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Thomas Paine

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Sunday, September 12, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • "Orange" Maize Could Save Eyesight of Millions of ...
    'Orange' maize, a variety of the common cereal crop, could improve the lives of millions of malnourished people by providing increased vitamin A in their diet, according to a new study released here this week.
  • Thousands Rally for Islamic Centre on 9/11 Anniver ...
    If you think that most citizens of the United States are racist or anti-Muslim, perhaps you have been relying too much on television news , especially the shows produced by the private networks in the United States.
  • MIDEAST: Gazans Desert Their Donkey-Zebra
    "We haven't had a single visit yet through Ramadan, what kind of zoo doesn't get visitors during holidays?" asks Mahmoud Barghoud, 22, co-creator of the Marha zoo.
  • EUROPE: Roma Conference Decries Government-Led Dis ...
    Over the centuries, racism in the Americas has targeted indigenous peoples, African slaves and their descendants, while in Europe, secular racism has long centred on its once-enslaved gypsies, as their recent persecution in France and Italy confirms.
  • CHINA: Journalists Risk Their Lives to Expose Corr ...
    Despite what are often overwhelming obstacles, a gutsy minority of investigative reporters in China continues to expose official corruption and criminal behaviour. But they do so at their own peril.

Scoop - NZ

  • Defeatism among US economic elites
    Goldilocks has played a trick on America. Growth is not warm enough to prevent hard-core unemployment climbing to post-war highs and sticking at levels that corrode the body politic, but not yet cold enough to overcome the fierce resistance of the Fed's regional hawks for a fresh blast of stimulus. ...
  • EU austerity risks civil war in Greece
    Greece's austerity measures cannot prevent default and will lead to a breakdown of the political order if continued for long, a leading German economist has warned. "This tragedy does not have a solution," said Hans-Werner Sinn, head of the prestigious IFO Institute in Munich. "The p ...
  • Afghan election fraud; Why we should care
    With little fanfare, and in the shadow of a spate of corruption and governance scandals, millions of Afghans will head to the polls in two weeks to vote in the country's second parliamentary elections. The international community has, to a large extent, adopted a a4see no evil, speak no evil' appro ...
  • Rosenberg: 13 signs it's a Depression
    David Rosenberg has outlined, in his latest letter, the 13 reasons with this so-called recovery is actually a depression. Rosenberg sums it up like this: This is what a depression is all about - an economy that 33 months after a recession begins, with zero policy rates, a stuffed central bank sheet, ...
  • Petraeus: "Burn the Koran" endangers US troops
    very day for the past few days there have been demonstrations in Afghanistan against the scheme of the Christian fundamentalist Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, to burn copies of the Qur'an on September 11. This sort of grandstanding by a tiny congregation with global ramification ...

Independent - London

  • Probe into Afghanistan troops' heroin trafficking ...
    Military police are investigating claims that British soldiers may have been involved in heroin trafficking in Afghanistan.
  • Australia's former PM Kevin Rudd brought back into ...
    Australia's former prime minister Kevin Rudd was re-appointed to government as Foreign Minister, two and a half months after being removed from office by his own party.
  • Don Ritchie, 84, the unlikely angel at Australia's ...
    Don Ritchie's house overlooks the gateway to Australia: the tall sandstone cliffs that guard the entrance to Sydney harbour. It is a hauntingly beautiful spot – and a tragic one. Every year, an estimated 50 people throw themselves on to the rocks below. That figure would be higher were it not for M ...
  • Iran ready to release American woman
    A senior Iranian prosecutor said today that authorities will release a jailed American woman on $500,000 bail because of health problems, another sudden about-face by Iran in a case that has added to tension with the United States.
  • Soldier who died in hospital named
    A British soldier who died in hospital in the UK after being shot in Afghanistan last month was remembered today as a fun-loving soldier with the "heart of a lion".

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Project UFO
    As alien invaders go, the giant hogweed is particularly nasty. The weed spreads quickly, growing up to seven metres high, and defends itself by spitting a toxic sap — a gooey concoction that causes painful skin blisters that last for weeks and purple scars that can remain visible for several years. ...
  • Songbird secrets
    Talk about getting a bad rap. In the extensive scientific literature about songbirds, the purple martin has long been described as a leisurely migrant that takes its time each fall flying from breeding grounds in Canada and the northern United States to its winter home in Brazil or elsewhere in Sout ...
  • Playing with fire
    As one of the world’s most powerful natural forces, fire holds many different meanings to everyone. To some, it’s an instrument of destruction — and a cause for worry. For others, it means warmth during chilly weather, or just a way to roast marshmallows. But for George Hadjisophocleous, a Carleton ...
  • Painless parenting
    Taking a child to the emergency room or to get a routine immunization is an experience most parents dread. Instinctively, they seek to soothe their children by telling them that everything will turn out fine. But Dalhousie University researchers Meghan McMurtry and Christine Chambers have some surpr ...
  • Barcoding life
    Biologist Paul Hebert couldn’t believe his eyes when a colleague found a species of moth native to Mexico fluttering over the tundra at the fringes of Hudson Bay in Churchill, Man., one summer day in 2006. The huge black witch moth with a 20-centimetre wingspan had never before been found that far n ...

Signs of the times

  • Food Fascism in the Land of the Free
    The food industry is no longer a free market. In fact, I'd go as far as saying it's becoming the most glaring example of corporate-government fascism in America. Actual monopolies fully control the basic building blocks of the food that makes up the majority of the American diet - and no one seems ...
  • Study Finds: Commercial Organic Farms Have Better ...
    Side-by-side comparisons of organic and conventional strawberry farms and their fruit found the organic farms produced more flavorful and nutritious berries while leaving the soil healthier and more genetically diverse. "Our findings have global implications and advance what we know about the susta ...
  • The Cure for the American Diet: Nutrient Density
    The American diet causes disease. It is composed of 25 percent animal products and 62 percent processed foods and only 5 percent of calories from fruits and vegetables.(1) We could not have designed a more effective cancer-causing, heart-attack-causing diet if we had scientifically planned it. Our n ...
  • Venus and the Moon - Occultation in South Africa
    Around the world on Sept. 11th, sky watchers marveled as Venus and the Moon converged for a beautiful close encounter. In South Africa, it was a full-fledged occultation. "The Moon passed directly in front of Venus, completely covering the planet," reports Kerneels Mulder. "I was lucky enough to cap ...
  • Inflammation Is Associated With Lower Intelligence ...
    ScienceDaily (Sep. 6, 2010) - Inflammation is associated with lower intelligence and premature death, according to Swedish scientists from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. "Those with low-grade inflammation performed more poorly on standardised intelligence tests, even after excludin ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Saturday Morning Cartoons.
    Coffee first, world dominance second.
  • Tropical Storm Earl - 041200Z Updated 041300Z
    Earl was downgraded to a Tropical Storm late yesterday as it tracked northeast. The cyclone is currently moving directly northeast at 26 knots (48 kmh/30 mph). The latest satellite picture shows a resurgence of convection around the centre. As can be seen from the latest satellite shot taken just ...
  • Gordo appointee cans Elections BC officer who axed ...
    The popularity of Lotusland's estimable premier is currently running at a crushing 12%. . There are a lot of very good reasons for this but let's just go with what 83% of the people polled told Angus Reid : they don't trust the bastard. Here's another reason, not that you'd know anything about it f ...
  • Stepping beyond 9/11
    Bad things happen. We lose our keys. Our bikes get stolen. We're laid-off or fired. Sometimes our intimate partnerships disintegrate. Sometimes there are floods and fires and we lose everything. Sometimes people steal airliners and fly them into buildings in our cities. It is often hard to believ ...
  • CONtrol failure
    It seems somebody is losing control . The Quebec MP has joined other Conservatives, particularly in Western Canada, who are reportedly angry at the proposal. Sources have told CBC News that a caucus revolt could possibly be brewing, with MPs demanding the federal government keep out of the busi ...

Media Matters for America

  • TIMELINE: Nine months of the right's anti-Muslim ...
    Cheered on by Fox News and the rest of the right-wing media, conservative activists spent the past year engaged in an anti-Muslim campaign that included efforts to block the planned Islamic center in lower Manhattan and demonize the imam spearheading the project. The bigotry has culminated in a ...
  • Conservative media attribute German economic grow ...
    Conservative media have falsely suggested that Germany's fiscal austerity policies spurred that country's recent economic growth, at times arguing that the United States should therefore have cut spending instead of borrowing to stimulate the economy. In fact, Germany -- which launched stimulus ...
  • If Rauf "threaten[ed] America," then so did Gen. P ...
    The right-wing media is attacking Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf for saying that opposition to the Park51 project creates "danger from the radicals in the Muslim world to our national security," by claiming, among other things, that Rauf's comments amounted to "threaten[ing] America." But Rauf's commen ...
  • Right-wing media concoct Clinton attack on Obama
    Right-wing media omitted essential context from recent remarks made by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to falsely claim that she attacked President Obama's economic policies when she said, "I think that our rising debt levels poses a national security threat," and also to speculate that Cli ...
  • Fox promotes Boehner's falsehood that health care ...
    Fox News' Bill Hemmer uncritically repeated�House Republican leader�John Boehner's statement�that he would repeal or block funding for health�care reform before it "'bankrupts'�the country."�Hemmer ignored multiple Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports stating that health�care reform will ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • CLARITY ON WHAT THE ARTISTS ARE SAYING ABOUT PERFO ...
    As newspapers have reported, Israeli actors have refused to perform with their national theater companies in the new cultural center in Ariel, a West Bank settlement that juts far into the West Bank (12 kilometers from Israel's recognized border). No one has stated the issue better than A. B. Yehosh ...
  • CLARITY ON WHAT THE ARTISTS ARE SAYING ABOUT PERFO ...
    As newspapers have reported, Israeli actors have refused to perform with their national theater companies in the new cultural center in Ariel, a West Bank settlement that juts far into the West Bank (12 kilometers from Israel's recognized border). No one has stated the issue better than A. B. Yehosh ...
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  • CLARITY ON WHAT THE ARTISTS ARE SAYING ABOUT PERFO ...
    As newspapers have reported, Israeli actors have refused to perform with their national theater companies in the new cultural center in Ariel, a West Bank settlement that juts far into the West Bank (12 kilometers from Israel's recognized border). No one has stated the issue better than A. B. Yehosh ...
  • CLARITY ON WHAT THE ARTISTS ARE SAYING ABOUT PERFO ...
    As newspapers have reported, Israeli actors have refused to perform with their national theater companies in the new cultural center in Ariel, a West Bank settlement that juts far into the West Bank (12 kilometers from Israel's recognized border). No one has stated the issue better than A. B. Yehosh ...

TruthOut

  • The NFL's Win-Win Labor Agreement
    The opening of the NFL season, usually an exciting time for fans, players, and owners, may be bittersweet this year because the owners of the National Football League are threatening to lock out the players next season—meaning canceled games—if the owners and the players’ union cannot agree to a new ...
  • How Much “Success” Can Afghans Stand?
    With the arrival of General David Petraeus as Afghan War commander, there has been ever more talk about the meaning of “success” in Afghanistan. read more
  • Fox Calls for Repeal of the 20th Century
    Since President Obama's election, Fox personalities have expressed opposition to or called for the repeal of virtually every progressive achievement of the 20th century, including Social Security, Medicare, the Americans with Disabilities Act, portions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the 16th a ...
  • Norman Solomon | Right-Wing Republicans vs. Corpor ...
    At this bleak political moment, gaining Congressional power for progressives might seem like pie in the sky. More and more desperate efforts are underway to stave off a Republican takeover of Congress. But the necessity of trying to prevent right-wing rule on Capitol Hill should not obscure the need ...
  • Second Soldier Alleges Former Tillman Commander Or ...
    Another former soldier of Bravo Company 2-16 (2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment) has said in a radio interview that a controversial battalion commander ordered soldiers to open fire on civilians in an indiscriminate pattern of "360 rotational fire," upon being hit by an improvised explosive devi ...

Planetsave

  • Muskrats (10 Friday Photos)
    This Friday, check out these 10 photos of muskrat for 10 Friday Photos. I’ve heard some story that muskrats move near human houses and disturbed them, and even scare them! Well, maybe, but aren’t they so cute? Look at these photos and enjoy! Muskrat Ball Photo redit: Wendy Relf via flickr Muskrat Fa ...
  • Activism News of the Week (or Two)
    Here’s a roundup of great activism news or important activism opportunities from the week (and some stuff from last week), other than the stuff we’ve already covered. Enjoy! Help Protect Endangered Turtles Loggerhead turtles are in trouble. Why? Because of human activity of course, especially habit ...
  • Green Business Blog Carnival #14
    The Green Business Blog Carnival comes to Planetsave! Following up on Green Business Blog Carnival post #13, an excellent summary of green business news on Sustainablog (one of the Carnival’s co-founding sites), here’s the next edition of the Carnival for your surfing, reading, or eating pleasure (o ...
  • Frankenfish Should be OK Because of BPA (cartoon)
    Bill McKibbenâs New Book: The Old Economy is Killing the Earth; Itâs Time for a New Living Economy Don’t Let Experimental Genetically Engineered Salmon Reach Your Plate
  • Threatening CO2 Producers Yet to be built
    Research by scientists from the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology has found that the real C02 threat’s to Earth’s climate have yet to be built. Scientists Steven Davis and Ken Caldeira believe that as it stands, we can prevent the inertia in our production of carbon tipping our cli ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • The Media as a Security Threat to America - Media ...
    The Great Pakistani Deluge Never Happened; Don’t Tune In, It’s Not Important The Great Deluge in Pakistan passed almost unnoticed in the United States despite President Obama’s repeated assertions that the country is central to American security.  Now, with new evacuations and flooding ...
  • US soldiers 'killed Afghan civilians for sport and ...
    Soldiers face charges over secret 'kill team' which allegedly murdered at random and collected fingers as trophies of war. Twelve American soldiers face charges over a secret "kill team" that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected th ...
  • Three drone strikes in North Waziristan; 18 killed ...
    MIRAMSHAH: Fourteen suspected militants and four children were killed when US drones carried out three attacks in North Waziristan on Wednesday. Missiles targeted a compound, a car and a house in parts of North Waziristan near the Afghan border, according to reports. The compound lo ...
  • Veterans Exposed to Carcinogen Shed Light on Secre ...
    A lawsuit filed by Iraq war veterans against a former Halliburton subsidiary over exposure to toxic chemicals is not the first of its kind, but it has brought new insight into the Iraq war by revealing that a contractor with close ties to the Bush administration was quietly granted legal... ...
  • NBA vs NFL? - United States
    NBA vs. NFL?    GUESS WHICH ONE.........    Even if you aren't a sports fan, this is interesting! 36 have been accused of spousal abuse. 7 have been arrested for fraud. 19 have been accused of writing bad checks. 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Iowa Road Trip! - Interstate highway rest stops
    Previously: Iowa Road Trip! - the 2010 Harkin Steak Fry Consider this a travel review. It ain't Kansas, that's for sure. Over the years since 2003 when we've journeyed north on Interstate 35 to attend the Harkin Steak Fry we've noted two interesting things. The pavement in Iowa is in much better con ...
  • Garden of Old Grudges
    Jill at Brilliant at Breakfast has what she calls heretical but I call an emminently sensible view of yesterday's demonstrations. There's something that I variously call "The Book of Old Grudges" or "The Garden of Old Grudges", depending on what metaphor I use on any given day. It's the syndrome, an ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    This is the way it's supposed to work - both sides making a case passionately but non-violently. "Competing demonstrations have been held in New York on the anniversary of 9/11 over plans for an Islamic cultural centre close to Ground Zero. Hundreds of people attended both demonstrations which becam ...
  • Why Do Only Republicans Have Their Free Speech Rig ...
    Today I may have lost my long time best friend. �I've tried for several years now to avoid these kinds of things, largely by simply refusing to discuss politics and/or religion with my old friends most of whom have evolved into �"conservatives" of a decidedly Tea Party persuasion recent years, but t ...
  • Iowa Road Trip! - the 2010 Harkin Steak Fry
    It's that time of year again. Blue Girl and I scored some media credentials so tomorrow we'll be making the four hour drive from west central Missouri to the Warren County Fairgrounds in Indianola, Iowa for the 33rd Annual Harkin Steak Fry. From 2009 - the entrance to the Harkin Steak Fry at the War ...

Care 2

  • Gentle bilby had 'killer' ancestor
    The gentle rabbit-like bilby - Australia's stand-in for the Easter bunny - had an ancient relative that was a far more fearsome little beast, a new study has found. Submitted by Michelle Matthews to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • WILD DOG FOUNDATION.....World Carnivore Society..
    African Wild Dogs...Wild Dog. What does that mean? Well, for some, Wild Dog is often used negatively. Wild Dog is not someone's pet gone wild but a legitimate term used to describe two of the most endangered carnivores Submitted by Sue BARKO WOLF to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Citizens Against Trafficking........Sexual Abuse o ...
    Last month, in a trial that shocked Rhode Island, a man was convicted of an act of abominable or detestable crimes against nature.1 James E. Cook had assisted a 17-year-old boy he had met on the Internet to have sex with a dog. Cook Submitted by Sue BARKO WOLF to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • Dog Video Of The Day: African Painted Dog Puppies
    These African Painted Dog pups were orphaned soon after their birth at the Pittsburgh Zoo. In the wild, litters typically have a 50% survival rate with their mother, so the odds for these babies werent good. Zookeepers found a Submitted by Sue BARKO WOLF to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment ...
  • Is organic farming good for wildlife? - It depends ...
    Even though organic methods may increase farm biodiversity, a combination of conventional farming and protected areas could sometimes be a better way to maintain food production and protect wildlife. The findings come from a study of butterfly Submitted by Simone D. to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note- ...

Smirking Chimp

  • David Brooks and the Centuries of Magical Thinking
    My new Maureen Dowd is on a roll this week. First, he declared an end to the era of opulence based on the rantings of a southern Baptist megachurch leader. Bobo made this bold proclamation during a time of enormous wealth disparity, and after poor taxpayers just dropped a couple trillion dollars bai ...
  • What More Threatens Our Security: 50 Idiots or Per ...
    In the last few days, politicians and the media have said that Pastor Terry Jones' and his 50 followers disgusting plans to burn Korans are a clear and present danger to America's national security because the hideous act would inflame anti-Americanism in the Muslim world and potentially incite an I ...
  • The F Word: New York's Real Culture War
    The clash of civilizations continues, 9 years after the attacks of 9-11, the threat to our freedoms remains real. Shadowy individuals aim to control our way of life, and women's lives and liberties, especially, are at risk. Forcing women into strange clothes and shoes, violating equality-based cultu ...
  • Engineers of Empire - Oh, Hamid, Oh Hillary: How y ...
    The Secretary of State was shuttling between Washington where peace in the Middle East remains elusive to New York to where the poobahs and her proteges at the Council on Foreign Relations welcomed her as the second coming. She has now has enunciated her own "doctrine" in the footsteps of thosei n o ...
  • Journalists in Rose-Colored Glasses: Economic Chee ...
    It's no surprise that the Obama administration and the Democrats in Congress are trying to claim that the recession (which they blame on Bush and Cheney) is over and that the economy is slowly returning to health thanks to their efforts at economic stimulus. At least those highly dubious claims get ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • The Self-Inflicted Wounds of 9/11
    Reprinted from Truthout.org with the express permission of of Larry’s longtime friend Mel Goodman, whose biography is at the end of this post, along with a note from Larry about Mel’s views. _______________________________________________
  • Warm Arms Wide Open Thread (Yes, it’s an open thre ...
    From CNN’s article, “2 Muslims travel 13,000 miles across America, find an embracing nation“: (CNN) — The blue Chevy Cobalt broke down amid the mountains of Montana in an area where there was no cell phone reception. The Muslims in the car, on a cross-country journey for the holy month of Ramadan, ...
  • Still Remembering 9-11
    I spent today working on a terrorism exercise on a U.S. military base. Even nine years after the events of 9-11, the memories of that day are vivid. My colleagues and I paused to remember. In fact, we were doing a video conference with a group of soldiers and diplomats based [...]
  • Delinquent Taxpayers, Government Employees – Never ...
    Oh, the irony. At a time when bad and government have become synonymous, not just in word but in deeds.  At a time when complaints about government taxes have become as Main Street as apple pie.  What does it say to us, the American people, when federal employees don’t want to pay for the governmen ...
  • where were you?
    I was at home, in Seattle, sleeping. My mom called and told me to turn on The Today Show. I watched the burning tower, I saw the second plane hit, and I watched them fall. It was a day we will never forget. I called all the employees in our office. Some cried, some didn’t [...]

Environmental Graffiti

  • Whch Breeds Of Dog Live Longest?
    Which breeds of dog have the best chances of outliving your kids' childhood? Learn the answer here. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Puffins in Flight: Nature’s Most Unlikely Predator
    They are some of the most comical looking birds in the world, but puffins are actually both predator and prey, surviving in the savage reality of nature. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Affordable Outdoor Activities on Your Doorstep
    When you're tied to a desk all day, incredible outdoor activities can feel as far away as the Antarctic Circle or the Andaman Islands... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Majestic Beauty of the Dung Beetle
    Dung beetles might seem disgusting, but in fact these beautiful creatures do a world of good for the planet! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Incredible Pictures of Fire Tornadoes
    Fire tornadoes wield the awesome power of nature, uprooting trees and thousands of people in a matter of minutes - with the potential to bulldoze entire city districts... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Video: Lawsuit Zombies fight state repression with ...
    Video release of sorts from the Minneapolis zombies, and a fun edit. 1min40s, brevity! Plz subscribe to Youtube & now Scribd document service as well. If you haven't yet, check out Scribd for a marvelous array of all sorts of documents (PDFs, office, etc)...w00pw00p. Press release: Zomb ...
  • California rolls out heat cannon torture weapon Ac ...
    Oh Shit!!! Let's explain how the mass torture weapon deployment rollout program works in the global scientific dictatorship. First the weapons are used on brown people in the field by the military, then on military prisoners, then on domestic prisoners. Then on protesters, then on random people. Thi ...
  • Kanye West Masonic/Egyptian "Power"; Viktor Bout's ...
    "In the threatening situation of the world today, when people are beginning to see that everything is at stake, the projection-creating fantasy soars beyond the realm of earthly organizations and powers into the heavens, into interstellar space, where the rulers of human fate, the gods, once had the ...
  • Barclays Bank: The design of criminal banking oper ...
    Crossposted - Barclays Bank Forfeits $298 Million for Aiding Rogue Nations 18 August 2010 Court filings: http://cryptome.org/0002/barclays/usa-v-barclays.htm Barclays Bank Forfeits $298 Million for Aiding Rogue Nations http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2010/August/10-crm-933.html Department of Ju ...
  • LinkBatch for August 19th 2010: In-Q-Tel CIA front ...
    Let's start with the FDA's plan to kill everyone: Junk food-addicted rats chose to starve themselves rather than eat healthy food . Kind of amazed that the Iraq 'combat mission' officially ended, as this seven-year epic dominated my college experience & well basically shaped a whole era. But did FOX ...

Daily Censored

  • American soldiers continue to commit atrocities in ...
    If you’re a typical American, you probably read the big American newspapers and maybe a local paper or two. Most Americans don’t read newspapers from overseas, which means that they have missed a huge story about the disgusting treatment of people at the hands of American citizens. Two stories have ...
  • Burning the Qu’ran, what do we guarantee?
    Yesterday I had an opportunity to discuss the intended âburning of the Quâran.â  Just because it did not happen does not necessarily render its discussion moot.  The following was my response.  I include it because it clarifies, for me, the First Amendment.  I would encourage intelligent ...
  • Funding Charter schools through ‘debt’ known as bo ...
      Build America Bonds BABs were included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the “Act”) signed into law by President Obama on February 17, 2009.  The following questions and answers highlight the major characteristics of these bonds.  Readers can then see how they are and will be used to ...
  • We Inhabit One World, Interconnected, Interdepende ...
    By Will Shonbrun Some of us have been active in political, social justice, civil rights or environmental causes for a good bit of our lives if we’re now in our 60s and 70s. We might have been active in marches, demonstrations and rallies for one cause or another, to some degree of commitment or anot ...
  • Your Future, in 500 words or less.
    I get it that everyone is hurting.  I get it that people’s houses are dropping in value.  I get that people are frightened that they will lose their job or they already have.  I get that people are living in near despair.  I get that people are not happy that the current administration has not [...]

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    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 ...
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    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

  • Michael Moore Teaches Rahm Emanuel a F**cking Econ ...
    By Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com Posted on September 7, 2010, Printed on September 8, 2010 http://www.alternet.org/story/148106/ Dear Rahm Emanuel, I read this week that â according to a new book by Steven Rattner, your administration’s former “Car Czar” â during ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 8/27/10 – 9/3/10
    We are only days away from the elections in Rhode Island and New York. In Rhode Island we have David Segal and in New York we have Jonathan Tasini. Both of these elections are on ...
  • More War Lies
    By David Swanson Lies aren’t used just to start wars, but also to escalate them, continue them, and even reduce or end them. And we got a pile of war lies from the ...
  • The Anti-Empire Report
    The Anti-Empire Report September 1st, 2010 by William Blum www.killinghope.org Things which don’t go away. Things the American government and media don’t let go of. And neither do I. Iraq “They’re leaving as heroes. I want them to walk home with pride ...
  • Quiet Time
    The week leading up to Labor Day is always a quiet time politically. This short respite is the perfect time to listen to the current installment of The Agitator: Voices of PDA, our final installment ...

Marler Blog

  • CDC Breaks some news on Wright and Hillandale Salm ...
    Good Saturday from New Zealand.  This just dropped into my inbox from the CDC : • From May 1 to August 31, 2010, approximately 1,519 illnesses were reported that are likely to be associated with this outbreak. • FDA identified Salmonella with PFGE patterns indistinguishable from the outbreak strai ...
  • I have found something I agree with Senator Grassl ...
    Senator Grassley was quoted in the Wall Street Journal today - "Just because food safety isn't 'my job' doesn't mean it should be ignored." I may not agree with him on most things, but on this one, he and I seem to see eye to eye. I just may stop putting my money on the Democrats. Here is why. La ...
  • Kern County California names names in Salmonella E ...
    My bet to the chagrin of some 200 California restaurants, Kern County published a list today of the the restaurants that received the tainted eggs from Wright County Eggs and Hillandale Farms.� You must wonder if the restaurants will be asking a few more questions of their suppliers in the future?� ...
  • They lock up Farm Fresh Eggs in Australia
    After my speech today at the 3rd Annual Australian Food Safety Conference, several people approached me trying to understand the scope of 550,000,000 eggs being recalled in the US and some 1,500 people sickened with Salmonella Enteritidis. They asked politely (as Australian’s do) if it was true tha ...
  • Nine dead, over 700 sickened by Salmonella Peanuts ...
    Thinking I had to be up at 4:30 AM this morning to participate in a phone conference (it is actually Friday morning – I’m a day ahead here in Australia), I awoke at 3:30 AM to Mary Clare Jalonick’s article about Stewart Parnell’s new job – consulting for the peanut industry – REALLY? Her best open ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 09.10.10
    Hyundai unveils i10-based BlueOn electric vehicle in South Korea One to watch. Nissan and this polar bear want to love you - if you drive a Leaf Awwww. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 09.09.10
    Pruck this: Toyota Prius gets the El Camino treatment (and a plug-in powertrain) Where to begin? Three governments, two worries: oil surpluses vs. peak oil We just might get both, given enou ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 09.08.10
    Obama announces $50m plan to build the "best infrastructure in the world" Ambition remains the president's hallmark. Toronto hydro chief: Electric car upswing would crash grid Is the sky fal ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 09.07.10
    David Vespremi: A lot is hanging on the Leaf Here's what the Leaf and the iPad have in common. Dealers flunk the EPA NADA not happy with proposed fuel economy letter grades. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 09.03.10
    Tesla Roadster eligible for $38,000 clean energy rebate in Japan Not a bad discount, right? GM says Chevy Cruze Eco with an automatic will hit 36 mpg highway This slushbox won't hurt too bad ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Reporters' Roundtable: Google Instant in depth
    Google this week deleted the Enter key from search , with the launch of Google Instant. The new results page gives you search results as you type. Is it just a simple interface change or will it fundamentally change how we use search--and how advertisers pay for clicks? Today we talk about Ins ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable: Checking in with Facebook a ...
    The new hotness in tech investing today is the location check-in app. From social services like Foursquare and Gowalla to shopping-focused business like Shopkick, investors love check-in. And why not? They're making money already, even though but a tiny fraction of the population has ever used a ...
  • 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 ...

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!

  • Sept. 11: A Day Without War
    The ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States should serve as a moment to reflect on tolerance. It should be a day of peace. Yet the rising anti-Muslim fervor here, together with the continuing U.S. military occupation of Iraq and the escalating war in Afghanistan (and Pakistan ...
  • Eve Ensler: Bald, Brave and Beautiful
    Bald, brave and beautiful: Those words can’t begin to capture the remarkable Eve Ensler. She sat down with me last week, in the midst of her battle with uterine cancer, to talk about New Orleans and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Eve, the author of the hit play "The Vagina Monologues" and the cr ...
  • Watch: Muslim Taxi Driver Attacked in Hate Crime S ...
    New York City Taxi Driver Ahmed Sharif and his supporters hold a press conference on the steps of City Hall on August 26th, just days after he was attacked by a passenger for being Muslim. Speakers include Ahmed Sharif, Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, and CAIR-NY Civil Rights ...
  • Rotten Eggs and Our Broken Democracy
    What do a half-billion eggs have to do with democracy? The massive recall of salmonella-infected eggs, the largest egg recall in U.S. history, opens a window on the power of large corporations over not only our health, but over our government. While scores of brands have been recalled, they all ...
  • Amy Goodman on CNN's John King, USA tonight at 7 p ...
    Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King, USA , on Monday, August 23rd at 7pm Eastern Time.

Farming Pathogens

  • Follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Facebook
    Follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Facebook here. Includes the latest in media reports and journal articles on agriculture, disease, evolution, dialectical biology, and the practice of science, as well as any appearances or new work by FP contributors. Filed under: Uncategorized
  • Imperial Storm Scientists
    The Red Army Faction was a communist guerilla group operating 1970-1998 in, of all places, West Germany. The RAF engaged in a variety of operations in the 1970s, including assassinations and bombings, primarily around the German government’s material support of the U.S. war in Vietnam. As depicted i ...
  • Does Influenza Evolve in Multiple Tenses?
    The past may possess a power greater than prologue. Any one with a social networking account knows that. All of a sudden you find yourself daily interacting with people long thought boxed away. People mature, yes, but sensibilities remain largely intact and an old year, fine wine or vinegar, pours b ...
  • Influenza’s Historical Present
    I delivered the following speech, co-written with economic geographer Luke Bergmann, at the NIH-FAO-sponsored ‘Second International Workshop on Community-based Data Synthesis, Analysis and Modeling of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 in Asia’ held in Beijing earlier this month. The speech is b ...
  • The Alan Greenspan Strain
    First, a question with which few biogeographers bother. If a goodly chunk of their discipline is dedicated toward obfuscating the impact capitalism imposes on the natural world (discussed here and here), how can researchers interested in paying their bills study the crises that threaten the croupier ...

Suzie-Q

  • September 11 Nine Year Anniversary
    September 11 Anniversary Stained By Politics And Prejudice Huff Post-  First Posted: 09-11-10 09:23 AM   |   Updated: 09-11-10 09:23 AM NEW YORK (AP) — Politics threatened to overshadow a day of mourning Saturday for nearly 3,000 Sept. 11 victims amid a polarizing national debate over a plann ...
  • 9th. Anniversary of 911 rolls around with Neocons ...
    With the 9th. Anniversary of 911 Current U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan are reaching 95,000, more than we have in Iraq. We are leaving the Worlds largest embassy, Fortress America, in Iraq and currently working on a similar one in Pakistan, while boasting of 737 military bases worldwide. As the fr ...
  • Quran Burning CANCELED: Dove World Outreach’ ...
    Quran Burning CANCELED: Dove World Outreach’s Terry Jones Drops Offending ‘Stunt’ AP / Huffington Post First Posted: 09- 9-10 05:06 PM   |   Updated: 09- 9-10 05:55 PM The leader of a small Florida church that espouses anti-Islam philosophy says he is canceling plans to burn copies of the Qura ...
  • Obama Implores Minister To Call Off Quran Burning ...
    Obama Implores Minister To Call Off Quran Burning (VIDEO) First Posted: 09- 9-10 10:04 AM   |   Updated: 09- 9-10 10:04 AM Associated Press via: Huff Post WASHINGTON â President Barack Obama is exhorting a Florida minister to “listen to those better angels” and call off his plan to engage in ...
  • US soldiers ‘killed Afghan civilians for sport and ...
    Soldiers face charges over secret ‘kill team’ which allegedly murdered at random and collected fingers as trophies of war Chris McGreal in Washington, The Guardian/UK,  Sep 9, 2010 Andrew Holmes, Michael Wagnon, Jeremy Morlock and Adam Winfield are four of the five Stryker soldiers who face murder ...

Solari

  • Sweet Water Organics
    Our Sweet Water Tilapia are ready for you! This one and only batch is available for public purchase at three open house fish sales. If you have pre-purchased your tilapia at one of our farmers markets just bring your ticket and we will hand you your fish. You will be receiving your fish whole and o ...
  • Feeling Curious
    -- “Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day.” Albert Einstein -- -- -- More Einstein Q ...
  • Crosby Mint Farm - Giving Thanks!
    Want proof of what wonderful people Americans are and how much we care about our small farmers? Just take a look at the Crosby Mint Farm “Expect Miracles” Gratitude List The support for Crosby Mint Farm is also expression of the quality of their wonderful oils. You can get some here; Get Mint Tradi ...
  • Quote du Jour
    “We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.” ~ Robert E. Lee Robert E. Lee Wikipedia
  • An Anniversary Prayer - September 11, 2010
    Catherine’s Anniversary Prayer â September 11, 2010 Lord, we gather in prayer on the ninth anniversary of 9-11; We thank you for the many blessings you have given us, among them the gift of life; Let our hearts be in your heart, our mind in your mind; Help us to speak life into this anniversary an ...

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

  • About Ender’s Game
    Summary:  A follow-up to âGenerals read Enderâs Gameâ and see their vision of the future Marine Corps, exploring how it appeals to our dark side — with even darker historical echos. Contents Why is Enderâs Game popular? The powerful and often weird dynamics of Ender’s Game Ender as an appe ...
  • President Obama celebrates 9-11 by renewing his Em ...
    Summary:   That radical leftist anarchist President Obama has extended our National Emergency into its 10th and 11th years.  How appropriate that he does so on the anniversary of 9-11.  For the US government, 9-11 was the gift that keeps on giving.   With the collapse of the USSR, DoD faced ha ...
  • The guilty ones responsible for the loss of our li ...
    Summary:  Another chapter in the discussion of our dying Republic.  Here we point to those guilty rogues responsible for th loss of our liberty. Our liberties have faded so quickly.  In  a few decades we’ve become accustomed to the routine outrages of SWAT teams, well documented by Randy Balko ...
  • Which political party will best protect our libert ...
    Summary:  Our decades of experience with both parties makes this question easy to answer.  Neither.  They are partners, chopping at the tree of liberty from opposite sides.  The next post in this series describes the group most responsible for the situation, and for our accelerating loss of rights. ...
  • Cutting down the tree of liberty
    Summary:   Another day, another small slice taken from our liberty.  This is another chapter describing this process, the saddest aspect of which is our indifference to the loss of our hard-won liberties.  This was originally part of the previous post about Obama, but its importance warranted separa ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Sarkozy faces new sleaze claims over second billio ...
    Daily Telegraph – France’s embattled President Nicolas Sarkozy faces damaging new sleaze claims over his links with a second billionaire donor to his party’s campaign funds. In a case with echoes of the L’Oréal scandal that engulfed his administration this summer, the French government is again acc ...
  • Number of US Families in Shelters Rises
    NY Times – For a few hours at the mall here this month, Nick Griffith, his wife, Lacey Lennon, and their two young children got to feel like a regular family again. Never mind that they were just killing time away from the homeless shelter where they are staying, or that they had to take [...]
  • On Sept. 11 Anniversary, Rifts Amid Mourning
    New York Times – The ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was marked on Saturday by the memorials and prayer services of the past, but also by events hard to envision just a year ago â heated demonstrations blocks from ground zero, political and religious tensions and an u ...
  • Farmers’ apocalypse: the globalisation of food sup ...
    ABC-Rural voters who elected our independent politicians will surely be hoping they can get food onto our national agenda. The issue of human traffic may remain an election staple, but it is the movement of food around the world that is destroying the livelihoods of farmers in Australia and overseas ...
  • Concern grows over foreign involvement in British ...
    Daily Telegraph – Concern is growing within the intelligence community that the MI6 spy found dead in his London flat may have been the victim of a professional hit by a foreign power. It is feared that by the time of his death last month Gareth Williams’s presence in London had become known to fore ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • RAIMD: Antonio on Lowkey’s ‘Obama Nation’
    Music review from RAIM-Denver: (raimd.wordpress.com) [Last week, we posted the video, Obama Nation, the new single from UK hip-hop artist, Lowkey. The video itself generated some discussion which can be viewed below. Here is a comment by a RAIMer, Antonio, analyzing the content of the song:] Lowkey ...
  • Cholera epidemic, a symptom of underdevelopment in ...
    Cholera epidemic, a symptom of underdevelopment in Nigeria and the Third World (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Cholera has killed 87 and infected 1,315 over the past month in Nigeria. The two northern states affected most are Bauchi and Borno. In Bauchi alone 47 are dead and 1,200 infected. Born ...
  • O sekciarstwie
    O sekciarstwie (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (Polski) (English) „Drodzy trzecioświatowi maoiści, Wasza strona internetowa jest sekciarska. Krytykujecie tak wiele innych grup. Jak można traktować was poważnie? * Dziękujemy za twoje pytanie. Wielu liberałów bierze krytykę wobec innych grup za de ...
  • A spy and the use and abuse of history
    A spy and the use and abuse of history (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Poland is likely to extradite Uri Brodsky to Germany. Uri Brodsky  is suspected of being part of an Israeli death squad that has recently been in the spotlight. The Israeli agent, likely a member of a Mossad hit team, was inv ...
  • Israel “purchasing” advanced aircraft from U.S. fo ...
    Israel âpurchasingâ advanced aircraft from U.S. for Use Against Iran (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Israel is purchasing roughly 20 F-35I strike jets from the United States. Four billion dollars will be used to purchase the Lockheed Martin “Joint Strike Fighters,” along with services, parts ...

