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Saturday, September 18, 2010

18 September - RSS SnapShot!

Update of RSS demonstration personalized feeds : Opit's LinkFest! hosted by  Opera Community


There was nice surprise this morning. I never take 'hits' that seriously, but Opit's LinkFest! at My Opera reads 20,007 today.
That's silly for a place that I don't consider my 'main site' anymore...but which is listed on blogrolls instead of here on Blogger. And a conversation there reminded me of  articles to 'start the muse'
5 Ways Your Brain Is Messing With Your Head  and  
The Cult Phenomenon in the United States (1979)/Clark
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Cult_Phenomenon_in_the_United_States_%281979%29/Clark

Zemanta then came up with

Atheist Blogroll update: Blogrolling.com is down
http://mojoey.blogspot.com/2010/09/atheist-blogroll-update-blogrollingcom.html

Thought of the Day: Blogrolls, and why social networks fail
http://spinksville.wordpress.com/2010/09/03/thought-of-the-day-blogrolls-and-why-social-networks-fail
In Comments  "Our list is bigger than I ever planned for it to become"

LOL  http://delicious.com/OPIT

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • DEVELOPMENT: Not Half-Way to Being Half There
    When world leaders meet at the United Nations in New York to review progress to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), they will face the difficult picture that with just five years left, almost everything is still left to accomplish.
  • MIDEAST: Some Killing More 'Moral' Than Other
    Controversy is building up over a 91-year-old man, his 17-year-old grandson and a 20-year-old neighbour, all farmers, who were killed by Israeli shelling and gunfire as they tried to tend their land 700 metres from northern Gaza's border with Israel.
  • CAMBODIA: Justice Goes Beyond Indictment of Khmer ...
    A war crimes tribunal in Cambodia may have reached a major milestone this week by indicting four former leaders of the genocidal Khmer Rouge. But much more needs to be done to ensure that the long-awaited trial is meaningful to the regime's victims, analysts say.
  • Inequality, Chile's Bicentennial Challenge
    Chile is celebrating 200 years of independence as one of the Latin American countries with the lowest proportion of poor people, but also one of the most unequal.
  • South Africa's Progress on MDGs Questioned
    With five years left till the Millennium Development Goals' 2015 deadline, civil society groups say South Africa has made progress on some goals but regressed on others.

Scoop - NZ

  • US poverty reaches historic levels
    The withering recession pushed the number of Americans who are living in poverty to a 51-year high in 2009 and left a record 50.7 million people without health insurance, the Census Bureau said Thursday. The 43.6 million Americans who were poor last year -- up from 39.8 million the year before -- w ...
  • US lost 1.3 million households from 08 to 09
    Preliminary Census data is now coming out showing the effects of the recession on a macro scale.  The 2008 Census figures don't highlight the deep capital loss that was experienced by middle class families over the last two years.  We now have data showing how deep the recession has gotten.  From ...
  • 40% US subprime mortgages delinquent; can prime be ...
    Mortgage analytics firm CoreLogic is reporting, in data provided to HousingWire, subprime delinquencies are steadily trending downward. Additionally, the firm's main economist warns the performance of prime mortgages may be a growing concern, especially considering economic hardship can suddenly hit ...
  • VIDEO: The a4So Coal Networka4: Confronting Face ...
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  • USA: Blue-collar, Unemployed, Seeing Red.
    Scott Stevenson was only 10 years old when he first heard grown-ups voice the gloomy words that, in retrospect, predicted the disappointing arc his life has taken. "I remember them actually telling us that our generation would be the first not to be better off than our parents," said the ...

Independent - London

  • Mauritanian troops kill 12 al-Qa'ida members in cl ...
    Mauritanian military forces killed 12 members of al-Qa'ida's North African wing and suffered two casualties in fighting in the desert border zone flanking Mali, a Mauritanian security source said today.
  • Taliban strike as Afghans go to the polls
    Taliban militants determined to scuttle Afghanistan's parliamentary elections showered rockets on cities today men and women voted in a key test of the government's ability to fight insurgents and entrenched corruption.
  • Cement flows for permanent plug of BP's Gulf well
    Crews pumped cement into BP's blown-out oil well thousands of feet below the sea bottom today, working to finally seal the runaway well.
  • US couple charged over nuclear weapon secrets
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  • Afghans vote for parliament amid threats and attac ...
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Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • A new musical reality
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  • Playing with fire
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  • Painless parenting
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Signs of the times

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The Galloping Beaver

  • Blogroll reminder
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  • The Pope is going to Carnaby Street!
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  • Kory resigns . . .
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Media Matters for America

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  • Big Government takes a big swing and a miss at No ...
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Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

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TruthOut

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Planetsave

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    TIME magazine once gave us the photos that were painful to accept of the Vietnam War, so did our TVs, and Walter Cronkite. Due to these images, we rose up as a country to question the status quo. These days, the Great Pakistan Deluge happens, and what does TIME magazine do? Pull the story. An... Rea ...
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  • NASA Captures Tropical Hurricanes From Space
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Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • The failure of American capitalism - Featured
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  • More bloodshed in Somalia - World News
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  • Voting in a Karzai-style election - World News
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They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Ideological Assault on the Fourth Amendment
    In the last few years there has been a steady erosion of 4th Amendment protections. �Now in addition to chipping way at it through judicial rulings there appears to be a movement to weaken its very concept. For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning Shears . NOTE: Julain Sanchez elaborat ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    As long as there's a single free-thinking human being on the planet, Xian freakazoids will consider themselves persecuted. "The Pope has warned that religion - and Christianity in particular - is "being marginalised" around the world. His comments came in his keynote speech to UK MPs, senior members ...
  • The ad that Fox sued Robin Carnahan over
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  • TARP: Not Obama's, Not a Failure, Not Losing Money
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Care 2

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Smirking Chimp

  • Tea With Frankenstein: Please, No Masturbation
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  • Why Won't Forbes Defend Its Obama Story?
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Paul Krugman

No Quarter

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  • Barack Obama Needs a Bernie
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  • Kenyan Marxist vs The Skirt.
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  • How Will You Vote Come November? + Late Night Open ...
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Environmental Graffiti

  • Renewable Energy Certificates Are The Answer
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Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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    This is a pretty classic one. Turkey has suddenly passed big reforms as the nasty NATO-friendly military post-coup power structure gets knocked back a step. Ergenekon and the neocon network, etc etc. Perle and Wolfowitz, the creation of the American-Turkish Council came after this memo. Possibly b ...
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Daily Censored

  • The military industrial complex speaks out in favo ...
    According to the Career College Association, a leading lobby group for the for-profit universities that operate like predator drones: “The avalanche of support continues, this time from Brig. Gen. John Castellaw, former deputy commandant of the Marine Corps for programs and resources: “For-profit sc ...
  • The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integr ...
     NATIONAL UPDATE:  This Saturday is a crucial march in Los Angeles demanding justice for Manuel Jamines, a Guatemalan who was senselessly killed by the LAPD on September 5th. The The Latina/o community of Los Angeles has risen up in rebellion demanding justice and dignity, not only for Manuel Jamine ...
  • Media Spreads Tea Party Leaders as “Anti-Establish ...
    The Tea Party mythology – that it is a grassroots, “insurgent” movement bent on overthrowing the “establishment” – has taken root in the corporate and even independent liberal media, largely because of the Herculean efforts by conservative think tanks, media sources, and big corporate funding.
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    There’s rich, and then there’s RICH. There are moderately rich people (single digit millionaires) who love to show off how classy and debonair they are because they’ve devoted an average of seventy hours per week1 of their adult life to building or climbing a corporate ladder. And then there are sup ...

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PDA AMERICA

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    Tea Party, Not Progressives, Make a Statement Norman Solomon: As Tea Party splits Republican vote, Progressives advised to support Democrats Sept. 15 – TRNN With the Tea Partyâs success in the state primaries, Progressive ...
  • Hannah Gurman on Iraq, Norman Solomon on Petraeus ...
    Cross-Posted From CounterSpin, CounterSpin is a half-hour-long weekly radio program of media criticism produced by FAIR, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting that airs on many public, community, and college radio stations across North America. Click Here ...
  • Congressman Henry Waxman and US Senator Sherrod Br ...
    Friends: In case you missed CONNECT THE DOTS this morning, the guests were Congressman Henry Waxman and US Senator Sherrod Brown. For one hour it restored our faith in elected officials. ...

Marler Blog

  • Update on the backyard chicken experiment
    Everyone has become a bit bothered by the Salmonella Outbreak that has sickened over 1,500 people and caused the recall of 550,000,000 eggs. �In the next few weeks, I will be visiting the Iowa factory that produced these fine eggs - some several million chickens. �But, is my chicken experiment in ou ...
  • Hey, I get to go to Gault Iowa to see how we make ...
    I grew up on a small farm, and we had chickens, so I know where eggs generally come from.� I must admit, however, seeing how eggs are manufactured on a massive scale is something I have never seen.� It looks to be an interesting and eye-opening experience.� I am glad to have a Court Order .
  • The real costs of not passing food safety legislat ...
    Dave Their, an AOL contributor, caught me in the middle of helping my oldest daughter move into her freshman dorm late yesterday afternoon as it was becoming clearer that S. 510 – the Food Safety Modernization Act – was taking its last few gulps of air. You have to give it to politicians – republic ...
  • Alamosa Salmonella suit settled
    Julia Wilson of the Alamosa Courier reports that he City of Alamosa, through its insurance carrier, Travelers, will pay $360,000 to 29 Alamosa residents who became ill because of the salmonella outbreak in 2008.  The lawsuit claimed the city was negligent in maintaining its water facilities, the sou ...
  • S. 510 - Senators Reid and Coburn should sit down, ...
    Here is a start, Senator Coburn's last minute concerns about the bills substance are misplaced, but Senator Reid needs to figure out a way to fully fund all aspects of the bill. �The time has come to get this done. �I think this may take a six pac.

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 09.17.10
    Automotive X-Prize: Winners announced and all the details Edison2, E-Tracer and Wave II take top honors. Driving Sustainability: Chris Paine checks in via Skype, shows off "Revenge" clip Firs ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 09.16.10
    At $28,000, plug-in Toyota Prius should be cheapest PHEV in U.S. Once 2012 rolls around. Paris Preview: Fisker will show off first "factory-built" Karma plug-in hybrid More to come, as alway ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 09.15.10
    LA Preview: Toyota/Tesla RAV4 EV on display; affordable PHEV Prius will arrive in mid-2012 The $28,000-ish plug-in Prius is around the corner. 40 "non-retail salable" Chevrolet Volts have rolled off the l ...
  • 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, ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Reporters' Roundtable: Deciphering Apple's develop ...
    On September 9, Apple rewrote its rulebooks for developers . In its revised developers agreement , it reversed a ruling that blocked developers from using all but a very few programming languages for iPhone apps. And it also made public for the first time the guidelines it uses for deciding if ap ...
  • Foound launches Foursquare of the future
    Demo Fall 2010 sees the excellent demo of Foound, a clean mobile app for planning "hangouts" with friends.
  • 'Smart' credit cards get closer to consumers' wall ...
    Customers of a company called Dynamics are preparing to release credit and debit cards with programmable, rewritable magnetic stripes. ...
  • Turning everyday garbage into gasoline
    At Demo Fall 2010, E-Fuel Corporation is showing off its home and business "reactor" that converts organic waste into ethanol or electricity. ...
  • 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 ...

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!

  • A Little Missed Sunshine
    BONN, Germany—When first lady Michelle Obama started an organic garden at the White House, she sparked a national discussion on food, obesity, health and sustainability. But the green action on the White House lawn hasn’t made it to the White House roof, unfortunately. Back in 1979, President Jimm ...
  • 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 ...

Farming Pathogens

  • Follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Twitter
    You can now follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Twitter here. Includes the latest in media reports and journal articles on agriculture, disease, evolution, dialectical biology, the practice of science, as well as any appearances or new work by FP contributors. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Farming Pa ...
  • The Axis of Viral
    The enemy of my enemy is my friend. We might accept that viruses and bacteria at best instantiate the coincidental nature of such an alliance. The success of one bug might pave the way for another. But we’d be hard pressed to imagine that theyâd whittle the syllogism to a sharper point and activel ...
  • Follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Facebook
    Follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Facebook here. Includes the latest in media reports and journal articles on agriculture, disease, evolution, dialectical biology, and the practice of science, as well as any appearances or new work by FP contributors. Filed under: Uncategorized
  • Imperial Storm Scientists
    The Red Army Faction was a communist guerilla group operating 1970-1998 in, of all places, West Germany. The RAF engaged in a variety of operations in the 1970s, including assassinations and bombings, primarily around the German government’s material support of the U.S. war in Vietnam. As depicted i ...
  • Does Influenza Evolve in Multiple Tenses?
    The past may possess a power greater than prologue. Any one with a social networking account knows that. All of a sudden you find yourself daily interacting with people long thought boxed away. People mature, yes, but sensibilities remain largely intact and an old year, fine wine or vinegar, pours b ...

