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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • EUROPE: Undocumented Pakistanis Face Expulsion
    Less than two months after Pakistan was devastated by one of the worst disasters in recent history, the European Union's lawmakers have decided that Pakistanis living in the 27-country bloc without permission should be returned home.
  • PAKISTAN: When the Doors Are Open, But Women Choos ...
    For five years, Sana Yasir toiled through medical school and then was awarded at the end with a diploma and a bright future. After completing the required year-long clinical practice, however, Yasir got married and quit the workplace.
  • JAPAN: Pension Scandals Expose Growing Poverty, De ...
    The son had cared for his sick father, and when the old man died, he buried the body in his garden. But the son did not tell the authorities about his father's death, as required by law. Instead, he continued to act as if his father was still alive, and collected the old man's pension.
  • Biodiversity Talks Bog Down over Genetic Resources
    While officials meeting in Montreal, Canada failed to finalise a key protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Tuesday, biodiversity is scheduled to be at the top of Wednesday's agenda of the U.N. General Assembly in New York.
  • Climate Justice Treks from Cochabamba to Cancún
    The "people's" climate agenda that the Bolivian government and civil society produced at an April conference in Cochabamba has made its way to the official United Nations negotiating table. But its inclusion in a binding climate treaty is unlikely, say activists.

Scoop - NZ

  • Vatican Bank being Investigated - Again
    the Pontiff, was under investigation for suspected failure to observe money-laundering laws. Do any of the banks observe money laundering laws? To understand what I mean by this comment read: US ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • 50% Jobless Or Working Poor, So...Party On !
    Over the past few days, we've heard quite a bit about the level of suffering on Main Street, as the Census Bureau announced its report on poverty for 2009. Here's Alternet.org's Joshua Holland commenting on DKos' own Joan McCarter's FP post here, which also captured headlines over at Alternet this w ...
  • Obama edges to the dark side
    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 judicial redress, expanding ...
  • Fonterra implicated in rainforest destruction - ag ...
    For the last five days a small Greenpeace team including New Zealander Suzette Jackson has been dodging security patrols, battling the heat and surviving harsh traveling conditions to reach a remote region of Indonesia to document a climate crime which is being supported by New Zealand's largest com ...
  • 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

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

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

  • New Mexico Fireball 21st September 2010
    Last night (Sept. 21st) around 09:01 pm MDT, a dazzling fireball glided across the skies of New Mexico and west Texas. "We've been getting a lot of calls in the newsroom about an object - maybe a meteorite - falling from the sky," says Peter St. Cyr of KOAT TV in Albuquerque. An all-sky camera o ...
  • Madam President? It could happen
    Speculation that she will run for President in 2012 is reaching fever pitch. But what do those who watched Sarah Palin grow up make of her meteoric ascent - and ruthless ambition? By Shushannah Walshe The first thing you notice, upon pulling up to Chuck and Sally Heath's house in Wasilla, Alaska ...
  • China resorts to blackouts in pursuit of energy ef ...
    With end of current five-year plan looming, many regions are desperately pulling the plug to meet usage targets No TV. No internet. No air conditioning. Traffic lights off. Hospitals deprived of electricity. Tens of thousands of household fridges and freezers without power. Milk curdling. Vegetable ...
  • China halts senior government contact with Japan a ...
    China has halted high-level government relations with Japan amid rising tensions over the detention of the captain of a fishing boat near disputed islands. Beijing has upped the pressure on Japan to release the captain by suspending ministerial and provincial level contacts, halting talks on aviat ...
  • Israeli official: We'll sell arms to Russia's enem ...
    Jerusalem angered at sale of Russian cruising missiles to Syria, calls it 'prize for extremist states' Israeli officials are threatening to sell weapons to "areas of strategic importance" to Russia after Moscow announced over the weekend that it would go through with the sale of P800 missiles to Sy ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • What?!!!!
    Read this! I mean it. Read it! When I used to tell my troops that I would have their gut for garters, this is the kind of thing that qualified for executing such an act. Ask yourself: Where is you income tax form going? No wonder these guys want to get rid of the long-form census. They believe eve ...
  • Holy crap
    I don't normally engage in fights with ignorant shit heads, but this time I'm prepared to make an exception . And as I like to say: "The Vatican doesn't issue fatwas." Right. They just give them a different name . The Roman Catholic Inquisition was one of the greatest disasters ever to befall man ...
  • Harper's refugee from the Mike Harris disaster spe ...
    And he did it in the wrong place . As Impolitical makes clear, the audience, The Canadian Club of Toronto, is there to hear facts. Hell, they're willing to listen to a point of view. But they do not gather to hear the trial run of an election campaign . Canadian Club veterans muttered about the b ...
  • Now what?
    Convicted of perjury: A man who testified at the Air India trial in 2003 has been convicted of perjury. Inderjit Singh Reyat is the only person ever to have served time for the Air India bombings after he was convicted of getting the parts to build the bomb. He gave three days of evidence at the t ...
  • This week in shadenfruede, hypocrisy and cognitive ...
    First, conservative propagandist Kory Teneycke finds someone has placed a pistol with a single round on his desk at voluntarily steps down from Quebecor Media for the good of the team. Thankfully, Rupert Murdoch-wannabe Pierre Karl Peladeau was able to find someone without any obvious political b ...

Media Matters for America

  • O'Reilly's wrong, Carter's right: Fox features rac ...
    Bill O'Reilly attacked comments from former President Jimmy Carter about Fox News' race baiting and its role in promoting falsehoods about President Obama's citizenship and religion. But Carter was right: birtherism, race baiting attacks on Obama, and lies about his religion have all found a home o ...
  • Fox twists joke from 1985 into false claim that ...
    Fox News has repeatedly attacked Delaware Democratic Senate candidate Chris Coons as "a self-described Marxist." But this false claim is entirely based on what Coons referred to as a "joke" in an article he wrote for his college newspaper in 1985. Grasping at straws, Fox attacks Coons as "a se ...
  • Fox & Limbaugh: Bush deficits good, Obama defi ...
    Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have repeatedly criticized President Obama for supposedly being responsible for huge deficits. However, both recently attempted to defend former President Bush's policy of not paying for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars or his tax cuts. Limbaugh: "The whole notion of paying ...
  • Fox & Friends attack the DREAM Act
    Fox & Friends �attacked a bill establishing a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children and who enroll in college or enlist in the military, and criticized its placement in a defense spending bill. However, military experts agree that it would ...
  • Right-wing media shocked to learn that DOJ attorn ...
    Media conservatives claim that the existence of communication between Justice Department attorneys proves that department officials lied when they said that career attorneys and not political appointees decided not to pursue additional charges against members of the New Black Panther Party. In ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Using OpenID to Create a TPM Commenting Account
    Since we rebuilt our commenting system, we have been asking you, our readers, to log into our system using identities created on Facebook, Twitter, Gmail or Yahoo. Many thousands of you have been doing this without a hitch. But we heard from many who said you do not want to use identities on other n ...
  • Why There's An Enthusiasm Gap: An Illustration
    Why is there an enthusiasm gap? Let me illustrate. Today (Monday) at a "town hall" sponsored by CNBC in Washington, the President took questions about the economy. When a hedge-fund manager complained that Wall Street executives "feel like we've been whacked with a stick" by the administration, Obam ...
  • Ahem....
    I've been trying for a few days now to suggest that everyone who's lathered up over the possibility of Harvard's naming a research fund for New Republic editor/bigot Martin Peretz pause to notice a danger in bestowing such an honor that is as ominous as bigotry itself. I mean the danger that lib ...
  • Best option: dignified failure
    The entire U.S. administration's Middle East A-team--President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton, and Special Envoy Mitchell--is defying the mass majority of political analysts by dismissing the status quo in the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza Strip, and insisting that the latest round of Palestinia ...
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TruthOut

  • Senate Blocks "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Repeal and D ...
    Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked the Obama administration's effort to end the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy that prevents openly gay and lesbian Americans from serving in the armed forces. Democrats failed to find the 60 votes needed to begin debate of the 2011 Defense Authorizatio ...
  • DOJ Probe Reveals FBI Conducted Surveillance on Gr ...
    The Thomas Merton Center, located in a humble storefront in Pittsburgh, is an inviting social justice space where visitors can pick up some pamphlets on non-violent civil disobedience or hold a community potluck. The center, named for an activist and Trappist monk, proudly promotes pacifism, but tha ...
  • With Just 40 Votes, Republicans Block Debate Over ...
    Moments ago, in a 56-43 vote, Senate Democrats failed to invoke cloture on the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, falling three votes shy of the 60 need to break a Republican filibuster. As is customary, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) voted against the measure as a procedural tactic, ...
  • A Peace Movement Victory in Court
    "Fourteen anti-war activists may have made history today in a Las Vegas courtroom when they turned a misdemeanor trespassing trial into a possible referendum on America's newfound taste for remote-controlled warfare." That's how one Las Vegas newspaper summed up our stunning day in court last Tuesda ...
  • Afghan Election Panel Reports New Evidence of Seri ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan — Internal reports Tuesday from Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission provided new evidence of serious fraud in the country's parliamentary elections, including turnouts that exceeded 100 percent in many southeastern districts under the control of the Taliban or other mili ...

Planetsave

  • Live Baby Tiger in Suitcase Rescued from Wildlife ...
    Security officials opened a suspicious suitcase in a Bangkok, Thailand airport recently and found a young tiger, 2 and 1/2 months old, sleeping, drugged a bit, and stuffed in the suitcase near a stuffed animal tiger. The message to the Thai woman who was boldly breaking the law and offending animal ...
  • Wrong Way for Right Whales
    Mysterious whale die-off is largest on record Gandhi quotes Follow Joe Mohr’s cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons
  • Facebook Unfriend Coal Campaign Video (Brilliant & ...
    I wrote on Facebook’s “unfriend coal” campaign a couple weeks ago, focusing on the conversation between leaders in the activism giant’s organization and leaders in the internet giant’s organization. Since that time, Facebook has put out a brilliant and super-cute campaign video (below) and I’ve run ...
  • Geoengineering is Either Too Much or Not Enough
    A new study by climate scientists at the University of Bristol shows that there simply may not be the right amount of geoengineering to satisfy and help everyone, and that any geoengineering that takes place will affect different areas differently. Geoengineering has long been heralded by some as th ...
  • A Dusty Tropical Storm Julia Captured by NASA
    NASA has captured images of tropical storm Julia being buffeted by a massive dust cloud being swept west across the North Atlantic. Captured on the 18th of September at 13:50 UTC (9:50 a.m. EDT) the large dust cloud can be easily seen off to Juliaâs east (right hand) side. The image was taken by N ...

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Axis of Logic

  • The Angry Rich - Civil Rights/Human Rights
    Anger is sweeping America. True, this white-hot rage is a minority phenomenon, not something that characterizes most of our fellow citizens. But the angry minority is angry indeed, consisting of people who feel that things to which they are entitled are being taken away. And they’re out for revenge. ...
  • Murder by way of national insanity - Palestine
    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...
  • The Angry Rich - Economy
    ...
  • Hondurans demand a National Constituent Assembly a ...
    The incredible pro-democracy resistance movement (known as the National Front of Popular Resistance-FNRP) has collected 1,269,142 million signatures (and counting) demanding a National Constituent Assembly (NCA) that will mark an important step in their struggle towards the refoundation of their ...
  • Plea to refocus UN millennium goals - World News
    Despite little progress, world leaders meet in the US with a commitment to reach development goals on reducing poverty. Amnesty International estimates that 70 per cent of those living in poverty are women   Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general, has opened t ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Theologian: Christianity So Weak, Yoga Can Beat It ...
    If you still wonder why I'm so sure that belief in an invisible sky wizard precludes rational thought, wonder no more: Yoga can be dangerous to Christians' faith, the president of Louisville's Southern Baptist Theological Seminary warns. The popular discipline of meditation and stretching is so inte ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Repeat after us: Republicans blocked funding for the troops. �Republican blocked funding for the troops. �Republicans blocked funding for the troops. That's what happened today. �The "Senate" didn't do anything. Republicans blocked funding for the troops. "US senators have rejected attempts to open ...
  • Republicans Skilled at Telling "Half-lies"
    One of the many famous scenes from the 1962 classic Lawrence of Arabia involves the British diplomat who is head of the political Arab Bureau, Mr. Drydan, played by Claude Rains, lecturing Peter O'Toole's Colonel Lawrence about his dual loyalties and professed lack of personal agendas. "A man who te ...
  • Another beautiful day in Kansas City
    Yesterday was one of those gorgeous days where I just had to get outside, so I walked to all my errands. First I walked to Crown Center, then I walked to Truman Med, then I walked downtown to the market, then took a bus home with my groceries. All in all, it was a great day, and it was made perfect ...
  • When Republicans Don't Support the Troops, It's th ...
    Have you ever noticed how Republicans seem like teenagers who've wrecked the family car and then blamed their parents for giving them the keys? Steve Benen at Washington Monthly writes about two issues that might seem miles apart - the federal emergency loans that kept GM from going bust and the up ...

Care 2

  • YouTube - The hand of God... or Darwin. HDV starli ...
    When the highly gregarious birds get together, they begin to form flocks that can grow to include more than 1.5 million birds. Gathered in a mass that is roughly spherical in shape, the group twists and tumbles, rising and falling through the air seeming Submitted by Daf Jind to Environment �|� �No ...
  • 100-Year-Old Belgian Tree Is World's Most Social M ...
    This is begging for a "You know you're a treehugger if..." joke, the punchline being "if you have a tree as your friend on Facebook." And there is a century-old tree in Belgium that can fit the bill. It is actually a very social media-savvy tree, with a T Submitted by Daf Jind to Environment �|� �N ...
  • European Coalition to End Animal Experiments ! PLE ...
    EU citizens, take action now to help the 12 million animals used in laboratories across Europe every year! Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Indymac Boys Get Sweet Deal
    Those Indymac boys were given a deal by the FDIC, and borrowers were strong-armed.You will find this video revealing, Mind Boggling. Contact your Congress people. Submitted by Dar Keko'olani-Simmons to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Dog found in France to be reunited with Bristol ow ...
    A dog that was due to be put down in France is set to be reunited with its Bristol owner. A cross-channel hunt was launched after Poppy, a black Patterdale terrier cross, was found wandering alone on the streets of Toulouse. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

  • Who Is Responsible for the Progressive "Enthusiasm ...
    If you believe there is an "enthusiasm gap" right now between a demoralized progressive base and a mobilized conservative base (and I certainly believe there is), then the logical question is why? Why does that enthusiasm gap exist? This is a source of endless debate between two camps. On one side ...
  • Presidents and Bankers, But No Action on the Groun ...
    KARA-TEPE, AFGHANISTAN - There is no pipeline. There probably won't be one. Yet the pipeline-that-will-never-exist is one of the main reasons that hundreds of thousands of Afghans and two thousand American soldiers are dead. Among my goals during my late-summer trip to Afghanistan was to find the co ...
  • The Recession's Over. The Emergency Isn't.
    According to a flurry of headlines today, a panel of economists just announced that "the recession's over." Is that true? Yes. Does that mean we're no longer in a crisis, or that steps to fix the economy aren't as urgently needed as they were before? Absolutely not. The situation on the ground -- in ...
  • Karl Rove and the Tea Party: What Really Happened
    Suddenly, the political world is all a-twitter about Karl Rove's Tea Party problem, or is it the Tea Party's Karl Rove problem? In the space of a few days, the man who was "Bush's Brain" in a corrupt White House and is now a $50 million bagman for corporate donors went from a basher of Delaware's, u ...
  • Fox News has a Christine O'Donnell problem
    Chris Wallace took one for the team. At the outset of Fox News Sunday , the host noted that Christine O’Donnell had abruptly cancelled her planned appearance. “This is not the program we were planning to bring you,” said Wallace, as he explained to viewers that the controversial Republican candidate ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Union Stiffing the Workers
    Although Jon Stewart and the Daily Show are known for political satire, they also do real news reporting. The following is an outstanding and unbelievable example: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Working Stiffed www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Poli ...
  • Barack Obama, King of the Morons
    I had only heard a snippet of Obama’s remarks the other day to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. JESUS CHRIST!!! If the media gets into a fit over Sarah Palin being accused of saying she could see Russia from her front door (she didn’t), then what about this nonsense from Obama? Long b ...
  • Abu Ghraib Afghanistan Style
    Abu Ghraib stands as a stain on America’s time in Iraq. Unfortunately, the blame for the episode was laid almost exclusively on the shoulders of enlisted personnel and virtually no officers in the chain of command were reprimanded or punished. Well, to quote Yogi Berra, it is deja vu all over agai ...
  • Sex, Spies, and More : Your Open Thread
    SEE, EAST COASTERS! I DO care about you! Not only is this open thread up earlier, you’re getting shots of the heavy, the light, the fluff … even the bodily fluids of life! More about bodily fluids below … and Harry Reid’s lust in his heart (yeah, just like Jimmy Carter’s, and both of [...]
  • a round up, just for laughs
    There has been a slew of posts on the internet machine the last week that made me giggle. I think you’ll agree. 1. IMAO made an observation about the new Democrat logo: “The Democrats unveiled their fancy new logo today:” “Didnât take long for me to figure out what it looked like:” It didn’t take ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • When Carbon Offsetting is a Scam
    Carbon offsetting might be a scheme with the best of intentions but all too often it's an example of white collar crime... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Is A Green Tax The Way Forward?
    Carbon offsetting might seem like a green tax, but we need the real thing. The only way to get green results is to pay for them! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Why Carbon Caps Will Achieve What Offsetting Can't
    Putting an absolute cap on carbon emissions is the most sure way of protecting the atmosphere. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Can Offsetting Be Fixed?
    If we want to solve the planet's problem we need to act now - and we need to act decisively. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Carbon Offsetting Is A Failed Model
    For all the good that it should be doing carbon offsetting truly is a failed model. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

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

  • CENSORED IN 1991: THE TRIALS OF AMERICA’S AGENT OR ...
    CENSORED IN 1991: “JUSTICE” AND THE TRIALS OF AMERICA’S AGENT ORANGE VETS For the second time in the past decade, Vietnam veterans and the families of deceased vets have brought a class-action suit against the manufacturers of the lethal herbicide Agent Orange. Hoping to hold the defense contractors ...
  • The Perfect Storm
    Three things are coming together that spell the end of the United States, as we knew it.  Those elements are the Supreme Court decision that allows unlimited spending of undisclosed amounts of campaign spending by corporations, The massive financing of the “Tea-Party” by the Koch brothers, and the D ...
  • I attended a Conservative 9/11 event with “US wars ...
    source: Examiner.com 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 provides the e-mail exchange with the sponsoring group’s leadership. Consistent with my last two years of writing articl ...
  • Support the Dream Act – Direct Action September 27 ...
    MAKE THE FEDERAL DREAM ACT & THE CALIFORNIA DREAM ACT A REALITY IN OCTOBER 2010:   PASS THE FEDERAL DREAM ACT NOW! GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER – DO NOT VETO OUR DREAM THIS YEAR! STATEWIDE DAY OF ACTION MONDAY,  SEPTEMBER 27th Boycott, March, Rally in your city and campus MAKE CALIFORNIA THE ANTI-ARIZONA  ...
  • Monetary Reform Conference Challenges Dominant Ins ...
    The American Monetary Act... would implement three key reforms- nationalizing the Federal Reserve, eliminating the private sector’s ability to create money, reclaiming the government’s ability to create money and invest it in infrastructure, including people.

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Equality Trust

  • Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
    A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details ...
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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...?

PDA AMERICA

  • Don’t be a Gas Hole
    Throw a House Party on 10.10.10! A unique opportunity has come our way. The filmmakers of the documentary film “Gas Hole” have offered us free copies of their film for showings at PDA House Parties or ...
  • 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” ...

Marler Blog

  • When is an apology chicken shit?
    Phil Brasher, Dean of Ag writers and Willy Neuman of the New York Times could not have written stories as well timed as the ones that dropped into my inbox just as I was landing in D.C. from Seattle, via Wichita and Atlanta to attend tomorrow afternoons hearing before the House Energy and Commerce S ...
  • Energy and Commerce Subcommittee Hearing on "The O ...
    Please note the additional witnesses. WASHINGTON, DC — The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing entitled “The Outbreak of Salmonella in Eggs” on Wednesday, September 22, 2010, at 12:00 noon in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing will examine the ...
  • The real reason that FSIS needs to re-think what i ...
    What follows are just three of the personal stories associated with non-O157 STEC outbreaks. These stories are presented to give a small insight into the significant harm that results when the STEC already present in the national food supply causes illness. Shiloh Johnson, E. coli O111, 2008 Shil ...
  • 1,608 Salmonella Enteritidis Illnesses Linked to E ...
    Hot off the CDC presses. In July 2010, CDC identified a nationwide sustained increase in the number of Salmonella Enteritidis isolates with PFGE pattern JEGX01.0004 uploaded to PulseNet, the national subtyping network made up of state and local public health laboratories and federal food regulatory ...
  • House Energy and Commerce Committee "The Outbreak ...
    On Wednesday, September 22, 2010, at 12:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing entitled, “The Outbreak of Salmonella in Eggs.” This hearing will examine the recent Salmonella outbreak associated with shell eggs ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 09.21.10
    Revealed: Canada's cannabis-composite electric car concept, the Kestrel Well, the door, at least. Ford delivers details on how Transit Connect Electric will come to Europe Tip of the Blue Ov ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • How Right-Wing Billionaires And Business Propagand ...
    How Right-Wing Billionaires and Business Propaganda Got Us into the Economic Mess of the Century AlterNet / By Joshua Holland Holland’s new book shows how the corporate Right obscured how they’ve rigged the “free market” so they always come out on top. September 15, 2010 | Editor’s note: AlterNet is ...
  • 10 Terrible Things Republicans Will Try to Do If T ...
    10 Terrible Things Republicans Will Try to Do If They Take Over in November AlterNet / By Devona Walker Think things are bad now? Take a look at what could happen if Republicans retake Congress in November. September 20, 2010 | Democrats are in trouble come November. If current polling is any indica ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Solari Report Live From Switzerland
    The Buddha’s last words were said to be….”work out your own salvation with diligence.” He might have well been speaking of the Swiss. Many years ago, I visited a friend in Switzerland. We spent the weekend at a mountain chalet of an older couple. I asked the very distinguished wife if there was any ...
  • Quote du Jour
    “The safest people to be with in a crisis is one that does not share strong ideological convictions, is not easily swayed by arguments and does not possess an overdeveloped exclusive sense of identity.” ~ Dmitry Orlov Related reading: Dmitry Orlov Wikipedia
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  • In A Crisis, Its Much Worse To Be An American Work ...
    By Joe Weisenthal The US economy is frequently compared to Japan in the early days of its lost decade, but here’s one way it’s way different: the US is a much worse place to be a worker. As this chart from Deutsche Bank nicely illustrates, US unemployment took off like a rocket when the crisis hit. ...
  • Mexico Public School Bans Junk Foods (USA Does Not ...
    By: David Gutierrez he Mexican government is moving forward with plans to ban all junk foods from public school by the start of the coming school year, officials have announced. “The kids are going to complain, of course,” said education minister Alonso Lujambio. “We are going to start a profound c ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Here’s an opportunity for a real Tea Party m ...
    Summary:   The long recession has brought forth episodes of oppression and lawlessness that cry out for citizen activism.  Another Tea Party.  But we snooze on.  Here’s one such, and reports of the some embers of the Republic which still burn brightly. Here we have a large-scale injustice by p ...
  • The coming of the robots, reshaping our society in ...
    Summary:   Next in a series looking at one of the great social challenges of the 21st century. Journalists obsess over shockwaves – high probability, low impact scenarios.  So many shockwaves of advocates willing to make outlandishly exaggerated statements with God-like certainty — often by peop ...
  • US troop must fight in the Congo! A report from th ...
    Summary:  Another misleading title on the FM website.  In fact our bomb-happy geopolitical experts are true professionals, working their rice bowls — shilling to keep the US military and its contractors fat and happy.   So it’s off to war in the Congo — our young men to die on ventures funded ...
  • 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Boeing wins Pentagon contract to build a solar-pow ...
    LA Times – With four scrawny fuselages and wings stretching more than the length of a football field, Boeing Co.âs solar-powered drone looks a bit like a flying antenna. But the government is hoping that the aircraft, dubbed the SolarEagle, will one day be capable of flying for five straight years ...
  • Yeast Holds Clues to Parkinson’s Disease
    ScienceDaily â Yeast could be a powerful ally in the discovery of new therapeutic drugs to treat Parkinson’s disease says a scientist presenting his work at the Society for General Microbiology’s autumn meeting in Nottingham. Dr Tiago Fleming Outeiro from the Instituto de Medicina Molecular in Lis ...
  • ‘FBI falsified post-9/11 events’
    Press TV – The US Justice Department has accused the FBI of providing misleading statements on terrorism in the wake of the September 11 incident. The FBI gave false information to Congress and the public to justify surveillance of an anti-war rally in Pittsburgh in 2002, US media quoted a report by ...
  • Downturn longest since Great Depression
    Financial Times – The longest US recession since the Great Depression officially ended in June 2009, the body charged with dating US business cycles said on Monday. The National Bureau of Economic Research said that the recession lasted 18 months, from December 2007 to June 2009. That was longer tha ...
  • Climate Fact Of The Day – Shortening of glaciers f ...
    (Source – Oregon Institute Of Science & Medicine) Glaciers continued advancing to the middle of the 19th century, and then began retreating from 1860, a hundred years before fossil fuel use accelerated in the post-WW2 industrial era. Note the change in the uptrend around 1900 due to weak solar ac ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Amerikan Cultural Hegemony Settles into Iraq
    Amerikan Cultural Hegemony Settles into Iraq by Liberation Frequency (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Ramadan is an Islamic holiday celebrated during the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. At the heart of this tradition is the act of fasting, a time when Muslims of all stripes are expected to p ...
  • 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 ...