PakAlert

  • Final Survival Preparations
    The system we live in today is flawed in every sense, in terms of debt to savings, government spending versus government revenue, monetary policy, stock market value versus concrete company earnings, reported unemployment versus real unemployment, and numerous other factors. In my years observing an ...
  • Mideast Talks a Cover for US War Preparations
    The opening round of talks between Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has made it clear that Washington’s real aim is to legitimise the support of the Arab states for a future military onslaught against Iran.
  • Quran and 2012: Evidence Hints At Event Types and ...
    Those who choose to dismiss the evidence without evaluating it first are not worthy of survival. Evaluate, check and double check, and then contribute to saving the world. If we really care about humanity, then we ought to heed this serious warning from The Merciful and warn people now not when it i ...
  • 2012 FULL MOVIE The Online Movie FINAL UPDATE
    How time changes consciousness, rare 26,000 yr occurrences, how the RCC ties into 2012, 11:11, solar maximum, 2011 vs 2012, acceleration of creation, the numbers behind 2012, time speeding up, transformation of consciousness, corruption of Gregorian calendar, other 2012 end dates, the New Earth, wor ...
  • Video: The Largest Black Holes in the Universe
    How big can they get? What's the largest so far detected? Where does an 18 billion solar mass black hole hide?

Andy Worthington

  • On the 9th Anniversary of 9/11, A Call to Close Gu ...
    On the 9th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington D.C. on September 11, 2001 that prompted the launch of the Bush administration’s “War on Terror,” the closure of Guantánamo and calls for accountability for those who instigated torture and established secret prisons and impr ...
  • France Turns Down Guantánamo Prisoner Nabil Hadjar ...
    Yesterday, as I explained here, cleared Guantánamo prisoner Nabil Hadjarab wrote a letter to the French President Nicolas Sarkozy, beseeching the President to offer him a home in France, where he has extended family, and where he lived as a child. However, in a horribly swift response to the letter, ...
  • Nabil Hadjarab, an Algerian in Guantánamo, Appeals ...
    Yesterday, Reprieve, the London-based legal action charity, published a letter to President Sarkozy in which Guantánamo prisoner Nabil Hadjarab pleads to be allowed to live with his family in France. Just 22 years old at the time of his capture, Nabil, who spent much of his childhood in France and h ...
  • Quarterly Fundraising Appeal: Please Support My Wo ...
    Please support my work! Every three months, I ask my readers and supporters to help me continue my long-standing project, which I began in the spring of 2006: to chronicle the crimes committed in the “War on Terror,” to tell the stories of the prisoners, and to call for accountability for tho ...
  • Respected Think-Tank Calls Afghan War a Disaster, ...
    For years, we have been told by our elected leaders that US and British soldiers have been dying in Afghanistan to prevent al-Qaeda from committing another terrorist attack, or to keep them off the streets of Britain. On December 1, 2009, announcing a “surge” of 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan, P ...

Environment _ National Geographic

  • San Bruno Fire Pictures: "Hell on Earth" in Califo ...
    NoneA gas line explosion that unleashed deadly, thousand-foot-high fireballs reduced blocks of San Bruno, California, to "hell on earth" on Thursday, one resident said. California - San Bruno - United States - San Bruno California - Business and Economy
  • Fire Tornado Filmed in Hawaii
    While battling a blaze on the slopes of Mauna Kea in August, a Hawaii firefighter captured rare footage of a fire tornado, or fire whirl. Video. Hawaii - Mauna Kea - United States - Business - Earth Sciences
  • Warming Solution: Just Stop Cold?
    The burden on the planet from today's cars and buildings is bearable, say researchers who warn that future added emissions are the real risk. Environment - Climate change - Opposing Views - United States - Greenhouse gas
  • Oil Inside Gulf Crabs May Be Shed
    Found to have oil droplets inside them, blue crab larvae from near the BP spill may lose the oil as they grow, scientists say. Video. Blue crab - BP - Oil spill - Larva - Food chain
  • Mining the Truth on Coal Supplies
    A new study challenges the belief that the globe holds vast stores of coal, the world's leading and most carbon-intensive electricity fuel. Coal - Mining - Technology - Energy - Electricity

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Apparent Eco-Terrorist Holding Hostages at TV Buil ...
    The gunman holding hostages in the Silver Spring, Md., headquarters of the Discovery Channel has been tentatively identified as James Jay Lee, an apparent eco-fascist who thinks that immigrants are breeding “filthy human children” and helping to wreck the planet. Lee, 43, had been arrested in Februa ...
  • Paul Fromm: The Lonely Voice of Canadian Hate
    Last week, a slew of Canadian media outlets reported that the country’s most notorious white supremacist, Paul Fromm, had organized a protest against a boat of Tamil asylum seekers docked near Victoria, British Columbia. In a rare group show of interest in Fromm’s thoughts, the Canadian press allowe ...
  • 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 ...
  • Charges Against We Are Change Leader Belie Group&# ...
    We Are Change (WAC) is an organization that likes to quote Martin Luther King Jr., Einstein, Gandhi and others talking about the evils of war. It describes itself as a nonviolent âcitizens based grassroots peace and social justice movementâ and reacted angrily this year when the Southern Poverty ...
  • Fugitives with Ties to Aryan Brotherhood Captured
    A SWAT team captured escaped inmate John McCluskey and his fiancée Casslyn Welch in an Arizona national forest this morning, peacefully ending a three-week manhunt. Aided solely by Welch and a pair of wire cutters, McCluskey and two other inmates escaped from a private prison in Arizona on July 30. ...

change: org.

  • Let's Talk About LGBTQ Sex
    Ok, so this post isn’t as exciting as you might think from the title, but sex is something that creates the greatest amount of controversy when it comes to defining who we are as a sexual minority. Are we gay because of who we have sex with? Should we tone down the BDSM so we’re more palatable to K ...
  • Blacks, Latinos and Hate Crimes
    What comes to mind when you hear the term “hate crime” — a burning cross, a black man in a tree, a Ku Klux Klansman?  In the 21st century such images often prove to be outdated. Hate crime victims aren’t likely to be lynched these days and the perpetrators don’t always have white skin. Take the case ...
  • When Organic Can't Be Trusted
    I recently made some comments about the unreliability of foreign organic standards with which a representative of the Organic Trade Association took issue. The commenter claimed, "there are systems in place to ensure that products [both foreign and domestic] bearing the U.S. Department of Agricultur ...
  • Separatism, Sovereignty and Peace: A Different Pat ...
    The proverb "history repeats itself" usually refers to separate, thematically related events spanning decades or centuries. But in the recent cases of peace proposals by two violent separatist groups being rejected outright by the countries they have been struggling against for decades, it only took ...
  • "Picture Me" Reveals Modeling Industry Abuses
    The American fashion industry has a glittering, fluffy, so-this-season exterior that young girls around the world yearn to be a part of. But behind all that glam often lies a frightened, overworked, sexually abused teenager who is quickly learning that modeling is not always as sexy as it seems. "Pi ...

Common Dreams -News

  • BP Well Threatens Ancient Libyan Sites
    by Andrew Johnson Plans by the energy giant BP to sink an oil well off the Libyan coast could have disastrous consequences for the region's rich heritage of coastal ancient city sites and shipwrecks - already under threat from oil tankers, coastal erosion and tourist developments - archaeologists fr ...
  • Quran Burning and US Inconsistency
    by Lamis Andoni Barack Obama, the US president, has warned that threats to burn the Quran are a sure and effective way to swell the ranks of al-Qaeda. This may be true, but largely because such symbolic acts of 'Islamophobia' are widely viewed as verifying the perception that the US wars in Afgh ...
  • Barack Obama: 'No' to Solar Panels on the White Ho ...
    by Suzanne Goldenberg A quest to get Barack Obama to shout his commitment to solar power from the roof tops - by re-installing vintage solar panels at the White House - ended in disappointment for environmental campaigners today. read more
  • US Poverty Rate Expected to Post a Record Increase
    by Hope Yen WASHINGTON - The number of people in the United States who are in poverty is on track for a record increase on President Obama's watch, with the ranks of working-age poor approaching 1960s levels that led to the national war on poverty. Census figures for 2009 - the recession-ravaged ...
  • Chamber of Commerce Accused of Tax Fraud
    by Eric Lichtblau WASHINGTON - With a war chest rivaling that of the Republican Party itself, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has emerged in the last year as perhaps the Obama administration's most-well-financed rival on signature policy debates like health care and financial regulation. read more

Lifehacker

  • Five Best Fax Services [Hive Five]
    Despite the overall decrease in the popularity of fax machines, faxing is still a common practice in many industries. Here's a look at five of the most popular services for sending and receiving faxes from a computer—without the clunky hardwar ...
  • DIY Detachable Smartphone Macro Lens [DIY]
    If you don't feel like permanently altering your phone with a macro lens , hacker Thomas shows us how to make a detachable one using a lens from mini binoculars. More��
  • Ditch Resume Lies for More Successful Interviews [ ...
    Fudging resume details is a widespread but ineffective practice. The real power of a face-to-face interview is to gauge your personality and character, not your proficiency. Avoid resume white lies to keep interviews focused and interviewer go ...
  • Convert an IKEA Bath Container into a Stylish Char ...
    Finding a charging station that blends in without calling unnecessary attention to your pile of charging gadgets is a challenge. This DIY hack turns a pair of nested bath boxes into a well camouflaged charging station. More�� ...
  • Tab Sugar Brings Panorama-Like Tab Management to C ...
    Chrome: If Firefox's new tab-management tool Panorama —formerly known as Tab Candy—caught your eye, you'll like Tab Sugar. Tab Sugar is a Chrome-based clone of Panorama with just as much tab slinging eye candy as you'd expect. More » ...

Water Privatization

  • Caution urged as Tulsa considers privatizing water ...
    Providing safe, clean drinking water to Tulsa in the 1920s turned this boomtown into the city it is today.
  • GOP's bad ideas make even Japan's anemic growth lo ...
    "Japan's problems now are the same as they were in the 1990s, when you were writing about them. It's depressing." So declared one economist I spoke to here. "But the Japanese don't seem all that depressed," objected another. Both were right — and the conversation crystallized some thoughts I've been ...
  • Solomon Ortiz: Robstown’s man abroad
    EDITOR’S NOTE: It was recently reported that U.S. Rep. Solomon P. Ortiz of South Texas is one of six congressmen who are subjects of a federal investigation into use of travel money. The Brownsville Herald decided to take a look at his travel...
  • State budget likely to go from bad to much worse
    When lawmakers wrote the last state budget in early 2009, they were hoping the economy would be well on its way to recovery by now. Instead, many expect the predicted $3.3 billion budget shortfall will swell dramatically when new tax collection numbers come out this week.
  • Ortiz quiet about trips
    Editor’s note: It was recently reported that U.S. Rep. Solomon P. Ortiz of South Texas is one of six congressmen who are subjects of a federal investigation into use of travel money.

Guardian

  • British troops suspected of murdering Iraqi civili ...
    Exclusive: Soldiers and airmen are suspected of killing significant number of civilians, but have not been put on trial British soldiers and airmen are suspected of being responsible for the murder and manslaughter of a number of Iraqi civilians in addition to the high-profile case of Baha Mousa , d ...
  • 'Wake-up call' for David Miliband
    Ed Miliband claims message is getting through as poll puts him narrowly ahead of his brother with fortnight to go David Miliband admitted today that his campaign had received a "wake-up call" in the form of a poll putting him two percentage points behind his brother Ed in the Labour leadership conte ...
  • EDL attends New York mosque rally
    At least seven EDL supporters take part in demonstration after far-right group's leader is reportedly turned away at airport Members of the far-right English Defence League protested in New York this weekend against plans for an Islamic cultural centre and mosque near Ground Zero. The group's leader ...
  • Alexander defends welfare cuts
    Chief secretary to the Treasury reiterates pledge that all cuts will be 'fair' and says things have 'moved on' since 19 June memo Senior figures in the coalition government have defended plans to slash £2.5bn from the welfare budget after a letter by the chancellor, George Osborne, to the work and p ...
  • Girl, 11, dies in boating incident
    Girl believed to have been struck by boat after falling off inflatable craft at west London watersports centre An 11-year-old girl has died after a boating accident at a watersports club. Marie-Simone Cronje is understood to have fallen off an inflatable craft and then been struck by the boat that w ...

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

  • Jimmy Carter Was Right
    Today, the Obama administration turned away youth climate activists who wanted to return solar panels to the White House. Climate leader Bill McKibben and three students from Maine’s Unity College had driven to Washington D.C. with one of the solar panels that had been installed on the White House b ...
  • The Costs Of Health Reform To Vary Widely Among St ...
    The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has compiled the states’ estimates of the costs of complying with the provisions in the health care law and found that the numbers vary drastically depending on the generosity of the existing programs, state decisions about implementation, and the the number ...
  • Grassley Challenged On Past Support For Individual ...
    In 2010, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), like the rest of the Republican Party opposes the individual health insurance mandate. He believes that the provision violates the 10th amendment of the Constitution and argues that only states have the authority to require their citizens to purchase coverage. B ...
  • Other States Have Tried Kasich’s Plan To Pri ...
    I’ve already noted that Ohio gubernatorial candidate John Kasich’s (R) contention that his tax cutting proposal will lead to job growth is contradicted by Ohio history (though the plan will double his state’s budget deficit). But Kasich has a second prong to his jobs plan — transforming the Ohio Dep ...
  • Lt. Dan Choi, MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer Rally ...
    This afternoon, Lt. Dan Choi appeared on MSNBC with Contessa Brewer to discuss yesterday’s court ruling striking down the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy on the grounds that it violates the due process cluse of the Fifth Amendment and abridges servicemembers’ First Amendment rights: BREWER: [Judge Phi ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • No Accountability, No Consequences
    Back to dissing the USA's political culture, because it's easy. Also, when I get the time, I'll talk about the intellectual and moral sewer that Canada's political culture is becoming and I want to give that subject the attention it deserves. But I really do want to talk about how the slimy, smarmy ...
  • Belated Labour Day Reflections
    This past Labour Day, the Microsoft Network got the highly original, provocative idea to question whether or not labour unions are obsolete . They spoke with some union-busting scum-bag to see what he thought about the matter and the asshole opined thusly: "Unions are like parasites - good parasites ...
  • This is a REAL Crisis Folks
    When I was just starting to learn about political-economic history I had a habit of responding to economic crises as if they were signalling the end of the current order. Time and time again I underestimated the strength and resiliency of the the US-led economic system. So when the financial crisis ...
  • Tony Blair and Glenn Beck
    There's a nauseating combo 'eh? But this post is just about two quick separate reflections on these two assholes. About Tony Blair, I'd like to review Heather Mallick's review of Tony Blair's latest exercise in self-pity and hypocrisy, My Journey: Andrew Rawnsley, whose recent The End of the Party ...
  • Running a country into the ground
    The absolutely stupid harpercon decision to blow $9,000,000,000.00 on new prisons (ostensibly to jail those convicted of the unreported crimes our useless and intrusive national statistics agency said rose by three percentage points in 2004), joined with the $1,200,000,000.00 wasted on the G8 & G20 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Sentencing delayed again for former head of OSC
    Former Special Counsel Scott Bloch pled guilty earlier this year to one count of criminal contempt of Congress. He was due to be sentenced on Wednesday, but it was delayed so that the magistrate judge can decide whether there is a minimum one-month mandatory jail term. The statute (2 U.S.C. Section ...
  • Seattle Teacher Released After Revealing School's ...
    A recent story published by Seattle’s KOMO News presented yet another case of an individual’s seemingly wrongful termination, after blowing the whistle on his superiors. Sean Taeschner, a former seventh grade teacher at the St. Paul School in Seattle, WA, claims he was fired after revealing that the ...
  • State Department gives no mention of whistleblower ...
    Last April, I submitted a report to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the U.S. State Department about how U.S. law fails to give whistleblowers customary remedies for their retaliation claims. My report listed the international treaties that required the United States to prot ...
  • New York court orders reinstatement of whistleblow ...
    A New York State appellate court has ordered the�New York City Department of Transportation to reinstate whistleblower John Tipaldo. When Tipaldo reported that his superiors violated bidding rules, we was demoted from his position as Acting Assistant Commissioner for Planning. That was in 1996. In 2 ...
  • Harper's reports on yet another whistleblower pros ...
    Harper's Magazine is publishing a report by Scott Horton on yet another prosecution for releasing information. Called " Obama's War on Whistleblowers ," the article focuses on the prosecution of Steven Kim, a scholar of North Korea’s nuclear program. Since Kim did consulting work for the State Depar ...

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

  • How Social Mores Can Deal With 'Unfair' Copying, E ...
    One of the complaints that we hear often from various publishers is the idea that, without copyright, other sites could simply copy all content. In fact, this is the big complaint we keep hearing from newspapers these days -- the idea that they do all this expensive "reporting," and then along come ...
  • John Mellencamp: Takes From Others, But Refuses To ...
    We recently wrote about John Mellencamp's complaints about how the internet and file sharing are destroying the music business. While the actual evidence suggests something entirely different, what may be even more interesting is Mellencamp's rather blatant hypocrisy about such things. One of our ...
  • Evidence Shows You Can, In Fact, 'Compete' With 'F ...
    I've argued in the past that the claim you "can't compete with free," is entirely bogus , not just because people do it all the time, but because the very premise of the argument is wrong. Competition has always been about a lot more than price, and the "free" part is meaningless if a competitor ca ...
  • Lawyer Sues Opposing Lawyer For Defamation
    You don't see this one every day. A lawyer is suing the opposing lawyer in a high profile controversial case about a teenaged runaway, claiming that the opposing lawyer defamed him, by saying in a TV interview that he was "unqualified" and "that he has terrorist ties." While the latter clearly cou ...
  • Judge Not Impressed By Lawsuit By Woman Who Was Ba ...
    We recently wrote about the lawsuit a woman filed, claiming an ADA violation, after Facebook shut down her account for violating the site's terms of service. We were pretty damn skeptical the case could go anywhere, and it appears that it's off to a pretty unpromising start. Kashmir Hill alerts us ...

VacTruth

  • The Possible Role of Vaccines in Causing Retrogres ...
    Today, in stark contrast, approximately one third of our youngsters are afflicted with the 4-A disabilities (Autism, ADHD, asthma, allergies). Could today’s infant and childhood vaccine programs with their steadily increasing numbers of vaccines be a contributory cause of this ominous health trend?
  • Protecting Our Children and The Vaccine Program
    Armies of parents are reporting that they took a normally developing child to the pediatrician for routine shots and their child’s health or behavior changed--never to be the same as before that visit. Thousands upon thousands of parents report similar “coincidental” symptoms related in time to vac ...
  • Vaccine Meeting at FDA
    Both sides of the vaccine injury issue need to interact intelligently because, as one member at that meeting said privately, “We’re both on the same page only at different paragraphs.”
  • Shoulder Injury Related to Vaccine Administration
    A “new” type of vaccine injury that is surfacing called Shoulder Injury Related to Vaccine Administration, or SIRVA. The damage centers on the shoulder and/or upper arm where a vaccine was administered. Sometimes there is an inability to use the affected arm.
  • Epidemic of vaccine suspensions worldwide, as adve ...
    This year alone, has seen India suspend the Measles vaccine, the Cervical cancer vaccine and the HIB vaccine, Australia, the Flu vaccine, Sweden, the Swine Flu vaccine along with Finland and the USA, Switzerland and Jordan, the Rotavirus vaccine. What is going on? Last year the world faced a 'so ca ...

BroadSnark

  • Growing Up Jewish – High Holiday Edition
    Happy New Year!!!!! L’Shanah Tovah !!!!!* Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur are the big deal Jewish holidays.  If you work for a law firm, you might get those days off.  If not, you’ll be working, but the token Jew in your office might not.  (Note: If they are anything like me, they are not going to [. ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Hope you all had a lovely long weekend.  The weather here in DC is gorgeous.  Hopefully, it will stay nice for the radical book fair in Baltimore this weekend. I expect to read about how coops fair better in economic crisis from Dominion.  But I don’t expect to read a plug for coops from The Wall ...
  • Is Universal Possible?
    A couple weeks ago, I went to a forum at Cato called Are Liberty and Equality Compatible?.  (Cato, meh.  Free lunch, score!)  The short story is that James P. Sterba was trying to find a way to squeeze a liberal philosophy into a libertarian mold.  What he came up with was this: 1.  Libertarians bel ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Hello all.  Sorry that I disappeared again last week.  I had every intention of posting while on vacation, but once we busted out that bottle of vodka on the train up there, it was pretty much over.  Who was I kidding? If you haven’t seen it already, the results of the anarchist survey are in.  ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Brownsville, Texas Bans Plastic Bags
    photo via flickr My home state of California couldn't do it, but border town Brownsville, TX, has taken action and banned plastic bags. The ban goes into effect January 5. Shoppers who forget their reusable bags can buy plastic bags for an extra buck. Pharmacies, hardware stores and dry cleaner ...
  • A Blow to Native Forest Logging: Major Australian ...
    Tasmania's Tahune Forest Reserve. Image Credit: ctudball via Flickr In a major victory for the Australian environmental movement, Tasmanian timber company Gunns Limited announced on Thursday that it will no longer engage in native forest logging. Instead, the company, which is the world's large ...
  • Report Claims Bicyclists Responsible for Most Biki ...
    Images: Abragad, via Flickr When the New York Police blamed cyclists for causing 75% of accidents -- without offering supporting data, the organization Right of Way struck back with a report showing only 25% of bikers at fault , and that only on the assumption that the drivers responsible for b ...
  • OPEC Economies Doing Fine - Our Double Dip Is Thei ...
    OPEC Net Oil Export Revenues . Image credit: USEIA Based on projections from the EIA report, September 2010 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) could earn $731 billion of net oil export revenues in 2010. The USA is a big OP ...
  • Main Climate Threat Comes From Stuff We Haven't Ye ...
    We have to stop building polluting infrastructure, now. Photo: eutorphication & hypoxia via flickr. If you think all the carbon-spewing stuff we've built to date, from power plants to cars to airplanes, will just drag us over the climate change tipping point, think again. A new study, published ...

Biosingularity

  • Low Carb Diet Rich in Animal Fat and Protein Incre ...
    Those who adhered to a diet low in carbohydrates but rich in animal-based fats and proteins increased their risk of death – especially by cancer, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, led by Simmons College nutrition professor Teresa Fung, Sc. D. This study is the first ...
  • Multiple personal genomes await
    Genomic data will soon become a commodity; the next challenge — linking human genetic variation with physiology and disease — will be as great as the one genomicists faced a decade ago, says J. Craig Venter. via Multiple personal genomes await : Article : Nature.
  • Low Vitamin D Level Tied to Cognitive Decline
    Two new studies add to evidence that older people with low levels of vitamin D may be more likely to suffer from cognitive impairment. The hope is that vitamin D supplements may be able to slow mental decline — an intervention that one research team plans to put to the test this summer. Vitamin D [. ...
  • Essentials of Genetics | Learn Science at Scitable
    Why does a commercial dairy cow produce four times as much milk as most other mammals? Why do we look like our cousins? Why do roses come in so many different colors? The answers to these and other questions about the diversity of living things involve processes that occur at the level of genes. Ess ...
  • Replacement Bones, Grown to Order in the Lab
    IF a lover breaks your heart, tissue engineers can’t fix it. But if sticks and stones break your bones, scientists may be able to grow custom-size replacements. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, a professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, has solved one of many problems on the way to succe ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

  • Climate change and renewable energy movements falt ...
    The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. Today, on energy security issues, we unfortunately have less to worry about from external enemies, than from our own elitist politicians, bureaucrats and pressure groups.
  • 'Reconstructing' climate change
    The IPCC may therefore be allowed to die a timely death. Its budgets can be cut or frozen, and its transition to the added status of becoming a full-blown UN agency pushed further back.
  • An Inconvenient Terrorist
    Armed eco-terrorist who experienced an “awakeningâ€Â by watching Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth was shot and killed after storming Discovery Channel Building. Radical manifesto condemns 'parasitic children' and human civilization, calling for sterilization and giving the planet back to the squirr ...
  • End environmental experiments on Africans!
    Environmentalists are using African parents and children in anti-DDT experiments. They are playing with our lives. So are the government agencies and others who support their policies. This is wrong and immoral. And it is only one of the ways they use Africans as experimental laboratory animals.
  • Prepare for an ice age!
    "Little ice ages" are the flip side of the 1500-year warming cycle. We should take advantage of the favorable climate we are currently enjoying to increase research on high-yield agriculture, biotechnology, water conservation and other advances now only dreamt of.

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Pruning Shears

  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. Also: Contrast that report from a government-friendly American outlet with this :The United States claims its drone attacks target militant ...
  • The Persistence of Selfishness
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post While reading ECONned by Yves Smith I was struck by the following from her coverage of neoclassical economics (p. 99): Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen uses an anecdote to illustrate the problem of assuming actors act solely out of sel ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The ACLU provided the latest reason for card carrying members (like me) to be grateful they’re around. Thanks for nothing, President Corleone. I’ve linked to this Paul Krugman piece before (here is his latest version of it), but I t ...
  • The Ongoing Relevance of the White House Email Fia ...
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post On Monday Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released a detailed report ( pdf ) on the Bush administration’s loss of millions of emails. They inherited a system called ARMS (Automatic Records Managements Sys ...
  • PAYPAL IS THE WORST COMPANY IN THE WORLD
    Per your request , John.� Hope it helps.

Organic Consumers.org

  • Fallout Continues for Arkansas Rice Farmers Contam ...
    The European Union said no longer accepts U.S. rice. The market in Japan for American rice has also been hurt by discovery of the genetically modified traits in commercial rice. Rice saved for seed has to be certified as free of genetically modified traits, and that certification has to be done at t ...
  • Fair World Project: New Voice for Fair Trade Move ...
    The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) launched the Fair World Project (FWP) today to promote fair trade in commerce, especially in organic production systems in developing countries as well as at home, and to protect the term "fair trade" from dilution and misuse for mere PR purposes. The OCA's ne ...
  • Creating Food Sovereignty for Small-Scale Farmers
    : Raj Patel has degrees from the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics and Cornell University, has worked for the World Bank and WTO, and protested against them around the world. He has testified about the causes of the global food crisis to the US House Financial Services Committee a ...
  • Could Eucalyptus Trees be the Kudzu of the 2010s?
    There was a time in the South when planting kudzu was not viewed as botanical vandalism, but as a community-spirited gesture. The vine, imported from Asia, was intended to control erosion and provide forage for livestock. Click here to read this article
  • Where the Salmonella Really Came From
    It's been nearly one month since the nationwide recall of 550 million eggs, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) still hasn't figured out where the salmonella that sickened 1,470 people originated. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes IX
    Tres veces por semana, el editor del Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas (José Luis Ávila Herrera), selecciona entre 5 y 10 fotografías, que deberán cumplir ciertos parámetros de calidad. Al paso de los días, usted ha logrado que esta serie sea de las más esperadas por nuestros miles de suscriptores y visit ...
  • Rosas de colores parte I (12 fotografías gratis)
    El día de hoy, daré inicio a una nueva serie titulada ' Rosas de colores '. Aquí les dejo la primera parte con 12 fotos muy hermosas y espero de verdad que les gusten. No se pierdan nuestras próximas entregas. Aprovecho para enviar saludos a todos los países de LatinoAmérica. Gracias por estar aquí. ...
  • Ciudades con vista nocturna III (10 postales)
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y vea más fotografías 2.- Conozca nuestro fotoblog oficial (www.1m4g ...
  • Fotografías de armas parte IV (9 fotos espectacula ...
    Esta es la cuarta parte de nuestra colección de fotos sobre armas . Si usted desea ver las entregas anteriores, haga usted click aquí por favor. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIO ...
  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes VIII
    Casi sin darnos cuenta, hemos llegado ya a la parte número VIII de nuestra serie titulada 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. Sin perder mi buen gusto y esperando que sean de su agrado, aquí están 7 nuevas fotos para disfrutarlas despacio o para decorar el fondo de su ordenador. Para ver ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • NPR Asks CLF Scholar: Is Organically Produced Food ...
    Center for a Livable Future Visiting Scholar, Kate Clancy, joined two other prominent scientists for a panel discussion Friday on National Public Radio’s Science Friday program. The conversation centered on recent research showing organically grown strawberries have more vitamin C and antioxidants t ...
  • Tour dem veggies: An East Baltimore bicycle garden ...
    Fueled by cherry tomatoes and lemonade, three-dozen bikers (this blogger included) hit the pavement last Saturday afternoon for a seven-mile tour of seven great community gardens in East Baltimore. We started the ride at the 22-year old Duncan Street Miracle Garden, a one-acre fruit and vegetable ha ...
  • Richmond’s Urban Agriculture Institutes: A First ...
    I wanted to post an impact study that I performed this year of the Urban Agriculture Institutes that I used to run in Richmond, Calif.  This paper represents the first step in a program evaluation of Urban Tilth’s Urban Agriculture Institutes.  While this study had an intervention/control cross se ...
  • Response to “Math Lessons for Locavores” op-ed
    Grist.org recently invited bloggers through it’s Grist Talk: Food Fight series to respond to an August 20th op-ed piece, “Math Lessons for Locavores,” by Stephen Budiansky in the New York Times.  What follows is my response: “I agree with Mr. Budiansky that freight is by some measures cheap, and ...
  • Exposing the role of the food industry in conditio ...
    Book Review:  The end of overeating.  By David Kessler, MD David Kessler the former FDA Chief under George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton has written a very important book in the evolution of public thinking about food, nutrition and the obesity epidemic that is gripping our nation.  The basic premise ...

Norwegianity

  • Safely post-9/11 (for another year)
    Frank Rich on Obama fighting back today. For a guy facing a tidal wave, the president was so ebullient, you had to wonder if he knew something we didn’t. Maybe he simply read the unabridged poll numbers rather than the CliffsNotes summaries of cable news. Those numbers are hardly as monochromatic as ...
  • Jerking ourselves off day
    Jingo hells, jingo hells . . . happy Rudy Giu911ani Day! This screenshot from this morning’s Strib. How, pray tell, do you add “politics” to the most politicized holiday this side of Hitler’s birthday? The NYTimes says, “The rebirth of ground zero honors the victims.” Ground Zero has been reborn? Wh ...
  • Updating ‘promises, not threats’
    My note from the other day actually proved to be constructive. I was just visited by one of St. Paul’s finest. That’s a good thing. While it means I was over the top in my bellicose language to the stop sign runner, it also means that she’s just had a talk with a policeman who, [...]
  • Into the abyss of cultism
    He’s wavering, he might or he might not. He could, but maybe he won’t. If only the world would stop, revolve around his asshole for a while longer, then maybe. Or not. I think we can all agree on the fact that the so-called Reverend Terry Jones is a publicity-seeking, cunt-faced, messianic prick who ...
  • I make promises, not threats.
    I just left this note under the windshield of a car parked a few blocks from my place. Dear Neighbor, Today at 12:20 pm I was walking north on Raymond to mail a letter at the box next to the Hampton Park Coop. Just as I was about to enter the crosswalk I saw your [...]

Public News Service

  • Disability Activists: Dump the Pity
    Disability Activists: Dump the Pity Phoenix, AZ - The annual Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon has again raised millions of dollars for services and research into muscular dystrophy, ALS and related diseases. But some former "Jerry's Kids" claim that the telethon promotes stereotypes of people with disabilit ...
  • AZ Union Leader: Little to Celebrate This Labor Da ...
    AZ Union Leader: Little to Celebrate This Labor Day Phoenix, AZ – The head of Arizona’s largest labor organization says unemployment has yet to bottom out in the state, and that the political climate is making things worse. AFL-CIO Executive Director Rebekah Friend says the federal stimulus program ...
  • AZ Ranchers and Conservationists Begin New Era in ...
    AZ Ranchers and Conservationists Begin New Era in Wolf Management Tucson, AZ – Compensation programs for livestock losses in the Mexican gray wolf reintroduction program are being taken over by the federal government. At the same time, new efforts are underway to prevent livestock losses in the firs ...
  • 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 Women Have New 5-Day Emergency Contraceptive Op ...
    AZ Women Have New 5-Day Emergency Contraceptive Option Phoenix, AZ – Arizona women have another emergency contraceptive option after federal health officials last week approved a new type of morning-after pill. The “ella” pill reduces the chances for pregnancy up to five days after sex. Comments fro ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Blood on our Farms: Is Monsanto Responsible for 1 ...
    India is in the midst of a flood of suicides among farmers. A new feature film written and directed by Anusha Rizwi and produced by Bollywood megastar Aamir Khan, called Peepli Live, takes a look at this grim topic. Submitted by Kellie S. to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • September 7, 2010 Update By Sheldan Nidle for the ...
    Your world is poised on a precipice! The dark intends to take you to the very brink of extinction. They are a severely mean-spirited bunch, and dealing with them is like working with a gang of spoilt and malicious 5-year-olds who intend serious, grievous Submitted by Ellyn S. to Offbeat �|� �Note-i ...
  • An Act Of War: The US Congress is Actively Pushing ...
    Hat Tip http://fma7.wordpress.com/ also see http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/ http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2009/12/20-dec-mission-in-afghanistanetc.html http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2010/04/politics-of-perception-foreign-policy.html Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't � ...
  • Solidarity and Support for Juan, Indy Journalist & ...
    Juan Pablo Lepore, 28, was arrested on the morning of September 2 in Montreal, for participating in the G20 Summit in Toronto this June.Juan Pablo was transferred to Toronto the same night and appeared in court Friday morning. The crown has refused releas Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Not ...
  • So Gross and Notorious an Act of Despotism
    Gary Farber looks at U.S. law as it has applied to 'national security' in the past and the open evolution of the All Powerful Executive ; able to ignore law and 'rights' at Will. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Sept. 11 bereaved families group: We support effor ...
    Focus U.S.A. / Sept. 11 bereaved families group: We support efforts to build NYC Islamic center - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News: "Donna Marsh O'Connor, the national spokesperson for the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • An Ethnobotanical Survey Of Plants Used To Manage ...
    An Ethnobotanical Survey Of Plants Used To Manage HIV/AIDS Opportunistic Infections In Katima Mulilo, Caprivi Region, Namibia - Indigenous Peoples Issues and ResourcesKatima Mulilo has the highest... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Report Of The Expert Mechanism On The Rights Of In ...
    Report Of The Expert Mechanism On The Rights Of Indigenous Peoples On Its Third Session: 15th Session Human Rights Council - Indigenous Peoples Issues and ResourcesThe Expert Mechanism on the Rights... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Iran: It’s Not Munich, 1938–It’s Cuba, 1962
    Iran: It’s Not Munich, 1938–It’s Cuba, 1962 � Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place: "Bibi Netanyahu is fond of saying, regarding Iran, that it’s Munich and the year is 1938: what the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Muslim scholars convince S. African court to block ...
    Muslim scholars convince S. African court to block Bible burning | Raw Story: "A South African court has blocked a Muslim businessman's plan to burn Bibles on Saturday in response to a Florida... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • The Truth Squad Radio Show with Guest John Ozberkm ...
    This week's special guest is John Ozberkmen from the website "The National Expositor"! John gives a chilling look at how law enforcement agencies now seem to be focused on targeting non-criminals.
  • My Dogs Won’t Drink the Rainwater
    I trust my dogs' senses of smell and taste way over what we're told by government, academia and media. Today there was something about this fresh rain water that they wanted no part of.
  • Brainwashed Americans
      Wally Paul Republic Defiance Brainwashing in American culture is a mixture of those things that we are downloaded with on a daily basis that are not true or even absurd. For example it is absurd to believe that it is helpful and good to give all one day old infants an extremely dangerous and [...] ...
  • Was the BP disaster created in order to turn the G ...
    This oil spill, whether sabotage, negligence, accident or design is the perfect way to eliminate fossil fuels such as oil and to advance this biofuel agenda. They will sacrifice the Gulf and all who live in or around it for this multi-trillion dollar industry.
  • I Am A New World Order Minion
    We used the Hegelian Dialectic of problem, reaction, solution when we, acting as the controlled opposition, put out the very clever film "Food Inc".

