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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.

Sunday, September 26, 2010

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Scoop - NZ

  • US infighting over Afghanistan
    President Barack Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan believes the current strategy can't work, according to a new book. The claim, published in the New York Times, is from a book by veteran reporter Bob Woodward. Reports say the book paints a picture of in-fighting in the administrat ...
  • SPOOF VIDEO: Does Fonterra support deforestation?
    Fonterra's Andrew Ferrier demonstrates the risk of 'foot in mouth' at the Fonterra results press conference... ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • 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 ...

Independent - London

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  • Australia faces worst plague of locusts in 75 year ...
    Australia's Darling river is running with water again after a drought in the middle of the decade reduced it to a trickle. But the rains feeding the continent's fourth-longest river are not the undiluted good news you might expect. For the cloudbursts also create ideal conditions for an unwelcome p ...
  • Pope orders inquiry into abusive Catholic women's ...
    It's a life regimented in excruciating detail, down to the way they eat an orange. Silence is the norm; information is limited; email is screened; close friendships are discouraged and family members are kept at bay – all in the name of God's will. Known as consecrated women, they are lay Catholics ...
  • Public opinion stopped GM, says campaigner
    The tide has turned globally against the introduction of genetically modified crops, Lord Melchett, the former director of Greenpeace and campaigner for organic farming and food, said yesterday.
  • Let MoD tackle climate, says Lucas
    Responsibility for climate change should be transferred to the Ministry of Defence as the single most important threat facing the nation, the Green MP Caroline Lucas said yesterday. Only if global warming is classified as an issue of "national survival", like a military threat, will it be treated w ...
  • Networks turn back the television clock
    Book 'em, Danno! Thirty-five years after it first hit TV screens, Hawaii Five-0 made a high-profile return to US airwaves last week, as one of a slew of new programmes that suggest the nation's ailing networks are suffering from a 1970s flashback.

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

  • Whale Sharks Killed, Displaced by Gulf Oil?
    The Gulf oil spill occurred in crucial habitat for the world's largest fish. Deciphering the unseen, underwater effects of the Gulf oil spill. The Gulf oil spill fouled a vital stretch of feeding habitat for whale sharks, possibly killing some of the world's largest fish, new research suggests. ...
  • On the Secret Committee to Save the Euro, a Danger ...
    Two months after Lehman Brothers collapsed in the fall of 2008, a small group of European leaders set up a secret task force - one so secret that they dubbed it "the group that doesn't exist." Its mission: Devise a plan to head off a default by a country in the 16-nation euro zone. When Greece ran ...
  • All kinds of sea birds paralyzed and dead near Sar ...
    Dead swans waking up Southwest Florida news rooms? Now asking asking "could it mean the dispersants are here?" Transcript Excerpts Dr. Geoffrey Gardner, a ["world renowned"] Lakeland swan expert, is facing the challenge of a lifetime. Something is killing the seabirds and swans on Long Boat Key. ...
  • Explosive Was Not First Pipe Bomb Found In Rancho ...
    Rancho San Diego - The pipe bomb that severely injured Connie Hoagland, 52, on via Hacienda in Rancho San Diego yesterday was not the first such device to be found in the neighborhood. Two other pipe bombs have been reportedly found at an elementary school just blocks away within the past four yea ...
  • Seismic crisis at Piton de la Fournaise Volcano, R ...
    A seismic crisis occurred at Piton de la Fournaise Volcano, Reunion on the evening of 23rd September. Several tens of earthquakes were located at the base of the summit area, in Dolomieu crater. The seismic crisis was associated with significant inflation (3 cm) of the volcano, especially near the ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Updating Betty Krawczyk
    Alison has updated her post to include a summary of Betty's 22 September court appearance. There was no resolution and we're now awaiting the announcement of a further court date. To make things a little easier for Alison, if you have comments or questions related to yesterday's proceedings it woul ...
  • True bravery . . .
    THE NYTIMES has a report by John F. Burns, "Eileen Nearne, Wartime Spy, Dies at 89" . It's an obituary of a very brave woman. You see, Eileen was a member of England's S.O.E. (Special Operations Executive), and was a radio operator in occupied France, in WW2. After she died earlier this month, a fra ...
  • Saturday Morning Cartoons.
    Good morning, darlings – I’m up to my ears in reviews and edits. Yes, my life is indeed an endless glamourfest. Coffee?
  • Using LSD to catch fish
    DOSE NATION has a report that an article from a 1964 edition of Sports Illustrated describes one scientist's exploration into the use of LSD to catch fish . Really. SI's page confirms this: March 30, 1964 A Dreamy New Era For Fish Experiments with LSD-25 and other hallucinogenic drugs indicate it ma ...
  • This found its way into a scientific journal
    I follow meteorological and oceanographic research as closely as I can. It's what I do. In my post-grad days, it's the only thing I did. So I was a little confounded when I read the abstract for this bit of work funded by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research ( UCAR/NCAR ) and the Off ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox whopper: DOJ said Voting Rights Act wasn't vi ...
    Reporting on Justice Department lawyer Christopher Coates testimony on the phony New Black Panthers Party scandal, Fox News falsely reported that the Justice Department had "determined that the Voting Rights Act... had not been violated" in the case. In fact, the Obama administration's DOJ ob ...
  • O'Reilly, Kelly can't keep basic facts straight o ...
    Discussing Justice Department lawyer Christopher Coates' testimony on the phony New Black Panthers Party scandal, Bill O'Reilly and Megyn Kelly pushed claims that the case shows the Obama administration's Justice Department is "not interested" in protecting white voters from discrimination. But ...
  • Fox News lavishes 2 1/2 hours on GOP's "Pledge to ...
    Fox News devoted at least 2 hours 33 minutes on September 22 and 23 to promoting, discussing, and reporting on House Republicans' "Pledge to America," their legislative agenda for the next Congress. Fox spent more than two and a half hours of coverage on days of preview, release of "Pledge" Fox Ne ...
  • Fox falsely claims there was "nothing taking on N ...
    Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade and FoxNews.com blogger Eve Zibel both attacked President Obama for failing to mention North Korea in his September 23 speech at the United Nations. In fact, during his speech, Obama listed the "North Korean regime" as an example that "[t]yranny is still wi ...
  • 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 ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Values Meal
    As the United States works to regain other nations' trust, it has to convincingly draw connections between American aims and the international common good and combat perceptions of completely self-serving policies. Key to this framework is the notion that the ideals of liberty are indeed universal r ...
  • State Department Should Have Gone for More in QDDR ...
    Many are lauding President Obama's UN General Assembly speech highlighting America's rededicated, slightly shifting course on which countries to focus development aid on -- and which not. The US Global Leadership Coalition , which is having a mega conference this week on the focus of America's inte ...
  • Hope vs. Reality
    As a Palestinian-American father of two daughters living in Al-Bireh, the twin city of Ramallah, no one on this earth more than I wish for Palestinians and Israelis to reach a lasting peace agreement. I suspect that the overwhelming majority of Israeli parents feel the same; I know my Israeli friend ...
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  • The Super Rich Get Richer, Everyone Else Gets Poor ...
    The super-rich got even wealthier this year, and yet most of them are paying even fewer taxes to support the eduction, job training, and job creation of the rest of us. According to Forbes magazine's annual survey, just released, the combined net worth of the 400 richest Americans climbed 8% this ye ...

