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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.

Friday, September 24, 2010

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    IPS - Inter Press Services

    Greek Society Falling, Falling… 
    People walking casually past a sleeping or unconscious person has become a recurrent scene in downtown Athens these days. At Omonia square in the heart of the Greek capital one sees signs of social degeneration and segregation that were unknown only a decade ago.
  • BALKANS: Kosovo Talks Bring Hope
    Serbia has lost all its military and legal battles over Kosovo, but there is hope that the internationally sponsored talks between Belgrade and Pristina in October may bring some normalisation in relations between Serbia and its breakaway province.
  • PHILIPPINES: A Year On, Typhoon Ketsana's Lessons ...
    Filipinos are used to having their country soaked by rain six months of the year, but these days worry is on many faces whenever raindrops start falling.
  • CAMBODIA: Gov't Critic's Conviction Casts Shadow O ...
    Questions hover over the future of Cambodia's political opposition, as well as room for dissent, in the wake of the conviction and sentencing of the exiled leader of the country's largest opposition party to 10 years in prison.
  • COLOMBIA: Devastating Blow for FARC Rebels
    The death of guerrilla commander Luis Suárez, aka Jorge Briceño or "Mono Jojoy", is a "devastating blow" for Colombia's FARC insurgents, military affairs analyst Ariel Ávila told IPS.

Scoop - NZ

  • IMF fears social explosion from unemployment
    America and Europe face the worst jobs crisis since the 1930s and risk "an explosion of social unrest" unless they tread carefully, the International Monetary Fund has warned. "The labour market is in dire straits. The Great Recession has left behind a waste land of unemployment,&quo ...
  • Aust. Lenders Learn Nothing from US Housing Bust
    Smack in the face of a US housing bust and an enormous property bubble in Australia, Australian lenders are offering up to 105% mortgages. It is amazing to see sheer stupidity played out on the assumption "It's Different in Australia". Please consider Lenders back to throwing cash at buy ...
  • Betancourt: 'Ingrid of the Jungle'
    What if Ingrid Betancourt had travelled to the Colombian jungle after agreeing to a fake high-profile kidnapping? What if Nicolas Sarkozy had orchestrated her rescue to boost his popularity ratings and to settle an old score with former primer minister Dominique de Villepin? Just as Franco-Colombia ...
  • Neoliberalism bringing US to its knees
    How have things got this bad? How has the world's superpower suddenly become so poor that its police forces are crumbling? Well, it hasn't. US GDP per capita was $45,600 in 2009, down from a peak of $46,900 in 2008. That 2.8% drop is breathtakingly sharp but it still leaves a country with enormous w ...
  • 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

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Going au naturel
    How often do you use natural health products (NHPs) in your everyday life? You might take a vitamin or two and an omega-3 supplement. Or maybe you take a dose of glucosamine when your joints are sore or an echinacea tablet when you’re under the weather or rub aloe vera on your skin when you’ve been ...
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • Bright September Meteor
    Marshall Space Flight Center PAO Steve Roy was out jogging early Friday morning with his dogs, Lilly and Scout, when he couldn't help but notice this bright meteor low in the eastern sky. Also seen by NASA's all sky meteor cameras at MSFC and in Chickamauga, GA, the meteor was located above the At ...
  • Aafia Siddiqui Sentenced: A Grievous Miscarriage o ...
    On September 23 in federal court, US District Court Judge Richard Berman sentenced political prisoner Aafia Siddiqui to 86 years in prison. Outrage most accurately expresses this gross miscarriage of justice, compounding what she's already endured following her March 30, 2003 abduction, imprisonment ...
  • UK: Does York Woman's Holiday Picture Reveal Ghost ...
    A woman from York captured an unexplained object in her holiday snaps this month, and wants your help identifying it. Abbey Linfoot, 22, was on a European holiday with her boyfriend when she took a photo of this street in Nuremberg. When she looked at the photo later, she saw something she couldn ...
  • Cassandra Says It Will Get Very Cold
    In the Greek myth about Cassandra, she could foresee the future, but no one believed her warnings. Her name is believed to be derived from the words for beauty and the sun. Any number of solar scientists and others are warning that the Earth is on the brink of a new Ice Age at worst, a mini ice a ...
  • World's first pedal-powered ornithopter takes flig ...
    Sky-pedalo inventors get into a flap Vid Canadian enthusiasts have finally achieved a feat that has eluded humanity's finest engineers since the time of Leonardo da Vinci - to build a machine, powered by a human pilot's muscles, which flies by flapping its wings: an ornithopter.

The Galloping Beaver

  • Hmmm.
    Naw. The Tbogg Bassets win. Well, unless it comes from Scandinavia. The price of my loyalty is so cheap.�
  • Standing Room Only . . .
  • The 'It gets better' project
    You know, this little gem could actually save a life. Be sure to pass it on to anyone you know who might benefit from a bit of peer support. �
  • The reality of The World Stage(tm)
    Some years ago, just after the Harper government won its first minority,� someone with an ear to the ground in New York told me that the usually active and vocal Canada had gone silent and withdrawn. According to my source, our diplomats and representatives at the UN had been told to shut-up and the ...
  • Boogityboogity Dep't.:
    ZERO HEDGE is a financial site, that looks at the financial world a little differently than most, as indicated by their slogan, which you can see above. Anyway, Tyler Durden has a report, "DEADF007 - Is Stuxnet The Secret Weapon To Attack Iran's Nukes; Is A Virus About To Revolutionize Modern Warfar ...

Media Matters for America

  • Can't right-wing bloggers read a (lunar) calendar?
    Right wing blogs were forced to issue humiliating updates after their most recent fake story -- that the Israeli delegation had rejected President Obama by "skip[ping]" his speech to the United Nations -- completely dissolved. In fact, the Israeli delegation was absent because they were observing t ...
  • "A true member of the team": Coates' testimony us ...
    Right-wing media are citing the testimony of Justice Department attorney Christopher Coates before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to revive the phony New Black Panther Party scandal. But Coates reportedly became "a true member of the team" in the highly politicized Bush DOJ. Right-wing med ...
  • Fox & Friends' "Pledge to Ameri ...
    Despite vowing to report both sides of the story "and let you decide,"  Fox & Friends'  coverage of the GOP "Pledge to America" consisted almost entirely of conservatives who love the pledge and Republicans who want to promote it. However, Fox ignored that several conservatives have panned the  ...
  • Memo to right-wing media: Military brass supports ...
    Right-wing media outlets have seized on leaked excerpts of Bob Woodward's upcoming book to suggest that President Obama has followed a strategy in Afghanistan that his generals think is folly. In fact, top Pentagon personnel, including Gen. David Petraeus, Adm. Mike M ...
  • Don't blame me, I "vote[d]" for the unqualified " ...
    Right-wing media figures have called GOP senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell "a bit of a flake," not "qualified as [a] leader," and someone with a "checkered background" who does not "evince the characteristics of rectitude and truthfulness and sincerity and character." Nevertheless, these ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • What Vulcan Ideology Does to Ancient History -- an ...
    In August, when PBS broadcast a shamefully worshipful, 3-hour "documentary" of Reagan Administration Secretary of State George Shultz's supposedly heroic career, I posted "What Politics Does to History," exposing the fraudulent scholarship of the man who'd written most of Shultz's memoir and is now ...
  • Ariel: The Time-Bomb Goes Off
    This week-end, the so-called settlements moratorium runs out, and the talks face--so the argument goes--their first moment of truth. Today, at the UN, President Obama called on Israel to extend the�moratorium and, pushing on an open door, is rallying international opinion, the Quartet, etc., to this ...
  • No title
    Robert Reich's new book, "Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future" is now out. See the original post here. Robert Reich - United States - Next Economy and America - Government - Future
  • Health Care Reform - Six Months Later
    Without doubt, history books will remember the sweeping health care reform law passed exactly six months ago as a major historic milestone and President Barack Obama's most significant achievement. But the reform bill hasn't yet won the hearts and minds of most Americans, who don't understand it, o ...
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TruthOut

  • Dilip Hiro | America Is Suffering a Power Outage…a ...
    “Make poverty history!” A catchy slogan, and an admirable aim, it was adopted by world leaders at the United Nations summit in New York on the eve of the New Millennium. A decade later, it is America which has made history -- even if in the opposite direction. The latest U.S. Census Bureau statisti ...
  • Allies and Foes of California's Marijuana Legaliza ...
    A leader of the country's drug reform movement, California has helped standardize marijuana use through policies at once progressive and compromising. Since the passage of Proposition 215 in 1996, which legalized medical marijuana and influenced many neighboring states to do the same, California has ...
  • US Spending Plan Is Too Little, and Perhaps Too La ...
    President Barack Obama’s proposal for $50 billion in new spending to address the slowdown in the economic recovery is a good idea, but it is much too small. My response, when I heard about it: “eh.” And, anyway, the proposal likely won’t be approved, though I have been wondering why the administrat ...
  • Norman Solomon | No, Higher Consciousness Won't Sa ...
    Autumn 2010 is a time of disillusionment for many who deplore the USA's current political trajectory. Some who've been active for progressive causes are now gravitating toward hope that individual actions - in tandem with higher consciousness, more down-to-earth lifestyles and healthy cultural alter ...
  • Exposed: Christine O'Donnell Using Campaign Funds ...

Planetsave

  • Social Network Data Predicts Disease Outbreaks
    Professors Christakis and Fowler explore the nature of social Networks (SNs) and reveal the rules that govern how SNs form. Knowing these rules allows us to predict, and prevent, new disease epidemics.
  • Distributed Heating to Reduce Climate Change
    Greenhouse gas emissions could be significantly reduced under a new plan to heat homes by district rather than individually. Instead of each individual house having its own collection of fan, gas and wood heaters, districts would be heated from a central location, and according to the authors of the ...
  • Red Sea Crossing Acquires Scientific Plausibility
    I bet you didn’t think the bible could be backed up with scientific evidence, did you? But new research from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) shows that the “parting of the Red Sea” depicted in Exodus actually has basis in the physica ...
  • 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

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Earth Particles - Editor's Choice
    Earth Particles   While you were thinking outside the box, did you forget to look under the rug? Maybe what you swept there years ago needs airing, or maybe it was put there by an ancestor just before defeating the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army wh ...
  • "Good Food": A Movement, Not Just A Movie - Enviro ...
    While the movie "Good Food" spotlights organic farming in America's Pacific Northwest, if you've been paying any attention to the mood of consumers across this nation who are weary of contaminated food and wary of what's in the meat, produce, eggs, and other food items they purchase in super ...
  • Living on the Edge. The Muslim community in the U. ...
    The Muslim community in the US is living on the edge. Targets of “growing tide of fear and intolerance”, as the Islamic Society of North America puts it, Muslims are at a loss to deal with the outburst of hostility they now experience in their daily lives. It all started...
  • Women hail feminine cabinet majority - World News
    After the “extraordinary” election of a first female majority in the Swiss cabinet, women’s rights campaigners hope it will resonate in areas where inequality remains. Parliament’s choice on Wednesday of 50-year-old consumer advocate and Social Democrat Simonetta Sommaruga as the fourth woman in ...
  • Danziger Bridge coverup brings 3-year sentence for ...
    Former New Orleans police officer Jeffrey Lehrmann was sentenced Wednesday to three years in federal prison, the maximum sentence allowed for the charge he faced, months after he pleaded guilty to helping orchestrate a police cover-up of the fatal 2005 Danziger Bridge police shootings. Lehrmann, ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Conway Rejects DADT
    He may hate liberals and love tax cuts for the obscenely rich, but when it comes to the military, national security and civil rights, Jack Conway has his head on straight. Media Czech: There's just something about legislating repugnant discrimination that Rand Paul can't get enough of. We know that ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    The rich fuckers better hope the masses never figure it out "Americans vastly underestimate the degree of wealth inequality in America, and we believe that the distribution should be far more equitable than it actually is, according to a new study. ... Or, as the study's authors put it: "All demogra ...
  • Congressional Democrats Eliminate Budget Deficit
    You read that right. By failing to vote on extending the Bush tax cuts that repugs scheduled to expire on December 31, Congressional Democrats added $1.4 trillion to federal revenues, thus completely eliminating the budget deficit shit pile bush and the repugs left for Obama. Ezra Klein last week: � ...
  • The Republican Super-Minority Again Thwarts the Wi ...
    Remember the Citizens United ruling that changed our fundamental relationship with our government from one in which every citizen was equal in the eyes of the election board and representative democracy was achieved by "one person, one vote" to one of plutocracy where dollars equal speech and electi ...
  • The first changes effected by the Affordable Care ...
    This means that adult children under the age of 26, but who had previously "aged out" can be added back to their parents health insurance policies. (There is one minor catch - most will continue to be uninsured the rest of this year because open enrollment, when changes can be made to the policy, is ...

Care 2

  • Help Free Prisoners of Conscience - Take Action To ...
    Action by you can help free prisoners of conscience who've been jailed because of their beliefs.  By raising your voice, you can help protect human rights defenders facing threats and intimidation because of their good work.  You can bring support to th Submitted by Michelle Matthews to World �|� ...
  • Michigan cat finally climbs down after a week and ...
    Talk about a stubborn kitty. A cat perched in a tree outside the home of a Kalamazoo County couple finally came down Thursday after cooling its, um, paws for the last week and a half. The feline was about 50 to 60 feet above the Texas Township backyard. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! ...
  • India: Mumbai slums still rocked by riots
    Those most affected by 1992 violence await court's verdict, while others have moved on. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 100 cats turned loose in an IKEA store to film com ...
    What happens when you set 100 cats loose in an IKEA furniture store after all the customers have gone home? Well, predictably, you'll get some fur on the couches and linens, you'll have a few kitty swatting matches and you just may end up needing Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
  • Zombies… In The Indian Way
    Zombie, by definition, dead men got up from his eternal chamber in search of booty mostly without much human brain in pursuing eternal. Submitted by Ivana M. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

  • Other things you can do to help us survive, even i ...
    Obviously, there are a lot of people who can't or don't want to donate. C'est la vie. But there are other ways to help out that don't involve giving away money. 1. I'm a pretty good graphic designer/web designer. Why not hire me for small freelance jobs? Portfolio on request. Click the 'contact' lin ...
  • Why Does Barack Obama Love the Establishment So Mu ...
    These are hopeful days. The four horsemen of the establishment look like they are leaving the White House. Peter Orszag, who apparently was the most conservative of them all ( and who just lobbied for more tax cuts for the rich ), has left his position as head of the Office of Management and Budget. ...
  • Sick Bastards
    � from Truthout A segment of Truthout's readership has made statements to me bemoaning the harsh tenor of my writing in recent weeks. To wit: I am too insulting and belittling in my descriptions of the Republican Party in general, the Tea Party phenomenon in particular, and the hatefully deranged n ...
  • One and a Half Cheers for American Decline
    from TomDispatch 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 t ...
  • Are a Significant Number of Afghan Men Raping Youn ...
    'Numerous reports alleged that harems of young boys were cloistered for 'bacha baazi' (boy-play) for sexual and social entertainment; although credible statistics were difficult to acquire, as the subject was a source of shame and 'dancing boys' was a widespread culturally sanctioned form of male ra ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Why Obama is in Deep Shit
    * Bumped up * If a picture is worth a thousand words, is a video a book? This exchange at today’s CNBC hosted town meeting is amazing. Here is a genuine Barack voter who is puking on his kool aid and has the spine to ask him a very tough question: Remember. This was [...]
  • The soundtrack of our lives
    I believe that a society’s musical soundtrack is a good indicator of its cultural health. While a lot of good and exciting music can still be heard in some of the better movies, I am depressed by the banality of most of the music being pumped out by radio stations and also on Broadway. [...]
  • OPEN THREAD: Stinking, Shrinking, and Sinking
    SINKING: THE U.S. EDUCATION SYSTEM “Waiting For Superman.” Looks like we all need to catch this documentary. From Variety’s review: Exhilarating, heartbreaking and righteous, “Waiting for Superman” is also a kind of high-minded thriller: Can the American education system be cured? Can it be made gl ...
  • Republican Bullshit on Obama
    * Bumped up * No one would mistake me for an Obama enthusiast. But I must speak out about the nonsense being spun by some outraged Republicans over a quote from Bob Woodward’s book on Obama’s war strategy. Obama told Woodward: “We can absorb a terrorist attack. We’ll do everything we can to preve ...
  • REELING IN the REAL JIM CLYBURN
    © 2010 jbjd I had wanted to write an article featuring the role played by House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (D-SC) in orchestrating the race-baiting campaign that catapulted Obama post Nevada and New Hampshire away from becoming just another also-ran in the Democratic Party’s primary and caucus ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • How Growing Your Own Vegetables Could Halt Climate ...
    One sure way of lessening your impact on the environment is to plant your own vegetables - let the Earth provide for you! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Are You Really Living a Green Lifestyle?
    There's more to green living than just one thing or another - you have to look for a whole green lifestyle! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Offsetting Starts At Home Not On Holiday
    Offsetting can seem like one of the luxuries that people attach to international travel - but we should really bring it into our everyday lives. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Why Carbon Offsetting Doesn't Work
    Paying for your carbon emissions when traveling abroad might seem like a good idea - but there's a lot more to it than you might think. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Coordination is the Key to Carbon Trading
    To protect the environment it is essential for us to all work together - anything else is futile. 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

  • Aid Sought for Nuclear Plants
    The federal loan guarantee program may not be enough to induce Constellation Energy to build a third reactor at its Calvert Cliffs site, the company's president warns.
  • The Battle of the Bulbs
    Three Republicans introduce a bill that would repeal impending standards for energy-efficient light bulbs.
  • On Our Radar: Shrinking Caribou Herds
    As development impinges on their range, rapidly rising Arctic temperatures throw caribou out of sync with the environment in which they evolved.
  • Breaking Out of the Wind Ghetto
    The Bonneville Power Administration opens a pilot project to steer excess wind power to a network of generators.
  • The 'Hockey Stick' Lives
    Two new studies bolster the hypothesis that the earth's warming is unprecedented, at least over the last millennium.

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

  • The Rise of the Penthouse Punk
    Stand on the corner of iconic Haight Street and Ashbury, the epicenter of the 60s countercultural movement, and you can still find a vestige of the anti-establishment ethos: the Gutter-Punk.  Slumping on the sidewalk begging with an impish smile, the Gutter Punk invariably sports his (or her) unifor ...
  • The Futility of Poverty
    Many world leaders were in New York, this past week, to discuss the management of poverty in the world.  We have two wars going on at this time with several other fires smoldering around the world fueled or supposedly caused by terrorism.  It is my feeling that terrorism is caused largely by despera ...
  • The DREAM ACT and the criminal congress — Now we m ...
     LIBERATOR JOURNAL FOR THE EMERGING NEW CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT Published by the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) September 2010 Vol. 8, No. 1 (9) MAKE THE FEDERAL DREAM ACT AND THE CALIFORNIA DREAM ACT PASS ...
  • Can you dig it?
    Now what could this mean? TV crew stopped from taking samples from polluted Florida beach. Pat Gonzales, US Fish and Wildlife (to WEAR ABC 3 reporter taking a sample from polluted beach): “You can not come out here and do your own investigation if you’re looking for oil product.” WEAR ABC 3 Is the g ...
  • 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 ...

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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

  • Political Analysis: Norman Solomon interviews PDA ...
    Cross-posted from Progressive Radio Network Columnist, author, and radio host Norman Solomon talks with PDA Deputy Director Laura Bonham about progressive organizing and the upcoming elections. From Progressive Radio Network, Political Analysis: From the grassroots ...
  • 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 ...

Marler Blog

  • For those who hate trial lawyers, you really shoul ...
    This may well pop up in a few ads in D.C. this next week.
  • Now you're talking - give some real penalties to t ...
    The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved legislation fast-tracked by chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., to strengthen criminal penalties for food safety violators, in addition to a list of seven federal judicial nominees, some of whom have faced long delays in the Senate.� Committee memb ...
  • June Dunning, another reason to pass S. 510 and de ...
    Right up until the time of her death, June Dunning remained an active, self-aware, and outgoing woman. Her health had always been good. For the last seven years of her life, she lived in Hagerstown, Maryland with her daughter and son-in-law. On August 28, 2006, June consumed a small amount of Dole b ...
  • Similac Baby Formula Recalled Due to Beetle Larvae ...
    Abott Laboratories Incl. is voluntarily recalling one of its baby powder products. It is the Similac baby formula. According to the company, Similac baby formula may contain beetle larvae and some tiny insect parts in certain lot numbers because in one of their manufacturing facilities, beetles wer ...
  • Salmonella Egg Production at Wright County Egg in ...
    The egg hearing today was disturbing on many levels.� The petty bickering between the democrats and republicans, although expected, was childlike.� The anti-chicken protesters were entertaining, but besides the point.� Probably the most disturbing were the faux apologies by the mass egg producers wh ...

AutoblogGreen

  • BMW announces trial markets for ActiveE electric c ...
    Filed under: BMW , Electric BMW ActiveE concept - Click above for high-res image gallery The evolution of BMW 's electric vehicle program, Project i, goes sort of like this: from Mini E concept to leasing that car to happy customers to the ActiveE concept to field tests of the larger sedan next ye ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 09.23.10
    Coda CEO: "Price is not the decisive factor in electric cars." Guess that why he priced his new EV at $44,900. 2011 Audi A1 dual-charged 1.4-liter TFSI model hits nearly 40 mpg The fine prin ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 09.22.10
    2011 Coda electric sedan priced at $44,900 Um, Okay. At Witz' End: Nissan Leaf Drive is D�j� vu all over again Remember GM's EV1 program? So do we. ...
  • 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 ...

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!

  • Independent Journalist Jean Friedman-Rudovsky on " ...
    Journalist Jean Friedman-Rudovsky traveled to Ciudad Juarez to find out how children are coping with the staggering levels of violence in the region. Her article published by Village Voice media earlier this month is titled "Juarez’s children: Drugs, death, and fear." In this interview with Dem ...
  • Torture in Iraq Continues, Unabated
    Combat operations in Iraq are over, if you believe President Barack Obama’s rhetoric. But torture in Iraq’s prisons, first exposed during the Abu Ghraib scandal, is thriving, increasingly distant from any scrutiny or accountability. After arresting tens of thousands of Iraqis, often without charge, ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • 12 Of America’s Most Crooked Candidates On T ...
    12 of America’s Most Crooked Candidates on the Ballot in the 2010 Election Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Here are some of the absolutely least deserving candidates for high office. September 16, 2010 | Since 2005, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), ha ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Autumn Equinox
    Autumn Equinox, September 23 • On or around September 23rd • Sun over equator • After Autumn Equinox, South pole begins tipping towards the sun ( North pole gets less sunlight) Equinox Wikipedia Equinoxes fretzreview.wikispaces.com
  • BP’s Shock Waves
    By  Matt Taibbi It was sickening enough when British oil giant BP set new standards for corporate scumbaggery in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, turning the Gulf of Mexico into its own personal toilet and imperiling entire species of wildlife in an attempt to save a few nickels. But with the Gulf ...
  • Quote du Jour
    “We said it before and we will say it again. There will be NO overt Wall Street bailouts for the foreseeable future. Perhaps this is why the covert bailouts and cover-ups are still in operation.” ~ Bill King, The King Report
  • Vatican Bank Chief Under Investigation
    By John Hooper In unprecedented move, judge freezes â¬23m held in account at financial institution with close church links. The head of the Vatican bank has formally been placed under investigation in an inquiry into a suspected violation of Italy’s money-laundering laws, judicial sources said tod ...
  • Moyers on the Secret Government - 1987
    YouTube (30 Sept 10)

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

  • Ultimately Primacy Is Its Own Justification
    Summary:   A guest post by Bernard Finel provides a deeper explanation for our love of foreign wars, wars often with only tenuous connections to our national interest. This piece from David Axe at Wired (Why the U.S. Should Send Troops (and Spooks) to the Congo) has gotten a bit of attention: Proble ...
  • Economists grapple with the first stage of the rob ...
    Summary:  The first signs of the robot revolution have appeared, automation moving from manufacturing into the service industries.  Economists see the evidence but cannot understand.  This post provides some explanations to this complex issue.  Links to other chapters of this series appear at the en ...
  • 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • North and South Korea on the brink of war, Russian ...
    Daily Telegraph – North and South Korea are on the brink of war, a top Russian diplomat has warned, calling for both countries to exercise restraint and sit down for talks. In Moscow’s bleakest assessment of the situation on the Korean peninsula yet, Russian deputy foreign minister Alexei Borodavkin ...
  • FDA: New restrictions on Avandia use; withdrawn in ...
    Washington Post – The controversial diabetes drug Avandia can remain on the market, but with tough new restrictions on its use, federal regulators announced Thursday. “The FDA is taking this action today to protect patients, after a careful effort to weigh benefits and risks,” said Food and Drug Com ...
  • IMB confirms suspension of diabetes drug
    Irish Medical Times – Doctors have been advised not to issue any new or repeat prescriptions for rosiglitazone-containing medicines, to review currently treated patients and to switch them to suitable alternative treatment. The Irish Medicines Board (IMB) confirmed this afternoon (Thursday) that, in ...
  • BRIEF-EU agency wants Glaxo’s Avandia pulled off m ...
    Reuters – European Medicines Agency comments on GlaxoSmithKline’s Avandia: * European Medicines Agency on Glaxosmithkline’s Avandia – recommends suspension * European medicines agency says Avandia to be taken off the market * EU medicines agency – Avandia, Avandamet and Avaglim will stop being avail ...
  • US forces ‘ignore British advice’ in Sangin handov ...
    Daily Telegraph – American forces have been accused of ignoring British tactical advice by dismantling numerous bases as a row overshadowed the handover of Sangin in Afghanistan on Monday. Dozens of British soldiers were killed earlier this year when men of the 3 Rifles battle group pushed along the ...

