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Thomas Paine

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Thursday, September 2, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • ARGENTINA-BRAZIL: Nuclear Safeguards System an Exa ...
    A system of mutual safeguards, created nearly two decades ago by Argentina and Brazil for in-situ verification of the peaceful use of nuclear power in both countries, serves as an international model of transparency and confidence building in this highly sensitive field.
  • RIGHTS-INDIA: Law to Restrict Foreign Funding Alar ...
    Voluntary and charitable organisations in India are aghast at a new law to restrict foreign contributions, that was passed by both Houses of Parliament recently.
  • PHILIPPINES: Criminal Ban, Stigma Drive Unsafe Abo ...
    "I felt scared. When I looked around, all the mothers had finished giving birth, while I was still there. The blood that flowed from me had already dried and caked onto my body," Lisa, a 19-year-old married mother of three, says, recounting her experience in post-abortion care at a public ...
  • SRI LANKA: Anger Rises Over Torture Case, But Solu ...
    The ordeal of a Sri Lankan domestic worker whose Saudi Arabian employer allegedly drove nails and metal wires into her body has sent alarm bells ringing among government officials and activists, but how such abuses can be stopped remain far from clear.
  • Further Victims Identified in DRC Mass Rapes Case
    The number of women raped by rebel groups during last month's raid of more than a dozen villages centred around Walikale, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has risen to over 240, U.N. officials told reporters here today.

Scoop - NZ

  • Local Businesses Turn to Grassroots Financing
    In the summer of 2008, business partners Jessica Stockton Bagnulo and Rebecca Fitting were making plans to open a bookstore in Brooklyn. Their chosen neighborhood, Fort Greene, was over the moon at the prospect. For years, residents had been clamoring for a bookstore, repeatedly citing it as their t ...
  • US Mortgage Brokers, a vanishing breed
    Most of the mortgage brokers that seemed to populate every office building and commercial street in cities nationwide just five years ago have vanished. Ken Blaudow, owner of Indy Mortgage had 85 employees originating home loans in 2003. Now he has three and is about to give up his leased office in ...
  • Murdoch media destabilising Gillard government ?
    Key sections of the Australian media, representing powerful corporate and financial interests, are voicing concerns that whatever the outcome of negotiations this week, the minority government that emerges from the election of a hung parliament will be unable to proceed with what have been dubbed &q ...
  • Greenpeace activists occupy Arctic oil rig
    After evading the massive security operation courtesy of the Danish navy, our activists are aboard an oil rig and suspended 15 meters above the frigid Arctic waters of Baffin Bay. They have taken up position on the drilling rig Stena Don to call for a ban on deep sea oil drilling in the Arctic, and ...
  • GWOT morphing into a religious Crusade ?
    We have reached a decisive transition in the evolution of US military doctrine. The "Global War on Terrorism" (GWOT) directed against Al Qaeda launched in the wake of 9/11 is evolving towards a full-fledged "war of religion", a "holy crusade" directed against the Muslim ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • One million US public school students homeless
    A report released in July by the advocacy groups National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth (NAEHCY) and First Focus reveals the explosive growth of homelessness among public school students during the economic crisis. Based on Federal data from the US Department of Educa ...
  • Axa cuts stake in Goldman Sachs: documents
    Paris - French insurer Axa (Paris: FR0000120628 - news) has cut its holdings in US investment bank Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS - news) , which last month announced an 82 percent profit slide, by roughly one half, according to documents filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Axa, which ha ...
  • Japan Makes Fresh Attempt To Kill The Yen
    It's the moment half of Japanese industry has been waiting for -- yet another round of monetary easing was announced today, aimed at helping to 'ensure the economic recovery' which is Japanese for 'weakening the yen'.
  • Japan's struggle with deflation worsens as prices ...
    Japan's core consumer prices index fell for the 17th month in a row in July, underlining the country's entrenched problems with deflation. The index, which excludes fresh food, fell 1.1% from July last year. Deflation is adding to economic worries in Japan, where the strong yen is making exports ...
  • California Rejects BPA Ban for Baby Bottles, Sippy ...
    The California Senate defeated a bill Tuesday that would have banned the use of bisphenol-A, or BPA, in baby bottles, sippy cups, and infant formula packaging intended for use by children 3 and younger. State Democratic Senator Fran Pavley, sponsor of SB797, believes scientific studies prove the ch ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Hurricane Earl, Tropical Storm Fiona and Tropical ...
    Hurricane Earl , an intense category 4 cyclone, is now about 300 miles south of Cape Hatteras. The storm is moving north at about 16 knots (30 kmh/18 mph). It is packing sustained winds of 125 knots (232 kmh/144 mph). The centre of Earl is expected to be abeam the North Carolina Outer Banks by toni ...
  • Iggy, PLEASE grow a pair . . .
    RABBLE.CA HAS A COUPLE OF REPORTS ON FOX NORTH. You know, the proposed set-up of FOX-type TV news in Canada, organized by Quebecor's Pierre-Karl Peledeau and his chief fart-catcher, the odious Kory Teneckye, Stevie's recently-retired communications director. Linda McQuaig's RABBLE piece , "Harper's ...
  • And speaking of FOX News...
    As a little relief from the doom and gloom and hurricane news, A Bit of Fry & Laurie on how the world could be a better place....
  • Ascension Island and the secret of Charles Darwin
    I've been to Ascension Island a couple of times. Unfortunately, the business at hand eliminated any chance to explore the place. Had I had a chance to look around I might have noticed that the place had forests mixed with eucalyptus, pine trees, bananas and bamboo. All unlikely plants to find thems ...
  • Glenn Beck loses to the backyard Barbeque
    Of course the right-wingers will make up their own numbers. The truth is, Beck didn't even fill the mall . Loser. (H/T Jymn )

Media Matters for America

  • Right-wing media shamefully try to pin Discovery ...
    The right-wing media have shamefully attempted to tie James Lee, who created a hostage situation in a Discovery Channel building, to former Vice President Al Gore, due to Lee's statement that he was "awakened" after reading Gore's book An Inconvenient Truth . In fact, Lee, who criticized Gore' ...
  • Where are they now? Serial Iraq misinformers find ...
    During the run-up to the Iraq war, some of the worst purveyors of misinformation about Iraq had a home at Fox News, and their ranks have swelled considerably since then. Media Matters takes a look at the track record of wrong predictions and shoddy analysis about the war in Iraq by many of Fox ...
  • Swing and a miss: Bolling claims that millions of ...
    Fox News' Eric Bolling repeated the discredited claim that the stimulus has "done nothing to help the economy." In fact, economists agree that GDP and employment levels are significantly higher than they would have been without the stimulus. Bolling pushes myth that the stimulus failed Bollin ...
  • Media turn to discredited Bush officials to respon ...
    Following�President Obama's speech on the�end of combat operations in�Iraq, media outlets hosted discredited Bush administration officials Karl Rove, Stephen Hadley, and Ari�Fleischer�to respond, despite the fact that the three were at the forefront of the campaign of misinformation used to sell th ...
  • Fox pushes yet another phony voting rights story
    Fox News' Dave Briggs attacked the Department of Justice for asking election officials in Ohio to print ballots in Spanish, which he claimed would not be "a proper use of funds." But the Justice Department reportedly says the ballots are needed to obey federal law, which prohibits mak ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Hilarious: Official Israeli Video On Why It Must H ...
    The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, which is distributing this video, is the think-tank closely associated with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his top advisers. It is led by Dory Gold, a former Israeli diplomat. Other Jerusalem Center honchos include Dr. Martin Kramer (of Harvard), ...
  • "Last Train Home" Is a Stunning Film
    The crazy thing about the culture of movies nowadays is that as the export platform called Hollywood bloats beyond all proportions, the long tail is longer and no less vigorous than ever. If you live in a major American city, you could spend several nights a week wandering the multiplexes watching ...
  • Guns, Religion and the Glenn Beck Rally
    I hope that David Frum is right and that the Tea Party movement, which is growing in numbers and ferocity, will hit its limit, experience an Icarus moment, and plunge back into the fringe of American politics where pugnacious, jingoistic, narrow band nationalism has always lurked. But there is no ...
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  • Hypocrisy: US Condemns Killing of Israelis But Alm ...
    The first statement to come out of the meeting between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu was Obama's strong condemnation of the horrific killing of four Israeli settlers on the West Bank. These were civilians who were simply driving in a car when Hamas snipers took them out. The Presid ...

TruthOut

  • EPA Results Show Contaminated Water in Wyoming Fra ...
    Government scientists have found that private water walls in Pavillion, Wyo. are polluted with toxic chemicals used in the controversial gas drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking — and residents have been told not to drink from them. The findings offer the latest evidence that the ...
  • Defense Contractor Money Fueling Push to Militariz ...
    After months of prodding from anti-immigration politicians, the entire US-Mexico border is now being watched by the Predator B unmanned surveillance aircraft commonly known as Predator drones. The news may comfort residents of border states where the details of Mexico's brutal drug war continue to m ...
  • Trying to Be Hopeful About Peace
    A few years back when Washington was preparing for the then highly- touted Annapolis Peace Conference, I remember commenting that I was "hopeful, but not optimistic." As we approach the latest incarnation of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, I'm even finding it difficult to be hopeful, though I will ...
  • BREAKING: Another Oil Rig Explodes in Gulf
    An oil and gas rig in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana exploded Thursday morning. The Coast Guard is responding. At least 13 workers are in need of rescue and the rig is still burning, and at least one worker is injured, according to recent reports. No deaths have been reported. ...
  • New Research: Immigration Bolsters Economy, but Ma ...
    A new study about the effects of immigration on U.S. employment supports the long-standing arguments of immigration advocates: Rather than displacing American workers, immigrant labor actually makes our economy stronger. Kevin Drum has the details at Mother Jones .read more

Planetsave

  • NASA Shrink Offers Insight on Plight of Trapped Mi ...
    NASA adviser and UCSF psychiatrist Nick Kanas, writing in an op-ed in Monday's NY Times, lists the crucial factors needed to maintain good mental health in isolated, confined spaces for prolonged periods of time, based upon space and extreme habitation psychological studies...factors which will bec ...
  • Water: Nature’s Wonderdrug–Now with Wonderdrugs! ( ...
    Between 2006 and 2007, the Southern Nevada Water Authority in Las Vegas screened tap water from 19 US water utilities for 51 different compounds. The 11 most frequently detected compounds are highlighted in the cartoon and described below. 1.used to treat cardiovascular disease, 2.an herbicide banne ...
  • Electric Car Batteries are Greener than Expected
    The lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries that will be powering the electric cars of tomorrow are much greener than originally expected, according to new research conducted. Much has been made of whether electric cars will actually be the saviour of our future, or whether they are just redistributing the e ...
  • Newest Electrical Source is in the Air
    New research into how lightning forms has started yielding what might be the first opening into a new source of alternative energy. According to a report presented at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society( ACS), scientists are already in the early stages of developing devices t ...
  • How Journalists and Environmentalists are Co-opted ...
    This isn’t breaking news, but Change.org has a great piece (via the Atlantic) on the story of a young, idealistic journalist who was offered the opportunity to be paid a mint ($20k) to take a dream trip through indigenous parts of Ecuador, and turned it down when she realized she was essentially bei ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Right Wing is Un-American -- And Knows It
    The right wing is un-American and it knows it. �That, more than anything, helps explain the vagueness at Glenn Beck's rally last weekend as he and his followers wrapped themselves in a feel-good fog of abstraction. � But in a larger sense, the dissembling, deceptions, jarring incoherence and gross c ...
  • The Hypocrisy of Politicians On Social Security
    I remember several years ago there was this big hoorah about congressional pensions when it became known that members of Congress, in addition to having pensions that outstrip the yearly wage af many American workers, also receive Social Security benefits. �This includes those who rail against Socia ...
  • Coast Guard responding to rig explosion in Gulf; R ...
    This is a breaking story, we'll update as we know more. The Coast Guard is responding to a report of a rig explosion and fire "and people in the water'' in the Gulf of Mexico south of Vermilion Bay, authorities said. Coast Guard Petty Officer Casey Ranel said the rig is around 90 miles south of Verm ...
  • Fight for this one, Mr. President
    I don't usually get too excited when a nominee to an important post twists in the wind and doesn't get the support I, as someone who hasn't interviewed the person or seen what the background vetting dug up, thinks they are due. But this one is different. This time it is Elizabeth Warren, and if thi ...
  • This is like when Darth Vader turned away from the ...
    This is like Billy Graham becoming a Hindu. This is like if Sarah Palin won a �McCarthur Genius Grant. This just can't happen. This is the sort of thing that causes rips in the space-time continuum. I figured James Inhofe would see the light on climate change and global warming before Bj?rn Lomb ...

Care 2

  • Daily Photo: When Simba Turned Black!
    The one youngster sat on a little red hill while the other two made their way into the thickets playing as they go. We followed the three black cats for a while as the light disappeared completely but what a great afternoon! And the best thing? Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
  • Circus Life: Is it Fun for the Animals? Contest fo ...
    Your challenge as a humane educator is to learn about the lives of circus animals. After your research is complete, use your findings to create an entry that supports animal-free circuses and shows. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • How to Keep Your Dogs Safe From Psychopaths
    Dont imagine for a minute that people will understand if your dogs bark too much or that they like your dogs as much as you do. Trust me they dont. Play it safe: Dont gamble with your dogs lives and well-being Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Brain Exercises May Slow Cognitive Decline Initial ...
    New research shows that mentally stimulating activities such as crossword puzzles, reading and listening to the radio may, at first, slow the decline of thinking skills but speed up dementia later in old age. Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Online night-owls 'risk mental illness': Sleepless ...
    Young people who become sleep deprived by using the internet into the small hours are much more likely to become mentally ill in later life, research shows. Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

  • Hey, yo! We're trying to raise some *funds* here, ...
    This is the week that everyone in the US who is lucky enough to still have a job is on vacation. Probably someplace that involves sun and beaches and alcohol and not so much sitting at the computer reading political web sites. So I really don't expect any great amount to come in until next week. I h ...
  • Revolution B Gon: America Faces Permanent Unemploy ...
    SOMEWHERE IN AFGHANISTAN--It has been two years since the U.S. economy, once the envy of the world, drew its last breath. Millions of homeowners have gotten evicted. Unemployment has soared to Great Depression-era levels. Yet, aside from the witless "take America back" rants of the Tea Party crazies ...
  • Prepare to be tasered, funny man
    This is the new punishment for cracking a bad joke, and being somewhat cranky after falling on the stairs : Marin County resident Peter McFarland and his wife Pearl returned home from a charity fundraising event. McFarland slipped on steps leading to his home and suffered injuries to his leg, arm an ...
  • Investors are a Wacky Bunch, and the Financial Pre ...
    One of the great mantras of the modern economics profession is that markets know best, and that the collective "wisdom" of investors is generally correct. I've never really believed that, having spent years writing about business and finance. In fact, my interviews with market strategists, Wall Stre ...
  • Looking for a Straight Answer
    Last Saturday, I pondered America's soul. I was in Portland, Maine, attending the annual Veterans For Peace convention, which featured Chris Hedges as its keynote speaker. Hedges, a Harvard divinity graduate who worked for many years as a war correspondent in El Salvador, Bosnia and other very viole ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Hurricane Hysteria
    God, how I hate the news media. They would hype the shit out of a fart released at a Taco stand. They currently are in full blown wailing over the impending doom bearing down on the Eastern seaboard of the United States that goes by the name of EARL. You know, Earl [...]
  • You Asked For It, You Got It
    An Open Thread to discuss the topics of the day, like the additional lawsuit by Obama’s Administration against Arizona. Or how about Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf claiming that the discussion about his Mall-Mosque near Ground Zero: [snip] “has expanded beyond a piece of real estate and expanded to Islam ...
  • AIhmed Mohamed Nasser al-Soofi and the Rule of Com ...
    Editor’s Note: John Huey, a security professional involved with aviation security issues for over 28 years, has published several articles for NoQuarter. Learn more about John Huey below this post. _________________________________________________ Every year, as we approach the anniversary of that d ...
  • Arizona On Human Rights List, Says State Departmen ...
    To say I was shocked to learn that the State Department included Arizona in its list of Human Rights Offenders to the UN is a gross understatement. Surely, I misheard this. No way would the State Department include one of its own states on such a list to the United Nations. I [...]
  • Obama, Depends on What the Meaning of Muslim Is
    / Bumped up / Boy, you’d think after a heady vacation at Martha’s Vineyard that Barack Obama would have learned that being a whiner is not a turn on for the voters. Nope. He’s a goddamned cry baby. Here’s the boy-child from Hawaii in a sob fest with Brian Williams: President Barack Obama dismisse ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Seth Material: The Books Sent from Another Dim ...
    In the 1970s a woman began to channel a spirit named 'Seth'. Over twenty years 'Seth' dictated numerous revolutionary books about the nature of reality. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Giant Wire Sculptures!
    Take a look at how artists turn ordinary wire into incredible works of art. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Eye to Eye with Britain's Iridescent Jumping Spide ...
    A look at the jumping spiders of the UK and the gem like splendor of their beautiful eyes and colorful bodies! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Miraculous Subatomic World of Light
    According to quantum mechanics, light has a strange multiple personality disorder: it is both a particle and a wave. How is this possible? Read on to find out! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • The Amazing Science of Turning Carbon Dioxide into ...
    There is a green tech solution available now that could turn coal power plant pollution into concrete! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Protest Shuts Down Oil Rig off Greenland
    Exploratory drilling by a Scottish oil firm was halted after four Greenpeace protesters scaled the rig and suspended tents from its underside.
  • Fresh Air for Sale, in Hong Kong
    A tongue-in-cheek commercial from an anti-pollution group, already a hit on YouTube, delivers a message about what the city's pollution could portend.
  • BP Tripled Ad Spending After Spill
    An anatomy of the oil giant's media response to the Gulf disaster.
  • A Nuclear Giant Moves Into Wind
    Exelon, which recently backed away from building new nuclear plants, announced that it was buying John Deere Renewables.
  • Homeowners Must Pay Off Energy Improvement Loans
    Homeowners who participated in a program that let them repay the cost of solar panels and other energy improvements through an annual surcharge on their property taxes must pay off the loans before they can refinance their mortgages, two government-chartered mortgage companies said Tuesday

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

  • Michigan neo-liberalism: creating the material con ...
     The picture is of the K12, Inc. group as they happily hear the news of their new contract to open a 65,000 student body cyber charter school in the state of Michigan. Neo-liberal policies and creating the new material conditions for privatized education: Grand Valley State University and the Citize ...
  • Things the President Left Out of His Big Speech
    Michael Collins I just read the presidents big speech tonight and it struck me.  There were some key lines left out of the speech.  You may have had the same response.  For the sake of clarity and fairness, I’ve tried to reconstruct the missing lines.  I’m sure that the omissions were just an ac ...
  • Daily Censored First: Grassroots Media Pushes Corp ...
    On August 14, I published “Chief Judge of 9th Circuit: ‘1984 is here,’ especially for poor”,  two days after a ruling of the 9th Circuit Court, which essentially legalized warrantless wiretaps on cars – even if it’s in a person’s driveway (Well, that is, unless that person lives in a gated community ...
  • Detroit: How to organize and win!
      Readers: Picture of David Bing, mayor of Detroit, Robert Bobb, Financial manager and employee of Eli Broad along with a representative from a major textbook company seeking contracts to be paid for by taxpayers. The following is from members of the Detroit Federation of Teachers.  They have been f ...
  • Kitty Poop
    The fight is incredible and it is over plastic bags in the stores– namely grocery stores.  I do not mind bringing reusable bags to the grocery store.  Even though  plastic bags are recyclable, a huge number of them end up in our oceans and the results are not nice.  If you are really interested, ...

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

PDA AMERICA

  • The Agitator: Voices of PDA Episode 11 – Mor ...
    In this episode of Agitator Voices of PDA, we bring you more highlights from the Sixth Annual Grassroots Leadership Conference in Cleveland. Listen to Rep. Dennis Kucinich; Norman Solomon, Co-chair of the PDA ...
  • Veterans Walk the Country in Support of Constituti ...
    By Gil Halsted Published by Wisconsin Public Radio http://www.wpr.org/news/newsheadlines.cfm MADISON, Wisc.–Two Vietnam veterans are walking across the country to rally support for a new amendment to the U.S. Constitution. At their stop in Madison, the Monahan ...
  • Inside the Democratic Party Aug Call
    On this call we recapped the Florida Primaries, we nationally endorsed Rick Waugh and heard from Segal and Gill campaigns.
  • IOT: Healthcare for All – Aug Call
    August’s Healthcare for All/Single Payer Issue Organizing Team conference call welcomed Healthcare NOT Warfare co-chair Donna Smith into the role of the coordinator for this IOT. In addition to facilitating the call, Donna spoke in ...
  • Amend to Suspend Corporate Personhood Call
    The featured speaker on the August 18 Amend to Suspend Corporate Personhood conference call was Laird Monahan, who with his brother Robin, is walking across America in support of amending the Constitution to abolish corporate ...

Marler Blog

  • Will the Egg Man DeCoster join Parnell the Peanut ...
    At the PulseNet conference here in Chicago there was a lot of discussion as to what happened to Stewart Parnell, the CEO of the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), who was responsible for 714 ill and nine deaths, which until this DeCoster Egg recall, was one of the larger Salmonella outbreaks in re ...
  • Fourth Salmonella Enteritidis Lawsuit Filed Agains ...
    Our fourth food poisoning lawsuit was filed today in the enormous egg recall and Salmonella outbreak tied to two Iowa egg farms. The lawsuit was filed against Quality Egg (doing business as Wright County Egg) in the Northern District Court of Iowa, Western Division just as the FDA released its repor ...
  • Wright County Egg's First every 483 Inspection Rep ...
    As I was boarding a plane to Chicago, my inbox filled up with Wright County Egg's and Hillandale Farm's first every FDA inspection - the so called 483.  Here are the highlights (more like lowlights) of Wright County Egg. Frankly, it was hard to read this one.  I'll leave Hillandale's for another day ...
  • AOL's Andrew Schneider weighs in on E. coli O26
    I am heading to Chicago to attend two E. coli O157:H7 mediations and the annual CDC PulseNet conference, and just got the chance to read Mr. Schneider’s “USDA Lax on E. Coli Strain Linked to Beef Recall.” I would urge all to do so.
  • Why does the AMI not want bacteria that can kill y ...
    In a letter to USDA Secretary Vilsack  on August 18, 2010, J. Patrick Boyle, President and CEO of AMI stated “outbreaks associated with non-O157:H7 STECs in various foods have been documented, but no reported outbreak in the U.S. has been confirmed to be directly linked to beef products.” Really J. ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 09.02.10
    Official: Volt production begins November 11 As predicted, so it is. Epic fail? Mitsubishi i-MiEV gets it charge from diesel generator during cross-Canada tour It's almost like EVs need to rec ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 09.01.10
    LA Auto Show preview: Infiniti to launch 2012 M35 hybrid Perhaps you've met its cousin, the Nissan Fuga hybrid? Smart's problems mean sales will likely be under 100,000 units for 2010 Next-g ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 08.31.10
    EPA finally issues proposed fuel economy labels for plug-in vehicles What's the grade? Future Leaf owners revolt over outrageous charger installation quotes Aerovironment is, thankfully, lis ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 08.30.10
    Mitsubishi admits to serious (likely) depreciation of i-MiEV In other news, Mitsubishi shoots itself in foot. Study: Average male drives extra 276 miles/year because he won't stop for directions ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 08.27.10
    Would a carbon tax help or hurt the auto industry? The floor is yours. EVTV Smart fortwo conversion to outdo Daimler for under $25,000 Smart ED's got competition. ...

Rafe's Radar

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

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Eve Ensler: Bald, Brave and Beautiful
    Bald, brave and beautiful: Those words can’t begin to capture the remarkable Eve Ensler. She sat down with me last week, in the midst of her battle with uterine cancer, to talk about New Orleans and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Eve, the author of the hit play "The Vagina Monologues" and the cr ...
  • Watch: Muslim Taxi Driver Attacked in Hate Crime S ...
    New York City Taxi Driver Ahmed Sharif and his supporters hold a press conference on the steps of City Hall on August 26th, just days after he was attacked by a passenger for being Muslim. Speakers include Ahmed Sharif, Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, and CAIR-NY Civil Rights ...
  • Rotten Eggs and Our Broken Democracy
    What do a half-billion eggs have to do with democracy? The massive recall of salmonella-infected eggs, the largest egg recall in U.S. history, opens a window on the power of large corporations over not only our health, but over our government. While scores of brands have been recalled, they all ...
  • Amy Goodman on CNN's John King, USA tonight at 7 p ...
    Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King, USA , on Monday, August 23rd at 7pm Eastern Time.
  • WATCH: Amy Goodman on CNN's John King, USA
    Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman appeared on CNN’s John King, USA , on Friday, August 20th at 7pm Eastern Time.

Farming Pathogens

  • Imperial Storm Scientists
    The Red Army Faction was a communist guerilla group operating 1970-1998 in, of all places, West Germany. The RAF engaged in a variety of operations in the 1970s, including assassinations and bombings, primarily around the German government’s material support of the U.S. war in Vietnam. As depicted i ...
  • Does Influenza Evolve in Multiple Tenses?
    The past may possess a power greater than prologue. Any one with a social networking account knows that. All of a sudden you find yourself daily interacting with people long thought boxed away. People mature, yes, but sensibilities remain largely intact and an old year, fine wine or vinegar, pours b ...
  • Influenza’s Historical Present
    I delivered the following speech, co-written with economic geographer Luke Bergmann, at the NIH-FAO-sponsored ‘Second International Workshop on Community-based Data Synthesis, Analysis and Modeling of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 in Asia’ held in Beijing earlier this month. The speech is b ...
  • The Alan Greenspan Strain
    First, a question with which few biogeographers bother. If a goodly chunk of their discipline is dedicated toward obfuscating the impact capitalism imposes on the natural world (discussed here and here), how can researchers interested in paying their bills study the crises that threaten the croupier ...
  • King Leopold’s Pandemic
    The origins of HIV offer a great example of the ways treating human impact as an afterthought—discussed in our previous post—locks the study of pathogens into limited and oftentimes downright drunken trajectories. In 2006 Beatrice Hahn and her colleagues identified the likely source for the SIVcpz p ...

Suzie-Q

  • Glenn Beck the Faith-Healer Continues to Scam His ...
    Throughout his gripping new book, The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama, Philadelphia Daily News reporter and blogger Will Bunch augments the notion that Glenn Beck is playing a fictional character named “Glenn Beck.” A faker. Specifically, ...
  • Obama: Hamas Attacks ‘Senseless Slaughter,&# ...
    Obama: Hamas Attacks ‘Senseless Slaughter,’ Won’t Deter Peace Talks Huff Post- Sam Stein- First Posted: 09- 1-10 01:20 PM   |   Updated: 09- 1-10 02:14 PM Speaking alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Obama sternly condemned Tuesday’s attacks in Hebron that killed fou ...
  • Mr. Humble n’ Pious: My Big Rally Was A Hist ...
    Crooks and Liars- By David Neiwert September 01, 2010 10:00 AM The mark of the truly fanatical propagandist is their fervent insistence on hyperinflating the value and importance and size of everything they’re connected with — even when they can be factually proven wrong. Like Glenn Beck yesterday, ...
  • The Poodle’s Book Out!
    Excerpted from: Tony Blair: Gordon Brown tried to blackmail me The Daily telegraph By Robert Winnett and Henry Samuel Published: 6:31AM BST 01 Sep 2010 The pressure on Mr Blair to step aside became so great that he admits he may have become reliant on alcohol as he faced coup attempts from Mr Brown’ ...
  • Afghanistan bomb attacks kill twenty-one US soldie ...
    Twenty-one American troops have been killed in Afghanistan since Friday in one of the bloodiest periods of the summer. By Ben Farmer, in Kabul, Telegraph co.uk, August 31, 2010 A U.S. army medic runs to the scene of a road side bomb explosion in Kandahar province Photo: REUTERS A series of bomb atta ...

Solari

  • Ruling Gives Towns Power Over Drillers
    By Elizabeth Skrapits Would local officials be powerless to stop a natural gas company from drilling a natural gas well in the middle of a housing development? Not according to a new state court ruling, which affirms the right of municipal and county officials to limit natural gas drilling to certa ...
  • Loving Montana
    Flathead Lake, MT I left Hickory Valley on August 21st. I drove into Memphis first, to pack my cooler full of fresh organic salads and fruits. I have learned not to search for fresh food on the road. I was headed to Montana, where I lived for most of 2005 and wrote Dillon, Read & Co. [...]
  • The National Security State & the Clash of Civiliz ...
    “…This three volume series is the nearest thing to an official history of the UFO phenomenon that we are ever likely to see. While this second volume is an authoritative account, this is no dry history - in this gripping account, Dolan captures the cases, the controversies and the characters, givi ...
  • The Abyss
    “I don’t want to see this country ever go across the bridge… I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency [NSA] and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross [... ...
  • 59% Support Arizona Law; 53% Trust States More tha ...
    Despite a judge’s ruling putting key provisions of Arizona’s new immigration law on hold,most U.S. voters still favor passage of such a law in their own state. They also think it’s better to have states enforce immigration law rather than to rely on the federal government. A new Rasmussen Reports na ...

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

  • What do our Constitution-loving conservatives say ...
    Summary:  The government asserts the right to kill US citizens without warrant or trial.  Few liberals show any interest in fighting this.  But we can count on Constitution-loving conservatives to defend our rights.  Or perhaps not. Prohibition of extrajudicial killing of citizens by the government ...
  • New and strange developments in the prosecution of ...
    Summary:  The accusations against Wikileaks’ director Julian Assange grows even stranger.  Since it’s bizarre, perhaps an info op by the US government, the mainstream media gives it little coverage.  Nothing to see here, sheep.  Move along. Background:  Two ex-girlfriends file rape charges in S ...
  • Every day the Constitution dies a little more
    Summary:  Next steps in the legal battle to preserve the most basic of Constitutional rights, stopping the government from executing citizens as it pleases.  Without even the pretense of warrants or trials.  A follow-up to Another step towards fascism: âSilencing the Lawyersâ and Code red! ...
  • About our successful nation-building in Iraq
    Summary:  Wars corrupt everything they touch, including our minds.  In our pundits’ desperate attempt to justify the Iraq disaster they’ll write any sort of nonsense, confident that we’ll believe anything if confidently asserted.  Are they correct?  Today’s example:  “Nation Building Works“, D ...
  • We could reduce government bureaucracy, but much o ...
    Summary:  We need less government waste and greater efficiency.  These are good and important objectives, but we must have realistic expectations about the potential gains.  Other than transfer payments (a separate problem) spending on the government machinery funds the military and intelligence ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • HRW urges Bahrain investigate torture claims
    Associated Press – Human Rights Watch has urged Bahraini authorities to immediately look into allegations of torture made by four Shiite activists in detention since mid-August. In a statement Wednesday, the group said Abdul-Jalil al-Singace, one of the detainees, told prosecutors that his captors b ...
  • Drone flights in Iraq to increase after US troop w ...
    Digital Journal – US Army officials expect an increase of unmanned aircraft flights in Iraq despite the governmentâs decision to withdraw some of its American combat troops. The US Army is predicting flight hours for drones will increase as the mission in Iraq changes due to a much-publicized troo ...
  • Afghan bank chiefs removed over ‘crony loans’ fear ...
    Telegraph – Afghanistan’s authorities have ousted the managers of the country’s biggest bank to try and prevent a collapse due to toxic property investments and murky loans to politically powerful customers, it has been reported. Hamid Karzai personally approved the intervention to prevent a meltdow ...
  • Proposed Restrictions on the News Media Cause Alar ...
    NY Times — The front pages of South Africa’s newspapers are regularly splashed with articles about politicians living it up at public expense in a country blighted by poverty. Reporters recently pounced on news that a black empowerment deal meant to benefit “previously disadvantaged” South Africans ...
  • Australian independent backs Labor minority govern ...
    The Guardian – The Australian prime minister, Julia Gillard, today edged closer to retaining power when an independent MP said he would back her centre-left Labor party to form the country’s first minority government in almost seven decades. A bloc of three independents will now decide whether Labor ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • 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 ...
  • Who and What are Trotsky-cons?

    [An earlier, choppier version of this article was published in September 2006 under a slightly different title. It was removed shortly after its original publication for various reasons.  The article has been cleaned up in the newer version.  Parts of the article may seem dated with the passing of t ...