TruthOut

  • The Tea Party's Misinformation Superhighway Runs T ...
    I met Delaware Tea Party dynamo Christine O'Donnell in the "green room" set up for right-wing bloggers attending Americans for Prosperity's "Right Online" conference at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas in late July. The free-market-loving, climate-change-denying group launched by Kansas oil billionai ...
  • Speaking in Tongues: Bilingual Education and Immig ...
    " America has evolved for the better. She will pretty much meet you on your terms. In fact, I think she has finally come to the conclusion that Blacks, Mexicans, Indians, etc. are here to stay. And the only way to perceive them is to accept them and their existence as valid. Acceptance, that's real ...
  • Bicentennial Nothing to Celebrate, Say Indigenous ...
    Mexico City, Sep 24, 2010 - "I don't understand why we should celebrate [Independence]. There will be no freedom in Mexico until repression against indigenous peoples is eliminated," says Sadhana, whose name means "moon" in the indigenous Mazahua language. read more
  • "Waiting for 'Superman'": A simplistic view of edu ...
    In the eyes of some education observers, "Waiting for 'Superman'" oversimplifies the problems facing US students and implies an education reform silver bullet for struggling public schools. read more
  • Hugo Chavez's Upcoming Test: A Preview of Venezuel ...
    Venezuelan politics have become increasingly polarized during President Hugo Chávez’s twelve years in office. The upcoming National Assembly elections are no exception, especially as the results are expected to be an important measure of the nation’s political pulse. On September 26, Venezuelans wil ...

Planetsave

  • Appalachia Rising! [VIDEOS]
    Mountaintop removal coal mining is bad stuff. It is destroying habitats and communities, poisoning people, and annihilating ancient mountains and national treasures. Appalachia Rising!, a national response to the unmitigated destruction of Appalachia’s mountains, air and water through mountaintop r ...
  • Global Warming News of the Week
    Here’s a summary of global warming news from around. As always, feel free to click the Global Warming category above to see global warming stories we’ve written about this week in full. Global Warming and Money While many countries are struggling to catch up with the issues of the time, the U.S. is ...
  • Sea Dragon Pictures (10 Friday Photos)
    Sea dragons? Well, they may not be real “popular,” but they are such amazing animals and definitely deserve more attention. They are beautiful, colorful and look very magical. I think sea dragons could be a proper icon of all oceans, even though they mostly live near Australia. Check out these beaut ...
  • Global Warming Discussion Tactics
    Global warming is one of the key topics I write about, as most of you probably know. (By the way, expect a weekly global warming news wrap-up in a few hours). HOW to write about it is an issue I’m constantly thinking about. Three or four recent posts made me decide to not just think... Read More...
  • 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.

