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IPS - Inter Press Services

• POLITICS-AFGHANISTAN: For Refugees, Polls are Far ...
  Afghan voters just went to national parliamentary elections, but refugees from that country here in neighbouring Pakistan could only rue the fact that they have been left out of this vote.
• AFRICA: Liberalised Services Still Require Proper ...
  With African countries' trade remaining inordinately dependent on natural resources exports, their economies could benefit from liberalisation of trade in services but only as long as proper domestic regulatory frameworks are put in place, some trade experts argue.
• CHINA: Second Richest Plays Poor
  As China basks in international praise for its spectacular economic transformation over the last 30 years, some shadow sides of this story of triumph have begun to emerge.
• INDIA: Jatropha Boom Yields Tough Lessons
  With a gas-guzzler of an economy, India had been spending tens of billions of dollars annually to import petroleum. And so its 2009 policy on biofuels mandated that by 2017, India would have enough biofuel production to cover at least 20 percent of the country's oil consumption.
• ARGENTINA: Fighting to Save Glaciers as They Retre ...
  Argentina's glaciers, along with Chile's the most extensive of South America, manifest the damage caused by climate change, while they also face threats from mining and major transportation infrastructure projects. A law to protect them has been postponed yet again.

Scoop - NZ

• Identity Theft For Dummies
  Can be opened to pdf with 'unrar x filename' * http://hotfile.com/dl/41590091/bc363a3/Identity_Theft_For_D.rar.html (8 Mb) ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
• Forsyth on Garrett's final ACT - leaving Parliamen ...
  Disgraced MP David Garrett is ready to quit Parliament for the good of the Act Party. Garrett said last night it was "very much more likely" he would stand down from Parliament before the next election. "I am in a very dark place right now," he said. Garrett's former party boss R ...
• 2010 Christchurch Earthquake, from the bottom
  While the dust settles and Christchurch recovers from the 7.1 earthquake, people have begun to pick up the pieces and get on with their lives. But for many working class people this is not so easy. Those most affected by a4natural disasters' - whether by the tsunami in the Pacific, earthquakes in H ...
• a4The Big Shorta4? Read the Thesis Instead!
  Deal Journal has yet to read "The Big Short," Michael Lewis's yarn on the financial crisis that hit stores today. We did, however, read his acknowledgments, where Lewis praises "A.K. Barnett-Hart, a Harvard undergraduate who had just written a thesis about the market for subprime mort ...
• US poverty reaches historic levels
  The withering recession pushed the number of Americans who are living in poverty to a 51-year high in 2009 and left a record 50.7 million people without health insurance, the Census Bureau said Thursday. The 43.6 million Americans who were poor last year -- up from 39.8 million the year before -- w ...

Independent - London

• New-born baby orphaned
  A 13-day-old premature baby has been left an orphan after her parents were killed in a car crash while driving home from visiting her in hospital.
• Lockerbie father visits Megrahi in Libya
  The father of one of the victims of the Lockerbie bombing has been to Libya to visit the only man convicted of the atrocity.
• Lockerbie father visits Megrahi in Lbya
  The father of one of the victims of the Lockerbie bombing has been to Libya to visit the only man convicted of the atrocity.
• 47 killed in Indian rains and landslides
  Heavy monsoon rains and landslides swept the hilly areas of northern India over the weekend, killing at least 47 people, officials said today.
• UK troops pass control of Sangin to US forces
  British forces in southern Afghanistan handed responsibility for security in Sangin to US forces, the Ministry of Defence said today.

Rogue Government.com

• Authorities search for 13 from 'cult-like' sect
  The group left behind cell phones, identifications, deeds to property, and letters indicating they were awaiting the Rapture.
• Man Arrested For Criticizing Calgary Police On We ...
  Posting critical comments about Calgary officers on a personal website goes beyond free speech, the police chief says.
• UK: Stasi Spies On The Highway
  Police are asking motorists to spy on each other for examples of poor driving in an alarming new extension of the ‘Big Brother’ state.
• Shanghai Cooperation Organization launches joint ...
  The exercise aims to streamline methods for combating terrorist and separatist groups during medium and low intensity local conflicts.
• Screening on slippery slope to eugenics
  The programme is funded by the state and targets all pregnant women in New Zealand in their first trimester on the basis of providing information to women to make decisions about their pregnancies, including abortion.

Innovation Canada

• A new musical reality
  Imagine a live improvised musical performance — in surround sound, with a computer manipulating and spinning instruments’ sounds around eight different speakers in real time. That’s being made possible through the University of Guelph’s new Advanced Digital Audio Production and Performance Studio. I ...
• Project UFO
  As alien invaders go, the giant hogweed is particularly nasty. The weed spreads quickly, growing up to seven metres high, and defends itself by spitting a toxic sap — a gooey concoction that causes painful skin blisters that last for weeks and purple scars that can remain visible for several years. ...
• Songbird secrets
  Talk about getting a bad rap. In the extensive scientific literature about songbirds, the purple martin has long been described as a leisurely migrant that takes its time each fall flying from breeding grounds in Canada and the northern United States to its winter home in Brazil or elsewhere in Sout ...
• Playing with fire
  As one of the world’s most powerful natural forces, fire holds many different meanings to everyone. To some, it’s an instrument of destruction — and a cause for worry. For others, it means warmth during chilly weather, or just a way to roast marshmallows. But for George Hadjisophocleous, a Carleton ...
• Painless parenting
  Taking a child to the emergency room or to get a routine immunization is an experience most parents dread. Instinctively, they seek to soothe their children by telling them that everything will turn out fine. But Dalhousie University researchers Meghan McMurtry and Christine Chambers have some surpr ...

Signs of the times

• Human Connections Start With A Friendly Touch
  Social scientists have shown in many studies over the years that supportive touch can have good outcomes in a number of different realms. Consider the following examples: If a teacher touches a student on the back or arm, that student is more likely to participate in class. The more athletes high- ...
• Microsoft takes Oracle side in Google Java-phone a ...
  Dabbles with hidden-Linux cost Voodoo Microsoft has jumped on Oracle's prosecution of Google to attack Android and promote Windows Phone 7, while revealing a limited US rollout for its mobile phone platform. Even before Android's day in court, the chief financial officer of Microsoft's mobile phon ...
• Hacker attack wreaks havoc on Sweden Democrat webs ...
  The website of the far-right Sweden Democrats was hacked on Saturday, one day before the party is expected to be voted into the Riksdag in Sweden's September 19th general elections. Sahlin admits defeat in 'very bad' election Sweden Democrats vow not to cause problems Live Blog: election night ...
• Pi record smashed as team finds two-quadrillionth ...
  A researcher has calculated the 2,000,000,000,000,000th digit of the mathematical constant pi - and a few digits either side of it. Nicholas Sze, of tech firm Yahoo, said that when pi is expressed in binary, the two quadrillionth digit is 0. Mr Sze used Yahoo's Hadoop cloud computing technology ...
• India: Flood hits Uttarakhand, death toll reaches ...
  Following two days cloudburst, heavy rain and landslides, the death toll in Uttarakhand reached to 63 on Monday, Sep 20. According the state government source, Naintal accounted for 11 deaths, Haridwar seven and Pauri three. Flowing two meter above the danger mark in Haridwar, river Ganga flooded s ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Life sentence for Betty K?
  Something has gone terribly wrong here. Betty Krawczyk was 65 years old when she went to jail for Clayoquot Sound. It was her first ever time in prison. She went to jail again at age 78 for standing in front of bulldozers in 2006 to protest the building of the Sea-to-Sky Highway through the Eagler ...
• Hurricane Igor 19/1530Z
  Hurricane Igor is within range of Bermuda with stations and correspondents reporting hurricane force winds already. In many places the power has been out for several hours. Igor is the only remaining hurricane in the Atlantic and remains a powerful cyclone. At 1500Z (UTC/GMT) the centre of Igor wa ...
• Some days are like this . . .
• Reminder....
  As we rebuild the blogroll, (using a clean non-java, non-intusive linking system) we issue this reminder .
• So, can we toss any illusion of a Private Member's ...
  Onto the building pack of Harper lies where it now belongs? This activity is the stuff of "agenda". Either that or Harper and his hillbillies don't have one and just wait for the next windmill to appear on their horizon.

Media Matters for America

• Right-wing media falsely claim LA spent "a couple ...
  Right-wing media have seized on a recent Los Angeles audit of some stimulus funds the city has received to falsely claim that each stimulus-funded job in LA cost the taxpayer an average of $2 million per job. In fact, the controller's office noted that not all of the funds have been spent yet, ...
• Foster conspiracy theorist media now promoting Fo ...
  The same right-wing media figures who promoted conspiracy theories surrounding Vince Foster's suicide are now promoting GOP Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, who in 1996 called Foster's death a "murder" and suggested that President Bill Clinton may have been "involved in wrongdoing" in Fost ...
• Fox bullying GOP to "get over it" and support O'D ...
  Following Christine O'Donnell's surprise victory in the Delaware Republican Senate primary, Fox media figures have coalesced around O'Donnell and have taken to bullying other Republicans into supporting her. Fox tells O'Donnell's GOP detractors to "get over it" Carlson bullies Castle to "get ...
• Right-wing media attack Michelle Obama for fightin ...
  Conservative media figures are attacking Michelle Obama over her efforts to encourage healthy eating and reduce childhood obesity, baselessly claiming that Americans "will be reported" or be "jail[ed]" for eating french fries. Fox News figures attack Michelle Obama's efforts to reduce childhood ob ...
• Big Government takes a big swing and a miss at No ...
  Andrew Breitbart's Big Government is pushing what it calls "Shock Audio" of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) soliciting a campaign donation from a lobbyist. In fact, there is nothing unusual about soliciting a donation from a lobbyist. Big Gov. "Shock Audio": Member of Congress solici ...

Global Research.ca

• The Failure of American Capitalism: Forty-four mil ...
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• China Will Allow Credit Default Swaps, As Long As ...
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• VIDEO: EU Authoritarianism: Exposing the Eurocrats
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• The Debt Crisis in America: Businesses and Consume ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Potential Repercussions on the Food Chain: BP Oil ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Harvard's Peretz Problem: Pedagogy as Much as Bigo ...
  Many at Harvard are misconstruing what's at stake in its Standing Committee on Social Studies' coming decision on whether to establish a scholarship the name of New Republic editor-in-chief and long-time Harvard donor and instructor Martin Peretz. What's at stake is not Peretz's First Amendmen ...
• What 'on dit' About The New Republic's Literary Ed ...
  In French the phrase on dit means, literally, "one says." But really it signifies what someone in the know considers it au courant and fashionable to say. No one works harder to parade his apartness from such pseudo-sophisticated posturing than New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier, who ...
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• Vets are close to a Touchdown, and We Need You to ...
  Only 9 days left. That's all we've got. We're in the red zone, and the clock is ticking on some of the most important legislation for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. With just 9 voting days left in Congress, we need the crowd to get loud, get us fired up , and push us across the goal line. Think ...
• Election Day May Be A Bummer But, At Least, Evan B ...
  Check this out from THINK PROGRESS. One thing I admire about the right (it's the only thing I admire about the right) is that they will not tolerate Republicans who totally sleep with the enemy. No Evan Bayh, Joe Lieberman, or Ben Nelsons for them. No matter who wins his seat in November ...

TruthOut

• US Contractor Accused of Fraud Still Winning Big A ...
  WASHINGTON — On July 31, 2006, an employee of the Louis Berger Group, a contractor handling some of the most important U.S. rebuilding projects in Afghanistan, handed federal investigators explosive evidence that the company was intentionally and systematically overbilling American taxpayers. Neith ...
• Christine O’Donnell in October 1999: "I Dabbled In ...
  Before she stole the hearts of tea party activists, Delaware GOP Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell was best known for her regular and bizarre punditry on 22 different episodes of Politically Incorrect . The host of that show, Bill Maher, now has an HBO show called Real Time . read more
• Lawsuit Asks if Science Was Manipulated in BP Oil ...
  WASHINGTON — An environmental whistleblower group charges in a lawsuit that the Obama administration is withholding documents that would reveal why it issued an estimate on the gravity of the Gulf of Mexico oil well blowout that later was proved to be far too low. read more
• Hypatia and the Clash of Civilizations in Late Ant ...
  When the Greeks spoke of "agora," they meant a place for political discussion, jury trials, and a market. In other words, agora was the center of Greek life. In October 9, 2009, the Spanish movie producer, Alejandro Amenabar, released a film he pointedly named "Agora," in which he zeroed in the cla ...
• Amid Violence, Afghans Vote
  KABUL, Afghanistan — Despite scattered rocket attacks, kidnappings, and explosions, there was a tangible holiday feel in the air as polls opened Saturday morning in the Afghan capital. Shops and offices were closed in honor of Election Day, as the government exhorted its citizens to go to the polls ...

Planetsave

• Speak for the Trees and Protect Giant Sequoia Nati ...
  John Muir, once stated: “The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.” In the spirit of Muir’s quote help us stop the new management plan for Giant Sequoia National Monument whic ...
• Global Warming News of the Week — Focus on t ...
  Along with the articles we wrote on global warming this week — on the finding that women are more likely to back scientific consensus on global warming than men, on Artic sea ice being the third-lowest in history, on the lack of media coverage of Pakistan’s greatest disaster in modern history and ot ...
• Nature Walks Improve Learning More than City Walks
  Environmental psychology researchers at the University of Michigan have confirmed what many have long-suspected: spending time in a natural setting is good for the brain (at least for its ability to retain important information). Study subjects learned better after a walk in nature that after a walk ...
• US Media Ignore Pakistan’s Worst Disaster in ...
  TIME magazine once gave us the photos that were painful to accept of the Vietnam War, so did our TVs, and Walter Cronkite. Due to these images, we rose up as a country to question the status quo. These days, the Great Pakistan Deluge happens, and what does TIME magazine do? Pull the story. An... Rea ...
• Rainforest Pictures (10 Friday Photos)
  Rainforests… Can you believe they are real? I think that rainforests are beautiful and I wish I could visit one of them some time. They look like they were from a movie or picture made by someone with a huge imagination, don’t you think? Well, this week’s 10 Friday Photos is on this topic of... Read ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• USGS Report-new criteria necessary?
  The US Coast and Geodetic Survey (USGS) published a new report which analyzed nine rivers, Susquehan
• Great Lakes Water Quality Focus Of New $5M Grant
  How could climate change and our response to it affect the Great Lakes’ water quality? That
• September 2010 monitoring
  What a difference 4 days makes! The water is high for September but nothing like 4 days ago, when it
• Lake Pepin is Filling with Sediment
  Lake Pepin, Central Point, near Lake City, Minnesota When a fast moving river meets a slowing moving
• Great Lakes Water Quality Deterioriates with Clima ...
  Science News Great Lakes Water Quality Is Focus of New Research Grant ScienceDaily (Sep. 17, 2010) —

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Wisdom of the Terrorist’s Son by Chris Hedges
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig September 20, 2010 Those who embrace violen
• Exclusive: Peter Hitchens' Rage Against God: How A ...
  by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube c
• Constitutional Traitors by Joel S. Hirschhorn
  by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org Sept. 19, 2010 In recent days th
• If I Were The President! By Timothy V. Gatto
  By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com Sept. 18, 2010 Image by
• Relentless Propaganda by Cindy Sheehan
  by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbo

Axis of Logic

• Chile's Ghosts - Latin America
  The Tyranny of Forgetting Late in the afternoon on September 4th, 1970 a crowd gathered in central Santiago, Chile to celebrate the election of socialist president Salvador Allende. Among the participants in the celebration were the leftist folk singer Victor Jara and his wife Joan. ...
• Security and Control I - Global Empire
  A Pentagon study released on August 13 expressed government concerns that China is expanding its military forces in ways that “could deny the ability of American warships to operate in international waters off the coast,” Thom Shanker reports in the New York Times.  Off the coast of China, ...
• BASEL III: TIGHTENING THE NOOSE ON CREDIT - Econom ...
  The stock market shot up on September 13, after new banking regulations were announced called Basel III. Wall Street breathed a sigh of relief. The megabanks, propped up by generous taxpayer bailouts, would have no trouble meeting the new capital requirements, which were lower than expected and ...
• Global NATO Raises Alarms From Arctic To Brazil - ...
  The current century’s only and history’s largest military bloc will hold the latest of what have become annual summits in Lisbon, Portugal this November 19 and 20. Heads of state, defense chiefs and chiefs of general staff from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s 28 full members will be ...
• Paper to Readers: Sorry for Portraying Muslims as ...
  First, it was offensive and insensitive to build an Islamic center two blocks away from Ground Zero. Now it's offensive and insensitive to publish photos of American Muslims peacefully praying, on or around 9/11.   The Portland Press Herald has apologized to its readers for p ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• By their name you shall know them
  " Team B II"? Seriously? Wow. Why not just come right out in the preface and say "we aren't even going to pretend to have any credibility. We are just going to go ahead and make sweeping, fearmongering pronouncements because we don't give a rats ass about facts, we just want to scare the shit out o ...
• And For the Mentally Ill, Execution by Electrocuti ...
  It's so annoying when mentally ill people ignore instructions; really, they're just asking for it. From Digby: Oh wait, there's another one: A South Carolina coroner says a man who died after he was stunned by police officer was a homicide victim. But multiple media outlets reported the Greenville C ...
• RIP, Kevin McCarthy, 1914-2010: Fox News Making Po ...
  You're next! You're next!! That was the warning from Kevin McCarthy's small-town California doctor character in the 1956 sci-fi classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Directed by the great American B-movie auteur Don Siegel and co-starring Dana Wynter, the film depicts Earth people being covertly t ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  Doubt this one has an easy explanation. "A woman armed with an automatic weapon has shot dead one person at a hospital in Germany before being killed by police. A police officer was also injured in the incident in the town of Loerrach near the French and Swiss borders. Police believe the shooting is ...
• Impugning Fox News

Care 2

• Saving Planet Earth
  Yesterday, I sat down thinking about the future of planet Earth and what can be done to save its inhabitants. Then I remembered a chat I had with one of my friends in the office about people in history who have created legacies. In the 20th century.. Submitted by Michelle Matthews to Environment �| ...
• A new tool for predicting type II diabetes
  Researchers have found a new blood biomarker to monitor type two diabetes. The study published in Circulation Research, is the first to show that plasma microRNAs, small RNA molecules that recognize and regulate mRNA target genes, are key indicators Submitted by Michelle Matthews to Health & Wellnes ...
• Former Bollywood Actress Helps Abused Women
  Years after Somy Ali left her glamorous life as a Bollywood actress, she heard a knock on her door from a Bangladeshi neighbour, asking for help...So she founded a nonprofit organization called No More Tears Inc and so far has helped 48 women. Submitted by Naoko I. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
• The Race: A New Mammal Species for Principe!
  Strange how things work sometimes!  Hard on last month's confirmation that the Sao Tome shrew, Crocidura thomensis is, indeed, a full endemic species, comes exciting news from my friend and colleague, Dr. Javier Juste. Submitted by Michelle Matthews to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Migration Time - Nairobi National Park
  Files of zebra have come into the park in the last week from the plains in the background:the fast diminishing 'dispersal area'. Most of the parks kongoni population stay IN the park, but the few that have moved out in the wet season now move back Submitted by Michelle Matthews to Animals �|� �Not ...

Smirking Chimp

• Tea With Frankenstein: Please, No Masturbation
  Just when you thought you'd reached the ground floor in the well of American self-destruction, you find out once again that that pit is absolutely bottomless. Now that primary season is almost over, the far-right tea party movement has scored impressive victories over the far-right establishment in ...
• Deficit Hypocrites Need Not Fear the Media
  The establishment media has, thus far, allowed the deficit hypocrites to screech about fiscal responsibility one moment, and then frantically work behind closed doors in the next to ensure the deficit continues to inflate. Ben Nelson (D-NE), Kent Conrad (D-ND), Evan Bayh (D-IN), Joe Lieberman (I-CT ...
• Will GOP Abandon Anti-Abortion Stance in Search of ...
  Over the past few months there have been several breaches in the conservative movement's ideological firmament. When Ann Coulter accepted an invitation by GOProud to speak at its HOMOCON 2010 gala, several Christian conservatives lashed out at her. When Glenn Beck declared that same-sex marriage was ...
• Proud to Be a Liberal
  Recent polls indicate that only twenty percent of voters describe themselves as "Liberal." I'm one of them, proud to be a Liberal. In the run up to the midterm elections, many Democratic candidates avoid the liberal label. Some even deny the accomplishments of the 111th Congress. On Face the Nati ...
• Why Won't Forbes Defend Its Obama Story?
  It's always ironic when big-time professional journalists, who often spend their time holding public figures accountable, suddenly aren't so interested in being held accountable when they're the ones being scrutinized. The latest/greatest example is Forbes magazine and the crew of editors on the mas ...

Paul Krugman

• Estate Of Confusion
  An unlikely Stein story.
• Rat Race America
  Upper class working stiffs.
• Home (Market) Truths
  Accounting for tastes and trade.
• The Sorrow And The Self-Pity
  The whiner-take-all society.
• Happy Yom Kippur!
  Atone responsibly.

No Quarter

• Deep Thoughts? + Open Thread
  Just one of the scariest comments I read in Is Barack âLosingâ It?” by Larry Johnson.) ___________________________________________ Goofiest headline: “O’Donnell makes light of ‘witchcraft’ comment…” ___________________________________________ The Most Sharp (As Usual) Comment by the Big Dawg: ...
• Pledge
  Not to party. Not to movements. Not to issues. Pledge allegiance to something greater. Pledge your allegiance to your home. Certain politicians and intellectuals would have us think that pride of and love for country is just as dead as they told us Jesus was in the 60’s. They did not [...]
• Is Barack “Losing” It?
  Fascinating blog item from an unnamed “insider” who previously worked in the Obama White House. I believe this is legit. Why? Because I had a conversation earlier this week with a friend who is a major source of campaign funds for Democrats and has been in direct contact with a senior White [...]
• Attack of the Zombie Republicans: Part 4
    The Bull Case.  Smile.   The GOP’s Fat Elvis   Newt Gingrich is back, lecturing the timid Republican leadership on how to win the fall. John Batchelor on why they put up with it.   Newt Gingrich spoke to a closed-door breakfast of the Republicans of the House the other day after the last pr ...
• An OPEN THREAD About You on a Saturday Night
  Are you going out tonight? Do you have pre-set plans? If not, have you decided what you’re going to do tonight? Will you take care of some chores? Will you socialize online? And, if so, where and why — i.e., if you are going to hang out at Facebook, please relieve [...]

Environmental Graffiti

• How to Save on Your Energy Bill
  Follow these simple steps to lower your energy bill to keep your wallet and the planet happy. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Origins of the Thanksgiving Festival
  Were the Pilgrims the first to celebrate a Thanksgiving festival in North America? Why is turkey prominent in this holiday feast? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Car Cemeteries Full of Decaying Automobiles
  Car graveyards, full of vintage vehicles, litter the world. Some are all but forgotten... here is a collection of photos showing them in all their glory. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Incredible Breast-Brush Paintings by Kira Ayn Vars ...
  The way artists put their talent to use can be misrepresented at times, the abstract artwork of breast-brush artist Kira Ayn Varszegi for example. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Renewable Energy Certificates Are The Answer
  Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) come with a host of benefits, making them one of the greenest innovations of the 21st century! 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

• Does the U.S. Really Want Talks With the Taliban t ...
  At the same time as it's exploring talks with the Taliban, the U.S. has launched a major military operation in Kandahar.
• New START's Big Winners: U.S. Nuke Complex, Pentag ...
  Corporations and nuclear labs, not the cause of disarmament, are the true beneficiaries of New START.
• Give Me Liberty or Give Me -- the Extinction of th ...
  A state may win a nuclear war, but it loses its soul.
• Immigration Economics: An Interview with Professor ...
  Don't supply and demand dictate that new immigrants will steal jobs and drive down wages for U.S. citizens? A leading immigration economist explains why not.
• Global Solidarity Levy Urgently Needed
  A very small charge on currency transactions could raise billions for development.

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• Far-right gains ground in Sweden
  Anti-immigration party enters parliament for first time as the country's two main parties fail to win overall majority.
• Fears over planning for Sudan vote
  Any postponement of January 2011 referendum to decide south's fate could reignite civil war in Africa's largest nation.
• Japan-China diplomatic row persists
  Japan says no formal communication received on suspension of ministerial-level contacts over maritime dispute.
• Colombia rebels suffer 'heavy blow'
  Military claims to have killed up to 22 fighters in air raid and ground assault near Ecuador border.
• Soldiers die in Tajikistan ambush
  Convoy targeted in district near Afghanistan border in latest of a string of attacks blamed on opposition fighters.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Dissonance on Green Detergents
  Some groups argue that the new environmentally friendly cleaning products do not go far enough.
• Tracking Sea Ice in the Arctic
  This year's minimum level of sea ice is the third lowest ever recorded.
• Religion Has Scant Effect on Environmental Views, ...
  While some conservative Christians have been among the most vocal skeptics of climate change, Pew found strong support for regulations to protect the environment across almost every segment of society.
• California Licenses World's Biggest Solar Thermal ...
  A plant to be built on federal land in the Mojave Desert would generate hundreds of jobs and power as many as 800,000 homes.
• Enough Uranium for Now, Analysts Say
  A study by M.I.T. suggests that uranium supplies should suffice for new reactor construction, but warns against building factories that prepare plutonium for reuse.

Dot Earth News

• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle... Oil Rigs
  Old oil rigs don't have to just fade away, as a diving company shows.
• Scientists React to a Nobelist's Climate Thoughts
  Scientists exploring the human influence on climate react to a provocative essay by a Nobel laureate in physics.
• The Nobel Divide and the Climate Divide
  A look at Nobel laureates and climate attitudes.
• A Rare Atlantic Hurricane Triple Header
  Three simultaneous hurricanes rumble in the Atlantic and Caribbean.
• Arctic Shipping Gets Boring
  A big shipment of iron ore from Norway to China takes an Arctic shortcut.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Turkish Neocon Conspiracy 1981 - Eagleburger Perle ...
  This is a pretty classic one. Turkey has suddenly passed big reforms as the nasty NATO-friendly military post-coup power structure gets knocked back a step. Ergenekon and the neocon network, etc etc. Perle and Wolfowitz, the creation of the American-Turkish Council came after this memo. Possibly b ...
• 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 ...

Daily Censored

• Supporting the Black Farmers
  Supporting the Black Farmers! www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news Please join us for an in-depth interview with Robert Binion as we discuss the ongoing battle of Black Farmers seeking justice, in the face of discrimination, from the USDA. (If you cannot listen LIVE today you can always listen to t ...
• I attended a Conservative 9/11 event with “US wars ...
  source: http://www.examiner.com/la-county-nonpartisan-in-los-angeles/i-attended-a-conservative-9-11-event-with-us-wars-are-unlawful-flyers This article series explains what happened when I interacted with participants of a 9/11 event to welcome home US soldiers and honor the victims of 9/11, then pr ...
• Avoid Deficit Reduction Scam 300 Economists Say
  Economists Challenge Deficit Reduction Three hundred economists released a letter to President Obama today with one message: focus on jobs, not on the deficit. new deal 2.0 Don’t kill jobs and growth in the name of deficit reduction. Statement and 300 endorsers.
• Project Censored to Cooperate in Live Video Interv ...
  Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be interview by journalist Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich, in a live video conference on Tuesday September 21, at 1:30-2:30 PST. (4:30- EST) The interview from New York can be viewed on the web at: http://ungeneralassembly.stream57.com/sep2010 Soraya Sepahpour-Ulri ...
• The military industrial complex speaks out in favo ...
  According to the Career College Association, a leading lobby group for the for-profit universities that operate like predator drones: “The avalanche of support continues, this time from Brig. Gen. John Castellaw, former deputy commandant of the Marine Corps for programs and resources: “For-profit sc ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

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Institute for Policy Studies

• Let's Strengthen our Safety Net
  One in seven Americans--a record high of 43.6 million people--was poor last year.
• No Happy Ending in Honduras
  The Central American nation's woes continue to rage despite Secretary of State Clinton's insistence to the contrary.
• Five Reasons to Let the Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich ...
  And how you can add your support for their expiration.
• Don't Celebrate Mexico's Independence...Yet
  It is the 200th anniversary of Mexico's independence and the 100th anniversary of its revolution. But the celebrations taking place this week are premature.
• Dealing With Iran
  The initial scenario in Iran turns out to be considerably more complicated.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

• PDA Among Protesters at Ben Quayle Protest
  Ben Quayle accused of using dad’s money to buy congressional seat Protesters showed up to greet congressional candidate Ben Quayle and his guest for the evening, House Minority Leader John Boehner.
• PDA Weekly Field Report 9/10/10 – 9/17/10
  We just completed our ninth month of Brown Bag Lunch Vigils which were in coalition with Jobs with Justice as the focus turned to jobs and the National Jobs Emergency Day of Action with 122 ...
• Contest: If I Had a Trillion Dollars
  ANNOUNCING A NATIONWIDE YOUTH VIDEO CONTEST If I Had a Trillion Dollars Sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee and the National Priorities Project ...
• Jobs vigil held at Federal Building
  Anti-war organizations march to promote jobs Updated: Thursday, 16 Sep 2010, 3:40 PM EDT Published : Wednesday, 15 Sep 2010, 11:41 PM EDT Cross-posted from wwlp.com Barry Kriger SPRINGFIELD, MASS (WWLP) – It was billed as a “jobs” ...
• Tea Party, Not Progressives, Make a Statement
  Tea Party, Not Progressives, Make a Statement Norman Solomon: As Tea Party splits Republican vote, Progressives advised to support Democrats Sept. 15 – TRNN With the Tea Partyâs success in the state primaries, Progressive ...

Marler Blog

• Lets give the CDC and State Health Departments the ...
  In all the heat that has been generated against House Bill 2749 and Senate Bill 510, two sections (Sec., 121 in HB 2749 and Sec., 205 in SB 510), are the babies that have been thrown out with the bathwater. If passed these sections have the greatest opportunity to fundamentally change how food is pr ...
• If we are not going to inspect people who poison u ...
  Even the folks who fought against S. 510, have to admit that the FDA does not have the resources to inspect domestic food production less alone imports for pathogens that can kill you. Perhaps Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), has an idea. He has introduced to bills, S. 3767 (Food Safety Accountabilit ...
• Update on the backyard chicken experiment
  Everyone has become a bit bothered by the Salmonella Outbreak that has sickened over 1,500 people and caused the recall of 550,000,000 eggs. �In the next few weeks, I will be visiting the Iowa factory that produced these fine eggs - some several million chickens. �But, is my chicken experiment in ou ...
• Hey, I get to go to Gault Iowa to see how we make ...
  I grew up on a small farm, and we had chickens, so I know where eggs generally come from.� I must admit, however, seeing how eggs are manufactured on a massive scale is something I have never seen.� It looks to be an interesting and eye-opening experience.� I am glad to have a Court Order .
• The real costs of not passing food safety legislat ...
  Dave Their, an AOL contributor, caught me in the middle of helping my oldest daughter move into her freshman dorm late yesterday afternoon as it was becoming clearer that S. 510 – the Food Safety Modernization Act – was taking its last few gulps of air. You have to give it to politicians – republic ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 09.20.10
  Grassroots to BP CEO Tony Hayward: To go beyond petroleum, let's get you an electric car A strange offer, to be sure. Driving Sustainability: Here's the plan to make Iceland a nation full of plug-in vehic ...
• AutoblogGreen for 09.17.10
  Automotive X-Prize: Winners announced and all the details Edison2, E-Tracer and Wave II take top honors. Driving Sustainability: Chris Paine checks in via Skype, shows off "Revenge" clip Firs ...
• AutoblogGreen for 09.16.10
  At $28,000, plug-in Toyota Prius should be cheapest PHEV in U.S. Once 2012 rolls around. Paris Preview: Fisker will show off first "factory-built" Karma plug-in hybrid More to come, as alway ...
• AutoblogGreen for 09.15.10
  LA Preview: Toyota/Tesla RAV4 EV on display; affordable PHEV Prius will arrive in mid-2012 The $28,000-ish plug-in Prius is around the corner. 40 "non-retail salable" Chevrolet Volts have rolled off the l ...
• AutoblogGreen for 09.14.10
  Report: Nissan's COO says next-gen GT-R could be 100% electric Should Tesla be concerned? Riding 2,500 miles to support a 100% green American grid On a "rocket trike," no less. ...

Rafe's Radar

• Reporters' Roundtable: Deciphering Apple's develop ...
  On September 9, Apple rewrote its rulebooks for developers . In its revised developers agreement , it reversed a ruling that blocked developers from using all but a very few programming languages for iPhone apps. And it also made public for the first time the guidelines it uses for deciding if ap ...
• Foound launches Foursquare of the future
  Demo Fall 2010 sees the excellent demo of Foound, a clean mobile app for planning "hangouts" with friends.
• 'Smart' credit cards get closer to consumers' wall ...
  Customers of a company called Dynamics are preparing to release credit and debit cards with programmable, rewritable magnetic stripes. ...
• Turning everyday garbage into gasoline
  At Demo Fall 2010, E-Fuel Corporation is showing off its home and business "reactor" that converts organic waste into ethanol or electricity. ...
• Reporters' Roundtable: Google Instant in depth
  Google this week deleted the Enter key from search , with the launch of Google Instant. The new results page gives you search results as you type. Is it just a simple interface change or will it fundamentally change how we use search--and how advertisers pay for clicks? Today we talk about Ins ...

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

• A Little Missed Sunshine
  BONN, Germany—When first lady Michelle Obama started an organic garden at the White House, she sparked a national discussion on food, obesity, health and sustainability. But the green action on the White House lawn hasn’t made it to the White House roof, unfortunately. Back in 1979, President Jimm ...
• Sept. 11: A Day Without War
  The ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States should serve as a moment to reflect on tolerance. It should be a day of peace. Yet the rising anti-Muslim fervor here, together with the continuing U.S. military occupation of Iraq and the escalating war in Afghanistan (and Pakistan ...
• Eve Ensler: Bald, Brave and Beautiful
  Bald, brave and beautiful: Those words can’t begin to capture the remarkable Eve Ensler. She sat down with me last week, in the midst of her battle with uterine cancer, to talk about New Orleans and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Eve, the author of the hit play "The Vagina Monologues" and the cr ...
• Watch: Muslim Taxi Driver Attacked in Hate Crime S ...
  New York City Taxi Driver Ahmed Sharif and his supporters hold a press conference on the steps of City Hall on August 26th, just days after he was attacked by a passenger for being Muslim. Speakers include Ahmed Sharif, Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, and CAIR-NY Civil Rights ...
• Rotten Eggs and Our Broken Democracy
  What do a half-billion eggs have to do with democracy? The massive recall of salmonella-infected eggs, the largest egg recall in U.S. history, opens a window on the power of large corporations over not only our health, but over our government. While scores of brands have been recalled, they all ...

Farming Pathogens

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

Suzie-Q

• Understanding The Witch-Hunt Against Obama
  Understanding the Witch-Hunt Against Obama In These Times / By Chip Berlet The paranoid style of American politics is alive and well, using all the classic smear tactics used against minorities and citizen heroes like Martin Luther King. September 14, 2010 | America is in the midst of a 21st-century ...
• Janet Napolitano: DHS Report On Right-Wing Extremi ...
  Janet Napolitano: DHS Report On Right-Wing Extremists Is ‘Ancient History’ TPM Muckraker Ryan J. Reilly | September 17, 2010, 4:42PM Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Friday referred to a controversial report issued by DHS in April 2009 on the potential for an increased in right-wing e ...
• In two days American Drone strikes kill 37 in Paki ...
  13 US Strikes in 12 Days in Restive Agency by Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com, September 15, 2010 Yesterday a pair of US drone strikes against Bushnarai and Datta Khel in North Waziristan Agency killed at least 16 people. Today, two more US drone strikes involving at least 10 more missiles struck. The new a ...
• Time to Genuflect!
  The Pope visits Britain today and to mark the auspicious occasion I have posted a video of Tom Lehrer’s Vatican Rag. On a more serious note, here is an article on the ongoing debate about pedophile priests which the Pope’s visit has highlighted. Investigation: Many Convicted Pedophile Priests Are ...
• Good News: Norwegian princess Martha Louise claims ...
  by Igor I. Solar, Digital Journal, Sep 13, 2010 Oslo– Princess Martha Louise of Norway stated last week in an interview that she can establish connections with the spirit of dead people and intended to take a course to improve her ability. Martha Louise, 38, revealed last week her “ability to establ ...

Solari

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

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Israeli Beauty Products Company Ahava Complicit in ...
  Ahava is owned by entities deeply involved in Israel's settlement project in the occupied West Bank. Activists are fighting to show it can't hide its dirty side.
• Alcohol Lobby Now Openly Spending Against CA's Leg ...
  Big Alcohol's decision to squash marijuana law reform to protect its bottom line is simply politics as usual.
• Alchohol Lobby Now Openly Spending Against CA's Le ...
  Big Alcohol's decision to squash marijuana law reform to protect their bottom line is simply politics as usual.
• Yikes -- First State Considers Allowing Cops to Co ...
  Michigan could become the first state in the nation to drug test drivers if a Republican lawmaker has his way, even though research shows tests generate false positives.
• Blair Should Take a Journey to Jail
  How do we bring liars like Tony Blair to justice? Continue to disrupt their lies everywhere they go.

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

• Puncturing the false picture of a scientific conse ...
  Summary:  It’s easy to do.  Here’s another in a series of articles showing that there is a debate among scientists.  Eventually more data and better models will resolve these issues, producing a strong foundation for public policy action. Much of our news lately consists of propaganda barrages b ...
• The West has power, but often little self-insight
  Summary:  The Economist is one of the great con-jobs of western journalism.  Mostly written by young college graduates, its subscribers imagine they read deep world wisdom.  Here we have a fine example of callowness, blind to the irony of an Englishman writing about Americans (two imperial powers) w ...
• News about important global trends, updates to pos ...
  Summary:  Here are updates to hot trends, trends often discussed on the FM website.  All warrant your attention. Before we go to the headline content, today’s recommended reading:  “The whining of the rich“, Michael O’Hare (Prof Public Policy, Berkeley), 18 September 2010 – A wonderful analysis ...
• More experts pan our Af-Pak war. When will this s ...
  Summary:  Another group of experts reviews the Af-Pak war and pans it.  Other than the carefully-chosen advocates selected for the government’s reports, almost every impartial review has panned our Af-Pak War, either in conception, execution — or both.  Here’s another one, by an especially presti ...
• War is the health of the state
  Summary:  Some things have remained the same since the birth of the nation-state in 1648, from the fires of the Thirty Years War, and will remain untill the shape of the world changes.  Here we have an excerpt from “War is the health of the state” by Randolph Bourne (1918).  It could as well have ...