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Twelve U.S. soldiers face trial after Afghan civil ...
    ShareThis Twelve U.S. soldiers face trial after Afghan civilians 'were killed for sport and their fingers collected as trophies' 10 Sep 2010 A dozen US soldiers are facing trail accused of being part of a 'kill team' that allegedly killed Afghan civilians in an arbitrary fashion - and they even coll ...
  • Soldier's father: Army was warned of murder plot
    ShareThis Soldier's father: Army was warned of murder plot �10 Sep 2010 The father of a U.S. soldier serving in Afghanistan says he tried nearly a half dozen times to pass an urgent message from his son to the Army: Troops in his unit had murdered an Afghan civilian, planned more killings and threat ...
  • British journalist held in Pakistan released
    ShareThis British journalist held in Pakistan released 09 Sep 2010 A British journalist held captive by extremists in Pakistan's militant-hit northwest has been released, the British embassy confirmed Thursday. Journalist Asad Qureshi went missing in March while travelling to North Waziristan with a ...
  • Pentagon Plan: Buying Then Destroying Books to Kee ...
    ShareThis Pentagon Plan: Buying Then Destroying�Books to Keep Secrets --DoD officials are negotiating to buy and destroy all 10,000 copies of the first printing of an Afghan war memoir . 10 Sep 2010 Defense Department officials are negotiating to buy and destroy all 10,000 copies of the first printi ...
  • CNN report: IDF sexually abused Palestinian childr ...
    ShareThis CNN report: IDF sexually abused Palestinian children �09 Sep 2010 Explosive accusations on CNN: A CNN investigative report aired Thursday slammed the treatment of Palestinian children by IDF soldiers. The report included uncorroborated charges of sexual abuse against Palestinian youngsters ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • How objective was the Climategate inquiry?
    I've been too busy writing and editing the new Arthur Allan Thomas book to blog much in recent weeks, but couldn't resist this revelation about the old boys network's whitewash of Climategate. Here's how it happened...originally from Climate Audit, via...
  • Biggest aftershock rocks Christchurch again
  • Open thread on Christchurch earthquake
    Your comments and experiences are welcome
  • IPCC gets a credibility hammering
    This alert through from Benny Peiser's newsletter The Daily Telegraph. 31 August 2010 By Stephen Adams and Robert Winnett An independent investigation into the UN's climate change body has warned it to stop lobbying and to restrict its role to...
  • History in colour
    We've all seen the black and white photos of yesteryear, a time before the invention of colour photography. So how's this picture from the days of Imperial Russia, 1909, grab you: They were taken by a process involving three b&w...

Mondoweiss

  • After Birthright: ‘We’re not stereotypes’
    A short film made in December, 2007 by Images for life project with Al-Rowwad center in Aida refugee camp. Last month, activist Rachel Marcuse spent 10 days in Israel as part of the�Taglit-Birthright program�-- a fully sponsored trip for young North American Jews to learn more [...]
  • Netanyahu said Iran was 3-5 years away from nuclea ...
    Back in 1995, Benjamin Netanyahu published a scary book called Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat the International Terrorist Network that says that radical Islam is trying to conquer�the west and extend Muslim rule. I carried a copy out with me to Jordan. From page 121:"The best estimat ...
  • In the Wake of 9/11, Israel Put Iran into the &#82 ...
    On September 11, 2001, after two terrorist attacks occurred on U.S. soil, Israeli political figures anticipated that the Americans�finally be�able to empathize with Israel’s vulnerability to�terror. In the hours immediately following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Israel ...
  • On night before 9/11, New Yorkers voice strong sup ...
    Rep. Keith Ellison's speech to the candlelight vigil. (Video: Alex Kane) As the the anniversary of 9/11 and the Islamophobic rally led by far-right blogger Pamela Geller converge today, over 1,000 New Yorkers gathered Sept. 10 at Park Place in lower Manhattan for a candlelight vigil in support of th ...
  • TIME on the Corrie trial: ‘it has already va ...
    Karl Vick has done it again. A few days after angering the ADL for his reporting on Israeli feelings toward the peace process, Vick reports from the Corrie trial in Haifa. From Israel's Military on the Spot Over Activist's Death:Neither thorough nor credible, and every bit as transparent as a sandst ...

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

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury featur ...
  • 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 ...

Michael Yon

  • One Cell Phone at a Time: Countering Corruption in ...
    Dan Rice and Guy Filippelli American commanders are preparing for a major offensive in Afghanistan to attack one of the most formidable enemies we face in country: corruption.��� Despite sincere efforts to promote governance and accountability initiatives, Afghanistan has slipped from 112th to158th ...
  • 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 ...

The Killing Train

  • Bruce Levine on Surviving America's Depression Epi ...
    I'm reading Bruce Levine's "Surviving America's Depression Epidemic". The story of how I got the book is interesting. I was reading some psychology books a while back (Alfie Kohn, Alice Miller) and a reader of this blog suggested that no psychology reading list would be complete without Levine's "Co ...
  • 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 ...

treehugger

  • Brownsville, Texas Bans Plastic Bags
    photo via flickr My home state of California couldn't do it, but border town Brownsville, TX, has taken action and banned plastic bags. The ban goes into effect January 5. Shoppers who forget their reusable bags can buy plastic bags for an extra buck. Pharmacies, hardware stores and dry cleaner ...
  • A Blow to Native Forest Logging: Major Australian ...
    Tasmania's Tahune Forest Reserve. Image Credit: ctudball via Flickr In a major victory for the Australian environmental movement, Tasmanian timber company Gunns Limited announced on Thursday that it will no longer engage in native forest logging. Instead, the company, which is the world's large ...
  • Report Claims Bicyclists Responsible for Most Biki ...
    Images: Abragad, via Flickr When the New York Police blamed cyclists for causing 75% of accidents -- without offering supporting data, the organization Right of Way struck back with a report showing only 25% of bikers at fault , and that only on the assumption that the drivers responsible for b ...
  • OPEC Economies Doing Fine - Our Double Dip Is Thei ...
    OPEC Net Oil Export Revenues . Image credit: USEIA Based on projections from the EIA report, September 2010 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) could earn $731 billion of net oil export revenues in 2010. The USA is a big OP ...
  • Main Climate Threat Comes From Stuff We Haven't Ye ...
    We have to stop building polluting infrastructure, now. Photo: eutorphication & hypoxia via flickr. If you think all the carbon-spewing stuff we've built to date, from power plants to cars to airplanes, will just drag us over the climate change tipping point, think again. A new study, published ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Bago shootings spark riot fears
    State media claims plot is being hatched by exiled media to spark retaliation against the killing of two men by troops in Bago division
  • Rebel students turn the tide
    The fire that galvanised thousands of youngsters to take up arms in 1988 is slowly fading at a refugee school run by former Burmese student rebels
  • Than Shwe tips a hat to China
    Burma junta supremo thanks China for 'aid and support over the years' as the end of a top-level diplomatic visit nears
  • Footage shows scorched earth Karen state
    Evidence of a village razed by Burmese troops in July captured on camera as disturbing images emerge of children in Bago division shot and killed
  • Business tycoons gear up for 7 Nov
    More than a dozen influential businessmen rumoured to have joined the ranks of the junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

  • San Bruno Fire Pictures: "Hell on Earth" in Califo ...
    NoneA gas line explosion that unleashed deadly, thousand-foot-high fireballs reduced blocks of San Bruno, California, to "hell on earth" on Thursday, one resident said. California - San Bruno - United States - San Bruno California - Business and Economy
  • Fire Tornado Filmed in Hawaii
    While battling a blaze on the slopes of Mauna Kea in August, a Hawaii firefighter captured rare footage of a fire tornado, or fire whirl. Video. Hawaii - Mauna Kea - United States - Business - Earth Sciences
  • Warming Solution: Just Stop Cold?
    The burden on the planet from today's cars and buildings is bearable, say researchers who warn that future added emissions are the real risk. Environment - Climate change - Opposing Views - United States - Greenhouse gas
  • Oil Inside Gulf Crabs May Be Shed
    Found to have oil droplets inside them, blue crab larvae from near the BP spill may lose the oil as they grow, scientists say. Video. Blue crab - BP - Oil spill - Larva - Food chain
  • Mining the Truth on Coal Supplies
    A new study challenges the belief that the globe holds vast stores of coal, the world's leading and most carbon-intensive electricity fuel. Coal - Mining - Technology - Energy - Electricity

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Serbia prosecutor charges 9 with Kosovo war crimes
    [JURIST] Serbia's Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor [official website] on Saturday announced charges against nine individuals for their suspected involvement in the 1998-1999 Kosovo war [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. The charges include [AP report] murder, rape, looting, destruction of p ...
  • ICTY orders former Kosovo PM to remain in custody
    [JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] on Friday ordered [text, PDF] former Kosovo Albanian military leader Ramush Haradinaj [ICTY materials, PDF; JURIST news archive] to remain in custody while awaiting a new trial. The court determined that ...
  • Federal appeals court upholds verdict for Chevron ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Friday upheld [opinion, PDF] a jury verdict clearing Chevron [corporate website] of wrongdoing in the 1998 deaths of two protesters occupying a Nigerian oil platform operated by the company. Protesters Arolika Irowarinun an ...
  • Guinea officials convicted of election fraud
    [JURIST] Two Guinea election officials were convicted Friday of election fraud and sentenced to a year in jail for irregularities with June's presidential primary election. The convictions of Ben Sekou Sylla, president of the election commission, and his top aide, El Hadj Boubacar Diallo, have raise ...
  • Ninth Circuit rules tattoo parlors protected by Fi ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Thursday invalidated [opinion, PDF] a municipal ban on tattoo parlors by Hermosa Beach, California, calling it a violation of the First Amendment. The controversy initially arose when Johnny Anderson was denied a permit to ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • How Sarah Palin Might Have Responded to Schwarzene ...
    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger poked some Twitter fun at Sarah Palin yesterday: Over Anchorage, AK. Looking everywhere but can't see Russia from here. Will keep you updated as search continues. http://twitpic.com/2mvxod Palin herself didn't respond. But a friend and adviser of Palin's, Rebecca Mansou ...
  • Perceptions and the Economy: A Response
    John Sides takes issue with my suggestion that "Americans might look at the national jobs numbers to get cues about how they should feel, but their pessimism about the economy is driven by their personal situations, which includes the interactions they have with members of their peer group who ...
  • Six Newsiest Sound Bites From Obama's Press C ...
    The plan to close GTMO was a failure, but it was still the right thing to do. Well, the -- you know, we have succeeded on delivering a lot of campaign promises that we made. One where we've fallen short is closing Guantanamo. I wanted to close it sooner. We have missed that deadline. It's not for ...
  • Why Something So Trivial Can Be So Dangerous
    How can something so trivial be so dangerous? This is something that we cannot understand. Americans, by and large, cannot and will never empathize nor even understand the resentment felt by Muslims other aggrieved people. They've never experienced it. They've never had to struggle. So how would ...
  • CIA Director: America's Strength Is in its Di ...
    The annual 9/11 message from the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta, to his employees: Tomorrow, our country will remember the terrible day on which nearly 3,000 Americans were killed by terrorists.� Because al-Qa'ida's victims were innocent men, women, and children going ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Iran: It’s Not Munich, 1938–It’s Cuba, 1962
    Bibi Netanyahu is fond of saying, regarding Iran, that it’s Munich and the year is 1938: what the west does now will determine whether Iran will get nuclear weapons and whether Israel’s existence will be endangered as a result.  Capitulate and we will have another Holocaust.  Resist Iran’s nuclear ...
  • Links for 2010-06-05 [Digg]
    MV Rachel Corrie Forcibly Seized by Israeli Navy, Towed to A Malaysian NGO funding Rachel Corrie trip to Gaza reports she was seized a few mintues ago by Israeli navy and is being towed to Ashdod.
  • To a Good, Sweet and Peaceful New Year
    Blessed are You God and may we have a good and sweet New Year! I hope you’re able to enjoy my favorite apple variety, Honeycrisp, and dip them in some local honey and enjoy that indescribable mix of sweet and sour that comes from a bite of apple dipped in honey. May we have a [...] Related posts: ...
  • Mossad Recruiting U.S. Muslims, CIA Poll Ranks Isr ...
    Jeff Stein, writing about intelligence matters at the Washington Post, notes a recent poll of CIA personnel ranking U.S. allies from best to worst in terms of the nature of their coöperation and relationship with our spy agency.  Here’s the result: âIsrael came in dead last,â a recently retire ...
  • Chernick Funds Horowitz-Spencer Attacks on Park51 ...
    Pajama Media’s alum Pam Geller struck gold when she discovered a Sufi group intended to building a mosque and Muslim community center two blocks from Ground Zero.  Now, her cause has been embraced by more powerful rightist pro-Israel forces, Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch and his patron, David Horow ...

Ode Magazine

  • Activism for beginners
    How three friends rescued hundreds of Uganda's child soldiers. Just like other children in northern Uganda, these students dream of safety and attending one of the schools supported by Invisible Children. But they continue to live in fear of a rebel group that has been abducting and ensl ...
  • Ode to Andy Smallman
    Kindness 101 Photograph: Tim Willis Andy Smallman didn’t set out to become an expert on kindness. But when a student at the Puget Sound Community School, the Seattle-based alternative middle and high school Smallman founded in 1994, pointed out that the media didn’t cover good new ...
  • People-powered research
    Scientists used community-based participatory research to improve the health of these young soccer players in Orange County, New York. Photo: Susan Leggett/Dreamstime.com Scientific studies are moving out of the lab and into neighborhoods, thanks to an innovative method called co ...
  • Positively transformative
    Learning centers offer that important personal touch. In the midst of the worst economic recession since the Great Depression, most academic hubs are reassessing their futures, trying to maintain a level of rigor and service in the face of dwindling endowments and anxious students. ...
  • If you've got it, spend it
    How consumer spending can help create a fairer, richer, greener and more stable global economy. Is my money safe? Will my wages get paid? Will I even have a job? What about my pension? What is my home really worth? Such questions had never even crossed the minds of most people in ...

OpEd News

  • The 9/11 Cover Up Is America's Greatest Bamboozle
    The most dispicable act of American treason was the 9/11 false flag operation and carefully orchestrated cover up which continues to this day. The Obama administration is determined to keep this bamboozle covered up and is, as such, complicit in hiding the truth of 9/11: Allen L Roland
  • It's Hard to Feel Encouraged
    It's hard to feel encouraged. We seem fractured in ways beyond the Islamophobia of the pastor in Florida and the resistance to the Islamic center to be built in N.Y.C. The real fracturing in this country is the depth of corporatism infecting and influencing everything. The people's interests suffer. ...
  • To Be a Muslim in America: "On a Wing and a Prayer ...
    Review of a film and panel discussion held yesterday in Washington, DC, to commemorate 9/11.
  • President Paul Kagame is a Master of Political Ass ...
    Rwanda, Kagame, Assassination Human rights
  • The Best Defense Against Attacks Like 9-11
    It is time to realize that attack after attack is not our best defense. When we lash out to attack those who attack us, we are caught in the trap of dual morality, and our enemies are, as well. This is a moment in history when we can collectively choose to bend the arc of history toward love and com ...

Switchboard

  • Thumbs up for EPA hydraulic fracturing investigati ...
    Yesterday the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)  announced that it has sent letters to nine hydraulic fracturing companies as part of the agency's scientific investigation into the environmental and health impacts of hydraulic fracturing. In these letters , the EPA asked the c ...
  • Another reported case of drinking water contaminat ...
    Today I heard from a resident of the Barnett Shale in Texas with yet one more account of drinking water contamination after nearby hydraulic fracturing. Susan Knoll reports that last year her drinking water became�foamy right after hydraulic fracturing of a well adjacent to her propert ...
  • 'Welcome to Shelbyville': a community of immigrati ...
    The upcoming documentary film Welcome to Shelbyville  is "a glimpse of America at a crossroads," according to its executive producer, the BeCause Foundation:   "In one small town in the heart of America's Bible Belt in the South, a community grapples with rapidly changing demographi ...
  • Incidents where hydraulic fracturing is a suspecte ...
    Updated: September 9, 2010 NRDC supports federal regulation of hydraulic fracturing under the Safe Drinking Water Act. We believe this is a sensible approach that would ensure a minimum federal floor of drinking water protection in the more than 30 states where oil and gas production ...
  • Key steps on global warming need to be agreed in M ...
    This December, 194 countries will be in Cancun, Mexico to continue negotiations on international efforts to address climate change.  My colleagues and I are in Mexico City this week for a series of discussions with key government officials, NGOs, businesses, and members of the media so ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Obituary Sunday
    Jefferson Thomas, R.I.P. We should never forget the courage of the young men and women who actually had to put their lives on the line to attend school in the face of state violence or state-sanctioned violence. Claude Chabrol, R.I.P. His skills were indeed relatively undiminished; 2006’s The ...
  • On destroying the Towers before 9/11
    Because I’m a little worried about bandwidth issues (and know that everyone’s not into the minutiae of comic history), instead of posting it in full, I’m just going to slap a link to my bit about Liefeld and McFarlane’s wanton destruction of downtown Manhattan in 1991.  I’ll be finishing up my seri ...
  • “I Hate Tennessee”
    In honor of tomorrow’s Oregon-Tennessee tilt, I feel compelled to repost this: Loomis and I are leaving for MordorKnoxville early tomorrow morning. Pray for our safe return. Related posts:“I’ve Just Made a Deal That’ll Keep the Empire Out of Here Forever” Wow, Conservatives Really Do Hate McCa ...
  • Jim Crow Returns To 11CA
    Ah, the American judicial system.   An employer engages in racial discrimination sufficiently egregious that an Alabama jury find it illegal.     The 11th Circuit throws out the verdict.    Its reasoning is so specious that a unanimous Supreme Court rejects it.  Another jury finds the discrimination ...
  • On Attempts to Turn MLK Into K-Lo
    This is so good I’d be linking it even if it didn’t mention Edroso…. Related posts:WA Gov. controversy takes an ugly turn "Before you could say Eric Keroack you’d turn your back and I’d be gone." Bush Attempts to Undo Legacy of Roosevelt, Again Related posts: WA Gov. controversy takes an ugly t ...

Desert Research Institute

  • The American Indian Science and Engineering Societ ...
    The Most Promising Engineer/Scientist Award will be presented to Dr. Karletta Chief at the 32nd American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) Annual National Conference.
  • 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).

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • SURVEY OF LAW FIRM ECONOMICS: How small and midsiz ...
    This year, for the first time, the NLJ has partnered with ALM Legal Intelligence to bring readers results from The Survey of Law Firm Economics. Taken by 187 firms — most with fewer than 150 attorneys — the survey provides a rare glimpse into the financial health of firms outside the Am Law 200 and ...
  • High court could melt climate-change cases
    Perched on an Alaskan barrier island, the village of Kivalina faces imminent destruction because of melting sea ice. Now, the community's legal effort — which pins the blame on energy companies for the change in climate — is in danger as well. So, too, is a pair of high-profile climate-change suits ...
  • Battlegrounds
    Voters this fall will have the chance to shift the makeup of multiple state supreme courts, as candidates and interests groups battle over tort law, judicial philosophy and hot-button social issues. Multiple contests will also be on the November ballots in Alabama, Arkansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohi ...
  • Wilmer, ex-client spar over 'don't ask' lawsuit
    Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr is battling with a former client, who claims the firm cost him an opportunity to have his challenge to the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • 1st Circuit hears liability dispute over failure t ...
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit heard oral argument on Sept. 10 about whether a telephone equipment provider is contractually liable for damages paid by a telephone company sued for failing to properly block minors from chat lines.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Gas Bubbling from the Susquehanna River
    http://74.95.82.237:591/rconline/FMPro?-db=RCOnline.fp5&-format=record_detail.html&-Lay=Detail&CurrentRecordID=12635350&-find Gas Bubbling from River at Sugar Run – by David Keeler – 9/2/2010 Click here for video clip
  • Keep the Promise Town Hall-PA Severance Tax!
    September 9, Thursday— Keep the Promise Town Hall in Jersey Shore, Lycoming County between Williamsport and Lock Haven, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Robert H. Wheeland Center, 1201 Locust Street, Jersey Shore, PA 17740 (part of Citizens Hose Company, Station 45) www.station45.org/wheeland_center.htm To register a ...
  • EPA’s Public Meeting on Hydraulic Fracturing
    EPA’s Public Meeting on Hydraulic Fracturing Study to Take Place in Binghamton, New York; Meeting Scheduled for September 13 and 15 at the Broome County Forum Theater Release date: 08/31/2010 Contact Information: John Senn, (212) 637-3667, senn.john@epa.gov New York, NY – The U.S. Environmental Prot ...
  • Letter to the Editor, Aug. 29, 2010
    A Letter to the Editor, Towanda, PA: Loss of one resource for another? EDITOR: Being a licensed Pennsylvania water well driller for the past 40 years and being born and raised in the Towanda area, I feel I must respond to the stories I keep reading about the gas drilling companies shifting the blame ...
  • NEW PENN STATE RESEARCH CENTER
    This is brand new… http://www.marcellus.psu.edu/

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Braking of Subway Trains To Generate Power for Ele ...
    The transit authority in metropolitan Philadelphia is launching a pilot project under which the energy created by braking subway trains will be transferred to a large battery that can then either use the electricity to help power the transit system or sell the power to the region’s electricity grid. ...
  • U.S. Sues LED Bulb Maker, Saying Lights Fail to Pe ...
    The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sued Lights of America, a manufacturer of LED bulbs, accusing the company of significantly overstating the power and longevity of its lights. The suit is the first federal case challenging the marketing claims of so-called Light Emitting Diode technology, which ...
  • Interview: A Growing Wind Industry Moves Europe Cl ...
    For the past two years, 40 percent of all new electricity generating capacity in Europe came from wind turbines — more than any other source. And although only five percent of Europe’s electricity is now produced by wind turbines, that figure is expected to rise to 15 percent by 2020 and to 50 perce ...
  • Steady Growth of Wind Industry Moves EU Closer to ...
    Europe is in the midst of a wind energy boom, with the continent now installing more wind power capacity than any other form of energy. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, the European Wind Energy Association's Christian Kjaer describes his vision of how wind can lead the way in making Europe ...
  • Networks of Small Reserves Are Best Way to Protect ...
    A United Nations report says that the most effective way to protect fisheries and coral reefs is to establish networks of small marine protected areas around the globe, rather than large reserves where fishing bans are often ignored. The U.N. University’s Institute for Water, Environment, and Health ...

Red Ice Creations

  • The island that came out of nowhere
    On the horizon, a low, white crescent shimmered in the sunshine: the perfect image of a desert island, save for a disappointing shortage of palm trees. "There you have it," said Pierre Becker, chairman of the Sauveteurs de Mer (lifeboatmen) of Royan, a seaside resort at the mouth of the Gironde estu ...
  • Diagrams of the Sinking of the Deepwater Horizon ( ...
    The US Federal Government, a full-blown accomplice, has enabled BP – the perpetrator of a Crime against Humanity, a Crime against the Planet, a Crime against a Nation (USA), a Crime against a Major Body of Water – to completely control its own crime scene. What we have, therefore, are psychopaths, w ...
  • New Find Pushes Age of Stone Tools Back A Million ...
    The genus Homo is no longer the sole primate lineage known to have used stone tools to consume the meat of large mammals. New research pushes that skill back nearly a million years. Large fossilized animal bones with ends shattered for sucking out marrow and cut marks deliberately made with sharp st ...
  • With BP spill under control, US looks at drill ban
    Now that the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history has effectively been stopped, the White House is considering an early end to its moratorium on deepwater drilling. But four months after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, regulators have only started to make good on promises to overhaul dri ...
  • Experts call for David Kelly inquest
    A group of prominent legal and medical experts today called for a full inquest into the death of the government scientist David Kelly in 2003. An inquest was suspended by Lord Falconer, then lord chancellor, before the Hutton inquiry into the circumstances of the scientist's death. It was not resume ...

Russia Today

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

  • Close Shaves and Alien Volcanoes
    Did you hear of the close shave we had with an asteroid yesterday? (The asteroid is the streak) Check this out from Wired: When asteroid 2010 RX30 zipped past Earth early Wednesday, observers at the Remanzacco Observatory in Italy were ready. At 12:45 a.m. Mountain time, amateur astronomers Ernesto ...
  • Out of body experiences, 9/11 Premonitions and Syn ...
    My ol’ pal Highwayman have been having quite a discussion lately (with him doing most of the ‘discussin’ of course lol!) about Dr. Hawking, God and such. While talking about spiritual things leave me feeling a little itchy, I of course ran across this little synchronistic piece on Jason Offutt’s blo ...
  • Hawking Again Under Fire
    As if you didn’t know it, religious figures didn’t like Dr. Stephen Hawking’s last heretical statement against God, and how ‘He’ wasn’t needed to create the Universe. Namely the chief honchos of the Church of England: Religious leaders in Britain on Friday hit back at claims by leading physicist St ...
  • Tor.com: ‘The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business ...
    It’s been quite a while since I posted anything resembling a science-fiction story, so this weekend I decided to remedy that with this little tome written by Charlie Jane Anders. The topic of the tale is the Fermi Paradox and it gives a unique perspective of how it could be utilized in the free ente ...
  • Hawking and God
    Stephen Hawking, that physicist emeritus extraordinaire, has made another pronouncement of universal proportions. My old buddy Highwayman isn’t going to like it, especially since he supported ol’ Stephen in the past, but I don’t think he will this time. Because Dr. Hawking says that (a) God isn’t ne ...

Tippers News

  • U.S. Residents: Support the Global Conservation Ac ...
    More than 80,000 acres of rainforest are destroyed every day. Thirty percent of the world's coral reefs are already lost. As these ecosystems disappear, so does the wildlife that calls them home. Tiger populations are hanging on by a thread Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • Ohio legislators: Prioritize an exotic pets ban ! ...
    In August 2010, a captive black bear mauled his caretaker to death in suburban Cleveland, Ohio. The bear's owner had been cited numerous times by the USDA, but there was nothing the state of Ohio could do Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Save the Dolphins of Indian River Lagoon ! TAKE AC ...
    In 2008, the dolphins of Florida's Indian River Lagoon faced a "marine mammal unusual mortality event." This year, it looks like another such event is underway. Dolphins are being found emaciated, with respiratory problems, brain lesions, skin-eating Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �| ...
  • Put an end to captivity in Aquariums ! TAKE ACTION ...
    Lets put an end to captivity in aquariums, although they are fun to watch and learn about them. The damage they face for this sake shouldn't be worth it, these animals are not meant to be put in tanks and forced to do sideshow tricks and routines. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
  • Ban bullfights in Mexico ! TAKE ACTION !
    Even though some lawsuits are raised to question this sport, it still lives on. We understand that some matadors get severely hurt when gored in the ring, but the poor bull can never win. The bulls used in these gory spectacles never stand a chance; Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...

The Freeman

  • Town’s Anti-immigration Law Struck Down
    “In a high-profile Pennsylvania case that helped spark the ongoing national debate over immigration policy, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the City of Hazleton has no right to punish businesses or landlords who hire or rent to illegal immigrants.” (Philadelphia Inquirer) A win! FEE Time ...
  • Congressional Employees Owe Millions
    “Capitol Hill employees owed $9.3 million in overdue taxes at the end of last year, a sliver of the $1 billion owed by federal workers nationwide but one with potential political ramifications for members of Congress.” (Washington Post) Government workers donât pay taxes. They consume them. FEE Ti ...
  • Not All Choices Are Equal
    Opponents of the freedom philosophy never run out of insipid rebuttals.
  • Recovery Slowing, Fed Says
    “The United States economy showed âwidespread signsâ of slowing, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday, though modest growth continued from mid-July through the end of August.” (New York Times) Have we been stimulated yet? FEE Timely Classic “Transforming America: The Bush-Obama Stimulus Program ...
  • U.S. Less Competitive, Study Shows
    “Large deficits and a weakened financial system have made the United States less competitive in the global economy, the World Economic Forum said in its annual review of the competitiveness of countries.” (Washington Post) Stop the presses. FEE Timely Classic “The Irresistible Force of Market Compet ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Smacking down the hierarchies
    My favorite word this week is heterarchy . I don’t think I’ve ever had a favorite word before, and I confess I was not familiar with the meaning of this one when I saw it in an article from one of those scholarly journals at which journalists like to scoff. So I turned to merriam-webster.com , as I ...
  • New York Times seeks multimedia journalism interns
    Poking around in The New York Times’s job listings, I found this description of three distinct internships “in the Web Newsroom of The New York Times”: Front-end Interactive Designer: full skill-set of client-side technologies including HTML, CSS and JavaScript/Prototype. Experience with Ruby on ...
  • A fresh look at reporting skills
    In June I posted a ranked list of skills needed by todayâs journalists . In reviewing it today, I wondered whether it would be different if instead of saying journalist we said reporter . Say you want to hire a reporter — for a Web-only organization, a magazine, a newspaper, a TV or documentary o ...
  • Getting started with WordPress
    Here’s a new, stripped-down, easy-to-follow introduction to WordPress — the free blogging platform that also works as a versatile content management system: WordPress Basics This short tutorial is based on the second installment in my Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency , but I have shorten ...
  • Online video still growing, gaining viewers
    Just because comedy or humorous videos are the most popular among U.S. adults ( source ) does not mean journalists should wring their hands and despair about public tastes. What’s more important, I think, is that among people who have broadband Internet access at home, 75 percent watch online video ...

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Torture, American-style
    Date on which a federal appeals court dismissed a lawsuit brought by five foreign plaintiffs transported by CIA contractors to U.S.-run prisons or foreign intelligence agencies overseas, where they were tortured: 9/8/2010 The vote in that case, in which the Justice Department invoked the "state ...
  • Lawsuit targets removal of West Virginia's Blair M ...
    Back in 1921, more than 7,000 miners outraged over working conditions in southern West Virginia's coalfields faced off against an army of some 3,000 police backed by the coal companies in an effort to bring in the union. When the fight that came to be known as the Battle of Blair Mountain ...
  • Do Democrats need to cave on extending Bush's tax ...
    In 1992, country singer Travis Tritt released one of the year's hottest singles in the '90s country revival: " Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man ." Penned by Greek-born songwriter Kostas (go figure), Tritt's tune had this memorable refrain: Why's the rich man dancing While the poor man pays the b ...
  • Study sheds light on potential health problems fac ...
    A new study of fishermen involved in cleaning up an oil spill along the Spanish coast sheds light on the health problems that could be facing oil spill cleanup workers in the Gulf. Conducted by Spanish researchers and published late last month in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the study ...
  • Arrest made in murders of union activists at Colom ...
    The brother of the former Inspector General of Colombia has been arrested in connection with the murder of two union activists working for Drummond, a multinational coal company based in Birmingham, Ala. Jaime Blanco Maya allegedly ordered the killing of labor rights activists Valmore Loc ...

Worldpress - Africa

Canadian Encyclopedia

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • The Really Good Life: Baking things that’ll ...
    Hey guys, sorry I haven’t got time to write a full Recycle This post today – but can I point you to the latest article on my new blog The Really Good Life? It’s about how to reduce food waste and having to rely on supermarket supplies by getting the most out of each home [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle wine gift bags?
    We’ve covered reuses for old gift bags in general before but Meri emailed asking about one particular type: I have a growing collection of wine bags – mostly paper – that are too nice to toss. How can I recycle them – get them to people who might reuse them? Most people I know reuse [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle (and reduce my use of) ...
    Ok, this is a bit of a rant dressed up as a Recycle This style question – it’s a genuine question but I feel the need to rant too! ;) So many people in my (geeky) world are going nuts for these at the moment and it makes me want to cry — all the [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle mouldy bread?
    We’ve had an email from Milly: I know about making breadcrumbs with stale bread but is there anything that can be done with bread that’s gone a bit mouldy? I don’t mean eat it of course but compost it? Obviously the best thing to do is avoid it going mouldy in the first place – [...]
  • Crazy-wonderful & crafty emails I’ve receive ...
    This is usually a links round-up but this week everything seems to have arrived in my inbox instead ;) Daniel emailed us pictures of cannon he made reusing and recycling stuff. Yes, you read that right, a CANNON. (Ok, ok, a decorative rather than functioning cannon but still). I applied for a job wo ...

Mondoweiss

  • After Birthright: ‘We’re not stereotypes’
    A short film made in December, 2007 by Images for life project with Al-Rowwad center in Aida refugee camp. Last month, activist Rachel Marcuse spent 10 days in Israel as part of the�Taglit-Birthright program�-- a fully sponsored trip for young North American Jews to learn more [...]
  • Netanyahu said Iran was 3-5 years away from nuclea ...
    Back in 1995, Benjamin Netanyahu published a scary book called Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat the International Terrorist Network that says that radical Islam is trying to conquer�the west and extend Muslim rule. I carried a copy out with me to Jordan. From page 121:"The best estimat ...
  • In the Wake of 9/11, Israel Put Iran into the &#82 ...
    On September 11, 2001, after two terrorist attacks occurred on U.S. soil, Israeli political figures anticipated that the Americans�finally be�able to empathize with Israel’s vulnerability to�terror. In the hours immediately following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Israel ...
  • On night before 9/11, New Yorkers voice strong sup ...
    Rep. Keith Ellison's speech to the candlelight vigil. (Video: Alex Kane) As the the anniversary of 9/11 and the Islamophobic rally led by far-right blogger Pamela Geller converge today, over 1,000 New Yorkers gathered Sept. 10 at Park Place in lower Manhattan for a candlelight vigil in support of th ...
  • TIME on the Corrie trial: ‘it has already va ...
    Karl Vick has done it again. A few days after angering the ADL for his reporting on Israeli feelings toward the peace process, Vick reports from the Corrie trial in Haifa. From Israel's Military on the Spot Over Activist's Death:Neither thorough nor credible, and every bit as transparent as a sandst ...

Media Consortium

  • 10 of the Web's Most Insightful News Infographics
    Great round up of different kinds of interactive journalism products. "A picture is worth a thousand words. But if you include an entire database, make it interactive, and add filtering options, the word-to-picture exchange rate is even better. Infographics at their best are more than just pictu ...
  • The Media Consortium » Weekly Diaspora: Immigrants ...
  • Can apps save news journalism? | Adrian Monck | Co ...
    "Serious news organisations have placed their bets. With Apple selling a million iPads in barely a month, paid iPad applications from the likes of the Times and the Financial Times line up on app stores with free offerings from the BBC and Thomson Reuters. But already there are signs that native ne ...
  • Can apps save news journalism? | Adrian Monck | Co ...
    But taking Anderson's argument face on, where does the rise of the app leave the news business, the flatulent Rottweiler in the dog shelter of online content? Can apps give it a caring home at last?
  • Times Builds 'Jargonator' to Help Readers Decipher ...
    Apparently the Times Interactive News Technologies team also realized that the two dozen or so documents they were unleashing on their Web site weren't going to have much impact if their readers couldn't make head or tails of them. So they quickly developed a nifty roll-over tool, which internally t ...

Reality Asserts Itself

  • Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
    My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terroriz ...
  • PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NOT TH ...
    A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli children w ...
  • FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END FEAR ...
    I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become such a phenomena ( ...
  • PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. Gen ...
    Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many more l ...
  • China and the end of the end of history
    Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world politi ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Oil spill science: Shallower plume found at Deepwa ...
    A previously unidentified plume of hydrocarbons approximately 200 meters deep has been discovered by scientists on the R/V Cape Hatteras . The new plume appears to run south and east of the Deepwater Horizon site. Earlier in the week, the Cape Hatteras collected samples to the west of the main p ...
  • US vaccine payout provokes confusion
    The US Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) will pay over $1.5 million to the family of a child whose parents allege acquired autism after routine vaccinations in 2000. CBS called the payment to the family of Hannah Poling the “first court award in a vaccine-autism claim” (9 September 2010, CB ...
  • South Africa misses science spending goal
    Posted on behalf of Linda Nordling South Africa’s research and development (R&D) spend shrunk as a proportion of the country’s GDP for the second year running in the 2008-09 financial year, according to data published yesterday ( press release ). The drop means the country has failed to reach its ...
  • South Africa misses science spending goal
    Posted on behalf of Linda Nordling South Africa’s research and development (R&D) spend shrunk as a proportion of the country’s GDP for the second year running in the 2008-09 financial year, according to data published yesterday ( press release ). The drop means the country has failed to reach its ...
  • NZ top defence scientist accused of telling “big h ...
    New Zealand’s defence establishment has been rocked, not by the massive earthquake that recently hit the country, but by accusations that its chief scientist is not, as he had claimed, an Olympic bobsledder, a special forces soldier, or an ex-British spook. For five years, British-born Steven Wil ...

new geography

  • Fortress Australia: Ground Hog Day
    A decade ago, politics in Australia lurched to embrace all things rural, happily demonizing urban interests. This happened in response to a renegade Politician – Pauline Hanson – who for a time captured public sympathy with populist anti-immigration sentiments, threatening to unseat entire governmen ...
  • Time to Hate Those HOAs (again).
    The foreclosure crisis has been devastating for millions of Americans, but it has also impacted many still working as before and holding on to their homes. Even a couple of empty dwellings on a street can very quickly deteriorate and become a negative presence in the neighborhood, at the least dri ...
  • The Livable Communities Act: A Report Card
    With much fanfare, the Banking Committee of the United States Senate approved the Livable Communities Act. A purpose of the act is expressed as: ...to make the combined costs of housing and transportation more affordable to families. The Livable Communities Act would provide financial incentiv ...
  • Cities: Size Does Not Matter Much Anymore
    The heart and brain are certainly not the largest organs in the human body, but they are arguably the most important. Why? The heart, through a miles-long network of capillaries, keeps every part of the body supplied with nutrients, and the brain, through an equally extensive network of nerves, pr ...
  • Where’s Next: November May Determine Regional Winn ...
    As the recovery begins, albeit fitfully, where can we expect growth in jobs, incomes and, most importantly, middle class opportunities? In the US there are two emerging “new” economies, one largely promoted by the Administration and the other more grounded in longer-term market and demographic forc ...