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

  • Nuclear Fusion in the Quran
    Humanity ought to study this verse very closely in light of the above sonoluminescence experiments and perhaps use olive oil as that special liquid as per the Quranic recipe, that is neither eastern nor western which may mean isotopes of the compounds of whatever olive oil is made of, and Allah guid ...
  • Why Silver Will Beat Gold
    The yellow metal has now rallied for five straight trading sessions and is up about 18% for the year. Investors are waking up to the fact that the central bank's plan to use U.S. Treasury purchases as a means of injecting another $2.3 trillion into the U.S. economy is only going to further debase th ...
  • U.S. Nuclear Weapons Have Been Compromised by Unid ...
    Ex-military men say unknown intruders have monitored and even tampered with American nuclear missiles. Group to call on U.S. government to reveal facts.
  • Iran leader warns US of war with ‘no limits’
    Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denied that his country had broken international rules on nuclear weapons and warned that an attack on his country's nuclear facilities could spark a war with "no limits".
  • US Pushes Worldwide Internet Site Blocking Bill
    US lawmakers have introduced legislation that would allow the federal government to quickly block websites anywhere in the world if they are dedicated to sharing copyrighted music or other protected content.

Andy Worthington

  • Barbaric: 86-Year Sentence for Aafia Siddiqui
    To be honest, I can hardly express sufficiently my shock at the news that Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani neuroscientist who was rendered to the US to face a trial after she reportedly tried — and failed — to shoot two US soldiers in Ghazni, Afghanistan in July 2008, has been sentenced to 86 year ...
  • Fayiz Al-Kandari, A Kuwaiti Aid Worker in Guantána ...
    For Fayiz al-Kandari, one of the last two Kuwaitis in Guantánamo, American justice has always been an oxymoron. Although he has maintained, for nearly nine years, that he is an innocent man, and although the US government has no evidence against him, he was put forward for a trial by Military Commis ...
  • 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 [...]

Environment _ National Geographic

  • Flooding Farms on Purpose—For the Birds
    In response to the BP oil spill, U.S. farmers are flooding fields to create untainted wetland stopovers for migrating birds. Video. United States - Bird migration - Environment - Oil spill - Energy
  • "Sea Snot" Explosion Caused by Gulf Oil Spill?
    A "blizzard" of sticky life-forms caused by the BP spill may have crippled the base of the Gulf of Mexico food chain, according to early results suggest. Gulf of Mexico - Deepwater Horizon oil spill - Oil spill - Environment - Energy
  • New Magma Layer Found Deep in Earth's Mantle?
    A layer of molten rock trapped since Earth's formation may exist where the solid mantle touches the core, new research suggests. mantle - Earth - Earth science - Organizations - Education
  • Volcanoes Killed Off Neanderthals, Study Suggests
    Eruptions may have wiped out our heavy-browed cousins, but we survived by being largely out of the line of fire, study suggests. Neanderthal - Earth Sciences - Natural Disasters and Hazards - Volcanoes - Human
  • Autumnal Equinox: Why First Day of Fall 2010 Is Di ...
    Wednesday, for the first time in more than a decade, the full moon will shine over the first day of fall. Get the facts in our autumnal equinox explainer. Equinox - Full moon - Autumn - Earth - Planet

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

  • Right Wingers Take on ‘Liar in Chief’
    MIAMI, Fla. — To many of the far-right speakers and people attending the three-day “Taking America Back” conference here, President Obama doesn’t just espouse policies and ideology they loathe. They’re convinced he’s a Muslim, a communist or both. Not only is Obama a communist, but the Democratic Pa ...
  • Fugitives with Ties to Aryan Brotherhood Captured
    A SWAT team captured escaped inmate John McCluskey and his fiancée Casslyn Welch in an Arizona national forest this morning, peacefully ending a three-week manhunt. Aided solely by Welch and a pair of wire cutters, McCluskey and two other inmates escaped from a private prison in Arizona on July 30. ...
  • Antigovernment ‘Patriots’: ‘Are You Willing to Kil ...
    The Forces of Freedom are ready for war. Last week, about 100 self-described âPatriotsâ and âstrict Constitutionalistsâ gathered in a hotel ballroom in Valley Forge, Pa., for the American Policy Centerâs Freedom Action National Conference. United by rage at a federal government they believ ...
  • Does Robert Rodriguez’s ‘Machete’ Advocate ‘Race W ...
    Most film critics have come to a similar conclusion about Robert Rodriguezâs new film, âMachete.â With few exceptions, the movie has been received as a directorially accomplished and modestly enjoyable comic-book revenge fantasy â easy to look at, easy to laugh at, and easy to forget. There ...
  • Anti-Semitic Activist Now Into ‘Liberty Villages,’ ...
    The last few years have been trying for New Mexico anti-Semite and militia proponent Clayton Douglas , but that hasn’t dampened his entrepreneurial spirit — or the high esteem in which he holds himself. Douglas, 64, is a motorcycle aficionado who used to publish a biker magazine called Thunder Rider ...

change: org.

  • Why We Should Be Thrilled About Mark Zuckerberg's ...
    On Wednesday, news broke that the 26-year old founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, would be donating $100 million to the Newark school district in an attempt to help transform public education in one of the most hard-up parts of the country. The gift is a pretty remarkable entrance into the world o ...
  • Indianapolis Bakery Won't Serve Gay Students
    Looking for some cupcakes or cookies with rainbow frosting on them, to celebrate National Coming Out Day? Don't head to Just Cookies in Indianapolis. The bakery, inside Indianapolis' City Market, refused to accept an order from a gay student group at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis ...
  • Changing the Adoption Odds for Aces and Wild Cards
    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. At the beginning of Adopt-a-Less-Adoptable-Pet Week , I mentioned Petfinde ...
  • Bringing Sex Education Back to School
    When it comes to sex education, America is seriously backwards. The American Academy of Pediatrics came out with a recent policy statement denouncing the continued misinformation that guides our decisions about sex ed. We can probably thank the Religious Right for making us the one and only Western ...
  • David Cicilline: The Next Openly Gay Member of Con ...
    Last week, an openly gay Rhode Island man took his first steps toward Congress. David Cicilline, the current mayor of Providence, defeated his competition in the Democratic primary to succeed Rep. Patrick Kennedy in Congress. If elected in November, Cicilline will become the fourth openly gay member ...

Common Dreams -News

  • UK Winning Fight to Soften International Scrutiny ...
    by Terry Macalister The British government was today successfully fending off an attempt to introduce international scrutiny of offshore drilling that was proposed by Germany in the aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill .Richard Benyon, a minister at Defra dispatched to Bergen, Norway, for a mee ...
  • Israel's Investigations of Gaza Conflict Inadequat ...
    by Adrian Blomfield in Jerusalem Both Israel and Hamas were instructed to conduct internal inquiries after the UN Human Rights Commission adopted a report by Richard Goldstone, a retired South African judge, accusing both of war crimes during the three-week conflict. More than 1,400 Palestinians and ...
  • Pakistan Drone Attacks Kill Scores
    Three strikes by US drones have killed at least 28 people in the tribal region in South Waziristan. Reporting for Al Jazeera from Islamabad, Kamal Hyder said that the first attack took place near Angor Adda along the Pakistan Afghan border. "We have reports that at least seven people, who were kille ...
  • Senate Republicans Use Filibuster to Block Efforts ...
    by Meena Hartenstein Gay rights advocates waiting for the Senate to repeal "don't ask, don't tell" got the message loud and clear from Republicans on Tuesday -- don't hold your breath. Senate Republicans have blocked a military spending bill that includes a repeal of the controversial policy, using ...
  • Machu Picchu Train Halted Over Water Protests
    by Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent Authorities in Peru have suspended train services to the Inca citadel Machu Picchu due to protests over an irrigation project that critics say could leave communities without water. The train, which ferries about 1,500 tourists to the ruins daily, will be ...

Lifehacker

  • Iron Clothes Right Out of the Washer for Easy Iron ...
    Cut out the middleman in your laundry process by ironing damp clothes right out of the washer instead of drying them and then dampening them again to iron them. More��
  • Shake2MuteCalls Silences Your Ringer When You Jost ...
    Android: Shake2MuteCalls is a lightweight Android application that turns motion—a sharp tap or a shake—into physical kill switch for a loud ringer. It's a great failsafe for those times you forget to silence your ringer. More » ...
  • Google Docs Improves Spreadsheet Importing with Pr ...
    Google Docs has made their Spreadsheet uploads less of a set-and-forget-and-hope matter. With the latest "Import" updates , spreadsheets can be added onto, specific sheets can be replaced or appended, and you can set Docs to delimit your incom ...
  • Pithos Melds Pandora Streaming with Linux Desktops ...
    Linux: Sure, Pandora plays in a browser windows, but it can end up eating CPU cycles, causing instability, and requiring more window space than necessary. Pithos puts Pandora in a Linux desktop window, and makes it easy and convenient to use. ...
  • Create Service-Stopping Batch Files to Optimize Yo ...
    You may have lots of software installed on your PC, but you don't need it running all the time. If you want to save some system resources, or just create a distraction-free environment in one click, a simple batch file can help. More�� ...

Water Privatization

  • Council discusses 'privatization' of water service ...
    Cape Coral City Council may look at turning its water services operations over to a private company to run. Councilmember Pete Brandt brought the idea of "privatizing" the city's water system to council during a workshop session Wednesda.
  • Battle looming over privatization of water
    MONTREAL—A call to end the privatization of municipal water was expected to spill onto the streets today outside the World Water Congress in Montreal.
  • Town of Poughkeepsie weighs privatization of water ...
    After hearing concerns from skeptical residents, Town of Poughkeepsie leaders will soon review proposals that could result in a private company operating the town's largest wastewater treatment plant.
  • Privatization of WTH water company
    Indiana American Water (INAW) is going to attend a West Terre Haute Town Board Meeting Monday night. INAW will present the board with the option of West Terre Haute switching to Indiana American Water.
  • Khalid: Contamination signals failed water privati ...
    SHAH ALAM, Sept 8 — Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim said today that the contamination crisis at  the Semenyih water treatment plant yesterday illustrates why water privatization has failed and the need for the industry to be consolidated. “Unlike before, the state has the burden of managing the sources of wa ...

Guardian

  • UN adviser warns of new global food crisis
    Environmental disasters and speculative investors are to blame for volatile food commodities markets, says UN's special adviser The world could be on the brink of a major new food crisis caused by environmental disasters and rampant market speculators, the UN will be warned today at an emergency mee ...
  • Livingstone wins Labour mayor vote
    Veteran former MP wins political reprieve and sets up another run-off with Conservative rival Boris Johnson in 2012 Ken Livingstone has beaten Oona King to the Labour nomination for London mayor, setting him up for a political rematch in the capital with his old rival Boris Johnson in 2012. The resu ...
  • Inquiry ordered into quangos leak
    Government slams 'irresponsible' leaking of list of public bodies facing the axe, but expressed regret over uncertainty caused The government today ordered an investigation into the leaking of documents suggesting that as many as 180 taxpayer-funded quangos are to be abolished. A spokeswoman for the ...
  • Twitter joke trial – live coverage
    Paul Chambers is at Doncaster crown court today, appealing against his conviction for joking on Twitter about blowing up an airport. Follow his tweets and those of his lawyer, David Allen Green, and our reporter, Robert Booth Twitter joke trial Twitter Crime guardian.co.uk � Guardian News & Media Li ...
  • Clegg to denounce Ahmadinejad
    Deputy PM alters speech after outcry at Iranian president's claim that US orchestrated 9/11 attacks Nick Clegg will today issue a strong condemnation of the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, telling the UN that his claims, made yesterday, that the US government was behind the 9/11 attacks on Ne ...

McClatchey

  • Japan to release Chinese fishing boat captain at c ...
    BEIJING — Japan announced on Friday that it would release a Chinese fishing boat captain whose detention earlier this month had thrown the two countries into a bitter diplomatic standoff.
  • Poll: Boxer widens lead over Fiorina
    Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer has opened up a six-point lead against her GOP opponent, Carly Fiorina, as the race heads into the final six weeks, according to a Field Poll released Thursday.
  • FARC leader's death may be turning point for Colom ...
    The death of a the top military commander of Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels in a bombing raid on his camp is a devastating blow to the guerrilla army that may mark a turning point in the country's bloody conflict, analysts say.
  • GOP's 'Pledge to America' gets blasted by some con ...
    The Republican Party's new "Pledge to America," already battered by liberals, is now facing criticism from an unlikely source — some conservatives, who say it doesn't go far enough to rein in big government.
  • Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Miller gets FreedomWo ...
    WASHINGTON — Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller on Thursday picked up the endorsement of FreedomWorks, the conservative Washington, D.C.-based group that has transformed the loosely organized tea party movement into a force on the right.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • 'Warmist' attack smacks of 'sceptical' intolerance
    It seems that something new, and not altogether welcome, may be happening in the politicking over climate change. � I have written before of the orchestrated villification that comes the way of climate scientists from some people and organisations who are unconvinced of the case for human-indu ...
  • 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 ...

The Wonk Room

  • Justice Department Objects To DADT Injuction, Says ...
    Last week, following a federal district court ruling which found Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is unconstitutional, the Log Cabin Republicans — the plaintiffs in that case — filed an injunction to prevent the Defense Department from enforcing the policy and end the military’s ban against openly gay and lesb ...
  • Appeals Court Rules Florida’s Gay Adoption B ...
    Yesterday, the Florida Court of Appeals for the Third District unanimously upheld a lower court’s finding that there is “no rational basis” for Florida’s statutory ban on gay and lesbian people adopting children in the state. “Given a total ban on adoption by homosexual persons, one might expect tha ...
  • Fair Pay Is ‘Not A Gift’: The Senate S ...
    Our guest blogger is Heather Boushey, Senior Economist at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Fair pay is an issue that “touches every family across this nation- each one of us,” said Lilly Ledbetter in a recent conversation with Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis. She went on to say that equa ...
  • Sen. Scott Brown Lashes Out At Harvard For Support ...
    The Boston Globe is reporting that Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA), who on Tuesday voted to filibuster a measure to gradually repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, is now lashing out against Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust for saying that the University would “continue barring ROTC from campus” unles ...
  • Inhofe Scoffs At The Notion That The Super Rich Ar ...
    Today, Forbes released its annual list of the 400 wealthiest Americans, which is topped by Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway head Warren Buffett. Overall, the total worth of the 400 “rose to an estimated $1.37 trillion in 2010, up 8% from 2009.” Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), though, doesn’t think that t ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Right-wingers being called "stupid"
    So the Toronto Sun has a columnist called Joe Wormington (or something like that). Recently, all the "leftists" on Toronto City Council expressed sentiments to the effect that if the absolute moron Rob Ford won the race for Mayor that they'd simply block his every move. There was also some talk abou ...
  • It's Time For a Revolution
    Yes, the global environmental crisis is upon us. At the same time, capitalism isn't capable of meeting the challenge (a la "green industries" to accommodate ecological reality) because capitalism is now at a stage where only financial wealth meets the demands of the profit maximizers. They aren't g ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • 'Online Reputation' Firm Continues Saber Rattling ...
    We recently wrote about a so-called "online reputation management" company that was getting a lot of press attention for promising to sue TripAdvisor for reviews that certain venues didn't like and believed to be defamatory. As we mentioned at the time, this felt a lot more like a publicity stunt f ...
  • Law Student Sues Google Over Allegedly Defamatory ...
    Eric Goldman points us to a new lawsuit filed by a law student against Google over allegedly defamatory blog posts . The student also sues the individual who made the posts, but the inclusion of Google in the lawsuit is the odd part: ...
  • Patent Office Says Another 'Worst Patent' Should B ...
    The latest news in the ongoing effort by the EFF to invalidate ten awful patents looks good, as the Patent Office has given an initial rejection of C2's VoIP patent , claiming that it qualifies as "obvious." The incredibly broad patent ( 6,243,373 ) basically covers all VoIP implementations. Of co ...
  • Librarians Violating Netflix Terms Of Service To B ...
    Rose M. Welch was the first of a few of you to send in the news that librarians have realized that Netflix is a great way to expand the catalog of DVDs that can be loaned out , even though it violates Netflix's terms of service. Netflix seems a bit ambivalent about the whole thing, saying that they ...
  • Justice Department Insists It Should Be Able To Se ...
    Back in August, we wrote about the (somewhat surprising) appeals court ruling in the District of Columbia circuit saying that longterm GPS tracking of someone by law enforcement required a warrant. The issues at play here certainly aren't entirely clearcut. After all, it does make sense that when ...

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

  • What is Pornography?
    I was getting all ready to write a long diatribe in response to another one of those anti-porn feminists who claims that all porn is rape.  You know, the people who refer to those of us who disagree as male-identified, “fun feminists.”  This “feminist” was particularly irritating me.  It’s bad en ...
  • 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 [. ...

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

  • Hand-built By Friends, A Wooden Yurt Rises In The ...
    Photos: Liz Vidyarthi via Re-Nest Yurts: they're not just for hippies anymore. With 2010 being officially declared as The Year of the Yurt by some, no wonder vendors have been popping up left and right recently, each hawking various updated versions of the traditional nomad home (made from canva. ...
  • Take Part! 25th Annual International Coastal Clean ...
    Photo by Ocean Conservancy This Saturday, September 25th marks the 25th annual International Coastal Clean-Up Day . The grassroots effort has worked miracles for marine litter over the last quarter century -- last year nearly half a million volunteers across 108 countries and 45 US states colle ...
  • How the Food Industry Fights to Keep Us Sick (Vide ...
    Image credit: Chow Down "I have $60,000 in this attache case and I want to give it to you if you will leave the word cancer out of any mention in the Red Cross course." These were the alleged words of a food industry lobbyist to Louise Light back in 1981. Louise had developed an educational ...
  • Hunters Urged Not To Put Deer Pee On Their Clothin ...
    The "Buck Bomb." Image credit: BuckBomb . Decades ago some marketing genius got the idea to sell American hunters small bottles of scent made from extracts of doe urine. Bucks would be attracted to hunters who smelled like they were in estrus, was the story. They (hunters) fell for it in large num ...
  • In Paris and Milan, Sparkling Water Flows For Free
    Photo credit Eau de Paris. Here's a novel way to get city dwellers off the bottle - the bottled water, that is. Local water utility Eau de Paris has constructed a public fountain in the Reuilly Gardens that has chilled and sparkling water coming from multiple taps - and any time the park is open, ...

Biosingularity

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

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

  • 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

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Always and Forever, Bad Apples
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post But the measures implemented to assist deeply underwater [savings and loans] (in the very high interest rate environment of 1980-1982) were exploited by outsiders to the industry, who acquired thrifts on extremely favorable terms. Ma ...
  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Groundbreaking Study Shows Roundup Link to Birth D ...
    Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the world's best-selling weedkiller Roundup, causes malformations in frog and chicken embryos at doses far lower than those used in agricultural spraying and well below maximum residue levels in products presently approved in the European Union. Click here to rea ...
  • Video: Stop Frankenfish!
    Click here to read this article
  • New MDA Report Shows Increase in Certified Organi ...
    The number of organic farmers in Minnesota continues to grow. According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service (ERS), between 2000 and 2008, the number of certified organic farms in Minnesota grew by 42% to 543 operations and the number of certified organic a ...
  • Breaking News: NEW “Food Safety” Threat—Urgent Act ...
    A brand new bill has just been introduced in the Senate. It's supposed to hold accountable those who taint our food supply on purpose. But as drafted, it actually gives license to the FDA to target supplement and natural health product companies. Click here to read this article
  • Warning: Silver Nanoparticle Waste in Our Water
    Manufacturers have incorporated silver nanoparticles into more than 200 consumer products, including clothing and cosmetics, because of their antibacterial properties. Now researchers analyzing sewer sludge provide the first evidence that silver leaching from these consumer products transforms into ...

fotoFrontera

  • Fotos de Japón or Japan photos (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 ...
  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XII
    Si lo desea, escoja un número para revisar nuestro archivo sobre la serie 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. ¡Son más de 100 fotos! [1] -[2] -[3] -[4] -[5] -[6] -[7] -[8] -[9] -[10] -[11] -[12] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK so ...
  • Rosas de colores parte V (7 fotos gratuitas)
    Escoja usted un número para ver más fotos de rosas | [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 imágen ...
  • Playas paradisiacas parte VI (7 paraísos naturales ...
    Si usted lo desea, puede escoger un número para ver nuestras entregas anteriores sobre la serie 'Playas Paradisiacas'. [II] [III] [IV] [V] [VI] 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 OPCION ...
  • 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 ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Food & Dignity
    “So, where do the leftover veggies go?” It’s a common question around here, especially on Tuesdays. The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) operates a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, connecting students, faculty and s ...
  • Reading between the lines: FDA indicates consumer ...
    FDA hosted a hearing on Tuesday, September 21 to discuss the hypothetical labeling of genetically engineered (GE) salmon. Just fifteen hours earlier the FDA finished hearing the debate on GE salmon approval, which gave the impression that FDA was moving faster on the issue than it actually is.  This ...
  • Independent advisory committee grills FDA on genet ...
    In a chilly hotel ballroom in the Washington DC suburbs, the FDA this week is considering whether to allow genetically engineered (GE) animals in the human food supply. The test case is an Atlantic salmon that has been engineered with Chinook salmon genes to express a growth hormone. The result is a ...
  • 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 ...

Norwegianity

  • Rethinking the outrage
    It’s time, I think, to step back a bit. As in ’08, the right has everything ginned up to crazy hot right now, but the elections are still over five weeks away. That’s a long time and we’ve got a whole month of getting ready to get out the vote left. I think it’s safe [...]
  • A really long post
    The Mudflats does some political anagrams, and I couldn’t resist doing some local ones (Brendan’s On-Line Anagram Generator is a much better resource, btw). First the name, then the anagram(s): Tom Emmer: Meter Mom Tom Horner: more thorn Mark Dayton:  drank my tao Michele Bachmann: I’m cable henchm ...
  • State-sanctioned murder
    Where will you be tomorrow night at 8 pm CDT? Teresa Lewis, a grandmother with an IQ of 72, will be strapped to a gurney and lethally injected courtesy of the State of Virginia where Tea Party Governor Bob McDonnell is OK with the actual murderers getting life while the so-called “mastermind” is exe ...
  • 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 ...

Public News Service

  • Advocates for Wild Lands Gather in DC for Wilderne ...
    Advocates for Wild Lands Gather in DC for Wilderness Week Phoenix, AZ – Nearly 100 wilderness advocates from Arizona and over a dozen other states will gather starting Sunday in Washington, D.C. They’ll be meeting with each other and federal lawmakers to urge consideration this year of legislation p ...
  • Bring Back DDT? Bedbug and Malaria-Fighting Pestic ...
    Bring Back DDT? Bedbug and Malaria-Fighting Pesticide Debated Phoenix, AZ - A movement is gaining momentum that endorses expanding the use of DDT in fighting malaria in sub-Sahara Africa. The controversial pesticide, which helped eradicate bedbugs in the U.S. in the 1950s, was banned by the U.S. Env ...
  • 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. ...

My Care2 Picks

  • IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS
    For Iraq and Afghanistan veterans: an upgraded new GI Bill. These crucial upgrades expand educational benefits for thousands of veterans, including those who attend vocational schools. Add your name to list letting Congress know you support this. Submitted by Dandelion G. to US Politics & Gov't �|� ...
  • Taliban Is ... Freedom Fighters
    Part 2 of my "Catch The Terrorists" trilogy Have Taliban always been Terrorists, rather than Resistance Fighters, Homeland Defenders for more than 30years? Let's ask the president, what hes to say... A milestone of investigative journalism at care2NN Submitted by Carl Gustav J. to US Politics & ...
  • 911 Attacks/ The new pearl harbor
    9/11 The Truth That Cannot Be Spoken Above A Whisper by KaziKearse on Saturday, September 11, 2010 at 7:41pm. Please see this video and the research in my first comment. Submitted by Qais Yousef to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Life on this Earth just changed : the North Atlant ...
    The entire system is a key part of the planets heat regulatory system; it is what keeps Ireland and the United Kingdom mostly ice free and the Scandinavia countries from being too cold; it is what keeps the entire world from another Ice Age. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! � ...
  • Surfing Bankruptcies & Science
    This post was a result of keeping tabs on Care2 news and surfing sources as well as being in forums here and at My Opera....all while surfing But the spark was a thought about an old NWO story about economic warfare and a Search to find it again Submitted by John Farnham to Business �|� �Note-it! ...