Open Your Eyes News

• White House solves the problem of global warming o ...
  Dailymail-Global warming could be a thing of the past, thanks to the Barack Obama administration. No, the White House has not single-handedly managed to stop the apparent rising temperature – but it does think the terminology oversimplifies the problem. According to U.S. science adviser John Holdren ...
• At least 23 Tajik troops killed in ambush
  ABC – Unidentified men have opened fire on a column of troops in Tajikistan, killing at least 23 and sparking a fierce shootout that continues to rage, a senior government official said. The troops had been travelling to reinforce roadblocks in the north of the country a month after prisoners, inclu ...
• US: Drug recalls surge
  CNN — Recalls of prescription and over the counter drugs are surging, raising questions about the quality of drug manufacturing in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration reported more than 1,742 recalls last year, skyrocketing from 426 in 2008, according to the Gold Sheet, a trade publ ...
• Mortar mine strike kills 1, wounds 8 in S. Afghani ...
  Xinhua – One civilian was killed and eight others sustained injuries as a mortar mine fired by anti-government militants hit a house in southern Ghazni province on Sunday, police said. Read Article
• Detention centre ‘ripe for abuse’
  AAP – Former immigration minister Chris Evans has rejected claims the risk of child abuse at detention centres was “ripe” just months before allegations emerged. West Australian police have confirmed they are investigating allegations two children were sexually abused at a location in regional WA. A ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• Dear MTW…retardation/mental disabilities
  Dear MTW…retardation/mental disabilities (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) We received this letter from a reader, and comrade Iskra replies below: Hello. I hope this is the correct place to email this question. I can’t seem to find anyone who can answer it, then again, I haven’t looked around very ...
• RAIMD: Antonio on Lowkey’s ‘Obama Nation’
  Music review from RAIM-Denver: (raimd.wordpress.com) [Last week, we posted the video, Obama Nation, the new single from UK hip-hop artist, Lowkey. The video itself generated some discussion which can be viewed below. Here is a comment by a RAIMer, Antonio, analyzing the content of the song:] Lowkey ...
• Cholera epidemic, a symptom of underdevelopment in ...
  Cholera epidemic, a symptom of underdevelopment in Nigeria and the Third World (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Cholera has killed 87 and infected 1,315 over the past month in Nigeria. The two northern states affected most are Bauchi and Borno. In Bauchi alone 47 are dead and 1,200 infected. Born ...
• O sekciarstwie
  O sekciarstwie (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (Polski) (English) „Drodzy trzecioświatowi maoiści, Wasza strona internetowa jest sekciarska. Krytykujecie tak wiele innych grup. Jak można traktować was poważnie? * Dziękujemy za twoje pytanie. Wielu liberałów bierze krytykę wobec innych grup za de ...
• A spy and the use and abuse of history
  A spy and the use and abuse of history (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Poland is likely to extradite Uri Brodsky to Germany. Uri Brodsky  is suspected of being part of an Israeli death squad that has recently been in the spotlight. The Israeli agent, likely a member of a Mossad hit team, was inv ...

PakAlert

• US official: Saudi arms deal warning to Iran
  US administration and Pentagon officials told the New York Times Friday President Barak Obama is preparing to seek Congressional approval for a huge arms sale to Saudi Arabia, “mainly intended as a building block for Middle East regional defenses to box in Iran.”
• The Manufacturing of a President
  There you have it, a few manufacturing plants worth considering. But whether you go for the grooming by clandestine elites, outright mind control, the cloned explanation, or whatever, you’ve got to be amazed at his shallow presence, detached actions, cardboard image and scripted performance--as well ...
• Blackwater/Xe cells conducting false flag terroris ...
  WMR has learned from a deep background source that Xe Services, the company formerly known as Blackwater, has been conducting false flag terrorist attacks in Pakistan that are later blamed on the entity called “Pakistani Taliban.”
• Video: Gerald Celente explains Why Gold continues ...
  Gerald Celente : there is no recovery , there is nothing to rejoice about , 20 million vacant homes in the US , unemployment ... take a look for example at what the Gold did today , it went up $25 an ounce and when you look behind it , people are looking for a safe heaven and particularly the Europe ...
• 20 Signs That The Economic Collapse Has Already Be ...
  The economy is falling apart, and somebody better wake up and do something before even more Americans find themselves drowning in poverty. Here are 20 signs that the economic collapse has already begun for one out of every seven Americans…..

Andy Worthington

• David Frakt, Stephen Jones, Michael Hayden and Mar ...
  This is the second (and final) part of the transcript of an Intelligence Squared U.S. debate, “Treat terrorists like enemy combatants, not criminals,” held in New York on September 14. The first part is here. The motion was proposed by former CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden and torture apologist Ma ...
• David Frakt, Stephen Jones, Michael Hayden and Mar ...
  On September 14, Intelligence Squared U.S., an organization founded in 2006 that holds “Oxford-style debates” in New York, with high-profile figures discussing hot political topics, held a debate on the motion, “Treat terrorists like enemy combatants, not criminals,” which was proposed by former CIA ...
• Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Par ...
  This is the second part of an eight-part series telling the stories of all the prisoners currently held in Guantánamo (174 at the time of writing). See the introduction here, and the first part here. This second article tells the stories of 27 prisoners seized in Afghanistan, mostly in December 2001 ...
• Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Par ...
  This is the first part of an eight-part series telling the stories of all the prisoners currently held in Guantánamo (176 at the time of writing). See the introduction here. The 20 prisoners listed below were the first group of prisoners seized crossing from Afghanistan to Pakistan in December 2001 ...
• Introducing the Definitive List of the Remaining P ...
  Over the next month, in an attempt to focus attention more closely on Guantánamo, and on the remaining prisoners who are held there, I’ll be publishing an eight-part series of articles (in conjunction with Cageprisoners, for whom I work as a Senior Researcher), telling, for the first time, the stori ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Hurricane Karl Slams Into Mexico; Flash Floods Pre ...
  Even as Hurricane Karl makes landfall in Mexico, Hurricanes Igor and Julia are still churning out at sea, experts say. Mexico - Hurricane Karl - Landfall - Meteorology - Earth Sciences
• Hurricane Karl Slams Into Mexico; Flash Floods Pre ...
  Even as Hurricane Karl makes landfall in Mexico, Hurricanes Igor and Julia are still churning out at sea, experts say. Mexico - Hurricane Karl - Landfall - Meteorology - Earth Sciences
• Giant Vacuum to Help Bugs in Oiled Marshes?
  Using huge hoses, researchers are vacuuming up marsh bugs to determine the effects of the Gulf oil spill on insects and other arthropods. Video. Arthropod - Insect - Oil spill - Environment - Energy
• Pictures: Fish Suffocated in Giant Louisiana Die-o ...
  NoneThousands of dead fish found in a Louisiana marsh likely suffocated—but oil from the Gulf spill may also have played a role, experts say. Louisiana - Fish - United States - Oil - Gulf
• Massive Fish Kill in Gulf Caused by "Dead Zone," O ...
  The Louisiana die-off was likely caused by annual "dead zone" conditions—but the Gulf spill may have been an added "insult," experts say. Louisiana - Dead zone - Oil spill - Oil - Environment

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• Conflict Minerals and the "Ore on Terror"
  Steven D at the BooMan Tribune pointed out this interesting video on a campaign to raise awareness concerning the grave situation in the Congo: Profiting from the worst war on the planet that no one in America knows anything about by purchasing "conflicts minerals" from the Congo for their products: ...
• Dem Dems are Dumb Dumbs
  Yep - the local New Milford Democrats are lead by dumb dumbs. Their entire leadership team is continually outmaneuvered and outsmarted by the Republican Town Committee ( RTC ). Why they seek leadership positions year after year - and why they're re-elected by the membership - is beyond me. John Lil ...
• Even Republicans Love The Pork
  Just a quick picture, from a Pew Research poll conducted from July 29 to August 1 , of where the Republican party, the Tea Party and Sarah Palin have failed even more than Barack Obama in their messaging: Americans love pork. Even the GOP voters. The sound you just heard in the back of your mind ...
• Let's Take a Shot at the Media
  How can I possibly top that introduction? I'm so happy - I'm tearing up! Actually, if I can add just a dash of local flavor to this bubbling cauldron of intellectual give and take, Connecticut Man1 can add a micro-brew to his menu of libations. Cheers! Let's Take a Shot at the Media While I'd l ...
• Welcome News on Ramping up Blog Production in New ...
  As the next big election season starts to heat up... I just wanted to note that this place will start getting a little more interesting. There a lot of great races on the radar, with the Governor's race, a Senate seat and the endless campaign campaigns on the House side, of course. But, even better ...

SPL Center

• U.S. Neo-Nazi, Back From Estonia, Bedevils Montana
  The last time Hatewatch caught up with Craig Cobb , the veteran neo-Nazi and creator of the white nationalist website Podblanc, he was about to be kicked out of his adopted home country of Estonia. That happened. Now, it turns out that Estonia’s loss is Montana’s pain. Cobb has surfaced in Big Sky C ...
• World Net Daily Speakers Defend Tea Parties
  MIAMI, Fla. — Are the Tea Parties racist organizations? No, said three African-American panelists presented with that question at the third and final day of the “Taking America Back” conference here on Saturday. But given the fact that the conference was organized by the far-right World Net Daily (W ...
• Seasoned Lawman Takes on Anti-Muslim Extremism
  Jim Cavanaugh always was a lawman’s lawman — a career official of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) who was in on some of the most celebrated cases of criminal extremists in this country’s recent history. Before retiring this spring after 33 ½ years with the ATF, he worke ...
• Apparent Eco-Terrorist Holding Hostages at TV Buil ...
  The gunman holding hostages in the Silver Spring, Md., headquarters of the Discovery Channel has been tentatively identified as James Jay Lee, an apparent eco-fascist who thinks that immigrants are breeding “filthy human children” and helping to wreck the planet. Lee, 43, had been arrested in Februa ...
• Paul Fromm: The Lonely Voice of Canadian Hate
  Last week, a slew of Canadian media outlets reported that the country’s most notorious white supremacist, Paul Fromm, had organized a protest against a boat of Tamil asylum seekers docked near Victoria, British Columbia. In a rare group show of interest in Fromm’s thoughts, the Canadian press allowe ...

change: org.

• Will the GOP Support the American Dream?
  While veteran and once-maverick GOP senators such as John McCain have lost their grip on reality, military veterans such as Colin Powell are declaring their support for the DREAM Act. On NBC's Meet the Press, Colin Powell stressed that the Republican party should not adopt an anti-immigrant stance. ...
• Lady Gaga's Last Minute Push to Repeal "Don't Ask, ...
  This week, the U.S. Senate is expected to debate legislation that could move forward an eventual repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the U.S. military policy that bars openly gay and lesbian servicemembers from serving in the Armed Forces. To help this vote move forward, LGBT advocates are going to n ...
• Jose Cuervo Is Not for Older Women
  Man, don't you hate it when you just want to head down to the bar for a few shots of tequila with some hot chick, and instead there's an old woman, like, in her fifties, sitting there near the only empty bar stool? Gross. Such is, more or less, the message sent by Jose Cuervo's latest blatantly agei ...
• Backpage.com Sued for Knowingly Promoting Child Pr ...
  A child sex trafficking survivor has filed a lawsuit against Village Voice Media, claiming they knowingly promoted the forced prostitution of a minor on their online classified site, Backpage.com. The suit comes just days after Craigslist testified before Congress that their "adult services" section ...
• Bridging the Great Adoption Divide
  This post is part of a series running throughout Adopt-a-Less-Adoptable-Pet Week (September 19-25) to help promote understanding of the underdogs (and undercats) of the adoption world and find homes for harder-to-place pets. When I was working at an animal shelter, I once witnessed two middle-aged s ...

Common Dreams -News

• BP Finally Seals Leaking Gulf of Mexico Oil Well
  The ruptured well that has spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico has finally been sealed, US officials say. A pressure test showed a cement plug put in place by BP to permanently "kill" the well was holding. President Obama hailed the news, vowing to continue to help those affect ...
• IDF Still Using Banned Weapon Against Civilian Pro ...
  by Chaim Levinson The Israel Defense Forces continues using the Ruger 10/22 rifle to disperse protests even though it has been prohibited by the military advocate general, a hearing at a military court revealed last week. A brigade's former operations officer told the court he wasn't even aware of t ...
• FDA Won’t Allow Food to Be Labeled Free of Genetic ...
  That the Food and Drug Administration is opposed to labeling foods that are genetically modified is no surprise anymore, but a  report in the  Washington Post   indicates the FDA won't even allow food producers to label their foods as being free of genetic modification. read more
• U.S. Army Charges 5 Soldiers Over Afghan Murders: ...
  WASHINGTON - Five U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Kandahar province have been charged with murdering three Afghan civilians, The Washington Post reported on Sunday. In its early edition, the Post cited Army charging documents as saying the infantry personnel, including one staff Sergeant, murdered th ...
• Afghanistan Elections Marred by Deadly Attacks
  by Jonathan Haynes and agencies A Taliban attack near a polling station in northern Afghanistan today killed seven people as the country votes in parliamentary elections. Officials said the attack was adjacent to a security outpost in Baghlan province. An Afghan soldier and six pro-government militi ...

Lifehacker

• Remoter Controls Android's Music Player from Your ...
  Android: If you use your phone to listen to music, it can be annoying to open up the player just to switch tracks. Remoter is a set of home screen shortcuts that control the default Android music player. More��
• Go on a Month-Long Home Utilities "Diet" ...
  If you need some extra cash, consider putting your home utilities on an extreme one-month diet to cut down costs and pocket a little extra money. More��
• Make Sure TRIM Is Enabled for Your Solid State Dri ...
  One of the best way to take full advantage of your solid state drive (SSD) is to use the performance-maintaining TRIM command. Technology blog GHacks shows us how to make sure TRIM is enabled in Windows 7. More��
• Binder Clips Keep Beverages Stacked in Your Fridge ...
  Having a tough time keeping beer or other beverages stacked neatly in your refrigerator but confined to a space you prefer? Worry not—it's binder clips to the rescue. More »
• Hack Your Nike Shoes into Wii Controllers [Friday ...
  The Wii balance board has always been one of the stranger attachments for your system, but take it apart and stick it in a pair of Nikes and you'll have a much cooler controller for Wii Fit and the like. More��

Water Privatization

• Bulgaria's Water Sector - Anchored in the Past
  While news about Roma ghettos were all over the media this month, Sofia citizens woke up to the misery of their own ghetto and could not even open their windows because of a suffocating stink. The culprit? Summer drought and obsolete water and sewage networks.
• Aquino trip to US may do more harm than good, mili ...
  President Benigno Simeon Aquino III's working visit to the United States (US) may bring more harm than good to the Philippines, militants said on Monday, the day the President leaves for the US.
• Financing for Barka 3 and Sohar 2 independent powe ...
  20 September 2010 On 16 September, the Consortium of Kahrabel GDF SUEZ Group (46%) with Bahwan Engineering Group (22%) and Public Authority for Social Insurance Public Authority for Social Insurance (10%) from Oman, and Japanese partners Shikoku Electric Power Co., Inc. and Sojitz Corporation (each ...
• Will RP Gain From Aquino U.S. Visit? Trip May Caus ...
  PRESS RELEASE September 20, 2010 Research group IBON today warned that the much-hyped US visit of Pres. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino may result in more harm than good, as the group expressed serious concern that his first official foreign trip may further deepen the implementation of economic policies lo ...
• Sen. Murkowski vs. Mad Hatters Tea Party
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, seeking reelection as a write-in candidate, is doing the country a service: She does not want the U.S. Senate to become a Mad Hatters Tea Party.

Guardian

• Lib Dem leadership suffers defeat on free schools
  Conference delegates' overwhelming rejection of government policy is strongest display yet of concern over coalition The Liberal Democrats today gave their overwhelming backing to a campaign against the expansion of school academies and a boycott of free schools in the strongest public show of conce ...
• Britain keeps AAA credit rating
  Moody's rating agency backs George Osborne's plans to cut the budget deficit, saying the economy is strong enough to withstand the austerity measures George Osborne received a boost today when his plans to tackle Britain's budget deficit were strongly endorsed by one of the world's three big credit ...
• DPP says sorry to sex trial woman
  Victim awarded damages of £16,000 after being wrongfully blamed for causing collapse of alleged attacker's trial The director of public prosecutions has issued a personal apology after a victim of sexual assault was wrongly blamed by the Crown Prosecution Service for the collapse of her alleged atta ...
• Russell Brand: 'Sachsgate' my fault
  Ross twice suggested answerphone messages to Andrew Sachs should not be broadcast, Russell Brand claims in new book Russell Brand has today revealed how Jonathan Ross tried to persuade him to drop the controversial "Sachsgate" broadcast that would end with both of them leaving the BBC. He said Ross ...
• NI footballer's family home attacked
  Northern Ireland player's mother escapes unhurt after 'sectarian' bombing thought to be second attack on house in three weeks The mother of the Northern Ireland footballer Chris Baird escaped injury after a petrol bomb was thrown at her home in what police believe may have been a sectarian attack. T ...

McClatchey

• Q&A: Fact and fiction in debate over Bush tax ...
  WASHINGTON — Whether to extend all of the Bush-era tax cuts is a dominant issue in this election season. In the time-honored fashion of politics, both sides are busy bending and stretching the truth.
• Rubio calls election 'referendum on national ident ...
  Thousands of determined tea party activists converged in a park in America's oldest city Saturday and heard a succession of Republican candidates promise to heed their demands for less government and lower taxes.
• Angelides brings financial crisis probe 'field hea ...
  So far this year, Phil Angelides has made Alan Greenspan squirm. He's rattled the head of Goldman Sachs and put the nation's chief money men, Ben Bernanke and Timothy Geithner, on the spot about the stock market crash.
• Chavez foes say he's manipulating Venezuela's elec ...
  CARACAS — America Arrieta's vote is more valuable than the laundry machine and refrigerator she says the ruling party gave her last week.
• Central California Democrats uncertain their seats ...
  WASHINGTON — San Joaquin Valley congressional Democrats confront a political headwind as they try to hold onto their House seats.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• Condom hole in the Papal vision?
  From a British perspective, there's a certain irony in the fact that a clarion call for better access to family planning is published in a leading scientific journal on the same day that the Pope hits the streets of London . � The letter published in Science doesn't reference Roman Catholic oppos ...
• Nulear waste goes the hole way
  First week back from holidays last week, and straight down a big hole in the ground at the BBC's behest. Onkalo - no ordinary hole... It's no ordinary hole. It's where Finland will store all of the high-level waste from its nuclear power programme, if things go according to plan. I last visi ...
• Mea culpa and au revoir
  As several readers have pointed out in comments on my previous post , and several more by e-mail, I made a schoolboy howler in this week's article about how rice yields are responding to temperature rise in Asia. There are 101 reasons I could bore you with as to why it happened, but essentially it ...
• Delivering biochar's triple win
  Last year, there seemed to be an unwritten rule in enviro-circles: whenever two or more enviro-folks were gathered together in a place of meeting, talk must turn to biochar . Accounts would be exchanged of articles half-read and half-digested...the pros would be arrayed against the cons...the words ...
• Noaa: The right answer to the wrong question?
  While listening to the latest briefing on the Gulf of Mexico oil leak , I've been wondering whether the questions being answered are the right ones. The key factoid presented by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) is that about three-quarters of the 4.9 million barrels that e ...

The Wonk Room

• Pressed On New Poverty Numbers, Miller Won’t ...
  This morning, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace asked Alaska Republican senatorial candidate Joe Miller about recent data from the Census Bureau which found that a stagering one in seven or 43.6 million Americans are living in poverty, the highest level since 1994. Noting that Miller had previously ...
• Gingrich Accuses Sec. Sebelius Of ‘Soviet Ty ...
  Earlier this month, after health insurers across the country announced that the early health care benefits were forcing them to increase premiums by up to 9 percentage points, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote a letter to the industry arguing that “any potential premium imp ...
• Military Experts Call For Passage Of The DREAM Act
  s I wrote earlier this week, many military experts have come out in support of the DREAM Act because it would significantly increase the pool of qualified recruits in the Latino population, which comprises the majority of undocumented immigrants and is more likely to enlist and serve in the military ...
• Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell And The Constitu ...
  At today’s Values Voter Summit, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) invoked the constitution to substantiate his support for retaining the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. “You don’t have a constitutional right to serve in the military. That’s a special society. You give us some of your constitutional rights when ...
• 1099 Issue Moves Forward: Democrats Introducing Ne ...
  Since the last two attempts to fix the 1099 provision in the health law failed, Democrats are planning to introduce several measures that would repeal the entire reporting requirement — despite the broad agreement that sole proprietors are not paying their fair share of taxes. The crux of the argume ...

thwap's schoolyard

• The Gun Registry and the NDP
  So the harpercons have decided to use a private members bill to accomplish one of their chief aims, which is to kill the Liberals' gun registry. The NDP has a tradition of not whipping votes on private members bills and several NDP MPs representing rural ridings want to vote their constituents' wish ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Winston Churchill & Spider Bites
  Just some random stuff that i thought i'd share: The first involves a dream i had recently where Winston Churchill put in an appearance of sorts. As a boy, i grew up on the romantic notion of Churchill leading the mother-country democracy Britain standing alone with its fellow democratic former colo ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

• Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
  If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant radio ...
• Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratospheric ...
  The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the glo ...
• After growth spurt, supermassive black holes spend ...
  Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
• Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
  A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20th c ...
• New approach precisely tracks evolution's footprin ...
  (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for example. T ...

TechDirt

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

VacTruth

• Thimerosal [Hg] Accumulates in Rat Brains, Study R ...
  Researchers at the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology of the Nervous System, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland, examined the pharmacokinetics for mercury in the brain, liver and kidneys. Stunning information states Pharmacokinetic analysis revealed that Hg [mercury] from T ...
• Brain Swelling and Damage Associated With Vaccines
  Numerous infants and toddlers suffer brain trauma with or without hemorrhages; brain swelling (edema); and cardio-respiratory events shortly after vaccinations to which the medical profession and civil authorities attribute some form of child abuse because of the terrible misconception that vaccines ...
• Basic human rights denied as governments force hea ...
  Christina England Vactruth.com 09/14/2010 Health workers who refuse the flu vaccine this year, may ultimately go on to lose their jobs. This is the latest bully boy tactic used by the governments to ensure that all health workers are vaccinated against infectious diseases. Currently the percentage o ...
• Vaccine Acceptance Statistics for 2009
  The Rand Corporation’s November 2009 report Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Use by Adults in the U.S tells GSK and other vaccine manufacturers how to get the general public to ‘demand’ their vaccines.
• The Possible Role of Vaccines in Causing Retrogres ...
  Today, in stark contrast, approximately one third of our youngsters are afflicted with the 4-A disabilities (Autism, ADHD, asthma, allergies). Could today’s infant and childhood vaccine programs with their steadily increasing numbers of vaccines be a contributory cause of this ominous health trend?

BroadSnark

• The Limits of Blogging
  I set up my first blog in a couple of minutes. It was mostly to keep people updated on our marathon trip through Latin America (all ten people who were interested).  Eventually, the travel blogging died out and made way for BroadSnark.  Finally, I had somewhere to write down all those conversations ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Lately, I’ve been coming across a lot of articles on the effects of inequality.  This one is quite good.  I’m particularly interested in how he relates inequality, status seeking, consumerism, and crime.  I’ve read a bit of the crime research he is referring to.  Good stuff.  And it relates to ...
• Growing Up Jewish – High Holiday Edition
  Happy New Year!!!!! L’Shanah Tovah !!!!!* Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur are the big deal Jewish holidays.  If you work for a law firm, you might get those days off.  If not, you’ll be working, but the token Jew in your office might not.  (Note: If they are anything like me, they are not going to [. ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Hope you all had a lovely long weekend.  The weather here in DC is gorgeous.  Hopefully, it will stay nice for the radical book fair in Baltimore this weekend. I expect to read about how coops fair better in economic crisis from Dominion.  But I don’t expect to read a plug for coops from The Wall ...
• Is Universal Possible?
  A couple weeks ago, I went to a forum at Cato called Are Liberty and Equality Compatible?.  (Cato, meh.  Free lunch, score!)  The short story is that James P. Sterba was trying to find a way to squeeze a liberal philosophy into a libertarian mold.  What he came up with was this: 1.  Libertarians bel ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• The LaRouche Show, September 18, 2010
  Strike the Glass-Steagall Death-Blow to InterAlpha; Make Way for NAWAPA to the Moon and Mars
• The LaRouche Show, September 11, 2010
  Implications of Rachel Brown's Defeat of Barney Frank: Nothing Stands in the Way of Glass-Steagall.
• The LaRouche Show, September 4, 2010
  Taking a Leaf from FDR's Book: LaRouche's NAWAPA
• Flood-Ravaged Nation: Pakistan Needs Vast Water-Ma ...
  By Ramtanu Maitra Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, September 3, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 34
• Challenged by Rachel Brown, `Bailout Barney' Runs ...
  By Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, September 3, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 34

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

• Prophetik Hits the Catwalk at London Fashion Week
  All images by B. Alter It's London Fashion Week , darlings, and the look is black. As in long black hair, short black dresses, black tights and black high-heeled ankle boots. That's the audience. On the catwalk was Prophetik . It's a fashion label from Nashville Tennessee and its creato ...
• New York Green Fashion Week: Ashton Michael Black ...
  Ashton Michael Black Label at New York Green Fashion Week. Credit: Emma Grady For anyone in a loving relationship, Ashton Michael Black Label 's spring 2011 collection is not for you: inspired by English rocker Morrissey and "broken relationships," the distressed knits and bondage-esque clothin ...
• Super Rare Asian "Unicorn" Captured, Dies in Capti ...
  Image Credit: AP Photo/World Wide Fund for Nature As far as endangered species go, it's mostly bad news , with the occasional positive story . Well this news seems to fall somewhere in the middle: in late August, a group of Laotian villagers in the Annamite Mountains captured a saola, one of th ...
• Coal Costs More Money Than It Creates in W. Virgin ...
  Credit: Sierra Club Things that make you go "duh," right? A study in West Virginia, the nation's second-largest coal-producing state, says that the coal industry is a loser when it comes to providing money for the state budget. The industry brings in about $600 million in revenues a year, but cos ...
• What To Do With Unused Pills? Give Them To The DEA ...
  photo via stoptherobbery.com Recently, I found out I am allergic to penicillin. I've taken penicillin for over two decades, when prescribed, but my allergic reaction only manifested this week. So now I have what is a common conundrum: a bottle full of useless (to me) pills sitting in my medicin ...

Biosingularity

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

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

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

Ria Novosti Online News

• Russian team takes first place in Silk Road Rally
  The Silk Road Rally, recently granted the status of a Dakar Series Race, ended September 18 in a town near the Black Sea resort city of Sochi.
• Passenger and freight train collide head on
  A freight train slammed into a stationary passenger locomotive at a railway station amid heavy rain and poor visibility on Monday in central India, killing at least 10 people and injuring another 50.
• Russia completes domestic UAV tests
  Russian domestically built unmanned aerial vehicles have completed a series of tests, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Monday.
• Russia's food security
• Russian watchdog finds Wimm-Bill-Dann's subsidiary ...
  Russia's anti-monopoly watchdog said on Monday it had found Manros-M, a subsidiary of Russia's top dairy producer Wimm-Bill-Dann in the Omsk region in west Siberia, guilty of price-fixing.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russian scientists test new medicine against Parki ...
  Scientists from the southwestern Siberian city of Novosibirsk have successfully tested on animals a medicine, which may be a breakthrough in treating Parkinson's disease (PD).
• Kazakhstan to join Russia-Ukraine space program
  Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Russia will work together as part of the Cosmotrans space cooperation project, Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Klyuyev said on Thursday.
• Cuba may link up to Glonass system
  Moscow and Havana plan to connect Cuba to the Glonass navigation satellite system, the Russian ambassador to Cuba said on Wednesday.
• Russia's Mission Control set to readjust ISS orbit
  The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) will be raised on Wednesday by about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles).
• Russia plans to restore its weather satellite netw ...
  Russia will fully rebuild its network of weather forecasting and monitoring satellites by 2030 under a state program for the development of meteorology.

Pruning Shears

• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. American presidents are above the law . Via . God help you if you’re cannon fodder though. Scott Horton :The dilemma faced by the Justice D ...
• The Ideological Assault on the Fourth Amendment
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Last week the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on the privacy of cell phone records. It seems at best a mixed bag; while the ACLU was largely happy with it, Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney Kevin Bankston noted the decisi ...
• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. Also: Contrast that report from a government-friendly American outlet with this :The United States claims its drone attacks target militant ...
• The Persistence of Selfishness
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post While reading ECONned by Yves Smith I was struck by the following from her coverage of neoclassical economics (p. 99): Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen uses an anecdote to illustrate the problem of assuming actors act solely out of sel ...
• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The ACLU provided the latest reason for card carrying members (like me) to be grateful they’re around. Thanks for nothing, President Corleone. I’ve linked to this Paul Krugman piece before (here is his latest version of it), but I t ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Groundbreaking Study Shows Roundup Link to Birth D ...
  Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the world's best-selling weedkiller Roundup, causes malformations in frog and chicken embryos at doses far lower than those used in agricultural spraying and well below maximum residue levels in products presently approved in the European Union. Click here to rea ...
• Via Campesina Calls for Massive Mobilization at Ca ...
  A delegation of Vía Campesina representatives from the United States, the Basque Country and different parts of Mexico arrived in the community of Magdalena Ocotlán, in the Central Valley region of Oaxaca in solidarity with the movement of People Affected by the Environment and their 6th National As ...
• Monsanto and Biotech Industry Move to the Next Lev ...
  The biotechnology industry wants to convince the world that genetically engineered (GE) crops are needed to 'feed' the hungry. No one disagrees that there is a world food crisis so the industry can argue this point without debate and try to take the moral high ground. Controversy arises, however, du ...
• Disney, Chevron and Monsanto Contracted with Black ...
  One of the most incendiary details in the documents is that Blackwater sought to become the "intel arm" of Monsanto, offering to provide operatives to infiltrate activist groups. Click here to read this article
• UPDATED: With the Food Safety Bill Dead, Time for ...
  I wonder if the bill really has what it takes to cure what ails the food safety system. No doubt, a pittance of both resources and legal muscle impedes the FDA from properly overseeing safety at massive food-production facilities. But as a recent poll by the Union of Concerned Scientists and Iowa St ...

fotoFrontera

• Fotos de Australia or Australia photos (6 fotos gr ...
  Si digo la palabra 'canguros', ¿en qué país pensaría usted? Exacto, yo pensé lo mismo. ¿Y sabe qué? Tenemos razón. Y si bien es cierto que Australia posee el mayor número de estos simpáticos animalitos saltarines, también cuenta con extraordinarios paisajes que nos dejan muy en claro la invitación p ...
• Fotos de Taiwan or Taiwan Photos (6 imágenes grati ...
  Lo primero que viene a mi cabeza cuando hablo de Taiwan, es la hermosa motocicleta SyM RV250 que compré cuando estuve viviendo en los Estados Unidos . Lo digo, porque esta línea de motos, son ensambladas precisamente en este país. Pero aparte de tener incontables empresas de manofactura, Taiwan cuen ...
• Fotos de España or Spain Photos (6 imágenes gratis ...
  España, es un país hermoso que personalmente me gustaría conocer. Si usted no es de ahí, no ha ido o no me cree, le invito a disfrutar de estas imágenes que -como siempre-, dicen más que mil palabras. Tras haber visitado Estados Unidos y Canadá , créame que mi próximo destino, podría ser este bellís ...
• Fotos de Italia or Italy photos (6 imágenes gratis ...
  No sé por qué, pero cada vez que hablo de Italia, no puedo evitar pensar en Pizza y Spaguetti. Yendo un poco más allá de la deliciosa comida italiana, muchos sabemos que El coliseo de Roma, la Torre de Pisa y muchísimos otros lugares turísticos, están dentro de este mágico y hermoso país. Para confi ...
• Rosas de colores parte III (10 fotografías gratis)
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y vea más fotografías 2.- Conozca nuestro fotoblog oficial (www.1m4g ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Digging for Data in Clifton Park
  Last Tuesday I spent the evening at the Clifton Mansion, home of Civic Works, the umbrella organization of Real Food Farm (RFF), a new urban agriculture project. The occasion was Digging for Data, an event held jointly by the Center for a Livable Future and Civic Works. Located on six acres of Clif ...
• NIAID responds to CLF on antibiotic resistance tes ...
  The principal deputy director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Hugh Auchincloss, notes “success against antimicrobial resistance will require a multifaceted approach that includes increased surveillance, more judicious use of antimicrobial drugs, and increase ...
• NPR Asks CLF Scholar: Is Organically Produced Food ...
  Center for a Livable Future Visiting Scholar, Kate Clancy, joined two other prominent scientists for a panel discussion Friday on National Public Radio’s Science Friday program. The conversation centered on recent research showing organically grown strawberries have more vitamin C and antioxidants t ...
• Tour dem veggies: An East Baltimore bicycle garden ...
  Fueled by cherry tomatoes and lemonade, three-dozen bikers (this blogger included) hit the pavement last Saturday afternoon for a seven-mile tour of seven great community gardens in East Baltimore. We started the ride at the 22-year old Duncan Street Miracle Garden, a one-acre fruit and vegetable ha ...
• Richmond’s Urban Agriculture Institutes: A First ...
  I wanted to post an impact study that I performed this year of the Urban Agriculture Institutes that I used to run in Richmond, Calif.  This paper represents the first step in a program evaluation of Urban Tilth’s Urban Agriculture Institutes.  While this study had an intervention/control cross se ...

Norwegianity

• Somewhat fewer links, longer takes
  Links: Values Voters vote Concerned Conservative Christian Women Norwegian reporter interviews conwunderkind Jonathan Krohn about Christine O’Donnell (kid’s smarter than most of them, that’s fershure) Billions and billions and, well, hundreds, anyway Issa finds a clue More about D’Amato calling bull ...
• Shrugging off the disappointments
  Hellllloooo Murkowski! Yes, she might win but really, how can we lose? This shuts the door in whackaloon Miller’s face while giving McAdams an even better shot at stealing a very red seat. - Every once in a while I read a newspaper column that reminds me of how good newspaper columns used to be. [.. ...
• Getting piggy in the center square/star
  Let’s start with Christine McDonnell: Putting mom on the payroll Sisters Science of the lambs Ignoring FEC rules The rest of the baggers: Neiwert on right-wing civil war Kirsten Powers on how the Teabaggers have taken over the GOP for good (but no word as to where the money will come from once the w ...
• BridgeFail in China
  An odd thing happened this morning. The Washington Post looked at Tuesday’s election results and started running for cover. I really don’t know why. In what possible way is Christine O‘Donnell a bigger rightwing freakshow than Tom Coburn? And are things really so dire they have to throw Zombie Nixon ...
• Killing them by giving them what they want
  If the Dems don’t hold Congress now, the party clearly needs new leadership and I don’t mean more centrists. The Teabaggers won last night and the Republicans are saddled with Christine “masturbation is bad” O’Donnell, Ovide Lamontagne (NOT Palin endorsed!?) and Carl “bastards r us” Paladino. Add th ...

Public News Service

• Immigrants’ DREAM to Face U.S. Senate Realit ...
  Immigrants’ DREAM to Face U.S. Senate Reality This Week Tucson, AZ – U.S. Senate Democrats will try this week to pass a bill offering an eventual path to citizenship for certain undocumented immigrants. The DREAM Act would require two years of college or military service to qualify for legal status. ...
• Report: Outdoor Time Boosts Academic Performance f ...
  Report: Outdoor Time Boosts Academic Performance for AZ Kids Phoenix, AZ – As students get settled into school routines, a new report documents how making sure Arizona kids get outdoor time during the school year boosts classroom performance and standardized test scores. Comments from Kevin Coyle, v ...
• AZ Dentist for Homeless Gets National Award
  AZ Dentist for Homeless Gets National Award Phoenix, AZ – An Arizona dentist who gave up his private practice to treat the homeless has received a national award for creating a free dental clinic. The CASS (Central Arizona Shelter Services) clinic serves more than 6,000 homeless patients largely thr ...
• Report Catalogs Oil and Gas Disasters: AZ on the L ...
  Report Catalogs Oil and Gas Disasters: AZ on the List Phoenix, AZ – A new report (from the National Wildlife Federation) looks back at ten years of oil and gas production accidents, spills, fires and other incidents across the country, including a major pipeline break in Arizona. Comments from Tim W ...
• AZ Women Have New 5-Day Emergency Contraceptive Op ...
  AZ Women Have New 5-Day Emergency Contraceptive Option Phoenix, AZ – Arizona women have another emergency contraceptive option after federal health officials last week approved a new type of morning-after pill. The “ella” pill reduces the chances for pregnancy up to five days after sex. Comments fro ...

My Care2 Picks

• How safe is the pasteurized milk you drink?
  What would you say if you found out the milk your babies and children drink every day is contaminated with an infectious bacterium and the USDA, the DI and the NMPF all know about it and haven't told you? Do you boil the milk you give your kids to drink? Submitted by charmaine c. to Health & Wellnes ...
• The Science - Insite for Community Safety
  Holly Stick : Look at the Drug Prevention Network of Canada website and it is crap. Astroturf, anyone? And where does that private funding come from? http://creekside1.blogspot.com/2010/08/who-muzzled-rcmp-on-insite.html Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Life on this Earth just changed : the North Atlant ...
  The entire system is a key part of the planets heat regulatory system; it is what keeps Ireland and the United Kingdom mostly ice free and the Scandinavia countries from being too cold; it is what keeps the entire world from another Ice Age. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! � ...
• Surfing Bankruptcies & Science
  This post was a result of keeping tabs on Care2 news and surfing sources as well as being in forums here and at My Opera....all while surfing But the spark was a thought about an old NWO story about economic warfare and a Search to find it again Submitted by John Farnham to Business �|� �Note-it! ...
• Coal Poisons U.S. Health. Take Action
  Earthjustice and Physicians for Social Responsibility today released a major report showing that coal ash poisons in the air and drinking water supplies can cause cancer, organ failure and developmental problems. Children and adults who live near ash... Submitted by Tarequl I. to Health & Wellness ...

