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Thomas Paine

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Sunday, August 29, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • BURMA: Military Shake-up Reveals Junta's Plans for ...
    As the November general election in Burma approaches, the country's junta is revealing the political designs underway in order to place the powerful military under civilian authority after a lapse of 22 years.
  • SPAIN: Puppet Marathon for Building School in Boli ...
    The 17th Titirilandia (Puppetland) Festival will conclude with a marathon puppet show, to be held Sunday Aug. 29 in Spain's capital city in aid of a school in the remote Bolivian mining province of Potosí.
  • Q&A: Capital Punishment in Canada, Revisited
    Thirty-four years ago, Canada was one of the first Western countries to abolish the death penalty. In 1987, the question of capital punishment and whether it should be reinstated resurfaced in the House of Commons.
  • Outrage Grows Over Failure to Protect DRC Civilian ...
    As details emerged this week of the U.N.'s knowledge of rebel activity in the villages where nearly 200 women were systematically gang raped by armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) late last month, human rights groups are demanding an investigation into the U. ...
  • PHILIPPINES: Media Take a Hit in Hostage Crisis
    In the wake of the bungled hostage-rescue operation that left eight Hong Kong tourists and the gunman dead, the Philippine media are finding themselves a target of anger by many who say that sensationalism and no-holds-barred coverage added to the bloody end to a crisis they call an intern ...

Scoop - NZ

  • Four possible scenarios for the future of Israel
    During the last weeks the possible bombing of Iran through Israel has been extensively discussed in the English-speaking Internet (i.e. mainly in the US and in Israel). In the center of this discussion is the September-issue of the magazine "The Atlantic", which contains an analysis titl ...
  • US troops: WTF Are We Doing Here, Again ?
    Two years ago, when I was last in Afghanistan, soldiers complained to me off the record that there weren't enough of them to properly fight the war. This time around, in similarly candid moments, I heard a more fundamental complaint: The war doesn't make sense. To get the caveats out of the way: Th ...
  • Another 500,000 Flee Indus Breaches
    The raging, swollen Indus River abruptly breached an embankment in the Thatta district in Sindh, Pakistan, on Wednesday evening, unexpectedly sending flood waters toward the town of Thatta and several others in the district. Panicked residents tried to flee in the thousands. The News writes, " ...
  • UK bank accounting rules 'fatally flawed'
    An influential watchdog has written to the Department of Business listing a catalogue of staggering regulatory errors that allegedly contributed to the collapse of several banks in 2008 - and still threatens the system today. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • The Good Market
    Competition is a powerful stimulus to efficiency, innovation, and customer service. We can believe these things, and should, without feeling obliged to accept the political agenda of libertarian individualists. The language of inclusion provides the basis for doing so. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalN ...

Independent - London

  • Kidnapped Afghan campaign workers found dead
    Afghan villagers today found the bodies of five kidnapped campaign workers for a parliamentary candidate in the western province of Herat.
  • Rwanda threatens to withdraw peacekeepers
    Rwanda threatened to withdraw its troops from United Nations peacekeeping operations if the world body publishes a report accusing the Rwandan army of committing possible genocide in Congo in the 1990s, Rwanda's foreign minister said in a letter sent to the UN.
  • Venezuelan helicopter crash kills 10 soldiers
    A Venezuelan National Guard helicopter crashed during a counter-drug mission near the Colombian border, killing all 10 soldiers on board, President Hugo Chavez said.
  • Three US troops killed in Afghan fighting
    An American serviceman was killed in fighting in southern Afghanistan today and two others were killed in battles in the country's eastern region a day earlier, Nato said.
  • Thousands flee as Sumatra volcano erupts
    A volcano erupted on the Indonesia island of Sumatra today for the first time in four centuries, sending smoke 1,500 metres (about 5,000 feet) into the air and prompting the evaucation of thousands of residents, officials said.

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Playing with fire
    As one of the world’s most powerful natural forces, fire holds many different meanings to everyone. To some, it’s an instrument of destruction — and a cause for worry. For others, it means warmth during chilly weather, or just a way to roast marshmallows. But for George Hadjisophocleous, a Carleton ...
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • US lawmaker urges France not to arm Lebanon army
    A US lawmaker on Friday warned France not to sell anti-tank missiles to Lebanon, saying they could end up being used against Israel amid pro-Iranian influence in the Lebanese government. US Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued t ...
  • The ballooning shortage of helium
    We usually think of it as the funny, lighter-than-air gas that makes balloons float and our voices squeak. But those helium-filled party balloons are about to get a lot more expensive. Like uranium and oil, helium is running out. Created over billions of years, the earth's supply could be gone in 2 ...
  • Fire at Tennessee Mosque Building Site Ruled Arson
    Construction Equipment at Site of Planned Islamic Center Torched; Vocal Protests Against Mosque Have Been Ongoing Federal officials are investigating a fire that started overnight at the site of a new Islamic center in a Nashville suburb. Ben Goodwin of the Rutherford County Sheriff's Department c ...
  • "We're About to Crash," Passengers Told in Error
    British Airways apologized to passengers after an emergency message warning they were about to crash into the sea was played by mistake. About 275 passengers were on the London Heathrow to Hong Kong flight on Tuesday evening when the automated message went out. The plane was flying over the North S ...
  • Propaganda Alert: Fluoride in Water Prevents Adult ...
    Children drinking water with added fluoride helps dental health in adulthood decades later, a new study finds. In an article appearing in the October issue of the American Journal of Public Health, Matthew Neidell reports a strong relationship between fluoride levels in a resident's county at the t ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • And now ... a message from Steve
    From Pale at A Creative Revolution and featuring the smooth but fuzzy blue sweater vocalizations of our own Reverend Paperboy.
  • 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 ...
  • Glenn Beck loses to the backyard Barbeque
    Of course the right-wingers will make u their own numbers. The truth is, Beck didn't even fill the mall . Loser. (H/T Jymn )
  • Remember Fort Chipewyan From your high school hist ...
    Here it is now . Welcome to Stephen Harper's world. Casualty rates are an inconvenience on the way to his majority.
  • 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 ...

Media Matters for America

  • "Restoring Honor": Glenn Beck honors Glenn Beck
    Much of Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" weekend -- and the run-up to it -- focused on one thing: Glenn Beck. Beck introduced a Beck-sanctioned clergy group that he claimed represented "180 million people," repeatedly associated himself with Martin Luther King Jr., made outlandish claims about t ...
  • Fox botches ICE policy to claim feds are granting ...
    Fox News falsely reported that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has instituted a new policy of only deporting unauthorized immigrants who have committed serious crimes. In fact, DHS continues to deport those who have not committed crimes, but, in an effort improve the efficiency of the rem ...
  • "The secret is God": Beck sees divine in ...
    Glenn Beck has�repeatedly�promoted the idea�that God is�directly�involved�in�his August 28 rally.�He has predicted "a miracle" will occur at the event, said that attendees will "see the spirit of God unleashed," and claimed�the rally�will produce an "awakening." 8-28 attendees will "see the spirit ...
  • Right-wing attacks Obama for drilling job losses ...
    Right-wing media are falsely claiming that Obama "deliberately wrote off" 23,000 workers "in pursuit of its junk science-based [oil] drilling moratorium."� In fact, as The New York Times reports, the predicted job losses due to the moratorium have "failed to materialize." Right-wing media: Obama ...
  • Nothing to see here: Right-wing media dismiss not ...
    In recent days, right-wing media have dismissed the idea of a nationwide "Islamophobia." In fact, there has been a well-documented trend of "Islamophobia" throughout the country in the wake of the right wing's extreme anti-Muslim rhetoric over the planned Islamic community center in Manhattan. ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Obscene
    That is the best word to describe today's gathering on the Mall. I am not referring to the displays of patriotism, honoring the military, or praising the Lord. You could argue that the troops were exploited, that the fund-raising was a fig-leaf for ulterior purposes, but it is always hard to separ ...
  • Glenn Beck, Preacher in Chief
    I watched the whole Glenn Beck speech waiting for the red-meat politics to flow, but it never came. Instead what he delivered felt like the world's largest AA meeting. Beck confessed his sins and asked us all to surrender to God and "Divine Providence." He promised to listen with an open heart t ...
  • Tax Jujitsu: Why Democrats Should Propose a "Peopl ...
    Republicans are calling the Democrat's proposal to end the Bush tax cuts on the richest 3 percent a "tax increase," and demagoging that it will hurt the economy and small business. This is baloney, to put it politely. Let me count the ways: - Bush's ten-year tax cut was designed to end this year, ...
  • Jovial Jeff Goldberg Jokes About Iran
    I'm not sure but I think Jeff Goldberg's Iran war manifesto failed to accomplish its goal. In part because he made the mistake of elaborating on the downside of an Israeli attack -- thousands of deaths including Americans, Israel's conversion into a "leper among nations," attacks on Jews in the dia ...
  • Bombing Iran Could Destroy Israel
    In his Atlantic piece designed to elicit an Obama endorsement of an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, Jeff Goldberg undermines his case by realistically predicting what the effects of an attack would be. He predicts thousands of deaths - not only Iranians but also many Israelis and pr ...

TruthOut

  • In Afghanistan, Supplying US Military is Big Busin ...
    Kandahar, Afghanistan — Moving all the things 100,000 troops need to fight and survive in a hostile foreign land is never an easy task. In a landlocked, mountainous country the size of Texas, with few paved roads, it is even harder. read more
  • Anger Floods the Mall Along with Glenn Beck
    Washington - The crowds that descended on the Mall Saturday for the Glenn Beck "Restoring Honor" rally were clear about several things: what they wanted to eat (sandwiches brought from home, chips), that they wanted to be in the shade and that they wanted a dry place to sit. Beyond that, specifics - ...
  • Afghanistan War: US Troops, Afghan Politician Targ ...
    Seven US soldiers were killed Saturday and Sunday in Afghanistan, in a violent weekend that deepened concerns about security ahead of September elections. A senior Afghan official also raised fresh questions about US strategy in defeating the insurgency. Over the weekend, a candidate for parliament ...
  • The Fate of New Orleans Hangs in an Uncomfortable ...
    Hurricane Katrina demonstrated the havoc Mother Nature can play on a modern city. It also brought to light the way our concerns about economics can compromise people's safety when we attempt to control nature. Over one million people in the Gulf area were affected by "the storm," as residents call i ...
  • Reinventing Paradise 2.0 - A Video Essay on New Or ...
    As America faces the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina - for those who lived through it, the scale and complexity of the disaster remain beyond words. Living it is one thing, understanding it is another. And reporting it, is yet another. And as Spike Lee has discovered along with a myriad of ot ...

Planetsave

  • El Niños Growing Stronger
    Scientists have detected a new type of El Niño that is forming in the warmer waters of the central-equatorial Pacific Ocean, causing the El Niños to become more common and stronger. Researchers found that the intensity of El Niños has nearly doubled in the central Pacific. The research, conducted ...
  • Ice Age Melting Caused by CO2 Release
    A recent study has shown that a large release of CO2 could in fact speed up the melting following an ice age. Authored by Tom Guilderson from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, the study used radiocarbon dating to trace the pathway of carbon dioxide ...
  • Scottish Scientists Make Biofuel from Whiskey
    Giving “belly up to the bar” a whole new meaning… Bad puns aside, Scottish scientists recently announced a method for converting whiskey-making byproducts into biofuel (no bottled whiskey is harmed in the making of this fuel). Using samples from the Glenkinchie Distillery, researchers at the Biofue ...
  • Pesticides and ADHD (cartoon)
    From Grist: More research linking pesticide exposure to ADHD in kids Follow all of Mean Joe Green’s environmental cartoons on JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons.
  • Will Wind and Solar Power the Planet
    Continuous research and development could soon see wind and solar dominate energy production, according to Nobel laureate Walter Kohn, Ph.D. Speaking at a symposium at the American Chemical Society’s 240’th National Meeting, Kohn said that he believed that with continuous research and development of ...

Water Quality - WordPress

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Axis of Logic

  • Thousands flee as Indonesian volcano erupts Arlina ...
    August 29, 2010 A volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra erupted for the first time in 400 years Sunday, spewing a vast cloud of smoke and ash into the air and sending thousands of people fleeing from their homes. Indonesia issued a red alert after the Sinabung volcano erupted,...
  • Would You Permit Me? - Venerable Verse
    هل تسمحون لي Would You Permit Me? في بلاد يغتال فيها المفكرون، ويكفر الكاتب وتحرق الكتب، في مجتمعات ترفض الآخر، وتفرض الصمت على الافواه والحجر على الافكار، وتكفر اي سؤال، كان لابد ان استأذنكم ان تسمحوا لي.. In a country where thinkers are assassinated, and writers a ...
  • India to conduct caste census - World News
    28 August 2010 India’s Congress Party-led coalition government has decided that the 2011 decennial census will be a “caste census”—the first in the almost 65 year history of independent India. On August 12, Pranab Mukherjee, India’s Finance Minster and the head of a United Progressive Alliance ( ...
  • Five years since Hurricane Katrina. Part 1: A manm ...
    28 August 2010 The following is the first in a series of articles on the fifth anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast of the United States. The world looked on in horror as New Orleans, Louisiana, was struck...
  • Obama to escalate slaughter in Yemen - Asia
    28 August 2010 With the opening of a new front in Yemen for the CIA’s drone “targeted killing” program, the Obama administration is steadily escalating the role played by both the covert agency and secretive US military Special Operations forces as a global Murder Incorporated. “The Whit ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Katrina Isn't Over; It Isn't Even Past
    Melissa Harris-Lacewell, on downgrading to a mere metaphor the reality of Katrina: These days it is fashionable to use Katrina as a discursive tool. In March 2009, Frank Rich wondered if AIG bonuses would become Obama's "Katrina moment." A few months later Politico reported that "Republicans hope Ge ...
  • On A Beautiful Sunday Morning
    From Wonkette commenter Serold Divad: One night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the LORD. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand: one belonging to him, and the other to the LORD. When the last ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    "Not political"? Horseshit. Martin Luther King Jr.'s niece was there - the one that the rest of the family has disowned, she is such a fringe lunatic - and she railed about gay marriage (it's genocide...yeah, we haven't figured that out either) abortion (it's a womb-war - which has BG checking her o ...
  • And the first place trophy for best Tweet summing ...
    SharkFu Someone please tell #cnn that history is littered with events attended by thousands of people gathered to celebrate bullshit. #trifling about 4 hours ago via web Heh.
  • Post-Abomination Brain Bleach
    Via Rumproast , something even the most Obama-is-killing-liberalism-forever among us need to watch, to remember the power we have to fight the forces of darkness:

Care 2

  • 'Blood Dolphins': 'The Cove' Star Ric O'Barry Retu ...
    O'Barry returns to Japan with his filmmaker son, Lincoln O'Barry, appalled to discover that even with the worldwide attention "The Cove" garnered, the brutal dolphin hunting continues. Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Chile Miners Prayers, Sincere Thoughts Good Wishes ...
    Let us pray for the miners to be healthy, enthusiastic, hopeful, have well being, inspire one another, energetic and be blessed with a vision of wisdom and strength that is ever enduring to support their respective thoughts, actions and expressions during Submitted by Vashi Ram Chandi to World �|� ...
  • Tiger leaps 14-foot fence, gets loose at Miami's J ...
    A Bengal tiger named Mahesh escaped his habitat and was on the loose at Jungle Island for a time Saturday, sending hundreds of frightened guests and staff scrambling for safety and then cowering for more than an hour at the Watson Island attraction. Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Not ...
  • September 11 destroyed more than lives, World Trad ...
    I hate it when the tinfoil-hat people are right. The Nazification of the United States | World News Daily It seems only yesterday that Americans, or those interested in their civil liberties, were shocked that the Bush regime so flagrantly violated the Submitted by Joseph M. to US Politics & G ...
  • Organic can feed the world
    You probably buy organic food because you believe its better for your health and the environment but you also may have heard criticism that organic cannot feed the world. Submitted by Kathy B. to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

  • Our Bloody Valentine
    So - mounting evidence to the contrary - we're being told that the American adventure in Iraq is coming to an end now. All I can say is, "Damn fine war, damn fine war." Yup. We sure showed 'em, didn't we? Showed 'em how to really fight a war. Showed 'em how to kick some Ay-rab ass. Showed 'em wh ...
  • Republican Faith-Based Politics: The Dumbing of Am ...
    Republican panic about the size of the Federal deficit is wildly inconsistent with their plea to continue Bush-era tax cuts for the rich. Nonetheless they keep harping on both themes. It's emblematic of Republican faith-based politics; they believe we're too dumb to notice their schizophrenia. For t ...
  • Republicans plan McCarthyite persecutions
    In June, I warned in my column in The Hill that if the Republican Party took control of the House of Representatives, there would be a wave McCarthyite abuses of Congressional committees through abuse of subpoenas and abuse of the Congressional investigative process. There are now growing public rep ...
  • Angering a Key Constituency: Women Leaders Ask the ...
    Four prominent leaders of women's organizations held a conference call today, accompanied by Rep. Raul Grijalva, to demand the resignation of retired Sen. Alan Simpson as co-chair of the Deficit Commission. Their comments, together with a number of private conversations with women's leaders, indica ...
  • Nine Years Later, Afghanistan Looks Much the Same: ...
    HERAT, AFGHANISTAN--OK. The roads are impressive. Specifically, the fact that they exist. When the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001, more than two decades of civil conflict had left the country bereft of basic infrastructure. Roads, bridges and tunnels had been bombed and mined. What didn't blow up ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • The Cunning Catfood Commission
    We like to believe that if we could just get Congress under control by voting out the bums and replacing them with people who give a damn about others besides themselves, we would be OK. What we can’t see is that huge powers have been put into the hands of czars and commissions who [...]
  • Attack of the Zombie Republicans: Part 1
      Glenn Becks Festival of Fools   by John Batchelor for The Daily Beast    The celebrity Glenn Beck has organized a festive and apparently harmless public event for the Washington Mall that he calls “Restoring Honor.” This theme is so deeply bland that it invites us partisans to look for i ...
  • News You Don’t Want To Miss (aka, You Won’t Believ ...
    There is much in the news about our current economic crisis right now, the mosque Imam Rauf wants to build near Ground Zero (on purpose), and Obama’s 274th vacation (okay, not really, but it seems like it). But I’m not talking about any of that. Nope, I have some interesting little news tidbits [ ...
  • Death by Tube
    If you have to be hospitalized chances are reasonably high that at least one tube will soon be sticking out of your body. Weâre thinking, âDoes it have the right stuff in it?” “Is it the right strength?â “The right flow rate?” Few of us probably fret about whether the appropriate tube was [ ...
  • Told You So, Economy in the Toliet
    Don’t know if you recall some of the comments made last May by some of the Obama kool-aid drinkers who frequent NoQuarter and attempt to enlighten us about our failure to appreciate the brilliance of the Golden Child Obama. Here’s what I wrote last May in the appropriately titled, It is Still the E ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Dogs Doing The Dumbest Things
    Dog owners will know that though adorable, trusting and great pals most of the time, dogs can do the darndest things. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The World's Most Amazing Vertical Gardens
    It is possible to go green in such a way that you save money, encourage plant and insect life, and enjoy much more pleasant surroundings, even in the heart of the city. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the artic ...
  • The Battle of Antietam: The Bloodiest Day in Ameri ...
    It cost more US soldiers' lives than any other battle in military history, yet neither side won. The bloodiest battle for the least gain epitomised the futility of war. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the artic ...
  • Sensual Snorkeling in Palau's Jellyfish Lake
    You might be wondering what sensual snorkeling could be. I had never heard of it before, but then again I only recently learned of Jellyfish Lake as well! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Dark World of the Crippled Coffin Fly
    Coffin flies are known for their ability to dig 6 feet underground, but they are also waste removal genuises and rid the Earth of pests like ants - here's how. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

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Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Video: Lawsuit Zombies fight state repression with ...
    Video release of sorts from the Minneapolis zombies, and a fun edit. 1min40s, brevity! Plz subscribe to Youtube & now Scribd document service as well. If you haven't yet, check out Scribd for a marvelous array of all sorts of documents (PDFs, office, etc)...w00pw00p. Press release: Zomb ...
  • California rolls out heat cannon torture weapon Ac ...
    Oh Shit!!! Let's explain how the mass torture weapon deployment rollout program works in the global scientific dictatorship. First the weapons are used on brown people in the field by the military, then on military prisoners, then on domestic prisoners. Then on protesters, then on random people. Thi ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • Glen Beck Rallies the Faithful
    By Numerian posted by Michael Collins Two score and seven years ago the nation’s dispossessed thronged the Lincoln Memorial to hear Martin Luther King define the struggle for African-American civil rights.(Image) Today it was the turn of the nation’s disenfranchised to gather at the same place, lame ...
  • The Mosque of Misdirection
    o while the neo-con mind control machine gears up the true-believers in the Tea Party for a hate fest at Ground Zero-where they will rail and rant against Islam and no doubt attempt in their comical, over-the-top way to call for revolution and paint Obama as a space alien overlord-the money keeps on ...
  • The Puppet Masters
    The “New Yorker” magazine is probably the most independent, important mainstream media source in our country.  I first heard of this article on NPR, when they interviewed the author.  I doubt that you will be able to finish reading this, but the Koch brothers and their hands in American politics m ...
  • Why Economic Growth in the United States Cannot Ha ...
    By Joaquin posted by Michael Collins So, you cut back on your lifestyle; performed a so un-Greek personal austerity reset but your credit card balance is still creeping up; or perhaps you are slowly burning through your savings; or you are at the end of the line; abandon ship. Whatever, you have a l ...
  • Unspoken Symbols of Terror
    The Islamic Community Center and Terrorism Symbols: America’s Quest for Hypocritical Perfection By: Solomon Comissiong A substantial number of Americans seem to savor opportunities that will expose them for the barbaric hypocrites they are. As if it were simply not good enough to be mindless sheep n ...

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PDA AMERICA

  • What is your 12 week plan?
    10 weeks. That’s all the time we have left until the November 2 midterm elections. There’s a lot at stake. Democrats could lose the majority in the House. Tea Partiers stand poised to take over Democratic ...
  • Disappointed hopes for Florida Democratic primary
    Although our volunteers worked tirelessly for their campaigns, progressive congressional candidates Marleine Bastien and Doug Tudor were unsuccessful in their primary attempts yesterday. We thank every PDA member who helped out by ...
  • Video: War On Prayer
    We believe it is time to shine light on the hypocrisy of politicians and pundits who expound on the freedom of religion for their chosen sects while seeking to tell our Muslim brothers and sisters ...
  • 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 ...

Marler Blog

  • Non - E. coli O157:H7 EHEC (O26, O45, O111, O121, ...
    In light of this weekends recall by Cargill Meat Solutions of approximately 8,500 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O26, and the sickening of three people, it is time for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSI ...
  • Possible Salmonella Typhi link to Fruiti Pops
    Fruiti Pops, Inc. of Santa Fe Springs has recalled its mamey frozen fruit bars because of a possible link to a rare U.S. outbreak of typhoid fever. �The company said Thursday that the fruit bars were distributed in California, Arizona and Texas since May 2009. Fruiti Pops says retail stores, ice cr ...
  • Cargill Meat Solutions Sickens Three in Maine and ...
    In another late Friday night press release, FSIS announced that Cargill Meat Solutions Corp., a Wyalusing, Pa. establishment, is recalling approximately 8,500 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O26. FSIS became aware of the problem on August 5, 2010 when the agency ...
  • Marler Clark to Donate $100,000 to Green Valley Hi ...
    I was visting my clients, Linda and Richard Rivera, in San Francisco today where Linda is in her 15th month of hospitalization from an E. coli O157:H7 infection. �She has become, in my mind at least, the reason that S. 510 must pass and the President must sign sweeping food safety legislation now. � ...
  • What if I had a food safety magic wand?
    The other morning when I was prepping in another studio to talk with another cable channel about yet another food crisis—this time the recall of a half of a billion Salmonella-tainted eggs that had already sickened at least 1,400—I was asked by a young producer, “Attorney Marler, if you had a magic ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 08.27.10
    Would a carbon tax help or hurt the auto industry? The floor is yours. EVTV Smart fortwo conversion to outdo Daimler for under $25,000 Smart ED's got competition. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 08.26.10
    Tesla Motors pays huge fine for lacking emissions Certificate of Conformity It's kind of like not having water for a customer's horse. Honda CR-Z returns rather disappointing 35.3 mpg during 125-mile test ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 08.25.10
    Peel looking to reintroduce world's smallest car [w/video] A limited run of just 50 will be made. Well-to-wheel emissions of plug-in-hybrids will be all over the map Coal and natural gas are ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 08.24.10
    Demand for gas drops .03% for July, while overall petroleum usage climbs 3.8% Is it the economy or what? New details emerge on BMW's 2013 Megacity vehicle Another OEM looks to the skateboard ...
  • 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 ...

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!

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

  • Glenn Beck’s Messiah Complex
    Glenn Beck’s Messiah Complex AlterNet / By Adele M. Stan Rupert Murdoch’s community organizer says that God speaks through him. Does Beck think he’s the Second Coming? (His followers just may think so.) August 28, 2010 | The record for self-appointed messiahs isn’t good. (Kool-Aid anyone?) But that ...
  • Rent-This-Missile Ad Agency Donates Two ‘Mis ...
    Rent-This-Missile Ad Agency Donates Two ‘Missiles’ To Protest Against Manhattan Mosque TPM Muckraker Rachel Slajda | August 27, 2010, 5:58PM Need a missile for your next corporate event or political rally? Have we got the guys for you. The missile appeared in several photos of last weekend’s protest ...
  • Glenn Beck Rally Will Be Like Moon Landing, Wright ...
    Glenn Beck Rally Will Be Like Moon Landing, Wright Brothers, & Rosa Parks All Rolled Into One Massive Orgasm Of American History Huff Post- Jason Linkins Posted: 08-26-10 02:06 PM Outside of joining the locals in a deep and contented chuckle over the whole “STAY OFF THE GREEN LINE” matter, I’m not s ...
  • Olbermann: Worried About Glenn Beck’s Sanity ...
    Olbermann Worries About Glenn Beck’s Sanity: ‘Is He OK?’ Huffington Post |  Jack Mirkinson Posted: 08-26-10 12:02 PM Keith Olbermann claimed he was worried about Glenn Beck’s sanity after Beck said that he wanted to let “the spirit” speak through him at his “Restoring Honor” rally at the Lincoln M ...
  • Glenn Beck Is Not Martin Luther King Jr.
    Robert Greenwald Filmmaker, Brave New Films Posted: August 25, 2010 09:28 PM Aug. 28 is an important day in American history. On that day, 47 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous I Have a Dream speech at the Lincoln Memorial. His message gave voice to the voiceless and his vision p ...

Solari

  • Siskiyou Crest Goat Dairy Renounces State Licenses
    YouTube Related reading: Dairy Drops State License Mail Tribune (24 Aug 10) Owners’ Move Is A First, Officials Say Mail Tribune (24 Aug 10)
  • Fed in Emergency Bid to Put Bailout Ruling on Hold
    The Federal Reserve asked a U.S. appeals court to delay implementing a ruling that would force the central bank to disclose details of its emergency lending programs to banks during the financial crisis. Wednesday’s emergency request for a 90-day delay came after the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Ap ...
  • Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Rovin ...
    By Andy Greenberg As the privacy controversy around full-body security scans begins to simmer, it’s worth noting that courthouses and airport security checkpoints aren’t the only places where backscatter x-ray vision is being deployed. YouTube Continue reading the article . . .
  • Unemployment Data Masks Jump In Emergency Claims
    By Vincent Fernando Continue reading the article . . .
  • Swine Flu Review
    The Case for Reforming U.S. Emergency Health Laws INTRODUCTION I. The 2009-2010 swine flu pandemic is officially over, but many serious risks remain–not so much from the flu, but from the flu vaccines and Americaâs emergency health laws. Current laws allow states to mandate fast-tracked, untested ...

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

  • Update to the Wikeleaks rape story, and why it&#82 ...
    Summary:  A follow-up to The full story of the rape charges against Julian Assange of Wikileaks, a possible covert op.  It’s an important story, deserving your attention. Contents Why it’s important Latest news If it’s a covert op, it’s working Another motive for the possible covert op against ...
  • The coming Robotic Nation
    Summary:  A second post about the coming waves of unemployment from the development of semi-intelligent machines, the next wave of automation. The future will bring large and terrifying changes to our society, especially the inevitable progress of technology.  Fortunately we have a few people look ...
  • Chronology of the rape charges against Julian Assa ...
    Summary:  Here’s the chronology for the Wikileaks rape incident, necessary since journalists seldom can assemble data to tell a coherent story.  Esp when the story suggests (nothing more than suggests) a US disinformation operation.  This is a follow-up to Sad news about the CIA. Contents ...
  • America plays the Apollo Option: killing from the ...
    Summary:   In this post by Chet Richards we look at the long-term consequences of a grand strategy relying so strongly on assassination — esp by drone aircraft.  It’s an innovation likely to have powerful and unforeseen side-effects. The Greeks called Apollo ”He who strikes from afar.”  He coul ...
  • Slashing R&D in favor of more important things, li ...
    Summary:  A follow-up to the previous post about Mark Hurd, seeing the face of America’s decline.  Another in a series about America’s inability to make the investments in our future necessary to maintain our prosperity. A look at America’s R&D spending In 2007 we spend $406 billion, 28% of which ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Canada letter says concerns re EU GM crop proposal
    Reuters- The Canadian government has voiced concerns about a European Union proposal to allow member states to decide whether to ban genetically modified (GM) crops. The bloc’s executive — the European Commission — submitted the proposal in July in a bid to break a deadlock in EU GM approvals, with ...
  • Boats reach Gaza despite blockade
    Al Jazerra – Two vessels carrying 46 international human rights activists have reached the Gaza Strip, despite Israel’s strict 14-month siege of the Palestinian territory. The end of the mission to symbolically break the siege came after Israel backed down from an earlier warning to the ‘Free Gaza’ ...
  • Its Official: China is Unloading its Treasury Bond ...
    Oil Price – It looks like the smart money these days is found in China. While American investors have been scrambling over each other to buy more Treasury bonds at historically low yields, China has begun quietly unloading some of its own enormous holdings. In June, the Middle Kingdom sold $21.2 bil ...
  • Government denies HPV vaccine role in reported dea ...
    Sify – The government Friday denied that Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines were responsible for the reported deaths from Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat. ‘In Andhra Pradesh among 14,091 vaccinated girls, five deaths have been reported whereas in Gujarat two deaths were reported among 10,686 girls,’ He ...
  • Years Later, No Magic Bullet Against Alzheimer’s D ...
    NY Times — The scene was a kind of science court. On trial was the question “Can anything — running on a treadmill, eating more spinach, learning Arabic — prevent Alzheimer’s disease or delay its progression?” To try to answer that question, the National Institutes of Health sponsored the court, ap ...

