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Thomas Paine

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

Monday, August 9, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • INDIA: End to Fuel Subsidies Brings Damaging Diver ...
    While India's opposition parties are agitating against moves by the pro-reform government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to remove subsidies on petrol and other fuels, experts say the country has laboured too long under price distortions that have not benefited poorer people -- or the envi ...
  • MIDEAST: Injured Workers Man Battered Services
    Outside the battered Civil Defence station in northern Gaza's Jabalia region, Mohammed Zidan, a seven-year veteran of fire-fighting and rescue services, stands on crutches in front of battered Civil Defence vehicles.
  • Shark Slaughter Advances Into Red Sea
    Six Yemeni fishing boats captured in Egyptian territorial waters in June might have gone unnoticed if not for their unusual cargo -- several kilometers of long lines and over 20 tons of dead sharks.
  • AUSTRALIA: Enough of Uranium Mining, Say Aborigina ...
    As a mining giant prepares to open a major uranium mining site in Western Australia next year, the clamour for the state to once more ban mining of the radioactive mineral has become louder.
  • PERU: Transparency a Challenge for Mining and Oil
    Peru is the only Latin American country that has made steps towards joining the international Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), but has a difficult stretch ahead as it tries to overcome industry resistance to reporting profits and the government's own obstacles.

Scoop - NZ

  • Climate Crisis: Learning from the Zapatistas
    With their 1994 battle cry, "Ya basta!" ("Enough already!") Mexico's Zapatista uprising became the spearhead of two convergent movements: Mexico's movement for indigenous rights and the international movement against corporate globalization. Skip to 2010: the movements for indig ...
  • Looming Oxygen Crisis : Impact on the Oceans
    The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is overshadowing another catastrophe that's also unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico this summer: The oxygen dissolved in the Gulf waters is disappearing. In some places, the oxygen is getting so scarce that fish and other animals cannot survive. They can either leave the ...
  • 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 ...

Independent - London

  • Briton set to complete marathon Amazon walk
    After 859 days, thousands of miles and "50,000 mosquito bites", Briton Ed Stafford intends to be the first man known to have walked the entire length of the Amazon river when the waves of the Atlantic Ocean lap his feet in northern Brazil today.
  • September 11 attackers former mosque closed
    A mosque which used to be a meeting place for the September 11 attackers has been closed, German authorities said today.
  • Moscow deaths soar amid wildfires smog
    The number of deaths in Moscow is twice as high as usual because of smog suffocating the city from ongoing wildfires nearby, the Russian capital's chief health official said today.
  • Naomi Campbell 'claimed Taylor sent diamond'
    Supermodel Naomi Campbell said she received a "huge diamond" from Charles Taylor, actress Mia Farrow told the former Liberian leader's war crimes trial in The Hague today.
  • Naomi Campbell spoke of 'huge diamond from Taylor' ...
    Supermodel Naomi Campbell said she received a "huge diamond" from Charles Taylor, actress Mia Farrow told the former Liberian leader's war crimes trial in The Hague today.

Rogue Government.com

  • Secret Right Volume 1.5
    Video and various pieces of footage that didn't quite make it into the Secret Right Volume 1 - a film that exposes secretive groups tied in with the phony patriot movement like the Council for National Policy, Knights of Malta and others.
  • HOMOCON Coming to New York, Bringing Ann Coulter
    GOProud, a 14-month-old 527 organization dedicated to representing the viewpoints of gay conservatives, will be holding their first New York gala in September, and it will be hosted by Ann Coulter, the conservative commentator who has gotten into trouble in the past for anti-gay comments .
  • Nick Jonas, Jordin Sparks chair Reagan youth
    They weren't even alive when he was president, but 18-year-old Jonas brother Nick Jonas and 21-year-old "American Idol" champ Jordin Sparks are big Ronald Reagan fans.
  • UN panel: New taxes needed for a climate fund
    Carbon taxes, add-ons to international air fares and a levy on cross-border money movements are among ways being considered by a panel of the world's leading economists to raise a staggering $100 billion a year to fight climate change.
  • Russia Imposes Wheat Export Ban

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

  • 'Cloned Beef' On Store Shelves Causes Stir In Brit ...
    Britain is in the middle of a new media storm over the safety of beef - but this time it is not about mad cows, but cloned ones. Earlier this week a Scottish farmer admitted that he had raised cows derived from an American clone. Meat from at least one of the animals was sold to wholesalers and p ...
  • Tattooing Linked to Higher Risk of Hepatitis C, St ...
    Youth, prison inmates and individuals with multiple tattoos that cover large parts of their bodies are at higher risk of contracting hepatitis C and other blood-borne diseases, according to a University of British Columbia study. The researchers reviewed and analyzed 124 studies from 30 countries, ...
  • Researchers Find "Strong Evidence" of Genetic Link ...
    Discovery that gene mutations can determine whether a person develops meningitis could help in the search for a vaccine Researchers have found "the strongest evidence so far" that genetic factors can increase the risk of a person developing meningitis. The discovery that gene mutations can determin ...
  • "Fearless" Aphids Ignore Warnings, Get Eaten by La ...
    If your building has 10 false fire alarms one morning, it is human nature to ignore it when it goes off for the 11th time. Similarly, when aphids are raised on plants genetically engineered to emit a compound that warns surrounding aphids of a predator, they become accustomed to the chemical and no ...
  • Dis-Chem pulls MMS off the shelves after FDA healt ...
    A natural health supplement classified as dangerous by the US Food and Drug Administration is still being sold online, although a major pharmacy group has pulled it from the shelves. Earlier this week, the FDA issued a warning that Miracle Mineral Solution is unsafe and people who use it should sto ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • If a crime happens in the forest...
    ...and nobody reports it, is it a crime? The justice system can only cope with that of which it is aware. Unreported crime, for whatever reason it remains unreported, is invisible to the justice system. The police cannot investigate what they are unaware of, arrests cannot be made and the courts ca ...
  • Note to Airshow MacKay....
    You may see an aircraft similar to the one in the photo above nearing North American airspace. You may even see Canadian and US fighter aircraft nearby. While we understand your knee-jerk reaction would be to run down to the nearest Sun Media office and issue a heroic press release, you might want ...
  • Why do people laugh at creationists? Part 23 & 24
  • As FSM is my witness ...
    ... I have no idea where to go with this .
  • Food for thought . . .
    THE BARBER AND THE KID: A young boy enters a barber shop and the barber whispers to his customer, "This is the dumbest kid in the world. Watch while I prove it to you." The barber puts a dollar bill in one hand and two quarters in the other, then calls the boy over and asks, "Which do you want, ...

Media Matters for America

  • Tony Perkins' fearmongering about same-sex parenti ...
    Family Research Council President Tony Perkins dubiously claimed that "there is not conclusive evidence" that the children of same-sex couples "fare as well as children who grow up with a mom and a dad." In fact, the consensus among medical, and child-welfare groups is that children of same-sex cou ...
  • Liz Cheney contradicts economists, claims the sti ...
    Liz Cheney spread the myth that the stimulus bill has "not worked" to mitigate job losses. In fact, many independent and private analysts have agreed that stimulus spending significantly raised employment over what would have happened without it. Cheney advances discredited claim that stimulus ...
  • 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 ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • After Zakaria, What about Other ADL Humphrey Prize ...
    Fareed Zakaria 's dramatic rebuke of the Anti-Defamation League for opposing a mosque at the Ground Zero construction site replacing the 9-11 destroyed World Trade Center in New York raises obvious questions about who else has been honored by the ADL and how these recipients feel about the high prof ...
  • Why the Views of the Wall Street Journal's Letter ...
    Thoughtful debate is to be found in places other than Letters to the Editor of the Wall Street Journal where, in Friday's edition, under the ad hominem heading "Mr. Reich's View Seems to Be Far From This World," the editor gathers what the Journal apparently considers insightful responses to my Tue ...
  • The Lobby Stands Triumphant
    You might think that former Secretary of Health & Human Services (HHS) Donna Shalala would be furious after being detained at Tel Aviv airport for the sole infraction of being an Arab-American. This is from the Israeli daily Yedioth Achronoth: When Shalala arrived at the airport, she was not ...
  • Israel/Palestine and Iran: Linkage Should be Hard ...
    Barack Obama is occasionally photographed carrying a weighty and important book around with him. One of those books -- which he seemed to carry around for nearly a year (it is a very long book at 738 pages) -- was Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Sovie ...
  • 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 ...

TruthOut

  • Khadr Trial Will Be a Window Into America's War on ...
    Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — Across his eight years in U.S. custody, Americans have seen Canadian Omar Khadr grow from a child found near dead in a war zone in Afghanistan to a brooding, weeping teenager and more recently a defiant young man spurning a guilty plea deal at Guantanamo. They've seen him ...
  • What State Officials Don't Want Arizona School Chi ...
    For the next few months, the world will be focusing on Arizona's SB 1070 - the state's new racial profiling law - as it works its way through the appeals process. However, in this insane asylum known as Arizona, where conservatives have concocted one reactionary scheme after another, another law in ...
  • Between the Bomb and the Burqa
    Her voice was thick with passion as she argued for ending violence against fellow Afghan women, but the men didn't listen. Instead they hurled insults at her; they called her a prostitute and a traitor to her religion. The stubborn men's insults were abusive and frustrating, but it had been worse fo ...
  • Wyclef Jean Seeks the Haitian Presidency: A Breath ...
    Wyclef Jean, famous hip-hop/reggae artist and founder of the humanitarian organization Yel� Haiti, on August 5, 2010, made official his candidacy for the presidency of Haiti. The goodwill ambassador and nephew of the Haitian ambassador to the U.S. himself has no political experience and will be runn ...
  • An Honest Look at Obama's First Year
    Most commentary on President Barack Obama either beats him up unfairly because he's not a Republican or cuts him extra slack because he's not a Republican. read more

Planetsave

  • New Bio-Bug Runs on Human Waste
    GENeco introduces UK’s first VW Beetle to run on methane gas generated during the sewage treatment process. I remember joking about the idea of using human gas to power an automobile. But now, the joke’s on us. UK-based GENeco has done just that. Working with the South West Regional Development Agen ...
  • Noah’s Ark Preserve for Animals Threatened b ...
    The BP oil spill has killed and will continue to kill countless animals. A biologist in Florida is creating a modern-day Noah’s Ark in order to help some of them survive. Jaymi Heimbuch of TreeHugger writes: The Gulf oil disaster is having a massive impact on wildlife, with waves of animal deaths co ...
  • Giant Ice Island Breaks Off Greenland
    Big global warming news of the weekend, other than it being global warming’s birthday, is that a giant island of ice has broken off a Greenland glacier. The massive ice island is 4 times the size of Manhattan. It is the largest chunk of ice to break off of the Arctic since 1962. From the [...]
  • Global Warming’s Birthday
    Today is global warming’s birthday — well, the day the term was coined 35 years ago. What are you going to do on this day? On Aug. 8, 1975, Wally Broecker used the phrase global warming in scientific literature for the first time. The article, published in the journal Science, was: “Are we on the [. ...
  • An open letter to all people and organizations wor ...
    The following letter is from members of the 1Sky Board of Directors: Jessica Bailey, KC Golden, Bracken Hendricks, Bill McKibben, Billy Parish, Vicky Rateau, Gus Speth and Betsy Taylor As we find ourselves surrounded by the tatters of the climate debate in the U.S. Congress, it seems fitting to take ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Dreaming of our future - World View
    At the Socialism 2010 conference in Oakland, Calif., SocialistWorker.org contributor Leela Yellesetty spoke on "What Would Socialism Be Like?" This three-part article is based on her talk. In the final part, she looks at the challenges that would face a socialist society--and the possibilities a ...
  • Mercedes Sosa's "Juana Azurduy". - Music and Enter ...
    Editor's Note: Margarita Lacabe translated the lyrics of Mercedes Sosa's beautiful revolutionary song, "Juana Azurduy" from Spanish into English. Along with the music video republished below from her website, Margarita describes how she came to revisit the memory of Juana Azurduy, the significan ...
  • August 8 - Big Demo at Quantico Supporting Bradley ...
    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- ...
  • 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 ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Free Speech Works
    From Digby:
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Pakistan literally buried, American "help" still invisible. "Landslides have inundated two villages in northern Pakistan, as heavy rain continues to hamper efforts to help millions affected by flooding. Officials said 28 bodies had been recovered and 25 more people were missing after the landslides. ...
  • Conway Conquers Fancy Farm
    Mid-morning Saturday, the drive along Highway 80 to Fancy Farm foreshadowed the afternoon's speeches. Along the eight-mile stretch of two-lane between drought-stressed fields of brown corn and stunted soybeans, Jack Conway for Senate signs dominated. I counted more than 100 Conway signs to zero Ro ...
  • Tenthers, and ACORN, and Teabags, oh my!
    Just before the Missouri primary election on August 3rd the following photocopied flyer from local teabaggers (along with another photocopied "Missourians for Health care Freedom" Yes on C flyer) was left at our doorstep: So, where were all these folks from January 2001 to January 2009? Just asking ...
  • The bumper stickers of July, part 3
    Previously: The bumper stickers of July: an appropriate warning label for noxious exhaust fumes The bumper stickers of July, part 2 One advantage of taking a road trip during campaign season is that you can observe what individuals (voters and candidates) in other states go through. And yes, the cam ...

Care 2

  • Please ask the FDA to reclassify Aspartame as a Ne ...
    Dr. Mercola posted a very compelling reason for doubting that the artificial sweetener Aspartame/NutraSweet/Amino Sweet was approved on sound scientific grounds back in 1981. As a result we need to challenge a multi-billion dollar industry that was... Submitted by Kathy B. to Health & Wellness �|� ...
  • Diving Robot Discovers Life In Slow Lane
    A deep-diving robot exploring the depths of the world's deepest water-filled sinkhole has found an amazing diversity of microbial life, even down where sunlight can't reach. Submitted by Ingrid Peeters to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The rich want a better world? Try paying fair wage ...
    If the rich really wish to create a better world, they can sign another pledge: to pay their taxes on time and in full; to stop lobbying against taxation and regulation; to avoid creating monopolies; to give their employees better wages, pensions, job pro Submitted by John C. to Business �|� �Note- ...
  • West Virginia pit bull breeders home is raided; a ...
    They had lots of wooden crates and things that the animals were in. The odor, of course, was very, very bad. The house was unfit for living of any either animal or human being...." Submitted by paola lopez to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • KENYA: Lack of City Planning to Hurt More Citizen ...
    Thousands of Kenyan urban dwellers, rich and poor, live in fear that their homes or building investments could soon be demolished as the country struggles to keep up with the rapid urbanisation of cities. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

  • What Is To Be Done (?)
    I often receive email from readers which goes something along these lines: "Thank you for your article identifying the problems with American politics and government. But what are the solutions?" I am flattered that anyone would expect me to be able to solve that mystery, while being simultaneousl ...
  • What if Verizon Could Censor Your Telephone Conver ...
    Imagine if you were talking on the phone and Verizon or ATT decided they didn't like where your conversation was going. You'd be in the middle of a sentence and suddenly disconnected. Or maybe they didn't like the person you were talking to, or the subject. You'd be unable to connect or your convers ...
  • Afghaninam, Vietnamistan
    There are a lot of people in the military, and in politics too, that think we coulda, shoulda, woulda won in Vietnam. That wouldn't matter much. The past is a foreign country immune from invasion. But here we are in Afghanistan. See, US forces won every battle in Vietnam. Every damn battle. Even Tet ...
  • Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll, Too Young to Ruin Social ...
    Don't fear the Boomers. Despite the scaremongers' attempts to incite generational war, people born between 1946 and 1964 are not going to destroy Social Security. The Baby Boom cohort isn't going to be a crippling financial burden for Generation X, Generation Y, Generation XYY, or any other genera ...
  • Obama's Failure to Communicate
    Three months before the mid-term elections, Americans are angry. As a result, it's likely that Democrats will lose control of either the House or Senate. While the negative political trends can be attributed to the stagnant economy or ruthless Republican negativism, the primary culprit is the Whit ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Must Be Nice To Jet Around On Someone Else’s ...
    / Bumped Up / UPDATE: Two of them, actually. Since I am in my hometown after having seen my orthopaedist, and have to get something from my mom’s house (now my brother’s house), I have this on the jobs front. This came in on Friday, to add to the high Unemployment filings for [...]
  • Not Getting Worse Fast
    Editor’s Note: Catch Larry Johnson on John Batchelor’s syndicated radio show TONIGHT at around 10:05 to 10:35 p.m. ET. You’ll find programming details and “how to listen” instructions at the end of this post.   The Great Stall. Paul Vigna and his colleagues Madeleine Lim and Michael Casey ...
  • Five Years From Iraq
    � Spoke to Sebastian Gorka, FDD, re the Obama administration policy for Iraq and learned that there is no policy after the withdrawal of combat troops. POTUS Obama asserts that he is keeping a campaign pledge to move the US out of Iraq. This is not the same as establishing a policy [...]
  • How Newsweek Blew It * Open Thread
    As you’ve probably heard, Newsweek was sold by the Washington Post to Sidney Harman, the 92-year-old husband of Rep. Jane Harman, for the princely sum of ONE DOLLAR and the assumption of Newsweek’s staggering debts. Harman says that he regards Newsweek “as a ‘national treasure’.” I could not believ ...
  • Must Be Nice To Jet Around On Someone Else’s ...
    UPDATE: Two of them, actually. Since I am in my hometown after having seen my orthopaedist, and have to get something from my mom’s house (now my brother’s house), I have this on the jobs front. This came in on Friday, to add to the high Unemployment filings for the last week [...]