Suzie-Q

  • In two days American Drone strikes kill 37 in Paki ...
    13 US Strikes in 12 Days in Restive Agency by Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com, September 15, 2010 Yesterday a pair of US drone strikes against Bushnarai and Datta Khel in North Waziristan Agency killed at least 16 people. Today, two more US drone strikes involving at least 10 more missiles struck. The new a ...
  • Time to Genuflect!
    The Pope visits Britain today and to mark the auspicious occasion I have posted a video of Tom Lehrer’s Vatican Rag. On a more serious note, here is an article on the ongoing debate about pedophile priests which the Pope’s visit has highlighted. Investigation: Many Convicted Pedophile Priests Are ...
  • Good News: Norwegian princess Martha Louise claims ...
    by Igor I. Solar, Digital Journal, Sep 13, 2010 Oslo– Princess Martha Louise of Norway stated last week in an interview that she can establish connections with the spirit of dead people and intended to take a course to improve her ability. Martha Louise, 38, revealed last week her “ability to establ ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Martenson in Midland, Texas
    An Evening with Chris Martenson Thursday Sept. 23, 2010 7:00pm- 8:30pm Yucca Theatre 2000 W Wadley Ave, Midland, TX 79705 -- Dr. Chris Martenson is an independent economist and author of a popular website,ChrisMartenson.com. . Chris earned a PhD in neurotoxicology from Duke University, and an MBA f ...
  • Detailed Concerns with S.510, the FDA Food Safety ...
    Growing an Already Disjointed and Duplicative Federal Government In 2008, GAO testified before a House subcommittee that “FDA is one of 15 agencies that collectively administer at least 30 laws related to food safety. This fragmentation is the key reason GAO added the federal oversight of food safe ...
  • Senate Passes Small Business Tax Relief
    The Senate on Thursday passed the Creating Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 (part of the Small Business Jobs and Credit Act, HR 5297) by a vote of 61–38, and sent it back to the House of Representatives. The bill as passed by the Senate differs from the version the House passed in June, with [...]
  • Reid: Food Safety Bill Is on Hold
    Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday the Senate will not take up long-pending food safety legislation before the Nov. 2 elections, citing a Republican senator’s objections. Reid announced on the Senate floor that “we’re not going to be able to get this done before we go home for the elections.” ...
  • In Calif., Voters Split on Marijuana Legalization
    By Michael W. Savage For those who have long argued that smoking marijuana should not be a crime, a potentially historic turning point is just weeks away. Voters in California will decide Nov. 2 whether to make their state the first to legalize the growing, selling and recreational use of marijuana ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job. [. ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan , Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban . ... and more��
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afg ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency ? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in Afghanistan Sri Lanka ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United Press ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan , Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA new ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
    The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign , challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
  • Brit mums strict about eco-chores
    Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
  • UK venue offers rainforest weddings
    Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project .
  • Battery recycling 'too difficult'
    The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
  • 10 green resolutions to save you money
    By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become obsol ...

Fabius Maximus

  • War is the health of the state
    Summary:  Some things have remained the same since the birth of the nation-state in 1648, from the fires of the Thirty Years War, and will remain untill the shape of the world changes.  Here we have an excerpt from “War is the health of the state” by Randolph Bourne (1918).  It could as well have ...
  • Mercs spread special ops methods to corporations a ...
    Summary:  This article discusses an inevitable side-effect of the US government creating large highly skilled mercs (on a base of people the government itself trained). For centuries — since the end of the thirty Years War in 1648 — the major western nations have strove to eliminate the scourge ...
  • When Resource Constraints Meet Conspicuous Consump ...
    Summary:  Rising population, finite resources.  Don Vandergriff asks if we have the creativity and wisdom to cope with these two colliding trends?  “In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if, in tempestous seasons, they can only tell us that when the ...
  • Uncle Screwtape explains how to build support for ...
    Summary:  This is a follow-up to yesterday’s post by Professor Finel about two new reports questioning the purposes and conduct of the Af-Pak War.  Here we consider a shorter explanation:  Uncle Screwtape has given them sound advice, which they’ve taken to heart. “You donât know the horrible a ...
  • Our leaders have made a discovery of the sort that ...
    Summary:  A brief note looking behind the headlines, at a major discovery.  Insights about politics can change the destiny of nations as much or more than those about science. “Name that neocon!”  That would be a great post to write (spoiler:  it’s Obama).  But we’ll leave that for another da ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • London is overdue for a major earthquake, warns se ...
    The Guardian-After earthquakes in 1382 and 1580, London can expect a similar quake at some time in the coming decades that would cause considerable damage and loss of life. London is overdue for an earthquake that could cause billions of pounds worth of damage, a leading seismologist warned today -R ...
  • Israel kills senior Hamas member in West Bank
    Xinhua – Israeli army shot dead a senior Hamas member in his bedroom during an overnight raid in the West Bank town of Tulkarem, witnesses and local sources said Friday.Read Article
  • 1 in 7 Americans lives in poverty
    Associated Press – The ranks of the working-age poor climbed to the highest level since the 1960s as the recession threw millions of people out of work last year, leaving one in seven Americans in poverty. The overall poverty rate climbed to 14.3 percent, or 43.6 million people, the Census Bureau sa ...
  • Development aid for maternal, newborn and child he ...
    PhysOrg.com – Health experts will today [September 16] call for a greater prioritization and targeting of aid to save the lives of mothers, newborns, and children in poor countries. The amount of official development assistance (ODA) to maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) in developing countri ...
  • Rising education levels among women save children’ ...
    PhysOrg.com – Women are advancing further in school than at any time in recent history, a trend that is having a tremendous impact on child mortality, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. Between 1970 and 2009, mortal ...

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

  • Real Versus Fake Crises: Concealing The Risk of An ...
    We have reached a turning point in our history. The US and its allies are preparing to launch a nuclear war with devastating consequences. A Third World War is no longer a hypothetical scenario.
  • Pictures Prove Mini Nukes Caused 9-11 Devastation
    On the morning of September 11th, 2001, we were told a fairy tale. That wide body jets flew into the twin towers and completely destroyed them. Let me repeat that: Passenger planes (large hollow aluminum tubes) flew into industrial steel, marble and concrete sky scrapers, and caused them to turn int ...
  • Tony Blair: US Peace Medal for War Criminal? – Vid ...
    Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been awarded America’s prestigious Liberty medal for his global human rights work. Despite this honor, however, the former PM’s policies in Iraq and Afghanistan earned him accusations of having blood on his hands.
  • Dumbing Down Society Part 3: How to Reverse its Ef ...
    The first two parts of this series describes the negative effects that some commonly consumed chemicals have on the body and brain. This third and final part looks at some natural ways to keep the brain healthy and provides tips to rid the body of dangerous substances. In other words, how to fight b ...
  • Another UFO Shuts Down Another Airport in China
    Here we go again. Just months after an unidentified object temporarily shut down an airport in China, another UFO briefly halted operations at a different Chinese airport. According to initial sketchy reports in ShanghaiDaily.com and the People's Daily Online, the UFO forced the Baotou airport in ...

Andy Worthington

  • Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Par ...
    This is the second part of an eight-part series telling the stories of all the prisoners currently held in Guantánamo (174 at the time of writing). See the introduction here, and the first part here. This second article tells the stories of 27 prisoners seized in Afghanistan, mostly in December 2001 ...
  • Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Par ...
    This is the first part of an eight-part series telling the stories of all the prisoners currently held in Guantánamo (176 at the time of writing). See the introduction here. The 20 prisoners listed below were the first group of prisoners seized crossing from Afghanistan to Pakistan in December 2001 ...
  • Introducing the Definitive List of the Remaining P ...
    Over the next month, in an attempt to focus attention more closely on Guantánamo, and on the remaining prisoners who are held there, I’ll be publishing an eight-part series of articles (in conjunction with Cageprisoners, for whom I work as a Senior Researcher), telling, for the first time, the stori ...
  • By One Vote, US Court OKs Torture and “Extraordina ...
    Sometimes a story is so troubling that it takes some time to digest, and the ruling delivered last Wednesday by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (PDF), in a lawsuit filed by the ACLU on behalf of five men subjected to âextraordinary renditionâ and torture, is one such story. The men — Binyam M ...
  • Nine Human Rights Organizations and Lawyers’ Group ...
    Today, nine organizations, including Amnesty International, Cageprisoners, Liberty and Reprieve, published a letter written to Sir Peter Gibson, who was nominated by Prime Minister David Cameron to head the inquiry into UK involvement in the mistreatment of detainees held abroad, which was announced ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Welcome News on Ramping up Blog Production in New ...
    As the next big election season starts to heat up... I just wanted to note that this place will start getting a little more interesting. There a lot of great races on the radar, with the Governor's race, a Senate seat and the endless campaign campaigns on the House side, of course. But, even better ...
  • What subversive literature is that?
    My daughter is up to something today.... First step to conquering the world?
  • Premature Ejaculatory Praise Of Tiny Comical Rele ...
    I think TPM's Megan Carpentier may have captured the essence of this funny and tiny problem for teabagger redux - "Microman" - in her last paragraph: Wurzelbacher describes Microman as "frustrated" and "one of us" in the same press release. One wonders how many other Tea Party members, already frust ...
  • Two Polls and Two Really Bad Jokes
    Poll 1. Research 2000 just pretty much confirmed the state of the Connecticut Senate race between Blumenthal and McMahon: Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 5/24-26. Likely voters. MoE 4% ( 1/11-13 results) Dick Blumenthal (D) 52 (56) Linda McMahon (R) 33 (34) It'd been a while since we polled Co ...
  • Movin' On!
    Just to the other side of town. :) I am at the point where I can choose to live in a half empty house with only a computer and a lot of furniture (minus the drawers of "stuff" that are already moved) or live in a house with a TV and no furniture inside (though we do have our patio furniture moved s ...

SPL Center

  • Fugitives with Ties to Aryan Brotherhood Captured
    A SWAT team captured escaped inmate John McCluskey and his fiancée Casslyn Welch in an Arizona national forest this morning, peacefully ending a three-week manhunt. Aided solely by Welch and a pair of wire cutters, McCluskey and two other inmates escaped from a private prison in Arizona on July 30. ...
  • Antigovernment ‘Patriots’: ‘Are You Willing to Kil ...
    The Forces of Freedom are ready for war. Last week, about 100 self-described âPatriotsâ and âstrict Constitutionalistsâ gathered in a hotel ballroom in Valley Forge, Pa., for the American Policy Centerâs Freedom Action National Conference. United by rage at a federal government they believ ...
  • Right Wingers Take on ‘Liar in Chief’
    MIAMI, Fla. — To many of the far-right speakers and people attending the three-day “Taking America Back” conference here, President Obama doesn’t just espouse policies and ideology they loathe. They’re convinced he’s a Muslim, a communist or both. Not only is Obama a communist, but the Democratic Pa ...
  • On Third Try, Prosecutors Convict Neo-Nazi Blogger ...
    After two attempts to convict Hal Turner of threatening federal judges ended in mistrials, the government last Friday finally made it stick — despite the fact that the neo-Nazi blogger had served as an FBI informant for years. A sentencing date was not set, but Turner faces up to 10 years in prison ...
  • Does Robert Rodriguez’s ‘Machete’ Advocate ‘Race W ...
    Most film critics have come to a similar conclusion about Robert Rodriguezâs new film, âMachete.â With few exceptions, the movie has been received as a directorially accomplished and modestly enjoyable comic-book revenge fantasy â easy to look at, easy to laugh at, and easy to forget. There ...

change: org.

  • How Big Is Your Food's Water Footprint?
    When it comes to food sustainability, it's not all about miles. A new report by Progressio looked at the effect asparagus production in Peru has on the water table. What the organization found is that the UK's large appetite for the green spear has actually been devastating to those living in Peru's ...
  • Six Reasons to Expand Your Compassion Footprint
    Marc Bekoff, Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, is a columnist for Change.org. Our relationships with nonhuman animals are complicated, frustrating, ambiguous, and paradoxical. When people tell me that they love animals and then harm or kill them, I ...
  • U.S. Goverment Makes $60 Billon Arms Deal with Sla ...
    This year, the U.S. State Department ranked Saudi Arabia on Tier 3 in their annual Trafficking in Persons report, meaning they're not doing much at all to fight human trafficking. It's the Tier at which the U.S. can impose economic sanctions. But instead of a punishment, they gave the Saudis a rewar ...
  • Stop the Monkey Breeding Facility in Puerto Rico
    A couple months ago, Jane Velez-Mitchell gave CNN Headline News viewers the rundown on current animal rights issues . Tonight, on Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell , Jane took issue with plans for a massive primate breeding facility in Guayama, Puerto Rico. Bioculture Puerto Rico, Inc. plans to captur ...
  • Impoverished Farmers Victimized by Land Grabs
    Across Africa and South America, impoverished nations' governments have found a new way to raise capital for their struggling economies. Selling or leasing land deemed "idle" to an investor from a wealthier country promises on paper to be a win for both nations: The wealthier country can stave off f ...

Common Dreams -News

  • World Bank Invests Record Sums in Coal
    by Juliette Jowit Record sums were invested last year in coal power - the most carbon intensive form of energy on the planet - by the World Bank, despite international commitments to slash the carbon emissions blamed for climate change. The World Bank said this week that a total of US$3.4bn (£2.2bn ...
  • US Says Idle Gulf of Mexico Oil Wells Must Be Plug ...
    The US is set to require oil companies to plug 3,500 non-producing Gulf of Mexico oil wells in an effort to prevent future leaks, officials say. The interior department will also require companies to dismantle 650 unused oil and gas platforms. Some installations have sat idle for decades without ins ...
  • Chorus of Progressive Economists: Govt. Must Spur ...
    by Roger Bybee Largely oblivious to the reality among working families grappling with unemployment, wage cuts, and trying to avoid foreclosures, conservative politicians (mostly GOP, but also a considerable number of Democrats) are building momentum for an assault on federal budget deficits by slash ...
  • Doubling of SOF Night Raids Backfired in Kandahar
    by Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - During a round of media interviews last month, Gen. David Petraeus released totals for the alleged results of nearly 3,000 "night raids" by Special Operations Forces (SOF) units over the 90 days from May through July: 365 "insurgent leaders" killed or captured, 1,355 Ta ...
  • Pennsylvania Gov. Rendell 'Appalled' by State's Tr ...
    by Angela Couloumbis HARRISBURG - Gov. Rendell said Tuesday that he was "appalled" and "embarrassed" that his administration's Office of Homeland Security has been tracking and circulating information about legitimate protests by activist groups that do not pose a threat to public safety. Rendell sa ...

Lifehacker

  • Take Back Your Free Time: Establishing Boundaries ...
    Widespread Wi-Fi coverage, smart phones, ultra-portable computers, and other technological marvels of the 21st century blur the line between work and play more than ever. Here are a few tricks for reclaiming your time by setting boundaries bet ...
  • Paws To Reflect In This Week's Open Thread [Open T ...
    You put in another top-notch week of work. Give yourself a little time to collect yourself before you dive into your epic weekend projects in this week's open thread. More��
  • Gmail Labs Adds Enhanced Video Chat; Get the Newes ...
    Gmail's significantly improved their video chat with higher quality video; you just have to turn it on. While logged into your Gmail account, visit the Gmail Labs menu and enable "Video Chat Enhancements". More��
  • Edit the Windows 7 "Send To" Menu Withou ...
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  • The Complete Android Guide Is a Front-to-Back Hand ...
    Just getting started with your Android phone, or know somebody who is? Want a better understanding of Android's features? Check out The Complete Android Guide , a comprehensive wiki-style site, ebook, and paperback guide to Google's smartphone ...