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

  • William Cooper – Exposing the Illuminati Dajjal Go ...
    This is a short yet important video presenting Bill Cooper's 9/11 prediction, rare 9/11 footage and audio from his book "Behold a Pale Horse" and the Illuminati agenda. Bill Cooper was one of the top conspiracy researchers, he was active on exposing the Illuminati (secret government) and most import ...
  • Fidel Castro: Osama bin Laden Worked for CIA
    Fidel Castro has more reason than most to believe conspiracy theories involving dark forces in Washington. After all, the CIA tried to blow his head off with an exploding cigar.
  • Gerald Celente: Economic Collision Course The ‘Cra ...
    Following the "Panic of '08" and the subsequent "Great Recession," Washington, Wall Street and the media united to promote the belief that extreme crisis management measures enacted by governments had rescued the world, and staved off even worse disaster. "Recovery" was in the air. "Recovery" was ...
  • Pakistan in HAARP-watersnood: Een nieuwe zet op he ...
    De grote machten achter de schermen van het wereldtoneel, hebben hun eigen -uiterst geheime- agenda. Een van de grootste wapens in de wereld is het HAARP systeem in Alaska (en waarschijnlijk andere delen van de wereld). Dit systeem is tot heel heftige zaken in staat. Wij wijzen je graag op diverse ...
  • What is HAARP? – Videos, Photos and three short ar ...
    "HAARP", an acronym for "High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program", is a project having the goal of studying fundamental physical principles which govern the region of the earth's atmosphere known as the ionosphere. It is through this region that earth-based communications and radar transmissi ...

Andy Worthington

  • Would Al-Qaeda Terrorists Really Be Reading Harry ...
    Every now and then, when the authorities at Guantánamo want to demonstrate how well catered for the prisoners are, a story emerges that purports to demonstrate how well-stocked the prison library is, and how the prisoners are enjoying a range of titles, including J.K. Rowling’s best-selling series o ...
  • An interview with Faraj Hassan Alsaadi (from 2007)
    The following interview with Faraj Hassan Alsaadi was conducted by Cageprisoners and published in August 2007, and I’m cross-posting it in memory of Faraj, who died in a motorbike accident on August 16. Imprisoned without charge or trial, or held under a control order, from May 2002 until December 2 ...
  • In Memoriam: Faraj Hassan Alsaadi (1980-2010)
    As I sit here trying to come to terms with the death of Faraj Hassan Alsaadi, who died in a motorbike accident on August 16, it seems to me that nothing can throw us as much as an unexpected death. In Faraj’s case, it is deeply distressing that he leaves behind a wife and three [...]
  • Lawlessness Haunts Omar Khadr’s Blighted War Crime ...
    On August 12, the US administration’s intention to proceed with the war crimes trial of Omar Khadr, a Canadian who was just 15 years old when he was seized after a firefight in Afghanistan in July 2002, was temporarily delayed when Khadr’s military lawyer, Army Lt. Col. Jon Jackson, collapsed in the ...
  • Ramadan Force-Feeding, and Renewed Secrecy Surroun ...
    In a disturbing report in the Miami Herald, the ever-vigilant Carol Rosenberg reports that an unknown number of hunger strikers at Guantánamo are being force-fed between dusk and dawn — a mixture of cruelty (force-feeding) and respect (for Ramadan) that is sadly typical of the surreal, otherworldly ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • The Root Of The Problem: Education
    From former New Milford raised a glass and brewed Todd Umbarger and without further comment since it says enough on its own (and I could add an essay to this BUT...) : click on this for larger With previous permission from Todd Umbarger . Todd is a New York-based illustrator and draws the politi ...
  • Add hawk
    I’m a regular citizen. I love my town, I love my town’s school system. I hate arbitrarily high taxes, and I hate wasting time and money. Like most people, I have ideas on how things in my town could be improved. But I’m not an elected official, or a personal friend of the mayor, and I don’t have ...
  • Is Walter Bayer a DINO?
    Walter Bayer was at the Republican fundraiser for Probate Judge Martin Landgrebe last night. He appeared to be meeting and greeting like a member of the "R" crowd. And you can sometimes find him tipping back a beverage with Roger Szendy and other "R's" at local watering holes. Considering how eas ...
  • Simmons Running Senate Ads
    Considering Simmons is running neck and neck with Linda McMahon in the primaries even after he dropped out of the race. Why not? From The Day: Rob Simmons, who halted his campaign for the Republican Senate nomination after losing the party endorsement to former WWE CEO Linda McMahon, will begin ai ...
  • No Big Surprises In the Latest CT Gov Race Q-Poll
    The latest KWIN-uh-pe-ack© numbers are out for the CT-Gov race of 2010 and ctblogger looks at the data overall and the questions a bit , while Ct Bob looks at the inside game of the likely voter numbers . Needless to say, the numbers look good for the Democratic party candidates no matter how it go ...

SPL Center

  • Racists Need Funds to Give Terrorist a Viking Fune ...
    So many causes, so little money. With groups beseeching us for financial help to find cures for diseases, to protect the environment, to help the less fortunate and so forth, it can be tough to decide to whom and what to dole out donations. And now this: An appeal for money so that a murderous terro ...
  • Anti-Latino Hate Crimes Seen From Baltimore to Ari ...
    Record-breaking high temperatures have been the norm this summer in the United States and other countries. But for Latinos, it’s been even hotter than the thermometer suggests, with one after another targeted for hate crimes around the country. Here’s a sampling of recent incidents: Early last Satu ...
  • Film Review: New Documentary on Hate Revealing
    White racial extremists are certain that “their” culture is under attack and has to be defended with guns. “If there is going to be any salvation of our culture, white European culture, violence is guaranteed because they’re not listening,” says long-time neo-Nazi and White Aryan Resistance leader T ...
  • Nebraska City’s Defense of Anti- Immigrant Law May ...
    This coming Aug. 31, the Fremont, Neb., City Council will consider hiking property taxes to pay to defend its recently passed anti-immigrant law. Two civil rights organizations have challenged the law, saying the voter-approved ordinance amounts to discrimination. The law, which bans the housing and ...
  • Wave of Hate Crimes Directed at Muslims Breaks Out
    A string of attacks against Muslims and their religious centers has broken out over the past few weeks, apparently inspired by the protests in New York City over the planned Muslim community center and mosque near where the 9/11 attacks took place. Leaders of those protests have repeatedly made hate ...

change: org.

  • 300 American Prisoners Will Be Raped Today
    Today, 300 prisoners in the United States will be raped. And the Department of Justice continues to stall on doing anything about it. A report released yesterday by the DOJ's Bureau of Justice Statistics finds that approximately 88,500 prisoners were raped in 2009 — and the advocacy organization Jus ...
  • Hurt, Not Helped, by a New Mega-Shelter
    This new video comes from Mark's InvisiblePeople.tv 30-city, 11,000-mile, 75-day road trip , going on now. Mark has been producing videos faster than we can post them, so we're devoting the blog to InvisiblePeople.tv all day today. David is on the streets in San Antonio, Texas. He works day labor jo ...
  • Indigenous Oaxacan Woman Sues Missisippi Hospital ...
    Hey, here's a thought: why not start taking the babies of immigrant women and giving them to white lawyers? Why bother with, say, translating their statements at the hospital or worrying about their rights? Why not just snatch up the newborn, whisk it away, and shoo the mother out onto the streets? ...
  • The Next Idea to Impact a Billion Lives
    Last night saw the conclusion of the second annual Singularity University , a ten-week graduate program designed to help some of the globes best and brightest understand the implications and opportunities of exponentially increasing technologies. Their task? To use those new technologies to positive ...
  • In the Red at 18: Student Loans Derail Futures
    Students are headed back to campuses in droves, bringing with them bedding, laptops and endless cartons of Ramen noodles. Some also bring crippling, unending anxiety about the mound of debt they are acquiring at the tender age of 18. Not all of these kids are who you think they are. You could, and p ...

Common Dreams -News

  • 'Frankenfish' May Go on Sale in US After Public Co ...
    by Chris McGreal US authorities today began the process to approve the first GM animal for human consumption. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a 60-day period of consultation and public meetings over whether to permit a GM strain of salmon to be eaten by humans, even though it has be ...
  • Atrazine Threat to Male Sexual Development Reveale ...
    RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina - Male rats exposed before birth to low doses of the weedkiller atrazine are more likely to develop prostate inflammation and to go through puberty later than non-exposed animals, finds a new study conducted by federal government scientists. One of the mo ...
  • Social Security Cuts Threaten to Hurt Low-Income A ...
    by Martha C. White This summer, Social Security - the government program that provides a steady check for seniors - turned 75. In Washington, lawmakers celebrated its platinum anniversary not with champagne, but with a heated argument over whether to reform the costly entitlement program by slas ...
  • Women's Equality Day: Time for Constitutional Guar ...
    Statement by National Organization for Women (NOW) WASHINGTON  - As students return to school this week, many will open their history books to learn that 90 years ago today women were given the right to vote when the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was signed into law. The history books w ...
  • Calif. Hotel Walk-Off Strike Continues New Wave of ...
    by Micah Uetricht The Embassy Suites hotel in Irvine, Calif., bears a number of similarities to workplaces around the country. Like other workers around the country, employees there say they're getting squeezed . They're expected to do more with less: fewer supplies, fewer breaks, and less money. ...

Lifehacker

  • Mount Your Smartphone to a Tripod [DIY]
    You probably won't be making Sundance-worthy movies with your iPhone, but if you need to keep it stable for, say, FaceTime, here's an easy way to mount it to a tripod using a cheap mount, some glue, and a nut. More��
  • From the Tips Box: iTunes Auto-Add, Dock Magnifica ...
    Readers offer their best tips for installing applications on OS X, organizing your music library, and installing QuickTime on Windows without Apple Software Update. More��
  • This Week's Most Popular Posts [Highlights]
    This week we pulled together our favorite, must-have Android apps, downloaded torrents anonymously, fixed up Facebook, started using private browsing mode for more than—well, you know—and more. More »
  • Stream Audio to Your Airport Express Speakers in L ...
    If you dual boot OS X and Linux (or you just think Apple's AirPort Express is awesome), you may be looking for a way to stream music wirelessly through your house with Linux. How-to blog MakeUseOf shows us how. More�� ...
  • Repurposing an Old Computer for Any Room in the Ho ...
    Most of us have our computers on our desks or our laps, but there are so many other places in and out of our homes that can make a great spot for an old PC. More��

Water Privatization

  • Proposed 2011 national budget criticized (3:00 p.m ...
    MANILA – Less than a week after President Benigno Aquino III submitted the proposed 1.645-trillion budget for 2011, a think thank group on Sunday hit the administration for not prioritizing social a read more
  • PARTY LINES: Obama will mark a turning point in te ...
    When President Obama returns to work from his Martha’s Vineyard vacation, he will waste little time diving back into serious policy issues. First up: the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  • Regulator in hot water over bonus
    AN administration ally in the House on Friday demanded the replacement of Macra Cruz, administrator of the Manila Waterworks and Sewerage System, for inventing all kinds of bonuses for herself, including a Christmas bonus that came in September.
  • City vendor may get $1.2B from parking-privatizati ...
    The pitch from Mayor Greg Ballard’s administration to privatize the city's parking meters is compelling, but the proposal to sell the meters to Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services Inc. has the city giving up more in the long run than is immediately apparent in the talking points.
  • Palace reassures full cooperation in budget hearin ...
    With Congress slated to start hearings on the proposed P1.64-trillion national budget for 2011 in September, Malacañang reassured lawmakers of its full cooperation in the process even as an independent think-thank warned that the proposed budget is "meant to repay debts."

Guardian

  • Pakistan slump to defeat under cloud of suspicion
    Pakistan team manager says ODI series will go ahead despite betting allegations, after team slumps to defeat in fourth Test The mentor and coach of the Pakistani cricket prodigy Mohammad Amir today rejected allegations that the teenager was involved in corruption, after he was named in an undercover ...
  • Volcano erupts in Indonesia
    Mount Sinabung, in northern Sumatra, erupts for the first time in four centuries A volcano has erupted on the Indonesian island of Sumatra for the first time in four centuries, sending smoke 1,500 metres into the air and prompting the evacation of thousands of residents. There are no reports of casu ...
  • Afghan election campaigners shot dead
    • Dead were among 10 who went missing in Herat province • Four candidates already killed ahead of parliamentary poll Five campaigners working for a female candidate in next month's Afghan election have been found shot dead, an official said today. The attack comes amid growing security fears ahead o ...
  • Chechnya shootout leaves 19 dead
    Ramzan Kadyrov's guards in gun battle with separatists in president's home village Five civilians were among 19 people killed today in a shootout between the Chechen president's security guards and suspected separatists, officials said. At least 12 insurgents and two security officers were killed wh ...
  • Bolton 2-2 Birmingham
    Bolton haul themselves to parity from a seemingly disastrous position to continue their unbeaten start to the season Anyway, welcome. Let's get this going, shall we? Preamble: I've been in France for a couple of weeks. Lovely, thanks for asking. Bit hot for my liking at times, but lovely all the sam ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Mea culpa and au revoir
    As several readers have pointed out in comments on my previous post , and several more by e-mail, I made a schoolboy howler in this week's article about how rice yields are responding to temperature rise in Asia. There are 101 reasons I could bore you with as to why it happened, but essentially it ...
  • Delivering biochar's triple win
    Last year, there seemed to be an unwritten rule in enviro-circles: whenever two or more enviro-folks were gathered together in a place of meeting, talk must turn to biochar . Accounts would be exchanged of articles half-read and half-digested...the pros would be arrayed against the cons...the words ...
  • Noaa: The right answer to the wrong question?
    While listening to the latest briefing on the Gulf of Mexico oil leak , I've been wondering whether the questions being answered are the right ones. The key factoid presented by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) is that about three-quarters of the 4.9 million barrels that e ...
  • An equal partnership with the land?
    The journal Nature this week debates one of the most important questions of our age: how can we feed the Earth's growing population such that no-one goes hungry and nature is left with some land and water of its own? Being a science journal, you'll not be surprised to hear that one of the things it ...
  • Climate campaigns down the pan
    Apologies issued by two campaign groups, WWF and Oxfam , may or may not bring to a close one of the more bizarre yet telling episodes that have materialised within the UN climate convention. At the convention's annual two-week session in June in Bonn , activists removed the nameplate of the Saudi A ...

The Wonk Room

  • Kirk Scare Farmers Into Believing They’ll Lo ...
    One of the more enduring myths regarding the estate tax is that it forces family farmers to sell their entire farm when the owner dies, thus depriving them of their sole way to make a living. And Illinois’ Republican Senate candidate Mark Kirk took full advantage of this fear during an appearance be ...
  • Kasich’s Claim That Tax Cuts Will Lead To Jo ...
    Ohio’s Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich is banking on a package of tax cuts to revive Ohio’s moribund economy. “Ohioâs high tax burden is hurting families, strangling businesses and stunting our ability to create jobs and revive our economy,” he claims. Kasich’s plan is to entirely e ...
  • The Purpose Of Israel’s Settlements Is To Be ...
    I had to read Fred Barnes’ new Weekly Standard piece “In Defense of Settlers” a few times to be sure that Fred wasn’t actually putting us on. It appears he isn’t. Things go awry beginning with the very first paragraph, in which Barnes writes, “When direct talks begin next week between Israelis and ...
  • Memo To The Media: Don’t Fall For Rick Scott ...
    Florida gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott (R) bills himself as a political outsider, but when it comes to answering questions about his questionable stewardship of Columbia/HCA — a for-profit hospital chain that paid a record $1.7 billion in fines for massively defrauding the Medicare program durin ...
  • McCain Accuses ‘Pro-Immigration Groups&#8217 ...
    Yesterday, I predicted that it was only a “matter of time” before an opportunistic lawmaker points to the tragic massacre of 72 Central and South American migrants on their way to the U.S. as yet another reason to “seal the border” and delay immigration reform. Unsurprisingly, Sen. John McCain (R-A ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Bankrupt Politics
    I would say that there's now only a few millimetres separating Canada's dismal political culture from the thoroughly debased political culture in the United States. I'm linking to this Glenn Greenwald article about the morass of US politics simply because it's so well written and insightful: There a ...
  • Sympathy For The Devil?
    Okay, somebody can correct me if I'm wrong, I don't follow Canadian personalities as much as I do Miley Cyrus, but there's some half-witted shit-back named Kory Tennuckooluck or something, who wants to bring Glenn Beck to Canada so that he can fellate him and then they can both snort cocaine off of ...
  • G-20 Anatomy
    Saturday's Toronto Star had an " Anatomy of the G20 " that described the confluence of circumstances that led to the police overreacting to the Black Block rioters and curtailing the civil, political, and legal rights of hundreds of innocent people. I found the whole thing a stupid waste of time. L ...
  • 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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Katrina documentary in theaters for one-night only
    Five years after Hurricane Katrina a new feature-length documentary “The Big Uneasy” is taking a look at the true cause of the disaster. Humorist and New Orleans resident Harry Shearer speaks to an Army Corp of Engineers whistleblower who reveals that “some of the same flawed methods responsible for ...
  • DOL's ARB announces two new members and new briefi ...
    The U.S. Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) has issued a letter announcing the appointment of two new judges, and a new policy on briefing schedules. The two new judges are Joanne Royce and Luis Corchado. Royce previously worked for the Government Accountability Project (GAP) an ...
  • Filipino whistleblower protection prompts more dis ...
    The new president of the Philippines, Benigno Aquino III (pictured), has granted security guarantees to a group of whistleblowers under the Witness Protection Program. Now those whistleblowers are disclosing more information about corruption under the prior administration. GMA News TV is reporting t ...
  • Remembering Beth Daley
    Beth Daley was a champion for environmental whistleblowers, and a passionate advocate for government oversight.� She is particularly remembered for her work holding oil companies accountable for their environmental compliance and honesty in government contracts. As a strategist for whistleblower l ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Czech Proposal On Copyright Law Would Require Arti ...
    The various attacks on more free and open licensing options for artists continues. We've already detailed ASCAP's misguided attack on Creative Commons as some sort of attempt to undermine copyright, rather than simply a way to give copyright holders more options. And now, Slashdot points us to a r ...
  • Rupert Murdoch's Anti-Fair Use Comments Used Again ...
    Remember back when Rupert Murdoch acted like fair use was a myth that would be "barred by the courts" when challenged? Yeah, that's been coming back to bite Murdoch. Earlier this year, we noted that a former advisor to Michael Jackson was suing News Corp. over Fox News' decision to air interview f ...
  • Is The US Caving On ACTA? Or Is It Just A Trick?
    While we all wait patiently for the latest ACTA draft to leak (and, really, it makes no sense that it's not being released officially, since it will be leaked shortly anyway), there are reports spreading that the US has caved on some of the more controversial copyright sections it had supported , in ...
  • Australia Once Again Decides You Have No Freedom T ...
    While Spain and France have taken a more lenient approach to letting people modify hardware they (thought they had) bought, the Australian courts apparently are not fans of letting people modify their own equipment. Back in February, we noted that an Australian court ruled against the distributor o ...
  • Looks Like There May Be More Trademark Fights Abou ...
    In February of 2009, we noted that the makers of the popular Facebook game Mob Wars was suing Zynga , the makers of the (also popular) Facebook game Mafia Wars. As we noted at the time, this was a bit silly, since both games were based on a series of other very, very similar games that had come bef ...

VacTruth

  • India halts vaccine programme after the deaths of ...
    The four children were reported to have fainted soon after they were vaccinated and witnesses reported seeing the children's eyes roll back as they began to have seizures.
  • 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.

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

  • Can Social Media Save Vaquita, the World's Rarest ...
    Screen capture: About the Vaquita , vaquita.tv The Vaquita porpoise may be living its last days in Mexico's Gulf of California. The demise of the species is imminent, says Chris Johnson, who's spent the last three years on a documentary, "Vaquita - Last Chance for the Desert Porpoise." Johnson ho ...
  • YouGoods Eco-Invention Contest Draws to a Close: C ...
    Earlier this month, we told you about UncommonGoods' open design contest, looking for the next great eco-friendly invention. This week, the judges of the YouGoods contest , including TreeHugger founder Graham Hill , chose three finalists, based on the criteria that they be "unique, economical, a ...
  • August Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
    The rare brown fish-owls recently spotted in Turkey are threatened by continued dam construction, against which protests have been increasing. The sign at right reads "We are taking ownership of our rivers, our culture, our future." Photos via the Hürriyet Daily News (left) and Bianet (right). ...
  • Numbers of Potential Treehuggers Decline As US Bir ...
    photo via flickr Chalk it up to eco-awareness, The Great Recession, or increased availability of pregnancy prevention methods but people in the US are having fewer kids. News stats from the National Center for Health Statistics show that for 1,000 people in the US, there are 13.5 births. That ...
  • Record Year for Sea Turtles Follows Off-Road Vehic ...
    Image credit: Audubon NC Whether or not BP was burning sea turtles alive , the Gulf oil spill did kill a lot of these endangered creatures . But the news hasn't been quite so grim elsewhere. In fact on Cape Hatteras, North Carolina—where there has been an ongoing feud between off-road enthusias ...

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 )

  • End environmental experiments on Africans!
    Environmentalists are using African parents and children in anti-DDT experiments. They are playing with our lives. So are the government agencies and others who support their policies. This is wrong and immoral. And it is only one of the ways they use Africans as experimental laboratory animals.
  • Prepare for an ice age!
    "Little ice ages" are the flip side of the 1500-year warming cycle. We should take advantage of the favorable climate we are currently enjoying to increase research on high-yield agriculture, biotechnology, water conservation and other advances now only dreamt of.
  • 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.

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • All Those Partnerships With Business Might Not Be ...
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post On last Sunday’s “Meet the Press” Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm discussed the economy, and did so with an unmistakable emphasis: smartly, strategically, surgically intervening to invest with the private sector [snip] smartly in ...
  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Iowa Ag Secretary Boasted of State's Vast Egg Indu ...
    Authorities have fingered the likely source of the salmonella that tainted more than half a billion eggs: a feed mill run by Wright County Egg, a company owned by Jack DeCoster, one of the most reviled names in industrial agriculture and a "habitual violator" of Iowa's water-quality laws. Wright Co ...
  • Capitalism Is Killing Us
    The iPhone workers in China are jumping out of buildings on purpose, taking their own lives because they can't take it anymore. These are the deleterious effects of capitalism in the world's second largest economy. Click here to read this article
  • Fires Cost Russia '300 Billion Dollars' in Defores ...
    Wildfires have cost Russia 300 billion dollars in forest loss, environmentalists said on Thursday, explaining the scale of the disaster by Vladimir Putin's "absurd" changes to forestry law. Click here to read this article
  • Biosolids Tracking Efforts a Jumble of Research Wi ...
    The residents of Rio Vista could smell trouble. In 2001, in this wind-whipped Sacramento River Delta town, 17 people in the town of about 4,500 lodged complaints with the council office about a strange odor brought about during the mid-afternoon by southeastern winds. They complained of flies and o ...
  • Monsanto in Gates' Clothing? The Emperor's New GMO ...
    If you had any doubts about where the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is really placing its bets, AGRA Watch's recent announcement of the Foundation's investment of $23.1 million in 500,000 shares of Monsanto stock should put them to rest. Genetic engineering: full speed ahead. Click here to read ...

fotoFrontera

  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes III
    Qué rápido pasa el tiempo y ha llegado el momento de presentarles la tercera parte de la serie 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. Debido al impacto que han tenido este tipo de fotografías en nuestros suscriptores, me permito reinvidicar mi compromiso con ustedes para ofrecerles cada día ...
  • Barcos, yates y veleros. (9 fotos excepcionales)
    Quienes siguen de cerca cada una de las actualizaciones del Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas, recoradarán que desde poco inicié la serie 'Barcos, yates y veleros'. Como parte de esta colección, hoy les tengo 9 fotos muy bonitas de estas máquinas gigantes que cruzan los mares rompiendo las olas en contact ...
  • Mujeres y música; Una combinación muy interesante
    Para variar un poco y salir de la rutina, les traigo el día de hoy una bonita colección de fotos donde he logrado fusionar la belleza de las mujeres con la música. Aunque no ha sido fácil, debo decir que ha sido una combinación muy interesante. Descúbralo usted mismo en las siguientes 6 imágenes iné ...
  • Los autos de mis sueños (7 bellezas de cuatro llan ...
    Si tuviese que poner una foto de cada auto que me gusta, no acabaría en toda mi vida. Pero como decía mi abuelita, dice mi mamá y digo yo, para muestra basta un botón. Y haciendo alusión a esta frase, les dejo estas bonitas imágenes de autos que sin duda cautivarán su corazón. Nota: Haz click aquí o ...
  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes II
    En base al gran éxito que ha tenido nuestra primera entrega de la serie 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes', hoy les tengo en vivo y en directo, la segunda parte que incluye la crema y nata de mi almacén de fotografías. Igual que siempre, sus comentarios y sugerencias, son bienvenidos. No ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Tour dem veggies: An East Baltimore bicycle garden ...
    Fueled by cherry tomatoes and lemonade, three-dozen bikers (this blogger included) hit the pavement last Saturday afternoon for a seven-mile tour of seven great community gardens in East Baltimore. We started the ride at the 22-year old Duncan Street Miracle Garden, a one-acre fruit and vegetable ha ...
  • Richmond’s Urban Agriculture Institutes: A First ...
    I wanted to post an impact study that I performed this year of the Urban Agriculture Institutes that I used to run in Richmond, Calif.  This paper represents the first step in a program evaluation of Urban Tilth’s Urban Agriculture Institutes.  While this study had an intervention/control cross se ...
  • Response to “Math Lessons for Locavores” op-ed
    Grist.org recently invited bloggers through it’s Grist Talk: Food Fight series to respond to an August 20th op-ed piece, “Math Lessons for Locavores,” by Stephen Budiansky in the New York Times.  What follows is my response: “I agree with Mr. Budiansky that freight is by some measures cheap, and ...
  • Exposing the role of the food industry in conditio ...
    Book Review:  The end of overeating.  By David Kessler, MD David Kessler the former FDA Chief under George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton has written a very important book in the evolution of public thinking about food, nutrition and the obesity epidemic that is gripping our nation.  The basic premise ...
  • 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 ...

Norwegianity

  • Triumph of the Propaganda Mill
    I think the plan is for Glenn to keep talking until the media all agree to use his crowd estimate. I don’t have cable so I’m just seeing the Post’s online feed, but it’s telling that they don’t pan the audience. The few pictures I’ve seen suggest the estimates of “tens of thousands” should perhaps [ ...
  • PALM Saturday
    The Paleo-Americans at the Lincoln Memorial (PALM) Saturday fun fest is underway. Michele Bachmann: The focus of the rally will be on American exceptionalism. Hence, the title Restoring Honor…. I have had African Americans, Latino’s, men, woman, young, old, retired and people from every economic str ...
  • Links on a stick
    We export terror. And yes, it’s profoundly unAmerican of me to point out what complete and total hypocritical fucking bastards we’ve become. - Politics: T minus one day until Glenn Beck restores our honor by puking his brains out on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial [more from John Avlon, Will Bunch ...
  • Something sticky this way comes
    The Midway: Ground Zero for Fair goers It has started. The Minnesota State Fair is underway and from now until Labor Day north-south Fair traffic will exceed the east-west commuter traffic running past my place as 1.7 million people a day infest the Midway (not that the city has adjusted the timing ...
  • Waiting for watermelons
    He needs a hat to make it a perfect match, but yes, I think Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is busy repeating a part of history that no one else (in their right mind) thinks is worth repeating. Luckily I seem to be without rightwing readers at the moment, or I’m sure I’d hear about this [...]

Public News Service

  • AZ Dentist for Homeless Gets National Award
    AZ Dentist for Homeless Gets National Award Phoenix, AZ – An Arizona dentist who gave up his private practice to treat the homeless has received a national award for creating a free dental clinic. The CASS (Central Arizona Shelter Services) clinic serves more than 6,000 homeless patients largely thr ...
  • Report Catalogs Oil and Gas Disasters: AZ on the L ...
    Report Catalogs Oil and Gas Disasters: AZ on the List Phoenix, AZ – A new report (from the National Wildlife Federation) looks back at ten years of oil and gas production accidents, spills, fires and other incidents across the country, including a major pipeline break in Arizona. Comments from Tim W ...
  • New Website Critical for Arizona Dieters
    New Website Critical for Arizona Dieters Phoenix, AZ – These days many Arizonans have questions about nutrition, like what does trans-fat mean? How much sodium is required daily? There is now a website that can answer those questions and more. Comments from Joan Enderle, registered dietitian wit ...
  • Social Security 75-Year Milestone This Weekend
    Social Security 75-Year Milestone This Weekend Phoenix, AZ - Tomorrow (Saturday) marks the 75th birthday of Social Security. It's a program that was created during the depths of the Great Depression. Since then, it's been credited for keeping millions of seniors out of poverty. Comments from Len Ki ...
  • County Chief: AZ Public Health Threatened by Ballo ...
    County Chief: AZ Public Health Threatened by Ballot Measure Phoenix, AZ – Arizonans will decide in November whether to reverse their 2006 decision to tax cigarettes an extra 80-cents a pack for early childhood health and education programs. Lawmakers want that money to instead help remedy the state’ ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Nathan Hale Institute for Intelligence and Militar ...
    Special Reports : Promoting a Greater Understanding of Freedom and Security Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Is the US Pulling the Plug on Iraqi Workers?
    A shamefaced officer told Hashmeya Muhsin, the first woman to head a national union in Iraq, that they'd come to carry out the orders of Electricity Minister Hussain al-Shahristani to shut the union down. As more police arrived, they took the membership.. Submitted by Ellyn S. to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Security and Environment in Pakistan
    A U.S. foreign policy that gave greater emphasis to relief and reconstruction would have much to recommend it, even (or especially) from a national security point of view.Congress does not permit CRS to make its publications available to general public. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov ...
  • More BP- Employee's "Cover-Up" Claims Related to ...
    For example, the employee's letter said the pipeline has been shut down numerous times over the past four years because equipment is neglected and routinely breaks and repairs are not being addressed in a timely manner due to a personnel shortage -> Read Submitted by Kit B. to Environment �|� �Note ...
  • Pentagon's New Global Military Partner: Sweden
    Scores of other previously non-aligned nations around the world are being pulled into the Pentagon's orbit in the post-Cold War period. Partnership for Peace program integrates nations in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia for NATO operations abroad. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov ...