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Houston Voting Machine Fire Update and Shouting 'V ...
    Thousands of borrowed e-voting machines made by Austin-based Hart Intercivic have begun arriving in Harris County (Houston), TX, this week in the wake of last month's massive warehouse fire which destroyed all 10,000 of the county's 100% unverifiable Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting systems ...
  • Donald Duck and God mar Swedish election - World N ...
    Donald Duck, the king and God are among those who snagged votes in the Swedish general elections, a final list of hand-written votes by the election authority showed. 120 people wanted to see Donald Duck, the Walt Disney cartoon character, elected to power in Sunday's vote Photo: REX H ...
  • US Government 'hiding true amount of debt' - Worl ...
    THE actual figure of the US' national debt is much higher than the official sum of $US13.4 trillion ($14.3 trillion) given by the Congressional Budget Office, according to analysts cited by the New York Post. "The Government is lying about the amount of debt. It is engaging ...
  • Pakistan neuroscientist given 86 years for shootin ...
    Pakistan neuroscientist given 86 years for shooting at US agents Aafia Siddiqui case prompts outrage and protests across Pakistan, with her supporters branding it a crime against humanity Outrage in Karachi after Aafia Siddiqui, a US-trained Pakistani neuroscientist named as one of the FBI' ...
  • Chilean Economist Manfred Max-Neef: US Is Becoming ...
    While President Obama is reporting looking into tapping a former corporate executive to become his next top economic adviser, many economists question the path the United States is on. We speak to the acclaimed Chilean economist Manfred Max-Neef. He won the Right Livelihood Award in 1983, two years ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Let's hope he turns his back on the party's flirtation with the Third Way and returns to Labour's working-class roots. And yes, we are also devastated at the loss of the promisingly-named Ed Balls. Ed Miliband has won the Labour leadership after narrowly beating brother David in a dramatic run-off v ...
  • "Crossroads on the Economy"
    Was this taped a month ago? A year ago? No, Mr. President. It was a crossroads, but you and the Democratic leadership in Congress passed it by. �Now it's a lost opportunity. Full transcript here.
  • Always and Forever, Bad Apples
    When bad news breaks it has become almost routine for those at the top to disavow all knowledge and let the hammer come down on those well down in the hierarchy. �The pattern showed up again twice this week, and is now so common as to be almost standardized. For more on pruning back executive power ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Giving too much credit to the buffoonish mayor of Tehran. Call him out for the infantile attention-seeker he is. "US President Barack Obama has described as "hateful" and "offensive" the claim by Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that most people believe the US government was behind the 9/11 atta ...
  • Kentucky Democratic Party Concedes Entire Election ...
    Are you fucking kidding me? From the republican chair of the KDP: The Kentucky Democratic Party would like to invite you to join your fellow Democrats from across the Commonwealth for a very special evening. We'll be gathering in Louisville on October 9th at the Crowne Plaza Hotel to see old friends ...

Care 2

  • Act today to keep Salmonella Jack's eggs off your ...
    Jack DeCoster, the man responsible for the recent massive egg recall, testified before Congress. Despite the horrible conditions found at DeCoster's Iowa egg facilities, his son Peter tried to blame the weather! Submitted by Robert S. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 'Uranium rush' prompts Grand Canyon fears
    A new "gold rush" is under way in the American West, but this time the prospectors are out for another metal: uranium. The Grand Canyon region in the US state of Arizona holds one of the nation's largest concentrations of high grade uranium, the fuel... Submitted by Kat Yazzie to Environment �| ...
  • Brazil Opens Pioneering Factory Producing Eco-frie ...
    TRIUNFO, Brazil (Xinhua) - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says a pioneering factory in southern Brazil that produces "green" plastic clearly shows the value of sugarcane-based ethanol. Submitted by Mary Coleman to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Coyotes and Us
    Coyotes (canis latrans) are remarkably adaptive and resilient. Before colonial times they resided mostly in the North American west; their range, however, has increased to include almost the entire continent, perhaps in part due to human-induced changes Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! ...
  • Rescued Macaques Outside at Last
    A New Jersey firm that tested substances for toxicity went out of business this year. Normally we never hear, in such situations, what happens to the animals used by the company. This time, we did. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

