," Rain in Un ...
    NoneLike blinking fireflies, some marine clouds "communicate" with each other, forming, raining, and re-forming in unison, a new study says. Rain - Cloud - Business - Arts - Works
  • Giant Underwater Plume Confirmed—Gulf Oil Not Degr ...
    A giant plume from BP's Gulf of Mexico spill has been confirmed deep in the ocean—and there are signs it may stick around, a new study says. Gulf of Mexico - BP - Oil spill - Environment - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  • 5 Years After Katrina, Ruins—And a Natural Wonder— ...
    On Hurricane Katrina's fifth anniversary, many Gulf Coast buildings remain damaged, but an iconic natural wonder still stands strong. Video. Hurricane Katrina - Gulf Coast of the United States - Earth Sciences - Atmospheric Sciences - Meteorology

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

  • Death of an Assassin: The Order’s Bruce Pierce Die ...
    Bruce Carroll Pierce, the gunman in the 1984 murder in Denver of Jewish talk show host Alan Berg, died Monday afternoon of natural causes. He was 56 years old and serving the 23 rd year of a 252-year sentence at the Allenwood Federal Correctional Complex in Pennsylvania. Pierce was a founding member ...
  • Publishing Cesspool: James Edwards Writes a Book
    After a four-month hiatus that many hoped would be permanent ended in June 2008,  James Edwardsâ hate-fueled radio show, âThe Political Cesspool,â has reestablished itself as a leading forum for neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers, and white supremacists. Since launching in 2004, the show â the hi ...
  • 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 ...

change: org.

  • Electric Cars Aren't Really Green; They're Just Le ...
    I’m a big fan of electric cars and their potential to help our beleaguered climate. But I’m an even bigger critic of false solutions such as the idea that we can somehow consume our way out of the climate crisis. So with the green blogosphere getting all googly-eyed over the advent of electric dream ...
  • Charges Filed Against Officer Who Shot Bear-Bear i ...
    Earlier this month, Bear-Bear, a rescued Siberian husky, was shot by an off-duty federal officer at the Quail Run Community Dog Park in Maryland. The story is that Keith Shepherd, an officer with the Department of the Army, brought his own dog into the park, on leash, and Bear-Bear approached them. ...
  • Is Predictive Policing the Future of Law Enforceme ...
    Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck has seen the future of policing, and it lies in predicting crime before it happens. 'Predictive policing' is suddenly popping up everywhere, with computer scientists exploring models that predict crime and departments like Beck's LAPD jockeying for federal grant ...
  • How the Olson's Marriage Could Influence Yours
    It always seemed an unlikely pairing. Ted Olson, the conservative lawyer who defended President George W. Bush to decide the 2000 presidential election, now championing marriage equality in California's Proposition 8 case, paired with David Boies, his opponent in Bush v. Gore . But Olson has another ...
  • The 50th Birthday of the Pill: An Interview With B ...
    This week, I had the opportunity to interview birth control and reproductive health expert Dawn Stacey, M.Ed., LMHC. Stacey is a licensed mental health counselor and certified HIV counselor who is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in health psychology. She is both a published author and a college profess ...

Common Dreams -News

  • As Floodwaters Recede, Anger Grows in Northwest Pa ...
    by Saaed Shah CHARSADDA, Pakistan - In the village of Drab Korona in northwest Pakistan, Sirajuddin returned to where his house had stood to salvage what he could. What he found was just a shallow muddy pool. "This was our house," the 30-year-old Sirajuddin, ...
  • Obama Plays Down Plan for Post-2011 Iraq Troop Pre ...
    by Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - When the Barack Obama administration unveiled its plan last week for an improvised State Department-controlled army of contractors to replace all U.S. combat troops in Iraq by the end of 2011, critics associated with the U.S. command attacked the transition plan, insist ...
  • Thousands Strain Fort Hood's Mental Health System
    by Gregg Zoroya FORT HOOD, Texas - Nine months after an Army psychiatrist was charged with fatally shooting 13 soldiers and wounding 30, the nation's largest Army post can measure the toll of war in the more than 10,000 mental health evaluations, referrals or therapy sessions held every month. r ...
  • Nowhere Near Ground Zero, But No More Welcome
    by Annie Gowen MURFREESBORO, TENN. -- For more than 30 years, the Muslim community in this Nashville suburb has worshipped quietly in a variety of makeshift spaces -- a one-bedroom apartment, an office behind a Lube Express -- attracting little notice even after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist att ...
  • Dems Urge Obama to Take a Stand
    by John F. Harris and James Hohmann White House press secretary Robert Gibbs's recent complaint about the ingratitude of the "professional left" is a small symptom of a larger problem for President Barack Obama: He has left wide swaths of the Democratic Party uncertain of his core beliefs. read more

Lifehacker

  • Use Voicemail More Effectively at Work [Etiquette]
    Voicemail is a tough cookie to crack. Some people love it, but as short text messages have overtaken quick communication on phones (SMS) and the internet (e.g., Twitter), voicemail has fallen out of favor with many. More�� ...
  • Use Prepaid Travel Cards to Budget Travel Expenses ...
    Vacation is a time to let loose and have a little fun. It's all too easy, however, to let having a little fun turn into spending way too much. Use prepaid travel cards to keep spending contained, secure, and in budget. More�� ...
  • Google's Gmail-Based Voice and Video Chat Comes to ...
    Linux: Google launched it's excellent voice and video chat plug-in almost two years ago for Windows and Mac users; now the add-on is finally available for Linux users , as well. [ Google Voice and Video Chat ] More��
  • Stress Test Your Hardware to Troubleshoot Problems ...
    Gadget blog Tested explains how to stress test your computer's most important hardware—the most likely pain points in a buggy system—in order to diagnose and fix hardware problems that can commonly crop up in software errors and system crashes ...
  • What Must-Have Items Do You Keep Handy in Your Car ...
    Personal finance blog Budgets Are Sexy pulls together a list of five things they always keep in their car (aside from a good emergency kit ) that'll save you time and money. Now we're wondering: What must-haves do you keep in your car? More ...

Water Privatization

  • MEET THE CANDIDATES: U.S. House of Representatives ...
    Barbara F. Olschner Party affiliation: Republican Current occupation: Attorney at Law Experience: Founder and Managing Partner of Olschner & Hart, P.C.; Employed 30 employees; Court room lawyer for 26 years; Profession Tennis United States Tennis...
  • Nuclear power in Mindanao pushed
    A leading Mindanao exporter said Mindanao might need to tap nuclear power as an important source of clean, cheap and efficient energy to solve the problem of power shortage on the island.
  • Go Green, Ron Duncan: Water films still making a s ...
    Water-related films like "China Town" and "Step Into Liquid" are popular for their entertainment value, but they also can provide awareness and an oblique appreciation for water.
  • Benjie Oliveros | Unfulfilled Promises Piling Up
    By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com As the country approaches the first 100 days of the second Aquino administration, unfulfilled campaign promises seem to be piling up. During his campaign for the presidency, the Hacienda Luisita issue haunted Benigno Simeon Aquino III. He first tried to dismi ...
  • City chooses firm to oversee parking-meter operati ...
    The city has entered into a 50-year lease agreement with Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services Inc. The city will receive $35 million upfront and a share of revenue to make sidewalk and street repairs. Parking meter rates are expected to double in some areas.

Guardian

  • British public praised for Pakistan floods respons ...
    Umbrella organisation for British aid agencies says UK 'leading way and shaming politicians across world' The British public is "shaming politicians across the world" with the generosity of its response to the devastating floods in Pakistan, the UK Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) said today. The ...
  • England 'easiest' place for World Cup
    • Fifa president buoys hopes for bid to host tournament • 'Everything is here – fans, stadiums, infrastructure' England's hopes of staging the 2018 World Cup have been boosted at the start of a four-day inspection of their bid, with the Fifa president Sepp Blatter admitting it would be "easy" to st ...
  • Police surround Manila hostage bus
    Sacked policeman demanding reinstatement has released nine hostages but continues to hold 15 at gunpoint Police in the Philippines have surrounded a bus seized by a former policeman armed with an automatic rifle, who has taken 24 passengers hostage, most of them tourists from Hong Kong. Firearms off ...
  • Quarter of students still in clearing
    Admissions service Ucas said 187,488 university hopefuls are in clearing and that more than 150,000 would be turned away More than a quarter of students who applied to university still have no place and vacancies are fading fast, figures revealed today. The university admissions service, Ucas, said ...
  • Bloodgate doctor faces disciplinary
    • Chapman admits to causing an injury to Williams • Doctor could be struck off if found guilty The player at the centre of the Bloodgate fabricated injury scandal admitted today he asked the matchday doctor to cut his lip as part of the deception. The Harlequins wing Tom Williams said he had to twic ...

McClatchey

  • Whitman, unlike Schwarzenegger, will lead Californ ...
    SAN DIEGO — For seven years now, Republican activists believe, the California Republican Party has had to fend largely for itself as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger refused to do much for its candidates.
  • Federal jobs program funded by stimulus is underus ...
    A federal jobs program designed to cover workers' wages with stimulus funds is set to expire next month having barely put 1,000 to work in North Carolina, one of the lowest rates in the country.
  • Nikki Haley releases e-mail records in latest tran ...
    Republican gubernatorial nominee Nikki Haley released thousands of legislative e-mails that contain constituent requests, encouraging words and newsletters, but show the Lexington state representative conducted very little legislative business on her State House account.
  • Brazil undergoing 'urban renaissance' for Olympics ...
    Traffic rumbles over an elevated highway that cuts off the waterfront from Art Deco government offices. Many of the old buildings in the port area are abandoned and others are marred by graffiti and shattered windows.
  • As floodwaters recede, anger grows in northwest Pa ...
    CHARSADDA, Pakistan — In the village of Drab Korona in northwest Pakistan, Sirajuddin returned to where his house had stood to salvage what he could. What he found was just a shallow muddy pool.

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

  • Is Meg Whitman’s Promise To Defend Prop 8 An ...
    Although the Ninth Circuit stayed Judge Walker’s decision striking down Prop 8 last week, it also suggested that an anti-gay group’s attempt to appeal Walker’s decision must ultimately be dismissed unless the State of California agrees to join the suit.  Because both Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ...
  • Deficit Fraud McConnell: Why Did Tax Cuts ‘A ...
    Earlier this month, Reps. John Boehner (R-OH) and Mike Pence (R-IN) appeared on Meet the Press and were unable to explain their desire to extend the Bush tax cuts for the richest two percent of Americans with their rhetoric about deficit reduction. “Listen, what youâre trying to do is get into thi ...
  • Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Survey Of Spouses ...
    Politico has obtained a copy of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell survey sent out to 150,000 military spouses yesterday. The document is part of a broader Pentagon study designed to determine the consequences of repealing the ban against open service. Earlier this year, the Pentagon came under attack from g ...
  • Mitchell Reaffirms ‘Linkage’ In Remark ...
    Reading today’s Quartet statement on resumption of direct talks, it’s worth noting that, while Prime Minister Netanyahu was successful in avoiding a complete reiteration of the Quartet’s March statement emphasizing Israel’s settlement obligations, as President Mahmoud Abbas wanted, Abbas also got th ...
  • Law Enforcement Association Claims Phoenix Police ...
    Since the passage of Arizona’s tough new immigration law, its defenders have justified SB-1070 by claiming that Phoenix, AZ is the “kidnapping capital of the world.” Though that claim was immediately dismissed by experts, the 358 kidnappings the Phoenix Police Department reported in 2008 is quite h ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Toronto Election: Ford or Smitherman?
    Indicative of the intellectual bankruptcy of Canadian politics in general is the Toronto mayoral race where the front-runner is the shithead Toronto Sun's golden slab of rancid pork Rob Ford and the great white hope of the "liberals" is George Smitherman (who Ford rightly slammed for having presided ...
  • Paradox
    Canadians didn't seem to care about the state's abuse of our civil, legal, and political rights at the G-20 because it didn't really affect them directly. But why do they go along with, or even agree with the assaults on our freedoms from the asinine war on terrorism? Most Canadians are never going ...
  • 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!

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Stephen Kohn to appear on C-Span tomorrow at 8:30 ...
    NWC Executive Director, Stephen M. Kohn, will appear on C-Span’s Washington Journal tomorrow at 8:30 am EST. He will be discussing the stalled Congressional Whistleblower Protection Act showcased in a recent Politico article and other whistleblower issues.  Viewers will have the opportunity to ask q ...
  • Who are The Other Guys?
    The initial premise of the new Will Farrell and Mark Wahlberg movie is that when the real action hero cops (played by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson) fall flat, then the New York Police Unit will have to turn to "The Other Guys" to fight crime. The film is well cast to take advantag ...
  • In "Charging WikiLeaks," Washington Post misses a ...
    In yesterday's Washington Post, an editorial called "Charging WikiLeaks" urges the Obama administration to refrain from pressing criminal charges against WikiLeaks leaders for releasing classified State Department cables. "Media outlets do not have a legal duty to abide by the government's secrecy d ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Police Arrest Researcher Who Showed E-Voting Machi ...
    A few months back, a research report came out noting that e-voting machines in India were not secure . I had seen it at the time, but considering how many stories we've seen of e-voting machines with security problems, I let it pass and didn't write it up. However, the story has just taken a distr ...
  • Newsweek Explains Why Fashion Designers Don't Need ...
    For many years, we've been troubled by the effort by some fashion designers to add a totally unnecessary copyright to fashion design. We had noted that the fashion industry was actually a great example of a creative industry that was thriving without copyrights. It's quite innovative and has a ton ...
  • Dear Hans Pandeya: Buying A Website Involves More ...
    Hans Pandeya is the guy who, as head of GGF, last year made a big splash by supposedly agreeing to buy The Pirate Bay as part of a plan that never made any sense to try to "legitimize" it. It wasn't long before many folks realized that the whole thing seemed questionable , and there were all sorts ...
  • So Much For Transparency: Latest ACTA Draft Won't ...
    Last week, the reports from the ACTA negotiations in Washington DC suggested that many of the negotiators favored releasing the latest text, knowing that even if it wasn't released, it would almost certainly get leaked anyway. However, the negotiations have ended and guess what? It appears that th ...
  • Why Debates Over Copyright Get Bogged Down: Confla ...
    A few weeks back, we covered the "debate" that composer Jason Robert Brown had with a young fan of his, concerning the reasonableness of sharing digital copies of his sheet music online. For some reason, Brown keeps appearing in the press over this issue, which is a bit unfortunate, as there are pl ...

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

  • Wondering About Wage Labor
    I generally stay away from economics, as I’m still doing my 101.  But I’ve been pondering some things and hope you might share your wisdom with me. If you read my post on How I Became an Anarchist, you know that it was facing the corrupting influence of organizational hierarchies that finally pushe ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Weekday Vegetarian: Make Refried Beans as a Base F ...
    Photo: Kelly Rossiter I know, I know, this is not a photogenic dish. In fact, as one of my previous commenters eloquently noted about another post , it looks like something the cat cacked up. Nasty visuals aside, these refried beans are the base of lots of great Mexican dishes. It may not be pr ...
  • Buffalino: Squeezing A Lot Into A Tiny RV
    Many people around the world are experimenting with living in smaller spaces; some are living in recreational vehicles, but they tend to be larger and consume a lot of gas. German designer Cornelius Comanns has converted a Piaggio APE 50 three-wheeled delivery vehicle, a cheap and fuel efficien ...
  • Interactive Map Shows Where City Roads Need Fixin'
    Images via Polymaps This amazing Polymaps project from SimpleGeo and Stamen shows where San Francisco's roads are a little worse for the wear. The "Pavement Condition Index Map" illustrates the condition of the street pavement across the city, pointing out in a very visual way where the asphalt ...
  • Trashy TV Takes On a Whole New Meaning
    Reality shows have taken over television, like a virus or a breath of fresh air, depending on your perspective. And we're about to add to that mix with Garbage Moguls . But first, I'd like to pay homage to Planet Green . Love it or lump it, it has done more, earlier than any other media outl ...
  • Tiny Electric Car Halts 80 Ton Mining Train: Norwe ...
    Image credit: Neptune Network From Climate Camp targeting offset companies , to a renegade protester single-handedly shutting down an entire power plant , the TreeHugger has seen some pretty dramatic direct action protests. But when activists in Norway decided to stop an 80-ton freight train in ...

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 ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

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

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Pruning Shears

  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Julian Assange got an agreement with the Swedish Pirate Party (my second favorite political party in the whole world) to provide hosting for WikiLeaks, thus giving it a measure of protection. Which it clearly needs. Assange was acc ...
  • America's Bad Reputation Gets a Little Worse
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post On Monday U.S. District Court Judge Henry Kennedy ruled in what Carol Rosenberg described as a “heavily censored 28-page ruling” that Guantánamo detainee Adnan Abdul Latif was to be released. While he was locked up at least four ye ...
  • 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.

Organic Consumers.org

  • Three Pillars of a Food Revolution
    A few years ago, I stumbled on a United Nations study that transformed how I think about the climate crisis. In the report, researchers pegged greenhouse gases from the livestock sector at 18 percent of total global emissions. Combine this with other aspects of our food chain -- from agricultural ch ...
  • In the Garden - Joan Dye Gussow’s New Garden
    Early one morning a couple of weeks ago, I helped Joan Dye Gussow, 81, lug three bags of topsoil to the riverbank, before it became too hot and humid to work in her garden, which sweeps down from her house to the Hudson River. Click here to read this article
  • Egg Producer Expands Recall After Links to Salmone ...
    An Iowa company on Wednesday broadened a nationwide recall of its eggs to 380 million after some of its facilities were linked to an outbreak of salmonella that has sickened hundreds of people across the country. Click here to read this article
  • EPA May Give First Approval of Nanosilver for Fabr ...
    A Swiss chemical producer may soon be the first company to receive approval by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to use nanosilver to make clothing smell better, stay cleaner and destroy germs. Click here to read this article
  • Consumer Rejection of Industrial Ag Has Big Ag Wor ...
    The AP reported yesterday that, “Illinois farmers launched a new public relations campaign Tuesday to improve their image after research showed that consumers like farmers but have doubts about modern farming methods. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • La sorprendente belleza de la naturaleza (5 elemen ...
    Preocupado siempre por preservar nuestros espacios verdes, con suma frecuencia les he compartido cientos de imágenes sobre nuestra naturaleza. Con la firme intensión de enfatizar mi afán por disfrutar de los verdes prados, lagos, ríos, cascadas, flores y aire fresco, le tengo en esta ocasión 5 bellí ...
  • Barcos, yates y veleros. (10 fotos muy románticas)
    Quienes hemos tenido la oportunidad de pasear en un crucero, barco, yate o velero, sabemos la sensación indescriptible que sentimos cuando el viento acaricia nuestro rostro mientras el vaivén de las olas... Antes de seguir con mis cursilerías, debo decirles que hoy les tengo en exclusiva, la primera ...
  • Ciudades con vista nocturna (6 postales para compa ...
    ¿Usted ha visto lo hermosas que se ven las ciudades por la noche ? Yo también y créame que lucen mágicas y encantadoras. Por eso mismo, el día de hoy le comparto a usted 6 lindas fotos donde las luces resaltan las formas, colores y texturas de los edificios, puentes, parques, e iglesias .Nota: Haz c ...
  • Fotografías de armas parte III (un lindo arsenal)
    Hace no tanto, les presenté la primera y segunda parte de fotografías de armas. Para continuar esta serie, aquí tiene usted la tercera parte con 10 bellísimas imágenes de mi arsenal fotográfico .Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada ima ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Fine thuning their campaign strategies
    The Daily Caller is Tucker Carlson’s attempt at doing Fox style news, but in a more partisan fashion and not just limited to truthy stuff, either. No clue what hidden agenda is being advanced by this confession, but Jonathan Strong says that half of all Republican bloggers are getting paid. âItâ ...
  • Pilot-ettes, rape smears, whitey tapes & cousins m ...
    I’m glad I don’t drive at night much. Right now my headlights would be good for spotting raccoons hiding in trees but not much else. I’ve got 100 lbs. of rice, three cases of canned goods, 3 cases of mangoes, water and other restaurant supplies in the trunk and yes, the shocks are getting a [...]
  • Norwegianity Way
    I expect that on the 1st of August, the SA will be once more ready for duty. â Ernst Rohm Yes, August has always been like this: Imam Rauf’s book preaches love and acceptance, Hannity’s staff finds part of one page to twist inside out [did you know Fox's #2 shareholder is a Cordoba House [...]
  • Police report
    Bad news. My restaurant client just called to let me know she’d been mugged last night. Some piece of shit hid by her car and when she closed the restaurant he attacked her from behind, hitting her in the head repeatedly and slamming her head against the car floor. She weighs less than 100 pounds [. ...
  • This is what the 1st World looks like when the 1st ...
    Paul Krugman eviscerates Wall Street’s smart guys over their bad call on the bond market, but that’s just carping about the scorekeeping. Globally, the economy sucks and isn’t going to recover until we acknowledge that we’ve been doing it wrong. Way wrong. Profiteering: HP’s John Hurd gets bonus for ...

Public News Service

  • AZ School Boards Chief: Drop-out Gains Threatened ...
    AZ School Boards Chief: Drop-out Gains Threatened by Budget Cuts Phoenix, AZ – The latest Kids Count Data Book released this week shows a 50-percent reduction in Arizona’s high school dropout rate since the year 2000. But the head of a major education group says that progress is in jeopardy because ...
  • Wall Street Home “Resale” Fees Raise I ...
    Wall Street Home “Resale” Fees Raise Ire, and Eyebrows Phoenix, AZ – A coalition including the National Association of Realtors, AFSCME, and the Property Rights Alliance is calling foul on a new Wall Street real estate investment device called a “private transfer fee covenant.” Kurt Pfotenhauer (FOT ...
  • Experts Say While AZ Teen Births are Down, Pregnan ...
    Experts Say While AZ Teen Births are Down, Pregnancies are Not Phoenix, AZ – This week’s Kids Count report shows Arizona teenage births down 10 percent since the year 2000. But the state’s largest reproductive health organization says the numbers are misleading because teen pregnancies are up. Comme ...
  • AZ Anti-Hunger Agencies Get Help Reaching Apprehe ...
    AZ Anti-Hunger Agencies Get Help Reaching Apprehensive Latinos Phoenix, AZ – Two national interns have been assigned to Arizona anti-hunger agencies. The recent college graduates, known as “Hunger Fellows,” will work to increase information and access to the federal food stamp program now known as ...
  • Life Likely Saved by Arizona Arts AED Program
    Life Likely Saved by Arizona Arts AED Program Phoenix, AZ – A program to provide life-saving machines for Arizona arts facilities is already paying dividends. Phoenix Theatre staff were able to use one of the automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) to stabilize a man in distress until help arrived. ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Barak Obama conclusively outed as CIA operative
    Strong evidence has emerged that President Barack Obama is the product of the intelligence community Submitted by Michael Griffiths to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • LEED Building Standards Fail to Protect Human Heal ...
    Saving energy by making buildings more airtight has had the paradoxical effect of more effectively trapping the gases emitted by the unprecedented number of chemicals used in todays building materials and furnishings.( True for homes : heat exchangers) Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellne ...
  • Blowback of the Abyss
    A different kind of book entirely. It is the intersection of war journalism and human rights.A tank unit that didnt end up doing much fighting with tanks Members of the unit were assigned to prison detail and in the process ended up doing terrible things Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat �|� �N ...
  • Mounting Opposition to GMO Crops: World's People ...
    "...as governments and trade agreements circumvent the will of the people, some take matters into their own hands. The rise in GMO crop destruction is a clear indication that the worlds people reject chemical and genetic pollution of the food supply..." Submitted by Just Carole to World �|� �Note- ...
  • Genetically Manipulated Crops: The GMO Catastrophe ...
    GMO crops have been manipulated and patented for only two things to be resistant to patented highly toxic herbicide glyphosate chemicals and resist specific insects.Super-weeds have evolved so robust hand tools break trying to cut them down. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� ...