Angry Indian News

  • Native American remains will be reburied
    Native American remains will be reburied | tennessean.com | The Tennessean: "'It's an oversight that they weren't put back in the ground sooner. We've been trying to correct that for a while,' said... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Brazil’s President signs ‘death sentence’ for Amaz ...
    Brazil’s President signs ‘death sentence’ for Amazonian river - Survival International: "Brazil’s President Lula has signed a contract allowing the construction of the hugely controversial Belo Monte... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Sharpton: Beck’s followers want ‘structural breakd ...
    Sharpton: Beck’s followers want ‘structural breakdown of strong national government’ | Raw Story: "Beck insisted it was a coincidence that his gathering, where potential 2012 presidential candidate... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Middle school segregates student council elections ...
    Middle school segregates student council elections by race | Raw Story: "UPDATE: School ends race-segregated student electionsThe school district board in Nettleton, Mississippi, has ended its policy... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Veterans’ group: CIA blocking lawsuit over experim ...
    Veterans’ group: CIA blocking lawsuit over experiments on troops | Raw Story: "An advocacy group working on behalf of Vietnam veterans has asked a federal judge in California to sanction the CIA,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Vaccine Zombie – music video
    "Vaccines can be extremely harmful to your health. The "Vaccine Zombie" song and music video features dancing zombie characters singing about the side effects of vaccination. "
  • The Truth Squad Radio Show with Marti Oakley and B ...
    This week we will be discussing S. 510 – especially the sections dealing with Codex Alimentarius and enforcement. More than 60% of the bill deals with fines, fees, penalties and other revenue raisers. Additonal licenses and copious record keeping will be the cause of many small operators leaving the ...
  • Dad Arrested For Sharing Food With His Neighbor – ...
    Wally Paul Republic Defiance August 27, 2010 Even Bush may know something bad is going on. Senate Bill S510 – Total Full Spectrum Dominance From The Global Mafia Senate Bill S510 makes it illegal to grow, share, trade or sell homegrown food. This is so far beyond tyranny it makes Hitler seem sane. P ...
  • Catherine Austin Fitts: We Must be Self-Sufficient ...
  • CODEX in S510: Congress continues to ignore the pe ...
    Subsection (5) CODEX questions whether or not to implement CODEX, when the writers of this bill are fully aware that implementation has been ongoing since the creation of the World Trade Organization in 1992. The CODEX committees have been meeting in Washington regularly and as recently as June of ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • A lucky escape: How David Cameron was almost shot ...
    ShareThis A lucky escape: How David Cameron was almost shot down by a Taliban rocket --'It was a much closer thing than anyone said at the time.' 27 Aug 2010 David Cameron came close to being assassinated at the hands of the Taliban on his last trip to Afghanistan, it emerged yesterday. Military sou ...
  • Osama bin Laden 'is a bought and paid for CIA agen ...
    ShareThis Osama bin Laden 'is a bought and paid for CIA agent' claims Cuban leader Fidel Castro 27 Aug 2010 Cuban leader Fidel Castro has claimed Al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden is a bought-and-paid-for CIA agent. The country's former president has said that the world's most wanted terrorist alw ...
  • Murdered Spy May Have Met His Killer On Missions t ...
    ShareThis Murdered Spy May Have Met His Killer On Missions to USA 27 Aug 2010 The hunt for the killer of British spy Gareth Williams switched to the USA yesterday. Grieving relatives of the MI6 code breaker revealed that he had been sent on several missions to America. He is understood to have retur ...
  • U.S. military wants to exert influence over privat ...
    ShareThis U.S. military wants to exert influence over private cyber infrastructure --The Pentagon is urging that its defense expertise be put in play beyond the .mil domain to include .gov and .com and wants policy makers to figure out how best to do that . 26 Aug 2010 The U.S. military wants to exe ...
  • CIA probes British spy murder, frequently sent to ...
    ShareThis CIA probes British spy murder as it emerges he was sent on frequent missions to Pentagon's high-security listening post 27 Aug 2010 The CIA was called in to help investigate the murder of an MI6 spy last night as it emerged he was sent on frequent secret missions to the United States. Amer ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • History in colour
    We've all seen the black and white photos of yesteryear, a time before the invention of colour photography. So how's this picture from the days of Imperial Russia, 1909, grab you: They were taken by a process involving three b&w...
  • 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

Mondoweiss

  • Photos of expulsion plastered to Jewish Nat’ ...
    Something that made me feel great today: a report from Israel that activists have plastered the sides of the Jewish National Fund building, the organization that for over a century has bought up land for Jews, with photographs of JNF's work: the recent destruction of the Bedouin village of Al-Arakib ...
  • ‘Times’ grants Abunimah a platform: In ...
    The Times has run an Op-Ed today discounting the new peace talks by Ali Abunimah. What a great journalistic moment. We will make no progress toward peace in Israel/Palestine until the right that was demolished in the leadup to Partition-- the right of self-determination of peoples--is respected. Thi ...
  • Slater: Goldberg’s argument is slippery
    Scholar Jerry Slater has another great post at his site, an analysis of Jeffrey Goldberg's piece in the Atlantic on the likelihood of an Israeli attack on Iran that disputes Joe Klein's claim that Goldberg was merely reporting attitudes in the Israeli establishment. An excerpt: Here Goldberg drops h ...
  • ‘Firedoglake’ is progressive– ju ...
    Here is an important matter that I have been sitting on for days and that people who care about American support for Palestinian oppression need to be aware of: the extent to which Firedoglake, a leading progressive site, suppresses criticism of Israel. The battle demonstrates that even inside ...
  • ‘Weekly Standard’ publishes call for e ...
    Apparently Fred Barnes has a piece in the Weekly Standard saying that Jews have a right to all of historical Palestine because of the red heifer, or some such logic. Matt Duss explodes the piece at ThinkProgress:Things take a darker turn, however, when [Barnes quotes] settler spokesman Dani Dayyan, ...

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

  • Can Social Media Save Vaquita, the World's Rarest ...
    Screen capture: About the Vaquita , vaquita.tv The Vaquita porpoise may be living its last days in Mexico's Gulf of California. The demise of the species is imminent, says Chris Johnson, who's spent the last three years on a documentary, "Vaquita - Last Chance for the Desert Porpoise." Johnson ho ...
  • YouGoods Eco-Invention Contest Draws to a Close: C ...
    Earlier this month, we told you about UncommonGoods' open design contest, looking for the next great eco-friendly invention. This week, the judges of the YouGoods contest , including TreeHugger founder Graham Hill , chose three finalists, based on the criteria that they be "unique, economical, a ...
  • August Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
    The rare brown fish-owls recently spotted in Turkey are threatened by continued dam construction, against which protests have been increasing. The sign at right reads "We are taking ownership of our rivers, our culture, our future." Photos via the Hürriyet Daily News (left) and Bianet (right). ...
  • Numbers of Potential Treehuggers Decline As US Bir ...
    photo via flickr Chalk it up to eco-awareness, The Great Recession, or increased availability of pregnancy prevention methods but people in the US are having fewer kids. News stats from the National Center for Health Statistics show that for 1,000 people in the US, there are 13.5 births. That ...
  • Record Year for Sea Turtles Follows Off-Road Vehic ...
    Image credit: Audubon NC Whether or not BP was burning sea turtles alive , the Gulf oil spill did kill a lot of these endangered creatures . But the news hasn't been quite so grim elsewhere. In fact on Cape Hatteras, North Carolina—where there has been an ongoing feud between off-road enthusias ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Somalia piracy suspect pleads guilty in US court
    [JURIST] Somali citizen Jama Idle Ibrahim pleaded guilty [press release] Friday to several charges in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia [official website] for his role in the April attack on the USS Ashland in the Gulf of Aden. Ibrahim, originally charged with piracy [JURIST ...
  • Microsoft co-founder sues 11 major web companies o ...
    [JURIST] Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen filed suit [complaint, PDF] Friday against Apple, eBay, Google [corporate websites] and eight other corporations in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington [official website], claiming the infringement of four patents related to website n ...
  • ICC reports Kenya to UN over al-Bashir visit
    [JURIST] The International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] on Friday reported Kenya [decision, PDF] to the UN Security Council and the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute over Friday's visit by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir [case materials; JURIST news archive]. Al-Bashir was ...
  • Madagascar ex-president sentenced to life over pro ...
    [JURIST] A court in Madagascar [JURIST news archive] on Saturday sentenced former president Marc Ravalomanana [BBC profile] to life in prison with hard labor for ordering the killing of opposition protesters in February 2009. Ravalomanana, who has been living in South Africa since his ouster in Marc ...
  • Arizona files opening brief in immigration law app ...
    [JURIST] Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) [official website] on Thursday filed the state's opening brief [text, PDF] in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website], asking the court to lift the preliminary injunction blocking Arizona's controversial immigration law [SB 1070 mater ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Leaks Aren't 'In,' Clapper Tells In ...
    In a blunt memo, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper admonishes intelligence community personnel to stop "blabbing secrets" and said he is concerned about "recent leaks" of classified information. Normally, reporters would use the word "surprisingly" before "blunt" when describing an of ...
  • Glenn Beck, Millennialist, Prophet, Profit
    Glenn Beck is many things to many people: a prophet, a carnival hawker, an Aimee McPherson, a Groucho Marx sincerity faker, sincere, a deeply religious man, a seriously smart man, a man who acts out his own intellectual journeys, a wit, a capitalist, a white race hustler, all wrapped into one pink p ...
  • Just Asking... Where's Edward Tufte When You ...
    Remember back in March, when the White House made the fairly audacious move of hiring one of the world's leading visual communicators, Edward Tufte , to come up with creative ways to show how the economic stimulus package improved the economy? There is probably no one on earth who can figure out ho ...
  • Why The NRA Won't Be Endorsing Reid
    An ominous sign for Democrats: the National Rifle Association, which has long enjoyed a solid relationship with Majority Leader Harry Reid, put out word this afternoon that it would not be endorsing Reid's re-election campaign. �That puts to rest conspiracy theories that the NRA had made some sort o ...
  • Answering More of Your Questions: Palin, Miller, S ...
    Putting aside Ken Mehlman's decision to come out to The Atlantic, a choice that surprised Jon Stewart because, quite frankly, who chooses to come out to The Atlantic ? Moving on to the rest of the news. Alaska was a surprise for everyone. How much influence did Sarah Palin really have? A significa ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • New Israel Fund Caving to Im Tirzu Pressure?
    New Jewish Israel Fund or Not Arab Israel Fund The Forward brings distressing news that the New Israel Fund has prepared draft funding guidelines that would bar any Israeli NGO which did not endorse Israel as a Jewish state: The New Israel Fund, the target of attacks by right-wing organizations accu ...
  • Israeli Preparations for War With Iran, Hezbollah ...
    I cringe when I have to write blog posts like this because with every fiber of my body, I do not want a war between Iran and Israel and the concomitant regional hostilities likely to break out thereafter.  I realize that any reporting that encourages such speculation only fuels the interests of Isr ...
  • Links for 2010-03-30 [Digg]
    Overseas Media Begins Reporting Kam Case An Israeli journalist disappears into the maw of the intelligence services. A gag order prevents newspapers reporting the story. Only overseas media can do so, but they hesitate since so little is known. That's why blogs exist and that's the role that ...
  • Links for 2010-03-21 [Digg]
    Happy Passover: Settlers, Immigrants, and Jewish Values "You shall not oppress the stranger because you know the soul of the stranger for you yourselves were immigrants in the land of Egypt (Exodus 23:9)"
  • Israeli Actors Refuse to Perform in Settlements
    After Israel’s leading theater companies announced they would appear for the first time in an Israeli settlement, 40 Israeli actors, directors and producers signed a statement refusing to perform.  They were to grace the boards of a new center for the arts, performing some of the treasures of the w ...

Ode Magazine

  • In praise of dissent
    Want to spur innovation, creativity and social justice? Get to know a dissenter. Mabel Yu didn’t trust the numbers. It was 2006 and Yu was an analyst with The Vanguard Group, a financial firm based in Malvern, Pennsylvania, that manages almost $1 trillion in investment funds. Bond seller ...
  • The dissent of man
    A brief history of some of the world's great dissenters. Henry David Thoreau, author In 1846, Henry David Thoreau spent a night in jail for refusing to pay his poll tax. He refused to pay because he objected to the U.S. government’s support of slavery. His night in a cell in Conco ...
  • An ode to optimism
    “What does ‘ode’ mean?” my Norwegian friend asked as we enjoyed a beer on a spring afternoon in the harbor of Oslo, at the fjord from which the Vikings ruled the seas some 1,200 years ago. “It means ‘tribute’ or ‘song of praise,’” I replied. “Ah,” he said. “We have exactly ...
  • Forests are not for free
    Workshop participants in Brazil learn from Forest Trends how to add value to their ecosystem. Photo: Rebecca Vonada Why should we pay for the services of, say, a cellphone provider, but not those of a rainforest? Michael Jenkins, an ex-forest ranger in Haiti and Brazil, didn't se ...
  • Ode to Hyde Park Senior Playground
    Plays nice with others London’s Hyde Park has always been popular among parents looking to have a fun day out with their kids. Now the park offers ­grandparents something to do, too. The new senior playground, designed for the over-60 crowd, features equipment for gentle exercise, includ ...

OpEd News

  • Yale University's Pro-Israeli, Anti-Islamic Confer ...
    Bigotry and hate on display at Yale for three days
  • Obama, Krishna Das, Paradise and Me
    Today marks the 47th anniversary of American hero, Martin Luther King and his most famous speech. The success of MLK & the civil rights movement prove once again that it is possible for a small group to challenge the status quo & transform the world. Social justice, social responsibility & social ac ...
  • Glenn's Not So Funny Anymore
    The Joke Just Might Be On Us
  • Climate Change - Too Important to Leave to Scienti ...
    A big part of the current climate change controversy is that it can't be reduced to a sound bite. A second, possibly more serious, problem is that progressives have mostly referred to scientists to prove climate change is happening.
  • Republicans plan McCarthyite persecutions
    The party of Richard Nixon and Joe McCarthy is so punch drunk with the lust for power and so dependent on extremist supporters who pursue the politics of hate that the party that is no longer the party of Lincoln is virtually bragging about the abuses of power they intend to perform if the given the ...

Switchboard

  • India Climate Change and Energy News - Week of Aug ...
    Climate Change and Environment Rs. 25000 Cr. To Tackle Climate Change: Jairam   “The Centre has made a provision of Rs. 25,000 crore to mitigate the effects of climate change, a serious problem that India will face in the coming decades, Minister of State for Environment and Forests ...
  • Gulf Coast Disaster - Friday, August 27
    Day 130 Highlights in this issue: - BP to begin work to remove cap on Monday - Doomed rig had a good reputation - Third BP employee refuses to testify - Survey: Oil spill more traumatic than Katrina - US reopens more fishing area - Feinberg not winning support from state attorneys gen ...
  • The Verdict Is In: The L.A. Port Trucking Plan Is ...
    On April 20, 2010, the day that the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig blew up, my colleague Melissa Lin Perrella and I started trial in the American Trucking Association v. Port of Los Angeles case in federal district court in Los Angeles before Judge Christina Snyder.  Plaintiff ATA c ...
  • Diana Nyad's Swim in the Gulf
    Diana Nyad - a world class swimmer - is about to attempt an amazing and historic feat. She's going to swim from Cuba to the Florida Keys. And she's going to do it at the age of 61.  This trip will take hours of constant swimming while facing intense ocean elements - the currents, jell ...
  • How to get from LAX to Santa Monica on the Bus
    Unbeknownst to many, LA (including the cities of Los Angeles , Santa Monica , Culver City , Torrance , and Long Beach ) has a pretty good public transportation system.  Part of why this is a secret is because, well, it seems to be a secret how to actually ride the bus.*  The first time ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Least. Convincing. Argument. Ever.
    Shorter Beverly Willett: New York should have kept its anachronistic divorce laws so that more women could go through the immensely painful, expensive, and futile attempt to maintain a marriage with a jerk who treats them horribly. [Via Lindsay and AWB] Related posts:Gay marriage, divorce, hyp ...
  • Getcher Hot Links!
    Heckuva job from Bobo, who manages to compare Germany and the United States — asserting that the latter has had less growth because of greater stimulus — without even mentioning Germany’s much more substantial safety net, which 1)stabilizes consumer spending during a recession, and 2)provides autom ...
  • Oh Sweet Jeebus
    Our last commander in Afghanistan was an avowed fan of Bud Light Lime. His replacement? Despite admitting that he has not purchased a compact disc in years, General David Petraeus revealed Wednesday that he is âan Enya guy,â referring to the new-age Irish musician. âI do like Celtic music. And ...
  • Member Of Self-Proclaimed World’s Greatest D ...
    Whenever you think he’s exhasuted every possible way of being an asshole, Jim Bunning can always suprise you. Related posts:Jim Bunning Explained Bunning Hits the Showers Greatest. World War II analogy. Ever. Related posts: Jim Bunning Explained Bunning Hits the Showers Greatest. World War II a ...
  • Making Your Own Judgment Is So Politically Correct ...
    If I understand Krauthammer correctly, I think I have to conduct a public opinion survey before I can decide whether or not this is racist. Ommitted from the former:  an explanation of what non-bigoted motives might lead to intense opposition to the Burlington Coat Factory Islmaic community center. ...

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.

  • IP LAW: An overhaul for inequitable conduct claims ...
    This fall, the Federal Circuit will hold a hearing on whether to change the standards of proof.
  • Beyond Katrina
    Thousands of New Orleans attorneys saw their professions upended when the levees broke after Hurricane Katrina hit on Aug. 29, 2005, and flooded the city. In January 2006, the NLJ interviewed several New Orleans lawyers who were piecing together their practices. Nearly five years later, those attorn ...
  • Spill fund won't deter litigation
    The $20 billion compensation fund for victims of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has begun taking applications, but plaintiffs' lawyers doubt it would significantly forestall litigation. In fact, they said, it could lead to a new wave of lawsuits.
  • State support courted in video game case
    A campaign is under way to win the hearts and minds of state attorneys general in the run-up to a major Supreme Court case testing the constitutionality of limits on the sale of violent video games.
  • McDermott Will files counterclaim in suit by forme ...
    McDermott Will & Emery is countersuing medical device maker Nomir Medical Technologies Inc. in Boston federal court for breach of contract and nearly $491,000 in damages following the company's $143 million claim against the firm for missing patent deadlines.

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

  • Salmonella with Your Omelet? Don't forget Stroke a ...
    Ask for an egg-free pastry in otherwise politically correct Starbucks in Chicago and you'll get a blank stare. (Thank you, Argo Tea.)
  • UN Human Rights Experts Express Concern Over Execu ...
    Independent United Nations human rights experts today voiced serious concern at last weekend's execution in Equatorial Guinea of four men over their alleged involvement in an armed attack on the country's presidential palace last year.
  • Daniel & Ana Mexican Film Review
    Directed by Michel Franco, Daniel & Ana opens with a warning which reads, 'Based on real events. The movie tells the story exactly as it happened. Only the names were changed.'
  • UN Probe Finds Serious Human Rights Violations Dur ...
    The President's actions followed a period of rising tensions after voter registration for the country's presidential elections - which were supposed to have been held as far back as 2005 but have been repeatedly postponed - were suspended.
  • Affiliate Program Review for Your Blog
    Today, daily news is owned by the masses. Anyone can be a publisher of news thanks to blogging. Whether you choose to share information via words or images, or a combination, you might be...

environment 360

  • First Genetically-Altered Fish for Human Consumpti ...
    U.S. officials are reviewing an application for what would be the first genetically-engineered animal approved for human consumption , an Atlantic salmon modified to grow at twice the rate of normal salmon. The Food and Drug Administration will consult experts and review scientific data to evaluate ...
  • Canada Lists BPA as Toxic
    The Canadian government is adding bisphenol A (BPA) , a chemical found in thousands of everyday plastics, to its register of toxic substances. The primary component of hard and clear polycarbonate plastics, BPA is found in many water bottles, baby bottles, and the linings of canned foods. Among oth ...
  • Spurred by Warming Climate, Beetles Threaten Coffe ...
    Coffee production has long been vulnerable to drought or excess rains. But recently, a tiny insect that thrives in warmer temperatures — the coffee berry borer — has been spreading steadily, devastating coffee plants in Africa, Latin America, and around the world. BY ERICA WESTLY
  • Electric Car Made of Hemp Is Developed by Canadian ...
    A group of Canadian companies is developing an electric vehicle made of hemp , a compact car developers say will reach top speeds of 55 miles per hour and will have a range of 25 to 100 miles before requiring a battery re-charge. The Kestrel, being developed by Calgary-based Motive Industries Inc. , ...
  • World’s Smallest Frog Discovered in Forests of Bor ...
    Researchers tracking the planet’s rarest amphibians have discovered what they say is the world’s smallest frog , a pea-sized creature that lives inside and around pitcher plants on the island of Borneo. Scientists found the tiny amphibian, called Microhyla nepenthicola , near a roadside within Kubah ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Mysteries Abound In WTC Ship Remains
    On July 12 the remains of an 18th-century ship were found buried 20 feet below street level at the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. The question is -- how did they get there? Nobody knows for sure -- yet. And even though there are timbers from the front half of the ship, nobody can i ...
  • "Plug and Play" Solar Panel Kits Offer Homeowners ...
    Imagine a modular solar array that you can install—without too much fear of electrocuting yourself—at a relatively low price. That's the vision of Chad Maglaque and Clarian Technologies, and one that hopes to become a reality by spring 2011. "The key here is slowing the [electricity] meter down," Ma ...
  • Protesters support swine flu sceptic
    Supporters demonstrated over the charges being faced by blogger Jane Burgermeister, a swine and bird flu sceptic. One protester said she "exposed bird flu as a scam which pharmaceutical companies have tried to make millions out of". "They make the bugs, they make the drugs."
  • Turkey Discovers Ancient Underground Tomb
    Police have raided a house used by people suspected of digging illegally for antiquities and discovered two tunnels leading to an underground tomb that housed an ancient marble coffin and frescoes, officials said...
  • Parents say Wi-Fi making their kids sick
    A group of central Ontario parents is demanding their children’s schools turn off wireless internet before they head back to school next month, fearing the technology is making the kids sick. Some parents in the Barrie, Ont., area say their children are showing a host of symptoms, ranging from heada ...

Russia Today

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

  • Is Space Colonization Still Just Fantasy?
    Space colonization has been a theme (or meme?) in literature for over 150 years, probably thousands of years earlier than that really (Book of Enoch). Anyway, humans have dreamed of traveling to alien worlds in the heavens for a very long time, it isn’t a recent phenomenon. Dr. Stephen Hawking is on ...
  • NASAWatch: Should Congress Design the Next Big Boo ...
    From NASAWatch: Frank Sietzen, Jr.: Consider how many space initiatives the United States didn’t pursue in the past half century. A fully reusable launch vehicle. A 20-person expendable space station. New heavy lift boosters. A permanent lunar colony. The Orbital Space Plane. NERVA and Prometheus. A ...
  • Danish Rockets: Or Those Incredible Young Men in T ...
    Move over Elon Musk and Burt Rutan. Here are a couple of adventurous Danish inventors who are willing to put their money, and their lives, where the rubber meets the road so to speak. Or to put it more exactly; The Amazing Flying Danes: It might not look much. In fact, it looks practically suicidal. ...
  • 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 ...

Tippers News

  • Inching Away From Bullfighting and Its Macho B.S.
    When the regional parliament of Catalonia voted last month to ban bullfighting, the howls of protest across Spain resounded louder than the collective death cries of the thousands of bulls killed in the nations rings each year. Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: Indonesia: Animals dying in Surabaya ...
    An African lion and an Australian kangaroo are the latest animals to die in mysterious circumstances at Surabaya Zoo in East Java as an internal management battle continues to rage. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: Justice for the cats of Salamanca's ...
    The content of this petition could be the a movie plot. Its too merciless, sadistic, mean and surreal to be based on a true story. Unfortunately, this Schindler's List meets The Godfather is happening right now. The title of this motion picture could be Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note- ...
  • ACTION ALERT: Tell WAZA to expel JAZA and expose ...
    WAZA, The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums, has a Code of Ethics that omits any cruel style of capture, most prominently, drive fishing. If you are not already aware, the town of Taiji, Japan conducts an annual dolphin slaughter in which 20,000 Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-i ...
  • ACTION ALERT: All Cats Should Die For fun Group!? ...
    Please report and help close down this Facebook group called All Cats Should Die! You can Report the group in the lower left hand corner of the group. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Sputtering Recovery Creates Second Thoughts on Tax ...
    “With the economy rapidly weakening, some senior Democrats are having second thoughts about raising taxes on the nation’s wealthiest families and are pressing party leaders to consider extending the full array of Bush administration tax cuts, at least through next year.” (Washington Post) Starve the ...
  • Court Says Government Can Track People by GPS
    “Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn’t violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway — and no r ...
  • Economic Security through Trade
    Americans tolerate a costly global national-security apparatus in part because they believe the country would be economically vulnerable without it.
  • Bernanke Looked to for Solutions
    “With the housing market retreating, unemployment lingering and top officials at the Federal Reserve in open disagreement over what to do, Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke is under rising pressure to offer solutions in an address Friday that is likely to be his most important since the end of the financ ...
  • Government Flood Insurance Program Is Under Water
    “FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program is the nation’s main flood insurer, created by law in 1968 as private companies stopped covering flood damage. The program insures 5.6 million properties nationwide and aims to be self-sustaining by paying claims from premiums it collects. Instead it’s runnin ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • New York Times seeks multimedia journalism interns
    Poking around in The New York Times’s job listings, I found this description of three distinct internships “in the Web Newsroom of The New York Times”: Front-end Interactive Designer: full skill-set of client-side technologies including HTML, CSS and JavaScript/Prototype. Experience with Ruby on ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

  • VOICES: Workers who win the South change the natio ...
    By MaryBe McMillan Forty-seven years after the 1963 March on Washington, the union movement and our allies are preparing for our own march in October. Under the banner of One Nation Working Together , union members, civil rights activists and other concerned citizens will rally in support of good j ...
  • SPECIAL REPORT: Washington has yet to address key ...
    As we approach the five year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, today the Institute is releasing a new report which looks at what has changed -- and what hasn't changed -- since the deadly storm took over 1,800 lives and devastated the Gulf Coast. Our report, Learning from Katrina: Lessons fr ...
  • U.S. human rights report fails to address the less ...
    The Obama administration released the first-ever U.S. report to the U.N. Human Rights Council this week. Prepared as part of the ongoing U.N. Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process that involved consultations with civil society groups nationwide, the report [pdf] acknowledges that the U.S. human r ...
  • Roadmap to recovery: Groups offer plan to restore ...
    A coalition of more than 100 organizations from across the U.S. and Gulf Coast released a report yesterday that offers a plan for the long-term recovery of the region affected by the BP oil spill disaster. "One Gulf, resilient Gulf: A plan for coastal community recovery" calls on the federal gover ...
  • After Katrina, New Orleans cops were told they cou ...
    This story was reported by Sabrina Shankman and Tom Jennings of Frontline , Brendan McCarthy and Laura Maggi of The New Orleans Times-Picayune and A.C. Thompson of ProPublica . In the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina, an order circulated among New Orleans police authorizing officers to shoot ...

Worldpress - Africa

Canadian Encyclopedia

  • Great Depression
    Few countries were affected as severely as Canada by the worldwide Depression of the 1930s. It is estimated that between 1929 and 1933 Gross National Expenditure declined by 42%, by the latter year 30% of the LABOUR FORCE was
  • Riel, Louis
    Louis Riel, M�tis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the NORTH-WEST REBELLION (b at Red River Settlement [Man] 22 Oct 1844; d at Regina 16 Nov 1885). Riel was educated at St Boniface and studied for the
  • Macdonald, Sir John Alexander
    Sir John Alexander Macdonald, lawyer, businessman, politician, first prime minister of Canada (b at Brunswick Place, across the Clyde R from Glasgow, Scot 10 Jan 1815; d at Ottawa 6 June 1891). He was the dominant creative mind
  • Confederation
    Confederation, the union of the British North American colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Canada (Canada being an earlier 1841 union of Lower Canada and Upper Canada), was achieved 1 July 1867 under the new name,
  • Vimy Ridge
    Vimy Ridge, battle fought 9-14 April 1917 during WORLD WAR I . The long, low ridge formed a key position linking the Germans' new HINDENBURG LINE to their main trench lines leading north from HILL 70 near Arras, France.