Water Privatization

  • New Moon celebrates five years
    The New Moon Festival is celebrating its fifth year of Asian arts and culture on Saturday, Sept. 25, from 1 p.m. to dusk at Dougall Park. Come join in for this all-day family event of exciting performances, Asian food, arts and crafts, martial arts demonstrations, and the popular lantern procession ...
  • Interview: Alderman Scott Waguespack, 32nd Ward (P ...
    Below is more from my interview last week with 32nd Ward Alderman Scott Waguespack in which we touch on schools, unions, and more on the budget. Previously: Part 1 C: On the issue of schools, you’re on the Education and Child Care committee. There was a report in the Tribune about the failing school ...
  • Fishermen in catch share shuffle
    NOAA Fisheries has approved a Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) proposal to establish what’s known as a catch share - or quota - system for trawlers in the groundfish fishery.
  • New Moon celebrates five years
    The New Moon Festival is celebrating its fifth year of Asian arts and culture on Saturday, Sept. 25, from 1 p.m. to dusk at Dougall Park. Come join in for this all-day family event of exciting performances, Asian food, arts and crafts, martial arts demonstrations, and the popular lantern procession ...
  • The parking meter gambit: Raising rates, or is it ...
    Unintended consequences are on the sidelines, jumping up and down to get our attention. by David Hoppe It's rare for a blogger to beg. Bloggers tend to be an assertive, confident bunch.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

Guardian

  • Pakistan in fresh spot-fixing inquiry
    International Cricket Council following up allegations that scoring pattern in one-day match against England was prearranged The International Cricket Council (ICC) has launched an investigation into yesterday's one-day international between England and Pakistan following allegations that a scoring ...
  • Lib Dem conference - live
    Andrew Sparrow with all the latest from day one of the Lib Dem conference in Liverpool 3.28pm: I missed the opening speech of the conference, but it was an interesting one. It came from Lady Walmsley, a Lib Dem peer. She opened the proceedings by urging delegates not to be rude about the Tories. We ...
  • Afghan elections marred by attacks
    At least seven people killed in attacks across the country as Afghans vote in parliamentary elections A Taliban attack near a polling station in northern Afghanistan today killed seven people as the country votes in parliamentary elections. Officials said the attack was adjacent to a security outpos ...
  • Follow the action as it happens
    • Use the auto-refresher or bash F5 for the latest updates • Click here for all today's latest scores • Send your thoughts to paolo.bandini@guardian.co.uk 3.32pm: Newcastle have been taking the game to Everton at Goodison Park and Nolan's deflected shot from outside the area requires a sharp save fr ...
  • Bore hole raises early rescue hope
    Day 44: Bore hole reaches cavern where 33 miners are trapped half a mile underground ahead of schedule Drilling equipment has pounded its way into one of the caverns in the collapsed mine in northern Chile where 33 miners have been trapped for a month and a half, completing a bore hole ahead of sche ...

McClatchey

  • Commentary: My mother's liberal legacy
    When the various and sundry messes in the State Bureau of Investigation started coming to the fore, I reminded my mother about that time, at the height of the Vietnam War, when she was "under surveillance." Actually, it was only once that I know of, but it happened on the Capitol grounds in downtown ...
  • Commentary: 9-11 was just another day for tea part ...
    For most of America, Sept. 11 included reverent ceremony, remembrance and most of all, prayer.
  • What would happen if Rand Paul, allies kill Educat ...
    WASHINGTON — If calls by Kentucky Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul and fellow tea party conservatives to abolish the U.S. Department of Education are successful, the move could adversely impact the nation's economically disadvantaged students — including thousands of schoolchildren in rural App ...
  • Murkowski takes on tea party, GOP with write-in bi ...
    Pushing back against the nationwide success of the tea party movement, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski announced Friday that she'd pursue an unprecedented write-in bid to hold on to her Senate seat after losing the August Republican primary.
  • Iraqi forces struggling, forcing U.S. troops to fi ...
    BAGHDAD — In the two weeks since President Barack Obama declared the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, a series of bloody skirmishes has sharpened the questions about the Iraqi security forces' ability to protect the country.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Condom hole in the Papal vision?
    From a British perspective, there's a certain irony in the fact that a clarion call for better access to family planning is published in a leading scientific journal on the same day that the Pope hits the streets of London . � The letter published in Science doesn't reference Roman Catholic oppos ...
  • 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 ...

The Wonk Room

  • Military Experts Call For Passage Of The DREAM Act
    s I wrote earlier this week, many military experts have come out in support of the DREAM Act because it would significantly increase the pool of qualified recruits in the Latino population, which comprises the majority of undocumented immigrants and is more likely to enlist and serve in the military ...
  • Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell And The Constitu ...
    At today’s Values Voter Summit, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) invoked the constitution to substantiate his support for retaining the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. “You don’t have a constitutional right to serve in the military. That’s a special society. You give us some of your constitutional rights when ...
  • 1099 Issue Moves Forward: Democrats Introducing Ne ...
    Since the last two attempts to fix the 1099 provision in the health law failed, Democrats are planning to introduce several measures that would repeal the entire reporting requirement — despite the broad agreement that sole proprietors are not paying their fair share of taxes. The crux of the argume ...
  • New Poll: Americans Favor Diplomacy, Sanctions On ...
    The Chicago Council on Global Affairs has just released a new poll (pdf) which shows some pretty interesting things about American’s views of the United States’ role in the world. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the current economic situation, Americans named “protecting the jobs of American workers” ...
  • At Values Voters Summit, Inhofe Rallies Conservati ...
    This morning, speaking at FRC’s Voters Values Summit, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) tried to counteract Lady Gaga’s efforts to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, encouraging conservative voters to tell their representatives to “vote no” on Tuesday’s motion to proceed to the defense authorization bill. “Your m ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • G-20 Anatomy
    Saturday's Toronto Star had an " Anatomy of the G20 " that described the confluence of circumstances that led to the police overreacting to the Black Block rioters and curtailing the civil, political, and legal rights of hundreds of innocent people. I found the whole thing a stupid waste of time. L ...
  • Toronto Election: Ford or Smitherman?
    Indicative of the intellectual bankruptcy of Canadian politics in general is the Toronto mayoral race where the front-runner is the shithead Toronto Sun's golden slab of rancid pork Rob Ford and the great white hope of the "liberals" is George Smitherman (who Ford rightly slammed for having presided ...
  • Paradox
    Canadians didn't seem to care about the state's abuse of our civil, legal, and political rights at the G-20 because it didn't really affect them directly. But why do they go along with, or even agree with the assaults on our freedoms from the asinine war on terrorism? Most Canadians are never going ...
  • Thoughts on Ezra Levant, Kory Nyuk,Hyuk, and etc.,
    When it comes to sheer brain power, I'd match up our homegrown Canadian right-wing shit-heads against the sputtering, brainless, scumbags of the USA, any day. O'Reilly or Coulter or Beck or Hannity or Kristol vs. Levant, Frum, Coren, DiManno? They're all so intellectually insignificant that even an ...
  • Correlation Between US Aid & Colombian Death Squad ...
    What else is new ? The results were obtained by comparing the number of reports of such killings in the two years prior to the start of Plan Colombia -- the multibillion-dollar U.S. military aid package -- in 2000 with the number of killings after the launch of that counterinsurgency and anti-dru ...

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

  • The Myth Of Razors And Razor Blades
    The story of Gillette and the famous "razors and razor blades" business model is legendary at this point. The story goes that King Gillette revolutionized business by coming up with the strategy of selling razors cheaply, but then locking people in to expensive disposable razors, where the margin e ...
  • Yahoo Happily Admits It Manipulates Ad Auctions To ...
    Sometimes you wonder if executives realize what they're saying before opening their mouths at times. In an interview with TheRegister, Yahoo's chief economist appears to happily admit to manipulating ad auction results in order to force advertisers to bid more : "When someone has a really high a ...
  • BSA Again Lies With Stats; IDC Should Be Ashamed T ...
    For nearly a decade now, research firm IDC has done research for the Business Software Association (BSA), which BSA has long used to purposely mislead the press and politicians. Back in 2004, at least, the research at IDC was willing to admit that the BSA was being purposely misleading with its rep ...
  • Bait & Switch: O2 iPad Customers Told Data Allowan ...
    Ok, so you bought an iPad in the UK with O2 and you signed up for either the 3GB data plan or the 500MB data plan. It's been a few months, and you're already recognizing how limiting those data caps are... and O2 tells you that they're already giving you too much. mike allen points us to the news ...
  • As Expected, Expectations Are Way Too High On Dias ...
    Back in June, we wrote about some concerns we had about the amount of money and attention given to the NYU students who wanted to create Diaspora, a distributed Facebook. We had nothing against the project itself -- a distributed Facebook sounds great, even if other, similar projects have failed. ...

VacTruth

  • Thimerosal [Hg] Accumulates in Rat Brains, Study R ...
    Researchers at the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology of the Nervous System, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland, examined the pharmacokinetics for mercury in the brain, liver and kidneys. Stunning information states Pharmacokinetic analysis revealed that Hg [mercury] from T ...
  • Brain Swelling and Damage Associated With Vaccines
    Numerous infants and toddlers suffer brain trauma with or without hemorrhages; brain swelling (edema); and cardio-respiratory events shortly after vaccinations to which the medical profession and civil authorities attribute some form of child abuse because of the terrible misconception that vaccines ...
  • Basic human rights denied as governments force hea ...
    Christina England Vactruth.com 09/14/2010 Health workers who refuse the flu vaccine this year, may ultimately go on to lose their jobs. This is the latest bully boy tactic used by the governments to ensure that all health workers are vaccinated against infectious diseases. Currently the percentage o ...
  • Vaccine Acceptance Statistics for 2009
    The Rand Corporation’s November 2009 report Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Use by Adults in the U.S tells GSK and other vaccine manufacturers how to get the general public to ‘demand’ their vaccines.
  • 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?

BroadSnark

  • The Limits of Blogging
    I set up my first blog in a couple of minutes. It was mostly to keep people updated on our marathon trip through Latin America (all ten people who were interested).  Eventually, the travel blogging died out and made way for BroadSnark.  Finally, I had somewhere to write down all those conversations ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Lately, I’ve been coming across a lot of articles on the effects of inequality.  This one is quite good.  I’m particularly interested in how he relates inequality, status seeking, consumerism, and crime.  I’ve read a bit of the crime research he is referring to.  Good stuff.  And it relates to ...
  • 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • Pollution May Be to Blame for Swan's Killing Spree
    Original photo via Dave W Swans may be regarded as symbols of love and harmony , but sometimes they too can be downright mean -- and one such bird in Wales may be the meanest of them all. Aptly named 'Hannibal', this bird has been on a rampage since the beginning of the year, killing 15 of his p ...
  • World's Largest Mining Company: We Must Move Away ...
    Photo via Cleantechnica While we've received a healthy influx of signs that the world's heavyweights aren't planning on diversifying their energy portfolios to any radical degree in the near future -- China building a submersible to dive 7,000 meters underwater to explore for oil among them -- ...
  • Scientists Fight Contagious Face-Eating Tasmanian ...
    Image credit: Wikimedia Commons The wild shrieks and grunts made by Tasmanian devils as they fed on their prey terrified early English settlers in the 19th century, an experience that inspired the small carnivores' common name. Today, however, it's the devils that are being tormented—by an epid ...
  • BP Slammed for Safety Failings in North Sea, Month ...
    A BP rig in the North Sea. Photo via BP Could we see deja vu all over again? This little bit of news emerged yesterday, though it was received with very little fanfare (could be that the ever-vigilant media is turning it's focus away from the BP narrative, now that the most dramatic stuff is ov ...
  • Today on Planet 100: The Scientific Sex (Video)

Biosingularity

  • Gene flaw found in induced stem cells
    Stem-cell researchers have puzzled over why reprogrammed cells taken from adult tissues are often slower to divide and much less robust than their embryo-derived counterparts. Now, a team has discovered the key genetic difference between embryonic and adult-derived stem cells in mice. If confirmed i ...
  • Study: Chocolate may reduce heart risk
    The Easter Bunny might lower your chances of having a heart problem. According to a new study, small doses of chocolate every day could decrease your risk of having a heart attack or stroke by nearly 40%. German researchers followed nearly 20,000 people over eight years, sending them several questio ...
  • Prostate drug may work as a preventive
    Men at an above-normal risk of prostate cancer may be able to reduce their risk of developing the disease by taking a drug already on the market. In research reported Wednesday, the drug dutasteride, currently used to shrink enlarged prostates, was found to reduce the risk of prostate cancer by abou ...
  • Cancer vaccines may be on the verge of wider use
    One of the persistent frustrations in cancer treatment has been the way that tumors can evade our immune systems as they grow and multiply inside our bodies. Even though cancer cells have special surface markers, known as antigens, the body often doesn’t seem to be able to mount a full-fledged attac ...
  • Life’s smallest motor, cargo carrier of the ...
    Life’s smallest motor, a protein that shuttles cargo within cells and helps cells divide, does so by rocking up and down like a seesaw, according to research conducted by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Brandeis University. The researchers crea ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

  • 3 billion and counting
    New film challenges DDT myths and lies that have caused millions of needless deaths.
  • Climate change and renewable energy movements falt ...
    The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. Today, on energy security issues, we unfortunately have less to worry about from external enemies, than from our own elitist politicians, bureaucrats and pressure groups.
  • 'Reconstructing' climate change
    The IPCC may therefore be allowed to die a timely death. Its budgets can be cut or frozen, and its transition to the added status of becoming a full-blown UN agency pushed further back.
  • An Inconvenient Terrorist
    Armed eco-terrorist who experienced an “awakeningâ€Â by watching Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth was shot and killed after storming Discovery Channel Building. Radical manifesto condemns 'parasitic children' and human civilization, calling for sterilization and giving the planet back to the squirr ...
  • End environmental experiments on Africans!
    Environmentalists are using African parents and children in anti-DDT experiments. They are playing with our lives. So are the government agencies and others who support their policies. This is wrong and immoral. And it is only one of the ways they use Africans as experimental laboratory animals.

