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IPS - Inter Press Services

• Cuban Union Calls for 'Unity' in Face of Job Reduc ...
  The elimination of half a million public sector jobs, starting immediately and lasting through the first quarter of 2011, is one of the most complex and sensitive aspects of the reforms announced by Cuban President Raúl Castro.
• U.S. Still Top Arms Supplier to South as Record Sa ...
  Despite an unusual dip in global weapons sales in 2009, the United States retained its spot as the world's top arms supplier of developing countries, according to an authoritative new report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS).
• World Bank Boosts Ag Lending Ahead of MDG Meet
  With the Millennium Development Goals review summit just one week away, the World Bank is the latest international player to announce its strategy to help achieve those goals by their 2015 deadline.
• Summit Failure on Water, Sanitation Would Be Recip ...
  A weeklong international conference here has transmitted a strong political message to next week's U.N. summit meeting of world leaders: what good is the fight against poverty, hunger, maternal mortality and child deaths if water and sanitation are not given the high priority they deserve? ...
• KENYA: TB Patients Held in Prison
  When a doctor instructs a patient to take one tablet three times a day, she often has no way to ensure the instructions are followed.

Scoop - NZ

• Post Copenhagen: What Now ?
  After major disappointments in Copenhagen and Washington D.C., millions of us concerned about the climate crisis have been left wondering "what now?". The stakes couldn't be higher, and the political and infrastructural challenges so large and complex, that it's no surprise to see soul-sea ...
• Supreme Court: Corporations Can Buy Judges
  The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision allows businesses to make unlimited political contributions to judges and politicians. When judges are elected, the need for these contributions inherently turns judges into politicians. Sympathetic judges are corrupt businesses' most valuable allies. Cor ...
• US soldiers allegedly kept Afghan body parts as tr ...
  FIVE US soldiers allegedly blew up three Afghan civilians with grenades and kept their body parts, including a skull and fingers, as trophies ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
• 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 ...

Independent - London

• Hunger costing poor nations £290bn a year
  Hunger is costing the world's poorest nations $450bn (£290bnn) a year, according to a report published today.
• Georgia's ethnic cleansing claims 'fabricated'
  Russia accused Georgia of making up allegations of ethnic cleansing in its breakaway provinces after Tbilisi failed to regain control of the areas in a five-day war.
• Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf in effort to resolve Ground ...
  The imam leading the effort to build an Islamic centre and mosque close to where the World Trade Centre once stood said yesterday that a resolution to the raging debate over its location was being examined.
• I'm loaded, says Silvio Berlusconi, and that's why ...
  The italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, says young women should follow the money when looking for a partner, noting that women seem to like him and "I'm loaded".
• Kim Jong-il's ill-health delays Korean succession ...
  North Korea's ruling party has delayed the start of a rare conference due to the health of its leader, Kim Jong-il, but his condition is not serious enough to cancel the meeting, South Korean television reported yesterday.

Rogue Government.com

• World Panel Backs Rules to Avert Banking Crises
  Top central bankers and bank regulators agreed Sunday on far-reaching new rules for the global banking industry that are designed to avert future financial disasters, but could also dampen bank profits and strain weaker institutions.
• Feds Spent $800,000 of Economic Stimulus on Afric ...
  The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spent $823,200 of economic stimulus funds in 2009 on a study by a UCLA research team to teach uncircumcised African men how to wash their genitals after having sex.
• Claim: Google Damages Brains
  Google damages the brains of its users by offering too much assistance in solving problems, an author has claimed.
• Thousands Held In Iraq Without Trial
  Tens of thousands of detainees are being held without trial in Iraqi prisons and face violent and psychological abuse as well as other forms of mistreatment, Amnesty International said on Monday.
• Obama To Pitch $60 Billion Saudi Arms Deal To Con ...

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

• Of two minds: Listener brain patterns mirror those ...
  A new study from Princeton University reports that a female student of lead investigator, Uri Hasson, can project her own brain activity onto another person, forcing the person's neural activity to closely mirror that in her own brain. The process is otherwise known as speech. There have been many ...
• Confessing to Crime, but Innocent
  Kansas City, Mo. - Eddie Lowery lost 10 years of his life for a crime he did not commit. There was no physical evidence at his trial for rape, but one overwhelming factor put him away: he confessed. At trial, the jury heard details that prosecutors insisted only the rapist could have known, incl ...
• Civil Rights Photographer Unmasked as Informant
  Atlanta - That photo of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. riding one of the first desegregated buses in Montgomery, Ala.? He took it. The well-known image of black sanitation workers carrying "I Am a Man" signs in Memphis? His. He was the only photojournalist to document the entire trial in the ...
• Are California's For-Profit Hospitals Pushing C-Se ...
  Expectant mothers in California may want to add one more reminder to their list of what to look for when researching obstetricians--whether the physician in question facilitates births in a non-profit or for-profit hospital. An analysis by California Watch reveals stark disparities in cesarean sect ...
• Canada: Blight wiping out Alberta's tomatoes
  A fast-spreading fungus that normally infects potatoes is wiping out tomato plants across Alberta this season, says a plant-disease expert. The airborne disease called late blight of potato -- the same organism that led to the Irish potato famine -- is rare in Alberta, said forensic plant pathologi ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Harper amongst the shoals
  There is one thing about those of us who live our lives at sea in ships: we must occasionally make landfall. It doesn't matter how much deep water I traverse, I must regularly engage my pilotage mind and negotiate the rocks and shoals of coastal waters. There are millions of rocks around the globe ...
• HST, BC and the horsehit that falls out of Campbel ...
  Mygod, this i s amazing. If British Columbians vote against the HST in a referendum, the province will dump the controversial tax, says B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell. Because he says so?! Jesus Christ! It's not within his authority to make such a pronouncement. He has no law to support that and w ...
• Teh burning burning stupid
  Yeah. A Florida pastor said Tuesday he would go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Qur'an on Sept. 11, despite condemnation by the top U.S. general and NATO commander in Afghanistan. Pastor Terry Jones, of Gainesville's Dove World Outreach Center, said he considered Gen. David Petraeus' co ...
• Mega Larceny . . .
  THE NYTIMES has an article by Robert Mazur, "Follow the Dirty Money" , which describes how international money gets moved. Problem is, nobody's going to jail. LAST month, a federal district judge approved a deal to allow Barclays, the British bank, to pay a $298 million fine for conducting transacti ...
• All political, all the time...
  Everything is political. The Harperites know all. If science, including bona fide peer reviewed research, doesn't fit their illusion of ice cream coming from an irritating little truck spewing pollution, it doesn't make it to the page. Even though you pay for it. Via Impolitical comes the latest i ...

Media Matters for America

• Newt Gingrich's history of bigoted remarks
  Newt Gingrich's history of bigoted and offensive remarks far predates his recent statement that President Obama has pretended to be "normal" but actually seems to be engaged in "Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior." Gingrich on Obama's "Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior" Gingrich: Obama is engaged i ...
• Hey Breitbart, look to your left
  During his speech at FreedomWorks' September 12 rally on the National Mall, Andrew Breitbart berated the media for portraying tea party ralliers as "racist, sexist, homophobe," and "Islamophobe," but the crowd he addressed was full of inflammatory signs. Breitbart complains ralliers are portray ...
• Highbrow birtherism: Conservatives attack Obama as ...
  Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich recently made news by suggesting that President Obama is engaged in "Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior," but he isn't alone in using the African heritage of Obama's father and grandfather as fuel for ridiculous smears. Gingrich attacked Obama for "Kenyan, anti-coloni ...
• Anti-Park51 protest featuring right-wing media loa ...
  Right-wing blogger Pamela Geller's September 11 protest against the Park51 Islamic cultural center in Manhattan -- which featured fellow right-wing blogger Andrew Breitbart and Fox News contributors John Bolton and Mike Gallagher - was loaded with inflammatory anti-Muslim rhetoric, imagery, and sme ...
• Does Fox want ICE to fill detention beds with immi ...
  Fox News claimed that a draft policy under consideration by Immigration and Customs Enforcement means the government is "inching toward" the point of "completely giving a free pass to all illegals who haven't committed a crime." In fact, the policy restricts only who will be detained, not who will ...

Global Research.ca

• The Bizarre Background of the ‘911’ New York Mosqu ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Double standards: The United States and its allies ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• US Joint Forces Command: Huge U.S. Debt Could Lead ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Save the Banks and Kill the Economy
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Why Is NATO In Yugoslavia?
  Sean Gervasi had tremendous foresight. He understood NATO enlargement several years before it actually unfolded into a formidable military force.

TPM Cafe

• Dear Pat Toomey, 2002 Called and Wants Its Campaig ...
  In case there was any doubt that Republicans are campaigning on arguments that are impervious to the passage of time or even the facts, we have an ugly foreign policy snit today from the nominee for PA-Sen, Pat Toomey. Toomey must be getting his foreign policy advice from John Bolton and Dick Cheney ...
• The Two Categories Of American Corporation - And T ...
  Some giant American corporations depend on a buoyant American economy and a world-class industrial base in the United States. Others are far less dependent. What comes out of Washington in the next few years will reflect which group has most political clout -- especially if Republicans take over the ...
• Stupid Has Balls
  One can't help but think that the Republican party is elevating ignorance and hate for some kind of reason. Maybe the Diesel Jeans campaign has inspired them. How else to explain Newt Gingrich playing the Obama as Tribal Boogie Man card? With Newt Gingrich now  claiming that President Obama owes h ...
• Small Victory: I Make Marty Peretz Apologize
  After years of writing racist screeds, Martin Peretz of the New Republic finally had to apologize. He is writing in response to the brilliant and, in my opinion, wonderful Nick Kristof who wrote a column excoriating Peretz yesterday. Kristof, to his credit, wrote in his New York Times blog that ...
• Do Arab & Muslim Lives Matter?
  When John Bolton , who now said he is considering a run for the US presidency, was set to testify in July 2006 before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee during his failed effort to get the Senate to confirm his nomination as US Ambassador to the United Nations, I got an early copy of his "pre ...

TruthOut

• Simon Johnson | Republican Nightmare: Putting Eliz ...
  What can Obama do that would mobilize his political base and put his opponents on the defensive? There is an easy answer: Appoint Elizabeth Warren. President Obama is finally looking for bold, creative and clever ways to change the way the US economy operates -- preferably with measures that will t ...
• Robert Reich | The Two Categories of American Corp ...
  Some giant American corporations depend on a buoyant American economy and a world-class industrial base in the United States. Others are far less dependent. What comes out of Washington in the next few years will reflect which group has most political clout — especially if Republicans take over the ...
• Solar on the Cheap: Thanks Purple Pokeberry!
  A dye made from the purple pokeberry — a common weed — proves uncommonly effective at juicing up the prospects for solar power. read more
• Study Finds CEO Salaries Increase With Layoffs
  Executives of the top 50 job-cutting firms in the US earned 42 percent more than their peers in 2009, according to a report published by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). As the country's economy continues to struggle, and American workers earn less in weekly wages than they did in the 1970s ...
• Evidence Mounts of BP Spraying Toxic Dispersants
  Shirley and Don Tillman, residents of Pass Christian, Mississippi, have owned shrimp boats, an oyster boat and many pleasure boats. They spent much time on the Gulf of Mexico before working in BP's Vessels Of Opportunity (VOO) program looking for and trying to clean up oil. Don decided to work in t ...

Planetsave

• No Dead Zones Expected in Gulf
  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report some good news from the Gulf of Mexico stating that they have not detected nor do they expect to detect dead zones as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Despite a measure of dissolved oxygen levels within 60 miles of the wellhead, ...
• Russia Experiences Worst Fires in 14 Years
  New data shows that Russia has recently experienced the largest number of wildfires (bushfires) around its capital this year than in the last 15 years. This according to data collected by sensors aboard the European Space Association’s observations satellites ERS-2 and Envisat. The forest and peat b ...
• Cool Your Green Mind Monday
  Keeping up with all the environmental news (i.e. growing environmental problems, environmental failures by politicians, environmental disasters, and a few success stories here and there) can be tiring, frustrating, and saddening. I think it’s important for anyone interested in these matters to take ...
• Japanese Waters Hit Record High
  Having just endured its warmest summer on record, the Japanese Meteorological Agency has said it has also recorded the warmest sea temperatures since it started gathering data 25 years ago. According to the JMA, ocean surface temperatures surrounding Japan reached more than 25 degrees Celsius (77 de ...
• Threatened Russian ‘Plant Bank’ Gets R ...
  The decision by a Russian court to turn over 70 hectares of genetically unique species of plants to home developers caused an uproar world-wide, with scientists decrying the pending loss as "irreplaceable" and a major blow to agricultural biodiversity. Recently, however, the Russian government has s ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Sign this petition!
  Sure, this isn’t in SF. It’s not even near SF. But I’m sure if SF needed some sign
• Salt Storage - A shed is not adequate. We need a ...
  Hello! Summer is gone. The weather is turning, and I return to an earlier discussion.: Road Salt Sto
• Minnesota farmer fights Gulf 'dead zone'
  As with all unions the most militant and loudest members often using intimidating tactics become the
• WYSONG
  Wysong. Are you familiar with the name?  If not. and you have a pet, you should check them out.  In
• News and Events - 12 September 2010
  Coastal CleanUp Day is coming Saturday September 25th to a creek near you. Click image or scroll dow

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Chris Hedges: Islam and America
  with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad September 13, 2010 AlJazeeraEnglish | September 13
• Finding common ground in these times by Roxanne Am ...
  Image by Dandelion Salad via Flickr by Roxanne Amico Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Spirit Morph St
• Finding common ground in these times by Roxanne Am ...
  Image by Dandelion Salad via Flickr by Roxanne Amico Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Spirit Morph St
• Artificial People by Rand Clifford + Thom Hartmann ...
  by Rand Clifford Featured Writer Dandelion Salad September 13, 2010 By Helen Cox, used with permissi
• Do Not Pity the Democrats by Chris Hedges
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig September 13, 2010 Image by Dandelion Salad

Axis of Logic

• If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer Ame ...
  I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on Ground Zero. Why? Because I believe in an America that protects those who are the victims of hate and prejudice. I believe in an America that says you have the right...
• Nine years, two wars, hundreds of thousands dead – ...
  Did 9/11 make us all go mad? How fitting, in a weird, crazed way, that the apotheosis of that firestorm nine years ago should turn out to be a crackpot preacher threatening another firestorm with a Nazi-style book burning of the Koran. Or a would-be mosque two blocks from `ground...
• Misreporting Venezuela's economy - Media Critiques
  If you want a perfect illustration of media toeing the official line, look no further than the forecasts of Venezuela's economic doom 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 for ...
• Turkey backs constitutional changes - World News
  Turkish voters have given strong backing to a package of constitutional changes. With nearly all votes in the referendum counted, about 58% had voted "Yes" to amending the constitution. The opposition argues that the governing party, which has its roots in political Islam, is seeking dangerous ...
• Israel to end settlement moratorium - World News
  Editor´s Note: If Israel has had a moratorium on settlement building in he West Bank, imagine what they plan to do without one.�¨Netanyahu imposed the settlement slowdown in the West Bank to promote the resumption of peace talks.¨ Everyone knows these claims just more Zionist mind games - and one ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  You know how we know we're fucked seven ways from Sunday? When articles from The Onion start reading like they are serious pieces of journalism... And when the cover story in Forbes reads like it's an Onion -worthy satire. If you insist on wading through that drek Daniel Larison has the antidote/bra ...
• Playing Illinois Hold 'Em on Tax Cuts
  Maybe we'll get to see some of Barack's vaunted poker-playing skills after all. Steve M. sees Boner and the repugs setting up the dems to take the blame whatever happens with tax cuts. BOEHNER DIDN'T REALLY BLINK John Boehner said today thay he'd accept a repeal of the Bush tax cuts on the wealthy i ...
• Iowa Road Trip! - photos and press availability
  On the stage (from left to right) sign language interpreter, David Plouffe, David Axelrod, Senator Tom Harkin (D), Ruth Harkin, Governor Chet Culver (D), Lieutenant Governor Patty Judge, Roxanne Conlin. A television reporter doing a stand up before the start of the event. Note that they provided the ...
• The bumper stickers of Madison County
  Oh, all right, it's Warren County, but they're right next door to each other and I couldn't resist. The parking lot at the annual Harkin Steak Fry is a veritable cornucopia of progressive political bumper stickers. And don't get me started on the t-shirts people wear to the event. Yep. you're right, ...
• There's a lot of money in institutionalized misogy ...
  I have spent my career in healthcare, and my own anecdotal experience has told me for years that the rate of cesarian section births is not merely too high, it is far higher in for-profit facilities than it is in non-profit hospitals. My observations weren't exactly spot-on, however, because the pr ...

Care 2

• Canada Helps Create an Oil Sands World
  Efforts to develop oil sands in Alberta are serving as a model for many other nations eager to exploit similar reserves within their borders.Huge unconventional fuel reserves -- extra heavy crude, oil sands and oil shale -- lie untapped across the globe. Submitted by Michelle Matthews to Environment ...
• In Saudi Arabia, a softer approach to fighting ter ...
  Chief anti-terror official engages extremists to turn them away from militancy. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Toxic dispersants in Gulf oil spill creating hidde ...
  More than 200 million tons of crude oil have gushed into the Gulf of Mexico since the rupture of Deepwater Horizon. The chemicals used to clean up the spill have received less attention but could have devastating long-term effects on the marine ecosystem Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment � ...
• Why Do Teens Hurt Themselves? The Science of Self- ...
  Over the last couple decades, more young people appear to be pulling out razor blades and lighters in order to injure themselves, according to anecdotal reports from counselors. Submitted by Katie Miller to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Come sailing on the new Greenpeace virtual ship! - ...
  We have just launched a new Greenpeace ship, the SV Energy [R]evolution - and on this one, everyone can be a crew member. Join the crew! Before you start packing your waterproofs, we should probably tell you that this ship's a little different ... Submitted by Merissa Sheppard to Environment �|� �N ...

Smirking Chimp

• Business as Usual in Iraq
  Last week, President Obama ceremoniously announced that U.S. combat operations had ended in Iraq. As Democrats face an uphill battle in the upcoming midterm elections, Obama felt he had to make good on his campaign promise to move the fighting from Iraq to Afghanistan. But while he has escalated the ...
• Cartoon for September 13th, 2010: Wild Wild Youth
  [click to enlarge image] According to US forces, Afghan resistance forces are getting younger. read more
• Is the "nuclear renaissance" dead yet?
  America's much hyped "reactor renaissance" is facing a quadruple bypass. In actual new construction, proposed projects and overseas sales, soaring costs are killing new nukes. And the old ones are leaking like Dark Age relics teetering on the brink of disaster. As renewables plummet in cost, and p ...
• Hyperinflation is a mirage invented by demagogues
  The Fed can create as much money as it likes without any risk of inflation provided the money is tucked away where no one can spend it. And this, in fact, is what the Fed has done. They have exchanged $1.7 trillion in reserves for non performing loans and mortgage-backed securities with the banks. B ...
• Fit to Own: On "Some People" and Homeownership
  In the wake of the housing fiasco, government officials and think tanks are now signaling abandonment of decades-old public policies to promote homeownership. Such policies were well-intentioned, so the narrative goes, but sadly misguided because “some people” aren’t meant to be homeowners. The ne ...

Paul Krugman

• Correction
  About those fluids.
• The Advantages Of Taking A Stand
  Run away, run away? Maybe not.
• Ex-Im Bonkers
  Former Speaker Bat Guano?
• From New York City
  Talkin' about the boy.
• Consider The Curve Bent
  Health care reform: still a big improvement.

No Quarter

• “FAIR GAME” Opening Trailer + Open Thr ...
  As you may have noticed, I’ve added a section in the middle column all about the release of the major motion picture “Fair Game” that weaves together the stories told in each of the books by Valerie Plame Wilson and Joe Wilson. Here is the official trailer for that film, in limited release on Novemb ...
• Cheesy Signage
  Tea Party Conspiracy Revealed. � A sound measure of the big time for the Tea Party is when the New Yorker deploys Jane Mayer to uncover that the Tea Party is the secret product of the Koch Brothers using their Midas fortune to lease buses, make cheesy signs and launch battalions of naive Ameri ...
• Delinquent Taxpayers, Government Employees – Never ...
  / Bumped Up / 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 fo ...
• “Sins of Omission” TONIGHT!
  Few engineering projects have so dramatically changed the course of America as the Hoover Dam. Taming the unpredictable Colorado River paved the way for the current development of at least six cities: Los Angeles, Phoenix, Denver, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City and San Diego. But one of the greatest engi ...
• Homeland Confusion
  Editor’s Note: Catch Larry Johnson on John Batchelor’s syndicated radio show TONIGHT at around 10:05 to 10:35 p.m. ET. You’ll find programming details and “how to listen” instructions at the end of this post.   Spoke Michael Vlahos, author, who makes the discreet and worrying case that the US ...

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

• Israel-Iran War: Not Inevitable
  Iran is not planning a suicidal attack against Israel -- so Israel should stop floating trial war balloons.
• Americans Don't Really Believe There Is Such a Thi ...
  Somehow Americans have missed the new that most Muslims don't hate the United States.
• When Nuclear Terrorism Isn't Terrorism
  What if a state emulated a terrorist group and tried to smuggle nuclear weapons into the U.S.?
• Fahrenheit 451, Park 51, and Mainstreaming Hate
  How did burning the Koran become the equivalent of building an Islamic center near Ground Zero?
• 60-Second Expert: The Political Consequences of St ...
  If the left doesn't come up with a credible and comprehensive alternative to a focus on reducing the deficit, argues FPIF columnist Walden Bello, the far right might eventually fill the policy vacuum.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K Gov ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will be c ...
• President European Commission Advocated World Gove ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International Affa ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Current C ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in the d ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of a G ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare progr ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’s p ...

Al Jazeera

• Japan PM to face party vote
  Naoto Kan faces off against powerful challenger in parliament vote for leadership of the ruling Democratic Party.
• Cuba plans economic overhaul
  Government says planned job cuts are part of designed move to restructure economic model which has previously failed.
• Clinton: Time is ripe for peace
  Seeking concessions from Palestinians and Israelis, Clinton heads to Egypt for second round of direct peace talks.
• Nadal wins to become tennis 'great'
  Rafael Nadal beats Novak Djokovic to win the US Open and complete his collection of grand slam titles.
• UN warns of Somali insurgent threat
  UN wants transitional government to end squabbling as it warns about insurgents becoming a serious security threat.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Health Dividend Seen in Deeper Emission Cuts
  Projecting a reduction in pollutants that cause respiratory illnesses, and the avoidance of health costs linked to heat waves, floods, reduced food production and infectious diseases.
• Shark Victims Rally Behind the Species
  Recruiting the injured to advocate for the survival of their attackers was easier than she expected, an organizer says.
• Citing the Gipper in an Energy Debate
  Ronald Reagan's secretary of state weighs in to defend California's policy on energy and global warming.
• Jockeying Delays Spill Research Money
  Gulf state governors seek a voice in how research money is allocated.
• A Bear Hug? Nissan Ad Raises Eyebrows
  An ad for the Leaf is derided as heavyhanded by some online critics.

Dot Earth News

• Which Comes First – Peak Everything or Peak ...
  Does the human capacity for foresight matter or are we destined to hit environmental walls?
• White House Puts Off Solar Enthusiasts
  Solar enthusiasts seeking panels on the White House roof are gently rebuffed.
• Solar Dreams and Reality at the White House
  Campaigners may have set their sights too high in pushing for rooftop solar panels at the White House.
• Extreme Weather in a Warming World
  Debates over the human element in recent weather calamities are a distraction from climate realities.
• In Earthquakes, Poverty, Population and Motion Mat ...
  Why the New Zealand earthquake, a tad stronger than the Haitian disaster, had a relatively minor impact.

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

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  JORDAN BRINGS THE HEART OF A MARKETER TO CBS-TV: ONE ON ONE: CEO OF PARENT WESTINGHOUSE HAWKS ‘VALUE’ MESSAGE, 1997 Where is the value? The interview was published: From Adage — February 03, 1997 According to Adage, in 1997: âIt remains to be seen if Michael Jordan, chairman-CEO of Westinghouse El ...
• Liberal v Conservative
  I would really prefer not to dignify ignorant comments.  However, because so many people think that going back to Republicans or worse, Teabagers, will solve their problems, I will address this Foster, if that is even his real name.  I know that the address he uses to post his comments is invalid. T ...
• Fighting for the California Dream Act- BAMN
  MAKE THE CALIFORNIA DREAM ACT A REALITY ON OCT. 1, 2010: GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER â DO NOT VETO OUR DREAM THIS YEAR! STATEWIDE DAY OF ACTION MONDAY, SEPT. 27TH …Boycott, March, Rally Defend Public Education! ⢠Stop the Resegregation of Higher Education ⢠End Discriminatory Admissions and Financial ...
• Project Censored’s 2011 Number One Story Goes Inte ...
  The Dollar’s Days are Numbered By Ernesto Carmona Argenpress The U.S. currency has had its days as provost of international transactions and how to maintain currency reserves of countries. There is growing awareness that the world’s central banks are directly propping up the criminal U.S. financial ...
• 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 ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

• The Lineup: Week of September 13-19, 2010
  Our latest editorial package includes an op-ed by Joy Zarembka about a young woman who perished in a Washington car bombing long before 9-11.
• Remembering Ronni
  In 1976, Ronni Karpen Moffitt was killed on her way to work as the car she was riding in succumbed to a car bomb planted by agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
• Surfing in Style through the Great Recession
  American corporate CEOs, an eye-opening new study documents, have discovered a quick fix that almost guarantees good times for the executive set. They kill jobs.
• It's "Groundhog Day" All Over Again in Pyongyang
  The United States is sanctioning North Korea at the worst time -- for itself, as well as them.
• Reining in Executive Pay
  The landmark financial reform legislation passed in July includes reforms advocated for years by those who believe that empowering shareholders will clean up the executive pay mess.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

• Los Angeles Launches Nation’s First Israel D ...
  y Linda Milazzo, PDA Blog ContributorOn April 1, 2010, in a no-holds-barred interview with the Christian Science Monitor, Israeli peacemaker Jonathan Ben Artzi, a PhD candidate at Brown University and nephew to Israeli ...
• Video from BobFest 2010
  Fighting Bob Fest is an annual Chautauqua featuring progressive speakers, networking opportunities, and entertainment. Fighting Bob Fest carries on the tradition of Robert “Fighting Bob” La Follette by providing a forum for progressive ideas on ...
• 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 ...

Marler Blog

• A few days in New Zealand talking food safety
  I will be heading back to the States on Tuesday a 1:00 PM from Auckland and will arrive in Seattle on Tuesday at 11:00 AM (I was going to go straight to Washington D.C., but that has been put off for a week). Prior to my at the NZ Food Safety Authority's national conference, I had the chance to be ...
• 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 09.14.10
  Report: Nissan's COO says next-gen GT-R could be 100% electric Should Tesla be concerned? Riding 2,500 miles to support a 100% green American grid On a "rocket trike," no less. ...
• AutoblogGreen for 09.13.10
  That's more like it: plug-in Prius gets 83 mpg over 3,450 miles More miles and more miles per gallon. GM to be less transparent regarding future Voltec-based vehicles Not secretive, exactly, ...
• 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 ...

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

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• 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

• Will Arizona Give Neo-Nazi Border Vigilantes An Of ...
  Will Arizona give neo-Nazi border vigilantes an official blessing? Crooks & Liars- By David Neiwert September 13, 2010 04:00 PM Those armed neo-Nazis out running vigilante border patrols apparently now want to obtain official status for their group: J.T. Ready, a neo-Nazi who recently began conducti ...
• 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 ...