PakAlert

  • 10 films the US Government would rather you not se ...
    These are 10 films that I believe if watched by the majority of US citizens there would be demands of impeachment, a push to pull out of Afghanistan/Iraq and a complete shift in thought or at the very least some questioning of the government.
  • William Cooper – Exposing the Illuminati Dajjal Go ...
    This is a short yet important video presenting Bill Cooper's 9/11 prediction, rare 9/11 footage and audio from his book "Behold a Pale Horse" and the Illuminati agenda. Bill Cooper was one of the top conspiracy researchers, he was active on exposing the Illuminati (secret government) and most import ...
  • Fidel Castro: Osama bin Laden Worked for CIA
    Fidel Castro has more reason than most to believe conspiracy theories involving dark forces in Washington. After all, the CIA tried to blow his head off with an exploding cigar.
  • Gerald Celente: Economic Collision Course The ‘Cra ...
    Following the "Panic of '08" and the subsequent "Great Recession," Washington, Wall Street and the media united to promote the belief that extreme crisis management measures enacted by governments had rescued the world, and staved off even worse disaster. "Recovery" was in the air. "Recovery" was ...
  • Pakistan in HAARP-watersnood: Een nieuwe zet op he ...
    De grote machten achter de schermen van het wereldtoneel, hebben hun eigen -uiterst geheime- agenda. Een van de grootste wapens in de wereld is het HAARP systeem in Alaska (en waarschijnlijk andere delen van de wereld). Dit systeem is tot heel heftige zaken in staat. Wij wijzen je graag op diverse ...

Andy Worthington

  • New London Screening of “Outside the Law: Stories ...
    After a summer hiatus, the first in a series of autumn screenings of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” the documentary film directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthington, takes place at 11 am on Sunday September 12 at the Renoir Cinema in the Brunswick Centre, London WC1 (nearest tube Russel ...
  • No Surprise at Obama’s Guantánamo Trial Chaos
    Surprise is the last thing that anyone ought to feel on hearing the news that the Obama administration “has shelved the planned prosecution,” in a trial by Military Commission, “of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged coordinator of the Oct. 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole in Yemen,” as the Wash ...
  • The Legacy of the Iraq War: Over 100,000 Dead, 20, ...
    As combat operations officially end in Iraq, nearly seven and a half years after the Bush administrationâs illegal invasion, it is difficult to know how to summarize succinctly the tragic cost of the enterprise. I retain nothing but disdain — and a desire for accountability — for those who initiat ...
  • The Witness to Guantánamo Project
    Last November, I was delighted to meet Peter Jan Honigsberg, Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco, and the author of Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror, when he enthusiastically agreed to show the Guantánamo documentary, “Outside the Law: Stories from Gua ...
  • Disgraceful: The Ground Zero Mosque Controversy
    I don’t want to spend much time discussing the opposition to the building of the Park51 Project, a $100 million mosque and cultural center two blocks from the site of the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11, 2001, as such a response to an assault on the First Amendment to the US Constituti ...

Environment _ National Geographic

  • Hurricanes Could Carry Gulf "Oil" Inland
    As Atlantic hurricane season heats up, storms could send toxic hydrocarbons lingering from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill surging inland, scientists say. Video. Gulf of Mexico - North Atlantic tropical cyclone - Oil spill - Earth Sciences - Atmospheric Sciences
  • Can Nuclear Waste Spark an Energy Solution?
    Integral Fast Reactor technology would recycle spent nuclear fuel to produce more power, but critics say safety and cost remain obstacles. Nuclear fuel - Nuclear - Energy - Radioactive waste - Integral Fast Reactor
  • Hurricane Earl May Skim N. Carolina as Strong Stor ...
    There's an "excellent chance" Hurricane Earl, now a Category 4 storm, will keep most of its strength as far as New Jersey, an expert says. Hurricane Earl - New Jersey - Tropical cyclone - Hurricane - Weather
  • Hurricane Earl's Path Skirts U.S.—No Hurricane Fio ...
    As weather systems repel Hurricane Earl from the U.S. East Coast, tropical storm Fiona forms but may not become a hurricane. East Coast of the United States - Tropical cyclone - United States - hurricane - Earth Sciences
  • Five Years After Hurricane Katrina, Alien Rodents ...
    The beaver-size, wetland-eating rodents are back—but are being kept in check by a boom in trappers, a wildlife biologist says. Rodent - South America - Rat - Bradford - United States

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Conservatives’ Friendly Gestures Toward Gays Infur ...
    Conservative columnist and author Ann Coulter’s decision to be the featured speaker next month at a “Homocon” gathering of homosexual conservatives has gotten her axed as a keynote speaker at a meeting of prominent far-right personalities. Joseph Farah’s decision to cut Coulter from his Taking Ameri ...
  • Annals of Hypocrisy: GOP Gay Group Featuring Gay-B ...
    Former Democratic U.S. senator and presidential candidate John Edwards is a âfaggot,â according to conservative provocateur and author Ann Coulter some years back. Nobel Prize winner, former vice president and one-time Democratic candidate for president Al Gore, she said on a separate occasion, ...
  • White Supremacists Find Common Cause with Pam Gell ...
    Pamela Geller , the veteran Muslim-basher and co-founder of the rabidly anti-Muslim group Stop Islamization of America (SIOA), has won over a whole new set of supporters: American white supremacists. They just canât seem to get enough of her since her agitation began against a planned Islamic comm ...
  • New Intelligence Report Spotlights ‘Sovereign Citi ...
    Today, we’re releasing a major report on “sovereign citizens,” a radical-right movement that has grown to include as many as 300,000 adherents who believe that the government has no right to tax or impose laws on most Americans. Adherents can be incredibly dangerous, especially to police officers, a ...
  • Los Zetas Still Not Seizing Laredo Ranches
    There’s an old jest in the news business: Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story. Some anti-illegal immigrant zealots in the blogosphere are taking the joke to heart. Two-and-a-half weeks after reporting with no factual basis that members of a dangerous Mexican drug gang had seized two A ...

change: org.

  • Vegetarian Chef Competes on Iron Chef America
    Food competition television shows are my favorite guilty pleasure. I can't really explain why, since I can eat almost nothing served on them; the shows feature one meat dish after the next. But yesterday at the gym, I became especially aggravated when I watched one contestant serve foie gras, which ...
  • 10 Ways To Celebrate Labor Day, Sustainable Style
    As summer's long hot days quickly fade, Labor Day weekend festivities are often people's last chance to picnic, lounge in the grass and soak in the sun before trees turn to crimson and the sky darkens early. In the spirit of the holiday, there's plenty you can do to honor the intertwined issues of l ...
  • Animal Activist Jailed for Accepting Facebook Frie ...
    Mike Roselle and Rod Coronado have known each other for awhile, but it was their Facebook friendship that landed Coronado back in jail. In his younger days, Coronado wreaked a lot of havoc on behalf of animals. As a teenager, he was associated with Sea Shepherd and, in 1986, he caused about $2 milli ...
  • Happy National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month
    O.K., so maybe America's growing childhood obesity epidemic isn't exactly a cause for celebration. But when the President of the United States actually starts giving this problem the attention it deserves, it's appropriate to whip out the party hats. Yesterday, President Barack Obama declared Septem ...
  • Choosing Children: A Piece of the Past to ...
    Lesbian and gay parents are hardly a novelty these days. Actor Eric Stonestreet won an Emmy Sunday for his portrayal of a gay dad on ABC's Modern Family . Earlier this summer, The Kids Are All Right became the first mainstream film to focus on the dynamics of a lesbian couple, their children, and th ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Feds Sue Ariz. Sheriff Arpaio, Call His Defiance ' ...
    by JACQUES BILLEAUD (A PHOENIX - The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics. read more
  • BREAKING: Coast Guard Responding to Rig Fire Gulf ...
    by Bob Warren The Coast Guard is responding to a report of a rig on fire "and people in the water'' in the Gulf of Mexico south of Vermilion Bay, authorities said. Coast Guard Petty Officer Casey Ranel said the rig is around 90 miles south of Vermilion Bay and that a helicopter earlier today reporte ...
  • Settlers Defy Peace Talks With New Construction Ac ...
    Hours before peace talks were set to begin in Washington, Jewish settlers defiantly announced plans on Thursday to launch new construction in their West Bank enclaves in a test of strength with Palestinian Islamists. Naftali Bennett, director of the settlers' Yesha council, said settlers would begin ...
  • Further Victims Identified in DRC Mass Rapes Case
    by Aprille Muscara UNITED NATIONS - The number of women raped by rebel groups during last month's raid of more than a dozen villages centred around Walikale, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has risen to over 240, U.N. officials told reporters here today. Following the Jul. 30 to Aug. 3 raid, ...
  • Risks Remain With Gulf Well Cap Coming Off, Govt. ...
    by Harry R. Weber NEW ORLEANS -- The cap that ended BP's three-month oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico was set to come off Thursday as a prelude to raising a massive, failed piece of equipment and preparing for a final seal on the broken seafloor well. Engineers and the government were not expecting ...

Lifehacker

  • How to Always Get to the Airport On Time [Travel T ...
    While there are better places to be than sitting at your gate, running from the clutches of airport security to make your flight is no fun either. Here's a guide for showing up at your gate with James Bond timing. More�� ...
  • Sign Up to Test Full Google Service Integration wi ...
    In May Google announced that Apps users will get all Google Services ; this week, certain Google Apps users (including some of us at Lifehacker) have been receiving invitations to test full-featured Google services with their Google Apps account. Want to take the plunge? You can fin ...
  • Act Like You're Teaching to Avoid Sloppy Work [Min ...
    If you find that you tend to rush certain jobs to the point of sloppiness, reader Tanner Bush has an easy solution: pretend like you're teaching someone else, and you'll slow down. More��
  • Steam Mover Relocates Applications to Free Up Spac ...
    Windows only: If your primary hard drive just isn't large enough to hold all the software you need on a day-to-day basis, then Steam Mover is the perfect tool for the job—assuming you have another storage drive handy. More » ...
  • Gadget and Gear Deals of the Day [Dealhacker]
    10,000 RPM drives on the cheap, discounted laptops, HD camcorders, and more await you in today's DealHacker roundup. More��

Water Privatization

  • Doyon Utilities Selects NorthStar Utilities Soluti ...
    Doyon Utilities (Fairbanks, Alaska) selected NorthStar Utilities Solutions' MeterSense MDMS as part of their ongoing project with the US Army to study utility energy management at three military bases in Alaska. NorthStar's MeterSense MDMS system will empower the military with utility usage informat ...
  • Free up more information, governments urged
    Canada’s information and privacy commissioners are calling on all governments – provincial, territorial and federal – to put more information on the public record, making it easier for citizens to access.
  • Revenue leak
    FINANCE officials looking to plug revenue leaks in the government need look no further than the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System.
  • 2011 proposed budget an austerity to repay debt
    Research group IBON calls the proposed 2011 National Government (NG) budget submitted to Congress an austerity budget to be able to keep repaying debt, adding that the proposed budget is not consistent with long-term economic and social development.
  • Water activists to put pension petition before tea ...
    As close to 20,000 Toronto teachers gather for a back-to-school professional development day Wednesday, water activists will be on hand trying to get them to sign a petition against pension investments in privatized water in Chile.

Guardian

  • Fresh phone-hacking claim against News of the Worl ...
    Press Complaints Commission confirms it was told two months ago that journalist was under investigation over new claim The News of the World is facing a fresh allegation of phone hacking against one of its journalists, the Press Complaints Commission confirmed today. The commission was informed by t ...
  • Oil rig explodes in Gulf of Mexico
    Explosion off Louisiana raises pollution fears after BP oil spill, but coastguard say damaged rig is not in production Another oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico suffered an explosion today, raising fears of more pollution just months after the BP oil spill hit the area. There were 13 crew on the rig, of ...
  • Middle East peace talks – LIVE
    Follow all the diplomatic activity as Israel and Palestine hold Middle East peace talks in Washington DC - live 2.19pm ET: More on the framework agreement that the Israeli and Palestinian leaders are thrashing out today. The Associated Press reports: Though "less than a full-fledged treaty," [US pea ...
  • Kosovo offers fresh start with Serbia
    Prime minister Hashim Thaçi, writing for Comment is free, responds to EU calls for talks with Belgrade neighbour The prime minister of Kosovo, which seceded from Serbia and declared independence two years ago, has offered to make a fresh start in relations with Belgrade, which is coming under increa ...
  • Miliband tells Labour to end feuding
    Labour leadership contender says he wants to lead 'a government not a gang' Labour leadership hopeful David Miliband today sought to distance himself from the party feuding reignited by Tony Blair's new book, declaring that he wanted to lead "a government not a gang". As ballot papers went out to el ...

McClatchey

  • Bears a growing risk in California's Tahoe area
    Officials from the California Department of Fish and Game and USDA Wildlife Services showed up at dawn at Lake Tahoe's Fallen Leaf Campground early this week, looking for a bear sow and cub with a reputation for nonchalant visits to the tents.
  • Commentary: Obama's Iraq speech was not a victory ...
    President Obama's speech Tuesday night on the end of the American combat mission in Iraq reflected the nature of modern warfare.
  • Commentary: San Joaquin Valley is being shorted on ...
    A story in Wednesday's Fresno Bee offers another reminder that the San Joaquin Valley does not get a fair return on the tax dollars that Valley residents send to the federal government, even when stimulus funding is counted into the spending numbers.
  • Retired Boise police officer gets 25 years for cri ...
    While Ada County prosecutors say they suspected Stephen Young sexually battered more than a dozen infants or toddlers over the course of 30 years, they were surprised this week when Young sent out an e-mail identifying four additional victims.
  • Commentary: Iraq mission isn't over
    More than seven years after former President Bush announced the start of military operations in Iraq, Americans remain divided about the wisdom of invading that country and staying so long. No matter what side one takes on that score, there should be no dispute over the decision to start getting out ...

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

The Wonk Room

  • Anti-Stem Cell Plaintiffs File Motion To Stack App ...
    Lawyers in the lawsuit attempting to shut down all federal embryonic stem cell funding filed a highly unusual motion yesterday.  If their motion is successful, it will effectively stack the court of appeals panel hearing this case with three far right judges who are more likely to side against scien ...
  • Fiorina Can’t Justify Simultaneously Support ...
    California’s Republican senate nominee Carly Fiorina has been outspoken in her support for extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy (because, hey, they pay for themselves!). At the same time, however, she has scoffed at the recent bills before Congress that extend aid to small businesses and scho ...
  • Pawlenty Likens Federal Gov To A Drug Dealer, Impl ...
    Outgoing Minnesota governor and potential Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty appeared on Fox News and Fox Business last night to defend his recent executive order prohibiting the state from applying for grants provided by the new health care law. Pawlenty’s ban could cost the state $1 bi ...
  • The WonkLine: September 2, 2010
    Welcome to The WonkLine, a daily 9:30 a.m. roundup of the latest news about health care, the economy, national security, immigration and climate policy. This is what we’re reading. Tell us what you found in the comments section below. You can also follow The Wonk Room on Twitter.   Economy “The ...
  • Carly Fiorina Cites Obama’s Position On Same ...
    Tonight during her debate against Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Republican gubernatorial candidate Carly Fiorina cited President Obama’s opposition to same-sex marriage to substantiate her belief that “marriage is between a man and a woman” and moderate her support for Proposition 8: FIORINA: I do bel ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Hypocritical Bullshit
    Here's what Admiral Mike Mullen had to say about Julian Assange and the Wikileaks exposure of military information on the war in Afghanistan. Disagree with the war all you want, take issue with the policy, challenge me or our ground commanders on the decisions we make to accomplish the mission we ...
  • Thanks to last batch of comments ...
    ... among them, Alison, Eugene and Simon, ... but I've been crushed by a mountain of work. Thanks for your contributions, and perhaps I'll be able to respond to them soon, unless another government atrocity occurs and my focus changes. To keep the blog alive, ... I do the traditional YouTube link: ...
  • Bleak
    That's all.
  • Bankrupt Politics
    I would say that there's now only a few millimetres separating Canada's dismal political culture from the thoroughly debased political culture in the United States. I'm linking to this Glenn Greenwald article about the morass of US politics simply because it's so well written and insightful: There a ...
  • Sympathy For The Devil?
    Okay, somebody can correct me if I'm wrong, I don't follow Canadian personalities as much as I do Miley Cyrus, but there's some half-witted shit-back named Kory Tennuckooluck or something, who wants to bring Glenn Beck to Canada so that he can fellate him and then they can both snort cocaine off of ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • 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 ...
  • DOL issues new regulations for whistleblower cases
    Today the Department of Labor has issued new regulations for whistleblower claims under four new laws. These laws include two laws included in the 2007 law that adopted recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, the National Transit Systems Security Act (NTSSA) and the Federal Railroad Safety Act (FRSA ...
  • NWC Executive Director Appears on C-Span
    Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center , appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal. He talked about legislative efforts to protect congressional employees who report corruption, waste and other violations committed by Members of Congress. "Everyone loves a whistle ...
  • Katrina documentary in theaters for one-night only
    Five years after Hurricane Katrina a new feature-length documentary “The Big Uneasy” is taking a look at the true cause of the disaster. Humorist and New Orleans resident Harry Shearer speaks to an Army Corp of Engineers whistleblower who reveals that “some of the same flawed methods responsible for ...
  • DOL's ARB announces two new members and new briefi ...
    The U.S. Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) has issued a letter announcing the appointment of two new judges, and a new policy on briefing schedules. The two new judges are Joanne Royce and Luis Corchado. Royce previously worked for the Government Accountability Project (GAP) an ...

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

  • Connecting With Fans Is About More Than Getting Pe ...
    When I first start talking about this whole CwF+RtB thing , I tended to focus more on the "RtB -- Reason to Buy" part of it, because I naturally assumed that was the big problem. After all, the big thing we kept hearing was how creative folks weren't able to make money any more. However, the more ...
  • Filipino Gov't Loses Court Case Because It Relied ...
    A few years back, we discussed whether or not it was appropriate for judges to cite Wikipedia , noting that some were against the idea. Now, Slashdot points us to a case over in the Philippines, where the Filipino government has lost a recent lawsuit, in large part due to relying on Wikipedia to co ...
  • Is Falsely Being Accused Of File Sharing With An A ...
    With law operations like ACS:Law in the UK and US Copyright Group in the US sending out thousands upon thousands of "pre-settlement" (i.e., "pay us or we'll sue you") letters for those it accuses of copyright infringement, based on extremely flimsy evidence, it's inevitable that plenty of innocent p ...
  • BBC Loses Its Attempt To Silence Top Gear Test Dri ...
    The incredibly popular UK BBC TV show Top Gear has been involved in a legal fight with publisher HarperCollins over the plans to publish a book revealing the identity of "The Stig," the always secretive test driver who appears in the show unidentified in a racing suit and helmet. The BBC spent its ...
  • When Will People Learn: Websites Are Not Liable Fo ...
    It still amazes me when lawsuits actually get filed against sites for things that people write in the comments. Section 230 case law is really well established on this, and you would think lawyers would know better. But, such lawsuits still get filed, and they get dismissed just as quickly . In t ...

VacTruth

  • Epidemic of vaccine suspensions worldwide, as adve ...
    This year alone, has seen India suspend the Measles vaccine, the Cervical cancer vaccine and the HIB vaccine, Australia, the Flu vaccine, Sweden, the Swine Flu vaccine along with Finland and the USA, Switzerland and Jordan, the Rotavirus vaccine. What is going on? Last year the world faced a 'so ca ...
  • India halts vaccine programme after the deaths of ...
    The four children were reported to have fainted soon after they were vaccinated and witnesses reported seeing the children's eyes roll back as they began to have seizures.
  • Part II: Rockefeller Vaccine Secret Revealed
    Many people understand the Rockefellers, along with corporate interests, manipulate the United States money supply through the private Federal Reserve Bank. The Rockefeller Institution also had heavy influence pushing through a vaccine as the only answer to the false-flag polio epidemic.
  • Penn and Teller kick out at anti vaccine lobby
    In a recently released video 'Penn and Teller Bullshit – Vaccination', the pair of magicians Penn and Teller, use their usual male chauvinistic and pratt like abilities, to go all out to prove to the world that vaccines are safe, that they have eradicated illnesses, that they are super efficient and ...
  • Autistic girl uses laptop to break silence
    A child displaying autistic behaviours suddenly, at aged eleven, broke out of her autistic state and with the help of a computer, describe exactly what was making her act in this way. Here suddenly was the breakthrough that scientists have been waiting for.

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Hello all.  Sorry that I disappeared again last week.  I had every intention of posting while on vacation, but once we busted out that bottle of vodka on the train up there, it was pretty much over.  Who was I kidding? If you haven’t seen it already, the results of the anarchist survey are in.  ...
  • Wondering About Wage Labor
    I generally stay away from economics, as I’m still doing my 101.  But I’ve been pondering some things and hope you might share your wisdom with me. If you read my post on How I Became an Anarchist, you know that it was facing the corrupting influence of organizational hierarchies that finally pushe ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Really important post over at Womanist Musings on the rape of an elderly woman and how we treat rape in general – in society, in the media… Read it. And then there are the perpetrators.  Or are they victims? Smoke em if you got em, ladies.  Looks like weed might treat breast cancer. Speaking of sm ...
  • Who Will Notice?
    I met a Palestinian woman who came to the United States for her graduate degree.  She picked the U.S. because she wanted to see imperialism from the inside.  She wanted to understand the richest, most powerful country on earth.  Imagine her surprise when she learned that the kind of economic develop ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    You have probably heard about the seven year old whose lemonade stand was protected by anarchists and who subsequently raised enough cash to go to Disney.  Somehow I think that little girl will never have a bad view of anarchists. And on the opposite end of the spectrum, this article explains perfec ...

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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

  • House Built From Hemp Is Full Of Green Surprises
    All images from Push House In much of the world, hemp is thought of as a useful building material; Warren recently showed us an interesting house from Australia and it is common in the UK. But in America, it is still the butt of hippie jokes; Matt Hickman of the Mother Nature Networks describe ...
  • House Built From Hemp Is Full Of Green Surprises
    All images from Push House In much of the world, hemp is thought of as a useful building material; Warren recently showed us an interesting house from Australia and it is common in the UK. But in America, it is still the butt of hippie jokes; Matt Hickman of the Mother Nature Networks describe ...
  • iPhone Game Features Heroic Fish Dodging Gulf Oil ...
    Image via Elephant Journal We've had an influx of iPhone apps based on the Gulf oil spill , and many of them also donate proceeds to helping clean-up efforts. So what makes Puff Puff: Gulf Spill any different? It's still an app about the life post oil disaster and it donates 30% of net proceeds ...
  • Dual-Flush Toilet Retrofit, With Adjustable Flush ...
    Image credit: Brondell Simple Flush Dual-flush toilets have always been popular here on TreeHugger. After all, it seems insane to use the same amount of drinking water to flush your number ones as your number twos. (It actually seems insane to use drinking water at all, but that's another story ...
  • Curious Whales Check Out Photographers with Stunni ...
    Photo via The Daily Mail The ocean's whales are some of the Earth's most massive and majestic animals, reaching sizes of up to 80 feet long and 150 tons. As the targets of centuries of whaling, they have a violent history -- and are still recovering from an industry that depleted their numbers ...

Biosingularity

  • Multiple personal genomes await
    Genomic data will soon become a commodity; the next challenge — linking human genetic variation with physiology and disease — will be as great as the one genomicists faced a decade ago, says J. Craig Venter. via Multiple personal genomes await : Article : Nature.
  • Low Vitamin D Level Tied to Cognitive Decline
    Two new studies add to evidence that older people with low levels of vitamin D may be more likely to suffer from cognitive impairment. The hope is that vitamin D supplements may be able to slow mental decline — an intervention that one research team plans to put to the test this summer. Vitamin D [. ...
  • Essentials of Genetics | Learn Science at Scitable
    Why does a commercial dairy cow produce four times as much milk as most other mammals? Why do we look like our cousins? Why do roses come in so many different colors? The answers to these and other questions about the diversity of living things involve processes that occur at the level of genes. Ess ...
  • Replacement Bones, Grown to Order in the Lab
    IF a lover breaks your heart, tissue engineers can’t fix it. But if sticks and stones break your bones, scientists may be able to grow custom-size replacements. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, a professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, has solved one of many problems on the way to succe ...
  • Seeing a Bionic Eye on Medicine’s Horizon
    Television’s Six Million Dollar Man foresaw a future when man and machine would become one. New research at Tel Aviv University is making this futuristic “vision” of bionics a reality. Prof. Yael Hanein of Tel Aviv University’s School of Electrical Engineering has foundational research that may give ...

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Pruning Shears

  • PAYPAL IS THE WORST COMPANY IN THE WORLD
    Per your request , John.� Hope it helps.
  • 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. It probably is not too great an idea to bomb our allies even if they assure us it’s totally fine with them and they really don’t mind at all. ...
  • All Those Partnerships With Business Might Not Be ...
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post On last Sunday’s “Meet the Press” Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm discussed the economy, and did so with an unmistakable emphasis: smartly, strategically, surgically intervening to invest with the private sector [snip] smartly in ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Julian Assange got an agreement with the Swedish Pirate Party (my second favorite political party in the whole world) to provide hosting for WikiLeaks, thus giving it a measure of protection. Which it clearly needs. Assange was acc ...
  • America's Bad Reputation Gets a Little Worse
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post On Monday U.S. District Court Judge Henry Kennedy ruled in what Carol Rosenberg described as a “heavily censored 28-page ruling” that Guantánamo detainee Adnan Abdul Latif was to be released. While he was locked up at least four ye ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy and Po ...
    As we talk about the largest egg recall in US history, at this point half a billion eggs, our guest is David Kirby. His book is Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy and Poultry Farms on Humans and the Environment. Click here to read this article
  • After a Half Billion Bad Eggs Get Released, the FD ...
    There's nothing like a good salmonella outbreak to inspire FDA inspectors to deliver blunt, graphic reports from inside the industrial food system. When future historians marvel at the fetid, festering underbelly of our food culture, they will relish these post-facto dispatches from the bio-hazardou ...
  • New Research Study on Local Foods Vs. Conventional ...
    Thomas Stern is an unabashed locavore, buying everything from beets and basil to lamb and legumes from nearby producers. Click here to read this article
  • The Berry Healthiest: How Organic Strawberries 'Ar ...
    Organic strawberries may cost more, but it's a price worth paying, scientists say. The fruit is both tastier and better for your health, research shows. The most detailed study of its kind has found that they contain higher levels of anti-cancer nutrients than fruit sprayed with chemical pesticide ...
  • Strict Quality Assurance Program has Virtually Wip ...
    Amid a rolling landscape of browning chaparral and battered trailers, Alan and Ryan Armstrong's metal hen houses line up like military barracks. Keeping their 450,000 birds safe - and Salmonella enteritidis out of their hen houses - is a daily battle. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes parte ...
    No podía yo esperar más tiempo para traer hasta usted las nuevas fotografías de la serie 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. En esta ocasión y celebrando ya nuestra V entrega, le tengo ni más ni menos que 10 nuevas postales para ver, disfrutar y compartir. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la ...
  • Playas paradisiacas parte IV (15 paraísos naturale ...
    En poco tiempo, hemos llegado ya a la IV entrega de nuestra serie 'Playas paradisiacas'. Las aguas cristalinas y color turquesa, son una clara invitación a pasear descalzo por las blancas arenas de estos paraísos naturales. La bruma de las olas, la brisa, los rayos del sol y el viento cálido, dejar ...
  • Ciudades con vista nocturna (10 postales para comp ...
    Hace no mucho, estuve contemplando desde la lejanía cómo lucía la ciudad de Nashville en el Estado de Tennessee EEUU a las 3 de la mañana. Quedé tan fascinado, que hoy decidí compartir con ustedes 10 bellísimas imágenes de ciudades en la noche. Vea cómo las luces de colores, hacen de estos lugares u ...
  • Texturas y fondos abstractos parte III (5 elemento ...
    Dedicado especialmente para quienes se dedican a la creación de plantillas para Blogger, Wordpress, TypePad, Etc., he traído este paquete que contiene 5 imágenes de fondos abstractos en alta resolución y completamente gratis. No deje ir la oportunidad de vertir su imaginación y creatividad haciendo ...
  • Felicidades Blogger por tu 11th aniversario (Blogg ...
    Esperando que se hayan divertido a lo grande en la Blogger Fiesta el pasado 31 de agosto, aprovecho la ocasión para enviar mi más sincera felicitación y mi total agradecimiento a quienes hacen posible la existencia de esta fabulosa plataforma de publicación de blogs llamada Blogger . Muchas, pero m ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Tour dem veggies: An East Baltimore bicycle garden ...
    Fueled by cherry tomatoes and lemonade, three-dozen bikers (this blogger included) hit the pavement last Saturday afternoon for a seven-mile tour of seven great community gardens in East Baltimore. We started the ride at the 22-year old Duncan Street Miracle Garden, a one-acre fruit and vegetable ha ...
  • Richmond’s Urban Agriculture Institutes: A First ...
    I wanted to post an impact study that I performed this year of the Urban Agriculture Institutes that I used to run in Richmond, Calif.  This paper represents the first step in a program evaluation of Urban Tilth’s Urban Agriculture Institutes.  While this study had an intervention/control cross se ...
  • Response to “Math Lessons for Locavores” op-ed
    Grist.org recently invited bloggers through it’s Grist Talk: Food Fight series to respond to an August 20th op-ed piece, “Math Lessons for Locavores,” by Stephen Budiansky in the New York Times.  What follows is my response: “I agree with Mr. Budiansky that freight is by some measures cheap, and ...
  • Exposing the role of the food industry in conditio ...
    Book Review:  The end of overeating.  By David Kessler, MD David Kessler the former FDA Chief under George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton has written a very important book in the evolution of public thinking about food, nutrition and the obesity epidemic that is gripping our nation.  The basic premise ...
  • Government officials sent ‘clarifying’ letter from ...
    Congressional testimony by two high-ranking government officials in April revealed some misconceptions about the mounting evidence over the use of antibiotics in industrial farm animal production and links to antibiotic resistance in humans. To clarify the case, Keeve Nachman, PhD, MHS, and directo ...

Norwegianity

  • The few, the crazed, the unvetted
    Unexpected early morning errands compounded by a McDonald’s breakfast. Yes, this is going to be one of those days. And not entirely because of forces beyond my control. Shit happens mostly because of things we’ve done that prove to have consequences, usually quite predictably so. Eric Deaton knows w ...
  • The politics of entranxitional privatization
    The NY Times editorializes that Obama was right not to declare victory. Fox, of course, disagrees â not just with Obama but with everything imaginable including themselves. Read the speech itself here. Juan Cole’s analysis here. See also Glenn Greenwald’s take. [ATR with the shorter Glenn Greenwa ...
  • BRR 4 a new Amerikkka
    Black Robe Regiment? Do the ret.-tards who attended that freaking rally have any idea how extreme or heretical Beck’s theology is? More: Clusterfuck Nation [with Spotty reinforcement] Tons of pictures Digby with someof the stories behind the pictures A perversion of the gospels ATR on the Washingto ...
  • Aprés Beck with a side of papaya salad hash
    The last time a Democrat sat in the White House, he faced a nonstop witch hunt by his political opponents. Prominent figures on the right accused Bill and Hillary Clinton of everything from drug smuggling to murder. And once Republicans took control of Congress, they subjected the Clinton administra ...
  • Oral Beck’s swaggartly strut
    By the time I woke up the NYTimes had already buried Glenn Beck’s rally on an inside page and I had to search for it. The Strib’s story veered into some classic Michele Bachmann: While the main event’s organizers portrayed it as a patriotic exercise to restore traditional moral values, Bachmann wade ...

Public News Service

  • AZ Continues to Lag in Kid Well-Being Indicators
    AZ Continues to Lag in Kid Well-Being Indicators Phoenix, AZ – Arizona remains in the bottom half of states when it comes to conditions for kids growing up. The latest Kids Count report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Children’s Action Alliance shows improvement in some categories, but overal ...
  • Illegal Wolf Shootings on Rise in AZ and NM
    Illegal Wolf Shootings on Rise in AZ and NM Tucson, AZ – Three Mexican gray wolves from a federal recovery program along Arizona’s eastern border have been illegally killed in the past month. Conservationists are calling for stronger law enforcement to protect the endangered wolves. Comments from Ev ...
  • SB 1070 Foes Plan Major Protest as Law Takes Effec ...
    SB 1070 Foes Plan Major Protest as Law Takes Effect Tucson, AZ – Immigrant rights advocates are calling for a “day of non-compliance” July 29th, the day Arizona’s controversial new immigration law takes effect. Planned actions include rallies, vigils and civil disobedience. Comments from Jennifer Al ...
  • Arizona Babies Now Come With Instructions
    Arizona Babies Now Come With Instructions Phoenix, AZ – A program providing parents of Arizona newborns with “resources, information and practical parenting advice” has expanded statewide. Arizona Parent Kits are now available at every maternity hospital in the state. Comments from Rhian (RHEE-in) E ...
  • Fighting Childhood Obesity a Family Affair
    Fighting Childhood Obesity a Family Affair Phoenix, AZ - September is the first-ever Childhood Obesity Awareness Month. It's promoted as a family affair in order to successful fight childhood obesity. Comments from cardiologist Suzanne Sorof SOAR-off), president of the Phoenix metro board of directo ...