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle jigsaws?
    We’ve had an email from Kathy asking about getting rid of her children’s old jigsaws: I just know they’ve got pieces missing so would feel bad about giving them to a charity shop. They’re cardboard with a shiny paper top so they could be recycled? Probably – as long as it’s just paper and not [...]
  • How can I “repair” too runny/too solid ...
    It’s very definitely jam season at the moment (in the UK at least) and I thought it might be fun to hear people’s favourite fixes for sticky situations (ho ho!) when the preserves don’t come out quite as you’d hoped. How do you test for the set point? The most common method seems to be [...]
  • How can I build a baby playpen reusing or recyclin ...
    Early 2009 was apparently a boring time around here: every couple we know – bar one other couple & us – had a baby last autumn/winter. (The other couple are expecting their first in just over a month; we got a dog & chickens instead.) All the babies are starting to crawl/walk with support now [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle trade-size ice cream tu ...
    The other day, John and I were hanging around a dumpster at the back of an ice cream parlour — as you do — and spotted it was full of 5ltr plastic ice cream tubs. In our house, ice cream tubs are one of our favourite plastics to reuse – rectangular 1ltr square tubs are [...]
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make a foraging/har ...
    Nearly every time we go out for a walk at the moment, we seem to find a new set of berries aching to be picked. And every time that happens, we kick ourselves for not having a bag with us. After our discussion about making one earlier in the year, I have a trug-ish basket [...]

Mondoweiss

  • Photos of expulsion plastered to Jewish Nat’ ...
    Something that made me feel great today: a report from Israel that activists have plastered the sides of the Jewish National Fund building, the organization that for over a century has bought up land for Jews, with photographs of JNF's work: the recent destruction of the Bedouin village of Al-Arakib ...
  • ‘Times’ grants Abunimah a platform: In ...
    The Times has run an Op-Ed today discounting the new peace talks by Ali Abunimah. What a great journalistic moment. We will make no progress toward peace in Israel/Palestine until the right that was demolished in the leadup to Partition-- the right of self-determination of peoples--is respected. Thi ...
  • Slater: Goldberg’s argument is slippery
    Scholar Jerry Slater has another great post at his site, an analysis of Jeffrey Goldberg's piece in the Atlantic on the likelihood of an Israeli attack on Iran that disputes Joe Klein's claim that Goldberg was merely reporting attitudes in the Israeli establishment. An excerpt: Here Goldberg drops h ...
  • ‘Firedoglake’ is progressive– ju ...
    Here is an important matter that I have been sitting on for days and that people who care about American support for Palestinian oppression need to be aware of: the extent to which Firedoglake, a leading progressive site, suppresses criticism of Israel. The battle demonstrates that even inside ...
  • ‘Weekly Standard’ publishes call for e ...
    Apparently Fred Barnes has a piece in the Weekly Standard saying that Jews have a right to all of historical Palestine because of the red heifer, or some such logic. Matt Duss explodes the piece at ThinkProgress:Things take a darker turn, however, when [Barnes quotes] settler spokesman Dani Dayyan, ...

Media Consortium

  • The Media Consortium » Weekly Diaspora: Immigrants ...
  • Can apps save news journalism? | Adrian Monck | Co ...
    "Serious news organisations have placed their bets. With Apple selling a million iPads in barely a month, paid iPad applications from the likes of the Times and the Financial Times line up on app stores with free offerings from the BBC and Thomson Reuters. But already there are signs that native ne ...
  • Can apps save news journalism? | Adrian Monck | Co ...
    But taking Anderson's argument face on, where does the rise of the app leave the news business, the flatulent Rottweiler in the dog shelter of online content? Can apps give it a caring home at last?
  • 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 ...

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 )

  • Evaluating Katrina’s impact
    Hurricane Katrina, which five years ago made landfall and became one of the five deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history, has influenced more than just the city of New Orleans. Since 2005, it has transformed the nature of research, funding, and public perception of hurricane research. For the f ...
  • Cognition editor says Hauser may have fabricated d ...
    Evolutionary psychologist Marc Hauser may have fabricated data in a 2002 publication, according to the editor of the journal, Cognition . The Boston Globe today reports that Gerry Altmann , editor-in-chief of the journal, says that he has seen some of the findings of Harvard University’s interna ...
  • Handful of narcolepsy cases sparks pandemic vaccin ...
    The European Medicines Agency launched a review on 27 August of a putative link between GlaxoSmithKline's Pandemrix pandemic H1N1 vaccine and a handful of cases of narcolepsy - a rare sleeping disorder. A temporal association between vaccination and development of the disease has been reported in 15 ...
  • AMS hits the road
    The US Air Force has finally picked up a giant, space-bound particle detector from CERN, Europe’s particle laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a 15 year, US$2 billion detector designed to measure cosmic rays while perched on the outside of the Internatio ...
  • How U.S. science got stimulated
    View larger version of image at right After Republican leaders recently denounced “wasteful” science and technology research in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)—otherwise known as the 2009 economic stimulus package—the Obama Administration is taking steps to encourage a more fa ...

new geography

  • Summer in the Hamptons: UnReal Estate
    If you are looking for a place where you can, in your day dreams, ride out the recession, might I suggest one of the Hamptons? These are the celebrity-drenched villages that stretch for thirty miles across the sand dunes and potato fields of Long Island’s South Fork, which ends at Montauk Point and ...
  • Has America Caught the British Disease?
    As the economy stalls, analysts are worrying that the United States might repeat the experience of Japan’s “lost decade” (actually, two lost decades). Is America turning Japanese? We should be more worried about the prospect that America is turning British. The United Kingdom went from creating t ...
  • The Housing Bubble: The Economists Should Have Kno ...
    Paul Krugman got it right . But it should not have taken a Nobel Laureate to note that the emperor's nakedness with respect to the connection between the housing bubble and more restrictive land use regulation. A just published piece by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, however, shows that much ...
  • The China Syndrome
    China's ascension to the world's second-largest economy, surpassing Japan, has led to predictions that it will inevitably snatch the No. 1 spot from the United States. Nomura Securities envisions China surpassing the U.S.' total GDP in little more than a decade. And economist Robert Fogel predicts t ...
  • The Disappearance of the Next Middle Class
    Every week we read that yet another major housing project has been turned down by the Courts here in New Zealand because of the need to protect "rural character" or "natural landscapes". This may well have profound short and long-term consequences for the future of our middle class, as it does for t ...

GM Watch

spiked

  • Me human, you chimp
    In a sparkling, erudite polemic, Helene Guldberg demolishes the idea that apes are just like humans, and puts the case for rescuing, and celebrating, the story of our uniqueness.
  • Could anybody bend it like Beckham?
    Maybe – if they practised for about 10,000 hours. An Olympic sportsman turned award-winning sports writer argues that the idea of natural talent is overrated.
  • The man from Stratford wrote these works of genius
    In this entertaining book, James Shapiro shows that the rush to discover who really wrote Shakespeare’s plays is underpinned by modern prejudices rather than historic fact.
  • The word of the Lord
    The trouble with Lord Mandelson’s autobiography is that the thing he tries to paint as tragedy – the thwarting of his and Tony’s big plans – is enjoyed by most sane people as comedy.
  • ‘Lifestyles will have to be redesigned&#8217 ...
    A Guardian journalist’s ranting about the ‘neglect, greed and human filth’ of modern China shows that new prejudices about a ‘Green Peril’ have replaced old fears of the ‘Yellow Peril’.

Cryptogon

  • Mexican Massacre Investigator Found Dead
    Via: Guardian: The body of an official investigating the massacre of 72 Central and South American migrants killed in a ranch in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas was found today dumped beside a nearby road alongside another unidentified victim, according to local media. Earlier, two cars ...
  • The Kochtopus
    Polemical essays can be worth reading, as long as one understands that the author’s goal is to push his or her rat poison, by showing you how bad that rat poison is. With this caveat in mind, you’re all set to feast on the tidy reality offered by a strongly polemical piece. I learned more [...]
  • Karzai Aide in Corruption Inquiry Is Tied to CIA
    Shocking. Shocking. Are you shocked? I’m shocked. Via: New York Times: The aide to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan at the center of a politically sensitive corruption investigation is being paid by the Central Intelligence Agency, according to Afghan and American officials. Mohammed Zia Salehi ...
  • Banks Back Switch to Renminbi for Trade
    Via: Financial Times: A number of the world’s biggest banks have launched international roadshows promoting the use of the renminbi to corporate customers instead of the dollar for trade deals with China. HSBC, which recently moved its chief executive from London to Hong Kong, and Standard Chartered ...
  • Fed Seeks Delay of Bank Data Release While Conside ...
    Via: Bloomberg: The Federal Reserve Board sought to delay the court-ordered release of documents identifying banks that might have failed without the U.S. government bailout while it considers an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Fed asked the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York yesterday to delay ...

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

  • Farmers in Africa and climate change (IFPRI)
    Read at : http://www.ifpri.org/blog/climate-change-africa-0 Climate Change in Africa Farmers in Africa are already feeling the effects of climate change. Jul 9, 2009 by Melanie Allen Benjamin Kariuki, a father of 5, lives in Gachoka division of Mbeere district in semi-arid … Continue reading →
  • Soil and water conservation technologies (IFPRI)
    Read at : http://www.ifpri.org/publication/are-soil-and-water-conservation-technologies-buffer-against-production-risk-face-climate Are soil and water conservation technologies a buffer against production risk in the face of climate change? The agricultural sector in developing countries is particul ...
  • Micro-level practices to adapt to climate change ( ...
    Read at : http://www.ifpri.org/publication/micro-level-practices-adapt-climate-change-african-small-scale-farmers Micro-level practices to adapt to climate change for African small-scale farmers A review of selected literature This paper discusses micro-level practices for adapting to climate change ...
  • Adapting to Global Change (IFPRI)
    Read at : http://www.ifpri.org/book-735/ourwork/program/global-food-and-natural-resources Strategies and Policies for Adapting to Global Change IFPRIâs research on global change seeks to identify and evaluate policy and investment options that can help global change benefit poor people. Global ch ...
  • Alternatives to large land acquisitions (IFAD)
    Read at : http://www.ifad.org/media/press/2010/41.htm Alternatives to large land acquisitions in developing nations: New report analyses how partnerships can benefit both big investors and small farmers New research shows how agricultural investments in developing nations can be structured as altern ...

The Paper Trail

  • ENVIRONMENT:  Green Groups See Red In Recent ...
    The environmental groups that helped propel Barack Obama to the White House are feeling betrayed during a summer of discontent and climate inaction.
  • MONEY & POLITICS: Conservative Fund Taps &#822 ...
    The American Future Fund , which aims to almost triple its issue advertisement spending for this year’s election, launched a hard-hitting television ad today using the proposed Islamic mosque in New York City to attack Iowa GOP candidate Ben Lange’s Democratic opponent.
  • MONEY & POLITICS: Boehner’s Pro-Business ...
    House Republican Leader John Boehner’s high-profile speech yesterday urging the Obama administration to fire its top economic advisers and offering advice on job creation reflects the Ohio congressman’s long ties to the business sector, detailed in the Center for Public Integrity’s investigation, “ ...
  • 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.

backofthebook.ca

  • Anatomy of a G20 mishmash
    By Frank Moher The massive article, "Anatomy of the G20," published by the Toronto Star last Friday, is a curious document indeed, especially coming from a newspaper that has taken a hard editorial line against the police's actions that weekend. It feels like one of those articles that has gone a ...
  • Oil sands science seeps out
    By Alison@Creekside Remember that two year Environment Committee study on the tarsands that was ultimately shredded because the four parties at the table couldn't agree on the wording of the witnesses's testimony? The Lib members of that committee have now released their own report on the testimo ...
  • 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 ...

Worldnews

  • Medicare expands coverage to help smokers qui ...
    WASHINGTON (AP) They've lived with the health warnings about smoking for much of their lives and doubtless seen the ill effects on friends, relatives and even themselves, yet about 4.5 million older people in the U.S. keep on lighting up. Medicare is finally catching up to most private insure ...
  • Catching up with private insurers, Medicare e ...
    WASHINGTON (AP) — They've lived with the health warnings about smoking for much of their lives and doubtless seen the ill effects on friends, relatives and even themselves, yet about 4.5 million older people in the U.S. keep on lighting up. Medicare is finally catching up to most private insure ...
  • Anupam Kher to attend Tharoor's wedding recep ...
    --> Anupam Kher to attend Tharoor's wedding reception Share ARTICLEURL...
  • Big B harassed by blogger; files complaint ...
    --> Big B harassed by blogger; files complaint Share ARTICLEURL Amitabh Bachchan says an unknown person has been sending derogatory and abusive material on his blog and mobile phone. After enduring it for months, he has filed a police complaint....
  • Nomadic star Ibrahimovic settles back in Ital ...
    Rome - The arrival of Zlatan Ibrahimovic at AC Milan finally spiced up a fairly dull Serie A summer transfer market. It also boosted the Devils' chances of mounting a challenge on champions Inter Milan - the crosswtown rivals the Swede left a year ago for Barcelona. After four days of negotiati ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • When that glow has to go
    Sweating too much can be more than just a damp drag. Though drugstore remedies help most, for some there are stronger options, including pills, Botox and even surgery. Summer temperatures make some people glisten and others drip, but, regardless, most of us want ways to dry off. ...
  • Health 2.0 Europe: Etienne Caniard
    By Bianca Grogan Cliquez sur elle pour la vidéo en français Etienne Caniard of the French National Authority for Health spoke on the French governement's approach to Health 2.0 technologies.
  • Guest Article: Top 10 tips for successfully using ...
    Moving away from paper is an automation journey that is both challenging as well as rewarding and choosing the right data entry technology is certainly one of the biggest challenges. Choose the right data entry mechanism and your journey is smooth; choose unwisely, and you’re in for a great deal of ...
  • Government scrapping NHS Direct
    The coalition government confirms plans to scrap the NHS Direct helpline in England and replace it with an alternative service.
  • FIORICET WITH CODEINE (Butalbital, Acetaminophen, ...
    Updated Date: Aug 27, 2010 EST

Common Dreams

  • 'Frankenfish' May Go on Sale in US After Public Co ...
    by Chris McGreal US authorities today began the process to approve the first GM animal for human consumption. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a 60-day period of consultation and public meetings over whether to permit a GM strain of salmon to be eaten by humans, even though it has be ...
  • Atrazine Threat to Male Sexual Development Reveale ...
    RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina - Male rats exposed before birth to low doses of the weedkiller atrazine are more likely to develop prostate inflammation and to go through puberty later than non-exposed animals, finds a new study conducted by federal government scientists. One of the mo ...
  • Social Security Cuts Threaten to Hurt Low-Income A ...
    by Martha C. White This summer, Social Security - the government program that provides a steady check for seniors - turned 75. In Washington, lawmakers celebrated its platinum anniversary not with champagne, but with a heated argument over whether to reform the costly entitlement program by slas ...
  • Women's Equality Day: Time for Constitutional Guar ...
    Statement by National Organization for Women (NOW) WASHINGTON  - As students return to school this week, many will open their history books to learn that 90 years ago today women were given the right to vote when the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was signed into law. The history books w ...
  • Calif. Hotel Walk-Off Strike Continues New Wave of ...
    by Micah Uetricht The Embassy Suites hotel in Irvine, Calif., bears a number of similarities to workplaces around the country. Like other workers around the country, employees there say they're getting squeezed . They're expected to do more with less: fewer supplies, fewer breaks, and less money. ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • News on College Sustainability Efforts
    Here are some examples of progress universities have made over the summer at reducing their environmental impact. �As a recent college graduate who is going back for a Masters, I like to provide an update every so often of noteworthy actions taken by the higher education system.
  • Geothermal Power Turns 50, Where is it Now?
  • Fission Fiction – or how David Lochbaum got it wro ...
    On August 24th, Mr. Lochbaum posted a story on the Union of Concerned Scientists website about an event in 1988, then proceeded to link it to a 2005 event at a different plant and makes the case that the nuclear industry is filled with screw-ups and near misses. You can read the original article her ...
  • US energy use down, efficiency too?
    The numbers are out on how much energy the country used in 2009: less than we did in 2008. This isn’t surprising given the economic situation. We’re also using more renewable energy, particularly wind power. This isn’t surprising either, given the growth in the wind energy sector in recent years and ...
  • It’s the Oil, Stupid
    I am no economist, but bear with me while I try to explain why I think we are in for a very long and difficult economic period. My thesis for The Long Recession goes something like this: Historically, when oil prices rose quickly and remained high the economy struggled. High oil prices lead to reces ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

  • Paul Allen v. The Internet
    Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies....
  • 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 ...

Peoples Voice

  • Burn, Witch, Burn!: America Rages Against Islam
    by Keith Johnson   Islamophobia is sweeping the nation—and it couldn’t have come at a better time.  Just when the American people were starting to become distracted with trivial issues like the potential stock market crash, the re-branding of the war in Iraq, and the ongoing environmental disaster ...
  • Yale University's Pro-Israeli, Anti-Islamic Confer ...
    by Stephen Lendman On August 25, Yale University ended a three day global anti-Semitism "crisis" conference promoting the notion that Israeli criticism is "anti-Semitic," no matter how justified. Boola boola, for shame, mighty Yale displaying the same type anti-Islamic hatred virulent throu ...
  • Glen Beck Rallies the Faithful
    By Numerian posted by Michael Collins Two score and seven years ago the nation’s dispossessed thronged the Lincoln Memorial to hear Martin Luther King define the struggle for African-American civil rights. ( Image ) Today it was the turn of the nation’s disenfranchised to gather at the same p ...
  • Ramsey Muniz - Guilty of Being Latino and Activist ...
    by Stephen Lendman An earlier article explained America's longstanding political repression agenda, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/08/political-prisoners-in-america.html Ramiro (Ramsey) Muniz is one of the victims, imprisoned for life without parol ...
  • Why Economic Growth in the United States Cannot Ha ...
    By Joaquin posted by Michael Collins So, you cut back on your lifestyle; performed a so un-Greek personal austerity reset but your credit card balance is still creeping up; or perhaps you are slowly burning through your savings; or you are at the end of the line; abandon ship. Whatever, you h ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Will the Olympics boost long-term tourism to BC?
    “We’ve invited the world, they’re coming, and the place is a mess.” That was the tag line the CCPA gave to our BC Solutions Budget back in 2004. At the time, we argued as strongly as we could that if BC was to change the story the world would tell of us this month, we needed to get busy tackling pov ...
  • BC throne speech rather unimaginative despite talk ...
    Today’s Throne speech marks a return to the optimistic tone that is typical of the start of each Parliament Session. Sure, there are the obligatory references to financial discipline and balancing the budget, but they come at the very end of the document and are a far cry from last summer’s bare cup ...
  • Buy American deal gives Canada short end of the st ...
    A new analysis by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives finds the early praise given to the tentative Buy American deal is undeserved. The deal gives Canada fleeting access to stimulus projects worth $US 4-5 billion, less than 2% of the $275 billion of procurement funded under the Recovery Ac ...
  • Annual General Meeting held in Winnipeg
    On January 28, 2010 CCPA-Manitoba members came together for the Annual General meeting. �Fletcher Baragar, our chair, presented a "sneak preview" of the upcoming report "State of the Manitoba Economy". Five positions on the board of directors were to be filled. �Jim Silver, Errol Black, Elizabeth ...
  • Winter 2010 issue of Our Schools/Our Selves questi ...
    In the Winter 2010 issue of Our Schools/Our Selves editors Larry Kuehn and Erika Shaker delve into the struggle between the demands for standardization and the reality of diversity in education. Our Schools/Our Selves: The Achievement Agenda: Education or Evaluation? looks at different concepts ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Restoring Honor?
    Beck and call: Tea Party stars lead 300,000 in DC rally | NY Post An overflow crowd of 300,000 people on the National Mall heard Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin speak at a “Restoring Honor” rally yesterday, with Beck telling the gathering of enthusiastic fans that “for too long, this country has wandered ...
  • Katrina: 5 years later
    Obama to Mark 5th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina | Voice of America U.S. President Barack Obama will visit New Orleans, Louisiana, Sunday to mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a powerful storm that flooded much of the city and devastated the region. Katrina made landfall on August 29 ...
  • David Kelly: Conspiracy or No?
    A textbook suicide? The intriguing file on Dr Kelly that tells a different story | Mail Online Almost seven years have gone by since Lord Hutton’s inquiry cleared Tony Blair and his government of any wrongdoing in the death of Dr. David Kelly. Lord Hutton ruled the weapons expert committed suicide, ...
  • LOOKING IN THE MIRROR: FINDING THAT DIVINE SPARK
    As I became less critical and less judgmental of myself, I was then able to embrace that most people were doing the best that they could. This was due primarily to the way they were taught as they were raised as children and whether or not theywere living “THE UNEXAMINED LIFE.” If they [...]
  • Hippie.TV
    And now, featured videos from around the worldwide hippie community (and you’re invited to participate). Post your videos of your band, kids, stand-up routine, whatever! It’s like open mic night on the web, 24/7.

Doug's Darkworld

  • Through Thick and Thin
    Another week gone. First, the economy. It’s in big trouble. The “stimulus” of last year has run its course. Printing a huge pile of money and spending it was never any more than a stopgap solution, and there doesn’t seem to have been a “Plan B.” In fact in a very real sense that sums [...]
  • The Pont St Esprit Affair
    Pont St Esprit, a small town in southern France. August 1951. There was nothing remarkable about Pont St Esprit, it was just a  typical French town in post war Europe. It had been a wet summer, but otherwise unremarkable. And the war had been over for six years, so things were getting back to normal ...
  • USMC General Warns Obama that Pulling Troops out o ...
    Yes, that’s right, the head of the USMC, general James Conway, has warned that President Obama’s deadline to begin pulling troops out of Afghanistan is encouraging the Taliban. Anyone who knows anything about how the military works should be worried right now. What this general has done is called in ...
  • “Hello Gliese 581d inhabitant. Can you help ...
    There’s been some new thinking in SETI research. Well, it’s not that new, but it’s been brought into prominence by an important SETI researcher recently. His theory is that biological intelligences such as ourselves will quickly evolve into, or spawn, thinking machines. And those machines will also ...
  • 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 ...

FourWinds10

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

  • It’s the Oil, Stupid
    Join the forum discussion on this post I am no economist, but bear with me while I try to explain why I think we are in for a very long and difficult economic period. My thesis for The Long Recession goes something like this: Historically, when oil prices rose quickly and remained high the economy ...
  • Guest Essay: Why Conservatives Are Bad on Energy
    Join the forum discussion on this post I am working on yet another project, due at the end of this week. Therefore, I haven’t had a chance to work much on my next essay, which will be about the potential for E85 to push Iowa much closer to energy self-sufficiency. Meanwhile, I have been sent [...]
  • 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 ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Heavy Traffic a Possible Cause of Diabetes
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—According to the American Diabetic Association, 7.3 percent of the population suffers from type 2 diabetes, and while many people develop the condition as a result of being overweight or obese, increasing research has found that others seem to develop it as a result environm ...
  • Surefire Shellfish-Grilling Tips, and 5 Fabulous R ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Tired of barbecuing burgers, salmon, and chicken? OK, even if you’re not (we’re not either), maybe it's about time to mix things up a bit anyway. With summer winding down, now's the time to try your hand at grilling seafood. If you've never done it, don't worry. We've pick o ...
  • Want to Prevent Dementia? Eat an Anti-Diabetes Die ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—No one wants to experience, or watch a loved one experience, the stages of dementia: memory loss, difficulty communicating, paranoia, hallucinations. So when a recent report from the National Institutes of Health found that no solid scientific evidence exists to support theo ...
  • What to Do about Those Annoying Do-Gooders
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's one in every office, charity, church, and neighborhood block association: that person who always volunteers to take on the next task regardless of how long it will take or how much he or she has already agreed to do. And admit it, you've always found those people sec ...
  • 5 Recipes for a Splendid Summer Garden Party
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Summer's winding down, but that makes these last days all the more sweet—and a great time to host an evening gathering on your balcony, deck, or in the backyard. Using homegrown or local produce makes for a cost-efficient and healthy meal, and for the menu, we have some grea ...

big think

  • #28: Create New Life Forms
    What do God, Dr. Frankenstein, and Lady Gaga have in common? They are all names that geneticist-cum-media-sensation Craig Venter has been called since announcing in May that he had created the first synthetic life form.  In countless press interviews and articles, Venter detailed how he had ... Rea ...
  • WTF, CFI?: Center For Inquiry Wants "Ground Zero" ...
    The secularist Center for Inquiry waded into the Park51 controversy in earnest yesterday, with disastrous results. I love CFI and I've been working with them for years, so it pains me to say that they're playing into the hands of anti-Muslim bigots on this one. Orac is right, this press release is a ...
  • #27: Control the Weather
    Using lasers to manipulate the weather sounds like science fiction, but researchers at the University of Geneva have done just that. In May, Dr. Jerome Kasparian unveiled the results of a study which used a high-powered laser to simulate rain cloud formations.  Kasparian told Big Think that the ... ...
  • Tax Dollars at Work: PBS Promotes Art Online
    On August 23rd, the Public Broadcasting System launched a new web portal for promoting the arts. PBS Arts spearheads an overall expansion of arts programming to take place over the next year that will include a night each week dedicated solely to the arts. What makes this development especially ... ...
  • Would the Republican Economic Plan Work?
    Today’s economic news was not good. The Commerce Department lowered its estimate of second quarter growth from an annual rate of 2.4% to an annual rate of 1.6%. That’s down from 3.7% in the first quarter of 2010 and 5.0% in the last quarter of 2009. Although the revision was smaller than many ... Re ...

Information Liberation

  • Cop shoots small dog 'because it barked'
    ...
  • Cameraman arrested for calling cops Nazis
    I was arrested with felony charges for expressing protest against acts of injustice against a neighbor. After cops felt her up during the traffic stop and illegally began to search her vehicle against her will, I expressed myself and got arreste...
  • North Carolina's Corrupted Crime Lab
    Greg Taylor served 16 years in prison after he was falsely convicted of murdering a prostitute in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was released in February by a special three-judge panel after it was discovered the blood police claimed to have found in h...
  • Ron Paul: Demagoguing the Mosque
    Is the controversy over building a mosque near ground zero a grand distraction or a grand opportunity? Or is it, once again, grandiose demagoguery? It has been said, *Nero fiddled while Rome burned.* Are we not overly preoccupied with this controv...
  • Is the Muslim My Neighbor?
    As violence raged through Gaza, Esther Najjar feared that her family -- which included two young girls -- would be the next target of the mob that had just firebombed the local Catholic church. Riled up through the expert ministrations of profess...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • The Next Emperor?
    Even the Middle Kingdom is no match for one small sniffer dog when he’s in the mood! LibertyGibbert’s grand master of mirth, Fenbeagle, this week aims his pencil at an oft-forgotten but oddly familiar chapter in Chinese history…
  • Libertarianism And The Welfare State
    Today I’d like to talk about an aspect of Libertarianism that is often widely misunderstood. Those of you that have been following my series on Libertarianism will know that, around a century ago, most of the societies of the West … Continue reading →
  • Dobson, Dykes And Diverse Disputes
    G’day All, Ozboy here. As you may have noticed recently, I haven’t had as much time as I’d like to spend here creating posts. Rather than me offering another mere one-paragraph “spill post”, MemoryVault has kindly offered his services in … Continue reading →
  • The Dragon’s Dissent
    As you’re probably aware, most warmists appear to believe it vitally important that the reputed consensus in the scientific community regarding CAGW remains inviolate. Any questioning of this consensus, any appearance of pockets of dissent anywhere in the world, is ruthlessly … Continue reading →
  • Milanković And The Exploding Chook Shed
    I thought I’d cover another science topic today, after this week’s fill of politics. Most of you have probably heard mention of MilankoviÄ Cycles (the spelling usually Anglicized to Milankovitch Cycles) in relation to the study of the earth’s climate. Today I’ll explain what … Continue reading ...