Solari

• Sugar Addiction: Getting It, Ending It
  This Thursday I will be speaking with Dr. Robert Lustig, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of California - San Francisco’s Benioff Children’s Hospital. Dr. Lustig is a nationally recognized in the field of neuroendocrinology, with an emphasis on the regulation of energy balance b ...
• September DOL-Treasury Hearings on Options For Ret ...
  The U. S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) and the Department of the Treasury today announced a joint public hearing on Sept. 14, 2010, and if necessary on Sept. 15, to hear testimony on several specific issues relating to lifetime income and other arrangements ...
• Do You Have The Balls to Really Change The Food Sy ...
  By Rebecca Thistlewaite You watched Food, Inc. with your mouth aghast. You own a few cookbooks. You go out to that hot new restaurant with the tattooed chef who’s putting on a whole-animal, nose-to-tail pricy special dinner. You bliss out on highfalutin’ pork rinds, braised pigs feet, rustic paté ...
• Global Regulators Agree Tougher Basel III Bank Rul ...
  By Rachel Armstrong New bank capital requirements agreed by global regulators brought relief to Asia’s financial sector on Monday as fears that lenders might be forced into fresh capital raising were put to rest. The new rules, known as Basel III, will require banks to hold top-quality capital tota ...
• 42% of Homeowners in Illinois Say Mortgage Worth M ...
  Homeowners in Illinois are almost evenly divided on whether the value of their home is worth more than their mortgage, and they are not very optimistic about their home values in the near future. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state finds that 47% of homeowners say the value of the ...

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

• Conservative and Tea Party Rallies and Trainings D ...
  Conservative protests in Washington show the breadth of energy and money marshaled to organize the right-wing base, while progressives lag behind.
• Will Obama's Paralysis on Gay Rights Issues Worsen ...
  A handful of outspoken conservatives are tacking left of the White House on gay marriage. It's time for the White House to step up their game.
• Michael Moore: If the Islamic Community Center Isn ...
  Enormous pressure has been put on the Imam to stop his project. We have to turn this thing around. Are we going to let the bullies and thugs win another one?
• Powder Keg? Glenn Beck Groupies, Oath Keepers and ...
  What will happen when thousands of Tea Partiers likely toting offensive signs come into contact with attendees of the annual Black Family Reunion?
• The Xenophobic Right's Weird Reaction to Hollywood ...
  Robert Rodriguez's new film is madcap Mexploitation, but the paranoid crowd sees propaganda for the coming "race war."

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

• Can we reignite the spirit of America?
  Summary:  The newest member of the FM website team, USMC Corporal, registers a protest about the FM website’s bold motto:  “a discussion about ways to reignite the spirit of a nation grown cold.”  Does it still accurately represent the content of the website?  No, it doesn’t.  What’s the new ...
• Most-read posts on the FM website
  These are the articles and series on the FM website with the most hits.  “Most-read” does not mean “most popular.”  Look to the Reference Library on the right side menu bar to see the full range of articles on the FM website. Individual stories: Why has the worst recession since the 1930â²s had s ...
• We’re still blinded by our fetters of the mi ...
  Summary:   As we approach the 3 year birthday for this recession it becomes desperately clear that our leaders understand neither what’s happening nor how to fix it.  A host of quacks have come forth with facile analysis and often painful cures.   The same situation often prevailed in 19th cen ...
• Economics can explain events in America and the wo ...
  Summary:  Where to go to see how economics can explain whatâs happening in the world?  There are no easy answers, but this post provides some tips and leads.  Many of today’s political and geopolitical crises have roots in economics.  In response it seems everybody has become a macroeconomist, ...
• 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

• FTSE 100 executive bonuses close to pre-crisis lev ...
  BBC – Executive bonuses are close to their level before the financial crisis, a survey by business advisory firm Deloitte says. It found that the average bonuses for directors of FTSE 100 firms amounted to 100% of their basic salary, rising to 140% in the top 30 public companies. However, Deloitte s ...
• Afghanistan Blunts Anticorruption Efforts
  Wall Street Journal – President Hamid Karzai’s administration is seeking to limit the role of U.S. and European officials who mentor Afghan anticorruption prosecutors, in moves that Western officials see as the latest attempt to undercut efforts to stamp out the graft that pervades the Afghan govern ...
• Dr David Kelly’s body ‘had obviously been moved’: ...
  Daily Mail – The paramedic who confirmed the death of Government scientist Dr David Kelly has claimed his body had âobviously been movedâ in the minutes after it was found. David Bartlett was one of two medics called after the corpse of the weapons expert was discovered in woods near his Oxfords ...
• Drone strike kills five in N Pakistan
  Daily Times – A suspected United States missile strike on Sunday killed at least five associates of a warlord who is fighting western troops in Afghanistan said the intelligence officials. Read Article
• The Mystery Of Vanishing Honey Bees
  Kpbs- Imagine a world without apples, almonds and broccoli. It takes honey bees to pollinate most of our favorite fruits, nuts and vegetables. But the bees are mysteriously disappearing. Some commercial beekeepers in San Diego have already been affected by this phenomenon. KPBS Environment Reporter ...

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

• Japan, China, Russia and World War 3
  As I have stated in previous articles, I believe that the current and future alliance between Russia, Japan and China is a prelude to the next war; East versus West. According to the Book of Revelations, this global conflict will wipe 1/3rd of the world's population completely off the map and will s ...
• Doomsday warnings of US apocalypse gain ground
  Economists peddling dire warnings that the world’s number one economy is on the brink of collapse, amid high rates of unemployment and a spiraling public deficit, are flourishing here.
• Illuminati Symbolism in former Disney girl Belinda ...
  In previous articles we have covered Illuminati symbolism found in the music industries of America, Asia and Eastern-Europe. This article looks at the symbolism found in one of Latin America’s major pop stars, Belinda. We’ll examine her past role with Disney’s “Cheetah Girls” and her new video entit ...
• US Joint Forces Command: Huge U.S. Debt Could Lead ...
  As I have repeatedly pointed out, the American military and intelligence leaders say that debt is the main national security threat to the U.S. As I noted in February 2009 and again last December, a number of high-level officials and experts are warning of financial crisis-induced violence ... ev ...
• The Illuminati Is Fulfilling Biblical Prophecy – I ...
  Do you know how Doc Marquis came out of his Satanic coven and the Illuminati (Dajjal the Antichrist)? He read the Book of Revelation and realized that he had just read the Plan of the Illuminati! Doc checked to see when the Book of Revelation was written and found it to be late First Century. He alr ...

Andy Worthington

• Event: Eid Without Aafia Siddiqui, includes Andy W ...
  At the end of this month, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist, is due to be sentenced in New York, after a trial earlier this year resulted in her conviction for opening fire on FBI agents and US military personnel in a police station in Ghazni, Afghanistan, where she was being interrogat ...
• Juan Cole and Robert Fisk on 9/11
  As an accompaniment to my article examining the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, “On the 9th Anniversary of 9/11, A Call to Close Guantánamo and to Hold Accountable Those Who Authorized Torture,” I’m cross-posting two other articles that provide important perspectives on the ...
• 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Hurricane Igor Now Strongest Storm—But U.S. Spared ...
  Hurricane Igor is the 2010 Atlantic season's biggest so far, but a lucky low-pressure system should steer the storm away from the U.S. Tropical cyclone - United States - Low-pressure area - hurricane - Earth Sciences
• 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

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

• New Intelligence Report Spotlights ‘Sovereign Citi ...
  Today, we’re releasing a major report on “sovereign citizens,” a radical-right movement that has grown to include as many as 300,000 adherents who believe that the government has no right to tax or impose laws on most Americans. Adherents can be incredibly dangerous, especially to police officers, a ...
• Los Zetas Still Not Seizing Laredo Ranches
  There’s an old jest in the news business: Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story. Some anti-illegal immigrant zealots in the blogosphere are taking the joke to heart. Two-and-a-half weeks after reporting with no factual basis that members of a dangerous Mexican drug gang had seized two A ...
• U.S. Neo-Nazi, Back From Estonia, Bedevils Montana
  The last time Hatewatch caught up with Craig Cobb , the veteran neo-Nazi and creator of the white nationalist website Podblanc, he was about to be kicked out of his adopted home country of Estonia. That happened. Now, it turns out that Estonia’s loss is Montana’s pain. Cobb has surfaced in Big Sky C ...
• Seasoned Lawman Takes on Anti-Muslim Extremism
  Jim Cavanaugh always was a lawman’s lawman — a career official of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) who was in on some of the most celebrated cases of criminal extremists in this country’s recent history. Before retiring this spring after 33 ½ years with the ATF, he worke ...
• 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 ...

change: org.

• Will Nicki Minaj End Homophobia in Hip Hop?
  If you caught the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) last night, you might have wondered who the artist with the pink beehive hairdo was, who rocked a performance during the show's pre-awards ceremony. That would be Nicki Minaj, who in the span of a year has become a budding icon in the hip hop world, an ...
• Lady Gaga's Meat Dress Is a Sustainable Food Faux ...
  Lady Gaga can rock just about anything. A song, namely (as evidenced by her winning Video of the Year for "Bad Romance" at MTV's Video Music Awards), but also an outfit. The Lady's donned latex , geometric shapes , Kermit the Frog stuffed animals — heck, she even looks confident and amazing wearing ...
• Lady Gaga Shocks and Disgusts in Dress Made of Mea ...
  This post is part of a series running throughout New York's Fashion Week (Sept. 9-16, 2010) to highlight the best and the worst of cruelty and compassion toward animals in the fashion industry. During Fashion Week, celebrities should be on their most fashionable behavior. And with the exception of o ...
• Branded: How Pimps Use Tattoos to Mark Women as Pr ...
  Pimps use a number of techniques to control and manipulate the women they sell, many of which leave long-lasting emotional scars. But one control technique which also leaves physical scars is branding. In the underground world of forced and coerced prostitution, pimps mark women and girls as propert ...
• Al Qaeda Represents Islam as Much as the Ku Klux K ...
  Jim Cavanaugh, a recently retired agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), knows a little something about religious extremism and terrorism. As the Southern Poverty Law Center reports , he was involved in the "standoff in Waco, Texas; the five-year hunt for white sup ...

Common Dreams -News

• The Proving Grounds: School “Rheeform” in Washingt ...
  by Leigh Dingerson Washington, D.C., is leading the transformation of urban public education across the country—at least according to Time magazine, which featured D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee on its cover, wearing black and holding a broom. Or perhaps you read it in Newsweek or heard it f ...
• Florida Pastor Calls Off Quran Burning
  by Michael O'Brien A Florida pastor called off plans to burn copies of the Muslim holy book after leaders from all parts of the political spectrum leaned on him to halt his plans. Pastor Terry Jones of Gainesville, Fla., called off plans to burn copies of the Quran on Saturday to mark the ninth anni ...
• US to Arabs: Don't Make Israel a 'Pariah' at IAEA
  by Fredrik Dahl VIENNA - The U.S. envoy to the U.N. atomic watchdog urged Arab states on Monday to withdraw a resolution calling on Israel to sign an anti-nuclear arms treaty, warning it would send a negative signal to Middle East peace talks. Arab countries, backed by Iran, are seeking to build on ...
• NATO Issues New Guidelines for Afghanistan Contrac ...
  The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan has issued new guidelines for awarding contracts in a bid to stem corruption. The rules are designed to streamline and increase oversight for billions of dollars worth of contracts for services ranging from transport to food. Comman ...
• More U.S.-Mexico Border Crime a Myth, Officials Sa ...
  by Lee Rood If you lived hundreds of miles away and listened only to the sound bites leading to passage of Senate Bill 1070, it would be easy to imagine some parts of Arizona as every bit as lawless as fabled Tombstone, circa 1881. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer sounded alarms this spring with talk of mayh ...

Lifehacker

• Give Your Office More Than a Makeover: It's Workpl ...
  You likely spend at least eight hours of every workday in the same spot, whether it's a cubicle, a corner office, or a home office. This week, we're taking a look at our favorite optimizations, fixes, and general improvements for your workplac ...
• Beneath the Loft: A Stylish Apartment Workspace [F ...
  Integrating your workspace into your living space, especially when you're living in a small apartment, is a challenge. Creating a workspace that blends in and creates a sense of spaciousness in a tiny nook is an outright art form. More�� ...
• This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
  Android Notifier Sends Notifications from Your Phone to Your Desktop (Android and Mac/Windows/Linux) If you don't want to deal with your phone while you're at your computer, free app Android Notifier will send all your phone's call, SMS, and battery notifications to your desktop. Ge ...
• Grow a Green Curtain to Cut Down on Cooling Costs ...
  It's a bit late in the year in many locales to be contemplating keeping cool, but this clever planting technique is worth putting on the calendar for next year. Slash your energy bill by planting a shady and edible curtain. More�� ...
• EndlessSubtitles Shifts Subtitle Files to Stay In ...
  If you download subtitle (SRT) files separately from a movie on your hard drive, free web service EndlessSubtitles will help you get them in sync. More��

Water Privatization

• Iran's slide to the bottom
  This is the first article in a two-part report. To get some perspective on the state of the Iranian economy, it may be useful to begin by providing a few benchmarks.
• Privatization of WTH water company
  Indiana American Water (INAW) is going to attend a West Terre Haute Town Board Meeting Monday night. INAW will present the board with the option of West Terre Haute switching to Indiana American Water.
• Iloilo City power is world's most costly
  ILOILO CITY -- Households in this city is charged with the most expensive electricity rates, not only in the country, but also in the whole world, a non-government organization said in a report. read more
• Three Senate Contenders Fight Hard for Florida Sea ...
  This race pits Republican Marco Rubio, former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, against Democratic U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, and the recently declared Independent Charlie Crist, the former Republican who is now Florida’s governor. A Time/CNN poll with a three-point margin of error put ...
• 3 hikers rescued from San Diego-area mountain
  LAKESIDE, CALIF. — Three hikers were rescued from a San Diego-area mountain after authorities used infrared technology at night to locate them. The hikers, all in their mid-20s, called 911 about 8:30 p.m. Sunday and said they were lost without warm clothes, water or food.

Guardian

• Rafael Nadal wins US Open
  • Spaniard beats Novak Djokovic 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 • Nadal has now won all four majors Rafael Nadal beat Novak Djokovic to win his first US Open and join six of the game's greatest players as the owner of all four grand slam titles. But, as with much of this tournament, forecasts and perceptions did ...
• 'Time is ripe' for Middle East peace
  US secretary of state to join Israeli and Palestinian leaders for face to face negotiations in Egypt The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, said the "time is ripe" for Middle East peace as she prepared to join the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas, for face t ...
• Billy Wright murder report due
  Official inquiry into assassination of Ulster loyalist Billy Wright in the Maze prison expected to be highly critical of authorities Northern Ireland's prison authorities are braced today for the findings of a public inquiry into the 1997 murder of Ulster loyalist Billy Wright. The leader of the Loy ...
• Clegg vows new global poverty fight
  Deputy prime minister to tell UN that Britain's aid programme will prioritise women in developing countries • Visit our new global development site The UK government intends to reorientate its entire aid programme to put the lives of women in developing countries at its heart, the deputy prime minis ...
• Digital radio switch target 'too early'
  Government advisory body casts doubt on 2015 date and warns industry not to 'bully' consumers into making switch A government advisory body has cast doubt on the prospects for digital radio switchover by 2015 and warned the industry not to "bully" or "scare" consumers into taking up the new technolo ...

McClatchey

• Will tea party's latest victim be Delaware's Rep. ...
  WASHINGTON — Tuesday, the last big primary election day this year, could be the biggest test yet of tea party influence, as the conservative grass-roots movement appears within striking distance of denying veteran moderate U.S. Rep. Michael Castle the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in Delaware.
• Obama praises TCU's champion all-female rifle team
  WASHINGTON — The five members of Texas Christian University's national championship rifle team were already beside themselves to be on the South Lawn of the White House Monday evening at a celebration of all NCAA sports champions when President Barack Obama gave them the first shout-out.
• U.S. pledges millions to end child labor in cocoa ...
  WASHINGTON — The U.S. government and the chocolate industry pledged $17 million on Monday to help end child labor — some of it forced and dangerous — in two African countries where much of the world's cocoa is grown.
• Mideast peace talks forecast: Cloudy, occasional o ...
  SHARM EL SHEIK, Egypt — Peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians are set to resume Tuesday in Egypt amid rising tensions over Israeli settlement construction, a key issue in the talks and one that's prompted the Palestinian team to threaten to boycott the meetings.
• House hearing to probe Camp Lejeune water contamin ...
  WASHINGTON — Thirteen years ago, a federal scientific agency in Atlanta issued a sweeping report on the potential health effects of 30 years' worth of contaminated water at the big Marine base at Camp Lejeune, N.C.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• Nulear waste goes the hole way
  First week back from holidays last week, and straight down a big hole in the ground at the BBC's behest. Onkalo - no ordinary hole... It's no ordinary hole. It's where Finland will store all of the high-level waste from its nuclear power programme, if things go according to plan. I last visi ...
• 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 ...

The Wonk Room

• Senate To Hold Vote On Defense Measure Next Week: ...
  Earlier tonight, the Washington Blade’s Chris Johnson reported that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will in fact schedule a vote on the Defense Authorization Bill for the week of September 20th, ending speculation that the Senate would eschew the measure to better distinguish themselves fro ...
• Florida’s Incoming Republican Speaker Casts ...
  Florida’s Republican gubernatorial nominee Rick Scott — when he’s not spending an inordinate amount of time discussing policies over which he’d have no control as governor — likes to tout his economic growth plan, which involves large tax cuts and supposedly large spending reductions. “You reduce e ...
• Bush’s Nuclear Administrator Calls Out Corker On N ...
  Sen. Bob Corker has been threatening to vote against the New START treaty unless he gets massive additional funding for a nuclear facility in Tennessee. What makes this so absurd is not only that the Administration has already committed itself to building the facility, but that Corker’s demands for ...
• ‘Young Gun’ Paul Ryan Breaks With Boeh ...
  Yesterday, House Minority Leader John Boehner (D-OH) “opened the door to a compromise” on the Bush-era tax cuts on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday, saying “if the only option I have is to vote for some” tax reductions for families earning less than $250,000, “I’ll vote for them.” But this afternoon, du ...
• Ryan: Cutting Taxpayer Subsidies To Oil And Gas Co ...
  In order to pay for its proposed $50 billion infrastructure investment, the Obama administration wants to cut some of the subsidies that the federal government gives to oil and gas companies. One subsidy in particular, the Section 199 manufacturing credit, would be denied to the oil and gas sector. ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Standing Up to the Financializers (Important Artic ...
  Once again, CounterPunch offers excellent analysis. (I've paid for their newsletter on occasion, but I can't right now.) Mark Weisbrot: " Hungary Defies IMF and European Authorities " This is the great fear among the defenders of European “pro-cyclical” policies – that is, policies that weaken the ...
• Hard to Get Excited by the Census Controversy
  So yeah, anti-harper (AKA "normal, decent people") have been typing a lot about stephen harper's bone-headed attack on the Census. But I'm having a hard time getting excited about this story. Not because I agree with harper and his bimbo partner-in-stupidity, Maxime Bernier on the subject. Way back ...
• So That's What "Rope-a-Dope" Meant
• Jon Lajoie - Two Girls One Cup
  A word of explanation. I think I first encountered Jon Lajoie with his song about smoking marijuana, "High as Fuck." Somebody else hepped me to "Sunday Afternoon." So one day i decided to go through his YouTube videos and I found something called "Two Girls, One Cup" and I wondered what the hell tha ...
• Right-wingers being called "stupid"
  So the Toronto Sun has a columnist called Joe Wormington (or something like that). Recently, all the "leftists" on Toronto City Council expressed sentiments to the effect that if the absolute moron Rob Ford won the race for Mayor that they'd simply block his every move. There was also some talk abou ...

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

• Just Because You Make Money, It Doesn't Mean You L ...
  When talking about the importance of Section 230 safe harbors, one thing I've seen multiple people declare is that if a site earns money directly from content on a site, such safe harbors no longer apply. However, a recent court ruling points out this is simply not true. The case involved New Jers ...
• Why Does Everyone Underestimate Netflix?
  Following the news that Blockbuster was about to declare bankruptcy, we had a nice discussion here about all the big companies that were supposed to kill Netflix, but didn't . With a bit of a spin on that idea, James Ledbetter, over at Slate, recently wondered why so many analysts and commentators ...
• Microsoft Backs Down: Will No Longer Help Russian ...
  Despite evidence this has been going on for years , it apparently took a NY Times article calling Microsoft out for the company to officially change its policies on assisting the Russian government in cases involving supposedly unauthorized copies of Microsoft software : Microsoft announced on M ...
• WordPress Trademark Transfered From For-Profit Com ...
  We recently wrote about Twitter's smart and open trademark policy , in that it readily and freely licenses its trademark to many companies, with only a few small exceptions. It looks like blog provider WordPress is doing its own interesting trademark move as well. The company recently announced th ...
• Bob Marley's Work Declared 'Work For Hire,' Family ...
  Reuters is reporting on the fact that Bob Marley's family has lost a case where they attempted to get control over certain rights concerning his most famous songs. I haven't yet seen the actual ruling (anyone have it?), and the Reuters writeup is a bit confusing at points, but the point that caught ...

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

• An Extraordinary International Dialogue with Lyndo ...
  Interview with Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, September 10, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 35
• FDR's Emergency Measures: The First Hundred Days
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, September 10, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 35
• A Leaf from FDR's Book: And It Will Be Good
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, September 10, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 35
• The Economic Past Is Now Behind Us! Money or Credi ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, September 10, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 35
• Rachel Brown To Take On Barney Frank in Debate
  EIR News Service press release.

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

• Prince Charles is Partying and TreeHugger was Ther ...
  All Images by B. Alter: the Royal Vegetable Garden Prince Charles is having a great big green party and TreeHugger was there; along with a few thousand others, to be honest. HRH was holding it in the garden of his house, Clarence House and two neighbouring magnificent historic houses. It w ...
• RAN Protests Spruce Mine at EPA HQ
  photo via RAN Rainforest Action Network is working to bring attention to largest ever proposed mountaintop removal site--the Spring mine in Blair, West Virginia. Activists showed up at EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C and promptly dumped 1,000 pounds of Appalachian dirt on the sidewalk. RAN's ...
• Humidifier and Air Purifier Powered by... Your Cat ...
  Images via Tuvie Well here's one very interesting (and sketchy way) to charge your air purifier. Design student Yuan Gu must have a really hyperactive cat to dream up the Wool Ball Hybrid Humidifier. To make a product that is both "eco friendly and energy saving," Gu decided it would be great i ...
• Ryanair Boss: Scientists Have "Nearly Always Been ...
  Image credit: Flight.org Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary may come close to rivaling arch-climate skeptic Lord Monckton when it comes to craziness. Having ranted and raved about eco-loonies in the past , he's now laying firmly into the scientific community—labeling man-made climate change as "horse ...
• 10 Strange New Frog Species (Slideshow)
  Image credit: Paul Hamilton / RAEI Around the world, frogs are in peril. Threatened by pollution and habitat loss, changing climates and epidemic disease, the outlook for many species is dire—with conservationists locked in a fatal race to uncover the key to frog survival. Every year, howeve ...

Biosingularity

• Novel sensing mechanism discovered in dendritic ce ...
  Dendritic cells are the grand sentinels of the immune system, standing guard 24/7 to detect foreign invaders such as viruses and bacteria, and bring news of the invasion to other immune cells to marshal an attack. These sentinels, however, nearly always fail to respond adequately to HIV, the virus c ...
• New Research Finds Evidence of Charitable Behavior ...
  Researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard and from Boston University have discovered that charitable behavior exists in one of the most microscopic forms of life—bacteria.  Their findings appear in the current issue of Nature. In studying the development of ...
• Exercise, calorie restrictions can rejuvenate olde ...
  Harvard researchers have uncovered a mechanism in mice through which caloric restriction and exercise delay some of the debilitating effects of aging by rejuvenating the connections between nerves and the muscles that they control. The research, published online by the journal Proceedings of the Nat ...
• Researchers discover that gut bacteria affect mult ...
  Biologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have demonstrated a connection between multiple sclerosis (MS)—an autoimmune disorder that affects the brain and spinal cord—and gut bacteria. The work—led by Sarkis K. Mazmanian, an assistant professor of biology at Caltech, and postdoc ...
• HIV prevention science scores a victory — th ...
  Today at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, members of the International Rectal Microbicide Advocates (IRMA) and thousands of other HIV advocates and scientists cheered a long-awaited, much anticipated success in the quest for new HIV prevention technologies. Researchers ann ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

• Eco-terrorism hits Maryland: 'Inconvenient Terrori ...
  Inconvenient terrorist James Lee who was shot and killed by a SWAT team in the Discovery Channel Building in Silver Spring, Maryland, is the latest of a long line of eco-terrorists
• How to save the Chesapeake Bay: Oysters vs. Regula ...
  Oysters kept the Bay clean in the past, but the EPA is ignoring this proven solution in favor of big government regulations.
• New ethanol policy poses heavy cost for consumers
  E15 ethanol mandates would bring huge benefits for ethanol producers at the expense of the rest of us.
• New coal mine approved in Utah
  In a victory for the nation̢۪s beleaguered resources industry, Utah officials have approved a permit for a coal mine in their state.
• EPA set to crack down on farm dust
  Agency believes dust is a pollutant and wants to impose stringent limitations on the amount of dust farmers are allowed to kick up while plying their trade.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Energy Ministry proposes lower taxes on LUKoil's C ...
  Russia's Energy Ministry has proposed that the government lowers taxes on oil from the northern sector of the Caspian Sea being developed by LUKoil, the country's largest private oil company, Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said on Tuesday.
• Imam injured in car explosion in Russian North Cau ...
  The imam of Nazran mosque in the North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia has been severely injured in a car explosion, a local investigative committee spokesman said on Tuesday.
• Three Sukhoi aircraft workers die mysteriously in ...
  Three Russians working for Sukhoi aircraft holding in Indonesia have died under unexplained circumstances, the head of the Russian embassy's consular department said on Tuesday.
• Bill allows release of terminally ill from pre-tri ...
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has introduced to the Duma a draft amendment allowing the release of terminally ill suspects from pre-trial detention centers, following a series of highly-publicized pre-trial prison deaths in Moscow, a Russian business daily said on Tuesday.
• Spain's Nadal wins 2010 U.S. Open; completes caree ...
  World No. 1 Rafael Nadal of Spain has won his first ever U.S. Open tennis tournament to become the seventh man in history to complete the career Grand Slam.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Sirius XM-5 satellite delivered to Baikonur for Oc ...
  A giant An-124 Ruslan cargo plane has landed at the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan with a telecommunications satellite that will be launched for Sirius XM radio in mid-October.
• Russian Progress craft docks with International Sp ...
  The Progress M-07M cargo spacecraft docked as planned with the International Space Station, two days after it was launched from Kazakhstan.
• Russian space freighter blasts off for ISS
  Russia's Progress M-07M cargo spacecraft on Friday took off from the Baikonur space center for the International Space Station (ISS), mission control said.
• Russia to test unmanned lander for Mars moon missi ...
  Russian scientists are due to carry out tests of an unmanned lander that will be used in a 2011 mission to Phobos, one of the moons of Mars.
• Russian 'Silicon Valley'

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

• Global Small Farmers Denounce Gates Foundation Pur ...
  The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation exerts a hegemonic influence on global agricultural development policy. The Foundation channels hundreds of millions of dollars into projects that encourage peasants and farmers to use Monsanto's genetically-engineered (GE) seed and agrochemicals. In August the Bi ...
• Organic Can Feed the World
  You probably buy organic food because you believe it's better for your health and the environment but you also may have heard criticism that "organic cannot feed the world." Click here to read this article
• How Connecticut Schools are Dealing with a Ban on ...
  Next time a grassy schoolyard in Connecticut starts going bald from an infestation of grubs or billbugs, or crabgrass starts to supplant the turf and clover, groundskeepers will have to put some new techniques to work to combat the problems. Click here to read this article
• How to Stem a Global Food Crisis? Store More Water
  The key to averting a global food crisis may simply be a matter of storing more water, according to a new report released yesterday at World Water Week in Stockholm. Click here to read this article
• Interest Growing in Organic Lawn Care
  Increasing numbers of consumers are turning to organic methods to maintain their lawns, according to a 2008 survey by the National Gardening Association. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

• Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes X
  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.1m4g3 ...
• Rosas de colores parte II (10 fotografías gratis)
  El tiempo pasa muy rápido y ya tenemos aquí la segunda parte de nuestra serie 'Rosas de colores'. No se pierda las próximas entregas y forme su colección completa de estas bellísimas flores perfumadas. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre c ...
• Barcos, yates y veleros parte IV (10 fotos inolvid ...
  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 ...
• Playas paradisiacas parte V (10 paraísos naturales ...
  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 ...
• 6 Imágenes de África del Sur o South Africa
  Anteriormente, le ofrecí fotos de países como México, Estados Unidos, Canadá y Alemania. En esta ocasión, le tengo absolutamente gratis, 6 imágenes de África del Sur. Espero que le gusten y espero -como siempre- sus comentarios. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las foto ...