PakAlert

  • Video: Welcome to United States of Tent Cities
    As the mortgage crisis cuts deep, real estate firms say over a million Americans may lose their homes to foreclosure this year. In August alone, some 300 thousand were served with foreclosure warnings, as unemployment figures stubbornly hover near 10 percent. Anastasiya Churkina reports on how a ca ...
  • Can America stop an Israeli ‘nuclear’ 9/11?
    The American people are afraid, they see disaster coming. Everyone is waiting to see what city is chosen to be sacrificed. Will it be Phoenix or Sacramento or perhaps Atlanta? This is the real fear, the “not so secret” fear in the heart of every American.
  • America’s Men In Pakistan
    In his latest write up for BBC, Pentagon adviser Ahmed Rashid proposes putting Pakistan under an international trusteeship. Too bad he forgot that Pakistan is not under US or NATO occupation. Ahmed Rashid leads the pack of pro-US and pro-UK activists in Pakistan, whose work is tailored to please a f ...
  • 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 ...

Andy Worthington

  • Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Par ...
    This is the third 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, the first part here, and the second part here. This third article tells the stories of 22 prisoners seized in Pakistan after c ...
  • Who Are the Two Guantánamo Prisoners Freed in Germ ...
    On Thursday, two Guantánamo prisoners were released, to start new lives in Germany, bringing the prison’s population to 174. Announcing their arrival, Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière stated that, by taking them in, Germany had “made its humanitarian contribution to closing the detention center. ...
  • Omar Khadr is 24 Today: He Has Lost One-Third of H ...
    Today, please spare a thought for Omar Khadr, the only Canadian citizen in Guantánamo, who was seized in Afghanistan on July 27, 2002, when he was just 15 years old. Omar is 24 years old today, and has grown, physically, into a man during the eight years and two months he has spent in US [...]
  • 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

  • The Solvable Problem of Energy Poverty
    Assuring all the world's people have electricity and modern cooking technology is affordable, and can be done without worsening climate change, a United Nations report says. Climate change - United Nations - Environment - Electricity - Activism
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  • Pictures: Toxic Foam Chokes Brazil River
    NoneAn outbreak of toxic foam pollution in Brazil's Tietê River has been made worse by the driest August in decades, experts say. Brazil - South America - Tietê River - Travel and Tourism - Travel Services
  • New Aurora Pictures: Sky Shows Sparked by Sun Erup ...
    NoneOn September 11 a NASA satellite spied a magnetic eruption on the sun. A few days later northern skies got an electric shot of sheer beauty. NASA - Sun - Space - Aurora - Satellite
  • Light is the Bright IDEA for Transport
    Bright Automotive aims to engineer a fuel-saving electric commercial vehicle large to appeal to the U.S. market. Bright Automotive - Electric vehicle - Technology - Energy - Transportation

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Loving Books, Libraries, and the Internet
    If you read certain local blogs, or letters to the editor of local papers, you may notice a recurring theme from some disgruntled citizens. Libraries, and the books they contain, are our enemy. (Who knew?) And the best way to save money and preserve democracy from socialism is to stop buying books ...
  • Restoring America’s Awesomeness (Through Truthines ...
    Say what you will about Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, but they are perhaps the smartest journalists working in comedy, or the most soulful comedians working in journalism. Yes, they are wickedly funny. Yes, they make sometimes jokes best appreciated by a fourteen year-old boy. But Jesus ...
  • 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 ...

SPL Center

  • Death of an Assassin: The Order’s Bruce Pierce Die ...
    Bruce Carroll Pierce, the gunman in the 1984 murder in Denver of Jewish talk show host Alan Berg, died Monday afternoon of natural causes. He was 56 years old and serving the 23 rd year of a 252-year sentence at the Allenwood Federal Correctional Complex in Pennsylvania. Pierce was a founding member ...
  • Conservatives’ Friendly Gestures Toward Gays Infur ...
    Conservative columnist and author Ann Coulter’s decision to be the featured speaker next month at a “Homocon” gathering of homosexual conservatives has gotten her axed as a keynote speaker at a meeting of prominent far-right personalities. Joseph Farah’s decision to cut Coulter from his Taking Ameri ...
  • End of Summer Sees Growing Threats to Abortion Cli ...
    Recent weeks have seen one attack and one stymied attack on abortion clinics around the country. Both have shared a subplot of anti-Muslim extremism. On Sept. 2, in the small central California city of Madera, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the local Planned Parenthood building, the first such att ...
  • Lying About Auschwitz: The Barnes Review on the Na ...
    You probably thought you knew a thing or two about Auschwitz: It was a nightmarish Nazi extermination camp in Poland where more than 1 million people were murdered, most of them gassed to death with Zyklon-B and then cremated. Dr. Josef Mengele performed horrible medical experiments on live humans t ...
  • White Supremacists Find Common Cause with Pam Gell ...
    Pamela Geller , the veteran Muslim-basher and co-founder of the rabidly anti-Muslim group Stop Islamization of America (SIOA), has won over a whole new set of supporters: American white supremacists. They just canât seem to get enough of her since her agitation began against a planned Islamic comm ...

change: org.

  • Walmart Hopes to Invade Bigger Cities by Opening S ...
    "We are going to beg, borrow, steal and learn from them as quickly as we can, because it is important for our urban strategy." That was Bill Simon, the new CEO and President of Walmart US talking about the company's smaller format stores in Mexico and across South America, but he could just as easil ...
  • Fight Sexual Assault With The Girl With the Dragon ...
    If you haven't already read/seen The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo or the other books/films in the trilogy, I won't give anything away. Suffice to say that the bad-ass heroines of the trilogy are survivors of traumatic rapes and physical assaults. And while the films have been box office hits and the ...
  • A Couple Sleeps Outside to Stay Together
    This new video comes from Mark's InvisiblePeople.tv 30-city, 11,000-mile, 75-day road trip , going on now. While walking around Atlanta, I happened to find a park with more than 10 people living in it. Thing is this very small park was smack dab in the middle of the city with major streets on either ...
  • Pit Bulls: It's Not All in How They're Raised
    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. Nothing has brought the debate of Nature vs. Nurture to the mainstream quit ...
  • Senate Crushes Undocumented Youth's DREAMs
    This afternoon, the Senate did not vote to proceed with the Defense authorization bill . It did not vote to let undocumented youth serve their country and follow their dreams. It did not vote to end discrimination against LGBTQ soldiers serving the American flag. Facing united Republican opposition ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Iowa Activists Drew Extensive FBI Scrutiny
    by William Petroski The FBI's surveillance of a protest group in Iowa City prior to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., two years ago was far more extensive than initially reported, newly obtained FBI documents show. Agents staked out the homes of political activists, secretly pho ...
  • Arctic Ice in Death Spiral
    by Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada - The carbon dioxide emissions from burning such fossil fuels have now melted the Arctic sea ice to its lowest volume since before the rise of human civilisation and dangerously upsetting the energy balance of the entire planet, climate scientists are reporting. "Th ...
  • Report Documents Persistent Segregation in Schools
    by James Vaznis Public schools in the Boston and Springfield metropolitan areas are among the most segregated in the country, often isolating black and Latino students in low-performing schools, according to a report released today by Northeastern University. read more
  • Virginia Set to Execute First Woman in Nearly a Ce ...
    by Chris McGreal in Washington The state of Virginia this week plans to carry out its first execution of a woman in nearly a century, despite claims that Teresa Lewis has severe learning difficulties. Lewis's last hope is an appeal to the US supreme court after Robert McDonnell, the state governor, ...
  • World Powers to Tackle Climate Amid Skepticism
    NEW YORK - The 17 nations responsible for 80 percent of carbon emissions blamed for global warming will seek to unblock stalled climate negotiations this week but analysts expect little progress. The two-day Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate kicks off Monday and will include top government ...

Lifehacker

  • Bar Keepers Friend Gets the Deepest Stains Out of ...
    This stuff is harsh, smells like nothing other than industrial chemicals, and the label looks like a transplant from a cleaning shelf in the 1970s. But Bar Keepers Friend gets your pans clean when nothing else makes the smallest difference. ...
  • Ninite Brings No-Hassle Bulk Installations to Linu ...
    Windows/Linux: Re-installing your favorite software in a new system takes time—boring, click-to-proceed time you could spend more wisely. Ninite, the web-based installer that takes the nag out of installs, now offers great custom packages for ...
  • Replace a Dead iPod Hard Drive with a Compact Flas ...
    If the hard drive on your iPod video bit the dust, you can replace the old platter-based drive with a compact flash drive for lighter, faster, drop-proof music and media playback. More��
  • Wear Your Neck Pillow Backwards for Nod-Free Airli ...
    Neck pillows are great if you can sleep with your head perfectly held in place. If you tend to nod forward while sleeping in a seated position, turn the neck pillow around to support your chin. More��
  • Your Value Is in Deciding What's Important, Not An ...
    Asked how he achieve work/life balance, Google's Director of Research Peter Norvig offered up a pretty easy answer. He knows that his job is in making good decisions on what's important, rather than what just arrived three minutes ago. More ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Commonwealth Games in crisis – live coverage
    • Weightlifting arena ceiling caves in day after bridge collapses • Delhi Games 'on a knife-edge' says England chairman • String of athletes pulls out 1.50pm: The bookmakers William Hill have cut their odds on the Commonwealth Games failing to start on schedule from 5-1 to 3-1 after a "concerted gam ...
  • Cable defies critics and attacks capitalism
    Business secretary delivers speech to Liberal Democrat conference following barrage of negative reaction to elements of the address released last night Vince Cable today went ahead with his critique on the "murky" world of high finance, setting out how he believes "capitalism kills competition" desp ...
  • Obama team 'hobbled by discord'
    Extracts from Obama's Wars portray president anxious to pull US troops out of Afghanistan and at odds with senior advisers The Obama presidency is hobbled by discord and mutual contempt among its senior policy-makers and top generals according to a new book which is likely to damage the administrati ...
  • HSBC chief threatens to resign
    HSBC boardroom row in prospect as Michael Geoghegan reportedly threatens to resign if not awarded chairman's role HSBC faces a boardroom succession row after the bank's chief executive, Michael Geoghegan, reportedly threatened to resign if he was not promoted to chairman. HSBC is expected to select ...
  • Huhne in climate fight with Treasury
    Chris Huhne's climate department is under threat from the Treasury which wants to swallow it up • Coalition drops two green pledges Climate change secretary Chris Huhne is fighting to defend his department's funding and independence, fending off a suggestion that his civil servants should be moved ...

McClatchey

  • Commentary: The road to ending hunger
    A young child recently asked my friend a simple question that left us feeling pain and impotence: "Why are people hungry?"
  • Jerry Brown's wife Anne plays big role in his camp ...
    OAKLAND — On a March morning outside his brick campaign headquarters, Jerry Brown pulled up 30 minutes late in a state-issued Crown Victoria as reporters waited to talk to him about his gubernatorial run.
  • Air Force nurse's 'don't ask, don't tell' case goe ...
    The decision on whether to give Maj. Margaret Witt her job back now rests in the hands of U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton.
  • Prosecutor: Guantanamo detainee trained 9/11 hijac ...
    GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — A Sudanese captive facing a February war crimes trial trained a generation of terrorists, including two 9/11 hijackers and Zacarias Moussaui, the only Sept. 11 conspirator convicted on U.S. soil, a war court prosecutor said Tuesday.
  • Afghan election panel reports new evidence of seri ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan — Internal reports Tuesday from Afghanistans Independent Election Commission provided new evidence of serious fraud in the country's parliamentary elections, including turnouts that exceeded 100 percent in many southeastern districts under the control of the Taliban or other mili ...

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

  • Soldier Discharged Through E-mail Responds To McCa ...
    Major Mike Almy, a 13-year veteran of the Air Force who was relieved of his duties after a routine search of computer files uncovered emails to his same-sex partner, appeared on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow show this evening to respond to Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) rather hysterical allegations that the mil ...
  • Defying GOP Predictions, CMS Predicts Seniors Will ...
    In what is one of the few items of good news for health care reform advocates, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced this morning that “despite projections of gloom and doom,” virtually all of the 11 million seniors enrolled in the Medicare Advantage will retain access to the program. On average ...
  • DREAM Act Student’s Message To McCain: &#821 ...
    This afternoon, the Senate failed to get the 60 votes needed to move forward on the defense bill and attach the the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act to it as an amendment. For the first time in 48 years, the defense reauthorization bill failed to make it to the Senate f ...
  • McCain Ignores Testimony Before His Committee, Cla ...
    This afternoon, immediately after the Senate failed to invoke cloture on a defense authorization measure which included an amendment to gradually repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, a group of journalists met with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) to discuss the vote. Pressed by The Advocate’s Kerry Eleveld and Met ...
  • Most House Democrats Pushing Tax Cuts For The Rich ...
    Last week, a number of House Democrats sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stating their objection to allowing the Bush tax cuts for the richest two percent of Americans to expire. Some of these Blue Dogs, who are breaking with President Obama in order to borrow and spend $830 ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Canadians are not revolutionaries
    Most of us are still far too comfortable. Even those of us who know that the system is evil and doomed don't feel the dagger in our side telling us it's do or die. We feel that we can wait, or that, given the difficulties of the task (revolutions are messy, uncertain affairs) we have to wait, for ot ...
  • OH-HA-HA! Ezra Levant writes a book about the Tar ...
    So I was at the "Golden Griddle" for breakfast this morning and they had some copies of today's Toronto Sun lying around I was able to read their featured expert from shitty lawyer Ezra Levant's unimportant new book Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands , which they're printing because they'r ...
  • Belated Labour Day Reflections
    This past Labour Day, the Microsoft Network got the highly original, provocative idea to question whether or not labour unions are obsolete . They spoke with some union-busting scum-bag to see what he thought about the matter and the asshole opined thusly: "Unions are like parasites - good parasites ...
  • High Levels of Unemployment is a Bad Thing
    short n' simple : Why should governments care, above all else, about keeping unemployment down and ensuring that the greatest number of people get a fair share of the economic pie? Because if you don't, bad things happen. There.
  • This is a REAL Crisis Folks
    When I was just starting to learn about political-economic history I had a habit of responding to economic crises as if they were signalling the end of the current order. Time and time again I underestimated the strength and resiliency of the the US-led economic system. So when the financial crisis ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • GAO Questions the Effectiveness of Labor Departmen ...
    The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report last Thursday, September 16 th , questioning the adequacy of the protection offered to whistleblowers by the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The report indicates that OSHA, created to ensure safe and healt ...
  • MSPB to hear first oral argument in 27 years
    Tomorrow, September 21 st , the Merit System Protection Board  (MSPB) will hear oral arguments in two cases Rhonda K. Conyers v. Department of Defense and Devon H. Northover v. Department of Defense for the first time in 27 years. According to the Make It Safe Coalition , the cases, decided under a ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • If Financial Ratings Are Opinions, Would Reporting ...
    Ray Dowd, over at the Copyright Litigation blog points us to a fascinating ruling on questions related to hot news and copyright . As we've been covering quite a bit lately, "hot news" claims have become popular again recently, despite having been considered a "mostly dead" legal theory. Hot news ...
  • Some Hows and Whys of Free Culture
    On July 16th I gave at talk at H.O.P.E. (Hackers On Planet Earth) called "Sita Sings the Blues: a Free Culture Success Story." 9 Minutes of excerpts are below, in which I discuss why I insisted on authentic songs, what is and is not property, how software is culture, the difference between Share Ali ...
  • Expectations Matter, Even If You're Not 'A Custome ...
    We recently had a discussion about law professor Eric Goldman's complaints about Scribd, after the site, which he'd been using regularly to upload and share legal documents, quietly put up a paywall on older documents without making that clear to users. Suddenly, many old documents that Goldman had ...
  • Hadopi Begins Issuing Tens Of Thousands Of 'Notice ...
    Almost a year after the law officially went into effect, the French Hadopi organization, which is responsible for managing the "three strikes" process to kick file sharers offline after three accusations (not convictions) of unauthorized file sharing, has started sending out notices . Initially, it ...
  • FBI Made Up 'Threats' At Peace Rally, Lied To Cong ...
    Thought the days of the FBI considering any group with an agenda that disagreed with the federal government a threat to be "infiltrated" were over? Apparently not. It's been well-established that the FBI used a ridiculously broad net in figuring out who to investigate after September 11th, targeti ...

VacTruth

  • Open Letter to President Barack Hussein Obama & Th ...
    Since voters, consumers, and taxpayers have NO input nor any ability to accept, reject, or counter FORCED legislation as enacted by Presidential Executive Orders—nor does Congress have any authority over them, which I find absolutely counter to a democratic form of governance—I think it behooves us ...
  • Aborted Human Fetal Cells in Vaccines
    Doctor Nancy Snyderman, a very attractive, gregarious and outgoing physician, appeared on the MSNBC Today Show and promoted vaccines in a segment titled Vaccines 101. She said there was a small amount of "medicine" and salt water in the vaccines but forgot to mention this...
  • 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 ...

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Remember the woman in Vancouver who had acid thrown in her face.  Turns out it was all a hoax.  The nut threw acid in her own face.  I had to comb through a few different versions of the story to find one that mentioned who she originally blamed for the attack – a random African [...]
  • 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

  • By: FutureEmergency.com
    [...] elected officials across the region. He’ll be blogging from the road every day of the trip, so check back in with us to find out what’s he’s up to each [...]
  • 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 ...

treehugger

  • LCV Launches 'Flat Earth TV' Featuring Sarah Palin
    image via flickr With the rise of Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, it's become clear that every Republican candidate for the "World's Greatest Deliberative Body" is a global warming denier. The League of Conservation Voters is rightly concerned, and they've launched an online camp ...
  • Why Can't Clean Energy Be More Like Cell Phones? ( ...
    Image via Uncyclopedia Or, Why Government and Business Are Locked in a Climate Showdown At a special session focused on energy and the environment at the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative , billionaire investor and clean energy entrepreneur Richard Branson joined Christiana Figueres , essentially ...
  • The Dark Threat of Ecofascism
    Image credit: Pentti Linkola Fansite I confess I've always been bemused when angry skeptics denounce climate activists as "Hitler Youth" , or label fellow TreeHugger Lloyd as either an eco-fascist or an eco-commie . While environmentalism, like any movement, does attract its fair share of extre ...
  • Pacific Nation Kiribati 'Sacrifices' Itself To Cre ...
    Map of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA). Image: www.phoenixislands.org Kiribati , a Pacific nation of 33 atolls and lying just barely two meters above sea level, is one of the countries that's on the front-lines of climate change . With its very existence is threatened to be wiped out by ...
  • EPA Nixes External Adaptors from Energy Star Progr ...
    Photo via alistairas The Environmental Protection Agency decided that external power adapters aren't eligible for inclusion in the Energy Star Label program, the reason being that they're doing too good a job meeting qualifications anyway. Since most external adapters meet qualifications, there ...

Biosingularity

  • Low Carb Diet Rich in Animal Fat and Protein Incre ...
    Those who adhered to a diet low in carbohydrates but rich in animal-based fats and proteins increased their risk of death – especially by cancer, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, led by Simmons College nutrition professor Teresa Fung, Sc. D. This study is the first ...
  • You Are Your Bacteria
    Variation in our microbial inhabitants could help tailor efforts to treat illness. via Technology Review: You Are Your Bacteria.
  • Weird, Ultra-Small Microbes Turn Up in Acidic Mine ...
    In the depths of a former copper mine in Northern California dwell what may be the smallest, most stripped-down forms of life ever discovered. The microbes — members of the domain of one-celled creatures called Archaea — are smaller than other known microorganisms, rivaled in size only by a microbe ...
  • Multiple personal genomes await
    Genomic data will soon become a commodity; the next challenge — linking human genetic variation with physiology and disease — will be as great as the one genomicists faced a decade ago, says J. Craig Venter. via Multiple personal genomes await : Article : Nature.
  • Low Vitamin D Level Tied to Cognitive Decline
    Two new studies add to evidence that older people with low levels of vitamin D may be more likely to suffer from cognitive impairment. The hope is that vitamin D supplements may be able to slow mental decline — an intervention that one research team plans to put to the test this summer. Vitamin D [. ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

  • Renewables are unsustainable
    “Renewableâ€Â energy subsidies may sustain the jobs of lobbyists, activists, politicians, bureaucrats and politically connected companies. But they will kill millions of other people’s jobs.
  • 3 billion and counting
    New film challenges DDT myths and lies that have caused millions of needless deaths.
  • Climate change and renewable energy movements falt ...
    The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. Today, on energy security issues, we unfortunately have less to worry about from external enemies, than from our own elitist politicians, bureaucrats and pressure groups.
  • 'Reconstructing' climate change
    The IPCC may therefore be allowed to die a timely death. Its budgets can be cut or frozen, and its transition to the added status of becoming a full-blown UN agency pushed further back.
  • An Inconvenient Terrorist
    Armed eco-terrorist who experienced an “awakeningâ€Â by watching Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth was shot and killed after storming Discovery Channel Building. Radical manifesto condemns 'parasitic children' and human civilization, calling for sterilization and giving the planet back to the squirr ...

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Russian-U.S. arms reduction treaty should be ratif ...
    A strategic arms reduction treaty between Russia and the United States should be ratified by the end of the year, the Russian Armed Forces General Staff chief said on Wednesday.
  • Giant and Elif
    The world’s tallest man, Sultan Kosen, 28, from Turkey, measured 2.5 meters (8.2 feet), has met the world’s smallest woman called Elif Kocaman at the height of 73 centimeters (28.7 inches). Many people guess what kind of relations the distinguished couple will have, as they have to travel a lot as p ...
  • Russian carmaker AvtoVAZ to spend millions on vege ...
    AvtoVAZ, Russia's leading carmaker, plans to allocate 1.2 billion rubles ($38.9 million) for the growing of vegetables at its headquarters in south Russia.
  • Test-launches of Russia's troubled Bulava missile ...
    Test launches of Russia's ill-fated Bulava ballistic missile will resume "soon," but not in September as previously announced, General Staff Chief Nikolai Makarov said on Wednesday.
  • What the Russian papers say
    Government to support religious organizations involved in charity work / Industrial assembly program achieves its purpose / Welfare spending to fall, military spending to grow / Russia, China negotiate energy cooperation / Google dispels myths of online censorship in Russia

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

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

  • Study - Human Exposure to BPA 'Grossly Underestima ...
    Americans are likely to be exposed at higher levels than previously thought to bisphenol A, a compound that mimics hormones important to human development and is found in more than 90 percent of people in the United States, according to new research. Click here to read this article
  • Scientists Question Thoroughness of Gulf Seafood T ...
    GULF OF MEXICO -- At the height of the oil spill, more than one third of the Gulf's federal waters were closed as a precaution, amid fears of what the oil could be doing to the water and marine life. Click here to read this article
  • Why is the FDA About to Rubber-Stamp GE Salmon?
    We're about to enter a brave new world in which transgenic, or genetically engineered (GE, as they are more commonly known), food animals may soon be appearing on our plates. An FDA special committee is meeting right now to determine whether a GE fish -- AquAdvantage salmon, genetically engineered b ...
  • The New Agtivist: Francis Thicke Wants to Lead Iow ...
    There's a lot at stake in the 2010 mid-term elections. Democrats are biting their nails over the House and Senate races; Grist is highlighting the 37 governorships that are up for grabs. In this picture, the contest for secretary of agriculture in Iowa might seem a tad obscure to non-Iowans -- espec ...
  • How Right-Wing Billionaires and Business Propagand ...
    Holland's research-rich but entertainingly written book slices and dices the latest talking points, explaining the issues with depth and nuance. The book tells an important story about the American economy that you won't read in the Washington Post or the Wall Street Journal. It's one that is vitall ...

fotoFrontera

  • Fotos de la Gran Bretaña (6 imágenes gratis)
    Si lo desea, también podría usted ver fotos de Estados Unidos , México , Canadá , Brasil , España , África del Sur , Francia , Taiwan , Etc. 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 P ...
  • Barcos, yates y veleros parte V (7 fotos inolvidab ...
    Escoja un número para ver más fotos de yates y veleros | [II] |[III] [IV] [V] 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 im ...
  • Variedad de imágenes y fotos II (revoltijo mix)
    Escoja usted un número para ver más variedad de fotos | [II] 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 f ...
  • Rosas de colores parte IV (8 fotos gratis)
    Escoja usted un número para ver más fotos de rosas | [II] |[III] [IV] 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 ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Dancing with flacks
    Another laughably he’s polarized/she’s polarized editorial from the Strib. f Stewart wants his “Million Moderate March” to convince conservative and liberal loudmouths to “take it down a notch for America,” he may be missing half of his target audience. According to a new poll from the Pew Research ...
  • Quotes, notes and links
    [A]mong the undeniably rich, a belligerent sense of entitlement has taken hold: itâs their money, and they have the right to keep it. âTaxes are what we pay for civilized society,â said Oliver Wendell Holmes â but that was a long time ago. This morning’s Krugman is one of his better ones in ...
  • 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 ...