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Syrian, Iranian presidents discuss strategic coope ...
    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad discussed a number issues of mutual interest in time of a brief meeting in the international airport of Damascus, a Syrian news agency reported.
  • Blast in cafe injures 2 Ukrainian businessmen
    A self-made explosive device went off in a cafe in the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk injuring two businessmen, the Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry said on Saturday.
  • If willing, Russia can exert enormous influence
    Given Russia’s interest in global co-operation, it could make an important player in the geopolitical arena, says Angela Stent, professor and director of Center for Eurasian Studies at Georgetown University.
  • Labor migrants "debouch economy" - Moscow's mayor
    Labor migration debouches economy, but attempts to restrict the number of migrant workers in Moscow are insufficient and ineffective, Moscow's Mayor Yuri Luzhkov said on Saturday.
  • IAEA approves area for first Egyptian nuclear plan ...
    El Dabaa, an Egyptian region lying 183.9 miles away from Cairo, corresponds to all international requirements and is appropriate for establishing the first Egyptian nuclear power plant in it, IAEA experts said on Saturday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • The Ideological Assault on the Fourth Amendment
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Last week the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on the privacy of cell phone records. It seems at best a mixed bag; while the ACLU was largely happy with it, Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney Kevin Bankston noted the decisi ...
  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Via Campesina Calls for Massive Mobilization at Ca ...
    A delegation of Vía Campesina representatives from the United States, the Basque Country and different parts of Mexico arrived in the community of Magdalena Ocotlán, in the Central Valley region of Oaxaca in solidarity with the movement of People Affected by the Environment and their 6th National As ...
  • Monsanto and Biotech Industry Move to the Next Lev ...
    The biotechnology industry wants to convince the world that genetically engineered (GE) crops are needed to 'feed' the hungry. No one disagrees that there is a world food crisis so the industry can argue this point without debate and try to take the moral high ground. Controversy arises, however, du ...
  • Disney, Chevron and Monsanto Contracted with Black ...
    One of the most incendiary details in the documents is that Blackwater sought to become the "intel arm" of Monsanto, offering to provide operatives to infiltrate activist groups. Click here to read this article
  • UPDATED: With the Food Safety Bill Dead, Time for ...
    I wonder if the bill really has what it takes to cure what ails the food safety system. No doubt, a pittance of both resources and legal muscle impedes the FDA from properly overseeing safety at massive food-production facilities. But as a recent poll by the Union of Concerned Scientists and Iowa St ...
  • UN Scientists Say Ozone Layer Depletion Has Stoppe ...
    The protective ozone layer in the earth's upper atmosphere has stopped thinning and should largely be restored by mid century thanks to a ban on harmful chemicals, UN scientists said on Thursday. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Fotos de Australia or Australia photos (6 fotos gr ...
    Si digo la palabra 'canguros', ¿en qué país pensaría usted? Exacto, yo pensé lo mismo. ¿Y sabe qué? Tenemos razón. Y si bien es cierto que Australia posee el mayor número de estos simpáticos animalitos saltarines, también cuenta con extraordinarios paisajes que nos dejan muy en claro la invitación p ...
  • Fotos de Taiwan or Taiwan Photos (6 imágenes grati ...
    Lo primero que viene a mi cabeza cuando hablo de Taiwan, es la hermosa motocicleta SyM RV250 que compré cuando estuve viviendo en los Estados Unidos . Lo digo, porque esta línea de motos, son ensambladas precisamente en este país. Pero aparte de tener incontables empresas de manofactura, Taiwan cuen ...
  • Fotos de España or Spain Photos (6 imágenes gratis ...
    España, es un país hermoso que personalmente me gustaría conocer. Si usted no es de ahí, no ha ido o no me cree, le invito a disfrutar de estas imágenes que -como siempre-, dicen más que mil palabras. Tras haber visitado Estados Unidos y Canadá , créame que mi próximo destino, podría ser este bellís ...
  • Fotos de Italia or Italy photos (6 imágenes gratis ...
    No sé por qué, pero cada vez que hablo de Italia, no puedo evitar pensar en Pizza y Spaguetti. Yendo un poco más allá de la deliciosa comida italiana, muchos sabemos que El coliseo de Roma, la Torre de Pisa y muchísimos otros lugares turísticos, están dentro de este mágico y hermoso país. Para confi ...
  • Rosas de colores parte III (10 fotografías gratis)
    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 ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Digging for Data in Clifton Park
    Last Tuesday I spent the evening at the Clifton Mansion, home of Civic Works, the umbrella organization of Real Food Farm (RFF), a new urban agriculture project. The occasion was Digging for Data, an event held jointly by the Center for a Livable Future and Civic Works. Located on six acres of Clif ...
  • 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 ...

Norwegianity

  • Getting piggy in the center square/star
    Let’s start with Christine McDonnell: Putting mom on the payroll Sisters Science of the lambs Ignoring FEC rules The rest of the baggers: Neiwert on right-wing civil war Kirsten Powers on how the Teabaggers have taken over the GOP for good (but no word as to where the money will come from once the w ...
  • BridgeFail in China
    An odd thing happened this morning. The Washington Post looked at Tuesday’s election results and started running for cover. I really don’t know why. In what possible way is Christine O‘Donnell a bigger rightwing freakshow than Tom Coburn? And are things really so dire they have to throw Zombie Nixon ...
  • Killing them by giving them what they want
    If the Dems don’t hold Congress now, the party clearly needs new leadership and I don’t mean more centrists. The Teabaggers won last night and the Republicans are saddled with Christine “masturbation is bad” O’Donnell, Ovide Lamontagne (NOT Palin endorsed!?) and Carl “bastards r us” Paladino. Add th ...
  • Disjointed, disgruntled and not nearly enough dism ...
    Bob Herbert: Americans are not being honest with themselves about the structural changes in the economy that have bestowed fabulous wealth on a tiny sliver at the top, while undermining the living standards of the middle class and absolutely crushing the poor. Neither the Democrats nor the Republica ...
  • & 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 [ ...

Public News Service

  • AZ Voters to Decide Repeal of Early Childhood Prog ...
    AZ Voters to Decide Repeal of Early Childhood Programs Phoenix, AZ – Lawmakers are asking Arizona voters to reverse their 2006 approval of the “First Things First” early childhood health and development initiative. Money raised by the initiative’s cigarette tax would be diverted to the state’s gener ...
  • 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 ...

My Care2 Picks

  • The Science - Insite for Community Safety
    Holly Stick : Look at the Drug Prevention Network of Canada website and it is crap. Astroturf, anyone? And where does that private funding come from? http://creekside1.blogspot.com/2010/08/who-muzzled-rcmp-on-insite.html Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Life on this Earth just changed : the North Atlant ...
    The entire system is a key part of the planets heat regulatory system; it is what keeps Ireland and the United Kingdom mostly ice free and the Scandinavia countries from being too cold; it is what keeps the entire world from another Ice Age. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! � ...
  • Surfing Bankruptcies & Science
    This post was a result of keeping tabs on Care2 news and surfing sources as well as being in forums here and at My Opera....all while surfing But the spark was a thought about an old NWO story about economic warfare and a Search to find it again Submitted by John Farnham to Business �|� �Note-it! ...
  • Coal Poisons U.S. Health. Take Action
    Earthjustice and Physicians for Social Responsibility today released a major report showing that coal ash poisons in the air and drinking water supplies can cause cancer, organ failure and developmental problems. Children and adults who live near ash... Submitted by Tarequl I. to Health & Wellness ...
  • Consumers will get info on what's in their househo ...
    The Commissioner of New York's Department of Environmental Conservation last week told manufacturers to disclose what their products contain and any health risks they pose. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • US couple accused of trying to sell nuclear secret ...
    US couple accused of trying to sell nuclear secrets to Venezuela | World news | The Guardian: "An American nuclear scientist and his wife were arrested yesterday, accused of conspiring to sell atomic... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Chávez challenges CNN to interview the Five
    granma.cu - OUR AMERICA: "CARACAS, September 16.—President Hugo Ch�vez of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, has called on the CNN television network to give a demonstration of impartiality by... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • City plans to bill pastor for security around plan ...
    City plans to bill pastor for security around planned Quran burning - CNN.com: "Orlando, Florida (CNN) -- The city of Gainesville, Florida, plans to send a bill estimated at more than $180,000 to... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Police shootings: Turmoil in Seattle over officer- ...
    Police shootings: Turmoil in Seattle over officer-involved shootings - latimes.com: The case is one of a wave of shootings and beatings involving the Seattle Police Department, prompting widespread... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • O’Donnell: Scientists are creating ‘mice with huma ...
    O’Donnell: Scientists are creating ‘mice with human brains’ | Raw Story: "Breaking: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington calls for FEC and criminal investigation into Christine... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Farmwars technical difficulties
    From the Editor: At approximately 5:30 pm Friday eve, this site was hacked. I discovered it almost immediately, took the site down, and fixed the problem. It is now safe, and measures have been taken to keep it that way. I apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. Barb
  • Big Pharma Scores Big Win: Medicinal Herbs Will Di ...
    It's almost a done deal. We are about to see herbal preparations disappear, and the ability of herbalists to prescribe them will also be lost.
  • Vote all you want…the agenda doesn’t change
    I’ve decided that I will not vote for the candidate most likely to cause the least destruction just because he or she isn’t quite as corrupted as the pretended opposition.
  • S.510 Cloture Update
    S.510 not shelved! Reid is attempting to invoke cloture to get it shoved down our throats.
  • Navy to test its ability to vaccinate masses in a ...
    It may be part of an exercise, but have no doubt: The needles in this simulated pandemic flu scenario are real. And so are the deltoids of thousands of sailors to be immunized in coming days as part of a test of the Navy's capacity to "surge" huge quantities of vaccines to its work force.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • About 44 million in U.S. lived below poverty line ...
    ShareThis About 44 million in U.S. lived below poverty line in 2009, census data show 16 Sep 2010 In the second year of a brutal recession, the ranks of the American poor soared to their highest level in half a century and millions more are barely avoiding falling below the poverty line, the Census ...
  • U.S. Pilot Killed in Iraq Explosion
    ShareThis U.S. Pilot Killed in Iraq Explosion --Investigation into incident has been launched 16 Sep 2010 A U.S. pilot was killed while an U.S. soldier was wounded in an explosion at a military base in Iraq, the U.S. military said on Thursday. The incident took place on Wednesday morning at Joint Ba ...
  • Authorities: 2 tornadoes struck NYC during storm
    ShareThis Authorities: 2 tornadoes struck NYC during storm 18 Sep 2010 The storm that churned through New York City spawned two destructive tornadoes and a fierce macroburst with wind speeds up to 125 mph that barreled across a large swath of Brooklyn and Queens, authorities said Friday. The storm o ...
  • Regulators close five banks, bringing 2010 tally o ...
    ShareThis Regulators close five banks, bringing 2010 tally of such failures to 124 17 Sep 2010 Three bank failures in Georgia and one in Ohio has brought 2010's tally to 124, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Friday. The banks closed by regulators include Bramble Savings Bank in Mi ...
  • Holt: FBI anthrax investigation is itself subject ...
    ShareThis Holt: FBI anthrax investigation is itself subject of probe 16 Sep 2010 After years of questioning the conclusion and methods of an FBI investigation into the 2001 [Cheney] anthrax attacks that killed five people and sickened dozens of others, Rep. Rush Holt (D-Hopewell) announced yesterday ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Mondoweiss

  • Closed for atonement, but check out these recent h ...
    There won't be much posting around here for the next day or so, but I thought this would be a good chance to highlight some of the great material we've had on the site lately. First and foremost, Phil has been making his way through Jordan and Israel/Palestine. He'll still be there for a few more [. ...
  • American public opinion and the special relationsh ...
    There is no question that the United States has a relationship with Israel that has no parallel in modern history. Washington gives Israel consistent, almost unconditional diplomatic backing and more foreign aid than any other country. In other words, Israel gets this aid even when it does things th ...
  • After Birthright: Hebron – 500 settlers, 2,0 ...
    In July, activist Rachel Marcuse spent 10 days in Israel as part of the�Taglit-Birthright program�-- a fully sponsored trip for young North American Jews to learn more about the country. She went to bear witness and ask questions about the [...]
  • Responding to Michael Oren, in his own words
    The following is a response to Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren's September 15th editorial in the Los Angeles Times: Imagine that you are a parent who sends her children off to school in the morning worrying whether they will be arbitrarily stopped, stripped nearly naked, and in most cases returned b ...
  • Why we are boycotting the Batsheva Dance Company
    The following is an open letter to the Batsheva Dance Company from two groups organizing a boycott of its upcoming shows in New York City:� Dear Batsheva Dance Company, We are a group of New York-based human rights activists and artists calling for a boycott of your performances at the Joyce Theater ...

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

  • Pollution May Be to Blame for Swan's Killing Spree
    Original photo via Dave W Swans may be regarded as symbols of love and harmony , but sometimes they too can be downright mean -- and one such bird in Wales may be the meanest of them all. Aptly named 'Hannibal', this bird has been on a rampage since the beginning of the year, killing 15 of his p ...
  • World's Largest Mining Company: We Must Move Away ...
    Photo via Cleantechnica While we've received a healthy influx of signs that the world's heavyweights aren't planning on diversifying their energy portfolios to any radical degree in the near future -- China building a submersible to dive 7,000 meters underwater to explore for oil among them -- ...
  • Scientists Fight Contagious Face-Eating Tasmanian ...
    Image credit: Wikimedia Commons The wild shrieks and grunts made by Tasmanian devils as they fed on their prey terrified early English settlers in the 19th century, an experience that inspired the small carnivores' common name. Today, however, it's the devils that are being tormented—by an epid ...
  • BP Slammed for Safety Failings in North Sea, Month ...
    A BP rig in the North Sea. Photo via BP Could we see deja vu all over again? This little bit of news emerged yesterday, though it was received with very little fanfare (could be that the ever-vigilant media is turning it's focus away from the BP narrative, now that the most dramatic stuff is ov ...
  • Today on Planet 100: The Scientific Sex (Video)