Center for a Livable Future

• NIAID responds to CLF on antibiotic resistance tes ...
  The principal deputy director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Hugh Auchincloss, notes “success against antimicrobial resistance will require a multifaceted approach that includes increased surveillance, more judicious use of antimicrobial drugs, and increase ...
• 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 ...

Norwegianity

• & Clusterfuck and Taibbi shall lead us
  As you might have guested from the title of this post, it’s time to consult some bloggers. What’s wrong with us: Today, no one present in the political arena appears to have a clue and, lacking clues, any ability to articulate the terms of what we face. Both major parties are hostage to a peculiar [ ...
• 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 ...

Public News Service

• AZ Coalition Focuses on Kids With Parents in Priso ...
  AZ Coalition Focuses on Kids With Parents in Prison Phoenix, AZ – A new statewide coalition is being formed to advocate for the 175-thousand Arizona children who are affected by incarcerated parents. A major emphasis will be on recruiting volunteer mentors. Comments from Dr. Wilson Goode (GOOD), nat ...
• AZ Abuse Shelter Challenged by State Cuts
  AZ Abuse Shelter Challenged by State Cuts Phoenix, AZ – Continuing cuts in state funding have prompted the nation’s largest domestic violence shelter to reduce available beds and put off expansion plans. However, the Phoenix-based Sojourner Center is still taking in 95-percent of women and children ...
• AZ Immigration Law Heading to Supreme Court - (No, ...
  AZ Immigration Law Heading to Supreme Court - (No, Not That One...) Phoenix - Another Arizona immigration law will be coming before the U.S. Supreme Court soon. At issue is whether the state can require employers to use the federal electronic employment eligibility verification system. So far, most ...
• AZ Homeless Teens Come Out of Shells With Drama Tr ...
  AZ Homeless Teens Come Out of Shells With Drama Training Phoenix, AZ – Dozens of Arizona homeless teenagers are being taught the basics of acting, improvisation and performance in a series of workshops put on by a Phoenix-based theater group. The workshops are credited with boosting the self-confide ...
• Some Carpool Lanes Filling up with Single Drivers
  Some Carpool Lanes Filling up with Single Drivers Phoenix, AZ - Just before the busy Labor Day holiday driving period, California this week upgraded its laws, allowing more single-driver cars in high-occupancy vehicle (HOV), or carpool, lanes. That's to include those driving the next generation of l ...

My Care2 Picks

• There's a lot of money in institutionalized misogy ...
  Women of childbearing age have frequently been denied healthcare coverage if they are not sterilized and have delivered a child by c-section in the past. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• TIMELINE: Nine months of the right's anti-Muslim b ...
  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. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• An Al-Quds Day Letter to Tony Blair
  Journalist, human rights activist and broadcaster, Lauren Booth writes a scathing, yet quite funny letter to her brother-in-law, Tony Blair. Rather than writing to him privately, as a true activist has decided to share her letter with the world. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! � ...
• Oil Spill Truth: Tarballs Harming Baby Turtle Nest ...
  The clean up efforts are so bad that the tarballs beside a turtles nest have not yet been cleaned. It is enormous, out of control, and impossible to clean up, and it is outrageous that we are being told that the problem is solved. Submitted by Care For All to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comme ...
• AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: BIO-ACCUMULATION of ...
  Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)… include mutagens and probable carcinogens… these chemicals accumulate for years in invertebrates. The Gulf provides about two-thirds of the oysters in the United States and is a major fishery for shrimp and crab. Submitted by Care For All to Health & Wellness ...

Angry Indian News

• Hipocresía de Occidente, la expulsión de minorías: ...
  La Jornada en Internet:México, DF. El líder cubano Fidel Castro criticó en una de sus “Reflexiones” titulada “La infinita hipocresía de Occidente” la política francesa contra las deportaciones de... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• American Civil Liberties Union : Court Ignores Ame ...
  Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union � Court Ignores America's Grim History of Racial Discrimination: "It would seem, at least according to a recent federal court... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Don't Let the Military's Deadly "Pain Ray" Machine ...
  Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union � Don't Let the Military's Deadly "Pain Ray" Machine Invade the L.A. County Jail: "Los Angeles County Jail has just installed an... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• U.S.-Saudi Arms Deal Moves Ahead - WSJ.com
  U.S.-Saudi Arms Deal Moves Ahead - WSJ.com: "The administration plans to tout the $60 billion package as a major job creator—supporting at least 75,000 jobs, according to company estimates—and sees... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• 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...]]

Farm Wars

• Republic Defiance Radio Hits the Airwaves!
  Tonight we will be discussing several news topics and providing special commentary on the battle between liberty and tyranny. Our special guests tonight will be Marti Oakley and Barbara Peterson of the Truth Squad Radio Show.
• The New World Order has Americans In the Crosshair ...
  Listen to: I am a New World Order Minion!
• 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 [...] ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - Todd ...
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• Sex, death, and the noble American toad - Scott Bo ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and expand ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? - La ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Arctic fox joins polar bear on new list of Arctic ...
  ShareThis Arctic fox joins polar bear on new list of Arctic species in danger of extinction 14 Sep 2010 Polar bears are not the only species in danger from global warming, a new report has warned. The animals have become an icon of the environmental movement, as their numbers reduce with the melting ...
• MoD probes claim that soldiers are smuggling heroi ...
  ShareThis MoD probes claim that soldiers are smuggling heroin from Afghanistan 12 Sep 2010 Soldiers returning from Afghanistan are being subjected to rigorous security checks amid claims that some are involved in heroin trafficking. The Ministry of Defence confirmed last night that military police w ...
• Five killed in central Iraq violence
  ShareThis Five killed in central Iraq violence 12 Sep 2010�Bomb attacks and firefights on Sunday in the restive central Iraqi province of Diyala killed five people, including two soldiers and a policeman, security officials said. One Iraqi soldier and a policeman were killed in a gunfight with insur ...
• Hamden Muslim family's home vandalized
  ShareThis Hamden Muslim family's home vandalized 12 Sep 2010 A prominent member of the Muslim community in Southern Connecticut says his home was vandalized over the weekend. Dr. Abdul-Majid Karim Hasan and his wife have lived on Dest Street for over 20 years. They�were stunned to see the graffiti o ...
• Suspected bomber arrested
  ShareThis Suspected bomber arrested --Motive, identity of suspected bomber remain unknown 10 Sep 2010 Police in Copenhagen have arrested a man in connection with what appears to be a botched bombing. The man was apprehended shortly after a minor explosion at about 1:30pm in the bathroom of Hotel Jør ...

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

• Crossing into Israel: ‘two highly-charged na ...
  Yesterday my wife and I left Jordan and entered�Israel�at the southern border crossing, Aqaba-Eilat. We were in the Israeli baggage inspection hall when my wife said, “Who’s that handsome guy?” On the wall was a very large black-and-white photograph from the 1940s of a young Israeli with a strong ch ...
• Hillel prepares from another year of BDS on campus
  From the JTA:As Daniel Sieradski pointed out on twitter, that is a rather awkward analogy between vampires and Palestinians towards the end of the video.
• Peretz issues 50 percent apology for latest anti-M ...
  Editor-in-chief Martin Peretz, who has become the crazy uncle in The New Republic's attic, says he is sorry for half of his most recent anti-Muslim tirade.� He has been under great pressure, from Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times and from an eloquent coalition of students at Brandeis, his alma ...
• Remembering Gaza
  The unending death-news maelstrom assaults the reader with what seems like daily frequency. Our digital distance simultaneously transports us to and shields us from the bedlam. We are assaulted virtually – our empathy enables that – but experience none of the flechette-mangled corpsifying assault ...
• Notes on international law and the right of return
  My thanks to Ahmed Moor for his continuing efforts to advance the search for political solutions in Israel-Palestine, and I offer my apologies for my extended absence from the discussion. I hope to respond to his latest proposals in the near future, but first I'll answer a question that Adam Horowit ...

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

• Prince Charles is Partying and TreeHugger was Ther ...
  All Images by B. Alter: the Royal Vegetable Garden Prince Charles is having a great big green party and TreeHugger was there; along with a few thousand others, to be honest. HRH was holding it in the garden of his house, Clarence House and two neighbouring magnificent historic houses. It w ...
• RAN Protests Spruce Mine at EPA HQ
  photo via RAN Rainforest Action Network is working to bring attention to largest ever proposed mountaintop removal site--the Spring mine in Blair, West Virginia. Activists showed up at EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C and promptly dumped 1,000 pounds of Appalachian dirt on the sidewalk. RAN's ...
• Humidifier and Air Purifier Powered by... Your Cat ...
  Images via Tuvie Well here's one very interesting (and sketchy way) to charge your air purifier. Design student Yuan Gu must have a really hyperactive cat to dream up the Wool Ball Hybrid Humidifier. To make a product that is both "eco friendly and energy saving," Gu decided it would be great i ...
• Ryanair Boss: Scientists Have "Nearly Always Been ...
  Image credit: Flight.org Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary may come close to rivaling arch-climate skeptic Lord Monckton when it comes to craziness. Having ranted and raved about eco-loonies in the past , he's now laying firmly into the scientific community—labeling man-made climate change as "horse ...
• 10 Strange New Frog Species (Slideshow)
  Image credit: Paul Hamilton / RAEI Around the world, frogs are in peril. Threatened by pollution and habitat loss, changing climates and epidemic disease, the outlook for many species is dire—with conservationists locked in a fatal race to uncover the key to frog survival. Every year, howeve ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Activist monks call for election boycott
  Key players in the September 2007 uprising mark three years since the protests with calls for a nationwide boycott of the 7 November polls
• Democratic Party welcomes independents
  Granddaughter of former head of state during Japan's occupation of Burma one of eight candidates to join forces with Democratic Party
• NLD elders needing medical treatment
  Win Tin hospitalised in Rangoon after breathing difficulties while deputy NLD leader Tin Oo may fly to Singapore for eye treatment
• 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

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Arctic fox joins polar bear on new list of Arctic ...
  Polar bears are not the only species in danger from global warming, a new report has warned.
• Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary denies man-made clima ...
  Controversial airline chief denies the existence of man-made climate change, striking a sour note with environmental campaigners.
• Prince Charles takes Royal Train on eco-tour of Br ...
  The Prince of Wales embarks on a tour of Britain today to promote his sustainable living initiative START.
• Temperature records to be made public
  Climate scientists are to publish the largest ever collection of temperature records, dating back more than a hundred years, in an attempt to provide a more accurate picture of climate change.
• A cunning bid to shore up the ruins of the IPCC
  The Inter-Academy report into the IPCC, led by Rajendra Pachauri, tiptoes around a mighty elephant in the room, argues Christopher Booker.

National Geographic | Environment

• Hurricane Igor Now Strongest Storm—But U.S. Spared ...
  Hurricane Igor is the 2010 Atlantic season's biggest so far, but a lucky low-pressure system should steer the storm away from the U.S. Tropical cyclone - United States - Low-pressure area - hurricane - Earth Sciences
• 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

Jurist - Legal Research

• Former IBM executive sentenced to 6 months in Gall ...
  [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [corporate website] sentenced former IBM [corproate website] senior vice president Robert Moffat to six months in prison Monday and ordered him to pay a $50,000 fine for his role in the largest insider trading trading c ...
• Senate begins impeachment trial of federal judge
  [JURIST] The US Senate Impeachment Trial Committee [official website] began hearing arguments Monday in the case against federal judge Thomas Porteous who is charged with perjury and accepting bribes from lawyers while a judge in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana [official ...
• ICJ begins hearing on jurisdiction over Georgia-Ru ...
  [JURIST] Representatives from Russia and Georgia appeared before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) [official website] on Monday for the beginning of a hearing to determine whether the court has jurisdiction to hear allegations that Russia committed human rights abuses following the secession ...
• FBI report shows decrease in US violent crime for ...
  [JURIST] Violent crime in the US dropped for the third year in a row, according to the annual crime statistics for 2009 [press release], released Monday by the FBI. The FBI's Crime in the United States, 2009 [text] report showed a total 5.3 percent decrease in violent crimes between 2008 and 2009 to ...
• Iran judge releases journalist charged with 'warri ...
  [JURIST] A judge from Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Iran [GlobaLex backgrounder] on Sunday released [CHRR report] from prison Shiva Nazar Ahari, a journalist arrested following the 2009 presidential election [JURIST news archive], after she posted bail of USD $500,000, according to a local ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• How Tweet It Is!
  As Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell introduces legislation urging an extension of all tax cuts and Reps. Pence and Cantor insist that the House vote on keeping all or none of them, the House minority leader, John Boehner, wants the White House to know that his party is... Attn @ presssec : Re ...
• Will Republicans Nominate an Unelectable Candidate ...
  Tomorrow marks the end of a particularly brutal primary season for Senate Republicans, and another upset is in the making: a Public Policy Poll released this weekend shows insurgent Christine O'Donnell tied within the margin of error with party-backed Rep. Mike Castle. O'Donnell was recently endorse ...
• Boehner's Unforced Blunder
  No two ways about it: the potential next speaker of the House, John Boehner, handed the Democrats a gift when he intimated that he would be open to voting for a bill that preserved the Bush tax cuts only for those making $250,000 or less. Boehner quickly tried to corral the horse and put it back in ...
• Newt Gingrich Is So Off, He's Not Even Wrong
  Newt Gingrich is so off about President Obama, he's not even wrong. The former House Speaker and potential 2012 candidate said the President exhibits "Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior" because he has consciously adopted the East African socialism of his father, Barack Obama, Sr., and by a bit of wizar ...
• 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 ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] Success! AntiCANSEC arms-bazaar campaign - ...
• [COAT] Raging Grans video: CANSEC-NO CANSEX-YES!&q ...
• [COAT] Arms Bazaar in Ottawa Citizen, letters-to-e ...
• [COAT] Oppose the CANSEC War Machine! - coat
• [COAT] Letters-to-Editor needed re:CANSEC weapons ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | Ass ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious blast ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms tre ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's energy ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans closed ...

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

• In praise of dissent
  Want to spur innovation, creativity and social justice? Get to know a dissenter. Photo: Fancy Photography (woman); istockphoto.com/dgilder (man) Mabel Yu didn’t trust the numbers. It was 2006 and Yu was an analyst with The Vanguard Group, a financial firm based in Malvern, Pennsyl ...
• The dissent of man
  A brief history of some of the world's great dissenters. Henry David Thoreau, author In 1846, Henry David Thoreau spent a night in jail for refusing to pay his poll tax. He refused to pay because he objected to the U.S. government’s support of slavery. His night in a cell in Conco ...
• Peace week
  By: PeaceCorso Go! It’s a fabulous idea and the resources ought to be outstanding. More information can be found here . For spiritual nourishment, please visit www.susancorso.com Related Reading The GreenHouse pr ...
• An ode to optimism
  “What does ‘ode’ mean?” my Norwegian friend asked as we enjoyed a beer on a spring afternoon in the harbor of Oslo, at the fjord from which the Vikings ruled the seas some 1,200 years ago. “It means ‘tribute’ or ‘song of praise,’” I replied. “Ah,” he said. “We have exactly ...
• Forests are not for free
  Workshop participants in Brazil learn from Forest Trends how to add value to their ecosystem. Photo: Rebecca Vonada Why should we pay for the services of, say, a cellphone provider, but not those of a rainforest? Michael Jenkins, an ex-forest ranger in Haiti and Brazil, didn't se ...

OpEd News

• OCTOPUS
  how do we survive global warming when our world is designed to completely confuse, disorient, lead us astray. Be aware, be aware. It is psychological warfare against the least of us
• The Courtroom's Little Lie: It's About The Whole T ...
  After you spend a little time in the courtroom, you realize that the ritual of having the witnesses swear to tell the truth is too often more about form than substance. In this win-lose arena, we make the stakes so high that people often rationalize that telling a little white lie in their case is l ...
• Is Anyone Dead on Your Highway?
  To know and not to do is not to know
• The Terrorism of Temper Tantrums: Where's the Tou ...
  Temper Tantrums, unchecked by outside adults, not only define rightwing politics, but challenge assumptions "all men are equal" or the majority rules. Tantrums, by definition, don't respect voting or traditions, only paranoid hysteria.
• East Jerusalem Palestinians Denied Basic Rights
  East Jerusalem Palestinians shamelessly oppressed

Switchboard

• Gulf research funding fight; Rebuilding after Cope ...
  The New York Times quoted Lisa Suatoni in a piece discussing the delay in oil spill research funding due to political fights…  Reuter s circulated a blog post by Jake Schmidt on the Cancun climate negotiation session (COP16) through their AlertNet site. In the blog Jake outlined three ...
• Why Am I Paying to Promote Coal to School Children ...
  While recently searching on the internet for information about my favorite dirty fuel – coal – I came across the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (“DCEO’s”) Coal Calendar competition .  For the past 22 years, DCEO has held a competition for students in the fifth ...
• Protecting the Clean Air Act: Getting the jobs and ...
  With stalled clean energy legislation in DC, opponents of environmental protection have shifted their focus away from pro-active legislation toward dismantling existing environmental protection laws. Against the Supreme Court’s mandate, industry-funded politicians and the lobbyists tha ...
• Gulf Coast Disaster - Monday, September 13
  Day 147 Highlights in this issue - BP may start final kill sooner than planned - Blowout preventer arrives at NASA facility - Where’s the oil? At the bottom of the sea - Credibility of BP oil spill study challenged - Rig workers had chance to regain control before explosion - Claims c ...
• NRDC petitions EPA to apply hazardous waste rules ...
  NRDC has petitioned  the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the toxic wastes associated with the exploration, development and production of oil and gas under the hazardous waste provisions of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).  RCRA is our principal feder ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• How Did the Sri Lankan Government Beat the LTTE?
  Lionel Beehner and Niels Smith duel on reasons for the defeat of the Tamil Tigers. Beehner: It was brute military force, not political dialogue or population control, which ended its brutal decades-long war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), or Tamil Tigers, a separatist group perhap ...
• Your Moment of Bobo
  I would like to note that the following two sentences appeared consecutively in David Brooks’ most recent column (my emphasis): By contrast, in 2007, 58 percent of male Harvard graduates and 43 percent of female graduates went into finance and consulting. The shift away from commercial values has b ...
• Easy Answers To Pretensiouly Inane Questions
  Shorter verbatim Camille Paglia*: “However, the main point is that the young Madonna was on fire. She was indeed the imperious Marlene Dietrichâs true heir. For Gaga, sex is mainly decor and surface; sheâs like a laminated piece of ersatz rococo furniture. Alarmingly, Generation Gaga canât t ...
• Finally, A Fresh Idea!
  In a quite remarkable coup, The Politico has managed to anchor its new opinion section with some fresh, underexposed faces, presented in a highly original format in a very unusual “contrarian moderate liberal vs. movement conservative hack” configuration. I thought I’d suggest some additional pai ...
• Deep Thought
  The Dallas Cowboys are an extremely disciplined, well-coached team that will at a minimum play for a conference championship. And there ain’t no pretty girls in France. It seems worth quoting this: The Cowboys remind me of the Kardashians in that their strongest talent is a relentless ability to r ...

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

• Marine, Hydrokinetic Tech Gets Funding
  The U.S. Department of Energy is pouring $37 million into investments in emerging marine and hydrokinetic technologies for hydro power as an alternative to dams.
• San Diego Area Gets Solar Power Boost
  The California Public Utility Commission has authorized a five-year program aimed at building up to 100 MW of solar facilities in the range of up to 5 MW each.
• When Whole Foods & Green Tech Collide
  Natural products retailer Whole Foods is known for being green to its core, including in the use of green technology. We take a look at their tech practices.
• Nature Guides New Solar Cell Technology
  MIT researchers are using nanotech to develop a system that, just like plants, can harvest light, store energy and constantly regenerate itself.
• California TV Energy Efficiency Kicks In
  New regulations around energy efficiency with regards to new televisions has finally gone into effect in California.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Way cleared for foreign Toyota owners to sue
  A federal judge has granted permission for millions of Toyota owners in foreign countries to file a separate consolidated complaint against Toyota Motor Corp. over claims associated with the unintended acceleration recalls.
• 7th Circuit allows use of mandatory bar dues for p ...
  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit ruled that the State Bar of Wisconsin didn't violate members' First Amendment rights by using mandatory dues for a public image campaign, but it also held that compulsory dues spending must be germane to the state bar's purposes.
• Research suggest bias accounts for gender pay gap ...
  Lower productivity is one theory as to why women partners at law firms earn less on average than their male counterparts. But it's not true, according to new research.
• Fired law professor gets hearing, but it confirms ...
  A former professor who convinced a federal court that she was denied a tenure hearing before she was fired has nevertheless lost her bid to reclaim her old job.
• LAW SCHOOL REPORT
  Somewhere between fusty law treatises and Twitter lie law blogs, many of them written by the top legal scholars in the country. Just five years ago, the notion of law professors delivering quick and cogent commentary to the masses was a novel concept. Today, it is rare for law schools not to have at ...

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

• The Security Council Condemns Suicide Car Bombing ...
  The Security Council on Friday strongly condemned the suicide car bombing that occurred in the Russian city of Vladikavkaz on 9 September, which reportedly killed at least a dozen people and wounded more than 140.
• NASA Challenges Students to Develop and Prepare a ...
  The top four DIME teams will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to in March to conduct their experiments, review the results with NASA personnel and tour Glenn's facilities. All DIME participants visiting NASA must be U.S. citizens.
• Dramatic Discovery about Children's Inability to E ...
  Annually, the United States Fire Administration reports that 3,000 to 5,000 people die in fires. This figure includes 800 children, nine and younger, and 1,200 seniors.
• Boxer, Fiorina Challenged; Independent Green Calls ...
  Boxer, Fiorina challenged; independent Green candidate calls for repeal of federal laws criminalizing marijuana, OK of Prop 19
• Latest Developments in Pakistan's Flooding Disaste ...
  The United States has responded immediately and generously to Pakistan's call for assistance following the tragic and devastating floods that began July 29.

environment 360

• Deep in Ecuador’s Rainforest, A Plan to Forego an ...
  Ecuador's Yasuni National Park is one of the most biodiverse places on Earth and is home to remote Indian tribes. It also sits atop a billion barrels of oil. Now, Ecuador and the United Nations are forging an ambitious plan to walk away from drilling in the park in exchange for payments from the int ...
• 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. ...
• Decline in Bee Pollination
  The pollination of plants and flowers by bees appears to be declining, a phenomenon that is likely linked to a drop in overall bee numbers as well as a mismatch in bee hibernation and plant flowering that seems to be linked to climate change, according to a new study. James Thomson, a University of ...
• German Chancellor Defends Decision to Extend Life ...
  Noting that it will take time to develop alternative energy sources, the German government has agreed to extend the operating life of the nation’s 17 nuclear plants. AFP/Getty Images Angela Merkel The decision, which will extend the life of Germany’s nuclear facilities an average of 12 years, was c ...
• Reserves of Forest Carbon May Be Widely Overestima ...
  The amount of carbon stored in the world’s tropical forests varies widely according to underlying geology and other factors, and current estimates of forest carbon reserves may be too high , according to a new study. A research team from the Carnegie Institution for Science used satellite mapping, l ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

• VP to voters: take bribes as gift from heaven
  In an unusual twist of political thinking, Kyrgyzstan’s vice president has called on citizens to take bribes from political parties ahead of the national election – and later cast ballots as they see fit.
• Microsoft launches product giveaway over copyright ...
  Microsoft will turn a blind eye on its pirated products used by NGOs in a number of countries after a news report described how authorities can use copyright legislation to harass organizations involved in public action.
• Rubin hoping for draw in Champions League opener
  Rubin Kazan kick off their Champions League campaign on Tuesday. The Russian champs have traveled to Denmark to face FC København, with manager Kurban Berdiev expecting at least a draw.
• Premier League Goals Galore: week 20
  Brazilian striker Welliton just can’t stop scoring for Spartak Moscow. RT brings his brace and all the other goals from Matchday 20 of the Russian Premier League.
• US Open win completes Nadal’s Grand Slam set
  Rafael Nadal has won the US Open, beating Novak Djokovic to complete his set of Grand Slam titles.

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

• Spiral Death Star: Is It Natural, Or A Beacon?
  Last week Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer, posted a photo from the Hubble Telescope of a star that was going into death spirals. Death spirals? Ol’ Phil, being the debunker he is, thought it was fake. But after further investigation, found it was real! When I first saw this picture, my reactions, in ...
• 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 ...

Tippers News

• News Media Hanging Themself with Their Continual L ...
  News Media Hanging Themself with Their Continual Lies About Everything Submitted by Mike Tedesco to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 911 - 11:11,Twin Tower Program Start,Vimy Twin Tow ...
  Twin Tower Program Start,Vimy Twin Tower Memorial France with Hitler 1917 - How Hitler spared Vimy Ridge.Nazi dictator assigned special Waffen-SS troops to guard historic site during World War II. Submitted by Mike Tedesco to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• ENTERTAINING FOR PEOPLE, TORMENT TO THEM
  Help please the circus animals to be set free of a life of humiliation, punishment and agression, that is misleaded, at many people`s eyes, by the candies they receive down the show lights... Submitted by PATRICIA CT to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Great apes protected as EU restricts animal testin ...
  Primates, including mankind's closest relatives -- chimpanzees, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans -- have gained new protection after the European Parliament backed a clampdown on animal testing. Submitted by Nance B. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Prevent a toxic nightmare in your community GREENP ...
  Did you know that the Department of Homeland Security has identified over 4,997 "high-risk" chemical plants in the United States? Just 300 of these plants together put 110 million Americans at risk. And on April 2nd a refinery in Washington State blew up Submitted by John Cause to US Politics & Gov' ...

The Freeman

• Individualism and Park51
  My mother’s family fled Los Angeles 68 years ago to avoid imprisonment under Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, which made it a crime in many areas of the United States to have Japanese ancestry.
• Congress Back to Consider to Tax Increase
  “Congress is returning for a final pre-legislative session on Monday to confront the thorny issue of potentially raising taxes during an economic downturn, with neither party showing clear consensus on a solution.” (Washington Post) All eyes are on the election. FEE Timely Classic “How to Reduce Tax ...
• Students Owe More than Credit Card Holders Do
  “Total student loan debt exceeds total credit card debt in this country, with $850 billion outstanding, according to Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid.org and FastWeb.com, websites that provide information about student aid and scholarships.” (USA Today) Itâs called government higher-education ...
• Big Brother Is Watching You Recycle
  In 2011 some 25,000 Cleveland households will be required to use recycling bins fitted with radio-frequency identification tags (RFIDs).
• 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 ...

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

• BP's oil continues to wash ashore in Louisiana
  A new wave of oil from the BP disaster washed ashore along the Louisiana coast late last week, coating beaches and polluting interior marshes. About 16 miles of beach in Plaquemines Parish south of New Orleans were fouled with massive black oil slicks and tar balls as big as 12 feet in diameter, th ...
• VOICES: Plutonium bomb fuel in the Tennessee Valle ...
  By Sara Barczak, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is considering a partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE) to use plutonium bomb fuel in TVA's Sequoyah and Browns Ferry nuclear reactors. The public is invited to comment on this proposal by Sept. 17, 20 ...
• 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 ...

