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Thomas Paine

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Saturday, August 21, 2010

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  • HEALTH-UGANDA: Breastfeeding Dilemma for HIV-posit ...
    The new World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendation that HIV-positive mothers on antiretroviral therapy (ARVs) can exclusively breastfeed their babies for up to twelve months without infecting them has created confusion among HIV-positive mothers in Uganda as information about the new guideline ...
  • CULTURE-SINGAPORE: Ghost Festival Far From Dying
    Like a seasoned star, Ting Ting pranced around on the stage in an energetic dance routine as she delivered a pitch-perfect rendition of a high-tempo Chinese ballad. Enthralled, the 500- strong crowd surged forward, eager to catch a closer look at the svelte 25-year-old artiste, dressed in a ...
  • AFRICA: Maputo Protocol a Work in Progress
    Kenyans are still euphoric over the referendum endorsing a progressive new constitution; but the heat generated by its opponents around their main rallying point - abortion rights - is a reminder of the wide gap between law and implementation in Africa, particularly when it concerns women's rights ...
  • The Mystery of the Vanishing Squid in South Atlant ...
    Environmental factors, lack of cooperation and overfishing have caused a sharp fall in catches of squid in the southwestern Atlantic ocean, the most important fishery in the world for this species.
  • ISRAEL-LEBANON: U.N. Treads Cautiously in Probe of ...
    Three weeks after a fatal exchange of fire between Israel and Lebanon along the U.N.-demarcated Blue Line, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has yet to make recommendations on easing tension at the border.

Scoop - NZ

  • Biochar -the way to reduce our worst GHG emissions
    Biochar may be the easiest best way to reduce the very potent Nitrous oxide emissions .New study shows excellent results ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Warming real and dangerous
    Aussie Academy tells it how it is for Aussies , and the consequences of climate change for Australia. But Aussies continue to put their head in the ( hot ) sand !In fact , they seem to be getting stupider on this subject ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Profit margins wilt on China's surging wages
    Rising wage and production costs in China are eating into the profits of Western companies and may soon set off an exodus of multinational companies to cheaper locations. A report by Credit Suisse said the vast majority of US and European companies in China are expecting a "margin hit" ov ...
  • Harvard dumps Israeli investments
    Harvard explains Israel share sales: it wasn't divestment, it's just that Israel is no longer an emerging market (Business Insider). Did the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions for Palestine movement just make a historic advance? Harvard University has sold close to $40 million of shares in Israeli c ...
  • James Lovelock: We're all doomed
    According to the climate change scientist James Lovelock, this is the beginning of the end of a peaceful phase in evolution. By 2040, the world population of more than six billion will have been culled by floods, drought and famine. The people of Southern Europe, as well as South-East Asia, will b ...

Independent - London

  • Rape investigation into WikiLeaks founder
    A Swedish tabloid reported today that an arrest warrant has been issued for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on suspicion of rape, and officials said they could confirm "media reports".
  • Australia votes in 'tight' election race
    Australians are choosing between electing their fourth prime minister in three years or sticking with their first female leader in a tight race that pit her against a conservative male challenger just two months after she took power.
  • Wyclef Jean ruled out of Haiti race
    Haiti's electoral council has ruled that hip hop artist Wyclef Jean cannot run for president.
  • Briton arrested over Portugal beach photos
    A 48-year-old British tourist has been arrested in Portugal on suspicion of taking photographs of children.
  • Israel and Palestinians agree to direct peace talk ...
    Israel and the Palestinians have accepted an invitation by the United States and other powers to restart direct talks on September 2 in a modest step toward forging a deal within 12 months to create a Palestinian state and peacefully end one of the world's most intractable conflicts.

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Painless parenting
    Taking a child to the emergency room or to get a routine immunization is an experience most parents dread. Instinctively, they seek to soothe their children by telling them that everything will turn out fine. But Dalhousie University researchers Meghan McMurtry and Christine Chambers have some surpr ...
  • Barcoding life
    Biologist Paul Hebert couldn’t believe his eyes when a colleague found a species of moth native to Mexico fluttering over the tundra at the fringes of Hudson Bay in Churchill, Man., one summer day in 2006. The huge black witch moth with a 20-centimetre wingspan had never before been found that far n ...
  • Building smarts
  • Send in the bacteria
    The video clip is the stuff of science fiction: a swarm of 5,000 bacteria lift microscopic epoxy bricks and assemble them one by one to form a pyramid, as if they were building a tower of blocks. A computer directs their movement by controlling magnetic fields.But for Sylvain Martel and his team of ...
  • Seeing red
    Ram Krishna of Toronto has had type 2 diabetes for almost 25 years, but he only started taking insulin a couple of years ago to help better control it. Since the insulin regimen began, he has had to test his blood glucose level more regularly — about three to five times a week. To do so, he does wha ...

Signs of the times

  • CNN Coverup; Is Facebook "Sexy Toy" IDF "Kapo Quee ...
    "I am in favor of the Zionist state. I would gladly kill Arabs, even slaughter them. I can't allow Arab lovers to ruin the perfect life I lead."....Eden Abergil A "Kapo" was a Jew who served the Nazis, sometimes as administrators, but more often as thuggish camp police, even more brutal tha ...
  • Something Stinks About Wikileaks Release of "Secre ...
    Coinciding with Voltaire Network's interpretation of the Wikileaks uproar, F. William Engdhal also detects the signs of a gross diversion maneuver. Conspicuously, no mention is made of the juicy Afghan drug business while retired Pakistani General Hamid Gul is conveniently framed for the breakdown o ...
  • BEST OF WEB: People Power! Homeowners' Rebellion: ...
    Over 62 million mortgages are now held in the name of MERS, an electronic recording system devised by and for the convenience of the mortgage industry. A California bankruptcy court, following landmark cases in other jurisdictions, recently held that this electronic shortcut makes it impossible for ...
  • Haiti council: Wyclef Jean can't run for president
    Haiti's electoral commission said Friday that hip hop artist Wyclef Jean cannot run for president of this Caribbean nation, ending his outsider's bid to lead a country struggling to recover from the Jan. 12 earthquake. Jean, who faced a challenge to his candidacy in the Nov. 28 elections because he ...
  • Blackwater founder moves to Abu Dhabi
    The founder of the largest U.S. State Department private security contractor moved himself and his family to the United Arab Emirates, court papers indicate. Erik Prince -- whose private military company, Xe Services LLC, is for sale -- moved to Abu Dhabi after a series of civil lawsuits, criminal ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Four years of cheating veterans
    That little shit 'Support the troops' Steve has been using our tax dollars to fight veterans' claims .Write your MP and demand that Veterans Ombudsman Col. Pat Stogran be re-instated to continue his work on behalf of veterans like Bryan Dick and their families. And when parliament resumes I want to ...
  • Change what law, Harper?
    Harper: "We will not hesitate to strengthen the laws if we have to, because ultimately as a government, we're responsible," Harper said. "It's a fundamental exercise of sovereignty, and we're responsible for the security of our borders and the ability to welcome people or not welcome people when ...
  • Shot........... Splash. Out.
    Gee, Gordo. Looks like the little back room shenanigans you organized with your big business buddies didn't quite pan out . I'm pretty sure that in 90 days you'll be telling us all to get stuffed anyway. No problem. I smell a recall campaign with your name on it.
  • A booby-trapped wheelchair...
    ...just detonated under a Conservative Firestone. Emphasis mine. At a news conference Friday, Natynczyk, the chief of the defence staff, was asked if veterans ombudsman Pat Stogran, whose term is not being renewed, has been doing a good job. "He has certainly voiced with clarity what the issues a ...
  • No science, please, we're the tar sands
    Remember that two year Environment Committee study on the impact of the tarsands on freshwater? The one that was ultimately shredded because the four parties at the table couldn't agree on the wording? The Lib members of that committee have now released their own report on the testimony and, as Andr ...

Media Matters for America

  • Right-wing media smear Park51 as potential haven f ...
    In their relentless attacks against the planned Park51 Islamic community center in Manhattan, right-wing media have smeared the center as a potential haven or recruitment center for terrorists and extremists. Right-wing media smear Islamic center as potential haven or recruitment center for terrori ...
  • Right-wing media just can't quit attacking Obama' ...
    Following polls showing that an increasing number of Americans wrongly believe President Obama is a Muslim, right-wing media figures have used the opportunity to continue to sow doubts about Obama's religious convictions. Right-wing media seize on opportunity to further attack Obama's religious ...
  • Two months later, Fox discovers O'Reilly was used ...
    Fox News and Bill O'Reilly have denied knowing until this week that right-wing website Newsmax was using an interview with O'Reilly to sell its financial schemes. But Newsmax has used O'Reilly to sell financial products for months, and Fox News' Dick Morris has shilled for various Newsmax schemes f ...
  • Behind Obama Muslim myth stands the right wing
    Two recently released polls show that an increasing number of Americans believe the falsehood that President Obama is a Muslim. According to the Pew Research Center, 60 percent of people who believe this false claim cite the media as the source of that information -- and, indeed, the right-wing med ...
  • Attention TV networks: Pam Geller is lying to your ...
    Right-wing blogger Pamela Gelller has been a frequent guest on television news programs to discuss the controversy about the building of an Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero, a controversy that her group, Stop Islamization of America, has been largely responsible for driving. She has used ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Economic emptiness in Palestine and Israel 
    Israelis and Palestinians have agreed to enter direct negotiations (yet again) in Washington on September 2. The Obama administration is sure to hail this as a significant breakthrough. Jerusalem, refugees, settlements, and borders will all be on the table. But substantive Palestinian economic growt ...
  • Obama should embrace Islam as part of his - and ou ...
    Liberals have reacted with surprise to the recent Pew survey showing that a large and increasing number of Americans believe that Obama is a Muslim -- shocked to think that Americans could be so misinformed about the president's religion. The issue here though is not about information, but about po ...
  • Religious Liberty v. National Security in Arguing ...
    A very important point from Josh about how progressives couch the arguments for Codoba House to be built. Prompted by an article by former senior US counterterrorism official Ali Soufan , he warns against battling the demagogues mainly on First Amendment grounds and underplaying crucial arguments ab ...
  • Juicy. Goldberg Caught Lying, Apologizes & Keeps L ...
    Nice Friday. Glenn Greenwald catches Jeff Goldberg (live and on tape) in flatout lies. And, proving my crybaby thesis, Goldberg apologizes, whines, and then lies some more. I can't add anything. I think Jeff should go back to the Israeli army. In his book, he made clear that he was one of ...
  • Cordoba House: Too Far Away
    When an open and shut case stays open, there's something wrong with the investigation--not just with arguments for and against, but the terms of debate themselves. Does anybody really know how to talk about "religions" these days? Like most who might otherwise have ventured an opinion, I've not c ...

TruthOut

  • Eugene Robinson | Change Accomplished
    Washington - This is a radical break from journalistic convention, I realize, but today I'd like to give credit where it's due -- specifically, to President Obama. Quiet as it's kept, he's on a genuine winning streak. read more
  • Debt, Democracy and Paying Our Fair Share
    It wasn't that long ago that the "smart" thing was to take on debt. But not anymore. It's no surprise that people today fear being crushed by debt. But for our own and our country's well being, we need to put government debt into perspective. First, frugality is certainly a virtue, and buying only ...
  • Study: Plants Absorbed Less CO2 Over Past Decade
    A new study recorded a slight dip in the amount of CO2 taken up over the past 10 years. If the trend continues, scientists say it could signal a tipping point in earth's ability to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Earth's plants – natural scrubbers removing carbon dioxide from the atmosph ...
  • Is Your Museum Too White?
    For some years now, behind the scenes and in galleries and museums, artists and curators have been discussing the transformative effects electronic and digital technologies are having in the arts. As a curatorial adviser on digital art - the founder of Art Digital Magazine, which has the largest onl ...
  • Paul Krugman | History Does Not Lie - Unless It I ...
    When you consistently irritate the hard right in the United States as I do, you quickly get used to the steady stream of accusations that you’re lying, simply because you didn’t present the facts in a way that suits the commenter. If I write, “The economy added 236,000 jobs a month under Bill Clinto ...

Planetsave

  • Lemurs (10 Friday Photos + 1 extra)
    11 photos of lemurs for "10 Friday Photos" this week! Do you remember King Julien from "Madagascar"? Wasn't he cute? Well, today we've got 11 photos with lemurs like him. Maybe they're not kings, but they absolutely rule!
  • Going Green Tip #4: Green Your Transport!
    Going Green Tip #4 -- Green your transport, not only for the environment, but for your health, happiness, personal finances, and time.
  • Massive Coral Die-Off From Spike in Ocean Temperat ...
    One of the most severe and rapid coral bleaching and die-off events ever recorded happens as waters off the Indonesian coast spike to 93 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • Blood Dolphins
    Animal Planet's Blood Dolphins continues the story of The Cove beginning August 27.
  • California Sea Otter Population in Decline
    Bad news this year for sea otters in California and sea otter lovers. Well, a lot of people have enjoyed our recent 10 Friday Photos post on otters. Unfortunately, I just got some bad news regarding these interesting creatures. California’s otter population is down quite a bit (11%) this year. For m ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Understanding America's Class System - United Stat ...
    Honk If You Love Caviar. How about them political elites, huh? Five million bucks for Chelsea Clinton's wedding, 15K just to rent the air-conditioned shitters -- huge chrome and glass babies with hot water and everything. No gas masks and waxy little squares of toilet paper for those guys. Yes ...
  • Airbase near Jacobabad under US control, Senate pa ...
    ISLAMABAD: Health relief operations in Jacobabad are not possible because the airbase in the area is controlled by the US. The stunning statement was made by Health Secretary Khushnood Lashari during an appearance at the Senate Standing Committee on Health on Wednesday. “Health reli ...
  • The Magnitude of the Pakistan Floods Is Unpreceden ...
    UN Humanitarian Chief John Holmes: The Magnitude of the Pakistan Floods Is UnprecedentedThe United Nations is warning millions of Pakistanis are at risk of deadly waterborne diseases more than two weeks since Pakistan’s worst-ever flooding began. The World Health Organization says around six million ...
  • Brazil and Venezuela: Two Turning Point Elections ...
    Introduction Two elections in Latin America this fall will have decisive importance in the direction of economic and foreign policy for the coming decade. Venezuelan legislative elections on September 26 will determine whether President Chavez can secure the two-thirds majority needed to proce ...
  • BP oil spill: US scientist retracts assurances ove ...
    NOAA's Bill Lehr says three-quarters of the oil that gushed from the Deepwater Horizon rig is still in sea while scientists identify 22-mile plume in ocean depths. Bill Lehr, a senior scientist at the NOAA, appeared before Congress to repudiate an earlier report he wrote, which sug ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Negotiating with Terrorists
    I bow to no one in my admiration for Howard Dean's courage and my gratitude to him for building the party that took back the country in 2006 and 2008. But he's dead wrong on this one. �You can't have a dialogue with people who refuse to discuss facts or reality, who won't listen to anyone who is not ...
  • America's Bad Reputation Gets a Little Worse
    The tribunals in Guant?namo and newly revealed military campaigns are reinforcing some less than admirable qualities. �The stain will not wash out as easily as some might want. For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning Shears . No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of th ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    We'll believe it when Bibi stops building illegal settlements. "Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to resume direct negotiations for the first time in 20 months, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas have ...
  • Number 96
    Kentucky's 96th casualty of the endless clusterfucks in Iraq and Afghanistan is a decorated Navy SEAL from the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. Chief Special Warfare Operator Collin Trent Thomas, 33, was shot while deployed with a SEAL team based at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek. As is custo ...
  • Dean's Suggestion for Dialog on Mosque Has Merit
    As the last of America's combat brigades quietly slipped across the Kuwait border, their mission of a peaceful and united Iraqi nation yet unaccomplished, I remain more fully convinced now than at the war's beginning that Americans will learn far more from Iraqis about what it means to have a nation ...

Care 2

Smirking Chimp

  • When does Fox News' ugly Muslim bashing become the ...
    Same chorus , different song. One month after launching a jaw-dropping campaign of racial discord and warning of a looming, Obama-led "race war," Fox News and the far-right media have turned the page of the hate hymnal and embraced a new enemy: Muslims. Yes, the bigotry is off the charts. Yes, the ...
  • Obama's Economics Team: "Frozen in the headlights"
    The personal savings rate has risen to 6.4%. When households save, consumer spending declines and GDP shrinks. The reduction in economic activity can have serious knock-on effects. It can lead to more layoffs as investment sputters as aggregate demand flags. If the downturn persists, asset prices a ...
  • Fox News Comes Out of the Closet
    Fox News finally made it official. They are part and parcel of the Republican Party. They are now the largest donors to the Republican Governors Association, having given them $1 million dollars. They also employ three out of the top four Republicans in the Iowa Caucus Poll for GOP presidential cand ...
  • Mosques, Muslims and America in Darkness
    � from Truthout Things have come to a pretty pass when I'm the guy saying it would be really helpful if George W. Bush were still around. I'm saying it, and I mean it, because this country could really use his brand of wisdom right now. Let me be clear: I despise the man. Loathe him. He was quite ...
  • The Banksters Strike Again: Chase Bank and Obama's ...
    SOMEWHERE IN AFGHANISTAN--It isn't surprising, what with the world falling apart and all, that the world scarcely noticed that I lost my job as an editor in April 2009. Why should it? I was one of millions of Americans who lost their job that month. But it mattered to me. It wasn't all bad. No more ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • An Auspicious Occasion – Combat Troops Out Of Iraq
    Whether you supported the Iraq War or not (and as I have said numerous times, I did not), there was very good news coming out of Iraq on Thursday. The troops are coming home (at least most of them): Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com While there may be debate on what constitutes success i ...
  • Vacation Trumps All * Open Thread
    From the L.A. Times’ “Obama now blames poor job numbers on congressional inaction. Wait! His party runs Congress“: Just a few minor things to catch up on for the weekend now that the Fundraiser-in-Chief has gone on another vacation (Don't worry though. White House chef Sam Kass went along, so the ...
  • Hindenburg Reverse “R” Hope
      Jobs in Reverse.  The last fig leaf fell off the Obama administration’s hope and change with the first-time unemployment filing going to the Hindenburg Omen-worthy 500,000 the week ending August 14, reported today (as presciently pointed to by Joe Brusuelas, Bloomberg, when we spoke last Fri ...
  • Barack the Magic Muslim? How About Some Economic ...
    Remember the hubbub when Rush Limbaugh played the song parody, Barack the Magic Negro? The song is a caricature of Al Sharpton kvetching about Barack Obama being a pretender. In other words, Al, not Barack, is the “authentic” Negro. But wait! Could it be? Is Barack not a magic Negro [...]
  • BP Oil Spill: Out of Sight, Out of Mind
    I hate to admit this, but we Americans drift along on mental surfaces. Bombarded by sound bites, we slide from one issue to the next, as if on an infinite banister of ever-changing realities. A literal example. We are being told that the vast swatches of leaked oil in the gulf simply disappeared ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • X-Ray Images Show Flowers as You've Never Seen The ...
    If you thought flowers were beautiful with the limited visual ability we humans possess, you will find these images of blooms quite staggering. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Night San Francisco's Cliff House Burnt to a C ...
    The story of how the great Victorian mansion, built wobbling upon a cliff, was destroyed in an inferno. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The World's Longest Tunnels
    If going through tunnels scares you, then check out these fascinating tunnels, you just might see a light at the end. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Lake Powell: The Southwest Desert's 200 Mile Long ...
    Lake Powell is the second-largest man-made lake in the U.S. The fishing is great, the weather is warm and the scenery is amazing. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Coconut Palm: The Tree of Life
    If you're stranded on an island, you better make sure it has lots and lots of coconut tress, ensuring that if the worst comes to the worst, you can survive for months! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the articl ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • 'Missing Plastic' in the Atlantic
    No increase is seen after comparing debris gathered in plankton nets with 22 years of similar data on marine debris.
  • Dust Bowl Haunts Wheat Farmers
    Many wheat farmers are nervous about planting more wheat this year, fearing that prices that have recently soared could fall back to earth -- or that commodity speculators and investment funds might be exaggerating the shortfall in Russia.
  • Europe's Brisk Energy Transition
    Renewable energy now accounts for 18.4 percent of energy production in the European Union, just behind natural gas, which provides 19.3 percent
  • Warming Seas Threaten Coral Off Indonesia
    The bleaching is attributed to a spike in sea temperatures in May that left waters in the area about 7 degrees Fahrenheit above average.
  • Oil Plume May Be Breaking Down Slowly
    Preliminary indications are that the oil in the gulf might pose a continuing threat to wildlife, although much research remains to be done, a study says.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • LinkBatch for August 19th 2010: In-Q-Tel CIA front ...
    Let's start with the FDA's plan to kill everyone: Junk food-addicted rats chose to starve themselves rather than eat healthy food . Kind of amazed that the Iraq 'combat mission' officially ended, as this seven-year epic dominated my college experience & well basically shaped a whole era. But did FOX ...
  • Big Brother GPS tracking nets Epic Dissent from 9t ...
    There is something creepy and un-American about such clandestine and underhanded behavior. To those of us who have lived under a totalitarian regime, there is an eerie feeling of déjà vu. This case, if any, deserves the comprehensive, mature and diverse consideration that an en banc panel can provid ...
  • The Pentagon Officially Hatez William Mitchell, Ga ...
    A hat tip to the William Mitchell College of Law, which despite a few shady cats hangin round the faculty (lookin at you ex-CIA attorney 2002-2004 & neocon pal John Radsan). BTW Radsan CYA yabbin on CIA tapes coverup in a rlly bad Flash encode: Anyhow besides that guy (who is oft spotte ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • Film Alleges Fed ‘Fraud’ Against Victims of $3.65 ...
    Victims of a massive financial fraud will unveil a documentary Aug. 25 in Minneapolis that portrays federal authorities as helping bankruptcy lawyers and the government feast on dwindling victim assets without adequate protections for fairness. The Second Fraud, spiked last December from planned sho ...
  • The Muslim Center at “Ground Zero”
    As elections for state and local offices are approaching, American politics is hitting a new low. There are huge issues facing US society. These include the expanding US occupation of Afghanistan as well as the failed occupation in Iraq, the Gulf of Mexico/BP oil disaster and its long term consequen ...
  • Fox News and John Bolton violate International Law ...
    Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000105 EndHTML:0000010569 StartFragment:0000002482 EndFragment:0000010533 By Lew Brown Yesterday in the media, amidst a backwash of junk food stories regaling us with the harrowing experience of Tila Tequila at an Insane Clown Posse concert, more outrage over a planned Mosq ...
  • The New Soylent Green Economy
      ‘Dead janitors’ or ‘dead peasants’ insurance: corporations buy secret non-disclosed life insurance policies on their workers when workers ‘give up the ghost’  There is nothing that is sacred under the organized system of greed known as capitalism. Everything produced and sold under the ruthless ar ...
  • VISITING GERARDO
    By Danny Glover and Saul Landau From the Ontario California airport some 60 miles east of downtown Los Angeles we drove north on Highway 15, the road to Las Vegas. Cars with expectant amateur gamblers and loaded big rigs climb and descend the mountains where the Angeles and San Bernadino National Fo ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

  • Where's Our Money?
    If Robert Gibbs can't answer the simple question -- where's our money -- voters will do what they usually do in elections and let their pocketbooks determine their choices.
  • Averting the Next Mortgage Meltdown While Cooling ...
    A creative solution to the predicted commercial real estate crisis could boost both energy efficiency and tax receipts.
  • The Lineup: Week of August 16-22, 2010
    This week's editorial package includes an op-ed by Daphne Wysham about an innovative concept for slashing greenhouse gas emissions from buildings while helping to avert some of the fallout from the coming commercial real estate crisis.
  • North Korea: Why Engagement Now?
    Geopolitics drove the U.S.-China detente. It could do the same between Washington and Pyongyang.
  • Chernobyl: The Gift That Never Stops Giving
    The threats to human health and the environment from Chernobyl fallout, scientists are now finding, will persist for a very long time.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

  • PDA Weekly Field Report 8/13/10 – 8/20/10
    It’s time to focus all our attentions to Florida as two of our nationally endorsed candidates Doug Tudor (FL-12) and Marleine ...
  • We need your help!
    Let’s give voters a reason to go to the polls! Dear Friend, On August 24, two of PDA’s endorsed candidates are facing primary elections. Each of these candidates represents PDA’s core values and embraces PDA’s positions. And ...
  • What a lineup! August’s ‘The Agitator& ...
    The Agitator: Voices of PDA Episode 10: Featuring a montage of voices from PDA’s Grassroots Leadership Conference Dear Bryan, Leading lights from the worlds of progressive politics, media, and activism enriched ...
  • Video: Terror Babies? Really?
    Rep. Louie Gohmert loses control when Anderson Cooper asks for evidence on the ‘Terror Babies’ Conspiracy. Obviously Rep. Gohmert has no evidence. Anderson did a decent job keeping calm and insisting Gohmert give ...
  • Major march in Motor City!
    Join us in Detroit for jobs, justice, and peace! It’s time for some good, old-time street heat. Please join the United Auto Workers and the National Rainbow/PUSH Coalition on August 28th in Detroit to march for âJobs, ...

Marler Blog

  • NPR Following the Salmonella Egg Outbreak
    Federal officials say they don't yet know the size of a national epidemic of salmonella from contaminated eggs. Between May and July, health officials counted nearly 2,000 salmonella cases -- compared to a normal caseload of 700. Officials say they expect the number to grow when illnesses from late ...
  • Salmonella Enteritidis-tainted Eggs top 550,000,00 ...
    The New York Times William Neuman just reported that: Hillandale Farms of Iowa, issued a recall Friday of 170 million eggs that it sent to 14 states.  The company said “laboratory-confirmed illnesses” had been associated with the eggs, and federal officials said the illnesses were part of a large o ...
  • So, you thought this week only Eggs had Salmonella ...
    Salmonella Mamey Fruit Pulp The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to eat frozen mamey fruit pulp sold under the La Nuestra brand by Montalvan Sales Inc. Ontario, Calif., or the Goya brand by Goya Foods Inc. Secaucus, N.J. An investigation by the Centers for Disease Control ...
  • Hillandale Farms of Iowa recalls Eggs from April 9 ...
    (FDA Press Release) Hillandale Farms of Iowa is voluntarily recalling shell eggs because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.  Eggs affected by this recall were distributed to grocery distribution centers, retail grocery stores and foodservice companies which service or are lo ...
  • Egg Recall by the Numbers - How many chickens does ...
    On August 13, Wright County Egg conducted a nationwide recall of shell eggs on 3 of its 5 farms. Further epidemiologic and traceback information led to Wright County Egg expanding its recall on August 18 to cover all 5 farms and 380,000,000 eggs. Shell eggs under the August 13, 2010 recall are pa ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 08.20.10
    Does driving make you fat? Can public transportation, biking and walking keep you skinny? Wouldn't hurt to take the A Train, apparently. One stock analyst says Tesla will fail like internet groceries ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 08.19.10
    Greenlings: Why do automatic transmissions now get better fuel efficiency than manuals? Going from fluid coupling to Lock-up converters to DCTs has a big effect. Paris 2010 preview: Kia adding fizz with a ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 08.18.10
    Overweight and overfueled - fat America uses more gas Excuse us, we're going out for a job. Pint-sized Buddy electric vehicle stops 80-ton freight train in its tracks Old EV, new tricks. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 08.17.10
    80-day, 'round-the-world electric car Zero Race takes off in Geneva today Anyone want to go for a spin? Nissan dealer says only 3,300 Leafs will be available in U.S. by end of March Japan ge ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 08.16.10
    AutoNation warns its Chevrolet dealers to sell the Volt at MSRP or else... They will not be permitted to price gouge simply because the vehicle may be in short supply. Martin Eberhard predicts 500-mile ra ...

Rafe's Radar

  • CNET to the Rescue: Leave the world behind
    If you're heading out of town and leaving the electronic world behind, don't forget that your e-mail contacts, Facebook friends, and Farmville plants will still be expecting to see you around online, interacting with them. Here are some tips for managing your electronic world when you step away ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable: Net neutrality
    Today we're talking about an issue that's been in the news a lot in the past few days: Net neutrality -- the concept of a network infrastructure that is nondiscriminatory when it comes to types and sources and the content of Internet traffic. To support Net neutrality is to support freedom, o ...
  • CNET to the Rescue: How to look sharp
    We've got an interesting topic to talk about before getting into questions today. It's how to look good in your pictures. Dating site OkCupid has aggregated 11.4 million opinions on what its members classify as "great" or otherwise attractive photos. Listen now: Download today's podcast ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable: Security report on Black Ha ...
    We sent three reporters to the dual security conferences, Black Hat and Defcon , last week in Las Vegas. Each has a different coverage area and perspective: Elinor Mills is CNET's security reporter. Declan McCullagh covers government and policy, and Seth Rosenblatt is an editor and reviewer for C ...
  • CNET to the Rescue: Cleaning up the cable mess
    Today we get wrapped up in cables. We're talking about the best ways to manager an unruly rat's nest of data and power wires into a thing of beauty and logic. With bonus rat's nest pictures from listeners--so watch the video for the full experience. Also, questions about moving from and to Andro ...

Camera Obscura

  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so fre ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and the ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces of ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion in ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigorous ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmine's ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of pro ...
  • Dangerous spaces: Safe.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935029/dangerous-spaces-safe.html September 1, 2004... For me, the problem is always in content; we want to define the perspective of a film solely through its content, and not through its form. --Todd Haynes No matter how much we desire, w ...

Democracy Now!

  • Amy Goodman to appear tonight on CNN's _John King, ...
    Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King, USA , on Friday, August 20th at 7pm Eastern Time.
  • Amy Goodman on CNN's John King, USA
    Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNNâs John King, USA , on Thursday, August 19th at 7pm Eastern Time.
  • Amy Goodman to appear on CNN's _John King, USA_
    Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King, USA , on Thursday, August 19th at 7pm Eastern Time.
  • Mosque-Issippi Burning
    Salman Hamdani died on Sept. 11, 2001. The 23-year-old research assistant at Rockefeller University had a degree in biochemistry. He was also a trained emergency medical technician and a cadet with the New York Police Department. But he never made it to work that day. Hamdani, a Muslim-American, wa ...
  • News at 11: How Climate Change Affects You
    Our daily weather reports, cheerfully presented with flashy graphics and state-of-the-art animation, appear to relay more and more information. And yet, no matter how glitzy the presentation, a key fact is invariably omitted. Imagine if, after flashing the words "extreme weather" to grab our atten ...

Farming Pathogens

  • 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

  • Israel and Palestinians to resume peace talks in W ...
    Hillary Clinton hopes a peace agreement can be reached within a year, in first direct negotiations since 2008 Chris McGreal in Washington guardian.co.uk, Friday 20 August 2010 16.59 BST Israel and the Palestinians are to resume direct peace talks next month, Hillary Clinton has announced. The US sec ...
  • Risk Of Double-Dip Recession?
    Economists See Increased Chance Of Double-Dip Recession Huffington Post |  Ryan McCarthy First Posted: 08-16-10 01:19 PM   |   Updated: 08-16-10 01:51 PM Buried amidst the increasingly gloomy economic news of the last few weeks — which includes stubbornly high unemployment, rising foreclosur ...
  • Afternoon Jukebox- They Call Us the Working Class, ...
    Walter Trout – “They Call Us the Working Class, (But We Ain’t Working No More)
  • Tea Party Activists Rally Along Arizona-Mexico Bor ...
    Tea Party Activists Rally Along Arizona-Mexico Border To Protest Illegal Immigration JONATHAN J. COOPER | 08/15/10 04:57 PM |  Via- Huff Post HEREFORD, Ariz. â Tea party groups converged on a remote section of the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday to show support for Arizona’s controversial new immigr ...
  • Raina: Kashmir Now Or Never
    By Badri Raina, ZNet, August 13, 2010 “Kashmir may be conquered by the force of spiritual merit but not by the force of soldiers.” —–(Kalhana Pandit) So total has been the loss of hegemony of Kashmirâs elected representatives, in government and in the legislature, over the last two months, and so ...