  • The Dismantling of Civilized Society
    How stupid are you? I mean, let's just face it, shall we? That is precisely the question the right has been asking the American public for thirty years (and more) now. And that is the question the American public has been enthusiastically answering for the same period of time. Like a crack junkie, ...
  • Colbert Annoys Press Corps...Again
    Let's face it: Some in the Washington press corps still resent Stephen Colbert because he so brilliantly lampooned them to their faces at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner over their coziness with the Bush White House. Yesterday, some elite journalists couldn't contain their anger after Co ...
  • And if a few million drown in the meantime...
    This strikes me as an opinion only a class of disconnected , western elites could possess. magine a diverse world in which for every 100 citizens; there are 97 Homer Simpsons and 3 Spocks. The self interested second group can and will smell an economic opportunity. The sheer desperation and sufferi ...
  • Mansfield's Mission: Mainstreaming Sarah Palin's F ...
    These days, it doesn't take a Peretz Hilton-like figure to recognize that Sarah Palin is, as my mother might have said, the "cat's pajamas." Her celebrity is indisputable; everywhere she goes she draws crowds. Her earning power is unmatched by most of her political contemporaries. Her political endo ...
  • A Waste of Paper
    � from Truthout Everybody can relax and stop worrying. After two years of race-baiting, fear-mongering and legislative roadblocking, the Republican Party has finally produced a blueprint that will undoubtedly fix everything. In the spirit of Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America," the GOP on Thur ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Pledge
    * Bumped Up * Not to party. Not to movements. Not to issues. Pledge allegiance to something greater. Pledge your allegiance to your home. Certain politicians and intellectuals would have us think that pride of and love for country is just as dead as they told us Jesus was in the 60’s. [...]
  • Thank You Eleanor, I’m Still Learning
    * bumped up * Dear Eleanor, I recently had the opportunity to reread You Learn by Living and was surprised by its relevance for todays political environment. You wrote it in the late 1950′s near the end of your life and dedicated it to your grandchildren. I read it for the first time, in the early ...
  • Into the Weekend: Open Thread
    Larry is right. Not only is Congress a joke, so is Stephen Colbert. In fact, I posit that Stephen Colbert, whose reasons for testifying before a hearing today escape me, has jumped the shark. Beyond his unfunny statements today, his D.C. rally to “restore sanity” can’t possibly match Glenn Beck’s ...
  • Confirmed–Congress is a Big F**king, Humorle ...
    Want one more reason to dump the Democrats? Here’s the video evidence: b Based on this performance Colbert should change his name to Enola Gay? He bombed big time. But the fault is not his alone. Let’s give Colbert his due. He ends up mocking everyone. His crack about “many Democrats [...]
  • Elbowed
    What we have right now is that Rahm Emanuel leaves pronto and not just for the race in Chicago but likely also for a consultancy with a major financial institution. The report from some weeks is that Emanuel has been negotiating for a $10 million fee before he announces for Chicago. The oth ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Green Guilt: Soothing Society's Conscience with Of ...
    Whatever the reason may be for emissions, the practice of offsetting is little more than a personal absolution of one’s eco-unfriendly sins. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How to Avoid Mistakes When Raising Green Kids
    When you become a parent, you want to extend your eco-awareness to your kids so that they too can reap the benefits. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How the Most Influential Scientists Alive Today Un ...
    The amazing mysteries of human DNA are being undiscovered by scientists alive today - who knows what they could discover in the future? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Artist Who Uses Earth as Her Palette
    Ulrike Arnold travels the world to create abstract site-specific works on canvas using pigments taken from the earth. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • There's More To Ecotourism Than Offsetting
    There are actually many, many things you can do to reduce the environmental impact of your holiday - on top of offsetting the footprint of your flight! 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

  • On Our Radar: Hardball on Drilling Ban
    Senator Mary Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana, threatens to block President Obama's choice for running the Office of Management and Budget unless the deepwater drilling ban is immediately lifted.
  • Ejecting BP and Anointing Halliburton
    Halliburton, the oil field services company, lands on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, and Nalco, the oil dispersant maker, makes a repeat appearance.
  • Grassley Backs Renewable Electricity Standard
    A bill that would require utilities nationwide to generate at least 15 percent of their electricity from renewable sources like wind, solar and biomass by 2021 is gaining more Republican support.
  • The Charge of California's Light Brigade
    New policies adopted on Thursday by the California Public Utility Commission encourage utilities to rethink their consumer subsidies, which tend to focus on compact fluorescents, in favor of newer and more energy-efficient technologies.
  • When a Drug Battle Spells Extinction
    More than 40 percent of Colombia's 84 distinct indigenous groups are now at risk of extinction because of forced drug-trade recruitment and the fumigation of coca that destroys other crops.

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

  • I attended a Conservative 9/11 event with “US wars ...
    source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com This article series explains what happened when I interacted with participants of a 9/11 event to welcome home US soldiers and honor the victims of 9/11, then provides the e-mail exchange with the sponsoring group’s leadership. Consistent with my last two years of w ...
  • Lucky Claude !
    Claude Chabrol died. From the obituary of the French filmmaker who was born on June 24,1930… “Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating than intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.” Thoughts about today⦠Announcers, who speak or talk for a living, are very disappointing ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

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

  • IOT: End War and Occupations, Redirect Funding Se ...
    On this call we looked at Israel's apartheid policies towards the Palestinians and how to approach US corporations that enable Israeli policy. We'd like to get a vote in December from chapters, with the goal ...
  • Mad as Hell in Baraboo-Tim Carpenter, PDA
    Adam Klugman speaks with Progressive Democrats of America Director Tim Carpenter, on the eve of Fighting Bob Fest, September 10, 2010, Madison, WI. Listen to Mad as Hell in America at MadasHellinAmerica.com
  • 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.