Environmental Graffiti

  • 15 of the Worst Shark Attacks Ever
    Shark attacks are a fairly rare occurrence, but when they do strike they are an unstoppable force of nature. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Disturbing Mating Habits of Ducks
    Ducks are able to grow their genitals at will - however, after the mating season, their members fall off... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How to Extend Your Cat's Lifespan
    Properly cared for, your pet cat could live a long healthy life spanning between 15 and 30 years. Here's how... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Using Steroids Might Make You A Criminal
    New research has shown that criminal activity and steroid use are strongly linked - and their devastating side effects can have permanent repercussions. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Most Sensational Robberies in Recent History
    If you had the nerve to commit a truly major theft, you would want to get away with it. These people did, and they were stealing sums that make your eyes water. 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

  • Lisbeth Salander: The Dark Metal Sarah Palin
    It’s no accident that Stieg Larrsson’s Swedish mystery The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has spread across American coffee shops and airports faster than fear about the H1N1 virus.  While Larrsson, who spent his career as a reporter studying right wing extremism, died in 2004, his 2000+ page Nordic my ...
  • How Did the Media Report A Taint On DOJ’s ‘Politic ...
    Several serious-minded bloggers and editors promptly followed up on my report in Nieman Watchdog July 26 about the Justice Department’s apparent whitewash of the U.S. attorney firings under George W Bush. But it was hard to find even a word about it in the traditional press. There wasn’t any reactio ...
  • 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 ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

  • Dishonoring MLK's Legacy
    What do Beck, Palin, and the NRA have to do with the 1963 March on Washington?
  • 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.

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 08.09.10
    GM's Larry Nitz: finding buyers for the $41,000 Volt will be easy Confidence has never been GM's problem with this vehicle. Elon Musk rips into Nissan Leaf's "primitive" batteries The quote ...
  • 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 ...

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 End Of The Internet As We Know It?
    Google-Verizon Deal: The End of The Internet as We Know It Huff Post-  Josh Silver – President, Free Press Posted: August 5, 2010 09:26 AM For years, Internet advocates have warned of the doomsday scenario that will play out on Monday: Google and Verizon will announce a deal that the New York Times ...
  • Right-Wing Digg Conspiracy: A Lot Of Conservative ...
    A Vast Right-Wing Digg Conspiracy Expose Shows JournoList Scandal to Be a Lot of Conservative Hot Air AlterNet / By Zach Carter Take note, right-wing scandalmongers, this is what a politically motivated media conspiracy looks like. August 7, 2010 |Finally, a real media conspiracy! After weeks of rig ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Save Money On Groceries
    Buying in bulk and freezing or canning fruits and veggies are great ways to enjoy better food and cut your costs by up to 85 percent! When you buy in bulk, you buy food without the extra costs for packaging and marketing. Continue reading the article . . .
  • We Have a New Sheriff!
    I went to the polls on Thursday. My candidate for sheriff won! The expensive negative campaigning did not work — indeed it may have even helped by galvanizing support.  My thanks again to Sheriff Richard Mack whose great interview, “Who’s Your Sheriff,” helped me to understand how important it is ...
  • Wall Street’s Big Win
    Illustration by Victor Juhasz By  Matt Taibbi Cue the credits: the era of financial thuggery is officially over. Three hellish years of panic, all done and gone – the mass bankruptcies, midnight bailouts, shotgun mergers of dying megabanks, high-stakes SEC investigations, all capped by a legislativ ...
  • Crack in the World
    Inspired by the scare stories about methane gas in the Gulf, I tracked down Hollywood’s story about nuclear explosions on the outer surface of the earth’s inner core causing a crack that opens around the planet. Yes, a scary thought. Alas, not such a great movie! Related reading: Crack in the World ...
  • Taxpayers Pay Lockheed Martin to Spray Dispersants ...
    Programs provide range of services in oil spill crisis. For most Lockheed Martin employees, the explosion that rocked British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon off-shore oil drilling rig on April 20 was a tragic yet distant event. But for a group of employees who assist the U.S. Environmental Protectio ...

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 “Slam Dunk” stimulus
    Summary:  Having missed the last opportunity for legislation to avert the possible double-dip in late 2010 or early 2011, rumors fly that Team Obama plans a massive unconventional stimulus.  I suspect these rumors represent the flotsam and jetsam from serious discussions held in secret. After the gl ...
  • An Appalling Threat to Civil Liberties and Democra ...
    Summary:  A guest post by Bernard Finel of the American Security Project, looking at America’s drift into a strange space, away from our traditions and principles. What is most bizarre is how many appalling practices have become essentially ânormalizedâ over the past several years.  The âwar ...
  • Another American judge does his bit to weaken the ...
    Summary:  Another popular referendum overturned by a judge.  This time insultingly so, dismissing the people’s judgement as irrational.   Perhaps he is correct and we deserve his contempt.  Certainly we’re weak, even supine.  In his decision overturning California’s Proposition 8 Chief Justic ...
  • 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • India Asks, Should Food Be a Right for the Poor?
    NY Times — Inside the drab district hospital, where dogs patter down the corridors, sniffing for food, Ratan Bhuria’s children are curled together in the malnutrition ward, hovering at the edge of starvation. His daughter, Nani, is 4 and weighs 20 pounds. His son, Jogdiya, is 2 and weighs only eight ...
  • 60 killed in Iraq ahead of Ramadan
    AFP â Weekend violence across Iraq killed 60 people, officials said on Sunday, just days ahead of the start of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan when insurgents typically step up their attacks. The unrest has fuelled concerns about security here — more than 100 people have died so far this ...
  • Car fuel ‘could be made from thin air’
    The Telegraph-Car fuel could be created from thin air using an enzyme from a common soil bacterium, say scientists. It is hoped that this will lead to a cheap way of making environmentally friendly, carbon-neutral ‘green’ fuel that can be used without major redesigns of car engines -Read Article
  • Jews and Arabs break ice on Mont Blanc
    Swiss info – Roped together, eight young Jews and Arabs have just climbed Europeâs highest mountain in a bid to further peaceful coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians. The group, which reached the summit on Wednesday, was brought together by the Lausanne-based organisation Coexistences, wh ...
  • ‘There wasn’t much blood about’: Detective who fou ...
    Daily Mail – The mystery surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly deepened yesterday after the detective who found his body claimed he didn’t see ‘much blood’.The revelation by Detective Constable Graham Coe casts further doubt on the Hutton Report’s verdict that the Ministry of Defence scientist die ...

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.

  • Missouri No Vote Not a Referendum on Health Reform
    On Aug 3 Missouri became the first state to approve a ballot measure, Proposition C, designed to override the new federal requirement that all individuals in the U.S. must buy health insurance, i.e., the individual mandate. Nearly a million Missourians--almost 939,000 voters , according to the New Y ...
  • Brazil's Child Sex Tourism Industry Is on the Rise ...
    Step aside, Thailand, and make room for Brazil, the fastest growing hotbed for child sex tourism. Sex-hungry tourists are flocking to South America in droves for the promise of cheap, young, and easily accessible prostitutes. Not only that, but they have their choice of young kids (cheaper than the ...
  • The Veggie Trend: Helpful or Harmful?
    Over the last few decades, vegetarianism and veganism have become increasingly common. A vegetarian for seventeen years, I'm greeted with a great deal more understanding than in the past, restaurants are much more likely to carry vegetarian alternatives, tofu can be found in most grocery stores, and ...
  • Salvadoran Murdered After U.S. Denies Asylum
    As a direct result of a federal court’s decision to deny his petition for asylum in the United States, Benito Zaldívar is dead today, murdered by gang members in El Salvador. Had his petition been approved, Zaldívar, a citizen of El Salvador killed two months after his deportation, would most likel ...
  • What's Really Causing Our Obesity Epidemic?
    Obesity is skyrocketing in the U.S., "faster than anyone could have imagined," said Thomas Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to AFP . Between 2007 and 2009, the number of states in which more than 30 percent of residents are obese went from three to nin ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Target Faces More Heat Over Political Donation
    by Tom Webb Randi Reitan planned to spend Friday caring for her grandchildren. But something came up: She had to lead a protest against Target Corp. Reitan, of Eden Prairie, has become the public face in a growing controversy over a $150,000 Target political contribution. When she heard Target ...
  • Judge Strikes Down California Prop. 8, the Ban on ...
    by Bob Egelko and Demian Bulwa SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge today struck down Proposition 8, the voter-passed November 2008 initiative that defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman. U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker found that the ban on same-sex marriage violated the constitutional du ...
  • Protesters Charged with Mischief, 'Breaking Out' A ...
    CALGARY - Calgary Police have laid charges against nine people in connection with Tuesday's Greenpeace protest at the Calgary Tower. Two Calgarians are among the nine, each of whom are charged with one count of "breaking out" related to leaving the tower and climbing onto the roof, and one count of ...
  • Rolling Stone Reporter Denied Afghan Embed After M ...
    by Anne Gearan WASHINGTON - The author of the Rolling Stone article that ended the military career of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former top commander in Afghanistan, has been denied permission to join U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Defense Department spokesman Col. ...
  • Survey: Arabs Lose Faith in Obama
    Arab opinion of the United States and its president Barack Obama has dimmed in the past year, while the popularity of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, has skyrocketed, according to an annual survey released by the US-based Brookings Institution on Thursday. read more

Lifehacker

  • Google SSL Web Search Encrypts Your Google Searche ...
    Chrome (Windows/Linux) only: The things we type into Google, and which Google suggests to us, can be the most private information about us. Chrome users now have an easy way to encrypt their searches and suggestions through an extension offere ...
  • Scan or Photograph Checks for Deposit at These Ban ...
    Depositing checks probably feels like the last stand of paper for savvy online bankers. Switch to one of the banks accepting check deposits via scanner, iPhone, or Android, and you'll never have to wait in ATM or teller lines again. More�� ...
  • See What Google Knows About Your "Social Circ ...
    Google started including "your social circle" in its search results earlier this year. Ever wonder how Google knows who you know? Wonder no more, as the Mountain View firm offers a page explaining exactly how inter-connected your online life r ...
  • Sculptris is a User Friendly 3D Modeling and Sculp ...
    We've featured a few cool art tools before , but if you're more into the three-dimensional look, Sculptris is right up your alley—whether you're an artist or not. More »
  • Top 10 Tools for Managing and Automating Your Medi ...
    You're handy with BitTorrent , you've learned your way around Usenet , and you have all kinds of files streaming onto your hard drive. Learn how to automatically unpack, rename, convert, and otherwise make your media ready for viewing with the ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Terrible Crime, Faulty Narrative
    By Steve Hynd The big Afghanistan news today is the robbery and execution of 10 NGO medical workers in the Northern province of Badakhshan. By any account, it's a heinous crime against humanity. The group — a medical team of six Americans, a Briton, a German and four Afghans — had just finished eati ...
  • No More ISI "Rogue Element" Excuses
    By Steve Hynd Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari, during his disasterous trip to Britain, might eventually come to regret his interview with the UK's Daily Telegraph as the most disasterous move of all. He told the newspaper that he is completely in control of Pakistan's intelligence agency. "I th ...
  • 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 ...

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).
  • Shovel ready
    In its early years, it was mired amid allegations of collusion. More recently, it has been deemed unnecessary at times as well as a detriment to the environment, seen as a savior to regional water woes during the recent drought and a burden during the current harsh economic times.
  • 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).
  • 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).

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

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • 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

  • South American winter starts with a severe cold sn ...
    Sweltering temperatures have been the bane of British Columbia, Canada and Russia, where the heat wave is helping fan the flames of monstrous forest fires. But in South America, a freak cold snap has killed at least a dozen people.
  • Argentine dockworkers strike may cause further whe ...
    A planned 48-hour strike by Argentine dockworkers may further inflate global wheat prices, following on increases set in motion in the wake of Russian wildfires.
  • Underground Railroad featured at Oakville Museum
    The last stop of the Underground Railroad was in the Ontario town of Oakville. An exhibit room is set up at Oakville Museum at Erchless Estate detailing the story of one of the families who ran for their freedom.
  • Anti-smog centers open in Moscow amid burning fire ...
    Authorities in Russia have opened more than one hundred and twenty "anti-smog" centers to give residents some respite from record-high heat and choking smoke from wildfires raging around the capital, Moscow.
  • Woman arrested in cancer fraud case
    The young Oakville woman was young, beautiful and dying from cancer. Various fundraisers were held for the woman and a Facebook page, Change for a Cure was working to help her. She has been arrested for frauding the public. The lady isn't sick at all.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Affordable Housing Opponents Are Not Only Wrong, T ...
    All this week, End Homelessness is highlighting the negative policies of various cities and the perceptions of their residents when it comes to coexisting with people struggling with homelessness. All too often, the consensus is simply, "NIMBY," or "not in my backyard." Be sure to check out the prev ...
  • NIMBYism, New York City Style
    All this week, End Homelessness is highlighting the negative policies of various cities and the perceptions of their residents when it comes to coexisting with people struggling with homelessness. All too often, the consensus is simply, "NIMBY," or "not in my backyard." Be sure to check out the prev ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • What happened before we left Afghanistan
    “What Happens if We Leave Afghanistan” predicts the latest Time magazine cover, yet Time has not mastered a new art — taking photographs of the future. The image reflects what has happened under our watch and rather than representing the dreadful fate for Afghan women should the US and its allies pr ...
  • Tom Engelhardt: Whose hands? Whose blood?
    Killing civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq By Tom Engelhardt 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 respo ...
  • Bill McKibben: a wilted Senate on a heating planet
    Where are they now?  Last winter, when record snowstorms brought life in the northeast corridor to a halt, Virginia Republicans launched a web ad, “12 inches of global warming,” and the family of Oklahoma senator and global warming “skeptic” Jim Inhofe built an igloo on the national mall, labeling i ...
  • New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s remarks on the pro ...
    On Tuesday August 3 2010, Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined NYC City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and religious leaders from across New York City at an event on Governor’s Island. He spoke about the importance of religious freedom and the great tradition of tolerance and diversity that has character ...
  • 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 ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Global Tropical Cyclone Activity still at 30 year ...
    From: Ryan N. Maue’s 2010 Global Tropical Cyclone Activity Update Figure: Global and Northern Hemisphere Accumulated Cyclone Energy: 24 month running sum through July 31, 2010. Note that the year indicated represents the value of ACE through the previous 24-months … Continue reading →
  • Congressman Markey suggests “global warming ...
    And in an unbelievable gaffe, he’s told a whole group of people exactly where they can go: It is probably the most ugly statement I’ve ever seen from a politician regarding a group of people with ideas that disagree with … Continue reading →
  • Rebuttal to NOAA’s “State of the Clima ...
    The NOAA State of the Climate Report (PDF “at a glance” highlights version 10.5 MB, full version here 110 MB, 218 pages) was published by NCDC at the end of July. It’s another glossy compendium of issues, mostly qualitative, some … Continue reading →
  • WUWT operational note
    I and other moderators get tired of fixing this in comments daily, so I’m going to make a simple post on how to put links into your comment messages here. It’s dirt simple. 1. DON’T try to edit HTML to … Continue reading →
  • Sea Ice News #17
    by Steve Goddard In April, I pointed out that PIOMAS forecasts for the summer didn’t make much sense. The computer model is predicting that 3+ year old ice (which is probably in excess of 10 feet thick) is going to … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • The Tears of Gaza Must Be Our Tears by Chris Hedge ...
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig August 9, 2010 Chris Hedges made these remarks Thursday night in New York City at a fundraiser for sponsoring a U.S. boat to break the blockade of Gaza. More information can be found at www.ustogaza.org. When I lived in Jerusalem I had a frien ...
  • The Stimulator: Sugar Water
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ subMedia This Week: 1. Butt Pluggers2. Orwellian Decoder Ring3. Enbridge’s giant metal cock4. M.E.N.D. is back5. Rioting Irish in Belfast6. Russian forest defense7. Lolita Lebrón R.I.P.8. Meet me in the basement9. G20 arrestee report The Stimulator: Sugar Water s ...
  • New York’s Rebatable Bailout by Ralph Nader
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Aug. 6, 2010 You can’t make up the following realities in New York State! Note the following series of events driven by the preposterous plutocrats and see if you get steamed. Greed, power, reckless speculation and theft of other peo ...
  • The Daily Show: The Killing Tree + Clashes kill fi ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ thedailyshow.com A deadly gun battle on the border of Israel and Lebanon is sparked by the removal of a tree. (02:59) The Daily Show: The Killing Tree, posted with vodpod *** Clashes kill five in Lebanon AlJazeeraEnglish | August 03, 2010 Three Lebanese soldiers, ...
  • USrael and Iran by William Blum
    by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org 5 Aug, 2010 The Anti-Empire Report So please tell me again: What’s the war about? When facts are inconvenient, when international law, human rights and history get in the way, when war crimes can’t easily be justified or explained a ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    "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 ...
  • No title
    "How much more would we be dependent on foreign oil....and terrorism?"
  • No title
    The seas will turn black and boil?
  • No title
    The music of Inception gives everything a heavy, slightly sickening edge. Imagine it playing at a wedding. Or a funeral.
  • No title
    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

