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Thomas Paine

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Saturday, August 7, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • MIDEAST: On the Freedom Flight From Gaza, For a Wh ...
    I tasted freedom for the first time in three years. After being stuck in Gaza since 2007 I travelled to Malaysia for a holiday. It was like visiting another planet. Being treated like a human being and being able to experience what many young people around the world take for granted, was a m ...
  • MIDEAST: On the Freedom Flight From Gaza, For a Wh ...
    I tasted freedom for the first time in three years. After being stuck in Gaza since 2007 I travelled to Malaysia for a holiday. It was like visiting another planet. Being treated like a human being and being able to experience what many young people around the world take for granted, was a m ...
  • EUROPE: Citizen Rights Don't Apply to Roma
    All major European countries plan mass expulsions of Roma or demolitions of Roma settlements. Rights groups warn that these measures entail the criminalisation of an entire ethnic group, and break EU law.
  • CLIMATE CHANGE: Native People Demand Autonomy Over ...
    In the view of governments, international bodies and some sectors of civil society participating in negotiations towards new global rules on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the REDD programme is the last chance to save tropical rainforests.
  • COLOMBIA: Dismal Human Rights Record Has Not Dente ...
    Colombian President Álvaro Uribe ends his second consecutive term Saturday with 75 percent approval ratings and strong international support reflected by his designation this week as vice chair of a United Nations-appointed international panel to investigate Israel's attack on a flotilla of ships ...

Scoop - NZ

  • Candidates Reject Super City Jobs
    A London Transport guru is believed to have turned down the top transport job in the Auckland Super City amid reports of senior council staff fleeing the new set-up because of poor pay and conditions. With three months until the Super City comes into being, the agency setting it up has been unable ...
  • Towards a Politics of Global Warming 
    Try to fit these facts together: * According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the planet has just come through the warmest decade, the warmest 12 months, the warmest six months, and the warmest April, May, and June on record. * A "staggering" new study from Canad ...
  • US economic recovery loses momentum
    Growth in the world's largest economy cooled to a 2.4pc pace in the second quarter of the year from 3.7pc in the first three months of the year, a report from the Commerce Department showed on Friday. Consumer spending, which makes up the lion's share of the economy and has, until recently, helped p ...
  • Tariq Ali: Desperate need for AfPak exit strategy
    David Cameron's post-WikiLeaks remarks on Pakistan helping the enemy in the Hindu Kush shouldn't be taken too seriously. The carefully orchestrated "outburst" in India was designed to please his hosts and seal a few business deals (Cameron and Cable are fagging for the British arms industr ...
  • Phytoplankton Decline: Food Chain Crisis in the Oc ...
    he forms that marine flora and fauna come in are varied and spectacular. From bizarre deep sea creatures to elegant predators and giant marine mammals, the diversity in our planet's oceans is astounding. But it is the microscopic organisms like diatoms, green algae, dinoflagellates and cayanobacter ...

Independent - London

  • British woman among 10 medics killed in Afghanista ...
    Ten members of medical team, including six Americans and a British woman, were shot and killed by militants as they were returning from providing eye treatment and other health care in remote villages of northern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the team said Saturday.
  • Huge ice island calves off Greenland glacier
    An ice island four times the size of Manhattan broke off from one of Greenland's two main glaciers, scientists said on Friday, in the biggest such event in the Arctic in nearly 50 years.
  • Fires lay ghostly shroud of smoke on Moscow
    A miasma of smoke from wildfires cloaked the sweltering Russian capital on Friday, turning the city's spires into ominous blurs and grounding flights while glum pedestrians trudged the streets with faces hidden by surgical masks and water-soaked bandanas.
  • British woman among 10 'medics' killed in Afghanis ...
    A British woman and Americans are among 10 people killed by militants in an ambush in a remote, forested area of Badakhshan province in northern Afghanistan.
  • Cameron: Britain's relationship with Pakistan is ' ...
    David Cameron and Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari agreed yesterday to improve co-operation between their two governments in the battle against terrorism.

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Building smarts
  • Send in the bacteria
    The video clip is the stuff of science fiction: a swarm of 5,000 bacteria lift microscopic epoxy bricks and assemble them one by one to form a pyramid, as if they were building a tower of blocks. A computer directs their movement by controlling magnetic fields.But for Sylvain Martel and his team of ...
  • Seeing red
    Ram Krishna of Toronto has had type 2 diabetes for almost 25 years, but he only started taking insulin a couple of years ago to help better control it. Since the insulin regimen began, he has had to test his blood glucose level more regularly — about three to five times a week. To do so, he does wha ...
  • Making (brain) waves
    Imagine your brain as a bustling city. The grey matter in your head could be compared to a dense network of mixed-use buildings, with snaking utility lines and connecting sidewalks throughout. Steam delivers heat through pipes out of the main utility centre, lights blink on and off, and information ...
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • New U.S. Gulf oil spill report called "ludicrous": ...
    As BP finishes pumping cement into the damaged Deepwater Horizon wellhead Thursday, some scientists are taking issue with a new U.S. government report that says the "vast majority" of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has been taken care of by nature and "robust" cleanup efforts. In addition, experts ...
  • Trojan asteroids around Neptune could turn into co ...
    Material from the Trojan asteroids that exist around the orbit of Neptune could go on to become comets that could strike our planet, according to a new study. Many comets swing into the inner solar system every 200 to 300 years. The origin of such so-called "short-period comets" is unknown but the ...
  • UK: Mother Charged with Murder of Three Children i ...
    Theresa Riggi, the American mother of three children found dead in their home in Edinburgh, has been charged with their murder. She was arrested and charged over the deaths of her eight-year-old twins Augustino and Gianluca Riggi and their five-year-old sister Cecilia late yesterday. Their bodies ...
  • New Ad Quotes McCain Admitting to Lying in Past
    Sen. John McCain's Republican primary challenger has released a new ad using McCain's own voice admitting to lying in the past. Former congressman J.D. Hayworth's campaign released the commercial Thursday. It uses McCain's voice from the recording of his 2002 book, in which McCain recalls publ ...
  • Maryland: After Flood of Outrage, Police Will Inve ...
    A day after dog's death becomes public, officials vow to look into the incident Anne Arundel County police, facing public criticism, announced Wednesday that there will be a full investigation into the killing of a Siberian husky in a Severn dog park by an off-duty federal police officer. When new ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Debriefing Doris
    I hear it went something like this.
  • Doris and the precognition of unreported crime
    Procastinating this afternoon and looking to hang more cheek on Doris, I found myself searching for clips from the film adaption of Philip K Dick's "Minority Report" and came upon an essay by an EK Harris, English prof at the University of Northern Iowa. Seductively titled " "The Precognition of Cri ...
  • Vatican condemns Sunday lunchtime football kickoff ...
    Priorities. The Vatican has some . “I consider this a truly harmful development,” said Monsignor Carlo Mazza in Tuttosport. “Putting people in front of the television screen at 12.30, when they are having lunch with their families, to me seems like a ‘pitch invasion’ ...
  • Doris keeps going back to those European welfare s ...
    I hadn't realized that he said this - again: ``We've also looked at the fact that with the high degree of sophistication and integration of computerization and data these days, do you need to go through that whole process at all?'' he said at a news conference Tuesday. ``Countries like Norway, Denma ...
  • Pakistan Prez sez NATO losing
    Righto . The president of Pakistan claimed Tuesday that Coalition forces in Afghanistan were "losing the war against the Taliban". Asif Ali Zardari suggested the Nato-led mission had "underestimated" the power of the insurgency, which was "strengthening" its grip. This is obviously on the heels o ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox falsely claims Dems are proposing to raise ta ...
    Fox & Friends falsely claimed that congressional Democrats are proposing to raise taxes "only in Republican red states." In fact, the year-old proposal discussed on Fox & Friends would lower taxes on areas with a high cost of living, regardless of how they vote, and would include areas repres ...
  • Limbaugh falsely claims taxpayers funding 60 luxur ...
    Rush Limbaugh falsely asserted that Michelle Obama took "40 of her best friends and leas[ed] 60 rooms in a 5 star hotel -- paid by you." In fact, the White House has said the Obamas are paying for personal expenses on the trip, including their lodging. Limbaugh falsely asserted that "60 rooms in a ...
  • Beck's crew furthers myth that "natural seeps" me ...
    Glenn Beck's sidekicks misleadingly cited the National Academy of Sciences during a discussion in which they suggested that "natural seeps" are evidence that "Mother Nature has a way of taking care of" oil spills. In fact, studies, including a report by The National Academies, have found that ...
  • Daily Caller desperate to call financial bureau p ...
    At this point, we're used to the right wing declaring , with minimal evidence , that various aspects of the Obama agenda are unconstitutional. But the latest effort from The Daily Caller really takes the cake. This afternoon, the Caller published an article headlined "Authority given to hea ...
  • Krauthammer wants Obama to keep funding the virtu ...
    Charles Krauthammer claimed that the Obama administration's policies, including the decision to halt funding for the "virtual fence," indicate that the administration doesn't prioritize "serious border enforcement." However, the Government Accountability Office said the virtual fence was defecti ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Fox News Online Poll Majority Sees Proposition 8 a ...
    Is it possible that even the center-right tilting viewing audience of Fox news programs is also open to significant upgrades of gay civil rights? That is what a surprising new, unscientific survey of a Fox web audience seems to be showing. With pleasure, I direct you to this interesting Fox News ...
  • We're Even Deeper In The Hole
    The economy is still in a deep hole, and we're not climbing out. Remember, we need 125,000 new jobs per month simply to keep up with the growth of the American population seeking jobs. But according to this morning's job's report, private-sector employers added just 71,000 jobs in July. (Accordin ...
  • What To Do About Hizbullah?
    The situation on Israel's northern border seems to be on the verge of erupting again. The details don't particularly matter, although it seems pretty clear that the Lebanese army instigated the latest violence. The good news is that this time the situation was contained and it appears possible, eve ...
  • Why We Fight -- Countering the Conservative Foreig ...
    A lot of debate lately on the question of whether conservative foreign policy thinking (and politics) have been taken captive by a wild-eyed form of neoconservatism. The recent round -- which has drawn the most response from conservatives themselves -- was sparked by Jacob Heilbrunn's piece on the F ...
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TruthOut

  • The War on Terror: Beyond the Military
    The US government routinely uses the term "War on Terror" to describe its military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. But how do we really define this War on Terror? After all, terrorism dates back to at least the 14th century and individuals, groups and even nations have employed it ever since. read ...
  • What is Intelligence?
    " Where there is no vision, the people perish. " read more
  • AFRICOM and Uganda's Dance with Death
    Right after Uganda's horrendous and deadly twin bombings killed 74 people, President Barack Obama spoke with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to express his sadness and to offer condolences for the loss of life. But another key part of the conversation dealt with the Somalia-based militia, the al-S ...
  • The Peace Vision
    We are losing the war. Not just the war in Afghanistan, but the war against war itself - the Peace War. One hundred and fourteen members of Congress voted against the Afghanistan emergency supplemental. To secure the end of these unnecessary wars, we must change that number to a majority in the Hou ...
  • Militarization and the Authoritarian Right
    Yes, former Bush administration speechwriter and current Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen's demand that "WikiLeaks Must Be Stopped" is, as his colleague Eva Rodriguez notes, "more than a little whacky." But it's useful, too, because an infatuation with the notion of using the military in nonm ...

Planetsave

  • Pandas (10 Friday Photos)
    Some great pictures of pandas! Admire their beauty. And help to protect them! Giant Pandas need to be protected. They’ve been hunted for ages, because people want to have their impressive furs. Now, their approach towards extinction is no small matter. Of course, there are many organisations that tr ...
  • Going Green Tip 2: Get in a Green Community
    If you’re interested in going green, a big tip I recommend is finding a community (or communities) of green-minded people to ”live in” or be a part of.  Going green can feel like a constant battle or struggle, or it can be great fun and an ever-interesting endeavor. This depends partly on your o ...
  • If Climate Change Were a Dog (Cartoon)
    I love this cartoon — a picture’s worth a thousand words. Joe Mohr, the cartoonist, wrote on Planetsave awhile back, and I’ll take this opportunity to announce that we’ll start featuring his cartoons on Planetsave once a week now. Regarding the one above, Joe writes: “We did know about climate chang ...
  • First Measurement of Amazon Floodplain Water Volum ...
    Scientists have for the first time measured the amount of water that pools in the Amazon River floodplain. A massive 285 billion metric tons, or 285 cubic kilometers of water by volume pools every time the Amazon River floods. That’s equivalent to half the volume of the world’s 15th largest lake, La ...
  • Tropical Forests Dying by 2100
    A new study suggests that by 2100 only 18% to 45% of the plants and animals that make up tropical forests will still be there. The study, led by Greg Asner at the Carnegie Institutions Department of Global Ecology, combined new deforestation and selective logging data with climate change projections ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Pentagon demands return of WikiLeaks data on Afgha ...
    7 August 2010 It is hard to top the arrogance of the Pentagon’s chief press spokesman, Geoff Morrell, as he stood at a podium Thursday to demand that the WikiLeaks web site return all the evidence of US war crimes in Afghanistan which was leaked to it and posted on...
  • US economy lost 131,000 jobs in July - World News
    7 August 2010 The US economy lost 131,000 jobs in July, considerably more than most economists had predicted. Companies added 71,000 positions, but the government laid off 143,000 census workers, contributing to the net loss. The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) also revised d ...
  • Reflections of Fidel: A call to the President of t ...
    Editor's Note: Any questions anyone may have about the effects of age on the mind of Fidel should be put to rest with his discourse below. In this wide-ranging treatise, he brings together events�that include�everything from methane gas escaping the floor of the Gulf of Mexico and the bombing of. ...
  • Pakistani floods: A man-made not a natural disaste ...
    7 August 2010 The tragedy unfolding in Pakistan as a result of the country’s worst floods in 80 years is a devastating indictment not only of the present Pakistani government, but of its international allies—the US in particular—and the profit system as a whole. While the torrential rains have be ...
  • GM in the public eye in Asia - World Food & Water
    Monsanto’s plans to push genetically modified (GM) food crops in Asia ran into a wall on February 9, 2010 when India’s Environment Minister put a moratorium on the introduction of a variety of GM brinjal (eggplant) containing Monsanto’s patented Bt gene. China too has been hesitant to approve GM ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Weigel Debunks Old Tea Party "Myths," Creates New ...
    It's good to see that Dave Weigel is back at the Washington Post after he was driven out by a right wing mob and his cowardly editors. �In his first column back Weigel attempts to dispel what he says are five "myths" about the Tea Party movement. But in doing so Weigel manages to create a few of his ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Betsy Rothstein prefers her milk in a saucer The Fishbowl DC character assassin has her tasteful undergarments wedged in her nethers over the fact that Dave Weigel wasn't really as fired as all that since he's been picked up by Slate, and Slate is owned by WaPo. Apparently, when Tucker and the Fishb ...
  • Wecome to post-racial America
    The chair of the Johnson County, Missouri Democratic Central Committee went to the Warrensburg post office to check the committee's post office box for mail today. In the mail was a a plain envelope with the address of the committee and no return address. There was a 37 cent Ronald Reagan stamp and ...
  • We're All Partisans Now
    Excellent reason number 70 gazillion to avoid being a centrist. Kevin Drum: Here is Senate candidate Sharron Angle accidentally telling the truth about why she only talks to Fox News and other members of the right wing press: We wanted them to ask the questions we want to answer so that they report ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Big Whoop. What about the millions of barrels bubbling up under the sand and killing thousands of acres of oyster-bed marshes? "BP has finished pumping cement into the top of its damaged Gulf of Mexico oil well as part of its "static kill" procedure. The move comes the day after it was announced tha ...

Care 2

  • GM Plants Escape Into American Wild
    Genetically modified plants in the wild could lead to a farmer's nightmare: pesticide-resistant weeds.Genetically modified canola plants have been found growing wild in the U.S., in some cases far from fields of cultivated genetically modified canola. Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Green Lifestyle ...
  • Take Action - No More Pine Creeks
    When Arch Coal applied to mine at Pine Creek, we were hopeful that our Administration would take strong action to protect almost 3 miles of streams. Sadly, this was not the case. The Environmental Protection Agency recently signaled their sup Submitted by Daf Jind to Environment �|� �Note-it! �| ...
  • Marie-Monique Robin Deconstructs the World Accordi ...
    Marie-Monique Robin is an award-winning French journalist and filmmaker. She received the 1995 Albert-Londres Prize, awarded to investigative journalists in France. She is the director and producer of over thirty documentaries and investigative reports fi Submitted by Daf Jind to Society & Culture ...
  • Green America Exchange - Finally Getting Bartering ...
    Most barter systems are missing an active hand supporting their vitality and usefulness. Green America, formerly Co-op America, has got something powerful started here. See why, here... Submitted by Paul Smith to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • New Petition: Justice for Mima! Make Animal Cruelt ...
    After Mima's brutal mutilation, their government still isn't listening to its people. Situation there is getting worse! International pressure, our last hope! Parliament is split in half, final vote in Sept. whether to make animal cruelty a crime in BG. Submitted by Nadia D. to Animals �|� �Note-it ...

Smirking Chimp

  • How Our Decider-in-Chief Decides: Decisionmaking a ...
    � from FindLaw Nothing is more important in the American presidency than decision-making. It is, in fact, the very essence of the job. Presidential decisions can and do shape our history, for better or worse. Rarely, though, does the decision-making style of presidential candidates receive much atte ...
  • A Banker Can't Get Arrested in This Town
    The Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission have broad powers to root out and punish financial fraud. The Interagency Financial Fraud Task Force , formed last November, is an Obama-era innovation that enhances the government's ability to track down financial criminals. As we ...
  • The F Word: Prop 8 and the 14th Amendment
    The 14th amendment has done it again! No wonder right wing radicals want to repeal it. Just a few days ago, in Congress, Tea Partiers and their pals were signing up 93 co-sponsors up for a bill to repeal the thing, or at least change it, to be clear that it can't and shouldn't justify citizenship fo ...
  • Colbert 1, U.S. State Department 0
    On last night's Colbert Report , an amazing moment occurred when Stephen Colbert raised a major social issue that U.S. mainstream media assiduously ignore: the huge U.S. prison population. The issue quickly disappeared due to the apparent ignorance of Colbert's guest: Assistant Secretary of State Mi ...
  • Whose Hands? Whose Blood? Killing Civilians in Afg ...
    from TomDispatch Consider the following statement offered by Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a news conference last week. He was discussing Julian Assange , the founder of Wikileaks as well as the person who has taken responsibility for the vast, still ongoing Afgha ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Must Be Nice To Jet Around On Someone Else’s ...
    That would be Michelle Obama, of course. She and her daughter, Sasha, are currently in Spain. With plenty of their closest friends, enough to fill 60+ rooms at a swanky resort on the Mediterranean Coast. If only this was her first vacation of the summer, and we weren’t footing the damn airfare for ...
  • Bill and Hillary Clinton to the Rescue?
    Joshua Green of The Atlantic asks Can Bill Clinton Save the Democrats? The question is, should he? It is amazing, but not unpredictable to anyone on this website, that two years after the derangement that swept the country to put an inexperienced academic into the White House at one of the most di ...
  • Obama Crazy Delusional on Jobs
    I don’t know what to say. Having just watched Obama on the tube touting how swell the economy is doing and insisting that his economic plan is adding jobs I am left with just one question–Is he really this stupid? The reality about the jobs picture is not open to interpretation. This [...]
  • Assange Agonistes
    For the past several weeks, public has been treated to a spectacle that has swung between national security calamity and out-and-out farce. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has many talents and interesting qualities. His computer hacking skills are the stuff of legend. He is a master at media manip ...
  • The Show Me State Says Shove It
    Claire McCaskill, Senator and Obama sycophant, just might be a tad embarrassed by the August 4th vote on Proposition C in her home state of Missouri. If you are unfamiliar with what Proposition C says, the following comes from the ballot itself: Proposition C: Shall the Missouri Statutes be amended ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Miner Moths: The Insects that Resurrect Dead Leave ...
    Extraordinarily, in the fall miner moths can bring dead leaves back to life. Here's how they do it. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Small Town USA: America's Living National Museum
    Museums containing priceless works of art are no match for the Americana Museum filled with old fashioned tradition and its people. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How Nationality Determines the Way Your Brain is W ...
    What culture people grew up in decides the way our brain is shaped and wired. Culture is responsible for much more than dislikes and likes. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • London's Labyrinthine Insect Hotels
    A group of architects in London have figured out a unique way to help the environment - insect hotels! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Cockroaches: The World's Most Unwelcome Dinner Gue ...
    Cockroaches are some of the most disgusting pests you'll ever lay eyes on - so finding one in your food might make you very unhappy. 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

  • First Amendment issue of our Time; Google & Verizo ...
    Currently the Internets, at the lowest level, is a freeway. That is, when I want to get traffic from site A B or C, there is no corporate toll structure slowing my traffic down. But obviously, the owners of the telecom pipes, and increasingly the bigger, more monopolistic and oligopoly-friendly play ...
  • Heads Up to Quigley's Apex: Bank of International ...
    From the shadier side of Switzerland comes the bank where the Nazis put plenty of dental gold they pillaged... Now with another gold-related operation for the 21st Century! One of the shadiest institutions in the world, the obscure Bank of International Settlements, was initially set up in 19 ...
  • An affordable price
    Goldman Sachs Settlement 'Victory' Ushers Change to Wall Street BusinessWeek - ‎1 hour ago‎ July 16 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s $550 million settlement with US regulators yesterday will benefit the firm by ending three months of uncertainty at an affordable price. ****** Another nice ...
  • Food autonomy and building resilient communities i ...
    I got a few new followers from the Oakland/Bay Area after the tweets & post on the protest & stuff that went down after the Oscar Grant verdict. Police and state violence in many urban areas is an ongoing structural product of the way things are run in places like the Bay Area and other cities, but ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • What’s In A Word?
    What’s in a word?  Years ago, Rand Richardson, Director of Flint Public Library, said, “You can tell anybody anything.  It is just a matter of how you say it.”  With that in mind, I read in the NY Times this a.m… “U.S. Lost 131,000 Jobs as Governments Cut Back Private employers added 71,000 jobs las ...
  • Spike Lee Fans at the Pentagon?
    A disgruntled Pentagon spokesman, Geoff Morrell, recently vented about WikiLeaks’s behemoth bequest to the media of 70,000 classified documents. Morrell told the Associated Press: “If doing the right thing is not good enough for them, then we will figure out what alternatives we have to compel them ...
  • Private Prison Industry Had Heavy Hand in Drafting ...
    By Jesse Strecker An investigative report released this month by In These Times details how Arizona’s anti-immigrant S.B. 1070 law not only promises dramatic financial benefits for the private prison industry, but that lobbyists and administrators working for private prison corporations such as Corr ...
  • Venezuelan diplomatic break with Columbia comes am ...
    Air Force Document Reveals Ulterior Motives Against “anti-US governments” in Military Agreement with Columbia By Jesse Strecker While mainstream media outlets have granted plenty of airtime to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez’s decision to break relations with Colombia after the nation accused him o ...
  • Speakers at the 2010 Bohemian Grove Include Rupert ...
    Over 3,000 members and guests of the San Francisco Bohemian Club met in the forest at their 2800 acre private redwood grove in Monte Rio California from July 16-August 1, 2010. Each day an off-the-record speech was given by an important socio-political individual. Below are the topics and speakers f ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

  • Dying Patients Deserve Better
    The majority of terminally ill patients would have a better quality of life in their remaining days if they were left alone.
  • 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.