Public News Service

  • First Day of Fall Is Fall Prevention Day
    First Day of Fall Is Fall Prevention Day Phoenix, AZ – Falling down will soon become the number one cause of traumatic injury in Arizona, overtaking car crashes, shootings and stabbings. A new coalition is working to reduce the number of falls by promoting National Fall Prevention Day. Comments from ...
  • Study: Impatience Helps Explain AZ's Rising Cesare ...
    Study: Impatience Helps Explain AZ's Rising Cesarean Rate Phoenix, AZ – A study from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development finds that impatience is a big reason behind the rising cesarean birth rate nationwide. In Arizona, the rate has risen by 63-percent since 1996 according ...
  • 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 ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Google Fights Censorship with Transparency Report
    Set of tools-including an interactive map- that shows which governments have asked for information about users or requested Google to censor or take down content in a certain time frame. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Twitter Mouseover Security Flaw Affecting Thousand ...
    Security alert for twitter users. Submitted by Elizabeth S. to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Louis Pasteur, Antoine Bechamp and the True Causes ...
    Mainstream medicine believes that virtually all illness is caused by germs or genetic hereditary weakness, as well as deformities and trauma injuries. The truth is that almost all illness is due a combination of cellular toxicities and insufficiencies. Submitted by Tony Isaacs to Health & Wellness ...
  • Our energy-gulping industrial food system revealed ...
    Eating seasonably and reasonably close to home; supporting diverse, low-input, human-scale farms; cutting down on waste; learning to cook at home from scratch -- after reading the USDA's report, all that seems even more like solid advice. Submitted by Care For All to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
  • U.S. 'death squad' mutilated Afghan civilians for ...
    Five U.S. soldiers who formed a "death squad" go on trial this month for the murder and dismemberment of Afghan villagers. A U.S. military investigation reported the group randomly targeted civilians for sport. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Twenty-eight years not enough to heal wounds of Sa ...
    Twenty-eight years not enough to heal wounds of Sabra-Shatila massacre :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]: "The untreated psychic wounds... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • 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...]]

Farm Wars

  • McWhinney Burgers Anyone?
    If Wyoming's Representative Sue Wallis gets her way, the answer to the question "What's for dinner?" will be "Why horse of course!"
  • 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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Chopper crash makes 2010 Afghanistan's deadliest y ...
    ShareThis Chopper crash makes 2010 Afghanistan's deadliest year 22 Sep 2010 Nine US troops have been killed in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan [the Daychopan district of Zabul province], making 2010 the deadliest year for international forces since the war began in 2001. In Kabul, the NAT ...
  • Interpol worried about spike in extremist websites
    ShareThis Interpol worried about spike in extremist websites 21 Sep 2010 The chief of Interpol says the "skyrocketing" number of extremist websites is making it easier for terrorists to recruit middle class youth around the world. Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble says terrorist recruiters ...
  • Afghan reporter arrested for talking to the Taliba ...
    ShareThis Afghan reporter arrested for talking to the Taliban --An Afghan reporter was arrested, apparently because of his contacts with Taliban representatives . 21 Sep 2010 The Associated Press reports that Afghanistan reporter Rahmatullah Naikzad, a freelancer who contributes video to the AP and ...
  • All 9 killed in Afghan crash are American-US offic ...
    ShareThis All 9 killed in Afghan crash are American-US official 21 Sep 2010 All nine of the NATO troops killed in a helicopter crash on Tuesday in southern Afghanistan were Americans, a U.S. defense official told Reuters. The NATO-led force had not previously disclosed the nationalities of the victi ...
  • FDA to consider approval of genetically modified s ...
    ShareThis Mega barf alert! FDA to consider approval of genetically modified salmon 20 Sep 2010 Federal food regulators pondered Monday whether to say, for the first time, that it's OK to market a genetically engineered animal as safe for people to eat. The Food and Drug Administration is holding two ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Mondoweiss

  • Despite protests, Harvard to honor Peretz with res ...
    Statement on Committee on Degrees in Social Studies’ Decision to Honor Martin Peretz21.00 EST, Tuesday September 21st, 2010.We have received word that Harvard’s Standing Committee on Social Studies has finally decided to go ahead with plans to honor Martin Peretz despite his long public record of ra ...
  • Celebrity support for cultural boycott is getting ...
  • For Thomas it was time to go, but for Peretz it&#8 ...
    This Marty Peretz controversy is really good for pointing out double standards, isn't it? Check out these editorials from the Boston Globe: Helen Thomas: Bizarre end to a long career:Helen Thomas, the longest-serving member of the White House press corps, retired abruptly but wisely yesterday after ...
  • Our cross to bear
    Readers may remember the Jewish novelist Michael Chabon’s strange article in the�New York Times�days after the Mavi Marmara debacle. In his op-ed, “Chosen, but Not Special”, Chabon claims that recent evidence of Israeli “stupidity”, namely the massacre of civilians in international waters, should pu ...
  • Segregation and solidarity
    The following is in response to an informal gathering of 'solidarity' the Sheikh Jarrah movement is holding in Tel Aviv on Friday to inform israelis about the struggle there and hopefully recruit more people. From the standpoint of joint Palestinian-Israeli struggle, this Friday’s ‘solidarity Shiek ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: CDC-Gate Exposes Trail of Fraud Behind Autism ...
    The US Center For Disease Control suddenly finds itself at the center of a huge media storm, rocked by a recent scandal implicating  Dr. Paul Thorsen, chief co-author of a 2003 Danish Study financed by the CDC (which is now recognized as THE flagship model ostensibly disproving the vaccine-mercury-a ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • LCV Launches 'Flat Earth TV' Featuring Sarah Palin
    image via flickr With the rise of Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, it's become clear that every Republican candidate for the "World's Greatest Deliberative Body" is a global warming denier. The League of Conservation Voters is rightly concerned, and they've launched an online camp ...
  • Why Can't Clean Energy Be More Like Cell Phones? ( ...
    Image via Uncyclopedia Or, Why Government and Business Are Locked in a Climate Showdown At a special session focused on energy and the environment at the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative , billionaire investor and clean energy entrepreneur Richard Branson joined Christiana Figueres , essentially ...
  • The Dark Threat of Ecofascism
    Image credit: Pentti Linkola Fansite I confess I've always been bemused when angry skeptics denounce climate activists as "Hitler Youth" , or label fellow TreeHugger Lloyd as either an eco-fascist or an eco-commie . While environmentalism, like any movement, does attract its fair share of extre ...
  • Pacific Nation Kiribati 'Sacrifices' Itself To Cre ...
    Map of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA). Image: www.phoenixislands.org Kiribati , a Pacific nation of 33 atolls and lying just barely two meters above sea level, is one of the countries that's on the front-lines of climate change . With its very existence is threatened to be wiped out by ...
  • EPA Nixes External Adaptors from Energy Star Progr ...
    Photo via alistairas The Environmental Protection Agency decided that external power adapters aren't eligible for inclusion in the Energy Star Label program, the reason being that they're doing too good a job meeting qualifications anyway. Since most external adapters meet qualifications, there ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

  • The Solvable Problem of Energy Poverty
    Assuring all the world's people have electricity and modern cooking technology is affordable, and can be done without worsening climate change, a United Nations report says. Climate change - United Nations - Environment - Electricity - Activism
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  • Pictures: Toxic Foam Chokes Brazil River
    NoneAn outbreak of toxic foam pollution in Brazil's Tietê River has been made worse by the driest August in decades, experts say. Brazil - South America - Tietê River - Travel and Tourism - Travel Services
  • New Aurora Pictures: Sky Shows Sparked by Sun Erup ...
    NoneOn September 11 a NASA satellite spied a magnetic eruption on the sun. A few days later northern skies got an electric shot of sheer beauty. NASA - Sun - Space - Aurora - Satellite
  • Light is the Bright IDEA for Transport
    Bright Automotive aims to engineer a fuel-saving electric commercial vehicle large to appeal to the U.S. market. Bright Automotive - Electric vehicle - Technology - Energy - Transportation

Jurist - Legal Research

  • UN panel criticizes Israel, Hamas investigations i ...
    [JURIST] The UN panel of experts [UN materials] tasked with monitoring and assessing investigations into alleged war crimes during the 2008-2009 conflict in the Gaza Strip [JURIST new archives] issued a report [text, PDF; press release] Tuesday criticizing the investigations being carried out by bot ...
  • California county appeals same-sex marriage ruling
    [JURIST] Officials for Imperial County [official website], California, announced Tuesday that the county has submitted its opening brief [text, PDF] in an appeal against last month's federal court decision [JURIST report] striking down California's ban on same-sex marriage [JURIST news archive]. Dis ...
  • New York governor signs law allowing unmarried par ...
    [JURIST] New York Governor David Paterson (D) [official website] signed a bill on Sunday allowing unmarried partners, including gay couples, to jointly adopt a child. The law [A 05652 materials] amends the language of Section 110 [text] of New York's domestic relations law to allow two unmarried adu ...
  • Lawyers for alleged USS Cole bomber request invest ...
    [JURIST] A human rights group and lawyers for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri [NYT profile], a Saudi man accused in connection with the 2000 USS Cole attack [JURIST news archive], filed a request [press release] Tuesday with Polish prosecutors for an investigation into al-Nashiri's detention and treatment a ...
  • ICC to present cases against instigators of Kenya ...
    [JURIST] International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo [official profile] on Tuesday announced plans to present two cases [statement, PDF] against as many as six individuals who "bear the greatest responsibility" for the violence following the 2007 Kenyan ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • News Flash: New Israel Fund Refuses to Fund Hamas
    Yup, that’s about the extent of the new funding guidelines unveiled by the New Israel Fund this week after much controversy, with the right saying the group had finally seen the error of its ways and the left saying the group seemed to be renouncing the political nationalism of its Palestinian grant ...
  • Bibi: Pollard for Settlement Freeze
    Whatever you might want to say about Bibi Netanyahu, the guy has a sense of humor.  Normally, we think of spy exchanges as happening between two countries who are rivals with conflicting interests.  But when have you ever heard of a spy exchange between Israel and the U.S.?  Bibi has. Apparently, ...
  • Beit Ha’Tfutzot Honors Right-Wing Media Advocates ...
    Beit Ha’Tfutzot, the Israeli Museum of the Jewish People, at its upcoming NAVAD award ceremony, will be giving an award to the producers of the We Con the World video.  NADAV is a foundation created by Russian-Israeli oligarch, Leonid Nevzlin and his wife.  Nevzlin was a senior executive in Russi ...
  • Israeli Museum Honors ‘We Con the World’ Anti-Arab ...
    Every so often even the strange place we call Israel produces a development so odd that you don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Beit Hatfutzot is the respected Israeli museum devoted to the study of the Jewish Diaspora.  Every year, it holds the NADAV Peoplehood awards ceremony which this year will ...
  • Shin Bet Refuses Urgent Medical Treatment for Pale ...
    Let it not be said that the Israeli Shabak allows humanitarian considerations ever to trouble its deliberations when it concerns Palestinians.  Several months ago Khalida Jarrar, a member of the Palestinian legislature representing the PFLP, discovered from her doctor that he detected some troublin ...

Ode Magazine

  • Lighten up!
    Should we stay out of the summer sun? Not at all, according to a growing group of physicians. Sunlight can be good for you. We’ve been hearing about the dangers of sun exposure for decades. Yet people still swarm to outdoor cafés, parks and beaches during the summer months, eager to catc ...
  • Revival of the trains
    By: VictoriaKlein Historical and awe-inspiring, trains helped make the world what it is today. In India, trains are still a very popular mode of travel for all economic classes. There’s no better way to see the beauty and diversity of Europe than by train. For the ...
  • It's Monday, what's not wrong?
    By: Chintana "One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one’s last is to come to terms with everything." -Georg Christoph Lichtenberg It’s Monday. What can this one word or day evoke? For most of us, it marks the beginning of yet another ...
  • Peace merchandising
    By: PeaceCorso If you are a reader of these pages, you know that I am fascinated by peace merchandising. Anything that makes us remember peace is a good idea. Have a look at this article from One World, Many Pieces by Anthony Adolf. Corporate Peace Activism or ...
  • 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 ...

OpEd News

  • Kaplan University Ripping Off Poor Students for Pr ...
    They make money the old fashioned way. They steal it.
  • America, a Nation Struggling to Recapture its Iden ...
    America is the world leader in exactly what? Your answer cannot be war, because that is already widely acknowledged. Only positive, meaningful endeavors for which America can claim pre-eminence in the world can be considered. Two things come to mind; being the world's leader in imported products fro ...
  • R, D or Tea - Debate Prep for 2010 Midterm Electio ...
    The Tea Party phenomena confirms one thing that we all learned in 2008 --" there are a lot more people involved in politics, a lot more people receiving a lot more information in much different ways - if your debating skills are not up to par, your campaign won't be either. The 2010 political debat ...
  • Stopping the Christian right political machine
    The Christian politicians in the religious right can't defend key parts of their religious beliefs. Freethinkers need to ask them about these ludicrous claims so others can see how empty and unreasonable they are.
  • Duh, but isn't this how electronic voting should b ...
    Why trust private companies to provide secure, standard "voting machines" when factory-sealed standard PCs are widely available, and open-source software could be run on them to achieve the same effect without having to trust any particular companies?

Switchboard

  • Good Riddance to the Worst Summer Ever
    Today is the official end of the summer of 2010. I for one say good riddance. The Earth is telling us something, as illustrated in this video produced by NRDC, but too many politicians in Washington aren’t listening.   This was supposed to be the summer when we finally en ...
  • Manufacturing and Allied Products Institute (MAPI) ...
    The Manufacturing and Allied Products Institute (MAPI) released a 'study' last week purportedly estimating compliance costs that would result from setting stricter standards on ozone pollutants and, of course, disastrous economic effects that would ensue. But the analysis is based upon ...
  • Long Shadows of September 11th Attack on U.S. are ...
    A new book by former New York Times reporter Anthony DePalma offers a comprehensive and fearless account of the environmental aftermath of the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center and the public health consequences of the worst environmental disaster in New York City history ...
  • Glimmers of Hope in the Delta
    The water world is abuzz with talk of the many flaws in the new State framework of proposals for the Bay-Delta Conservation Plan and of the new " Principal's Process ."� But there are two other important recent developments on Delta issues that have garnered far less attention.� First ...
  • Our New Book on Why the BP Blowout Occurred and Wh ...
    Over the weekend, crews finally succeeded in plugging BP’s blown-out oil well once and for all. Workers pumped mud and cement through the newly secured relief well and finally sealed this disastrous wound in the ocean floor for good.  As we come to the close of the Macondo well—even a ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Witch Way
    Starhawk: Had O’Donnell really ‘dabbled’ in Witchcraft, she might have learned that the Craft, as we call it, or Wicca as some prefer, is a remnant of the pre-Christian indigenous traditions of Europe and the Middle East. Witches do not worship Satan–we consider the Devil to be a purely Christian co ...
  • “Remember When,” is the Lowest Form of ...
    Since the NYT is revisiting Joe Wilson’s June 2003 op-ed on his trip to Africa in search of uranium deals, I feel compelled to crank up on the Wayback Machine and repost this about Wilson’s June 2004 visit to my American Foreign Policy class at the University of Washington. Related posts:Comment ...
  • United GOP Filibusters DADT Repeal
    I the latest grotesque performance from the World’s Worst Deliberative Body provides an excellent illustration of why Matt was wrong to think that Democrats should be unhappy that Mike Castle lost the Delaware primary.    The fact is, under current norms the nominal moderation of Collins and Snow ...
  • You Don’t?
    I agree with the point of his post — including his disagreement with the idea that it’s Obama’s fault if he can’t get fake-moderate Republican Senators he has no discernible leverage over to vote against the filibuster — but I think John is being too charitable here: McCain, being all mavericky, has ...
  • The Post-Kaus Era At Slate Marches On
    The New, Improved Will Saletan notes that the American public officials who support criminaizing abortion are unprincipled, offering justifications that are completely incohrent. I could quibble that this set of positions does not merely reveal an underlying “we don’t really believe that the fetus ...

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

  • Geothermal Power Gets Its Day In The Sun
    The U.S. Department of Energy hands out $20 million to companies experimenting with geothermal energy programs to see what is most viable technology wise.
  • AMP Takes Super Secret SUV Electric
    AMP Holdings recently entered into a partnership with a major automaker (unnamed) to electrify an existing, current model SUV.
  • Peugeot EX1 EV Makes Us Feel Giddy
    Peugeot has just taken the wraps off the EX1 all-electric roadster concept, making you wonder if you'll ever be able to love your Prius the same way again.
  • Saab Says Ja To Electric Vehicles
    Swedish auto brand Saab is rolling into electric vehicles with the introduction of the 9-3 ePower, a prototype electric car to be showcased in Paris.
  • Lotus Gets Its Elite Hybrid On In Paris
    Lotus is coming to the Paris Auto Show with its new Elite super car with optional hybrid system, creating one sleek looking green auto in the process.

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Federal Circuit: Industry standard can be used in ...
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has set a precedent concerning when district courts can rely on industry standards that include patented technology to decide whether a product meeting those standards infringes the patent.
  • SEC charges Minneapolis lawyer with fraud
    The Securities & Exchange Commission today charged a Minneapolis attorney and two San Francisco-area real estate lending fund promoters with misleading investors by concealing the financial collapse of the fund's sole business partner.
  • Forever 21 defeats copyright claims over plaid pat ...
    A ruling in a lawsuit between clothing retailers Express Ltd. and Forever 21 Inc. could entangle a rising number of claims in the fashion industry over the copyrights of fabric designs, according to lawyers in the case.
  • Law schools win grants for legal aid, public healt ...
    Several law schools are launching new or enhanced public-interest projects thanks to recent grants.
  • Young attorney: Obama didn't answer his question
    At a televised town hall meeting in Washington this week, Ted Brassfield got the chance to ask the president a question that is on the minds of many disgruntled law school graduates: "Is the American dream dead?"

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Human Exposure to BPA Far Higher Than Earlier Esti ...
    Americans are exposed to the hormone-disrupting chemical, BPA, at levels eight times higher than those recommended by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to a new study . Researchers from the University of Missouri and Washington State University reached that conclusion after tests s ...
  • Satellite Data Reveal Seasonal Pollution Shifts Ac ...
    A new analysis of satellite data, collected over a decade, has identified the concentration, distribution, and composition of aerosol pollution over the Indian subcontinent . Using the multi-angle imaging spectroradiometer (MISR) from NASA’s Terra spacecraft, researchers at the University of Illino ...
  • 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 ...

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

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

  • UFOs and Nuclear Weapon Sites
    UFOs and nuclear weapons sites is a subject I’ve come across the past few years and probably to my detriment I passed it by without reading more about it. Of course I’ve read and heard the name Robert Hastings come up more than once and he’s had more than one interview on several of the [...]
  • Philip K. Dick – A Day In The Afterlife
    For all of you PKD fans out there, here’s a treat. While trolling (trawling?) for posting material this a.m., I ran across a little Twitter announcement on Greg Taylor’s Daily Grail site with a link to a site that was showing a Philip K. Dick documentary on the BBC. (here) Now, after doing some re-r ...
  • 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 ...

Tippers News

  • BSO detective rescues two kittens that fell from c ...
    A Broward sheriff's detective came to the aid of two kittens that managed to escape from the engine compartment of a moving car Monday morning. Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: Outlaw International Transport of Ho ...
    There are no facilities in the United States that process horses into food for people- however, tens of thousands of American horses are still trucked into Canada and Mexico every year to be processed into food. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: Stop Sending Animal Abusers to Work ...
    Late in the afternoon of Aug. 6, neighbors said they spotted Derrick Chambers beating a miniature pinscher, clubbing the dog repeatedly with a pipe in the 4000 block of W. Franklin St. in West Baltimore. A min-pin is a small breed of dog that typically Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it ...
  • ACTION ALERT: Harsher penalties for Animal Abusers ...
    We need to put an end to animal abuse and we need to bring in much harsher penalties for these animal abusers. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: Save Sumatran Tigers ! Dont Palm Us ...
    Sumatran Tigers are losing their habitat forests are being cleared to make way for unsustainable farming and forestry including oil palm plantations. Submitted by Simone D. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • How to End the Great Recession
    For people who can’t find work, it doesn’t feel like a recovery, and there is good reason for that feeling.
  • Some Mexicans Live in Fear
    “In Mexicoâs drug wars, it is hard to pinpoint new lows as the atrocities and frustrations mount. But Ciudad Juárez belongs in its own category, with thousands killed each year, the exodus of tens of thousands of residents, the spectacle of the biggest national holiday last week observed in a squ ...
  • President Obama Endorses “Skepticism” ...
    “Democratic leaders have repeatedly tried to cast ‘tea party’ candidates as extremists, but President Obama on Monday said the movement exhibits some of the ‘healthy skepticism about government’ that led to the American Revolution and that is now part of ‘our DNA.’ ” (Washington Times, Tuesday) I’m ...
  • First the Taser, Now the “Pain Ray”?
    It will probably be a matter of time before the assault intervention device takes its place beside the Taser on a police officer’s belt.
  • Repeal of Health Care Bill Unlikely
    “Experts â and even some Republicans â say a GOP-controlled Congress next year would have to struggle to erase nearly $1 trillion in health reform spending over 10 years with the flick of a pen. Key parts of the bill, like new Medicaid entitlements, would require free-standing legislation, not m ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Teaching Twitter to students
    This semester I took a course I have been teaching for 10 years and moved it to a WordPress.com blog. The students and I still meet in person once a week to discuss ideas, but otherwise, everything is on the blog. Each student was required to start his or her own WordPress.com blog, and all their a ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

  • Rove backing away from attacks on Obama's handling ...
    This Sunday, the secretive Republican groups American Crossroads and American Crossroads GPS announced they had raised $32 million in 2010, doubling their fundraising in the last four weeks and putting them on track to hit their goal of a $52 million war chest by Election Day. What is this shad ...
  • BP's well sealed, but oil disaster continues in th ...
    BP successfully killed its leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico this weekend, installing cement plugs that halted the flow of pollution into the ocean. "Additional regulatory steps will be undertaken but we can now state, definitively, that the Macondo well poses no continuing threat to ...
  • 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 ...

Worldpress - Africa

Canadian Encyclopedia

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle microwaved plastic wrap ...
    Over on Twitter, fairygirl25 (aka Elizabeth) asked us: how can u reuse plastic wrap after u use it once in the microwave? We don’t use plastic wrap in the microwave so I’m not sure how it changes it to stop you being able to reuse it like ordinary plastic wrap/cling film/saran wrap again. Could anyo ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle plastic/synthetic wine ...
    Back in the day, way back in the day, we featured reuses and recycling ideas for wine corks – and there are lots of great suggestions on there. But they nearly all are for real corks, not the synthetic alternatives so I thought it might be interesting to focus on those now instead. Like with [...]
  • The Really Good Life: Baking things that’ll ...
    Hey guys, sorry I haven’t got time to write a full Recycle This post today – but can I point you to the latest article on my new blog The Really Good Life? It’s about how to reduce food waste and having to rely on supermarket supplies by getting the most out of each home [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle (and reduce my use of) ...
    Ok, this is a bit of a rant dressed up as a Recycle This style question – it’s a genuine question but I feel the need to rant too! ;) So many people in my (geeky) world are going nuts for these at the moment and it makes me want to cry — all the [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle a wicker washing basket ...
    Over on the Suggest an Item page, Cate B asked: I have an old ali baba wicker laundry basket that is unravelling itself after years of use. Do you think I could grow potatoes in it and would I have to line it to stop soil falling out? If the wicker is made from natural [...]

Mondoweiss

  • Despite protests, Harvard to honor Peretz with res ...
    Statement on Committee on Degrees in Social Studies’ Decision to Honor Martin Peretz21.00 EST, Tuesday September 21st, 2010.We have received word that Harvard’s Standing Committee on Social Studies has finally decided to go ahead with plans to honor Martin Peretz despite his long public record of ra ...
  • Celebrity support for cultural boycott is getting ...
  • For Thomas it was time to go, but for Peretz it&#8 ...
    This Marty Peretz controversy is really good for pointing out double standards, isn't it? Check out these editorials from the Boston Globe: Helen Thomas: Bizarre end to a long career:Helen Thomas, the longest-serving member of the White House press corps, retired abruptly but wisely yesterday after ...
  • Our cross to bear
    Readers may remember the Jewish novelist Michael Chabon’s strange article in the�New York Times�days after the Mavi Marmara debacle. In his op-ed, “Chosen, but Not Special”, Chabon claims that recent evidence of Israeli “stupidity”, namely the massacre of civilians in international waters, should pu ...
  • Segregation and solidarity
    The following is in response to an informal gathering of 'solidarity' the Sheikh Jarrah movement is holding in Tel Aviv on Friday to inform israelis about the struggle there and hopefully recruit more people. From the standpoint of joint Palestinian-Israeli struggle, this Friday’s ‘solidarity Shiek ...