Angry Indian News

• Robert Mugabe's brutal 2008 crackdown: torture, de ...
  Robert Mugabe's brutal 2008 crackdown: torture, death and a stolen election | World news | The Observer: "Eighty-four years old, with his dyed black hair and his blood transfusions, his Botox and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• US couple accused of trying to sell nuclear secret ...
  US couple accused of trying to sell nuclear secrets to Venezuela | World news | The Guardian: "An American nuclear scientist and his wife were arrested yesterday, accused of conspiring to sell atomic... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Chávez challenges CNN to interview the Five
  granma.cu - OUR AMERICA: "CARACAS, September 16.—President Hugo Ch�vez of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, has called on the CNN television network to give a demonstration of impartiality by... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• City plans to bill pastor for security around plan ...
  City plans to bill pastor for security around planned Quran burning - CNN.com: "Orlando, Florida (CNN) -- The city of Gainesville, Florida, plans to send a bill estimated at more than $180,000 to... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Police shootings: Turmoil in Seattle over officer- ...
  Police shootings: Turmoil in Seattle over officer-involved shootings - latimes.com: The case is one of a wave of shootings and beatings involving the Seattle Police Department, prompting widespread... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• GMO Propagandists have Organic Food In the Crossha ...
  GMO propagandists have organic food In the Crosshairs!
• Obama – Wow, What a Guy!
  Our president - a self proclaimed man of the people - must have smiled when he read how heavy taxes on his people will start immediately, while benefits for his people are to take place in later years, with plenty of time for future legislation to nullify those benefits.
• Australia: Feral GM canola found on roadsides
  “Only 8% of the Australian canola crop is now GM but If GM canola weeds spread, many GM-free farmers will be out of business. The GM-free canola premium of $15 per tonne reflects the strong GM-free preferences of shoppers.”
• Republic Defiance Radio: Who put Bill Gates in cha ...
  This week's show will provide a breakdown of Bill Gates and his statements on death panels, vaccines, population reduction and his involvement with depopulation.
• The Truth Squad Radio Show: The zeroing out of our ...
  As more of the land is permitted for use other than what was intended, it appears cattle ranching is next on the chopping block as water for herds is diverted to corporate,commercial use. Laura and Deb will be updating us on recent activities of the BLM in its efforts to hide this unlawful activity ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

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

• Report: Gaza-bound Syrian aid ship sets sail
  ShareThis Report: Gaza-bound Syrian aid ship sets sail 19 Sep 2010 An aid boat destined for Gaza set sail Saturday from the Syrian port of Tartous, the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported. State Minister for the Syrian Red Crescent Basahr Al-Shaar said the ship will bring 650 tons of humanita ...
• British terrorism suspect arrested in Amsterdam
  ShareThis British terrorism suspect arrested in Amsterdam 19 Sep 2010 A British man of Somali origin was being interrogated at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport last night after he was arrested on suspicion of terrorist activity. The man had completed the first leg of a flight from Liverpool's John Lenno ...
• Report: Baghdad Embassy misspent millions on phant ...
  ShareThis Report: Baghdad Embassy misspent millions on phantom meals 13 Sep 2010 The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad paid millions to a government contractor for meals and snacks that nobody ate, according to a new internal State Department report. The State Department's Office of the Inspector General (OIG ...
• British terror suspect arrested by Dutch police at ...
  ShareThis British terror suspect arrested by Dutch police at Amsterdam airport 19 Sep 2010 Dutch police have arrested a British terror suspect at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. Police said they were investigating whether the man, who is of Somali descent, had links to foreign militant organisations. ...
• DA who sent sex texts says he will stay in his job ...
  ShareThis Another hypocritical, GOPredator stalking nutcase is allowed to keep a high-paying job instead of doing time: DA who sent sex texts says he will stay in his job 19 Sep 2010 A Wisconsin district attorney has said he will take time off for counselling but will not stand down from his highly ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• New Arthur Allan Thomas book just over a week away
  Launching 27 September...the cat will well and truly be set amongst the pigeons...
• How objective was the Climategate inquiry?
  I've been too busy writing and editing the new Arthur Allan Thomas book to blog much in recent weeks, but couldn't resist this revelation about the old boys network's whitewash of Climategate. Here's how it happened...originally from Climate Audit, via...
• Biggest aftershock rocks Christchurch again
• Open thread on Christchurch earthquake
  Your comments and experiences are welcome
• IPCC gets a credibility hammering
  This alert through from Benny Peiser's newsletter The Daily Telegraph. 31 August 2010 By Stephen Adams and Robert Winnett An independent investigation into the UN's climate change body has warned it to stop lobbying and to restrict its role to...

Mondoweiss

• How Israel views its public relations problem
  This ad is currently running on Haaretz for a new website set up by the Israeli�Ministry of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs. Here is the site's introduction:Going abroad? Meeting foreigners on a visit? Be ambassadors for Israel! Many of us, whether we’re traveling or living abroad for an exte ...
• Harvard students: Peretz invitation ‘lends l ...
  The following letter was recently delivered to the organizers of the Social Studies 50th Anniversary Celebration: Dear Professor Tuck and Dr. Bernstein, We are writing on behalf of the Harvard Islamic Society, Harvard-Radcliffe RAZA, Society of Arab Students and Latinas Unidas. In�a recent blog post ...
• Murder by way of national insanity
  I arrived at the Haifa District Court with a deep sense of foreboding. On my way there, as I drove through Arrabeh’s sleepy streets (It is Ramadan and most fellow Moslem villagers go back to sleep after their dawn meal and prayer.) I saw clear signs of trouble: Two police cars with their lights flas ...
• Le Moyne students hear Finkelstein despite calls t ...
  A small group of faculty members convinced Le Moyne College officials to permit Norman Finkelstein to lecture at their school, despite an organized campaign to persuade Le Moyne to cancel the event. The week before Finkelstein was scheduled to appear, a number of local Rabbis, a high ranking member ...
• It’s not about cultural merit
  In yesterday's Ha'aretz, Gideon Levy argues for the abandonment/removal of Israel's illegal settlements from an uncommon standpoint: He lambasts the settlements, as civic/economic/aesthetic entities, for their lack of contribution to the betterment of Israeli society, and says that this 'uselessness ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: Canada’s 2010-11 Flu Vaccine A Deadly C ...
  Canadian health practitioners should soon expect a flood of adverse reactions to this year’s flu shot ‘Fluviral’. Not only does the GSK produced vaccine contain twice the Industry standard for Thimerosal considered to be an “acceptable”, formaldehyde, multiple toxic buffers & detergent; but with add ...
• 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 [...]

B.C. Preppers Network

• You Know You're Getting Old When...
  A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury featur ...
• Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
  Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. � If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner fo ...
• Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
  After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new low- ...
• Strawberry Picking
  Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller. T ...
• Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
  I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal for o ...

Michael Yon

• One Cell Phone at a Time: Countering Corruption in ...
  Dan Rice and Guy Filippelli American commanders are preparing for a major offensive in Afghanistan to attack one of the most formidable enemies we face in country: corruption.��� Despite sincere efforts to promote governance and accountability initiatives, Afghanistan has slipped from 112th to158th ...
• Even While the World Watched: Part I
  Michael Yon 20 June 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand Recent violence focused world attention on the Kingdom of Thailand.  As the attention flowed in, foreigners poured out, even though fighting was tightly localized and not focused on travelers.  Tourists literally had to search for trouble to find it.  ...
• Perspective
  Published: 21 July 2010 Apologies that this article is available only in Thai language. Please click here to view the entire article. {loadposition user8}
• Even as the World Watched IV: Peaceful, or Pistol?
  12 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand During the Thailand fighting in May, the rain of media mixed with the dust of politics, creating mud that left honest people feeling bogged down.  People desiring clarity slogged knee deep, then waist deep, and it kept coming. My reports avoided politics largely ...
• Even as the World Watched III: Getting Hit to Get ...
  Published: 07 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand During the Bangkok fighting in May, radio interviewers back America kept asking about the overuse of force by the Thai Army.  I answered that’s not happening, and there seem to be hundreds of journalists crawling over the streets, and I see them with ...

The Killing Train

• Bruce Levine on Surviving America's Depression Epi ...
  I'm reading Bruce Levine's "Surviving America's Depression Epidemic". The story of how I got the book is interesting. I was reading some psychology books a while back (Alfie Kohn, Alice Miller) and a reader of this blog suggested that no psychology reading list would be complete without Levine's "Co ...
• The Rwandan Election
  Paul Kagame is headed for a landslide victory at the Rwandan polls. Exit polls indicate 93% of the electorate voted for him. If some Western media commentators could vote in Rwandan elections, the number would likely be even higher. Take Stephen Kinzer, who wrote a biography of Kagame subtitled “Rwa ...
• The Afghan War Diary Data - an initial look
  An initial look at the first 76,000 records in the "Afghan War Diary" leaked by Wikileaks yields some important information, much of which has been known or suspected by analysts for years. Given the sheer size of the database, there is a great deal more to be learned, but here are some initial find ...
• The Drug War in Afghanistan - the Dyncorp connecti ...
  Just reading some of the 800+ hits on the drug war in Afghanistan, and these are real - the US is fighting a drug war in Afghanistan. There are DEA agents running around arresting people, there are troops eradicating poppy in farmers fields, and they are finding and burning piles of opium, heroin, h ...
• Reading the incidents in Pakistan - some notes
  [Analysis of the Wikileaks Afghan War Diary]. I pulled out the 170-or-so incidents that mention Pakistan and are actually in Pakistan. A lot of them involve coordination with the Pakistani military, getting it, failing to get it, etc. An observation post comes under indirect fire, they track the poi ...

treehugger

• Prophetik Hits the Catwalk at London Fashion Week
  All images by B. Alter It's London Fashion Week , darlings, and the look is black. As in long black hair, short black dresses, black tights and black high-heeled ankle boots. That's the audience. On the catwalk was Prophetik . It's a fashion label from Nashville Tennessee and its creato ...
• New York Green Fashion Week: Ashton Michael Black ...
  Ashton Michael Black Label at New York Green Fashion Week. Credit: Emma Grady For anyone in a loving relationship, Ashton Michael Black Label 's spring 2011 collection is not for you: inspired by English rocker Morrissey and "broken relationships," the distressed knits and bondage-esque clothin ...
• Super Rare Asian "Unicorn" Captured, Dies in Capti ...
  Image Credit: AP Photo/World Wide Fund for Nature As far as endangered species go, it's mostly bad news , with the occasional positive story . Well this news seems to fall somewhere in the middle: in late August, a group of Laotian villagers in the Annamite Mountains captured a saola, one of th ...
• Coal Costs More Money Than It Creates in W. Virgin ...
  Credit: Sierra Club Things that make you go "duh," right? A study in West Virginia, the nation's second-largest coal-producing state, says that the coal industry is a loser when it comes to providing money for the state budget. The industry brings in about $600 million in revenues a year, but cos ...
• What To Do With Unused Pills? Give Them To The DEA ...
  photo via stoptherobbery.com Recently, I found out I am allergic to penicillin. I've taken penicillin for over two decades, when prescribed, but my allergic reaction only manifested this week. So now I have what is a common conundrum: a bottle full of useless (to me) pills sitting in my medicin ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• UN inaction on Burma war crimes ‘unjustifiable’
  In a DVB exclusive, top international jurists, including lead prosecutor at the Slobodan Milošević trial, say evidence ‘strongly suggests’ that war crimes are taking place in Burma
• Election fears spark Thailand drugs surge
  Dramatic surge in drugs crossing into Thailand sparked by fears that Burmese junta will launch a crackdown on rebel groups prior to elections
• Crackdown widened on anti-elections campaigns
  Rangoon youths arrested for handing out pro-boycott leaflets while a new group emerges denouncing competing parties as 'junta puppets'
• Jail threat for Suu Kyi’s party
  State media warns National League for Democracy that continued protesting against 7 November elections could result in one-year jail term
• US ‘thoroughly disappointed’: Kurt Cam ...
  US official, Kurt Campbell has said the US is disappointed with the results of the Obama administration's policy of engagement, but stands by the approach

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Bill Bryson calls for 1980s bottle deposit scheme
  Bill Bryson has called on Britain to reintroduce a bottle deposit scheme after new research found that returning used drinks containers to the shop could save money, reduce litter and boost recycling.
• Doubt remains over 'climategate'
  A 'huge cloud of doubt' remains over the case for man made global warming, according to Lord Lawson of Blaby, following a new study into the 'climategate' scandal.
• Arctic fox joins polar bear on new list of Arctic ...
  Polar bears are not the only species in danger from global warming, a new report has warned.
• Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary denies man-made clima ...
  Controversial airline chief denies the existence of man-made climate change, striking a sour note with environmental campaigners.
• Prince Charles takes Royal Train on eco-tour of Br ...
  The Prince of Wales embarks on a tour of Britain today to promote his sustainable living initiative START.

National Geographic | Environment

• Hurricane Karl Slams Into Mexico; Flash Floods Pre ...
  Even as Hurricane Karl makes landfall in Mexico, Hurricanes Igor and Julia are still churning out at sea, experts say. Mexico - Hurricane Karl - Landfall - Meteorology - Earth Sciences
• Hurricane Karl Slams Into Mexico; Flash Floods Pre ...
  Even as Hurricane Karl makes landfall in Mexico, Hurricanes Igor and Julia are still churning out at sea, experts say. Mexico - Hurricane Karl - Landfall - Meteorology - Earth Sciences
• Giant Vacuum to Help Bugs in Oiled Marshes?
  Using huge hoses, researchers are vacuuming up marsh bugs to determine the effects of the Gulf oil spill on insects and other arthropods. Video. Arthropod - Insect - Oil spill - Environment - Energy
• Pictures: Fish Suffocated in Giant Louisiana Die-o ...
  NoneThousands of dead fish found in a Louisiana marsh likely suffocated—but oil from the Gulf spill may also have played a role, experts say. Louisiana - Fish - United States - Oil - Gulf
• Massive Fish Kill in Gulf Caused by "Dead Zone," O ...
  The Louisiana die-off was likely caused by annual "dead zone" conditions—but the Gulf spill may have been an added "insult," experts say. Louisiana - Dead zone - Oil spill - Oil - Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

• China PM calls for greater action against corrupti ...
  [JURIST] Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao emphasized the importance of upholding the rule of law, combating corruption and improving transparency in a speech [text, in Chinese] published by the government Sunday. During the speech, delivered last month at a national conference on government adminis ...
• Man convicted in Air India bomb plot found guilty ...
  [JURIST] A man found guilty of manslaughter in connection with the 1985 Air India bombings [CBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] was found guilty Saturday of perjury. Inderjit Singh Reyat was the only person convicted for his role in the 1985 terrorist attacks where bombs were planted in suitcases ...
• Iran court sentences journalist charged with 'warr ...
  [JURIST] A judge from Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Iran [GlobaLex backgrounder] on Saturday sentenced Shiva Nazar Ahari, a journalist arrested following the 2009 presidential election [JURIST news archive], to six years in prison. Ahari was sentenced to three-and-half-years [AFP report] f ...
• DC Circuit hears arguments in Guantanamo detainee ...
  [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] on Friday heard oral arguments in the appeal of a district court ruling that ordered the release [JURIST report] of Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Mohamedou Olud Slahi [NYT materials]. The three-j ...
• Proposition 8 supporters seek standing to appeal
  [JURIST] Supporters of Proposition 8 [text; JURIST news archive], California's ban on same-sex marriage [JURIST news archive], filed a brief [text, PDF] Friday in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] requesting to proceed with an appeal. The brief seeks standing to argue ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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

Tikun Olam

• Bibi’s Physician Says He’s Plump, Puts Him on ‘Gaz ...
  Bibi’s physician, after a recent physical exam, noted the prime minister was healthy but needed to lose a few kilograms.  Would it surprise you to learn that his doctor was a certain Dr. Dov Weissglas, and that the well-known diet doctor recommended his patented “Gaza diet” as a way to lose the req ...
• 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.
• Olmert: I Attacked Syrian Reactor, Barak Opposed M ...
  A fascinating political power struggle is being played out in Israel, between Ehud Olmert and allies and Ehud Barak.  The fight involves Olmert’s political legacy as he faces serious corruption charges which threaten to tarnish or destroy his reputation, and also involves bitter interpersonal and p ...
• 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...
• Yom Kippur, May You Be Sealed for Good
  I’ve always admired the holiday of Yom Kippur for its introspective meditation and simple clarity.  Known as the “white fast” (as opposed to Tishah B’Av, the “black” fast), it aspires to a sort of spiritual purity.  It’s not at all a sad day, just a serious one. In ancient Israel it was a bit diff ...

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• Obama's New Consumer Watchdog
  Elizabeth Warren will have no effective power against financial predators
• Christine O'Donnell: Sacrificing Her Virginity on ...
  What would happen if a 15 year old video of Barack Obama surfaced with him saying:"one of my first dates was a witch,was on a Satanic Altar and I didn't know it and there was a little blood there and stuff like that..."?
• "Check Your Package': Public information about can ...
  But Facebook rejected the ad. Apparently, the picture of a guy from the bellybutton down wearing boxer briefs is far too explicit for the delicate sensibilities of Facebook members. In addition, because the public service message emphasized the need for men under 35 to make sure they don't die of te ...
• Let's Get Real About the November Election
  There's a self-defeating listlessness on the left about the upcoming midterm election, refusing to recognize the horrific consequences of a GOP victory. As frustrated as we may be at the Democrats, we must re-energize ourself to work for the defeat of the extremist Republicans. Not to do so is to co ...
• Rove challenges Palin to campaign for O'Donnell in ...
  Republican strategist Karl Rove is calling for Sarah Palin to prove her political prowess by showing up in person in Delaware to support Tea Party favorite Christine O'Donnell. Rove told Fox News' Chris Wallace Sunday that if Palin wants to run for president in 2012 then she needs to show her politi ...

Switchboard

• Another well blow-out during hydraulic fracturing
  In June I blogged about a well blow out in�Pennsylvania during�a hydraulic fracturing operation. Officials�estimated that one million gallons of hydraulic fracturing fluid , including chemical additives, plus an undetermined amount of wet natural gas,�blew out of the well. Earlier thi ...
• TX: Assessors reduce land value by 75% when wells ...
  According to a recent article , staff of the Wise County Central Appraisal District reported that they have��they have decreased appraisal values by 75 percent when a gas well sits on the land. One home has gone from a value of $257,330 to�$75,240, although some members of the Appraisa ...
• Building Efficiency in Hyderabad
  Last week in Hyderabad, I had the unique opportunity to discuss strategies for galvanizing building efficiency from theory into practice in the rapidly growing hi-tech capital.  We learned a lot about how to ramp up building efficiency in South India, and also shared our experiences fr ...
• The Arctic Refuge - A Unique Wilderness
  As memorable as it was, my recent sighting of a polar bear in the Arctic Refuge far from the ocean and the polar ice cap, was just the beginning of a remarkable day.  That morning, as we sat on the banks of the Canning River, we suddenly noticed a shape loping along the plain behind th ...
• Upland Bird Season: Opening Day With Aldo
  I’ve been bird-hunting for more than ten years, and I still can’t shoot for shit. Unfortunate though that truth may be, it does not stop me from chasing birds each fall.  The opening day of upland bird season in Montana is September 1st, and that glorious, long-anticipated day arriv ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Channel Surfing
  Wow. Related posts:Channel 122 On Your Dial! "Oh no, not another boring space launch. Change the channel." Related posts: Channel 122 On Your Dial! "Oh no, not another boring space launch. Change the channel."
• A Methodological Note
  Essentially all quotes — whether of text or video excerpts or whatever — are literally “out of context.” If you’re going to try to imply that a quotation or excerpt is “out of context” in the sense of being misleading or unrepresentative, however, you actually have to explain why the quote is misle ...
• New Sunday Series?
  I receive more than a few e-mails that run roughly as follows: Sundays are a little less special without your Sunday focused posts, but the twins (and time spent on paid gigs) are more deserving of your attention, and your priorities are well in order. Sunday Battleship Blogging and Sunday Deposed M ...
• Creeping Reasonableness
  I’ve been wondering when the Locke/Demosthenes effect would manifest itself through the faux political rivalry of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Could this be their moment? Stewart on the need to return to a deliberative ethic in American democracy – best if viewed starting @ 2:10 below: The D ...
• Learning and E-Learning
  With the academic semester upon us, a rash of news articles about classroom learning have hit the press. First, the NY Times reviews recent reviews of research to remind us that some of what we know about how we learn is wrong. For example, it seems that students retain information better if they a ...

Desert Research Institute

• DRI Researcher Authors New Book
  William Albright, Ph.D., DRI research hydrogeologist, is lead author of Water Balance Covers for Waste Containment Principles and Practice about selection and design of an innovative new method for final closure of solid waste landfills. The new cover designs offer reduced cost, excellent environmen ...
• The American Indian Science and Engineering Societ ...
  The Most Promising Engineer/Scientist Award will be presented to Dr. Karletta Chief at the 32nd American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) Annual National Conference.
• Innovative Equipment Manufacturer Features Work wi ...
  The latest update from Campbell Scientific features a cover article on DRI’s Community Environmental Monitoring Program (CEMP), touting the program for providing information gathered by volunteers in near-real time and posting it to the program website.
• Dr. Henry Sun: Looking for Life on Mars
  The Viking landers found strange evidence that suggested the presence of life on Mars (later disproven). A new study about life's preference for left- or right-handedness could help scientists design better versions of the Viking life tests.
• DRI Assists with West Point Cadet Training
  Dr. Eric McDonald his group of DRI scientists have partnered with West Point to develop a curriculum to teach cadets how to take soil samples and measurements with different geotechnical equipment, as well as manage large data sets.

Earth Techling

• Solar Light Idea Makes For Happy Plants
  The Solight attaches to a window to collect solar electricity, then works as a hood over houseplants to provide them with healthy LED light.
• Prius Plug In Sings Rocky Mountain High
  A Boulder, Colorado field study will monitor how 18 of Toyota's plug-in hybrids fare at higher altitude and in bouts with colder temperatures.
• Portland Green Homes Seeing Decent Sales
  According to the Earth Advantage Institute, sales of third-party certified green homes in Portland, OR, last year hit 23%, up from 17% last year.
• Home Topper Wind Turbine Beefs Up Output
  A wind turbine designed for small scale installations has been upgraded by its maker so it is now capable of producing more clean energy.
• Solar Decathlon Home To Become Residence
  In a twist, one of the groups in next year's Solar Decathlon competition will take its design into a living, breathing Washington, D.C. community.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• LAW SCHOOL REPORT
  Somewhere between fusty law treatises and Twitter lie law blogs, many of them written by the top legal scholars in the country. Just five years ago, the notion of law professors delivering quick and cogent commentary to the masses was a novel concept. Today, it is rare for law schools not to have at ...
• Discipline varies widely for addicted attorneys
  Recent decisions show broad inconsistencies in the way courts dole out punishment for substance-abusing attorneys, whether because of uneven precedent, murky ethics rules or a hard-line stance against recognizing addiction as a mitigating factor in misconduct. In some cases, the attorneys get little ...
• 'Cash cow' or valuable credential?
  No longer just for aspiring academics and wannabe tax lawyers, master of laws — LL.M. — degrees are gaining in popularity among foreign and domestic law students.
• Feeling Insecure
  In the past 10 years, the administrative forum hearing security clearance challenges has seen a staggering 25-fold increase in its docket. Lawyers who practice before the court say the reason for the burgeoning caseload is simple: Sept. 11.
• Ave Maria will cooperate with Law School Transpare ...
  The Law School Transparency project has its first taker. Ave Maria School of Law agreed on Thursday to provide detailed employment data for its graduates to the nonprofit organization. Kyle McEntee, a Vanderbilt law student and co-founder of the transparency project, called it a step in the right di ...

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• Do ‘Environmental Extremists’ Pose Criminal Threat ...
  by Abrahm Lustgarten Sept 8th, 2010 As debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus shale reaches a fever pitch, state and federal authorities are warning Pennsylvania law enforcement that “environmental extremists” pose an increasing threat to security and to the energy sector. A confide ...
• Marcellus Money
  Here’s a website that is keeping tabs on which PA politicians have been offered money from from the gas industry and which ones have accepted that money.  Enjoy. http://www.marcellusmoney.org/
• Gas Bubbling from the Susquehanna River
  http://74.95.82.237:591/rconline/FMPro?-db=RCOnline.fp5&-format=record_detail.html&-Lay=Detail&CurrentRecordID=12635350&-find Gas Bubbling from River at Sugar Run – by David Keeler – 9/2/2010 Click here for video clip
• Keep the Promise Town Hall-PA Severance Tax!
  September 9, Thursday— Keep the Promise Town Hall in Jersey Shore, Lycoming County between Williamsport and Lock Haven, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Robert H. Wheeland Center, 1201 Locust Street, Jersey Shore, PA 17740 (part of Citizens Hose Company, Station 45) www.station45.org/wheeland_center.htm To register a ...
• EPA’s Public Meeting on Hydraulic Fracturing
  EPA’s Public Meeting on Hydraulic Fracturing Study to Take Place in Binghamton, New York; Meeting Scheduled for September 13 and 15 at the Broome County Forum Theater Release date: 08/31/2010 Contact Information: John Senn, (212) 637-3667, senn.john@epa.gov New York, NY – The U.S. Environmental Prot ...

News Blaze

• Nepal Maoist Party Demands Annulment of Supreme Co ...
  Nepal's Maoist Party (UCPN-M) today demanded the political annulment of the Supreme Court's guilty verdict and sentence of life imprisonment with seizure of property against Bal Krishna Dhugel.
• Ban Ki-Moon Underscores Broadband's Ability to Spu ...
  In developed countries, the cost of broadband subscriptions is up to 3 per cent of average monthly incomes, while in the least developed nations, they can cost more than an average person's entirely monthly earnings.
• Secretary Clinton Wishes The People of Korea a Joy ...
  On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I wish all the people of the Republic of Korea a wonderful holiday and a joyful Chuseok festival this September 22.
• The Height of Luxury in Playa Flamingo, Guanacaste
  Guanacaste is popular with tourists visiting Costa Rica. The pristine white sand beaches, lush jungles and an overall relaxed atmosphere induce a sense of great relaxation. With Costa Rica property on the rise, Villa Flamingo stands above the pack.
• Pope Ends State Visit With a Trip to Birmingham
  Pope Benedict XVI concluded his four-day State visit to Britain with a two-hour Mass at Cofton Park to beatify 19th Century Cardinal John Henry Newman, an event which attracted more than 50,000 people.

environment 360

• Scientists Collect Yam Samples to Preserve Critica ...
  Crop scientists are attempting to collect and catalog more than 3,000 yam samples for international gene banks to preserve the biodiversity of a food crop that is consumed daily by more than 60 million people in Africa alone. Yam varieties collected in West and Central Africa will be sent to the Int ...
• Interview: Exploring the Links Between Warming and ...
  One of the more contentious issues facing climate scientists is the question of whether rising ocean temperatures will cause more frequent and powerful hurricanes. Kerry Emanuel Few experts have studied this question more in depth than Kerry Emanuel, a meteorologist with the Massachusetts Institute ...
• German Chancellor Defends Decision to Extend Life ...
  Noting that it will take time to develop alternative energy sources, the German government has agreed to extend the operating life of the nation’s 17 nuclear plants. AFP/Getty Images Angela Merkel The decision, which will extend the life of Germany’s nuclear facilities an average of 12 years, was c ...
• Reserves of Forest Carbon May Be Widely Overestima ...
  The amount of carbon stored in the world’s tropical forests varies widely according to underlying geology and other factors, and current estimates of forest carbon reserves may be too high , according to a new study. A research team from the Carnegie Institution for Science used satellite mapping, l ...
• A Symbolic Solar Road Trip To Reignite a Climate M ...
  An activist caravan to bring one of Jimmy Carter’s solar panels back to the White House symbolizes the time that the U.S. has lost in developing new energy technologies – and the urgent need for taking action on climate. BY BILL MCKIBBEN

Red Ice Creations

• Churchill Ordered UFO Cover-Up, Archives Show
  With a civilian population haunted by the Blitz and the Second World War still in the balance, it was one development Winston Churchill could have done without - An incursion into British airspace by an arrow-shaped metallic object feared to contain an invasion force of little green men.
• Should Videotaping the Police Really Be a Crime?
  Anthony Graber, a Maryland Air National Guard staff sergeant, faces up to 16 years in prison. His crime? He videotaped his March encounter with a state trooper who pulled him over for speeding on a motorcycle. Then Graber put the video — which could put the officer in a bad light — up on YouTube.
• Unilever Stalks its Customers with GPS Trackers Se ...
  The household cleaning product giant Unilever has secretly placed GPS tracker transmitters in laundry detergent boxes to track consumers to their homes. With an array of electronic sensors, team of Unilever agents can now pinpoint the exact location of the GPS trackers and walk right up to your fron ...
• Three Bright Planets Visible in Night Sky Triangle
  A spectacular gathering of three of the brightest planets will be the chief celestial attraction in the evening sky during the next few days. Anyone with a clear and unobstructed view of the west-northwest horizon will be able to Venus, Mars and Saturn in a single glance. These three planets are des ...
• Solar tsunami to trigger northern lights across Ca ...
  Stargazing doesn’t get much better than this. The northern lights are expected to make an appearance in the night sky across Canada and the northern United States this week, thanks to a spectacular eruption on the surface of the Sun. Early on Sunday, the sun’s surface exploded in a phenomenon called ...

Russia Today

• South Ossetia marks 20 years of independence
  The Republic of South Ossetia is celebrating 20 years since it declared independence. Since 1990 it has faced several military conflicts amid continuous attempts by Georgia to bring it back under control.
• Beheaded man in St. Petersburg likely a suicide vi ...
  A decapitated body has been found in St. Petersburg in a car. The head was lying on the ground nearby. Police believe that the victim chose a rather exotic way of ending his life.
• Sukhoi training jet crashes during test flight
  A Su-27UB fighter jet has crashed in Russia’s Far East while it was being tested after having just been repaired. Both pilots ejected in time and were not harmed in the incident.
• Iraqi security forces on trial as US combat operat ...
  While US forces are withdrawing from Iraq, 36 people have just fallen victim to a recent triple car bombing in Baghdad, leading some to question whether the country is able to sustain stability and security on its own.
• Bloggers will save the world
  With blogging on the rise, it's becoming easier for many people to publish stories that are ignored by the mainstream media.

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

• Beachcombing: Dowsing For Submarines
  When it comes to legitimate anomaly research, the InnerTubes are a hard place to find such gems. It takes twice as long to sift through the shit, flotsam and chaff as it does to do the Googling (I think the Google has attained consciousness and throws out distractions most of the time). But I have [ ...
• UFO Casebook: Silver Object in Colorado
  It’s hard to get decent pics of UFOs now-a-days, but I found these gems on UFO Casebook. What do you think? Blimp? Dirigible? Alien spaceship? US military black project? You be the judges! … … [...] I looked up and noticed an odd-shaped object moving slowly from a westerly direction moving easterly. ...
• Another take on SETI and the Fermi Paradox
  SETI and the Fermi Paradox has had it’s share of mainstream media attention lately, usually via the ruminations of Dr. Stephen Hawking. That can be a good thing, because Hawking has basically taken it upon himself to educate the great unwashed masses that human-kind probably aren’t the only “intelli ...
• Spiral Death Star: Is It Natural, Or A Beacon?
  Last week Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer, posted a photo from the Hubble Telescope of a star that was going into death spirals. Death spirals? Ol’ Phil, being the debunker he is, thought it was fake. But after further investigation, found it was real! When I first saw this picture, my reactions, in ...
• Close Shaves and Alien Volcanoes
  Did you hear of the close shave we had with an asteroid yesterday? (The asteroid is the streak) Check this out from Wired: When asteroid 2010 RX30 zipped past Earth early Wednesday, observers at the Remanzacco Observatory in Italy were ready. At 12:45 a.m. Mountain time, amateur astronomers Ernesto ...

Tippers News

• Stop Fake Food Safety Bills, S.510/S.3767 -- URG ...
  For more than a year, the plan to capture and kill clean, local, organic, independent and safe farming has been wending its way through Congress. Last year, the devastating HR 1279 passed although we put up a good battle, delaying it . . . Submitted by Just Carole to Health & Wellness �|� �Note ...
• Secretary-Generals Press Encounter, Announcing Ms ...
  Today, I am delighted to announce the appointment of Ms. Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile, as the head of UN Women, the newly created UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, established on 2 July by the General Assembly Res Submitted by Jytte Nhanenge to World �|� �N ...
• Scientists Find Drugs That May fight Disease Killi ...
  Bats have a key role in nature eating and helping control mosquitoes and other insects that harm crops and carry disease., the little brown bat, "was typically the most common bat in the nation, and they and they've been just completely deciminated Submitted by Kenny V. to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...
• Combat climate change with less gassy diet for cow ...
  Climate change can be curbed by changing the diet of livestock, whose feed crops, farting, belching and manure contribute a fifth of the planet's greenhouse gas emissions, a new study said Friday. Submitted by Ingrid Peeters to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Picture Me
  The American fashion industry has a glittering, fluffy, so-this-season exterior that young girls around the world yearn to be a part of. But behind all that glam often lies a frightened, overworked, sexually abused teenager who is quickly learning that mo Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note- ...

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

• Nigeria's Delicate Presidential Election Transitio ...
  Nigeria's election history is shambolic and corrupt. If the country's new national electoral body is to conduct a free and fair election in January, it has its work cut out for it.
• Africa's Women Turn 50
  Fifty years into African independence, African women still face a much more challenging existence than men, with significant political, social and economic changes needed for gender equality.
• Public Schools in Sierra Leone Gasping for Life Su ...
  Sierra Leone has diverse tribal and cutural practices that works against the education of the nation's children.
• Re: Public Schools in Sierra Leone Gasping for Lif ...
  Our children are taught right from wrong when growing up.
• Re: Public Schools in Sierra Leone Gasping for Lif ...
  Despite war, we are doing our best to cope.

Canadian Encyclopedia

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I reuse or recycle waxed paper sliced brea ...
  This one came to me in my sleep the other night – the waxed paper type wrapping you get on some loaves of sliced bread. I obsessed about it until morning so I wouldn’t forget to write it down and let me tell you, I had some weird packaging related dreams that night. ANYWAY, waxed [...]
• 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 ...
• How can I reuse or recycle a baby’s cot?
  We’ve had an email from Jess: What can I do with my little girl’s cot now she’s too big for it? We’re not having any more so don’t want to keep it and I know you’re not supposed to use second hand beds for babies. There is apparently an increased risk of cot death if [...]
• 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 ...
• How can I reuse or recycle wooly winter scarves?
  Brr! For few days last week, it felt like we were getting a last minute reprieve from summer’s sayonara but now it feels very autumnal indeed. I guess it’s time to shift into winter mode – I’ve got a list of insulating chores to complete, the garden needs more tidying, I need to make soup, [...]

Mondoweiss

• How Israel views its public relations problem
  This ad is currently running on Haaretz for a new website set up by the Israeli�Ministry of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs. Here is the site's introduction:Going abroad? Meeting foreigners on a visit? Be ambassadors for Israel! Many of us, whether we’re traveling or living abroad for an exte ...
• Harvard students: Peretz invitation ‘lends l ...
  The following letter was recently delivered to the organizers of the Social Studies 50th Anniversary Celebration: Dear Professor Tuck and Dr. Bernstein, We are writing on behalf of the Harvard Islamic Society, Harvard-Radcliffe RAZA, Society of Arab Students and Latinas Unidas. In�a recent blog post ...
• Murder by way of national insanity
  I arrived at the Haifa District Court with a deep sense of foreboding. On my way there, as I drove through Arrabeh’s sleepy streets (It is Ramadan and most fellow Moslem villagers go back to sleep after their dawn meal and prayer.) I saw clear signs of trouble: Two police cars with their lights flas ...
• Le Moyne students hear Finkelstein despite calls t ...
  A small group of faculty members convinced Le Moyne College officials to permit Norman Finkelstein to lecture at their school, despite an organized campaign to persuade Le Moyne to cancel the event. The week before Finkelstein was scheduled to appear, a number of local Rabbis, a high ranking member ...
• It’s not about cultural merit
  In yesterday's Ha'aretz, Gideon Levy argues for the abandonment/removal of Israel's illegal settlements from an uncommon standpoint: He lambasts the settlements, as civic/economic/aesthetic entities, for their lack of contribution to the betterment of Israeli society, and says that this 'uselessness ...

Media Consortium

• Checking In on Kachingle : CJR
  That’s the catch: the service is voluntary, and it only works if everyone’s on board. The big news sites can’t imagine that the relatively small number of early-adopter Kachinglers will make it financially worth it, but Kachingle can’t get more readers to sign up until they see their favorite sites ...
• Apple Said to Negotiate With Publishers Over Digit ...
  Apple Inc. is developing a digital newsstand for publishers that would let them sell magazines and newspapers to consumers for use on Apple devices, said two people familiar with the matter. ...The newsstand would be separate from Apple’s App Store, where people can buy some publications now, they ...
• 10 of the Web's Most Insightful News Infographics
  Great round up of different kinds of interactive journalism products. "A picture is worth a thousand words. But if you include an entire database, make it interactive, and add filtering options, the word-to-picture exchange rate is even better. Infographics at their best are more than just pictu ...
• The Media Consortium » Weekly Diaspora: Immigrants ...
• Can apps save news journalism? | Adrian Monck | Co ...
  "Serious news organisations have placed their bets. With Apple selling a million iPads in barely a month, paid iPad applications from the likes of the Times and the Financial Times line up on app stores with free offerings from the BBC and Thomson Reuters. But already there are signs that native ne ...

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

• Political Decisions Matter in State Economic Perfo ...
  California has pending legislation, AB 2529, to require an economic impact analysis of proposed new regulation. Its opponents correctly point out that AB 2529 will delay and increase the cost of new regulation. There will be lawsuits and arguments over the proper methodology and over assumptions. ...
• Suburbia Evolved: Glendale Then and Now
  The classic picture of suburbia is that of white picket fences, the family Chevy in the driveway, and Mom in an apron beckoning her children to abandon the baseball and glove for a home-cooked dinner. Of course, there is nothing wrong with this picture, per se . Nothing wrong except for the fact th ...
• Toronto’s Civic Malaise
  Despite Toronto’s international reputation for livability, all is not well in the city. Many politicians and pundits blame the outgoing city council, and Mayor David Miller. While they’ve done their share of damage, the city faces deeper, systemic problems. The source of the problem is more funda ...
• Iowa's Agro-Metro Future
  When Brent Richardson, a field rep for Cadillac, was told he'd been transferred to Des Moines, he assumed he'd be spending the next year in a small town environment. Des Moines turned out to have much more bustle than he expected. The city had a robust insurance sector among its diverse industries. ...
• High Speed Rail: Fast Track To Nowhere
  Given that Warren Buffett ponied up $44 billion in cash and stock to take private the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, I wonder why President Obama is betting that the way to lift the country out of stagnant growth is to invest another $50 billion, in public funds, to swing aboard the dream of ...

GM Watch

• FSA abandons pro-GM dialogue
• Blackwatering the crops
• Commissioner Dalli admits EU food safety regime mu ...
• More on Roundup's link to birth defects
• Groundbreaking study shows Roundup link to birth d ...

spiked

• ‘Pope Benedict is an enemy of the state&#821 ...
  Saturday’s demo against the pope confirmed that he has been transformed into an Emmanuel Goldstein figure for so-called humanists to hate.
• Everyone’s special in a therapy culture
  A new report blames teachers for overdiagnosing kids with special needs. But the whole of society is playing this game.
• Afghanistan: democracy as publicity stunt
  Saturday’s elections were more about giving a shot in the arm to Western politicians than giving control to Afghanis.
• Come out from under the comfort blanket of class p ...
  Why both the left and right are fantasising about a new Winter of Discontent, and why spiked isn’t.
• Shock news: it’s not 1979 – or 1990
  Those comparing the unions’ campaign to the Winter of Discontent or the poll tax protests are living in the past, or cloud cuckoo land.