GM Watch

spiked

Cryptogon

  • Secret Christian Reconstructionist Group Wants to ...
    The reason I’m posting this is because, in the vast milieu of UFO bullshit and non-bullshit that I’ve studied over the past couple of decades or so, I’ve never come across this one before. Also, it’s the weekend, when I like to relax with the serious foil topics… FINAL EVENTS and the Secret Governme ...
  • Untangling the Bizarre CIA Links to the Ground Zer ...
    Full text below, just to make sure that this doesn’t go away somehow. Via: The New York Observer: Untangling the Bizarre CIA Links to the Ground Zero Mosque By Mark Ames September 10, 2010 | 2:36 p.m So far, the debate over the proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero has unfolded along predictable ...
  • Abu Ghraib: “Most of the women in the prison ...
    Via: Independent: Yet nothing comes closer to Titus Andronicus than the insistent, terrible stories of gang rape by United States personnel in Abu Ghraib. You hear this repeatedly in Amman, and a very accurate source of mine in Washington – a man who deals with military personnel – tells me they are ...
  • U.S. Poverty on Track to Post Record Gain in 2009
    Via: AP: The number of people in the U.S. who are in poverty is on track for a record increase on President Barack Obama’s watch, with the ranks of working-age poor approaching 1960s levels that led to the national war on poverty.
  • The Stark, Raving Madness of Phil Davison, GOP Can ...
    I was thinking that a Monkey Boy routine was going to break out at any moment: Research Credit: JH

The Economic Collapse

  • Will Quantitative Easing By The Federal Reserve Un ...
    Prior to the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008, the Federal Reserve could always count on being able to stimulate the U.S. economy with a quick cut to interest rates.  But now with interest rates just barely above zero, the Federal Reserve is searching for other ways to pump life in ...
  • Winners And Losers
    When you mention the word "globalism" to most people, they think of something that is going to happen someday in the future.  But the truth is that globalism is already here.  At this point we essentially already have a one world economy.  Goods and services flow across national bor ...
  • The Green Police
    Is someone out behind your house digging through your trash?  Don't worry, it is probably just the government.  When Audi ran their now famous "Green Police" commercial during the Super Bowl last year, most Americans laughed it off and thought that nothing like that could ever happe ...
  • Rare Earth Elements: The World Is Rapidly Running ...
    Most people have no idea what rare earth elements are, but a wide array of the technologies that we use every single day are dependent on them.  Without rare earth elements, we would have no hybrid car batteries, flat screen televisions, cell phones or iPods.  Without rare earth ele ...
  • As Americans Celebrate Labor Day 2010, U.S. Factor ...
    Labor Day 2010 comes in the midst of a stunning wave of U.S. factory closings that stretches from coast to coast.  Once upon a time America was the greatest manufacturing machine that the world has ever seen, but now it seems as though the only jobs available for working class Ameri ...

Desertification

  • “Sowing Seeds for the Future” (City Farmers News / ...
    Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/09/11/university-campus-offers-course-on-small-scale-sustainable-agriculture/ http://www.landfood.ubc.ca/ubcfarm/apprenticeship.php University campus offers course on small-scale sustainable agriculture Linked by Michael Levenston 2011 classes at University ...
  • growBot Garden: Discussion space for local small-s ...
    Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/09/11/growbot-garden-speculative-designs-for-urban-agriculture/ http://01sj.org/2010/artworks/growbot-garden/ growBot garden â speculative designs for urban agriculture Linked by Michael Levenston growBot Garden Discuss, Explore, & Make Workshops The growB ...
  • Urban farming to secure, clean, and maintain vacan ...
    Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/09/11/promoting-urban-agriculture-as-an-alternative-land-use-for-vacant-properties-in-the-city-of-detroit/ Promoting Urban Agriculture as an Alternative Land Use for Vacant Properties in the City of Detroit Linked by Michael Levenston PROMOTING URBAN AGRICUL ...
  • To better tackle desertification, trees may be rep ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://english.ib.cas.cn/News/Events/201009/t20100906_58573.html US Textbook Recognizes Importance of Desertification Control in Otindag Sandland A case study of desertification control in Otindag Sandland of China is presented in the 6th edition of the US te ...
  • Establishing environmental clubs in schools to com ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.ghananewsagency.org/s_science/r_20238/ Assemblies asked to support the fight to end desertification Wa, Sept. 11, GNA – Mr Asher Nkegbe, Acting Upper West Regional Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has called on District … Cont ...

The Paper Trail

  • Will New Debit Card Fee Controls Revolutionize Car ...
    Imagine strolling into Bob’s Sandwich Emporium to discover that the chalkboard behind the counter lists both lunch specials and financing specials.
  • Oxygen-Starved “Dead Zones” in U.S. Wa ...
    The number of “dead zones” in U.S. coastal waters — where oxygen is so depleted that it can harm marine life — has soared 30-fold over the last half century, according to a new White House report that warns the phenomenon poses both economic and environmental hazards.
  • Despite Court Win After Citizens United, SpeechNow ...
    Last week, a Houston-based group called Texas Tea Party Patriots PAC, alerted the Federal Election Commission that it intends to raise unlimited sums of money, without following any contribution size limits.
  • Obama Proposal Aims At Problems Highlighted in Cen ...
    President Barack Obama’s proposal to spur the ailing U.S. economy by investing in transportation infrastructure is an effort to restart a stalled and chaotic process detailed by the Center for Public Integrity last year.
  • Independent GOP Fundraising Picks Up Steam
    Another big name GOP veteran in Washington, lobbyist and operative Scott Reed, is jumping into the crowded field of independent groups raising tens of millions of dollars to help Republican congressional candidates win on Election Day.

backofthebook.ca

  • When Green is Mean
    by Eric Pettifor Way back in February of 2007 I wrote of an announcement by GE that they were developing an energy efficient incandescent light bulb. I speculated that they were motivated by a proposed California law to outlaw the incandescent. Later on in March I noted that it wasn't just ...
  • James Cameron to visit the oilsands: FUBAR!
    By Nicole Walyshyn Forget Nancy Pelosi. The news that James Cameron is coming to visit the oilsands, combined with the premiere of Fubar 2 at the Toronto Film Festival last night, creates a perfect PR storm for Alberta. Cameron (who is, of course, the successfully grandiose director of Titanic ...
  • A Facebook narcissist? Moi?
    By Frank Moher I have been outed. A new study by a York University student reveals that heavy Facebook users are "narcissists" who enjoy monitoring "how many friends they have." Guilty as charged. I'm not sure I qualify as a "heavy" Facebook user -- I'm much too busy twittering for that -- ...
  • Postmedia: Layoffs? What layoffs?
    By Brian Brennan Television reporter Tom Clark parts company with CTV News, and the network issues a public statement to that effect. Kevin Newman steps down as Global anchor, and his network does the same. But what happens when dozens, perhaps hundreds of print reporters in this country leave th ...
  • Marc Emery’s unlikely ally
    By Alison@Creekside In a guest column in the Seattle Times on Friday, the former US attorney who indicted Marc Emery in 2005 for selling pot seeds over the internet wrote: "The U.S. war against marijuana has failed and actually threatens public safety and rests on false medical assumptions. Ou ...

Worldnews

  • Alonso wins Italian GP for Ferrari; Button 2n ...
    Antonio Calanni Spain's Fernando Alonso steers his Ferrari on his way to win the Italian Formula One Grand Prix at the Monza racetrack in Monza, Italy, Sunday, Sept 12, 2010. "factbox" --> More News Fernando Alonso recovered from a poor start to win the Italian Grand Prix for home team Ferrari ...
  • What is the proper way to co-sleep with a bab ...
    Q. I heard someone mention “a proper way to co-sleep”. What does that mean? Don’t you just bring the baby to bed with you? A. The “proper” way to co-sleep is just a lot of things that are mostly common sense. First, don’t have loose bedding of any kind near the baby - sheets, bulky blankets, pi ...
  • Mukesh Ambani to be richest man in world in 2 ...
    Boston, Sep 12, (PTI): Sunday, September 12, 2010 --> With a net worth of USD 62 billion, Indian business tycoon Mukesh Ambani would be the richest man on earth in 2014, according to a forecast issued by the prestigious Forbes magazine. "One of the predictions is that Reliance Industries' chief ...
  • Lewis Hamilton crashes out of Italian grand p ...
    Lewis Hamilton's world championship chances suffered a severe blow when he crashed out of the Italian grand prix on the first lap. The Formula One championship leader's race ended shortly after the start, when he collided with Ferrari's Felipe Massa. From fifth position on the grid, Hamilton ed ...
  • Formula 1: Hamilton out of Italian Grand Prix ...
    Monza: Lewis Hamilton's bid to reclaim his Formula One title was dealt a severe blow in Monza on Sunday when he was a first lap casualty in the Italian Grand Prix. The McLaren driver and 2008 champion, leading the 2010 standings by three points from Red Bull's Mark Webber, slithered off after h ...

Alex in Wonderland

  • Worst U.S. Enemy Turned ‘Kingmaker’ as Leader of ‘ ...
    At AntiWar Radio, Patrick Cockburn discusses the power Muqtada al-Sadr holds in still unresolved March election in Iraq, 'Al Qaeda in Iraq' and its distinction from Osama bin Laden's network, the violent sectarian conditions that remain in post-Surge Iraq, the improbability of a military coup in Bag ...
  • ‘Mossad in America’ (mp3)
    At AntiWar Radio, Philip Giraldi discussed his recent article about the Israeli spy agency operating from New York to D.C.---'disinformation operations' about Palestine and Iran's civilian nuclear program---as well as its agents and assets committing espionage against the U.S. government with impuni ...
  • Fire Engines of the Future! (Video)
    Stefan Molyneux on who will put out the fires in a free society.
  • Evening Briefing—30th Aug 2010
    News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
  • Daily Briefing—28th-29th Aug 2010
    News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire

MY Daily Apple

  • House calls ready to go national to improve lives
    A new Medicare project hopes to expand on the success of community healthcare groups that use home visits for the frail and elderly to improve lives and save money too. From the back window of his row house, Karl Schwengel can see the U.S. Capitol. But the 11 blocks might as well be so many mile ...
  • The 'contagion' of social networks
    Peer groups might influence such behaviors as smoking and obesity. Studies haven't been conclusive, however. The old folk concept that our personal health behaviors rub off on those around us has received a staggering amount of scientific support of late. Over the last few years, study after stu ...
  • Female Athletes With Higher Estrogen Levels May Ha ...
    In female athletes with chronically higher estrogen levels, differences in the mechanical properties of tendons may lead to a higher risk of injury, according to a study in The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, official research journal of the National Strength and Conditioning Associat ...
  • Social support network may add to longevity
    People with friends, family and community involvement were 50% less likely to die during study periods than those with sparse social support, survey finds. The best medicine for a longer, healthier life may be the support of family and friends: That's the conclusion of an exhaustive July report ...
  • DAIRYLAND BRAND CHG TEAT DIP (Chlorhexidine Glucon ...
    Updated Date: Sep 10, 2010 EST

Common Dreams

  • BP Well Threatens Ancient Libyan Sites
    by Andrew Johnson Plans by the energy giant BP to sink an oil well off the Libyan coast could have disastrous consequences for the region's rich heritage of coastal ancient city sites and shipwrecks - already under threat from oil tankers, coastal erosion and tourist developments - archaeologists fr ...
  • Quran Burning and US Inconsistency
    by Lamis Andoni Barack Obama, the US president, has warned that threats to burn the Quran are a sure and effective way to swell the ranks of al-Qaeda. This may be true, but largely because such symbolic acts of 'Islamophobia' are widely viewed as verifying the perception that the US wars in Afgh ...
  • Barack Obama: 'No' to Solar Panels on the White Ho ...
    by Suzanne Goldenberg A quest to get Barack Obama to shout his commitment to solar power from the roof tops - by re-installing vintage solar panels at the White House - ended in disappointment for environmental campaigners today. read more
  • US Poverty Rate Expected to Post a Record Increase
    by Hope Yen WASHINGTON - The number of people in the United States who are in poverty is on track for a record increase on President Obama's watch, with the ranks of working-age poor approaching 1960s levels that led to the national war on poverty. Census figures for 2009 - the recession-ravaged ...
  • Chamber of Commerce Accused of Tax Fraud
    by Eric Lichtblau WASHINGTON - With a war chest rivaling that of the Republican Party itself, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has emerged in the last year as perhaps the Obama administration's most-well-financed rival on signature policy debates like health care and financial regulation. read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • If French Nuclear Success Is Socialism - Call Me a ...
    On Thursday, September 9, 2010, the Institute for Energy and the Environment at the Vermont Law School , which is not affiliated with the University of Vermont, hosted a phone press conference to announce the release of a paper titled Policy Challenges of Nuclear Reactor Construction: Cost Escalatio ...
  • The green wave persists
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  • Decision time on climate change
    The news that today’s power plants and transportation systems are probably not enough to doom the planet to catastrophic climate change feels a bit like our last warning.
  • Collected Myths About the Death of Cap and Trade
    Democrats pulled the plug on ill-fated climate and energy legislation that finally collapsed under its own weight and - believe it or not - that is a good thing. Now a new window is open to shift the overarching goal of climate policy toward unleashing a clean energy revolution brought about by larg ...
  • Illinois Biodiesel Industry Expands As Other State ...
    I recently wrote about how privately held biodiesel producers were going out of business at the same time that government entities were starting biodiesel operations to supply their own needs. I thought it was somewhat troubling to see biodiesel production shifting from private sector to the public ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

  • Paul Allen v. The Internet
    Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies....
  • Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recuse Hi ...
    With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been selec ...
  • Law360 Calls Lawyer-Owned Shell Company a "Public ...
    seems to have a pretty flexible definition of that term. Last month, it included . Who is so concerned about such fairness? That would be , the Texas law firm that owns Americans for Fair Patent Use, which is a limited liability company set up to prosecute a false marking lawsuit filed in E ...
  • Eben Moglen on Bilski, software patents, and big p ...
    Moglen's position on the subject of software patents—that they should be banned—is, to say the least, outside the mainstream in legal circles. It has, however, garnered support among software developers and other techies, especially those who work in the world of open-source and free softw ...
  • Patent Litigation Weekly: International Trade Comm ...
    Over the past two decades, the question of what constitutes a domestic industry has typically been heard by the same ITC administrative law judges who ultimately rule on the patent disputes that come before the agency. It's rare that the full commission considers the issue. On April 14, th ...

Peoples Voice

  • Nine years after 9/11, has al-Qaeda finally won?
    Mary Shaw As America and the world observed the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it occurred to me that perhaps the terrorists have finally won. No, not perhaps. It really seems like they have won. After all, we are no safer today than we were in 2001. In fact, I suspect we're bec ...
  • Time for California to End The Unwinnable Marijuan ...
    Kevin Zeese Can More Arrests Ever Stop Marijuana? Since the founding of the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1973, 15 million Americans have been arrested for marijuana. That is more people than live in California's 25 largest cities €“ millions more than live in Ohio, Pennsylvania or Illinois. ...
  • Does burning Quran solve your problems?
    Kourosh Ziabari You might be unfamiliar with the concept of "Wudu". It's an Islamic practice including the washing of some parts of body such as the hands, arms and face in order to get prepared for saying prayers or reciting the Holy Quran. It's is of high value in the Islamic tradition, because i ...
  • Fatah: Collaborationist Israeli Ally
    by Stephen Lendman At least since the Oslo Accords, Fatah has served Israel more than its own people. On August 25, Haaretz highlighted the latest example, headling "PA arrests dozens of Hamas, Islamic Jihad militants in West Bank," saying, a PA source confirmed dozens made, including "high rank ...
  • HOW TO REVERSE A DEFLATION: HELICOPTER BEN NEEDS T ...
    Ellen Brown The Fed is proposing another round of “quantitative easing,” although the first round failed to reverse deflation. It failed because the money went into the coffers of banks, which failed to lend it on. To reverse deflation, the money needs to be funneled directly to state and local eco ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • “Public Solutions Are The Cure For Health Care Wai ...
    � � A Public Forum with Dr. Michael Rachlis � Health policy analyst, University of Toronto Associate professor and author of Prescription for Excellence: How Innovation is Saving Canada's Health System. � Public Solutions are the Cure for Health Care Wait Lists Wednesday, September ...
  • CCPA Saskatchewan presents Trevor Herriot
    Join us on October 15th and 16th for a special evening with Trevor Herriot. A renowned prairie naturalist, essayist and commentator, Trevor will discuss the intersection of culture and nature on the northern Great Plains in his talk entitled "All Flesh is Grass: Toward a Re-Engagement with the Prair ...
  • Canada's housing bubble
    A new CCPA study finds that for the first time in 30 years, six of Canada's hottest real estate markets are in a housing bubble. Canada’s Housing Bubble: An Accident Waiting to Happen examines trends in house prices in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal and Ottawa between 1980 and 2010 ...
  • Reflections on the Tamil migrants from the child o ...
    Many of us at the CCPA have been troubled by Canada's reaction to the arrival of 492 Tamil asylum seekers on the MV Sun Sea. Seth Klein, Director of our BC Office, put words to this discomfort in an excellent post on PolicyNote.ca (our blog on BC public policy issues). Seth, son of Vietnam war resis ...
  • Climate Change: Who's Carrying the Burden? CCPA b ...
    The Education Project's latest publication is now in the bookstore.� Climate Change -- Who's Carrying the Burden? The chilly climates of the global environmental dilemma, goes beyond the traditional analyses of climate change that focus on global techno-fixes and free-market solutions. Instead, ...

World Wide Hippies

  • The Mystical Body of Business: Why Corporations Ha ...
    villanovauniversity -Its not widely known or understood that, in American law, the business corporation has the status of a person. Wal-Mart, Microsoft, IBM, Exxon every incorporated firm is considered, from a legal standpoint, no differently from human beings with real flesh and blood. Its a very p ...
  • Back to the Garden
    It was the 1970s. Walking barefoot in the rain. Mud in our toes and sweet rain on our tongues. Me in my green patchwork dress. Him with his long hair, patched, multi-colored jeans. We shared a joint. Took a walk in the woods. We made love up against the bark of a tree and [...]
  • Camille Paglia Pwns Lady Gaga
    Lady Gaga and the death of sex | Sunday Times Magazine An erotic breaker of taboos or an asexual copycat? Camille Paglia, America’s foremost cultural critic, demolishes an icon. Lady Gaga is the first major star of the digital age. Since her rise, she has remained almost continually on tour. Hence, ...
  • And All The Ladies Are Saying “Told You So!& ...
    Dan Abrams To Write Book Proving That Women Are Better Than Men. Yes, Really. | Mediaite NY Post’s Page SIx column reports today that Mediaite founder and NBC/MSNBC Chief Legal Analyst Dan Abrams has a deal with Abrams Books to publish a book that makes the case for the superiority of woman, tentati ...
  • LOOKING INTO THE MIRROR:CIA AND SAC THE YIN AND YA ...
    One of the greatest BETRAYALS of “We the People” by our U.S. Government was the hands off approach that the White House and Congress had toward the CIA and the SAC by giving them a BLANK CHECK with no one to OVERSEE what they were doing. This is the same thing that the White House and [...]

Doug's Darkworld

  • Fridays are Fun
    Well, in retrospect I’m so unhappy with the Deerfield post that I’m going to delete it and rewrite it as a single post. I like trying to fit a story into a few pages in such a way that people not only enjoy reading, it even evokes a bit of wonder, emotion, amazement, etc. It’s [...]
  • “The Only Divine Light is a Burning Church.& ...
    Well, I’ll finish the Deerfield thing later, I don’t have it in me today. Benoni and his friends and family will be OK, sort of. Today I’m inspired to comment on current events, especially the plan to burn Korans on 9/11. My first thought is that I’m with Perroquet, if you’re gonna burn one “holy” [ ...
  • The Raid on Deerfield. Part One: Unexpected Guests
    In 1702 Queen Anne’s War broke out. This was the second in what would later be called the French and Indian Wars, which is to say that they were conflicts between England and France. Since the French at the time had many Indian allies in what is now Canada, much of the fighting was between [...]
  • Reader’s Choice Week on Doug’s Darkwor ...
    I honoured the Labour Day weekend by doing exactly nothing. Well, the last two days I did nothing, the first day I moved a ton of my belongings from one place to another in a frenzied hurry that involved many stairs. I sometimes believe that the purpose of human civilization is to put stuff into [.. ...
  • “What a thing it is to have a country that c ...
    Well, I tried to watch Obama’s speech on Iraq, but couldn’t do it. I read the text though, and was appalled. Frightened even. According to Obama, the IrawqWar was a glorious and successful undertaking. Right. The above quote says it all, Iraq was at best an expensive miscalculation. Redefining it as ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Why Oil Prices Aren’t Going Down
    Join the forum discussion on this post I saw a humorous story a few days ago: Oil Should Be Around $10 a Barrel The price of a barrel of oil would be closer to $10 if the commodity wasn’t traded as an investment instrument, given the record-high levels of U.S. oil inventories, Peter Beutel, presi ...
  • Crude Oil From Biomass: Evaluating KiOR
    Join the forum discussion on this post Cracking Biomass Back when I worked in a refinery, I used to spend a lot of time thinking about how biomass would behave in certain refining processes. A fluidized catalytic cracker (FCC), for instance, takes oil and subjects it to heat and a catalyst to frac ...
  • Leaked Study on Peak Oil Warns of Severe Global En ...
    A study on energy supply conducted by a German military think tank reports on the potential for serious consequences as oil production declines.
  • E85 Case Study: Iowa
    Join the forum discussion on this post The Saudi Arabia of Ethanol Iowa is to corn ethanol what Saudi Arabia is to oil. At present Iowa has the capacity to produce 3.5 billion gallons of ethanol per year, which is 26% of the nation’s total (Source). This is of course due to the large amount of [.. ...
  • It’s the Oil, Stupid
    Join the forum discussion on this post I am no economist, but bear with me while I try to explain why I think we are in for a very long and difficult economic period. My thesis for The Long Recession goes something like this: Historically, when oil prices rose quickly and remained high the economy ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • 57 Social Media Policy Examples and Resources | da ...
    Tags: socialmedia , policy by: Tim Childers
  • Medical Career Salaries | eLearners.com
    Tags: medical , career , salaries , infographic by: Tim Childers
  • Junior High School Smartboard Lesson
    Tags: smartboard , IWB , lessons , interactive , high , jrhi , elementary , Longwood by: Dean Mantz
  • Google Family Safety Center
    Comments: "We know how important it is to protect and educate young people on using the Internet and want to provide all of our users with a safe experience. When it comes to family safety, we aim to: * Provide parents and teachers with tools to help them choose what content their children see ...
  • Sweet Search
    Comments: Every Web site in SweetSearch has been evaluated by our research experts. - Jennifer Dorman Tags: searchengine , search , research , education , engine , search engines , tools , resources by: Jennifer Dorman

Rodale News

  • Outraged Chefs Want Disgusting Lunches Off the Men ...
    RODALE NEWS, WASHINGTON, DC—If the enthusiasm of chefs across the country to create healthy school lunches is any indication, Michelle Obama has made a strong impact on the public will to help eliminate childhood obesity. While the first lady was in Louisiana earlier this week, rolling out the seco ...
  • Egg Recall Scrambles into Noodle Market
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The recall that has involved half a billion eggs has expanded to include two noodle brands. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says, at this time, the agency doesn't not know of any additional products that will be recalled because the eggs were used as an ingredien ...
  • Possible Cancer Link Detected for Popular Osteopor ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Osteoporosis can hit a third of women between the ages of 45 and 60, when menopause and a drop in hormones lead to a rapid loss of bone mass. But the drugs used to treat the condition are coming under increasing scrutiny for possibly triggering esophageal cancer. The medicat ...
  • 5 Pet Myths Debunked by Oprah's Vet
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PAâAs if the massive egg recall isn't rotten enough, Salmonella may also be lurking in the treats of man's best friend, prompting a recall of more than 75,000 packages of Hartz dog treats . All this may have you thinking a bit more about not only what is on your plate, but w ...
  • Could Your Kitchen Pass a Public Health Inspection ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—You’re a clean cook: You keep meats and vegetables separate and you wash your hands obsessively. But that may not be enough to "pass inspection," according to the results of a new survey. The Los Angeles Department of Public Health recently decided to see how home chefs woul ...

big think

  • The Hidden Rules of Blame
    People like to use categories for people (race, religion, nation, class, gender) as explanations for others' behavior (for example, I was late because there was traffic and I have a lot on my plate right now, but you were late because you're a Gen X slacker). Yet all categories are not equal ... Re ...
  • FORM3: Yves Béhar Brings Pleasure to the People
    The latest product from fuseproject brings a whole new meaning to the "design for good" conversation. FORM3 is a waterproof rechargeable designer vibrator made out of medical-grade silicone and designed to be exceptionally intuitive. The device is Yves Béhar's second installment in Pleasure for the ...
  • The Singularity’s Branding Problem
    A world free of disease and poverty. A dictatorial and all-powerful artificial intelligence. Picnics on sunny days with one’s grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. Genetically engineered dangerous mutants. Which one of these scenarios describes our future? The ... Re ...
  • The New Normal: New York at Night
    I still remember seeing the Tribute in Light from the New Jersey side of the Hudson. From a distance, the twin beams of light standing where the World Trade Center had before the events of September 11th stood out among the sea of lights of the nighttime New York skyline. Today, that location still ...
  • Will Obama Defend "Don't Ask, Don't Tell?"
    Yesterday, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California Judge Virginia Phillips declared the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy unconstitutional. In her ruling —which comes on the heels of another federal judge’s decision to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage—Philips ...

Information Liberation

  • The New American Century
    This film is astonishing, it goes in detail through the untold history of The Project for the New American Century with tons of archival footage and connects it right into the present. This film exposes how every major war in US history was bas...
  • New WTC 7 Video Posted on YouTube
    The International Center for 9/11 Studies has posted a new video on YouTube. The footage was filmed by a news crew from a local NYC television station, and was received from NIST under the Freedom of Information Act....
  • VIDEO: Uncle Sam Invades Your Backyard BBQ!
    Open barbecue, open computer * time for Uncle Sam to crack down: ...
  • A list of Taxes: And they wonder why we are stuck ...
    Sales Tax Hotel Tax School Tax Liquor Tax Luxury Tax Excise Taxes Property Tax Cigarette Tax Medicare Tax Inventory Tax Car Rental Tax Real Estate Tax Well Permit Tax Fuel Permit Tax Inheritance Tax Road Usage Tax CDL license Tax Dog...
  • 70% of US federal spending reports don't add up
    Nicko from the Sunlight Foundation sez, Today the Sunlight Foundation launched analysis that reveals more than $1.3 trillion in federal reporting data from 2009 is broken. These data inaccuracies account for 70 percent of the total $1.9 trillion i...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Be Prepared
    Today I’m taking a slight detour around AGW, with a brief visit to one of my own personal hobby horses. I’d like to talk to you about disaster preparedness; why you should think about it, and some of the simple … Continue reading →
  • An ill wind
    No ill wind can pass unnoticed by the nose of the Lincolnshire Sniffer Dog! Continuing his historical romp through alternative energy sources, LibertyGibbert’s Leonardo of lampoon, Fenbeagle, this week zeroes in on the Tudor era, and one man’s relentless alchemic quest … Continue reading →
  • Green Scam: Business Creating Its Own Demand
    I commented on this issue recently on the DT blog in response to this article by Christopher Booker, but it’s a topic worthy of further attention. I’m sure most of you have heard of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a … Continue reading →
  • The Next Emperor?
    Even the Middle Kingdom is no match for one small sniffer dog when he’s in the mood! LibertyGibbert’s grand master of mirth, Fenbeagle, this week aims his pencil at an oft-forgotten but oddly familiar chapter in Chinese history…
  • Libertarianism And The Welfare State
    Today I’d like to talk about an aspect of Libertarianism that is often widely misunderstood. Those of you that have been following my series on Libertarianism will know that, around a century ago, most of the societies of the West … Continue reading →

FAS - Secrecy News

  • Pentagon Seeks “Coordination” of Media ...
    The Department of Defense last week increased its efforts to require that Department contacts with the media be monitored and approved by DoD public affairs officials. “I am asking the heads of the Military Services, the Joint Staff and the Combatant Commands to reinforce to all of their employees t ...
  • A Report Card on Secrecy
    Last year, the number of “original classification decisions” — or new national security secrets — actually declined by almost ten percent from the year before. This and other empirical measures of government secrecy were compiled in a new Secrecy Report Card (pdf) that was issued today by Openthegov ...
  • FISA Court Proposes New Court Rules
    The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has proposed new rules to comply with the provisions of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008.  The Court reviews government applications for intelligence surveillance and physical search under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The proposed FISA ...
  • GAO Access to Intelligence in Dispute
    The continuing controversy over whether the Government Accountability Office will be permitted to participate in intelligence oversight, as some in Congress wish, or whether cleared GAO auditors and investigators will be excluded from intelligence oversight tasks, as the Obama Administration prefers ...
  • U.S. Nuclear Stockpile Secrecy: A View from 1949
    The question of whether or not to disclose the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal “goes to the very heart of our democratic system of government,” said Senator Brien McMahon (D-CT) in a newly rediscovered 1949 speech (pdf) on secrecy in nuclear weapons policy. “Do we possess five bombs, o ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Antioxidants, fingerprint testing, peers
    These are the latest science news links and snippets from Sciencebase: Healthy antioxidants may do more harm than good – This has been my hunch for years. Now, scientists (J Agric Food Chem, ACS) are calling for more research on the possibility that some supposedly healthy plant-based antioxidants – ...
  • Phantom radiation protection
    Ionizing radiation exists as either subatomic particles (alpha and beta particles, and neutrons) or photons (electromagnetic waves at X-ray and gamma ray wavelengths, i.e. energies of a few electron volts). The energy from such radiation can strip electrons from atoms or molecules, thus ionizing the ...
  • Research in the past and structural correctness
    These are the latest science news links and snippets from Sciencebase: Scientific Research in the Past – Literally a blast from the past: This item about science in museums and finding a job in museum research was posted on Sciencebase.com way back in 2005, but was originally an “Adapt or Die” featu ...
  • Periodic Table of Google Elements
    This Periodic Table has even less to do with chemistry than my PT of science bloggers. Regardless, it’s still worth a mention, just because it hints at chemistry however indirectly. More periodicity A Periodic Table of Google Elements Using the Periodic Table Blogging the Periodic Table: Rare earths ...
  • Spectroscopy now!
    These are the latest science news links and snippets from Sciencebase: Diabetics drop the needle – A new device based on Raman spectroscopy has been developed by scientists at MIT to help patients with diabetes monitor their blood glucose levels without needing to prick their fingers to take a blood ...

RFF Library

  • Oil Sands Development Contributes Elements Toxic a ...
    PNAS / Erin N. Kelly, David W. Schindler, Peter V. Hodson, Jeffrey W. Short, Roseanna Radmanovich, Charlene C. Nielsen http://tinyurl.com/2frfwe5 [Abstract] We show that the oil sands industry releases the 13 elements considered priority pollutants (PPE) under the US Environmental Protection Agency’ ...
  • Estimate of Premature Deaths Associated with Fine ...
    California Air Resources Board http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/health/pm-mort/pm-report_2010.pdf [Executive Summary] The United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (U.S. EPA) recently released “Quantitative Health Risk Assessment for Particulate Matter”  provides national estimates of premature ...
  • Federal Agency Strategic Sustainability Performanc ...
    White House Council on Environmental Quality http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq/sustainability/plans [From White House website] Continuing a commitment to lead by example, the White House released Federal Agency Strategic Sustainability Performance Plans on September 9, 2010, which wor ...
  • Renewable Energy Annual: 2008 Edition
    US Energy Information Administration http://www.eia.gov/cneaf/solar.renewables/page/rea_data/rea_sum.html [From report homepage] The Renewable Energy Annual (2008) is the fourteenth in a series of annual publications on renewable energy by the Energy Information Administration (EIA). The 2008 editio ...
  • The Greening of Water Law: Managing Freshwater Res ...
    UN Environment Programme http://www.unep.org/delc/PDF/UNEP_Greening_water_law.pdf [From Executive Summary and Introduction] ‘The Greening of Water Law: Managing Freshwater Resources for People and the Environment’ explores the notion and the benefits of greening water law by presenting and assessing ...

Scientific American - News

  • A Bit Cold: Physicists Devise a Quantum Particle " ...
    Call it the little chill. A group of theoretical physicists has mapped out the physics framework for what may be the smallest refrigerators imaginable. Each device would target just one quantum bit, or qubit, for cooling, and would require just one or two additional quantum particles to do the job. ...
  • Space Colonists Could Use Bacteria to Mine Mineral ...
    Microbes currently are used in mining to help recover metals such as gold, copper and uranium. Now researchers suggest bacteria could be enlisted for "bio-mining" in space , to extract oxygen, nutrients and minerals from extraterrestrial bodies such as the moon and Mars for use by future colonists ...
  • Winging It: Flying Fish Aerodynamics Directly Meas ...
    A fish out of water is not usually a graceful or impressive sight, unless that fish is flying--or hovering inside a laboratory wind tunnel. [More] Fish - Water - Aquaculture - Business - Wind tunnel
  • How Much Global Warming Is Guaranteed Even If We S ...
    Humanity has yet to reach the point of no return when it comes to catastrophic climate change, according to new calculations. If we content ourselves with the existing fossil-fuel infrastructure we can hold greenhouse gas concentrations below 450 parts per million in the atmosphere and limit warming ...
  • Wind Turbine or Airplane? New Radar Could Cut Thro ...
    Wind turbines function best in wide-open spaces where they can capture airflow unobstructed by buildings or mountains. Unfortunately, these same conditions are also optimal for aircraft takeoffs and landings, creating tension between wind energy utilities and airports in a number of locations worldw ...