Angry Indian News

  • Imam’s wife: Mosque opposition like ‘metastasized ...
    Imam’s wife: Mosque opposition like ‘metastasized anti-Semitism’ | Raw Story: "Lower Manhattan mosque part of 'Americanization' of Islam, Daisy Khan saysThe wife of the imam behind the Cordoba House... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Karzai: Private contractors ‘looting and stealing, ...
    Karzai: Private contractors ‘looting and stealing,’ working with terrorists | Raw Story: "Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday defended his decision to ban private security contractors from... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Software Predicts Criminal Behavior
    Software Predicts Criminal Behavior - ABC News: "New crime prediction software being rolled out in the nation's capital should reduce not only the murder rate, but the rate of many other crimes as... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • History of West Papua
    History of West Papua || AK Rockefeller: Soundtrack to the New World Order: "Prior to 1900 practically nothing was known about the prehistory of Netherlands New Guinea. Only in the last decades has... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Pentagon could be behind rape claims: Assange - AB ...
    Pentagon could be behind rape claims: Assange - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he believes the Pentagon could be behind a rape accusation... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • The Farm Wars Garden Experience and the Truth abou ...
    Getting to this point has taken us over three years, as we hadn't a clue about gardening when we started, much less in the high desert, and we basically started from scratch with space for a garden area and plenty of horse manure.
  • The Truth Squad Radio Show with Marti Oakley and B ...
    Our guest this week, Cassandra Anderson,is an independent researcher and investigative journalist. Her work is frequently featured on InfoWars. Cassandra's primary focus is on Agenda 21 Sustainable Development which is the overarching blueprint for depopulation and total control through the United ...
  • Why Did Organic Valley Ban Raw Milk Sales?
    A lot of intense debate has sprung up in response to Organic Valley's recent decision to ban its farmers from selling raw milk on the side.
  • Starting a local edible tree nursery
    We hope this article will inspire some to explore this as an eco-commerce that would offer great barter opportunities when the current money-based economy falters.
  • DNA from transgenic plants found in milk and anima ...
    Traces of genetically engineered maize and soy in goats, fish and pigs. DNA fragments from transgenic plants are increasingly found in animal tissue such as milk, inner organs and muscles.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Protesters demonstrate for, against 'Ground Zero' ...
    ShareThis Protesters demonstrate for, against 'Ground Zero' mosque 22 Aug 2010 Several hundred supporters and opponents of plans to build a mosque near the site of the September 11, 2001 attacks staged peaceful rival protests Sunday, some brandishing signs against Islam and others denouncing religio ...
  • Brad Pitt 'willing to look at the death penalty' i ...
    ShareThis Brad Pitt�'willing to look at the death penalty' in rant against BP 22 Aug 2010 Brad Pitt has waded into the Gulf oil spill controversy with an extraordinary veiled attack on BP. The Hollywood actor said he would consider the death penalty for those to blame for the ruptured well that gush ...
  • Sweden clears WikiLeaks editor of rape
    ShareThis Sweden clears WikiLeaks editor of rape 21 Aug 2010 Authorities in Sweden on Saturday withdrew a rape charge filed a day earlier against Julian Assange, the Australian-born founder of WikiLeaks, and canceled a warrant for his arrest. The move comes just ahead of the expected release of thou ...
  • Barak seeks to block aid ship to Gaza
    ShareThis Barak seeks to block aid ship to Gaza 22 Aug 2010 Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has asked US and French officials to prevent the Lebanese aid ship Mariam from sailing to the besieged Gaza strip. In phone calls to US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, US National Security Adviser Jame ...
  • Power protest injures 16 in Iraq
    ShareThis Power protest injures 16 in Iraq 22 Aug 2010 At least 16 people have been injured as dozens of Iraqis in the southern city of Nasiriyah turned out in the streets protesting the shortage of power supplies. The protesters said the provincial government was not providing sufficient basic serv ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story by Ian Wisha ...
    It's just been brought to my attention that I haven't offered non-subscribers the chance to pre-order the new book on the Crewe murders being released by us next month. Accordingly, here's the gist of the email that went out to...
  • ClimateDepot locates possibly the world’s dumbest ...
    As an indicator of just how dumbed-down global warming believers are on the science of climate change, Climate Depot's Mark Morano revealed tonight a seminar delegate seriously believed the CO2 from car exhaust fumes would kill him in an enclosed...
  • Sins of Science Media Centre’s Omission
    PR hack Peter Griffin is at it again, this time complaining that a Waikato farmer should have been left to die by medical science, rather than allowing his family to administer the unproven Vitamin C therapy now claimed to have...
  • Free TGIF Edition just out
    We're making TGIF available free for now...you can either click on the flash version below, or click the link below it to download the pdf: Open publication - Free publishing - More sport http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/?attachment_id=975
  • 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...

Mondoweiss

  • Norwegian gov’t divests from 2 companies tha ...
    This is big. The Norwegian government has divested its pension fund of�two Leviev companies that build settlements�in the occupied West Bank on the grounds that the international community regards territory east of the '67 line as occupied. (No singling out: the Norwegians also divested�a third comp ...
  • Kovel: Zionism’s dreary burden on Jewishness
    Tony Judt had barely left this world when the Jerusalem Post lashed out at him with a nasty editorial on August 8. Clearly, Judt has never been forgiven for writing in 2003 in the New York Review of Books that Israel lacked legitimacy because of its structural Jewishness and deserved to be replaced ...
  • Israeli officer sells computers seized from flotil ...
    Ann Wright at Common Dreams estimates that Israelis seized $750,000 cash from members of the intercepted�flotilla of last spring, none of it returned, as well as all those computers, many containing evidence of the violent character of the flotilla raid by Israeli commandos.An Israeli newspaper has ...
  • Blaming the victim
    I was stuck behind a guy going 50 in the right lane of I-84 eastbound in Connecticut.Everyone behind me was pulling out�and getting into the left lane, but I was up against it. I kept looking for a gap. Finally I saw one and took it. Even as I got into the left lane, rapidly [...]
  • Report from ground zero
    August 22, 2010 protest against Park 51. (Photo: asterix11) � At first, I thought it was just me. I'd witnessed dozens of far-right demonstrations over the years, but this was the first which literally sent chills down my spine. I spoke to a few activists who'd effectively made attending, confronti ...

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

  • Even While the World Watched: Part I
    Michael Yon 20 June 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand Recent violence focused world attention on the Kingdom of Thailand.  As the attention flowed in, foreigners poured out, even though fighting was tightly localized and not focused on travelers.  Tourists literally had to search for trouble to find it.  ...
  • 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.  ...

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

  • Weekday Vegetarian: Make Refried Beans as a Base F ...
    Photo: Kelly Rossiter I know, I know, this is not a photogenic dish. In fact, as one of my previous commenters eloquently noted about another post , it looks like something the cat cacked up. Nasty visuals aside, these refried beans are the base of lots of great Mexican dishes. It may not be pr ...
  • Buffalino: Squeezing A Lot Into A Tiny RV
    Many people around the world are experimenting with living in smaller spaces; some are living in recreational vehicles, but they tend to be larger and consume a lot of gas. German designer Cornelius Comanns has converted a Piaggio APE 50 three-wheeled delivery vehicle, a cheap and fuel efficien ...
  • Interactive Map Shows Where City Roads Need Fixin'
    Images via Polymaps This amazing Polymaps project from SimpleGeo and Stamen shows where San Francisco's roads are a little worse for the wear. The "Pavement Condition Index Map" illustrates the condition of the street pavement across the city, pointing out in a very visual way where the asphalt ...
  • Trashy TV Takes On a Whole New Meaning
    Reality shows have taken over television, like a virus or a breath of fresh air, depending on your perspective. And we're about to add to that mix with Garbage Moguls . But first, I'd like to pay homage to Planet Green . Love it or lump it, it has done more, earlier than any other media outl ...
  • Tiny Electric Car Halts 80 Ton Mining Train: Norwe ...
    Image credit: Neptune Network From Climate Camp targeting offset companies , to a renegade protester single-handedly shutting down an entire power plant , the TreeHugger has seen some pretty dramatic direct action protests. But when activists in Norway decided to stop an 80-ton freight train in ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Asia’s middle class swells, Burma left behind
    Asian Development Bank report paints rosy picture of economic health in Asia, but analysts warn that Burma may well remain at the bottom of the pile
  • Militaries, men and a machismo mindset
    The only prominent women now in Burmese politics are daughters of powerful men; a sea-change from times of old. Has military rule brought rampant male chauvinism?
  • E Timor eyes ‘strong business ties’ with Burma
    East Timor, which last year called for a global arms embargo on Burma, apparently changes tack and promotes strong commercial relationship
  • Regions drawn for second parliament
    Burma's seven divisions become regions and the capital is carved up as the country's administrative landscape gets a makeover prior to elections
  • Cho Cho Kyaw Nyein: ‘We’ll not shy away’
    With a date now set for elections in Burma, the 40 parties that have been approved to run are out on the campaign trail. A brief look at candidate lists however shows a conspicuous lack of women in Burmese politics, a sign of a sexually conservative society and heightened male chauvinism, says Cho C ...

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

  • "Snot Otter" Sperm to Save Giant Salamander?
    To save North America's biggest salamander, conservationists are freezing its sperm, which luckily comes "pouring out of the animal." Giant salamander - Biology - Flora and Fauna - Chordata - Animalia
  • Ocean Garbage Patch Not Growing—Where's "Missing" ...
    The "soup" of plastic trash in the North Atlantic hasn't gotten thicker in two decades, says a new study that's puzzling ocean scientists. Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Atlantic Ocean - Oceanography - North Atlantic - Earth Sciences
  • Photos: Honeycomb Clouds "Communicate," Rain in Un ...
    NoneLike blinking fireflies, some marine clouds "communicate" with each other, forming, raining, and re-forming in unison, a new study says. Rain - Cloud - Business - Arts - Works
  • Giant Underwater Plume Confirmed—Gulf Oil Not Degr ...
    A giant plume from BP's Gulf of Mexico spill has been confirmed deep in the ocean—and there are signs it may stick around, a new study says. Gulf of Mexico - BP - Oil spill - Environment - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  • 5 Years After Katrina, Ruins—And a Natural Wonder— ...
    On Hurricane Katrina's fifth anniversary, many Gulf Coast buildings remain damaged, but an iconic natural wonder still stands strong. Video. Hurricane Katrina - Gulf Coast of the United States - Earth Sciences - Atmospheric Sciences - Meteorology

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Iran judicial officials suspended over detained pr ...
    [JURIST] A military court in Iran has ordered the suspension of three top judiciary officials in connection with last year's torture deaths of three detained protesters, the Mehr News Agency [official website, in Persian] reported Monday. The three victims, Mohammad Kamrani, Amir Javadi-far and Mohs ...
  • Bangladesh court rules against mandatory religious ...
    [JURIST] The Bangladeshi Supreme Court [official website] ruled Sunday that workplaces and schools cannot force individuals to wear religious clothing such as veils and skull caps. The court found that wearing religious clothing is an individual choice and cannot be made mandatory [AFP report], and ...
  • Iraqi convicted of killing UK aid worker escapes p ...
    [JURIST] Iraqi Deputy Justice Minister Busho Ibrahim disclosed Sunday that Ali Lutfi Jassar al-Rawi, convicted [JURIST report] last year of the 2004 kidnapping and murder of British aid worker Margaret Hassan [Times Online obituary; JURIST news archive], escaped custody last September. An investigat ...
  • US military judge rejects Khadr torture claims
    [JURIST] US military judge Army Colonel Patrick Parrish rejected [ruling, PDF] claims by Canadian Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] that his confession was a byproduct of torture, in a ruling released Friday. Khadr's lawyers had argued [mot ...
  • Obama administration urges return to prison for Lo ...
    [JURIST] The Obama administration on Friday urged Libyan authorities to return convicted Pan Am Flight 103 [BBC backgrounder] bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] to a Scottish prison to serve the remainder of his sentence. US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton [ ...

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

  • Houston Jewish Federation and Hagee End Funding fo ...
    I would like to reach out my arms to dance a transcontinental hora with Didi Remez, the Calcalist, Yossi Gurvitz, and all those others who helped expose John Hagee’s $120,000 gift to Im Tirzu.  It seems that both the Houston federation and Hagee have gotten the message that Im Tirzu is not an educa ...
  • Links for 2010-06-05 [Digg]
    MV Rachel Corrie Forcibly Seized by Israeli Navy, Towed to A Malaysian NGO funding Rachel Corrie trip to Gaza reports she was seized a few mintues ago by Israeli navy and is being towed to Ashdod.
  • Jewish Agency PR Flack Defends Hagee Gift to Im Ti ...
    A few days ago the Israeli financial blog Calcalist published an expose (English translation) on a $3-million gift by John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel, which was passed through the Jewish Agency via the Houston Jewish federation where it originated.  I’ve reported in the past on the benefi ...
  • Why U.S.-Brokered Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks ...
    The ink isn’t even dry on the press release announcing Israeli-Palestinian peace talks beginning under U.S. auspices on September 2nd, before just about everyone except Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is sighing with abject resignation and conviction that they will be a failure.  Why?  First, bec ...
  • Hudson Institute Funds Extremists Seeking Destruct ...
    The Hudson Institute, founded by Herman “Thinking the Unthinkable” Kahn and peopled by the hottest names in neocon-dom, is attempting to work its magic on Israel.  According to Didi Remez’s Coteret blog, Hudson is heavily funding two Israeli extremist groups which are targeting Israeli higher educa ...

Ode Magazine

  • EPA denies climate change deniers
    By: VictoriaKlein As the topic of the decade, climate change has been argued by countries of all sizes, people of all colors and financial means. So far, all this talking has gotten us very far. In a surprisingly bold move, one of America’s leading environ ...
  • Finding peace
    By: PeaceCorso Anton Chekov is one of the most dour of all playwrights. His plays have stock characters. He is a Russian living at a time of great need. His plays reflect that. Imagine my surprise when I came across this quote: “We shall find peace. We s ...
  • Profit with a purpose
    As earnings, bonuses and stocks creep back to pre-crisis levels, will markets resume business as usual? A plea for a new kind of investing that blends good sense, good causes and good financial returns. From the moment she arrived in the U.S. from Trinidad and Tobago in 1994, ...
  • The writing on the wall
    According to the Israeli government, the wall dividing Israel from the Palestinian territories is a protective measure. Meanwhile, critics point to the painful consequences. Palestinians are no longer able—at least not without huge delays—to visit their families, get to ...
  • More books lead to more education
    By: VictoriaKlein Here at Ode, we’re no stranger to talking about the greatness of books. In the past month, I’ve personally written about the many benefits of public libraries , a non-profit building school libraries in needy countries , and books that te ...

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • Oily mix and tar balls pollute waters near Dauphin ...
    Last Friday, Pat Carrigan motored his twin-engine 25 ft boat out of his dock on Dauphin Island, one of Alabama’s most popular beach resorts and a barrier island known for its sandy beaches and prolific sea life. It's always been a popular resort destination for fishermen and vacationer ...
  • 'Maximizing urban cores' vitality and infrastructu ...
      There’s a terrific article on cnn.com titled “Green Buildings Won’t Save the Planet,” written by architects Joshua Prince-Ramus, Randolph Croxton, and Tuomas Toivonen.  It states in broad, manifesto-like strokes the same concept I was trying to illustrate in my post last week on “n ...
  • Come Celebrate California's Salmon Heritage at Sal ...
    Earlier this week, I toured the San Joaquin River, where NRDC is working together with farmers, the Bureau of Reclamation, and other agencies to restore the river and its once-mighty salmon fishery.   As the Fresno Bee wrote today , this year, for the first time in decades, the river i ...
  • Grizzly Managers Spin Whitebark Pine Woes: Just Ho ...
    Whether or not you care about the recovery of grizzly bears, we face a serious challenge today of how to protect the safety of people who live and recreate in grizzly country, as whitebark pine, the driver of the health of the population for Yellowstone grizzly bear population, continu ...
  • See for Yourself How Solutions for Dirty Stormwate ...
    NRDC’s Water Program is increasingly focused on solutions to our leading water pollution problems, one of which is urban stormwater.  The dirty runoff that hits our waterways after storms may not be as obvious as the pollution that comes out of factories or oil refineries, but it has ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • And Would You Mind Bringing A Desk?
    This story, making the rounds on Twitter, is indeed remarkable: When Emily Cooper headed off to first grade in Moody, Ala., last week, she was prepared with all the stuff on her elementary schoolâs must-bring list: two double rolls of paper towels, three packages of Clorox wipes, three boxes of ba ...
  • ‘Roid Outrage
    Given that this particular manifestation of the War On (Some Classes of People Who Use Some) Drugs has resulted in another federal prosecution, this research by Eric Walker couldn’t be more essential. Joe Posnanski — whose discussion reminds us of why he’s not only the best mainstream sports journ ...
  • Sunday Night Linkage
    Apologies for slow blogging; the beginning of the semester and my ongoing efforts to kill the Air Force (book!) take precedence. Some links: Derek Reveron on the growing military appreciation for human security concerns. I’d say that in the United States the Navy has taken the lead on this, perhap ...
  • Dispatches from Nerd Camp III
    Well, I’m back now, and most of what I learned about network analysis will not interest LGM readers, but I did manage to do a few cool things with my human security data while I was in Bloomington. Just in case anyone wants to see some pretty pictures and why I found them interesting for [...] Rel ...
  • I Wish I Could Stop Losing My Innocence
    It’s been a pretty tough year in terms of shocking revelations. I could just about survive finding out that a wealthy professional athlete has had extramarital relations. But now I found out that an NFL coach has used…profanity? In the genteel, sacrosanct confines of the locker room? [...] ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Innovative Equipment Manufacturer Features Work wi ...
    The latest update from Campbell Scientific features a cover article on DRI’s Community Environmental Monitoring Program (CEMP), touting the program for providing information gathered by volunteers in near-real time and posting it to the program website.
  • 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.

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

  • Most Oil Spills in Niger Delta Not Caused By Shell ...
    A three-year investigation by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) will conclude that 90 percent of the massive amount of oil spilled in the Niger Delta in recent decades has come not from Shell’s operations but from local people sabotaging company pipelines and stealing oil, according to ...
  • Australia Set to Build Largest Wind farm in Southe ...
    Australian officials plan to build a 140-turbine wind farm in Victoria, the nation’s most densely populated state, by 2013, a billion-dollar project that would be the largest in the Southern hemisphere. The wind farm will provide enough electricity for 220,000 homes and is key to the nation’s new ta ...
  • On China’s Beleaguered Yangtze, A Push to Save Sur ...
    The Yangtze has been carved up by dams, used as an open sewer, and subjected to decades of overfishing. Now, Chinese scientists — alarmed by the disappearance of the Yangtze river dolphin and other creatures�— are calling for a 10-year moratorium on fishing in the world’s third-longest river. BY R ...
  • Global Growth of Plants Is Offset by Drought, New ...
    The steady growth of global plant productivity in the 1980s and 1990s, spurred by warmer temperatures and longer growing seasons, has now been reversed because of the growing impacts of drought , particularly in the southern hemisphere, according to a new study. Examining data from NASA’s Terra sate ...
  • Extent of Mangrove Forests Is Less Than Previous E ...
    The first comprehensive survey of the world’s mangrove forests using satellite imagery reveals that the vital ecosystems are 12 percent smaller than earlier estimates and are swiftly disappearing. Scientists at NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), poring over Landsat images with a resolution ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

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

  • Star Child Update
    The Star Child, the skull of a supposed “alien” child, does seem to have anomalous DNA on the father’s side of the family. Lloyd Pye explains: ] Proof of genetic engineering 900 years ago? The more time goes on and empirical evidence such as DNA from the Star Child, and I’m sure others will crop [.. ...
  • 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 ...

Tippers News

  • Pesticide-Induced Diseases Database launched
    Links to pesticide exposure are being found to a number of preventable diseases including asthma, autism and learning disabilities, birth defects and reproductive dysfunction, diabetes, Parkinsons and Alzheimers diseases, and several types of cancer. Submitted by Julie P. to Health & Wellness � ...
  • Kill 'Em All: How Loggers Use Herbicides
    Roundup is one of the best-known herbicides, but its not just for farmers and groundskeepersthe logging industry also pours tons of the stuff on forests. Submitted by Julie P. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Man Killed Mid-Conversation When Cell Phone Explod ...
    Gopal Gujjar was using a Nokia 1209, a model that came out in 2008, when it exploded, causing fatal injuries to his ear and burning his neck and shoulders. Submitted by Roseann D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Scientists Reveal 22-Mile Oil Plume
    The "Manhattan-size" plume that escaped from the Deepwater Horizon spill "is confounding expectations about the behavior of oil and water." Meanwhile, BP delays the final well-sealing until after Labor Day. Submitted by Roseann D. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Seven-yr-old thrashed by teacher, loses vision
    A Class 1 student of a private school in Jhunjhunu lost her vision in the left eye after her teacher allegedly slapped her. Though the incident took place on July 3, it came to light only on Thursday Submitted by Roseann D. to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Is the Problem Really Too Little Trust in Governme ...
    Individualists know that when you reward the institutions that created crisis, you are going to get more crises.
  • Regulators Look for Origin of Bad Eggs
    “Investigators from the Food and Drug Administration are working to find the cause of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened as many as 1,300 people and forced the recall of more than a half-billion eggs.” (Associated Press) A false sense of security is worse than none at all. FEE Timely Classic “M ...
  • Medical Privacy Rules to Get Rewrite
    “The Obama administration is rewriting new rules on medical privacy after an outpouring of criticism from consumer groups and members of Congress who say the rules do not adequately protect the rights of patients.” (New York Times) The existing federal âprivacyâ rules are a sham. FEE Timely Clas ...
  • Homeowners Counseled Not See House as Investment
    “Housing will eventually recover from its great swoon. But many real estate experts now believe that home ownership will never again yield rewards like those enjoyed in the second half of the 20th century, when houses not only provided shelter but also a plump nest eggâ¦. âThere is no iron law th ...
  • Understating the Deficit
    The Associated Press reports that the current fiscal yearâs federal budget deficit will fall short of a record, coming in at over $1.3 trillion, but below last year’s record $1.4 trillion, when the year ends September 30. But something is wrong with the APâs information. The U.S. Treasury says t ...

