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Thursday, August 5, 2010

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N.B. Obama Warned Israeli May Bomb Iran


Ex-C.I.A.  analysts,field agents and supervisors warn an end run around Pentagon obstruction of 'pre-emptive strike' against Iran...which has been busy working for the destruction of nuclear arms in the Middle East...is likely and imminent by Israel taking matters into its own hands - again, having deployed three nuclear armed strike submarines in the Persian Gulf.

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • ARGENTINA: The Gender Roots of Labour Inequality
    Inequality and poverty in Argentina are explained to a large extent by a job market that discriminates against women, coupled with insufficient equal opportunity regulations and failure to enforce existing labour laws, experts on the issue told IPS.
  • POLITICS: Laos Takes Centre Stage in Cluster Bombs ...
    After being relegated to the shadows for decades by its more powerful neighbours, Laos is finally taking the lead role in a global campaign to ban the use of cluster bombs.
  • RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: Film Gives Women Survivors A New ...
    "The first film I make when I go back to my village will be about unequal wages women peasants get compared to their male counterparts," says Haseena Mallah, an unlettered farmhand in her 40s.
  • U.S.: Tough Laws Just One Peril for Day Labourers
    Ovidio Perez's brother was planning to return to Guatemala because of a new Arizona law that made it a state crime to be an undocumented immigrant. He returned, but in a coffin.
  • KENYA: Misoprostol Can't Shake Bad Reputation
    Precious Nabwire nearly died giving birth to her fourth child. If Kenyan gynaecologists have their way, a drug to control bleeding after childbirth will be licensed, offering greater protection to tens of thousands of women facing similar danger.

Scoop - NZ

  • "Let Them Eat Cake": A handful of oligarchs are be ...
    According to news reports, Chelsea Clinton's wedding to investment banker Mark Mezvinsky on July 31 is costing papa Bill $3,000,000. According to the London Daily Mail, the total price tag will be about $5,000,000. Before we attend to the poor political judgment of such an extravagant affair durin ...
  • Preparing for World War III, Targeting Iran
    Humanity is at a dangerous crossroads. War preparations to attack Iran are in "an advanced state of readiness". Hi tech weapons systems including nuclear warheads are fully deployed. This military adventure has been on the Pentagon's drawing board since the mid-1990s. First Iraq, then Ira ...
  • US army suicides, drug use set new records
    As US military fatalities in Afghanistan hit a new high in July, the US Army issued a report exposing record suicides, drug use and other signs of deep demoralization among its ranks after a decade of colonial-style wars. Another six US troops were killed in a series of four separate attacks across ...
  • Companies brace for end of cheap made-in-China era
    Factory workers demanding better wages and working conditions are hastening the eventual end of an era of cheap costs that helped make southern coastal China the world's factory floor. A series of strikes over the past two months have been a rude wakeup call for the many foreign companies that depen ...
  • Fallujah infant mortality exceeds Hiroshima
    Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004, exceed those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, according to a new study. Iraqi doctors in Fallujah have ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Send in the bacteria
    The video clip is the stuff of science fiction: a swarm of 5,000 bacteria lift microscopic epoxy bricks and assemble them one by one to form a pyramid, as if they were building a tower of blocks. A computer directs their movement by controlling magnetic fields.But for Sylvain Martel and his team of ...
  • Seeing red
    Ram Krishna of Toronto has had type 2 diabetes for almost 25 years, but he only started taking insulin a couple of years ago to help better control it. Since the insulin regimen began, he has had to test his blood glucose level more regularly — about three to five times a week. To do so, he does wha ...
  • Making (brain) waves
    Imagine your brain as a bustling city. The grey matter in your head could be compared to a dense network of mixed-use buildings, with snaking utility lines and connecting sidewalks throughout. Steam delivers heat through pipes out of the main utility centre, lights blink on and off, and information ...
  • Keeping phones focused
    The transparent silicon wafer is smaller than a pencil’s eraser tip and as thin as a sheet of paper. But the LensVector autofocus camera lens — the world’s tiniest — has big prospects. And it may soon turn the cellular-phone industry on its ear. Developed by Tigran Galstian, a physics and engineerin ...
  • Fertilizer from the sea
    When the first European settlers arrived to scratch out a living on the thin soils across Atlantic Canada, they quickly made use of the seaweed on the beaches around them as a plentiful source of crop fertilizer. This age-old European practice continues in the region to this day, and now a Nova Scot ...

Signs of the times

  • Are kids' ER visits for food allergies on the rise ...
    (Reuters Health) - Children's visits to the emergency room for serious food-allergy reactions may be on the rise, if the experience of one major U.S. medical center is an indicator. Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston found that the number of food-induced allergic reactions treated in their E ...
  • For Only $1500, Anyone Can Listen to Cell Phone Ca ...
    A researcher at the DefCon hackers' meet has demonstrated kit for spoofing GSM base stations, allowing even those on a limited budget to intercept phone calls and text messages. The audience attending the talk by Chris Paget were able to see their own handsets transferring to his spoofed base stati ...
  • Feds Giving Exxon Spill Data to BP - But Public ...
    The federal government is now painting a rosy picture of the Gulf spill, reporting Wednesday that much of the oil has miraculously disappeared. The folks at the New York Times bought in, proclaiming, "US Finds Most Oil From Spill Poses Little Additional Risk." But the oil isn't gone. More than 100 ...
  • BEST OF WEB: So Please Tell Me Again: What's The ' ...
    When facts are inconvenient, when international law, human rights and history get in the way, when war crimes can't easily be justified or explained away, when logic doesn't help much, the current crop of American political leaders turns to what is now the old reliable: 9/11. We have to fight in Afg ...
  • Natural Disaster Victims Identified Fast with New ...
    Lyon, France, July 30, 2010 (ENS) - The rapid identification of multiple victims or missing persons following natural disasters and in day-to-day police work is being spearheaded by the International Criminal Police Organization INTERPOL in collaboration with European partners. Following the Indian ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Where is the prime minister of Canada?
    And why can't we put every single hard issue out in front of him for answers? Because, he's not there. Our corpulent PM has disappeared from the front lines. Some fucking leader. He's leaving the issues to the lying pricks who tell us that we can find them outside having a smoke. Because Stevie is ...
  • Missatired, CBC
    Satire: Oxford American English Dictionary, (noun): the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. After Air Farce sketches, I wasn't sure if it was possible to be ...
  • Johnny Appleseed
    THE NYTIMES MAGAZINE has an article by  Mattathias Schwartz, " Firing Line ". One June morning last year, Jack Dailey drove from his home in North Carolina’s Piedmont country, through verdant, hilly farmland to a rifle range near the town of Ramseur. Eleven men and a woman had mustered there for a w ...
  • The Partisans of Twit
    Apparently my skillz at pissing folks off cross partisan bounds. I was a reluctant late adopter of this Twitter thing and I still have some reservations. I was mostly won over by the immediacy of following events from the streets during the G20 police riots. I was glued to the updates coming from tr ...
  • Bawdy house to Stonewall
    South of the border we have the good news that California's denial of same-sex marriage rights has been over-turned by a court. Then I read a link through Antonia Z's twitter feed about the implications of the Conservative's reclassification of the crime of running a bawdy house into a much more se ...

Media Matters for America

  • Right-wingers falsely portray judge in Prop 8 tri ...
    The right wing has falsely portrayed U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker -- who is presiding over the Proposition 8 trial in California -- as extreme or out of the mainstream. But Walker was nominated by Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush and has been praised by Republican lawmakers. R ...
  • Conservative media falsely claim "Missouri" reject ...
    Conservative media falsely claimed that the state of Missouri overwhelmingly rejected "Obamacare" because 71 percent of those who voted in the August 3 election supported a ballot measure rejecting the individual mandate in health care reform. In fact, the results were skewed "by a heavily Republic ...
  • Fox uses nun's death to advance false attacks ag ...
    Politicizing the death of a Virginia nun who was killed by an unauthorized immigrant in a drunk driving accident, Fox & Friends hosted Republican Corey Stewart who falsely claimed that Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration have underfunded Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE ...
  • Big Government's Thor rewrites history in attack ...
    Attacking the proposed Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero on� Fox & Friends, BigGovernment .com's�Brad Thor asserted that the "Founding Fathers did not intend for the�First Amendment to protect" the Islamic center, because Thomas Jefferson "went to war with Islam, the Barbary pirates." In ...
  • Market bull: Right-wing media dress up political ...
    Conservative media have long made a habit of bogus stock market analysis that furthers the right-wing agenda rather than shedding light on the business world, crediting right-wing figures and causes for gains, and blaming progressives for market declines, even in the face of evidence to the co ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • White House Should Reverse Pentagon Ban on Michael ...
    While I'm not surprised that the Pentagon has barred Michael Hastings from a previously approved "embed", they are not handling this well and are messing up again. The President and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates should intervene and order the Pentagon to invite Michael Hastings back into the ...
  • The Enthusiasm Gap And You
    A friend whom I'll call David raised a ton of money for Democrats in 2008 and now tells me they can go to hell. He's furious about the no-strings bailout of Wall Street, the absence of a public option in health reform, financial reform that doesn't cap the size of banks or reinstate the Glass-Steaga ...
  • Despite Missouri, Nullification Efforts Failing Ac ...
    Health care nullification forces scored a symbolic victory in Missouri yesterday as voters supported a ballot initiative to block the individual mandate portion of the federal health care law. But it was a primary electorate dominated by GOP primary voters-- and the real story is how isolated this ...
  • American Jewish Committee Also Opposes Mosque
    I have to admire the AJC -- the ADL's twin -- for opposing the Muslim center near Ground Zero but for scoring points by not being as racist about it as ADL. Instead of just saying "hell, no" to the mosque, David Harris, the neocon head of the AJC, says "yes, but." He is all for building the ce ...
  • The Origins of the Enthusiasm Gap
    Whatever the outcome of the upcoming midterm elections, the activist phase of the Obama administration has likely come to a close. The President may have a fight on his hands even to hold on to what he's already achieved because his legislative successes have been large enough to fuel strong opposit ...

TruthOut

  • Ex-Guantanamo Detainee Now Campaigning in Afghanis ...
    SOROBI, Afghanistan — In a country whose young parliament is filled with warlords, suspected drug barons, one-time mujahedeen fighters and religious zealots, Izatullah Nasrat Yar can still make history. Yar has set out to become the first "enemy combatant" once held at the U.S. detention center ...
  • How Disney Magic and the Corporate Media Shape You ...
    While the "empire of consumption" has been around for a long time [1] , American society in the last 30 years has undergone a sea change in the daily lives of children - one marked by a major transition from a culture of innocence and social protection, however imperfect, to a culture of commodifica ...
  • Update: California Gay Marriage Ban Ruled Unconsti ...
    A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that California's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional.� The announcement was made on Wednesday 1:40 PST as pro-LGBT rights rallies erupted in San Francisco and across the country. Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled that Proposition 8, a memorandum app ...
  • Right Is Right, Wrong Is Discretionary
    In the wake of the House Ethics Committee formerly charging Charles Rangel (D-NY) with thirteen ethics violations, another member of congress is poised to have an ethics trial in the House. It has been reported by numerous sources that Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) will be charged with improper ...
  • Flood Disaster Means Starting From Zero
    Peshawar - "We swam the whole day to get hold of the elderly and women swept away by floodwaters," recalled 27-year-old Shahid Ali of Charsadda district, one of the areas in north-western Pakistan badly hit by devastating monsoon rains. "We – five local swimmers – saved eighteen persons, including ...

Planetsave

  • Bag Monster: San Francisco Activism
    San Francisco activists are trying to catch up to India, where plastic bags have been banned in its largest state and several other places. How? By covering themselves in plastic bags (i.e. dressing up as “Bag Monsters.”) You have to love these pics. I can’t wait to see the ones from the event, and ...
  • Global Warming: Is It True? [10-Minute Video Intro ...
    10-minute video summarizing the science of global warming and how we know it’s happening. We have written extensively on the causes and effects of global warming on Planetsave over the years, including how humans are causing global warming and the near scientific consensus on global warming being re ...
  • Climate Denial Crock of the Week: Heatwave Edition ...
    One of my favorite people on the web, Peter Sinclair, has a double-header “Climate Denial Crock of the Week” this week. How climate deniers continue to claim that the planet has been cooling, when we have just experienced the hottest decade on record (in the deepest solar minimum), is one of the mos ...
  • To Congress: Donate Your Oil Money to Gulf Restora ...
    Great new petition telling members of Congress to donate their oil campaign money to Gulf restoration efforts. I’ve written about the massive amounts of money oil companies give to politicians, and the political influence that has, before. And I have to say, I wish I had thought up this simple, obvi ...
  • Raising Appliance Efficiency: A Big Win for Consum ...
    The latest Earth Policy Institute news release by Lester R. Brown discusses the issue of appliance efficiency, with information on this issue from countries around the world. Lester R. Brown There are enormous opportunities to use energy more efficiently. Investing in energy efficiency is often far ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Mozambican-U.S. joint military exercise - Africa
    Maputo, Mozambique (UPI) Aug 4, 2010 Mozambique and the United States are staging joint Shared Accord Exercises 2010 military exercise.   The Shared Accord Exercises 2010 is being conducted in Mozambique's southern Moamba province district, Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique reported ...
  • Broken Promises. US Interference in Venezuela Keep ...
    Despite President Obama’s promise to President Chavez that his administration wouldn’t interfere in Venezuela’s internal affairs, the US-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is channeling millions into anti-Chavez groups. Foreign intervention is not only executed through military force. ...
  • US-China tensions over South China Sea - China
    4 August 2010 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s provocative stance at the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) security forum last month, where she voiced opposition to China’s claims in the South China Sea, has inflamed another global flashpoint. Her comments came just af ...
  • "Homeland Security" taking immigrant mother from h ...
    Take Action Now We must act quickly to save an aspiring Arizona preschool teacher from being ripped away from her family.   On Saturday, August 8th, the Department of Homeland Security will force Marlen to leave her husband and two small children. They will deport her to a c ...
  • The Lunatic's Manual - U.S. Military
    Editorial comment: Unbelievable as it may seem, The Mainstream Media sometimes amazes us by posting editorial comments by people who are not sold on the wars of the Empire and, what's more, who never were. I usually find Bob Herbert a refreshing voice among all the lackeys who give us...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Corporations Find New Ways to Fuck Over Workers AN ...
    The Boss Is Your Enemy. Always has been, always will be. Never forget: The Boss Is Your Enemy. Susie Madrak: This was so frustrating, talking to the Tea Partiers at their rally the other day: When I brought up this report, they defended the employers. They said employers were too afraid to spend m ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Angle doubles down on her religious-nut bona fides in an interview with a Christian radio host ""[T]hese programs that you mentioned -- that Obama has going with Reid and Pelosi pushing them forward -- are all entitlement programs built to make government our God. And that's really what's happening ...
  • Congressional Democrats Just Saved Your State's As ...
    If you're a teacher and still have your job, thank Congressional Democrats. �If Medicaid keeps you out of the hospital, thank Congressional Democrats. If you'd rather your state didn't fall headfirst into a no-money pit and sink without a trace, thank Congressional Democrats. Go ahead, call out your ...
  • Naked Public Atheism in Louisville
    They've been popping up all over the country, but as far as I know this is the first one in Kentucky. Sniff! I'm so proud. Janelle MacDonald at WAVE 3 Louisville: The Louisville Coalition of Reason 's billboard sits on one of the busiest stretches of I-65 in Louisville, right by the Kentucky Expos ...
  • On YD's "Ditch The Rich"...
    Since I had been working on a post along similar lines, I'd like to toss my two tenths of a cent's worth in here in regard to Yellow Dog's recent "Ditch The Rich" post. It seems that except for fighting, cleaning and garbage hauling, the vast number of Americans are no longer necessary for their eco ...

Care 2

  • Fahrenheit 911 - The Temperature At Which Freedom ...
    This full-length movie documentary made its debut in 2004, was brought back into public attention in 2006, and is once again pulsing across the Internet in 2010 with an anniversary chatter-effect. Since it wouldn't die, then this makes it worthy of debate Submitted by SirRobert THE FIFTH KNIGHT to U ...
  • Photos: "Spectacular" Deep-Sea Species Found off C ...
    An unidentified purple octopus (pictured) is one of 11 potentially new species found this month during a deep-sea expedition off Canada's Atlantic coast, scientists say. Submitted by Daf Jind to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Otters, kelp beds and CO2
    Sea otters, arguably the worlds cutest endangered species, have also turned out to be one of Mother Natures best animal carbon sinks. Its believed they can pull up to 0.18 kg of C02 out of the air for every square metre of water they occupy, by keeping Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals �|� ...
  • 10 Ways to Hide Your Satellite Dish
    There are many different reasons for wanting to hide your satellite dish. Usually its just for aesthetics. Submitted by Katie Miller to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Panel's landmark denial frees NYC mosque site
    Ignoring jeers and cries of "Shame on you," a city commission on Tuesday denied landmark status to a building near the World Trade Center site that can now be demolished to make way for an Islamic community center and mosque. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Whistleblower: BP used dispersants to hide oil
    Fred McCallister, a whistleblower who claims BP is using dispersants to sink oil and hide it from the pesky media’s cameras, will testify before a Senate investigative panel this week . For quite some time, many bloggers and journalists following the BP-Corexit story, including me, have made the all ...
  • Rep. Rogers: We Should Have Considered Executing D ...
    We had Congressman Mike Rogers on MSNBC today regarding his controversial comments calling for capital punishment of Pvt. Manning, who is charged with releasing classified information to Wikileaks. Rep. Rogers was very clear and re-iterated his call for execution of Bradley Manning if he is convicte ...
  • The Avoidable Depression: The economy has gone fro ...
    The economy has gone from bad to worse. Last Friday's report from the Commerce Department confirmed that GDP had slipped from 3.7% to 2.4% in one quarter. Now that depleted stockpiles have been rebuilt and fiscal stimulus is running out, activity will continue to sputter increasing the likelihood of ...
  • Joe Bageant, Noam Chomsky featured in film
    Joe Bageant is featured in a documentary film now in production, titled " The Kingdom of Survival ", scheduled for release in November. Others in the film are Noam Chomsky, Mark Mirabello, Ramsey Kanaan, Sasha Lilley, Mike Oehler, Bob Meisenbach, and Will "The Bull" Taylor. Writer and filmmaker M. A ...
  • Back Up Vocalist
    A week ago today, life was closing in on me. A doctor's appointment loomed. I was running out of the herbs, vitamins and hippie concoctions that have been keeping me alive for the past 15 years. I felt too poorly to make more than a half-hearted swipe at any new projects. I hadn't written much for ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • A Fire in the Belly: What Makes Sense About Air Ca ...
    Editor’s Note: John Huey, a security professional involved with aviation security issues for over 28 years, has published several articles for NoQuarter. Learn more about John Huey below this post. _________________________________________________ With the August 1 advent of the 100% screening rule ...
  • Who Really Helped Pass Prop 8? UPDATED
    That’s the question raised by David Fletcher of the LGBT Mentoring Project of the Learn Act Build Program at the LA Gay and Lesbian Center. Mr. Fletcher’s findings have been documented in this article in the LA Times, Behind the numbers of Prop. 8: It’s crucial to understand the data about Prop. 8’ ...
  • Our President’s Birthday Wish?
    Today our President is 49 years young. He will celebrate in his old Chicago hood. His wife and children will not be there. (Or as Fox News put it, he’s spending his birthday with his favorite person—himself.) White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs thinks he will be having dinner with some fri ...
  • Obama Warned Israeli May Bomb Iran
    From Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, by Ray McGovern, Larry Johnson, Patrick Lang, Colleen Rowley, and more listed below. By Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity August 3, 2010 MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJ ...
  • Clinton Family Values
    I wonder if the family values of Bill and Hillary Clinton will give pause to the right, to FOX and others. Listening to our local FOX 25 this morning, a fill-in for the off-the-wall winger VB surmised that this weekend we witnessed the successful outcome of a kid raised with true family values, rath ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Oldest Organisms on Earth
    There are some organisms on this Earth which make homo sapiens look decidedly temporary. Here are some of the eldest living things on Earth! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Titan Arum: The Largest Tropical Flower on Earth
    It carries one of the largest, rarest, smelliest flowers on the planet and only blooms once every six years... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Brutal Business Reality Behind Wind Power
    A year on from the Vesta's 'sit-in' protest, is green industry as clean as we think it is? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Why Frogs Are Green
    What makes a frog green? It's a very complex mechanism that is actually rather bizarre. Here's a quick explanation to impress your friends. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How Mars Will Appear To Be As Big As The Full Moon
    Save the date! On August 27, 2010, Mars will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye! Or will it?... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Heads Up to Quigley's Apex: Bank of International ...
    From the shadier side of Switzerland comes the bank where the Nazis put plenty of dental gold they pillaged... Now with another gold-related operation for the 21st Century! One of the shadiest institutions in the world, the obscure Bank of International Settlements, was initially set up in 19 ...
  • An affordable price
    Goldman Sachs Settlement 'Victory' Ushers Change to Wall Street BusinessWeek - ‎1 hour ago‎ July 16 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s $550 million settlement with US regulators yesterday will benefit the firm by ending three months of uncertainty at an affordable price. ****** Another nice ...
  • Food autonomy and building resilient communities i ...
    I got a few new followers from the Oakland/Bay Area after the tweets & post on the protest & stuff that went down after the Oscar Grant verdict. Police and state violence in many urban areas is an ongoing structural product of the way things are run in places like the Bay Area and other cities, but ...
  • Hot night in Oakland: Oscar Grant killed by Mehser ...
    NadiartTwo : RT @ phyrecracker : Once the protest is labelled as a riot it's time for pocs to keep it movin #oscargrant "riots" began before they started. A good point there. Kind of like how the Toronto police recently parked a couple cars in front of the ragin' black bloc and vanishe ...
  • Sunset of Chicago's Handgun Ban: Shots on Lawrence ...
    Back now from the US Social Forum in Detroit; stayed at friends' in Chicago and my sister's in Madison. On the way out of Detroit Saturday, I took Michigan Avenue west into Dearborn before cutting down to I-94. On the way out of Chicago Sunday, I took Lawrence Avenue out to I-90. Michigan and La ...

Daily Censored

  • Obama warned Israel may bomb Iran this month: anal ...
    source. The following is a public memorandum for the President of the United States written by veteran US Intelligence Agency professionals. Their assessment is in agreement with my reporting that the US and/or Israel has planned an unlawful attack on Iran based on lies. In addition, perhaps the onl ...
  • Full body scanners can save messages and photos af ...
    Despite the fact that the feds said that messages couldn’t be saved, but could be saved for training purposes and despite the fact that the feds reassured everyone that this function was not turned on in working machines and they wouldn’t be abused, they have now admitted that the function is turned ...
  • BILL OF ATTAINDER ISSUED UNDER U.S. TREASURY REGUL ...
    Yesterday, on August 3, 2010, the New York Times reported that the American Civil Liberties Union and Center for Constitutional Rights filed a suit to allow their “uncompensated legal representation” to challenge the Executive Branchâs permit requirement prior to allowing an an attorney to repre ...
  • Carl Franzoni Davis: An oral history of the 1960′s ...
    The picture is of Vito, Leslie and Carl The musical âalbumâ entitled, ‘Freak Out!’ was a double LP by the Mothers of Invention.  The first song on the album, ‘Hungry Freaks, Daddy’, was written for someone named Carl Orestes Franzoni who, according to Zappa’s liner notes, “is freaky down to his ...
  • And, the joke is on…
    I listened to Obama, on NPR, laud the fact that we are removing troops from Iraq.  Then I heard a carefully scripted NPR discussion about all the expense and corruption that will ensue.  When we remove the troops, Obama said we will ramp up our State Department personnel.  This will require increase ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

  • Prop 8 and the Struggle for Justice
    Yesterday's ruling serves as a reminder that struggles for justice are incremental, that few important victories come swiftly or easily.
  • Portrait of Marcus Raskin
    Don't miss this profile of the man who co-founded IPS in 1963.
  • War in Eastasia
    When we conduct military exercises on China's doorstep, and within range of a clearly unhappy North Korea, we might be unwittingly starting something that we neither want to nor are able to finish.
  • Shales' Disgraceful Dis of Amanpour
    Christiane Amanpour's international point of view brings out the provincialism in Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales.
  • Israel to Let the UN in...or Not?
    The country just agreed to let the UN conduct an investigation of the flotilla attack. But don't get too excited.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

  • Lucky 7
    Kalb, Segal and Tudor Endorsed by Progressive Democrats of America Last Thursday on the Inside the Party conference call, PDA awarded our national endorsement to three great progressive Democrats running for Congress: Larry Kalb in Washington’s ...
  • Inside the Democratic Party July Call
    On this call we ratified the national endorsement of the following candidates: 1) David Segal (RI-01) who has been endorsed by RIPDA chapter under Brian Hull's leadership. 2) Larry Kalb (WA-02) who has been endorsed by ...
  • Deja vu all over again!
    From Cleveland to Congress via Arizona At the PDA Grassroots Leadership Conference in Cleveland, Salvador Reza, co-founder of Puente Arizona, spoke about Arizona’s regressive immigration bill SB 1070 and the growing movement to prevent its enforcement. ...
  • Property Rights and Public Accommodations
    Property Rights and Public Accommodations Ernest Partridge, Co-Editor The Crisis Papers July 28, 2010 � In the early sixties, the young black students in the South had had enough. Enough separate drinking fountains, enough all-night drives because no motel would provide a room, and ...
  • Newspaper Truthiness
    By David Swanson | War is a Crime The Cleveland Plain Dealer is the latest in a series of major newspapers around the country that have announced a partnership with a group called PolitiFact which will ...

Marler Blog

  • USDA and DuPont Collaborate on New Test for the "B ...
    In a not-so-well published press release , DuPont and the USDA have agreed to collaborate on the development of a new test for detecting hard-to-identify (allegedly) strains of toxin-producing E. coli that are not currently regulated and have been causing increased instances of food contamination an ...
  • Salmonella Hartford and Baildon Outbreak Links unn ...
    The CDC is collaborating with public health officials in multiple states, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA/FSIS) to investigate two multistate outbreaks of Salmonella infections , each involving a different ...
  • Canadian Medical Association Weighs in on US Food ...
    A few weeks ago I spoke to the CMAJ for the story that they published this morning - "Report calls for overhaul of US food safety system:" ... A 500-page report by a committee of the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council recommends, among other things, that the US Food and Drug Ad ...
  • What's wrong with Colorado? Salmonella in Rattlesn ...
    It has been a bit of a quiet summer when it comes to food poisoning outbreaks – that is a good thing - but not so in Colorado. Just a few moments ago, the Colorado Health Department announced that more than two-dozen people who ate at The Fort in Morrison last month got sick. Officials believe unde ...
  • Making Cookie Dough Safe to Eat
    The International Association of Food Protection (IAFP) Conference has its share of food safety rock stars, none less bright that Food Safety News Editor in "Chef," Dan Flynn. Dan came down from the Denver Bureau where he covered a candid talk about the dangers of wheat flour. He published the sto ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 08.05.10
    Should the Volt have direct mechanical drive of the wheels? We still don't know whether the GM engineers made the right decisions, but this is some of the thinking. Here's an idea for a bus so big you can ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 08.04.10
    Demand for Fisker Karma reported to be "very strong." Um... ok... 3,000 pre-orders for a car that doesn't exist yet is good, but is it "very strong?" GM Ventures invests in Bright Automotive for strategic ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 08.03.10
    Report: Audi CEO confirms plans for mass-produced electric city car Should be here within five years. Toyota looking for biggest fan to celebrate Prius' 10th anniversary He better have a Fac ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 08.02.10
    Maker Faire Detroit 2010: Power Racing Series As grassroots as it gets. GM will increase Volt production by 50% - to 45,000 units - in 2012 GM says it's an increase, but we'd also heard 60,0 ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 07.30.10
    Video: Elon Musk chats it up on Colbert Report Stephen makes a funny. Plug-In 2010: Drive Oregon chills with Arcimoto Pulse, Barefoot Motors ATV Three wheels, $17,500. ...

Rafe's Radar

  • CNET to the Rescue: Cleaning up the cable mess
    Today we get wrapped up in cables. We're talking about the best ways to manager an unruly rat's nest of data and power wires into a thing of beauty and logic. With bonus rat's nest pictures from listeners--so watch the video for the full experience. Also, questions about moving from and to Andro ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable: How to start a tech busines ...
    Today we're talking about how to start a company in 2010 and 2011. A little background: I started covering startups in 1998 at a magazine called Red Herring. I wrote a daily column about startups called Catch of the Day. Over three years, I interviewed the leaders of over 1000 companies. Most o ...
  • CNET to the Rescue: No matter where you go, here w ...
    On our show today: our favorite smartphone apps to help find stuff to do, things to eat, and people to connect with. Also, your questions and calls answered, including tips on painting laptops. But not until Josh shows off his USB-powered warning lights and a beer cooler that looks like a laptop ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable: The state of blogging
    Blogs: What are they good for? Where are they going? We have three experienced guests today to discuss. Don't miss this look into the current and future state of the blogosphere. Our guests: Anil Dash of Expert Labs , an independent nonprofit which creates new Web technologies to help policy ma ...
  • CNET to the Rescue: Cubicle defense
    Today, we rescue you from the indignities of working in a cubicle. We've got your rear-view mirrors, your headphones, and should all else fail, your USB foam rocket launchers. Because, you know, work is war. Also: How to stream music on an iPhone, how to test your home network for open ports, an ...

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!

  • Why Did Obama Fire Dan Choi?
    “As we mark the end of America’s combat mission in Iraq,” President Barack Obama said this week, “a grateful America must pay tribute to all who served there.” He should have added “unless you’re gay,” because, despite his rhetoric, weeks earlier the commander in chief fired one of those Iraq vets: ...
  • WikiLeaks' Afghan War Diary
    Wikileaks.org has done it again, publishing thousands of classified documents about the U.S. war in Afghanistan. The website provides a secure platform for whistle-blowers to deliver documents, videos and other electronic media while maintaining anonymity. Last March it released a video shot from a ...
  • Amy Goodman on CNN's _John King, USA_
    Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman appears live from Las Vegas on CNN’s John King, USA , on Thursday, July 22nd at 7pm Eastern Time.
  • Part II: Kashmiri Journalist Basharat Peer, Author ...
    Indian troops and police have killed fifteen people in Kashmir since June, sparking widespread protests. The Indian government has imposed a strict military curfew in the area as well as a media gag order on local journalists. The international community has remained silent on the human rights abus ...
  • Deficit Doves
    Getting out of the red is the new black. Deficit hawks have swooped down on the U.S. budget. This week, they attacked unemployment benefits. Ultimately, they are going after Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid, the venerable programs once considered untouchable “third rails” of U.S. politics. Th ...

Farming Pathogens

  • Does Influenza Evolve in Multiple Tenses?
    The past may possess a power greater than prologue. Any one with a social networking account knows that. All of a sudden you find yourself daily interacting with people long thought boxed away. People mature, yes, but sensibilities remain largely intact and an old year, fine wine or vinegar, pours b ...
  • Influenza’s Historical Present
    I delivered the following speech, co-written with economic geographer Luke Bergmann, at the NIH-FAO-sponsored ‘Second International Workshop on Community-based Data Synthesis, Analysis and Modeling of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 in Asia’ held in Beijing earlier this month. The speech is b ...
  • The Alan Greenspan Strain
    First, a question with which few biogeographers bother. If a goodly chunk of their discipline is dedicated toward obfuscating the impact capitalism imposes on the natural world (discussed here and here), how can researchers interested in paying their bills study the crises that threaten the croupier ...
  • King Leopold’s Pandemic
    The origins of HIV offer a great example of the ways treating human impact as an afterthought—discussed in our previous post—locks the study of pathogens into limited and oftentimes downright drunken trajectories. In 2006 Beatrice Hahn and her colleagues identified the likely source for the SIVcpz p ...
  • The Expulsion
    In 1845 a diplomat delivered a letter from Friedrich Wilhelm to Louis Philippe of France protesting the insults leveled at the Prussian king by expatriates living in Paris. King Louis had the radicals’ newspaper closed down and the group, along with one Karl Marx, deported. This was not the first ti ...

Suzie-Q

  • Blum: US/Israel and Iran
    William Blum, Foreign Policy Journal, August 5, 2010 If and when the United States and Israel bomb Iran (marking the sixth country so blessed by Barack Obama) and this sad old world has a new daily horror show to look at on their TV sets, and we then discover that Iran was not actually building [... ...
  • BP Disaster Continues Despite Cheerful Happy Talk
    A poet once wrote: “When you’re chewing on life’s gristle, don’t grumble. Give a whistle. And this’ll help things turn out for the best.” This famous Python ditty appears to be the government, BP and media spin on the oil disaster at this point, and it could be the biggest display of wishful thinkin ...
  • BP: The Anglo-Iranian Oil Dispute – 1951
    BP By Any Other Name – The Anglo-Iranian Oil Dispute – 1951 Crooks & Liars- By Gordonskene Friday Jul 30, 2010 7:00pm When Iran, under Mohammed Mossadegh nationalized Iran’s oil production in March of 1951, it put a crimp in the relations between Iran and Britain, who had enjoyed massive profits fro ...
  • Dan Ellsberg on WikiLeaks & the Essential Democrat ...
    John Nichols, The Nation, July 29, 2010 The Obama White House was quick to condemn the publication Sunday evening of more than 91,000 secret documents detailing the monumentally misguided and frequently failed attempt by the United States to occupy Afghanistan. National Security Adviser James Jones ...
  • Obama Small Business Task Force Will Likely Threat ...
    The Huffington Post Lloyd Chapman On April 26th, President Barack Obama established a Small Business Task Force to supposedly remove barriers to small businesses landing contracts with the federal government. I had to laugh out loud. This was amusing to me for many reasons, but most notably, Preside ...

Solari

  • Why Founding a 3-Person Startup with $0 Revenue is ...
    The Goldman Sachs risk system is called SecDB (securities database), and everything at Goldman that matters is run out of it. The GUI itself looks like a settings screen from DOS 3.0, but no one cares about UI cosmetics on the Street. The language itself was called SLANG (securities language) and w ...
  • The Cost Of Healthy Food
    By Amy Rolph It’s expensive to eat well — far more expensive than eating poorly. And the gap between the price of healthy and unhealthy food is growing larger, according to research from the University of Washington. A group of researchers at the UW’s Center for Public Health Nutrition tracked the ...
  • Gulf Oil Spill: The Fed’s Big Easy Lies and ...
    By Jim Polson and Allison Bennett The “vast majority” of crude from BP Plc’s damaged Gulf of Mexico well is gone and the rest is being broken down by waves and bacteria, reducing the threat of further pollution from the largest maritime oil spill, White House energy adviser Carol Browner said. “The ...
  • Rockefeller Foundation/GBN Scenario Planning
    Note from Catherine: In my opinion, scenario planning of the kind practiced by Global Business Network is a tool used by corporate leadership to ensure middle management can anticipate, plan for and adapt to the social engineering and covert operations that is being planned on a “need to know” basi ...
  • Tapping the Zero Point Field
    In another type of experiment, Harvard University psychologist Ellen Langer demonstrated that time is a relative notion. A group of people over age 70 was taken to an isolated area where a scene from 1959 was exactly replicated. The furniture dated to that year, they were shown films from 1959 and ...