RAWA News

  • Some Afghan Men Form Sexual Relationships With You ...
    Care2: On the eve of Obama's speech on the Iraq transition, the last thing anyone needs is another reason to have misgivings about the situation in Afghanistan - but that's certainly what a piece from this weekend's San Francisco Chronicle provides. Among the Pashtun, Afghanistan's major ethnic gr ...
  • Karzai “fired” anti-corruption lawyer ...
    The Guardian: One of Afghanistan's most senior government prosecutors said yesterday that he was forced into retirement after aggressively promoting corruption investigations against top officials, including one of Hamid Karzai's most trusted aides. Fazel Ahmed Faqiryar, a lawyer well-regarded by fo ...
  • Is Time’s Aisha Story Fake?
    The Huffington Post: In July this year, Time magazine published on its cover page the photo of an Afghan woman whose nose was cut off; the title bellowed: “What happens if we leave Afghanistan.” According to the Time story, the woman, identified as Aisha, had run away, after which a Taliban court or ...
  • Afghan girls fall ill after apparent gas poisoning
    Reuters: About 40 schoolgirls became ill and were taken to hospital after a suspected gas poisoning in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, another apparent attack by hardline Islamists opposed to female education. The Taliban banned education for girls during their Afghan rule from 1996-2001, but have ...
  • Were Afghan schoolgirls who collapsed in classroom ...
    Mail Online: Blood samples taken from Afghan schoolgirls who collapsed in an apparent mass poisoning showed traces of toxic chemicals found in nerve gas, the Health Ministry said today. Suspicion has fallen on the Taliban, the hard-line Islamist militia that opposes education for women and prohibite ...

frogblog

  • A Week in Town can be a Long Time
    I speak with a carpenter who is repairing a roof...He freely admits to bursting into tears on two occasions, something he hasn’t done since childhood.
  • From Oakland to Otara – teachers for social justic ...
    Last week I went to Otara to hear some inspirational korero from educators who believe in social justice. It was such a relief to listen to the wisdom of Professor Jeff Duncan Andrade and Professor David Stovall who are also high school teachers from the mean streets of urban Oaklan ...
  • Child Poverty Action and the reframing of welfare
    On Friday, the Child Poverty Action Group co-hosted an excellent all day seminar on welfare issues at Auckland University. The speakers included Australian academics and researchers Paul Smyth, Eve Bodsworth and the legendary Professor Peter Saunders (i.e. not the Peter Saunders whom Paula Bennett a ...
  • General debate, September 11, 2010
    A good day to reflect on how the world works, or doesn’t, and remain calm.
  • General debate, September 2, 2010

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Is Perfect Research Possible
    Some claim that there is no hope of doing perfect research. So, is there hope of doing perfect research? Of course there issometimes! It all depends on the whetherwhether the subject is limited and whether the researcher can write and is intelligent enough to adequately evaluate the evidence. ...
  • The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: Last Gasp of ...
    No civilization in history that collapsed after a period of greatness has ever regained its dominance. Egypt lasted for three millennia; today it is little more than a field for archeological study. The Persian Empire, which lasted for more than three hundred years, became the largest and most p ...
  • Specie, Script, and War: The Contradictory Practic ...
    Wars are fought for business, but business and the economy are synonymous. Wars will continue to be fought for the economy as long as this economy is not abandoned. War is a logical consequence of it, not a means utilized by it. No attempt to eliminate war and preserve the economy can succeed. A ...
  • Knowledge, Truth and Human Action: America Hits th ...
    Americans have a problem with the truth. They seem to be unable to accept it. Beliefs somehow always overwhelm it, even when they are so contradictory that any effective action becomes impossible. By calling people with opinions experts and relying on adversarial debate between them, not only is ...
  • The Psychopathic Criminal Enterprise Called Americ ...
    Is America a criminal enterprise? Government in America consists of law. Legislators write it, executives apply it, and courts adjudicate it. But the law is a lie. We are told to respect the law and that it protects us. But it doesn't. The law and law enforcement only come into play secundum vit ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Boehner Land
    I imagine that Eric Lipton's piece in the New York Times today about John Boehner's almost comic dependence on business lobbyists was assigned a few weeks ago. But it's certainly convenient that it appeared at the same time that Democrats are trying to introduce Boehner to the American public as the ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 10 September 2010
    This picture of Domino is one of my favorites ever. I couldn't really tell you why. It just seems so perfectly feline. (However, she wasn't staring in the window because she wanted me to open the door and let her in. That's usually the reason, but this time it turned out she was engaged with some so ...
  • The Case For More Tax Brackets
    Annie Lowrey continues her campaign for a higher tax bracket or two: For the past 20 years, the top income tax bracket has started around $370,000, and top marginal tax rate has stayed between 35 and 39.6 percent. But since the mid-1990s, the richest have gotten richer, earning a higher and highe ...
  • Obama's FDR Moment
    President Obama's Labor Day speech in Milwaukee is getting a lot of attention, partly for his claim that "powerful interests" in Washington "talk about me like a dog," which I admit I can't completely parse. Then there's this (starting around 44:00): These are the folks whose policies ...
  • Basel III Rumor Mill Update
    Really, you just can't blog enough about the Basel Accords on international banking capital standards, can you? As you recall, we're now up to Basel III (numbered like popes and Super Bowls), what with Basel II not looking so healthy after the 2008 financial crisis, and the question is whether Basel ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Obama Extends 2001 Declaration of National Emergen ...
  • Meet the new boss, same as the old boss: New UN cl ...
  • Outlook Gloomy at Secret Billionaire Meeting
    For 25 years, legendary Wall Street strategist Byron Wien, now with The Blackstone Group, has held summer meetings with high net worth individuals to get their outlook on the global economy and investing.
  • The Full List Of How Obama Spent $792 Billion On F ...
    With Obama pressing forward another major round of stimulus, the real question is how much the president and his political posse have spent already, and which initiatives the allocated money actually funded.
  • Regulators using egg recall to push support for ty ...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Skepticism about MEK’s alleged Iranian nuke revela ...
    Summary: The Iran Policy Committee, a neoconservative-led group associated with the Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK), held a press conference today in Washington to reveal what it said was a previously undisclosed Iranian nuclear site near the Iranian city of Qazvin. source: Lobelog read more
  • SANCTIONS AND IRAN’S REGIONAL AND “EASTERN” OPTION ...
    Summary: We noticed a small news item yesterday, see here, reported from Tehran, which we think deserves more media attention and reflection in the West than it received. According to the story, “Chinese Transport Minister Liu Zhijun is expected to visit Iran Sunday to sign a $2 billion contract ...
  • THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, IRAN, AND “MIDDLE EAST P ...
    Summary: ME Peace talks There has, of course, been much commentary about the “re-launch” of the Middle East peace process last week in Washington. Actually, the process is, at best, an Arab-Israeli peace process. And, to be even more accurate, the process that was re-launched last week is real ...
  • Mr. Lula Goes to Tehran -- Brazil's Neocons React
    Summary: US policy has a long history of supporting military coups, especially in Latin America. During the 1953 coup against Dr. Mohamad Mosaddeq, the American intelligence officer Vernon Walters was in Iran. As the years went on, Walters of the CIA improved his skills in organizing coups aga ...
  • "Combat Troop Withdrawal" from Iraq and the Threat ...
    Summary: If there should be one thing that the Iraq war taught us, it is that history cannot be monopolised, wars cannot create nations, and liberty does not come about with the force of the bayonet. I think that President Obama understands that the kind of grand-scale wars that the Bush Admini ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • A Black Hole With the Mass of a Galaxy (Today's Mo ...
    Located in the Cancer constellation about 3.5 billion light years away, an object dubbed OJ287 is part of a binary black hole system and produces a huge amount of light, fact that is usually associated with the formation of a...
  • Image of the Day: Our Solar System's Perilous 200- ...
    The dusty disk of the Milky Way contains billions of stars, including, of course our Sun which orbits the galaxy every 200-250 million years traveling at a velocity of about 155 miles per second (250 km/sec). It is extremely difficult...
  • EcoAlert: New Map Helps Monitor Destruction of Ama ...
    Scientists are studying the effects of global warming in a new high-resolution map that shows carbon locked up in tropical forest vegetation and emitted by land-use practices in Peru's Amazon. The maps were created with satellite mapping, airborne-laser technology, and...
  • From the X File Dept: "Intelligent Species May Hav ...
    Recent discoveries in genetics, microbiology, astrobiology, and astrophysics indicates that life in the Milky Way galaxy began n nebular clouds over 10 billion years ago. Given the trillions upon trillions of galaxies which exist in the Hubble length (observable) universe,...
  • Angels or Demons? Will CERN's LHC Experiments Poin ...
    Could the elusive Higgs boson finally be in sight? Earlier this summer, physicist Tommaso Dorigo of the University of Padua wrote about talk of a tentative hint of the Higgs at the Tevatron, a particle accelerator at the Fermi National...

Natural News

  • Male fish now exhibiting female traits due to toxi ...
    (NaturalNews) More than 80 percent of male bass in the Potomac River on the U.S. Atlantic coast are producing eggs or showing other female traits, the nonprofit Potomac Conservancy has warned, in a call for more research into the causes of intersex fish. In a recent U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) rep ...
  • Scientists astounded: 83-year-old man lives withou ...
    (NaturalNews) Scientists with India's Defense Research and Development Organization claim they have observed 83-year-old yogi Prahlad Jani go without food or water for two weeks. Even more shockingly, Jani claims he has not eaten or drunk anything since some time during World War II. "I can't recall ...
  • TV damages health of toddlers
    (NaturalNews) Toddlers who watch television are significantly more likely to have poor health and poor educational performance by age 10, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Montreal and published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine ."Although we ex ...
  • Scientists discover way to recharge laptops and ce ...
    (NaturalNews) Researchers looking for new, cheap energy sources might want to look in the food pantry and junk food aisle at the grocery story. Sugary drinks as well as vegetable oils and plain old table sugar could one day be used to recharge cell phones, laptops and other portable electronics. Sou ...
  • A simple massage could keep you from getting sick
    (NaturalNews) Massages are a great way to release tension and stress and promote relaxation. But a new study published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine has revealed for the first time that massages also provide a measurable, therapeutic benefit to the immune system as well. D ...

Threat Level

  • Guess What, You Don’t Own That Software You Bought
    A federal appeals court said Friday that software makers can use shrink-wrap and click-wrap licenses to forbid the transfer or resale of their wares, an apparent gutting of the so-called first-sale doctrine. The first-sale doctrine is an affirmative defense to copyright infringement that allows legi ...
  • TSA Campaign Targets Photographers in Hoodies
    A new TSA terror warning seems to be targeting photographers in hoodies as a national security threat. That’s the way photographers are viewing a new poster distributed by the Transportation Security Administration to encourage airport employees to report suspicious activity. The poster shows a man ...
  • Massive Cache of Iraq War Docs to Be Published by ...
    A massive cache of previously unpublished classified U.S. military documents from the Iraq War is being readied for publication by WikiLeaks, a new report has confirmed. The documents constitute the “biggest leak of military intelligence” that has ever occurred, according to Iain Overton, editor of ...
  • Koran-Burning Church’s Website Yanked From Interne ...
    The website of the church that plans to burn a Koran on Saturday to commemorate 9/11 was removed from the internet after its hosting service said the site violated its terms of service agreement. The removal of the doveworld.org site comes as President Barack Obama urged the Florida pastor not to b ...
  • RBS WorldPay Hacker Gets Suspended Sentence for $9 ...
    One of the masterminds behind the $9 million hack into RBS WorldPay received a six-year suspended sentence in Russia, according to local reports Wednesday. Viktor Pleshchuk, 29, who pleaded guilty to his role in the heist, also got four years of probation and was ordered to pay $8.9 million in rest ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Polls Support Letting Tax Cuts for Wealthy Expire
    Back in April 2009 , 74% of respondent in a CBS/New York Times poll said that letting the Bush tax cuts expire for those earning over $250,000 was a "good idea." Now 18 months later, even with President Obama's approval sliding and Congressional Democrats wavering in their commitment, the American ...
  • Respect, Not a Veto, for 9/11 Families
    For the families who lost loved ones in the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001, the anguish and suffering must be incomprehensible - and never ending. But the compassion, sympathy and respect Americans rightly feel for them cannot obscure the fact that 9/11 was an attack on the United States an ...
  • Obama Says No to the $700 Billion Club
    A $700 billion, 10-year windfall for the wealthiest Americans who need it least. With both parties generally supporting the continuation of middle class relief already on the books, that's the difference between Republicans and Democrats when it comes to making the expiring Bush tax cuts permanent ...
  • The Sad History of Trusting the GOP on the Economy
    The bad news just keeps coming for Democrats. A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll gives the GOP a record 9-point edge in the generic Congressional ballot for November. Meanwhile, an ABC News/Washington Post survey shows that as President Obama's approval ratings continue to slide, support for his m ...
  • Some Republicans Uneasy with the Party of No
    "Ninety percent of life," Woody Allen famously said, "is just showing up." For Congressional Republicans, the other 10% is voting no. But despite the apparent success of their unprecedented obstructionism , heading into the midterm elections a handful of Republicans are starting to get a little un ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

  • Islam Basher Claims to Unmask Cleric
    Propagandist Steve Emerson's jihad against cleric Rauf fails to live up to the hype on right-wing radio, reports Robert Parry. September 10, 2010
  • Toning Down the 9/11 Tirades
    Nine years after 9/11, the anniversary sadly has become an opportunity for political opportunists, laments Michael Winship. September 9, 2010
  • The Value of Real Journalism
    US journalism has fallen short, but the profession of separating fact from fiction is vital to the future, says Mort Rosenblum. September 8, 2010
  • Iraq Pullout v. the Base Temptation
    President Obama promises to complete the US withdrawal from Iraq, but pressure builds to keep some bases, writes Ivan Eland. September 8, 2010
  • Why the Israeli Boycott Is Growing
    The Israeli Right's insistence that it can seize Palestinian land is fueling a growing boycott movement, says Lawrence Davidson. September 8, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Emily Cross: Global Warming and Campaign Finance I ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Emily Cross is a Political Science student at Rice University. Emily hugs trees during her free time.
  • Veronica Valesquez: Solar Intern from Austin Colle ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Veronica majors in Environmental Studies and Cultural Anthropology
  • Tres Amigas SuperStation on Track for 2014
    Local energy storage company Xtream Power inks a deal to supply the Tres Amigas project with their technology. CH2M, another firm with central Texas connections (who has been hiring some of Austins finest green talent) lands the construction contract. Will local green engineers Kurt Lyell (one of th ...
  • A new direction for energy efficiency in Texas
    Today, Public Citizen and Environmental Defense Fund sent a letter to the Legislature calling on them to support the creation of a new state agency dedicated to efficiency. I tend to think in the problem-cause-solution framework about public policy issues so here’s the short version: Problem: Energy ...
  • Human error causes a partial shutdown of Texas nuc ...
    Human error appears to have caused a partial shutdown last Friday at the South Texas Project, one of the state’s two nuclear plants. Last week, prices spiked in the wholesale electricity market.  On Monday the 16th,  wholesale electricity, which had been selling for less than $30 per megawatt-hour s ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Director of Grantmaking & Advocacy
    Grassroots International (GRI) is a dynamic, social justice-oriented, human rights and international development organization and public foundation that works to create a just and sustainable world by building alliances with progressive movements through grantmaking and advocacy. GRI’s grantmaking a ...
  • Referendum on Land Holding Used to Educate about L ...
    plebiscito_popular_logo.jpg As part of a larger campaign to support the right to land, this week Grassroots International provided a $10,000 grant to boost education and organizing around a powerful national referendum in Brazil. The referendu ...
  • Pakistan Floods: Secular, Liberal & Progressive Or ...
    pakfloods2.jpg The recent monsoonal floods in Pakistan have devastated nearly a third of the country’s landmass – by some estimates�area the size of Italy. More than 20 million people have been directly impacted by the rising waters of the Ind ...
  • Pakistan Floods: Secular, Liberal and Progressive ...
    pakfloods2.jpg The recent monsoonal floods in Pakistan have devastated nearly a third of the country’s landmass – by some estimates�area the size of Italy. More than 20 million people have been directly impacted by the rising waters of the Ind ...
  • Reimagining Israel’s Negev
    bedouin.jpg Down south in the Negev desert, the sounds of jets fill wide-open spaces. Increasing militarization is constant�-- at least 80% of the land there is used for military training purposes, including weaponry development. The Negev als ...

Climate

  • September 11-12, 2010
    Calif. Gas Pipe Ranked High Risk (AP) The section of gas pipeline that exploded in suburban San Francisco was ranked as high risk because it ran through a highly populated area, state and federal authorities said Saturday. 7 Confirmed Dead, 6 Missing in San Bruno Blast At least sev ...
  • September 10, 2010
    EPA Officials: Kan. Must Revise Air Permit Process (AP) Federal officials told Kansas legislators Thursday that the state will be expected to cut greenhouse gas emissions as it considers air-quality permits for power plants, large factories and oil refineries — and if it refuses, the EPA cou ...
  • September 9, 2010
    Global Warming Bill a Lose-Lose Issue for GOP Candidates (LA Times) A November ballot measure that would rescind California's landmark global warming bill until unemployment drops significantly has become an albatross for the Republican candidates for governor and U.S. Senate. Studies: C ...
  • September 8, 2010
    U.S. Won't Pass Carbon-Price Law for Power Generators This Year, Reid Says (Bloomberg)  The U.S. won't pass legislation this year that charges power plants a price for releasing CO2 and other gases that scientists have linked to climate change, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said. Con ...
  • September 7, 2010
    Australian Greens Seek 'Fast, Furious' Climate Steps (Bloomberg) The Australian Greens plan "fast and furious" action to establish a climate change committee and impose a price on carbon emissions under a government led by the Labor Party's Julia Gillard. Low-Carbon Market to Treble by 2020 ...

GreenBiz

  • Sodexo Asks Students to Fight Climate Change with ...
    The company launched a campaign this week called "Stop Wasting Food," aimed at reducing some of the 31 million tons of wasted food that ends up in U.S. landfills.
  • SABMiller's Water Footprinting Report
    This report from SABMiller and the WWF explores in-depth how much water SABMiller uses for the entire value chain of its breweries in four countries: Peru, Tanzania, Ukraine and South Africa.
  • SABMiller Maps the Water Footprint of Beers in Fou ...
    Following on a pilot project tracking how much water the brewer uses to make a liter of beer in the Czech Republic and South Africa, SABMiller has worked with WWF to expand its research into Peru and Tanzania.
  • $100K Prize for Best Energy-Saving Idea for Water ...
    The nonprofit Imagine H20 has officially opened its second annual contest for startups with great new business plans for efficiently handling and using water.
  • Climate Corps 2010: The Business Case for Green Le ...
    For large companies, every year may bring lease renewals, relocations and consolidations, offering a window of opportunity for improving operating costs and performance at low to no marginal cost. Integrating sustainability considerations and sustainability personnel into the site selection and l ...

Reuters Global

  • Pakistan, India and the value of democracy
    The debate in Pakistan on the failings of its civilian government shows no sign of dying down. And even the discussion itself shows how shallow are the roots of democracy in the country.
  • German banker bows out after stirring race, religi ...
    German central banker Thilo Sarazin unexpectedly quits board of Bundesbank after his outspoken comments on race and religion sparked fierce national debate.
  • Giving a voice to Pakistan’s flood victims
    In Pakistan, the voices of the flood victims themselves are in danger of being drowned out in the loud debate over who is best placed to administer aid funds being raised in their name.
  • State Dept: church Koran burning plan”un-Ame ...
    There have been lots of angry words over plans by an obscure Florida pastor to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The State Department added its voice.
  • EU delivers its own “State of the Union&#822 ...
    European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso delivered the EU's first "State of the Union" address on Tuesday. But in terms of rhetorical sweep and historical moment, the EU has a long way to go before it matches the U.S. State of the Union speech.

Booman Tribune

  • Why So Friendly With the Saudis?
    There's no telling when our friendship with the Saudi regime will pop up and bite us in the ass, but it's bound to do so from time to time. The latest episode? The first secretary of the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles has applied for asylum because he believes he will be killed if he returns home. ...
  • Real Nostalgia
    Hey, if you want to get nostalgic, think back to when we all felt united and we were proud of how we all came together. And, you know, The Boss had something important to say. Didn't happen. George Bush and Dick Cheney weren't the kind of people to help us rise up.
  • No One Cares
    But, we're not stoopid: The Pew Research Center asked people this summer to identify the current chief justice of the United States from among four possibilities: John Roberts, Thurgood Marshall, John Paul Stevens and Harry Reid. Only 28 percent correctly picked Chief Justice Roberts. The late Th ...
  • Not Looking Back
    I know it is September 11, but I'll leave the remembering to others. I don't want to remember. Maybe you do. Maybe you want to reflect on those who lost their lives that day, nine long years ago. I was angry. I was incredibly angry. But mostly I was sad because I knew it would turn us into bad ...
  • Jim DeMint: Kingmaker of Nincompoop?
    I'm hoping that Sen. Jim DeMint is served up so much fail in November that he becomes a pariah within the Republican Party. He came out last night and endorsed Christine O'Donnell over Mike Castle in Delaware and Ovide Lamontagne over Kelly Ayotte in New Hampshire. O'Donnell also picked up the end ...

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Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Enjoy the latest in Psychotherapy news over the past week :-) ⢠Music Prescription for Depression ⢠It’s Good to Gossip – But Be Nice! ⢠New Parents and Depression: Both Men and Women Suffer ⢠Over 50? You Probably Prefer Negative Stories ...
  • UW-Madison Health Minds Program Receives Funding F ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The Dalai Lama has given an unexpected grant of $50,000 to the Center for Investigating Health Minds (CIHM), located at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. CIHM uses a variety of approaches, including psychology and neuroscience, to study how individuals develop and ...
  • September 10 Is World Suicide Prevention Day
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Today, September 10, is World Suicide Prevention Day. Prevention initiatives, awareness campaigns, and remembrance events are being held in many nations across the globe, including the United States. According to the World Health Organization, around 1 million people d ...
  • Balancing on the Heart
    By Lynn Somerstein, PhD, RYT, Object Relations Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lynn and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Think about standing on one foot. Actually, if it’s available to you, I invite you to get out of your seat right now and stand on one foot in the tree pose- one f ...
  • How to Fight Loneliness
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A feeling of loneliness comes with both emotional and physical baggage. Loneliness can lead to (or worsen) depression and other psychological struggles, and it’s also a recognized risk factor for high blood pressure and heart problems. A major piece of new research lo ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Will West Virginia allow Marcellus Shale to be tak ...
    Will West Virginia allow Marcellus Shale to be taken from our State Forests? Examiner.com Much like the practice of Mountaintop Removal our elected officials see only the big flashing dollar signs and not the devastating environmental impacts ... and more��
  • Hechler speaks against mountaintop removal at Lair ...
    Hechler speaks against mountaintop removal at Lair campaign rally The Daily Athenaeum Joe Manchin, held a campaign rally in front of the Mountainlair in support of his anti- mountaintop removal mining agenda. "Mountaintop mining is leveling ... Hechler Getting Younger Voter Support for Mountaintop ...
  • Novelist Jonathan Franzen hits it into the literar ...
    Financial Times Novelist Jonathan Franzen hits it into the literary stratosphere with 'Freedom' Seattle Times Here's where the surreal twist in "Freedom" comes into play: Walter becomes so bent on success that he manages to convince himself that mountaintop removal ... Why must a novel's characters ...
  • Asheville film festival examines food, environment ...
    Asheville film festival examines food, environmental issues Asheville Citizen-Times ... emissions, climate change, mountaintop removal , oil spills, deforestation, air pollution, water pollution, ocean pollution, electromagnetic pollution, ... and more��
  • Another fossil fuel tragedy. Another reason to get ...
    Another fossil fuel tragedy. Another reason to get to work. Huffington Post (blog) Participants will call on EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and President Obama to end mountaintop removal and transform the economies of Appalachia away from ...

Memeorandum

  • House G.O.P. Leader Signals He's Open to Obama Tax ...
    David Herszenhorn / New York Times : House G.O.P. Leader Signals He's Open to Obama Tax Cut   —  WASHINGTON — The House Republican leader, Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, said on Sunday that he was prepared to vote in favor of legislation that would let the Bush-era tax cuts expire for the ...
  • Boehner: I'll Drop Tax Cut for Rich If I Have To ( ...
    David S Morgan / CBS News : Boehner: I'll Drop Tax Cut for Rich If I Have To   —  House Minority Leader Disputes Obama's Claim GOP Blocks Tax Cuts for Middle Class; Says Spending Cuts Only Way to Create Jobs  —  (CBS) The leading Republican in the House, and a vocal proponent of allowing an extens ...
  • A Harsh Thing I Should Have Said (Martin Peretz De ...
    James Fallows / The Atlantic Online : A Harsh Thing I Should Have Said (Martin Peretz Dept)   —  Usually you regret the harsh things you say more than the harsh things you decide not to say.  At least, that's how it usually turns out for me.  —  Here's an exception.  Earlier this week I wrote an it ...
  • US poverty on track to post record gain in 2009 (A ...
    Associated Press : US poverty on track to post record gain in 2009   —  WASHINGTON - The number of people in the U.S. who are in poverty is on track for a record increase on President Barack Obama's watch, with the ranks of working-age poor approaching 1960s levels that led to the national war on ...
  • Gingrich: Obama's 'Kenyan, anti-colonial' worldvie ...
    Robert Costa / National Review : Gingrich: Obama's ‘Kenyan, anti-colonial’ worldview   —  Citing a recent Forbes article by Dinesh D'Souza, former House speaker Newt Gingrich tells National Review Online that President Obama may follow a “Kenyan, anti-colonial” worldview.  —  Gingrich says that D'S ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.0, Mindanao, Philippines
    Sunday, September 12, 2010 16:35:55 UTC Monday, September 13, 2010 12:35:55 AM at epicenter Depth : 33.80 km (21.00 mi)
  • M 6.1, offshore Bio-Bio, Chile
    Thursday, September 9, 2010 07:28:02 UTC Thursday, September 9, 2010 03:28:02 AM at epicenter Depth : 17.60 km (10.94 mi)
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    Wednesday, September 8, 2010 11:37:38 UTC Wednesday, September 8, 2010 10:37:38 PM at epicenter Depth : 54.10 km (33.62 mi)
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    Wednesday, September 8, 2010 10:54:53 UTC Wednesday, September 8, 2010 08:54:53 PM at epicenter Depth : 36.10 km (22.43 mi)
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China Dialogue

  • Hidden risks of low-energy bulbs
    Energy-saving lights have been promoted as efficient alternatives to traditional incandescent ones. But, writes Yuan Duanduan, they come with a dark side: small quantities of mercury pollution. Energy-saving bulbs are seen as a more efficient alternative to their traditional incandescent cousins. In ...
  • Coming back down to earth
    As global warming intensifies, demands for human manipulation of the climate system are likely to grow. But carrying out geoengineering plans could prove a political and logistical nightmare, says Mike Hulme. [This article was originally published by Yale Environment 360 on June 7 and is used here w ...
  • Toward a transparent economy
    Sustainability is higher up the corporate agenda than ever, but deeper forms of accountability are needed to achieve real change – and honest reporting is the place to start, writes John Elkington. Back in May, as we at Volans raced to complete a new report, Harvard Business Review published a cover ...
  • Their own worst enemy
    Zijin Mining’s environmental disasters have overshadowed the firm’s meteoric rise. Li Taige wonders when polluting companies – and the officials who protect them – will realise the value of proper supervision. In its previous incarnation, back in the 1990s, Zijin Mining – now one of China’s most loa ...
  • China may cap-and-trade before US
    While the US Senate has backed off on climate legislation, China is considering launching emissions-trading programmes within five years, write Alexander Ochs and Haibing Ma. Just when leaders in the United States Senate admitted to abandoning their plan of issuing a federal climate bill by the end ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Guess What, You Don’t Own That Software You Bought
    A federal appeals court said Friday that software makers can use shrink-wrap and click-wrap licenses to forbid the transfer or resale of their wares, an apparent gutting of the so-called first-sale doctrine. The first-sale doctrine is an affirmative defense to copyright infringement that allows legi ...
  • TSA Campaign Targets Photographers in Hoodies
    A new TSA terror warning seems to be targeting photographers in hoodies as a national security threat. That’s the way photographers are viewing a new poster distributed by the Transportation Security Administration to encourage airport employees to report suspicious activity. The poster shows a man ...
  • Massive Cache of Iraq War Docs to Be Published by ...
    A massive cache of previously unpublished classified U.S. military documents from the Iraq War is being readied for publication by WikiLeaks, a new report has confirmed. The documents constitute the “biggest leak of military intelligence” that has ever occurred, according to Iain Overton, editor of ...
  • Koran-Burning Church’s Website Yanked From Interne ...
    The website of the church that plans to burn a Koran on Saturday to commemorate 9/11 was removed from the internet after its hosting service said the site violated its terms of service agreement. The removal of the doveworld.org site comes as President Barack Obama urged the Florida pastor not to b ...
  • RBS WorldPay Hacker Gets Suspended Sentence for $9 ...
    One of the masterminds behind the $9 million hack into RBS WorldPay received a six-year suspended sentence in Russia, according to local reports Wednesday. Viktor Pleshchuk, 29, who pleaded guilty to his role in the heist, also got four years of probation and was ordered to pay $8.9 million in rest ...

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IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #429 (CIA edition)
    US appeals court dismisses Boeing-CIA lawsuit. A sharply divided federal appeals court has dismissed by six votes to five a lawsuit against Boeing Co., that claimed the company flew terrorism suspects to secret prisons around the world to be tortured … Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #428 (history edition)
    US government study of Soviet-era spy services released. A historiographic blog has released a study by the US Federal Office of Criminal Investigations on Practices and Methods of East-Bloc Intelligence Services, which examines the spy craft and operations of Soviet-aligned … Continue reading →
  • Location of massive Israeli eavesdropping site unc ...
    By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | An author and investigative journalist from New Zealand has uncovered one of the worldâs biggest government-sponsored eavesdropping sites in a desert in Israel. Writing in French monthly review Le Monde Diplomatique, Nicky Hager reveals … Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #427
    Did Belarus KGB murder opposition activist? The death of Belarussian opposition activist and journalist Oleg Bebenin has thrown a murky light on both the circumstances of his demise and those who might be behind it. Some point the finger at … Continue reading →
  • Emirates police says US, Israel, use BlackBerry to ...
    By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | The alleged use of encrypted BlackBerry communications by adversary intelligence services operating in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is prompting local authorities to consider a nationwide ban on the popular phone. This was revealed … Continue reading →

After Downing Street.org

  • It's expensive
    Always wondered why Fear rules over Cost for these so called fiscal conservatives and the tax cutting teabagger types. They do same for Defense budgets, silence, but find nothing wrong with never mentioning the VA budget as they wage wars of choice and use the military and veterans in their speak fo ...
  • Fatah: Collaborationist Israeli Ally
    Fatah: Collaborationist Israeli Ally - by Stephen Lendman At least since the Oslo Accords, Fatah has served Israel more than its own people. On August 25, Haaretz highlighted the latest example, headling "PA arrests dozens of Hamas, Islamic Jihad militants in West Bank," saying, a PA source confirme ...
  • Obama Going to India to Sell Weapons
    India, US to ink huge military deal By Global Times US President Barack Obama's visit to New Delhi in November may secure $5 billion worth of arms sales to India, Russia's Vzglyad newspaper reported Monday. The deal, if signed during Obama's visit, would make the US replace Russia as India's bigges ...
  • Obama's Rose-Colored Glasses: Growth has Little to ...
    By Dave Lindorff Faced with the bad, but hardly surprising news, that poverty has increased in the US on his watch, to a record level not seen since before President Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty in 1965, President Obama is declaring that the answer to poverty and joblessness is economi ...
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Grist - News

  • The San Bruno gas fire and the futility of harping ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. An explosion from a ruptured natural-gas line killed at least four people and destroyed an entire city block in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno on Thursday night. Also on Thursday, a pipeline burst in a Romeoville, Ill., industrial park and is still spewing oil. It's ...
  • EPA asks firms for info on gas-fracking liquids
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday asked gas companies to reveal what chemicals are used in deep extraction, addressing concerns by residents that their drinking water is being contaminated. U.S. companies have increasingly tapped shale gas, ...
  • China plays dirty with clean energy: a good thing?
    by Randy Rieland. It's no secret China's been kicking our butt lately in the clean energy business. But the truth is China hasn't exactly been playing fair, and now one of the biggest unions in the U.S. is screaming about it. Advantage, China:  For starters, a trade war over renewable energy p ...
  • Florida governor’s race: Sink vs. Scott
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Florida governor candidate Rick Scott is largely an enigma on energy and environmental issues. The hospital-chain executive, who eked out a surprise win over an establishment candidate in the Republican primary, has no record in public office to evaluate. His website's enviro ...
  • BP takes share of blame for Gulf of Mexico oil spi ...
    by Agence France-Presse. LONDON -- Failures by BP and other companies led to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, BP concluded on Wednesday as it sought to defend itself against possible multi-billion-dollar lawsuits. As expected, BP's inquiry did not admit "gross negligence" for the oil rig explosi ...

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Washington Independent

  • Lessig On Citizens United
    Lawrence Lessig has published a long and thoughtful essay entitled, “Democracy After Citizens United” in the Boston Review. Lessig, a professor of law at Harvard University, is more commonly known for his legal and political work in the fields of copyright and trademark law, but lately has made re ...
  • Americans on the Bush Tax Cuts
    Americans want to extend the Bush tax cuts for middle-class Americans and to let them expire for the wealthiest Americans, just as the Obama White House proposes, a new Pew poll shows. That said, Republicans support extending the tax cuts for all Americans. It seems likely that Democrats might pus ...
  • Study Predicts 13,200 Deaths From Coal Pollutants ...
    A new report by the Clean Air Task Force, a nonprofit environmental group, finds that pollution from coal-fired power plants will result in the premature death of more than 13,000 people this year. The report, which is an update from similar studies conducted in 2000 and 2004, says that emissions fr ...
  • More on a Millionaire’s Tax Bracket
    At the National Review, Reihan Salam, all-around smartypants, voices the conservative response to my post proposing that Congress should create more tax brackets. He argues that a new tax bracket for the very rich would do three bad things and therefore is not worth creating: it would increase reven ...
  • Two More Nonprofits Attack Vulnerable House Democr ...
    The Associated Press reports that two additional nonprofits that support conservative causes — Americans for Job Security and The 60 Plus Association — have joined the election spending fray in a big way, buying $5 million in advertisements attacking Democrats in House races in swing districts acro ...

Digg Green

  • Canadian Weatherman Owned By Light Fixture ...
    The irony is he's the only weatherman in town who had been brave enough to forecast falling light fixtures.
  • Being An Environmentalist and Preservationist ...
    Telegraph Angelo Vassallo was Mayor of the pretty little Italian town of Pollica, which Eric Reguly of the Globe and Mail calls "a cultural and environmental treasure." He said no to illegal construction that Reguly says " spreads like a cancer over so many seaside Italian towns". He said no t ...
  • Best and worst childbirth scenes in science f ...
    #triviagasm There's still only one way to bring a new person into this universe. Many science fiction/fantasy stories have featured the drama of childbirth... and some have done it better than others. Here are the best and worst SF/fantasy childbirth scene ...
  • Shuttle Drops a Nut
    As Space Shuttle Discovery prepares for its final launch before retirement, a slight technical hitch has delayed the attachment of the external fuel tank and
  • New Test: Swallow a Sponge, Learn If You Have ...
    Scientists: Swallowing a sponge (a "cytosponge") on a piece of string could help prevent a deadly form of cancer...

Invisible Opportunity

  • The 9th Anniversary of Israel’s Attack on th ...
    By Les Visible “Number 9, Number 9” to quote one of The Beatles. It’s the 9th anniversary of Israel’s attack on the United States and things are finally moving at a pretty good clip toward exposure of the truth. People are collecting money to put ads on television. Individuals around the world are d ...
  • Whirlpools and Tornadoes and the Suicide of Evil
    By Les Visible There are a lot of laws you can see in operation all around you, which are invisible due to the veil of ignorance that surrounds them. For instance, if someone is a jerk they cannot see it. If someone is in danger due to a lack of awareness, they are not aware [...]
  • So 9/11 Was An Inside Job. So What?
    By Tom Dennen There’s an awful lot more that we ‘know’ about but remain in denial of because “that’s the way it is.” But “That’s the way it is” is coming to an end. HOW WILL WE KNOW THAT? We will begin to see, faster and faster – and it’s already started to happen – [...]
  • Fox report on Israeli spies
    Carl Cameron Investigates Part 2 Part 2 of 4 (Originally from Fox News) BRIT HUME, HOST: Last time we reported on the approximately 60 Israelis who had been detained in connection with the Sept. 11 terrorism investigation. Carl Cameron reported that U.S. investigators suspect that some of these Isra ...
  • Charles Manson: Global Warming Prophet
    Paul Joseph Watson Charles Manson, the man who masterminded the brutal murders of nine people in the summer of 1969 in an effort to spark a race war in America, has adopted a new cause from his prison cell in California – he is a prophet for the global warming movement – sharing common ground [...]

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

  • Frankenfish Should be OK Because of BPA (cartoon)
    Bill McKibbenâs New Book: The Old Economy is Killing the Earth; Itâs Time for a New Living Economy Don’t Let Experimental Genetically Engineered Salmon Reach Your Plate Follow all of Mean Joe Green’s environmental cartoons on JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons. Related post ...
  • Water: Nature’s Wonderdrug–Now with Wonderdrugs! ( ...
    Between 2006 and 2007, the Southern Nevada Water Authority in Las Vegas screened tap water from 19 US water utilities for 51 different compounds. The 11 most frequently detected compounds are highlighted in the cartoon and described below. 1.used to treat cardiovascular disease, 2.an herbicide ba ...
  • Pesticides and ADHD (cartoon)
    From Grist: More research linking pesticide exposure to ADHD in kids Follow all of Mean Joe Green’s environmental cartoons on JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons. Related posts:Chemicals and Obesity Speeding up Puberty in Girls (cartoon) BP’s Getting All Cap-Happy (cartoon) Tea ...
  • Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon)
    A victory for anyone who likes healthy food, soil, and water! Monsanto’s sour plans for the sweet beet were spoiled as a federal judge banned genetically modified sugar beets. This is great news and hopefully a large step forward to getting food production back on a less toxic track. Sugar beet, ...
  • Chemicals and Obesity Speeding up Puberty in Girls ...
    The news that chemicals and obesity causes premature puberty in girls is the latest of thousands of red flags waving high above our food production and consumption status quo. Of course, things are changing, but are they changing fast enough? Nope. The only thing changing quickly is the level of t ...

Inhabitat

  • Project Runway’s Seth Aaron Henderson Debuts Solar ...
    It may be Fashion Week in New York City, but that doesnât mean fashion isnât in full swing in other parts of the country. Designer Seth Aaron Henderson â a.k.a. Season 7’s Project Runway winner â just released a sneak peek into his cutting edge new line that takes solar technology as its ...
  • Win a Sweet $500 Back-to-School Solar Bag Bundle!
    Win an awesome solar back-to-school bundle worth over $500! If you spend hours in class, chances are your gadgets are running low on battery power by the end of the day. Well, if you want to keep your iPod, phone, camera or pretty much any small electronic charged and ready to go – so you can [...]
  • Dental Sealants Containing BPA: How To Limit Your ...
    A recent study conducted by the Pediatrics medical journal revealed that numerous sealants and filling offered by dentists contain traceable levels bisphenol A (BPA). Evidence showed that BPA was released from dental resins and was even detecable in a child’s saliva up to 3 hours after work had been ...
  • Go Green and Get Healthier While Working With a St ...
    It’s hard to believe that the vast majority of us spend most our waking hours chained to a desk, but while you may think you have it easy getting to sit in a chair over sweating out your breakfast at more physically intensive trades, think again. Recent studies have confirmed that too much sitting i ...
  • Rotterdam Football Club is a Beautiful Daylit Pris ...
    This football club pavilion in Rotterdam, The Netherlands is a striking building that serves as both a gathering place and a natural grandstand. Spotted on ArchDaily, the club features a canopy that reflects the berm and gives the building an airy, much larger profile than its 1500 square meters wou ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Cockroach Brains, Coming to a Pharmacy Near You
    Cockroaches may be nasty bugs, but they could help fight even nastier ones. New research finds that the rudimentary brains of cockroaches and locusts teem with antimicrobial compounds that slay harmful E. coli and MRSA, the antibiotic-resistant staph bacterium. The work could lead to new compounds ...
  • The Science of Eavesdropping
    A fascinating new paper in Psychological Science explores an apparent paradox of eavesdropping: It’s harder to not listen to a conversation when someone is talking on the phone (we only hear one side of the dialogue) than when two physically present people are talking to each other. Although the pho ...
  • Flying Fish Ace Wind Tunnel Tests
    Put flying fish in a wind tunnel, and they’re as aerodynamically polished as most birds. Earlier analyses of their bodies suggested as much, but the calculations were hypothetical. “We directly measure the aerodynamic forces,” wrote aerospace engineers Hyungmin Park and Haecheon Choi of Seoul Natio ...
  • Earth’s Most Stunning Natural Fractal Patterns
    See Also: Channeling Earth: Rivers Seen From Space Inexplicable Superconductor Fractals Hint at Higher Universal Laws Geeky Math Equation Creates Beautiful 3-D World Cryosphere: Earth’s Icy Extremes Seen From Space The Oldest Trees on the Planet See Them While You Can: Endangered Butterfly Gallery ...
  • Happy g day
    Actually, it should be called Happy "Magnitude of the local Earth gravitational field" day. You know, 9.8 N/kg on September 8 (9/8). Get it?