Solari

  • Resource Demand Spurs M&A Deal Surge
    By Javier Blas and William MacNamara The rise of China and India has sparked a renewed surge in aggressive dealmaking in the resources sector, with more than $50bn in proposed take­overs this week alone wagering on continued strong commodities demand. BHP Billiton on Friday tabled formally its $39b ...
  • The Art of War
    This Thursday, I will be speaking with Dr. Victor H. Mair, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania about his marvelous translation of the classic military treatise, The Art of War: Sun Zi’s Military Methods. One of the questions of greatest interest to our sub ...
  • Retirement Fund Withdrawals Rise in Downturn
    * Fidelity exec: Savers tap funds to avoid foreclosure * Record levels of hardship withdrawals, loans * 401(k) balances slipped in Q2 as stock market fell By Ross Kerber A record number of U.S. workers are tapping into their retirement accounts to make it through the economic downturn, Fidelity Inv ...
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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 biggest re-branding exercise in the history of ...
    Summary:  What is the face of America, the image we present to the world?  In many of the key areas we’re conducting a massive effort to re-brand America.  Perhaps still as a force for order, but as a dark force. The image we project to the world is an important aspect of our grand strategy.  [. ...
  • Justice for slavers (esp sex traffickers): hang t ...
    Summary:  Macho conservatives often advocate hanging pirates (although most are in the ransom business, unlike rape/pillage business model of their 18th century predecessors).   Too bad they show little interest in that other back-from-the-past scourge:  slaving.  Perhaps because it involves propert ...
  • Climate science: the debate, the eventual solution ...
    Summary:  A look at the public’s view of the debate among climate scientists, and what it shows about us. Debates among layman about technical matters say nothing about the actual issues — but reveal much about the state of the American public.  So it is with the debates about climate and economic ...
  • “We are often more dangerous to ourselves th ...
    Summary:  This is another post in the long series about our military — an army near the breaking point.  Links at the end go to the reference page, which has links to news articles, studies, and more information.  We can all help a little with this.  Thank a vet.  Support the Blue Star Mothers ...
  • About the legacy of SecDef Gates (and his rumored ...
    Summary:   This post by GI Wilson (Colonel, USMC, retired) discusses the legacy of SecDef Gates.  Following that is Gates’ enigmatic statement about resigning, and the official denial. Gates’ departure will be noticed. Gates clearly discerns the insidious effects of the paradox of power. The p ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Surface cracks show the Moon is shrinking
    The Telegraph-Cracks discovered in the surface of the Moon suggest that our nearest neighbour is shrinking. Like a deflating balloon, the satellite is contracting as its interior cools, scientists believe. The cooling has reduced the radius of the Moon by around 100m in the relatively recent lunar p ...
  • The Netherlands: Witness-intimidation Inquiry
    NY Times – A judge at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague has ordered an independent inquiry into complaints by defense witnesses and associates of the Serbian nationalist leader Vojislav Seselj, that investigators working for the prosecution in the past had pressured or intimidated ...
  • Alzheimer’s Drugs: The Good, the Bad, and the Pros ...
    Wealth Daily – Eli Lilly is one of numerous drug companies, including Pfizer, Elan, Bristol-Myers Squibb and others, who are betting that stopping production of amyloid clumps in the brains of Alzheimerâs patients will slow the disease. … Others say the Alzheimerâs field has it backwards. Far fr ...
  • Halted Alzheimer’s drug trials renew questions abo ...
    Scientific American – Two clinical trials of a potential Alzheimer’s drug were halted this week, highlighting circulating skepticism about the hypothesis that amyloid beta plaque is a major factor in the disease’s genesis. Read article
  • Strong earthquake hits Papua New Guinea: USGS
    AFP– A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck the Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea on Saturday, seismologists said, but no tsunami warning was issued. The quake struck at 3:56 am (1756 GMT Friday) at a depth of 51 kilometres (32 miles) with an epicentre 165 kilometres west-southwest of Arawa on Bo ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • O sekciarstwie
    O sekciarstwie (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (Polski) (English) „Drodzy trzecioświatowi maoiści, Wasza strona internetowa jest sekciarska. Krytykujecie tak wiele innych grup. Jak można traktować was poważnie? * Dziękujemy za twoje pytanie. Wielu liberałów bierze krytykę wobec innych grup za de ...
  • A spy and the use and abuse of history
    A spy and the use and abuse of history (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Poland is likely to extradite Uri Brodsky to Germany. Uri Brodsky  is suspected of being part of an Israeli death squad that has recently been in the spotlight. The Israeli agent, likely a member of a Mossad hit team, was inv ...
  • Israel “purchasing” advanced aircraft from U.S. fo ...
    Israel âpurchasingâ advanced aircraft from U.S. for Use Against Iran (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Israel is purchasing roughly 20 F-35I strike jets from the United States. Four billion dollars will be used to purchase the Lockheed Martin “Joint Strike Fighters,” along with services, parts ...
  • Who and What are Trotsky-cons?

    [An earlier, choppier version of this article was published in September 2006 under a slightly different title. It was removed shortly after its original publication for various reasons.  The article has been cleaned up in the newer version.  Parts of the article may seem dated with the passing of t ...
  • Leaked ‘Afghan War Diary’ Causes Reaction in US
    Leaked ‘Afghan War Diary’ Causes Reaction in US (www.antiimperialism.wordpress.com) On July 25th, 2010, the website Wikileaks released the âAfghan War Diary,â over 200,000 pages detailing the USâs terroristic role in Afghanistan. (1) The documents, allegedly collected and leaked by Bradley Man ...

PakAlert

  • Top US Senator Assassinated As Obama “Weather War” ...
    A new report prepared for Prime Minister Putin by Russia’s foreign military intelligence directorate (GRU) states that a former top United States Senator, Ted Stevens, was assassinated this week after he attempted to gather evidence “proving” that President Obama has unleashed America’s devastating ...
  • Operation New Dawn Exposed!
    As promised and on schedule,” President Obama said US troops will end their combat mission in Iraq at the end of this month. Speaking before a group of Disabled American Veterans in Atlanta on Monday, the president said he was fulfilling a promise he made at Camp LeJeune in February 2009 to “bring t ...
  • The Purpose Behind Engineered Economic Collapse
    In the past we have covered numerous instances in which global bankers have admitted to fraud on a massive scale, fraud which is now crushing our already fragile economy. We have covered the private Federal Reserve and how it knowingly facilitated the creation of the housing bubble, as well as how i ...
  • The 10 Biggest Mistakes Investors Must Avoid
    In today’s shaky economy and jittery investment markets, investors may well find that their best moves are not discovering the next big thing or a fantastic value, but simply avoiding serious, and costly, mistakes. Here are ten of the most common mistakes we see investors making everyday, and how to ...
  • Former Pakistani Intel Chief Fears World War Three ...
    Former Pakistani General and intelligence chief Hamid Gul appeared on the Alex Jones Show yesterday for a full hour in what turned out to be a fascinating extended interview, addressing the major geopolitical issues that are shaping modern history.

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

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

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Landmark Ruling Last Week that YOU may not have he ...
    Zach Carter takes note of recent ruling in a case that shows pretty clearly how the banks, not just Wells Fargo BUT all banks, purposely rigged their overdraft system against you: Wells Fargo Overdraft Scam Makes Elizabeth Warren More Important Than Ever A landmark court ruling on Wells Fargo's ou ...
  • Just between Bluegal and me...
    I'd still say Bluegal and her own blogging Wonder Woman personae wins hands down regardless of her twitter note and in almost any photoshop contest up. My effort, a much deserved kick at The Economist can be found at ePluribus Media (+++ a bit more) while Bluegal's vastly superior effort can ...
  • Image of a word bomb
    If a picture is worth a thousand words than this one speaks volumes about where a pretty darn liberal America is right now: Though I embrace many of the progressive ideas that those who have embraced the name "progressive" espouse, I have always preferred to stick to the name liberal. For the mos ...
  • For those who argued against Catholic Parishioners ...
    to the Catholic Church... Is it more than just political donations and actions that the church is trying to hide? A Roman Catholic priest in Connecticut has been arrested on charges he stole $1.3 million in church money over seven years to use for male escorts, expensive clothing, and luxury hotel ...
  • Not that we should Wonder about McMahon's 5$ bount ...
    But it kind of has to make ya wonder what McMahons' real intentions were when she put a bounty on college students' registration : DA to team with Secretary of State on voter registration probe A Register investigation published Friday online and in Sunday’s newspaper exposed how signature gather ...

SPL Center

  • Los Zetas Still Not Seizing Laredo Ranches
    There’s an old jest in the news business: Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story. Some anti-illegal immigrant zealots in the blogosphere are taking the joke to heart. Two-and-a-half weeks after reporting with no factual basis that members of a dangerous Mexican drug gang had seized two A ...
  • ‘Burn a Koran Day’ Fan Page Stays Up, Grows, Despi ...
    On July 22, Hatewatch reported the announcement of a provocative spectacle planned for Sept. 11 by Dove World Outreach Center, a twisted little ministry based in Gainesville, Fla. Just about everything you need to know about the event is contained in its title, “Burn a Koran Day”; everything else, i ...
  • Felon, Angry at ‘Left-Wing’ Drift, Said to S ...
    A California felon whose mother said he was disgruntled by “the way Congress was railroading through all these left-wing agenda items,” was shot several times and arrested after he allegedly began shooting at highway patrol officers who stopped him for a traffic citation. Byron Williams, 45, of the ...
  • Religious Right Group Slurs Home Depot in Anti-Gay ...
    The American Family Association (AFA), one of the nationâs most obsessed anti-gay crusaders, launched a boycott of The Home Depot a week ago today because the home improvement and construction retailer âpromotes the homosexual agenda.â Rather than âremain neutral in the culture war,â AFA w ...
  • Some Dare Call It Conspiracy: The John Birch Socie ...
    Last Thursday morning, the contents of the Fall 2010 issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report were posted online at splcenter.org. By four o’clock that afternoon, an online magazine called The New American had responded with a critical appraisal of the issue’s feature exploring ...

change: org.

  • Q&A With the "Godfather of Outreach"
    This new video comes from Mark's InvisiblePeople.tv  30-city, 11,000-mile, 75-day road trip , going on now. We're thrilled to see his interview with fellow Change.org contributor Steven Samra . It's  not uncommon to call an outreach worker and find his or her voicemail box full. Homeless service ...
  • Why Folks Should Ditch FarmVille and Embrace the F ...
    Jason Mark is a columnist for Change.org's Sustainable Food cause. He is a co-author of Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots and the editor of Earth Island Journal. When he's not writing, he co-manages San Francisco's Alemany Farm , a four-acre organic fruit and vege ...
  • The Shape of a Very Different Type of Conference
    I'm at Dangerously Ambitious in Silicon Valley, an event hosted by San Francisco-based venture accelerator Sparkseed. The event is self-consciously trying to provide a different experience from other conferences out there. Here's what that looks like: 1. Small Size: The event registration was capped ...
  • Rich Tots Interview for Private Preschool; Poor Ki ...
    Occasionally, the news makes you groan or roll your eyes. But once in a while, you find that special article that makes you want to grab a bucket and puke your guts out. I found mine yesterday: one about wealthy New York City parents who are paying for interview training for their 4 and 5-year-olds ...
  • Ohio Investigates State-Wide Nail Salon Traffickin ...
    If you've gotten a mani-pedi or an eyebrow threading in Ohio recently, you may have been served by a modern-day slave. Federal agents and the Ohio State Board of Cosmetology have launched a investigation into what they think is a state-wide human trafficking scheme involving fraudulent cosmetology l ...

Common Dreams -News

  • WikiLeaks Founder 'Wanted for Rape'
    Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing WikiLeaks website, is reportedly wanted for rape in Sweden. The prosecutor's office in Stockholm was said to have issued an arrest warrant late on Friday against Assange for two offences. "Julian Assange is wanted for two different issues, one of the ...
  • Obama's Pledge to Close Down Guantanamo is 'Not Ev ...
    by Robert Verkaik Barack Obama's pledge to shut down Guantanamo Bay will not be honoured until at least a year after the President's self-imposed deadline - and may not be completed in his first administration. The man in charge of the seven prison camps at the US naval base in Cuba is yet to receiv ...
  • Some US Troops Out of Iraq, More Mercenaries to Go ...
    The US State Department is to more than double the number of security contractors it employs in Iraq to around 7000, filling a gap left by departing troops, the New York Times reported on Thursday. The newspaper said the contractors would be deployed to defend five fortified compounds ...
  • Poll: Nearly 6 in 10 oppose war in Afghanistan
    by Glen Johnson LAWRENCE, Mass. - A majority of Americans see no end in sight in Afghanistan, and nearly six in 10 oppose the nine-year-old war as President Barack Obama sends tens of thousands more troops to the fight, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. read more
  • Labor’s Popularity Declines Amid Criticism Of Publ ...
    by Akito Yoshikane With increasing attacks on public sector unions, it’s not surprising that labor has become unpopular in the court of public opinion. A new Gallup survey reveals that approval ratings for labor unions continues to struggle one year after their popularity reached a historic low. re ...

Lifehacker

  • How to Make the Most of a Small Workspace [Workspa ...
    Whether you're a college student or city dweller, most of us have workspaces and offices much smaller than we'd like. Here's how to get the most from your workspace, no matter how small it is. More��
  • It's Slowed-Down Bieber Jams in This Week's Open T ...
    You've made it through another scorcher of a week. Grab your favorite iced beverage and reward yourself; our weekly open thread starts now. More��
  • LuckyBackup Makes Backups and Syncing Easy on Linu ...
    Linux only: When it comes to backups, there's no messing with rsync for reliability. If running the Unix utility through a command line isn't your cup of tea, luckyBackup puts an easy-to-grasp front-end, making automated backups and folder syn ...
  • Stick to Your List to Max Out Coupon Savings and A ...
    Manufacturers don't print coupons out of good will; they print them so you'll buy and possibly switch to their products. Use your shopping list as a guide to coupon clipping to save money on the things you already plan to buy. More�� ...
  • What Should I Do About My Virtual Life After Death ...
    Dear Lifehacker, Twitter's recent announcement regarding how they'll deal with the death of their users got me thinking. What about my virtual life after death? What can I do to make it easy for my estate to deal with my online identity? M ...

Water Privatization

  • Go Green, Ron Duncan: Water films still making a s ...
    Water-related films like "China Town" and "Step Into Liquid" are popular for their entertainment value, but they also can provide awareness and an oblique appreciation for water.
  • Benjie Oliveros | Unfulfilled Promises Piling Up
    By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com As the country approaches the first 100 days of the second Aquino administration, unfulfilled campaign promises seem to be piling up. During his campaign for the presidency, the Hacienda Luisita issue haunted Benigno Simeon Aquino III. He first tried to dismi ...
  • City chooses firm to oversee parking-meter operati ...
    The city has entered into a 50-year lease agreement with Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services Inc. The city will receive $35 million upfront and a share of revenue to make sidewalk and street repairs. Parking meter rates are expected to double in some areas.
  • City council struggles with toughest budget in yea ...
    The city of Washington department heads are doing what they can to save money and cut costs, but theres still a shortfall in the citys budget that needs to be covered. Finding a way to manage that is causing great consternation for the city council.
  • Jordan: Success Story of the IMF
    Jordan is an example of how the IMF can foster strong, stable economies that are productive members of the global economy.

Guardian

  • Wikileaks founder Julian Assange accused of rape
    Swedish authorities issue an arrest warrant for the founder of whistleblowers' website on suspicion of rape and molestation Swedish authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on suspicion of molestation and rape. The warrant was issued late yesterday, said a spoke ...
  • Iran begins fuelling Bushehr reactor
    Nationwide celebrations as Russian engineers oversee the arrival of an initial fuel shipment at Iran's first nuclear power plant The operation to load fuel into Iran's first nuclear power station has begun amid nationwide celebration. Russian engineers will operate the Bushehr plant in southern Iran ...
  • Australia heads for hung parliament
    With more than half the votes counted, results suggest the prime minister, Julia Gillard, has failed to see off Liberal Tony Abbott Early results from Australia's federal election suggest the country faces the prospect of a hung parliament for the first time in 70 years. With more than half the vote ...
  • US calls for Megrahi to return to jail
    Hillary Clinton implies Megrahi's release from jail a year ago denied justice to Lockerbie victims The US has called for the Libyan convicted of the Lockerbie bombing to be returned to a Scottish jail. The Obama administration said it had advised Libyan officials of its view that Abdelbaset al-Megra ...
  • Pakistan edge to Oval victory
    England 233 & 222; Pakistan 308 & 148-6. Pakistan won by four wickets. Morning everyone .A packet of ready salted walkers, a cheese and onion sandwich and a packet of ten Benson , I'm well provisioned for a day in front of the TV screen watching the cricket. God bless the BP garage across the way fo ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

The Wonk Room

  • Mitchell Reaffirms ‘Linkage’ In Remark ...
    Reading today’s Quartet statement on resumption of direct talks, it’s worth noting that, while Prime Minister Netanyahu was successful in avoiding a complete reiteration of the Quartet’s March statement emphasizing Israel’s settlement obligations, as President Mahmoud Abbas wanted, Abbas also got th ...
  • Law Enforcement Association Claims Phoenix Police ...
    Since the passage of Arizona’s tough new immigration law, its defenders have justified SB-1070 by claiming that Phoenix, AZ is the “kidnapping capital of the world.” Though that claim was immediately dismissed by experts, the 358 kidnappings the Phoenix Police Department reported in 2008 is quite h ...
  • McMahon Claims Raising Taxes On The Rich Is &#8216 ...
    Linda McMahon, the Republican senate nominee in Connecticut, is selling herself as the consummate business woman, thanks to her years as an executive with World Wrestling Entertainment. But if her appearance last night on CNBC is any indication, McMahon is a little unclear about how much money the t ...
  • Politico Fails The Politics Of Health Reform
    In a provocative story published yesterday in Politico, Ben Smith claims that Democratic allies close to the White House are suddenly “dramatically shifting” their health care messaging, “abandoning claims that it will reduce costs and deficit, and instead stressing a promise to ‘improve it‘”: The ...
  • Stephen Rademaker’s Process Whining
    Stephen Rademaker’s defensive op-ed in the Washington Post is a fairly transparent effort to shift blame for the delays in the ratification of New START to the Democrats. According to Rademaker, the failure of New START could never actually be blamed on pouting GOP Senators who refused to vote for t ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Paradox
    Canadians didn't seem to care about the state's abuse of our civil, legal, and political rights at the G-20 because it didn't really affect them directly. But why do they go along with, or even agree with the assaults on our freedoms from the asinine war on terrorism? Most Canadians are never going ...
  • Well, That Sucked.
    So what was the turn-out at the rally "demanding" a public inquiry into the $1 Billion dollars worth of incompetence and brutality at the G20? You remember that one don't you? It was in all the papers. Remember stephen harper, before blowing $16 billion on new fighter-planes to protect us from Al ...
  • Correlation Between US Aid & Colombian Death Squad ...
    What else is new ? The results were obtained by comparing the number of reports of such killings in the two years prior to the start of Plan Colombia -- the multibillion-dollar U.S. military aid package -- in 2000 with the number of killings after the launch of that counterinsurgency and anti-dru ...
  • thwap is back!
    But I don't have time to say anything today! Keep 'em flying!
  • France Sues Group That Said France Would Do the Ri ...
    This story isn't hot off the presses, but I thought I'd bring it to the attention of anybody who didn't see it the first time around: A group of Canadian, US and French activists calling itself the Committee for the Reimbursement of the Indemnity Money Extorted from Haiti (CRIME) is taking credit ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Who are The Other Guys?
    The initial premise of the new Will Farrell and Mark Wahlberg movie is that when the real action hero cops (played by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson) fall flat, then the New York Police Unit will have to turn to "The Other Guys" to fight crime. The film is well cast to take advantag ...
  • In "Charging WikiLeaks," Washington Post misses a ...
    In yesterday's Washington Post, an editorial called "Charging WikiLeaks" urges the Obama administration to refrain from pressing criminal charges against WikiLeaks leaders for releasing classified State Department cables. "Media outlets do not have a legal duty to abide by the government's secrecy d ...
  • OSHA sues Kwick Stop in Shawnee, Oklahoma
    The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has announced that it filed a lawsuit in Oklahoma City against Modern Oil Company, the operator of 30 Kwick Stop convenience stores.� The lawsuit alleges that after OSHA investigated a workplace safety complaint at one of its stores in Shawnee ...
  • Dr. David Lewis' story of the Iron Horse of Scienc ...
    My client Dr. David Lewis has written a story about his experience blowing the whistle at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It is called, "EPA Fired Oil-Degradation Expert Concerned about Deepwater Oil Rigs: The Iron Horse of Science." It appears in the current issue of the monthly Pen ...
  • Metro employees already have whistleblower protect ...
    One of the problems of our current patchwork approach to whistleblower protection is that much of the public is unaware of the protections that do exist in the law today. A case in point would be yesterday's story in the Washington Examiner . In a story called, " Metro strengthening protections for ...

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

  • Why Debates Over Copyright Get Bogged Down: Confla ...
    A few weeks back, we covered the "debate" that composer Jason Robert Brown had with a young fan of his, concerning the reasonableness of sharing digital copies of his sheet music online. For some reason, Brown keeps appearing in the press over this issue, which is a bit unfortunate, as there are pl ...
  • Why Big Companies Almost Never Notice Disruptive I ...
    Paul Graham has written one of his typically worth-reading essays about why Yahoo! went from the darling of the internet world in the mid- to late-90's to whatever it is today (an also-ran's also-ran). I don't have much to say on the main point of the essay, so if you're interested in that, go read ...
  • New Book Shows How Our Common Culture Has Been Loc ...
    Well respected author and professor Lewis Hyde, who has done tremendous work in the past on the concept of "gift economies," apparently has a new book out that sounds quite interesting -- though may cover some well-tread ground for folks around here. It's all about how the bastardization of intelle ...
  • Appeals Court Overturns Judge's Ban On LA Times Pr ...
    We recently wrote about the LA Times being barred by a judge from publishing a photo of murder suspect Alberd Tersargyan that was taken -- with permission -- in the courtroom. As pretty much every legal expert who commented on the case noted, there was almost no way the judge's ban would hold up un ...
  • Court Rejects Patent On 'Watch An Ad To Get Conten ...
    Last fall we wrote about how a company named Ultramercial had sued Hulu, YouTube and WildTangent over patent 7,346,545 for requiring people to watch an ad before being able to access content. It resulted in an interesting discussion in our comments, where some patent system defenders insisted that ...

VacTruth

  • Part II: Rockefeller Vaccine Secret Revealed
    Many people understand the Rockefellers, along with corporate interests, manipulate the United States money supply through the private Federal Reserve Bank. The Rockefeller Institution also had heavy influence pushing through a vaccine as the only answer to the false-flag polio epidemic.
  • Penn and Teller kick out at anti vaccine lobby
    In a recently released video 'Penn and Teller Bullshit – Vaccination', the pair of magicians Penn and Teller, use their usual male chauvinistic and pratt like abilities, to go all out to prove to the world that vaccines are safe, that they have eradicated illnesses, that they are super efficient and ...
  • Autistic girl uses laptop to break silence
    A child displaying autistic behaviours suddenly, at aged eleven, broke out of her autistic state and with the help of a computer, describe exactly what was making her act in this way. Here suddenly was the breakthrough that scientists have been waiting for.
  • Mothers are killing their Autistic children
    Support and care for the families with an autistic child is a battle daily. Often they feel isolated from friends and family who do not understand and with no one to understand they feel pressured to take the only way they can see out of their situation.
  • Parents in China were beaten when they tried to ge ...
    In March 2010 it was reported From the New York Times that China had been selling 'tainted vaccines'. These vaccines had not had adequate storage and yet were sold to the public of China, subsequently allowing the vaccines to be administered to children. As a result, as many as eighty children suffe ...

BroadSnark

  • Wondering About Wage Labor
    I generally stay away from economics, as I’m still doing my 101.  But I’ve been pondering some things and hope you might share your wisdom with me. If you read my post on How I Became an Anarchist, you know that it was facing the corrupting influence of organizational hierarchies that finally pushe ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Really important post over at Womanist Musings on the rape of an elderly woman and how we treat rape in general – in society, in the media… Read it. And then there are the perpetrators.  Or are they victims? Smoke em if you got em, ladies.  Looks like weed might treat breast cancer. Speaking of sm ...
  • Who Will Notice?
    I met a Palestinian woman who came to the United States for her graduate degree.  She picked the U.S. because she wanted to see imperialism from the inside.  She wanted to understand the richest, most powerful country on earth.  Imagine her surprise when she learned that the kind of economic develop ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    You have probably heard about the seven year old whose lemonade stand was protected by anarchists and who subsequently raised enough cash to go to Disney.  Somehow I think that little girl will never have a bad view of anarchists. And on the opposite end of the spectrum, this article explains perfec ...
  • Where are the Men Do-Gooders?
    I signed up to be a literacy tutor with an organization here in DC.  The program requires a half day training class.  Looking around at the other trainees, I noticed a huge gender imbalance.  Sure enough, the trainer soon confirmed that, while 55% of the learners are male, only 22% of the tutors are ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

  • The blockade of South Yemen follows tactics of Saa ...
    As Yemen’s blockade on southern Yemen enters its third week, stocks of food, medicine and oil have dwindled to dangerous levels. Prices have skyrocketed and already malnourished children bear the brunt of the military action. The blockade began 17 days ago when the Western Armored Division establish ...
  • بقلم الكاتبة الامريكية جين نوفاك : ثلاثة أسابيع من ...
    مع دخول الحصار اليمني على اليمن الجنوبي أسبوعه الثالث ، إنخفضت المخزونات من المواد الغذائية والدواء و المشتقات النفطية الى مستويات تنذر بالخطر. و ارتفعت الأسعار و أصبح الأطفال يعانون بالفعل من سوء التغذية تحت وطأة العمليات العسكرية. وبدأ الحصار قبل 17 يوما عندما قامت وحدات المنطقة الغربية المدرعة بإ ...
  • السلام مع الكرامة في اليمن: هل يمكن ايقاف دوامه ال ...
    اÙسÙام مع اÙÙرامة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù: ÙÙ ÙÙ…Ù٠اÙÙا٠دÙام٠اÙØ­Ø±Ø¨Ø Ùتبت: جÙÙ ÙÙÙاÙ*- ÙصحÙÙØ© “إجسامÙÙر” ترجمة/ عبداÙÙ٠عبداÙÙÙاب ÙاجÙ- ترجمة خاصة بÙ: اÙمستشار Ùت Ù٠حرب م٠حرÙب صعدة ...
  • Peace with Dignity in Yemen, Can the Cycle of Endl ...
    Each of the six Sa’ada wars in Yemen was a photo copy of the one before, except the bombs got bigger, the children more frail and the jails more crowded. The Yemeni government systematically denied food, medicine and international aid to civilians in the northern Sa’ada province as a tactic of war s ...
  • Would Yemeni law find Anwar Awlaki guilty?
    Yemen’s Foreign Minister Abu Baker al Qirby urged Anwar Awlaki to turn himself to be tried under Yemeni law, vowing that no Yemeni citizen would be extradited to the US or any other country. The US announced last week that it had authorized Awlaki’s kill or capture, having determined he is an active ...

Dark Politricks

  • Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To Push ...
  • Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming Ala ...
    Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace follow ...
  • Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Openin ...
    Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircraft p ...
  • NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have cau ...
    John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve seen ...
  • Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal government is ...
    Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll found ...

food and water watch

  • USDA Goes Back to the Drawing Board On Better Trac ...
    In early February, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) pleasantly surprised small farmers and food protection advocacy groups alike by abandoning its National Animal Identification System (NAIS). NAIS was a program put in place after a 2003 occurrence of mad cow disease with intention ...
  • Two options for tap water at Vancouver Olympics: O ...
    Metro Vancouver recently took on the task of promoting the consumption of tap water over bottled water and is now battling it out with Coca-Cola at the Olympic games. As one of the Olympics biggest official sponsors, Coca-Cola, who claims their bottled water “doesn’t compete with tap water,” is of ...
  • Farm to School Needs More Support
    It seems the Obama administration is starting to take some steps toward addressing the childhood obesity epidemic. The President recently requested the inclusion of an additional $1 billion in funding for child nutrition programs in the national budget. This commitment preceded the unveiling of Fir ...
  • Food & Water Watch Partners With University of New ...
    Today, Food & Water Watch and the University of New Hampshire’s Office of Sustainability kickoff  “Tap In,” a series of films and lectures about water privatization, access, and quality. An initiative of our Take Back the Tap campaign, the series will commence with a showing of, and discussion abou ...
  • USDA Admits Lack of Food Safety Follow-Through
    The USDA finally admitted to a small group of consumer group representatives last week that its official policy is to take very little action when it finds ground beef contaminated with E. coli in commerce. That is, unless several human illnesses have already been identified with the product. I pre ...

treehugger

  • What's The Latest With FutureGen, The CCS Project ...
    photo via flickr The story of FutureGen, the first of its kind carbon capture and storage project, has more ups and downs than an episode of "Gossip Girl." The project was first conceived and financed under the Bush Administration, but they dropped it before leaving office , citing costs. But t ...
  • Great Trees of Toronto as Photographed by Vince Pi ...
    Images from sidespacegallery : American Elm Everyone has their favourite tree; one that they pass en route to work or school or in the neighbour's front yard. Toronto has its own fair share and they are immortalized in a new exhibition: Vincenzo Pietropoalo's Toronto Tree Portraits . In an ...
  • Lucky Koala Hit By Car Walks Away Without a Scratc ...
    Photo via 9 News Not only is this koala bear one of the cutest animals on the planet, it just may be among the luckiest too. Defying the odds normally stacked against wildlife in an encounter with a fast moving vehicle , this koala bear survived being hit by a car travelling upwards of 50 mph -- ...
  • Join 350 EARTH: A Global Satellite Art Project
    Image courtesy of 350.org We need help from artists—we need them to help with an artwork bigger than humans have ever built before, the first global-scale group show. It's going to be slightly wild, and very beautiful. Details in a moment, but first the rationale: Sometimes the work of a ...
  • Xmas is Early for Climate Scientists, New CESM Mod ...
    Image: UCAR One of the Primary Models Used by the IPCC As Freeman Dyson said, "The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines." The telescope, the microscope, X-rays and MRIs, etc. Climate modeling software is such a tool, allowing us to make probabi ...

Biosingularity

  • Exercise, calorie restrictions can rejuvenate olde ...
    Harvard researchers have uncovered a mechanism in mice through which caloric restriction and exercise delay some of the debilitating effects of aging by rejuvenating the connections between nerves and the muscles that they control. The research, published online by the journal Proceedings of the Nat ...
  • Researchers discover that gut bacteria affect mult ...
    Biologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have demonstrated a connection between multiple sclerosis (MS)—an autoimmune disorder that affects the brain and spinal cord—and gut bacteria. The work—led by Sarkis K. Mazmanian, an assistant professor of biology at Caltech, and postdoc ...
  • HIV prevention science scores a victory — th ...
    Today at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, members of the International Rectal Microbicide Advocates (IRMA) and thousands of other HIV advocates and scientists cheered a long-awaited, much anticipated success in the quest for new HIV prevention technologies. Researchers ann ...
  • Novozymes reveals knowledge on new antibiotic agai ...
    Scientists from Novozymes have now found the mechanism by which plectasin, an anti-microbial peptide, kills bacteria that cause severe infections in humans. Peptide antibiotics such as plectasin have retained antibiotic activity throughout evolution. The new knowledge shows that plectasin and other ...
  • First Self-Replicating, Synthetic Bacterial Cell C ...
    Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute JCVI, a not-for-profit genomic research organization, published results today describing the successful construction of the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cell. The team synthesized the 1.08 million base pair chromosome of a modified Mycoplas ...