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

  • Code red! The Constitution is burning.
    Summary:  On 4 July 2006 this website forecast the death of the Constitution.  Depending on the verdict of our Courts and the success of our assassins, future historians might say the second American republic died this year.  You’ll miss the Constitution when it’s dead (most of you).  Not tomo ...
  • Should we fear that religion whose believers have ...
    Summary:  Another question from readers, timely and relevant! Comment sent to the FM website team in reply to Hatred and fear of Islam – of Moslems – is understandable. But are there hidden forces at work? (3 August 2010). Your comparison of Islamic terrorists to the Irish Republican Army is misguid ...
  • Warning of an imminent strike at Iran by Israel
    Summary:  Another war warning about a strike by Israel at Iran.  Unlike the many others reported on this website, this one comes from people whose words deserve attention.  Let’s hope they over-estimate the odds. Here is a warning of an imminent strike by Israel at Iran, given by Pat Lang and oth ...
  • The most important story of the year
    “Project Vigilant and the government/corporate destruction of privacy“, Glenn Greenwald, Salon, 2 August 2010.  Especially the conclusion. This is how freedom goes away.  Quietly.  Step by step.  The theft cloaked by lies and promises of protection from vague dangers.  But whatever the end, we ...
  • Hatred and fear of Islam – of Moslems &#8211 ...
    Summary:   Readers send in questions, which we attempt to answer.  Is the fear of Islam understandable?  Yes.  Is it reasonable?  Does it warrant State action? A reader responds to a statement in Is America fighting the tide of history? Are we like the Czars in the 19th century?:  “Worse, a ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • IMF blueprint for a global currency – yes really
    Financial Times – FT Alphaville missed this IMF paper when it first came out in April, 2010. Authored by Reza Moghadam, director of the IMFâs strategy, policy and review department, it discusses how the IMF sees the International Monetary System evolving after the financial crisis. Which means, in ...
  • Sperm may be harmed by exposure to BPA, study sugg ...
    PhysOrg.com – In one of the first human studies of its kind, researchers have found that urinary concentrations of the controversial chemical Bisphenol A, or BPA, may be related to decreased sperm quality and sperm concentration. However, the researchers are quick to point out that these results ar ...
  • Here Comes the Sun — with a Vengeance
    Time-The sun has been quiet for the past couple of years. Too quiet. Normally, our home star goes through a sort of rising and falling sleep-wake cycle that lasts 11 years, on average. At the so-called solar maximum, magnetic storms roil its outer layers and sunspots dapple its surface; solar flares ...
  • Cancer cells slurp up fructose, US study finds
    Reuters – Pancreatic tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same. Tumor cells fed both glucose and fructose used the two sugars in two different ways, the team at the University of Calif ...
  • ‘Ground Zero’ mosque approved
    Aljazeera – US authorities have approved the building of an Islamic culture centre and mosque in New York City, despite tensions over it being located near the site of the September 11 attacks in 2001. The Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously on Tuesday to deny landmark status to a bu ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • West turns up heat on Iran
    West turns up heat on Iran (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The European Union last week imposed a new round of sanctions against Iran. E.U. foreign policy chief Lady Catherine Ashton stated that the measures “sent a powerful message” that Iran’s “nuclear program is a cause of serious and growing ...
  • Israel destroys whole Bedouin village, hundreds ho ...
    Israel destroys whole Bedouin village, hundreds homeless (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Three hundred Bedouins in the Negev desert were made homeless last Thursday as hundreds of Israeli police razed their village and demolished their homes. Chaya Noach, head of Negev Coexistence Forum for Civi ...
  • Michael Rakulski – O powstaniu arystokracji ...
    Michael Rakulski – O powstaniu arystokracji pracy (trzeciswiat.wordpress.com) âNasza epoka, epoka burżuazji, wyróżnia siÄ jednak tym, że uproÅciÅa przeciwieÅstwa klasowe. CaÅe spoÅeczeÅstwo rozszczepia siÄ coraz bardziej i bardziej na dwa wielkie wrogie obozy, na dwie wielkie wrÄcz pr ...
  • Maoism-Third Worldism on the Environment (español)
    HD-mp4 torrent title: Maoism Third Worldism On the Environment (Spanish)
  • Adaptasyon sa pelikula ng Mabuhay ang Tagumpay ng ...
    Shubel Morgan: Adaptasyon sa pelikula ng Mabuhay ang Tagumpay ng Digmang Bayan! (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (Tagalog) (English) Isinulat ni kasamang Lin Biao noong 1965, Ang Mabuhay ang Tagumpay ng Digmang Bayan! ay isa sa pinakamahalagang rebolusyonaryong basahin ng ating panahon. Isinusulo ...

PakAlert

  • WIKILEAKS: AN INDO-ZIONIST CONSPIRACY?
    It may be noted that among the over 92000 secret documents compiled in five years, there is not a single line written about India. The documents are silent about role of RAW, RAAM and Mossad in destabilizing Pakistan. Nobody in USA and entire western world has noticed these glaring oddities as to ho ...
  • ‘Samson Option’ and Islamic Republic
    The term ‘Samson Option’ created in the 1960s – applies to Zionist regime’s strategy of massive nuclear retaliation against its real or perceived enemies, whom it consider to be threat to its existence as ruler of Palestine and the sole representative of the world Jewish population. Like the name of ...
  • Alert: The 2010 Food Crisis IS HERE – Are We Ready ...
    Last December, I published a major article ( *****2010 Food Crisis for Dummies***** ) explaining why the world was heading towards a major food crisis in 2010. Well, the 2010 Food Crisis IS HERE!
  • War on Terror or War of Terror?
    Critical evidence from the British government and other sources suggest that the “War on Terror” has actually destabilized the Middle East and increased the terror threat throughout the globe. The former head of Britain’s MI5 – Baroness Manningham-Buller – finds that the Iraq war has dramatically co ...
  • A COUP IN TURKEY BEFORE ANY ATTACK ON IRAN?
    Turkey's government is friendly with Iran and has fallen out with Israel. On 1 August 2010, Turkey's Supreme Military Council held the second day of its annual meeting to discuss promotions and dismissals of officers in the armed forces. A Turkish court recently issued arrest warrants for the 11 gen ...

Andy Worthington

  • New Evidence About Prisoners Held in Secret CIA Pr ...
    On Friday, the Polish Border Guard Office released a number of documents to the Warsaw-based Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, which, for the first time, provide details of the number of prisoners transferred by the CIA to a secret prison in Poland between December 5, 2002 and September 22, 2003 ...
  • UK Judges Endorse Double Standards on Terror Depor ...
    Last Thursday, in a little-noticed ruling in the Court of Appeal, three judges — Lord Justice Jacob, Lord Justice Sullivan and Sir David Keene — turned down appeals submitted by eight foreign nationals against the Home Secretaryâs decision to deport them âon grounds of national security.â The ...
  • Take Action for Ahmed Belbacha, at Risk of Enforce ...
    Since the US Supreme Court ruled on July 17 that there was no legal obstacle to the involuntary repatriation of Algerians at Guantánamo, and one man, Abdul Aziz Naji, was promptly flown back to Algiers, opponents of a ruling that saw the Supreme Court playing as fast and loose with the UN Convention ...
  • Judge Orders Release from Guantánamo of Mentally I ...
    As of today, the results of the Guantánamo prisoners’ habeas corpus petitions stand at 38 victories for the prisoners against 15 victories for the government, after two recent rulings. On July 21, Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. granted the habeas petition of Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, a 34-year old Yemen ...
  • Today: Fast Against Torture on Eighth Anniversary ...
    Eight years ago today, Jay S. Bybee, then the head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, and now a judge in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, signed two memos, largely written by OLC lawyer John Yoo, which purported to redefine torture so that it could be used by the CIA, and approv ...

Environment _ National Geographic

  • Photos: New Natural Wonders Added to World Heritag ...
    NoneSee the Pacific atolls, mountain forests, and other natural sites that have been named by the UN as places of universal value to humanity. World Heritage Site - Pacific Ocean - Forest - Social Sciences - United States
  • Video: Record-Breaking Sea-Creature Surveys Releas ...
    See some of the deep-sea stars of a new "roll call"—thousands of ocean species found during recent expeditions. Video. Ocean - Species - Fish - Deep sea - Marine biology
  • Presented By:
  • Sea Discoveries Spawn Music Video
    Featured in a new "roll call" of life from 25 key ocean regions, marine oddities oscillate, swim, and skitter to an ocean "chorus." Video. Ocean - Earth Sciences - Oceanography - Projects - Data and Information Resources
  • How Prospects Cooled for U.S. Global Warming Bill
    Political stalemate means the world’s largest historic contributor to the greenhouse gas problem faces international talks—again--without a plan. United States - Greenhouse gas - Global warming - Environment - Climate change

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • The view from here
    My perspective as we wrap up the Bloggers meet up with Rep. Rosa DeLauro. Video coming soon.
  • Loving Books, Libraries, and the Internet
    If you read certain local blogs, or letters to the editor of local papers, you may notice a recurring theme from some disgruntled citizens. Libraries, and the books they contain, are our enemy. (Who knew?) And the best way to save money and preserve democracy from socialism is to stop buying books ...
  • Boston Tea Party Punked
    Buzzfeed has a whole bunch of signs from the Boston Common Tea Party getting punked but here are a few for your viewing pleasure:
  • Conflict Minerals and the "Ore on Terror"
    Steven D at the BooMan Tribune pointed out this interesting video on a campaign to raise awareness concerning the grave situation in the Congo: Profiting from the worst war on the planet that no one in America knows anything about by purchasing "conflicts minerals" from the Congo for their products: ...
  • Dem Dems are Dumb Dumbs
    Yep - the local New Milford Democrats are lead by dumb dumbs. Their entire leadership team is continually outmaneuvered and outsmarted by the Republican Town Committee ( RTC ). Why they seek leadership positions year after year - and why they're re-elected by the membership - is beyond me. John Lil ...

SPL Center

  • A Kinder, Gentler Lou Dobbs?
    Ever since he was bounced from his high-profile gig at CNN nearly nine months ago, we have seen a kinder, gentler Lou Dobbs than the commentator who became synonymous with vilifying undocumented immigrants. The latest from Dobbs came this week, when he told Megyn Kelly at Fox News and George Stephan ...
  • Publishing Cesspool: James Edwards Writes a Book
    After a four-month hiatus that many hoped would be permanent ended in June 2008,  James Edwardsâ hate-fueled radio show, âThe Political Cesspool,â has reestablished itself as a leading forum for neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers, and white supremacists. Since launching in 2004, the show â the hi ...
  • The FAIR Files: Marielitos are ‘Criminals, Homosex ...
    Sometimes, pictures really are worth a thousand words. In the 1980s, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) — a restrictionist group that insists it is not bigoted despite a small mountain of evidence to the contrary — put out an untitled, undated booklet of cartoons that featured on ...
  • Southern Heritage Group Offers Kids Unusual Histor ...
    Each summer, a few lucky young folks, whose parents presumably have neo-Confederate sympathies, spend a week at a Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) Sam Davis Youth Camp. The camps are inspired by the words of a Confederate officer warning that a Southern loss in the Civil War meant its history woul ...
  • Coming Soon: ‘International Burn a Koran Day’
    After years of having the field all to himself, Westboro Baptist Church leader and gay-basher extraordinaire Fred Phelps might finally have some competition for the title of America’s most media-hungry hate-church preacher. On Sept. 11, Terry Jones’ Dove World Outreach Center will hold the first “In ...

change: org.

  • Hospitals Move to More Animal-Friendly Menus
    Hospitals are trendsetters. Their purchasing decisions have a huge impact on the market and, since doctors and nurses are considered trusted sources, health care systems can influence personal decisions, too. So it's good news that health care systems and organizations around the country are promoti ...
  • Jehovah's Witnesses Aided Prop 8 Reversal Ruling
    California's Proposition 8, which banned same-sex couples from marriage, was deemed unconstitutional by a federal judge, as Mike Jones wrote here earlier. While the decision has been stayed pending appeal, it will likely have implications not only for same-sex couples in California, but also for mar ...
  • Jack Hanna Thwarts Bear With Pepper Spray, Campers ...
    Last week a couple of grizzly bear encounters in Montana drew quite a bit of national media attention. Both instances involved two different sets of bear sow and her yearlings. Jack Hanna, animal expert and Director Emeritus of Columbus Zoo, along with his wife and other hikers, came across a bear s ...
  • #HoboTweets Aren't Funny
    What the H is going on over on Twitter? In recent days the hashtag #hobotweets has taken off. That means that lots of people who think they're funny are posting bald-faced stereotypes of the homeless on the micro-blogging site. They add the tag #hobotweets so like-minded fools can join in the fun. R ...
  • It’s Alive! Coal-State Senator Revives the Dirty A ...
    Like a supernatural killer from some schlocky B-horror movie, the Dirty Air Act is back from the dead and threatening us all with a grim fate. You might recall Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-Alaska) attempts to gut the EPA’s authority to regulate carbon emissions under the Clean Air Act on behalf of her p ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Mexico Looks to Legalization as Drug War Murders H ...
    by Jo Tuckman in Mexico City Mexico's president, Felipe Calderón, has joined calls for a debate on the legalization of drugs as new figures show thousands of Mexicans every year being slaughtered in cartel wars. "It is a fundamental debate," the president said, belying his traditional reluctance to ...
  • Scientists Cast Doubt on Claims BP Spill's No Thre ...
    by Erika Bolstad, Renee Schoof and Margaret Talev WASHINGTON - Many scientists say they're skeptical of a widely publicized government report Wednesday that concludes much of the oil that gushed from BP's leaking well is gone and poses little threat to the Gulf of Mexico. According to the National O ...
  • Whitewash? UN Names Panel to Probe Israeli Killing ...
    by Thalif Deen Despite initial misgivings, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon received the tacit approval of the Israeli government to establish an international panel to probe the widely-condemned killings of nine Turkish civilians onboard a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza last ...
  • Canadians Not Surprised at Enbridge Oil Spill in M ...
    by Elizabeth Willis Canadians familiar with North America's largest oil pipeline operation, Enbridge Inc., say they are not surprised that the company has spilled oil again. Enbridge, based in Calgary, last week reported that an estimated 819,000 gallons of crude oil had leaked from its 41-year-old ...
  • Judge Strikes Down California Prop. 8, the Ban on ...
    by Bob Egelko and Demian Bulwa SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge today struck down Proposition 8, the voter-passed November 2008 initiative that defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman. U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker found that the ban on same-sex marriage violated the constitutional du ...

Lifehacker

  • Facebook for Android Updates to 1.3, Is Finally Go ...
    If you're an Android user, you've probably noticed that the Facebook app isn't exactly up to snuff. Today, however, Facebook has updated their client, complete with native event and video viewing, as well as an improved layout. More�� ...
  • "One idea at a time. Preferably one you love. ...
    Good and bad ideas are not so black and white. Spencer Fry of Carbonmade discusses how to get that "I'm in Love Idea" and execute it well. More��
  • Unlock Your iPhone 4, 3GS, and 3G with iOS 4 for O ...
    If you're an iPhone 4 owner or 3G user eager to upgrade your OS but you use your iPhone on a non-AT&T (GSM) carrier, good news: The iPhone Dev-Team just released the ultrasn0w 1.0-1 unlock for the iPhone 4 baseband and several of 3G and 3GS b ...
  • Use the iPhone Icon Generator to Make a Custom iPa ...
    If you want a start page for you iPad that blends in with the iPad's interface, the iPhone Icon Generator combined with a tiny bit of HTML is the foundation for a customizable and eye-catching start page. More��
  • How to Migrate Your Entire Google Account to a New ...
    Whether you finally decided to shed sassyhacker957@gmail.com for a more professional handle or you want to swap Google accounts for less embarrassing reasons, Google doesn't have a built-in system for migrating your data to a new account. So w ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Zardari: The War Is Being Lost
    By Steve Hynd Yesterday, Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari dropped what Doug Mataconis describes as a verbal "hand grenade" into the debate about the Great War On Terror (tm). In an interview with Le Monde, he said the war was already being lost. "I believe that the international community, which ...
  • Taliban Say They're Getting Played By Pakistan Too
    By Steve Hynd Once in a while a piece of reporting comes along that illuminates and symplifies a complex question. Like "what's the ISI up to, then?" Ron Moraeu has a gem of a piece in Newsweek entitled "With friends like these...: The Afghan Taliban logistics officer laughs about the news he’s been ...
  • Nation Building That Dare Not Speak It's Name
    By Steve Hynd In the WaPo, Eugene Robinson skewers the double-talk and illogic of the Obama administration. He deals with the 2011 withdrawal that isn't going to be any kind of withdrawal and the lack of a clear mission when the object of US desire, Al Qaeda, is no longer in the country occupied -- ...
  • Dutch Quit Afghan War (Ssshh, Don't Mention Articl ...
    By Steve Hynd The Dutch are the first but they won't be the last. The Netherlands became the first NATO country to end its combat mission in Afghanistan, drawing the curtain Sunday on a four-year operation that was deeply unpopular at home and even brought down a Dutch government. The departure of t ...
  • A Return To Counter-Terrorism?
    By Steve Hynd Today the NYT sems to be signalling that Joe Biden's preference for "counter-terrorism" has won out over the Pentagon's love of the cult of COIN. In a piece by Helen Cooper and Mark Landler which is also very useful for insights into how Pakistan is involved in the process of negotiati ...

Water Wars

  • What a View!
    Developer Alex Mills says the border wall has destroyed his property values by Leo W. Banks On a beautiful day at Kino Springs, five miles east of Nogales, Ariz., Alex Mills is examining the southern end of his paradise, now lost to the border fence. His view to the north includes high-desert mesqui ...
  • Soaking up the 4th
    ERATH Eager Fourth of July holiday festival-goers in bare feet and swimsuits lined South Broadway Street here Sunday for the annual Water Wars between area fire departments hoping for a soaking to beat the heat.
  • AGU journal highlights -- Aug. 3
    ( American Geophysical Union ) Featured in this release are research papers on the following topics: "Sun's prolonged minimum linked to stretched conveyor belt", "Water globalization can boost drought vulnerability"; "Melting floating ice does cause sea level rise"; "Identifying oceanic sources of p ...
  • Lecture series explores art, science, animation
    by Rebecca Wallace A photographer, a textile artist and the head of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission might seem an unlikely combination for a panel talk. But not when you're exploring the ways art and science connect with and inspire each other.
  • Fun in sun at Wessington: Fun-filled day in Wessin ...
    WESSINGTON There was something for everyone at Wessingtons Fun Day Saturday including pie baking and chili soup contests, swimming, co-ed softball tournament and bean bag toss.

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Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

  • Suicide attack kills seven policemen in Afghanista ...
    A suicide car bomb targeted a convoy of Afghan and NATO forces in the northern province of Kunduz Thursday, killing seven policemen and injuring 13 other people, a district governor said.
  • Vet war files to save Afghanis, WikiLeaks told Pen ...
    Whistle-blower WikiLeaks has sought help from the US defence department to review 15,000 Afghanistan war files embargoed by the website as their release may endanger Afghan civilians who assisted US forces in fighting Taliban.
  • Petraeus' fresh guidelines to troops to reduc ...
    Amidst growing international concern over civilian casualties in the ongoing Afghan war, commander of the US and NATO forces General David Petraeus has issued fresh directives for the 150,000 international troops engaged in the 'war on terror'.
  • Karzai demands probe of US-backed anti-corruption ...
    Afghan President Hamid Karzai has demanded an investigation into a U.S.-backed anti-corruption task force, following the arrest of several senior Afghan officials on graft charges.
  • Losing Faith in Pakistan's Future
    Long a home to Pakistan's intellectual elite, the tolerant city of Lahore has become a favorite target of the Taliban. The development is causing the country's leading writer, Ahmed Rashid, whose book...

Futurismic

  • Geek sickness: can social rejection make you ill?
    A UCLA experiment suggests that “social stress and rejection are related to the release of certain inflammatory chemicals in the body; these chemicals have been linked to several medical conditions, including asthma, arthritis, and some kinds of cancer.“ Ars Technica has the low-down: In the study, ...
  • The Courage to Suck
    It seems that the best thing that ever happened to Harper Lee as a writer was also the worst thing that ever happened to Harper Lee as a writer. In 1956, Lee received a gift of a year’s wages from friends who told her to “write whatever you please.” Let’s take a moment now for [...] Follow Futurismi ...
  • Anthologize: plugin exports WordPress blogs as ebo ...
    Here’s a heads-up for fellow webzine editors and publishers, fiction writers publishing their own work online, and other interested (or indeed interesting) parties: the Anthologize plugin for WordPress generates EPUB, PDF and “other mobile formats” from content stored on the blog in which it is inst ...
  • Counting down to Zero History
    There’s a book called Zero History coming out soon, written by some guy called William Gibson… Kinda surprised that the first place I saw this was at Wired… but then the Bigend trilogy (of which this is the third instalment) has rather conspicuously not been marketed as (or should that be to?) scien ...
  • Because we don’t have enough sources of terrorism ...
    Psychology boffins at Northwest University reckon they can detect “guilty knowledge” with 100% accuracy using scans of P300 brainwaves. Haven’t we reached a point where we should just abolish all modes of collective transportation, close down all buildings and spaces to which the general public have ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • Retaliation: A Leading Indicator of Misconduct in ...
    On Monday the Ethics Resource Center (ERC) released an analysis examining retaliation against employees who report misconduct. Some of the report's findings: Retaliation is less common in organizations with strong ethical cultures. Employees who feel pressure to compromise company ethics...
  • Congressman Miller: The President Should Welcome A ...
    We are pleased to see that some Members of Congress are not giving up without a fight for their oversight powers. The Washington Post has published a letter by Rep. Brad Miller (D-NC), Chairman of the House Science and Technology...
  • Courtroom Victory for POGO
    Big news today for POGO: After over a decade of litigation, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturned a District Court’s jury instructions that had significantly limited POGO’s ability to defend itself...
  • Penalties May Not Surpass BP's Oil Spill Tax Credi ...
    Andrew Restuccia of The Washington Independent has a good summary of the some of the major numbers to consider in the Deepwater Horizon Disaster in the Gulf. BP could pay as much as $17.6 billion in penalties if they are...
  • Morning Smoke: SEC Can't Apply Secrecy Provision i ...
    Setback for SEC on secrecy by Colin Barr [Street Sweep] Foreclosed On—By the U.S. by Serena Ng and Carrick Mollenkamp [The Wall Street Journal] BP's fight against energy nonprofit highlights murky world of advocacy-for-hire by Dan Eggen [The Washington Post]...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • #HoboTweets Aren't Funny
    What the H is going on over on Twitter? In recent days the hashtag #hobotweets has taken off. That means that lots of people who think they're funny are posting bald-faced stereotypes of the homeless on the micro-blogging site. They add the tag #hobotweets so like-minded fools can join in the fun. R ...
  • The "Can't Work, Don't Work, Won't Work" Myth
    One of the most  common misconceptions about the homeless is that they can't, don't or won't work. Few things, however, could be farther from the truth. A Department of Housing and Urban Development study completed before the two most recent recessions found that 44 percent of all homeless HUD clien ...
  • Not in my Nation's Capital: NIMBYism Is Alive and ...
    All this week, End Homelessness is highlighting the negative policies of various cities and the perceptions of their residents when it comes to coexisting with people struggling with homelessness. All too often, the consensus is simply, " NIMBY," or "not in my backyard." Be sure to check out the pre ...
  • The Envelope Please ... the Best Work of the Last ...
    Over the weekend, the North American Street Newspaper Association crowned the winners of its annual awards at its conference in Chicago. These are exclusive prizes, since NASNA currently represents 31 papers. In turn, those 31 papers work with  more than 1,500 people struggling, but surviving, in th ...
  • "Flood" of Complaints Washes Tent City Away — Agai ...
    All this week, End Homelessness is highlighting the negative policies of various cities and the perceptions of their residents when it comes to coexisting with people struggling with homelessness. All too often, the consensus is simply, " NIMBY," or "not in my backyard." Read the first post here . B ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Countdown to Zero - the Movie
    Countdown to Zero reveals the truth behind an issue on which human survival itself hangs - the very real possibility of nuclear disaster. From the producers of An Inconvenient Truth, Countdown is a chilling wake up call about the urgency of the nuclear threat.
  • Global cluster bomb ban takes effect August 1st
    A global treaty that bans the use of cluster bombs, a weapon containing multiple â often hundreds â of small explosive submunitions or bomblets, will take effect today, August 1st, when the treaty, signed by 107 countries, becomes legally binding. Steve Goose, who is the co-chair of the Cluster ...
  • DND computers used to remove criticism of F-35s fr ...
    The Department of National Defence has confirmed that its computers were used to alter the Wikipedia entry regarding the F-35 fighter and the Conservative government’s decision to purchase 65 of them. Reportedly, the edits included “the removal of information critical of the government’s plan to buy ...
  • Tory government misplaces Canadian Arctic
    In an effort to bolster its claims that Canada needs the F-35 to defend Canadian sovereignty in the North, the Conservative Party is pointing to the recent intercept of two Russian Bear aircraft “over the Arctic” by Canadian CF-18s as evidence of the need for new fighters, claiming that the intercep ...
  • Hawks versus doves
    Last weekend’s National Post published a letter from Senator Pamela D. Wallin questioning the independence and expertise of three critics of the Department of National Defence’s purchase of F-35 fighter jets on the basis that all of them have ties to the Rideau Institute. Dismissing the Rideau In ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show 8-4-10
    Today, LIVE from a Top Secret location, Kevin explains why the government believes you need them and why they’re NOT here to protect you! Self Help: Stand By Me Correct The Damage Health: Woman Dies After Silicone Butt Injections NWO: Web’s New Gold Mine; Everyone’s Secrets! Pentagon Retaliates Agai ...
  • Household Cleaning Products Are A Risk To Children
    August 4, 2010 abc News By: Crystal Phend Early childhood injuries from household cleaning products dropped by almost half over the past two decades, largely due to child-resistant packaging — but the number of injuries still remains high, according to an analysis of a national database. Overall, ...
  • Processed Deli Meats Cause Cancer
    August 4, 2010 Yahoo News Red meat is being raked over the coals again. Already linked with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and certain cancers, including cancer of the pancreas, red meat was found by a team of US researchers to be a possible cause of bladder cancer, a study published ...
  • Seven Hours Of Sleep Is Optimal For Health
    August 4, 2010 Natural News By: Jonathan Benson Researchers from the West Virginia University (WVU) School of Medicine have determined that getting seven hours of sleep is optimal for maintaining heart health. Getting too much, or too little, sleep can increase a person’s chances of developing ca ...
  • Colorado Passes New Regulations On Medical Marijua ...
    August 4, 2010 Natural News By: Ethan A. Huff Colorado has recently passed new legislation that puts tighter restrictions on medical marijuana dispensaries. Costly new licensing fees and restrictions on who can own and operate dispensaries are among the changes included in the new laws. According ...

Pambazuka News

  • Global: May for the Cuban 5
    The month of May started with a great number of activities in support of the Cuban 5. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on International Workers Day in Havana and other cities. They were joined by hundreds of internationalists in de...
  • Haiti: Where solidarity means survival
    Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could include equitable distribution of resources, high levels of employment with fair...
  • 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
    Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...
  • Haiti: Private contractors 'like vultures coming t ...
    Critics are concerned that private military contractors are positioning themselves at the centre of an emerging "shock doctrine" for earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Next month, a prominent umbrella organisation for private military and logistic corporation...
  • How NGOs are profiting off a grave situation
    It's now more than a month since the earthquake that laid waste to Port-au-Prince, killing more than 200,000 people and thrusting millions of people into the most desperate conditions. But according to the U.S. government, Haitians have a lot to be ...

War in Context

  • U.S. military cyberwar: What’s off-limits?
    CNET reports: The United States should decide on rules for attacking other nations’ networks in advance of an actual cyberwar, which could include an international agreement not to disable banks and electrical grids, the former head of the CIA and National Security Agency said Thursday. Michael Ha ...
  • Looking back at torture
    President Obama has so far refused to look back at the previous administration’s use of torture, but David Cole says: “on this issue, we cannot move forward without looking back. Unless we acknowledge that what the United States did was not just a bad idea, but illegal, we risk treating torture as s ...
  • Tree that sparked deadly border clash on Israeli s ...
    My reference yesterday to an Israeli soldier having been on the Lebanese side of the Israel-Lebanon border turns out to have been incorrect. The Guardian reports: The tree that sparked a deadly confrontation between Israeli and Lebanese troops along the tense border between the two countries was o ...
  • Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasralla ...
    The following speech by the Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah was delivered today via video feed in front of a large crowd in Beirut. The translation provided below came in tweets (hence the format below) from Roqayah at iRevolt. We are celebrating our victory over the biggest terrorist army in th ...
  • Israeli provocation on Lebanese border could trigg ...
    Border clashes between Israeli and Lebanese troops have left three Lebanese soldiers and a journalist dead. Lebanon’s Hezbollah TV, Al Manar, reports one high-ranking Israeli officer has been killed but this has not been confirmed by the Lebanese army or UN troops stationed in southern Lebanon. As ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Why the CO2 increase is man made (part 1)
    For a counter view on this issue, please see also the guest post by Tom Vonk: CO2 heats the atmosphereâ¦a counter view -Anthony Guest Post by Ferdinand Engelbeen There have been hundreds of reactions to the previous post by Willis Eschenbach … Continue reading →
  • CO2 heats the atmosphere…a counter view
    Guest post By Tom Vonk (Tom is a physicist and long time poster at many climate blogs. Note also I’ll have another essay coming soon supporting the role of CO2 – Anthony) If you search for âgreenhouse effectâ in Google … Continue reading →
  • Surprise: Fish tolerate 2.5°C temperature shift in ...
    Tiny fish evolved to tolerate colder temperature in three years: UBC study University of British Columbia researchers have observed one of the fastest evolutionary responses ever recorded in wild populations. In as little as three years, stickleback fish developed tolerance … Continue reading →
  • Space researchers illuminate ‘one of the mos ...
    Discovery of Saturn’s auroral heartbeat An international team of scientists led by Dr Jonathan Nichols of the University of Leicester has discovered that Saturn’s aurora, an ethereal ultraviolet glow which illuminates Saturn’s upper atmosphere near the poles, pulses roughly once … Continue reading →
  • Discrepancies In Sea Ice Measurements
    By Steve Goddard Over the last few weeks I have been tracking what is becoming a large discrepancy between various Arctic sea ice measurements. NSIDC graphs show almost no difference between 2010 and 2007. http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_timeseries.png By contrast, DMI graph ...

Dandelion Salad

  • The Daily Show: The Killing Tree + Clashes kill fi ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ thedailyshow.com A deadly gun battle on the border of Israel and Lebanon is sparked by the removal of a tree. (02:59) The Daily Show: The Killing Tree, posted with vodpod *** Clashes kill five in Lebanon AlJazeeraEnglish | August 03, 2010 Three Lebanese soldiers, ...
  • USrael and Iran by William Blum
    by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org 5 Aug, 2010 The Anti-Empire Report So please tell me again: What’s the war about? When facts are inconvenient, when international law, human rights and history get in the way, when war crimes can’t easily be justified or explained a ...
  • The War On Democracy by John Pilger (2007; must-se ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ In case you missed seeing this, I’m reposting. Dandelion Salad ICH 1 hr 33 min 36 sec – Aug 22, 2007 ‘The War on Democracy’ is John Pilger’s first major film for the cinema – in a career that has produced more than 55 television documentaries. Set in Latin Americ ...
  • Europe And Beyond: U.S. Consolidates Global Missil ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism Aug. 3, 2010 On September 17, 2009 U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and President Barack Obama separately announced plans to shift the emphasis of the global American interceptor missile – so-cal ...
  • BP: Fishies and Birdies Can Live in Oil Just as We ...
    by Sean Fenley Featured Writer Dandelion Salad The Anything and Everything Aug 2, 2010 The BP oil corporation announced today that according to their scientists, engineers, and researchers — who apparently are smoking whatever their erstwhile “fearless” leader Hayward was imbibing — that fishies and ...

Your New Reality

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    "Go Get Drums! GO!" I could give you a detailed round up of world events, dramatic as they've been, I could compile a list of communities whose livelihood has been destroyed, for the foreseeable future, along hundreds of miles of American coastline, I could introduce you to yet more evidence that w ...
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    "How much more would we be dependent on foreign oil....and terrorism?"
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    The seas will turn black and boil?
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    The music of Inception gives everything a heavy, slightly sickening edge. Imagine it playing at a wedding. Or a funeral.
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    Attempted Coup Unfolds In Australia By Darryl Mason A dramatic night in Australian politics, as the right wing of the Rudd Labor government staged an early evening, non-military coup against the prime minister. This is how ABC News Online broke the story just before 7pm Sydney time : Prime Minist ...