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

  • Video: TimDeChristopher, on trial for defending t ...
    bout Tim DeChristopher… In December 2008, Tim DeChristopher disrupted an oil and gas auction to allay further climate change. By registering as a bidder, Tim drove up prices on many parcels and eventually won over a ...
  • Lucky 7
    Kalb, Segal and Tudor Endorsed by Progressive Democrats of America Last Thursday on the Inside the Party conference call, PDA awarded our national endorsement to three great progressive Democrats running for Congress: Larry Kalb in Washington’s ...
  • Inside the Democratic Party July Call
    On this call we ratified the national endorsement of the following candidates: 1) David Segal (RI-01) who has been endorsed by RIPDA chapter under Brian Hull's leadership. 2) Larry Kalb (WA-02) who has been endorsed by ...
  • 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 ...

Marler Blog

  • 12 E. coli Recalls Totalling 1,786,859 Pounds of M ...
    Yesterday morning I had the opportunity to speak at the National Meat Association annual "meating."� For the most part my speech was positive.� From a spike in outbreaks, illnesses and recalls in 2007, the numbers have dropped - well, until this morning when 1,000,000 pounds of meat were recalled du ...
  • E. coli Recall of 1,000,000 pounds of meat from Va ...
    Valley Meat Company, a Modesto, Calif. establishment, is recalling approximately one million pounds of frozen ground beef patties and bulk ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced this ...
  • Taco Bell linked to some of the 155 Salmonella Har ...
    Yesterday afternoon I asked, "Will the CDC name Taco Bell as the "Mexican-style fast food restaurant chain" associated with some Salmonella Hartford and Baildon illnesses?"  I asked that because we have been tracking several of the cases over the last several weeks.  However, one confirmed case beca ...
  • Marler now on Facebook
    OK, I finally gave in to the social media thing.  I have been tweeting for several months now, but my three daughters kept bugging me about joining Facebook.  So, here it goes. I have set up both a personal page (so I can find you and you can find me) and a “fan” page. Rather than try upkeep on bo ...
  • 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 08.06.10
    At Witz' End - Electric vehicle progress, prospects and challenges We're off to a great start, but there's a long road ahead. Tesla reports second-quarter loss of $38.5 million Will continue ...
  • 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Reporters' Roundtable: Security report on Black Ha ...
    We sent three reporters to the dual security conferences, Black Hat and Defcon , last week in Las Vegas. Each has a different coverage area and perspective: Elinor Mills is CNET's security reporter. Declan McCullagh covers government and policy, and Seth Rosenblatt is an editor and reviewer for C ...
  • CNET to the Rescue: Cleaning up the cable mess
    Today we get wrapped up in cables. We're talking about the best ways to manager an unruly rat's nest of data and power wires into a thing of beauty and logic. With bonus rat's nest pictures from listeners--so watch the video for the full experience. Also, questions about moving from and to Andro ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable: How to start a tech busines ...
    Today we're talking about how to start a company in 2010 and 2011. A little background: I started covering startups in 1998 at a magazine called Red Herring. I wrote a daily column about startups called Catch of the Day. Over three years, I interviewed the leaders of over 1000 companies. Most o ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • The US isn’t leaving Iraq, it’s rebran ...
    Obama says withdrawal is on schedule, but renaming or outsourcing combat troops won’t give Iraqis back their country Seumas Milne, The Guardian/UK, August 5, 2010 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 ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Vaccinations and Sterilization Through Food, Water ...
    Part One Related reading: Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five
  • Funny..But Not Really
  • My Magical Mudpacks
    By Catherine Austin Fitts I have learned that when I forward links to the fourth person who asked, it is time to do a blog post on the topic. Dr. Laura Thompson is my nutritionist. She has been helping me strengthen my thyroid. One of the things that she suggested is doing a mudpack made with a [.. ...
  • Jobs Created by Startup Companies Have Long-Lastin ...
    Firms launched during recession show resilience in job creation and durability. Startup companies, the nation’s most promising source of new jobs, are critical to reducing the current 9.5 percent unemployment rate. Not only are startups responsible for net new job growth in the U.S. economy, but re ...
  • Online Steiner Archive
    Modern Spiritual Science or Anthroposophy, as it has been established by Rudolf Steiner (1864-1925), presents a unique cultural and spiritual impulse in the history of modern thought.  Whatever one may think about Steiner’s ideas and claims in particular, whether one sees them as serious science o ...

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

  • The coming big increase in structural unemployment
    Summary:  The future holds many new and strange challenges.  And some that we’ve grappled with successfully for generations, but most be confronted anew again.  Such as automation. Science fiction now, but fact for our children or grand-children.   Excerpt from James Blish’s A Life for the Sta ...
  • A look at US unemployment
    Summary:  a look at the US labor force.  The numbers tossed around in the news media give little perspective on the scale of the problem.  The obvious conclusion:  the Democratic Party is toast in the November elections if employment does not improve soon.  How sad that their inaction earlier this y ...
  • About the newest experts’ review of our defe ...
    Summary:  More paper bullets of the mind fired at our Department of Defense.  They’ll bounce off the walls, like the others before them.  Until we have a rational grand strategy, our national wealth will flow down the drain at DoD — buying us neither security nor peace of mind.  Here G. I. Wilso ...
  • 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • US military deaths in Afghanistan at 1,113
    Washington Post – As of Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010, at least 1,113 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. Read Article
  • US job losses are double expected figure
    Guardian – Employers in the US shed twice as many jobs as expected in July, adding to fears that the recovery in the world’s largest economy will not see a revival in employment. The dismal US job figures came as the National Institute of Economic and Social Research predicted a protracted depressio ...
  • Testing The Goods: The Bobble Self-Filtering Water ...
    Popsci-Americans blow $17 billion a year on water, the creators of the Bobble will have you know, and 1.5 million barrels of oil go to making the plastic bottles from which we consume it. The Bobble is the solution — a reusable bottle with a filter built right in. What’s New The idea is brilliant. F ...
  • Billionaires pledge to donate wealth
    The West Australian – Forty of America’s billionaires and their families have pledged to give more than half of their fortune to charity in a drive organised by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. The group includes CNN founder Ted Turner, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison ...
  • UN extends mandate of UN mission in Iraq for a yea ...
    AFP â The Security Council on Thursday extended by a year the mandate of the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) and urged that country’s leaders to speed up formation of an inclusive government. Read Article

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

  • Pakistan Flood PHOTOS: HAARP Fingerprints Found Al ...
    All started suddenly and thousands died, millions displaced, hundreds of villages vanished forever in the matter of just 4 days!!...astonishingly there were no weather warnings, no alarms.. these are the worst floods in the history of Pakistan BUT no one from Global MET offices couldn't even trace w ...
  • 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 ...

Andy Worthington

  • Apparently, they don’t have wireless broadband in ...
    So thatâs it, Iâll be out of touch until I tire of the pre-21st century isolation, and head into town for un caffé (o due), some dolci and somewhere with internet access. Iâm away in Italy â- a remote location in Puglia the first week, a rooftop apartment in Napoli the second — so contact [ ...
  • Will Poland’s Former Leaders Face War Crimes Charg ...
    The mainstream media in the United States (and in the UK) has ignored the release last week of documents in Poland confirming that planes chartered by the CIA flew to the site of a secret CIA prison in north eastern Poland in 2002 and 2003. The documents, released by the Polish Border Guard Office, ...
  • New Evidence About Prisoners Held in Secret CIA Pr ...
    On Friday, the Polish Border Guard Office released a number of documents to the Warsaw-based Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, which, for the first time, provide details of the number of prisoners transferred by the CIA to a secret prison in Poland between December 5, 2002 and September 22, 2003 ...
  • UK Judges Endorse Double Standards on Terror Depor ...
    Last Thursday, in a little-noticed ruling in the Court of Appeal, three judges — Lord Justice Jacob, Lord Justice Sullivan and Sir David Keene — turned down appeals submitted by eight foreign nationals against the Home Secretaryâs decision to deport them âon grounds of national security.â The ...
  • Take Action for Ahmed Belbacha, at Risk of Enforce ...
    Since the US Supreme Court ruled on July 17 that there was no legal obstacle to the involuntary repatriation of Algerians at Guantánamo, and one man, Abdul Aziz Naji, was promptly flown back to Algiers, opponents of a ruling that saw the Supreme Court playing as fast and loose with the UN Convention ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • When we have a fire...
    The flames are going about twenty five feet in the air right now. If there is one thing every Boy Scout knows how to do? Start a really BIG FIRE.
  • 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: ...

SPL Center

  • Another Long, Hot Black Nationalist Summer at Fox ...
    It must be July, because Fox News is once again hyperventilating over a racially charged non-story. One year ago, it was Glenn Beckâs crusade against Van Jones, the White House environmental advisor who, the host charged, day after day and against all available evidence, was a black nationalist us ...
  • Expanding A3P Absorbs Another Hate Group
    The American Third Position (A3P), a fledgling but important Southern California-based white supremacist political party, has expanded its base by merging with another relatively new racist and anti-Semitic organization. The latter group, the New Jersey-based League of American Patriots (LOAP), was ...
  • New SPLC Report: Nativists and the Environmental M ...
    Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center has released a new report, â Greenwash: Nativists, Environmentalism and the Hypocrisy of Hate .â The report documents a sweeping, renewed attempt by anti-immigration activists to convince environmentalists that they, too, must oppose immigration if they are ...
  • Religious Right Reacts With Fury to Prop 8 Knockdo ...
    In the hours since a federal judge struck down California’s ban on same-sex marriage yesterday, religious-right organizations have sent up an angry howl of protest, accusing the judge of doing everything from overruling the Constitution to laying the groundwork for a contemporary version of Sodom an ...
  • Neo-Nazi Official Patrolling Arizona Border Lauds ...
    As if Arizona wasnât already unfriendly enough territory for immigrants, now they have to face angry, armed neo-Nazis. Incredibly, a small group of heavily armed racists patrolled for migrants and drug cartels last week on the Southern border. Led by J.T. Ready â a recent member of the neo-Nazi ...

change: org.

  • Bikini-Clad Baristas in Michigan Increase Coffee S ...
    Hot Spot Coffee, a chain of coffee shops in Detroit, has resorted to the oldest, lamest strategy in the world to help increase its sales: it's decided to get down to some objectifyin' of the female form, featuring female baristas clad in lingerie and bikinis. In case that weren't impetus enough for ...
  • Hunting Season on Rocky Mountain Gray Wolves Cance ...
    Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Molloy ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision to delist Rocky Mountain wolves in Idaho and Montana from the Endangered Species Act was illegal. Why? Because wolves do not understand boundary lines between states, and it's not possible to federally ...
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger… LGBT Hero?
    Arnold Schwarzenegger has had an inconsistent record re: gays and lesbians. As a candidate, he famously said, “I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman," which is an interesting misstatement and certainly great fodder for punch lines, but not exactly the kind o ...
  • Wealthy Philanthropist Jeffrey Epstein Investigate ...
    Jeffrey Epstein likes making gobs of money, spending it on treats like a private Caribbean island and his own fortress, and having sex with underage girls. But just a week after he completed his sentence for soliciting a minor for prostitution, Epstein is being investigated by the Department of Just ...
  • How Popeye Can Combat America's Childhood Obesity ...
    Food manufacturers constantly use lovable characters like Barbie, Batman, and Bugs Bunny to market junk food to kids. Just take a stroll down the snacks aisle of the supermarket and you'll see a hodgepodge of animated personalities on boxes of cookies, candy, and sugary cereals. But what if these sa ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Obama Drops 2009 Pledge to Withdraw Combat Troops ...
    by Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - Seventeen months after President Barack Obama pledged to withdraw all combat brigades from Iraq by Sept. 1, 2010, he quietly abandoned that pledge Monday, admitting implicitly that such combat brigades would remain until the end of 2011. Obama declared in a speech to di ...
  • Next Up? A Food Price Crisis
    by Carolyn Cohn LONDON -- A food price crisis may be the next stumbling block for emerging economies, even as their bonds and stock markets rally in relief at an easing of the euro zone's debt crisis. Wheat prices have jumped by more than 50 percent since June and are likely to rise further due to e ...
  • 'Just Not True': White House Accused of Spinning R ...
    by Suzanne Goldenberg The White House was accused today of spinning a government scientific report into the amount of oil left in the Gulf of Mexico from the BP spill which had officials declaring that the vast majority of the oil had been removed. read more
  • Obama Revives Debate About Hiroshima with Envoy De ...
    by David McNeill in Tokyo Washington will for the first time send an official envoy to Hiroshima to mark today's anniversary of the city's destruction by a US atomic bomb in 1945, in a move hailed by campaigners as a milestone in the struggle to abolish nuclear weapons. The decision, which experts s ...
  • Wildfires Could Spread to Region irradiated by Che ...
    The Russian Emergencies Minister is warning of possible radiation risks, as wildfires approach closer to the area affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The main fear is that the fires, which are moving further south of Moscow toward the Bryansk region, could disturb and spread the contaminatio ...

Lifehacker

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • NATO Forces in Afghanistan Can't Deny They Killed ...
    By Derrick Crowe Exclusive, on-the-ground interviews obtained by Brave New Foundation's Rethink Afghanistan project confirm what NATO forces repeatedly denied: U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan killed dozens of people in the Sangin District of Helmand Province on July 23. Afghan President ...
  • Despite Petraeus, Civilian Deaths At Allied Hands ...
    By Steve Hynd It doesn't matter what Petraeus says. From the BBC: A Nato air strike is said to have killed at least 12 Afghan civilians, hours after the US commander urged his forces to avoid hurting non-combatants. The Nato-led Isaf force said it regretted the "apparent" loss of life in Nangarhar p ...
  • Fatima Bhutto Gets Her Snark On
    By Steve Hynd Yesterday, just as President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan was arriving in the UK to talk to the influential Pakistani ex-pat community, Fatima Bhutto took to the pages of the London Standard to explain why her uncle couldn't be trusted. President Zardari is considered one of Pakistan's ...
  • 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 ...

Water Wars

  • Rockford River Days...let the countdown begin
    The city of Rockford is preparing of its annual celebration "River Days" which runs Friday, Aug. 13 through Sunday, Aug. 15, in Riverside Park in downtown Rockford (most events).
  • Rockford River Days...let the countdown begin
    The city of Rockford is preparing of its annual celebration "River Days" which runs Friday, Aug. 13 through Sunday, Aug. 15, in Riverside Park in downtown Rockford (most events).
  • River relief: Rafting the cool waters of the Watau ...
    ELIZABETHTON With the temperature nearing a high of 95 degrees Wednesday, rafting along the 42-degree water in the Watauga River didnt seem like a such a bad idea for Nanette Krause and her family, who were visiting the area while on vacation from their home in Tampa, Fla.
  • Author Malcolm Gladwell To Kick Off George T. Hunt ...
    The Benwood Foundation announced that New York Times bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell will be the debut speaker of the 20102011 George T. Hunter Lecture Series on Oct. 5.
  • 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 ...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Uribe's appointment to flotilla probe guarantees i ...
    The appointment of outgoing President of Colombia �lvaro Uribe V�lez to a UN-commissioned inquiry into the massacre by Israel of human rights activists aboard the Gaza Freedom Flot ...
  • Israel's siege on freedoms
    Zionist sympathizers and their ilk have been providing us with the same "evidence" that Gaza is burgeoning: the markets are full of produce, fancy restaurants abound, there are poo ...
  • Al-Quds University flouts own academic boycott
    Al-Quds University is maintaining a joint Israeli-Palestinian master's degree program with Haifa, Hebrew and Tel Aviv universities, despite a decision taken by its own University C ...
  • "Gaza is a man-made crisis"
    GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IRIN) - The quality of life, the economy and food security for Palestinians living in Gaza have been severely impaired by Israel's strict four-year ...
  • Israel destroys Bedouin village, again
    Bulldozers returned to the village of al-Araqib in the northern Negev on Wednesday, 4 August, and demolished approximately ten new structures residents and supporters had b ...

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

  • Arguments against life extension
    Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate tow ...
  • Daddy, where does innovation come from?
    Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor that h ...
  • Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
    Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of years ...
  • How to be a futurist
    The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...] Follow ...
  • 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, ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • Bauer to Step in to Key White House Ethics Post as ...
    Ed O'Keefe reports that White House Counsel Robert Bauer will fill the shoes of White House ethics adviser Norm Eisen, who will soon be on his way to serve as an ambassador to the Czech Republic. As POGO Executive Director...
  • New Bill Would Bring Congressionally Mandated Repo ...
    There was plenty of news to put POGO in a celebratory mood on the House's last day before summer recess, but July 30 saw another positive legislative development worth sharing: Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-OH) introduced H.R. 6026, the Access to...
  • New Podcast: Hill Update: Turning Investigations i ...
    POGO's motto is "exposing corruption, exploring solutions." This week's podcast touches on the latter category, as POGO Director of Public Policy Angela Canterbury discusses some of the legislative provisions that we've been fighting for. Click below to find ideal auditory...
  • After 15 Months Without Permanent IG Leadership, C ...
    Finally, a key position at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) may soon be filled. The Associated Press reported this morning that President Obama has nominated David B. Buckley, a veteran investigator who is currently a senior manager for Deloitte Consulting,...
  • Suspended L-3 Unit is Back in Business
    Back in June, the U.S. Air Force issued a notice of suspension to L-3 Communications Special Support Programs Division (L-3 SSPD), formerly known as the Joint Operations Group (L-3 JOG). The Air Force found “adequate evidence” that L-3 JOG committed...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Dishonorable Conduct: Soldiers Beat Up Homeless Ma ...
    We're all familiar with the horrific violence too often inflicted on homeless people, but you wouldn't think a Fort Knox soldier would be the perpetrator. This week 24-year-old  Private Riley Feller pled no contest to beating a Cincinnati homeless man last April. The three other attackers, two of th ...
  • Homeless on the Range: Wedge Issues and Tent Slash ...
    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 t o check out the pr ...
  • Megan Fox Stands Up for Domestic Violence Victims
    Cha-ching. We can add another high profile ally to the fight to end homelessness. Actress Megan Fox, who starred in the Transformers movies and is professionally good-looking, is donating her earnings from a new music video to help victims of domestic abuse. In the video for Eminem and Rihanna's son ...
  • Remembering Dwight Radcliff, Hero To Homeless Vete ...
    Returning home as a veteran can sometimes be the most challenging tour of duty a soldier must face, especially if they take that journey alone.  Air Force veteran Dwight Radcliff – who died earlier this week of a heart attack at age 55 – understood all too well the challenges of returning to civilia ...
  • Love and Lunch at the Homeless Shelter
    I first wrote this down a year ago, before I " went public " with my experience being homeless, before anyone knew my story and shortly after I was off the streets myself. It reminded me that among couples, families and even friends who share the experience of being homeless, love doesn't always com ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • New strategy ideas in U.S. peace movement
    Peace activists from around the United States gathered in Albany, NY in July to discuss a new comprehensive strategy for peace activism in the U.S. “The plan includes a new focus and some promising proposals for building a coalition that includes the labor movement, civil rights groups, students, an ...
  • August 6 is Hiroshima Day
    Sixty-five years ago, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The blast killed 80,000 people immediately, and injured 70,000 more. Tens of thousands of others died in the years that followed from the effects of radiation. Three days later, a second nuclear bomb w ...
  • Countdown to Zero - the Movie
    Countdown to Zero reveals the truth behind an issue on which human survival itself hangs - the very real possibility of nuclear disaster. From the producers of An Inconvenient Truth, Countdown is a chilling wake up call about the urgency of the nuclear threat.
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Too Much Internet Use Can Lead To Depression In Yo ...
    August 6th, 2010 Natural News By: Jonathan Benson A new report published in the journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine has revealed that young people who spend too much time on the internet are more likely to be depressed than those who use it moderately. “Pathological” internet use is ...
  • Companies Soon To Require Chemical Safety Before U ...
    August 6th, 2010 Natural News By: Jonathan Benson There is a new piece of legislation before Congress that will require chemical manufacturers to prove that an industrial chemical is safe before they can use it in products. The Toxic Chemicals Safety Act of 2010 will grant more power to the U.S. Env ...
  • The First Car That Runs On Human Waste
    August 6th, 2010 Telegraph By: Laura Roberts The Bio-Bug has been converted by a team of British engineers to be powered by biogas, which is produced from human waste at sewage works across the country. They believe the car is a viable alternative to electric vehicles.  Excrement flushed down the ...
  • Health Inspectors Shut Down 7-Year Old’s Lem ...
    August 6th, 2010 Oregon Live By: Helen Jung It’s hardly unusual to hear small-business owners gripe about licensing requirements or complain that heavy-handed regulations are driving them into the red. So when Multnomah County shut down an enterprise last week for operating without a license, you mi ...
  • Almond Farmers Can Challenge USDA Pasteurization R ...
    August 5, 2010 The Cornucopia Institute A federal appeals court ruled today, overturning a lower court decision, that a group of California almond farmers have the right to challenge a USDA regulation requiring the treatment of their raw almonds with a toxic fumigant or steam heat prior to sale t ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • Shimon Peres — king of bombast
    “You write history — I have to make history,” Shimon Peres says at the end of an interview with the Israeli historian Benny Morris. At times in the interview the Israeli president almost sounds deranged. The main reason for war was that people earned their livelihood from land. People wanted eithe ...
  • Iran targeted in cyber attack
    Last September, Reuters reported: “Israel has been developing “cyber-war” capabilities that could disrupt Iranian industrial and military control systems. Few doubt that covert action, by Mossad agents on the ground, also features in tactics against Iran. An advantage of sabotage over an air strike ...
  • 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 ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Himalayan warming – pulling another thread from IP ...
    Guest post by Marc Hendrickx The case for dangerous man made global warming hangs on the wall like a frayed medieval tapestry. By pulling just one loose thread the whole thing starts to unravel. We pulled one of those threads … Continue reading →
  • Mosher: Who’s on first?
    I’m reminded of this famous sketch, but with enough players to actually make a baseball team: There’s a riotously funny bit of inside humor over at Climate Audit from Steve Mosher that is well worth your time. Fair warning, if … Continue reading →
  • Friday Funny: New car is the “poop de grâce& ...
    Well, at least you don’t have to shovel it in…but I wonder…what sort of “new car smell” does this car have when it is fresh from the factory? Get the poop on this story here. I foresee a future episode … Continue reading →
  • Oh no! Greenland glacier calves island 4 times the ...
    Greenland glacier calves island 4 times the size of Manhattan, UD scientist reports it last happened at this scale in 1962. Must have been climate change back then too. Watch the media now as this story is only about an … Continue reading →
  • A reply to Vonk: Radiative Physics Simplified II
    Radiative Physics Simplified II A guest post by Jeff Id Radiative physics of CO2 is a contentious issue at WUWTâs crowd but to someone like myself, this is not where the argument against AGW exists.  Iâm going to take a crack … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • The Rightward Imperative of the GOP by Steven Jona ...
    by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash.com August 7, 2010 For most of its existence since the end of Reconstruction following the election of 1876, the Republican Party has been the party of reaction in the United States.  In fact, the only reason that Ruth ...
  • Dorli Rainey: I’m upset with our government, ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ talkingsticktv | August 05, 2010 Interview with Dorli Rainey a longtime Seattle activist. Dorli Rainey – Longtime Seattle Activist see What the Tea Party has in common with the rest of us By Nikki Alexander Endless Wars for Endless Profits: My reflections on the ...
  • U.S. Expands Asian NATO To Contain And Confront Ch ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism Aug. 7, 2010 The U.S. ended the four-day Invincible Spirit joint military exercise with South Korea on July 28, which consisted of 20 warships and submarines, 200 aircraft and 8,000 troops “in the sea, ...
  • Pentagon can’t account for $8.57 billion in Iraqi ...
    By Jerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at Online Journal www.jerrymazza.com August 7, 2010 B is for billions. And b is for it’s hard to believe that they’ve done it again. The last time, even more money vanished, which I noted in my article, Following Pentagon trillions to Israel ...
  • On Refusing Apology for the Nuking of Civilians by ...
    by Jeremy R. Hammond Featured Writer DandelionSalad Foreign Policy Journal 6 August, 2010 Japan on Friday marked the 65th anniversary of the nuclear bomb attack on Hiroshima. U.S. Ambassador John V. Roos attended the annual ceremony that marks the event. It was the first time a U.S. official had don ...