Cryptogon

• Refusing Full Body X-Ray Scans at the Airport
  A Cryptogon reader writes about refusing the new x-ray scans: [Name Deleted] just got back from a business trip to [City] and he said this was the first time he was requested to go through an airport’s whole body imaging scanner. He declined. The TSA person asked if he had a pacemaker, and he said [ ...
• China Cuts Some High Level Talks with Japan Over D ...
  Via: Bloomberg: China has pledged to take “strong” action to force Japan to release the captain of a fishing boat held since Sept. 7 as state television reported relations between the countries have been “seriously damaged.” China’s government is demanding that Japan unconditionally release the capt ...
• Just Manic Enough: Seeking Perfect Entrepreneurs
  Via: New York Times: IMAGINE you are a venture capitalist. One day a man comes to you and says, “I want to build the game layer on top of the world.” You don’t know what “the game layer” is, let alone whether it should be built atop the world. But he has a passionate speech [...]
• SMU and DARPA: Fiber Optic Interface to Link Robot ...
  Via: SMU: Lightning-fast connections between robotic limbs and the human brain may be within reach for injured soldiers and other amputees with the establishment of a multimillion-dollar research center led by SMU engineers. Funded by a Department of Defense initiative dedicated to audacious challen ...
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security Will Require ...
  Update: It Is Possible to Fly the Same Day That a Ticket is Purchased Via: American Airlines: Q: Can I fly the same day I buy a ticket since I’m required to have SFPD information in my reservation 72 hours prior to departure? A: Yes, we will collect and transmit the SFPD to the Department [...]

The Economic Collapse

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

Desertification

• Everyone should be enabled to grow some food crops ...
  A comment of Frank on : - Survival or victory gardens to combat hunger www.docstoc.com “My personal wish is that every adult [or capable child] should be able to cultivate some food crops in or around his home. Even urban … Continue reading →
• Biofuel demand is driving a new “land grab&# ...
  Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2010/09/biofuel-demand-driving-africa-land-grab.html Biofuel demand driving Africa “land grab,” threatens food security-report Biofuel demand is driving a new “land grab” in Africa, with at least 5 million hectares (19,300 sq miles) acquired by foreign ...
• Crops can be produced for bioenergy without affect ...
  Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2010/09/biofuels-dont-threaten-food-security.html Biofuels don’t threaten food security – study Production of biofuels does not necessarily constitute a threat to food security, a new study has concluded. âCrops can be produced for bioenergy on a sig ...
• New drought tolerant maize could boost yields and ...
  Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2010/09/drought-tolerant-maize-to-hugely.html Drought-tolerant maize to hugely benefit Africa, according to study by Tim Cocks Distributing new varieties of drought tolerant maize to African farmers could save more than $1.5 billion dollars, boost yiel ...
• AGRA: capitalizing on seeds, soils, on markets and ...
  Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2010/09/ghana-to-host-training-of-west-african.html Ghana to host training of West African soil scientists by Kofi Adu Domfeh, About $2.1 million is being invested over the next five years to train soil scientists for the West African sub-region. The K ...

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

• Lea Michele – Less of her to love
  One of the things Glee has going for it is its wacky normalcy. With the possible exception of Finn and Mr Schuester, none of the characters is Hollywoodily attractive. They look like they legitimately go to high school. And I hesitate to say that Lea Michele is ‘normal-looking’ because that has . ...
• Really, Kory Teneycke, that’s all it took?
  By Frank Moher Seriously, Kory Teneycke, that's all you've got? Avaaz.org gets 80,000 of the left's more suggestible adherents to sign its petition against SunTV, manages to rebrand your nascent operation "Fox News North," and raises $110,000 in the process, and you step down? That's all it took? ...
• Say goodbye to Meridia — and all other diet ...
  by Jodi A. Shaw Surprise, surprise, another diet pill may be pulled from store shelves. Meridia, manufactured by Illinois-based Abbott Laboratories, is under review by the FDA after a study raised concerns that the pill increases the risk of heart attack and stroke. Yesterday, fully half of ...
• HST Follies: BC dumps electoral officer. Revenge?
  By Alison@Creekside The popularity of Lotusland's estimable premier is currently running at 12%. There are a lot of very good reasons for this but let's just go with what 83% of the people polled told Angus Reid: they don't trust the bastard. Here's another reason, not that you'd know anythin ...
• When Green is Mean
  by Eric Pettifor Way back in February of 2007 I wrote of an announcement by GE that they were developing an energy efficient incandescent light bulb. I speculated that they were motivated by a proposed California law to outlaw the incandescent. Later on in March I noted that it wasn't just ...

Worldnews

• GSD&M 'Bag Cop' spots tag Southwest competito ...
  When it comes to advertising its "bags fly free" policy, low-fare behemoth Southwest Airlines looks to be determined to keep sticking it to competitors, most of whom charge for checked bags. Southwest CEO Gary Kelly has said repeatedly in...
• India: Maternal Health Gains Disputed
  (New York) - New United Nations global maternal mortality estimates contradict the Indian government's claim that it is "on track" to meeting UN goals for reducing maternal mortality, Human Rights Watch said today. An assessment by the World Health Organization and other UN agencies found that ...
• GE's focus aiding region
  SCHENECTADY -- General Electric Co. is seeking to fill more than 100 research positions at its laboratories in Niskayuna, the latest sign that its commitment to technology is paying big dividends for the Capital Region. It's a significant change from the years of downsizing that the area endure ...
• 'Serious concern' over fraud at Afghan electi ...
  KABUL, Afghanistan - The main Afghan election observer group said it had serious concerns about the legitimacy of this weekend's parliamentary vote because of reported fraud, even as President Hamid Karzai commended the balloting as a solid success. AC = 1234 --> The conflicting statements unde ...
• Dutch question alleged UK terror suspect
  AMSTERDAM - Dutch prosecutors say they are questioning an alleged terror suspect arrested at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport after a tip from British authorities. AC = 1234 --> Prosecution spokesman Evert Boerstra declined to comment on the case Monday beyond saying the British man of Somali ances ...

Alex in Wonderland

• Evening Briefing—16th Sept 2010
  News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
• Report: $2.75bn U.S. Fighter Jet Welfare to Israel ...
  20 F-35's purchased by Israel will be funded by the U.S. military.
• Daily Briefing—6th Sept 2010
  News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
• Red States’ ‘Weird Government Monopoly’
  it's not clear that more and cheaper liquor provides greater utility
• Weekend Briefing—4th-5th Sept 2010
  News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire

MY Daily Apple

• Blood Test Developed For Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver ...
  Scientists at the Basque Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC bioGUNE) and OWL Genomics Ltd...
• U.S. Says BP Well Is Finally ‘Dead’
  The government declared BP’s Macondo oil well dead on Sunday, nearly five months after the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico began.
• National Direct Support Professionals Recognition ...
  Direct support professionals - nurse aides, home health aides, and personal and home care aides - are the primary providers of paid hands-on care for millions of individuals with disabilities. They assist individuals with a broad range of personal assistance including preparation of meals, helping w ...
• South Jersey Healthcare Expands Post Discharge Car ...
  50 million Americans live in rural areas, and accessing healthcare when they need it can be challenging and costly. Complicating matters is that individuals living in these areas have a higher prevalence of chronic health conditions, such as heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (C ...
• WATCH: Lyme Disease - Diagnosis and Treatment
  Learn how to diagnose and treat this infectious disease. Infectious disease - Lyme disease - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Spirochetal

Common Dreams

• BP Finally Seals Leaking Gulf of Mexico Oil Well
  The ruptured well that has spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico has finally been sealed, US officials say. A pressure test showed a cement plug put in place by BP to permanently "kill" the well was holding. President Obama hailed the news, vowing to continue to help those affect ...
• IDF Still Using Banned Weapon Against Civilian Pro ...
  by Chaim Levinson The Israel Defense Forces continues using the Ruger 10/22 rifle to disperse protests even though it has been prohibited by the military advocate general, a hearing at a military court revealed last week. A brigade's former operations officer told the court he wasn't even aware of t ...
• FDA Won’t Allow Food to Be Labeled Free of Genetic ...
  That the Food and Drug Administration is opposed to labeling foods that are genetically modified is no surprise anymore, but a  report in the  Washington Post   indicates the FDA won't even allow food producers to label their foods as being free of genetic modification. read more
• U.S. Army Charges 5 Soldiers Over Afghan Murders: ...
  WASHINGTON - Five U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Kandahar province have been charged with murdering three Afghan civilians, The Washington Post reported on Sunday. In its early edition, the Post cited Army charging documents as saying the infantry personnel, including one staff Sergeant, murdered th ...
• Afghanistan Elections Marred by Deadly Attacks
  by Jonathan Haynes and agencies A Taliban attack near a polling station in northern Afghanistan today killed seven people as the country votes in parliamentary elections. Officials said the attack was adjacent to a security outpost in Baghlan province. An Afghan soldier and six pro-government militi ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Two priests of St. Martin's Angli ...
  ExamineReligion: Two priests of St. Martin's Anglican Cathedral in Newfoundland demonstrate mature Christian blogging: The Anglican... http://exm.nr/dnyrRS
• ExamineReligion: God's Treasure Chest - A Devotion ...
  ExamineReligion: God's Treasure Chest - A Devotion: God’s Treasure ChestSeptember 20, 2010 Psalm 119:105-112 (Message)By your words... http://exm.nr/aH2nF4
• ExamineReligion: Muslim ‘extremism’ su ...
  ExamineReligion: Muslim ‘extremism’ summit in NYC and Ground Zero Mosque: Casper, Wyoming biblical Christians read with dismay the ... http://exm.nr/9XeXoo
• ExamineReligion: Review of movie 'Bliss': Sevente ...
  ExamineReligion: Review of movie 'Bliss': Seventeen-year-old Meryem is found unconscious and dishevelled by the side of a lake aft... http://exm.nr/cnnz8t
• ExamineReligion: It don't take all that!: "And the ...
  ExamineReligion: It don't take all that!: "And the Lord said to Gideon, ‘The people who are with you are too many for Me to give th... http://exm.nr/9FOouk

Energy Collective

• Mary Robinson Foundation builds women's leadership ...
  New York is buzzing with excitement (and traffic jams) this week as hundreds of leaders -- business, government, NGOs and others -- descend on the city for the opening of the UN General Assembly and the Summit on the Millennium Development Goals .
• Recycling Our Way to Sustainable Waste Management
  While my focus is primarily on energy, I am also interested in other sustainability issues. Some of those include food production, water issues (e.g. water desalination to increase availability of fresh water), and waste management. I have discussed waste management here before in My Composting Expe ...
• India to Launch $11 Billion Fund to Boost Power Ge ...
  The Indian government is planning to launch a $11 billion fund to help finance the massive power generation planned during 2012-2017. India plans to expand its power generation capacity by 100,00 MW during 2012-2017.
• Cities – The Living Laboratories for Smart Grid In ...
  It seems like most of the discussion about changes that Smart Grid technologies will introduce focus on changes to utilities and to consumers.� Let’s not forget cities and towns.� It’s becoming very apparent that many technologies that improve the electrical grid can also improve other networks – wh ...
• Iogen looking to sell?
  Iogen is probably thinking of doing the same move as Verenium when it sold its cellulosic ethanol joint venture to BP.

Green House - USA Today

• Recycled homes bring green living to hundreds
  RALEIGH, N.C. — Lisa Covington grew up in public housing, as did her mom and grandmom. But her six-year-old daughter won't. In March, Covington bought her first home.
• BP kills blown-out well after five months
  BP's busted well in the Gulf of Mexico was effectively declared dead, five months after the Horizon Deepwater rig exploded, killing 11 workers and sending 206 million gallons of oil into the water.
• Prairie-style home goes deep green in Bend, Ore.
  A new Prairie-style home in Bend, Ore., defies the notion that green homes are all cutting-edge modern for young hipsters.
• Crews: 1 more pressure test needed on BP well to d ...
  Crews working to permanently kill BP's busted well Saturday in the Gulf of Mexico need to finish one more pressure test on a cement plug before declaring the well dead, officials told the Associated Press.
• Designer offers tips on creating an outdoor home o ...
  Tired of mowing the lawn? Want an outdoor oasis that feels as much home as your house? Landscape designer Julie Moir Messervy offers tips for expanding living space beyond your door.

Prior Art

• Paul Allen v. The Internet
  Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies....
• Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recuse Hi ...
  With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been selec ...
• Law360 Calls Lawyer-Owned Shell Company a "Public ...
  seems to have a pretty flexible definition of that term. Last month, it included . Who is so concerned about such fairness? That would be , the Texas law firm that owns Americans for Fair Patent Use, which is a limited liability company set up to prosecute a false marking lawsuit filed in E ...
• Eben Moglen on Bilski, software patents, and big p ...
  Moglen's position on the subject of software patents—that they should be banned—is, to say the least, outside the mainstream in legal circles. It has, however, garnered support among software developers and other techies, especially those who work in the world of open-source and free softw ...
• What's so bad about "business method" patents? Sma ...
  Those who have read the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bilski decision know that — a four-justice minority that wanted to ban business method patents. While that's an ill-defined term, it's clear that such a ruling would have effectively invalidated many patents already involved in litigation. Lawsu ...

Peoples Voice

• If I can't laugh and "If I can't dance, it's not m ...
  eileen fleming eileen fleming Sept. 16, 2010 "If I can't dance, it's not my Revolution." -emma goldman The night Jon Stewart announced a " Rally to Restore Sanity " and "The Rev. Sir Dr. Stephen T. Colbert" joined in with a " March to Keep Fear Alive " this American 'girl' was dancing to every s ...
• THE VICTIM GAME, ISRAEL’S WAR WITH ITSELF
  by Gordon Duff JUDAIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN? It is easy to spot a liar if you are willing to take an honest look. When the American press quoted President Ahmadinejad of Iran saying, “I am going to wipe Israel off the face of the earth” we had our own gullibility thrown in our faces. We, if willing to ...
• Tea party talking points, translated
  Mary Shaw The tea partiers have their talking points, which they repeat loudly and forcefully (and often misspell ). But I wonder if they've actually really thought about the points they're parroting. I suspect not. They rail against "Obamacare" and anything else that the White House (and Pelosi a ...
• Imperialism and Imperial Barbarism
  James Petras Imperialism, its character, means and ends has changed over time and place. Historically, western imperialism, has taken the form of tributary, mercantile, industrial, financial and in the contemporary period, a unique ‘militarist-barbaric’ form of empire building. Within each ‘period ...
• Monsanto, Blackwater and GM crop saboteurs
  By Rady Ananda Food Freedom Agribusiness giant Monsanto, which genetically modifies plants to exude or tolerate pesticide or to produce nonviable seed, hired the services of the mercenary firm Blackwater to spy on activists, Jeremy Scahill reports . A death-tech firm weds a hit squad. This is no ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• CCPA releases Ontario Alternative Budget
  The CCPA Ontario office released its prescription for this year's provincial budget, calling on the Ontario government to make job creation -- not deficit reduction -- a top priority. It shows how hard hit Ontario has been by the global recession. Ontario accounted for 59% of the nation's permanent ...
• Peddling Greenhouse Gases: How Much Does BC Export ...
  Bill Rees, the father of the ecological footprint, likes to say that fossil fuels are a powerful hallucinogenic drug. We are all addicted to cheap and abundant fossil fuels, and so have reshaped our economy and society in fundamentally unsustainable ways. When emissions are reported for BC or Canad ...
• Commentary on the federal budget and Speech from t ...
  Commentary on the federal budget and Speech from the Throne by CCPA staff and research associates are available on the CCPA website. The Speech from the Throne signaled the Harper government's intent to loosen foreign ownership rules. In Owning the podium, selling the stadium , CCPA Executive Direc ...
• Advocating for our Children, our Schools and our C ...
  In partnership with RealRenewal, CCPA Saskatchewan is proud to present an education�workshop for people who want a voice in the system. Featuring Jacqui Strachan, Parent Involvement Coordinator, People for Education, Ontario. Discussion Roundtables on Saskatchewan Aboriginal/First Nations, Rural a ...
• BC Budget 2010 strong on sentiment, weak on vision
  Iglika Ivanova and Marc Lee spent the day in Victoria at the budget lock-up, and have just posted their initial analysis of today's budget on Policy Note. They write, � For a document titled Building a Prosperous British Columbia , the 2010 BC Budget is underwhelming in its ambition. Budget 2010 s ...

World Wide Hippies

• Shoulda Seen This Coming
  Alcohol Lobby Now Openly Spending Against CA’s Legal Pot Initiative in Alliance with Police Industrial Complex | Alternet Big Alcohol’s decision to squash marijuana law reform to protect its bottom line is simply politics as usual. It is said that politics makes strange bedfellows, but there are arg ...
• REFLECTING IN THE MIRROR: WHEN FANATICS SEE THEY A ...
  The above has been the Pattern in American Policy since the Post Cold War and ESPECIALLY since MOST war decisions are made by the CIA and SAC of Pentagon Mentality merely with the Rubber Stamping of Congress and the White House. Though there have always been isolated Critics of this both BIND and IN ...
• Jon Stewart is My Hero
  Why Jon Stewart Is a Huge Long Term Threat to Fox News | Alternet Stewart educates his young viewers in the ways of Fox news on a nightly basis. Meanwhile, Fox’s primary audience is over 60. Who does the future belong to? The newest Pew Research Centerâs survey of where and how people get their ne ...
• Hippies as Terrorists?
  The Real Terrorists | Empty Wheel I’ve started reading through J. Edgar Hoover’s files the reports a contractor developed for PA’s Department of Homeland Security that describe political activism as a terrorist threat; Governor Rendell has made them publicly available here. I’ll have more to say abo ...
• New book says Garcia and Co. were marketing vision ...
  Grateful Dead’s business secrets | The Province A book about the marketing wisdom of The Grateful Dead — this has to be a joke, right? Even people who know the Dead may wonder what a bunch of stoned and rotting hippies can offer the world of modern marketing. The hagiographic title that adorns David ...

Doug's Darkworld

• A nation gone mad, but otherwise things are just f ...
  The first good picture I’ve taken with my new camera. This one photo alone has rekindled my interest in photography, or to be more accurate, my interest in taking pictures. I don’t really have an eye for taking pictures, but if I take enough of them, sometimes I get lucky. And this was one of [...]
• Falling Forever
  Another wonderful image courtesy of the Hubble Telescope. This is galaxy NGC 4911, located some 320 million light years away. So that means we are seeing it as it was 320 million years ago. That was the Mississippian period on Earth, so called because the rocks from that area are exposed along the M ...
• Fridays are Fun
  Well, in retrospect I’m so unhappy with the Deerfield post that I’m going to delete it and rewrite it as a single post. I like trying to fit a story into a few pages in such a way that people not only enjoy reading, it even evokes a bit of wonder, emotion, amazement, etc. It’s [...]
• “The Only Divine Light is a Burning Church.& ...
  Well, I’ll finish the Deerfield thing later, I don’t have it in me today. Benoni and his friends and family will be OK, sort of. Today I’m inspired to comment on current events, especially the plan to burn Korans on 9/11. My first thought is that I’m with Perroquet, if you’re gonna burn one “holy” [ ...
• The Raid on Deerfield. Part One: Unexpected Guests
  In 1702 Queen Anne’s War broke out. This was the second in what would later be called the French and Indian Wars, which is to say that they were conflicts between England and France. Since the French at the time had many Indian allies in what is now Canada, much of the fighting was between [...]

FourWinds10

• "WORST CASE SCENARIO": "Oil may be emerging on to ...
  Critical Ocean Life Threatened by Oil on Gulf Floor, CNN, August 17, 2010: LARRY MCKINNEY, TEXAS A&M'S HARTE RESEARCH INST. FOR GULF OF MEXICO STUDIES: ... [T]hey do tend to support some of our greatest concerns about the fate of these underwater plumes that were discovered back in June, and that is ...
• 100 Tons of Diesel Spill into Nile
  Cairo - At least 100 tons of diesel fuel spilled into the Nile river after a barge partially sank in southern Egypt, media and state sources reported on Sunday. The barge was carrying 244 tons of diesel fuel when it sank on Saturday while attempting to dock near Aswan, some 980km south of the capita ...
• BP spill: White House says oil has gone, but Gulf' ...
• Gulf Residents Test Positive For Oil In Blood
• EXCLUSIVE: Tests find sickened family has 50.3 ppm ...
  “Our heads are still swimming,” stated Barbara Schebler of Homosassa, Florida, who received word last Friday that test results on the water from her family’s swimming pool showed 50.3 ppm of 2-butoxyethanol, a marker for the dispersant Corexit 9527A used to break up and sink BP’s oil in the Gulf of ...

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

• Recycling Our Way to Sustainable Waste Management
  Join the forum discussion on this post While my focus is primarily on energy, I am also interested in other sustainability issues. Some of those include food production, water issues (e.g. water desalination to increase availability of fresh water), and waste management. I have discussed waste mana ...
• $10M Purse Split Between Three 100 MPG Auto Teams
  The Edison2 “Very Light Car" took home the grand prize of $5M while two other teams were awarded $2.5M each.
• ExxonMobil Says No to Subsidies
  Join the forum discussion on this post Earlier this week I participated in a conference call with ExxonMobil that was hosted by the American Petroleum Institute (API). It is the first API blogger call I have joined in a very long time, but my schedule was open and I was interested in the subject ma ...
• Maxwell Forecasts Peak Oil in Seven Years
  Join the forum discussion on this post Respected oil analyst and oil industry veteran Charles Maxwell (nicknamed the âDean of Oil Analystsâ) has forecast peak oil by 2017 or 2018: Bracing For Peak Oil Production By Decade’s End His prediction is not so remarkable, as is where he made his pred ...
• Why Oil Prices Aren’t Going Down
  Join the forum discussion on this post I saw a humorous story a few days ago: Oil Should Be Around $10 a Barrel The price of a barrel of oil would be closer to $10 if the commodity wasn’t traded as an investment instrument, given the record-high levels of U.S. oil inventories, Peter Beutel, presi ...

Discovery Educator Network

• Tequipment's Educator Resource Center: Downloads
  Tags: smartboard , iwb , resources , tequipment , downloads , ict , lessons , ideas , all_teachers , bestpractices , curriculum , professionaldevelopment , language , technology , science , math , literature , history , edu_trends by: Dean Mantz
• Talk with Media - home
  Tags: media , DigitalStorytelling by: Christine Southard
• Read.gov: Exquisite Corpse Adventure exclusive onl ...
  Tags: literature , education , read , books , language , story by: Fred Delventhal
• Field Trip Archive - HomeworkSpot.com
  Tags: VirtualFieldTrips , virtual_field_trips by: Cindy Brock
• National Constitution Center: Which Founder Are Yo ...
  Tags: constitution , national , history , center , interactive , government , americanhistory , ConstitutionDay by: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

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

big think

• Harvard's Shawn Achor on How to Be Happier
  "Positive psychology is a movement in social psychology which attempts to change the way that we think about humans," explains positive psychology expert Shawn Achor. "Instead of focusing merely on the average, which is what we normally do in traditional psychology—we would find out what the average ...
• Strange Lapps and Their Magical Drumming Maps
  When the wise men of Europe’s Far North want to see beyond the merely visible, they bang their noid drums (1) until the rhythm and concomitant incantations prise open the creaky doors of perception. The skin that forms the membrane of their drums is decorated with cryptic symbols that constitute a ...
• Speak, Memory: Language and the Brain
  In the field of neuroscience, we know far less about language than about other brain mechanisms like emotion, memory, or sensation. The inherent difficulty of studying language is that it is so closely linked to thought. There are certainly parts of the brain in which language is concentrated, but . ...
• Putting Life Into The Right Perspective On Tybee I ...
  It looks like I got back just in the nick of time, before you guys started fighting over whether Christine O’Donnell is dumber than Sarah Palin, or even whether Michael Vick should be starting next week instead of Kevin Kolb. I'll have to admit, though, that it was hard to leave our little Georgia . ...
• Catholics Were the Muslims of the 19th Century
  Writing in the New York Review of Books blog, Notre Dame professors John T. McGreevy and R. Scott Appleby recently provided a useful lesson on the history of religious discrimination in the United States. McGreevy and Appleby—both Catholics themselves—write that “For much of the nineteenth century . ...

Information Liberation

• The Government is Nothing More than a Gang of Thug ...
  Lots of people hold the delusional idea in their mind the government is somehow legitimate. They see the pillars and statues of government buildings and think it's some sort of physical entity with all sorts of "powers" unto itself. In reality...
• A Government of Laws? Tell Me Another One
  Paper restrictions just aren*t very good at limiting the power of the state. On the grand scale, of course, we have a written Constitution whose enumeration of delegated powers is almost universally regarded as a dead letter. Occasionally some mo...
• A Not-So-Happy Constitution Day
  Roger Pilon, the Cato Institute*s B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies, is understandably excited today, the 223rd anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution by the delegates to the Philadelphia Convention: The Constitu...
• New Orleans: Systemic Police Brutality Exposed
  Flaherty: During Katrina police murdered and covered up - a continuation of systemic abuse of the poor...
• Japan Intervenes to Bail Out America.com
  This week, after the Japanese yen had surged to a fifteen-year high against the US dollar, the Japanese government decided to intervene in the foreign exchange market. To great fanfare, the Bank of Japan initiated a vigorous campaign to buy US ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Here’s A Real One-Way Climate Trend
  Seeing as we’re back onto our favourite topic, I thought I’d mention an issue that’s been buzzing around the Ozboy headspace for a while now. In the AGW debate, it’s clear the battle lines (for such they are) were drawn … Continue reading →
• Be Prepared
  Today I’m taking a slight detour around AGW, with a brief visit to one of my own personal hobby horses. I’d like to talk to you about disaster preparedness; why you should think about it, and some of the simple … Continue reading →
• An ill wind
  No ill wind can pass unnoticed by the nose of the Lincolnshire Sniffer Dog! Continuing his historical romp through alternative energy sources, LibertyGibbert’s Leonardo of lampoon, Fenbeagle, this week zeroes in on the Tudor era, and one man’s relentless alchemic quest … Continue reading →
• Green Scam: Business Creating Its Own Demand
  I commented on this issue recently on the DT blog in response to this article by Christopher Booker, but it’s a topic worthy of further attention. I’m sure most of you have heard of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a … Continue reading →
• The Next Emperor?
  Even the Middle Kingdom is no match for one small sniffer dog when he’s in the mood! LibertyGibbert’s grand master of mirth, Fenbeagle, this week aims his pencil at an oft-forgotten but oddly familiar chapter in Chinese history…

FAS - Secrecy News

• Pentagon Delays Publication of New Book
  The Department of Defense says that a forthcoming book about the war in Afghanistan contains classified information, and that it should not be put on the market in its current form.  Instead, the Pentagon is considering whether to purchase and destroy the entire first printing of the book, “Operati ...
• Conventional Arms Transfers, and More from CRS
  Noteworthy new and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service include the following (all pdf). Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 2002-2009, September 10, 2010. Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses, August 20, 2010. China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Na ...
• State Secrets vs. the Rule of Law
  The inherent tension between the state secrets privilege and the rule of law reached the breaking point last week when an appeals court dismissed the claims of several persons who said they were illegally transported and tortured through a CIA “extraordinary rendition” program.  They would not be p ...
• The New Nobility: Russia’s Security State
  “The Soviet police state tried to control every citizen in the country.  The new, more sophisticated Russian [security] system is far more selective than its Soviet-era counterpart;  it targets only those individuals who have political ambitions or strong public views.”  That’s what Andrei Soldat ...
• Pentagon Seeks “Coordination” of Media ...
  The Department of Defense last week increased its efforts to require that Department contacts with the media be monitored and approved by DoD public affairs officials. “I am asking the heads of the Military Services, the Joint Staff and the Combatant Commands to reinforce to all of their employees t ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

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

RAWA News

• Afghan Electoral Body Worried At “Fake Ballo ...
  RFE/RL: The Afghan Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) has expressed concern over a report that some printing houses in Pakistan have been involved in “illegally publishing” ballot papers for the September 18 parliamentary elections in Afghanistan, RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan reports.
• For Kabul Voters, Corruption -- Up Close And Perso ...
  RFE/RL: On the streets of Kabul, it is never difficult to find people angry about the notorious level of corruption in the country. Like Haroon Yakobi, who owns a small photo shop. Asked if he will vote only for a candidate who will fight corruption, he says: "Yes, of course, all the people of Afgha ...
• Military police probe claims that British soldiers ...
  The Daily Mirror: Claims that British soldiers smuggled heroin out of Afghanistan were being investigated by military police last night. Troops are said to have used Army planes to sneak shipments out of the country after buying from dealers. Officials said they were aware of “unsubstantiated” alleg ...
• Warlords and killers seek re-election to Afghan pa ...
  McClatchy Newspapers: The man who directed the onslaught, according to residents and human rights groups, was Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayyaf, an Islamist member of parliament’s lower house who’s close to U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai. He’s running for re-election from Kabul, and analysts say he could ...
• A quiet Eid for Bamyan cave residents
  PAN: During Ramadan, Dowlat Hussain wakes before the sun to perform his morning prayers, but there is nothing to eat for Sahari, he says, as “we live in a cave like animals”. Hussain and his family, like hundreds of others too poor to build or rent their own home, live in the honeycomb network of ca ...

frogblog

• Is SCF Southland Rugby’s Secret Weapon?
  Glorious times for Southland rugby right now: top of the table in the national provincial competition and resolute defenders of the Ranfurly Shield. By extension, it’s a great time for sponsors to bask in the Stags reflected glory and so, when prime real estate on the back of the So ...
• Hide nailing down the rats
  Speaking to TV ONE’s Q and A show today, Rodney Hide revealed that the whole Act caucus and some of the senior party management knew about David Garrett’s fraudulently obtained passport. I’ve avoided commenting on the ongoing train wreck [mixed metaphor corrected] slowly sinking shi ...
• Kate Wilkinson’s sick joke
  The National Party expects that people drag themselves and/or their kids off to the doctor, even when they might be puking or sneezing all over the place but have no need for medical attention, just to satisfy a bad employer's unreasonable suspicion that the illness may not be genuine.
• Conservation week – wetlands and kokako
  There is a perceived conflict between the environment and the economy. John Key often talks about balance but the reality as we all know is somewhat different. Personally I, like many New Zealanders am happy to protect areas like the Whangamarino wetland just because there are speci ...
• Conservation week – lords of the forest
  Tane Mahuta, lord of the forest. A tree that is truly magnificent, along with Te Matua Ngahere, father of the forest, who is our second largest Kauri. Estimated to be over 2000 years old, this means that it is possible that it lived through the large Taupo eruption of 180CE. Both tr ...

Patronus Analytical

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

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• The Paradox of Healthcare Reform
  I won't pretend that I really know what this means, but here are the results from yesterday's New York Times poll related to healthcare reform. Follow the bouncing arrow: So: 49% of Americans disapprove of healthcare reform. That's not good. But wait! Only 40% actually want it repealed. The rest ...
• Staffing Up
  So Obama isn't going to officially nominate Elizabeth Warren to head up the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Josh Marshall comments on what Obama is going to do: ABC's Jake Tapper has a curious scoop, reporting that President Obama will name Elizabeth Warren not to run the new consumer f ...
• What Can Ben Do?
  Tyler Cowen says today that the Fed has an easy way to boost the economy: just commit itself to an inflation rate of 3% over the next few years and people will open their checkbooks again. Personally, I'd prefer 4%. But either way, he's not very optimistic that this will happen: If the Fed promis ...
• A Simple Look At Income Inequality
  Will Wilkinson is unimpressed with Tim Noah's recent series on growing income inequality. He cites several recent pieces of research to suggest that, in fact, inequality hasn't been growing as fast as we think: Robert Gordon, an economist from Northwestern University....reports that improved use ...
• The Circular Firing Squad
  Here's Barack Obama at a fundraiser last night: Democrats, just congenitally, tend to get — to see the glass as half empty. (Laughter.) If we get an historic health care bill passed - oh, well, the public option wasn't there. If you get the financial reform bill passed — then, well, I don't know ...

Insanity Report

• IC 196: Stop Buying Steve Harvey’s Book
  "He's basically telling you what guys like him think and those are the same guys you should avoid"
• IC 196: Stop Buying Steve Harvey’s Book (Video)
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• Kriss Elbow Drops History: The Moon Landing
  I know what you’re thinking. “But Kriss…how do you elbow drop someone in zero gravity?” To which I reply “It’s easy when you’re in a Hollywood studio….” I kid I kid… Or am I… image: http://theinsanityreport.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/elbow_moonlanding.jpg Share with your fri ...
• Michael Steele Plays Dumb…AGAIN
  I’ve tried really hard not to call RNC Chairman Michael Steele an Uncle Tom but I swear, this man is making it harder each day.  When Steele won the RNC Chairmanship, a lot of people (Republicans AND Democrats) thought it might usher in a new era for the Republican Party.  Steele was not only the [. ...
• IC 195: Clitoris Portis (Video)
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Simple Climate

• Saturday round-up: All quiet on the northern seas
  Frequency of 'Arctic hurricanes' is set to fall, following sea ice
• Saturday round-up: Choosing between food, fuel and ...
  As nature wilts in the heat, humans attack more directly
• Turbo-charged changes create climate roadkill
  Warming's extent and speed are both serious, says Jens Borken-Kleefeld
• Saturday round-up: Getting CO2 questions wrong
  Assumptions on plant growth and household efficiency are both suspect
• Struggling to adapt: Sea creatures – and humans?
  Warming's ecosystem harm to be “dwarfed” says Stanford's George Somero

e!Science News

• Manganese in drinking water: Study suggests advers ...
  This press release is available in French . read more
• Lightweight true random number generators a step c ...
  The widespread use of true random number generators (TRNGs) has taken a step closer following the creation of the most lightweight designs to date by researchers at Queen's University Belfast's Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT). read more
• Childhood viral infection may be a cause of obesit ...
  The emerging idea that obesity may have an infectious origin gets new support in a cross-sectional study by University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers who found that children exposed to a particular strain of adenovirus were significantly more likely to be obese. read more
• Higher incidence of seizures seen in children with ...
  A recent study by researchers at the University of Utah determined that the 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) caused a higher rate of neurological complications in children than the seasonal flu. The most common complications observed were seizures and encephalopathy. Full details of the study, the ...
• Magical BEANs: New nano-sized particles could prov ...
  The ability of phase-change materials to readily and swiftly transition between different phases has made them valuable as a low-power source of non-volatile or "flash" memory and data storage. Now an entire new class of phase-change materials has been discovered by researchers with the Lawrence Ber ...

unEarthed

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

  Blacklisted News

• American Businesses and Consumers are NOT Delevera ...
• Gallup: 58% Of Americans Want A Third Party
  Fifty-eight percent of Americans believe a third major political party is needed because the Republican and Democratic Parties do a poor job of representing the American people.
• Polysorbate 80 In Swine Flu Vaccines = Infertility ...
• Partners in Crime: The U.S. Secret State and Mexic ...
  For decades, investigative journalists, researchers and analysts have noted the symbiotic relationships forged amongst international drug syndicates, neofascists and U.S. intelligence agencies, documenting the long and bloody history of U.S. complicity in the global drugs trade.
• American workers switch from cocaine to prescripti ...

The Intelligence Daily

• Partners in Crime: The U.S. Secret State and Mexic ...
  By Tom Burghardt For decades, investigative journalists, researchers and analysts have noted the...
• Global NATO Raises Alarms From Arctic To Brazil
  By Rick Rozoff The current century’s only and history’s largest military bloc will hold the latest...
• 20 Signs That The Economic Collapse Has Already Be ...
  By Michael T. Snyder For most Americans, the economic collapse is something that is happening to...
• The Petraeus Bait and Switch Maneuver
  By Gareth Porter In interviews in recent weeks, Gen. David Petraeus has been taking a line on what...
• Life in Devastated Haiti
  By Stephen Lendman Nine months after the January 12 earthquake, Haitians still have little relief....

My AntiWar

• Spreading falsehoods about Iran: “United Aga ...
  Summary: UANI billboard in IllinoisThose who regularly follow the developments of Iran might have come across to the website of "United Against Nuclear Iran", a "non-partisan, non-profit advocacy organization" that seeks to "prevent Iran from fulfilling its ambition to become a regional super-power ...
• IDF Still Using Banned Weapon Against Civilian Pro ...
• Israeli Army Seeks to Make Infantry Units More Let ...
• Top Mideast Officials Fly to US as Peace Talks Cri ...
• Report: Protest in Turkey Over Quran Desecration

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Spreading falsehoods about Iran: "United Against N ...
  Summary: UANI billboard in Illinois Those who regularly follow the developments of Iran might have come across to the website of "United Against Nuclear Iran", a "non-partisan, non-profit advocacy organization" that seeks to "prevent Iran from fulfilling its ambition to become a regional super-p ...
• Amano’s New Nuclear Complaints, and Points Missed
  Summary: Iran’s suspicion toward certain inspectors should not distress the IAEA. Iran has not charged them with espionage, but has mentioned imprecise reports. From tens of nuclear inspectors who have visited Iran’s nuclear facilities to date, Iran has merely singled out two. The IAEA should ...
• India with NAM in Slamming IAEA Report on Iran
  Summary: Iran UN chess Distancing itself from IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano’s report on Iran and its pursuit of a nuclear program, India has associated itself with a statement by the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) which criticized the language used in the IAEA chief’s report. source: The Jour ...
• Non-Aligned Movement: The International Atomic Ene ...
  Summary: Amano in Israel The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) warns that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) should not protect nuclear-armed Israel at the organization's own cost. The movement, which dissociates itself from major superpowers, used the final day of an IAEA meeting in Vienna ...
• Reality check: Iran is not a nuclear threat
  Summary: Scott Horton It is far past time for the members of the American media to get their act together and begin asking serious follow-up questions of the politicians, “experts,” and lobbyists they interview on the subject of Iran’s nuclear program. Many of these same journalists still have t ...

The Daily Galaxy

• Does a Massive 10-Billion-Year-Old Galaxy Hint tha ...
  Could the Universe be much older than we think? Early on its life it appears that our Universe was a place of puzzling extremes and seeming contradictions. That’s the conclusion scientists are drawing from new infrared observations of a very...
• Saturn: Jupiter's Hyper-Storm Rival
  Similar to Venus, Saturn has a well developed vortex of swirling clouds at each pole imaged during the Cassini Mission. And, like Jupiter, Saturn has storms too, but they’re not as massive as the famous Red Spot, intense or large...
• Puzzle of Genetic Inheritance at Cell Divsion Solv ...
  Ben Black, assistant professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, and Nikolina Sekulic, a postdoctoral fellow in the Black lab, report in the September 16 issue of Nature the structure of the CENP-A molecule, which defines a part of the chromosome called...
• Green Energy Breakthrough: Scientists Discover 'St ...
  A three-dimensional cage-shaped, artificial nanoparticle that looks from above like a six-pointed Star of David has been created by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers. They believe that it could eventually lead to better glucose sensors to diagnose diabetes or a...
• Image of the Day: One-Light-Year Tall 'Ninjas' of ...
  This image is a composite of Hubble Space Telescope observations, taken in 2005 and 2010, of the dark pillars of cool gas and dust in the Carina Nebula region. The immense nebula lies an estimated 7,500 light-years away in the...