The Progressive Realist

  • Regional Knowledge
    The White House announced on Friday its intention to nominate Cameron Munter as ambassador to Pakistan, so I looked up his bio: Cameron Phelps Munter is a United States diplomat and career foreign service officer. He is an advisor for political and military issues to Christopher R. Hill, US amb ...
  • Global Competitiveness
    I don’t particularly want to vouch for the methodology behind the World Economic Forum’s “Global Competitiveness Report” since ordinal lists are a little silly and competitiveness is a bit of a weird concept but just think of this as a reflection of something international businessmen think: Switze ...
  • Tony Blair, Europe and the Prospect of a US Attack ...
    In connection with the release of his memoirs, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has given a number of interviews this week in which he endorses the first-use of military force to stop Iran’s nuclear development.  Blair’s statements on the matter prompted us to reflect on where European poli ...
  • Tony Blaire, Europe and the Prospect of a US Attac ...
    In connection with the release of his memoirs, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has given a number of interviews this week in which he endorses the first-use of military force to stop Iran’s nuclear development.  Blair’s statements on the matter prompted us to reflect on where European poli ...
  • "Fiscal Conservatives for Closing Gitmo"
    Okay so that's a group I just made up. But the point is that the cost of continuing to house, feed and try suspected terror detainees at Gitmo is high, a point President Obama made in his press conference today. In response to a question about military tribunals and civilian courts, the president sa ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The TAP Five.
    The five TAP pieces that have made a stir around the web this week. " The Case for Presidential Action " " Uncertainly Wrong " " Exiting the Imperial Presidency " " Holding Wal-Mart Accountable " " The Audacity of Patience "
  • Lightning Round: Politics Divorced from People.
    I haven't read Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson 's new book on the rise of the business lobby, Winner-Take-All Politics , but if Kevin Drum 's nickel summary is accurate, the book offers a compelling narrative about America's long march to income inequality . And it is a narrative -- the reason Republ ...
  • How is Lincoln Losing?
    Earlier this afternoon, Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Rep. John Boozman met for their first official debate in the Arkansas state Senate race. The particulars of this race are interesting but frustrating: it's hard to see how, whatever the climate, the soft-spoken, least-electric-person-on-the-planet Boo ...
  • The Little Picture: Arkansas Senate Race.
    Sen. Blanche Lincoln faced Rep. John Boozman in their first official debate today (though they squared off in a less official forum in front of county executives earlier this summer). Lincoln is behind about 2 to 1 in most polls in the Arkansas Senate race. (Flickr/ USAgov photostream)
  • Austan Goolsbee and Elizabeth Warren Walk Into A B ...
    ... and ask for two milkshakes. The bartender gives them each a 50-page contract, explaining that they can borrow the cost of the milkshake at a low interest rate that will increase with each sip, but don't worry -- they can refinance later for a fee. "These incentives are terrible!" Goolsbee says, ...

Buzzflash

  • Two Reasons That Florida’s “Let’s Burn The Koran!” ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH Terry Jones shares a name with a guy in Monty Python. If that isn’t enough reason to make him appear all nuts, He’s a dead ringer for the actor in “The Sopranos” who Played that hothead and total numbskull Paulie Walnuts. read more
  • Jonathan Westminster: The 15% Solution, Serializat ...
    This is the eighth installment of a project that is likely to extend over a two-year-period from January, 2010. It is the serialization of a book entitled The 15% Solution: A Political History of American Fascism, 2001-2022 . Under the pseudonym Jonathan Westminster, it is purportedly published in ...
  • Now They are Calling Obama an Atheist
    MARC PERKEL FOR BUZZFLASH Right wing commentator Ann Coulter is now saying that Obama isn't a Muslim, he's an Atheist, as if being an Atheist is a bad thing. As an Atheist myself I don't have an invisible friend telling me to fly planes into buildings or to invade Iraq after fabricating false rea ...
  • The Republicans Want to Rule Rather Than Govern
    BARBARA'S BUZZ FROM ATLANTA http://pr.thinkprogress.org/2010/09/pr20100903/index.html "Social Security Under Assault"� How like the Repuglicans, they want to eliminate Social Security but they want to keep the Bush tax cuts for the very rich.� "Privatizing" Social Security is the first leg in the Re ...
  • Mitch McConnell, John Boehner And The Republicans' ...
    RICHARD STITT FOR BUZZFLASH According to Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell and House minority leader John Boehner: 1. Americans don't want affordable health care for all citizens and they don't want to close the Medicare prescription drug Part D doughnut hole that requires seniors ...

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The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Antioxidants, fingerprint testing, peers
    These are the latest science news links and snippets from Sciencebase: Healthy antioxidants may do more harm than good – This has been my hunch for years. Now, scientists (J Agric Food Chem, ACS) are calling for more research on the possibility that some supposedly healthy plant-based antioxidants – ...
  • Phantom radiation protection
    Ionizing radiation exists as either subatomic particles (alpha and beta particles, and neutrons) or photons (electromagnetic waves at X-ray and gamma ray wavelengths, i.e. energies of a few electron volts). The energy from such radiation can strip electrons from atoms or molecules, thus ionizing the ...
  • Research in the past and structural correctness
    These are the latest science news links and snippets from Sciencebase: Scientific Research in the Past – Literally a blast from the past: This item about science in museums and finding a job in museum research was posted on Sciencebase.com way back in 2005, but was originally an “Adapt or Die” featu ...
  • Periodic Table of Google Elements
    This Periodic Table has even less to do with chemistry than my PT of science bloggers. Regardless, it’s still worth a mention, just because it hints at chemistry however indirectly. More periodicity A Periodic Table of Google Elements Using the Periodic Table Blogging the Periodic Table: Rare earths ...
  • Spectroscopy now!
    These are the latest science news links and snippets from Sciencebase: Diabetics drop the needle – A new device based on Raman spectroscopy has been developed by scientists at MIT to help patients with diabetes monitor their blood glucose levels without needing to prick their fingers to take a blood ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Oxfam Warns of Severe Health Crisis in Pakistan as ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 9, 2010 Oxfam International International aid agency Oxfam today warned of a public health catastrophe in flood-hit Pakistan. The aid agency said while funding had stalled in recent weeks, the number of cases of reported disease, numbers of people displaced, and nu ...
  • NRDC and StoryCorps to Collect the Stories of Resi ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 9, 2010 Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and StoryCorps The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and StoryCorps announce a special effort to collect the stories of Gulf Coast residents affected by the April 2010 oil spill. The prominent environmental advoc ...
  • New York to Force Household Cleaner Giants to Reve ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 9, 2010 Earthjustice For the first time, the State of New York will begin requiring household cleaning companies to reveal the chemical ingredients in their products and any health risks they pose. read more
  • Afghanistan: Unchecked Violence Threatens Election
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 9, 2010 Human Rights Watch (HRW) Insurgent attacks on candidates and poor government security protection risk severely compromising Afghanistan's September 18, 2010 parliamentary election, Human Rights Watch said today. Candidates - as well as their staff members and ...
  • 47,858 Pro-Choice Americans Sign Letter Oposing Ob ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 9, 2010 NARAL Pro-Choice America Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, announced that her organization will send a letter signed by more than 47,000 individuals registering opposition to an Obama administration policy excluding abortion coverage from ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • A World Ruled by Fear and Self-Interest Offers Lit ...
    by Caroline Arnold The front page of the Kent Ravenna (Ohio) Record-Courier 8/30/10 carried a photo of a big black tank - an M113 armored personnel vehicle. The news story began "Thirteen tons of rolling steel makes up the newest defense the Brimfield Police Department has to keep police officers an ...
  • Whatever the Problem, Human Ingenuity is No Match ...
    by Ron Smith Scientist, author and political activist Jeremy Rifkin, once described in Time Magazine as "the most hated man in science," has ruffled feathers for many of his 64 years on this planet. read more
  • Misreporting Venezuela's Economy
    by Mark Weisbrot The bulk of the media often gets pulled along for the ride when the United States government has a serious political and public relations campaign around foreign policy. But almost nowhere is it so monolithic as with Venezuela. Even in the runup to the Iraq war, there were a sig ...
  • Who Made Kabul Corrupt?
    by Pratap Chatterjee Afghan intelligence officers beat back Afghan police officers who mobbed the only branch of Kabul Bank open in the capital on Wednesday, in a desperate attempt to draw money before it closed for Eid al-Fitr, the most important festival of the year in Islamic countries. Eid m ...
  • Bring the Troops Home, Bust the Banksters, Democra ...
    by John Nichols  BARABOO, WISCONSIN -- Decrying the excesses of big banks and Wall Street speculators, the Rev. Jesse Jackson told thousands of cheering progressives at a county fairgrounds in rural Wisconsin Saturday that: “There is a contest for the soul of America. read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Burnt Korans? What About Murder Rings?
    By Steve Hynd As my Twittering pal Keith Boyea notes, we've been treated to an awful lot of news reports and media pontification about one wingnut's plan to burn Korans - media attention that has created blowback in the form of mass demonstrations in Afghanistan in which one person has died and over ...
  • No Korans Burned, But A COIN Disaster Anyway
    By Steve Hynd Well, wingnut Pharisee Terry Jones may have backed off his threat to conduct a book-burning, but someone died for his moment in the media spotlight. As thousands of Afghans across that country protested Jones' moment of Nazi-wannabeism, a group of the more hot-headed began throwing sto ...
  • Torture is a secret
    By Dave Anderson: We can not talk about torture because then everyone would know that the US government tortures, despite that being part of the public record and a badge of 'seriousness' for significant elements of the US political elite. Wow! Time for the states secret doctrine to have a serious r ...
  • A New Way Forward In Afghanistan?
    By Steve Hynd Here's the panel discussion for the launch of the Afghanistan Study Group's new "Plan B" report on Afghanistan. What's clear from the panel is that the group's conclusions were by no means homogenous. That's probably a good thing - there's plenty of room for a discussion about not just ...
  • Prozac Army
    By Steve Hynd A bit of news from Danger Room that should give you pause. An untold number of active-duty troops and recent veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are coming home with mental health conditions inflicted during service — and their spouses and children are suffering too. Now, with ...

Water Wars

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Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

  • Two die in Afghan protest over Quran burning
    Two people protesting against the desecration of the Quran died after clashes with Afghan security forces Sunday, witnesses said.
  • Civilian casualties possible in Afghan strike - NA ...
    KABUL (Reuters) - NATO-led forces acknowledged on Sunday there could have been civilian casualties in an air strike this month that wounded an Afghan election candidate and was strongly condemned by A...
  • Two Protesters Reportedly Die In Afghan Protest
    Reports from eastern Afghanistan say two people have died after clashes with security forces. The two protesters were shot and killed during angry demonstrations in the Baraki Barak district of Logar ...
  • Deep problems plague Afghan vote
    KABUL, Afghanistan Afghanistan's electoral process is plagued by deep-rooted problems that will take years to fix, according to a report issued by a U.S. government watchdog agency as the coun...
  • Probe into Afghanistan troops' heroin traffic ...
    Military police are investigating claims that British soldiers may have been involved in heroin trafficking in Afghanistan. Officials said they were aware of "unsubstantiated" claims...

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 ...

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on Government Oversight

  • U.S. Overreliance on Contractors Has International ...
    International relief and development organization Oxfam America has a new perspective to offer on “agency capture,” the fear that the government has become far too cozy with the companies it does business with or regulates. A report released by Oxfam...
  • Morning Smokelet: SEC Zeroes in on Deceptive Accou ...
    SEC Homes In on Lehman, 'Funds of Funds' by Kara Scannell and Carrick Mollenkamp [The Wall Street Journal] SEC Judge Finds Investment Bank GC was not Negligent in Supervising Rogue Broker by Jenna Greene [The Blog of Legal Times] Did...
  • Key Findings from Interior's Offshore Oil and Gas ...
    Yesterday the Department of the Interior released the Outer Continental Shelf Safety Oversight Board's federal offshore oil and gas report. And it's pretty damning. Overall, the takeaway is that BOEMRE needs to create a safety culture out of thin air...
  • Still No Accountability for Former SEC Attorney Wh ...
    In a drawn-out debacle that reveals the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) inability to hold accountable its own employees who undermine whistleblower protections, a former SEC lawyer who is now running for the U.S. Congress is improperly claiming he has...
  • Former Interior Secretary *Doesn't* Go Through the ...
    The Hill reports that former Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has been selected as the new president and CEO of the American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI). POGO always likes to highlight these examples that demonstrate that moving from public service...

Digital Journal

  • Alex Syntek on free concert in Vancouver
    Alex Syntek, a Mexican composer and songwriter gave a free concert on Saturday night as a part of the series of Mexicofest celebrations in Vancouver.
  • 'Jesus in the City' prays, parades in the city of ...
    Tens of thousands of people gathered at Queen's Park in downtown Toronto to celebrate Jesus Christ. The crowds danced, cheered and prayed. The event was follwed by a gigantic march through the city's busiest street: Yonge Street.
  • CFL: Mcpherson leads Als to victory, sets rushing ...
    Anthony Calvillo felt he was ready to start today in Hamilton, but head coach Marc Trestman thought it was better to give his star quarterback another week’s rest.
  • People getting drunk on hand sanitizer
    Police in Regina are picking up people who have become intoxicated from drinking alcohol-based hand sanitizer. They say the problem is most common in the downtown area of the Saskatchewan city.
  • Toronto crowds anxiously wait for Hillary Swank, D ...
    The Toronto International Film Festival enters its 35th year and the Hollywood stars in town to promote their latest motion pictures. This means Torontonians are able to catch a brief glimpse or wait for hours to see their favourite star.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Shelter Sweet Shelter: Homeless Families on the Ri ...
    It's safe to say that when most folks think of homelessness, the first people that come to mind aren't part of a traditional family of four. But according to the recently-released  2009 Annual Assessment Report to Congres s (pdf) from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the number of ho ...
  • Finally, Some Good News About Domestic Violence
    Domestic violence pops up in the media quite a bit. Occasionally there's good news, like Megan Fox donating her paycheck from appearing in a Rhianna/Eminem music video to the women's shelter Sojourn . But even the story behind that is bad news — the infamous abusive relationships of Chris Brown and ...
  • To Some, Homelessness Is a Game
    For some people, homelessness is a game. Take Robin Burkinshaw, a student of game design in the UK, who decided to see what homelessness would look like in " The SIMS 3 " if he removed all of the virtual material possessions of a couple of characters, a father and daughter named Alice and Kev. Then ...
  • More Bad News for Bloomberg's Failed NYC Homelessn ...
    When will New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg get the message that his homeless policies aren't working ? Recently Comptroller John Liu, the chief fiscal officer of the city, released a report examining New York's often-criticized housing voucher program " Advantage ." The news is not good. Accord ...
  • Homelessness Sometimes Includes Run-Ins With Allig ...
    "Things got complicated" is how Daphne describes living homeless. She was laid off, then her unemployment checks stopped. Living outside homeless is not camping. If you are the outdoors type and enjoy camping you know it's a choice. After a few days or a week you can go back to living with a roof, s ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Russian bomber flights rare: NORAD
    NORAD statistics obtained by the Ottawa Citizen show that Russian bomber flights near Canadian airspace–which the Harper government has been hyping in its efforts to sell Canadians on the controversial plan to buy F-35 fighters–have occurred only three to five times a year since 2007 (David Pugliese ...
  • Petraeus tightens rules of engagement
    U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, the recently appointed commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, has reportedly added further restrictions to the “rules of engagement” that govern the use of force by most international forces in Afghanistan (Jason Motlagh, “Petraeus Toughens Afghan Rules of Engage ...
  • Canadians still want out of Afghanistan
    Almost 80 percent of Canadians want Canadian soldiers out of Afghanistan by the end of 2011, as currently scheduled, reports a recent Ipsos-Reid poll (Carmen Chai, âCanadians want to end Afghan mission by 2011, poll shows,â Postmedia News, 5 August 2010): “These numbers are very indicative of a ...
  • Ex-Pakistani spy chief says Afghanistan war cannot ...
    A former head of Pakistani intelligence, Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul, has stated that the conflict in Afghanistan cannot be won. Gul, whose agency worked closely with the Taliban prior to the U.S. invasion and continues to maintain ties with the organization, argued in an interview with CNN that the U.S. pre ...
  • BATTLE FOR KANDAHAR IS ON - Real News Network
    In Afghanistan, the battle for Kandahar is on. That's receiving strangely little attention in the American media—quite low-key if you compare it to other major American campaigns in Afghanistan. Joining us from England, from Essex, is Muhammad Junaid, who's a research scholar studying the Pashtun na ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • NYPD Posting ‘Cop Army’ Near Ground Ze ...
    September 10, 2010 NewYork Post By Chuck Bennett The NYPD has called up “an army of cops” to handle rival protests expected to draw thousands to the site of the planned Ground Zero mosque on the anniversary of 9/11, sources said yesterday. “We want to keep everyone in their corners. You don’t want t ...
  • Big Sis Warns, Attack Could Be Coming
    September 10, 2010 Politico By Mike Allen Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will mark the ninth anniversary of 9/11 with a speech Friday in New York vowing to keep up the fight against terrorists and to “to enlist the nation in its own collective security.” “We can’t guarant ...
  • Iowa School District Monitors Kid’s Lunch Ch ...
    September 10, 2010 Fox News By Jana Winter An Iowa school district’s lunch program asks children as young as 5 years old to memorize a four-digit PIN code so it can monitor what they eat in the school cafeteria — prompting some parents to claim it’s an unhealthy case of “Big Brother.” The Ankeny Com ...
  • Court Sides With CIA On ‘Extraordinary Rendi ...
    September 10, 2010 The New York Times By: Charlie Savage A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that former prisoners of the C.I.A. could not sue over their alleged torture in overseas prisons because such a lawsuit might expose secret government information. The sharply divided ruling was a ...
  • TSA Warns Against Photographers Taking Photos Of P ...
    September 10, 2010 TechDirt By Mike Marsnick william points us to a Gizmodo post highlighting a TSA poster that appears to be suggesting that people photographing airplanes at airports somehow have nefarious intentions: This really does seem bizarre. Is it really so evil to take photos of airplane ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • What makes Americans afraid?
    9/11 has become the emblem of all our fears not because it represents a national security failure or because it exposed poorly crafted foreign policy. From our perspective the most terrifying dimension of the threat posed by al Qaeda is not its destructive capacity but its operatives’ casual disreg ...
  • In the wake of 9/11, Israel put Iran into “Axis of ...
    Marsha Cohen writes: When, on September 11, 2001, two terrorist attacks occurred on U.S. soil, Israeli political figures anticipated that the Americans would now be better able to empathize with Israel’s vulnerability to its own random terror attacks. In the hours immediately following the attacks ...
  • Obama preaches tolerance
  • The real Ground Zero Mosque was destroyed by al Qa ...
    In the midst of the heated debate about the construction of an Islamic center two blocks away from the site of the World Trade Center, Samuel Freedman tells a story that should be heard by everyone who has declared their concern about the sensitivity of this issue. Sometime in 1999, a construction ...
  • Pastor Jones’ daughter says he’s a megalomaniac
    In an interview with Der Spiegel, Pastor Terry Jones’ daughter Emma Jones describes her father as a megalomaniac who she characterizes as a delusional cult leader. SPIEGEL ONLINE: How did you grow up? Emma Jones: We were raised in a very Christian household, and it was very strict. But also very s ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Pacing the Glacial
    Guest post by Tom Fuller How glaciers have responded to the warming of the past 130 years is a complicated story, although many millions of words have been written to try and explain it. How glaciers have been used to … Continue reading →
  • Oh, that’s gotta hurt – Obama denies s ...
    From the Guardian: It has been said that Obama is the worst president since Jimmy Carter, perhaps now in the eyes of 350.org supporters, he’s “worse than we thought”. Carter was the first to put solar panels on the White … Continue reading →
  • Animal, Vegetable, or E. O. Wilson
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Buoyed by the equal parts of derision and support I received for writing in “I am So Tired Of Malthus” about how humans are better fed than at any time in history, I am foolishly … Continue reading →
  • Solar Cycle Length, Its Rate of Change, & the Nort ...
    Guest post by Paul L. Vaughan, M.Sc. “Eyeball” methods of measuring solar cycle length (SCL) by looking at successive minima or maxima only take a measurement on average every 11 years. They ignore all of the sunspots occurring during the … Continue reading →
  • Death of a Feedlot Operator
    In my post about 9-11 remembrance today, I pointed out “freedom from tyranny” as something to remember and be thankful for. In Western Australia, licensing a simple farming operation has become the victim of government imposed tyranny. Jo Nova has … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Lauren Booth: Letter to Israel (must-see)
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Warning This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience. gazafriends | September 12, 2010 Journalist Lauren Booth was on the first Free Gaza voyage and stayed to work in Gaza after the ...
  • Democrats’ Corporate Cocoon by Ralph Nader
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Sept. 10, 2010 It is astonishing how many Democrats in the past three months have been making the worst case scenario for their prospects in the November mid-term Congressional elections. Do they believe that the most craven Republic ...
  • The Imperial Anatomy of Al-Qaeda: 9/11 and America ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad September 10, 2010 This is Part III of the three-part series, “The Imperial Anatomy of Al-Qaeda.” Part 1: The Imperial Anatomy of Al-Qaeda: The CIA’s Drug-Running Terrorists and the “Arc of Crisis”, Part I Part II: The Imperial Anatomy of al-Q ...
  • Hijacking the Hijackings & Hijacking Hope by Phili ...
    by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad September 10, 2010 Like most stories that are told through the mainstream media or by our elected officials, there is so much more to tell. If you take time to read Jesse Ventura’s new book American Conspiracies you may come away with many doubt ...
  • “The 15% Solution,” Serialization, 8th Installment ...
    by Jonathan Westminster, Ph.D. aka Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash,com Sept. 9, 2010 This is the eighth installment of a project that is likely to extend over a two-year-period from January, 2010. It is the serialization of a book entitled The 15% Solut ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    Republicans Finally Outdo Nazis For War Propaganda The 'Ground Zero Mosque' is actually one floor of an office tower, blocks away from the still empty World Trade Centre site, and the Republicans know it. But this is a religious war, after all. Note that the ad clearly states that the entire Mus ...
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    Life under occupation :
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    If you've found your way here after listening to my 'Weird & Unusual News' spot on ABC Newcastle today, here are links to the two main stories that were discussed : 'Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's Spiritual Day Of Reckoning On August 15' 'Five Human Senses? Actually, We Have More Than 2 ...
  • No title
    Creating new realities? It's the CIA's main mission, isn't it?
  • No title
    This is as close to a video of an actual nightmare as I've ever seen. Chris Cunningham's Rubber Johnny : What Chris Cunningham has been working on lately : "I've been living next to the railway line for 12 years and I've become obsessed with the harmonics of the trains on the lines. "For yea ...

Wired - Science

  • Cockroach Brains, Coming to a Pharmacy Near You
    Cockroaches may be nasty bugs, but they could help fight even nastier ones. New research finds that the rudimentary brains of cockroaches and locusts teem with antimicrobial compounds that slay harmful E. coli and MRSA, the antibiotic-resistant staph bacterium. The work could lead to new compounds ...
  • The Science of Eavesdropping
    A fascinating new paper in Psychological Science explores an apparent paradox of eavesdropping: It’s harder to not listen to a conversation when someone is talking on the phone (we only hear one side of the dialogue) than when two physically present people are talking to each other. Although the pho ...
  • Flying Fish Ace Wind Tunnel Tests
    Put flying fish in a wind tunnel, and they’re as aerodynamically polished as most birds. Earlier analyses of their bodies suggested as much, but the calculations were hypothetical. “We directly measure the aerodynamic forces,” wrote aerospace engineers Hyungmin Park and Haecheon Choi of Seoul Natio ...
  • Earth’s Most Stunning Natural Fractal Patterns
    See Also: Channeling Earth: Rivers Seen From Space Inexplicable Superconductor Fractals Hint at Higher Universal Laws Geeky Math Equation Creates Beautiful 3-D World Cryosphere: Earth’s Icy Extremes Seen From Space The Oldest Trees on the Planet See Them While You Can: Endangered Butterfly Gallery ...
  • Happy g day
    Actually, it should be called Happy "Magnitude of the local Earth gravitational field" day. You know, 9.8 N/kg on September 8 (9/8). Get it?

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Noam Chomsky on Palestine / Israel (video)
    A conversation with Noam Chomsky on Palestine/Israel, covering Zionism, the nature of statehood, bi-national / one-state / two-state solutions, the right of return, and the BDS movement - its... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now i ...
  • Gideon Levy Interview: Against the Stream
    Zionism in its present meaning, in its common meaning, is contradictory to human rights, to equality, to democracy, and [Zionist leftists] don’t recognise it. It’s too hard for them to recognise it,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Theodore Bikel: Legitimizing an obstacle to peace
    I have often spoken out in opposition to cultural boycotts ... but in the political arena, artists make a statement by their presence or their absence. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website f ...
  • Avi Shlaim: This time in Washington, honest broker ...
    [Netanyahu's] rhetoric has changed, but his policy can still be summed up in one ominous word: politicide – to deny the Palestinian people any independent political existence in Palestine. This... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
  • Making History: Support for Israeli Artists Who Sa ...
    It's thrilling to think that these Israeli theatre artists have refused to allow their work to be used to normalize a cruel occupation which they know to be wrong, which violates international law... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Amateur Astronomers Open Potential Lab in Outer Sp ...
    Two amateur astronomers who independently observed and videotaped an asteroid striking the giant planet Jupiter on June 3 have opened the possibility, in effect, of a giant research lab in space for planetary scientists.
  • Female Athletes with Higher Estrogen Levels May Ha ...
    In female athletes with chronically higher estrogen levels, differences in the mechanical properties of tendons may lead to a higher risk of injury, according to a study in The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, official research journal of the National Strength and Conditioning Associat ...
  • Vibration Platforms May 'Shake Up' Warm-Ups for So ...
    How can softball players increase their bat speed without taking a swing? Thirty seconds of whole-body vibration (WBV) on a special vibration platform has the same effect on bat speed as the standard "dry swings" warm-up, reports a study in The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, officia ...
  • Lannon Named Creighton University's 24th President
    Creighton University names Fr. Timothy Lannon, S.J., as it's 24th president.
  • Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School ...
    Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing recently received a three-year $812,355 Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Advanced Education Nursing grant for the development of a new Population-focused Infection Prevention and Environmental Safety (PIPES) track within ...

Natural Health News

  • What is the Best Exercise for Your Abs?
    by Darin L. Steen A flat, defined abdominal wall is a universal symbol for sex appeal, virility, power, and youth. At one point in time almost every one of us has wanted a smaller, chiseled mid-section. Your first inclination may be to think that doing a lot of sit ups will develop the type o ...
  • 13 of the Ugliest Animals on the Planet
    California condor -- Its bald head is an adaptation for its lifestyle as a scavenger, since a feathered head would become clotted with blood while the bird feeds. Blobfish -- The blobfish looks more like a ball of slime than a living creature.� Its gooey, pudding-like flesh allows it to s ...
  • Government Funding Drug Companies to Make Vaccines ...
    The U.S. government plans to spend close to $2 billion in order to pay researchers and biotechnology companies to develop new drugs, vaccines and equipment to shorten the six- to nine-month time frame currently needed to make a flu vaccine. U.S. health officials plan to persuade more Americans to g ...
  • Bee Decline Having Dramatic Effect on Plant Pollin ...
    Pollination levels of some plants have dropped by up to 50 percent over the past two decades.� This so-called "pollination deficit" could result in a dramatic reduction in crop yield. This is likely connected to Colony Collapse Disorder, a mysterious malady that has reduced bee populations around t ...
  • Pneumococcal Vaccine Linked with Increased Risk of ...
    Infants who received heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccination at 2, 4, and 11 months were more likely to have pneumococcal serotype 19A in their nasal passages.� This is a leading cause of respiratory pneumococcal disease. Pneumococcal serotype 19A strains are often multiresistant to antibiot ...

Antemedius

  • Lawrence Wilkerson on 9/11: The Culpability and Ne ...
    Former Chief of Staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell, Lawrence Wilkerson is now adjunct Professor of Government and Public Policy at the College of William & Mary where he teaches courses on US national security. Wilkerson is also Professorial Lecturer in the Honors Program of the ...
  • The Permanent U.S. Bases in the Iraq the U.S. Is ...
    Hat tip to David Swanson at WarIsACrime.org . "New markets for our goods stretch from Asia to the Americas" "...we have not done what is necessary to shore up the foundation of our own prosperity. We have spent over a trillion dollars at war, often financed by borrowing from overseas. This, in tu ...
  • Do YOU Want The Republicans To Win?
    Then follow the current Dem "strategy." Republicans are vicious thugs who will do literally anything to get and keep power. Power that they then use to screw Americans and enrich the elite. They will kill the economy for the rest of us, for the rest of the world, so that they can grow richer. ...
  • Let's Fact Check the AP's Fact Checking on Obama's ...
    By David Swanson FACT CHECK: Is Iraq combat really over for US? By CALVIN WOODWARD and ROBERT BURNS (AP) WASHINGTON — Despite President Barack Obama's declaration Tuesday of an end to the combat mission in Iraq, combat almost certainly lies ahead. And in asserting the U.S. has met its responsibil ...
  • November 2010 - Looking Into The Abyss
    Nietzsche said" “When we look into the abyss, searching for monsters, the abyss looks into us as well”. Right now we are staring the abyss in the face and there are indeed monsters there. This abyss is the elections this fall. The chance that radical Republicans will take over the House and perhap ...

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

  • Next Week at the ICJ: Georgia v. Russia Oral Proce ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen Next week the ICJ will have oral proceedings in the case Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Georgia v. Russian Federation). The .pdf of the press release is here. As far as I can tell, unlike in the ...
  • More on International Arbitration, Chess, and Russ ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen As you may remember from my previous post on this topic, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the President of the autonomous republic of Kalmikia the President of FIDE (the world chess federation), has been named in a suit before the Court of Arbitration for Sport seeking the disq ...
  • Scharf & Williams Volume on the Legal Adviser
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Mike Scharf and Paul Williams have published an interesting collection of recollections and colloquys among all ten living State Department legal advisers, Shaping Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis: The Role of International Law and the State Department Legal Adviser ...
  • Samuel Moyn on the History of Human Rights and the ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Columbia University historian Samuel Moyn has a new book out, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (Harvard/Belknap).  I haven’t read it - but I have ordered it from Amazon! - and I’m sure I’ll have more to say about it once I’ve read it.  However, it ...
  • Live-blogging the UNCTAD Conference
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford There are some interesting comments in the live blog of the UNCTAD International Investment Agreements Conference from the likes of Todd Weiler, Susan Franck, and Jason Yackee. (You can also watch the proceedings here). Much substance in the coverage, but also so ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • How objective was the Climategate inquiry?
    I've been too busy writing and editing the new Arthur Allan Thomas book to blog much in recent weeks, but couldn't resist this revelation about the old boys network's whitewash of Climategate. Here's how it happened...originally from Climate Audit, via...
  • Biggest aftershock rocks Christchurch again
  • Open thread on Christchurch earthquake
    Your comments and experiences are welcome
  • IPCC gets a credibility hammering
    This alert through from Benny Peiser's newsletter The Daily Telegraph. 31 August 2010 By Stephen Adams and Robert Winnett An independent investigation into the UN's climate change body has warned it to stop lobbying and to restrict its role to...
  • History in colour
    We've all seen the black and white photos of yesteryear, a time before the invention of colour photography. So how's this picture from the days of Imperial Russia, 1909, grab you: They were taken by a process involving three b&w...

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

  • Farmers and Conservationists File Suit Challenging ...
    Today, the Center for Food Safety, Organic Seed Alliance, High Mowing Organic Seeds, and the Sierra Club, filed a lawsuit in federal district court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, challenging the issuance by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspe ...
  • Public Still In The Dark On Transgenic Salmon
    FDAâs Incomplete Data Release is âToo Little, Too Lateâ — Fails to Uphold President Obamaâs Call for Openness and Transparency A broad coalition of consumer and environmental groups, along with community fishing organizations and food retailers, declared todayâs partial data release by th ...
  • Coalition Of Farm And Consumer Groups Condemns USD ...
    USDA VIOLATES ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS IN ATTEMPT TO CIRCUMVENT RECENT FEDERAL COURT ORDER MAKING THE PLANTINGS ILLEGAL On September 1, 2010, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced that it was in the process of issuing permits to a ...
  • Proposed Canadian Organic Aquaculture Standard Opp ...
    “Organic” Label for Farmed Fish Fails to Meet Consumer Expectations and Environmental Principles Over 40 organizations, including the Center for Food Safety, from across Canada and the U.S. submitted a joint letter opposing the Canada General Standards Board (CGSB) proposed organic standards that al ...
  • Coalition Demands FDA Deny Approval Of Controversi ...
    FDA Considers Approval of GE Salmon–the First GE Food Animal–Yet Fails to Inform the Public of Environmental and Economic Risks A coalition of 31 consumer, animal welfare and environmental groups, along with commercial and recreational fisheries associations and food retailers submitted a joint stat ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Cuba: Mensaje de Fidel Castro
    #Cuba: Mensaje de Fidel Castro � Yohandry’s Weblog : Lo último que podía esperarse eran las noticias de la expulsión de los gitanos franceses, víctimas de la crueldad de la extrema derecha francesa, que eleva ya a siete mil de ellos, las víctimas de otra especie de holocausto racial. Es elemental ...
  • Pentagon Considering Buying and Immediately Destro ...
    Pentagon Considering Buying and Immediately Destroying Every Copy of Military Memoir : [gawker.com] "The Pentagon is so worried about revelations in a new memoir about the War on Terror that it's considering buying 10,000 copies — the entire first printing — and destroying them. Sounds like a good b ...
  • Fidel Castro, Internet junkie
    Fidel Castro, Internet junkie - latimes.com Fidel Castro is back from the dead (his words) and has been reincarnated as an Internet junkie. Not only is he a prolific blogger on Cuba's online Granma newspaper but, it turns out, the 84-year-old greybeard consumes 200 to 300 news items a day on the W ...
  • Gareth Porter: Biden and the False Iraq War Narrat ...
    From Common Dreams via Palestinian Pundit: Biden and the False Iraq War Narrative "In an interview on the PBS NewsHour last Wednesday , Joe Biden was unwilling to contradict the official narrative of the Iraq War that Gen. David Petraeus and the Bush surge had turned Iraq into a good war after all. ...
  • John S.: COLLAPSE OF AMERICAN LIBERALISM
    COLLAPSE OF AMERICAN LIBERALISM : "Chris Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monit ...

Pensieve

  • When Suffering is Good
    Photo by G!zM() 17 We live in a world where hedonism and despair abound. It is as if the black death were knocking at our doors, like in Chaucerâs Canterbury Tales. Imagine a world without pain and suffering. Imagine not ever getting sick, physically or mentally. Imagine no disadvantages. Everyone ...
  • Inductee to the Creative Class
    Photo by Gui Trento For the past year or so Iâve been flirting with a design college. Iâve been to their events, spoken to their faculty, visited the campus. After 12 years of yearning to return to college, I could very soon enroll again. The degree they are offering sounds slightly business-lik ...
  • Asleep (a short story)
      Photo by eye of einstein I am holding a thread and staring into a labyrinth. Darkness is falling, and the gold of sunset begins to fade from the moss that drapes its walls. Ancient stones lose their friendliness and succumb to moist cold. Only the sky remains cheerful. Inside the labyrinth darknes ...
  • Criminal Rule in Honduras
    Photo by markarinafotos While Rome is burning, everyone is hypnotized by the fiddling emperor Chavez. Crime and impunity in Honduras, which steadily worsened during Manuel Zelaya’s administration, has only gotten worse under Porfirio Lobo. But Mr. Lobo is busy courting international opinion, in the ...
  • Hurricane Alex Aftermath
    (I wrote the following entry on Friday, July 2, but have been unable to post it until today. As of now, there is no water in my house.) I just arrived home after exploring the are around my home after Hurricane Alex tore through Monterrey. The hurricane made landfall Wednesday night as a category tw ...