Marler Blog

  • My Chicken Coop is out-of-control, and it is not e ...
    My chicken coop for my six chickens is a bit over budget. With the purchase of the chickens, food, etc., and the coop, this is pressing on $5,000. �I am beginning to question the price per egg, and I have not yet tested the chickens and the eggs for Salmonella.
  • "Who needs Al-Qaeda when you have got E. coli?"
    I spent most of the week in the “other Washington.” It all does make you wonder, as one Congressman quipped some time ago: "Who needs Al-Qaeda when you have got E. coli?" What would happen if we stopped the petty bickering and actually did something about food safety like: Growers: 1. Develop an ...
  • It's Friday night and I am watching Stephen Colber ...
    Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 10:00 a.m. 2322 Rayburn House Office Building WRITTEN TESTIMONY BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE Chairman and members of the committee, my name is William Marler. I am a trial lawyer. My law firm Marler Clark, located in Seattle, Washington, specializes in r ...
  • For those who hate trial lawyers, you really shoul ...
    This may well pop up in a few ads in D.C. this next week.
  • I really need to vote Republican - Senator Coburn, ...
    I must admit that I have never voted for a Republican since I was frist able to vote in 1976.� Watching Senator Coburn on CSpan last night confirmed for me that I need to stop voting Democratic (and raising and donating money) because the Republicans really care about me and my bank account.� Thank ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: Chevy Volt's range will be 25 miles on bat ...
    Filed under: Hybrid , Chevrolet , Electric 2011 Chevrolet Volt - Click above for high-res image gallery When the Chevrolet Volt was unveiled back in January 2007 , here's what we wrote based on the information General Motors was giving out: The Volt has a range of about 40 miles on the battery a ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 09.24.10
    Nissan reaches 20,000 Leaf pre-orders; will stop taking reservations today Anyone have fence-sitter's regret? Here are all the details we could get about BMW's ActiveE program Lease-only, pr ...
  • 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. ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Reporters' Roundtable: How game mechanics are infe ...
    Today we're talking about game mechanics. Check-in apps like Foursquare use philosophies of game design to pull users deeper into engaging with them. The success of this concept has begun to infect other technologies, from consumer Web services to business applications. Software and services are ...
  • 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. ...

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

  • Obama’s Massive Power Struggle With The Amer ...
    Obama’s Massive Power Struggle with the American War Machine Asia Times / By Pepe Escobar Even if Barack Obama is seriously betting on his exit strategy, the Pentagon wants infinite war. September 24, 2010 | As that self-appointed court stenographer Bob Woodward reveals in his latest court opus Obam ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Lauderdale Man’s Home Sold Out From Under Hi ...
    By Harriet Johnson Brackey When Jason Grodensky bought his modest Fort Lauderdale home in December, he paid cash. But seven months later, he was surprised to learn that Bank of America had foreclosed on the house, even though Grodensky did not have a mortgage. Grodensky knew nothing about the forec ...
  • Community Leakage Calculator
    [Thank you, Michael Shuman!] Every good or service imported unnecessarily from outside your community means lost income, jobs, and taxes from the business that might have supplied these items locally.  Many dollar “leaks” are therefore opportunities for new or expanded local business. Calculating ...
  • This is How You Get “Zero Inflation”
    by Eric deCarbonnel [You] will never know the difference if the toilet paper is 3/4″ narrower, right? Continue reading the article . . .
  • FDA Coming to a Farm Near You
    By Pete Kennedy More than ever S510 represents a major threat to the local food movement, states’ autonomy to regulate food, and the country’s ability to become self-sufficient in food production. On August 12 the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the manager’s ...
  • “Ready for You”
    YouTube (29 Aug 08)

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

  • Obama’s greatest accomplishment so far
    Summary:  As we near the end of President Obama’s second year in office, we can total his accomplishments and assess his skills.  Potentially a great leader, ruined by election to high office before he gained the necessary experience. Results to date:  alientated his supporters AND enraged his o ...
  • A cautionary note for America
    We must get smarter if we hope to prosper in the the 21st century, an era that might prove unkind to fools. The pedestrian ‘push’ buttons at New York’s intersections don’t actually work. They were deactivated in the 1970s when computer-controlled automatic traffic signals were installed but left in ...
  • The hidden story behind “Obama’s Wars” ...
    Summary:  A guest post by Bernard Finel about what might be our most important insurgency — by the Pentagon’s generals against civilian control by the President.  So far they’re winning; Obama’s losing.  This is almost inevitable.  During the past 2 generations Congress and the Presidency have l ...
  • 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Afghan insurgency claims 40 lives in 2 days
    Xinhua – Insurgency and counterinsurgency have left 40 people dead with majority of them insurgents since Friday, according to officials in the militancy-plagued Afghanistan. The militants in the latest waves of violent attacks targeted NATO-led forces killing one soldier on Saturday, the military a ...
  • T-Mobile admits to censoring text messages
    Inquirer – Mobile operator T-Mobile has admitted that it picks and chooses which text messages to deliver on its network. The admission came in legal case in which the mobile operator is being sued by the short-code text service EZ Text. The text marketing firm, which signed up a California marijuan ...
  • US Businessman: Blackwater Paid Me to Buy Steroids ...
    The Nation – A Texas businessman who has worked extensively in Iraq claims that Blackwater paid him to purchase steroids and other drugs for its operatives in Baghdad, as well as more than 100 AK47s and massive amounts of ammunition on Baghdad’s black market. Howard Lowry, who worked in Iraq from 20 ...
  • The Light Controller That Works Like an MP3
    Fast Company-What do MP3s and light bulbs have in common? Quite a lot, it turns out, when the light bulbs are attached to a LumiSmart Intelligent Lighting Controller. The shoebox-sized solid state controller, developed by Cavet Technologies, costs $2,000, takes 20 minutes to install (with help from ...
  • African Union: Sudan leader case undermines peace
    Reuters – The African Union urged the United Nations on Thursday to put war crime charges against Sudan’s leader on hold, warning they could destabilize Africa’s biggest nation and endanger an upcoming referendum on southern independence. Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika urged the annual U.N. G ...