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Rwanda court sentences opposition leader to life i ...
    [JURIST] A Rwandan court on Friday sentenced opposition leader Deogratias Mushayidi [AI backgrounder] to life in prison for recruiting rebels and trying to incite violence against the government of current Rwandan President Paul Kagame [official website; BBC profile]. Mushayidi was also given two ad ...
  • Switzerland government to consider stricter rules ...
    [JURIST] The Swiss Federal Council and Federal Department of Justice and Police (FDJP) [official websites] announced Friday that they will introduce legislation [press release] establishing stricter rules on assisted suicide [JURIST news archive] after a consultation with local governments, governme ...
  • UN SG urges abolishment of anti-gay laws
    [JURIST] UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon [official website] on Friday called for countries around the world to abolish laws discriminating against gay and lesbian individuals [press release]. The message, read on his behalf by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official website] dur ...
  • UN Security Council condemns DRC mass rapes, urges ...
    [JURIST] The UN Security Council [official website] on Friday issued a condemned the recent mass rapes [text] in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive], calling for justice for the victims. In the statement, issued by current Security Council President Ertugru ...
  • Sri Lanka ex-army chief convicted on corruption co ...
    [JURIST] Former Sri Lankan army chief Sarath Fonseka [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] was convicted Friday by a court-martial on charges of corruption and sentenced to three years in prison. The court found [AFP report] that Fonseka gave preference to an arms company operated by his son-in-law. Th ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Will the White House Play the Palin Card?
    So here's the scenario. The Democrats who craft political strategy for the party have tried to figure out how to somehow use the Tea Party moment to provide an advantage to their base. When the Tea Partiers, collectively, are in economic libertarian mode, Democrats can't make much noise. But when ...
  • Republican Midterm Target: 80% of Conservatives
    The Tea Party might be the catalyst that pushes Republican market share among conservatives higher than 80% of the voting electorate. On a national level, that's the single most important metric that strategists are looking at. The relative proportion of conservatives in the electorate is also quite ...
  • Romney Unleashed
    "Welcome to the Nancy Pelosi-Harry Reid-President Obama farewell party.� This has been a pretty tough year for those three--their numbers have gone down the chute faster than a Jet Blue flight attendant." That's how Mitt Romney, potential presidential candidate, begins his speech to the Values Vo ...
  • The Reality Show Politics of 2010
    Newser's Michael Wolff notes that the more a candidate seems to lack "gravity," "probity," and "confidence," the better he or she seems to do this cycle. (I'd add: when the media points out their lack of such qualities, the reaction from people who support these candidates is to say to themselves, " ...
  • Stewart, Colbert To Hold 10/30 Rallies
    It's "Fear!" v. "Simmer Down." Satirists Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will hold competing and complimentary marches on Washington just days before the November elections,� breaking the fourth wall and inserting themselves directly into the political debate in a way that might influence the Novemb ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Yom Kippur, May You Be Sealed for Good
    I’ve always admired the holiday of Yom Kippur for its introspective meditation and simple clarity.  Known as the “white fast” (as opposed to Tishah B’Av, the “black” fast), it aspires to a sort of spiritual purity.  It’s not at all a sad day, just a serious one. In ancient Israel it was a bit diff ...
  • IDF Assassinates Hamas West Bank Leader
    When you’ve been covering the shenanigans of the IDF as long as I you get a sense for the use of code words in describing conflict situations.  The killing today of a Hamas militant in the West Bank, as described by Haaretz, especially stunk to high heaven: According to the IDF, an Israeli army uni ...
  • New Israel Fund Will Refuse Funding Palestinian NG ...
    JTA is reporting the final version of New Israel Fund’s new funding guidelines.  When last I spoke with an NIF representative I was assured that the guidelines would not do precisely what these do: Groups that work to “deny the right of the Jewish people to sovereign self-determination within Israe ...
  • Links for 2010-03-18 [Digg]
    Shin Bet Secretly Detains Reporter Leaking Top-Secret Docume I was the first blogger or journalist to break this story outside Israel. Anat Kam, a young Israeli reporter was secretly arrested and imprisoned for allegedly leaking top secret IDF documents about targeted assassinations.
  • The Terror Industry and Anti-Jihadism, Who Benefit ...
    Norman Finkelstein coined the phrase the “Holocaust industry” in his book of the same name, to describe the nexus of Jewish groups, lawyers, politicians, and communal leaders who enrich their power and pocketbook by trumpeting the anti-Semitism threat and causing anxiety and paranoia among world Jew ...

Ode Magazine

  • Church versus the mall: where to find happiness
    By: VictoriaKlein Decide quickly without thinking: where would you rather be - at church or the mall? If you said the mall, you’re in good company, but you may not be as happy. A soon-to-be published study from Israel’s Ben-Gurion University compared three dec ...
  • Make mine a co-op
    Joining a cooperative is one small step toward bringing locally sourced and organic groceries to your community - and one giant step toward food activism. At some co-ops, like Park Slope in Brooklyn, New York, shopping is restricted to members who work in the store for a couple of hour ...
  • Awarding efforts in sustainable tourism
    By: ecotravel The Innovation Leadership in Sustainable Tourism Award was created by The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) to recognize those individuals and organizations who demonstrate leadership in innovative actions that effectively promote sustainable to ...
  • Share a peace practice
    By: PeaceCorso Further to my previous post , here is a URL from the Culture of Peace Initiative inviting us to share our peace practices. I first saw it on Twitter posted by Peace Day ( @PeaceDaySept21 ) on July 19, 2010. Do you have a "peace practice" to ...
  • Volunteer yogis head to Haiti
    By: KimberlyTwardochleb In May of 2010 Lisa Rueff, founder of the Marin-based Yoga Ventures , returned home from a meaningful and inspiring volunteer trip to Haiti. While there, she helped both financially and physically in orphanages, tent villages, community cen ...

OpEd News

  • 5 Videos You Should See This Week (September 18th)
    As an OpEdNews Multi-Media Editor, I post five videos each week that I think you should see. I do not do this to select videos that represent the top news stories of the week. I pick five videos that I think show something that may have been underreported or that I think should be seen by you becaus ...
  • Why are the pundits, pols, and Wall Street fat cat ...
    Politicians and bureaucrats need us to believe they're saving the day; otherwise they could lose their jobs. Financial fat cats and CEOs need us to believe it's OK to buy their stocks again; otherwise their shares in their companies might very well crash in value. Rating agencies like S&P, Moody's & ...
  • Is the FOMC Playing the Stock Market?
    Technical analysis and fundamental analysis point to purchase by the Fed of equities. Those being circumstantial evidences it sounded like a conspiracy theory. Now we received an insider view that says it is actually happening.
  • Corporate America - The Enemy Within
    General Motors (GM) was not first bailed out by U.S. taxpayers in 2008. GM was first bailed out during World War II - to the tune of $285 billion. Since 1784 to the present, American companies have had long relationships with China - and they have sacrificed American lives (soldiers and domestic wor ...
  • CEOs and Their Need for Money: A Psychoanalysts Vi ...
    This is second of a three part article on CEO greed

Switchboard

  • The Arctic Refuge - A Unique Wilderness
    As memorable as it was, my recent sighting of a polar bear in the Arctic Refuge far from the ocean and the polar ice cap, was just the beginning of a remarkable day.  That morning, as we sat on the banks of the Canning River, we suddenly noticed a shape loping along the plain behind th ...
  • Upland Bird Season: Opening Day With Aldo
    I’ve been bird-hunting for more than ten years, and I still can’t shoot for shit. Unfortunate though that truth may be, it does not stop me from chasing birds each fall.  The opening day of upland bird season in Montana is September 1st, and that glorious, long-anticipated day arriv ...
  • Old Iron
    The oil industry calls idle wells and drilling platforms “old iron.”  “Old” as in out of mind and ignored; “iron” as maybe rusting away.  There are literally thousands of “old iron” wells and platforms in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere.  This week, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Managem ...
  • Gulf Coast Disaster - Friday, September 17
    Day 151 Highlights in this issue - End in sight: Relief well intersects damaged well - Gulf spill judge: Never too early to settle - Why did administration low-ball oil spill numbers? - White House: Drilling ban doesn’t hurt jobs - Mexican States sue BP for Gulf spill damage - Ala. Go ...
  • New report shows alleged economic impact of Secret ...
    Yesterday the Obama Administration released a new report detailing the economic impact of the temporary pause in deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Since Secretary Salazar announced the limited moratorium in late May, there has been a great deal of speculation about its potentia ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Friday Nugget Blogging
    Mom, do animals menstruate? It’s interesting how many basic science questions I am not confident I know the “answers” to. Your accumulated wisdom, please. Related posts:Friday Nugget Blogging Friday Nugget Blogging Friday Nugget Blogging Related posts: Friday Nugget Blogging Friday Nugget Blog ...
  • Your Moment Of Bobo
    It sure is lucky that David Brooks’s apocryphal nameless liberal friends make their otherwise sound points with such specific, problematic details! The strawman-burning would be a lot harder otherwise. It’s also a shame that he seemed to file the thing before the results of the Delaware primary ...
  • Lickspittles, Start Your Word Processors!
    During the upcoming NFL labor negotiations, I’m either going to have to avoid reading much about it or be careful to watch my blood pressure.   The journalists who cover all sports (with a few honorable exceptions) seem to seem their role during labor negotiations as pretending that the interests ...
  • Paul is dead?
    The SSA has a nice site that lets you look up all sorts of statistical info on naming patterns. Among other things it allows one to predict that 70 years from now very few baby girls will be named Isabella, Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Ava, or Emily (people who study this kind of thing have noted [...] R ...
  • On Mass Murder…
    The only modification that I’d make to this argument is that the responsibility does not wholly lie with Mao Zedong.  The Great Leap Forward had the early support of a depressing number of CCP elites who  really should have known better (Deng Xiaoping, Liu Shaoqi).  To be fair, both Deng and Liu ...

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

  • Off Grid Town Pilots Energy Storage
    Canada's Bella Coola will be using Hydrogen Assisted Renewable Power developed by GE Energy and others to store hydro-electricity and cut emissions.
  • Three More Wineries Uncork Solar Plans
    Industry giant Constellation is adding solar panels at its Ravenswood, Clos du Bois and Estancia facilities, joining a long list of California wineries.
  • Smart Meters Do Good In Washington D.C.
    PowerDentsDC, a pilot program for Pepco's residential customers in Washington DC, shows that customers saved money and energy with smart meter plans and tech.
  • Chip Maker Calls For Greener Gizmos
    Semiconductor company Marvell recently announced the launch of a Smart Electronics Initiative aimed at creating more energy efficient electronics.
  • Tesla Zips Onto NASDAQ Green Stocks List
    Smart-grid company PowerSecure, electric-vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors and power-system maker Vicor will join NASDAQ's Clean Edge Green Energy Index.

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • 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 ...
  • Discipline varies widely for addicted attorneys
    Recent decisions show broad inconsistencies in the way courts dole out punishment for substance-abusing attorneys, whether because of uneven precedent, murky ethics rules or a hard-line stance against recognizing addiction as a mitigating factor in misconduct. In some cases, the attorneys get little ...
  • 'Cash cow' or valuable credential?
    No longer just for aspiring academics and wannabe tax lawyers, master of laws — LL.M. — degrees are gaining in popularity among foreign and domestic law students.
  • Feeling Insecure
    In the past 10 years, the administrative forum hearing security clearance challenges has seen a staggering 25-fold increase in its docket. Lawyers who practice before the court say the reason for the burgeoning caseload is simple: Sept. 11.
  • Ave Maria will cooperate with Law School Transpare ...
    The Law School Transparency project has its first taker. Ave Maria School of Law agreed on Thursday to provide detailed employment data for its graduates to the nonprofit organization. Kyle McEntee, a Vanderbilt law student and co-founder of the transparency project, called it a step in the right di ...

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Do ‘Environmental Extremists’ Pose Criminal Threat ...
    by Abrahm Lustgarten Sept 8th, 2010 As debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus shale reaches a fever pitch, state and federal authorities are warning Pennsylvania law enforcement that “environmental extremists” pose an increasing threat to security and to the energy sector. A confide ...
  • Marcellus Money
    Here’s a website that is keeping tabs on which PA politicians have been offered money from from the gas industry and which ones have accepted that money.  Enjoy. http://www.marcellusmoney.org/
  • 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 ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • As Tigers Near Extinction, Groups Propose Program ...
    A consortium of conservation groups and tiger scientists has put forth a detailed plan, costing $82 million annually, to save the world’s tigers , which now number fewer than 3,500 animals and occupy just six percent of their original range. Writing in the journal PLoS Biology , the organizations an ...
  • Interview: Exploring the Links Between Warming and ...
    One of the more contentious issues facing climate scientists is the question of whether rising ocean temperatures will cause more frequent and powerful hurricanes. Kerry Emanuel Few experts have studied this question more in depth than Kerry Emanuel, a meteorologist with the Massachusetts Institute ...
  • 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 ...
  • A Symbolic Solar Road Trip To Reignite a Climate M ...
    An activist caravan to bring one of Jimmy Carter’s solar panels back to the White House symbolizes the time that the U.S. has lost in developing new energy technologies – and the urgent need for taking action on climate. BY BILL MCKIBBEN

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

  • Baltic Sea swimming with WW2 munitions
    Thousands of World War Two mines and missiles still lie on the Baltic seabed and continue to be seen as a risk. Though relatively small in size, the Baltic has around 150,000 munitions hidden among its depths.
  • Values Voter Summit descends on Washington
    One day after the US Census Bureau released a report showing that in 2009 one in seven Americans lived below the poverty line, the Family Resource Council held its annual Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC.
  • Afghan elections plagued by threats and violence
    As Afghan citizens head to the polls this weekend to vote for the country's parliament, violence and kidnappings threaten to sabotage the nation’s bid for stability.
  • Next ISS crew gets green light
    A joint Russia-US commission has confirmed the members of the next scheduled flight to the International Space Station.
  • English Patient star looks at violence in marriage ...
    The nature of violence, the phenomenon of lust, the urge for freedom and the power of dependence. A highly inflammable love drama with a French twist, “Leaving” has been released in Russia.

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

  • Beachcombing: Dowsing For Submarines
    When it comes to legitimate anomaly research, the InnerTubes are a hard place to find such gems. It takes twice as long to sift through the shit, flotsam and chaff as it does to do the Googling (I think the Google has attained consciousness and throws out distractions most of the time). But I have [ ...
  • UFO Casebook: Silver Object in Colorado
    It’s hard to get decent pics of UFOs now-a-days, but I found these gems on UFO Casebook. What do you think? Blimp? Dirigible? Alien spaceship? US military black project? You be the judges! … … [...] I looked up and noticed an odd-shaped object moving slowly from a westerly direction moving easterly. ...
  • Another take on SETI and the Fermi Paradox
    SETI and the Fermi Paradox has had it’s share of mainstream media attention lately, usually via the ruminations of Dr. Stephen Hawking. That can be a good thing, because Hawking has basically taken it upon himself to educate the great unwashed masses that human-kind probably aren’t the only “intelli ...
  • 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 ...