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 )

  • Secretary of State Clinton announces global cookst ...
    Where there’s fire, there’s smoke--and for those cooking with traditional stoves fueled by wood, dung, or coal, this smoke can be deadly. In the developing world, around 1.6 million people, mostly young children, die prematurely due to respiratory illnesses like pneumonia and lung cancer from sm ...
  • “American Nobel” awarded to obesity researchers
    This year’s Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award has been awarded to the researchers who discovered the appetite-regulating hormone leptin . Douglas Coleman, a senior staff scientist emeritus at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor Maine, and Jeffrey Friedman of Rockefeller University in N ...
  • University of California enters stem cell legal fr ...
    The University of California (UC) has requested permission from a US court to participate in a lawsuit that challenges the government's right to fund research using human embryonic stem cells. In a motion filed yesterday ( PDF here ) to the Washington DC Court of Appeals, lawyers for the state’s ...
  • China’s shark fishing: unmonitored, unregulated, u ...
    Being a shark isn’t always easy. OK, you’re a top predator, but you’re also seeing your family and friends disappear every year, as fishermen haul them out of the water and cart them off to market. One of the biggest of those markets is South East Asia, where shark fin soup is a particular delica ...
  • More than half of all flowering plant names to be ...
    Botanists had long believed the accepted number of flowering plant species to be an overestimate, but few are likely to have guessed the scale of the miscalculation. New research suggests that at least 600,000 flowering plant names - more than half - are synonyms, or duplicate names. Many plant s ...

new geography

  • Light Rail & Left Turns
    Imagine that you own a service station that supplies fuel to the surrounding community, and you specialize in automotive repair. You're proud that your reputation for service attracts vintage Corvette owners. You worked hard all of your life, and your shop is your equity for retirement. Your b ...
  • 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. ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • Gold Futures Top $1,290 an Ounce on Globex
    Via: MarketWatch: Gold futures climbed to new heights above $1,290 an ounce on Globex during Asia’s morning trading Wednesday with investment demand on the rise after the U.S. Federal Reserve said it was worried about deflation and was prepared to consider more action to boost the economy. Gold for ...
  • Vatican Bank Investigated Over Money-Laundering
    Via: BBC: The head of the Vatican Bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, is under investigation as part of a money-laundering inquiry, police sources say. Prosecutors also seized 23m euros ($30m; £19m) from the bank’s accounts with another smaller institution. The inquiry was launched after two suspicious tr ...
  • U.S. Hunters Shoot Down Google Fiber
    Via: IT News: Google has revealed that aerial fibre links to its data centre in Oregon were “regularly” shot down by hunters, forcing the company to put its cables underground. The search and advertising giant’s network engineering manager Vijay Gill told the AusNOG conference in Sydney last week th ...
  • Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever ...
    A Cryptogon reader ordered this book on Amazon and I thought I’d mention it for any of you who might be interested: Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever? by Clinton Ober, Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D. and Martin Zucker I have no idea what to make of this, but after reading around on various ...
  • Rendell’s Office Releases Content of All Bul ...
    Here’s the document dump: PA Intelligence Bulletins. Via: Philadelphia Inquirer: The bulletins, issued to police, public officials, and commercial interests three times a week since October, were prepared by a private contractor that the state Office of Homeland Security hired last year for $103,000 ...

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

  • MOZAMBIQUE: “This year we should have built 30 new ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=90543 MOZAMBIQUE: Hoping to reach the MDG on water MACHAZE, 21 September 2010 (IRIN) – Every day Ster Mamboza, 37, covers 19 km on a bicycle over sand and gravel roads to the well at Machaze, in … Continue reading →
  • Agroforestry projects to improve food supplies in ...
    Read at : http://www.wvgazette.com/Opinion/OpEdCommentaries/201008200671 Low-tech trees have high benefits By Frank Place and Danielle Nierenberg CHARLESTON, W.Va. — If you drive just a few miles out of Charleston you’ll see fields cleared for livestock and agriculture, mountaintops blasted for mini ...
  • Action Against Hunger: Providing innovative soluti ...
    http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/who-we-are Invite your friends to join the fight against hunger. Send them this Action Against Hunger e-card. Dear Friend, Thank you so much for supporting Action Against Hunger. Because of you, and the ongoing support of people just like you, … Continue reading →
  • India’s second Green Revolution is a threat ...
    Read at : http://www.grain.org/hybridrice/?lid=230 INDIA: A second Green Revolution is not the answer by Living Farms and GRAIN India’s Union Government is allocating some US$ 86.3 million to push a Green Revolution into India’s eastern states. It is a hefty … Continue reading →
  • Large scale land appropriations (Food Crisis and t ...
    Read at : http://farmlandgrab.org/15670 Large scale land appropriations: Analysis of the phenomenon and proposed guidelines for future action. AGTER | September 2010 Land tenure and Development Technical Committee A synthesis of contributions from land tenure and global food security experts. … Cont ...

The Paper Trail

  • Financial Reform Watch Calendar
    A calendar of events to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
  • A Listening Tour? It Worked for Hillary
    What’s on Elizabeth Warren’s to-do list now that she’s a White House adviser helping to launch the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? The Consumer Federation of America suggests a strategy that worked well for another Democratic woman who was a lightning rod for Republican criticism. Warren sho ...
  • Recent Bank Closings Reflect Old Trends
    The abandoned cranes and empty Caterpillars say it all: U.S. commercial real estate development is crawling or at a standstill. The paralyzed commercial real estate market has already killed off many small and medium-sized banks around the country, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says the n ...
  • SEC Posts Timeline for Investor-Protection Reform ...
    The Securities and Exchange Commission has helpfully posted a timeline of its planned work to carry out new investor-protection regulations ordered by the Dodd-Frank reform law. The agency’s lengthy checklist is here , and it gives both consumers and industry lobbyists a general idea of what will be ...
  • 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, ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Oil sands cheerleader Levant: Slurs ‘R&#8217 ...
    By Alison@Creekside The three American senators who took a tour of the tar sands last week, along with Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach, are all members of the Senate Committee on Armed Services. So while they were looking at this: They were seeing this: That fuzzy bit in the red portion ...
  • 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 ...

Worldnews

  • Medicare Advantage Premiums to Fall in 2011 ...
    WASHINGTON — The Obama administration announced Tuesday that average premiums paid by individuals for private Medicare Advantage plans, which insure about one-fourth of all beneficiaries, would decline slightly next year, even as insurers provide additional benefits required by the new health c ...
  • Russell Brand's one night with Kate Moss
    Russell Brand once spent the night with Kate Moss. The British comedian – who was at one time renowned for his womanising ways, before settling down with his pop star fiancee Katy Perry – took the supermodel back to his house in 2006 after being introduced to her by their mutual friend Sadie Fr ...
  • Adrien Brody ate bugs for new role
    Oscar-winner Adrien Brody has told how he spent a night in the freezing wilderness and ate insects to prepare to get into...
  • Shia LaBeouf happy with new co-star
    Shia LaBeouf thinks itâs âkind of beautifulâ that Megan Fox has been replaced in Transformers 3. The Hollywood actor appeared opposite Megan in the first two films of the action franchise, but has...
  • Robert Pattinson road trips to visit Kristin ...
    Robert Pattinson has taken a break from his road trip through the southern states of the US to visit his rumoured girlfriend Kristen Stewart in New...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Iowa Activists Drew Extensive FBI Scrutiny
    by William Petroski The FBI's surveillance of a protest group in Iowa City prior to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., two years ago was far more extensive than initially reported, newly obtained FBI documents show. Agents staked out the homes of political activists, secretly pho ...
  • Arctic Ice in Death Spiral
    by Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada - The carbon dioxide emissions from burning such fossil fuels have now melted the Arctic sea ice to its lowest volume since before the rise of human civilisation and dangerously upsetting the energy balance of the entire planet, climate scientists are reporting. "Th ...
  • Report Documents Persistent Segregation in Schools
    by James Vaznis Public schools in the Boston and Springfield metropolitan areas are among the most segregated in the country, often isolating black and Latino students in low-performing schools, according to a report released today by Northeastern University. read more
  • Virginia Set to Execute First Woman in Nearly a Ce ...
    by Chris McGreal in Washington The state of Virginia this week plans to carry out its first execution of a woman in nearly a century, despite claims that Teresa Lewis has severe learning difficulties. Lewis's last hope is an appeal to the US supreme court after Robert McDonnell, the state governor, ...
  • World Powers to Tackle Climate Amid Skepticism
    NEW YORK - The 17 nations responsible for 80 percent of carbon emissions blamed for global warming will seek to unblock stalled climate negotiations this week but analysts expect little progress. The two-day Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate kicks off Monday and will include top government ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • US Launches Multinational Clean Cookstoves Initiat ...
    The U.S. announced on Tuesday a multinational program to help spread the use of clean-burning cookstoves to 100 million homes worldwide by 2020.
  • Estimating job losses due to the deepwater drillin ...
    Last week I pointed out that, “ Temporary policies have temporary effects – and sometimes that is good news ,” pointing to an Obama administration report that found job losses due to the temporary ban on deepwater drilling were smaller than expected.
  • No More Smoke in Their Eyes: Clean Cookstoves
    Gas is better tha
  • Ex-Edison chief, NRDC founder named chair of solar ...
    I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. In any emerging industry, there are turning points that bear watching. One of those occurred Tuesday when BrightSource Energy, a California developer of solar power plants, announced the appointment of John E. Bryson as its new chair.
  • Key Players in the 2010 Global Solar Industry
    Even outsiders know that the solar energy industry has experienced huge growth during the past few years. This is particularly true of 2009, where solar energy prospered in spite of a worldwide recession. In the U.S., this prosperity is largely due to the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment ...

Green House - USA Today

  • Telluride, Colo., nears vote to ban plastic bags
    Telluride plans to vote in two weeks on what could be Colorado's first local ban on plastic grocery bags. It joins a growing list of U.S. municipalities considering such bans, despite a recent rejection of a statewide one in California.
  • Bat poo offers climate change clues
    Termites and now bat poo? Earlier this month, I came across a study on how termites can help predict climate change, and now, an Australian researcher is reporting that bat droppings provide clues to how the environment is changing in tropical rainforests and semi-arid regions.
  • More home builders install rentable solar panels
    Want rooftop solar panels without busting the budget? A new financing option is catching on in the United States. More home builders are installing solar panels, which buyers rent from solar companies, reports USA TODAY colleague Julie Schmit.
  • Report: U.S. firms lag competitors on climate chan ...
    Corporate efforts are growing worldwide to cut greenhouse gas emissions, but U.S. companies are still not doing as much as their European counterparts, says a new report Monday.
  • 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.

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

  • Laudable Features of the Cuban Revolution
    by Husayn Al-Kurdi A small island of spirited people, descended from Blacks, Spaniards and Red Indians for the most part and in varying mixtures, has managed to hold out and develop a socialist society with an anti-Imperialist orientation under the very noses of the mightiest empire in known histor ...
  • Of Resistance and Fighting for the First Amendment
    By Jason Miller - 9/17/10 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances ...
  • BASEL III: TIGHTENING THE NOOSE ON CREDIT
    By Ellen Brown, September 16th, 2010 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, ...
  • Why China Owns Us
    By Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The U.S. used to make things and export them. Some said that the U.S. fed the world from a mid-western 'bread-basket'. At the same time, the U.S. had a viable labor movement which seems to have simply withered away with the decline of American labor and produ ...
  • Virginia to execute accessory to crime while trigg ...
    Mary Shaw On Thursday evening, September 23, the Commonwealth of Virginia is scheduled to execute Teresa Lewis for the 2002 murders of her husband and stepson. Some in the media are hyping the execution because Lewis will be the first woman to be executed in Virginia in nearly a century. Being a f ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Tory Choices: Advertising
    The AFB has long argued that budgets are always about choices. �Canada is a rich country and governments can and should spend our money on priorities that are important to us. �Today, it was revealed that the Tories spent $130 million on Advertising last year alone driven in part by the endless "Eco ...
  • The economic case for universal pharmacare
    The main argument that is typically made against the establishment of universal Pharmacare is economic in nature. However, a new CCPA report shows that the economic argument in favour of such a program is loud and clear, regardless of which industrial policy is subsequently considered. Canadians ...
  • Living from paycheque to paycheque
    The recession may be officially over, but six in 10 Canadians say they would be in financial trouble if their paycheque was delayed by just a week, according to a new national survey. The survey coincides with an OECD warning that record high debt levels have left many Canadians vulnerable “to any ...
  • Restoring the Bargain: Challenging Bill 6
    The Saskatchewan office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is releasing University of Regina business administration professor S. Muthu’s study, Restoring the Bargain: Contesting the Constitutionality of the Amendments to the Saskatchewan Trade Union Act , a thorough analysis of the cons ...
  • Fraser Institute's "Consumer Tax Index" misreprese ...
    Earlier this week the Fraser Institute released a report claiming the average Canadian family’s tax bill has increased by a whopping 1,624% since 1961. The report was widely distributed by several media outlets despite the fact that its conclusions are based on misleading calculations. � ...

World Wide Hippies

  • About Time
    Well, it’s not a hallelujah moment, but it’s progress. And thus, hope for the human race. Despite Setback, Gay Rights Move Forward | New York Times Efforts that could lead to a reversal of the âdonât ask, donât tellâ policy that prohibits openly gay soldiers from serving in the military may ...
  • Blackwater/Xe Conducts Terrorist Attacks
    by WAYNE MADSEN – 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.” Only recently did the US State Department designat ...
  • City of Light Threatened
    Foiled: woman bomber’s plot to blow herself up in central Paris | This Is London A female suicide bomber plotted to blow herself up in Paris last week, French spy agencies have revealed. Intelligence services uncovered and thwarted the threat which was planned for a “busy part of Paris” on Thursday, ...
  • Leading the Blind
    “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” (Neil Gerard from âAt Risk of Winningâ by Mark Becker.) Until recently, Iâve tried to change my little corner of the world as best I can. I write, volunteer, speak out ...
  • Think things are bad now? Take a look at what coul ...
    10 Terrible Things Republicans Will Try to Do If They Take Over in November | Alternet Democrats are in trouble come November. If current polling is any indication, Republicans have a good chance of reclaiming a majority in the House of Representatives and perhaps even the Senate (though the Senate ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • Skyfish
    Ah, skyfish, a post suggested by a long time reader and illustrious blogger in her own right, Pyrodin. Everyone has heard of skyfish, more commonly known as rods. (OK, maybe they haven’t.) These are mysterious flying creatures discovered on videotapes in 1994, appearing to be flying rod shaped creat ...
  • Nice doggie? No, bad doggie, very very bad doggie.
    How would the gentle reader like to meet one of these some dark night? How about in an open field in the middle of the day? That’s when it liked to attack people, attacking them preferentially to other animals that were around. Yes, watching a flock of sheep or goats was dangerous when when of [...]
  • 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 [...]

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Peak Oil Interview: Misconceptions, Replacing Oil, ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Back in June, I gave a presentation on Peak Oil at the Global Footprint Conference in Siena, Italy. (More on the event here). Following my presentation, I was asked to do a pair of interviews. One was for an upcoming documentary called Critical Mass. The secon ...
  • 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 ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • A Guide to Rice, Plus 5 Classic Rice Dishes
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—It’s hard to imagine a world without rice. The seed of the Oryza sativa plant, rice is a staple food for much of the earth’s population. Though the grains can range in color from brown to red to purplish-black, they all have an inedible husk that needs to be removed before e ...
  • For a Healthy Lunck Kids Can't Resist, Go Bento
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Despite recent positive changes in school lunch reform, most kids still face the same bland chicken nuggets or mystery "Salisbury steak"–type lunches that have given school cafeterias such a bad name. But it can be equally challenging for parents to come up with a homemade l ...
  • 7 Ways to Create a Backyard Bird Paradise This Fal ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Our beloved backyard birds are facing major challenges , and that's forcing them to change their ways in order to survive. Climate change, habitat destruction, and toxic pesticides are playing a major role in our feathered friends' decline. But there is a bit of good news in ...
  • Mind-Body-Mood Advisor: Strategies for Conquering ...
    RODALE NEWS, LENOX, MA—Do you experience chronic pain? If so, there are several strategies that may help you experience less pain and greater quality of life. Over the last decade, researchers have used neuroimaging techniques to actually peer inside the brains of chronic pain sufferers. And their ...
  • Healthiest Salmon on the Planet Face Unprecedented ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Salmon face a salty situation on all fronts. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is set to approve the first transgenic animal for human consumption—a genetically engineered salmon . There are major concerns with this: Farmed fish waste and pharmaceutical can contami ...

big think

  • Antonio Damasio and Siri Hustvedt Discuss the Myst ...
    In a special Big Think conversation arranged by Discover magazine and published online today, Dr. Antonio Damasio , a behavioral neurobiologist at the University of Southern California speaks with novelist Siri Hustvedt about various topics in neurology, from how the brain arranges our consciousness ...
  • The Human Hard Drive: How We Make (And Lose) Memor ...
    Memory is one of the cornerstones of what it means to be human. Recording aspects of the world around us and storing them in our brains for future recall is vital to nearly all advanced human functions. It makes us who we are, and helps us to make sense of the world around us. But what is really ... ...
  • Hybrid Model: Hong Kong, Art, and Deterritorializa ...
    When Frank Welsh wrote his outstanding one-volume history of Hong Kong, he titled it “ A Borrowed Place .” In I Like Hong Kong… Art and Deterritorialization , Frank Vigneron, an Associate Professor in the Department of Fine Arts of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, continues that theme of borrowi ...
  • Amendment 62: Colorado to Vote on Whether Fertiliz ...
    Imagine if a state defined embryos as people, giving full legal protections and rights to a collection of cells the size of the ball on a fine-tipped pen? Sound like science fiction? In reality, it's a decision voters in Colorado will face as they consider a "personhood" referendum on the ballot ... ...
  • Tuesday Tidbits: Drilling into the Campi Flegrei c ...
    Sorry about the lack of posts today - I've been trying to get over a nasty headcold and my ability to concentrate on much has been less than great. So, I'll post some tidbits of news I've run across as I recover: Drilling into Campi Flegrei:  It seems like the story about the potential hazards of . ...

Information Liberation

  • A Civil Society Without a Government?
    This is an email response to a reader's question. The question is basically how would a society without a government function without costumed strangers bossing everyone around and "laying down the law." It's a good question which I myself had and ...
  • Shut Up! You're Disturbing the Elite
    So many warnings, so many solutions, and so many people who couldn't care less. *If the American People allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will g...
  • DEFLATION? Who Are They Kidding? Commodities Price ...
    A few weeks ago, everyone began to agree that the US was headed for a decade of Japan-style deflation. The banks weren't lending, consumers weren't borrowing, the Fed's desperate attempts to create inflation weren't working, the country was awash in ...
  • Household Net Worth Plunges By Most Since Q4 2008, ...
    Arguably the most useful report to come out each quarter out of the Federal Reserve is the Z.1, or the Flow of Funds report, which was released minutes ago. And it's a doozy: household net worth (assets less liabilities) in Q2 2010 plunged by $1.5 tr...
  • Holdren uses free market to get back to stone age
    Nearly 40 years ago John Holdren (now *science* advisor to Obama) wrote a book with the infamous Ehrlichs. In the "recommendations" at the end of 1973 book Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions, they said: "A massive campaign must be launched to rest...

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

  • New FRUS Volume Shows Declass Strengths, Weaknesse ...
    A new volume of the State Department’s official Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series on the war in Vietnam, published this month, embodies both the strengths and the weaknesses of the government document declassification program. The new FRUS volume presents an exceptionally vivid an ...
  • Former Los Alamos Physicist Charged with Selling N ...
    A former Los Alamos nuclear weapons scientist, Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni, and his wife, Marjorie Mascheroni, were charged with conspiracy to communicate classified nuclear weapons information with the intent to injure the United States and conspiracy to develop an illict atomic bomb after they alleg ...
  • Home Foreclosures and Security Clearances
    The crisis affecting the U.S. economy has made a discernible mark on security clearance disputes, according to a new study of clearance revocation cases. “Since the collapse of the housing market in 2008, debt resulting from job losses and home foreclosures has had a devastating effect on people hol ...
  • 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 ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • More science discoveries
    More science news from Sciencebase: Bleachgate – Watch out for this mineral snake oil. It's basically bleach. The vomiting is not a sign that it's working. This is industrial quackery at its worst. Massive galaxy puts years on universe – When I was a kid, the textbooks said the universe was about 13 ...
  • 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’ ...

RFF Library

  • Efficiency Works: Creating Good Jobs and New Marke ...
    Center for American Progress and Energy Resource Management / by Bracken Hendricks, Bill Campbell and Pen Goodale http://tinyurl.com/3736k3c [This new report] outlines the top-ranking states for policy leadership on energy efficiency. These leading states support innovative businesses using clean en ...
  • The Obama Approach to Public Protection: Rulemakin ...
    OMB Watch http://www.ombwatch.org/files/regs/obamamidtermrulemakingreport.pdf [H/T: E&E News PM subscription required] While it has moved quickly with tougher air pollution standards, new chemicals policies and the agency’s first-ever regulations on greenhouse gases, U.S. EPA has done little to impr ...
  • IEA Wind Energy Annual Report 2009
    International Energy Annual http://www.ieawind.org/AnnualReports_PDF/2009.html [H/T: PEN-e] This annual Report by the International Energy Agency states that wind generation capacity increased in every country except Austria, with totals ranging from the United States with 35,086 MW to Switzerland w ...
  • Tsunami Warning and Preparedness: An Assessment of ...
    National Academies Press (download prepub version in sections with free registration) www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12628 Many coastal areas of the United States are at risk from tsunamis. After the catastrophic 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, legislation was passed to expand U.S. tsunami warn ...
  • The Uncertain Future of Nuclear Energy
    Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ. / by Frank N. von Hippel, Matthew Bunn, Anatoli Diakov, Ming Ding, Tadahiro Katsuta, Charles McCombie, M.V. Ramana, Tatsujiro Suzuki, Susan Voss, Suyuan Yu http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/20346/uncertain_future_of_nuclear_energy.html In th ...

Scientific American - News

  • How Should San Francisco Plan for Sea-Level Rise?
    REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--A 1,400-acre swath of salt flats along the western edge of San Francisco Bay has become the latest site for a development dispute that promises to become increasingly common in coastal U.S. cities: Whether new waterside growth makes sense when sea levels are rising. Agribusines ...
  • Me, Myself and My Stranger: Understanding the Neur ...
    Where are you right now? Maybe you are at home, the office or a coffee shop--but such responses provide only a partial answer to the question at hand. Asked another way, what is the location of your "self" as you read this sentence? Like most people, you probably have a strong sense that your consci ...
  • 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 ...

RAWA News

  • US soldiers “killed Afghan civilians for spo ...
    The Guardian: Twelve American soldiers face charges over a secret “kill team” that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their fingers as trophies. Five of the soldiers are charged with murdering three Afghan men who were allegedly killed for sport in separate attacks t ...
  • Afghan elite enjoys high life in Dubai
    The Financial Times: In the ornate Shahista restaurant in Dubai, Afghans in traditional robes break the Ramadan fast with fare from their homeland, including “zaban” – or sheep’s tongue. Yet the fleet of tinted and customised Mercedes parked outside the restaurant shows that the diners are not Afgha ...
  • Karzai’s brother made nearly USD1 million on ...
    The Washington Post: The brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai made nearly USD1 million on a Dubai property deal financed with money from Kabul Bank, according to a person familiar with the transaction and a property sales registry. It was not previously known that the president’s brother, Mahmou ...
  • Afghanistan says over 3,000 complaints about vote
    AFP: Afghanistan's electoral watchdog said on Tuesday it has received over 3,000 complaints about irregularities in the run-up to Saturday's parliamentary election and on polling day itself. The Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) said 1,388 complaints had been received specifically about election ...
  • Fraud casts doubt over Afghan election
    BBC News: It was not the most auspicious start. Twenty minutes past the 0700 (0230 GMT) opening time, and the polling station in eastern Kabul still had not opened. But then the small line of voters were allowed in, each was searched and their voting card inspected; Afghanistan's parliamentary elect ...

frogblog

  • Climate and financial stability
    Moody’s report on the NZ banking system was an interesting read. Perhaps one of the surprising statements was that they thought one of the weaknesses of the NZ banking system was:  Large industry concentration in rural lending, which is susceptible to fluctuations in agricultural p ...
  • Imagine the freedom of carfree
    Today is the tenth world carfree day, so I hopped to work on this lovely sunny spring day in the capital. Actually, like most of the people in this office, I rarely use a car and when I do it’s a taxi or I’m sharing a lift with friends. This isn’t because I think I’m on [...]
  • A heafty dose of Vitamin C
    Over the last few weeks there has been considerable publicity around intravenous administration of very high doses of Vitamin C to patients with various conditions. In particular ‘60 Minutes’ has run several items (check out second half of this one) There has been quite a history of ...
  • Hawkes Bay local elections
    Got an interesting email from Tom at the BayBuzz about the election up there. Thought this billboard that someone has put up was awesome. Apparently it has upset some of the local regional councillors who have overseen the pollution…
  • Wake-up call on women’s rights
    Sunday was Suffrage Day, a day on which we are urged to celebrate the struggle for Votes for Women. Determined to celebrate, I attended several suffrage events, but ended up somewhat sobered by the work we still need to do to achieve gender equity in the 21st Century. The gender pay ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Quick Hits
    A few miscellaneous late-night hits: Mark Kleiman on a new bit of Heritage Foundation claptrap on drug policy: "What’s really scary is that the people running Heritage think they can produce this kind of crap and get away with it. It wouldn’t have been hard to run a draft report past any of a d ...
  • 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 promises ...
  • 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 of ...
  • 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 a ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 17 September 2010
    This is pre-dinnertime catblogging. Every day, starting around 4:30 in the afternoon, both cats make their way into the living room and start looking ostentatiously bored (Domino, on the left) or ostentatiously cute (Inkblot, on the right). Eventually they get fed. According to me, it's because the ...