Angry Indian News

  • Color Of Change Takes On Black Caucus on Internet ...
    Color Of Change Takes On Black Caucus on Internet Neutrality | Black Agenda Report: "The Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Weekend has always been heavy on networking. The question is:... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Human rights centre claims that Israeli prisons "a ...
    Human rights centre claims that Israeli prisons "are worse than Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib" :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]: "A... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • UN rights council: ‘Clear evidence’ against Israel ...
    UN rights council: ‘Clear evidence’ against Israel in flotilla raid � American Everyman: "A UN probe said Wednesday there was “clear evidence to support prosecutions” against Israel for “willful... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • US warned on homegrown extremists
    ABC Radio Australia News:Stories:US warned on homegrown extremistsSenior US officials are warning of a "spike" in the number of homegrown extremists who they say are increasingly difficult to... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Port Townsend co-op rejects boycott on a technical ...
    Port Townsend co-op rejects boycott on a technicality: [mondoweiss.net] The following update was just sent out by Jefferson County Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions:Following the intervention of the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • The Sharecroppers
    Sharecroppers explores the quiet struggles of America's chicken farmers as they struggle to provide for themselves and their families. Essentially forced into upgrading their farms, these farmers have no choice but to perpetuate a never-ending cycle of debt - on pain of bankruptcy.
  • The last gasp of the independent and family farmer ...
    The PPJ Gazette Marti Oakley (c) copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved __________________________________________________________ The pressure is really on to ram S.510 Fake Food Safety through the Senate.  Democrats know they will most likely lose at least the House in the midterm, but I believe even ...
  • 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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • David Miliband gave green light for interrogations ...
    ShareThis David Miliband gave green light for interrogations in 'torture nations' 23 Sep 2010 David Miliband faced fresh questions over torture yesterday after it emerged that he gave the green light for interrogations of terrorist suspects in countries where there was a risk of abuse. Security sour ...
  • Republicans to release 'Pledge to [Destroy] Americ ...
    ShareThis Republicans to release 'Pledge to [Destroy] America' agenda 22 Sep 2010 Sixteen years after an elaborate ceremony to sign the "Contract with on America" in the Capitol's shadow helped propel House Republicans to majority status, GOP leaders are hoping to repeat the performance. This year, ...
  • US plans continued control of Bagram to hold kidna ...
    ShareThis US plans continued control of Bagram to hold kidnapped prisoners, 'security threats' --Prisoners would be held in one of Bagram's blocks which would remain under control of US military 22 Sep 2010 The US military has drawn up plans to continue holding Afghan prisoners it deems a threat in ...
  • Feds Look to Local Forces for Terrorism Response
    ShareThis Feds Look to Local Forces for Terrorism Response 22 Sep 2010 The Department of Homeland Security�is helping local forces prepare to respond to terrorist threats, which have changed substantially since the Sept. 11 attacks to include more homegrown terrorists and smaller, faster-developing ...
  • Pennsylvania Senate committee approves subpoena po ...
    ShareThis Pennsylvania Senate committee approves subpoena power for terror probe 22 Sep 2010 A Senate committee today voted to give Chairman Lisa Baker the power to subpoena witnesses in an investigation into the Rendell administration's no-bid state contract for a security bulletin that monitored d ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Mondoweiss

  • Empty Promises: Obama takes his Middle East peace ...
    "International law is not an empty promise" - except for Palestinians President Obama's General Assembly speech called on the international community to mobilize behind the U.S.-led "peace process." He called on the Palestinians to "reconcile with a secure Israel" and waxed eloquent on the illegalit ...
  • Jerusalem Syndrome: A report from Silwan
    This post originally appeared on the Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity website. You never know what kind of a day you’ve woken up to in this city. Will it be a lazy and serene day, the first day of a vacation that I’ve waited so long for, or a day where the entire city turns into a Kafkaesque [...]
  • Copenhagen city council set to vote on divestment
    And other news from Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Ynet: 2,000 settlement units to be built after freeze ends this month Israeli settlers expect the government will stick to its decision to allow free building for settlers throughout the entire West Bank ...
  • NYU to host debate – ‘Is Judaism funda ...
    Just kidding.
  • Busting the siege, American style
    A fabulous party Tuesday night in Brooklyn was the latest in a series of nation-wide fundraisers to send an American boat to break the siege of Gaza. The Siege Busters’ Ball featured hours of eclectic performances, connections, conversations, and shoulder-shaking Arabic dance music into the small h ...

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

  • Iraq: Inside the Inferno
    Dear Friend, I have just returned to Afghanistan and I’m writing to tell you about a new book project I’m working on and an important organization that I’m backing with this book. I hope you will too. ABOUT SOLDIERS’ ANGELS Soldiers’ Angels is a volunteer-led nonprofit organization dedicated to ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Hand-built By Friends, A Wooden Yurt Rises In The ...
    Photos: Liz Vidyarthi via Re-Nest Yurts: they're not just for hippies anymore. With 2010 being officially declared as The Year of the Yurt by some, no wonder vendors have been popping up left and right recently, each hawking various updated versions of the traditional nomad home (made from canva. ...
  • Take Part! 25th Annual International Coastal Clean ...
    Photo by Ocean Conservancy This Saturday, September 25th marks the 25th annual International Coastal Clean-Up Day . The grassroots effort has worked miracles for marine litter over the last quarter century -- last year nearly half a million volunteers across 108 countries and 45 US states colle ...
  • How the Food Industry Fights to Keep Us Sick (Vide ...
    Image credit: Chow Down "I have $60,000 in this attache case and I want to give it to you if you will leave the word cancer out of any mention in the Red Cross course." These were the alleged words of a food industry lobbyist to Louise Light back in 1981. Louise had developed an educational ...
  • Hunters Urged Not To Put Deer Pee On Their Clothin ...
    The "Buck Bomb." Image credit: BuckBomb . Decades ago some marketing genius got the idea to sell American hunters small bottles of scent made from extracts of doe urine. Bucks would be attracted to hunters who smelled like they were in estrus, was the story. They (hunters) fell for it in large num ...
  • In Paris and Milan, Sparkling Water Flows For Free
    Photo credit Eau de Paris. Here's a novel way to get city dwellers off the bottle - the bottled water, that is. Local water utility Eau de Paris has constructed a public fountain in the Reuilly Gardens that has chilled and sparkling water coming from multiple taps - and any time the park is open, ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

  • Flooding Farms on Purpose—For the Birds
    In response to the BP oil spill, U.S. farmers are flooding fields to create untainted wetland stopovers for migrating birds. Video. United States - Bird migration - Environment - Oil spill - Energy
  • "Sea Snot" Explosion Caused by Gulf Oil Spill?
    A "blizzard" of sticky life-forms caused by the BP spill may have crippled the base of the Gulf of Mexico food chain, according to early results suggest. Gulf of Mexico - Deepwater Horizon oil spill - Oil spill - Environment - Energy
  • New Magma Layer Found Deep in Earth's Mantle?
    A layer of molten rock trapped since Earth's formation may exist where the solid mantle touches the core, new research suggests. mantle - Earth - Earth science - Organizations - Education
  • Volcanoes Killed Off Neanderthals, Study Suggests
    Eruptions may have wiped out our heavy-browed cousins, but we survived by being largely out of the line of fire, study suggests. Neanderthal - Earth Sciences - Natural Disasters and Hazards - Volcanoes - Human
  • Autumnal Equinox: Why First Day of Fall 2010 Is Di ...
    Wednesday, for the first time in more than a decade, the full moon will shine over the first day of fall. Get the facts in our autumnal equinox explainer. Equinox - Full moon - Autumn - Earth - Planet

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Pakistani woman sentenced to 86 years for attempte ...
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website] on Thursday sentenced Aafia Siddiqui [JURIST news archive], a Pakistani woman convicted [JURIST report] of attempting to murder US personnel at the Afghan facility where she was being held, to 86 year ...
  • Cambodia opposition leader sentenced over Vietnam ...
    [JURIST] A Cambodian court on Thursday sentenced opposition leader Sam Rainsy [party profile; JURIST news archive] in absentia to 10 years in prison following his conviction on charges of forging and disseminating [JURIST report] a false map of the Cambodia-Vietnam border on his political party's we ...
  • Serbia war crimes court sentences ex-paramilitary ...
    [JURIST] The War Crimes Department of the Higher Court in Belgrade on Wednesday sentenced [press release; PDF] former paramilitary officer Zeljko Djukic to 20 years in prison for his involvement in the deaths of 14 civilians in March 1999 during the 1998-1999 Kosovo war [BBC backgrounder; JURIST new ...
  • UN report finds Israel flotilla raid violated inte ...
    [JURIST] Israel's interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla [JURIST news archive] violated international law, according to a report [text, PDF] released Wednesday by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website]. After conducting numerous interviews with eye-witnesses and viewing other evidence ...
  • Florida appeals court strikes down gay adoption ba ...
    [JURIST] Florida's Third District Court of Appeal [official website] on Wednesday struck down [opinion, PDF] a state law [63.042 text] prohibiting gay couples from adopting, finding that it failed rational basis review and violated the state constitution's equal protection clause. The case was broug ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • The White House Staff Shuffle Begins
    The Great Staff Exodus of 2010 has begun. Even before the traditional post-midterm turnover point, President Obama's kitchen cabinet is in the middle of a significant refurbishment. The staff changes will influence how policy is conceived and executed, and what type of advice the President r ...
  • Why Republicans Didn't Need A "Pledge&qu ...
    Today, something unusual will happen. Democrats will happily call attention to a new set of Republican proposals, and Republicans ... well, they'll sort of shrug them off. �The " Pledge to America " is supposed to be this year's version of 1994's "Contract with America," which supposedly helped to s ...
  • 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 ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Roger Cohen to Obama: ‘Break Some Bones’ to Get Ex ...
    Roger Cohen is usually an elegant, dispassionate writer. But in his column today which describes a dinner for Mahmoud Abbas hosted by American Jewish leaders, he’s talking tougher than I’ve ever heard.  First, he says that the Israel-Palestine peace negotiations are poised to go over a cliff.  Lis ...
  • Sukkot: Festival of Lies Over Palestinian Shooting ...
    Daniel Dukarevich has written a powerful account of the events of yesterday, during which a young Palestinian from Silwan, Samir Sirhan, 34, and father of five, was shot to death by an Israeli private security guard paid by the government to “protect” settlers who’ve stolen homes from long time loca ...
  • German Cyber-Security Expert: Stuxnet’s Target, Na ...
    Might Stuxnet have been the preemptive first strike in Israel’s campaign against Iran’s nuclear program? My post yesterday about Stuxnet noted cybersecurity experts who analyzed the massive computer worm which heavily infected computers in Iran speculated that the likely target was the Bushehr react ...
  • Security Experts: Possible Israeli Cyber Attack Sa ...
    Though the Stuxnet cyber-attack which likely targeted Iran’s nuclear facilities may’ve begun as early as 2009, computer security experts have only this month published their full analysis of one of the most sophisticated and powerful computers worms ever developed, and what industrial damage it may’ ...
  • Links for 2010-06-05 [Digg]
    MV Rachel Corrie Forcibly Seized by Israeli Navy, Towed to A Malaysian NGO funding Rachel Corrie trip to Gaza reports she was seized a few mintues ago by Israeli navy and is being towed to Ashdod.

Ode Magazine

  • Baby carrots: the next pop culture fad?
    By: VictoriaKlein Chic and sexy; extreme and awesome! I’m not talking about the latest pair of jeans or bottle of hair gel - these are carrots, baby. Or, more specifically, baby carrots . "A bunch of carrot farmers," (50, to be exact) have teamed up to launch ...
  • Peace roses from the Valentine Peace Project
    By: PeaceCorso Have a peace rose with a poem from a fellow world citizen ... For many, peace is only a John Lennon song, an impossible dream or as members of my family tell me "the United Nation's job." But we have the power - in our language, in our relation ...
  • Embrace conflict for the sake of your health
    By: VictoriaKlein You may feel better in the short term, but avoiding arguments can zap your well-being in the long run. At the American Psychological Association’s recent annual meeting, an unparalleled study compared the physical impacts of arguing versus avoidin ...
  • How to solve problems
    By: EmilyAviles To solve complex problems, we tend to look for experts who know how to fix things. That’s not the best way, says Monique Sternin, co-author of the new book The Power of Positive Deviance . In the book, she explains that there’s always someone in a c ...
  • 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 ...

OpEd News

  • Guilty As Charged: UN Report on Gaza Flotilla Mass ...
    UN Human Rights Council report is accurate and important.
  • Despite America's Temper Tantrum, It's Still a Cen ...
    We're a center-left nation. We've been a center-left nation since, well, forever. Anyone who tries to tell you differently is either misinformed or lying or taking that Gallup poll way, way, way too seriously.
  • Republicans Do Not Support Our Troops
    This week, Republicans in the Senate successfully showed their collective contempt for our men and women in uniform and in the process they made our military weaker and our country less safe.
  • Fog Rolls in for Afghanistan War Assessment
    Techiques of obfuscation and lowered expectations, developed by politicians and the Pentagon during the Vietnam War and the war in El Salvador are being honed in Afghanistan, and will be on full display this December.
  • The Collapse of Western Morality
    The US government, a font of imperial hubris, does not believe that any act it commits, no matter how vile, can possibly be a war crime. One million dead Iraqis, a ruined country, and four million displaced Iraqis are all justified, because the "threatened" US Superpower had to protect itself from n ...

Switchboard

  • Interview with Walt Disney Company Senior Vice Pre ...
                 My colleague Andrew Peterman and I recently spoke with Beth Stevens, Senior Vice President of Environmental Affairs at The Walt Disney Company, for a Q&A on Disney’s sustainability and stewardship projects. Disney has a rich history of promoting environmental protection an ...
  • It's time for EPA to revisit 1980s rules for toxic ...
    What does Cher have in common with the oil & gas industry? If you saw the recent MTV Video Music Awards, you know that Cher wore a tribute to her ( in)famous outfit from her 1989 “ If I Could Turn Back Time ” music video. I am a Cher fan--and she looks amazing--but the fact is sometim ...
  • Lessons learned from Gulf disaster; Disappointment ...
    USA Today carried an Op-Ed by Peter Lehner about lessons learned from the Gulf oil spill and the need to break our dangerous addiction to oil; another Editorial on a similar topic in the Charlotte Observer also quoted Peter… In the Miami Herald , David Hawkins expressed disappointment ...
  • Asian Carp: "I was like fish, fish! People wouldn' ...
    With all the ecosystem concerns brought on by America’s invasive species poster child, the Asian carp, we sometimes forget these critters pose a serious public safety threat. A recent near-drowning in Mississippi’s Lake Tunica paints a clear picture of the impact an infestation of silv ...
  • Joe Stalin Made Me Rich, But I'm Really A Free Mar ...
    A recent editorial in Investor’s Business Daily claims there is a “Great War on Koch Industries.”  The editorial notes that “The private Wichita, Kan.-based conglomerate, which operates ranches, drills oil, runs pulp and paper mills, and creates specialized textiles for athletes, among ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Balancing and Bandwagoning
    Robert Kaplan says all manner of silly things, but because he says them in important places, we’re supposed to listen: He or she who sits in Delhi with his back to Muslim Central Asia must still worry about unrest up on the plateaus to the northwest. The United States will draw down its troops one d ...
  • On RT on Woodward on Obama
    I went on the Alyona Show yesterday to discuss a book I haven’t read: To elaborate a bit, I think that it’s correct to say that the President could have de-escalated in Afghanistan if he’d been willing to expend the political capital necessary to do so. The Woodward seems to indicate that the Presi ...
  • Anti-Semitism at UCI?
    A commenter emailed and requested I write something about Kenneth Marcus’s article on anti-Semitism at UCI. It opens: During the first years of the 21st century, the virus of anti-Semitism was unleashed with a vengeance in Irvine, California. There, on the campus of the University of California at ...
  • Cyber-Bombs And The Law
    “Cyber-warfare” used to refer to damaging or stealing data and the networks on which they rely. Now, cyber-weapons can destroy physical infrastructure as well. As reported in CSMonitor: Cyber security experts say they have identified the world’s first known cyber super weapon designed specifically ...
  • Idiotic
    To state the obvious, this non-action is awful both on the merits (making the permanent extension of Bush’s upper-class tax cuts more likely) and as politics (name me the district where voting for middle-class tax cuts and against upper-class ones is “politically risky.”) The only consolation is t ...

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

National Law Journal | U.S.

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

  • World’s Largest Wind Farm Opens Off British Coast ...
    The world’s largest wind farm, which will boost Britain’s capacity to generate wind power by more than 30 percent, has opened off the coast of Kent. The Thanet wind farm, operated by the Swedish company Vattenfall , contains 100 turbines and will ultimately have 341 turbines capable of generating en ...
  • 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 ...
  • Wal-Mart Will Deploy Thin-film Solar Technology at ...
    Retail giant Wal-Mart will nearly double the number of stores where it uses solar energy technology , including numerous locations where it will deploy next-generation thin-film panels. Wal-Mart has also begun installing wind turbines at some of its stores and is experimenting with geothermal energ ...
  • Effects of Drought and Fire Visible on NASA Satell ...
    A NASA map, using data collected from its Terra satellite, illustrates air quality worldwide during the month of August, with the highest concentrations of aerosols occurring when drought conditions in some Click to enlarge NASA Aerosol levels worldwide in August, 2010 regions sparked intense wild f ...
  • New Hope for Pavlovsk Station And Russia’s Rare Pl ...
    In the early 20th century, Russian botanist Nikolai Vavilov created a preserve outside St. Petersburg that today contains one of the world’s largest collections of rare seeds and crops. Now, scientists and conservationists are waging an international campaign to save the reserve’s fields from being ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

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

  • Mexican Bicentennial UFOs
    When our southern neighbor Mexico celebrated their bicentennial last week, their military fly-overs had some unexpected company. Contributing Editor Prof. Ana Luisa Cid has sent us impressive images of unidentified flying objects reported during Mexico’s military parade conmemorating our southern ...
  • 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. ...

Tippers News

  • Wyoming Fracking Rules Would Disclose Drilling Che ...
    The new Wyoming rules say companies must submit to the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission a full list of chemicals they plan to use in fracking operations on a well-by-well basis. Companies will also have to report the concentration of each chemi Submitted by Kelly C. to Environment �|� �N ...
  • Paonia doctor's study warns hydraulic fracturing c ...
    Natural Gas Operations From a Public Health Perspective, co-authored by Paonias Dr. Theo Colborn, who runs the Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TDEX) there, calls for the full disclosure of all chemicals used in the natural gas drilling process called Submitted by Kelly C. to Health & Wellness �|� ...
  • 911 Rescue Dogs Honored
    These brave and very loved dogs waited and saved the lives of there Loved One, some waited for a Long time. Pawrific! Submitted by Susan Dzioba to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Urge Congress to Outlaw Videos of Animal Cruelty - ...
    It is not right to make a profit from images of animals being brutalized and tortured. A better defined ban on the sale of videos displaying malicious acts of cruelty, such as dog fighting, should be enforced Submitted by Susan Dzioba to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Fur : Humane Society International
    The clip they have is very graphic...The fur industry wouldnt be caught dead showing the cruelty behind its hottest collections of fur-bearing fashions. Reality is simple: Fur is beautiful on animals, not on people. Submitted by Susan Dzioba to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • New Health Insurance Rules Kick in Today
    “The first big wave of new rules under the federal health care law goes into effect on Thursday, leaving many insurers scrambling to get ahead of the changes.” (New York Times) Starting today there is such a thing as a free lunch. FEE Timely Classic “Health Careâs Muddled Incentives” by Arnold Kli ...
  • China Tariff Bill Advances in Congress
    “House leaders are moving forward with legislation to combat China’s currency policies, adding to pressure from the Obama administration and giving lawmakers an election-year chance to vote on a sensitive trade matter. The House Ways and Means Committee plans to vote Friday on a bill that would expa ...
  • Can a Nation Be Built?
    Many people who are ordinarily skeptical about the benevolent power of government have come to believe it can accomplish what they see as the noble task of “nation building.”
  • The Rise and Fall of Glass-Steagall
    The ongoing financial crisis has pundits, bloggers, academics, and politicians scrambling for explanations. Deregulation gets a major share of their attention, specifically the 1999 repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933. Just what was Glass-Steagall and how did it come about? Bank failures were a ...
  • John Maynard Keynes, R.I.P.
    The late revered British economist John Maynard Keynes, whose 1936 treatise, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, changed the way many economists think about recessions, once wrote that “in the long run we’re all dead.” Well, maybe so . . . for everyone but Keynes. Keynes’s ghost h ...

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

  • Houston, we have a (voting) problem
    "The voting system is under attack now. The movements that are focused on voter fraud and the integrity of elections are crucial at this point. This really, this is a war. " So begins an ominous video on the front page of the website for True the Vote , a group founded this year by conse ...
  • NOPD officer gets three years for cover-up of Danz ...
    By Sabrina Shankman, ProPublica Former New Orleans Police Officer Jeffrey Lehrmann was sentenced Wednesday to three years in federal prison for his part in the cover-up of the Danziger Bridge shootings, our partners at the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported today. Lehrmann is one of 11 officers ...
  • Activists will march on Washington to end mountain ...
    Activists working to end to mountaintop removal coal mining will gather in Washington, D.C. from Sept. 25 to 27 for Appalachia Rising -- a weekend conference followed by a Monday rally and march to the White House where hundreds are expected to get arrested committing acts of nonviolent civil disobe ...
  • 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 ...

Worldpress - Africa

Canadian Encyclopedia

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle spark plugs?
    We’ve had an email from Scott, asking: Is there any use for old sparkplugs? As someone who barely knows what a sparkplug looks like let alone does, I’m not really in a position to answer this question. Google tells me that they can be cleaned up again but it’s not recommended (although disclaimer: a ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle waxed paper sliced brea ...
    This one came to me in my sleep the other night – the waxed paper type wrapping you get on some loaves of sliced bread. I obsessed about it until morning so I wouldn’t forget to write it down and let me tell you, I had some weird packaging related dreams that night. ANYWAY, waxed [...]
  • Recycling for charity: how to set up a money-raisi ...
    I regularly get emails from people involved with small charities asking how to set up recycling programs that will help them raise money for their cause. Collection/recycling programs have been part of charity fundraising for a long time, but recently most seem to have moved from collecting large am ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle wooly winter scarves?
    Brr! For few days last week, it felt like we were getting a last minute reprieve from summer’s sayonara but now it feels very autumnal indeed. I guess it’s time to shift into winter mode – I’ve got a list of insulating chores to complete, the garden needs more tidying, I need to make soup, [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle a baby’s cot?
    We’ve had an email from Jess: What can I do with my little girl’s cot now she’s too big for it? We’re not having any more so don’t want to keep it and I know you’re not supposed to use second hand beds for babies. There is apparently an increased risk of cot death if [...]

Mondoweiss

  • Empty Promises: Obama takes his Middle East peace ...
    "International law is not an empty promise" - except for Palestinians President Obama's General Assembly speech called on the international community to mobilize behind the U.S.-led "peace process." He called on the Palestinians to "reconcile with a secure Israel" and waxed eloquent on the illegalit ...
  • Jerusalem Syndrome: A report from Silwan
    This post originally appeared on the Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity website. You never know what kind of a day you’ve woken up to in this city. Will it be a lazy and serene day, the first day of a vacation that I’ve waited so long for, or a day where the entire city turns into a Kafkaesque [...]
  • Copenhagen city council set to vote on divestment
    And other news from Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Ynet: 2,000 settlement units to be built after freeze ends this month Israeli settlers expect the government will stick to its decision to allow free building for settlers throughout the entire West Bank ...
  • NYU to host debate – ‘Is Judaism funda ...
    Just kidding.
  • Busting the siege, American style
    A fabulous party Tuesday night in Brooklyn was the latest in a series of nation-wide fundraisers to send an American boat to break the siege of Gaza. The Siege Busters’ Ball featured hours of eclectic performances, connections, conversations, and shoulder-shaking Arabic dance music into the small h ...