My Care2 Picks

  • This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow
    Updated about 4 months ago Satire Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The View From Here - Military
    Geopolitics breeds lies like no other variation of psyops, media control, secrecy...all mixed with blatant violence. I thought another backgrounder was due...with suitable new material added. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • UNUSUAL fish kills that have covered the ENTIRE W ...
    Normal fish kills cause fish to come to the surface to be in distress, flopping around, and slowly they die, and new ones come up. All we had was a massive amount of dead fish coming to the surface Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • O$ama Who ?
    'Asking the Right Question' : Bu$h Family Holdings in Afghanistan. Detectives say 'Follow the Money' when Investigating Crime Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Truth,Lies,Reality
    There's no point in extracting from a brilliant theorist and observer who has blogged for years and is a sparkplug behind Signs of The Times and Cassiopea. I tried a bit though http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2010/08/25-aug-quick-picks-articles.html Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat �|� �Note- ...

Angry Indian News

  • U.S. Funding Boost Is Sought for Yemen Forces
    U.S. Funding Boost Is Sought for Yemen Forces - WSJ.com: "WASHINGTON—The U.S. military's Central Command has proposed pumping as much as $1.2 billion over five years into building up Yemen's security... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Stephen Hawking says universe not created by God
    Stephen Hawking says universe not created by God | Science | The Guardian: "God did not create the universe, the man who is arguably Britain's most famous living scientist says in a forthcoming... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Afghan War Unwinnable Quagmire, Ex-CIA Man Says
    Afghan War Unwinnable Quagmire, Ex-CIA Man Says | CommonDreams.org: "THE war in Afghanistan is an unwinnable quagmire and poor US intelligence is leading to the deaths of Australian soldiers, a... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • ei: Bedouin's legal fight threatens Jewish state
    ei: Bedouin's legal fight threatens Jewish state: "Nuri al-Uqbi's small cinderblock home in a ramshackle neighborhood of Hura, a Bedouin town in Israel's Negev desert, hardly looks like the epicenter... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Suicide blasts in Lahore kill 18, injure 143
    The Raw Story | Suicide blasts in Lahore kill 18, injure 143: "Three suicide bombers struck in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore Wednesday, killing 18 people and wounding 143 during a Shiite mourning... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Another oil rig blast hits Gulf of Mexico
    ShareThis Another oil rig blast hits Gulf of Mexico 02 Sep 2010 An offshore oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, forcing 13 people into the water, one of whom was injured, the US Coast Guard said. "All 13 are accounted for and they are all wearing some sort of an immersion suit that protects ...
  • Israel gave 'licence to kill' on Gaza ship: Israel ...
    ShareThis Israel gave 'licence to kill' on Gaza ship: Israeli Arab MP 31 Aug 2010 Outspoken Arab Israeli MP Haneen Zuabi on Tuesday told a UN human rights inquiry into Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that its commandos had a "licence to kill." "I told the UN investigators in Amman ...
  • It All Adds Up: This Was New York’s Hottest Summer
    ShareThis It All Adds Up: This Was New York’s Hottest Summer 01 Sep 2010 With one final, fitting blast of 96-degree heat on Tuesday, the summer of 2010 went down in the National Weather Service’s record books as the hottest ever in New York City. Hotter than the previous high of 77.3 degrees set in ...
  • Obama Marks End of U.S. Combat Mission in Iraq, Sa ...
    ShareThis Obama Marks End of U.S. Combat Mission in Iraq, Salutes Bush 31 Aug 2010 President Obama praised President [sic] Bush's commitment to U.S. troops Tuesday as he announced a close to combat operations in Iraq that he said cost America a "huge price." While not explicitly crediting Bush for s ...
  • Murkowski concedes GOP Senate race in Alaska
    ShareThis Murkowski concedes GOP Senate race in Alaska 31 Aug 2010 Sen. Lisa Murkowski conceded her hard-fought race against Republican [Teabagger] challenger Joe Miller in Alaska's GOP primary, telling supporters late Tuesday that she did not see a path to victory in the vote count. Her concession ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • IPCC gets a credibility hammering
    This alert through from Benny Peiser's newsletter The Daily Telegraph. 31 August 2010 By Stephen Adams and Robert Winnett An independent investigation into the UN's climate change body has warned it to stop lobbying and to restrict its role to...
  • History in colour
    We've all seen the black and white photos of yesteryear, a time before the invention of colour photography. So how's this picture from the days of Imperial Russia, 1909, grab you: They were taken by a process involving three b&w...
  • Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story by Ian Wisha ...
    It's just been brought to my attention that I haven't offered non-subscribers the chance to pre-order the new book on the Crewe murders being released by us next month. Accordingly, here's the gist of the email that went out to...
  • ClimateDepot locates possibly the world’s dumbest ...
    As an indicator of just how dumbed-down global warming believers are on the science of climate change, Climate Depot's Mark Morano revealed tonight a seminar delegate seriously believed the CO2 from car exhaust fumes would kill him in an enclosed...
  • Sins of Science Media Centre’s Omission
    PR hack Peter Griffin is at it again, this time complaining that a Waikato farmer should have been left to die by medical science, rather than allowing his family to administer the unproven Vitamin C therapy now claimed to have...

Mondoweiss

  • As talks resume, two-thirds of Israelis support se ...
    And other news from Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Abbas demands a freeze on Israeli settlement activity (AFP) AFP - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas Wednesday publicly demanded a freeze on all Israeli settlement activity at the launch of landmark US-me ...
  • Palestinian guns – redux
    Many people reacted strongly with disapprobation to my "Hamas attack was wrong" post yesterday. Nearly everyone agrees that murdering civilians is wrong, but some question whether the settlers are civilians in the first place. The settlers are racial supremacists whose race pride, irrational hatre ...
  • ‘Do you know how hard I work to control the ...
    Yesterday on this site, responding to the murders of the four settlers in the West Bank Tuesday, Seham, a Palestinian-American, offered a list of settler attacks on Palestinians. David Samel, who has taken a strong stance against violent resistance, responded in a comment:Seham, I have no doubt that ...
  • I know a ton of old lefties, wheat-grass drinkers, ...
    the lobby never sleeps.Dear Friends and Colleagues,The Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program and Foreign Affairs magazine cordially invite you to the opening of this year's James Clarke Chace Memorial Speaker Series: "The Demonization of Israel: Its History and Politics" Martin Peretz ...
  • Help! CNN runs reports produced by propaganda outf ...
    Check this out. Israel 21c is a pro-Israel p.r. organization. "A Focus Beyond," its motto, says it all.ISRAEL21c – a New Paradigm for Pro-Israel Communications ISRAEL21c’s mission is to focus media and public attention on the 21st century Israel that exists beyond the conflict.Its board is headed by ...

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

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

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

  • House Built From Hemp Is Full Of Green Surprises
    All images from Push House In much of the world, hemp is thought of as a useful building material; Warren recently showed us an interesting house from Australia and it is common in the UK. But in America, it is still the butt of hippie jokes; Matt Hickman of the Mother Nature Networks describe ...
  • House Built From Hemp Is Full Of Green Surprises
    All images from Push House In much of the world, hemp is thought of as a useful building material; Warren recently showed us an interesting house from Australia and it is common in the UK. But in America, it is still the butt of hippie jokes; Matt Hickman of the Mother Nature Networks describe ...
  • iPhone Game Features Heroic Fish Dodging Gulf Oil ...
    Image via Elephant Journal We've had an influx of iPhone apps based on the Gulf oil spill , and many of them also donate proceeds to helping clean-up efforts. So what makes Puff Puff: Gulf Spill any different? It's still an app about the life post oil disaster and it donates 30% of net proceeds ...
  • Dual-Flush Toilet Retrofit, With Adjustable Flush ...
    Image credit: Brondell Simple Flush Dual-flush toilets have always been popular here on TreeHugger. After all, it seems insane to use the same amount of drinking water to flush your number ones as your number twos. (It actually seems insane to use drinking water at all, but that's another story ...
  • Curious Whales Check Out Photographers with Stunni ...
    Photo via The Daily Mail The ocean's whales are some of the Earth's most massive and majestic animals, reaching sizes of up to 80 feet long and 150 tons. As the targets of centuries of whaling, they have a violent history -- and are still recovering from an industry that depleted their numbers ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

  • Hurricanes Could Carry Gulf "Oil" Inland
    As Atlantic hurricane season heats up, storms could send toxic hydrocarbons lingering from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill surging inland, scientists say. Video. Gulf of Mexico - North Atlantic tropical cyclone - Oil spill - Earth Sciences - Atmospheric Sciences
  • Can Nuclear Waste Spark an Energy Solution?
    Integral Fast Reactor technology would recycle spent nuclear fuel to produce more power, but critics say safety and cost remain obstacles. Nuclear fuel - Nuclear - Energy - Radioactive waste - Integral Fast Reactor
  • Hurricane Earl May Skim N. Carolina as Strong Stor ...
    There's an "excellent chance" Hurricane Earl, now a Category 4 storm, will keep most of its strength as far as New Jersey, an expert says. Hurricane Earl - New Jersey - Tropical cyclone - Hurricane - Weather
  • Hurricane Earl's Path Skirts U.S.—No Hurricane Fio ...
    As weather systems repel Hurricane Earl from the U.S. East Coast, tropical storm Fiona forms but may not become a hurricane. East Coast of the United States - Tropical cyclone - United States - hurricane - Earth Sciences
  • Five Years After Hurricane Katrina, Alien Rodents ...
    The beaver-size, wetland-eating rodents are back—but are being kept in check by a boom in trappers, a wildlife biologist says. Rodent - South America - Rat - Bradford - United States

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Federal judge rules against drilling moratorium
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana [official website] on Wednesday denied [order, PDF] the government's motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Hornbeck Offshore Services [corporate website] and several other drilling companies challenging the government's ...
  • DOJ files criminal charges against Pakistan Taliba ...
    [JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] announced [press release] Wednesday that it has charged [complaint, PDF] Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimulla Mehsud [NYT profile] in connection with the December 30 attack [WP backgrounder] on Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official w ...
  • Illinois ex-governor Ryan appeals conviction follo ...
    [JURIST] Former Illinois governor George Ryan [JURIST news archive] on Tuesday filed a motion [materials] in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois [official website] asking the judge to vacate his prison sentence, following a recent US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST ne ...
  • Texas appeals court upholds same-sex marriage ban
    [JURIST] The Court of Appeals for the Fifth District of Texas [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Tuesday that the state ban on same-sex marriage [JURIST news archive] does not violate the US Constitution. The court also held that state trial courts do not have jurisdiction to hear cases involvi ...
  • Federal judge approves $150 million SEC-Bank of Am ...
    [JURIST] The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) [official website] announced Wednesday that a judge in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website] has approved a fund set up by Bank of America (BOA) [corporate website] in accordance with the settlement agr ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Political Science and Journalism: Some Thoughts
    The American Political Science Association's annual meeting has come to Washington, D.C., and I've been asked to participate on a panel about the interaction -- and lack of interaction -- between academia and the media. Usually, the interactions are short. Journalists will call a political scientist ...
  • What Cornyn Didn't Say About Gays
    Live by Google, die by Google. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) did not equate homosexuality with bestiality, it turns out. Earlier, I linked to a story quoting Cornyn to the effect of: "It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle . But that does not mean it is right. ...
  • Bloomberg for Treasury? Don't Bet On It
    Page Six rumports (rumor-reports) today that White House officials are sounding out New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to succeed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, assuming that Geithner, ah, steps down, or is ousted somehow after the projected Democratic midterm bloodbath. A White House official f ...
  • Top GOP Party Strategists Attending Log Cabin Even ...
    Suddenly, it's becoming less of a stigma for bigwigs to associate with gays in the Republican Party. Not only has former RNC chairman Ken Mehlman's 9/22 fundraiser for gay marriage rights attracted numerous high-octane Republican donors and activists, but Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the Nation ...
  • "Our Troops Are The Steel In Our Ship Of Stat ...
    Good evening. Tonight, I'd like to talk to you about the end of our combat mission in Iraq, the ongoing security challenges we face, and the need to rebuild our nation here at home. Three major topics in fifteen minutes, and the challenge will be to see if the President can knit them together. ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Links for 2010-04-03 [Digg]
    Anat Kam-Uri Blau Top Secret Israeli Leak Case The foreign media continue to open up the gagged Anat Kam-Uri Blau case with new stories in The Guardian, The Times, and The National.
  • Who Killed One of Russia’s Top Spies?
    The Telegraph is reporting that Maj. Gen. Yuri Ivanov, deputy head of Russian intelligence service known as GRU, died in Syria recently.  Speculation is rampant that he was assassinated.  He had been staying in the northwestern Syrian resort of Tartous when he disappeared, with his body later haul ...
  • Links for 2010-08-17 [Digg]
    Israel Wakes Up and Discovers Its Soldiers Abuse Palestinian Yesterday, a major scandal erupted in Israel over an IDF soldier, Eden Aberjil, who posted pictures on her Facebook account of her abusing bound Palestinian...
  • Israel’s ‘Curtis LeMay’: IDF Attack Iran Before U. ...
    Israeli Brig. Gen. (res.) Oded Tira, former IDF artillery chief, has the unmitigated gall and impudence to urge that Israel attack Iran just before the Congressional mid-term elections when Pres. Obama’s hands will be tied in terms of any punishment he can mete out for the country’s misbehavior.  H ...
  • Hamas Terror Attack Unmasks Fatal Weakness of Peac ...
    There have been so many miscalculations going into the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks one hardly knows where to begin in portraying them.  First, let’s start with Hamas’ military wing, to whom we owe thanks for their gruesome point-blank killings of four Hebron Hills settlers including two women, ...

Ode Magazine

  • New York artist launches
    By: Laura_Silver Where do artists go for advice, camaraderie and shop talk? Sure, there’s the coffee shop, the bar, and Master of Fine Arts programs around North America and the world. But for cheaper, more instant access to career strategies and collective wi ...
  • Four ways that kindness promotes a healthy lifesty ...
    By: sheasteinberg We may feel this instant rush of gratitude when someone does something nice for us without asking, or even a feeling of pride when we ourselves “pay it forward,” but do we truly know the effect kindness has on us? After doing some research I came ...
  • High-touch help
    Simple human contact can help reduce physical pain and emotional anxiety. Photo: David Servan-Schreiber Carla has fallen off her bike and has a bad cut above her eye. She’s bleeding; she’s shaking; her head hurts. Her husband Jack has called an ambulance, but doesn’t really know w ...
  • Evolution on a plate
    Seaweed is one of the ocean's oldest, and most delicious, treasures. Photo: Pieter de Swart To know where you’re going, you have to know where you’ve been. Of course, each of us has our own history, which has brought us to where we are today. But we also share a universal ancestry ...
  • Singing for seeds
    Together with Cuban farmers, Humberto Ríos Labrada (center) works on promoting biodiversity. Photo: Will Parrinello Somewhat surprisingly for an agricultural scientist, Humberto Ríos Labrada is often found singing and dancing before a crowd. “In practice, music is much more effec ...

OpEd News

  • A Roar of Anger Against the Coal Industry That Can ...
    The anger and courage of Americans who have been expressing opposition to the coal industry and expending energy to chip away at the power coal companies have to destroy America's environment is paying off. Here is a glimpse at a coalition in Chicago organizing against the power of King Coal in thei ...
  • The Yield Curve Twist Omen
    Any Crash we have witnessed have been the result of the yield curve suddenly returning from undervalued to normal. That was true for the "sub prime crisis" as it was for any other crash in history. It is the only way to account for a discontinuity in stock market value. If for other crash the easy c ...
  • I AM THE DREAM starring Glenn Beck
    A satirical observation of Glenn Beck's inner adaptation of Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech.
  • What is Informed Consent?
    Informed consent is a process, not just a formality, and engaging in that process is of the essence of good medical care. A signed consent form is not informed consent. True informed consent is explaining to the patient all their rights including their right to not have treatment as well as all pert ...
  • So you're proud to be an American, right? Part 2
    Life related indices compare the U.S.A. to the rest of the world.

Switchboard

  • A portrait of a neighborhood in transition
        Tuesday’s Washington Post featured an exceptionally well-written, extended article by reporter Dan Zak about a day in DC’s Trinidad neighborhood .  Trinidad is a long-disinvested part of the city’s northeastern quadrant, and in many ways it is ripe for recovery.  In fact, trans ...
  • Bottled Water: Still Pure Hype
    One email instantly caught my eye this morning as I checked my email, “ It's time to show your support for bottled water,” the email boldly declared. My first reaction was a combination of amazement and laughter. The email shouldn’t have surprised me -- after all it was a press releas ...
  • Here on Earth God's Work Must Truly Be Our Own
    As noted on the blog Climate Progress and reported in the Sandusky Register , an Ohio Tea Party group known as the Freedom Institute of Erie County has sent around a questionnaire asking candidates whether they agree or disagree with some 15 propositions.  This one caught my eye: “2 ...
  • Save energy and the economy; New offshore oil insp ...
    In an interview with The New York Times , David Goldstein discussed his recent book, “Invisible Energy: Strategies to Rescue the Economy and Save the Planet” and proposed ways for Americans to reduce their energy consumption… In a Reuters article, David Pettit commented on the Administ ...
  • The Gulf Disaster's Potential Impacts to the Flori ...
    While the media fervor over the Gulf oil disaster has died down somewhat, large amounts of oil still remain in the Gulf. In areas near Pensacola , Florida officials and local fishermen have reported finding weathered oil for weeks. This isn’t surprising, considering that the Administra ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • What Would We Be Without Wishful Thinking?
    8% of the American public believes that the late Thurgood Marshall is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. (What percentage of Americans think Earl Warren was a sleazy male stripper remains unspecified.) Perhaps more importantly, fewer than 30% of the public got the question right. With all du ...
  • Bolton for POTUS?
    Maybe. Mark Leon Goldberg has a few thoughts. Related posts:For Pam Oshry So Loved the World, That She Gave Her Only Begotten Bolton What I Learned Doing My First Bloggingheads Diavlog Happy Jonah Goldberg Day! Related posts: For Pam Oshry So Loved the World, That She Gave Her Only Begotten B ...
  • What Exactly is the US Doing to Protect its Afghan ...
    It’s a fair question. I spent the last ten days seeking answers from the Department of Defense. Major Christopher Perrine, who specializes in strategic communication for the US military, was eager enough to reiterate DOD’s position about the Wikileaks documents over the phone – that Wikileaks neve ...
  • The Worst Argument Against Park 51 Until The Next ...
    And, actually, the New Criterion’s effort may be very hard to top; the logic is turbid and the anonymous author’s heart fairly oozes tenebrosity. Indeed, the pompousness-to-intelligence ratio is so high I suspect it may have been written by Kimball himself. …see also. Related posts:Worst. Ar ...
  • An Ode to Ichiro
    OK, it’s not an ode  in a technical sense, but ode is a word I’ve often thought of when considering Frank Deford. Related posts:Ichiro Ichiro! Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives Related posts: Ichiro Ichiro! Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • NEW PENN STATE RESEARCH CENTER
    This is brand new… http://www.marcellus.psu.edu/
  • Majority of Marcellus Well Operators Fail to Meet ...
    http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/newsroom/14287?id=13825&typeid=1 COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Dept. of Environmental Protection Commonwealth News Bureau Room 308, Main Capitol Building Harrisburg PA., 17120 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 08/27/2010 CONTACT: Helen Humphreys, Departmen ...
  • Eminent Domain Issues…
    Check this link for a map that corresponds to the pipeline information below. Central New York Oil And Gas Company Proposed MARC I Hub Line Project (tentative) Central New York Oil & Gas (CNYOG) company has applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to build and operate  a 39-mile lo ...
  • Marcellus Shale Drillers in Pennsylvania Amass 143 ...
    952 Identified as Most Likely to Harm the Environment The Pennsylvania Land Trust Association has reviewed environmental violations accrued by Marcellus Shale drillers working in Pennsylvania between January 2008 and June 25, 2010.  The records were obtained via a Right to Know Request made to the P ...
  • Up In the Air
    I made an announcement shortly after Memorial Day weekend, that I would be putting my home in DISH on the market.  This decision was made by my family after several instances of both of my children having nosebleeds during the night.  These nosebleeds correlated with strong odors and spikes in the c ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Fear of Wolf Predation Is Not Slowing Over-Browsin ...
    A new study contradicts the widely held hypothesis that fear of recently reintroduced wolves in Yellowstone National Park would force elk to browse more selectively and therefore lead to a resurgence of growth of aspen trees. In fact, a study conducted by Matthew Kauffman, a scientist with the U.S. ...
  • Commercial Organic Farms Produce Superior Soil and ...
    The most comprehensive study to date comparing commercial organic farms with conventional farms shows that the organic farms produce more flavorful and nutritious fruit and help create soils with superior chemical and biological properties. Researchers from Washington State University, conducting a ...
  • A Steady, Steep Decline for The Lowly, Uncharismat ...
    The freshwater eel, which spawns in the middle of the ocean, was once abundant in much of the world. But the proliferation of dams, coastal development, and overfishing have drastically reduced eel populations, with few defenders coming to the aid of these fascinating — though still not fully unders ...
  • Climate Change Skeptic Changes Stance and Calls fo ...
    In an upcoming book, high-profile global warming skeptic Bjorn Lomborg acknowledges that rising temperatures are “undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today ” and calls for investing $100 billion annually to deal with climate change. Lomborg, who has attacked environmentalists and ...
  • World’s Smallest Frog Discovered in Forests of Bor ...
    Researchers tracking the planet’s rarest amphibians have discovered what they say is the world’s smallest frog , a pea-sized creature that lives inside and around pitcher plants on the island of Borneo. Scientists found the tiny amphibian, called Microhyla nepenthicola , near a roadside within Kubah ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

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

  • Hawking and God
    Stephen Hawking, that physicist emeritus extraordinaire, has made another pronouncement of universal proportions. My old buddy Highwayman isn’t going to like it, especially since he supported ol’ Stephen in the past, but I don’t think he will this time. Because Dr. Hawking says that (a) God isn’t ne ...
  • Interstellar Red Rain
    Red Rain is a phenomenon that seems to be rare and has strange properties. Many papers have been written and this one in 2001 by Rajkumar Gangappa, Chandra Wickramasinghe, Milton Wainwright, A. Santhosh Kumar and Godfrey Louis theorize that Red Rain cells when nurtured and incubated actually start t ...
  • Danes to launch rocket Thursday 9/2/2010 now
    From Space.com: A private Danish rocket built by volunteers to launch one person into suborbital space could see its first test flight as soon as Thursday with a dummy pilot riding aboard. If successful, the rocket should carry its payload up almost 19 miles (30 km) into the upper atmosphere. The pr ...
  • Fortean Frankensteins
    Recently, Dr. Craig Venter has made the claim of “creating life” by constructing a bacterium from dead material. While not a 9 foot tall monster, the artificial bacterium has the potential to become the first practical biological nano-particle that could have industrial and medical applications. But ...
  • Is Space Colonization Still Just Fantasy?
    Space colonization has been a theme (or meme?) in literature for over 150 years, probably thousands of years earlier than that really (Book of Enoch). Anyway, humans have dreamed of traveling to alien worlds in the heavens for a very long time, it isn’t a recent phenomenon. Dr. Stephen Hawking is on ...

Tippers News

  • Sarah Palin: The Sound and the Fury (And her Dark ...
    Even as Sarah Palins public voice grows louder, she has become increasingly secretive, walling herself off from old friends and associates, and attempting to enforce silence from those around her. Following the former Alaska governors road show,-> READ Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't � ...
  • Oil platform explodes off La. coast - U.S. news - ...
    GRAND ISLE, La. -- An offshore oil platform exploded and was burning Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico about 100 miles off the Louisiana coast. All 13 workers were rescued from the water, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Submitted by Robyn R. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Attwater's Greater Prairie Chicken Protection ! TA ...
    The Greater Prairie Chicken was designated endangered in Texas in 1967. Nests in slight, grass lined hollows in the soil sheltered by grass tufts in open coastal grasslands, which have been reduced through cultivation and grazing. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Hurricane Earl to threaten the Mid Atlantic to the ...
    Large and intense Hurricane Earl continues on track to threaten the Mid Atlantic States into the Northeast Thursday night through Saturday. Submitted by Johnny K. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Hurricane Earl, 100-MPH Winds to Slam Outer Banks ...
    AccuWeather.com reports winds up to 100 mph will slam the Outer Banks of North Carolina tonight as Hurricane Earl brings damage, flooding, and rough surf. Submitted by Sally G. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Econ Adviser Leaves Post Calling for More “Stimulu ...
    “Departing White House chief economist Christina Romer urged Congress on Wednesday to âfinish the job of economic recoveryâ by pumping more cash into the economy through additional tax cuts for businesses and middle-class families, as well as fresh investments in the nation’s infrastructure.” (W ...
  • Illegal Immigration Drops Off
    “The number of immigrants coming to the USA illegally since 2007 has plummeted â the first significant decline in two decades, according to a Pew Hispanic Center report out Thursday.” (USA Today) They finally found a way to keep out illegals: wreck the economy. FEE Timely Classic “Coming to Americ ...
  • The Importance of History
    Learning that history is among the most important things classical liberals can do.
  • Government Cost Calculator Website Launched
    In 2010 federal spending is expected to reach $ 3.5 trillion. By 2019 the national debt is projected to surpass $ 23 trillion. What does this mean for you, the individual taxpayer? What are the actual costs and forgone private investment opportunities? You can now find the answer at MyGovCost.org, a ...
  • Federal Spending Sets Record
    “Federal domestic spending increased a record 16 percent, to $3.2 trillion, in 2009, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, largely because of a boost in aid to the unemployed and the huge economic stimulus package enacted to rescue the sinking economy.” (Washington Post) And all of it borrowed. FEE Ti ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • 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 ...
  • Is J-school relevant? (#wjchat)
    @killbutton Q1 Yes, because the foundation of journalism is SO important. Journos need a strong foundation in ethics! #wjchat @dnvolz Brian Williams never got any college degree and is considered a top journalist even in an ever-changing market #wjchat @mhinojosa Q1 Yes, I think it’s more importa ...

Facing South

  • Federal agents open inquiry into order authorizing ...
    By Robin Fields, ProPublica Federal agents are looking into allegations that high-ranking New Orleans police commanders gave orders after Hurricane Katrina authorizing officers to shoot looters, our partners at the New Orleans Times-Picayune report. Agents have asked for information from New Orl ...
  • Independent tests find oil spill contamination in ...
    Tests performed earlier this month by an environmental scientist found significant levels of oil pollution from the BP disaster in oysters and crabs collected along the Gulf of Mexico's Louisiana coastline. Working with the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) and the Lower Missi ...
  • What are Obama's next steps in the Gulf Coast?
    In his speech from New Orleans on the fifth anniversary of Katrina yesterday, President Obama declared that he intended to honor the nation's promise to help rebuild the Gulf Coast: [W]hile an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and t ...
  • Hearings begin on federal coal ash rules as eviden ...
    The Environmental Protection Agency is holding the first in a series of seven official public hearings today to collect comments on a proposal to federally regulate coal ash. Today's hearing will take place at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Va. from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and is expected to ...
  • VOICES: Workers who win the South change the natio ...
    By MaryBe McMillan Forty-seven years after the 1963 March on Washington, the union movement and our allies are preparing for our own march in October. Under the banner of One Nation Working Together , union members, civil rights activists and other concerned citizens will rally in support of good j ...

Worldpress - Africa

Canadian Encyclopedia

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • Recycling for charity: how to set up a money-raisi ...
    I regularly get emails from people involved with small charities asking how to set up recycling programs that will help them raise money for their cause. Collection/recycling programs have been part of charity fundraising for a long time, but recently most seem to have moved from collecting large am ...
  • How can I use my oven more efficiently during baki ...
    Yesterday, over on my new growing/cooking/making/frugal blog The Really Good Life, I discussed my love affair with slow rise/no knead bread. It’s really frickin’ ace – it doesn’t take much effort, reduces our food waste, is cheap in itself & stops us spending money in other ways too – and most impor ...
  • Upcycling advice: how can I reuse/recycle cans to ...
    We’ve had an email from Pauline: I would like to use steel and aluminium cans to make jewelery. Do you know how to cut the metal out? Should the can be crushed first? Do you know how to smooth the edges so they don’t cut? If you could throw any light on this or point [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle paint roller trays?
    Is there a word for when you’re window-shopping skips? I was skip-gazing (?) around the corner the other day and as well as having a mighty fine looking pallet in there (yoiiiiink), there were several old paint roller trays flung on top. Compared to rollers, paint trays are super easy to clean (espe ...
  • Reduce This: How can you tell when something is go ...
    Over on my new frugal living/growing/cooking blog The Really Good Life today, I’ve asked a Reduce This related question: How can you tell when something is good quality? The first stage of the recycling triangle is Reduce – reduce the amount of things you buy/use and buy items that’ll last and can b ...

Mondoweiss

  • As talks resume, two-thirds of Israelis support se ...
    And other news from Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Abbas demands a freeze on Israeli settlement activity (AFP) AFP - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas Wednesday publicly demanded a freeze on all Israeli settlement activity at the launch of landmark US-me ...
  • Palestinian guns – redux
    Many people reacted strongly with disapprobation to my "Hamas attack was wrong" post yesterday. Nearly everyone agrees that murdering civilians is wrong, but some question whether the settlers are civilians in the first place. The settlers are racial supremacists whose race pride, irrational hatre ...
  • ‘Do you know how hard I work to control the ...
    Yesterday on this site, responding to the murders of the four settlers in the West Bank Tuesday, Seham, a Palestinian-American, offered a list of settler attacks on Palestinians. David Samel, who has taken a strong stance against violent resistance, responded in a comment:Seham, I have no doubt that ...
  • I know a ton of old lefties, wheat-grass drinkers, ...
    the lobby never sleeps.Dear Friends and Colleagues,The Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program and Foreign Affairs magazine cordially invite you to the opening of this year's James Clarke Chace Memorial Speaker Series: "The Demonization of Israel: Its History and Politics" Martin Peretz ...
  • Help! CNN runs reports produced by propaganda outf ...
    Check this out. Israel 21c is a pro-Israel p.r. organization. "A Focus Beyond," its motto, says it all.ISRAEL21c – a New Paradigm for Pro-Israel Communications ISRAEL21c’s mission is to focus media and public attention on the 21st century Israel that exists beyond the conflict.Its board is headed by ...

Media Consortium

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

Reality Asserts Itself

  • 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 ...
  • "Martial Law" G20 charge disappears
    It appears government doesn't want to test Public Works Protection Act in court. [View:http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRealNews#p/u/3/ZdFj9EsKM5Y:640:360]
  • Investing in schools and infrastructure is the bes ...
    In Washington, a great debate has broken out. The Republicans want to keep the Bush tax cuts in place, saying that it's a good stimulant for the economy. Others are saying direct funding by states in infrastructure and schools is a much better form of stimulus and growth. A new study by Jeff Thompso ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Australian face foreign student shortfall
    Foreign students are turning away from Australia. According to new numbers from the nation’s Department of Immigration and Citizenship , applications for student visas have dropped by 11.5% in the 2009-10 academic year. The drop mirrors a decline in the number of foreign students studying in Austral ...
  • Oil platform fire raises spill fears
    On 2 September, the same day that BP began removing the failed Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer, an oil production platform to the west exploded and caught fire, causing one injury. The rig is in comparatively shallow waters (150 m deep), 130 km off the coast of Vermilion Bay in Louisiana and e ...
  • Help wanted: Major medical journals seeks editor-i ...
    After a decade helming the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Catherine DeAngelis will step down as Editor-in-Chief in June 2011. She plans to return to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland to establish a Center for Professionalism in Medicine and the Related Professio ...
  • African freshwater species in the red, says IUCN
    The Common Creek Crab, Liberonautes latidactylus , is one of hundreds of species becoming less common in African freshwaters, according to a new assessment by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) for its Red List of threatened species. Twenty-one percent of the 5,167 freshwa ...
  • Court appeal aims to shield existing stem cell gra ...
    Scientists who have received—but not yet spent—government funds for human embryonic stem cell research should be shielded from losing those funds, US Justice Department lawyers argue as part of an appeal filed with the judge who has frozen government funding for the research. In asking for a sta ...

new geography

  • Progressives Against Progress
    F or the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, American liberals distinguished themselves from conservatives by what Lionel Trilling called “a spiritual orthodoxy of belief in progress.” Liberalism placed its hopes in human perfectibility. Regarding human nature as essentially both beneficent a ...
  • America's 21st-Century Business Model
    Current attitudes aren't too kind to the old American way of doing business. In our globalized economy, the most enthusiastically touted approaches are those adopted by centralized, state-dominated economies such as China, Brazil and Russia as well as--somewhat less oppressively--those of the major ...
  • What’s Behind China’s Big Traffic Jam
    The world press has been fixated on the "Beijing" traffic jam that lasted for nearly two weeks. There is a potential lesson here for the United States, which is that if traffic is allowed to far exceed roadway capacity, unprecedented traffic jams can occur. The Inner Mongolia Traffic Jam: First we ...
  • Australia 2010: Unstable Politics in a Prosperous ...
    2010 has been something of an annus mirabilis in Australian politics. On 24 June a prime minister was dumped before facing the voters a second time. This was the first time ever for such an early exit. Then the election on 22 August produced a “hung parliament”, an outcome not seen since the 1940s. ...
  • Summer in the Hamptons: UnReal Estate
    If you are looking for a place where you can, in your day dreams, ride out the recession, might I suggest one of the Hamptons? These are the celebrity-drenched villages that stretch for thirty miles across the sand dunes and potato fields of Long Island’s South Fork, which ends at Montauk Point and ...