FAS - Secrecy News

  • Wikileaks: Giving Leaks a Bad Name
    Unauthorized disclosures of classified information (“leaks”) often play an important role in the proper functioning of American democracy.  They can serve as a safety valve against official excess, and an implicit check against government misconduct.  Even the mere possibility of a leak can have a ...
  • Who is an Intelligence Employee?
    Could someone be considered an intelligence community employee even if his salary is not paid out of the intelligence budget?  Intelligence officials say yes, claiming that a person’s status as an intelligence employee can be based on an “assessment of the functions [he] performs.”  This novel app ...
  • Army Doctrine from Arms Control to Marching Bands
    The U.S. Army has issued several new doctrinal or regulatory publications that may be of interest beyond their intended audience (all pdf). A new Army regulation “provides a broad overview of [arms control] treaties and agreements with which the U.S. Army must implement and comply.” See “Army Arms C ...
  • Security and Environment in Pakistan (CRS)
    Catastrophic flooding in Pakistan, which has displaced millions of persons over the last several weeks, submerged huge portions of the country, and crippled much of the nation’s infrastructure, is first and foremost a humanitarian crisis that requires an urgent international response.  But it also ...
  • Some Recent Congressional Hearing Volumes
    Newly published Congressional hearing volumes on national security-related topics include the following (all pdf). “Nomination of Stephen W. Preston to be General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency and Robert S. Litt to be General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligenc ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

    Blacklisted News

  • Schools 'groom kids for surveillance state'?
    Schools are increasingly invading student privacy both in school and outside of school. Are schools grooming youth to passively accept a surveillance state where they have no expectation of privacy anywhere? A PogoWasRight.org commentary.
  • Analyst: Dow To 5,000, Lost Decade For Stocks
    The Dow Jones Industrial Average will lose about half of its value over the next couple of years as it follows a Nikkei-like pattern of several sharp rallies in an overall decline, according to Charles Nenner, founder and president of Charles Nenner research.
  • GMO Crop Sabotage on the Rise: French citizens des ...
  • Stocks Plunge, Double Dip Recession Fears Grow Aft ...
    U.S. stocks extended losses, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average below 10,000, and the 10-year Treasury yield fell below 2.5 percent for the first time since 2009 as a bigger-than-estimated slump in existing home sales fueled concern the economy may relapse into recession.
  • Italian PM launches "Freedom Teams" to increase co ...
    The "Freedom Teams" will be composed of volunteers who will travel to inform citizens on everything the government has accomplished in the past two years.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Turning Back From the Point of No Return
    Summary: The drums for war on Iran have been banging louder than ever lately, with a spate of articles by political commentators either directly encouraging the bombing of the Islamic Republic or otherwise offering a narrative in which this is effectively portrayed as the only option to preven ...
  • Iran wants role, after all, as nuclear fuel maker ...
    Summary: Iran's proposal to jointly produce fuel with Russia for the Bushehr nuclear power plant is bound to raise even more opposition to its nuclear pursuits. source: Christian Science Monitor read more
  • Iran withdraws its assets from European banks to c ...
    Summary: Central Bank of Iran governor Bahmani A top Iranian official says Tehran has withdrawn its assets from European banks to counter new financial sanctions imposed on the country over its nuclear program. The Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) said on Friday that the preemptive mea ...
  • Birth of a nuclear power
    Summary: Bushehr Reactor Ending decades of waiting and underlining Iran's long-standing nuclear ambitions, the opening of the Bushehr reactor is a giant leap forward for the country's nuclear programme source: Al-Ahram Weekly read more
  • Russia and the Future of Nuclear Talks
    Summary: Bushehr Reactor The launch of the Bushehr nuclear plant will enhance the peaceful nature and legitimacy of Iran’s nuclear program at the level of international public opinion and this will give Iran the upper hand in any future talks with the 5+1 group. With Bushehr’s launching, Russia ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Stephen Hawking on Space Colonization - The Human ...
    Humans have always been fascinated by the idea of space travel. Some even believe that colonizing new planets is man’s best hope for the future. The popular idea is that we’ll eventually need some fresh, unexploited new worlds to inhabit...
  • Supermassive Black Holes Discovered Devouring Whol ...
    Black holes -Stephen Hawking's enigmatic "bad boys of the Universe"- have been discovered to have the ability to strip massive galaxies of the cool gases required to form new stars, leaving ageing red giants to fade out of existence with...
  • Did Early DNA Replicate at the Bottom of the Sea?
    Lab experiments reveal that the precursor of life may have learned how to copy itself thanks to simple convection at the bottom of the ocean in tiny pores around undersea hydrothermal vents where magnesium-rich rocks react with sea water, creating...
  • Odd Mars Crater a Cosmic Mystery -Baffles European ...
    An elongated crater on Mars, Orcus Patera, the enigmatic elliptical depression that lies near Mars's equator, in the eastern hemisphere of the planet is a mystery, say European scientists scrambling for an explanation of its odd shape. Located between the...
  • Image of the Day: The Ghostly Beauty of Massive St ...
    Such a star death is violent even by the standards of our violent universe. If our Sun could become a supernova, which is can't because it's too puny, Earth's sky would would fill with the light of a sun that...

Natural News

  • Vaccine Zombie song and video challenges brain-dea ...
    (NaturalNews) Check out the new Vaccine Zombie video and song, now viewable on www.NaturalNews.TV and YouTube.com (see links below). Featuring an animated cast of dancing zombie characters, "Vaccine Zombie" is the latest hip hop single we've put together to feed your edutainment craving. Combining " ...
  • Water before meals helps with weight loss, say res ...
    (NaturalNews) Weight loss techniques are a dime a dozen these days, with experts touting all sorts of different diet and exercise regimens as the solution to obesity. But new research set to be presented at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) offers a simple approach th ...
  • Finland suspends H1N1 vaccines after children suff ...
    (NaturalNews) Shortly after Australia banned flu vaccines in children due to an alarming increase in vomiting, fevers and seizures caused by the vaccines (http://www.naturalnews.com/029586_Australia_vaccines.html), Finland has now suspended H1N1 vaccines due to increased reports of narcolepsy in chi ...
  • Compounds in berries improve brain function, rever ...
    (NaturalNews) The aging process involves a steady decline in the brain's ability to guard itself from oxidative stress and inflammation. But new research has found that certain compounds in fruits like blueberries, strawberries and acai berries, not only help the brain to stay in tip-top shape, but ...
  • Eating more good fats really does reduce your risk ...
    (NaturalNews) Replacing saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats really does lower a person's risk of heart disease, scientists have shown for the first time. In a paper published in the journal Public Library of Science , Harvard researchers conducted a meta-analysis of eight prior studies on more ...

Threat Level

  • Hackers Plant Tardis Atop MIT Building
    What the heck is that blue box on top of the Small Dome at MIT? Students starting school this week at the venerable geek institution were wondering that themselves. Let’s take a closer look … Yep, it turns out that the Doctor is stopping by to give the first lecture in 6.01, the infamously hard a ...
  • Teachbook Vows Facebook Trademark Suit Fight
    Social-networking upstart Teachbook said Wednesday it would challenge a trademark infringement lawsuit brought by Facebook, which is demanding the teacher-oriented site remove “book” from its name. “It’s a David and Goliath situation,” said Greg Shrader, the managing partner of the Northbrook, Ill ...
  • WikiLeaks Airs Classified CIA Memo, But Real Messa ...
    WikiLeaks dug into its trove of unpublished leaks Wednesday to release a six-month-old classified CIA memo about foreign perception of the United States, underscoring that the secret-spilling website won’t be cowed by Pentagon threats, nor derailed by the Swedish legal problem now circling its lead ...
  • Facebook Lawsuit Throws the -book at Social Networ ...
    Facebook has sued a little-known website for educators called Teachbook, claiming Facebook literally owns the “book” when it comes to naming social networking sites. “Misappropriating the distinctive book portion of Facebook’s trademark, defendant has created its own competing online networking com ...
  • Touchscreen E-Voting Machine Reprogrammed to Play ...
    It turns out paperless touchscreen voting machines are actually good for something after all. Two computer-security researchers recently hacked this Sequoia AVC Edge to play the classic arcade videogame Pac-Man. They picked up the machine after it was decommissioned in Virginia in a statewide purge ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Everybody Expects the Republican Inquisition
    Back in the 1970's, the British comedy troupe Monty Python introduced the expression " nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition " into the popular culture. Now, with the prospect of the GOP retaking control of the House of Representatives, everybody expects the Republican Inquisition. That is, the P ...
  • Republicans Resurrect 1993 Talking Points on Taxes
    With Democrats proposing to set the top two income tax rates at 36% and 39.6% respectively, Republican leaders waged a ferocious battle on behalf of the wealthiest American taxpayers. Former House Majority Leader and current Tea Party moneyman Dick Armey warned, "This program will not give you defi ...
  • John Boehner's Fuzzy Math and Missing Cojones
    With his much-hyped call for the firing of President Obama's economic team, House Minority Leader John Boehner ensured his speech in Cleveland today would get a lot of attention. But sadly for the would-be House Speaker, the address also spotlighted his unique combination of political cowardice and ...
  • The Bush Tax Cuts in Pictures
    On Monday, New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman summed up Republicans wanting to make permanent the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. At a time of record income inequality and massive budget deficits , Republican "politicians are eager to cut checks aver ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Karl Rove Exploits Corporate Money
    Republican strategist Karl Rove is seizing on a Supreme Court ruling to funnel corporate cash into elections, says Kevin Zeese. August 26, 2010
  • At War with American Workers
    Company demands for a cut in pay for Mott's Apple factory workers is a sign of the economic times, writes Michael Winship. August 25, 2010
  • Twisting Palestinian Arms for Peace
    New Israel-Palestine peace talks confront Palestinian leaders with some unpalatable choices, observes Lawrence Davidson. August 25, 2010
  • Christian Nationalism's War with Islam
    The "Ground Zero Mosque" furor is another skirmish in the Christian fundamentalists' war with Islam, says Rev. Howard Bess. August 24, 2010
  • Making a 'Mosque' a 'Wedge' Issue
    By blurring al-Qaeda's motivations, the Right has exploited an Islamic center to rile up the American people, writes Ivan Eland. August 24, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Referendum on Land Holding Used to Educate about L ...
    plebiscito_popular_logo.jpg As part of a larger campaign to support the right to land, this week Grassroots International provided a $10,000 grant to boost education and organizing around a powerful national referendum in Brazil. The referendu ...
  • 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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Climate

  • August 28-29, 2010
    Probe Seeks UN Climate Panel Changes (Wall Street Journal) A group investigating the UN IPCC will recommend in a report Monday that the organization beef up its capacity to ferret out errors in its scientific assessments.  Engineers to Remove Temporary Cap from Gulf Well (AP) En ...
  • August 27, 2010
    More Major U.S. Corporations Join Boycott of Alberta Oilsands Fuels (Canadian Press) Another four major U.S. companies — Walgreens, Gap, Timberland and Levi Strauss — are joining the move to either avoid or completely boycott fuel produced from Alberta's oilsands. Experts: Drilling Ban ...
  • August 26, 2010
    U.S. Spill Panel Question Drilling Policy (Reuters) The BP spill was a massive "failure" in government oversight and administrations should be forced to consult with experts in the field before making drilling policy, top spill commission officials said on Wednesday.  On Doomed Rig's La ...
  • August 25, 2010
    Biden Says Country on Track to Double Renewable Energy Capacity (Reuters) Government stimulus spending has put the country on track to double renewable energy production capacity by 2012 and halve solar power costs by 2015, Vice President Joseph Biden said on Tuesday. TVA Targets 9 Ol ...
  • August 24, 2010
    Did BP Fail to Take Action on Technical Problems? (Los Angeles Times)  Federal investigators Monday suggested that BP knew of major technical problems but failed to take significant action before the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20. Feinberg Criticized for Spill-Compensation Ter ...

GreenBiz

  • German Army Enlists Johnson Controls to Boost Ener ...
    As the U.S. military musters efforts to lighten its environmental bootprint, the German Army also is striving to march down a green path and has enlisted Johnson Controls Inc. to retrofit the Oranienstein base in Diez.
  • How to Move Green IT From Defense to Offense
    The industry is by and large playing a defensive tactic of improving its energy efficiency, while failing to take advantage of the coming huge market opportunities like the smart grid, which use IT for green.
  • Rechargeable Fabric Batteries to Charge the Army o ...
    A team working on lithium-ion battery technologies that can be poured into any shape or woven into fabrics reported progress in using a non-harmful virus to develop high-efficiency rechargeable batteries for military use.
  • 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.

Reuters Global

Booman Tribune

  • It's The Stupid, Stupid
    This awesome post by Steve Benen is a good starting point for rebutting this piece of shit Wall Street Journal op-ed by James Taranto. Taranto tries to explain why, in his eyes, liberal elites find Americans (meaning Tea Partiers and know-nothing conservatives) revolting. What is the nature of ...
  • The Insanity Continues
    The Republicans of Louisiana just nominated David Vitter to be their U.S. Senator for another six years. He got 88% of the vote. How's that for family values? Cheat on your wife and have a prostitute dress you up in a diaper, and the social conservatives give you 88% of their votes. The only sig ...
  • The Stupid, It Burns
    Offered without comment: Olga Sanchez, 79, of Tampa, had never been to a rally in Washington. But Sanchez, a retired administrative assistant, watches Beck on television every day. And when she heard him announce plans for the rally, Sanchez called her younger brother, a trumpet player in the Nat ...
  • A Legacy of Hate
    I never realized what a scoundrel Theodore Bilbo was until I read his Wikipedia page. And, yet, Mississippians just get kept electing and promoting him anyway. Accepting bribes? No problem. Hiding in a barn to avoid being served a subpoena? No sweat. Firing all the state's college presidents a ...
  • I Intend to Enjoy My Day
    by watching YouTube videos of Martin Luther King's speech and going about my daily routine. I feel sorry for anyone who feels compelled to watch The Beckoning, for to me it means they are a lost soul, damaged by the drumbeat of disinformation that is the sole reason for the existence of Fox News, B ...

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

  • APA Presentations Highlight Mindfulness
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The annual convention of the American Psychological Association offers a notable collection of presentations and lectures, often from some of the leading names in psychology. This year, two particularly high-profile presenters at the APA Convention were Sir Michael Rut ...
  • Technology and Psychology to Intersect at SXSW 201 ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline South by Southwest (SXSW), the yearly conference held in Austin, TX, is a convergence of creativity and technology, of personal exploration and professional development. Each year, dozens of panels present forward-thinking research in a number of areas, and this year, ...
  • Aging Grace: The Mental Health Benefits of Growing ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Despite the fact that many seniors’ cognitive and physical health is beginning to decline, that age group reports more positive emotional attitudes about life in general. Growing old often triggers a change in priorities, reports the Chicago Tribune. Rather than takin ...
  • Stress Worsens Psychological and Physical Symptoms ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Yet another new study shows a link between mental health and physical health. A report from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) shows that women who experience stress early in their menstrual cycle, even before symptoms are present, have consistently worse PM ...
  • Eating Disorders Triggered By College Stress, Enco ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Any major life change can cause a person to experience anxiety, stress, and feelings of vulnerability as they adjust to their new surroundings. Moving away from home and starting college is, often, the first such transition in a person’s life. And all too often, the st ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • EDITORIAL: Raese vs. Manchin Provides Clear Choice ...
    Kansas City Star EDITORIAL: Raese vs. Manchin Provides Clear Choice in November HNN Huntingtonnews.net Also, Ken Hechler was given a respectful salute by the state's Democratic voters with his 17% showing to help advance the discussion on Mountaintop Removal ... Candidates for US Senate appear at d ...
  • Review | The perfect couple falters in Franzen's f ...
    BBC News (blog) Review | The perfect couple falters in Franzen's followup to 'The Corrections' MiamiHerald.com ... of contemporary life, from music (``I think the iPod is the true face of Republican politics,'' a character asserts) to mountaintop-removal mining. ... Franzen Frenzy: Reading Beyond T ...
  • Mountain Party Nominee Running For US Senate - Wes ...
    Mountain Party Nominee Running For US Senate West Virginia MetroNews He is an actor, lobbyist, freelance writer and frequent lecturer on environmental issues, including mountaintop removal mining. and more��
  • Conway, Paul embrace the demagogy - Lexington Hera ...
    Conway, Paul embrace the demagogy Lexington Herald Leader ... it comes to civil rights, people with disabilities and the mountaintop removal mining that defiles the landscape and pollutes the waters of Kentucky. ... and more��
  • West Virginia Picks Senate Nominees - Wall Street ...
    Kansas City Star West Virginia Picks Senate Nominees Wall Street Journal A former congressman and secretary of state, Hechler launched his candidacy for voters to register their opposition to the mountaintop removal method of ... Candidates for US Senate appear at dinner Huntington Herald Dispatch ...

Memeorandum

  • Sarah Palin: 'We like what we're doing' (Jonathan ...
    Jonathan Martin / The Politico : Sarah Palin: 'We like what we're doing'   —  A casually dressed Sarah Palin talked briefly with POLITICO as she walked through Reagan National Airport on her way out of town after speaking at Glenn Beck's “Restoring Honor” rally on the Natonal Mall.  —  Holding her ...
  • Subliminal Deception - The image on The Washington ...
    William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion : Subliminal Deception   —  The image on The Washington Post [see note below] website of the Restoring Honor rally today in Washington, D.C., reminded me of the advertising concept of subliminal seduction, where images are inserted into an advertisemen ...
  • Egypt intercepts shipment of missiles (Jerusalem P ...
    Jerusalem Post : Egypt intercepts shipment of missiles   —  Authorities uncover large weapons cache hidden in Sinai.  —  Talkbacks (23)  —  Make JPOST.COM your Home Page  —  Iranian Threat  —  Jewish World  —  Local Israel  —  Arts & Culture  —  Français  —  Classifieds  —  Israel  —  Middle East
  • Glenn Beck Rally Attracts Estimated 87,000 (Alex S ...
    Alex Sundby / CBS News : Glenn Beck Rally Attracts Estimated 87,000   —  An estimated 87,000 people attended a rally organized by talk-radio host and Fox News commentator Glenn Beck Saturday in Washington, according to a crowd estimate commissioned by CBS News.  —  The company AirPhotosLive.com bas ...
  • Snoring Honor: Beck's big rally just a long-winded ...
    David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars : Snoring Honor: Beck's big rally just a long-winded and boring sermon.  And boy, was the crowd white.   —  Glenn Beck promised there wouldn't “be a dry eye in the house” after his big speech today at the Lincoln Memorial for his “Restoring Honor” rally — because, ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • “China’s interests must come first&#82 ...
    Until recently, Yu Qingtai was Beijing’s top climate negotiator. At a speech earlier this month, Yu argued that the developing world must continue to resist unfair demands from rich countries. Here, chinadialogue publishes a summary of his remarks. On August 6, Yu Qingtai – until recently China’s sp ...
  • Invisible heroes of Dharavi
    In the chaos of Mumbai’s best-known slum, thousands of recyclers process the megacity’s garbage and provide an invaluable environmental service. But the health and social costs are high, writes Anna da Costa. “It’s funny how we popularise our movie stars,” said Vinod Shetty, director of the Acorn Fo ...
  • Why Chinese firms don’t apologise
    Unlike BP, China’s state-owned polluters have been allowed by friends in government to ignore the consequences of their actions, writes Tang Hao. There is more than one BP in this world. On July 3, toxic waste from a Zijin Mining copper plant spilled into the Ting River in Fujian, south-east China, ...
  • Demystifying nuclear power
    Zhou Shirong is deputy director of nuclear safety at China’s environmental protection ministry. Here, he talks to Cao Haidong and Meng Dengke about managing construction standards – and public anxiety. This article was originally published by Southern Weekend on July 1, 2010. Southern Weekend: The ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Open Thread Sunday: Do Glenn Beck and the Restorin ...
    I have much to say about Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally. But in re-watching some of the footage, I kept thinking about the rhetorical notes struck there. Am I alone in speculating that Saturday was Beck’s dreamy, messianic Reichstag speech moment? Moreover, in watching Beck’s event I kept thinking a ...
  • Glenn Beck Goes Messianic at America's Divine Dest ...
    Beck madness continues as he tries to launch another religious Great Awakening to shape American history.
  • New York Times Buys Tea-Baggers’ Spin About ...
    This post originally appeared at No More Mister Nice Blog. I understand the impulse of Kate Zernike of The New York Times to try to be scrupulous in talking about the teabaggers and Beckstock participants, but really now: … It has become an article of faith among Tea Party groups that any racist s ...
  • Racist Far Right Group Praised by NY Anti-Mosque O ...
    Apparently it’s Right-Wing Freak Protest Day in the UK as well: About 700 protesters from a far-right group have clashed with hundreds of riot police in northern England. The English Defense League activists threw bottles, rocks and a smoke bomb at the riot police after the authorities penned in the ...
  • Does what happened in New Orleans stay there?
    On the 5th Anniversary of Katrina “LAND OF OPPORTUNITY,” a new film asks – Is your city the next New Orleans? The recent tragedies in Pakistan and Haiti and the unprecedented catastrophe of the BP oil spill in the Gulf Coast reveal that the lessons of New Orleans have only become more relevant [. ...

Threat Level

  • Hackers Plant Tardis Atop MIT Building
    What the heck is that blue box on top of the Small Dome at MIT? Students starting school this week at the venerable geek institution were wondering that themselves. Let’s take a closer look … Yep, it turns out that the Doctor is stopping by to give the first lecture in 6.01, the infamously hard a ...
  • Teachbook Vows Facebook Trademark Suit Fight
    Social-networking upstart Teachbook said Wednesday it would challenge a trademark infringement lawsuit brought by Facebook, which is demanding the teacher-oriented site remove “book” from its name. “It’s a David and Goliath situation,” said Greg Shrader, the managing partner of the Northbrook, Ill ...
  • WikiLeaks Airs Classified CIA Memo, But Real Messa ...
    WikiLeaks dug into its trove of unpublished leaks Wednesday to release a six-month-old classified CIA memo about foreign perception of the United States, underscoring that the secret-spilling website won’t be cowed by Pentagon threats, nor derailed by the Swedish legal problem now circling its lead ...
  • Facebook Lawsuit Throws the -book at Social Networ ...
    Facebook has sued a little-known website for educators called Teachbook, claiming Facebook literally owns the “book” when it comes to naming social networking sites. “Misappropriating the distinctive book portion of Facebook’s trademark, defendant has created its own competing online networking com ...
  • Touchscreen E-Voting Machine Reprogrammed to Play ...
    It turns out paperless touchscreen voting machines are actually good for something after all. Two computer-security researchers recently hacked this Sequoia AVC Edge to play the classic arcade videogame Pac-Man. They picked up the machine after it was decommissioned in Virginia in a statewide purge ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • New Hurricane Earl joins Danielle
    MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Earl grew to hurricane strength on a track toward the islands in the eastern Caribbean on Sunday while Hurricane Danielle weakened to a Category 1 storm, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
  • UPDATE 1-New Hurricane Earl joins Danielle
    MIAMI, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Earl grew to hurricane strength on a track toward the islands in the eastern Caribbean on Sunday while Hurricane Danielle weakened to a Category 1 storm, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
  • Volcano erupts on Indonesia's Sumatra after 400 ye ...
    JAKARTA (Reuters) - A volcano erupted on the Indonesia island of Sumatra on Sunday for the first time in four centuries, sending smoke 1,500 meters (about 5,000 feet) into the air and prompting the evacuation of thousands of residents, officials said.
  • Tired Gay succumbs to Dix in 200 meters
    EUGENE, Oregon (Reuters) - Olympic bronze medalist Walter Dix edged out Tyson Gay in the former world champion's hotly-anticipated return to the 200 meters at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meeting on Saturday.
  • China announces navy drill ahead of U.S. show of f ...
    BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese navy will hold a live-ammunition exercise in the Yellow Sea, where Washington and Seoul announced their own plan for a military exercise that has riled Beijing, China's Ministry of Defense said on Sunday.

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #420
    Nokia and Siemens deny helping Iranian spying. Isa Saharkhiz, a one-time reporter for the Islamic Republic News Agency, is suing Nokia Siemens Networks in US federal court, claiming the companies facilitated his capture and torture at the hands of the … Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #419 (Gareth Williams edi ...
    Media suggest sexual motive behind MI6 man’s murder. British media claim police suspect sexual jealousy to be behind the death of GCHQ and MI6 employee Dr. Gareth Williams. The Sun suggests Williams was “a secret transvestite who may have been … Continue reading →
  • British MI6 employee found dead in London flat
    By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | British authorities are keeping silent on the mysterious death of a Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) employee, whose body was found in the bath of his London apartment, stuffed in a sports duffle bag. By … Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #418
    US military pays for intel widely available online. Experts say that the vast majority of the ‘intelligence’ needed by the United States is freely available on the Internet. But that has not stopped a company called Military Periscope from selling … Continue reading →
  • Ireland not to recall passports following Mossad f ...
    By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | The government of Ireland has decided against recalling millions of passports issued before 2005, following the discovery of several forged Irish passports used by Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. At least seven of the Mossad … Continue reading →

After Downing Street.org

  • Yale University's Pro-Israeli, Anti-Islamic Confer ...
    Yale University's Pro-Israeli, Anti-Islamic Conference - by Stephen Lendman On August 25, Yale University ended a three day global anti-Semitism "crisis" conference promoting the notion that Israeli criticism is "anti-Semitic," no matter how justified. Boola boola, for shame, mighty Yale displaying ...
  • Withdraw the Last Combat Politicians from Washingt ...
    By David Swanson Pretending to end a war and occupation, while stationing 50,000 soldiers, 18,000 mercenaries, and 84,000 support contractors in massive and permanent military bases in Iraq is a far cry from what candidate Barack Obama described as ending "the mind-set that got us into war in the fi ...
  • Endless War, Humanitarian Crisis, and Perpetual Re ...
    By Michael Schwartz, War Is A Crime .org In 2009, the mainstream U.S. media reported with satisfaction that the Pakistani government had finally responded positively to the United States and NATO’s demands[1] for an aggressive military policy aimed at depriving the resurgent Taliban of “safe havens ...
  • Afghan militants in US uniforms storm 2 NATO bases
    By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan – U.S. and Afghan troops repelled attackers wearing American uniforms and suicide vests in a pair of simultaneous assaults before dawn Saturday on NATO bases near the Pakistani border, including one where seven CIA employees died in a suicide a ...
  • Protesters Disrupt War Criminal John Yoo's Return ...
    By Frances Dinkelspiel Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war activist, and dozens of protesters from Code Pink, The World Can’t Wait, the Boalt Alliance to Abolish Torture and other groups marched through Berkeley Law School today to protest John Yoo’s position as a member of the faculty. After holding a bri ...

Grist - News

  • Fires could cost Russia $300 billion in forest los ...
    by Agence France-Presse. MOSCOW -- Russia lost forests with an economic value of at least $300 billion in the wildfires during its worst ever heatwave, environmentalists said on Thursday. The economic damage amounted to $25,000 dollars per every 2.4 acres, or at least $300 billion, according t ...
  • Exclusive: Fannie regulator digs in on clean-energ ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. The Federal Housing Finance Agency solidified its opposition to the home-greening program Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) in a letter to members of Congress Thursday, telling them it doesn't see a way to let the program move forward. FHFA Acting Director Edward DeMarco ...
  • Obama turns an even lighter shade of green
    by Randy Rieland. So what's up with President Obama? He says all the right things about clean energy and global warming. But actions speak louder than words, and in the past six months his green cred has faded fast. He opened up the East Coast and the Gulf to more deepwater drilling -- before ...
  • Canada bans BPA. Why haven’t we?
    by Tom Philpott. Environment Canada -- our northern neighbor's version of the EPA -- has officially declared bisphenol A (BPA) toxic. The ubiquitous chemical, found in the lining of nearly all cans used by the food and beverage industry, will have to be phased out in Canada. BPA is vile stuff. ...
  • Remember that massive clean-energy bill Obama sign ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. If you read everything that bloggers declared a "must read," you'd have time for little else. I'll just say that if you want a lucid tour of the Obama administration's work to remake the country's energy and transportation landscape, it's tough to beat Michael Grunwald's new ...

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Washington Independent

  • EPA Denies Petition to Ban Lead Bullets
    Well, that was fast. The Environmental Protection Agency has rejected a petition by environmental and conservation groups to ban the use of lead bullets and fishing sinkers because of their potential health effects. In a statement, Steve Owens, EPA assistant administrator for the Office of Chemica ...
  • Republican Says Petition to Ban Lead Bullets is &# ...
    Republicans are crowing about a petition, submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency by environmental and conservation groups, to ban the use of lead bullets and fishing sinkers because of their potential health effects. EPA has opened the petition for public comment, though the agency does no ...
  • The State of Shrimping in the Gulf, From the Mouth ...
    I spoke with George Barisich, a third generation shrimper, earlier this week about the his first shrimping trip since the moratorium on fishing that was imposed in the aftermath of the Gulf oil spill was lifted. Barisich, president of the United Commercial Fisherman’s Association, says times are sti ...
  • At Americans for Prosperity Conference, Pushback A ...
    At Fridayâs Defending the American Dream summit hosted by Americans for Prosperity (AFP) in Washington, D.C., not only is David Koch not the proverbial elephant in the room, but organizers are hitting back against Jane Mayer’s recent New Yorker profile of the Koch family. At a lunch session for ...
  • Democrats Question AFP’s Tax Exempt Status
    Americans for Prosperity might be busy enjoying its conference in DC this weekend, but the group might soon be defending its tax exempt status before the IRS. The New York Times reports: In a complaint filed this week with the Internal Revenue Service, lawyers for the Democratic Congressional Campai ...

Digg Green

  • New microbe discovered eating oil spill in Gulf
    A newly discovered type of oil-eating microbe is suddenly flourishing in the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists discovered the new microbe while studying the underwater dispersion of millions of gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf following the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
  • Transparency: The Most Fuel Efficient Airlines (Gr ...
    While some airlines have done experiments in running planes on biofuels, air travel normally requires an enormous output of carbon-emitting jet fuel. Various factors, like plane models, total load, and chosen route can effect one trip's fuel efficiency, but which airlines consistently manage to use ...
  • Audio slideshow: 'The secret of life'
    In 1953, two Cambridge University scientists published their answer to one of the most fundamental questions of biology - how do living things reproduce themselves? In their article for the journal, Nature, James D Watson and Francis Crick described the structure of a chemical called deoxyribonuclei ...
  • A Machine That Turns Plastic Back Into Oil
    Plastic causes a trifecta of problems. We're running out of places to dump our non-biodegradable plastic waste and it's clogging up our oceans. Burning plastic releases tons of CO2 into the atmosphere contributing to global warming. And to make the stuff, it soaks up 7% of our annual petroleum use, ...
  • 'Virtual Shellfish' Aid In Studying Oil's Effects
    Though some of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon has now disappeared, scientists are trying to figure out what the remaining oil is doing to marine life. A damage assessment for a place the size of the Gulf is a huge and complicated job, but out of sight does not mean out of mind.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Truth About Gardasil: Website documents HPV vaccin ...
    By Ethan Huff Merck & Co., Inc., manufacturer of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil, continues to get away with pushing the dangerous drug on both young girls — and now boys — as a supposed prevention method for avoiding cervical cancer. But concerned mothers of daughters who have been ...
  • Australia bans flu vaccines in children after vomi ...
    By Mike Adams The story goes on to say, “The doctor who treated Avery told Mrs Flint her baby was the fifth child with similar symptoms admitted to the hospital that day.” In other words, this was no rare event. Vaccinated children suffering severe convulsions were piling up in hospital emergency ro ...
  • Finland Recommends Suspension of H1N1 Vaccinations
    Finland’s National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) has recommended that vaccination against the H1N1 swine flu virus with the Pandemrix vaccine be suspended. The vaccine is not to be used until it is determined if it is linked to an increase in the number of cases of narcolepsy in the country ...
  • New Canaan, Connecticut Schools Consider Tracking ...
    Human RFID tracking continues to creep into our society… by Lee Bains on August 24, 2010 at 03:40 PM One of the United States’ most affluent cities is debating whether or not, and how, to track its students with RFID tags. School officials in New Canaan, Connecticut have engaged in talks with Secure ...
  • UN: Israel Not Cooperating in Flotilla Probe
    by Jason Ditz, August 24, 2010 The international investigation into the May 31 Israeli attack on the Mavi Marmara, which left nine aid workers dead, is going extremely poorly according to UN officials, because Israel is refusing to cooperate and has not allowed the investigation team to visit the na ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

  • Pesticides and ADHD (cartoon)
    From Grist: More research linking pesticide exposure to ADHD in kids Follow all of Mean Joe Green’s environmental cartoons on JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons. Related posts:Chemicals and Obesity Speeding up Puberty in Girls (cartoon) BP’s Getting All Cap-Happy (cartoon) Tea ...
  • 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 [... ...