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Pruning Shears

  • America's Bad Reputation Gets a Little Worse
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post On Monday U.S. District Court Judge Henry Kennedy ruled in what Carol Rosenberg described as a “heavily censored 28-page ruling” that Guantánamo detainee Adnan Abdul Latif was to be released. While he was locked up at least four ye ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Scott Horton on the depressingly cynical logic behind the Guantánamo show trials : “You can count on it that the convening authority will not get around to announcing the actual sentence until sometime after the midterm elections in ...
  • Raise Their Pay and Make Them Stay
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Congressional sessions have been in the news twice this week, and in both cases Republicans were opposed. Tuesday’s special session and the prospective lame duck session were both the object of bitter complaints. Neither was surpri ...
  • Summer Travel Season
    Surprisingly enough, August in Tennessee is warmish.
  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

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

fotoFrontera

  • La sorprendente belleza de la naturaleza (5 elemen ...
    Preocupado siempre por preservar nuestros espacios verdes, con suma frecuencia les he compartido cientos de imágenes sobre nuestra naturaleza. Con la firme intensión de enfatizar mi afán por disfrutar de los verdes prados, lagos, ríos, cascadas, flores y aire fresco, le tengo en esta ocasión 5 bellí ...
  • Barcos, yates y veleros. (10 fotos muy románticas)
    Quienes hemos tenido la oportunidad de pasear en un crucero, barco, yate o velero, sabemos la sensación indescriptible que sentimos cuando el viento acaricia nuestro rostro mientras el vaivén de las olas... Antes de seguir con mis cursilerías, debo decirles que hoy les tengo en exclusiva, la primera ...
  • Ciudades con vista nocturna (6 postales para compa ...
    ¿Usted ha visto lo hermosas que se ven las ciudades por la noche ? Yo también y créame que lucen mágicas y encantadoras. Por eso mismo, el día de hoy le comparto a usted 6 lindas fotos donde las luces resaltan las formas, colores y texturas de los edificios, puentes, parques, e iglesias .Nota: Haz c ...
  • Fotografías de armas parte III (un lindo arsenal)
    Hace no tanto, les presenté la primera y segunda parte de fotografías de armas. Para continuar esta serie, aquí tiene usted la tercera parte con 10 bellísimas imágenes de mi arsenal fotográfico .Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada ima ...
  • Jardines y residencias (lugares para vivir en paz)
    ¿Le gustaría vivir en paz alejado del bullicio de la gran ciudad? No se preocupe, el día de hoy, le comparto 7 bellísimos lugares donde sin duda alguna usted podría vivir en completa libertad y en contacto siempre con lo natural. Asómese y viaje conmigo hacia estos mágicos parajes de ensueño donde q ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Government officials sent ‘clarifying’ letter from ...
    Congressional testimony by two high-ranking government officials in April revealed some misconceptions about the mounting evidence over the use of antibiotics in industrial farm animal production and links to antibiotic resistance in humans. To clarify the case, Keeve Nachman, PhD, MHS, and directo ...
  • Maryland public hearing on proposed oyster policy ...
    Citizens descended on the small town of Wye Mill, Maryland at Chesapeake College Thursday, August 5th to attend the final public comment period for Maryland’s sweeping new oyster policies. The overcast and muggy weather provided a sober backdrop for intense discussions on how Maryland will manage th ...
  • NPR’s Morning Edition Focuses on Meatless Monday
    Some 14 million listeners tuned in this morning to hear National Public Radio’s most popular program, Morning Edition, give extensive coverage to the Meatless Monday campaign. The 8-1/2 minute segment, “Campaign Aims To Make Meatless Mondays Hip,” included an interview with Meatless Monday Founder, ...
  • Biogas digesters for industrial agriculture in Chi ...
    While researching meat consumption and production in China last month, I visited two farms that have installed large-scale biogas digesters. These intriguing, bulbous contraptions capture animal waste, prevent pollution, make use of a renewable source of energy (methane), and transform the icky stuf ...
  • Baltimore City Data Day Aims to Empower Baltimore ...
    As I intend to dedicate the better part of my career to research, I am often confronted with the fear that even the highest quality data can end up out in the ether of peer-reviewed publications that never make their intended splash, seen by a limited few and impacting even fewer. Last Friday I atte ...

Norwegianity

  • This is what the 1st World looks like when the 1st ...
    Paul Krugman eviscerates Wall Street’s smart guys over their bad call on the bond market, but that’s just carping about the scorekeeping. Globally, the economy sucks and isn’t going to recover until we acknowledge that we’ve been doing it wrong. Way wrong. Profiteering: HP’s John Hurd gets bonus for ...
  • Warped, bribed and/or deported, w/broken window op ...
    You know things aren’t going well for Target when the Washington Post decides to run a front page online poll about whether you plan to boycott Target. Statistically, not a significant number of votes, but PR-wise â yeah, Target’s boned. If I was holding any of their stock, I think I’d consider du ...
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    There really is no getting around it, Pam Geller is Katherine Kersten’s Jewish soul sister. Reading the interview with her at TPM I lost track of the lies and distortions almost immediately. Most offensive? “There’s no reciprocity,” Geller said. “It’s a two-way street. It can’t be only one way. Buil ...
  • O.J. Blagojevich and the DeLay effect
    A funny thing happened on the way to Rod Blagojevich’s burning at the stake for corruption. The jurors mistook him for OJ Simpson and refused to convict on all but one count. While the mainstream Heathers recompose themselves, it seems that the establishment media is beginning to back away from the ...
  • I.C. wieners
    Not what I wanted to write about this morning but once the tantrum machine gets started, it’s hard to hear anything else. Harry fucking Reid has joined the anti-mosque crowd which means that as much as I despise Chuck Schumer, Schumer would be preferable to Reid as Majority Leader in the next Congre ...

Public News Service

  • Kids Who Get Hugged Grow Up to Be Well-Adjusted Ad ...
    Kids Who Get Hugged Grow Up to Be Well-Adjusted Adults Phoenix, AZ – A new report finds babies whose mothers provide an extra level of care and attention have a tendency to become well-adjusted children, and the psychological benefits extend well beyond childhood. Comments from counselor Rod Kochtit ...
  • AZ Social Workers: Limiting Park Access Threatens ...
    AZ Social Workers: Limiting Park Access Threatens Body and Soul Phoenix, AZ – State and local government budget cuts are limiting public access to parks for recreation and leisure. Arizona social workers are concerned about resulting negative impacts on mental and physical well-being. Comments from ...
  • 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 ...

My Care2 Picks

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

Angry Indian News

  • Rannie Amiri: Lebanon Braces for a Turbulent Fall
    Rannie Amiri: Lebanon Braces for a Turbulent Fall [counterpunch.org] By RANNIE AMIRIAugust has not seen a week without Lebanon making headlines. And mounting domestic and foreign pressures indicate... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Blackwater Reaches $42 Million Settlement With U.S ...
    Blackwater Reaches $42 Million Settlement With U.S. - NYTimes.com: "WASHINGTON — The private security company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide, long plagued by accusations of impropriety, has... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Palin In February: We'd Be 'Appalled' If Public Fi ...
    Palin In February: We'd Be 'Appalled' If Public Figure Used "N-Word" | TPMDC: "Sarah Palin continues to defend Dr. Laura Schlessinger's use of the word 'n****r' and blame liberals for forcing the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Black Republicans: Palin ‘no longer fit to lead’
    Black Republicans: Palin ‘no longer fit to lead’ | Raw Story Palin: I quit Alaska governorship so that 'obstructionists wouldn't win' Sarah Palin's passionate and repeated defense of talk show host... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • John John: Canada's treatment of the Tamil refugee ...
    Canada's treatment of the Tamil refugees is a defining moment | rabble.ca Whatever else happens, the MV Sun Sea shall be remembered as having posed a security, immigration and moral dilemma for... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Why Did Organic Valley Ban Raw Milk Sales?
    A lot of intense debate has sprung up in response to Organic Valley's recent decision to ban its farmers from selling raw milk on the side.
  • Starting a local edible tree nursery
    We hope this article will inspire some to explore this as an eco-commerce that would offer great barter opportunities when the current money-based economy falters.
  • DNA from transgenic plants found in milk and anima ...
    Traces of genetically engineered maize and soy in goats, fish and pigs. DNA fragments from transgenic plants are increasingly found in animal tissue such as milk, inner organs and muscles.
  • The Gulf BLUE PLAGUE is Evolving
    Every one of those working on the shrimp boat have suffered from flu-like symptoms since the end of May, 2010. This includes migraine headaches, eye aches, joint aches, ear aches, severe coughing bouts, fevers, vomiting, and swollen glands (especially in the neck). These same symptoms are being seen ...
  • Randy Yarbrough Live! With guest Marti Oakley
      Randy Yarbrough Live Wednesday- Thursday AM radio 1360:  Colorado Springs to Cheyenne, Wyoming and maybe even a little bit of Nebraska! Listen here: First Amendment Radio   or :    America News Net 3-5 PST     4-6 MST     5-7 CST       6-8 EST Marti Oakley of the PPJ Gazette will be Randy’s guest  ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Government to overhaul bioterror and pandemic flu ...
    ShareThis Government to overhaul bioterror and pandemic flu plans 20 Aug 2010 Acknowledging that the development of medical countermeasures against bioterrorism threats and pandemic flu is lagging, federal authorities Thursday announced a $1.9-billion makeover of the system for identifying and manuf ...
  • Black bears guard marijuana fields
    ShareThis Black bears guard marijuana fields --It is unclear if they used the bears to guard the pot fields or just liked having them as pets . 19 Aug 2010 Police raiding two marijuana fields near the US-Canadian border found more than a dozen black bears wandering around the crops. The fields of ab ...
  • CIA forms new center to combat nukes, WMDs
    ShareThis CIA forms new center to combat nukes, WMDs --The center would formalize the collaboration between the agency's analysts and operators 18 Aug 2010 The CIA is opening a counterproliferation center to combat the spread of dangerous weapons and technology, a move that comes as Iran is on the v ...
  • U.S. still holds detainee Pentagon wanted freed in ...
    ShareThis U.S. still holds detainee Pentagon wanted freed in 2004 --Latif is the 38th Guantanamo captive to be found by a federal judge to be illegally detained at the remote U.S. Navy base . 17 Aug 2010 An emotionally ill detainee still being held at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cub ...
  • Iran protests to UN over US war plan
    ShareThis Iran protests to UN over US war plan --Iran complains to UN officials about US threats of military attack on the country over its nuclear program, vowing a response to any such strike . 19 Aug 2010 In letters to the heads of the UN Security Council (UNSC) and the General Assembly that circ ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • Free TGIF Edition just out
    We're making TGIF available free for now...you can either click on the flash version below, or click the link below it to download the pdf: Open publication - Free publishing - More sport http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/?attachment_id=975
  • Brits to get hit with 4% income tax hike to pay fo ...
    From Benny Peiser's heads-up: Climate Taxes May Treble By 2020, Costing Taxpayers More Than £16 Billion A Year Gary Peev, Daily Mail, 17 August 2010 Taxes to pay for contentious climate change policies are set to treble over the next...
  • Amazon puts Air Con Climategate on special
    The most difficult thing about marketing titles on Amazon is breaking through the price barriers. The cheaper your book, the better it sells, but it's Amazon that decides on retail price, not the publisher. Despite my best efforts I couldn't...
  • New study: sea levels NOT rising rapidly
    The Hockey Schtick has alerted the world to new peer reviewed research showing sea levels are not rising at an accelerated level, despite what NIWA's Andy Reisinger and Massey's Ralph Sims would have the world believe: JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH,...
  • Have you read this, Nick Smith?
    Looks like the world is bailing on ETS schemes faster than Nick Smith can say "sustainable". This from Terence Corcoran in The Financial Post: From Washington to Cancun to British Columbia, the climate issue is heading for the deep freeze....

Mondoweiss

  • Friday in Bil’in
    From the Friends of Freedom and Justice in Bil'in: Despite the intense heat and high temperature, on the second Friday in Ramadan, a sizable march organized by the Popular Committee commenced from the center of the village right after the Friday prayers. The protesters, consisting of many Palestinia ...
  • Revenge of the Nerds: Partying with the boys of Im ...
    The faces, and t-shirts, of the "second Zionist revolution." (Photo: Im Tirtzu) Fresh off a campaign of nationwide intimidation against the New Israel Fund, countless damaging personal attacks against leftists and professors condemned as insufficiently Zionist, and an endorsement from Israeli Educa ...
  • Palestinian refugees in Lebanon do not only have I ...
    A news report from before the Lebanese Parliament reformed laws regarding Palestinian work permits. The Lebanese Parliament on Tuesday approved a law permitting Palestinians residing in Lebanon the same work opportunities as foreigners; the proposal amending the Lebanese Labor Law will grant Pale ...
  • Settlers gone wild
    And other news from Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Palestinian Negotiator Says New Settlement Building Would End Peace Talks Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said an anticipated new round of peace talks will fall apart if Israeli Prime Minister Be ...
  • J Street and Oren patch up
    The Forward has a piece on Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren that discusses his rapprochement with J Street. Note that while the piece refers to elements of the American Jewish community that are alienated from Israel, to explain the fact that�many at Brandeis were not happy when it invited Oren to sp ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Even While the World Watched: Part I
    Michael Yon 20 June 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand Recent violence focused world attention on the Kingdom of Thailand.  As the attention flowed in, foreigners poured out, even though fighting was tightly localized and not focused on travelers.  Tourists literally had to search for trouble to find it.  ...
  • Perspective
    Published: 21 July 2010 Apologies that this article is available only in Thai language. Please click here to view the entire article. {loadposition user8}
  • Even as the World Watched IV: Peaceful, or Pistol?
    12 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand During the Thailand fighting in May, the rain of media mixed with the dust of politics, creating mud that left honest people feeling bogged down.  People desiring clarity slogged knee deep, then waist deep, and it kept coming. My reports avoided politics largely ...
  • Even as the World Watched III: Getting Hit to Get ...
    Published: 07 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand During the Bangkok fighting in May, radio interviewers back America kept asking about the overuse of force by the Thai Army.  I answered that’s not happening, and there seem to be hundreds of journalists crawling over the streets, and I see them with ...
  • Even as the World Watched II: Tasting the Kool-Aid
    Published: 05 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand This journalist was all over the place.  She stood out from the crowd for obvious reasons.  One evening, as the sun was setting, she was walking down a mostly desolate street not far from Dusit Thani hotel, and she was alone with that little camera.  ...

The Killing Train

  • The Rwandan Election
    Paul Kagame is headed for a landslide victory at the Rwandan polls. Exit polls indicate 93% of the electorate voted for him. If some Western media commentators could vote in Rwandan elections, the number would likely be even higher. Take Stephen Kinzer, who wrote a biography of Kagame subtitled “Rwa ...
  • The Afghan War Diary Data - an initial look
    An initial look at the first 76,000 records in the "Afghan War Diary" leaked by Wikileaks yields some important information, much of which has been known or suspected by analysts for years. Given the sheer size of the database, there is a great deal more to be learned, but here are some initial find ...
  • The Drug War in Afghanistan - the Dyncorp connecti ...
    Just reading some of the 800+ hits on the drug war in Afghanistan, and these are real - the US is fighting a drug war in Afghanistan. There are DEA agents running around arresting people, there are troops eradicating poppy in farmers fields, and they are finding and burning piles of opium, heroin, h ...
  • Reading the incidents in Pakistan - some notes
    [Analysis of the Wikileaks Afghan War Diary]. I pulled out the 170-or-so incidents that mention Pakistan and are actually in Pakistan. A lot of them involve coordination with the Pakistani military, getting it, failing to get it, etc. An observation post comes under indirect fire, they track the poi ...
  • Afghan War Diary incidents in Pakistan
    [Analysis of Wikileaks's Afghan War Diary]. I thought it might be useful to show a map of the (approx. 170) incidents in the Afghan War Diary that mention Pakistan and also take place within Pakistan's borders. I will be reading the summaries to see what happened here, but take a look at it - there ...

treehugger

  • What's The Latest With FutureGen, The CCS Project ...
    photo via flickr The story of FutureGen, the first of its kind carbon capture and storage project, has more ups and downs than an episode of "Gossip Girl." The project was first conceived and financed under the Bush Administration, but they dropped it before leaving office , citing costs. But t ...
  • Great Trees of Toronto as Photographed by Vince Pi ...
    Images from sidespacegallery : American Elm Everyone has their favourite tree; one that they pass en route to work or school or in the neighbour's front yard. Toronto has its own fair share and they are immortalized in a new exhibition: Vincenzo Pietropoalo's Toronto Tree Portraits . In an ...
  • Lucky Koala Hit By Car Walks Away Without a Scratc ...
    Photo via 9 News Not only is this koala bear one of the cutest animals on the planet, it just may be among the luckiest too. Defying the odds normally stacked against wildlife in an encounter with a fast moving vehicle , this koala bear survived being hit by a car travelling upwards of 50 mph -- ...
  • Join 350 EARTH: A Global Satellite Art Project
    Image courtesy of 350.org We need help from artists—we need them to help with an artwork bigger than humans have ever built before, the first global-scale group show. It's going to be slightly wild, and very beautiful. Details in a moment, but first the rationale: Sometimes the work of a ...
  • Xmas is Early for Climate Scientists, New CESM Mod ...
    Image: UCAR One of the Primary Models Used by the IPCC As Freeman Dyson said, "The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines." The telescope, the microscope, X-rays and MRIs, etc. Climate modeling software is such a tool, allowing us to make probabi ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

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

Jurist - Legal Research

  • EU court temporarily exempts Inuit from seal hunti ...
    [JURIST] The EU General Court [official website] has issued a temporary injunction exempting Inuit hunters from Canada and Greenland from an EU ban on seal hunting that went into effect on Friday. Regulation (EC) No 1007/2009 [text, PDF] recognizes seals as "sentient beings that can experience pain, ...
  • Dutch prosecutors open investigation into officer ...
    [JURIST] The Dutch National Prosecution Office [official website, in Dutch] announced Friday that it will open an investigation [press release, in Dutch] into whether Dutch peacekeeping soldiers should face criminal charges for their actions during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre [JURIST news archive] ...
  • Thailand court approves US extradition of suspecte ...
    [JURIST] An appeals court in Thailand ruled Friday that accused Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout [BBC profile] can be extradited to the US to face charges [indictment, PDF] including conspiracy to kill US nationals and conspiracy to provide material support to a proscribe terrorist group. The court's ...
  • Guatemala ex-president ordered to stand trial for ...
    [JURIST] A Guatemalan judge ruled Wednesday that former president Alfonso Portillo [CIDOB profile, in Spanish] and two of his former ministers will stand trial on charges of embezzlement. Portillo, president of Guatemala from 2000-2004, is accused of diverting approximately USD $15 million in funds ...
  • Rights groups urge Cameroon to decriminalize same- ...
    [JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Alternatives-Cameroun [advocacy websites] on Thursday urged the government of Cameroon [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] to decriminalize consensual sexual acts between adults of the same sex [press release]. Under Article 347 of the Cameroon Penal Code [D ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • What the White House Really Thinks About Bombing I ...
    This post is part of our forum on Jeffrey Goldberg's September cover story detailing the prospects and implications of an Israeli strike against Iran. Follow the debate here . According to Elliott Abrams : If Iran acquires a nuclear weapon during his tenure, Obama would -- in his own eyes -- see ...
  • Why Gary Johnson Isn't Taken Seriously
    Conor Friedersdorf wonders why no one is taking former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson's proto-presidential campaign seriously.� Were our criteria for viable presidential candidates more sane, however, he'd be a strong contender, due to his experience, desire to reform obviously broken policies, a ...
  • Virginia Has a Budget Surplus
    From an AP News Alert: RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Gov's aide says VA state budget surplus� nearly $404 million, almost double prior estimate. Does former VA governor (and now DNC chairman) Tim Kaine get credit for his careful husbanding of the state's economy? Or does current Gov. Bob McDonnell get a ...
  • Under the Radar: Supporting the Next Bailout
    Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) has once again introduced legislation in the House that would, in effect, backstop more private pension funds by expanding the U.S. Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp to include "orphan pensions" -- those pension plans that have been abandoned by their parent companies ... who a ...
  • Who's Defending Marginalized Muslims? Chris C ...
    So, of course, it's a recess, and recesses bring vacuums, and vacuums bring ridiculous, even odious issues to the front-burner. Stipulating that it's OK to oppose the Ground Zero mosque, that Imam Rauf is fashionably moderate (and yet was eager to fault Americans for 9/11 and had trouble describin ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Why U.S.-Brokered Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks ...
    The ink isn’t even dry on the press release announcing Israeli-Palestinian peace talks beginning under U.S. auspices on September 2nd, before just about everyone except Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is sighing with abject resignation and conviction that they will be a failure.  Why?  First, bec ...
  • Hudson Institute Funds Extremists Seeking Destruct ...
    The Hudson Institute, founded by Herman “Thinking the Unthinkable” Kahn and peopled by the hottest names in neocon-dom, is attempting to work its magic on Israel.  According to Didi Remez’s Coteret blog, Hudson is heavily funding two Israeli extremist groups which are targeting Israeli higher educa ...
  • Israel’s Intelligence Hocus-Pocus Regarding Iran A ...
    Someone is scammin’ me.  Or at least trying to.  They’re flattering me with supposedly top-secret information I didn’t request.  They’re offering to visit me here in Seattle to deliver the battle plans for Israel’s upcoming attack.  They’re telling me the supposed code name for the operation.   ...
  • Eden Aberjil, IDF Soldier: ‘I Would Gladly Slaught ...
    The saga of Eden Aberjil continues (Hebrew, shortened English version here).  Apparently, she doesn’t do a very good job of monitoring who her Facebook friends are AND she continues to open her big mouth there getting herself in deeper and deeper doo-doo.  In truth, she was slightly provoked, but ...
  • Im Tirzu Accuses Israeli Blogger of Incitement to ...
    My friend, Dena Shunra brought me word of the amazing news that our mutual friend, Yossi Gurvitz, who writes the Hebrew language blog, Friends of George, has been accused of incitment to murder.  Though I have never met Yossi personally, from the writing in his blog and his picture there, he appear ...

Ode Magazine

  • Dumpster dipping celebrates public space
    By: Laura_Silver I was out the door at 7:00 a.m. and in the dumpster by 8:00 a.m. No waiting, immediate dunking in the four and a half feet of water in the modified dumpsters just south of Grand Central Station. My friend Ian and I biked from Brooklyn - ov ...
  • EPA denies climate change deniers
    By: VictoriaKlein As the topic of the decade, climate change has been argued by countries of all sizes, people of all colors and financial means. So far, all this talking has gotten us very far. In a surprisingly bold move, one of America’s leading environ ...
  • Finding peace
    By: PeaceCorso Anton Chekov is one of the most dour of all playwrights. His plays have stock characters. He is a Russian living at a time of great need. His plays reflect that. Imagine my surprise when I came across this quote: “We shall find peace. We s ...
  • Profit with a purpose
    As earnings, bonuses and stocks creep back to pre-crisis levels, will markets resume business as usual? A plea for a new kind of investing that blends good sense, good causes and good financial returns. From the moment she arrived in the U.S. from Trinidad and Tobago in 1994, ...
  • The writing on the wall
    According to the Israeli government, the wall dividing Israel from the Palestinian territories is a protective measure. Meanwhile, critics point to the painful consequences. Palestinians are no longer able—at least not without huge delays—to visit their families, get to ...

OpEd News

  • Israeli Academic Freedom at Risk
    Free expression in Israel is endangered
  • Healthcare Fisaco
    Congress completely botched health care for the American people & while their incompetence is intolerable, it's not too late for the people to fix the mess.
  • Iceland is Exporting the Truth
    After Iceland's near-economic collapse exposed deep-rooted corruption, the country is looking to become a safe haven for journalists and whistleblowers from all around the world.
  • HOMEOWNERS' REBELLION: COULD 62 MILLION HOMES BE ...
    Over 62 million mortgages are now held in the name of MERS, an electronic recording system. A California bankruptcy court, following landmark cases in other jurisdictions, recently held that this electronic shortcut makes it impossible for banks to establish their ownership of property titles--and t ...
  • The Insanity of Our Times
    Has America gone mad? From building an Islamic community center to DADT, from anti-immigration hysteria to widespread corruption, what will it take to set us right again?

Switchboard

  • Come Celebrate California's Salmon Heritage at Sal ...
    Earlier this week, I toured the San Joaquin River, where NRDC is working together with farmers, the Bureau of Reclamation, and other agencies to restore the river and its once-mighty salmon fishery.   As the Fresno Bee wrote today , this year, for the first time in decades, the river i ...
  • Grizzly Managers Spin Whitebark Pine Woes: Just Ho ...
    Whether or not you care about the recovery of grizzly bears, we face a serious challenge today of how to protect the safety of people who live and recreate in grizzly country, as whitebark pine, the driver of the health of the population for Yellowstone grizzly bear population, continu ...
  • See for Yourself How Solutions for Dirty Stormwate ...
    NRDC’s Water Program is increasingly focused on solutions to our leading water pollution problems, one of which is urban stormwater.  The dirty runoff that hits our waterways after storms may not be as obvious as the pollution that comes out of factories or oil refineries, but it has ...
  • What We Learned From Waldo: Our Florida Keys Oil-S ...
    On July 19 , NRDC, Oceana, and Mote Marine Laboratory launched “Waldo” – an ocean robot designed to help defend the Florida Keys ’ environmental and economic resources from impacts from the Gulf oil spill. Waldo is armed with an array of instruments, including a fluorometer that measur ...
  • Another oil disaster? True cost of oil; Nanotech c ...
    In a CNN.com story, Susan Casey-Lefkowitz warned that another oil catastrophe on American soil might transpire if a proposed oil pipeline from Canada running through the Great Plains is constructed… Entertainment Tonight featured NRDC’s new public service announcement with actor Ryan R ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • “This is nothing like it was in my room.&#82 ...
    That I love The National should surprise no one, but that’s not why I’m being frivolous on a Friday night and linking to their recent performance of “Mr. November” at Lollapalooza. I link because of the incidental jollity contained within and created by this unspectacular performance of a weaker tr ...
  • To Know is To Hate?
    I’m on the road so off the grid not infrequently, but I’ve settled down for a couple days in time to see the new Economist / YouGov poll on attitudes towards the proposed Cordoba House, and while amusing, it doesn’t really surprise. Some highlights: 14% of Americans believe that mosques should not b ...
  • “No one” loves Charles Krauthammer.
    Krauthammer today: No one disputes the right to build; the whole debate is about the propriety, the decency of doing so. Poll conducted by Krauthammer’s employer: Among those who think it is wrong for the group to build an Islamic center near ground zero, views split sharply over whether they have ...
  • Friday Nugget Blogging
    I’ve been away all week without my children, so this week’s nugget of childish curiosity comes out of the vault: “Mom, does Indian food come from India or from the Native Americans?” Context: my son was studying indigenous history in second grade this past Spring, and he often came home either wit ...
  • The GOP’s Relative Unpopularity Among Women ...
    As Amanda said on Twitter, the one thing you have to give the Minnesota Republicans in their highly instructive decision to make an ad based on perhaps the stupidest conservative web meme ever is that “She’s A Lady” certainly is an accurate summary of the GOP’s analysis of a woman’s role in society. ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Innovative Equipment Manufacturer Features Work wi ...
    The latest update from Campbell Scientific features a cover article on DRI’s Community Environmental Monitoring Program (CEMP), touting the program for providing information gathered by volunteers in near-real time and posting it to the program website.
  • Dr. Henry Sun: Looking for Life on Mars
    The Viking landers found strange evidence that suggested the presence of life on Mars (later disproven). A new study about life's preference for left- or right-handedness could help scientists design better versions of the Viking life tests.
  • DRI Assists with West Point Cadet Training
    Dr. Eric McDonald his group of DRI scientists have partnered with West Point to develop a curriculum to teach cadets how to take soil samples and measurements with different geotechnical equipment, as well as manage large data sets.
  • DRI Researcher Named to National Committee
    Duane Moser, Ph.D., has been elected to the Executive Committee for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory Research Association (DuRA).
  • Scientists Use Tahoe Work to Protect Guatemalan La ...
    A team of scientists including DRI's Dr. Alan Heyvaert have been working at Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan to find solutions to algae blooms that have assailed the ecosystem and the locals' drinking water.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • Biracial, Not Black Da** It! DVD Review
    You know you're watching a groundbreaking documentary when it not only forces you out of your comfort zone but also manages to persuade you to reassess your point-of-view without resorting to potentially-alienating polemic.
  • UN and Middle East Quartet Call on Israel, Palesti ...
    The United Nations and its diplomatic partners in the Middle East Quartet today called on the Israelis and the Palestinians to resume direct talks starting next month with the aim of reaching a wide-ranging agreement within the next 12 months to end
  • Where History Points Next Week's Hurricane in Atla ...
    AccuWeather.com reports while we will likely have a hurricane on our hands over the Atlantic by early next week, odds are against a direct impact on the U.S.
  • NATO Aircraft to Aid In Delivery of Necessary Supp ...
    In response to a request by the Government of Pakistan, the North Atlantic Council decided today provide airlift and sealift for the delivery of aid donated by nations and humanitarian relief organisations.
  • Welch and McCluskey Are Not like Our Folk Heroes, ...
    As I soaked in the news this morning of yesterday's capture of Arizona prison escapee, John McCluskey and his romantic, blood-relative of a sidekick, Casslyn Mae Welch, I made reluctant comparisons with the violent May 23, 1934 demise of legendary

environment 360

  • Global Growth of Plants Is Offset by Drought, New ...
    The steady growth of global plant productivity in the 1980s and 1990s, spurred by warmer temperatures and longer growing seasons, has now been reversed because of the growing impacts of drought , particularly in the southern hemisphere, according to a new study. Examining data from NASA’s Terra sate ...
  • Renewable Energy Use in Europe Continues to Grow R ...
    The use of renewable sources of energy in Europe continues to grow at a brisk pace and energy efficiency also is improving, significantly reducing reliance on coal and natural gas, according to a new report. In 2009, renewable energy accounted for 18.4 percent of the European Union’s primary energy ...
  • Amazon Dam Projects Are Mapped in New Online Datab ...
    A new online database maps more than 140 dams being built or planned in the Amazon basin and documents the impacts these projects are likely to have on human communities and the environment. Using official information from governments and companies, the Argentina-based Fundación PROTEGER and the adv ...
  • Extent of Mangrove Forests Is Less Than Previous E ...
    The first comprehensive survey of the world’s mangrove forests using satellite imagery reveals that the vital ecosystems are 12 percent smaller than earlier estimates and are swiftly disappearing. Scientists at NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), poring over Landsat images with a resolution ...
  • How Marketplace Economics Can Help Build a Greener ...
    Consumers now have little information about the true ecological impacts of what they buy. But that may be about to change, as new technologies that track supply chains are emerging and companies as diverse as Unilever and Google look to make their products more sustainable. BY DANIEL GOLEMAN

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

  • Suspected organizer of Moscow Metro blast killed
    One of the suspected organizers of the deadly Moscow Metro blasts in March has been killed by Russian security forces. Four other militants were also shot dead in the special operation.
  • Pole vault queen Isinbayeva set to return after ye ...
    Pole vault queen Elena Isinbayeva has taken this season off, saying she needs time away from the sport, but insists she will be back next year.
  • Northern Pomors: living off the sea
    A thousand kilometers north of Moscow on the White Sea coast lies an ancient land belonging to a sea-conquering people – the Pomors.
  • Crown Victoria leaving NYC
    New York's iconic sedan-style yellow taxi, the Crown Victoria, is on the road to extinction. Ford is scrapping the production of the traditional cab model by next year, deeming it unprofitable.
  • US utilizing capture-kill teams globally
    While some US troops are told to avoided casualties, others are told to take no prisoners. Groups known as capture-kill teams operate on a separate, less transparent set of rules when targeting high value individuals.