GM Watch

spiked

Cryptogon

  • Karzai’s Brother Calls for U.S. to Shore Kab ...
    Dear Uncle $ugar, We have replenished our supply of suitcases and we’re ready to fill them up and head to the airport. Send money soon. Love and kisses, The Karzai Clan In other news: Brother of Afghan Leader Is Said to Be on CIA Payroll Afghan Drug Trade: âMost of the government officials are inv ...
  • Another Oil Rig Blows Up in Gulf of Mexico: Vermil ...
    Monitoring… Via: Washington Post: An offshore oil rig exploded Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico, injuring at least one worker, the U.S. Coast Guard said. All 13 people on board the Vermilion Oil Rig 380 have been accounted for, and the one who was injured is being transported to a hospital, Coast Guar ...
  • Building the Perfect Kill House with Video Games
    Via: Kotaku: The Laser Shot Virtual Shoot House gives these specialized warriors a chance to blow in doors, fire live ammo and take out life-sized enemies, all in a real environment helped along by quite a bit of video game technology. The soldiers are deadly serious about their training. The weapon ...
  • Discovery Channel Situation: Manifesto of James Ja ...
    It looks like he should have applied for a job at the White House: John Holdren, Obama’s Science Czar, Says: Forced Abortions and Mass Sterilization Needed to Save the Planet. I include incidents like this in False Flag Operations because they result in the state taking more power. Via: savetheplane ...
  • Monsanto Takes 19.9% Stake in InterGrain
    Tentacles here. Tentacles there. Tentacles everywhere. Via: Sydney Morning Herald: West Australian cereal breeder InterGrain Pty Ltd has partnered with global grains developer Monsanto to develop tougher, higher-yielding types of wheat. Under the collaboration, Monsanto has taken a 19.9 per cent sta ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Even Tony Robbins Is Warning That An Economic Coll ...
    It seems like almost everyone is warning of a coming economic collapse these days.  Do you remember Tony Robbins?  He is probably the world's best known "motivational speaker" and his infomercials dominated late night television during the 80s and 90s.  He was always urging all of u ...
  • 2011: The Year Of The Tax Increase
    Unless the U.S. Congress acts, there is going to be a massive wave of tax increases in 2011.  In fact, some are already calling 2011 the year of the tax increase.  A whole host of tax cuts that Congress established between 2001 and 2003 are set to expire in January unless Congress c ...
  • 10 Practical Steps That You Can Take To Insulate Y ...
    Most Americans are still operating under the delusion that this "recession" will end and that the "good times" will return soon, but a growing minority of Americans are starting to realize that things are fundamentally changing and that they better start preparing for what is ahead. ...
  • The Trade Deficit Nightmare
    When they hear the word deficit, most Americans immediately think of the U.S. government budget deficit which is rapidly spiralling out of control.  But that is not the only deficit which is ripping the U.S. economy to shreds.  In fact, many economists commonly speak of the "twin de ...
  • Look What Surprises They Snuck Into The Financial ...
    Even just a decade ago, major pieces of legislation in the U.S. Congress would be just a few dozen pages long.  But today, it seems like every time Congress passes an important bill it ends up being over a thousand pages long.  In fact, the final version of the new financial reform ...

Desertification

  • Non-prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) to combat ...
    The spineless (non-prickly) pear (a variety of the Opuntia ficus-indica cactus) is one of the most interesting anti-desertification plants, growing in the driest parts of the world and producing a maximum of biomass with a minimum of water. I can … Continue reading →
  • Floods, deforestation, hunger (IRIN News)
    Read at: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=90364 PAKISTAN: No firewood, no hot food MINGORA, 2 September 2010 (IRIN) – A few kilometres outside Mingora, Swat Valleyâs principal city in Pakistanâs Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa Province, a group of village women discuss the various problems they ...
  • Challenges and community-based adaptation to clima ...
    Read at : The Center for Sustainable Development – Addressing Development Challenges with Sustainable Solutions Introduction to Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change September 2010. What exactly is community-based adaptation to climate change, and what are communities adapting to? The underly ...
  • Benefits of Family Farms (Beyond Factory Farming)
    Read at : Facebook Tina MarieORGANIC AGRICULTURE: I ⥠FAMILY FARMS. LET’S HELP TO KEEP THEM IN BUSINESS. http://beyondfactoryfarming.org/get-informed/industrial-vs-family-farms-comparison Industrial vs. Family Farms Comparison Have you ever asked yourself âwhy is sustainable agriculture is so mu ...
  • UN seeks succour for Niger drought, flood victims ...
    Read at : Google Alert – drought http://www.afriquejet.com/news/africa-news/un-seeks-succour-for-niger-drought,-flood-victims-2010090155313.html UN seeks succour for Niger drought, flood victims New York, US – The UN is seeking urgent assistance for Niger, where recent flooding has displaced nearly ...

The Paper Trail

  • ENVIRONMENT: What’s the Cost of Fixing BP&#8 ...
    BP tripled its spending on corporate advertising after its devastating crude oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico in April, paying more than $93.4 million for a massive public relations blitz, according to the chairman of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee.
  • ENVIRONMENT: Utilities, Citizens Weigh in on Coal ...
    Steven Fox of Chesapeake, Va. says the first he heard of a coal ash dump site near his home was when he read a local newspaper story about how the material was used as structural fill for a newly-built golf course.
  • ENVIRONMENT:  Green Groups See Red In Recent ...
    The environmental groups that helped propel Barack Obama to the White House are feeling betrayed during a summer of discontent and climate inaction.
  • MONEY & POLITICS: Conservative Fund Taps &#822 ...
    The American Future Fund , which aims to almost triple its issue advertisement spending for this year’s election, launched a hard-hitting television ad today using the proposed Islamic mosque in New York City to attack Iowa GOP candidate Ben Lange’s Democratic opponent.
  • MONEY & POLITICS: Boehner’s Pro-Business ...
    House Republican Leader John Boehner’s high-profile speech yesterday urging the Obama administration to fire its top economic advisers and offering advice on job creation reflects the Ohio congressman’s long ties to the business sector, detailed in the Center for Public Integrity’s investigation, “ ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Lessons for Project Samosa
    By Alison@Creekside The publication ban on Project Samosa, the RCMP's latest salvo in the war on terror, has the media scrambling to get unnamed sources and security experts to augment and substitute for accounts of court proceedings. By a happy coincidence for war on terror fans, this allows ...
  • Lady Gaga twats Edmonton
    By Frank Moher Could Edmonton mayor Stephen Mandel have been any more humourless in his response to Lady Gaga's cheerful twit-pic from Rexall Place on Saturday? (That's it to the left.) Crews had removed the letter "O" from a sign to position a spotlight; our lady, or one among her entourage, ...
  • Anatomy of a G20 mishmash
    By Frank Moher The massive article, "Anatomy of the G20," published by the Toronto Star last Friday, is a curious document indeed, especially coming from a newspaper that has taken a hard editorial line against the police's actions that weekend. It feels like one of those articles that has gone a ...
  • Oil sands science seeps out
    By Alison@Creekside Remember that two year Environment Committee study on the tarsands that was ultimately shredded because the four parties at the table couldn't agree on the wording of the witnesses's testimony? The Lib members of that committee have now released their own report on the testimo ...
  • Who needs a BC arts council when we have the Liber ...
    By Frank Moher Jane Danzo, in her letter of resignation as Chair of the BC Arts Council and in various exit interviews that followed, has confirmed what most of us already suspected: that the Liberal government now sees itself as arbiter of all things cultural in the province. At last, we ...

Worldnews

  • FDA urged to pull diet drug from market
    The prescription diet drug , sold under the brand name Meridia, should be taken off the market because it raises the risk of and strokes in some patients, the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine said Wednesday. Those risks, published in January on a government clinical-trials Web site ...
  • Del Monte 1Q profit edges up, but revenue sli ...
    SAN FRANCISCO - Del Monte Foods Co. said Thursday that its fiscal first-quarter profit edged up 1.4 percent, but revenue softened on weakness in the consumer business and the company trimmed its expectations for revenue growth...
  • We should be excited for Games: Sushil Kumar ...
    New Delhi: Olympic bronze medallist wrestler Sushil Kumar said it's not time to create controversies and people should be "happy and excited" about the Commonwealth Games, scheduled for October 3-14. The build-up to the Games has been marred by construction delays and corruption allegations. "L ...
  • Skype surges as TV interview tool
    Barbara Walters, shown on screen at back, gave a health update to her View co-hosts via Skype earlier this summer. Shown from left are Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hasselbeck (Jeffrey Neira/ABC) ABC reporter Pierre Thomas didn't even leave the office when he wanted ...
  • Study Links Fluoride to Pre-term Birth and An ...
    NEW YORK, Sept. 2 – NEW YORK, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Fluoride avoidance reduced anemia in pregnant women, decreased pre-term births and enhanced babies' birth-weight, concludes leading fluoride expert, and colleagues, in a study published in (May 2010). Susheela's team explains that ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Feds Sue Ariz. Sheriff Arpaio, Call His Defiance ' ...
    by JACQUES BILLEAUD (A PHOENIX - The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics. read more
  • BREAKING: Coast Guard Responding to Rig Fire Gulf ...
    by Bob Warren The Coast Guard is responding to a report of a rig on fire "and people in the water'' in the Gulf of Mexico south of Vermilion Bay, authorities said. Coast Guard Petty Officer Casey Ranel said the rig is around 90 miles south of Vermilion Bay and that a helicopter earlier today reporte ...
  • Settlers Defy Peace Talks With New Construction Ac ...
    Hours before peace talks were set to begin in Washington, Jewish settlers defiantly announced plans on Thursday to launch new construction in their West Bank enclaves in a test of strength with Palestinian Islamists. Naftali Bennett, director of the settlers' Yesha council, said settlers would begin ...
  • Further Victims Identified in DRC Mass Rapes Case
    by Aprille Muscara UNITED NATIONS - The number of women raped by rebel groups during last month's raid of more than a dozen villages centred around Walikale, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has risen to over 240, U.N. officials told reporters here today. Following the Jul. 30 to Aug. 3 raid, ...
  • Risks Remain With Gulf Well Cap Coming Off, Govt. ...
    by Harry R. Weber NEW ORLEANS -- The cap that ended BP's three-month oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico was set to come off Thursday as a prelude to raising a massive, failed piece of equipment and preparing for a final seal on the broken seafloor well. Engineers and the government were not expecting ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Solar Energy Monitoring Systems - The Next Big Thi ...
    If micro-inverters are the current craze in the solar industry, then solar energy monitoring systems �will be the next big thing.� � Micro-inverters (and other parallel technology) were given lots of attention because they can increase the efficiency of a system by
  • 7 Baby Steps to Go Solar
    Starting small takes the “pocket pain” out of solar power
  • Nuke prospects dim as Gas glows
    One way to look at the prospects for US new nukes is to consider this analysis of the potential effect of shale gas.� According to the EIA, in the US, natural gas power plants (excluding gas-fired peaking plants) and coal fired power plants have roughtly the same total capacity to generate power.� ( ...
  • Grading Cars on the Curve
    By now you may have seen some prototypes of the new-car fuel economy stickers on which the EPA is seeking public comment. The versions that prominently display letter grades for overall fuel economy performance are certainly eye-catching, rising above the potentially confusing mix of numbers and gra ...
  • Leaked Study on Peak Oil Warns of Severe Global En ...
    This week a study on peak oil by a German military think tank was leaked on the Internet. The document shows that the German government is closely studying the issue of peak oil, and is aware of the potential for serious consequences as oil production declines. The study is reminiscent of the Hirsch ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

  • Katrina's Destructive Aftermath
    by Stephen Lendman August 29, 2005, a day of infamy remembered less for the storm, catastrophic floods and destruction, and more as a metaphor for disaster capitalism, exploiting security threats, "terror" attacks, economic meltdowns, and "natural" disasters like Katrina. It turned this agi ...
  • 'Conspiracies of Rich Men' to Rob You, Enslave You ...
    by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy It is still fashionable in the American media to deride 'conspiracies' with a blanket if illogical and uninformed smear. Conspiracies are, in fact, how things get done in either crime or commerce. Lately, there is little difference. When just one percent of th ...
  • The State and Local Bases of Zionist Power in Amer ...
    James Petras Introduction Any serious effort to understand the extraordinary influence of the Zionist power configuration over US foreign policy must examine the presence of key operatives in strategic positions in the government and the activities of local Zionist organizations affiliated with ...
  • Lawsuit Challenges Obama Administration's Targeted ...
    by Stephen Lendman An earlier article addressed the issue, accessed through the following link: sjlendman.blogspot.com In February, then Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair acknowledged it saying CIA operatives and Special Forces death squads have been authorized to kill US citizens ...
  • ONE DEMOCRATIC STATE IN PALESTINE
    Introduction by Gilad Atzmon: Living in a world dominated by relentless Zionist lobbying, I am far from being captivated by the current state of Western democracy. I am not impressed at all by the lethal enthusiasm to democratize the World in the name of ‘moral interventionism’. I am sickened by t ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • CCPA Saskatchewan presents Trevor Herriot
    Join us on October 15th and 16th for a special evening with Trevor Herriot. A renowned prairie naturalist, essayist and commentator, Trevor will discuss the intersection of culture and nature on the northern Great Plains in his talk entitled "All Flesh is Grass: Toward a Re-Engagement with the Prair ...
  • Canada's housing bubble
    A new CCPA study finds that for the first time in 30 years, six of Canada's hottest real estate markets are in a housing bubble. Canada’s Housing Bubble: An Accident Waiting to Happen examines trends in house prices in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal and Ottawa between 1980 and 2010 ...
  • Reflections on the Tamil migrants from the child o ...
    Many of us at the CCPA have been troubled by Canada's reaction to the arrival of 492 Tamil asylum seekers on the MV Sun Sea. Seth Klein, Director of our BC Office, put words to this discomfort in an excellent post on PolicyNote.ca (our blog on BC public policy issues). Seth, son of Vietnam war resis ...
  • Climate Change: Who's Carrying the Burden? CCPA b ...
    The Education Project's latest publication is now in the bookstore.� Climate Change -- Who's Carrying the Burden? The chilly climates of the global environmental dilemma, goes beyond the traditional analyses of climate change that focus on global techno-fixes and free-market solutions. Instead, ...
  • Post-recession report: Looking at the past tells u ...
    A new report by CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan warns that if past recessions are any guide, between 750,000 and 1.8 million more Canadians will be counted as poor before recovery is complete. "Some will argue that this recession was brutal but short, and that Canada has been recovering fast ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Israeli Compromise
    Israelis are willing to divide Jerusalem | New York Post Israel is willing to make a sweeping concession — dividing control of Jerusalem — as part of a historic final peace pact with Palestinians, a key Cabinet member revealed yesterday. Defense Minister Ehud Barak signaled that his government is re ...
  • Here we go again! – BREAKING NEWS – Oi ...
    VERMILION BAY, LA (WAFB) – The Coast Guard is responding to another oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. According to the Coast Guard, 13 people were onboard when it exploded and caught fire Thursday morning. Everyone is accounted for. Officials are reporting one injury. The injured worker is be ...
  • Must be that Arizona Law (wink, wink)
    Study: Illegal Immigrant Population Shrinks, Crossings Down Sharply | ABC The number of illegal immigrants in the United States has begun to shrink, ending two decades of steady growth, according to a new study by the Pew Hispanic Center. An estimated 11.1 million illegal immigrants lived across the ...
  • No Hippies in the crowd? (gasp)
    Music festival Finch’s answer to Woodstock | EMC First there was Woodstock, a bacchanalian music festival in the days of peace, love beads and hippies. Fast forward some 40-odd years and now there’s Barnstorm, Finch’s answer to 1960s event. But because it’s 2010, there won’t be any hippies in the c ...
  • Good News Aussies!
    Same-sex adoption bill clears hurdle | ABC.AU A bill allowing same-sex couples to adopt in New South Wales has been passed in state parliament’s Lower House. The bill passed 46 votes to 44. MPs were allowed a conscience vote on the legislation. Many speaking this morning were in favour of proposed a ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • Mutiny on the Batavia, Postscript
    This is the third and final article in a series that started with the shipwreck of the Batavia, and the ensuing mutiny and massacre. Well, despite all the carnage the surviving crew and passengers of the Batavia were lucky in one sense, they were eventually rescued. In 1711 another Dutch ship, the Z ...
  • The Mutiny on the Batavia, the Massacre
    This is a continuation of the prior post, Mutiny on the Batavia. When we left off Captain Pelsaert had sailed to Indonesia with his officers to arrange a rescue ship, leaving (unbeknown to him) Jeronimus Cornelisz, the chief plotter of the incipient mutiny, in charge of the survivors. Cornelisz,  ha ...
  • The Mutiny on the Batavia. Part One: Shipwrecked
    28 October 1628, the newly built Batavia, pride of the Dutch East India company, sailed for Indonesia with 322 people on board. It was a trade and passenger ship, and carried a cargo of gold and silver that would be used to buy spices in Indonesia.  It sailed under one Captain Francisco Pelsaert (hi ...
  • Through Thick and Thin
    Another week gone. First, the economy. It’s in big trouble. The “stimulus” of last year has run its course. Printing a huge pile of money and spending it was never any more than a stopgap solution, and there doesn’t seem to have been a “Plan B.” In fact in a very real sense that sums [...]
  • The Pont St Esprit Affair
    Pont St Esprit, a small town in southern France. August 1951. There was nothing remarkable about Pont St Esprit, it was just a  typical French town in post war Europe. It had been a wet summer, but otherwise unremarkable. And the war had been over for six years, so things were getting back to normal ...

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

  • Leaked Study on Peak Oil Warns of Severe Global En ...
    A study on energy supply conducted by a German military think tank reports on the potential for serious consequences as oil production declines.
  • E85 Case Study: Iowa
    Join the forum discussion on this post The Saudi Arabia of Ethanol Iowa is to corn ethanol what Saudi Arabia is to oil. At present Iowa has the capacity to produce 3.5 billion gallons of ethanol per year, which is 26% of the nation’s total (Source). This is of course due to the large amount of [.. ...
  • It’s the Oil, Stupid
    Join the forum discussion on this post I am no economist, but bear with me while I try to explain why I think we are in for a very long and difficult economic period. My thesis for The Long Recession goes something like this: Historically, when oil prices rose quickly and remained high the economy ...
  • Guest Essay: Why Conservatives Are Bad on Energy
    Join the forum discussion on this post I am working on yet another project, due at the end of this week. Therefore, I haven’t had a chance to work much on my next essay, which will be about the potential for E85 to push Iowa much closer to energy self-sufficiency. Meanwhile, I have been sent [...]
  • What’s Really Holding Cellulosic Biofuels Back
    Join the forum discussion on this post There was a recent article in MIT Technology review called What’s Holding Biofuels Back? There is a relatively simple answer to the question that I will delve into below, but the short answer is “what’s holding biofuels back” is that we placed unreasonable exp ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Is Your City in the Bedbug Top 10?
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Bedbugs have become such a hot topic that they've sparked Top 10 lists, two to be exact. Two leading pest-control companies, Terminix and Orkin, have published lists of America's most bedbug-infested cities. And if you live in one of them, you may already know what it's like ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: Easy, Cheap, and Eco-Friendly ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Whether you drive a shiny new hybrid or a dependable old clunker, you can reduce the environmental impact of your car by doing one simple thing: Quit washing it in your driveway! Between the gallons of water you use to soap up your sponges and the freshwater flowing unrestri ...
  • 5 Reasons Why Chickens Belong in Your City, Town, ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—With the massive egg recall still in progress, you're probably pondering egg carton claims in search of the healthiest eggs. One surefire solution: raising a handful of your own backyard chickens, giving you complete control over egg quality. Home-raised chickens may not be ...
  • Better Mileage, Less Pollution: New Car Stickers W ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Labor Day Weekend car sales seem to be an annual rite of passage from summer to the new model year. This year, as you browse the car lots holding your free hot dog and glass of lukewarm lemonade, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants you to know it's working t ...
  • 5 Tasty Recipes for Homemade Ketchup, Mustard, "Sp ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Slathering on condiments like ketchup, mustard, and mayo just makes sandwiches, hot dogs, or hamburgers better—period. But there’s no reason you have to rely on store-bought versions that contain all kinds of additives, saturated fat, and excess sugar. Not when it’s so easy ...

big think

  • USGS/GVP Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 8/25- ...
    A shiny new report of the week's volcanic activity , brought to us by the Smithsonian, USGS and the Global Volcanism Program ... and of course, Sally Kuhn Sennert. Some highlights from this week's report (not including Galeras and Sinabung):   I'm always astonished when yet another Kuril Island ...
  • Former CBS News Political Editor on Politics, TV, ...
    Does politics today revolve around the dynamics of cable news?  What might be the future of traditional network news and how should we prepare students for careers in journalism, media, and strategy?  In an interview today at AoE, I turn to a colleague who offers special insight into these questions ...
  • Fmr CBS News Political Editor on Politics in Glenn ...
    Does politics today revolve around the dynamics of cable news?  What might be the future of traditional network news and how should we prepare students for careers in journalism, media, and strategy?  In an interview today at AoE, I turn to a colleague who offers special insight into these questions ...
  • Fmr CBS News Political Editor on Politics in Glenn ...
    Does politics today revolve around the dynamics of cable news?  What might be the future of traditional network news and how should we prepare students for careers in journalism, media, and strategy?  In an interview today at AoE, I turn to a colleague who offers special insight into these questions ...
  • Fmr CBS News Political Editor on Politics in Glenn ...
    Does politics today revolve around the dynamics of cable news?  What might be the future of traditional network news and how should we prepare students for careers in journalism, media, and strategy?  In an interview today at AoE, I turn to a colleague who offers special insight into these questions ...

Information Liberation

  • Venus Needs Some Austrians
    During my trip to Haiti, I got into a discussion with my fellow volunteers about the financial crisis. Things were going quite well as we all agreed that the rich investment bankers deserved no taxpayer bailout. However, my hopes were dashed when one...
  • 10 Statist Myths Debunked
    1. Taxes help grow the economy. Bloomberg: In a study of 44 large fiscal adjustments in 24 advanced economies since 1975, Broadbent and Daly discovered that reducing expenditures by 1 percentage point a year boosted average annual growth by 0.6 ...
  • A Culture of Fear
    Upon the collapse of the Soviet Union, Soviet foreign spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov warned the United States, "We have done the most terrible thing to you that we could possibly have done. We have deprived you of an enemy." For nearly half a centur...
  • Video: As Usual, MSM Gushingly "Predicts" Our Fasc ...
    It always starts out with the MSM doing a puff piece on some *wonderful* new technology which will make our lives *safer* and more *efficient.* From the broadcasting arm of the number one New World Order industrial corporation, General Electric, come...
  • White House Plans Another Fake End to Iraq War
    Less than two weeks ago Americans were glued to their TVs for footage of the *last brigade* of US soldiers withdrawing from Iraq. With embedded MSNBC journalists and in-studio officials trumpeting a military victory, an America exultant in having fin...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Green Scam: Business Creating Its Own Demand
    I commented on this issue recently on the DT blog in response to this article by Christopher Booker, but it’s a topic worthy of further attention. I’m sure most of you have heard of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a … Continue reading →
  • The Next Emperor?
    Even the Middle Kingdom is no match for one small sniffer dog when he’s in the mood! LibertyGibbert’s grand master of mirth, Fenbeagle, this week aims his pencil at an oft-forgotten but oddly familiar chapter in Chinese history…
  • Libertarianism And The Welfare State
    Today I’d like to talk about an aspect of Libertarianism that is often widely misunderstood. Those of you that have been following my series on Libertarianism will know that, around a century ago, most of the societies of the West … Continue reading →
  • Dobson, Dykes And Diverse Disputes
    G’day All, Ozboy here. As you may have noticed recently, I haven’t had as much time as I’d like to spend here creating posts. Rather than me offering another mere one-paragraph “spill post”, MemoryVault has kindly offered his services in … Continue reading →
  • The Dragon’s Dissent
    As you’re probably aware, most warmists appear to believe it vitally important that the reputed consensus in the scientific community regarding CAGW remains inviolate. Any questioning of this consensus, any appearance of pockets of dissent anywhere in the world, is ruthlessly … Continue reading →

FAS - Secrecy News

  • FISA Court Proposes New Court Rules
    The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has proposed new rules to comply with the provisions of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008.  The Court reviews government applications for intelligence surveillance and physical search under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The proposed FISA ...
  • GAO Access to Intelligence in Dispute
    The continuing controversy over whether the Government Accountability Office will be permitted to participate in intelligence oversight, as some in Congress wish, or whether cleared GAO auditors and investigators will be excluded from intelligence oversight tasks, as the Obama Administration prefers ...
  • U.S. Nuclear Stockpile Secrecy: A View from 1949
    The question of whether or not to disclose the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal “goes to the very heart of our democratic system of government,” said Senator Brien McMahon (D-CT) in a newly rediscovered 1949 speech (pdf) on secrecy in nuclear weapons policy. “Do we possess five bombs, o ...
  • Another Leak Prosecution
    The Obama Administration continued its pursuit of individuals who leak classified information to the press with another indictment of a suspected leaker. The Department of Justice announced last week that Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, a State Department contractor, had been indicted (pdf) under the Espionage ...
  • Geoengineering, and More from CRS
    Technologies to modify the Earth’s climate are at least conceivable and, in the absence of a comprehensive national and international climate change policy, may soon emerge as practical alternatives, a new survey of the subject from the Congressional Research Service suggests. “The term ‘geoengineer ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Spectroscopy now!
    These are the latest science news links and snippets from Sciencebase: Diabetics drop the needle – A new device based on Raman spectroscopy has been developed by scientists at MIT to help patients with diabetes monitor their blood glucose levels without needing to prick their fingers to take a blood ...
  • Cialis in glass and a shortage of helium
    Science news links for July 23rd through July 26th: ACS and RSC Sustainability Alliance – The Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Chemical Society have joined forces to launch a sustainability website. Be interesting to know what is the carbon footprint of this endeavour and the server elect ...
  • Risky teams, forged banknotes, frost-proof frogs
    An eclectic mix of science snips from Sciencebase: Novel algorithm cuts the risks of choosing ineffectual team members – The risky business of putting together a team Counterfeit spectroscopy – Banknote counterfeiting is a growing problem for fraud investigators across the globe and criminals involv ...
  • Are spiders repelled by conkers?
    Arachnophobics the world over have often turned to a folk tale that suggests placing conkers along one’s skirting boards or at the edges of doorways might somehow deter spiders from entering a building. The modern scientific brain might wonder whether it is some odour chemical released by the fruit ...
  • Spectroscopic science news
    These are my links for July 30th from 18:21 to 18:27: Space balls redux – I've reported on this briefly elsewhere, but here are more details of the research involving infrared spectroscopic data from the planetary nebula Tc 1 in the southern constellation Ara that revealed convincing evidence that t ...

RFF Library

  • Preliminary Stated-Preference Research on the Impa ...
    US EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics / by Anna Alberini and Dennis Guignet http://yosemite.epa.gov/EE/epa/eed.nsf/WPNumber/2010-09?OpenDocument The purpose of this research effort is to examine the feasibility of designing a stated preference instrument to elicit the public’s willingn ...
  • Regulatory Impact Analyses of Environmental Justic ...
    US EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics / by Spencer Banzhaf http://yosemite.epa.gov/EE/epa/eed.nsf/WPNumber/2010-08?OpenDocument Finding an appropriate way to incorporate environmental justice considerations into policy-making has been a procedural challenge since President Clinton issu ...
  • A Method to Assess Climate-Relevant Decisions: App ...
    US EPA, National Center for Environmental Assessment http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/recordisplay.cfm?deid=227483 EPA announces the release of the draft report, A Method to Assess Climate-Relevant Decisions: Application in the Chesapeake Bay (External Review Draft) in an August 31, 2010 Federal Regist ...
  • Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments: Four Cas ...
    US EPA, National Center for Environmental Assessment http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/global/recordisplay.cfm?deid=226435 EPA is announcing a 45-day public comment period for the external review draft report titled, Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments: Four Case Studies of Water Utility Practices (Ext ...
  • Nanomaterial Case Study: Nanoscale Silver in Disin ...
    US EPA, National Center for Environmental Assessment http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/recordisplay.cfm?deid=226723 EPA is announcing a 45-day public comment period for the draft document, Nanomaterial Case Study: Nanoscale Silver in Disinfectant Spray (External Review Draft), as announced in the August ...

Scientific American - News

  • New Microscope Enables Real-Time 3-D Movies of Dev ...
    Using a revolutionary new microscope, scientists can now peer into embryos and watch, in one of the world's smallest 3-D movies, as brains, eyes and other organs form. A team at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, watched zebra fish and fruit flie embryos develop ...
  • Pox Swap: 30 Years After the End of Smallpox, Monk ...
    The ancient scourge smallpox was relegated to biowaste bin of history more than 30 years ago, the result of the world's first and only successful disease eradication programs. Since then, however, cases of monkeypox--a serious, although less severe smallpoxlike illness--have substantially increased ...
  • Shades of 'Gray Literature': How Much IPCC Reform ...
    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 report from the group working on global warming's impacts contained at least one error. "Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world (see Table 10.9) and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them ...
  • Sniff Test: Bacteria May Have a Primordial Sense o ...
    Bacteria can really stink. It is a truth acknowledged by anyone whose nostrils have confronted a carton of curdling milk or a pair of socks still saturated with memories of a marathon. But a new paper suggests that bacteria do not just reek odor--they also can smell it. Bacterial colonies detect p ...
  • Meet the Microbes Eating the Gulf Oil Spill [Slide ...
    The Deepwater Horizon oil spill added roughly 800 million liters of hydrocarbons to the Gulf of Mexico. One quarter of that has been burned, captured or skimmed, according to U.S. government estimates. That leaves the rest for trillions of microbes to feast on--a petroleum cornucopia that first be ...