Tippers News

The Freeman

  • The Grasping Macroeconomic Managers
    A tax cut for the top 2 percent is “just not a good use of limited resources.” That’s what Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on television the other day. Sorry, but I can’t get my mind off taxes. So even though I wrote about them two weeks ago, I must do it again. Call me [...]
  • California Gears Up for Emissions Battle
    “A ballot initiative to suspend a milestone California law curbing greenhouse gas emissions is drawing a wave of contributions from out-of-state oil companies, raising concerns among conservationists as it emerges as a test of public support for potentially costly environmental measures during tough ...
  • Poverty on the Rise
    “The percentage of Americans struggling below the poverty line in 2009 was the highest it has been in 15 years, the Census Bureau reported Thursday, and interviews with poverty experts and aid groups said the increase appeared to be continuing this year. ” (New York Times, Thursday) I’m sure it has ...
  • The Grasping Macroeconomic Managers
    There remains the unalterable fact that if the tax cuts expire, politicians will control the money.
  • Fed Reaches Fork in the Road
    “Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and his colleagues at the Federal Reserve are facing their biggest decision since the end of the financial crisis, confronting a fateful choice this fall whether to take new, exceptional steps to boost the flagging economic recoveryâ¦. Fed policymakers face two major quest ...

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

  • South's institutional investors silent on coal ash ...
    As the Environmental Protection Agency considers how best to regulate the disposal of toxic coal ash, a group of institutional investors representing over $240 billion in assets has sent a letter urging the agency to adopt strict rules to protect not only the environment and public health but also s ...
  • Should nonmajority unions have the right to bargai ...
    By Judy Atkins and David Cohen, Labor Notes It's time to take a new look at our old rights under the National Labor Relations Act. With any luck, the National Labor Relations Board could soon issue a rule that would require employers to bargain with members-only unions -- that is, unions that hav ...
  • Gulf spill paymaster defends progress while weighi ...
    By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica Kenneth Feinberg, the independent paymaster who took over managing Gulf spill damage claims from BP just over three weeks ago, has faced growing frustration from many claimants who have yet to see a check. Although his Gulf Coast Claims Facility has approved payments ...
  • Farmworkers launch divestment campaign against JPM ...
    The Farm Labor Organizing Committee, the Ohio-based migrant workers' rights organization that has been increasingly focused on the U.S. South in recent years, this month launched its JPMorgan Chase divestment campaign to force the Wall Street powerhouse to pressure the Reynolds American tobacco comp ...
  • Hundreds speak out at EPA's coal ash hearing in No ...
    There was a big turnout for the Environmental Protection Agency's public hearing yesterday in Charlotte, N.C. on proposed coal ash regulations, with about 250 people delivering testimony in proceedings that lasted from 10 a.m. until 11 p.m. Held at a Holiday Inn, it was one of eight coal ash hearing ...

Worldpress - Africa

Canadian Encyclopedia

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle leather/suede purse/bag ...
    We’ve had an email from Joanne: Hi, I have an old leather zipped wallet type purse which is old, worn and quite grubby. I would rather recycle it somehow than put it in the bin but am not sure how to do this. Do you have any ideas? First, it obviously depends on the state [...]
  • How can I “repair” too runny/too solid ...
    It’s very definitely jam season at the moment (in the UK at least) and I thought it might be fun to hear people’s favourite fixes for sticky situations (ho ho!) when the preserves don’t come out quite as you’d hoped. How do you test for the set point? The most common method seems to be [...]
  • 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 [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle jigsaws?
    We’ve had an email from Kathy asking about getting rid of her children’s old jigsaws: I just know they’ve got pieces missing so would feel bad about giving them to a charity shop. They’re cardboard with a shiny paper top so they could be recycled? Probably – as long as it’s just paper and not [...]
  • 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 ...

Mondoweiss

  • Closed for atonement, but check out these recent h ...
    There won't be much posting around here for the next day or so, but I thought this would be a good chance to highlight some of the great material we've had on the site lately. First and foremost, Phil has been making his way through Jordan and Israel/Palestine. He'll still be there for a few more [. ...
  • American public opinion and the special relationsh ...
    There is no question that the United States has a relationship with Israel that has no parallel in modern history. Washington gives Israel consistent, almost unconditional diplomatic backing and more foreign aid than any other country. In other words, Israel gets this aid even when it does things th ...
  • After Birthright: Hebron – 500 settlers, 2,0 ...
    In July, activist Rachel Marcuse spent 10 days in Israel as part of the�Taglit-Birthright program�-- a fully sponsored trip for young North American Jews to learn more about the country. She went to bear witness and ask questions about the [...]
  • Responding to Michael Oren, in his own words
    The following is a response to Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren's September 15th editorial in the Los Angeles Times: Imagine that you are a parent who sends her children off to school in the morning worrying whether they will be arbitrarily stopped, stripped nearly naked, and in most cases returned b ...
  • Why we are boycotting the Batsheva Dance Company
    The following is an open letter to the Batsheva Dance Company from two groups organizing a boycott of its upcoming shows in New York City:� Dear Batsheva Dance Company, We are a group of New York-based human rights activists and artists calling for a boycott of your performances at the Joyce Theater ...

Media Consortium

  • Checking In on Kachingle : CJR
    That’s the catch: the service is voluntary, and it only works if everyone’s on board. The big news sites can’t imagine that the relatively small number of early-adopter Kachinglers will make it financially worth it, but Kachingle can’t get more readers to sign up until they see their favorite sites ...
  • Apple Said to Negotiate With Publishers Over Digit ...
    Apple Inc. is developing a digital newsstand for publishers that would let them sell magazines and newspapers to consumers for use on Apple devices, said two people familiar with the matter. ...The newsstand would be separate from Apple’s App Store, where people can buy some publications now, they ...
  • 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 ...

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 )

  • A new tool for predicting type II diabetes
    Posted on behalf of Kate Larkin Researchers have found a new blood biomarker to monitor type two diabetes. The study published in Circulation Research , is the first to show that plasma microRNAs, small RNA molecules that recognize and regulate mRNA target genes, are key indicators for monitoring ...
  • Researchers dismissed at gene therapy lab
    Two researchers in a leading gene therapy lab committed scientific misconduct and have been dismissed, Mount Sinai School of Medicine announced this afternoon. But an investigation into the matter yielded no evidence of misconduct by the lab's lead scientist, Savio Woo. That investigation, which ...
  • Ruth’s Reviews: Life Ascending – Nick Lane
    Ruth Francis, Nature’s Head of Press, is reviewing all the entries shortlisted for the Royal Society’s science book prize. She’ll be reading one per week and is posting her thoughts on The Great Beyond every Friday between now and the prize ceremony on 21 October. Last year was a year of Darw ...
  • NASA panel grapples with double dark energy missio ...
    Implementing specific recommendations from the Astro2010 decadal survey, released on 10 August, can be a bureaucratic nightmare. Just ask the 17-member NASA Advisory Council astrophysics subcommittee, which met 16 September to discuss the execution of the survey's top large-scale space-based priorit ...
  • NASA panel grapples with double dark energy missio ...
    Implementing specific recommendations from the Astro2010 decadal survey, released on 10 August, can be a bureaucratic nightmare. Just ask the 17-member NASA Advisory Council astrophysics subcommittee, which met 16 September to discuss the execution of the survey's top large-scale space-based priorit ...

new geography

  • Toronto’s Civic Malaise
    Despite Toronto’s international reputation for livability, all is not well in the city. Many politicians and pundits blame the outgoing city council, and Mayor David Miller. While they’ve done their share of damage, the city faces deeper, systemic problems. The source of the problem is more funda ...
  • Iowa's Agro-Metro Future
    When Brent Richardson, a field rep for Cadillac, was told he'd been transferred to Des Moines, he assumed he'd be spending the next year in a small town environment. Des Moines turned out to have much more bustle than he expected. The city had a robust insurance sector among its diverse industries. ...
  • High Speed Rail: Fast Track To Nowhere
    Given that Warren Buffett ponied up $44 billion in cash and stock to take private the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, I wonder why President Obama is betting that the way to lift the country out of stagnant growth is to invest another $50 billion, in public funds, to swing aboard the dream of ...
  • Why Housing Will Come Back
    Few icons of the American way of life have suffered more in recent years than �homeownership. Since the bursting of the housing bubble, there has been a steady drumbeat from the factories of futurist punditry that the notion of owning a home will, and, more importantly, should become out of reach fo ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

spiked

Cryptogon

  • Antibacterial Soaps Contain Endocrine-Disruptors C ...
    Via: Natural Resources Defense Council: The Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit today against the Food and Drug Administration for failing to issue a final rule regulating the chemicals triclosan and triclocarban, which are commonly found in antibacterial soaps. These chemicals are sus ...
  • DARPA Develops Helmet of Obedience
    See also: The Tripods: Humans are controlled from the age of 14 by implants called “caps”, which suppress curiosity and creativity and leave the recipient placid and docile, incapable of dissent. The caps cause them to adore the tripods as their saviours. Via: Technofascism Blog: Reminiscent of the ...
  • Boeing Gets $89 Million to Build Unmanned Aircraft ...
    Here’s another one for your “Unblinking Eye” file folder. Via: Network World: One of the more unique unmanned aircraft took a giant step toward reality this week when the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) inked an agreement with Boeing to build the SolarEagle, a plane capable of rema ...
  • Chinese “Body Fishers”: The Business o ...
    Via: McClatchy: From his perch on an overhang above the Yellow River, Wei Jinpeng pointed to a fisherman’s cove below and began counting his latest catch. He stopped after six, and guessed that perhaps a dozen human corpses were bobbing in the murky waters. The bodies were floating facedown and teth ...
  • Timeline of Shame: Decades of DeCoster Egg Factory ...
    Via: The Atlantic: Salmonella, mounds of excrement, and hefty citations are nothing new to Jack DeCoster, whose Iowa henhouses were blamed for last month’s nationwide egg recall. DeCoster has done business in Turner, Maine, his hometown, for over 60 yearsâand has incurred a decades-long list of vi ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Helicopter Ben Bernanke Says Everything Is Going T ...
    Don't worry everybody. Federal Reserve Chairman "Helicopter Ben" Bernanke says that the U.S. economy is going to be just fine, and that if it does slip up somehow the Federal Reserve is ready to rush in to the rescue. That was essentially Bernanke's message to an annual gathering of ...
  • 20 Signs That The Economic Collapse Has Already Be ...
    For most Americans, the economic collapse is something that is happening to someone else.  Most of us have become so isolated from each other and so self-involved that unless something is directly affecting us or a close family member than we really don't feel it.  But even though m ...
  • 20 Signs That The Health Care Industry Has Become ...
    Once upon a time in America, people became doctors and nurses because they wanted to help people, building hospitals was a labor of love, lawyers didn't chase ambulances, health insurance companies did not openly abuse their customers and greedy pharmaceutical companies did not domi ...
  • Record Low Mortgage Rates, A Record Low Federal Fu ...
    Over the past several years, the Federal Reserve and the U.S. government have tried everything that they can think of to stimulate this dead horse of an economy but nothing has worked.  The Fed has slashed the federal funds rate to record low levels, mortgage rates have been pushed ...
  • A Two-Tier Internet?
    The Internet as you know it is in serious, serious danger. Some of the most powerful communications companies in the world have been involved in negotiations and have been making agreements that would throw net neutrality out the window and would move us toward a two-tier Internet.  ...

Desertification

  • Green Economy or Sustainable Development? (IISD)
    Read at : Sustainable Development Announcement List Call for Papers – Green Economy or Sustainable Development? – Natural Resources Forum Call for Papers for a Special Issue Green Economy or Sustainable Development? August 2011 Deadline for submission: December 1, 2010 … Continue reading →
  • Permaculture in the tropics (T. LALLEMAN / A. CAVA ...
    an Continue reading →
  • Biofuel programs can provide substantial rural ben ...
    Read at : http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/not-all-biofuels-are-bad-a-rural-india-case/ Not all biofuels are bad: A rural India case by Mark Elder and S. V. R. K. Prabhakar The debate on alternative energy sources reached its climax when global crude oil prices peaked at US $127 … Continue reading →
  • Living Concrete: Ideas about Roof gardening, Rainw ...
    Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/09/17/living-concretecarrot-city-exhibition/ Living Concrete/Carrot City Exhibition Linked by Michael Levenston Features creative research projects and design interventions from the New School in New York http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/subpage.aspx?id=5595 ...
  • A shift towards more sustainable food production i ...
    Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/09/17/the-right-to-urban-agriculture-in-rosario-argentina/ The right to urban agriculture in Rosario, Argentina Linked by Michael Levenston Urban farmers provide the only source of organic produce in the region http://www.thepolisblog.org/2010/09/right-to-ur ...

The Paper Trail

  • The End of Lehman, Part 3
    Repo 105 and the Legacy of Lehman In Parts 1 and 2 of this series, Michael Hudson wrote about how Lehman was a leader in turning what had been a backwater market for subprime mortgages into the driving engine of the credit bubble. In this final entry marking the second anniversary of Lehman’s fall, ...
  • New Gov’t Report Finds Ongoing Flaws in Labo ...
    A new government report has found continuing flaws in the U.S. Department of Labor’s whistleblower-protection program.
  • The End of Lehman, Part 2
    What did Dick Fuld and other Lehman executives know, and when did they know it? Staff writer Michael Hudson reviews some of the evidence. For Part I of this story, click here .
  • Karl Rove, GOP Heavyweights Find Sugar Daddies for ...
    Despite having no official position, former President Bush adviser Karl Rove remains a potent, behind-the-scenes operative doing his utmost to influence the outcome of multiple House and Senate contests.
  • EPA Toxic Chemicals Bill Likely On Hold Until Afte ...
    The way the Environmental Protection Agency evaluates the risks posed by toxic chemicals is badly in need of an overhaul, but any change will likely have to wait until after the November election, environmental groups and scientists said.

backofthebook.ca

  • Lea Michele – Less of her to love
    One of the things Glee has going for it is its wacky normalcy. With the possible exception of Finn and Mr Schuester, none of the characters is Hollywoodily attractive. They look like they legitimately go to high school. And I hesitate to say that Lea Michele is ‘normal-looking’ because that has . ...
  • Really, Kory Teneycke, that’s all it took?
    By Frank Moher Seriously, Kory Teneycke, that's all you've got? Avaaz.org gets 80,000 of the left's more suggestible adherents to sign its petition against SunTV, manages to rebrand your nascent operation "Fox News North," and raises $110,000 in the process, and you step down? That's all it took? ...
  • Say goodbye to Meridia — and all other diet ...
    by Jodi A. Shaw Surprise, surprise, another diet pill may be pulled from store shelves. Meridia, manufactured by Illinois-based Abbott Laboratories, is under review by the FDA after a study raised concerns that the pill increases the risk of heart attack and stroke. Yesterday, fully half of ...
  • 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 ...