Natural News

• Lady Gaga, superstar to teens, wears dress made of ...
  (NaturalNews) If you've ever wondered about the true mental sickness of the entertainment industry, look no further than Lady Gaga. She rose to fame and has become a teen favorite by pumping out tunes like "Love Game" where she belts out lines such as "Let's have some fun, this beat is sick, I wanna ...
• The food industry, like Big Pharma, controls the F ...
  (NaturalNews) The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) recently released a report highlighting the widespread influence of the food industry over food safety policies. According to the study, at least a quarter of those who work for either the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or the U.S. Depar ...
• Hand sanitizers do nothing to prevent viruses, flu
  (NaturalNews) Panic over last year's swine flu pandemic led to the installation of millions of alcohol-based hand sanitizer dispensers in places like grocery store checkout lines, restaurants and schools. Many people also began carrying with them travel-size hand sanitizers for additional protection ...
• American workers switch from cocaine to prescripti ...
  (NaturalNews) When most people hear reports about illicit drug use at work, they probably assume they are talking about things like marijuana and cocaine. But a new report shows that most of today's workers and job applicants have ditched the street drugs and now take prescription pain pills instead ...
• Health benefits of gluten-free diet helped make it ...
  (NaturalNews) A mere decade ago, most people likely had no idea what gluten even was. Today, the protein is widely known for causing digestive and other health problems in certain people that requires them to eat only gluten-free foods. And many otherwise healthy individuals are also going gluten-fr ...

Threat Level

• T-Mobile Blocking Text Messages
  A mobile-marketing company claimed Friday it would go out of business unless a federal judge orders T-Mobile to stop blocking its text-messaging service, the first case testing whether wireless providers can block text messages they don’t like. EZ Texting claims T-Mobile blocked the company from se ...
• Intel Threatens to Sue Anyone Who Uses HDCP Crack
  Intel threatened legal action Friday against anybody who uses its proprietary crypto key — leaked on the internet — to produce hardware that defeats the so-called HDCP technology that limits home recording of digital television and Blu-ray. “There are laws to protect both the intellectual property ...
• Man Gets 6 Years in Prison for Laundering $2.5 Mil ...
  A California man who served as a lynchpin for transmitting stolen money to hackers and carders in East Europe and elsewhere was sentenced on Thursday to 6 years in prison for conspiring to launder money. Cesar Carranza, 38, also known as “uBuyWeRush,” ran a legitimate business selling liquidation a ...
• Lawsuit Targets Mobile Advertiser Over Sneaky HTML ...
  A New York-based mobile-web advertising company was hit Wednesday with a proposed class action over its use of an HTML5 trick to track iPhone and iPad users across a number of websites, in what is believed to be the first privacy lawsuit of its kind in the mobile space. The company, Ringleader Digit ...
• Alleged HDCP Encryption Crack Is No Pirate Bonanza
  Hollywood studios and the maker and licensing authority of the High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection standard were scrambling Wednesday to determine whether a so-called “master key” to the anti-piracy encryption technology has leaked onto the internet. HDCP is a copy-protection technology that ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of the Poverty Data
  To be sure, the new Census data on poverty and health care in America are grim. At 14.3%, the poverty rate in 2008 jumped to its highest level since 1994. Meanwhile, the number of uninsured catapulted to 50.7 million, as employers shed jobs and insurance benefits during the deep Bush recession. O ...
• Jon Stewart Pushes False Equivalence of Left and R ...
  Rally to Restore Sanity ," Stewart sadly engaged in the same kind of false equivalence of left and right so typical of mainstream media coverage. And that distortion of American politics is no laughing matter. Reporting on Stewart's comic call for signs at the October 30 event proclaiming "I Disag ...
• Studies Debunk GOP Lies about Public Employees
  In August, the New Republic , the New York Times and others warned that the 2010 campaign would feature a new Republican bogeyman. The Times announced, "There's a class war coming to the world of government pensions," while TNR's Jonathan Cohn explained the latest GOP hatefest in "Why Public Employ ...
• Senate Republicans Unveil PIG Act
  As promised, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) this week introduced legislation proposing to make the budget-busting 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts permanent. The so-called Tax Hike Prevention Act wouldn't merely drain $3.9 trillion from the U.S. Treasury over the next decade. At a time o ...
• The Soft Expectations of Low Bigotry
  In his speech to school children carried live on CNN, PBS and many other networks, the President implored students, "Take control -- challenge yourself," adding, "Only you know how hard you work." Those quickly forgotten and uncontroversial words were delivered by President George H.W. Bush in 1991 ...

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

• The Great Muslim Scare
  The furor over the Manhattan Islamic Center - like other Muslim-bashing - has a political intent, says Lawrence Davidson. September 16, 2010
• America's Decoupling from Reality
  The latest Kenya smear against President Obama reflects America's three-decade divorce from reality, argues Robert Parry. September 15, 2010
• Rory Kennedy's "The Fence"
  Rory Kennedy's HBO documentary, "The Fence," tells the tragic-comic tale of the US-Mexican border fence, writes Lisa Pease. September 14, 2010
• GOP Leaders Embrace Ugly Intolerance
  Newt Gingrich's praise for a story about President Obama channeling his Kenyan father is a new low, writes Michael Winship. September 14, 2010
• Great Britain's Brave New World
  The British austerity program is squeezing the middle class and pushing the newly poor toward class war, says Danny Schechter. September 14, 2010

CounterPunch

• Alexander Cockburn : Autumn of the Driveler
• Carl Ginsburg : Life in the Low to Mid-Teens
• Alexander Cockburn : Loose-Lip McChrystal Did Obam ...
• Alexander Cockburn : He Should Have Kept His Mouth ...
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Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Contesting Past and Present at Silwan (Joel Beini ...
  However many states there may or may not be on the horizon in Israel and Palestine, the new generation of Israeli protesters see themselves as building a culture of peace and living toget ...
• Refugees and "Peace Talks" (aic )
• Carter: Obama backtracked on freeze (The Associat ...
  Former US president Jimmy Carter has slammed US President Barack Obama for his policy on Israel's settlement freeze, accusing him of backing away from his initial commitment to bring Jewi ...
• Netanyahu: No extension to settlement freeze (Ma' ...
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he would not extend restrictions on settlement construction, due to expire later this month, Israeli press reported. Netanyahu's refu ...
• Israel's foreign minister demands Arabs be strippe ...
  Israel's foreign minister demanded yesterday that some of Israel's Arab citizens be stripped of their citizenship and transferred to a future Palestinian state. In comments that infuriate ...

Water - AlterNet

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

Public Citizen in Texas

• P2080110 [Flickr]
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• Ali Rawaf: Media and Campaign Finance Intern at Pu ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Ali studies Political Science and Int'l Studies at University of Texas at Austin.
• Federal Investigation of Texas’ Radioactive Waste ...
  NRC and EPA called upon to examine radioactive waste site and licensing process, risks of groundwater contamination and potential risks to the Ogallala Aquifer, which lies beneath eight states AUSTIN – Environmental groups today asked the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the U.S. Environ ...
• Melissa Sanchez at Old Settlers Music Festival 200 ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Mellisa enjoys cooking in the rain
• Fed’s getting into the energy storage act, along w ...
  Long thought to be the last commodity that can’t be saved for later use, large scale electrical energy storage is finally looking like a technology who’s time might have come. Recently introduced the “Storage Technology of Renewable and Green Energy Act of 2010″ Act (S. 3617) introduced by U.S. Sena ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Queen Nefertiti bust may have had a facelift
  A 3,300 year old bust of the Egyptian Queen Nefertiti has revealed evidence of alteration to correct flaws. The modification of her nose and the smoot...
• Jupiter to make closest approach to Earth
  The planet Jupiter will be particularly bright in the night sky during its closest approach this month. From September 20th the largest planet in our ...
• "Ghost" caught on pub CCTV
  An anomalous ghost-like image has been caught on CCTV in a pub in Cumbria by the landlord. A travel agents next to the pub has also reported recording...
• Arctic ice could be gone by 2030
  Researchers have warned that the Arctic could be completely free of ice due to global warming as early as 2030. The amount of ice coverage in the Arct...
• Amateur gardener grows monster cabbage
  Amateur gardener Jimmy Hill has managed to grow a row of monster vegetables including a 5ft cabbage. Despite the incredible size of the veggies Mr Hil...

Grassroots

• Ending Poverty by Rebuilding Local Food Economies- ...
  us_food_sovereignty_alliance.jpg Emerging out of the US Working Group on the Food Crisis , the US Food Sovereignty Alliance will be the first of its kind in the United States. Grassroots International is a member of this new alliance. To celeb ...
• 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 ...

Climate

• September 18-19, 2010
  Last Test Needed Before Declaring BP Oil Well Dead (AP) A pressure test on the blown-out BP well in the Gulf of Mexico was set to be finished early Sunday, the last step needed before the runaway well can finally be declared dead. Salazar, Chu Convene Panel to Probe Oil Well Blowouts (The Hi ...
• September 17, 2010
  Coal Plant Permit Expected This Year (AP) A new coal plant in southwest Kansas is on track to obtain a state environmental permit by year's end so that it wouldn't have to comply with new federal rules on greenhouse gas emissions, officials confirmed Thursday. Private Lab Finds Toxic Chemicals ...
• September 18-19, 2010
  Last Test Needed Before Declaring BP Oil Well Dead (AP) A pressure test on the blown-out BP well in the Gulf of Mexico was set to be finished early Sunday, the last step needed before the runaway well can finally be declared dead. Salazar, Chu Convene Panel to Probe Oil Well Blowouts ...
• September 17, 2010
  Coal Plant Permit Expected This Year (AP) A new coal plant in southwest Kansas is on track to obtain a state environmental permit by year's end so that it wouldn't have to comply with new federal rules on greenhouse gas emissions, officials confirmed Thursday. Private Lab Finds Toxic Ch ...
• September 16, 2010
  2010 Headed Toward Being Hottest Year on Record (Washington Post) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that the first eight months of 2010 tied the same period in 1998 for the warmest combined land and ocean surface temperature on record worldwide.   Report: 80% of Sta ...

GreenBiz

• Mine the Gap: Connecting Water Risks and Disclosur ...
  This paper outlines potential water-related risks facing the mining industry and highlights important gaps in water-related disclosure.
• More Jobs, Less Waste
  This report from Friends of the Earth Europe shows how countries that boost their recycling rates can add as many as 500,000 new jobs while cutting their waste to landfill significantly.
• Energy Efficiency Sleuths Uncover $350M in Savings
  The 2010 EDF�Climate Corps Fellows illustrate the power of energy efficiency with $350 million in reduced operating costs, 400,000 metric tons of annual greenhouse gas emissions avoided, and more than 650 million kilowatt hours of electricity saved.�
• Climate Corps 2010: Why is the Reality of Energy E ...
  Most companies are so preoccupied with external factors, such as sales that contribute to top-line growth, that they often neglect operational improvements and energy efficiency -- two opportunities with huge potential to boost the bottom line.
• Sony Seeks Best Idea to Repurpose Products for Gre ...
  �Sony and WWF have launched a competition seeking ways that existing technologies can be used to address environmental problems.

Reuters Global

• 10,000 walruses, ready for their close-up
  Take a look at a new movie of walruses crowding an Alaska beach -- as you've never seen them before!
• Geithner tells Congress: calling China names doesn ...
  Lawmakers want Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to take stronger stance on China's foreign exchange policies.
• How many al Qaeda can you live with ?
  A furious debate has raged for several months now whether it makes sense for the United States to throw tens of thousands of soldiers at a handful of al Qaeda that remain in the Afghanistan-Pakistan theatre, nine years after launching the global war on terrorism
• Merkel fights back with drop-dead argument
  Chancellor Angela Merkel comes alive in spirited debate in parliament on Wednesday, defending her centre-right government's performance from a withering attack from the opposition Social Democrats.
• Nigeria on the brink? Of what?
  Is Nigeria on the brink of crisis and conflict or the greatest period of economic and social development the country has ever seen?

Booman Tribune

• What I Missed
  I took a mental health day today and went down to Baltimore to check out Camden Yards. It's a very nice ballpark, and it was a beautiful day. It was a very nice birthday gift. Of course, this means that I missed all the political news today. But I count that as a good thing. I mean, I misse ...
• Obvious Observation
  It is far past time for the New York Times to fire Maureen Dowd. She's a dinosaur. Absolutely no one likes her work anymore. Ask yourself, who is her latest column supposed to appeal to, and who is it supposed to convince? The people who read the New York Times' op-ed page are too smart for Dowd ...
• Casual Observation
  More evidence in support of my theory that Sarah Palin doesn't have what it takes to make a serious run at the presidency.
• You Made Them Crazy
  During the early portion of the Bush/Cheney administration, progressives got organized online to fight back because the Democrats in Congress were showing no fight. We revitalized the party, even if we didn't fundamentally change it. Something similar is happening on the right with the Tea Party m ...
• Playing With Fire
  You have to admire the fighting spirit: "It's time they met one Republican woman who won't quit on Alaska." --Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), in her announcement of a write-in bid, attacking Sarah Palin. "It's a futile effort on her part, it really is." -- Sarah Palin, quoted by CNN, on Sen. ...

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 2 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europe on this date in history:451 - The Battle...
• Sunday Open Thread
  I still seem to have my FP powers - so I declare the Open Thread...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 1 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europe on this date in history:1870 - Franco-Prussian War,...
• Saturday Open Thread
  Because you're worth it...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 18 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1180 - start of...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

• Insomnia, Exercise, Therapy, and Looking Beyond Pr ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Insomnia can be psychologically frustrating and physically draining, and the older a person gets, the more likely they are to have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep. Some people’s sleep problems can be traced to life experiences or mental patterns that can be ad ...
• Lessening the Stress of Intensive Care through Dia ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline It’s not just a singular traumatic event such as an explosion or accident that can have psychological impact on a person. Studies show that a difficult hospital stay, especially in an intensive care unit, can cause a person to develop post-traumatic stress disorder. S ...
• “Type D” Personality at Greater Health Risk? How T ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline New research indicates that the decision to find a therapist may benefit not just your emotional and psychological health, but your physical health as well. Type D personality is a term used to describe people who have a tendency toward anxiety, “distress,” depression ...
• Teenagers Hit Especially Hard By Discrimination
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Depression, low self-esteem, and distress can all be caused by experiencing discrimination, and this is especially true for teenagers, a new study finds. Teenagers’ well-being is also altered in the form of lower grade-point averages and poorer physical health. The st ...
• How Does Co-depedency Affect us as Adults?
  By Joyce McLeod Henley, MSW, LCSW, CEAP, SAP, Codependency Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Joyce and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Co-dependency is a pattern of behaviors and beliefs learned by children of dysfunctional families while they are growing up. As a child in a dysfunc ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Industry rally: Who can be the most-pro coal? - Ch ...
  Charleston Gazette (blog) Industry rally: Who can be the most-pro coal? Charleston Gazette (blog) In mountaintop removal mining, forests are clear-cut, explosives blast apart the rock, and machines scoop out the exposed coal. ... Maynard, Rahall wage 'war on coal' Daily Mail - Charleston all 3 new ...
• Obama's tax compromise makes sense for US - Arizon ...
  Obama's tax compromise makes sense for US Arizona Daily Sun This mountaintop removal project and others like it should be stopped. Mountaintop removal , a form of surface mining, means just what it sounds like. ... and more��
• Group decries mountaintop removal - istockAnalyst. ...
  Group decries mountaintop removal istockAnalyst.com (press release) Mountaintop removal is the practice of blowing the top off mountains, removing the coal and then dumping the blown-off mountaintop into rivers and streams, ... and more��
• Readers' voice: Sept. 20, 2010 - Charleston Gazett ...
  Readers' voice: Sept. 20, 2010 Charleston Gazette Manchin, Shelley Moore Capito and all that bunch in Charleston is supporting this strip mining, I pray they put a mountaintop removal site right behind each ... and more��
• Banks Back Away from Financing Mountain Top Remova ...
  Banks Back Away from Financing Mountain Top Removal Reuters ... activists have sought to engage financial institutions over financing of the environmentally destructive practice of mountain top removal (MTR). ... and more��

Memeorandum

• Tea Party Victory Opens Rift Between Moderate and ...
  New York Times : Tea Party Victory Opens Rift Between Moderate and Conservative Republicans   —  WASHINGTON — The few remaining Republican centrists in the Senate were eagerly awaiting the arrival of Michael N. Castle of Delaware, a longtime and reliable moderate voice who could provide some count ...
• Obama Advisers Weigh Offensive Against the G.O.P. ...
  New York Times : Obama Advisers Weigh Offensive Against the G.O.P.   —  WASHINGTON — President Obama's political advisers, looking for ways to help Democrats and alter the course of the midterm elections in the final weeks, are considering a range of ideas, including national advertisements …
• Newsweek's Howard Fineman to Join The Huffington P ...
  Media Decoder : Newsweek's Howard Fineman to Join The Huffington Post   —  Howard Fineman, one of the more recognizable pundits on cable television and a correspondent for Newsweek for 30 years, is leaving the magazine to become a senior editor at The Huffington Post.  —  Mr. Fineman's move from a ...
• O'Donnell makes light of witchcraft comment (Randa ...
  Randall Chase / Associated Press : O'Donnell makes light of witchcraft comment   —  LINCOLN, Del. - Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell is making light of comments she made more than a decade ago when she was in high school about having dabbled in witchcraft.  —  “How many of you didn' ...
• Clinton says he was wrong on healthcare bill's pop ...
  The Hill : Clinton says he was wrong on healthcare bill's popularity   —  Former president Bill Clinton, a champion of healthcare reform, admitted on Sunday that he made the wrong prediction about the popularity of President Obama's healthcare bill.  —  Initially, Clinton had predicted that the pol ...

Energy & Environment News

• Rival Candy Projects Both Parse Cocoa’s DNA
  Two separate groups are vying for credit in what some might consider the research arm of a chocolate war.
• Report Says Drilling Ban Had Little Effect
  Louisiana lawmakers and drilling companies took issue with the federal report, saying it was based on flawed assumptions and incomplete evidence.
• Special Report: Energy: Doing More While Using Les ...
  Energy efficiency has taken a back seat in the debate on how to reduce use of fossil fuels, partly because of the difficulty of talking about efficiency concretely.
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle... Oil Rigs
  Old oil rigs don't have to just fade away, as a diving company shows.
• U.S. Says BP Well Is Finally ‘Dead’
  The government declared BP’s Macondo oil well dead on Sunday, nearly five months after the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico began.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.4, offshore Valparaiso, Chile
  Monday, September 20, 2010 05:42:56 UTC Monday, September 20, 2010 01:42:56 AM at epicenter Depth : 28.90 km (17.96 mi)
• M 5.1, Chiapas, Mexico
  Wednesday, September 15, 2010 06:05:49 UTC Wednesday, September 15, 2010 01:05:49 AM at epicenter Depth : 96.10 km (59.71 mi)
• M 5.1, central Mid-Atlantic Ridge
  Monday, September 13, 2010 02:48:07 UTC Monday, September 13, 2010 12:48:07 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.0, eastern New Guinea region, Papua New Guinea
  Sunday, September 19, 2010 15:03:28 UTC Monday, September 20, 2010 01:03:28 AM at epicenter Depth : 52.70 km (32.75 mi)
• M 5.4, Volcano Islands, Japan region
  Sunday, September 19, 2010 11:51:54 UTC Sunday, September 19, 2010 09:51:54 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)

China Dialogue

• Losing lifeblood in north China
  Groundwater reserves in Shanxi – the sustaining force of the region’s agriculture – are deteriorating, just when they are needed most. Matt Currell reports. Beside a dirt road, farmers shelter from the heat of high noon, carving up watermelons from mountain-high piles – the fruit of the summer harve ...
• Grey matters
  Ageing societies must harness the skills and experience of the “silver tsunami” to ease the strain on public resources – and keep the sustainability agenda on track, writes John Elkington. Over the years, I have met a surprising number of robots in Japan, including Aibo , Sony’s robotic dog. And one ...
• Time to drop the one-child policy
  The original arguments for China’s strict family-planning laws no longer hold and these outdated restrictions should now be relaxed, argue Zuo Xuejin and Yang Xiaoping. Since 1980, China has implemented a strict family-planning policy . In the past 30 years, the country has seen major changes in its ...
• Hiding behind the numbers
  Yesterday, Sara Parkin urged policymakers to focus on fertility as a means to cutting emissions. But David Satterthwaite believes an emphasis on population is a distraction from the real problem – consumption by the rich. In our concern for the ecological sustainability of the planet – or some subse ...
• Peak population
  Fertility policies have failed to win favour among climate-change strategists but lowering the global birth rate is a workable way to cut emissions, argues Sara Parkin, kicking off a series of articles on demography. At the time of the first United Nations World Population Year in 1974, there were 4 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Tea Party War Cry: I'm Mad and I Don't Want to Hea ...
  The Tea Party is REAL MAD. They're not sure why, but they'd like for the obscenely wealthy to get more tax breaks.
• Colin Powell Slams Right-Wing’s Attacks Against Ob ...
  This post first appeared on Think Progress. Retired General and former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell criticized the Tea Party movement’s inflammatory attacks against President Obama this morning during an appearance on NBC’s Meet The Press, singling out the rhetoric of Newt Gingrich ...
• Mexico’s Troubled 200th Anniver ...
  Putting the squeeze on the pipeline of money and weapons that feed Mexico's inferno would be the best Independence gift we could give Mexico.
• Israeli Beauty Products Company Ahava Complicit in ...
  Ahava is owned by entities deeply involved in Israel's settlement project in the occupied West Bank. Activists are fighting to show it can't hide its dirty side.
• How Medical Supply Companies Are Getting Away with ...
  How medical behemoths are making America’s health care system more dangerous and expensive.

Threat Level

• T-Mobile Blocking Text Messages
  A mobile-marketing company claimed Friday it would go out of business unless a federal judge orders T-Mobile to stop blocking its text-messaging service, the first case testing whether wireless providers can block text messages they don’t like. EZ Texting claims T-Mobile blocked the company from se ...
• Intel Threatens to Sue Anyone Who Uses HDCP Crack
  Intel threatened legal action Friday against anybody who uses its proprietary crypto key — leaked on the internet — to produce hardware that defeats the so-called HDCP technology that limits home recording of digital television and Blu-ray. “There are laws to protect both the intellectual property ...
• Man Gets 6 Years in Prison for Laundering $2.5 Mil ...
  A California man who served as a lynchpin for transmitting stolen money to hackers and carders in East Europe and elsewhere was sentenced on Thursday to 6 years in prison for conspiring to launder money. Cesar Carranza, 38, also known as “uBuyWeRush,” ran a legitimate business selling liquidation a ...
• Lawsuit Targets Mobile Advertiser Over Sneaky HTML ...
  A New York-based mobile-web advertising company was hit Wednesday with a proposed class action over its use of an HTML5 trick to track iPhone and iPad users across a number of websites, in what is believed to be the first privacy lawsuit of its kind in the mobile space. The company, Ringleader Digit ...
• Alleged HDCP Encryption Crack Is No Pirate Bonanza
  Hollywood studios and the maker and licensing authority of the High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection standard were scrambling Wednesday to determine whether a so-called “master key” to the anti-piracy encryption technology has leaked onto the internet. HDCP is a copy-protection technology that ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Analysis: Swedish government seeks way to exclude ...
  STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The center-right Alliance faces a tough task to form a government that can keep a previously powerless far-right party from influencing Sweden's traditionally liberal politics.
• Facebook denies plans to build its own phone
  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Social networking website Facebook said on Sunday it is pushing deeper into the mobile phones sector, but denied an Internet report that it will build its own phone.
• Dollar eases and gold hits peak as markets await F ...
  SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The dollar edged down and gold hit a record high on Monday as possible further Federal Reserve moves to increase money supply weighed on the U.S. currency and boosted alternative assets.
• SPDR Gold Trust holdings rise 6.079 tonnes
  SINGAPORE, Sept 20 (Reuters) - The world's largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, SPDR Gold Trust said its holdings rose to 1,300.825 tonnes by Sept 17 from 1,294.746 tonnes on Sept 15.
• Oracle unveils new hardware for managing cloud com ...
  SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Oracle Corp , the world's No. 3 software maker, unveiled a new all-in-one product to help companies manage so-called "cloud" computing.

IntelNews

• Swiss army planned covert operations in Libya
  By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | Swiss intelligence planned three separate covert missions to Libya in 2008 and 2009 in order to free two Swiss businessmen held by Libyan authorities, according to a Swiss newspaper. Citing a confidential document drafted … Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #432
  French spy agency chief warns of high terror risk. Bernard Squarcini, director of France’s Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST) counterintelligence agency, has warned that the country’s military presence in Afghanistan is among the reasons that have made France … Continue reading →
• British informant sues MI5 for breach of contract
  By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | An informant, who was used by British intelligence to infiltrate an Irish Republican dissident group, is suing the British government claiming he was forced to give evidence in court despite his will. The case, … Continue reading →
• CIA knew of Colombian infiltration of Bogota embas ...
  By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | A Colombian former intelligence official has testified in court that the CIA was aware of an aggressive intelligence collection program by Colombian spies, involving the infiltration of several foreign embassies in Colombian capital Bogota. … Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #431
  WikiLeaks to publish massive Iraq War document cache. A massive cache of previously unpublished classified US military documents from the Iraq War is being prepared for publication by WikiLeaks in a few weeks, a new report has confirmed. Untangling the … Continue reading →

After Downing Street.org

• Obama's New Consumer Watchdog
  Obama's New Consumer Watchdog - by Stephen Lendman On September 17, New York Times writers Jackie Calmes and Sewell Chan headlined, "Obama Picks Warren to Set Up Consumer Bureau," saying: Obama appointed Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren "to oversee" the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protect ...
• Bradley Manning: American Hero
  By Marjorie Cohn Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is accused of leaking military secrets to the public. This week, his supporters are holding rallies in 21 cities, seeking Manning’s release from military custody. Manning is in the brig for allegedly disclosing a classified video depicting U.S. troops ...
• The Petraeus Bait and Switch Maneuver
  By: Gareth Porter In interviews in recent weeks, Gen. David Petraeus has been taking a line on what will happen in mid-2011 that challenges President Barack Obama’s intention to begin a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by that date.  This new Petraeus line is the culmination of a brazen bait and sw ...
• The Int'l Effort to Criminalize War [Or Rather to ...
• U.S. Boat to Gaza Fundraiser Today @ Busboys & Poe ...
  Northern Virginia Fundraiser for the U.S. Boat To Gaza When: Sunday September 19, 2010 Time: 4-6pm What: Fundraiser for the U.S boat to Gaza Where: Busboys and Poets @ Shirlington Village 4251 South Campbell Ave Arlington, VA 22206 (703) 379-9757 In t ...

Grist - News

• BP well in Gulf of Mexico is finally ‘dead&# ...
  by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- U.S. officials finally declared BP's broken well in the Gulf of Mexico "dead" on Sunday, five months after the explosion that set off one of the costliest and largest environmental disasters ever. Retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the U.S. pointman fo ...
• Gulf of Mexico well to be ‘completely sealed ...
  by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- BP plans to put a death choke on its ruptured Gulf of Mexico well Saturday, permanently sealing it and capping a months-long effort to end the worst maritime oil spill in history. "It is expected that the MC252 well will be completely sealed on Saturday, ...
• Drilling moratorium caused minimal job loss, and o ...
  by Tyler Falk. A report released by the Obama administration on Thursday said that the Gulf of Mexico drilling moratorium has had little impact on unemployment, despite concerns that the ban would cripple the Gulf economy. An Interior Department estimate put the number of jobs lost at 23,000. ...
• Greenpeace: Unfriend Facebook’s Mark Zuckerb ...
  by Jonathan Hiskes. Greenpeace takes another swipe at Facebook -- for running its new Oregon data center partially on coal -- with an eye-catching animated video calling on viewers to unfriend Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. The video's ultimately about unfriending coal , but Greenpeace takes ...
• Americans of both parties support the EPA
  by Peter Lehner. Over the past few months, several members of Congress have tried to undermine the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to reduce pollution. They especially want to stop the agency from cutting the emissions that cause climate change. While these efforts benefit polluters, ...

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Time - Top Stories

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  A fourth democratic election since the overthrow of the Taliban does not change the reality that the distribution of power will be decided by the outcome of the war
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Washington Independent

• In Wake of Ballot Initiatives, Questions About the ...
  Gay-rights activists have long speculated that the Mormon Church was the primary benefactor behind NOM. But the Knights of Columbus disclosure shows the Catholic group played a pivotal role in funding NOM’s efforts to deny marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples.
• Socially Conservative Voters Refuse To Be Ignored ...
  “One of the largest costs of the federal government is related to the values issues, to the dysfunctional society,” said Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.)
• The Unemployed, Really Unionizing
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• Christine O’Donnell Tells Conservatives To Charge ...
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• Changing Poverty Demographics
  Matt Yglesias posts a good chart of the changing poverty demographics over the past forty years: Poverty declines sharply for seniors. For families headed by single mothers, it declines significantly before tracking back up during the 2000s. The aughts saw a slow rise in poverty for the working-age ...

Digg Green

• Underwater Camera Theft: Manta Ray Edition (V ...
  We all saw the footage shot by an octopus, and then there was the groovy sea turtle camera work (swim of conscious?) and now, the Manta’s have hopped on the band wagon.
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• MDMA Treats Posttraumatic Stress Syndrome
  New Research shows that MDMA, also known as ecstasy, may be significantly more effective than conventional drugs for treatment of PTSD.
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  I will not go into detail about why I visited the doctor last night, but after describing my symptoms and being the subject of a rigorous examination, his first question was, "Do you ride a bicycle?" When I said yes, everywhere, he gave me his prescription: "Get a new bicycle seat." I was seri ...
• The Truth Behind 5 Most Common Health Myths ...
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Invisible Opportunity

• When you’re Cool the Sun is Always Shining
  By Les Visible These things will happen, are happening and have always been possible. Once you see it manifest you are going to say, “Well, this could work for anything.” The most important and dynamic source of power is not to be doing it for yourself. You get taken care of in ways beyond what [... ...
• The Israeli Spy Ring
  “Israel does not spy on the United States of America.” – Mark Regev, a spokesman at the Israeli embassy in Washington Prior to 9/11, the FBI had discovered the presence of a massive spy ring inside the United States run by the government of Israel. This seems a harsh gratitude from a nation which ob ...
• The U.S. Soldier Who Killed Herself After Refusing ...
  By Greg Mitchell With each revelation, or court decision, on U.S. torture in Iraq, Afghanistan and Gitmo — or the airing this month of The Tillman Story and Lawrence Wright’s My Trip to Al-Qaeda — I am reminded of the chilling story of Alyssa Peterson, who died seven years ago today. Appalled when o ...
• Mossad And The Russian Mafia Plutonium Connection
  By Gordon Thomas 11-21-3 Scientists at the European Trans-Uranium Institute at Karlsruhe in Germany, tracking the movements of all fissionable material from the former Soviet Unionís nuclear arsenal, have raised suspicions that Mossad has purchased some of the material to allegedly stop it falling i ...
• Say Goodbye to Sunspots?
  by Phil Berardelli Scientists studying sunspots for the past 2 decades have concluded that the magnetic field that triggers their formation has been steadily declining. If the current trend continues, by 2016 the sun’s face may become spotless and remain that way for decadesâa phenomenon that in t ...

Global Insights

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  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 ...
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• The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catas ...
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• About George Green
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AlterNet - DrugReporter

• Mexico’s Troubled 200th Anniver ...
  Putting the squeeze on the pipeline of money and weapons that feed Mexico's inferno would be the best Independence gift we could give Mexico.
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  President Nixon saw it as a way to hit back against pot-smoking Vietnam protesters, and presidents since have feared being smeared as "soft on drugs."
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  It appears that there is a growing contingent of marijuana users and people associated with the industry who are fighting against efforts to make it legal for all adults.

Twilight Earth

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• Frankenfish Should be OK Because of BPA (cartoon)
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Inhabitat

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Pogue's Posts

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WIRED Magazine | Science

• Why Cellphone Talkers Are So Grating
  They’re everywhere — yammering on the subway, yukking it up on sidewalks, yakking away in restaurants. It’s the invasion of the cellphone-slinging, super-annoying attention snatchers! Cellphone users irritate so mightily because their background chatter forcibly yanks listeners’ attention away from ...
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The Progressive Realist

• Afghanistan: Will There Be a Debate?
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• Considering Arms Shipments to Yemen
  Gulliver , reacting to reports that the US is mulling over a $1.2 billion arms/training package to Yemen as part of a burgeoning counterterrorism effort in that country, sums it up quite concisely: A dude tried to get on an airplane in the U.S. with a bomb in his pants, and this is causing conf ...
• Does the US Really Want Talks with the Taliban to ...
  Peace talks involving the Taliban and its allies are apparently underway, according to the  Asia Times  ( AT ), and from most accounts a deal appears doable.  AT’ s Pakistan bureau chief Syed Saleem Shahzad reported Sept. 11 and 15th that, under the auspices of the Pakistan military and intelligenc ...
• Does the U.S. Really Want Talks with the Taliban t ...
  Peace talks involving the Taliban and its allies are apparently underway, according to the  Asia Times  ( AT ), and from most accounts a deal appears doable.  AT’ s Pakistan bureau chief Syed Saleem Shahzad reported Sept. 11 and 15th that, under the auspices of the Pakistan military and intelligenc ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: Prejudice is Expensive.
  Matt Yglesias wades into the ongoing Martin Peretz imbroglio, criticizing plans by Harvard to honor the controversial New Republic editor despite his recent comments on the "cheapness" of Muslim life. According to Yglesias, Harvard is only going ahead with the honoring because it wants the more tha ...
• Warren, Officially.
  After becoming an official member of the Obama administration, Elizabeth Warren spoke with bloggers on a conference call. While policy specifics were lacking, it is clear from both Obama's remarks announcing the appointment in the Rose Garden and Warren's own comments that, as I wrote this morning ...
• A Moral Majority?
  The Tea Party movement has long stressed its commitment to fiscal issues over social ones, but speakers at the 2010 Values Voter Summit -- while tying themselves to the Tea Party -- have tried to reduce the distance between social and economic conservatives. Citing recent poverty statistics, Mike ...
• Child-Friendly Bars, Child-Centered Cultures.
  In The New York Times today, Frank Bruni asks whether children should be allowed in bars. The short answer from many of his commenters is no, and I'm sure that's the immediate, knee-jerk reaction from most people. But Bruni and his commenters may have missed a pair of posts from Feminste �in May an ...
• Friday Rant: Screw You, Pennies.
  Author John Green tells off pennies in this excellent video: I'm always amazed at how neatly the concentrated interests that benefit from government subsidies exploit ignorant sentimentality to their benefit. Big Penny isn't the only culprit -- see also the Big Ag (family farms need government s ...

Buzzflash

• Will GOP Abandon Anti-Abortion Stance in Search of ...
  BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH 'Chatter' about a 'truce' in the abortion wars appears to be a 'concerted effort emanating from establishment Republicans anxious to win over/hold on to independents heading into the 2010 and 2012 elections,' says anti-abortion activist�Jill Stanek.� Over the past fe ...
• Tea Party Sexual Perversity: From Sex with a Horse ...
  MARC PERKEL FOR BUZZFLASH I'm confused about where the new tea Party stands on sexual issues. On one hand Tea Party backed Republican candidate for Governor of New York, Carl Paladino, sent a pornographic email with a video of a woman having sex with a horse. On the other hand Tea Party backed R ...
• Terry Jones and the Bonfire of the Inanities
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH � Maybe it should be about Terry Jones And Man’s many and varied inhumanities. Considering what an idiot the pastor is, Let’s call it “The Bonfire of the Inanities. � In addition to Verse-Case Scenario, Tony Peyser writes about California politics with PeyserPoem, a daily f ...
• President Obama Went from a Campaign of "Hope and ...
  BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG BY MARK KARLIN Say what you will about Ronald Reagan, but the guy knew how to tell a story. After all, he was groomed for the presidency by General Electric and some right-wing members of the oligarchy when his film career had run its course. In many ways, he wasn't presid ...
• For Democrats Truth is the Best Offense
  Body Some say there’s no difference between the two major parties, but despite the fact that corporate and banking interests wield extraordinary power in Congress on both sides of the aisle, important differences exist nonetheless. Replacing the current leadership in Congress with nay ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The "obscenity" of comparing Americans to "killers ...
  The American Prospect continues its strange attack on "The American Taliban"
• Obama's view of liberal criticisms
  At a $30,000 per plate DNC fundraiser, the President explains that it's your fault if you're dissatisfied
• The misguided reaction to Tea Party candidates
  The condescension toward these new right-wing standard-bearers seems more cultural than ideological
• Public opinion and the war in Afghanistan
  Does it matter that a majority of Americans believe the U.S. should not be fighting in that country?
• Obama in Wonderland
  Eight months after imposing the death penalty on a U.S. citizen, Obama considers indicting him

The BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

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

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• MIT Nuke Study Uses Unsupportable Reactor Cost Est ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 16, 2010 Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) An MIT study titled “The Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle” released today in Washington uses an unsupportable reactor construction cost estimate, undercutting its recommendation that taxpayer subsidies for new n ...
• NOW Applauds Appointment of Elizabeth Warren as Sp ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 16, 2010 National Organization for Women After weeks of speculation, President Obama is set to officially name Elizabeth Warren as a special advisor overseeing the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection that she herself envisioned. read more
• "Dark Side of Climate Change" Seen in Record Setti ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 16, 2010 NRDC While many Americans focused on this summer’s day-time record-setting temperatures, there is growing concern about the largely ignored pattern of record-setting night-time temperatures, which pose special dangers to elderly and low-income Americans wh ...
• National Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for New F ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 16, 2010 Union of Concerned Scientists A new national poll of likely voters conducted by the Mellman Group (pdf) found overwhelming public support for raising fuel efficiency standards and reducing global warming pollution from the nation’s cars and trucks. read mo ...
• Green America Calls on Legislators to Protect the ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 16, 2010 Green America In a letter sent to all members of Congress today, national nonprofit Green America asked all members of the House and Senate to oppose efforts to undermine the EPA’s authority to enforce the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon emissions. Writin ...