RAWA News

  • NATO air strike kills 10 civilians: Afghan preside ...
    AFP: Ten Afghan civilians were killed Thursday in a NATO air strike on three vehicles carrying election campaign workers in northern Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai said in a statement. Karzai strongly condemned the incident in his statement, confirming earlier reports of an air strike that kill ...
  • Some Afghan Men Form Sexual Relationships With You ...
    Care2: On the eve of Obama's speech on the Iraq transition, the last thing anyone needs is another reason to have misgivings about the situation in Afghanistan - but that's certainly what a piece from this weekend's San Francisco Chronicle provides. Among the Pashtun, Afghanistan's major ethnic gr ...
  • Karzai “fired” anti-corruption lawyer ...
    The Guardian: One of Afghanistan's most senior government prosecutors said yesterday that he was forced into retirement after aggressively promoting corruption investigations against top officials, including one of Hamid Karzai's most trusted aides. Fazel Ahmed Faqiryar, a lawyer well-regarded by fo ...
  • Is Time’s Aisha Story Fake?
    The Huffington Post: In July this year, Time magazine published on its cover page the photo of an Afghan woman whose nose was cut off; the title bellowed: “What happens if we leave Afghanistan.” According to the Time story, the woman, identified as Aisha, had run away, after which a Taliban court or ...
  • Corruption Tie in Afghanistan Has Echoes of CIA&#8 ...
    AOL News: Has Afghanistan become just one more troubled foreign land where Americans must hold their noses and support corrupt leaders for the sake of U.S. aims? The New York Times reported today that a top aide to President Hamid Karzai at the center of the country's biggest corruption probe is on ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Technology Tracks Schoolbus Kids
    In a bid to set parents' nerves at ease, a southwest suburban school district has become one of the first in the state to begin tracking students riding buses to and from school each day with Global Positioning System and Radio Frequenty Identification technology
  • Construction Spending in U.S. Fell Twice as Much a ...
    Construction spending in July fell twice as much as forecast, led by a slump in homebuilding that will depress U.S. economic growth.
  • Lobbyists Tie Brewer Administration To Private Pri ...
    The other administration member is communications director Paul Senseman, a former CCA lobbyist. His wife still lobbies for the company.
  • Lehman boss blames US for bank's collapse
    The former head of collapsed US banking giant Lehman Brothers lashed out at the US government Wednesday, claiming it could have prevented the firm's collapse but failed to act.
  • POLL: Unemployment Affects Three Out of Four Ameri ...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

  • Unrepentant Tony Blair Calls for Iran Attacks
    Summary: BlairBack in the public eye with the release of his memoirs, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair might lead one to believe it is 2003 all over again. Praising George W. Bush as a great leader and one of the most decisive men he had ever met, Blair also lauds the Iraq War. source: An ...
  • Alexander Zaitchik on “Common Nonsense: Glen ...
    Glenn Beck organized a much-publicized “Restoring Honor” rally on Saturday in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Beck’s fans reportedly number in the millions, and Saturday’s rally drew nearly 100,000 supporters. We speak with Alexander Zaitchik, author of Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck a ...
  • Appeals Court Ruling Allows Government to Use GPS ...
    A federal court in California has issued a ruling that’s raising widespread alarm among advocates for civil liberties. Earlier this month, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said law enforcement agents can sneak onto a person’s property, plant a GPS device on their vehicle, and track thei ...
  • After Years of Organizing, Domestic Workers Win Bi ...
    New York Governor David Paterson has signed into law a measure establishing a landmark set of working standards for housekeepers, nannies and other domestic workers. With the signing of the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, New York becomes the first state where domestic workers will be guaranteed ov ...
  • As Pakistan Floods Continue Moving South, Calls fo ...
    In Pakistan, torrential rains a month ago that triggered unprecedented floods have moved steadily from north to south, engulfing a fifth of the country. Seventeen million people have been affected, and some five million have lost their homes. Meanwhile, a movement to cancel Pakistan?s external debt ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Unrepentant Tony Blair Calls for Iran Attacks
    Summary: Blair Back in the public eye with the release of his memoirs, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair might lead one to believe it is 2003 all over again. Praising George W. Bush as a great leader and one of the most decisive men he had ever met, Blair also lauds the Iraq War. source ...
  • DOES THE WEST WANT A REAL DISCUSSION WITH IRAN?
    Summary: Mottaki In the lead up to a likely resumption of Western “diplomacy” with Iran, conducting an interview with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, with questions designed to elicit substantive and revealing responses, could potentially yield real benefits for the international co ...
  • SPIEGEL Interview with Iran's Foreign Minister
    Summary: In a SPIEGEL interview, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, 57, discusses the stoning of adulterers, the consequences of Western sanctions against Iran and the risk of a military strike against his country. source: SPIEGEL read more
  • Iran: Any negotiation with the U.S. should be unde ...
    Summary: US Nuclear Posture Report (April 2010) Amid strained relations between Tehran and Washington, Iran says it will enter talks with the US only under "equal and respectful conditions" and without any prejudice. "If the US seriously seeks to revive relations with Iran, it should make chan ...
  • Larijani: Iran ready for nuclear talks
    Summary: As the US expresses optimism about future talks on Iran's nuclear program, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says Tehran has never refused nuclear talks. source: Press TV read more

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Another offshore oil rig explodes in the Gulf of M ...
    (NaturalNews) It's a war zone out there! ... if you're an oil platform worker, anyway. Another oil rig, the Vermilion Oil Rig 380 , has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, just a few miles from the infamous Deepwater Horizon that started the massive volcano of oil that poisoned the Gulf this summer. U.S ...
  • Antibiotic tainted beef illegally sold for human c ...
    (NaturalNews) The conventional U.S. food supply is no stranger to chemicals, pesticides, growth hormones and antibiotics. But a Michigan dairy has violated what minimal restrictions do exist concerning these additives by illegally selling antibiotic-ridden dairy cows to be processed for human consum ...
  • Popular OTC medicines so dangerous that only docto ...
    (NaturalNews) Some popular cough medicines and pain relievers could become available by prescription only if an independent panel determines that such action should be taken. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued a report about the dangers of dextromethorphan, a popular drug in ...
  • Evidence-based vaccinations: A scientific look at ...
    (NaturalNews) As someone with a good deal of education in scientific thinking and the scientific method, I have put considerable effort into attempting to find any real scientific evidence backing the widespread use of influenza vaccines (flu season shots). Before learning about nutrition and holist ...
  • 'Grade A' on eggs doesn't mean what you think it m ...
    (NaturalNews) The "Grade A" seal on supermarket egg cartons means that the eggs inside are safe and of the highest quality, right? According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) shield of approval is actually little more than a marketing ploy with no gua ...

Threat Level

  • Police Kill Hostage Taker Who Besieged Discovery C ...
    After a daylong standoff, authorities shot and killed an armed man wearing an explosive device who had taken three hostages at the Discovery Channel’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, just outside the District of Columbia. Most of the hundreds of employees, including children at an on-site d ...
  • Attorney: Army Disabled Manning’s Weapon Prior to ...
    A civilian defense attorney hired recently by alleged WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning says the Army was so concerned about his client’s mental health prior to the alleged leaks that supervisors removed the bolt from his military weapon, disabling it. Attorney David Coombs told CNN, however, that o ...
  • Pirate Bay Documentary in the Works
    By Duncan Geere, Wired UK Notorious filesharing website The Pirate Bay is a long-standing enemy of the movie industry, but one Swedish filmmaker has plans to create a documentary called TPB AFK about the three founders of the site, and their reactions to being found guilty of being accessory to cri ...
  • Obama’s Commerce Secretary Talks Tough on Music Pi ...
    Commerce Secretary Gary Locke issued a blistering diatribe against music piracy Monday, declaring it “a growing threat” that “should be dealt with accordingly.” “This isn’t just an issue of right and wrong,” Locke said in a speech at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, one of the nation’s m ...
  • Dead Codebreaker Was Linked to NSA Intercept Case
    A top British codebreaker found mysteriously dead last week in his flat had worked with the NSA and British intelligence to intercept e-mail messages that helped convict would-be bombers in the U.K., according to a news report. Gareth Williams, 31, made repeated visits to the U.S. to meet with the ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Sacrilege at Gettysburg
    On Thursday, NPR offered a tour of the neighborhood around the proposed Islamic center in lower Manhattan. But while Brian Reed offered a tour of the Starbucks, some Indian restaurants, a tobacconist, a strip club, a Christian Science Reading room, some churches and an Off Track Better OTB) facilit ...
  • President McCain Speaks on Iraq
    In the wake of President Obama's speech last, the neoconservative architects of the Iraq War predictably reemerged to claim credit for the national disaster they portray as success. But one of them, Bill Kristol , allowed that the address was, "on the whole, not a bad speech by the president," addi ...
  • Palin Demands Honesty from Obama, Not Bush, on Ira ...
    In her predictable Facebook pre-buttal to the President's primetime speech on Iraq , Sarah Palin demanded that Barack Obama "admit you were wrong about the surge." But in insisting that "the more honest you are about the past, the more likely it is you will gain the support of the American people," ...
  • The Iraq War: Such a Bargain!
    "At that price," the shopper says, "even if you don't need it, it's a bargain." And so it is with the Iraq War , at least according to Fox News . Citing numbers from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), "the total cost of the eight-year war was less than the stimulus bill passed by the Democrati ...
  • Glenn Beck Playing with Fire on Religious Faith
    In his pivotal address to the Southern Baptists in 1960, John F. Kennedy cautioned those suspicious of his Catholic faith, "Today, I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you -- until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped apart at a time of great national peril." But with his fur ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

  • Karl Rove Exploits Corporate Money
    Republican strategist Karl Rove is seizing on a Supreme Court ruling to funnel corporate cash into elections, says Kevin Zeese. August 26, 2010
  • At War with American Workers
    Company demands for a cut in pay for Mott's Apple factory workers is a sign of the economic times, writes Michael Winship. August 25, 2010
  • Twisting Palestinian Arms for Peace
    New Israel-Palestine peace talks confront Palestinian leaders with some unpalatable choices, observes Lawrence Davidson. August 25, 2010
  • Christian Nationalism's War with Islam
    The "Ground Zero Mosque" furor is another skirmish in the Christian fundamentalists' war with Islam, says Rev. Howard Bess. August 24, 2010
  • Making a 'Mosque' a 'Wedge' Issue
    By blurring al-Qaeda's motivations, the Right has exploited an Islamic center to rile up the American people, writes Ivan Eland. August 24, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Public Citizen Staff at PUC after protesting a beh ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Public Citizen Staff at PUC after protesting a behind-closed-door negotiation b/w NRG, CPS Energy, and Chairman Barry Smitherman
  • Report Shows Dangers of Coal Ash Waste Sites Throu ...
    In Winter of 2008 a coal ash slurry pond in Tennessee broke its damn, contaminating miles of downstream waterways and people’s homes with deadly carcinogens and other toxic substances. At the time it was called the worst environmental disaster since the Exxon Valdez and brought  a wake up call to t ...
  • Oncor to give away a limited number of free in-hom ...
    Oncor wants to get some home energy monitors in the field to see how they work and get customer feedback. There are a limited number available, so you would need to act fast to have a chance at one. There are a couple of qualifications, of course. First you must live in the Oncor service [...]
  • Texas and Dirty Energy Money
    Recently, I learned about a good website that tracks the flow of corporate energy money in Congress. The website is a great tool for someone who is interested in knowing who gets what from who and if you are a Texan you will get to see your state initials in many places in the website. [...]
  • Texas’ Dirty-Energy Money Affects California’s Cle ...
    Not only does the pollution of dirty energy companies extend across other states but so does their influence. Not far from Texas, California is fighting two big Texas oil companies to keep its air cleaner. To give you some background, California passed historic legislation in 2006 that mandates the ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

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

Climate

  • September 2, 2010
    Developed Nations Arrange $10 Billion Financing in 2010 for Climate Fight (Bloomberg) Developed nations have identified sources for $10 billion in "fast track" climate financing for poorer nations this year and almost $30 billion through 2012, the UN’s chief climate negotiator said. Gree ...
  • September 1, 2010
    Court Ruling Gives Cape Wind Project Green Light to Build (Boston Globe)  A divided Supreme Judicial Court ruled yesterday that a state board had the power to sidestep community opposition to grant the controversial Cape Wind energy project local and state permits it needs to start construct ...
  • August 31, 2010
    Climate 'Skeptic' Bjørn Lomborg Now Believes Warming is One of World's Greatest Threats (Telegraph) Bjørn Lomborg, a self-styled "skeptical environmentalist" who has long opposed international curbs on carbon emissions, is now urging world leaders to invest heavily in clean energy. Ge ...
  • August 30, 2010
    Elevated Levels of Toxins Found in Athabasca River (Globe and Mail) A study set to be published today has found elevated levels of 13 toxic elements in the oil sands' main fresh water source, the Athabasca River, refuting government and industry claims that water quality there hasn't been af ...
  • August 28-29, 2010
    Probe Seeks UN Climate Panel Changes (Wall Street Journal) A group investigating the UN IPCC will recommend in a report Monday that the organization beef up its capacity to ferret out errors in its scientific assessments.  Engineers to Remove Temporary Cap from Gulf Well (AP) En ...

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

Booman Tribune

  • Middle East: Opening Dinner Statements
    I always allow myself to get hopeful when peace talks break out on the Middle East, and my hopes are always dashed. But, there were some very fine statements made tonight at the opening dinner. They are worth a read. No doubt there are little clues riddled throughout that signal where real proble ...
  • How Did Democrats Get Here?
    Anyone want to provide Nate Silver with an overdetermined answer?
  • Serious Question
    Should the DSCC spend precious resources on Scott McAdams in the Alaska senatorial race? I don't know, but I do know that it doesn't cost a lot to compete in Alaska's media market. In my opinion, the blogosphere should raise a couple million for McAdams in September and see if that changes the loo ...
  • Can Alan Simpson Go Away, Please?
    I've stayed out of the Social Security wars because I am in favor of addressing our long-term structural debt, and I am a realist about how Washington DC views its debt obligations. I acknowledge that the makeup of the commission is tilted against the progressive position on how to fix our fiscal h ...
  • Thoughts on Obama's Address
    National Review hated the president's speech, while William Kristol loved it. I don't know if that means anything. It wasn't what I wanted to hear, but the speech wasn't for me. Regardless, I won't personally be turning the page on the Bush years or their decision to invade Iraq under the circum ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Less Sleep Means Poorer Mental Health
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A new study shows that young adults (ages 17-24) who get less than the recommended hours of sleep (7-8 hours per night) are more prone to developing mental health problems later in life, or experiencing worsened symptoms for existing problems. The study, which was con ...
  • Budget Cuts Hurt Low Income Mothers, Already at Ri ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is trying to raise awareness of the dire consequences that mental health care budget cuts will have on low income mothers and their children. Statistically, women are already twice as prone to depression as are men. Ten a ...
  • Moving Forward Without Filling in the Blanks
    By Jodi Clarke, MA, LPC/MHSP, NCC Childhood Sexual Abuse Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jodi and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Many clients who have experienced childhood sexual abuse find it frustrating over time that they cannot remember details of the abuse. Clients have desc ...
  • Self Acceptance Opens the Door for Meaningful Chan ...
    By Inge Dean, MS LMFT, Life Purpose/Meaning/Inner Guidance Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Inge and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile I remember needing to pick a topic for my counseling psychology master’s thesis. My first proposal was to look at how people change and transform thei ...
  • Test and Performance Anxiety
    By Jeffrey S. Gallup, MA, LPC, Child & Adolescent Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jeffrey and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile Almost everyone becomes anxious prior to taking a test. When test anxiety negatively affects the performance of a student, this can become a signifi ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Mining activists demand WVU, Nike pull uniform ad ...
    Seattle Post Intelligencer Mining activists demand WVU, Nike pull uniform ad The Associated Press Activists trying to stop mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia are furious over a Nike Inc. promotional ad for a new West Virginia football uniform ... Fumble: NIKE Runs Mountaintop Removal Foo ...
  • Greenpeace Versus Facebook - Data Center Journal
    Greenpeace Versus Facebook Data Center Journal On the other hand, the less well-publicized environmental hazards of mountaintop removal (a method of accessing coal reserves that does not involve ... and more��
  • Will Money Talk? Banks Shy from “Dirty” Projects - ...
    Will Money Talk? Banks Shy from “Dirty” Projects Triple Pundit A New York Times article recently focused on changes occurring in another part of the supply chain for companies that practice mountaintop removal mining ...
  • Will Money Talk? Banks Shy from “Dirty” Projects - ...
    Will Money Talk? Banks Shy from “Dirty” Projects Triple Pundit A New York Times article recently focused on changes occurring in another part of the supply chain for companies that practice mountaintop removal mining ...
  • Hechler Getting Younger Voter Support for Mountain ...
    Student Operated Press Hechler Getting Younger Voter Support for Mountaintop Removal Stance WHSV But Hechler is attracting young supporters as an outspoken foe of mountaintop removal mining. Hechler wants the election to be a referendum on the surface ... At 95, W.Va.'s Hechler seeks US Senate bid ...

Memeorandum

  • Oil Rig Explodes In Gulf Of Mexico (WDSU-TV)
    WDSU-TV : Oil Rig Explodes In Gulf Of Mexico   —  13 Workers Accounted For; At Least 1 Injured  —  NEW ORLEANS — At least one person was injured after a rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, about 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay, the U.S. Coast Guard said.  —  It happened around 9 a.m. …
  • Rescue efforts under way after oil rig explosion i ...
    Mallory Simon / This Just In : Rescue efforts under way after oil rig explosion in Gulf   —  [Posted at 11:53 a.m.] U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill Colclough tells CNN that 12 people from the rig are in the water immersion suits as they await rescue.  —  Colclough told CNN there are reports the ...
  • Dan Gaffney Audio: Christine O'Donnell for Senate ...
    Categories / WGMD.COM : Dan Gaffney Audio: Christine O'Donnell for Senate Interview   —  With just days left before her primary election day challenge against Mike Castle (R) here is the complete interview with Christine O'Donnell (R) from today's Dan Gaffney Show.  —  2 Responses  —  O'Donnell Can ...
  • Gunman's Environmental Grudges Well Known Before D ...
    Jana Winter / Fox News : Gunman's Environmental Grudges Well Known Before Discovery Channel Hostage Standoff   —  James Jay Lee wasn't a stranger to the Discovery Channel employees he terrorized Wednesday with a gun and with what appeared to be makeshift bombs strapped to his chest and back.
  • Dept. of stage fright (Ben Smith/Ben Smith's Blog)
    Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog : Dept. of stage fright   —  Arizona Governor Jan Brewer's opening statement in last night's debate reflects either an amazing lack of preparation, or sheer panic.  —  (The video caption isn't mine.)

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Anger over “frontier oil”
    Far from the Gulf of Mexico, environmental campaigners are accusing energy companies of destroying land and livelihoods in the search for increasingly scarce resources. Richard Wachman and Jon Stibbs report. The eyes of the world are on BP after the April disaster that left massive amounts of oil sp ...
  • Muddy waters
    A project to flush sediment from the Yellow River has been hailed as a technological and environmental triumph. But, writes Meng Si, local communities are at risk. At four in the morning one day in early July, 31 villagers living on the banks of the Yellow River in Jiaozuo county, central China, wok ...
  • Testing time for green California
    As governor Arnold Schwarzenegger leaves office in November, state residents will be asked to vote on a ballot measure that could kill their landmark climate bill. Jan McGirk reports. Post Copenhagen, support for carbon trading has been falling globally. Now it appears that even California, famed fo ...
  • “China’s interests must come first&#82 ...
    Until recently, Yu Qingtai was Beijing’s top climate negotiator. At a speech earlier this month, Yu argued that the developing world must continue to resist unfair demands from rich countries. Here, chinadialogue publishes a summary of his remarks. On August 6, Yu Qingtai – until recently China’s sp ...
  • Invisible heroes of Dharavi
    In the chaos of Mumbai’s best-known slum, thousands of recyclers process the megacity’s garbage and provide an invaluable environmental service. But the health and social costs are high, writes Anna da Costa. “It’s funny how we popularise our movie stars,” said Vinod Shetty, director of the Acorn Fo ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Drunken Bigot Tries to Commit Anti-Muslim Hate Cri ...
    The details of this one are kind of sketchy, but TPM describes the story as one of a series of cases where “people who seemed to want to commit a hate crime … were either too drunk, too stupid or too disorganized to pull it off or even give a really clear idea of what [...]
  • Federal Prosecutors Hiding Evidence in War on Gang ...
    The revelations threaten to undermine the state’s case while raising serious questions about the legality of the US government’s global war on gangs.
  • 72 Migrants Massacred in Northern Mexico
    The scale of last week's event was unprecedented, however, its sad and horrific details are not uncommon.
  • BREAKING: Oil Rig Explodes in Gulf of Mexico
    Reports are coming in that another oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. From New Orleans Times-Picayune:The Coast Guard is responding to a report of a rig on fire “and people in the water” in the Gulf of Mexico south of Vermilion Bay, authorities said. Coast Guard Petty Officer Casey Ranel ...
  • On Mosque Madness, The Onion’s Satire Is Ind ...
    You’ve probably caught this video of Glenn Beckapalooza attendees showing their utter cluelessness on a range of current affairs — it’s gone viral in the past few days.About halfway through, the subject of the not-a-mosque-which-isn’t-at-Ground-Zero comes up, and a fashionably attired gentleman says ...

Threat Level

  • Police Kill Hostage Taker Who Besieged Discovery C ...
    After a daylong standoff, authorities shot and killed an armed man wearing an explosive device who had taken three hostages at the Discovery Channel’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, just outside the District of Columbia. Most of the hundreds of employees, including children at an on-site d ...
  • Attorney: Army Disabled Manning’s Weapon Prior to ...
    A civilian defense attorney hired recently by alleged WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning says the Army was so concerned about his client’s mental health prior to the alleged leaks that supervisors removed the bolt from his military weapon, disabling it. Attorney David Coombs told CNN, however, that o ...
  • Pirate Bay Documentary in the Works
    By Duncan Geere, Wired UK Notorious filesharing website The Pirate Bay is a long-standing enemy of the movie industry, but one Swedish filmmaker has plans to create a documentary called TPB AFK about the three founders of the site, and their reactions to being found guilty of being accessory to cri ...
  • Obama’s Commerce Secretary Talks Tough on Music Pi ...
    Commerce Secretary Gary Locke issued a blistering diatribe against music piracy Monday, declaring it “a growing threat” that “should be dealt with accordingly.” “This isn’t just an issue of right and wrong,” Locke said in a speech at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, one of the nation’s m ...
  • Dead Codebreaker Was Linked to NSA Intercept Case
    A top British codebreaker found mysteriously dead last week in his flat had worked with the NSA and British intelligence to intercept e-mail messages that helped convict would-be bombers in the U.K., according to a news report. Gareth Williams, 31, made repeated visits to the U.S. to meet with the ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • God did not create the universe, says Hawking
    LONDON (Reuters) - God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.
  • Hurricane Earl takes aim at U.S. East Coast
    HATTERAS ISLAND, North Carolina (Reuters) - Powerful Hurricane Earl bore down on the U.S. East Coast on Thursday on a path toward North Carolina's barrier islands, which it was expected to lash with dangerous winds and pounding surf.
  • Samsung says to focus on Android, bada software
    BERLIN (Reuters) - The world's second-largest cellphone maker, Samsung Electronics , has decided to use Google's Android as a key software platform for its smartphones alongside with its own new bada software, a company executive said.
  • Wall St adds gains after data
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks extended gains on Thursday after data showed pending sales of previously owned homes rose unexpectedly in July, while factory orders edged up.
  • RPT-Apple and TV networks clash over 99 cent renta ...
    * Apple keeps about 30 cents of each $1 rental - sources

IntelNews

  • Analysis: How the CIA bedded down in Burma
    By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | It is a story that was largely ignored when it surfaced last year: since 1994, US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) officer Richard A. Horn had been claiming that CIA agents illegally wiretapped his conversations … Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #423
    Mysterious Russian numbers station changes frequency. The output of a mysterious radio station in Russia, which has been broadcasting coded information to secret agents almost continuously for 20 years, has suddenly changed. US contractor charged with leaking North Korea intel … Continue reading →
  • Taliban operate ‘very extensive’ spy network in Br ...
    By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | The former head of British troops in Afghanistan has warned that the Taliban are gathering intelligence from a âvery, very extensive network of intelligenceâ operating inside British military bases in the Central Asian country. … Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #422 (suspicious deaths e ...
    Self-described CIA assassin dies in gun accident. Roland W. Haas, a senior intelligence officer in the US Army Reserve who claimed in a 2007 memoir that he was a CIA assassin, died over the weekend when he accidentally shot himself, … Continue reading →
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After Downing Street.org

  • Are You Boycotting Fox Yet?
    Wow - over 85,000 of you have joined our boycott of companies that advertise on FOX News, and these companies are definitely getting the message. In a few days we will send you a short list of companies that have ignored our requests, so you can become personally involved if you like. Beyond our boy ...
  • Intellectuals as to War and Militarization
    Intellectuals have responsibilities in times of war and militarization � read more
  • Looking for a Straight Answer
    By John Grant Last Saturday, I pondered America’s soul. I was in Portland, Maine, attending the annual Veterans For Peace convention, which featured Chris Hedges as its keynote speaker. Hedges, a Harvard divinity graduate who worked for many years as a war correspondent in El Salvador, Bosnia and ot ...
  • Where to Arrest Karl Rove
    Rove: September 9th-11th, Faith & Freedom Conference and Strategy Briefing with Karl Rove, The Mayflower Renaissance Hotel, 1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington DC https://secure.ffcoalition.com/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=1 Rove: September 14, 2010, 12:00pm, ACC PAC - Karl Rove Luncheon, ...
  • Tony Blair is Certifiably Nuts
    I just listened to this interview and can now say what many, me included, have thought all along, not only about him but as to our own previous administration, he's certifiably crazy! I mean that in the so called World View, especially of righteousness, he just spoke. What's going on has Nothing to ...

Grist - News

  • Oil rig blast forces 13 workers into Gulf of Mexic ...
    by Agence France-Presse. NEW ORLEANS -- An explosion ripped through an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday forcing 13 people into the water, one of whom was injured, the U.S. Coast Guard said. There was no immediate sign of an oil spill and everything "appears to be" contained "at this tim ...
  • Feds lease prime solar land, but narry a panel is ...
    by Randy Rieland. Ready for your morning bowl of crazy? Five years ago, Congress set aside millions of acres of public land in the Southwest for the development of solar farms. This was primo real estate for solar, considered one of the best spots in the world. So far not one solar panel has b ...
  • Oil-platform explosion in the Gulf. Yes, another o ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Oopsy daisy : An offshore oil platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday morning, injuring one worker, the United States Coast Guard said. The platform, which was owned by the Houston-based Mariner Energy, was floating in relatively shallow waters 340 feet deep to t ...
  • Discovery hostage taker is a population-obsessed e ...
    by Lisa Hymas. It's not often that natalism makes the news -- and with guns and bombs and hostages, no less!  But population and procreation are in the headlines today thanks to James J. Lee, the eco-wacko who took hostages at the Discovery headquarters building in Silver Spring, Md., before be ...
  • Climate change poses big risks to China’s cr ...
    by Agence France-Presse. PARIS -- Climate change could reduce key harvests in China by a fifth if the gloomiest scenarios prove true, according to a study on Wednesday. Publishing in the journal Nature , a team of Chinese scientists say China's climate "has clearly warmed" over the past half c ...

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Washington Independent

  • Another Oil Rig Explosion in the Gulf
    Another oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. The New York Times reports that the rig is “just east” of the Deepwater Horizon rig, which exploded in April, leading to the massive Gulf oil spill. I’m going to do some of my own reporting on this and will update with more information soon.
  • Lunchtime Links
    Al Franken gets his groove back. Chuck Norris wants you to vote (for gun rights). Stephen Hawking doesn’t think God created the universe. Carly Fiorina would rather not talk about Roe v. Wade. Apples launches a social network. Sarah Palin makes it way less cool to be from Alaska. Jan Brewer gets sta ...
  • A Correction on Crowd Size at API Rally
    The American Petroleum Institute is taking issue with a crowd estimate included in a story I linked to yesterday that was published in our sister-publication, The American Independent. The story focused on an API-sponsored rally in Corpus Christi, Texas, that had around 80 attendees. Though API esti ...
  • Weekly Job Claims Remain High
    Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said that initial weekly jobless claims declined slightly to 472,000. Initial claims need to fall into the 300,000s for the unemployment rate to decline, economists say. That means many economists expect the unemployment rate for August, due to be released tomor ...
  • Romer on Why the Government Should Do More
    I highly recommend that anyone with interest in economics read the full text of the speech (PDF) Christina Romer, outgoing head of the Council of Economic Advisers, gave yesterday. It is personal and hardly academic — very easy to get through — and both the best full-throated defense of Obama’s poli ...

Digg Green

  • Put Down the Electronics and Back Away
    I know, it's TechStuff, so I should be telling you to pick up the electronics, right? According to a study at the University of California, San Francisco quoted by Matt Richtel of The New York Times, rats engaged with new experiences go through periods of intense brain activity. But the rats do ...
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  • Top 10 Least Environmentally Friendly Governm ...
    Urban sprawl, pollution, over-consumption, deforestation…like it or not, U.S. taxpayers are still paying for all of these things to occur in America. Despite recent investments in green jobs and technology, an array of government subsidies pay big dirty industries like oil, coal and factory far ...
  • The Largest Hailstone Ever Recorded In The Un ...
    "Even after melting, the stone [produced from the thunderstorm that struck Vivian, South Dakota, U.S. of A., on 23 July 2010] still measured 8.0 inches in diameter and weighed nearly 2 pounds (1 pound, 15 ounces) with a circumference of 18.62 inches." Photo credit: National Oceanic and Atmosphe ...
  • How Blind People See the Internet
    Your eyes are absorbing this webpage. They're passing over this, this, then this word, right now. That's how reading works, online: you take this for granted. But what if you couldn't?

Invisible Opportunity

  • Can Legalizing Marijuana Save California, Our Repu ...
    Eric Blair Activist Post America, and especially California, are in dire economic straits. Their day of fiscal reckoning is coming and it’s not going to be pretty. Consequently, it is has been suggested that something dramatic will have to happen for Congress to pass any form of relief because the A ...
  • Flu Vaccine: CDC ignores the dangers, instead want ...
    By Alex In a scene reminiscent of a Brave New World and despite numerous concerns, health officials are advising basically everyone in the United States to get the flu vaccine. The CDC is openly demanding that you take a vaccine that is, on record, extremely dangerous. Multiple countries throughout ...
  • Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuc ...
    By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard If Barack Obama were to marshal America’s vast scientific and strategic resources behind a new Manhattan Project, he might reasonably hope to reinvent the global energy landscape and sketch an end to our dependence on fossil fuels within three to five years. We could then ...
  • Video – Free Energy – Convert Trash to ...
  • Rise of sea levels is ‘the greatest lie ever ...
    Christopher Booker If one thing more than any other is used to justify proposals that the world must spend tens of trillions of dollars on combating global warming, it is the belief that we face a disastrous rise in sea levels. The Antarctic and Greenland ice caps will melt, we are told, warming oce ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

  • Water: Nature’s Wonderdrug–Now with Wonderdrugs! ( ...
    Between 2006 and 2007, the Southern Nevada Water Authority in Las Vegas screened tap water from 19 US water utilities for 51 different compounds. The 11 most frequently detected compounds are highlighted in the cartoon and described below. 1.used to treat cardiovascular disease, 2.an herbicide ba ...
  • Pesticides and ADHD (cartoon)
    From Grist: More research linking pesticide exposure to ADHD in kids Follow all of Mean Joe Green’s environmental cartoons on JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons. Related posts:Chemicals and Obesity Speeding up Puberty in Girls (cartoon) BP’s Getting All Cap-Happy (cartoon) Tea ...
  • Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon)
    A victory for anyone who likes healthy food, soil, and water! Monsanto’s sour plans for the sweet beet were spoiled as a federal judge banned genetically modified sugar beets. This is great news and hopefully a large step forward to getting food production back on a less toxic track. Sugar beet, ...
  • Chemicals and Obesity Speeding up Puberty in Girls ...
    The news that chemicals and obesity causes premature puberty in girls is the latest of thousands of red flags waving high above our food production and consumption status quo. Of course, things are changing, but are they changing fast enough? Nope. The only thing changing quickly is the level of t ...
  • BP’s Getting All Cap-Happy (cartoon)
    If only BP would put all of this new found cap success to work to stop other toxic gushers… Follow Joe on Twitter @GreenCartoons Follow all of his green cartooning at JoeMohrToons.com. Related posts:Monsanto: They Made good WMD’s–I bet They Make Healthy Food! (cartoon) If Climate Change Was ...

Inhabitat

  • Peace Corps to Start Clean Energy Program in the A ...
    Since 1961 when President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps by executive order, thousands of volunteers have traveled to developing countries to implement programs that range from AIDS education to information technology and environmental preservation. Now they’ll be adding another task to ...
  • Win a Back to School Solar Bag Bundle Worth Over $ ...
    GO BACK TO SCHOOL WITH AN AMAZING NEW SOLAR BAG! If you want to put your best (and greenest) foot forward as you start the new school year, we’ve got something that will help – a lot. We’re giving away a fantastic Back to School Prize Package (worth over $500) packed with green school supplies to [ ...
  • Hong Kong Activist Group Selling “Fresh Air” for 2 ...
    Are you a resident of Hong Kong? Are you having trouble breathing because of the dense air pollution? Have no fear, Fresh Air is here! The Clean Air Network, a Hong Kong based awareness group is selling bottles of Fresh Air for just 25 cents to local residents. With Hong Kong’s air quality three tim ...
  • Garden City K66 is a Pixelated Modular City Filled ...
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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Furor Erupts Over Role of Self-Sacrifice in Evolut ...
    A furor has broken out among biologists over ant specialist E.O. Wilson’s latest attack on a concept used to explain the origins of self-sacrifice in the dog-eat-dog world of evolution. The debate centers around an idea called kin selection, which biologists use to understand altruistic behaviors s ...
  • Hot Water Around Giant Carbon Star Creates Interst ...
    Hot water discovered around a giant carbon star requires a new theory for the chemistry around stars to be explained. The new theory could significantly alter our understanding of what materials exist in interstellar space, and where water and life could exist in the universe. “It makes us realize ...
  • Video: Mysterious Patterns Reveal Self-Organizing ...
                        runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience601174639001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); The unexpected emergence of complex patterns in an apparently unremarkable dish of muscle cells may give researchers a valuable tool for studying self-organizing systems. ...
  • New Image of Superwind-Blowing Starburst Galaxy
    The galaxy dominating the center of this image, called NGC 4666, is suffering a particularly intense fit of star formation. The starburst is thought to be caused by gravitational interactions with its neighboring galaxies, including NGC 4668 at the lower left. NGC 4666, which lies about 80 million ...
  • Astronaut’s Eye View: Time-Lapse Videos of Earth

The Progressive Realist

  • Facilitating Iraqi Immigration
    While I initially opposed the Iraq invasion, whatever position one held as to the wisdom of that decision at the time, and whatever one thinks of the costs vs. benefits in retrospect (though I tend to agree with my colleague Michael Cohen , as well as Matt Duss , that the costs have far, far outweig ...
  • What David Brooks Got Wrong About Iraq
    President Obama’s speech that combat operations were over in Iraq on August 31, 2010 obviously generated a huge number of editorials and opinion pieces. One of the more egregious was by David Brooks, “Nation Building Works” in the New York Times. Brooks’ thesis was that the rebuilding of the Iraqi s ...
  • What Exactly is the US Doing to Protect its Afghan ...
    It’s a fair question . I spent the last ten days seeking answers from the Department of Defense. Major Christopher Perrine, who specializes in strategic communication for the US military, was eager enough to reiterate DOD’s position about the Wikileaks documents over the phone – that Wikileaks nev ...
  • Lessons of Iraq - The Two Andrews Version
    Over at TNR, the always upbeat Andrew Bacevich has an smart post arguing that the United States has learned nothing from the war in Iraq: The Americans are bowing out, having achieved few of the ambitious goals articulated in the heady aftermath of Baghdad’s fall. The surge, now remembered as an epi ...
  • The Success of the Surge
    I know I’m an isolated dead-ender on this subject at this point, but this week’s Iraq speech allowed me to become re-infuriated all over again at the hardened conventional wisdom that “the surge” in Iraq was a big success. To recap what happened, at the beginning of 2007 conditions in Iraq were ter ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • TAP's Take: Beck-a-palooza.
    On this week's podcast from The American Prospect , Paul Waldman , Ann Friedman , and Monica Potts talk about the end of the Iraq War, depressing poll numbers for Dems, and Glenn Beck ’s quasi-religious rally on the national mall. Listen Now: To download the mp3 directly, click ...
  • Finding Real America.
    One of the interesting things that happened after September 11, 2001 was that many of the people Sarah Palin calls "real Americans" - meaning those who live in small towns away from the two coasts - suddenly became big fans of New York City. This was, to put it mildly, a new development. For many Am ...
  • Republicans: Mostly White, Mostly Religious, Old.
    In the least surprising survey result ever, Gallup finds that non-Hispanic whites make up the vast majority of the Republican coalition: As far as the GOP's political strategy is concerned, I think it's far more important to note the significant advantage Republicans have among older voters; 57 p ...
  • The Era of Data-Driven Education.
    Gabriel Arana says No Child Left Behind has given us a lot of hard numbers -- but we still don’t know what they’re telling us about educational outcomes : But while rooting out bad teachers and excoriating unions for protecting them has become the cause célèbre of education reformers, this isn’t si ...
  • The Truth About Illegal Immigration.
    When you ask an anti-immigration advocate these days why the issue has suddenly demanded such draconian measures as Arizona's controversial SB 1070, the response is invariably that the problem has become so acute that we simply must do something. This is how John McCain explained his flip-flop from ...