Inhabitat

  • A Super Futuristic Net Zero High Speed Rail Statio ...
    Read the rest of A Super Futuristic Net Zero High Speed Rail Station for Stuttgarthttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, gree ...
  • GIVEAWAY: Win a Back to School Backpack + School S ...
    It’s almost time to head back to school, and if you’ve got a pint-sized person gearing up to hit the coloring books, then you’ve gotta enter our latest giveaway! To help pump up the excitement of going back to school, this week we’re giving one lucky reader an awesome, recycled Trunk Pack from Insti ...
  • Beautiful Boxes Made from Repurposed Vintage Circu ...
    Photo: © Theo Kamecke The complicated connections exhibited in circuit boards definitely give way to a medium that’s perfect for futuristic creations. But there is one man out there who is more interested in taking those boards back in time. With an artistic vision and a pair of skilled hands, arti ...
  • Amazing Japanese Micro House is Only Ten Feet Wide ...
    Read the rest of Amazing Japanese Micro House is Only Ten Feet Wide Insidehttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Japan green building, Ja ...
  • Claire Potter Design + CompARTment Pop Up Shop in ...
    Instead of going on holiday this year, eco design practice Claire Potter Design has decamped from its usual base to create a temporary pop-up studio in the Open Market in central Brighton, UK. They’ll be offering free interior and landscape design advice to all visitors this week, so stop by if you’ ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Video: 30 Years of Asteroid Discoveries
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience597218848001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); This animation from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico plots the positions of all the known asteroids in the solar system in 1980, and adds new ones as they are discov ...
  • Weird Oblong Crater Deepens Mars Mystery
    This amoeba-shaped depression on Mars, called Orcus Patera, has had planetary scientists scratching their heads for decades. Despite these sharp new images from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft, the crater’s origin is a complete mystery. Orcus Patera, discovered in 1965 by the Ma ...
  • Maps: How Mankind Remade Nature
    As scientists get used to the idea that Earth is in a new geological age, that the Holocene — the last geological age — has been replaced by Anthropocene, they’re figuring out how it got to be that way. Two years ago, ecologists Erle Ellis and Navin Ramankutty at the University of Maryland, Baltimo ...
  • Clean People Feel Morally Superior
    By Olivia Solon, Wired UK A new study has shown that people feel morally cleansed when they are physically clean and as such are more inclined to judge others more harshly. The study, with the somewhat Victorian-sounding name of ‘A clean self can render harsh moral judgement’ was conducted by C ...
  • Otzi the Iceman May Have Had Burial Ceremony
    A prehistoric man whose naturally mummified body was discovered frozen in the Italian Alps may have been toted up the mountain by his comrades, a new study suggests. The Iceman, also nicknamed Ötzi, lived between 5,350 and 5,100 years ago as part of a genetically distinct European population. Hiker ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Carnage in Congo -- A Long-Range Witness' Recollec ...
    A front-page piece by Howard French  in today's New York Times triggered memory banks from an earlier life. For French, covering the new UN report on the history of atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo is a return to the story's bloody 1996-97 climax, which he covered for the Times. In the ...
  • Legacy of Torture Hindering Government Efforts at ...
    Back when Attorney General Eric Holder first announced the plans to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and the other alleged 9/11 conspirators in civilian court, Holder also announced plans to try Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri , allegedly the architect of the U.S.S. Cole bombing, by military commission. At the tim ...
  • Factions Squabble; Pakistan Drowns
    If one needed a demonstration of how self-interested factions callously, ruthlessly vie to take advantage of human suffering, the Great Indus Flood of 2010, which increasingly seems to rival the inundation described in Genesis and Gilgamesh, provides an absolutely dandy case study.  The Pakistani T ...
  • Motalefeh: A Conservative Party in Opposition to A ...
    IWPR has an article uncovering some of the political sinews moving events in Iran away from the Green Movement. It highlights the opposition between the Ahmadinejad administration and a traditional conservative political party called Motalefeh. Here’s the economic component: “Motalefeh also has ef ...
  • The Purpose of Israel’s Settlements Is to Be Diffi ...
    I had to read Fred Barnes’ new Weekly Standard piece “ In Defense of Settlers ” a few times to be sure that Fred wasn’t actually putting us on. It appears he isn’t. Things go awry beginning with the very first paragraph, in which Barnes writes, “ When direct talks begin next week between Israelis ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Looking Forward to Our Utopian/Dy ...
    Via Kevin Drum , Bjørn Lomborg is optimistic that we can handle climate change, noting that rising sea levels will affect a mere 400 million people, most of whom live in cities, and that everyone else can be saved by politicians pursuing "smart, coordinated policies" costing something like $600 bil ...
  • The Little Picture: Bike Force One.
    (AP/Carolyn Kaster) President Barack Obama on a family bike ride with his family on Martha's�Vineyard. Happy Friday.
  • Anti-Government Government.
    The New Jersey Education Commissioner was fired over a Race to the Top grant proposal mistake, but that's not the real story. The story is that he said today he asked to be fired, instead of offering to resign, so that he could collect unemployment benefits. “I asked if they would mind writing a ter ...
  • A Little More Bernanke In Your Life.
    I've been having a spirited twitter discussion with the Economist 's Ryan Avent , who is better-versed than I in Fed-speak. He's brought up several points of clarity on Fed Chair Ben Bernanke's disappointing speech this morning. Avent's takeaway is that the Fed will adopt more agressive policies ...
  • The Anti-Incumbency Narrative Travels North.
    Both Alaska and Washington alike have been trying to figure out why popular Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski failed to soundly defeat Joe Miller , a previously unknown Tea Party candidate, in Tuesday's primary. Even though Murkowski has had consistently high approval ratings in the state, Miller leads ...

Buzzflash

  • Hammering, Slamming, and Pounding the President Ha ...
    WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH A few years ago anybody who spoke disparagingly of the President of the United States was immediately labeled a traitor and accused of coddling the terrorists with a back rub. Not any more. Hammering, slamming, and pounding the President these days has once again become a co ...
  • A Few Thoughts About The Mosque Madness
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH Right wingers love this part of New York And want it to remain as locals intended it But they don’t care for it enough to properly Pay the first responders who defended it. � And this “hallowed ground” as of this writing Has many bars and places to buy Weejuns, Strip clubs, ...
  • Our Corrupting Campaign Process
    Body There is a popular notion that rich office-seekers are free of the corrupting influences that burden candidates of lesser means. But self-funding hasn’t proven to be a guarantee of righteousness. Rather, the need to spend hugely on campaigns can grind principles to dust and corru ...
  • Martin Luther King Had a Dream and Glenn Beck Was ...
    BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG BY MARK KARLIN Martin Luther King had a dream of hope, not hate. Martin Luther King had a dream of rising to embrace our better angels, not descending into a pit of our worst fears. Martin Luther had a dream, and Glenn Beck wasn't in it. 47 years ago Martin Luther King gave h ...
  • Just the Facts Please, for a Change
    Body � What would happen if politicians and partisan pundits dealt with facts instead of the usual propagandizing at which they are so proficient? Would voters appreciate serious examination of troubling issues absent emotional rhetoric and simplistic agendas? What does it mean, after ...

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Sciencebase

  • Sciencebase science news links for August 23rd thr ...
    These are the latest science news links and snippets from Sciencebase: Chemical news – Two years on, a simple color change test emerges from China for melamine in milk, The Alchemist learns. Also, with a Chinese connection, new insights into the mode of action of a former herbal remedy for fever cou ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • CAIR: Man Shouting Anti-Muslim Slurs Desecrates NY ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 26, 2010 CAIR A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today renewed its call for a strong response by public officials to growing anti-Muslim bigotry nationwide following another hate incident targeting an American mosque. read more
  • Brady Speaker to Address Non-Violence at "Reclaim ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 26, 2010 Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence President Paul Helmke today announced that Brady Campaign Board Member Robert Bates, a former legislative assistant to the late Senator Ted Kennedy, will speak on the organization's ...
  • 5th Annual New Orleans Katrina Commemoration March ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 26, 2010 Hip Hop Caucus, New Orleans Katrina Commemoration and National Wildlife Federation The New Orleans Katrina Commemoration Foundation, Hip Hop Caucus and National Wildlife Federation have teamed up to organize the 5th Annual New Orleans Katrina Commemoration Mar ...
  • Women's Equality Day: Time for Constitutional Guar ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 26, 2010 National Organization for Women (NOW) As students return to school this week, many will open their history books to learn that 90 years ago today women were given the right to vote when the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was signed into law. The history ...
  • ACLU Marks Women’s Equality Day With Call for Payc ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 26, 2010 ACLU The American Civil Liberties Union today celebrated Women's Equality Day by renewing its call for the Senate to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act (S. 182), a bill that would finally close the wage gap between men and women. Women's Equality Day this year m ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Activist’s Personal Journey Stretches From Battlef ...
    by Bill Nemitz How does a soldier become a peace activist? For Charlie Clements, the answer lies somewhere between the lines of a 40-year-old military document that he keeps to this day. “It says I’m 10 percent mentally disabled,” Clements said with a smile last week. “My protest was quite a silent ...
  • Neo-Supremacy Chic: Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin’s T ...
    by Pierre Tristam They don’t call it white supremacy for nothing. One of the ways this country’s reactionaries have made racism and neo-segregation chic is by co-opting the language of emancipation, equality and civil rights. read more
  • Should the Senate Fund 'Enduring' U.S. Military Ba ...
    by Robert Naiman Much ink has been spilled over the President's pledge to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan in July 2011. The White House insists that the date is firm. But the pace of withdrawal is yet to be determined, and the White House hasn't said a word about when -- if ever -- a ...
  • Obama Boxed In by Generals on Afghanistan
    by Ray McGovern Just back from Afghanistan, Marine Commandant, Gen. James Conway held a news conference Tuesday to add his voice to the Pentagon campaign to disparage the July 2011 date President Barack Obama set for U.S. troops to begin leaving Afghanistan. Conway claimed that intelligence interce ...
  • Am I an Activist for Caring About My Grandchildren ...
    by James Hansen "How did you become an activist?" I was surprised by the question. I never considered myself an activist. I am a slow-paced taciturn scientist from the Midwest US. Most of my relatives are pretty conservative. I can imagine attitudes at home toward "activists". read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Head of Special Forces Says Wars Slowing Hunt For ...
    By Steve Hynd Thus, the final prop under the cracked foundations of justification for two ongoing occupations disappears. From Bloomberg: The effort to keep weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of terrorists has been slowed by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the head of U.S. s ...
  • "Half the palace is on the payroll" (Updated)
    By Steve Hynd The Washington Post has a piece today entitled "CIA making secret payments to members of Karzai administration". The CIA is making secret payments to multiple members of President Hamid Karzai's administration, in part to maintain sources of information in a government in which the Afg ...
  • China And India or China Vs India?
    By Steve Hynd The competition between rising Asian powers China and India has been described as the contest of the coming century: China has officially become the world’s second-biggest economy, overtaking Japan. In the West this has prompted concerns about China overtaking the United States sooner ...
  • The Amazing Disappearing Afghan Security Forces
    By Steve Hynd Afghan security forces are disappearing almost as fast as they can be recruited and trained , but like King Canute in reverse the US general in charge, Bill Caldwell, says everything will turn out alright. The American commander in charge of building up Afghanistan ’s security fo ...
  • Our Sometime-Allies In Pakistan, Part The Umptieth
    By Steve Hynd Late yesterday, both the Washington Post and the New York Times dropped articles casting grave doubts on the zeal of America's "indispensible ally" in the War on Terror. In the Washington Post, the new Afghan national security advisor Rangin Dadfar Spanta writes that "Pakistan is the A ...

Water Wars

  • Protecting the Valleyâs precious resource
    CLARKSVILLE, Va. — A recent symposium on Kerr Reservoir water resources drew a lot of attention to the fact North Carolina and Virginia share a vital water system and future economic growth depends on coming to some equitable conclusions to questions that recently began popping up.
  • Protecting the Valleyâs precious resource
    CLARKSVILLE, Va. — A recent symposium on Kerr Reservoir water resources drew a lot of attention to the fact North Carolina and Virginia share a vital water system and future economic growth depends on coming to some equitable conclusions to questions that recently began popping up.
  • Water Wars
    [image2] Get Involved The Blue Gold: World Water Wars site has a wealth of information on how to protect your watershed. Go to the tab titled “Action Plan” online. To view the film, download it from iTunes, Amazon on demand or Netflix, or ...
  • Protecting the Valleyâs precious resource
    CLARKSVILLE, Va. — A recent symposium on Kerr Reservoir water resources drew a lot of attention to the fact North Carolina and Virginia share a vital water system and future economic growth depends on coming to some equitable conclusions to questions that recently began popping up.
  • Protecting the Valleyâs precious resource
    CLARKSVILLE, Va. — A recent symposium on Kerr Reservoir water resources drew a lot of attention to the fact North Carolina and Virginia share a vital water system and future economic growth depends on coming to some equitable conclusions to questions that recently began popping up.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • No reconstruction despite siege "easing"
    Last week, nearly forty families who were displaced during Israel's winter 2008-09 attacks on the Gaza Strip took over an abadoned, partially-built building in the Jabaliya ...
  • An artist's pledge to boycott
    I am proud to be among the many Irish and Ireland-based artists from across creative disciplines who have chosen to publicly support the growing campaign of boycott against aparthe ...
  • Seeing the land as one: Raja Shehadeh interviewed
    A Rift in Time takes readers back to the life of author Raja Shehadeh's great-uncle Najib Nassar, who edited the Haifa-based newspaper al-Karmil in the last years of the Ottoman Em ...
  • Why Americans should oppose Zionism
    More and more people are starting to pay attention to Israel's crimes and indignities. In so doing, more and more people are questioning the origin and meaning of Zionism - ...
  • Veolia whitewashes illegal light rail project
    Last week the Israeli daily Haaretz reported that the consortium holding the contract to the controversial Jerusalem light rail project surveyed city residents on whether they woul ...

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • Morning Smoke: GAO Reports on Lack of Genuine Comp ...
    Agencies are getting too attached to incumbent contractors, watchdog finds by Robert Brodsky [ Government Executive ] BP Executives Say They Didn’t Know Who Commanded Rig by Joe Carroll and Katarzyna Klimasinska [ Bloomberg ] Banks’ Self-Dealing Super-Charged Financial Crisis by Jak ...
  • Court Rejects Fed's Latest Attempt to Keep Bailout ...
    As the debate continues over whether to give the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) more authority to withhold records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), there was an important development last week on a separate FOIA controversy involving the...
  • New Item in Openness Floor: Ethics Program Reviews
    Our opengov community has added a new item to the "Openness Floor," the set of minimum requirements that executive branch agencies must meet in order to be considered "open." The new item falls into category A., Accountability & Influence: 8....
  • Was BLM Manager's Relationship with Industry Too O ...
    One important note to the recent Inspector General (IG) report on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manager-turned industry group president Steve Henke is that the investigation was provoked by a referral from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). That kind of...
  • Morning Smoke: Bidding on $40 Billion Ground Comba ...
    Army to re-start bidding process for new $40B ground combat vehicle program by Roxana Tiron [The Hill] Former Chief of Drilling Agency Says New Inspection System Is Needed by John Broder [NYT Green Blog] SEC Makes Ousting Directors Easier by...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • The High Cost of Doing Nothing
    A Savannah, Georgia paper ran a story this week about a chronic public inebriate and the burden his lifestyle puts on taxpayers in the area. The article talked about the repeated medical issues, the emergency room visits, the shelter stays and the arrests; "at $55 per day, jail administrators say, t ...
  • He Spent Last Night in Jail — With No Hots and No ...
    This new video comes from Mark's InvisiblePeople.tv 30-city, 11,000-mile, 75-day road trip , going on now. Ken went through a bad divorce, lost everything he had, and moved to Austin, Texas, to start over. As luck would have it, he cannot work due to health reasons. He makes jewelry out of telephone ...
  • Bringing Awareness of Homelessness to New Heights ...
    We were very excited to see Change.org contributor and InvisiblePeople.tv founder Mark Horvath given the opportunity to educate millions of people about homelessness via YouTube this past Sunday. While he may not be able to reach as many viewers as Mark did, one man in Canada is using another platfo ...
  • Nashville Is the NIMBY Capital of the United State ...
    After our week-long series profiling the NIMBY, or "Not in my backyard" policies of cities reluctant to welcome the homeless, Change.org members have spoken. We asked you to weigh in on which city is the most exclusive, the most uninformed and unnecessarily cruel, the absolute NIMBYest. With 29 perc ...
  • Waiting on an RV to Call Home
    This new video comes from Mark's InvisiblePeople.tv 30-city, 11,000-mile, 75-day road trip , going on now. I met Jeffrey in Austin, Texas. He is a glass artist and he wants to start a non-profit that makes artificial eyes for families that cannot afford them. It just so happens that Alan Graham from ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Petraeus tightens rules of engagement
    U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, the recently appointed commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, has reportedly added further restrictions to the “rules of engagement” that govern the use of force by most international forces in Afghanistan (Jason Motlagh, “Petraeus Toughens Afghan Rules of Engage ...
  • 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.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Antipsychotic Drugs Double Risk Of Pneumonia
    August 27th, 2010 Natural News By: David Gutierrez Senior citizens who take antipsychotic drugs are twice as likely to contract pneumonia as seniors who do not take the drugs, according to a study conducted by researchers from Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and publi ...
  • Cinnamon Reduces Risk Of Diabetes, Heart Disease
    August 27th, 2010 Natural News By: Jonathon Benson A recent study headed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has identified a link between cinnamon intake and reduced risk of diabetes and heart disease. According to the research, water-soluble cinnamon extract, which is high in antioxida ...
  • Adderall Has Extreme Side Effects, FDA Says Keep T ...
    August 27th, 2010 Natural News By: Ethan A. Huff The attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drug Adderall is known to cause serious physical side effects including heart attack, stroke, elevated blood pressure and heart rate, and even sudden death. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( ...
  • Australia Bans Flu Vaccine
    August 27th, 2010 Natural News By: Mike Adams Although it’s still summer in North America, it is of course winter in Australia, and the flu season is well under way there. As usual, Australian health authorities have been urging parents there to vaccinate their children against the flu, propagati ...
  • Doctors Remove World’s Largest Tumour
    August 27th, 2010 Herald Sun Doctors in Argentina have removed what they think is the world’s largest malignant tumour from the body of a 54-year-old woman. Weighing a shocking 23kg, the tumour had been growing inside the woman’s womb for a year-and-a-half and took four hours to remove, Th ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • How 30 million DVDs sent in 2008 election fuel the ...
    At TPMMuckraker, Rachel Slajda reports: In the last weeks before the 2008 elections, an organization called the Clarion Fund spent some $16 million to reprint and distribute 28 million copies of their 2005 film about radical Islam and terrorist groups. “Obsession” was inserted into newspapers — and ...
  • For critics of Islam,’sharia’ becomes shorthand fo ...
    The Washington Post reports: Protesters of the proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero waved signs there Sunday with a single word: sharia. Their reference to Islam’s guiding principles has become a rallying cry for those critical of Islam, who use the word to conjure images of public stonings an ...
  • Pakistan’s misery shows no sign of abating
    At The Atlantic, Max Fisher looks at five long-term effects of the Pakistan floods: After weeks of flooding in Pakistan displaced two million people and left more than 10 million at risk of disease outbreak because they lack access to clean water, renewed flooding in Pakistan has displaced an addit ...
  • CIA making secret payments to members of Karzai ad ...
    The Washington Post reports: The CIA is making secret payments to multiple members of President Hamid Karzai’s administration, in part to maintain sources of information in a government in which the Afghan leader is often seen as having a limited grasp of developments, according to current and form ...
  • Beirut in Baghdad: Is the ‘Lebanonization’ of Iraq ...
    At Foreign Policy, Lara Setrakian writes: Four years after a flurry of predictions about the “Lebanonization” of Iraq, they may be coming true. “Lebanonization” was a derogatory term, a hint at imminent civil war, political deadlock, Iran’s hand in local militias and on many domestic levers. The co ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Is Armagh Burning?
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Anthony has highlighted a study by Coughlin and Butler. Their study says that there is little or no urban warming (urban heat island, or UHI) in the temperature record from the Armagh Observatory in Ireland. They say: … Continue reading →
  • Tisdale rebuttal to JPL’s “Study Finds ...
    On Lee and McPhaden (2010) âIncreasing intensity of El Niño in the centralâequatorial Pacificâ Guest post by Bob Tisdale As happens all too often, the press release for a paper has an incorrect title and begins with an unfounded claim. … Continue reading →
  • Sumatran volcano erupts: first time since 1600
    Located at 3.17°N 98.392°E the volcano erupted suddenly and without warning. The Jakarta Post and Xinhua have photos of the eruption: Mount Sinabung erupts: (Tribun Medan/Dedy Sinuhaji) Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra erupted on Sunday at 00.15 a.m. Antara news … Continue reading →
  • Congratulations (finally) to Spencer and Braswell ...
    WUWT provided a primer on cloud feedbacks on June 12th, 2009, followed by Willis Eschenbach’s “thermostat hypothesis” also recently published. This new paper by Spencer and Braswell is in the same theme as these. On the diagnosis of radiative feedback … Continue reading →
  • Weather versus climate: sine of the times
    Finally, this vexatious question has been settled with a meteorological time series analysis. I’m sure the media and all who support their important work in factual climate reporting will approve. Thanks to Josh of cartoonsbyjosh.com

Dandelion Salad

  • Dandelion Salad will be back next Thursday or Frid ...
    The computer is getting fixed; it needs replacements for both hard drives.  It should be ready for pick up next Thurs. or Fri. Thanks again for your patience. cheers, Lo Filed under: Blogging, Dandelion Salad Posts News Politics and-or Videos 2, DS editor posts
  • The Iron Heel (1908) by Jack London (repost)
    Reposting The Iron Heel. It’s a must-read book, or you can listen to it via the link. http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Read it online: Jack London: The Iron Heel Table of Contents *** The Iron Heel per­formed by Matt Soar Audio­book ver­sion of The Iron Heel 1908 by Jack London. Foreward Chap ...
  • Ramadan Force-Feeding, and Renewed Secrecy Surroun ...
    by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 25 August, 2010 In a disturbing report in the Miami Herald, the ever-vigilant Carol Rosenberg reports that an unknown number of hunger strikers at Guantánamo are being force-fed between dusk and dawn — a mixture of cruelty ...
  • END:CIV: F*ck Patience
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ stimulator | August 23, 2010 submedia.tv The final piece from END:CIV is both a reality check and a call to arms. Can we really expect the power structures to change their destructive ways by asking nicely? Do we have unlimited time to stop the destruction of the ...
  • Daniel Ellsberg on WikiLeaks, Iran, Iraq and Afgha ...
    by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehanâs Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehanâs Soapbox August 22, 2010 (SOAPBOX #69) – Cindy sez: “Greetings! This Sunday, (August 22nd) at 2 pm PST, I hope you tune into Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox to hear my fascinating and informative interview with ...

Your New Reality

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    Murdoch Newspaper Proudly Endorses Australian Coup Like no other media outlet in his worldwide empire, Rupert Murdoch's The Australian national broadsheet newspaper is the voice of Rupert Murdoch. He's lost tens of millions on The Australian over the years, but Murdoch keeps the newspaper going bec ...
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    "We Cannot Allow The Corporate Takeover Of Our Democracy" 1961 : 2010 : .
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    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 ...
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    Okay, Here We Go Just launched the YouTube channel for FTW : The Movie In 2003, during anti-War On Iraq protests, the Australian prime minister was kidnapped by an activist and interrogated for 24 hours. The disappearance of the prime minister was officially covered up as an "unexpected visit ...
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    "Mommy! Get The Oil Off!" By Darryl Mason Fucking hell. Thousands of Americans are swimming around in this toxic shit : Morons like this guy below are telling Americans it's okay to swim, and to take their children swimming, and for people from other states to come and swim in this oily stick ...

Wired - Science

  • Video: 30 Years of Asteroid Discoveries
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience597218848001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); This animation from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico plots the positions of all the known asteroids in the solar system in 1980, and adds new ones as they are discov ...
  • Weird Oblong Crater Deepens Mars Mystery
    This amoeba-shaped depression on Mars, called Orcus Patera, has had planetary scientists scratching their heads for decades. Despite these sharp new images from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft, the crater’s origin is a complete mystery. Orcus Patera, discovered in 1965 by the Ma ...
  • Maps: How Mankind Remade Nature
    As scientists get used to the idea that Earth is in a new geological age, that the Holocene — the last geological age — has been replaced by Anthropocene, they’re figuring out how it got to be that way. Two years ago, ecologists Erle Ellis and Navin Ramankutty at the University of Maryland, Baltimo ...
  • Clean People Feel Morally Superior
    By Olivia Solon, Wired UK A new study has shown that people feel morally cleansed when they are physically clean and as such are more inclined to judge others more harshly. The study, with the somewhat Victorian-sounding name of ‘A clean self can render harsh moral judgement’ was conducted by C ...
  • Otzi the Iceman May Have Had Burial Ceremony
    A prehistoric man whose naturally mummified body was discovered frozen in the Italian Alps may have been toted up the mountain by his comrades, a new study suggests. The Iceman, also nicknamed Ötzi, lived between 5,350 and 5,100 years ago as part of a genetically distinct European population. Hiker ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • David Gardner: A poisoned process holds little hop ...
    Arab minister: "We have all been colluding in a gigantic confidence trick, and here we go again"... [T]he heart of the question remains the continuing Israeli occupation. It is essential to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Ran Greenstein: Israel/Palestine and the apartheid ...
    "There is no doubt that the occupation is the biggest festering sore in Israeli-Palestinian relations. Futile negotiations over the last two decades have led to its intensification rather than... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Avner Cohen: Why Israel should end its policy of n ...
    "In the long term, the more Israel appears to reject peace and to be the one that opposes a two-state solution, the more it will be perceived as a regional bully that possesses nuclear weapons. So... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Shalom Boguslavsky: The Israeli right’s secret str ...
    Over the past two yeas, many of us have felt that the democratic camp in Israel has been under a well-planned, coordinated attack ... organizations from the old-style religious right ... got together... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • EU rebukes Israel over conviction of West Bank sep ...
    Lady Ashton:"The EU considers Abdallah Abu Rahmah to be a human rights defender committed to non-violent protest against the route of the Israeli separation barrier ... The EU considers the route of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • From Iraq With Love
    U.S. Army Helps contractor produce graduation video for father's commencement at Nova Southeastern University.
  • Chemists develop new "light switch" chloride binde ...
    Chemists at Indiana University Bloomington have designed a molecule that binds chloride ions -- but can be conveniently compelled to release the ions in the presence of ultraviolet light. Reporting in the Journal of the American Chemical Society today (online), IU Bloomington chemist Amar Flood and ...
  • ORNL Graphite Foam Technology Licensed to LED Nort ...
    Technology developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory that extends the life of light-emitting diode lamps has been licensed to LED North America.
  • HAIs Greatly Increase the Length and Cost of Hospi ...
    Adults who developed health care-associated infections (HAIs) while in the hospital had to stay an average of 19 days longer than adults who didn't develop an infection.
  • Filament Biennial Festival 2010: New Work in Perfo ...
    Since opening in October 2008, the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has provided artists, scholars, researchers, engineers, and designers with opportunities to develop ground-breaking art and ideas all under a single roof. From ...

Natural Health News

  • When and How Should You Warm Up, Stretch, Exercise ...
    by Darin L. Steen I get tons of questions about this topic. There seems to be a lot of confusion about stretching. We all seem to not have enough time in the day for all that we need to do for fitness and fat loss. So it is logical that most of us skip stretching. But that is a big mistake. ...
  • Does Music Make You Exercise Harder?
    In a recent study, researchers asked 12 college students to ride stationary bicycles while listening to music.� They were given a selection of six songs with a range of tempos. During one session, the six songs ran at their normal tempos. In other sessions, the tempo was slowed by 10 percent or inc ...
  • Does Insulin Resistance Cause Alzheimer's Plaques?
    Insulin resistant people with type 2 diabetes are more likely to develop plaques in their brains which are associated with Alzheimer's disease. A study looked at 135 elderly participants who were monitored for signs of Alzheimer's disease for 10 to 15 years.� After they died, researchers conducted ...
  • Grapefruit's Bitter Taste Holds a Sweet Promise fo ...
    Naringenin is an antioxidant that causes the bitter flavor of grapefruits and other citrus fruits.� New research shows that it may cause your liver to break down fat while increasing your insulin sensitivity. Naringenin activates a family of proteins called nuclear receptors that cause your liver t ...
  • Antihistamine Use Linked to Extra Pounds
    People who use prescription antihistamines could be more likely to gain excess pounds.� The significance of the link is not yet clear. Researchers found that prescription antihistamine users were more likely to be overweight or obese.� A recent study found that 45 percent of antihistamine users wer ...