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

  • Enormous Ice Block Breaks Off Greenland Glacier
    A 100-square-mile block of ice 600 feet thick has calved off one of the largest ocean-bordering glaciers in Greenland. The Arctic hasn’t lost a chunk of ice that big since 1962. “In the early morning hours of August 5, an ice island four times the size of Manhattan was born in northern Greenland,” ...
  • Sharpest Image Yet of Massive Galaxy Collision
    These two spiral galaxies have been colliding for over 100 million years. The intergalactic battle has spurred the creation of millions of new stars, the most massive of which have already exploded into supernovae. Three of NASA’s space telescopes have combined forces to create the sharpest image y ...
  • Ritalin in the Water
    One of my blogging policies is to not engage with trolls. I don’t answer their nasty emails or respond to their comments. Life is too short. But every once in a great while, a troll can send me somewhere interesting. And that’s what happened in the dozens of recent comments that referenced the same ...
  • New Technique Finds Buried Bodies Better
    Researchers have unearthed a new way to find a buried body. The sensitive method, published online June 23 in Forensic Science International, detected trace compounds emanating from decomposing rats months after death. If the technique also works for human remains, it may help law enforcement perso ...
  • Moon Water Dreams Evaporate
    The inside of the moon might not be all wet after all. A new study suggests that, contrary to recent work, the lunar interior is as bone-dry as scientists thought 40 years ago, when NASA astronauts lugged home the first moon rocks. New analyses of chlorine in those rocks, published Aug. 5 in Scienc ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Jonathan Cook: Negev village torn down for second ...
    Israeli security forces destroyed a Bedouin village this week for the second time in a matter of days, leaving 300 inhabitants homeless again after they and dozens of Jewish and Arab volunteers had... 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 ...
  • 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 ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Senior Vice President ...
    Shlomo Melmed, M.D., senior vice president for academic affairs and dean of the medical faculty at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, has been appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to the Independent Citizen's Oversight Committee, the governing board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine ...
  • Philanthropy Experts on 'Giving Pledge': What Matt ...
    Patrick Rooney, executive director of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, and Leslie Lenkowsky, a professor at the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Center, comment on The Giving Pledge.
  • Chicago Mold Count Dangerously High
    Today's official allergy count for the Midwest reveals dangerously high mold count.
  • CWRU Geneticist Receives NIH Director's Pioneer Aw ...
    Noted geneticist, Joseph Nadeau, PhD, of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has received a 2010 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's Pioneer Award.
  • Greenland Glacier Calves Huge Ice Island
    A University of Delaware researcher reports that an "ice island" four times the size of Manhattan has calved from Greenland's Petermann Glacier. The last time the Arctic lost such a large chunk of ice was in 1962.

Natural Health News

  • Junk Food Diet Puts Children at Higher Risk of All ...
    Scientists compared youngsters from a rural African village with another group living in Italy and found a dramatic difference.� The African children had less obesity-linked bacteria, and more fatty acids which protect against inflammation. The diet of the African children was similar to that of p ...
  • How Much Radiation Are You Being Exposed to With N ...
    The scientific unit of measurement for radiation exposure is the millisievert (mSv). The average person is exposed to 3.6 mSv of radiation a year naturally.� When you get a chest X-ray, you add 0.1 mSv, or about 10 days' worth of naturally occurring radiation When you pass through a metal detector ...
  • The Power of Biological Light in Healing
    A Russian scientist, Pjotr Garjajev, has managed to intercept communication from a DNA molecule in the form of ultraviolet photons -- in other words, light.� This won’t come as a surprise to anyone who is familiar with the biophoton work of Fritz-Albert Popp. It is well known that if you use UV li ...
  • Many of Whole Foods 'Organic' Items are Questionab ...
    ABC 7 investigates exactly where some organic products are being harvested, and finds that Whole Foods is not as dedicated to local, organic foods as you might have been led to believe.
  • Media Now Promoting Brain Eating Vaccines
    Dr. Robert Sapolsky has been researching a “stress vaccine” for 30 years, and one may very well be one on the horizon.� Dr. Sapolsky believes that it is possible to alter brain chemistry to create a state of ‘focused calm’, and claims that he is closing in on a path to a genetically engineered formu ...

Antemedius

  • Innovation of the Week: For Pest Control, Followin ...
    Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet . It might feel counterintuitive, but the more varieties of vegetables, plants, and insects that are included in a garden, the less vulnerable any single crop becomes. Mans Lanting of ETC Foundation India wrote in LEISA Magazine in 2007 ...
  • Republicans Are Saying DOJ Is Politicized? Talk Ab ...
    Let’s start with the facts; on election day 2008 in outside a polling station based in a housing project in Philadelphia two guys in rather in your face paramilitary looking gear stood around trying to look fierce and got caught on tape saying some mean stuff about white people. This was, as it s ...
  • House Passes Emergency Spending Bill to Continue F ...
    Originally published at Truthout.org A treasure trove of classified documents released Sunday by Wikileaks, which sheds new light on the catastrophic failure of the nine-year war in Afghanistan, did not derail congressional efforts Tuesday to pass a $33 billion emergency supplemental bill to continu ...
  • Wars and Congress: Now What?
    By David Swanson On Tuesday evening, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill already passed by the Senate that funds a $33 billion, 30,000-troop escalation in Afghanistan. The vote was 308 to 114. What could the good news possibly be? The first good news is that, while we had no more than 35 ...
  • "I Want My Nation Back" Where Did This Meme Come F ...
    “I want my country back!” shouts the lady at a Town Hall meeting about Health Care Reform. She is obviously distraught, and sincere in her feelings. She is not alone; we have seen this cry over and over again from the radical Right. How did it get to the point that voters for the radicalized Republi ...

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

  • African Union Loves Bashir, Hates the ICC
    by Kevin Jon Heller Not surprisingly, the AU has condemned the ICC's decision to issue an arrest warrant against Bashir for genocide.  Equally unsurprising, the new resolution seems to have been adopted with the same kind of back-room machinations that led to the AU's previous resolution condemn ...
  • More on AZ Law Takedown (Hines Redux)
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro I’ve got some bigger picture thoughts (cautionary, from an alien rights perspective) over at the NY Times Room for Debate.  As for Judge Bolton’s reasoning in her order invalidating key provisions of the law, it is striking how much work Hines v. Davidowitz (1941) d ...
  • Trafigura’s One Million Euro Fine for Hazardous Wa ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller [The following is a guest-post written by Ifeoma Ajunwa, a human-rights attorney who is beginning a PhD at Columbia University in the fall.  Our thanks to her for contributing -- KJH] In April of 2007, as a representative for the NGO, Human Rights Advocates ...
  • Donziger: “Just a Bunch of Smoke and Mirrors and ...
    by Roger Alford As discussed here , one of the key arguments that the Ecuador plaintiffs are making in response to Chevron’s Motion is that the damaging quotes are being taken out of context. Without question one of the most damning excerpts is when lead plaintiffs’ lawyer Steve Donziger is quote ...
  • The Kosovo Advisory Opinion, Self Determination, a ...
    by Chris Borgen Now that I've had a chance to read through the ICJ's advisory opinion, following are a few initial reactions. (I will consider the separate opinions in another post.) Marko Milanovic has has done a great job parsing the main issues that were at bar, namely 1. Whether the ICJ shoul ...

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

  • San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Fails to ...
    A recent study commissioned by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (PUC) seeks to mislead and confuse San Francisco residents about the quality of sewage sludge-derived compost distributed by the PUC. The PUC claims that this sewage sludge-derived compost “compares favorably” to several br ...
  • The Story of Cosmetics
    In the latest installment of her “Story of Stuff” videos, Annie Leonard walks us through “The Story of Cosmetics,” and the ugly truth of toxics in, toxics out. Visit the website for an annotated script, viewing party materials, fact sheets and more. As she explains in the Huffington Post, “It turns ...
  • Announcing the True Food Shoppers Guide Mobile App
    The Center for Food Safety today launched a new mobile application that will help shoppers to quickly and easily identify foods made with ingredients from genetically modified (GM) organisms.  The free app, “The Center for Food Safety’s True Food Shoppers Guide”, is available for mobile devices thro ...
  • Lawsuit Filed to Halt Release of Genetically Engin ...
    An alliance of conservation organizations today sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture over its approval of open-air field tests of a genetically engineered (GE) hybrid of eucalyptus tree across the southern United States. The permit, issued to a company called ArborGen, which is a joint initiative ...
  • 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 ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Video: Toxic legacy of the Vietnam war
    Video: Toxic legacy of the Vietnam war :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1] : "Thirty-five years on from the end of the Vietnam war, the devastating effects still linger.Agent Orange, the chemical used by US forces during the war, is still ...
  • Chicago: "The National Capital of Police Repressio ...
    Chicago: "The National Capital of Police Repression" | War Is A Crime .org That's what Frank Donner called Chicago in his 1990 book, "Protectors of Privilege." As an ACLU attorney, he explained how city police and US intelligence agencies targeted alleged internal subversion, and while it operated " ...
  • African Diaspora Report : 08.06.2010
    Police say serial killer stalking African-American men in Flint Five African-Americans killed in knife attacks; 7 other assaults appear to be linked Doug Guthrie and Micki Steele / The Detroit News Flint Police are searching for a man they believe has slain five and attacked seven slightly built or ...
  • The Jew and the shiksa - Israel Opinion, Ynetnews
    The Jew and the shiksa - Israel Opinion, Ynetnews : "Quite a few Israelis (as well as Americans) felt a slight sense of unease this past week in the face of photographs of America’s new young couple, Chelsea and Marc, at their interfaith marriage ceremony. More accurately, they felt uneasy seeing th ...
  • Haidar Eid:“Israel has turned Gaza into the larges ...
    palestinefreevoice: Haidar Eid:“Israel has turned Gaza into the largest concentration camp in history” Written by palestinefreevoice Editors Sunday, 25 July 2010 01:52 Interview with Haidar Eid Founding member of the PCACBI (Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel). ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Environmental News 06/08/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Elephant, treasured yet threatened
    Despite being most treasured for its fundamental role in culture and religion in Asia, and despite the ban on ivory traffic, the elephant remains an endangered species. (wildlife/endangered-species.html) For more on this topic, read: Elephant on the brink (housing-building/elephant-on-the-brink.htm ...
  • The Story of Cosmectics
      All those alluring beauty care products promise to bring about youth, glamour and beauty, and look oh-so-pretty on the bathroom shelf with their delightful packaging. But have you ever stopped and considered just how these products might really affect you and the environment?   F ...
  • Environmental News 04/08/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Environmental News 30/07/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Senate confirms Elena Kagan as Supreme Court justi ...
    ShareThis Senate confirms Elena Kagan as Supreme Court justice 05 Aug 2010 The Senate has confirmed Elena Kagan as the 112th justice and fourth woman to serve on the Supreme Court. The vote was 63-37 for President Barack Obama's nominee to succeed retired Justice John Paul Stevens. Five Republicans ...
  • Gulf disaster largest oil spill ever
    ShareThis Gulf disaster largest oil spill ever --In all the group estimates 206 million gallons of oil, 4.9 million barrels, gushed into the Gulf . By Tom Eley 04 Aug 2010 The BP Gulf disaster is the worst ocean oil spill in world history, according to new data compiled by a team of government-spons ...
  • Pentagon demands WikiLeaks 'hand over' all classif ...
    ShareThis Pentagon Demands WikiLeaks Site Return Classified U.S. Military Documents 05 Aug 2010 The U.S. Defense Department demanded that WikiLeaks return all classified military documents leaked to them and purge all copies from their records. "We want whatever they have returned to us and we want ...
  • US charges 14 over links to Somalia's al-Shabab
    ShareThis US charges 14 over links to Somalia's al-Shabab 05 Aug 2010 US officials have charged 14 people with providing money, personnel and services to the Somali militant group al-Shabab. The charges stem from four separate indictments in the US states of Minnesota, Alabama and California. On Wed ...
  • Pentagon bars staff from visiting WikiLeaks site
    ShareThis Pentagon bars staff from visiting WikiLeaks site 05 Aug 2010 The U.S. military is banning personnel from visiting the WikiLeaks website, which recently released more than 70,000 classified diplomatic and military messages on the long war in Afghanistan. "[Department of the Navy] personnel ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • TODAY: Day of Solidarity with Sheikh Jarrah!
    Today has been declared a Day of Solidarity with Sheikh Jarrah, and activists from all over Israel will protest the eviction of Palestinian families from their homes in this East Jerusalem neighborhood.  What’s happening in Sheikh Jarrah is just one example of the harmful Israeli policy of building ...
  • “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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Mexico drug war blogs
    Blogs I follow that cover the drug wars in Mexico. Please add any you follow in the comments. Borderland Beat “Dedicated to the reporting of organized crime on the border line between the US and Mexico.” Photos can be graphic. But that’s what’s happening there now. Mexico’s Drug War “An ongoing anal ...
  • Edible living wall at L.A. pizzeria
    Turnesol Siteworks, an urban landscaping company, explains how Greenscaped Buildings built the edible wall for a Melrose Ave. pizza restaurant. It grows “lettuce, peppermint, celery, parsley, sage, and other edible plants,” says Jetson Greene.
  • Nevada becoming geothermal leader
    Asked why Nevada’s geothermal industry has held up so strongly, Gawell listed three reasons. “Strong state policies,” he said, specifying a Renewable Energy Standard dictating that 25% of the state’s energy come from renewable sources by 2025, among the nation’s most ambitious. “Tax incentives from ...
  • iPhone app. Southwest Airlines
    With a Southwest Rapid Rewards number, you can a book a flight, check flight status, and even check-in. (However, check-in at TSA and the gate isn’t implemented yet but is coming soon.) Also, if you book a Southwest flight elsewhere, it’ll know and automatically includes it.
  • 1 in 8 on food stamps, 40 million people
    And that number may go up to 43 million But who cares: can someone please tell these ungrateful sods their stocks are up like 70% since the Fed became the market in March 2009.

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Deadline Live – August 6 2010
     First Hour: James Truth on Obama Citizenship Second Hour: Kevin Barrett Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d14598').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
  • Missouri’s Proposition C vote will Mean Nothing if ...
    .…Or actively PROHIBIT Federal Prosecution of its citizens… America 20xy 8/5/10 By Andrew Steele Last Tuesday 71 percent of Missouri voters passed Proposition C, which prohibits the Federal Government from mandating that its citizens carry health insurance or face penalties. So now what? Missouri is ...
  • James Madison: “What Part Of Few And Defined Don’t ...
    Motor City Times The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. James Madison, Federalist No 45 The Founding Fathers were exquisite writers that left nothing to interpret ...
  • Police kill family pet during search warrant, find ...
    Mendocino Major Crimes Task Force agents, aided by a uniformed Willits police officer, serving a search warrant at 64 Franklin Avenue on July 27, shot and killed a family pet, an 8-year-old half-pit bull mix named Tonka. When agents searched the home, they found nothing directly linking the resident ...
  • Anger mounts over Michelle Obama’s £150k Spa ...
    Michelle Obama today faced a fresh wave of attacks over her lavish break in Spain with 40 friends which has cost U.S. taxpayers tens of thousands of pounds. The First Lady has been lambasted for her extravagance at a time when the economy is still struggling. One blogger went so far as to brand her ...

The Air Vent

  • Radiative Physics Simplified II
    Radiative physics of CO2 is a contentious issue at WUWT’s crowd but to someone like myself, this is not where the argument against AGW exists.  I’m going to take a crack at making the issue so simple, that I can actually convince someone in blogland.  This post is in reply to Tom Vonk’s recent post ...
  • A simple word experiment proves radiative effects ...
    Tom Vonk wrote an interesting post at WUWT in which he describes some of the quantum mechanics of IR absorption and makes the conclusion that radiative energy delay effects of CO2 are flatly false.  Click the headline for Tom’s excellent article. CO2 heats the atmosphereâ¦a counter view Guest pos ...
  • 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 ...

Focal Point

  • Andrew Breitbart's Favorite Race-Baiting Penis Enh ...
    A little Friday afternoon fun from Media Matters... A profile of Dr. Kevin Pezzi , a contributor to Andrew Breitbart's website Big Government. Update: Shrinkage has occurred at Big Government . Is it cold in here? � [Photo credit: Flickr user Paul Holloway , licensed under Creative Commons.]
  • Dear Prudence: The Government Needs to Butt Out of ...
    Emily Yoffe , aka Slate advice columnist Dear Prudence, has evidently been driven to distraction by the prospect of an Islamic cultural center/mosque two blocks from the former World Trade Center. Yoffe is concerned about Mayor Bloomberg's curt dismissal of Republican Rick Lazio's demand that the A ...
  • 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 ...

Inside Facebook

  • Thanks to Our Sponsors
    Inside Facebook extends a big thank you to our sponsors for supporting the continued growth of Inside Facebook. Check them out below! Joyent provides public cloud hosting for social application and game developers. Webtrends‘ Facebook Analytics provides visibility into the activities of Facebook fol ...
  • Facebook App Profile Box and Page Tab Changes Comi ...
    Following months of delays, Facebook has finalized the date for its long-planned removal of application boxes on profiles and reduction in tabbed application widths on Pages. Beginning August 23rd, a little more than two weeks from now, Facebook will do both, according to a blog post today: Boxes. W ...
  • Become a Birthday Star with American Greetings’ Ne ...
    American Greetings, makers of physical and electronic greeting cards, released a Facebook Connect integration today that allows Facebook users to “star” in a customized news clip sort of video. The company is clearly trying to take the greeting card concept to the next level. The integration, called ...
  • Mexico Gets Ready to Pass Canada as North America’ ...
    [Editor's Note: The following article presents analysis using data from Inside Facebook Gold, our data membership service tracking Facebook's traffic growth and demographic landscape in global markets.] Over the course of this year, we’ve watched Mexico add new users to Facebook at a notably rapid p ...
  • New Partnerships and Promotions Show Facebook’s Fo ...
    After detailing its plans for Credits at its f8 developer conference in April, Facebook has made the virtual currency a priority in the last few months. It has signed exclusive deals with top developers, introduced a variety of giveaways and other promotions, and partnered with a diverse group of pa ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Who will take out the garbage if our courts of jus ...
    Stuart Littlewood considers the impunity with which state-sponsored murderers and war criminals operate and argues that if universal jurisdiction is not made to work, then upright, socially responsible citizens may have to dispense justice themselves. “Assassination may not remain the private playgr ...
  • Israel plans mass forced removals of Bedouin
    Jonathan Cook reports from the Negev village of al-Araqib, which has been ethnically cleansed by the Israeli authorities twice in a few days as part of a plan financed by the Jewish National Fund, whose patrons include British Prime Minister David Cameron, former British prime ministers Gordon Brown ...
  • 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.

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

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  • “Rapper is No Friend of Haiti-Wyclef Opposed ...
    Scathing commentary by Charlie Hinton of the Haitian Action Committee. Click on image for article.                                                                                                                                                                                                           ...
  • Poetry Thursday Deux
    Some comments need their own posts: Hi : Wondering if I can submit a poem written by a powerful sister El Jones: Since it is Poetry Thursday. Thank you and keep up the good work! Robyn El Jones: Ain’t I a Woman? For Caster Semenya Ain’t I a Woman? For Caster Semenya Share Thursday, September [...]
  • Byts and Bytes
    1. “It is easy enough to dismiss those who persist in believing that the first successful African slave revolt took place in Haiti. Arab historians have themselves established the contrary, and in contemporaneous detail, so that it is near common knowledge that a revolt of epical dimensions took pla ...
  • Poetry Thursday
    SOMEBODY BLEW UP AMERICA By Amiri Barka: (All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international⦠But one should not be used To cover the other) They say its some terrorist, some barbaric A Rab, in Afghanistan It wasn’t our American terrorists It wasn’t the Klan or the Skin heads Or 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

  • Front Porch Forum: Connecting Strangers in the Nei ...
    Mention the Internet, and most people think of the World Wide Web, of reaching out across the globe for news, long-lost friends, or low-price bargains. But in dozens of Vermont towns, residents are using the web to connect with their back-fence neighbors. In an era where national and global informat ...
  • TileMill: Custom Maps to Help with Data Dumps, Hyp ...
    TileMill is an open source toolkit that helps you create beautiful custom maps in the cloud, built by Development Seed . We recently won a Knight News Challenge award (a.k.a. “Tilemapping” ) to help us release a new version of TileMill that will make it even easier for people to design highly custom ...
  • DocumentCloud Helps Arizona Paper with Annotated I ...
    We opened the DocumentCloud floodgates less than six months ago and we're still working hard to make DocumentCloud a better tool. We're rolling out improvements at a healthy clip including SSL support , better documentation , and support for cross-newsroom collaboration . We continue to listen to fe ...
  • 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 ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Asbestos Must be Banned in the Third World
    Referring to your article on the global asbestos crisis (See Exporting an Epidemic: A Global Asbestos Crisis , July 26, 2010), all the 52 countries that have banned asbestos should proactively support and recommend a total global ban on the mining, trade, manufacturing, and use of asbestos and asbes ...
  • 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 ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Environment Ministry Directs Orissa Government To ...
    By Campaign for Survival And Dignity The Environment Ministry today finally issued a welcome but ambiguous order directing the Orissa government to stop work on the POSCO project and the illegal process of forest land takeovers that is taking place. While giving some immediate relief by stopping th ...
  • Attacking Iran: US Options
    By Gwynne Dyer When Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the highest-ranking American officer, was asked recently on NBCs Meet The Press show whether the United States has a military plan for an attack on Iran, he replied simply: We do.
  • Israels Teenage Barbarians At Al-Arakib
    By Lawrence Davidson 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 vill ...
  • Coming Of Age In Hiroshima
    By Jane Braxton Little 65 years later, what we can learn and why we still cant forget
  • A Looming Oxygen Crisis And Its Impact On Worlds O ...
    By Carl Zimmer 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. In some places, the oxygen is getting so scarce that fish and other animals cannot survive. ...