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 )

  • Leading gene therapy researcher retracts more pape ...
    Savio Woo of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York has retracted two more papers this week, the blog Retraction Watch reported today. That brings Woo’s total number of retractions this year to six, following an investigation that found evidence of scientific misconduct committed by two of h ...
  • Avandia pulled in Europe; restricted in the US
    Drug regulators on the two sides of the Atlantic reached significantly different decisions today on the safety of the controversial diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone) made by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). The European Medicines Agency pulled the type 2 diabetes drug from the European market, sayi ...
  • Sizing up the spill
    When the government began releasing estimates of the size of BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil well leak, scientists and environmental groups questioned the figures, certain the leak was larger. New research supports that notion. According to the study, published in Science , some 4.4 million barrels of oil h ...
  • Picture post: the story is in the soil
    When diversity is discussed, it’s normally rainforests, tigers or other photogenic things that get the headlines. Today, the European Commission’s research arm is putting the focus on something a bit more mundane: soil. The Joint Research Centre has produced the first European ‘ soil biodiversity ...
  • Stem cell litigants say no thanks to University of ...
    Both the plaintiffs and the defendants in a US lawsuit challenging the government's right to fund research using human embryonic stem cells filed court documents declining to consent to another party – the University of California – from joining the case. Earlier this week, the University of Ca ...

new geography

  • Why We Have to Learn to Love the Subdivision – Aga ...
    When did anyone last hear officials and professionals talking enthusiastically about the social and economic benefits resulting from the subdivision of land to create secure, clean and tradable title? Indeed, any planning document is likely to include a long list of potential problems caused by the ...
  • Health Care: Booster Shot for Jobs?
    As a former health care human resources executive, I'm often drawn to the local hospital in whatever city I'm visiting. A city's health care environment reflects its social, cultural and economic state. Because the local medical center complex is often the largest employer in town, it would seem tha ...
  • The Tea Party and The Great Deconstruction
    Some say a Second American Revolution has begun. In the first American Revolution, American militiamen at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, fired the Shot Heard Round the World at British Redcoats on April 19, 1775. The Shot Heard Round the World in the Second American Revolution was ...
  • 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. ...

GM Watch

spiked

  • A slap in the face to modern niceties
    Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap has scandalised the middle classes with its critical examination of everything from intergenerational breakdown to the pieties of multiculturalism.
  • The case against Geoffrey Robertson
    The celebrity QC’s war against Vatican sovereignty is motivated less by liberal-humanist instincts than by a desire finally to finish off the principle of non-intervention in other states’ affairs.
  • Is Sarah Silverman going all identity crisis-y?
    In her autobiography, the normally taboo-busting comedian flat-out refuses to break certain new taboos. So maybe she’s not as ballsy as her fans – including me – thought she was.
  • Serving up some home truths about food
    Although it is more of a textbook than a polemic, Robert Paarlberg’s Food Politics flambés many of the myths about the food price crisis and the Malthusian lobby’s fearmongering about mass hunger.
  • How to ask awkward questions and annoy people
    In his endless, often exasperating pursuit of Truth, Socrates made many enemies. Yet his ideas and his questioning outlook remain invaluable to understanding the present.

Cryptogon

  • Cryptogon Readers Send Contributions
    Thank you. Eileen $100 [!] MH $10 CS �15
  • Court Dismisses Shell Human Rights Abuse Case
    Via: TCE Today: A US appeals court has dismissed a case against Shell in which it was accused of assisting the Nigerian government to commit human rights abuses in its attempts to suppress local groups protesting against oil activities in the 1990s. In a written ruling, the three-judge panel of the ...
  • And Now… China Detains Four Japanese Citizen ...
    Via: Bloomberg: Japan said four of its citizens are being held in China for allegedly videotaping military targets as tensions heightened over a territorial dispute that has damaged ties between Asia’s two biggest economies. The four are employees of Fujita Corp., Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sen ...
  • Queen Tried to Use State Poverty Fund to Heat Buck ...
    Via: Independent: The Queen asked ministers for a poverty handout to help heat her palaces but was rebuffed because they feared it would be a public relations disaster, documents disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act reveal. Royal aides were told that the £60m worth of energy-saving grants ...
  • Nicaraguan Diplomat Found Dead in New York; Throat ...
    Via: New York Times: A Nicaraguan official was found dead on Thursday, his throat slashed, in his Bronx apartment, the police said. The police identified the dead man as César Mercado, 34, a senior consulate officer who had been working in New York for eight years and had been performing the duties ...

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

  • Alleviating hunger in New York? Food straight from ...
    Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/09/23/roof-to-table-new-york-restaurant-grows-its-food-on-the-6th-floor/ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/produce-that-goes-straight-from-sky-to-table/article1707767/ Roof to Table â New York restaurant grows its food on the 6th floor Zero ...
  • the critical role of proper early feeding in comba ...
    Read at : http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=36022&Cr=nutrition&Cr1= Ban stresses role of proper early feeding at forum on child nutrition 21 September 2010 â High-level political and private sector officials met in New York today to fight childhood under-nutrition with Secretary-General ...
  • To boost the efficiency of some 3 billion cook sto ...
    Read at : http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=36040&Cr=mdgs&Cr1= UN-backed âclean stoveâ initiative to save lives and heal environment 21 September 2010 â A United Nations-backed intervention involving cook stoves holds the promise of saving lives, uplifting health, improving regional ...
  • UDLRI and UDLU (Underground Desert Living Unit)
    Read at : http://www.udlu.org/2010/09/desertification-is-target-of-decade-of.html Underground Desert Living Unit About UDLRI and UDLU The Underground Desert Living Research Institute (UDLRI) was founded in 2008 by New York-based writer, artist and environmental activist Reynard Loki to promote the r ...
  • An environmental charter highlights Morocco’s seri ...
    Read at : http://www.greenprophet.com/2010/09/morocco-environment-charter-2/ Morocco To Stave Off Desertification With New Environmental Charter Green Prophet Staff The first Arab country to create one, Moroccoâs new charter provides a blueprint for environmental protection and sustainable energy ...

The Paper Trail

  • The ‘Dry Rot’ Eating Away at the Finan ...
    President Obama has been talking a bit tougher about Wall Street these days -- prompting complaints from some quarters that he's being mean to investment bankers.
  • Recommended Financial Reform Reading: SEIU, ProPub ...
    Ben Hallman recommends financial reform news from around the web.
  • Madoff Lesson:  More Investor Protections Nee ...
    Bernard Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme holds many painful lessons for regulators and investors. Among them: It’s time for the Securities and Exchange Commission to crack down on registered investment advisers who use their own affiliated companies to act as custodian of clients’ money.
  • Coming Soon: Simpler Mortgage Paperwork
    Now that she has a new job, Harvard law prof Elizabeth Warren isn't wasting time getting started. In her first week as an assistant to President Obama, the consumer protection expert began work on an effort to simplify the morass of paperwork that accompanies mortgage transactions.
  • U.S. Housing Market “Near Bottom,” Say ...
    How does a key mortgage player size up the current state of the U.S. housing market? “I think we’re near bottom,” Federal Housing Administration Commissioner David Stevens told a congressional hearing this morning. “I think we’re at minimum, near the bottom.”

backofthebook.ca

  • India’s Commonwealth Games: Let the kvetchin ...
    By Frank Moher Hello India. Canada here. Just chiming in to say, in a spirit of Empire solidarity: Ignore the critics of your upcoming Commonwealth Games. The keeners who arrive early will always find something to gripe about. We speak from experience. In the days before our Winter Olympics, a ...
  • 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 ...

Worldnews

  • Pakistan wants jailed scientist repatriated ...
    ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said Friday it would petition the United States to repatriate a Pakistani mother of three sentenced to 86 years in jail for attempted murder whose fate sparked furious protests. A New York court found Aafia Siddiqui, the once brilliant scientist dubbed " Lady Qaida" by the U ...
  • Soldier, 19, to receive top bravery honour ...
    A teenage soldier from Somerset who led a daring night raid in southern Afghanistan to capture a Taliban leader responsible for many British deaths is to receive a top honour, it has been announced. Rifleman Reece Terry, of the 4th Battalion The Rifles (4 Rifles), is to receive the Queen's Gall ...
  • Eating 3 meals a day 'is a better way to diet ...
    London, Sep 24 (ANI): A new U.S. study has revealed that eating three meals a day is a better strategy to burn some fat rather than grazing on several mini meals.� Researchers from Purdue University in Indiana revealed that obese men on low-calorie,...
  • MTSU farm celebrates field day
    individual: 13 numChar :2108 -->TOTAL ELEMENTS IN ARRAY: 15 TOTAL CHARACTERS IN ARRAY: 2176 TOTAL CHARACTERS IN PAGES: 2108 LAST PAGE CONTAINS: 68 -->--> Farming has come a long way since Howard Hatcher graduated from MTSU in 1957. "A lot of things are different," said Hatcher, as he listened t ...
  • California budget deal near: gov't spokesman ...
    SAN FRANCISCO — California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and top lawmakers have a framework for an agreement on a state budget to close a $19.1 billion shortfall and they hope to reach a final deal on Monday, a spokesman for the governor said on Thursday. "They at least conceptually have come ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • UK Winning Fight to Soften International Scrutiny ...
    by Terry Macalister The British government was today successfully fending off an attempt to introduce international scrutiny of offshore drilling that was proposed by Germany in the aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill .Richard Benyon, a minister at Defra dispatched to Bergen, Norway, for a mee ...
  • Israel's Investigations of Gaza Conflict Inadequat ...
    by Adrian Blomfield in Jerusalem Both Israel and Hamas were instructed to conduct internal inquiries after the UN Human Rights Commission adopted a report by Richard Goldstone, a retired South African judge, accusing both of war crimes during the three-week conflict. More than 1,400 Palestinians and ...
  • Pakistan Drone Attacks Kill Scores
    Three strikes by US drones have killed at least 28 people in the tribal region in South Waziristan. Reporting for Al Jazeera from Islamabad, Kamal Hyder said that the first attack took place near Angor Adda along the Pakistan Afghan border. "We have reports that at least seven people, who were kille ...
  • Senate Republicans Use Filibuster to Block Efforts ...
    by Meena Hartenstein Gay rights advocates waiting for the Senate to repeal "don't ask, don't tell" got the message loud and clear from Republicans on Tuesday -- don't hold your breath. Senate Republicans have blocked a military spending bill that includes a repeal of the controversial policy, using ...
  • Machu Picchu Train Halted Over Water Protests
    by Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent Authorities in Peru have suspended train services to the Inca citadel Machu Picchu due to protests over an irrigation project that critics say could leave communities without water. The train, which ferries about 1,500 tourists to the ruins daily, will be ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

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

  • Killing Palestinians with Impunity
    by Stephen Lendman With peace talks underway in Washington; Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt; Jerusalem; then New York, Israel, almost daily, commits crimes of war and against humanity. Some of the latest include: -- air strikes against Gaza, killing two Palestinian civilians in another one; -- pe ...
  • Circumcision
    Deepak Sarkar A baby boy arrives in the world months after conception Taking parents through rollercosta of stress and tensions Finally gets delivered as normal, sometimes through c-section - Bringing smiles, cheers, and causes for celebrations! But many parent’s joy fades with new tension! N ...
  • World television premier of Milk War Sunday 9/26 o ...
    By Rady Ananda Food Freedom Amid a resurgence in local food systems emerges Milk War , a documentary highlighting raw milk skirmishes that pit corporate-owned regulatory agencies against food freedom - the right to eat of the Earth without government interference. Milk War airs this Sunday in Ca ...
  • Can you dig it?
    Michael Collins Now what could this mean? TV crew stopped from taking samples from polluted Florida beach. Pat Gonzales, US Fish and Wildlife (to WEAR ABC 3 reporter taking a sample from polluted beach): "You can not come out here and do your own investigation if you're looking for oil product." ...
  • Kaplan University Ripping Off Poor Students for Pr ...
    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, "Whistleblower Exposes How Kaplan University Cheats Low-Inco ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Government 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 Government spent $130 million on Advertising last year alone driven in part by the endless ...
  • 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 ...
  • Poor No More - Winnipeg Premiere of a film hosted ...
    When Mary Walsh was in Winnipeg last fall for a CCPA-MB fundraiser, she spoke about a film she was working on Poor No More ( www.poornomore.ca ).� Now we can see that movie!� CCPA-MB, with the support of the Joseph Zuken Memorial Association, is hosting the Winnipeg premiere on Thursday June 10 at 7 ...
  • Ed Broadbent on the rise and fall of economic and ...
    He has committed his life to the advancement of human rights. He's watched Canada move from a "sharing and caring" society to the "new barbarism."� Now Ed Broadbent comes out swinging.� In his address to the Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences on May 29th, the ...

World Wide Hippies

  • What Hath Man Wrought?
    An overall view of a massive fish kill in the Bayou Chaland area of Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana is pictured in this handout photograph taken on September 10, 2010. The cause of the fish kill has not yet been determined, but the area they were discovered in was impacted by oil from the BP oil [.. ...
  • It’s Coming, People
    Sarah Palin: I’ll run if nobody else steps up | Politico Former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin gave her strongest indication yet that she may run for president Wednesday night, saying she would jump into the race if ânobody else were to step upâ with the proposals she wants to see. Palinâs recent ...
  • Hate Speech: It’s Now De Rigueur
    Chambliss’ Office Was The Source Of ‘All Faggots Must Die’ Hate Speech | Think Progress As ThinkProgress previously reported, a commenter on the gay right’s blog Joe My God left a comment yesterday saying “all faggots must die.” After some investigation, the blog’s author Joseph Jervis determined t ...
  • Pittsburgh In The 60’s
    Now Another fall has come into my life. I can feel the rhythms in me change. I want to gather things to me. Things real and things of the spirit. Fall gives me a chance it experience new textures and colors and scents to store up against the coming cold. I am blessed. I have enough. [...]
  • Oh Look! It’s Sarah Palin!
    The American Idol Party | Politico Sarah Palin and Christine O’Donnell might not turn out to be good candidates, but they make great television. In their attempts to understand the Tea Party movement, analysts have looked to the Populists of the 1890s, the followers of Father Coughlin and Huey Long ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • What Makes the Modern Era Different than the Dark ...
    I’m fond of saying that modern times is just like the Middle Ages with better weapons. And if we’re talking politics and basic human nature and the greed of the the rich and powerful, absolutely for sure, nothing has changed since the Roman era when the whole concept of exceptionalism was invented. ...
  • The Raid on Deerfield Part Two, or How Would it Fe ...
    When I left off on a previous post, Benoni Stebbins with his family and many neighbours were trapped in his home by several hundred very annoyed French soldiers and Indian warriors. It’s not quite as bad as it sounds. This was a frontier house. The exterior walls were built in three layers: An outsi ...
  • 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 [...]

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

  • Beetles in Baby Formula Prompt Huge Recall
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Beetles in baby formula? read more
  • How to Plan a Tapas Party Menu, Plus 5 Tantalizing ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Love to entertain, but don't like elaborate dinner parties? For a fun, laid-back get-together, host a tapas party. "Tapas" is a Spanish term for light appetizers or snacks. Sampling small dishes is a more relaxed option than sitting down to dinner, and the light nibbles are ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: 4 Easy Ways to Extend Your Fre ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—When it comes to preserving food, those tried-and-true techniques of canning , freezing, and drying fruits and vegetables can keep you well stocked with local, organic food all winter long. But sometimes, a fresh-from-the-garden tomato or ripe red pepper is just what you nee ...
  • 9 Ways to Never Be Bored with Biking
    #1: Dicycle #2: Stair Stepper Bike #3: Folding Bike #4: SunRider #5: Tall Bike #6: Green Machine #7: Trikke #8: Hi Wheeler #9: Inside Ride RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—If you find biking boring, you've never met Bob Swaim. The retired math teacher believes that a diverse bunch of bicycles— ...
  • Weight Loss Linked to Low-Carb Vegetarian Meals
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—If you're looking for an effective way to lose weight that won't leave you starving, cut out the meat. More and more research is suggesting that eating low-carbohydrate but vegetarian meals could be a very effective way to lose weight without causing chronic health problems, ...

big think

  • Tim Maudlin on How Philosophy Can Inform Physics
    Philosophy and physics are not often thought of together in academia. While physicists develop calculations and models to describe the world around them, philosophers are more interested in the fuzzier questions of "why" behind it all. But Rutgers University philosophy professor Tim Maudlin thinks . ...
  • The Neuroscience of Cocktail Party Conversation
    So you're at a cocktail party, and, like at most cocktail parties, there are a handful of conversations happening around the room. Yet, despite the dull roar of laughter and discussion, you have no trouble focusing on the voice of the person with whom you're speaking. You see her eyes and lips ... R ...
  • War and Peace: The Art of the American Soldier
    The modern view of the American soldier at war is invariably shaped by television. Beginning with the Vietnam War, the first war brought literally into the living rooms of private citizens halfway around the world from the actual shooting, even the most remote conflict seems nearby thanks to modern ...
  • The Republicans' Worthless Pledge to America
    Tomorrow, the Republicans plan to roll out their “Pledge to America” outlining what they plan to do if they regain control of Congress. The platform is an updated version of the “Contract with America” the Republicans produced before their landslide victory in the 1994 midterm elections. The ... Re ...
  • Thursday Throwdown: Neaderthals, the source of flo ...
    Some news! Get it while it is hot! Neaderthals and volcanoes : A recent study by Naomi Cleghorn and others that appeared in Current Anthropology lays the blame for the extinction of the Neaderthals on the Campanian Ignimbrite (amongst others). By examining ash layers in Russian caves that were ... ...

Information Liberation

  • FDA won't allow food to be labeled free of genetic ...
    'Extra labeling only confuses the consumer,' biotech spokesman says That the Food and Drug Administration is opposed to labeling foods that are genetically modified is no surprise anymore, but a report in the Washington Post indicates the FDA won'...
  • One Law for the Lion, One Law for the Lamb
    Steve Biko had a saying: *The oppressor*s most powerful weapon is the mind of the oppressed.* The state*s ideological indoctrination is far from perfect. But all too many people are still successfully conditioned by the state*s legitimizing ideology ...
  • Body-Slamming Grandpa, Continued
    Russ Smith, the tow truck operator involved in a confrontation with 84-year-old Orlando Daniel Daley last Sunday morning (September 19), told the local Fox News affiliate that the 84-year-old man was intoxicated and belligerent, but posed no conceiva...
  • Police Brutality: Cop Breaks 84 Yr old's Neck For ...
    "I don't think anyone needs to be thrown to the ground and have their neck broken because they were parked in the wrong spot," said Gabby Aparacio, store customer. "I mean he's an old man. It doesn't matter if you've been drinking or not. How belli...
  • Peter Schiff: The Fed is Telling You They Are Goin ...
    Topics: FOMC statement, Pres. Obama's CNBC town hall...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • The Time To Let Up?
    G’day everyone ,and thanks for keeping LibertyGibbert humming away while I’ve been out on the road. I note the rather triumphalist tone in James Delingpole’s latest post in the UK Daily Telegraph; I’m not so sure I agree with it. … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

FAS - Secrecy News

  • DARPA Seeks Technology to Support Declassification
    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has issued a new solicitation to industry and academia in an attempt “to discover new technologies to support declassification.”  Researchers are invited (pdf) to submit ideas for innovative approaches to declassification that will support the National ...
  • A Look Back at “Classification Management&#8 ...
    The theory and practice of national security classification policy in the late cold war years are exemplified and explored in back issues of Classification Management, the journal of the National Classification Management Society (NCMS), which is the professional society of classification officers a ...
  • 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 ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • How many stars can you see?
    Ask a child how many stars they can see on a clear night, and the answer is likely to be some rather precise and yet strangely diffuse number like 200 and twenty-nine billion million thousand. An adult might suggest millions(?) with an inflection in their tone of voice to suggest that they are uncer ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • State and Local Permitting Authority Responses to ...
    US EPA http://www.epa.gov/nsr/2010letters.html [From a Greenwire article by Robin Bravender, subscription required] U.S. EPA has released states’ plans to comply with federal climate rules after a Republican lawmaker pressed the agency to unveil the documents. The agency has publicly posted letters ...
  • Transboundary Flood Risk Management: Experiences f ...
    UN Economic Commission for Europe, Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes http://tinyurl.com/2e4vpjv A 2009 publication of the United Nations Economic Commission For Europe pursuant to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Water ...
  • A Bill to Amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to A ...
    US Congress http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:SN03473:|TOM:/bss/d111query.html S.3473 : A bill to amend the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to authorize advances from Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Sponsor: Sen Reid, Harry [NV] (introduced 6/9/2010) Cosponso ...
  • IER Testimony for the Hearing on the Global Clean ...
    Institute for Energy Research testimony (no person named) before the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming — Hearing on the Global Clean Energy Race, September 22, 2010 http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Green-Energy-Competition.pdf [From press ...
  • Disaster Response: Criteria for Developing and Val ...
    US Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-969T Among the lessons learned from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was that effective disaster response requires planning followed by the execution of training and exercises to validate those plans. The Federal Emergency Mana ...

Scientific American - News

  • How Time Flies: Ultraprecise Clock Rates Vary with ...
    If you have ever found yourself cursing a noisy upstairs neighbor, take solace in the fact that he or she is aging faster than you are. [More] Time dilation - Windows - Shareware - Personal Information Managers - Clocks and Timers
  • Mini Cell Phone Towers, Big Impact on the Future o ...
    CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--In preparation for a keynote about the future of mobile technology at Technology Review 's Emerging Technologies (EmTech) conference here Wednesday, four panelists had been asked to bring their favorite gadget with them onstage. One might have expected the keynote to become a sh ...
  • The handedness of life, with Jack Szostak
    Many molecules are chiral, which means they have two possible forms that are non-superimposable mirror images of each other, just like your left and right hand.  But in the amino acids and sugars that make up living things, we find only one of these forms--and young chemist Abigail Hubbard wants to ...
  • Human Malaria Parasite Arose from Gorillas, Not Ch ...
    Although humans share most of their genes--and many analogous diseases--with chimpanzees, these close relatives are not likely to blame for the menace of human malaria , according to new genetic research . [More] Malaria - Chimpanzee - Human - Genetics - Infectious diseas ...
  • Cell Bound: Why It Is Hard to Ignore Public Mobile ...
    Like many of her fellow undergraduates at the University of British Columbia, Lauren Emberson relied on public transportation to get around town. All too often, Emberson encountered a seemingly inescapable nuisance inside TransLink --Vancouver's crowded mass transit buses and trains: other passen ...

RAWA News

  • Turnout hits record low in Saturday’s polls
    PAN: he voter turnout in Saturday's parliamentary elections was 50 percent lower than the 2004 ballot when 8.5 million people exercised their franchise right, an official said on Thursday. About 4.5 million people took part in parliamentary polls, showing exactly a 50 percent decrease in the turnout ...
  • US-led offensives kill six Afghan civilians
    Press TV: US-led forces have killed at least six civilians and wounded several others in two separate incidents in Afghanistan's troubled east. Five people were killed during a US-led military assault in Nangarhar Province. In Laghman Province, an elderly woman died during an operation by American f ...
  • Afghans scrub fingers clean to cast extra votes
    Reuters: Some Afghan voters scrubbed their fingers clean of supposedly indelible ink on Saturday in a bid to return to cast extra votes in a parliamentary election the government has acknowledged will be flawed. An ink-stained fingertip is meant to mark out those who have already cast ballots in the ...
  • Hazardous for foreigners, catastrophic for locals
    The Sydney Morning Herald: THE United Nations has ordered 300 of its international staff out of Afghanistan and the British commander of foreign troops in the south of the country predicts mayhem as violence and corruption collide as 13 million Afghan voters attempt to elect a new national parliamen ...
  • A planet at war with itself
    The Guardian: Sala Khan Khel, 40 miles outside Kabul, looks like a rural paradise at harvest time. Women and children play behind the high mud walls of the old houses, the men thresh the wheat, teenagers pick walnuts and the water coming straight off the snowy mountains high above the village gurgle ...

frogblog

  • OIA laughs for a Friday afternoon
    I've been enjoying Idiot/Savant's posts over at No Right Turn about his ongoing battles trying to get various Ministers in John Key's Government to respond adequately to his OIA requests. I've had a couple of classics myself this week.
  • 10/10/10 climate change events in NZ
    Wow this took off under my radar a bit – the size of this global event has only just dawned on me. Over 3500 events are planned in 165 countries. As a snapshot, here are the events happening in Wellington… View Actions at 350.org … and Auckland View Actions at 350.org I really like ...
  • Monbiot on climate change and a new conversation s ...
    I’m sure many of you are familiar with the writings of Monbiot – an English writer, known for his environmental and political activism. He’s just  delivered a rather dark assessment of the process of climate change mitigation politics. “The process is dead” he summarises. Climate c ...
  • Captioning the Rugby World Cup
    It was pleasing to discover yesterday, via a question from Catherine to Broadcasting Minister Jonathan Coleman, that the seven Rugby World Cup matches screened live on TVNZ next year will include live captioning for the deaf community – after all, we promised the world a ’stadium of ...
  • MPs get to experience horror of sow crate
    It was great to attend a fantastic rally in Parliament yesterday, organised by James Barber and some local animal welfare activists, to protest the continuing use of sow crates in New Zealand.

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

  • Citizens United After Eight Months
    Last January, in the Citizens United case, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations were free to spend unlimited sums to support or oppose candidates for office. Eight months later, how's that working out? Michael Luo and Stephanie Strom report in the New York Times : Interviews with a half-dozen ...
  • 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 ...
  • How to Save the Economy, ADHD Version
    Here is tonight's seminar in emergency monetary economics, cut to blog-friendly length and delivered in 140-character chunks: interfluidity Gentle request: When arguing 4 Fed activism, please specify the policy levers u support: buying long Treasuries, MBS, equities; neg IOR, etc kdrum You pick. I' ...
  • Harry and Nancy and the Tax Cuts
    Are Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid a couple of fainthearted cowards for refusing to hold a vote on middle-class tax cuts today? That's the blogo-conventional wisdom at the moment, but pushback comes from the last guy I'd expect it from:�Jonathan Zasloff. He explains here. The Blue Dogs, on the other h ...
  • Unemployment Forever
    Is our high unemployment problem mostly structural — lots of people have been laid off in a few specific industries and can't be rehired until they've been trained for others — or mostly cyclical — people just aren't buying stuff so companies everywhere aren't hiring new workers? A bit of both, prob ...