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

  • Aafia Siddiqui: ‘I have proof Israel masterminded ...
    I'm not anti-Israel, but, yes, I have said that they masterminded 9/11, and I have proof of that. Now I am saying that there are attacks being planned against America, big wars being planned, and they are involved in it.
  • Video: Iran President Ahmadinejad tells unvarnishe ...
    President Ahmadinejad does not disappoint as he expounds on how U.S. government (he refers to Neocon cabal who envisioned "Project for the New American Century") facilitated the inside job of 9/11 with his reference to "terrorist group," which is Mossad.
  • 5 Surprising Facts About Spying In America
    Here are 5 surprising facts about spying in America. We understand if some of this sounds far-fetched. But take a look for yourself, and see if you can disprove these claims.
  • Leaked CBI documents: Militants to target Foreign ...
    Naxalite separatist militants will be targeting foreign nationals and athletes in next week’s Commonwealth Games in New Delhi – according to TOP SECRET documents leaked from New Delhi’s Central Bureau of Investigation, Special Crime Unit.
  • 10 Incredible Underground Lakes and Rivers – Photo ...
    Far below the Earth’s surface, where the sun rarely penetrates, is a world of twinkling glow worms, precious gems and limestone caves and mountains, a land inhabited by nature alone. Within this world are visions to rival many landscapes decorating our horizon; lakes lie still and calm, great networ ...

Andy Worthington

  • Andy Worthington Talks Guantánamo and Torture on A ...
    Last week, I was delighted to be reunited on air with two of my favorite talk show hosts: the ever irascible Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio, and the more measured, but forensically disappointed Peter B. Collins. My 25-minute interview with Scott Horton is here, and my hour-long interview with Peter B ...
  • David Frakt Explains Why Guantánamo Prisoners Have ...
    On September 14, Lt. Col. David Frakt, a law professor and the former military defense attorney for two Guantánamo prisoners, debated whether terror suspects should be treated as “enemy combatants” or as criminals, and won resounding approval from the audience in New York for the arguments that he a ...
  • Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Par ...
    This is the fourth part of an eight-part series telling the stories of all the prisoners currently held in Guantánamo (174 at the time of writing). See the introduction here, and Part One, Part Two and Part Three. This fourth article tells the stories of 19 prisoners seized in Pakistan after crossin ...
  • Shaker Aamer and the Guantánamo Prisoner List
    For readers who have been following my exclusive new series, telling the stories of all the remaining prisoners in Guantánamo (174 at present), in conjunction with Cageprisoners, I’m pleased to announce that the fourth article in this eight-part series, Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? ...
  • 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

  • Whale Sharks Killed, Displaced Due to Gulf Oil?
    The Gulf spill fouled a stretch of feeding habitat for whale sharks, possibly killing some of the world's largest fish, new research says. Fish - Whale shark - Gulf of Mexico - Biology - Flora and Fauna
  • Hybrid Panthers Helping Rare Cat Rebound in Florid ...
    Breeding rare Florida panthers with Texas cougars created tough hybrids that could save the subspecies from extinction, a new study says. Florida - Cougar - Texas - Florida panther - United States
  • Drug-filled Mice Airdropped Over Guam to Kill Snak ...
    Dead mice filled with a generic version of Tylenol are being airdropped to kill the invasive brown tree snake, U.S. officials say. Guam - Brown tree snake - United States - Tylenol - Invasive species
  • 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