Buzzflash

  • Seattle Man Charged With Hate Crime For (Allegedly ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH � People who think like this knucklehead does Must be thrilled & openly grinning As they high-five and thank the Lord because America’s restoration is beginning. � http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/man_charged_with_hate_crime_for_allegedly_punching.php?ref=f ...
  • Another False Ending: Contracting out the Iraq Occ ...
    BILL QUIGLEY AND LAURA RAYMOND FOR BUZZFLASH Another false ending to the Iraq war is being declared.� Nearly seven years after George Bush’s infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln, President Obama has just given a major address to mark the withdrawal of all but 50,000 comb ...
  • Given How Racist Beck & His White Followers Are, ...
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  • Christian Action Network Mounts Comeback on Islamo ...
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  • 1968 To 2010 (In Eight Words)
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Sciencebase

  • Spectroscopy now!
    These are the latest science news links and snippets from Sciencebase: Diabetics drop the needle – A new device based on Raman spectroscopy has been developed by scientists at MIT to help patients with diabetes monitor their blood glucose levels without needing to prick their fingers to take a blood ...
  • Sciencebase science news links for August 23rd thr ...
    These are the latest science news links and snippets from Sciencebase: Chemical news – Two years on, a simple color change test emerges from China for melamine in milk, The Alchemist learns. Also, with a Chinese connection, new insights into the mode of action of a former herbal remedy for fever cou ...
  • Sciencebase science news links for August 16th thr ...
    These are the latest science news links and snippets from Sciencebase: That underwater hydrocarbon plume is still there – Things in the Gulf of Mexico may not be cleaning themselves up quite as fast as some had claimed and many had hoped. Surprise, surprise Paracetamol use and risk of asthma in teen ...
  • What’s the point of the semantic web?
    I was scanning journal tables of contents as usual this week and it occurred to me that there must be a better way to find relevant and timely research information that would be of interest to Sciencebase readers…and, of course, out pops the following title: Technically approaching the semantic web ...
  • Cleaning up emissions
    Emissions trading is an economic workaround, a fudge if you will, to reducing one’s pollution levels by buying off the emissions credits of others who are polluting less. Emissions trading (also known as cap and trade) is a market-based approach used to control pollution by providing economic incent ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Public Transit Projects Create More Jobs than High ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 2, 2010 US PIRG New data released today by the Transportation Equity Network reveals that investment in public transit can create hundreds of thousands more jobs than highway projects. More Transit Equals More Jobs examines official project lists from 20 federally a ...
  • ACLU Launches 90th Anniversary Exhibit Celebrating ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 2, 2010 ACLU In celebration of the American Civil Liberties Union's 90th anniversary, the ACLU launched a traveling nationwide exhibit today highlighting the organization's rich history of defending constitutional freedoms. The exhibit will be displayed in a numbe ...
  • ACLU Asks Supreme Court To Review Case Concerning ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 2, 2010 ACLU The American Civil Liberties Union petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court late yesterday to review a case concerning an elections system that dilutes the American Indian vote in the city of Martin, South Dakota. In the petition, the ACLU argues that a r ...
  • Canada Acts to Strengthen Ban on Toxic Fire Retard ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 2, 2010 Environmental Groups Environmentalists are welcoming a new federal strategy that outlines a comprehensive ban of toxic polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PDBEs), a common flame retardant used in consumer products. “This comprehensive ban on all PBDEs in all co ...
  • United in Opposition: the D.C. Community Protests ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 1, 2010 School of the Americas Watch Professors, students and alumni of Georgetown University met with a diverse group of activists last night, the 31st of August, to plan their protest of the school’s hiring of Alvaro Uribe, the ex-president of Colombia. The universi ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Unseizing Gaza
    by Ann Wright In an interview with National Public Radio aired on August 30, 2010, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said that the three-year blockade on most foodstuffs and other materials was "a mistake" and that "denying different items or products into Gaza was not effective."  read m ...
  • Flying the Flag, Faking the News
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  • Top 10 Reasons for Higher Taxes on the Top 1%
    by Paul Buchheit Funding for our country's children is being cut, but we allow a hedge fund manager to make enough money to pay the salaries of every public school teacher in New York City. Most of his earnings are taxed at a rate less than that of his secretary. We haven't been able to do anyt ...
  • Buddhism, Peace, and Ecology
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  • Can You Say, Fascism? The Political Consequences o ...
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Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Poland Says It Can't Afford To Be In Afghanistan
    By Steve Hynd Another coming departure from the Coalition of the Unwilling: After his meeting with NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Wednesday evening, President Bronislaw Komorowski said Poland’s involvement in Afghanistan was taking away vital funds for defence modernisation. "The costs of operati ...
  • Desperation strikes the Taliban
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  • China Deploys Troops In Pakistani Kashmir
    By Steve Hynd On Thursday, veteran correspondent and director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy Selig S. Harrison had some important geopolitical news in an op-ed piece for the New York Times. Harrison reports that Pakistan has effectively handed control of an entire strateg ...
  • Head of Special Forces Says Wars Slowing Hunt For ...
    By Steve Hynd Thus, the final prop under the cracked foundations of justification for two ongoing occupations disappears. From Bloomberg: The effort to keep weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of terrorists has been slowed by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the head of U.S. s ...
  • "Half the palace is on the payroll" (Updated)
    By Steve Hynd The Washington Post has a piece today entitled "CIA making secret payments to members of Karzai administration". The CIA is making secret payments to multiple members of President Hamid Karzai's administration, in part to maintain sources of information in a government in which the Afg ...

Water Wars

  • Protecting the Valleyâs precious resource
    CLARKSVILLE, Va. — A recent symposium on Kerr Reservoir water resources drew a lot of attention to the fact North Carolina and Virginia share a vital water system and future economic growth depends on coming to some equitable conclusions to questions that recently began popping up.
  • Rocky River Nature Center offers food, films in 'I ...
    Head to the Rocky River Nature Center in North Olmsted for a film and food series: the screening of a film about sustainable food one week, a program on cooking and eating sustainably the next.
  • Protecting the Valleyâs precious resource
    CLARKSVILLE, Va. — A recent symposium on Kerr Reservoir water resources drew a lot of attention to the fact North Carolina and Virginia share a vital water system and future economic growth depends on coming to some equitable conclusions to questions that recently began popping up.
  • DVD Review: Water Wars - When Drought, Flood and G ...
    The struggle with water and for water is the next big global crisis. Water - Environment - Water Resources - Utilities - Business
  • Fall Fest kicks off classes at Owens
    BLADE STAFF At Owens Community College, the school year started off with a splash as students participated in Fall Fest, an annual meet-and-mingle event that featured some wacky water wars this year. In addition to free food (always a popular thing with college kids), the Fall Fest lineup was filled ...

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Electronic Intifada

  • Why Israel imprisoned my best friend
    And just as Israel has gradually increased restrictions of where we can go, the boundaries of what is permissible to do as a Palestinian have narrowed markedly. We have reached a p ...
  • "Solidarity with the entire Palestinian people"
    The BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights recently published Rights in Principle -- Rights in Practice , which examines a rights-based approach to craf ...
  • "Bureaucratic weapons worse than bombs"
    Firas al-Maraghi from the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem has been on hunger strike outside the Israeli embassy in Berlin since 26 July. Al-Ma ...
  • Bedouin's legal fight threatens Jewish state
    Nuri al-Uqbi's small cinderblock home in a ramshackle neighborhood of Hura, a Bedouin town in Israel's Negev desert, hardly looks like the epicenter of a legal struggle tha ...
  • Lifta's legacy under threat
    There are few villages in historic Palestine which invoke the memories of the Nakba (the 1948 dispossession of the Palestinian people) as does Lifta. However, Lifta's architectural ...

Afghanistan Sun

  • US says Pak Taliban part of 'most dangerous ...
    The Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP), also known as the Pakistani Taliban, has been identified as part of the 'most dangerous terrorist threat' to the United States and its war on terrorism.
  • Eight killed in NATO air attack in Afghanistan
    Eight campaigners were killed and a candidate for parliamentary elections was injured in a NATO airstrike in northern Afghanistan Thursday, a provincial official said.
  • Afghan mission costs hinder Polish army modernizat ...
    Poland's participation in the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan is so expensive that it is hampering efforts to modernize the country's armed forces, Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said Wednesday, on his first visit to NATO headquarters.
  • 2 US troops, dozens of Afghan insurgents killed
    U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, is greeted by top NATO commander Gen. David Petraeus as he arrives in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)
  • Afghan central bank says Kabul Bank 'solvent& ...
    Afghan soldiers chat Wednesday in front of the main office of Kabul Bank in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Afghan central bank's decision to force out executives of the nation's biggest bank amid all...

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • Morning Smoke: New Election Rules on Coordination ...
    Mixed reaction to new FEC rules on candidates, interest groups working together by Dan Eggen [Washington Post] Improper time-and-materials contracts prove costly by Robert Brodsky [Government Executive] GSA chief pushes agency to up its acquisition game by Emily Long [Government...
  • Billion Dollar Contract Slips Under DCAA's Radar
    More bad news about the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA). Despite promises that DCAA is improving management, Pratap Chatterjee at Corp Watch reports that DCAA had missed a billion dollar contract for translators for the U.S. military until they were...
  • Good News--And a Correction--on Ethics Program Rev ...
    Two items of note when it comes to ethics program reviews, the periodic reviews of agency ethics programs conducted by the Office of Government Ethics (OGE): -- Bryan Rahija
  • BOEMRE Ethics Memo: What Needs to Happen Next
    Yesterday the Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM), Michael Bromwich, released an unprecedented ethics policy memo to all federal employees overseeing offshore drilling. The memo expands conflict-of-interest policies beyond financial concerns to includ ...
  • Morning Smoke: Overall Progress of Littoral Combat ...
    GAO: Early LCS deployment hurt the program by Philip Ewing [Navy Times] What's Missing From Interior's New Scientific Integrity Policy? by Kate Sheppard [Mother Jones] F-22 Workers Shift to F-35, of Course by David Axe [War Is Boring] Fuld Says...

Digital Journal

  • Toronto mayoral candidate Rossi gains in poll, For ...
    A new poll recently released shows that Toronto mayoral candidate, Rocco Rossi, has gained considerable support from voters. However, Rob Ford still holds at least a commanding 12-point lead over his opponents.
  • Art competition will 'take over' downtown Grand R ...
    From September 22 an arts festival will take over part of Grand Rapids. Over 1,700 artists will go there to participate in the 19 day ArtPrize event which has attracted artists from 21 countries and 44 states.
  • Bank robber sought by Ontario police
    The Bank of Nova Scotia has been hit twice this week in two Mississauga locations by a bank robber. Peel Regional Police are seeking the public's help in identifying a suspect caught on video camera.
  • Twitter, Toronto Police, crime tips and youth
    Toronto is a computer town. When you think of social media networking, though, the police don't pop to mind. That is changing. The Toronto Police's use of networking is turning heads.
  • Grandmother of baby abandoned in parking lot speak ...
    The grandmother of a baby girl who was left in a Nova Scotia parking lot said that Community Services was aware that living conditions in the child’s home were not good.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Crimes Against the Homeless Are Increasing. Compas ...
    When police got to  David Mould , a 52-year-old homeless man living in Fredricksburg, VA earlier this year, he was suffering from severe burns on his whole left arm and on close to 30 percent of his body. He had been sleeping under a bridge when he was attacked and set on fire by someone he couldn't ...
  • Stories That Define Us: How the Addict Saved a Lif ...
    Dr. Mani Sivasubramanian is a heart surgeon in India. His specialty? Pediatrics. His patients? Children whose hearts are so bad they will die if he doesn't operate, and so fragile that sometimes they die even when he does. But before the children there were other patients, like a homeless drug addic ...
  • The "Exit Strategy" for D.C.'s Homeless
    You may remember the story: First Lady Michelle Obama spends a day serving food in a soup kitchen in the capital. An excited guest snaps a picture of her with a camera phone . The right wing media goes nuts asking, "How can a homeless guy have a cell phone?!," not realizing that cell phones are an a ...
  • Choosing Streets Over Shelter
    This new video comes from Mark's InvisiblePeople.tv 30-city, 11,000-mile, 75-day road trip , going on now. Mark has been producing videos faster than we can post them, so we're devoting the blog to InvisiblePeople.tv all day today. Mama D lost her apartment in San Antonio, Texas a few months ago. Sh ...
  • What It's Like to Be a Homeless Mother
    I got this email from a reader today. She needs to remain anonymous, but wants to tell her story of being a homeless mother. It isn't easy, living as I do. I am a single mother with two kids living out of our vehicle. I have to be careful with what I say to co-workers, friends and family. They don't ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Petraeus tightens rules of engagement
    U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, the recently appointed commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, has reportedly added further restrictions to the “rules of engagement” that govern the use of force by most international forces in Afghanistan (Jason Motlagh, “Petraeus Toughens Afghan Rules of Engage ...
  • Canadians still want out of Afghanistan
    Almost 80 percent of Canadians want Canadian soldiers out of Afghanistan by the end of 2011, as currently scheduled, reports a recent Ipsos-Reid poll (Carmen Chai, âCanadians want to end Afghan mission by 2011, poll shows,â Postmedia News, 5 August 2010): “These numbers are very indicative of a ...
  • Ex-Pakistani spy chief says Afghanistan war cannot ...
    A former head of Pakistani intelligence, Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul, has stated that the conflict in Afghanistan cannot be won. Gul, whose agency worked closely with the Taliban prior to the U.S. invasion and continues to maintain ties with the organization, argued in an interview with CNN that the U.S. pre ...
  • BATTLE FOR KANDAHAR IS ON - Real News Network
    In Afghanistan, the battle for Kandahar is on. That's receiving strangely little attention in the American media—quite low-key if you compare it to other major American campaigns in Afghanistan. Joining us from England, from Essex, is Muhammad Junaid, who's a research scholar studying the Pashtun na ...
  • Ceasefire.ca ad campaign continues in the Hill Tim ...
    The Ceasefire.ca ad campaign continued this week, targeting political circles in Ottawa by running a second ad in the Hill Times. The ad calls on Prime Minister Harper to "Call off the attack on Kandahar," an Afghanistan military offensive expected at the end of the summer.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • NIST Edited WTC 7 Footage To Hide Evidence Of Impl ...
    After filing a lawsuit that prompted NIST to release more than 3 terabytes of photographs and videos from their investigation into the collapse of the twin towers and WTC 7 on 9/11, the International Center for 9/11 Studies has obtained evidence that suggests NIST edited several videos of the collap ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 9-1-10
    Everything Kevin: Become An Insider! Support Kevin! Kevin is on YouTube! Sign Up For Kevinâs FREE Podcast Follow Kevin on Twitter Become Kevinâs Friend on Facebook Kevin’s Film Club Kevin’s Book Club Take Trudeau on the Go! Click here to download this show to your iPod, mp3 player, or PC throu ...
  • 10 Ways Your Taxes Kill The Environment
    September 1, 2010 Alter Net by Stephanie Rogers Urban sprawl, pollution, over-consumption, deforestation…like it or not, U.S. taxpayers are still paying for all of these things to occur in America and beyond. Despite recent investments in green jobs and technology, an array of government subsidies p ...
  • Avoid Salmonella Contaminated Eggs
    September 1, 2010 Natural News by Jonathan Benson In response to the massive egg recall, some mainstream news outlets have begun addressing the real cause of food contamination: inhumane and unsanitary food production methods. A recent MSNBC article explains that organically-grown eggs from chickens ...
  • Mainstream Media Citing Junk Science To Discredit ...
    September 1, 2010 Natural News by Ethan A. Huff A study out of the Netherlands has put the mainstream media in a mindless tizzy about the health effects of omega-3 fatty acids. Because a group of people fed four teaspoons of omega-3-enriched margarine a day for more than three years did not experien ...

Pambazuka News

  • Black Congress to convene in D.C. to set black age ...
    As criticisms of President Obama’s war and economic policies mount, the group that first questioned his intentions regarding the concerns of the black community is holding a national Congress to define a black agenda to serve the interests of black p...
  • Haiti: Women demand role in reconstruction
    Women's civil society groups were noticeable by their absence from the landmark Haiti donor conference on 31 March, which secured pledges of US$5.3 billion over the next two years to support the country’s post-quake recovery. Their lack of a presenc...
  • African diplomats reject anti-Cuba resolution pass ...
    The ambassador of the Republic of Congo to Cuba, Pascal Onguemby, rejected the lies included in an anti-Cuba resolution recently approved by the European Parliament. Addressing participants in the inauguration of the Eleventh International Conference...
  • USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. war ...
    A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...
  • Brazil: Bloggers on why there is still racism in t ...
    Two weeks ago, Global Voices Online reported the story of Januário Alves de Santana, a black man who had been beaten and punched by security guards of one of the largest international retailers in Brazil. He was waiting for his family in the car park...

War in Context

  • Inside Story – Can peace be achieved?
  • Terrorism is like advertising — it short-circuits ...
    Update below If there’s just one lesson we can draw from the last decade it is this: utter the word “terrorism” and thought grinds to a halt, perceptions become blinkered and the power of human intelligence is suddenly put on hold. Consider the attack near Hebron in the West Bank yesterday in whic ...
  • Hamas: “Anyone who is awaiting change from the Wes ...
    On the eve of US-brokered Palestinian-Israeli peace talks which begin on Thursday, Sharmine Narwani went to Damascus to interview the Hamas political bureau chief, Khaled Meshaal. Sharmine Narwani: There is debate about whether Hamas accepts the premise of a two-state solution — your language seems ...
  • A ruined country
    Anthony Shadid reports on Iraq’s dead who still have no names. In a pastel-colored room at the Baghdad morgue known simply as the Missing, where faces of the thousands of unidentified dead of this war are projected onto four screens, Hamid Jassem came on a Sunday searching for answers. In a blue p ...
  • The Israeli consensus: Palestinians are inferior
    Israelis might argue about whether the settlements are going to destroy Zionism or help it survive; they differ much less when it comes to their views about Palestinians. Gadi Taub is ringing the now familiar alarm bell that without a swift end to the occupation, Zionism itself will be in jeopardy. ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Stop the Hysteria
    Guest Post by Thomas Fuller After the tragic events in Maryland on Wednesday of this week, where a man  took three hostages and tried to make The Discovery Channel a vehicle for  publishing his manifesto, there have been accusations and … Continue reading →
  • Latest Hurricane Earl Info
    As a service to my readers, here is a collection of related satellite graphics, loops, and other info about Hurricane Earl now skirting the East Coast. You can animate the sat loop animate the sat loop â click here Latest … Continue reading →
  • Where’s the solar power projects?
    From the Ventura County Star: ROACH DRY LAKE, Nev. â Not a light bulbâs worth of solar electricity has been produced on the millions of acres of public desert set aside for it. Not one project to build glimmering solar … Continue reading →
  • Study: Ammonium as ice core proxy shows strong Med ...
    The MWP has been vigorously argued to be a regional northern hemisphere phenomenon only, but this new study finds it in South America. In this new paper they write: “The most striking features in the reconstruction are the warm temperatures … Continue reading →
  • Open Sea Ice Thread
    With Sea Ice News # 20 closed here is a place for ongoing discussing the 2010 season. That’s it. I may add a picture later.

Dandelion Salad

  • Michael Parenti: Lies, War, and Empire (2007; must ...
    In case you missed this one, here it is again. Dandelion Salad By Dr. Michael Parenti ICH Nov. 8, 2009 Parenti speaks about lies, dissent, and how we arrive at the truth of our situation and still retain our sanity. He raises the question whether the Iraq war was not a failure but a success [...]
  • John Pilger: Rebranding the Iraq War – The U ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ AlJazeeraEnglish | August 21, 2010 US combat forces have left Iraq, but who should be held accountable for the invasion and occupation that has left hundreds of thousands dead? Veteran investigative journalist John Pilger joins the show to discuss. Riz Khan – Th ...
  • In Defense of the Left/Right Distinction by Sean F ...
    by Sean Fenley Featured Writer Dandelion Salad The Anything and Everything Aug 21, 2010 Daniel Estulin gave an interview recently where he spoke about how the material that he was investigating was “really not about left and right”, the burgeoning world order that he uncovers — as put forward by the ...
  • New York Times Spins UN Report on Gaza Suffering b ...
    by Jeremy R. Hammond Featured Writer DandelionSalad Foreign Policy Journal 20 August, 2010 Ethan Bronner reports in the New York Times that a report on the situation in the Gaza Strip from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) says that anti-Israeli militant ...
  • For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ralph Nader
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Aug. 20, 2010 Bell, California, a working-class town of some 38,000 ten miles outside of Los Angeles, is a unique place. Its local government has proven to be citizen-proof, media proof, city-council proof and even leak-proof from in ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Furor Erupts Over Role of Self-Sacrifice in Evolut ...
    A furor has broken out among biologists over ant specialist E.O. Wilson’s latest attack on a concept used to explain the origins of self-sacrifice in the dog-eat-dog world of evolution. The debate centers around an idea called kin selection, which biologists use to understand altruistic behaviors s ...
  • Hot Water Around Giant Carbon Star Creates Interst ...
    Hot water discovered around a giant carbon star requires a new theory for the chemistry around stars to be explained. The new theory could significantly alter our understanding of what materials exist in interstellar space, and where water and life could exist in the universe. “It makes us realize ...
  • Video: Mysterious Patterns Reveal Self-Organizing ...
                        runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience601174639001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); The unexpected emergence of complex patterns in an apparently unremarkable dish of muscle cells may give researchers a valuable tool for studying self-organizing systems. ...
  • New Image of Superwind-Blowing Starburst Galaxy
    The galaxy dominating the center of this image, called NGC 4666, is suffering a particularly intense fit of star formation. The starburst is thought to be caused by gravitational interactions with its neighboring galaxies, including NGC 4668 at the lower left. NGC 4666, which lies about 80 million ...
  • Astronaut’s Eye View: Time-Lapse Videos of Earth

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Gideon Levy: A response to Pfc. [Aluf] Benn
    The occupation did not turn us into lawless criminals, you write with a pure heart. Really? You handcuffed thousands of people for no reason, without trial, in humiliating conditions, causing them... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • ‘Facebook Arabs’ speak out
    And what about the sexual assault? "I caressed his leg? He's a liar. I would never touch him. On the contrary, I took the picture from a distance so as not to be close to them, because they stink.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Diana Buttu: direct talks bound to fail
    t is not at all surprising that Mahmoud Abbas, speaking on behalf of Mahmoud Abbas, comes forward and declares that the PLO has accepted such talks when they haven't. And declares that the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in i ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Bedouin land fight
    Israeli historian Tom Segev: "Who does this country belong to?” Should Mr al Uqbi win his case, tens of thousands of Bedouin ... could be entitled to repossess their agricultural lands...... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Neve Gordon: Struggling Over the Right to Struggle ...
    Israeli academe, which was once considered a bastion of free speech, has become the testing ground for the success of the assault on liberal values. And although it is still extremely difficult to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Listening to Ancient Colours
    A team of McGill chemists have discovered that a technique known as photoacoustic infrared spectroscopy could be used to identify the composition of pigments used in art work that is decades or even centuries old. Pigments give artist's materials colour, and they emit sounds when light is shone on t ...
  • Researchers Link Protein to Tumor Growth
    Johns Hopkins researchers working on mice have discovered a protein that is a major target of a gene that, when mutated in humans, causes tumors to develop on nerves associated with hearing, as well as cataracts in the eyes.
  • Within Reach: Lifesaving Medication for All Studen ...
    Students with life-threatening food or insect allergies face down dangers every day at school, from food allergens in the cafeteria or classroom to bees on the playground. That's why physicians recommend students and others with severe allergies carry auto-injectable epinephrine with them at all tim ...
  • Georgia Tech Launches Student-Designed iPhone App
    Students, faculty and alumni with an iPhone can now find the precise arrival time for a Tech Trolley, reserve a library book and even plan a meal down to a nutritional nugget with Georgia Tech's new student-designed iPhone app.
  • Bryant U. Student Daniel Dimugno Receives 'Actuary ...
    The Actuarial Foundation of Schamburg, Ill., has awarded to Daniel DiMugno '11, of South Windsor, Conn., the foundation's Actuary of Tomorrow - Stuart A. Robertson Memorial Scholarship. DiMugno, who is majoring in actuarial mathematics and minoring in environmental science, is the sole student reco ...

Natural Health News

  • 10-Fold Rise in Obesity Surgery
    A study has discovered that the use of bariatric (weight loss) surgery has increased ten-fold in hospitals in England since 2000.� One reason for this rapid rise is increased demand from obese patients. Bariatric surgery is performed on people who are dangerously obese. Techniques include gastric b ...
  • Exercise Can Override 'Fat Genes'
    Researchers took a look at 12 genetic variants known to increase the risk of obesity, and then tracked the physical activity levels of more than 20,000 people.� They determined that physical activity can reduce the genetic tendency toward obesity by 40 percent. Even being active just 30 minutes a ...
  • Monsanto Uprooted -- Germany Bans Cultivation of G ...
    Germany has banned all cultivation of MON 810, a form of GM corn.� However, their arguments against it might not stand in court, and they could face millions of euros in fines if Monsanto decides to challenge the prohibition. Under the new regulations, the cultivation of MON 810, a GM corn produced ...
  • High-Fat Diets Treat Absence Epilepsy
    Two high-fat diets can reduce and sometimes completely eliminate seizures in children with a common disorder known as absence epilepsy. A report shows that more than 70 percent of the patients treated with either a ketogenic or modified Atkins diet experienced at least 50 percent fewer seizures.� ...
  • Why are Majority of Caesareans Done Before Labor ?
    There are several reasons for the rising Caesarean section rate in the U.S., including increased use of drugs to induce labor, a tendency to give up on labor too soon, and a reluctance to allow women with previous Caesareans to give birth vaginally. Nearly 1 in 3 U.S. births now occurs by Caesarea ...

Antemedius

  • It's a Muslim World, America's Just Living in It
    Hat tip to Foster Kamer writing at The Village Voice who notes : Apropos of nothing -- except the whole Islamophobia talking point inspired by that community center downtown (or as people who aren't from New York/are directionally impaired/are reality-impaired call it, the "Ground Zero Mosque" ) ha ...
  • Foreclosure
    They Go or Obama Goes Robert Scheer, Truthdig, August 25, 2010 Barack Obama and the Democrats he led to a stunning victory two years ago are going down hard in the face of an economic crisis that he did nothing to create but which he has failed to solve. That is somewhat unfair because the basic b ...
  • Human Progress
    Ever fewer people, particularly those in institutions of power, but also in the general populace in developed countries, most especially in the United States, appear to be aware of, much less devoted to enlightened or humanistic values. Interest in the betterment of humanity, in the hope of minimal ...
  • How Can U.S. Achieve Credibility While Ignoring Ir ...
    One of the grave tragedies of our times is how Iraqi deaths receive no accountability. This occurs at the point where President Obama and others hold the U.S. out as a major source to achieve global stability. The question is this: How can the U.S. hold itself out as a guardian of peace and secu ...
  • Is It Time For Class Warfare?
    Those who read my posts (and there are a lot more of you than I ever thought there would be) know that I am not really a fan of divisive politics. This comes from the teachings of my Mom, who spent her political career reaching out to Republicans to get things done in Washtenaw County. Her argument ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Tutsi-Hutu Genocide in the Congo (Updated)
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller So says a draft UN report that studied events in the Congo between 1993 and 2008: An exhaustive U.N. investigation into the history of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo has concluded that the Rwandan military and its allies carried out hundreds ...
  • Call for Papers from Greg Gordon: Central States ...
    by Peggy McGuinness Our friend and OJ guest contributor Professor Greg Gordon passes along the following call for papers -- for international law scholars and other subject areas for the Central Law Schools Association 2010 meeting. Full announcement after the jump:
  • Forum v Jurisdiction
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Could anyone point me to a link giving a basic, plain language discussion of the difference between forum and jurisdiction in American law?  Something that I could use with a group of non-US lawyers - clear, not too long, basic distinctions?  Thanks.
  • Turning the Page
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Over at Volokh Conspiracy, I have some purely political comments - ie, criticism from a conservative stance - of President Obama’s speech last night.  I’m not cross-posting it here because it doesn’t really have a link to international law as such, but per ...
  • Kenya Hosts Bashir at Celebration of Its “U.S.-Sty ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Lots of ironies in this story about Kenya hosting Sudan’s President Bashir at a ceremony celebrating the establishment of its new “U.S.-style” Constitution. NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenya’s president signed a new constitution into law Friday that institutes a U.S.-style system o ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • IPCC gets a credibility hammering
    This alert through from Benny Peiser's newsletter The Daily Telegraph. 31 August 2010 By Stephen Adams and Robert Winnett An independent investigation into the UN's climate change body has warned it to stop lobbying and to restrict its role to...
  • History in colour
    We've all seen the black and white photos of yesteryear, a time before the invention of colour photography. So how's this picture from the days of Imperial Russia, 1909, grab you: They were taken by a process involving three b&w...
  • Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story by Ian Wisha ...
    It's just been brought to my attention that I haven't offered non-subscribers the chance to pre-order the new book on the Crewe murders being released by us next month. Accordingly, here's the gist of the email that went out to...
  • ClimateDepot locates possibly the world’s dumbest ...
    As an indicator of just how dumbed-down global warming believers are on the science of climate change, Climate Depot's Marc Morano revealed tonight a seminar delegate seriously believed the CO2 from car exhaust fumes would kill him in an enclosed...
  • Sins of Science Media Centre’s Omission
    PR hack Peter Griffin is at it again, this time complaining that a Waikato farmer should have been left to die by medical science, rather than allowing his family to administer the unproven Vitamin C therapy now claimed to have...