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • The Latest "Green" Auto Technology: The POOP-Mobil ...
    Some of you are going to doubt this story but I assure you, unlike the car pictured above, this story is not full of crap. Scientists at Geneco have developed the ultimate dung beetle, a Volkswagen that is propelled via an engine using compressed methane extracted from Human waste.� The c ...
  • RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE? Zanzibar Muslims Tear Down Ch ...
    Zanzibar is an Island off of Tanzania. About 97% of the Island's population are Muslim, the remaining 3% are a combination of Hindu and Christians.� . Non Muslim houses of worship are strictly regulated on the Island and for a Church to be built, for example, special permission must be given. ...
  • The False Issue of "Race" in the Arab-Israeli Conf ...
    By Barry Rubin As the waitress whose family had come from Ethiopia put the pizza on the table at the Tel Aviv restaurant, I contemplated the ridiculous misuse of "race" as a factor in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Regardless of skin color, we belong not only to the same country by way of citizen ...
  • BULL S**T!! . Medicare Actuary Says Administration ...
    There's a first time for everything.� Today the Trustees of the Medicare Fund issued a report bragging that Obamacare was saving Medicare. Not so fast said the office of the Chief Medicare actuary who said the the Trustees' report was unreasonable and implausible, and he released an alternative repo ...
  • Greetings From Philadelphia
    Sorry for the light postings today...My Wife and I went to visit the Liberty Bell for a day.� I will be back home and Posting tomorrow afternoon. Jeff Please email me at yidwithlid@aol.com to be put onto my mailing list. Feel free to reproduce any article but please link back to http://y ...

The Real Agenda

  • Medicamentos Psiquiátricos: Uma Descoberta Surpree ...
    Por Ellison Shane Master of Science Tradução: Luis R. Miranda Faço perguntas para tentar encurtar as  conversas. Evito contato visual com estranhos, com medo (talvez seja ansiedade) de  aprender muito sobre eles. Secretamente, acho que Metallica estaria fazendo música melhor se eles usaram ...
  • U.S. Feds: Airport Scanners DO Store Naked Body Im ...
    For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they're viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that "scanned images cannot be stored or recorded."
  • 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.

Wind Watch

  • Human noise ‘leads fish from habitats’
    Noise pollution from shipping, drilling for oil or wind farms could lead fish away from their natural habitat into areas where they could die, potentially devastating future fish stocks. A British-led team made the discovery while working on the Great Barrier Reef â as well as debunking the myth t ...
  • Villagers ready for another battle against giant t ...
    Villagers have stepped up their latest campaign against a wind farm plan believed to be among the most unpopular planning applications Dorset has ever seen. Two years ago, a record 1,987 people wrote to North Dorset District Council to object to plans to build six giant turbines – each 120 metres (3 ...
  • JCIDA: all jurisdictions must agree to PILOTs
    Jefferson County could see repeats of the rancor that accompanied the Galloo Island Wind Farm payment-in-lieu-of-taxes approval at the county Legislature after changes made Tuesday morning. A payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement for any wind power project will need approval from all of the involved ta ...
  • Lightning strike burns down wind turbine
    PETERSON, Iowa — A lightening strike started a fire in a wind turbine Saturday morning, destroying the turbine and one of three new blades that had been laid out on the ground beneath it in order to be installed as replacements. Damages totaled $760,000, according to Peterson Fire Chief John Winterb ...
  • Wind farms could face new restrictions as Governme ...
    Energy companies could face new restrictions on wind farm projects after ministers launched a review of the way noise pollution is taken into account by planners. The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has admitted noise regulations are applied “inconsistently” by councils and planning ...

Not My Tribe

  • Catholic issues in the Global War On People who Do ...
    Some of the issues were very publicly addressed by John Paul II. Not as publicly by Benedict but even Pope Joey Ratz doesn’t give blessings of the church, and thus absolution to Catholic chaplains and other soldiers. Abortion. That’s a big hot issue not only with Catholics but Protestants. In the ru ...
  • 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 ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Why do you even need to "debunk"?
    There are a lot of sites out there "debunking" 9/11 truthers, global warming "deniers", natural health "quacks", "anti-vaxers" and anyone who questions the dogma of Darwinism. My question is, why? If the mainstream view is so obvious, why bother? I mean you don't see many "Debunking Holocaust Denial ...
  • 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 ...

Fooducate

  • Supplement Shenanigans
    Consumer Reports this week blasted into the multi-billion supplement industry and warned us to be wary of ingredients to watch out for. What consumers might not realize, is that supplement manufacturers routinely, and legally, sell their products without first having to demonstrate that they are sa ...
  • 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 ...

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

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle rubbish pencil erasers?
    We’ve had an email from Sophie: I bought a big bag of rubbers at the start of school but they were hard and rubbish so I turned them into stamps instead! I drew a design on them then cut it out with an art knife and they work great. I remember doing something similar with them when [...]
  • What can I reuse or recycle to build a cold frame?
    (I suspect they’ll be an overlap between this and our previous question about making greenhouses but I thought I’d ask again because they’re a bit different.) I’m having lots of fun growing stuff in our new garden. The old garden was considerably small and got no (no!) direct sunlight whatsoever, w ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle used paper plates?
    Finishing up our impromptu barbecue themed week, I thought I’d run a post that is sure to get some people screaming “DON’T USE THEM AT ALL! USE REAL, REUSABLE PLATES!!” – and those people have a very good point. The first part of the 3Rs is Reduce and disposable paper plates are really unnecessary ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle a sheep fleece?
    The wonderful John B got in touch with my John the other day to ask if we could use a couple of sheep fleeces: someone he knows has been given the fleeces by a farmer client. As I’ve just started spinning wool/yarn, the idea of a full fleece was appealing but also somewhat overwhelming – we [...]
  • What Scott Bedford made reusing & recycling stuff
    Scott Bedford from the wonderfully designed What I Made.com got in touch to tell us about some of the great reusing/recycling projects he’s done over the last few years. He’s made a strangely beautiful candle holder out of an old motorbike exhaust, an edgy planter out of a deliberately mangled paint ...

Mondoweiss

  • Mezvinsky’s choice (and the existential thre ...
    Israelis are angry about the Chelsea wedding.They didn't like the mingling of Jewish and non-Jewish ritual, they're fearful about assimilation and the future of the Jewish people. The thought didn't occur to them that he wanted a bigger pool than his own small tribe, and maybe he fell in love? Haare ...
  • Islamoflubbia
    As we say in my religion, What goes around comes around. --Fareed Zakaria returns $10,000 and a plaque and an award to the ADL after its bigoted response to the mosque in Manhattan. --Israel subjects Donna Shalala, former Education Secretary, now a university president, to two-and-a-half hours deten ...
  • Is it leftwing to fear that Palestinians will get ...
    At The American Prospect, Gershom Gorenberg states that the Sheikh Jarrah protests have stopped the evictions for now, and thereby revivified "the Israeli left." Good news. (h/t Richard Witty) Now the quibbles.I believe that Gorenberg is attached to that leftwing label out of some Vietnam-era pride, ...
  • Virginia Tilley on fuzzy borders
    John Haines responded to Weiss's post the other day on the Lebanese border incident ("That Tree Was In Israeli Territory") with this statement: Israel insists the fence is not the exact border. But as Israel has no official border, this claim would seem to be a(nother) red herring. Anyway, Israel ...
  • Tony Judt passes
    We've heard that Tony Judt died today, the historian and writer/speaker, after a long illness, ALS. A giant, is all I can think right now, someone of tremendous intellectual confidence who followed such a worldly and erudite path that when the Israel/Palestine issue came front and center in politica ...

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 )

  • Obama nominates NOAA chief scientist
    Posted for Barb Kiser Amid something of a squall over the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency's (NOAA) recent report on the Deepwater Horizon spill, the White House yesterday announced a new nominee for NOAA chief scientist. Scott Doney — a marine geochemist at the Woods Hole Oceanog ...
  • Why is society not acting on climate change? John ...
    John Holdren, chief science adviser to US President Barack Obama, lamented the recent failure of Democrats in the US Senate to push forward legislation on global warming, in a speech to the Ecological Society of America conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, yesterday. He told the audience that ...
  • Genome to unravel oyster mysteries
    The oyster genome has been sequenced, raising hopes that we’ll soon understand oyster sauce stickiness, the frailty of oyster young, the mollusc’s ability to stick to all the wrong things, and how to make pearls. Xinhua Unfortunately, the team of Chinese and US scientists have not yet published ...
  • Bisphenol A and sperm damage
    Widespread fears over the safety of bisphenol A (BPA) look set to increase after the publication of a study linking the chemical to sperm damage. The controversial chemical, used in the production of plastics and found in a wide variety of everyday items, has been associated with a host of health ...
  • Report charts sea lion decline in western Aleutian ...
    The Steller sea lion ( Eumetopias jubatus ), an iconic and endangered species of the Pacific north coast, is a facing a new and poorly understood threat. In a draft biological opinion , released 2 August by the US National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), scientists report that the adult po ...

new geography

  • Melbourne: Government Seeking Housing Affordabilit ...
    Once a country known as “lucky” for its affordable quality of life, Australia has achieved legendary status as a place where public policies have destroyed housing affordability for the middle class. Draconian land rationing policies (called "urban consolidation" in Australia and more generally "com ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • America Still Needs Elizabeth Warren, And The Bank ...
    there is an alternative to appointing regulators who will always put bankers and brokers first. We need a rigorous scholar who cares about finding the right policies to elevate the middle class and further healthy economic growth.We need Elizabeth Warren. Submitted by Ellyn S. to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Are Israel and Hamas headed for another war?
    Violence escalates in Gaza, as tensions heighten between Israel and Hamas. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Israel and Palestinians have to take off their mas ...
    If next elections will usher in a yet more ultra-nationalist, clerical, fanatic and anti-democratic Knesset and government, there would be one advantage: It would make clear to everyone where we stand. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • John Moore: A Muslim target at Ground Zero
    On the matter of the New York mosque the political right is not only on the wrong side of the issue but demonstrating the kind of self contradictory doublethink that has come to define much of the Repubican and Tea Party movement. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comm ...
  • John Moore: The Bible loses again
    The law is an elegant, even beautiful thing. It is based on the distilling of reason and fact from the irrational and the irrelevant. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Historical Notes

libcom

  • Anarchist houseproject in flensburg (ger) raided b ...
    copcarfire.jpg On Wednesday July 28th, , 5 Police Officers of K5 (criminal investigation department – political Police) accomplished a house search at 'black mosquito – anarchist mailorder' in “Senffabr ...
  • Kashmir: Amidst gun battles between Indian state a ...
    Article by Communist Internationalist, ICC section in India, about the class struggles which have developed in Kashmir despite all the nationalist conflicts which have ravaged the region For many decades two contending gangs of the capit ...
  • 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 ...

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) ...

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.

Scotts Contracting

  • The Senate’s done nothing; time for us to d ...
    Solar Nation tells me the U.S. Senate has done absolutely nothing during this Congress to even debate a climate and energy bill. Too many of them, it seems, would vote the way their big funding sources would want them to … Continue reading →
  • 3 Steps to Establish a Politics of Global Warming
    We’re Hot as Hell and We’re Not Going to Take It Any More Three Steps to Establish a Politics of Global Warming By Bil McKibben (Cross Posted from TomDispatch.com) Try to fit these facts together: According to the National Oceanic … Continue reading →
  • 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 ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

  • Same-Sex Marriage Ruling Plants Flag for Gay Right ...
    Gay rights advocates see Chief Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling on Proposition 8 as a game changer for legal battles beyond the right to marry. They're focused on two main aspects of Walker's decision: its extensive findings of fact and its conclusion that "the evidence presented at trial shows that gay ...
  • Kagan Will Have Little Time to Ease Into New Job
    Elena Kagan won't have the luxury of easing into her new job as a Supreme Court justice. She'll be hiring law clerks and secretaries, setting up her chambers, wading into thousands of petitions and handling emergency matters -- which may soon include an appeal of a stay in the California same-sex ma ...
  • Examiner Says Tribune Bankruptcy Report Was Costli ...
    UCLA law professor Kenneth Klee recently released his massive report investigating the downfall of The Tribune Co. following a disastrous 2007 leveraged buyout. The report raises serious questions about the second step of the buyout and whether it left Tribune with an unsustainable amount of debt. I ...
  • Climbing Back
    Consultants George Socha and Tom Gelbmann highlight key trends they identified in their annual e-discovery survey.
  • Legal Sector Lost 800 Jobs in July
    The U.S. economy as a whole lost 131,000 jobs in July, and 800 of them were in the legal trade, according to the latest report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Despite the losses, the industry actually fared better last month than it did in June, when it saw more than 3,000 positions evapor ...

Iranian.com

  • برادر و پدر همسر محمد مصطفایی آزاد شدند
    برادر همسر و پدر همسر محمد مصطفایی، وکیل دادگستری از زندان اوین آزاد شدند. به گزارش بامدادخبر، فرهاد حلیمی، برادر محمد مصطفایی به همراه خواهرش، فرشته حلیمی از روز دوم مردادماه در بازداشت به سر برده و پدر آقای حلیمی نیز چند روز پس از بازداشت فرزندانش توسط نیروهای امنیتی دستگیر شد. read more
  • حکم تعلیق 2 قاضی در کهریزک ؟!
    حکم تعلیق فعالیت قضائی مرتضوی و حداد به اتهام دست داشتن در حوادث کهریزک صادر شده است،اما با این حال احکام مربوط به آن همچنان به صورت اخبار ویژه در رسانه ها منتشر می شود. read more
  • وضعیت ناگوار جسمی سحرخیز در زندان رجایی شهر
    چکیده : سحرخیزدر یکسال گذشته از کمردرد رنج می برد و عوارض قلبی نیز او را تهدید می کند، با این همه مسوولین زندان حاضرنشده اند در یکسال گذشته حتی یک روز به سحرخیز مرخصی استعلاجی دهند. عیسی سحرخیر روزنامه نگار زندانی ازصبح جمعه ۱۵ مرداد، به فلج عمومی مبتلا شده و قادر به حرکت کردن نیست. read more
  • One-and-a-half cheers for Obama on Iran
    David Ignatius appears to have been  read more
  • شاهنامه دست‌کاری شده است
    باوجود اینکه اکنون بیش از هزار دست نوشته از شاهنامه موجود است ولی متاسفانه از روزگار خود فردوسی هیچ دست نوشته ای از این اثر ارزشمند در دست نیست.

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 ...

Free Movement

  • PBS decision not being appealed
    The Points Based System test case, Pankina, is not being appealed by UKBA. This has been confirmed by Treasury Solicitors. Interim guidance has apparently been issued to UKBA caseworkers. More information and links if/when I get a chance.
  • New rules sidestep Pankina and English UK
    The Government has laid a new Statement of Changes (HC 382) that incorporates the parts of the Points Based System policy guidance ruled unlawful in the Pankina and English UK cases. This reinstitutes the three month £800 requirement and the minimum of level of English language qualification require ...
  • More big cases
    I can’t keep up! If things ever quieten down I’ll do a few more weighty analysis posts but in the meantime these alerter ones must suffice. Firstly, the Medical Justice challenge to no-notice removals has succeeded: R (on the application of Medical Justice) v Secretary of State for the Home Departm ...
  • Damning reports by Chief Inspector
    The concisely monikered Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency yesterday published two very critical reports on UKBA operations. One was on the visa operation in Pakistan and the other was on removals of families. These reports were actually completed before the election, but publication was put ba ...
  • Right to work for asylum seekers confirmed
    The Home Office appeal to the Supreme Court in ZO (Somalia) [2010] UKSC 36 has been dismissed. This confirms that in cases where a fresh asylum claim has been made and no decision was reached for a year, the asylum seeker obtains a right to work under European law. This applies in the vast majority ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Deflation, Not Deficit, Is the Real Threat
    The economic specter stalking Barack Obama is not the nonsense debate that captivates deficit hawks and witless political reporters. It is the threat of a full-blown monetary deflation that would truly put the US economy in ruin. In a general deflation, everything falls—prices, output, wages, profit ...
  • Women on the Verge
    The campaign to get Elizabeth Warren appointed to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau got me thinking — why is it that so many of the heroic leaders who have pushed the Obama administration to be more steadfastly progressive on financial issues just happen to be female? That honor ...
  • The Opposites Game
    Have you ever thought about just how strange this country’s version of normal truly is?� Let me make my point with a single, hardly noticed� Washington Post �news story that’s been on my mind for a while.� It represents the sort of reporting that, in our world, zips by with next to no reaction, desp ...
  • Obama's Legacy: Afghanistan
    Most presidents start wondering—or, more often, worrying—about their “legacy” well into their first term. Or, if they have a second term , they worry even more feverishly about what posterity will think of them. Obama need not wonder about his legacy, even this early. It is already fixed, and in one ...
  • Bullet Trains: Obama Spends Billions on High-Speed ...
    I rode a train from Miami to Orlando — and I liked it. I relaxed in a comfortable seat with Shaq-worthy legroom. I avoided the hassle of the airport and the maniacs on the highways. I did some phone interviews, read a book about the Compromise of 1850 and watched Funny People on my laptop; it wa ...

Salon

  • America's stadium-mob mentality
    One thing you can confidently say about 21st-century America is this: Our icons of seemingly frivolous spectacle often embody deeply significant and disturbing truths. What was Balloon Boy but a deadly serious commentary on national gullibility and misplaced priorities? What was Joe the Plumber b ...
  • Schwarzenegger calls for same-sex weddings
    California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown filed motions Friday calling for resumption of same-sex weddings in the state.
  • "It's like the damn Planet of the Apes!"
    I don't know why Fox News' Glenn Beck, railing against Barack Obama again on his show Thursday, felt the need to reference the 1968 movie "Planet of the Apes," but since I've been instructed it's bad form to call the folks on Fox "racist," it can't be racism. In case you missed it, Beck rolled a ...
  • Anthony Weiner's profile in cowardice
    A week ago, I wrote that we shouldn't get too excited about Anthony Weiner. The New York congressman was -- once again -- the toast of MSNBC and lefty blogs for his House floor theatrics (in this instance, he was berating Republicans for complicating efforts to provide healthcare to 9/11 rescue w ...
  • Actually, Obama couldn't have done much better tha ...
    I'm completely baffled by the logic behind Glenn Greenwald's analysis of the Elena Kagan vote. Greenwald had opposed Kagan as a nominee because he wanted someone with a clearer liberal track record. That's a reasonable position (although see below for why I don't think it actually works in practi ...

SMB News

  • Strike, Shangla / 145 due to rain, floods, mounted ...
    SWAT unprecedented rain and flood of a permanent, a devastating flood was to strike at any time, Shangla and Malakand divisions, including the destruction is open to all Pakhtunkhwa khyber,  News Smbarticles said Sat 300 innocent people in both communities, with more rain and floods, and the flesh o ...
  • Outbreak of diseases, such as toll from floods up ...
    Islamabad / Peshawar: The death toll from the worst flood in living memory of the 1400 outbreak of waterborne disease is crowned Sunday broke and poor, the survivors refuge from the raging torrents. “Floods have killed more than 1,100 people in various parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa affected and more t ...
  • E.U. It is a party to negotiations in Afghanistan: ...
    Washington: Senate Foreign Relations Committee president John Kerry insisted on Sunday that the United States is a party in any negotiations with the Taliban in Afghanistan, adding that opponents information about troops in Afghanistan, but military commanders on the ground and asked to help. CNN Fa ...
  • MQM MPa Raza Haider killed in Karachi Karachi:
    Haider Raza, head of MQM and the Sindh assembly, a guard was killed here in a mosque in Nazimabad on Monday, Newssmbarticles.com reported. Unknown armed motorcyclists shot Haider Raza and his guard, as he was preparing to take part in a funeral prayers at a mosque Nazimabad Block No.2. Haider Raza d ...
  • Violence in Karachi that killed 32
    Karachi: 32 people died in violence, died, according to agencies into a single national shift, after the members of provincial assembly (MPA), Plaza area nazimabad Haider died late on Monday. 30 policemen killed when a sensational acts of violence and suffering, psychological trauma, which also kill ...

    Blacklisted News

  • DHS Deploys Special Teams to Battle Hackers in Cyb ...
    Former CIA Director Tells ABC News Electricity Grid 'Vulnerability' Tops National Security Concerns
  • The US isn't leaving Iraq, it's rebranding the occ ...
    Obama says withdrawal is on schedule, but renaming or outsourcing combat troops won't give Iraqis back their country
  • Study: CIA doctors ‘gave green light to torture’
    A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that physicians with the CIA's Office of Medical Services (OMS) played an even greater role in facilitating the torture of detainees than was previously recognized.
  • 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.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran Propaganda Debunked in Under Seven Minutes
    Description: Iran Propaganda Debunked in Under Seven Minutes Featured on a panel at the University of California, Riverside, Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio calmly and confidently debunks the accusations against Iran. This video gives excerpts of his comments. URL: http://www.youtube.co ...
  • “Countdown to Zero”: Hollywood movie promotes war ...
    Summary: Seductive, fascinating and frightening, Countdown to Zero motivates the public to support complete nuclear disarmament and to fear Iran, which is conveniently the next country the US wants to invade. Framed in no-nuke rhetoric, Countdown to Zero is not-so-subtle agitprop. The film relie ...
  • Is Iran, like Iraq, 'Asking for War'?
    Summary: But more significantly, the resolution offers no reason why Iran actually would attack Israel or the United States. What reason would Iran have to use nuclear weapons against either country other than an irresistible desire for mass national suicide? Indeed, the very same question coul ...
  • Obama’s Challenge: Iran, Nuclear Weapons and the F ...
    Summary: Tensions with Iran are once more high in the wake of a series of punitive sanctions that the UN Security Council imposed on Iran at the behest of the US and the European Union. Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad said this week that the US was being influenced in its Iran policy too m ...
  • 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 ...

The Daily Galaxy

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  • New Tech: Artificial Life Forms Created that Evolv ...
    Michigan State University (MSU) researchers have developed “digital organisms” called Avidians that were made to evolve memory, and could eventually be used to generate intelligent artificial life and evolve into symmetrical, organized artificial brains that share structural properties with real... ...
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  • Mystery of Saturn's Radio Pulse
    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 per Saturnian day. The length...