Green Times

  • Attracting butterflies
    Butterflies do not only look beautiful, they can help you increase the flower, fruit and vegetable production in your garden. You can attract butterflies by adding a few new plants, flowers or small trees to your backyard. Add a lot of colourful flowers to your backyard. Different butterflies prefe ...
  • Bye bye, dryer!
    A clothes dryer uses a lot of energy. The crazy thing is: it does something that will also happen when you don´t use one – your clothes will get dry anyway.   Not using a dryer is better for the environment and it decreases your energy bill (energy/cut-your-energy-bill-.with-green-colours.html ). ...
  • Give your street the green light
        Have you made the switch to energy-efficient (glossary/categories/energy/energy-efficiency.html ) globes at home? Get ready for the next step then. Give your street the green light! The Municipal Association of Victoria asks for your support to encourage the Victorian and Austra ...
  • Sports are fun
    Playing sport (directory/categories/Health%20 %20Beauty/Sports%20 %20Fitness/ ) has a lot of benefits. It makes you feel happy, healthy and fit. Plus, it’s fun! Especially when you go with a friend. There are so many ways to excersise. Join a sports club or a gym, or go for a run in the park.   Ph ...
  • Environmental News 09/09/2010
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Twelve U.S. soldiers face trial after Afghan civil ...
    ShareThis Twelve U.S. soldiers face trial after Afghan civilians 'were killed for sport and their fingers collected as trophies' 10 Sep 2010 A dozen US soldiers are facing trail accused of being part of a 'kill team' that allegedly killed Afghan civilians in an arbitrary fashion - and they even coll ...
  • Soldier's father: Army was warned of murder plot
    ShareThis Soldier's father: Army was warned of murder plot �10 Sep 2010 The father of a U.S. soldier serving in Afghanistan says he tried nearly a half dozen times to pass an urgent message from his son to the Army: Troops in his unit had murdered an Afghan civilian, planned more killings and threat ...
  • British journalist held in Pakistan released
    ShareThis British journalist held in Pakistan released 09 Sep 2010 A British journalist held captive by extremists in Pakistan's militant-hit northwest has been released, the British embassy confirmed Thursday. Journalist Asad Qureshi went missing in March while travelling to North Waziristan with a ...
  • Pentagon Plan: Buying Then Destroying Books to Kee ...
    ShareThis Pentagon Plan: Buying Then Destroying�Books to Keep Secrets --DoD officials are negotiating to buy and destroy all 10,000 copies of the first printing of an Afghan war memoir . 10 Sep 2010 Defense Department officials are negotiating to buy and destroy all 10,000 copies of the first printi ...
  • CNN report: IDF sexually abused Palestinian childr ...
    ShareThis CNN report: IDF sexually abused Palestinian children �09 Sep 2010 Explosive accusations on CNN: A CNN investigative report aired Thursday slammed the treatment of Palestinian children by IDF soldiers. The report included uncorroborated charges of sexual abuse against Palestinian youngsters ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Israeli right wing admits to dispossessing Palesti ...
    By Jesse Bacon Reading the press coverage of Jewish Voice for Peace’s fabulous campaign in support of the Israeli theater artists boycotting settlements, I was struck by an item in Arutz Sheva, the settler’s news service, which ends with this paragraph.. The liberation of Israeli territory in the Wa ...
  • Songs by Ikhlas-Yasmin Jebara from Salem: Part II
    This continues the previous post, showing for the first time songs by our friend Ikhlas. The picture above was taken a few weeks ago, when Ikhlas visited the Mediterranean Sea for the second time in her life. The sea is only 47km from her home (measured via Google Maps), but the Occupation regime – ...
  • Audrey Farber, intern, from Mada Al-Carmel on New ...
    By Audrey Farber Speculation has run wild on the as-yet-unreleased updated New Israel Fund funding guidelines. Here’s Richard Silverstein, âMy source tells me the proposed guidelines will include a provision acknowledging Israel as a Jewish homeland. But the language will also affirm that Israel i ...
  • Real Dialogue happening in the Israeli Knesset?
    By Jesse Bacon Or at least in Foreign Policy magazine. Dimi Reider has a great article about far-right and far-left members of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset. See if you can guess which person quoted is Likud speaker Reven Rivlin and which is Palestinian Israeli Member Ahmed Tibi. mending the g ...
  • Max Blumenthal finds some real terrorist-loving re ...
    by Jesse Bacon Max Blumenthal exposes some religious leaders calling for the actual killing of babies and other Palestinians, a far worse rehtorical offense then “failing to condemn terrorism.” According to the book’s author, Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, ‘Non-Jews are “uncompassionate by nature’ and shou ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • The Healers of 9/11
    This weekend, a Jewish woman who lost her husband in the 9/11 attacks is planning to speak at a mosque in Boston. She will be trying to recruit members of the mosque to join her battle against poverty and illiteracy in Afghanistan. She and others have started Beyond the 11th, “a non-profit organizat ...
  • US income inequality in US equals Venezuela now
    Pass me a banana, please. Firedoglake has a long post about Slate’s 4-part series on The United States of Inequality. Both are worth reading. FDL wonders “how we willingly adopted the ways of a banana republic.” Me too. It’s not just income inequality either. Laws and rules clearly are not enforced ...
  • The Plumen. CFLs with style
    Plumen Bulb Loop from Plumen on Vimeo. More at Plumen and Treehugger.
  • Electric motorcycle does 165 mph 7.77 seconds in 1 ...
    Orange County Choppers builds a winner. Your move, Killacycle.
  • Australia to get 100Mbps broadband to 93% of count ...
    The rest of the country will get 12Mbps. Makes the US look like a third world country, doesn’t it? I’ve got a crazy idea. How about everyone stops blaming the other side and instead we actually work towards towards common goals?

Coteret

  • Maariv: Israel a significant importer (and re-expo ...
    This is a fairly wide-raging, if shallow, review. I found the section the section describing a botched attempt by an Israeli company to re-export Iranian marble to the US interesting. Particularly insightful was the justification for an Israeli double standard on this issue, as articulated by Danny ...
  • “A silk purse from a sow’s ear”: Israe ...
    As always happens when the diplomatic process resumes, the air is filled with talk of economic and infrastructure projects. For the principals, the buzz helps in creating an “atmosphere of progress.” The bureaucrats and businessmen behind the leaks are usually angling for a share of the funding that ...
  • Yediot publishes minutes of White House negotiatio ...
    Agreement now, peace later Shimon Shiffer, Yediot, August 27 2010 [front-page] The Obama administration intends to present Israel and the Palestinians with a new outline for ending the conflict.  Yedioth Ahronoth has learned that the Americans will pressure the sides to sign a framework agreement f ...
  • Is Im Tirzu planning to sue author Meir Shalev?
    In February, I joined a number of other activists — Roy Yellin, Yuval Yellin, Noam Wiener, Edan Ring, Ari Remez, Tal Niv and Noam Livne — in establishing a Facebook group aimed at exposing the personae and motivation behind the  Im Tirzu smear campaign against the New Israel Fund. Entitled I ...
  • Yediot reports on damage to settlement industry ca ...
    The Politics of economics: The boycott on Israel is expanding Daniel Bettini, Navit Zumer and Ofer Petersburg, Yediot, August 25 2010 [Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] The decision made on Monday by the Norwegian oil fund to divest from Africa Israel and Danya Cebus on the grounds that th ...

Deadline Live

  • Deadline Live – September 10 2010
    Guests Anton Chaitkin, Matt Kazee, Charlie Giles, Rob Balsamo Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d15628').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
  • 911 Commission Report Book Burning
    After having to endure hearing about that goober preacher in Florida who wanted to burn the Koran for a week, Justin and I decided to burn a book truly worth burning, the September 11th Commission Report. A book so chock full of lies and propaganda, that it’s long LONG overdue to be purged from this ...
  • Pressure on Canada for full body scanners
    OTTAWA – Canadian travellers may soon be asked bare all before boarding a flight. Full body image scanners are currently being used as secondary screening at major Canadian airports but a recent U.S. decision to phase out metal detectors and replace them with “naked” scanners is raising alarm passen ...
  • LADY GAGA: POP STAR FOR THE END OF AMERICA
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The Air Vent

  • Judith Curry’s New Blog
    It looks like Dr. Judith Curry has decided to start down the road of climate blogging.  This should be an interesting experience and I’m glad that someone else in climate science is willing to address concerns of the public in  a direct fashion. Check it out and welcome Dr. Curry to the crowd.
  • Oxymorons
    Again there isn’t much time for blogging today, but in a strange change of circumstance, China, the regionally capitalist country which saved us all from Copenhagen, the same country which is building a coal plant every two weeks, is now calling for international cooperation on climate change.  In ...
  • Government at Work
    I love space exploration.  I like the idea that money is spent on it, that people who do it are smart but just how many government employees are required to move a space shuttle? I wonder what it looks like when SpaceX moves a rocket?
  • Are Deep Oil Rigs Safer
    Microbes ate BP oil deep-water plume: study By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment CorrespondentPosted 2010/08/24 at 3:37 pm EDT WASHINGTON, Aug. 24, 2010 (Reuters) â A Manhattan-sized plume of oil spewed deep into the Gulf of Mexico by BP’s broken Macondo well has been consumed by a newly discovered f ...
  • UN plans expanding influence on world agenda
    Fox News is reporting on a UN meeting between top UN officials to expand their role in global government.  I’ve skimmed the documents which do make reference to the sovereignty of countries as problematic, the widespread goals of wealth redistribution and several sections on improved ability for th ...

Focal Point

  • How To Sabotage Your Career at Citibank: Play By T ...
    Blogger David Xia friend swiped this card from Citibank while he was there for an interview. It's a list of tips for women on how not to sabotage their careers with Citibank. The friend says the cards were on every desk in the HR department. My favorite is item #8 on the list of things NOT to do if ...
  • "Birth Rape" Rhetoric is Ugly, Misleading
    Some factions within the natural childbirth movement are attempting to popularize the concept of "birth rape." The idea is that women who are handled roughly, verbally abused, or bullied into unwelcome interventions during labor are literally being raped by their health care providers. Amity Reed d ...
  • Sarah Palin's Never Going to Run for President
    Will Sarah Palin run for president? Could she win? Garance Franke-Ruta argues that Palin's best strategy would be to remake herself as a leader within the Republican Party . She notes that female candidates in other democracies have used own-party leadership to break through the glass ceiling and at ...
  • Exploding Rig: Mariner Energy and Its Parent Compa ...
    Another oil rig has blown up in the Gulf of Mexico. The Vermilion 360 is owned by Mariner Energy which was recently purchased by by Apache Energy, according to Think Progress . Together, these two companies have paid $745,000 in fines to the Minerals Management Service in 2010 alone, according to my ...
  • Condoms and Cal-OSHA: AIDS Healthcare Foundation T ...
    Last week, the indefatigable AIDS Healthcare Foundation launched the latest salvo in its long running battle to pressure California's occupational health and safety agency to enforce the bloodborne pathogens standard on porn sets: Lodging a complaint against porn magnate Larry Flynt with Cal-OSHA an ...

Inside Facebook

  • This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games
    Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games â tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, September 6th, 2010 Steady Progress From Smaller Developers on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by MAU Won ...
  • Facebook Launches Page Discovery “Browser”
    Facebook has launched a new way to “Discover Facebook’s Popular Pages” called Browser. It shows icons of Pages that are popular in a user’s country, but factors in which Pages which are popular amongst their unique friend network. When the Page icons are hovered over they display a Like button. Brow ...
  • Facebook Roundup: ESPN, Yahoo Fantasy Football, St ...
    ESPN Adds Recommended Plugin – ESPN added the Recommended plugin to its homepage this week, showing the stories that a userâs friends might have recommended from the site. The news was shared on Facebookâs Sports Page. Yahooâs Fantasy Football on Facebook - Yahoo is set to weave Facebook integ ...
  • Facebook to Stop Counting “Short Impressions” in A ...
    Facebook’s advertising auction system is getting an update on the side supply side today, as the company says it is now planning to remove what it calls “short impressions” from being counted in campaigns. Now, if an ad appears on a page that a user clicks past in an instant, then Facebook won’t cou ...
  • Facebook Building Its Southeast Asia Market Presen ...
    Although Facebook’s big new office in India is now open, it’s also been quietly expanding its headcount in another part of Asia — the bustling city-state of Singapore. Following local reports about the plans, earlier this year, Facebook has added the office to its Careers Page location listings, and ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • “Framework agreement” between Israel and Palestini ...
    Uri Avnery highlights the pitfalls of a “framework agreement”, which the parties to the US-mediated talks between Israel and Mahmoud Abbas have pledged to sign within a year, arguing that such an agreement would lead only to interminable negotiations.
  • BBC bias: the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
    Documentary maker Anthony Lawson argues, in a 15-minute video critique of BBC Panorama's 'Death on the Med', that the BBC's "biased and often untruthful treatment of Israel's worst atrocity since Operation Cast Lead should trigger a public enquiry about who is really in charge of one of the most inf ...
  • New Hamas policy direction must be better marketed
    Stuart Littlewood reviews the message given recently by Hamas leader Khalid Mish’al, in which Mish’al “makes a real effort to begin the process of ‘coming in from the cold’”. He advises Mish’al to do more to ensure that his message hits the right public relations notes and thereby generate the neces ...
  • The boycott of Israel is "gaining speed"
    Lawrence Davidson outlines the reasons why the boycott of Israel is gaining speed, from “the horrors of the Israeli occupation and its ghettoizing of the people of Gaza”, to the segregation and economic and social discrimination against Israel’s non-Jewish population, to the corrupting influences of ...
  • Iran’s President Ahmadinejad should desist from ha ...
    Paul J. Balles argues that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s rhetoric on Israel and the US is pointless and counter-productive: “While one may sympathize with the reasons for his verbal attacks, Ahmadinejad would do well for himself, the Gulf and the world if he bit his tongue occasionally and ...

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

  • September 11, the 9th Year
    Condolences My Deepest Condolences, To the family members and friends of those ‘sacrificed’ here, To those who have lost their loved ones as a ‘result;’ the civilian casualties of our illegal wars over ‘there,’ …and, to every American, to all of us, for the loss of our liberties and integrities. W ...
  • A Potpourri of Noteworthy Links
    Phony Commissioners & Phony Reports, Central Asia, Laos, Bryza Candidacy, Gulen…You Name it! This post is similar to what I usually publish under my ‘Weekly Round Up’ series, only with a caveat: the time period covers more than a week, make that more than a month. I’ve been saving links and articles ...
  • Podcast Show #32
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Tom Engelhardt Tom Engelhardt discusses his latest book, The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s, Washington’s ongoing commitment to military bases to extend its empire, and the US empire’s deep historical roots that precede the former administration and ...
  • Pretty Words & the Same-O-Same-O
    Is “This” the New Era of Activism? So I haven’t been writing; pouring out pages and pages of words; analyzing a bit of a sick foreign policy issue here and a handful of plentiful corruption stories there, or marveling at the rapid uncontested descent toward the ever-approaching ‘police state,’… I am ...
  • Podcast Show #31
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Ray McGovern Ray McGovern shares with us his analysis of the recent article published in the Atlantic written by the infamous American-Israeli writer Jeffrey Goldberg on Israel’s case for bombing Iran and the reasons why the United States should join in. He talks about t ...

Afro Spear

  • sat’day riddymz
  • Byts and Bytes
    As we remember the tragic and world changing event of September 11th 2001, let me share 2 articles from the New York Times which brings a “9 years after” perspective tied to that event: 1. “Building on Faith in Lower Manhattan” by Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf of the Cordoba Initiative 2. “The Healers of ...
  • “Mr. Museveni, you can retire now” by ...
    Little bird confessed to me that Ugandan strong man wanted the retiring age to be suffocated from 60 to 55 years! What appalls so as to create amber of anger is the fact that the advocate who, in essence is a grand provocateur, is himself above 60 and he does not seem to think about retiring! This [ ...
  • Microfinancing towards development
    A few weeks ago I was over at Sis. Anna’s blog where she mentioned an organization called KIVA, which facilitated micro loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries via the internet. This peaked my interest as I strongly advocate investing within African economies instead of the current system of ...
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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

  • Bill Gates On Climate Change & Energy: We Must and ...
    Whether you know a little or a lot about Climate Change (aka Global Warming), SEN urges you to watch this one-hour video, because you will learn a great deal either way. Gates lays out a sweeping set of ideas for reducing CO2 emmissions to zero. Gates is no fool when it comes to matters of [...]
  • Week 2 – Worldwide Campaign to Save the Gran ...
    The Grand Canyon is one of the world's most pristine and majestic treasures. Mother Nature needs our help to save it. We all need to act to protect the Grand Canyon. Pledge to do your part. Help us by adding your signature to the petitions and ask everyone you know and who cares for earth to do the ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Rand Paul the road to disaster
    Do you remember Rand Paul? He’s the Republican candidate for Senate in Kentucky that went on Rachel Maddow to oppose provisions in the Civil Rights Actafter his surprise victory in the primary. He’s taken max-out checks from Citizens United – the group whose lawsuit led to the new avalanche of corpo ...
  • ALAN SIMPSON AN IDIOT
    Alan Simpson compared Social Security to welfare, saying: “We’ve reached a point now where [Social Security] is like a milk cow with 310 million tits.” Well, progressives in Congress are fighting back. Can you help? It’s been widely reported that Simpson’s “deficit reduction” commission will make So ...
  • Happy Fuckin’ Labor Day!
    September 6th, 2010 7:25 PM Happy Fuckin’ Labor Day! By Michael Moore Dear Rahm Emanuel: Happy Fuckin’ Labor Day! I read this week that — according to a new book by Steven Rattner, your administration’s former “Car Czar” — during White House meetings about how to save the tens of thousands of jobs t ...
  • The Grand Design
    Hawking and Mlodinow return with a unifying ‘Grand Design’   The Grand Design By Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow Bantam. 208 pp. $28   Reviewed by Fred Bortz   Rarely do the title and authorship of a book carry such high expectations as The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. ...
  • AUDITING THE FED!
    We did this. Together. At every moment, as the Fed and Wall Street sought to undermine this cause, it was the phone calls, letters, e-mails, blogging and sheer power of the people -- ordinary people who cared -- that beat them back. We have delivered a succinct message to Wall Street and the Fed: "W ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • Sony Open Planet Ideas Exposed
    “Just imagine if todayâs technology could be re-purposed in radical ways to help solve our planetâs environmental problems? Well, a new project called Open Planet Ideas has been designed to enable you to do just that.” Ok, thought experiment, so I’m doing just that and you can join in too. What ...
  • Astroturf Alert: Rally For Jobs is Oil Industry Fr ...
    Just in from Public Citizen is a report on a series of rallies around the USA which are being organised by the American Petroleum Institute (API) on behalf of the oil industry. Here is the report: Rallies Against Congressional Oil Spill Measures Represent Industry Views – Not Citizens Today marks ...
  • Greenpeace Inc. [Guest Article]
    As some readers may have noted, an email recently came through Greenpeaceâs UK newsletter inviting its supporters to take part in a poll: We’re carrying out a global poll to find out what Greenpeace means to you and which issues you think are most important. This is to help us do an even better j ...
  • Cairn Energy Buries Truth in Business Speak
    Below is a verbatim lift from the Corporate Responsibility page on the website of Cairn Energy. I have just highlighted the one key point that you must bear in mind when reading: Cairn’s strategy is to deliver shareholder value through establishing commercial reserves in high potential exploration ...
  • Pat Michaels Lets His Funding Veil Slip
    After umpteen years denying the (civilized) human influence on climate change, and in parallel denying he was influenced financially or otherwise by fossil fuel interests, uber-denier Pat Michaels let slip some of the source of his funding – and by implication, some of the source of his climate chan ...

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

  • The Cartoonist Aims to Bring Newsgames to the Mass ...
    The Cartoonist, our winning entry in the 2010 Knight News Challenge, emerged from two research programs. For the past two years, my research group at the Georgia Institute of Technology has been cataloging and analyzing the burgeoning genre of "newsgames" -- videogames about current and past real-wo ...
  • SeenReport Helps Citizens Report on Floods in Paki ...
    The devastating floods in Pakistan have been covered by trained reporters and mainstream media outlets around the world. Citizens, often on the front lines of the flood, have also been contributing thousands of reports though mobile phones, in part enabled by the citizen journalism service Seen ...
  • New Media Tools Play Pivotal Role in Kenya's Const ...
    Kenya is moving towards greater democracy and more transparent governance thanks to the recent constitutional referendum that received 70 percent "yes" votes. The new constitution, which is scheduled to be signed into law on Friday, replaces the one drafted during Kenya's colonial era. It includ ...
  • Helping D.C. Drinkers and Bikers with Custom Maps
    In my last post about TileMill , I outlined some of our general plans and the background for why we’re working on this project to help make it easier for people to design very custom maps online. One question that we get a lot from people who are new to the GIS space is, “When would I need this? How ...
  • One-Eight, Afghanistan: Social Media + U.S. Marine ...
    As the saying goes, "Be careful what you wish for." In my case, I won a Knight News Challenge grant to launch an online, social media reporting network that follows a battalion of U.S. Marines throughout their deployment to southern Afghanistan. (Congratulations! You've won a year in Helmand Prov ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Iran's Nukes - America's Options in Iran and the I ...
    Public discussion of potential attacks on Iran’s nuclear development sites is surging again. This has happened before. On several occasions, leaks about potential airstrikes have created an atmosphere of impending war. These leaks normally coincided with diplomatic initiatives and were designed to i ...
  • The Obama Edge - Secretary Clinton Hosts Ramadan D ...
    The administration's marking of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan continues on September 7 when the State Department hosts an event geared toward young Muslims and an Iftar dinner with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. President Obama hosted an Iftar meal breaking the day's Ramadan fast on A ...
  • After the Spill - New Gulf of Mexico Oil Platform ...
    An explosion�on a Gulf of Mexico oil platform thrust the politics of offshore drilling back in the spotlight, as critics immediately seized on the accident to highlight what they called the industry’s inherent dangers. The explosion and fire happened during the morning hours of September 2 at a prod ...
  • Electoral Edge - When Truth Itself Isn’t What Matt ...
    In this modern era, in the United States, we often find ourselves, as voting adults, faced with a choice between the lesser of two evils. Take, for instance, the high-profile Senate race in Nevada where one of the most unpopular sitting elected officials in the nation, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Ha ...
  • Edge on the Universe - Search for the Secrets of D ...
    This month physicist Juan Collar and his associates are taking their attempt to unmask the secret identity of dark matter into a Canadian mine more than a mile underground. The team is deploying a 4-kilogram bubble chamber at SNOLab, which is part of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in Ontario, Cana ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • No Eid For The Occupied And The Oppressed
    By Reham Alhelsi There is no Eid for the occupied and the oppressed. Their Eid is spent in cemeteries at the graves of loved ones murdered by the bullets, the drones and the tanks of the occupation. Their Eid is spent in hospital at the bedside of loved ones injured by a merciless occupier while in ...
  • US Soldiers Killed Afghan Civilians And Kept Finge ...
    By Patrick Martin American soldiers murdered Afghan civilians for sport and kept finger bones, leg bones, a tooth and a skull as grisly trophies, according to documents released by the Pentagon on Wednesday. The case is the worst such atrocity yet revealed in Afghanistan. It underscores that just a ...
  • Stories Of Belonging
    By Helena Norberg-Hodge Around the world, people are demonstrating incredible wisdom, courage and perseverance and have shown me that feelings of fear, of isolation, of discontent are actually a natural reaction to a system gone awry. From these feelings springs the search for what is real, healthy ...
  • Letter To Young Americans
    By Subhankar Banerjee You are young. Your future is in your hands. Start your climate revolution now. Come November you must vote and you must vote with climate in your mind. It ll be the beginning of a long journey for you just like it has been for me since I saw my first Mrinal Sen film when I wa ...
  • Kashmirs Abu Gharaib?
    By Shuddhabrata Sengupta For the past several weeks, I have been watching, and forwarding, several videos uploaded on to Youtube and facebook from Kashmir. Every video that I have seen contains evidence of the brutality of the Indian states footprint on the Kashmir valley, and of the steadfast yet ...

Contagious Love Experiment

  • WAR IS OVER… If You Claim It?
    In the midst of pleasant nods about “the end of the Iraq War,” Mr. Stephen Colbert celebrates in style… (Click The Word-What if they threw a peace and nobody came) The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – What If You Threw a Peace and Nobody Came? www.colbertnation.com Colbert Repo ...
  • Vigiling in Afghanistan
    More amazing work from Our Journey to Smile
  • 92219 Pieces of my Broken Afghan Heart
    The following letter was sent to me from the young people in Afghanistan who tried to come to the U.S. this summer for our speaking tour. The U.S. embassy flatly denied them, but their voices continue to cry out. The official narrative of the Afghan War is that it has greatly served the people of A ...
  • The other side of Afghanistan
  • Days 9-11: Solitude, Mountains, and Humanity
    The first time I talked to Ymani, one of our hosts in Asheville, NC, I was at Salam’s house in Berkeley, CA. The first cross-country trek that I embarked on was drawing to an end and I was entering all kinds of scenarios into google maps to try to incorporate Asheville into the plans before [...]

Yid With Lid

  • NY Times Follows Obama's Lead: Publishes Hit Piece ...
    The NY Times is trying to prove that old saying "Monkey See, Monkey Do." Earlier in the week President Obama made House Minority leader John Boehner public enemy number one in his effort to save the Democratic Party from total electoral disaster this November. Surprise, Surprise tomorrow's NY Times ...
  • White House Tells Insurance Industry: SHUT UP Abo ...
    � My family began to understand some of the unknown effects of Obamacare a few weeks ago when my wife showed me a letter from our health insurance company informing us that our premiums were going up more than usual because of the progressive health care bill. Other insurance companies have followed ...
  • "Duh of the Week" Media to Terry Jones: You used ...
    � The media has no business having hurt feelings over “being used” by whack job Terry Jones and his very small flock of 50 congregants. They ignored one of the most important rules of the internet age, don't feed the trolls . Terry Jones is too small of deal to garner this much attention, wheth ...
  • Life in an American Fifth Grade: It’s September 11 ...
    By Barry Rubin Last year there was no discussion at all of September 11 in fourth grade. When my son requested one he was allowed to speak for a few minutes and then the teacher cut him off, saying that now they would talk about more pleasant things. This year there was something done to c ...
  • That Horrible Day That Changed Our Lives 9-11-01
    Everyone remembers where they were when they found out about the attacks on 9/11. I was sitting in my office working on 2002 projections when I received an IM from my brother "hey Jeff some idiot just flew a plane into one of the trade center towers." I was working for one of the Cable TV ...

The Real Agenda

  • Composto Tóxico Bisfenol A em Restaurações Dentári ...
    Os cientistas estão estudando a possibilidade de que o bisfenol A também aumente o risco de câncer e diabetes. O BPA é usado também em latas de comida, cortinas de chuveiro, brinquedos e mamadeiras.
  • 9/11 and America’s Secret Terror Campaign Part 3
    “The pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public’s sense of domestic well-being.”[2] He also wrote that, “The public supported America’s engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese ...
  • Empire, Energy and Al-Qaeda Part 2
    With the end of the Cold War a new strategy had to be determined to manage the global system. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, declarations of a “New World Order” sprang forward, focusing on the United States as the single world superpower. This presented a great many challenges as well as opp ...
  • Tóxico Bisfenol A en empastes dentales y sellantes
    Anthony Gucciardi Después de un nuevo estudio de la Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad de Harvard reveló que los empastes dentales y sellantes contienen niveles peligrosamente altos del mortal químico bisfenol A (BPA).  Al mismo tiempo, e inmediatamente después que se publicó el estudio, algunos ...
  • Harvard Study: Bisphenol A In Dental Fillings And ...
    Anthony Gucciardi After a new study out of Harvard Medical School revealed that dental fillings and sealants contain dangerously high levels of the deadly chemical bisphenol A (BPA), some dentists are now claiming that these fillings and sealants are still perfectly safe for use in children. BPA is ...

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

  • Muslim Mommas never cry and other heinous lies
    What got me started on this offering was a TV show on at midnight, only lasted (from my perspective, because the channel got changed quickly) for about two minutes. The show was about 9/11 survivors. One of them said âThatâs the difference between America and everybody else… in America when ther ...
  • 9/11 of course. What did you expect?
    Thanks to Friend Tony for pointing out that people who don’t believe the Official Story of 9/11 is actually valid, are so stupid that we don’t merit being read, listened to or answered. This makes somewhere around a hundred times he’s made this comment, after listening to or reading them. I guess it ...
  • Japanese activists steal whale meat… here&#8 ...
    A court in northern Japan found two Greenpeace activists guilty Monday for stealing whale meat, but suspended their sentences, Greenpeace Japan said. The Aomori District Court ruled that the activists, Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, will only have to serve one-year terms if they commit a crime in the ...
  • Refudiate Stupidiocy
    As the Nine Eleven foundation myth calcifies into its ninth year, the they-went-thataway think tanks now say the US empire faces its greatest threat of terrorism from within –and they don’t mean the real perps of the World Trade Center Reichtag Fire.
  • Pastor Jones DEMANDS Imam Rauf Kiss His Racist As ...
    And, travel to Florida to do it! Yes, Children, Pastor Jones wants, on the day before his Demented Disciples attack the Ground Zero Community Center, for his Hate-Speech Target to LEAVE where his project is going to be built despite the efforts of the TerroristBag Party to intimidate Americans into ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • 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 ...
  • 9/11 Truth Movement: Year in Review (2009-2010)
    By: AdamT. and John-Michael P. Talboo Factual back-up, sources, and further research materials: 9/11 Truth Movement: Year in Review (2008-2009) http://911debunkers.blogspot.com/2009/09/911-truth-movement-year-in-review.html 9/11 Truth Movement: Year in Review (2009-2010) Everlast Stone in M ...
  • Hello Joseph Nobles
    Mr. Nobles just recently addressed my latest post about his website. Yet again , he doesn't seem to think I'm addressing all that I should. As we will see, Mr. Nobles has a talent for addressing one point out of a huge argument and acting as if it is the central point to the whole argument. Thus, ...

Fooducate

  • Total Plus Omega 3 Cereal. Three Plus Tsp of Sugar ...
    Have you seen the commercials for Total Cereal with Omega-3? Amber did, and she emailed us asking for an opinion: As I was watching television last night, a new commercial came on for Total cereal with Omega-3… I immediately thought of your blog. I think a breakdown of the claim would be perfect f ...
  • Nutrition Professor Goes on Month-long Twinkie Die ...
    This should be interesting to follow – A 40 year old Nutrition Professor from Kansas State University, Mark Haub, has embarked on a month long junk food diet experiment. He will be eating a daily dose of foods rich in fats, sugar, and sodium, but limiting himself to 1800 calories a day. His goal is ...
  • Government: Dismal Consumption of Fruits and Veget ...
    Bleak results from a CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) telephone survey on adult produce consumption: Only a third of Americans consume 2 or more serving of fruit a day. And sadly, orange juice is the top fruit source. Only a quarter consume three or more servings of vegetables daily. ...
  • Baby Kardashian’s First Grocery Trip – Ugggh
    Kourtney Kardashian took her baby Mason to the supermarket for the first time. She took a picture. And published on her blog. Sweet. But what is all that crap doing in the shopping cart? Was this a paid product placement or is Ms. Kardashian actually planning to feed baby with all those processed s ...
  • Voskos Greek Yogurt – Taste Test & Nutrition Revie ...
    We’re big on yogurt here at Fooducate, and recently wrote about the growing popularity of Greek yogurt. Voskos is a brand of Greek Yogurt from Sun Valley Dairy of San Francisco, competing in a growing market. They have a “natural” line of products using milk from cows that were not treated with gro ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • India forms new tribal council in wake of Vedanta ...
    The Dongria Kondh are just one of many tribes in India. © Jason Taylor Following the Dongria Kondh tribe’s groundbreaking successful defense of their mountain homeland, the Prime Minister of has created a new committee for tribal rights. Led by the Prime Minister, the new ‘National Council for ...
  • Penan tribe block logging roads in protest
    The Penan have regularly mounted blockades to stop the destruction of their forest © Survival More than 150 Penan tribespeople blocked roads in Borneo on Thursday, in protest at the destruction of their rainforest by logging companies, and at the Malaysian government’s failure to protect their ...
  • Thirty-four Colombian tribes face extinction, says ...
    The Nukak need 'special attention' to survive, according to the report. © David Hill/Survival A report released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has warned that more than thirty-four Colombian tribes face extinction due to continuing violence on their lands. The report fou ...
  • ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ winners appeal to Botswa ...
    Xoroxloo Duxee died of dehydration after the Bushmen's water borehole was disabled. © Survival âAlternative Nobel Prizeâ winners appeal to Botswana President over Bushmen Over 30 laureates of the Right Livelihood Award, known as the âalternative Nobel Prizeâ, have signed an open lette ...
  • Bushmen launch appeal over right to water
    Xoroxloo Duxee died of dehydration after the Bushmen's water borehole was disabled. © Survival The Bushmen of Botswana have lodged an appeal against a High Court decision that denied them access to water on their ancestral lands. In July, Justice Walia dismissed the Bushmenâs application fo ...

Greg Palast

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Nigerian methods move to Mexico
    The Nigerian Movement for the Emancipation of the Nigerian Delta (MEND) group has waged an effective infrastructure sabotage and intimidation campaign in the Nigerian oil production regions.  MEND has consistently shut in 20% to 40% of total possible Nigerian oil production, and thus 18% to 36% ...
  • When Labor Is Strong Democrats Win…
    Given that itâs Labor Day weekend let’s chat about laborâorganized labor.  This post from 2007 is still relevant.  If you take a look at the map on your left something may jump out at you, as it did me. Where Labor is strong â Democrats tend to win. Where Labor is [...]
  • Jan 19th: “In 2010 Democrats will be slaught ...
    Yup. In 2010 Democrats will be slaughtered, absolutely slaughtered, because Obama and the senior Democratic leadership does not learn. In 2012 Obama will become a 1 term president, and a right wing populist will get into power.  That populist will turn out not to be a populist, and will do even ...
  • With stupid like this, who needs Republicans
    Seriously, could they be bigger idiots? With just two months until the November elections, the White House is seriously weighing a package of business tax breaks - potentially worth hundreds of billions of dollars - to spur hiring and combat Republican charges that Democratic tax policies hurt sma ...
  • Sean-Paul Lays it out: the Truth baby
    Go read. Excerpt: Meanwhile, I get called on the carpet for shooting off one liners and not providing enough analysis. So, here is some analysis for you: name me one big policy that the listed think tanks have proposed and has been enacted that wasn’t a total and complete fucking disaster of a pol ...

Age of Autism

  • Winners: Glow Back To School with Glow GF Cookies ...
    Congrats to the winners, Brandon Woodland, Kimberly Wood and Kelley. The contest is CLOSED. Glow Back to School! Three winners will scoop up a gift pack of Glow Gluten Free Cookies. Looking for a fun gluten free and casein free...
  • Autism Smackdown! The Frightened vs. The Titan
    By Kim Stagliano Alison Singer, formerly Executive Director and once the darling of Autism Speaks, (now with Dr. Paul Offit's vaccine protection organization using children with autism as human shields) signed onto the following open letter to Autism Speaks asking...
  • NIEHS Workshop on Autism and the Environment: New ...
    Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Eastern View live webcast HERE. Workshop Goal The goal of this workshop is to identify novel opportunities and mechanisms to accelerate research on environmental factors and autism, guided by (1)...
  • Landon Hall Interviews Dr. Andrew Wakefield in the ...
    Landon Hall wrote an article about Dr. Andrew Wakefield, author of Callous Disregard from Skyhorse Publishing in the OC (Orange County, California) Register. Please click HERE to read the full article and to comment on their site. To many long-suffering...
  • There’s a Funny Thing About Evidence: More Support ...
    " ...thimerosal at the same concentrations received in human infants had clearly measurable effects on opioid receptor development in the infant rats. They also found that these effects were stronger at higher doses. The effect was found to be persistent,...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • The Truth Squad Radio Show with Guest John Ozberkm ...
    This week's special guest is John Ozberkmen from the website "The National Expositor"! John gives a chilling look at how law enforcement agencies now seem to be focused on targeting non-criminals.
  • My Dogs Won’t Drink the Rainwater
    I trust my dogs' senses of smell and taste way over what we're told by government, academia and media. Today there was something about this fresh rain water that they wanted no part of.
  • Brainwashed Americans
      Wally Paul Republic Defiance Brainwashing in American culture is a mixture of those things that we are downloaded with on a daily basis that are not true or even absurd. For example it is absurd to believe that it is helpful and good to give all one day old infants an extremely dangerous and [...] ...
  • Was the BP disaster created in order to turn the G ...
    This oil spill, whether sabotage, negligence, accident or design is the perfect way to eliminate fossil fuels such as oil and to advance this biofuel agenda. They will sacrifice the Gulf and all who live in or around it for this multi-trillion dollar industry.
  • I Am A New World Order Minion
    We used the Hegelian Dialectic of problem, reaction, solution when we, acting as the controlled opposition, put out the very clever film "Food Inc".