Worldpress - Africa

• Africa's Women Turn 50
  Fifty years into African independence, African women still face a much more challenging existence than men, with significant political, social and economic changes needed for gender equality.
• Public Schools in Sierra Leone Gasping for Life Su ...
  Sierra Leone has diverse tribal and cutural practices that works against the education of the nation's children.
• Re: Public Schools in Sierra Leone Gasping for Lif ...
  Our children are taught right from wrong when growing up.
• Re: Public Schools in Sierra Leone Gasping for Lif ...
  Despite war, we are doing our best to cope.
• Conflict Minerals: the New Blood Diamonds
  Hundreds of millions of dollars flow into resource-rich areas such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, but that money goes to corrupt rebel forces who abuse and exploit their own people.

Canadian Encyclopedia

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

• What can I reuse or recycle to make a dog/puppy to ...
  Recycle This regular Anna left a question on the Suggest an Item page: What could I use to make dog toys? My friend got a puppy and I’d like to make him some toys. I’ve made cat toys for ages, but puppy toys definitely need to be stronger and bigger. Dog toys do typically need [...]
• Bottle caps and corks – two requests
  We’ve had two similar requests over the last couple of days so I thought I’d post them together. First up, Alan wants bottle caps: I make beautiful replicas of fine art (e.g. Matisse, Warhol) and logos from bottle caps: See my site at www.bottlecapartwork.com Also, If you have caps, please email me ...
• How can I build a baby playpen reusing or recyclin ...
  Early 2009 was apparently a boring time around here: every couple we know – bar one other couple & us – had a baby last autumn/winter. (The other couple are expecting their first in just over a month; we got a dog & chickens instead.) All the babies are starting to crawl/walk with support now [...]
• What can I reuse or recycle to make a foraging/har ...
  Nearly every time we go out for a walk at the moment, we seem to find a new set of berries aching to be picked. And every time that happens, we kick ourselves for not having a bag with us. After our discussion about making one earlier in the year, I have a trug-ish basket [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle an old wall year planne ...
  We’ve had an email from Alex asking: Can big paper wall planners be recycled? We’ve got at least a dozen at my school to get rid of now but I didn’t know about recycling them in the paper bins because they’re laminated. No, it’s very unlikely that they’ll be accepted for paper recycling. Most wipe-c ...

Mondoweiss

• Crossing into Israel: ‘two highly-charged na ...
  Yesterday my wife and I left Jordan and entered�Israel�at the southern border crossing, Aqaba-Eilat. We were in the Israeli baggage inspection hall when my wife said, “Who’s that handsome guy?” On the wall was a very large black-and-white photograph from the 1940s of a young Israeli with a strong ch ...
• Hillel prepares from another year of BDS on campus
  From the JTA:As Daniel Sieradski pointed out on twitter, that is a rather awkward analogy between vampires and Palestinians towards the end of the video.
• Peretz issues 50 percent apology for latest anti-M ...
  Editor-in-chief Martin Peretz, who has become the crazy uncle in The New Republic's attic, says he is sorry for half of his most recent anti-Muslim tirade.� He has been under great pressure, from Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times and from an eloquent coalition of students at Brandeis, his alma ...
• Remembering Gaza
  The unending death-news maelstrom assaults the reader with what seems like daily frequency. Our digital distance simultaneously transports us to and shields us from the bedlam. We are assaulted virtually – our empathy enables that – but experience none of the flechette-mangled corpsifying assault ...
• Notes on international law and the right of return
  My thanks to Ahmed Moor for his continuing efforts to advance the search for political solutions in Israel-Palestine, and I offer my apologies for my extended absence from the discussion. I hope to respond to his latest proposals in the near future, but first I'll answer a question that Adam Horowit ...

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 )

• Humans responsible for deep sea scars
  Posted on behalf of Yana Balling Scientists have for the first time assessed the extent to which various kinds of human activity are damaging the seabed in the most intensely affected region of the Atlantic Ocean. Writing in the journal Plos ONE , they report that bottom trawling related to c ...
• 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 ...

new geography

• Unmanageable Jakarta Soon To Lose National Capital ...
  Jakarta is the world's third largest urban area with 22 million people (Note 1) and the second largest metropolitan area with 26.6 million people (Note 2). Jakarta is the capital of the world's fourth most populous country, the Republic of Indonesia, which has 240 million people (following China, In ...
• Urban Plight: Vanishing Upward Mobility
  Since the beginnings of civilization, cities have been crucibles of progress both for societies and individuals. A great city, wrote Rene Descartes in the seventeenth century, represented “an inventory of the possible,” a place where people could create their own futures and lift up their families. ...
• 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 ...

GM Watch

• Venter's one-man algae fuels bubble
• Illegal GM maize destroyed in Paraguay
• USDA sued over side stepping GM beet ban
• Venter's one-man algae fuels bubble
• Opposition grows against GM salmon

spiked

• Me human, you chimp
  In a sparkling, erudite polemic, Helene Guldberg demolishes the idea that apes are anything as intelligent or emotional as human beings.
• Mad Men: set in the Sixties, all about today
  Never mind the history nerds, the hit US show reflects a modern ambivalence towards consumerism.
• Fans and football: another marriage on the rocks?
  It’s not only Coleen and Cheryl who have fallen out of love with England players - the supporters are cheesed off, too.
• Why 9/11 gave rise to a carnival of confusion
  The massive, unnecessary storm over the US pastor planning to burn some Korans speaks to the post-9/11 disarray of Western society.
• Meadows, please come back to the future
  This Is England 86 confirms that the 1980s are now the most mythologised decade of the twentieth century.

Cryptogon

• Putin, Berlusconi ‘Joke’ About Ruling ...
  Mmm hmm. Via: AFP: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi cracked jokes about hanging on to power to well past 100, during a relaxed meeting in Russia, TV pictures showed Saturday. Berlusconi, 73, was visiting Putin at his residence at Novo Ogarevo, near Moscow. The NTV ...
• ‘There’s a joke among executives whose ...
  As I read this breathtaking account of Foxconn and its founder, Terry Gou, it kept reminding me of Hunter S. Thompson’s drug addled evening at the Circus-Circus casino in Las Vegas. Here’s an excerpt from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to help put you into the right frame of mind to read about Gou’s ...
• Oil from BP Spill Pooled on Bottom; Oil Found as F ...
  Via: ABC News: Oil from the BP spill has not been completely cleared, but miles of it is sitting at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a study currently under way. Professor Samantha Joye of the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Georgia, who is conducting a study on a [. ...
• Dekalb County Sues Farmer for Growing Too Many Cro ...
  Via: WSBTV: DeKalb County is suing a local farmer for growing too many vegetables, but he said he will fight the charges in the ongoing battle neighbors call “Cabbagegate.” Fig trees, broccoli and cabbages are among the many greens that line the soil on Steve Miller’s more than two acres in Clarksto ...
• Stimulus: Obama to Pitch $60B Saudi Arms Deal to C ...
  You want Hope and Change? We got Hope and Change. Step right up. Via: Wall Street Journal: The Obama administration is set to notify Congress of plans to offer advanced aircraft to Saudi Arabia worth up to $60 billion, the largest U.S. arms deal ever, and is in talks with the kingdom about potential ...

The Economic Collapse

• Globalism Destroys America: 10 Reasons Why The Wor ...
  In 2010, education has been so "dumbed down" in America that most Americans don't even know what the WTO is, and even fewer understand why the WTO is important. The truth is that the World Trade Organization is essentially a global government for world trade.  It is a "contract" tha ...
• We Killed The Goose That Laid The Golden Egg And N ...
  For middle class Americans, the new global economy has provided mountains of cheap products made in China, India and dozens of other nations, but it has also killed the goose that laid the golden egg.  Millions of American workers have been discovering that the price for all of thos ...
• 15 Shocking Poverty Statistics That Are Skyrocketi ...
  The "America" that so many of us have taken for granted for so many decades is literally disintegrating right in front of our eyes.  Most Americans are still operating under the delusion that the United States will always be "the wealthiest nation" in the world and that our economy ...
• 22 Statistics About America’s Coming Pension ...
  As the first of the 80 million Baby Boomers have begun to retire, it has become increasingly apparent that the United States is facing a pension crisis of unprecedented magnitude.  State and local government pension plans are woefully underfunded, dozens of large corporate pension p ...
• Home Sales Drop 27 Percent In July And Things Are ...
  On Tuesday the National Association of Realtors announced that existing home sales in the United States dropped a whopping 27.2% in the month of July.  The consensus among analysts was that we would see a drop of around 13 percent, so when the 27 percent figure was announced it sent ...

Desertification

• Communities fight back against land grabbing (IRIN ...
  Read at : IRIN http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=90453 CAMBODIA: Communities fight back against land grabbing KOH KONG, 13 September 2010 (IRIN) – Forced evictions and land grabbing are nothing new in Cambodia, according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human … Continue readi ...
• Consultancy for the UNCCD scientific advisory mec ...
  Read at : Consultancy for the UNCCD  scientific advisory mechanism A process for the recruitment of a consultant  for the  Assessment of how to organise international, interdisciplinary scientific advice and consideration of options for determining agreed channels for consideration of … Continue ...
• Exploring the complex conditions that give rise to ...
  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100908101935.htm Land-Use Expert Brings Satellite Data Down to Earth ScienceDaily (Sep. 12, 2010) â By integrating remote satellite imagery with revelations from door-to-door interviews, Stanford University geographer Eric Lambin and his colle ...
• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPC ...
  Read at : http://mediaglobal.org/article/2010-09-11/can_one_review_panel_save_the_reputation_of_the_international_panel_on_climate_change Can one review panel save the reputation of the International Panel on Climate Change? By Amanda Wheat 11 September 2010 [MediaGlobal]: The Intergovernmental Pane ...
• Land urchases in developing countries rose to 45m ...
  Read at : http://farmlandgrab.org/15444 The backlash begins against the world landgrab The Telegraph | 12 Sep 2010 The neo-colonial rush for global farmland has gone exponential since the food scare of 2007-2008. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Last weekâs long-delayed report by … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

• Daily Financial Reform Roundup
  Daily news highlights for consumers following the U.S. financial reform law.
• 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.

backofthebook.ca

• HST Follies: BC dumps electoral officer. Revenge?
  By Alison@Creekside The popularity of Lotusland's estimable premier is currently running at 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 anythin ...
• 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 ...

Worldnews

• Curfew extended to all major towns of Kashmir ...
  Curfew extended to all major towns of the Kashmir Valley on Tuesday as a precautionary measure after violent clashes left 17 people dead and over 70 injured, official sources said here. The sources said the curfew was imposed in fresh areas as a precautionary measure and...
• AFSPA dilution in Jammu & Kashmir postponed ...
  NEW DELHI: The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) put off plans to partially revoke the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), following fresh violence in the Kashmir Valley over alleged desecration of Koran in the US. The CCS, which met on Monday evening for three hours, took stock of the w ...
• Curfew Continues For The 3rd Day Running
  Srinagar, Sep 14: A strict round the clock curfew continues without break for the third day running across Kashmir. In...
• White and Green Collar Serial Killers
  Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "To understand the phenomenon of serial murder in America, it is first necessary to have some information about murder in general. For example, in order to appreciate the fact that serial murder appears to be more common in America than in ...
• New Ad Targets McDonald's
  By JULIE JARGON McDonald's Corp. is the target of a new television commercial set to air in Washington, D.C., Thursday that blames the burger giant for heart disease. View Full Image Associated Press People make their way past a McDonald's restaurant at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco in Jul ...

Alex in Wonderland

• Ron Paul: Audit Government Gold Reserves
  The U.S. congressman plans to introduce a bill in 2011 that would force the claimed gold holdings at Fort Knox and the central bank in New York to be audited for the first time in almost 60 years.
• Media Manipulates ‘End’ of Iraq War
  Michael Corcoran: Just as the media lied to help us get into a war, they are now lying us out of one.
• Evening Briefing—13th Sept 2010
  News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
• Report: ‘Largest Military Deal Ever’ Between U.S.- ...
  The Saudi royal family is reportedly being helped by the Obama Administration to push a $90bn deal with big players in the military-industrial complex for arms and military technology upgrades through political approval in Washington.
• Report: U.S. Troops See Combat in Iraq… Agai ...
  Weeks after Obama announced the end of combat operations in the Iraq War, 'residual troops' engaged in lethal combat over the weekend.

MY Daily Apple

• Accord Reached On Draft Declaration For MDG Summit
  "World powers have reached an accord, after weeks of tough talks, on a document to be adopted at a Millennium Development summit this month for which [U.N...
• IRIN Reports On Efforts To Better Address Moderate ...
  Aid groups in West Africa are trying out new strategies and products for treating moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) as part of a U.N.-led effort to change 30 year old policies, IRIN reports. Different approaches are currently being researched in Chad, Mali and Niger...
• Recent Releases In Global Health
  Lancet Comment: Make Pain Treatment, Palliative Care Available To End 'Suffering Of Millions' "The undertreatment of pain caused by cancer and other conditions is a global health tragedy," write the authors of a Lancet Comment. Noting a resolution adopted by the U.N...
• Repeated antibiotic use alters gut's composition o ...
  Repeated use of an antibiotic that is considered generally benign, because users seldom incur obvious side effects, induces cumulative and persistent changes in the composition of the beneficial microbial species inhabiting the human gut, researchers have found.
• Ancient viral invasion shaped human genome
  Scientists have discovered that viruses that "invaded" the human genome millions of years ago have changed the way genes get turned on and off in human embryonic stem cells.

Common Dreams

• The Proving Grounds: School “Rheeform” in Washingt ...
  by Leigh Dingerson Washington, D.C., is leading the transformation of urban public education across the country—at least according to Time magazine, which featured D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee on its cover, wearing black and holding a broom. Or perhaps you read it in Newsweek or heard it f ...
• Florida Pastor Calls Off Quran Burning
  by Michael O'Brien A Florida pastor called off plans to burn copies of the Muslim holy book after leaders from all parts of the political spectrum leaned on him to halt his plans. Pastor Terry Jones of Gainesville, Fla., called off plans to burn copies of the Quran on Saturday to mark the ninth anni ...
• US to Arabs: Don't Make Israel a 'Pariah' at IAEA
  by Fredrik Dahl VIENNA - The U.S. envoy to the U.N. atomic watchdog urged Arab states on Monday to withdraw a resolution calling on Israel to sign an anti-nuclear arms treaty, warning it would send a negative signal to Middle East peace talks. Arab countries, backed by Iran, are seeking to build on ...
• NATO Issues New Guidelines for Afghanistan Contrac ...
  The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan has issued new guidelines for awarding contracts in a bid to stem corruption. The rules are designed to streamline and increase oversight for billions of dollars worth of contracts for services ranging from transport to food. Comman ...
• More U.S.-Mexico Border Crime a Myth, Officials Sa ...
  by Lee Rood If you lived hundreds of miles away and listened only to the sound bites leading to passage of Senate Bill 1070, it would be easy to imagine some parts of Arizona as every bit as lawless as fabled Tombstone, circa 1881. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer sounded alarms this spring with talk of mayh ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• Roberto Luongo
• Wendel Clark
• Tegan and Sara
• Lee Daniels
• James Cameron

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: A Lacrosse Tribune writer gets it ...
  ExamineReligion: A Lacrosse Tribune writer gets it wrong: I recently wrote an article that suggested to you that everything you kno... http://exm.nr/d8NfFi
• ExamineReligion: Catholic cathedral hosts Protesta ...
  ExamineReligion: Catholic cathedral hosts Protestants, Jews and pagans: The California Catholic Daily is reporting that Sacramento'... http://exm.nr/cVzZ7e
• ExamineReligion: US may begin 'burning' banks with ...
  ExamineReligion: US may begin 'burning' banks with international financial regulations as soon as 2013: While much of the world see... http://exm.nr/aETSRG
• ExamineReligion: Japan release 14 Chinese fisherma ...
  ExamineReligion: Japan release 14 Chinese fisherman, but still detains captain - video: After being held for a week by Japanese aut... http://exm.nr/9KvWx5
• ExamineReligion: Invite!: Living the Evangelical l ...
  ExamineReligion: Invite!: Living the Evangelical life- Our grandson who is now a toddler, has come up with these games; one is educ... http://exm.nr/cLP0G6

Energy Collective

• Maxwell Forecasts Peak Oil in Seven Years
  Respected oil analyst and oil industry veteran Charles Maxwell (nicknamed the “Dean of Oil Analysts”) has forecast peak oil by 2017 or 2018: Bracing For Peak Oil Production By Decade’s End His prediction is not so remarkable, as is where he made his prediction. The prediction was in Forbes, which ha ...
• The High Price of Cheap Oil | The Caribbean
  [My OnEarth magazine article on the Bonaire fire is: " Another Oil Disaster- This Time in the Caribbean ."]
• Nigeria: Oil Wealth Flows, Hunger Persists
  By Juhie Bhatia
• Post-Stimulus Transition for Renewable Energy
  One of the largest uncertainties affecting the US renewable energy sector is how it will make the transition from the special subsidies provided under last year's stimulus bill ( American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ) back to the "normal" incentives available prior to the financial crisis ...
• China Tops U.S. in Investment Attractiveness for C ...

Green House - USA Today

• BP resumes drilling relief well in Gulf of Mexico
  BP said it resumed drilling Monday on a relief well after a sleeve protecting the Gulf of Mexico well from increases in pressure was successfully installed over the weekend.
• $10 million for 100 mpg car? Obama offers innovati ...
  Got a great idea? President Obama might be interested. His administration is awarding prizes for innovative ideas such as $10 million for a car that earns 100-plus miles per gallon or cooking alongside White House chefs for those with the heathiest school lunch recipes.
• Hemp homes are cutting edge of green building
  Hemp is turning a new leaf. The plant fiber, used to make the sails that took Christopher Columbus' ships to the New World, is now a building material.
• Modern clifftop home is both gorgeous and green
  Joanne Ellis' new clifftop home on Bainbridge Island shows green can also be gorgeous.
• School named after Al Gore was built on toxic soil
  Al Gore's series of misfortunate events continues. This year, his 40-year marriage hit the skids and he was accused of sexual assault (charges dismissed.) Now, what would seem a great honor -- having a school named after him -- has turned into a punch line for critics.

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

• 9/11 and 9 years
  eileen fleming On this September 11th, Terry Jones, a fundamentalist pastor of a small church in Gainesville, Fla., together with 50 of his followers, had planned an Anti-Christ action of religious hatred and intolerance, to be expressed in a public burning of copies of the Qur'an. On ...
• Israeli Soldiers Sexually Abuse Palestinian Childr ...
  by Stephen Lendman On September 10, Israel's YnetNews.com headlined, "IDF sexually abused Palestinian children," headlining: "Damning (September 9) CNN report cites uncorroborated sexual abuse charges of Palestinian children detained by IDF." Military officials refused to "respond to abuse c ...
• East Jerusalem Palestinians Denied Basic Rights
  by Stephen Lendman The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) is the country's leading human and civil rights organization through litigation, legal advocacy, education and public outreach. Its new report is titled, "Unsafe Space: The Israeli Authorities' Failure to Protect Human Rights a ...
• Why we love to hate conspiracy theories: 911 Truth ...
  by Denis G. Rancourt Especially left and liberal professionals and service intellectuals but also right-wing members of the intelligentsia vehemently attack and ridicule “conspiracy theories” such as the present 911 Truth movement. Why? It’s as though power did not covertly orchestrate its preda ...
• Mr. Obama: Thou shall not lie
  By Khalid Amayreh In his remarks marking the passage of nine years since the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on 11 September, 2001, President Obama said Americans ought to remain true to their values and refuse to paint all Muslims as terrorists. “The highest honor we can pay those we ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• The economic case for universal pharmacare
  The main argument that is typically made against the establishment of universal Pharmacare is economic in nature. However, a new CCPA report shows that the economic argument in favour of such a program is loud and clear, regardless of which industrial policy is subsequently considered. Canadians ...
• Living from paycheque to paycheque
  The recession may be officially over, but six in 10 Canadians say they would be in financial trouble if their paycheque was delayed by just a week, according to a new national survey. The survey coincides with an OECD warning that record high debt levels have left many Canadians vulnerable “to any ...
• “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 ...

World Wide Hippies

• Are We Safe?
  Nine Years After 9/11, Are We Any Safer? | The Atlantic This Saturday, President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and first lady Michelle Obama led national memorial events across the East Coast to mark the ninth anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. This coming Saturday marks the nin ...
• Bono Moves Clothing Manufacturing From Africa To C ...
  Out of Africa, Into Asia | Wall Street Journal Five years ago, U2 front man Bono and his wife, Ali Hewson, founded fashion brand Edun with the lofty mission of revitalizing apparel manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa. But when Edun designer Sharon Wauchob unveils her new vision for the label Saturda ...
• Got my Goat Awarded to The 9th Circuit Court &#821 ...
  WWH – While the Media and Washington had you all focused on a non issue down in Florida and The “DONALD” weighing in on the Muslim Centre in New York. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals was affirming the Governments right to hire Boeing Corporation to help with its ferrying “alleged” terrorist suspec ...
• Obama Selling WMDs to Saudi Arabia
  This has got my Spidey Sense tingling. Isn’t there something really, really wrong here? Obama to Pitch $60B Saudi Arms Deal to Congress | CBS The Wall Street Journal reports the White House will officially notify Congress in the next two weeks of a $60 billion deal to sell Saudi Arabia dozens of U.S ...
• I hate it when Fox News Gets Something, er, Kinda ...
  I really hate to agree with Fox News, but there it is. Where’s the Outrage? | Fox News The double standards and diabolic doublespeak are surreal, unbelievable. âOffendedâ (highly choreographed) Muslim mobs rioted after Muslim troublemakers slipped two offensive cartoons into the original, more b ...

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

• COREXIT Coast Guard and Obama Administration Betra ...
• Feds Warn Residents Near Wyoming Gas Drilling Site ...
• If you use pharmaceuticals, you are polluting the ...
  (NaturalNews) Any personal use of pharmaceutical products can lead to dangerous water pollution, even if drugs or cosmetics are applied only to the skin, researchers have found. Researchers have known for several years that after a person ingests a drug, their body may excrete residues of the chemic ...
• Activist: Gulf fishermen being held responsible fo ...
  Federal government admits not testing for arsenic, mercury or other toxic heavy metals in seafood The US government, and even President Obama himself, have said that Gulf seafood is safe to eat in the wake of the massive BP oil spill. But an admission from the federal government that it hasn't been ...
• USF scientists find oil spill damage to critical m ...
  ST. PETERSBURG — Far from being gone, the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster appears to still be causing ecological damage in the Gulf of Mexico, according to new findings from University of South Florida scientists. And scientists from the University of Georgia said the amount of oil that rema ...

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

• Maxwell Forecasts Peak Oil in Seven Years
  Join the forum discussion on this post Respected oil analyst and oil industry veteran Charles Maxwell (nicknamed the âDean of Oil Analystsâ) has forecast peak oil by 2017 or 2018: Bracing For Peak Oil Production By Decade’s End His prediction is not so remarkable, as is where he made his pred ...
• 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 [.. ...

Discovery Educator Network

• Best content in ANSER Charter School | Diigo - Gro ...
  Tags: no_tag by: Jackie Gerstein
• Free Visual English Dictionary and Thesaurus | Dis ...
  Comments: the links did not open - Denise Gielas Tags: Dictionary , Thesaurus , visual , words , visualization , vocabulary , english , Reference , idioms by: Tim Childers
• Digital Literacy Tour
  Tags: digitalcitizenship , google , InternetSafety , digital , curriculum , literacy , MediaLiteracy by: Dean Mantz
• 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

Rodale News

• Better School Lunches: Achievable, with Effort (an ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—What a difference three years can make. On Friday, we described the efforts of Cathal Armstrong, highly regarded chef-owner of Restaurant Eve in Alexandria, Virginia, as one of several chefs trying to improve school lunches in Washington, DC . Responding to Michelle Obama’s ...
• Mind-Body Mood Advisor: Ten Strategies for Moderat ...
  RODALE NEWS, LENOX, MA—If you like to drink, last week brought seeming good news: Yet another large-scale study came out supporting the health benefits of moderate drinking. The research found that moderate drinkers lived longer than abstainers and heavy drinkers . In fact, many studies have fou ...
• Acai Is Out, Coffee Is In: 7 Affordable Sources of ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—New research is identifying some dirt-cheap sources of disease-fighting, inflammation-calming antioxidants. And they cost a lot less than exotic superberries like goji or acai. #1: Black rice #2: Sweet potatoes #3: Apples #4: Certain beans #5: Dried cranberries #6 ...
• Controlling Diabetes May Depend on Avoiding Chemic ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Persistence is usually a good thing, but not when it comes to chemicals. Our environment is littered with remnants of chemicals called "persistent organic pollutants" that linger for years, sometimes even decades, because they can't break down. They wind up in our food and w ...
• 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 ...

big think

• 480 - The Fool’s Cap Map of the World
  This rather sinister image is one of the biggest mysteries in the history of western cartography. Most often referred to simply as the Fool’s Cap Map of the World , it is unknown why, when, where and by whom it was made. The only thing that can be said about it with some certainty is that it dates ...
• Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian on How to Make th ...
  "For the most part, a lot of those early users were actually Steve and me with aliases. We had silly user names that we just generated in order to make it look like there was a diversity of users on the site," recounts Alexis Ohanian , co-founder of social news and Web community site Reddit.com . ...
• Justin Bieber and Birth Control, or Why Young Wome ...
  A Canadian boy, at the age of sixteen, sells millions of albums and creates hysteria among throngs of female fans. He once almost created a riot of 6,000 screaming girls when he sat on the edge of the stage. His masculine good looks and street smart confidence makes him a heart throb of a generation ...
• The Neurological Origins of Religious Belief
  It has been known for some time that religious belief and behavior affect the brain—in the same way all habits, emotions and memories build neural pathways. But can we pinpoint specific chemicals, genes and clusters of neurons that give rise to religiosity, or to atheism? Rutgers University ... Rea ...
• SEIL Bag: Interactivity and Safety for Urban Bikin ...
  As urban biking continues to grow , cyclist safety becomes a legitimate concern in today's traffic-infested cities. Now, South Korean designer Lee Myung Su has a solution with SEIL Bag – a compact backpack equipped with an LED display that communicates wirelessly with controllers attached to the bik ...

Information Liberation

• Broke Cities Find Cash to Burn On Trash-Tracking C ...
  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 n...
• Obama Touts Inefficient Program to Defend Stimulus ...
  Surely everyone would love to see cleaner energy programs in the U.S., especially given the environmental catastrophe looming in the Gulf. And certainly, the American economy desperately needs jobs. But leave it to our broken government to spend th...
• Blowback, Provocation, and Perpetual War
  No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures, Dr. Johnson informs us. In a somewhat similar vein, the Regime's post-9/11 "counter-terrorism" stings have avoided the official fiction that Muslim terrorism is inspired by a hatred for our "freedom." The pref...
• Canadian pot activist Marc Emery sentenced to five ...
  Marc Emery, Canada's enigmatic "Prince of Pot" who sold millions of marijuana seeds over the Internet, will face a five year punishment in the United States after a U.S. district judge in Seattle handed down his sentence on Friday. Emery, founder ...
• War Street Journal Shill: "Another A Major Terrori ...
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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

• State Secrets vs. the Rule of Law
  The inherent tension between the state secrets privilege and the rule of law reached the breaking point last week when an appeals court dismissed the claims of several persons who said they were illegally transported and tortured through a CIA “extraordinary rendition” program.  They would not be p ...
• The New Nobility: Russia’s Security State
  “The Soviet police state tried to control every citizen in the country.  The new, more sophisticated Russian [security] system is far more selective than its Soviet-era counterpart;  it targets only those individuals who have political ambitions or strong public views.”  That’s what Andrei Soldat ...
• 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 ...

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

• Fisheries of the United States 2009
  NOAA Fisheries Statistics Division http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/st1/fus/fus09/fus_2009.pdf [From Preface and Review] This publication is a preliminary report for 2009 on commercial and a final report for recreational fisheries of the United States with landings from the U.S. territorial seas, the U.S ...
• Assessment of Offshore Wind Energy Resources for t ...
  NREL Technical Report NREL/TP-500-4588 / Marc Schwartz, Donna Heimiller, Steve Haymes, and Walt Musial http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy10osti/45889.pdf [NREL Press Release] The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announces the release of a new report that assesses the ...
• 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 ...