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

  • VOICES: Fighting forced labor in Tennessee
    By Jacob Horwitz, Labor Notes Hilario Jimenez was a farmer from a poor town in the Mexican state of Nayarit. Working on tobacco, bean, and tomato farms, he would earn as little as $12 a day. In April, Jimenez ( in photo ) took on $1,000 of debt -- a crushing amount in rural Mexico -- for the p ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: BP is driving us mad
    According to a recent study, percent of households living within 10 miles of the Gulf coastline that have seen income drop because of the BP oil disaster: 20.6 Percent of the region's households earning more than $75,000 a year that have seen their income drop: 14.2 Percent of the region ...
  • Government urged to take action to better ensure s ...
    As shrimping season opened this week along the Louisiana coast, environmental and community groups called on federal agencies to strengthen the system for determining whether seafood harvested from the region is safe in the wake of the BP oil disaster. The Natural Resources Defense Counci ...
  • Five years after Katrina, Army Corps still draggin ...
    To understand where the hurricane protection system for New Orleans stands today, it's helpful to go back to 1965. That year, Hurricane Betsy made landfall near the mouth of the Mississippi River, causing devastating flooding in the city that was blamed on poor levee construction and main ...
  • 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 ...

Survival International

  • African Commission rules outspoken academic wrongl ...
    Bushmen children © Survival The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights has declared that outspoken academic, Professor Kenneth Good, was wrongly deported from Botswana after criticizing the lack of democracy in the country. Professor Good worked as professor of political studies at th ...
  • Penan tribe demand a say in dam project
    Work is in full flow on dams in the Penan's area. © Survival Penan tribespeople in Borneo have demanded a say in a hydroelectric dam being built on their land. Construction of the Murum dam in the Malaysian state of Sarawak is well underway, and will flood the land of at least six Penan villag ...
  • Amazon Indians fight controversial mega dam
    Indians protesting against the Belo Monte dam in the Amazon © Verena Glass Hundreds of Indians from throughout the Brazilian Amazon participated in a landmark protest to highlight the threat to their survival posed by large infrastructure projects, in particular the hugely controversial Belo Mo ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • State of the Economy
    Let’s have a chat about the economy, starting with a couple articles. The first is an article from the NY Times noting that small investors have been moving out of the market in droves: 33.12 billion out of mutual funds this year, so far.  This is entirely rational, not only is the market currently ...
  • Tai Chi better for Fibromyalgia 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 ...
    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 ...

Age of Autism

  • Fishing For Answers - Melanin, Mercury and Autism ...
    By Teresa Conrick Believe it or not, I like FISHING. It may be from the memories of being a young girl with my family on vacation, the chain of northern, Wisconsin lakes, or the hope that the next one will...
  • Elks Lodge Sponsors Fish Fry for @TannersDad and H ...
    Many of our readers know Tim Welsh, who Tweets beautiful messages of hope and unity as @tannersdad and is active here at AofA and on FaceBook. Like most of us, the Welsh's have been crushed under the weight of their...
  • Time For Psychiatrists to Release Autism To Immuno ...
    Read the full article at PsychCentralNews. Someone tell our friends at that midwestern fish wrapper they should check out the emerging evidence of harm, since they are so protective of our children. The use of antidepressant medication to improve symptoms...
  • Singer Confirms Autism Speaks Insurance Lobbyists ...
    By John Gilmore In an extraordinary article letter published earlier this week in the Scarsdale Patch, Alison Singer, president of the Autism Science Foundation, confirmed that a controversial autism insurance bill in New York, S7000B/A1037A, currently awaiting signature or veto...
  • The Whittemore-Peterson Institute - A Light in the ...
    By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. There's a moment in the film Schindler's List in which the accountant, Itzhak Stern shows Oskar Schindler the list of Jews they're saving. The document seems to glow with an almost spiritual light as he says,...

Global BDS Movement

  • Besieging Israel's siege
    In just a few years the Palestinian campaign to boycott Israeli goods has become truly global writes Omar Barghouti for The Guardian 12 August 2010. � read more
  • 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 ...

Farm Wars

  • The Farm Wars Garden Experience and the Truth abou ...
    Getting to this point has taken us over three years, as we hadn't a clue about gardening when we started, much less in the high desert, and we basically started from scratch with space for a garden area and plenty of horse manure.
  • The Truth Squad Radio Show with Marti Oakley and B ...
    Our guest this week, Cassandra Anderson,is an independent researcher and investigative journalist. Her work is frequently featured on InfoWars. Cassandra's primary focus is on Agenda 21 Sustainable Development which is the overarching blueprint for depopulation and total control through the United ...
  • Why Did Organic Valley Ban Raw Milk Sales?
    A lot of intense debate has sprung up in response to Organic Valley's recent decision to ban its farmers from selling raw milk on the side.
  • Starting a local edible tree nursery
    We hope this article will inspire some to explore this as an eco-commerce that would offer great barter opportunities when the current money-based economy falters.
  • DNA from transgenic plants found in milk and anima ...
    Traces of genetically engineered maize and soy in goats, fish and pigs. DNA fragments from transgenic plants are increasingly found in animal tissue such as milk, inner organs and muscles.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Foreign Office rejects human rights report concern ...
    Telegraph – While the Foreign Office admitted it was looking at alternatives to the âexpensive glossy colour publications of the pastâ, it said that human rights and poverty reduction would remain the âirreducible coreâ of British foreign policy. âIt is not in our character as a nation to ...
  • Nuns donate their brains to Alzheimer’s rese ...
    LA Times – By taking yearly tests and giving their brains to science after they die, members of religious orders help doctors understand more about the disease. Read article
  • Arthritis protein ‘guards against Alzheimer& ...
    BBC – A protein produced in cases of rheumatoid arthritis appears to protect against the development of Alzheimer’s disease, US scientists have said. In the Journal of Alzheimer’s Research study, mice with memory loss given the protein fared better in tests. A synthetic version of GM-CSF protein i ...
  • Venezuela, More Deadly Than Iraq, Wonders Why&#823 ...
    NY Times — Some here joke that they might be safer if they lived in Baghdad. The numbers bear them out. In Iraq, a country with about the same population as Venezuela, there were 4,644 civilian deaths from violence in 2009, according to Iraq Body Count; in Venezuela that year, the number of murders ...
  • Iceland volcano affecting economy
    BBC – The eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland four months ago caused disruption for thousands of travellers in Europe and rest of the world. But while air travel is back to normal, Icelanders are still suffering the aftereffects, with farming and tourism badly hit – and it is feared ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Gulf oil spill: Did Coast Guard allow excessive to ...
    Documents released by a congressional committee Saturday show that the U.S. Coast Guard appeared to flout a May 25 Obama administration directive that sought to limit the use of chemical dispersants on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico oil...
  • Court upholds protections for Pacific steelhead, r ...
    A federal appeals court panel on Friday ruled that wild steelhead remain an endangered species and rebuffed Central Valley irrigators' efforts to relax federal government protections on the Pacific salmon. Six irrigation districts had challenged the National Marine Fisheries Service...
  • Gulf oil spill: Fishermen decry a lost season
    The reopening of a broad swath of Louisiana waters this week to fishing and shrimping won't salvage the livelihoods of many Gulf of Mexico fishermen this season after the devastating effects of the catastrophic BP oil spill. The lifting of...
  • Gulf oil spill: New agency to take over claims pay ...
    Documents released Friday about how claims will be paid from BP's $20-billion fund to deal with the aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oll spill show that how close a person or business is to the spill will play a...
  • Toxic-jewelry ban squeaks through Assembly
    California lawmakers took steps Thursday to ban jewelry that contains detectable levels of cadmium from being manufactured, shipped or sold in the state.The Assembly approved SB 929 on a 41-15 vote, the bare majority needed. The legislation was sent back...

water.org

  • Videos to support Water.org (One Day on Earth)
    Support Water.org with your video creation (One Day on Earth)  - CALL TO ACTION: Share video of your water Without water, life would not exist. It is a prerequisite for all human and economic development. This 10.10.10 we invite you to share with the world how you access life’s most precious commodi ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • The mosque at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue-Pat Boone O ...
    While the controversy still rises and rages on, around the proposed "Cordoba House" mosque and Muslim cultural center right on the edge of Ground Zero, where the World Trade Center stood till Sept. 11, 2001 - there is a world-famous building, dedicated by Submitted by Michelle Matthews to US Politic ...
  • Fundamentalism into the mainstream
    But these fundamentalists, responsible for the training of tens of thousands of yeshiva students who become soldiers, wash their hands when their followers and students carry out the rabbis' orders. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Darkness Dawns at Ramadan
    "It's been days without electricity and water. We can't do anything, and it's unbearably hot now." Abu Fouad, 83, speaks of the power cut plaguing all of the Gaza Strip. Submitted by Naoko I. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Direct talks to focus on security issues before st ...
    Netanyahu said during his meetings he wants to discuss security issues with the Palestinians first; only then would the two sides focus on borders of a future Palestinian state. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Palestinians face movement restrictions during Ram ...
    For seven years Majda Abdul Qader Sheikh, 38, has not been allowed to visit the home of her parents, just a few hundred meters from her house."I have had no problems with the Israeli authorities, nor am I considered a security threat," she added. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Historical Notes

libcom

  • arrests of anarchists in chile
    From http://sysiphus-angrynewsfromaroundtheworld.blogspot.com/ Santiago, Chile - 25 anarchists arrested before comrades appear in court laht SANTIAGO – At least 25 people were arrested on Tuesday before the first court appearance of 15 suspects in a series of bombings in Santiago and other cities ...
  • The class struggles in India
    12mlook2[1].jpg A quick round up of some of the strikes which have taken place (or are being planned) around India in the past couple of weeks. Volvo bus factory strike ends The t ...
  • Traveller and Roma evictions in France
    20080828-rom-m_0[1].jpg France is in the process of kicking out Roma groups at the moment and evicting travellers from the land they live on. In France, Sarkozy and co. are playing ...
  • Fallout from US seige on Fallujah worse than Hiros ...
    falluja%20cancer%20child.jpg On July 6th, 2010, the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) released a study titled, “Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fa ...
  • Starbucks workers in Nebraska hold work stoppage
    SWU.jpg On 5th August 2010, baristas at a Starbucks in Omaha, Nebraska held a short work stoppage and demanded a reversal to the recession-era cuts that have been forced upon them. ...

Free Range International

  • The Dog Days of Summer
    Many apologies for the delay on posting.  I was laid low by some sort of viral affliction which mimicked  malaria.  Like most people who get sick maybe once a decade, when I do catch a bug you would think I was on death’s door I’m such a sissy about it.  But the fever is gone [...]
  • 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, ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • IMPORTANT INFO ON MORTGAGES!!!!
    Every homeowner in America needs to read this very carefully. Homeowners’ Rebellion: Could 62 Million Homes Be Foreclosure-Proof? August 20th, 2010 | Author: Stephanie Over 62 million mortgages are now held in the name of MERS, an electronic recording system devised by and for the convenience of the ...
  • WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CAP AND TRADE (Cra ...
    If You Own A Home You Better Read This .. What we can expect if “Cap & Trade” legislation is enacted? We thought we were in trouble in this nation before, but just wait.  It CAN get MUCH WORSE!! Well read this one, it is all verified and double-checked and reference links are at the [...]
  • 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 [...]

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

  • Renewable Energy-Electric Power Lines-Transmission ...
    In the Transmission Line Debate I’ve included my comments on the Article. scotts-contracting-171793 August 20, 2010 Grid, Smart Grid, New Transmission Lines- What a Crock of ___. If more people utilized their own Renewable Energy Production for Home or Business … Continue reading →
  • Political Contributions-Dirty $money$-Oil Pay Offs
    No More Dirty Energy Money!
  • End Big Oil Bail Outs
    Dear Scotts, Thanks for asking Congress to end the bailouts to big oil. Can you help spread the word before it’s too late by telling 5 friends? If you are on Facebook, click here to post the petition to your … Continue reading →
  • Politics and Oil-Follow the $money$
  • 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 →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

  • 2nd Circuit Further Clarifies Statute on Wrongly A ...
  • In Focus: ILTA 2010
    Vendors are showcasing new technology at the International Legal Technology Association conference in Las Vegas from August 22-26. Many of the products feature improved interfaces that allow legal professionals to understand and act on data to minimize costs, maximize resources and make more informe ...
  • Judge Approves Less Than Half of Milberg's 'Unusua ...
    A federal judge in New York has slashed what he called an "unusual" request for additional fees by Milberg for a 2006 settlement of a securities class action against Nortel Networks. Milberg, its Canadian co-counsel and the claims administrator asked for $2.77 million in fees and expenses not includ ...
  • Salmonella Outbreak Draws Litigation
    Seattle food illness plaintiffs law firm Marler Clark filed what it believes is the first lawsuit linked to the nationwide recall of 380 million eggs. Managing partner Bill Marler said the firm has been investigating salmonella outbreaks linked to restaurants in various states, but the cause of the ...
  • Ex-Attorney Charged With Embezzling $1 Million Fro ...
    Former Pennsylvania attorney Jeffrey Abramowitz has been indicted on charges of embezzling more than $1 million from his clients by lying to them about the settlements of their cases. The indictment alleges that Abramowitz told some of his firm's clients that funds from their civil lawsuits and othe ...

Iranian.com

  • خامنه‌ای:دانشگاه رانبایدبه حال خودرهاکرد؛برخوردانض ...
    آیت‌الله خامنه‌ای، رهبر جمهوری اسلامی، روز یکشنبه در دیدار با گروهی از دانشجویان همسو با حاکمیت، از برخوردهای انضباطی با دانشجویان دفاع کرد و تصریح کرد که محیط دانشگاه نباید فضای «معارضه دستگاه‌ها» باشد. read more
  • روح الله حسینیان روی تخت بیمارستان
    روح الله حسینیان نماینده تهران در مجلس شورای اسلامی در بیمارستان بستری شد. به گزارش جام جم آنلاین ، روح الله حسینیان نماینده تهران و رئیس کمیسیون شوراها و امور داخلی مجلس دیروز به دلیل عارضه قلبی راهی بیمارستان شد و بلافاصله تحت درمان قرار گرفت. حسینیان به احتمال زیاد باید تحت عمل جراحی قلب قرار گی ...
  • نتیجه معکوس!
    چکیده : بازی گروهی متوهم و کج فهم به عکس خویش تبدیل گردید. هر چقدر به این بازی دامن زده شود نتایج منفی اش برای کودتاگران افزون خواهد شد. باید از تکرار چنین سخنرانی هایی استقبال کرد! read more
  • هشدار در باره مشکلات بهداشتی کلاس اولی ها در ایران
    عباس حیصمی معاون سلامت وزارت آموزش و پرورش به خبرگزاری دانشجویان ایران گفته که بررسی های این وزارتخانه نشان می دهد که از بین ۹۵۵ هزار نوآموز ۵۴۰ هزار نفر آنها با مشکل دهان و دندان مواجه بودند. read more
  • رایزنی آمریکا با هشت کشور در مورد تحریم ایران
    دولت آمریکا اعلام کرده که با مقام های هشت کشور از جمله شماری از همسایگان ایران برای اجرای تحریم ها علیه تهران گفتگو کرده است. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Is Capitalism Doomed? - Part IV
    Implications for the Future In general, Marxists believe the economic laws that govern capitalism make it inherently flawed – dooming it to eventual failure. They also see a grave risk that the collapse of capitalism will bring down civilization with it. Which is why they argue for workers to h ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • HALLIBURTON AWARDED LETTER OF INTENT FOR DEVELOPM ...
    HOUSTON, TX and DUBAI, UAE – Aug. 18, 2010 – Halliburton has been awarded a letter of intent by Shell Iraq Petroleum Development B.V. for the development of the Majnoon field in Southern Iraq. The giant Majnoon field is one of the world's largest oilfields. The letter of intent provides that Hal ...
  • Needed: a new economic paradigm
    The blame game continues over who is responsible for the worst recession since the Great Depression – the financiers who did such a bad job of managing risk or the regulators who failed to stop them. But the economics profession bears more than a little culpability. It provided the models that gav ...
  • The Guns of August
    In 1962, the historian Barbara Tuchman published a book about the start of World War I and called it� The Guns of August . It went on to win a Pulitzer Prize.� She was, of course, looking back at events that had occurred almost 50 years earlier and had at her disposal documents and information not a ...
  • The National Security Mosque
    The furor over the proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero makes me think back to one of the most important lessons I learned from al Qaeda terrorists I interrogated--that they have a warped view of America. To them--and this they get from Osama Bin Laden's rhetoric--the U.S. is ...
  • VIDEO: Amir Bar-Lev, Director of 'The Tillman ...

Salon

  • Can the president get us out of this mess?
    As a professional speechwriter, I have a deep affection for the mad Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, a man whose unorthodoxy is so deeply ingrained that he has ghost-written negative reviews of his own books. He’s also a speechwriter – a profession that saved him from hopeless unemployment.
  • WikiLeaks founder denies charges
    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has dismissed sexual abuse allegations, telling a Swedish newspaper he's never had sex that wasn't consensual.
  • Park 51 Imam: US rights in line with true Islam
    The imam spearheading plans for an Islamic center near the New York site of the Sept. 11 attacks says America's sweeping constitutional rights are more in line with Islamic principles than the limits imposed by some Muslim nations.
  • Will the liberal hawks fly again?
    Iraqi dissident Kanan Makiya, who played an outsize role in convincing many liberal American intellectuals that a U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was a moral imperative, is succinct in his view of a prospective war against Iran: "It’s a very bad idea," he says. "Iranians will likely perceive the strike ...
  • Haiti bans Wyclef Jean from presidential try
    Singer Wyclef Jean's high-profile bid for Haiti's presidency ended after election officials on the earthquake-ravaged Caribbean nation disqualified his candidacy.

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

  • Pakistan needs our help
    Canadians dug deep for Haiti. They can set an example again.
  • Don’t slash foodassistance
    In March, the province announced that it intended to replace a food supplement program for eligible welfare recipients because it was “not sustainable” and “not achieving the intended results.” Now, Ontario’s most needy are waiting to see what the ...
  • Complacency on drilling
    It’s hard to feel reassured by a Senate committee that set out to study our offshore drilling regime — after the BP oil disaster — and then announced that Canada is virtually faultless. But it shouldn’t come as a complete surprise, given the commit ...
  • The politics of potash
    Foreign takeover over of Canada's globally dominant fertilizer business looms.
  • More troubles in Mississauga
    What has emerged so far at an inquiry into alleged conflict of interest casts a shadow on how business is done in McCallion’s city hall

Energy Collective

  • Oil Plumes and the Fate of the Spill
    I'm as reluctant to insert myself into the debate over what happened to all the oil that leaked from BP's Macondo well between April 22 and July 15--when the second cap stopped the flow--as I was concerning the earlier controversy regarding flow-rate estimates .
  • New Jersey Offshore Wind
    Offshore wind power is a sustainable source of energy. Friends and foes alike recognize that the relatively short time from blueprint to operation makes wind energy the next best hope for reducing carbon emissions in the near term. (Banana farmers know that negawatts are least cost, most sustainable ...
  • The Smart Grid – It’s For More than Electrons
    The Smart Grid has traditionally been used to describe the electrical grid 2.0.� The distinctions between the traditional electrical grid, or version 1.0, and the Smart Grid cover the bidirectional flow of electricity and communications.� We need to extend our thinking about the smart grid to add di ...
  • About that whole “peak oil” silliness…
    Thanks to all the (deserved) attention we’ve been paying to the floods in Pakistan, the landslides in China, the heat wave and fires in Russia, the roughly 300 hundred forest fires in British Columbia, etc., it’s no surprise that peak oil isn’t right at the top of everyone’s mind. Of course, realit ...
  • TVA rising at Bellefonte
    The utility will spend $248 million in 2011 on next steps to complete the 1,260 MW reactor

EU Times

  • Lithuanian Court Rules Swastika Historic Sign, Not ...
    A Lithuanian court has cleared students carrying swastikas of illegally bearing symbols of Nazism. The judge’s ruling that the emblem is merely a sign with an ancient history has caused anger. Critics fear its another step towards the rehabilitation of fascist sympathizers. Tweet This! Share this on ...
  • Nearly Half of United States Considering Arizona-S ...
    Twenty-two states are now in the process of drafting or seeking to pass legislation similar to Arizona’s law against illegal immigration. This is occurring despite the fact that the Obama administration has filed a lawsuit against the Arizona law and a federal judge has ruled against portions of tha ...
  • Israel tells UN it will stop Gaza aid flotilla
    Israel informed the United Nations Friday that it reserves the right to use force to stop a new aid flotilla from reaching the blockaded Gaza Strip. In a letter sent to UN chief Ban Ki-moon, Israel’s UN Ambassador Gabriela Shalev said the stated intention of the Bolivian-flagged all-women cargo ship ...
  • Expelled Roma promise to return to France
    But as the 124 people landed in Timisoara, in their native Romania, many said they planned to head straight back to France. “Of course I’m thinking about returning to France. Life is better than in Romania,” said 26-year-old Ionut Balasz as he arrived in Romania. Aurel Cioaba echoed his sentiment: “ ...
  • Fueling of Iran’s nuclear plant begins
    Iran has begun loading its first nuclear power plant in the southern city of Bushehr with fuel in an effort to provide the country with nuclear-generated electricity. Nuclear fuel is being transferred to the Bushehr reactor under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency and senior o ...

Stonecipher News

  • Education: What Does It Mean For Your Child
    From my Factoidz page: The PACER Center is a Minnesota training and information center funded by the U. S. Department of Education Office of Special Education (n.d., http://www.pacer.org/) writes an article for LD online explaining to lay people the evaluation process for special education. The arti ...
  • Tests and Measurements for the Parent, Teacher, Ad ...
    Peter and Pam Wright compose a comprehensive article for parents, teachers, advocates and attorneys. The purpose of which is to help lay people and professionals recognize the value of reading and understanding educational test scores. Attorney Peter Wright Esq., and Psychotherapist Pam Wright who ...
  • Fetal Xrays Can Cause Memory Loss and Schizophreni ...
    Alarming as it sounds, I hardly doubt Fetal Xrays can cause Schizophrenia . Schizophrenia is often misdiagnosed by psychiatrists who look for a reasoning for someone's memory loss. In fact, less than 1% of the population actually has Schizophrenia, so I'm in question about these findings.� ...
  • Vitamin C Deficiency Symptoms and Why Vitamin C is ...
    According to Dr. Kristie Leong : Vitamin C deficiency disease, such as scurvy, is less common these days due to the easy availability of vitamin C rich foods. On the other hand, some people need more vitamin C to stay healthy. Are you one of them? Vitamin C is most commonly found in fresh fruits an ...
  • Breakthrough Cord Blood Infusion Reverses Cerebral ...
    According to Jo Oliver : Cord blood cells are taken at birth, before the infant is exposed to any environmental factors. It is also advantageous because the cells are younger and smarter. Once the cord blood is re-infused into the person, the cells migrate to wherever the person is injured and immed ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Ex-Gitmo detainee surrenders in Yemen
    Yemeni authorities announced on Saturday that a former Guantanamo detainee who rejoined al Qaeda has turned himself in. Ali Hussein al Taiss was a wanted “al Qaeda element,” according to Saba News Agency , the official Yemeni news service. But al Taiss surrendered to authorities... Tags: taliban pak ...
  • Miners and merger moves lift FTSE 100 but ENRC mis ...
    Miners and mergers have helped push shares higher, but Kazakh group Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation missed out after negative comment about a controversial takeover in the Democratic Republic of Congo. ENRC said late last week it would buy 50.5% of Camrose, a holding company... Tags: cairn bh ...
  • Should Mortgage Lenders Demand Good Insulation and ...
    Mortgages. They're not exactly the sexiest topic in the world. In fact, before the Great Recession slapped us all in the face with the ugly truth about our crooked financial system, I pretty much tuned out when an acquaintance started going on about their fixed rate, this or that.... Tags: mortgage ...
  • So crotchety and sullen and senile that it require ...
    Ingram Brothers Ford Motor Cars Garage and Sales Room, Interior View, Anaheim. Image via Calisphere. I know I’ve seen this passage quoted a couple times before – where exactly, I can’t recall right now – but I still find it worth repeating: Someone should write an erudite... Tags: john steinbeck for ...
  • Three to See in Stockholm
    It's common knowledge that Stockholm is home to some of the world's most criminally attractive folks. Those same stunning legions also happen to have some of Europe's best style. So, while there a few weeks ago, we searched high in low for the best shops in the city. Here, our... Tags: common knowle ...