Open Your Eyes News

  • On Sept. 11 Anniversary, Rifts Amid Mourning
    New York Times – The ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was marked on Saturday by the memorials and prayer services of the past, but also by events hard to envision just a year ago â heated demonstrations blocks from ground zero, political and religious tensions and an u ...
  • Farmers’ apocalypse: the globalisation of fo ...
    ABC-Rural voters who elected our independent politicians will surely be hoping they can get food onto our national agenda. The issue of human traffic may remain an election staple, but it is the movement of food around the world that is destroying the livelihoods of farmers in Australia and overseas ...
  • Concern grows over foreign involvement in British ...
    Daily Telegraph – Concern is growing within the intelligence community that the MI6 spy found dead in his London flat may have been the victim of a professional hit by a foreign power. It is feared that by the time of his death last month Gareth Williams’s presence in London had become known to fore ...
  • UK Police warn of impact of European justice power ...
    Telegraph – Britain’s top police officers have issued an official warning about the serious impact that new European justice powers could have on their work. Commander Allan Gibson, the Association of Chief Police Officers’ spokesman on extradition, confirmed that he had written to the Government ex ...
  • EU summons BASF over ‘illegal’ potatoe ...
    AFP-Europe slapped a summons on German chemical giant BASF on Monday after a “blunder” allowed seed from a new genetically modified potato to remain in a field in Sweden. “Obviously there was a blunder which took place,” said a spokeswoman for the European Commission, which is responsible for licens ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Cadmium: California and the U.S. target toxic jewe ...
    A bill to ban jewelry containing detectable levels of cadmium has passed the California Legislature and awaits the signature of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills) would ban sales of jewelry in California containing...
  • On PolitiCal: Fiorina announces support for rollba ...
    One of the more memorable exchanges in Wednesday night's debate between Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer and Republican challenger Carly Fiorina was Fiorina's refusal to take a position on Proposition 23, which would suspend California's landmark global warming law until unemployment...
  • Supposedly extinct red fox discovered near Yosemit ...
    The genetic signature of canine slobber on a bait bag of chicken scraps and a fuzzy photograph snapped by a motion-sensitive camera north of Yosemite National Park have confirmed the existence of a supposedly extinct red fox, the U.S. Forest...
  • Up in the air...in an all-electric plane
    The electric Cri-Cri airplane was airborne Thursday – for all of seven minutes. The 4-engine aircraft, from Airbus parent corporation EADS, is the first of its kind. Its maiden flight took place at Le Bourget airport near Paris. The flight...
  • Energy-saving LED light bulbs: false claims?
    The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Lights of America Inc. this week alleging false performance claims for some of the company's LED light bulbs. The environmentally friendly bulbs, which were sold at major retailers such as Walmart and...

water.org

  • Water.org and Barclay Martin partnership (KC Star)
    Water.org and musician Barclay Martin form partnership (Kansas City Star) KANSAS CITY, Mo. – With the release of his fourth full-length album, Kansas City-based musician and international philanthropist Barclay Martin will give fans the opportunity to join him and be part of a clean water project in ...
  • Conference call tonight
    This is your chance to hear first-hand from Water.org’s International Programs Director about our work in Haiti, our approach, the progress made so far, and plans for the future. It’s also a chance to ask questions about our work during an open question and answer session. (*As a courtesy to other c ...
  • Videos to support Water.org (One Day on Earth)
    Support Water.org with your video creation (One Day on Earth)  - CALL TO ACTION: Share video of your water Without water, life would not exist. It is a prerequisite for all human and economic development. This 10.10.10 we invite you to share with the world how you access life’s most precious commodi ...
  • Water.org at TEDxKC (Brainzooming)
    What the World Needs Now â Innovative Ideas from TEDxKC â Part II (Brainzooming) – For whatever reason, McCamonâs TEDxKC presentation was incredibly brief. It provided staggering statistics about the amount of solid human waste thatâs left untreated globally in a world where more people have ...
  • Matt Damon’s trip to Ethiopia for water (Top Cel.)
    Matt Damonâs trip to Ethiopia to advocate for clean water (Top Celebrity Headlines) – Matt Damon is advocating for clean water and plumbing throughout the world as part of the charity he co-founded, Water.org. He appeared in a video for CNN to show how difficult it is for people in rural northern ...

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

  • A tragedy, a horror, a crime against humanity
    The details of the murders of the women beheaded, burned to death, stoned to death, stabbed, electrocuted, strangled and buried alive for the "honour" of their families are as barbaric as they are shameful. Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Netanyahu: New settlement freeze unlikely - but co ...
    "The irony is, is that whenNetanyahu put the moratorium in place, the Palestinians were very skeptical. It turns out, to Prime Minister Netanyahu's credit and to the Israeli government's credit, the settlement moratorium has actually been significant" Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note- ...
  • Ariz. Green Party sues to block 'sham candidates'
    The Arizona Green Party is asking a judge to kick more than half of the group's nominees off the November ballot. The unusual request, filed in federal court Monday, follows the nomination of 11 candidates allegedly recruited by Republican operatives to-> Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Deficit Death Panel
    I know the conservatives want to cut "entitlements" but literally killing off old people seems extreme even for them. But they seem to think that the elderly are being profligate spenders on health care and so they need to "take responsibility" and pay -> Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture �| ...
  • Israel's Military on the Spot Over Activist's Deat ...
    Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promised U.S. President George W. Bush "a thorough, credible and transparent investigation." It was the least that could be expected after the death of a U.S. citizen at the hands of its closest ally. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Historical Notes

libcom

  • Salonica Expo protest marches signal the start of ...
    The traditional protest marches accompanying the PM's speech at the Salonica Expo opened the new struggle season in Greece, which everyone expects to be angry and unpredictable The massiveness of what in the last decades has become a 'tr ...
  • housing benefit cutbacks
    The cuts in housing benefits are a serious attack on working class peoples’ housing conditions. The proposed cuts: The new Local Housing Allowance, the cap for housing benefits, is currently at the median of local rents, ie. at fifty pe ...
  • Occupation of Hospital Cleaners Against Precarity
    About 30 women spend night on roof of Municipal Office protesting their precarious work conditions. Yesterday, a group of hospital cleaners from the Specialized Hospital in Dabrowa Gornicza had a meeting with their new bosses at the Muni ...
  • 2010 US Election Spending Sets New Record
    flag and money.jpg Thanks to the US Supreme Court's 5-4 January ruling that it is unconstitutional to limit corporate campaign contributions this year's elections are on pace to shatter previous election ...
  • Mass strikes in France over proposed increase to r ...
    french strike.jpg 7th September 2010 - In response to the government's proposal to raise the pension age from 60 to 62, French workers have held widespread strikes that brought severe disruption to the F ...

Free Range International

  • Rocky Road
    As the summer started I was optimistic regarding the chances that we would see some indications that we are gaining ground in Afghanistan but that has not happened.  Incident rates are skyrocketing which in and of itself is not a negative thing if it is our side who are instigating the incidents but ...
  • The Dog Days of Summer
    Many apologies for the delay on posting.  I was laid low by some sort of viral affliction which mimicked  malaria.  Like most people who get sick maybe once a decade, when I do catch a bug you would think I was on death’s door I’m such a sissy about it.  But the fever is gone [...]
  • The Good Don’t Always Die Young
    The Godfather of Free Range International – the man who pioneered the techniques, tactics and procedures we use to travel in remote districts was executed last week in Badakhshan Province. Dan Terry was a good man.  He was humble, self-effacing, and competent.  He lived in Afghanistan with his fam ...
  • Getting After It
    One of the Chim Chim’s dropped in for a visit last month.  He was on some sort of training inspection type team which I didn’t ask too much about and told us that every-time he asked officers from the unit he was looking at what they were doing the reply was “getting after it.”  They [...]
  • Losing Hearts and Minds
    Ben Arnoldy at the Christen Science Monitor penned an excellent tale on reconstruction efforts going pear shaped and the consequences resulting from such folly.  It is an excellent piece of reporting from one of the truly professional foreign correspondents working the country today.  The report was ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • IMPORTANT BREAKING NEWS — Horowitz and Kane ...
    In a most cowardly and dastardly fashion, Leonard G. Horowitz and his consort/accomplice Sherri Kane have chosen to target me, A. True Ott, PhD in a clear and actionable case of libel where they accuse me of being “A Satanist” with only the flimsiest of circumstantial hearsay as their “evidence”.  ...
  • Ellen Brown LIVE on The Story Behind the Story &#8 ...
    Axing the Bankersâ Money Tree: Homeowners’ Rebellion against Wall Street Recent Rulings Could Shield 62 Million Homes from Foreclosure by Ellen Brown http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20688 Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in ...
  • IMPORTANT INFO ON MORTGAGES!!!!
    Every homeowner in America needs to read this very carefully. Homeowners’ Rebellion: Could 62 Million Homes Be Foreclosure-Proof? August 20th, 2010 | Author: Stephanie Over 62 million mortgages are now held in the name of MERS, an electronic recording system devised by and for the convenience of the ...
  • WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CAP AND TRADE (Cra ...
    If You Own A Home You Better Read This .. What we can expect if “Cap & Trade” legislation is enacted? We thought we were in trouble in this nation before, but just wait.  It CAN get MUCH WORSE!! Well read this one, it is all verified and double-checked and reference links are at the [...]
  • BARRACK OBAMA INDICTED FOR MURDER???
    Mom of Murdered Obama Gay Lover Speaks Up Mom of Murdered Obama Gay Lover Speaks Up Posted on July 25, 2010 by Eowyn Donald Young http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.c…ver-speaks-up/ In late May, Wash. DC-based investigative journalist Wayne Madsen had a bombshell revelation about Obamaâs membershi ...

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

  • Is That Plastic Container Safe?
    On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: By Diane Blahut, Woman’s Day Thu, Sep 02, 2010 Buzz up!481 votes Our homes are full of plastic, and the kitchen is no exception. The problem: Chemicals in … Continue reading →
  • Recycling News-Recycle Bank-Rewards
    Rewards for Recycling: A New "Green" Currency posted by: Nicole Nuss 19 hours ago by Katie Kerr, B Lab Who says being green doesn’t pay? Recyclebank has found a great way to motivate people to recycle: Reward them. By becoming … Continue reading →
  • Wanted American Made Renewable Energy Producing Sy ...
    My American Dream: American Made Products for American Homes and Business. Build a Green America Continue reading →
  • 10 Best Regional Foods in America-Missouri Beef
    10 Best Regional Foods in America No matter how you slice it, food can tell you a lot about a place. By Kate Hamman, SmarterTravel.com Staff Lobster roll, the pride of Maine Photo: why_style More from SmarterTravel.com America’s Best Ice … Continue reading →
  • Toxic News from the Environment Defense Fund
    Dear Scotts, Risk factor: A child plays outside formaldehyde-tainted FEMA trailers. PHOTO: Associated Press (AP) Did you know that deadly asbestos hasn’t been banned by the U.S. government? Help EDF close dangerous loopholes like this and protect American families from … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

  • The US-Japan 'Alliance', Okinawa, and Three Loomin ...
    World attention through the early months of 2010 focused on the tiny hamlet of Henoko in Northern Okinawa as Prime Minister Hatoyama struggled to find a way to meet his (and the Democratic Party of Japan's) electoral commitment to see that no substitute for the existing Futenma Marine Air Station be ...
  • Bacevich Held Over Another Week!
    When it comes to evaluating our military, Andrew Bacevich's analyses are as accurate as they are eloquent.
  • Obama Fighting on all Fronts
    United States President Barack Obama will try this week to underline his progress in extricating the US from the morass his predecessor's "war on terror" in the Greater Middle East.
  • Obama's Failing Middle East Policy
    Avni Dogru summarises the Middle East's falling in and out of love with President Barack Obama. Without a rapid reversal of U.S. policy, it looks as if the downward trend will only accelerate.
  • The Unmaking of a Company Man: An Education Began ...
    For as long as I could remember, the Brandenburg Gate had been the preeminent symbol of the age and Berlin the epicenter of contemporary history. Yet by the time I made it to the once and future German capital, history was already moving on.

Law.com

  • Long-Awaited Crime-Fraud Ruling Has Toyota Scrambl ...
    Former Toyota in-house counsel Dimitrios Biller will be able to introduce documents in his arbitration that the company had claimed were privileged. And as if that California ruling were not bad enough for the car manufacturer, a plaintiffs lawyer in Texas says he thinks the ruling may influence the ...
  • Ruling Against 'Don't Ask' May Not Face Obama Appe ...
    A federal judge's ruling striking down the policy that prohibits openly homosexual members from serving in the U.S. military could stand, particularly if the Obama administration chooses not to appeal, but would not necessarily carry weight in other circuits. The judge ruled Thursday that the law be ...
  • Q&A With Lawyer Who Upended 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell ...
    In this Q&A with The Am Law Daily, Dan Woods, the White & Case commercial litigator who won the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" case last week, reflects on a court ruling that was six years in the making, how the law firm took up the case, the highly charged testimony of servicemembers, the government's str ...
  • N.J. Court OKs Googling Jurors During Voir Dire
    Now that New Jersey courtrooms are Wi-Fi enabled, trial lawyers with wireless laptops have a distinct edge: the ability to Google prospective jurors at the counsel table. An appeals court has given its blessing to the practice, reversing a trial judge who told a lawyer to disconnect.
  • 2nd Circuit Upsets Class Certification for Third-P ...
    A federal appeals court has rejected class certification for third-party payers who claim Eli Lilly misrepresented the drug Zyprexa's effectiveness and safety. The plaintiffs were seeking to recover damages from the drug manufacturer as a racketeering enterprise that forced them to pay excess prices ...

Iranian.com

  • احمدی‌نژاد: من به‌ دارایی‌های ملت افزوده شد‌ه‌ام
    چکیده : احمدی‌نژاد در پاسخ به این سئوال که برای سه سال باقیمانده ریاست جمهوری‌تان چه برنامه‌ای دارید؟ گفت: برای ثانیه‌هایش و تمام روزهایش برنامه است. این حرکت پرشتاب و رو به پیشرفت ملت ایران بر پایه معنویت و عدالت با سرعت بالاتر و گسترده‌تر ادامه پیدا خواهد کرد. read more
  • نامه شديدالحن توكلي به احمدي‌نژاد
    وقتي شما آقاي مشايي و آقاي بقايي را با اختيارات وسيع، در موارد بي حد و حصر، بدون وجود هيچ ضرورتي و با تصميم فردي و بدون حتي اطلاع هيات وزيران، نماينده ويژه در امور خاورميانه و آسيا معرفي مي‌كنيد هر چهار شرط مذكور در قانون اساسي را نقض كرده‌ايد. read more
  • Berlusconi and Putin joke about ruling to age of 1 ...
    Russian PM Vladimir Putin has joked that he and his Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi could stay in their jobs until the age of 120. Mr Putin was responding to Mr Berlusconi's offer at an informal meeting in Russia to help fund research into extending the average lifespan. Mr Berlusconi pointed ...
  • نهمین سالگرد «یازده سپتامبر» در ایران و آمریکا
    در سالگرد حملات، از شب گذشته، رسانه‌های خبری مملو از گزارش‌های مربوط به این رویداد هستند. از حال و روز بازماندگان گرفته تا جزییات بدست آمده از حملات. رسانه‌های آمریکایی عموماً به اختلافات برای چگونه گرامی‌داشتن یاد قربانیان پرداخته‌اند و ناخرسندی بازماندگان حادثه از فضای برنامه‌های امسال. read more
  • The Cyrus Cylinder, Wikipedia and Iran conspiraci ...
    For many years the Cyrus Cylinder has been referred to as "the world's first human rights charter".  The British Museum describes the relic thus: ... In May 2007, Wikipedia's own description of the cylinder said :  read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Hanan Ashrawi: Women in the Palestinian Struggle
    I have just watched a remarkable talk by Palestinian leader Hanan Ashrawi at the July 2010 Chautaqua convocation (see http://fora.tv/2010/07/13/Hanan_Ashrawi_Palestinian_Womens_Quest_for_Validation ). Ashrawi, long a spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority, has been largely absent from the US med ...
  • In Defense of Smokers
    As a doctor, I am well away of the negative health effects of smoking. Studies show a life time of smoking subtracts an average of ten years from your life expectancy. I also read about the considerable health costs of treating smoking-related illnesses, such as chronic bronchitis, emphysema, heart ...
  • US Customs: the New Thought Police
    One of my New Zealand friends, a solar and wind energy engineer, travels to the US frequently to attend alternative energy conferences and check out potential venture capitalists. Every time he goes through US Customs, he is deemed to pose a security threat and taken aside to be questioned about his ...
  • Grassroots Organizing: 1930s Style
    The mainstream media makes out like the economic collapse is just something that happened to us. Some greedy banksters gambled with trillions of dollars of our money and in the process, also committed embezzlement, fraud and theft. Now the money is gone, and we just have to live with it. Milli ...
  • Income Inequality: the Real Cause of Poor Health
    The University of Washington epidemiologist Dr Stephen Bezruchka has been writing and speaking for nearly two decades on the real cause of illness and poor health. As he repeatedly points out, lifestyle factors (including smoking) only account for ten percent of the causation of illness. Accor ...

Free Movement

  • Fees going up again
    Substantial rises are set for most immigration fees on 1 October 2010, on the basis of the laughable justification that UKBA ‘want to ensure that we can offer a good level of customer service’. They also openly state that the increases are to ‘mitigate against a reduction in income to the Agency’. I ...
  • Adverts on Free Movement
    It has come to my attention that Google Ads sometimes (or possibly always) show on Free Movement to those not already logged in as WordPress users – i.e. everyone except me sometimes sees Google Ads on my blog, basically. This blog is hosted mainly for free on WordPress.com. In truth nothing in life ...
  • Lions Led By Donkeys?
    The tragic demise of Refugee and Migrant Justice, formerly known as the Refugee Legal Centre, leaves a gaping and unfillable void in the immigration sector. With its higher than average success rate and top notch training and nurturing programme for asylum lawyers, it is simply irreplaceable. What h ...
  • New PBS cases
    The tribunal has allowed two appeals on the basis that Pankina does not only apply to the three month rule and that all an applicant need do is comply with the requirements of the Immigration Rules themselves. See FA and AA (PBS effect of Pankina) Nigeria [2010] UKUT 304 (IAC) in relation to the sco ...
  • Immigration Judges and Migration Watch
    I am back from my very pleasant holidays and thought I would kick off what feels like a new season with some juicy gossip. I have previously covered the news that ex immigration judges (then plain old adjudicators, in fact) Patricia Skitmore, John Disley and Harry Mitchell QC joined Migration Watch ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT DELIVERED BY RADIO FROM T ...
    PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT: I have been on a journey of husbandry. I went primarily to see at first hand conditions in the drought states; to see how effectively Federal and local authorities are taking care of pressing problems of relief and also how they a ...
  • The Real Lesson of Labor Day
    Welcome to the worst Labor Day in the memory of most Americans. Organized labor is down to about 7 percent of the private work force. Members of non-organized labor — most of the rest of us — are unemployed, underemployed or underwater. The Labor Department reported on Friday that just 67,000 new pr ...
  • HOW THEY GOT THEIR FICTITIOUS WAR
    Part I: Revving Up the Lie Machine ; "... we now know that Saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons. Among other sources, we've gotten this from the firsthand testimony of defectors – including Saddam's own son-in-law ..." – Vice President Dick Cheney in August 27, 2002 spe ...
  • 5 Jaw-Dropping Stories in Wikileaks' Archives ...
    In December 2008, I received an email message from Julian Assange -- the now world-famous public face of the whistleblower organization, Wikileaks . I don’t recall why or how it came about, but he invited me to join a counterinsurgency “analysis team” alongside a number of other academics, ...
  • Hands off Social Security
    The White House deficit commission is reportedly considering deep benefit cuts for Social Security, including a steep rise in the retirement age. We cannot let that happen. The deficit and our $13 trillion national debt are serious problems that must be addressed. But we can — and must — address ...

Salon

  • Protesters support Park51 on 9/11
    Demonstrators have begun to gather in support of an Islamic center that's generating controversy because it's two blocks from ground zero.
  • Church of the savvy -- "He isn't handling it"
    This originally appeared on Digby's blog
  • A contentious 9/11 anniversary unfolds
    The press has told us in the past couple days that we are experiencing the newly "politicized" anniversary of Sept. 11. What that really means is that this is the year that anti-Muslim sentiment -- in the planned Quran burning in Florida, in the opposition to Park51, and as shown in national poll ...
  • My 9/11 dinner with Bush and Rumsfeld
    "Get a sitter for Aidan, we're going to the White House tomorrow," Lee says as if I have won a prize. I squeeze the phone against my ear so I can pinch a dead dahlia off of its stem. It crumbles in my hand.
  • Obama speaks on 9/11, supports tolerance
    Amid an atmosphere of unease, President Barack Obama wants Americans to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by recapturing the sense of common purpose felt on that dreadful day.

SMB News

  • Hameed rubbishes accusing players in betting row
    LONDON: Pakistan batsman Yasir Hameed denied Saturday having told a British newspaper that his teammates on the England tour were involved in a betting scam. The News of The World quoted Hameed in its edition due out Sunday as saying that some Pakistan players were fixing in “almost every match”. “I ...
  • Iran working against Iraqi democracy: US general
    WASHINGTON: Iran is funding extremist groups in Iraq out of fear of a strong democracy as a neighbor, the commander of US forces in Iraq said Sunday. “I think they don’t want to see Iraq turn into a strong democratic country, General Ray Odierno told CNN. “They would rather see it become a weak gove ...
  • New flood tide roars into Dera Allah Yar
    JAFFERABAD: High flood tide raged its way into Jafferabad area of Dera Allah Yar, rendering thousands of people homeless, these stranded people are waiting for help, Geo News reported Monday. The new flood tide further exacerbated the situation in the area where people are present on the high places ...
  • Enraged flood victims get physical with police, Ra ...
    SUKKUR: Floods continue to cause devastation in Sukkur and rendered thousands of people stranded in various areas while enraged flood victims burned tyres, blocked road and exchanged blows with police and Rangers after one of the affectees died in a relief camp here at Sukkur-Shikarpur Road. The wat ...
  • Qaeda’s cause is gross distortion of Islam: Obama
    Qaedaâs cause is gross distortion of Islam: ObamaWASHINGTON: In a passionate defense of religious freedom, President Barack Obama on Friday waded into a bitter controversy by defending the right of Muslims to build a mosque just blocks from Ground Zero. “As a citizen, and as president, I believe t ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • No substitute for inquiry
    The lasting images from the G20 summit held in Toronto last summer are not of world leaders, heads bent together in common cause, but of police cruisers on fire, protesters penned up in the rain and riot squads conducting mass arrests. ...
  • Persichilli: Why I won’t be voting for Hazel McCal ...
    Mississauga mayor's legacy is a city without identity.
  • Editorial: Platform numbers don't measure up
    Among challenges confronting Toronto’s next mayor, none looms larger than fixing a chronic budget shortfall that if left to fester will ultimately threaten the city’s well-being. Yet with just six weeks remaining before election day, none of Toront ...
  • Flawed ruling on blood
    Blood donations have had a checkered history in Canada. Lax screening left 32,000 Canadians infected with the potentially deadly hepatitis C virus, and still others with HIV. The tainted blood scandal culminated with the Krever Inquiry, which spawn ...
  • Helping the United Way
    City can meet ambitious goal.

Energy Collective

  • If French Nuclear Success Is Socialism - Call Me a ...
    On Thursday, September 9, 2010, the Institute for Energy and the Environment at the Vermont Law School , which is not affiliated with the University of Vermont, hosted a phone press conference to announce the release of a paper titled Policy Challenges of Nuclear Reactor Construction: Cost Escalatio ...
  • The green wave persists
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  • Decision time on climate change
    The news that today’s power plants and transportation systems are probably not enough to doom the planet to catastrophic climate change feels a bit like our last warning.
  • Collected Myths About the Death of Cap and Trade
    Democrats pulled the plug on ill-fated climate and energy legislation that finally collapsed under its own weight and - believe it or not - that is a good thing. Now a new window is open to shift the overarching goal of climate policy toward unleashing a clean energy revolution brought about by larg ...
  • Illinois Biodiesel Industry Expands As Other State ...
    I recently wrote about how privately held biodiesel producers were going out of business at the same time that government entities were starting biodiesel operations to supply their own needs. I thought it was somewhat troubling to see biodiesel production shifting from private sector to the public ...

EU Times

  • The Tarim Mummies
    An amazing discovery of 2,000 year old Caucasian descent mummies in the Tarim basin of Western China occurred in the early 90s. But more amazing than the discovery itself was the astonishing fact that the mummies were blond haired and long nosed. In 1993, Victor Mayer a college professor collected D ...
  • Sweden loses patience with refugee champion role
    Six years after his brother was beheaded by Iraqi insurgents, Riyad is still haunted by the memory of identifying the disfigured body and watching the mutilation on a video distributed by the killers. Yet Riyad now has fresh worries to contend with: the threat of deportation from Sweden, which recen ...
  • Turkey tells US it won’t adhere to new sanctions o ...
    Turkish officials have told an American delegation that it has no intention of following unilateral US sanctions on Iran, a move likely to deepen a rift between the two NATO allies over the Islamic republic’s contentious nuclear program that Washington believes is aimed at developing nuclear weapons ...
  • Official US Deficit Put At Staggering $202 Trillio ...
    The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) forecasts the U.S. budget deficit will hit $1.3 trillion this year. An astronomical figure, to be sure, but thatâs lower than was projected in March. Itâs also less than last yearâs record $1.41 trillion deficit, which was close to 10% of GDP. And, that’s ...
  • Goldman Sachs accused of trying to destroy China
    Goldman Sachs & Co., reviled in the U.S. for its role in the financial crisis, is now getting hammered in the world’s No. 2 economy with a sensationalist new book accusing the investment bank of trying to destroy China. The “Goldman Sachs Conspiracy,” which has sold over 100,000 copies since it was ...

Stonecipher News

  • Jessica's Early Years With Autism
    In my last article, The Day I Saw My Lord and Savior Jesus Christ , I discussed how Jesus helped my wife and I get through a difficult time with Jessica hospitalized as an infant with meningitis and was on life support for more than a month. With this article will be the first in a series that gives ...
  • Can Hand Episode 3: Bedroom Fun Wakes Grandpa
    This is a sponsored post! WD-40 has more than 2000 uses. One of my favorite uses is cleaning up permanent markers off title or linoleum flooring. I discovered this by accident last week while installing my linoleum floor. I mistakenly used a permanent marker to make my marking measurements instead ...
  • Studies Claim That One Million Children Misdiagnos ...
    According to Jo Oliver "Several studies this month in the Journal of Health Economics are looking at ADHD. Separate studies by researchers at North Carolina State University, Notre Dame, the University of Minnesota, and Michigan State University all arrive at similar conclusions about ADHD. For tho ...
  • Education: What Does It Mean For Your Child
    From my Factoidz page: The PACER Center is a Minnesota training and information center funded by the U. S. Department of Education Office of Special Education (n.d., http://www.pacer.org/) writes an article for LD online explaining to lay people the evaluation process for special education. The arti ...
  • Tests and Measurements for the Parent, Teacher, Ad ...
    Peter and Pam Wright compose a comprehensive article for parents, teachers, advocates and attorneys. The purpose of which is to help lay people and professionals recognize the value of reading and understanding educational test scores. Attorney Peter Wright Esq., and Psychotherapist Pam Wright who ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • San Bruno fire victims eager to return home, mayor ...
    San Bruno Mayor Jim Ruane said Sunday that many residents whose homes were green-tagged, indicating they were structurally sound, have told him they were eager to return. "The people who are going back to these green-tagged homes, to some sort of normal life, are going to look out... Tags: sewage sa ...
  • Local parishioners pray for San Bruno fire victims
    In a Sunday Mass at St. Robert's Church in San Bruno, the parish of two people believed killed in Thursday's gas pipeline explosion , worshipers prayed for the victims, evacuees and a speedy return home.   "Today is a day, for all of us, of great sorrow," Father Vincent Ring said.... Tags: parishion ...
  • Claude Chabrol, RIP. The death of a master
    Claude Chabrol, who died Sunday, Sept. 12 at 80, was a founder of the New Wave and a giant of French cinema. This interview, which took place during the 1970 New York Film Festival, shows him at midpoint in his life, just as he had emerged from a period of neglect and was making... Tags: le boucher ...
  • Gutierrez gathers signatures for as he weighs run ...
    Posted by Kristen Schorsch at 1:23 p.m. U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez today gathered signatures to get on the ballot for Chicago mayor even as he said he hasn't made a decision yet about whether to run for the job Mayor Richard Daley is vacating next year. Dozens of volunteers, many... Tags: fbi agents c ...
  • TSS: 9.12.10
    Well, this week was a blur.  Between trying to find 24 hour care for my mom, getting her situated in her apartment again, and school getting into full swing, I barely had time for anything else.  Until my life adjusts into a more predictable routine, I thought it might be good to... Tags: lesson pla ...

Groklaw

  • Mark Hurd to Speak at Oracles Annual Conference
    The former H-P CEO will speak on the second day of the annual gathering for Oracle customers and partners in San Francisco. Mr. Hurd will appear alongside John Fowler, a former Sun Microsystems executive who now oversees Oracle's hardware businesses. - WSJ
  • Russian officials raid opposition groups under pre ...
    Across Russia, the security services have carried out dozens of similar raids against outspoken advocacy groups or opposition newspapers in recent years. Security officials say the inquiries reflect their concern about software piracy, which is rampant in Russia. Yet they rarely if ever carry out ra ...
  • The Recipe for Open Standards (and Why ISO Cant C ...
    But for sake of argument, let's draw the line for open standards at these three criteria: freely available, open process, and freely implementable.... Now what about ISO? I claim, quite cheekily, that they cannot cook. So let me right away make the case why ISO, by their own rules and procedures ...
  • Apple products are a mutant virus, but PC brands w ...
    Acer founder Stan Shih, in a talks with reporters on September 8, commented that Apple's strong popularity is mainly due to its products such as iPad and iPhone, and these products are like mutant viruses, which are difficult to find a cure for in the short-term, but he believes that PC vendors will ...
  • Its Time to Get Behind the Semantic Web
    For over five years now, I've maintained a Google Alert on the words "Semantic Web." And lately, the results of that search have become a whole lot more interesting (see the sample below). Yes, I've seen that before, but this time the nature of the hits has grown more hopeful. More often, they relat ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

  • The Healers of 9/11
    This weekend, a Jewish woman who lost her husband in the 9/11 attacks is planning to speak at a mosque in Boston. She will be trying to recruit members of the mosque to join her battle against poverty and illiteracy in Afghanistan. She and others have started Beyond the 11th, “a non-profit organizat ...
  • US income inequality in US equals Venezuela now
    Pass me a banana, please. Firedoglake has a long post about Slate’s 4-part series on The United States of Inequality. Both are worth reading. FDL wonders “how we willingly adopted the ways of a banana republic.” Me too. It’s not just income inequality either. Laws and rules clearly are not enforced ...
  • The Plumen. CFLs with style
    Plumen Bulb Loop from Plumen on Vimeo. More at Plumen and Treehugger.
  • Electric motorcycle does 165 mph 7.77 seconds in 1 ...
    Orange County Choppers builds a winner. Your move, Killacycle.
  • Australia to get 100Mbps broadband to 93% of count ...
    The rest of the country will get 12Mbps. Makes the US look like a third world country, doesn’t it? I’ve got a crazy idea. How about everyone stops blaming the other side and instead we actually work towards towards common goals?

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Just World Books website is born!
    Okay, I know I've been promising my readers here that the JWB website will be published "any day now"... And the day is here! So head on over and check out the site's many great features and the fast-growing amount of content we have there! (Now including two podcasts already-- one featuring JWB aut ...
  • Plea of the Israeli political prisoner's wife
    Read this powerful article penned for Electronic Intifada by Janan Abdu, spouse of Palestinian-Israeli political prisoner Ameer Makhoul, who has shockingly been held without trial since May. Abdu quotes the stirring (but possibly empty?) words that Secretary Clinton uttered recently at the 10th ann ...
  • Just World Books update #4
    We're still tweaking the website at Just World Books, so until it's ready to roll out, I'll be sending out my updates from here. I've signed three new contracts in the past couple of weeks. Two are with Manan Ahmed , who's the principal blogger (Sepoy) at Chapati Mystery and also blogs at Informed ...
  • 550 IDF soldiers interrogated re possible war crim ...
    Huge kudos to Max Blumenthal, who found a report in yesterday's Yediot stating that (in Max's translation), More than 550 officers and men of IDF who participated in the “Cast Lead” operation have been interrogated by the investigative military police of the IDF in the last 18 months. The Yediot r ...
  • Powerful rebuke of SA Chief Rabbi over Goldstone
    The great, strongly anti-Apartheid South African journo Allister Sparks has penned a powerful rebuke of his country's Chief Rabbi, Warren Goldstein, over the latter's strongly expressed criticism of Constitutional Court member Richard Goldstone, and Goldstone's role in heading the UN's fact-finding ...

First Truths

  • The Political Alchemy of Jobs
    My latest commentary piece , a response to the announcement of the President's jobs plan, can be found at the Center for a Stateless Society.
  • Antitrust and the Ultimate Monopoly Redux
    In a leading text for the study of antitrust law, law professors Phillip Areeda, Louis Kaplow and Aaron Edlin assert: In the absence of legal impediments, competitors would like to join together to eliminate competition among themselves, restricting output and raising prices. A perfect scheme wou ...
  • Peace Talks For War
    I opined for the Center for a Stateless Society on the United States-negotiated peace talks between Israel and Palestine. I've previously written on the issue here .
  • Green Rising: Dissecting Environmentalism's Lethal ...
    For those who value individual rights, the question of whether human beings are responsible for global climate change can bear no weight on arguments concerning the role of the state in society; the answer to that question, no matter what it is, could not justify or legitimize any measure that woul ...
  • Intellectual Property Against Freedom: The Hidden ...
    Both the justness and the economic efficacy of intellectual property laws, as embodied in copyrights and patents, are taken for granted by almost all political theorists who consider the question. The prevailing conversation, perhaps due to the extent to which economic life is saturated with the pr ...

Media Co-Op

  • Taking the Rap for the the G20
    Hip Hop artist Testament speaks about the need to speak out in the face of state repression While Americans were remembering the events of September 11th, the gym at Kirk hall in Victoria was packed with book worms from all stripes at the 5th ...
  • Cops = Murderers - John T. Williams and 6 more kil ...
    Cops = Murderers: Who Will Protect Us From Them? Cops killed 7 people between the dates of August 25 - September 7th, 2010, in Washington alone. A Spokane pastor, Scott Creach, was shot by police on ...
  • Our Strength "Newen" is What Feeds Us and Will Giv ...
    Interview with Mapuche Political Prisoner, Hector Llaitul A total of 34 Mapuche Political Prisoners have been on hunger strike since July, all of them are demanding a fair trial and an end to the Anti-terrorist Law. On August 23rd in El Manzan ...
  • Another Enbridge Pipeline Leak: Enbridge Credibili ...
    For Immediate Release – September 10, 2010 Nadleh Whut’en Territory (Fraser Lake, BC, Canada) – Enbridge Inc. has suffered another blow to its credibility that it is capable of maintaining its pipelines.  On Thursday afternoon Enbridge had to shut down its Line 6A oil pipeline that leaked in Romeovi ...
  • Wikileaks and the politics of whistleblowing
    Ever since a U.S. army counterintelligence report identified WikiLeaks as a direct threat to the 'force protection interests' of the military – a euphemistic term for the United States' ability to militarily dominate when, where and against whom they choose – the organization has been in the Pentago ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • 9-11: Nine Years On
    David Seaton's News Links Seen through a cloud of burning Koran smoke, nine years on and counting, most Americans still have no real idea what happened on the eleventh of September in 2001 or why it happened. The big mistake almost all Americans make when contemplating 9-11 is to think that we were ...
  • Burning a Koran in a crowded theater
    "America - the most contradictory, the most depressing, the most stirring, of any land in the world today." Sinclair Lewis 's Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1930 Sinclair Lewis should rise from his grave, have a stiff drink and write up the following story: A small US church says it will defy internati ...
  • The Korean mess
    "As we have learnt again and again in this long period of turmoil, the impossible can become inevitable without even passing through improbable." Anatole Kaletsky - The Times David Seaton's News Links We seem to be immersed in a period of cumulative disasters, rather similar to the astrological idea ...
  • The asymmetrical revolution - part II
    Just suck it up David Seaton's News Links There is an idea prevalent among many commentators that the "markets" are something immutable, some God-given law of nature, like the law of gravity. This is part of the "end of history", pensée unique , business. In fact the markets are just human social co ...
  • Israel's massive flotilla cock-up
    (...) I call on the Government of Israel to open the crossings to allow unfettered access for aid to Gaza, and address the serious concerns about the deterioration in the humanitarian and economic situation and about the effect on a generation of young Palestinians‪." William Hague - UK Foreign Se ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • Widespread Chemical Linked to Higher Cholesterol i ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 Children and teens exposed to perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), the chemical used to make many non-stick and stain-proof coatings, have elevated cholesterol levels, reports a landmark study by West... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
  • Chemicals Law Overhaul Proposed in House
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 WASHINGTON, DC – Congressional leaders today introduced in the House the first comprehensive overhaul in more than 30 years of a federal law that has been widely condemned for failing to protect... [[ This is a content summary on ...
  • EWG Tests Find High BPA Loads on Receipts
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org WASHINGTON, DC – Laboratory tests commissioned by Environmental Working Group (EWG) have found high levels of the endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) on 40 percent of... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • EWG’s Ken Cook Testifies On House Bill to Reform C ...
    July 29th, 2010 .byline { display:none; } Thursday, July 29, 2010 Testimony as delivered Before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection Committee on Energy and Commerce Download the Full "as delivered"... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
  • EWG’s Ken Cook Testifies On House Proposal to Refo ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. –Environmental Working Group (EWG) President Ken Cook testified today that reform legislation now before Congress “is essential to fixing our broken toxic chemicals... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my we ...

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