Insanity Report

  • Is Lady Gaga a Better Politician than President Ob ...
    Most of us have used public transportation as a means of traveling before. Undoubtedly you’ve witnessed an incident on a mode of public transportation (Metro, subway, bus, etc.)in which one person or party was either breaking the law or just being a general nuisance to everyone else. Perfect example ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: Steve Harvey’s Coming Out W ...
    So Steve Harvey has a new book coming out this fall. December 7th, Harvey’s follow up to his last *resists urge to vomit* Best Seller “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man” will be hitting bookshelves.  The book will be called “Straight Talk, No Chaser”. Look, I’ll be honest.  I can’t stand ...
  • 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)
    image: http://theinsanityreport.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/IC196_Stop_Buying_Steve_Harveys_Books_9192010.jpg Share with your friends:
  • 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 ...

Simple Climate

e!Science News

  • Ecologists find new clues on climate change in 150 ...
    Plants picked up to 150 years ago by Victorian collectors and held by the million in herbarium collections across the world could become a powerful – and much needed – new source of data for studying climate change, according to research published this week in the British Ecological Society's Journa ...
  • Study offers first explanation of how cells rapidl ...
    Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah have discovered that a protein, zyxin, is necessary for the maintenance and repair of the cell's cytoskeleton, or internal framework, which serves as the muscle and bone of the cell. The research has implications for cancer, as ...
  • Research shows child rearing practices of distant ...
    Ever meet a kindergartener who seemed naturally compassionate and cared about others' feelings? Who was cooperative and didn't demand his own way? Chances are, his parents held, carried and cuddled him a lot; he most likely was breastfed; he probably routinely slept with his parents; and he likely w ...
  • High-dose aspirin reduces pain for severe headache ...
    An inexpensive, hundred-year-old therapy for pain – aspirin – is effective in high doses for the treatment of severe headache and migraine caused by drug withdrawal, according to a new study by researchers with the UCSF Headache Center. Study participants were administered aspirin through an IV and ...
  • Rice growers turn to computer for advice, predicti ...
    Figuring out how a rice crop was faring used to be a head-scratching exercise with predictably unpredictable results. read more

unEarthed

  • Holdren's Remark Sets Off the Naysayers
    John Holdren, with President Obama. In a speech in Oslo on September 6, John Holdren, President Obama's science advisor, suggested that 'global warming' be replaced by 'global climate disruption' as a more accurate expressio ...
  • Judge Announces Big Victory for Tahoe
    Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe. "I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole world affords." Thus spake Mark Twain of Lake Tahoe, the magnificent high-altitude lake nestled in an alpine cup between Nevada and Califor ...
  • Joe Barton: Wants To Turn Out The Lights on Common ...
    Rep. Joe Barton wants to spend his time keeping old, outdated light bulbs on store shelves Joe Barton (R-TX) is proving that he has better things to do than apologize to Tony Hayward and BP . Now, he is trying to repeal energ ...
  • 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 ...

Brave New Climate

  • Travels to US and China: ecological models and the ...
    I’m about to fly out for a 3-week trip to the US and China (24 July to 15 Aug). But fear not! The BNC blog will remain active over that time. Indeed, there are quite a number of new posts in the pipeline for this period, including guest pieces by Rob Parker (this Sunday), Geoff [...]
  • Walk Against Warming in a city near you on 15th Au ...
    Guest Post by Rob Parker. Rob is a civil engineer with over 30 years experience in both design and engineering construction of dams, freeways, water treatment and general infrastructure. More recently, when confronted by the environmental impacts of our patterns of consumption and growth, he decided ...
  • Nuclear Power – Yes Please! (why we need nuc ...
    Here is my side of the ABC Environment ‘debate’ I’ve had with Ian Lowe, based around my book ‘Why vs Why: Nuclear Power“. ————————- In part two of a two-part debate on the prospect of nuclear power in Australia, Barry Brook argues that the arguments against nuclear are hackneyed and wrong. Part 1, “ ...
  • Balancing carbon with smoke and mirrors
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. Have I got a deal for you! I’ll be marketting my new patent-pending sandals in China and if just 1% of the population buy them, then  ...
  • Energy in Australia in 2030
    I’m about to hit the road once again, this time to take the great American road trip for 13 hours, from Sacremento to Idaho Falls, with Tom Blees, leaving bright and early tomorrow morning. Today I had a fantastic visit to UC Berkeley and the lab of Prof Per Peterson, and will have lots more [...]

    Blacklisted News

  • Screening on slippery slope to eugenics
    Garth George writes that an expanded screening programme for Down Syndrome may go against the rights of the disabled.
  • Shanghai Cooperation Organization launches joint a ...
  • Global climate change industry is now worth more t ...
    THE global climate change industry is now worth more than $528bn, powered by China’s rise as one of the top nations for climate revenues.
  • GM salmon Frankenfish about to be unleashed into U ...
    It’s that time of year again, when the FDA gathers its experts to decide what new horror to unleash into the food supply. This year it’s genetically modified salmon , a “frankenfish” pumped up with extra growth hormone genes that make it rapidly grow into a kind of super-Schwarzenegger creature that ...
  • CDC Allegedly Falsifies Reports – Ignoring up to 3 ...
    A shocking report from the National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW) presented data from two different sources demonstrating that the 2009/10 H1N1 vaccines contributed to an estimated 1,588 miscarriages and stillbirths.�

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

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

  • Mars' Mystery Moon Phobos: Was It Created by a Mas ...
    The origin of Mars' tiny moon, Phobos (fear in ancient Greek), is a mystery, but three theories are considered plausible. The first is that the moon is a captured asteroid; the second is that it formed in-situ as Mars formed...
  • CERN's Large Hadron Collider Sees Hints of Birth o ...
    Researchers on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, have seen hints of what may be the hot, dense state of matter thought to have filled the universe in its first nanoseconds of...
  • Mars: Are Its Sources of Methane Biological or Geo ...
    A new study indicates that methane in the atmosphere of Mars lasts less than a year. Methane is replenished from localized sources that show seasonal and annual variations. This pattern of methane production raises questions as to whether the methane...
  • New Research Shows Neanderthal Technology Equal to ...
    For decades scientists believed Neanderthals developed `modern' tools and ornaments solely through contact with Homo sapiens, but new research from the University of Colorado Denver now shows these sturdy ancients could adapt, innovate and evolve technology on their own. The...
  • WeatherAlert: Saturn's Titan Set for a Beautiful S ...
    The northern hemisphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is set for fine spring weather, withpolar skies clearing since the equinox in August last year. The visual and infrared mappingspectrometer (VIMS) aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been monitoring clouds on Titanregularly...

Natural News

  • Review of Annmarie Gianni organic skin care produc ...
    (NaturalNews) The world of conventional body care products is filled with gimmickry. Products that claim to be "natural" or even "organic" on the front label are often not. And some of the chemical toxins that go into conventional body care products would make your head spin if you really knew what ...
  • Warning: Bisphosphonate drugs to prevent osteoporo ...
    (NaturalNews) In a series of television commercials, actress Sally Fields has long promoted the drug Boniva as a wonderful and super easy way to treat and prevent the bone robbing disease known as osteoporosis. Just pop a pill once a month and stay strong, youthful and energetic like Sally, the ads ...
  • FDA panel says not enough evidence to verify safet ...
    (NaturalNews) Following a review from a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel this past weekend, AquaBounty Technologies, a Mass.-based biotechnology company, has been denied approval for its genetically modified (GM) salmon "AquAdvantage" that grows twice as fast as natural salmon. The FDA ...
  • Pharmaburger documentary launches as episode one o ...
    (NaturalNews) What do you get when you combine fast food with Big Pharma? Pharmaburger! That's the name of episode one of the new "Food Investigations" mini-documentary series created by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews.com. Food Investigations (www.FoodInvestigations.com) featur ...
  • News coverage about a flawed omega-3 study reveals ...
    (NaturalNews) Scientists have conducted numerous studies (http://www.naturalnews.com/omega-3.html) over the past decade showing the remarkable health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids -- the kind of "good" fat found in cold water fish like salmon and some plant foods such as walnuts. Recently, Dutch r ...

Threat Level

  • Supreme Court Eyeing RIAA ‘Innocent Infringer’ Cas ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing into the first RIAA file sharing case to reach its docket, requesting that the music labels’ litigation arm respond to a case testing the so-called “innocent infringer” defense to copyright infringement. The case pending before the justices concerns a federal appea ...
  • Feds: Privacy Does Not Exist in ‘Public Places’
    The Obama administration has urged a federal appeals court to allow the government, without a court warrant, to affix GPS devices on suspects’ vehicles to track their every move. The Justice Department is demanding a federal appeals court rehear a case in which it reversed the conviction and life s ...
  • Feds’ Requests for Google Data Rise 20 Percent
    The number of U.S. government requests for Google data rose 20 percent in the last six months, according to new data released by the search giant Monday. U.S. government agencies sent Google 4,287 requests for data on Google users and services from Jan. 1 to June 30, 2010, an average of 23.5 a day. ...
  • Video: Bradley Manning Supporters Rally in San Fra ...
    Supporters of accused WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning held demonstrations and events in 19 cities last Friday and over the weekend to draw attention to what they say is the unfair prosecution of a conscientious whistle-blower. Manning, 23, is being held in solitary confinement in the Marine Corps b ...
  • Bill Would Give Justice Department Power to Shutte ...
    Lawmakers introduced legislation Monday that would let the Justice Department seek U.S. court orders against piracy websites anywhere in the world, and shut them down through the sites’ domain registration. The bipartisan legislation, dubbed the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, ( ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Israel Tries to Blackmail U.S. Over Settlements
    For weeks, the fate of the continuing peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority has hinged on the extension of the moratorium on new settlements in the West Bank. But as the New York Times is now reporting, that extension may have less to do with any deal Prime Minister Netany ...
  • For GOP, Bush Recession Now "Over" Never Began
    After first considering the issue in April , the National Bureau of Economic Research ( NBER ) today announced the Bush recession is officially over . But given persistently high levels of unemployment and poverty, more interesting than the NBER's conclusion that "a trough occurred in June 2009" is ...
  • 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 ...

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

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • State Bar to hold public hearings about proposed r ...
    In a message from the State Bar President Terry Tottenham to members of the Bar, he reminds attorney’s in this State that there are  important changes being considered to the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct (TDRPC) and that the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors is conducting ...
  • Smitty’s statement on former PEC/AE GM Juan Garza’ ...
    Statement of Tom “Smitty” Smith: We are shocked to hear the news that former Austin Energy and Pedernales Electric Cooperative General Manager Juan Garza has taken a job promoting nuclear power with New Jersey-based NRG Energy. While Garza rightfully acknowledges the danger climate change poses to T ...
  • 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 ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Moses' Red Sea parting explained ?
    Researchers exploring the story of Moses parting the Red Sea might have uncovered an alternative explanation. According to research the wind needed to...
  • Massive blast 'created Mars moon'
    Scientists have come up with substantial evidence to suggest that Phobos was formed during a catastrophic event. The exact origin of Mars' two moons h...
  • "Ghosts" found at county museum
    A paranormal investigation team has captured images they believe to be of a ghostly judge at Dorset County Museum. Photographs and video taken during ...
  • Lost tiger population found in Himalayas
    The highest known living tigers have been discovered high up in the Himalayas by the BBC's Natural History Unit. Trail cams set up some 4,000 metres a...
  • Parrot arrested for aiding drug cartel
    Lorenzo the parrot has become the latest of over 1700 seized by officials having been trained as drug cartel lookouts. At an undercover raid last week...

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 22, 2010
    Big Economies Don't See Climate Pact This Year: U.S. (Reuters) World powers are not aiming for a legally binding pact to fight global warming at a U.N. meeting in Mexico this year and are trying to stop backsliding from a 2009 agreement, the U.S. said on Tuesday.  U.S. Plans to Try Agai ...
  • September 21, 2010
    Safety Officials Issue More Than 2,600 Citations in Surprise Mine Inspections (Washington Post) Federal officials have conducted 111 "blitz" inspections at dozens of coal and metal mines with similar histories over the past six months, officials announced. More than 2,660 citations for safet ...
  • September 20, 2010
    Blown-Out BP Well Finally Killed at Bottom of Gulf (AP) A permanent cement plug sealed BP's well nearly 2.5 miles below the sea floor, five months after a rig explosion led to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.  Dudley Faces Fight to Drill in Gulf as BP Says Goodbye Macondo ...
  • 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 ...

GreenBiz

  • EPEAT Continues Its Expansion Around the Globe
    The latest report from the Green Electronics Council shows rapid growth in participation and purchases for its certification scheme, with almost 32 million EPEAT-certified electronics sold outside the U.S. since August 2009.
  • U.K. Retailers Cut Waste to Landfill in Half
    �U.K. retailers taking part in the Better Retailing Climate initiative now send less than a quarter of their waste to landfill. �
  • 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.�

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Booman Tribune

  • As Clear as Mud
    Not for the first time, I find myself seeing the Democrats' strategy to be as clear as mud. From what I can tell, they wanted the Republicans to filibuster the Defense Appropriations Act. What do I base this on? Partly it is the fact that the White House didn't put on a full-court press to get it ...
  • Larry Summers Gone
    I was busy with the Finny and I missed an email from the White House press secretary. WASHINGTON - Dr. Lawrence H. Summers, Director of the National Economic Council and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, announced his plans to return to his position as University Professor at Harv ...
  • Sen. Lindsey G. Wants War with Iran
    I know it is election season. I know Republican politicians for the last decade have been willing to say anything (Hello, Dick Cheney, and you too George Bush) to make counties with no capability to attack the United States into monstrous threats and to lambaste their Democratic opponents with ...
  • Big Vote This Afternoon
    At around 2:15pm the Senate will hold a cloture vote on this year's Defense Appropriations Bill. The base bill includes a repeal of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. During the markup of the bill, Republican Susan Collins voted for repeal, while Democrat Jim Webb voted against it. It's not clear ...
  • Koch's Greed Could Kill CA Climate Change Law
    It should come to no one's surprise that two of the wealthiest men in America, Charles and David Koch, who just happen to own Koch Industries, a holding company with major investments in the Oil and Gas Industry are attempting to defeat, for their own grubby little purposes landmark climate change l ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Not Just Skin Deep: Acne and Mental Health
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline For teens with severe acne, girls are twice as likely and boys are three times as likely to contemplate suicide than their peers without acne. The mental health fallout of body confidence issues is particularly strong among adolescents and teens. Not only are their bo ...
  • The Over-Prescription of Antidepressants, Even Aga ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The over-prescription of antidepressants and other medications in situations where psychotherapy should be a first recourse (and may very well be all the treatment needed) is increasingly common. A new report finds that in many cases, clinicians are going a step furthe ...
  • Video Games Stimulate Aggression, Even Hours After ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline As teenagers become increasingly sedentary, their use of videogames and computers rises as well, with some even seeking treatment for computer addiction therapy. Beyond the compulsive element, violence in videogames is another primary concern. We already know that pla ...
  • Coping in the Moment
    By Stuart A. Kaplowitz, MFT, Anger Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Stuart and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile So let’s say you come home from work and it was an ok day. Perhaps you have been feeling stress (a lot of work needing to be done, even though you are managing it, or famil ...
  • Depression and Heart Disease Prove Worse Together
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline New links between physical and mental health are discovered practically weekly. Recently, a study published in the journal Heart finds that while both depression and heart disease are linked with shorter life expectancy, the combination of the two is particularly risk ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Never having to say you're sorry - Appalachian New ...
    Never having to say you're sorry Appalachian News-Express Take the “controversial” practice of mountaintop removal (MTR), a phrase synonymous with strip mining. It was given this moniker because the strippers now ... and more��
  • Thousands to Converge in DC to Call For End to Mou ...
    Thousands to Converge in DC to Call For End to Mountaintop Removal Common Dreams (press release) 27 for 'Appalachia Rising,' the largest national protest to demand the end to mountaintop removal coal mining. Appalachia Rising is being led by citizens of ... Mainers urged to help stop mountaintop re ...
  • Recovering the Commons: Interview with Scholars on ...
    Recovering the Commons: Interview with Scholars on the Climate Justice Frontlines The Indypendent Standing at the now infamous 7500-acre mountaintop removal mine on Kayford Mountain in West Virginia, long-time scholars and activists Herb ...
  • Enthusiasm Gap? Coalfields Rising, Baby (Video: De ...
    Enthusiasm Gap? Coalfields Rising, Baby (Video: Deep Down) Huffington Post After the EPA's new guidance rules on mountaintop removal operations drew national press last spring, the federal agency's first act two months later was to ... and more��
  • Banks Target 'Greener' Lending - Environmental Lea ...
    Environmental Leader Banks Target 'Greener' Lending Environmental Leader As an example, Wells Fargo recently said its involvement with companies engaged in mountaintop removal mining would be “limited and declining,” according to ... Lenders Back Off of Environmental Risks New York Times (blog) Cre ...

Memeorandum

  • Bill Clinton: Russian immigrants and settlers obst ...
    Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy : Bill Clinton: Russian immigrants and settlers obstacles to Mideast peace   —  Russian immigrants to Israel have emerged as a central obstacle to achieving a Middle East peace deal, according to former President Bill Clinton.  He voiced fears that the Israel Defense Fo ...
  • CONFIRMED: Sen. Saxby Chambliss Admits "All Faggot ...
    Joe / Joe. My. God. : CONFIRMED: Sen. Saxby Chambliss Admits “All Faggots Must Die” Comment Came From His Atlanta Headquarters   —  I've just gotten off the phone with Atlanta Journal-Constitution political writer Jim Galloway who says that Sen. Saxby Chambliss has confirmed that the “All faggot ...
  • "All Faggots Must Die" (Joe/Joe. My. God.)
    Joe / Joe. My. God. : “All Faggots Must Die”   —  The above comment was left today by “Jimmy” on my post about the DADT cloture vote.  The IP address *appears* to resolve to the neighborhood of GOP U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss' Atlanta office.  The ISP is “United States Senate.”  I'm confident that t ...
  • Woodward Book Portrays Obama Aides' Battles (Peter ...
    Peter Baker / New York Times : Woodward Book Portrays Obama Aides' Battles   —  WASHINGTON — Some of the critical players in President Obama's national security team doubt his strategy in Afghanistan will succeed and have spent much of the last 20 months quarreling with one another over policy, per ...
  • McCain Ignores Testimony Before His Committee, Cla ...
    Igor / Wonk Room : McCain Ignores Testimony Before His Committee, Claims Military Doesn't ‘Seek Out’ Orientation   —  This afternoon, immediately after the Senate failed to invoke cloture on a defense authorization measure which included an amendment to gradually repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell …

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China Dialogue

  • After the spill
    In the days following the Dalian pipeline explosion, local fishermen reaped the rewards of a government-funded clean-up campaign – until the oil dispersed and reality set in. Xu Zhuojun reports. Thousands of black buckets glistened by the shore. The moist air carried a pungent whiff of oil as well a ...
  • Following the money
    As Chinese finance flows overseas, the country’s green groups are also expanding their horizons. Meng Si meets one home-grown organisation promoting sustainable business across borders. Chinese firms have radically stepped up their overseas investment activity in recent years. But the environmental ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Christine O’Donnell is white privilege at it ...
    What if Christine O’Donnell were black? Would she still be running for office or would she be running from the law?Right wing commentators are going to bat for this batty candidateYou ever wonder what if? What if a guy named Glenn Beck were black? Would he be on national television allowed to fill ...
  • Echoing at the Extremes
    This weekend, at a panel on the U.S./Mexico border in Marfa, Texas, GRITv friend, reporter Mark Danner discussed the “thinning out” and hardening of politics. When there’s insecurity, violence and threat, he noted, people flock to those who promise to deliver security and stability even at the cost ...
  • Larry Summers to Leave White House Post
    Larry Summers is expected to leave his post as one of the President’s top economic advisors following the midterm elections. The White House put out a statement this afternoon saying that Summers plans to return to Harvard by the end of the year. Obama set off speculation of turnover at a town hall ...
  • Glenn Greenwald: Dems Hyping Tea Party Extremists ...
    Says Greenwald in a wide ranging interview, it's extremely telling, that two years into this administration, that all the Democrats have is a fear campaign.
  • Is Lady Gaga a Better Politician Than Barack Obama ...
    The next time the White House wants to break a filibuster, it might consider going Gaga.

Threat Level

  • Supreme Court Eyeing RIAA ‘Innocent Infringer’ Cas ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing into the first RIAA file sharing case to reach its docket, requesting that the music labels’ litigation arm respond to a case testing the so-called “innocent infringer” defense to copyright infringement. The case pending before the justices concerns a federal appea ...
  • Feds: Privacy Does Not Exist in ‘Public Places’
    The Obama administration has urged a federal appeals court to allow the government, without a court warrant, to affix GPS devices on suspects’ vehicles to track their every move. The Justice Department is demanding a federal appeals court rehear a case in which it reversed the conviction and life s ...
  • Feds’ Requests for Google Data Rise 20 Percent
    The number of U.S. government requests for Google data rose 20 percent in the last six months, according to new data released by the search giant Monday. U.S. government agencies sent Google 4,287 requests for data on Google users and services from Jan. 1 to June 30, 2010, an average of 23.5 a day. ...
  • Video: Bradley Manning Supporters Rally in San Fra ...
    Supporters of accused WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning held demonstrations and events in 19 cities last Friday and over the weekend to draw attention to what they say is the unfair prosecution of a conscientious whistle-blower. Manning, 23, is being held in solitary confinement in the Marine Corps b ...
  • Bill Would Give Justice Department Power to Shutte ...
    Lawmakers introduced legislation Monday that would let the Justice Department seek U.S. court orders against piracy websites anywhere in the world, and shut them down through the sites’ domain registration. The bipartisan legislation, dubbed the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, ( ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Paris Hilton leaves Japan after questioning
    TOKYO (Reuters) - Paris Hilton left Japan on Wednesday after lengthy questioning from airport officials, and following media reports that the socialite would not be allowed into the country after pleading guilty to possessing cocaine.
  • FACTBOX-Potential candidates to replace Summers
    Sept 21 Reuters) - White House economic adviser Larry Summers is stepping down from his job at the end of the year to return to his position as a professor at Harvard University, the administration said on Tuesday.
  • Study finds iPhone owners want to switch to Verizo ...
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Close to half of Apple Inc iPhone users in the United States would be "very interested" in dumping AT&T Inc for Verizon Wireless as a service provider, according to a study from professionals service firm Deloitte.
  • "Baywatch" star Hasselhoff first 'Dancing' victim
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Maybe David Hasselhoff should have sported a Speedo on the dance floor.
  • Wind could have parted Red Sea for Moses: report
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Moses might not have parted the Red Sea, but a strong east wind that blew through the night could have pushed the waters back in the way described in biblical writings and the Koran, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #433
    White House quiet on Pollard release speculation. The Barack Obama administration is staying silent on a reported offer from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to extend a settlements freeze in the occupied areas, in exchange for the release of Jonathan … Continue reading →
  • Israel offers settlement freeze in exchange for US ...
    By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | Israeli government officials are considering extending a settlement freeze in Israeli-occupied territories in exchange for the release of an American citizen serving a life sentence for spying on the US for Israel. Laura Rozen … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

After Downing Street.org

  • Newly Disclosed Documents Shed More Light on Early ...
    By Jeremy R. Hammond, Foreign Policy Journal, September 20, 2010 U.S. government documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and recently posted on the website of the George Washington University National Security Archive shed some additional light on talks with the Taliban prio ...
  • Kaplan University Ripping Off Poor Students for Pr ...
    Kaplan University Ripping Off Poor Students for Profit - by Stephen Lendman Like the old "Let's Fall in Love" lyrics: Bankers do it. Insurers do it. Even (privatized) universities with poor students do it. They steal and get away with it, a Danny Weil August 18 Daily Censored article titled, "Whistl ...
  • Obama’s DOE conducts nuclear experiment
    By Andrew Kishner On Wednesday, September 15, the United States Department of Energy conducted a subcritical nuclear explosive experiment under the NNSS (Nevada National Security Site) facility in Nevada formerly known as the Nevada Test Site. The subcritical test dubbed 'Bacchus' is the 24th su ...
  • CIA Has 3,000-Man Army Killing Afghans
    From NY Times on latest Bob Woodward book: Beyond the internal battles, the book offers fresh disclosures on the nation’s continuing battle with terrorists. It reports that the C.I.A. has a 3,000-man “covert army” in Afghanistan called the Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams, or C.T.P.T., mostly Afghans ...
  • Taliban Shoots Down U.S. Helicopter, Maybe With Yo ...
    Here we go, another helicopter in Afghanistan down, no enemy fire involved. �Why is it that since the Wikileaks document dump revealing that the Taliban has long had SAMs (surface-to-air missiles) I don't believe it? �The AP reported "Nine NATO Troops Killed in Afghan Helicopter Crash" including a ...

Grist - News

  • Don’t expect much from Cancun climate summit ...
    by Agence France-Presse. NEW YORK -- The top U.S. climate negotiator, Todd Stern, warned Tuesday against any expectations of a binding deal on cutting greenhouse-gas emissions at the next U.N. climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico. Stern said after a high-level meeting that nations would ...
  • Stove pollution causes 2 million deaths annually
    by Tyler Falk. Everybody knows that if you play with fire you get burned. But who knew wood-burning stoves were so especially deadly ? According to the United Nations, stoves kill nearly 2 million people each year -- mostly women and children. That's because the stoves powered by crop waste, ...
  • What’s next for the Gulf, and other green ne ...
    by Tyler Falk. The Macondo oil well is dead , but the saga of the BP oil leak goes on. Residents of the Gulf coast and the seafloor continue to struggle with the lingering effects of so much crude. So what's in store for the Gulf? (Hopefully not another Deepwater Horizon.) The AP reminds us th ...
  • 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, ...