Wired - Science

  • Look Around You: Science Video Reductio ad Absurdu ...
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience292352654001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); Look around you. Just … look around you. Have you worked out what we’re looking for? Correct! The answer is: hilarity. Remember being horrendously bored in school while ...
  • The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories
    In case you haven’t noticed, this site is currently being bombarded with a certain strand of conspiracy theorist. I’m still not entirely sure what these people believe in, apart from being absolutely certain that the government is developing brain-eating vaccines, spiking the water with lithium and ...
  • Minds Beat Machines in Protein Puzzle Showdown
    In a biology geek revenge for Kasparov’s loss to Deep Blue, human intuition has thumped artificial intelligence in the game of protein folding. Asked to decipher the fantastically complex structures of 10 proteins, a community of gamers beat cutting-edge algorithms five times. Three times they tied ...
  • Ancient Crocodile Could Have Chewed Like You Do
    Chewing has always been thought of as a strictly mammalian ability. But during the reign of the dinosaurs a hundred million years ago, in the southern supercontinent of Gondwana, some crocodiles were likely doing something very close to that. An ancient crocodile species has been discovered with mo ...
  • Violent Dreams May Precede Brain Disease
    Vivid, violent dreams can portend brain disorders by half a century, a new study finds. The result, reported in the August 10 Neurology, highlights how some neurological diseases may take hold decades before a person is diagnosed. Spotting early warning signs of the disease may allow clinicians to ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Israeli defense firms land record deal: Making par ...
    Israeli defense companies have scored one of the biggest deals in the industry's history: They will be making about $4 billion worth of parts for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter [manufactured by]... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Emily Henochowicz Democracy Now! Interview
    Emily Henochowicz Speaks Out: Art student who lost her eye after being shot by Israeli tear gas canister in a West Bank protest discusses her life, her Art, and why she plans to return. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fif ...
  • Palestinian boy upset by father’s arrest garners i ...
    Israeli Border Police: "Instead of the family acting responsibly toward a child and removing him from the situation, they chose to make cheap anti-Israel propaganda, whose sole purpose is to ... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
  • Gideon Levy: Only we’re allowed
    [South Lebanon] was under Israeli occupation for 18 years... It was an occupation no less brutal than the one in the territories, but whitewashed well... So now, as well, we can do what we like... ... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Lynn Gottlieb: Why I support the Olympia Co-op boy ...
    Boycott is the primary tool of those engaged in nonviolent resistance to systematic injustice. Boycott targets unjust policies. It is not about 'the right to exist'; Everyone has the right to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now i ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Hormone Replacement Therapy Linked to Lower Risk o ...
    The link between Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and reduced risk of distal large bowel cancer in women; a promising combination antibiotic therapy for ulcerative colitis patients; and the high-rate of alcoholic liver disease mortality, are among the scientific findings featured in the August issu ...
  • Second Hottest July on Record as El Nino Fade Cont ...
    Average temperatures for the globe, as well as the northern and southern hemispheres, went up in July despite the continued cooling of the El Nino Pacific Ocean warming event and the apparent transition to a La Nina Pacific Ocean cooling event.
  • Virginia Tech Lands National Science Foundation Aw ...
    Two million dollars is coming to Virginia Tech to create HokieSpeed, a versatile new supercomputing instrument for accelerating and transforming discovery and innovation across a myriad of disciplines.
  • Proximity Could be Key to Success of Healing Praye ...
    Findings reported today from a new international study of healing prayer suggest that prayer for another person's healing just might help -- especially if the one praying is physically near the person being prayed for.
  • Robot Climbs Walls: Surveillance, Inspection, Main ...
    Wielding two claws, a motor and a swinging tail, a small robot scrambles up a carpeted, 8-foot wall in just over 15 seconds - the first such robot designed to climb efficiently and move like human rock climbers or apes swinging through trees.

Natural Health News

  • More Than One-in-Four Americans Now Obese
    Americans are continuing to get fatter.� Obesity rates reached 30 percent or more in nine states last year, as opposed to only three states in 2007. The increases mean that 2.4 million more people became obese from 2007 to 2009.� This brings the total to 72.5 million, or 26.7 percent of the popula ...
  • Surprising Findings About Breast Milk
    A large part of human milk cannot be digested by babies, but it may have a purpose beyond infant nutrition -- influencing the composition of the bacteria in the infant’s gut. A particular strain of bacterium, a subspecies of Bifidobacterium longum, possesses a special suite of genes that enable it ...
  • Seven Hours -- The Magic Number for Sleep?
    People who sleep either more or fewer than seven hours a day, including naps, have an increased risk for cardiovascular disease, according to a new study. Sleeping fewer than five hours a day more than doubles your risk of being diagnosed with angina, coronary heart disease, heart attack or stroke. ...
  • How to Protect Yourself From these Five Pervasive ...
    A growing body of research link five of the most commonly used chemicals in the world to a host of ailments, including cancer, sexual problems and behavioral issues.� Here’s what CNN suggests you can do about them: BPA -- Bisphenol A BPA is used to make lightweight, clear, heat-resistant plastic. ...
  • A Horse Program for ADHD Kids
    An interview with Drop Your Reins co-founder, teenager Danielle Herb. She talks about her program for children with ADHD, and shares why her program is successful and what led her to create it. Some of her students share their stories.

Antemedius

  • Let The Bush Tax Cuts Expire, The Ultra-Wealthy Sh ...
    Republicans have a real problem. Well, they have a lot of them but we are not talking about moral, genetic or hygienic problems, we’re talking about a political problem. They pulled a fast one with their double round of tax cuts in 2001 and 2003. At the time we were told (against all evidence, and c ...
  • Science Says: Those 3-D Underwater Oil Plumes Belo ...
    Now for a little exercise in News Spin Cycles, vs the Scientific Process... When the Facts, finally come in, IS Anyone even still Paying Attention? "What we have learned completely changes the idea of what an oil spill is ," said chemical oceanographer David Hollander, one of three USF researchers c ...
  • Four Little Words
    Has anyone wondered what happened to FISA reform that President Obama promised to do after he took office? Well if this is his idea of reform, he is no better than the gang that occupied the Executive for the last 8 years. The Washington Post last week reported that a White House proposal would eas ...
  • BOE Chief Thinks Drilling Moratorium Can End "Sign ...
    The new Director of Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (OEMRE) (sheesh!) Michael Bromwich said yesterday that the Obama Administration is looking at the possibility of ending the deep water drilling moratorium “significantly” earlier than the Nov. 30 expiration date. This ...
  • New Cassava Varieties Save Zanzibar's Food Securi ...
    By Catherine Njuguna Millions of cassava farmers in eastern and central Africa are in distress from viral cassava diseases that are sweeping across the region and ravaging their crops. But their counterparts on the popular tourist island of Zanzibar are undergoing a quiet revolution using new diseas ...

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

  • Chevron’s Explosive Filing on Collusion Between Pl ...
    by Roger Alford The ongoing saga regarding Chevron’s legal travails in Ecuador took an interesting twist this week. As I reported earlier , Chevron has secured key outtakes of the movie Crude that appeared to show alarming collusion between the plaintiff lawyers and the Court-appointed expert. A ...
  • Colombia, the ICC — and a Twist!
    by Kevin Jon Heller I've argued for the past couple of years that the ICC should open a formal investigation into the situation in Colombia, because it is a non-African situation that satisfies most, if not all, of my criteria for situational gravity : (1) crimes committed with government involv ...
  • The World Court’s Non-Opinion
    by John Cerone by John Cerone [John Cerone is Professor of International Law, and Director of the Center for International Law & Policy at New England Law | Boston] The World Courtâs conclusion that Kosovoâs declaration of independence was not unlawful is being with a resounding “duh” by most ...
  • ACLU and CCR Sue OFAC over Expenditures Related to ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Adam Serwer has a post up flagging a new suit by the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) against the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) over funds expended over the question of whether the Obama administration ca ...
  • President Bashir in Chad: Enough Failure to Go Aro ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller [The following is a guest-post by Lt. Col. Chris Jenks, the Chief of the International Law Branch in the Army's Office of the Judge Advocate General.  He is blogging in his personal capacity.] The day ICC supporters and detractors alike hoped would come, ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Free book - The Divinity Code
    Three years ago I published The Divinity Code, a response to the works of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, John Spong and Karen Armstrong, among others. The book remains available internationally through Amazon US and Amazon UK in hard copy, but...
  • Has Climatedepot crashed?
    As of writing, am getting a VisualBasic error on http://www.climatedepot.com Is it just my computer network that can't see it? UPDATE 1pm NZST: Back up and running. Marc must have hit wrong button somewhere :)
  • Arctic heading for major freeze - new NOAA forecas ...
    More evidence pointing towards a significant global cooldown, with even NOAA modelling now picking a brutal northern hemisphere winter.
  • Air Con Climategate Edition now avail in NZ
    Due to an ongoing series of requests, we've decided to import the US version of the Air Con Climategate Edition. It's now available direct from the Howling At The Moon website, in either hard copy for $39.90, or PDF for...
  • Ray Stevens Global Warming Song
    They may call him the Streak, but you can't keep Ray Stevens down evidently...witness his lastest on Global Warming

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

  • The Story of Cosmetics
    In the latest installment of her “Story of Stuff” videos, Annie Leonard walks us through “The Story of Cosmetics,” and the ugly truth of toxics in, toxics out. Visit the website for an annotated script, viewing party materials, fact sheets and more. As she explains in the Huffington Post, “It turns ...
  • Announcing the True Food Shoppers Guide Mobile App
    The Center for Food Safety today launched a new mobile application that will help shoppers to quickly and easily identify foods made with ingredients from genetically modified (GM) organisms.  The free app, “The Center for Food Safety’s True Food Shoppers Guide”, is available for mobile devices thro ...
  • Lawsuit Filed to Halt Release of Genetically Engin ...
    An alliance of conservation organizations today sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture over its approval of open-air field tests of a genetically engineered (GE) hybrid of eucalyptus tree across the southern United States. The permit, issued to a company called ArborGen, which is a joint initiative ...
  • A Pressing Issue: David and Goliath Battle on GM A ...
    by Lisa J. Bunin, Ph.D. The media got it wrong and let the public down when it erroneously reported Monsantoâs wholesale victory in its Supreme Court appeal of the GM alfalfa case — the first-ever Supreme Court case on GMOs (Monsanto Co. v Geertson Seed Farms).  Despite claims and headlines to th ...
  • 56 Members of House and Senate Ask USDA to Keep Ba ...
    Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), joined by 49 other representatives and five other senators, sent a letter today to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack asking USDA to retain the regulated status of genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa. Their letter comes in r ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Melissa McEwan: I'm Shocked…
    Shakesville: I'm Shocked… …shocked, I tell you, to find out that conservative media blowhard Andrew Breitbart selectively and mendaciously edited video of a speech given by USDA employee Shirley Sherrod at an NAACP function in order to "prove" that the NAACP and the Obama administration is racist. ...
  • MNN - CONSENSUAL DECISION MAKING PROCESS
    MNN. Oct. 31, 2009. Our ancestors brought rational thinking to a principle. To keep our identity, we have to be free in body, mind and energy. We have to make up our own mind based on all the facts. There are many similarities in the nature based philosophies of all Ongwehonwe on Onowaregeh [Great ...
  • Take Another Look with Ashahed M. Muhammad: Fox Ne ...
    Take Another Look with Ashahed M. Muhammad: Fox News: They Report AND Decide By Ashahed M. Muhammad I watch the Fox News Channel. It is purely for intel purposes. I don’t find the Fox News Channel particularly entertaining, however, listening to Newt Gingrich and Karl Rove when they appear provid ...
  • France's racial intolerance comes from the very to ...
    France's racial intolerance comes from the very top | France |Axisoflogic.com : "A disturbing video showing French police evicting immigrants of African descent is causing an uproar in France. The video shows police dragging away women who were demonstrating against their eviction from a block of fl ...
  • Gilad Atzmon: PressTV Under Attack�
    Gilad Atzmon - Writings - Gilad Atzmon: Press TV Under Attack� Britain Cannot Handle the Truth To tell the truth about Israeli barbarism is a breach of impartiality. The Guardian and the Jewish Chronicle reported today that, Ofcom, the UK broadcasting standards body, has ruled that Iranian-backed Pr ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Iraq car bomb, checkpoint attack leaves 25 dead
    ShareThis Iraq car bomb, checkpoint attack leaves 25 dead 03 Aug 2010 Suspected Al Qaeda-linked militants killed five policemen in the second deadly attack in a week on security checkpoints, while a car bomb in a crowded market in the southern city of Kut left at least 20 people dead and dozens inju ...
  • U.S. ambassador to attend Hiroshima event
    ShareThis U.S. ambassador to attend Hiroshima event 05 Aug 2010 U.S. Ambassador John Roos will make a historic appearance Friday at Japan's Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima. His will be the first time in 65 years that an American ambassador has attended the ceremony, which marks the atomic bombi ...
  • ACLU Sues U.S. Government Over American Citizen's ...
    ShareThis ACLU Sues U.S. Government Over�American�Citizen's�Hit List Designation --In July, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) formally labeled Awlaki a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist." 03 Aug 2010 The ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) are suin ...
  • Target Corp targeted for political donation
    ShareThis Target Corp targeted for political donation --Target could be test case of corporate giving backlash 03 Aug 2010 In a challenge to corporations' newfound right to make unlimited campaign donations, U.S.-based retailer Target�found itself in the cross-hairs of a boycott effort fueled by ang ...
  • West Losing Afghan War, Pakistan’s Zardari Tells L ...
    ShareThis West Losing Afghan War, Pakistan’s Zardari Tells Le Monde 03 Aug 2010 The U.S. and its allies are losing the war in Afghanistan because they’ve failed to win local support and think too short term, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said in an interview with Le Monde , drawing a rebuke f ...

Daily Loaf

  • On the Radar: TampaCon
    Celebrate comic culture and all its nifty playthings at the Tampa Comic Book and Toy Convention this Sunday in Largo.
  • Do It Today: Deion Sanders poker tournament, free ...
    Deion Sanders will host a No Limit Texas Hold 'em single table poker tournament, Dairy Queen gives out free Blizzards, a talent contest-type show hopes to entertain in St. Pete and Q Fraz & Naj perform at Tre Amici @ the Bunker.
  • Health care activists challenge Mike Haridopolos M ...
    On Thursday incoming Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos and friends visit Tampa on the second leg of his “Health Care Solutions Tour.” Haridopolos and a traveling crew will visit three different sites in the Bay area: At the managed care group  Amerigroup in Westshore, then the Brandon Reg ...
  • WUSF 89.7 to go (finally) to all news & informatio ...
    WUSF's new schedule will include such popular NPR programs never heard on the station during the day as Talk of the Nation, the Diane Rehm Show, and Fresh Air.
  • Federal judge rules California same-sex marriage b ...
    If the case does reach the U.S. Supreme Court, things should prove really interesting if Elena Kagan tips the Court's liberal balance.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • “If I needed something to confirm I am going ...
    By Jesse Bacon I inteviewed about Yonatan Shapira of Boycott from Within and Combatants for Peace after he was called in for an interrogation by the Israeli Security Services. Part 1: Yonatan talks about his activism with the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement, and how the Gaza War changed his ...
  • The Only Democracy? summer vacation: enjoy some bo ...
    by Jesse Bacon I keep meaning to make a mix tape of the ever growing “cultural intifada” of artists refusing to perform in Israel, maybe including a Meg Ryan film clip? In the mean time, here’s where Gorillaz went after refusing to play in Israel. While Syria certainly has its own injustices, it so ...
  • Interview with Khalil Alamour, organizer of protes ...
    By Jesse Bacon I spoke with Khalil Alamour at the protest tent at Al-Araqeeb, the village demolished by Israel this week. Protestors plan to return tomorrow and rebuild it.
  • Daniel Dukarevich: Eyewitness Account of the Razin ...
    By Daniel Dukarevich. On the ground report from Daniel who was previously interviewed here, reposted from Tikkun Olam. Uprooting the olive trees of Al-Araqeeb Yesterday, Daniel Dukarevich posted an eyewitness account (Hebrew) of the eradication of the Bedouin Negev village of Al-Araqeeb by the Isra ...
  • Urgent need for support to release 17 year old Ahm ...
    From the Friends of Freedom and Justice Bil’in and the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee On July 19, 2010 Bil’in was subjected to yet another Israeli Occupation Forces night raid when an unusually heavy number of Israeli soldiers entered the outskirts of the village to arrest a local youth; ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • AZ sheriff asks for donations for semi-auto weapon ...
    Pinal County AZ Sheriff Paul Babeu has consistently said his deputies are outgunned by drug cartels. Now he’s asking for private citizens to donate $200,000 to arm 200 deputies with semi-autos. He says asking the feds or country supervisors for the money would take too long. Is he grandstanding? No. ...
  • iPhone app. Evernote
    Evernote is becoming indispensable for me. You can make text and audio notes, take photos, then save them grouped by category with tags. It’ll sync to the desktop app. Both are free (although a $5 a month plan allows you more storage and other features.) There are getting to be a multitude of third- ...
  • Google Wave, we hardly knew you
    Google kills Google Wave, proving yet again that Google really doesn’t get social networking. Wave was complicated, odd, not intuitive, and had no edge over Facebook or Twitter.
  • From the Prop 8 ruling
    “Proposition 8 cannot survive any level of scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause,” wrote [Chief Judge] Walker. “Excluding same-sex couples from marriage is simply not rationally related to a legitimate state interest.”
  • Judge invalidates Prop 8, allows gay marriage in C ...
    U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker said Proposition 8, passed by voters in November 2008, violated the federal constitutional rights of gays and lesbians to marry the partners of their choice.

Coteret

  • Israeli Finance Ministry explains recent IDF-sourc ...
    Why the sudden spate of Israeli-sourced publications on Hezbollah’s military power? On Wednesday (July 7 2010) this one, in the Jerusalem Post, elicited a sarcastic Tweet from Foreign Policy’s Marc Lynch: Israel’s shocking discovery of Hezballah presence in….Lebanon. Believe it or not! This mornin ...
  • Haifa Mayor wants to turn Mavi Marmara into &#8220 ...
    Cruiseship Marmara Mayor of Haifa Yonah Yahav has a creative idea: to turn the Turkish ship into a floating hotel Amir Buhbut, Maariv, July 8 2010 [Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] While Turkey is demanding Israel apologize over the flotilla to Gaza, the mayor of Haifa has an interesting ...
  • [video] Birthright group visits (Jewish Settlement ...
    The “Hebron” account at WeJew.com (a kind of Jewish YouTube wannabe) has just (July 5 2010) uploaded a video purportedly documenting a visit of this month of an Australian Birthright group to the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. This site is the stated raison d’être of the extremist Jewish Settle ...
  • Hasbarapocalypse — Leaked Frank Luntz memo: ...
    The Israel Project (TIP), an American Hasbara outfit, commissioned Republican political consultant Frank Luntz to examine the effectiveness of Israel’s public diplomacy in the US on the Flotilla debacle. TIP gave the memo to the Prime Minister’s Office, where someone promptly leaked it to Chico Mena ...
  • Israeli Ministry of Justice endorses extremist int ...
    On Friday, July 9, the Ministry of Justice and the Jewish Legal Heritage Society will present a two-day seminar on Jewish laws concerning the Land of Israel.  [An invitation in Hebrew can be seen here and a translation is appended at the bottom of this post. H/T Dena Shunra.] While I am not an exper ...

Deadline Live

  • Johnny Cash – Don’t Go Near The Water ...
    I thought this song would be nice for this situation. Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
  • G20 stories, rants and jokes take over Kensington ...
    Marching and chanting? That is so six weeks ago. If you have more to say about G20 weekend, there’s still time — and space — to air your protest grievances graffiti-style in Kensington Market. The “Your G20 Stories” wall, located on the side of a small building at the corner of Augusta Ave. and Nass ...
  • Deadline Live – August 4 2010
    First Hour: Kevin Zeese on the Disclose Act. Damien Gallher on China’s move on Gold . Second Hour: Breaking News from Deadline Line.info Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
  • Is Google Working With Verizon to Upend Net Neutra ...
    It sounds unlikely, but sources close to Google and Verizon have said that the two companies are working together on a deal that would help Verizon charge some Internet content providers more than others in exchange for priority data transfer speeds. Such an agreement would fly in the face of net ne ...
  • Hate Crime – Student Leaves Ham Sandwich on ...
    Hate Crime or just a HAM Sandwich? CLOSE [X] Police are investigating as a possible hate crime an incident in which a ham steak was placed in a bag on a lunch table where a group of Somali students were sitting. Middle School student was suspended after the incident, Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Red ...

The Air Vent

  • Blacklist – RC Claims NO Names Listed
    While reading an article by Tom Fuller today, he referenced an absolutely insane post at Real Climate on defense of a paper by the late Dr. Schneider.   Schneider was a ‘scientist’ who honestly I don’t miss much.   You may have noticed that I’ve not said a single word about his death to date.  [. ...
  • Solar Power Stepping Forward
    I’m certain that solar power will be a functional replacement for home energy in the future.  It’s not now, but soon it will be.  We just need big generation and storage breakthroughs and we can chuck the coal out the window.  The reality is that unlike biofuel lies, solar is a real future soluti ...
  • Solar Flare – Northern Lights Tonight and Tomorrow
    Solar Tsunami to Strike Earth Tonight From the finest news organization on the planet – that’s not saying much though guys. From this link: Skywatchers at high latitudes could be in for a spectacular treat of northern lights, the aurora borealis, Tuesday and Wednesday: After a relatively quiet stret ...
  • Global Temperature Deconstruction – McKitric ...
    Watts Up With That has run an article on an important paper by Ross McKitrick covering the major issues of the global temperature record.  The article collects and describes the data and problems as we have discussed so many times here. While we have covered many of the points here and on other clim ...
  • Poetry or else
    Imagine the sky, free from cloud. Imagine your mind, free from daily grind. Imagine the trees, free from CO2……….. and see where that gets you.

Focal Point

  • Opposition to "Ground Zero" Mosque is a Disgrace
    It's a sad day for bigots in New York City. Opponents of a planned Islamic cultural center and mosque at 47 Park Place failed in their last-ditch effort to usurp the private property rights of the Cordoba Initiative. The Landmarks Preservation Commission voted 9-0 that the decrepit old Burlington Co ...
  • Do I Look Fat in Orange?: Orangutans Have Very Slo ...
    Orangutans spend all day exercising, slowly swinging from tree to tree, munching on low-fat plants, but they're still kind of pudgy. It turns out that your average orang, for all its constant motion, burns fewer calories per day than a human couch potato. Scientists figured this out by convincing c ...
  • Ladies, Is Your Purse Strap Stoking Lust?
    Sociological Images posted the results of the Modesty Survey a project of a Christian website where Christian girls quizzed 1500 Christian guys about their standards of modesty. Not guys' standards for their own dress and demeanor, mind you, just about the standards they use to judge women. This su ...
  • "Non-Partisan" Conservative Pundit Fred Barnes Too ...
    Conservative commentator Fred Barnes has recently criticized liberal journalists for discussing ideas on a free, private email list. Barnes claims that, unlike the denizens of journo-list, he's a non-partisan conservative: "If there's a team, no one has asked me to join. As a conservative, I nor ...
  • Glenn Beck's Goldline Scam--Visualized
    Illustrator Jess Bachman diagrams Glenn Beck's shady links to Goldline in an accessible infographic. To summarize: Goldine is a sponsor of Beck's TV and radio shows. Beck tells his audience that they should buy gold as a hedge against inflation, but not just any gold. Beck says you should buy antiqu ...

Inside Facebook

  • Through Strategic Deal with Friendster’s New Owner ...
    If extremely broad social networking patents prove enforceable in court one day, then Facebook recently removed a big threat — and is now in possession of it. The company recently acquired 18 patents and patent applications from MOL, the Malaysia-based new owner of Friendster, as VentureBeat and Gig ...
  • Mobile Site m.facebook.com Gets Privacy Controls
    Facebook announced today that users of its mobile site m.facebook.com will soon be able to edit their privacy settings, including who sees what they post and granular controls for all of their privacy settings. More than 150 million people are actively use Facebook on mobile devices, often posting s ...
  • Facebook Questions Now Included on Pages and Home ...
    Questions, an in-house Facebook question-and-answer application released last week to a selection of beta testers, has now be deployed to new areas of the site including official Pages and the home pageâs right sidebar. The product is also still missing features and continues to have significant ...
  • The Facebook Marketing Bible — August 2010 Edition ...
    Purchase The Guide The Facebook Marketing Bible – Current Edition Download PDF: $95 USD OR Download PDF + Get 1 Year of Monthly Updates: $295 USD The August 2010 edition of the Facebook Marketing Bible: 50+ Ways to Market Your Brand, Company, Product, or Service Inside Facebook is now available! The ...
  • Facemoods Brings Emoticons to Facebook Chat, Gets ...
    Israeli start-up Facemoods only launched in December of last year, offering a browser add-on that enables emoticons for use on Facebook’s chat service, among other web products. So far, it’s been a hit. We’ve watched as it has gained 4.4 million Likes on its Page — and around the same number of user ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Israel’s teenage barbarians at al-Arakib
    Lawrence Davidson considers the role played by Israeli youths in the construction of fascism in Israel, most recently during an operation to ethnically cleanse non-Jewish citizens of Israel from a village in the Negev, where teenage students had been bussed in to hound the villagers out of their hom ...
  • Revered Israeli rabbi preaches slaughter of gentil ...
    Jonathan Cook considers the ideas of a leading Israeli rabbi, Yitzhak Shapira, who together with another rabbi, Yosef Elitzur, has written a book in which he sanctions the murder of Palestinian children and babies.
  • UK retailer Cafepress peddles Islamophobic, anti-A ...
    Gilad Atzmon views the curious case of the British online retailer cafepress.co.uk which openly sells Islamophobic, anti-Arab, pro-Jewish, pro-Israel and pro-war products such as t-shirts, caps and babysuits.
  • Israel classifies its past as top secret
    Lawrence Davidson explains why the Israeli government has decided to extend for an additional 20 years the period during which state documents must remain classified and the possibility that previously declassified documents might be reclassified.
  • US website Salem-News.com deserves your support
    Salem-News.com exists after six years because it has a good mission, and a lot of drive. The site's founders left established mainstream media careers to start the nation's first independent internet news group in 2004. They have given everything possible to meet the demands of daily news for over ...

Amazon Rainforest

  • Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of Doro ...
    A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]
  • Yasuni National Park- SAVED!
    President Raphael Correa now has approved an agreement to leave Ecuador’s largest oil reserves, amounting to some 900 million barrels, underground in Yasuni National Park in exchange for more than $3 billion. Under the unprecedented agreement, known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the government of Ec ...
  • Amazon watchgroups SILENT over new Chevron oil spi ...
    In the space of a week, a Chevron technical team has discovered two fresh oil spills in Ecuador’s oil-producing Amazon region. One covers three hectares (7.4 acres) near state-owned oil company Petroecuador’s Guanta production station in the heart of Cofan indigenous country. The other impacts half ...
  • Amazon River dolphin new stunning photos!
    The Amazon River dolphin (Bufeo, Bufeo Colorado, Boto, Boto Cor de Rosa, Boutu, Nay, Tonina) or Pink River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), is a freshwater River dolphin endemic to the Orinoco, Amazon and Araguaia/Tocantins River systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. These we ...
  • Belo Monte dam auction proceeds despite protests!
    Bidding for electricity generated by Brazil’s planned Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon rainforest has been marked by protests and legal confusion. A court injunction issued late Monday suspended the dam auction overnight, throwing the bidding process into a state of chaos. Just moments before the aucti ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Podcast Show #30
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Carlos Miller Carlos Miller provides us with an overview of the history, purpose and mission of his award-winning website Photography is Not a Crime. He talks about First Amendment violations against photographers throughout the country, which occur on a shockingly regul ...
  • Is WikiLeaks the antidote to the Washington K Stre ...
    The acid test for Washington’s beltway experts Since the end of the cold war, the U.S. had been looking for an enemy to match the Soviet Union and came up empty handed until 9/11. Refocusing the efforts of the world’s largest and most expensive military empire on Al Qaeda would provide the incentive ...
  • Obama Appoints a Not-Too-Long-Ago-Hatched Neocon L ...
    Matthew Bryza: Azerbaijan Ambassadorship & a Tangled Web of Conflicts President Obama appears to have run out of Non-Neocon candidates to appoint for crucial positions. After one year with no ambassador to fill the position in Azerbaijan, the President reached out to and appointed a young neocon wit ...
  • Another ‘Viable’ Candidate Bites the Dust …
    Maksim Bakiyev: A Groomed Puppet Who Never Came to Be King Kyrgyzstanâs Wanted Fugitive: Maksim Bakiyev. The story is more or less the same – the one that has been repeating itself for many decades.  The one based on a script written by the very same conductors who wrote the ones before, and who ...
  • America’s DNA Profile Has Been All Over Afghanista ...
      In the two years since the publication of our book Invisible History: Afghanistan’s Untold Story we have had the chance to address dozens of forums and radio audiences around the United States about Afghanistan. It has been an illuminating exercise, not so much in terms of what Americans understan ...

Afro Spear

  • “The Marriage-Job Paradox” by B.B. Rob ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 Adam Smith, the 18th century philosopher/economist, articulated the “Diamond-Water Paradox”. While water is essential, Smith said, it has a relatively low transaction value. Conversely, and illogically, diamonds have a higher transaction value and little practical use ...
  • Some Perspective From Brother Carey!
    My Brother Carey at Carry Me Home Blog wrote a poignant piece chronicling his family history and comparing it to all of our black history.  In it he asks us to be careful how we treat our history and not to despise it, even if it looks difficult in some places.  Obama belongs to us, and [...]
  • The Unapologetic Mexican Confronts “White Pr ...
    This is a very interesting post at the Unapologetic Mexican.  At a blogger’s convention, (I believe it was Netroots) a group of them created a bit of “Political Theater”  by making a “check point” at the door of the convention just for the white folks.  They were “dressed” as ICE officials with f ...
  • sat’day riddymz
  • Why Didn’t You Black Folks Build Some Towns ...
      Over the course of our history in the Americas, black folks have gone through some stuff! Our struggle here began in slavery. We all know that North America for sure was founded on our black backs. Wall Street was founded on the auction block of slavery. In spite of the unspeakable brutality of th ...

Expose the BNP

  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep his po ...
  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative candidat ...
  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop denying ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well ...
  • Nick Griffin: “If Hitler hadn’t been s ...
    The following is a transcript of Dominic Carmen’s speech given at the Expose the BNP media briefing, held at the NUJ headquarters on 7th April. At the 1987 General Election, the BNP put up two candidates and received 553 votes. It was beaten hands down by the Monster Raving Loony Party which put up ...

Sen4Earth

  • Seize BP Demonstrations Nationwide
    SEN believes these demonstrations will help awaken politicians to outrage over inadequate regulation and control of international corporations, even if they do not succeed in gaining temporary seizure of BP on the basis of national emergency and evidence of criminal neglect and fraud by BP.
  • Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox
    SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...
  • Gulf Oil Disaster Action Central
    The Gulf Oil Disaster is the latest symptom of the madness being unleashed on Mother Earth, Mankind, Wildlife and Life itself. SEN will here post links to every action you can take. Visit often because more will arise in coming weeks and months. If you learn of one we've missed, please enter it in a ...
  • Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox News, PLU ...
    SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...
  • Climate&Energy “Speak Up&Out” Results
    In April SEN published “Drill Oil and the USA and World to Hell?” To our users we said “Tell Sustainability Education Network’s sen4earth.org what YOU believe and what YOU Demand of government in Energy & Climate policy and legislation.” “SEN will report the overall results to you and to media, AN ...

If Americans Knew

  • As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed at ...
    Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage at h ...
  • An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Clinic: ...
    I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again on Ga ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner whic ...
  • The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised as ...
    John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
  • A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and love ...
    We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine providence ...

David J. Gregory

  • CORPORATE STATES OF AMERICA
    Do you want to continue to have a say, albeit, not very much, in what goes on in this government? If you do, you must act, as outlined below, as soon as possible. We have got to give it a try, even if we go down, we must stop the corporate takeover. This is so [...]
  • TEABAGGERS REFRAIN
    Government is the only thing standing between us and all those who would harm us, in one form or another! Be it war, medicine, unsafe products, the list is endless. Corporate America has taken over our Government and it is the reason we’re in such a mess. Don’t blindly get on a bandwagon of non-thin ...
  • Doomsday: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered ...
    A huge gash on the ocean floor—like a ragged wound hundreds of feet long—has been reported by the NOAA research ship, Thomas Jefferson. Before the curtain of the government enforced news blackout again descended abruptly, scientists aboard the ship voiced their concerns that the widening rift may go ...
  • BP BLOCKED WORKERS
    BP blocked workers cleaning up the oil disaster in the Gulf from wearing protective respirators.
  • Jim Geer in handcuffs!
    Chair Karen Thurman has repeatedly demanded a full and independent investigation. But the Republicans who control Tallahassee are trying to block the investigations into their culture of corruption, instead trying to make Jim Greer the fall guy for their misdeeds.

Unsuitable Blog

  • Can a Shopping Voucher Skew Survey Results?
    A couple of weeks ago I – or rather our house – received a letter from an organisation called the National Centre for Social Research, inviting us to take part in an annual survey called British Social Attitudes. I like filling in surveys when I have time because it lets me think more about what [. ...
  • Hello Green Tomorrow: Avon Conveniently Forget The ...
    Sitting in my inbox for four months, one would expect a story to go stale, but despite coming at a particularly hectic time of my life, and being revisited just this morning, it seems that some stories are destined to keep going simply because the parties involved are in such deep denial. One such ...
  • Hackers Shut Down EU Carbon-Trading Website [From ...
    Sorry for all the reposts recently, but it’s been a very busy time at Unsuitablog HQ, and I also can’t top this bit of news from The Guardian covering an excellent example of Undermining. Emissions Trading, like all forms of offsetting, is a method of ensuring that the industrial system can keep op ...
  • Greenwash of the Week: The Sustainability Consorti ...
    Another winning post by David at The Good Human, exposing a magnificent example of Astroturfing. I suspect one reason these things keep turning up is because of “Fluorescent Tabard Syndrome”: the psychological oddity that allows anyone wearing an extremely bright item of work clothing to go virtual ...
  • Redleaf Water: A Crash Course In Greenwash Spottin ...
    It’s always good to refresh your skills, and that opportunity came to me a couple of days ago when a reader sent me a nice example of subtle but very detailed greenwashing in the shape of Redleaf Bottled Water. Straight away the shields are up because we are talking about an entirely commercial pro ...