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

  • Hawking Makes Waves At SETIcon
    It seems that Dr. Hawking’s statements about nomadic ETIs being voracious hunters has created quite a stir in the mainstream science community. Especially the crowd Uncle Seth Shostak is in charge of at the recent SETIcon in California: Even if humanity could reach out to an intelligent alien civili ...
  • On the Cusp of Wormhole Technology?
    Wormhole technology, or any kind of faster-than-light space travel is considered tin-foil hat fantasy with current technology. But Gary S. Bekkum of STARstream research interviewed a young Iranian physicist in May of this year who just might’ve discovered a way using present day tech of producing wo ...
  • The Politics of Fear
    The 21st Century is one of William Gibson’s dystopic tales. Or maybe Philip K. Dick, I can’t tell. Anyway, one can’t deny the fear and anxiety that permeates the air like a thick cloud of smog. Couple that with technology accelerating toward a Technological Singularity that seems to want to ensla ...
  • The US Taking Up UFO Study? Fuh-getta-bout It!
    When it comes to UFO Disclosure, people leave their brains at the door. For decades folks have waited with baited breath, hoping for each new Presidential administration will take up the Disclosure Banner, and give the word that aliens have been on Earth for years and admission into the Galactic Fed ...
  • Jung the Occultist
    When people discuss Carl Gustav Jung, it’s generally about his famous split with Freud in 1912, or his theory of cultural archetypes. But as I’ve been reading about him lately through his 21st Century disciples (Christopher Knowles and Christopher O’Brien..hmm..”Christophers”…), the theory of archet ...

Tippers News

  • Sanctuary For At-Risk Animals - ABC News - VideoWi ...
    A refuge in Cambodia shelters bears, elephants, tigers and many more that have been injured by poachers and now disabled. But there isn't anything disabling about their spirits or will to live! Please watch and enjoy! Submitted by BarbCat Sunshine Lady to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Plastic Is ... Forever
    Plastic is a material that the Earth cannot digest. Every bit of plastic that has ever been created still exists, except the small amount that has been incinerated, and has become toxic air and particulate pollution. Submitted by Carl Gustav J. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Talk has not halted biodiversity loss - now it's t ...
    It's on course to make the farcical climate talks in Copenhagen look like a roaring success. The big international meeting in October which is meant to protect the world's biodiversity is destined to be an even greater failure than last year's attempt Submitted by Simone D. to Environment �|� �Note ...
  • First Steps of Tiny Tigers at Kent Wild Animal Par ...
    Two young Siberian tiger cubs are causing a sensation with the visiting public at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent. The pair of female tiger cubs were born to parents Tugar and Ingrid on 27th of June. At just six weeks old the pair of cubs are Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! ...
  • RING OF SHAME -Tigers, bears and other animals hum ...
    Zoos and parks were exposed yesterday for their barbaric circus-style treatment of endangered animals simply so they can amuse visitors. Shameful pictures, taken by an animal rights group, showed Asiatic black bears forced to box one another and Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...

The Freeman

  • Understating the Deficit
    The Associated Press reports that the current fiscal yearâs federal budget deficit will fall short of a record, coming in at over $1.3 trillion, but below last year’s $1.4 trillion, when the year ends September 30. But something is wrong with the APâs information. The U.S. Treasury says the nati ...
  • Employment Numbers Still Look Bleak
    “More people filed new claims for unemployment benefits last week than at any time since November, providing additional evidence that the economic recovery has stalled and turning up the reelection pressure on incumbents.” (Washington Post) Imagine if there had been no stimulus! FEE Timely Classic “ ...
  • Year’s Deficit to Fall Short of Record
    “This year’s federal deficit will surpass $1.3 trillion, a slight improvement over last year’s record red ink, Congress’ top budget analysts said Thursday. It gave no comfort to lawmakers struggling to balance conflicting election-season pressures to cut budget gaps, jolt the economy and reduce taxe ...
  • The Most Dangerous Derivative
    An unlikely alliance may be forming among people who would not ordinarily be in the same room.
  • Now This Is News
    From the Wall Street Journal (subscription site): Barney Frank has been all over the airwaves this week with a clear andâwe never thought we’d say thisâperfectly sound message about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: “They should be abolished.” Considering that Frank has been one of the principal backe ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • A fresh look at reporting skills
    In June I posted a ranked list of skills needed by todayâs journalists . In reviewing it today, I wondered whether it would be different if instead of saying journalist we said reporter . Say you want to hire a reporter — for a Web-only organization, a magazine, a newspaper, a TV or documentary o ...
  • Getting started with WordPress
    Here’s a new, stripped-down, easy-to-follow introduction to WordPress — the free blogging platform that also works as a versatile content management system: WordPress Basics This short tutorial is based on the second installment in my Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency , but I have shorten ...
  • Online video still growing, gaining viewers
    Just because comedy or humorous videos are the most popular among U.S. adults ( source ) does not mean journalists should wring their hands and despair about public tastes. What’s more important, I think, is that among people who have broadband Internet access at home, 75 percent watch online video ...
  • Is J-school relevant? (#wjchat)
    @killbutton Q1 Yes, because the foundation of journalism is SO important. Journos need a strong foundation in ethics! #wjchat @dnvolz Brian Williams never got any college degree and is considered a top journalist even in an ever-changing market #wjchat @mhinojosa Q1 Yes, I think it’s more importa ...
  • Top Teaching Online Journalism posts: Past 6 month ...
    According to Google Analytics, this is what you’ve been reading here (Dec. 1, 2009, up to today): 21 examples of Flash journalism A few words about digital audio recorders Now printable! Reporterâs Guide to Multimedia Proficiency Recording phone calls: For reporters Why does anyone major in ...

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: BP is driving us mad
    According to a recent study, percent of households living within 10 miles of the Gulf coastline that have seen income drop because of the BP oil disaster: 20.6 Percent of the region's households earning more than $75,000 a year that have seen their income drop: 14.2 Percent of the region ...
  • Government urged to take action to better ensure s ...
    As shrimping season opened this week along the Louisiana coast, environmental and community groups called on federal agencies to strengthen the system for determining whether seafood harvested from the region is safe in the wake of the BP oil disaster. The Natural Resources Defense Counci ...
  • Five years after Katrina, Army Corps still draggin ...
    To understand where the hurricane protection system for New Orleans stands today, it's helpful to go back to 1965. That year, Hurricane Betsy made landfall near the mouth of the Mississippi River, causing devastating flooding in the city that was blamed on poor levee construction and main ...
  • Construction workers quenching a thirst for justic ...
    By Kevin Lynch, Labor Notes In oppressive heat, Austin construction workers labor without breaks -- some without even water. Workers and allies involved with the Workers Defense Project, which works with immigrant day laborers in the city, symbolically endured similar conditions in their creativ ...
  • Almost 80 percent of BP's spilled oil still threat ...
    The recent federal report claiming that the "vast majority" of the estimated 200 million gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico by the BP catastrophe has either evaporated or been burned, skimmed, recovered or dispersed sounded almost too good to be true. As it turns out, it was t ...

Survival International

  • Penan tribe demand a say in dam project
    Work is in full flow on dams in the Penan's area. © Survival Penan tribespeople in Borneo have demanded a say in a hydroelectric dam being built on their land. Construction of the Murum dam in the Malaysian state of Sarawak is well underway, and will flood the land of at least six Penan villag ...
  • Amazon Indians fight controversial mega dam
    Indians protesting against the Belo Monte dam in the Amazon © Verena Glass Hundreds of Indians from throughout the Brazilian Amazon participated in a landmark protest to highlight the threat to their survival posed by large infrastructure projects, in particular the hugely controversial Belo Mo ...
  • Brazilian Indians celebrate creation of their own ...
    Yanomami woman. Yanomami Indians and Indians of many other tribes are celebrating the creation of their own health service © Fiona Watson/Survival Tribal peoples all over Brazil are celebrating the creation of a new branch of the Ministry of Health which will be responsible for providing health ...
  • Philippine mining plans blocked
    Palawan children scoop-fishing in Singnapan river, Ransang, Rizal Municipality. © Dario Novellino The Palawan tribe of the Philippines is celebrating after a local government panel refused to give the go-ahead to mining giant MacroAsia to mine on their traditional territory. Survival supporter ...
  • Vedanta’s India mine slammed in devastating govern ...
    A Dongria Kondh woman. © Jason Taylor Plans by Vedanta Resources to mine on Dongria Kondh land in eastern India âthreaten the survivalâ of the tribe, according to an official government investigation whose report has just been released. In a devastating report , a committee set up by Indi ...

Greg Palast

  • Separation of Church and Hate:The Kate Mosque Solu ...
    by Greg Palast Since everyone seems to have an opinion about the mosque near Ground Zero (and President Obama has two), I like to ask you all a couple of questions: Given that white Christian supremacist Tim McVeigh bombed the Oklahoma City Federal Building, shouldn't we ban white churches from th ...
  • Behind Bush's Wyly Billionaire Burglars... Hint: B ...
    by Greg Palast Card illustrations by Bob GrossmanSam Wyly is one of the planet's "Ten Greenest Billionaires," according to Forbes. And, the magazine should have added, the one that deserves the most prison time. Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged billionaire Sam and his bil ...
  • Palast on GRITtv: Fighting Toxic Oil Companies
    Last week, Mike Papantonio told us on GRITtv that there was no fund from BP to pay for the oil disaster, and raised some questions about Kenneth Feinberg, the administrator of the damages to Gulf residents. Today investigative journalist Greg Palast answers some of those questions--and raises a f ...
  • Shoot BP:The Amazon to Arctic Investigation
    Alaska Native Henry Makarka©1997James Macalpine-PIF At Tatitlek Village, Alaska Native Henry Makarka told me, "If I had a machine gun I'd shoot every one of them white sons of bitches." Makarka was talking about the executives who came to him and his tribe 40 years ago to purchase their land at Va ...
  • Shoot BP:The Amazon to Arctic Investigation
    At Tatitlek Village, Alaska Native Henry Makarka told me, "If I had a machine gun I'd shoot every one of them white sons of bitches." Makarka was talking about the executives who came to him and his tribe 40 years ago to purchase their land at Valdez.  They were from the companies now known as Exxo ...

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Tai Chi better for Fibromaglia than drugs
    Imagine that. What’s remarkable, actually, is how often some form of exercise is better for a variety of conditions than pharmaceuticals.  From depression to osteoperosis to preventing the effects of Alzheimer, getting active generally works as well or better than drugs. In terms of societal health ...
  • Oh for God’s Sake: US combat troops have NOT left ...
    This is positively Orwellian, and people on the progressive side should not be cooperating with it. There are still 50,000 US troops in Iraq and they include brigades which are, absolutely, combat troops.  Call them “advisers”, but nothing has changed, they are combat troops. Update: Oh hey, the p ...
  • Accelerating balance sheet clean-ups
    The big problem in the US economy right now is consumers are cleaning up their balance sheets.  People are either dealing with debt overhangs from the previous consumption binge or they fear for their future incomes due to either wage cuts or job loss and thus they pay down debt and [...]
  • The Freedom Mosque
    I’ve avoided this controversy because it’s so profoundly stupid, but since it won’t die and go away, let’s put it in terms even knuckle-draggers can understand. Freedom of religion is a fundamental American value. If you are against a mosque near the World Trade Center you are against freedom of rel ...
  • Talking with the Taliban
    The Karzai government in Afghanistan has been making a series of back-channel and plausibly deniable conversations with Quetta Shura Taliban(QST) leaders for most of a year now.  Karzai and his coterie of cronies know that the Americans, NATO and the rest of ISAF will be drawing down their suppo ...

Age of Autism

  • Updated Vaccine Ingredient Calculator Aids Informe ...
    Managing Editor's Note: The following is from The National Vaccine Information Center. The ingredient calculator can help you make fully informed medical decisions for yourself, your elderly parents and your children. From the Desk of the Executive Director - Theresa...
  • Sarge Goodchild of Active Healing On Autism One Ra ...
    On the Voice America Health and Wellness Channel www.health.voiceamerica.com Tuesday, August 17 12 noon ET/9 AM PT Autism One: A Conversation of Hope Neurological Reorganization for Brain Injury: The relationship of structure and function with therapeutic applications, with Sargent Goodchild,... ...
  • Brian Deer: Portrait of a Narcissist
    By Jake Crosby Conflicted “journalist” Brian Deer’s website is perhaps one of the biggest resources of disinformation on the internet. Even worse, there is likely no better example of one man’s online shrine to himself than briandeer.com – a cesspool...
  • A Father On Autism Regression and the Road To Reco ...
    By Cody Jordan October 20, 2004 was the day my son came into my life. Holding him in the parkade of the hospital, I vowed to give him the life he deserves and to teach him what he needs to...
  • Lessons From the Egg Recall: Cheap Food Makes You ...
    Managing Editor's Note: This is an important post from our colleague and friend David Kirby, author of Animal Factory. Please comment at Huffington Post. Americans currently "enjoy" the cheapest animal protein in history. Such a monumental achievement could only have...

Global BDS Movement

  • Besieging Israel's siege
    In just a few years the Palestinian campaign to boycott Israeli goods has become truly global writes Omar Barghouti for The Guardian 12 August 2010. � read more
  • Imaging Apartheid - Poster Project for Palestine
    call for submissions: Montreal July 2010 http://imagingapartheid.org/downloads/imagingapartheid_call.pdf As the global movement in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation continues to grow, we are calling on graphic designers and artists to submit their work to IMAGING APARTHEID: ...
  • 6,000 Irish shoppers demand supermarket stops stoc ...
    Today, Thursday 29th July 2010, at 1pm, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) delivered a petition to Dunnes Stores signed by 6,000 shoppers across Ireland. The petition demands that Dunnes Stores stop stocking Israeli products, until Israel respects Palestinian rights and international l ...
  • Palestinian civil society salutes Olympia Food Co- ...
    Occupied Palestine, 26 July 2010 – Palestinian farmers unions, agricultural organizations and popular committees struggling against Israel’s colonial Wall and settlements warmly salute the historic decision taken on July 15th [1] by the Olympia Food Co-op to remove all Israeli products from its shel ...
  • Action Alert: Support the Olympia Food Co-op Now! ...
    Just last week the Board of Directors of the Olympia Food Co-op took thecourageous step of instituting a boycott of Israeli goods, the firstgrocery boycott of Israel in the US. Already, there is a movement afoot tocondemn the Co-op for taking this important stand. Board and staff arereceiving aggres ...

Farm Wars

  • Why Did Organic Valley Ban Raw Milk Sales?
    A lot of intense debate has sprung up in response to Organic Valley's recent decision to ban its farmers from selling raw milk on the side.
  • Starting a local edible tree nursery
    We hope this article will inspire some to explore this as an eco-commerce that would offer great barter opportunities when the current money-based economy falters.
  • DNA from transgenic plants found in milk and anima ...
    Traces of genetically engineered maize and soy in goats, fish and pigs. DNA fragments from transgenic plants are increasingly found in animal tissue such as milk, inner organs and muscles.
  • The Gulf BLUE PLAGUE is Evolving
    Every one of those working on the shrimp boat have suffered from flu-like symptoms since the end of May, 2010. This includes migraine headaches, eye aches, joint aches, ear aches, severe coughing bouts, fevers, vomiting, and swollen glands (especially in the neck). These same symptoms are being seen ...
  • Randy Yarbrough Live! With guest Marti Oakley
      Randy Yarbrough Live Wednesday- Thursday AM radio 1360:  Colorado Springs to Cheyenne, Wyoming and maybe even a little bit of Nebraska! Listen here: First Amendment Radio   or :    America News Net 3-5 PST     4-6 MST     5-7 CST       6-8 EST Marti Oakley of the PPJ Gazette will be Randy’s guest  ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Economy fears knock Asian shares
    BBC – Asian shares have fallen amid concerns about the economic outlook following worse-than-expected weekly jobless numbers in the US. Tokyo’s Nikkei index was the hardest hit, down 2%, as rumours circulated that the Bank of Japan would hold an emergency meeting. Policymakers were said to be consid ...
  • The universe ‘will expand forever’, ne ...
    The Telegraph-The universe will continue to expand forever, Nasa scientists concluded in a new study that sheds light on one of the greatest astronomical puzzles, “dark energy”. Space agency researchers used the Hubble Space Telescope to “narrow in” on what they believe comprises the energy, which p ...
  • Why new pills are rarely the best medicine
    Daily Telegraph – We all want to believe that for every ailment, there is a magic cure; for every illness, a pill or potion. This applies just as much to doctors as to patients: it’s easy to think that we can offer a panacea for every condition we are presented with in our consulting room, [...]
  • Five out of six new prescription drugs don’t ...
    Daily Telegraph – Large firms hyped-up patented medicines, spent vast amounts on getting doctors to prescribe them and underplayed serious side effects, said Prof Donald Light, a sociologist and professor of comparative health policy at the University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey, US. Wh ...
  • Pharmaceuticals: A Market for Producing ‘Lem ...
    ScienceDaily â The pharmaceutical industry is a “market for lemons,” a market in which the seller knows much more than the buyer about the product and can profit from selling products less effective and less safe than consumers are led to believe, according to an analysis that will be presented [A ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

  • Water.org at TEDxKC (Brainzooming)
    What the World Needs Now â Innovative Ideas from TEDxKC â Part II (Brainzooming) – For whatever reason, McCamonâs TEDxKC presentation was incredibly brief. It provided staggering statistics about the amount of solid human waste thatâs left untreated globally in a world where more people have ...
  • Matt Damon’s trip to Ethiopia for water (Top Cel.)
    Matt Damonâs trip to Ethiopia to advocate for clean water (Top Celebrity Headlines) – Matt Damon is advocating for clean water and plumbing throughout the world as part of the charity he co-founded, Water.org. He appeared in a video for CNN to show how difficult it is for people in rural northern ...
  • Barclay Martin helping Kenya with Water.org (Pitch ...
    Listen to the Barclay Martin Ensemble’s first single from its new album (The Pitch) – This record represents a culmination of years of study, practice, writing and love of making music together. It is a departure stylistically from our previous releases, perhaps a deeper understanding after years of ...
  • Bono Street Team: Water.org
    Bono Street Team: Water.org (Bono Street Team) – Water.org is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization committed to providing safe drinking water and sanitation to people in developing countries. They have featured projects in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Read full Bono Street Team arti ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Louis Farrakhan: Jewish People 'Control' Black En ...
    "They" get all the money. "They" control. "They" introduce black entertainers to white women to marry. "They".... Submitted by Lindsey DTSW to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Hebrew University professor awarded prestigious ma ...
    The International Mathematical Union awarded the prestigious Field's Medal to mathematician and Hebrew University professor Elon Lindenstrauss on Thursday at its quadrennial International Congress of Mathematics in Hyderabad, India. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • IDF soldiers arrested over alleged mistreatment of ...
    Five Israel Defense Forces soldiers were arrested by military police Thursday, following suspicions of mistreatment of Palestinians detainees, which included taking improper photographs. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • U.S.: Israel, Palestinians 'very close' to direct ...
    Abbas is demanding that the negotiations have a clear framework for the ideas that will be put in place; he also wants a commitment by Israel to cease settlement construction during the direct talks. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Everything should be taught
    The university does not belong to the state, nor does it belong to the Zionist movement that created the state. It belongs to mankind, and it pursues three primary goals... Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Biracial, Not Black Da** It! DVD Review
    You know you're watching a groundbreaking documentary when it not only forces you out of your comfort zone but also manages to persuade you to reassess your point-of-view without resorting to potentially-alienating polemic.
  • UN and Middle East Quartet Call on Israel, Palesti ...
    The United Nations and its diplomatic partners in the Middle East Quartet today called on the Israelis and the Palestinians to resume direct talks starting next month with the aim of reaching a wide-ranging agreement within the next 12 months to end
  • Where History Points Next Week's Hurricane in Atla ...
    AccuWeather.com reports while we will likely have a hurricane on our hands over the Atlantic by early next week, odds are against a direct impact on the U.S.
  • NATO Aircraft to Aid In Delivery of Necessary Supp ...
    In response to a request by the Government of Pakistan, the North Atlantic Council decided today provide airlift and sealift for the delivery of aid donated by nations and humanitarian relief organisations.
  • Welch and McCluskey Are Not like Our Folk Heroes, ...
    As I soaked in the news this morning of yesterday's capture of Arizona prison escapee, John McCluskey and his romantic, blood-relative of a sidekick, Casslyn Mae Welch, I made reluctant comparisons with the violent May 23, 1934 demise of legendary

Historical Notes

libcom

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

  • IMPORTANT INFO ON MORTGAGES!!!!
    Every homeowner in America needs to read this very carefully. Homeowners’ Rebellion: Could 62 Million Homes Be Foreclosure-Proof? August 20th, 2010 | Author: Stephanie Over 62 million mortgages are now held in the name of MERS, an electronic recording system devised by and for the convenience of the ...
  • WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CAP AND TRADE (Cra ...
    If You Own A Home You Better Read This .. What we can expect if “Cap & Trade” legislation is enacted? We thought we were in trouble in this nation before, but just wait.  It CAN get MUCH WORSE!! Well read this one, it is all verified and double-checked and reference links are at the [...]
  • BARRACK OBAMA INDICTED FOR MURDER???
    Mom of Murdered Obama Gay Lover Speaks Up Mom of Murdered Obama Gay Lover Speaks Up Posted on July 25, 2010 by Eowyn Donald Young http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.c…ver-speaks-up/ In late May, Wash. DC-based investigative journalist Wayne Madsen had a bombshell revelation about Obamaâs membershi ...
  • Dov Zakheim Retires — OH PLEASE!!!!
    Dov Zakheim retires from Booz Allen Hamilton Jerry Mazza Online Journal Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:22 EDT For those of you who don’t know who Dov Zakheim is, let me refresh your memory. The ordained rabbi served as comptroller of the Pentagon from May 4, 2001, to March 10, 2004, when he resigned to go [... ...
  • OBAMA —- The Changeling
    Obama — The Changeling (Change you can REALLY Believe In.) By A. True Ott, PhD In a standard deck of playing cards, the Joker card is wild.  It can be anything you want or need it to be, from an ace to a lowly deuce.   Jokers are great to have in the deck when playing [...]

du la bab - Now is the Time

  • Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny hou ...
    Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plans fo ...
  • Air powered environmentally friendly car being pro ...
    Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re in ...
  • Deforestation – environmental & human effect ...
    There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain temper ...
  • Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here’s ...
    Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing to do ...
  • Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
    It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM says t ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Robert Fowler, Held Hostage by al Qaeda in Africa ...
    Kidnapped by al Qaeda. The very thought causes shudders. But it happened to this week's guest: one of Canada's former senior diplomats in Africa on a special mission for the United Nations. The challenge: solving a dispute between the government of Niger and the rebel movement MNJ. This week, the Un ...
  • Steve Nash, Two-time NBA MVP (Sept 19, 2009)
    He's one of the best basketball players on the planet, and he's made millions at it. But there's more to this week's guest than just the game. A lot more. This Canadian now makes his name on the courts, in the movies, and doing some pretty good things around the world. This week, he's our guest.
  • Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada (Sept ...
    We know it was a recession, but do we know if it's really a recovery? And what about that huge deficit? A dollar again approaching parity with its US counterpart? And the unemployment rate -- could it soon be in double digits? Difficult questions for this week's guest, the man who has to consider th ...
  • Dr. Shana Kelley, University of Toronto (October 3 ...
    Research labs around the world are on the constant hunt for new ways of fighting one of the world's great killers - cancer. In one lab in Toronto, exciting promise on a new technique for early detection. The possibilities are endless: for fighting cancer, and other diseases, both here in our world, ...
  • Dr. Susy Hota, Infectious Diseases Specialist (Oct ...
    Are you tired of hearing about HINI -- the swine flu? That's not surprising because there's been a half year of information coming your way -- some of it contradictory, much of it confusing. This week's guest helps us get down to basics -- what you need to know, and why you need to know it.

Scotts Contracting

  • Renewable Energy-Electric Power Lines-Transmission ...
    In the Transmission Line Debate I’ve included my comments on the Article. scotts-contracting-171793 August 20, 2010 Grid, Smart Grid, New Transmission Lines- What a Crock of ___. If more people utilized their own Renewable Energy Production for Home or Business … Continue reading →
  • Political Contributions-Dirty $money$-Oil Pay Offs
    No More Dirty Energy Money!
  • End Big Oil Bail Outs
    Dear Scotts, Thanks for asking Congress to end the bailouts to big oil. Can you help spread the word before it’s too late by telling 5 friends? If you are on Facebook, click here to post the petition to your … Continue reading →
  • Politics and Oil-Follow the $money$
  • Chinese Drywall-Warning Signals-Detection
    Warning Signals There are several problems caused by the Chinese drywall. How can a problem be detected? Look for these signs: The drywall releases sulfur dioxide gas creating sulfuric acid. There is a smell like rotten eggs. Unfortunately, not all … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

  • Judge Approves Less Than Half of Milberg's 'Unusua ...
    A federal judge in New York has slashed what he called an "unusual" request for additional fees by Milberg for a 2006 settlement of a securities class action against Nortel Networks. Milberg, its Canadian co-counsel and the claims administrator asked for $2.77 million in fees and expenses not includ ...
  • Salmonella Outbreak Draws Litigation
    Seattle food illness plaintiffs law firm Marler Clark filed what it believes is the first lawsuit linked to the nationwide recall of 380 million eggs. Managing partner Bill Marler said the firm has been investigating salmonella outbreaks linked to restaurants in various states, but the cause of the ...
  • Ex-Attorney Charged With Embezzling $1 Million Fro ...
    Former Pennsylvania attorney Jeffrey Abramowitz has been indicted on charges of embezzling more than $1 million from his clients by lying to them about the settlements of their cases. The indictment alleges that Abramowitz told some of his firm's clients that funds from their civil lawsuits and othe ...
  • Redacting Personally Identifiable Data From E-Fili ...
    An attorney's obligation to redact personally identifiable information from e-filings has arisen in a variety of circumstances. Whether the failure to meet that requirement can create professional liability has not been definitively answered, says Rivkin Radler partner Shari Claire Lewis.
  • Sonnenschein Seeks Supreme Court Review of Dispute ...
    Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has filed a petition for certiorari with the Supreme Court in a breach of contract dispute with a former partner who alleges he was not fairly compensated for representing the families of those killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. The firm argues that the D.C. Co ...

Iranian.com

  • Iran's first nuclear plant begins fueling
    (CNN) -- Iran began fueling its first nuclear energy plant in the southern city of Bushehr on Saturday, the nation's state media reported. The effort will help the country create nuclear-generated electricity, Press TV said. The transfer of nuclear fuel was being watched by the International Atomic ...
  • انتقال سوخت به ساختمان نخستین نيروگاه اتمی ایران ...
    مراسم انتقال سوخت هسته ای به استخر نخستين نيروگاه اتمی ايران با حضور رییس سازمان انرژی اتمی ایران و مقامات روسی تا ساعاتی دیگر برگزار می شود. read more
  • What India can teach Iran about freedom and tolera ...
    AS Iran finds itself increasingly sanctioned and condemned by human rights groups, it should look to a forgotten source for an answer to its woes: India. More than 400 years ago, the ruler of India implored the king of Iran to show tolerance and love to people of all religions, since God's mercy ext ...
  • Israel ’s War with Iran and The Zionist Power Conf ...
    “My strong preference here is to handle all this (US conflict with Iran) diplomatically with the other powers of government, ours and many others as opposed to any kind of strike occurring…From the US perspective, from the United States military perspective in particular, opening up a third front (I ...
  • سفره‌های حکومتی
    سفره هایی که همانند سفره های افطاری ایرانی ها در داخل کشور به صورت رول پلاستیکی روی زمین پهن شده اند و همه روزه دارها بعد از شرکت در نماز جماعت دور آن ها جمع شده اند تا افطار خود را با سوپ و برنج و مرغی که بین شرکت کنندگان پخش می شود باز کنند. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Is Capitalism Doomed? - Part III
    Fascism In The Coming Struggle for Power , Strachey also writes about the important role of fascism associated with end stage capitalism. He explains how declining profits and growth will result in reduced wages, poorer working conditions and a claw back of social welfare benefits enacted d ...
  • Is Capitalism Doomed? – Part III
    Fascism In The Coming Struggle for Power , Strachey also writes about the important role of fascism associated with end stage capitalism. He explains how declining profits and growth will result in reduced wages, poorer working conditions and a claw back of social welfare benefits enacted during mor ...
  • Is Capitalism Doomed? - Part II
    Why Capitalism Didn’t Fold in 1933 S tagnation Theory In 1966 Paul Sweezy, founding editor of the Monthly Review , and economist Paul Baran first set out what they describe as “stagnation theory” in their book Monopoly Capital . In later writings, Swezey describes how the massive “financializ ...
  • Is Capitalism Doomed? - Part I
      The long taboo topic of the end of capitalism seems to be in fashion recently – a consequence of the deepening economic crisis that shows no signs of going away. In fact there’s even a website now www.theendofcapitalism.com . I distinctly recall talk of the federal government “nationalizi ...
  • A Psychiatrist Searches for Sanity in a Crazy Worl ...
    For OpEdNews: Michael David Morrissey – Writer Review of The Most Revolutionary Act: Memoir of an American Refugee , by Dr. Stuart Jeanne Bramhall (Eloquent Books, 2010) This is a frightening book. Much of it reads like a thriller, but unfortunately it is a true story. Dr. Stuart Jeanne ...

Free Movement

  • UKBA seek feedback on settlement application proce ...
    Anyone with recent experience of applying for settlement may wish to help UKBA by completing a feedback form, available here.
  • Rights of children a primary consideration
    Yet more good news, this time for children and their parents. In LD (Article 8 best interests of child) Zimbabwe [2010] UKUT 278 (IAC) the President of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal has found that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is highly relevant to Article 8 ...
  • Post flight spouses of refugees
    Some tremendously good news for many refugees: in the new case of FH (Post-flight spouses) Iran [2010] UKUT 275 (IAC) the tribunal has found that Article 8 appeals by the spouses of refugees who married the refugee after the refugee left the country of origin should normally be allowed. Ever since r ...
  • PBS decision not being appealed
    The Points Based System test case, Pankina, is not being appealed by UKBA. This has been confirmed by Treasury Solicitors. Interim guidance has apparently been issued to UKBA caseworkers. More information and links if/when I get a chance.
  • New rules sidestep Pankina and English UK
    The Government has laid a new Statement of Changes (HC 382) that incorporates the parts of the Points Based System policy guidance ruled unlawful in the Pankina and English UK cases. This reinstitutes the three month £800 requirement and the minimum of level of English language qualification require ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Needed: a new economic paradigm
    The blame game continues over who is responsible for the worst recession since the Great Depression – the financiers who did such a bad job of managing risk or the regulators who failed to stop them. But the economics profession bears more than a little culpability. It provided the models that gav ...
  • The Guns of August
    In 1962, the historian Barbara Tuchman published a book about the start of World War I and called it� The Guns of August . It went on to win a Pulitzer Prize.� She was, of course, looking back at events that had occurred almost 50 years earlier and had at her disposal documents and information not a ...
  • The National Security Mosque
    The furor over the proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero makes me think back to one of the most important lessons I learned from al Qaeda terrorists I interrogated--that they have a warped view of America. To them--and this they get from Osama Bin Laden's rhetoric--the U.S. is ...
  • VIDEO: Amir Bar-Lev, Director of 'The Tillman ...
  • You and I Can't Yield – Not Now, Not Ever
    Back in March, I delivered a speech to an NAACP Freedom Fund banquet in my home state of Georgia. I drew on my personal life story to urge poor people, white and black, to pull together and overcome racial divisions. We have to understand that our struggle is against poverty and against those who ar ...