Groklaw

  • Jeff Bezos: What matters more than your talents (v ...
    In this Princeton University graduation address, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos makes the case that our character is reflected not in the gifts we're endowed with at birth, but by the choices we make over the course of a lifetime. - TED
  • How Oracle might kill Googles Android and softwar ...
    In reality, Oracle is a major proponent of open software, pushing Linux and taking a stand against the notion of software patents themselves. Yes, that's right, the company filing the year's biggest software patent infringement case is also a major critic of the idea of software patents in general. ...
  • Why Oracle was right to sue Google
    The greatest challenge to those efforts came in the late 1990s, when Microsoft tried to splinter the Java community by offering a Windows-only version of the language. Sun took the issue to the courts, arguing that Microsoft's implementation violated the Java license agreement. When the dust finally ...
  • Supreme Court told P2P users can be "innocent infr ...
    Two prominent lawyers in the fight against RIAA P2P lawsuits have taken their battle to the Supreme Court. Today, Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson and "Recording Industry vs. the People" blogger/lawyer Ray Beckerman joined with a few other law professors to ask the Supreme Court not to gut copyr ...
  • Google Gets Complete Win in Rosetta Stone Case
    Rosetta Stone Ltd. v. Google Inc., 1:09-cv-00736-GBL-TCB (E.D. Va.). Opinion granting Google's motion to dismiss filed August 3, 2010, 2010 WL 3063152. Order granting Google's motion to dismiss the unjust enrichment claim filed August 2, 2010, 2010 WL 3063857.... The opinions are finally out, and ...

    Blacklisted News

  • US Homeland Security to Expand ‘Secure Communities ...
    The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to broaden its Secure Communities program nationwide by 2013, according to a DHS release. Administered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the largest investigative agency within DHS, Secure Communities aims to identify and possibly remove il ...
  • Karzai: Private contractors ‘looting and stealing, ...
    Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday defended his decision to ban private security contractors from operating in public in Afghanistan, saying many of the organizations tasked with providing security are engaging in terrorist activities, working with “Mafia-like” organizations and “looting and st ...
  • Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than ...
    Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004, exceed those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, according to a new study.
  • UN board could rein in $2.7 billion carbon market
    An obscure U.N. board that oversees a $2.7 billion market intended to cut heat-trapping gases has agreed to take steps that could lead to it eventually reining in what European and U.S. environmentalists are calling a huge scam.
  • Predicting space weather in real time
    Getting more accurate forecasts about space weather may not help you decide whether to water your garden, but it could soon clue you in better to when events in the solar system may be putting a damper on your electronic activities.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Bushehr: Iran's strike against sanctions
    Summary: Kaveh Afrasiabi The much-delayed nuclear power plant in the southern Iranian city of Bushehr was uploaded with nuclear fuel on Saturday, the first step toward the Russian-built plant going online next month. This realizes a long-sought objective of Iran that at times seemed imperiled by ...
  • Israel will attack Iran: Will Israel attack Iran?!
    Summary: The Atlantic, September 2010 Over the past five years, Iran has been recurrently under the threat of an imminent war which the mainstream media have overwhelmingly talked of; a war against Tehran to overthrow the Islamic Republic and bring to power a "democratic" regime which the "inter ...
  • Report: Iran ready to begin immediate nuclear fuel ...
    Summary: Us- Indo nuclear deal Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday his country was ready for immediate talks with world powers over an exchange of enriched uranium. source: Haaretz read more
  • Iran calls for PG unity against plots
    Summary: The Qatari prime minister, for his part, said that Doha supports Tehran's positions on regional and international issues. Al-Thani also backed Iran's nuclear program, saying: "It is clear for Qatar that the development of Iran's nuclear technology is no threat to the regional countries ...
  • The Israel Lobby Swims 'The Atlantic'
    Summary: Jeffrey Goldberg’s current cover story in The Atlantic, “The Point of No Return,” achieved massive distribution across a broad spectrum of old and new media in the United States. Some observers – including Glenn Greenwald in “How Propagandists Function” – noted how well the methodolog ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • "You Couldn't Make This Up" Dept. -DNA Tests Revea ...
    The DNA tests on relatives of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler show he was probably descended from Jews and North Africans. Journalist Jean-Paul Mulders with the Belgian news magazine Knack garnered the DNA from a serviette dropped by one of three...
  • Gigantic "Super-Volcano" Observed in Massive Ellip ...
    The image below shows the eruption of a galactic "super-volcano" in the massive galaxy M87 (left), as observed by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and NSF's Very Large Array (VLA). At a distance of about 50 million light years, M87 is...
  • Cluster of SuperMassive Stars Found: Challenges B ...
    “If the Sun were located at the heart of this remarkable cluster, our night sky would be full of hundreds of stars as bright as the full Moon.” Ben Ritchie, astronomer, The Open University A remarkable star cluster -Westerkund 1-contains...
  • Oldest Object Ever Found on Earth Points to Solar ...
    The Solar System could be nearly two million years older than thought, based on evidence comes from a 1.49-kilo (3.2-pound) meteorite, found in the Moroccan desert in 2004, that contains a "relict" mineral, which is one of the oldest solid...
  • NASA: 4-Billion-Year-Old Antarctica Meteorite Prev ...
    Emboldened by the discovery of an ancient ocean and warm-water lakes on early Mars as well as the discovery of biologically-produced methane in the atmosphere of the Red Planet, NASA's Mars Meteorite Research Team recently reopened a 14-year-old controversy on...

Natural News

  • FDA exploits salmonella eggs recall to pursue food ...
    (NaturalNews) It's always amusing to see how quickly consumers can be worked up into a false fear frenzy by health authorities. We saw it last year with the overhyped H1N1 swine flu scare which was fanned into a flaming fear fest by WHO advisors on the take from vaccine manufacturers. Now we're gett ...
  • FDA uses massive egg recall to push for egg pasteu ...
    (NaturalNews) Amid the massive egg recall currently underway over potential salmonella poisoning, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been working hard to push its pasteurization agenda. The agency recently made an announcement recommending that all grocery stores and restaurants begin s ...
  • Feds found Pfizer too big to nail, so they looked ...
    (NaturalNews) When the world's largest pharmaceutical company was found to have engaged in a massive illegal marketing campaign, federal prosecutors decided the company was too big to punish -- so they let it set up a shell corporation to take the blame. In 2001, the FDA approved Bextra for the re ...
  • Canada survey finds vast majority of people loaded ...
    (NaturalNews) A recent report released by Statistics Canada, Canada's official statistical agency, has revealed that more than 90 percent of Canadians are contaminated with bisphenol-A (BPA), a toxic chemical compound used in many plastics and resins. The report is the first of its kind in Canada to ...
  • Light treatment clears psoriasis as it boosts vita ...
    (NaturalNews) According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) about 7.5 million Americans suffer from the chronic, autoimmune skin disease called psoriasis that causes irritated, flaky and thick patches of red skin; some forms of psoriasis are also associated with joint pain. Most medical trea ...

Threat Level

  • Court Overturns Order Blocking Newspaper From Prin ...
    A California appeals court has overturned a Los Angeles judge’s order that prohibited the Los Angeles Times from publishing a photo of a quadruple murder defendant. “We conclude the superior court’s order precluding publication of photographs lawfully taken unconstitutionally violates the prohibitio ...
  • Google Wi-Fi Spy Lawsuits Head to Silicon Valley
    Whether Google is liable for damages for secretly intercepting data on open Wi-Fi routers across the United States is to be aired out in a Silicon Valley federal court. Eight proposed class actions from across the country that seek unspecified monetary damages from Google were consolidated this week ...
  • Addicted Gamer Sues Game-Maker, Says He is ‘Unable ...
    A federal judge is allowing a negligence lawsuit to proceed against the publisher of the online virtual-world game Lineage II, amid allegations that a Hawaii man became so addicted he is “unable to function independently in usual daily activities such as getting up, getting dressed, bathing or comm ...
  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Vacation, All He Ever Wanted
    Among the latest claims of Republican mythmakers is that Barack Obama is not only a secret Muslim , but one who takes too many days off. Of course, the charge is hardly new. In May 2009 , the Republican National Committee sneered, "Have a great Saturday evening - even if you're not jetting off som ...
  • A New One Year Deadline for Middle East Peace
    After ignoring the festering Israeli-Palestinian conflict for most of his time in office, President Bush in January 2008 predicted the success of his belated Annapolis peace process . "I believe it's going to happen, that there will be a signed peace treaty by the time I leave office," he announced ...
  • Obama's Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
    As a quick glance online shows, President Obama's sagging popularity is producing a cottage industry for political diagnosticians. In the Washington Post, former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson proclaims "the lost promise of Barack Obama" even as his colleague Eugene Robinson touts "President Obam ...
  • Sarah Palin's First Amendment Confusion Deepens
    In the span of just a few days, Sarah Palin has demonstrated that her ignorance of the First Amendment is total. One day after repeating her earlier call for Muslim Americans to "refudiate" their freedom of religion, Palin defended the disgraced Dr. Laura Schlessinger. But in tweeting that Dr. Lau ...
  • 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 ...

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

Institute for Middle East Understanding

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • What’s the frequency, Kenneth? In this case it’s 6 ...
    Come close together, cats and kitties, and gather ’round, while the Powerman gets his story-telling hat- the one with the fine white brim- slips it on and talks about what’s going down with a happening riff:, with a tip o’ the hat to Lord Buckley for those yet to be hip to the flip, we [...]
  • Ramon A Sanchez: Solar Intern at Public Citizen [F ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Ramon Sanchez majors in math at the University of Texas at Austin.
  • Ali Rawaf: Media and Campaign Finance Intern at Pu ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Ali Rawaf studies Government and International Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
  • NRG Energy Scales Back Nuke Investment; Makes TPPF ...
    In their recent report on how energy efficiency is bad for consumers in Texas, the Texas Public Policy Foundation took some time to tout nukes. To distinguish the development of new nuclear reactors from the previous generation which was frought with cost overruns and delays, they claim the followin ...
  • Netroots Nation Day 1: Report from the road
    Hey all.  We’re having a blast here at Netroots Nation so far.  Here’s our first report telling you about the goings-on today, including the great Texas caucus, and several excellent environmental and climate change panels. Keep up with us by following us on Twitter, where @CitizenAndy is live-twe ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Alien hunters "should look for AI"
    Astronomer Seth Shostak believes that we should be looking out for signs of an extraterrestrial artificial intelligence. The Seti astronomer believes ...
  • Computers that read minds are being developed
    New mind-reading technology is being developed that could allow you to type a letter by simply thinking the words. Scientists at Intel are working on ...
  • New fabric made from tea
    A peculiar new fabric made in vats of tea is being used to create a range of new clothes and shoes. The innovative material is grown in a vat containi...
  • "Holy Grail" crop circle appears in Britain
    A 300 foot crop circle that appears to depict the Holy Grail has appeared in a field in Wiltshire, England. Crop circle photographer Steve Alexander ...
  • Japan man 'kept dead mother in a backpack'
    A man who kept his mother's remains in a backpack is just one of a number of similar cases in Japan. A recent investigation aimed at checking up on ci...

Grassroots

  • Pakistan Floods: Secular, Liberal & Progressive Or ...
    pakfloods2.jpg The recent monsoonal floods in Pakistan have devastated nearly a third of the country’s landmass – by some estimates�area the size of Italy. More than 20 million people have been directly impacted by the rising waters of the Ind ...
  • Pakistan Floods: Secular, Liberal and Progressive ...
    pakfloods2.jpg The recent monsoonal floods in Pakistan have devastated nearly a third of the country’s landmass – by some estimates�area the size of Italy. More than 20 million people have been directly impacted by the rising waters of the Ind ...
  • Reimagining Israel’s Negev
    bedouin.jpg Down south in the Negev desert, the sounds of jets fill wide-open spaces. Increasing militarization is constant�-- at least 80% of the land there is used for military training purposes, including weaponry development. The Negev als ...
  • Haiti Advocacy Working Group develops key backgrou ...
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  • Haitian Partner Testifies Before the Black Congres ...
    camille-cbc_testimony.jpg Grassroots International’s partner Camille Chalmers, Executive Director of the Haitian Platform to Advocate Alternative Development (PAPDA) traveled to Washington, DC during the last week of July to testify before the ...

Climate

  • August 23, 2010
    Compensation Czar Takes Charge of $20 Billion BP Fund (Reuters) A $20 billion compensation fund for economic victims of the BP Gulf oil spill opens for business today amid accusations that the rules established by its administrator are unfair. 4th Round of Public Hearings on Gulf Disaste ...
  • August 21-22, 2010
    BP Told to Submit Blowout Preventer Removal Plan (Reuters) BP will remove a failed blowout preventer from its ruptured Macondo well in the Gulf under watchful eyes of investigators probing the deadly April 20 explosion, the top U.S. official overseeing the oil spill response said. Gov't ...
  • August 20, 2010
    Final BP Well Plug Delayed Until September (Reuters) BP likely won't put the final plug in its blown-out well until September to allow replacement of a critical piece of seabed equipment, the top U.S. oil spill official said on Thursday. Oil Plume Is Not Breaking Down Fast, Study Says ( ...
  • 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. ...

GreenBiz

  • NetApp, As You Sow and More Lauded for Product Ste ...
    �A data storage company that takes backs and recycles its customers' old products and a reusable bag maker are among the winners of the latest California Stewardship Arrow Awards from the California Product Stewardship Council.
  • Sustainable Consumption: Opportunity or Oxymoron?
    Consuming smarter goes only so far. We also have to consume less of just about everything, and that bumps up squarely against the business imperative,�which is to sell more of just about everything.
  • Climate Corps 2010: When Buildings Go 'Retro'
    Buildings that have changing uses and those that weren't commissioned after construction can be secretly wasting energy. In both cases, retrocommissioning can help.
  • Climate Corps 2010: Diversey's Three-Part Sustaina ...
    In the world of energy efficiency and sustainability, the biggest financial and environmental opportunities are often right under a company’s nose. However, if the company does not have the proper tools and data -- or if it is too focused on making smaller efficiency tweaks while losing sight of the ...
  • 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.

Reuters Global

  • Pakistan-India; a $5 million downpayment on a peac ...
    With Pakistan accepting $5 million in flood aid from India and New Delhi saying it is ready to do more, is this a downpayment on a broader peace initiative? Or another false dawn?
  • India, Pakistan can’t break the ice, even in ...
    Pakistanis carry their belonging as they make their way through the floodwaters
  • 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 ...

Booman Tribune

  • Froggy Bottom Cafe
  • Understanding Transformation
    For once, I have to disagree with Steve Benen. There are certain instances where a president actually moves the country onto a long-term trajectory in a left or rightward direction. When Franklin Roosevelt created the SEC, FDIC, FHA, the Fair Labor standards, and Social Security, he moved the count ...
  • This Week in Mustache Understanding
    The Mustache of Understanding: The reason the Iraq war was, is and will remain important is that it created the first chance for Arab Sunnis and Shiites to do something they have never done in modern history: surprise us and freely write their own social contract for how to live together and shar ...
  • US Christian Soldiers or Else?
    There is so much that is just so wrong with this story I don't know where to begin: The Army said Friday it was investigating a claim that dozens of soldiers who refused to attend a Christian band's concert at a Virginia military base were banished to their barracks and told to clean them up. [.. ...
  • The 9/11 Commission Report Was Not Good
    It's frustrating to read Josh Marshall's suggestion that the reason we don't have more than one decent non-polemical book on the 9/11 attacks is because the 9/11 Commission Report was "so good that [it drove] others from the field." As Benjamin DeMott wrote in Harper's back in October 2004: ...T ...

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

  • Bullying Victims Often Suffer Academic Setbacks as ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The problem of bullying in elementary, middle school, and high school settings—whether during the school day, after school, or online—is gaining increasing attention. And the more we learn about it, the more serious the problem seems. Many past studies have documented ...
  • For Both Body and Mind, Meditation Helps You Keep ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A specific type of meditation—known as integrative body-mind training—helps both mind and body stay calm, according to a new study from the University of Oregon. The technique teaches people to not to try and control their thoughts, but to be more aware of mind-body c ...
  • Reassessing Psychedelic Drugs: Paired With Therapy ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Before acquiring a negative connotation due to recreational use, psychedelic drugs were used by therapists to help people deal with depression, chronic pain, compulsive disorders, and other issues. A new study, published this week, shows that using the drugs (such as ...
  • India Hosts Alternative Therapy Conference, Emphas ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline This week, Mumbai hosted the 37th annual International Conference on Holistic Healing, which drew from dozens of disciplines aimed at overall health and well-being. Traditional psychotherapy and counseling joined color therapy, hypnosis, meditation, reiki many others ...
  • Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse- Molest: The Unth ...
    By Yvonne Sinclair M.A., MFCC Click here to contact Yvonne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile When we see accounts of child molestation on the news, perhaps we feel vulnerable and frightened. Can anything be done to protect our children? We ask ourselves, “How can anyone use a child for sexual g ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Could Hechler Surprise on August 28th? - HNN Hunti ...
    Could Hechler Surprise on August 28th? HNN Huntingtonnews.net He's still got his trademark red Jeep, he's still raising hell, this time about mountaintop removal , and in debates and interviews he's still sharp as a ... and more��
  • Citizens talk about environmental impact and healt ...
    Southwest Virginia Today Citizens talk about environmental impact and health effects of mountaintop ... Southwest Virginia Today Mountaintop removal is a form of strip mining in which the summits of mountains are blown off in order to expose underlying coal seams for extraction. ... Inside the Mind ...
  • Ecological Society of America presents conclusive ...
    Ecological Society of America presents conclusive evidence MTR is destroying ... Examiner.com The practice of mountaintop removal long suspected of polluting streams, is guilty as charged, scientists say. Researchers at the Ecological Society of ...
  • At 95, Hechler seeks to defy odds in US Senate bid ...
    ABC News At 95, Hechler seeks to defy odds in US Senate bid Daily Mail - Charleston "He's always told the truth, and he's telling the truth about mountaintop removal ," Justice said. "He's one of West Virginia's only remaining statesmen. ... 95-Year-Old Senate Candidate 'Never Surprised' by Politic ...
  • Coal supporters plan Washington rally - Bluefield ...
    Coal supporters plan Washington rally Bluefield Daily Telegraph According to a posting on the Rainforest Action Network, several grass roots organizations have formed a coalition to protest mountaintop removal coal ...

Memeorandum

  • How Obama's Social Security Tactics Hurt Bipartisa ...
    Mark Halperin / Time : How Obama's Social Security Tactics Hurt Bipartisanship   —  President Barack Obama delivers a speech in Washington, D.C., on June 11, 2010  —  In a move as predictable as Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown, Democrats are using Social Security scare tactics to ...
  • Far from Ground Zero, other plans for mosques run ...
    Annie Gowen / Washington Post : Far from Ground Zero, other plans for mosques run into vehement opposition   —  MURFREESBORO, TENN. — For more than 30 years, the Muslim community in this Nashville suburb has worshipped quietly in a variety of makeshift spaces — a one-bedroom apartment, an office b ...
  • Poll numbers in 1994, a bad year for Democrats, do ...
    Chris Cillizza / Washington Post : Poll numbers in 1994, a bad year for Democrats, don't bode well for them in 2010   —  Is it deja vu all over again for Democrats?  —  Some neutral observers and senior strategists within the party have begun to believe that the national political environment is no ...
  • Meek, McCollum Lead One Day Before Florida Primari ...
    Quinnipiac University : Meek, McCollum Lead One Day Before Florida Primaries, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; But Many Likely Primary Voters Remain Undecided  —  U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek holds a 39 - 29 percent lead over Jeff Greene in the Florida race for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Se ...
  • Protests, Rhetoric Feed Jihadists' Fire (Jonathan ...
    Jonathan Weisman / Wall Street Journal : Protests, Rhetoric Feed Jihadists' Fire   —  Islamic radicals are seizing on protests against a planned Islamic community center near Manhattan's Ground Zero and anti-Muslim rhetoric elsewhere as a propaganda opportunity and are stepping up anti-U.S. chatte ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Panic stations
    As China pushes ahead with its ambitious nuclear programme, public safety fears are growing. Education, open information and citizen engagement are all essential for improving trust, writes Meng Dengke. In mid -June, Hong Kong media reported that the Daya Bay nuclear-power station in Shenzhen, south ...
  • Battle of the solar systems
    China is preparing for a solar-thermal revolution, but not everyone is convinced the technology – or the country – is ready. Feng Jie and Chen Zhou report. Europe’s vision of a giant solar-thermal plant in the Sahara Desert, meeting up to 15% of the continent’s electricity needs, is frequently dismi ...
  • Uphill fight for Kashmir’s trees
    Amid a building boom in India’s northernmost state, corruption is hindering efforts to stop illegal timber smuggling. And, writes Jason Burke, the trade in wood is fuelled in part by government cash. High above the village of Nawroz Baba, above the shrine, even above the pastures, is the forest. It ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Court Overturns Order Blocking Newspaper From Prin ...
    A California appeals court has overturned a Los Angeles judge’s order that prohibited the Los Angeles Times from publishing a photo of a quadruple murder defendant. “We conclude the superior court’s order precluding publication of photographs lawfully taken unconstitutionally violates the prohibitio ...
  • Google Wi-Fi Spy Lawsuits Head to Silicon Valley
    Whether Google is liable for damages for secretly intercepting data on open Wi-Fi routers across the United States is to be aired out in a Silicon Valley federal court. Eight proposed class actions from across the country that seek unspecified monetary damages from Google were consolidated this week ...
  • Addicted Gamer Sues Game-Maker, Says He is ‘Unable ...
    A federal judge is allowing a negligence lawsuit to proceed against the publisher of the online virtual-world game Lineage II, amid allegations that a Hawaii man became so addicted he is “unable to function independently in usual daily activities such as getting up, getting dressed, bathing or comm ...
  • 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Atlantic storm Danielle to become hurricane
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Danielle in the central Atlantic Ocean was expected to strengthen into a hurricane in the next 24 hours as it moved west-northwest toward Bermuda, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in an early Monday advisory.
  • Police kill Manila bus gunman with some hostages a ...
    MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine police shot and killed a sacked former policeman who was holding 15 Hong Kong tourists aboard a bus in downturn Manila on Monday and TV images showed some hostages leaving the vehicle alive.
  • Americans confused about healthcare reform: poll
    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Julia Wood, a 51-year-old mother of 12 from Chicago's East side, has some health insurance through a state program -- but is so worried she may lose it she asks not to give her real name.
  • Countries want anti-counterfeit trade deal in Sept ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Negotiators from the United States, the European Union and nine other countries said on Friday they planned to finish work in September on a proposed pact to crack down on trade in counterfeit and pirated goods.
  • China property plunge would barely dent CCB -repor ...
    BEIJING, Aug 23 (Reuters) - If housing prices in China plummeted by 60 percent, there would be no noticeable increase in the default rate on loans issued by China Construction Bank (CCB), a newspaper report reported on Monday.