  • Scientists’ Most Wanted Lost Amphibian Species
    << previous image | next image >> Scientists in 14 countries on five continents are teaming up to hunt for as many as 100 species of amphibians that may be extinct, but may be surviving in remote corners. With amphibian populations around the world ...
  • The Personality Paradox
    There’s an interesting new paper in Biological Psychiatry on the genetic variations underlying human personality. The study relied on a standard inventory of temperaments – novelty-seeking, harm avoidance, reward dependence and persistence – as measured in 5,117 Australian adults. What did the scien ...
  • 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Gideon Levy: Missing the forest
    Defining Israel as a Jewish state condemns us to living in a racist state... Were we to not expel the migrant workers' children but continue to raze Bedouin villages we would not solve a thing. We... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Jerusalem Torturer
    A police officer known as “Major George” who is accused of torturing Arab prisoners in his previous role as chief interrogator in a secret military jail has been appointed to oversee relations with... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Israel retreats on flotilla agreement
    Israel quickly reined back expectations yesterday over its agreement to co-operate with a UN investigation into the Israeli army’s lethal raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla two months ago. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its ...
  • Norman Finkelstein: It Wasn’t a War
    We have to be careful not to reduce everything to BDS; it’s one of several strands, but probably the least significant, in my opinion. It may acquire more significance, but I think the major fronts... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • 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, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

Natural Health News

Antemedius

  • CIA: Enforcement Bureau of the Military-Industria ...
    When John F. Kennedy was running for president in 1960 he used to say, “Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a good neighbor in Latin America because he was a good neighbor right here at home.” Kennedy was referring to Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy which increased America’s popularity to people in that ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Has Colombia Self-Referred to the ICC?
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller El Universal — along with other newspapers — is reporting that one of President Uribe’s final acts in office was to file a complaint with the ICC alleging that Hugo Chavez, the President of Venezuela, is responsible for permitting FARC guerrillas to use Ven ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • SPLC Fights for Guestworker Teachers Defrauded in ...
    SPLC Fights for Guestworker Teachers Defrauded in International Labor Trafficking Scheme | Southern Poverty Law Center : Hundreds of Filipino guestworkers lured to teach in Louisiana public schools were cheated out of tens of thousands of dollars and forced into exploitative contracts by an internat ...
  • Reflections of Fidel: A call to the President of t ...
    Reflections of Fidel: A call to the President of the United States | United States |Axisoflogic.com : A few days ago, an article was published that really contained many facts related to the oil spill that occurred 105 days ago. President Obama had authorized the drilling of that well, trusting in ...
  • Africa: Ep 1 - Different But Equal
    Africa: Ep 1 - Different But Equal : "This is the first installment of Basil Davidson's educational 'Africa Series'. Basil Davidson is an acclaimed writer and Africanist historian. His works are required reading in many British universities. He is globally recognized as an expert on African Histor ...
  • On the Art of Stealing Human Rights
    Dickshovel.com [Note:�The following extracts are from a speech given by Gerry Gambill at a conference on Human Rights at Tobique Reserve in New Brunswick, in August, 1958. In this speech, he warned native people about how this society goes about taking away the human rights of native people...] Th ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Police: Man charged after referring to Conn. rampa ...
    ShareThis Police: Man charged after referring to Conn. rampage --Man arrested after making comments 07 Aug 2010 Connecticut police say they arrested a man at a management company after he mentioned the shooting rampage across the state that killed nine people and said he understood the killer's mind ...
  • Civil contempt confinement policies should be refo ...
    ShareThis Civil contempt confinement policies should be reformed By Jayne Ressler 29 Jul 2010 Richard Fine, a 70-year-old Tarzana attorney, has been imprisoned, reportedly in solitary confinement, without trial since March 4, 2009. His "crime"? Contempt of court, based on alleged "moral turpitude." ...
  • 'Radioactive boars' on loose in Germany
    ShareThis 'Radioactive boars' on loose in Germany 08 Aug 2010 Radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster is still poisoning Germany's boars nearly 25 years on, with authorities fighting to keep toxic meat off the market as the wild boar population rockets. The boars feed off mushrooms, ...
  • Nuclear Fear As Russian Blazes Hit Chernobyl
    ShareThis Nuclear Fear As Russian Blazes Hit Chernobyl 08 Aug 2010 Fears emerged last night that fires erupting in Russia could unleash deadly nuclear pollution from the Chernobyl disaster. The Kremlin was also taking emergency action to move missiles and other munitions at risk from hundreds of bla ...
  • Detective who found David Kelly's body raises ques ...
    ShareThis 'There wasn't much blood about': Detective who found weapons expert David Kelly's body raises questions over his death 08 Aug 2010 The mystery surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly deepened yesterday after the detective who found his body claimed he didn't see 'much blood'. The revelatio ...

Daily Loaf

  • Victor Crist called out in Times investigative sto ...
    All readers should check out St. Pete Times investigative reporter Lucy Morgan’s story today about the 1st District Court of Appeals in Tallahassee, which is building a “Taj Mahal” like $48 million court that will open this fall.  That’s happening at the same time that courts throughout the state ...
  • Charles Rangel now an issue in Florida elections
    Florida U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene is making Rangel an issue. In a conference call with reporters Sunday afternoon, Greene called on Rangel to quit Congress, and for Kendrick Meek to return the $5,500 in campaign contributions he's received from the New York Democrat.
  • Vegan delight: Brown rice and black bean lettuce w ...
    I find it delightfully challenging to assemble a plate full of nature’s bounty and bringing forth the crisp fresh flavors of the fruits, grains, legumes and vegetables with the aid of interesting herbs and spices.
  • New ad takes on Mark Sharpe and the transit tax (v ...
    Previously, the only official group organized against the transit referendum that Hillsborough voters will decide on November 2 was a small grass roots Tea Party based group called NoTaxforTracks.com.
  • David Boies on California same sex marriage ruling ...
    Wallace pushed hard on the fact that Judge Walker's decision had in essence, invalidating the votes of the 7 million Californians who voted for Prop 8 in November of 2008. But Olson, the former Solicitor General for George W. Bush, said the Supreme Court has ruled that marriage was a fundamental r ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Travel Warning: Israel Offended
    Reading Haâaretz this morning, my eyes were diverted to an article about the indignation of the Israeli Tourism Ministry about â guess what? Anti-Israel bias, of course.   Apparently, in the wake of the rocket attacks earlier this week, the US government issued a travel warning to Israel (part ...
  • 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.

Politics in the Zeros

  • Peter Camejo memoir. North Star
    The Spanish Prisoner reviews Peter Camejo’s memoir, North Star. There are two aspects of this book that may well prove controversial. The first is his critique of Trotskyism. The second is his discussion of the leftâs capitulation to the Democrats during the 2000?s. Camejo argues that during the 1 ...
  • Drive-by Truckers. “Working This Job”
    Lose your job, lose your house, suicide by cop. I’m starting to think this band possesses genuine greatness
  • Water bottle filters dirty water with UV light
    The bottle is about the same shape as a regular water bottle and has an inner and outer chamber. To operate, fill the outer chamber with disgusting and undrinkable H2O, insert the inner chamber, turn the crank to activate the UV sterilization, and in 120 seconds you’ve got yourself some tasty purifi ...
  • Living in the digital world
  • Lessig on how campaign cash corrupts our democracy
    From the Fix Congress Now listserv This past Friday, Lawrence Lessig presented at the TEDX Boston conference in a continued effort to bring awareness to the need to end corruption in our political system and restore democracy. Not surprisingly, Professor Lessig’s compelling and inspirational talk is ...

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

  • Conservative Group Accused of Censoring Stories on ...
    An undercover investigation by the website AlterNet claims to have uncovered a conservative group’s organized campaign to censor Digg, the world’s largest social media organization. The coordinated censorship is responsible for “burying” several thousand articles within three to four hours of being ...
  • Cop Busts Window of Two Elderly Men on Way To Hosp ...
    This video illustrates how Cops are trained to fear the general public and treat them as the enemy. Dash Cam Video of Diboll Texas Cop pulling over two elderly men who were rushing to the hospital because they couldn’t afford an ambulance. The Cop immediately drew his gun and broke out the driver si ...
  • V FOR VANQUISH: Obama, Fascism and the Internet Ki ...
    Barack Obama, fascism and the bill that would give him an internet kill switch. Why we must collectively refuse the Emperor’s latest, fascist power grab. For more research, look up the Cyber Security Bill, not yet passed in U.S. Congress…but pending. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d14640').each( fun ...
  • WARNING Drug gang has secret nuclear information
    See 0:45 – The Ministry adds that secret information from the Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Laboratory ended up at the hands of a drug gang in 2006. The Russian Foreign Ministry’s website says the United States has been in breach of several arms-related treaties, including the Strategic Arms Reduction ...
  • BP OIL LEAK – Hardcore Gulf Fisherman Diseas ...
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The Air Vent

  • Up is Down, Down is Up and Left is right
    BBC Apologizes for Accuracy in Reporting Today at Bishop Hill, I learned that instead of UEA apologizing to the world for the lies, distortions, manipulations, alarmism, wasting of tax money and general malfeasance, the BBC (leftists extraordinaire), have apologized to the UEA for —— wait for it… wa ...
  • Time to Fix the thermometers
    I was reading at Niche Modeling today and ran across another McKitrick, McIntyre paper on the trends vs measurements in models.  This is the first published correction to the Santer08 paper which made the claim that models were supported by the data.  It’s published in a Atmospheric Science Letter ...
  • Sea Ice Update, August 2010
    This is an updated sea ice video, created in R from the NSIDC gridded data.  It’s useful for looking at weather patterns and understanding the annual variability of sea ice.  The first link is a short version, the second will be added later and runs at 2X speed from 2005.  It’s still uploading.
  • 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 ...

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

  • This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games
    Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games â tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, August 2nd, 2010 Zynga, Other Developers See Big Growth In this Week’s Fastest-Growing Apps by MAU Top 25 MySpace Games for ...
  • Facebook Roundup: Ads, the Like Button, Media, Pho ...
    Facebook Ad Revenue Grows, More Acquisitions Coming - Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg revealed this past week that the company’s largest advertisers increased their spending with the site 10 times over in the past year. She also shared that some advertisers have increased spending ...
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    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 ...

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ReDress News

  • Iran, Israel and the Holocaust
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the phenomenon of Holocaust questioning in Iran and elsewhere in the Muslim countries is directly linked to Israel’s cynical exploitation of the Holocaust to justify its policies and bludgeon its critics.
  • Legalizing injustice in the Negev and implications ...
    Nasser Rego considers the legal and political framework of the escalating ethnic cleansing of the Negev – or Naqab – by the Israeli authorities and argues that, given the fracturing of the “solomonic pillar of law propping up Israel’s democratic facade”, the time has come for the international commu ...
  • Suspected Israeli torturer gets key police job in ...
    A police officer known as “Major George” who is accused of torturing Arab prisoners in his previous role as chief interrogator in a secret military jail has been appointed to oversee relations with Jerusalem’s Palestinian population, Jonathan Cook reports.
  • 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 ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Jamiol Presents
  • 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 ...

Afro Spear

  • What A WarriorGirl Looks Like – The Wisdom o ...
    CAN A YOUNG TEENAGED GIRL TEACH A WOMAN ANYTHING?  There is a beautiful young, black, West Philly girl, originally from Cote d’Ivoire somewhere in the blogosphere.  She’s set up her shop and she’s teaching us critically important truths about ourselves.   Her name is Sojourner, and she’s don ...
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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 ...

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

  • Mexico's Drug War - Mexico's Drug Cartels up the A ...
    On Aug. 3, the U.S. Consulate in Juarez, Mexico, reopened after being closed for four days. On July 29, the consulate had announced in a warden message that it would be closed July 30 and would remain closed until a review of the consulate’s security posture could be completed. The closure appears t ...
  • The Edge of the Mortage Mess - Whistleblower Charg ...
    Fannie Mae executives bungled their stewardship of the federal government’s massive foreclosure-prevention campaign, creating a bureaucratic muddle characterized by “mismanagement and gross waste of public funds,” according to a whistleblower lawsuit by a former Fannie Mae executive and consultant. ...
  • BDS--the New Anti-Jewish Boycott - Isolation as a ...
    Since 1948, Israel has been relatively isolated. In contrast to the Arab League, there is no "Jewish" League, and alliances depend on shared interests and values. European support has generally been problematic, and close cooperation with the United States only developed after 1967, with periodic fr ...
  • The Obama Edge - Browner on Energy Bill and Gulf C ...
    White House Energy Adviser Carol Browner said Sunday that while the Obama administration is “deeply disappointed” that an energy bill was unable to make its way through Congress, the president has not given up hope that it can get done this year. In an exclusive interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” ...
  • The Toxic Edge - Brazil's Lone Heroine Fights for ...
    Inching along at rush hour in her battered black Chevrolet Corsa, Fernanda Giannasi joked about the pariah status she’s attained with the Brazilian asbestos industry. “I have no name,” she said. “I’m just ‘That woman.’” No wonder. Giannasi, an inspector with the federal Ministry of Labor and Employm ...

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

  • Toxic President to Send Wife to Campaign in His St ...
    When she gets back from her tour of Spain costing taxpayers $75,000/Day the FLOTUS, Michelle Obama will be put to work campaigning in districts where her husband will hurt rather than help. According to Politico , all signs say the White House will likely deploy Obama to help Dems keep the majority ...
  • Can You Handle The Truth?: Poll Shows The Shocking ...
    By Barry Rubin This is one of those stories about the Middle East that is totally amazing but not the least bit surprising. What, you ask, do I mean? From the standpoint of the way the region is portrayed in the West this information is incredible but if you understand the area it is exactl ...
  • Dems Invoke Kindergarten Playbook For Midterm Vote ...
    The progressive Democrats in power either believe that the citizens of this country are absolute morons or they haven't read a newspaper in two years and don't realize that George Bush is no longer president. For those of you who enjoyed the 2008 campaign get ready because the Democrats plan o ...
  • Charlie Rangel Directed Tax-Payer Money To "Questi ...
    Progressives like Congressman Charlie Rangel have a similar "fatal flaw." The mistake they always make stems from their belief that they know much more than the public. What the rest of the country looks upon as political favoritism, Rangel and his ilk sees. as a more appropriate use of public funds ...
  • "The Street Was Covered with Blood and Bodies" Re ...
    Her eyes, I think, will stay with me forever. Imploring, beseeching, full of so much sadness. I think the shock of where and how she was, was sinking in. I can't begin to describe all that was in those eyes. Yesterday; Thursday, August 9th the 20th of Av, on my way to work, I found myself ...