Antemedius

  • Withdraw the Last Combat Politicians from Washingt ...
    By David Swanson Pretending to end a war and occupation, while stationing 50,000 soldiers, 18,000 mercenaries, and 84,000 support contractors in massive and permanent military bases in Iraq is a far cry from what candidate Barack Obama described as ending "the mind-set that got us into war in the fi ...
  • No Afghanistan Withdrawal in 2011 - Engdahl: "US W ...
    "The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan says he is not bound by the July 2011 date set for a troop pull-out. General David Petraeus said he could well advise President Obama not to go ahead if he believes it's the wrong time. American public support for the war is at an all-time low, w ...
  • GOP Declares War on One Quarter of Earth's Populat ...
    Facing a changing demographic and a population slightly more educated about Republican fear campaigns has forced the GOP to try to go "over the top" on fear mongering. It is now apparently the mainstream Republican position that it was NOT .... NOT ....19 fanatics guided by Osama Bin Laden and Khali ...
  • Why Progressives Should View Robert Gibbs' Rebuke ...
    In place of approaching White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs’ recent well publicized rebuke of progressives in a troubling context, how about instead examining the positive side? My response is, congratulations progressives, you earned the rebuke. Now take a well deserved bow. How long were pr ...
  • More Than One Truth
    Glen Ford writing at Black Agenda Report said on Wednesday "We Are Cornered: There's No Way Out Without A Fight" : "Obama and his Democratic legislative allies have successfully shielded their Wall Street masters from anything worthy of the name financial reform.", and "The pace of finance capital d ...

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

  • Bashir’s “Visit” to Kenya
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Julian’s latest snide swipe at the ICC focuses on Bashir’s visit to Kenya, which he describes as a “slap in the face to the ICC Prosecutor and the defenders of the Bashir arrest warrant.”  Not surprisingly, Julian conveniently fails to mention the details ...
  • Tutsi-Hutu Genocide in the Congo
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller So says a draft UN report that studied events in the Congo between 1993 and 2008: An exhaustive U.N. investigation into the history of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo has concluded that the Rwandan military and its allies carried out hundreds ...
  • Glazier on Why the Definition of Piracy Matters
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Dave has kindly sent another post on piracy.  Here it is. Kevin graciously offered me the chance to respond to his contrasting reading of the logic of Judge Jackson’s decision dismissing the piracy charge. But since we both reach the same ultimate conclusi ...
  • The Chickens Come Home to Roost — U.S. v. Said
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I have to respectfully disagree with Dave’s interpretation of Judge Jackson’s decision.  The decision is almost certainly incorrect from the standpoint of the law of nations; as Dave rightly points out, the definition of piracy in the High Seas Convention ...
  • Call for Papers from Greg Gordon: Central States ...
    by Peggy McGuinness Our friend and OJ guest contributor Professor Greg Gordon passes along the following call for papers -- for international law scholars and other subject areas for the Central Law Schools Association 2010 meeting. Full announcement after the jump:

Investigate - Breaking News

  • History in colour
    We've all seen the black and white photos of yesteryear, a time before the invention of colour photography. So how's this picture from the days of Imperial Russia, 1909, grab you: They were taken by a process involving three b&w...
  • 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

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

  • Coalition Demands FDA Deny Approval Of Controversi ...
    FDA Considers Approval of GE Salmon–the First GE Food Animal–Yet Fails to Inform the Public of Environmental and Economic Risks A coalition of 31 consumer, animal welfare and environmental groups, along with commercial and recreational fisheries associations and food retailers submitted a joint stat ...
  • Americans to U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Pr ...
    More than 100,000 citizens join scientific experts and public interest organizations in calling on FDA to tighten oversight and curtail misuse and overuse of antibiotics on industrial farms Today a broad coalition of organizations hand-delivered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) more than ...
  • Obama Administration Announces Hearings On Approva ...
    CFS Announces Major Campaign, Calls Decision to Move Forward with Approval of GE Salmon “Misguided and Dangerous” Salmon Would be First-Ever GE Food Animal   The Center for Food Safety today criticized an announcement by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that it will potentially approve th ...
  • 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 ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Iraqi Deaths Still Unreported
    Iraqi Deaths Still Unreported! :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1] :  August 28, 2010 I am deeply confused by the claim in the article The Deaths that Chilcot Forgot and published by the Morning Star, that according to Iraq Body Count only ...
  • The Persecution of Lori Berenson
    Special Report by IIN Investigative Blog-correspondent John John : The Persecution of Lori Berenson | Mostly Water : "Once again the guardians of law and order fatten themselves on human suffering, assisted by their solicitous epigones of the press. They wanted to produce a spectacle for the bleache ...
  • Female Israeli Soldiers Release Film Confessing to ...
    Female Israeli Soldiers Release Film Confessing to Atrocities and War Crimes, Say They Are Ashamed of Themselves > New World Order Report : "Female Israeli soldiers Share what they have done to Palestine people . how they kill Children how they humiliate how they degrade and after doing all the crim ...
  • Viola Wilkins: Ruben Salazar and the 'Kiss of Deat ...
    The Rag Blog: Paul Krassner : Ruben Salazar and the 'Kiss of Death' Ruben Salazar, an award-winning Los Angeles Times columnist and KMEX-TV news director, was killed by a Sheriff's deputy under highly suspicious circumstances in 1970, and his case is in the news again. According to an article in yes ...
  • John S.: Ties that Bind: Canadian military seeking ...
    Ties that Bind: Canadian military seeking lessons from Israeli occupying army | The Dominion: by Yavar Hameed and Jeffrey Monaghan "OTTAWA—Canadian military officials have undertaken a comprehensive effort with their Israeli counterparts to “pursue deeper relationships,” to borrow from Israel’s weap ...

Pensieve

  • When Suffering is Good
    Photo by G!zM() 17 We live in a world where hedonism and despair abound. It is as if the black death were knocking at our doors, like in Chaucerâs Canterbury Tales. Imagine a world without pain and suffering. Imagine not ever getting sick, physically or mentally. Imagine no disadvantages. Everyone ...
  • Inductee to the Creative Class
    Photo by Gui Trento For the past year or so Iâve been flirting with a design college. Iâve been to their events, spoken to their faculty, visited the campus. After 12 years of yearning to return to college, I could very soon enroll again. The degree they are offering sounds slightly business-lik ...
  • 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 ...

Green Times

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • A lucky escape: How David Cameron was almost shot ...
    ShareThis A lucky escape: How David Cameron was almost shot down by a Taliban rocket --'It was a much closer thing than anyone said at the time.' 27 Aug 2010 David Cameron came close to being assassinated at the hands of the Taliban on his last trip to Afghanistan, it emerged yesterday. Military sou ...
  • Osama bin Laden 'is a bought and paid for CIA agen ...
    ShareThis Osama bin Laden 'is a bought and paid for CIA agent' claims Cuban leader Fidel Castro 27 Aug 2010 Cuban leader Fidel Castro has claimed Al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden is a bought-and-paid-for CIA agent. The country's former president has said that the world's most wanted terrorist alw ...
  • Murdered Spy May Have Met His Killer On Missions t ...
    ShareThis Murdered Spy May Have Met His Killer On Missions to USA 27 Aug 2010 The hunt for the killer of British spy Gareth Williams switched to the USA yesterday. Grieving relatives of the MI6 code breaker revealed that he had been sent on several missions to America. He is understood to have retur ...
  • U.S. military wants to exert influence over privat ...
    ShareThis U.S. military wants to exert influence over private cyber infrastructure --The Pentagon is urging that its defense expertise be put in play beyond the .mil domain to include .gov and .com and wants policy makers to figure out how best to do that . 26 Aug 2010 The U.S. military wants to exe ...
  • CIA probes British spy murder, frequently sent to ...
    ShareThis CIA probes British spy murder as it emerges he was sent on frequent missions to Pentagon's high-security listening post 27 Aug 2010 The CIA was called in to help investigate the murder of an MI6 spy last night as it emerged he was sent on frequent secret missions to the United States. Amer ...

Daily Loaf

  • Theme at Dems Unity rally in Tampa: throw the GOP ...
    Sink said she waited while watching the months long Republican gubernatorial debate to hear any new ideas and didn't hear any. And to those who might be intimidated by the tens of millions of dollars that Rick Scott will surely spend in the next two months to try win the governor's race, Sink told ...
  • Bisexuality: Why are we so questioned, and where a ...
    It seems as though bisexuals always have to justify their sexuality, that no one understands it and people are trying to figure out why it's so "popular" all of a sudden. We don't fit into either the "straight" or "gay" box, and many of us don't even fit into the likes-men-and-women-equally box man ...
  • Cynical and Southern: Why am I not attracted to bl ...
    When grandma locked her door every time she saw a black person, how much of a role did that play when my body compass began to form? How much did the messages we received at 5 determine who we want to sleep with when we are 35?
  • Burlesque movie trailer w. Cher and Christina Agui ...
    That’s a quote from the ever-quotable Derek Hartley, co-host of The Derek and Romaine Show on Sirius OutQ, the LGBT satellite radio station. Since he’s a pretty reliable source on all things homo, I took him up on his recommendation and ran, did not walk, to check out the trailer for the upcoming f ...
  • Rays conquered by Crimson Stockings, 3-1
    It was a battle of David Price vs. Jon Lester, decided not by pitching but officiating. Not that Tampa Bay played to win but when strikes are called that out of the zone, how are you supposed to get hits?

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Major Israeli Theaters Embrace The Settlements
    Some cultural news from Israel: Several of Israel’s leading theater companies have agreed to perform in the new cultural center in the settlement of Ariel, due to open on November 8. The companies include the Habima National Theater, the Cameri Theater, the Be’er Sheva Theater and Jerusalem’s Khan ...
  • For Gaza tailors, market is flooded, external mark ...
    From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway What happens to industry when you open a market to consumer products but restrict raw materials and ban export? What doesn’t happen is economic recovery. The Israeli cabinet decision to ease the closure on the Gaza Strip did not change the sweeping ban on Gaza exports. W ...
  • Bil’in’s Abdallah Abu Rahmah Cleared o ...
    From the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee. Protest organizer Abdallah Abu Rhamah from Bil’in was convicted of incitement and organizing illegal demonstrations today, after an eight months long military trial, during which he was kept behind bars. He was acquitted of a stone-throwing charg ...
  • Hudson’s co-founder, the Israeli academic purge an ...
    Reposted from Didi Remez’s Coteret blog. Evidence is mounting that the Institute for Zionist Strategies (IZS) â an Israeli NGO at the forefront of an ongoing campaign to purge Israeli Universities of faculty and programs deemed âleft-wingâ â is a creature of  The Hudson Institute, a ma ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • CIA bribing Karzai administration, WaPo
    And theCIA didn’t deny it, either. Makes be proud to be an American.
  • Don’t be fooled, America is still at war in Iraq
    Despite flowery speeches, discussions of “transition”, and 50,000 “non-combat” troops remaining, America is still losing men and women and spending tens of billions of dollars in Iraq. And as violence escalates once again, and a new government remains elusive nearly six months after parliamentary el ...
  • The Hives – “Hate to Say I Told You So” Burning He ...
  • BeckFest crowd size. 87,000
    That’s a moderately decent sized crowd but hardly overwhelming. There have been many antiwar protests in DC that drew way more than that, with at least one drawing 500,000. However, if you consider that mainstream media gave the event a huge amount of free publicity, then the crowd size was actually ...
  • Obama falters, No FDR or Lincoln
    Alan Markow at CAIVN details six areas where Obama has failed liberals and progressives, concluding with - To the liberals who supported Obama, he has sold out in an attempt to quiet the right wing noise machine. But it has all been to no avail. The right’s distaste for all things Obama has only gro ...

Coteret

  • “A silk purse from a sow’s ear”: Israe ...
    As always happens when the diplomatic process resumes, the air is filled with talk of economic and infrastructure projects. For the principals, the buzz helps in creating an “atmosphere of progress.” The bureaucrats and businessmen behind the leaks are usually angling for a share of the funding that ...
  • Yediot publishes minutes of White House negotiatio ...
    Agreement now, peace later Shimon Shiffer, Yediot, August 27 2010 [front-page] The Obama administration intends to present Israel and the Palestinians with a new outline for ending the conflict.  Yedioth Ahronoth has learned that the Americans will pressure the sides to sign a framework agreement f ...
  • Is Im Tirzu planning to sue author Meir Shalev?
    In February, I joined a number of other activists — Roy Yellin, Yuval Yellin, Noam Wiener, Edan Ring, Ari Remez, Tal Niv and Noam Livne — in establishing a Facebook group aimed at exposing the personae and motivation behind the  Im Tirzu smear campaign against the New Israel Fund. Entitled I ...
  • Yediot reports on damage to settlement industry ca ...
    The Politics of economics: The boycott on Israel is expanding Daniel Bettini, Navit Zumer and Ofer Petersburg, Yediot, August 25 2010 [Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] The decision made on Monday by the Norwegian oil fund to divest from Africa Israel and Danya Cebus on the grounds that th ...
  • Im Tirzu becomes a right-wing liability (and spark ...
    Im Tirzu apparently overplayed its hand when it went after Ben Gurion University (BGU). Even the usually timid heads of the Israeli academe felt they had to react: Their institutions were under threat. One by one they gave interviews and published op-eds. As Hebrew University’s Avner de-Shalit wri ...

Deadline Live

  • Finland suspends H1N1 vaccines after children suff ...
    (NaturalNews) Shortly after Australia banned flu vaccines in children due to an alarming increase in vomiting, fevers and seizures caused by the vaccines (http://www.naturalnews.com/029586_A…), Finland has now suspended H1N1 vaccines due to increased reports of narcolepsy in children and teens. Narc ...
  • Deadline Live – August 27 2010
    First Hour: Breaking News From Deadline Live.info. Second Hour: Special Guest Jeff Rense Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d15219').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
  • Obusha to announce “Mission Accomplished” on TV (m ...
    America 20xy 8/25/10 By Andrew Steele Hoping that average Americans overlook news sources like Raw Story, which reported this week that protestors tried to stop buses of soldiers who were being deployed to Iraq, the teleprompter-in-chief is planning to stare America straight in the eye and do what h ...
  • THE CIVIL WAR: WAS SLAVERY ITS PRIMARY CAUSE (OR E ...
    The Constitutional Convention in the summer of 1787 sought to delineate the functions and powers of the respective federal and state governments. - While the convention delegates sought to enhance the power of the central government, they also wanted to prevent the new government from encroaching up ...
  • The Nazification of the United States death of the ...
    August 26, 2010 By Paul Craig Roberts Chuck Norris is no pinko-liberal-commie, and Human Events is a very conservative publication. The two have come together to produce one of the most important articles of our time, “Obamaâs US Assassination Program.” It seems only yesterday that Americans, or t ...

The Air Vent

  • Climate Science Suffers Yet Another Body Blow
    It’s been an extraordinary 12 months in climate science, I’ve often said nobody knows how much warming additional CO2 will cause, including me.  The implication being that all the IPCC models could be right. I’ve also often said that the IPCC is a political group before a scientific organization.  ...
  • Ice Sheet Loss Cut In Half
    Ice Sheet Loss Cut In Half Submitted by Doug L. Hoffman on Thu, 08/26/2010 – 13:22 Much concern has been raised by climate scientists regarding ice loss from the world’s two remaining continental ice sheets. Rapid loss of ice-mass from the glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica are cited as proof posi ...
  • Smart Grid
    More leftist insanity today. I’m sorry but that’s what the world does so thats what we get. The NYT which cannot go out of business fast enough at this point, is advertising THE BENEFITS of VOULUNTARY brownouts. To Cut Demand for Electricity, Some Customers Agree to Unplug Electricity use is up shar ...
  • UN’s Ideal – Global Government
    Occasionally there is a comment left which deserves as much notice as possible.   Unfortunately Bart get’s picked again but you could replace his name with Gavin or Mike Mann or really with Ben Santer just as easily.  There were a couple of items which looked like links from the comment but weren ...
  • Hygroelectric Generation
    Hmm.. Electricity Collected from the Air Could Become the Newest Alternative Energy Source ScienceDaily (Aug. 25, 2010) — Imagine devices that capture electricity from the air ― much like solar cells capture sunlight ― and using them to light a house or recharge an electric car. Imagine using simila ...

Focal Point

  • WTF, CFI?: Center For Inquiry Wants "Ground Zero" ...
    The secularist Center for Inquiry waded into the Park51 controversy in earnest yesterday, with disastrous results. I love CFI and I've been working with them for years, so it pains me to say that they're playing into the hands of anti-Muslim bigots on this one. Orac is right, this press release is a ...
  • Book Review: "The Poisoner's Handbook"
    I can't say enough good things about Deborah Blum's "The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York." It's an fast-paced narrative that mixes chemistry, physiology, public policy, and history. The heroes of the story are the New York City medical examiner Dr ...
  • Judge: Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Destroys ...
    On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lambert ruled that all federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells (hESC) is illegal. He reasoned as follows: If a human embryo was destroyed to make a cell line, then any experiment on any cell descended from that embryo is "research" where a h ...
  • 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 ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Roundup: Questions, Places, Lawsuits, Pri ...
    Questions is Back – Questions disappeared for a few days this week, for most of the small portion of Facebook users who had access to it. Now it’s beginning to appear again. Tagging Looks a Little Different – The way Facebook users are tagged in status updates has changed slightly. Whereas previousl ...
  • SCVNGR Mobile-Social Game Launches Facebook Places ...
    SCVNGR, a mobile-social game that lets users complete challenges at real-world locations to earn rewards, today announced an integration with Facebook Places using the Places APIs. The fifth third-party apps to do so, SCVNGR check-ins and challenge completions can be associated with a Place, and act ...
  • Facebook Lets Advertisers Broaden Age Targeting, P ...
    Facebook has made a small change to its performance advertising system, intended to help any advertiser get access to more target users for less money. The company already lets you select advertising demographics based on factors like age, sex and city. Now, it’s giving you the option to slightly ex ...
  • Words, Pictures and Video Appear on This Week’s Li ...
    This week’s AppData list of fastest-growing Facebook apps still under a million monthly active users is all about the words. Two of the top non-gaming apps focus on Facebook’s written side, while a little video is mixed in further down. Two game apps do lead off the list, though: Top Gainers This We ...
  • Y Combinator and Facebook Launch Social Startup In ...
    While Facebook hasn’t done much with its fbFund this year, the company is still busy working to directly nurture its developer ecosystem — today, it is announcing a partnership with early stage venture firm Y Combinator to support social startups. Here’s how Facebook says it will be involved: Weâl ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Analysis of BBC Panorama “Death on the Med” expose ...
    Ted Clement-Evans introduces a detailed and forensic-like analysis of the transcript of the BBC Panorama programme “Death on the Med”, broadcast on 16 August 2010, which reveals chronic bias and lack of impartiality on the part of the BBC.
  • More pointless talks with Israel? Send in the clow ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that instead of embarking on another humiliating round of talks with Israel, the Palestinians should stand on principle, go over the heads of corrupt meddlers and demand from the international community a solution based on the law and justice endorsed by that community.
  • Israeli, US Zionists mount ferocious attack on lib ...
    Neve Gordon highlights the growing persecution of liberal academics in Israel as Israeli fascists, supported by American Christian Zionists and other neo-conservatives, join forces to root out academic freedom and freedom of expression at Israel’s universities.
  • US victory in Iraq?
    Lawrence Davidson exposes the baselessness of claims by ignoramuses, simpletons and charlatans such as US senator and former presidential candidate John McCain that the USA has achieved victory in Iraq.
  • Netanyahu and Abbas: what are the possibilities?
    Lawrence Davidson explains why the US-sponsored direct talks between Israel and Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction, due to start on 2 September, are most unlikely to result in anything that is in the interest of the Palestinian people.

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

  • Pretty Words & the Same-O-Same-O
    Is “This” the New Era of Activism? So I haven’t been writing; pouring out pages and pages of words; analyzing a bit of a sick foreign policy issue here and a handful of plentiful corruption stories there, or marveling at the rapid uncontested descent toward the ever-approaching ‘police state,’… I am ...
  • 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 ...

Afro Spear

  • Happy 100th Birthday Mother Teresa
    26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997 100 years ago this selfless humanitarian who dedicated her life to serving the poor, orphans, sick and dying  in Calcutta, India was born in Albania. In 1950 she founded the Missionaries of Charity and in 1979 she won the Nobel Peace Prize. Here is a link to her con ...
  • Why I Chose Obama For President
    Because of hunger.  Not the kind of distended belly hunger from poverty and having no food.  But a hunger none the less.  A hunger for the beauty of my blackness.  The hunger for a representation that I can be proud of and hold my head up for.  A representation that stares back at me and [...]
  • 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 ...

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

  • AUDITING THE FED!
    We did this. Together. At every moment, as the Fed and Wall Street sought to undermine this cause, it was the phone calls, letters, e-mails, blogging and sheer power of the people -- ordinary people who cared -- that beat them back. We have delivered a succinct message to Wall Street and the Fed: "W ...
  • 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.

Unsuitable Blog

  • Greenpeace Inc. [Guest Article]
    As some readers may have noted, an email recently came through Greenpeaceâs UK newsletter inviting its supporters to take part in a poll: We’re carrying out a global poll to find out what Greenpeace means to you and which issues you think are most important. This is to help us do an even better j ...
  • Cairn Energy Buries Truth in Business Speak
    Below is a verbatim lift from the Corporate Responsibility page on the website of Cairn Energy. I have just highlighted the one key point that you must bear in mind when reading: Cairn’s strategy is to deliver shareholder value through establishing commercial reserves in high potential exploration ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • New Media Tools Play Pivotal Role in Kenya's Const ...
    Kenya is moving towards greater democracy and more transparent governance thanks to the recent constitutional referendum that received 70 percent "yes" votes. The new constitution, which is scheduled to be signed into law on Friday, replaces the one drafted during Kenya's colonial era. It includ ...
  • Helping D.C. Drinkers and Bikers with Custom Maps
    In my last post about TileMill , I outlined some of our general plans and the background for why we’re working on this project to help make it easier for people to design very custom maps online. One question that we get a lot from people who are new to the GIS space is, “When would I need this? How ...
  • One-Eight, Afghanistan: Social Media + U.S. Marine ...
    As the saying goes, "Be careful what you wish for." In my case, I won a Knight News Challenge grant to launch an online, social media reporting network that follows a battalion of U.S. Marines throughout their deployment to southern Afghanistan. (Congratulations! You've won a year in Helmand Prov ...
  • 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 ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Edge on Terrorism - Internal Struggles Bedevil Isl ...
    On August 12, four members of the militant group the Caucasus Emirate (CE) appeared in a video posted on a Russian militant website withdrawing their support from CE founder and leader Doku Umarov. The reason for the mutiny was Umarov’s August 4 retraction of his August 1 announcement that he was st ...
  • The Obama Edge - Energy Department Gets Mixed Revi ...
    The Energy Department’s internal watchdog has mixed reviews of the department’s distribution and use of economic stimulus dollars, even as the White House touts the massive spending bill in the run-up to midterms. President Obama’s planned tour on August 23 of ZBB Energy Corp.’s facilities in Menomo ...
  • Film Review - The Extra Man Delivers a Gem of Prop ...
    Light-hearted, unpredictable, upbeat, and original. Enjoyable, sophisticated, witty and unexpected. Besides being incomplete sentences, these words succinctly sum up how I feel about The Extra Man . But what? You need more, you say? You don't trust catchy little blurbs that neatly fit on DVD covers? ...
  • The Nuclear Edge - The Bomb Was Not Necessary
    With the sixty-fifth anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb almost upon us, there is undoubtedly going to be a flood of commentary on the wisdom of its use by the United States during World War II. The justified scolding of Charles Pellegrino and his The Last Train From Hiroshima and Nagasak ...
  • Edge on Terrorism - U.S. Military Assistance to Le ...
    The August 3 fatal shooting of an Israel Defense Forces officer by a Lebanese Armed Forces soldier has sparked debate regarding the utility and wisdom of the U.S. military assistance program to Lebanon. Although such assistance is not new, the program's scope dramatically increased after the 2005 Ce ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • US Slashes Estimate Of Second-Quarter Economic Gro ...
    By Barry Grey The Commerce Department on Friday sharply cut its estimate of US economic growth in the second quarter of 2010. The department revised downward its initial estimate, issued July 30, of a 2.4 percent increase in the gross domestic product (GDP) to the even more anemic figure of 1.6 per ...
  • How Much Proof Do The Global Warming Deniers Need?
    By Johann Hari Everything the climate scientists said would happen - with their pesky graphs and studies and computers - is coming to pass. This is proving the hottest year eve
  • To Walk Is Human
    By Alan Wartes Walking is how we belong to the world. Its how we belong to each other. Its how we see best whats coming for us, not for people half-way across the country or the world and how we know what to do about it. Its how we begin tuning ourselves to the frequency of a post-oil world
  • Plotting The Coming Oil Shock
    By Matthew Wild Forecasting World Crude Oil Production Using Multicyclic Hubbert Model, written by two Kuwait University engineers and a representative of Kuwait Oil Company predicts World production will peak in 2014 at a production rate of 79 MMSTB/D, and then it will start declining to reach ab ...
  • Checkpoint: A Video Documentary
    By Yoav Shamir Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir once served his army reserve duty as a checkpoint guard, which was what inspired him to make this documentary, Checkpoint. For 80 minutes, Shamir simply shows us videotape of what happens at the various checkpoints that the Israeli government operates, w ...

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

  • Two Rallies in Washington D.C. One Honored Dr King ...
    Unless you spent the last week on a different planet, you knew that there would be two rallies in Washington D.C. today, one to honor Doctor Martin Luther King Jr., the other to restore Honor to America. In the days leading up to today, there was much conjecture about each gathering. Liberals in the ...
  • UNBELIEVABLE! Ground Zero Mosque May Qualify For P ...
    Its almost as if every day the New York City government looks for another way to give the opponents of the ground zero mosque a stiff kick where the sun never shines. Usually its the Michael Bloomberg the arrogant, out of touch Mayor of New York making another speech implying that the mosque opponen ...
  • Charlie Crist Flip-Flops on Obamacare, Then Flip-F ...
    Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has been labeled a "flip-flopper" but today's flip flop had to set a world record for fastest flip-flop.� This morning he sat down with Florida Newsman Scott Harris to talk about his independent run for senate. Harris asked Crist how would he have voted on the health ...
  • FIRED! Gov. Christie Displays Leadership, Fires Ed ...
    Once again New Jersey Governor Chris Christie shows the difference between a leader and a politician. After backing up his education commissioner for a mistake in a federal application which cost the state $400 million dollars in aid, the Governor fired the commissioner after finding out that some o ...
  • SEC "Screws" Average Investor, Gives Unions New Po ...
    The Securities and Exchange Commission approved a rule that could making it easier for Big shareholders to force out directors. The rule allows a big shareholder can get its board nominees listed on a company-mailed "proxy" ballot alongside the candidates favored by management Management also pay fo ...

The Real Agenda

  • Costa Rica se Degenera
    Como todos los animales, los humanos quieren dominar y usar los recursos a su alrededor. Al principio los humanos cazaban, pescaban y comían de la tierra. Pero después, algo terrible acontenció a nuestras mentes: Nos volvimos temerosos, inseguros, dependientes y cínicos y esto nos convirtió en ganad ...
  • World Health Organization Distributing Anti-fertil ...
    Jurriaan Maessen In addition to the recent PrisonPlanet-exclusive Rockefeller Foundation Developed Vaccines For “Mass-Scale” Fertility Reduction — which outlines the Rockefeller Foundation’s efforts in the 1960s funding research into so-called “anti-fertility vaccines”– another series of documents h ...
  • Massive Solar Storm to Hit Earth in 2012
    Astronomers are predicting that a massive solar storm, much bigger in potential than the one that caused spectacular light shows on Earth earlier this month, is to strike our planet in 2012 with a force of 100 million hydrogen bombs. Several US media outlets have reported that NASA was warning the m ...
  • Influenza H1N1: El Fraude que fue … el Pelig ...
    Cuando el médico, el director de la escuela o colegio o su jefe le diga que es obligatorio inyectarse la vacuna para poder estudiar o trabajar, edúquelo(a). Enseñele la diferencia entre un mandato y una ley, y explíquele que no hay ninguna ley que obligue a nadie a inyectarse. Ningún gobierno tiene ...
  • Bancor: The Global Currency The IMF is Proposing
    The Economic Collapse Sometimes there are things that are so shocking that you just do not want to report them unless they can be completely and totally documented.  Over the past few years, there have been many rumors about a coming global currency, but at times it has been difficult to pin down ev ...

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

  • When I get my gun
    If I had a gun it would serve as my point of meditation. [Excerpt, Swimming Upstream, Eve Ensler editor]   And I would look at it and re-remember Harriet Tubman’s steely whisper and Nanny’s ear-splitting yell, Ida B. Wells’ unrelenting voice and Fannie Lou Hamer’s unwavering glare. I’d remember Nat ...
  • Giuliani on 9/11, on National Geo-crap-ic “A ...
    Uh… yeah. The dude got skunked on his watch twice in the same place by the same group, (by his account) and has spent the last few years, since they kicked his numb nuts out of the Mayoralty, running seminars where he gets really STUPID people to pay him money to tell them that he’s [...]
  • From last Friday’s action, some pictures, so ...
    The linked commentary isn’t about the bus lack-of-service, it’s to fellow local activist Loren Wirbel made a short documentary film just showing a FEW of the multi-gazillionaire “defense” plants around town. You know the ones, our Magnificently Superior Business Experts at City Hall made the command ...
  • American Flag DIY
    When’s the next flag-waving fest? Will it be the anniversary of 9/11? We missed July 4th, but maybe the next tea party will do. How about a concession booth where we sell modified little American flags, or upgrade theirs for free? A magic marker or black paint will do. The Stars and Stripes already ...
  • Can you imagine a Palestinian “boy in stripe ...
    Israelis are indignant at comparing the Palestinian Territories to Nazi concentration camps, but can you imagine a “boy in striped pajamas” crossing the security perimeter of Gaza?