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

  • DocumentCloud Helps Arizona Paper with Annotated I ...
    We opened the DocumentCloud floodgates less than six months ago and we're still working hard to make DocumentCloud a better tool. We're rolling out improvements at a healthy clip including SSL support , better documentation , and support for cross-newsroom collaboration . We continue to listen to fe ...
  • Creating a Participatory, Open Source Map of an En ...
    For the past few weeks I've been working from Tbilisi, Georgia -- the other Georgia -- with a fascinating organization called OpenMapsCaucasus (OMC for short), which has been hard at work creating the first participatory, public domain road map of an entire country. Created by JumpStart Inte ...
  • Councilpedia In Private Pilot, Overcoming Tech Cha ...
    Over the last several months, Gotham Gazette has made major strides on its Councilpedia project, which will help New Yorkers keep tabs on their local officials and share their knowledge with others. Over the last year, the project has evolved and -- we think -- improved from our original plan. C ...
  • Ushahidi Racking up Downloads, Available in New La ...
    The Ushahidi platform's growing use has been astounding to say the least. The platform has been download almost 4,000 times. On top of that, our mobile applications (including the Android Oil Spill reporter by Henry Addo) have been downloaded more than 3,700 times. As an organization that is bare ...
  • Highlights and Pitfalls of Virtual Street Corners ...
    We're just winding down my Knight News Challenge project, Virtual Street Corners , and haven't had time to sort through all the recorded materials and debrief the participants, but I wanted to share some initial thoughts and reactions. The most encouraging takeaway from the project was the enthu ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Travel Safe - America's Security at Risk from Frau ...
    A decade after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks brought to light the dangers of fake IDs, federal undercover agents are still able to easily obtain genuine U.S. e-Passports using clearly fraudulent information that should have raised red flags at the State Department. Gregory Kutz, an investigator ...
  • A Toxic Edge - India’s Wide Use of Asbestos Brings ...
    Every day, the swirling waters of the Arabian Sea bring misery to Alang, the world’s largest ship-breaking yard in western India’s Gujarat state. An estimated 55,000 workers, unmindful of the lethal effects of asbestos-laden material in the vessels, slave for long hours and, in the process, are expo ...
  • After the BP Spill - Haphazard Firefighting Might ...
    The Coast Guard has gathered evidence that it failed to follow its own firefighting policy during the Deepwater Horizon disaster and is investigating whether the chaotic spraying of tons of salt water by private boats contributed to sinking the ill-fated oil rig, according to interviews and document ...
  • Book Review - The Insurgents and Patriots of Ameri ...
    American Insurgents, American Patriots. T.H. Breen. Hill and Wang. 2010. 252 pages .Ask anyone when the United States became an independent nation, and many will answer with the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Others will cite the Battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775. Perhaps some will say ...
  • Inside Latin America - Simón Bolívar, and Hugo Chá ...
    Upon Julius Caesar's murder, a struggle erupted over who would control his legacy. Octavius, Caesar's great-nephew, manipulated his position as Caesar's heir to wrest power from his rivals. He made Caesar a god and raised a temple, using Caesar's remains to underscore their connection. Symbolism was ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • US Tax-Exempt Donations Fund Israeli Settlements
    By Mel Frykberg According to a recent report in The New York Times 40 US groups have raised more than $200 million in tax-deductible donations for Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem during the last ten years. US tax rules prohibit the use of charitable funds fo ...
  • How We Wrecked The Oceans - Part II
    By Dave Cohen An astonishing 40% of oceans phytoplankton population has disappeared since 1950! The fewer microscopic plants there are living in the ocean surface waters, the less CO2 is drawn down from the atmosphere. Thus, the Earths carbon cycle is being fundamentally altered, with uncertain bu ...
  • No, The Combat Troops Are Not All Leaving Iraq
    By Casual Observer Obama did not say that all the combat troops were leaving this month. He certainly didnt say this today in Atlanta, and to my knowledge he has never said it
  • Kashmir Unrest: 5 More Killed In A Day
    By Sheikh Imran Bashir Kashmir continues to remain tense after fresh violence on Tuesday left five people dead. The death toll since Friday has gone up to 28
  • Half of Indias Population Lives Below The Poverty ...
    By Arun Kumar According to a new Oxford University study, 55 percent of Indias population of 1.1 billion, or 645 million people, are living in poverty. Using a newly-developed index, the study found that about one-third of the worlds poor live in India

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Vigiling in Afghanistan
    More amazing work from Our Journey to Smile
  • 92219 Pieces of my Broken Afghan Heart
    The following letter was sent to me from the young people in Afghanistan who tried to come to the U.S. this summer for our speaking tour. The U.S. embassy flatly denied them, but their voices continue to cry out. The official narrative of the Afghan War is that it has greatly served the people of A ...
  • The other side of Afghanistan
  • Days 9-11: Solitude, Mountains, and Humanity
    The first time I talked to Ymani, one of our hosts in Asheville, NC, I was at Salam’s house in Berkeley, CA. The first cross-country trek that I embarked on was drawing to an end and I was entering all kinds of scenarios into google maps to try to incorporate Asheville into the plans before [...]
  • Day 8: A Good Day to be an Older Brother
      Half a year ago, my younger brother loaded up his compact car and drove from our parent’s house in Maryland to Little Rock, AR. Zack has always been a sharp thinker and dedicated worker, but had been struggling to find somewhere and something to really put his energy behind. Drifting from culinar ...

Yid With Lid

  • GOP Leaders Continue To Rally Support For Israel, ...
    Today Congressman Peter Roskam (R-Ill) issued the following statement in support of Israel's actions during the incident with Lebanon yesterday. "Lebanon's unprovoked attack on Israeli Defense Forces earlier this week during UN planned tree trimming is just one more example of the tenuous se ...
  • VIDEO TESTIMONY SEIU "Bullying " 80-Year-Old Labor ...
    The National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) wants to take away the SEIU's right to represent the workers at the Kaiser foundation. As is this Union's tradition, the SEUI is using bulling tactics against its rival union including, and has even been cited for violating workers rights The NLRB has ...
  • Cap and Trade Dead In Senate...Obama To Follow Thr ...
    President Obama has always said that if the Congress does not create economy killing greenhouse gas regulations, he will go around Congress and the American people by having the EPA regulate emissions. Now that Cap and Trade is dead, the EPA is following through on the President's threats. Just ...
  • The Case Against The Ground Zero Mosque
    I have had mixed feeling about the Ground Zero Mosque. On one hand , this is America, we are supposed to show tolerance for all religions. But personally I feel that in this particular case it is outweighed by the fact that Ground Zero is a sacred area and the building of this mosque shows insensit ...
  • UN Spokesman: Israel Was NOT on Lebanese Territory ...
    Yesterday, Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) ambushed an IDF position in Israeli territory along the Lebanese border in northern Israel. Coordinated with the United Nations Peacekeeping troops (UNIFIL), the IDF forces were cutting down a tree that obstructed its view of Lebanese movements.The tree ...

The Real Agenda

  • Medicinas Psiquiátricas: Un Descubrimiento Sorpren ...
    Por Shane Ellison Master en Ciéncias Traducción: Luis R. Miranda Hago preguntas con la intención de acortar las conversaciones. Evito el contacto visual con extraños por miedo (tal vez es la ansiedad) por aprender mucho de ellos. En secreto, creo que Metallica estaría haciendo mejor música si ...
  • Non-profit sues the FDA for failing to regulate ch ...
    A nonprofit environmental group has sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, claiming the agency failed to regulate toxic chemicals found in "antimicrobial" soap and other personal care products.
  • Oxford Professor: Poison water to medicate populat ...
    Oxford professor Julian Savulescu says fluoridation demonstrates how populations of the future could be mass-medicated through pharmacological ‘cognitive enhancements’ added to the water supply.
  • Case Orange Report: The History of Weather Manipul ...
    Human rights and environmental watchdog, ETC Group: “The roll-out of geoengineering as Plan B is being skillfully executed: prominent high-level panels sponsored by prestigious groups, a spate of peer-reviewed articles this January in science journals, and a line-up of panicked politicians in northe ...
  • Project Vigilant Spying on Internet Providers
    A semi-secret government contractor that calls itself Project Vigilant surfaced at the Defcon security conference Sunday with a series of revelations: that it monitors the traffic of 12 regional Internet service providers, hands much of that information to federal agencies, and encouraged one of its ...

Wind Watch

  • 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 ...
  • Turbine noise ruffling feathers
    FALMOUTH â Neil and Elizabeth Andersen prefer open windows to air conditioning, but their home is now hermetically sealed despite the warm and breezy weather. Although Neil, 57, and Elizabeth, 53, have spent more than 20 years enjoying Falmouth’s fresh air and working in their meticulous gardens o ...

Not My Tribe

  • Just a little reminder to the Right Wing…
    If, as you claim in response to, for instance, the controversy over the The Weatherman Manifesto both the inactive-for-nearly-four DECADES Weather Underground and anybody who doesn’t join you in condemning them as Violent Terrorists who are responsible for the Major League Spanking taken by the Empi ...
  • Now, here’s a lady with a tale to tell&#8230 ...
    The daughter of Right Wing Darling “il Rudi”, the one most famous for being skunked by the World Trade Center being bombed,on his watch, twice, …by the same group… and makes bazillions of dollars every year doing lecture tours on the subject of Homeland Security and has praised Mussolini’s policies… ...
  • Dan Maes really really really doesn’t want t ...
    He speaking to a “crowd” of 50 supporters (doesn’t Denver Metro have a population of over a million? That’s a big difference…) told them that the Denver Mayor and City Council focusing on the Environment, carpooling, BUS SERVICE and Bicycling, was a commie plot to bring Denver into the clutches of t ...
  • Fox News Locally to sponsor Anti-Suicide Picnic.
    I have a few suggestions, of course their Free Speech Patrol won’t allow the suggestions to be made at their parade. (ahem) Stop G.I. Suicide… First, stop the God-Damned Wars. Second, Stop Brainwashing Soldiers to Temporarily accept murdering people, a process which ends once the former soldiers are ...
  • Mark Twain: Oh Lord our God, help us tear their so ...
    âO Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle â be Thou near them!   “With them â in spirit â we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. “O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody [...]

Debunking the Debunkers

  • WTC Pre-Collapse Bowing Debunks 9/11 "Controlled D ...
    YouTube user " Moreofthesamez " recently posted the following response to the video " 9/11 Debunked: World Trade Center's Collapse Explained " by " RKOwens4 .": The points raised by RKOwens in his video are akin to points raised by RepresentativePress.org in their article " WTC Pre-Collapse Bowin ...
  • Conspiracy "Science" Debunked!
    Blissentia Debunking the Debunkers August 4, 2010 Over my life I've had several political awakenings. The first came at age 11, when I read a National Geographic article about GMO food, became a little freaked out over it's implications, and developed an aversion to it. For many years after it, I v ...
  • More Truth Hidden In Hollywood: One-In-Five Phone ...
    This is a two year old clip from Jay Leno I stumbled across today of actor Shia Labeouf revealing that an FBI consultant on a film he starred in told him that one-in-five phone calls are recorded in the US, and proved it by playing back a recording of a phone call he made two years prior! Eerie t ...
  • 911 Truth in 5 minutes: The Key Evidence vs Mainst ...
    The Hard Science: There IS overwhelming physical evidence that reveals explosives were used to bring down the 3 WTC buildings on 911. There is nothing theoretical about the claim - forensic proof has sealed the case. Simply put, it is IMPOSSIBLE to find Molten Steel , Thermite traces , plus actual ...
  • 7/7 - Five Years On
    Yesterday the Queen who doesn't sweat (I wonder how long before the David Icke fans pick up on that!), visited ground zero and addressed the UN for the first time since 1957. Is it possible for a reigning monarch to commit treason? Coz some would argue that just by associating with the globalist c ...

Fooducate

  • Does High Fructose Corn Syrup cause Diabetes/Cance ...
    High Fructose Corn Syrup must be the most vilified food ingredient of the current millennium. A cheap alternative to sugar, HFCS has found its way into soft drinks, candy, bread, sauces, and thousands of other products over the past 30 years. At the same time, obesity rates in the US have skyrockete ...
  • Rising Obesity Rates and Nutrition Labels
    Some disheartening information from the Center for Disease Control (CDC): Obesity, despite  growing awareness to nutrition and healthy living, is still on the rise. Various agencies pin the numbers between 27%-33% of the population, depending on how the measurement was taken. All agree that the numb ...
  • Cotton Candy Go-gurt – The Final Desecration of Yo ...
    A friend was strolling through her local supermarket when she came upon the yogurt section. A mom was there with her kids, and she gave them choice of several yogurt flavors. They picked cotton candy Go-Gurt. Cotton candy ?!!? As if all the stuff put into kids’ yogurts isn’t enough, now we’re encou ...
  • Moderation Schmoderation
    This is a guest blog post by Lauren Slayton MS, RD, a Manhattan based dietitian specializing in weight management and sports nutrition. This post has been published on her blog as well. Follow Lauren’s tweets @FoodTrainers. A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed for an article about soda . I am ...
  • ADA Response to Accusations on Partnership with He ...
    A couple of weeks ago we lamented the signing of a sponsorship deal between the American Dietetic Association (ADA) and chocolate mega-corp Hershey. We exchanged emails with the ADA in order to voice our concern and to learn more about this relationship. The ADA media relations group was open and g ...

Traffikd

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

Clearreaching

  • Not our fault
    I had to write an article on Lacan for a Greek magazine recently. In the past couple of months that I’ve been reading all related literature, I was impressed by the way Lacan tried to solve the riddle of human psychology. At the root of every want/desire that we feel, he said, there is a primary wan ...
  • Happiness super market
    I’ve been into the triptych “love-beauty-enlightenment” since I was 18. I’ve tried many methods, among which: the Emin Way , Reiki , SRT , channeling and divinations of sorts. I’ve read tons of New Age books about spirituality, enlightenment, immortality and so on and so on. I boasted that I knew th ...
  • Test your EQ!
    I am going on vacation for a week, but I’ll leave you with a little test which is supposed to measure the EQ: There is a woman and a man, who love each other but live on two different islands. The man shares his island with a savage. The woman seeks a way to get to the man’s island, because she lov ...
  • Predisposition
    For the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, the soul had something that was called “fora”, meaning direction. In other words, the soul was thought to have taken up, long before the birth of the body it inhabited, the direction of good or evil. Thus, man was considered to be born good or bad. Quite som ...
  • Is there such a thing as soul?
    Much talked about, much used, the concept of soul has nowadays turned into a chewing gum, especially when put in the context of reincarnation. The truth is that the concept of soul has been tackled by both philosophy and religion since antiquity; this should account for the dozens of definitions the ...

Worldpress - Africa

Canadian Encyclopedia

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I use my oven more efficiently during baki ...
    Yesterday, over on my new growing/cooking/making/frugal blog The Really Good Life, I discussed my love affair with slow rise/no knead bread. It’s really frickin’ ace – it doesn’t take much effort, reduces our food waste, is cheap in itself & stops us spending money in other ways too – and most impo ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle tuna cans?
    While we’ve covered food cans in general before, Danielle emailed asking tuna cans in particular: i have so many, what can i do with them? There’s a wide variety of uses for tuna cans: I know some people use them to make “buddy burner” candles and you can use them as candle holders too – but make su ...
  • Upcycling advice: how can I reuse/recycle cans to ...
    We’ve had an email from Pauline: I would like to use steel and aluminium cans to make jewelery. Do you know how to cut the metal out? Should the can be crushed first? Do you know how to smooth the edges so they don’t cut? If you could throw any light on [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle paint roller trays?
    Is there a word for when you’re window-shopping skips? I was skip-gazing (?) around the corner the other day and as well as having a mighty fine looking pallet in there (yoiiiiink), there were several old paint roller trays flung on top. Compared to rollers, paint trays are super easy to clean (esp ...
  • How do you make sure you use the last bit of every ...
    This is cross-posted to my new frugal/growing/making/cooking blog, The Really Good Life. I’ve reached the end … of my shampoo bottle and our mayonnaise jar. And it made me wonder… Every vaguely-frugal/green family has their own tricks for getting those last bits of gloop, sauce, oil or whatever out ...

Mondoweiss

  • Many Afghan demos in ‘09 were about… I ...
    I'm poking around the Afghan war diaries from Wikileaks (inspired by Antony Loewenstein) and it looks like one element of our nationbuilding effort in Afghanistan is working: the people there have demonstrated a lot, and peacefully, against Israel. Judging by the cable traffic, many of the demonstra ...
  • The Lebanese Army finally acts to protect Lebanon& ...
    Israel has violated the ceasefire with Lebanon over 7,000 times since the end of the 2006 war on Lebanon.�� These violations include:Dropping poisonous balloons over Southern Lebanon causing 8 people to be rushed to the hospital after inhaling toxic fumes. � Crossing into Lebanese territory and [... ...
  • Olbermann won’t mention…
    On Countdown last night, Keith Olbermann would not mention the scandal of Israeli racism--or, rather, what would be a scandal if people like him dared to talk about it. First Maria Teresa Kumar (of VotoLatino.org) and then Jonathan Turley attacked the Republican plan to deprive children born to ille ...
  • Al-Walaja villagers stop construction of the Wall ...
    The village of al-Walaja continued its unarmed resistance to the creation of the Separation Wall on its lands today. Villagers along with Israeli and international supporters non-violently stopped construction of the wall for one and a half hours today. Israeli armed forces responded by arresting 12 ...
  • Peace Now: 492 Israeli violations of the partial s ...
    And other news from Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Police clash with Bedouin attempting to rebuild razed village A number of injuries have been reported, among them MK Talab El-Sana, who apparently fainted while entrenched in a tent constructed to protes ...

Media Consortium

  • Seventeen.com Launches Augmented Reality Shopping ...
    Now, the website has launched an augmented reality shopping application as part of JC Penney's back-to-school collaboration with Hearst. The application is made possible by metaio, a company specializing in augmented reality applications. Through motion capture technology, visitors to the site can ...
  • Glamour Targets e-Commerce With iPad App
    Glamour’s iPad app, which goes on sale Aug. 3, comes with an e-commerce feature that could help the mass women’s magazine compete with a growing number of shopping apps filling up the Apps Store.
  • Magda Abu-Fadil: Funding Journalism in the Digital ...
    Finding money to pay for news is an obsession haunting media executives worldwide, a constant in journalism-related conferences, and it's not likely to disappear any time soon. That's because the very essence of journalism is going through metamorphoses causing its traditional producers sleepless n ...
  • Media Companies Try Getting Social With Tumblr - N ...
    More on how Tumblr. "Mr. Coatney describes Tumblr as “a space in between Twitter and Facebook.” The site allows users to upload images, videos, audio clips and quotes to their pages, in addition to bursts of text." Mr. Coatney describes Tumblr as “a space in between Twitter and Facebook.” The site ...
  • Amazon to Unveil $139 Kindle Wi-Fi - mediabistro.c ...
    Amazon has fired the next shot in the eReader price war. This evening the New York Times broke the news that Amazon will soon offer a new edition of the Kindle eReader, a brand new $139 edition called "Kindle Wi-Fi."

Reality Asserts Itself

  • CIA AND ISI NURTURED MUJAHIDEEN AND TALIBAN
    Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, a husband and wife team, began their experience in Afghanistan when they were the first American journalists to acquire permission to enter behind Soviet lines in 1981 for CBS News and produced a documentary, Afghanistan Between Three Worlds, for PBS. In 1983 the ...
  • ECONOMIC CRISIS AND RACISM HAUNT ARIZONA IMMIGRATI ...
    On Wednesday, a last-second injunction from Judge Susan Bolton temporarily stopped the most aggressive provisions of state bill SB1070 from going into effect. This is the Arizona law that will target undocumented immigrants. In particular, the judge struck down the section that compels police office ...
  • G20: INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM AND ARBITRARY STATE ACTION
    In a murder trial, if the police obtain evidence illegally and can't make their case otherwise, most of us accept the principle that a person we believe to be guilty should go free. We do this because we don’t want to live in a police state. Our right to privacy, to avoid arbitrary search and seiz ...
  • BURSTING 'OFFICER BUBBLES'
    In the last few days, a video produced for The Real News by my colleagues Nazrul Islam and Jesse Freeston has officially gone viral - over 200,000 views on YouTube. The following is a blog that Jesse wrote giving context to the "Officer Bubbles" story. You will find links to the key videos at the en ...
  • THE MISSING WORDS AT THE G20 – or an absurd plan f ...
    With all the public attention during G20 on the 1000 arrests and such, something critical was overlooked.� That's the paradox the assembled heads of governments created for ending the global economic crisis. The G20 leaders recognize that "demand" needs to grow. That means people must have the mea ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • New Nature Video - Foldit: Biology for gamers
    Guessing how a protein will fold up based on its DNA sequence is often too difficult for even the most advanced computer programs. Now scientists have created Foldit, an online game that lets human players do the work. Meet two Foldit gamers and researcher David Baker in this video: Read the ...
  • New Nature Video - Foldit: Biology for gamers
    Guessing how a protein will fold up based on its DNA sequence is often too difficult for even the most advanced computer programs. Now scientists have created Foldit, an online game that lets human players do the work. Meet two Foldit gamers and researcher David Baker in this video: Read the ...
  • Republican senators target "wasteful" science spen ...
    It was doubtless only a matter of time before enterprising critics of the Obama administration picked through the trove of projects funded by 2009’s $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act -- a.k.a the economic stimulus pacakge -- for egregious examples of Big Government Waste. Yes ...
  • Institute of Medicine spells out PEPFAR evaluation ...
    During a quiet meeting at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in Washington D.C. on 2 August an audience of approximately 20 watched a five-member panel lay out an important element of the global fight against AIDS: the plan to assess the President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Over the ...
  • Deepwater Horizon: static kill seems to have worke ...
    After all the endless doom, gloom and oiled pelicans, it’s nice to have a new entry in our (very) occasional series ‘good news from the Gulf of Mexico’. First up: BP’s ‘static kill’ of the leaking well appears to have worked . This means the pressure of the heavy mud pumped into the well is succe ...

new geography

  • Can The Suburban Fringe Be Downtown Adjacent?
    For many suburban Americans, the thought of migrating to a center-city environment holds an intriguing appeal, fueled by urbanists who tout the benefits of stunning cityscape views, walkability, proximity to civic and cultural amenities, and street vibrancy. I happen to be among those suburbanites w ...
  • Alaska: Caribou Commons Or America's Lost Ace?
    The most serious collateral damage from the BP spill disaster could very likely be in the far north, along the Alaskan coast. The problem is not a current spill but the Obama administration's ban on offshore drilling and what many fear may be a broader attempt to close the state from further resourc ...
  • Resort Towns Becoming Neo-Company Towns
    Over the past few years resort communities - communities ideal for a ski vacation, a beach week, a hiking excursion or the like - have been hard hit by the downturn in real estate. The key question is how these communities can be revived. If the issues involved are successfully addressed head-on, t ...
  • Ownership Subsidies: Dream Homes or Disasters?
    Home ownership has been considered an integral part of the American Dream for as long as anyone can remember. Now it has come under scrutiny, notably in a June Wall Street Journal piece by Richard Florida , which claims that that home ownership reduces employment opportunities for young adults, si ...
  • Health Care Development in Central Florida
    By Richard Reep In this still cooling economy, Florida seems to be continually buffeted by a perfect storm of unemployment, record foreclosures, and stagnant population growth. As the state continues to suffer, the health care industry has unfolded two planning efforts aimed at building some econo ...

GM Watch

water.org

  • Bono Street Team: Water.org
    Bono Street Team: Water.org (Bono Street Team) – Water.org is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization committed to providing safe drinking water and sanitation to people in developing countries. They have featured projects in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Read full Bono Street Team arti ...
  • Join the Day of Action & achieve the MDGs (ONE)
    Join the Day of Action & Achieve the MDGs (ONE) – In September of 2000, leaders of the 191 United Nations member countries met in New York City and formulated a plan to halve extreme poverty by 2015. Unanimously, these leaders agreed upon eight comprehensive, holistic, and attainable goals, the Mill ...
  • Klean Kanteen special edition bottles (Klean Kante ...
    Klean Kanteen Special Edition Bottles (Klean Kanteen) - Klean Kanteen is part of a growing marketing trend that supports earth-friendly causes with a percentage of the profits from their product sales. (Think TOMS shoes – for each pair purchased, they send one to a child in need; or Boxed Water, whi ...
  • Getting the most from FaceBook fans (Chron. Phil.)
    Getting the Most From Your Facebook Fans (Chronicle of Philanthropy) – By following the lessons of social game developers, Chase engaged more than 2-million Facebook users in a dialogue on philanthropy. We found that these types of interactions could easily evolve into creative fundraising solutions ...
  • Rich Thorsten on sustainable sanitation (PRLog)
    A clean bill of health? How humanitarian agencies can remedy approaches to nutrition and sanitation (PRLog) – Rich Thorsten, Director of International Programs at Water.org and one of the panellists, asserts: âSanitation has finally begun to receive more attention in the international development ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley break ...

Margaret's News

  • Assad: We will support Lebanon in face of criminal ...
    Three Lebanese soldiers and one Lebanese journalist were killed Tuesday when Israeli soldiers exchanged fire with Lebanese soldiers at the border. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Some Afghan soldiers missing from U.S. base are in ...
    At least eight members of the Afghan military wanted by U.S. authorities after fleeing a Texas air force base have attained permanent resident status in Canada or are awaiting decisions on refugee claims. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • FBI access to e-mail and web records raises fears
    Can be obtained merely with the signature of a special agent in charge of any FBI field office and there is no need even for a suspicion of wrongdoing, merely that the records would be relevant in a counterintelligence or counterterrorism investigation. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & G ...
  • Gay-bashing on the rise in Vancouver: councillor
    Unfortunately, we are the gay-bashing capital, Mr. Stevenson said. While I dont think theres been a huge spike, its on the increase. Gay-bashing is not going down, thats for sure. The question is: Why not? Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Why the QDR's independent panel makes good, common ...
    The need to defend the American homeland; assure access to the sea, air, space, and cyberspace; preserve a favorable balance of power across Eurasia that prevents authoritarian domination of the region and providing for the common good good globally. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov' ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Historical Notes

libcom

  • The rage over the wage
    Dhaka min wage protest - 1 Aug 2010.jpg The past four days have seen widespread protests and rioting against the announcement of the new minimum wage structure for Bangladeshi garment workers. ...
  • Miners in Indonesia strike
    800px-Batu_Hijau_mine_ore_trucks.jpg Miners at the Batu Hijau mine on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia are on strike over unpaid overtime pay, with the union claiming that the strike is likely to last ...
  • Casus Belli: Electricity Union theatens long-term ...
    +ΔΕΗ-1.jpg The Electricity Company union has responded to government pledges to the IMF to sell 40% of power plants by threatening a long-term black-out across the country. The new ...
  • Moscow / Khimki: The Battle with the Adminstration ...
    main.jpg Moscow / Khimki: The Battle with the Adminstration Heats Up
  • A new philosoFiat at Pomigliano factory, Italy
    fiat-pomigliano-fiom-protesta.jpg If eight hours don't seem enough for you ( original title of the article ), try to work at an assembly line from ten o'clock at night till six o'clock in the morning wit ...

Free Range International

  • Getting After It
    One of the Chim Chim’s dropped in for a visit last month.  He was on some sort of training inspection type team which I didn’t ask too much about and told us that every-time he asked officers from the unit he was looking at what they were doing the reply was “getting after it.”  They [...]
  • Losing Hearts and Minds
    Ben Arnoldy at the Christen Science Monitor penned an excellent tale on reconstruction efforts going pear shaped and the consequences resulting from such folly.  It is an excellent piece of reporting from one of the truly professional foreign correspondents working the country today.  The report was ...
  • Restrepo
    Last week Kanani Fong at The Kitchen Dispatch arranged an interview for me with Tim Hertherington, who along with Sebastian Junger produced the award winning documentary Restrepo.   Kanani signed onto the Restrepo team to spearhead a public relations effort, in conjunction with National Geographic, ...
  • Riding with Ghosts
    Editors Note:  This article is too good not to share in its entirety.  The reporter, Mitch Potter, was kind enough to give me permission to do so.  Mitch contacted me through the blog and Panjwaii Tim told me he was a great guy with lots of experience and knowledge who he was happy to host. [...]
  • Arbaki
    It looks like the new boss has convinced President Karzai to reverse his position on using tribal militias.  The new name for these soon to be created Arbaki is Local Police Forces (LPF.)  This is a plan which has been tried before with minimal success. In Kandahar the Local Defense Initiative (LDI) ...

Heliogenic Climate Change

  • All you need to know about government scientists
    “Gabriela Chavarria of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been picked as the science adviser for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Trained as an entomologist, Chavarria studied neotropical bumble bees and has since worked in conservation policy at Washington, D.C.âbased NGOs. Since ...
  • Lindzen and Choi’s new paper out — con ...
    “Abstract: To estimate climate sensitivity from observations, Lindzen and Choi [2009] used the deseasonalized fluctuations in sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and the concurrent responses in the top-of-atmosphere outgoing radiation from the ERBE satellite instrument. Distinct periods of warming and c ...
  • How bad is the Gulf spill?
    “The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is bad â no one would dispute it. But just how bad?  … [T]he Deepwater Horizon blowout is not unprecedented, nor is it yet among the worst oil accidents in history. And its ultimate impact will depend on a long list of interlinked variables, including the weat ...
  • While EPA wages war on coal, China coal imports sk ...
    “China’s growing appetite for imported coal has ignited coal prices … Last week, the benchmark price at Australia’s Newcastle port for thermal coalâthe type burned in power plantsâhit $108 a metric ton, the highest since October 2008, according to globalCOAL, an international trading platform. A ...
  • California going down — begs for fed bailout
    “State tax collections plummeted unexpectedly in April, wiping out months of steady gains that legislators hoped would ease their budget troubles and restore California’s economy faster than experts predicted.  … Revenue for April, the biggest revenue month because it is when most Californians pay ...

Common Dreams

  • Mexico Looks to Legalization as Drug War Murders H ...
    by Jo Tuckman in Mexico City Mexico's president, Felipe Calderón, has joined calls for a debate on the legalization of drugs as new figures show thousands of Mexicans every year being slaughtered in cartel wars. "It is a fundamental debate," the president said, belying his traditional reluctance to ...
  • Scientists Cast Doubt on Claims BP Spill's No Thre ...
    by Erika Bolstad, Renee Schoof and Margaret Talev WASHINGTON - Many scientists say they're skeptical of a widely publicized government report Wednesday that concludes much of the oil that gushed from BP's leaking well is gone and poses little threat to the Gulf of Mexico. According to the National O ...
  • Whitewash? UN Names Panel to Probe Israeli Killing ...
    by Thalif Deen Despite initial misgivings, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon received the tacit approval of the Israeli government to establish an international panel to probe the widely-condemned killings of nine Turkish civilians onboard a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza last ...
  • Canadians Not Surprised at Enbridge Oil Spill in M ...
    by Elizabeth Willis Canadians familiar with North America's largest oil pipeline operation, Enbridge Inc., say they are not surprised that the company has spilled oil again. Enbridge, based in Calgary, last week reported that an estimated 819,000 gallons of crude oil had leaked from its 41-year-old ...
  • Judge Strikes Down California Prop. 8, the Ban on ...
    by Bob Egelko and Demian Bulwa SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge today struck down Proposition 8, the voter-passed November 2008 initiative that defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman. U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker found that the ban on same-sex marriage violated the constitutional du ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Scotts Contracting

  • Government Involvement in Renewable Energy Jun &#8 ...
    EERE State News Monthly Report June 1 – July 31, 2010 The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) publishes this summary of news stories posted the past month on the EERE State Activities & … Continue reading →
  • Senate Inaction of Energy Bill
    360+ Organizations Release Statement on Senate Inaction on Energy Bill The Senate’s decision to drop the RES and Cap and Trade portion of the latest energy bill draws criticism. Published: July 27, 2010 Clean Energy Works, a diverse coalition of … Continue reading →
  • Basement Blog Posts
    Basement Blog Post Collection Photos, Ideas, Products, Suggestions, Wet Basements, Mold, Green, Eco Friendly, Insulation, Stairways, Finishes, Slate, Tile, Carpet, Accessible, Access Points, more Click Here to email Scotty for a Free Estimate / Price Quote for your Basement Remodel … Continue readin ...
  • Green stimulus spurs cellulosic ethanol makers
    Increases the bookmark twitter facebook digg Google Windowslive Delicious buzz friendfeed Linkedin diigo reddit stumbleupon The government’s commitment to come out with favorable policies aimed at promoting clean energy will give a fillip to an early commercialization of cellulosic ethanol. … Contin ...
  • Alternative and Renewable Energy Facts
    By sampurl Published: 06/10/2009 Font size: Renewable Energy will soon become second nature Below are some Renewable Energy facts that you might find interesting. We would also like to hear from you if you have additional facts that we have … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

  • With California's Gay Marriage Ban Overturned, the ...
    Before flying to Los Angeles for a news conference, the name plaintiffs and legal team behind the defeat of California's gay marriage ban gathered in San Francisco to revel in Chief Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling. "With this decision carefully analyzing evidence, we are well on our way to an ultimate ...
  • Airgas' Suit Against Cravath Can Proceed
    Airgas Inc. can move forward with its breach of fiduciary duty claims against Cravath Swaine & Moore now that a federal judge in Philadelphia has said the company sufficiently pleaded its case to survive a defense motion for judgment on the pleadings. U.S. District Court Judge Eduardo C. Robreno al ...
  • Attorneys Press Federal Circuit Judge to Recuse in ...
    With the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter -- before the panel that will hear it has even been selected. The ACLU claims that remarks made by Feder ...
  • Litigants Fail to Heed Lessons of 'Victor Stanley'
    For counsel who missed Victory Stanley's warning to conduct quality control on keyword search terms, attorneys H. Christopher Boehning and Daniel J. Toal point to a recent ruling that states loud and clear: Counsel who fail to conduct quality control risk involuntarily waiving privilege.
  • Volkswagen, Audi Owners to Share in $69 Million Se ...
    A U.S. magistrate judge in New Jersey has approved a $69 million settlement in a nationwide class action by owners of Volkswagens and Audis whose interiors leaked during rainstorms. The settlement also provides for $9.2 million in fees and $675,000 in costs for the two class-counsel firms. The suit ...

Iranian.com

  • میلیاردها تومان برای فرستادن یک پیام به اوباما
    برگزاری همایشی با عنوان "همایش بزرگ ایرانیان خارج از کشور" به گردانندگی و برنامه ریزی اسفندیار رحیم مشایی، و با سخنرانی احمدی نژاد، با انتقاد محافل سیاسی محافظه کاران و حتی رسانه های حامی دولت مواجه شد. read more
  • Russian company blocked from delivering 5 planes t ...
    MOSCOW, Aug 3 (Reuters) - U.S. sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme are preventing a state-connected Russian company from delivering five passenger jets to Iran under a 2007 contract, the head of the company said on Tuesday. Delivery of the Tupolev Tu-204 planes would violate U.S. sanct ...
  • Iranian Lawyer Who Fled: ‘I Had The Right To Defen ...
    WASHINGTON -- "I was the lawyer of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani and I had the right to defend her,” says Iranian lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei in his first interview after fleeing Iran. Mostafaei was defending Ashtiani, the Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery when Iranian officials ja ...
  • گزارش همایش مقدماتی سکورلار دموکرات های آمریکای شم ...
    روز های ۲۴ و ۲۵ جولای ۲۰۱۰ شهر نیویورک میزبان ۲۲ نماینده و ۳۵ ناظراز تشکل های محلی شهر های آمریکا و کانادا بود که با هدف هم اندیشی وتبادل نظر برای پی ریزی تشکیلات منسجم سراسری به بحث و گفتگو پرداختند. read more
  • Iran stoning case lawyer arrested in Turkey after ...
    Turkish police have arrested an Iranian lawyer who represented Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani , the woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.....Mostafaei was apparently smuggled into Turkey but was arrested on immigration charges on Monday.