The Real Agenda

  • Costa Rican Shill Heading UN Climate Fraud Negotia ...
    By Luis R. Miranda Cristiana Figueres, a descendant of a Costa Rican elite family is the top United Nations climate official in charge of conducting negotiations to impose a worldwide tax on humanity for the purpose of funding the World Climate Fund, a United Nations organ that would rule over every ...
  • 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.

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

  • Bus service with a couple of links.
    When and why to picket City Hall Ok. so that one seems to link but not embed the video. GRRRR.. But it’s good. That from friend Ed. Then there’s this from Bruce Gagnon in Bath, Maine and he even mentions our Lights Out and school cuts and bus cuts but not everything. To mention everything [...]
  • Gender Respect in Tabloids and Wrestling.
    So I figured a way to tie a few concepts into one on the subject of two headlines on Gossip Tabloids in the supermarket check-out lane. National Enquirer headline “Roy, of Siegfried and Roy caught on video soliciting GAY sex!” My out-loud reaction was “Oh My GOD! Siegfried and Roy are GAY? I haven’t ...
  • Bernie HerPin, Billionaire Propagandist Rush, have ...
    –Like business ties to BP. The USOC deal the City Council made was also a BP front.   Then there’s their Anti-Worker ARROGANCE like this. Neither I nor Miss Johnnie can actually WALK anywhere. Both of us thrown to the wolves by the Corporatists, told that the medical treatments that could have kept ...
  • US tells Wikileaks: “do the right thing&#822 ...
    What does it mean to have the criminal US regime tell you to “do the right thing?” As if a spokesmen for a morally bankrupt war machine assert any inherent understanding of right and wrong. But this request was expressed more like “gimme you lunch money.” If you doubt this is meant more as an [...]
  • Time Magazine spites its face
    This week’s cover of Time has to rank at their most scurrilous, a baldfaced attempt to evoke the iconic National Geographic cover, this time figuratively defaced. It’s Mona Lisa given a Howl; The Green Revolution’s “Neda” shot in the head, instead of the evocative-deficient not-in-your-face mortal w ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Debunking Joseph Nobles: Other Buildings
    Mr. Nobles’ latest addition to his website is a page attempting to show how other skyscraper fires are not comparable to the Twin Towers and Building 7. He focuses on the skyscraper fires featured in the AE911Truth power point. Because Mr. Nobles uses similar arguments for more than one of the liste ...
  • 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 ...

Fooducate

  • Why Does Europe Deserve Safer Food than the US?
    Remember Kellogg’s stinky cereal we wrote about last month? A few weeks after recalling millions of boxes due to a strange odor coming from the packaging, the company announced the reason: a petroleum based chemical, methylnaphthalene, was used in excess in the waxy liner of the plastic package hol ...
  • SoBe lifewater 0 Calories
    Fooducate reader Tammy asks “Will you guys do research on SoBe Lifewater 0 calories drink”? Happy to oblige. SoBe is a young brand which started selling iced teas in the Northeast in the late 1990’s. In 2000, it was acquired by PepsiCo. Vitamin enhanced waters have been a huge growth engine in the b ...
  • 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 ...

Traffikd

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

Clearreaching

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

Worldpress - Africa

Canadian Encyclopedia

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle trade-size ice cream tu ...
    The other day, John and I were hanging around a dumpster at the back of an ice cream parlour — as you do — and spotted it was full of 5ltr plastic ice cream tubs. In our house, ice cream tubs are one of our favourite plastics to reuse – rectangular 1ltr square tubs are just [...]
  • How can I build a barbecue reusing or recycling st ...
    In a bit of an impromptu barbecue-themed week, I thought I’d ask about building the key part of the experience: the barbecue itself. This is partly because I’m interested in hearing bbq ideas and partly because I’m thinking of building myself a little smokehouse for my birthday and I suspect there ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle old vitamin tablets?
    We’ve had an email from Andi: Can I Compost vitamin tablets? I have two jars in date but have gone moist from the air. What can I do with the bottles? We’ve covered pill bottles already on the site but the vitamin question is a good one – and I’m not sure of the answer. I [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle meat that’s gone ...
    We’ve had an email from Amy: Hi. Is there ANYTHING I can do with expired meat? I’ve read you can’t compost it but it’s such a waste to throw it away? Yes, it is a waste! As I’m sure you know, it takes a whole lot of energy to produce a kilogram of meat, to ship it [...]
  • How can I repair a rusted up barbeque?
    After reading last week’s barbecue themed posts, Ali got in touch to ask about repairing a rusted up bbq: The grill is rusty pretty much all over and there is a rust hole in the base too. My husband wants to throw it out and get another but I’d like to try fixing it first. Please [...]

Mondoweiss

  • Slater: rightwing Jewish support for Israel risks ...
    Great piece by Jerry Slater on How bad can the Jewish Rightwing get? in which he responds to the Tablet attack on critics of Israel and argues that rightwing Jewish complicity in the occupation and the Israel lobby poses a danger to the Jewish status in the west: Rather than guarding against anti-Se ...
  • Shalala is doubly humiliated
    A brilliant post by MJ Rosenberg at TPM does what Senator Sam Ervin or Woodward and Bernstein instructed my generation to do in our youth, but that no mainstream journalist is allowed to do when it comes to the Israel lobby, and follow the money. Rosenberg grabs on to the story that former Education ...
  • Levy: ‘Defining Israel as a Jewish state con ...
    I just heard Brooke Gladstone of On the Media, NPR, grill Wadah Khanfar, an Al Jazeera executive, about how the network is hurting the peace process by running stories suggesting that Mahmoud Abbas was wrong to attempt to cashier the Goldstone Report. O hallowed peace process. Does she have any idea ...
  • Bromwich: Passionless Obama is letting ideologues ...
    David Bromwich has a devastating essay up on Huffpo, called "One More War, Please" that begins with the question, "Will the summer of 2010 be remembered as the time when we turned into a nation of sleepwalkers?" and then goes through the devastations of America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, showin ...
  • Hedges’s 2001 account of attack on Gaza boys ...
    Many people have sent me raves about Chris Hedges's appearance the other night at the Gaza boat fundraiser. They have praised his work on the issue, in particular his 2001 Harper's piece, A Gaza Diary. It included the stunning scene below. We will make no progress in American policymaking till we ac ...

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

  • A "STINKER" OF A JOBS REPORT AND HARPER SAYS IT'S ...
    "It's a stinker," says Bill Gross about the latest report on Canadian unemployment.� As manager of the world's largest mutual fund (based in California), I guess Gross knows a thing or two about money. As reported in Bloomberg, Gross also said commodity-based economies like Canada's aren't doing as ...
  • CIA AND ISI NURTURED MUJAHIDEEN AND TALIBAN
    Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, a husband and wife team, began their experience in Afghanistan when they were the first American journalists to acquire permission to enter behind Soviet lines in 1981 for CBS News and produced a documentary, Afghanistan Between Three Worlds, for PBS. In 1983 the ...
  • ECONOMIC CRISIS AND RACISM HAUNT ARIZONA IMMIGRATI ...
    On Wednesday, a last-second injunction from Judge Susan Bolton temporarily stopped the most aggressive provisions of state bill SB1070 from going into effect. This is the Arizona law that will target undocumented immigrants. In particular, the judge struck down the section that compels police office ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • The Golden State’s War on Itself
    C alifornia has long been a destination for those seeking a better place to live. For most of its history, the state enacted sensible policies that created one of the wealthiest and most innovative economies in human history. California realized the American dream but better, fostering a huge middle ...
  • Flexible Forecasting: Looking for the Next Econom ...
    Last autumn I gave a talk in California's San Fernando Valley. I was the last of three economists speaking that day, and I watched the other economists’ presentations, each a rosy forecast of recovery and imminent prosperity. So, I was a bit nervous when it was my turn to speak, because I had a for ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Why US wont strike Iran now
    The reasons that there will be no US war or military strike against Iran are that the US military command, under the guidance of its political leadership, is implementing a strategy of deterrence to prevent Iran from continuing its nuclear program. Submitted by beatrice d. to World �|� �Note-it! ...
  • BBC News - Muslim summer camp preaches 'anti-terro ...
    MUSLIM GOOD GUY. Submitted by Peter H. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Niqab Security Outrages at Canadian Airports
    What made it different is that the next passengers after me in line were a man, a small child, and a person in niqab. (I write "person" rather than "woman" as I hardly know who was under the niqab outfit.) ** This is a security issue to think about. Submitted by Kit B. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
  • Ethnic cleansing in the Israeli Negev
    This time the impact of the destruction sank in immediately. Perhaps because the 300 people who resided in al-Arakib, including their children, were sitting in the rubble when I arrived, and their anguish was evident; Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Right Wing Thought Police
    That is what may be happening when it comes to Middle East policy and perceptions. For instance, the behavior of the Israeli government has been so brutal and uncompromising that it is becoming more difficult for the U.S. media to rationalize it away. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note- ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Historical Notes

libcom

  • From Cordoba CNT-AIT, Solidarity in the conflict a ...
    P3300005.JPG The conflict started in the University of Córdoba where EULEN has a contract for maintenance and gardening services. After several unsatisified demands, a case was started against EULEN and ...
  • International Day of Strike and Action
    october7-2-v3-1.jpg In the United States, the Obama administration has led a direct attack on public education. Hundreds of schools have been closed across the country, tuitions are being raised, teacher ...
  • 1. Libertarian Media Fair for the German speaking ...
    banner_724.png Another blank area on the map of anarchist book fairs is about to be disappear with the 1. Libertäre Medienmesse (Anarchist media fair) taking place at Oberhausen, Germany from september 3 ...
  • UK strike roundup
    tmcprisonstrike_sheppey_4aug10_sm.jpg Recent weeks have seen a number of strikes and sucessful strike ballots in the UK Factory workers strike in Coventry Hundreds of employees of ...
  • 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 ...

Free Range International

  • The Good Don’t Always Die Young
    The Godfather of Free Range International – the man who pioneered the techniques, tactics and procedures we use to travel in remote districts was executed last week in Badakhshan Province. Dan Terry was a good man.  He was humble, self-effacing, and competent.  He lived in Afghanistan with his fam ...
  • Getting After It
    One of the Chim Chim’s dropped in for a visit last month.  He was on some sort of training inspection type team which I didn’t ask too much about and told us that every-time he asked officers from the unit he was looking at what they were doing the reply was “getting after it.”  They [...]
  • Losing Hearts and Minds
    Ben Arnoldy at the Christen Science Monitor penned an excellent tale on reconstruction efforts going pear shaped and the consequences resulting from such folly.  It is an excellent piece of reporting from one of the truly professional foreign correspondents working the country today.  The report was ...
  • Restrepo
    Last week Kanani Fong at The Kitchen Dispatch arranged an interview for me with Tim Hertherington, who along with Sebastian Junger produced the award winning documentary Restrepo.   Kanani signed onto the Restrepo team to spearhead a public relations effort, in conjunction with National Geographic, ...
  • Riding with Ghosts
    Editors Note:  This article is too good not to share in its entirety.  The reporter, Mitch Potter, was kind enough to give me permission to do so.  Mitch contacted me through the blog and Panjwaii Tim told me he was a great guy with lots of experience and knowledge who he was happy to host. [...]

The Story Behind the Story

  • 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

  • 8/8/2010 Update-Guest Post-Advertising Invitation- ...
    St Louis Renewable Energy Updates Aug 8, 2010- Advertising Fees Updated- Weekly-Monthly-Quarterly Fee Schedule If you would like to share your info here are some Web Page Analytics for St Louis Renewable Energy.Blog Spot July 8-Aug 7, 2010 1.952 Page … Continue reading →
  • Join the movement to Separate Oil and State!
    I’ve just joined Oil Change International in the movement to Separate Oil and State by writing my Representatives to demand that they stop taking cash from and giving cash to the oil industry. Go to http:/priceofoil.org/action and join us!
  • Dirty Money-Our Missouri Government Leaders
    Another Letter to: Rep. Russ Carnahan, Sen. Kit Bond, Sen. McCaskill, Dear Mr. Carnahan, Mr. Bond, and Ms, McCaskill- I encourage ‘Leading by Example’. When I read that my Elected Leaders have a combined Political Contributions of $455,759.00-From the Oil … Continue reading →
  • Fossil Fuel Subsidies
    What is a fossil fuel subsidy? A fossil fuel subsidy is any government action that lowers the cost of fossil fuel energy production, raises the price received by energy producers or lowers the price paid by energy consumers. How much … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

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

  • اعتصاب غذای فعالان جنبش سبز در لس آنجلس
    همزمان با اعتصاب غذای 17 زندانی در زندان اوین امروز جمعی از فعالان جنبش سبز در لس آنجلس دست به یک اعتصاب غذای یک روزه زدند. هدف از این حرکت اعلام همبستگی با ۱۷ زندانی در حال اعتصاب در زندان اوین و درخواست آزادی بی قید و شرط این زندانیان است.
  • انتقاد شدید رئیس قوه قضائیه ایران از ادبیات محمود ...
    صادق لاریجانی، رئیس قوه قضائیه ایران، از اظهارات محمود احمدی نژاد، رئیس جمهور این کشور، درباره نحوه برخورد قوه قضائیه با جرایم مطبوعاتی انتقاد کرده و از او خواسته ادبیاتی متین و فاخر داشته باشد. read more
  • شناسايي متن منشور کورش روي استخوان‌هاي فسيل اسب در ...
    پژوهش‌هاي زبان‌شناسي يک متخصص زبان‌هاي خاور نزديک روي دو قطعه استخوان فسيل شده اسب که در موزه شهر ممنوعه نگهداري مي‌شوند، منجر به شناسايي نسخه چيني منشور کورش شد. گفته مي‌شود که قدمت اين استخوان‌ها به دوره سلطنت هخامنشيان بازمي‌گردد و مطالعه روي نوشته‌هاي اين کتيبه همچنان ادامه دارد. read more
  • یکسال و چند ماه پس از دروغگوئی های نفتی احمدی نژاد
    بیژن زنگنه، وزیر اسبق نفت درباره ادعاهای اخیر نفتی احمدی نژاد در سال 1388 نامه ای خطاب به وی نوشت و منتشر کرد که بد نیست، یکسال و اندی دوباره نگاهی به آن انداخته شود تا معلوم شود او چه گفت و چه نوشت و احمدی نژاد در برنامه های تبلیغات انتخاباتی اش چه گفت و چه ادعاهائی کرد و هر دو را با اوضاع پس از کو ...
  • امریکا و اروپا می خواهند جفتک بیاندازند!
    احمدی نژاد در سخنرانی خود، امام دوازدهم و غایب را رهبر جمهوری اسلامی معرفی کرد و تفسیر قرآن را نیز از روحانیت گرفته و به مراکز غیبی واگذار کرد. نکات قابل تاملی در سخنرانی اوباشانه او وجود دارد که نشان دهنده نقشه های محافل پنهان و پشت سر اوست.

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Climate Change for Dummies - Part I
    Maori TV (New Zealand’s alternative public TV station) played the fantastic ABC documentary Crude last week. I was in New Zealand when it first aired in 2007 and didn’t see it. The previews all make it out to be a crash course in geology – an explanation of how oil is laid down in the earth’ ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • The real problem in the Afghan war is India, Pakis ...
    LAHORE -- The United States is struggling to implement a strategy for Afghanistan that will improve the lives of the Afghan people and allow U.S. troops to go home. Part of what makes it so difficult is the way Washington views the conflict: through the lens of what officials have dubbed "AfPak," a ...
  • Wikileaks vs the Pentagon: Phony Fingerpointing
    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 Afghan War docume ...
  • 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 ...