Scientific American - News

• Sensors and Sensibility: Flexible Pressure Detecto ...
  Two research groups have demonstrated progress toward fabricating artificial sensors that can emulate the abilities of human skin, an advancement that could lend robots a far more sophisticated sense of touch. [More] Sensor - Somatosensory system - Human skin - Robot - Skin ...
• 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 ...

RAWA News

• Getting drunk in Kabul bars? Pass the sick bag
  The Guardian: "Kabul is the new Beirut." This frivolous drivel fell from the mouth of a journalist in Afghanistan. She was effervescent with excitement about the prospect of Kabul's expatriate bars being even more hip than those in Beirut. Beirut – where they dance to the beat of the bombs, where al ...
• Afghan authorities take over biggest bank to avoid ...
  The Washington Post: Afghanistan's Central Bank has taken control of the country's biggest and most politically potent private bank and ordered its chairman to hand over $160 million worth of luxury villas and other real estate purchased in Dubai for well-connected insiders, according to Afghan bank ...
• Afghan journalist stabbed to death in Kabul-palace
  Reuters: Sayed Hamid Noori, an anchor for state network Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA), was stabbed repeatedly near his home late on Sunday. Possible motives and identity of the killer remain unclear. Afghanistan remains one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists. At least 14 ...
• “US should leave Afghanistan before it is de ...
  Sify News: The US is heading for a catastrophic rout in Afghanistan like in Iraq and should hurry to leave these countries 'or for that matter, the entire Asian continent' before its defeat becomes complete, an editorial in a Pakistani paper said Saturday. 'America is heading for a defeat in Afghan ...
• Afghan Electoral Body Worried At “Fake Ballo ...
  RFE/RL: The Afghan Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) has expressed concern over a report that some printing houses in Pakistan have been involved in “illegally publishing” ballot papers for the September 18 parliamentary elections in Afghanistan, RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan reports.

frogblog

• Saving the Mokihinui River
  Well it’s Conservation Week and my inbox is full of email from people who saw the WhitewaterNZ film “A Tale of Two Rivers” on TVNZ 6 last night. It’s being repeated three times before the end of the week and is well worth a watch. Essentially it compares the disastrous Meridian Ener ...
• Only a few more votes needed to free the pigs
  My Animal Welfare (Treatment of Animals) amendment bill was launched today, with the support of all the key animal welfare amendment groups in New Zealand–the SPCA, SAFE and WSPA, as well as the Managing Director of Freedom farms, Gregor Fyfe, and Mike King. My bill will strengthen ...
• Celebrating Conservation Week
  To celebrate Conservation week we are doing a short series of blogs about conservation in New Zealand, celebrating how lucky we are. We will cover some the current conservation issues and, since this is a political blog, highlight some of our solutions. What does conservation mean? ...
• Dominion Road and the North-Western Busway
  Those of you who have read some of my recent blog posts about Dominion Road should be pleased to hear that we saved the busway! After a fiery meeting  Auckland City Council agreed it would be foolish to allow cars with 2 passengers into the busway. This is great news as this is one ...
• Tuakau sits-in to get rail in
  As the Herald reports, this weekend three communities in the Waikato – Huntly, Tuakau and Te Awamutu, staged sit-ins at their local train station. They were there to show their support for a passenger rail service between Auckland and Hamilton. You can see some footage of the sit-i ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

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

• Making Basel Work
  The Financial Times reports that the new Basel III banking standards might get toughened up in a few countries: Top bankers in the UK, US and Switzerland are braced for their national regulators to impose tougher capital requirements than those required by Sunday’s landmark global agreement, even ...
• Quote of the Day: More Preservatives, Please
  From Robert Waldmann, responding to criticism of preservatives in food: I stress this post is not a joke. I think that BHA and BHT are good for people's health. I even think that use of BHA and BHT are partly responsible for the increase in life expectancy since they were introduced. You may r ...
• The Great Income Shift
  Tim Noah is doing a long series of articles in Slate about the growth of income inequality in the United States, and the first part after the introduction is titled "The Usual Suspects Are Innocent." Actually, that could stand in for parts two and three as well. Gender and racial gaps don't explain ...
• Privatizing the Post Office
  The Washington Times reports on a scandal within the United States Postal Service: is Priority Mail™ really as profitable as they say it is? Two recent reviews by the Postal Service's office of inspector general have raised concerns about whether postal officials understated advertising costs to ...
• Chart of the Day: How the Kids Are Doing
  After reading Bob Somerby's post about test scores yesterday, I decided to create a handy chart showing how our school kids have been doing over the past few decades. When I was done, though, I realized I didn't really have anything urgent to say about the subject, so I didn't write a post. But ther ...

Insanity Report

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  Blacklisted News

• World Panel Backs Rules to Avert Banking Crises
  Top central bankers and bank regulators agreed Sunday on far-reaching new rules for the global banking industry that are designed to avert future financial disasters, but could also dampen bank profits and strain weaker institutions.
• Feds Spent $800,000 of Economic Stimulus on Africa ...
• Google ‘damages users’ brains’
  Google damages the brains of its users by offering too much assistance in solving problems, an author has claimed.
• GM sugar beet scandal leads to lawsuit against USD ...
  According to a recent Reuters report, the USDA decided to begin issuing permits to GM sugar beet producers, allowing them to plant the "Frankencrops" as long as they do not flower.
• 15 Shocking Poverty Statistics That Are Skyrocketi ...

The Intelligence Daily

• IntelFilter: September 6, 2010
  Headline of the day: China uncovers 200 fraudulent pilots  Intelligence NZ journalist discloses...
• Exponentially on purpose: a century-and-a-half of ...
  By Matthew Wild The peak oil debate is a case of history repeating itself: people have been...
• The Politics Of Genocide
  The Politics of Genocide Edward S. Herman and David Peterson Monthly Review Press, 2010 U.S....
• As Americans Celebrate Labor Day 2010, U.S. Factor ...
  By Michael T. Snyder 2010 comes in the midst of a stunning wave of U.S. factory closings that...
• Financial Depression Spreads Among Seniors
  By Sherwood Ross President Obama has U.S. taxpayers paying billions to meet the costly payrolls of...

My AntiWar

• US Set for $60 Billion Saudi Arms Sale: Officials ...
  Summary: F-16CJ fightersThe Obama Administration is said to be close to announcing the largest weapons deal in American history, with some $60 billion in weapons including 84 new F-15s being sold to Saudi Arabia along with massive amounts of parts of ?long-term logistics support.? source: AntiWar ...
• US: Arab States Must Drop Call for Israel to Join ...
  Summary: Dimona nuclear plantUS Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Glyn Davies again warned Arab nations against trying to push forward a non-binding resolution urging Israel to join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), insisting it might harm the Mideast peace talks ...
• War Crime Allegations Threaten to Harm America&#82 ...
• Ex-CIA Agents Confirm Torture at Polish Black Site
• Likud MPs Threaten to Withdraw Support for Budget ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• US Set for $60 Billion Saudi Arms Sale: Officials ...
  Summary: F-16CJ fighters The Obama Administration is said to be close to announcing the largest weapons deal in American history, with some $60 billion in weapons including 84 new F-15s being sold to Saudi Arabia along with massive amounts of parts of “long-term logistics support.” source: Ant ...
• US: Arab States Must Drop Call for Israel to Join ...
  Summary: Dimona nuclear plant US Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Glyn Davies again warned Arab nations against trying to push forward a non-binding resolution urging Israel to join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), insisting it might harm the Mideast peace t ...
• 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 ...

The Daily Galaxy

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  Use it for a Free Kindle, Android X Smartphone, Apple iPod or Hundreds of Other Top Brand Electronics Products or Accessories.Volunteers are invited to discover, review and shareDaily Galaxy posts you love on Reddit, Digg or StumbleUpon. Win one of...
• Brightest Object in Observable Universe Discovered
  A group of international astronomers in the UK, France and the USA, led by the University of Leicester, have found proof to confirm the distance and brightness of the most extreme ultra-luminous X-ray source, which may herald a new type...
• Image of the Day: The Fragile Beauty of Four Minor ...
  The moons of Saturn range from tiny moonletsembedded in the rings less than one kilometer across to the enormous Titan, which is larger than the planet Mercury. Saturn has sixty-two moons with confirmed orbits, fifty-three of which have names, and...
• Dwarf Galaxies -Devoured by Spiral Neighbors- Reve ...
  Stellar streams have been observed around Galaxy M 63 - remnants of a satellite dwarf galaxy that had been swallowed. Spiral galaxies are known to grow by swallowing their diminutive neighbours; as this process occurs, the dwarf galaxies become severely...

Natural News

• Sheriffs want database of all prescription drug us ...
  (NaturalNews) Sheriffs in North Carolina are petitioning state legislators to be given access to the database of patients who are in possession of powerful prescription painkillers and other controlled substances. The state sheriff's association fronted the idea last week, saying it would help them ...
• Nutrition discovery: black rice rivals blueberries ...
  (NaturalNews) In ancient China, nobles commandeered every grain of a variety of black rice known as "Forbidden Rice" for themselves and forbade the common people from eating it. Now 21st century scientists have discovered that black rice truly is a treasure -- at least when it comes to nutrition. In ...
• Bear Fruit Bars satisfy kids, parents as wholesome ...
  (NaturalNews) In April, we introduced NaturalNews readers to Bear Fruit Bars, a simple, nutritious organic line of fruit bars available in apple, cherry, blueberry and raspberry flavors. Since then, the feedback from readers has been consistently positive -- they like the simplicity, the "kid-friend ...
• Stand up to the cancer industry and its celebrity- ...
  (NaturalNews) If there's one thing to be learned from the recent "Stand Up To Cancer" telethon that gathered top Hollywood celebrities to raise money for the cancer industry, it's that you probably shouldn't get your health advice from actors. The cancer industry is losing its propaganda battle as m ...
• Your next MRI could cost you your life
  (NaturalNews) Patients who undergo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans are often given drug injections to enhance the quality of scan images. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced that these drugs will now require a black box warning label--the strongest in the indust ...

Threat Level

• Appeals Court Guts Landmark Computer Privacy Rulin ...
  Bowing to the Obama administration, a federal appeals court Monday gutted its own decision that had dramatically narrowed the government’s search-and-seizure powers in the digital age. The 9-2 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals nullifies Miranda-style guidelines the court promulgated la ...
• 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Senate GOP Stiffens as Boehner Goes Limp on Taxes
  After months of pretending the Bush tax cuts paid for themselves and calling President Obama's opposition to another $700 billion windfall for the wealthy a "job killer" and "class warfare," House Minority Leader John Boehner on Sunday signaled his willingness to accept a compromise. But in the Sen ...
• 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 ...

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

• Carl Ginsburg : Life in the Low to Mid-Teens
• Alexander Cockburn : Loose-Lip McChrystal Did Obam ...
• Alexander Cockburn : He Should Have Kept His Mouth ...
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• Greg Moses : Mormons for Racial Profiling?

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Israel halts freeze on settlements and endangers p ...
  Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has signalled that he will not extend a partial, temporary freeze on settlement construction, potentially jeopardising peace talks. Palestinia ...
• 91 year old, and his grandson, among three farm wo ...
  When 91 year old Ibrahim Abu Sayed left his home this morning to check on his land and animals by the remains of his old house, he took with him his 17 year old grandson Hossam and his fr ...
• Israel reportedly razes Bedouin village for fifth ...
  Israeli authorities reportedly destroyed a rebuilt unrecognized Bedouin village in the Negev on Monday for the fifth time in two months. Bulldozers entered the Al-Araqib village to raze w ...
• Palestinian & Israeli Expectations: Compromise vs ...
  Palestinians point to the fact that in accepting a state on the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, they have already made a historic compromise. They further note that as key Pales ...
• Jerusalem or Gaza - where is it worse to be Palest ...
  Graduates of the Shin Bet security service pride themselves on being able to recite Arabic proverbs, claiming this is the way to win over an Arab interlocutor. If it sounds to you as if I ...

Water - AlterNet

• Billionaire Farmers Scheming to Privatize Californ ...
  Two devastating lawsuits have been filed this summer in an attempt to claw back hundreds of millions (and possibly billions) of dollars in ill-gotten profits.
• Why 'Gandhi of Water' Rajendra Singh Is Traveling ...
  He wants to save the Ganges river from pollution, misuse, damming and climate change, and thus save the 600 million people who depend on the river for their water needs.
• Your Idle Computer Can Solve Global Water Problems
  IBM is looking to tap the computing power of 1.5 million volunteer PCs to figure out better techniques for producing clean, safe drinking water on three continents.
• Why 'Gandhi of Water' Rajendra Singh Is Walking th ...
  He wants to save the Ganges river from pollution, misuse, damming and climate change, and thus save the 600 million people who depend on the river for their water needs.
• Where California's Next One Million Acre-Feet of W ...
  We must do the most critical and effective things first, from a technical, political and economic perspective.

Public Citizen in Texas

• What’s the frequency, Kenneth? In this case it’s 6 ...
  Come close together, cats and kitties, and gather ’round, while the Powerman gets his story-telling hat- the one with the fine white brim- slips it on and talks about what’s going down with a happening riff:, with a tip o’ the hat to Lord Buckley for those yet to be hip to the flip, we [...]
• Ramon A Sanchez: Solar Intern at Public Citizen [F ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Ramon Sanchez majors in math at the University of Texas at Austin.
• ACTION ALERT- Call in, stop Las Brisas
  We’ve got an Action Alert! This week, hundreds of people from Corpus Christi and across Texas will be calling the Environmental Protection Agency to ask them to ensure that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is complying with the Federal Clean Air Act. To protect our air, our water, our e ...
• Ali Rawaf: Media and Campaign Finance Intern at Pu ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Ali Rawaf studies Government and International Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
• Austin Energy and the EGRSO: EUC Chairman Schmandt ...
  For those in Austin who don’t know, the EGRSO (the Economic Growth and Redevelopment Services Office… I had to look it up too) gets a substantial portion of its funding from the municipally-owned utility Austin Energy. What does this office do? From its city website: [The EGRSO] implements the City ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Britain's most haunted manor house for sale
  Wymering Manor has been the site of ghost stories and paranormal investigations for years. Originally built in the 16th century as a vicarage and mona...
• New evidence for rare black hole
  Scientists have found further evidence for the existence of a new medium sized category of black hole. Studying images taken via the Very Large Telesc...
• Schoolgirl with magnetic hands
  A schoolgirl from Serbia has astounded medics by being able to stick objects magnetically to her hands. Nearby Nis University has called for scientist...
• Illusionists stage levitation for 200 minutes
  Nicolas Luisetti and John Paul Olhaberry stunned onlookers by appearing to levitate in the air for over 3 hours. The event was staged at the Chilean c...
• Robot capable of deceit developed
  A robot capable of deceitful behaviour has been developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The robot is able to determine whether another robot...

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 14, 2010
  GOP Considers Plan to Stymie New Greenhouse Gas Rules at Senate Markup (The Hill) Senate Republicans may use a markup of EPA’s annual spending bill Thursday to try and block the agency from implementing new climate change rules. Utah Agency Approves Oil-Sands Project (AP) A top Ut ...
• September 13, 2010
  California Regulators Order PG&E To Inspect Gas Lines After Explosion (Wall Street Journal) California regulators on Sunday ordered PG&E Corp.'s utility to inspect its entire  natural gas pipeline system after one of the company's pipelines near San Francisco ruptured and killed at least f ...
• 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 ...

GreenBiz

• Climate Corps 2010: Why is the Reality of Energy E ...
  Most companies are so preoccupied with external factors, such as sales that contribute to top-line growth, that they often neglect operational improvements and energy efficiency -- two opportunities with huge potential to boost the bottom line.
• Sony Seeks Best Idea to Repurpose Products for Gre ...
  �Sony and WWF have launched a competition seeking ways that existing technologies can be used to address environmental problems.
• 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.

Reuters Global

• Attack survivors at UN: Save the sharks!
  Nine shark-attack survivors from five countries headed for the United Nations in New York City to plead the case for shark preservation. U.N. member countries could take this issue up this week as part of an annual resolution on sustainable fisheries.
• 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.

Booman Tribune

• Idiot Wind
  You think we got it bad now? A comprehensive Wonk Room survey of the Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate finds that nearly all dispute the scientific consensus that the United States must act to fight global warming pollution. Remarkably, of the dozens of Republicans vying for the 37 Senate ...
• How I See Things
  I know it's frustrating to have conservative Democrats serving in Congress. I know it's a drag that Colin Powell's endorsement counts for something, or that no one seems to question it when Chuck Hagel campaigns for Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania. What are these people doing in our party? Can't we ha ...
• Dreams of a Lunatic
  From the timing of it it looks like Newt McPherson, a 19 year-old mechanic living in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, had a shotgun wedding in September 1942 when it was discovered that 16-year old Kit Daugherty was pregnant. The marriage lasted three days and was over long before their baby, Newt Gingric ...
• Update on the Fundraiser
  It looks like we have five coffee mugs left from our weekend fundraiser. You all met my target and went slightly beyond it, so I am incredibly grateful and I'll make sure to fix the place up and make it worth your while. I just went out and bought some shipping supplies, and I'll be trying to get ...
• Can Dems win Senate in Palinland?
  God I sure hope so: Alaskans are getting to know Sitka Mayor Scott McAdams, a Democrat who finds himself with a shot at becoming Alaska's next U.S. senator. McAdams has taken an unpaid leave from his job with the Sitka School District to campaign full time and has moved into a studio apartment in ...

European Tribune

• Cry me a river. Try to resist herding immigrants i ...
  In sad news, the BBC reports that: France's minister for Europe has said he is...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 14 ...
  div>�A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1983 - birth of...
• Monday Open Thread
  So?...
• Revolting Levies
  So, I get up this morning full of enthusiasm and resolve: I will write at...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 1 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1944 - birth of...

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

• Anniversary of September 11
  By Kalila Borghini, LCSW and Ordained Yoruba Priest, Spirituality Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Kalila and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile As I sit here in my upstate NY cottage on a chilly late summer morning, I am suddenly aware that today is the anniversary of 9/11. It has bee ...
• How to Cool Your Jets in Seven Easy Steps: Anger M ...
  By Yvonne Sinclair M.A., MFCC Click here to contact Yvonne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile “Anger management” to some people may mean keeping his/her anger inside by holding that anger in or “stuffing” it. This form of “management” is like blowing a little air into a balloon each time you are ...
• HIV/AIDS Patients Suffer Higher Rates of Psycholog ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Psychological health issues are significantly more common among people with HIV/AIDS than in the general population (43.7% and 16.5%, respectively), according to a new study from South Africa. On one hand, pre-existing mental health issues may cause people to particip ...
• Mental Health Problems are More Frequent in Cities
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A new study out of Sweden finds that serious mental health problems are far more likely to occur when people live in cities, rather than in rural areas. This correlation has already been documented, but the new study looks at specific factors at play in an attempt to ...
• 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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Don't move mountains - Los Angeles Times
  Care2.com (blog) Don't move mountains Los Angeles Times Mountaintop removal comes at too high a cost — for the land, the water and the taxpayers, who end up footing the bill for environmental damage. ... RAN Protests Spruce Mine at EPA HQ Treehugger Activists Dump "Mountain" Of Coal Waste On EPA's ...
• Tennessee lawmakers honored for Green Deeds - The ...
  Tennessee lawmakers honored for Green Deeds The Tennessean The 2010 environmental scorecard put out by the Tennessee Conservation Voters gave kudos to lawmakers who tried to stop mountaintop removal mining and ... Conservation group lauds 19 Tennessee lawmakers for environmental efforts Memphis Com ...
• Want to spend your fall break in West Virginia? - ...
  Want to spend your fall break in West Virginia? The Daily Gazette Do you want to spend your fall break visiting and working with those affected by mountaintop removal and coal mining practices in rural West Virginia? ...
• Reader Letters | Shame on Gingrich - Louisville Co ...
  Reader Letters | Shame on Gingrich Louisville Courier-Journal During my senior service at Mercy Academy, I have learned a lot about mountaintop removal . This coal-harvesting process occurs when coal companies blast the ... and more��
• Nike to alter uniform ad that upset mine activists ...
  Washington Post Nike to alter uniform ad that upset mine activists The Associated Press It's the depiction of a mountaintop removal mine behind the image of a player, complete with flat, treeless mountaintop, the sound of an explosion and the ... One More Reason to Boycott Nike: Exploiting Mountain ...

Memeorandum

• Obama May Name Warren as Interim Consumer Finance ...
  Hans Nichols / Bloomberg : Obama May Name Warren as Interim Consumer Finance Agency Head   —  Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama may appoint Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard law professor who scolded U.S. banks while overseeing their bailout, as the interim head of the new Consumer Financia ...
• Boehner Plays Central Role in Democratic Ad (Carl ...
  Carl Hulse / New York Times : Boehner Plays Central Role in Democratic Ad   —  WASHINGTON — Democrats are again stepping up their effort to elevate Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio into a symbol of the Republican Party virtually equivalent to the elephant.  And in doing so, they are executin ...
• We didn't "sneak in" to Sarah Palin's speech (Sher ...
  Sherry Devlin / Missoula Editor : We didn't “sneak in” to Sarah Palin's speech   —  First: This blogpost is not about politics.  —  Second: Contrary to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's warning to the standing-room-only crowd at this afternoon's Teen Challenge fundraiser in Missoula, the media did n ...
• President Obama seeks his inner Bill Clinton and f ...
  Sam Youngman / The Hill : President Obama seeks his inner Bill Clinton and feels voters' pain   —  President Obama told a small crowd in Fairfax, Va., on Monday that he would stand in the hot sun with them and “feel their pain.”  —  He was meeting with a Fairfax family for a backyard discussion on ...
• Document drop: Breaking: DOJ Inspector General wil ...
  Michelle Malkin : Document drop: Breaking: DOJ Inspector General will investigate Obama voting rights record   —  Just obtained this letter from Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine to members of Congress informing them that he will open up a review of the Obama administration's selecti ...

Energy & Environment News

• Biotech Company to Patent Fuel-Secreting Bacterium
  The organism can grow in bodies of water unfit for drinking on land that is useless for farming, the company says.
• BP Spill Report Hints at Legal Defense
  BP released the results of an internal investigation that heaped some of the blame on itself, but mostly pointed at other companies.
• No Risk, Says Leader of Spill Response
  After a new blowout preventer was latched to the wellhead, BP prepared to conduct tests that should allow the company to finish plugging the well.
• Health Dividend Seen in Deeper Emission Cuts
  Projecting a reduction in pollutants that cause respiratory illnesses, and the avoidance of health costs linked to heat waves, floods, reduced food production and infectious diseases.
• Which Comes First – Peak Everything or Peak ...
  Does the human capacity for foresight matter or are we destined to hit environmental walls?

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.0, offshore Bio-Bio, Chile
  Tuesday, September 14, 2010 03:23:39 UTC Monday, September 13, 2010 11:23:39 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
• M 5.3, Balleny Islands region
  Sunday, September 12, 2010 06:00:32 UTC Sunday, September 12, 2010 04:00:32 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.3, State of Yap, Federated States of Micronesi ...
  Thursday, September 9, 2010 03:41:31 UTC Thursday, September 9, 2010 01:41:31 PM at epicenter Depth : 28.60 km (17.77 mi)
• M 5.1, Kuril Islands
  Wednesday, September 8, 2010 19:26:00 UTC Thursday, September 9, 2010 07:26:00 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
• M 5.3, Kyrgyzstan
  Tuesday, September 7, 2010 15:41:42 UTC Tuesday, September 7, 2010 09:41:42 PM at epicenter Depth : 39.70 km (24.67 mi)

China Dialogue

• Peak population
  Fertility policies have failed to win favour among climate-change strategists but lowering the global birth rate is a workable way to cut emissions, argues Sara Parkin, kicking off a series of articles on demography. At the time of the first United Nations World Population Year in 1974, there were 4 ...
• 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Billionaire Farmers Scheming to Privatize Californ ...
  Two devastating lawsuits have been filed this summer in an attempt to claw back hundreds of millions (and possibly billions) of dollars in ill-gotten profits.
• Time to Fight! 9 Things Obama Can Do to Prevent a ...
  If Obama can smoke out Republican ideas, most voters will notice that they agree with him more than they agree with John Boehner and the GOP.
• Say ‘Hell No’ To Genetically Engineere ...
  The first genetically engineered animal may be hitting our plates soon and you may not even know it. The FDA has approved a GE ‘frankenfish’ called the AquaAdvantage salmon. If this nightmare clears the last hurdle, then it will end up in stores and won’t be required to be labeled as the deranged sc ...
• BP Helped Write Environmental Curriculum for Calif ...
  This post first appeared on Treehugger. In the post-Deepwater Horizon explosion rush to expose every devious, idiotic, two-faced, greedy, and hypocritical move BP has every made, the media has brought us a veritable treasure trove of anecdotes and revelations: BP saved millions by cutting corners ...
• Nebraska and the Falsehood of Fetal Pain
  Written by Susan Yanow for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice. In August I cheered the injunction against Nebraska’s so called âWomen’s Health Protection Act.â  This misleadingly named law would have required physicians to present all research ...

Threat Level

• Appeals Court Guts Landmark Computer Privacy Rulin ...
  Bowing to the Obama administration, a federal appeals court Monday gutted its own decision that had dramatically narrowed the government’s search-and-seizure powers in the digital age. The 9-2 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals nullifies Miranda-style guidelines the court promulgated la ...
• 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Oprah trip 'Down Under' surprises Australians - wi ...
  SYDNEY, Sept 14 (Reuters Life!) - Oprah Winfrey might have surprised her talk show audience on Monday by giving them all a free, eight-day trip to Australia but the trip also surprised Australians -- with a A$3 million (US$2.8 million) bill.
• US scientists learn how to levitate tiny objects
  CHICAGO, Jan 7 (Reuters) - U.S. scientists have found a way to levitate the very smallest objects using the strange forces of quantum mechanics, and said on Wednesday they might use it to help make tiny nanotechnology machines.
• Oil steady near 1-month highs on expected U.S. sto ...
  LONDON (Reuters) - Oil was steady on Tuesday at above $77 a barrel, a little below one-month highs, ahead of inventory reports expected to show crude stock draws as the shutdown of the biggest Canada-U.S. pipeline entered a fifth day.
• Pyramids, Nanowires Show Two Futures for Artificia ...
  Video: Stanford University News Service Making artificial limbs that can perform gross motor functions is relatively easy. Fine motor actions are harder, and wiring the limbs into the nervous system is harder still. But researchers at Berkeley and Stanford are crossing the real frontier: making art ...
• Settlements row to dominate U.S.-led Mideast talks
  SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton began a round of talks on Tuesday to try to bridge an impasse over Israeli settlement building that threatens to scupper new Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

IntelNews

• US Pentagon to ban book by DIA intelligence office ...
  By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | American military officials are in negotiations with a major publishing firm to prevent the distribution of a new book on the Afghanistan War by a US intelligence officer, even though thousands of copies of … Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #430
  Russians arrested outside US power plant. Police in the US state of Georgia have arrested one Kazakh and two Russian citizens, who were carrying “a machete, shovel, wire cutters and ski masks”, outside Georgia Powerâs Plant McIntosh, at 1:00 in … Continue reading →
• Irish republicans used cameras to spy on MI5
  By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | British government officials in Northern Ireland have ordered 20 trees cut down outside a spying installation, after a number of surveillance cameras were discovered hidden among the tree branches. The trees are located around … Continue reading →
• 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 →

After Downing Street.org

• Time for a Dump Obama movement
  By: jeffroby A couple of weeks ago, in comments on various blogs, I threw out the notion that it was time to start a Dump Obama movement. It stirred up a variety of responses:         The move is premature.         We need to concentrate on further exposing Obama first.         The masses aren’t y ...
• Is Anyone Dead on Your Highway?
  By David Swanson It's over a decade since I last heard Ralph Nader speak in Charlottesville, Va., and I was curious to see what kind of crowd would greet him Monday evening. The answer was one of the biggest rooms on campus packed, and mostly with students, enthusiastic students who gave standing o ...
• Afghanistan War Weekly: September 13, 2010
  Next Saturday citizens of Afghanistan will vote for representatives to the lower house of parliament. The politicians and mass media in the United States and Europe will be the most important judges of the election. In a typical US-sponsored election, the US media will ordinarily focus on voter en ...
• Rights
  Rights should not be taken for granted � September 13, 2010 - It's easy to forget that the faces we see on TV, in magazines and in newspapers are real people, just like us. It's easy to think of the man in the green uniform, leaving on a plane, as a soldier fighting a war, and not a much-loved son g ...
• What To Say To Your Member of Congress
  From UFPJ For delegations that are planning local meetings with members of Congress or their staffs over, the next few weeks, here are some key items: A major goal of the meeting is to emphasize the desire of constituents for a rapid and complete end of the Afghanistan War. Since it possesses the " ...