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

  • Wave of Hate Crimes Directed at Muslims Breaks Out
    A string of attacks against Muslims and their religious centers has broken out over the past few weeks, apparently inspired by the protests in New York City over the planned Muslim community center and mosque near where the 9/11 attacks took place. Leaders of those protests have repeatedly made hate ...
  • Lying About Auschwitz: The Barnes Review on the Na ...
    You probably thought you knew a thing or two about Auschwitz: It was a nightmarish Nazi extermination camp in Poland where more than 1 million people were murdered, most of them gassed to death with Zyklon-B and then cremated. Dr. Josef Mengele performed horrible medical experiments on live humans t ...
  • End of Summer Sees Growing Threats to Abortion Cli ...
    Recent weeks have seen one attack and one stymied attack on abortion clinics around the country. Both have shared a subplot of anti-Muslim extremism. On Sept. 2, in the small central California city of Madera, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the local Planned Parenthood building, the first such att ...
  • Antigovernment Texan Allegedly Shoots Deputies
    A reclusive West Odessa, Texas, man with ties to an antigovernment group allegedly shot and wounded two Ector County sheriffâs deputies and a private citizen on Friday during a 22-hour long standoff at his home. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), the shooter, Victor Dewayne ...
  • White Supremacists Find Common Cause with Pam Gell ...
    Pamela Geller , the veteran Muslim-basher and co-founder of the rabidly anti-Muslim group Stop Islamization of America (SIOA), has won over a whole new set of supporters: American white supremacists. They just canât seem to get enough of her since her agitation began against a planned Islamic comm ...

change: org.

  • Rescue Dogs More Than Just OK in OK Go's New Music ...
    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. The band OK Go is pretty well known for their amazing music videos. They p ...
  • LGBT Children's Books and Why I'm Celebrating Bann ...
    Today marks the start of the 29th annual Banned Books Week , the American Library Association’s celebration of the freedom to read. Children’s books with LGBT content always seem to draw challenges (formal requests for removal or restriction), even if they contain no material that falls into other p ...
  • Margaret Witt's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Victory
    What a month for "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT). Nearly pummeled to death by court rulings, embarrassing surveys, and a general population who would like to see it put to rest. If it weren't for DADT's BFF Sen. John McCain, who slung the battered policy over his shoulder and carried it through the S ...
  • The National Women's History Museum: Let's Get It ...
    "There's no women's history museum in Washington! There is a Postal Museum." That quote comes from Meryl Streep . She was speaking at a benefit gala to kick start fundraising for the National Women's History Museum in Washington, D.C. The slogan for the event was "Let's Get It Done." The National Wo ...
  • Mexican Government Builds Wall Along Southern Bord ...
    The Mexican government, like our own American version, has fashioned itself  as an immigration enforcer, one willing to imitate its neighbor to the north when it comes to immigration policy. As there are nativists in the United States, so too are there immigrant-bashing forces at work in Mexico. And ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Famed Obama 'Hope' Poster Artist Losing Hope
    by Aamer Madhani The artist whose poster of Barack Obama became a rallying image during the hope-and-change election of 2008 says he understands why so many people have lost faith. In an exclusive interview with National Journal on Thursday, Shepard Fairey expressed his disappointment with the presi ...
  • US Could Continue Afghan Detention
    The US military has drawn up plans to continue holding Afghan prisoners it deems a threat in a "unilateral" prison complex on Bagram airbase even after it hands control of the main detention facility to the Afghan government next year. US military authorities are expecting to retain control part ...
  • GOP Filibusters 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal, DR ...
    by John Nichols The Republican Party, which once tried to compete with Democrats for the votes of gays and lesbians, on Tuesday used the filibuster to assure that discrimination against homosexuals in the military would continue. read more
  • Massive US Military Buildup Planned for Guam
    by Audrey McAvoy HONOLULU - The U.S. military has postponed two key decisions related to its buildup of forces on the Guam to ensure it's complying with environmental and historic preservation laws. But it gave final approval to the single biggest part of the buildup: a proposal to move 8,000 Marine ...
  • Localism vs Globalism: Two World Views Collide
    by Michael McCarthy in Lyon Stop economic growth in its tracks, start living locally, at a slower pace, and share more - that was the remarkable demand yesterday at the beginning of the Sustainable Planet Forum, a three-day international conference on environmental issues in the French city of Lyon, ...

Lifehacker

  • SBackup Is a Simple Backup Solution for Linux PCs ...
    SBackup is a simple solution for automatically backing up your Linux desktop without having to pull out the command line and figure out cron jobs and rsync commands—it's easy to use, especially for recent Linux adopters. More » ...
  • How to Master Airline Loyalty Programs [Air Travel ...
    Co-founder of airfare-prediction site FlightCaster Evan Konwiser knows his way around the friendly skies and, by extension, their airline loyalty programs. Today he's offering his best advice for making the most of your frequent flier miles. ...
  • Torrific Helps You Find and Download Any Torrent O ...
    Torrific isn't the first HTTP torrent downloader but it'll download any torrent file your throw at it, help you search for what you want via Google, and do it all for free. More��
  • How to Print from Your iOS Device Right Now [Ios]
    Apple's iOS 4.2 update doesn't hit the virtual shelves until sometime in November, leaving you without wireless printing for at at least another month. Here's how you can print from your iOS device right now, no cables attached. More�� ...
  • Amazon Mom Gives Free Amazon Prime Accounts to Par ...
    We've highlighted how Amazon Student offers a free year of Amazon Prime—the mega-retailer's free two-day shipping program—to anyone with an EDU address. If it's been a while since you've been a student but you've got a young one running around ...