Worldnews

  • We want Indian football team in top 100 in 3 ...
    MUMBAI: The All India Football Federation (AIFF) on Saturday said it wants to see the country's national team breach the top 100 of the world football rankings within three years. "Our aim is to break into the top 100 in three years. We have been sliding in the rankings consistently. We need to ...
  • Kashmir has been and will be a part of India: ...
    PUNE: National Conference President and Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Farooq Abdullah, has said that Kashmir has been and will always remain a part of India. Addressing the 22nd Pune Festival, Abdullah said: ""Many innocent children died (during the recent unrest in Kashmir). Man ...
  • Humanitarian situation in Pakistan is dire: R ...
    Washington: After visiting flood-hit areas in Pakistan, Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd on Friday said the humanitarian situation in the country is dire and international community should remain focused on what is happening there. Rudd, who appeared along with US Secretary of State Hilla ...
  • Afghanistan elections marred by deadly attack ...
    At least seven people killed in attacks across the country as Afghans vote in parliamentary elections An Afghan man shows his inked finger at a polling station in Kabul. Many voters were washing off the ink to try to cast a second ballot. Photograph: Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images A Taliban attack ...
  • Indian army on patrol in Kashmir
    SRINAGAR, India - India sent army troops into the streets of Kashmir yesterday as it intensified a crackdown on increasingly angry separatist protests in the region, where three more Muslim demonstrators were killed in clashes, police said. Paramilitary forces and police have taken the lead in. ...

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Common Dreams

  • World Bank Invests Record Sums in Coal
    by Juliette Jowit Record sums were invested last year in coal power - the most carbon intensive form of energy on the planet - by the World Bank, despite international commitments to slash the carbon emissions blamed for climate change. The World Bank said this week that a total of US$3.4bn (£2.2bn ...
  • US Says Idle Gulf of Mexico Oil Wells Must Be Plug ...
    The US is set to require oil companies to plug 3,500 non-producing Gulf of Mexico oil wells in an effort to prevent future leaks, officials say. The interior department will also require companies to dismantle 650 unused oil and gas platforms. Some installations have sat idle for decades without ins ...
  • Chorus of Progressive Economists: Govt. Must Spur ...
    by Roger Bybee Largely oblivious to the reality among working families grappling with unemployment, wage cuts, and trying to avoid foreclosures, conservative politicians (mostly GOP, but also a considerable number of Democrats) are building momentum for an assault on federal budget deficits by slash ...
  • Doubling of SOF Night Raids Backfired in Kandahar
    by Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - During a round of media interviews last month, Gen. David Petraeus released totals for the alleged results of nearly 3,000 "night raids" by Special Operations Forces (SOF) units over the 90 days from May through July: 365 "insurgent leaders" killed or captured, 1,355 Ta ...
  • Pennsylvania Gov. Rendell 'Appalled' by State's Tr ...
    by Angela Couloumbis HARRISBURG - Gov. Rendell said Tuesday that he was "appalled" and "embarrassed" that his administration's Office of Homeland Security has been tracking and circulating information about legitimate protests by activist groups that do not pose a threat to public safety. Rendell sa ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

  • California's pollution law challenged by oil inter ...
    A ballot initiative to suspend a milestone California law curbing greenhouse gas emissions is drawing a wave of contributions from out-of-state oil companies, raising concerns among conservationists as it emerges as a test of public support for potentially costly environmental measures during tough ...
  • Poll: Most Americans would spend more for 60 mpg c ...
    Most Americans support a sharp increase in car fuel-efficiency standards even if it costs them $3,000 more, according to a new poll sponsored by environmental groups.
  • BP: Gulf well to be completely sealed Saturday
    BP said Friday its busted well in the Gulf of Mexico will be completely sealed tomorrow, five months after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and led to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
  • Summer set records for nighttime temperatures
    This past summer didn't set U.S. records for just day-time temperatures but also for night-time ones, posing a danger to the elderly and low-income who depend on overnight cooling, a study today reveals.
  • Nissan Leaf's polar-bear ad gets mixed reactions
    Has Nissan gone too far? Its new polar-bear TV ad for the Leaf, an electric car expected to go on sale soon in select markets, has stirred up mixed reactions.

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 ...
  • What's so bad about "business method" patents? Sma ...
    Those who have read the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bilski decision know that — a four-justice minority that wanted to ban business method patents. While that's an ill-defined term, it's clear that such a ruling would have effectively invalidated many patents already involved in litigation. Lawsu ...

Peoples Voice

  • The Fraudulent Criminalization of Marijuana
    by William John Cox For almost 40 years, the United States has waged a war on its own citizens who have used marijuana as a part of a drug culture originally encouraged by the government.  The war was commenced despite the government’s own findings that marijuana posed less of a risk to America ...
  • Start again with a clean sheet, Palestinians
    by Stuart Littlewood So criminal within itself, it flinches from upholding the rule of international law. So corrupt, it happily outsources its foreign policy to terrorists in Tel Aviv. The idea that America acts as an honest broker for peace between its fellow cut-throat Israel and their victim, ...
  • When will white people become civilized?
    By Dennis Rahkonen Discovery and "settlement" of America involved horrid genocide against multiple millions of native inhabitants whose desperate, surviving progeny live dirt poor in godforsaken places where substance abuse, crime, and stratospheric joblessness are the cruel, never-remedied norm. ...
  • From "Hizzhonor" to Dishonor
    by Stephen Lendman An earlier article discussed Chicago politics under father and son Daley - Richard J. (mayor from April 20, 1955 - December 20, 1976) and Richard M. (mayor since April 24, 1989), both called "Hizzhonor" or "Hizzhonor Da Mare." Last winning a sixth term on February 27, 2007 ...
  • CLEARING THE FOG
    Jim Prues Growing up in the fog of the dominant culture has left its mark on us all. Whether this fog really exists and what it consists of are fabulous questions. While it is often argued otherwise, from the World5 perspective, the fog is evident, pervasive and tremendously destructive. The fog ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • “Public Solutions Are The Cure For Health Care Wai ...
    � � A Public Forum with Dr. Michael Rachlis � Health policy analyst, University of Toronto Associate professor and author of Prescription for Excellence: How Innovation is Saving Canada's Health System. � Public Solutions are the Cure for Health Care Wait Lists Wednesday, September ...
  • CCPA's YouTube Channel is Canada's number one non- ...
    How exciting to see the little gold ribbons on our YouTube homepage! The CCPA's YouTube channel is the most viewed non-profit channel in Canada, and the second most subscribed non-profit channel in Canada. Our most popular videos are from the BC Office's 2007 Gala, when Naomi Klein was our keynote s ...
  • All the latest on the census long-form debacle
    On June 30th, the CCPA's Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan was among the initial voices leading the criticism over the government decision to eliminate the census long-form questionnaire. Since then, a groundswell of alarm has turned into a wall of opposition, across the political spectrum. Stay tu ...
  • Apply now for the Next Up youth leadership program
    Applications are now being accepted for the fourth year of Next Up: A Leadership�Program for Young People Committed to Social and Environmental Justice . This is an amazing, intensive and transformative program for young social change activists between the ages of 18 and 32. This year we're exci ...
  • New Report: In the Red: The Green Behind Nuclear P ...
    Regina — The Saskatchewan office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has released a new study on the economic costs of pursuing nuclear power in Saskatchewan. "In the Red: The Green Behind Nuclear Power," authored by policy researcher Heath Packman, critically examines the economic costs ...

World Wide Hippies

  • UK Phone-Hacking Scandal Will Undo The Media Mogul ...
    We can only hope. Murdoch’s Watergate | Slate Every journalist suffers from subpoenas envy. As powerful as the pen may be, reporters covet the power that courts and Congress have to command individuals and organizations to give testimony and produce evidence. So whenever the power-thresher of a pro ...
  • Can The Boomers Save America?
    The Least We Can Do | The Atlantic Self-absorbed, self-indulged, and self-loathing, the Baby Boom generation at last has the chance to step out of the so-called Greatest Generation’s historical shadow. Boomers may not have the opportunity to save the world, as their predecessors did, but they can st ...
  • O’Donnell: All Grown Up Now, Thanks.
    O’Donnell: ‘My Faith Has Matured’ Since My 20s | TPM Delaware Republican Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell and her Democratic opponent Chris Coons met tonight for their first candidate forum. And of course, O’Donnell tried to clear the air and dispel the negative scrutiny of comments from her reli ...
  • Medical Marijuana Blacklist?
    Keep The Lid on Medical Pot List | Cannabis News Colorado — With a dearth of in-depth, scientific studies on the benefits of medical marijuana, it was wise for the state Board of Health to reject a request to expand the list of conditions that people can cite for getting a medical marijuana card. Bo ...
  • Weekly Trivia
    A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 8:00 pm (EST). You can post your answer in the comments section below the question and be entered into a chance to win a WWH Bumpersticker! This weeks question: Physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat, military theorist. Who ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • A nation gone mad, but otherwise things are just f ...
    The first good picture I’ve taken with my new camera. This one photo alone has rekindled my interest in photography, or to be more accurate, my interest in taking pictures. I don’t really have an eye for taking pictures, but if I take enough of them, sometimes I get lucky. And this was one of [...]
  • Falling Forever
    Another wonderful image courtesy of the Hubble Telescope. This is galaxy NGC 4911, located some 320 million light years away. So that means we are seeing it as it was 320 million years ago. That was the Mississippian period on Earth, so called because the rocks from that area are exposed along the M ...
  • 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 [...]

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • $10M Purse Split Between Three 100 MPG Auto Teams
    The Edison2 “Very Light Car" took home the grand prize of $5M while two other teams were awarded $2.5M each.
  • ExxonMobil Says No to Subsidies
    Join the forum discussion on this post Earlier this week I participated in a conference call with ExxonMobil that was hosted by the American Petroleum Institute (API). It is the first API blogger call I have joined in a very long time, but my schedule was open and I was interested in the subject ma ...
  • 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 ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • Field Trip Archive - HomeworkSpot.com
    Tags: VirtualFieldTrips , virtual_field_trips by: Cindy Brock
  • National Constitution Center: Which Founder Are Yo ...
    Tags: constitution , national , history , center , interactive , government , americanhistory , ConstitutionDay by: Dean Mantz
  • EdCamp Citrus 2010
    Comments: What: EdCamp Citrus is an unconference devoted to K-12 Education issues and ideas. Where: Citrus High School, Inverness, FL \nWhen: December 4, 2010\nCost: FREE! - Jerry Swiatek Tags: edcamp , education , professional development by: Jerry Swiatek
  • VolunteerSpot — Doing Good Just Got Easier!
    Comments: Coordinate parents and volunteers the fast, easy way with free online sign up forms and volunteer scheduling. At VolunteerSpot, we believe that volunteers should be rewarded for stepping forward and sharing their time and talents with those in need. All too often, volunteering means put ...
  • Generation YES » Free Resources
    Tags: generation , resources , GenY , webinars , how-to , research , presentations , educators by: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

  • Genetically Engineered Salmon Are Swimming toward ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—In just a few days, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will decide whether or not to approve the first genetically engineered (GE) animal for industrial production and human consumption. And the transgenic animal—a genetically engineered salmon—likely won't be label ...
  • 5 Intensely Flavorful Recipes for Healthy Horserad ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The spicy, sinus-clearing horseradish plant most likely originated in Eastern Europe, but today it’s cultivated and enjoyed around the world. This sturdy root has been used for centuries both as a culinary ingredient and for medicinal purposes. The white root releases its he ...
  • Stinkbug Attack!!
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—As if stinkbugs don't stink enough, a specific type, the brown marmorated stinkbug , or BMSB, as entomologists call it, is feeding off of farmers' and gardeners' apples, peaches, soybeans, tomatoes, and peppers, causing major crop losses for some, particularly on the East Co ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: Plan and Protect Your Fall Veg ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—As the days get cooler and the sun starts setting a little earlier, it's easy to get depressed about the waning days of summer—and of your summer vegetable garden. But cool temperatures don't necessarily mean an end to free, fresh, local food. Now is actually the perfect tim ...
  • Michelle Obama to Restaurants: Stop Supersizing Ou ...
    RODALE NEWS, WASHINGTON, DC—Mixing praise and criticism, with more of the latter, Michelle Obama told members of the National Restaurant Association this week that they haven’t done nearly enough to fight childhood obesity. The meals kids eat in restaurants, she said, have twice as many calories a ...

big think

  • When It Comes to Faking Orgasms Who’s Kidding Whom ...
    Big Think’s blog Going Mental talked about orgasms this week, and I thought to myself, I can do that.  I’ve even got a little help, thanks to a very creative economist at Emory University who collected data from 16,000 men and women on orgasms a few years ago. Just to make things interesting ... ...
  • Evidence of Things Not Seen: Virtual Reality and S ...
    “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen,” reads Hebrews 11:1 in the King James Bible . Attempts to give faith tangible form here on earth usually suffer at the hands of time, the destructive hands of humanity, or both. Thanks to modern technology’s ability to ...
  • Would Freud Feel Happy Now?
    In last month’s Harper’s , Gary Greenberg writes in “The War on Happiness: Goodbye Freud, Hello Positive Thinking,” that, increasingly and unavoidably, the concept of enlightenment via sitting in a room and talking has been eclipsed by the availability of precise, time-and-money-efficient “happiness ...
  • California's Emissions Fight
    As usual, California is the battlefront for energy and climate change issues. Oil refiners Valero and Tesoro have spent $5.5 million dollars in support of California’s Proposition 23, which would effectively repeal a 2006 law requiring the state to get its emissions of greenhouse gases down to 1990 ...
  • Dice for Change: Gamble on Goodness
    Random acts of kindness have been shown to increase everything from self-esteem to happiness level. At the same time, the paradox of choice is known to increase our cognitive load to a degree that makes us frustrated and, ultimately, dissatisfied. So how do we reap the benefits of acts of kindness . ...