Insanity Report

  • John Boehner Says He’s Never Used a Tanning Bed or ...
    Addressing the seemingly constant chatter about the orangey-tan color of his skin, House Minority Leader John Boehner told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published Thursday that his eye-catching complexion is one hundred percent natural. “I have never been in a tanning bed or used a tanning ...
  • Now This Is How You Handle a Rapist
    MANILA, Philippines — A Philippine court has sentenced a father to 14,400 years in prison after he was convicted of the near-daily rape of his teenage daughter over the course of a year. A trial court originally condemned the man, a motorcycle taxi driver, to die in March 2006 after he was convicted ...
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Simple Climate

e!Science News

  • Black motorcyclists -- even in helmets -- more lik ...
    American victims of motorcycle crashes were 1.5 times more likely to die from their injuries than similarly injured whites, even though many more of the African-American victims were wearing helmets at the time of injury, according to a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers. read more
  • Robotic arm's big flaw: Patients say it's 'too eas ...
    One touch directs a robotic arm to grab objects in a new computer program designed to give people in wheelchairs more independence. read more
  • New gene associated with increased risk of Alzheim ...
    Researchers have identified a gene that appears to increase a person's risk of developing late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD), the most common type of the disease. Abbreviated MTHFD1L, a gene on chromosome six, was identified in a genome-wide association study by a team of researchers led by Margaret ...
  • Non-stick coating of a protein found in semen redu ...
    A non-stick coating for a substance found in semen dramatically lowers the rate of infection of immune cells by HIV a new study has found. read more
  • Researchers discover less expensive low-temperatur ...
    Engineering researchers from Tufts University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Harvard University have demonstrated the low-temperature efficacy of an atomically dispersed platinum catalyst, which could be suitable for on-board hydrogen production in fuel-cell-powered vehicles of the future. ...

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

  • TerraPower’s Travelling Wave Reactor – ...
    There has been a lot of hype recently about the “Travelling Wave Reactor” (TWR), thanks largely to a very popular TED talk given recently by none other than Microsoft founder and multi-billionaire Bill Gates. In the 20 min talk, he describes the urgent need for cheap, abundant, low-CO2 energy, if we ...
  • 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  ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • 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 ...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Congressional backers look to exiled Iranian group ...
    Summary: Saddam and Rajavi of MEK Recent weeks have seen a renewed discussion of military options for stopping Iran's nuclear program - kicked off by Jeffrey Goldberg's cover article in the Atlantic. But there is also a campaign underway to promote a different option on Iran: regime change, via ...
  • Lindsey Graham says U.S. must prepare to attack Ir ...
    Summary: Lindsey Graham Graham's unusual public support for overturning Ahmadinejad and the ruling council of Shiite Muslim clerics that he nominally heads recalled President George W. Bush's controversial policy of regime change to invade Iraq in 2003 and overthrow dictator Saddam Hussein. so ...
  • Iran criticizes Russia over S-300 missile deal ban
    Summary: TEHRAN, Iran — The Iranian defense minister criticized Russia Thursday for banning all sales of S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran. source: AP read more
  • Iran’s limited enrichment plan can work: the West ...
    Summary: Alastair Crooke In this new post-Bushehr reality, it is no longer realistic for the West to be stuck in a “no enrichment,” “no break-out” posture. Now, Iran is signaling a readiness to negotiate its nuclear posture with a proposal for Russia or China, or even others, to jointly particip ...
  • Poll Shows the Shocking Reality of Arab Public Opi ...
    Summary: Can you handle the Truth? Poll Shows the Shocking Reality of Arab Public Opinion: As for Iran being a threat, this view among the Arabs polled grew from 7 percent in 2008 to a “whopping” 13 in 2009 and then down to 10 percent in 2010. In other words, the Arab masses believe the United S ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Have you noticed mainstream health news getting cr ...
    (NaturalNews) Mark your calendars. This week goes down in history as the most bizarre health news weeks in the history of the mainstream media. I've noticed more truly strange and illogical health stories this week from the conventional press than ever before, and I'll share a few of those with you ...
  • Protect yourself from Alzheimer's disease with cin ...
    (NaturalNews) Degenerative mental diseases like Alzheimer's and dementia continue to ravish the lives of millions around the world. And to make matters worse, the financial burden of caring for dementia patients now tops one percent of the entire world's gross domestic product (GDP). But there are w ...
  • Similac baby formula contaminated with beetles, la ...
    (NaturalNews) Drug company Abbott Laboratories is recalling millions of containers of its Similac baby formula powder because they may be contaminated with beetles or larvae, says a company press release. The voluntary recall extends across the U.S. and includes Puerto Rico, Guam and some countries ...
  • Senate bill 3767 seeks to put dietary supplement m ...
    (NaturalNews) Beware of Senate bill 3767, the so-called Food Safety Accountability Act . This dangerous legislation, if passed, would criminalize nutritional supplement manufacturers who tell the truth about their products or link to published scientific studies describing the biological benefits of ...
  • Avandia diabetes drug placed under severe FDA rest ...
    (NaturalNews) The diabetes drug Avandia, shown to raise heart attack risk by 40 percent in a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine , was banned today across many European countries in a coordinated global announcement. The FDA didn't quite ban the drug but placed it under severe res ...

Threat Level

  • Blockbuster Worm Aimed for Infrastructure, But No ...
    An exceptionally sophisticated piece of malware designed to attack programs used in critical infrastructure and other facilities garnered extensive attention among computer security experts this week as new details about its design and capabilities emerge, along with speculation it was aimed at dis ...
  • T-Mobile Claims Right to Censor Text Messages
    T-Mobile told a federal judge Wednesday it may pick and choose which text messages to deliver on its network in a case weighing whether wireless carriers have the same “must carry” obligations as wire-line telephone providers. The Bellevue, Washington-based wireless service is being sued by a texti ...
  • 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. ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Tax Cut Cowardice from Both Parties
    If Thursday was a test of political courage when it comes to the expiring Bush tax cuts, both parties failed miserably. Despite a raft of polls showing strong public opposition to the GOP's proposed $700 billion, 10-year tax cut windfall for the wealthy, squeamish Democrats in both the House and th ...
  • Meet the GOP's New Pledge. Same as the Old Pledge ...
    What is old is new again. Hoping to once again party like it's 1994, Republicans Thursday unveiled their 2010 campaign " Pledge to America ." But what the Daily Beast referred to the as " bastard child " of the Contract with America isn't just a warmed over version of the GOP's very successful plo ...
  • Christine O'Donnell and the Republican God Squad o ...
    Delaware Republican Senate candidate and Tea Party Christine O'Donnell is out of touch, at least with herself. But not, it appears, with the Almighty. After all, O'Donnell not only claimed that in the Lord's eyes, masturbation constitutes adultery. In 2006, she insisted, "I heard the audible voic ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Three steps forward, two steps back on campaign fi ...
    Today, the US House Administration Committee voted the Fair Elections Now Act out of committee.  San Antonio Representative Charlie Gonzalez cast a decisive vote in favor of the bill, putting a bill that would give optional public financing to all Congressional candidates for further than it has eve ...
  • TCEQ POSTS INTERACTIVE BARNETT SHALE MAP
    Live downwind from the Barnett Shale ? The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality posted an interactive map of the Barnett Shale on its website that allows you to see the latest data from the various air quality monitoring sites near natural gas drilling and pipeline facilities. Be forwarned howe ...
  • Tom "Smitty" Smith at Al Armendariz welcome party ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Tom "Smitty" Smith at Al Armendariz, the new Region 6 EPA Administrator welcome party in El Sol Y La Luna
  • Matt Johnson at Al Armendariz welcome party in El ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Matt Johnson at Al Armendariz welcome party in El Sol Y La Luna
  • An idyllic vacation hotspot doomed by global warmi ...
    In an article by Concierge.com, a travel focused online publication, they selected seven beach destinations around the world in danger of disappearing forever due to forces such as erosion, pollution, rising sea levels, reckless overdevelopment, and sand mining, with a caution that there are hundred ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • The higher you are, the faster you age
    Extremely precise timepieces have been used to prove that you age faster the higher off the ground you are. New research has shown that if you lived y...
  • Man writes gnome survival guide
    Chuck Sambuchino has raised eyebrows this week with his rather peculiar book "How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack." The bizarre publication explains ...
  • Fish with 'human teeth' bit angler
    An angler in the US had quite a shock when a fish he'd caught bit him with distinctly human-like teeth. Samples from the mysterious fish have been sen...
  • Retired USAF officers to speak out on UFOs
    On September 27th six former USAF officers will speak out on their experiences with UFOs at nuclear weapons sites. The group includes Minuteman missil...
  • Hadron Collider on verge of breakthrough ?
    Scientists appear to have recreated in part the level of matter that existed at the beginning of the universe. Scientists are said to be "very excite...

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 24, 2010
    GE Blasts U.S. Policy on Energy (Wall Street Journal)  General Electric Chief Executive Jeff Immelt warned that the lack of a comprehensive U.S. energy policy and the "stupid" current structure of the industry are causing America to fall behind in new energy fields. Brownback Says Handf ...
  • September 23, 2010
    China Blocks Rare Earth Exports to Japan (New York Times) Sharply raising the stakes in a dispute over Japan’s detention of a Chinese boat captain, China has blocked exports to Japan of minerals used in products like hybrid cars, wind turbines and guided missiles.  Bingaman: Climate Bill ...
  • 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 ...

GreenBiz

  • Wal-Mart and H&M Commit to Greening Their Textile ...
    The retail giants are signing on to NRDC's Clean By Design program to put 10 low-cost practices to work on cutting water, energy and chemical use in textile dyeing and finishing.
  • Janssen and Kohl's Launch Milestone Solar Energy P ...
    Pharmaceutical firm Janssen, a Johnson & Johnson Company, launches the largest solar energy system in New Jersey today, and the Kohl's Department Stores chain has made good on its promise to host at least 100 solar installations.
  • Project Aims to Publicly Track Corporate Plastic U ...
    �The Plastic Disclosure Project is taking a page from carbon and water disclosure efforts by asking companies to report on their plastic use and management plans.
  • BPA Exposure Likely More Widespread Than Previous ...
    New research suggests total daily human exposure to bisphenol A, a chemical that mimics estrogen and has been linked to health problems in fetuses, infants and children, is probably much higher than previously estimated.
  • Water Wisdom for Real Estate and the Built Environ ...
    When access to water seems cheap and easy, why should companies cut or closely monitor consumption in their buildings? Confronting misconceptions about water availability and offering conservation solutions were the key subjects of a recent presentation by the Artemis Project in San Francisco. �

Reuters Global

  • Mexican reporters decry gagging in brutal drug war
    Reporters in Mexico are coping with the country's violent drug wars by self-censoring.
  • At India’s Commonwealth Games, shame might b ...
    There's still a chance that Delhi will pull off the Commonwealth Games next month. In India, anything is possible. There's even a chance that people will call this futile exercise in mismanagement a success. But that would be a real shame.
  • Tardy Obama plays second fiddle to Swiss at UN
    It happens every year. When the U.S. president arrives at the United Nations for the General Assembly's annual gathering of world leaders, the east side of midtown Manhattan goes into lockdown mode. You can't cross the streets before he arrives and until well after the most powerful man in the world ...
  • In case you missed them
    Just because it was summer, doesn't mean we weren't busy here at Reuters. Here are a few of our recent special reports that you might have missed.
  • Enter stage left — Brazil’s next presi ...
    Not every president has a police mugshot, but it's not so surprising in Latin America. A special report out of Brazil today sheds new light on Dilma Rousseff, a former guerrilla leader likely to be elected her country's next president.

Booman Tribune

  • This Is Just How We Roll
    So, say you're a freshly inaugurated president in January 1961. What is the most pressing domestic issue you need to address? Need help? Okay. How about the fact that nearly half the country is operating as an Apartheid state? You've just defeated Richard Nixon narrowly with the help of an en ...
  • Madrak and Axelrod
    You gotta love Susie Madrak. She's not afraid of anyone. And what she told David Axelrod needed to be said. Ironically, I agree with both Susie and Axelrod on this subject. Susie's correct that treating us like the town ho isn't exactly motivating. Axelrod's correct to say, 'Hey, we feel like t ...
  • I Am Not Befuddled
    With all due respect to BooMan (I love you man!) I have seen the Democratic Party over the course of my lifetime move from the party of "can-do" (remember Kennedy and going to the Moon? LBJ and passing civil rights legislation?) to the party of "Don't hurt me Mr. Republican Conservative Talk Show H ...
  • Stupid Dems
    Once again, I am befuddled. The Democrats have a great issue that is very popular, that the president ran on in his campaign, and that makes good policy sense. Let the tax cuts on the rich expire, but extend them for the other 97% of Americans. Technically, we can't afford to make the tax cuts pe ...
  • Living Among Them
    It's funny to see how journalists on the both the left and the right approach Tea Partiers as an anthropologist would. You live among them and document the atrocities to human reason, the curious hang-ups, the stunning lack of clear vision. E.J. Dionne says that they're overhyped and basically a s ...

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

  • How Long Term Emotional Health Is Impacted By Pare ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The image of patient and therapist parsing out a patient’s relationship with his or her parents may be a bit overused, but it’s not unrealistic. The way parents interact with each other and with their children sets the tone for how those children experience the world. ...
  • Cancer and Sexuality Part III
    By Norma Lee M.A., M.D., Cancer Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Norma and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Thus far in this series, we’ve looked at the challenges people face in intimacy and sexuality when dealing with cancer. The first post provided a general overview of the topic ...
  • The Emotional Struggles of Seeing a Loved One thro ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Close family members, especially spouses and partners, are profoundly affected by watching a loved one deal with cancer. A recently-published study from Denmark found that men whose wives developed breast cancer were 39% more likely to be hospitalized for severe depre ...
  • Resilience… and Unraveling the Mystery
    By Sherry L. Osadchey, MA, LMFT, SEP, Somatic Experiencing Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Sherry and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile. Something that I have found fascinating in working from a Somatic Experiencing framework is the way in which a charge that has been held by the phy ...
  • Overcoming Career-Related Psychological Strains
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Different professions present different physical, emotional, cognitive, and psychological challenges. A new report from a group of researchers in Germany looked specifically at the challenges faced by classroom teachers. Among teachers, one of the top health concerns i ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Appalachian Activists Protest Mountain Top Removal ...
    West Virginia Public Broadcasting Appalachian Activists Protest Mountain Top Removal Mining Capitol News Connection White says the region's isolation means that outsiders have a hard time grasping the effects of mountaintop removal . So Love paints the picture: LOVE: 500 ... Activists in DC to call ...
  • Appalachia Rising: A Mass Mobilization Is Coming t ...
    Appalachia Rising: A Mass Mobilization Is Coming to DC to Demand an End to ... AlterNet Appalachia Rising is coming to Washington, DC and has the audacity to demand that the President of the United States halt Mountaintop Removal , a practice of ...
  • Rally against mountaintop-removal coal mining in D ...
    This Dish Is Veg Rally against mountaintop-removal coal mining in DC on Sept. 27 Grist Magazine 27, 2010, to demand the abolition of mountaintop-removal (MTR) coal extraction in Appalachia. We are not visiting DC to attack coal, as its supporters would ... Activists will march on Washington to end ...
  • Coal miners rally against Obama, for mountaintop r ...
    Boston Globe Coal miners rally against Obama, for mountaintop removal Charleston Gazette by AP AP WASHINGTON -- Hundreds of coal miners rallied on Capitol Hill Wednesday against the Obama administration's attempts to rein in mountaintop removal ... Big Coal Tea Party in DC Today Betrays Real Coal M ...
  • Activists will march on Washington to end mountain ...
    Activists will march on Washington to end mountaintop removal Facing South Activists working to end to mountaintop removal coal mining will gather in Washington, DC from Sept. 25 to 27 for Appalachia Rising -- a weekend conference ...

Memeorandum

  • U.S. delegates walk out of Ahmadinejad's U.N. spee ...
    Jordan Fabian / The Hill : U.S. delegates walk out of Ahmadinejad's U.N. speech   —  The U.S. delegation to the U.N. walked out of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech before the general assembly Thursday after the controversial leader said some believe Americans were behind the 9/11 terr ...
  • House approves small-business bill; Obama laments ...
    The Hill : House approves small-business bill; Obama laments ‘needless’ stall   —  On a 237-187 vote, the House on Thursday approved a $42 billion bill to provide aid to small businesses.  —  The Senate approved the legislation last week, and President Obama plans to sign the legislation on Monday. ...
  • Hidden Under Tax-Exempt Cloak, Political Dollars F ...
    Mike McIntire / New York Times : Hidden Under Tax-Exempt Cloak, Political Dollars Flow   —  Alaskans grew suspicious two years ago when a national organization called Americans for Job Security showed up and spent $1.6 million pushing a referendum to restrict development of a gold and copper mine a ...
  • Blogger Susie Madrak Asks David Axelrod: "Do You K ...
    David Dayen / Firedoglake : Blogger Susie Madrak Asks David Axelrod: “Do You Know What Hippie Punching Means?”   —  No respect.  (photo: Neubie on Flickr)  —  Some fireworks at the end of an otherwise uneventful conference call with White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod, when blogger Susie Madr ...
  • DOJ to Judge: Keep Enforcing DADT (Advocate)
    Advocate : DOJ to Judge: Keep Enforcing DADT   —  The Department of Justice issued a request Thursday to a U.S. district court judge asking to keep enforcing the military's ban on gay and lesbian service members, challenging a request to stop its enforcement.  —  In a 14-page brief …

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • “China’s green laws are useless”
    Wang Jin is a Peking University professor and expert in environmental law. In a speech in August, he argued that legislation in China is failing to tackle pollution. This is a summary of his remarks. Since 1979, the National People’s Congress and its Standing Committee have passed as many as 280 pie ...
  • Tibet’s disappearing grasslands
    Scientists say desertification of the high-altitude meadows is accelerating climate change and will have a profound impact on the area. Jonathan Watts talks with nomads who’ve seen changes right below their feet. Like generations of Tibetan nomads before him, Phuntsok Dorje makes a living raising ya ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Blockbuster Worm Aimed for Infrastructure, But No ...
    An exceptionally sophisticated piece of malware designed to attack programs used in critical infrastructure and other facilities garnered extensive attention among computer security experts this week as new details about its design and capabilities emerge, along with speculation it was aimed at dis ...
  • T-Mobile Claims Right to Censor Text Messages
    T-Mobile told a federal judge Wednesday it may pick and choose which text messages to deliver on its network in a case weighing whether wireless carriers have the same “must carry” obligations as wire-line telephone providers. The Bellevue, Washington-based wireless service is being sued by a texti ...
  • 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. ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Obama seeks to curb ruling on gays in military
    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Weeks after a federal judge struck down a U.S. military rule that bans openly gay men and women from the armed forces, the Obama administration sought on Thursday to keep the policy mostly intact while Congress debates the issue.
  • No tax cut vote before election: Democrat
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate will not vote on renewing Bush-era tax cuts before the November 2 elections, a spokesman for the Majority leader said on Thursday, as Democrats face internal divisions and potential Republican obstacles.
  • UPDATE 1-Netflix shares soar after Blockbuster ban ...
    * Hollywood sees continued revenue from Blockbuster (Adds Hollywood reaction)
  • Nancy Wilson and Cameron Crowe divorcing
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Heart rocker Nancy Wilson filed for divorce from her filmmaker husband Cameron Crowe on Thursday after 24 years of marriage, online news reports said.
  • Ahmadinejad tells U.N. most blame U.S. government ...
    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the United Nations Thursday most people believe the U.S. government was behind the attacks of September 11, 2001, prompting the U.S. delegation to leave the hall in protest.

IntelNews

  • Analysis: Deadly conflict inside Iraqi spy service ...
    By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | Amidst the chaos of post-Baâathist Iraqi politics, a deadly sectarian conflict is raging within Iraqâs powerful spy agency. Employees inside Iraqâs National Intelligence Service (INIS) are split along religious sectarian lines, with Sunni and … Continue r ...
  • 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 →

After Downing Street.org

  • Guilty As Charged: UN Report on Gaza Flotilla Mass ...
    Guilty As Charged: UN Report on Gaza Flotilla Massacre - by Stephen Lendman On September 22, Reuters headlined the news, saying: "UN Experts Condemn Israel Attack on Gaza Flotilla" It explained that the UN Human Rights Council's (HRC) "panel of international experts" concluded what was obvious on da ...
  • GRAY PANTHERS URGE AN END TO TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH
    by Joan Wile, author, "Grandmothers Against the War: Getting Off Our Fannies and Standing Up For Peace" (Citadel Press) The Panthers are dedicated to creating a humane society where the needs of people are put over profit. As the tax-cut debate rages through the Senate, the House, and among the pr ...
  • AWOL soldier André Shepherd receives German media ...
    From Courage to Resist � � Connection e.V. and MCN. Septermber 20, 2010 "André Shepherd has done what is prohibited to soldiers: he made a decision. Alone. He took his life into his own hands and said: I am not doing this anymore." - Editor Bernd Pickert read more
  • Take a Stand Against Wasteful Pentagon Spending
    Tell Your Representative to Take a Stand Against Wasteful Pentagon Spending Its time for our elected officials to apply the same scrutiny to the Pentagon now being applied to Wall Street and the banking industry. Let’s face it, there’s plenty of room in the massive Pentagon budget for savings as t ...
  • It's Still the War, Stupid!
    How congressional Democrats can save their seats By Terry Michael It’s not the economy, it’s the war, stupid! I’m talkin’ to you, Democrats in the House and Senate. Scores of you are about to lose your jobs, while the rest forfeit coveted committee chairmanships because you don’t realize the way to ...

Grist - News

  • Texas guv candidate Bill White talks wind, solar, ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Earlier this year, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) made news with a characteristically rash declaration that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill was “ an act of God ” and that he had “full confidence” in BP’s diligence. His opponent, Bill White (D), responded with a 10-page memo asserti ...
  • Green Party candidate’s mother calls for tou ...
    by Sarah Goodyear. The mother of Natasha Pettigrew, the Green Party candidate for Senate in Maryland who was killed by the driver of an SUV while riding her bike earlier this week, is mourning the loss of her daughter.  Pettigrew’s mother, Kenniss Henry, is also worrying that the driver of the ...
  • Britain opens world’s largest offshore wind ...
    by Agence France-Presse. LONDON -- Britain on Thursday inaugurated the world's largest offshore wind farm, part of the government's bid to reduce carbon emissions. The project got a qualified welcome from environmental campaigners. The site, a forest of giant turbines in the North Sea off the ...
  • Maryland Green Party Senate candidate killed by SU ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. I don't know what to say about this. You won't need me to point out the irony. Natasha Pettigrew, a Maryland Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, died late Monday, two days after a Cadillac Escalade hit her while she was bicycling. The 30-year-old was training for a triath ...
  • 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 ...

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Washington Independent

  • Environmentalists Look Forward: An Interview With ...
    “Over the next 20 years, how steep can we make cuts in oil consumption while allowing the economy to flourish and while creating more jobs rather than penalizing individual workers or communities?” asks Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club.
  • One Month In, Feinberg Touts Progress of Oil Spill ...
    After one month of distributing compensation to victims of the Gulf oil spill, Kenneth Feinberg, the independent administrator of BP’s $20 billion claims fund, has doled out nearly $350 million to 26,448 claimants. But documentation continue to be an issue that is holding back many claims. Accordin ...
  • Sheriff Joe Arpaio Accused of Misusing up to $80 M ...
    Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the controversial “America’s toughest sheriff” who pushed for SB 1070 and parades inmates around in pink, faces another scandal: His office was accused Wednesday of misspending up to $80 million in taxpayer funds since 2006. A review by officials in Maricopa County, where Arpaio ...
  • Sen. Landrieu Will Block OMB Appointment Until Dri ...
    Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) just announced that she will block the nomination of Jack Lew to be the Obama Administration’s new Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director “until the moratorium on deepwater oil and gas drilling is lifted or significantly modified.” Her office points out that the Ob ...
  • In Texas, a Fire Kindles Fears of Voter Fraud
    Democrats actually have a chance of winning a few races in Texas this year, but to do so, they have to be able to vote. In Harris County, a key county where progressives have targeted voter registration efforts, an August fire destroyed much of the the county’s voting infrastructure. Chris Kromm at ...