IntelNews

  • Russia, Romania, expel diplomats in spy tit-for-ta ...
    By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | The Russian and Romanian governments have expelled each otherâs diplomats in a spy scandal that made headlines in both countries last week. The spy affair began last Monday, August 16, when Russiaâs Federal Security … Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #415
    GCHQ tech arm adopts new personnel evaluation tests. The Communications Electronics Security Group is the information assurance arm of the General Communications Headquarters –Britain’s equivalent of the National Security Agency. CESG has now adopted a new testing method of verifying … Continue read ...
  • 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 →

After Downing Street.org

  • Washington Orders Shahbaz Airbase Saved, not Pakis ...
    Washington Orders Shahbaz Airbase Saved, not Pakistan's Flood Victims - by Stephen Lendman With 20 million or more people affected, about 12% of the population, the equivalent of 37 million Americans, Pakistan's devastating floods are truly of biblical proportions, described by UN Secretary-General ...
  • The Latest Bi-Partisan Attack on Social Security: ...
    By James Ridgeway President Obama’s Deficit Commission is all smoke and mirrors. Its members are making a big show of laboring over ”painful” choices and considering all options in their quest to bring down the deficit. But  inside the Beltway everyone knows what’s going to happen: The commission wi ...
  • Help Reclaim Dr. King's Dream!
    By Ladd Everitt, Waging Nonviolence On August 28, conservative radio/television host Glenn Beck, 2012 Republican presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the National Rifle Association, and the Special Operations Warrior Foundation will conduct the “Restoring Honor” rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washi ...
  • Weapons Suppliers of the U.S.
    This drug induced Country, the U.S., is one of the Main Suppliers of the weapons and ammunition being used across the border in the Mexican Drug Wars as well, and the middlemen gun runners aren't illegal aliens!! 'Straw' gun buyers leave a bloody trail August 23, 2010 - Authorities are cracking down ...
  • For the love of Abeer
    I woke up this morning thinking of Abeer, did a new search online and found this Youtube that I had not seen before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8VBR608YjM Although we all learned the basic horrible facts of this story years ago, it continues to haunt me. I wonder and worry about Abeer's littl ...

Grist - News

  • Mystery island, magical bikes, and 8 other green s ...
    by Randy Rieland. What a week. While scientists testifying on Capitol Hill trashed the government's estimates on how much oil lingers in the Gulf, sound-sensitive munchers everywhere trashed the new compostable Sun Chips bag because it's louder than a New York subway train. Really . But here's s ...
  • Giant underwater plume in Gulf challenges optimism
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- Experts said Thursday they have mapped a 22-mile-long underwater plume of oil that spewed from BP's ruptured Gulf of Mexico well, seeming to challenge U.S. government assertions that most of the oil has disappeared. The oily underwater cloud measured two ...
  • Scientists keep raising estimates of how much oil ...
    by Randy Rieland. We're making progress. The big question about the BP leak is no longer the lame "Where's the oil?" Now it's "How much oil is still out there?" The answer? Well, pick a number. Crude math:� Today, we have a new estimate, this one from Ian MacDonald, an oceanographer from Flori ...
  • BP well kill delayed until second week of Septembe ...
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- BP aims to permanently seal the ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well in the second week of September, a U.S. official said Thursday, as pressure concerns further delayed final "bottom kill" operations. "We should be looking somewhere in the week after Labor D ...
  • 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 ...

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Washington Independent

  • Why the IRS Can’t Replace the FEC
    Sunday’s Washington Post has a good story detailing why the IRS, which has become the de facto agency for overseeing nonprofit groups’ independent expenditures on political campaigns, is not exactly cut out for the job. The Post somewhat muddles the story of how we got to this point, tying the Feder ...
  • Lunchtime Links
    Darrell Issa wants Tea Partiers to be angrier. A GOP nominee for Congress won’t say whether he’d support Boehner as his leader. Islamic radicals latch onto anti-Park51 remarks. A Congressional candidate stays on the ballot after quitting the race and moving to another state. Scott Brown gets a cat. ...
  • More Details on Feinberg’s Oil Spill Compens ...
    Yesterday afternoon, Kenneth Feinberg, who takes over as independent administrator of BP’s $20 billion oil spill compensation fund, briefed reporters on how the claims process will work. I wrote a story today on that process, but there were a number of things Feinberg said during the briefing that d ...
  • Marco Rubio Moves to the Middle
    Yesterday’s New York Times focused attention on Florida’s other Senate candidate, Republican Marco Rubio. Tomorrow was supposed to be a high point for the former speaker of the Florida House — the moment he would dispatch his primary opponent Gov. Charlie Crist and ride the momentum into November, ...
  • Obama Administration Defends Its Gulf Oil Spill Re ...
    Days after it emerged that the Obama administration estimated a moratorium on deepwater oil and natural gas drilling would cost 23,000 jobs and amid criticism from scientists that it is offering too-rosy assessments of the spill’s aftermath, key officials have launched a defense of the administratio ...

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US m ...
    Files declassified in America have revealed covert public relations and lobbying activities of Israel in the U.S. The National Archive made the documents public following a Senate investigation. They suggest Israel has been trying to shape media coverage of issues it regards as important. You can do ...
  • Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s Book Callous Disregar ...
    By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. If you have a child with autism and haven’t yet purchased a copy of Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s wonderful book, Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines-The Truth Behind a Tragedy then shame on you. You need to buy it NOW. I’ll wait. (Imagine me whistling and pacing as you run do ...
  • Was Mossad Behind 1976 Air France Hijacking? &#821 ...
    Dan Parkinson It has been seen as a daring raid by crack Israeli troops to rescue dozens of their countrymen held at the mercy of hijackers. But newly released documents contain a claim that the 1976 rescue of hostages, kidnapped on an Air France flight and held in Entebbe in Uganda, was not all it ...
  • U.K. file on Entebbe contains claim that Israel be ...
    Newly released British documents contain a claim by an unnamed contact that the Shin Bet security service collaborated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to hijack the June 1976 flight from Israel that was diverted to Entebbe, Uganda, the BBC reported Friday. Israel’s rescue of t ...
  • In Search for Truth: “Munich” and Abu ...
    A curious feature of Abu Nidal’s terrorism is that more than 50 percent of it has been directed against Arab and Palestinian rivals. The ANO’s vicious war against the PLO has led to Arab claims that it was secretly manipulated by Israel’s Mossad secret service. According to this seemingly far-fetche ...

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 ...
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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

  • Ground Zero Mosque to be 1st LEED-Certified Mosque ...
    The “Ground Zero Mosque” and community center has been a hot button topic as of late, but putting aside the heated debate on freedom of religion vs. sensitivity to victims’ families and other political issues, we were glad to hear that the developers are planning to go green. A report last week on t ...
  • INTERVIEW: Architect James Corner On The Design of ...
    The High Line urban park project in New York City opened last summer to tremendous excitement from locals and tourists alike looking to escape the bustling streets for a more peaceful, green enclave in the sky. NYC’s High Line is a project that exemplifies effective adaptive urban re-use in a city t ...
  • Researchers Use Urea to Create Low-Cost Fuel Cells
    Researchers at Heriot-Watt University in the United Kingdom have figured out how to use urea as a fuel for low-cost fuel cells. Fuel cells are a great form of alternative energy for all kinds of things — cars, submarines, remote power stations — but concern over the cost of hydrogen and its explosiv ...
  • High-Tech Bins Will Fine People for Not Recycling
    Hey Cleveland, you better brush up on your recycling game or you might have a fine coming your way. The city’s officials plan to implement a smart recycling bin program city-wide that will fine residents up to $100 for not recycling. The smart bins will eventually cover all 150,000 households and wi ...
  • MASTODON Mobile Skyscraper is a Pop Up Disaster Re ...
    We’ve seen our share of smart disaster relief shelters before, but none that ever featured a mobile skyscraper – until now. Dubbed the Transient Response System (TRS-1), this innovative design by architecture students Adrian Ariosa and Doy Laufer at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles is a deployable architectur ...

Pogue's Posts

  • A College Student Reviews a Smartpen
    Since students make up a critical portion of the target audience for Livescribe's new smartpen, I figured my summer intern would be the perfect person to review it.
  • Three Unknown Features of the iPhone 4
    A critical mass of tricks and tips for the iPhone 4 have started to pile up. Here's a look at three cool iOS 4 features that nobody, including Apple, seems to be talking about.
  • At Snopes.com, Rumors Are Held Up to the Light
    David Pogue interviews David Mikkelson of Snopes.com, where Internet veterans go to get the truth about online rumors.
  • Q&A: Rumors, Cyberbullying and Anonymity
    David Pogue talks to John Palfrey, Harvard Law School professor, co-director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and author of "Born Digital."
  • Loosening the iPhone Death Grip
    Predictably, Mr. Jobs's gesture did nothing to satisfy the most vocal Apple bashers, but most reasonable people will agree that this is a decent good-faith gesture on Apple's part.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Danish Volunteers Build Manned Spacecraft
    A team of Danish volunteers has built a rocket capable of carrying a human into space, and will be launching it in a week’s time. The project, which has been funded entirely by donations and sponsorship, is led by Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen. The rocket is named HEAT1X-TYCHO BRAHE, and ...
  • Magnificent Marine Algae Blooms Seen From Space
    << previous image | next image >> When microscopic marine organisms known as phytoplankton multiply into a dense population at the ocean’s surface, massive blooms can spread so far that they can only be seen from space. These algal blooms create beautiful patterns that c ...
  • The Precarious Future of Ocean Color Satellite Ima ...
    The United States owns three orbiting satellites capable of measuring plant life in the world’s oceans, and they’re all on their last legs. That has ocean scientists pushing NASA to have its next satellite take an occasional look at the moon, a critical step for transmitting accurate images of the ...
  • Our Solar System: Now With 2 Million Years More Ma ...
    New measurements of an old rock show that the solar system may be up to two million years older than scientists previously thought. The new birth date could resolve a major controversy among geochemists, and provides extra evidence that the solar system got its heavy elements from the explosion of ...
  • Newly Discovered Chlorophyll Catches Infrared Ligh ...
    A new kind of chlorophyll that catches sunlight from just beyond the red end of the visible light spectrum has been discovered. The new pigment extends the known range of light that is usable by most photosynthetic organisms. Harnessing this pigment’s power could lead to biofuel-generating algae th ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Higher Oil Prices, Lack of Spending Lead to Iraqi ...
    When Iraq’s parliament passed its 2010 budget in January for $72.4 billion, it was expected to run a $19.6 billion deficit. The problem was that it called for 2.15 million barrels a day in oil exports, something that has not been achieved since the 2003 invasion. At the same time, it was based upon ...
  • Islamophobic Andy McCarthy Hates Being Called What ...
    This post plain confuses me. It opens with a lament: Having worked for a very long time with moderate Muslims, I can tell you it’s disheartening to be called an Islamophobe. Then demonstrates that that epithet, along with a few others, is well-deserved: I have long argued that: (1) Islam is not a ...
  • Blocking START Won't Make America Safer
    Stephen Rademaker has a point .  The debate in the Senate over the New START Treaty has been devoid of long, detailed discussions about formal Senate procedures.  Other than the obvious explanation—it’s dull, boring and painful so no one wants to talk about it— there’s another glaring explanation:  ...
  • Mitchell Reaffirms ‘Linkage’ In Remarks on Direct ...
    Reading today’s Quartet statement on resumption of direct talks, it’s worth noting that, while Prime Minister Netanyahu was successful in avoiding a complete reiteration of the Quartet’s March statement emphasizing Israel’s settlement obligations, as President Mahmoud Abbas wanted, Abbas also got th ...
  • The Brass Goes Green
    With a major climate and energy bill on the legislative back burner for the foreseeable future, the need for new ways to move clean energy forward has only become greater. One potential ally in this is the military. Responsible for 1 percent of total U.S. consumption, the military is the largest en ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Diversity in the Newsroom, Part 2,538.
    Politico reports that the Associated Press has named its first ever Race/Ethnicity/Demographics editor, Sonya Ross . Ross had been editor for the Washington-based regional reporters, and now she'll coordinate nationwide coverage that "captures the changing facets of race and ethnicity in the United ...
  • Using the Other Side.
    Unlike one of Andrew Sullivan's readers , I'm not exactly shocked�to learn that conservatives are touting�Muslim -- or rather, ex-Muslim -- opponents to the Cordoba House project in Lower Manhattan. By and large, it fits with the general strategy of using women and racial minorities to oppose polici ...
  • From Adversaries to Partners.
    Timothy Stoltzfus Jost says the states came out as winners in the Affordable Care Act, though some don't seem to realize it. "Every word in a bill is subject for an argument in court," Justice Stephen Breyer recently observed, suggesting that the 2,400-page Affordable Care Act could keep the courts ...
  • South Korea Trade Deal Bubbles to the Surface.
    I've heard different things about revisiting the South Korea freed-trade agreement negotiated by the Bush administration but left languishing without authority since. The Obama team is looking to finish the job, sorting out remaining, industry-specific issues and pushing for ratification of the de ...
  • Getting Government out of Your Eggs 'n Salmonella.
    As you've no doubt heard, a recent salmonella outbreak in eggs sickened more than 1,300 people and led to a recall of half a billion eggs. Why wasn't the government doing more to prevent this kind of thing? Well, here's a clue, in an article from 2007: The federal agency that's been front and cent ...

Buzzflash

  • Missouri-based Conservative Group Helping Bankroll ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH The Adam Smith Foundation�has contributed $498,000 – garnered from who knows who� and where -- to Proposition 23, a mostly oil company–funded November ballot measure aimed at suspending the state’s landmark emissions law. While the name Adam Smith might ring a bell, ...
  • Adequate Housing is a Basic Human Right That Takes ...
    SHAMUS COOKE FOR BUZZFLASH The recent chaos that erupted when 30,000 people waited hours in the Atlanta, Georgia heat to receive applications for subsidized housing is a mere symptom of a worsening national problem. � � The housing market appears to be on a never-ending downward spiral, with the ...
  • Dr. J.’s BF Commentary No. 152: Tipping Points, Ar ...
    STEVEN JONAS FOR BUZZFLASH Back on March 21, 2007, in a column on The Political Junkies.net , the predecessor webmagazine to TPJmagazine.us , I speculated that perhaps the primary objective of the Iraq Invasion from the beginning was not "oil and bases" which so many of us figured it was when the wa ...
  • Tony Peyser Reflects on the SC "Democratic" Candid ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH What a tough break for Alvin Greene. He must just feel like hell Especially since the campaign until now Had been going so well. � http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/alvin_greene_indicted_on_obscenity_charges.php?ref=fpa
  • The Struggle for Reason
    Body There’s a deep chasm of illogic across which voters must negotiate a leap that may still land them in improbable and fantastical territory. Many theories and much statistical data suggest Social Security is insolvent now or will be soon or will remain solvent for another decade o ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Charges against Julian Assange withdrawn, unfounde ...
    Every major media outlet blared overnight headlines that Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, had been criminally charged with rape and molestation in Sweden and arrested in abstentia.� This morning, however, we find this : Sweden Rescinds Warrant for WikiLeaks Founder ...
  • Why won't the Pentagon help WikiLeaks redact docum ...
    (updated below - Update II - Update III) When the controversy first arose over the lack of redactions in the war documents released by WikiLeaks, the website insisted that, using the New York�Times as an intermediary, it had asked the�Obama administration for help in removing names of A ...
  • Jeffrey Goldberg's fabrication on NPR
    (updated below � Update II) This is really quite strange.� Yesterday, my inbox began filling up with email telling me that Jeffrey Goldberg had gone on NPR�and, when asked about my critiques of his Atlantic article on bombing Iran, claimed I had "retracted" part of what I�had written. � ...
  • Video discussion with Gov. Howard Dean
    Howard Dean spoke to me this afternoon for roughly 20 minutes regarding his remarks on a New York City radio station yesterday concerning the proposed Islamic community center in Lower Manhattan, as well as the response he wrote , published today on Salon , to my criticisms.  During our conversation ...
  • Why I back a mosque compromise
    First of all, I am not going to back off. The reaction did surprise me because most of the negative reaction had to do with defending the constitutional rights of the builders of the center. Of course I never attacked those rights; I explicitly supported them, as the president also did this week. No ...

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Sciencebase

  • Sciencebase science news links for August 16th thr ...
    These are the latest science news links and snippets from Sciencebase: That underwater hydrocarbon plume is still there – Things in the Gulf of Mexico may not be cleaning themselves up quite as fast as some had claimed and many had hoped. Surprise, surprise Paracetamol use and risk of asthma in teen ...
  • What’s the point of the semantic web?
    I was scanning journal tables of contents as usual this week and it occurred to me that there must be a better way to find relevant and timely research information that would be of interest to Sciencebase readers…and, of course, out pops the following title: Technically approaching the semantic web ...
  • Cleaning up emissions
    Emissions trading is an economic workaround, a fudge if you will, to reducing one’s pollution levels by buying off the emissions credits of others who are polluting less. Emissions trading (also known as cap and trade) is a market-based approach used to control pollution by providing economic incent ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • OpenSecrets.org Launches 'Fueling Washington' Seri ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 23, 2010 Center for Responsive Politics Climate change legislation. Energy policy. The worst oil spill in American history. read more
  • Amnesty International Warns China that Death Penal ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 23, 2010 Amnesty International - USA Amnesty International warned today that proposed reforms of China's application of the death penalty may not result in significantly fewer executions. "Although we would welcome any reform that would in practice decrease executions in ...
  • New Report Highlights Challenges Facing Grand Cany ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 23, 2010 National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) This week, as the National Park Service commemorates its 94th anniversary, the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) today released a comprehensive report that highlights the opportunities and challenges ...
  • War Veterans/Military Family Members Successfully ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 23, 2010 War Veterans/Military Family Members Five peace activists successfully blockaded six buses carrying Fort Hood Soldiers deploying to Iraq outside Fort Hood's Clarke gate this morning at around 4 a.m. While the activists took the width of Clarke Rd. and slowed ...
  • CODEPINK Cofounder Arrested at Home of Blackwater ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 21, 2010 CODEPINK CODEPINK cofounder Medea Benjamin and other DC area activists were detained at the home of Blackwater Founder Erik Prince. The group dropped by to deliver a letter urging Prince not to flee the US to extradition-free UAE. His move, though couched by ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Latest Bi-Partisan Attack on Social Security: ...
    by James Ridgeway President Obama’s Deficit Commission is all smoke and mirrors. Its members are making a big show of laboring over ”painful” choices and considering all options in their quest to bring down the deficit. But inside the Beltway everyone knows what’s going to happen: The commission wil ...
  • Blackwater vs. Pinkwater: The Wife of Erik Prince ...
    by Medea Benjamin It felt surreal to be inside the home of Erik Prince, the founder, owner and chairman of Blackwater (or Xe, as it is now called). Prince, a former Navy Seal, provides security for the CIA, the Pentagon and the State Department. His company trains 40,000 people a year in skills that ...
  • Islamo-Gangsterism: In a Deteriorating Afghanistan ...
    by Ted Rall KABUL -- "In squads of roaring dirt bikes and armed to the teeth," Joshua Partlow reports in The Washington Post , "Taliban fighters are spreading like a brush fire into remote and defenseless villages across northern Afghanistan." Two other cartoonists and I were a day away from he ...
  • Living for Change: If Not Now, When?
    by Grace Lee Bogs I won't be marching with Jesse Jackson in the March called by the UAW and the NAACP to commemorate the August 28, 1963 March on Washington. That's not only because at 95 my marching days are over. As early as 1963, Malcolm X called the "I have a Dream" March a "Farce on Washington ...
  • We've Gone Into the Ecological Red
    by Andrew Simms At the weekend, Saturday 21 August to be precise, the world as a whole went into " ecological debt ". read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Book Review – The Transformation of War – Martin V ...
    By BJ Bjornson A few years ago, the blogger Fabius Maximus wrote that the secret to accurately predicting the trends of the Iraq War was to : 1. Carefully read Martin van Creveld’s book The Transformation of War (1991) . 2. Each week read the Sunday newspaper, or one of the major weekly mag ...
  • Pentagon Bets $1.3 Billion On No Real 2011 Afghan ...
    By Steve Hynd When discussing the gap between rhetoric and reality in politics, it's always worth remembering that "policy is what gets funded". Walter Pincus in the WaPo brings news of the current true direction of policy on Afghanistan. Three $100 million air base expansions in southern and northe ...
  • Petraeus’ Oily Spin about Progress in Afghanistan
    By Derick Crowe With General Petraeus' stop on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric now halfway over, it's worth taking a moment to unpack the unchallenged, false assertions and implications he's piled up thus far on his media tour. We decided to look into the claims he made about "oil spots" ...
  • 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 ...

Water Wars

  • Go Green, Ron Duncan: Water films still making a s ...
    Water-related films like "China Town" and "Step Into Liquid" are popular for their entertainment value, but they also can provide awareness and an oblique appreciation for water.
  • Population explosion: Part 2 of 2: Who will pay fo ...
    Some contemporary demographers have added a fourth stage to the Demographic Transition Theory (DTT). While African and numerous Asian nations continue to grow rapidly, Europe's population is projected to decline from 739 million in 2010 to about 720 million individuals in 2050. Were it not for the c ...
  • Population explosion
    Social scientists who study population dynamics (demographers) estimate that at the time of Christ there were no more than 250 million people in the world, about 57 million fewer individuals than reside in the United States today.
  • Candidates for governor back Forever Wild
    The candidates discussed environmental issues in a forum Thursday.
  • [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 ...