Salon

  • Why are we so willing to repeat history's mistakes ...
    Out of all the famous quotations, few better describe this eerily familiar time than those attributed to George Santayana and Yogi Berra. The former, a philosopher, warned that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." The latter, a baseball player, stumbled into prophecy b ...
  • Indiana Democrat blasts Pelosi in new ad
    Indiana Rep. Joe Donnelly is taking an unusual jab at his party's leadership in a campaign ad that refers to climate change legislation as "Nancy Pelosi's energy tax."
  • Man jumps to death onto stage at concert
    A man jumped at least 20 feet to his death onto the stage of a Northern California concert in front of hundreds of horrified music fans, the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office said Friday.
  • Obama receives brilliant new fancy-pants novel for ...
    Talk about a Friday night news dump! Earlier today, CBS News reported that Barack Obama strolled into a bookstore on Martha's Vineyard and purchased a copy of Jonathan Frazen's "galvanic new novel" "Freedom," a 576-page realist epic about a Midwestern family struggling with modernity.
  • Defending Park51, attacking Dr. Laura
    Several letters replying to my " Why Dr. Laura can't say whatever she wants " post made a similar and interesting point. To quote letter-writer Omni32 :

SMB News

  • New flood tide roars into Dera Allah Yar
    JAFFERABAD: High flood tide raged its way into Jafferabad area of Dera Allah Yar, rendering thousands of people homeless, these stranded people are waiting for help, Geo News reported Monday. The new flood tide further exacerbated the situation in the area where people are present on the high places ...
  • Enraged flood victims get physical with police, Ra ...
    SUKKUR: Floods continue to cause devastation in Sukkur and rendered thousands of people stranded in various areas while enraged flood victims burned tyres, blocked road and exchanged blows with police and Rangers after one of the affectees died in a relief camp here at Sukkur-Shikarpur Road. The wat ...
  • Qaeda’s cause is gross distortion of Islam: Obama
    Qaedaâs cause is gross distortion of Islam: ObamaWASHINGTON: In a passionate defense of religious freedom, President Barack Obama on Friday waded into a bitter controversy by defending the right of Muslims to build a mosque just blocks from Ground Zero. “As a citizen, and as president, I believe t ...
  • Do they lock Geo More news from Zardari to throw s ...
    Karachi: Geo News blocked the transfer of the road at night in a cold portion of the new country after the news sent threw shoes at President Zardari’s party time in Birmingham, Geo News reported sources as kabelexploitanten zeggend. Meanwhile, many of the singer kabelexploitanten in Karachi was bad ...
  • News unrest throw shoes around the resort for PPP
    LONDON, PPP activists, that anger has riots, arson, and Karachi and the country’s answer to the remaining sadness news, President Asif Ali Zardari that they air during the party, its Birmingham, Sunday morning, said the old shoes make a show. All newspapers and newspaper vendors, robed Thenews Jang ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • Waterfront renewal
    A welcome new stage in Toronto’s increasingly dynamic waterfront revitalization
  • Charting new Arctic waters
    Canada may be an “Arctic power,” determined to play “a robust leadership role” in the region. But we’re prepared to cooperate with the United States and other circumpolar neighbours, rather than clash with them, to affirm our sovereignty at the top ...
  • Rob Ford’s blind spots
    Wrong about the facts on immigration, wrong in tone, and wrong even on the history of his own involvement with police — Rob Ford didn’t get much right this week. More than just bad luck, his string of failures highlights precisely why this front-ru ...
  • The CNE’s best bet
    The Canadian National Exhibition, which has been welcoming farmers and city slickers alike since 1879, is set to do so again starting today. But fewer people are bothering to show up, underlining the need to revamp this aging attraction. ...
  • A Mountie muzzled
    How convenient. Not four months ago Chief Supt. Marty Cheliak of the RCMP sang the praises of Ottawa’s tough gun registry to the House of Commons public safety committee. This week, as Stephen Harper’s Conservatives move to gut the registry, Chelia ...

Energy Collective

  • New Jersey to Take Lead in Offshore Wind Energy?
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  • Mixed signals from the White House on clean energy ...
    � President Obama has been touring the nation, touting his administration's efforts to expand federal investment in clean tech manufacturing. At each stop, clean energy jobs are the major topic of discussion, with international economic competition and environmental goals somewhere on the edges of h ...
  • Does New Republican Bill Signal Bipartisan Support ...
    New legislation introduced by Republican Representative Devin Nunes (CA) and backed by several GOP House members would invest billions into renewable energy deployment, signaling an opportunity for bipartisan support for clean energy technology policies. Over at CNBC , reporter Trevor Curwin has be ...
  • Sustainable consumption: Opportunity or oxymoron?
    Imagine that you’re the chief sustainability officer of a FORTUNE 500 company. During a meeting with your CEO, you say: “We need to talk to consumers about using less.” Improbable? Sure. Impossible? Perhaps not. An important conversation to start? Absolutely.
  • Science Mag Special Section: Bleak future without ...
    � � � � � � � � In its latest " Special Section:� Scaling Up Alternative Energy" Science says it will explore "worldwide efforts to develop clean, renewable alternatives" to fossil fuels.��

EU Times

  • Anthrax kills 83 hippos in Ugandan national park
    Anthrax has killed at least 83 hippopotamuses in a popular Ugandan game park that saw a similar outbreak six years ago, an official said. Tom Okello, area conservation manager at Queen Elizabeth National Park in south-west Uganda, says 83 hippos are dead. The park, one of Uganda’s most popular safar ...
  • Obama Bans More than 100,000 American-Made Rifles
    According to The Korea Times, the Obama administration has blocked efforts by the South Korean government to sell over a hundred thousand surplus M1 Garand and Carbine rifles into the United States market. These self-loading were rifles introduced in 1926 and 1941. As rifles, they are especially wel ...
  • Former US Governor Warns Of Homeland Security “Ges ...
    In an exclusive new video for Prison Planet.tv subscribers, former Governor Jesse Ventura warns that Homeland Security is rapidly becoming the American Gestapo, as Ventura still fumes over the fact that the feds tried to stop him from filming the JFK memorial at Arlington Cemetery. Former Minnesota ...
  • Fidel Castro speaks out against the Bilderberg Gro ...
    Former Cuban President Fidel Castro continues to taunt the West, this time with an article that accuses the ultra-secretive Bilderberg Group of conspiring to create a one-world government. Despite his advanced age and periodic bouts with an intestinal disorder, 84-year-old Castro continues to warn o ...
  • Russian Scholar Warns Of ‘Secret’ U.S. ...
    As Muscovites suffer record high temperatures this summer, a Russian political scientist has claimed the United States may be using climate-change weapons to alter the temperatures and crop yields of Russia and other Central Asian countries. In a recent article, Andrei Areshev, deputy director of th ...

Stonecipher News

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

    Blacklisted News

  • Nearly 50 Percent Leave Obama Mortgage-Aid Program
    The report suggests foreclosures could rise in the second half of the year and weaken the ailing housing market, analysts say.
  • The Purpose Behind Engineered Economic Collapse
    “From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.” — Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. , 1913
  • Pregnant women should avoid 'diet' soft drinks: re ...
    Research carried out on almost 60,000 pregnant women in Denmark found that those who drank artificially sweetened soft drinks, whether fizzy or still, were more likely to give birth early.
  • SPECIAL REPORT: The Story of Obama All in the Comp ...
    WMR previously reported on the CIA links of President Obama’s mother, father, step-father, grandmother to the CIA. Not much is known about Obama’s grandfather, Stanley Armour Dunham, who Obama mistakenly referred to as “his father” in two speeches, one recently to the Disabled American Veterans.
  • Young will have to change names to escape 'cyber p ...
    The private lives of young people are now so well documented on the internet that many will have to change their names on reaching adulthood, Google’s CEO has claimed.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Report: Iran ready to begin immediate nuclear fuel ...
    Summary: Us- Indo nuclear deal Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday his country was ready for immediate talks with world powers over an exchange of enriched uranium. source: Haaretz read more
  • Iran calls for PG unity against plots
    Summary: The Qatari prime minister, for his part, said that Doha supports Tehran's positions on regional and international issues. Al-Thani also backed Iran's nuclear program, saying: "It is clear for Qatar that the development of Iran's nuclear technology is no threat to the regional countries ...
  • The Israel Lobby Swims 'The Atlantic'
    Summary: Jeffrey Goldberg’s current cover story in The Atlantic, “The Point of No Return,” achieved massive distribution across a broad spectrum of old and new media in the United States. Some observers – including Glenn Greenwald in “How Propagandists Function” – noted how well the methodolog ...
  • Iran protests to U.N. over U.S. threats of militar ...
    Summary: Iran complains to UN officials about US threats of military attack on the country over its nuclear program, vowing a response to any such strike. This comes after Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen said the US military has a plan to attack Iran, although he thi ...
  • America Cannot Go to War for Israel
    Summary: It's a truism that old men declare wars, and young men die in them. George Will will never die in a war. And while Jeffrey Goldberg was a corporal in the Israeli army, he's too old to enlist in the American army now (although he appears to be a reservist in the Israeli army). Despite th ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • New Ocean Life Discovered at the 'Hadal Zone' (Dee ...
    In the "hadal" zone, which at 11,000 meters is deeper than Mount Everest is high – the pressure rises to 1,000 bar, or a ton per square centimeter. And as there is practically no light, and plants cannot grow, there...
  • The Pando -World's Oldest Organism: 80,000 or 800, ...
    The Pando aspen clone in Utah is thought to be 80,000 years old, but some think it could be ten times older. It’s hard to guess age and long-term research would have had to begin when humans were starting to...
  • Image of the Day: Saturn's Enigmatic Moon, Encelad ...
    On Saturn's small, icy moon Enceladus, “the mother lode of all discoveries was discovered at the South Pole,” said Carolyn Porco in a talk at Harvard University. Porco is director of flight operations and imaging team leader for the Cassini...
  • 'You Couldn't Make This Up' Dept: City to Track En ...
    . Minority is now alive and well, realtime, in Leon, Mexico. The city is installing a public eye scanner that can identify 50 people per minute, in motion by installing real time iris scanners from biometrics R&D firm Global Rainmakers...
  • The Time Traveler
    We love this week's cover selection of Science & Invention magazine -one of Hugo Gernsback's famous popular technical magazines first published in 1920. The August 1923 and August 1924 issues are considered to have been the "first" science-fiction magazines published...

Natural News

  • Light treatment clears psoriasis as it boosts vita ...
    (NaturalNews) According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) about 7.5 million Americans suffer from the chronic, autoimmune skin disease called psoriasis that causes irritated, flaky and thick patches of red skin; some forms of psoriasis are also associated with joint pain. Most medical trea ...
  • GSK executives sell drug compound as a nutritional ...
    (NaturalNews) A recent report in Xconomy has revealed that several executives from drug giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) have been selling proprietary formulations of resveratrol, a component of red wine that has gained much attention for its anti-cancer and anti-aging properties, as dietary supplements ...
  • Zinc helps prevent pneumonia in the elderly
    (NaturalNews) A new report published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has found that zinc plays a very important role in health maintenance. In a study of over 600 seniors from 33 different nursing homes in the Boston area, researchers found that seniors with healthy blood levels of zin ...
  • Blagojevich, political corruption and health care ...
    (NaturalNews) Thanks to a lone, holdout juror, former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich narrowly escaped being found guilty of trying to sell a U.S. Senate seat. He was found guilty on only one charge: Lying. Stop the presses! A politician lied? Say it ain't so... If that crime were widely prosecute ...
  • Ben and Jerry's 'natural' ice cream filled with un ...
    (NaturalNews) Consumer watchdog group Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is calling out popular ice cream maker Ben and Jerry's for using artificial and chemically-altered ingredients in its "All Natural" premium ice creams. According to CSPI at least 90 percent of the flavors used in ...

Threat Level

  • Court Overturns Order Blocking Newspaper From Prin ...
    A California appeals court has overturned a Los Angeles judge’s order that prohibited the Los Angeles Times from publishing a photo of a quadruple murder defendant. “We conclude the superior court’s order precluding publication of photographs lawfully taken unconstitutionally violates the prohibitio ...
  • Google Wi-Fi Spy Lawsuits Head to Silicon Valley
    Whether Google is liable for damages for secretly intercepting data on open Wi-Fi routers across the United States is to be aired out in a Silicon Valley federal court. Eight proposed class actions from across the country that seek unspecified monetary damages from Google were consolidated this week ...
  • Addicted Gamer Sues Game-Maker, Says He is ‘Unable ...
    A federal judge is allowing a negligence lawsuit to proceed against the publisher of the online virtual-world game Lineage II, amid allegations that a Hawaii man became so addicted he is “unable to function independently in usual daily activities such as getting up, getting dressed, bathing or comm ...
  • Mississippi Lawyer Drawn Into WikiLeaks Intrigue
    A civil litigation attorney in Mississippi who has lent advice to WikiLeaks on occasion has found himself embroiled in intrigue and headlines after initiating conversation with the government over the secret-spilling site. Timothy Matusheski, who specializes in litigation around False Claims Act vio ...
  • Court OKs Covert iPhone Audio Recording
    Using an iPhone to secretly record a conversation is not a violation of the Wiretap Act if done for legitmate purposes, a federal appeals court has ruled. “The defendant must have the intent to use the illicit recording to commit a tort of crime beyond the act of recording itself,” (.pdf) the 2nd U ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Obama's Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
    As a quick glance online shows, President Obama's sagging popularity is producing a cottage industry for political diagnosticians. In the Washington Post, former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson proclaims "the lost promise of Barack Obama" even as his colleague Eugene Robinson touts "President Obam ...
  • Sarah Palin's First Amendment Confusion Deepens
    In the span of just a few days, Sarah Palin has demonstrated that her ignorance of the First Amendment is total. One day after repeating her earlier call for Muslim Americans to "refudiate" their freedom of religion, Palin defended the disgraced Dr. Laura Schlessinger. But in tweeting that Dr. Lau ...
  • Recession Forcing Americans to Cut Back on Health ...
    With the first wave of its new provisions set to begin in September, Americans' support for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is gradually growing. And with good reason. A Commonwealth Fund study released last month concluded that the health care reform law will be especially beneficial to women. And ...
  • Right-Wing Special Offer: Bomb Iran, This Week Onl ...
    From the same people who sold you the American calamity in Iraq comes a new offer. At no cost to you, Israel will bomb Iranian nuclear facilities. But the special promotion ends this week , after which a regional war with Tehran and its proxies returns to its suggested retail price of an American ...
  • Bush Speechwriters Back Obama on Mosque
    Addressing Congress on September 20, 2001, President George W. Bush reminded the American people that in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, "We're in a fight for our principles, and our first responsibility is to live by them," adding, "No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or unkind words be ...

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    Bidding is still running on these beautiful Eliza Gauger art pieces.
  • New York State Senate passes gas drilling (frackin ...
    ByJerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted atOnline Journal www.jerrymazza.com August 13, 2010 It isnt often these days that the good guys win one. But heres a beautiful example of a successful effort so far by the activist groupCatskill Mountainkeeper and friends. The fight to preven ...
  • The Women Who Won't Abandon the Gulf
    While the two main industries on the Gulf Coast, oil and fishing, are both male-dominated, it’s women who are now in leadership roles picking up after this latest mess.
  • Gas Is Really Costing Us About $15 a Gallon
    Calculating the true cost of living in a country built on oil.
  • EPA defers hearing on fracking By Jerry Mazza
    ByJerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.jerrymazza.com August 13, 2010 The New York Times and Catskill Mountainkeeper have reported that the EPAs last hearing on fracking, held in Canonsburg, Pa. in July drew over 1200 people without a hitch. Unfortunately, the follow-up, all-day hearing t ...

Consortium News

  • Mosque Furor Endangers US Troops
    The Right is making political hay over a mosque near Ground Zero, but US troops may pay with their lives, writes Robert Parry. August 18, 2010
  • Old-Time Bigotry Alive in America
    The screaming over a mosque near 9/11's Ground Zero reflects America's deepseated nativism, observes Michael Winship. August 17, 2010
  • Making the US Look Small to the World
    Right-wing operatives whipping up anger over a Lower Manhattan mosque make America look hypocritical, says Alvaro Vargas Llosa. August 17, 2010
  • Letting the Banksters 'Settle'
    Instead of jail time, the banksters who tanked the global economy are settling for cash payouts, writes Danny Schechter. August 17, 2010
  • The Truth about Pat Tillman's Death
    A documentary recounts how the US government exploited the death of NFL-star-turned-soldier Pat Tillman, says Rory O'Connor. August 17, 2010

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Grassroots

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

Climate

  • August 20, 2010
    Final BP Well Plug Delayed Until September (Reuters) BP likely won't put the final plug in its blown-out well until September to allow replacement of a critical piece of seabed equipment, the top U.S. oil spill official said on Thursday. Oil Plume Is Not Breaking Down Fast, Study Says ( ...
  • August 19, 2010
    More Tests, Preparation Ahead of Final BP Well Kill (Reuters) BP has more testing ahead before it can finally kill its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well, the top official overseeing the spill response said on Wednesday. AP Poll: BP Image Recovering from Spill, Still Low (AP) BP's i ...
  • August 18, 2010
    Gulf Surface Cleaner, But Questions Lurk Far Below (AP) Researchers are warning that the Gulf spill is a bigger mess than the government claims and that a lot of crude is lurking deep below the surface, some of it settling perhaps in a critical undersea canyon off the Florida Panhandle. ...
  • August 17, 2010
    Old-Style Coal Plants Expanding Across U.S. (AP)  Utilities across the country are building dozens of old-style coal plants that will cement the industry's standing as the largest industrial source of climate-changing gases for years to come. U.S. to Tighten Reviews for New Offshore Dril ...
  • August 16, 2010
    BP on Cusp of 'Bottom Kill' to Permanently Plug Source of Oil Spill in Gulf (Washington Post) BP and the U.S. government may decide as soon as Monday to move ahead with a four-day process to permanently plug the source of the Gulf spill through a "bottom kill" of the Macondo. La. Shri ...

GreenBiz

  • NetApp, As You Sow and More Lauded for Product Ste ...
    �A data storage company that takes backs and recycles its customers' old products and a reusable bag maker are among the winners of the latest California Stewardship Arrow Awards from the California Product Stewardship Council.
  • Sustainable Consumption: Opportunity or Oxymoron?
    Consuming smarter goes only so far. We also have to consume less of just about everything, and that bumps up squarely against the business imperative,�which is to sell more of just about everything.
  • Climate Corps 2010: When Buildings Go 'Retro'
    Buildings that have changing uses and those that weren't commissioned after construction can be secretly wasting energy. In both cases, retrocommissioning can help.
  • Climate Corps 2010: Diversey's Three-Part Sustaina ...
    In the world of energy efficiency and sustainability, the biggest financial and environmental opportunities are often right under a company’s nose. However, if the company does not have the proper tools and data -- or if it is too focused on making smaller efficiency tweaks while losing sight of the ...
  • Mohawk Sets 2020 Green Goals with First Sustainabi ...
    Flooring company Mohawk Industries is aiming to reduce by 25 percent the intensity of its energy and water use along with its greenhouse gas emissions and the amount of landfill waste it creates.

Reuters Global

  • Did Bloomberg inspire Obama’s speech about N ...
    President Obama's support for the Cordoba House Muslim center near the site of the 9/11 attacks is consistent with his views on constitutional rights, religious freedom, diversity and outreach to Muslims.
  • Helping Pakistan; not if, but how
    If there is a common thread to the relatively slow western response to one of the worst catastrophes in Pakistan’s history, it is a sense of confusion, not about whether to help, but how to help.
  • Resurgent Taliban target women and children
    Civilian casualties in the worsening war in Afghanistan are up just over 30 percent in the current year, the United Nations said in a mid-year report on Tuesday, holding the Taliban responsible for three-quarters of the deaths or injuries. More worrying women and children seem to be taking the brun ...
  • Can export bans be challenged at the WTO?
    As countries move to protect their food supplies, experts say the World Trade Organization is unlikely to have the authority to stop them banning grain exports
  • Risks to watch in Asia: Country guides
    Risks to watch: Asia country guides

Booman Tribune

  • Bringing the Merchant of Death to Justice
    Here is something I am 99.9% certain would never happen if the Bush Crime Family was still running this country. In fact, I am 99.9% percent sure that the only way he will escape justice is if he can use crimes he committed at the behest of the Bush Crime Family to blackmail the U.S. government int ...
  • U.S. West - Open Discussion
    California: Since Republican Meg Whitman and Democrat Jerry Brown won their parties' nominations in June, tens of millions of dollars have been spent trying to break the statistical tie that's gripped the race for months. Whitman, in particular, has blanketed the state in radio and TV ads tout ...
  • Believe it or not
    The Census under Obama actually came in $1.6 BILLION under budget, maybe more. Imagine if Bush had outsourced it to Halliburton or Blackwater what it would have cost? And who would have gotten tased by private census workers hired as independent contractors? Ps. Naturally the GOP is bitching a ...
  • Your Daily Dose of Right Wing Stupid
    From an article in The Hill in which Russ Feingold criticizes his GOP opponent Ron Johnson for claiming sunspots are causing global warming (sadly for Ron, his sunspot "theory" simply is not true)comes this comment from "Sally" who lives in an alternate reality: Why are there never any mentions o ...
  • It's the Jobs Stupid
    Unemployment numbers keep getting worse, not better according to this report from McClatchy: First-time filings for unemployment benefits rose last week by 12,000, reaching 500,000 for the week, the highest level since last November. Economists had expected the claims to drop. [...] Obama prop ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Reassessing Psychedelic Drugs: Paired With Therapy ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Before acquiring a negative connotation due to recreational use, psychedelic drugs were used by therapists to help people deal with depression, chronic pain, compulsive disorders, and other issues. A new study, published this week, shows that using the drugs (such as ...
  • India Hosts Alternative Therapy Conference, Emphas ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline This week, Mumbai hosted the 37th annual International Conference on Holistic Healing, which drew from dozens of disciplines aimed at overall health and well-being. Traditional psychotherapy and counseling joined color therapy, hypnosis, meditation, reiki many others ...
  • Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse- Molest: The Unth ...
    By Yvonne Sinclair M.A., MFCC Click here to contact Yvonne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile When we see accounts of child molestation on the news, perhaps we feel vulnerable and frightened. Can anything be done to protect our children? We ask ourselves, “How can anyone use a child for sexual g ...
  • Understanding How Angry Emotions Lead To Behavior
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Few would argue against classifying anger and fear as negative emotions, or against classifying excitement as a positive one. But new research shows that, in some ways, anger has more in common with excitement than it has in common with fear. Researchers at Boston Coll ...
  • Being Compassionate Toward Others Benefits Your Ow ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Showing compassion toward others is more than a sign of a healthy and positive worldview. It actually benefits the mental and physical health of the person exhibiting compassion. A study from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco found that women who demonstrated high leve ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Wells Fargo cuts off mountaintop removal mining co ...
    San Francisco Chronicle (blog) Wells Fargo cuts off mountaintop removal mining companies San Francisco Chronicle (blog) Local bank Wells Fargo recently joined five other major banks in restricting the money it loans to mining companies that practice mountaintop removal , ... Wall Street Backs Away ...
  • A Mountain in the Stream - New York Times
    A Mountain in the Stream New York Times It is now possible to imagine the beginning of the end of a ruinous form of mining called “ mountaintop removal .” Local opposition is growing, ...
  • Bearing witness to mountaintop removal with the EP ...
    Bearing witness to mountaintop removal with the EPA It's Getting Hot In Here (blog) They share their experiences of living with the impacts of mountaintop removal (MTR) mining: John shares the scientific results of testing the water from ...
  • A Mountain in the Stream - New York Times
    A Mountain in the Stream New York Times It is now possible to imagine the beginning of the end of a ruinous form of mining called “ mountaintop removal .” Local opposition is growing, ... and more��
  • "Coal Country" Goes to High Country, Colorado - un ...
    unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) "Coal Country" Goes to High Country, Colorado unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) Mountaintop removal mining is one of those things in life that you can't really understand until you've seen it. All the blog posts, articles, editorials, ...

Memeorandum

  • Imam Rauf's Newly Discovered Explosive Audio Tapes ...
    Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs : Imam Rauf's Newly Discovered Explosive Audio Tapes   —  Steve Emerson has unearthed 13 hours of audio tape of Imam Rauf.  Emerson and his team of investigators has spent the past four weeks going through the newly found material.  Rauf is a “radical extremist cleric ...
  • True Face of Imam Rauf to be Revealed by Newly Dis ...
    FreeThinkerNY / Weasel Zippers : True Face of Imam Rauf to be Revealed by Newly Discovered Audio Tapes...   This fraud's mask must be torn off.  The American people must be made aware of the truth about the “moderate” Ground Zero Mosque organizers that Leftists are so vociferously supporting ...  ...
  • Move the New York City mosque, as a sign of unity ...
    Karen Hughes / Washington Post : Move the New York City mosque, as a sign of unity   —  The national debate about building a mosque near Ground Zero in New York is less about our freedom of religion than about the common sense and uncommon courtesy sometimes required to come together as Americans.
  • Muslim-born Miss USA says she opposes Ground Zero ...
    New York Post : Muslim-born Miss USA says she opposes Ground Zero Islamic center   —  The reigning Miss USA has come out against the Ground Zero mosque, saying “it shouldn't be so close” to Ground Zero.  —  The 24-year-old Rima Fakih, is the first Muslim winner of the Miss USA contest and is prepa ...
  • The Rev. Franklin Graham Says President Obama was ...
    Bradley Blackburn / ABCNEWS : The Rev. Franklin Graham Says President Obama was ‘Born a Muslim’   —  Comments Come As Poll Shows One in Five Americans Wrongly Believes Obama Is Muslim  —  On the heels of a new poll suggesting that nearly one in five Americans incorrectly believes that President Oba ...

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China Dialogue

  • Battle of the solar systems
    China is preparing for a solar-thermal revolution, but not everyone is convinced the technology – or the country – is ready. Feng Jie and Chen Zhou report. Europe’s vision of a giant solar-thermal plant in the Sahara Desert, meeting up to 15% of the continent’s electricity needs, is frequently dismi ...
  • Uphill fight for Kashmir’s trees
    Amid a building boom in India’s northernmost state, corruption is hindering efforts to stop illegal timber smuggling. And, writes Jason Burke, the trade in wood is fuelled in part by government cash. High above the village of Nawroz Baba, above the shrine, even above the pastures, is the forest. It ...
  • Not just a natural disaster
    The Pakistani state has failed its people, writes Kamila Shamsie. Environmentalists have long warned of the power of the illegal timber mafia and the susceptibility of deforested areas to flooding, landslides and soil erosion. First came the Taliban. Then the army. And now the floods. The people of ...
  • The struggle for green computing
    China’s campaigners against pollution in the IT industry are bringing tall tales about clean computing back down to earth, writes Bill Thompson. A tale is sometimes told of clean computing and the power of information technology to save the world through the effective management of resources, the ac ...
  • China’s heavy-metal challenge
    A green coalition has been pressing the world’s IT giants to bring their polluting suppliers in China under control. Environmental advocate Ma Jun tells the Asia Water Project about its progress. In April this year, 35 Chinese NGOs, concerned about the growing number of heavy-metal poisoning inciden ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Fallout of Hate Is Spreading Across America from 9 ...
    The hysteria over a planned Islamic community center in downtown Manhattan is only the tip of the iceberg.
  • How the Fox-Comcast Machine Crushed a Journalist W ...
    A journalist who criticized O'Reilly -- on his own time -- lost his job when Fox threatened Comcast.
  • 6 Reasons to Have Casual Sex
    Casual sex is often presented as damaging. But it could be a good path to discovering important things about your sexuality.
  • BP Spill Oil Already Entering the Gulf Food Chain
    Cross-posted from Treehugger. The recent discovery of trace amounts of oil in blue crab larvae has left experts forecasting dire news for the Gulf ecosystem. It’s evidence that the oil from the spill loosed from the Deepwater Horizon explosion has already begun working its way up the food chain — ...
  • The Salmonella-In-Eggs Situation Gets Worse
    Cross-posted from Food Politics. Judging from the number of interview requests today, everyone has figured out that the egg recall is not only awful for the people who got sick but also has something to do with our hopelessly inadequate food safety system and dysfunctional Congress. The CDC has u ...

Threat Level

  • Court Overturns Order Blocking Newspaper From Prin ...
    A California appeals court has overturned a Los Angeles judge’s order that prohibited the Los Angeles Times from publishing a photo of a quadruple murder defendant. “We conclude the superior court’s order precluding publication of photographs lawfully taken unconstitutionally violates the prohibitio ...
  • Google Wi-Fi Spy Lawsuits Head to Silicon Valley
    Whether Google is liable for damages for secretly intercepting data on open Wi-Fi routers across the United States is to be aired out in a Silicon Valley federal court. Eight proposed class actions from across the country that seek unspecified monetary damages from Google were consolidated this week ...
  • Addicted Gamer Sues Game-Maker, Says He is ‘Unable ...
    A federal judge is allowing a negligence lawsuit to proceed against the publisher of the online virtual-world game Lineage II, amid allegations that a Hawaii man became so addicted he is “unable to function independently in usual daily activities such as getting up, getting dressed, bathing or comm ...
  • Mississippi Lawyer Drawn Into WikiLeaks Intrigue
    A civil litigation attorney in Mississippi who has lent advice to WikiLeaks on occasion has found himself embroiled in intrigue and headlines after initiating conversation with the government over the secret-spilling site. Timothy Matusheski, who specializes in litigation around False Claims Act vio ...
  • Court OKs Covert iPhone Audio Recording
    Using an iPhone to secretly record a conversation is not a violation of the Wiretap Act if done for legitmate purposes, a federal appeals court has ruled. “The defendant must have the intent to use the illicit recording to commit a tort of crime beyond the act of recording itself,” (.pdf) the 2nd U ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Iran starts to fuel up first nuclear power plant
    BUSHEHR, Iran (Reuters) - Iran began fuelling its first nuclear power plant on Saturday, a potent symbol of its growing regional sway and rejection of international sanctions designed to prevent it building a nuclear bomb.
  • Analysis: No major Haiti risk seen from Wyclef ele ...
    PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - If protests do break out in Haiti to contest Friday's decision to bar hip-hop star Wyclef Jean from running for the presidency of his earthquake-shattered homeland, they may only be short-lived.
  • Israel and Palestinians agree to direct peace talk ...
    WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel and the Palestinians accepted on Friday an invitation by the United States and other powers to restart direct talks on September 2 in a modest step toward forging a deal within 12 months to create a Palestinian state and peacefully end one of the world's most ...
  • Factbox: Haitian hip-hop star tripped up in presid ...
    (Reuters) - Haiti's provisional electoral council ruled on Friday that hip-hop star Wyclef Jean was not eligible to run as a presidential candidate in the November 28 election.
  • Chrome 6 Beta May Hint at Mythical Chrome OS Table ...
    The latest beta of Chrome 6 is out, and its menus havw been optimized for touch--complete with buttons for copying, pasting, as well as zooming in on a page. Could this be a taste of what the rumored Chrome OS tablet will be like? Maybe.