Natural News

  • Froot Loops contaminated with 2-methylnaphthalene ...
    (NaturalNews) As cereal lovers sat down to enjoy their bowls of Froot Loops, Honey Smacks, Apple Jacks and Corn Pops, they had no idea they were about to eat a petrochemical called 2-methylnaphthalene . This chemical is "a constituent of petroleum, automobile exhaust, ... waste water from coal gasif ...
  • Report finds drug industry funded studies almost a ...
    (NaturalNews) A recent study published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine has revealed that industry-funded clinical trials -- that is, drug trials funded by pharmaceutical companies -- almost always show positive results for the drugs they test. In contrast, only about half of government-fu ...
  • Experts say reading food labels leads to healthier ...
    (NaturalNews) Two new reports in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association have revealed that people who read ingredient and nutrient labels on food packaging generally eat healthier than those who rarely or never read these labels. While seemingly obvious, the studies' findings illustrate ho ...
  • Birds fuel up on superfoods before long migration ...
    (NaturalNews) Some birds radically change their diets just before their winter migrations, gorging themselves on antioxidant-rich berries to prepare for their long journeys, researchers have found. "[The] results support the hypothesis that some migratory birds may actively select deeply-pigmented f ...
  • Companies may soon be required to prove chemical s ...
    (NaturalNews) There is a new piece of legislation before Congress that will require chemical manufacturers to prove that an industrial chemical is safe before they can use it in products. The Toxic Chemicals Safety Act of 2010 will grant more power to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) t ...

Threat Level

  • Appeals Court Rules Against Secret Police GPS Trac ...
    A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the police can’t covertly track a suspect’s car using a GPS device for an extended period of time without getting a warrant. The ruling in the D.C. Court of Appeals overturned the conviction of a suspected cocaine dealer, saying that the use of a secret GPS ...
  • Pentagon Demands Wikileaks ‘Return’ All Classified ...
    A Pentagon spokesman on Thursday demanded that the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks return and delete all the classified Defense Department documents in its possession, and stop soliciting new ones. “The Defense Department demands that WikiLeaks return immediately to the U.S. government all versio ...
  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Romer's Legacy: The Stimulus That Might Have Been
    On the day Christina Romer had the unenviable task of announcing another grim jobs report , Americans learned the chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisers is leaving the Obama administration . Coming just weeks after the departure of popular Obama budget chief Peter Orszag, Romer's exit will ...
  • Fact-Checker Sarah Palin Lies About Tax Increase. ...
    On Sunday, the fact-checking web site Politifact deemed Sarah Palin a "Pants on Fire" liar for her claim that "Democrats are poised now to cause this largest tax increase in U.S. history." (As it turns outm that's just one of the 10 Republican lies about the Bush tax cuts .) Now, the half-term Alas ...
  • Justice Kennedy's Past and the Future of Prop 8
    In the wake of his ruling overturning California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage, one legal observer concluded Judge Vaughn Walker "is speaking to Justice Kennedy." Slate's Dahlia Lithwick went a step further, suggesting that while "Judge Vaughn R. Walker is not Anthony Kennedy," he "certainly kn ...
  • 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 ...

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Unexplained Mysteries

  • Immense crocodile photographs unveiled
    A massive crocodile measuring over 22ft in length was killed after terrorising a remote Aboriginal community. Up until now rumours had circulated abou...
  • Neanderthal's cosy bedroom unearthed
    Anthropologists have discovered a neanderthal cave sleeping chamber complete with hearth in Spain. The neanderthals would have had warm and comfortabl...
  • Has Atlantis been found on Google Ocean ?
    A rectangular shaped feature that looks like a street grid in the middle of the sea has been spotted on Google Ocean. It was spotted by an aeronautica...
  • Did Churchill order a UFO cover-up?
    Newly released files detail how Churchill covered up a WW2 UFO sighting because he feared it would cause panic. According to the files the encounter i...
  • 'Poo-powered' car seen on the streets
    A poo-powered Volkswagon Beetle has been touring UK streets to help encourage sustainable motoring. The car runs on processed methane gas, it is belie...

Grassroots

Climate

  • August 6, 2010
    U.S. Changes Plan for Capturing Emissions From Coal (New York Times) The Energy Department abruptly shifted course on Thursday on a flagship federal effort to capture and sequester carbon dioxide from coal plants, saying it would not finance construction of a new plant in Mattoon, Ill.  ...
  • 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 ...

GreenBiz

  • How Does Your Diet Affect the Gulf's Dead Zone?
    A new study ranks the impacts that common foods have not just on climate change, but on the water pollution that leads to dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico and other bodies of water.
  • 200-Plus Companies Seeing the Value of Ecosystem S ...
    More than 200 leading companies, including insurers, cosemetics and power companies, are learning the value of ecosystems services for their bottom lines.
  • Brits Get Access to Real-Time Gov't Energy Use
    There are now 18 departments of the British government that have posted online real-time energy use.
  • 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 ...

Reuters Global

  • Whatever happened to Europe’s debt crisis?
    If officials stop talking about Europe's financial crisis, does it still exist? Europe was obsessed with its debt problems a month or so ago, but ever since everyone went on summer holidays, and stopped talking about it, the crisis has dissipated.
  • 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 ...

Booman Tribune

  • Saturday Morning News Bucket
    From a friend's Facebook status this morning:"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."-Theodor GeiselFeel free to add your own interest ...
  • Mr. Steele's Talking Point
    Michael Steele wants to put Nancy Pelosi in the back of the bus. No kidding. He announced that he will be driving around in a "Fire Pelosi Bus" between Labor Day and election day. And then he said that Pelosi would be sitting in the back of the bus. I continue to wonder if Michael Steele has e ...
  • Going Back In Time, With Rand Paul
    Hey, everyone in the Rand Paul pile-on, make room for one more. I'm coming in for a landing! I shouldn't pick on the good doctor, though he makes it too easy. After all, his latest media train wrecks gave me a chance to resurrect a timeline of industrial disasters I started researching after t ...
  • Real American Men
    I can kind of understand the macho appeal of having a fast car with a big engine, but I don't understand why I keep encountering right-wingers who think burning lots of gas is the American thing to do and that anyone who is interested in conservation is some kind of deviant subversive girly-man. I ...
  • The Court is Another Branch of Congress
    What some people miss when they're bemoaning the new tendency of opposition parties to vote against Supreme Court nominees is that the Supreme Court has become another branch of Congress. What can't be done in Congress is now done by the Court. It was the inability of Congress to end Jim Crow that ...

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Futurismic

  • Arguments against life extension
    Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate tow ...
  • Daddy, where does innovation come from?
    Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor that h ...
  • Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
    Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of years ...
  • How to be a futurist
    The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...] Follow ...
  • 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, ...

Therapy News

  • The Stress-Reducing Qualities of Spirituality
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline For people who are religious, thinking about God can help them feel more calm and less distressed when things don’t go according to plan, says a new study. Researchers got people thinking about God-related ideas, then measured their brain patterns while they took a co ...
  • ER Violence Intervention Helps Adolescents Control ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Reaching out to adolescents who are prone to peer violence and alcohol abuse is no easy thing. A new program, implemented in emergency rooms, may provide some help. Adolescent patients visiting an ER participated in brief intervention sessions, with either a computer ...
  • Starting School: Maternal Anxiety and its Impact o ...
    By Beverly Amsel, Ph.D., Individuation Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Beverly and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Whether one’s child is going off to preschool, kindergarten or college for the first time, separation anxiety is often present for parents and their children. At these ...
  • Anger Management Counseling and Anger’s Silver Lin ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Because of a few high-profile individuals, anger management and aggressive outbursts have been in the public spotlight recently. They’ve spurred conversations about what anger is, what it means to lose control, and how to deal with anger. In some cases, people are also ...
  • Boys and Body Image: A Bigger Problem Than Most Th ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A recent nation-wide study on body image, mental health, and adolescents finds that the group at highest risk for weight-related depression is not overweight girls, as is commonly thought. Rather, underweight boys are most at risk to experience unhappiness and distres ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Naomi Judd joins her daughter, Ashley, in capaign ...
    Examiner.com Naomi Judd joins her daughter, Ashley, in capaign to abate Mountaintop Removal ... Examiner.com Songstress Naomi Judd has joined the battle to abate Mountaintop Removal Mining. The country music superstar has joined the NRDC's campaign to end the ... Clean-energy sources needed now The ...
  • Greens call for a new kind of national defense: de ...
    Greens call for a new kind of national defense: defense against catastrophic ... Green Party US (press release) Offshore drilling and mountaintop removal mining must be shut down soon, not only because of the immediate danger of continuing disasters but the sheer fact ... and more��
  • EPA issues more new mountaintop removal guidance - ...
    EPA issues more new mountaintop removal guidance Charleston Gazette (blog) This entry was posted on Friday, July 30, 2010 at 5:01 pm and is filed under Mountaintop Removal . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS ... and more��
  • Friday roundup, Aug. 6, 2010 - Charleston Gazette ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) Friday roundup, Aug. 6, 2010 Charleston Gazette (blog) Scientific concerns about the damage being done by mountaintop removal mining got some media attention this week, with coverage of a panel discussion by top ... and more��
  • "Clean Coal" Bottom Feeders: Chu Hands Out $1 Bill ...
    "Clean Coal" Bottom Feeders: Chu Hands Out $1 Billion in Big Coal Welfare ... Huffington Post (blog) Coal slurry continues to poison community watersheds; coal ash dumps remain toxic time bombs; and strip mining and mountaintop removal operations continue ... and more��

Memeorandum

  • Let gays begin marrying, Schwarzenegger urges (Sac ...
    Sacramento Bee : Let gays begin marrying, Schwarzenegger urges   —  In an extraordinary court filing, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked Friday that gay marriages be allowed to resume immediately in California after a federal ruling that the state's voter-approved ban on gay marriage is unconstituti ...
  • Spanish police close public beach for Michelle Oba ...
    Daily Mail : Spanish police close public beach for Michelle Obama's £250,000 Spanish holiday   —  Michelle Obama today faced a fresh wave of attacks over her lavish break in Spain with 40 friends, which could easily cost U.S. taxpayers a staggering £50,000 a day.
  • America Is at Risk of Boiling Over (Wall Street Jo ...
    Wall Street Journal : America Is at Risk of Boiling Over   —  And out-of-touch leaders don't see the need to cool things off.  —  It is, obviously, self-referential to quote yourself, but I do it to make a point.  I wrote the following on New Year's day, 1994.  America 16 years ago was a relativel ...
  • Time for a divorce - In the 1500s, a pestering the ...
    David Harsanyi / Denver Post : Time for a divorce   —  In the 1500s, a pestering theologian instituted something called the Marriage Ordinance in Geneva, which made “state registration and church consecration” a dual requirement of matrimony.  —  We have yet to get over this mistake.  But isn't it ...
  • The Mosque Controversy & Religious Freedom (Cathy ...
    Cathy Young / Real Clear Politics : The Mosque Controversy & Religious Freedom   —  While the “Ground Zero mosque” — an Islamic Center planned two blocks from the site of the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attacks — has been cleared for construction by the authorities in New York, the contro ...

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China Dialogue

  • The dark side of the boom
    Amid a booming economy, polluting factories in China’s rural communities are forming a deadly toxic cocktail for villagers, leading to surging rates of cancer. Jonathan Watts reports. Zheng Gumei thought she was down with a cold until the doctor told her to wait outside the room so he could talk to ...
  • Minding the enforcement gap
    The dismissal of six environmental-protection officials in Anhui – simply for doing their job – is a sorry reminder of the chasm between central government ambition and local realities, says Ma Jun. On June 17, China Central Television (CCTV) reported that six environmental-protection officials in G ...
  • 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 ...

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Threat Level

  • Appeals Court Rules Against Secret Police GPS Trac ...
    A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the police can’t covertly track a suspect’s car using a GPS device for an extended period of time without getting a warrant. The ruling in the D.C. Court of Appeals overturned the conviction of a suspected cocaine dealer, saying that the use of a secret GPS ...
  • Pentagon Demands Wikileaks ‘Return’ All Classified ...
    A Pentagon spokesman on Thursday demanded that the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks return and delete all the classified Defense Department documents in its possession, and stop soliciting new ones. “The Defense Department demands that WikiLeaks return immediately to the U.S. government all versio ...
  • 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • HP CEO resigns after sex harassment investigation
    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co CEO Mark Hurd resigned on Friday after an investigation found that he had falsified expense reports to conceal a "close personal relationship" with a female contractor.
  • Pakistanis desperate to escape flood areas
    MUZAFFARGARH, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistanis desperate to get out of flooded villages threw themselves at helicopters on Saturday as more heavy rain was expected to intensify both suffering and anger with the government.
  • Berkshire net down 40 percent on derivative losses
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc said on Friday second-quarter profit fell 40 percent, as declining stock prices depressed the value of his derivative contracts.
  • Eight foreign medical workers killed in Afghanista ...
    KABUL (Reuters) - Eight foreign medical workers, including "several" Americans, were killed by gunmen in Afghanistan's remote northeast, police and officials said on Saturday, with the attack claimed by the Taliban.
  • House lawmaker calls for probe of Fannie Mae alleg ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee called on Friday for an investigation into charges that mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae pushed borrowers into a mortgage aid program so it could receive incentive payments from the U.S. government.

IntelNews

  • Iran factory blast coincides with reported bomb at ...
    By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | Official Iranian denials of an alleged bomb attack on the life of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday have been followed by reports of a simultaneous attack on a state-of-the-art Iranian petrochemicals complex. Specifically, on August 4, Reuters news age ...
  • News you may have missed #408
    Russian military spy supervised Czech prisons. Robert Rakhardzho, a Russian spy whose relationship with a Czech female Army major prompted the resignation of three senior Czech military officials, worked as a psychologist at the Czech Prison Service headquarters until last September. Rakhardzho is n ...
  • News you may have missed #407
    US should dump Karzai, says ex-head of CIA Afghan Task Force. Jack Devine, who headed the CIA’s Afghan Task Force during the Afghan-Soviet War, says US efforts in the Central Asian country are “alarmingly similar to those of the Russiansâ, and urges Washington to dump the corrupt US-funded governm ...
  • 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 ...

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Grist - News

  • BP won’t rule out future oil drilling at Gul ...
    by Agence France-Presse. NEW ORLEANS -- BP may drill a new well in the future to extract crude left behind in the reservoir of a damaged Gulf of Mexico oil field, a senior executive with the firm said Friday. "Clearly there's lots of oil and gas here and we'll have to think about what to do wi ...
  • The climate clock ticks faster, a solar campus, bu ...
    by Randy Rieland. Finally, the spill is gone . And so is Congress . But plenty more is going on in the greenosphere. Here are 10 stories you may have missed. 1)     You're getting warmer:  If you've been feeling a little stressed by the ticking of the global-warming clock, take a deep breath. It ...
  • BP plugs runaway oil well in Gulf of Mexico
    by Agence France-Presse. NEW ORLEANS -- BP plugged its runaway well in the Gulf of Mexico with cement Thursday, one of the final steps in permanently sealing the gusher at the center of the worst U.S. environmental disaster on record. "This is not the end, but it will virtually assure us that th ...
  • Why won’t Team Obama save a clean-energy pro ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Why isn't the Obama team trying harder to save the promising PACE clean-energy model? Mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have essentially quashed Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) programs, which have been launched in local communities around the U.S. to make gre ...
  • Russia struggles against heat wave and spreading w ...
    by Agence France-Presse. MOSCOW -- Russia struggled Thursday to contain the worst wildfires in its modern history. The blazes, which are spreading to the south, have killed 50 people and are raising concerns about radiation levels. With the most severe heat wave in Russia in decades affecting ...

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Washington Independent

  • What Does the Border Security Bill Mean For Compre ...
    Last night, the Senate, by unanimous consent, passed a bill approving $600 million in emergency funding to increase security along the U.S.-Mexico border. After passing the bill, Democrats hinted they hope to see more cooperation with other reform efforts. “I’m for comprehensive immigration reform, ...
  • Senate Leaves for Break, Plans to Take Up Small Bu ...
    Today, President Obama pushed for the Senate to pass the Small Business Jobs and Credit Act — a modestly sized bill that might unlock as much as $300 billion in credit for small companies, which have created two-thirds of jobs in the past decade. The bill is considered the Democrats’ last chance to ...
  • Oil Industry Throws Support Behind Begich Spill Li ...
    The American Petroleum Institute, the powerful oil industry trade group, is throwing its support behind an oil spill liability compromise proposal unveiled today by Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska). Begich is currently working on the compromise language with Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and other oil-state ...
  • RNC Overhauls 2012 Presidential Primary Calendar
    Under the new system, the traditional lead states -- Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada -- will hold contests in February, but not in January.
  • The “Shadow GOP,” Hiding in Plain Sigh ...
    Holly Bailey writes about how, to little fanfare, the 12th floor of a nondescript New York Ave. office complex in Washington D.C . has become “ground zero for what many are referring to as the ’shadow GOP.’” It’s here that four new groups – American Crossroads, Crossroads GPS, American Action Netw ...

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Video – FLUORIDE TRUTH hits the AUSTRALIAN T ...
    TV NEWS show exposes Fluoride for what it is – poison!
  • Argentina Has Colder Winter Than Antartica, Spurri ...
    By Rodrigo Orihuela – Aug 3, 2010 8:45 AM MT Argentina is importing record amounts of energy as the coldest winter in 40 years drives up demand and causes natural-gas shortages, prompting Dow Chemical Co. and steelmaker Siderar SAIC to scale back production. Electricity supplied from Brazil and Para ...
  • The Temperature Decline That Dare Not Speak Its Na ...
    By Paul MacRae Thursday, August 5, 2010 The recent report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows that surface temperatures have increased in the past decade. In fact, the NOAA report, “State of the Climate in 2009,” says 2000-2009 was 0.2° Fahrenheit (0.11° Celsius) warmer than ...
  • Climate Scandals: List Of 94 Climate-Gates
    1. Acceleration of sea level rise-gate Claims of accelerating sea level rise are misleading. 2. African agriculture claim-gate IPCC wrongly claims that in some African countries yields from rain-fed agriculture could be reduced by up to 50 percent by 2020. 3. AIT-gate and British High Court 35 error ...
  • No guns? They must be Terrorists
    By Mark Steel One fact emerging from this process was that the victims, according to “Sgt S” who shot six of them, “were without a doubt terrorists”. And he produced evidence to back this up, which was: “I could see the murderous rage in their eyes”. This matches the classic definition of a terroris ...

Global Insights

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

  • BP’s Getting All Cap-Happy (cartoon)
    If only BP would put all of this new found cap success to work to stop other toxic gushers… Follow Joe on Twitter @GreenCartoons Follow all of his green cartooning at JoeMohrToons.com. Related posts:Monsanto: They Made good WMD’s–I bet They Make Healthy Food! (cartoon) If Climate Change Was ...
  • If Climate Change Was a Dog (cartoon)
    We did know about climate change back in the 50’s, as evidenced by this Frank Capra Video on Global Warming. But even though it was a monster of a dog back then, it was still just a harmless little puppy. Today, well, it’s different. And I don’t know how much I trust the little man controlling [... ...
  • Genetically Modified Truths (cartoon)
    The biotech and agrochemical industries are KILLING us! Well, atleast they are well aware of that and are working hard to clean up their act. Oh wait, now I’m not telling the truth… More relevant info: The Killing Fields of Multi-National Corporations How Toxins Are Making Our Children Chronical ...
  • Fragile Day Song by Wilderland Benefits Gulf BP Oi ...
    The Song Fragile Day by Wilderland is going to benefit the Gulf BP oil spill cleanup efforts. Related posts: NOAA Collecting Seafloor and Water Column BP Oil Spill Data Shell is Busy Today Cleaning up its Mess – 1,400 Barrels in the Gulf BP Oil Spill Gushing 10 Times More Oil Than Official Es ...
  • 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 ...

Inhabitat

  • China Developing Maglev Train That Can Go 1000kph
    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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Lottery Tickets Transformed Into Beautiful Works o ...
    Lottery tickets can make or break dreams, but they can also be transformed into beautiful objects in their own right. Ghost of a Dream, a team of two Rhode Island School of Design Graduates, has created one of the most astounding sets of recycled art that we’ve seen in a long time, using a cheeky [. ...
  • Indian Students Make Bamboo Bus Stop
    Some ambitious students at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, India have constructed this bamboo bus stop for commuters. The structure is intended to demonstrate the structural efficiency of bamboo and raise awareness of it as a strong, versatile building material. We think they did a gre ...

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

  • Enormous Ice Block Breaks Off Greenland Glacier
    A 100-square-mile block of ice 600 feet thick has calved off one of the largest ocean-bordering glaciers in Greenland. The Arctic hasn’t lost a chunk of ice that big since 1962. “In the early morning hours of August 5, an ice island four times the size of Manhattan was born in northern Greenland,” ...
  • Sharpest Image Yet of Massive Galaxy Collision
    These two spiral galaxies have been colliding for over 100 million years. The intergalactic battle has spurred the creation of millions of new stars, the most massive of which have already exploded into supernovae. Three of NASA’s space telescopes have combined forces to create the sharpest image y ...
  • Ritalin in the Water
    One of my blogging policies is to not engage with trolls. I don’t answer their nasty emails or respond to their comments. Life is too short. But every once in a great while, a troll can send me somewhere interesting. And that’s what happened in the dozens of recent comments that referenced the same ...
  • New Technique Finds Buried Bodies Better
    Researchers have unearthed a new way to find a buried body. The sensitive method, published online June 23 in Forensic Science International, detected trace compounds emanating from decomposing rats months after death. If the technique also works for human remains, it may help law enforcement perso ...
  • Moon Water Dreams Evaporate
    The inside of the moon might not be all wet after all. A new study suggests that, contrary to recent work, the lunar interior is as bone-dry as scientists thought 40 years ago, when NASA astronauts lugged home the first moon rocks. New analyses of chlorine in those rocks, published Aug. 5 in Scienc ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Is John McCain an "Apologist" for Terrorism?
    Eric Trager has a thoughtful piece on the Ground Zero Mosque, in which he calls out the stark idiocy of his erstwhile Commentary colleague Jennifer Rubin’s comparison of Cordoba House to a monument at Pearl Harbor to the Japanese Emperor Hirohito, and Newt Gingrich’s suggestion that the U.S. shouldn ...
  • WikiLeaks Aftermath
    In stand-up comedy and politics, timing is critical. There was nothing “funny ha-ha’’ about the recent leak of US documents about the Afghanistan war implicating Pakistan and its Inter-Services Intelligence agency. But there was plenty of what the British call “funny peculiar’’ for sure. The leaks f ...
  • Countering the Conservative Foreign Policy Critiqu ...
    A lot of debate lately on the question of whether conservative foreign policy thinking (and politics) have been taken captive by a wild-eyed form of neoconservatism. The recent round -- which has drawn the most response from conservatives themselves -- was sparked by  Jacob Heilbrunn's piece on the ...
  • Iran Uses Karzai Visit to Show Regional Support
    Residents Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and Emomali Rahman of Tajikistan were in Tehran August 5 to open the “Fourth Meeting of Persian-Speaking Countries” and meet with high-ranking Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. According to Fars news, a ...
  • Are We Subsidizing Outsourcing?
    USAID seems to have a program in India that will “teach workers there advanced IT skills like Enterprise Java (Java EE) programming, as well as skills in business process outsourcing and call center support. USAID will also help the trainees brush up on their English language proficiency.” An outra ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Our Vibrant Economy Clearly Needs ...
    When Matt Yglesias describes the fact that Republicans are rewarded for obstructing good economic policy as "a major breakdown of the logic of the American political system," he's technically right. But to appreciate why it's illogical, one must appreciate the fact that Senate Republicans are using ...
  • The Little Picture: Carville Makes Nice.
    After ripping the Obama administration back in May for it's handling of the BP oil spill, James Carville has now posted commentary on CNN to the effect that "one also must give credit to a much improved and vigorous response to the environmental catastrophe in the Gulf." The White House, for it's ...
  • Child Nutrition and Food Stamps.
    Yesterday, the Senate passed a new childhood nutrition bill that increases spending on food for children, mostly through school lunch, summer- and after-school meal programs and the Women, Infants and Children program by $4.5 billion. This is the plan abput which Michelle Obama wrote an Op-Ed in sup ...
  • Boehner Reads the Tea Leaves in Romer's Resignatio ...
    So John Boehner thinks the announced resignation of Christina Romer , in combination with the latest jobs report , is evidence the Obama administration needs to seriously retool its economic policy: "After another disappointing jobs report and the resignation of one of the chief architects of the t ...
  • A Good Sign for Reid.
    Yesterday, Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell announced he would abide by his chamber's traditions and not campaign against Democratic Leader Harry Reid . Reid, who had earlier seemed like an likely victim of GOP electoral ambitions, has gained steam in recent months, generally leading Tea Par ...