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Hugo Chavez vs Subcomandante Marcos
    Subcomandante Marcos Last night I dreamt that Subcomandante Marcos (the elusive Zapatista leader) was running against Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. I often have really bizarre dreams when I fall asleep to the BBC World Service (I know it’s a bad habit, but the cricket scores always send m ...
  • Toxic Skin Products: Buyer Beware!
    I am always on the look-out for good examples of medical censorship. Recently I came across a 2010 Friends of the Earth report on preliminary studies into the health effects of the nanosized particles present in many popular sunscreens and so called “natural” mineral foundations. sex sel ...
  • A Short History of Left "Gatekeeper" Foundations
    (of the variety Obama worked for in Chicago ) Webster Tarpley (see July 19 blog) isn’t the first to challenge the role of so-called liberal foundations, such as the Ford, Rockefeller (the main one Obama worked for was Gamalie ...
  • Affirmative Action: Nixon's Brainchild
    More from Webster Tarpley Barrack H. Obama: the Unauthorized Biography There are a lot of misconceptions about the origin of affirmative action policies that require employers to hire and schools and universities to enroll a minimum percentage of women and minorities. Fox News would have you ...
  • Who Did Obama Work for in Chicago?
    From Webster Tarpley Barrack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography Obama’s “official” biography reveals that he first gained public prominence in Chicago as the first chairman of the board of the “liberal” Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). However his first job out of law school was with t ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Same-Sex Marriage Ban Overturned in California
    California’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban Overturned in Federal Trial | Bloomberg California’s law restricting marriage to a man and a woman was thrown out today in the first federal trial testing whether same-sex marriage is protected by the U.S. Constitution. U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker in San Fran ...
  • The Fading of the American Dream
    The world is going to “hell in a hand basket.” This is no joke. Recent news articles confirm what common sense makes very clear. The middle class is dying out. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Well, that’s not exactly a surprise. With the rise in the cost of living outpa ...
  • Vertigo!
    I take a deep breath. I swallow hard. My ears feel like they haven’t popped yet, as if I’ve just arrived by plane and the descent was much too quick. The edges of my ears tingle with the prickling of needles. An army of them march to the top of my [...]
  • Lifting the Fog
    I’m one of the little people. Nothing special. Just an average, tax paying American who loves God, her family, her life and wants to make a difference in the world; however small. Like most, I realized long ago that life isn’t fair, and special breaks are doled out to those with connections. Sure it ...
  • Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
    Cher-Ohio NORML LEAP does not promote the use of drugs and is deeply concerned about the extent of drug abuse worldwide. LEAP is also deeply concerned with the destructive impact of violent drug gangs and cartels everywhere in the world. Neither problem is remedied by the current policy of drug pro ...

    Blacklisted News

  • The Death of Paper Money
    As they prepare for holiday reading in Tuscany, City bankers are buying up rare copies of an obscure book on the mechanics of Weimar inflation published in 1974.
  • IMF blueprint for a global currency – yes really
    Authored by Reza Moghadam, director of the IMF’s strategy, policy and review department, it discusses how the IMF sees the International Monetary System evolving after the financial crisis.
  • Food stamp use hit record 40.8m in May
    Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program subsidies for food purchases jumped 19 percent from a year earlier and increased 0.9 percent from April, the US Department of Agriculture said in a statement on its website.
  • WHAT A GOVERNMENT CAN DO WITH ITS OWN BANK:
    THE REMARKABLE MODEL OF THE COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA
  • ‘Gender bending’ chemical in food tins may cut mal ...
    Men with high levels of Bisphenol A (BPA) in their bodies are more likely to have low sperm counts, according to a study.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

  • U.S. spends $1 billion on Israeli defense
    Summary: It has now been reported that the US has provided more than $1 billion towards three of the missile defense systems under development by Israel. The US House of Representative appropriations defense subcommittee recently appropriated $217 million to help develop a joint missile defense sys ...
  • Krauthammer dismisses alternatives to war with Ira ...
    Summary: Neither facts nor nonmilitary alternatives deter Charles Krauthammer (“Iranian regime starts to feel the heat,” Sunday) from pushing war with Iran. For instance, Krauthammer omits that the United Arab Emirates’ ambassador to Washington said other Arab countries have different opinions abou ...
  • Obama Warned Israel May Bomb Iran
    Summary: US B-2 BomberNetanyahu believes he holds the high cards, largely because of the strong support he enjoys in our Congress and our strongly pro-Israel media. He reads your reluctance even to mention in controversial bilateral issues publicly during his recent visit as affirmation that he is ...
  • Attacking Iran: A pending mistake
    Summary: At the G8 Summit meeting held in July President Barack Obama stated that Iran has until September to comply with international proposals aimed at stopping the Islamic Republic from developing nuclear weapons. That is the deadline. The US will not act alone in instigating a war against Iran ...
  • Member of IDF Panel Probing Flotilla Raid: Army to ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • U.S. spends $1 billion on Israeli defense
    Summary: It has now been reported that the US has provided more than $1 billion towards three of the missile defense systems under development by Israel. The US House of Representative appropriations defense subcommittee recently appropriated $217 million to help develop a joint missile defense ...
  • Krauthammer dismisses alternatives to war with Ira ...
    Summary: Neither facts nor nonmilitary alternatives deter Charles Krauthammer ("Iranian regime starts to feel the heat," Sunday) from pushing war with Iran. For instance, Krauthammer omits that the United Arab Emirates' ambassador to Washington said other Arab countries have different opinions a ...
  • Obama Warned Israel May Bomb Iran
    Summary: US B-2 Bomber Netanyahu believes he holds the high cards, largely because of the strong support he enjoys in our Congress and our strongly pro-Israel media. He reads your reluctance even to mention in controversial bilateral issues publicly during his recent visit as affirmation that he ...
  • Attacking Iran: A pending mistake
    Summary: At the G8 Summit meeting held in July President Barack Obama stated that Iran has until September to comply with international proposals aimed at stopping the Islamic Republic from developing nuclear weapons. That is the deadline. The US will not act alone in instigating a war against I ...
  • Iran warns any war in Mideast ‘would not be limite ...
    Summary: Mottaki Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki has warned that any wars in the Middle East region by the US or the Israeli regime "will not be limited" to one county. Mottaki told Al-Alam that Israel's military movements and its threats against Lebanon and Syria indicate that Tel Av ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Feds now admits to storing naked body images from ...
    (NaturalNews) A few months ago, I first wrote about the TSA's naked body scanners and how it could allow Big Brother to view and store pictures of your naked body (plus the naked bodies of your children, too). At that time, my story was met with a reaction of derision from a few people outside the u ...
  • Heart failure breakthrough: placebo controlled stu ...
    (NaturalNews) Heart failure is a progressive condition marked by a worsening of the heart's ability to pump enough blood to supply the body's needs. It is most often caused by a heart attack, years of high blood pressure or other injuries to the cardiovascular system and kills about 250,000 people i ...
  • Modern Western diet leads to allergies in children
    (NaturalNews) A team of researchers from Florence University in Italy have found that the modern Western diet of high-sugar, low-fiber processed foods is contributing to allergies and other problems not seen in those who eat more primitive diets. According to study results, junk foods alter benefici ...
  • Drew Carey loses 80 pounds and cures his own diabe ...
    (NaturalNews) In a recent People article, celebrity actor and host of The Price is Right Drew Carey shares about how he has shed 80 pounds -- and counting -- and cured his own diabetes by following a strict diet of no carbohydrates and getting plenty of exercise. The 52-year-old former host of The D ...
  • Lunch meat may cause bladder cancer
    (NaturalNews) A recent study published in the journal Cancer links nitrate-containing cold cut meats to bladder cancer. According to the study, people who eat red meat cold cuts that contain nitrates or nitrites have a nearly 30 percent increased risk of developing bladder cancer. "Nitrate and nitri ...

Threat Level

  • Hacker Wonderland: DefCon 18 in Photos
    << previous image | next image >> LAS VEGAS — Roughly 10,000 computer hacking enthusiasts, poseurs, geeks, nerds and government agents gathered for DefCon this weekend. In its 18th year, the world’s largest hacker convention draws people from all walk ...
  • Claim: Alleged WikiLeaker Gave Classified Document ...
    An Army intelligence analyst who is charged with leaking classified documents to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks also allegedly sent classified documents to the hacker who turned him in to the feds, according to a friend and associate of the hacker who helped connect him with federal agents. Chet ...
  • Hacker Spoofs Cell Phone Tower to Intercept Calls
    LAS VEGAS — A security researcher created a cell phone base station that tricks cell phones into routing their outbound calls through his device, allowing someone to intercept even encrypted calls in the clear. The device tricks the phones into disabling encryption and records call details and conte ...
  • Biometric and Other Locks Fail to Foil Hackers at ...
    LAS VEGAS — It wouldn’t be DefCon without a noted lock hacking team demonstrating the gross insecurity of some of the latest security locks, such as a biometric lock that could be easily cracked with a paper clip. This year the three-member team of lock hackers, Marc Weber Tobias, Toby Bluzmanis an ...
  • WikiLeaks Posts Mysterious ‘Insurance’ File
    In the wake of strong U.S. government statements condemning WikiLeaks’ recent publishing of 77,000 Afghan War documents, the secret-spilling site has posted a mysterious encrypted file labeled “insurance.” The huge file, posted on the Afghan War page at the WikiLeaks site, is 1.4 GB and is encrypte ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Sharron Angle, Holy Warrior
    Back in May, half-term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin insisted that the Founding Fathers "were quite clear that we would create law based on the God of the Bible and the 10 commandments." But while the Founders intended no such thing, Palin's protege Sharron Angle is convinced. Just weeks after procl ...
  • Billionaires Make Case for Estate Tax with Charity ...
    The deaths this year of billionaires George Steinbrenner , Dan Duncan and other members of the gilded class have drawn attention to the temporary lapse of the estate tax . After all, even as Republican obstructionism produced a multi-billion dollar windfall for the heirs of some of America's iconic ...
  • Mitt, Muslims and the Mosque
    As the planned "Ground Zero" mosque passed a key hurdle today, Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin have emerged as its most vocal critics on the right. But while Gingrich called it "an offensive act" which Palin asked the Muslim faithful to "refudiate," Mitt Romney's predictable path to opposition may be ...
  • 10 Republican Lies About the Bush Tax Cuts
    So it's come down to this. On Saturday, David Stockman , the legendary Reagan budget chief who presided over the Gipper's supply-side tax cuts, announced that the "debt explosion has resulted not from big spending by the Democrats, but instead the Republican Party's embrace, about three decades ago ...
  • Study Finds U.S. Recovery Programs Averted "Depres ...
    Friday's news that U.S. second quarter economic growth slipped to 2.4% produced shared concern across the political spectrum about the sluggish pace of the recovery. But among economists if not politicians, there is also an overwhelming consensus that without the Obama stimulus program, things woul ...

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • Energy Efficiency: Things Were Going So Well Until ...
    Perry Appointees Smitherman, Nelson, Anderson protect consumers from energy efficiency There is a disturbing trend emerging in Texas. A once successful consumer-oriented program is floundering because of a deficit of perspective behind the dais at the PUC. The Public Utility Commission of Texas prop ...
  • Great Texas Cleanup Concert
    The Great Texas Cleanup: Outdoor Art & Music Festival July 24th in Houston at Discovery Green On July 24th, the Sierra Club and Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Service (TEJAS) will host The Great Texas Cleanup: A Rally & Concert for Clean Energy and Clean Air. Environmental and community groups ...
  • Netroots Nation Wrap-Up
    Check out our final vlog on our visit to Las Vegas and Netroots Nation! ### By promoting cleaner energy, cleaner government, and cleaner air for all Texans, we hope to provide for a healthy place to live and prosper. We arePublic Citizen Texas. Filed under: Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, g ...
  • Great Texas Clean-Up Festival y’all!
    The Great Texas Clean-Up Festival is coming to Houston! The Sierra Club and Texas Environmental Justice are rolling out the Great Texas Clean-Up Festival, from 4-10 at the Discovery Green in Houston, an event expected to kick off a larger campaign to clean up Texas. Public Citizen is a coalition par ...
  • Arizona Corporation Commission Unanimously Approve ...
    Phoenix, AZ – Today, the Arizona Corporation Commission acted to save consumers and businesses money by unanimously approving a final Energy Efficiency Standard Rule. âThere was strong support from all five commissioners to significantly increase Arizonaâs commitment to energy efficiency via thi ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • How the Roswell crash happened
    Anthony Bragalia investigates a series of events that could have caused the UFO crash at Roswell in 1947. ...
  • Two crop circles depicting Shroud of Turin?
    Two crop circles have turned up near the M4 motorway in England that appear to depict the face of Jesus. The patterns within the circles seem to close...
  • Orange orbs formation over Glasgow
    A Glasgow resident recalls three strange orange orbs hovering silently in formation over her car. Its not the first time something unusual has been si...
  • Remains of St John the Baptist 'found'
    Bone fragments believed to belong to St John the Baptist have been discovered in Bulgaria. The fragments were found in a box on Sveti Ivan Island near...
  • Man develops creepy robot
    Japanese robot inventor Hiroshi Ishiguro has developed a particularly creepy robot called the Telenoid R1. Intended to be used as a communications dev...

Grassroots

Climate

  • August 5, 2010
    Looking for the Oil? NOAA Says It's Mostly Gone (AP) With a startling report that some researchers call more spin than science, the government said Wednesday that the mess made by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is mostly gone already.  Obama Says "Long Battle" in Gulf Close to E ...
  • August 4, 2010
    U.S. Finds Most Oil From Spill Poses Little Additional Risk (New York Times) The government is expected to announce today that three-quarters of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak has already evaporated, dispersed, been captured or otherwise eliminated — and that much of the rest is so ...
  • August 3, 2010
    Gulf Spill Is the Largest of Its Kind, Scientists Say (New York Times) The BP spill is by far the world's largest accidental release of oil into marine waters, according to the most precise estimates yet of the well's flow rate, announced by federal scientists on Monday.  BP Aims to "Ki ...
  • August 2, 2010
    EPA Notes Improvements at Michigan Oil Spill Site (AP) A regional administrator for the EPA said Sunday that significant improvement had been made at the site of an oil spill in a southern Michigan river. But the agency cautioned that it will take months to complete the cleanup. $5 Mill ...
  • July 31 - Aug. 1, 2010
    Feds Warned Company in Mich. Spill About Pipeline (AP) U.S. regulators earlier this year demanded improvements to the pipeline network that includes a segment that ruptured in southern Michigan, spilling hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River, according to a docum ...

GreenBiz

  • Behind the Apparel Industry's New Eco Index
    A new tool fashioned by makers of outdoor apparel to measure the environmental impact of products is easy to use and available to any company that wants to try it. Summer Rayne Oakes provides an inside look at the Eco Index and the thoughts of some of its creators.
  • Can Retrofits Help Wean Us from Oil?
    In the wake of Deepwater oil spill, the Natural Resources Defense Fund and the Institute for Market Transformation have updated their fact sheet "Reducing the Need for U.S. Drilling Through Energy Efficiency." The upshot? There is no rational basis for pursuing dangerous drilling while so much of th ...
  • Levi's, Outdoor Industry Join Forces for Product F ...
    The Eco Index tool aims to help companies understand all of the impacts of their products and learn how they can make their goods more sustainable.
  • Appliance Makers Agree to Build Smarter, Energy-Si ...
    Home appliance manufacturers agreed on Tuesday to new energy and water efficiency standards for washing machines, clothes dryers, refrigerators and dishwashers that will reduce the nation's utility bills by billions of dollars.
  • The Princeton Review Names the Greenest Colleges i ...
    Eighteen U.S. colleges and universities made The Princeton Review's 2011 Green Rating Honor Roll for maintaining the most sustainable practices, policies and course offerings among all campuses rated for their environmentally friendliness.

Reuters Global

  • U.N. plays down “guidance” on Kashmir
    The United Nations is playing down a statement on Kashmir a U.N. spokesman sent to a small group of reporters last week. After India made clear that it was very unhappy with the language on Kashmir issued by the U.N. press office, the world body explained that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had ...
  • Dreams from my father: South Asia’s politica ...
    Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is following a long tradition of South Asian family dynasties as he launches the political career of his son, Bilawal Bhutto, during a controversial visit to Britain.
  • Crustaceans rule!
    Ever wondered what kinds of wildlife dominate the world's seas and oceans? Now there's an answer, at least in terms of the number of species in different categories. It's not fish. It's not mammals. It's crustaceans!
  • Senate Republicans ask: What’s the hurry on ...
    When it comes to ratifying President Obama's nuclear arms reduction treaty with the Russians, Senate Republicans say: don't rush us. Obama has said he would like to see the Senate ratify the new START treaty with Moscow this year. But he will need some Republican support to get the 67 votes requi ...
  • Germany’s king of the ‘Sommerloch&#821 ...
    German Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle takes full advantage of summer 'silly season' to raise his profile with a steady stream of proposals -- that will probably go nowhere -- while his boss, Chancellor Angela Merkel, and other key newsmakers are out of town on their holidays.

Booman Tribune

  • Bans on Gay Marriage Ruled Unconstitutional
    Actually quite tame by Newt's standards: "Judge Walker's ruling overturning Prop 8 is an outrageous disrespect for our Constitution and for the majority of people of the United States who believe marriage is the union of husband and wife. In every state of the union from California to Maine to Ge ...
  • Sirota is Full of It
    In January 2008, Andrew Romanoff was named DLC Man of the Week. The reasons given for the honor were all laudable, but the DLC doesn't lavish praise on people from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. In 2009, Romanoff was an official DLC Fellow. Unsurprisingly, Romanoff endorsed Hillary ...
  • It's What They Do That Worries Me
    Another Conservative apologizes for an anti-Obama stunt, but do you really believe the apology? Read and decide for yourself: Shooting gallery apologises for using Obama as a target A carnival game that offered fair-goers the chance to win prizes by shooting a black man has been axed after co ...
  • America: A Nation of Clerks and Salespeople
    For no particular reason I visited the Bureau of Labor statistics today to see what I could see. And let me tel you, after I read the news today, oh boy was I not thrilled at all the holes I found in our economy, or to be more specific, the Labor sector of our economy. Napoleon once disparagin ...
  • With Midterms Looming, It's Time to Work
    One thing I haven't seen much discussed is that the outcome of this November's elections will decide who gets to redraw the 435 congressional seats in the House of Representatives, as well as the districts for each state's legislatures. It should go without saying that this is important. The distr ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Geek sickness: can social rejection make you ill?
    A UCLA experiment suggests that “social stress and rejection are related to the release of certain inflammatory chemicals in the body; these chemicals have been linked to several medical conditions, including asthma, arthritis, and some kinds of cancer.“ Ars Technica has the low-down: In the study, ...
  • The Courage to Suck
    It seems that the best thing that ever happened to Harper Lee as a writer was also the worst thing that ever happened to Harper Lee as a writer. In 1956, Lee received a gift of a year’s wages from friends who told her to “write whatever you please.” Let’s take a moment now for [...] Follow Futurismi ...
  • Anthologize: plugin exports WordPress blogs as ebo ...
    Here’s a heads-up for fellow webzine editors and publishers, fiction writers publishing their own work online, and other interested (or indeed interesting) parties: the Anthologize plugin for WordPress generates EPUB, PDF and “other mobile formats” from content stored on the blog in which it is inst ...
  • Counting down to Zero History
    There’s a book called Zero History coming out soon, written by some guy called William Gibson… Kinda surprised that the first place I saw this was at Wired… but then the Bigend trilogy (of which this is the third instalment) has rather conspicuously not been marketed as (or should that be to?) scien ...
  • Because we don’t have enough sources of terrorism ...
    Psychology boffins at Northwest University reckon they can detect “guilty knowledge” with 100% accuracy using scans of P300 brainwaves. Haven’t we reached a point where we should just abolish all modes of collective transportation, close down all buildings and spaces to which the general public have ...

Therapy News

  • Soothing Siblings: The Benefits of Having a Sister
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Our relationships impact the way we feel about ourselves and our lives. Plenty of people with strained family relationships parse out the nuances with a therapist or counselor. But siblings are a source of comfort, too. A new survey finds that adolescents who have pos ...
  • How do Effective Marriage Partners Make Decisions ...
    By Susan Heitler, Ph.D., Conflict Resolution Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Susan and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Marriage partners are in a sense yoked together. Couples need therefore skills for making decisions cooperatively. If they can choose together when to turn ...
  • Shame as an Ethics Issue – Part III
    By Cedar Barstow, M.Ed., C.H.T., Right Use of Power Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Cedar and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile How to De-activate the Shame State, Part III of Series is edited from Right Use of Power: The Heart of Ethics* by Cedar Barstow Here is the final section on ...
  • BP Has No Plans to Cover Oil Spill’s Mental Health ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The mental health impact of the oil spill is just starting to be documented, but it’s been in the limelight for weeks, especially among therapists, counselors, and other mental health professionals. Mental health claims, including $39 million to establish year-long pr ...
  • Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Quit Smoking
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary A recent study of people who are trying to quit smoking shows that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can help reduce cigarette cravings. Overcoming cravings is an essential part of successful addiction therapy, as the craving to pick up another cigarette may, in the short t ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Offshore wind can provide electricity, jobs - Detr ...
    Offshore wind can provide electricity, jobs Detroit Free Press Mountaintop removal is ugly. Coal ash piles leaching acidic discharge into our Great Lakes are ugly. What's more, smokestacks cause millions of dollars of ... and more��
  • Study: Mining process harm 'irreparable' - UPI.com
    Study: Mining process harm 'irreparable' UPI.com 4 (UPI) -- Mountaintop removal mining has irreversibly harmed Appalachian ecosystems, damaging streams and increasing risks of flooding, US environmental ... and more��
  • Power outrage: advocacy group rails against mounta ...
    Power outrage: advocacy group rails against mountaintop removal coal mining Dover Post So Delawareans may never know exactly how much of their electricity is generated through mountaintop removal coal mining. Appalachian Voices, an advocacy ... and more��
  • Yim Yames, Ben Sollee And Daniel Martin Moore Lead ...
    Yim Yames, Ben Sollee And Daniel Martin Moore Lead Brooklyn Through Appalachia ... Huffington Post (blog) United in their concern about mountaintop removal , the three joined forces to create music and spread the message. James suggested they turn the songs into ...
  • Readers' voice: Aug. 5, 2010 - Charleston Gazette
    Readers' voice: Aug. 5, 2010 Charleston Gazette What part of mountaintop removal do you not understand? We are not against coal; we just want our mountains. I am dissatisfied with the phone service ...

Memeorandum

  • An August Surprise from Obama? (James Pethokoukis)
    James Pethokoukis : An August Surprise from Obama?   —  Main Street may be about to get its own gigantic bailout.  Rumors are running wild from Washington to Wall Street that the Obama administration is about to order government-controlled lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to forgive a portion of ...
  • Gibbs dismisses Missouri vote against federal heal ...
    Sam Youngman / The Hill : Gibbs dismisses Missouri vote against federal health insurance mandate   —  White House press secretary Robert Gibbs flatly dismissed Missouri's vote Tuesday rejecting a key part of the healthcare law.  —  Gibbs said Missouri's vote approving a ballot initiative to exempt ...
  • 41% of Republicans: President Obama foreign-born ( ...
    Andy Barr / The Politico : 41% of Republicans: President Obama foreign-born   —  The so-called ‘birther’ conspiracy theory has persisted since President Obama's 2008 campaign.  AP  —  On President Barack Obama's birthday, a new CNN/Opinion Research released Wednesday shows 41 percent of Republican ...
  • Judge Walker's decision to overturn Prop 8 is fact ...
    Dahlia Lithwick / Slate : Judge Walker's decision to overturn Prop 8 is factual, well-reasoned, and powerful. … - Charging the WikiLeaks Leaker With Treason Would Be Absurd- How Many Americans Can't Swim?  - Profitable Companies That Refuse To Restore the Benefits They Axed in 2008- Is It ...
  • White House Statement on Proposition 8 (Kerry Elev ...
    Kerry Eleveld / Advocate : White House Statement on Proposition 8   —  A White House statement regarding Wednesday's ruling overturning Proposition 8 said President Barack Obama had spoken out against the measure because it was “divisive and discriminatory.”  —  A White House spokesperson sent the ...

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China Dialogue

  • Power shift
    Two US researchers have declared that solar electricity in their home state is now cheaper than next-generation nuclear power. Olivia Boyd looks at their study – and its global implications. The sunshine of North Carolina , a state on America’s Atlantic seaboard, has long been a draw for tourists se ...
  • Time to volunteer
    Adopted by Industrial Bank in 2008, the Equator Principles – a voluntary code for sustainable finance – are making inroads in China. Now, more banks must sign up, argues Ni Huan. China ’s Industrial Bank officially adopted the Equator Principles – an international set of voluntary standards for sust ...
  • A green risk assessment
    Wei Guoxiong manages loans at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the country’s biggest lender. He tells Meng Si about the evolution of environmentally friendly principles inside a global financial giant. The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) is China’s biggest lender. ICBC’s chief ...
  • The climate for investment
    Tom Murley leads the renewables team at one of Europe’s most active private-equity houses. He tells Tan Copsey about finding finance in a recession, responding to regulation – and building turbines in the Swedish forest. Tom Murley is a leading investor in the western European renewable-energy marke ...
  • Restructuring China’s finances
    In its quest to build a low-carbon economy, China is seeking ways to channel cash towards green schemes. Zeng Gang outlines the latest developments. History teaches us that financial support is an essential ingredient in technological innovation and economic transformation. Finance – be it the funds ...

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Threat Level

  • Hacker Wonderland: DefCon 18 in Photos
    << previous image | next image >> LAS VEGAS — Roughly 10,000 computer hacking enthusiasts, poseurs, geeks, nerds and government agents gathered for DefCon this weekend. In its 18th year, the world’s largest hacker convention draws people from all walk ...
  • Claim: Alleged WikiLeaker Gave Classified Document ...
    An Army intelligence analyst who is charged with leaking classified documents to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks also allegedly sent classified documents to the hacker who turned him in to the feds, according to a friend and associate of the hacker who helped connect him with federal agents. Chet ...
  • Hacker Spoofs Cell Phone Tower to Intercept Calls
    LAS VEGAS — A security researcher created a cell phone base station that tricks cell phones into routing their outbound calls through his device, allowing someone to intercept even encrypted calls in the clear. The device tricks the phones into disabling encryption and records call details and conte ...
  • Biometric and Other Locks Fail to Foil Hackers at ...
    LAS VEGAS — It wouldn’t be DefCon without a noted lock hacking team demonstrating the gross insecurity of some of the latest security locks, such as a biometric lock that could be easily cracked with a paper clip. This year the three-member team of lock hackers, Marc Weber Tobias, Toby Bluzmanis an ...
  • WikiLeaks Posts Mysterious ‘Insurance’ File
    In the wake of strong U.S. government statements condemning WikiLeaks’ recent publishing of 77,000 Afghan War documents, the secret-spilling site has posted a mysterious encrypted file labeled “insurance.” The huge file, posted on the Afghan War page at the WikiLeaks site, is 1.4 GB and is encrypte ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Cancer cells slurp up fructose, US study finds
    WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Pancreatic tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same.
  • India telecoms min: hopes solution on BlackBerry s ...
    NEW DELHI, Aug 5 (Reuters) - India's telecoms ministry is still in talks with BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion and expects to find a solution soon, telecoms minister Andimuthu Raja said on Thursday.
  • BP shares rally on hopes for final leak plug
    LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Shares in BP hit two-month highs on Thursday on hopes the group would soon permanently seal its Gulf of Mexico oil well and after President Obama said the battle to contain the leak was nearly over.
  • Mexico drug cartels use gory videos to spread fear
    MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Powerful drug cartels are increasingly using gruesome videos of executions and interrogations to intimidate their rivals, police and an already terrified public in Mexico's vicious drug war.
  • Analysis: Google takes on Facebook in social games
    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A focus on games could be Google Inc's ticket to entering the social networking arena, as the Internet giant seeks to overcome a string of lackluster initiatives that have left it on the sidelines of the booming market.

IntelNews

  • Comment: Is Lebanon Using US Assistance to Capture ...
    By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | A minor revolution has been taking place in Lebanon over the past 16 months. Since April of 2009, Lebanese authorities have arrested nearly 100 individuals on charges of spying for Israel, three of whom have been sentenced to death. Judging by numbers alone, th ...
  • News you may have missed #406
    US National intelligence nominee oversaw problematic contract. While James Clapper headed the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a corporation he contracted for information technology functions was found to have “been seriously deficient with respect to security issues”. Clapper is now Pres ...
  • CIA killed Chile Army commander, says Pinochet’s s ...
    By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | The convicted former chief of Chile’s intelligence services during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet has accused the CIA of murdering the deposed leader of the Chilean army and former Vice-President of Chile, in 1974. General Carlos Prats González was a clos ...
  • News you may have missed #405
    Democracy Now on Google-CIA partnership. Democracy Now has aired an interview with John Simpson, director of Consumer Watchdogâs Inside Google project, and Noah Shachtman, of Wired magazine’s Danger Room blog, who broke the story of the Google-CIA investment partnership. Ex-CIA chief downplays cyb ...
  • US money transfer firms linked to Dubai killing of ...
    By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | Preliminary results of an ongoing international investigation into the January 2010 murder of a senior Hamas official show that US-based money transfer companies were used to finance the killing. The body of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, co-founder of the Palestinian Izz ad-Din ...

After Downing Street.org

  • Recent Israeli Provocations
    Recent Israeli Provocations - by Stephen Lendman Perhaps suggesting a larger-scale planned offensive, recent violent Israeli outbreaks struck Gaza, the West Bank, and Israeli/Lebanon border, the first there since the summer 2006 war. Like Cast Lead, it was Israeli aggression - violent, lawless and ...
  • The Drug Stupor of a Nation
    AIR DATE: Aug. 4, 2010 Heroin-Related Crimes Surge in Wisconsin � SUMMARY As part of NewsHour Connect, which showcases the best of public broadcasting from around the country, Frederica Freyberg of Wisconsin Public Television reports on the surge of heroin-related crimes there. Continued: Transcript ...
  • White Supremacists Revealed
    Our 'whitie' heroes, gonna save all us whities from the scourge of a tolerant world, though we gotta make sure they have enough meth to get the high needed to be the saviors of our freedoms, and all that there stuff! The domestic criminal terrorist that are setting up to take us to the promise land ...
  • Targeted Assassinations: Challenging US Policy
    Targeted Assassinations: Challenging US Policy - by Stephen Lendman The WikiLeaks "Afghan War Diaries" provided documented evidence of America's out-of-control lawlessness, including Special Forces death squads (Task Force 373) extrajudicially murdering or capturing suspected Taliban and Al-Qaeda fi ...
  • Protesting Judge Jay Bybee
    For War Criminals Watch fans who are protesting Judge Jay Bybee, we have a new leaflet that you might use. http://warcriminalswatch.org/images/stories/articles/bybee%20warning%20r...

Grist - News

  • How to make Smart Growth affordable
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Let's say you want to live in one of those fancy Smart Growth developments that green urbanists are always going on about. Let's say you want to live in any neighborhood with transit service and a grid that encourages walking and biking . Great. Living in a walkable, transi ...
  • Colorado gov. candidate: Biking and transit are pa ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Recently I spoke with Denver mayor and Colorado governor candidate John Hickenlooper , who's worked to expand the city's transit system and launch a bike-sharing program that lets members get around the central city without burning gas or contributing to traffic congestion. ...
  • The spill may be killed, but bad news still plague ...
    by Randy Rieland. Good news. After 106 days, BP's "static kill" technique has apparently sealed what remains of the Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico. Of course, that's after an estimated 4.9 million barrels -- or about 206 million gallons -- of oil poured into the sea. That alone, ...
  • Hope for Gulf as BP plugs well
    by Agence France-Presse. NEW ORLEANS -- Hopes for an end to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster rose Wednesday as BP prepared to permanently seal its runaway well with cement and U.S. officials said that three-quarters of the toxic crude had been eliminated. The first part of BP's long-awaited st ...
  • GM invests in plug-in hybrid commercial van
    by Agence France-Presse. CHICAGO -- General Motors will pour $5 million into a plug-in hybrid commercial van being developed by an Indiana firm, the automaker said Tuesday. The IDEA van will be able to drive up to 40 miles on its electric battery before switching over to a hybrid gas-electric ...

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Washington Independent

  • Senate to Debate Bush Tax Cuts After Recess
    Belying the expectations of some Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has indicated that the Senate will not punt on the issue of the  Bush tax cuts until after midterm elections and will instead debate the matter shortly after the August recess. It’s a clear sign that Reid and th ...
  • Arizona Immigration Law Hurts Reputation, Business
    Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law went into effect a week ago, albeit with its most contested provisions blocked until November, at least. But the law’s economic impact on the state may be lingering. After the law was announced, boycotts of the state sprang up around the country, and officials from ...
  • Scientists Criticize Administration’s Report ...
    The Washington Post has a great story today that raises questions about the rosy assumptions included in an Obama administration report on oil released into the Gulf of Mexico unveiled yesterday by the White House. The story suggests that the administration exaggerated the actual results of the repo ...
  • RNC Addresses Tepid Fundraising, Vows to Investiga ...
    Two pieces of news from the Republican National Committee summer meeting in Kansas City. First, the RNC’s budget committee approved a $10 million line of credit to make up for the committee’s fundraising woes: The money will be directed wholly to the RNC’s political department in order to fund Vict ...
  • Initial Jobless Claims Highest Since April
    This morning, the Department of Labor said that initial jobless claims edged up last week, from 460,000 to 479,000. Economists expected the number of claims to decrease. The weekly figure is the highest since April. Economists believe it needs to fall into the 300,000s to bring down the overall unem ...

Digg Green

Invisible Opportunity

  • Hezbollah accuses Israel of Hariri murder
    BEIRUT – Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday openly accused Israel of the 2005 assassination of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri and said he would unveil proof to that effect at a news conference next week. “I accuse the Israeli enemy of the assassination of (former) Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and… ...
  • Iran’s Ahmadinejad unhurt after blast near m ...
    By Robin Pomeroy TEHRAN, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was unharmed when a homemade explosive went off near his motorcade during a visit to the western city of Hamadan on Wednesday, a source in his office said. via Reuters AlertNet – Iran’s Ahmadinejad unhurt after blast ne ...
  • ISRAELI EMBASSY IN NYC  A RADIATION HOT SPOT
    Staten Island’s congressman, Rep. Vito Fossella, said the contamination was a surprise to him and residents near the park, and he demanded more information. “It is essential for the government to act immediately to fully understand the extent of the contamination,” said Fossella, who was trying to a ...
  • Ruminations on Littleton, Mind Control, and JFK
    By Dave McGowan September 2000 “Other MKULTRA subprojects dealt with ways to maximize stress on whole societies.” John Marks The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, Times Books, 1979 It has been argued by some researchers that the two alleged shooters at the Columbine High School tragedy in Littlet ...
  • Cancer cells slurp up fructose, U.S. study finds
    Pancreatic tumour cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same. Tumour cells fed both glucose and fructose used the two sugars in two different ways, the team at the University of California Los A ...