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #415
    GCHQ tech arm adopts new personnel evaluation tests. The Communications Electronics Security Group is the information assurance arm of the General Communications Headquarters –Britain’s equivalent of the National Security Agency. CESG has now adopted a new testing method of verifying … Continue read ...
  • Comment: What Can the US Do To Stop WikiLeaks?
    By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | Ever since whistleblower site WikiLeaks published 77,000 classified US military documents on the war in Afghanistan, several pundits have urged US government agencies, including the Pentagon, to take action. Late last week, former George … Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #414
    Arab nations challenge US support of Israel’s nuclear secrecy. Ignoring a US warning, Arab nations are urging Washington and other Western powers to end support of Israel’s nuclear secrecy and to push for international inspections of Israel’s nuclear program. CIA, … Continue reading →
  • Russian alleged CIA spy gives interview
    By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | Of the four Russians alleged spies that the US and the UK received from Moscow in exchange for the 11 Russian illegals in July, only one is talking to the media. The Russian government … Continue reading →
  • Strike causes rift in Israeli diplomat-spy relatio ...
    By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | Members of Israelâs striking diplomatic community say they will refuse cooperation with Israeli spies, after the latter stepped in to take over some of the striking diplomatsâ tasks. The ongoing strike by the Diplomatic … Continue reading →

After Downing Street.org

  • At the Iraq war's start,
    optimism from The Times An editorial published the day the war started in 2003 expressed confidence that the superior U.S. and British forces would bring fighting to an end quickly. August 20, 2010 After more than seven years and 4,000 lives, the final U.S. combat soldiers are on their way out of ...
  • Israeli Academic Freedom at Risk
    Israeli Academic Freedom at Risk - by Stephen Lendman Born in Haifa, the son of German-Jewish immigrants who fled during the Nazi period, noted historian Ilan Pappe left Israel in summer 2007, telling London Guardian writer Chris Arnot he began "feeling for a while like public enemy No. 1" for his a ...
  • In Controversial Mosque:
    These folks are by Far much more Faithful then the hypocritical so called christians speaking out in the extreme negative and showing just how Intolerant they are for many others. not just Muslims!! Young Muslims Pray for Understanding - Video - TIME.com 20 August 2010 - Young students and professi ...
  • "Last" Combat Brigade Out as Obama Sends 3rd Armor ...
    Falling down the rabbit hole: Media trumpets Obama's spin that the "last combat brigade" has left Iraq even as the Pentagon acknowledges to AFP that "while the remaining 50,000 troops will no longer have a formal combat mission after September 1, they will be well-armed and possibly coming under fir ...
  • The Lady Who Cried "Nigger!"
    By Linn Washington So, psycho-babble specialist Dr. Laura Schlessinger spins her shamed retreat from nationally syndicated conservative talk radio with claims that she’s collateral damage in America’s N-word War. Schlessinger sparked ire in some circles recently when she used the word “nigger” eleve ...

Grist - News

  • Mystery island, magical bikes, and 8 other green s ...
    by Randy Rieland. What a week. While scientists testifying on Capitol Hill trashed the government's estimates on how much oil lingers in the Gulf, sound-sensitive munchers everywhere trashed the new compostable Sun Chips bag because it's louder than a New York subway train. Really . But here's s ...
  • Giant underwater plume in Gulf challenges optimism
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- Experts said Thursday they have mapped a 22-mile-long underwater plume of oil that spewed from BP's ruptured Gulf of Mexico well, seeming to challenge U.S. government assertions that most of the oil has disappeared. The oily underwater cloud measured two ...
  • Scientists keep raising estimates of how much oil ...
    by Randy Rieland. We're making progress. The big question about the BP leak is no longer the lame "Where's the oil?" Now it's "How much oil is still out there?" The answer? Well, pick a number. Crude math:� Today, we have a new estimate, this one from Ian MacDonald, an oceanographer from Flori ...
  • BP well kill delayed until second week of Septembe ...
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- BP aims to permanently seal the ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well in the second week of September, a U.S. official said Thursday, as pressure concerns further delayed final "bottom kill" operations. "We should be looking somewhere in the week after Labor D ...
  • Americans don’t know jack about saving energ ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Breaking: Americans don't know squat about how to save energy. A new survey quizzed people on what steps make the biggest difference in cutting energy use and found loads of confusion. Participants greatly overrated low-impact moves like flipping off light switches and unplug ...

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Washington Independent

  • Federal Judge Upholds Maine’s Disclosure Req ...
    A federal judge, adjudicating a dispute between the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) and the Maine Ethics Commission, upheld the vast majority of the state’s reporting regulations governing political action committees, with a few important caveats. Judge D. Brock Hornby ruled that while the ...
  • Feinberg Will Begin in Mississippi
    Ken Feinberg will spend his first official day as administrator of the Gulf oil spill fund in Mississippi at three town halls meant to explain the new claims process to residents. According to Feinberg’s office: Kenneth Feinberg, Administrator of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, will hold three tow ...
  • New Poll Shows Vitter With Lead Over Melancon
    A new poll shows Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) is holding onto a comfortable lead over Rep. Charlie Melancon (D-La.) in his Senate reelection bid. According to a poll conducted by WWL-TV and other local Louisiana stations, 48 percent of voters would reelect Vitter and 36 percent would vote for Melancon. ...
  • HAMP Continues to Produce Lackluster Results
    Today, the Treasury Department revealed yet another scorecard for the Home Affordable Modification Program — the administration’s signature effort to stop the foreclosure crisis — showing dreary results. Here’s a good chart from Daniel Indiviglio at The Atlantic: The government program is starting ...
  • ACLU Investigates Sexual Abuse of Female Immigrati ...
    After a former immigration detention guard was charged yesterday with sexually abusing female detainees, the ACLU is renewing calls for further reform of the immigration detention system. The alleged abuse took place in the T. Don Hutto Residential Center, near Austin, Texas. The resident supervisor ...

Digg Green

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Truth is the Best F*** in Town.
    I don’t know what the reader knows about The Partition/Pakistan and Gandhi; not to mention the coincidental timing of two different countries in two separate places; one of them receiving most of the misery of late and the other one causing it; one of them the size of a Liberty dollar and the other ...
  • Organizers: All-woman Lebanese aid ship to set sai ...
    The organizers of a Lebanese ship aiming to break Israel’s Gaza blockade said Thursday that they plan to set sail from Lebanon on Sunday. Samar al-Hajj says the ship, the Mariam, named after the Virgin Mary, will be carrying medicine for the seaside strip. Al-Hajj said all the passengers will be wom ...
  • Climate Realism: Not to Be Denied Any Longer | The ...
    By James Delingpole Last week’s meeting of 700+ scientists, policymakers, and concerned citizens in Chicago to discuss the science and economics of global warming at the Fourth International Conference on Climate Change was a huge success as measured by the intent of its sponsors: to establish once ...
  • Leading US Physicist Labels Satellitegate Scandal ...
    By John O’Sullivan Respected American physicist, Dr Charles R. Anderson has waded into the escalating Satellitegate controversy publishing a damning analysis on his blog. In a fresh week of revelations when NOAA calls in their lawyers to handle the fallout, Anderson adds further fuel to the fire and ...
  • Iran Propaganda debunked in less than 6 minutes

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon)
    A victory for anyone who likes healthy food, soil, and water! Monsanto’s sour plans for the sweet beet were spoiled as a federal judge banned genetically modified sugar beets. This is great news and hopefully a large step forward to getting food production back on a less toxic track. Sugar beet, ...
  • Chemicals and Obesity Speeding up Puberty in Girls ...
    The news that chemicals and obesity causes premature puberty in girls is the latest of thousands of red flags waving high above our food production and consumption status quo. Of course, things are changing, but are they changing fast enough? Nope. The only thing changing quickly is the level of t ...
  • BP’s Getting All Cap-Happy (cartoon)
    If only BP would put all of this new found cap success to work to stop other toxic gushers… Follow Joe on Twitter @GreenCartoons Follow all of his green cartooning at JoeMohrToons.com. Related posts:Monsanto: They Made good WMD’s–I bet They Make Healthy Food! (cartoon) If Climate Change Was ...
  • If Climate Change Was a Dog (cartoon)
    We did know about climate change back in the 50’s, as evidenced by this Frank Capra Video on Global Warming. But even though it was a monster of a dog back then, it was still just a harmless little puppy. Today, well, it’s different. And I don’t know how much I trust the little man controlling [... ...
  • Genetically Modified Truths (cartoon)
    The biotech and agrochemical industries are KILLING us! Well, atleast they are well aware of that and are working hard to clean up their act. Oh wait, now I’m not telling the truth… More relevant info: The Killing Fields of Multi-National Corporations How Toxins Are Making Our Children Chronical ...

Inhabitat

  • Stunning Kuokkala Church Showcases Locally-Sourced ...
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  • LAST CHANCE to Dive in the NYC Dumpster Pools this ...
    HEY NEW YORK CITY! Summer is all about making a splish and a splash, so if you haven’t made it over to Park Avenue for a dip in one of Macro Sea’s infamous dumpster pools, you’d better get moving because this Saturday the 21st will be your last chance! Commissioned by the Bloomberg Administration f ...
  • MotoArt Desk is Recycled from an Airplane Fuel Tan ...
    Soar into the stratosphere without leaving your office with MotoArt’s new KC-97 Fuel Tank Cradle Desk. Made from cradles that served as supports for jet fuel tankers that kept planes in the air during the cold war, this unique, L shaped desk has a 1/2â tempered glass top and is supported by a 1â ...
  • Wallpaper’s Stylish Folding Bike is the James Bond ...
    Inhabitat loves all folding bikes, but we canât ignore that some of the designs out there are slightly maladroit – that’s why were are psyched that Wallpaper Magazine has come out with “The Internationalâ. Just like James Bond, this bike is hot, streamlined, and… folds down to fit nicely into a ...
  • “Textured” Kuma Organic Pillows Are a Comfy Optica ...
    Looking for some eco-friendly pillows that don’t look like they’re made from hemp? These sophisticated throw pillows from Areaware are just the thing! Designed by Ross Menuez and hand silk-screened on organic cotton canvas cover, they come in beautiful patterns like cedar shingle and tatami that mak ...

Pogue's Posts

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

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Newly Discovered Chlorophyll Catches Infrared Ligh ...
    A new kind of chlorophyll that catches sunlight from just beyond the red end of the visible light spectrum has been discovered. The new pigment extends the known range of light that is usable by most photosynthetic organisms. Harnessing this pigment’s power could lead to biofuel-generating algae th ...
  • This Summer’s Sexiest Images From Saturn
    << previous image | next image >> From a billion miles away, the Cassini spacecraft continues to send spectacular images of Saturn and its moons. Cassini has been flying since 1997 and arrived at Saturn in 2004 after flybys of Earth, Venus and Jupiter. Its mission w ...
  • Galactic Volcano Erupts in M87
    Volcanic eruptions can wreak as much havoc in space as on Earth, a new image of galaxy M87 reveals. The black hole at the galaxy’s center is spewing gas and energetic particles in what researchers call a “galactic super-volcano,” and suppressing the formation of hundreds of millions of new stars. T ...
  • Focusing on Dark Energy With Cosmic Lens
    Our view of dark energy, the mysterious force that is shoving the universe apart, just got a little clearer. By observing the way large clumps of mass distort their local space-time into enormous cosmological lenses, astronomers have zoomed in on a quantity that describes how dark energy works. “We ...
  • Gulf’s Depths Probably Still Clogged With Oil
    Oil released during the Deepwater Horizon disaster and suspended deep underwater appears to be breaking down more slowly than expected, suggests a new study. The greatest damage may ultimately be in the deep sea rather than the shorelines, a catastrophe in a black box. During the last two weeks of ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Mitchell Reaffirms ‘Linkage’ In Remarks on Direct ...
    Reading today’s Quartet statement on resumption of direct talks, it’s worth noting that, while Prime Minister Netanyahu was successful in avoiding a complete reiteration of the Quartet’s March statement emphasizing Israel’s settlement obligations, as President Mahmoud Abbas wanted, Abbas also got th ...
  • The Brass Goes Green
    With a major climate and energy bill on the legislative back burner for the foreseeable future, the need for new ways to move clean energy forward has only become greater. One potential ally in this is the military. Responsible for 1 percent of total U.S. consumption, the military is the largest en ...
  • Stephen Rademaker’s New START Process Whining
    Stephen Rademakerâs defensive op-ed in the Washington Post is a fairly transparent effort to shift blame for the delays in the ratification of New START to the Democrats. According to Rademaker, the failure of New START could never actually be blamed on pouting GOP Senators who refused to vote for ...
  • When National Security Overlaps with Human Securit ...
    For the second time this year, naval forces have been involved in major operations that have little to do with combat at sea. Instead, Sailors and Marines operating from dozens of warships have responded to natural disasters. Earlier this year in Haiti, traditional warships delivered food, water, a ...
  • Pakistan Unrest to Become Growing Issue for White ...
    While unpleasant economic news and the heated debate over the so-called Ground Zero mosque continue to dominate the Washington discourse, a massive human calamity 7,000 miles away appears likely to occupy an increasing amount of President Obama's energy in the weeks ahead. About four million Pakista ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Actually, I Do Kinda Blame the Me ...
    Howard Kurtz attempts to figure out the " Obama Conundrum": "Obviously, Obama would be riding higher with a 7 percent unemployment rate than the one just below double digits. But it's also clear that, for whatever combination of reasons, the Nobel Prize winner has had trouble connecting with much o ...
  • The Little Picture: Taking Another Crack at Peace.
    After months of diplomatic yeoman's work by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton -- and in particular special representative to the Middle East George J. Mitchell -- Washington appears to have successfully brokered a new round of talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Scheduled to begin Sept. 1, ...
  • A Metaphor for Friday.
    [T]he policy elite — central bankers, finance ministers, politicians who pose as defenders of fiscal virtue — are acting like the priests of some ancient cult, demanding that we engage in human sacrifices to appease the anger of invisible gods. That's Paul Krugman , kicking off a column on the stra ...
  • Don't Blame the Media
    Greg Sargen t points out that in the now-infamous Pew poll in which nearly a fifth of Americans think Barack Obama is a Muslim, 60 percent of them say they learned it from the media. So should we blame the media? No, for two reasons. The first is this: who is this "media"? When people choose that a ...
  • Bob McDonnell's Creative Accounting.
    Virginia gov. Bob McDonnell has been touting the state's $403.2 million budget surplus since it was announced earlier this summer. On Fox Business Network yesterday, he took that advocacy a bit further and offered Washington lawmakers some advice on balancing the budget: Watch the latest video at ...

Buzzflash

  • No Punishment for Deadly, Toxic Oil Spills or War ...
    JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH Last night, it was reported that scientists discovered a twenty-two mile long plume in the Gulf that poses a continuing threat to wildlife for months or years.� Truthout brought to our attention that other countries are investigating war crimes, specifically tortur ...
  • Let’s Get Ready To Rumble: Three Right-Wing Amigos ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH Earlier this week, we discussed Ann Coulter’s upcoming appearance at GOProud’s HOMOCON 2010 fiesta set for September 25 in New York City. And the phone hasn’t stopped ringing. Well, not really. But what is really … is that Ann Coulter has been getting a little bit o ...
  • Lone Holdout on Blagojevich: One Juror Thought He ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH It must be incredibly upsetting these days For the prosecutors now to accept That they lost their case because one juror Thought he was less corrupt than inept. � http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100818/ap_on_re_us/us_blagojevich_trial
  • Last of the Combat Troops Leaving Iraq? – Only in ...
    BILL NOXID FOR BUZZFLASH Watching MSNBC’s coverage of ‘the last combat troops leaving Iraq’ for 3 hours reminded of a few brutal realities that still plague this country and this planet. The first being just how far this country remains from any semblance of reality. It’s the kind of delusional deni ...
  • A Nation That Spends More Money on War Than Life i ...
    LAWRENCE S. WITTNER FOR BUZZFLASH The August 9 announcement by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates of cost-containment measures at the Defense Department should not obscure two underlying facts.� First, as he conceded, these proposed economies will not result in cutting the overall Pentagon budget, wh ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Why won't the Pentagon help WikiLeaks redact docum ...
    (updated below - Update II - Update III) When the controversy first arose over the lack of redactions in the war documents released by WikiLeaks, the website insisted that, using the New York�Times as an intermediary, it had asked the�Obama administration for help in removing names of A ...
  • Jeffrey Goldberg's fabrication on NPR
    (updated below � Update II) This is really quite strange.� Yesterday, my inbox began filling up with email telling me that Jeffrey Goldberg had gone on NPR�and, when asked about my critiques of his Atlantic article on bombing Iran, claimed I had "retracted" part of what I�had written. � ...
  • Video discussion with Gov. Howard Dean
    Howard Dean spoke to me this afternoon for roughly 20 minutes regarding his remarks on a New York City radio station yesterday concerning the proposed Islamic community center in Lower Manhattan, as well as the response he wrote , published today on Salon , to my criticisms.  During our conversation ...
  • Why I back a mosque compromise
    First of all, I am not going to back off. The reaction did surprise me because most of the negative reaction had to do with defending the constitutional rights of the builders of the center. Of course I never attacked those rights; I explicitly supported them, as the president also did this week. No ...
  • Howard Dean: "Mosque" should move
    (updated below - Update II) Certain things are disappointing and surprising even for the most hardened cynics. �Hearing Howard Dean -- the former liberal standard-bearer -- join�Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin by saying the following is definitely one of them: � ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • What’s the point of the semantic web?
    I was scanning journal tables of contents as usual this week and it occurred to me that there must be a better way to find relevant and timely research information that would be of interest to Sciencebase readers…and, of course, out pops the following title: Technically approaching the semantic web ...
  • Cleaning up emissions
    Emissions trading is an economic workaround, a fudge if you will, to reducing one’s pollution levels by buying off the emissions credits of others who are polluting less. Emissions trading (also known as cap and trade) is a market-based approach used to control pollution by providing economic incent ...
  • Drug testing, solar fullerenes, chemicalization
    These are my recent science picks, including my latest contributions to spectroscopyNOW.com Drug testing – A simple analytical approach to identifying drugs of abuse would be a boon to forensic scientists and law enforcement agencies. A collaboration between researchers in the US and Europe demonstr ...
  • Social impact of science
    The social impact of science and knowledge evolution – New research that analyses 500 years of scientific history comes to the perhaps obvious conclusion that those nations that support science and the evolution of knowledge through education, infrastructure and funding, produce stronger societies t ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • California’s Wild Steelhead Protections Upheld by ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 20, 2010 Conservation Groups The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected an attempt to strip protected status from wild steelhead trout in California’s Central Valley. A group of Central Valley irrigators had argued that ocean-going Central Valley steelhead popula ...
  • Defenders Shifts Focus to Wolf Coexistence Partner ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 20, 2010 Defenders of Wildlife Defenders of Wildlife announced today that, with the implementation by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and states of new federal legislation providing federal funds for state programs to compensate ranchers for livestock taken by wolv ...
  • Backroom Corporate Deals Won’t Protect Net Neutral ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 18, 2010 Free Press The Wall Street Journal reports that "broadband and telecommunications lobbyists restarted talks Wednesday to agree to a proposal for how Internet traffic should be managed." The talks are being held at the offices of the Information Technology I ...
  • Gulf of Mexico Still in Crisis Four Months After B ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 20, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity Today marks the end of the fourth month since BP's negligence and lack of government oversight caused the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig to explode, sending more than 200 million gallons of oil into the Gu ...
  • New Debt for Disaster for Pakistan?
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 20, 2010 Jubilee USA Jubilee USA Network, an alliance of more than 75 religious denominations, human rights groups, and development agencies, raised concern over the World Bank and Asian Development Bank’s recent announcements to provide Pakistan with a $900 million a ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Appalachia Rising: On September 27th, A Resounding ...
    by Bo Webb Goldman prize-winner and fellow Appalachian Maria Gunnoe has said: "Go to the most peaceful, beautiful place in the word that you can imagine. And then watch somebody drop a bomb on it. That's, basically, what's happening right here" - here, in Central Appalachia. The "bomb" is mountai ...
  • Pakistan: A Question of Water
    by Gwynne Dyer This may not be the most tactful time to bring it up, with much of Pakistan underwater and many millions homeless, but Pakistan's real problem is not too much water. It is too little water - and one day it could cause a war. read more
  • The Tiger Woods of Nations
    by David Michael Green We are the Tiger Woods of nations. We've been very good at a couple of things for some time now. Things like commerce and belligerence. Or, best yet, commerce backed by belligerence. Things that involve a bit of testosterone. For the better part of a century now, America ha ...
  • For Whom The Bell Tolls
    by Ralph Nader Bell, California, a working-class town of some 38,000 ten miles outside of Los Angeles, is a unique place. Its local government has proven to be citizen-proof, media proof, city-council proof and even leak-proof from inside its self-enriching top officialdom. Get this: Bell city manag ...
  • Memo to America's Middle Class: Obama Is Just Not ...
    by Arianna Huffington As we head into the stretch run of the 2010 midterms, and get closer to the halfway point of President Obama's first term, we're hearing a lot of media chatter about the "enthusiasm gap" plaguing Democrats. There is also a lot of talk about whether progressives -- aka "the ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Petraeus’ Oily Spin about Progress in Afghanistan
    By Derick Crowe With General Petraeus' stop on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric now halfway over, it's worth taking a moment to unpack the unchallenged, false assertions and implications he's piled up thus far on his media tour. We decided to look into the claims he made about "oil spots" ...
  • It's A Plan B For Afghanistan, But...
    By Steve Hynd Dan Froomkin has the news in an exclusive for HuffPo: "An ad hoc group of disillusioned foreign policy experts is offering President Obama a serious, well thought-out alternative to his current failing strategy there." The group was led by Steve Clemons and included 40 other "scholars, ...
  • The Endless Recycling Afghan War
    By Steve Hynd The Washington Post's editorial today repeats the conventional wisdom among the VSP set - a wisdom carefully calculated to conceal their own failures - that the war in Afghanistan is not a nine-year war, it's just nine one-year wars. Gen. Petraeus also made clear that for many of those ...
  • Can You Say No To Angelina Jolie?
    By Steve Hynd Over six million people are affected by the flooding in Pakistan, a humanitarian disaster bigger than Katrina, the Indonesian tsunami or Haitian earthquake. But foreign aid is lagging. With hundreds of villages marooned and highways and bridges cut in half by swollen rivers, food ratio ...
  • Liberal Hawks - Doing It Wrong
    By Steve Hynd Our own Eric Martin, writing at his home base Obsidian Wings today, has an absolute must-read post exploring America's overly militarized foreign policy in the context of "liberal inteventionism". Liberal hawks, he says, are doing it wrong: Leaving aside the issue of the massive loss o ...

Water Wars

  • Go Green, Ron Duncan: Water films still making a s ...
    Water-related films like "China Town" and "Step Into Liquid" are popular for their entertainment value, but they also can provide awareness and an oblique appreciation for water.
  • Population explosion: Part 2 of 2: Who will pay fo ...
    Some contemporary demographers have added a fourth stage to the Demographic Transition Theory (DTT). While African and numerous Asian nations continue to grow rapidly, Europe's population is projected to decline from 739 million in 2010 to about 720 million individuals in 2050. Were it not for the c ...
  • Population explosion
    Social scientists who study population dynamics (demographers) estimate that at the time of Christ there were no more than 250 million people in the world, about 57 million fewer individuals than reside in the United States today.
  • Candidates for governor back Forever Wild
    The candidates discussed environmental issues in a forum Thursday.
  • [news] Upstream Battle : Ratepayer advocates fight ...
    Water wars and rate hikes remain constants in Monterey County. It works like this: every three years, California American Water asks the state to let it raise customers costs. This time around, Cal Ams 40,000 Monterey District households face about a 35 percent increase in water rates. Then the Divi ...

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  • Is This Right?
    The Grim Sleeper in Los Angeles, who will be charged with the murder of 10 women, is a former govern
  • U.S. Heading for Currency Destruction, Debt Defaul ...
    This is an excellent interview of Doug Casey. What he says is sound. He is correct in his conclusion

Electronic Intifada

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

  • No Recess for Hill Gossip
    According to The Huffington Post, infighting, racism, name-calling, and document tampering are tearing the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee asunder: The main dispute is between a subcommittee staff director and a subcommittee clerk, with partisans of each dragged into...
  • Pentagon to Release Names of Moneyed Mentors, With ...
    USA Today recently published an update to their November 2009 investigation into retired military officers consulting for the Pentagon. At the time, the Defense Department (DoD) wouldn't release a full list of the mentors, but USA Today reporters Tom Vanden...
  • DOE Should Consider Another Renaming
    Apparently, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is going to announce a new name for the Nevada Test Site. Their reasoning—that the Site has grown out of its role as a testing facility—makes sense. However, we would propose that NNSA...
  • Morning Smoke: Administration's Oil Spill Report R ...
    Ummm, About That Disappearing Oil? by Kate Sheppard [Mother Jones] CFTC Chairman Gensler Says U.S. Regulators Won't Succumb to Bank Lobbying by Jesse Westbrook [Bloomberg] States Brace for Hedge Fund Oversight by Kara Scannell [The Wall Street Journal] New Oversight...
  • Morning Smoke: Congressmen Come to Defense of Pent ...
    Pentagon Cost-Saving Drive Comes Under Fire by Nathan Hodge [The Wall Street Journal] GSA's IG warns of risky acquisition support by Matthew Weigelt [Washington Technology] Wall Street reform gives regulators power over executive pay by Zachary Goldfarb [The Washington Post]...

Digital Journal

  • Google it: Google founders set to have movie about ...
    Even though David Fincher’s “The Social Network” is set to be released soon, Hollywood may not want to end just there on Internet tales. It was recently reported that a Google film is set to hit the silver screen.
  • Ontario contractor busted for fraud
    Police have laid fraud charges on a self-employed home improvement contractor in Ajax for taking money for a job he never completed.
  • North Korean defectors speak at human rights confe ...
    Young-Cheol Kim and Mi-ran Kim both may have completely different backgrounds but they share the same stories. At the International Conference on North Korean Human Rights, the North Korean defectors discussed their horrifying experiences and escape.
  • 2010 CNE opens in Toronto
    It's that time again, the EX! at the CNE is open for business giving Torontorians a summer adventure to go to until it's time to head back to school.
  • Rib place a sure hit at this year's CNE
    The CNE in Toronto is known for food. The Food Building is always packed. For the second year in a row Fall-Off-The-Bone has been on hand to tackle hungry crowds.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Illinois IDs for the Homeless: Free, With Paperwor ...
    It's common and frustrating problem: practically everything requires identification, but getting an ID if you're homeless and don't have one is complicated, confusing, and in some situations nearly impossible . A year ago we told you how Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed into a law an amendment wai ...
  • A Day to Raise Awareness About Homeless Animals
    Tomorrow, August 21, is the 19th annual International Homeless Animals' Day . It's not widely-observed enough to stop mail service, but it's still a nice reminder that it's not just human beings who go without homes in the country. In many ways I feel that homeless animals, if you count strays and s ...
  • Homeless Man Freed Early After 13-Year Prison Stin ...
    Hunger and addiction can drive people to take drastic, sometimes criminal, measures, to get what they need. But in some cases the punishment for those desperate measures turns out to be much more drastic than the crime committed. Such was the story with Gregory Taylor, a homeless man who in 1997 was ...
  • A Homeless Child in Every Classroom
    When I read the other day that there are almost one million homeless students enrolled in public schools in the United States, I felt like I'd been hit in the head with a flying chalkboard eraser. One million? How is that possible? The AP  did a good job of breaking down that mind-boggling number in ...
  • Homeless Killings at Highest Level in a Decade
    The homeless, some of our most vulnerable neighbors, are under attack. Heartless cowards are perpetrating more crimes against homeless individuals now than at any point in the last decade. Make no mistake — these are hate crimes. The National Coalition for the Homeless just released a damning report ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Ex-Pakistani spy chief says Afghanistan war cannot ...
    A former head of Pakistani intelligence, Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul, has stated that the conflict in Afghanistan cannot be won. Gul, whose agency worked closely with the Taliban prior to the U.S. invasion and continues to maintain ties with the organization, argued in an interview with CNN that the U.S. pre ...
  • BATTLE FOR KANDAHAR IS ON - Real News Network
    In Afghanistan, the battle for Kandahar is on. That's receiving strangely little attention in the American media—quite low-key if you compare it to other major American campaigns in Afghanistan. Joining us from England, from Essex, is Muhammad Junaid, who's a research scholar studying the Pashtun na ...
  • Ceasefire.ca ad campaign continues in the Hill Tim ...
    The Ceasefire.ca ad campaign continued this week, targeting political circles in Ottawa by running a second ad in the Hill Times. The ad calls on Prime Minister Harper to "Call off the attack on Kandahar," an Afghanistan military offensive expected at the end of the summer.
  • Ceasefire.ca launches first advertising campaign
    After overwhelming response from our members, Ceasefire.ca published the first of a series of ads asking Prime Minister Harper to call off the planned U.S. and NATO offensive against the city of Kandahar, which risks many more civilian casualties.
  • New UN Report: Afghan Civilian Deaths on the Rise
    According to a new UN report, the number of civilian casualties for the first six months of 2010 was 1,271 deaths, up from 1,013 deaths that occurred in the first six months of 2009.  (A recent Afghan human rights agency report put the total civilians killed between January and July at 1,325). The p ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Pambazuka News

  • Global: Afro-Colombian women fight prejudice by em ...
    On an improvised stage “Bombón de chocolate” (Chocolate Candy) is being performed. The play, which narrates the story of an African-Colombian girl who feels rejected because of the colour of her skin, is one of the events at a special day on drug add...
  • Global: May for the Cuban 5
    The month of May started with a great number of activities in support of the Cuban 5. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on International Workers Day in Havana and other cities. They were joined by hundreds of internationalists in de...
  • Haiti: Where solidarity means survival
    Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could include equitable distribution of resources, high levels of employment with fair...
  • 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
    Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...
  • Haiti: Private contractors 'like vultures coming t ...
    Critics are concerned that private military contractors are positioning themselves at the centre of an emerging "shock doctrine" for earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Next month, a prominent umbrella organisation for private military and logistic corporation...