Buzzflash

  • Congressman Anthony Weiner Excoriates GOP on House ...
    CONGRESSMAN ANTHONY WEINER It was a wonder to behold -- call it an Alan Grayson moment because there are so few of them -- a Democratic Congressman actually expressing outrage at Republicans. Congressman Anthony Weiner of New York took to the House floor to denounce the GOP for using parliamentary t ...
  • The Impatient, Disenchanted Electorate
    Body � It’s no secret the electorate is an impatient, fickle lot. In good times when real estate is booming and the stock market is providing mouth-watering returns on investments, it tends to ignore political imperfections. But good times or bad, election-day judgments often just exp ...
  • Cheney Still in Hospital as Doctors Search for His ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH If you’re currently waiting for a new heart Resign yourself to being pissed; You will soon discover that Mister Cheney Is now at the top of that list. �
  • Jonathan Westminster: "The 15% Solution," Serializ ...
    This is the seventh installment of a project that is likely to extend over a two-year-period from January, 2010.� It is the serialization of a book entitled The 15% Solution: A Political History of American Fascism, 2001-2022 .� Under the pseudonym Jonathan Westminster, it is purportedly publis ...
  • The Right Manipulates Muslims – and Boy Scouts
    MICHAEL WINSHIP FOR BUZZFLASH I was never a Boy Scout but I was a helluva Cub Scout.� Pack 30, First Congregational Church. I rose through the ranks: Bobcat, Wolf, Bear, Lion. I accumulated Gold and Silver Arrow Points, the Cubs’ junior varsity version of merit badges. My mom was a Cub Scout den ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • What collapsing empire looks like
    (updated below) As we enter our ninth year of the War in Afghanistan with an escalated force, and continue to occupy Iraq indefinitely, and feed an endlessly growing Surveillance State, reports are emerging of the Deficit Commission hard at work planning how to cut Social Security, Medi ...
  • The alleged political benefits of moderation
    My advocacy against the choice of Elena Kagan to replace Justice Stevens largely ceased once she was selected because, as I always acknowledged , her confirmation would be virtually inevitable if she were chosen.� So uninspiring was Kagan's nomination that one should be forgiven for not having notic ...
  • Salon Radio: Michael Hastings
    Yesterday I wrote about the U.S. military's decision to reverse its approval of Michael Hastings' application to embed with U.S. forces in Afghanistan, clearly in retaliation for the Rolling Stone article he published on�Gen. McChrystal and the failing counter-insurgency strategy.� Hastings is my gu ...
  • Obama's growing unpopularity in the Muslim world
    In June, a Gallup poll revealed a substantial decline in public opinion in the Muslim world toward both the U.S. and�Barack Obama personally, with approval ratings in many key nations collapsing to Bush-era levels. �Now, a new poll from the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution -- in conjunction ...
  • Re-visiting Project Vigilant
    On Monday, I wrote about the expanding private surveillance industry and its relationship with the government, with a focus on something called Project Vigilant as one particularly troubling, illustrative example.  That group's Executive Director, Chet Uter, generated substantial media attention -- ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

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

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • National Priorities Project Tallies Cost of War In ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 5, 2010 National Priorities Project With the passage of a supplemental spending bill last week (H.R. 4899), Congress has appropriated an additional $36.2 billion for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for the 2010 fiscal year. The bulk of this money was directed to Afghani ...
  • FCC Calls Off Closed-Door Meetings Under Public Pr ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 5, 2010 Free Press FCC Chief of Staff Edward Lazarus called off closed-door negotiations with major ISPs and Internet companies on Thursday, pledging "to seek broad input on this vital issue." The announcement comes in the wake of news that Verizon and Google are hat ...
  • Fracking for Natural Gas and Oil May Have Broken t ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 5, 2010 Environmental Working Group (EWG) and EARTHWORKS More than 25 conservation and community organizations from across the United States asked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and a congressional committee to investigate whether natural gas and oil compan ...
  • POGO Supports Senate Bill to Repeal SEC's Blanket ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 5, 2010 Project On Government Oversight (POGO) Today, Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Charles Grassley (R-IA), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Ted Kaufman (D-DE) introduced a bipartisan bill to strike a troubling provision in the newly enacted financial reform legislation that ...
  • Company Claims to Support Open Internet but Remai ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 6, 2010 Free Press Internet giant Google is trying to deflect criticism of an agreement the company is reportedly striking with Verizon that could transform the way the open Internet works. On Thursday, the New York Times reported the deal would allow "Verizon to spe ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • 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
  • Burkas and Bikinis
    by Priyamvada Gopal Reprising a legendary 1985 National Geographic cover, this week's Time magazine cover girl is another beautiful young Afghan woman. But this time there is a gaping hole where her nose used to be before it was cut off under Taliban direction . A stark caption reads: "What Happens ...
  • What Are Teachers Worth?
    by Laura Flanders What are teachers really worth? That's the question, as the Senate puts off a vote on $10 billion for state and local governments to prevent teacher layoffs. Senate leadership wanted the bill to be deficit neutral—a line never applied to war funding, where no spending's too great ...
  • Time Pictures Afghan Women, Obscures Realities of ...
    by Michelle Chen Things aren't looking too bright for the Obama administration in Afghanistan. Media leakage has exposed holes in Washington's military adventures in a self-destructing nation, and the U.S. public has started wising up to the dilemma of an endless and pointless war . read more

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • British doctor feared dead as Afghan ambush kills ...
    Bodies of western medical team and two Afghan interpreters found in Badakhshan province near their bullet-riddled vehicle A female British doctor is feared to be among at least 10 people murdered by gunmen in the far north of Afghanistan on Friday. The group included eight foreigners – one of them a ...
  • England v Pakistan, day two
    Keep Simon company by emailing him at andy.bull@guardian.co.uk . You can also follow proceedings on the sly with our desktop scoreboard WICKET! Trott 55 c sub (Hameed) b Amin (England 177-3) Well I'll be damned. Pakistan have held onto one. They had to bring on a sub fielder to do it. Umar Amin came ...
  • Fires put Moscow under pall
    Landmarks reduced to outlines in thick pollution and visibility down to 50 metres in some areas In pictures: Wildfires burn as capital enveloped in smog A thick acrid smog enveloped Moscow today as scores of fires blazed and peat bogs smouldered outside the city. Emergency officials said they were ...
  • Swazi minister quits over royal affair
    Justice secretary Ndumiso Mamba faces expulsion from African state after claims he slept with 12th wife of King Mswati III A government minister in Swaziland has resigned amid rumours that he had an affair with one of the 14 wives of King Mswati III. Ndumiso Mamba, the justice minister and childhood ...
  • BP hints of return to stricken well
    Company's statement it may not give up all claims on Macondo well escalates ongoing struggle with White House A struggle between BP and the Obama administration over the future of the cemented well in the Gulf of Mexico erupted in public today when the oil company suggested it may drill in the same ...

McClatchey

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

  • Former Bishop Deconstructs Some Chaplains’ C ...
    Conservative groups argue that repealing the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) policy would silence military chaplains and undermine their constitutionally-guaranteed right to freedom of religion. âIf chaplains are forced to council same sex couples or are limited in the moral teachings that ...
  • Are Some States Unequipped To Review ‘Unreas ...
    The Los Angeles Times’ Noam Levey has an interesting article this morning examining just how powerless some state regulators are when it comes to controlling out of control health insurance premiums. Under the new health care law, these regulators are tasked with reviewing premiums and denying “unre ...
  • Republicans Mindlessly Obstruct Federal Reserve Bo ...
    s Will Tomasko pointed out, last night Senate Republicans “bolt[ed] town en masse” without taking care of a series of judicial nominations, which due to the intricacies of Senate procedure will now have to be resubmitted in September, as any nominations that aren’t acted on before a long recess get ...
  • Architects Of SB-1070 Looking At Challenging Histo ...
    Earlier this week, state Sen. Russell Pearce (R-AZ), the sponsor of Arizona’s newest immigration law, stated that he plans on introducing legislation that would require undocumented immigrant parents to pay tuition in order for their children to attend public schools in Arizona. However, Pearce’s p ...
  • Global Boiling Fuels Disasters In Nuclear Nations
    Fueled by the buildup of fossil fuel pollution, the world’s out-of-control climate is destabilizing many of the nations that control nuclear weapons, including Russia, China, North Korea, India, and Pakistan. Thousands have died in fires and floods, millions left homeless, and crops failed in the wi ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Miley Cyrus
    Okay. Full disclosure. I'm 43 or 44 (can't remember at the moment) and I never heard Billy Ray Cyrus's "Achy-Brakey Heart." (I never heard "The Macarena" either. What can I say?) For what it's worth, I was also under the impression that Billy Ray Cyrus got ripped-off by his record company and then b ...
  • Running a country into the ground
    The absolutely stupid harpercon decision to blow $9,000,000,000.00 on new prisons (ostensibly to jail those convicted of the unreported crimes our useless and intrusive national statistics agency said rose by three percentage points in 2004), joined with the $1,200,000,000.00 wasted on the G8 & G20 ...
  • What's the Point of Blogging?
    Or discussion boards? Or writing letters to newspapers and magazines? Or writing your own zines? Or attending protests? I guess the real practical value of these things is the creation of a culture of dissent. I think it's been very important for progressives, to know that they're not alone in the ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Abundance And Scarcity In Privacy
    As you know, we talk an awful lot about understanding abundance and scarcity around here, and how that's really important if you want to understand what the future holds for a variety of different businesses. Failing to understand abundance and scarcity is a recipe for disaster these days. And the ...
  • Making A High Quality Film On The Cheap With A Dig ...
    A few years back at a Cato Institute conference on copyright, a guy from NBC Universal challenged me with the question of "how will we make $200 million movies?" if content is freely shared. As I noted at the time, that's really the wrong question . No one watching a movie cares about how much the ...
  • Pentagon Takes Head In Sand Approach To Wikileaks: ...
    The Pentagon's laughably inept response to Wikileaks just keeps getting more and more ridiculous. The latest is that all military personnel are barred from going to Wikileaks and downloading material . Apparently, the military has actually put in place ridiculously crude filters that will block ac ...
  • The History Of Haystack... And Why Online Censorsh ...
    Over the years, it's been fascinating to watch the battle over internet censorship, monitors and filters, along with the equally rapid attempts to get around all of those things via technology. Many folks are familiar with anonymous proxies, like Tor, which do help provide anonymity, but can still ...
  • Appeals Court Rules Against Long Term Warrantless ...
    For years, we've been discussing the "Pandora's box" of privacy and 4th Amendment questions about law enforcement using secretly installed GPS devices to track suspects. For more than five years, we've been wondering when the Supreme Court would finally weigh in on the issue. There have been plent ...

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

  • Where are the Men Do-Gooders?
    I signed up to be a literacy tutor with an organization here in DC.  The program requires a half day training class.  Looking around at the other trainees, I noticed a huge gender imbalance.  Sure enough, the trainer soon confirmed that, while 55% of the learners are male, only 22% of the tutors are ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Hello people.  Did you miss me?  I missed you.  I think I have finally gotten things under control now.  I’m going to have to cut my posts to two a week, instead of three, in order to make time for my literacy tutoring.  But I should be able to get back on a regular schedule.  [...]
  • Drug War Ping Pong
    Lately, I’ve seen several articles holding up Colombia as some kind of model for how to deal with drug war violence.   The latest one is this piece in Foreign Affairs in which Robert Bonner claims that Mexico should follow Colombia’s example. Really people?  Colombia? Colombia is ranked number 13 ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Controversial and Disturbing Oil Spill Editorial i ...
    Photo: Vogue Italia, courtesy of My Sister's Art When green jewelry designer Kathleen Nowak Tucci of My Sister's Art contacted us with the news that her recycled rubber jewelry made the cover of Vogue Italia I was thrilled; I'd seen her dramatic necklaces featured in Ecouterre and I am always h ...
  • New Belgium Gets Top Honors on List of Greenest Br ...
    Image Credit: New Belgium Brewery This week, Greenopia released its updated green rankings of the world's 15 largest breweries. Judged on the growing practices of the barley, malt and hops it uses, transportation, production efficiency and packaging of its beer, New Belgium came out on top, wit ...
  • A New Guzzler Made of Glass and Grass by Bamboo Bo ...
    All pix: Bamboo Bootle Company Is this what people have been clamoring for? A refillable glass bottle, protected by a sheath of fast growing, renewable bamboo. When the scare over Bisphenol-A (BPA) in our drinking bottles was in full flight, folk were ditching their Nalgene BPA laden polyca ...
  • "No Excuses" for Truck Blindspots: New Campaign to ...
    Since this image is from Transport for London all those bikes really are in the driver's blind spot, the driver sitting on the right side of the vehicle. In the US and other countries where the driver sits on the left, the blind spot would be on the opposite side of the vehicle. We already know ...
  • Changes in Ocean Oxygen Levels Mean Coastal Creatu ...
    Photo by nukeit1 In normal conditions, marine animals are well equipped to fight off infection from the plethora of bacteria and viruses lurking in the oceans. However, that means having a hearty immune system that can react quickly if they get hurt. Researcher are finding that areas with low o ...

Biosingularity

  • Multiple personal genomes await
    Genomic data will soon become a commodity; the next challenge — linking human genetic variation with physiology and disease — will be as great as the one genomicists faced a decade ago, says J. Craig Venter. via Multiple personal genomes await : Article : Nature.
  • Low Vitamin D Level Tied to Cognitive Decline
    Two new studies add to evidence that older people with low levels of vitamin D may be more likely to suffer from cognitive impairment. The hope is that vitamin D supplements may be able to slow mental decline — an intervention that one research team plans to put to the test this summer. Vitamin D [. ...
  • Essentials of Genetics | Learn Science at Scitable
    Why does a commercial dairy cow produce four times as much milk as most other mammals? Why do we look like our cousins? Why do roses come in so many different colors? The answers to these and other questions about the diversity of living things involve processes that occur at the level of genes. Ess ...
  • Seeing a Bionic Eye on Medicine’s Horizon
    Television’s Six Million Dollar Man foresaw a future when man and machine would become one. New research at Tel Aviv University is making this futuristic “vision” of bionics a reality. Prof. Yael Hanein of Tel Aviv University’s School of Electrical Engineering has foundational research that may give ...
  • Addicted to Fat: Overeating May Alter the Brain as ...
    Like many people, rats are happy to gorge themselves on tasty, high-fat treats. Bacon, sausage, chocolate and even cheesecake quickly became favorites of laboratory rats that recently were given access to these human indulgences—so much so that the animals came to depend on high quantities to feel g ...

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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

  • Junk Food-Addicted Eats Chose to Starve Themselves ...
    A diet including unlimited amounts of junk food can cause rats to become so addicted to the unhealthy diet that they will starve themselves rather than go back to eating healthy food, researchers have discovered. Click here to read this article
  • Planet Hiroshima 2010
    When the first atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, two-year-old Sadako Sasaki was at home with her family. Unlike tens of thousands of others, she was fortunate enough to survive the immediate blast of the 15-kiloton Uranium-235 bomb. Click here to read this article
  • Outrage of the Week: Obama Gang Letting the Mortga ...
    Mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have essentially quashed Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) programs, which have been launched in local communities around the U.S. to make green improvements more affordable to homeowners. The Obama administration has taken modest measures to help out, ...
  • Smart City Governments Grow Produce for the People
    There's a new breed of urban agriculture germinating throughout the country, one whose seeds come from an unlikely source. Click here to read this article
  • Determining Dangers of DEET
    DEET may be safe to spray on your skin, but not to swallow in drinking water. Click here to read this article

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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

  • 70 links about life in America
    Not much to add to the Koua Fong Lee story this morning other than a snark-free mention from Opinuendo, MPR and Jeralyn’s reaction. (You can read about it at the Washington Post et al, but they’re just running wire stories.) Emily Gurnon has more about Gaertner’s attempt at saving face: On Thursday ...
  • Koua Fong Lee is free
    Susan Gaertner’s office offered Koua Fong Lee his immediate release this morning in exchange for Lee dropping his appeal. Lee said no, and a few hours later was set free by the judge. Star Tribune: “I respect the judge, and I respect her ruling, and I believe it is time to bring this very tragic [.. ...
  • Maybe if we let them gay marry their first cousins ...
    I’m sorry I didn’t do a second post yesterday. There were lots of heads up that Prop 8 reversal was coming, but they’re a bit stale today. Now the focus is on the ruling itself, and some are saying that Judge Walker has boxed the Supreme Borks into a corner with his meticulous attention to [...]
  • 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 ...

Public News Service

  • Life Likely Saved by Arizona Arts AED Program
    Life Likely Saved by Arizona Arts AED Program Phoenix, AZ – A program to provide life-saving machines for Arizona arts facilities is already paying dividends. Phoenix Theatre staff were able to use one of the automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) to stabilize a man in distress until help arrived. ...
  • Arizona Babies Now Come With Instructions
    Arizona Babies Now Come With Instructions Phoenix, AZ – A program providing parents of Arizona newborns with “resources, information and practical parenting advice” has expanded statewide. Arizona Parent Kits are now available at every maternity hospital in the state. Comments from Rhian (RHEE-in) E ...
  • Guide Demystifies Issues in Corp Comm Races
    Guide Demystifies Issues in Corp Comm Races Phoenix, AZ – An Arizona watchdog group has compiled a non-partisan guide to the issues facing the Arizona Corporation Commission in coming years. The hope is that the guide will help voters make their decisions in the coming primary and general elections. ...
  • Oil Spills Aren’t Confined to the Gulf
    Oil Spills Aren’t Confined to the Gulf Phoenix, AZ – Every decade, over 300 million oil spills occur on land. It’s oil leaking from a car or spilled when oil is changed ... and that oil quickly finds its way to underground water supplies. Comments from environmental compliance consultant Becky W ...
  • Report: Suicide Rates Climb for Middle-Aged Men
    Report: Suicide Rates Climb for Middle-Aged Men Phoenix, AZ – A recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that suicide rates have jumped for people in middle age (45-54), and the rates for men are higher than for women. And Arizona's suicide rate is much worse than ...

My Care2 Picks

  • When Agrochemical Corporations Invented Nature
    Patent in 2002, a method claimed by Plant Bioscience for increasing a specific compound in broccoli through conventional breeding methods.Patents amount to an attempt to expropriate natural biodiversity for the benefit of a handful of corporations Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �| ...
  • Wildfires Could Spread to Region irradiated by Che ...
    The Russian Emergencies Minister is warning of possible radiation risks, as wildfires approach closer to the area affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • New Way to Boost Vaccines
    Richard P. Phipps, Ph.D., found that the same molecules used in drugs that treat diabetes also stimulate B cells in the immune system, pushing them to make antibodies for protection against invading microorganisms. * Significant reseach in positive ways. Submitted by Kit B. to Health & Wellness �|� ...
  • GM crop escapes into the American wild
    A genetically modified (GM) crop has been found thriving in the wild for the first time in the United States. Submitted by IVO M. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • GASOLINE FROM THIN AIR?
    An agricultural enzyme can convert carbon monoxide into propane. The organism that produces the enzyme is usually found in the soil around the roots of nitrogen-fixing plants.The enzyme could eventually turn carbon dioxide into gasoline. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �| ...

Angry Indian News

  • Liberal television host Rachel Maddow solidarizes ...
    Liberal television host Rachel Maddow solidarizes herself with US military in Afghanistan[wsws.org] The visit by MSNBC news program host Rachel Maddow to Afghanistan in early July was as revealing as... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Haitians should think twice before backing Wyclef
    Haitians should think twice before backing Wyclef: [thegrio.com] "Amidst the plethora of articles that have come out related to Wyclef's fitness or unfitness for presidency of Haiti is the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Is it time for the Indian Act to go? | Wawatay Onl ...
    Is it time for the Indian Act to go? | Wawatay Online: "Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Shawn Atleo made headline news when he suggested it was time to get rid of the Indian Act.During... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Investigators: 'Serial Stabber' Targeting Black Me ...
    Investigators: 'Serial Stabber' Targeting Black Men - News Story - WNEM SaginawGENESEE COUNTY, Mich. -- Police are warning the public to be on the lookout for a serial stabber.Driving the streets of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Senate fails to OK funds for years-old settlement ...
    Senate fails to OK funds for years-old settlement with minority farmers - CNN.com: "Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. Senate failed Thursday to approve nearly $5 billion for a settlement between the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • The BP Oil gusher was only the “crisis” used to sh ...
    The PPJ Gazette                                     Live Link: OPEN SECRETS.Org Clients lobbying on H.R.3534 61 unique organization(s) has/have registered to lobby on this bill. Click on a client’s name to view all the bills on which they reported lobbying. Click on the number of reports to view all ...
  • The ClEAR ACT: They are stealing it all: Land, wat ...
     Marti Oakley (c)copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved The PPJ Gazette Another assault on the American public is under way; this one will enlarge and increase the power of the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management to such a degree that none of us will be safe from these corrupted ...
  • Could Genetically Modified Crops be causing E-Coli ...
    It is possible that a mutated form of e-coli resulting from the cloning process used in creating GMOs could get into the gut of a person or animal that eats a transgenic plant.
  • Declare your Independence with Ernest Hancock and ...
    Join me on Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock, founder and publisher of Freedom's Phoenix, when we discuss: Are you being fluoridated against your will?
  • 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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Senate confirms Elena Kagan as Supreme Court justi ...
    ShareThis Senate confirms Elena Kagan as Supreme Court justice 05 Aug 2010 The Senate has confirmed Elena Kagan as the 112th justice and fourth woman to serve on the Supreme Court. The vote was 63-37 for President Barack Obama's nominee to succeed retired Justice John Paul Stevens. Five Republicans ...
  • Gulf disaster largest oil spill ever
    ShareThis Gulf disaster largest oil spill ever --In all the group estimates 206 million gallons of oil, 4.9 million barrels, gushed into the Gulf . By Tom Eley 04 Aug 2010 The BP Gulf disaster is the worst ocean oil spill in world history, according to new data compiled by a team of government-spons ...
  • Pentagon demands WikiLeaks 'hand over' all classif ...
    ShareThis Pentagon Demands WikiLeaks Site Return Classified U.S. Military Documents 05 Aug 2010 The U.S. Defense Department demanded that WikiLeaks return all classified military documents leaked to them and purge all copies from their records. "We want whatever they have returned to us and we want ...
  • US charges 14 over links to Somalia's al-Shabab
    ShareThis US charges 14 over links to Somalia's al-Shabab 05 Aug 2010 US officials have charged 14 people with providing money, personnel and services to the Somali militant group al-Shabab. The charges stem from four separate indictments in the US states of Minnesota, Alabama and California. On Wed ...
  • Pentagon bars staff from visiting WikiLeaks site
    ShareThis Pentagon bars staff from visiting WikiLeaks site 05 Aug 2010 The U.S. military is banning personnel from visiting the WikiLeaks website, which recently released more than 70,000 classified diplomatic and military messages on the long war in Afghanistan. "[Department of the Navy] personnel ...