Grist - News

• Long-delayed BP well kill back on in Gulf of Mexic ...
  by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- BP on Monday began drilling the final stretch of a relief well that will allow engineers to permanently seal its disastrous Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico. Drilling stopped more than a month ago due to the threat posed by a tropical storm, and a leng ...
• Congress is back, but can it really pass a Renewab ...
  by Randy Rieland. If you listen really, really hard, you might be able to detect a pulse for a Renewable Electricity Standard (RES). Congress comes back to Washington this week and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) says (I know, it's not easy to believe Harry), it may actually get ser ...
• 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 ...

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Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

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Time - Top Stories

• Early Warning Signs: New Potential for Alzheimer's ...
  Researchers identified a group of more than two dozen proteins circulating in the blood that may be elevated in those with Alzheimer's, opening up the possibilities of a blood test
• Entourage Watch: Bad Bromance
  From the season that Entourage began, its creator, Doug Ellin, was clear on what he did not want the show to be
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• Election Road Trip: Russ Feingold Running Hard
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Washington Independent

• Center for Competitive Politics Responds to Lessig
  In response to Lawrence Lessig’s article on Citizens United, the Center for Competitive Politics’s Allison Hayward has published a piece in the Boston Review. It’s shorter and, at first glance at least, less convincing, especially in its treatment of Lessig’s argument that Congress be “dependent upo ...
• Political Ad Spending Defies Bad Economy
  Tell your children to get a degree in advertising — political advertising, to be exact. Despite the economic downturn, and despite the fact that we’re not in a presidential election cycle, Adweek is reporting that spending on political advertising sales are predicted to break records: According to B ...
• Governors Call for Passage of Renewable Energy Sta ...
  The heads of the Governors’ Wind Energy Coalition — Govs. Chet Culver (D-Iowa) and Don Carcieri (R-R.I.) — today sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) calling for passage this year of a “strong” renewable energy standard. The letter comes in the midst of a broad lobbying effort ...
• McConnell Proposes Freezing All Income Tax Rates
  Today, in the Senate’s first session since early August, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the minority leader, proposed freezing income tax rates for all Americans. The White House is currently pushing for an extension of the Bush tax cuts for middle-class and lower-income Americans, while letting the ...
• More Senators Refuse Tax Increase for the Rich
  Senate Democrats, back to business this week, are blasting out some snazzy graphics regarding the Bush tax cuts. Here’s one from today: The grist for the graphic? Every Senate Republican has agreed to filibuster any bill renewing or making permanent the Bush tax cuts for middle-class families, whil ...

Digg Green

• Welcome to planet Earth’s public transport ca ...
  Over 90% of Hong Kong's inhabitants daily journeys are via public transport – the highest rate worldwide – meaning car dependency (and the shocking carbon stats that come with it) are now a thing of the past.
• It's ok to trust your gut
  Antonio Damasio, noted researcher and professor of neuroscience at USC, talks about emotions and the science of being human. He describes the difference between emotions and feelings, and explains why emotions are one of humanity's most important survival mechanisms.
• The Awesome Hidden Power of Dog Poop
  A cool invention called the Park Spark was unveiled last week in a Cambridge dog park. The methane digester converts dog poop into energy, and that energy is now powering a gas-burning lamp at the park.
• Scientists Invent 'e-Skin '--Could Give Sense ...
  This newly developed pressure-sensitive electronic skin (made from semiconductor nanowires) could be used to restore touch to patients who have prosthetic limbs...as well have wide-ranging applications in robotics, medicine/surgery, even driving safety.
• Noise what you need to hear {Infographic}

Invisible Opportunity

• Video – WTC Buildings Were Taken Down by Con ...
• Five Dancing Israelis Arrested On 9/11
• Untangling the Bizarre CIA Links to the Ground Zer ...
  By Mark Ames For instance, one of the earliest backers of the nonprofit group, the Cordoba Initiative, that is spearheading the Ground Zero mosque, is a 52-year-old Scarsdale, New York, native named R. Leslie Deak. In addition to serving on the group’s board of advisors since its founding in 2004 by ...
• Mossad Link To 1st WTC Bombing Raises Eyebrows
  Michael Collins Piper According to Friedman, writing in The Village Voice: “It was during his prison stay that Mossad, Israel’s CIA, apparently recruited him, say Israeli intelligence sources. By the time he was released after having served just one year, he had seemingly undergone a radical transfo ...
• Rachel Corrie v. Israel Trial: Contradictions Emer ...
  By KARL VICK The day after the American activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by the armored Israeli bulldozer she was trying to stop from destroying a Palestinian home, then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promised U.S. President George W. Bush “a thorough, credible and transparent invest ...

Global Insights

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• 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
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AlterNet - DrugReporter

• Former Police Chief: Legalize Pot, Now
  As San Jose's retired chief of police and a cop with 35 years experience on the front lines in the war on marijuana, I'm voting yes on Prop. 19.
• Lawyers' Advice on What Marijuana Suspects Should ...
  Panel of marijuana criminal defense attorneys on the opening day of NORML's 39th Annual National Conference in Portland unanimously suggest: exercise your right to remain silent.
• Pop Quiz: How Much Do You Really Know About Drugs ...
  Here is your chance to test your knowledge and find out how much you know about drugs and drug policy.
• California Pot Legalization Could Stop the Murdero ...
  The Mexican drug war that has taken the lives of 28,000 people over the past four years could conceivably come to an end if California votes to legalize marijuana.
• In the Face of the Drug War's Total Failure, Can C ...
  Drug prohibition is remarkably ineffective, costly and counter-productive -- it has cost people their lives, and put millions behind bars. Is the tide turning?

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

• Nakheel Tower Designed to be the World’s Tallest S ...
  Designed for Dubai by Woods Bagot, the Nakheel Tower is planned to be the world’s tallest skyscraper. The towering spire would stand over a kilometer tall, measuring in at 1,400 meters (4,593 ft) and putting the Burj Khalifa to shame. The tower is part of a much larger marina development in Dubai an ...
• Simple Wooden iPad Stand Helps Save American Fores ...
  Many people are adopting the iPad as a multi-tasking computer, television, and all-purpose media machine — so what better way to prop that baby up than with this clever little iEcostand? Not only is it sustainably made, but for every stand purchased, $1 is donated to the American Forests Organizatio ...
• Recovery Huts: Durable Disaster Shelters Set up in ...
  Emergency Recovery Huts are better than tents and easier to set-up and breakdown.
• LED Hourglass Switch Shuts Your Lights Off for You
  One of the hardest things about saving energy is disciplining ourselves to turn off our lights and appliances when they aren’t in use. Well designers Jia Wen Chen & Wei-Ting Chen came up with a solution to that problem – a light that turns itself off for you. Called Flat Light, this LED hourglass ti ...
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  Pneumatic tubes are a staple of the drive-thru bank, but the same method is also being used to operate some small residential elevators. We recently caught wind of this product and were awash with memories of the Jetsons, which left us more than curious to find out more. To our delight we discovere ...

Pogue's Posts

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• More on the Virgin MiFi
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• Laptops Look Like Racecars - and Not in a Good Way
  A new Windows PC comes covered with advertising stickers even though computer companies are trying to make their laptops beautiful. They ought to stop.
• Another Way to Look at the iPad vs. Kindle Debate
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• Google Shakes It Up Again With Free Phone Calls
  A new feature from Google makes it clear that one day, the Internet, not the outrageous cellphone companies, will connect our calls.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Space Makes Polymers Hard
  Space radiation might finally be good for something. The high-energy particles that degrade spacecraft and threaten astronauts’ health could actually help make a new material useful for inflatable space habitats. “Under space conditions, radiation is usually considered a damaging factor,” said mate ...
• Gamers Better at Fast Decision-Making
  Don’t tell that guy blasting rampaging zombies to smithereens in his favorite videogame that he’s getting lessons in efficient decision making. Wait until he’s done to deliver this buzz kill: Playing shoot-‘em-up, action-packed videogames strengthens a person’s ability to translate sensory informat ...
• Oversexed Female Snails Make Males Chase Each Othe ...
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• Close Encounters With Asteroids Happen Often
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• The More Victims, the Less Severe the Judgment
  An examination of jury verdicts over the past decade involving people charged for exposing others to toxic substances, has revealed that the more victims are involved in a case, the less the harshly the perpetrator of the crime is penalized. The study,  which also included two experiments in the la ...

The Progressive Realist

• Iranian Grand Ayatollah Writes Letter about Cleric ...
  Grand Ayatollah Mohammad-Ali Dastgheib, a prominent cleric critical of the government and member of the Assembly of Experts, issued an open later on September 11 urging members of the Assembly to perform their duties and make sure the Iranian constitution is followed as the law of the land. In this ...
• With Referendum, Turkey Becoming Both More Democra ...
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• NATO in Afghanistan: Perception and Reality
  Anatol Lieven, the eminent journalist and now professor at the King's College Department of War Studies, argues that the NATO effort in Afghanistan suffers from disparate and implausible motives and a profound lack of understanding of Afghanistan and the Taliban. In a very long book review essay ...
• Kissinger's Swan Song for World Order
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• Towards a Permanent US Presence in Iraq?
  �Iraq’s Defense Minister Obeidi flanked by the Iraqi and U.S. generals in charge of training the security forces. The Minister recently said that such aid would be needed past the 2011 withdrawal date Iraq’s Defense Minister Abdul Qadir Obeidi talked to the Los Angeles Times in September 2010, and t ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: Imaginary Pumas.
  Michael Tomasky doubts Tea Party candidate Christine O’Donnell ’s claim to have the backing of many�"Pumas"�-- an amorphous group of people said to have gone from die-hard Hillary fans to McCain /Palin supporters during the 2008 presidential election. O’Donnell, the Republican candidate for Delawa ...
• Yes, Government Jobs Are Real Jobs.
  I don't spend enough time on libertarian blogs, so I can't tell if Reason's Tim Cavanaugh is joking or not when he cites Cuba's massive lay-off of government employees as evidence that the failed worker's paradise is "more capitalist than [the] USA": While the United States, under local, state and ...
• The Little Picture: Ill-Fated Agreement.
  (AP/Ron Edmonds) September 13, 1993: President Clinton presides over ceremonies marking the signing of the peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians on the White House lawn with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin , left, and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat , right.
• All Tax Cuts Are Tax Cuts for the Wealthy.
  On Sunday, Republican Majority Leader John Boehner was asked [PDF] whether he would only support locking-in middle-income tax cuts if Congress also made tax cuts for the wealthy permanent. "I want to do something for all Americans who pay taxes," he replied. The good news is, he can! As the Center ...
• Prisoners of Age.
  ( Ackerman/Gruber Images ) Today's Washington Post has a fascinating article on the problem Virginia has with its growing population of elderly inmates: Deerfield, Virginia's only geriatric prison, is where the state's inmates are sent to grow old. They're transferred to this facility in Capron ...

Buzzflash

• For Democrats Truth is the Best Offense
  Body Some say there’s no difference between the two major parties, but despite the fact that corporate and banking interests wield extraordinary power in Congress on both sides of the aisle, important differences exist nonetheless. Replacing the current leadership in Congress with nay ...
• Corporate Mainstream Media Complicity in Financial ...
  DANNY SCHECHTER FOR BUZZFLASH Q: Why are media outlets doing such a bad job covering Wall Street?��� A: Could it be, because they are owned by Wall Street?� By Danny Schechter, Author of The Crime Of Our Time � When you connect the dots in your writing or look for deeper explanations behind th ...
• Is John Boehner an Orange Glow Muslim Manchurian C ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH I know we have lots of loyal followers but It’s so important that we grow. By the way, suspiciously tan John Boehner Is a Muslim or a secret Negro! In addition to Verse-Case Scenario, Tony Peyser writes about California politics with PeyserPoem, a daily feature at KPCC's ne ...
• Senator Bernie Sanders: End Tax Breaks for the Wea ...
  BUZZFLASH ALERT The following is a news release from Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is also a BuzzFlash Reader: WASHINGTON, September 13 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the longest serving independent in Congress, today disagreed with the other Senate independent, Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), on re ...
• The Subversion of the GOP: Every Last One of Them ...
  BARBARA'S BUZZ FROM ATLANTA Subversion is synonymous with Treason---Subversion is defined as "an activity undermining government, an action, plan, or activity intended to undermine or overthrow a government or other institution---the destruction or ruining of something," which clearly describes that ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The Democratic fear-based strategy
  Rather than tout their own accomplishments, Democrats look to fear of Sarah Palin to motivate their base
• America the Exceptional
  The U.S. forces Iraq to pay $400 million to torture victims 2 days after America's victims are denied court access
• Tom Goldstein and the perils of conflict-plagued c ...
  The ostensibly objective Supreme Court analyst is plagued with conflicts that produce unreliable analysis
• The Pastor and cheap, selective concern for "blood ...
  People with ample blood on their hands suddenly find anger over blood-spilling when the culprit is powerless
• Obama wins the right to invoke "State Secrtes" to ...
  The Obama/Bush weapon for shielding presidential lawbreaking from judicial review becomes stronger

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate floo ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

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

• Americans Call For Tighter Regulation of Hydraulic ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 10, 2010 Sierra Club Thousands of Americans are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a comprehensive study of the environmental and health threats of natural gas fracturing. Pollution from this drilling technique – commonly known as fracking – ...
• Human Rights First Statement on 9th Anniversary of ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 10, 2010 Human Rights First Today, Human Rights First issued the following statement marking the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, tragic events that resulted in the deaths of nearly 3,000 people. "On this solemn anniversary, we expr ...
• Food & Water Watch Asks Federal Court to Order BP ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 10, 2010 Food & Water Watch  The national consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch today filed its long awaited lawsuit against BP in federal court for violating a number of federal laws in the operation of the BP Atlantis oil and gas platform, one of the largest ...
• 9/11, Burning Qurans and Burning People
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 10, 2010 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)   COLLEEN KELLY TERRY ROCKEFELLER Available for a limited number of interviews, Kelly lost her brother, William, and Rockefeller lost her sister, Laura, in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. They are membe ...
• U.S. EPA Will Review Loophole That Stripped Regula ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 10, 2010 Earthjustice The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to revisit a loophole that stripped federal oversight of companies that handle 1.5 million tons of hazardous waste each year. The loophole allows any company that claims to recycle hazardous ...

Common Dreams-Views

• NYT Pushes Confrontation with Iran
  by Robert Parry Apparently having learned no lessons from the Iraq WMD debacle, the New York Times is pushing for a heightened confrontation with Iran, slipping into the same kind of hysteria that it and other major U.S. news organizations displayed in 2002 and 2003. ...
• We Need a (Green) Jobs Program
  by Jeannette Wicks-Lim Fourteen months of an unemployment rate at or near 10% clearly calls for the federal government to take a lead role in job creation. The White House should push its clean-energy agenda as a jobs program but steer clear of all the hype about “green-collar” jobs. Green-collar ...
• Iraq: The Democrats War
  by Stephen Zunes The ongoing presence of over 50,000 US troops, many thousands of civilian employees and tens of thousands of US-backed mercenaries raises serious questions over the significance of the partial withdrawal of US forces from Iraq. The August 31 deadline marking the "end of US combat op ...
• 11th September - Hope or Hate?
  by Felicity Arbuthnot "No creature smarts so little as a fool." -- (Alexander Pope, 1688-1744.) read more
• If That 'Mosque' ISN'T Built, This Is No Longer Am ...
  by Michael Moore I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on Ground Zero. read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

• How The Bush Administration Fubarred Af/Pak From T ...
  By Steve Hynd George Washington University has unveiled a series of previously unseen documents relating to the beginnings of the war in Afghanistan. War was always and entirely the only option on the table. As current U.S. strategy increasingly pursues policies to reconcile or “flip” the Taliban, t ...
• Where's The Progress, General Petraeus?
  By Steve Hynd An important article by the New York Times' Rod Nordland puts a massive dent in the Saintly General's PR campaign to suggest, without evidence, that there's any kind of progress in Afghanistan. Unarmed government employees can no longer travel safely in 30 percent of the country’s 368 ...
• 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 ...

Water Wars

• Pakistan Has Water Shortage Despite Floods
  Despite recent floods, Pakistan and other Asia nation have a shortage of usable water.
• Magda Abu-Fadil: Stockholm Water Confab Rings Alar ...
  "S**t!" The BBC allowed freelance journalist/author Rose George http://rosegeorge.com to use the word on the air to ring alarm bells that 2.6 billion people -...
• The Next 10 Years
  What Happens Next: Our Look Ahead
• A last look at summer fun
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• Water wars: Mercer students stay cool while having ...
  Mercer senior Briana Boatwright gets shot with water by senior Katie Wibell during a water gun fight on campus Friday afternoon.

WordPress | Economics

• News Release: HHS awards $16.8 million to train p ...
  we are in PlanetUSA.us united states’s directory News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, Se
• Toward a Strong Economy
  The stock market was buoyed Monday by news that new global banking rules would not be as restrictive
• Cuba Stops Being Socialist
  � ���� Do not think about, write about or deal with� human behavior wi
• Sean Rushton on the Strong Dollar
  My friend Sean Rushton has an excellent piece in the Washington Times on the GOP and a strong dollar
• Tirole On Toxic Assets
  Jean Tirole has written the best theoretical analysis I have seen of the role of government interven

Electronic Intifada

• Gaza subjected to air strikes, water crisis
  Three Palestinian farmers were killed by Israeli tank shelling late at night 12 September in the northernmost occupied Gaza Strip, along the no-go "buffer zone" enforced by ...
• No animals, no visitors at Gaza's lone zoo
  ZEITOUN, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - "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-creat ...
• "They don't want our boys educated"
  Located just north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, the entrance to the Palestinian village of Beit Ommar is also the site of an Israeli military post. A large yellow gate is ...
• Boycott leadership: solidarity with French activis ...
  The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), on behalf of its constituent organizations and unions representing the majority of Palestinian c ...
• Respect the Palestinian-led picket line
  The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel warmly salutes the tens of American and British theater, film and TV artists for their recently pub ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Flood relief efforts force Pakistan Army to alter ...
  Pakistani military officials have said that the flood relief effort undertaken by the country's armed forces have forced the army to alter plans to combat Taliban and Al Qaeda militants, extending the stay of troops fighting militants in the Swat valley by six months.
• Taliban may be eyeing role in Afghan politics agai ...
  Taliban leaders are apparently nurturing hopes of rebuilding their political clout in Kabul, according to a top United Nations envoy and some Afghan politicians.
• US drone attack kills eight militants in Pakistan
  At least eight militants were killed Tuesday in a suspected US drone attack in Pakistan's tribal region along the Afghan border, Pakistani security officials said.
• US diplomat urges NATO to partition Afghanistan or ...
  A senior former American national security adviser, Robert Blackwill, has warned that the Taliban are "winning" and the foreign forces are "losing" in Afghanistan and added that the country should be partitioned along ethnic lines by pulling back NATO forces to deal with the problem.
• How Pakistan protected Taliban against US
  WASHINGTON: As "Taliban's primary sponsor" Pakistan protected and promoted its client every inch of the way in the immediate days after 9/11 resulting in undermining the US war on terror, newly dec...

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

• Geithner's Dirty Little Secret
• Swine Flu
• Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: Or ...
• The Fake Oil Crisis of 1973
• Fossiles Erdöl
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on Government Oversight

• Privacy Please: Preventing Contractor Misuse of Se ...
  In performing services for the federal government, contractor employees must access and use very sensitive personal, business and government information. A new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) warns that many kinds of sensitive information are not fully protected...
• Gates Opposed to Joint Strike Fighter Accountabili ...
  Last week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates sent a letter to Senators Carl Levin, D-Mich., and John McCain, R-Ariz., opposing a provision in the House version of the defense authorization bill that puts limits on the number of Joint Strike Fighter...
• Morning Smoke: Inside the Pentagon's "Wikileaks Wa ...
  The General Gunning for WikiLeaks by Philip Shenon [The Daily Beast] Banks Get New Restraints by Damian Palette [The Wall Street Journal] SIGTARP Probe Could Impact Citi's Accounting for Controversial DTAs by Charlie Gasparino [FOXBusiness] Whistleblower fears for vit plant...
• 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...

Digital Journal

• American accused of stabbing Ontario man
  An American man has been arrested after a weekend stabbing in Pickering, Ontario. The suspect surrendered at the crime scene to Durham Regional Police.
• RCMP warn about acid Gummie Bears
  Drug trafficking has a new face-the innocent looking Gummie Bear. The Cranbrook RCMP found a bag of the candies this spring during a search warrant at a drug house and sent them to be tested. The tests revealed the candy was laced with LSD.
• Con-man busted by Toronto Police
  Using an online dating service an accused con-man targeted single women and senior citizens across Canada. The accused played the role of an international businessman and venture capitalist.
• Sugar Beach, the latest addition to Toronto's shor ...
  Toronto has recently started to make a lot of efforts to revitalise its harbour front. The latest effort, Sugar Beach, is now accessible to the public. It is a modern creation, sweet as the name suggests, with a definite feminine touch.
• Canada losing renewable fresh water resources at a ...
  Statistics Canada has issued a report warning that southern Canada is losing renewable fresh water at the rate of 3.5 percent a year. This has prompted a renewed call for federal legislation from concerned organizations.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Sacramento Wants to Hand Over Responsibility for t ...
  It worked for tech support, why not homeless services? Sacramento County, California is considering outsourcing its programs that target the homeless to a new non-profit organization made up of government officials and private stakeholders. Why now? Well, the city's homeless services budget will be ...
• The Human Face of Hotel Homelessness
  In a small room with two beds and a mini-fridge near the end of a chain of motels in San Jose, four-year-old Jasmine watches cartoons while her older sister is at school. Just outside the open door, standing in the parking lot, her mother Heather tells me about their trip here. She was in her late-2 ...
• How Will the 11th Circuit Court Rule on Homeless F ...
  The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit , commonly referred to as the 11th Circuit Court, will soon make a critical decision regarding the legality of groups feeding homeless people in public parks. Four years ago the city of Orlando, Florida passed a ban on groups feeding the ho ...
• Homeless Man Killed in Hit-and-Run After Jail Rele ...
  The movies would have us believe that an inmate's release from jail is a triumphant departure: sun shining, deep breath of fresh air and a waiting ride home. In reality the scene is usually much bleaker, especially for those individuals released late at night without anywhere safe to go. Those circu ...
• An Aging Homeless Woman Asks, "What's the Use?"
  This new video comes from Mark's InvisiblePeople.tv 30-city, 11,000-mile, 75-day road trip , going on now. Dianna just landed a new job but that may not be enough to help her leave homelessness. As she says, one also needs a car or money for public transportation, a phone so employers can call and ...

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

• ObamaCare Lies Starting To Surface
  September 13, 2010 Yahoo! News by Erica Werner & Calvin Woodward President Barack Obama told voters repeatedly during the health care debate that the overhaul legislation would bring down fast-rising health care costs and save them money. Now, he’s hemming and hawing on that. So far, the law he sign ...
• Your Next MRI Could Cost You Your Life
  September 13, 2010 Natural News by Jonathan Benson Patients who undergo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans are often given drug injections to enhance the quality of scan images. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced that these drugs will now require a black box warni ...
• All Pregnant Women Need Vitamin D Daily
  September 13, 2010 Natural News by David Gutierrez Mothers who took 4,000 IU of vitamin D daily cut their risk of premature delivery by half, in a study conducted by researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina and presented at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in V ...
• TV Damages Children’s Health
  September 13, 2010 Natural News by David Gutierrez 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 & A ...
• Government Motors CEO Gets $9M Pay Package
  September 13, 2010 Yahoo! News by Tom Krisher New General Motors Co. CEO Daniel Akerson will get the same $9 million pay package as the man he replaced, Ed Whitacre. Akerson, a former telecommunications industry and private equity executive, will receive $1.7 million in annual salary, $5.3 million i ...

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

• The road to fascism in America
  In an interview on ABC News which aired yesterday, Imam Feisal Rauf, who leads the Cordoba initiative which plans to open an Islamic center near the site of the World Trade Center, was asked why he does not want to relocate, in spite of strong opposition to the plan. My major concern with moving it ...
• Nick Turse: Afghanistan on life support
  Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com You’ve undoubtedly had the experience of pulling on a tiny, fraying thread and discovering, to your shock, that the larger piece of clothing you’re wearing suddenly begins to unravel.  The equivalent seems to be happening in Afghanistan right before our ...
• This is America
  A burned Quran along with excrement-smeared pages from the holy book were found outside the Islamic Center of East Lansing, Michigan yesterday. The FBI have been called in to launch an investigation. The same day, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called for federal hate crime charge ...
• 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 ...

Watts Up With That?

• Smacking Down Malaria Misconceptions
  Economist Indur Goklany, a frequent contributor to WUWT and occasional commenter has more than a few things to say about commenter Ed Darrell’s views on Malaria posted on WUWT yesterday. There’s so much in fact, that I’ve dedicated a whole … Continue reading →
• The Climate Fix is “in”
  The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won’t Tell You About Global Warming is now available at Amazon.com Why has the world been unable to address global warming? Science policy expert Roger Pielke, Jr., says itâs not the fault of … Continue reading →
• My town’s “Climate Action Plan”
  The town I live in, Chico, CA is sometimes known as “Berkeley North” due to the liberal influence of Chico State University (CSUC). In this case, CSUC’s sustainability cabal, led by Professor Mark Stemen and Mayor Ann Schwab, has snookered … Continue reading →
• Study: Landmass shape affects extent of Arctic sea ...
  NSIDC Arctic Sea Ice Extent – click to enlarge Via AGU journal highlights: Arctic sea ice has retreated significantly in recent years, reaching a record low in September 2007. It is known that the seasonal cycle in Arctic sea ice … Continue reading →
• 1,000′s of Japans Centenarians Died Decades ...
  In another example of vital statistics being grossly distorted by a combination of poor record keeping and possibly people with a selfish agenda, it is being reported in the Guardian and elsewhere that possibly hundreds of thousands of people over … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• British Parliamentarians to Raise Issue of Sri Lan ...
  by Suren Surendiran Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://www.tamilsforum.com 12 September, 2010 PRESS ALERT September 12th 2010 “The first Foreign and Commonwealth Office Oral Questions session since summer recess will throw a spotlight onto the current human rights situation in Sri Lanka. Taking ...
• Rainbow Pie – So different yet so familiar B ...
  By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Creative-i 11 September, 2010 photo by Dandelion Salad Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir By Joe Bageant. Portobello Books, London, 2010 ‘Cotton never saw much cash, and never got rich by any means. Not on the ten-cent and fifteen-cent purchases that farm ...
• A Conversation with Noam Chomsky on Palestine & Is ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Frank Barat Vimeo Filmed conversation with Noam Chomsky on Palestine/Israel. Main topics covered are: Zionism, Right of return of Palestinian Refugees, one state/two states solution and the BDS movement. Filmed by Frank Barat at the M.I.T, Cambridge, USA on 2 ...
• How our lives have changed since 9/11 by Cindy She ...
  by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox September 11, 2010 (REMARKS FOR L.A. AND NYC 9/11 EVENTS) Many people here today just woke up (whether abruptly or gradually) to the fact that the US Empire is a criminal construct capable of murder ...
• From Ronald Reagan and the Soviet-Afghan War to Ge ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, September 9, 2010 This article summarizes earlier writings by the author on 9/11 and the role of Al Qaeda in US foreign policy. For further details see Michel Chossudovsky, America’s “War on Terrorism”, Global Research, 200 ...