Common Dreams-Views

• Drones on Trial: Narrowing the Gap Between Law and ...
  by Jerica Arents I received an education Thursday. I wasn't in a classroom. I wasn't laboring over a paper, strategizing in a small group, poring over a textbook or hustling across campus. I was sitting as a spectator in the front row of Judge Jansen's courtroom in Clark County, Nevada. read more
• World Bank Report on Land Grabbing: Beyond the Smo ...
  by GRAIN Last week, on 7 September 2010, the World Bank finally decided to publish its much anticipated report on the global farmland grab. After years of work, several months of political negotiation and who knows how much money spent, the report was casually released on the Bank's website -- in En ...
• American Politics Today: An Interview with Frances ...
  by Joseph G. Peschek Readers of New Political Science know Frances Fox Piven as the author or co-author of a series of path-breaking articles and books on the development of American social policies, political mobilization and voter turnout, and the attack on the welfare state. She is also a support ...
• Passenger Trains: Our Hope for a More Sustainable ...
  by Olga Bonfiglio President Obama's proposal to spend $50 billion on transportation infrastructure—including 4,000 miles of rail lines—couldn't be a better expenditure of our federal tax dollars. After spending two days on the Empire Builder, the long-haul Amtrak line from Chicago to Seattle/Port ...
• By the Numbers, Public Workers Defy Anti-Governmen ...
  by Michelle Chen Want to get a disgruntled worker really mad? Just point to his arch enemy: the civil servant. You know, the shiftless paper-pusher, fattened on our tax dollars, the epitome of “waste, fraud and abuse.” read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

• The Petraeus Bait and Switch Maneuver
  By Gareth Porter In interviews in recent weeks, Gen. David Petraeus has been taking a line on what will happen in mid-2011 that challenges President Barack Obama’s intention to begin a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by that date. This new Petraeus line is the culmination of a brazen bait and swit ...
• Apathy and Fraud Make Afghan Election A "Powerful ...
  By Steve Hynd Yesterday the people of Afghanistan voted in their parliamentary elections. Or at least, a few of them did. The Independent Election Commission (IEC) is saying that over 4 million votes were cast, giving a little over a 40% turnout, but no-one except those with a vested interest in the ...
• Bad Timing
  By Steve Hynd The story of American soldiers from the 5th Stryker brigade who are alleged to have formed a murder team is hitting the world's press. The soldiers are charged with killing three Afghan civilians "essentially for sport" while under the influence of booze and drugs, taking fingers for t ...
• The "Anti-War Left" And The Afghanistan Study Grou ...
  The Afghanistan Study Group made somewhat a stir when it released its report and was criticised for being inaccurate and for not providing an answer to "how does this end?" Gregg Carlstrom has a good roundup of the study and reactions over at Al Jazeera. But one voice missing has been our good frien ...
• Forcing The Taliban To The Table
  By Steve Hynd Unless you're one of the dumber-than-mud fighting keyboardists who insist that all terrorists are cockroaches (and you don't negotiate with cockroaches), you'll have noticed that everyone from General David Petraeus on up has said that there will be no purely military solution in Afgha ...

Water Wars

• Water wars over neighborhood annexation in Rock Hi ...
  The city of Rock Hill wants to annex two neighborhoods and a church  along the Highway 161 corridor in York County.  Homeowners are fighting annexation.
• Thousands of acres in Pasco may be purchased from ...
  By Jodie Tillman, Times Staff Writer Friday, September 17, 2010 More than two years ago, the effort to protect 12,500 acres in central Pasco County got a big boost when state officials added the property to Florida's priority list for preservation. But the money to buy the land from Pinellas County ...
• St. Johns River summit brings pledge of caucus, no ...
  Politicians from opposite ends of the St. Johns River pledged cooperation Thursday in healing the river, but they left a two-day meeting in Jacksonville without a plan for the “Everglades-style” restoration local leaders invoked this summer. They agreed that without shared work and visions, their ef ...
• Pittsburg ChickFest 2010 to be Bigger and Better t ...
  PITTSBURG – The streets of Historic Downtown Pittsburg will transform into an open-air marketplace on September 18 as vendors from all over East Texas converge on the city for ChickFest. Estimated attendance at the annual festival, which is Pittsburg’s biggest, is 10,000.
• Don't repeat 'water wars,' former governor tells J ...
  A river summit such as the one that opened Wednesday in Jacksonville might have spared Tampa-area residents years of costly "water wars," former Gov. Bob Martinez said as he encouraged participants to work together. "I wish we had done this as a community when it first became evident that water was ...

WordPress | Economics

• iGarden Website Up-Date For September 2010 Has Bee ...
  Drying Fresh Herbs It has been a while sense I updated iGarden website. * New and updated informatio
• Blown over by easterlies
  Yesterday was a typhoon day in Taiwan. As usual it came here from the east. At the same time, I was
• Human Rights Facts (196): A Right to Unemployment ...
  Article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides a right to work, as well as a right
• 'Garbage' measures human nature?
  Prolific Canadian artist Max Liboiron has a new show at the AC Institute in New York through October
• Still a risk Ireland will access the EFSF and IMF ...
  No doubt about the main high lowlight of the week (apart from the FOMC meeting) — the Irish governme

Electronic Intifada

• Grim prospects for Gaza's fishermen and farmers
  GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - As the many colors of the fish and flowers slowly disappear from the Gaza landscape, the already grim prospects of the besieged resid ...
• Novel gets to truth of Sabra and Shatila
  Not one of the recent Israeli films covering the occupation of Lebanon makes the slightest attempt to humanize Israel's victims or tell the story from their perspective. In contras ...
• Audio: "They persecuted Ameer to keep us silent"
  The trial of Palestinian citizen of Israel and civil society leader Ameer Makhoul resumes today in Haifa. The Electronic Intifada contributor Hyun Lee interviews Makhoul's ...
• Sentencing begins for convicted grassroots activis ...
  In a courtroom packed with foreign diplomats, Palestinian and Israeli human rights workers and political activists, the sentencing phase in the ongoing trial of Palestinian ...
• Indigenous resistance, from Colombia to Palestine
  The mistreatment of the indigenous peoples of Colombia by the government of former president Alvaro Uribe Velez, appointed by the UN investigate Israel's fatal attack on the Gaza F ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Karzai's cousin accuses of vote-rigging, frau ...
  Afghan President Hamid Karzai's cousin, who was seeking re-election as an MP in Kabul, has accused the election officials of "illegally" blocking his observers from watching the counting process, with an intention to rig the result against him.
• Diplomatic offensive in pipeline for finding solut ...
  The United States, Pakistan and some Arab nations have launched a massive diplomatic offensive to find a viable solution to the Afghan problem.
• Eight children die playing with rocket in Afghanis ...
  Eight children were killed when a rocket they were playing with exploded Sunday in northern province of Kunduz, the provincial governor said.
• Britain hands over Afghanistan's Shangin to U ...
  British troops have handed over responsibility for one of the districts in southern Afghanistan, the area where has claimed a third of all UK casualties in the nine-year old occupation, to American fo...
• UK hands southern Afghan security to US
  British forces have transferred responsibility for security in the violence-wracked district of Sangin in southern Afghanistan to US forces, the Ministry of Defence said."ISAF (the NATO-led Internatio...

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

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

• CNN: Does it Pay to Be a Whistleblower?
  CNN recently interviewed POGO Executive Director Danielle Brian about the Office of Special Counsel—the independent agency whose mission is "to safeguard the merit system by protecting federal employees and applicants from prohibited personnel practices, especially reprisal for whistleblowing" (emph ...
• Senate Judiciary Committee Unanimously Approves Le ...
  Congress is rapidly advancing bipartisan legislation to strike language from the financial overhaul legislation that gave the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sweeping new powers to withhold records from the public. Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a bill...
• New Bill Cracks Down on Foreign Bribery
  This week, the House overwhelmingly passed the Overseas Contractor Reform Act (H.R. 5366). The bill, sponsored by Vermont Congressman Peter Welch, would propose debarment for companies and individuals who violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which prohibits the payment...
• Morning Smoke: Senate Judiciary Committee Approves ...
  Congress moving to tighten SEC FOIA power by Silla Brush [The Hill] No one trusts the SEC by Colin Barr [Street Sweep] Contractor debarment process plagued by delays, inconsistencies, IGs say by Sean Reilly [Federal Times] OneUnited Bank received special...
• Defense Security Service Director Leaving for "the ...
  In an email (see below) to the staff of Defense Security Service (DSS) on Monday afternoon, the agency’s director, Kathleen M. Watson, announced she would be retiring next month “to pursue a career in the private sector,” though where exactly...

Digital Journal

• Could circumsizing baby boys prevent HIV spread?
  An Australian physician says circumcising baby boys could be a long-term strategy to fight the spread of HIV-AIDS among heterosexuals, news from oceanic country say.
• Benefits increasing for Canadian veterans
  On Sunday Canada announced the first in a series of actions that Canada will be taking in the coming weeks to improve support and care for Veterans and their families.
• Canada's best female boxer bags third world title ...
  Canada's Mary Spencer moved up in weight and claimed the middleweight gold medal at the newly-concluded 6th AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships in Barbados by sweeping up the reigning champion Jinzi Li of China 14-2 in the 75-kg final.
• Toronto International Film Festival 2010 announces ...
  The winners of the 35th annual Toronto International Film Festival have been announced. The festival audiences chose a historical drama, a vampire film and an environmental documentary as the festival’s best motion pictures.
• Special Investigations Unit probing Ottawa inciden ...
  On Saturday morning, 1:22 a.m. Ottawa Police Service reported that the Special Investigations Unit (SUI) were investigating a death in Ottawa that happened during a police search.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Exit Jail, Enter Homelessness
  This new video comes from Mark's InvisiblePeople.tv 30-city, 11,000-mile, 75-day road trip , going on now. I met Darryl in Florida at an ID clinic . He has been homeless for three weeks, since he got out of jail and his family decided to practice "tough love" and not let him come home. Darryl wants ...
• A Community Has Questions After Police Shoot a Hom ...
  My feet tingled a bit while I stood in the foyer of Seattle City Hall, and not just because they had gotten wet in the falling rain. But I had to be here, along with hundreds of others, to protest the shooting of a well-known First Nations homeless man by Seattle police on Aug. 30. He was shot to de ...
• Count On It: Quantifying Homelessness in America
  It's a Census year, and that seems to have made Americans acutely aware of the importance of demographic surveying — if for no other reason than to ensure adequate representation, guide distribution of federal funds and to provide some much needed job creation. However, housed residents are not only ...
• Street Paper Loses Catholic Funding for Saying Pla ...
  A complaint I read a lot from homeless people is about service providers who try to force a way of life , oftentimes a particular faith, on the people they help. Not willing to sit through church services? No food for you. Now comes the story of the nation's largest self-help, social justice funding ...
• The Dating Game: Homeless Edition
  Any chronically homeless woman with street smarts and a need to survive will tell you to "find you a  man," as I was so often admonished to do. Male or female, those on the streets for a few days without a car or other shelter quickly realize that having a partner — male or female — can mean the dif ...

Ceasefire.ca

• Global recession hits arms sales
  The global economic downturn that hit in 2008 has led to a drop in the value of worldwide arms sales, the U.S. Congressional Research Service has reported (Thom Shanker, “Bad Economy Drives Down American Arms Sales,” New York Times, 12 September 2010). Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nati ...
• My Letter to CP’s Rob Russo and Murray Brewster - ...
  From: Steven Staples [mailto:sstaples@rideauinstitute.ca] Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 4:34 PM To: ‘rob.russo@thecanadianpress.com‘ Cc: ‘murray.brewster@thecanadianpress.com‘ Subject: CDA award Hi Rob and Murray, Just a note from me to urge you to reconsider accepting the CDA’s media aw ...
• Joint Task Force 2 under investigation for imprope ...
  Canada’s Defence Department is quietly conducting its second investigation into allegations regarding the conduct of  Joint Task Force 2, the highly secretive Canadian special forces unit, in Afghanistan from 2005 to 2008.  The initial probe, Sand Trap I, lasted a year and a half and resulted in ...
• Russian bomber flights rare: NORAD
  NORAD statistics obtained by the Ottawa Citizen show that Russian bomber flights near Canadian airspace–which the Harper government has been hyping in its efforts to sell Canadians on the controversial plan to buy F-35 fighters–have occurred only three to five times a year since 2007 (David Pugliese ...
• Petraeus tightens rules of engagement
  U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, the recently appointed commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, has reportedly added further restrictions to the “rules of engagement” that govern the use of force by most international forces in Afghanistan (Jason Motlagh, “Petraeus Toughens Afghan Rules of Engage ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Garbage Truck Cameras to Document Recycling Habits
  September 17, 2010 National Post By Laura Baziuk Officials in B.C.’s Okanagan Valley plan to use camera-equipped garbage trucks to film what gets dumped in order to make sure people are recycling properly. Since the introduction last year of a three-bin system, providing garbage, recycling and yard ...
• White House’s Latest Global Climate Scam
  September 17, 2010 Fox News From the administration that brought you “man-caused disaster” and “overseas contingency operation,” another terminology change is in the pipeline. The White House wants the public to start using the term “global climate disruption” in place of “global warming” — fearin ...
• Bring Your Own Towel
  September 17, 2010 Telegraph By Harry Wallop The Health Protection Agency has studied the cleaning cloths used to wipe tables and kitchen surfaces at 120 different restaurants, fast-food outlets and cafés in the North East. In total it sampled 133 cloths and found that 56 per cent contained what ...
• HFCS Getting Rebranded To Trick Consumers
  September 17, 2010 Natural News By Ethan A. Huff Consumers have largely ignored every marketing effort by the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) to “health-wash” high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) as being the same as all other forms of sugar. But the group refuses to give up. According to the Associated ...
• Vitamin D Triumphs over Vaccines In Latest Study
  September 17, 2010 Natural News By Mike Adams If scientists discovered something that worked better than vaccines at preventing influenza, you’d think they would jump all over it, right? After all, isn’t the point to protect children and adults from influenza? A clinical trial led by Mitsuyoshi Uras ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

• The New York Times reveals a few open secrets
  At the New York Times, Scott Shane divulges a national security secret: the National Security Agency (shown in the Google Earth image above) is known by the nickname the Fort. I guess you’d call that the definition of hiding in plain sight since the NSA is located in Fort Meade. Apparently anyone i ...
• Pakistan: between drones and a deluge
  Tariq Ali writes: As if everyday life in Pakistan weren’t dispiriting enough, last month the swift and turbulent Indus burst its banks and swathes of the country disappeared under water. Divine punishment, the poor said, but they were the ones who suffered. Allah rarely targets the rich. As the flo ...
• Obama edges to the dark side
  Mark Levine writes: President Obama has essentially continued almost every major Bush security policy, either by default or design. State secrets, targeted killings, renditions and indefinite detention, opposing the right of habeas corpus, preventing victims of admitted torture from seeking judicia ...
• Washington Post comes late to the Stryker ‘kill te ...
  The Washington Post reports: The U.S. soldiers hatched a plan as simple as it was savage: to randomly target and kill an Afghan civilian, and to get away with it. For weeks, according to Army charging documents, rogue members of a platoon from the 5th Stryker Combat Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, ...
• How Israel eavesdrops on the world
  At Le Monde diplomatique, Nicky Hager reports: Israel’s most important intelligence-gathering installation is only a 30km drive into the Negev desert from Beersheba prison – where those taking part in the Gaza aid flotilla were briefly detained this June. The base, hidden until now, has rows of sat ...

Watts Up With That?

• New Zealand’s ETS law will surely fix this
  It has been just 2.5 months since the carbon Emissions Trading Scheme kicked in for New Zealand. I’m sure if they give it a little more time, spring snows like this one will be “a thing of the past“. MARK … Continue reading →
• Sea Ice News #23, plus a bonus NOAA sea ice blunde ...
  NOTE: This post has several images, including two animations. Those on slower connections, please be patient while they load. This week, I suppose the best word to describe the status of Arctic sea ice would be “uncertainty”. I alluded to … Continue reading →
• Jupiter closest this week, not again until 2022
  Been outside at midnight lately? There’s something you really need to see. Jupiter is approaching Earth for the closest encounter between the two planets in more than a decade–and it is dazzling. The night of closest approach is Sept. 20-21st. … Continue reading →
• After “Global Climate Disruption”: nex ...
  My friend Kate in Saskatchewan is running a poll on what the next name might be. Here’s a screencap of the poll choices. My own personal favorite  in “Irritable Climate Syndrome”. You can vote here.
• Hans von Storch study: Global Warming to make fewe ...
  Here is a quote you don’t often see: Our results provide a rare example of a climate change effect in which a type of extreme weather is likely to decrease, rather than increase. From USA Today’s Science Fair: OK, time … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• Wisdom of the Terrorist’s Son by Chris Hedges
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig September 20, 2010 Those who embrace violence, whether in the form of acts of terrorism or acts of war, are necrophiliacs. They worship death. They sacrifice life, including at times their own, for the heady intoxication that comes with becomi ...
• Exclusive: Peter Hitchens’ Rage Against God: ...
  by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) Sept. 20, 2010 Well, well… the other brother has finally spoken. And spoken indeed. Like his brother Christopher, Peter is brilliant, outspoken, and takes no prisoners. But instead of seeking ...
• Did U.S. Soldiers Create Afghan Killing Club?
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ http://therealnews.com U.S. soldiers charged with targeting Afghan civilians; Army ignored pleas by soldier’s father Hal Bernton has been a staff reporter at The Seattle Times for the past 10 years, and helped cover the military for most of that time. His oversea ...
• U.S. And NATO Strengthen Positions Along Russia’s ...
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism Sept. 17, 2010 On September 15 U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov signed a memorandum of understanding on military cooperation in Washington, D.C. The ...
• The Terrorism of Temper Tantrums: Where’s th ...
  by Robert S. Becker Featured Writer Dandelion Salad rbecker@cal.net September 15, 2010 Ever been shopping, or getting a bite to eat, and suddenly shrieking kids invade your space?  Perhaps good parents interceded, dragging ear-splitters from center stage; perhaps they’re really Tea Partiers in train ...

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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  If you've found your way here after listening to my 'Weird & Unusual News' spot on ABC Newcastle today, here are links to the two main stories that were discussed : 'Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's Spiritual Day Of Reckoning On August 15' 'Five Human Senses? Actually, We Have More Than 2 ...
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  Creating new realities? It's the CIA's main mission, isn't it?
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  This is as close to a video of an actual nightmare as I've ever seen. Chris Cunningham's Rubber Johnny : What Chris Cunningham has been working on lately : "I've been living next to the railway line for 12 years and I've become obsessed with the harmonics of the trains on the lines. "For yea ...

Wired - Science

• Why Cellphone Talkers Are So Grating
  They’re everywhere — yammering on the subway, yukking it up on sidewalks, yakking away in restaurants. It’s the invasion of the cellphone-slinging, super-annoying attention snatchers! Cellphone users irritate so mightily because their background chatter forcibly yanks listeners’ attention away from ...
• Baby Lion Cubs Get First Vet Exam
  The four baby lion cubs that we have been following on the lion cub webcam since they were born at the Smithsonian National Zoo August 31 got their first physical exam today, and their first mug shots. All four cubs appear to be female, although it is hard to tell at such a young age. They [...]
• 6 Surprising New Tyrannosaurs Discovered This Year
  See Also: First-Gen T. Rex Was No Bigger Than You Claws, Jaws and Spikes: The Science of the Dinosaur Arsenal Dinosaur Fossil Reveals True Feather Colors Video: Model Dinosaur Tests Four-Winged Flight Vote for Your Favorite Dinosaur Illustration Citation: “Tyrannosaur Paleobiology: New Research on ...
• Rare ‘Asian Unicorn’ Caught in Laos
  One of the rarest creatures on the planet has been sighted in Laos. The saola, which has been dubbed the ‘Asian unicorn’ despite being double horned, hasn’t been photographed since 1999. The individual pictured above was captured and taken back to a small village, where it unfortunately died in cap ...
• Moon Crater Map Reveals Early Solar System History
  The first complete topographic map of the moon and its craters has revealed details of billions of years of bombardment by asteroids, and the history of our early solar system. Among other things, the map confirms theories of an onslaught of massive asteroids around 3.9 billion years ago that likely ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• How dozens of Israeli Arab ‘espionage’ arrests end ...
  Dr. Omar Said, the Kafr Kana resident who was released last week after five months in jail, is one of dozens of Israeli Arabs who have been detained over allegations of security and espionage... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now i ...
• Netherlands cancels tour by Israeli mayors over se ...
  "The Local Councils are led by mayors from all over the political spectrum for Israel's citizens. These kinds of actions only hurt the cause of advancing peace..." IOA Editor: This would be... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• IDF still using banned weapon against civilian pro ...
  The Israel Defense Forces continues using the Ruger 10/22 rifle to disperse protests even though it has been prohibited by the military advocate general, a hearing at a military court revealed last... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• NYC book launch: Midnight on the Mavi Marmara, edi ...
  Please join us for the launch of the Haymarket Books edition of Midnight on the Mavi Marmara. Panel Discussion with editor Moustafa Bayoumi and contributors Max Blumenthal, Arun Gupta, Adam Horowitz,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
• Joel Beinin: Contesting Past and Present at Silwan
  Sheikh Jarrah Jewish protest organizer: It is designed to produce “a transition from protest to struggle…. We are there to struggle in a subversive way.” The protest organizers are consciously... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russia completes domestic UAV tests
  Russian domestically built unmanned aerial vehicles have completed a series of tests, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Monday.
• Russia's Orthodox Church priests to appear in Russ ...
  Russia's Orthodox Church priests will soon appear in the Russian army and navy to serve as military chaplains as Russian servicemen especially need spiritual support, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia said on Sunday.
• Russian troops conduct live firing drills at South ...
  Russian troops, deployed at a military base in South Ossetia, have conducted a battalion-level tactical exercise with live firing.
• Expired ammunition cause of Ukraine warship incide ...
• Artillery shells explode on board Ukrainian warshi ...
  Four servicemen were injured when two artillery shells exploded on board a Ukrainian medium amphibious assault ship during military drills off the Crimean Peninsula, the UNIAN news agency reported on Saturday.

NewsWise

• Childhood Viral Infection May be a Cause of Obesit ...
  The emerging idea that obesity may have an infectious origin gets new support in a cross-sectional study by University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers who found that children exposed to a particular strain of adenovirus were significantly more likely to be obese.
• Researchers Discover Genetic Variants Modifying Br ...
  Individuals with disrupting mutations in the BRCA1 gene are known to be at substantially increased risk of breast cancer throughout their lives.
• Researchers Map Thousands of MAPK Protein Interact ...
  Investigators, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have mapped a huge network of protein interactions involving Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase (MAPK) pathways. Their study will be published in the advanced online edition of Nature Methods on September 19.
• Four Possible Risk Factors for Ovarian Cancer Foun ...
  International study locates key genetic variations.
• Targeted Therapy Substantially Decreases Progressi ...
  The drug pazopanib may help revolutionize the care of patients with metastatic, rapidly progressive differentiated thyroid cancers, say researchers at Mayo Clinic who are publishing findings of a phase II clinical trial in The Lancet Oncology.

Natural Health News

• Mild Memory Loss is Not a Part of Normal Aging
  Getting older, in and of itself, is not the cause of so-called “senior moments”. A new study found that even these mild memory lapses are caused by the same brain lesions associated with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Researchers found that in the last four to five years of life, people’ ...
• Does Being Left-Handed Make You Angry?
  Your handedness -- right, left, or ambidextrous -- may provide a clue in understanding how you use your brain to process emotions.� Left-handed and ambidextrous people tend to be more prone to negative emotions. Now, a new study shows that they also have a greater imbalance in activity between the l ...
• Will You Get Big and Bulky if You Lift Weights?
  by Darin L. Steen This question comes up a lot from my female clients. And the answer is, no, most likely you will not. In fact, gaining more muscle through resistance exercises is an integral part of any well rounded fitness / fat loss program. Having more muscle on your frame is the best ...
• Herbs, Omega-3's Can Save Millions in Healthcare
  A study has found that herbal preparations and omega-3 fats are effective treatments against an array of illnesses including osteoarthritis, heart disease and depression.� The Australian study estimated that their use could save that country more than $220 million every year. The researchers found ...
• Eating Broccoli Could Guard Against Arthritis
  Researchers are launching a groundbreaking new study to investigate the benefits of broccoli. �Initial laboratory results found that a compound in broccoli called sulforaphane blocks the enzymes that cause joint destruction in osteoarthritis. Sulforaphane is a compound found in cruciferous vegetab ...

Antemedius

• Will Our Generals Ever Shut Up?
  Originally published at TomDispatch.com The Military’s Media Megaphone and the U.S. Global Military Presence The fall issue of� Foreign Policy �magazine features Fred Kaplan’s “The Transformer,” an� article-cum-interview �with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.� It received a flurry of attention bec ...
• Peak Oil and Collapse of Everything?
  As a follow up to my post earlier this week - The Collapse of Everything? - about the report from a think-tank inside the German military warning that shrinking global oil supplies will threaten the world's economic foundations and possibly lead to mass-scale upheaval within the next 15 to 30 years, ...
• Obama Losing Liberal Base And Youth Could Cost Dem ...
  President Obama is not only losing support among the general public but also of the liberals and college students who did so much to energize his presidential campaign. Now, even some Democratic incumbents whose seats had been considered safe are in trouble. According to Rasmussen pollsters, Obama's ...
• Life of Illusion
  An experienced economist and a novice economist are walking down the road. They come across some dog sh*t lying on the pavement. The experienced economist says, "If you eat that dog sh*t, I'll give you $20,000!" The novice economist runs his optimization program and figures out he's better off eatin ...
• GOP Leader Claims Richest “Hit Hardest” by Great R ...
  (From The Paragraph .) As Democrats try to extend tax cuts for 98% of the people, Republicans threaten to kill those tax cuts by filibuster, unless they can also extend tax cuts for the 2% with the highest incomes ($250,000+, filing jointly). 1 Last week, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell ...

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

• How International Law Will Leave Koran Burning Con ...
  by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Chuck Lane makes this case for rejecting a “cry fire” analogy on Koran burning, as suggested by Justice Breyer in a book-flacking recent interview with George Stephanopoulos.  The logic is pretty clear: that where an expressive act creates an immediate danger, it’s ...
• Legal Accountability of International Organization ...
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Not infrequently, I have lamented what I perceive as the lack of due attention in the scholarly literature to the actual circumstances of international organizations, starting with the UN.  One of those fundamental issues concerns accountability, in the spe ...
• NY Times: “The Terror Translators”
  by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen Alan Feuer has a very interesting article in today’s NY Times about the Analytic Unit of the NYPD’s Intelligence Division. Feuer piece explains To bolster counterterrorism operations after 9/11, the Police Department expanded its Intelligence Division â run by Da ...
• Chess, Politics, and the Ground Zero Islamic Cente ...
  by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen OK, I never thought I’d write a post tying international arbitration, chess federation elections, and post-Soviet politics together.  Nor did I think that I’d follow that up with a post expanding on the post-Soviet politics issue and also throwing allegations of ...
• What If Al-Aulaqi Was in Phoenix?
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Ben Wittes has a post at Lawfare today discussing ways in which the Obama administration might be able to avoid litigating the ACLU/CCR lawsuit challenging Al-Aulaqi’s targeting.  One of his preferred responses is the “political question” doctrine; in his ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• New Arthur Allan Thomas book just over a week away
  Launching 27 September...the cat will well and truly be set amongst the pigeons...
• How objective was the Climategate inquiry?
  I've been too busy writing and editing the new Arthur Allan Thomas book to blog much in recent weeks, but couldn't resist this revelation about the old boys network's whitewash of Climategate. Here's how it happened...originally from Climate Audit, via...
• Biggest aftershock rocks Christchurch again
• Open thread on Christchurch earthquake
  Your comments and experiences are welcome
• IPCC gets a credibility hammering
  This alert through from Benny Peiser's newsletter The Daily Telegraph. 31 August 2010 By Stephen Adams and Robert Winnett An independent investigation into the UN's climate change body has warned it to stop lobbying and to restrict its role to...

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

• Consumer Groups and Public Protest FDA Plan to App ...
  FDA Appears Poised to Continue with its Biotech Bailout while Consumers are Left in the Dark On Thursday, at a press conference and rally outside of the White House, the Center for Food Safety, Food & Water Watch, Friends of the Earth, and the CEO of Ben & Jerry’s demanded the Obama Administration h ...
• National Call-In Day of Action to Stop GE Salmon&# ...
  In just a few days, the FDA is deciding whether or not to approve genetically engineered salmon. If it goes through, this would be the first GE animal approved for human consumption. We’re doing everything we can to stop it and we need your help. Today we are holding a rally and press conference in ...
• National Organic Coalition Testifies at Senate Hea ...
  Celebrating 20 Years and Identifying Opportunities for the Future Today, the National Organic Coalition (NOC)  joined Congress in celebrating two decades of nationally-regulated organic food production.  This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA), the landma ...
• CFS Launches New GE Fish Campaign Website!
  The Center for Food Safety today launched a new campaign website, www.ge-fish.org,  focused on the pending approval and labeling of genetically engineered salmon, the first GE animal intended for human consumption. The website comes one week before the FDA’s scheduled public hearing on the approval ...
• Farmers and Conservationists File Suit Challenging ...
  Today, the Center for Food Safety, Organic Seed Alliance, High Mowing Organic Seeds, and the Sierra Club, filed a lawsuit in federal district court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, challenging the issuance by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspe ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• Halbritter: New York tribes are outraged – why are ...
  Halbritter: New York tribes are outraged – why aren’t you? | Indian Country Today | Opinion When New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg used offensive, derogatory and incendiary Old West imagery last month in discussing the controversy over tax collection from sovereign Indian nations, New York India ...
• 11th Annual Steve Biko Memorial Lecture
  Pulitzer Prize-winning author Professor Alice Walker delivered the 11th annual Steve Biko Memorial Lecture at UCT on 9 September titled "Coming to See You Since I was Five Years Old: An American poet's connection to the South African soul"
• John S. :Keith Harmon Snow on UN “Leaked” Report o ...
  AfrobeatRadio » Blog Archive » Keith Harmon Snow on UN “Leaked” Report on Atrocities on the Congo 1993 -2004 The United Nations has accused Rwanda of wholesale war crimes, including possibly genocide, during years of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. An unprecedented 600-page Report base ...
• The Existentialist Cowboy: Cold War Origins of the ...
  The Existentialist Cowboy: Cold War Origins of the CIA Holocaust By Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy A new book by James W. Douglass [JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters] addresses an "an evil whose depth and deceit seemed to go beyond the capacity of words to describe." A fe ...
• John John: The View From Occupied Canada
  The Tyee – The Fight of Our Lives How do progressives decide on which issues to fight? The question reminds me of my conversations with Myles Horton, founder of the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee and one of the most brilliant and effective leadership-trainers of the past century. He died in 199 ...

Pensieve

• Cuban Communism’s Death Knell?
  Photo by “Carolonline” Last week, Fidel Castro made statements that were astoundingly out of character for him. Instead of the usual âblack is whiteâ propaganda, he publicly said that the âCuban modelâ no longer works. This week Cuba has announced mass layoffs from government jobs, and the s ...
• When Suffering is Good
  Photo by G!zM() 17 We live in a world where hedonism and despair abound. It is as if the black death were knocking at our doors, like in Chaucerâs Canterbury Tales. Imagine a world without pain and suffering. Imagine not ever getting sick, physically or mentally. Imagine no disadvantages. Everyone ...
• Inductee to the Creative Class
  Photo by Gui Trento For the past year or so Iâve been flirting with a design college. Iâve been to their events, spoken to their faculty, visited the campus. After 12 years of yearning to return to college, I could very soon enroll again. The degree they are offering sounds slightly business-lik ...
• Asleep (a short story)
    Photo by eye of einstein I am holding a thread and staring into a labyrinth. Darkness is falling, and the gold of sunset begins to fade from the moss that drapes its walls. Ancient stones lose their friendliness and succumb to moist cold. Only the sky remains cheerful. Inside the labyrinth darknes ...
• Criminal Rule in Honduras
  Photo by markarinafotos While Rome is burning, everyone is hypnotized by the fiddling emperor Chavez. Crime and impunity in Honduras, which steadily worsened during Manuel Zelaya’s administration, has only gotten worse under Porfirio Lobo. But Mr. Lobo is busy courting international opinion, in the ...

Green Times

• Environmental News 20/09/2010
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Environmental News 15/09/2010
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• A Call For Direct Action In The Climate Movement
  An open letter from the Rainforest Action Network, Greenpeace USA, and 350.org: What will it take to finally get serious about climate change (http://www.greentimes.com.au/glossary/categories/climate-change/climate-change-impact-2.html)?
• Green Wedding Dress of the Future
  British students have created an eccentric and environmentally friendly (http://www.greentimes.com.au/glossary/categories/lifestyle/environmental-sustainability.html) wedding dress, but no crying please…
• Environmental News 14/09/2010
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Report: Gaza-bound Syrian aid ship sets sail
  ShareThis Report: Gaza-bound Syrian aid ship sets sail 19 Sep 2010 An aid boat destined for Gaza set sail Saturday from the Syrian port of Tartous, the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported. State Minister for the Syrian Red Crescent Basahr Al-Shaar said the ship will bring 650 tons of humanita ...
• British terrorism suspect arrested in Amsterdam
  ShareThis British terrorism suspect arrested in Amsterdam 19 Sep 2010 A British man of Somali origin was being interrogated at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport last night after he was arrested on suspicion of terrorist activity. The man had completed the first leg of a flight from Liverpool's John Lenno ...
• Report: Baghdad Embassy misspent millions on phant ...
  ShareThis Report: Baghdad Embassy misspent millions on phantom meals 13 Sep 2010 The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad paid millions to a government contractor for meals and snacks that nobody ate, according to a new internal State Department report. The State Department's Office of the Inspector General (OIG ...
• British terror suspect arrested by Dutch police at ...
  ShareThis British terror suspect arrested by Dutch police at Amsterdam airport 19 Sep 2010 Dutch police have arrested a British terror suspect at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. Police said they were investigating whether the man, who is of Somali descent, had links to foreign militant organisations. ...
• DA who sent sex texts says he will stay in his job ...
  ShareThis Another hypocritical, GOPredator stalking nutcase is allowed to keep a high-paying job instead of doing time: DA who sent sex texts says he will stay in his job 19 Sep 2010 A Wisconsin district attorney has said he will take time off for counselling but will not stand down from his highly ...

Daily Loaf

• Concert review: Kings of Leon with The Black Keys ...
  There's something just a little strange about a garage band playing a stadium, but Tampa was treated to three on Saturday night at the 1-800-Ask-Gary Amphitheatre.
• Mitch Perry Report 9.20-21
  Greetings and salutations from Tallahassee, where this reporter joins 23 other journalists in being part of the 21st Annual Florida Bar Reporters’ Workshop. But we still did record a podcast, because we just can’t help it. St. Pete Mayor Bill Foster is complaining about St. Pete being left out of ...
• Do It Today: I’ll Show You Mine and Tampa Bay Care ...
  I'll Show You Mine, You Show Me Yours at USF's Centre Gallery assembles sculptures that resulted from collaborations between Adam Kitzerow and other artists. Also: Meet 30-40 hiring companies at the Tampa Bay Career and Job Fair.
• Getting back to backseat bangin’
  Can you even remember the last time you climbed into your backseat for a quickie?  Unless you’re having an affair, or dating someone who still lives with their parents, the last time you had sex in a car was probably during your dorm days in college, or over Christmas break while trying to escape ...
• Concert review: O.A.R (…of a revolution) at Ruth E ...
  O.A.R. appropriately closed the show with a message to the thousands of fans who'd showed up at Ruth Eckerd: “And in the end my friend, we will all be together again...”

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• New Israel Fund issues the guidelines: grantees mu ...
  By Jesse Bacon We reported on Richard Silverstein’s initial fears of New Israel Fund’s new guidelines, that they would bar funding to those who opposed Israel as a Jewish state. Then it looked like compromise language was in the works. Finally, the guidelines are out, and they call instead for grant ...
• Israel at Abdallah Abu Rahma’s trial: .22 bu ...
  From the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee. September 16th, 2010. Military Prosecution Demands More Than Two Years Imprisonment for Bil’in’s Abdallah Abu Rahmah Military prosecutor said harsh sentence should serve as a deterrent to other protesters. Despite military orders to the contrary, ...
• Video: Gaza, Bethlehem, and rememberance (Yizkor) ...
  A friend of The Only Democracy? wanted to share the following videos. Here is a recent one made by someone who spent years trying to visit Gaza. and here is an older piece, made by residents of Aida refugee camp and Anne who made the first film. It is about the Checkpoint from Bethlehem to what I ...
• Israel tries to lock up Abu Rahmah for two years f ...
  The trial of Bil’in protest organizer, Abdallah Abu Rahmah will renew this Wednesday, after his conviction of incitement and organizing illegal demonstrations was harshly criticized by the EU, the Spanish Parliament and human rights organizations. Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s trial will resume on Wedn ...
• Israel demolishes entire village for fifth time, i ...
  From the Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality, all photos by Oren Ziv of activestills.org The Bedouin unrecognized village of Al Arakib was demolished this morning for the 5th time,immediately after Eid Al-Fitr (one of the most important Muslim holidays marking the end of Ramadan). The villag ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Florida city sends would-be Quran-burning church a ...
  Heh.
• Bed fellows
  RadicalGlascowBlog Over the last few days I have come to the conclusion that when the Pope visits this country nothing happens in the world. There is obviously nothing to report, nothing of importance being said or happening. Every newspaper you pick up has page after page of photos of faces and cro ...
• Brooklyn tornado 9/16/20
  NSFW! “Dude itâs fucking funneling!â Ahem, while I realize Brooklyn doesn’t get many tornadoes thus this was outside the experience of the filmers, it still seems stunningly stupid to stand on a balcony as a tornado comes down the street. Now click through to TechCrunch and thrill at the auto-tu ...
• Obese blamed for the world’s ills
  This totally ignores factors such as the Free Marketeering economy, a societal structure based on promoting excessive consumption, the Military Industrial Complex, politics, religion, struggles for power over natural resources. The list goes on and on. No, it is all the fault of those terrible fatti ...
• “They have destroyed these elections.”
  Massive fraud in Afghan elections shows U.S. policy is a farce. Polizeros contributor Josh Mull is in Kabul now as an election observer. We plan to interview him when he gets back. He just did a quick update to Newshoggers on The “Anti-War Left” And The Afghanistan Study Group. The Left is not anti- ...

Coteret

• Yediot: Despite Berlusconi’s promises, Italy ...
  Paper sanctions Menahem Ganz, Yediot, September 14 2010 [page 19, Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] Rome — Half a year after returning from a visit to Israel, in the course of which Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi promised to act to reduce the volume of trade between Italy and Ira ...
• Yediot to Abe Foxman: Are we anti-Semitic too?
  Not exactly, but close. For those of you who have missed the latest chapter of what Matt Duss calls “the continuing attempt to redefine ‘blood libel’ as ‘saying things about Israel I don’t particularly like’”, here’s a brief: This week’s TIME Magazine cover story was a feature by Karl Vick, entitle ...
• The new frontiers of Israeli diplomacy: Lieberman ...
  This morning’s Israel Hayom reports: (full translated text at bottom): a decision was made that, for the first time, the Foreign Minister will address the UN General Assembly in New York at the end of the month You don’t need to be an expert to understand that this is not a very wise matching of [.. ...
• Maariv: French and American envoys working to re-s ...
  Maariv summarizes a news item from the Lebanese A-Safir. It’s unclear, however, whether the section on Mitchell visit is also from that source. The byline is unusual. Bardenstein is the junior diplomatic affairs correspondent and probably does not speak Arabic. Items based on direct monitoring of ...
• Maariv: Israel a significant importer (and re-expo ...
  This is a fairly wide-raging, if shallow, review. I found the section the section describing a botched attempt by an Israeli company to re-export Iranian marble to the US interesting. Particularly insightful was the justification for an Israeli double standard on this issue, as articulated by Danny ...