The World We Live In

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

Center for Food Safety

  • Proposed Canadian Organic Aquaculture Standard Opp ...
    “Organic” Label for Farmed Fish Fails to Meet Consumer Expectations and Environmental Principles Over 40 organizations, including the Center for Food Safety, from across Canada and the U.S. submitted a joint letter opposing the Canada General Standards Board (CGSB) proposed organic standards that al ...
  • Coalition Demands FDA Deny Approval Of Controversi ...
    FDA Considers Approval of GE Salmon–the First GE Food Animal–Yet Fails to Inform the Public of Environmental and Economic Risks A coalition of 31 consumer, animal welfare and environmental groups, along with commercial and recreational fisheries associations and food retailers submitted a joint stat ...
  • Americans to U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Pr ...
    More than 100,000 citizens join scientific experts and public interest organizations in calling on FDA to tighten oversight and curtail misuse and overuse of antibiotics on industrial farms Today a broad coalition of organizations hand-delivered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) more than ...
  • Obama Administration Announces Hearings On Approva ...
    CFS Announces Major Campaign, Calls Decision to Move Forward with Approval of GE Salmon “Misguided and Dangerous” Salmon Would be First-Ever GE Food Animal   The Center for Food Safety today criticized an announcement by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that it will potentially approve th ...
  • Federal Court Rescinds USDA Approval of Geneticall ...
    Order Bans Planting or Sale of Controversial Crop. Court Denies Monsanto Request to Allow Continued Planting. Today Judge Jeffrey White, federal district judge for the Northern District of California, issued a ruling granting the request of plaintiffs Center for Food Safety, Organic Seed Alliance, H ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • A Review of Widdowson and Howard’s, Disrobing the ...
    Redressing Racist Academics, Or, Put Your Clothes Back On, Please!: A Review of Widdowson and Howard’s, Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry « The Speed of Dreams Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation From the excited, glowing reviews of Disrobing the ...
  • Agency, Initiative, and Obstacles to Health Among ...
    Agency, Initiative, and Obstacles to Health Among Indigenous Immigrant Women From Oaxaca, Mexico — Home Health Care Management Practice : "Multi-ethnic, indigenous Mexican immigrants from Oaxaca, the poorest state in Mexico, have engaged in transnational migration to the United States in increasing ...
  • Syd's Blog: Four Killed In West Bank
    Syd's Blog: Four Killed In West Bank : "Four Israeli Jews were killed on Monday near the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba on the West Bank. The victims - Yitzhak and Talya Ames (shown above), Kochava Even Chaim and Avishai Shindler - were all from the Israeli settlement of Beit Haggai in the South ...
  • Training for black failure
    ABC The Drum Unleashed - Training for black failure We're neck-deep in a federal election campaign and so far, both major parties have adopted a strategy spin doctors like to call 'Don't mention the A-word'. I'm not suggesting that's a bad thing. Generally speaking, when Aboriginal issues come up a ...
  • Katrina's legacy still painful five years after di ...
    Print Friendly: Katrina's legacy still painful five years after disaster : With hurricane anniversary comes stories of startling lack of progress in New Orleans NEW ORLEANS (FinalCall.com) - While driving through the Lower Ninth Ward of the city, visitors might be shocked to see that most of it stil ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Shop vintage
    In secondhand shops you can find the most amazing vintage things! Visit one now and then and you’ll bump into loads of original and unique finds, like clothing (directory/categories/Fashion%20 %20Clothing/ ), accessories, furniture or maybe an old record player and LPs.   Plus: it’s also good for ...
  • From seaweed to snakes
    Biodiversity (glosarry/categories/wildlife/biodiversity.html ) refers to the variety of life forms that inhabit the planet – from seaweed to snakes. Australia is the most biodiverse developed country, according to the Australian Government.   Read more about biodiversity in this article: Biodiv ...
  • Election Australia
        This cartoon is going crazy on web at the moment! Although it’s in Taiwanese, it’s very funny.   Some of the comments on YouTube:   “I have no idea what she said, but DAMN that vid was awesome!” (Kattay11)   “This is the best thing ever.” (Banjodark)   ...
  • Environmental News 31/08/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Environmental News 30/08/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Another oil rig blast hits Gulf of Mexico
    ShareThis Another oil rig blast hits Gulf of Mexico 02 Sep 2010 An offshore oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, forcing 13 people into the water, one of whom was injured, the US Coast Guard said. "All 13 are accounted for and they are all wearing some sort of an immersion suit that protects ...
  • Israel gave 'licence to kill' on Gaza ship: Israel ...
    ShareThis Israel gave 'licence to kill' on Gaza ship: Israeli Arab MP 31 Aug 2010 Outspoken Arab Israeli MP Haneen Zuabi on Tuesday told a UN human rights inquiry into Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that its commandos had a "licence to kill." "I told the UN investigators in Amman ...
  • It All Adds Up: This Was New York’s Hottest Summer
    ShareThis It All Adds Up: This Was New York’s Hottest Summer 01 Sep 2010 With one final, fitting blast of 96-degree heat on Tuesday, the summer of 2010 went down in the National Weather Service’s record books as the hottest ever in New York City. Hotter than the previous high of 77.3 degrees set in ...
  • Obama Marks End of U.S. Combat Mission in Iraq, Sa ...
    ShareThis Obama Marks End of U.S. Combat Mission in Iraq, Salutes Bush 31 Aug 2010 President Obama praised President [sic] Bush's commitment to U.S. troops Tuesday as he announced a close to combat operations in Iraq that he said cost America a "huge price." While not explicitly crediting Bush for s ...
  • Murkowski concedes GOP Senate race in Alaska
    ShareThis Murkowski concedes GOP Senate race in Alaska 31 Aug 2010 Sen. Lisa Murkowski conceded her hard-fought race against Republican [Teabagger] challenger Joe Miller in Alaska's GOP primary, telling supporters late Tuesday that she did not see a path to victory in the vote count. Her concession ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Max Blumenthal finds some real terrorist-loving re ...
    by Jesse Bacon Max Blumenthal exposes some religious leaders calling for the actual killing of babies and other Palestinians, a far worse rehtorical offense then “failing to condemn terrorism.” According to the book’s author, Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, ‘Non-Jews are “uncompassionate by nature’ and shou ...
  • Songs by Ikhlas (“Yasmin”) Jebara from ...
    Villages Group friend Ikhlas Jebara from Salem near Nablus, had been mentioned here before under her nickname “Yasmin”. Her father Sa’el was murdered in 2004 by a settler as he was performing his daily work as a van driver (the settler was convicted but escaped justice). Ever since then, we have be ...
  • Major Israeli Theaters Embrace The Settlements
    Some cultural news from Israel: Several of Israel’s leading theater companies have agreed to perform in the new cultural center in the settlement of Ariel, due to open on November 8. The companies include the Habima National Theater, the Cameri Theater, the Be’er Sheva Theater and Jerusalem’s Khan ...
  • For Gaza tailors, market is flooded, external mark ...
    From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway What happens to industry when you open a market to consumer products but restrict raw materials and ban export? What doesn’t happen is economic recovery. The Israeli cabinet decision to ease the closure on the Gaza Strip did not change the sweeping ban on Gaza exports. W ...
  • Bil’in’s Abdallah Abu Rahmah Cleared o ...
    From the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee. Protest organizer Abdallah Abu Rhamah from Bil’in was convicted of incitement and organizing illegal demonstrations today, after an eight months long military trial, during which he was kept behind bars. He was acquitted of a stone-throwing charg ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Progressives against progress
    The rise of environmentalism poisoned liberals’ historical optimism City Journal makes the case that the environmental movement, with its implied assumptions that progress and science is suspect and back-to-nature always laudable, caused a shift in liberalism from its original optimism to endless fo ...
  • Liberals. Easily satisfied
  • Sacramento snoozes while state suffers
    The California state legislature sauntered back from their month long July vacation on August 1 and promptly got back to what they were doing before, which is virtually nothing of substance about passing a budget. Now September is nearly here and there has still been no forward motion on a budget. G ...
  • Sweden reopens Wikileaks rape case
    They say more investigation is needed for a final decision yet they know a crime has been committed. Curiouser and curiouser.
  • British Labour Party making same mistakes as Democ ...
    John Wight in Socialist Unity tracks the woeful recent history of the Labour Party in abandoning its traditional base using the Daily Mirror’s endorsement of David Miliband for Labour leader as an example. In essence, the Mirror has succumbed to the myth that Labour needs to reconnect to middle Engl ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Pedicab drivers say police crackdown is hurting bu ...
    Pedicabs drivers in Downtown Austin say they are the target of a police crackdown. KVUE reported a week and a half ago that the city  is considering updating its ordinances when it comes to pedicabs. However, next weeks’ meeting between pedicab operators and the Austin Police Department’s Downt ...
  • Dutch Prove Legalizing Drugs Reduces Crime
    Holland just closed 8 major prisons because of a lack of crime while we continue to build more prisons to house non-violent drug offenders. On the face of it that title sounds ridiculous considering that legalizing drugs would reduce crime by doing away with those laws that cause it to be a crime to ...
  • Exploded Oil Rig ‘Was Not Producing Oil&#821 ...
    September 02, 2010 CNN Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d15354').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
  • NAACP launches coalition watchdog site to ‘monitor ...
    Daily Caller The NAACP partnered with Media Matters (Soros), Think Progress and New Left Media to launch teapartytracker.org, a website that will specifically publish and monitor “racism and other forms of extremism within the Tea Party movement.” Media Matters and Think Progress representatives sai ...
  • As Constitutionalists are Profiled by the DOJ, Lib ...
    John Cusack Calls for ‘Satanic Death’ of Fox News, GOP Leaders By Jo Piazza August 31, 2010 FoxNews.com Actor John Cusack went on a caustic Twitter rampage Sunday evening, attacking former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Fox News. âI AM FOR A SATANIC DEATH ...

The Air Vent

  • Uh oh.
    Steve M may have found the holy grail for climate skeptics.  We don’t know what is in this data, and I’m guessing that neither do most climatologists and it covers 70 percent of the earth.  What if the historic ocean temp trend is modified significantly by manual or algorithmic adjustment – I’m no ...
  • DeWitt Payne – FARIMA Mann 08
    I’m sure I freaked out some of the science minded around here with my posts on Lomborg and Lee. It’s just a blog though and it’s about whatever catches my attention next.  You are all welcome to contribute and dilute my opinions at your whim.  DeWitt Payne, is very much science first, and he’s don ...
  • Gilderoy Lomborg – Magical Me
    Global Warming Dissenter Bjorn Lomborg (Sort of) Has a Change of Heart // Has climate skeptics’ favorite Danish statistician, Bjørn Lomborg, changed his stance? In the forthcoming book edited by Lomborg, Smart Solutions to Climate Change, he calls climate change one of the world’s “chief concerns” a ...
  • Dr. Spencer – Dump the IPCC
    I read this post By Dr. Roy Spencer last night with my jaw in my lap.  He may have written this kind of thing elsewhere,  but I’ve certainly never read it from a climate scientist.  There are so many points made which are absolutely true that I had to ask to repost it here. There [...]
  • Meeting of the Minds
    The recent IAC report was described at WUWT and Fox News as a blasting of the IPCC.  The reality IMO is a bit different.  While the report is more critical than anything anyone anticipated, it has the same bite as a toothless dog, and it COMPLETELY fails to recognize what created the problems in the ...

Focal Point

  • Exploding Rig: Mariner Energy and Its Parent Compa ...
    Another oil rig has blown up in the Gulf of Mexico. The Vermilion 360 is owned by Mariner Energy which was recently purchased by by Apache Energy, according to Think Progress . Together, these two companies have paid $745,000 in fines to the Minerals Management Service in 2010 alone, according to my ...
  • Condoms and Cal-OSHA: AIDS Healthcare Foundation T ...
    Last week, the indefatigable AIDS Healthcare Foundation launched the latest salvo in its long running battle to pressure California's occupational health and safety agency to enforce the bloodborne pathogens standard on porn sets: Lodging a complaint against porn magnate Larry Flynt with Cal-OSHA an ...
  • Angle Donor: Employer, "Husband"; Occupation, "Sla ...
    Republican senate candidate Sharron Angle is a staunch defender of traditional marriage. However, one of Angle's campaign donors one-upped her in the tradition department. While leafing through FEC reports this morning, I discovered a record of one Maria Gladd of Concord, CA giving Angle's campaign ...
  • Center for Inquiry (Kinda) Dials Down Park51 Rheto ...
    The secularist Center for Inquiry issued a press release on Friday headlined: " The Center for Inquiry Urges That Ground Zero Be Kept Religion-Free ." The press release outraged many CFI supporters , including me . In the original release, CFI opposed the construction of an Islamic cultural center, ...
  • Women Who Wasted Years Fighting Her Divorce Sorry ...
    Beverly Willett spent five years and thousands of dollars contesting her divorce in court and lost. Now that New York has become the 50th state to adopt no-fault divorce, she's "heartsick" that others won't have the same opportunity to impoverish themselves and tie up the courts in a grim struggle f ...

Inside Facebook

  • Ads API Profile: Marin Software Provides Audience ...
    Facebook’s performance advertising system lets buyers target users based on identity, location, interests, and Facebook connections, but it doesn’t provide the control to utilize these targeting parameters on a large scale. To allow companies to build more powerful tools for designing and managing a ...
  • The New York Times Is Latest Newspaper to Tightly ...
    The New York Times introduced Facebook integration earlier this week, allowing users to more easily share stories to Facebook, and see what stories their friends have already been sharing. It’s using the social plugins that Facebook launched in April, including the Like/Recommend Button, similar to ...
  • Apple to Launch Social Networks for Music and Game ...
    As part of a series of announcements today at a press event in San Francisco, Apple made clear that it is planning to build its own social networking features. But how big are its social aspirations? The new version of Apple’s iOS software, 4.1, is due out next week, and it will include the Game Ce ...
  • Top 25 Facebook Games for September 2010: New Titl ...
    While July’s charts finally began showing signs that the continual drop in monthly active users (MAU) was tapering off, this past month has witnessed new falls. Of the veterans to this list, 16 experienced losses, with most well north of a million users. However, while some blame can be placed on Fa ...
  • Credits Gets More Promotion with Redeemable Target ...
    Following months of efforts by Zynga, Playdom and other social gaming companies to introduce pre-paid cards in stores, Facebook is going direct — starting this Sunday, it will allow users to buy pre-paid cards for its virtual currency, Credits, within 1,743 Target retail locations across the US. Car ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • George Mitchell hoping for a quick-fix fake peace?
    Stuart Littlewood argues that the US-sponsored direct talks between Israel and Mahmoud Abbas are farcical, lopsided and designed to achieve “a fake, temporary peace” whose aim is temporarily “to save a few worthless political skins”.
  • Bedouin land fight: claim for native title threate ...
    Jonathan Cook considers the legal battle of one Bedouin to repossess his ancestral land in the Negev – a battle that could have ramifications for tens of thousands of Bedouin whose land had been stolen long ago as well as for millions of Palestinian refugees scattered across the Middle East.
  • Hurricane of inhumanity: five years after Katrina
    Mamoon Alabbasi argues that, five years after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the principal lesson from that disaster – the need to put humanity above prejudice and greed – has still not been learnt, and greed and inhumanity can be found in the responses to the Haiti earthquake and the Pakista ...
  • Yale University and the problem of anti-Semitism
    Lawrence Davidson considers a recent Yale University conference on anti-Semitism which, instead of engaging in an objective discussion of an age old form of racism, ended up tying itself to an ideological view of the world that is itself racist and dedicating itself to the idea that any criticism of ...
  • Analysis of BBC Panorama “Death on the Med” expose ...
    Ted Clement-Evans introduces a detailed and forensic-like analysis of the transcript of the BBC Panorama programme “Death on the Med”, broadcast on 16 August 2010, which reveals chronic bias and lack of impartiality on the part of the BBC.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Pretty Words & the Same-O-Same-O
    Is “This” the New Era of Activism? So I haven’t been writing; pouring out pages and pages of words; analyzing a bit of a sick foreign policy issue here and a handful of plentiful corruption stories there, or marveling at the rapid uncontested descent toward the ever-approaching ‘police state,’… I am ...
  • Podcast Show #31
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Ray McGovern Ray McGovern shares with us his analysis of the recent article published in the Atlantic written by the infamous American-Israeli writer Jeffrey Goldberg on Israel’s case for bombing Iran and the reasons why the United States should join in. He talks about t ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Podcast Show #30
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Carlos Miller Carlos Miller provides us with an overview of the history, purpose and mission of his award-winning website Photography is Not a Crime. He talks about First Amendment violations against photographers throughout the country, which occur on a shockingly regul ...

Afro Spear

  • Walking the narrow path
    “The man who is following a path can never know truth. Truth is not something in the distance; there is no path to it, there is neither your path nor my path; there is no devotional path, there is no path of knowledge or path of action, because truth has no path to it. The [...]
  • “The day Kenya was born” by Nkwazi Mha ...
    No doubt. The overwhelmingly passing of the new constitution in Kenya can be termed as the rebirth of a new true Kenya that had nary existed. This, if anything, I believe, will bury the demons of tribalism, self seeking, land grabbing, dictatorship, corruption, irresponsibility and unaccountability ...
  • Happy 100th Birthday Mother Teresa
    26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997 100 years ago this selfless humanitarian who dedicated her life to serving the poor, orphans, sick and dying  in Calcutta, India was born in Albania. In 1950 she founded the Missionaries of Charity and in 1979 she won the Nobel Peace Prize. Here is a link to her con ...
  • Why I Chose Obama For President
    Because of hunger.  Not the kind of distended belly hunger from poverty and having no food.  But a hunger none the less.  A hunger for the beauty of my blackness.  The hunger for a representation that I can be proud of and hold my head up for.  A representation that stares back at me and [...]
  • sat’day riddymz

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

  • AUDITING THE FED!
    We did this. Together. At every moment, as the Fed and Wall Street sought to undermine this cause, it was the phone calls, letters, e-mails, blogging and sheer power of the people -- ordinary people who cared -- that beat them back. We have delivered a succinct message to Wall Street and the Fed: "W ...
  • CORPORATE STATES OF AMERICA
    Do you want to continue to have a say, albeit, not very much, in what goes on in this government? If you do, you must act, as outlined below, as soon as possible. We have got to give it a try, even if we go down, we must stop the corporate takeover. This is so [...]
  • TEABAGGERS REFRAIN
    Government is the only thing standing between us and all those who would harm us, in one form or another! Be it war, medicine, unsafe products, the list is endless. Corporate America has taken over our Government and it is the reason we’re in such a mess. Don’t blindly get on a bandwagon of non-thin ...
  • Doomsday: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered ...
    A huge gash on the ocean floor—like a ragged wound hundreds of feet long—has been reported by the NOAA research ship, Thomas Jefferson. Before the curtain of the government enforced news blackout again descended abruptly, scientists aboard the ship voiced their concerns that the widening rift may go ...
  • BP BLOCKED WORKERS
    BP blocked workers cleaning up the oil disaster in the Gulf from wearing protective respirators.

Unsuitable Blog

  • Astroturf Alert: Rally For Jobs is Oil Industry Fr ...
    Just in from Public Citizen is a report on a series of rallies around the USA which are being organised by the American Petroleum Institute (API) on behalf of the oil industry. Here is the report: Rallies Against Congressional Oil Spill Measures Represent Industry Views – Not Citizens Today marks ...
  • Greenpeace Inc. [Guest Article]
    As some readers may have noted, an email recently came through Greenpeaceâs UK newsletter inviting its supporters to take part in a poll: We’re carrying out a global poll to find out what Greenpeace means to you and which issues you think are most important. This is to help us do an even better j ...
  • Cairn Energy Buries Truth in Business Speak
    Below is a verbatim lift from the Corporate Responsibility page on the website of Cairn Energy. I have just highlighted the one key point that you must bear in mind when reading: Cairn’s strategy is to deliver shareholder value through establishing commercial reserves in high potential exploration ...
  • Pat Michaels Lets His Funding Veil Slip
    After umpteen years denying the (civilized) human influence on climate change, and in parallel denying he was influenced financially or otherwise by fossil fuel interests, uber-denier Pat Michaels let slip some of the source of his funding – and by implication, some of the source of his climate chan ...
  • Greenwashing In The BBC [Guest Article]
    Greenwashing has a habit of making it into every facet of our society, not just from the obvious sources such as the PR offices of polluting corporations, but also for example from major charities and in the media. A recent example I came across is a blog post from last October by the BBC’s [...]

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • SeenReport Helps Citizens Report on Floods in Paki ...
    The devastating floods in Pakistan have been covered by trained reporters and mainstream media outlets around the world. Citizens, often on the front lines of the flood, have also been contributing thousands of reports though mobile phones, in part enabled by the citizen journalism service Seen ...
  • New Media Tools Play Pivotal Role in Kenya's Const ...
    Kenya is moving towards greater democracy and more transparent governance thanks to the recent constitutional referendum that received 70 percent "yes" votes. The new constitution, which is scheduled to be signed into law on Friday, replaces the one drafted during Kenya's colonial era. It includ ...
  • Helping D.C. Drinkers and Bikers with Custom Maps
    In my last post about TileMill , I outlined some of our general plans and the background for why we’re working on this project to help make it easier for people to design very custom maps online. One question that we get a lot from people who are new to the GIS space is, “When would I need this? How ...
  • One-Eight, Afghanistan: Social Media + U.S. Marine ...
    As the saying goes, "Be careful what you wish for." In my case, I won a Knight News Challenge grant to launch an online, social media reporting network that follows a battalion of U.S. Marines throughout their deployment to southern Afghanistan. (Congratulations! You've won a year in Helmand Prov ...
  • NowSpots: Working to Make Local Web Ads That Work
    NowSpots are beautiful online ads that feature the latest social media updates from advertisers, and make it easy for a reader to follow and share their content across the web. For the last year at WindyCitizen.com , a social network for Chicago news aficionados and urban explorers, we've been s ...

Cutting Edge News

  • California Deaf Eugenics Law Was Obviously Up for ...
    From what I can see, the legislation in California known as AB2072 was up for sale to the highest bidder. Whoever stood to make the most money from legislating Deaf ASL out of existence controlled the legislation. Pick them: audiologists, cochlear implant makers, schools for the deaf--whoever. While ...
  • Calling for Meetings with Local Clergy and Educato ...
    I am�tired of counting swastikas and hearing antisemitic cat calls when� my wife and I� head home from synagogue. It happened to us�again on Friday night August 20th on Route 27, where Jew-baiting by local teens has become trendy over the last year.�On Friday night the lighting was so poor near the ...
  • The Mortgage Meltdown - Some Foreclosure Rescue Sc ...
    Desperate U.S. homeowners facing foreclosure are being duped by con artists. The scammers employ a variety of schemes such as a “forensic mortgage loan audit” that promises to find errors in loan origination terms that will help the homeowner negotiate a loan modification or even cancel the loan, ac ...
  • The Toxic Edge - Mexico's Asbestos Casualties Moun ...
    Situated among homes and schools in Barrio de San Lucas, a working-class neighborhood in the Mexico City suburb of Iztapalapa, the fortress-like brick building emits a pungent, scorched-rubber odor that makes the eyes water and the head throb. It’s impossible to see inside. A maker of asbestos brake ...
  • Ground Zero Mosque - Russell Simmons is Quite Wron ...
    I�still remember, Russell, when you came to my debate with Rev. Al Sharpton, nine years ago, in New York City. You struck me then as a man of warmth and openness. In that spirit I offer you this response to your recent blog postings in the Huffington Post�supporting the Ground Zero mosque and your c ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Kerala Media: A Macabre Dance Of Death
    By K.M Sebastian The media hunt down people even in death in Kerala in search of TRP ratings and higher circulation figures. Death becomes a double tragedy for the dear and near ones. This is called Macabre Dance of Death by the Kerala Media. MN Vijayan, OV Vijayan, Lohitadas, Kamala Suraiya and m ...
  • How Should Progressives Respond To The End Of The ...
    By Erik Lindberg It is highly unlikely that the cheap, easily accessed, highly portable, relatively safe and stable and, most importantly, highly dense and concentrated fossil fuels upon which we have built our entire world, can ever be reproduced by any other source
  • Future Wars Or Future Peace?
    By James A. Lucas What will happen after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are ended? Will there be more of the same? The answer is Probably, unless the American public eventually understands that both of the two major political parties, with a few individual exceptions, lead us into such tragic esc ...
  • Glenn Becks Redemption Song
    By Robert Jensen Does worrying about Becks appeal beyond the far right seem far fetched? The most important rhetorical move Beck made on Saturday was to claim the rally has nothing to do with politics. Many people across the ideological spectrum want desperately to escape from contemporary politics ...
  • Another Bubble Is About To Burst
    By Martin Borgs This is the story of the greatest financial crisis we will ever see... The one that is on the way. Filmmaker Martin Borgs takes a provocative look at the events leading up the Global Financial Crisis and asks if the attempts to avoid a ruinous collapse of banks and other major finan ...

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Larry Sabato and Rassmussen Both Say GOP Close to ...
    Sixty days before the 2010 mid-term elections and all eyes are on the United States Senate.� Yesterday we reported political prognosticator Charlie Cook reported that " while the odds still favor Democrats holding on to a narrow majority, it is not only mathematically possible for the GOP to captu ...
  • Lazy Media Reruns Press Release and Calls it News, ...
    This is one of the ways you can tell when news organizations get lazy and simply regurgitates a press release. Yesterday, the�Daily Caller ran a� story Labor and liberal groups to hold Oct. 2 rally on Mall to counter Beck, Tea Party. A similar article with the same quotes was released by Bloomber ...
  • Stupid Obama Tricks: US Govt. Paying For a Palesti ...
    Ladies and Gentleman, your tax dollars at work! Based on the administration's mistaken belief that Israel does not support the two state solution, the US Government has taken your tax dollars and given it to the Palestinian Authority to run an advertising campaign in Israel. On Sunday, the Palestini ...
  • Daily Caller "Blows It" October 2nd is Not a Labor ...
    Tucker Carlson's web site, the�Daily Caller totally blew it today with� the story Labor and liberal groups to hold Oct. 2 rally on Mall to counter Beck, Tea Party. The article is a whitewash of a get out the vote rally which is run by an organization whose priorities include, social justice, globali ...
  • Remember in November! 9/12 Taxpayer March on Was ...
    �� The adversaries of the Constitution seem to have lost sight of the people altogether in their reasonings on this subject; and to have viewed these different establishments, not only as mutual rivals and enemies, but as uncontrolled by any common superior in their efforts to usurp the authorit ...

The Real Agenda

  • Developing: Oil Rig Explodes in Gulf of Mexico
    An offshore petroleum platform exploded and was burning Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site where BP’s undersea well spilled after a rig explosion. The Coast Guard says no one was killed in the blast, which was reported by a commercial helicopter f ...
  • Operation New Dawn: U.S. Engaged in Combat in Iraq
    Yet another "Mission Accomplished" for the U.S. led war in Iraq. This time, Barack H.Obama is the flag pole from which the people in the United States and the rest of the world see the deceit waving in front of them. Combat is not over, combat troops are still there.
  • Egg Contamination: False-flag to Pass “Food ...
    Senate Bill S.510 is called 'The Food Safety Bill'. It should be called 'The Food Monopoly Bill'. You see it will require all farms to purchase and use high-tech equipment that family farms and organic farms cannot afford and do not need. It will put these farms out of business.
  • The Economy When Debt is Everywhere
    International Forecaster August 25 2010: Greece forced into a harsh reality, madness, next is Spain, Portugal and Italy to be sold to IMF servitude for decades, twenty countries now headed into bankruptcy, no relief from unemployment, reduced US GDP, a million jobs to be lost… nightmares for the eco ...
  • Fundación Rockefeller Financia Alimentos Transgéni ...
    Al parecer no hay límite a las ambiciones de la Fundación Rockefeller para introducir compuestos anti-fertilidad en cualquier servicio de salud existente, tales como vacunas, o -como parece ser el caso ahora – en productos de consumo diario. El informe anual de 1985 de la Fundación Rockefeller ha de ...

Wind Watch

  • Human noise ‘leads fish from habitats’
    Noise pollution from shipping, drilling for oil or wind farms could lead fish away from their natural habitat into areas where they could die, potentially devastating future fish stocks. A British-led team made the discovery while working on the Great Barrier Reef â as well as debunking the myth t ...
  • Villagers ready for another battle against giant t ...
    Villagers have stepped up their latest campaign against a wind farm plan believed to be among the most unpopular planning applications Dorset has ever seen. Two years ago, a record 1,987 people wrote to North Dorset District Council to object to plans to build six giant turbines – each 120 metres (3 ...
  • JCIDA: all jurisdictions must agree to PILOTs
    Jefferson County could see repeats of the rancor that accompanied the Galloo Island Wind Farm payment-in-lieu-of-taxes approval at the county Legislature after changes made Tuesday morning. A payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement for any wind power project will need approval from all of the involved ta ...
  • Lightning strike burns down wind turbine
    PETERSON, Iowa — A lightening strike started a fire in a wind turbine Saturday morning, destroying the turbine and one of three new blades that had been laid out on the ground beneath it in order to be installed as replacements. Damages totaled $760,000, according to Peterson Fire Chief John Winterb ...
  • Wind farms could face new restrictions as Governme ...
    Energy companies could face new restrictions on wind farm projects after ministers launched a review of the way noise pollution is taken into account by planners. The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has admitted noise regulations are applied “inconsistently” by councils and planning ...

Not My Tribe

  • James Lee, eco-vigilante caricature, assails Disco ...
    The plus side of eco-vigilante James Lee’s Falling Down routine at the Discovery Channel headquarters is that viewers might be prompted to wonder what’s there to protest. The media will paint the 43-year-old Lee as a kook, without addressing what gave offense to the aspiring superhero: the cable pro ...
  • National “burn the confederate flag” d ...
    Because the Hatemongers and Deathmongers have gotten increasingly abusive in their rallies to drum up support of Killing People. While they say they’re not Racist about it in any way, they do fly the Confederate Battle Flag, the “Southern Cross” and sometimes bear signs saying “Not Hate, Heritage” a ...
  • Beck says that a flock of geese means he’s G ...
    Kind of like the Miracle Inflamed Hemorrhoid that kept his buddy Rush from not only the draft, but enlisting as well. On our blog, one of Glenn’s Peeps wrote the other day that if we don’t join their Hate Speech Mob we must be cowards. What an amazing Epiphany that was! Here I’d always thought [...]
  • Twin Towers “christian mecca” accordin ...
    I’d been hearing that for the past (few) years from preachers, one of my pastors, gone almost thirty years now called them “Hellevangelists” but they’ve been saying that the Twin Towers were attacked because they were a religious symbol of Christian America. False. They were a trade exposition, a ma ...
  • How to discuss the “mosque rule” at th ...
    The Powwow will be September 25 at Rock Ledge Ranch, “technically” according to the West Side Pioneer, local newsletter, a part of the Garden of the Gods. Which is a sacred site for American Indians. The same people who put this really offensive sign up at Bancroft Park that Old Colorado City was th ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • 9/11 Debunkers Violate The Official 9/11 Report
    Steeper33 YouTube.com August 25, 2010 9/11 debunkers violate the official 9/11 report while defending the official report. Getting a bit desperate are we? The Bush administration failed to provide proof of osama bin ladens guilt, so the burden of proof is still and always will be on them . NIST ...
  • Thank You Mr Curley: Debunker PROMOTES the "Buildi ...
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog was nice enough to help promote the " BuildingWhat? "campaign recently by posting their ad. Pat, your strategy of posting their video to help out and then inspiring truthers to donate more by insisting that the campaign is failing is brilliant, simply br ...
  • As Screw Loose Change Would Say: Moron Dave Thomas
    So, I've had a chance to listen to some of the Richard Gage and Dave Thomas debate and have a few things to add to the already stellar debunking job of Gage and others . Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog posted this bingo card mocking the evidence that Gage would raise. Let's examine an ...
  • CIT's corruption spreads...
    Dammit, just when I thought we were making progress in distancing ourselves from these clowns . I'm sure this will make them some more money as more activists waste $1,000 on 500 copies of their 'movie' that's mostly just white scrolling text on a black background, and contribute to the the discredi ...
  • 9/11 Heroes Ask for Medical Attention; Receive Nai ...
    The House of Representatives recently voted down the 9/11 workers' health fund and Rep. Weiner of New York "blasted" them for it . Now I would like to do a bit of blasting myself in the blogosphere. In a post that presented only one side of the story about the cause of death of 9/11 hero James Zad ...

Fooducate

  • Chef Boyardee’s Whole Grain Hoax
    ConAgra’s Chef Boyardee brand is out with a whole grain canned pasta product – Chef Boyardee Pasta, Whole Grain, Beefaroni – and they’re letting the world know about it. Take a look at this  “silent” commercial where parents are hiding the whole grain truth from their daughter. If she thinks it’s ...
  • Four Graphic Examples of Portion Distortion – You’ ...
    One of the most important pieces of information in a nutrition label is the serving size. Many people look at the calorie count, and are happy to see low numbers. But what they don’t notice is that they are consuming twice or more than the stated serving size. Which means twice the calories, twice t ...
  • Read It Before You Eat It
    Last May I received an email from Bonnie Taub Dix, a dietitian based in New York, complimenting Fooducate on the information presented in the blog about nutrition labels and how to decode them. She told me she was writing a book on reading food labels, and a beautiful friendship ensued. Today, Bonn ...
  • What Do People Look For on Nutrition Labels?
    Earlier this month, The NPD Group, a market research firm, released a report on consumer trends in reading Nutrition Labels. Hey, that’s our favorite subject matter, so we were eager to take a look. Top 5 items consumers are most interested in (ranked from highest down): total calories total fat c ...
  • Bisquick – A Shortcut Loaded with Trans-Fat
    We got the following question from Lanette: I do much of our cooking from scratch and am trying to eliminate processed  foods.  I have found several ‘recipes’ for make-your-own-baking-mix but they all call for shortening.  I don’t know which is worse!  I’m wondering if you could do a post on Bi ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Bushmen launch appeal over right to water
    Xoroxloo Duxee died of dehydration after the Bushmen's water borehole was disabled. © Survival The Bushmen of Botswana have lodged an appeal against a High Court decision that denied them access to water on their ancestral lands. In July, Justice Walia dismissed the Bushmenâs application fo ...
  • Norwegian government blacklists Malaysian timber g ...
    A logger handles trees felled in the Penan's region. © Andy Rain/Nick Rain/Survival The Norwegian government has excluded the Malaysian timber giant Samling from its pension fund on ethical grounds. Samling is logging the last remaining forests of the hunter-gatherer Penan tribe . Norwayâs ...
  • Brazil’s President signs ‘death sentence’ for Amaz ...
    Kayapó Indians at a protest against the Belo Monte dam © T Turner Brazilâs President Lula has signed a contract allowing the construction of the hugely controversial Belo Monte mega-dam on the Amazonian Xingu River to go ahead. Lula said, âI think this is a victory for Brazilâs energy ...
  • Indians urge Brazil’s next President to protect an ...
    Indians at landmark protest for land rights. Brazil. © Gustavo Macedo/ Survival Indians representing many of Brazilâs 233 tribes have demanded that the countryâs next President map out their ancestral land which has been taken from them for industrial projects, cattle ranching, and soya ...
  • David v. Goliath: Indian tribe in ‘stunning’ victo ...
    The Dongria Kondh and their supporters have won a momentous victory. © Toby Nicholas/Survival A tribe in India has won a stunning victory over one of the worldâs biggest mining companies. In an extraordinary move, Indiaâs Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has blocked Vedanta Resourcesâ ...