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

  • If Climate Change Was a Dog (cartoon)
    We did know about climate change back in the 50’s, as evidenced by this Frank Capra Video on Global Warming. But even though it was a monster of a dog back then, it was still just a harmless little puppy. Today, well, it’s different. And I don’t know how much I trust the little man controlling [... ...
  • Genetically Modified Truths (cartoon)
    The biotech and agrochemical industries are KILLING us! Well, atleast they are well aware of that and are working hard to clean up their act. Oh wait, now I’m not telling the truth… More relevant info: The Killing Fields of Multi-National Corporations How Toxins Are Making Our Children Chronical ...
  • Fragile Day Song by Wilderland Benefits Gulf BP Oi ...
    The Song Fragile Day by Wilderland is going to benefit the Gulf BP oil spill cleanup efforts. Related posts: NOAA Collecting Seafloor and Water Column BP Oil Spill Data Shell is Busy Today Cleaning up its Mess – 1,400 Barrels in the Gulf BP Oil Spill Gushing 10 Times More Oil Than Official Es ...
  • Ashley Judd on her Hillbilly Pride and Mountain To ...
    Ashely Judd is a Hillbilly, and proud of it! She's on a mission to protect her heritage from the devastation of Mountain Top Removal. Related posts: Ending Streamlined Mountaintop Coal Removal Permits Is Not Enough Idaho Wolf Hunt Video with Ashley Judd and Defenders of Wildlife Wendys Rest ...
  • Look Inside the FY2011 Budget Reveals Climate Chan ...
    The budget for FY2011 has been released and there are some interesting things happening in reference to Climate Change expenditures. Related posts: Oil Executive Epiphany Leads to $125 Billion Climate Change Funding White House Follow-up on Global Climate Change Impacts Technology Transfer ...

Inhabitat

  • China Developing a Train That Can Go 620 Miles Per ...
    Get ready for some high speed transport action – Chinese researchers are currently developing a vacuum maglev train that they believe will run at speeds up to 620 miles per hour. This just a few years after Japan announced their — then totally awe inspiring — plans for a maglev train that would run ...
  • Hanimaadhoo Maldivian Airport Has a Curvaceous Cla ...
    Read the rest of Hanimaadhoo Maldivian Airport Has a Curvaceous Clamshell Roofhttp://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: airport, Eco Archite ...
  • Mind-Blowing Building Built From Thousands of Book ...
    Read the rest of Mind-Blowing Building Built From Thousands of Bookshttp://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: book building, eco-art, enviro ...
  • 3 Green Driving Apps That Save Money and the Envir ...
    Looking for some great green apps to save money when you’re traveling by car? Earthgarage has a great list of smartphone eco applications that you can download and use anywhere, anytime, to make your car greener and your wallet fatter. From an app that teaches you green driving techniques to one tha ...
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Pogue's Posts

  • At Snopes.com, Rumors Are Held Up to the Light
    David Pogue interviews David Mikkelson of Snopes.com, where Internet veterans go to get the truth about online rumors.
  • Q&A: Rumors, Cyberbullying and Anonymity
    David Pogue talks to John Palfrey, Harvard Law School professor, co-director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and author of "Born Digital."
  • Loosening the iPhone Death Grip
    Predictably, Mr. Jobs's gesture did nothing to satisfy the most vocal Apple bashers, but most reasonable people will agree that this is a decent good-faith gesture on Apple's part.
  • What Isn't There an App For?
    Surely there are apps no one has invented yet. What do you want on your phone?
  • Line2 Phone App Gets Even Better
    Line2, iPhone app that makes and receive calls either using the AT&T airwaves or the Internet, now takes calls automatically over Wi-Fi so you don't use any AT&T minutes at all.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Look Around You: Science Video Reductio ad Absurdu ...
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience292352654001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); Look around you. Just … look around you. Have you worked out what we’re looking for? Correct! The answer is: hilarity. Remember being horrendously bored in school while ...
  • The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories
    In case you haven’t noticed, this site is currently being bombarded with a certain strand of conspiracy theorist. I’m still not entirely sure what these people believe in, apart from being absolutely certain that the government is developing brain-eating vaccines, spiking the water with lithium and ...
  • Minds Beat Machines in Protein Puzzle Showdown
    In a biology geek revenge for Kasparov’s loss to Deep Blue, human intuition has thumped artificial intelligence in the game of protein folding. Asked to decipher the fantastically complex structures of 10 proteins, a community of gamers beat cutting-edge algorithms five times. Three times they tied ...
  • Ancient Crocodile Could Have Chewed Like You Do
    Chewing has always been thought of as a strictly mammalian ability. But during the reign of the dinosaurs a hundred million years ago, in the southern supercontinent of Gondwana, some crocodiles were likely doing something very close to that. An ancient crocodile species has been discovered with mo ...
  • Violent Dreams May Precede Brain Disease
    Vivid, violent dreams can portend brain disorders by half a century, a new study finds. The result, reported in the August 10 Neurology, highlights how some neurological diseases may take hold decades before a person is diagnosed. Spotting early warning signs of the disease may allow clinicians to ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Iran Denies that Explosive Attack Was Meant for Ah ...
    Various news sources, such as BBC Persian service and the Associated Press, reported that an explosion occurred near President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s motorcade, which had left the Hamedan airport in western Iran for the city’s stadium where Ahmadinejad was due to speak. But state-run agencies publish ...
  • Kenya and Preventive Diplomacy: Finding a Way Forw ...
    Kenya captured headlines in December 2007 when the former beacon of stability and growth in East Africa descended into political and social chaos after elections heightened ethnic and tribal divisions. Yet despite over 1,300 deaths, 300,000 displaced, and fears of a second Rwanda, Kenya has pull ...
  • Embedding Conflicts of Interest
    Mike Hastings, the Rolling Stone reporter whose work ended the career of General Stanley McChrystal but has never been questioned in terms of accuracy, has been denied permission to embed anew with a unit in Afghanistan. “There is no right to embed,” explains DOD spokesman Colonel David Lapan in wh ...
  • Max Boot's Dubious Use of History to Support More ...
    Max Boot's latest theory is that reducing the US military strength is directly correlated to increased aggression against the United States . No, really. So we have to keep growing our military strength if we want to avoid wars. Not surprisingly, it all comes back to today's budget and the demands ...
  • New START Vote Set for Mid-September
    The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will vote on the New START Treaty when Senators return from recess in September.  Sen. Kerry released a statement today, saying, “We have the votes to report the treaty out of Committee now. However, in consultation with Senator Lugar, I chose to reschedule the ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Future of Marriage Now Up to One Guy
    As you've no doubt heard, yesterday a federal judge struck down California's Proposition 8, which outlawed marriages between same-sex couples. This is the first step in a process that will ultimately lead to Anthony Kennedy deciding whether gay people can get married. This decision wasn't a surprise ...
  • Who Owns Freedom?
    Mark Schmitt wonders if liberals take civil liberties seriously enough : At one time, civil liberties, free expression, and the right to peaceful dissent were as central to the progressive vision as civil rights and economic fairness. But in recent years, perhaps as a result of a backlash in the 19 ...
  • The Greatness, and Potential Tragedy, of Perry v. ...
    I have very, very mixed feelings about Judge Walker's historic decision �holding California's Proposition 8 unconstitutional. On the one hand, it represents judicial review at its best, remedying the exclusion of an unpopular minority from a fundamental right for irrational reasons. Strictly on th ...
  • How to Tell the Senate Is Broken.
    In further discussion of our broken Senate , David Frum dissents , arguing that the 111th Congress has passed quite a bit of legislation, and that it’s not "'obstructionism' for the Senate to decline to act like the British House of Commons, enacting whatever it pleases the chief executive to propos ...
  • Prop. 8: Shame in Perpetuity.
    Today's decision striking down Proposition 8 in the federal court challenge to California's gay-marriage ban is a morale boost for same-sex-marriage supporters who've seen stinging defeats in Maine and New York over the past year. But the celebrating will be short-lived. Prop. 8 supporters already h ...

Buzzflash

  • Andrew Breitbart Smells Like Bad Ass, And It's Tim ...
    ANDREW BREITBART Andrew Bretbart may smell like bad ass, but he knows how to grab center stage as the corporate media breathlessly latches on to his bigoted scams and lies and -- thus -- making the Democrats in D.C. looking like they just took a bath in watered down cow dung.� That's why BuzzFlash h ...
  • Republicans Deny 9/11 Heroes Medical Care, But Won ...
    THE REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS As we noted in our BuzzFlash Wings of Justice Award to Anthony Weiner for lambasting the House GOP for denying medical funding and aid to 9/11 responders, the Republicans have no shame in their greed-driven hypocrisy.� After all, the Bush Administration and Republicans dr ...
  • If You Can't Sign Your Racist Comic Book, You're a ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH The cartoonist, in a rambling statement, Does a great deal of curious dwelling On being a victim as he engages in lots Of whining, complaining and yelling. � (Whatever bunker he’s in lacks a dictionary; His prose doesn’t exactly glitter. I haven’t seen this many typos since ...
  • Right-Wing Bloggers Claim Racism No Longer Exists. ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH If more than five dozen conservative bloggers overwhelmingly agree that racism no longer exists, does that make it so? John Hawkins, a conservative blogger and columnist, recently conducted an unscientific survey on race and racism, and then sent me an email about it ...
  • Is the Republican Victory Plan Another Great Depre ...
    STEPHEN CROCKETT FOR BUZZFLASH It seems like the Republicans in Congress have decided that sabotaging economic recovery and employment growth is their best tactic for electoral gains in the November elections. Indications of this plan have been around since the Democratic victories in 2008. It ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Michael Hastings' embed permission is revoked
    Stars & Stripes , December 18, 2009 : The nominee for the Pentagon’s top public affairs job promised Thursday he will review Defense Department policies to ensure that journalists are not being denied embeds with combat troops based on the tenor of their reporting , a practice exposed by St ...
  • Crazy Muslim conspiracy theories
    Politico 's Laura Rozen points to this Times of India article , recounting how Rashad Hussain, the Obama administration's envoy to the Muslim world, was angered and "shocked" yesterday when -- as part of a tour of India to promote better relations with Muslims -- "the head of a city-based Muslim ins ...
  • ACLU, CCR seek to have Obama enjoined from killing ...
    A major legal challenge to one of the Obama administration's most radical assertions of executive power began this morning in a federal courthouse in Washington, DC.� Early last month, the ACLU�and the Center for Constitutional Rights were retained by Nasser al-Awlaki, the father of Obama assassinat ...
  • NYT: Pervasive surveillance is a serious threat - ...
    Yesterday, I wrote about the proliferation of the private online surveillance industry, how it furnishes ever more thorough and invasive information to the U.S. Government about citizens' online activities, and why that destruction of privacy is so dangerous  My Salon colleague, Dan Gillmor, yesterd ...
  • Project Vigilant and the government/corporate dest ...
    Forbes ' technology writer Andy Greenberg reports that at the Defcon Security Conference yesterday, an individual named Chet Uber appeared with revelations about the case of accused WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning and government informant Adrian Lamo.  These revelations are both remarkable in their ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Risky teams, forged banknotes, frost-proof frogs
    An eclectic mix of science snips from Sciencebase: Novel algorithm cuts the risks of choosing ineffectual team members – The risky business of putting together a team Counterfeit spectroscopy – Banknote counterfeiting is a growing problem for fraud investigators across the globe and criminals involv ...
  • Cialis in glass and a shortage of helium
    These are my links for July 23rd through July 26th: ACS and RSC Sustainability Alliance – The Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Chemical Society have joined forces to launch a sustainability website. Be interesting to know what is the carbon footprint of this endeavour and the server elect ...
  • Headhunting goes automatic for the people
    Very few people work alone in the so-called knowledge economy. Even a lowly freelance science writer has a network of editors, publishers and other associates on which they rely to get their words out to an audience. The point is even more apparent in the world of research where often vast teams of ...
  • Sweet sensors
    Nothing new under the sun, as the bard said, and how true it is sometimes. No sooner had I posted a news article on spectroscopynow.com entitled “Sweet sense of GOD” than Santhosh Challa, a Senior Scientist at Merck & Co in New Jersey, USA, got in touch to tell me that his team had also [...] Sweet ...
  • Just say no to sunscreen nanophobia!
    Once again we’re at a pivotal point in human development, where a novel technology might allow us to improve the lot of millions, perhaps billions of people across the globe and yet activists are invoking the precautionary principle and informing consumers of the possible dangers therein. As happene ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • EPA Retreats from Environmental Justice
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 5, 2010 Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) Rather than directly confront environmental justice challenges, the Environmental Protection Agency has issued internal guidance that is so convoluted and vague that it will stymie effective action, accor ...
  • Millions of Older Workers in Occupations Classifie ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 5, 2010 Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Among the proposals to cut Social Security, raising the age of retirement as high as 70 has emerged as one of the most likely scenarios. As with most of the suggested cuts, little consideration has been given to t ...
  • Hiroshima After 65 Years: Disarmament or Nuclear B ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 5, 2010 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) MARYLIA KELLEY read more
  • CBO Revises Latest Long-Term Budget Outlook
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 3, 2010 Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) CEPR Co- Director Dean Baker issued the statement below on the CBO's revision of its recent budget projections. More on the revisions can be found here .read more
  • BREAKING NEWS: Former Prisoners of Conscience Take ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 3, 2010 School of the Americas Watch The Tolemaida military base is one of seven Colombian bases to which the U.S. military has been granted access for 10 years under the U.S.-Colombia Defense Cooperation Agreement, which was signed in October 2009. The agreement has ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Ridgeway on America’s Solitary Confinement Nightma ...
    by Corporate Crime Reporter He always wanted to be an insider. But it never worked out. His DNA wouldn't allow it. He was always an outsider. Always taking the side of the less powerful. As a student at Princeton in the 1950s, James Ridgeway worked on the student newspaper to expos ...
  • The US Isn't Leaving Iraq, It's Rebranding the Occ ...
    by Seumas Milne For most people in Britain and the US, Iraq is already history. Afghanistan has long since taken the lion's share of media attention, as the death toll of Nato troops rises inexorably. Controversy about Iraq is now almost entirely focused on the original decision to invade: what's ha ...
  • The Next War
    by Robert Koehler "I'm going to be killing people. I'm actually joining the Marines and will be doing this in real life." read more
  • "Freedom:" The Right of Religious Fundamentalists ...
    by Amanda Marcotte Conscience clauses. They practically have the term "slippery slope" built right into their definition. read more
  • Oilgate! BP and All the President's Men (Except On ...
    by Riki Ott Barataria, LA. -- Bonnie Schumaker slowed her souped-up Cessna 180 from 130 to 50 knots so I could hold open the window for documentary film producer Bo Bodart to shoot the grim scene below us. The oil-laced air rushed in and stung our throats and eyes. read more

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • I was given 'dirty-looking' diamonds, Naomi Campbe ...
    The supermodel Naomi Campbell is appearing at the war crimes trial of the former Liberian leader Charles Taylor, at The Hague. Follow live updates 10.42am: Here are the main points from Campbell's testimony: • Campbell admitted talking to the Liberian leader Charles Taylor at a charity dinner with ...
  • China lines up to buy Liverpool FC
    • China investment fund sold shares worth £351.4m • Sum is equivalent to Anfield club's debt The Chinese government fund represented by Kenny Huang has spent the past fortnight raising precisely the amount of cash required to finance a bid for Liverpool. Sources have confirmed to Digger that the Chi ...
  • Barclays makes £3.9bn profits
    Bank amasses £1.7bn bonus pool as Bob Diamond's Barclays Capital investment banking arm boosts bottom line • Datablog: UK banks bounce back Barclays has amassed a £1.7bn bonus pool for its 150,000 staff after its overall profits jumped to £3.9bn in the first half, smashing market forecasts. The 44% ...
  • Children found dead in flat named
    Postmortem to be carried out today as police launch criminal inquiry into incident initially suspected to be gas explosion Three children who were found dead at a flat in Edinburgh after reports of an explosion were named today. They are twin boys Augustino and Gianluca Riggi, eight, and Cecilia Rig ...
  • UFO files: 'Welsh Roswell' revisited
    Reports of 1974 'explosion' from declassified papers show Ministry of Defence struggled to explain Llandrillo incident UFO enthusiasts called it the "Welsh Roswell" and insisted that one evening in 1974 an alien craft crashed in north Wales and the government secretly removed dead extraterrestrial b ...

McClatchey

  • Commentary: Cruelty and the Constitution
    In April, the Supreme Court struck down a law making it a crime to sell depictions of cruelty to animals. The 8-1 ruling, which reversed a Virginia man's conviction for selling dogfighting videos, was significant because the court was rejecting the federal government's request that it declare a whol ...
  • Oman wants to purchase Lockheed F-16s
    Lockheed Martin will someday build the last F-16 fighter jet at its Fort Worth plant, but that day is still years away.
  • Prop 8 ban dropped but California gays must wait t ...
    Within an hour after a federal judge declared that gay people in California have the right to marry, Wendy Rae Hill gathered her partner, two children and mother and headed to the Sacramento County clerk's office.
  • Small business bill appears to be stuck in Senate
    WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate might leave town this week without finishing up what Democrats had hoped would be a significant political achievement before the August recess: passing a multibillion-dollar swath of programs to help struggling small businesses.
  • California asks Holder to investigate climate chan ...
    State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and Assembly Speaker John Perez have asked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to open an investigation into a tiny Missouri nonprofit organization that has pumped nearly $500,000 into a voter initiative to suspend the state's landmark climate change la ...

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Noaa: The right answer to the wrong question?
    While listening to the latest briefing on the Gulf of Mexico oil leak , I've been wondering whether the questions being answered are the right ones. The key factoid presented by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) is that about three-quarters of the 4.9 million barrels that e ...
  • An equal partnership with the land?
    The journal Nature this week debates one of the most important questions of our age: how can we feed the Earth's growing population such that no-one goes hungry and nature is left with some land and water of its own? Being a science journal, you'll not be surprised to hear that one of the things it ...
  • Climate campaigns down the pan
    Apologies issued by two campaign groups, WWF and Oxfam , may or may not bring to a close one of the more bizarre yet telling episodes that have materialised within the UN climate convention. At the convention's annual two-week session in June in Bonn , activists removed the nameplate of the Saudi A ...
  • Common climate in Canberra and Washington
    Turn the clock back four years, and you could not have slipped a cigarette paper between the climate policies of the administrations in Washington DC and Canberra. With the election of Kevin Rudd in December 2007, paths diverged. Against the backdrop of opinion polls showing climate change as a m ...
  • UN climate talks in the mire?
    It's not being touted as such, but the latest document from the United Nations climate convention (UNFCCC) is the clearest admission we've yet had that UN talks are in the mire. Add it to the latest word from the US Senate , and "mire" hardly seems strong enough. Let's take the global document fir ...

The Wonk Room

  • Conservatives Blame Loss In Prop 8 Case On Judge&# ...
    Last night, after U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker ruled that denying gays and lesbians the right to marry violated the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution, supporters of Proposition 8 expressed disappointment and pledged to appeal the decision to the 9th Circuit ...
  • Boehner Derides Police Officers And Teachers As &# ...
    Yesterday, the Senate finally approved $26 billion in funding to bolster state budgets, including $10 billion meant to prevent massive teacher layoffs. The Senate has been grappling with this funding for months, but two Republicans senators — Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) — vot ...
  • The WonkLine: August 5, 2010
    Welcome to The WonkLine, a daily 9:30 a.m. roundup of the latest news about health care, the economy, national security, immigration and climate policy. This is what we’re reading. Tell us what you found in the comments section below. You can also follow The Wonk Room on Twitter.   National Secu ...
  • FLASHBACK: In 2000, Lamar Smith Said ‘We Sho ...
    Republicans are up in arms about an internal draft memo by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) leaked last week which outlines “administrative relief options toâ¦reduce the threat of removal for certain individuals present in the United States without authorization.” Immigration hawk ...
  • Judge Finds Proposition 8 Unconstitutional
    oments ago, U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker struck down Proposition 8, passed by California voters in November 2008, which prohibited same-sex couples from marrying in the sate. Walker found that the Prop 8 undermined both the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses, arguing that “[e]ach ch ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Racism in the USA
    This isn't meant to toot Canada's horn as a bastion of tolerance and love. It's just that two stories were just in the news that show a huge level of disconnect between perception and reality. Story 1: The black Agriculture Dept. worker Shirley Sherrod who was attacked because a heavily edited vide ...
  • Canada: The Best Damned Democracy That Money Can B ...
    And if you ain't got no money nobody gives a shit what you think anyway! Disturbing, disturbing, highly disturbing stuff from Alison at Creekside and the passionately anti-NDP Eugene Forsey . It seems that the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment has decided to shred all the evidence ...
  • Hypocritical Bullshit
    Here's what Admiral Mike Mullen had to say about Julian Assange and the Wikileaks exposure of military information on the war in Afghanistan. Disagree with the war all you want, take issue with the policy, challenge me or our ground commanders on the decisions we make to accomplish the mission we ...
  • Thanks to last batch of comments ...
    ... among them, Alison, Eugene and Simon, ... but I've been crushed by a mountain of work. Thanks for your contributions, and perhaps I'll be able to respond to them soon, unless another government atrocity occurs and my focus changes. To keep the blog alive, ... I do the traditional YouTube link: ...
  • G20 Reflections
    Thinking about the police riot at the Toronto G20 Summit made me think about the processes I wrote about when I blogged about having watched the film " Jarhead ." A lot of people took "Jarhead" the wrong way. They got the impression that the movie is asking us to feel sorry for US-American soldiers ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Russia's YouTube Whistleblower
    Alexei Dymovsky, a Russian police major, fed up with rampant corruption decided to use YouTube to report his grievances. He blew the whistle on his superiors forcing officers to investigate nonexistent crimes and arrest innocent people to improve crime statistics. Shortly after his video was posted ...
  • Study shows benefits of anti-retaliation policies
    The Ethics Resource Center has just released a report from its 2009 National Business Ethics Survey. The report, called " Retaliation: The Cost to Your Company and Its Employees ," documents how companies that tolerate retaliation suffer increased levels of employee misconduct. The report documents ...
  • Christian Science Monitor considers national secur ...
    Howard Lafranchi, of the Christian Science Monitor, has written an article about the considerations faced by national security whistleblowers. The article is called, " WikiLeaks: When is it 'right' to leak national security secrets? " Lafranchi lays out how the government is likely to face a rising ...
  • NWC Advocacy Director Appears on Fox Business
    I had the pleasure of appearing on Fox Business last week to discuss the historic whistleblower provisions included in the recently passed financial reform bill. The qui tam provisions in the bill provide strong protections and financial rewards for reporting financial fraud. These provisions are de ...
  • Whistleblower "Watchdog" Blurs It's Record
    We are deeply disappointed at the letter from Darshan A. Sheth, Acting Director of Public Affairs for the Office of Special Counsel ( letter to the editor, Washington Post on Monday, July 26, 2010 ). There is bipartisan consensus that the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is dysfunctional, and instead ...

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

  • Google, Verizon Compromise On Net Neutrality
    It was just a few hours ago that we pointed to Dave Burstein's report that a net neutrality "deal" was being worked out in the backrooms -- with one part of it being a "separate peace" arranged between Verizon and Google. Well... it didn't take long, but now pretty much everyone is reporting that G ...
  • Some Simple Concepts For Better Engaging With Fans ...
    We recently wrote about the live music market , noting that lots of people seemed to agree that the massive additional fees and surcharges seemed to be a huge problem -- and most of those fees seem to come from Ticketmaster. So it's interesting to see that some are finally looking at ways to get ar ...
  • Connecting Authors To Tangible Goods They Can Sell ...
    When we talk about business models for content, one question we get asked a lot is how these business models could possibly apply to authors. We're always told that such business models might work for music, but couldn't possibly work for authors. To be honest, I find this sort of response incredi ...
  • Everyone Has Something To Hide: Why Privacy Is Imp ...
    It's really amazing that people still trot out the "if you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide" argument these days. The argument has been debunked so many times, there's even a scholarly paper debunking it . However, it's still quite popular, especially among law enforcement types. ...
  • AT&T Sued For Revealing Police Chief's Phone Recor ...
    A few months back, we wrote about a Canadian woman suing her mobile phone provider, Rogers, for automatically consolidating household bills, which revealed to her husband an affair she was having and coordinating via her mobile phone (which had been under her own account). Broadband Reports points ...

VacTruth

  • Mothers are killing their Autistic children
    Support and care for the families with an autistic child is a battle daily. Often they feel isolated from friends and family who do not understand and with no one to understand they feel pressured to take the only way they can see out of their situation.
  • Parents in China were beaten when they tried to ge ...
    In March 2010 it was reported From the New York Times that China had been selling 'tainted vaccines'. These vaccines had not had adequate storage and yet were sold to the public of China, subsequently allowing the vaccines to be administered to children. As a result, as many as eighty children suffe ...
  • Vaccine Trial Targets Kids
    Parents are being asked to register their children for a worldwide vaccine trial aimed at preventing a common cause of chest infections. These children will receive three doses of a vaccine for bronchiolitis, through nasal drops and will require a follow up blood test. The babies to be used in the f ...
  • Pharmaceuticals contributing to AIDS crisis
    While scientists from around the world gather in Vienna to discuss how to fight AIDS at the 18th International AIDS Conference, there are a lot of AIDS skeptics doubt that official medicine will be able to find a solution. Robert Scott Bell says that the scientists at the conference are wrong becaus ...
  • Fact, vaccines have never eradicated anything, eve ...
    For years now the myth that vaccines can eradicate illnesses has existed. This myth was perpetrated by the pharmaceutical industries and backed up by our governments and has existed purely to trick the general public into having countless vaccines in the ruse that they will live long and healthy liv ...

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Hello people.  Did you miss me?  I missed you.  I think I have finally gotten things under control now.  I’m going to have to cut my posts to two a week, instead of three, in order to make time for my literacy tutoring.  But I should be able to get back on a regular schedule.  [...]
  • Drug War Ping Pong
    Lately, I’ve seen several articles holding up Colombia as some kind of model for how to deal with drug war violence.   The latest one is this piece in Foreign Affairs in which Robert Bonner claims that Mexico should follow Colombia’s example. Really people?  Colombia? Colombia is ranked number 13 ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    It still burns, the treatment I got as a teen.  I think the guy who wrote the Case Against Adolescence is still pissed too.  Glad he did something constructive with it. This article on reconciliation is a must read for anyone who cares about ending conflicts, especially genocidal ones. I hope you al ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    This article kinda freaked me out.  I’m going to have to step up my training a la Sarah Connor. (HT @PunkJohnnyCash) Very cool video on Spontaneous Order.  (HT @JamesTulsaALL) So here is a question for you.  Can you have multiculturalism – respect for other cultures – without succumbing to moral ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I don’t know how I never heard about Spot.us.  I love that. Also loving that India plans to seek extradition of the former chairman of Union Carbide for the Bhopal disaster.  What amazing things could happen if states no longer gave protection to businesses. This article Against School that has be ...

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

  • UL Environment's Green Label Expands to Mobile Dev ...
    Photo via dan taylor UL Environment is a fairly new label for green electronics, just launching in January of last year. Underwriters Laboratories has always been a trustworthy entity, though the first company to earn a UL Environment label was LG, who had a SteamWasher and an LCD television se ...
  • "Peer 2 Peer" Rental Challenges London's New Bike ...
    Image credit: Cycle London London's new bike rental scheme , like Paris' velib scheme before it , may be a huge hit. But there's a young upstart on the block that is looking to offer an alternative to these large-scale schemes—and it says it can make ordinary bike owners some money in the proce ...
  • Head for the Hills with North Face's Trailhead iPh ...
    Sometimes the hardest part of going on a hike isn't the hike itself -- it's picking out which trail best suits the type of hiking, biking or walking you want to do. A handy free app from North Face, powered by EveryTrail.com, has everything a person needs to figure out where they want to go and ...
  • Solar Powered Bike Bags for Energy Savvy Cyclists
    Image via The Red Ferret Journal Sticking solar cells on bikes for supplemental power is not exactly new, but the idea is finally finding more fashionable forms. Well, sort of. This small bag fits onto handle bars or the bike bar for gathering a charge while riding. It doesn't directly charge a ...
  • Tara St. James Designs New Uniform Project LBD (Yo ...
    It's a romper. It's a little black dress. It's a Uniform Project dress by Tara St. James. Image courtesy of the Uniform Project . We're all about little black dresses ( LBD ) -- or, as per the season, LWDs -- they're the eco-chic fashion staple that never tires -- and we just donned one for the ...

Biosingularity

  • Researchers discover that gut bacteria affect mult ...
    Biologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have demonstrated a connection between multiple sclerosis (MS)—an autoimmune disorder that affects the brain and spinal cord—and gut bacteria. The work—led by Sarkis K. Mazmanian, an assistant professor of biology at Caltech, and postdoc ...
  • HIV prevention science scores a victory — th ...
    Today at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, members of the International Rectal Microbicide Advocates (IRMA) and thousands of other HIV advocates and scientists cheered a long-awaited, much anticipated success in the quest for new HIV prevention technologies. Researchers ann ...
  • Novozymes reveals knowledge on new antibiotic agai ...
    Scientists from Novozymes have now found the mechanism by which plectasin, an anti-microbial peptide, kills bacteria that cause severe infections in humans. Peptide antibiotics such as plectasin have retained antibiotic activity throughout evolution. The new knowledge shows that plectasin and other ...
  • First Self-Replicating, Synthetic Bacterial Cell C ...
    Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute JCVI, a not-for-profit genomic research organization, published results today describing the successful construction of the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cell. The team synthesized the 1.08 million base pair chromosome of a modified Mycoplas ...
  • Bran Reduces Heart Disease Deaths
    People with diabetes who eat plenty of bran-rich whole grains appear to have a reduced risk of death from heart attack, stroke, and other cardiovascular causes, a new study shows. Researchers from Harvard University followed almost 8,000 nurses with type 2 diabetes for almost three decades. They fou ...

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Pruning Shears

  • Summer Travel Season
    Surprisingly enough, August in Tennessee is warmish.
  • This Week in Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post I didn’t post last Sunday and have been largely offline this weekend. So I’ve mixed some older links in and included lots of quotes. Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. Every m ...
  • The Problem Isn't Fast News, It's Dumb News
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Walter Shapiro picked this week to lament the sorry state of the media. He believes we have become ignorant and easily distracted by an Internet-bred culture that cultivates short attention spans. There have always been good and ba ...
  • Putting Geneva Down the Memory Hole
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post On Tuesday former Attorney General Michael Mukasey attempted to justify America’s military commissions, and did so extremely dishonestly. For instance, he conflates Guantánamo detainees with those “accused of the Sept. 11, 2001, att ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Carol Rosenberg reported ( via ) on the military commission of Omar Khadr. He rejected a plea deal because doing so would “give an excuse to the government for torturing me and abusing me as a child.” Since most of the detainees at ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Unilever Stalks its Customers with GPS Trackers S ...
    The household cleaning product giant Unilever has secretly placed GPS tracker transmitters in laundry detergent boxes to track consumers to their homes. With an array of electronic sensors, team of Unilever agents can now pinpoint the exact location of the GPS trackers and walk right up to your fron ...
  • Gavin Newsom Hopes to Leave His Sludge in San Fran ...
    San Francisco, under its "green mayor" Gavin Newsom, has since 2007 perpetrated a greenwashing scam upon city gardeners. The city, known for its environmentally sound practices and commitment to a precautionary principle approach to dealing with environmental hazards, has deceptively and fraudulentl ...
  • Farmers Markets in USA Increase 16% in Last Year
    Jane Black reported yesterday at the All We Can Eat section of The Washington Post Online that, “The number of farmers markets jumped 16 percent in 2010, according to figures to be released [today] by Department of Agriculture. There are 6,132 farmers markets in operation, up from 5,247 in 2009. Cli ...
  • A Wilted Senate on a Heating Planet
    I wrote the first book for a general audience on global warming back in 1989, and I’ve spent the subsequent 21 years working on the issue. I’m a mild-mannered guy, a Methodist Sunday School teacher. Not quick to anger. So what I want to say is: this is fucked up. The time has come to get mad, and th ...
  • New Report Says Federal Policies Discourage Farmer ...
    As a result of administering farm commodity programs for many years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has developed a rich body of knowledge about historical yields and prices for crops such as corn, soybeans, wheat, rice and cotton. This information enables the federal government and priv ...

fotoFrontera

Center for a Livable Future

  • Biogas digesters for industrial agriculture in Chi ...
    While researching meat consumption and production in China last month, I visited two farms that have installed large-scale biogas digesters. These intriguing, bulbous contraptions capture animal waste, prevent pollution, make use of a renewable source of energy (methane), and transform the icky stuf ...
  • Baltimore City Data Day Aims to Empower Baltimore ...
    As I intend to dedicate the better part of my career to research, I am often confronted with the fear that even the highest quality data can end up out in the ether of peer-reviewed publications that never make their intended splash, seen by a limited few and impacting even fewer. Last Friday I atte ...
  • CLF is reading…
    Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher by Frederick L. Kirschenmann A collection of Kirschenmann’s greatest writings on farming, philosophy, and sustainability Theologian, academic, and third-generation organic farmer Frederick L. Kirschenmann is a celebrated agric ...
  • Book Review: The World is Blue: How Our Fate and t ...
    By my estimation, seventy-five-year-old author Dr. Sylvia Earle has spent more than 1% of her life underwater. If her dives were connected in time, it would be as if she slipped into the ocean on New Year’s Day and did not re-emerge until some time after Labor Day. Her book chronicles her experienc ...
  • How low can you go?
    You may have seen online tools such as the Footprint Network that allow you to estimate your impact on the environment and offer somewhat conservative lifestyle suggestions on how to lower oneâs impact (taking it easy on the thermostat, more public transportation… you know the drill). Well, what ...

Norwegianity

  • Kill the poor? Not a problem, esp. women of color
    Easily the biggest news of the day, the L.A. Times has broken a story about the deaths of over 100 young L.A. women of color who were murdered by serial killers during the 1984-1993 time period. The Times neglects, of course, to remind us that the crack cocaine epidemic that fueled this lawlessness ...
  • Koua Fong Lee hearing update + links
    Koua Fong Lee’s new attorney has already debunked some key evidence used to secure Lee’s conviction. An expert on behalf of Koua Fong Lee said in court Tuesday that the Toyota Camry that Lee was driving during the fatal crash in St. Paul did have an anti-lock brake system, contradicting the prosecut ...
  • Justice for an hour
    It’s good to know your audience, but in this case I’d say the NY Times has just told most of their audience to fuck off: the Times only cares that it is read by the rich and powerful and here’s the proof: That screenshot from this morning’s online Times links to a Stanley Fish story [...]
  • Susan Gaertner’s week of reckoning
    This morning Koua Fong Lee will be in court to assert his right to a new trial based on massive new evidence, evidence Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner refuses to acknowledge. Here’s hoping for a new trial and an immediate release in the meantime. For the court to do so means that they recogniz ...
  • The face of propaganda
    You’ve seen this cover, but have you seen Xeni Jardin’s version of it? So, of course, I did some of my own: one, two, three, four, and, of course, five. Just because this actually happened makes it no less a Kuwaiti incubator baby story. More text on this from FDL. - Some good pictures in [...]