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Washington Independent

  • How the Census Worked As Stimulus
    With six workers competing for every opening and Congress waffling on providing additional aid to the jobless, the Census came barreling in -- a coincidental, accidental stimulus, stuffing billions of dollars into hundreds of thousands of empty pockets for dull, easy work.
  • Continuing the Push for the DREAM Act
    Harry Reid’s effort to attach the DREAM Act to the defense authorization bill was killed today when Republicans filibustered the bill. Reid promised he’d continue to fight for the act, and immigrants rights advocates have pledged their support. Reid said today the Senate would eventually vote on the ...
  • Summers to Step Down
    Larry Summers, the head of the National Economic Council and an adviser to President Barack Obama, is stepping down at the end of the year. Here is the full press release: Dr. Lawrence H. Summers, Director of the National Economic Council and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, announc ...
  • Senate Will Vote Thursday on the DISCLOSE Act
    Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) spokesman Jim Manley has confirmed that the DISCLOSE Act will be brought up for debate tomorrow and a possible vote on Thursday in the Senate. “We’re debating DISCLOSE Act tomorrow w/ vote Thursday,” he tweeted to followers just an hour ago. Despite rumors that it might be s ...
  • DREAM Act and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Re ...
    “We’re going to vote on the DREAM Act, it’s just a question of when,” Reid said after the filibuster. “This isn’t the end of this. We’re going to continue to move on.”

Digg Green

  • What happens if a heart pump battery dies ins ...
    Christian Volpe was shopping with his wife when an alarm started beeping to warn that only 15 minutes of battery power was left on the implanted heart pump that was keeping him alive. "I have to admit, I panicked," he said. Understatement, indeed.
  • Peak Oil Consumption - How much do we have le ...
    Peak oils is the point where the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction is reached, and after which, production enters a terminal decline. Some say it has already occurred, or will by 2015. Meanwhile, demand shows no signs of abating.
  • Spider Weaves River-Spanning Webs that Are St ...
    The extremely strong silk allows the Darwin’s bark spider to build its webs in habitats other spiders are incapable of using, which means it can catch food without having to compete with other spiders.
  • Walmart Adding Thin-Film Solar Panels On 20-3 ...
    photo: Walmart In continued efforts to deploy more renewable energy at its stores, Walmart announced today that it will be installing solar panels at an additional 20-30 of its stores in California and Arizona, opting at most of the locations to install thin-film solar panels rather than tradi ...
  • Don’t Be A Hater - Studies Show It’s Making Y ...
    People with positive perceptions of were more likely to be satisfied with their life. They were less likely to be depressed.

Invisible Opportunity

  • JFK told us the TRUTH
  • Myth-Debunking Snopes Obscures Israel’s Role in 9/ ...
    By Maidhc Ó Cathail One of the lucky few (not mentioned by Snopes) was Larry Silverstein, who signed a 99-year lease on the World Trade Center six weeks before 9/11, insuring it for $3.5 billion. Silverstein’s wife’s insistence that he couldn’t cancel an appointment with his dermatologist that morni ...
  • Firm wants terror alerts off the Web
    By Ron Todt, The Associated Press The co-director of a Pennsylvania company that provided intelligence bulletins to the state that outraged Gov. Ed Rendell and prompted his apologies to peaceful protest groups says that posting the bulletins online increases the risk of harm to potential targets. In ...
  • What Kind Of Top-Secret Assassination Tech Does $5 ...
    Not since the end of the Cold War has the Pentagon spent so much to develop and deploy secret weapons. But now military researchers have turned their attention from mass destruction to a far more precise challenge: finding, tracking, and killing individuals By Sharon Weinberger Every year, tens of b ...
  • Gotter and Dammerung on the Horizon
    By Les Visible Some of us are big picture people and some of us are into the details. I’m a big picture person myself. What I tend to notice are the major forces that account for the present state of being. The foremost condition I am noticing is the revealing and unveiling powers that are [...]

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

  • Wrong Way for Right Whales
    Mysterious whale die-off is largest on record Gandhi quotes Follow Joe Mohrâs cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons Related posts:Dances With the Moon: Earth Day is Coming! Can’t Spell HATE Without T-E-A (cartoon) Tea Partiers and Suicide Bombers (cartoon) ...
  • Can’t Spell HATE Without T-E-A (cartoon)
    Opposition to health care reform, threats of holy book burning, anti-immigration legislation, opposition to gay marriage, and the growing influence of the horrifically xenophobic Hate-Everyone-Not-Like-Me Party…WOW! Is this 2010 or 1810??? We are on a fast track to SCARY!!! These hate-children of P ...
  • Frankenfish Should be OK Because of BPA (cartoon)
    Bill McKibbenâs New Book: The Old Economy is Killing the Earth; Itâs Time for a New Living Economy Don’t Let Experimental Genetically Engineered Salmon Reach Your Plate Follow all of Mean Joe Green’s environmental cartoons on JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons. Related post ...
  • Water: Nature’s Wonderdrug–Now with Wonderdrugs! ( ...
    Between 2006 and 2007, the Southern Nevada Water Authority in Las Vegas screened tap water from 19 US water utilities for 51 different compounds. The 11 most frequently detected compounds are highlighted in the cartoon and described below. 1.used to treat cardiovascular disease, 2.an herbicide ba ...
  • Pesticides and ADHD (cartoon)
    From Grist: More research linking pesticide exposure to ADHD in kids Follow all of Mean Joe Green’s environmental cartoons on JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons. Related posts:Chemicals and Obesity Speeding up Puberty in Girls (cartoon) BP’s Getting All Cap-Happy (cartoon) Tea ...

Inhabitat

  • Egregious Packaging Hall of Shame: Electronics Pac ...
    If there’s one thing that non-greenies and enviro-heroes can agree on, it’s that the way that most electronics (and their concomitant accessories, additional parts and hardware) are packaged is really, really annoying. We’ve all had the experience of purchasing a shiny (or matte, if that’s your thin ...
  • HEL YES! Woodsy Exhibition Shows the Roots of Finn ...
    Read the rest of HEL YES! Woodsy Exhibition Shows the Roots of Finnish Designhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Alvar Aalto, Finnish ...
  • MATILDA: Australia’s Brightest at the 2010 London ...
    Read the rest of MATILDA: Australia’s Brightest at the 2010 London Design Festivalhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 2010, australian ...
  • 6 Inspiring Examples of Groundbreaking Green Techn ...
    This article is underwritten by Veer.com. Green technology isn’t just about wind turbines, solar panels and alternative fuel anymore. A few inspiring individuals out there are breaking new ground with innovative ideas that no one’s ever explored before. From a printer that can spit out whole bu ...
  • Central America to Tap Volcanoes for Renewable Ene ...
    The troubled and impoverished region of Central America is rich in one thing: volcanoes. Spurred by increasing demand for electricity, several countries are moving to transform the thundering mountains’ energy into watts. Geothermal plants can use the water heated by the molten earth beneath volcano ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Clear Spring Skies Emerge on Titan
    Spring on Saturn’s moon Titan looks to be sunny and mostly cloud-free, according to a new analysis of data from the Cassini spacecraft. Titan is the only body in the solar system other than Earth known to have liquid lakes, clouds and perhaps even rain. But instead of water, frigid Titan’s lakes an ...
  • Life on Earth May Have Had an Icy Start
    The cracks in ice could have served as a safe environment — much like a cell — for the first life on Earth to replicate and evolve. The study adds plausibility to the ‘RNA World’ hypothesis that argues life began with a single stranded molecule capable of self-replication. “I always thought that t ...
  • LHC Detects Evidence of New Physics
    After nearly 6 months of smashing particles, the Large Hadron Collider has seen signs of something entirely new. Pairs of charged particles produced when two beams of protons collide seem to be associated with each other even after they fly apart. “It is a small effect, but it is very interesting i ...
  • Video: How the Red Sea Could Have Parted
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience614611221001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); Biblical accounts of the Red Sea’s parting are hydrologically plausible, suggest computer simulations of sustained winds in a coastal lagoon where the Nile met the Mediterranean 3,000 years ago. Under s ...
  • Video: Shark-Finning Puts Species on Verge of Exti ...
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience605835578001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); It’s estimated that as many as a million sharks a year are killed just for their fins. Shark-finning is a cruel practice. Sharks are caught on long lines, or in nets, re ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Turkish President Snubs Israeli Counterpart to Mee ...
    Turkish President Abdullah Gül will be cancelling a meeting previously planned with Israeli President Shimon Peres during this weekâs United Nations summit, yet will still meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, according to Fars News. Fars News, a site affiliated with the Islamic Revolu ...
  • Failure of Military Leadership in Afghanistan: "Th ...
    The Washington Post story about the "rogue soldiers" in Afghanistan is really horrifying in that a squad of Army soldiers could perform the random killings of Afghani civilians as it is suggested. Because, really, we needed another reason for the Afghani public to hate and fear our troops, despite t ...
  • Neocon "Team B" Author Yerushalmi: "Islam Was Born ...
    I wrote last week that the new “Team B” report from neoconservative activist Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy on the threat of Islamic sharia law is notable for, among other things, the fact that its authors consulted with no actual Muslims or Islamic scholars in writing it. A key “expert ...
  • Ground Zero Mosque Test of Islamic Values
    America’s usually sleepy summer has this year been riddled with debate over plans to build a mosque just two blocks from the site of New York’s World Trade Center—dubbed Ground-Zero—destroyed by terrorists on September 11, 2001.  US President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg ar ...
  • Afghanistan Study Group Report Stirs Support and D ...
    Before I was able to speak to the themes of the Afghanistan Study Group report of which I was a part at a major foreign policy conference titled the 2010 Global Leadership Forum sponsored by the Royal United Services Institute and the Princeton Project on National Security in London this past week, ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: The Senate Is Not Full of Lady Ga ...
    In a dismaying reminder of the poor state of government, Senate Democrats came up short of the 60 votes necessary to proceed on a defense spending bill that included an amendment repealing DADT. Greg Sargent says GOP obstructionism works as a tactic, exposing Dems to the charge that they're not tr ...
  • Christianity is Bigger Than Christine O'Donnell.
    This morning, Matthew Yglesias wrote a pretty decent post on Christine O'Donnell that was unfortunately marred by a pretty narrow take on Christianity as it applies to lying: I would further add that from a Christian perspective, I don’t think the Kantian view is all that problematic. When you lie ...
  • The Little Picture: Snowe Backs Filibuster.
    (Flickr/ World Economic Forum ) Sen. Susan Collins , R-Maine. Today's Senate vote to break a Republican filibuster of the yearly defense-authorization bill, which included the DREAM Act and a repeal of "don't ask, don't tell," failed by a 54 to 43 vote. Collins, who ultimately voted "no," was vie ...
  • Guns and Crime.
    Writing at Reason , Brian Doherty approvingly cites NRA statistics on crime, arguing that crime goes down as gun possession goes up: Quick and dirty macrodata chart from the NRA via LewRockwell.com on guns and crime in the U.S. showing that as gun possession goes up and gun laws loosen, violent c ...
  • Can It All Be That Simple? Yes.
    Dan Balz in today's Washington Post: One of the persistent mysteries about the president is why someone who began his adult life as a community organizer, working with economically displaced workers in Chicago, has had so much difficulty making a connection with voters on economic issues. That was ...

Buzzflash

  • The Venal, Vile and Occasionally Vulnerable Newt G ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH These are good times for Gingrich who is in demand as a speaker, recently produced an anti-Islam film with his third wife, has taken to religion and is palling around with some of the more extremist Christian conservatives in the country, and is raking in the dough t ...
  • Famed Civil Rights Photographer Ernest Withers Dou ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH For racists across this great nation who Want minorities to take a hike, They heard about this story and sighed, “Now, there’s a Negro I like.” � read more
  • The GOP's War of Terror on Behalf of Deficit Busti ...
    STEVE PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH One of the (many) mistakes attributed to George W. Bush was that he never asked average Americans to sacrifice anything for their country in the “War on Terror," but rather to “just go shopping.” Well, the GOP decided not to make that mistake again. This time it’s the war o ...
  • Keep Your News Corporate Free: Contribute to BuzzF ...
    BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG BY MARK KARLIN One of the most inspiring gifts I ever received is a framed message I keep next to my laptop: "Worrying Does Not Empty Tomorrow of Its Troubles; It Empties Today of Its Strength." That is why I am asking you to donate generously (and tax-free) today to Tru ...
  • Karl Rove is Now Groveling and Joining the Crazies ...
    BARBARA'S BUZZ FROM ATLANTA http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/karl-rove-gives-in-to-odonnell-fever-video.php?ref=fpb "Karl Rove Walks Back His Diss And Gives In To O'Donnell Fever"� Nutty is the future of the Repuglican Party.� Karl Rove abandoned the honesty and credibility.� He is now gro ...

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The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • More science discoveries
    More science news from Sciencebase: Bleachgate – Watch out for this mineral snake oil. It's basically bleach. The vomiting is not a sign that it's working. This is industrial quackery at its worst. Massive galaxy puts years on universe – When I was a kid, the textbooks said the universe was about 13 ...
  • 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’ ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • ACLU in Court Tuesday in Challenge to Secrecy Prov ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 20, 2010 ACLU Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Virginia will be in federal appeals court Tuesday to present oral arguments in a lawsuit challenging the overreaching secrecy provisions of a federal whistleblower law that prevent the public ...
  • Second Trial Begins for San Diego Medical Marijuan ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 20, 2010 Americans for Safe Access Opening arguments began today for the second trial in less than a year against Jovan Jackson, a San Diego medical marijuana patient and dispensary operator who was arrested in a multi-agency law enforcement raid in September 2009. Ja ...
  • National Consumer Organization: Halt Approval of G ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 20, 2010 Food & Water Watch Today national consumer organization Food & Water Watch will tell the FDA it must halt the approval of AquaBounty’s AquaAdvantage salmon until the agency could do its own studies regarding the long-term effects of human consumption of genet ...
  • CREW Calls For Federal Criminal Investigation Into ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 20, 2010 CREW Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed complaints with the Delaware U.S. Attorney's Office and the Federal Election Commission (FEC) against newly-minted Delaware senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell (R) for using ca ...
  • Syria: Release Student Blogger Held Incommunicado
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 20, 2010 Human Rights Watch (HRW) The Syrian government should immediately release Tal al-Mallohi, a 19-year-old high school student and blogger held incommunicado without charge for nine months, Human Rights Watch said today. She has been held by Syria's security ser ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline Still a Dream
    by Ted Rall KARA-TEPE, AFGHANISTAN - There is no pipeline. There probably won't be one. Yet the pipeline-that-will-never-exist is one of the main reasons that hundreds of thousands of Afghans and two thousand American soldiers are dead. Among my goals during my late-summer trip to Afghanistan wa ...
  • China, Energy, and Global Power: Twenty-First Cent ...
    by Michael T. Klare  If you want to know which way the global wind is blowing (or the sun shining or the coal burning), watch China.  That's the news for our energy future and for the future of great-power politics on planet Earth.  Washington is already watching -- with anxiety. read more
  • 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 ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Kyhber Pass logistics and Karachi
    By Dave Anderson: Pat Lang (a retired US Army colonel) is thinking logistics. He notes that the US military is reliant on a massive, slow, chockful of chokepoint supply line to move bulk supplies from Karachi to Peshwar and then through the Khyber Pass before they arrive at the main US logistics hub ...
  • Renting Afghan Legitimacy
    By Steve Hynd Today at the HuffPo, Prof. Marc Gopin sets out a case for staying the course in Afghanistan which apparently relies on transitioning to a "kinder, gentler war" of the kind that has consistently eluded the US military and it's alles. Maybe that's because such a war is essentially mythic ...
  • Broken Army = Broken Country
    By Steve Hynd When people say that the US military has been broken by two dumb occupations of lands only marginally important to US national interests, perpetuated by both Republican and Democratic presidents, this is part of what they mean: When Lt. Col. Dave Wilson took command of a battalion of t ...
  • 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 ...

Water Wars

  • Whose water is it, anyway?
    A Bellemont case illustrates how complex — and contradictory —Arizona water law can be.
  • 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.

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Electronic Intifada

  • "I am sure this occupation will end"
    Since 2005, residents of the occupied West Bank village of Beit Ommar have launched nonviolent demonstrations in protest against Israeli colonialism and occupation. Jody McIntyre i ...
  • Palestine's endangered vistas captured in "Mashare ...
    The Shat-ha walking group leaves Ramallah every Friday morning. The group, founded in 2006 by Dr. Saleh Abdel Jawad, a Birzeit University history and political science professor, a ...
  • 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 ...

Afghanistan Sun

  • Woodward book details Obama battles with advisers ...
    A new book by well known journalist Bob Woodward has revealed that President Barack Obama repeatedly pressed his top military advisers to give him an exit plan for Afghanistan, but failed to get it.
  • Pak jails 70-yr-old Briton for trying to sneak acr ...
    A 70-year-old British man, Nicholas Bain, accused of spying in Pakistan is being reportedly held in Peshawar Central Jail along with Taliban suspects after being arrested in a lawless tribal region, close to the border with Afghanistan.
  • Army Ignored Complaints Of Afghan Slayings
    This undated photo released by the Winfield family shows U.S. Army Spc. Adam Winfield on duty in Afghanistan. Winfield is one of five American soldiers accused of murdering civilians in three separate...
  • Afghanistan tackling almost 4,000 poll complaints
    Afghanistan's electoral watchdog said Wednesday it was dealing with almost 4,000 complaints over the parliamentary election, which has been tainted by accusations of fraud and Taliban intimidation. El...
  • Book says aides doubt Obama's Afghan strategy
    President Barack Obama's top advisers are depicted in a new book as arguing over much of the past 20 months about policy and turf, with some top members of his national security team doubting the pres...

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • SEC Official Cited for Whistleblower Retaliation t ...
    The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs is holding a hearing tomorrow to examine how the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has responded to an Office of Inspector General (OIG) report on the agency’s bungled investigation of R....
  • Expert Agrees: Over 300 Metric Tons of Highly Enri ...
    It is the one week anniversary of POGO's release of its latest investigation into the US Nuclear Weapons Complex: How the Country Can Profit and Become More Secure by Getting Rid of Its Surplus Weapons-Grade Uranium. Unfortunately, the National Nuclear...
  • U.S. Chamber of Commerce Selling SEC Secrecy
    POGO has learned that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is shopping another legislative proposal to give the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) the ability to hide information on wrongdoing by brokerage firms, hedge funds, financial advisors, and all other financial...
  • Did Whistle-Blogging Contribute to Termination at ...
    Can blogging get you fired? One now-former Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) attorney, who says he’s blown the whistle and is documenting retaliation on his blog, says the answer may be yes. David Pardo, an attorney at the FAA, was fired...
  • Two More Questions for the CIA Inspector General N ...
    We've got two more items to add to our list of questions we'd put to David Buckley, the nominee for Inspector General (IG) of the CIA. First: If the pending Intelligence Authorization Act is enacted, how would you work with...

Digital Journal

  • bookscene.ca Hosts Official Book Club Launch Event
    Sept. 22, 2010 -- bookscene.ca, Canada’s premium online discount book club, is celebrating its official launch with a much-anticipated celebration on Sept. 29, 2010, 12:00-3:00 p.m. at The Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto.
  • Where is my son? The Denise Allan Story
    When a child is missing a parent will go to the ends of the earth to find them. That is the story for Denise Allan whose son 'Charles' Karoly John Horvath-Allan disappeared 21 years ago in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.
  • Bomb Threat at TTC offices Tuesday morning
    A bomb threat received at a TTC office at 1138 Bathurst Street this morning caused bus diversions this morning in Toronto.
  • Toronto Beer Week - September 20th to 26th
    The inaugural Toronto Beer Week is in full swing across the city.. From September 20th to 26th an array of pubs and restaurants are offering entertainment, taste pairing, educational workshops, and more...all in the name of beer!
  • Bored with Ford
    With just over one month until Election Day in Toronto, mayoral candidate Rob Ford appears to be pulling away from his competition.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • A Couple Sleeps Outside to Stay Together
    This new video comes from Mark's InvisiblePeople.tv 30-city, 11,000-mile, 75-day road trip , going on now. While walking around Atlanta, I happened to find a park with more than 10 people living in it. Thing is this very small park was smack dab in the middle of the city with major streets on either ...
  • Remembering a Radical, Revolutionary Homeless Advo ...
    On September 11th, the Community for Creative Non-Violence (CCNV) in Washington D.C. celebrated its own milestone, its 40th anniversary. The event also served as a memorial service for  revered homeless advocate Mitch Snyder 20 years after his death . Special guests included CCNV co-founder Father E ...
  • Where Is the (Habitat for) Humanity for the Homele ...
    A friend suggested that I check out Habitat for Humanity's website to see if I could qualify for a house, since I've been without one for the past six years. My heart sank when I looked at the selection criteria for Seattle. I don't even qualify to send in an application. Number two on the list is t ...
  • Randy Quaid and His Wife Sure Seem Homeless, Even ...
    Actor Randy Quaid and his wife Evi were arrested on trespassing and burglary charges this week after they were found squatting in a ritzy home in Los Angeles they owned years ago. It's their second brush with the law over housing in a year. They were charged with skipping out on a $10,000 hotel tab ...
  • Please Don't Steal the Vegetables
    It's not just Chicago where people are stealing tomatoes , cucumbers and corn, but Chicago's Community Gardens are in the news as harvest time is here and neighbors are ripping off neighbors all around the country. Who is getting the blame? The homeless and the poor. Community gardens tend to be plo ...

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

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 9-21-10
    Today, Kevin reveals why the recession is a lie and why you are absolutely, 100% getting ripped off. Plus, get out a pen and paper; Kevin tells you exactly where to invest your money and whether it’s better to rent or own in this type of financial environment. Self Help: Best Gold Option    Loss Fat ...
  • Pentagon Attempts to Block Book on Afghan War
    September 10, 2010 Fox News By: Catherine Herridge On the eve of Sept. 11, Fox News has learned the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has attempted to block a book about the tipping point in Afghanistan and a controversial pre-9/11 data mining project called “Able Danger.” In a letter obtained by Fox ...
  • Pope Plot Suspects Released After Being Arrested O ...
    September 20, 2010 The Sydney Morning Herald By: Paola Totaro The six men questioned by counter-terrorism police amid claims of a plot to kill the Pope have all been released without charge, Scotland Yard has confirmed. The men, all reported to have been of North African origin, were arrested in the ...
  • Peter Morgan Accuses Tony Blair of Plagiarizing Li ...
    September 8, 2010 The Telegraph By: Tim Walker Tony Blair’s account of what was said when he went to kiss hands with the Queen in 1997 is perhaps the most controversial part of his memoirs because it represents such a flagrant betrayal of the trust that had previously existed between the monarch and ...
  • Hosni Mubarak Left Red Faced Over Doctored Red Car ...
    September 16, 2010 The Guardian By: Jack Shenker There are those who lead and those who follow, and the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram clearly feels that President Hosni Mubarak fits into the former category. When he was pictured with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • The Muslim Brotherhood — not a global menace
    Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy, in a report released last week, breathlessly warned that: “real progress [is] being made by the Muslim Brotherhood in insinuating shariah into the very heartland of America through stealthy means.” Nathan J Brown knows a lot more about the Islamist organi ...
  • Tom Engelhardt: why the troops are coming home
    One and a half cheers for American decline By Tom Engelhardt Compare two assessments of the American future: In the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll in which 61% of Americans interviewed considered “things in the nation” to be “on the wrong track,” 66% did “not feel confident that life fo ...
  • Israel now in proximity talks with the US
    Ever since — with much fanfare in Washington — Israel entered into direct talks with the Palestinian team led by acting president Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinians have insisted that the continuation of the talks would hinge on a continuation of a nominal settlement freeze due to expire on Sunday. Thu ...
  • The sustainability of injustice
    Phil Weiss caught this remark from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as she headed for a meeting with Israel’s President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem last week: [Peres] understands better than most the fundamental reality facing the State of Israel, that the status quo is unsustainable — now, that do ...
  • Lieberman wants Israel to become a Jews-only state
    AFP reports that Israel’s foreign minister hopes to complete the process of ethnic cleansing that began in 1948 and push Israel’s remaining Palestinian population out of the Jewish state: Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday proposed that in a future peace deal the Palestinians shou ...

Watts Up With That?