Debunking the Debunkers

  • As Screw Loose Change Would Say: Moron Dave Thomas
    So, I've had a chance to listen to some of the Richard Gage and Dave Thomas debate and have a few things to add to the already stellar debunking job of Gage and others . Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog posted this bingo card mocking the evidence that Gage would raise. Let's examine an ...
  • CIT's corruption spreads...
    Dammit, just when I thought we were making progress in distancing ourselves from these clowns . I'm sure this will make them some more money as more activists waste $1,000 on 500 copies of their 'movie' that's mostly just white scrolling text on a black background, and contribute to the the discredi ...
  • 9/11 Heroes Ask for Medical Attention; Receive Nai ...
    The House of Representatives recently voted down the 9/11 workers' health fund and Rep. Weiner of New York "blasted" them for it . Now I would like to do a bit of blasting myself in the blogosphere. In a post that presented only one side of the story about the cause of death of 9/11 hero James Zad ...
  • Debunking the Debunkers
    Permanent Top Post--Scroll Down for Newer Posts Comments are only open to blog contributors , but feel free to contact us here if you have a point of contention or some kind words you would like to share. Ad hominems will be ignored, but well-formed rebuttals may be addressed (and that is a subjec ...
  • Debunking Joseph Nobles: Three Big Issues Indeed
    Joseph Nobles of ae911truth.info has finally completed his critique of what he considers three of ae911truth's biggest mistakes, which he calls "The Big Three." According to him, these are three issues ae911truth claims that debunkers never address. Here are my thoughts on it. The Big Three, Part O ...

Fooducate

  • Over 45 yrs old? Try the “Water Before Meal” Diet
    Here’s yet another potential diet. Drink 2 glasses of water before every meal, and you’ll lose weight. That’s what a 12 week study has shown in middle aged people. They lost more weight than a control group that did not drink water. Both groups lost weight as they were instructed to follow a low fa ...
  • Should We be Happy? It’s Not Our Personal Fault We ...
    You know an article is important when you get links to it in multiple emails, tweets and facebook updates. We got numerous links to Saturday’s Fixing a World That Fosters Fat, in the business section of the New York Times. And it truly is an interestin g piece, touching upon a critically important q ...
  • Is Chocolate Milk Losing Ground in School Lunches?
    Chocolate milk contains way too much sugar. An 8 fl oz serving (the standard carton served in schools) contains 3 teaspoons of added sugar! That sounds more like a treat than a healthy drink. Not something kids should be getting with their lunch at school on a daily basis. The New York Times ran an ...
  • Another Health Halo Shattered – Bottled Teas Conta ...
    Tea is the worldâs most widely consumed beverage, not coffee. Just in the US, the market last year stood at $7 Billion in sales of tea bags and bottles, including iced tea. The industry has quadrupled itself since the early 1990’s partly due to the health halo tea , and especially green tea, enjo ...
  • Four Cheese Pizza – DiGiorno’s vs. Newman’s Own
    Everyone loves pizza. It’s the #1 looked up entry in yellow pages and very popular in google searches as well. While dining at a pizzeria or getting delivered to your home are the most popular consumption modes, people are going to want this goodness on call in their freezer as well. There’s an ent ...

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 ...

Survival International

  • Brazil’s President signs ‘death sentence’ for Amaz ...
    Kayapó Indians at a protest against the Belo Monte dam © T Turner Brazilâs President Lula has signed a contract allowing the construction of the hugely controversial Belo Monte mega-dam on the Amazonian Xingu River to go ahead. Lula said, âI think this is a victory for Brazilâs energy ...
  • Indians urge Brazil’s next President to protect an ...
    Indians at landmark protest for land rights. Brazil. © Gustavo Macedo/ Survival Indians representing many of Brazilâs 233 tribes have demanded that the countryâs next President map out their ancestral land which has been taken from them for industrial projects, cattle ranching, and soya ...
  • David v. Goliath: Indian tribe in ‘stunning’ victo ...
    The Dongria Kondh and their supporters have won a momentous victory. © Toby Nicholas/Survival A tribe in India has won a stunning victory over one of the worldâs biggest mining companies. In an extraordinary move, Indiaâs Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has blocked Vedanta Resourcesâ ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Bush'd again? New Orleans, Mr. O and Mr. Go
    by Greg Palast for The Huffington Post Five years ago this week, a beast drowned New Orleans. Don't blame Katrina: the lady never, in fact, touched the city. The hurricane swept east of it. You want to know the name of the S.O.B. who attacked New Orleans? Locals call him "Mr. Go" - the Mississippi ...
  • No “Home Sweet Home”Five years after Katrina
    Matt Pascarella and I encountered Patricia Thomas while she was breaking into a home at the Lafitte Housing Project in New Orleans. It was her own home. Nevertheless, if caught, she'd end up in the slammer. So would we. Matt was my producer for the film, Big Easy to Big Empty, and he encouraged [.. ...
  • Five Years and Still DrowningThe New Orleans CNN W ...
    It's been five years already. In New Orleans, more than half the original residents have not, cannot, return. "They don't want no poor niggers back in - that's the bottom line." And that's Malik Rahim, Director of Common Ground, who led the survivors who rebuilt their homes in the teeth of official ...
  • Five Years and Still DrowningThe New Orleans CNN w ...
    Get Moviefone's top choice of Katrina documentaries Big Easy to Big Empty: The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans "Greg Palast brings you exclusive footage on the hidden political agendas and the suppressed eyewitness reports involved in the disaster." Get the DOWNLOAD Free of Char ...
  • 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 ...

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Liberals aren’t real people—or crazy
    As Bill Scher points out, Beck’s rally was pathetic: Glenn Beck: 87,000,  Louis Farrakhan 837,000 ‘03 anti-war protests 1,000,000 But the media chooses to massively highlight Beck’s pathetic numbers.  Why is that? The two answers I see are as follows.  The media has a right wing bias and Beck’s ...
  • The purpose of violence (Zeta Edition)
    I like Borderland Beat, they provide a great round-up in English about the drug violence in Mexico.  However, one of their recent posts concerning both a massacre of migrants and the execution of a Monterrey area mayor posits nihilism or boredom as a motivator of violence. Los Zetas have also bee ...
  • The purpose of violence (Zeta Edition)
    I like Borderland Beat, they provide a great round-up in English about the drug violence in Mexico.  However, one of their recent posts concerning both a massacre of migrants and the execution of a Monterrey area mayor posits nihilism or boredom as a motivator of violence. Los Zetas have also bee ...
  • The right thing to do
    What makes me saddest of all things in the world is this: the vast majority of the time the right thing to do morally is the right thing to do in terms of broad self-interest, and yet we don’t believe that and we do the wrong thing, thinking we must, thinking that we’re making the [...]
  • The right thing to do
    What makes me saddest of all things in the world is this: the vast majority of the time the right thing to do morally is the right thing to do in terms of broad self-interest, and yet we don’t believe that and we do the wrong thing, thinking we must, thinking that we’re making the [...]

Age of Autism

  • Share Your Back To School Tips
    By Kim Stagliano This week marks back to school for a good portion of our readers. Share your tips for a smooth start. How do you prepare your child? Do you pack GFCF lunch each day? Is your classroom nut...
  • Vaccine Refusals On Rise in San Diego
    Read the full article at Signs on San Diego. Vaccine refusals are on the rise Amid whooping cough epidemic, health officials are pushing for more inoculations By Helen Gao, Watchdog Institute Monday, August 23, 2010 at 4:30 p.m. Watchdog Institute...
  • SaneVax Inc. Offers Affordable HPV Testing
    North Hollywood, CA, August 16, 2010 — SaneVax, Inc., http://sanevax.org, is a non-profit organization, founded to offer affordable highly sensitive HPV testing with specific genotyping by DNA sequencing, for pre- and post vaccination. According to Chairman of the board, Norma...
  • "To V or Not to V": Vaccination Choice in New Jers ...
    By Anne Dachel I like to think that reporters are someday going to start telling the truth about autism and catch on to the fact that if you only talk to health officials, you’re only getting one side of the...
  • Updated Vaccine Ingredient Calculator Aids Informe ...
    Managing Editor's Note: The following is from The National Vaccine Information Center. The ingredient calculator can help you make fully informed medical decisions for yourself, your elderly parents and your children. From the Desk of the Executive Director - Theresa...

Global BDS Movement

  • Opponents of Israeli occupation greet truckers at ...
    Press release – for immediate release August 24, 2010 Opponents of Israeli occupation greet truckers at port of Vancouver read more
  • Norwegian government pension fund excludes more Is ...
    Norwegian government pension fund excludes more Israeli companies read more
  • 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 ...

Farm Wars

  • Vaccine Zombie – music video
    "Vaccines can be extremely harmful to your health. The "Vaccine Zombie" song and music video features dancing zombie characters singing about the side effects of vaccination. "
  • The Truth Squad Radio Show with Marti Oakley and B ...
    This week we will be discussing S. 510 – especially the sections dealing with Codex Alimentarius and enforcement. More than 60% of the bill deals with fines, fees, penalties and other revenue raisers. Additonal licenses and copious record keeping will be the cause of many small operators leaving the ...
  • Dad Arrested For Sharing Food With His Neighbor – ...
    Wally Paul Republic Defiance August 27, 2010 Even Bush may know something bad is going on. Senate Bill S510 – Total Full Spectrum Dominance From The Global Mafia Senate Bill S510 makes it illegal to grow, share, trade or sell homegrown food. This is so far beyond tyranny it makes Hitler seem sane. P ...
  • Catherine Austin Fitts: We Must be Self-Sufficient ...
  • CODEX in S510: Congress continues to ignore the pe ...
    Subsection (5) CODEX questions whether or not to implement CODEX, when the writers of this bill are fully aware that implementation has been ongoing since the creation of the World Trade Organization in 1992. The CODEX committees have been meeting in Washington regularly and as recently as June of ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Boats reach Gaza despite blockade
    Al Jazerra – Two vessels carrying 46 international human rights activists have reached the Gaza Strip, despite Israel’s strict 14-month siege of the Palestinian territory. The end of the mission to symbolically break the siege came after Israel backed down from an earlier warning to the ‘Free Gaza’ ...
  • Its Official: China is Unloading its Treasury Bond ...
    Oil Price – It looks like the smart money these days is found in China. While American investors have been scrambling over each other to buy more Treasury bonds at historically low yields, China has begun quietly unloading some of its own enormous holdings. In June, the Middle Kingdom sold $21.2 bil ...
  • Government denies HPV vaccine role in reported dea ...
    Sify – The government Friday denied that Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines were responsible for the reported deaths from Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat. ‘In Andhra Pradesh among 14,091 vaccinated girls, five deaths have been reported whereas in Gujarat two deaths were reported among 10,686 girls,’ He ...
  • Years Later, No Magic Bullet Against Alzheimer’s D ...
    NY Times — The scene was a kind of science court. On trial was the question “Can anything — running on a treadmill, eating more spinach, learning Arabic — prevent Alzheimer’s disease or delay its progression?” To try to answer that question, the National Institutes of Health sponsored the court, ap ...
  • Fertilizer chemicals linked to animal developmenta ...
    Physorg-Fertilizer chemicals may pose a bigger hazard to the environment – specifically to creatures that live in water – than originally foreseen, according to new research from North Carolina State University toxicologists -Read Article

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Gulf oil spill jitters: a false fish kill alarm
    Louisiana officials backed off alarms they had sounded Monday about a Gulf of Mexico fish kill, saying that the kill was far smaller than they had reported and was the result of low oxygen levels unrelated to the BP oil...
  • Gulf oil spill: Halliburton employee cautioned BP ...
    A Halliburton employee said he warned BP that its design to seal its oil well could fail -- a warning given to BP two days before the well surged out of control and the oil rig atop it erupted in...
  • Gulf oil spill: Key BP official refuses to testify
    Another BP employee is refusing to testify in the investigation into the cause of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, invoking his Fifth Amendment right to not produce testimony that could incriminate him. BP’s two top officials on the rig...
  • Gulf oil spill: Pressure test was subject of debat ...
    Before the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, employees aboard the oil rig voiced “confusion” about the interpretation of a key safety test that could have led them to take different action and possibly avoid the disaster that killed...
  • Students compete to join deep-sea research around ...
    Southern California high school students are competing for a chance to participate in deep-sea research missions around Santa Catalina Island aboard the Antipodes: an acrylic-bubbled submarine that will descend to where no one has gone before. Eight students, including two...

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

  • 'Actors' boycott on settlement Cultural Center wil ...
    "The theater directors should enlist immediately to address this crisis, since the actors and artists have decided to divide Israeli society," Livnat said. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Palestinians Counter Israeli Editing Group in Wiki ...
    After a rightist group opened the first-ever Zionist editing group aimed at defending Israel on Wikipedia, a Palestinian organization plans to create its own Wikipedia editing program. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Gilad Shalit's family mark soldier's 5th birthday ...
    "This will mark 1,525 days and long difficult nights in which I haven't seen my son," Aviva wrote in the invitation to the wives. "Not to see, not to hug, not to hear, not to smell to live in a big painful emptiness in our home in Mitzpe Hila" Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �| ...
  • Israel's sad slide from democracy | The Jewish Chr ...
    When the supposed stronghold of democracy abuses its role, this is not a matter to be confined within its own sphere. It is the business of all citizens. Israelis who despair as their elected officials pull the democratic rug from under their feet should Submitted by David Cooper to World �|� �Note ...
  • For Gaza tailors, market is flooded, external mark ...
    What happens to industry when you open a market to consumer products but restrict raw materials and ban export? What doesnt happen is economic recovery. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • U.S. Air Force Bases Embrace Solar Energy
    While the U.S. Air Force remains the largest energy user in the federal government, many Air Force bases are making significant strides to generate renewable energy on-site. �
  • The Solar Incentive Report Card is an Essential Gu ...
    Solar Power Rocks , an online solar power resource for everyone interested in solar energy, from professionals to neophytes, recently released it 2010 Report Card , in living color, in graph form, with so many ratin

    News Blaze

    • Salmonella with Your Omelet? Don't forget Stroke a ...
      Ask for an egg-free pastry in otherwise politically correct Starbucks in Chicago and you'll get a blank stare. (Thank you, Argo Tea.)
    • UN Human Rights Experts Express Concern Over Execu ...
      Independent United Nations human rights experts today voiced serious concern at last weekend's execution in Equatorial Guinea of four men over their alleged involvement in an armed attack on the country's presidential palace last year.
    • Daniel & Ana Mexican Film Review
      Directed by Michel Franco, Daniel & Ana opens with a warning which reads, 'Based on real events. The movie tells the story exactly as it happened. Only the names were changed.'
    • UN Probe Finds Serious Human Rights Violations Dur ...
      The President's actions followed a period of rising tensions after voter registration for the country's presidential elections - which were supposed to have been held as far back as 2005 but have been repeatedly postponed - were suspended.
    • Affiliate Program Review for Your Blog
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    Historical Notes

    libcom

    • Moscow antifascist needs help for treatment
      ars.jpg Anarchist and anti-fascist FC Arsenal Kiev supporter from Moscow, who was attacked by Nazis at 15th of August 2010 after the football match ( https://antifa-action.org.ua/en/node/863 ), needs fin ...
    • Miners to join South African public sector strike
      sa.jpg Miners in South Africa plan to join the massive public sector strike that has already crippled the the government in recent weeks. The National Union of Mineworkers said Fri ...
    • Garment and construction workers strikes in Cambod ...
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    • Is this farewell, welfare?
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    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

    • Ellen Brown LIVE on The Story Behind the Story &#8 ...
      Axing the Bankersâ Money Tree: Homeowners’ Rebellion against Wall Street Recent Rulings Could Shield 62 Million Homes from Foreclosure by Ellen Brown http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20688 Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in ...
    • 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 [... ...

    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

    • Plaintiffs Lawyers in 9/11 Cases Lose Bid to Recou ...
      Plaintiffs lawyers in the 9/11 respiratory cases cannot pass on to clients some $6.1 million in interest costs associated with financing the massive litigation, a New York federal judge ruled Friday. Even though the lead lawyer marshaled opinions by bar associations, court cases and experts to show ...
    • Paul Allen Sues 11 Companies, Including Google and ...
      Billionaire Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, filed suit Friday in federal court against 11 Internet search and e-commerce companies, including Apple, Google and Facebook, alleging that they are using technology developed at his now-shuttered California laboratory, Interval Research Corp. The sui ...
    • Plaintiffs Lawyers Say Oil Spill Fund Unlikely to ...
      The $20 billion compensation fund for victims of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has begun taking applications, but plaintiffs lawyers doubt it will significantly forestall litigation. It could even lead to a new wave of lawsuits. Many of their clients, especially large businesses, are unlikely to s ...
    • In Focus: Post-ILTA 2010
      Legal tech shows can be pedestrian when compared to CES or Interop. But the exhibits at the 2010 International Legal Technology Association conference in Las Vegas were striking and included EDD tools with improved visualization, a website archiving service, and a virtual desktop with a DMS.
    • Federal Circuit Rules No Link Between Autism and V ...
      The Federal Circuit on Friday upheld lower court findings that reject a causal connection between childhood vaccines and the onset of autism. The ruling came in the first of a series of test cases heard by special masters for the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in 2007. The claims court picked several ...

    Iranian.com

    • Earthquake in Iran kills three, wounds 21
      A 5.7-magnitude earthquake that struck northern Iran on Friday has killed three people and wounded another 21, an Iranian news agency reported Saturday. Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar told the state-run Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting agency that two children lost their li ...
    • شیوا را پای چوبه دار نبرید
      این روزها اکثر سایت ها و پایگاههای اجتماعی از احتمال صدور حکم اعدام برای شیوا نظرآهاری سخن می گویند؛برخی هم تا بدانجا پیش رفته اند که دادگاه این فعال حقوق بشر برگزار نشده، تیتر زده اند: "شیوا نظرآهاری در آستانه اعدام" و یا "از فعالیت برای حقوق بشر تا اعدام" و... read more
    • استراتژی گریز از شکست با اختلافات ساختگی
      " تفرقه بیانداز و حکومت کن! " به همین سادگی. رهگذر سیاست داخلی " آقا "به همین سادگی است. به سادگی همین ضرب المثل قدیمی که سندش را به نام انگلیسی ها زده اند: " تفرقه انداختن و حکومت کردن! " در این رهگذر سیاسی مهره ها نقش چرخ دنده هایی را بازی می کنند که عمل و عکس العملشان به پیشبرد منافع سیاسی " حضرت ...
    • موسوی: سیاست های احمدی نژاد فراهم کننده بهانه تجاو ...
      میرحسین موسوی نامزد معترض به نتایج انتخابات سال گذشته ایران روزجمعه 27-8-2010 " لفاظی ها و مجرا جویی های " دولت را فراهم آوردنده بهانه برای تبلیغات اسرائیل علیه ایران و تجاوز به این کشور دانست. به گزارش سایت خبری "کلمه" موسوی که در جمع شماری از رزمندگان جنگ ایران و read more
    • موسوی: جنبش سبز مدافع منافع ملی
      میرحسین موسوی شرایط ایران را "ناامن" خواند و تنها راه بازگشت به امنیت سیاسی و عدالت اجتماعی را پاسخ به خواست مردم و مطالبات جنبش سبز دانست. به گفته موسوی جنبش سبز در راستای "دفاع صریح و بی‌پرده از منافع ملی" حرکت می‌کند. read more

    Most Revolutionary Act

    • The Stigma of Being a Useless Eater
      What I find most troubling about the reactionary “useless eater” mentality (see May 24 blog) pushed by policy and opinion makers is the way Americans have internalized the belief that it’s their own fault if they become ill. In fact much of the US population seems more freaked out about gettin ...
    • Useless Eaters: the Stigmatization of Health Probl ...
      As a psychiatrist battling the stigma of mental illness for more than 30 years, I am gratified by growing public awareness that that schizophrenia, depression and bipolar disorder run in families and are, at least partly, biologically determined. Thankfully the days when it was socially acceptable t ...
    • Useless Eaters: The Stigmatization of Health Probl ...
      As a psychiatrist battling the stigma of mental illness for more than 30 years, I am gratified by growing public awareness that that schizophrenia, depression and bipolar disorder run in families and are, at least partly, biologically determined. Thankfully the days when it was socially acceptable ...
    • Is Capitalism Doomed? - Part V
      Contemporary Solutions In The ABCs of the Economic Crisis , contemporary Marxists Magdoff and Yates also express the view that capitalism is on its last legs. They, like Strachey, propose “socialism” as the solution to a failed capitalist system. However they are even less prescriptive than ...
    • Is Capitalism Doomed? – Part V
      Contemporary Solutions In The ABCs of the Economic Crisis , contemporary Marxists Magdoff and Yates also express the view that capitalism is on its last legs. They, like Strachey, propose “socialism” as the solution to a failed capitalist system. However they are even less prescriptive than he is as ...

    Free Movement

    • Right to work for asylum seekers
      UKBA has laid Statement of Changes CM7929 to give effect (or, at least, limited effect) to the judgment of the Supreme Court in ZO (Somalia) [2010] UKSC 36. This was the case in which the Court held that an asylum claim is still an asylum claim for the purposes of the Reception Directive whether it ...
    • Post Pankina Rules Update
      Following Pankina, UKBA laid Statement of Changes HC382, different parts of which came into effect on 23 July and 12 August 2010. The main changes were to incorporate into the main Immigration Rules some provisions that had previously featured only in the policy guidance and which were declared unla ...
    • Temporary immigration cap
      I still use this blog as my own personal note book of developments I might well want to look up later. I’m currently updating and re-writing the HJT Immigration Manual (ready first week of September in time for the next round of accreditation, available now for a reduced price if pre-ordering) and t ...
    • 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 ...

    Michael Moore - Must Read

    • Message to NFL players: Proposed 18-game schedule ...
      Dear NFL Player: As you surely know, your league is in the process of trying to increase the regular season from 16 to 18 games while eliminating two preseason contests. Perhaps you're excited about this. A little more money in the pocket. Extra exposure. Increased dashes through the secondary an ...
    • The Unmaking of a Company Man
      Worldly ambition inhibits true learning. Ask me. I know. A young man in a hurry is nearly uneducable: He knows what he wants and where he’s headed; when it comes to looking back or entertaining heretical thoughts, he has neither the time nor the inclination. All that counts is that he is going somew ...
    • 90 Years After the Vote, U.S. Women Still Seek Eco ...
      Women won the right to vote 90 years ago today. As historian Christine�Stansell points out, the seemingly “no-brainer” move to ensure women have the same political citizenship rights as men was contested in this country until 1984, when Mississippi became the last state to ratify the 19th Amen ...
    • Foreign Policy: The Future Of Iraqi Oil
      David Bender is an analyst in Eurasia Group's Middle East practice. Bush administration officials predicted that a post-war spike in Iraq's oil production would pay for both the conflict and ease the country's transition to democracy. Anti-war protesters countered that the ...
    • KBR wins refinery work contracts in Iraq
      Aug 24 ( Reuters ) - KBR Inc, a U.S. engineering and construction firm, said on Tuesday it won contracts from the Iraqi government for work on two refining projects. KBR will provide licensing and basic engineering services for the construction of fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) and Solvent Deasphalt ...

    Salon

    • Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin's unholy alliance
      Where to begin telling the story of Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin's "Restoring Honor" rally, on the site of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic "I have a dream" speech exactly 47 years later? As promised, we published Sarah Palin's 8/28 speech alongside King's, and Mark Benjamin reported from the ...
    • Five years later, a richer, whiter New Orleans
      Still reeling in the wake of the BP oil disaster, New Orleans is approaching the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Sunday. The city has replaced almost all its levees, moved and upgraded pumping stations, written new evacuation plans for the most vulnerable residents, and is now well prep ...
    • Beck lifts from Obama 2008 stump
      Glenn Beck is borrowing some lines from President Barack Obama.
    • Sarah Palin vs. MLK
      Earlier today, Sarah Palin addressed Glenn Beck's " non-political " Restoring Honor rally in Washington, D.C. Courtesy of YouTube, here's her speech, in four parts:
    • Sarah Palin: Support MLK Jr., back Tea Party
      Sarah Palin says the way to honor Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy is to honor those men and women in the military who protect the United States.

    SMB News

    • Iran working against Iraqi democracy: US general
      WASHINGTON: Iran is funding extremist groups in Iraq out of fear of a strong democracy as a neighbor, the commander of US forces in Iraq said Sunday. “I think they don’t want to see Iraq turn into a strong democratic country, General Ray Odierno told CNN. “They would rather see it become a weak gove ...
    • 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 ...

    Toronto Star - Editorials

    • A nation-building goal
      As the deadline for stimulus funding approaches, municipalities will still face an infrastructure deficit of more than $100 billion
    • Editorial: Spell out our Afghan plans
      With Parliament set to resume Sept. 20, the Conservatives are running out of time to firm up their plans on Afghanistan.
    • PM’s Arctic quicksteps
      Harper's photo-op on an ATV in the Arctic was overshadowed by Vladimir Putin firing darts at a grey whale from a small raft
    • Darts and laurels
      TORONTO CITY COUNCIL: For flouting the law. Despite being warned by their own lawyers about exceeding council’s authority in paying politicians’ legal bills for campaign court challenges, and after then losing their case in a court judgment, counci ...
    • Editorial: The legacy of Miller's council
      Toronto City Council’s four-year term, now drawing to a close, featured both stark antagonism and remarkable achievement. It opened with such acrimony that an official photo session had to be scrapped as councillors shamelessly squabbled over who w ...

    Energy Collective

    EU Times

    • Sweden loses patience with refugee champion role
      Six years after his brother was beheaded by Iraqi insurgents, Riyad is still haunted by the memory of identifying the disfigured body and watching the mutilation on a video distributed by the killers. Yet Riyad now has fresh worries to contend with: the threat of deportation from Sweden, which recen ...
    • Turkey tells US it won’t adhere to new sanctions o ...
      Turkish officials have told an American delegation that it has no intention of following unilateral US sanctions on Iran, a move likely to deepen a rift between the two NATO allies over the Islamic republic’s contentious nuclear program that Washington believes is aimed at developing nuclear weapons ...
    • Official US Deficit Put At Staggering $202 Trillio ...
      The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) forecasts the U.S. budget deficit will hit $1.3 trillion this year. An astronomical figure, to be sure, but thatâs lower than was projected in March. Itâs also less than last yearâs record $1.41 trillion deficit, which was close to 10% of GDP. And, that’s ...
    • Goldman Sachs accused of trying to destroy China
      Goldman Sachs & Co., reviled in the U.S. for its role in the financial crisis, is now getting hammered in the world’s No. 2 economy with a sensationalist new book accusing the investment bank of trying to destroy China. The “Goldman Sachs Conspiracy,” which has sold over 100,000 copies since it was ...
    • Italy inspired by France to expel citizens from ot ...
      Italy has said it intends to expel citizens from other EU states if they are not able to support themselves, in a move apparently inspired by France’s current crackdown on Roma. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni told daily newspaper Corriere della Sera on Saturday (21 August) that French president Ni ...

    Stonecipher News

    • Studies Claim That One Million Children Misdiagnos ...
      According to Jo Oliver "Several studies this month in the Journal of Health Economics are looking at ADHD. Separate studies by researchers at North Carolina State University, Notre Dame, the University of Minnesota, and Michigan State University all arrive at similar conclusions about ADHD. For tho ...
    • 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 ...

    Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

    • The Oath Keeper - Villain Or Valiant?
      The article below is from American Thinker. Read the article then you make the judgement. It has been proposed by various groups and individuals that an organization known as "Oath Keepers" is racist, seditious, hateful, and pernicious. I'm here to tell you the real story. I have... Tags: media tea ...
    • Security system needs? There's an app for that
      Vincent Hunter watched from 1,400 miles away as his iCam iPhone app warned him that his Dallas residence was being burglarized. He was visiting his parents in Connecticut at the time. iCam is a $4.99 app that "allows you to stream live video and audio from up to four webcams to... Tags: connecticut ...
    • On Hurricane Katrina's Anniversary, 5 Themes Emerg ...
      Hurricane Katrina laid bare a whole host of unseemly truths about our nation, many which we would have continued to blissfully ignore had the waters not broken through New Orleans' levees five years ago today. As it happens, this summer's oil spill hit the region at the worst time... Tags: hurricane ...
    • A hodge podge of photos from yesterday in Alsace
      Meet Noirdie the goat. Noirdie (or "blackie," in French) is the goat of my friend Frank, from graduate school, who now lives out in Alsace, a region in eastern France along the border with Switzerland. Frank likes his animals, so his home has become a virtual Noah's Ark of... Tags: turtle golden ret ...
    • Compare and Contrast
      Kai Wright, of The Nation examines the claims of Glenn Beck and other revisionists who wrap themselves in the mantle of the civil rights movement… There are many things about King’s dream speech that Beck won’t likely point out at this weekend’s gathering. Perhaps top among... Tags: moniker gay sani ...

    Groklaw

    • JavaOne conference may get a rival
      Even before the first Oracle-driven JavaOne conference has seen the light of day, an alternative Java conference is being planned for those not thrilled with Oracle. - Paul Krill, BusinessWeek
    • Google's Joshua Bloch: An Update on JavaOne
      Like many of you, every year we look forward to the workshops, conferences and events related to open source software. In our view, these are among the best ways we can engage the community, by sharing our experiences and learning from yours. So we're sad to announce that we won't be able to present ...
    • LHC lawsuit dismissed by US court
      Wagner cannot demonstrate that he has standing. A plaintiff alleging a procedural injury, such as Wagner, must still establish injury in fact. ... Injury in fact requires some "credible threat of harm."... At most, Wagner has alleged that experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (the "Collider") hav ...
    • Mozilla unveils alpha browser for Android
      Mozilla today released an alpha version of its mobile browser for smartphones running Google's Android operating system. Fennec 2.0, which is built on the same Gecko engine that powers the better-known Firefox 4, adds integrated synchronization and boosts performance by separating user interface a ...
    • Paul Allen Sues Apple, Google, Others Over Patents ...
      Mr. Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates, on Friday sued Apple Inc., Google Inc. and nine other companies asserting they are using technology developed about a decade ago at his now-defunct Silicon Valley laboratory. Mr. Allen, a pioneer of computer software, didn't develop any of the tec ...

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