Public News Service

  • CA Activists Support Working Arizonans Against SB ...
    CA Activists Support Working Arizonans Against SB 1070 Phoenix, AZ – Some 600 California activists came to Arizona Thursday, the effective day of SB 1070, to show their support for low-wage workers. The activists say Arizona’s new law is an attack on immigrants, similar to a California initiative in ...
  • AZ Continues to Lag in Kid Well-Being Indicators
    AZ Continues to Lag in Kid Well-Being Indicators Phoenix, AZ – Arizona remains in the bottom half of states when it comes to conditions for kids growing up. The latest Kids Count report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Children’s Action Alliance shows improvement in some categories, but overal ...
  • Illegal Wolf Shootings on Rise in AZ and NM
    Illegal Wolf Shootings on Rise in AZ and NM Tucson, AZ – Three Mexican gray wolves from a federal recovery program along Arizona’s eastern border have been illegally killed in the past month. Conservationists are calling for stronger law enforcement to protect the endangered wolves. Comments from Ev ...
  • Report: Wind Power Jobs Still Waiting for Arizona
    Report: Wind Power Jobs Still Waiting for Arizona Phoenix, AZ – A newly-released report says while a lot of focus on renewable energy job creation in recent years has been on setting up wind farms, there are thousands of jobs for states on the manufacturing side still waiting to happen. And Arizona ...
  • Jobless AZ Workers Desperate for Congress to Exten ...
    Jobless AZ Workers Desperate for Congress to Extend Benefits Tucson, AZ – The U.S. Senate’s failure to extend unemployment benefits has ended weekly checks to 38,000 Arizonans. One Tucson electrician says his already difficult financial situation has now become impossible. Comments from Mark Estes ( ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Obama Warned Israeli May Bomb Iran
    From Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, by Ray McGovern, Larry Johnson, Patrick Lang, Colleen Rowley, and more We write to alert you to the likelihood that Israel will attack Iran as early as this month. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Haiti crisis forgotten, pace of aid too slow to he ...
    . The general impression of my fellow American citizens is that things have greatly improved, and the country is on the mend. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Haiti has not emerged from its January hell. Most of the rubble remains. Thousands of .. Submitted by Joseph M. to World �|� �Note-it! � ...
  • Innovation of the Week: For Pest Control, Followin ...
    Cross posted from Worldwatch Institutes Nourishing the Planet The more varieties of vegetables, plants, and insects that are included in a garden, the less vulnerable any single crop becomes : best method of pest control is where no one factor dominates. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �| ...
  • A Long Stay
    More than 300,000 immigrants languish in detention centers around the country. Why are they there - and who is profiting from their imprisonment? Submitted by Melva H. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Black Carbon Implicated in Global Warming
    They found that the amount of solar radiation absorbed increased as the black carbon to sulphate ratio rose. Also, black carbon plumes derived from fossil fuels were 100 percent more efficient at warming than were plumes arising from biomass burning. Submitted by Kit B. to Environment �|� �Note-it! ...

Angry Indian News

  • Anti-Immigrant Movement to Target Native Born: Rig ...
    Anti-Immigrant Movement to Target Native Born: Right wing seeks to overturn historic Civil Rights case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark | Fight Back! – News and Views from the People's Struggle: "In... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Ex-army agent reported WikiLeaks suspect
    CBC News - World - Ex-army agent reported WikiLeaks suspect: "A former U.S. army counter-intelligence agent says he helped point military authorities to a soldier who is under scrutiny in connection... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Rapper is No Friend of Haiti -- Wyclef Opposed Ari ...
    Rapper is No Friend of Haiti -- Wyclef Opposed Aristide - New America MediaTo cut to the chase, no election in Haiti, and no candidate in those elections, will be considered legitimate by the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Washington Drug Agents Seize Pot Legalization Peti ...
    Toke of the Town - Washington Drug Agents Seize Pot Legalization Petitions​​Washington drug agents have illegally seized signed petitions for marijuana legalization, according to organizers of ballot... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • STEPHEN GLOVER: Naomi Campbell: Genocide, blood di ...
    STEPHEN GLOVER: Naomi Campbell: Genocide, blood diamonds and her absurd hypocrisy | Mail Online: "What is Ms Campbell doing at a war crimes tribunal? She has been subpoenaed to appear at the trial of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • America Betrayed radio with guest Marti Oakley
    Mexican Drug Cartel soldiers shot in Arizona desert: Los Zetas officer says shoot to kill Americans in retaliation.
  • How do you tell someone he can’t drink water on hi ...
    Indigenous people who have lived in the land for ages, are being driven off through water deprivation under the pretext of wildlife conservation. In the meantime, their water and land are being used for luxury tourist lodges and diamond mining. This is Agenda 21, and we are next.
  • Senator Harry Reid is working hard – but for whom?
    The PPJ Gazette By Debbie Coffey  Copyright 2010   All Rights Reserved. “Scientists warned that as the Great Basin’s groundwater is drained, desert springs and seeps will dry up, farms and ranches will wither away, and plants and wildlife will die off.  The aquifer, which took millennia to fill, wil ...
  • H.R. 5577 The Genetically Engineered Food Right t ...
    H.R. 5577 Exempts the USDA Certified Organics Industry from the labeling requirement and testing even if producers use GMO processing ingredients.
  • Marti Oakley and Barb Peterson: The Truth Squad, ...
    Join us Sunday evening at 8 CST for Marti and Barb on The Truth Squad Radio Show. Our guest this week is John Wallace, host of American Politics on blogtalk.  John has been at the forefront of the fight in New York to preserve state sovereignty against federal encroachment.  John will be discussing ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Iraq car bomb, checkpoint attack leaves 25 dead
    ShareThis Iraq car bomb, checkpoint attack leaves 25 dead 03 Aug 2010 Suspected Al Qaeda-linked militants killed five policemen in the second deadly attack in a week on security checkpoints, while a car bomb in a crowded market in the southern city of Kut left at least 20 people dead and dozens inju ...
  • U.S. ambassador to attend Hiroshima event
    ShareThis U.S. ambassador to attend Hiroshima event 05 Aug 2010 U.S. Ambassador John Roos will make a historic appearance Friday at Japan's Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima. His will be the first time in 65 years that an American ambassador has attended the ceremony, which marks the atomic bombi ...
  • ACLU Sues U.S. Government Over American Citizen's ...
    ShareThis ACLU Sues U.S. Government Over�American�Citizen's�Hit List Designation --In July, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) formally labeled Awlaki a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist." 03 Aug 2010 The ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) are suin ...
  • Target Corp targeted for political donation
    ShareThis Target Corp targeted for political donation --Target could be test case of corporate giving backlash 03 Aug 2010 In a challenge to corporations' newfound right to make unlimited campaign donations, U.S.-based retailer Target�found itself in the cross-hairs of a boycott effort fueled by ang ...
  • West Losing Afghan War, Pakistan’s Zardari Tells L ...
    ShareThis West Losing Afghan War, Pakistan’s Zardari Tells Le Monde 03 Aug 2010 The U.S. and its allies are losing the war in Afghanistan because they’ve failed to win local support and think too short term, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said in an interview with Le Monde , drawing a rebuke f ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • Free book - The Divinity Code
    Three years ago I published The Divinity Code, a response to the works of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, John Spong and Karen Armstrong, among others. The book remains available internationally through Amazon US and Amazon UK in hard copy, but I thought I would make it available to a wider ...
  • Has Climatedepot crashed?
    As of writing, am getting a VisualBasic error on http://www.climatedepot.com Is it just my computer network that can't see it? UPDATE 1pm NZST: Back up and running. Marc must have hit wrong button somewhere :)
  • Arctic heading for major freeze - new NOAA forecas ...
    More evidence pointing towards a significant global cooldown, now picking a brutal northern hemisphere winter.
  • Air Con Climategate Edition now avail in NZ
    Due to an ongoing series of requests, we've decided to import the US version of the Air Con Climategate Edition. It's now available direct from the Howling At The Moon website, in either hard copy for $39.90, or PDF for...
  • Ray Stevens Global Warming Song
    They may call him the Streak, but you can't keep Ray Stevens down evidently...witness his lastest on Global Warming

Mondoweiss

  • Many Afghan demos in ‘09 were about… I ...
    I'm poking around the Afghan war diaries from Wikileaks (inspired by Antony Loewenstein) and it looks like one element of our nationbuilding effort in Afghanistan is working: the people there have demonstrated a lot, and peacefully, against Israel. Judging by the cable traffic, many of the demonstra ...
  • The Lebanese Army finally acts to protect Lebanon& ...
    Israel has violated the ceasefire with Lebanon over 7,000 times since the end of the 2006 war on Lebanon.�� These violations include:Dropping poisonous balloons over Southern Lebanon causing 8 people to be rushed to the hospital after inhaling toxic fumes. � Crossing into Lebanese territory and [... ...
  • Olbermann won’t mention…
    On Countdown last night, Keith Olbermann would not mention the scandal of Israeli racism--or, rather, what would be a scandal if people like him dared to talk about it. First Maria Teresa Kumar (of VotoLatino.org) and then Jonathan Turley attacked the Republican plan to deprive children born to ille ...
  • Al-Walaja villagers stop construction of the Wall ...
    The village of al-Walaja continued its unarmed resistance to the creation of the Separation Wall on its lands today. Villagers along with Israeli and international supporters non-violently stopped construction of the wall for one and a half hours today. Israeli armed forces responded by arresting 12 ...
  • Peace Now: 492 Israeli violations of the partial s ...
    And other news from Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Police clash with Bedouin attempting to rebuild razed village A number of injuries have been reported, among them MK Talab El-Sana, who apparently fainted while entrenched in a tent constructed to protes ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • 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 ...
  • VRM: H1N1 Vaccine Surplus From 2009 Reveals Growin ...
    VACCINE SURPLUS FROM 2009 – Canada: $200,000,000+ worth of unused H1N1 vaccine. United States: $455,000,000+ worth of unused H1N1 vaccine. France: approximately $750,000,000 worth of unused H1N1 vaccine supply. Britain: $250,000,000 worth of unused H1N1 vaccine supply (3.8 million doses). Germany: $ ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. � If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner fo ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new low- ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller. T ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal for o ...
  • Green Building and Remodeling for Dummies: Book Re ...
    I love the Dummies series of books.� They're quick reads packed with info that's presented in a clear and organized way. Plus I love the fact that most of them are available in Kindle versions for much less than the paper version. With the popularity of the Dummies books though, there are oft ...

Michael Yon

  • Perspective
    Published: 21 July 2010 Apologies that this article is available only in Thai language. Please click here to view the entire article. {loadposition user8}
  • Even as the World Watched IV: Peaceful, or Pistol?
    12 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand During the Thailand fighting in May, the rain of media mixed with the dust of politics, creating mud that left honest people feeling bogged down.  People desiring clarity slogged knee deep, then waist deep, and it kept coming. My reports avoided politics largely ...
  • Even as the World Watched III: Getting Hit to Get ...
    Published: 07 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand During the Bangkok fighting in May, radio interviewers back America kept asking about the overuse of force by the Thai Army.  I answered that’s not happening, and there seem to be hundreds of journalists crawling over the streets, and I see them with ...
  • Even as the World Watched II: Tasting the Kool-Aid
    Published: 05 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand This journalist was all over the place.  She stood out from the crowd for obvious reasons.  One evening, as the sun was setting, she was walking down a mostly desolate street not far from Dusit Thani hotel, and she was alone with that little camera.  ...
  • Big Guns
    28 April 2010 The intention was to write a detailed dispatch on the 3-17th Field Artillerly.  Unfortunately, General Stanley McChrystals’ crew broke an agreement I had with the Army to stay until 5/2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team leaves Afghanistan, and so the research on this dispatch was not comp ...

The Killing Train

  • The 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 ...
  • Iran in the Afghan War Diary
    A search on "Iran" in the Afghan War Diary gives about 150 hits - more, actually, but I cleared a bunch that were place names that have the string "iran" in them, like Faqiran, and any entries about how the US raids a weapons cache and uncovers Iranian-manufactured weapons (there are a lot of those ...

treehugger

  • UL Environment's Green Label Expands to Mobile Dev ...
    Photo via dan taylor UL Environment is a fairly new label for green electronics, just launching in January of last year. Underwriters Laboratories has always been a trustworthy entity, though the first company to earn a UL Environment label was LG, who had a SteamWasher and an LCD television se ...
  • "Peer 2 Peer" Rental Challenges London's New Bike ...
    Image credit: Cycle London London's new bike rental scheme , like Paris' velib scheme before it , may be a huge hit. But there's a young upstart on the block that is looking to offer an alternative to these large-scale schemes—and it says it can make ordinary bike owners some money in the proce ...
  • Head for the Hills with North Face's Trailhead iPh ...
    Sometimes the hardest part of going on a hike isn't the hike itself -- it's picking out which trail best suits the type of hiking, biking or walking you want to do. A handy free app from North Face, powered by EveryTrail.com, has everything a person needs to figure out where they want to go and ...
  • Solar Powered Bike Bags for Energy Savvy Cyclists
    Image via The Red Ferret Journal Sticking solar cells on bikes for supplemental power is not exactly new, but the idea is finally finding more fashionable forms. Well, sort of. This small bag fits onto handle bars or the bike bar for gathering a charge while riding. It doesn't directly charge a ...
  • Tara St. James Designs New Uniform Project LBD (Yo ...
    It's a romper. It's a little black dress. It's a Uniform Project dress by Tara St. James. Image courtesy of the Uniform Project . We're all about little black dresses ( LBD ) -- or, as per the season, LWDs -- they're the eco-chic fashion staple that never tires -- and we just donned one for the ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

  • Photos: New Natural Wonders Added to World Heritag ...
    NoneSee the Pacific atolls, mountain forests, and other natural sites that have been named by the UN as places of universal value to humanity. World Heritage Site - Pacific Ocean - Forest - Social Sciences - United States
  • Video: Record-Breaking Sea-Creature Surveys Releas ...
    See some of the deep-sea stars of a new "roll call"—thousands of ocean species found during recent expeditions. Video. Ocean - Species - Fish - Deep sea - Marine biology
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  • Sea Discoveries Spawn Music Video
    Featured in a new "roll call" of life from 25 key ocean regions, marine oddities oscillate, swim, and skitter to an ocean "chorus." Video. Ocean - Earth Sciences - Oceanography - Projects - Data and Information Resources
  • How Prospects Cooled for U.S. Global Warming Bill
    Political stalemate means the world’s largest historic contributor to the greenhouse gas problem faces international talks—again--without a plan. United States - Greenhouse gas - Global warming - Environment - Climate change

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Intel settles anticompetitive conduct suit with FT ...
    [JURIST] The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) [official website] settled [press release; decision, PDF] its lawsuit [case materials] against Intel [corporate website] on Wednesday, with the industry-leading microchip maker agreeing to a set of conditions designed to facilitate fairer competition from ...
  • Lawyer in Iran stoning case seeks asylum in Turkey
    [JURIST] An officer for the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees [official website] said Wednesday said that lawyer Mohammad Mostafei, who is defending a woman sentenced to death in Iran, is seeking asylum in Turkey after fleeing Iran following alleged harassment [AI release] ...
  • Canada court orders release of Khadr brother
    [JURIST] The Ontario Superior Court of Justice [official website] on Wednesday ordered the release of Abdullah Khadr, the brother of Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] after staying a US extradition request. Abdullah Khadr has been detained ...
  • Treasury Department to issue license for terror su ...
    [JURIST] Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) [official website] Director Adam Szubin [official profile] said Tuesday that his office would be willing to issue a license to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] allowing them to provide legal services to ...
  • Senate hears final statements on Kagan confirmatio ...
    [JURIST] The US Senate on Tuesday heard final statements [transcript] on the confirmation of Supreme Court [official website] nominee Elena Kagan [official profile; JURIST news archive]. Most Congressional Republicans oppose her confirmation, but have backed off [Washington Post report] of the prosp ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Obama Makes The Case That His Iran Policy Is Worki ...
    President Obama has detected "rumblings" that global sanctions against Iran are slowly prodding the country to rethink its nuclear ambitions, though he conceded that Iran continues to pursue a fully-fledged nuclear weapons program. Obama said this after dropping by a Roosevelt Room briefing that se ...
  • Prop. 8 Overturned: The Facts, Not the Law, Matter ...
    Here's what you need to know about Judge Vaughn Walker's decision invalidating California's Proposition 8, a referendum passed by voters that banned same-sex marriage. The decision itself will be appealed, and Walker's reasoning could serve as the basis for argument at the appellate level -- or, the ...
  • Contractors Pressured to Perform in Iraq Without V ...
    The United States is rapidly drawing down troops in Iraq, and contractors are picking up the slack. DynCorp International, in particular, employs hundreds of ex-soldiers and cops to act as bodyguards and shepherds for State Department personnel across the country. The company also trains Iraqi po ...
  • Parse This Statement From McCain on Birthright Cit ...
    Sen. Jon Kyl wants to hold congressional hearings to see whether legal experts think Congress can prevent children of undocumented immigrants from becoming citizens merely because they're born in a U.S. emergency room. The rude phrase for this practice is "dropping anchor babies." The debate is fr ...
  • McCain's Spy Satellite Clash Comes to an End
    The Director of National Intelligence's office has sent Sen. John McCain's office its top secret report on the development of two "tier-two" electro-optical satellites that Congress doesn't want funded but the intelligence establishment believes it desperately needs. Neither McCain's office, the Whi ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • War Over a Tree
    âThe Israelis say the tree is on their side, and we say the tree is on our side,â a Lebanese Army spokesman said. This is what it’s come down to: that Israel and Lebanon could go to war over a tree.  Now don’t get me wrong.  I love trees.  But to start a shooting war [...] No related posts. ...
  • Bridge Over Troubled Wadi, School Devoted to Jewis ...
    As I was trying to think of a title for this post that related to the school, which is the subject of the story, I thought of the Paul Simon song, Bridge Over Troubled Waters.  Read on and you will see why. A Facebook friend, Kamil Somaratne, recommended that I watch a 2008 PBS Global Voices [...] ...
  • Links for 2010-04-03 [Digg]
    Anat Kam-Uri Blau Top Secret Israeli Leak Case The foreign media continue to open up the gagged Anat Kam-Uri Blau case with new stories in The Guardian, The Times, and The National.
  • Will the Real Uri Brodsky Please Stand Up
    One of the most promising and bizarre developments in the Mahmoud al-Mabouh Mossad hit is that several weeks ago, one of the wanted Mossad agents, Uri Brodsky, made the serious mistake of attempting to travel from Germany to Poland.  Poland arrested him and over his objection deported him to German ...
  • Rotter Member’s Death Threat
    After mounting an intense DoS attack against this blog and two others in Israel, my web host seems to have figured out a defense against the assault. But now, some members at the Rotter forum, among whose circle this assault may’ve originated, have resorted to homicidal ranting. One poster wrote the ...

Ode Magazine

  • The irony of exercise
    By: VictoriaKlein You might remember my post from last month about my new-found enjoyment of jogging . Fear not – the joy still remains. In fact, my clothes are already starting to fit better. Even with my noticeably results, I’ve missed my past 2 workouts ...
  • A new legacy for Watts
    The wiry spires of the Watts Towers seem almost obtrusive on the working-class skyline of South Los Angeles. While the historic landmarks remind some of the artistic innovation of Italian architect Simon Rodia, who built the sculptures out of steel; mortar; and a mosaic of re ...
  • The power of hope
    Freeing yourself from fear helps build the physical strength needed to fight disease and engage fully with life. I received a moving letter from a friend. “Big shock in October: breast cancer. Eighteen months of treatment. I’ll spare you the details… Everything should be ...
  • We live in a rain forest
    Our brains don’t function like a machine; rather they function like an ecosystem. “The brain has a tremendous ability to transform itself in response to change,” writes psychologist Thomas Armstrong in our cover story for this issue. Armstrong believes that differences among ...
  • Your brain is a rain forest
    People with conditions like ADHD, dyslexia and mood disorders are routinely labeled "ÂÂdisabled". But differences among brains are as enrichingâand essentialâas differences among plants and animals. Welcome to the new field of neurodiversity. Imagine for a moment t ...

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • 107 Days After The Gulf Spill Began, Big Oil Hasn' ...
    If Wall Street was too big to fail, Big Oil is looking too arrogant to change these days. Not more than 107 days after the Gulf spill began, the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association (NPRA) as well as Big Oil’s front group -- disguised under the misnomer “Consumer” Energy All ...
  • An Ode to Slough
    Born high in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness in Montana, Slough Creek wanders south through rugged country to the northern border of Yellowstone National Park.  Once it enters Yellowstone, it takes its sweet time, bending and turning constantly, as it meanders through huge gorgeous ...
  • Oil in the Gulf: Half the Spill Remains with Unkno ...
    Despite the attention-grabbing headlines today pronouncing the oil is gone, a hard look at the government’s new report reveals the oil still very much exits. While it's good news that there's much less oil on the surface waters of the Gulf, that's not the only place where the oil still ...
  • Sigh…environmental “history” fr ...
    I just saw a link to a new video produced by CEI , with Robert J. Smith ("the father of private conservation”), titled The Origins of the Environmental Movement .  It starts off discussing the environmental problems of the 1950s, 60s and 70s and then, before you know it, we’re all Maoi ...
  • Yosemites of the Sea: Creating Underwater Parks fo ...
    For more than a century, America has been safeguarding its most treasured landscapes as national parks and its wildlife in refuges. Now it’s time to ensure the same protections for ocean creatures and ecosystems that sustain so much life:  kelp forests, coral reefs, mollusks, fish, mar ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Of Course, The Priveleged Could Not Possibly Have ...
    Shorter Gerard Bradley:  “It’s outrageous that Thugood Marshall didn’t recuse himself from school desegregation cases, and that Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O’Connor didn’t recuse themselves from gender equality cases.  In fact, the federal judiciary should be limited entirely to reactionary ...
  • Let the Hyperbole Commence!
    Asked: So, how are the crazy-cons going to react to the court decision striking down Proposition 8 in California? I ask because we’ve been hearing that the new right-wing crazies don’t care about “values” issues the way the old right-wing crazies did; we’ve been hearing that the new crowd is even ...
  • Trotskyite of the Day
    Meet the radical far-left judicial activist who issued the Prop 8 ruling: In other words, this âliberal San Francisco judgeâ was recommended by Ed Meese, appointed by Ronald Reagan, and opposed by Alan Cranston, Nancy Pelosi, Edward Kennedy, and the leading gay activist groups. Itâs a good ...
  • Former Time Blog of the Year Apparently Unaware Th ...
    Shorter Verbatim Assrocket: “Conservatives have long said that the day would come when liberal judges declare the Constitution unconstitutional.” Or, to put it in a way with some relation to reality, a judge did the utterly banal thing and declared a provision of a state constitution inconsistent ...
  • The Greatness, and Potential Tragedy, of Perry v. ...
    I have very, very mixed feelings about Judge Walker’s historic decision holding California’s Proposition 8 unconstitutional. On the one hand, it represents judicial review at its best, remedying the exclusion of an unpopular minority from a fundamental right for irrational reasons. Strictly on the ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI Assists with West Point Cadet Training
    Dr. Eric McDonald his group of DRI scientists have partnered with West Point to develop a curriculum to teach cadets how to take soil samples and measurements with different geotechnical equipment, as well as manage large data sets.
  • DRI Researcher Named to National Committee
    Duane Moser, Ph.D., has been elected to the Executive Committee for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory Research Association (DuRA).
  • Scientists Use Tahoe Work to Protect Guatemalan La ...
    A team of scientists including DRI's Dr. Alan Heyvaert have been working at Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan to find solutions to algae blooms that have assailed the ecosystem and the locals' drinking water.
  • Kendrick Taylor Named Chief Scientist for Antarcti ...
    The National Science Foundation has again selected DRI's Kendrick Taylor, Ph.D. to be chief scientist for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core Project, a crucial step in defining the influence of changes in greenhouse gases on climate.
  • Jianting Zhu Named Maki Chair in Hydrologic Scienc ...
    Jianting “Julian” Zhu, Ph.D. was just named the Maki Chair in the Division of Hydrologic Sciences. Zhu has been with DRI since 2004 and is an accomplished researcher with numerous articles published.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • THE 2010 MIDSIZE HOT LIST
    This year's Midsize Hot List shows the agility of law firms with 50 to 150 attorneys in ducking the recession's blows — or at least bouncing back more quickly than many big-firm competitors.
  • Calif. judge overturns gay marriage ban
    Chief Judge Vaughn Walker struck down Proposition 8 on Wednesday, finding that it violated gay Californians' equal protection and due process rights under the U.S. Constitution. In a 136-page decision, Walker said that the measure "fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesb ...
  • A conversation with the lawyer who reported Toyota ...
    In May, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced a probe of a 2005 recall involving steering-related problems in Toyota vehicles. NHTSA had been tipped off by John Kristensen, who sued the company last year alleging that Toyota had long known about the steering rod problems, havi ...
  • Law document transparency project defines its term ...
    A national movement to compile publicly available legal documents and resources on free and easily accessible Web sites is moving forward after months of discussion about the project's goals.
  • Georgia attorney in uphill battle to hold banks li ...
    Atlanta attorney Melvin Hewitt is on a mission: to hold banks and financial institutions accountable for crimes committed at ATMs and night deposit boxes. In recent years, Hewitt of Atlanta's Isenberg & Hewitt has filed several lawsuits on behalf of customers injured or killed in crimes committed du ...

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Marcellus Shale Drillers in Pennsylvania Amass 143 ...
    952 Identified as Most Likely to Harm the Environment The Pennsylvania Land Trust Association has reviewed environmental violations accrued by Marcellus Shale drillers working in Pennsylvania between January 2008 and June 25, 2010.  The records were obtained via a Right to Know Request made to the P ...
  • Up In the Air
    I made an announcement shortly after Memorial Day weekend, that I would be putting my home in DISH on the market.  This decision was made by my family after several instances of both of my children having nosebleeds during the night.  These nosebleeds correlated with strong odors and spikes in the c ...
  • DEP’s Unauthorized Water Withdrawal Program
    July 26, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:  Cathy Pedler – (814) 454-7523 Bill Belitskus – (814) 778-5173 Ryan Talbott – (503) 887-7845 Department of Environmental Protection Unlawfully Permitting Water Withdrawals For Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling in Western Pennsylvania Only riparian owners can ...
  • DEP has proposed tougher standards for Oil & Gas d ...
    The Public Comment Meetings are finished and there are only about ten days to get in your comments by e-mail. These regulations call for more stringent standards for O&G drilling operations. These regulations are vital.  They upgrade requirements for testing, well casing, welding, cementing and othe ...
  • Gas Stock 2010!
    http://www.gasstockconcert.com/ This is an environmental concert and rally. Music and like minded folks who are concerned about the gas drilling in PA. Check it out.

News Blaze

environment 360

  • A Looming Oxygen Crisis and Its Impact on World’s ...
    As warming intensifies, scientists warn, the oxygen content of oceans across the planet could be more and more diminished, with serious consequences for the future of fish and other sea life. BY CARL ZIMMER
  • Ecuador Approves Trust Fund to Protect Oil-Rich Am ...
    Ecuador has approved an international trust fund that will compensate the nation in exchange for its pledge not to exploit the vast oil reserves beneath the Amazonian forest of Yasuni National Park. The Ecuadorian government has asked for $3.6 billion for not allowing drilling in the Ishpingo-Tiputi ...
  • Automotive X Prize Selects 9 High-Efficiency Final ...
    Nine vehicles remain in competition for the $10 million Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize , which is seeking to spur development of commercially viable cars that average 100 miles-per-gallon. The competition, the brainchild of Peter Diamandis’ X Prize Foundation , began 15 months ago with 136 ...
  • Phytoplankton Has Declined 40 Percent Globally Sin ...
    Concentrations of phytoplankton in the world’s oceans have decreased 40 percent since the 1950's, according to a new study. Using nearly a half-million sources of oceanographic data from the last 60 years, researchers at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia concluded that the decline of the microscop ...
  • Hottest Decade on Record
    The past decade was the hottest ever recorded and global temperatures are now rising at a rate of about one-fifth of a degree Fahrenheit every decade, according to the annual “State of the Climate” report issued by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). More than 300 climat ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Solar tsunami to trigger northern lights across Ca ...
    Stargazing doesn’t get much better than this. The northern lights are expected to make an appearance in the night sky across Canada and the northern United States this week, thanks to a spectacular eruption on the surface of the Sun. Early on Sunday, the sun’s surface exploded in a phenomenon called ...
  • Archaeologists Find Tunnel Below the Temple of the ...
    Contextual image of the tunnel found in front of the Temple of the Feathered Serpent. Photo: CNMH INAH. After eight months of excavation, archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have located, 12 meters below , the entrance to the tunnel leading to a series of ga ...
  • Are you ready for life in WORLD 3?
    In the 1970s, Karl Popper came up with a philosophical theory of reality that involved three interacting worlds: the physical world, the mental world, and "world 3", which comprises all products of the human mind - from ideas, pictures and music to every word ever written. Something very similar to ...
  • Why is BP's Macondo blowout so disastrous & Beyond ...
    There has been so much information (or mis-information) on the disaster it is difficult to separate the facts from the myths, let alone decide who is or are to be held responsible for the oil spill disaster. There is a need for a working geological model to integrate all the scattered pieces of info ...
  • BP says "static kill" has overcome oil spill flow
    After pumping heavy drilling mud for eight hours, BP early Wednesday pronounced it had finally brought its blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico under control. The company and the Obama administration cautioned it would take another step -- completion of a relief well later this month - ...

Russia Today

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

  • A Repackaging of an Old Idea
    The present Big Bang Theory of the formation of the Universe has been in trouble since the 1990s, since it was discovered that the Universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. Since then, the terms ‘dark energy’ and ‘dark matter’ have entered the scientific lexicon, although there’s no evidence ...
  • Some Reasons for the Roswell Crash
    Suppose you’re just starting to study the UFO phenomenon and you start reading about the 1947 crash at the Matt Brazel ranch. After studying things for a while you wonder; “If these things are so advanced, why do they crash?” Well, Anthony Bragalia over at the UFO Iconoclast(s) lists some possible r ...
  • Dark Matter and the Sun
    I’m not an astrophysicist or astronomer by any stretch of the imagination, but I found this post from Daily Galaxy rather intriguing: Dark matter has become trapped at the center of the sun and is cooling down its core temperature according to a new study by Dr Stephen West from the Department of Ph ...
  • Philip K. Dick, Neo-Nazis and the National Securit ...
    It is well known in science-fiction circles that author Philip K. Dick was a mad, drug-induced psychic shamanic figure who glimpsed into the future realms on an almost daily basis for over thirty years, much to his detriment in most cases. What isn’t known so much is that during the 1950s he was fri ...
  • thunderbolts.info: Galactic Thunderbolts
    Ahh, here’s some physics stuff I can grok. The Electric Universe guys never fail to make logic out of gobblety-gook: Consensus astronomers look at individual points of light and discover the most massive stars. Electric Universe observers look at the entire complex of filaments and discover the char ...

Tippers News

  • Weasel Your Way into My Heart or A Ferret Love ...
    I never gave much thought to ferrets until a recent merger between my household and another threw together two pit bulls, a large bulldog, and two 6-year-old ferretsMoose and Pita. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Fostering Ferals
    How a litter of kittens became a labor of love Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Protect Sharks from Finning ! TAKE ACTION !
    To satisfy the increasing demand for shark fin soup, fins are cut off of millions of living sharks and the mutilated animals are then thrown back into the ocean to diea practice known as "finning." Though the U.S. outlawed this practice in 2000, the Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �| ...
  • Take the Pledge: Save Missouri's Puppy Mill Dogs ! ...
    This November, Missourians will likely vote on a citizen initiative to save tens of thousands of dogs from suffering in puppy mills. Unbelievably, large-scale puppy mills in Missouri are allowed to keep dogs in small wire cages, stacked on top of each Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! � ...
  • Your morning adorable: Let's have a party! Critica ...
    The birth of an Amur leopard cub at Germany's Leipzig Zoo is huge news for her species, which is critically endangered. The cub, a female who hasn't yet been named, was born at the zoo in late June. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • $26 Billion Aid-to-States Bill Heads to House
    “The Senate on Wednesday cleared the way for a $26 billion package of aid to states and school districts, and the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, said she would summon members from their summer recess to grant final approval to the bill.” (New York Times, Thursday) Didnât they get the memo about the ...
  • Same-Sex Marriage Ban Struck Down
    “A federal judge in California ruled Wednesday that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage violates the constitutional right to equal protection. The decision is the first step in a legal struggle that is widely expected to end at the Supreme Court.” (Washington Post, Thursday) Equal protection is one ...
  • Burqa Politics
    Politically speaking, July 2010 was a big month for the burqa, which has become a flash point of tension between the West and Islam.
  • Manuel Ayau, Guatemala’s Freedom Entrepreneu ...
    Manuel F. Ayau, Guatemala’s leading classical liberal scholar and intellectual entrepreneur; founder of Francisco Marroquin University; former FEE trustee; and Freeman contributor, died this morning. He was 84. FEE’s staff and trustees send their heartfelt condolences to Manuel’s family. He was a gr ...
  • Obama Plans to Revive Industry
    “President Obama and congressional Democrats — out of options for another quick shot of stimulus spending to revive the sluggish economy — are shifting toward a longer-term strategy that promises to tackle persistently high unemployment by engineering a renaissance in American manufacturing.” (Washi ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Online video still growing, gaining viewers
    Just because comedy or humorous videos are the most popular among U.S. adults ( source ) does not mean journalists should wring their hands and despair about public tastes. What’s more important, I think, is that among people who have broadband Internet access at home, 75 percent watch online video ...
  • Is J-school relevant? (#wjchat)
    @killbutton Q1 Yes, because the foundation of journalism is SO important. Journos need a strong foundation in ethics! #wjchat @dnvolz Brian Williams never got any college degree and is considered a top journalist even in an ever-changing market #wjchat @mhinojosa Q1 Yes, I think it’s more importa ...
  • Top Teaching Online Journalism posts: Past 6 month ...
    According to Google Analytics, this is what you’ve been reading here (Dec. 1, 2009, up to today): 21 examples of Flash journalism A few words about digital audio recorders Now printable! Reporterâs Guide to Multimedia Proficiency Recording phone calls: For reporters Why does anyone major in ...
  • Tips for HTML5, part 6: A look at CSS3
    Although I hear there are still some journalism programs where CSS is not taught, I’m going to assume that all those Luddites are working on bringing their design and presentation curriculum into the 21st century. CSS is essential to design and presentation for the Internet. In this post I’m just g ...
  • Two good books for learning JavaScript, jQuery
    Since about March this year, I’ve been searching for a few good, clear books to recommend to journalists and students who are interested in learning to use jQuery — with an eye toward getting ready for HTML5. You could just leap straight into jQuery, but I think it would make more sense to get a ha ...