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Futurismic

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

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on Government Oversight

  • POGO Pays Tribute to an Extraordinary Colleague
    POGO lost a dear friend and colleague early Sunday morning. Beth Daley, who served for ten years as an integral part of POGO, passed away after a seven-year battle with breast cancer. You may read a tribute to Beth and...
  • Morning Smoke: So-Called Reviewers Didn't Actually ...
    by Dan Jamieson []
  • No Recess for Hill Gossip
    According to The Huffington Post, infighting, racism, name-calling, and document tampering are tearing the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee asunder: The main dispute is between a subcommittee staff director and a subcommittee clerk, with partisans of each dragged into...
  • Pentagon to Release Names of Moneyed Mentors, With ...
    USA Today recently published an update to their November 2009 investigation into retired military officers consulting for the Pentagon. At the time, the Defense Department (DoD) wouldn't release a full list of the mentors, but USA Today reporters Tom Vanden...
  • DOE Should Consider Another Renaming
    Apparently, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is going to announce a new name for the Nevada Test Site. Their reasoning—that the Site has grown out of its role as a testing facility—makes sense. However, we would propose that NNSA...

Digital Journal

  • Stripping the threads of reason
    Never has so much information regarding what our governments do been available, either via official release or unofficial leaks, but we consider ourselves to be oppressed like never before. Something’s obviously not right with that equation.
  • Missing teen found quickly by Toronto Police
    With the words from an officer Sunday night, "We've been looking for you," a missing teen case was solved in Toronto. Police surrounded the young man cuffing him quickly and lead him to a waiting squad car.
  • Michael Bublé donates concert proceeds to children ...
    When singer Michael Bublé played for his hometown Friday night he was giving back to the community.The sold out concert proceeds were being used to the local children's hospital.
  • Brampton man shot dead
    A Brampton man was murdered Saturday night at his home on Wickstead Court. This is the fifth murder in the Peel Region this year.
  • Woman Spends 20 years Trying to Leave the Catholic ...
    For many, joining a religion, whatever the religion may be, is not an easy task. There’s the deep introspective process and commitment needed, but many religions also have their own set of requirements. For many, leaving a religion is just as arduous.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • 5 Myths About Homeless Schools
    School's about to start in some areas and already has in others, and student homelessness is still nowhere close to declining. Some schools serve only homeless students, but they come under harsh, and often unfounded, criticism. Here are some of the myths about homeless schools: 1. It's segregation ...
  • YouTube Dedicates Homepage to Ending Homelessness
    YouTube may be your source for videos of finger-biting babies and Justin Bieber jams, but every so often the site serves as a tremendous platform for important social issues. Today YouTube will dedicate its homepage to the fight against homelessness by handing over the programing reins to Mark Horva ...
  • Do Yourself a Favor; Don't Search "Homeless" on Tw ...
    I wanted to cover my bases, know what was up at all times. So I started following real-time search results on Twitter for the word "homeless." How naive I was. The filth and vile that that column brings me everyday, when it doesn't defeat me, cuts my work out for me. It's unbelievable how callous we ...
  • Q&A With the "Godfather of Outreach"
    This new video comes from Mark's InvisiblePeople.tv  30-city, 11,000-mile, 75-day road trip , going on now. We're thrilled to see his interview with fellow Change.org contributor Steven Samra . It's  not uncommon to call an outreach worker and find his or her voicemail box full. Homeless service ...
  • Illinois IDs for the Homeless: Free, With Paperwor ...
    It's common and frustrating problem: practically everything requires identification, but getting an ID if you're homeless and don't have one is complicated, confusing, and in some situations nearly impossible . A year ago we told you how Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed into a law an amendment wai ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Canadians still want out of Afghanistan
    Almost 80 percent of Canadians want Canadian soldiers out of Afghanistan by the end of 2011, as currently scheduled, reports a recent Ipsos-Reid poll (Carmen Chai, âCanadians want to end Afghan mission by 2011, poll shows,â Postmedia News, 5 August 2010): “These numbers are very indicative of a ...
  • Ex-Pakistani spy chief says Afghanistan war cannot ...
    A former head of Pakistani intelligence, Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul, has stated that the conflict in Afghanistan cannot be won. Gul, whose agency worked closely with the Taliban prior to the U.S. invasion and continues to maintain ties with the organization, argued in an interview with CNN that the U.S. pre ...
  • 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.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Brandy Risks Her Job to Give You the Truth
    As I told you on Tuesday, I spent several weeks working for Kevin around the clock in Europe. I got to know Kevin and live the luxurious lifestyle he does on a daily basis. If you haven’t read my last blog, definitely go back and read that before reading on… The first week I was in [...]
  • Traditional Chinese Medicine Could Boost Cancer Tr ...
    August 20th, 2010 Telegraph By: Richard Alleyne Known as Huang Qin Tang, the mix of plant extracts, roots and fruit has been used for hundreds of years to treat stomach upsets and nausea. But now researchers have found that it not only does the same for patients on chemotherapy, it also [ ...
  • Ben & Jerry’s ‘Natural’ Ice Crea ...
    August 20th, 2010 Natural News By: Ethan A. Huff Consumer watchdog group Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is calling out popular ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s for using artificial and chemically-altered ingredients in its “All Natural” premium ice creams. According to CSPI at leas ...
  • Zinc Helps Prevent Pneumonia In Elderly
    August 20th, 2010 Natural News By: Ethan A. Huff A new report published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has found that zinc plays a very important role in health maintenance. In a study of over 600 seniors from 33 different nursing homes in the Boston area, researchers found that sen ...
  • Sunlight Can Cure Psoriasis
    August 20th, 2010 Natural News By:  S.L. Baker According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) about 7.5 million Americans suffer from the chronic, autoimmune skin disease called psoriasis that causes irritated, flaky and thick patches of red skin; some forms of psoriasis are also associate ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • The Ground Zero mosque that was there before Groun ...
    Masjid Manhattan wants to keep a low profile — which is understandable. At the top of their home page is a bold disclaimer: Please be advised that we are by no means affiliated with any other organization trying to build anything new in the area of downtown Manhattan. That blanket disclaimer is th ...
  • The new anti-Semitism
    Joshua Holland lays out some of the evidence that a wave of Islamophobia is sweeping America. In May, a man walked into the Jacksonville Islamic Center in Northeast Florida during evening prayers and detonated a pipebomb. Fortunately, there were no injuries. (If the man had been Muslim and the Hous ...
  • The man who won the war in Iraq
    After Moqtada al-Sadr’s recent meeting with Ayad Allawi — a top contender for the prime minister post in Iraq — Babak Dehghanpisheh considers Sadr’s current position as a kingmaker in Iraqi politics and his larger ambitions. Sadr can, rightfully, claim that his movement is one of the few on the Ira ...
  • Obama administration carries on the peace talks “t ...
    If you’re wondering how seriously to take the latest peace process gambit, this, from the Los Angeles Times, sums up the spirit of the latest move: One White House official on Friday described peace talks as a “tradition” in which every American president must participate. “This is something that ...
  • Pakistan flooding exposes our perverse priorities
    At Foreign Policy, Colum Lynch writes: Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi presented the U.N.’s members with a stark challenge: Help Pakistan recover from its most devastating natural disaster in modern history or run the risk of surrendering a key front in the war on terror. “This di ...

Watts Up With That?

  • TS Danielle Strengthening
    Now up to 65mph, not far from Cat 1 Hurricane category winds. Seems almost sure to be a Hurricane soon. The good news is that the path seems away from the Gulf, and it will help transport some of that … Continue reading →
  • Quote of the Week- you first, Dr. Thompson
    Some days I think it can’t get any crazier out there, and then I’m surprised yet again. From Dr. Loonie Lonnie Thompson, of Ohio State University: “I think we’ll have to get off this planet for glaciology to have a … Continue reading →
  • R expert replicates McShane and Wyner hockey stick ...
    Unlike what we’ve seen previously in climate science, where it takes years of complaints, demands, taunts, FOI’s and other assorted embarrassments to finally pry code and data out of scientists, McShane and Wyne made all their data and code available … Continue reading →
  • Pachy’s book review
    WUWT readers may recall this article and photo from earlier this year: IPCC now in Bizarroland: Pachauri releases âsmuttyâ romance novel Click for more photos from his book release. Well at least one person bought his book Return to Almora, and … Continue reading →
  • Picking Carbonated Cherries In 1975
    By Steve Goddard My friend Tamino says that “the modern global warming era starts in 1975.” He goes on : “Itâs an estimate of the time at which the trend in global temperature took its modern value.” As you can … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Blood Money by Felicity Arbuthnot
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at Global Research 21 August, 2010 “Let me ask you one question, is your money that good? Will it buy you forgiveness? Do you think that it could?” (Bob Dylan, Masters of War.) Sometimes a topic simply will not go away. These weeks, ...
  • John Pilger: Rebranding the Iraq War – The U ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ AlJazeeraEnglish | August 21, 2010 US combat forces have left Iraq, but who should be held accountable for the invasion and occupation that has left hundreds of thousands dead? Veteran investigative journalist John Pilger joins the show to discuss. Riz Khan – Th ...
  • In Defense of the Left/Right Distinction by Sean F ...
    by Sean Fenley Featured Writer Dandelion Salad The Anything and Everything Aug 21, 2010 Daniel Estulin gave an interview recently where he spoke about how the material that he was investigating was “really not about left and right”, the burgeoning world order that he uncovers — as put forward by the ...
  • For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ralph Nader
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Aug. 20, 2010 Bell, California, a working-class town of some 38,000 ten miles outside of Los Angeles, is a unique place. Its local government has proven to be citizen-proof, media proof, city-council proof and even leak-proof from in ...
  • US scientist retracts assurances over success of c ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Suzanne Goldenberg The Guardian 19 August 2010 NOAA’s Bill Lehr says three-quarters of the oil that gushed from the Deepwater Horizon rig is still in the Gulf environment while scientists identify 22-mile plume in ocean depths White House claims that the worst ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    Oh yes, this is cynical, and even bitter, but it's also an excellent and short expose of the formula so many, many Hollywood films put into the market every year. In Australia, the pressure is on producers, screenwriters and directors to turn out pap exactly like this, in the belief that the only wa ...
  • No title
    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 ...
  • No title
    "Mommy! Get The Oil Off!" By Darryl Mason Fucking hell. Thousands of Americans are swimming around in this toxic shit : Morons like this guy below are telling Americans it's okay to swim, and to take their children swimming, and for people from other states to come and swim in this oily stick ...
  • No title
    "Today, I Weep For My Country" Senator Robert Byrd was called everything from a traitor to treasonous, anti-American to Saddam comfort giver for this incredible, powerful speech the night American bombs began to slam in Baghdad, back in March 2003. Senator Byrd was right, of course, about almost e ...
  • No title
    Police violence against Sydney anti-war protesters 2004 - 2007 : The song is Prisoner Of Society by The Living End.

Wired - Science

  • Danish Volunteers Build Manned Spacecraft
    A team of Danish volunteers has built a rocket capable of carrying a human into space, and will be launching it in a week’s time. The project, which has been funded entirely by donations and sponsorship, is led by Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen. The rocket is named HEAT1X-TYCHO BRAHE, and ...
  • Magnificent Marine Algae Blooms Seen From Space
    << previous image | next image >> When microscopic marine organisms known as phytoplankton multiply into a dense population at the ocean’s surface, massive blooms can spread so far that they can only be seen from space. These algal blooms create beautiful patterns that c ...
  • The Precarious Future of Ocean Color Satellite Ima ...
    The United States owns three orbiting satellites capable of measuring plant life in the world’s oceans, and they’re all on their last legs. That has ocean scientists pushing NASA to have its next satellite take an occasional look at the moon, a critical step for transmitting accurate images of the ...
  • Our Solar System: Now With 2 Million Years More Ma ...
    New measurements of an old rock show that the solar system may be up to two million years older than scientists previously thought. The new birth date could resolve a major controversy among geochemists, and provides extra evidence that the solar system got its heavy elements from the explosion of ...
  • Newly Discovered Chlorophyll Catches Infrared Ligh ...
    A new kind of chlorophyll that catches sunlight from just beyond the red end of the visible light spectrum has been discovered. The new pigment extends the known range of light that is usable by most photosynthetic organisms. Harnessing this pigment’s power could lead to biofuel-generating algae th ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Noam Chomsky: Obama’s Imperialist Policies (video)
    Noam Chomsky talks about US and Israeli aggression in Lebanon and the Middle East, criticizing Obama's right-wing policies, war making, medical care, coziness with commercial interests. He warns of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Charles Glass: Land and Sovereignty
    What is at stake in the conflict over Israel and Palestine are land and sovereignty — the traditional core issues of colonial and anti-colonial rivalry — not theology... Until the US withholds the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Israeli army’s female recruits denounce treatment ...
    It was a single word scrawled on a wall at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem that unlocked something deep inside ... two years after she had completed compulsory military service in the IDF. The... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • UN receives over 100 complaints of police, IDF abu ...
    Since September 2009, Defence for Children International has given the UN details of more than 100 cases in which the military authorities allegedly abused minors who were held in detention. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in it ...
  • Ran Greenstein: Israel/Palestine and the apartheid ...
    Is Israel an apartheid state? The notion of apartheid may be applicable in different ways to different components of the system. While Israel clearly is different from South African historical... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Math from the Heart: Simulating Stent Design and C ...
    Using computer models to study the strengths and weaknesses of different stent structures could help manufacturers optimize stent design and help doctors choose the right stents for their patients.
  • Government Urges Universal Flu Vaccinations
    The flu kills more than 35,000 people in the United States in an average year--and most of those deaths could be prevented with a simple vaccine. After last year's H1N1 outbreak, the government says everyone over the age of 6 months needs a flu shot this year.
  • From Ashram to Inc.--Unlikely Entrepreneur Profile ...
    A disillusioned but determined survivor of 20 years in a yoga ashram has landed on the "Inc. 500" list of America's fasting-growing private companies.
  • Lifting the Veil of Secrecy Surrounding Developmen ...
    Scientists are reporting a new drug-discovery process called "Open-source drug discovery" that involves an online community of computer users, including students, from around the world working together to discover and develop much-needed new drugs. The process could lead to inexpensive drugs for tub ...
  • American Chemical Society National Meeting Hosts S ...
    With laws, government regulations, and funding priorities continuing to exert a broad impact on science, the American Chemical Society (ACS) is holding a special symposium Aug. 23 at its 240th National Meeting and Exhibition here to familiarize future scientists with the unfamiliar realm of public p ...

Natural Health News

  • Swine Flu Vaccine May Have Caused Narcolepsy
    The Swedish Medical Products Agency has received reports from health care professionals regarding narcolepsy as suspected adverse drug reaction following Pandemrix flu vaccination. The reports concern teenaged children who developed narcolepsy symptoms one to two months after vaccination agains ...
  • Wet Wipes May Cause Rashes
    Using wet wipes after going to the bathroom can cause severe allergic reactions in some people.� Doctors have long known that many of the preservatives used in wet wipes can cause rashes. But the authors of the new report have singled out one chemical, methylchloroisothiazolinone (MCI), as a cause o ...
  • Dark Chocolate Bits Protect Women Against Heart Fa ...
    Eating a small amount of high-quality dark chocolate, one to three times a month, could help prevent heart failure in women.� However, if you ingest too much chocolate, the protective effect goes away. A study looked at the chocolate-eating habits of close to 32,000 women over a period of nine year ...
  • Low Vitamin D Levels Tied to High Blood Pressure i ...
    A new study finds that women who develop a severe form of pregnancy-related high blood pressure tend to have lower blood levels of vitamin D.� The condition is known as early-onset severe preeclampsia, and it contributes to about 15 percent of preterm births in the U.S. each year. Researchers found ...
  • British Child Prodigy Compared to Picasso
    Seven year old Kieran Williamson first picked up a paintbrush at age six.� His work has sold for a total of fifty thousand dollars.

Antemedius

  • The Big Bubble Is Bursting: Is There Life After Ca ...
    Paul Jay of the Real News Network talks in November 2008 at The Krahl Academy about US foreign policies, blowback, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the concurrent crises of capitalism, of media, of economies, of terrorism, of fascism, of corporatism, of corruption in US political parties, about the sh ...
  • Constructive Criticism
    Dear Mr. President, Thank you for all you have accomplished in your time in office. I sincerely appreciate all of the many ways you are different than George Bush. Your wife and children are beautiful and vivacious and a pleasure to watch and in Michelle's case, listen to. And by the way, that tie r ...
  • Alarmist
    She sat rocking her baby in her arms, looking out the window at the rain, hoping that its ferocity would drown out the scream rising within her. The scream was the kind you feel when you realize that you may have made a huge, irreversible mistake. With someone else's life. The kind of rising scream ...
  • No Way Out: The Greatest Depression
    Daniel Tencer writing at RawStory Friday reported that "The US economic recovery in recent quarters is little more than a "cover-up" and the world is headed for a "Greatest Depression," complete with social unrest and class warfare, says a renowned economic forecaster. Gerald Celente, head of the Tr ...
  • George Orwell's Iraq
    "Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today challenged the notion that removing 'combat brigades' but leaving 50,000 U.S. troops in Iraq constitutes an end to combat operations, let alone an end to the war", a press release issued by Kucinich datelined Washington, Aug 19, 2010 and published on the Con ...

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

  • Can the U.S. Prosecute Wikileaks’ Founder? Sure, I ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The WSJ has an article on the U.S. Defense Department’s push for a criminal prosecution of Wikileaks for releasing U.S. government documents on the Afghanistan war. Several officials said the Defense and Justice departments were now exploring legal options for prosecuti ...
  • Assessing Kampala: The U.S. Could Have Done Worse, ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I have been negligent in failing to post on two excellent assessments of the recent ICC Review Conference in Kampala and its ultimate decision on aggression.  Both assessments (one by Heritage’s Brett Schaefer and the other by George Mason’s Jeremy Rabkin) give the Obam ...
  • From the Department of Unintended Irony
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Omar Khadr’s trial began a couple of days ago at Guantanamo.  Here is what the prosecutor said in his opening statement: This trial is about holding an Al Qaeda terrorist accountable for his actions and vindicating the laws of war. Two small problems wit ...
  • Bleg: How Would You Define ‘National Security Law ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Further to a mysterious correspondent, who asks what would be a clear, simple, and brief - as in one to three sentences - definition of the field of national security law, of the kind you might include in a law school, grad school, or undergrad course catal ...
  • How to Define Piracy Under U.S. Law and the “Law o ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The WSJ has a nice discussion of the tricky legal arguments in the upcoming trial of alleged pirates in U.S. federal court.  Apparently, the prosecutors and defense attorneys are battling over the fact that U.S. statutes criminalizing piracy leave the definition to “the ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story by Ian Wisha ...
    It's just been brought to my attention that I haven't offered non-subscribers the chance to pre-order the new book on the Crewe murders being released by us next month. Accordingly, here's the gist of the email that went out to...
  • ClimateDepot locates possibly the world’s dumbest ...
    As an indicator of just how dumbed-down global warming believers are on the science of climate change, Climate Depot's Marc Morano revealed tonight a seminar delegate seriously believed the CO2 from car exhaust fumes would kill him in an enclosed...
  • Sins of Science Media Centre’s Omission
    PR hack Peter Griffin is at it again, this time complaining that a Waikato farmer should have been left to die by medical science, rather than allowing his family to administer the unproven Vitamin C therapy now claimed to have...
  • Free TGIF Edition just out
    We're making TGIF available free for now...you can either click on the flash version below, or click the link below it to download the pdf: Open publication - Free publishing - More sport http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/?attachment_id=975
  • 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...

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

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

Pensieve

  • Asleep (a short story)
      Photo by eye of einstein I am holding a thread and staring into a labyrinth. Darkness is falling, and the gold of sunset begins to fade from the moss that drapes its walls. Ancient stones lose their friendliness and succumb to moist cold. Only the sky remains cheerful. Inside the labyrinth darknes ...
  • Criminal Rule in Honduras
    Photo by markarinafotos While Rome is burning, everyone is hypnotized by the fiddling emperor Chavez. Crime and impunity in Honduras, which steadily worsened during Manuel Zelaya’s administration, has only gotten worse under Porfirio Lobo. But Mr. Lobo is busy courting international opinion, in the ...
  • Hurricane Alex Aftermath
    (I wrote the following entry on Friday, July 2, but have been unable to post it until today. As of now, there is no water in my house.) I just arrived home after exploring the are around my home after Hurricane Alex tore through Monterrey. The hurricane made landfall Wednesday night as a category tw ...
  • Agatha’s Aftermath in Tegucigalpa
    Over the weekend, tropical storm Agatha, the first of 2010, deluged Central America. Rain had already been falling for weeks in some localities, which brought a level of devastation unheard of since Hurricane Mitch 12 years ago. Over a hundred people lost their lives, 17 or 18 of them in Honduras. H ...
  • Lobo Will Go But Not Attend EU Summit
    The BBC has clarified my confusion around Honduran President Porfirio Lobo’s presence in the EU Summit. He will attend a parallel event, but not the summit itself. This is to appease the Chavez block who seemingly will never forgive Honduras for removing their ally Manuel Zelaya from office. His coa ...

Green Times

  • Henna benefits
    Henna is an eco product (glossary/categories/lifestyle/eco-products.html). This natural resource (glossary/categories/energy/natural-resources.html) is identified for its benefits as a pure essential oil (lifestyle/pure-essential-oils.html) and pigment. It is used for its therapeutically and colouri ...
  • Moving Forward with Stationary Energy
    We need to encourage the step changes in technology that will transform our economy and help Australia become an Energy Superpower…
  • Environmental News 20/08/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • No drinking water
    The shortage of clean drinking water is a reality for 900 million people across the world!It is a major problem that is often overlooked despite the fact that in many underdeveloped countries drinking water shortage causes death. Children die every day from water contaminated by water pollutant (glo ...
  • Environmental News 19/08/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Protesters demonstrate for, against 'Ground Zero' ...
    ShareThis Protesters demonstrate for, against 'Ground Zero' mosque 22 Aug 2010 Several hundred supporters and opponents of plans to build a mosque near the site of the September 11, 2001 attacks staged peaceful rival protests Sunday, some brandishing signs against Islam and others denouncing religio ...
  • Brad Pitt 'willing to look at the death penalty' i ...
    ShareThis Brad Pitt�'willing to look at the death penalty' in rant against BP 22 Aug 2010 Brad Pitt has waded into the Gulf oil spill controversy with an extraordinary veiled attack on BP. The Hollywood actor said he would consider the death penalty for those to blame for the ruptured well that gush ...
  • Sweden clears WikiLeaks editor of rape
    ShareThis Sweden clears WikiLeaks editor of rape 21 Aug 2010 Authorities in Sweden on Saturday withdrew a rape charge filed a day earlier against Julian Assange, the Australian-born founder of WikiLeaks, and canceled a warrant for his arrest. The move comes just ahead of the expected release of thou ...
  • Barak seeks to block aid ship to Gaza
    ShareThis Barak seeks to block aid ship to Gaza 22 Aug 2010 Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has asked US and French officials to prevent the Lebanese aid ship Mariam from sailing to the besieged Gaza strip. In phone calls to US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, US National Security Adviser Jame ...
  • Power protest injures 16 in Iraq
    ShareThis Power protest injures 16 in Iraq 22 Aug 2010 At least 16 people have been injured as dozens of Iraqis in the southern city of Nasiriyah turned out in the streets protesting the shortage of power supplies. The protesters said the provincial government was not providing sufficient basic serv ...