Your New Reality

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  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 ...
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  Creating new realities? It's the CIA's main mission, isn't it?
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  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

• Space Makes Polymers Hard
  Space radiation might finally be good for something. The high-energy particles that degrade spacecraft and threaten astronauts’ health could actually help make a new material useful for inflatable space habitats. “Under space conditions, radiation is usually considered a damaging factor,” said mate ...
• Gamers Better at Fast Decision-Making
  Don’t tell that guy blasting rampaging zombies to smithereens in his favorite videogame that he’s getting lessons in efficient decision making. Wait until he’s done to deliver this buzz kill: Playing shoot-‘em-up, action-packed videogames strengthens a person’s ability to translate sensory informat ...
• Oversexed Female Snails Make Males Chase Each Othe ...
  Fed up with attention they don’t need, some female snails have learned to smell like guys. Unlike other species of periwinkle snail, Littorina saxatilis ladies can’t be identified from chemical cues in their slime trail. Deprived of their standard mate-finding trick, male L. saxatilis chase trails ...
• Close Encounters With Asteroids Happen Often
  The only thing that was particularly unusual about two asteroids that zipped past Earth September 8, astronomers say, was that anybody noticed them. Such close approaches — one of the asteroids passed within 79,000 kilometers of Earth — actually happen several times a week, according to scientists’ ...
• The More Victims, the Less Severe the Judgment
  An examination of jury verdicts over the past decade involving people charged for exposing others to toxic substances, has revealed that the more victims are involved in a case, the less the harshly the perpetrator of the crime is penalized. The study,  which also included two experiments in the la ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Israel pushes EU to upgrade ties in light of renew ...
  Israel's Foreign Ministry has asked senior EU officials to renew the process of upgrading Israel's relations with the organization, in view of the renewal earlier this month of direct talks between... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Poll: Fewer than half of Israelis see themselves a ...
  8% of Jewish Israeli adults define themselves as ultra-Orthodox, 12% as religious, 13% as traditional-religious, and 25% as traditional but 'not very religious,' according to [Israel's] Central... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
• Israel pushes EU to upgrade ties in light of renew ...
  Israel's Foreign Ministry has asked senior EU officials to renew the process of upgrading Israel's relations with the organization, in view of the renewal earlier this month of direct talks between... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Peace Now: 2,066 settlement homes to be built as s ...
  New report indicates an overall of 13,000 previously authorized West Bank housing units, construction sites could be built after the Sept. 26 freeze expiration date. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the ...
• 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 ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Regional anti-terror drills start in Kazakhstan
  Joint anti-terror drills of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) entitled Peace Mission 2010 will start on Monday at the Matybulak range in the southeast of Kazakhstan.
• Russia's most powerful warship returns home after ...
  Russia's Pyotr Veliky nuclear-powered missile cruiser will return on Sunday to its home base in northern Russia after a tour-of-duty that lasted for almost six months.
• Ukraine may deliver engines for Russian UAVs
  Russia's Vega and Ukraine's Motor Sich are discussing the possible delivery of Ukrainian-made engines for Russia's unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), Vega CEO Vladimir Verba said on Saturday.
• Russian, Indian air forces may hold joint exercise ...
  Air forces of Russia and India may hold joint exercises in the next few years, Russian Air Force chief, Col. Gen. Alexander Zelin, said after his visit to India.
• Russia's Federal Security Service 'happy' with ind ...
  Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) is satisfied with the domestically produced unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) it is using, a UAV maker said on Friday.

NewsWise

• Scientists Find Key Pathway Implicated in Progress ...
  According to a new study a protein crucial for the immune response appears to be a key player in the progression of a devastating form of childhood leukemia called T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL). Suppressing the activity of the protein kills the leukemic cells, the study shows, opening ...
• Life Sciences Summit 2010, September 22-23
  The Life Sciences Summit 2010 will take place September 22-23, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Long Island, 1717 Motor Parkway, Hauppauge, New York.
• Stony Brook Southampton's Acclaimed "Writers Speak ...
  Series free to the public, includes 10 additional readings, author signings in Southampton and Manhattan from Sept. 27 through Dec. 8.
• Childhood Cancer Survivors Show Sustained Benefit ...
  A medicine widely used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder also provides long-term relief from the attention and behavior changes that affect many childhood cancer survivors, according to a multicenter trial led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators.
• Available Physician Characteristics May Not Help P ...
  Publicly available information about board certification, education and malpractice claims appear to provide consumers with little information about the quality of care individual physicians provide, according to a report in the September 13 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Ar ...

Natural Health News

• Most Americans Skip Fruits and Vegetables
  Consumption of fruits and vegetables has increased significantly in only one U.S. state during the past decade.� And all 50 states continue to fall short of recommended daily intake. Idaho alone had a significant increase in the proportion of residents who consumed fruits and vegetables, but ev ...
• CLA Eases Airways for Asthmatics
  Conjugated linoleic acids (CLA) may improve the airway hyper-reactivity in asthmatics, according to the results of a new study.� A dose of 4.5 grams of CLA each day produced significant reduction in airway hyper-responsiveness.� It also had favorable effects on body weight. CLA is a fatty acid ...
• Obesity Accelerates Leukemia
  A new study is the first to demonstrate that obesity can directly accelerate the progression of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Obesity has been associated with an increased incidence of many cancers, but until now it was unknown whether this was a direct effect of obesity or associated with oth ...
• Obesity and Colon Cancer Linked
  Obesity is known to increase postmenopausal women’s risk of developing colon cancer.� However, new research shows it may also raise their risk of dying from it Researchers culled data from more than 1,000 cases of colon cancer diagnosed between 1986 and 2005.� They documented each woman’s body ...
• Free Hugs Campaign
  In this age of social disconnection, many people lack simple human touch.� The effects of the Free Hugs Campaign are felt around the globe. When police and officials ordered the Free Hugs Campaign banned, people came together to defend it in what can only be described as something awe inspiring ...

Antemedius

• Is Anyone Dead on Your Highway?
  By David Swanson It's over a decade since I last heard Ralph Nader speak in Charlottesville, Va., and I was curious to see what kind of crowd would greet him Monday evening. The answer was one of the biggest rooms on campus packed, and mostly with students, enthusiastic students who gave standing ov ...
• Wall Street's Mercenaries Ride Donkeys
  Robert Scheer's new book "The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street," is not yet another account of how we got robbed or "why the economy imploded for dummies." If you're like me, you just didn't need another lesson in how ...
• New Case Challenges DADT On Due Process Grounds
  There are times in the life of a nation when ideas and attitudes that have been part of the conventional wisdom shift and there is very little that the forces of intolerance and the status quo can do about it. It seems we are reaching that point with the issue of full rights for our gay citizens. Th ...
• How Can U.S. Achieve Credibility While Ignoring Ir ...
  One of the grave tragedies of our times is how Iraqi deaths receive no accountability. This occurs at the point where President Obama and others hold the U.S. out as a major source to achieve global stability. The question is this: How can the U.S. hold itself out as a guardian of peace and secu ...
• 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 ...

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

• Fun with Grammar
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Reading a justifiably nasty review of Meghan McCain’s Dirty, Sexy Politics, I came across this unintentionally funny gem: The most obvious problem with Dirty, Sexy Politics is that grammatically, the book appears to be the work of a high school sophomore ...
• George Soros Off NGO Monitor’s Holiday List
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Gerald Steinberg, the head of right-wing propaganda outlet NGO Monitor, is not happy about George Soros’ recent $100 million gift to Human Rights Watch: In accepting a huge grant from George Soros, Human Rights Watch has spurned the public advice (and war ...
• General Principles of International Law for Apport ...
  by Roger Alford by Roger Alford I have received a significant amount of feedback on my previous post on apportioning responsibility for international violations and therefore I wanted to do a couple of follow up posts on the subject. As Judge Simma indicated in his Separate Opinion in the Oil Pl ...
• Is this ETA’s Farewell to Arms?
  by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen Something that our European readers have already probably heard as it is one of the most viewed stories on the BBC website (but not so much here in the U.S.), the Basque separatist terrorist organization ETA has renounced (at least for now) the use of violence:  Ar ...
• 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 ...

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

• CFS Launches New GE Fish Campaign Website!
  The Center for Food Safety today launched a new campaign website, www.ge-fish.org,  focused on the pending approval and labeling of genetically engineered salmon, the first GE animal intended for human consumption. The website comes one week before the FDA’s scheduled public hearing on the approval ...
• 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 ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• John S. :Keith Harmon Snow on UN “Leaked” Report o ...
  AfrobeatRadio » Blog Archive » Keith Harmon Snow on UN “Leaked” Report on Atrocities on the Congo 1993 -2004 The United Nations has accused Rwanda of wholesale war crimes, including possibly genocide, during years of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. An unprecedented 600-page Report base ...
• The Existentialist Cowboy: Cold War Origins of the ...
  The Existentialist Cowboy: Cold War Origins of the CIA Holocaust By Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy A new book by James W. Douglass [JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters] addresses an "an evil whose depth and deceit seemed to go beyond the capacity of words to describe." A fe ...
• John John: The View From Occupied Canada
  The Tyee – The Fight of Our Lives How do progressives decide on which issues to fight? The question reminds me of my conversations with Myles Horton, founder of the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee and one of the most brilliant and effective leadership-trainers of the past century. He died in 199 ...
• John John: Cops = Murderers: John T. Williams and ...
  Cops = Murderers: John T. Williams and 6 More Killed by Washington State Cops | Mostly Water : Cops = Murderers - John T. Williams and 6 more killed by Washington Cops By Annie Elation - September 11, 2010 Blog posts are the work of individual contributors, reflecting their thoughts, opinions and ...
• U.S. Soldiers Film Themselves Pranking Iraqi by Pl ...
  U.S. Soldiers Film Themselves Pranking Iraqi by Planting a Grenade In His Trunk : "A reality TV show that pranks celebrities by planting fake bombs in their cars is causing a stir in Iraq. But a couple months ago, U.S. soldiers filmed themselves planting a live grenade in an Iraqi's trunk as a 'pr ...

Pensieve

• Cuban Communism’s Death Knell?
  Photo by “Carolonline” Last week, Fidel Castro made statements that were astoundingly out of character for him. Instead of the usual âblack is whiteâ propaganda, he publicly said that the âCuban modelâ no longer works. This week Cuba has announced mass layoffs from government jobs, and the s ...
• 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 ...

Green Times

• Recycle your books
  Books can provide you information or help you relax. But all the paper (recycling-waste/cut-down-paper-not-trees.html) that’s used to make them means a lot of trees are cut down. Recycle (glossary/categories/recycling-waste/recyclable.html) books by giving them to friends or family when you don’t wa ...
• Chamomile tea
  Chamomile does not only look pretty, it tastes good too. Make yourself some fresh chamomile tea. It’s good for your skin, digestion and can help when you have a headache. It’s natural and organic (glossary/food-drink/organic-food.html).   Photo by: Ilse Savenije  
• Use public transport
  Using public transport, like this train, helps us to reduce pollution (glossary/categories/recycling-waste/pollution-reduction.html ). Read more about transport in the article Transport Evolution (technology/transport-evolution-the-new-black.html )Transport section (directory/categories/Transport/ ...
• Environmental News 10/09/2010
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Spotlight on Sustainable House Day
  Find out directly from home owners who’ve put sustainable living into practice, about doing it yourself…

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Arctic fox joins polar bear on new list of Arctic ...
  ShareThis Arctic fox joins polar bear on new list of Arctic species in danger of extinction 14 Sep 2010 Polar bears are not the only species in danger from global warming, a new report has warned. The animals have become an icon of the environmental movement, as their numbers reduce with the melting ...
• MoD probes claim that soldiers are smuggling heroi ...
  ShareThis MoD probes claim that soldiers are smuggling heroin from Afghanistan 12 Sep 2010 Soldiers returning from Afghanistan are being subjected to rigorous security checks amid claims that some are involved in heroin trafficking. The Ministry of Defence confirmed last night that military police w ...
• Five killed in central Iraq violence
  ShareThis Five killed in central Iraq violence 12 Sep 2010�Bomb attacks and firefights on Sunday in the restive central Iraqi province of Diyala killed five people, including two soldiers and a policeman, security officials said. One Iraqi soldier and a policeman were killed in a gunfight with insur ...
• Hamden Muslim family's home vandalized
  ShareThis Hamden Muslim family's home vandalized 12 Sep 2010 A prominent member of the Muslim community in Southern Connecticut says his home was vandalized over the weekend. Dr. Abdul-Majid Karim Hasan and his wife have lived on Dest Street for over 20 years. They�were stunned to see the graffiti o ...
• Suspected bomber arrested
  ShareThis Suspected bomber arrested --Motive, identity of suspected bomber remain unknown 10 Sep 2010 Police in Copenhagen have arrested a man in connection with what appears to be a botched bombing. The man was apprehended shortly after a minor explosion at about 1:30pm in the bathroom of Hotel Jør ...

Daily Loaf

• Out in my 20s — “How could you not know?”
  Whether we like it or not, we are affected by our society, culture and social norms. We live in a straight-by-default society and are not taught to openly examine our sexuality to find who we truly are, who we are naturally attracted to and what kind of relationships we want to have. Instead, we ar ...
• Do It Today: CASA Clothing Swap and Black on Black ...
  Get some garb at CASA's barter-iffic clothing swap and take a bite out of Black on Black Rhyme.
• BAM! Brignac’s walk-off homer makes it a 1-0 Rays ...
  Coming into the game after Carl Crawford was ejected, the young Rays infielder and Louisiana native kicked it up a notch, cracking the evening’s only extra-base hit for the win, putting Tampa Bay in sole possession of first place.
• Tampa MMA fighter Paul Barrow to compete on The Ul ...
  Paul Barrow shoots from the Tampa MMA scene onto your TV screen in the TUF 12 premiere on Wednesday.
• On the Radar: Art After Dark gets breezy-beautiful ...
  The next Art After Dark features music by DJ Brian Oblivion, a lighting-design installation created to cast shadows off Dominique Labauvie's sculptures, Dream Machines and a Joe Griffith collaboration involving industrial fans.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Israel demolishes entire village for fifth time, i ...
  From the Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality, all photos by Oren Ziv of activestills.org The Bedouin unrecognized village of Al Arakib was demolished this morning for the 5th time,immediately after Eid Al-Fitr (one of the most important Muslim holidays marking the end of Ramadan). The villag ...
• Jewish Voice for Peace’s Rabbinical Council ...
  By Jesse Bacon We have been posting less frequently in the past week at The Only Democracy? because of the Rosh Hashana holiday, enough so that we missed one of the proud moments of this season. Our mother organization Jewish Voice for Peace has announced its first ever Rabbinical Council. While not ...
• 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Jerry Brown’s campaign is getting embarrassing
  Jerry Brown apologizes to Bill Clinton after bad-mouthing him eMeg is spending $150 million of her own money to beat Brown and had planned to be well ahead by now. Instead, the race appears mostly even. Brown has run an uninspired, lethargic campaign, when he’s not blundering around putting his foot ...
• And the Pond Scum of the Day Award goes to PG&E
  PG&E backs bid to bill public for disasters
• Cuba moves towards private enterprise
  “We have to end forever the notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working,” Raul Castro said. One-fifth of the work force will lose their state jobs and attempt to work in the private sector. The economic dislocations will be huge and severe. The socialist left ...
• Evil is as evil does: the lesser evil is the enemy ...
  As I noted the other day, desperate Democrats are resorting to political histrionics in their efforts to convince voters to support the Democratic “lesser evil” over and against their Republican counterparts in their bipartisan conspiracy of dunces. As Peter Camejo says in the Avocado Declaration, “ ...
• 85 prisoners ‘escape’ Mexico prison
  This would be the same prison where guards gave weapons to prisoners and sent then out to do contract killings. Seems like a near complete breakdown of anything resembling rule of law, doesn’t it? Supposed drug lords convicts live in luxury inside them. And what better alibi could there be for a con ...

Coteret

• Yediot to Abe Foxman: Are we anti-Semitic too?
  Not exactly, but close. For those of you who have missed the latest chapter of what Matt Duss calls “the continuing attempt to redefine ‘blood libel’ as ‘saying things about Israel I don’t particularly like’”, here’s a brief: This week’s TIME Magazine cover story was a feature by Karl Vick, entitle ...
• The new frontiers of Israeli diplomacy: Lieberman ...
  This morning’s Israel Hayom reports: (full translated text at bottom): a decision was made that, for the first time, the Foreign Minister will address the UN General Assembly in New York at the end of the month You don’t need to be an expert to understand that this is not a very wise matching of [.. ...
• Maariv: French and American envoys working to re-s ...
  Maariv summarizes a news item from the Lebanese A-Safir. It’s unclear, however, whether the section on Mitchell visit is also from that source. The byline is unusual. Bardenstein is the junior diplomatic affairs correspondent and probably does not speak Arabic. Items based on direct monitoring of ...
• 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 ...

Deadline Live

• Deadline Live – September 13 2010
  Breaking news from DeadlineLive.Info  and guest fellow Rense Radio Network host Devvy Kidd Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d15721').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
• This Day In History – September 14
  1901 â President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt. 1917 â Russia is officially proclaimed a republic. 1935 – The US Secretary of State Hull apologized to the German Ambassador for a Judges insulting r ...
• Blair receives human rights award
  Former prime minister Tony Blair has received the Liberty Medal for his global human rights work and commitment to international conflict resolution. The medal is given annually by the Philadelphia-based National Constitution Centre to individuals or organisations whose actions strive to bring liber ...
• Huge fish kill reported in Plaquemines Parish
  Plaquemines Parish officials have asked state wildlife officials to investigate what they said is a massive fish kill at Bayou Chaland on the west side of the Mississippi River late Friday. Photographs the parish distributed of the area shows an enormous amount of dead fish floating atop the water. ...
• Calgary mother in court with U.S. state over foste ...
  CALGARY — A Calgary mother is poised to face off on Tuesday against the Oregon government, which she says has sued her for two years of foster care and medical expenses incurred after the state’s child welfare authorities apprehended her 10-year-old son while he was on a summer vacation. Lisa Kirkma ...

The Air Vent

• Pots and Kettles – Follow the money
  Bob Ward (Andrew Montford’s recent nemesis), has written a piece titled – Why ExxonMobil must be taken to task over climate denial funding.  Before we get into that, his recent review of Andrew Montford’s The Hockey Stick Illusion was incredibly biased, missed the technical meaning of nearly the wh ...
• 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 ...

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

• Fan Appz Launches Places Integration for Paid Subs ...
  Fan Appz is launching a new Places integration for its paid clients today, that founder and chief executive Jon Siegal tells us that it will allow brands one more opportunity to reward loyal Facebook fans in addition to the company’s current software offerings. Previously, Page administrators could ...
• As Developers Continue Adopting Credits, Facebook ...
  Last week, Facebook officially announced that Zynga, the largest developer on the platform, was going to make Credits the exclusive virtual currency for all of its games — although most of those titles had already made the switch, as we examined then. The Credits rollout is continuing quickly, thoug ...
• Facebook’s Profile Wall Settings No Longer Include ...
  Facebook users no longer have the option in their wall news feed to import and publish stories from third-party web services. Users could previously manage importation from services like Google Reader, Flickr and Last.fm. Those currently importing stories now see an error message in the settings sta ...
• Swedish App Polls for Parliamentary Election Votin ...
  Riksdagsvalet 2010 is a new Swedish application that allows people to “vote” in the country’s 2010 parliamentary elections. The app is intended by its creators to be nothing more than an informal poll. It has you give it some basic data permissions, select your preferred political party, vote for a ...
• City of Wonder, Phrases Both Gain Millions on This ...
  City of Wonder has continued its huge gains to once again end up at the top of our weekly AppData list of fastest-growing apps on Facebook, by monthly active users. However, it’s closely followed by Phrases, the user-generated quote app. Here’s the list: Top Gainers This Week Name MAU Gain Gain,% 1. ...

Truthout - Tweets

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ReDress News

• Does international law have a future?
  Lawrence Davidson considers how the application of international law has become “class based”, where the criminal leaders of powerful states – or those with powerful patrons – enjoy impunity, while the relatively weaker are brought to account for their criminal behaviour.
• “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 ...

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

• My love for 2Pac
  I have mad love for 2Pac. I refer to it as “mad” because it’s a love that you know you shouldn’t have for someone (or something) but you can’t help it. You just do. I didn’t realize today was the 14th anniversary of his death until I read this article at theloop21. Interestingly though, last week [ ...
• Black People of Suriname Fight To Hold On To Their ...
    Wanze Eduards and Hugo Jabini Mobilized the Saramaka People and Stopped Loggers In the Rainforest!   I remember the first time I became familiar with the country of Suriname.  I was listening to a Donnie McClurkin song that is a language medley psalm.  He sings in the language of a number of count ...
• 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 [ ...

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

• Global Cool Self-Nomination Campaign Goes Awry
  Flicking through my news feeds I came across an article by George Monbiot in The Guardian entitled “Green heroes working for the right kind of environmental change”. As always, I quickly scanned it looking for anyone who was actually doing anything to undermine the industrial system, and was pleasa ...
• 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 ...

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

• Edge on Terror - Electromagnetic Pulse Attack Deba ...
  Over the past decade there has been an ongoing debate over the threat posed by electromagnetic pulse (EMP) to modern civilization. This debate has been the most heated perhaps in the United States, where the commission appointed by Congress to assess the threat to the United States warned of the dan ...
• Ground Zero Mosque and Islam Will Not Welcome Baha ...
  Why does the media fail to ask the important question of Ground Zero Mosque advocates and Muslims in general? Are Bahai's welcome? The answer is no. Islam has been persecuting Baha'i' since its beginning. Baha'i believes in the oneness of all religions--but because it began in a Muslim lands after M ...
• The Bear is Back - Back in the USSR
  A row of wooden stakes with puppet heads stood planted in a forest camp attended by 20,000 young Russians this summer. Mounted above the heads was a large red slogan in Russian, declaring “We are not glad to see you here.” On the puppets: photographs of Western political figures, including Hillary C ...
• Michael Marrus Gets Two Questions
  After reading Edwin Black's stunning review of the new Michael Marrus book, I have three questions (see Michael Marrus Falters in Some Measure of Justice , Arts, March 1, 2010). First, how does one write a book on the Holocaust survivor lawsuits in Florida without contacting those people? Second, ho ...
• A Failing Financial Recovery - Documentation Shows ...
  A crackdown on reckless mortgage lenders by the Federal Housing Administration has failed to root out several executives with criminal records whose firms continue to do business with the agency in violation of federal law, according to government documents, court records and interviews. The get-tou ...

High Country News

• Some neighbors behave like boors
  Feeding wild bears just encourages them to misbehave, ultimately endangering the bears’ own lives.
• I think we're all anchor babies on this bus
  If we're no longer considered U.S. citizens by birthright, then how do we know we're citizens at all?
• Of history and home
  Poet and novelist Leslie Marmon Silko serves up a place-based memoir in The Turquoise Ledge.
• The Second Second City
  A native Chicagoan who now lives in Montana goes searching for New Chicago, Mont.
• Still Cranish After All These Years
  A specimen of Homo sapiens sapiens considers evolution and becoming a crane.

CounterCurrents

• The Pressure To Modernise
  By Helena Norberg-Hodge I believe that the most important reason for the breakdown of traditional cultures is the psychological pressure to modernise. I have come to this conclusion through almost two decades of close contact with the people of Ladakh, or Little Tibet
• Climate Educators Wanted
  By Subhankar Banerjee We must acknowledge that our youth will have to deal with climate crimes (Ive been framing the climate events as crimes and will write more on that topic in future stories) much more than what we are dealing with today. We must put in place the educational system now, so that ...
• The Trickledown Revolution
  By Arundhati Roy The first step towards re-imagining a world gone terribly wrong would be to stop the annihilation of those who have a different imagination an imagination that is outside of capitalism as well as communism. An imagination which has an altogether different understanding of what cons ...
• Indian Peoples Tribunal Report On Human Rights Vio ...
  By Indian Peoples Tribunal The findings and recommendations of the Jury
• 14 Killed In Kashmir
  By Aljazeera At least 14 people across Indian Kashmir have been killed in protests against the Indian government and reports of Quran burning, in the most deadly day of violence since mass demonstrations against Indian rule began three months ago

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

• Saudi Arabia: $60 Billion for U.S. Arms; $30 Milli ...
  By Barry Rubin The United States is building up the defenses of Gulf Arab states, especially Saudi Arabia, for the day that Iran has nuclear weapons. This program has two purposes: to make the local states feel more confident about resisting Tehran and relying on the United States. It also b ...
• Presidents Who Live in Glass Houses Built by Lobb ...
  White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs spent much of his day yesterday tripping over his shorts about a NY Times hit piece on John Boehner. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs took such a liking to this weekend's NY Times story on House Minority Leader John Boehner and his lobbyist frien ...
• Austan Gooslbee Lied About NAFTA-Gate, Can We Rea ...
  If you are looking for Barack Obama's new Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Austan Goolsbee to be anything but a political hack who will twist the truth to advance the President's agenda, you may be disappointed. Mr. Gooslbee was the man behind one of the most oblivious lies made by the P ...
• CIVIL WAR?? Blue Dog Dems Beg Pelosi Extend Tax Cu ...
  � Yesterday House Minority Leader John Boehner stunned pretty much no body when he said that when push comes to shove he would support extending the "Bush tax cuts" for the middle class even if the bill did not include extending those tax cuts for upper income segments. �"If the only option I have ...
• Stupid Porkulus Tricks: $823,000 To Teach Men in A ...
  � In the 19 months since the porkulus bill was passed there have been revelations of projects that seem just stupid, like the study of monkeys using cocaine for which Wake Forest University was granted money, or the $4.8 million to buy“frozen, sliced ham” at twice the cost. There were projects ...

The Real Agenda

• E.U. Commission President Barroso gets Educated in ...
  Europarl European Parliament, Strasbourg – 7 September 2010 Filed under: Economy, In Depth
• China Awakens to Mass Vaccination Fraud
  "Behind the public's panic over the rumors is an expression of the citizens' demands for security and a crisis in confidence," a columnist wrote in the Chongqing Daily newspaper.
• Basel Banking Committee Ready to “Strangle&# ...
  The World Financial Order is almost complete. New measures will keep bailout monies in banks' coffers, increase interests on loans while reducing credit availability.
• 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 ...

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

• “Capital” Punishment, forced complianc ...
  If, as a Corporate Lawyer and somewhat friend suggests, Capital were the be-all and end-all for progress, economically, politically, technologically, and even spiritually, why then is Participation Made Mandatory? The Capitalist PIGS go after not only nations who opt for a more socialist economy, bu ...
• Racist Arizona Law, the Mosque and the connection
  The Arizona State police are running cover for the Murdering Scum Minutemen who killed among others Raul and Briseña Flores, father and 9 year old Daughter, both of them American. The PIGS are parroting the unproved Racist Minutemen accusation that Raul was a drug dealer. Easy to do when the accused ...
• 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 ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• The Truth About TruthBurn
  Here is the take of the " 911TRUTHINATOR ": 911TRUTH SIGN -THERMITE FAIL Here is the truth from the creator of the "TruthBurn" display, John Parulis: That gave me a good laugh. Boy these people can't seem to stop their obsession with us. I hope we drive them batty. It's true that I did modify t ...
• 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 ...

Fooducate

• Cool Carrot Commercials
  It’s rare to see commercials for unprocessed foods these days. Milk is about the only example. That’s why we were happy to find out about the new ads for baby carrots (See below, H/T to Marion Nestle). The videos are aimed at adults. Now if they could make a kiddie version so young impressionable mi ...
• 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 ...