War in Context

  • Pakistan flooding exposes our perverse priorities
    At Foreign Policy, Colum Lynch writes: Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi presented the U.N.’s members with a stark challenge: Help Pakistan recover from its most devastating natural disaster in modern history or run the risk of surrendering a key front in the war on terror. “This di ...
  • Pratap Chatterjee: Manhunters, Inc.
    Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com The 9/11 killers were mass assassins who gave up their own lives to murder thousands.  It’s now clear that, in response, the U.S. went into the global assassination business.  The first of its “targeted killings” in the Global War on Terror launched by t ...
  • Israeli attack on Iran not imminent
    If there was a ministry of information it would release reports like this: “US Assures Israel That Iran Threat Is Not Imminent.” But why would Washington need to create such an agency when the New York Times so gladly provides the service? In a report transparently written as a quasi-official respo ...
  • The 9/11 holocaust and the ground zero mosque
    Another way of saying “sacred” is to say “off-limits.” Something can be sanctified by placing a barrier around it constructed from rigid taboos. The most extreme among those taboos dictates not only silence but also exclusion. In such a way, for many Americans, 9/11 has been sanctified. The sacred ...
  • Defending sacred ground
    At Foreign Policy, Stephen Walt enters the fray on the Cordoba House controversy and notes that America’s founders understood that “trying to impose religious orthodoxy on the new republic was a recipe for endless strife.” The principle of religious tolerance is not a piece of clothing that one can ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Jack Horkheimer (1938-2010)
    Jack Horkheimer, Public Television’s “Star Gazer” and the director of Miami’s Space Transit Planetarium,’ died Friday, August 20th, at the age of 72. WUWT readers may fondly remember him at sign off time on PBS-TV, impishly sitting on the ring, … Continue reading →
  • Engelbeen on why he thinks the CO2 increase is man ...
    About the reliability of ice cores⦠Guest Post by Ferdinand Engelbeen There have been hundreds of reactions to part 1 about the mass balance (http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/05/why-the-co2-increase-is-man-made-part-1 ). Many respondents still are not convinced that the mass balance is a firm pr ...
  • Defenders of Mann stage protest rally at UVA
    From NBC29: Protestors, angry with the way Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has tried to make his case, rallied on grounds at the University of Virginia Friday afternoon. Only one small problem….. Turnout was smaller than expected, as just a few … Continue reading →
  • Judith Curry Q&A: RealClimate has “damaged t ...
    Dr. Curry is a lightning rod, but she does have the courage to speak her mind: Via Tom Nelson [Q] Yes, you’ve certainly been raked over pretty good by certain sites like Real Climate and Climate Progress. [Curry] Oh yes. … Continue reading →
  • Wegener Institute continues Arctic Sea Ice flyover ...
    Via press release. Is the ice in the Arctic Ocean getting thinner and thinner? Research aircraft Polar 5 measures thickness of sea ice north of Greenland Bremerhaven, 20th August 2010. The extent of the sea ice in the Arctic will … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Law of Value 5: Contradiction by Brendan M. Cooney
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ brendanmcooney | August 20, 2010 This antagonism between the use value and exchange value of labor power expresses a social antagonism between capitalists and workers. Capitalists and workers have opposing interests. Workers want their means of subsistence: hous ...
  • Tipping Points, Are We Headed Toward Theocratic Fa ...
    by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash.com August 18, 2010 Back on March 21, 2007, in a column on The Political Junkies.net, the predecessor webmagazine to TPJmagazine.us, I speculated that perhaps the primary objective of the Iraq Invasion from the be ...
  • Keiser Report №69: Shir Hever on the economics of ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RussiaToday | August 17, 2010 This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the scandals of swindled nuns, bounty hunters for small time fraud and Irish banks in a ‘league of their own.’ In the second half of the show, Max talks to economist, Shir Hev ...
  • Is Israel an Apartheid State?
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ www.therealnews.com Journalist Jonathan Cook and Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard on apartheid & Israel. Renown Nezareth-based journalist Jonathan Cook says not only is Israel’s control of the West Bank based on an apartheid system of segregation but als ...
  • Living with the Taliban on the Afghan frontline by ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Alex Thomson www.therealnews.com Channel 4 News Channel 4 News has obtained rare film of Taliban fighters on the Afghanistan frontline, including footage of their attacks on US forces. Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson looks at what the film tell ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    Okay, Here We Go Just launched the YouTube channel for FTW : The Movie In 2003, during anti-War On Iraq protests, the Australian prime minister was kidnapped by an activist and interrogated for 24 hours. The disappearance of the prime minister was officially covered up as an "unexpected visit ...
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    "Mommy! Get The Oil Off!" By Darryl Mason Fucking hell. Thousands of Americans are swimming around in this toxic shit : Morons like this guy below are telling Americans it's okay to swim, and to take their children swimming, and for people from other states to come and swim in this oily stick ...
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    "Today, I Weep For My Country" Senator Robert Byrd was called everything from a traitor to treasonous, anti-American to Saddam comfort giver for this incredible, powerful speech the night American bombs began to slam in Baghdad, back in March 2003. Senator Byrd was right, of course, about almost e ...
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    Police violence against Sydney anti-war protesters 2004 - 2007 : The song is Prisoner Of Society by The Living End.
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    If Robots Design Their Own Religion, We Should Probably Evacuate The Planet By Darryl Mason Very impressive early generation of a homecare robot, loaded with sensors and wi -fi : Not only can this robot get back up when knocked over, this story claims it as the first robot capable of recognisi ...

Wired - Science

  • Newly Discovered Chlorophyll Catches Infrared Ligh ...
    A new kind of chlorophyll that catches sunlight from just beyond the red end of the visible light spectrum has been discovered. The new pigment extends the known range of light that is usable by most photosynthetic organisms. Harnessing this pigment’s power could lead to biofuel-generating algae th ...
  • This Summer’s Sexiest Images From Saturn
    << previous image | next image >> From a billion miles away, the Cassini spacecraft continues to send spectacular images of Saturn and its moons. Cassini has been flying since 1997 and arrived at Saturn in 2004 after flybys of Earth, Venus and Jupiter. Its mission w ...
  • Galactic Volcano Erupts in M87
    Volcanic eruptions can wreak as much havoc in space as on Earth, a new image of galaxy M87 reveals. The black hole at the galaxy’s center is spewing gas and energetic particles in what researchers call a “galactic super-volcano,” and suppressing the formation of hundreds of millions of new stars. T ...
  • Focusing on Dark Energy With Cosmic Lens
    Our view of dark energy, the mysterious force that is shoving the universe apart, just got a little clearer. By observing the way large clumps of mass distort their local space-time into enormous cosmological lenses, astronomers have zoomed in on a quantity that describes how dark energy works. “We ...
  • Gulf’s Depths Probably Still Clogged With Oil
    Oil released during the Deepwater Horizon disaster and suspended deep underwater appears to be breaking down more slowly than expected, suggests a new study. The greatest damage may ultimately be in the deep sea rather than the shorelines, a catastrophe in a black box. During the last two weeks of ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Jerusalem train company asks passengers: ‘Do you m ...
    Among those surveyed ... was Ofra Ben-Artzi, a left-wing activist and the sister-in-law of Sara Netanyahu, wife of the prime minister. "I told the pollster, 'Imagine this kind of question being asked... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Descendants appeal to UN over latest Mamilla Cemet ...
    Yesterday, parties defending a 12th century Muslim burial ground in Jerusalem from disinterment and desecration provided new information on the latest demolitions by Israel’s Jerusalem Municipality... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Tel Aviv University and Sheikh Muwanis: Israel and ...
    Tel Aviv University was partially built on the lands of the Palestinian village of Sheikh Muwanis... Zochrot, an organization that encourages the Israeli state and its institutions to recognize the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Chris Hedges: Formalizing Israel’s Land Grab
    UN special rapporteur, Richard Falk: “[The Occupation] is presently a de facto annexation. The creation of a single state would give the arrangement a more legalistic cover. It would seek to resolve... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • US [popular] support for Israel is decreasing, new ...
    American support for Israel is waning, a poll presented to senior Israeli officials in Jerusalem last week revealed. [And it is even lower in western Europe.] The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA we ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

Natural Health News

  • One Million Kids in U.S. Misdiagnosed with ADHD
    Close to 1 million children in the United States have potentially been misdiagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) -- simply because they are the youngest, and therefore the most immature, in their kindergarten class. These children are significantly more likely to be prescrib ...
  • Salmonella Outbreaks Spur Nationwide Egg Recall
    Eggs are the culprit behind a U.S. salmonella outbreak that caused hundreds of illnesses each week in June and July.� A nationwide egg recall now involves more than a dozen major brands that got eggs from Wright County Egg. The CDC and state investigators found clusters of salmonella food poisoning ...
  • Tai Chi Eases Fibromyalgia
    Tai chi, an ancient Chinese practice, may be effective as a therapy for fibromyalgia, according to a new study. A clinical trial found that after 12 weeks of tai chi, patients with the chronic pain condition fibromyalgia did significantly better in measurements of pain, fatigue, physical functioni ...
  • UVB Treatment Improves Psoriasis and Vitamin D
    Treatment with narrow-band UVB rays may increase serum levels of vitamin D in the wintertime while clearing psoriasis. Psoriasis affects 1.5 percent to 3 percent of the population, and abnormalities in vitamin D metabolism may be partly responsible for the skin condition. Narrowband UVB treatment h ...
  • Media Finally Recognizes FDA has Major Problem wit ...
    The Time Magazine article linked below finally acknowledges what many have known for years -- you cannot rely on the FDA to ensure that drugs are safe. The drug industry routinely outmaneuvers FDA regulators.� Over the past two decades, as drug after drug has been recalled after winning FDA approva ...

Antemedius

  • George Orwell's Iraq
    "Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today challenged the notion that removing 'combat brigades' but leaving 50,000 U.S. troops in Iraq constitutes an end to combat operations, let alone an end to the war", a press release issued by Kucinich datelined Washington, Aug 19, 2010 and published on the Con ...
  • Are We At War With All Of Islam? Right Wingers Thi ...
    Nearly every oath of service in this nation includes the phrase “Defend and protect the Constitution of the United States of America” in some form or the other. Not having a King we needed an object of loyalty, something bigger than the individual to focus our loyalty on. It was well planned by the ...
  • Will Muslims Be Able To Rent Space In The Freedom ...
    The issue of the Park51 community center is about more than just this one religious affiliated building. It would be one thing if it were just at this one place, where there is some heartfelt if misguided feelings about the site of a national tragedy a few blocks away. Sadly this is just the most vi ...
  • With 14th Amendment And Radical Republicans Everyt ...
    In a frenzy of xenophobia the Radical Republican has been talking up the idea of changing the 14th Amendment or so-called birthright citizenship. The argument is that there are thousands and thousands of late term unauthorized immigrants coming here to have their children. The children born here are ...
  • Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, Portrait of a Sagging E ...
    Originally published at TomDispatch.com In September 1998, I was handed a submission for a proposed book by Chalmers Johnson.� I was then (as I am now) consulting editor at Metropolitan Books.� 9/11 was three years away, the Bush administration still an unimaginable nightmare, and though the prospec ...

Climategate

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks more tr ...
    ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
  • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
    What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoking g ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Report ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of global wa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

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

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Free TGIF Edition just out
    We're making TGIF available free for now...you can either click on the flash version below, or click the link below it to download the pdf: Open publication - Free publishing - More sport http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/?attachment_id=975
  • Brits to get hit with 4% income tax hike to pay fo ...
    From Benny Peiser's heads-up: Climate Taxes May Treble By 2020, Costing Taxpayers More Than £16 Billion A Year Gary Peev, Daily Mail, 17 August 2010 Taxes to pay for contentious climate change policies are set to treble over the next...
  • Amazon puts Air Con Climategate on special
    The most difficult thing about marketing titles on Amazon is breaking through the price barriers. The cheaper your book, the better it sells, but it's Amazon that decides on retail price, not the publisher. Despite my best efforts I couldn't...
  • New study: sea levels NOT rising rapidly
    The Hockey Schtick has alerted the world to new peer reviewed research showing sea levels are not rising at an accelerated level, despite what NIWA's Andy Reisinger and Massey's Ralph Sims would have the world believe: JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH,...
  • Have you read this, Nick Smith?
    Looks like the world is bailing on ETS schemes faster than Nick Smith can say "sustainable". This from Terence Corcoran in The Financial Post: From Washington to Cancun to British Columbia, the climate issue is heading for the deep freeze....

The World We Live In

  • Domain Name Being Changed
    Some of your might have noticed that i have not been posting for a while. It was mostly out of frustration, you see when i started this site, I figured i would use it as a space to publish information, that i felt needed more attention in our life’s. New, views or even just facts [...]
  • One Facebook, Two Faces: A Piece By A Virtually De ...
    I had been banned from Facebook and my account had been disabled a night before Facebook was banned in Pakistan. Before all this happened, I visited the blasphemous page “Draw Muhammad Day” and the content on the page hurt me badly. Once again a certain group of westerners called it the “freedom of ...
  • New Chemical Element Discovered In Pakistan
    Pakistani researchers have discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, so far only discovered and found in Pakistan , has been named Zardarium (Symbol = Zm). It has one Presitron, 1 Priministron, 77 Ministrons, 98 deputy Ministrons, 298 National Assemblions, and 100 Senatr ...
  • At least we are not Dubai
    We haven’t got a lot to be thankful for these days in Pakistan. But at least we are not Dubai. Fed up with loadshedding, bombs, and TV cynicism pervading Pakistan, I recently escaped to Dubai for a holiday. Big mistake. Huge. Ten days later I returned, gasping for Karachi’s polluted, but far sweete ...
  • 9/11 Hijackers Not on Flight Manifests?
    The claim that no Arab names appeared on the flight manifests for the planes hijacked on the morning of September 11, 2001 arose shortly after the terrorist attacks, and variations on the theme have persisted to this day. The claim initially arose when lists of passengers published by CNN, The Guar ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • African Diaspora Report : 08.06.2010
    Police say serial killer stalking African-American men in Flint Five African-Americans killed in knife attacks; 7 other assaults appear to be linked Doug Guthrie and Micki Steele / The Detroit News Flint Police are searching for a man they believe has slain five and attacked seven slightly built or ...
  • A Review of Widdowson and Howard’s, Disrobing the ...
    Redressing Racist Academics, Or, Put Your Clothes Back On, Please!: A Review of Widdowson and Howard’s, Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry « The Speed of Dreams Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation From the excited, glowing reviews of Disrobing the ...
  • Agency, Initiative, and Obstacles to Health Among ...
    Agency, Initiative, and Obstacles to Health Among Indigenous Immigrant Women From Oaxaca, Mexico — Home Health Care Management Practice : "Multi-ethnic, indigenous Mexican immigrants from Oaxaca, the poorest state in Mexico, have engaged in transnational migration to the United States in increasing ...
  • Training for black failure
    ABC The Drum Unleashed - Training for black failure We're neck-deep in a federal election campaign and so far, both major parties have adopted a strategy spin doctors like to call 'Don't mention the A-word'. I'm not suggesting that's a bad thing. Generally speaking, when Aboriginal issues come up a ...
  • The Jew and the shiksa - Israel Opinion, Ynetnews
    The Jew and the shiksa - Israel Opinion, Ynetnews : "Quite a few Israelis (as well as Americans) felt a slight sense of unease this past week in the face of photographs of America’s new young couple, Chelsea and Marc, at their interfaith marriage ceremony. More accurately, they felt uneasy seeing th ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Government to overhaul bioterror and pandemic flu ...
    ShareThis Government to overhaul bioterror and pandemic flu plans 20 Aug 2010 Acknowledging that the development of medical countermeasures against bioterrorism threats and pandemic flu is lagging, federal authorities Thursday announced a $1.9-billion makeover of the system for identifying and manuf ...
  • Black bears guard marijuana fields
    ShareThis Black bears guard marijuana fields --It is unclear if they used the bears to guard the pot fields or just liked having them as pets . 19 Aug 2010 Police raiding two marijuana fields near the US-Canadian border found more than a dozen black bears wandering around the crops. The fields of ab ...
  • CIA forms new center to combat nukes, WMDs
    ShareThis CIA forms new center to combat nukes, WMDs --The center would formalize the collaboration between the agency's analysts and operators 18 Aug 2010 The CIA is opening a counterproliferation center to combat the spread of dangerous weapons and technology, a move that comes as Iran is on the v ...
  • U.S. still holds detainee Pentagon wanted freed in ...
    ShareThis U.S. still holds detainee Pentagon wanted freed in 2004 --Latif is the 38th Guantanamo captive to be found by a federal judge to be illegally detained at the remote U.S. Navy base . 17 Aug 2010 An emotionally ill detainee still being held at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cub ...
  • Iran protests to UN over US war plan
    ShareThis Iran protests to UN over US war plan --Iran complains to UN officials about US threats of military attack on the country over its nuclear program, vowing a response to any such strike . 19 Aug 2010 In letters to the heads of the UN Security Council (UNSC) and the General Assembly that circ ...

Daily Loaf

  • Pat Donovan’s Deep Fried Sports: Rays fall back, C ...
    Pat Donovan talks about the Rays loss to the Oakland A's and why it's not that surprising to him. Also hear why Pat doesn't feel bad for Roger Clemens for being indicted on charges that he lied to congress. Pat also talks about Tomorrow night's blacked out Buccaneer game against the Kansas City Chi ...
  • Showing some love for legumes: A trio of bean dips ...
    Here are three very different, delicious bean dips to try the next time you've got the munchies.
  • Irreverent View exclusive: Ethics complaint filed ...
    Tampa attorney and local Republican Paul Phillips has filed a wide-ranging ethics complaint against eighteen-year incumbent Hillsborough County Commissioner Jim Norman who is currently seeking a seat in the Florida Senate. Norman is term limited from seeking the county commission job again. He face ...
  • Hillsborough Congressional candidates use debate t ...
    Perhaps most controversially, the two Republicans who had just recently finished their military service, Prendergast and Bentyn, said that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in 2003 when the U.S. went to war.
  • Nudity News: Erykah Badu fined for stripping, an a ...
    Pants-less man found in a halter-top belly down making "girl noises" while gripping a 12-inch sex toy... "Hey, get this car off of me," says the naked drunk man under your car...One woman wins a fist fight by stripping... if you're going to drink and motorcycle naked, do it in Canada...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Nation of Misguided Teenagers
    by Eitan Isaacson, crossposted at his Monotonous.org blog. “I still don’t understand what I did wrong. Seriously, I don’t understand!” Eden said during a morning radio interview after pictures of her posing next to blindfolded Palestinian detainees were found on her Facebook page. Of course she ...
  • Massacre, with a smile
    A few days ago we learned about Eden Aberjil, an Israeli woman who posted pictures on her Facebook account of her abusing bound Palestinian prisoners at the time of her military service. The picture is captioned ‘Army service, the most wonderful time of my life!’ The controversy reached the New York ...
  • Two laws for two people in the same Place: Intervi ...
    By Jesse Bacon Interview with Fathy Khdirat,  organizer for Jordan Valley Solidarity. I have just finished reading Grapes of Wrath, this group definitely reminded me of the spirit of Tom Joad. Part I: All his life under occupation, personal and family stories. Part II: A government-made water sh ...
  • Israel continues efforts to destroy Palestinian vi ...
    From Jordan Valley Solidarity: Al Farisiya to be razed again In the morning of Sunday 15th August 2010, the Israeli Civil Administration came to Al Farisiya yet again, with two warning documents stating that people have to leave this so-called ”closed area”. The two documents don’t state wh ...
  • Palestinian on Hunger Strike in Berlin for Family ...
    From the Palestinian rights group Al Haq. (Ed’s note: As many of us celebrate the ruling supporting marriage equality in the case of California, it bears remembering how Palestinians still face discrimination based on who they choose to wed.) 12 August 2010 As a Palestinian NGO committed to the pr ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Recession hammers Vegas
    DJ details the current economic carnage there. Among other calamities, Vegas has the highest unemployment and foreclosure rates in the country. It’s hard to see how the city can dig its way out of this one.
  • A biggie Bank Failure Friday
    Eight banks were seized by the FDIC today.
  • I hope my competition turns on all Facebook privac ...
    Robert Scoble, uber-tech blogger and geek, has always maintained a completely public profile on the Net, including home address and phone number. He continues this with the new Facebook Places, and hopes the competition locks themselves down totally – while he gains new friends and contacts by being ...
  • Forget the Generals, Americans are committed to En ...
    The propaganda tour has failed - 6 in 10 Americans want an end to the war in Afghanistan. Will Obama stick to his timeline, or will congress be forced to take drastic measures?
  • Canadian marijuana growers use bears as guards
    They apparently fed the bears to keep them around the house and grow operation. But this might not have worked after all, because the bears were quite docile and just wanted to play, police said.

Coteret

  • Hudson Inst primary financial backer of NGO behind ...
    Shira Beery provided significant research for this post. —– Newly uncovered documentation reveals that The Hudson Institute, an influential and activist neoconservative think-tank, has provided nearly $500,000 to the Institute for Zionist Strategies (IZS), an Israeli NGO at the forefront of an ongo ...
  • Israeli Ambassador not invited to Erdogan’s ...
    Israel’s Ambassador to Turkey is not invited to the Erdogan’s Iftar for the diplomatic community and Israeli [Foreign Ministry sources are] shocked at this immature behavior: Jerusalem was angered by the fact that the ambassador was not invited to the dinner. âTurkey is again causing relations to ...
  • Knesset outsources US campus public diplomacy to m ...
    An article in this morning’s Yediot (full translated text at the bottom of this post) reports that that a bi-partisan group of MKs has partnered with a Christian Zionist organization to recruit evangelical students to represent Israel on US campuses: MKs who are members of the lobby to promote rel ...
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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 ...

Deadline Live

  • Republicans Should Embrace an Anti War Philosophy
    I heard a great idea the other day. It was proffered by Stefan Molyneux. We should hold a referendum and find out who favors wars of aggression and foreign occupation and who doesn’t. Those in favor of such things should have to pay for them. Those against said wars should receive a tax refund for [ ...
  • Montreal police could face G20 lawsuit
    MONTREAL – Montreal civil rights lawyer Julius Grey has called the treatment of G20 prisoners in Toronto “torture” and sent a warning letter to the Montreal Police Service with the intent to sue the force for collaborating in a “flagrant abuse of power.” As those charged with crimes at the summit pr ...
  • WARNING: Feds admit NO testing for MOST TOXIC bioa ...
    Gulf Oil Spill and Seafood Safety Government Panel, House Committee Energy & Commerce, Energy and Environment, August 19, 2010: Donald Kraemer, Acting Deputy Director Food and Drug Administration, Food Safety. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d14999').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{dur ...
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  • Hired guns prove trouble for Karzai
    Afghanistan’s private security industry employs more than 30,00 people [GALLO/GETTY] Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has issued a decreethat may put an end to the enormous and lucrative business of providing private security in his war-torn country. According to Karzai’s decree, the government w ...

The Air Vent

  • Three Views on a Mosque
    We all keep reading about the ground zero hundred million dollar mosque.  The news writes what they allege are the mainstream views on the subject. 1 – From the perspective of Americans, it’s an issue with freedom of religion vs an issue of sensitivity to the heinous murder of thousands of people b ...
  • SNR Estimates of M08 Temperature Proxy Data
    Reposted at Climate Audit. Occasionally when working on one thing long enough, you discover something unexpected that allows you to take a step forward in understanding.  At the ICCC conference, I met Steve McIntyre and took time to ask him how come Mann07 “Robustness of proxy-based climate field r ...
  • MW10 – Some thoughts
    Most of you probably were wondering if I would comment on this recent paper/book.  AOAS1001-014R2A0 A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE TEMPERATURE PROXIES: ARE RECONSTRUCTIONS OF SURFACE TEMPERATURES OVER THE LAST 1000 YEARS RELIABLE? BY BLAKELEY B. MCSHANE∗ AND ABRAHAM J. WYNER† In my opinion it is ...
  • Molecular Radiation and Collisional Lifetime
    DeWitt Payne has kindly completed a nice post explaining how re-absorption of photons emitted by CO2 or other molecules doesn’t appreciably affect the ratio of energy transfer in the atmosphere due to IR emission vs absorption (or molecular collision).  It’s another commonly debated topic often imp ...
  • Mann 07 Part 4 – Actual Proxy Autocorrelatio ...
    I hope this is the last post for a while on Mann07 variance loss.  The difference between this post and my originals is simply the use of pseudoproxies  created from models plus noise rather than just using a single straight line.  Mann provided 100 pseudoproxy curves on his website from his 07 work ...

Focal Point

  • Why Did SEIU Give $100,000 to the Republican Gover ...
    By now you've probably heard about Fox News' parent corporation giving a million dollars to the Republican Governors Association. Noteworthy, but not necessarily surprising. While leafing through the RGA's IRS filings for Working In These Times , I discovered something out of the ordinary: The Serv ...
  • Hal Turner Diaries: Radio Host Guilt of Threatenin ...
    A jury in Brooklyn found right wing radio talk show host and blogger Hal Turner guilty of threatening to murder three federal judges, Friday: "Turner was arrested and charged in June 2009 for writing Internet postings that month that proclaimed “outrage” over a handgun decision by Chief Judge F ...
  • "Cathy" was not a Feminist Trailblazer
    Is Mary Beth Williams playing madlibs with "...feminist trailblazer"? That would explain her post entitled "Goodbye Cathy, feminist trailblazer" . The "Cathy" in question is Cathy Guisewite's syndicated strip about a desperate, sad sack single woman named Cathy. Guisewite announced last week that sh ...
  • Plagiarism is a Big Moral Deal
    Stanley Fish argues that plagiarism is not a "big moral deal" because the taboo against passing off someone else's work as your own is just an arbitrary disciplinary convention. Fish asserts that "the rule that you not use words that were first uttered or written by another without due attribution ...
  • Ross Douthat's Aesthetic Case Against Gay Marriage
    Conservative columnist Ross Douthat opposes gay marriage because he cares more about his aesthetic ideals than he does about equality. In his latest New York Times op/ed Douthat rejects all the usual rationalizations for giving more rights to straight couples. Some conservatives argue only opposite ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Roundup: Apple, Places, Hot Potato Acquis ...
    Apple, Facebook ‘BFFs’ - This week “The Facebook Effect” author David Kirkpatrick gave an interview to Chris Hill in which he asserts that because the Facebook app is the most widely used across Apple’s products, and that Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Apple’s Steve Jobs have been spending some qual ...
  • RIM Updates Facebook For Blackberry App With Confu ...
    Research In Motion released a new version of its Facebook for Blackberry mobile application yesterday. The app includes improvements to news feed and photo loading, but doesnât include support for Facebookâs new Places feature. Reviews of the app have generally been negative, with strong critici ...
  • Marketplace For Facebook and Oodle iPhone App Laun ...
    Yesterday, Oodle released an iPhone app interface that connects users to Oodle Marketplace, as well as the Oodle-powered Facebook Marketplace. Called âMarketplace for Oodle & Facebookâ, the app lets users quickly make âfor saleâ, âwantedâ, and “free” posts; view listings by friends and f ...
  • How Marketers and Businesses Can Start Using Faceb ...
    Facebook has started making Places, its long-speculated location service, available to users. And while it is only available to users in the US, expect it to make a big impact with Facebook’s 500 million people worldwide as it rolls out to more users and devices around the world – Places is going to ...
  • Chinese, Arabic, Spanish Language Apps in This Wee ...
    This week’s list of top emerging apps on the Facebook Platform from AppData features three non-English apps in the top five, as well as a nice variety of games, utilities, and other apps in the top 20. Here’s the latest list of emerging Facebook apps, after a brief hiatus due to a Facebook stats bug ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Zionists in bid to subvert Wikipedia
    Gilad Atzmon views the latest attempts by Israelis, Zionists and “anti-Zionist” pretenders to sabotage the free encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
  • The secrets in Israel’s archives: evidence of ethn ...
    Jonathan Cook reports that secrets of serious war crimes, such as the ethnic cleansing of the Syrian Golan Heights following the 1967 war, lay behind the Israeli government’s decision to extend from 50 to70 years the period during which sensitive state documents must remain classified.
  • Who is the Israeli state loyal to?
    Neve Gordon argues that the demand of a loyalty oath in Israel has ominous similarities to the demands made by Mussolini's Italy, and that the Israeli state must “be loyal to all of its citizens, regardless of race, colour, gender, language, religion, political opinions, national or social origin, p ...
  • BBC’s gift to Israel: a distorted documentary abou ...
    Kenneth O’Keefe, who witnessed the Israeli assault on the Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship, the Mavi Marmara, highlights the prejudices, distortions and lies of the BBC, whose Panorama programme on 15 August propagated the Israeli line regarding the assault on the aid ship and murder of nine peace activi ...
  • Hamas must rebrand and take the wind out of Israel ...
    Stuart Littlewood calls on Hamas – indeed, on all Palestinians – to hone their long-neglected public relations strategy, arguing that “whoever rules in Palestine will never win any battles with Israel or the US without a proper media set-up and an effective communications strategy”.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Podcast Show #31
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Ray McGovern Ray McGovern shares with us his analysis of the recent article published in the Atlantic written by the infamous American-Israeli writer Jeffrey Goldberg on Israel’s case for bombing Iran and the reasons why the United States should join in. He talks about t ...
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  • Podcast Show #30
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Carlos Miller Carlos Miller provides us with an overview of the history, purpose and mission of his award-winning website Photography is Not a Crime. He talks about First Amendment violations against photographers throughout the country, which occur on a shockingly regul ...
  • Is WikiLeaks the antidote to the Washington K Stre ...
    The acid test for Washington’s beltway experts Since the end of the cold war, the U.S. had been looking for an enemy to match the Soviet Union and came up empty handed until 9/11. Refocusing the efforts of the world’s largest and most expensive military empire on Al Qaeda would provide the incentive ...

Afro Spear

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  • 3 Things About Islam You Didn’t Know
    Someone sent me this. A further perspective on Islam:
  • Happy Birthday Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr.
    Jamaican National Hero, Black Nationalist, Pan-Africanist, founder of Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL), as well as a major influence and inspiration to many of our African, African-American and Caribbean leaders and intellectuals, Marcus Mosiah Garvey ...
  • A Move Towards Religious Tolerance
    This post was inspired by this article by brotherpeacemaker: “In The Name Of Freedom Build The Mosque”  In regards to the controversy surrounding the building of a mosque and cultural center two blocks away from the site of Ground Zero, America has a golden opportunity to lead in the march towards ...
  • Lucky Dube South Africa’s Reggae Legend
    I was properly introduced to the great South African Reggae legend Lucky Dube by my husband BNO.  I had heard of Lucky for many years, but had just not gotten my hands on any of his music in all those years.  I regret now that I didn’t because his music is some of the most beautiful [...]