Daily Loaf

  • 4 oral sex toys you didn’t know you needed
    While you may think you’ve perfected the ancient art of oral sex, there are a few oral aids you might want to try to take your tongue twisting talents to the next level. The ladies might be going wild over your tantalizing tongue tricks, sending woman after woman into orgasmic heaven, but if you ha ...
  • What else is Jim Norman hiding? Well, we can’t fin ...
    Is Jim Norman misleading the press and voters about his "education" and does anybody else find it odd that someone who has "studied accounting" and claims to be a fiscal conservative promoting traditional family values does not know the details of his wife's expensive vacation home? Uh-huh.
  • Last day polls show Meek in command, Scott ready t ...
    Happy Monday to you all. One more day and counting before……we then have two more months before another election! But let’s talk about polls. The St. Pete Times today has an article that indirectly tries to explain why their last, biggest poll showed results that nobody else has been showing. But h ...
  • New poll has Rick Scott up with day to go before p ...
    Nobody, I mean, nobody else is showing that Jeff Greene is leading Kendrick Meek. In fact, PPP shows Meek now kicking Greene's tail, 51%-27%).
  • It Happened This Week-ish: True Blood cast gets na ...
    Bloody naked people. Do they make you feel sexy or queasy? I am about to throw up, and not in a sexy way. Discuss in the comments. Speaking of True Blood, Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer are officially married. I really hope they didn’t bring that blood on their honeymoon. Hold on, hold on, hol ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Nation of Misguided Teenagers
    by Eitan Isaacson, crossposted at his Monotonous.org blog. “I still don’t understand what I did wrong. Seriously, I don’t understand!” Eden said during a morning radio interview after pictures of her posing next to blindfolded Palestinian detainees were found on her Facebook page. Of course she ...
  • Massacre, with a smile
    A few days ago we learned about Eden Aberjil, an Israeli woman who posted pictures on her Facebook account of her abusing bound Palestinian prisoners at the time of her military service. The picture is captioned ‘Army service, the most wonderful time of my life!’ The controversy reached the New York ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • So that’s what happened
    Cartoon from The Independent
  • The problem isn’t just anti-mosque forces on the r ...
    It is also the gutless, complicit Democratic “leadership” like Harry Reid and Howard Dean and, yes, President Obama who do nothing to support religious freedom but instead meekly side with those attacking it. “You are either hot or cold. If you are lukewarm, the Lord will spew you out of his mouth.” ...
  • I really hope this is just saber-rattling
    Ahmadinejad: Israel ‘too weak face up to Iran’ Israel Knesset member: “We are preparing for war” If not, then the lunatics have taken over their respective asylums
  • Is capitalism doomed? – Part IV
    Stuart Bramhall continues his series about capitalism and socialism In general, Marxists believe the economic laws that govern capitalism make it inherently flawed – dooming it to eventual failure. They also see a grave risk that the collapse of capitalism will bring down civilization with it. Which ...
  • Double dips
    Via The Big Picture

Coteret

  • Hudson’s co-founder, the Israeli academic pu ...
    Evidence is mounting that the Institute for Zionist Strategies (IZS) — an Israeli NGO at the forefront of an ongoing campaign to purge Israeli Universities of faculty and programs deemed âleft-wingâ — is a creature of  The Hudson Institute, a major Washington based neoconservative think-tank, ...
  • Hudson Institute, Uzi Arad (and Iran) ctd.: The mo ...
    Last Thursday (August 19 2010) Coteret demonstrated that The Hudson Institute, a major Washington based neoconservative think-tank, which played an active role in shaping the Bush administrationâs Middle East policies, has been the largest financial backer of the Institute for Zionist Strategie ...
  • Maariv: Emanuel told Dermer “don’t fuc ...
    In this Friday’s Maariv, senior diplomatic columnist Ben Caspit speculates on where the diplomatic process, and US-Israeli relations, are headed [full translation of section at bottom of post]. For color, he gives us this: In any case, the real US attitude towards the Netanyahu government hasn’t c ...
  • 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 ...

Deadline Live

  • GOP candidate: Use prisons as ‘welfare dorms’
    Republican candidate for governor Carl Paladino said he would transform some New York prisons into dormitories for welfare recipients, where they could work in state-sponsored jobs, get employment training and take lessons in “personal hygiene.” Paladino, a wealthy Buffalo real estate developer popu ...
  • This Day In History – August 23
    1305 – William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England. 1775 – King George III declares that the American colonies exist in a state of open and avowed rebellion. 1784 – Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under th ...
  • Headless bodies hung from Mexico bridge
    MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Four decapitated and mutilated corpses were strung from a bridge in a popular getaway outside the Mexican capital Sunday, the latest atrocity as the country battles an escalating drug war. The bodies of the four young men were discovered early on Sunday, hung upside down by t ...
  • Assange arrest warrant ‘no mistake’
    Prosecutors in Sweden have said that they did not make a mistake when they issued an arrest warrant, which was later quickly withdrawn, for Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder, on sexual abuse charges. The country’s prosecution authority has dropped raped charges against him, but a separate molest ...
  • Deadline Live – August 20 2010
    Jack Blood and Paul Topete (Pokerface) read news from Deadline Live.info Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d15039').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });

The Air Vent

  • Understanding Climate
    I’m not sure what the heck this post is.  I suppose it’s my attitude toward AGW after two years of discussing climate science in blogland.  Perhaps after a couple of weeks of publishing accurate pro-AGW science (not extremist) it’s cathartic to post the rest of the story. Possible alternate titles ...
  • Charlatans of Science Zhao and Running
    Ok, this is the latest in global warming propaganda: MISSOULA, Mont., Aug. 20 (UPI) — Plant productivity around the world, once on the rise with warming temperatures and a longer growing season, is declining because of droughts, researchers say. Researchers at the University of Montana analyzed NASA ...
  • Comparison and Critique of Anomaly Combination Met ...
    This post is a comparison of the first difference method with other anomaly methods and an explanation of why first difference methods don’t work well for temperature series as well as comparison to other methods. The calculatoins here are relatively simple.  First I built 10,000 artificial temp se ...
  • Three Views on a Mosque
    We all keep reading about the ground zero hundred million dollar mosque.  The news writes what they allege are the mainstream views on the subject. 1 – From the perspective of Americans, it’s an issue with freedom of religion vs an issue of sensitivity to the heinous murder of thousands of people b ...
  • SNR Estimates of M08 Temperature Proxy Data
    Reposted at Climate Audit. Occasionally when working on one thing long enough, you discover something unexpected that allows you to take a step forward in understanding.  At the ICCC conference, I met Steve McIntyre and took time to ask him how come Mann07 “Robustness of proxy-based climate field r ...

Focal Point

  • Let The Eat Cake, Or Brine Shrimp: NYT Celebrates ...
    How are cutting-edge conspicuous consumers blowing their excess cash? Fantasy fish tanks, according to the New York Times. The Home and Garden section devoted hundreds of words to the "six-figure fish tank" trend. One super-custom tank cost $750,000, according to the article. People who pay over $5 ...
  • Book Review: "Charlatan: America's most dangerous ...
    Charlatan is one of my top two goat-related works of narrative non-fiction. Brock Pope's gripping account of the rise and fall of one of the most flamboyant and deadly quacks of all time edges out Jon Ronson's The Men Who Stare at Goats for the top spot. The quack in question was "Dr." John Brinkey ...
  • Why Did SEIU Give $100,000 to the Republican Gover ...
    By now you've probably heard about Fox News' parent corporation giving a million dollars to the Republican Governors Association. Noteworthy, but not necessarily surprising. While leafing through the RGA's IRS filings for Working In These Times , I discovered something out of the ordinary: The Serv ...
  • 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 ...

Inside Facebook

  • Group Buying Startups Find New Avenue to Customers ...
    Group buying startups, which let consumers get deals with local businesses en masse, are finding a new route to customers beyond the e-mail newsletter and prolific online advertising campaign. They’re tapping into social games, in a marriage of two of the most lucrative revenue models to emerge off ...
  • This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games
    Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games â tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Sunday, August 15h, 2010 Slide’s History Points to Google’s Social Plans Monday, August 16th, 2010 Happy Elements Takes to Bartendin ...
  • Current Places Of Friends Now Appear On Facebook.c ...
    Facebook now lists the current Places locations of your closest friends in the “Happening Now” section of the events home page. This gives users of the fixed web version of facebook.com a way of seeing a list of Places their friends have recently checked in to, something previously only available on ...
  • Facebook Roundup: Apple, Places, Hot Potato Acquis ...
    Apple, Facebook ‘BFFs’ - This week “The Facebook Effect” author David Kirkpatrick gave an interview to Chris Hill in which he asserts that because the Facebook app is the most widely used across Apple’s products, and that Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Apple’s Steve Jobs have been spending some qual ...
  • RIM Updates Facebook For Blackberry App With Confu ...
    Research In Motion released a new version of its Facebook for Blackberry mobile application yesterday. The app includes improvements to news feed and photo loading, but doesnât include support for Facebookâs new Places feature. Reviews of the app have generally been negative, with strong critici ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Iraq war dissenter Kelly’s postmortem report remai ...
    British Attorney-General Dominic Grieve’s response to widespread calls for Dr David Kelly’s postmortem files to be released continues to indicate that the government is hiding something of importance, argues Christopher King.
  • Israel’s sickness goes beyond one soldier and her ...
    Lawrence Davidson considers the case of the female Israeli soldier who posted pictures of herself with handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian prisoners. He argues that, rather than being an isolated incident, this is in fact symptomatic of the indecency of the State of Israel and its ideology, Zioni ...
  • Zionists in bid to subvert Wikipedia
    Gilad Atzmon views the latest attempts by Israelis, Zionists and “anti-Zionist” pretenders to sabotage the free encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
  • The secrets in Israel’s archives: evidence of ethn ...
    Jonathan Cook reports that secrets of serious war crimes, such as the ethnic cleansing of the Syrian Golan Heights following the 1967 war, lay behind the Israeli government’s decision to extend from 50 to70 years the period during which sensitive state documents must remain classified.
  • Who is the Israeli state loyal to?
    Neve Gordon argues that the demand of a loyalty oath in Israel has ominous similarities to the demands made by Mussolini's Italy, and that the Israeli state must “be loyal to all of its citizens, regardless of race, colour, gender, language, religion, political opinions, national or social origin, p ...

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

  • Podcast Show #31
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Ray McGovern Ray McGovern shares with us his analysis of the recent article published in the Atlantic written by the infamous American-Israeli writer Jeffrey Goldberg on Israel’s case for bombing Iran and the reasons why the United States should join in. He talks about t ...
  • 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 ...

Afro Spear

  • sat’day riddymz
  • 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 [...]

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

  • The Mortgage Meltdown - Some Foreclosure Rescue Sc ...
    Desperate U.S. homeowners facing foreclosure are being duped by con artists. The scammers employ a variety of schemes such as a “forensic mortgage loan audit” that promises to find errors in loan origination terms that will help the homeowner negotiate a loan modification or even cancel the loan, ac ...
  • The Toxic Edge - Mexico's Asbestos Casualties Moun ...
    Situated among homes and schools in Barrio de San Lucas, a working-class neighborhood in the Mexico City suburb of Iztapalapa, the fortress-like brick building emits a pungent, scorched-rubber odor that makes the eyes water and the head throb. It’s impossible to see inside. A maker of asbestos brake ...
  • Ground Zero Mosque - Russell Simmons is Quite Wron ...
    I�still remember, Russell, when you came to my debate with Rev. Al Sharpton, nine years ago, in New York City. You struck me then as a man of warmth and openness. In that spirit I offer you this response to your recent blog postings in the Huffington Post�supporting the Ground Zero mosque and your c ...
  • Ground Zero Mosque Endorsed by Hamas as a "Must"
    The Hamas terror group has endorsed the Ground Zero Mosque. Its cofounder Mahmoud al-Zahar declared, "We have to build everywhere." He also said, "We have to build the mosque, as you are allowed to build the church and Israelis are building their holy places." Now what does this tell you about the p ...
  • Mendoza Against the Deaf - The Last Stand for the ...
    Special interest groups with a lack of ethics are currently making their way through the Capitol in Sacramento to lobby for the bill AB 2072. On one hand, in the legal prose, AB 2072 is about parents’ choices for their Deaf newborns. On the other hand, analyzing the jargon, it is about corporations’ ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Obamas Delusions: The Economy And Iraq
    By Shamus Cooke If youve listened to recent speeches the President has given about the economy and the Iraq war, youd think that two of the biggest social issues facing working Americans are improving. But facts are stubborn things
  • What You Will Not Hear About Iraq
    By Adil E. Shamoo Iraq has between 25 and 50 percent unemployment, a dysfunctional parliament, rampant disease, an epidemic of mental illness, and sprawling slums. The killing of innocent people has become part of daily life. What a havoc the United States has wreaked in Iraq
  • The Charade Announced: Latest Israeli No-Peace/Pea ...
    By Stephen Lendman Another grand illusion is assured, fudged to look real. Henry Kissinger coined the phrase constructive ambiguity, meaning to give negotiations an appearance of progress. For others, its putting lipstick on a pig
  • When you say Zionist, what do you mean?
    By Uri Avnery Now I am more and more tempted to ask: When you say Zionism, what do you mean? That is also my answer when asked whether I am a Zionist. When you say Zionist, what do you mean?
  • Indias Sham Nuclear Liability Bill
    By Toxic Watch British Petroleum (BP) is facing a bill of up to $34 billion from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster. After US senators demanded, the oil company deposited $20 billion (about Rs 92000 crores) into a ring-fenced account to meet escalating compensation costs but the way Indian legi ...

Contagious Love Experiment

  • WAR IS OVER… If You Claim It?
    In the midst of pleasant nods about “the end of the Iraq War,” Mr. Stephen Colbert celebrates in style… (Click The Word-What if they threw a peace and nobody came) The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – What If You Threw a Peace and Nobody Came? www.colbertnation.com Colbert Repo ...
  • 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 [...]

Yid With Lid

  • How Zbigniew Brzezinski Created the Taliban Our En ...
    Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Adviser for Jimmy Carter, is an unofficial advisor to President Obama, and NSA Jones, as well as being an advocate for the appeasement of the Iranian regime of President Ahmadinejad, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. Any advice from� Brzezinski hould ...
  • The U.S. Announcement About The Israel/Palestinian ...
    By Barry Rubin The U.S. announcement�inviting Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) for direct talks shows quite clearly, though unintentionally, why the talks will fail. Special Envoy George Mitchell explains: “We are all well aware that there remains mistrust between the parti ...
  • Progressive Christian Guru/Obama Advisor Jim Walli ...
    There is an old saying that politics make strange bedfellows. A great example of this is seen in the union of a George Soros, Jewish born billionaire� who colluded with the Nazis and was convicted of inside trading, funding the organization of Jim Wallis�Christian writer and political activist, fou ...
  • Aug 23, 1929, The Arabs Massacred the Jews Of Hebr ...
    As Iran moves closer to producing nuclear weapons many people are wondering if Israel will attack the Iranian nukes and what/if any role will the United States have. If Israel decides to preemptively strike the Iranian weapons program, they will not be holding their breath waiting to see if the US ...
  • Direct Talk About Direct (Israel-Palestinian) Talk ...
    By Barry Rubin The big story of the moment is the announcement that there will soon be direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). Perhaps, but for the moment Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has merely issued of an invitation to come and talk. Generally, s ...

The Real Agenda

  • U.S. Combat Troops Remain in Iraq
    Note: Although most stream media lied to the public about the one hundred percent complete removal of combat troops, at least 50,000 soldiers will remain in Iraq under disguised names. One has already been killed since the official announcement of Obama's version of Mission Accomplished. In reali ...
  • Raios solares UV-B para curar a psoríase
    De acordo com o National Institute of Health (NIH) dos Estados Unidos cerca de 7.5 milhões de americanos sofrem de psoríase crônica, doença auto-imune da pele, causando o aparecimento de manchas, pele irritada, escamosa e espessa. Algumas formas de psoríase também estão associadas com dor nas articu ...
  • Rayos Solares UV-B para Curar Psoriasis
    Según el Instituto Nacional de Salud (NIH) de Estados Unidos, alrededor de 7,5 millones de estadounidenses sufren de psoriasis crónica, enfermedad auto inmune de la piel que causa la aparición de parches de piel irritada, escamosa y gruesa.  Algunas formas de psoriasis también se asocian con dolor e ...
  • Female Dictator Rules Argentina
    Cristina Fernandez does not like criticism or free markets. She prefers foreign corporations in control of her country.
  • Take Sunlight to Cure Psoriasis
    Comprising the "tanning rays" from the sun that are blocked by sunscreen and long feared for supposedly causing wrinkles and "age spots", UV-B light, it turns out, actually promotes health by increasing levels of vitamin D.

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

  • How Beastly-Animals in Revolt…
    Also titled “Unbearable” and “revolting animals”. The story, COLUMBIA STATION, Ohio â A bear attacked and killed its caretaker at the home of a man who kept a menagerie of dangerous, exotic beasts and ran afoul of animal regulators a few years ago by staging wrestling matches between bears and hum ...
  • Generals say “we’ll only resume combat ...
    ..the Iraqi people reject our Puppet Dictatorship. Meanwhile we’ll keep our bases there to intimidate them into not developing a rebellious attitude, like thinking they’re good enough to rule themselves without our intereference. And of course make sure the Iraqi government lives up to the agreement ...
  • AP says “rumors” of Barack Obama being ...
    When it’s not in fact Rumors. Rumors would be started and spread through grass roots. What IS the case is a Republican-Ku Klux Klan joint action of Disinformation with deliberate lies spread as though they were actual facts, through such Well-Respected Journalistic Engines as FOX Noise Nutwerx and t ...
  • “we convict them on the front page”
    And the appeals are on the back page. That was something actually said by a Dallas County District Attorney in relation to having convicted a Spanish-American citizen for “dealing crack” and the so-called evidence turned out to be ground up wallboard. Gypsum. CHALK. When the Appeals Court overturned ...
  • Why Rivera refused to take 42 million in “ba ...
    Because it’s “earmarked” specifically to create jobs from the bottom up, instead of, as his USUAL corporate welfare installments made directly to the “leaders” of the Military Industrial Complex are, to the Richest Citizens and with the wink wink nudge nudge say no more Gentleman’s Agreement that so ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Debunking Joseph Nobles: 7 Problems With 7 Respons ...
    Debunker Joseph Nobles has recently made a new version of his site , although it is still very much incomplete. In his latest post he has decided to address the newest site on WTC 7 made by former NASA engineer Dwain Deets . Unlike Pat Curley , who decided to examine only a few of Mr. Deets' points ...
  • 7/7 The Big Picture
    Keelan Balderson- wideshutuk Youtube.com A very good documentary on the 7/7 bombings. Very precise, informative, and (as pointed out in part one) not made by someone claiming to be the Messiah. Side note: The maker of this film informed me that more parts will be uploaded, so the playlist will h ...
  • Debunking Dave Thomas, Ryan Mackey, and Zdenek Baz ...
    So the 9/11 debate between Richard Gage and Dave Thomas on Coast to Coast AM took place last night and I forgot to tune in. A commenter at the JREF forum says they are going to post. it. if so I will link it here later. In the meantime, I was scanning the comments there and in the Above Top Secret f ...
  • SPLC Claptrap
    'Patriot' Paranoia: A Look at the Top Ten Conspiracy Theories http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/fall/patriot-paranoia Errm... Excuse me SPLC, but I am not "radical right" and I believe in these things . Martial law has already happened - it happens eve ...
  • Mr. Deets Shows Curley is the Clown
    Mr. Deeds Goes to Town was a comedy, and in his post " Mr Deets Goes To Town " Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog makes the case that former NASA aerospace research engineer Dwain Deets ' new site called 7 Problems with Building 7 is a comedic show as well. Pat states: "It's about as bad as ...

Fooducate

  • Nothing Special About Added Fiber in Special K Cer ...
    Kellogg’s Special K line of cereals has quietly been upgraded nutritionally. Sort of. The company has added 1 gram of fiber to the Special K’s, excluding the original flavor. One gram doesn’t sound like a lot, but it’s 50% more than the 2 grams already present. And more importantly, it takes the fi ...
  • School Snack Suggestions?
    Millions of nerve-wracked parents will be liberated in the coming weeks, after spending a long hot summer trying to entertain their vacationing offspring. Kids, we love ya, but glad to see you back on a schedule with sane bedtime hours, structure to the day, and less ruckus at home. As it relates t ...
  • Half a Billion Eggs Recalled. 5 Tips to Play It Sa ...
    With 3 recalls in just 2 weeks, this summer salmonella fest has got to be one of the biggest food safety scares of 2010.   And since nobody is saying this is over yet, there could be more cases reported next week. Bill Marler and Marion Nestle are doing a great job reporting on the outbreak, [...]
  • Food at the Beach
    A short blog post today – heading out to the beach with the kids for some fun in the sun before the school year begins. Kids get very hungry swimming and building sandcastles, but the sand and the heat make it a challenge to keep everyone fed and hydrated while maintaining at least some semblence o ...
  • Egg Beaters and Cholesterol Confusion
    One of the problems with nutrition science is that it changes every once in a while when new research come in, but it takes the public a long time to readjust its mindset. The result is mass confusion regarding what’s truly healthy. Eggs were historically considered a nutrient rich food that were a ...

Traffikd

  • 5 Facebook Apps That Really Make Money
    Guest post by Alexis Bonari If you aren't on Facebook by now, you are probably the only one who isn't. My grandmother has a Facebook page and anyone who can type, is able to start their own page with no problem. Most everyone uses Facebook as a social meeting place, but did you know that you coul ...
  • Online Profits Re-Opens (and now it’s free)!
    Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips started a membership site, Online Profits , last year to help people learn about making money online. Daniel has just re-launched and re-vamped Online Profits, and this time there is no charge to get all of the valuable content. The only requirement is that you open ...
  • 3 Ways to Ensure Internet Marketing Continues to W ...
    This is a guest post by Susan White Gone are the days when Internet marketing was perceived as the bold, new and innovative way to market and publicize your products and services. Today, email marketing and other forms of pushing your products on the web are passé. The Internet is growing faster th ...
  • Cloud Living Now Available From Glen Allsopp
    One of my friends has just launched a new product that I think may be of interest to many Traffikd readers. Glen Allsopp has written an e-book, Cloud Living , based on his experiences from making a five-figure monthly income from his websites. Cloud Living is actually more than an e-book, it i ...
  • 5 Reasons New Bloggers Should Use Niche Social Med ...
    I've been talking to some new bloggers recently and I've been asked questions about how they should work on growing their blog, increasing subscribers, and getting more visitors. Most bloggers know about the potential impact of social media and some even spend considerable amounts of time on sites l ...