Deadline Live

• Miami Mother Sues Hospital for Performing Unwanted ...
  Miami Mother Sues Hospital for Performing Unwanted Circumcision Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d16007').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
• Thousands Of Dead Fish Wash Up On New Jersey Beach ...
  September 20, 2010 MSNBC Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d16005').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
• Lockerbie bomber ‘can get out of bed and wal ...
  THE cancer-stricken Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al Megrahi can get out of bed and walk although he is clearly a very sick man, Lockerbie campaigner Dr Jim Swire said today, after visiting him in Libya last week. Dr Swire – who said he spent an hour in a âman to man confidential meetingâ with Me ...
• War resister marks anniversary of sanctuary
  VANCOUVER – An Iraq War resister passed an anniversary on Saturday he didn’t want to celebrate. For the past year, veteran Rodney Watson has lived in a one-bedroom apartment with his wife and 21-month-old son under sanctuary provided by Vancouver’s First United Church. “It’s been stressful, a long r ...
• The Electronic Pearl Harbor
  Presages about the defeat or even the destruction of the U.S. by terrorists and rogue leaders are usually dismissed as bombastic rhetoric or self-induced illusions. The West’s enemies, however, are working towards the means to make their prophecies come true. Electro-Magnetic Pulse attacks with nucl ...

The Air Vent

• The Answer
  You have to be an idiot. A complete flat idiot. Dumber than a box of rocks. Make that two boxes of rocks. And a shovel. Not just any shovel. A rusty shovel. A small one. Smaller than a pebble. A tiny pebble. Smaller than the smallest tiniest pebble which you would have to be dumber [...]
• Why the Antarctic Is Not Melting Anytime Soon
  I’ve often written that the Antarctic isn’t melting any time soon.  I doubt that non-climatologists realize just how much the Antarctic has to warm to even think about melting.  For this demonstration, I’ve downloaded the Reader temperature data from the BAS.  Most of the below code was written b ...
• Leaps of faith and Conjoined Science
  Do something now, before it’s too late.   The mantra of climate science⢠and the IPCC.  To believe that we must act now, there are several leaps of faith one must accept. Besides the basic and obvious physics, you first have to believe that CO2 causes a positive feedback in the atmosphere and t ...
• Notice: Global warming and Climate Change Canceled
  Global warming is now canceled.  I thought global warming was already canceled in favor of climate change, but that is canceled too now.  Lets hope the administration remembers to notify the IPCC, AR5 needs time  to mitigate the language.   The unsuspecting authors may have already reached a languag ...
• Move Along Folks
  Steve McIntyre got an answer as to who chose the papers to review for the Oxburgh report – Turns out it was Trevor Davies. He’s got a gorgeous quote up from Oxburgh himself trying to explain that the small detail of which papers needed to be reivewed as representitive of UEA work slipped his otherwi ...

Focal Point

• The Most Secretive Election Since Watergate
  The New York Times has an important editorial on how this election cycle is shaping up to be the most secretive "since the Watergate years," thanks to subterranean rivers of corporate campaign cash flowing through non-profits known as 501(c)4's. As Michael Luo reported in The Times last week, the ...
• Energy Lobbyists on the GOP Like Crude on a Pelica ...
  Politico reports that senior Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are trying to sell lobbyists for the energy and telecom industries on the idea that the Republicans will take over the House and make the world even safer for robber barons. Forty or 50 lobbyists met with Rep. Joe B ...
• More on Ethics, BDSM, and the Missouri Sex Slave C ...
  Great post by Thomas MacAulay Millar on the case of "FV," a teenage runaway who was allegedly tortured, pimped, and nearly killed by a middle aged man who took her in and promised to make her a porn star. [Photo credit: Jason Clapp , Creative Commons.]
• Anti-Masturbation Crusader Christine O'Donnell is ...
  Anti-masturbation crusader Christine O'Donnell beat establishment favorite Rep. Mike Castle last night in Deleware's GOP senate primary, with a helping hand from the Tea Party Express. O'Donnell first rose to national prominence as the founder and president of the SALT, an anti-masturbation youth m ...
• Sex Games vs. Sex Slavery: Who Can Tell?
  Irin Carmon of Jezebel put a disturbing spin on the very disturbing case of a cognitively disabled teenage runaway who was allegedly tortured, mutilated, tricked into fictive bonded servitude, pimped, waterboarded, partially suffocated, and shocked into cardiac arrest by the middle aged man who took ...

Inside Facebook

• What Zynga’s Switch to Credits Means for the Faceb ...
  Last week, Facebook and Zynga announced that Zynga is now using Credits as the exclusive direct payment method for its premium virtual currencies in its games running on Facebook. While you can still get “Farm Cash” and other premium currencies in Zynga games through some alternative payment methods ...
• This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games
  Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games â tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, September 13th, 2010 Looking at Multi-Platform Virtual World SmallWorlds Digital Chocolate Passes 10 Million MAU on This Wee ...
• “Explore Facebook” Guides Users through Mobile, Qu ...
  “Explore Facebook”  is a new interface for explaining core Facebook features, that compiles introduction pages within a main navigation bar to guide users through new and expanding ways to use the service. Facebook’s long-time  mobile site is joined by splash pages for Badges, Chat, Places, and Ques ...
• Facebook Roundup: Microsoft, Google, Politics, Dia ...
  Facebook Growing as Video Referral Agent – Facebook is quickly growing as the top source of video referrals. Google accounts for 64% of these, Yahoo 11.9% and Facebook at 4.3%. The referral traffic for Facebook is growing an average of 48% a month. Diaspora, Facebook Alternative, Out – Diaspora, the ...
• Facebook Proposes Minor Changes to Its Governing D ...
  Facebook has just posted a proposed set of changes to its governing documents for Facebook users to comment on. The changes focus on restricting the transfer of user data when application developers merge or are acquired, making application privacy policies more easily accessible, and allowing users ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Congress is Back, But Until November 2, ...
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• truthout: Lawsuit Asks if Science Was Manipulated ...
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ReDress News

• Martin Peretz: editor of New Republic and agent of ...
  Lawrence Davidson profiles Martin Peretz, the editor-in-chief of the New Republic . "Martin Peretz is a good example of that subset of Americans whose single-minded dedication to Israel makes them ... agents of a foreign power. Indeed, in his willingness to pronounce his affection in the most indisc ...
• Xenophobia and Islamophobia in USA
  Paul J. Balles considers the mindset – the ignorance, irrationality and faulty reasoning – behind xenophobia and its latest manifestation in the United States and other Western countries, Islamophobia.
• America's True Believers and the Great Muslim Scar ...
  Lawrence Davidson explains the phenomenon of Pamela Geller, an American Islamophobe who has played a prominent role in mobilizing bigots and hate-mongers against Muslims in the USA.
• Disbanding the Palestinian Authority would scupper ...
  Nureddin Sabir argues that the time has come to dismantle the Palestinian National Authority – a principal tool of Israeli policy in Palestine – and to replace it with a progressive, patriotic and democratic grassroots liberation movement
• Start again with a clean sheet, Palestinians
  Stuart Littlewood argues that the Palestinian National Authority has become “an abomination” whose “leaders have so fouled the nest that the stink is unbearable” and that the future “hinges largely on Hamas, who at least are fiercely patriotic” and “see the enemy for what they really are”.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Podcast Show #33
  The Boiling Frogs Presents Glenn Walp Glenn Walp discusses his recently published book, Implosion at Los Alamos: How Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Ups Jeopardize America’s Nuclear Weapons Secrets, and describes major lapses in security at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, where scie ...
• September 11, the 9th Year
  Condolences My Deepest Condolences, To the family members and friends of those ‘sacrificed’ here, To those who have lost their loved ones as a ‘result;’ the civilian casualties of our illegal wars over ‘there,’ …and, to every American, to all of us, for the loss of our liberties and integrities. W ...
• A Potpourri of Noteworthy Links
  Phony Commissioners & Phony Reports, Central Asia, Laos, Bryza Candidacy, Gulen…You Name it! This post is similar to what I usually publish under my ‘Weekly Round Up’ series, only with a caveat: the time period covers more than a week, make that more than a month. I’ve been saving links and articles ...
• Podcast Show #32
  The Boiling Frogs Presents Tom Engelhardt Tom Engelhardt discusses his latest book, The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s, Washington’s ongoing commitment to military bases to extend its empire, and the US empire’s deep historical roots that precede the former administration and ...
• Pretty Words & the Same-O-Same-O
  Is “This” the New Era of Activism? So I haven’t been writing; pouring out pages and pages of words; analyzing a bit of a sick foreign policy issue here and a handful of plentiful corruption stories there, or marveling at the rapid uncontested descent toward the ever-approaching ‘police state,’… I am ...

Afro Spear

• sat’day riddymz
• “Genocide in DRC, Rwanda has the right but&# ...
  There is bad blood between authorities in Kigali and UN thanks to unpublished report on genocide and crimes against humanity, said to have been committed by Rwanda forces in DRC. This report has caused a lot of discord between the duo. The darling of UN, Rwanda, is now frowning and threatening even ...
• “Where are you really from?” by Tim Br ...
  There is nothing more real than real life. I am not talking here about the staged reality of “reality tv” either. I am talking about the the real life drama that people go through, the struggles, pains, deaths and sometimes, hopefully, the eventual triumphs that makes a life. This is why I am f ...
• My love for 2Pac
  I have mad love for 2Pac. I refer to it as “mad” because it’s a love that you know you shouldn’t have for someone (or something) but you can’t help it. You just do. I didn’t realize today was the 14th anniversary of his death until I read this article at theloop21. Interestingly though, last week [ ...
• Black People of Suriname Fight To Hold On To Their ...
    Wanze Eduards and Hugo Jabini Mobilized the Saramaka People and Stopped Loggers In the Rainforest!   I remember the first time I became familiar with the country of Suriname.  I was listening to a Donnie McClurkin song that is a language medley psalm.  He sings in the language of a number of count ...

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

• No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
  "SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainability ...
• Bill Gates On Climate Change & Energy: We Must and ...
  Whether you know a little or a lot about Climate Change (aka Global Warming), SEN urges you to watch this one-hour video, because you will learn a great deal either way. Gates lays out a sweeping set of ideas for reducing CO2 emmissions to zero. Gates is no fool when it comes to matters of [...]
• Week 2 – Worldwide Campaign to Save the Gran ...
  The Grand Canyon is one of the world's most pristine and majestic treasures. Mother Nature needs our help to save it. We all need to act to protect the Grand Canyon. Pledge to do your part. Help us by adding your signature to the petitions and ask everyone you know and who cares for earth to do the ...
• Seize BP Demonstrations Nationwide
  SEN believes these demonstrations will help awaken politicians to outrage over inadequate regulation and control of international corporations, even if they do not succeed in gaining temporary seizure of BP on the basis of national emergency and evidence of criminal neglect and fraud by BP.
• Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox
  SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...

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

• Truth for Tea Baggers!
  War Machine, all the money for killing, nothing for helping to save lives, war is much more profitable, especially when you supply both sides! Sheeple time to wake up….
• Rand Paul the road to disaster
  Do you remember Rand Paul? He’s the Republican candidate for Senate in Kentucky that went on Rachel Maddow to oppose provisions in the Civil Rights Actafter his surprise victory in the primary. He’s taken max-out checks from Citizens United – the group whose lawsuit led to the new avalanche of corpo ...
• ALAN SIMPSON AN IDIOT
  Alan Simpson compared Social Security to welfare, saying: “We’ve reached a point now where [Social Security] is like a milk cow with 310 million tits.” Well, progressives in Congress are fighting back. Can you help? It’s been widely reported that Simpson’s “deficit reduction” commission will make So ...
• Happy Fuckin’ Labor Day!
  September 6th, 2010 7:25 PM Happy Fuckin’ Labor Day! By Michael Moore Dear Rahm Emanuel: Happy Fuckin’ Labor Day! I read this week that — according to a new book by Steven Rattner, your administration’s former “Car Czar” — during White House meetings about how to save the tens of thousands of jobs t ...
• The Grand Design
  Hawking and Mlodinow return with a unifying ‘Grand Design’   The Grand Design By Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow Bantam. 208 pp. $28   Reviewed by Fred Bortz   Rarely do the title and authorship of a book carry such high expectations as The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. ...

Unsuitable Blog

• Monthly Undermining Task September/October 2010: U ...
  Fashion! Turn to the left Fashion! Turn to the right Oooh, fashion! We are the goon squad and we’re coming to town (âFashionâ, David Bowie) The Unsuitablog is being fashionably late in publishing the latest Monthly Undermining Task; the main reason being that I wanted leave the previous one up a ...
• Global Cool Self-Nomination Campaign Goes Awry
  Flicking through my news feeds I came across an article by George Monbiot in The Guardian entitled “Green heroes working for the right kind of environmental change”. As always, I quickly scanned it looking for anyone who was actually doing anything to undermine the industrial system, and was pleasa ...
• Sony Open Planet Ideas Exposed
  “Just imagine if todayâs technology could be re-purposed in radical ways to help solve our planetâs environmental problems? Well, a new project called Open Planet Ideas has been designed to enable you to do just that.” Ok, thought experiment, so I’m doing just that and you can join in too. What ...
• Astroturf Alert: Rally For Jobs is Oil Industry Fr ...
  Just in from Public Citizen is a report on a series of rallies around the USA which are being organised by the American Petroleum Institute (API) on behalf of the oil industry. Here is the report: Rallies Against Congressional Oil Spill Measures Represent Industry Views – Not Citizens Today marks ...
• Greenpeace Inc. [Guest Article]
  As some readers may have noted, an email recently came through Greenpeaceâs UK newsletter inviting its supporters to take part in a poll: We’re carrying out a global poll to find out what Greenpeace means to you and which issues you think are most important. This is to help us do an even better j ...

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

• PRX Story Exchange, Spot.us Bring Crowdfunding to ...
  Story Exchange (formerly Story Market) is a way for local public radio stations, producers, and listeners to pitch, find and fund documentaries and stories on important local issues. We're also one of this year's winners of a Knight News Challenge grant. Here's how we envision it working: Let's s ...
• The Cartoonist Aims to Bring Newsgames to the Mass ...
  The Cartoonist, our winning entry in the 2010 Knight News Challenge, emerged from two research programs. For the past two years, my research group at the Georgia Institute of Technology has been cataloging and analyzing the burgeoning genre of "newsgames" -- videogames about current and past real-wo ...
• SeenReport Helps Citizens Report on Floods in Paki ...
  The devastating floods in Pakistan have been covered by trained reporters and mainstream media outlets around the world. Citizens, often on the front lines of the flood, have also been contributing thousands of reports though mobile phones, in part enabled by the citizen journalism service Seen ...
• New Media Tools Play Pivotal Role in Kenya's Const ...
  Kenya is moving towards greater democracy and more transparent governance thanks to the recent constitutional referendum that received 70 percent "yes" votes. The new constitution, which is scheduled to be signed into law on Friday, replaces the one drafted during Kenya's colonial era. It includ ...
• Helping D.C. Drinkers and Bikers with Custom Maps
  In my last post about TileMill , I outlined some of our general plans and the background for why we’re working on this project to help make it easier for people to design very custom maps online. One question that we get a lot from people who are new to the GIS space is, “When would I need this? How ...

Cutting Edge News

• The Deaf After Mendoza Eugenics Should Say Never A ...
  After my involvement fighting during the California bill AB 2072 (Mendoza), I thought it would be appropriate to look at the wisdom of Deaf leaders in the past to understand the struggles of the Deaf community which continue to this day.�The words of George Veditz, former president of the National A ...
• Edge on Terrorism - Nine Years after 9/11 and What ...
  It has now been nine years since al Qaeda attacked the United States. It has been nine years in which the primary focus of the United States has been on the Islamic world. In addition to a massive investment in homeland security, the United States has engaged in two multi-year, multi-divisional wars ...
• Toxic Edge - China's Ravenous Appetite for Asbesto ...
  For China, it seems, the worst is yet to come. Asbestos wasn’t used extensively in the country until Deng Xiaoping’s reforms in the late 1970s triggered a surge of development. Given the lag time between exposure to asbestos fibers and the onset of disease, health experts say, the country’s prodigio ...
• Brazil on the Edge - The Stakes are High in Brazil ...
  In a scene from my first book, Hugo Chávez: Oil, Politics and the Challenge to the U.S. , I discuss how Brazil became an ally of Venezuela during a key moment of heightened political tensions. It was December, 2002 and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was facing down an economically damaging lock-ou ...
• Edge on Freedom - America's Free Speech Rights mus ...
  Although Washington is often mired in partisan political battles, there are some issues on which Democrats and Republicans in Congress can agree — and where they can work together in unison. One of these is our nation’s tradition of freedom of speech. Thanks to strong, bipartisan cooperation, an imp ...

High Country News

• Live fee or die
  User fees for public land keep rising, even as campground hours and services are cut.
• Love wilderness? Thank a veteran
  Some of the environmental movement’s greatest heroes were also heroes of World War II.
• Some neighbors behave like boors
  Feeding wild bears just encourages them to misbehave, ultimately endangering the bears’ own lives.
• I think we're all anchor babies on this bus
  If we're no longer considered U.S. citizens by birthright, then how do we know we're citizens at all?
• Of history and home
  Poet and novelist Leslie Marmon Silko serves up a place-based memoir in The Turquoise Ledge.

CounterCurrents

• Economic Crisis Threatens To Unleash Global Curren ...
  By Barry Grey Two events this week have highlighted the growth of global economic tensions and the slide toward international trade and currency wars
• Who Will Feed India In The Days To Come?
  By Devinder Sharma India is witnessing a thousand mutinies. Pitched battles are being fought across the country by poor farmers, who fear further marginalisation when their land is literally grabbed by the government and the industry. From Mangalore in Karnataka to Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh, from Si ...
• The 4 Major Threats To industrialized Agriculture
  By Kalpa The next generation sees the world differently. The older people alive today wanted to control the world. The new generation wants to work with it. Through his work at the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in New York, he sees the many great young people working there who want to ...
• The Peak Oil Crisis: Is $50 Oil In The Offing?
  By Tom Whipple It is to delay the realization of what is about to happen on the part of the general public for as long as possible, is what motivates the debunkers. Until the day when declines in global oil production become too obvious to deny we will continue to read stories about $50 oil
• Peak Oil : Jimmy Carters Secretary Of Energy Soun ...
  By Matthieu Auzanneau James Schlesinger, President Carters Energy Secretary, wrote the foreword to a book written by Dr Robert Hirsch, a former US official who predicts a fall of the oil production within 5 years. Never before has a high-ranking political figure like Schlesinger gave his support to ...

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

• Old Story-Extreme Left Telling Jews to Shut Up, Sa ...
  By Barry Rubin It's always fascinating to find historical parallels to contemporary events. When one discovers an obscure gem of this type, cutting the stone to let it reflect the light of truth is irresistible. For well over a century, the Jewish people have been beset by an eleventh ...
• Thank You John Hawkins Right Wing News
  John Hawkins of Right Wing New Just published a list of his Top 40 favorite Conservative blogs , and he included The Lid at 26, thank you John 40) Dr. Helen 39) Creative Minority Report 38) The Radio Equalizer 37) Vox Popoli 36) Wyblog 35) The Cara Ellison Show 34) Gay Patriot 3 ...
• Why Does NY Congressman Meeks Hire Terrorist-Linke ...
  According to the NY Post , Congressman Gregory Meeks scolded immigration officials for questioning a Muslim scholar whose nonprofits have been linked to financing terrorism.� Meeks sent the DHS a letter asking why Anwar Hajjaj faced "unwarranted scrutiny" when he returned to the United States from t ...
• Barack Obama Turns Up Racially Divisive Rhetoric
  Remember when Barack Obama was supposed to be the "post-racial" President. It was only 23 months ago that the United States became the first nation in modern history, with a largely white population that has elected a black man to be its leader. Despite the fact that he was elected by a mostly whit ...
• The “Ground Zero” Mosque: A Project Based on Con-M ...
  By Barry Rubin As I previously pointed out, you don’t have to get into Constitutional questions, sanctified ground, and other such issues to see the problem with the proposed “Ground Zero” mosque. There are two critical issues which should settle matters: --On purely “normal” grounds of ...

The Real Agenda

• Israeli Intelligence Suppressing Dissent in the Un ...
  ITRR’s website describes the company as “the preeminent Israeli/American security firm providing training, intelligence and education to clients across the globe.” ITRR categorizes itself as a “Targeted Action Monitoring Center” that does not function as a “clipping service, but a powerful fusion c ...
• Eco-Fascists Call For Tyranny To Enforce Draconian ...
  The ugly endgame behind the global warming mantra is now crystal clear – rebranding climate change as “global climate disruption” and overpopulation, eugenicists are intent on exploiting hyped fears about environmental apocalypse to set themselves up as Gods with the power to regulate, oppress, and ...
• Human hater John P. Holdren Wants to Swindle you, ...
  The United States' Science Czar and fervent eugenicist, John P. Holdren expressed his desire to swindle people into believing humans are the cause of all disasters. He co-authored a book stating that forced abortions and mass sterilization is needed to save the planet.
• Hay veneno en el agua potable
  La historia de forzar el flúor en los humanos a través de la fluoración del agua potable se hace con mentiras, engaño y codicia.
• Fluoración del Agua: El Caso más grande de Fraude ...
  La historia de obligar a los seres humanos a usar este desecho industrial tóxico a través de la fluoración del agua potable se hace con mentiras, avaricia y engaños. Los gobiernos añaden fluor al agua potable e insisten en que es seguro, beneficioso y necesario, sin embargo, la evidencia científica ...

Wind Watch

• Records show area officials profit from leases wit ...
  Twelve public officials who sat on county and town boards in Lewis County stand to make a combined $7.5 million from the region’s largest wind-turbine project, government disclosure forms show. And numerous other officials in Herkimer County stand to profit as well from new projects there, although ...
• U.S. wrestling with property values and setbacks f ...
  While residents in Wellington County are struggling to stave off a number of wind farm pro­jects in their communities, their counterparts in the United States are facing the same battles and arguing with the same tools. The difference is that here the provincial govern­ment has taken away the rights ...
• Wind turbine ordinance passes overwhelmingly
  PHILLIPS — Residents voted 32-9 on Thursday to adopt an ordinance that allows the town to govern where wind turbines are located in town, interim Town Manager Elaine Hubbard said Friday. The ordinance, which is effective immediately, sets guidelines for the turbines for both commercial and residenti ...
• Sea Girt vows to fight wind turbine
  SEA GIRT — The message was clear at the Sept. 8 Sea Girt council meeting: A wind turbine is not welcome here. Hundreds of Sea Girt residents, many sporting red “No wind turbine” T-shirts, attended the meeting to voice their concerns about the National Guard Training Center’s [NGTC] proposed wind tur ...
• Mafia ‘goes green’ to launder cash
  Italy yesterday seized Mafia-linked assets worth $1.9 billion – the biggest mob haul ever – in an operation revealing that the crime group was trying to “go green” by laundering money through alternative energy companies. Investigators said that the assets included more than 40 companies, hundreds o ...

Not My Tribe

• Religious nonviolence is a death cult
  Reading about the media/police snap to judgment on the Palmdale CA, Queen Marisol Girls prayer picnic, I had to wonder what behavior defines a “death cult.” Trotting off to the park to chant prayers and submit to a rapture sounds exactly like the nonviolence zealots I know. Pray fast and furious, bu ...
• September, Fiscal Year, No Billion Dollars falling ...
  Budget time cometh. Three years ago, when Real Estate started to crap all over the economy, Rivera, our mayor for those who don’t speak Coloradospringsish… said that what the city needed was for a Billion Dollars to fall from the sky. That $42 Million he later turned down, because it was earmarked t ...
• Ron Paul = Reagan = Beck = Palin = Endless War For ...
  just not, you know, according to Capitalist “free” Market Suck Justin Raimondo who wants us to all stop focusing on anything else but the fact that the war is unwinnable. And is costing mucho dinero. Which of course it IS, on both counts, but what Saint Ron Paul’s Acolyte fails to mention is his Mas ...
• Capital in Action, minimum wage.
  Just heard a commercial for a “rent to own” place. One where the payments on a laptop computer totaled two and a half grand for a 450 dollar machine. A 700 dollar (at the high end price) refrigerator, 159 bux a month for two years, 3816 dollars. That’s a 400% markup. So, what’s the Big [...]
• BP strikes again.
  Oil and Dispersant filled crabs showing up on the Gulf seafood market. BP is playing the jobs card here the same as they do on the Gulf. They’re wanting to re-open “extraction” of the oil shale beds near Guffey and Florissant CO.. Park County… near the non-fiction town of Southpark. To do it they’ll ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• How to handle a 9/11 deniar!
  RP4409 YouTube.com September 16, 2010 Help us build the 60x8 9/11 was an inside job banner at http://www.formula4409.com Please make sure Terry Gilberg at [ terrygilberg@clearchannel.com ] gets this video and many others She is just another mouth piece for the establishment No Shelton, those 1 ...
• Debunking Dave Thomas, Ryan Mackey, and Zdenek Baz ...
  So the 9/11 debate between Richard Gage, from Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth , and Dave Thomas, a physicist from New Mexicans for Science and Reason took place on Coast to Coast AM last night, and I forgot to tune in. A commenter at the JREF forum says they are going to post it, if so I wil ...
• SPLC Claptrap
  'Patriot' Paranoia: A Look at the Top Ten Conspiracy Theories http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/fall/patriot-paranoia Errm... Excuse me SPLC, but I am not "radical right" and I believe in these things . Martial law has already happened - it happens eve ...
• The Real 9/11 Mastermind?
  This is a post I found�on George Washingtons Blog. Dick Cheney's Oily Dream Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is currently saying that Dick Cheney's vision of policy towards the Middle East after 9/11 was to re-draw the map: Vice-President Dick Cheney's vision of completely redrawing the m ...
• The Truth About TruthBurn
  Here is the take of the " 911TRUTHINATOR ": 911TRUTH SIGN -THERMITE FAIL Here is the truth from the creator of the "TruthBurn" display, John Parulis: That gave me a good laugh. Boy these people can't seem to stop their obsession with us. I hope we drive them batty. It's true that I did modify t ...

Fooducate

• Are Hebrew National Kosher Hot Dogs Healthier than ...
  We recently got an email from Dave: Stumbled across your blog a few days ago, have been pouring over your archives ever since.  My wife and I are in the process of converting to a much more natural and healthy diet with less reliance on prepared foods.  She says that Hebrew Nationals are better for ...
• Athenos Feta Cheese [Inside the Label] + Bonus Rec ...
  Feta cheese, of Greek origin, is a white crumbly and rindless cheese. It is traditionally made from sheep or goat milk and has a rich tangy flavor. In the US, Feta cheese is made from cow’s milk and while still delicious, does not have as strong a flavor. Athenos is one of the more popular brands [. ...
• The McDonald’s Parody Ad You Might See on The Dail ...
  It’s not clear if the above parody will be broadcast on TV tonight, but what’s sure is that McDonald’s execs are fuming at this dark satire linking Big-Mac consumption with high cholesterol, heart attacks, and ultimately death. The “commercial” was created by PCRM – Physician’s Committee for Respon ...
• Dr. Corn Sugar and Mr. High Fructose Corn Syrup
  It’s not Halloween, but somebody’s already putting on a mask. More precisely, some-THING. Goodbye High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS), Hello CORN SUGAR. Make no mistake, these are one and the same. So why the name change? The answer: Marketing, of course. HFCS has been battered in the past few years by ...
• Thoughts on Obesity
  This is a guest blog post by Daniel Green. In her August 21 New York Times Slipstream column, Natasha Singer opens “WHY are Americans getting fatter and fatter? The simple explanation is that we eat too much junk food and spend too much time in front of screens — be they television, phone or comput ...

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

• World’s most isolated tribe threatened by poachers
  The Sentinelese attack outsiders who approach their island. © Indian Coastguard/Survival Poachers targeting rich fishing grounds in Indiaâs Andaman Islands are endangering the worldâs most isolated tribe. More than a hundred iIllegal fishermen from Burma have been arrested in recent weeks ...
• Philippines senator calls for international law on ...
  A Palawan climbing an aerial bridge made of rattan canes to reach a ginuqu tree canopy. © Dario Novellino A leading Filipino senator has called on her government to ratify the international law on tribal peoples, ILO Convention 169 . Loren Legarda told a senate committee that indigenous people ...
• Controversial tourism company ignores Bushman righ ...
  The pool of Wilderness Safaris' new lodge in the CKGR. © Survival Controversial tour operator Wilderness Safaris has won a ‘World Savers Award’, despite erecting a luxury tourist lodge with swimming pool on the land of Kalahari Bushmen who are struggling for water. Wilderness Safaris opened th ...
• Brazilian Indians held prisoner by gunmen
  The Guarani's plight is one of the worst in Brazil © Fiona Watson/ Survival A large group of Guarani Indians in Brazil is being held prisoner by gunmen hired by ranchers. The gunmen have cut off the Indiansâ access to food, water and health care since they surrounded their community one mont ...
• Mapuche hunger strike enters 65th day
  The Mapuche hunger strike has generated protests worldwide © Survival Thirty-four Mapuche prisoners in Chile today entered the sixty-fifth day of a hunger strike. The protest began to highlight the use by the Chilean government of anti-terror legislation to criminalise attempts by the Mapuche t ...

Greg Palast

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

Telegraph UK - oil

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

Ian Welsh

• Tax Cuts for the rich create jobs outside the US
  A standard right wing talking point is that tax cuts for the rich and corporations create jobs. This is, actually, true.  They create jobs overseas. The tax cuts’ two bills, in 2001 and 2003 – changed laws so that personal income tax rates were reduced, exemptions for the Alternative Minimum Tax i ...
• One of the silver linings of the State tax crisis
  is that for the first time in 38 years the state prison population has dropped: Professor Chris Uggen, at Public Criminology, summarizes the causes identified by the report: Pew attributes the drop to greater diversion of low-level offenders and probation and parole violators from prison; stronger c ...
• What the Primaries mean
  Tea party crazies are winning, and it’s not even close.  The deep rich, like the Koch’s, have funded this.  The Republicans figure they’ll get in eventually, and with a strong crazy hard right wing, they’ll be able to pass the stuff they really want to pass. I think it’s going to backfire on the r ...
• Yes Virginia, SS can be cut
  Sorry, it doesn’t work like this: Nevertheless, Grijalva is right. Social Security will most likely be left intact. Not because of any efforts of the CPC. Not because Progressives will stand up to block cuts. Not because Social Security is popular with the people. Social Security “reform” will fail ...
• Nigerian methods move to Mexico
  The Nigerian Movement for the Emancipation of the Nigerian Delta (MEND) group has waged an effective infrastructure sabotage and intimidation campaign in the Nigerian oil production regions.  MEND has consistently shut in 20% to 40% of total possible Nigerian oil production, and thus 18% to 36% ...

Age of Autism

• The Autism Anomalies
  By Julie Obradovic Stupid is a bad word in my house. Although I have to admit I can have a potty mouth at times, this is the one word that I just don't use, and if I do, you know...
• SafeMinds Comments on Pediatrics Study on Thimeros ...
  Prenatal and Infant Exposure to Thimerosal From Vaccines and Immunoglobulins and Risk of Autism. Price, CS. et. al. Pediatrics 2010;126:656-664. Comments by SafeMinds Background This study was funded by CDC and conducted by several parties with an interest in protecting...
• SafeMinds Response to Thimerosal and Autism Pediat ...
  The long awaited study that has been in the works for almost a decade regarding investigation between thimerosal and autism was published September 13, 2010 in Pediatrics. This study was funded by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and conducted...
• Amy Wallace & Yellow Journalism
  By Barbara Loe Fisher On October 17, 2009 I was at the Atlanta airport on my way back to Washington, D.C. when I stopped at a newsstand. Like most weary travelers waiting for a plane, I was looking for something...
• Autism Speaks Mangles the Poling Decision: NYT Blo ...
  By J.B. Handley On the one hand, I get it. Autism Speaks treads a very delicate balance in how they address the idea that vaccines might be causing all this autism. If they are too strongly supportive of the hypothesis—poof!—away...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

• GMO Propagandists have Organic Food In the Crossha ...
  GMO propagandists have organic food In the Crosshairs!
• Obama – Wow, What a Guy!
  Our president - a self proclaimed man of the people - must have smiled when he read how heavy taxes on his people will start immediately, while benefits for his people are to take place in later years, with plenty of time for future legislation to nullify those benefits.
• Australia: Feral GM canola found on roadsides
  “Only 8% of the Australian canola crop is now GM but If GM canola weeds spread, many GM-free farmers will be out of business. The GM-free canola premium of $15 per tonne reflects the strong GM-free preferences of shoppers.”
• Republic Defiance Radio: Who put Bill Gates in cha ...
  This week's show will provide a breakdown of Bill Gates and his statements on death panels, vaccines, population reduction and his involvement with depopulation.
• The Truth Squad Radio Show: The zeroing out of our ...
  As more of the land is permitted for use other than what was intended, it appears cattle ranching is next on the chopping block as water for herds is diverted to corporate,commercial use. Laura and Deb will be updating us on recent activities of the BLM in its efforts to hide this unlawful activity ...

Open Your Eyes News

• White House solves the problem of global warming o ...
  Dailymail-Global warming could be a thing of the past, thanks to the Barack Obama administration. No, the White House has not single-handedly managed to stop the apparent rising temperature – but it does think the terminology oversimplifies the problem. According to U.S. science adviser John Holdren ...
• At least 23 Tajik troops killed in ambush
  ABC – Unidentified men have opened fire on a column of troops in Tajikistan, killing at least 23 and sparking a fierce shootout that continues to rage, a senior government official said. The troops had been travelling to reinforce roadblocks in the north of the country a month after prisoners, inclu ...
• US: Drug recalls surge
  CNN — Recalls of prescription and over the counter drugs are surging, raising questions about the quality of drug manufacturing in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration reported more than 1,742 recalls last year, skyrocketing from 426 in 2008, according to the Gold Sheet, a trade publ ...
• Mortar mine strike kills 1, wounds 8 in S. Afghani ...
  Xinhua – One civilian was killed and eight others sustained injuries as a mortar mine fired by anti-government militants hit a house in southern Ghazni province on Sunday, police said. Read Article
• Detention centre ‘ripe for abuse’
  AAP – Former immigration minister Chris Evans has rejected claims the risk of child abuse at detention centres was “ripe” just months before allegations emerged. West Australian police have confirmed they are investigating allegations two children were sexually abused at a location in regional WA. A ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Blown-out BP well finally killed at bottom of Gulf ...
  [Updated at 8:57 a.m.: The BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico -- source of the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history -- has been permanently killed, a top federal official announced Sunday. Thad Allen, the federal spill...
• Cadmium: California and the U.S. target toxic jewe ...
  A bill to ban jewelry containing detectable levels of cadmium has passed the California Legislature and awaits the signature of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills) would ban sales of jewelry in California containing...
• Genetically-modified salmon: Will the FDA give the ...
  For years, opponents have derided genetically engineered salmon as "Frankenfish" while the aquaculture industry has contended they would be harmless. Now the conflict is coming to a head. Earlier this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found in a...
• Gulf oil spill: BP well nears death, pressure test ...
  Crews working to seal BP's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico once and for all need to finish one more test on a cement plug before declaring the well permanently dead, officials said Saturday. Once the pressure and weight...
• Energy-saving LED light bulbs: false claims?
  The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Lights of America Inc. this week alleging false performance claims for some of the company's LED light bulbs. The environmentally friendly bulbs, which were sold at major retailers such as Walmart and...

water.org

• Water, women, a concert, and ongoing projects (UMK ...
  Water, Women, a Concert, and Ongoing Projects (UMKC Women’s Center) – The connection comes through Barclay Martin Ensembleâs newly-formed partnership with the Kansas City-based organization water.org. A portion of proceeds from their new album, Pools That Swell With the Rain, and merchandise, alon ...
• Water.org eco-bottles at TIFF bash (Globe and Mail ...
  Rubbing shoulders with stars never goes out of (In)Style (The Globe and Mail) TORONTO, Canada – The annual TIFF bash hosted by InStyle and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is still the hottest party ticket around, mostly because of the high-wattage guest list. But statement-making ensembles a ...
• Boya community water project in Kenya (USAID/Kenya ...
  Boya Community Water Project (USAID/Kenya) – In 2006, USAID funded the Boya Water Project, implemented through Water Partners International Kenya which is a member of the MWA through their partner SANA (Sustainable Aid in Africa). Through USAID-SANA assistance, the project could now supply water to ...
• Water.org and Barclay Martin partnership (KC Star)
  Water.org and musician Barclay Martin form partnership (Kansas City Star) KANSAS CITY, Mo. – With the release of his fourth full-length album, Kansas City-based musician and international philanthropist Barclay Martin will give fans the opportunity to join him and be part of a clean water project in ...
• Conference call tonight
  This is your chance to hear first-hand from Water.org’s International Programs Director about our work in Haiti, our approach, the progress made so far, and plans for the future. It’s also a chance to ask questions about our work during an open question and answer session. (*As a courtesy to other c ...

Before It's News

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Israel News - Haaretz Israeli News source.
  Netanyahu: We tried and failed to stop Russian missile sale to Syria. Isn't this the understatement of the century? Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Jewish groups denounce âMuseum of Toleranceâ b ...
  This cemetery, which stands for a thousand years, is now subject to the bulldozer of this organization. So that's the meaning of the word chutzpah: to say you stand for tolerance, and perform that kind of an act, is the most despicable kind of hypocrisy. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & ...
• Is Muslim life actually cheap?
  So where is Muslim life supposedly so cheap? Lebanon? There was a ferocious civil war there, but both Christians and Muslims fought in it, and the 1982 Israeli invasion contributed to the killing at Shabra and Shatila, Israeli soldiers stood by... Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Not ...
• Shifting Sands: The Search for 1948
  "Shifting Sands brings to life the Jewish anti-occupation perspective through personal stories by activists such as Starhawk, Anna Baltzer, Jen Marlowe, Alice Rothchild, Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein (of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla) and others." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �| ...
• Responding to Michael Oren, in his own words
  The truth is that what Palestinians want is to live with dignity and in safety from the American-made gunships and Apache helicopters raining white phosphorous bombs on civilians by the Israeli military. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• IMS Research Forecasts Global Solar PV Market Will ...
  large According to a new study by IMS�Research , the global solar photovoltaic market will surpass 16 gigawatts in 2010.
• Kohl’s Department Stores: 100 Solar Locations and ...
  Solar energy is nothing new for Kohl’s Department Stores ( NYSE: KSS ). Touted as North America’s largest retail host of solar power, the company recently announced the activation of a rooftop solar array at its 100th retail location in ...
• Sun-Brewed Beer: Anheuser Busch Brewery Expands S ...
  In May, Anheuser-Busch ( NYSE:BUD ) installed 3,000 photovoltaic solar panels on the roof of its New Jersey brewery. The solar array, which covers 65,000 square feet, produces about five percent of the Newark facility’s electrical needs ...
• The Green Efforts in Germany: Solar Power
  large I spent three weeks in Germany this past August with my family, and one thing I noticed right off the bat there – all the solar panels.  They are everywhere, thousan ...
• California Energy Commission Approves World's Larg ...
  large California state regulators have unanimously approved Solar Millennium's US$4 billion Blythe solar power project .