Salon

  • Immigration stance boosts A.Z. governor's chances
    As the year began, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer faced a competitive field of fellow Republicans who wanted her job, with some GOP critics sensing she was particularly vulnerable as she sought voter approval of a sales tax increase she'd proposed to shore up the state budget.
  • U.S.A to end Iraq combat operations
    Iraq's military is ready and able to take over security operations as the United States ends it combat role and prepares for a major troop withdrawal, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said Sunday.
  • Sarah Palin and the age of tweetalism
    It’s not exactly a shocker that Sarah Palin loves to tweet. Indeed, Twitter seems to have been invented expressly for the former Alaska governor, a public figure whose prodigious need for attention is matched only by her microscopic attention span.
  • Schwarzenegger: Allow same-sex marriages to resume
    California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who twice vetoed legislation that would have legalized same-sex marriage, has surprised gay rights supporters by urging a federal judge to allow gay couples to resume marrying in the state without further delay.
  • WikiLeaks to publish new documents
    The online whistle-blower WikiLeaks said it will continue to publish more secret files from governments around the world despite U.S. demands to cancel plans to release classified military documents.

SMB News

  • Do they lock Geo More news from Zardari to throw s ...
    Karachi: Geo News blocked the transfer of the road at night in a cold portion of the new country after the news sent threw shoes at President Zardari’s party time in Birmingham, Geo News reported sources as kabelexploitanten zeggend. Meanwhile, many of the singer kabelexploitanten in Karachi was bad ...
  • News unrest throw shoes around the resort for PPP
    LONDON, PPP activists, that anger has riots, arson, and Karachi and the country’s answer to the remaining sadness news, President Asif Ali Zardari that they air during the party, its Birmingham, Sunday morning, said the old shoes make a show. All newspapers and newspaper vendors, robed Thenews Jang ...
  • 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 ...

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  • Fidel Castro calls on the World to persuade Obama ...
    Summary: Fidel Castro Former Cuban President Fidel Castro has delivered a speech to the country's parliament to warn against US threats against Iran and the danger of a global nuclear war that could lead to a "nuclear holocaust": “President Barack Obama is the one who would give the order to st ...
  • 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 ...

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  • Research fraud: Dr. Reuben now claims he had "bipo ...
    (NaturalNews) Defense attorneys for the perpetrator of one of the largest research frauds in history have claimed that their client, Scott S. Reuben, MD, suffered from "serious, but undiagnosed" bipolar disorder that led him to fabricate data and otherwise falsify his research. Reuben graduated from ...
  • Pharmacists, doctors are the new drug dealers who ...
    (NaturalNews) Prescription drug abuse is emerging as the new face of the U.S. drug problem, with unscrupulous pharmacists and doctors taking the place of street pushers or other stereotypical visions of the "drug dealer." Southern Ohio has emerged as a major supplier of illegal prescription drugs, w ...
  • Cloned beef has now entered the food supply
    (NaturalNews) The U.K. Food Standards Agency (FSA) recently announced that the meat from a cloned cow has made its way into the food supply. According to a recent BBC report, a U.K. farmer purchased cloned bull embryos from the U.S., bred the animals and sold one of them as food back in July 2009. T ...
  • Experts warn parents against allowing children to ...
    (NaturalNews) Before the days of computers, children used to spend a lot more time outdoors. But even since computers first became mainstream, the amount of time children spend on them has drastically increased, causing an increase in illness and anti-social behavioral problems. And experts say pare ...
  • HFCS - the poison that promotes obesity and liver ...
    (NaturalNews) Two new studies have added more reason for concern that high-fructose corn syrup causes significantly more harm to the body than its mere sugar content would suggest. High-fructose corn syrup contains 55 percent fructose and 45 percent glucose. In contrast, table sugar (also known as s ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • Watergate Deniers Whitewashing History at Nixon Li ...
    Back in 2007, the National Archives took over the Richard Nixon Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California. Among its first tasks in setting the historical record straight regarding the Richard Nixon Foundation's presentation of Watergate as "a 'coup' engineered by Nixon enemies." Now three ye ...
  • On Deficits, Republicans Can't Hide Their Ryan Eye ...
    The two weeks have not been kind to the ersatz deficit hawks of the Republican Party. First, the preposterous claims of John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and the legion of new Republican alchemists that tax cuts pay for themselves were thoroughly debunked . Making matters worse, Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) ...
  • 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 ...

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Climate

  • August 7-8, 2010
    Huge Ice Island Calves Off Greenland Glacier (Reuters) 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. Markey: Warming Skeptics Should Move to Ice I ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...

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  • 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!

Booman Tribune

  • Bad Day
    We went to celebrate a relative's sixty-fifth birthday and had a nice afternoon with good food and friendly games of backyard volleyball. But when we came home, one of our dogs had passed away in his crate. He was an Australian Shepherd named Dumbledore, just shy of 10 years old. Even though he h ...
  • Wanker of the Day: Maureen Dowd
    MoDo: Andrea Tantaros, a Fox contributor and former Republican operative, wrote a harsh Daily News blog post calling the first lady a material girl for going on a glitzy vacation at a luxury resort in Marbella with a cavalcade of Secret Service agents, friends, children and staff, even as most ...
  • The Rift on the Right
    Last year, during the August recess, there was an outbreak of unruly behavior at congressional town hall meetings. At the time, there was a lot of debate about how organic or synthetic the outbreak was. I think the matter is settled now. There is nothing to explain the lack of unruly behavior this ...
  • Good For Joe Klein
    I've been pretty rough on Joe Klein over the years, so I want to pause to praise him for his latest article, which concludes with this heartfelt apology: As for myself, I deeply regret that once, on television in the days before the [Iraq] war, I foolishly spontaneously said that going ahead ...
  • How to Protest Tyranny: Burn the Flag
    Protest tyranny by burning the "flag." Which flag? Why, this one: Read on for why you should consider this action on 9/12/2010. Tyranny is a word that people throw around an awful lot these days. And I will be the first to admit that tyranny has played a part in the history of America. ...

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Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Physical and Emotional Impact of Gender Harassment ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Sexual harassment in the workplace can lead to feelings of depression, job stress, and overall poor health (both mental and physical). A new article in Law and Human Behavior suggests that the current definition of sexual harassment neglects to address the most freque ...
  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up As always, we are pleased to share with you ten of the week’s top news pieces and articles related to mental health, psychology, and therapy. Happy Reading! ⢠Childhood Personality Traits Predict Adult Behavior, Study Suggests ⢠Culture Wires ...
  • New Book Tells the Story Behind Rational Emotive B ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Albert Ellis, the psychotherapist who played a large role in the development of cognitive-behavioral therapy and the self-help movement, passed away in 2007. But a new book chronicles the story of his life, a story which sets the groundwork for his professional work in ...
  • 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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Green diary rescue & open thread - Daily Kos (blog ...
    Green diary rescue & open thread Daily Kos (blog) The hot-pink dots are forests negatively affected by removal: Mountaintop removal has become an increasingly contentious issue over the past several decades ...
  • Paul's gaffes better than Mongiardo's endorsement ...
    Paul's gaffes better than Mongiardo's endorsement Lexington Herald Leader In the Details profile, Paul is also quoted as saying mountaintop removal mining needs a better name because "we're not talking about Mount Everest, ... and more��
  • W.Va. churches taking 'hard walk' on mining - Pitt ...
    Pittsburgh Post Gazette W.Va. churches taking 'hard walk' on mining Pittsburgh Post Gazette That's what you have to do when your religious organization decides to take a position -- in, of all places, West Virginia -- saying 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��

Memeorandum

  • Re: "United States of Arabia," etc. (Andy McCarthy ...
    Andy McCarthy / National Review : Re: “United States of Arabia,” etc.   —  Jonah, I appreciate that, big guy, and admiration is very much a two-way street.  —  On the GZ mosque, Jonah and I are substantially in agreement.  I don't mean to weasel, so let me elaborate.  I say “substantially” because ...
  • Obama tests basketball skills against LeBron James ...
    Shane D'Aprile / The Hill : Obama tests basketball skills against LeBron James, Magic Johnson   —  President Obama hosted more than a dozen current and former basketball pros for an afternoon game at Fort McNair Sunday.  —  The group included LeBron James, Grant Hill, Dwyane Wade, Magic Johnson and ...
  • U.S. Economy Improving, More Stimulus Isn't the An ...
    Bloomberg : U.S. Economy Improving, More Stimulus Isn't the Answer, Rubin, O'Neill Say   —  The U.S. economy will improve slowly and another round of fiscal stimulus probably wouldn't be effective, former Treasury secretaries Paul O'Neill and Robert Rubin said.  —  Rubin, who served under Democrat ...
  • Ted Olson To Chris Wallace On Marriage Equality: ' ...
    Igor / Think Progress : Ted Olson To Chris Wallace On Marriage Equality: 'Would You Like Fox's Right To Free Press Put Up To A Vote?'   —  This morning, Ted Olson — the conservative lawyer who represented President Bush in Bush v. Gore — appeared on Fox News Sunday to discuss his recent victory in ...
  • Half-baked mosque (New York Post)
    New York Post : Half-baked mosque   —  Not so fast.  —  The developers of the controversial mosque proposed near Ground Zero own only half the site where they want to construct the $100 million building, The Post has learned.  —  One of the two buildings on Park Place is owned by Con Edison …

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5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.2, Java, Indonesia
    Monday, August 9, 2010 03:34:15 UTC Monday, August 9, 2010 10:34:15 AM at epicenter Depth : 594.90 km (369.65 mi)
  • M 5.0, eastern Xizang
    Monday, August 9, 2010 02:54:52 UTC Monday, August 9, 2010 10:54:52 AM at epicenter Depth : 52.80 km (32.81 mi)
  • M 5.0, Vanuatu
    Saturday, August 7, 2010 07:02:38 UTC Saturday, August 7, 2010 06:02:38 PM at epicenter Depth : 169.80 km (105.51 mi)
  • M 5.1, offshore Bio-Bio, Chile
    Friday, August 6, 2010 21:05:26 UTC Friday, August 6, 2010 05:05:26 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.4, Tajikistan
    Tuesday, August 3, 2010 16:26:27 UTC Tuesday, August 3, 2010 09:26:27 PM at epicenter Depth : 37.40 km (23.24 mi)

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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  • 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 ...

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  • Swapped spy says he is not Russian, wants to move ...
    By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | One of the 11 Russian spies arrested in the US in June, and later swapped with CIA assets held in Russian prisons, claims he is not Russian, speaks no Russian, and wants to move to Peru, where he lived in the 1970s. Juan Lazaro was arrested by the FBI [...]
  • News you may have missed #409
    Probe unearths secrets of Bulgaria’s assassination bureau. Previously unknown details on Service 7, Bulgaria’s Cold War-era assassination bureau, have been unearthed by one of Bulgaria’s leading newspapers, following a probe into 5,000 pages of declassified archives from the country’s former communi ...
  • 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 ...

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  • Political Prisoners in America
    Political Prisoners in America - by Stephen Lendman Noted journalist HL Menchen described "The most dangerous man to any government (as someone) who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that t ...
  • Prosecuting Khadr instead of Bush - the supreme ir ...
    President Obama's position on war crimes committed during the Bush administration has been defined in American political discourse by rhetoric about "looking forward". But that only applies to American war crimes. On the other hand, at Guantanamo Bay, a young man who was extra-judicially kidnapped ...
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  • RULES OF ENGAGEMENT IN IRAQ ARE A JOKE
    Elaine Brower,mother of an Iraq vet and Ethan McCord,Iraq vet, on supporting accused military leaker Bradley Manning and the growing resistance in the military. See and hear what they have to share: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZotRFGVpbY
  • Bravo Company Ethan McCord, recounts aftermath of ...
    Ethan McCord, who was a member of Bravo Company and rescued the two children seen in the WikiLeaks"Collateral Murder" video, tells what effect this experience had on him. Hear his account on the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ihPGtcHjNk

Grist - News

  • Massive ice island breaks off Greenland glacier
    by Agence France-Presse. A massive ice island four times the size of Manhattan has broken off an iceberg in northwestern Greenland, a researcher at a U.S. university said. Andreas Muenchow at the University of Delaware said in a statement Friday that the last time the Arctic lost such a large ...
  • 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 ...

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  • In Wake of Arizona’s Immigration Law, Cities ...
    Aztec, N.M., maintains it is no “sanctuary,” and for months has led a campaign to shed the designation.
  • This Week in Immigration News
    - The ACLU and other civil rights groups filed a class-action lawsuit against federal authorities demanding they reform the immigration detention system to help mentally ill detainees. A Human Rights Watch report from July detailed problems for the mentally ill in immigration custody, who often spen ...
  • 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 ...

Digg Green

  • Gulf Oil Spill Gone? Not So Fast
    Reports saying that 75 percent of the gulf oil spill has either been cleaned up or broken down by natural forces are likely incorrect, and there are still big problems lurking beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, says a Texas A&M scientist who conducted one of the first on-site studies of the ...
  • Giant ice 'island' breaks off Greenland glacier
    An ice "island" four times larger than Manhattan and up to 600 feet tall has broken off the world's northernmost glacier, a University of Delaware researcher reports. The chunk of Arctic ice that calved off Greenland's Petermann Glacier is the biggest in almost 50 years.
  • Wanna Stop Global Warming? Eat Bugs.
    Atkins? South Beach? Jenny Craig? Try "The Firefly Fast," "The Caterpillar Cleanse," or "The Stinkbug Slimdown." An insect diet could be the solution to cooling our planet’s ever-warming climate.
  • Oysters naturally resisting disease, getting stron ...
    Recent studies by scientists show that natural selection is producing increasing numbers of oysters that are resistant to MSX, a disease that has devastated oyster populations.
  • Republican Warns Bicycle Rentals Will Lead to UN T ...
    Colorado gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes has accused his likely opponent, Democratic Mayor John Hickenlooper of "converting Denver into a United Nations community" with his pro-bike policies. This 'Red Bike Scare' is focused on a Denver bike rental program that makes a network of about 400 red bike ...

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

  • Italy’s Tilting Hypo Alpe-Adria Bank Creates its O ...
    Read the rest of Italy’s Tilting Hypo Alpe-Adria Bank Creates its Own Shadehttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architectu ...
  • Spider Silk Produced from Metabolically Engineered ...
    Stronger than steel, yet thinner than a human hair, spider silk is an incredible material created by nature that has amazing potential in real-world application. Unfortunately, accumulating enough of this prized textile can prove to be quite a challenge — not only are the silk producers diminutive i ...
  • Pixar Animator Joins Forces with Lego to Create ‘C ...
    Even the über creatives at Pixar can’t resist the charms of a Lego block. Pixar animator Angus MacLane recently joined the ranks of Lego enthusiasts, creating his own series of ‘Cube Dudes’ for much beloved Lego company. Immortalizing iconic toys and modern characters, these Dudes will abide to the ...
  • Back-to-School Basics: 14 Eco-Chic Clothing and Ac ...
    There’s still a lot of summer fun to be had, but the new school year is just around the corner. Apart from costly books and pesky student fees, one of the best parts of going back to school is getting yourself some new wears. So whether you want to make an impression when you first [...]
  • Ultra-Efficient Danish Home Produces More Energy T ...
    Read the rest of Ultra-Efficient Danish Home Produces More Energy Than It Needshttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable archit ...