Digg Green

  • Where Is The Oil?
    Have you ever wondered where the world’s oil comes from — and where it ends up? The list of the world’s top five producing and top five consuming countries may look similar, but compare the rates of production and consumption, and you will see they are hardly proportionate. The United States pr ...
  • World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Begins Fee ...
    The $1.2 billion Thanet Offshore Wind farm will boost UK wind energy capacity by 30%, making Britain the largest producer of offshore wind energy in the world.
  • The Effects of a Hormone Cocktail to Treat De ...
    When a doctor prescribed a hormone cocktail to treat depression, one woman wrecked her marriage, lost her job, and almost ended up in jail.
  • Water blade to tear apart IEDs | R&D Mag
    A device developed by Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, N.M.) researchers that shoots a blade of water capable of penetrating steel is headed to U.S. troops in Afghanistan to help them disable deadly improvised explosive devices, or IEDs — the No. 1 killer and threat to troops in Afgha ...
  • Glorious Peanut Butter: History, Who Invented ...
    Great Infographic, depicting the history of Peanut Butter, besides the obvious health benefits they suggest it as a shaving gel?!? Uhm Okay next time I run out of Barbasol, I will head for the cupboard!

Invisible Opportunity

  • Does it Hurt Yet or Does it still Hurt?
    By Les Visible The truth is the part of the garden that isn’t manicured. No matter what your business is, for some reason there, are codes and guidelines. Speaking truth directly, affects advertising and presentation; the whole world no matter what you do seems to depend on those things that allow t ...
  • CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, A FAIR DEAL FOR TERRORIST JONA ...
    By Gordon Duff – Senior Editor: Veterans Today Israel is demanding the immediate release of Jonathan Pollard. Pollard, sentenced to life in prison for spying against the United States is a hero in Israel. Jonathan Pollard, an American of Jewish ancestry and Zionist extremist publicly stated that he ...
  • The Grudge, an Inverted History of Israel and Amer ...
    By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Two weeks ago, USS Liberty survivor, Philip Tourney, was told he would be killed within a month. The threat made against Tourney, US Navy veteran and heroic survivor of the Israeli attack, torpedoes, napalm, strafing lifeboats, was made by an individual iden ...
  • IS AMERICA BEING ASKED TO NEGOTIATE WITH A TERRORI ...
    By Gordon Duff Israel is demanding the immediate release of Jonathan Pollard. Pollard, sentenced to life in prison for spying against the United States is a hero in Israel. Jonathan Pollard, an American of Jewish ancestry and Zionist extremist publicly stated that he tried to destroy America to help ...
  • Polysorbate 80 In Swine Flu Vaccines = Infertility ...
    Would you feel comfortable being injected with a vaccine that contains a substance that has been strongly linked to infertility? Well, if you take the Fluarix swine flu vaccine manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline or any of the other swine flu vaccines that contain Polysorbate 80 that is exactly what you ...

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

  • RCA Students Showcase Sustainable Design in London
    Read the rest of RCA Students Showcase Sustainable Design in Londonhttp://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: "green furniture", green design ...
  • Take Our Reader Survey and Win a Shirt or $200 Gif ...
    WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU THINK! Our readers are the backbone of Inhabitat, and we want to get to know you a little better! What do you like about Inhabitat? What could we do better? If you want to let us know what you think about the site, what you want to see [...]
  • 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 ...
  • Bambu Earth Eco Soap Packaged in Seeded Paper that ...
    Bambu Earth is an eco friendly soap and beauty care line made of natural, sustainable ingredients with no synthetic fragrances or harmful dyes and colorants. All recipes are palm oil-free and contain pure essential oils, herbs, botanicals, and clays. Plus the sweet-smelling soap is gift wrapped in h ...
  • Mattress Made with World’s Only Natural Memory Foa ...
    If you’re in the market for a mattress that is sustainable, beautiful and functional, the new FlexDrive from Essentia ticks off all those boxes. Not only is it made from the world’s only natural memory foam (which contains no petroleum), but it’s also biodegradable and wirelessly adjustable with a f ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Time-Warping Occurs in Daily Life
    Exploring the peculiar effects of Einstein’s relativity is no longer rocket science. Tabletop experiments at a lab in Colorado have illustrated the odd behavior of time, a strangeness typically probed with space travel and jet planes. Using superprecise atomic clocks, scientists have witnessed time ...
  • Kuiper Belt Dust Could Tell Aliens We’re Here
    A hole in the dust disk surrounding our solar system would tell alien observers there are planets here, a new simulation shows. The new model, which tracks thousands of tiny particles beyond the orbit of Neptune, could help astronomers work out the properties of planets in other stars’ dust disks. ...
  • Video: Two Full Days of Saturn’s Aurora
    Saturn’s aurora shimmers and shines over the course of two full days in a new movie and images from Cassini orbiter. In an ongoing study compiling thousands of these images, scientists are beginning to decipher what drives the celestial light show. Much like Earth’s northern and southern lights, Sa ...
  • Texas Tail Saves Florida Panthers, for Now
    In a rare story of conservation success, a last-ditch effort to save the Florida panther has slowed, if not reversed, the marvelous animal’s decline. Fifteen years ago, America’s last eastern panther population had shrunk to several dozen individuals, riddled with genetic defects and too inbred to ...
  • Ancient Fossil Flower Is Father of Sunflower Famil ...
    A 45 million-year-old fossil flower found in northern Argentina has uncovered the evolutionary roots of Earth’s most populous plant family. Called Asteraceae, the family includes dozens of domesticated species — from sunflowers, daisies and chrysanthemums to lettuce, artichoke and tarragon — and so ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Resilience Is Crucial to Effective Counterterroris ...
    Apparently contractually obligated to find fault with President Obama’s every utterance, a number of conservatives are currently freaking out over President Obama’s statement, via reporter Bob Woodward, â We can absorb a terrorist attack . Weâll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/1 ...
  • Resilience Is Crucial To Effective Counter-Terrori ...
    Apparently contractually obligated to find fault with President Obama’s every utterance, a number of conservatives are currently freaking out over President Obama’s statement, via reporter Bob Woodward, â We can absorb a terrorist attack . Weâll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/1 ...
  • How the Military Boxed Obama in on Afghanistan
    So I haven't had a chance to read Bob Woodward's latest leak-filled tome, but from my understanding this graf seems to sum up one of the book's key themes: The detailed meeting-by-meeting account, titled " Obama's Wars ," describes how the top military and civilian officials in the Pentagon essentia ...
  • How the Drones Find Their Targets
    Spencer Ackerman writes about the "network of Pashtun snitches" that guide the CIA's drone strikes in Pakistan: Since 2001, the CIA has cultivated and managed a large web of Afghan proxy forces, Pakistan-focused informants and allies of convenience, as a richly-detailed Washington Post piece reports ...
  • Obama's Wars: In Afghanistan, and With His Genera ...
    Bob Woodward's latest insider book, Obama's Wars , reveals that the White House team has outsized egos, sharp disagreements over policy, petty bickering, and bureaucratic infighting.   It also tells us some things we didn't know. While some individual quotes may prove embarrassing in the short t ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: A Pledge to Destroy America.
    There's not much more to be said about the GOP's "Pledge" but to note how it has failed to inspire movement conservatives in any big way. Red State's Erick Erickson calls it "ridiculous" and "dreck" while the Club for Growth's Andrew Roth assails �it as "weak." The most prominent supporter is� Nati ...
  • White House on Message Even After Dems Nix Tax Vot ...
    Today, White House adviser David Axelrod spoke with bloggers about the Republican Party's wild new election platform, which has been critiqued pretty effectively by a number of people . But though Axelrod was hoping to focus on the GOP's decision to show their hand, the topic was pushed to the back ...
  • The Pledge to Produce Misleading Graphs.
    So I didn't even know where to begin with the new Republican election platform [PDF] -- Jamelle did -- until I saw Alexander Hart's post pointing out the disingenuity of one of the pledge's graphs. Sure enough, there's another doozy: The graph comes after a section noting that "taxpayers are lit ...
  • Great White Spaces Now Full of Wireless Win.
    This morning, the Federal Communications Commission made a much-anticipated announcement that it was opening up "white spaces" for unlicensed use . "White spaces" are�those open portions of the radio spectrum that were freed up last year when the U.S. made the big switch from analog to digital telev ...
  • The Little Picture: Health Care Kicks Into Gear.
    (Flickr/ speakerpelosi ) President Obama signing the health-care reform bill earlier this year. Today, major provisions of the bill begin to take effect.

Buzzflash

  • The Way Gingrich Treated His Past Wives is a Clue ...
    BARBARA'S BUZZ FROM ATLANTA http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/us/politics/12boehner.html?_r=3&hp=&pagewanted=all Regarding the "financial regulatory overhaul...Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio and other Republican leaders summoned more than 100 industry lobbyists and conservative political act ...
  • We Have Nothing to Fear but a Bunch of Republicans ...
    BARBARA'S BUZZ FROM ATLANTA     http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/20/will-the-supreme-court-strike-down-health-care-reform.html http://blog.buzzflash.com/editorblog/322 "Will the Supreme Court strike down controversial provisions of the new healthcare law?"  Does a bear s*&t in the woods, is the P ...
  • Are the Democrats so Busy Trying to Keep Their Job ...
    DEE EVANS FOR BUZZFLASH   I am so sick and tired of being represented by cowardly Democrats who constantly have nothing but their own personal interests at heart!  I'm officially over it!   As a longtime Democrat, now "left-leaning" Independent, it constantly amazes me how on a consistent b ...
  • O’Donnell Says Media’s Trying To Paint Her As An E ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH   What she calls "painting" others call "reporting." It's clear she's rattled & Maher's footage hurt. But it was nice to see new video of Christine Peeking out from under Sean Hannity's skirt. read more
  • Christine Wasn’t Always Pristine
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH O’Donnell used date … a lot. Her chastity embrace rings hollow. But any abstinence conversions Can often be quite hard to swallow. read more

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The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Calculating science writer
    Fellow science writer and author of Black Bodies and Quantum Cats, Jennifer Ouellette has a new book out – The Calculus Diaries – which she attempts to de-traumatize those of us who were force-fed derivatives and integrals but perhaps never got past pi-r-squared. The marketing blurb explains how mat ...
  • How many stars can you see?
    Ask a child how many stars they can see on a clear night, and the answer is likely to be some rather precise and yet strangely diffuse number like 200 and twenty-nine billion million thousand. An adult might suggest millions(?) with an inflection in their tone of voice to suggest that they are uncer ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Sudan: Protect Rights Ahead of Referendum
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 22, 2010 Human Rights Watch States convening at the United Nations for a high-level meeting on Sudan on September 24, 2010, should press Sudanese authorities to ensure that the forthcoming referendum on southern independence is free of the human rights violations t ...
  • Senate Unanimously Approves Repeal of SEC Secrecy ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 22, 2010 Project On Government Oversight Yesterday, the Senate unanimously approved a bill, S. 3717 , to strike language from Section 929I of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that would provide the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ...
  • Where is the Oil, and What Effects is it Having on ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 22, 2010 Greenpeace Greenpeace Research Director Kert Davies, and scientists Rainer Amon and Clifton C. Nunnally are currently on board the Arctic Sunrise and available for interview. The Arctic Sunrise is a 164-foot ice-class Greenpeace ship currently on a three-m ...
  • NOW Condemns Senate Failure to Repeal Don't Ask, D ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 22, 2010 National Organization for Women (NOW) The National Organization for Women condemns the Senate's failure yesterday to repeal the U.S. military's discriminatory Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) policy. This policy, which bars lesbians and gay men from serving openl ...
  • Florida Appellate Court Strikes Down Law Barring G ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 22, 2010 ACLU A Florida appeals court today struck down a state law barring gay people from adopting. The decision affirms an earlier family court ruling in the case that would allow Martin Gill to adopt two foster children he is raising with his partner. The American ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Replacing Summers: Think Policy, Not Politico
    by Zach Carter Larry Summers is out, and President Barack Obama now faces a critical decision. He can focus on policy, naming a replacement who wants to ease the economic strains on American households, or he can focus on politics, naming a candidate who appeases the corporate executive class an ...
  • The 'Rightwing Backlash' That Never Was
    by Mark Weisbrot Is America in the grip of a rightwing backlash that will hit the November elections like a hurricane? This narrative is gathering steam. It is fed not only by the minority partisan rightwing media, but also its majority "liberal" counterpart, which loves a horse race and is fascinat ...
  • Paying Teachers for Student Performance Didn’t Rai ...
    by Christopher Connell Offering middle-school math teachers bonuses up to $15,000 did not produce gains in student test scores, Vanderbilt University researchers reported Tuesday in what they said was the first scientifically rigorous test of merit pay. The results could amount to a cautionary f ...
  • Echoing at the Extremes
    by Laura Flanders 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 stabi ...
  • Our Endless War
    Bangor Daily News Editorial Hardly any American can be comfortable with the assertion of a senior Pentagon planner, Brig. Gen. Mark O. Schissler, that “We’re in a generational war.” He predicted in 2006 that American conflicts would last another 50 or 100 years. Yet no one could be elected pre ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • ISAF Admits Afghan Election Violence Up, Not Down
    By Steve Hynd The Afghan parliamentary elections saw a cratering in the turnout - reflecting Afghan apathy over rule by a corrupt elite - and a record number of accusations of fraud, almost 5,000. In fact, right after the election the only bright spot seemed to be that election violence was down by ...
  • Woodward, Obama & Afghanistan
    By Steve Hynd The main thrust of Bob Woodward's new book "Obama's War" is that powerful men bicker and maneuver to see which of them can become even more powerful. Not exactly a shocker and not all that different from all of Woodward's other books. So what's new about this stuff? Despite the Drudge ...
  • 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 ...

Water Wars

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Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

  • Cyber Command chief says Pentagon networks vulnera ...
    The head of US Cyber Command, General Keith Alexander, has suggested that the Pentagon's networks in Afghanistan are far from secure from cyber attacks.
  • Pakistan's military failures emboldening terr ...
    While the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops have been staging air strikes against the Taliban and other militant groups in Afghanistan and the Af-Pak border region, similar war tactics by Pakistani troops have resulted in few gains and a rising civilian death toll.
  • Snickers and Skepticism Greet Premiere of Film Sho ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghans proved a tough audience for the world premiere of “The Black Tulip” at the Ariana Cinema on Thursday afternoon (an evening showing was deemed too dangero...
  • Afghan president calls for release of journalists
    KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai called Thursday for the quick release of three Afghan journalists — two held by the coalition and the other by Afghan intelligence officials.
  • Honour for Afghanistan battlegroup chief
    The commanding officer of a battlegroup which lost more soldiers than any other regiment during the conflict in Afghanistan has been honoured for his leadership. Lieutenant Colonel Nick Kitson, of Th...

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 ...

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on Government Oversight

  • Video Highlights from Senate Hearing on SEC's Inve ...
    The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held an important oversight hearing yesterday to discuss an Office of Inspector General (OIG) report on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) stunning failures from its investigation of R. Allen Stanford’s...
  • SEC Secrecy Repeal Sent to Obama
    The House voted today to repeal Section 929I of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which had provided the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with sweeping new powers to hide its records from public scrutiny. The House’s...
  • POGO and Senators: Time to Remove SIGAR
    POGO today echoed a bi-partisan group of Senators in calling on President Obama to remove Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) Arnold Fields. We did not make this request lightly. Removing an IG is a serious action that should...
  • POGO Testifies on Treasury's Use of Private Contra ...
    POGO’s Scott Amey testified yesterday before the Congressional Oversight Panel on the Treasury Department’s use of private of contractors in its bailout programs. For those who missed it, you can find live updates from the hearing on POGO’s Twitter feed....
  • Morning Smoke: Senate Approves Bill to Deep Six SE ...
    Senate Repeals Part of Financial Overhaul by Jessica Holzer [The Wall Street Journal] Why did warnings about murders by soldiers in Afghanistan go unheeded? [The Washington Post] Feds may prosecute former SEC official involved in Stanford case by Dave Michaels...

Digital Journal

  • 89-year-old man corners purse snatcher
    When a man snatched a handbag from an elderly woman in British Columbia, her 89-year-old husband gave chase and the thief ended up cornered in a stairwell.
  • Rocco Rossi wants to end 'gotcha' moments in Toron ...
    Toronto mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi and Ward 29 councillor candidate Jennifer Wood spoke in the city's Greek Town to lay out their latest platform when it comes to parking enforcement, which would inevitably end the "gotcha" moments.
  • Warning-High risk sex offender released to Toronto
    On Thursday Ronald Peter Tibando finished serving a 20 year sentence for sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault, forcible confinement and assault causing bodily harm. He has been released into the public of Toronto.
  • Common cold virus linked to childhood obesity in n ...
    A recent study suggests a link between childhood obesity and a virus that causes the common cold. Scientists are continuing to find connections between viruses and more serious diseases
  • Vancouver's Don Alder first Canadian Guitar Supers ...
    Last weekend the 6th Annual Guitar Superstar competition took place in Livermore, California with acoustic fingerstyle guitarist Don Alder of Vancouver taking the top prize after getting the night's only standing ovation.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • "The Other City": The Reality of HIV Among Our Mos ...
    The Other City , a powerful new documentary, showcases the lives of people living with HIV in the inner-city of Washington, D.C. This  important and profound film portrays the reality of the lives of the city's most vulnerable citizens. Poverty, stigma, homophobia and transphobia, lack of access to ...
  • A Rare Happy Ending for a Homeless Veteran
    This new video comes from Mark's InvisiblePeople.tv 30-city, 11,000-mile, 75-day road trip , going on now. Johnny is a Vietnam veteran living homeless in Nashville. During the interview, Johnny, who is in a wheelchair, started telling me how the small RV he was living in was impounded. They even cam ...
  • Tips for Traveling to Seattle Include Avoiding Pan ...
    I recently read something surprising on a website for tourists traveling to my hometown of Seattle. It would seem that travelers need to be warned about the number of homeless people panhandling for money. Incredibly, the person who posted the warning thought she was doing a service to people by rec ...
  • The Star of "Bumfights" Bares His Scars in a New M ...
    One of the men featured in the infamous "Bumfights" videos of the early 2000s is clean and sober and filled with regret. Rufus Hannah, a 54-year-old homeless man, published a memoir this month and was given the profile treatment in the New York Post . He says he can't forget the day in 2001 that a 1 ...
  • Hey Homeless Services, First Do No Harm
    Experts estimate that  92 percent of homeless women have experienced intense physical or sexual violence in their lifetimes. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has an entire website dedicated to explaining how to design agencies and programs in a way that is appro ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Canada’s Engagement in Afghanistan - Ninth Quarter ...
    The Government of Canada’s Ninth Quarterly Report on Canadian engagement in Afghanistan, covering the period from 1 April to 30 June 2010, was released on 22 September. The report frankly acknowledges that the “quarter was marked by a deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan, with increasin ...
  • New reports of fraud in Afghan elections
    Internal reports from Afghanistanâs Independent Election Commission provide new evidence of fraud in Afghanistan’s recent parliamentary elections, including ballot stuffing, intimidation, and turnouts exceeding 100% of eligible voters–with one district in Paktika province recording a 626% voter ...
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 9-22-10
    Today, Kevin explains the significance of the Unites States dropping to the 50th best country to start a business and why banks around the world are failing at record rates! Self Help: Lose A Pound A Day Help Others Switch To Grass Fed Beef Make Your Voice Heard Health: FDA’s Real Agenda Behind The ...
  • Trudeau Wins Case Against Government!
    In 2005, the court ruled that the New York State Consumer Protection Board violated Trudeau’s First Amendment rights! Trudeau filed a suit against the government for sending letters and using threats and intimidation against TV stations NOT to run ads for Trudeau’s books. Read the court transcripts ...
  • Fox News Edits Another Clip
    September 21, 2010 Raw Story By David Edwards Weeks after Sean Hannity was caught selectively editing a clip of President Barack Obama to paint him in a negative light, the Fox News channel has done it again. The latest clip, aired by Fox & Friends Tuesday, has the president appearing to say that he ...
  • Google Releases User Information To Government
    September 21, 2010 BBC News The US government asked Google for user information 4,287 times during the first six months of 2010. During the same timeframe the UK government put in over 1,000 such requests. This is just two snippets from Google’s new Transparency Report, a set of tools designed to sh ...
  • Green Party Candidate Fatally Struck by SUV While ...
    September 21, 2010 The Washington Post By: Josh White and Matt Zapotosky A 30-year-old Green Party candidate for the U.S. Senate died late Monday night, less than two days after she was hit by a car while riding her bicycle in the Largo area, authorities said. Maryland State Police said Natasha Pett ...

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

  • Stuxnet: the Trinity test of cyberwarfare
    On August 5, I reported on the strong evidence that Iran had become the target of a state-sponsored cyber attack. At that point it was already understood that the Stuxnet computer worm was almost certainly targeting Iran since that was the location of 60% of the computer systems affected. Moreover, ...
  • What if peace talks “succeed?”
    At Al Shabaka, Nadia Hijab writes: Many commentators expect the direct talks between Israelis and Palestinians to fail. But there is a much worse scenario: What if they “succeed?” The United States appears determined to push for a framework agreement within a year and both Israeli prime minister Be ...
  • Terrorist group gets support from US Congress
    At Foreign Policy, Patrick Disney writes: It’s been over two months since the toughest Iran sanctions ever approved by Congress were signed into law, three months since the UN’s latest resolution, and 15 months since Iran’s post-election demonstrations began. Despite all of this, Iran’s clerical go ...
  • Toronto-based blogger faces execution in Iran
    The Toronto Star reports: The strange saga of a Toronto-based blogger jailed in Iran on propaganda charges took an alarming twist Tuesday after his supporters said prosecutors requested the death penalty. Hossein Derakhshan is known as the Iranian âblogfatherâ for launching the dissident Persi ...
  • Obama’s war of political necessity
    Candor cost Gen Stanley McChrystal his job as US commander in Afghanistan, while President Obama was credited with a political masterstroke — replacing the general with a loose tongue with a general with a golden tongue. But maybe Bob Woodward’s new book, Obama’s Wars, would not be treated as a sou ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Where the particulates are (and aren’t)
    This press release from NASA has the usual FUD in it, particularly with the “health-sapping” title. But what I find most interesting is the lack of 2.5 μm particulates in the USA and Australia. Yet another USA map further down … Continue reading →
  • Bad news for green technology
    From Slashdot: The NY Times reports that the Chinese government has placed a trade embargo on all exports to Japan of a crucial category of minerals used in products like hybrid cars, wind turbines and guided missiles. China mines 93 … Continue reading →
  • More dirty pool by NCDC’s Karl, Menne, and P ...
    I’ve mentioned more than once in the past how the Tom Karl managed National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) team has taken to using my data without my permission. They even ignored my letter sent direct to Tom Karl. I’d written … Continue reading →
  • Surprise: Peer reviewed study says current Arctic ...
    While Joe Romm and Mark Serreze bloviate about the current Arctic sea ice being “lowest in history”, science that doesn’t have an agenda (or paying thinktank) attached says otherwise: “More importantly, there have been times when sea-ice cover was less … Continue reading →
  • Obituary: Ernst George Beck
    Benny Pieser of the GWPF writes: Edgar L. Gärtner, a German climate blogger, has written an obituary for Ernst George Beck./ It’s a translation from a German article here. I promised to pass it on to UK and US bloggers … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Rainbow Pie – So different yet so familiar B ...
    Updated: Sept. 24, 2010 added a video with an interview with Joe Bageant. By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Creative-i 11 September, 2010 photo by Dandelion Salad Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir By Joe Bageant. Portobello Books, London, 2010 ‘Cotton never saw much cash, and never got r ...
  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Larry King Live (09.23.10)
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Larry King Interview CNN MOXNEWSd0tCOM | September 22, 2010 “I Think You Should Ask The F.B.I.” Pres Ahmadinejad Interview pt.1 1 Out Of 100 Americans Are In Prison! Why? Did They Rape? Or Steal? Pres Ahmadinejad Interview pt.2 Why The Insistence In U.S. To ABSO ...
  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Speech at the United N ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RussiaToday | September 23, 2010 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s full speech at UN General Assembly Ahmadinejad’s full speech at UN General Assembly *** Transcript http://gadebate.un.org/Portals/1/statements/634208557381562500IR_en.pdf Islamic Republic of Iran Permanent M ...
  • Denial, Selective Perception and Military Atrociti ...
    Warning This article and links to other websites may contain words/graphics depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be read/viewed by a mature audience. by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at Global Research 22 September, 2010 “Wrong from th ...
  • The return of Marx by Brian Jones
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Brian Jones SocialistWorker.org February 16, 2009 The ideas of Karl Marx–that class society creates great wealth for the few at the expense of the many–ring truer every day. Brian Jones examines Marx’s revolutionary ideas in this first of three articles. IN TH ...