Information Liberation

  • Police Chief Beats the Hell Out of Defenseless Old ...
    You're concerned with the way a death is being handled by the police in your small town of only 1000 people. You go to City Hall to complain. Instead of having your voice be heard, the town Police Chief beats the hell out of you and slams your face...
  • Piping Mad: Fair People at the Mercy of a Governme ...
    A short documentary covering the emotional and economic woes of the residents of Hatteras Island in the Outer Banks of North Carolina due to beach closures and excessive measures taken by the National Park Service and environmental groups....
  • Notre Dame student charged with felony after video ...
    A student from the University of Notre Dame was charged with a felony after videotaping police with his iPhone. The incident occurred August 29 when Indiana State Excise Police had entered a party where they were checking identification to determi...
  • Philly Cops Beat Man & Pull Gun On Spectators
    Raw Video: ...
  • The Ignorance of the New Yorker
    "One can only shake one's head sadly at such a grotesque panoply of misinformation and outright falsehoods. One is tempted to dismiss anyone who takes it seriously as delusional." The August 30 issue of the New Yorker contains an article called "C...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Here’s A Real One-Way Climate Trend
    Seeing as we’re back onto our favourite topic, I thought I’d mention an issue that’s been buzzing around the Ozboy headspace for a while now. In the AGW debate, it’s clear the battle lines (for such they are) were drawn … Continue reading →
  • 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…

FAS - Secrecy News

  • Pentagon Delays Publication of New Book
    The Department of Defense says that a forthcoming book about the war in Afghanistan contains classified information, and that it should not be put on the market in its current form.  Instead, the Pentagon is considering whether to purchase and destroy the entire first printing of the book, “Operati ...
  • Conventional Arms Transfers, and More from CRS
    Noteworthy new and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service include the following (all pdf). Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 2002-2009, September 10, 2010. Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses, August 20, 2010. China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Na ...
  • 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 ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 13 of the best Facebook fans ever
    In the spirit of exploiting the three principles of uber-link bait titles mentioned over on sciencetext, I wanted to express my thanks to a few people who are fans, or “likers”, of the Sciencebase Facebook page. These diamond people have all been particularly active recently on the fan page, liking, ...
  • Social media and science
    I was recently commissioned to write a short piece about the adoption of social media and networking tools by scientists for The Euroscientist. I briefly covered various aspects of the evolution of the web and the notion of a Facebook for Science. Of course, there are lots of networks out there and ...
  • Spectral science and more
    More science news snippets from Sciencebase: CRISPR X-rays – New on my SpectroscopyNOW column – "It would be exciting if a CRISPR-like system could be transferred into mammalian cells," Doudna told us, "where it might be engineered to silence the expression of deleterious host cell genes, or genes e ...
  • Latest science news links
    More science news snippets from Sciencebase: Cannabis should be licensed and sold in shops, expert says – Cannabis should be legalised for the over-21s with approval from a doctor. I know several doctors…wonder if they'll approve? Oprah magazine and pseudoscience – Did a science columnist for Oprah’ ...
  • 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 – ...

RFF Library

  • How Well Prepared is the UK for Climate Change?
    Climate Change Committee, Adaptation Sub-Committee http://tinyurl.com/26cxjqt [From Report Press Release] Climate change is already having an impact in the UK. Since the 1970s, average annual temperatures have risen by 1 degree Celsius, and Spring arrives 11 days earlier. These impacts are likely to ...
  • Trade and Development 2010
    UN http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/tdr2010_en.pdf [Summary at publication website] Global real GDP is expected to grow by 3.5% in 2010, following a contraction of almost 2% last year. The upturn in the global economy has led to a pick-up in world trade. The rebound in commodity prices helped boost nat ...
  • ACRE Program Payments and Risk Reduction: An Analy ...
    USDA / Robert Dismukes, Christine Arriola, and Keith Coble http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR101/#2010-9-17 [Abstract] Crop revenue variability, which differs across crops and their growing regions and the geographic levels at which revenue is measured, is the focus of the Average Crop Revenue ...
  • The Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
    MIT http://web.mit.edu/mitei/docs/spotlights/nuclear-fuel-cycle.pdf [From executive summary] This study on The Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle has been carried out because of the continuing importance of nuclear power as a low-carbon option that could be deployed at a scale that is material for mit ...
  • ICLUS V1.3 User’s Manual: ARCGIS Tools and Dataset ...
    US EPA, National Center for Environmental Assessment http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/global/recordisplay.cfm?deid=205305 The final Geographic Information System (GIS) tool and User’s Guide entitled, ICLUS v1.3 User’s Manual: ArcGIS Tools and Datasets for Modeling US Housing Density Growth. ICLUS stands fo ...

Scientific American - News

  • Francis Collins, Lawmakers Debate Stem Cell Merits
    Not all stem cells are created equal. But just how close adult and reprogrammed stem cells can come to matching the capabilities of embryonic stem cells has become a contentious question in the debate over whether the federal government should continue funding research on embryonic lines. And many ...
  • Is Spent Nuclear Fuel a Waste or a Resource?
    On September 15, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission affirmed its expert opinion that spent nuclear fuel could be safely stored on nuclear power plant grounds--whether in pools or dry casks--for "at least 60 years beyond the licensed life of any reactor." That is good news, because there is nowhe ...
  • Video Series Gets Up Close and Personal with Linda ...
    Every summer since 1951, an extraordinary meeting between Nobel Laureates and young scientists has taken place on Lindau Island in Germany. At 2010’s cross-disciplinary meeting this summer, Nature Publishing Group's video team followed five young students as they met their Nobel idols. You might thi ...
  • A Nobel Prize-winning Biologist Shares His Skeptic ...
    Roland Pache is trying to understand complex biological interactions using computer algorithms to hunt for patterns in vast swathes of data.  Undergraduate Sophia Hsing-Jung Li is excited by this new field of ‘systems biology’.  In this film they meet Tim Hunt, whose prizewinning work on the cell cy ...
  • It's a Gas: Light Hydrocarbons Drove Microbial Blo ...
    Natural gases, not oil, helped jump-start the growth of microbial blooms that are consuming the various hydrocarbons spilled into the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon disaster, according to new research. Biogeochemist David Valentine of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his ...

RAWA News

  • Afghans scrub fingers clean to cast extra votes
    Reuters: Some Afghan voters scrubbed their fingers clean of supposedly indelible ink on Saturday in a bid to return to cast extra votes in a parliamentary election the government has acknowledged will be flawed. An ink-stained fingertip is meant to mark out those who have already cast ballots in the ...
  • 15 killed, 40 wounded on voting day in Afghanistan
    PAN: About 15 people were killed and nearly 40 wounded in various violence-related incidents in different provinces of the country on Saturday, officials said. Eight people were wounded in separate attacks and a clash between supporters of two candidates in eastern Nangarhar province Saturday mornin ...
  • Who made Kabul corrupt?
    The Guardian: Afghan intelligence officers beat back Afghan police officers who mobbed the only branch of Kabul Bank open in the capital on Wednesday, in a desperate attempt to draw money before it closed for Eid al-Fitr, the most important festival of the year in Islamic countries. Eid marks the en ...
  • Report: Iran Paying Taliban to Kill U.S. Troops
    Sunday Times: At least five Iranian companies in Afghanistan’s capital are using their offices covertly to finance Taliban militants in provinces near Kabul, according to an investigation by London’s Sunday Times. The Iranian companies win contracts to supply materials and logistics to Afghans invo ...
  • Japanese journalist says Afghan kidnappers were no ...
    AFP: A Japanese freelance journalist released at the weekend after five months’ captivity in Afghanistan said in an online posting Monday that his kidnappers were not Taliban but corrupt Afghan soldiers. Kosuke Tsuneoka, 41, who had been missing in northern Afghanistan since April, has been under th ...

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    There is a perceived conflict between the environment and the economy. John Key often talks about balance but the reality as we all know is somewhat different. Personally I, like many New Zealanders am happy to protect areas like the Whangamarino wetland just because there are speci ...
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    Tane Mahuta, lord of the forest. A tree that is truly magnificent, along with Te Matua Ngahere, father of the forest, who is our second largest Kauri. Estimated to be over 2000 years old, this means that it is possible that it lived through the large Taupo eruption of 180CE. Both tr ...
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    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 ...
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    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

  • The Mind of America, Part 2
    Via the latest New York Times poll, here's the Obama administration's problem in a nutshell: This is, of course, a simple factual question with a simple factual answer: Obama has lowered taxes for virtually all Americans. Unfortunately, hardly anyone knows it. In other news, people hate Democrat ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 17 September 2010
    This is pre-dinnertime catblogging. Every day, starting around 4:30 in the afternoon, both cats make their way into the living room and start looking ostentatiously bored (Domino, on the left) or ostentatiously cute (Inkblot, on the right). Eventually they get fed. According to me, it's because the ...
  • The Inflation Bogeyman
    The Fed's preferred measure of inflation is core inflation, which excludes food and energy prices. According to the BLS, the core inflation rate in August was just slightly above zero. The core inflation rate over the past two years is 1.17% and the rate over the past year is 0.89%. Chart below. Nee ...
  • Public vs. Private
    On the ever popular subject of whether public employees are coddled and overpaid, EPI steps in with a new bit of research from Jeffrey Keefe of Rutgers today. I'll spare you the suspense and get right to the results: This is pretty much what you'd expect. Public employees get a bigger share of th ...
  • Policy vs. the Horse Race
    Atrios on the media's distaste for policy discussions: One thing that is continually frustrating in our media is that the people who are paid to talk about politics focus on the polls, the horse race, the "appeal" of the candidate. I was listening to NPR for a bit and it took callers to inject an ...

Insanity Report

  • Kriss Elbow Drops History: The Moon Landing
    I know what you’re thinking. “But Kriss…how do you elbow drop someone in zero gravity?” To which I reply “It’s easy when you’re in a Hollywood studio….” I kid I kid… Or am I… image: http://theinsanityreport.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/elbow_moonlanding.jpg Share with your fri ...
  • Michael Steele Plays Dumb…AGAIN
    I’ve tried really hard not to call RNC Chairman Michael Steele an Uncle Tom but I swear, this man is making it harder each day.  When Steele won the RNC Chairmanship, a lot of people (Republicans AND Democrats) thought it might usher in a new era for the Republican Party.  Steele was not only the [. ...
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    "Instead of random commentary, how about you work on not sliding like a QB when you end your runs"
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    By now you’ve probably heard of the NFL’s investigations into the treatment of reporter Ines Sainz by some New Jets’ players during an in locker room pregame interview.  The whole situation is full of fail by all parties involved.  First and foremost, let me piss off some women.  Sainz…was wrong for ...

Simple Climate

e!Science News

  • Teenagers are more sedentary on weekends
    "A sedentary lifestyle has become one of the major public health problems in developed countries", Juan P. Rey-López, lead author of the study and a researcher at the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR), tells SINC. "During the week, one-third of teenagers said the watched more than two hours of televis ...
  • Study finds possible 'persistence' switch for tube ...
    An examination of a portion of the tuberculosis genome that responds to stress has allowed Rice University bioengineers Oleg Igoshin and Abhinav Tiwari to zero in on a network of genes that may "switch" the disease into dormancy. read more
  • Research team assesses environmental impact of org ...
    Solar energy could be a central alternative to petroleum-based energy production. However, current solar-cell technology often does not produce the same energy yield and is more expensive to mass-produce. In addition, information on the total effect of solar energy production on the environment is i ...
  • Gene limits learning and memory in mice
    Deleting a certain gene in mice can make them smarter by unlocking a mysterious region of the brain considered to be relatively inflexible, scientists at Emory University School of Medicine have found. read more
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    Colon cancer is the second most common cancer in the United States and causes more than 50,000 deaths each year. It has been known for some time that mutations in the APC gene occur in more than 85 percent of all sporadic colon cancers. Now researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University ...

unEarthed

  • Friday Finds: New Name, Same Shame
    High fructose corn syrup gets a makeover. Photo courtesy of Flickr. Corn industry sugarcoats syrupy sweetener This week, the Corn Refiners Association petitioned the FDA to change the name of high fructose cor ...
  • White House Spurns Carter Solar Panels
    The White House has reportedly said thanks but no thanks to the offer, reported here , by Bill McKibben and 350.org to return one of the solar panels installed on the White House roof during the Carter administration 35 years ag ...
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    Cruise ship docked in Washington Washington cruise ships dump on Canadian waters It turns out that cruise ships subject to ship pollution standards in Alaska and Washington State have found a way to cruise around the new ru ...
  • Playing with Fire ... and Politics in Colorado
    The Fourmile Fire in Boulder, CO. US Forest Service photo. On taking a walk on Labor Day, I looked up and thought, "This can't be good."� A huge plume of smoke filled half the sky.� Boulder's Fourmile Fire was on a rampage, ...
  • 40 Years of Clean Air: We've Come a Long Way, Baby
    Today, the Environmental Protection Agency celebrated the 40th anniversary of one of our nation's most successful and most protective laws, the Clean Air Act. Commemorating the milestone anniversary with a full day of speakers, ...

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- Sep 17, 2010
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Weak Renewable Energy Law Gets Big Push from Steelworkers, Green Groups
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- Sep 16, 2010
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By Stacy Feldman at SolveClimate Congress must pass a national renewable electricity standard (RES) this fall to stop the dramatic downslide in the American ...
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NRG in $350m deal to buy renewable power retailer
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The company said the definitive agreement, for $350 million in cash, would bolster NRG's portfolio of renewable power assets, particularly in Texas and New ...
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Older vehicles can safely use E15, RFA-backed study finds
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- Sep 17, 2010
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The state Department of Ecology approved plans by Cascade Water Alliance to use Lake Tapps in Pierce County as a source of drinking water. ...
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Q&A: Boise's US Ecology looks toward recession's end
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BY BILL ROBERTS - broberts@idahostatesman.com US Ecology, a Boise-based hazardous waste disposal company, just came off a year of shrinking profits. ...
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Big changes in water use management may be in store
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- Sep 18, 2010
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The state Department of Ecology has proposed significant changes to state water law. One of the proposals would grant Ecology authority to further limit the ...
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Ecology Starts Review Of Tukwila Shoreline Update
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- Sep 17, 2010
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Delco among many counties battling a drought
Delaware County Daily Times
- Sep 18, 2010
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By PAUL LUCE State environmental officials called for a statewide voluntary reduction in non-essential water use earlier this week, as the Department of ...
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Report: Chemicals found in NE Pennsylvania water wells
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- Sep 17, 2010
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By Sarah Hoye, CNN Jugs of water sit in front of a house in Dimock, Pennsylvania, where residents are suing Cabot Oil and Gas Corp. ...
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Tennessee American Water Files Rate Request
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- Sep 17, 2010
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