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

  • Scientists’ Most Wanted Lost Amphibian Species
    << previous image | next image >> Scientists in 14 countries on five continents are teaming up to hunt for as many as 100 species of amphibians that may be extinct, but may be surviving in remote corners. With amphibian populations around the world ...
  • The Personality Paradox
    There’s an interesting new paper in Biological Psychiatry on the genetic variations underlying human personality. The study relied on a standard inventory of temperaments – novelty-seeking, harm avoidance, reward dependence and persistence – as measured in 5,117 Australian adults. What did the scien ...
  • 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 ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Who Says Iran Is Becoming Isolated in the Middle E ...
    We have argued for some time that the policy debate about Iran here in the United States is distorted by a number of “myths”—myths about the Islamic Republic, its foreign policy, and its domestic politics.  We were reminded of this by Jim Hoagland’s column today, see here , in the Washington Post — ...
  • America and Iran: Strikes, Sanctions and Scapegoat ...
    For the pundits, there are only two questions about U.S.-Iran relations that are of any importance: (1) Will Israel and/or the United States attack Iran? and (2) will the new sanctions have enough bite to persuade Iran to change its nuclear policy? Despite all the printers ink spilled on these two ...
  • Iraq’s Natural Gas Auction Postponed Until October ...
    Iraq’s Oil Ministry was going to hold an auction for three natural gas fields on September 1, 2010 . That has now been delayed a month until October. 1. The reason is to get more energy companies interested. Iraq is putting up three natural gas fields for bidding. One is Akkas in Anbar that has 5.6 ...
  • Iran and the Gulf's "Nuclear Race"
    As Iran’s nuclear program moves ahead and international agitation about the Islamic Republic’s nuclear activities intensifies, Arab states on the other side of the Persian Gulf are taking steps to develop their own nuclear capabilities.   To offer insights and perspective on the Gulf’s “nuclear ...
  • China's Post-Crisis Economic Rebalancing
    Years from now, we may look back at 2009 and see that it marked a critical turning point in China's economic development strategy. The global financial crisis deprived China of a paradigm for economic development, casting strong doubts about western countries' abilities to restore growth momentu ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The TAP Five.
    The five TAP pieces that have made a stir around the web this week. " Fire on the Left " " The Return of the Tax Fairy " " The New Workplace Sexism " " NRO Lies About Faisal Rauf " " Sharia vs. The New Deal "
  • 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 ...

Buzzflash

  • Ban Divorce if You Want to Preserve Marriages; Don ...
    BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG BY MARK KARLIN Okay, let's celebrate the ruling in California that tosses out Prop 8 and declares that a ban on gay marriage is not Constitutional. Of course, the most vociferous members of Congress who oppose marriage for the LGBT community usually are the ones found out to ...
  • If Fox Fraudcasting is the Television Voice for th ...
    Glenn Beck BuzzFlash has repeatedly warned of the danger for violence and death that the right wing media echo chamber is inciting -- along with a large number of Republican politicians and the corporate-Dick Armey backed creation of the Tea Party.� Dana Milbank of the Washington Post recently noted ...
  • Afghanistan War: Whatever is Happening There is th ...
    WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH To say the release of 91,000 classified documents has revealed a disconnect between our public position on Afghanistan and the actual situation on the ground is like inferring a disparity between yoga and bayonets. Dawn dishwashing liquid and green olive tapenade. A tray ...
  • The History of Religion is Riddled with Bodies, Mu ...
    STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH So we gather this Sunday to learn that six Christian missionary eye doctors were summarily executed in Afghanistan. They were on a mission to treat poor rural Afghan villagers. They were killed by Islamic radicals who were offended that the group had Bibles with them, ...
  • While the "News" Media Has Become Theater, Frank R ...
    FRANK RICH Maybe it's his past gig as the chief theater critic for the New York Times that so fully prepared Frank Rich for his role as the New York Times trechant weekly analyzer of America's culture and its politics. After all, we have become a nation of spectacle, in which entertainment, media an ...

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

  • Veterans & Peace Activists Rally in Quantico Base ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 7, 2010 CODEPINK � read more
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • An Opportunity for Honesty in Politics… Squandered ...
    by David Benjamin GREAT NECK, NY - While joining the minority on the Senate's 63-37 vote to confirm Elena Kagan's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, Sen. Scott Brown had this terrific chance to blow some fresh air into American politics. Instead, he choked - on his own words. read more
  • How Many Iraqis Did We "Liberate" from Life on Ear ...
    by Robert Naiman Is there a man or woman in America today who is willing to stand at noon in the public square and claim that demands to bomb, invade, and occupy other people's countries have anything to do with human liberation? If such people can be found, let them answer a few simple questions a ...
  • New York's Rebatable Bailout
    by Ralph Nader You can't make up the following realities in New York State! Note the following series of events driven by the preposterous plutocrats and see if you get steamed. Greed, power, reckless speculation and theft of other peoples' money by Wall Streeters collapsed the U.S. economy into ...
  • Landmark Ruling Declares Prop 8 Unconstitutional
    by Marjorie Cohn In a stunning, carefully crafted 136-page opinion, U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker held in Perry v. Schwarzenegger that California's Proposition 8, which outlaws same-sex marriage, is unconstitutional. The lawsuit was filed by two gay couples who sought to overturn Prop ...
  • Blackwater: Can't Stop, Won't Stop
    by Fouad Pervez Blackwater (rebranded as Xe in an effort to escape the negative publicity associated with their former name), recently received  a $100 million contract  from the CIA to secure its bases in Afghanistan. The State Department also awarded them $120 million to provide security for new d ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Mia Farrow: Naomi knew where diamonds came from
    Actor says it was the supermodel herself who said 'dirty looking stones' were gift from ex-Liberian warlord, not her Naomi Campbell told guests staying at Nelson Mandela's home in South Africa in September 1997 that she had received diamonds from the former Liberian warlord Charles Taylor, accordin ...
  • Israeli PM: Flotilla raid was legal
    Israeli leader testifies before investigation into deadly attack on aid convoy in which nine activists were killed Binyamin Netanyahu today told an inquiry into the naval raid on a Gaza aid flotilla that he could not "afford to ignore a threat to Israel's existence". The Israeli prime minister was t ...
  • Fears of more air travel strikes
    Travel chaos expected if union takes industrial action following Thursday's result of a ballot of 6,000 airport workers Millions of airline passengers face the prospect of more travel disruption if firefighters, security guards and ground staff at Heathrow and five other airports vote for strike act ...
  • Bangladesh arrest in Forest Gate case
    Police seek extradition of Essex-born Ayab Khan, wanted in connection with the 2003 deaths of Amarjit and Rajinder Singh Detectives were waiting to question one of Britain's most wanted men today, following his arrest in Bangladesh. Scotland Yard has been hunting Ayab Khan, 27, since a double murder ...
  • Government rejects Real IRA talks
    Owen Paterson speaks out after moves by Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams to hold discussions with political representatives of groups such as Real IRA Owen Paterson, the Northern Ireland secretary, ruled out talks with dissident republicans today amid fears of a heightening threat by terrorists opposed to th ...

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

  • Ted Olson On FNS: ‘Would You Like Fox’ ...
    This morning, Ted Olson — the conservative lawyer who represented President Bush in Bush v. Gore — appeared on Fox News Sunday to discuss his recent victory in overturning Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriages in California. Throughout the interview, host Chris Wallace attempted to trip up ...
  • Dodd: It’s Not Worth A Fight To Get Elizabet ...
    When it first looked like Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren might stand a serious chance of getting appointed at the first director of the newly-created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — a regulatory agency which she was the first to suggest — Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd ( ...
  • By Pulling The Economy Back From The Cliff, Lawmak ...
    Our guest blogger is Heather Boushey, Chief Economist at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. In their report, How We Ended the Great Recession, Economists Alan Blinder and Mark Zandi estimates the effects of the financial and fiscal policies enacted since the crisis began in 2008 on the ec ...
  • 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 ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • No Accountability, No Consequences
    Back to dissing the USA's political culture, because it's easy. Also, when I get the time, I'll talk about the intellectual and moral sewer that Canada's political culture is becoming and I want to give that subject the attention it deserves. But I really do want to talk about how the slimy, smarmy ...
  • Miley Cyrus: Can't Be Tamed
    In keeping with my disgust with this fucking country and our inability to defend what little democracy and human rights we have, with our complacency and our apathy and our inability to think our way out of a paper bag, I continue with my writing about pop-princess Miley Cyrus. I don't really have ...
  • This is a REAL Crisis Folks
    When I was just starting to learn about political-economic history I had a habit of responding to economic crises as if they were signalling the end of the current order. Time and time again I underestimated the strength and resiliency of the the US-led economic system. So when the financial crisis ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • New Zealand Authors Demanding Compulsory Blanket ' ...
    With New Zealand's copyright reform proposal still being discussed, we're hearing about some really ridiculous proposals to make it even worse. We already noted the idea of a full internet ban for users found to be infringing, and Glyn Moody points us to a proposal from "The Society of Authors" in ...
  • RIM Works Out Deal In Saudi Arabia, Causing Many T ...
    With last week's news that the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia were going to block access for Blackberry users over the inability to spy on RIM's servers, the news over the weekend that Saudi Arabia is testing three local servers that would alleviate the need for a ban has many wondering how s ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Albino and Half-Albino Peacocks (Photos)
    Photo by Yvonne Ayoub Within the plumage of a peacock lies a complex architecture that's continuously changing color. Or so it seems. Though the colors of a peacock are revered, it is just as stunning--if not more so--without them. Often referred to as an albino peacock, it is nothing of th ...
  • Artists Recycle Lottery Tickets into Stuff They'd ...
    An H3 Hummer built with $39,000 worth of discarded lottery tickets. All photos via Ghost of a Dream . Each year, millions of lottery tickets are sold to people who dream of winning big -- but the vast majority of the time, those tickets end up being just pricey bits of trash. One recycling artis ...
  • Automotive X Prize Finalists Race to Top 100 MPGe
    X-Tracer and ZAP compete for the X Prize. Photos courtesy of Progressive Automotive X Prize After a series of eliminations at Michigan International Speedway over the past several weeks, the original 136 vehicles that qualified to enter the Automotive X Prize were narrowed down to nine final s ...
  • NASA Launches Google Phones Into Space as Cheap Sa ...
    Image via COED Magazine What happens when NASA geeks hangout with Google employees? Well, they duct tape their Android-based phones to a space rocket and blast it 28,000 feet into the air. Duh! It's the quintessential
  • Climate Change Could Destroy 80% of World's Rainfo ...
    Photo via Gangajal Seeing as how it's Friday, I figured I'd just go ahead and rain on everyone's parade a little bit: Climate change and deforestation are going to more or less wipe out tropical rainforests as we know them in about 90 years. Yes, according to a recent study, 80% of rainforests ...

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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Ria Novosti Online News

  • Smog leads to record number of airline departures ...
    A record number of passengers since the beginning of 2010 departed Moscow on August 8 amid heavy smog in the city, a spokesman for the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia, said on Monday.
  • Thick coat and artificial snow save polar bears fr ...
    The Moscow Zoo staff arranged a small winter for their polar bears. A special snow cannon was installed in their open-air cage. The heat wave is a real torture for bears so zookeepers try to make their habitation as close to an Arctic environment as possible.
  • Fire nears animal shelter in Yegoryevsk district,R ...
    A thousand animals living at the Bim animal shelter in the village of Khoteichi, Yegoryevsk district, are in mortal danger. Wildfires are approaching cages housing bears, rabbits, dogs and cats. The shelter’s staff have to fight the fires themselves, due to a lack of firefighting crews and equipment ...
  • Today Russia, tomorrow the world
    It cannot be proved that the wildfires now devastating western Russia are evidence of global warming. Once-in-a-century extreme weather events happen, on average, once a century. But the Russian response is precisely what you would expect when global warming really starts to bite: Moscow has just ba ...
  • Russian crisis won’t impact global wheat supplies, ...
    The ongoing wheat crisis in Russia will not jeopardise world supplies gravely or impact global wheat prices seriously this year, says a study from an influential research body even as prices rallied sharply last month. The sharp run-up in prices could, in fact, allow India to sell some of its wheat ...

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

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

  • Why Did Whole Foods Tart up My Organic Peanut Butt ...
    I usually procure my peanut butter just like any other good hippie: from one of those grinding contraptions at the health-food store. That way, you know exactly what's in it -- peanuts, maybe salt -- and it comes with the oil fully incorporated, unlike jarred "natural" peanut butters, whose oil sepa ...
  • Why Did the Climate Bill Die? Because We Still Don ...
    We now know the U.S. Senate will not pass climate-change legislation this year. Postmortems have pointed to a number of challenges: the lack of leadership from the White House, unified GOP opposition to the Senate cap-and-trade bill, the structure and rules of the Senate, and the complicated nature ...
  • 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, ...

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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

  • All the etc. that’s fit to link
    Yes, a big steaming pile of what you came here for earlier, but which are only now being served but first, a word about Republican hypocrisy from Steven Benen and Joe Conason…. Because DemocRATS are DESTROYING AMERICA! Just sayin’ . . . . (Both cartoons link to news stories, btw.) - Politics: If you ...
  • MN news
    Start your morning with Jon Tevlin for a very gratifying wrap up on the week in Koua Fong Lee. You can also check out the Strib’s editorial, but nothing in the PiPress today despite their excellent earlier coverage (about which Gaertner no doubt complained bitterly). I’ve said this before, but it’s ...
  • Up down black white right left dissonance
    Since that first post was about rightwing deception and propaganda, I guess I should lead with the fact that the left’s finally twigged to how “a group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com have just been caught red-handed in a widespread campaign of censorsh ...
  • I’ll never forget Norway
    So much things to say. That’s a Bob Marley quote, btw, taken from his song of the same name. The refrain is “I’ll never forget no way,” and for years I thought they were singing, “I’ll never forget Norway,” which baffled me, to say the least. Then I bought the album and read the lyrics [...]
  • 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 ...

Public News Service

  • AZ Community Centers Take Lead in Health Reform
    AZ Community Centers Take Lead in Health Reform Phoenix, AZ – It’s National Health Center Week, the first observance since enactment of the new health care reform law. Arizona’s 37 community-based health organizations are expanding to serve the uninsured and victims of the economic recession. Commen ...
  • Report: Arizonans Have Chance to Save Big on Elect ...
    Report: Arizonans Have Chance to Save Big on Electric Bills Phoenix, AZ – Future electric rate hikes can be blunted with widespread adoption of energy efficiency strategies, according to a new report from the Arizona Public Interest Research Group (PIRG). It says energy efficiency is a proven, relia ...
  • AZ School Boards Chief: Drop-out Gains Threatened ...
    AZ School Boards Chief: Drop-out Gains Threatened by Budget Cuts Phoenix, AZ – The latest Kids Count Data Book released this week shows a 50-percent reduction in Arizona’s high school dropout rate since the year 2000. But the head of a major education group says that progress is in jeopardy because ...
  • Wall Street Home “Resale” Fees Raise I ...
    Wall Street Home “Resale” Fees Raise Ire, and Eyebrows Phoenix, AZ – A coalition including the National Association of Realtors, AFSCME, and the Property Rights Alliance is calling foul on a new Wall Street real estate investment device called a “private transfer fee covenant.” Kurt Pfotenhauer (FOT ...
  • Experts Say While AZ Teen Births are Down, Pregnan ...
    Experts Say While AZ Teen Births are Down, Pregnancies are Not Phoenix, AZ – This week’s Kids Count report shows Arizona teenage births down 10 percent since the year 2000. But the state’s largest reproductive health organization says the numbers are misleading because teen pregnancies are up. Comme ...

My Care2 Picks

  • BP Disaster Response Workers Report Low Morale, La ...
    BP oil disaster response workers are reporting endemic problems, such as not being paid on time, low morale, rampant sickness, equipment failures and being lied to regularly. [SCROLL DOWN] Submitted by Care For All to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • More Salon.com War Propaganda for "Progressives"
    We are on the verge of a conflict that could kill thousands of Iranians. The corporate media is doing every thing they can to promote this conflict and to vilify Iran in the eyes of Americans. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Pfc, Manning and the Value of Truth
    Ray McGovern, ex-CIA agent, spoke up in Virginia in support of Pfc, Bryan Manning, who released the dvd and papers to wikileaks. Submitted by Bonnie Aller to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • STAND WITH ME TO SAVE NET NEUTRALITY AND STOP THE ...
    Al Franken : Net Neutrality is THE First Amendment issue of our time. If you want to protect the free flow of information in the country and all that depends on it, you have to help me fight Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Wikileaks War Logs & the Gov't's Reaction
    War veteran Mike Prysner's amazing speech. 3 days after documents of 8 years of war crimes against the people of Afghanistan were leaked Pentagon Launches 'Manhunt' for Document Leaker. For war budget vote another $59 billion! Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...