Greg Palast

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The Taliban are getting ‘desperate’
    We were told that the Iraqi insurgencies were desperate from 2003 to today despite most of those groups achieving one of their primary objectives,  forcing the United States out of Iraq, or at least out of their region and their hair. High levels of US casualties were a sign of desperation.  Low l ...
  • Opposition Pay-offs
    The day before the Obama Inaguaration, I outlined the Republican strategy and its payoff matrix: The stimulus has non-symmetrical political pay-offs.  Seeing positive impacts of the stimulus package and voting for or against it still leaves the GOP rep SOL.  The big project is a Democratic Branded ...
  • What Can Obama Really Do?
    A zombie argument is going around about why Obama hasn’t accomplished liberal and progressive ends to the extent many would have liked him to: Obama can’t do anything because he needs 60 votes in Congress and he doesn’t have them because Republicans and Dems like Lieberman and Nelson won’t vote for ...
  • Liberals aren’t real people—or crazy
    As Bill Scher points out, Beck’s rally was pathetic: Glenn Beck: 87,000,  Louis Farrakhan 837,000 ‘03 anti-war protests 1,000,000 But the media chooses to massively highlight Beck’s pathetic numbers.  Why is that? The two answers I see are as follows.  The media has a right wing bias and Beck’s ...
  • The Taliban are getting ‘desperate’
    We were told that the Iraqi insurgencies were desperate from 2003 to today despite most of those groups achieving one of their primary objectives,  forcing the United States out of Iraq, or at least out of their region and their hair. High levels of US casualties were a sign of desperation.  Low l ...

Age of Autism

  • Join Jenny McCarthy in San Francisco for Comedy fo ...
    Saturday, September 11, 2010 Enjoy an Evening of Comedy All-Stars, Award-Winning Bay Area Cuisine and Acclaimed Art Click HERE for full details. Starring JENNY McCARTHY AND HER FUNNY FRIENDS The Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco An exclusive all-star benefit...
  • UK Vaccine Injury Win: MMR Caused Brain Damage
    By Teresa Conrick A long and hard fight for compensation due to a vaccine injury has been won -- finally. You can read about it HERE. This is an historic event in that this is the first UK MMR case...
  • Brightness in Otherwise Dark Autism Media Coverage
    By Anne Dachel Mainstream press coverage of autism has been so overwhelmingly bad for so long that I have no expectations when I scan the news. Newspapers and TV stations will casually announce that one percent of children have autism....
  • Kim Stagliano on HuffPo: Assault and Autism. This ...
    By Kim Stagliano Our nine year old was (allegedly) assaulted on her school bus by a 24 year old bus monitor. She has been charged with several counts. In addition, the driver (who happens to be the monitor's mother) was...
  • The MMR Causes Brain Damage, Just Not of the Autis ...
    By J.B. Handley I often think about how people will judge this moment in time, the time right before the whole Autism lie came cascading down, and I’m continually struck by how remarkably silly and transparent some of the other...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Babies Born Past Term Associated With Increased Ri ...
    ScienceDaily — While preterm birth is a known risk factor for cerebral palsy, an examination of data for infants born at term or later finds that compared with delivery at 40 weeks, birth at 37 or 38 weeks or at 42 weeks or later was associated with an increased risk of cerebral palsy, according to ...
  • UK Attorney General to review David Kelly death fi ...
    Daily Telegraph – Dominic Grieve, the Attorney General, has asked to examine files on the death of David Kelly, the former weapons inspector, it was reported. Mr Grieve, the senior law officer to the Government, has requested reports relating to the post-mortem examination carried out on Dr Kelly fo ...
  • China Spied On Qantas Employee
    Epoch Times – A Qantas employee, removed from her job after being deported from China for practising Falun Gong, was likely targeted by Chinese spies, says a representative of Falun Gong in Australia. Mr. John Deller, spokesman for the New South Wales Falun Dafa Association, said that Falun Gong pra ...
  • UK: Ban TV to protect children’s health, top ...
    Daily Mail – TV should be banned for toddlers and severely rationed for other youngsters to protect their health and family life, a leading psychologist will tell MEPs today. Dr Aric Sigman claims that millions of children spending hours slumped in front of TVs and computers is ‘the greatest unackno ...
  • HRW urges Bahrain investigate torture claims
    Associated Press – Human Rights Watch has urged Bahraini authorities to immediately look into allegations of torture made by four Shiite activists in detention since mid-August. In a statement Wednesday, the group said Abdul-Jalil al-Singace, one of the detainees, told prosecutors that his captors b ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Gulf oil spill: BP's ad spending climbs
    As BP oil spread across the gulf this summer, the company spread advertising money across the media, spending more than $93 million to counter images of the mounting disaster. That was more than triple the amount the company spent on...
  • Mayor Villaraigosa: 'Go home, Texas oil companies'
    Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Tuesday rebuked Valero Energy Corp. and Tesoro Corp., which operate refineries in Wilmington, for bankrolling a measure that would effectively scuttle the state's efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions. "Go home, Texas oil companies," Villaraigosa urged...
  • California Senate tells motorcyclists to pipe down ...
    Motorcyclists who swap their bikes' stock exhaust systems for so-called loud pipes may be more likely to get a traffic ticket under a California bill that passed the Senate on Monday. SB 435, also known as the Motorcycle Anti-Tampering Act,...
  • Energy Star energy efficiency program needs update ...
    The government’s Energy Star system, used to rate products and retrofitted buildings for energy efficiency, could use a fixer-upper of its own, a legislator said Monday. The voluntary program uses relative instead of absolute ratings, comparing subjects to others in...
  • Gulf oil spill jitters: a false fish kill alarm
    Louisiana officials backed off alarms they had sounded Monday about a Gulf of Mexico fish kill, saying that the kill was far smaller than they had reported and was the result of low oxygen levels unrelated to the BP oil...

water.org

  • Conference call tonight
    This is your chance to hear first-hand from Water.org’s International Programs Director about our work in Haiti, our approach, the progress made so far, and plans for the future. It’s also a chance to ask questions about our work during an open question and answer session. (*As a courtesy to other c ...
  • Videos to support Water.org (One Day on Earth)
    Support Water.org with your video creation (One Day on Earth)  - CALL TO ACTION: Share video of your water Without water, life would not exist. It is a prerequisite for all human and economic development. This 10.10.10 we invite you to share with the world how you access life’s most precious commodi ...
  • Water.org at TEDxKC (Brainzooming)
    What the World Needs Now â Innovative Ideas from TEDxKC â Part II (Brainzooming) – For whatever reason, McCamonâs TEDxKC presentation was incredibly brief. It provided staggering statistics about the amount of solid human waste thatâs left untreated globally in a world where more people have ...
  • Matt Damon’s trip to Ethiopia for water (Top Cel.)
    Matt Damonâs trip to Ethiopia to advocate for clean water (Top Celebrity Headlines) – Matt Damon is advocating for clean water and plumbing throughout the world as part of the charity he co-founded, Water.org. He appeared in a video for CNN to show how difficult it is for people in rural northern ...
  • Barclay Martin helping Kenya with Water.org (Pitch ...
    Listen to the Barclay Martin Ensemble’s first single from its new album (The Pitch) – This record represents a culmination of years of study, practice, writing and love of making music together. It is a departure stylistically from our previous releases, perhaps a deeper understanding after years of ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley break ...

Margaret's News

  • Congressman Fleming Pledges Battle Against Atheist ...
    Congressman John Fleming says that he will only cooperate with Democrats after he uses government to win a religious civil war against atheists to make the USA a Christian Nation. Submitted by Jonathan Cook to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Cheney group rates hawks and doves - More Fear-Mon ...
    Keep America Safe, the hard-line national security group founded in part by Liz Cheney, is creating scorecards that rate members of Congress in an effort to bring accountability on votes relating to defense and foreign policy. Submitted by Michelle Matthews to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Report: Israel planning to attack Hezbollah arms d ...
    The Kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai reports that Israel is preparing to strike Hezbollah targets within Syria, including long-range rocket depots; Syrian military is reportedly on high alert. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • EU 'concerned' by conviction of Palestinian anti-s ...
    Ashton suggested the conviction was intended to prevent him and other Palestinians from exercising their legitimate right to protest against the existence of the separation barriers in a nonviolent manner. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Toronto school board supports book that demonizes ...
    She encounters violent Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers, who poison some of Amanis sheep, bulldoze her house, shoot and kill her dog, prevent her family from harvesting their olives, and beat and jail her father and uncle. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Historical Notes

libcom

  • New Zealand: Mana Coach Services Strike
    Mana Coaches Picket Paraparaumu 31st Aug 2010 002.jpg On August 31st drivers employed by Mana Coach Services went on strike at the depot outside Paraparaumu Station, an hour north of Wellington, New Zeal ...
  • Mankato Student Resistance to the Downsizing of Ou ...
    Last week members of the Mankato Area Activist Collective, an anti-authoritarian organization, took action against the $7 million budget cut facing Minnesota State University, Mankato over the next two years. Last spring the university cut 79 ½ positions, one ...
  • BBC staff vote for strike action
    BBC_Television_Centre.jpg BBC staff members have voted in favour of strike action in a dispute over pensions. Bectu and the National Union of Journalists said more than 90% of members had voted for a wa ...
  • UK workplace news roundup, August 2010
    tube strike.jpg Recent industrial news from the UK, including transport strikes in Liverpool, walkouts at West Lothian Council and Southampton libraries, and strike ballots for London firefighters, ambul ...
  • Moscow antifascist needs help for treatment
    ars.jpg Anarchist and anti-fascist FC Arsenal Kiev supporter from Moscow, who was attacked by Nazis at 15th of August 2010 after the football match ( https://antifa-action.org.ua/en/node/863 ), needs fin ...

Free Range International

  • The Dog Days of Summer
    Many apologies for the delay on posting.  I was laid low by some sort of viral affliction which mimicked  malaria.  Like most people who get sick maybe once a decade, when I do catch a bug you would think I was on death’s door I’m such a sissy about it.  But the fever is gone [...]
  • The Good Don’t Always Die Young
    The Godfather of Free Range International – the man who pioneered the techniques, tactics and procedures we use to travel in remote districts was executed last week in Badakhshan Province. Dan Terry was a good man.  He was humble, self-effacing, and competent.  He lived in Afghanistan with his fam ...
  • Getting After It
    One of the Chim Chim’s dropped in for a visit last month.  He was on some sort of training inspection type team which I didn’t ask too much about and told us that every-time he asked officers from the unit he was looking at what they were doing the reply was “getting after it.”  They [...]
  • Losing Hearts and Minds
    Ben Arnoldy at the Christen Science Monitor penned an excellent tale on reconstruction efforts going pear shaped and the consequences resulting from such folly.  It is an excellent piece of reporting from one of the truly professional foreign correspondents working the country today.  The report was ...
  • Restrepo
    Last week Kanani Fong at The Kitchen Dispatch arranged an interview for me with Tim Hertherington, who along with Sebastian Junger produced the award winning documentary Restrepo.   Kanani signed onto the Restrepo team to spearhead a public relations effort, in conjunction with National Geographic, ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Ellen Brown LIVE on The Story Behind the Story &#8 ...
    Axing the Bankersâ Money Tree: Homeowners’ Rebellion against Wall Street Recent Rulings Could Shield 62 Million Homes from Foreclosure by Ellen Brown http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20688 Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in ...
  • IMPORTANT INFO ON MORTGAGES!!!!
    Every homeowner in America needs to read this very carefully. Homeowners’ Rebellion: Could 62 Million Homes Be Foreclosure-Proof? August 20th, 2010 | Author: Stephanie Over 62 million mortgages are now held in the name of MERS, an electronic recording system devised by and for the convenience of the ...
  • WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CAP AND TRADE (Cra ...
    If You Own A Home You Better Read This .. What we can expect if “Cap & Trade” legislation is enacted? We thought we were in trouble in this nation before, but just wait.  It CAN get MUCH WORSE!! Well read this one, it is all verified and double-checked and reference links are at the [...]
  • BARRACK OBAMA INDICTED FOR MURDER???
    Mom of Murdered Obama Gay Lover Speaks Up Mom of Murdered Obama Gay Lover Speaks Up Posted on July 25, 2010 by Eowyn Donald Young http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.c…ver-speaks-up/ In late May, Wash. DC-based investigative journalist Wayne Madsen had a bombshell revelation about Obamaâs membershi ...
  • Dov Zakheim Retires — OH PLEASE!!!!
    Dov Zakheim retires from Booz Allen Hamilton Jerry Mazza Online Journal Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:22 EDT For those of you who don’t know who Dov Zakheim is, let me refresh your memory. The ordained rabbi served as comptroller of the Pentagon from May 4, 2001, to March 10, 2004, when he resigned to go [... ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Scotts Contracting

  • Hillary Clinton’s Global Gun Grab
    Dear fellow patriot,   With willing one-world accomplices in Washington, D.C., gun-grabbers around the globe believe they have it made. In fact, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just announced the Obama Administration would be working hand in glove with the … Continue reading →
  • Cost of Electricity Rose Faster than Inflation 200 ...
    Average regulated retail electricity price rose faster than inflation in 2009 Jersey City, N.J., August 20, 2010 â A recent special report from Regulatory Research Associates, a division of SNL Energy, reveals that the average regulated retail price of electricity … Continue reading →
  • Cost of Electricity Rose Faster than Inflation 200 ...
    Average regulated retail electricity price rose faster than inflation in 2009
  • Big Oil for Senate?
    Japhet Els, TrueMajority.org to me show details 2:30 PM (23 hours ago) Dear Scotts, How much money has your Senator taken from Big Oil? Find out here. Ever wonder why we give $35 billion of our tax dollars to oil … Continue reading →
  • Big Oil for Senate?

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

  • Rivals in Pomegranate Juice Market Go to Trial
  • The Careerist: Checklist for Summer's End
    Check out some of the latest posts on the lawjobs.com blog, The Careerist. Checklist for Summer's End: How to maximize what remains of the season Plus Big Bucks for Big Law in Big Divorces And A Closet of One's Own: Regarding Ken Mehlman
  • Botox Maker to Pay $600 Million in Settlement Over ...
    Allergan has agreed to pay $600 million in criminal and civil penalties and plead guilty to one misdemeanor count of "misbranding" its drug Botox as part of a global settlement with the federal government over off-label uses of the drug. As part of the plea deal, Allergan agreed to drop its First Am ...
  • Despite Broad Holding on Whistleblower Standing in ...
    Patent practitioners say the Federal Circuit's decision that whistleblowers have standing to sue companies that falsely label their products as covered by patents probably won't save cases filed based on the bare fact that products contain false markings. The unanimous panel ruling, which reversed a ...
  • Plaintiffs Lawyers for 9/11 Workers Make Deal Over ...
    Lawyers representing most of the more than 10,000 plaintiffs suing New York City and its contractors for illnesses resulting from the response and cleanup after the 9/11 terror attacks have patched up their differences over sharing costs. Plaintiffs firms Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo and ...

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Grassroots Organizing: 1930s Style
    The mainstream media makes out like the economic collapse is just something that happened to us. Some greedy banksters gambled with trillions of dollars of our money and in the process, also committed embezzlement, fraud and theft. Now the money is gone, and we just have to live with it. Milli ...
  • Income Inequality: the Real Cause of Poor Health
    The University of Washington epidemiologist Dr Stephen Bezruchka has been writing and speaking for nearly two decades on the real cause of illness and poor health. As he repeatedly points out, lifestyle factors (including smoking) only account for ten percent of the causation of illness. Accor ...
  • Income Inequality: the Real Cause of Poor Health
    The University of Washington epidemiologist Dr Stephen Bezruchka has been writing and speaking for nearly two decades on the real cause of illness and poor health. As he repeatedly points out, lifestyle factors (including smoking) only account for ten percent of the causation of illness. According t ...
  • The Stigma of Being a Useless Eater
    What I find most troubling about the reactionary “useless eater” mentality (see May 24 blog) pushed by policy and opinion makers is the way Americans have internalized the belief that it’s their own fault if they become ill. In fact much of the US population seems more freaked out about gettin ...
  • Useless Eaters: the Stigmatization of Health Probl ...
    As a psychiatrist battling the stigma of mental illness for more than 30 years, I am gratified by growing public awareness that that schizophrenia, depression and bipolar disorder run in families and are, at least partly, biologically determined. Thankfully the days when it was socially acceptable t ...

Free Movement

  • Right to work for asylum seekers
    UKBA has laid Statement of Changes CM7929 to give effect (or, at least, limited effect) to the judgment of the Supreme Court in ZO (Somalia) [2010] UKSC 36. This was the case in which the Court held that an asylum claim is still an asylum claim for the purposes of the Reception Directive whether it ...
  • Post Pankina Rules Update
    Following Pankina, UKBA laid Statement of Changes HC382, different parts of which came into effect on 23 July and 12 August 2010. The main changes were to incorporate into the main Immigration Rules some provisions that had previously featured only in the policy guidance and which were declared unla ...
  • Temporary immigration cap
    I still use this blog as my own personal note book of developments I might well want to look up later. I’m currently updating and re-writing the HJT Immigration Manual (ready first week of September in time for the next round of accreditation, available now for a reduced price if pre-ordering) and t ...
  • UKBA seek feedback on settlement application proce ...
    Anyone with recent experience of applying for settlement may wish to help UKBA by completing a feedback form, available here.
  • Rights of children a primary consideration
    Yet more good news, this time for children and their parents. In LD (Article 8 best interests of child) Zimbabwe [2010] UKUT 278 (IAC) the President of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal has found that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is highly relevant to Article 8 ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Is WikiLeaks breaking the law?
    WASHINGTON, DC – The legal pursuit of WikiLeaks, a trans-national website devoted to publishing secret government documents worldwide, is reaching a boiling point. After publishing tens of thousands of classified U.S. documents revealing details of the war in Afghanistan, the group is now promising ...
  • Trying to exclude WikiLeaks from shield law stinks ...
    One of the odors emanating from Washington, D.C., these days is from journalists marking their territory. Whatever awkwardness previously existed as journalists desiring a federal shield law wooed the legislators they’re supposed to be watching, it’s now worse. In recent weeks, the two groups hav ...
  • BP acknowledges oil washing ashore in Florida
    For days, as thousands of pounds of oil washed up on the Florida coast , BP officials stuck to an "Oil? What oil?" stance. Despite howling by local officials , fishermen and laid-off cleanup workers, BP officials denied all knowledge of the existence of oil in the area. On Friday, th ...
  • Noted anti-global-warming scientist reverses cours ...
    With scientific data piling up showing that the world has reached its hottest-ever point in recorded history, global-warming skeptics are facing a high-profile defection from their ranks. Bjorn Lomborg, author of the influential tract "The Skeptical Environmentalist," has reversed course on the u ...
  • President Obama's Oval Office speech on Iraq - ...
    Good evening. Tonight, I’d like to talk to you about the end of our combat mission in Iraq, the ongoing security challenges we face, and the need to rebuild our nation here at home. I know this historic moment comes at a time of great uncertainty for many Americans. We have now been through ...

Salon

SMB News

  • Iran working against Iraqi democracy: US general
    WASHINGTON: Iran is funding extremist groups in Iraq out of fear of a strong democracy as a neighbor, the commander of US forces in Iraq said Sunday. “I think they don’t want to see Iraq turn into a strong democratic country, General Ray Odierno told CNN. “They would rather see it become a weak gove ...
  • New flood tide roars into Dera Allah Yar
    JAFFERABAD: High flood tide raged its way into Jafferabad area of Dera Allah Yar, rendering thousands of people homeless, these stranded people are waiting for help, Geo News reported Monday. The new flood tide further exacerbated the situation in the area where people are present on the high places ...
  • Enraged flood victims get physical with police, Ra ...
    SUKKUR: Floods continue to cause devastation in Sukkur and rendered thousands of people stranded in various areas while enraged flood victims burned tyres, blocked road and exchanged blows with police and Rangers after one of the affectees died in a relief camp here at Sukkur-Shikarpur Road. The wat ...
  • Qaeda’s cause is gross distortion of Islam: Obama
    Qaedaâs cause is gross distortion of Islam: ObamaWASHINGTON: In a passionate defense of religious freedom, President Barack Obama on Friday waded into a bitter controversy by defending the right of Muslims to build a mosque just blocks from Ground Zero. “As a citizen, and as president, I believe t ...
  • Do they lock Geo More news from Zardari to throw s ...
    Karachi: Geo News blocked the transfer of the road at night in a cold portion of the new country after the news sent threw shoes at President Zardari’s party time in Birmingham, Geo News reported sources as kabelexploitanten zeggend. Meanwhile, many of the singer kabelexploitanten in Karachi was bad ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • Lessons from Iraq war
    There was no joy in President Barack Obama’s speech to Americans heralding an end to the U.S. combat mission in Iraq. Unlike the premature “Mission Accomplished” photo-op staged by his predecessor, George W. Bush, Obama’s address was notably sober. ...
  • Editorial: Prudent steps on MS surgery
    Canadians with debilitating multiple sclerosis are understandably expressing disappointment — even to the point of bitterness — over the federal government’s rejection of clinical trials into the controversial new “liberation treatment” for the deb ...
  • Editorial: Hopeful signs in Mideast
    It’s hard not to be deeply pessimistic about direct Middle East peace talks launching today in Washington; the world has seen this movie before, and it usually has an unhappy ending:
  • High noon for NDP
    Faced with the choice of whipping his caucus into line to save the long-gun registry or letting his MPs vote to kill it, NDP Leader Jack Layton has opted for the latter. It is a choice of expediency over principle.
  • No need for recall
    Giving voters the right to fire city politicians on the spot rather than waiting for election day may seem like an attractive idea, especially in light of some previous Toronto office-holders. But it is an idea that is more likely to produce chaos, ...

Energy Collective

  • Solar Energy Monitoring Systems - The Next Big Thi ...
    If micro-inverters are the current craze in the solar industry, then solar energy monitoring systems �will be the next big thing.� � Micro-inverters (and other parallel technology) were given lots of attention because they can increase the efficiency of a system by
  • 7 Baby Steps to Go Solar
    Starting small takes the “pocket pain” out of solar power
  • Nuke prospects dim as Gas glows
    One way to look at the prospects for US new nukes is to consider this analysis of the potential effect of shale gas.� According to the EIA, in the US, natural gas power plants (excluding gas-fired peaking plants) and coal fired power plants have roughtly the same total capacity to generate power.� ( ...
  • Grading Cars on the Curve
    By now you may have seen some prototypes of the new-car fuel economy stickers on which the EPA is seeking public comment. The versions that prominently display letter grades for overall fuel economy performance are certainly eye-catching, rising above the potentially confusing mix of numbers and gra ...
  • Leaked Study on Peak Oil Warns of Severe Global En ...
    This week a study on peak oil by a German military think tank was leaked on the Internet. The document shows that the German government is closely studying the issue of peak oil, and is aware of the potential for serious consequences as oil production declines. The study is reminiscent of the Hirsch ...

EU Times

  • Sweden loses patience with refugee champion role
    Six years after his brother was beheaded by Iraqi insurgents, Riyad is still haunted by the memory of identifying the disfigured body and watching the mutilation on a video distributed by the killers. Yet Riyad now has fresh worries to contend with: the threat of deportation from Sweden, which recen ...
  • Turkey tells US it won’t adhere to new sanctions o ...
    Turkish officials have told an American delegation that it has no intention of following unilateral US sanctions on Iran, a move likely to deepen a rift between the two NATO allies over the Islamic republic’s contentious nuclear program that Washington believes is aimed at developing nuclear weapons ...
  • Official US Deficit Put At Staggering $202 Trillio ...
    The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) forecasts the U.S. budget deficit will hit $1.3 trillion this year. An astronomical figure, to be sure, but thatâs lower than was projected in March. Itâs also less than last yearâs record $1.41 trillion deficit, which was close to 10% of GDP. And, that’s ...
  • Goldman Sachs accused of trying to destroy China
    Goldman Sachs & Co., reviled in the U.S. for its role in the financial crisis, is now getting hammered in the world’s No. 2 economy with a sensationalist new book accusing the investment bank of trying to destroy China. The “Goldman Sachs Conspiracy,” which has sold over 100,000 copies since it was ...
  • Italy inspired by France to expel citizens from ot ...
    Italy has said it intends to expel citizens from other EU states if they are not able to support themselves, in a move apparently inspired by France’s current crackdown on Roma. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni told daily newspaper Corriere della Sera on Saturday (21 August) that French president Ni ...

Stonecipher News

  • Studies Claim That One Million Children Misdiagnos ...
    According to Jo Oliver "Several studies this month in the Journal of Health Economics are looking at ADHD. Separate studies by researchers at North Carolina State University, Notre Dame, the University of Minnesota, and Michigan State University all arrive at similar conclusions about ADHD. For tho ...
  • Education: What Does It Mean For Your Child
    From my Factoidz page: The PACER Center is a Minnesota training and information center funded by the U. S. Department of Education Office of Special Education (n.d., http://www.pacer.org/) writes an article for LD online explaining to lay people the evaluation process for special education. The arti ...
  • Tests and Measurements for the Parent, Teacher, Ad ...
    Peter and Pam Wright compose a comprehensive article for parents, teachers, advocates and attorneys. The purpose of which is to help lay people and professionals recognize the value of reading and understanding educational test scores. Attorney Peter Wright Esq., and Psychotherapist Pam Wright who ...
  • Fetal Xrays Can Cause Memory Loss and Schizophreni ...
    Alarming as it sounds, I hardly doubt Fetal Xrays can cause Schizophrenia . Schizophrenia is often misdiagnosed by psychiatrists who look for a reasoning for someone's memory loss. In fact, less than 1% of the population actually has Schizophrenia, so I'm in question about these findings.� ...
  • Vitamin C Deficiency Symptoms and Why Vitamin C is ...
    According to Dr. Kristie Leong : Vitamin C deficiency disease, such as scurvy, is less common these days due to the easy availability of vitamin C rich foods. On the other hand, some people need more vitamin C to stay healthy. Are you one of them? Vitamin C is most commonly found in fresh fruits an ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Working at Home
    There are so many of us who work from home and have had to carve out space for a desk.  Some are in the living room, others are in the bedroom, and there are a even a few that are in the closet, literally.  Even those who do have work offices have spaces at home for a computer and... Tags: working a ...
  • Aaron Rose ‘Trouble’ in Berlin
    Aaron Rose is about to present his newest selection of works in Berlin. Berlin’s Circleculture Gallery will be home to Rose’s latest solo show, entitled ‘Trouble’. The show is focussed around hand painted suitcases from the 50’s through to the 70’s. Starting September... Tags: berlin aaron rose
  • In Which Elizabeth Bowen Lives In Windowless Rooms
    Don't Bat An Eyelid by JANE HU I bussed down to New York City this past week in hopes of extracting some form of a mini-break before the start of school. The city posed as a welcome escape from my summer of windowless offices and libraries, where I scoured databases and watched films in... Tags: mil ...
  • Loose Button helps you find clothes from your trav ...
    The best part of traveling (other than being on vacation) is experiencing the culture of a new place. I usually immerse myself in local culture by eating, drinking, and poking around in the local boutiques. But it can be frustrating to discover a brand or store you love overseas only to... Tags: loo ...
  • Get Detailed Information of your Symbian Phones
    ALC Phone Info is a simple free tool for Symbian phones which displays all the info about your Symbian s60 5th edition mobile in just one click! It informs you about the Firmware, Product type, IMEI, WLAN, Mac Address, Battery, Signal and all types of memory (phone, RAM, card). You can... Tags: symb ...

Groklaw

  • Solar-powered OpenBTS systems costs pennies a day ...
    Two of OpenBTS's three founders are a duo of wireless design gurus that make up Kestrel Signal Processing: David Burgess and Harvind Samra. The third is industry luminary Glenn Edens, the same Edens who founded Grid Systems, maker of the first laptop in the early '80s, who is also known as the forme ...
  • Trade groups: policing our digital copyrights is j ...
    At a speech last week at an Aspen conference, Sherman made the point again. "The DMCA isn't working for content people at all," he said. "You cannot monitor all the infringements on the Internet. It's simply not possible. We don't have the ability to search all the places infringing content appears ...
  • AIG Derivative Suit Against Greenberg Settles for ...
    Greenberg's attorney, Lee Wolosky of Boies, Schiller & Flexner, said he was pleased with the settlement and pointed out that his client isn't paying a cent... Plaintiffs lawyer Stuart Grant of Grant & Eisenhofer, however, offered a different spin. He stressed that the $90 million AIG is getting wou ...
  • Federal Judge Sanctions Tech Company Over Handling ...
    The loss of the hard-drive data has deprived the two developers of the opportunity to present "potentially powerful evidence" on the key issue of whether the U3 flash drive was derived from encryption software developed by the pair in Israel. Although the missing e-mails eventually will be availabl ...
  • Patent troll or not, Paul Allen finds a friend in ...
    Asked about the lawsuit during a video interview with Bloomberg News, Wozniak says he's "not at all against the idea of patent trolls," and he believes Allen's suit represents the fact that inventors have rights under the U.S. patent system. ... Later, when asked about the timing of the suit, many ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

  • Progressives against progress
    The rise of environmentalism poisoned liberals’ historical optimism City Journal makes the case that the environmental movement, with its implied assumptions that progress and science is suspect and back-to-nature always laudable, caused a shift in liberalism from its original optimism to endless fo ...
  • Liberals. Easily satisfied
  • Sacramento snoozes while state suffers
    The California state legislature sauntered back from their month long July vacation on August 1 and promptly got back to what they were doing before, which is virtually nothing of substance about passing a budget. Now September is nearly here and there has still been no forward motion on a budget. G ...
  • Sweden reopens Wikileaks rape case
    They say more investigation is needed for a final decision yet they know a crime has been committed. Curiouser and curiouser.
  • British Labour Party making same mistakes as Democ ...
    John Wight in Socialist Unity tracks the woeful recent history of the Labour Party in abandoning its traditional base using the Daily Mirror’s endorsement of David Miliband for Labour leader as an example. In essence, the Mirror has succumbed to the myth that Labour needs to reconnect to middle Engl ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Plea of the Israeli political prisoner's wife
    Read this powerful article penned for Electronic Intifada by Janan Abdu, spouse of Palestinian-Israeli political prisoner Ameer Makhoul, who has shockingly been held without trial since May. Abdu quotes the stirring (but possibly empty?) words that Secretary Clinton uttered recently at the 10th ann ...
  • Just World Books update #4
    We're still tweaking the website at Just World Books, so until it's ready to roll out, I'll be sending out my updates from here. I've signed three new contracts in the past couple of weeks. Two are with Manan Ahmed , who's the principal blogger (Sepoy) at Chapati Mystery and also blogs at Informed ...
  • 550 IDF soldiers interrogated re possible war crim ...
    Huge kudos to Max Blumenthal, who found a report in yesterday's Yediot stating that (in Max's translation), More than 550 officers and men of IDF who participated in the “Cast Lead” operation have been interrogated by the investigative military police of the IDF in the last 18 months. The Yediot r ...
  • Powerful rebuke of SA Chief Rabbi over Goldstone
    The great, strongly anti-Apartheid South African journo Allister Sparks has penned a powerful rebuke of his country's Chief Rabbi, Warren Goldstein, over the latter's strongly expressed criticism of Constitutional Court member Richard Goldstone, and Goldstone's role in heading the UN's fact-finding ...
  • Watch Emily Henochowizc's transformational song
    Here. Hat-tip, Phil Weiss. Henochowicz is the young Jewish-American artist who lost an eye to an IDF tear-gas canister while protesting the continued building of the Apartheid Wall. She is amazing. Especially when she sings that people need "open their eyes." And then she turns and looks at the ...

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