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

  • Time-Warping Occurs in Daily Life
    Exploring the peculiar effects of Einstein’s relativity is no longer rocket science. Tabletop experiments at a lab in Colorado have illustrated the odd behavior of time, a strangeness typically probed with space travel and jet planes. Using superprecise atomic clocks, scientists have witnessed time ...
  • Kuiper Belt Dust Could Tell Aliens We’re Here
    A hole in the dust disk surrounding our solar system would tell alien observers there are planets here, a new simulation shows. The new model, which tracks thousands of tiny particles beyond the orbit of Neptune, could help astronomers work out the properties of planets in other stars’ dust disks. ...
  • Video: Two Full Days of Saturn’s Aurora
    Saturn’s aurora shimmers and shines over the course of two full days in a new movie and images from Cassini orbiter. In an ongoing study compiling thousands of these images, scientists are beginning to decipher what drives the celestial light show. Much like Earth’s northern and southern lights, Sa ...
  • Texas Tail Saves Florida Panthers, for Now
    In a rare story of conservation success, a last-ditch effort to save the Florida panther has slowed, if not reversed, the marvelous animal’s decline. Fifteen years ago, America’s last eastern panther population had shrunk to several dozen individuals, riddled with genetic defects and too inbred to ...
  • Ancient Fossil Flower Is Father of Sunflower Famil ...
    A 45 million-year-old fossil flower found in northern Argentina has uncovered the evolutionary roots of Earth’s most populous plant family. Called Asteraceae, the family includes dozens of domesticated species — from sunflowers, daisies and chrysanthemums to lettuce, artichoke and tarragon — and so ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Libby Lenkinski Friedlander: A partner, not a thre ...
    I want [Abdallah Abu Rahma] and other Palestinian grass-roots nonviolent organizers to be free to carry on their political struggle together with Israeli partners and supporters. For the past nine... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • UN Human Rights Council: Gaza Flotilla report
    Report of the international fact-finding mission to investigate violations of international law, including international humanitarian and human rights law, resulting from the Israeli attacks on the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Israel jails Arab activists for vag ...
    A vague security offence of "contact with a foreign agent" is being used by Israel’s secret police, the Shin Bet, to lock up Arab political activists in Israel without evidence that a crime has been... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Edward Said: Imperial Continuity – Palestine, Iraq ...
    IOA Editor: A very important discussion on the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and 'God-given land' claims by Israelis, including Said's recognition of Jewish/Zionist rights in... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now i ...
  • Gaza flotilla attack: UN report condemns Israeli ‘ ...
    UN report: "The conduct of the Israeli military and other personnel towards the flotilla passengers was not only disproportionate to the occasion but demonstrated levels of totally unnecessary and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • African Americans Face Kidney Disease-Related Disp ...
    African Americans face kidney disease-related disparities, according to two upcoming studies in CJASN. The title of the first summary is, "Among HIV-Infected Kidney Disease Patients, African Americans are More Likely to Develop Kidney Failure and Die Prematurely". The title of the second summ ...
  • Mathematicians to Tackle Climate Change Issues Thr ...
    A new project funded by the National Science Foundation links researchers at leading U.S. universities to study the mathematical problems related to climate change research.
  • Physicians Beware: Cholesterol Counts in Kidney Di ...
    To understand the health effects of high cholesterol levels, doctors first need to assess malnutrition and inflammation status in their chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN).
  • Am Jrl of Public Health: November 2010 Highlights
    1) Texting and cell phone use leads to big rise in distracted driving fatalities; 2) Routine activity may help reduce risk of invasive breast cancer; 3) Income disparities in obesity prevalence found among California adolescents.
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and sanofi-aventis Es ...
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's Belfer Institute of Applied Cancer Science and sanofi-aventis have entered into a collaboration and license option agreement to identify and validate novel oncology targets for further discovery and development by sanofi-aventis of novel therapeutics agents directed t ...

Natural Health News

  • GMO Salmon One Step Closer to FDA Approval
    The first genetically modified animal could move one step closer to the U.S. market on Monday, when a federal advisory panel makes its recommendation on whether such food -- a salmon -- is safe for consumers to eat. On Monday, an FDA panel of medical experts will advise the FDA on whether there is " ...
  • FDA Rules that GMO Salmon Won’t Require Labeling
    The FDA is currently considering whether to approve genetically modified salmon, and most observers think it will be given the green light. � As if this ‘frankenfish,’ as some are dubbing it, wasn’t cause enough for concern, it also appears consumers will not be able to depend on product labeling ...
  • Only Protein Powder Shown to Lower Blood Pressure
    A study just published in the International Dairy Journal suggests whey protein beverages are effective at reducing blood pressure in people at risk for hypertension. � According to researchers: � “We found that whey protein beverages lowered BP only in individuals with previously high BP, but n ...
  • Drug Companies Win Big and Eliminate Medical Herbs ...
    In less than a year, virtually all medicinal herbs will be illegal in the European Union. � In their take-no-prisoners strategy to wipe out every penny of competition and gain complete control of the health of the people, Big Pharma and Agribusiness have scored a major win in Europe. Similar, pote ...
  • Krill Oil May Reduce Arthritis Symptoms
    A new study published in the journal BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders concludes the omega-3’s and antioxidants in your daily krill oil supplement may reduce symptoms of arthritis. � The study, which compared krill and fish oil, showed that the addition of EPA and DHA to the diet of mice reduced infla ...

Antemedius

  • Clogging and Facilitating
    Remarks at George Mason University, Fall for the Book, September 23, 2010. (Video available 9-24-2010 at http://warisacrime.org) Thank you for being here and skipping the Pledge to America event in Sterling. I'm going to try to be brief because I tend to be very long-winded answering questions, so ...
  • Borrow And Spend Republicans Unveil Tax Cut Packag ...
    There is something about Washington and taxes that seems to destroy the ability of law makers to do simple math. This seems to afflict Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats the worst. The Washington Post is reporting about the roll out of the Republicans Orwellianly named tax plan, the Tax Hike Prevent ...
  • Republicans Double Talk On Liberty Gets Right Up M ...
    There is going to be a lot of analysis on the Republican Pledge to America today, and here is some more! Instead of going into the actual policy, which others can and will cover better, I thought I’d talk about the wording. There is a lot to be learned by how a group talks about its policies. Commun ...
  • Only in America Can Blair Go Out in Public
    By David Swanson When U.S. media pundits claim that every other nation on earth honestly believed the absurd lies George W. Bush told about Iraqi weapons and ties to terrorism, the grain of truth is that one leader of one foreign nation went along with the lies: British Prime Minister Tony Blair. B ...
  • "Punishing Democrats" A Bad Move All The Way Aroun ...
    There are a lot of angry people in the American electorate. There are the Tea Party folks who think that there has been some kind of revolution and they are in danger of losing their country (even though the country they imagine they were part of never really existed). They are fired up and they int ...

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 ...
  • Obama Gets It Not Quite Right on Civil Society
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro President Obama’s UN General Assembly speech this morning highlighted the place of civil society as an agent of progress: Civil society is the conscience of our communities, and America will always extend our engagement abroad with citizens beyond the halls of gove ...
  • The Continuum of Dysfunction, Binary Statehood, an ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen I’d like to pick up a thread is in Chiara’s book and is teased out in both Gian Luca’s post and Ben Davis’s comment on Chiara’s most recent post on Somalia: the view that state failure is notan “on/ off” characteristic, but rather is a continuum ranging from gove ...

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

  • Feeding birds
    It’s fabulous to see birds in the park or in your backyard, but feeding them is not always the right thing to do, even though it may seem innocent. Some foods can be very harmful. For example, it could contain salt - which is toxic to birds. Feeding birds also makes them dependent of people. If you ...
  • Environmental News 17/09/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Environmental News 16/09/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Grocery Store Wars
        Pollution and pesticides have conquered our vege markets! The unsustainable, short-sighted practices of genetic engineering, chemically enhanced shelf life and massive pesticide use have lead to lower prices and out of season produce - resulting in people not kn ...
  • Environmental News 07/09/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • David Miliband gave green light for interrogations ...
    ShareThis David Miliband gave green light for interrogations in 'torture nations' 23 Sep 2010 David Miliband faced fresh questions over torture yesterday after it emerged that he gave the green light for interrogations of terrorist suspects in countries where there was a risk of abuse. Security sour ...
  • Republicans to release 'Pledge to [Destroy] Americ ...
    ShareThis Republicans to release 'Pledge to [Destroy] America' agenda 22 Sep 2010 Sixteen years after an elaborate ceremony to sign the "Contract with on America" in the Capitol's shadow helped propel House Republicans to majority status, GOP leaders are hoping to repeat the performance. This year, ...
  • US plans continued control of Bagram to hold kidna ...
    ShareThis US plans continued control of Bagram to hold kidnapped prisoners, 'security threats' --Prisoners would be held in one of Bagram's blocks which would remain under control of US military 22 Sep 2010 The US military has drawn up plans to continue holding Afghan prisoners it deems a threat in ...
  • Feds Look to Local Forces for Terrorism Response
    ShareThis Feds Look to Local Forces for Terrorism Response 22 Sep 2010 The Department of Homeland Security�is helping local forces prepare to respond to terrorist threats, which have changed substantially since the Sept. 11 attacks to include more homegrown terrorists and smaller, faster-developing ...
  • Pennsylvania Senate committee approves subpoena po ...
    ShareThis Pennsylvania Senate committee approves subpoena power for terror probe 22 Sep 2010 A Senate committee today voted to give Chairman Lisa Baker the power to subpoena witnesses in an investigation into the Rendell administration's no-bid state contract for a security bulletin that monitored d ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Sheikh Jarrah Sukkot
    September 22, 2010 It may sound unlikely, but we’re in ‘Uthman ibn ‘Affan Street in Sheikh Jarrah and, together with Salah and other Palestinian friends from the neighborhood, we’re building a sukkah. The Sukkot holiday, my favorite, starts tonight. Religious Jews build little booths covered with pa ...
  • 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, ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • About that barrage of No Brown Bailout ads you’re ...
    If you’re like me, you’ve been seeing those No Brown Bailout ads everywhere and constantly on the net. Someone must have deep pockets indeed to pay for them. It’s Fedex. Their arch-rival UPS and the Teamsters are trying to get a bill passed that would make it easier for the Teamsters to unionize Fed ...
  • Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future
    Robert Reich on his new book. The problems are structural, he say, with the biggest problem being the growing disparity of wealth. The upper 1% in the US got 27% of income in 2007. This leaves much less for the middle class. We will either have reform or reactionary politics which turns us against e ...
  • Pod cars coming to Heathrow
    Unlike driverless trains that shuttle airport passengers, pod cars wait for a passenger, then move. If one isn’t waiting for you, push a button and it will come. Because they only move on demand, costs are much less
  • Household worth in America drops $1.5 trillion in ...
    Really? But just this morning (literally) I was reading that everything was fine, just fine.
  • Flash cookies can be evil. How to control and remo ...
    NY Times explains why – and that some computer users are suing. The technology, so-called Flash cookies, is bringing an increasing number of federal lawsuits against media and technology companies and growing criticism from some privacy advocates who say the software may also allow the companies to ...

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

  • Deadline Live – September 23 2010
    Breaking News from Deadline Live.info and commentary from Jack Blood. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d16195').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
  • Queen tried to use state poverty fund to heat Buck ...
    The Queen asked ministers for a poverty handout to help heat her palaces but was rebuffed because they feared it would be a public relations disaster, documents disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act reveal. Royal aides were told that the £60m worth of energy-saving grants were aimed at fami ...
  • This Day In History – September 24
    622 â Prophet Muhammad completes his hijra from Mecca to Medina. 1780 â Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British Major John André exposes Arnold’s plot to surrender West Point. 1789 â The United States Congress passed a Judiciary Act that provided an attorney gen ...
  • Iran President UN Speech “Everyone knows U.S ...
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the United Nations on Thursday most people believe the U.S. government was responsible for the attacks of September 11, 2001, prompting the U.S. delegation to leave in protest. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d16189').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slid ...
  • Probe: U.S. prosecutors repeatedly abuse the law
    ORLANDO – The jurors who helped put Nino Lyons in jail for three years had every reason to think that he was a drug trafficker, and, until July, no reason to doubt that justice had been done. For more than a week in 2001, the jurors listened to one witness after another, almost all of [...]

The Air Vent

  • Ostriches
    People send me stuff.  This link is to a critique of the McShane and Wyner paper by Schmidt, Mann and Rutherford.  Now I’m not a big fan of MW10, it is just another method for crushing historic variance in favor of present time – hockeystickinator.  There was an additional critique by Tingley.  ...
  • The balance between ‘Natural Variability’ and ‘Man ...
    Guest post by Roddy Campbell ————— Some comments on Judith Curryâs blog post on âDoubtâ explored what we know about the causes of âNatural Variabilityâ, and hence whether we can predict it based upon that knowledge, or whether the null hypothesis of more of the same is the best and simples ...
  • Blog Power
    Oliver K. Manuel left this version of Sutton’s law in a comment last night. Like the bank robber who robbed banks because âthatâs where the money is,â I am absolutely certain that mankind will return to nuclear energy because âthatâs where most of the energy is!â On this we think alike. ...
  • 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 [...]

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 Engineering Explains “Worst Outage We’ve ...
    Facebook was down for two and a half hours earlier today for many of its 500-some million users around the world, in what the company describes as “the worst outage weâve had in over four years.” As part of the downtime, social plugins such as the Like button, and the developer platform, were also ...
  • Nielsen to Gather Online Advertising Audience Meas ...
    Nielsen Media Research plans to release a new online advertising audience measurement service, and it has secured existing partner Facebook as its first participant from which it will collect data, according to The Wall Street Journal. This online gross ratings points system would track frequency an ...
  • Facebook Not Testing Photo Tag Request
    Facebook appeared to be testing a photo tag request and approval system on a small subset of users. The feature sends a request to a user each time theyâre tagged in a photo, and the tag wonât appear until the user approves it. However, the feature — at least as seen in the screenshots — is [.. ...
  • Facebook Careers Postings: Hyderabad PR, Collectio ...
    We found some more interesting jobs being advertised by Facebook this week. If you recall, last week we wrote about Facebook’s search for a Washington, D.C. public policy manager and Questions community manager. This week, it looks like the company is starting to ramp up PR in its India office, purs ...
  • ShopTab’s E-Commerce Facebook App: Simple and Easy ...
    ShopTab is an e-commerce Facebook application that is easy to use both from the administrator and customer end, and has an attractive, easy-to-alter interface. The app directs customers from Facebook to a company’s web site, so there’s no need to worry about extras like shipping or taxes, and purcha ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Obama speaks at the UN... Goodbye to peace
    Alan Hart argues that US President Barack Obama’s speech at the United Nations demonstrates beyond doubt that he is not interested in a just solution of the Palestine-Israel conflict and is not prepared to declare openly and sincerely that the occupation must end.
  • Israel makes meeting another Arab a crime
    A vague security offence of “contact with a foreign agent” is being used by Israel’s secret police, the Shin Bet, to lock up Arab political activists in Israel without evidence that a crime has been committed, Jonathan Cook reports.
  • 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 ...

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

  • Decrypting the Shadow behind Hamid Karzai
    The Long Intended Chaos According to news reports, the Obama administration is once again reevaluating how to deal with Afghanistanâs Hamid Karzai out of fear that it may now be holding him to unrealistic standards of U.S. law enforcement. This comes after a summer of news that Karzai continues to ...
  • 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 ...

Afro Spear

  • The Man Who Murdered Jimi Hendrix?
    The Man Who Murdered Jimi Hendrix?. A memorial on the 40th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix’s death — Sept. 18, 1970: I pick up my axe and fight like a bomber now, but you still blast me down to the ground. Before becoming Jimi Hendrixâs manager, Michael Jeffery had been a covert op for British Intelli ...
  • The Marginalization of Christianity
    Lately I have been reading a number of posts about religion and Christianity in particular. This wasn’t planned as it just so happened that the blogs I frequently read had articles about religion. The more interesting ones were: “True values are never at risk” by MsAfropolitan; “I Chose Not To H ...
  • “Beck, MLK Both Spoke About Freedom” b ...
      Commentary submission by Project 21 On August 28, I arrived in Washington, D.C. with a contingent of the Greenwich Tea Party Patriots of South Jersey to attend Glenn Beck’s “Restore Honor” rally at the Lincoln Memorial. We consisted of three packed busloads. The weather was perfect that day, and I ...
  • The “Susan Smith Syndrome” Strikes Aga ...
    From the Oregonian: “A 28-year-old Vancouver woman admitted today that she threw acid in her own face, severely burning herself Aug. 30, Vancouver Police Chief Clifford Cook said this afternoon. Police searched Bethany Storro’s house today and confronted her, Cook said. She then told them she made u ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • IBM Financing Greenwash: 2 PCs Better Than 1?
    This gem of a corporate sales pitch was sent to me by an Unsuitablog reader, which somehow manages to turn replacing a computer twice as often as normal into a green decision. The main problem with corporate attempts to be green is that they come from corporations, and corporations exist to make pro ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • 'Sourcing Through Texting' Brings Public into Radi ...
    If a large truck illegally barrels through a neighborhood and no reporters are around to see it, does it make the news? It does if local residents with mobile phones can text truck sightings to a local public radio station. This is the premise behind a new pilot project called Sourcing Through T ...
  • How to Build a Website: One Piece at a Time
    The likelihood that an online video editing site, a 21st century technological innovation if ever there were one, would draw inspiration from a 34-year-old Johnny Cash song about a broken-down, piece of junk Cadillac is, admittedly, a tad anachronistic. But as my partner, Nonny de la Peña, and I ...
  • 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 ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Turkey on the Edge - An Imaginary Vote in the Turk ...
    Had I voted in Sunday's referendum in Turkey, I would have struggled to decide whether to vote for or against the constitutional amendments put forth by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). On the one hand, the reform package includes progressive amendments, such as constitutionally guara ...
  • Book Review - The American Ad Industry--Tracing it ...
    The Man Who Sold America: The Amazing (but True!) Story of Albert D. Lasker and the Creation of the Advertising Century. Jeffrey Cruikshank and Arthur Schultz. Harvard Business Press, 2010. 435 pages. We take advertising for granted. Even as companies rush to implement the technology the Tom Cruise ...
  • The Edge on Terrorism - The Anniversary of 9/11 an ...
    September 11, 2010, the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, was a day of solemn ceremony, remembrance, and reflection. It was also a time to consider the U.S. reaction to the attack nine years ago, including the national effort to destroy al Qaeda and other terrorist groups in order to prevent a ...
  • The Financial Edge - New Debit Cards May Revolutio ...
    Imagine strolling into Bob’s Sandwich Emporium to discover that the chalkboard behind the counter lists both lunch specials and financing specials. That pastrami on rye with extra pickles, the board explains, will cost $10 if paying with a debit card, $10.16 if paying with a Visa credit card, and $1 ...
  • Argentina on the Edge - Hot Times in Argentina Lea ...
    Alleged wiretapping hearings lead by a politician, the shutdown of an Internet provider and the investigation of a newsprint factory have all occurred in Argentina over the last few days. They all connect in one clear way: they signify the climax of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s preside ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Israel Makes Meeting Another Arab A Crime
    By Jonathan Cook A vague security offence of contact with a foreign agent is being used by Israels secret police, the Shin Bet, to lock up Arab political activists in Israel without evidence that a crime has been committed, human rights lawyers alleged this week
  • Cultivating Inner Resilience In The Face Of Collap ...
    By Suzie Gruber I offer a few steps you can take to cultivate inner resilience
  • Good Food: A Movement, Not Just A Movie
    By Carolyn Baker In their landmark documentary Good Food, Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin are not merely offering the viewer just a few more hundred facts about our food supply, but rather, sharing an intimate portrait of an emotional, perhaps even spiritual movement that is burgeoning in the United ...
  • Fallujah, A Disgrace For The USA, An Eternal Curse ...
    By Dirk Adriaensens I would like to stress that the people of Fallujah have all the right, according to International law, to defend themselves against the illegal invasion and occupation of their city, their country. Their right to resist should be defended by all
  • What The Zapatistas Can Teach Us About The Climat ...
    By Jeff Conant While political forces have conspired to make the Zapatistas largely invisible both inside Mexico and internationally, their challenge has always been to propose a paradigm of development that is both just and self-sustaining. It seems fair, then, to see if Zapatismo can shed any li ...

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

  • Why Is Obama's OIC Representative Participating in ...
    On one hand the FBI is warning that homegrown terrorists are a major growing threat to the United States, on the other hand Rachad Hussain, President Obama's Representative to the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) is participating in a conference called “Islam and Muslims in America” whose ot ...
  • Obama's UN Speech: More Revealing Than Effective
    By Barry Rubin President Barack Obama’s speech to the UN, September 23, 2010, is revealing on several levels. Indeed, I learned something very important about his foreign policy. But that’s at the end. He began by discussing terrorism as if it is carried out by faceless, doctrineless, cau ...
  • Tomorrow Is D-Day For AG Eric Holder and The New B ...
    After Twenty-two months and countless accusations, by this time time tomorrow the case of the election day voter intimidation by the New Black Panther party will be over or will be so huge that even the mainstream media will not be able to ignore it.� Christopher Coates, former chief of the Justice ...
  • McCain Confronts Napolitano Over Back Door Plans F ...
    Last week a Department of Homeland Security memo was leaked that gave new credence to all of those rumors swirling around the Beltway that the President is poised to go against the will of the American people and grant amnesty for illegal immigrants by executive order. Today the Janet Napolit ...
  • What is the "Evil Genius" of Our Era?
    By Barry Rubin Margaret Thatcher's autobiography, The Path to Power (NY: HarperCollins, 1995) is a remarkably timely book for Americans, as well as for�her own country�today. Many of the problems�the United Kingdom faced in the 1970s and 1980s--economic crisis and�decline, high spending, ex ...

The Real Agenda

  • Fabricando Disidencia: Globalistas y Elites Contro ...
    El Foro Social Mundial y el Foro Económico Mundial, las ONG’s y movimientos de oposición a la globalización son controlados por las mismas fuerzas ante las cuales protestan. Michel Chossudovsky Versión en Español:  Luis R. Miranda La fabricación de consentimiento implica la manipulación y la formaci ...
  • Ahmadinejad calls for New World Order
    NY 1 Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is blaming the world’s problems on capitalism. Speaking at the United Nation Anti-Poverty Summit today, the Iranian leader said capitalism has caused the suffering of people in several countries. Ahmadinejad called for a new world order, proposing the comin ...
  • 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 ...

Wind Watch

  • Lookout Mountain residents fighting plan for wind ...
    Lookout Mountain residents near Ga. 157 have been contacted about a potential wind turbine farm being located in the area. Residents were approached last week (Sept, 13-17) by a representative of Iberdrola Renewables, which claims to be the worldwide leader in wind turbines, with their turbines in 2 ...
  • 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 ...

Not My Tribe

  • PPLFF says no BDS of Israeli Apartheid
    Crap. The Anti-Apartheid BDS campaign targeted Cannes because of it, Hollywood luminaries boycotted the Toronto Film Festival over it, you’d think the Springs gay community might have paid heed. Instead the Pikes Peak Lavender Film Festival opted to run the Israeli film Eyes Wide Open, Zionist steal ...
  • Emma Goldman on Direct Action
    Yes it was Emma Goldman who said “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” It was no mere quip. The turn of the century activist was a fierce advocate of every social reform and was ultimately exiled to Europe. Do you wonder what else Goldman had to say, about political violence, prisons ...
  • In honor of World Car-free day…
    Which I missed. I did notice while crossing a street that there were more cars than usual on the street. Maybe they DID take notice and decided they wus gonna git them some of them thar Hippie Intelekshuls. But I got this picture off another website.
  • Can you manage a World Car-Free Day?
    The publishers of Car Busters have proclaimed every September 22 to be WORLD CAR-FREE DAY. Consider taking the bus, riding a bike or walking to work today. Where possible, the World Carfree Network suggests you walk in the middle of the street where the automobile-dependent will get the point. It’s ...
  • And I thought it couldn’t possibly get worse ...
    I thought for a long time that some of Shakespeares classic works, those of which are so tragic in scope that it’s worse than dating a Goth on downers, couldn’t possibly be given the Disney Treatment. Then, they popped off with “Gnomeo and Juliet”. If there’s any small mercy to be had there, it’s th ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Why Do People Ask Retarded Questions?
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog asks : "How Retarded Do You Have To Be? To think there's no way the iron microspheres could have come from this:" Well Pat, here is a picture for you, and what Steven Jones had to say back in 2007 . It has also been suggested that thermate may ha ...
  • 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 ...

Fooducate

  • 10 Facts about Xantham Gum, a very popular food ad ...
    Have you heard of xantham gum, one of the 30 most popular ingredients used in food products? You’ll find it in salad dressings, sauces, ice cream and also gluten free foods. What is xantham gum, and why is it such a popular ingredient? What you need to know: 1. Xantham Gum is made by fermenting cor ...
  • Do You Want Genetically Modified Salmon on Your Pl ...
    It appears that the first genetically modified animal fish will soon be approved for human consumption. A federal advisory committee, reporting to the FDA, posed no objections to allowing genetically engineered “super salmon” into our food supply. What exactly it this fish? We’re talking about farm ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Tribe’s SOS to save uncontacted families from exti ...
    Gabide Etacori, one of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode leaders © Survival Leaders of an isolated South American tribe have issued a desperate public appeal on behalf of their family members hiding in forest targeted by cattle ranchers. Some members of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode tribe in western Pa ...
  • 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 ...