Angry Indian News

  • New evidence of police brutality during Katrina
    New evidence of police brutality during Katrina | Raw Story: "The New Orleans Times-Picayune has uncovered evidence that police officers physically attacked two city residents and a working... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Beck omits own analogy comparing Obama White House ...
    Beck omits own analogy comparing Obama White House to ‘Planet of the Apes’ | Raw Story: "In a writeup for FoxNews.com, opinion host Glenn Beck appears to have omitted a key phrase that he uttered... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Study: Build mosques to prevent Islamic radicalism
    Study: Build mosques to prevent Islamic radicalism | Raw Story: The efforts by some groups to prevent the construction of mosques could backfire, suggests a recent study that urges the building of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • No relief in sight for Black fishermen, communitie ...
    No relief in sight for Black fishermen, communities hurt by oil disaster(FinalCall.com) - While the country celebrates BP's successful effort to finally cap a deepwater well gushing oil into the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Report: Criminalizing Undocumented Boosts For-prof ...
    Report: Criminalizing Undocumented Boosts For-profit Prisons - New America Media: WASHINGTON – While public attention has focused on state policies toward immigrants -- namely, Arizona’s... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • The Codex, Fluoride, Auschwitz, Monsanto Connectio ...
    What do Codex Alimentarius with its official food standards, the fluoridation of our water and food supply, genocide at the Auschwitz concentration camp, and Monsanto, the company responsible for genetically altering the world's food supply all have in common?
  • Marti Oakley and Barb Peterson: The Truth Squad, w ...
    Paul will be reporting on the current premises registration (NAIS) cases in Wisconsin involving NAIS and Raw Milk.
  • 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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Police: Man charged after referring to Conn. rampa ...
    ShareThis Police: Man charged after referring to Conn. rampage --Man arrested after making comments 07 Aug 2010 Connecticut police say they arrested a man at a management company after he mentioned the shooting rampage across the state that killed nine people and said he understood the killer's mind ...
  • Civil contempt confinement policies should be refo ...
    ShareThis Civil contempt confinement policies should be reformed By Jayne Ressler 29 Jul 2010 Richard Fine, a 70-year-old Tarzana attorney, has been imprisoned, reportedly in solitary confinement, without trial since March 4, 2009. His "crime"? Contempt of court, based on alleged "moral turpitude." ...
  • 'Radioactive boars' on loose in Germany
    ShareThis 'Radioactive boars' on loose in Germany 08 Aug 2010 Radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster is still poisoning Germany's boars nearly 25 years on, with authorities fighting to keep toxic meat off the market as the wild boar population rockets. The boars feed off mushrooms, ...
  • Nuclear Fear As Russian Blazes Hit Chernobyl
    ShareThis Nuclear Fear As Russian Blazes Hit Chernobyl 08 Aug 2010 Fears emerged last night that fires erupting in Russia could unleash deadly nuclear pollution from the Chernobyl disaster. The Kremlin was also taking emergency action to move missiles and other munitions at risk from hundreds of bla ...
  • Detective who found David Kelly's body raises ques ...
    ShareThis 'There wasn't much blood about': Detective who found weapons expert David Kelly's body raises questions over his death 08 Aug 2010 The mystery surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly deepened yesterday after the detective who found his body claimed he didn't see 'much blood'. The revelatio ...

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

  • Slater: rightwing Jewish support for Israel risks ...
    Great piece by Jerry Slater on How bad can the Jewish Rightwing get? in which he responds to the Tablet attack on critics of Israel and argues that rightwing Jewish complicity in the occupation and the Israel lobby poses a danger to the Jewish status in the west: Rather than guarding against anti-Se ...
  • Shalala is doubly humiliated
    A brilliant post by MJ Rosenberg at TPM does what Senator Sam Ervin or Woodward and Bernstein instructed my generation to do in our youth, but that no mainstream journalist is allowed to do when it comes to the Israel lobby, and follow the money. Rosenberg grabs on to the story that former Education ...
  • Levy: ‘Defining Israel as a Jewish state con ...
    I just heard Brooke Gladstone of On the Media, NPR, grill Wadah Khanfar, an Al Jazeera executive, about how the network is hurting the peace process by running stories suggesting that Mahmoud Abbas was wrong to attempt to cashier the Goldstone Report. O hallowed peace process. Does she have any idea ...
  • Bromwich: Passionless Obama is letting ideologues ...
    David Bromwich has a devastating essay up on Huffpo, called "One More War, Please" that begins with the question, "Will the summer of 2010 be remembered as the time when we turned into a nation of sleepwalkers?" and then goes through the devastations of America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, showin ...
  • Hedges’s 2001 account of attack on Gaza boys ...
    Many people have sent me raves about Chris Hedges's appearance the other night at the Gaza boat fundraiser. They have praised his work on the issue, in particular his 2001 Harper's piece, A Gaza Diary. It included the stunning scene below. We will make no progress in American policymaking till we ac ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: New Generation Cancer Vaccine Will Cause Infe ...
    In the race to the top of the Vaccine manufacturing foodchain product side effects such as infertility are being overlooked in favor of scientific advancement. One competitor, U.S. firm Celldex Theraputics are vying for major positioning in the ranks with a radical new generation cancer vaccine now ...
  • VRM: United States 2010-11 Flu Vaccine Affluria &# ...
    The United States flu vaccine for 2010-2011/AFLURIA® will be manufactured by CSL Laboratories in partnership with Merck Pharmaceuticals. Ingredients: 24.5 mcg of thimerosal mercury (safe level for a 2450 pound adult), Neomycin & Polymyxin (antibiotics associated with Kidney Failure, hazardous to ...
  • VRM: Multi-Virus Vaccine Quinvaxem Proving Deadly
    Quinvaxem, a powerful 5 in 1 vaccine currently being distributed in India, containing live Diphtheria, Tetanus, Hib oligosaccharide (Haemophilus influenzae) & Hepatitis B virus plus an inactivated B. pertussis virus (heat treated or attenuated), has already caused the deaths of at least 5 children i ...
  • VRM: The Rockefeller Foundation – Rulers of ...
    “Will you walk into my parlour?” said the Spider to the Fly, ‘Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy; The way into my parlour is up a winding stair, And I’ve a many curious things to shew when you are there.” Oh no, no,” said the little Fly, “to ask me is in vain, For who goes [...]
  • VRM: Britain’s National Health Service &#821 ...
    Britain’s National Health Service is rapidly destroying the UK Health Care system; dismantling local programs, stripping hospitals of essential service staff, downsizing hospitals altogether, refusing to upgrade old equipment – all under the guise of tightening the belt, preserving what’s left of di ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

  • The 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

  • Albino and Half-Albino Peacocks (Photos)
    Photo by Yvonne Ayoub Within the plumage of a peacock lies a complex architecture that's continuously changing color. Or so it seems. Though the colors of a peacock are revered, it is just as stunning--if not more so--without them. Often referred to as an albino peacock, it is nothing of th ...
  • Artists Recycle Lottery Tickets into Stuff They'd ...
    An H3 Hummer built with $39,000 worth of discarded lottery tickets. All photos via Ghost of a Dream . Each year, millions of lottery tickets are sold to people who dream of winning big -- but the vast majority of the time, those tickets end up being just pricey bits of trash. One recycling artis ...
  • Automotive X Prize Finalists Race to Top 100 MPGe
    X-Tracer and ZAP compete for the X Prize. Photos courtesy of Progressive Automotive X Prize After a series of eliminations at Michigan International Speedway over the past several weeks, the original 136 vehicles that qualified to enter the Automotive X Prize were narrowed down to nine final s ...
  • NASA Launches Google Phones Into Space as Cheap Sa ...
    Image via COED Magazine What happens when NASA geeks hangout with Google employees? Well, they duct tape their Android-based phones to a space rocket and blast it 28,000 feet into the air. Duh! It's the quintessential
  • Climate Change Could Destroy 80% of World's Rainfo ...
    Photo via Gangajal Seeing as how it's Friday, I figured I'd just go ahead and rain on everyone's parade a little bit: Climate change and deforestation are going to more or less wipe out tropical rainforests as we know them in about 90 years. Yes, according to a recent study, 80% of rainforests ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • South Africa journalists 'appalled' by proposed me ...
    [JURIST] South African journalists on Sunday expressed disdain [statement] for proposed media regulations that they claim will inhibit freedom of expression and media freedom. A declaration by South African Press Council [official website] chairman Raymond Louw criticizing the regulation was publish ...
  • Turkish court annuls arrest warrants for military ...
    [JURIST] A Turkish court on Friday annulled the arrest warrants issued for 102 Turkish military officers over an alleged 2003 coup plot. The officers, including 25 generals and admirals, were arrested last month [JURIST report] for allegedly participating in a coup plot referred to as "Operation Sle ...
  • Kagan sworn in as Supreme Court justice
    [JURIST] Elena Kagan [official profile; JURIST news archive] was sworn in as the 112th justice of the US Supreme Court [official website] Saturday. Kagan, the former US Solicitor General and dean of Harvard Law School [official websites], took part in two ceremonies [AFP report]a private one for h ...
  • Supreme Court refuses to block Khadr military tria ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] on Friday refused to block the military trial of Canadian Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive]. The Supreme Court issued a one-line order denying the Khadr's petition for a stay. The order had n ...
  • California governor, AG seek immediate resumption ...
    [JURIST] California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Attorney General Jerry Brown and others filed motions [AG brief, text] Friday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California [official website] opposing a request to stay the court's recent decision [opinion, PDF; JURIST report] e ...

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

  • J.J. Goldberg, Mahmoud Darwish: Brothers from Anot ...
    Forward’s former managing editor, J.J. Goldberg Now here’s a slightly scary thought: the tired, liberal Zionist newspaper editorialist could be a brother of Palestinian national poet, Mahmoud Darwish.  Food for thought? Related posts:Jeffrey Goldberg: Take That, You ‘Hard-Core Anti-Zionist Leftist! ...
  • Links for 2010-05-04 [Digg]
    Dershowitz Incites Hate Against Michael Lerner It is absolutely no accident that Alan Dershowitz singled Rabbi Michael Lerner out for special opprobrium in his most recent Jerusalem Post and Huffington Post column...
  • Druze Spy Arrests ‘Payback’ for Decades-Old Shin B ...
    An Israeli source brings me a fascinating take on the recent arrests of three Golani Druze for allegedly spying against Israel on behalf of Syria.  The Shin Bet arrested three residents of thevillage of Majdal Shams charging them with espionage.  The case has all the markings of the trumped-up cha ...
  • Tony Judt, May His Memory Be for a Blessing
    Today, we have lost one of the bravest public intellectuals engaged in the Israeli-Arab conflict. I just noticed in his NY Times obituary that he was born in that seminal year, 1948, an irony that undoubtedly would not have been lost on him. During Operation Cast Lead, he was one of the first of the ...
  • 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 ...

Ode Magazine

  • Earn more, then give it away
    By: VictoriaKlein Wouldn’t we all like to make a bit more money? Maybe we could finally pay off those last few debts that hang over our heads or buy that new gadget we’ve really been wanting … or maybe we would give it all away. In April, Hong Kong, Chin ...
  • Forget finicky food
    Instead of scanning labels, give the kids some authentic home cooking. It’s really not fair to label kids as finicky eaters if lactose makes them break out or preservatives make them itch. We should, instead, focus on finicky food. All things considered, it’s a minor mira ...
  • Get HIP with your money
    How to build a better world and make bigger profitsthrough investing. Capitalism used to be easy. Discover, acquire and defend a unique resource. Pay people the least you can get away with. Offload as many liabilities and risks to government as possible. And, of course, c ...
  • Your brain is a rain forest
    People with conditions like ADHD, dyslexia and mood disorders are routinely labeled "ÂÂdisabled". But differences among brains are as enrichingâand essentialâas differences among plants and animals. Welcome to the new field of neurodiversity. Imagine for a moment t ...
  • Visionaries, movers and shakers of the Bay Area
    By: sheasteinberg Here at Ode Magazine we are all about discovering the creative brains behind innovate ideas. So when we heard that fellow San Francisco magazine, 7x7 was on a search to find the "Hot 20 Under 40," we couldn’t help but join in on the fun! ...

OpEd News

  • GOP Backslide Finds Fitting Nemesis: Itapos;s the ...
    The GOP assault against guaranteed Constitution rights -" freedom of religion, free press, native-born citizenship, separation of church-state -" goes hand in hand with an obsession to gain some lost golden age when "they owned their country." Do rightwingers hate the Constitution enough to mutilat ...
  • GOP Backslide Finds Its Nemesis: Itapos;s the Cons ...
    The GOP assault against guaranteed Constitution rights -" freedom of religion, free press, native-born citizenship, separation of church-state -" goes hand in hand with an obsession to gain some lost golden age when "they owned their country." Do rightwingers hate the Constitution enough to mutilat ...
  • They cannot shackle the truth, gag those who speak ...
    While those with a vested interest in the ongoing torture and slaughter of billions of defenseless nonhumans portray and treat me as a criminal or potential terrorist, I am neither. I am a man who has responded to the call of conscience to become a voice, a writer, a publisher, and an activist for n ...
  • They cannot shackle the truth, gag those who speak ...
    While those with a vested interest in the ongoing torture and slaughter of billions of defenseless nonhumans portray and treat me as a criminal or potential terrorist, I am neither. I am a man who has responded to the call of conscience to become a voice, a writer, a publisher, and an activist for n ...
  • Chernobyl Then, the Gulf Now: Out of Sight, Out of ...
    We are witnessing an incredibly powerful propaganda campaign from the US Govapos;t which, clearly acting in BPapos;s best interests, announced, via compliant media like the New York Times that "three-quarters of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak has already evaporated, dispersed, been captured ...

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

  • Ted Olson Is Making Sense
    Yeah, I would have never have dreamed that this title could be anything but cheap sarcasm, but here we are. Related posts:Billmon is Making Sense Making sense of pacifism Brad Reed is Making Sense Related posts: Billmon is Making Sense Making sense of pacifism Brad Reed is Making Sense
  • Meaningful AL East/Wild Card Race
    R.I.P. Dustin Moseley wins the Kei Igawa memorial award as the replacement-level pitcher who looks like Pete Alexander in a crucial game against Boston. And yet — I may have more than this when I revisit my pre-season picks this week, but while the Red Sox offense was the biggest concern going [. ...
  • Chinese ASBMs
    I’ve been getting a lot of e-mails asking for reaction to this story. For my own previous writings, see here. Information Dissemination has done a lot of work on this topic; see especially here, here, and here. For a good NWCR article on the subject by Andrew Erickson and David Yang, see here. As f ...
  • Prop H8 and 9CA
    Vikram Amar has a good piece about the recent holding that Propoistion 8 is unconstitutional and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The most important point, I think, is that if the 9th Circuit decides to reverse the Supreme Court will probably decline to hear the case. In addition to [...] Re ...
  • This is Not the President Lincoln You’re Loo ...
    How do you feel about states’ rights, Mr. President? From Media Czech. Related posts:Party of Lincoln: Still Dead President Obama Also Determined that Tuesday Would be Taco Day in the Cafeteria LBJ: The Civil Rights President Related posts: Party of Lincoln: Still Dead President Obama Also Det ...

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

  • Wild Fires Send 3,000-Kilometer Plume of Smoke Acr ...
    This NASA satellite image shows a 3,000-kilometer plume of thick smoke traveling across central and western Russia as hundreds of wild fires burn in forests and peat bogs across the region. Russian officials said on Thursday there were at least 589 fires burning across the country , covering about 1 ...
  • A Looming Oxygen Crisis and Its Impact on World’s ...
    As warming intensifies, scientists warn, the oxygen content of oceans across the planet could be more and more diminished, with serious consequences for the future of fish and other sea life. BY CARL ZIMMER
  • Ecuador Approves Trust Fund to Protect Oil-Rich Am ...
    Ecuador has approved an international trust fund that will compensate the nation in exchange for its pledge not to exploit the vast oil reserves beneath the Amazonian forest of Yasuni National Park. The Ecuadorian government has asked for $3.6 billion for not allowing drilling in the Ishpingo-Tiputi ...
  • Nearly Three-Quarters of Oil Spilled Into Gulf Wat ...
    Nearly three-quarters of the oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon explosion has been captured or dissipated , according to a new U.S. government study. And the 26 percent of the oil remaining is on the surface as a light sheen or “weathered tar balls,” the New York Times r ...
  • Automotive X Prize Selects 9 High-Efficiency Final ...
    Nine vehicles remain in competition for the $10 million Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize , which is seeking to spur development of commercially viable cars that average 100 miles-per-gallon. The competition, the brainchild of Peter Diamandis’ X Prize Foundation , began 15 months ago with 136 ...