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

  • Pat Michaels Lets His Funding Veil Slip
    After umpteen years denying the (civilized) human influence on climate change, and in parallel denying he was influenced financially or otherwise by fossil fuel interests, uber-denier Pat Michaels let slip some of the source of his funding – and by implication, some of the source of his climate chan ...
  • Greenwashing In The BBC [Guest Article]
    Greenwashing has a habit of making it into every facet of our society, not just from the obvious sources such as the PR offices of polluting corporations, but also for example from major charities and in the media. A recent example I came across is a blog post from last October by the BBC’s [...]
  • Monthly Undermining Task, August 2010: Crash The M ...
    They (350.org) refuse to countenance the idea that industrial civilization is the problem – every action leads to the Senate, even requests to non-US “members” lead to the Senate. They are like a stuck record – a really dated record, like Alice Cooper trying to down with the kids when he spends mos ...
  • Can a Shopping Voucher Skew Survey Results?
    A couple of weeks ago I – or rather our house – received a letter from an organisation called the National Centre for Social Research, inviting us to take part in an annual survey called British Social Attitudes. I like filling in surveys when I have time because it lets me think more about what [. ...
  • Hello Green Tomorrow: Avon Conveniently Forget The ...
    Sitting in my inbox for four months, one would expect a story to go stale, but despite coming at a particularly hectic time of my life, and being revisited just this morning, it seems that some stories are destined to keep going simply because the parties involved are in such deep denial. One such ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
    Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constructi ...
  • Wealthy Far More Likely To Default On Mortgages
    crossposted at Political Correction For much of the past two years, Congressional Republicans have wasted few opportunities to blame poor and working class Americans for the financial meltdown and the subsequent recession. They’ve argued that through well-intentioned government initiatives, includ ...
  • GOP House Candidate: Mosque Near Ground Zero Is A ...
    Conservative activists and the Muslim-baiters among them are furious about a proposed Islamic community center to be built near Ground Zero.  The debate has become entirely unhinged and some of the more hateful folks are using the controversy as a rallying cry to oppose the construction of all futur ...
  • Ex-Muslim Ergun Caner Is A Fraud
    Ergun Caner is one of the most prominent figures in the evangelical movement. He is also one of the most deceptive. A self-professed Muslim convert to Christianity, Caner plays an important, and arguably dangerous, role in the community. After the 9/11 attacks, when many Americans were searching for ...
  • Aliou Kumbaya
    My brother Aliou Niasse has saved the day.  He was the first to spot smoke coming out of the Nissan Pathfinder that Faisal Shahzad intended to detonate in crowded Times Square. Thankfully, the incompetence of Shahzab and the alertness of Niasse and two other gentlemen, both of whom are Vietnam War v ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • NowSpots: Working to Make Local Web Ads That Work
    NowSpots are beautiful online ads that feature the latest social media updates from advertisers, and make it easy for a reader to follow and share their content across the web. For the last year at WindyCitizen.com , a social network for Chicago news aficionados and urban explorers, we've been s ...
  • Programmer-Journalists Apply Talents to News21 Mul ...
    Manya Gupta and Andrew Paley are the first Knight "programmer-journalist" scholarship winners to participate in the News21 multimedia reporting project, an initiative in its fifth year that engages some of the nation's top journalism master's students. The Northwestern University team that Manya an ...
  • Front Porch Forum: Connecting Strangers in the Nei ...
    Mention the Internet, and most people think of the World Wide Web, of reaching out across the globe for news, long-lost friends, or low-price bargains. But in dozens of Vermont towns, residents are using the web to connect with their back-fence neighbors. In an era where national and global informat ...
  • TileMill: Custom Maps to Help with Data Dumps, Hyp ...
    TileMill is an open source toolkit that helps you create beautiful custom maps in the cloud, built by Development Seed . We recently won a Knight News Challenge award (a.k.a. “Tilemapping” ) to help us release a new version of TileMill that will make it even easier for people to design highly custom ...
  • DocumentCloud Helps Arizona Paper with Annotated I ...
    We opened the DocumentCloud floodgates less than six months ago and we're still working hard to make DocumentCloud a better tool. We're rolling out improvements at a healthy clip including SSL support , better documentation , and support for cross-newsroom collaboration . We continue to listen to fe ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Nuclear Edge - What Would Happen in an All-Out ...
    On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and on August 9, 1945, dropped another on Nagasaki. Since then, neither the United States nor any other nation has ever used nuclear weapons in anger. The threat of nuclear war, however, has been omnipresent, and many scholars, ...
  • Mendoza Against the Deaf - Mendoza Eugenics Bill C ...
    California bill AB 2072, sponsored by Assemblymember Tony Mendoza will be on the Senate floor for a vote this week with amendments which will create legal and ethical issues.�The Deaf community which uses American Sign Language believes that this bill is bad public policy designed to enrich special ...
  • Mendoza Eugenics AB2072 Goes to the Senate and Mus ...
    AB2072 was taken off "suspense" in the Appropriations Committee, and it will go to the Senate floor for a vote this week. The public everywhere should rally to influence California Senators to oppose AB2072, also known as Mendoza Eugenics for its intent to subtly wipe away the Deaf Culture. There ar ...
  • Mendoza Eugenics in AB2072 Continues As Deaf Peopl ...
    As many are aware, California State Assemblymember Tony Mendoza suddenly and without notice submitted 16 amendments to�the Appropriations Committee and controversial AB2072 bill passed.This bill which promotes cochlear implants is commonly�referred to�as "Mendoza Eugenics" because it is designed as ...
  • The Armenian Genocide - Armenian Genocide by Turks ...
    On August 12, 2010, the United States Court of Appeals First Circuit affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of the Griswold vs. Driscoll case. The case involved an attempt to include a listing of websites arguing against the Turkish genocide of Armenians in a listing of websites documenting the genocide ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Iceland Set To Become A Press Freedom Haven
    By RTE News On 16 June a unanimous parliament voted in favour of the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, a resolution aimed at protecting investigative journalists and their sources
  • Criminal Neglect Of Future Generations
    By Dr. Brian Moench Its one thing to turn your back on the suffering of the masses half way across the world and rationalize that it is not your problem. But to listen to the scientists warnings of the risk we are subjecting our own children and grandchildren to and proudly dismiss even the possib ...
  • Dont Call It Combat: US Troops Still Fighting Iraq ...
    By Jason Ditz Even Claim That Last Official Combat Troops Left Yesterday Wasnt True
  • Protests Spread In Kashmir, Death Toll Rises To 62
    By Sheikh Imran Bashir The fresh tension erupted in Kashmir valley after the death of two civilians. One man was killed in firing in Anantnag district today and a teenager was killed in Sopore last night
  • India To Gaza Peace Convoy Announced
    By India Palestine Peoples Solidarity Forum This convoy will leave from New Delhi mid-September and will travel across Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and ultimately through the Rafah Crossing into Gaza-Palestine. The Asian convoy will be joined by delegations and vehicles in ...

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

  • Aug 23, 1929, The Arabs Massacred the Jews Of Hebr ...
    As Iran moves closer to producing nuclear weapons many people are wondering if Israel will attack the Iranian nukes and what/if any role will the United States have. If Israel decides to preemptively strike the Iranian weapons program, they will not be holding their breath waiting to see if the US ...
  • Direct Talk About Direct (Israel-Palestinian) Talk ...
    By Barry Rubin The big story of the moment is the announcement that there will soon be direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). Perhaps, but for the moment Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has merely issued of an invitation to come and talk. Generally, s ...
  • Hypocritical Al Sharpton Doesn't Know the First Th ...
    Al Sharpton is a professional bigot. During his long career the Reverend has incited two anti-Semitic pogroms , the Crown Heights riot and the firebombing of the Jewish-owned Freddy'a Fashion Mart in Harlem the one in Crown Heights the other in Harlem. Each of the Sharpton-incited pogroms resulte ...
  • Must Watch Video: Iranian Minister of Destruction ...
    Depending on who you believe, Iran will have an atomic bomb six months from now or a year from now. For those who think that Israel is the only target, you are very wrong. The United States is a target, so is Europe and the "moderate" Arab nations, because their objective is a worldwide Islamic Cali ...
  • Pew Poll: Democrats Are Losing Jews And Catholics
    Pew released their annual poll on Religion and Politics.� Most of the focus has been on one set of questions surrounding President Obama's religion. The banner headline in the press is the 18% of voters believe that the President is a Muslim.� While that has been grabbing the headlines, there are re ...

The Real Agenda

  • Take Sunlight to Cure Psoriasis
    Comprising the "tanning rays" from the sun that are blocked by sunscreen and long feared for supposedly causing wrinkles and "age spots", UV-B light, it turns out, actually promotes health by increasing levels of vitamin D.
  • Oligarchy gets stronger with 3 Trillion Handout to ...
    Running the best of the mafia style repertoire, the bankers who caused the crisis, are now collecting the fruit of a deregulated world. Not only do more companies fall on their hands, but also more countries. The typical triple crown model of order out of chaos; problem, reaction, solution and con ...
  • Bombshell Barack: The Son of the CIA
    Wayne Madsen Report WMR has discovered CIA files that document the agency’s connections to institutions and individuals figuring prominently in the lives of Barack Obama and his mother, father, grandmother, and stepfather. President Obama’s own work in 1983 for Business International Corporation, a ...
  • The People of the World Reject Genetic Pollution
    The French vineyard is the same field attacked last year when the plants were only cut. But the security features installed after that incident kept authorities at bay while the group accomplished its mission yesterday.
  • U.S. FEDS Threaten Sheriff Arpaio for Enforcing Im ...
    By Jerry Markon and Stephanie McCrummen A federal investigation of a controversial Arizona sheriff known for tough immigration enforcement has intensified in recent days, escalating the conflict between the Obama administration and officials in the border state. Justice Department officials in Washi ...

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

  • Wikileaks founder charged with rape
    Where the CIA cannot yet use predator drones, it retains character assassins. Sweden’s authorities confirm that accusations of rape and molestation made against Julian Assange in the Swedish tabloid Expressen will require the Wikileaks founder to report to police.
  • Outrage in the Heartland over
    Jonah cut/n/pasting an entire satiric “news” story Plans to build a state-of-the-art library next to Republican catastrophe Sarah Palin are causing outrage across mainstream America. Image Almost 40% of Americans still support the idea of books Campaigners have described the project as insensitive a ...
  • Dr Laura quitting in order to take higher paying j ...
    “Professional Victim”. Now all she and her accomplices like local Heroin (she’s a Dope) Michelle Malkin have to do is scream that they’re Demonized by the Right Wing “liberal” MSM because the liberal MSM didn’t do a good enough job of suppressing the controversy over Ms Laura’s constant racial and r ...
  • News sources, MSM and the mouths of horses…
    See, we constantly get told, on this site and any other site that opposes the wars and the occupations and such, that we’re listening to the “Liberal Mainstream Media”. Huh? The most frequently criticized “Liberal” media are as rabid a War-mongering Mob as Fox, they’re just more polite about it. Som ...
  • Job Openings for Sadistic Perverts, in CIA Torture ...
    The youngest prisoner at Guantanamo was arrested when he was 15, for defending his home. Remember that propaganda film “Red Dawn” where a heroic group of Boy Scouts form a resistance movement against the Communist Invaders? Yeah. Only the roles are reversed, the kids who were propagandized by that b ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Mr. Deets Shows Curley is the Clown
    Mr. Deeds Goes to Town was a comedy, and in his post " Mr Deets Goes To Town " Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog makes the case that former NASA aerospace research engineer Dwain Deets ' new site called 7 Problems with Building 7 is a comedic show as well. Pat states: "It's about as bad as ...
  • WTC 7: Sound Evidence for Explosions
    This blog has debunked the talking point that the sound levels on 9/11 were not consistent with the use of explosives here , here , here , and here . Physicist David Chandler recently weighed in on the issue with the following video. I hope it will be the straw that breaks the camel's back for this ...
  • Dogs Can't Smell Lazers and Eric Lawyer Has Not Be ...
    In a recent post purporting to debunk Eric Lawyer of FireFightersFor911Truth.org , Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog first quotes a JREFer who notes that: "NFPA is not a law enforcement agency, and makes no laws." Correct, but Lawyer doesn't claim otherwise. Next up, Pat quotes a person ...
  • Debunking Joseph Nobles: Thermal Conductivity and ...
    Joseph Nobles' newest additions to his site-- FEMA Steel and Wick The Heat Away -- attempt to address some of the issues of how the steel in the WTC was affected by heat. As we will see, Mr. Nobles' assertions are, once again , either false or misleading. Wick The Heat Away One of the primary faul ...
  • WTC 1 - The Obvious Case Against the Collapse/Crus ...
    By Anders Björkman (M.Sc) Just drop Anything on Something Start with a solid rubber ball, mass m (kg) and drop it on the floor from height h = 3.7 meters height = the height that WTC1 upper part is assumed to drop. The ball free falls with acceleration g (9.81 m/s²) due to gravity, makes contact w ...

Fooducate

  • Food at the Beach
    A short blog post today – heading out to the beach with the kids for some fun in the sun before the school year begins. Kids get very hungry swimming and building sandcastles, but the sand and the heat make it a challenge to keep everyone fed and hydrated while maintaining at least some semblence o ...
  • Egg Beaters and Cholesterol Confusion
    One of the problems with nutrition science is that it changes every once in a while when new research come in, but it takes the public a long time to readjust its mindset. The result is mass confusion regarding what’s truly healthy. Eggs were historically considered a nutrient rich food that were a ...
  • Dieting Trumps Sex, Career, and TV. Really?
    Americans are struggling with their weight, we all know that. A recent survey by Kelton Research on behalf of Nutrisystem reveals some interesting numbers and facts. The phone survey took place between April 10 and April 21, 2010 among 1,001 adults age 18 and over. Feeling fat. Nearly a third of ...
  • Sara Lee Bread Loses High Fructose Corn Syrup. So ...
    Behemoth food processor Sara Lee announced yesterday that it will cease using high fructose corn syrup in its Soft & Smooth and 100 percent Whole Wheat bread lines. The reason – consumers, especially moms, have asked the company to make this change. But will this change make the bread any healthier? ...
  • Kashi “Natural” Cereals Examined
    Kashi is a high end food brand, with an impressive number of cereals in its lineup. It was founded in 1984 in Southern California and acquired by Kellogg’s in 2000. The company advertises their products as “natural”, containing a blend of seven whole grains and sesame. There is a strong emphasis on ...

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

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • Upcycling advice: how can I reuse/recycle cans to ...
    We’ve had an email from Pauline: I would like to use steel and aluminium cans to make jewelery. Do you know how to cut the metal out? Should the can be crushed first? Do you know how to smooth the edges so they don’t cut? If you could throw any light on this or point [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle paint roller trays?
    Is there a word for when you’re window-shopping skips? I was skip-gazing (?) around the corner the other day and as well as having a mighty fine looking pallet in there (yoiiiiink), there were several old paint roller trays flung on top. Compared to rollers, paint trays are super easy to clean (espe ...
  • How do you make sure you use the last bit of every ...
    This is cross-posted to my new frugal/growing/making/cooking blog, The Really Good Life. I’ve reached the end … of my shampoo bottle and our mayonnaise jar. And it made me wonder… Every vaguely-frugal/green family has their own tricks for getting those last bits of gloop, sauce, oil or whatever out ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle walnut shells?
    Echoing the pistachio shells that started this site, I was thinking about walnut shells recently. It’s advised not to compost walnuts/walnut shells because the trees contain a chemical called juglone, which is toxic to some trees, plants and vegetables (especially members of the Solanaceae family – ...
  • How can I find the perfect – green – k ...
    (First, sorry for the lack of posts for the last two days – it was my birthday on Tuesday and so I’ve had two days off. Back to the grindstone now though ;) ) We’ve had an email from Su: Sorry about this, as it’s not about recycling or repairing, but I thought some like-minded [...]

Mondoweiss

  • Friday in Bil’in
    From the Friends of Freedom and Justice in Bil'in: Despite the intense heat and high temperature, on the second Friday in Ramadan, a sizable march organized by the Popular Committee commenced from the center of the village right after the Friday prayers. The protesters, consisting of many Palestinia ...
  • Revenge of the Nerds: Partying with the boys of Im ...
    The faces, and t-shirts, of the "second Zionist revolution." (Photo: Im Tirtzu) Fresh off a campaign of nationwide intimidation against the New Israel Fund, countless damaging personal attacks against leftists and professors condemned as insufficiently Zionist, and an endorsement from Israeli Educa ...
  • Palestinian refugees in Lebanon do not only have I ...
    A news report from before the Lebanese Parliament reformed laws regarding Palestinian work permits. The Lebanese Parliament on Tuesday approved a law permitting Palestinians residing in Lebanon the same work opportunities as foreigners; the proposal amending the Lebanese Labor Law will grant Pale ...
  • Settlers gone wild
    And other news from Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Palestinian Negotiator Says New Settlement Building Would End Peace Talks Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said an anticipated new round of peace talks will fall apart if Israeli Prime Minister Be ...
  • J Street and Oren patch up
    The Forward has a piece on Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren that discusses his rapprochement with J Street. Note that while the piece refers to elements of the American Jewish community that are alienated from Israel, to explain the fact that�many at Brandeis were not happy when it invited Oren to sp ...

Media Consortium

  • Times Builds 'Jargonator' to Help Readers Decipher ...
    Apparently the Times Interactive News Technologies team also realized that the two dozen or so documents they were unleashing on their Web site weren't going to have much impact if their readers couldn't make head or tails of them. So they quickly developed a nifty roll-over tool, which internally t ...
  • All Our Ideas facilitates crowdsourcing — of opini ...
    Meet All Our Ideas, the “suggestion box for the digital age“: a crowdsourcing platform designed to crowdsource concepts and opinions rather than facts alone. The platform was designed by a team at Princeton under the leadership of sociology professor Matt Salganik — initially, to create a web-native ...
  • A Magazine Meant for Mobile - NYTimes.com
    The magazine, called Nomad Editions and created by a New York start-up of the same name, will feature the work of freelance journalists with expertise in a specific area, like surfing or movies. Every Friday, starting in October, subscribers will receive through a mobile application what amounts to ...
  • Slate Labs - Blog
    this site will serve as a home base for all of Slate’s experiments with multimedia journalism. We’ve been doing a lot of them over the past few years, so we’ve collected a gallery of our favorite interactives from the Slate archives. To keep things fresh, we’re also posting projects currently in dev ...
  • Introducing Crowdmap – The Ushahidi Blog
    "Crowdmap is a service provided by Ushahidi with all the benefits of Ushahidi out of the box but with nothing to install. It takes all of five minutes to get a vanilla deployment up and running on crowdmap.com subdomain. You will have full administrative access to your deployment, just as you would ...

Reality Asserts Itself

  • China and the end of the end of history
    Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world politi ...
  • "Martial Law" G20 charge disappears
    It appears government doesn't want to test Public Works Protection Act in court. [View:http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRealNews#p/u/3/ZdFj9EsKM5Y:640:360]
  • Investing in schools and infrastructure is the bes ...
    In Washington, a great debate has broken out. The Republicans want to keep the Bush tax cuts in place, saying that it's a good stimulant for the economy. Others are saying direct funding by states in infrastructure and schools is a much better form of stimulus and growth. A new study by Jeff Thompso ...
  • A "STINKER" OF A JOBS REPORT AND HARPER SAYS IT'S ...
    "It's a stinker," says Bill Gross about the latest report on Canadian unemployment.� As manager of the world's largest mutual fund (based in California), I guess Gross knows a thing or two about money. As reported in Bloomberg, Gross also said commodity-based economies like Canada's aren't doing as ...
  • 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 ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Vancouver: Planner’s Dream, Middle Class Nightmar ...
    Vancouver is consistently rated among the most desirable places to live in the Economist’s annual ranking of cities. In fact, this year it topped the list. Of course, it also topped another list. Vancouver was ranked as the city with the most unaffordable housing in the English speaking world by ...
  • City Thinking is Stuck in the 90s
    The 1990s proved to be quite a nice decade indeed for most of America's largest cities. It was an era of general prosperity in all of America to be sure, but in contrast to previous decades, the turnaround also extended from the suburbs to many of the nation's biggest cities, notably New York, Chica ...
  • Sarah Palin: The GOP's Poison Pearl
    Sarah Palin has emerged as the right's sweetheart, a cross between a pin-up girl and Joan of Arc. For some activists, like the American Thinker 's Lloyd Marcus , she's "my awesome conservative sister" who the mainstream media wants to "destroy at any cost." On a more serious note, leading right-wi ...
  • Urban Legends: Why Suburbs, Not Dense Cities, are ...
    The human world is fast becoming an urban world -- and according to many, the faster that happens and the bigger the cities get, the better off we all will be. The old suburban model, with families enjoying their own space in detached houses, is increasingly behind us; we're heading toward heavier r ...
  • New York Commuting Profile: From Monocentrism to E ...
    The US Bureau of the Census has just released detailed county to county and place (municipality) to place work trip flow tables. This new data is the most comprehensive since the 2000 census and covers 2006 to 2008. The county to county data is particularly useful for analysis in the nation's large ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • SEC Charges New Jersey with Securities Fraud
    You’ll love the penalty: “The state was not required to pay any civil fines or penalties, but ordered to cease and desist from future violations.” Via: Reuters: U.S. regulators said on Wednesday they charged New Jersey with securities fraud for not disclosing to municipal bond investors that it was ...
  • Scientists Simulate Terror Attack on Boston Subway
    Test results will be used to craft ways to quickly detect an attack so authorities can shut down subways to limit the spread of contaminants. Or, the test results will be used to plan the attack. Via: Globe and Mail / AP: Scientists are releasing gases and fluorescent particles into Boston’s subway ...
  • Nearly 50 Percent Leave Obama Mortgage-Aid Program
    Oh man, what a cluster f*@#. Via: AP: Nearly half of the homeowners who enrolled in the Obama administration’s flagship mortgage-relief program have fallen out. A new report issued Friday by the Treasury Department said that approximately 630,000 people who had tried to get their monthly mortgage pa ...
  • Gerald Celente on Goldseek Radio
  • Gulf of Mexico: Continuous Oil Plume Over 35KM in ...
    See Scientific proof that the Deepwater oil plume is over 20 miles long, for an image of the water column at various depths. Via: Science: The Deepwater Horizon blowout is the largest offshore oil spill in history. We present results from a subsurface hydrocarbon survey using an autonomous underwate ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Credit Crunch 2010
    Over the past several decades, one of the primary engines of U.S. economic prosperity has been a constantly expanding debt spiral.  As long as the U.S. government, state governments, businesses and American consumers could all continue to borrow increasingly large amounts of money, ...
  • 11 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Is Bad
    Millions of Americans are waking up to the fact that the Federal Reserve is bad, but very few of them can coherently explain why this is true.  For decades, an unelected, privately-owned central bank has controlled America's currency, run our economy and has driven the U.S. governme ...
  • 2011: The Year Of The Tax Increase
    Unless the U.S. Congress acts, there is going to be a massive wave of tax increases in 2011.  In fact, some are already calling 2011 the year of the tax increase.  A whole host of tax cuts that Congress established between 2001 and 2003 are set to expire in January unless Congress c ...
  • Disaster Plan
    Does your family have an economic disaster plan?  If not, why not?  By now, most people know that very hard economic times are coming.  No, America is not going to turn into a post-apocalyptic war zone where motorcycle gangs ravage the populace next week, but the truth is that it do ...
  • Even Tony Robbins Is Warning That An Economic Coll ...
    It seems like almost everyone is warning of a coming economic collapse these days.  Do you remember Tony Robbins?  He is probably the world's best known "motivational speaker" and his infomercials dominated late night television during the 80s and 90s.  He was always urging all of u ...

Desertification

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

The Paper Trail

  • ENVIRONMENT: Volunteer Vessels at BP Rig Were &#82 ...
    One of the many lessons learned from the BP disaster is to better coordinate responses by private boats that hurry to an offshore rig explosion, the retired Coast Guard admiral leading the federal relief effort said today, referring to an issue spotlighted in a Center for Public Integrity story.
  • MONEY & POLITICS: American Crossroads Spin-off ...
    Conservative group American Crossroads , launched barely six months ago with help from GOP uber-consultants Ed Gillespie and Karl Rove, has raised $17.6 million through August 20, the group’s president Steven Law told the Center for Public Integrity.
  • ENVIRONMENT: EPA Sets Public Hearings on Coal Ash ...
    Environmental advocates plan to organize citizens by the busload for a series of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency meetings on its proposal to regulate the disposal of coal ash, an environmental hazard that was the subject of an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity last year.
  • ENVIRONMENT: EPA Says New Rules Coming for Chemica ...
    The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it would issue new rules for three chemicals used in dyes, flame retardants, laundry detergents and other consumer and industrial products.
  • MONEY & POLITICS: End of DeLay Probe Raises Br ...
    The Justice Department’s probe of the biggest Congressional target in the sprawling Abramoff scandal, ended not with a bang, but with a whimper. And the reasons why likely speak to larger issues plaguing prosecutors at 950 Pennsylvania Avenue.

backofthebook.ca

  • Who needs a BC arts council when we have the Liber ...
    By Frank Moher Jane Danzo, in her letter of resignation as Chair of the BC Arts Council and in various exit interviews that followed, has confirmed what most of us already suspected: that the Liberal government now sees itself as arbiter of all things cultural in the province. At last, we ...
  • Canada: Please stop annoying Steve.
    By Alison@Creekside “They don’t bother us. It’s just that they are annoying,” a "senior Conservative official" told the G&M's Dear Jane yesterday about the public's uproar in reaction to the Cons' scrapping of the compulsory long-form census. "Census freedom," this same anonymous Conbot amusin ...
  • Book Review: Freedom (TM), by Daniel Suarez
    By Eric Pettifor FreedomTM is the sequel to Daniel Suarez’s book Daemon which I reviewed previously, giving it four stars out of five. The sequel likewise is a very good read, progressing logically from the foundation laid in the first novel. The reason I didn't give Daemon a full five stars ...
  • Stelmach sticks his head in the oil sands
    By Alison@Creekside Four "Rethink Alberta" billboards in Denver, Portland, Seattle and Minneapolis proclaim the "Alberta Tar Sands Oil Disaster" is worse than the Gulf Oil Spill Disaster. There's also a vid.   Alberta Preme Ed Stelmach is pledging $268,000 to mount a public relations offensiv ...
  • Day on crime: screw the stats, let’s just go ...
    By Alison@Creekside Doris ("Stockwell") Day's cheery crime shoppers' philosophy on prisons seems to be: If you build them, they will come. According to Shockwell Doris and JusticeMin Rob Nicholson, we're going to need more prisons to deal with the "alarming" increase in "unreported crime" .  . ...

Worldnews

  • Manmohan Singh inaugurates call centre 'Udyam ...
    New Delhi, Aug 21 (ANI): The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, inaugurated a call centre 'Udyami Helpline' on Saturday, which will give details about business possibilities and loan facilities to entrepreneurs keen on setting up small units. �...
  • New mechanism to pave way for methods to scre ...
    Washington, Aug 21 (ANI): Researchers at UC Davis have found a mechanism by which the amyloid protein damages the brain- a finding that could lead to new ways to screen drugs for Alzheimer's and similar diseases.� The researchers found that brain cells exposed to a form of the amyloid beta prot ...
  • What Went WRONG? Prof Mills!
    My beloved countrymen, I stand before you today with joy and with all humility to thank you for making me the President of this Great Nation of ours. If I am your President today, it is not by my works or anything, but by God's own Mighty Power and Grace. I again thank you for heeding the urgen ...
  • Ferdinand itching for comeback
    Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has told Sky Sports News that he is itching to make his return to action. Ferdinand has been sidelined with a knee injury sustained whilst training with England prior to the...
  • Bhupathi-Mirnyi in semis of Cincinnati Master ...
    MASON (USA): Masheh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi booked a semifinal berth in the ATP Cincinnati...

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MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • WikiLeaks Founder 'Wanted for Rape'
    Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing WikiLeaks website, is reportedly wanted for rape in Sweden. The prosecutor's office in Stockholm was said to have issued an arrest warrant late on Friday against Assange for two offences. "Julian Assange is wanted for two different issues, one of the ...
  • Obama's Pledge to Close Down Guantanamo is 'Not Ev ...
    by Robert Verkaik Barack Obama's pledge to shut down Guantanamo Bay will not be honoured until at least a year after the President's self-imposed deadline - and may not be completed in his first administration. The man in charge of the seven prison camps at the US naval base in Cuba is yet to receiv ...
  • Some US Troops Out of Iraq, More Mercenaries to Go ...
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Energy Collective

  • New Jersey to Take Lead in Offshore Wind Energy?
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Prior Art

  • Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recuse Hi ...
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Peoples Voice

  • Israel's Bogus Construction Moratorium
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  • The Middle Class
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  • The Fire of Resistance VS Nuclear Weapons
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  • As Radical As Reality: An Interview with Mickey Z
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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Climate Change: Who's Carrying the Burden? CCPA b ...
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  • Post-recession report: Looking at the past tells u ...
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  • Canada has one of the worst income-to-debt ratios ...
    Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has a warning for Canadians: we have one of the worst income-to-debt ratios in the world. CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan writes about the problem in this blog .
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    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 ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Well, They gotta do something, these cigarette pri ...
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  • Haiti Can’t Have Wyclef Jean
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  • A Cackle of Palins
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  • The Inherent Good
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  • Weekly Trivia
    A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 8:00 pm (EST). You can post your answer in the comments section below the question and be entered into a chance to win a WWH Bumpersticker! This weeks Trivia question: In my opinion. This man got away with mass murder and is still collecting che ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • Conversations with Geoffrey
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  • Where the hell is Scheizerland?
    That was my mystery for today. Someone sent me an email about shipping costs to Scheizerland. You’d think that it would be easy to google “Scheizerland” and figure it out. No such luck. My best guess so far is that it’s misspelled Dutch for Switzerland. Why would someone writing to me in English fro ...
  • Putting Things in Perspective … the Battle o ...
    Ah, the battle of Towton. One of my favourite battles of all time, and likely the bloodiest battle ever fought in England. And as might be expected, probably the largest battle ever fought in England. Upwards of eighty thousand men met in battle that day, including about half of the Lords in England ...
  • A Macabre Mystery, What’s Killing Seals off ...
    Warning: If graphic descriptions of animals dying horrible deaths bothers you, skip this post. What’s been happening to some seals is right out of a horror movie. And no, this isn’t about seal clubbing and skinning, nasty though that may be. With that out of the way, there is a macabre mystery brewi ...
  • The Ground Zero mosque controversy … WOW!
    I find the controversy over the proposed Islamic cultural centre near the WTC site in New York fascinating on so many levels. I didn’t really think it would get to this level, but no, it’s a national story now that has a lot of traction in the popular mind. And like any glittering trinket one [...]

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Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

  • Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further evid ...
    In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted. The following ...
  • Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagflatio ...
    The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest bus ...
  • How long would it take to work off the US trade de ...
    The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
  • Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy porte ...
    In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the current crisis. This articl ...
  • Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
    No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings were ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Range Fuels Produces Something
    Join the forum discussion on this post I began to hear rumors about a week ago that Range Fuels had started to produce some methanol from their plant in Soperton, Georgia. This week they announced that they have indeed begun to make some product: Range Fuels Finally Gets its Cellulosic Plant Runni ...
  • BP, Exxon, and Peak Lite
    Join the forum discussion on this post My vacation is over, so it’s back to work. I am still working on the followup to the MixAlco story, but there is a lot of material to digest. I am exchanging e-mails with Professor Holtzapple just now, trying to get answers to questions around the energy balan ...
  • The Ethanol Question I Did Ask
    Join the forum discussion on this post Last December, I received an intriguing request from the Public Relations Director at the world’s largest ethanol producer. Nathan Schock asked if I would be interested in posing a video question that would be answered by POET CEO Jeff Broin. He said that any ...
  • Biomass to Fuel via the MixAlco Process
    Join the forum discussion on this post Previously, I described a portion of my role in the early development of the MixAlco Process. Developed in the laboratories of Professor Mark Holtzapple at Texas A&M University, the process has undergone significant further developments, which I report on in t ...
  • Is Matt Simmons Credible?
    Claims like "BP will file for Chapter 11 by July 9," and that "the 'real, untold story' is another leak that is 5-7 miles away spewing 120,000 barrels per day" are ruining Matt Simmons' credibility.

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Rodale News

  • Fake Organic Beauty Products Spark “Panic”
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PAâMany parents decide to wait until their kids enter the teenage years before having the somewhat uncomfortable safe-sex talk. But with a recent study finding that a significant number of young girls are undergoing early puberty by age 7, finding safe soap may become an equa ...
  • 10 Yoga Poses for Defeating Diabetes
    #1: Downward Facing Dog. #2: Big Toe Pose. #3: Triangle Pose. #4: Western Intense Pose. #5: Hero Posture. #6: Half Lord of the Fishes. #7: Marichyasana A . #8: Marichyasana C. #9: Fish Pose. #10: Corpse Pose. RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Type 2 diabetes is quickly becoming one of t ...
  • Read This Before Your Next Hospital Stay
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—When you're staying in a hospital, things are beeping, nurses and doctors are constantly in and out of your room, the hallways are noisy, and the environment on the whole isn't conducive to in-depth discussions about your health. And that difficulty communicating could imped ...
  • Eggs Recalled Due to Salmonella Contamination
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—A nationwide distributor of eggs, in conjunction with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has initiated a recall of its eggs because of harmful read more
  • 5 Refreshing Recipes for Summer Melons
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—With summer in full swing, it’s only natural to gravitate toward sweet, succulent melons when you’re at the grocery store or farmers’ market. They’re a fantastic treat when simply sliced, cubed, or made into melon balls. But if you love the taste of summertime melons, you ow ...

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