Facing South

  • Company seeking nuclear subsidies under investigat ...
    The U.S. Senate could vote as soon as next month on a proposal to give $9 billion in taxpayer-backed loan guarantees to companies planning to build new nuclear reactors -- and one of the companies seeking the aid for a project in Texas is currently under federal investigation for its role in the rad ...
  • Facing South's advertising policy
    Several readers have written to us about the ads by BP that have appeared on Facing South's website. This is as good a chance as any to talk about Facing South's advertising policy, which is essentially the same policy we have used since we began publishing Southern Exposure, our print journal, in 1 ...
  • What's the most conservative region in the country ...
    What's the most conservative region in the country? If asked that question, many would likely say the South -- and they'd have plenty of evidence to make their case. But regular Facing South readers know better: As we've taken pains to document over the years, the South is far from a bastion o ...
  • BP leaves many damage claims waiting in limbo
    By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica BP appears to be delaying decisions about the validity of many claims for damages from the Gulf oil spill, leaving claimants frustrated by bureaucratic obstacles and confusing requests for more documentation. The company's claims process is guided by the Oil Pollu ...
  • Fallout from the BP disaster: Today on "To the Poi ...
    It's been more then 100 days since the onset of the BP oil disaster, and with hope growing that the gushing well will be successfully capped this week, there's now considerable debate about the long-term consequences of the spill. Is it as bad as many feared? Have the consequences been overblown? ...

Survival International

  • Former UN water advisor condemns Botswana’s treatm ...
    Maude Barlow's attack comes a week after the UN declared water a fundamental human right. © IISD Maude Barlow, former UN advisor on water, âAlternative Nobelâ prize winner and founder of the Blue Planet Project, has condemned the Botswana governmentâs failure to allow Bushmen to access w ...
  • Borneo human rights lawyer quizzed by police
    Penan armed with blowpipes block road as logging trucks approach. © Survival 2009 Prominent indigenous rights lawyer Harrison Ngau Laing was quizzed by Malaysian Immigration and Special Branch police officers on Monday as he tried to board a plane to Kuala Lumpur. Officials at Kuching airport ...
  • Nomad tribe emerges from forest to prove its exist ...
    Karapiru, an Awá man who survived the massacre of his family by gunmen. © Fiona Watson/Survival Indians from the tiny Awá tribe will stage a three day protest in the Brazilian Amazon from August 1st to 3rd, to prove that they exist and to demand that their land be protected from invasion. The ...
  • Avatar’s Na’vi in London to stop Vedanta mine
    Two Naâvi protested outside Vedantaâs AGM. © Survival Two Naâvi from James Cameronâs film Avatar today paid a visit to British mining company Vedanta Resourcesâ Annual General Meeting in Westminster, London. The Naâvi joined tribal rights organization Survival in a demonstration ...
  • Indians hold construction workers hostage at Amazo ...
    A dam being built in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. © Survival Brazilian Indians are occupying the site of a hydroelectric plant, demanding that they be compensated for the damage caused to them by the dam, that their land rights be upheld and that no more harmful dams be built in the regio ...

Greg Palast

  • Behind Bush's Wyly Billionaire Burglars... Hint: B ...
    by Greg Palast Card illustrations by Bob GrossmanSam Wyly is one of the planet's "Ten Greenest Billionaires," according to Forbes. And, the magazine should have added, the one that deserves the most prison time. Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged billionaire Sam and his bil ...
  • Palast on GRITtv: Fighting Toxic Oil Companies
    Last week, Mike Papantonio told us on GRITtv that there was no fund from BP to pay for the oil disaster, and raised some questions about Kenneth Feinberg, the administrator of the damages to Gulf residents. Today investigative journalist Greg Palast answers some of those questions--and raises a f ...
  • Shoot BP:The Amazon to Arctic Investigation
    Alaska Native Henry Makarka©1997James Macalpine-PIF At Tatitlek Village, Alaska Native Henry Makarka told me, "If I had a machine gun I'd shoot every one of them white sons of bitches." Makarka was talking about the executives who came to him and his tribe 40 years ago to purchase their land at Va ...
  • Shoot BP:The Amazon to Arctic Investigation
    At Tatitlek Village, Alaska Native Henry Makarka told me, "If I had a machine gun I'd shoot every one of them white sons of bitches." Makarka was talking about the executives who came to him and his tribe 40 years ago to purchase their land at Valdez.  They were from the companies now known as Exxo ...
  • Getting into Massa's Drawers:Truly Creepy Detailsa ...
    Exclusive for Buzzflash.com by Greg Palast For the two weeks before tickle-and-grope charges busted open on him, and before his resignation from Congress, our BBC Television investigations team was hunting for Representative Eric Massa. We wanted to know what he had hidden in his drawers. Not his ...

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • How To Help Homeowners
    Now that the President’s plan to help homeownevers, HAMP, has clearly proven to be a failure, let’s go back to how to do it correctly. What the government should do instead is set up a Trust to buy mortgages at a discount, then reset them to 20, 30 or 50 year fixed mortgages with [...]
  • Obama Claims Right to not just assassinate America ...
    Seriously, fuck Obama and fuck anyone who defends this shit. Oh, I know, if you’re even thinking of defending this, you’re a moral imbecile, but you should at least be able to understand that unless you’re in the top .1%, you, personally, will eventually have only the rights the least amongst us do. ...
  • Go Read Stirling on Japanification
    This is what you NEED to understand.  Go read it. It also underlies most of my economic thinking and writing.  If you want to understand the underpinnings of what I write, this is fundamental.
  • Stating the Obvious: Obama wants to gut social sec ...
    Let me state the obvious, which we all know, one more time. Obama intends to gut social security.  Republicans failed, it requires Democrats.  If Obama did not intend to gut social security he would not have set up the SS comission with the members it has. Nancy Pelosi is onside with this (or she ...
  • Obama Claims Right to not just assassinate America ...
    Seriously, fuck Obama and fuck anyone who defends this shit. Oh, I know, if you’re even thinking of defending this, you’re a moral imbecile, but you should at least be able to understand that unless you’re in the top .1%, you, personally, will eventually have only the rights the least amongst us do. ...

Age of Autism

  • New York, Politics and Autism
    By John Gilmore Thank goodness the 2010 New York legislative session is finally over. Last night the second latest budget in New York history was finally finished, 125 days overdue, and the members of the Assembly and Senate can now...
  • Young Man With Autism Dies, Forgotten in Hot Car
    20 year old Bryan Nevins died after being left in a hot car by his "caregivers" who didn't notice he was missing until his meds were due. Didn't notice he was missing until his meds were due. Didn't notice he...
  • Win Two Free Bags of Custom Choice Gluten Free Cer ...
    How would you like to win two free bags of Custom Choice Cereal? What is it? Custom Choice Cereal lets you create your own gluten-free cereal mix through an easy-to-use website. Start by selecting one of three bases mixes and...
  • 911 Call: Mom Didn’t Want Autistic Kids; Murdered ...
    By Kim Stagliano (Warning profanity alert.) As Gulf sea turtles are having the oil cleansed gently from their shells and birds are feeling the soft touch of gentle hands wiping their feathers clean, two children with autism felt the paralyzing...
  • Win Lunch with Dr. Andrew Wakefield
    Click HERE to visit the SafeMinds MercuryFree Kids 2010 Auction. Care to wine and dine with Dr. Andrew Wakefield? Start bidding! The Mercury Free Kids 2010 Auction is now open. The auction will run from July 20, 2010 to July...

Global BDS Movement

  • 6,000 Irish shoppers demand supermarket stops stoc ...
    Today, Thursday 29th July 2010, at 1pm, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) delivered a petition to Dunnes Stores signed by 6,000 shoppers across Ireland. The petition demands that Dunnes Stores stop stocking Israeli products, until Israel respects Palestinian rights and international l ...
  • Palestinian civil society salutes Olympia Food Co- ...
    Occupied Palestine, 26 July 2010 – Palestinian farmers unions, agricultural organizations and popular committees struggling against Israel’s colonial Wall and settlements warmly salute the historic decision taken on July 15th [1] by the Olympia Food Co-op to remove all Israeli products from its shel ...
  • Action Alert: Support the Olympia Food Co-op Now! ...
    Just last week the Board of Directors of the Olympia Food Co-op took thecourageous step of instituting a boycott of Israeli goods, the firstgrocery boycott of Israel in the US. Already, there is a movement afoot tocondemn the Co-op for taking this important stand. Board and staff arereceiving aggres ...
  • IKEA contributes to a better everyday life for the ...
    IKEA delivers goods to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory. IKEA’s answer to the critique is that "IKEA stores have existed in Israel for the many people since 2001" and that "IKEA’s vision is to contribute to a better everyday life for the many people." read more
  • BNC welcomes actions to mark fifth anniversary of ...
    BNC welcomes actions to mark fifth anniversary of BDS call � read more

Farm Wars

  • America Betrayed radio with guest Marti Oakley
    Mexican Drug Cartel soldiers shot in Arizona desert: Los Zetas officer says shoot to kill Americans in retaliation.
  • How do you tell someone he can’t drink water on hi ...
    Indigenous people who have lived in the land for ages, are being driven off through water deprivation under the pretext of wildlife conservation. In the meantime, their water and land are being used for luxury tourist lodges and diamond mining. This is Agenda 21, and we are next.
  • Senator Harry Reid is working hard – but for whom?
    The PPJ Gazette By Debbie Coffey  Copyright 2010   All Rights Reserved. “Scientists warned that as the Great Basin’s groundwater is drained, desert springs and seeps will dry up, farms and ranches will wither away, and plants and wildlife will die off.  The aquifer, which took millennia to fill, wil ...
  • H.R. 5577 The Genetically Engineered Food Right t ...
    H.R. 5577 Exempts the USDA Certified Organics Industry from the labeling requirement and testing even if producers use GMO processing ingredients.
  • Marti Oakley and Barb Peterson: The Truth Squad, ...
    Join us Sunday evening at 8 CST for Marti and Barb on The Truth Squad Radio Show. Our guest this week is John Wallace, host of American Politics on blogtalk.  John has been at the forefront of the fight in New York to preserve state sovereignty against federal encroachment.  John will be discussing ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • IMF blueprint for a global currency – yes really
    Financial Times – FT Alphaville missed this IMF paper when it first came out in April, 2010. Authored by Reza Moghadam, director of the IMFâs strategy, policy and review department, it discusses how the IMF sees the International Monetary System evolving after the financial crisis. Which means, in ...
  • Sperm may be harmed by exposure to BPA, study sugg ...
    PhysOrg.com – In one of the first human studies of its kind, researchers have found that urinary concentrations of the controversial chemical Bisphenol A, or BPA, may be related to decreased sperm quality and sperm concentration. However, the researchers are quick to point out that these results ar ...
  • Here Comes the Sun — with a Vengeance
    Time-The sun has been quiet for the past couple of years. Too quiet. Normally, our home star goes through a sort of rising and falling sleep-wake cycle that lasts 11 years, on average. At the so-called solar maximum, magnetic storms roil its outer layers and sunspots dapple its surface; solar flares ...
  • Cancer cells slurp up fructose, US study finds
    Reuters – Pancreatic tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same. Tumor cells fed both glucose and fructose used the two sugars in two different ways, the team at the University of Calif ...
  • ‘Ground Zero’ mosque approved
    Aljazeera – US authorities have approved the building of an Islamic culture centre and mosque in New York City, despite tensions over it being located near the site of the September 11 attacks in 2001. The Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously on Tuesday to deny landmark status to a bu ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Western Climate Initiative: California, New Mexico ...
    California, joined by New Mexico and three Canadian provinces, outlined a detailed plan Tuesday to curb greenhouse gas emissions in a regional cap-and-trade program by January 2012. The Western Climate Initiative, two years in the making, comes as Congressional legislation...
  • Gulf oil spill: New spill in Gulf area after barge ...
    An abandoned oil well is leaking into a Louisiana bay about 35 miles south of New Orleans after a barge crashed into the well head early Tuesday, the U.S. Coast Guard said.A 1-mile-long sheen of oil from the new spill...
  • Gulf oil spill: Grand Isle bemoans loss of its fis ...
    The community of Grand Isle, La., population 1,541, prides itself as a fisherman’s paradise. But on Saturday, toxic, oil-contaminated waters still surrounded the southern edge of this town, forcing the cancellation of the oldest fishing tournament in the United States...
  • Battle over Pebble Mine shifts to EPA
    Tribal leaders who are battling plans for Pebble Mine, a $300-billion copper, molybdemum and gold deposit at the headwaters of Bristol Bay--home of the world's biggest sockeye salmon runs--are appealing now to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for help. But...
  • Gulf oil spill: Bonnie fizzles, cleanup fleet head ...
    The fleet of cleanup vessels tending the blown-out BP well in the Gulf of Mexico was ordered back to the spill site Saturday morning after a tropical storm system fizzled. The weather system, downgraded Friday from Tropical Storm Bonnie to...

Mark I. Moore | Deepwater Horizon

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Cryptogon

  • The Death of Paper Money
    Dying of Money: Lessons of the Great German and American Inflations by Jens O. Parsson: Amazon, HTML, PDF. Via: Telegraph: As they prepare for holiday reading in Tuscany, City bankers are buying up rare copies of an obscure book on the mechanics of Weimar inflation published in 1974. Ebay is offerin ...
  • Cryptogon Reader On Giving Up His American Citizen ...
    Mike Gogulski’s site is: nostate.com.
  • Organic Co-Op Rawesome Foods: Security Camera Foot ...
    As the state stupidly tries to crush suppliers of delicious, nutritious and safe food, people become radicalized. For our purposes, radicalized means increasingly seeking out and paying cash or bartering for outlaw meat, raw milk, free range eggs, heirloom vegetables, etc. … The person who feels emp ...
  • $200 Biometric Lock Vs. Paperclip
    Via: Wired: The lock that would seem to have thwarted them the most was actually one of the easiest to crack. The Biolock Model 333 is a sleek £126 ($200) lock that combines a mechanical cylinder and fingerprint reader. The Biolock fingerprint reader illuminates a blue LED when a fingerprint is auth ...
  • Software for Pentagon Costs Americans Tens of Bill ...
    Would you like some air conditioned tents to go with that? Via: Defense News: The Department of Defense spends tens of billions of dollars annually creating software that is rarely reused and difficult to adapt to new threats. Instead, much of this software is allowed to become the property of defen ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Foreclosures Continue To Dramatically Increase In ...
    In a very alarming sign for the U.S. economy, foreclosures have continued to dramatically increase in 2010.  But there has been a shift.  Back in 2007 and 2008, experts tell us that most foreclosures were due to toxic mortgages.  People were being suckered into mortgages that they c ...
  • Credit Crunch 2010
    Over the past several decades, one of the primary engines of U.S. economic prosperity has been a constantly expanding debt spiral.  As long as the U.S. government, state governments, businesses and American consumers could all continue to borrow increasingly large amounts of money, ...
  • 11 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Is Bad
    Millions of Americans are waking up to the fact that the Federal Reserve is bad, but very few of them can coherently explain why this is true.  For decades, an unelected, privately-owned central bank has controlled America's currency, run our economy and has driven the U.S. governme ...
  • 2011: The Year Of The Tax Increase
    Unless the U.S. Congress acts, there is going to be a massive wave of tax increases in 2011.  In fact, some are already calling 2011 the year of the tax increase.  A whole host of tax cuts that Congress established between 2001 and 2003 are set to expire in January unless Congress c ...
  • Disaster Plan
    Does your family have an economic disaster plan?  If not, why not?  By now, most people know that very hard economic times are coming.  No, America is not going to turn into a post-apocalyptic war zone where motorcycle gangs ravage the populace next week, but the truth is that it do ...

Desertification

  • Free-Books-Online: Desertification
    Read at :Google Alert – desertification Free Books Online Desertification PDF \(â¢oâ¢)/ Download Free Books Online Desertification PDF â¥â¥ Read a Million of Free Books Online Desertification PDF Now!! http://free-books-online.net/desertification-pdf Gender and desertification – Desertification ...
  • Wastewater Treatment is not Rocket Science! Wait, ...
    Read at : http://blog.dimidia.com/ Wastewater Treatment is not Rocket Science! Wait, yes it is! It seems that yet another university is doing some leading-edge research in wastewater treatment. “Two Stanford University engineers are developing a new sewage treatment process that … Continue reading →
  • Drought Tolerant Crops Critical to Increasing Food ...
    Read at : Google Alert – drought http://www.manufacturing.net/News/Feeds/2010/08/mnet-market-sectors-pharmaceuticals/biotech-dupont-leader-drought-tolerant-crops-critical-to/ SOURCE: http://www2.dupont.com/Media_Center/en_US/daily_news/august/article20100805.html DuPont News, August 5, 2010 DuPont L ...
  • The importance of soil (Organic Guide)
    Read at : http://www.organicguide.com/gardening/basics/the-importance-of-soil/ The importance of soil Posted by Beverley Jenkins The life sustaining ability of soil is best understood by appreciating the complex cycles of decay and erosion. Its natural formation occurs in a series of layers starting ...
  • Earthscan Book
    Climate Change and Vulnerability: http://www.earthscan.co.uk/ESAffiliate/product.aspx?aid=168&pid=254&dn=www.earthscan.co.uk CONTENTS (Expand Contents) Foreword by R. K. Pachauri Part I: Introduction For Whom the Bell Tolls: Vulnerabilities in a Changing Climate Part II: Natural Resource Systems Vul ...

The Paper Trail

  • DEFENSE: Alleged Traumatic Brain Injury Research M ...
    The Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) is reviewing allegations of research misconduct in a mild traumatic brain injury clinical trial with U.S. Marines in Iraq, according to documents and interviews.
  • ENVIRONMENT: Democrats Join Fight Against Coal Ash ...
    A bipartisan majority of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is voicing “strong opposition” to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to regulate the disposal of coal ash — an environmental hazard that was the subject of an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity last year ...
  • DEFENSE: Coast Guard Modernization Program Nearly ...
    The Coast Guard’s ill-fated “Deepwater” program to modernize its fleet is $3.8 billion over budget and years behind schedule, despite modest improvements in program management over the past three years, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says.
  • ENVIRONMENT: Senate Bill Aims to Tighten Regulatio ...
    Reacting to health worries about chemical dispersants used in the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg introduced legislation on Wednesday that would require the Environmental Protection Agency to test such compounds and disclose their ingredients.
  • DEFENSE: War Contracting Commission Cites Center A ...
    During a hearing on the oversight of subcontractors in war zones, the Wartime Contracting Commission on Monday cited the Center for Public Integrity/ Washington Post investigation into the difficulty of enforcing a U.S. ban on contractors engaging in sex trafficking. It also delved into numerous in ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Airshow Mackay and the Red Barons
    By Alison@Creekside Frankly I don't think we can be expected to write a whole new blogpost every time Flying Ace "Airshow MacKay" and his trusty sidekick Woodstock Kory climb up on top of the Con doghouse to fight off the Red Baron yet again in the Arctic, so this time we're ...
  • Am I on Blackett’s “crap” list?
    By Brian Brennan I applied to a provincial government agency – twice — to fund my next history book project, and was turned down, twice. Why? First, let me tell you the reason I applied for this money. You don’t make big money writing history in this country. It is the sport ...
  • No jokes please, we’re Canadian
    By Alison@Creekside Vancouver company The Cheeky.com says their humorous suitcase stickers featuring bags of cocaine, US bills, sex toys and a bound-and-gagged flight attendant will help you find your luggage more easily, but Transport Minister John Baird's spokesy says: "Joking about potentia ...
  • Manly moustaches v. lego beards
    By Chris Bowman I'm doing some research right now which includes a lot of pictures from the 1870s and 1880s. Times were tough in old Canada back then; you had to be pretty rugged if you weren't some city slicker from Ottawa. She's an unforgiving country, though fair if you're willing ...
  • DND on friendly fire: Wikileaks, US don’t kn ...
    By Alison@Creekside One of the Wikileaks war logs released yesterday contained a friendly fire report filed by the 205th RCAG U.S. military unit which states four Canadian soldiers were killed and seven other Canadians and an interpreter were wounded on Sept. 3, 2006, when a fighter jet dropped a ...

Worldnews

  • Who Wants to Be the Mayor of Pizza Hut?
    Who Wants to Be the Mayor of Pizza Hut? BY Austin CarrWed Aug 4, 2010 Who's the mayor of Pizza Hut? Or, in other words, who has been stuffing their faces with way too much deep dish? We'll soon know. On Wednesday, Pizza Hut announced a new partnership with Foursquare aimed at giving us more of ...
  • Mukherjee praises NDA for petroleum price der ...
    New Delhi, Aug 5 (PTI) The Opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA) received a rare compliment from Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday when he praised the BJP-led front for its decision to deregulate petroleum prices during its six-year rule. "And I must thank the NDA government, ...
  • Test hangs in the balance as India fight back ...
    COLOMBO: Defiant batting by India's tailenders and twin blows by part-time spinner Virender Sehwag left the third and final Test against Sri Lanka evenly poised on Thursday. India, chasing Sri Lanka's first innings total of 425, were reduced to 321/6 in the post-lunch session of the third day, ...
  • Mukesh Ambani, Subrata Roy to compete with Ch ...
    India's richest man Mukesh Ambani and billionaire businessman Subrata Roy face competition from the Chinese government in the battle to buy English Premier League club Liverpool. The Indian business tycoons...
  • U.S., allies to send first delegation to Hiro ...
    The Starting Point is a preview of the stories we expect to cover today and a snapshot of the news that occurred overnight. Featured story Sixty-five years after dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, and killing more than 140,000 people, the United States will send its first ever delegat ...

Alex in Wonderland

  • WikiLeaked ‘Afghanistan War Logs’ Incl ...
    The massive dump of U.S. military records relating to the war in Afghanistan confirms prior knowledge in some areas and shines light to other grim realities of aggressive war and occupation.
  • Daily Briefing—4th Aug 2010
    News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
  • U.K. Prime Minister: Israel and Egypt Turned Gaza ...
    David Cameron, British prime minister and leader of the national Conservative Party, said Tuesday, "Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp." He also called out governments on double standards against the Turkish State.
  • Daily Briefing—27th July 2010
    News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire:
  • Jeremy Scahill on Obama’s Iraq Withdrawal Th ...
    With 70,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, President Obama yesterday dropped his 2009 pledge to remove all combat troops before September, extending the target date 15 months, Gareth Porter reported today at Inter Press Services. The drawdown is intended by the Administration to leave 50,000 'residual troops' ...

MY Daily Apple

  • FDA moves toward tighter medical device oversight
    Makers of X-ray machines, drug pumps and other medical devices would have to submit more safety information to win federal approval under a proposal designed to tighten regulation of thousands of products reviewed each year.
  • PolyGel® Receives SADMERC Approval for L-Code L367 ...
    WHIPPANY, N.J., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- PolyGel® is proud to announce that their ThermoActive ™ Cold & Hot Mobile Compression Shoulder Orthosis has been SADMERC – approved for L-Code L3670. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100804/NY45060 ) (Photo: http://www.newscom.co
  • From noncoding variant to phenotype via SORT1 at t ...
    A non-coding polymorphism at a locus associated with myocardial infarction in humans creates a CCAAT/enhancer binding protein transcription factor binding site and alters the hepatic expression of the SORT1 gene. These authors show that modulating Sort1 levels in mouse liver alters levels of plasma ...
  • Branched tricarboxylic acid metabolism in Plasmodi ...
    A central hub of carbon metabolism is the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, which serves to connect the processes of glycolysis, gluconeogenesis, respiration, amino acid synthesis and other biosynthetic pathways. These authors show that TCA metabolism in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparu ...
  • REGLAN (Metoclopramide Hydrochloride) Injection, S ...
    Updated Date: Aug 3, 2010 EST

The Story Behind the Story

  • OBAMA —- The Changeling
    Obama — The Changeling (Change you can REALLY Believe In.) By A. True Ott, PhD In a standard deck of playing cards, the Joker card is wild.  It can be anything you want or need it to be, from an ace to a lowly deuce.   Jokers are great to have in the deck when playing [...]
  • Washington Post Article — Post 9-11 World &# ...
    http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/ http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/a-hidden-world-growing-beyond-control/print/ A hidden world, growing beyond control Monday, July 19, 2010; 1:53 AM The top-secret world the government created in response to ...
  • America the Great??
    America is Great —– Because America is Good!! By  A. True Ott, PhD, June 1, 2010 The famous French statesman and historian Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) traveled widely through America in the year 1832.  Following his tour of America, he wrote extensively about what he saw and experienced here ...
  • Reuters on BP Manipulations by Paul Noel
    If you read this story (Link) http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64Q1KL20100527?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a49:g43:r2:c0.156425:b34398576:z0 You get a stunning story.  You find out that BP was buying up oil to cause the price to stay high.  In their fiscal emergency they are having to let the oil go and the ...
  • CERBERUS — GUARDING THE GATES OF HELL??
    UPDATED INFORMATION ON GPS COORDINATES ON GOOGLE MAPS AND GOOGLE EARTH!! Also, since this article was posted, I have received documentation that the vans are the property of DirectTV, and are being outfitted with new GWEN TOWER and Satellite accessing technologies.  Doesn’t that make you feel bette ...

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.

constancehrose

  • Emily Henochowicz 21 Year Old The American hit in ...
    JERUSALEM — An American woman has lost her eye during a demonstration in Jerusalem against Israel's naval raid on a Gaza aid flotilla, a hospital official said Tuesday. Emily Henochowicz, 21, of Maryland, underwent surgery after suffering the injury, said hospital spokeswoman Yael Bossem-Levy. ...
  • Bryan's Proud of Lady Gaga's Fans: That's Gay Extr ...
    In honor of LGBT Pride month, Bryan Safi goes gaga for Lady Gaga fans and their sissified, flamboyant tribute videos -- from the US Military to kids to Chatroulette users, everyone's got a little "Bad Romance" to show off. Every day this week, infoMania's Bryan Safi, host of "That's Gay," will ...
  • VIDEO: Biggest Gas Boom in History Blowing Up in U ...
    It's official: the expansion of hydro-fracking operations is creating the biggest natural gas boom in US history... the film GASLAND explores this controversial method of extracting gas. (Don't know what hydro-fracking is yet? -- Watch the trailer!) Oil and gas companies are going to start hydr ...
  • Ex-officer found guilty of manslaughter in Oakland ...
    (CNN) -- A former police officer who is white was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter Thursday in the killing of an unarmed black man in Oakland, California. Johannes Mehserle, who was a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer at the time of the incident, was convicted in the shooting of 22-y ...
  • Unseen UK, Part 5
    Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva present a look at the parts of the Great Britain that usually are seen only by locals and the most adventurous travelers. In Part 5 we go to Edinburgh to shop for a custom-made kilt. * * Louise petrozza Vanderbilt medical center starting salary nurses Dogs a ...

Energy Collective

  • Reid Says Broader Climate and Energy Bill Isn’t De ...
  • The Beginning of the End?
    The Leak Appears to be Sealed Today comes news that there is light at the end of the tunnel over the leak in the Gulf of Mexico: Allen: ‘High confidence’ no more oil will flow into Gulf Retired Coast Guard admiral Thad Allen said Wednesday he has “high confidence” no more oil will leak from BP’s Gul ...
  • Un-discovering Fire
    The discovery of fire is acknowledged as one of the essential steps in the development of our current society. However, fire now stands accused of threatening to destroy that society, since the burning of carbon-based fuels emits carbon dioxide as an unavoidable product; and, that carbon dioxide is ...
  • Will Constellation walk away from Calvert Cliffs I ...
    The pressure is on for the utility to make up its mind
  • Green Marketing or Green Washing? (Part Deux – Enf ...
    BOSTON – We left off last month at Enforcement in part 1 of ‘Green Marketing or Green Washing?’ .� The best part!� So if the green guides when applied can be pretty stringent and since we can probably agree that most companies, whether or not unwittingly, violate the standards, then why don’t we hav ...

Green House - USA Today

  • BP defers thousands of damage claims
    BP announced it will defer decisions on thousands of business and individual claims to Kenneth Feinberg, who will oversee the compensation process in mid-August.
  • BP: 'Milestone' reached with 'static kill' procedu ...
    BP announced Wednesday that the busted well in the Gulf of Mexico appears to have reached "static condition" after pumping drilling mud into it, calling the outcome a "significant milestone" in its efforts to permanently seal the well.
  • Senate Dems delay vote on scaled-back energy bill
    Senate Democratic leaders said Tuesday they don't have the 60 votes necessary to pass a scaled-back energy bill that would lift the cap on oil spill liability for energy companies, the Associated Press reports.
  • Whew! My green house project gets financing
    This morning, I signed my life away -- at least that's how it felt. My husband Alex and I spent an hour putting our John Hancocks on a one-inch thick stack of construction loan papers. From what I hear, we're the lucky ones!
  • Which low-phosphate dishwasher soaps clean best?
    In July, 16 states began banning the sale of dishwasher detergents with high levels of phosphates, a source of pollution in lakes and streams. So do low- or no-phosphate versions clean well? Consumer Reports tested 24 and has encouraging news.

Prior Art

  • Patent Litigation Weekly: International Trade Comm ...
    Over the past two decades, the question of what constitutes a domestic industry has typically been heard by the same ITC administrative law judges who ultimately rule on the patent disputes that come before the agency. It's rare that the full commission considers the issue. On April 14, th ...
  • Patent enforcement companies speak at SF conferenc ...
    Earlier this month, MDB Capital Group--an that promises to help investors understand "the hidden value of intellectual property assets and future technological leadership"--held what it billed as its first annual "Bright Lights" intellectual property conference, bringing together IP-centric ...
  • Supreme Court Decides Bilski: Stevens and Allies T ...
    In the last batch of opinions to which he will ever contribute, retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens fell one vote shy in his goal of moving methods of doing business outside the scope of the country’s patent system. And he marked the occasion by weighing in with a concurrin ...
  • The Post-Bilski landscape: Why some tried, but fai ...
    It’s not a stretch to say that many members of the patent bar were relieved when the U.S. Supreme Court finally issued its decision in Bilski v. Kappos late last month. Considering that plenty of those lawyers—and the clients they...
  • What's so bad about "business method" patents? Sma ...
    Those who have read the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bilski decision know that — a four-justice minority that wanted to ban business method patents. While that's an ill-defined term, it's clear that such a ruling would have effectively invalidated many patents already involved in litigation. Lawsu ...

Peoples Voice

  • Pakistan Hit By Worst Flood In 80 Years
    by Brian McAfee Reports out of Pakistan now indicate that about 1,500 people have lost their lives and tens of thousands have been left homeless. This year's monsoon, which began July 28, is said to have affected 3.2 million people in northwest Pakistan. The most urgent need ...
  • Targeted Assassinations: Challenging US Policy
    by Stephen Lendman The WikiLeaks "Afghan War Diaries" provided documented evidence of America's out-of-control lawlessness, including Special Forces death squads (Task Force 373) extrajudicially murdering or capturing suspected Taliban and Al-Qaeda figures, many hundreds or perhaps thousands on ...
  • The Repressive Citizenship and Entry into Israel L ...
    by Stephen Lendman On July 18, the Knesset again extended the "Temporary Order" as it's done annually since 2003, affecting thousands of couples, one member an Israeli citizen, the other a Palestinian resident or refugee in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran or elsewhere, denied their right to r ...
  • The Liberal Media: Rest in Peace
    by Stephen Lendman The New York Times never qualified, run exclusively as a voice for power and privilege. The same, of course, holds for virtually all mainstream publications, including the Nation magazine, suppressing, sanitizing, and distorting truths, betraying its readers since 1865. It ...
  • THE ULTIMATE COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
    Allen L Roland Paul Hawken at University of Portland / 2009 On May 3rd, 2009 Paul Hawken delivered the ultimate and timeless commencement address in that he stressed the true values of human behavior ~ Truth, Beauty, Justice, Faith and Love and then wrapped them all in the last great humanitar ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Housing Crisis in Saskatchewan: PATHS Report
    In Saskatchewan, homelessness has become a grave concern and a serious reality for�many women and children. Saskatchewan now has the highest rates of homelessness in the country�with one in five people saying that they are homeless or at risk of being homeless. �In the past 3 years in Saskatchewan ...
  • Quebec earnings gap at 30-year high
    A groundbreaking new report shows the earnings gap between the rich and the rest of Quebeckers is at a 30-year high. The report, co-published by Institut de recherche et d’informations socio-economiques (IRIS) and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), looks at income inequality among ...
  • New study outlines path to renewable electricity i ...
    Regina —The Saskatchewan office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ series "Transforming Saskatchewan's Electricity Future" was launched with the publication of "Sustainability is Achievable, But How Do We Get There?" by Mark Bigland-Pritchard and Peter Prebble. The report – developed i ...
  • Time for a living wage
    Thanks to groundwork laid by our B.C. CCPA office, a city in that province has enacted Canada's first living wage policy. Drawing on that development, and using CCPA Research Associate Hugh Mackenzie's living wage estimates, Toronto Star columnist Carol Goar looks at how Toronto falls short of provi ...
  • 2010 living wage shows the real costs of raising a ...
    The BC Office has released a 2010 update to the living wage calculation for Metro Vancouver. Read about it here: www.policyalternatives.ca/livingwage2010

Dog with Blog

  • FIFA 2010: the beautiful game!
    As I scribble this, the biggest spectacle on the planet is precisely 2 days,11 hours and 50 minutes(as per FIFA timekeeper) from letting the lid afar from the cocktail of emotions, euphoria, dreams and heartbreaks! The FIFA world Cup 2010 is eagerly awaited by the animal kingdom too. Surprised? Her ...
  • What happens when Engineer owns dogs :)
    What more to  say when the video shows it all Thanks to Farah for sharing the link. PS The canine circle wishes good old Runa Tuna, our friendly neighborhood fish, a happy birthday! enjoy lady!
  • Bouquets & brouhaha…the dog wins!
    1. Asked someone to marry you? Guilty. Well, dogs are known for their witty demeanour as well :) Roll on the red carpets, give way to the metallic grey Limousine, hold your cameras and bask in the glory of the audacious canine, for as they say every dog has his day :)
  • Print Ads featuring dogs!
    Following up my post on Tv commercials & canines, here are some of my favorite print ads centered around good old dogs :) I have so much to say about these wonderfully created advertisements yet as they say- a picture is worth a thousand words hence I must leave you with the prints.
  • Why Dogs are better!
    My dogmail is usually flooded with forward messages from my furry friends. Yesterday while I was checking my inbox, amidst the milieu of mails with subjects like "Crash course on how to threaten a cat", "What annoys a cat the most" etcetera, there was a mail from Gucci(the one who keeps Runa as his ...

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