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

  • The Paracast: Philip J. Imbrogno
    This week’s Paracast guest is paranormal investigator Philip J. Imbrogno, author of âFiles From the Edge: A Paranormal Investigator’s Explorations into High Strangeness.â From what I heard of the interview, Imbrogno mainly investigated UFO sightings and paranormal strangeness in the Hudson Valle ...
  • 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 ...

Tippers News

  • Pet insurer holds contest to choose winner of Hamb ...
    Stories of pets being goofy abound, but in the pantheon of animal wackiness, few things top the 12 tales being offered up in a pet insurer's contest for most unusual claim of the year. The Veterinary Pet Insurance Co., known as VPI, is asking the public Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! ...
  • Puppy left to die is saved by a blog! Video!
    the story of a group of friends in Brooklyn who started a blog to raise money to save an abused dogs life. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Help Sea Otter Populations Recover ! TAKE ACTION !
    Southern Sea Otter populations have been dropping drastically for almost ten years. High mortality rates and low birth rates have scientists worried about the species itself and the repercussions this population drop will have on the food chain Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • Stop Shark Finning ! TAKE ACTION !
    Millions of sharks are killed for their fins every year. The United States banned the practice in 2000, but loopholes have allowed some fisherman to continue to support the practice. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Compassion for Woodstock Feral Cats ! TAKE ACTION ...
    We the undersigned hereby petition the present owners of the property at 157-161 Victoria Road, Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa, the property agent Mr Vincent Franco and any prospective new owners as well as present and future tenants, to exercise Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �| ...

The Freeman

  • Doctors Are Government Employees
    If doctors and patients want better health care, there’s an easy way to achieve it.
  • Obama Wants More College Graduates
    “President Obama on Monday will renew his call for the United States to lead the world in college graduation rates by 2020, an ambitious goal that senior administration officials say will require 60 percent of all young Americans to possess a college degree, up from 40 percent today.” (New York Time ...
  • Tax Code Rewards Corporate Indebtedness
    “U.S. companies have had a long love affair with debt, and Washington has tacitly approved. Although the tax benefits are not the only driver of corporate America’s preference for loans — cheap rates and corporate strategy, as in Macy’s case, are other major factors — the tax code often tips the sca ...
  • Budget Woes in States Lead to Layoffs
    “State and local governments this summer gained the dubious distinction of being the nation’s biggest source of job losses â a trend that likely helped to break a stalemate in Congress last week over providing states with additional aid.” (Washington Times, Monday) They lived it up in good times a ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • "Green" energy boom destroys tribes – new report
    Tribal peoples will be devastated by the current boom in dam-building. © E. Lafforgue/Survival To mark the UN Day of Indigenous People, Survival has released a new report highlighting the devastating impact on tribal people of a massive boom in dam-building for hydropower. Drawing on examples ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • No We Aren’t In A Recession, We’re In ...
    Seriously, does this look like a recession to you? (image from CR.) And 2001 was a depression too, it was just a very shallow depression.
  • No We Aren’t In A Recession, We’re In a Depression
    Seriously, does this look like a recession to you? (image from CR.) And 2001 was a depression too, it was just a very shallow depression.
  • 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 ...

Age of Autism

  • Sometimes Autism Sneaks Up On You
    By Rosemary Dubrowsky The day started like any other weekday. The alarm went off and I was up and getting Danny’s food ready to go to school. He is 14 years old has pretty severe autism and goes to school...
  • The Nanny Vs. The Nanny State: Drescher Questions ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Fran Drescher is a noted actress, cancer survivor, author and founder of Cancer Schmancer. Kathleen Sebelius is head of Health and Human Services. Secretary Sebelius told Reader's Digest that she encourages media censorship when it comes to...
  • The Sixth Planet Foundation Begins its Orbit
    By Cathy Jameson In mid-July, parents, politicians, a Hollywood entertainer, a music legend, advocates and several autism VIPs gathered together in Massachusetts. The event was the 2nd Annual NOLAfest, and if I had the chance to bi-locate to be back...
  • 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...

Global BDS Movement

  • Imaging Apartheid - Poster Project for Palestine
    call for submissions: Montreal July 2010 http://imagingapartheid.org/downloads/imagingapartheid_call.pdf As the global movement in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation continues to grow, we are calling on graphic designers and artists to submit their work to IMAGING APARTHEID: ...
  • 6,000 Irish shoppers demand supermarket stops stoc ...
    Today, Thursday 29th July 2010, at 1pm, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) delivered a petition to Dunnes Stores signed by 6,000 shoppers across Ireland. The petition demands that Dunnes Stores stop stocking Israeli products, until Israel respects Palestinian rights and international l ...
  • Palestinian civil society salutes Olympia Food Co- ...
    Occupied Palestine, 26 July 2010 – Palestinian farmers unions, agricultural organizations and popular committees struggling against Israel’s colonial Wall and settlements warmly salute the historic decision taken on July 15th [1] by the Olympia Food Co-op to remove all Israeli products from its shel ...
  • Action Alert: Support the Olympia Food Co-op Now! ...
    Just last week the Board of Directors of the Olympia Food Co-op took thecourageous step of instituting a boycott of Israeli goods, the firstgrocery boycott of Israel in the US. Already, there is a movement afoot tocondemn the Co-op for taking this important stand. Board and staff arereceiving aggres ...
  • IKEA contributes to a better everyday life for the ...
    IKEA delivers goods to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory. IKEA’s answer to the critique is that "IKEA stores have existed in Israel for the many people since 2001" and that "IKEA’s vision is to contribute to a better everyday life for the many people." read more

Farm Wars

  • The Codex, Fluoride, Auschwitz, Monsanto Connectio ...
    What do Codex Alimentarius with its official food standards, the fluoridation of our water and food supply, genocide at the Auschwitz concentration camp, and Monsanto, the company responsible for genetically altering the world's food supply all have in common?
  • Marti Oakley and Barb Peterson: The Truth Squad, w ...
    Paul will be reporting on the current premises registration (NAIS) cases in Wisconsin involving NAIS and Raw Milk.
  • 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.

Open Your Eyes News

  • 60 killed in Iraq ahead of Ramadan
    AFP â Weekend violence across Iraq killed 60 people, officials said on Sunday, just days ahead of the start of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan when insurgents typically step up their attacks. The unrest has fuelled concerns about security here — more than 100 people have died so far this ...
  • Car fuel ‘could be made from thin air’
    The Telegraph-Car fuel could be created from thin air using an enzyme from a common soil bacterium, say scientists. It is hoped that this will lead to a cheap way of making environmentally friendly, carbon-neutral ‘green’ fuel that can be used without major redesigns of car engines -Read Article
  • Jews and Arabs break ice on Mont Blanc
    Swiss info – Roped together, eight young Jews and Arabs have just climbed Europeâs highest mountain in a bid to further peaceful coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians. The group, which reached the summit on Wednesday, was brought together by the Lausanne-based organisation Coexistences, wh ...
  • ‘There wasn’t much blood about’: ...
    Daily Mail – The mystery surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly deepened yesterday after the detective who found his body claimed he didn’t see ‘much blood’.The revelation by Detective Constable Graham Coe casts further doubt on the Hutton Report’s verdict that the Ministry of Defence scientist die ...
  • Seven police among eight killed in Iraq violence
    AFP — Seven policemen were among eight people killed near Baghdad and in north Iraq, including four who died in a fierce gunfight in a Sunni neighbourhood of the Iraqi capital, officials said on Saturday. 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

  • TheAntiTerrorist on The Big Business of Being Behi ...
    Via: TheAntiTerrorist: Related: Land Of The Free: Never In The Civilized World Have So Many Been Locked Up For So Little
  • 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 ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Horrific Derivatives Bubble That Could One Day ...
    Today there is a horrific derivatives bubble that threatens to destroy not only the U.S. economy but the entire world financial system as well, but unfortunately the vast majority of people do not understand it.  When you say the word "derivatives" to most Americans, they have no id ...
  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • News from the CSDi Development Community
    Read at : CSDi CSDi Development Community I would like to share several important new resources: 1. Field Tools for the 12 Sectors of Development. The Center for Sustainable Development has just published a new resource where you can find … Continue reading →
  • Canada’s Water (Munk School of Global Affairs / II ...
    Read at : Water Issues Announcement List The Program on Water Issues at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto invites you to attend an upcoming conference Fracture Lines: Will Canadaâs Water be Protected in the Rush … Continue reading →
  • Mozambique: interest in container gardening and &# ...
    On August 4, 2010 Carla LOURO wrote: ‘Dear Professor Dr. Willem van Cotthem, My name is Carla Louro and I am Mozambican. I have studied development economics and have an interest in researching new technologies/concepts for implementation in developing countries. … Continue reading →
  • Focus on Argania spinosa, an oil tree for the dryl ...
    After publishing an album of argan pictures on my Facebook, Frank ZIDDAH commented : ‘I have taken some time to look around for more on the Argan forest formed by argan tree and I am delighted about its prospects in … Continue reading →
  • Successful reforestation project in Burkina Faso ( ...
    Reforestation project in the village of Méguet, Burkina Faso. The NGO ‘Committee Maastricht-Niou’ applied the soil conditioner TerraCottem when planting trees to create a communal wood.  Survival rate of the trees treated with this water absorbent and fertilizer stocking soil … Continue reading →

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

  • Floods cut off parts of Pakistan
    SUKKUR, Pakistan - Pakistan's devastating floods cut off parts of the country Monday and hampered aid efforts to 15 million people as the United Nations likened the scale of the crisis to the 2005 earthquake. President Asif Ali Zardari was due to return to Pakistan after a prolonged European to ...
  • China searches for survivors amid Asian flood ...
    In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, buildings, vehicles... In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, buildings, vehicles... In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, Chinese Premier... ZHOUQU, China (AP) - Rescuers dug through mud and wreckage Monday se ...
  • Courtney Love scared daughter will overdose ...
    Courtney Love fears her daughter will die of a drugs overdose. The Hole singer - who has 17-year-old Frances Bean with late husband Kurt Cobain - admits she is concerned by the amount of money the teenager receives under the terms of the Nirvana frontman's will, particularly as she no longer li ...
  • Dev Patel is proud of his big ears
    Dev Patel is proud of his big ears. The 'Last Airbender' actor used to get bullied at school for his appearance, but never got upset by any of the taunts and was able to laugh at himself. He said: "I've always been a happy bunny. My life has always been uncomplicated. Growing up, religion and r ...
  • Stuart Broad fined half his match fee for pet ...
    England fast bowler Stuart Broad was today fined 50% of his match fee for breaching the code of conduct during the third day's play of the second Test against Pakistan at Edgbaston. Broad was charged with the breach of the International Cricket Council code after an incident involving Pakistan ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Types of back surgery
  • The Origin Of Animals And Disease Found On The Gre ...
    Professor Bernard Degnan from UQ's School of Biological Sciences has led an international team of scientists to sequence the genome of the first marine animal from Australian waters. In another breakthrough, the sequencing of the sea sponge genome offers unprecedented insights in to the origin of th ...
  • Big Bend Teachers To Get Latest Technology, Traini ...
    Science teachers at a number of schools in Florida's Big Bend region will receive iPads, SMART Boards and other technology to help them meet the state's new educational standards for science - and The Florida State University will play a key role in training those teachers in methods for developing ...
  • Novartis Facebook Tool On Tasigna Presents Mislead ...
    Novartis, the drug company that makes and sells cancer drug Tasigna, has received a letter from the FDA (Food and Drug Administration), USA, which accuses it of using a Facebook tool on the website with misleading information about Tasigna (nilotinib), used to treat a type of blood cancer called Phi ...
  • Space Station Repair Delayed by Leaks
    An unexpected ammonia leak derailed a marathon spacewalk to replace a faulty coolant system pump aboard the International Space Station.

Common Dreams

  • Target Faces More Heat Over Political Donation
    by Tom Webb Randi Reitan planned to spend Friday caring for her grandchildren. But something came up: She had to lead a protest against Target Corp. Reitan, of Eden Prairie, has become the public face in a growing controversy over a $150,000 Target political contribution. When she heard Target ...
  • Judge Strikes Down California Prop. 8, the Ban on ...
    by Bob Egelko and Demian Bulwa SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge today struck down Proposition 8, the voter-passed November 2008 initiative that defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman. U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker found that the ban on same-sex marriage violated the constitutional du ...
  • Protesters Charged with Mischief, 'Breaking Out' A ...
    CALGARY - Calgary Police have laid charges against nine people in connection with Tuesday's Greenpeace protest at the Calgary Tower. Two Calgarians are among the nine, each of whom are charged with one count of "breaking out" related to leaving the tower and climbing onto the roof, and one count of ...
  • Rolling Stone Reporter Denied Afghan Embed After M ...
    by Anne Gearan WASHINGTON - The author of the Rolling Stone article that ended the military career of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former top commander in Afghanistan, has been denied permission to join U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Defense Department spokesman Col. ...
  • Survey: Arabs Lose Faith in Obama
    Arab opinion of the United States and its president Barack Obama has dimmed in the past year, while the popularity of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, has skyrocketed, according to an annual survey released by the US-based Brookings Institution on Thursday. read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

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

  • Political Prisoners in America
    by Stephen Lendman Noted journalist HL Menchen described "The most dangerous man to any government (as someone) who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under ...
  • Another murder victim's family opposes death penal ...
    Mary Shaw A Philadelphia suburban district attorney has announced that he will not seek the death penalty against a woman and her lover for the June murder of the woman's husband, Kevin Mengel. Chester County DA Joe Carroll said the case does not meet the conditions required to pursue the death pe ...
  • We Need a New Language to Provide a Vision for a N ...
    By Kevin Zeese The Late Tony Judt’s Last Book Focuses on Ending Concentrated Wealth and Creating an Economy That Works for All I was saddened to read of historian Tony Judt’s death at too early an age. He was the type of historian we need to hear more from. He confronted the myths on which govern ...
  • Israel Prohibiting the Right to Demonstrate
    by Stephen Lendman The 1907 Hague Convention's Article 43 and Fourth Geneva's Article 64 require that occupied territory penal laws stay in force, applicable to both occupier and occupied. However, since 1967, Israel issued over 2,500 Military Orders, controlling daily life solely for Palestinia ...
  • The Unrivaled Legacy of Avicenna
    Kourosh Ziabari Historically, Iran has been a land of prominent, influential figures in science, letters, arts and literature whose impact on the global civilization will remain in place forever. Throughout its ancient history, Iran has introduced numerous people to the world who have been among ...

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

  • Rush Limbaugh: The Face of Modern Corruption
    Just look at him! Rush Limbaugh accuses media of using First Lady’s ’slave past’ to cover up her trip to Spain | Examiner One can always count on Rush Limbaugh to degrade an already questionable public debate. Over the past few days, the blogosphere has been abuzz with a story concerning First Lady ...
  • Did Democrats Sabotage Their Own Bill?
    Hidden Bipartisanship and Corporate Interests in Washington | Associated Content The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2009, also know as HR 847, came up for vote on July 29, 2010. The bill would have provided, among other things, medical treatment for first responders present during ...
  • Set of Hobbiton in Lord of the Rings abandoned, no ...
    Hobbiton: Sheep 1, Hobbits 0 | Kuriositas Matamata in New Zealand was the place chosen to film the Hobbiton scenes of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy of movies. After the film was finished the farm upon which the Hobbit village was created asked if some of the hobbit homes could remain to serve as [. ...
  • Spike Sez “Do The Right Thing, US Government ...
    Spike Lee: US government lying about oil spill cleanup | Raw Story Filmmaker Spike Lee is calling a “lie” a U.S. government report that 75 percent of the spilled Gulf Coast oil is gone. Speaking to a meeting of the Television Critics Association on Saturday, Lee said journalists should expose what h ...
  • Scanners Come To New York
    70% in NBC New York poll ‘furious’ at arrival of airport body scanners | Infowars NBC New York has reported the announcement that full body scanners will soon descend on JFK, Newark and LaGuardia airports, the major transportation hubs of the New York City metropolitan area. However, an informal pol ...

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 ...
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