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

  • Mezvinsky’s choice (and the existential thre ...
    Israelis are angry about the Chelsea wedding.They didn't like the mingling of Jewish and non-Jewish ritual, they're fearful about assimilation and the future of the Jewish people. The thought didn't occur to them that he wanted a bigger pool than his own small tribe, and maybe he fell in love? Haare ...
  • Islamoflubbia
    As we say in my religion, What goes around comes around. --Fareed Zakaria returns $10,000 and a plaque and an award to the ADL after its bigoted response to the mosque in Manhattan. --Israel subjects Donna Shalala, former Education Secretary, now a university president, to two-and-a-half hours deten ...
  • Is it leftwing to fear that Palestinians will get ...
    At The American Prospect, Gershom Gorenberg states that the Sheikh Jarrah protests have stopped the evictions for now, and thereby revivified "the Israeli left." Good news. (h/t Richard Witty) Now the quibbles.I believe that Gorenberg is attached to that leftwing label out of some Vietnam-era pride, ...
  • Virginia Tilley on fuzzy borders
    John Haines responded to Weiss's post the other day on the Lebanese border incident ("That Tree Was In Israeli Territory") with this statement: Israel insists the fence is not the exact border. But as Israel has no official border, this claim would seem to be a(nother) red herring. Anyway, Israel ...
  • Tony Judt passes
    We've heard that Tony Judt died today, the historian and writer/speaker, after a long illness, ALS. A giant, is all I can think right now, someone of tremendous intellectual confidence who followed such a worldly and erudite path that when the Israel/Palestine issue came front and center in politica ...

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

  • Controversial and Disturbing Oil Spill Editorial i ...
    Photo: Vogue Italia, courtesy of My Sister's Art When green jewelry designer Kathleen Nowak Tucci of My Sister's Art contacted us with the news that her recycled rubber jewelry made the cover of Vogue Italia I was thrilled; I'd seen her dramatic necklaces featured in Ecouterre and I am always h ...
  • New Belgium Gets Top Honors on List of Greenest Br ...
    Image Credit: New Belgium Brewery This week, Greenopia released its updated green rankings of the world's 15 largest breweries. Judged on the growing practices of the barley, malt and hops it uses, transportation, production efficiency and packaging of its beer, New Belgium came out on top, wit ...
  • A New Guzzler Made of Glass and Grass by Bamboo Bo ...
    All pix: Bamboo Bootle Company Is this what people have been clamoring for? A refillable glass bottle, protected by a sheath of fast growing, renewable bamboo. When the scare over Bisphenol-A (BPA) in our drinking bottles was in full flight, folk were ditching their Nalgene BPA laden polyca ...
  • "No Excuses" for Truck Blindspots: New Campaign to ...
    Since this image is from Transport for London all those bikes really are in the driver's blind spot, the driver sitting on the right side of the vehicle. In the US and other countries where the driver sits on the left, the blind spot would be on the opposite side of the vehicle. We already know ...
  • Changes in Ocean Oxygen Levels Mean Coastal Creatu ...
    Photo by nukeit1 In normal conditions, marine animals are well equipped to fight off infection from the plethora of bacteria and viruses lurking in the oceans. However, that means having a hearty immune system that can react quickly if they get hurt. Researcher are finding that areas with low o ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • New York City subway plot suspect pleads not guilt ...
    [JURIST] Suspected terrorist Adis Medunjanin [JURIST news archive] pleaded not guilty Friday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York [official website] to charges of participating in a plot to detonate a bomb inside the New York City Subway. In January, Medunjanin pleaded not g ...
  • Florida AG responds to motion to dismiss health ca ...
    [JURIST] Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum [official website] on Friday filed a response [text, PDF; press release] urging a federal court not to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the newly enacted health care reform law [HR 3590 text; JURIST news archive]. The lawsuit was ...
  • Ex-Khmer Rouge leader hires new counsel ahead of a ...
    [JURIST] Former Khmer Rouge [BBC backgrounder] official Kaing Guek Eav [case materials; JURIST news archive], also known as "Duch," has hired Cambodian lawyer Kang Ritheary to replace his previous lawyer, according to documents [text, PDF] released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cam ...
  • Failure of European Muslims to integrate fuels ter ...
    [JURIST] The US State Department [official website] warned Thursday that the alienation of European Muslim communities through various laws and policies could fuel recruitment for terror groups. The Country Reports on Terrorism 2009 [text], an annual report the State Department is required to publis ...
  • CIA removed terror suspects from Guantanamo to avo ...
    [JURIST] The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] transferred several high-profile prisoners to Guantanamo Bay to await trial in 2003, only to transfer them back into the CIA's network of secret prisons [JURIST news archives] so they would not be entitled to lawyers and access to US ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Jeff Goldberg Interviews Hitchens
    "As a Jewish hypochondriac, I have access to a lot of medical minds," Jeffrey Goldberg tells Hitch. Among the questions: does Hitchens mind those who pray for him? Special guest appearance by Martin Amis. Jeffrey Goldberg - Christopher Hitchens - Judais ...
  • A Tale Of Two Tea Parties
    This blog loves to debate this question: just what the heck IS the Tea Party? Chris Good has been covering it closely and has some thoughts here , although I think he misreads Dave Weigel just a bit.: Obama and his policies are very much an animating impulse behind the movement. The best explanatio ...
  • Secret Units, Open Job Postings
    The Joint Special Operations Command, which runs the military's special missions units (SMUs), officially does nothing of the sort . Virtually anyone who knows anything about the military knows that JSOC -- pronounced "J-SOCK" -- is where the units known in popular culture as "Delta Force" and "SE ...
  • Our New Twitter Account
    The Politics Channel now has its own curated Twitter feed, @theatlanticpol . Sign on for short, crisp insights and analytical nuggets, 24/7.� (It won't be an RSS feed of all the items here -- you can subscribe here .) 140 word insights from James Fallows, Joshua Green, Chris Good and more... ...
  • Romer Wasn't Pushed and Didn't Jump
    It wasn't supposed to drop this way. A few weeks ago, Christina Romer notified her colleagues that she intended to resign her post as chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. She felt she had served the president the best she could, was frustrated by the sluggish economy, and missed ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Coming Soon to Shabak Dungeons
    The profile of Tikun Olam published yesterday: Ha-Ir Tel Aviv Magazine â Issue 1557, 6 August 2010 p. 42 Translated by Dena Shunra of http://hebrew.shunra.net/ Coming Soon to Shabakâs Dungeons The blog published by Richard Silverstein â an American Jew from Seattle â is one of the few places ...
  • Israeli Rightist Cyber-Vandals Take Down New Israe ...
    It appears that DoS attacks are a new weapon of choice by the Israeli far-right in its ongoing war against Israeli peace activists and human rights NGOs.  Today, the New Israel Fund announced that a new campaign it announced on behalf of free speech and Israeli democracy, Lo Nistom (“We won’t shut ...
  • Newsweek’s Zacharia Returns ADL Award, Rendering F ...
    In the realm of the impossible is the following statement from Abe Foxman upon learning that Fareed Zacharia, noted Newsweek columnist and Muslim-American, would be returning an ADL award and honorarium in protest of the ADL’s position opposing the Cordoba House Muslim Cultural Center near Ground Ze ...
  • Links for 2010-06-05 [Digg]
    MV Rachel Corrie Forcibly Seized by Israeli Navy, Towed to A Malaysian NGO funding Rachel Corrie trip to Gaza reports she was seized a few mintues ago by Israeli navy and is being towed to Ashdod.
  • Israel Humiliates U.S. University President Visiti ...
    This is the type of Alice in Wonderland universe in which Israel currently exists.  Donna Shalala, former Health and Human Services secretary under Bill Clinton and currently president of the University of Miami, participated in an American Jewish Congress anti-BDS dog and pony show in Israel recen ...

Ode Magazine

  • Finding peace
    By: PeaceCorso Anton Chekov is one of the most dour of all playwrights. His plays have stock characters. He is a Russian living at a time of great need. His plays reflect that. Imagine my surprise when I came across this quote: “We shall find peace. We s ...
  • 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 ...
  • Taking a magnifying glass to our everyday stuff
    By: VictoriaKlein “This is a story about a world obsessed with stuff. It’s a story about a system in crisis. We’re trashing the planet, we’re trashing each other, and we’re not even having fun. The good thing is that when we start to understand the system, ...

OpEd News

  • Are the Democrats as bad as the Republicans? Shoul ...
    Common sense thoughts about how progressives should deal with evil Republicans, mixed Dems, and a mysteriously wimpy President Obama.
  • Learning About Reality From Fiction: "The Girl Wit ...
    Who owns the news? Who controls the news? What is the importance of independent media in a world where giant monoliths and monopolies have become the norm? And, most important, what is the relationship between news, in a free and open society and democracy?
  • October Surprise Cover-up Unravels
    It should come as no surprise that "respectability" and "honors" donapos;t necessarily go to people who stand up for the truth or for rationality. Indeed, itapos;s almost always the opposite; they are bestowed on people who go with the flow and get along.
  • Americaapos;s "Dog in the Fight"
    Americaapos;s "Dog in the Fight" Will Hezbollah leash "NABI"?
  • Whatapos;s Next After Kaganapos;s Confirmation?
    The Constitution-makers emphasized the duties of the Senate and House, and the vital congressional role in checks and balances. Kagan, 50, a close friend of President Obama and a former top aide to President Clinton, suggests through her writings and other actions that sheapos;s comfortable with th ...

Switchboard

  • The Takeaway from the Fourth BASIC Countries' Meet ...
    India and other key emerging powers met in Brazil last week to discuss a joint strategy for climate change treaty negotiations.  The group of Brazil, South Africa, India and China were key players in negotiating the very practical Copenhagen Accord with the U.S. in December. Now it app ...
  • Gulf Coast Disaster - Friday, August 6
    Day 109 Highlights in this issue: - BP readies for final kill - Suttles returns to old job - BP replacing US media head - Drilling companies ready to return to Gulf - BP may drill again in reservoir under oil spill - BP well partners see upturn in their fortunes - James Carville prai ...
  • To 2040 and Beyond: A Burnham Plan for the 21st Ce ...
    As every native Chicagoan learns in elementary school social studies, over 100 years ago Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett crafted a plan to make Chicago a global city for the 20th century, through a series of integrated infrastructure projects.  Around the same time, in response to th ...
  • The beautiful game brings dignity to the streets
    I now find myself intrigued and even inspired by a type of street soccer.  It first came to my attention via a small local newspaper produced on behalf of and sold by DC's homeless population called Street Sense .  Maybe other cities have something similar.  I love it.  The idea is to ...
  • China Environmental News Alert
    NRDC has been working in China for over twelve years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental governance and public participation, and green supply chain issues. This China Environmental News Alert is a weekly compilation of news fr ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Marriage Is A Sacred Institution Consisting Of One ...
    Serial non-monogamist Newt Gingrich shares some pompous thoughts about how teh gays and their Ed Meese-approved radical allies in the federal courts are destroying the Sacred Institution of Marriage, but leaves comments open.   Hilarity ensues. Related posts:Gay marriage, divorce, hypocrisy You ...
  • Lessons About Globalism From Phuket
    Current Intelligence has published some ruminations of mine from my trip to Phuket last month. Lead paragraph follows: Though I definitely passed through customs and back, itâs hard to know whether I traveled to a country called Thailand these past two weeks or whether I was actually just in one o ...
  • The Kennedy Question
    I outline some reasons to be skeptical about whether Kennedy would be willing to cast a fifth vote to hold bans on same-sex marriage unconstitutional here. At a minimum, there’s no reason to simply assume that “[t]here are 5 votes for a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.” The typically ...
  • The Audacity of Dopes
    Obviously, Krugman versus Paul Ryan isn’t a fair fight, but this is nonetheless quite satisfying. Related posts:Krugman Wins Nobel Gaping in Dumbfounded Awe at the Audacity… On Krugman Related posts: Krugman Wins Nobel Gaping in Dumbfounded Awe at the Audacity… On Krugman
  • 63-37
    Kagan confirmed. I hope she will prove to be a successful appointment. Related posts:Is Kagan the Democratic Roberts? One More Kagan Point The “Paper Trail” Myth Related posts: Is Kagan the Democratic Roberts? One More Kagan Point The “Paper Trail” Myth

Desert Research Institute

  • Dr. Henry Sun: Looking for Life on Mars
    The Viking landers found strange evidence that suggested the presence of life on Mars (later disproven). A new study about life's preference for left- or right-handedness could help scientists design better versions of the Viking life tests.
  • DRI Assists with West Point Cadet Training
    Dr. Eric McDonald his group of DRI scientists have partnered with West Point to develop a curriculum to teach cadets how to take soil samples and measurements with different geotechnical equipment, as well as manage large data sets.
  • DRI Researcher Named to National Committee
    Duane Moser, Ph.D., has been elected to the Executive Committee for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory Research Association (DuRA).
  • Scientists Use Tahoe Work to Protect Guatemalan La ...
    A team of scientists including DRI's Dr. Alan Heyvaert have been working at Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan to find solutions to algae blooms that have assailed the ecosystem and the locals' drinking water.
  • Kendrick Taylor Named Chief Scientist for Antarcti ...
    The National Science Foundation has again selected DRI's Kendrick Taylor, Ph.D. to be chief scientist for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core Project, a crucial step in defining the influence of changes in greenhouse gases on climate.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Health care battle heats up
    The battle over health care reform will continue this fall, with three key challenges under way in the federal courts and several states considering ways to block the new law.
  • For Chamber, legal, lobbying fights multiply
    Two years into the Obama administration and heading into a high-stakes midterm election, the Chamber is in the midst of a multifront war. The business lobby is battling over the legislative response to the BP oil spill, energy and environmental regulation, immigration and the next stages of the heal ...
  • 'Curious' call puts the FTC in hot seat
    The FTC's alleged effort to push two private businesses into a deal has become the centerpiece of rare battle in Washington's federal court with at least one judge questioning the agency's credibility.
  • Nonjudge barrier broken, but at what cost to futur ...
    Elena Kagan shattered at least one truism of the modern U.S. Supreme Court confirmation process: that a successful nominee must have prior experience as a federal appellate judge. But Republican senators made clear they will be skeptical of similar nominees in the future — or, at least, that the lac ...
  • Suits trickle in over Kalamazoo River oil spill
    The Gulf of Mexico isn't the only magnet for oil spill lawsuits these days. Similar litigation is also starting to surface in Michigan, where a ruptured pipeline recently dumped nearly 1 million gallons along a 25-mile stretch of the Kalamazoo River, about 100 miles west of Detroit.

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

  • Scientists Find First Evidence Of GM Crops Reprodu ...
    Scientists conducting research in North Dakota have found the first evidence of established populations of genetically modified crops in the wild . After testing and photographing 406 canola plants found along more than 3,300 miles of roads, the researchers discovered evidence of transgenic plants i ...
  • Tiny Fish Adapts to Cooler Water Within Three Year ...
    Canadian researchers say their research shows tiny stickleback fish were able to develop tolerance for water significantly cooler than their ancestors within three years, a rapid adaptation that suggests evolution may help species survive the effects of climate change. By transplanting a species of ...
  • As Many as 80 Percent of Planet’s Marine Species S ...
    A 10-year inventory of marine life estimates that 60 to 80 percent of species in the world’s oceans remain undiscovered . Using information collected over centuries and new research in 25 biologically representative marine regions, the international Census of Marine Life documents an average of 10,0 ...
  • Restored Forests Capture More CO2 Than Timber Plan ...
    Restoring damaged rainforest is a more effective way of capturing carbon than cultivating industrial, single-species tree plantations , according to a new study. After testing three types of plantations in northeastern Australia — monoculture plantations of native conifers, mixed plantations, and re ...
  • Are Cell Phones Safe? The Verdict is Still Out
    While some studies have suggested that frequent use of cell phones causes increased risk of brain and mouth cancers, others have found no such links. But since cell phones are relatively new and brain cancers grow slowly, many experts are now recommending taking steps to reduce exposure. BY BRUCE ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

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

  • Lunar Probes on a shoestring/Aqua-Net = Pre-Atlant ...
    While NASA is in the throes of budgetary Purgatory, they did manage to come up with an unique, inexpensive way to put a couple of probes that have finished their primary mission into Lunar orbit to do some extra science: A pair of Earth-orbiting satellites designed to study the auroras are making a ...
  • 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 ...

Tippers News

  • When Agrochemical Corporations Invented Nature?!
    "..All these patents are the backbone of a strategy for taking over global control on all levels of food production"..."Under such circumstances, the likes of Monsanto and others in the industry can claim they have actually invented natural diversity..." Submitted by Jorge Eduardo F Becerril Cardena ...
  • Is India Really a Country?
    India's tryst with internal conflict gives many neutral observers the opinion that she is in the state of constant civil war. Perhaps the reasons for this continued conflict is that India is not a country in the traditional sense. Submitted by Vikram Chhabra to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Commen ...
  • The week in wildlife
    From abandoned baby flamingos dying on a Bolivian salt plane, to a cautious optimism in Louisiana after BP capped the Deepwater Horizon leak, here's this week's pick of wildlife snaps from around the globe Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Earth Picture Galleries
    Animal pictures of the week: 6 August 2010 Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • A Week in the Life of PETA's Cruelty Investigation ...
    On an average day, PETA's Cruelty Investigations Department (CID) receives dozens of phone calls from caring individuals reporting cases of animal abuse. When an animal is in trouble, our caseworkers fly into action. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Obama Economic Adviser to Leave Post
    “Christina Romer, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, has resigned her post to return to her old job as an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, the White House said Thursdayâ¦. Romer was instrumental in crafting the $862 billion economic stimulus packa ...
  • Government Says Medicare’s Life Extended
    “Medicare’s finances have been strengthened by the new law setting in motion broad changes to the nation’s health-care system, according to a government forecast issued Thursday, which says the fund that pays for older Americans’ hospital care will last a dozen years longer than expected.” (Washingt ...
  • Austrian Exploitation Theory
    Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk famously refuted the Marxian theory that the employer-employee relationship is intrinsically exploitative. Less well known is that he had an exploitation theory of his own.
  • Racism and Libertarianism
    At FreedomFest last month I spoke on racism and libertarianism. My remarks can be downloaded here.
  • $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 ...

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

  • Senate votes down measure to raid Katrina recovery ...
    Two weeks ago Facing South reported on a measure moving through Congress that would have taken $400 million from Louisiana's Road Home program to fund a spending that included $304 million for BP disaster response. The proposal was swiftly met with howls of outrage from Gulf residents, who arg ...
  • Duke Energy cancels controversial plans to build n ...
    Duke Energy announced this week that it would move the planned location of an electrical substation it's building out of the direct view of the sacred Cherokee site of Kituwah in western North Carolina. The decision comes after protests from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians , who consider Kituw ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: As temperatures rise, Senate wilt ...
    Rank of 2010 among the warmest years on record worldwide: 1 Year in which record-keeping began: 1880 Number of nations that have set all-time high temperature records so far in 2010: 9 Percent by which high-temperature records have exceeded low-temperature records in the U.S. over ...
  • Immigrant rights activists defend 14th Amendment
    By Deirdre Ruscitti, New America Media The debate over illegal immigration has moved to a new territory: the U.S. Constitution. Under the 14th Amendment, U.S. citizenship is granted automatically to nearly everyone born in the United States, including the children of undocumented immigrants. ( ...
  • Gulf Dead Zone shows potential long-term impact of ...
    Over the last week, a curious media spin on the BP spill has taken hold which suggests the impact of the disaster is been more hype than reality. It started with conservative bloggers, and soon rippled into Time , The Wall Street Journal and other major media, who now suggest it's a " disaster that ...

Survival International

  • Colombian indigenous leader shot dead by hitman
    Wayúu woman, la Guajira. © Alejandra Quintero Sinisterra A Colombian indigenous leader has been shot dead outside his family home in the Colombian city of Riohacha, in the northern province of la Guajira. Luis Alfredo Socarrás Pimienta of the Wayúu tribe was allegedly shot by a paramilitary hi ...
  • European Investment Bank abandons Ethiopia mega da ...
    In profile, this Mursi woman's lip plate protrudes dramatically. © Eric Lafforgue/Survival The European Investment Bank ( EIB ) has announced it is no longer considering funding Africa’s tallest dam, in Ethiopia. The hydroelectric dam, called Gibe III , has drawn international criticism because ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Brutal Animation of Unemployment Rates
    Extraordinarily depressing, and this doesn’t even use the measures I’d use, like participation rates or U-6.
  • Romer resigns the day before economy sheds 131,000 ...
    Most of those were census jobs. Ex-census, it’s a loss of 12,000. That’s still, needless to say abysmal.(pdf) As for Romer, head of the Council of Economic advisors for Obama, and sidelined for her entire tenure, it’s ’bout time she quit. It’s one thing to trade your soul and reputation for power ...
  • Social Security Trustees Report: No Social Securit ...
    Social Security Trustees report that social security will be able to make full payments until 2037(pdf).  Tax receipts will dip below outlays before then, but this is precisely why the Social Security program has taken in more money than it needed, so that it could handle baby boomer retirement and ...
  • 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 [...]
  • Brutal Animation of Unemployment Rates
    Extraordinarily depressing, and this doesn’t even use the measures I’d use, like participation rates or U-6.