  • And the Lord said: “Go forth and model Moses ...
    I guess with Climate change enlightenment was fun while it lasted. But now itâs dead (George Monbiot) there’s not much for those modelers and supercomputers at NCAR to do. So why not model parting the Red Sea? Beats making golden … Continue reading →
  • NOAA/NCDC – USHCN is broken please send 100 ...
    While this would certainly put an end to the poor siting problems discovered by the surfacestations.org project, I can’t help but think almost everything related to climate can be solved with money: Here’s the letter: PDF with attachments here: USHCN_Letter_-_FINAL_-_7-29-10_SECURED … Continue readi ...
  • Unsustainable cow manure
    Since we are watching the plight of the Thompsons in Australia over cow manure, this submission titled “Unsustainable cow manure” on sustainable energy sent to me by Paul Driessen seemed appropriate. I put solar on my own home and a … Continue reading →
  • Plight of the Thompsons takes top 5 in WordPress
    The call to action hasn’t yet been picked up by MSM, but at least it’s taken a top position on wordpress. See below. In case you have not read this post yet: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/09/20/urgent-a-call-to-action-for-the-wuwt-community/ It is about what can happen when … Continue reading →
  • We’re Burning Money
    Guest Post by Thomas Fuller A lot of energy efficiency innovations save money on utility bills for businesses, homeowners and even governments that adopt them. So why aren’t they all the rage, taking the planet by storm and reducing utility … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Marx becomes a Marxist by Brian Jones
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Brian Jones SocialistWorker.org February 25, 2009 Karl Marx developed his ideas in an era of when young people were dedicating their lives to a struggle for new rights and freedoms. Brian Jones examines Marx’s revolutionary ideas in this second of three articl ...
  • … Give Protest A Chance! by Philip A. Farrug ...
    by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad September 21, 2010 Remember the song “Give Peace A Chance”? Yesterday they held an international day for peace throughout the world. In New Smyrna Beach around 100 people came to lobby for peace. A great occasion with many noble souls attending ...
  • NATO Provides Pentagon Nuclear, Missile And Cyber ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism Sept. 21, 2010 The Pentagon’s number two official, Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn, was in Brussels, Belgium on September 15 to address the North Atlantic Council – the North Atlantic Treaty Orga ...
  • Since Unsafe At Any Speed by Ralph Nader
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Sept. 20, 2010 Let’s celebrate some good news, before some qualifications are considered. Traffic fatalities in the U.S.A have dropped to a 60 year low. There were 33,808 deaths in 2009—a 9.7 percent decline from the previous year, a ...
  • Michael Kinsley’s Dumb Idea: The “Greatest G ...
    By Gary Corseri Featured Writer Dandelion Salad September 20, 2010 In all fairness, one ought to spread the blame around: the editors of the Atlantic, and the mainstream media in general, are even more culpable than Michael Kinsley for promulgating the absurd fictions of Mr. K’s “The Least We Can Do ...

Your New Reality

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    Republicans Finally Outdo Nazis For War Propaganda The 'Ground Zero Mosque' is actually one floor of an office tower, blocks away from the still empty World Trade Centre site, and the Republicans know it. But this is a religious war, after all. Note that the ad clearly states that the entire Mus ...
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    Life under occupation :
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    If you've found your way here after listening to my 'Weird & Unusual News' spot on ABC Newcastle today, here are links to the two main stories that were discussed : 'Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's Spiritual Day Of Reckoning On August 15' 'Five Human Senses? Actually, We Have More Than 2 ...
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    Creating new realities? It's the CIA's main mission, isn't it?
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    This is as close to a video of an actual nightmare as I've ever seen. Chris Cunningham's Rubber Johnny : What Chris Cunningham has been working on lately : "I've been living next to the railway line for 12 years and I've become obsessed with the harmonics of the trains on the lines. "For yea ...

Wired - Science

  • Clear Spring Skies Emerge on Titan
    Spring on Saturn’s moon Titan looks to be sunny and mostly cloud-free, according to a new analysis of data from the Cassini spacecraft. Titan is the only body in the solar system other than Earth known to have liquid lakes, clouds and perhaps even rain. But instead of water, frigid Titan’s lakes an ...
  • Life on Earth May Have Had an Icy Start
    The cracks in ice could have served as a safe environment — much like a cell — for the first life on Earth to replicate and evolve. The study adds plausibility to the ‘RNA World’ hypothesis that argues life began with a single stranded molecule capable of self-replication. “I always thought that t ...
  • LHC Detects Evidence of New Physics
    After nearly 6 months of smashing particles, the Large Hadron Collider has seen signs of something entirely new. Pairs of charged particles produced when two beams of protons collide seem to be associated with each other even after they fly apart. “It is a small effect, but it is very interesting i ...
  • Video: How the Red Sea Could Have Parted
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience614611221001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); Biblical accounts of the Red Sea’s parting are hydrologically plausible, suggest computer simulations of sustained winds in a coastal lagoon where the Nile met the Mediterranean 3,000 years ago. Under s ...
  • Video: Shark-Finning Puts Species on Verge of Exti ...
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience605835578001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); It’s estimated that as many as a million sharks a year are killed just for their fins. Shark-finning is a cruel practice. Sharks are caught on long lines, or in nets, re ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Frank Gehry, Daniel Barenboim join Ariel boycott c ...
    World-renowned architect Frank Gehry and the legendary pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim joined the international campaign in support of the Israeli actors' refusal to perform in the new... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now i ...
  • Akiva Eldar: Freeze Lieberman
    The demand to suspend settlement building is no excuse [to torpedo direct talks] - it's as legitimate a position as the Palestinians can have. Why should they relinquish a condition that has the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
  • Abbas won’t negotiate if Israel ends settlement cu ...
    Abbas: "The negotiations will continue as long as the settlement (construction) remains frozen, but I am not prepared to negotiate an agreement for a single day more." The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to t ...
  • Facts on the Ground: Peace Now’s iPhone/iPad Settl ...
    Peace Now's interactive West Bank settlement activity map and database. Now available also as an iPhone/iPad app. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • 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 ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Tufts University Now Enrolling Students for Master ...
    Multi-disciplinary program to examine relationship between environmental, animal, human health.
  • Whitman Expert Sees American Jobs Creation Act as ...
    As business becomes more globalized, U.S. companies are increasingly earning significant amounts of income in foreign countries. The American Jobs Creation Act provided a temporary reduction in the repatriation tax with the intention of motivating firms to bring monies back to the U.S. for domestic ...
  • Scientists Identify a New Target for Alzheimer's D ...
    Neurological researchers at Rush University Medical Center have found a new therapeutic target that can potentially lead to a new way to prevent the progression of Alzheimer's disease. The target called neutral sphingomyelinase (N-SMase) is a protein that when activated, can cause a chain of reacti ...
  • Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of X ...
    Exhibition combines majestic sixth-century Chinese Buddhist sculptures with digital components to reconstruct and contextualize damaged cave temples.
  • Rethinking How Hospitals React When a Patient's He ...
    The growing use of rapid response teams dispatched by hospitals to evaluate patients whose conditions have suddenly deteriorated may be masking systemic problems in how hospitals care for their sickest patients, says a prominent Johns Hopkins patient safety expert.

Natural Health News

  • Discover the Secret to Lowering Your Blood Pressur ...
    Millions of Americans have daily stress in their lives. Cardiologist John Kennedy has developed 'The 15 Minute Heart Cure'—a set of breathing techniques you can do anytime, anywhere. It requires no drugs, no surgery and his techniques give you the ability to reduce your blood pressure using brain po ...
  • More Research Shows Low Vitamin D Reduces Your Cha ...
    Low levels of vitamin D have again been linked with reduced survival rates in patients with heart failure. The study, conducted at the University Medical Center, Groningen, in the Netherlands, also suggested that low levels of vitamin D are associated with activation of the Renin Angiotensin System ...
  • Children’s Brain Development Is Linked to Physical ...
    Researchers have found an association between physical fitness and the brain in 9- and 10-year-old children: Those who are more fit tend to have a bigger hippocampus and perform better on a test of memory than their less-fit peers. The new study, which used magnetic resonance imaging to measure the ...
  • The World’s Most Dangerous Spider!
    This video is not for the faint of heart.
  • Westerners Continue Abandoning Low-fat/Processed F ...
    In their quest for health and wellness via the diet, consumers in Sweden are increasingly looking to organic, additive-free – and high fat products. According to the report, more and more Swedish consumers are switching from low-fat to high-fat products in order to lose weight, picking up on a tren ...

Antemedius

  • Lawrence Wilkerson on 9/11: The Culpability and Ne ...
    Former Chief of Staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell, Lawrence Wilkerson is now adjunct Professor of Government and Public Policy at the College of William & Mary where he teaches courses on US national security. Wilkerson is also Professorial Lecturer in the Honors Program of the ...
  • One and a Half Cheers for American Decline: The Fu ...
    Originally published at TomDispatch.com Compare two assessments of the American future: In the latest NBC News/ Wall Street Journal �poll in which 61% of Americans interviewed considered “things in the nation” to be “on the wrong track,” 66% did “not feel confident that life for our children’s gener ...
  • Democrats Have Opening on Tax Cut Issue; Will They ...
    The Democrats have been provided with a huge opening on the tax cut issue by Republicans. The big question is: Will they seize their potential advantage? A major element driving the issue of creating a third party revolves around the pathetic example the Democrats have provided in recent years. ...
  • No Exceptions Caucus - Will They Imprison Women Fo ...
    There are five Republican Senate nominees who would outlaw abortion in all cases, no exceptions for rape or incest. You probably know them but I’ll list them anyway, Ken Buck (here the great State of Colorado), Sharron Angle , Christine O’Donnell , Joe Miller and Rand Paul (real freaking Libertaria ...
  • It’s the Mortgages, Stupid
    Originally published at TruthDig.com This week’s proposals by the Obama administration to deal with the persistent economic crisis will be, as with previous plans that involved trillions of taxpayer dollars, little more than salt in the wounds. Once again the strategy is to stimulate the economy by ...

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

  • Book Discussion: A Principled Approach to State Fa ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen We are very pleased to host from today through Friday an online symposium considering Chiara Giorgetti’s book A Principled Approach to State Failure: International Community Actions in Emergency Situations (Brill 2010). Dr. Giorgetti, an attorney at White and Cas ...
  • Chimene Keitner: Not Dead Yet — Some Thoughts on K ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The following is a guest post from Chimene Keitner, Associate Professor of Law at Hastings.  My thanks to her for contributing it! The Second Circuit’s recent panel opinion in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum has justifiably spurred much talk in the blogosph ...
  • Asian Society of International Law Call for Papers ...
    by Chris Borgen The AsianSIL has a call for papers for its Third Biennial Conference which will be held August 27-28, 2011 in Beijing. The conference theme is Asia and International Law: A New Era. (Note: no "?" at the end of the theme like a confernce organized by hedging U.S. academics. I can sa ...
  • Goodbye to the Alien Tort Statute? Second Circuit ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku In a blockbuster opinion that could spell the end of the vast bulk of Alien Tort Statute litigation, the [...]
  • 2nd Circuit Apparently Rules No Corporate Liabilit ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson I have just now been forwarded a copy of the 2nd Circuit opinion released today in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum.  I say “apparently” because I have hastily read it in the last couple of minutes; see also Julian’s post above.  But unless I am greatly mi ...

Investigate - Breaking News

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

  • Misguided FDA Opposition to Labeling Could Leave P ...
    Recent Poll Shows 91% of Americans Oppose GE Animals; CFS calls for clear, mandatory labeling After a two-day public hearing on the approval of the first genetically engineered (GE) animal intended for human consumption, the AquAdvantage GE salmon, FDA held a public hearing today to discuss whether ...
  • FDA Committee (VMAC) Split on Recommendations abou ...
    CFS Calls upon FDA to Recognize VMAC’s Concerns and Reject GE Salmon Approval The Center for Food Safety today commended the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Veterinary Medicine Advisory Committee (VMAC) for taking a critical look at whether FDA should approve the long-shelved AquaBounty tr ...
  • 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 ...

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

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Chopper crash makes 2010 Afghanistan's deadliest y ...
    ShareThis Chopper crash makes 2010 Afghanistan's deadliest year 22 Sep 2010 Nine US troops have been killed in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan [the Daychopan district of Zabul province], making 2010 the deadliest year for international forces since the war began in 2001. In Kabul, the NAT ...
  • Interpol worried about spike in extremist websites
    ShareThis Interpol worried about spike in extremist websites 21 Sep 2010 The chief of Interpol says the "skyrocketing" number of extremist websites is making it easier for terrorists to recruit middle class youth around the world. Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble says terrorist recruiters ...
  • Afghan reporter arrested for talking to the Taliba ...
    ShareThis Afghan reporter arrested for talking to the Taliban --An Afghan reporter was arrested, apparently because of his contacts with Taliban representatives . 21 Sep 2010 The Associated Press reports that Afghanistan reporter Rahmatullah Naikzad, a freelancer who contributes video to the AP and ...
  • All 9 killed in Afghan crash are American-US offic ...
    ShareThis All 9 killed in Afghan crash are American-US official 21 Sep 2010 All nine of the NATO troops killed in a helicopter crash on Tuesday in southern Afghanistan were Americans, a U.S. defense official told Reuters. The NATO-led force had not previously disclosed the nationalities of the victi ...
  • FDA to consider approval of genetically modified s ...
    ShareThis Mega barf alert! FDA to consider approval of genetically modified salmon 20 Sep 2010 Federal food regulators pondered Monday whether to say, for the first time, that it's OK to market a genetically engineered animal as safe for people to eat. The Food and Drug Administration is holding two ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Audrey Farber responds again to NIF guidelines, UP ...
    By Audrey Farber As anyone knows who has actually seen the new NIF guidelines , the mention of the character of the state of Israel doesn’t come until the very end. In fact, as would be expected from a grant-making institution, the majority of the guidelines cover standard funding topics. They requi ...
  • Salem Music Center: 3-Year Plan
    The Salem Music Center is a venture developing gradually thanks to the ongoing cooperation between its local Palestinian initiators, from the village of Salem near Nablus, the Israeli volunteers of the Villages Group, and donors from Israel and abroad (especially from Australia and the U.S). The fir ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Rebranding global warming, it’s ‘global climate di ...
    White House science adviser John Holdren proposed the phrase. Conservatives have been mocking it, “Trips off the tongue, doesn’t it?” This new term sounds deliberately ominous, and that smells of spin to me. What’s wrong with ‘climate change.” Besides, in some areas, climate change will be beneficia ...
  • The award for most unreadable Captchas goes to Yah ...
    I mean, what is this gibberish? Is the second character a Pi symbol or two letters? I’ve no idea. (It was not a “T” then a “l”.) And it often takes me two or three tries. I doubt I’m the only one.
  • Happy 35, Rocky Horror Picture Show
    The Rocky Horror Picture Show opened on September 26, 1975 at the UA Theater in Westwood. 35 years later, it has become the longest running theatrical release in film history, having never been pulled from theaters by 20th Century Fox since it’s release in 1975. SinsCon is hosting the celebration.
  • Vatican Bank facing money laundering probe
    Italian authorities seized $30 million from a Vatican bank account Tuesday and said they have begun investigating top officials of the Vatican bank in connection with a money-laundering probe. The Vatican said it was “perplexed and surprised” by the investigation. This isn’t the first time. The Vati ...
  • Bill Clinton on the Tea Party
    “Big business has done well and people who caused the financial turmoil are already back in the saddle — they’re doing fine. And the government that gave them the TARP bailout — you’re doing fine; you’ve got a job, you can send your kid to college, you’ve got healthcare. The middle class squeeze is ...

Coteret

  • Yediot: NIS 9 million for settlement “touris ...
    The fact that these grants will fund highly politicized and inflammatory projects is best exemplified by the NIS 2 million slated for the “City of David” project in Silwan. This East Jerusalem settlement in the guise of an “archeological park” is at the cutting edge of efforts to insert Israelis i ...
  • 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 ...

Deadline Live

  • This Day In History – September 22
    1692 – Last people hanged for witchcraft in the United States. 1776 – Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution. 1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General is established. 1823 – Joseph Smith, Jr. claims that he is directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place wh ...
  • FDA collected only ONE shrimp sample while trawlin ...
    Scientists question thoroughness of Gulf seafood testing, WWL-TV, September 20, 2010 at 11:58 p.m. EDT Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d16080').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
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    Guest host, John Stokes talks with Gordon Duff of Veterans Today Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d16033').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
  • Cut Taxes, Cut Spending, Shrink Government
    So, I heard part of Barack Obama’s speech yesterday. He held some sort of televised “town hall meeting” on CNBC which was entitled “Investing in America Forum.” This on the heels of the declaration by The National Bureau of Economic Research that the “recession” ended in June of 2009. I definitely d ...
  • Taxing the Poor; Creating Victims and Criminals
    There’s a big, public debate going on right now about whether or not to keep the “Bush era” tax cuts. The Democrats are claiming that anyone making more than a quarter of a million dollars a year should be taxed more to close the national deficit and the Republicans are claiming that these are the [ ...

The Air Vent

  • Some are Easier to Trick Than Others
    And now from the hall of silly walks, Oxburghs testimony to parliament is on line. Thanks to Andrew at the Bishop Hill blog for pointing it out. And just how hard did Oxburgh work to put ‘trick to hide the decline’ in context.  Well apparently reading the emails he was investigating was outside of ...
  • 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 ...

Focal Point

  • Newsweek Sucks Up to John Boehner
    Shorter Newsweek: A half-witted, mean spirited, quasi-functional alcoholic would be a great Speaker of the House. [Photo credit: Alli' Cat' , Creative Commons.]
  • 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 ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Making Changes to News Feed, Requests, Bo ...
    In the latest of Facebook’s ongoing efforts to reshape its developer platform, it is introducing big changes aimed at the most successful category of third-party applications to-date: social games and related applications. Overall, the changes could hurt virality for many developers, even if they se ...
  • Live-Blogging Facebook’s Gaming Announcement
    We’re at Facebook headquarters for a special event, focused on changes to games. Mark Zuckerberg is on stage. Here are our edited live notes: 5:10 We want to have as few people as possible have negative experiences. We’ve developed pretty complex infrastructure for optimizing this. The last two mont ...
  • After More Accusations of Censorship, Facebook Eva ...
    Facebook introduced Community Pages in early April as an alternative to its regular Pages, with the main differences being that Community Pages don’t have owners, and are not able to publish to users’ news feeds, post videos and provide links to other sites, and do not include the discussion tab. Th ...
  • A Look Back at Acquisitions and Investments Around ...
    Like any large company, Facebook is forming an entire ecosystem of merger and acquisition activity. While Facebook itself has been buying an increasing number of small companies, primarily for talent, the market leaders and and venture capitalists operating on or around its platform have continued t ...
  • Last Week to Pre-Order Inside Virtual Goods: Track ...
    With an up-to-$750 million acquisition of Playdom by Disney, an up-to-$400 million acquisition of Playfish by Electronic Arts, the acquisition of Tapulous by Disney, and hundreds of millions of dollars in venture investments, virtual goods are impacting businesses across the media landscape. Virtual ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • The Devil's HAARP: weather weapons and recent "nat ...
    Using official sources, Tim Coles considers the role of weather weapons, especially the Alaska-based High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), in recent catastrophic weather around the globe. He argues that even if weather weapons did not play a part, they need careful attention becaus ...
  • On Jewish loyalty
    Gilad atzmon considers the meaning of "loyalty" in Jewish discourse, against the background of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as an exclusively Jewish state and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's insistence that all Israelis swear an oath ...
  • 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.

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

  • Call for Papers: 3rd Annual North Carolina Central ...
    Hat Tip: Black German Cultural Society Call for Papers: 3rd Annual North Carolina Central University African Diaspora Studies Symposium – Conspicuously Unseen: Invisibility and Denial in Diasporic Communities March 19-20, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC Presented by the Department of H ...
  • 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 [ ...

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

  • HURRAY FOR SHORT MEMORIES!
  • Never Forget: Bad Wars Aren’t Possible Unles ...
    This is a very good article from Michael Moore, what he delineates are the reasons we are still in such a mess as a Nation and a people. These reasons are blatant and should never be allowed to happen again. Even though Obama seems to be tied to the Bush Doctrine of appeasing the military-industrial ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • An Anaylsis of Six Journalism Startups
    In the last few weeks there has been some interesting and exciting news in the journalism startup world. I wanted to take some time to highlight new players and provide my own personal analysis. Collaborative Storytelling: Three New Startups Kommons.com Kommons was founded by the young Cody ...
  • SeedSpeak To Sprout Community Improvement Projects ...
    The excitement continues to build in the Phoenix community over a new mobile and web platform that will help people sow positive change in the community. Since the June Knight News Challenge funding announcement, my development partner Cody Shotwell and I have fielded dozens of calls and emails from ...
  • 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 ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Turks Refuse a Cross on the Armenian Church But De ...
    Turks refuse to allow a cross to show on the ancient Armenian Church they have blockaded in the region they exterminated Armenians. That is okay. But these same people want us to place their victory mosque over Ground Zero. What are we missing?
  • Waiting for an Answer on Baha'i and Ground Zero Mo ...
    After I read a prior letter writer's comment about the Muslim persecution of Bahai's and how they would never be admitted to the Ground Zero Mosque, I waited for anyone to answer or for the mainstream media to cover this. All I got was silence. Is anyone willing to stand up for the Baha'i faith? Or ...
  • 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 ...
  • Ground Zero Mosque and Islam Will Not Welcome Baha ...
    Why does the media fail to ask the important question of Ground Zero Mosque advocates and Muslims in general? Are Bahai's welcome? The answer is no. Islam has been persecuting Baha'i' since its beginning. Baha'i believes in the oneness of all religions--but because it began in a Muslim lands after M ...
  • The Bear is Back - Back in the USSR
    A row of wooden stakes with puppet heads stood planted in a forest camp attended by 20,000 young Russians this summer. Mounted above the heads was a large red slogan in Russian, declaring “We are not glad to see you here.” On the puppets: photographs of Western political figures, including Hillary C ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Five Reasons To Plant Trees Now
    By Christine Patton To some people, planting a tree is the epitome of the environmental cliche. Planting a tree seems so simple, so easy, so... low-technology. In the midst of the economic upheaval we are experiencing now, in the face of massive challenges such as peak oil and climate change, why ...
  • Building A World Fit For Children
    By Raffi Cavoukian A movement to put childrens rights at the center of our collective decisions is taking hold
  • Wisdom Of The Terrorists Son
    By Chris Hedges El Sayid Nosair assassinated Rabbi Meir Kahane , the head of the Kach Party, on Nov. 5, 1990, in New York City. To many Palestinians, as well as many Muslims in the Arab world is celebrated as a hero.To his son, who was then 7, he became something else. He became the father who dis ...
  • Climate Change Enlightenment Was Fun While It Last ...
    By George Monbiot The collapse of the talks at Copenhagen took away all momentum for change and the lobbyists are back in control. So what next?
  • Arctic Ice In Death Spiral
    By Stephen Leahy The carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels have melted the Arctic sea ice to its lowest volume since before the rise of human civilisation, dangerously upsetting the energy balance of the entire planet, climate scientists are reporting

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

  • The Scottish "Jihad": A Case of Identity Politics, ...
    By Barry Rubin All groups aware of having been left behind by the progress of others develop an inferiority complex. They have two main alternatives: --Learn from others, make changes in their thinking and society, and seek dramatic progress as the best way to achieve a national renaiss ...
  • Morning Joe Rips Olbermann and Schultz On Air AGA ...
    Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough is not a big fan of some of the blowhards he works with at MSNBC� and over the years he has found wonderful ways to mock the likes of Keith Olbermann and Ed Schultz sometimes without even mentioning their names. For example after South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford ...
  • Class-Action Suit Filed Against Charlie Crist To F ...
    Florida Governor Charlie Crist's nasty habit of 'flip flopping" may now be getting him in financial trouble as Republican's who donated to Crist's campaign when he was running as a GOP candidate are suing to get their money back. It was March 28th when the Florida governor assured Chris Wallace ...
  • Murkowski Write-in Campaign in Alaska HELPS GOP Mi ...
    Good news for the GOP. According to a Rasmussen poll released this morning shows that Senator Lisa Murkowski's write-in effort to hold on to the Alaska senate seat, actually helps fellow Republican Joe Miller. In the last poll completed in late August, Miller had a six point lead over Democrat Scott ...
  • What's Worse, a High School Student Dabbling In Wi ...
    The press is making a big deal out of incidents that occurred when Delaware GOP Senatorial Candidate was in high school. The latest of which was a 1999 statement made on "Politically Incorrect," where she said she� "dabbled into witchcraft" but "never joined a coven." After the tape was released, O ...

The Real Agenda

  • Medicinal Herbs to be Illegal in European Union
    Heidi Stevenson Big Pharma has almost reached the finish line of its decades-long battle to wipe out all competition. As of 1 April 2011—less than eight months from now—virtually all medicinal herbs will become illegal in the European Union. The approach in the United States is a bit different, but ...
  • Carbon Tax Scam Shifts from Climate to Poverty
    Paul Joseph Watson As the science behind global warming becomes increasingly discredited and its proponents are exposed as eugenics-obsessed control freaks who care only about destroying freedom, the effort to make Americans pay a global tax has shifted from the justification of climate change to th ...
  • 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.

Wind Watch

  • Properties ‘virtually unmarketable’
    A survey by a local realtor may have confirmed the worst suspicions of Stan Mundy, whose home is closest to Chevron’s wind farm northeast of Casper. Glen Taylor, of Equity Brokers in Casper, did a real estate survey Sept. 10, 2010, and concluded properties directly adjacent to the Chevron Wind Tower ...
  • 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 ...