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
    The standard right wing talking point that tax cuts for the rich and for corporations create jobs is true: Tax cuts for the rich 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

  • My Wife, My Daughter, and XMRV
    By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. My wife has tested positive for XMRV, otherwise known as the xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus. My daughter with autism has also tested positive for XMRV, a new human retrovirus that was recently found to be...
  • FDA Sees Bowel Risk In Rotavirus Vaccine Data
    Rotavirus vaccines have been plagued with this side effect called intussusception - where one portion of the bowel slides into another like a telescope (HERE) causing great pain and leading to the point where the infant can die from bowel...
  • Parallel Universes: Flu Shots For Pregnant Women
    Exhibit One: "The American Medical Assn., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the March of Dimes and seven other groups sent a letter to healthcare professionals Wednesday urging them to counsel pregnant patients to get a seasonal flu shot....
  • Project Lifesaver Bracelet Saves Massachusetts Chi ...
    After you read this story, consider making a donation to our sponsor National Autism Association's FOUND initiative HERE. And don't forget their conference on 11/11 in St. Pete. The National Autism Association (NAA) has announced the launch of a new...
  • Deirdre Imus Interviews Mark Blaxill and Dan Olmst ...
    Deirdre Imus, a powerful advocate for children's health in America, interviewed Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill about their new book, The Age of Autism Mercury Medicine and a Manmade Epidemic on Huffington Post. Thank you to Deirdre (and Don) for...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • The Sharecroppers
    Sharecroppers explores the quiet struggles of America's chicken farmers as they struggle to provide for themselves and their families. Essentially forced into upgrading their farms, these farmers have no choice but to perpetuate a never-ending cycle of debt - on pain of bankruptcy.
  • The last gasp of the independent and family farmer ...
    The PPJ Gazette Marti Oakley (c) copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved __________________________________________________________ The pressure is really on to ram S.510 Fake Food Safety through the Senate.  Democrats know they will most likely lose at least the House in the midterm, but I believe even ...
  • 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.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Japan to free Chinese boat captain amid row
    BBC – Japan is to release a Chinese fishing boat captain whose arrest two weeks ago led to a major row with Beijing.Japan had accused Zhan Qixiong of deliberately ramming two patrol vessels near disputed islands in the East China Sea.China said his detention was “illegal and invalid”, and was sendin ...
  • Democrats and DNA Databases
    Huffington Post – The Democratic Party has long gained political capital and much of its identity by holding itself out as a champion of civil liberties. From supporting free speech to protecting individuals’ privacy, Democrats have presented themselves as defenders of the basic principle that gover ...
  • Texting and calling while driving kills 16,000
    Reuters – Drivers distracted by talking or texting on mobile phones killed an estimated 16,000 people from 2001 to 2007, US researchers have reported. The estimate, one of the first scientific attempts to quantify how many people have died in accidents caused specifically by mobile telephone distrac ...
  • Ozone layer ‘is no longer disappearing and w ...
    The Daily Mail-The ozone layer outside the polar regions is projected to recover to pre-1980 levels by 2048, although the annual springtime ozone hole over the Antarctic is not expected to recover until 2073. Ozone in the stratosphere is important because it absorbs some of the Sun’s dangerous ultra ...
  • North and South Korea on the brink of war, Russian ...
    Daily Telegraph – North and South Korea are on the brink of war, a top Russian diplomat has warned, calling for both countries to exercise restraint and sit down for talks. In Moscow’s bleakest assessment of the situation on the Korean peninsula yet, Russian deputy foreign minister Alexei Borodavkin ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Blown-out BP well finally killed at bottom of Gulf ...
    [Updated at 8:57 a.m.: The BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico -- source of the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history -- has been permanently killed, a top federal official announced Sunday. Thad Allen, the federal spill...
  • Genetically-modified salmon: Will the FDA give the ...
    For years, opponents have derided genetically engineered salmon as "Frankenfish" while the aquaculture industry has contended they would be harmless. Now the conflict is coming to a head. Earlier this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found in a...
  • Profit and recycled plastic at Opportunity Green c ...
    On Thursday, Avatar actress Michelle Rodriguez, solar-powered vehicles, basketball star Shaquille O’Neal and eco-friendly bento boxes collided in downtown Los Angeles. All were elements of the fourth annual Opportunity Greenconference at Los Angeles Center Studios, where television shows such as...
  • Gulf oil spill: BP well nears death, pressure test ...
    Crews working to seal BP's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico once and for all need to finish one more test on a cement plug before declaring the well permanently dead, officials said Saturday. Once the pressure and weight...
  • 'Climatopolis': An optimistic look at how cities w ...
    Global warming is a given, writes UCLA economist Matthew Kahn in his new book, “Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future.” But Kahn’s perspective on this isn’t gloomy: He says we could flourish in warmer climes. With...

water.org

  • Barclay Martin Ensemble new music, mission (KC Sta ...
    The Barclay Martin Ensemble has new music and a mission (KC Star) KANSAS CITY, MO – Water became the bandâs noble cause; it also became the theme of its next project, in more ways than one. Friday night at the Folly Theater, Martin and his band will celebrate the release of their third recording, ...
  • Social good and philanthropy (Mashable)
    How Social Good Has Revolutionized Philanthropy (Mashable) – Philanthropy has always been a balance between raising money and raising awareness for a cause. For Mike McCamon, chief community officer for Water.org, social media is making both possible at the same time. Much of that comes from raising ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Army Must Cancel Evangelistic Event At Fort Bragg ...
    The Rock the Fort event at Fort Bragg this weekend targets both military personnel and adults and children in the surrounding community for conversion to Christianity. This clearly violates the separation of church and state. Submitted by Ralph Bland to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • I Wanna Be A Macho Man: The Prosperity Gospel Acco ...
    Who was it who said that it would be easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than a filthy rich pastor with a $350,000 Bentley to get into the Kingdom of God? Money, money, money - It's a rich mans' friend. Submitted by Ralph Bland to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comme ...
  • Israel's Palestinian partner is ready and waiting
    That deems any gathering of more than 10 people illegal unless they obtain a permit from the military commander of the West Bank. Abdallah and organizers like him - who have chosen, both in principle and through their actions, the route of nonviolence and Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �N ...
  • The government must stop funding zealotry in Jerus ...
    Under the guise of archaeological excavations and "restoring the glory of old," the Elad association has managed to penetrate large areas of the village, which contains the City of David Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Israel presses UN to stall debate on 'biased' Gaza ...
    Israel is pressing the United Nations to postpone debate on its report on the Gaza flotilla raid until it finishes its own internal inquiry into the incident, the Israeli envoy to the UN in Geneva said on Friday. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

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

  • Scotts Contracting wants you to know about the &#8 ...
    , Scotts Contracting wants you to know about the “Fight Global Warming! Demand Global Conservation!” Take Action! campaign, sponsored by: The Rainforest Site Click here to view the “Fight Global Warming! Demand Global Conservation!” campaign. AOL users: please copy/paste this … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

  • Democrats Push Forward on Judicial Nominees
    The Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines on Thursday to advance the nomination of law professor Goodwin Liu to the 9th Circuit, signaling they're not ready to give up on one of President Barack Obama's most controversial nominees. Liu's nomination now heads back to the full Senate, whe ...
  • San Diego Judge Faces Discipline for TV Try-Out
    A San Diego judge has been charged with willful misconduct for allegedly videotaping courtroom proceedings to promote herself for a role on a TV show starring a judge. An ethics commission cites dozens of remarks Judge DeAnn Salcido made from the bench -- some filmed and some not -- which suggest sh ...
  • 9th Circuit Orders New Hearing in Fentanyl Murder ...
    It was a California murder case involving a meth-addicted county toxicologist, her secret affair with her boss and a rose petal-covered crime scene evocative of the iconic film "American Beauty." Now it's an appeal hinging on the results of new lab tests. Kristin Rossum, who prosecutors alleged pois ...
  • Abusive Social Networking Can Yield IP Infringemen ...
    Like domain names, social networking user names are often extensions of business identities used to promote goods and services. Abusive use of user names to allow a third party to benefit from another's product endorsement constitutes IP infringement, says attorney Johnathan Bick.
  • NYSE Commission Urges Corporate Attention to Long- ...
    Following a nearly yearlong review prompted by the financial crisis, the New York Stock Exchange's Commission on Corporate Governance has concluded that corporate boards should prioritize long-term growth over short-term gains. Additionally, company managers should play a larger role in corporate go ...

Iranian.com

  • Protesters at U.N. call Ahmadinejad a 'murderer'
    Some demonstrators wore hats embroidered with the slogan, "Viva Rajavi" and carried pictures of Maryam Rajavi, leader of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, who lives in exile. Purple flags and balloons supporting Rajavi's opposition floated overhead as she addressed the rally via satelli ...
  • Ahmadinejad Answers Questions on Holocaust. Is He ...
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is asked by MSNBC anchor Brian Williams to clarify his statements about the Holocaust. (September 2006) �
  • It's Official, No war with Iran
    It's Official - No War with Iran read more
  • Inside Imprisoned Hiker's Emotional Captivity in I ...
    Even though she has been released from a 14-month confinement in an Iranian prison, American hiker Sarah Shourd still doesn't feel free. " In a way I'm still being punished because they still have the power to hurt me ," she said Thursday on The Oprah Winfrey Show .
  • روایت وزیر اطلاعات از نفوذ آمریکا و اسرائیل در حو ...
    حیدر مصلحی، وزیر اطلاعات جمهوری اسلامی در سخنانی غیرمترقبه روحانیان برجستۀ حوزه علمیه قم را متهم کرد که در دام سرویس های اطلاعاتی آمریکا افتاده اند که می خواهند از طریق حوزه ها جریان های "صهیونیستی شیعی" ایجاد کنند. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Fighting Climate Change Guerrilla Style
    It occurs to me that I and other climate change activists may be entirely wrong in the way we approach organizing around this issue. Up till now what I have envisioned pressuring government to adopt carrot and stick policies (a combination of tax credits and subsidies) that would somehow motivat ...
  • 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 ...

Free Movement

  • New Iraqi Country Guideline case out
    The tribunal has held that it is safe to return to Iraq. In HM and Others (Article 15(c)) Iraq CG [2010] UKUT 331 (IAC) President Blake finds that The degree of indiscriminate violence characterising the current armed conflict taking place in Iraq is not at such a high level that substantial grounds ...
  • Removals to Greece suspended
    The Government has confirmed that removals to Greece under the Dublin II Regulation have been suspended pending the outcome of the test case. This comes following a number of recent news items on the calamity that is the Greek asylum ‘system’. Or, in the words of UNHCR themselves, ‘humanitarian cris ...
  • 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 ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Never Let Fear Become A Prison For Truth
    Speech delivered by Justin Kauker on September 19, 2010 at the Free Bradley Manning, Exposing War Crimes is Not a Crime Rally in Downtown San Diego T he first time I saw Collateral Murder I had to remind myself: I’m watching people get killed. In our culture of entertainment soaked in violence, w ...
  • FILMMAKER MICHAEL MOORE TO RECEIVE THE JOHN STEINB ...
    SAN JOSE, CA (Sept 21, 2010) — Academy Award-winning filmmaker and best-selling author, Michael Moore, has been named the recipient of the Steinbeck Award by the Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University. Moore will formally receive the "in the Souls of the People" award on Thursday, ...
  • 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' ...

Salon

  • House GOP's Pledge to America: World's saddest to ...
    Today, House Republicans will go to Virginia, which, despite its proximity to DC still qualifies as Real America, to deliver their "Pledge to America," a long list of things they will do in January, once they're in charge. The GOP has been working on this little report for a while now. They didn' ...
  • Lewis Lapham on "the end of capitalism"
    This is the second installment of " The Influencers ," a six-part interview series that Lynn Parramore, the editor of New Deal 2.0 and a media fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, is conducting for Salon. She talked to Lewis Lapham, the former longtime editor of Harper’s and the founder of Lap ...
  • Republican sits for awkward interview on racist es ...
    New York Republican House candidate Jim Russell is refusing to drop his candidacy -- or even apologize -- after it emerged that he wrote an essay endorsing various forms of racism in the fringe journal Occidental Quarterly.
  • Republicans roll out new party manifesto
    The chairman of the House Republican Conference says the party's new "Pledge to America" compact is designed to roll back "failed economic policies" and rein in the health care overhaul.
  • The militias' man in the Senate?
    Back in July, before Joe Miller won a stunning upset over Lisa Murkowski in Alaska's GOP�Senate primary, national attention briefly focused on his campaign when supporters were videotaped marching in a community parade with assault rifles over their shoulders and handguns strapped to their legs. ...

SMB News

  • Engleska acquire five ODI Pakistan antagonism pokr ...
    For SMB News Engleska acquire five ODI Pakistan antagonism from page 121 pokre?e SOUTHAMPTON: Engleska learn five kona?ni jednodnevne me?unarodne antagonism Pakistan 121 traje pobjeda series 3-2 at the Rose Bowl srijedu ovdje. Pakistan, to build a 257 pobijediti uskladiti i serija, Palau is 63-135 w ...
  • 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 ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

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

  • Housing: A people's problem to fix
    The sad fact is that housing problems never left the recession of the last several years and it doesn't look as if they are going to leave anytime soon. Why has housing been such a core element in the story of American civilization? Culturally a decent house has been a symbol of... Tags: recession b ...
  • The Terrorism That Dare Not Speak Its Name
    By Adrian Morgan – The Editor At Family Security Matters (FSM) Janet Napolitano has made a statement on terrorism, nine years after 9/11. We have reproduced it for you to read here. Some parts of her speech are reassuring, indicating that the administration is acknowledging... Tags: terrorism hadith ...
  • Guessing UP a storm - Week 4 Picks in the SEC
    Cam Newton and Auburn will lose a tough battle against South Carolina. /AP Alright, so 6-2 wasn't bad for my first week, but things don't get any easier in week 4 in SEC play. A couple of headliners top the schedule with Arkansas hosting Bama, and South Carolina visiting... Tags: razorbacks crimson ...
  • Does your city manager earn $800,000?
    In Bell, Calif., residents of the relatively poor, mostly Hispanic city nearly rioted after discovering that their city manager was earning about $800,000 a year. And he wasn’t the only overpaid worker on the city’s payroll. This week, as eight Bell employees and officials were... Tags: recession ho ...
  • What next for the Lib Dems?
    Imagine you're in a small boat, heading towards what you know will be a fearsome storm. Your young captain assures you that it'll all be fine, and that on the other side of the storm, the seas are calm, the sky is blue and the sun shines brightly. Out in front is a much bigger boat -... Tags: the wa ...

Groklaw

  • FCC grants use of unlicensed airwaves
    Also Thursday, the agency eased rules for schools and libraries to use federal funds for broadband services. The FCC said those institutions could lease unused fiber networks that can carry Internet services. Internet service providers such as AT&T have said that the federal funds should be used to ...
  • Broadcasting group issues statement on ivi Inc.'s ...
    Here's the statement from ivi in response to the NAB statement. "We understand the NAB's point of view and welcome this opportunity to enlighten them. ivi TV filed a lawsuit ... because we were wrongly accused of copyright infringement, an accusation disruptive to our business. "We needed ...
  • Here it comes: 'Super WiFi'
    The decision was closely watched in the tech community for its potential to create entirely new types applications and businesses. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski hit on that theme in his prepared remarks ( PDF ), saying that the commission's decision would open "a new platform for American innovati ...
  • A Big Win for the Internet
    Today a federal court in Madrid dismissed charges of copyright infringement against YouTube. This decision is a clear victory for the Internet and the rules that govern it. Spanish broadcaster Telecinco had claimed that YouTube should be liable when users upload copyright-infringing material. The c ...
  • Microsoft Oslo modeling platform unravels further; ...
    Microsoft officials confirmed today what I reported last month: Its Oslo data-modeling platform has been almost completely obliterated. - Mary Jo Foley, ZDNet

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Politics in the Zeros

  • About that barrage of No Brown Bailout ads you’re ...
    If you’re like me, you’ve been seeing those No Brown Bailout ads everywhere and constantly on the net. Someone must have deep pockets indeed to pay for them. It’s Fedex. Their arch-rival UPS and the Teamsters are trying to get a bill passed that would make it easier for the Teamsters to unionize Fed ...
  • Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future
    Robert Reich on his new book. The problems are structural, he say, with the biggest problem being the growing disparity of wealth. The upper 1% in the US got 27% of income in 2007. This leaves much less for the middle class. We will either have reform or reactionary politics which turns us against e ...
  • Pod cars coming to Heathrow
    Unlike driverless trains that shuttle airport passengers, pod cars wait for a passenger, then move. If one isn’t waiting for you, push a button and it will come. Because they only move on demand, costs are much less
  • Household worth in America drops $1.5 trillion in ...
    Really? But just this morning (literally) I was reading that everything was fine, just fine.
  • Flash cookies can be evil. How to control and remo ...
    NY Times explains why – and that some computer users are suing. The technology, so-called Flash cookies, is bringing an increasing number of federal lawsuits against media and technology companies and growing criticism from some privacy advocates who say the software may also allow the companies to ...

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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 Perils of "Reaching Across the Aisle"
    In a new commentary piece for the Center for a Stateless Society , I argue that, in the American political glossary, "moderate" connotes accession to wholesale state violence and vilifies the "extremes" in order to limit the debate. Cooperation between politicians, instead of the worthwhile problem- ...
  • 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 .

Media Co-Op

  • Mapuche Solidarity - Direct Action in Vancouver
    September 23rd, 2010 Early in the afternoon on September 23rd a small group of us here in Vancouver, Coast Salish Territory, responded to the call-out for international solidarity with the 34 Mapuche weichafes (warriors) in prison in Chile, who have been on hunger strike since July 12th and also wit ...
  • People Power brings whirlwind of revolution to the ...
    “ If I get shot in the head like Kennedy, I’m not going to fall down on my knees. When you get shot like that, you have a few seconds of life left. If that happens to me, I’m going to fall straight down with my arms spread so people will know I never gave up, even until the last second.” These words ...
  • Another world is happening: An interview with Invi ...
    We interviewed Invincible , a Detroit hip hop artist and activist, after her show at the LOLA music and arts festival in London, Ontario, Canada. At LOLA, Invincible performed with Miz Korona and DJ Dez . During the interview, Invincible shares her views about the role of hip hop in cultivating soci ...
  • The Goldcorp Arts Centre in the Woodwards Building ...
    This morning, Vancouver based mining company Goldcorp announced that they would be donating $10 million to Simon Fraser University to fund the school's arts centre in the already controversial Woodwards building in the Downtown East Side. The ...
  • Ensemble pour demain no. 1
    Premiere édition de la journal de la conférence international « Quelle projet de societé pour demain ? » Ensemble pour demain c’est notre bulletin d’information pour ne rien manquer de la Conférence. C’est aussi un effort de mémoire et ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Burger and fries, hold the spies.
    Russia's Foreign Ministry condemned the arrests of 10 alleged Russian spies in the United States, calling them baseless Tuesday, and senior lawmakers suggested they had stemmed from a conspiracy in the U.S. government to undermine President Obama's efforts to improve relations with Moscow. Washingto ...
  • General McChrystal covers his... flank
    Fatheaded hubris is going to take a severe hit in the years to come and Americans are going to want someone to blame it on. I think that they will blame it on whichever poor, helpless, sap wins the White House this year. Self quote - News Links, 9/15/2008 David Seaton's News Links The McChryst ...
  • My memories of the Fourth of July
    David Seaton's News Links Fourth of July, like Christmas, is something that connects a lot of us directly with our childhood. Most of my Fourth of July memories center around summers spent in the little village in west-central Illinois where my maternal grandmother was born and raised.� A village w ...
  • A unique opportunity for peace in our time
    Ensuring there's enough money to pay for the war will require reforming the country's entitlement system, Boehner said. He said he'd favor increasing the Social Security retirement age to 70 for people who have at least 20 years until retirement, tying cost-of-living increases to the consumer price ...
  • Tea Time: the sense behind the nonsense
    No better proof of a dysfunctional -- and broke -- system of government than the U.S. Congress passing additional funding for the Afghan war -- $300 billion thus far -- while simultaneously denying the unemployed an extension of benefits -- and then taking a 10-day Independence Day vacation. Arnau ...

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

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Tribe’s SOS to save uncontacted families from exti ...
    Gabide Etacori, one of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode leaders © Survival Leaders of an isolated South American tribe have issued a desperate public appeal on behalf of their family members hiding in forest targeted by cattle ranchers. Some members of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode tribe in western Pa ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Another black mark on Iran's justice system
    As the terrible drama of Iranian Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani drags on -with no legal proof of wrongdoing, will Iran stone the mother of two to death or hang her? -few Canadians need to be convinced that Iran's concept of justice is arbitrary and irrational.
  • The right approach to multiple sclerosis
    Many people suffering from MS, a chronic disease affecting the brain and spinal cord, understandably want Ottawa to fund trials across the country, but in the absence of sufficient scientific proof that the treatment merits a full-scale deployment of resources and funding, a go-slow approach ...
  • Hardliners crank up the emotion generator
    Some 3,000 people attended a Saturday-night rally to "protect the French language" by tightening still further Quebec's restrictions on language choice. The event demonstrated the power -and the weakness -of the nationalist hardliners who strive incessantly to manipulate public opinion on lang ...
  • A pill for what ails our health-care system
    A new study proposes a way for Canadians to save at least 10 per cent, and possibly as much as 42 per cent, on the nation's prescription-medication bill. It's a suggestion that demands serious study, by the provinces and Ottawa, because drug costs have been rising at a frightening 10-per-cen ...
  • A pill for what ails our health-care system
    We now pay some $25 billion a year for prescription medications. That's at least 16 per cent, and maybe fully 40 per cent, more per capita than other industrialized countries pay, according to the report; we are the world's third-most-expensive country for brand-name drugs.

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 ...

CrusadeWatch

  • Pakistani Christians not beneficiary of Church run ...
    source: Pakistan Christian Post, May 17 2010 Lahore: May 17, 2010. (PCP) The admissions are underway in convents and other missionary schools administered by Catholic Church of Pakistan and Church of Pakistan in major cities of Punjab province of Pakistan. The Christian parents are standing i ...
  • Vishal Arora: A Christian fundamentalist masquera ...
    source:  Sathya Sai blog, 19 May 2010 Vishal Arora is an independent & freelance journalist and writer living in New Delhi, India. Vishal Aroras articles have appeared in Hindustan Times , The Indian Express , The Deccan Herald , The Tribune , The Statesman , Mint , Indo-Asian News ...
  • Christian casteism: Only in India: A Brahmin groom ...
    source:  Times of India, May 16, 2010 MUMBAI: When Winnie D'Souza wanted to marry her daughter into a decent' family, she scanned the matrimonial columns of Catholic periodicals in Panaji. After shortlisting a few young men, D'Souza made inquiries about their caste. She wanted her dau ...
  • Rwanda: Will the Vatican Ever Accept That Genocide ...
    source: AllAfrica.com, 27 May 2010 Tom Ndahiro Kigali This church's lack of courage and humility made it develop what philosopher Bertrand Russell, in his book "The Conquest of Happiness" termed "persecution mania" which he says is "a recognised form of insanity."
  • Woman Chained Nine Years…For Having Sex In The Bus ...
    source:  Peace FM Online, 8 - June - 2010 A woman believed to be about 30 years has been chained for nine years by her mother, who accuses her of being a witch and the cause of their familys woes.


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Solar Stock Bonanza? California Aims for 33% Renewable Energy
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- Sep 24, 2010
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Renewable Energy Standard faces uncertain future
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By Andrew Restuccia 9/24/10 9:30 AM It's a tricky thing, getting 60 votes for a renewable energy standard in the US Senate. As of Thursday, the RES had 25 ...
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LDK Signs R&D Agreement with NREL, Repays Q-Cells
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Ecology Coatings Accepts Term Sheets for a $2.4 Million Funding
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- Sep 23, 2010
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Ecology can only use $750000 to resolve its outstanding debt. To minimize the dilution to shareholders and to 'clean up' the capital structure of the ...
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Scientists hope plant samples will shed light on climate change
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It is hoped similar principles from the research, published in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Ecology, could be extended to museum collections ...
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Ecology in the Courtroom
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Frankenfish -- genetically modified salmon -- take food and ecology to a new level
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- Sep 22, 2010
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Groundbreaking on 5-mile SF Bay water tunnel
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- Sep 24, 2010
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The water tunnel will stretch from Menlo Park to Fremont. The San Jose Mercury News says crews will dig a 141-foot-deep, 58-foot-diameter vertical shaft, ...
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Sionix Corporation Announces Shipment of Mobile Water Treatment System
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Concurrent with this "testing and tuning" activity, our partner, Perc Water Corporation (Perc) will complete our onsite programming and simultaneously begin ...
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Pine Island under water
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Due to the high levels of water and the road closures all around the area, the Olmsted county Sheriff's office will only let in the people who have proof of ...
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