Age of Autism

  • Vote For $50K To Help The Homeless With Autism
    From our friends and sponsor at ARI. For those of you who are not familiar with ARI, it was founded by Dr. Bernard Rimland , who founded the Autism Society of America and is the doctor who discredited the "Refrigerator...
  • Our Very First Trip to the Movies
    By Rhonda Lessard "Could you move down another seat?" one mom said to another in the row behind us. "She hits." "Oh of course," the second mom said, moving herself and her son down two seats, "is this ok?" Not...
  • US Senate Hearing on Autism: It's The Environment ...
    "We should also look back to the history of drug regulation. It took the Thalidomide epidemic for us to take action. Perhaps autism is the equivalent for environmental chemicals." By Anne Dachel We woke up to a different world on...
  • A Tribute To National Autism Association Co-founde ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Jo Pike was a co-founder of The National Autism Association. She died on July 9th, after a battle with cancer. The Butterfly Effect By Lori McIlwain I believe that to be a leader, you must have more...
  • Order Ready, Set, Potty! By Brenda Batts for Autis ...
    Toilet training a child with autism. Scary stuff, isn't it? There's a new book that hits the bookstores on August 15th. It's called Ready, Set, Potty! by Brenda Batts. I met Brenda at the NAA conference in early November of...

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

  • The BP Oil gusher was only the “crisis” used to sh ...
    The PPJ Gazette                                     Live Link: OPEN SECRETS.Org Clients lobbying on H.R.3534 61 unique organization(s) has/have registered to lobby on this bill. Click on a client’s name to view all the bills on which they reported lobbying. Click on the number of reports to view all ...
  • The ClEAR ACT: They are stealing it all: Land, wat ...
     Marti Oakley (c)copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved The PPJ Gazette Another assault on the American public is under way; this one will enlarge and increase the power of the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management to such a degree that none of us will be safe from these corrupted ...
  • Could Genetically Modified Crops be causing E-Coli ...
    It is possible that a mutated form of e-coli resulting from the cloning process used in creating GMOs could get into the gut of a person or animal that eats a transgenic plant.
  • Declare your Independence with Ernest Hancock and ...
    Join me on Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock, founder and publisher of Freedom's Phoenix, when we discuss: Are you being fluoridated against your will?
  • 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.

Open Your Eyes News

  • US military deaths in Afghanistan at 1,113
    Washington Post – As of Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010, at least 1,113 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. Read Article
  • US job losses are double expected figure
    Guardian – Employers in the US shed twice as many jobs as expected in July, adding to fears that the recovery in the world’s largest economy will not see a revival in employment. The dismal US job figures came as the National Institute of Economic and Social Research predicted a protracted depressio ...
  • Testing The Goods: The Bobble Self-Filtering Water ...
    Popsci-Americans blow $17 billion a year on water, the creators of the Bobble will have you know, and 1.5 million barrels of oil go to making the plastic bottles from which we consume it. The Bobble is the solution — a reusable bottle with a filter built right in. What’s New The idea is brilliant. F ...
  • Billionaires pledge to donate wealth
    The West Australian – Forty of America’s billionaires and their families have pledged to give more than half of their fortune to charity in a drive organised by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. The group includes CNN founder Ted Turner, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison ...
  • UN extends mandate of UN mission in Iraq for a yea ...
    AFP â The Security Council on Thursday extended by a year the mandate of the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) and urged that country’s leaders to speed up formation of an inclusive government. Read Article

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Gulf oil spill: BP starts last leg of relief well ...
    BP resumed work Friday on the drilling operation meant to spell the ultimate end of its notorious gulf well as it continued to scale back its massive cleanup operation. “We’re far from finished,” said Doug Suttles, the company’s outgoing cleanup...
  • Pinnacles National Monument: California's new Nati ...
    Pinnacles National Monument, a 26,000-acre swath of spectacular volcanic rock formations outside Soledad, Calif., would be elevated to a National Park under legislation introduced Thursday by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) Pinnacles is a nesting place for the endangered California condor,...
  • Gulf oil spill: BP starts cementing well
    BP began pumping a stream of cement into its well Thursday morning, taking another in a series of final steps to ensure the broken well never again spouts polluting oil into the gulf. After jamming the offshore well with heavy...
  • 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...

Mark I. Moore | Deepwater Horizon

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Cryptogon

  • The Ministry of Oil Defense
    The article opens with: It’s not polite to say so, but if Americans understood just how many trillions their military was really spending on protecting oil, they wouldn’t stand for it. Oh really? How Many Millions are in a Trillion? from Econ4U on Vimeo. Tell us all another one about what “Americans ...
  • And Now… Al Qaeda Responsible for Japanese T ...
    That’s the ticket. Via: CBS News: Ten years after the deadly attack on the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole in the Gulf of Aden, al Qaeda once again struck at sea with a suicide attack on a Japanese oil tanker. A UAE Coast Guard source confirmed Friday that the tanker, M. Star, was the target [...]
  • Telling Swiss Secrets: A Banker’s Betrayal
    Via: Global Post: It’s the inner sanctum of Swiss banking — the heavily-guarded nexus between numbered Swiss bank accounts and their owner’s good names — and it’s the rare American that is allowed entry. Bradley Birkenfeld was one of the few Americans who held the keys to the kingdom. A Boston-born, ...
  • Wheat Heads for Biggest Gain in Half a Century on ...
    Via: Bloomberg: Wheat headed for the biggest weekly gain in half a century on concern other countries may follow an export ban by Russia, and may reach $10 a bushel, a price not seen since the global food crisis in 2008. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Kazakhstan and Belarus should also s ...
  • Irish Unemployment Reaches 13.7 Percent, 16-Year H ...
    Via: Bloomberg: Ireland’s unemployment rate has reached a 16-year high of 13.7 percent as idle university students and laid-off professionals joined the welfare lines, the Central Statistics Office reported Thursday. Economists said July’s rise from the previous monthly rate of 13.4 percent was shar ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The U.S. Economy Is A Dead Horse And The American ...
    The economic frustration of the American people is reaching a fever pitch.  Millions of Americans can't seem to get a good job no matter what they do.  Millions of others are working as hard as they can but find that they keep coming up short at the end of the month.  Record numbers ...
  • No Jobs
    Everyone knows that the United States is bleeding jobs.  According to one new study, the private sector in the United States has lost 10.5 million jobs since 2007.  The U.S. economy lost 125,000 more jobs during the month of June.  Approximately a million frustrated American workers ...
  • 25 Signs That Almost Everyone Is Expecting An Econ ...
    At times like these, it is hardly going out on a limb to say that we are headed for hard economic times.  In fact, it seems like almost everyone in the financial world is either declaring that a recession is coming or is busy preparing for one.  The truth is that bad economic signs ...
  • Economic Pain
    For decades, most Americans have enjoyed an extremely high standard of living.  In fact, most of us have been "enjoying the high life" and "living the dream" for so long that we have assumed that it is just always going to be that way.  But now a rapidly growing percentage of Americ ...
  • What Does The Financial Reform Bill Do Other Than ...
    Is it possible to write a 2,300 page piece of legislation that accomplishes next to nothing and is pretty much completely and utterly worthless?  The answer is yes.  Barack Obama has been trumpeting the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill as the "biggest rewrite of Wall Street rules si ...

Desertification

  • Hunger: Not enough food, the wrong food, or climat ...
    Read at : The Center for Sustainable Development Newsletter http://www.csd-i.org/ The Center for Sustainable Development specializes in providing sound, evidence-based information, tools and training in best practices for humanitarian development professionals worldwide. CSDi is a 501(c)(3) nonprofi ...
  • EU funded water projects handed over to Gambia gov ...
    Read at : NGO News Africa Gambia: EU funded water projects handed over to government The European Union (EU) funded Rural Water Supply Sector Support (RWSSS) projects in the villages of Bonto, Kombo East, Berending, Kombo South and Foni Bintang … Continue reading →
  • 20.000 Acacia seedlings died and people are still ...
    Today, a friend has sent a message, in which a short paragraph got my special attention: ‘The …………………… (name) Movement started a project in the Senegal many years ago. I participated in the information campaign. The field workers planted about … Continue reading →
  • US Moving Ahead With Ecosystem Markets (Ecosystem ...
    Read at : http://www.ecosystemmarketplace.com/pages/dynamic/article.page.php?page_id=7640&section=news_articles&eod=1 US Moving Ahead With Ecosystem Markets Despite Cap-and-Trade Setbacks Country Name: United States of America Author: Alice Kenny Related Links Is the Acid Rain Market Doomed? US Sena ...
  • Preventing Land Desertification Using Artificial S ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.docstoc.com/docs/48906558/Artificial-Soil-Structure-And-A-Method-Of-Preventing-Land-Desertification-Using-The-Same—Patent-5580192 Artificial Soil Structure And A Method Of Preventing Land Desertification Using The Same – Patent 5580192 Abstract An ...

The Paper Trail

  • DEFENSE: Earmarks Lobbyist Indicted for Illegal Ca ...
    A master pay-to-play defense lobbyist in the center of a controversial web of Capitol Hill relationships highlighted by the Center for Public lntegrity was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury.
  • 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.

backofthebook.ca

  • Day on crime: screw the stats, let’s just go ...
    By Alison@Creekside Doris ("Stockwell") Day's cheery crime shoppers' philosophy on prisons seems to be: If you build them, they will come. According to Shockwell Doris and JusticeMin Rob Nicholson, we're going to need more prisons to deal with the "alarming" increase in "unreported crime" .  . ...
  • Airshow Mackay and the Red Barons
    By Alison@Creekside Frankly I don't think we can be expected to write a whole new blogpost every time Flying Ace "Airshow MacKay" and his trusty sidekick Woodstock Kory climb up on top of the Con doghouse to fight off the Red Baron yet again in the Arctic, so this time we're ...
  • Am I on Blackett’s “crap” list?
    By Brian Brennan I applied to a provincial government agency – twice — to fund my next history book project, and was turned down, twice. Why? First, let me tell you the reason I applied for this money. You don’t make big money writing history in this country. It is the sport ...
  • 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 ...

Worldnews

  • India's Mahindra says plans bid for Korea's S ...
    NEW DELHI (AFP) – India's leading sport utility vehicle maker Mahindra and Mahindra announced Saturday plans to bid for a majority stake in cash-strapped South Korea's Ssangyong Motor Co as the firm seeks to go global. Mahindra's board of directors approved the bid at a board meeting Saturday a ...
  • Kaka admits he had knee problem before World ...
    MADRID: Real Madrid star Kaka, who has been ruled out through injury for three to four months, said he had a problem with his left knee even before the World Cup. "This knee has been bothering me for quite some time. But I didn't know that it was...
  • Manchester United Manager Sir Alex Ferguson M ...
    Share Sir Alex Ferguson is considering ending his boycott of the BBC following increasing pressure from the Premier League and the League Managers Association (LMA)....
  • Centre adopting casual attitude towards J&K, ...
    Rampur: BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Saturday accused the Central government of adopting a "casual attitude" towards problems in trouble torn Jammu and Kashmir and the North-eastern states. Naqvi told reporters that instead of taking a casual attitude, the Centre should realise that violen ...
  • Turkish Airlines grounds overweight staff, sa ...
    Istanbul: Turkish Airlines has grounded 28 flight attendants for being overweight and given them six months to slim down or face reassignment, a...

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Common Dreams

  • Obama Drops 2009 Pledge to Withdraw Combat Troops ...
    by Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - Seventeen months after President Barack Obama pledged to withdraw all combat brigades from Iraq by Sept. 1, 2010, he quietly abandoned that pledge Monday, admitting implicitly that such combat brigades would remain until the end of 2011. Obama declared in a speech to di ...
  • Next Up? A Food Price Crisis
    by Carolyn Cohn LONDON -- A food price crisis may be the next stumbling block for emerging economies, even as their bonds and stock markets rally in relief at an easing of the euro zone's debt crisis. Wheat prices have jumped by more than 50 percent since June and are likely to rise further due to e ...
  • 'Just Not True': White House Accused of Spinning R ...
    by Suzanne Goldenberg The White House was accused today of spinning a government scientific report into the amount of oil left in the Gulf of Mexico from the BP spill which had officials declaring that the vast majority of the oil had been removed. read more
  • Obama Revives Debate About Hiroshima with Envoy De ...
    by David McNeill in Tokyo Washington will for the first time send an official envoy to Hiroshima to mark today's anniversary of the city's destruction by a US atomic bomb in 1945, in a move hailed by campaigners as a milestone in the struggle to abolish nuclear weapons. The decision, which experts s ...
  • Wildfires Could Spread to Region irradiated by Che ...
    The Russian Emergencies Minister is warning of possible radiation risks, as wildfires approach closer to the area affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The main fear is that the fires, which are moving further south of Moscow toward the Bryansk region, could disturb and spread the contaminatio ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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Energy Collective

  • Solar Power and the Smart Grid
    Perhaps as you’ve done your research into going solar , you’ve heard mention of the so-called “Smart Grid” and the challenges and opportunities it presents.�Such a broad term can be confusing, however (and perhaps even bring to mind visions of a Terminator -esque future).&nbsp
  • Peak coal looming?
    Unlike the high concern over peak oil, discussions about peak coal have tend to produce less energy, so to speak. This might change with a new study that adds weight to the idea that global peak coal will happen sooner rather than later, and this should make coal reserves a bigger consideration in t ...
  • The Groundbreaking New Georgia State Energy Code
    Last week I went to the Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) for a meeting of the State Codes Advisory Committee (SCAC). Wait, wait, don't leave yet! I promise there's good stuff in here.�
  • Corporation or Consumer: Who’s Driving Us toward S ...
  • I want my (fuel cell powered) jet pack!
    Every once in a while I stumble across a rude reminder of just how precarious? perverse? stupefyingly weird? the road from laboratory to the mainstream commercial market can be for new technology.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

  • Can Americans Who Oppose War and Empire Work Toget ...
    Kevin Zeese Or will both sides generalize about the worst of the other and allow militarists to win? Senator Lindsay Graham, a war supporting senator from South Carolina, said what he fears most is a left-right alliance against the Afghanistan War . He recognizes that such an alliance could stop ...
  • 9/11 Truth Truth
    Joel S. Hirschhorn Months, years and then decades slip by. Despite an avalanche of information burying me everyday I had not read or heard anything about 9/11 truth for many, many months. Sometimes movements become so marginalized that they no longer have enough vitality to stay within the consci ...
  • Hanging A Hammock Between Death And The Abyss: A G ...
    by Phil Rockstroh Given the level of cultural absurdity at large, both the commercially tormented landscape and the mass media dominated mindscape of the United States seem a Gogol goof-take. If a person had traveled forward in time, arriving from even the recent past, of say, twenty-five to thirt ...
  • WORLD'S NUMBER ONE WHISTLEBLOWER / JULIAN ASSANGE
    Allen L Roland Julian Assange, the elusive founder of WikiLeaks, is dedicated to transparency and truth in a world of deception and lies. His whistleblower platform has already unmasked atrocities in Iraq, Army procurement scandals in Iraq and now atrocities and scandals in Afghanistan. Like a cape ...
  • Endless Wars for Endless Profits: My reflections o ...
    by Cindy Sheehan Before my son, Casey, was killed in Iraq on April 04, 2004, I was a mother of four, worried about all my children—but especially the one who was going to be deployed to Iraq—sometimes working as many as three jobs to survive, and only peripherally aware of the harsher realities ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • All the latest on the census long-form debacle
    On June 30th, the CCPA's Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan was among the initial voices leading the criticism over the government decision to eliminate the census long-form questionnaire. Since then, a groundswell of alarm has turned into a wall of opposition, across the political spectrum. Stay tu ...
  • Apply now for the Next Up youth leadership program
    Applications are now being accepted for the fourth year of Next Up: A Leadership�Program for Young People Committed to Social and Environmental Justice . This is an amazing, intensive and transformative program for young social change activists between the ages of 18 and 32. This year we're exci ...
  • New Report: In the Red: The Green Behind Nuclear P ...
    Regina — The Saskatchewan office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has released a new study on the economic costs of pursuing nuclear power in Saskatchewan. "In the Red: The Green Behind Nuclear Power," authored by policy researcher Heath Packman, critically examines the economic costs ...
  • Meaningful training programs for welfare recipient ...
    Check out the new paper by CCPA-BC research associate Shauna Butterwick: Meaningful Training Programs for BC Welfare Recipients . Shauna examined the experiences of welfare recipients participating in two types of pre-employment programs: the BC Employment Program (BCEP) and the Community Assista ...
  • Carbon footprint from fossil fuel exports at odds ...
    The CCPA-BC office released another Climate Justice Project brief today, this one finding that greenhouse gas emissions from exported coal and natural gas generate more than double the emissions from combustion within BC. Read the news release and the study ...

World Wide Hippies

  • The Terminator Supports Gay Marriage
    Schwarzenegger: Let gays and lesbians marry now | SF Gate Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown joined gay rights advocates Friday in asking a federal judge to allow gays and lesbians in California to marry immediately while opponents appeal the ruling that overturned Propositi ...
  • Ten Dead in Afghanistan
    British doctor feared among 10 dead in Afghanistan ambush | Guardian Bodies of western medical team and two Afghan interpreters found in Badakhshan province near their bullet-riddled vehicle. A female British doctor is feared to be among at least 10 people murdered by gunmen in the far north of Afgh ...
  • Veterans & Peace Activists Rally in Quantico Base ...
    Manning held in Quantico Brig, facing 52 years in prison, for exposing war crimes. What: Rally in Support of Whistleblower Bradley Manning When: Sunday, August 8, noon Where: Quantico Marine Corps Base where Manning is being held in pre-trial confinement; we will meet at the Amtrak station in Quant ...
  • On The Road To Los Angeles
    Prolog-A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away ~~~ Star Wars I had just finished getting rid of my second wife. No, I didn’t kill her. I had introduced her to an acquaintance of mine who was hot to trot with her. I had just sold our house and [...]
  • Happy Friday
    99 Weeks Later, Jobless Have Only Desperation | The New York Times Facing eviction from her Tennessee apartment after several months of unpaid rent, Alexandra Jarrin packed up whatever she could fit into her two-door coupe recently and drove out of town. Ms. Jarrin, 49, wound up at a motel here, put ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • The Bombs of August
    Today is the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in World War Two. And for the first time, the USA sent a representative to the ceremony at the  site. Note however that the USA is not offering an apology for the nuclear attacks on Japan. Predictably there are those on the right outra ...
  • Alien Conspiracy Theories, is the US Government Co ...
    I started this post, like so many others, with research. Well, even a modicum of research shows that a huge percentage of the US population believes the government knows more about aliens than they are letting on. Maybe 50% or more of the population, though depends on the poll and just what is being ...
  • Crop Circles! What Would a UFO Week be Without Cro ...
    Ah, crop circles. I remember when crop circles were the latest greatest thing and there was speculation among all sorts of people as to what was going on. Even the tech people at the dot com I worked for were intrigued. Then two people admitted they had hoaxed the whole thing, the case was solved, [ ...
  • Kecksburg, a UFO Case with Meat on its Bones
    December 9th, 1965. The very first Peanuts TV special aired, A Charlie Brown Christmas. Charles de Gaulle had just been reelected President of France. Several hundred thousand US troops had by then been deployed to Vietnam, and opposition to the war was starting to heat up. And on that afternoon ove ...
  • Wikileaks, Korea, the War on Terror, Afghanistan, ...
    Sigh. I had the week’s blogs all written out, hoping that reality would be kind enough not to invalidate them before I hit the ol “publish” button, no such luck. No, world events have just kept on transpiring, so I better take a look at them. I’ll get back to Barney and Betty Hill and [...]

FourWinds10

  • Photographer captures firefighter losing his life ...
    July 16, 2010, an oil pipeline explosion accident happened in Dalian, the fire was put out after 15 hours of burning.� The cause of the accident was still under investigation.� According to CCTV, about 400,000 gallon of oil was spilled into the Yellow Sea, which heavily polluted over 160 square kilo ...
  • Residents outraged: BP dumping oily waste in Gulf ...
    The Gulf area may have to live with oil long after the beaches have been cleaned. Some residents are outraged that BP has been dumping oily waste in landfills in their areas. After BP crews scoop up the oil off Gulf beaches, the waste is transported to Mississippi's Pecan Grove landfill. Even worker ...
  • Each day, another way to define worst-case for oil ...
    An enduring feature of the gulf oil spill is that, even when you think you've heard the worst-case scenario, there's always another that's even more dire. The base-line measures of the crisis have steadily worsened. The estimated flow rate keeps rising. The well is like something deranged, stronger ...
  • Oil soaks miles of Pensacola Beach
    Pensacola, Florida (CNN) -- When you're on vacation or live in a coastal community, it's a symbol you simply don't want to see: a no-swimming sign, along with a beach health advisory. More than two months after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Pensacola awoke Wednesday to the largest onslaught of bla ...
  • Oil Rain In Louisiana? - Video

Crisis Maven

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

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- Aug 06, 2010
- 19 hours ago
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Coalition Continues Quest for Renewable Energy Mandate
The Washington Independent
- Aug 06, 2010
- 21 hours ago
today, a coalition of renewable energy industry groups, environmentalists and labor unions called for passage of a renewable energy standard in September. ...
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Kerry bill would extend energy grants
Boston Globe
- Aug 06, 2010
- 12 hours ago
WASHINGTON — Grants for wind turbine and solar panel makers to help promote renewable energy would be extended for two years under a tax measure proposed ...
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Battery Storage of Renewable Energy Looks Promising, Xcel Energy Says
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- Aug 07, 2010
- 9 hours ago
Along with NGK Insulators and Minwind Energy, other participants in the project include S&C Electric, the University of Minnesota, the National Renewable ...
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Ecology and Environment, Inc. Launches ProjectEarth.net Environmental Forum ...
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- Aug 06, 2010
- Aug 06, 2010
Headquartered in Lancaster, NY, Ecology and Environment, Inc. has completed more than 45000 projects for a wide variety of clients in 84 countries, ...
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Many species in tropical forests may extinct by 2100
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- Aug 06, 2010
- Aug 06, 2010
The study by the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology combined new deforestation and selective logging data with climate-change projections. ...
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Department of Ecology gives out fine
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- Aug 06, 2010
- 20 hours ago
(SAMISH VALLEY)— The Washington State Department of Ecology says they have fined a Samish River valley cattle owner $6-thousand dollars for exposing the ...
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Binder Park Zoo presents black bear ecology and management
Battle Creek Enquirer
- Aug 06, 2010
- 22 hours ago
This presentation will include a special discussion regarding Michigan's Black Bear ecology and management. (Submitted by Binder Park Zoo)
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Women Treaded Water In Lake Michigan For Hours Until Rescue
NPR (blog)
- Aug 06, 2010
- 20 hours ago
by Frank James I'm not trying to turn this blog into one on water-safety, honestly I'm not. But there's a rather remarkable story out of Chicago worth ...
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Hamtramck stops paying Detroit water, sewer bill
Chicago Tribune
- Aug 07, 2010
- 2 hours ago
AP The city of Hamtramck says it's is no longer paying its monthly water and sewer bill because of a dispute with Detroit. City Manager Bill Cooper tells ...
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Kalamazoo Water Festival events, tone changed after oil spill
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
- Aug 07, 2010
- 2 hours ago
KALAMAZOO — Originally conceived as a celebration through song and family activities of the life-giving powers of water, the inaugural Kalamazoo Water ...
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No on AB 1265 - No on postponing the water bond to 2012
YubaNet
- Aug 07, 2010
- 1 hour ago
August 7, 2010 - The No on 18 campaign today announced its opposition to AB 1265, a bill to postpone the $11billion water bond from this November's ballot ...
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