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

• Mapuche hunger strike enters 65th day
  The Mapuche hunger strike has generated protests worldwide © Survival Thirty-four Mapuche prisoners in Chile today entered the sixty-fifth day of a hunger strike. The protest began to highlight the use by the Chilean government of anti-terror legislation to criminalise attempts by the Mapuche t ...
• Cartoon book satirizing ‘development’ launched in ...
  Survival's 'There you go!' can be read in two minutes. © Oren Ginzburg/Survival Survival has today launched in Malaysia a biting critique of how tribal peoples are being destroyed in the name of âdevelopmentâ. The critique is presented in a cartoon book called âThere you go!â that can ...
• 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 ...

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

• Deepwater lessons
  Telegraph View: It is crucial that we learn from the oil-spill catastrophe.
• Greenpeace claims to have shut down Greenland oil ...
  Greenpeace claims its activists have shut down a ''dangerous'' oil drilling operation by a British energy company in the Arctic.
• BP handout 'saved the summer' in Florida
  Visitor numbers in Florida have risen despite the BP oil spill, thanks to a £20m promotion, reports Richard Luscombe.
• Microbe eating spilled oil in Gulf of Mexico
  A newly discovered species of microbe is breaking down oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico much faster than scientists thought possible.
• Gulf oil spill: other slicks 'saved' by microbes
  The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been described as the " worst environmental disaster in history".

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

• Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill Discuss The Age Of Au ...
  Teri Arranga interviews Mark Blaxill and Dan Olmsted on Voice America Radio "A Conversation of Hope" today at 9am PACIFIC (Noon Eastern). The show will be in the archives shortly after it airs. Congratulations to Dan and Mark on their...
• Government Awards Hannah Poling $1.5 Million in Va ...
  ... vaccines didn't cause Hannah's autism -- the condition just "resulted" from the vaccines. The totally twisted and unsustainable United States government approach to vaccines and autism was on full display today. A few months after the federal vaccine court...
• Government Finds No Evidence of Harm in Pampers Dr ...
  Sound familiar? "No link. Crazy Mommies." Agency finds no link between new Pampers, diaper rashes 08:35 AM CDT on Friday, September 3, 2010 The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Government safety officials have not found a connection between a new kind...
• Don't Forget Jenny McCarthy's Comedy All Stars for ...
  Saturday, September 11, 2010 Enjoy an Evening of Comedy All-Stars, Award-Winning Bay Area Cuisine and Acclaimed Art Click HERE for full details. Starring JENNY McCARTHY AND HER FUNNY FRIENDS The Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco An exclusive all-star benefit...
• Autism Speaks's Dr. Daniel Geschwind Declares Paul ...
  By Katie Wright Recently I happened upon an advertisement for Paul Offit’s “Autism’s False Prophets.” Offit is a divisive extremist. Despite having no background in autism or clinical experience with autistic children, Offit feels qualified to publicly relate his “expertise”...

Global BDS Movement

• BNC condemns repression of French BDS activists
  BNCcondemns repression of French BDS activists   read more
• Upcoming confernece: A JUST PEACE FOR PALESTINE – ...
  At the India International Centre Auditorium, New Delhi, India, September 22nd - 23rd, 2010-------------------------------------------- read more
• CALL FOR ENDORSEMENTS AND DONATIONS FOR 2010 BDS Q ...
  Dear friends and allies, On October 22 to 24, 2010, a historic conference will take place inMontreal which aims to consolidate and move forward the movement forBoycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid. read more
• Opponents of Israeli occupation greet truckers at ...
  Press release – for immediate release August 24, 2010 Opponents of Israeli occupation greet truckers at port of Vancouver read more
• Norwegian government pension fund excludes more Is ...
  Norwegian government pension fund excludes more Israeli companies read more

Farm Wars

• Republic Defiance Radio Hits the Airwaves!
  Tonight we will be discussing several news topics and providing special commentary on the battle between liberty and tyranny. Our special guests tonight will be Marti Oakley and Barbara Peterson of the Truth Squad Radio Show.
• The New World Order has Americans In the Crosshair ...
  Listen to: I am a New World Order Minion!
• 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 [...] ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Afghanistan Blunts Anticorruption Efforts
  Wall Street Journal – President Hamid Karzai’s administration is seeking to limit the role of U.S. and European officials who mentor Afghan anticorruption prosecutors, in moves that Western officials see as the latest attempt to undercut efforts to stamp out the graft that pervades the Afghan govern ...
• Dr David Kelly’s body ‘had obviously b ...
  Daily Mail – The paramedic who confirmed the death of Government scientist Dr David Kelly has claimed his body had âobviously been movedâ in the minutes after it was found. David Bartlett was one of two medics called after the corpse of the weapons expert was discovered in woods near his Oxfords ...
• Drone strike kills five in N Pakistan
  Daily Times – A suspected United States missile strike on Sunday killed at least five associates of a warlord who is fighting western troops in Afghanistan said the intelligence officials. Read Article
• The Mystery Of Vanishing Honey Bees
  Kpbs- Imagine a world without apples, almonds and broccoli. It takes honey bees to pollinate most of our favorite fruits, nuts and vegetables. But the bees are mysteriously disappearing. Some commercial beekeepers in San Diego have already been affected by this phenomenon. KPBS Environment Reporter ...
• Air strikes kill 14 in Afghanistan: NATO
  AFP — NATO said Monday that 14 insurgents were killed in air strikes called in after its troops came under attack in Afghanistan. NATO soldiers called in the strikes after their patrol was attacked by militants on Sunday in Uruzgan province, a region in south-central Afghanistan with a heavy Taliban ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Ospreys make a comeback in Orange County
  Ospreys, birds of prey once threatened by hunters and the pesticide DDT, have begun to spread their wings — and domain — in Orange County. A female osprey reared on a platform in Upper Newport Bay recently hatched a chick...
• High school students chronicle the lives of desert ...
  Armed with digital cameras, 13 Southern California high school students ignored the discomfort of temperatures hovering above 100 degrees, lying on their stomachs in the dirt and cactus spines to document the behavior and habitat needs of desert tortoises. "It...
• Prop 23: Would it worsen gas price shocks?
  California’s 2006 global warming law would save the state’s consumers as much as $670 per household in 2020, in the event of a global surge in the price of crude oil, according to a report released Monday by economists for...
• Gulf oil spill: New blowout preventer placed on BP ...
  A new blowout preventer has been placed atop BP’s problem oil well, a move that should allow crews to drill into the well deep underground and kill it for good in about a week. The old blowout preventer — a...
• Salazar: Arctic oil drilling must wait
  Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is making it clear that he's in no hurry to open the door to new exploratory oil and gas drilling in the offshore Arctic -- not, he said, until more is known about the potential pitfalls....

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 ...

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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

• Strenger than Fiction / Peace talks are sure to fa ...
  Ergo: the gap between the two negotiating parties is so enormous, that the talks are headed for certain failure and we better take a clearheaded look at the likely consequences. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Horror in the Hedges
  The Tea Party has a hard time getting past the foil helmets when it comes to promoting their candidates. Submitted by John C. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Human Rights Are Being Ignored By Globalization An ...
  There is absolutely no guarantee whatsoever that our future will be protected against human rights violations under the unethical globalization policies in effect today! If you are satisfied with gambling your family's future, then don't bother here. Submitted by SirRobert THE FIFTH KNIGHT to World ...
• The Other 9/11: Stark Parallels Between Chile Unde ...
  Torture, secret prisons, democracy&civil rights suspended, despots gaining power thru 9/11 violence. Sound familiar? What does it mean to keep a promise to the dead? 1st &foremost telling the story of Chilean thousands tortured, disappeared & exiled... Submitted by PeasantDiva WorldMinga to World � ...
• Security in Afghanistan Is Deteriorating, Aid Grou ...
  Even as more American troops flow into the country, Afghanistan is more dangerous than it has ever been during this war, with security deteriorating in recent months, according to international organizations and humanitarian groups. Submitted by Judy C. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• Obama Says No to Installing Solar Panels on the Wh ...
  large To the disappointment of environmental activists, the Obama administration has declined to put solar panels on the White House roof.
• U.S. Solar Energy, Seeing the Cup as Half-Full
  large On June 29, 2009, a joint announcement by the U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, and the U.S.
• Solar Roadways Offer Immense Potential
  Imagine a world-wide system where the "lit" half of the world is always powering the "dark" half of the world. In this world everyone has power. No more power shortages, no more roaming power outages, no more need to burn coal (50% of ...
• Las Casas Verdes: First Texas Solar-Powered Commun ...
  large Imagine moving into a brand new home that is not only beautiful and affordable, but will use the solar power to reduce utility bills and heat water. Las Casas Verdes ...
• Four Solar Energy Grid Integration Systems Project ...
  large Four projects of the Solar Energy Grid Integration Systems (SEGIS) program have reached Stage III, are are eligible for further funding from the U.S.

News Blaze

• The Security Council Condemns Suicide Car Bombing ...
  The Security Council on Friday strongly condemned the suicide car bombing that occurred in the Russian city of Vladikavkaz on 9 September, which reportedly killed at least a dozen people and wounded more than 140.
• NASA Challenges Students to Develop and Prepare a ...
  The top four DIME teams will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to in March to conduct their experiments, review the results with NASA personnel and tour Glenn's facilities. All DIME participants visiting NASA must be U.S. citizens.
• Dramatic Discovery about Children's Inability to E ...
  Annually, the United States Fire Administration reports that 3,000 to 5,000 people die in fires. This figure includes 800 children, nine and younger, and 1,200 seniors.
• Boxer, Fiorina Challenged; Independent Green Calls ...
  Boxer, Fiorina challenged; independent Green candidate calls for repeal of federal laws criminalizing marijuana, OK of Prop 19
• Latest Developments in Pakistan's Flooding Disaste ...
  The United States has responded immediately and generously to Pakistan's call for assistance following the tragic and devastating floods that began July 29.

  libcom

• Warsaw: ZSP Starts Rent Strike Action
  jcrop_strajkczynszowy.jpg ZSP is calling for a rent strike in Warsaw starting on Oct. 1. The strike is meant as a protest against the housing policy of the city and against serious ...
• Spain: CNT Joins Call for September 29 General Str ...
  The labor reform that the PSOE [Spanish Socialist Party] intends to introduce will be the greatest act of aggression against the rights of workers since the transition to democracy. We must use the one-day strike as a trigger for later and broader mobilisation ...
• 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 ...

Free Range International

• A New Way Forward?
  A very tense week for those of us outside the wire has finally passed which means it is time for some good news.  We have been on a restricted movement routine (for the first time in five years) which provided the opportunity to digest a report from The Afghanistan Study Group entitled A New Way For ...
• 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 [...]

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

• 6 Green Scams You Should Look Out For
  Some green products have many virtues, while others should be left on the shelf. Photo: Gregor Schuster/Getty Images related articles Green Products From A to Z 11 Powerful Environmental Messages 8 Products Designed to Fail Early How Green Are You? … Continue reading →
• Guest Post: Touch n Seal, Insulation- Local Manufa ...
  Hi Scotty â I just discovered your website and blog â love it!! I work in public relations for Fenton-based Touch ân Seal and wanted to submit this press release to you for publication consideration. Thanks! Carolyn Schinsky Ryan Public … Continue reading →
• Sedalia, Missouri Insulation Manufacturer
  Green Build Information, Sedalia, Missouri Insulation Manufacturer Follow Up to Article- Building a Green America Foamglas â My New Favorite Insulation Material An old insulation material, Foamglas, is back and offers some significant environmental and performance benefits over the insulation … Co ...
• New Green Building Products
  Every energy-efficient home needs a tight air barrier. Here are some products that might help: a cover for recessed cans, a caulk for polyethylene, and a handful of new housewraps Posted on Sep 10 by Martin Holladay, GBA Advisor Image … Continue reading →
• Green Home Appraisal Issues
  Without realistic âcompsâ that properly value energy-saving features, obtaining a home loan may be difficult Posted on Sep 7 by Scott Gibson One possible solution: a âgreenâ MLS. In a recent blog, Michael Chandler trumpeted the advantages of a âgreenâ … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

• Obama’s Policies Hurt the Working Class
  The unintended consequences of Obama's Cash for Clunkers and credit card reform are hurting the working class.
• Stimulus Spenders and Their Silly Excuses
  At the end of the day, government spending, quantitative easing or whatever the political establishment wants to call it simply doesn’t work.
• Lies, Intolerance, and Disrespect for the Rule of ...
  The latest debate over the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" is replete with lies, intolerance and disrespect for the law.
• Tocqueville as Prophet
  Fed poised for another round of quantitative easing.
• U.S. Property Rights in Line with Tenets of Commun ...
  Treatment of private property in America would make Lenin smile.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• When Nuclear Terrorism Isn't Terrorism
  What if a state emulated a terrorist group and tried to smuggle nuclear weapons into the U.S.?
• 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.

Law.com

• Gender Pay Gap at Law Firms Not Performance-Based, ...
  Lower productivity is one theory as to why female partners at law firms earn less on average than their male counterparts. But it's not true, according to research by law and business professors from two universities. "Our data show that women partners outperform their men counterparts," they wrote. ...
• A Landmark Day for Auditor Liability?
  If executives at a public company commit fraud that comes back to cost the company, can shareholders go after the company's auditors for missing the fraud? Plaintiffs lawyer Stuart Grant says the answer has too often been no, with courts denying shareholders the right to pursue malpractice claims ag ...
• 5 Key Lessons From Lehman's Fall
  Despite all that's been written in the two years since Lehman filed the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, not much has been heard from one contingent that had front-row seats: the in-house lawyers. How did they respond to the cataclysmic events, and what do they think now? As the U.S. continues to ...
• Can Employers Review Electronic Messages?
  In the workplace, text messages and e-mails may be sent by employees using employer-issued computers, BlackBerrys, cell phones, and smartphones. But what happens when employees use these devices for personal messages? Does an employer have a right to access and read those messages?
• Way Cleared for Foreign Toyota Owners to Sue Over ...
  A federal judge on Monday granted permission for millions of Toyota owners in foreign countries to file a separate consolidated complaint against Toyota Motor Corp. over claims associated with the unintended acceleration recalls. The foreign plaintiffs' claims came into doubt after lawyers overseein ...

Iranian.com

• جمهوری اسلامی با طرح مساله فلسطین منافع منطقه ای ر ...
  جنبش فلسطینی " فتح " که رهبری آن را محمود عباس رئیس تشکیلات خودگردان فلسطین بر عهده دارد ، با صدور بیانیه ای از سخنان آیت الله علی خامنه ای رهبر جمهوری اسلامی ایران در مورد فلسطین در روز عید فطر انتقاد کرد. read more
• Chaotic Republic of Iran
  There's an eerie similarity between the current saga of the three American hikers being held by Iran and the experience of Haleh Esfandiari in 2007. In both cases, the Iranian government claimed that the people arrested were spies. They were held for months while a trial was conducted. All indicatio ...
• Iran to attend UN disarmament
  Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to attend a high profile meeting on disarmament while at the UN General Assembly next week, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday. The Iranian leader has also asked for a meeting with the UN chief.
• Ayatollah Speaks of Plot to Abuse Koran
  Iran ’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , delivered a fiery address on Monday accusing the United States government of orchestrating desecrations of read more
• Iran Diplomat Seeks Asylum in Finland, Says Anothe ...
  An Iranian diplomat who resigned last week to protest his government’s moves against dissidents after the 2009 presidential vote said he is seeking political asylum in Finland and that another envoy will quit soon. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

• Afghanistan: Is It All Smoke and Mirrors?
  After the July Time magazine cover of the noseless Afghan woman was exposed as a fake (it turns out that the woman’s nose wasn’t removed by the Taliban, as Time reported, but by her husband three years earlier – see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/abdulhadi-hairan/times-aisha-story-is-fake_b_692123.ht ...
• 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 ...

Free Movement

• New policy on children
  UKBA has published a new policy on dealing with children, specifically asylum applications by unaccompanied children. It went ‘live’ on 1 September 2010 and can be found with the earlier link or in the Asylum Process Guidance Special Cases section. The policy is a considerable improvement on the pre ...
• 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 ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• The 9/11 Spirit
  From: Eric Bauman Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:31:08 To: MichaelMoore.com Subject: Fw: Receipt for your donation to Cordoba Initiative I wish I could have donated more, but I'm unemployed and money is really tight. Thanks for matching this, Mr. Moore. From: Al B. Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:29:59 T ...
• 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, ...

Salon

• The rawest of raw anti-Park51 propaganda
  Over the weekend, exactly nine years after the 9/11 attacks, thousands lined the streets surrounding ground zero with a common cause -- fight the mosque! -- and a common enemy, radical Islam. (Although the "radical" part appears to be optional these days.) While cable networks provided a mostly s ...
• New York primaries: Which anti-Islam Republican wi ...
  The race for the GOP nomination for governor of New York has been a weird, depressing affair, with longtime loser Rick Lazio running on a platform of intensely hating Muslims and blaming them, collectively, for 9/11 -- and he's the establishment candidate. His upstart "tea party" challenger, curr ...
• The Democratic fear-based strategy
  (updated below - Update II)
• Jerry Brown fires back -- at Bill Clinton
  [Updated] The pundit consensus is pretty much unanimous :�Jerry Brown really stepped in it over the weekend when he said of Bill Clinton, "[He's] a nice guy, but who ever said he always told the truth?"
• Marty Peretz kind of apologizes for his proud bigo ...
  Last week, New Republic owner and editor in chief Marty Peretz said something horrible about Muslims . Peretz wondered whether he should "pretend" that Muslims -- as a whole -- "are worthy of the privileges of the First Amendment," which he was sure they would "abuse." This is not particularly su ...

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

• Editorial: Quebec arena wars
  Many Canadians outside Quebec city are in high dudgeon over the proposal to provide federal subsidies for a new hockey arena to help attract an NHL team back to that town.
• Saving money on drugs
  The need for a national pharmacare plan, offering universal access to prescription drugs, has long been argued on medical and humanitarian grounds. Since drugs play an increasingly important role in the prevention and treatment of illness, it is in ...
• Wrong moves on EI benefits
  Job market remains anemic. Yet Ottawa plows ahead with plan to increase EI premiums
• Time to rein in G20 ‘secret law’
  As the Ontario Legislature resumes sitting today, it should take time to look back instead of forward — back to the fiasco of the G20 summit in Toronto on the weekend of June 26-27.
• Editorial: 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 ...

Energy Collective

• Maxwell Forecasts Peak Oil in Seven Years
  Respected oil analyst and oil industry veteran Charles Maxwell (nicknamed the “Dean of Oil Analysts”) has forecast peak oil by 2017 or 2018: Bracing For Peak Oil Production By Decade’s End His prediction is not so remarkable, as is where he made his prediction. The prediction was in Forbes, which ha ...
• The High Price of Cheap Oil | The Caribbean
  [My OnEarth magazine article on the Bonaire fire is: " Another Oil Disaster- This Time in the Caribbean ."]
• Nigeria: Oil Wealth Flows, Hunger Persists
  By Juhie Bhatia
• Post-Stimulus Transition for Renewable Energy
  One of the largest uncertainties affecting the US renewable energy sector is how it will make the transition from the special subsidies provided under last year's stimulus bill ( American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ) back to the "normal" incentives available prior to the financial crisis ...
• China Tops U.S. in Investment Attractiveness for C ...

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

• Green-light on SC DOC captain came from smuggled c ...
  Attack on SC prison guard renews phone-jam debate By MEG KINNARD The Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina authorities who have helped push for permission to block cell phone signals inside prisons say an officer in charge of keeping out contraband was nearly killed at his... Tags: lee co ...
• All of the Best Free WordPress Themes You Need
  WordPress is an open source CMS, often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plugin architecture and a templating system. Used by over 12% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites, WordPress is the most popular CMS in use today. We... Tags: wordpre ...
• What Will Be the Big Tweet From Twitter Event Toda ...
  Yesterday–presumably so as not to be left out of the dueling press gatherings that Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG) and Facebook have all had in recent weeks to show off fancy new stuff–Twitter lobbed out an an invite for an event this afternoon: We’d like to invite you to come to... Tags: jimmy kimmel t ...
• Dating in the Dark: The Best of Season Two
  It’s been a season of high, lows and plenty of dark room make out sessions. But who were some of the most interesting daters on the second season of Dating in the Dark ? Read on to see who would take home the most interesting dater awards! ‘The Dark Room Hussie” Award Goes... Tags: dark room
• Single parenting fun
  I’m not a single parent, but if I was, I think I’d need a Starbucks IV drip just to stay in the game and manage all aspects of my kids and their ever-increasing needs (and demands). I’m in awe of single parents, who not only bring home the bacon but also do homework, cook... Tags: single parent pare ...

Groklaw

• Appeals Court Guts Landmark Computer-Privacy Rulin ...
  The original ruling required the government to cull specific data described in the search warrant, rather than copy entire hard drives. When that's not possible, the feds were advised to use an independent third party under the court's supervision, whose job it would be to comb through the files fo ...
• LinuxCon Brazil: Q and A with Linus and Andrew
  Open source software, Linus said, is a great way to learn real-world programming. Unlike classroom projects, working with an active project requires interacting with people and addressing big problems. Companies frequently look at who is active in open source projects when they want to find good tec ...
• Font Size: increase font decrease font Former IBM ...
  "White-collar crime is just as destructive to our social fabric as the crimes of drugs and violence," the judge said as she sentenced Moffat at the top of a federal sentencing guidelines range that stretched from no jail time to six months in prison. - Law.com
• Dell Streak Source Code Released
  Some good news for developers and custom ROM enthusiasts! Dell has finally released the source code for the Dell Streak mini tablet which runs Android. A few weeks ago, Dell responded to accusations from the open source developer community that the company had failed to release some source code com ...
• Open Sesame
  It's a historic, or even revolutionary, victory for the open source movement in India. The government will soon announce a policy that will make it mandatory to have an open and royalty-free standard for all technologies and software used for e-governance operations and applications across the count ...

WideShut

• The Truth Behind The Debt
  David Bolwell look beyond the deficit propaganda and exposes the truth about the UK debt crisis.
• Media Hyping New NDM-1 Superbug That Could Travel ...
  NDM-1 Superbug often found in E. coli is immune to antibiotics and quickly spreading around the world.
• Blair Ready For We Are Change Tactics At Book Sign ...
  Extreme security in place for Tony Blair's book signing; bags must be checked at the door.
• 9/11 Truth Campaign To Advertise On TV
  TV campaign to target New York showing footage of Building 7 collapse. “BuildingWhat?”
• Satellite Error Puts Decade Of Warmist Data In Dou ...
  Taxpayer funded NOAA satellite reports impossible temperatures, shedding doubt on a decade of warmist data.

Waterkeeper Alliance

• Board names new Altamaha Riverkeeper
  Board names new Altamaha Riverkeeper
• N.J.'s Salem nuclear power plants showing their ag ...
  N.J.'s Salem nuclear power plants showing their age
• LNG pipeline issue moves to county
  LNG pipeline issue moves to county
• Riversweep puts focus on water quality
  Riversweep puts focus on water quality
• Going Green Not Always Easy In HOAs
  Going Green Not Always Easy In HOAs

Politics in the Zeros

• Jerry Brown’s campaign is getting embarrassing
  Jerry Brown apologizes to Bill Clinton after bad-mouthing him eMeg is spending $150 million of her own money to beat Brown and had planned to be well ahead by now. Instead, the race appears mostly even. Brown has run an uninspired, lethargic campaign, when he’s not blundering around putting his foot ...
• And the Pond Scum of the Day Award goes to PG&E
  PG&E backs bid to bill public for disasters
• Cuba moves towards private enterprise
  “We have to end forever the notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working,” Raul Castro said. One-fifth of the work force will lose their state jobs and attempt to work in the private sector. The economic dislocations will be huge and severe. The socialist left ...
• Evil is as evil does: the lesser evil is the enemy ...
  As I noted the other day, desperate Democrats are resorting to political histrionics in their efforts to convince voters to support the Democratic “lesser evil” over and against their Republican counterparts in their bipartisan conspiracy of dunces. As Peter Camejo says in the Avocado Declaration, “ ...
• 85 prisoners ‘escape’ Mexico prison
  This would be the same prison where guards gave weapons to prisoners and sent then out to do contract killings. Seems like a near complete breakdown of anything resembling rule of law, doesn’t it? Supposed drug lords convicts live in luxury inside them. And what better alibi could there be for a con ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• Police still searching for Waitomo gunman
  Police searching for a gunman on the run following a series of incidents in the King Country over recent days are urging anyone assisting him to think of the possible consequences
• Normality returns, welfare centres close doors in ...
  As normality returns to quake-stricken Canterbury, there is now only one welfare centre left open for people needing temporary shelter in Christchurch
• Parliament working through quake recovery bil
  Parliament is tonight working its way through a bill which will give ministers strong powers to override laws which could hold up reconstruction in Canterbury
• Parker announces architect think tank
  Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker has announced an architectural think tank to assist rebuilding the city in the aftermath of the recent earthquake
• Motorcyclist found dead in a ditch in South Auckla ...
  A motorcyclist has been found dead in a ditch in Patumahoe, south of Auckland

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

• Erdogan and the future of... Egypt
  �"For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and striv ...
• 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 ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

• EWG Seeks FCC-Cell Phone Industry Communications
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, -- Environmental Working Group (EWG) filed a FOIA with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today to shed light on whether the trade association for the wireless... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• 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 ...
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Governors Call for Passage of Renewable Energy Standard

The Washington Independent

- Sep 13, 2010

- 16 hours ago

calling for passage this year of a “strong” renewable energy standard. The letter comes in the midst of a broad lobbying effort by renewable energy ...

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Japan Files WTO Complaint Against Canada Over Renewable Energy

BusinessWeek

- Sep 13, 2010

- 17 hours ago

By Jennifer M. Freedman Sept. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Japan filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization against Canadian subsidies for solar power ...

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Constellation's renewable energy business growing

Baltimore Sun (blog)

- Sep 13, 2010

- 14 hours ago

Constellation is selling "renewable energy certificates" to the stock exchange and baseball museum. And Constellation plans to announce today the ...

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Hundreds of renewable energy project contracts pending in DOE

Inquirer.net

- Sep 13, 2010

- 12 hours ago

By Amy R. Remo CLOSE TO 400 applications for renewable energy service contracts remain pending at the Department of Energy following the government agency's ...

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US Ecology buys waste treatment plant for $8.7M

BusinessWeek

- Sep 13, 2010

- 17 hours ago

US Ecology Inc. said Monday it is acquiring a waste treatment plant in Vernon, Calif., for $8.65 million from Siemens Water Technologies Corp. ...

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US Ecology to Acquire Stablex Hazardous Waste Facility for $80 Million ...

MarketWatch (press release)

- Sep 13, 2010

- Sep 13, 2010

"The addition of this superior facility to US Ecology's family of permitted facilities provides us with a northeastern presence and an exceptional service ...

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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill - Good lesson for Ghana

GhanaWeb

- Sep 13, 2010

- 8 hours ago

Protection of marine life and ecology is given less attention in Ghana unlike partisan politics and football. There are therefore few people with expertise ...

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Ecology group: Seismic testing threatens whales

TheChronicleHerald.ca

- Sep 14, 2010

- 3 hours ago

The Ecology Action Centre, the Sierra Club of Canada and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society are opposing the seismic survey. ...

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Hundreds attend drilling hearing

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

- Sep 14, 2010

- 3 hours ago

The process is a controversial drilling technique in which a mix of water, sand and chemicals is blasted deep underground to break up rock structures and ...

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Regulator won't rush shallow-water applications

Houston Chronicle

- Sep 13, 2010

- 7 hours ago

But, in a meeting with shallow-water drilling advocates in Lafayette, La., Michael Bromwich also sought to assure oil and natural gas companies that his ...

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NM court asked to weigh in on water proposal

BusinessWeek

- Sep 13, 2010

- 15 hours ago

The state Water Quality Control Commission was set to begin a four-day hearing Tuesday on a petition filed by the New Mexico Environment Department that ...

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On the Nile, Egypt cuts water use as Ethiopia dams for power

Los Angeles Times

- Sep 12, 2010

- Sep 12, 2010

It is in the delta, on some of the most fertile land in the world, that rice farmers have been ordered to plant fewer acres to conserve water as Ethiopia ...

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