Clearreaching

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

Worldpress - Africa

Canadian Encyclopedia

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle plastic coleslaw/potato ...
    Between the good weather and the World Cup, every weekend recently has been barbeque-madness in the UK, which means the burger, salad and salad accompaniments shelves at the supermarket are stripped bare by 10am, just a solitary limp iceberg lettuce left behind to tell of the devastation. Pre-packed ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle wine gift bags?
    We’ve covered reuses for old gift bags in general before but Meri emailed asking about one particular type: I have a growing collection of wine bags – mostly paper – that are too nice to toss. How can I recycle them – get them to people who might reuse them? Most people I know reuse [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle a sheep fleece?
    The wonderful John B got in touch with my John the other day to ask if we could use a couple of sheep fleeces: someone he knows has been given the fleeces by a farmer client. As I’ve just started spinning wool/yarn, the idea of a full fleece was appealing but also somewhat overwhelming – [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle used paper plates?
    Finishing up our impromptu barbecue themed week, I thought I’d run a post that is sure to get some people screaming “DON’T USE THEM AT ALL! USE REAL, REUSABLE PLATES!!” – and those people have a very good point. The first part of the 3Rs is Reduce and disposable paper plates are really unnecessary i ...
  • Crazy-wonderful & crafty emails I’ve receive ...
    This is usually a links round-up but this week everything seems to have arrived in my inbox instead ;) Daniel emailed us pictures of cannon he made reusing and recycling stuff. Yes, you read that right, a CANNON. (Ok, ok, a decorative rather than functioning cannon but still). I applied for a job wo ...

Mondoweiss

  • Norwegian gov’t divests from 2 companies tha ...
    This is big. The Norwegian government has divested its pension fund of�two Leviev companies that build settlements�in the occupied West Bank on the grounds that the international community regards territory east of the '67 line as occupied. (No singling out: the Norwegians also divested�a third comp ...
  • Kovel: Zionism’s dreary burden on Jewishness
    Tony Judt had barely left this world when the Jerusalem Post lashed out at him with a nasty editorial on August 8. Clearly, Judt has never been forgiven for writing in 2003 in the New York Review of Books that Israel lacked legitimacy because of its structural Jewishness and deserved to be replaced ...
  • Israeli officer sells computers seized from flotil ...
    Ann Wright at Common Dreams estimates that Israelis seized $750,000 cash from members of the intercepted�flotilla of last spring, none of it returned, as well as all those computers, many containing evidence of the violent character of the flotilla raid by Israeli commandos.An Israeli newspaper has ...
  • Blaming the victim
    I was stuck behind a guy going 50 in the right lane of I-84 eastbound in Connecticut.Everyone behind me was pulling out�and getting into the left lane, but I was up against it. I kept looking for a gap. Finally I saw one and took it. Even as I got into the left lane, rapidly [...]
  • Report from ground zero
    August 22, 2010 protest against Park 51. (Photo: asterix11) � At first, I thought it was just me. I'd witnessed dozens of far-right demonstrations over the years, but this was the first which literally sent chills down my spine. I spoke to a few activists who'd effectively made attending, confronti ...

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

  • PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. Gen ...
    Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many more l ...
  • China and the end of the end of history
    Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world politi ...
  • "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 ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Harvard acknowledges misconduct findings against M ...
    Harvard University has acknowledged finding eight counts of scientific misconduct committed by famed evolutionary psychologist Marc Hauser. “It is with great sadness that I confirm that Professor Marc Hauser was found solely responsible, after a thorough investigation by a faculty investigating ...
  • Harvard acknowledges misconduct findings against M ...
    Harvard University has acknowledged finding eight counts of scientific misconduct committed by famed evolutionary psychologist Marc Hauser. “It is with great sadness that I confirm that Professor Marc Hauser was found solely responsible, after a thorough investigation by a faculty investigating ...
  • A new kind of chlorophyll - and it only took 67 ye ...
    If you want to make a lasting impression in science, go find a new form of chlorophyll, the light-harvesting protein complexes key to photosynthesis. Scientists identified the first three forms, chlorophyll a, b and c, in the 19th century. In 1943, 70 years after the discovery of chlorophyll ...
  • Plastic patch in Atlantic Ocean probed
    Researchers have confirmed widespread plastic pollution across areas of the Caribbean and the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. First announced at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Portland, Oregon, United States in February 2010 (see BBC ) the two-decade-long study is published in Science today. “It is ...
  • A zebrafish's first minutes of life caught on film
    Forget baby pictures - proud cell biologists can now show off videos of their growing zebrafish beginning at the earliest stages of development, thanks to a new microscope technology described online today in Science (doi: 10.1126/science.1189428 ). The technique relies on non-linear optical prop ...

new geography

  • China's Sliver of a Housing Bubble
    Few finance issues have received such a wide range of opinions among financial experts than the "housing bubble" in China. This is an issue of international importance because what happens in what is now the world’s 2nd largest economy affects the rest of the world. Differing Views: There are fre ...
  • Can We Socialize Ourselves to Good Health?
    How can we reduce health problems in society? Should we tackle poverty and social problems such as crime and drug abuse, or is the problem inequality in itself? If we reduce the income in a middle class neighborhood, will this in itself improve the health of poor people living in the same city? The ...
  • Vancouver: Planner’s Dream, Middle Class Nightmar ...
    Vancouver is consistently rated among the most desirable places to live in the Economist’s annual ranking of cities. In fact, this year it topped the list. Of course, it also topped another list. Vancouver was ranked as the city with the most unaffordable housing in the English speaking world by ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • Egg Recall
    Our hens just started laying. Via: AP: Two Iowa farms that recalled more than a half-billion eggs linked to as many as 1,300 cases of salmonella poisoning share suppliers of chickens and feed as well as ties to an Iowa business routinely cited for violating state and federal law.
  • Frederick Forsyth Claims NSA Wrecked Wife’s ...
    I’d like to know more about what happened to her computer. Via: BBC: Frederick Forsyth, bestselling author of thrillers like The Day of the Jackal and The Dogs of War, was in the West African state of Guinea-Bissau last year when the president was assassinated. His presence there, he now believes, l ...
  • Gene Burnett – Jump You F*#kers (A Song For ...
    Research Credit: Carol
  • Hardship Withdrawals from 401(k) Retirement Plans ...
    Via: CNN: Hardship withdrawals from 401(k) retirement saving plans rose to the highest level in 10 years during the second quarter, Fidelity Investments said on Friday, in the latest sign of a dismal economy. Fidelity reported that, as of the second quarter, 2.2% of all 401(k) participants had made ...
  • Combat Brigades in Iraq Under Different Name
    Via: Army Times: As the final convoy of the Army’s 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, based at Fort Lewis, Wash., entered Kuwait early Thursday, a different Stryker brigade remained in Iraq. Soldiers from the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team of the 25th Infantry Division are deployed in Iraq as members ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 15 Economic Statistics That Just Keep Getting Wors ...
    A little over a week ago, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner penned an article for the New York Times entitled "Welcome To The Recovery" in which he touted the great strides that the U.S. economy was making.  But with unemployment still dangerously high and with foreclosures a ...
  • 103 U.S. Banks Have Collapsed So Far In 2010 &#821 ...
    Have you ever noticed how almost all U.S. bank closings are now announced over the weekend?  It is almost as if someone wants to keep the increasing number of bank closures out of the news cycle as much as possible.  The Obama administration continues to use phrases like "green shoo ...
  • This Economy Is Ripping The Dignity Of Millions Of ...
    If you can still put a roof over your head and food on the table for your family, you should consider yourself to be very fortunate.  There are millions of Americans out there right now that are really, really suffering.  The cold, hard reality of it is that there aren't even close ...
  • Kicked In The Groin: Health Insurance Companies Ar ...
    Wasn't the new health care reform law supposed to make health care more affordable for everyone?  Well, imagine my surprise when I opened up a letter from my health insurance company recently and found out that my health insurance premiums were going up by nearly 50 percent.  I am i ...
  • The Horrific Derivatives Bubble That Could One Day ...
    Today there is a horrific derivatives bubble that threatens to destroy not only the U.S. economy but the entire world financial system as well, but unfortunately the vast majority of people do not understand it.  When you say the word "derivatives" to most Americans, they have no id ...

Desertification

  • Kenya is rapidly losing its fertile land (Google / ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://blog.jaluo.com/?p=8171 Kenya is rapidly losing its fertile land which is alarmingly turning into desert NEWS Analysis by Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City EXPERTS have warned that Kenyaâs arid and semi arid areas … Continue reading →
  • Schools establish clubs to fight desertification ( ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.ghananewsagency.org/s_science/r_19409/ Schools establish clubs to fight desertification Wa, Aug. 17, GNA – Students and pupils of 30 educational institutions in the Upper West Region have established environmental clubs in their respective schools ...
  • The importance of environmental conservation (Goog ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification The importance of environmental conservation by Judith Willson Environmental conservation doesnât just mean protecting cute animals on the other side of the world.  It is in fact essential to our own survival.  If … Continue reading →
  • China to spend $3B on alternative energy, trees (G ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international-business/China-to-spend-3B-on-alternative-energy-trees/articleshow/6330135.cms China to spend $3B on alternative energy, trees BEIJING: China plans to invest $3 billion in the next 10 years to develop alt ...
  • UN official demands drought action at Cancun (Goog ...
    Read at : http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hf2NukHymNByOOkt0bX87lo6Tf_w UN official demands drought action at Cancun (AFP) â 17 hours ago FORTALEZA â The UN’s pointman on desertification called Wednesday on participants at the next climate summit in Cancun to take urgent measur ...

The Paper Trail

  • ENVIRONMENT: Volunteer Vessels at BP Rig Were &#82 ...
    One of the many lessons learned from the BP disaster is to better coordinate responses by private boats that hurry to an offshore rig explosion, the retired Coast Guard admiral leading the federal relief effort said today, referring to an issue spotlighted in a Center for Public Integrity story.
  • MONEY & POLITICS: American Crossroads Spin-off ...
    Conservative group American Crossroads , launched barely six months ago with help from GOP uber-consultants Ed Gillespie and Karl Rove, has raised $17.6 million through August 20, the group’s president Steven Law told the Center for Public Integrity.
  • ENVIRONMENT: EPA Sets Public Hearings on Coal Ash ...
    Environmental advocates plan to organize citizens by the busload for a series of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency meetings on its proposal to regulate the disposal of coal ash, an environmental hazard that was the subject of an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity last year.
  • 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.

backofthebook.ca

  • Who needs a BC arts council when we have the Liber ...
    By Frank Moher Jane Danzo, in her letter of resignation as Chair of the BC Arts Council and in various exit interviews that followed, has confirmed what most of us already suspected: that the Liberal government now sees itself as arbiter of all things cultural in the province. At last, we ...
  • 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" .  . ...

Worldnews

  • ‘Electric shock to potatoes makes them health ...
    London: Want to make the humble potato more nutritious? Then give it an electric shock. Researchers at Japan's Obihiro University have found that zapping the vegetable with electricity trick it into producing a rush of antioxidants credited with keeping the human body and brain healthy. Scaled ...
  • Sandra Bullock Ready to Hook Up With...Tom Ha ...
    Sandra Bullock announced last week she really was done with Jesse James and ready to "move on." And just who may be the next man in her life? How about fellow Oscar owner Tom Hanks! In what is shaping up to be her first role since last year's The Blind Side and the domestic...
  • Grains futures mixed, livestock prices mostly ...
    CHICAGO -- Grains futures traded mixed Monday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for December delivery rose 4.5 cents to $7.165 a bushel; December corn shed 2.5 cents to $4.3375 a bushel; December oats were flat at $2.85 a bushel; while soybeans for November delivery dropped 3 cents to $10.01 ...
  • As Floods Go South, Pakistan Races to Keep a ...
    SHADAD KOT, Pakistan — Standing waist-deep in rushing waters, municipal workers struggled to fortify embankments protecting this city from floodwaters on Monday after a last warning was issued to residents to flee to higher ground. Multimedia Photographs Floodwaters Continue to Surge in Pakista ...
  • At Least 4 Dead in Philippine Bus Standoff ...
    MANILA — An armed policeman who lost his job last year took a tourist bus hostage on Monday, setting off a daylong standoff that ended after police commandos stormed the bus. Erik De Castro/Reuters A demand was posted by the hostage taker on the bus window. Ted Aljibe/Agence France-Presse â G ...

Alex in Wonderland

  • Demagoguing the Mosque
    Ron Paul on the exploitation of xenophobia and tribalism to encourage the violent violation of property rights, liberty and reason itself.
  • Daily Briefing—17th Aug 2010
    News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
  • Daily Briefing—16th Aug 2010
    News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
  • Chomsky’s Lectern: U.S.-Israel ‘Prefer Expansion O ...
    Prof. Chomsky discussed the history of the 'special relationship' between the U.S. and Israel, how the mainstream media manufactures consent for it, how it relates to the manipulation of language regarding factions like Hamas and Hezbollah, the U.S.-Israel 'preference for expansion over security', a ...
  • Man is Coward
    The man who chooses to not stand against war chooses to stand for nothing and is the vilest coward of all mankind. He is the sociopath that plagues the zeitgeist.

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • As Floodwaters Recede, Anger Grows in Northwest Pa ...
    by Saaed Shah CHARSADDA, Pakistan - In the village of Drab Korona in northwest Pakistan, Sirajuddin returned to where his house had stood to salvage what he could. What he found was just a shallow muddy pool. "This was our house," the 30-year-old Sirajuddin, ...
  • Obama Plays Down Plan for Post-2011 Iraq Troop Pre ...
    by Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - When the Barack Obama administration unveiled its plan last week for an improvised State Department-controlled army of contractors to replace all U.S. combat troops in Iraq by the end of 2011, critics associated with the U.S. command attacked the transition plan, insist ...
  • Thousands Strain Fort Hood's Mental Health System
    by Gregg Zoroya FORT HOOD, Texas - Nine months after an Army psychiatrist was charged with fatally shooting 13 soldiers and wounding 30, the nation's largest Army post can measure the toll of war in the more than 10,000 mental health evaluations, referrals or therapy sessions held every month. r ...
  • Nowhere Near Ground Zero, But No More Welcome
    by Annie Gowen MURFREESBORO, TENN. -- For more than 30 years, the Muslim community in this Nashville suburb has worshipped quietly in a variety of makeshift spaces -- a one-bedroom apartment, an office behind a Lube Express -- attracting little notice even after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist att ...
  • Dems Urge Obama to Take a Stand
    by John F. Harris and James Hohmann White House press secretary Robert Gibbs's recent complaint about the ingratitude of the "professional left" is a small symptom of a larger problem for President Barack Obama: He has left wide swaths of the Democratic Party uncertain of his core beliefs. read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Oil Plumes and the Fate of the Spill
    I'm as reluctant to insert myself into the debate over what happened to all the oil that leaked from BP's Macondo well between April 22 and July 15--when the second cap stopped the flow--as I was concerning the earlier controversy regarding flow-rate estimates .
  • New Jersey Offshore Wind
    Offshore wind power is a sustainable source of energy. Friends and foes alike recognize that the relatively short time from blueprint to operation makes wind energy the next best hope for reducing carbon emissions in the near term. (Banana farmers know that negawatts are least cost, most sustainable ...
  • The Smart Grid – It’s For More than Electrons
    The Smart Grid has traditionally been used to describe the electrical grid 2.0.� The distinctions between the traditional electrical grid, or version 1.0, and the Smart Grid cover the bidirectional flow of electricity and communications.� We need to extend our thinking about the smart grid to add di ...
  • About that whole “peak oil” silliness…
    Thanks to all the (deserved) attention we’ve been paying to the floods in Pakistan, the landslides in China, the heat wave and fires in Russia, the roughly 300 hundred forest fires in British Columbia, etc., it’s no surprise that peak oil isn’t right at the top of everyone’s mind. Of course, realit ...
  • TVA rising at Bellefonte
    The utility will spend $248 million in 2011 on next steps to complete the 1,260 MW reactor

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

  • Political Killings in Colombia
    by Stephen Lendman Colombia, America's closest South American ally, is a corrupted narco-state, a repressive death squad faux democracy, threatening regional neighbors, and reigning terror against trade unionists, human rights workers, campesinos, pro-democracy organizations, independent journalist ...
  • Bush got his crusade
    Mary Shaw The world was with us in the days immediately following the 9/11 attacks. But the world cringed five days later, on September 16, 2001, when President George W. Bush reacted to the attacks with the dreaded theopolitical "C-word": "This crusade," he said, "is going to take a while." That ...
  • The Charade Announced: Latest Israeli No-Peace/Pea ...
    by Stephen Lendman On August 21, Haaretz writer Natasha Mozgovaya headlined, "Israel, Palestinians accept US invitation to direct peace talks," saying: They'll "restart direct talks on Sept. 2 in a modest step toward forging a peace deal within 12 months to create a Palestinian state and pea ...
  • Get out of Islam's face!
    By Dennis Rahkonen Following the Spanish-American War, US troops killed perhaps as many as 600,000 Filipinos who didn't want to simply see a change in imperial masters. Mark Twain famously condemned that terrible slaughter, among whose victims were countless Moro Muslims. In 1953, our CIA masterm ...
  • Israel will attack Iran: Will Israel attack Iran?!
    Kourosh Ziabari Those who mastermind the U.S.-directed psychological operation against Iran have obliviously forgotten that we're now accustomed to seeing the uninteresting, exhausting charade of "will attack Iran"; you put the subject for it, either the United States or Israel. Over the past five ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • The HST and BC family budgets
    That the HST will take a bite out of family budgets is clear to everyone. The main question right now is just how big of a bite. Two studies released earlier this week asked this exact question but came to very different conclusions... Visit Policy Note to read the rest of The HST and BC family b ...
  • Spring issue of Our Schools/Our Selves looks at wh ...
    What kinds of messages are today's youth receiving in their lives?� What normative values are educational institutions creating for them? Where does racism fit? What impact is it having?� Is it being challenged and, if so, how and by whom? These are some of the questions the spring issue of Our Sch ...
  • 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, ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Austerity Measures Don’t Work
    Tensions Rise in Greece as Austerity Measures Backfire | Speigel Online The austerity measures that were supposed to fix Greece’s problems are dragging down the country’s economy. Stores are closing, tax revenues are falling and unemployment has hit an unbelievable 70 percent in some places. Frustra ...
  • Going Down Hard
    The Erosion of America’s Middle Class | Spiegel Online While America’s super-rich congratulate themselves on donating billions to charity, the rest of the country is worse off than ever. Long-term unemployment is rising and millions of Americans are struggling to survive. The gap between rich and po ...
  • LOOKING INTO THE MIRROR AND BEGINNING THE SELF-REF ...
    We can do little about how the Government has collaborated with Corporate America to be certain that mot of the American Pie goes to the Elite and Powers that be and their Constituencies. However, we can choose to look into the mirror and DE-MYTHOLOGIZE all Lies and Untruths told to us to deprive th ...
  • What Proud Nation is This?
    America Has Disgraced Itself | The Daily Beast Conservative fury over the “ground zero” mosque shows that when it comes to the battle for freedom and religious liberty, the U.S. has thrown in the towel. And why are Jews so thrilled to be in lockstep with the heirs of Pat Robertson? The president is ...
  • Unfair and Unbalanced
    Fox News Scrubbing Wikipedia Entry on $1 Mil. Donation | Daily Kos As you all know, Fox News parent News Corps secretly donated $1 million to the republican governors association back in June…one of the largest donations in history by a media organization. Not only does this put a cloud on their ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • Conversations with Geoffrey
    Last U.S. combat convoy has left Iraqwww.cnn.com From Facebook: Doug: Woohoo! Mission accomplished, again! How many countries can win the same war twice? Of course Iraq is still a ghastly bloody failed state, and we simply relabeled the remaining troops in Iraq as “non-combat” troops, as if that mea ...
  • Where the hell is Scheizerland?
    That was my mystery for today. Someone sent me an email about shipping costs to Scheizerland. You’d think that it would be easy to google “Scheizerland” and figure it out. No such luck. My best guess so far is that it’s misspelled Dutch for Switzerland. Why would someone writing to me in English fro ...
  • 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 [...]

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

  • What’s Really Holding Cellulosic Biofuels Back
    Join the forum discussion on this post There was a recent article in MIT Technology review called What’s Holding Biofuels Back? There is a relatively simple answer to the question that I will delve into below, but the short answer is “what’s holding biofuels back” is that we placed unreasonable exp ...
  • 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 ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • How to Save Fish by Eating Fish
    RODALE NEWS, EMMUAS, PA—Nowadays, when we talk about seafood, it usually has to do with what you shouldn't be eating, whether it's due to the disastrous effects of oil spills or because the fish have been so overharvested that entire fisheries are about to collapse. But not this time. The National ...
  • Pregnant Mom's Pesticide Exposures Raises Child's ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—A pregnant mother's pesticide exposure could be more damaging to the child than the child's actual exposure once he or she is born, according to new research. A new study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives found that an expectant mother's exposure to ...
  • 5 Recipes for Flavorful, Vitamin-Rich Bell Peppers
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Tangy, crunchy bell peppers—also known as sweet peppers—come in a dazzling array of bright, shiny colors. But despite these varied hues, they’re all from the same species of plant, Capsicum annuum . Bell peppers normally become sweeter as they mature from unripe green to rip ...
  • Dumpster-Diving: Should You Try It?
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—What uses more oil, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico or the amount of food wasted in the U.S.? If you guessed the latter, you'd be right. A new study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology estimates that the amount of energy used to produce the 96 ...
  • Fake Organic Beauty Products Spark “Panic”
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PAâMany parents decide to wait until their kids enter the teenage years before having the somewhat uncomfortable safe-sex talk. But with a recent study finding that a significant number of young girls are undergoing early puberty by age 7, finding safe soap may become an equa ...

big think

  • Sunday Pundits Hit The Trifecta
    I don’t have to write anything today, because the professional have done my job for a change. Eugene Robinson, Frank Rich, and Maureen Dowd, who are all political pundits I regularly rake over the coals, surprised me yesterday with Sunday columns in their respective papers that quit beating around . ...
  • Are Atheists Better at Blogging?
    One of the richest sub-worlds of blogging is the Atheist NetRoots.  As I described last week , popular atheist bloggers such as PZ Myers have developed a loyal and engaged following of readers.  Like political blogs more generally, these online discussions offer valuable insight but also feature a . ...
  • Hitchens and Ebert on Atheism and Dying
    Christopher Hitchens' column this month in Vanity Fair reflects the best of the writer's intellect and prose.  Upon learning of his cancer diagnosis, Hitch writes: "My father had died, and very switftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79.  I am 61.  In whatever kind of 'race' life may be, I ...
  • Down the Rabbit Hole: Finding ‘Evidence’ of WikiLe ...
    Today and tomorrow I’ll hopefully make peace with my curiosity about WikiLeaks and the accusation that it disclosed the names and locations of Afghan informants serving the U.S. and coalition forces. Evidence supporting the accusation has been scant while the accusation itself has been repeated so . ...
  • #20: Doctors Are Bad for Your Health
    You may want to think twice before your next visit to the doctor's office. According to Dr. Barbara Starfield's now-famous study , iatrogenic deaths (those resulting from treatment by physicians or surgeons) are the third leading cause of mortality in the United States, resulting in the loss of 225 ...

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