Not My Tribe

  • How many dead US soldiers does it take to screw in ...
    It’s hard not to get excited when the Afghans are able to fell nine US soldiers with one stone. But am I glad about the US deaths? I am not. For one, the latest helicopter crash has meant “2010 is deadly year of war in Afghanistan.” For US/NATO troops. No mention as usual about Afghan [...]
  • Can a currency system be localized?
    A friend of mine is studying alternative money systems in Boulder, and has solicited input from her varied social circles. Here are the questions she poses with the aim of localizing community transactions: What is money? What does money do? What are certain properties of money (properties/qualities ...
  • Another battle looming for the Very Rich vs. Very ...
    The Gag-zette, our local Right Wing Extremist “newspaper” ran a fluff piece as a headline Sunday. Saying that draconian laws forbidding poverty to be seen within the walls of Emerald City had “positive results”. Translation: The Rich Bitches are about to sick the Colorado Springs and El Paso County ...
  • UN International Day of Peace
    SEPTEMBER 20 — Let he who is without complicity in the war crimes committed for Western Imperialism cast the first huzzah. It will be a small party. Is it customary to invite the murderer to attend the wake?
  • The Nuke Hysteria “They Stole Our Murder Wea ...
    Waaaaa… NeoCons and NeoConfederates are such whiners. Let’s review the history of The Bomb and see how much of the technology was actually developed by “America”. Hmmmm… Einstein,

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Skeptics Society Tag Lines [Satire]
    Boredom has prompted me to have some fun parodying the skeptics. I think my banner is much better than the one on the Skeptic Magazine website ! I love that quote from Shermer (from the History Channel hitpiece), if he really believes it then it doesn't say much for skepticism! And here's some tag ...
  • 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 ...

Fooducate

  • More on Jamba Juice Wraps
    We got a lot of comments here and on facebook following yesterday’s unfavorable review of Jamba Juice’s Greek Goodness Wrap. Vince said: when you consider other fast food options, Jambaâs items compare well. There are no trans fats, hydrogenated oils or high fructose corn syrup derivatives in ...
  • Jamba Juice’s “Healthy” Wraps
    Jamba Juice has been an enjoying a reputation as the hip and healthy place to get your smoothies. Packed with vitamins goodness, the fruit drinks became an instant hit with California health nuts in the Nineties, and now in over 700 locations in 30 states. A few years ago, Jamba expanded to oatmeal, ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Philippine mine given shock clearance
    Less than two months after the Palawan tribe of the Philippines celebrated the news that a local government panel had refused to allow mining company MacroAsia to mine on their land, the national government has over-ruled the decision and given the company the go-ahead. On July 30, a local governme ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Karachi-Peshwar Logistics Revisted
    Pat Lang (a retired US Army colonel) is thinking logistics. He notes that the US military is reliant on a massive, slow, chockful of chokepoint supply line to move bulk supplies from Karachi to Peshwar and then through the Khyber Pass before they arrive at the main US logistics hubs near Kabul.  The ...
  • 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 ...

Age of Autism

  • The Age of Autism Book Tour Kicks Off: Wrentham, I ...
    The Age of Autism Book The Age of Autism book tour Tour kicked off Monday in Wrentham, Mass., where we were hosted by the TACA Chapter led by Cheryl Gaudino (left). We signed books, premiered our presentation, and really enjoyed...
  • ARI/Defeat Autism Now! Conference Oct. 7-10 Featur ...
    Hurry! Discounts extended while availability lasts! Managing Editor's Note: Our friends (and sponsor) at ARI have opened registration for the Fall ARI/DAN! conference at the luxurious, but affordable Renaissance Long Beach and the Westin Long Beach. In keeping with the...
  • Autism Smackdown! The Frightened vs. The Titan
    By Kim Stagliano Alison Singer, formerly Executive Director and once the darling of Autism Speaks, (now with Dr. Paul Offit's vaccine protection organization using children with autism as human shields) signed onto the following open letter to Autism Speaks asking...
  • Deirdre Imus Reviews The Age of Autism on Fox News ...
    Read the full post and leave a comment at the Fox News Health Blog. Read an excerpt (and order) The Age of Autism: Mercury Medicine and a Manmade Epidemic HERE. By Deirdre Imus Over the past 25 years, autism spectrum...
  • Primates’ Progress: Disturbing Findings from a Stu ...
    By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill We reported earlier this summer (see HERE ) on an important new study from Thoughtful House and the University of Pittsburgh describing neuroimaging results that compared a small group of vaccinated monkeys to unvaccinated...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • McWhinney Burgers Anyone?
    If Wyoming's Representative Sue Wallis gets her way, the answer to the question "What's for dinner?" will be "Why horse of course!"
  • 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.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Boeing wins Pentagon contract to build a solar-pow ...
    LA Times – With four scrawny fuselages and wings stretching more than the length of a football field, Boeing Co.âs solar-powered drone looks a bit like a flying antenna. But the government is hoping that the aircraft, dubbed the SolarEagle, will one day be capable of flying for five straight years ...
  • Yeast Holds Clues to Parkinson’s Disease
    ScienceDaily â Yeast could be a powerful ally in the discovery of new therapeutic drugs to treat Parkinson’s disease says a scientist presenting his work at the Society for General Microbiology’s autumn meeting in Nottingham. Dr Tiago Fleming Outeiro from the Instituto de Medicina Molecular in Lis ...
  • ‘FBI falsified post-9/11 events’
    Press TV – The US Justice Department has accused the FBI of providing misleading statements on terrorism in the wake of the September 11 incident. The FBI gave false information to Congress and the public to justify surveillance of an anti-war rally in Pittsburgh in 2002, US media quoted a report by ...
  • Downturn longest since Great Depression
    Financial Times – The longest US recession since the Great Depression officially ended in June 2009, the body charged with dating US business cycles said on Monday. The National Bureau of Economic Research said that the recession lasted 18 months, from December 2007 to June 2009. That was longer tha ...
  • Climate Fact Of The Day – Shortening of glac ...
    (Source – Oregon Institute Of Science & Medicine) Glaciers continued advancing to the middle of the 19th century, and then began retreating from 1860, a hundred years before fossil fuel use accelerated in the post-WW2 industrial era. Note the change in the uptrend around 1900 due to weak solar ac ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Illegal roach killers: EPA fines 99 Cents Only Sto ...
    Got bugs in your house? Be careful what you buy to kill them. Three illegal products to kill roaches and other insects were sold by the discount chain 99 Cents Only Stores Inc., which has been fined $409,490 by the...
  • Rail-yard pollution: Federal court rules against a ...
    Air-quality watchdogs in Southern California can't impose limits on pollution from idling trains because that could interfere with interstate commerce -- a federal responsibility -- a U.S. appeals court ruled Wednesday. The lawsuit filed by the Assn. of American Railroads...
  • Gulf oil spill: BP well could be plugged by Sunday
    A relief well is “almost touching” BP’s damaged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, meaning that officials could declare the source of the nation’s largest offshore oil spill killed by Sunday, a top government official said Wednesday. Crews working...
  • Hollywood looks to preserve its natural back lot: ...
    Along with the sunny weather and world-class crews, California offers something else that is sought by filmmakers: an abundance of state parks with diverse landscapes, from the redwood forests in Northern California to the desert of Anza-Borrego and the vast...
  • Business students find $350 million in energy savi ...
    To come to grips with their massive use of energy, major companies have brought on professional consultants, joined green organizations, even hired on-staff sustainability executives. But this summer, firms such as eBay Inc., McDonald's Corp., PepsiCo, Target Corp. and Verizon...

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

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

  • Netherlands cancels tour by Israeli mayors over se ...
    "The Dutch surrender to the Arabs reflects their surrender to the Muslim minority that is growing steadily in Holland, which in itself is an echo to Netanyahu's surrender to Obama regarding the building freeze." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Report: 5 GIs charged over killing Afghans 'for sp ...
    Members of platoon allegedly created 'kill team'; one soldier is accused of keeping human skull ... Submitted by Ani I. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Classified: Perverting Democracy by Preventing Dis ...
    Whether you believe the US Constitution should be applied literally or think the authors intentionally left room for interpretation by future generations, it is generally accepted that our nation's founding document originates form the notion that ... Submitted by Michelle Matthews to US Politics & ...
  • Missing the Millennium Goals: World fails to deliv ...
    It was a global compact aimed at saving the world: high-minded targets that would lift millions out of poverty for the new millennium. But as world leaders gather at a summit in New York tomorrow, figures suggest the chances of meeting ... Submitted by Michelle Matthews to World �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
  • Texas Sues to Block Bizarre
    The state of Texas today sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in a federal appeals court in Washington DC, claiming four new regulations imposed by the EPA are based on the 'thoroughly discredited' findings Submitted by Michelle Matthews to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comm ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • SunRun Solar Finance Company Accused of Working to ...
    SunRun, a solar financing company that aids homeowners with their home solar installations, has been accused of working to undermine the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program which would make public funding available for similar ...
  • Walmart Expands Solar Initiative
    Wal-Mart Stores, Inc . (NYSE: WMT ) announced it is expanding its solar generating systems program. According to a company press release , new rooftop solar systems will be installed at 20 to 30 locations in California and Arizona.
  • Ink in Solar Cells? U.S. Government Spends $1.6 Mi ...
    When you think of solar cells, you most likely don’t think of ink as an important component. However, Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. ( OTC: APNT ) has just received $1.6 million from the U.S.
  • 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 ...

News Blaze

Historical Notes

libcom

  • Meetings for the Working Class of the United State ...
    velvet-revolution.jpg "If anything is to be learned from the tragedies of the twentieth century, it is that the repetition of these horrors in the twenty-first century, on an even bloodier scale, can be ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Election Reform as a Way to Put Republicans on the ...
    On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Your request is being processed… Robert Kuttner Co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect Posted: September 19, 2010 06:16 PM Election Reform as a Way to Put Republicans … Continue reading →
  • Poll finds voters’ mood on economy is grim & ...
    On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Poll finds voters’ mood on economy is grim — for both parties AFP â Reporters watch on a TV screen US President Barack Obama, seen here on TV … Continue reading →
  • Fed Ponders Bolder Action on Economic Growth
    On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Fed to ponder whether bolder action needed Buzz up!25 votes Share retweet Email Print AP â FILE – In a Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010 photo, Federal Reserve Chairman … Continue reading →
  • Hydrogen-Powered Personal Helicopter
    On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: News » Energy | Biofuels | Environment | Hydrogen | Solar | Transportation | Wind September 21st, 2010 – What do you think? A personal helicopter weighing just … Continue reading →
  • Now It’s Congress’ Turn to Quickly Mov ...
    On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Leo Hindery, Jr. Chairman, U.S. Economy/Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation Posted: September 21, 2010 09:30 AM BIO Become a Fan Get Email Alerts Bloggers’ Index … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

  • The Careerist: A Guide for Lawyers Who Lust
    Check out some of the latest posts on the lawjobs.com blog, The Careerist. A Guide for Lawyers Who Lust Also You've Failed the Bar, and You Want a Job?! Career coach Elizabeth Munnell advises on making the best of a bad situation And More Law Firm Oscars? Yawn ...
  • Law School Grad: Obama Didn't Answer My 'American ...
    A growing number of disgruntled law school graduates have taken to the Internet to anonymously vent frustrations about high debt and poor job prospects. Not Ted Brassfield. The recent law school grad took his concerns to the most powerful person in America: President Barack Obama. Brassfield, who de ...
  • Countrywide CFO's Defense: What About the Lawyers?
    As the SEC's fraud case against former Countrywide Financial executives moves toward trial, the executives charged have previewed their defenses in their failed motions for summary judgment. At least one top executive has argued that he relied on the advice of in-house lawyers. But the SEC argued th ...
  • Law Firms Decry Impact of Proposed Accounting Rule ...
    A proposed accounting rule that would require companies to disclose financial loss contingencies, including those from lawsuits, is drawing criticism from the corporate defense bar. The Financial Accounting Standards Board in July proposed requiring companies to disclose to investors certain potenti ...
  • Personal Injury Practice Bonds With Technology
    There is perhaps no other law practice with more incentive to use a sophisticated document management and review system than the personal injury firm. But some firms are not convinced that type of software is worth the investment and are instead opting for less costly generic tools.

Iranian.com

  • Rajai Shahr Prison - Arzhang Davoudi Writes Letter ...
    Two months have passed since Arzhang Davoudi began his hunger strike at Rajai Shahr (I.e. Gohardasht) prison that has now resulted in the severe deterioration of his health. read more
  • صندلی ها سخن می گویند
    استقبال غم انگیز سران کشورها از سخنرانی احمدی نژاد.
  • Ahmadinejad says capitalism faces defeat
     Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says capitalism is facing defeat and is calling for an overhaul of the "undemocratic and unjust" global decision-making bodies. In a speech on the second day of a U.N. anti-poverty summit, the Iranian leader called on world leaders, thinkers and global reforme ...
  • Ahmadinejad gives enigmatic speech at UN
     Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a chaotic speech at the UN summit on Tuesday -- with no one except for the controversial leader and his delegation really sure what he said. Ahmadinehad broke off one minute into his presentation to complain about the translation to the UN assembly presi ...
  • President Ahmedinejad Threatens U.S. With War 'Wit ...
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad warned the Obama administration today that if Iran's nuclear facilities are attacked, the U.S. will face a war that "would know no boundaries." � read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • A Taste of Kiwi Culture
    TV-NZ has a new series this season, which I believe is bound for world fame, like The Rocky Horror Picture Show , Flight of the Conchords and Outrageous Fortune . This Is Not My Life isn’t exactly science fiction. Most of the technologies it features are currently available but unethical without inf ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • One and a Half Cheers for American Decline
    Compare two assessments of the American future: In the latest NBC News/ Wall Street Journal �poll in which 61% of Americans interviewed considered “things in the nation” to be “on the wrong track,” 66% did “not feel confident that life for our children’s generation will be better than it has been fo ...
  • Bradley Manning: An American Hero
    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 shooting civilians fr ...
  • 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 ...

Salon

SMB News

  • PML-N Govt not to defend the breaches’
    For SMB Pakistan News “PML-N is protected transgressions’LAHORE Govt: Pakistan Muslim League-N has decided not to defend the government atrocities in the shadow of democracy, but will continue to support the democratic system in the country. The decision was made during an important meeting with the ...
  • Afghan vote begins after fears of fraud
    For SMB World News Afghan vote begins, after fears of fraud Kabul: Afghanistan began counting votes on Sunday in a parliamentary election marred by allegations of fraud and low voter turnout for large-scale violence and deadly Taliban targeted a key vote. Western advocates praised the 3.6 million Af ...
  • 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 ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • Tar sands: Alberta’s charm offensive
    When a delegation of Alberta cabinet ministers comes to town calling for a “constructive conversation” about the oil sands, they deserve a hearing. Anti-Alberta boycotts are gathering steam, and the province is responding with public relations camp ...
  • Board of control: Should we bring it back?
    Toronto City Council is often criticized for being far too parochial in its attitude. “Council spends hours debating a bicycle lane, whether a tree should be cut down, or front-yard parking, and two minutes on an important policy issue,” says outgo ...
  • UN speech: Harper skimps in aid pledges
    Stirring pleas have been made at the United Nations this week on behalf of the billion people who go to bed hungry every night.
  • Toronto mayoralty: Ford unsuited for the role
    He’s burdened by a thin platform, numbers that don’t add up, and an embarrassing personal history, including substance abuse, outbursts of rage, and a mug shot from a Florida arrest. But front-running mayoral candidate Rob Ford has something counte ...
  • Justice for boat people
    Officials may be having a hard time verifying the identities of some of the 492 Sri Lankan migrants (including 112 women and children) who arrived on the Sun Sea cargo ship six weeks ago. But that doesn’t give Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s govern ...

Energy Collective

  • US Launches Multinational Clean Cookstoves Initiat ...
    The U.S. announced on Tuesday a multinational program to help spread the use of clean-burning cookstoves to 100 million homes worldwide by 2020.
  • Estimating job losses due to the deepwater drillin ...
    Last week I pointed out that, “ Temporary policies have temporary effects – and sometimes that is good news ,” pointing to an Obama administration report that found job losses due to the temporary ban on deepwater drilling were smaller than expected.
  • No More Smoke in Their Eyes: Clean Cookstoves
    Gas is better tha
  • Ex-Edison chief, NRDC founder named chair of solar ...
    I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. In any emerging industry, there are turning points that bear watching. One of those occurred Tuesday when BrightSource Energy, a California developer of solar power plants, announced the appointment of John E. Bryson as its new chair.
  • Key Players in the 2010 Global Solar Industry
    Even outsiders know that the solar energy industry has experienced huge growth during the past few years. This is particularly true of 2009, where solar energy prospered in spite of a worldwide recession. In the U.S., this prosperity is largely due to the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment ...

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

  • Playlist 20.09.10
    It's the final moments of the film Good Will Hunting . Matt Damon is in the dumps. Minnie Driver has gone off with the wrong guy and a tender refrain is raised from the rubble. Introducing 'Miss Misery', written by Elliott Smith, a wisp of a guy, full of dysfunction and... Tags: badly drawn boy hear ...
  • Where To Find Bordeaux Chateaux’s For Sale
    Bordeaux, is a city in southwest France. The city lends its name to what is arguably the most famous wine-producing region in all of France, as well as the best wine-producing region in all the world. It is also the wine-producing capital of the world. Within the boundaries of... Tags: wine cellars ...
  • Find A Awesome Apartment Before The First
    Finding the apartment that is right for you can be very challenging. Before you begin your search,think about what you require in an apartment, and then plan your search. Do not even enter an apartment or even inquire about one before you are absolutely sure about what you want in... Tags: the apart ...
  • For At Least A Night, Patrick O'Sullivan Back On T ...
    Jimmy Jeong - AP Edmonton Oilers center Patrick O'Sullivan scores a goal while being chased by Phoenix Coyotes' Adrian Aucoin last season. The Coyotes acquired O`Sullivan from Edmonton then bought him out, and O`Sullivan is now trying to earn a job in Carolina after signing a two-way... Tags: jimmy ...
  • Finding Accommodation When Visiting Students In Ma ...
    Where To Stay When You Visit Friends and Family In Manchester Has your son or daughter been offered a place at one of Manchester’s many further or higher educational establishments in September 2011 at Manchester University MMU Royal Northern College of Music or some other? If... Tags: education mmu ...

Groklaw

  • Mozilla Joins Open Invention Network
    This week Mozilla joined Open Invention Network as a licensee. OIN is an organization which helps protect the Linux ecosystem by building a variety of defenses against patent attacks. These defenses include both traditional mechanisms, like defensive patent pools, and more innovative approaches, lik ...
  • Reversal of Fortune: Fifth Circuit Orders Cuban Ca ...
    Yesterday, in regard to the civil insider trading charges lodged against him, Mark Cuban was up by 10 with five minutes left on the clock. Today, after the Fifth Circuit issued this opinion [PDF], the score is tied and the game is heading to overtime. Not good news for Cuban (who owns the NBA's Dal ...
  • Supreme Court May Tune In To Music Download Case
    The Supreme Court has asked a record company to file a brief in a case that asks the justices to weigh in on a wave of copyright lawsuits filed by the recording industry against college students and others for unpaid music downloads. The case is Harper v. Maverick Recording , the first to reach the ...
  • Open Season on Copyright Infringement Claims? All ...
    Is it me, or has there been a noticeable uptick in publicity about copyright infringement claims in 2010? There is the prolific new so-called "copyright troll," Righthaven LLC, which has sued more than 120 parties on behalf of its sole newspaper client, the Las Vegas Journal-Review (including again ...
  • Google Brings Two-Step Authentication to Google Ap ...
    Google has announced that it is rolling out a new two-step verification process to enhance security across Google Apps accounts, especially in business environments. On its official blog, Google notes that Google Apps Premier, Education and Government Edition administrators can implement a new sign ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

  • Rebranding global warming, it’s ‘global climate di ...
    White House science adviser John Holdren proposed the phrase. Conservatives have been mocking it, “Trips off the tongue, doesn’t it?” This new term sounds deliberately ominous, and that smells of spin to me. What’s wrong with ‘climate change.” Besides, in some areas, climate change will be beneficia ...
  • The award for most unreadable Captchas goes to Yah ...
    I mean, what is this gibberish? Is the second character a Pi symbol or two letters? I’ve no idea. (It was not a “T” then a “l”.) And it often takes me two or three tries. I doubt I’m the only one.
  • Happy 35, Rocky Horror Picture Show
    The Rocky Horror Picture Show opened on September 26, 1975 at the UA Theater in Westwood. 35 years later, it has become the longest running theatrical release in film history, having never been pulled from theaters by 20th Century Fox since it’s release in 1975. SinsCon is hosting the celebration.
  • Vatican Bank facing money laundering probe
    Italian authorities seized $30 million from a Vatican bank account Tuesday and said they have begun investigating top officials of the Vatican bank in connection with a money-laundering probe. The Vatican said it was “perplexed and surprised” by the investigation. This isn’t the first time. The Vati ...
  • Bill Clinton on the Tea Party
    “Big business has done well and people who caused the financial turmoil are already back in the saddle — they’re doing fine. And the government that gave them the TARP bailout — you’re doing fine; you’ve got a job, you can send your kid to college, you’ve got healthcare. The middle class squeeze is ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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 mystery of Barack Obama thickens
    A year after President Barack Obama's political honeymoon ended, his job approval rating has dropped to a negative 44 - 48 percent, his worst net score ever, and American voters say by a narrow 39 - 36 percent margin that they would vote for an unnamed Republican rather than President Obama in 2012, ...
  • America: if it's broken, fix it
    Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) - Vedute di Roma Every time I come back to the United States, the airports, the roads, the public spaces look to me more tattered, battered, old-fashioned. Modernity is no longer self-evidently here. Timothy Garton-Ash, The Guardian At a time when China is bui ...
  • Reading Don Quixote, while Iceland takes a leak
    � Gustavo Doré's Don Quixote David Seaton's News Links This summer I am rereading the world's first, and still probably the world's best novel, " Don Quixote ", by Miguel de Cervantes. The first time I read it, my Spanish was nothing like it is today, nor is the life experience that I bring to the b ...
  • Some second thoughts about the Af-Pak Wikileaks
    Julian Assange From The Weekly Standard: One of the more interesting aspects of the WikiLeaks document dump is the persistence of intelligence reports indicating collusion between al Qaeda, al Qaeda-affiliated parties, and Iran. By itself, this should not be surprising . The 9/11 Commission, Clinto ...
  • My August Break: Further Reading for NewsLinkers
    "Summer Tale" by Eleonore Weil David Seaton's News Links Like I do every year, inshallah, I am taking the month of August off: this year I am retiring to my dacha/hill-station in the mountains outside Madrid.� As always, I leave with the firm proposal to do nothing at all except read, sleep and walk ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • Three Top Scientists Honored with Prestigious Hein ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. -- Among this year’s recipients of the prestigious Heinz Family Philanthropies Global Change Awards are three preeminent scientists working to advance our understanding of the... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Pesticide Cos Get Tax Dollars to Attack Critics
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs â 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- The California Department of Food and Agriculture has awarded $180,000 in federal funds to finance an agribusiness-chemical industry plan to combat its critics –... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • 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 ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • This Type of Meat Contains a "Harmless" Ingredient ...
    By Dr. Mercola Few would deny that you simply cannot achieve health without a well-functioning immune system. Your immune defenses are key in protecting you from all disease, including cancer, toxic poisons, infections, inflammation, and even aging. Many do not realize that an important part ...
  • Baby Laughing at the Wii
    A ten month old child cracks up watching his dad play golf on the Nintendo Wii.
  • Flawed Study, Bad Science, Outrageous Conclusion
    You may have seen a story in the news claiming a study found that consuming more omega-3 fats doesn’t help heart patients. How did the researchers come to this conclusion? They fed their human guinea pigs margarine -- otherwise known as the extremely heart unhealthy form of fat called trans fat. Es ...
  • Ditch this Daily Kitchen Product Now to Protect Yo ...
    Children and teens who have high blood levels of chemicals used in the production of non-stick cookware may be more likely to have elevated LDL cholesterol levels, according to a report. Humans are exposed to perfluoroalkyl acids, such as PFOA and PFOS, through drinking water, dust, food packaging, ...
  • World's Bravest Kitty
    A 97 year old woman's pet cat saves her from attacking pit bulls.

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Philippine mine given shock clearance
    Less than two months after the Palawan tribe of the Philippines celebrated the news that a local government panel had refused to allow mining company MacroAsia to mine on their land, the national government has over-ruled the decision and given the company the go-ahead. On July 30, a local governme ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • A flawed election, but courageous voters
    Afghanistan's legislative election last Saturday was in many ways a shambles. At least 17 people died as the Taliban blew up several polling places, attacked others with rockets, and captured still others. The Taliban kidnapped at least one candidate and several election workers and observer ...
  • Reek of corruption just won't go away
    We don't want to prejudge the Bellemare business. But we believe that very few Quebecers now expect any genuine illumination to come from the Bastarache commission slapstick show. But if Premier Charest set up the inquiry to draw media and public attention away from the construction mess, as ...
  • 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.
  • Another aging tyrant admits failure
    In February 2008 Castro, ailing, handed power to his brother Raul and retired. Recently he resumed public appearances. In an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic magazine, Castro was asked if he still thinks the "Cuban model" of communist dictatorship is worth exporting. His stunn ...

Food World Order

  • fda says you have no right to know if salmon are g ...
    from allgov : If the Food and Drug Administration decides to approve for the first time the sale of a genetically-modified animal (GMO) for Americans to consume, the deal will not include a requirement that producers or retailers label the food as such . FDA officials are still deciding whethe ...
  • mexico bans sodas, fried foods & junk food from pu ...
    from natural news : The Mexican government is moving forward with plans to ban all junk foods from public school by the start of the coming school year, officials have announced. " The kids are going to complain, of course ," said education minister Alonso Lujambio. " We are going to start a pro ...
  • 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 ...
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