News Blaze

• Nepal Maoist Party Demands Annulment of Supreme Co ...
  Nepal's Maoist Party (UCPN-M) today demanded the political annulment of the Supreme Court's guilty verdict and sentence of life imprisonment with seizure of property against Bal Krishna Dhugel.
• Ban Ki-Moon Underscores Broadband's Ability to Spu ...
  In developed countries, the cost of broadband subscriptions is up to 3 per cent of average monthly incomes, while in the least developed nations, they can cost more than an average person's entirely monthly earnings.
• Secretary Clinton Wishes The People of Korea a Joy ...
  On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I wish all the people of the Republic of Korea a wonderful holiday and a joyful Chuseok festival this September 22.
• The Height of Luxury in Playa Flamingo, Guanacaste
  Guanacaste is popular with tourists visiting Costa Rica. The pristine white sand beaches, lush jungles and an overall relaxed atmosphere induce a sense of great relaxation. With Costa Rica property on the rise, Villa Flamingo stands above the pack.
• Pope Ends State Visit With a Trip to Birmingham
  Pope Benedict XVI concluded his four-day State visit to Britain with a two-hour Mass at Cofton Park to beatify 19th Century Cardinal John Henry Newman, an event which attracted more than 50,000 people.

  libcom

• Amongst the Rubble: a look at the Christchurch Ear ...
  4102450_600x400.jpg While the dust settles and Christchurch recovers from the 7.1 earthquake, people have begun to pick up the pieces and get on with their lives. But for many working class people this i ...
• Truck drivers and railway workers strike in Greece
  After the August thaw between the Greek government and the fuel carrying truck drivers, the latter are once again showing their teeth, while railway workers defy court ruling and strike. The thaw between fuel carrying truck drivers and t ...
• Spain: Madrid CNT Calls for Strike Participation, ...
  arton932-11afe_0.jpg The CNT of Madrid are calling for participation in the September 29 general strike while noting the dangerous possibility that the state-sponsored unions who are calling the strike m ...
• Greece: Pakistani workers go on strike after polic ...
  Today, hundreds of Pakistani migrants living and working in Skala, Laconia took the decision to go on strike after a police attack that was unleashed against them earlier. After returning from their work in collecting oranges, they found ...
• Warsaw: ZSP Starts Rent Strike Action
  jcrop_strajkczynszowy.jpg ZSP is calling for a rent strike in Warsaw starting on Oct. 1. The strike is meant as a protest against the housing policy of the city and against serious ...

Free Range International

• A New Way Forward?
  A very tense week for those of us outside the wire has finally passed which means it is time for some good news.  We have been on a restricted movement routine (for the first time in five years) which provided the opportunity to digest a report from The Afghanistan Study Group entitled A New Way For ...
• Rocky Road
  As the summer started I was optimistic regarding the chances that we would see some indications that we are gaining ground in Afghanistan but that has not happened.  Incident rates are skyrocketing which in and of itself is not a negative thing if it is our side who are instigating the incidents but ...
• The Dog Days of Summer
  Many apologies for the delay on posting.  I was laid low by some sort of viral affliction which mimicked  malaria.  Like most people who get sick maybe once a decade, when I do catch a bug you would think I was on death’s door I’m such a sissy about it.  But the fever is gone [...]
• The Good Don’t Always Die Young
  The Godfather of Free Range International – the man who pioneered the techniques, tactics and procedures we use to travel in remote districts was executed last week in Badakhshan Province. Dan Terry was a good man.  He was humble, self-effacing, and competent.  He lived in Afghanistan with his fam ...
• Getting After It
  One of the Chim Chim’s dropped in for a visit last month.  He was on some sort of training inspection type team which I didn’t ask too much about and told us that every-time he asked officers from the unit he was looking at what they were doing the reply was “getting after it.”  They [...]

The Story Behind the Story

• America’s Entitlement Elitists
  America is Great —– Because America is Good!! By  A. True Ott, PhD, June 1, 2010 The famous French statesman and historian Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) traveled widely through America in the year 1832.  Following his tour of America, he wrote extensively about what he saw and experienced here. ...
• SENATORS TO BE ADDED TO UNEMPLOYMENT ROLLS
  ALL the senators on this list need to be OUT OF OFFICE by November 15. It will soon be payback time for these senators – forward this list to everyone you know.  Don’t forget.  November 2nd  is “Take out the trash day” !!!!!! The following senators voted against making English the official langua ...
• IMPORTANT BREAKING NEWS — Horowitz and Kane ...
  In a most cowardly and dastardly fashion, Leonard G. Horowitz and his consort/accomplice Sherri Kane have chosen to target me, A. True Ott, PhD in a clear and actionable case of libel where they accuse me of being “A Satanist” with only the flimsiest of circumstantial hearsay as their “evidence”.  ...
• Ellen Brown LIVE on The Story Behind the Story &#8 ...
  Axing the Bankersâ Money Tree: Homeowners’ Rebellion against Wall Street Recent Rulings Could Shield 62 Million Homes from Foreclosure by Ellen Brown http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20688 Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in ...
• IMPORTANT INFO ON MORTGAGES!!!!
  Every homeowner in America needs to read this very carefully. Homeowners’ Rebellion: Could 62 Million Homes Be Foreclosure-Proof? August 20th, 2010 | Author: Stephanie Over 62 million mortgages are now held in the name of MERS, an electronic recording system devised by and for the convenience of the ...

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

• 5 Expensive (and Unexpected) Things That Can Happe ...
  On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: 5 Expensive (and Unexpected) Things That Can Happen to Your Home by Tara Struyk Saturday, September 11, 2010 Share retweet Email Print provided by For most people, a … Continue reading →
• Green and Eco Friendly Driveway Info
  On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Q: How to Green my Driveway Answered by Rick Goyette September 9, 2010 There are several factors to consider when defining a green driveway. Most often the factors … Continue reading →
• Top 5 State-Led Energy Efficiency Programs
  On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: From: ECOHOME 2010 Posted on: September 16, 2010 3:00:00 PM Top 5 State-Led Energy Efficiency Programs Award-winning programs include Colorado, Hawaii, Maryland, and New York. By:Jennifer Goodman Related … Continue readi ...
• Fall Home Check Up Guide with Photos
  On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Fall Fix-Ups Checklist for your Home Provided by BHG with additional Notes by: Scotty, Scotts Contracting Green Builder – Renewable Energy Distributor / Installer The secret to a … Continue reading →
• China rejects US trade complaint over clean energy
  On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Associated Press Financial Wire September 15, 2010 China rejected a U.S. union’s trade complaint over Beijing’s support for clean energy industries and said Wednesday such criticism is hypocritical … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

• Deregulation Did Not Cause the Financial Crisis, W ...
  Statists criticize "libertarian" deregulation for the financial crisis. It's all a smokescreen to hide the real cause: the welfare state.
• Deregulation did not Cause the Financial Crisis, W ...
  Statists criticize "libertarian" deregulation for the financial crisis. It's all a smokescreen to hide the real cause: the welfare state.
• Obama’s Policies Hurt the Working Class
  The unintended consequences of Obama's Cash for Clunkers and credit card reform are hurting the working class.
• Stimulus Spenders and Their Silly Excuses
  At the end of the day, government spending, quantitative easing or whatever the political establishment wants to call it simply doesn’t work.
• Lies, Intolerance, and Disrespect for the Rule of ...
  The latest debate over the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" is replete with lies, intolerance and disrespect for the law.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Does the U.S. Really Want Talks With the Taliban t ...
  At the same time as it's exploring talks with the Taliban, the U.S. has launched a major military operation in Kandahar.
• New START's Big Winners: U.S. Nuke Complex, Pentag ...
  Corporations and nuclear labs, not the cause of disarmament, are the true beneficiaries of New START.
• Give Me Liberty or Give Me -- the Extinction of th ...
  A state may win a nuclear war, but it loses its soul.
• How to Convince a State That Thinks It Wants Nucle ...
  There are plenty of options to prevent proliferation other than force.
• When Nuclear Terrorism Isn't Terrorism
  What if a state emulated a terrorist group and tried to smuggle nuclear weapons into the U.S.?

Law.com

• The Careerist: More Law Firm Oscars? Yawn ...
  Check out some of the latest posts on the lawjobs.com blog, The Careerist. More Law Firm Oscars? Yawn ... Plus Women Partners Get Paid Less -- Duh? And Maybe a Girl's Got to Be Manipulative: What Joan and Peggy of "Mad Men" Can Teach Us
• 2nd Circuit Rejects Corporate Liability in Alien T ...
  The 2nd Circuit has rejected outright the theory that corporations can be held liable in the U.S. under the Alien Tort Statute for violations of international law in foreign countries. In a sweeping decision rebuffing a suit against Royal Dutch Petroleum and others for allegedly aiding and abetting ...
• E-Mail Fight Ensues in Lawsuit Over Slain Lawyer's ...
  Arent Fox has been pulled into a $20 million wrongful death suit filed by the wife of a Washington lawyer who was found stabbed to death in the home of one of the firm's former partners. Lawyers for Katherine Wone have asked a D.C. judge to enforce a subpoena for e-mail and other documents that form ...
• 4th Circuit Becomes New Front in Battle Over Judic ...
  There's a new focus in the sparring over judicial nominees. Albert Diaz, whom President Barack Obama nominated for the 4th Circuit in November 2009, has been waiting longer for Senate confirmation than any other pending appellate nominee. Currently on the North Carolina trial bench, Diaz has awaited ...
• American LegalNet eDockets Aims to Keep You Up to ...
  When a law firm's docketing and calendar workflow is undefined or loosely structured, the firm is vulnerable to missing deadlines, losing track of e-filings, or using out-of-date or unofficial forms. Consultant Curt Meltzer believes American LegalNet eDockets has tackled these challenges.

Iranian.com

• درخواست صدور حکم اعدام برای حسین درخشان
  روز گذشته اخباری در برخی از سایت‌ها مبنی بر درخواست صدور حکم اعدام برای حسین درخشان منتشر شد که پیگیری‌های خبرنگار رهانا نیز از صحت درخواست صدور حکم اعدام برای حسین درخشان خبر می‌دهد. read more
• Iran denies report on US arrests
  Iran's state owned TV has denied a report from the semi-official Fars news agency that Iranian forces had detained seven US troops trying to enter the country. Fars had earlier said that: "Recently seven American troops were detained by Iranian guards in a south-eastern province of the countr ...
• Iran`s President deems insults against Carla Bruni ...
  Le président iranien Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a qualifié dimanche de «crime» les insultes proférées récemment par un journal extrémiste proche de la ligne dure du régime contre Carla Bruni, l'épouse du président français Nicolas Sarkozy. read more
• Iran invites Turkey into space programme
  Iran has invited Turkey to cooperate in work on the Islamic Republic's space programme, which aims to put a man in space by 2017, the Turkish newspaper Haberturk said on Saturday.
• Freed hiker thanks Oman for helping get her out of ...
  Adressing journalists before leaving Oman to return home to the United States, Shourd said she hoped her fiance, Shane Bauer, and her friend Josh Fattal, still jailed in a Tehran prison, will soon be free.

Most Revolutionary Act

• Hello Houston, We Have a Problem
  I'm afraid I have some really bad news today. It appears, from satellite images, that the Ocean Conveyor Belt, aka the North Atlantic Drift, aka the Gulf Stream, aka the Thermohaline Circulation stopped approximately a month ago. Instead of travelling all the way north to the west coast of Britain ...
• The Chinese Labor Movement
  Goodbye Information Super Highway I have just had my first introduction to the new paid Internet news service. It looks like we are going back to the old days where only the wealthy elite knew what was really happening in the world. There’s a big difference between paying $1.50 for a daily newspape ...
• How Capitalism Suffocates Intellectual Life
  I have already done five blogs (see Aug 14 “Is Capitalism Doomed?”) regarding John Strachey’s 1932 classic The Coming Struggle for Power about the future of capitalism. Previously I focused exclusively on the economic structure of capitalism that dooms it to stagnation and eventual failure. Another ...
• Afghanistan: Is It All Smoke and Mirrors?
  After the July Time magazine cover of the noseless Afghan woman was exposed as a fake (it turns out that the woman’s nose wasn’t removed by the Taliban, as Time reported, but by her husband three years earlier – see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/abdulhadi-hairan/times-aisha-story-is-fake_b_692123.ht ...
• Hanan Ashrawi: Women in the Palestinian Struggle
  I have just watched a remarkable talk by Palestinian leader Hanan Ashrawi at the July 2010 Chautaqua convocation (see http://fora.tv/2010/07/13/Hanan_Ashrawi_Palestinian_Womens_Quest_for_Validation ). Ashrawi, long a spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority, has been largely absent from the US med ...

Free Movement

• New policy on children
  UKBA has published a new policy on dealing with children, specifically asylum applications by unaccompanied children. It went ‘live’ on 1 September 2010 and can be found with the earlier link or in the Asylum Process Guidance Special Cases section. The policy is a considerable improvement on the pre ...
• Fees going up again
  Substantial rises are set for most immigration fees on 1 October 2010, on the basis of the laughable justification that UKBA ‘want to ensure that we can offer a good level of customer service’. They also openly state that the increases are to ‘mitigate against a reduction in income to the Agency’. I ...
• Adverts on Free Movement
  It has come to my attention that Google Ads sometimes (or possibly always) show on Free Movement to those not already logged in as WordPress users – i.e. everyone except me sometimes sees Google Ads on my blog, basically. This blog is hosted mainly for free on WordPress.com. In truth nothing in life ...
• Lions Led By Donkeys?
  The tragic demise of Refugee and Migrant Justice, formerly known as the Refugee Legal Centre, leaves a gaping and unfillable void in the immigration sector. With its higher than average success rate and top notch training and nurturing programme for asylum lawyers, it is simply irreplaceable. What h ...
• New PBS cases
  The tribunal has allowed two appeals on the basis that Pankina does not only apply to the three month rule and that all an applicant need do is comply with the requirements of the Immigration Rules themselves. See FA and AA (PBS effect of Pankina) Nigeria [2010] UKUT 304 (IAC) in relation to the sco ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• VIDEO: Michael Moore on New York 'Mosque' ...
• Daniel Ellsberg Calls for Release of Wikileaks “Wh ...
  Michael Moore to broadcast event live Daniel Ellsberg helped end the war in Vietnam when he leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press in 1970. Pfc. Bradley Manning , the alleged “whistleblower” accused of releasing documents and combat video showing the gunning down of Iraqi civilians and Reuters ...
• The 9/11 Spirit
  From: Eric Bauman Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:31:08 To: MichaelMoore.com Subject: Fw: Receipt for your donation to Cordoba Initiative I wish I could have donated more, but I'm unemployed and money is really tight. Thanks for matching this, Mr. Moore. From: Al B. Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:29:59 T ...
• ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT DELIVERED BY RADIO FROM T ...
  PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT: I have been on a journey of husbandry. I went primarily to see at first hand conditions in the drought states; to see how effectively Federal and local authorities are taking care of pressing problems of relief and also how they a ...
• The Real Lesson of Labor Day
  Welcome to the worst Labor Day in the memory of most Americans. Organized labor is down to about 7 percent of the private work force. Members of non-organized labor — most of the rest of us — are unemployed, underemployed or underwater. The Labor Department reported on Friday that just 67,000 new pr ...

Salon

• Colin Powell defends Obama
  Retired Gen. Colin Powell, a moderate Republican who endorsed Barack Obama in 2008, says the president's critics should be going after him on policy, not "nonsense."
• Coalition of fear: Tea Party, the religious right ...
  If the leaders of the religious right aspire to join forces with the Tea Party movement, their hopes were surely encouraged by the Values Voters Summit in Washington -- where such Tea Party celebrities Michele Bachmann and Jim DeMint shared the podium with Delaware sensation Christine O’Donnell - ...
• Iran-held U.S. woman returns home
  An American woman who was held in Iran for more than 13 months and accused of spying returned Sunday to the United States.
• The perils of false equivalencies and self-proclai ...
  New York Times, Thursday :�
• Montana GOP: Ban homosexuality
  At a time when gays have been gaining victories across the country, the Republican Party in Montana still wants to make homosexuality illegal.

SMB News

• Reduce global hunger by 2010 is: flour
  Rome: the number suffering from chronic hunger in the world 15 years due to improved economic conditions and food prices decreased for the first time, the UN food agency, said Tuesday. However, the World Health Organization, may be a danger to the food crisis threatened to spark droughts and floods ...
• Hameed rubbishes accusing players in betting row
  LONDON: Pakistan batsman Yasir Hameed denied Saturday having told a British newspaper that his teammates on the England tour were involved in a betting scam. The News of The World quoted Hameed in its edition due out Sunday as saying that some Pakistan players were fixing in “almost every match”. “I ...
• Iran working against Iraqi democracy: US general
  WASHINGTON: Iran is funding extremist groups in Iraq out of fear of a strong democracy as a neighbor, the commander of US forces in Iraq said Sunday. “I think they don’t want to see Iraq turn into a strong democratic country, General Ray Odierno told CNN. “They would rather see it become a weak gove ...
• New flood tide roars into Dera Allah Yar
  JAFFERABAD: High flood tide raged its way into Jafferabad area of Dera Allah Yar, rendering thousands of people homeless, these stranded people are waiting for help, Geo News reported Monday. The new flood tide further exacerbated the situation in the area where people are present on the high places ...
• Enraged flood victims get physical with police, Ra ...
  SUKKUR: Floods continue to cause devastation in Sukkur and rendered thousands of people stranded in various areas while enraged flood victims burned tyres, blocked road and exchanged blows with police and Rangers after one of the affectees died in a relief camp here at Sukkur-Shikarpur Road. The wat ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Our MPs get back to work
  Divisive vote on the gun registry on Wednesday will likely set the tone for a fractious fall session of Parliament.
• Federalist plot exposed
  The Parti Québécois has come up with a novel conspiracy theory concerning the Montreal Canadiens.
• Oshawa’s 51-name game
  Huge ballot could discourage voting and distort the outcome.
• Balance in far north bill
  Without Bill 191, there is no hope of protecting land or sensibly developing it to the benefit of First Nations communities
• Find the will to cut hunger
  A shortfall in aid casts a dark shadow over the UN’s ambitious Millennium Development Goals

Energy Collective

• Mary Robinson Foundation builds women's leadership ...
  New York is buzzing with excitement (and traffic jams) this week as hundreds of leaders -- business, government, NGOs and others -- descend on the city for the opening of the UN General Assembly and the Summit on the Millennium Development Goals .
• Recycling Our Way to Sustainable Waste Management
  While my focus is primarily on energy, I am also interested in other sustainability issues. Some of those include food production, water issues (e.g. water desalination to increase availability of fresh water), and waste management. I have discussed waste management here before in My Composting Expe ...
• India to Launch $11 Billion Fund to Boost Power Ge ...
  The Indian government is planning to launch a $11 billion fund to help finance the massive power generation planned during 2012-2017. India plans to expand its power generation capacity by 100,00 MW during 2012-2017.
• Cities – The Living Laboratories for Smart Grid In ...
  It seems like most of the discussion about changes that Smart Grid technologies will introduce focus on changes to utilities and to consumers.� Let’s not forget cities and towns.� It’s becoming very apparent that many technologies that improve the electrical grid can also improve other networks – wh ...
• Iogen looking to sell?
  Iogen is probably thinking of doing the same move as Verenium when it sold its cellulosic ethanol joint venture to BP.

EU Times

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

Stonecipher News

• Does Eating Sugar Cause Diabetes?
  According to Dr. Kristie Leong , "Type 2 diabetes is a growing problem in this country – fueled by a poor diet, lack of exercise, and the ever expanding rate of obesity. For obvious reasons, most people would like to prevent this disease and its many complications. Since blood sugars are high in peo ...
• Jessica's Early Years With Autism
  In my last article, The Day I Saw My Lord and Savior Jesus Christ , I discussed how Jesus helped my wife and I get through a difficult time with Jessica hospitalized as an infant with meningitis and was on life support for more than a month. With this article will be the first in a series that gives ...
• Can Hand Episode 3: Bedroom Fun Wakes Grandpa
  This is a sponsored post! WD-40 has more than 2000 uses. One of my favorite uses is cleaning up permanent markers off title or linoleum flooring. I discovered this by accident last week while installing my linoleum floor. I mistakenly used a permanent marker to make my marking measurements instead ...
• Studies Claim That One Million Children Misdiagnos ...
  According to Jo Oliver "Several studies this month in the Journal of Health Economics are looking at ADHD. Separate studies by researchers at North Carolina State University, Notre Dame, the University of Minnesota, and Michigan State University all arrive at similar conclusions about ADHD. For tho ...
• Education: What Does It Mean For Your Child
  From my Factoidz page: The PACER Center is a Minnesota training and information center funded by the U. S. Department of Education Office of Special Education (n.d., http://www.pacer.org/) writes an article for LD online explaining to lay people the evaluation process for special education. The arti ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Delicious Meals for Fall
  Bratwurst with Sauteed Peppers and Onions While we don’t get a “true autumn” here in San Diego, my mood always turns to fall-ish things during September and October. Fall foods are such a favorite at our house, we’re all happy to welcome them back. And since theme nights are... Tags: onions mashed p ...
• An overview of tax on rental properties
  Did you know that any income gained from the rental of property should be declared to HMRC as a taxable income? It does not matter whether or not you are already paying income on your salary you will still need to declare any income acquired from the rental of a property. Whether you... Tags: lodger ...
• Betty & Veronica 251 -Sexiest Archie Cover Ever?!
  “Winter Bliss” & “The Sales Force” . Even a Hawaiian vacation doesn’t spell “Winter Bliss” when Betty and Veronica find out that back at home, their beloved Archie could be tempted by Cheryl’s winter kiss! Then, when “The Sales Force” of Veronica Lodge... Tags: hawaiian jack morelli george gladir ve ...
• A week is a long time in her Majesty’s Revenue & C ...
  It certainly has been an interesting week for UK tax payers. There is no doubt that the news that 1.4 million people have not paid the correct level of tax through the PAYE tax system was not received well. Whether the situation is described as being unacceptable, unbelievable or... Tags: the police
• The Digest. 09.20.10.
  Untitled , 2010, by Jeff Williams, in Chilchota, Michoacán. (Image courtesy of Williams .) Blog posts about not posting , courtesy of Cory Arcangel. Help Paddy Johnson at AFC fund her record album . It’s got my heartbeat in it! The Economist opens up the can of whoop-ass on... Tags: hamburger l.a. c ...

Groklaw

• Ellison announces 'one big, honkin' cloud'
  He showcased the Exalogic Elastic Cloud, a system containing 30 servers, each loaded with two six-core processors for a total of 360 processor cores. They are interconnected with each other and storage via Infiniband connections. The systems support both Solaris and Linux guest OSes and include all ...
• State Bar of Nevada reviewing grievance against Ri ...
  The Nevada agency that regulates attorneys is looking into a grievance filed against the chief executive officer of Righthaven LLC, the Las Vegas copyright enforcement company that has sued at least 124 individuals and companies in North America since March over unauthorized online postings of Las V ...
• Microsoft tests limits of powerful Internet access ...
  With regulators poised to open large swaths of former television airwaves for supercharged wireless Internet access, Microsoft's Redmond campus has emerged as a unique proving ground, not only for testing the technology's potential but also for avoiding its pitfalls. - Todd Bishop, TechFlash
• Novell Inc. reaches two-part sale deal: [unidentif ...
  Novell Inc. has reached a deal in principle to sell itself in two parts, and is three to four weeks away from signing a deal, according to people close to the process. - NY Post
• T-Mobile sued for allegedly blocking pot-related t ...
  Ez Texting, a New York-based company that helps businesses send marketing text messages to large numbers of people, filed the suit ( PDF ) yesterday with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The company is one of those that provide the behind-the-scenes infrastructure for ...

WideShut

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

Waterkeeper Alliance

• Forum: Chemical spill will test nature's resilienc ...
  Forum: Chemical spill will test nature's resilience
• Local EPD office shut down; what's next?
  Local EPD office shut down; what's next?
• Riverkeeper Sues to Clean the Shenandoah
  Riverkeeper Sues to Clean the Shenandoah
• Warrandyte Yarra campaigner up for award
  Warrandyte Yarra campaigner up for award
• 700-year-old cypress tell story of survival
  700-year-old cypress tell story of survival

Politics in the Zeros

• Florida city sends would-be Quran-burning church a ...
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• Bed fellows
  RadicalGlascowBlog Over the last few days I have come to the conclusion that when the Pope visits this country nothing happens in the world. There is obviously nothing to report, nothing of importance being said or happening. Every newspaper you pick up has page after page of photos of faces and cro ...
• Brooklyn tornado 9/16/20
  NSFW! “Dude itâs fucking funneling!â Ahem, while I realize Brooklyn doesn’t get many tornadoes thus this was outside the experience of the filmers, it still seems stunningly stupid to stand on a balcony as a tornado comes down the street. Now click through to TechCrunch and thrill at the auto-tu ...
• Obese blamed for the world’s ills
  This totally ignores factors such as the Free Marketeering economy, a societal structure based on promoting excessive consumption, the Military Industrial Complex, politics, religion, struggles for power over natural resources. The list goes on and on. No, it is all the fault of those terrible fatti ...
• “They have destroyed these elections.”
  Massive fraud in Afghan elections shows U.S. policy is a farce. Polizeros contributor Josh Mull is in Kabul now as an election observer. We plan to interview him when he gets back. He just did a quick update to Newshoggers on The “Anti-War Left” And The Afghanistan Study Group. The Left is not anti- ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• Building Minister to seek answers on stadium roof ...
  Building Minister Maurice Williamson is going to Invercargill to find out why the roof of Stadium Southland collapsed
• Stormy weather tipped to continue over much of NZ
  Intense bursts of rain have caused rivers' levels to rise and houses, paddocks and roads to flood in the lower North Island
• Shooting a worry for NZ Commonwealth Games officia ...
  The deadline is looming for New Zealand to commit its team to the Commonwealth Games and the signs are they will not be put off by the shooting of tourists
• Man charged with manslaughter after fatal pursuit ...
  Bail has been refused for a 22-year-old driver now facing manslaughter charges for allegedly killing two people in a Christchurch crash after fleeing from a police traffic stop
• Stormy weather tipped to continue over much of NZ
  Stormy weather is expected to continue in many parts of New Zealand this week with severe gales for parts of the North Island and more snow for Southland

Just World News

• Afghanistan's election: Some reflections
  Back in 2004-05, Pres. Bush and his people were trying to 're-brand' America's overseas military adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq as being part of a campaign to bring the wonderful fruits of democracy to various peoples around the world. At the tip of a cruise missile, no less... Oh my goodness ho ...
• Just World Books website is born!
  Okay, I know I've been promising my readers here that the JWB website will be published "any day now"... And the day is here! So head on over and check out the site's many great features and the fast-growing amount of content we have there! (Now including two podcasts already-- one featuring JWB aut ...
• Plea of the Israeli political prisoner's wife
  Read this powerful article penned for Electronic Intifada by Janan Abdu, spouse of Palestinian-Israeli political prisoner Ameer Makhoul, who has shockingly been held without trial since May. Abdu quotes the stirring (but possibly empty?) words that Secretary Clinton uttered recently at the 10th ann ...
• Just World Books update #4
  We're still tweaking the website at Just World Books, so until it's ready to roll out, I'll be sending out my updates from here. I've signed three new contracts in the past couple of weeks. Two are with Manan Ahmed , who's the principal blogger (Sepoy) at Chapati Mystery and also blogs at Informed ...
• 550 IDF soldiers interrogated re possible war crim ...
  Huge kudos to Max Blumenthal, who found a report in yesterday's Yediot stating that (in Max's translation), More than 550 officers and men of IDF who participated in the “Cast Lead” operation have been interrogated by the investigative military police of the IDF in the last 18 months. The Yediot r ...

First Truths

• The Anti-Establishment Establishment
  I am congenitally distrustful of the kind of folksy, affected, anti-establishment populism that makes up so much of the political patois, especially where it's used to help cadgers slime their way into that establishment. In a commentary item for the Center for a Stateless Society, I confront the no ...
• The Political Alchemy of Jobs
  My latest commentary piece , a response to the announcement of the President's jobs plan, can be found at the Center for a Stateless Society.
• Antitrust and the Ultimate Monopoly Redux
  In a leading text for the study of antitrust law, law professors Phillip Areeda, Louis Kaplow and Aaron Edlin assert: In the absence of legal impediments, competitors would like to join together to eliminate competition among themselves, restricting output and raising prices. A perfect scheme wou ...
• Peace Talks For War
  I opined for the Center for a Stateless Society on the United States-negotiated peace talks between Israel and Palestine. I've previously written on the issue here .
• Green Rising: Dissecting Environmentalism's Lethal ...
  For those who value individual rights, the question of whether human beings are responsible for global climate change can bear no weight on arguments concerning the role of the state in society; the answer to that question, no matter what it is, could not justify or legitimize any measure that woul ...

Media Co-Op

• At the Roots of Mapuche Resistance
  A backgrounder on the situation facing Mapuche people in Chile and a look at Canada's role More than 34 Mapuche political prisoners in Chile have entered into day 69 of a hunger strike to bring attention to their struggle and force significant ...
• Judicial Harassment of Activists Continues
  System rigged against poor and racialized people The re-arrest of Alex Hundert yesterday on flimsy charges is part of a pattern of police harassment against activists and community organizers which has gone on continuously since the G20 in Jun ...
• Alleged G20 "co-conspirator" re-arrested after spe ...
  Police allege panel presentation breached condition to not protest in public About 100 people have gathered at the Old Court in Toronto this morning in support of local activist and organizer Alex Hundert, who was taken into police custody on ...
• G20 defendant Alex Hundert re-arrested, Supporters ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE G20 defendant Alex Hundert re-arrested, Supporters denounce criminalization Press Conference: Sat Sep 18 at 9:30 am. Bail Court at Old City Hall (60 Queen W) September 18, 2010 – Toronto, Mississauga New Credit – G20 defendant and alleged ‘ringleader’ Alex Hundert was arrested ...
• Losing Ground?
  The Struggle for Teztan Biny/Fish Lake "Losing Ground? The Struggle for Teztan Biny/Fish Lake" was recorded in two communities at the epicenter of a debate surrounding one of the most controversial mines in Canadian history. As the federal en ...

David Seaton's News Links

• The Kochs: paying to keep America dumb
  AJ Goode and his wife Mary who live in a shelter in Los Angeles - BBC News David Seaton's News Links Around the world people ask themselves, if Americans are so dumb, why is the country so rich? Americans are not really born that stupid, but making them stupid is a huge industry. The Koch Brothers ...
• What makes the Kochs and the neocons nervous enoug ...
  David Seaton's News Links If you study the following two clippings from the UK's Guardian and from Germany's Der Spiegel you can why the Kochs, libertarians of every stripe, AIPAC and the neocons, have every reason to have (as the British would put it) their knickers in a twist. Speculation that go ...
• Tea Party: Nixon's chickens come home to roost
  David Seaton's News Links The political climate in America is toxic and it has been ever since Richard Nixon launched his Southern Strategy and caused Republicans to pause from their golf and stock coupon clipping long enough to plunge into neofascist populism and charismatic religion. The fiscal co ...
• American fascism and musical chairs
  David Seaton's News Links I've had a few comments on my last post from people who didn't really see any similarities between today's America and Germany and Italy of the 1920s and 30s. I'm sorry if my previous� post on American fascism wasn't as clear as I would have wished. When I talk about fas ...
• Fascism is coming to the USA... Literally (no kidd ...
  David Seaton's News Links I thought twice before using the word "fascism" in the title of this post, because by now the word "fascism" and "fascist" have become degraded into simply all purpose terms of abuse without any concrete meaning, except disaproval: so perhaps it might be a good thing to go ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

• Nanomaterials May Soon be in Your Sportswear and U ...
  Contact: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org Washington, D.C – Environmental Working Group (EWG) has sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) opposing its proposal to approve a Swiss nanosilver textile coating for sale in the... [[ This is a content summary onl ...
• EWG Seeks FCC-Cell Phone Industry Communications
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, -- Environmental Working Group (EWG) filed a FOIA with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today to shed light on whether the trade association for the wireless... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• Widespread Chemical Linked to Higher Cholesterol i ...
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 Children and teens exposed to perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), the chemical used to make many non-stick and stain-proof coatings, have elevated cholesterol levels, reports a landmark study by West... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
• Chemicals Law Overhaul Proposed in House
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 WASHINGTON, DC – Congressional leaders today introduced in the House the first comprehensive overhaul in more than 30 years of a federal law that has been widely condemned for failing to protect... [[ This is a content summary on ...
• EWG Tests Find High BPA Loads on Receipts
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org WASHINGTON, DC – Laboratory tests commissioned by Environmental Working Group (EWG) have found high levels of the endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) on 40 percent of... [[ This is a content summary only. ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• Mystifying and Naturally Psychedelic Fractal Zoom
  Watch the Mandelbrot set as you’ve never seen it before.
• 12 Medical Myths Even Most Doctors Believe…
  CNN has published a list of the “truth about twelve “health myths”. Among the myths this article busts? “If you cross your eyes, they’ll stay that way.” “Eat the crust of your bread because it’s full of antioxidants,” and, “to get rid of hiccups, have someone startle you.” Seriously? There is mas ...
• America’s Newest Drug Addicts: How Legal Drugs are ...
  The drug company Wyeth used ghostwriters to emphasize the benefits and downplay the harm of hormone replacement therapy in medical journal articles. Wyeth, now owned by Pfizer, paid a company called DesignWrite $25,000 to ghostwrite articles on clinical studies, including four regarding Prempro, th ...
• This "Miracle Health Food" Has Been Linked to Brai ...
  If you were to carefully review the thousands of studies published on soy, I strongly believe you would reach the same conclusion as I have—which is, the risks of consuming unfermented soy products FAR outweigh any possible benefits. Notice I said unfermented soy products . For centuries, Asian ...
• Drinking Water Proven to Help Weight Loss
  A new study has found that obese dieters who drank two cups of water before each meal lost 5 pounds more after three months. A year later, they also kept more of the weight off. The dieting technique is well known, but this study may be the first hard evidence that increasing your water intake is a ...

JAMA

• Low-Dose vs Standard-Dose Unfractionated Heparin f ...
  Context  The optimal unfractionated heparin regimen for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with non–ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes treated with fondaparinux is uncertain. Objective  To compare the safety of 2 unfractionated heparin regimens during PCI in high-risk p ...
• Comparative Determinants of 4-Year Cardiovascular ...
  Context� Clinicians and trialists have difficulty with identifying which patients are highest risk for cardiovascular events. Prior ischemic events, polyvascular disease, and diabetes mellitus have all been identified as predictors of ischemic events, but their comparative contributions to future r ...
• Balancing Responsibilities in Health Care--Reply [ ...
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• Presenteeism Among Resident Physicians [Research L ...
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• Graduating US Medical Students Who Do Not Obtain a ...
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Survival - tribal peoples

• World’s most isolated tribe threatened by poachers
  The Sentinelese attack outsiders who approach their island. © Indian Coastguard/Survival Poachers targeting rich fishing grounds in Indiaâs Andaman Islands are endangering the worldâs most isolated tribe. More than a hundred iIllegal fishermen from Burma have been arrested in recent weeks ...
• Philippines senator calls for international law on ...
  A Palawan climbing an aerial bridge made of rattan canes to reach a ginuqu tree canopy. © Dario Novellino A leading Filipino senator has called on her government to ratify the international law on tribal peoples, ILO Convention 169 . Loren Legarda told a senate committee that indigenous people ...
• Controversial tourism company ignores Bushman righ ...
  The pool of Wilderness Safaris' new lodge in the CKGR. © Survival Controversial tour operator Wilderness Safaris has won a ‘World Savers Award’, despite erecting a luxury tourist lodge with swimming pool on the land of Kalahari Bushmen who are struggling for water. Wilderness Safaris opened th ...
• Brazilian Indians held prisoner by gunmen
  The Guarani's plight is one of the worst in Brazil © Fiona Watson/ Survival A large group of Guarani Indians in Brazil is being held prisoner by gunmen hired by ranchers. The gunmen have cut off the Indiansâ access to food, water and health care since they surrounded their community one mont ...
• Mapuche hunger strike enters 65th day
  The Mapuche hunger strike has generated protests worldwide © Survival Thirty-four Mapuche prisoners in Chile today entered the sixty-fifth day of a hunger strike. The protest began to highlight the use by the Chilean government of anti-terror legislation to criminalise attempts by the Mapuche t ...

Montreal Gazette

• Roma persecution disgraces France
  But halfway through the Roma Decade, things have seriously unravelled. France, to its enormous discredit and shame, has set about methodically ridding itself of Roma, who make up much less than one per cent of France's population. And while France is the most brazen of Roma-bashers, it is ha ...
• Quebec City arena plan should be iced
  From any common-sense point of view, however, such as the taxpayers' viewpoint, that promise appears surreal, not to say insane. In fact, we believe there is no real chance for this to happen, fortunately, because both financially and politically the federal government can't afford to pitch ...
• Editorial: There's no dignity in euthanasia
  The start this week of "roadshow" hearings by a National Assembly committee on the issue makes this a suitable time to reassert our view that fitting euthanasia into public policy would be the wrong solution, and a dangerous one.
• U.S. can't kick the protectionist habit
  Economists keep on showing that "protectionism" does the opposite of protecting a whole economy, but powerful interests in the United States keep turning to protective measures of narrow benefit every time they think they can get away with it.
• Rising property values no excuse for a tax grab
  Either sensation would be a natural response. But neither one would be quite logical.

Food World Order

• food: the ultimate secret exposed
  from infowars : The grocery store, along with your kitchen sink, are two of the most dangerous places in the world . In a special video, Alex Jones addresses one of the darkest modes of power the globalists have used to control the population – food. The adulteration of the planet’s staple crops, ge ...
• farming surges in massachusettes with new crop of ...
  from boston globe : Midway through her first growing season, Rachael Potts, 31, pointed to long rows of thriving peppers, scallions, and Swiss chard. The tomatoes, however, have been “ a challenge ,’’ she admitted, adding “ and the heat has had its way with my arugula .’’ Potts, who has a day job as ...
• epa to crack down on farm dust
  from news9 : The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering a crackdown on farm dust, so senators have signed a letter addressing their concerns on the possible regulations. The letter dated July 23 to the EPA states , " If approved, would establish the most stringent and unparalleled ...
• 8/5 binge & purge: what plants crave
  bp exec would 'absolutely' eat gulf seafood * food inflation 'could go beyond 10% before next year' * poison tap water makes number 1 google search * case against coca-cola's vitamin water to proceed * audio satire: gatorade pledges $200m in thirst aid to underquenched nations *
• cnn guest says bpa is good for you
  from matt ryan : Dr. Whelan , during an interview on CNN, states there are misconceptions about chemicals . One such misconception is that no cases (to her knowledge) exist where a single child or adult has been harmed from trace chemicals in products. She goes on to say that claims of such are ...

 

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