Water Privatization

  • Privatization of water supplies does not always wo ...
    Water is such an important part of life that it has long been regarded as a public good worth entrusting only to public entities. But given the mixed track record of municipal, regional and national governments to properly manage water resources, outsourcing to private companies is becoming more com ...
  • 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.

Guardian

  • Police: cases we can't forget
    For all police officers there's one stand-out case that never leaves them – whether because of the horror of the crime or the satisfaction of the conviction. Five detectives recall their most memorable investigations How a severed leg led to a manhunt by Detectives Shaun Bartram and Nick Wallen In 2 ...
  • Tender delights
    In his bestselling book Tender, Nigel Slater shared his passion for vegetables. Now, in his new book Tender: Volume II, he pays the same compliment to fruit. Following on from last week's exclusive extract in the Observer Food Monthly, we publish a second helping of delicious and inspiring fruit-fil ...
  • Call for UN war crimes inquiry into Afghanistan
    Former UN official demands investigation into coalition link to deaths revealed by WikiLeaks A United Nations investigation into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan should be launched to identify and prosecute individuals responsible, says a former top-ranking UN official on extrajudicial killings. Ph ...
  • Teams warned of Games terror threat
    International teams told to avoid public places as fears grow that Games may leave soft targets across India short of police Athletes and business leaders planning to attend the Commonwealth Games in Delhi have been privately warned to expect terrorist attacks on tourist sites and public spaces acro ...
  • Safety flaws shown at UK nuclear site
    Fire burned for nine hours as pumps and appliances were called up from London and elsewhere, according to files obtained by the Observer under the Freedom of Information Act A major fire at the Berkshire base where the UK's nuclear missiles are assembled was contained only after local fire crews req ...

McClatchey

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

  • Draft MLR Guidelines Present Mixed Bag For Consume ...
    Yesterday, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) released draft guidelines for how insurers should calculate their expenditures to meet new regulations that require issuers that don’t spend 80 to 85 percent of premium dollars on health care expenditures to send rebates to their ...
  • Lowering Health Care Costs By Calling People
    The administration is always saying that the Affordable Care Act will encourage doctors and hospitals to provide care more efficiently and using various new demonstration projects develop ways of lower health care costs without sacrificing profits or rationing care. In today’s Fiscal Times, Merrill ...
  • Judge Reinstates Lesbian Soldier: Discharge &#8216 ...
    Earlier this afternoon, in another blow to Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, a federal district judge in Washington ruled that former Air Force Major Margaret Witt — who was discharged under the ban — should reinstated to her job. Judge Ronald B. Leighton found that the policy “violates Major Wittâs substant ...
  • Is A Settlement Freeze Really A ‘Pre-Conditi ...
    Our guest blogger is David Halperin, assistant director of Israel Policy Forum. With Sunday’s deadline for Israel’s ten-month settlement moratorium fast approaching, both sides are preparing for the blame game should the talks break down. One of the key buzz words being thrown about this week is “p ...
  • 69 Democrats Urge Administration Not To Appeal DAD ...
    Just a day after the Justice Department asked a federal district court to limit an injunction against enforcing Don’t Ask, Don’t tell, 69 progressive Democrats in the House have written a letter asking DOJ not to appeal the judge’s decision in the case: Mr. President, in this critical time when mil ...

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

  • The Kafkaesque Question Of Who Owns Kafka's Papers
    Law professor Peter Friedman has an interesting discussion on his blog about who owns Franz Kafka's papers , based on a recent New York Times piece about a big legal fight over the matter . Yes, Kafka died back in 1924. Apparently, when he died, he left a note to his friend Max Brod, ordering him ...
  • Runkeeper's Ability To Outrun Nike & Adidas Shows ...
    Over and over again we hear this refrain from people that, without extra protection from things like patents, startups would get crushed when big companies decide to just copy them. And yet, over and over again, when we look at the situations in real life, you see that it's a lot more difficult tha ...
  • US ISP Suddenlink Claims The DMCA Requires They Di ...
    TorrentFreak has the news that US cable ISP Suddenlink has implemented its own form of a three strikes policy , and defends it by falsely claiming the DMCA requires it. Torrentfreak has the transcript of a discussion between a customer who has been cut off and a Suddenlink rep blaming the DMCA: ...
  • Once Again, Dead Content Creators Seem To Sign A L ...
    Four years ago, as the debate over copyright extension was going on in the UK, some people noticed that a petition from "artists" that was sent to the government had a bunch of signatures from artists who were dead . Apparently, they wanted copyright protection from beyond the grave. That worked s ...
  • French Courts Once Again Confused About Google Sug ...
    Not again. Earlier this year, we wrote about a couple of lawsuits in France involving companies that wanted to blame Google for the results that pop up via Google Suggest (the feature that simply looks at what you're typing, and suggests the most popular searches based on what you've typed). Tragi ...

VacTruth

  • Flu Vaccine Caused Over 1000 Adverse Reactions
    Over 1000 reports of adverse reactions following the flu vaccine. Fluvax and Fluvax Junior may have caused two to three hospital admissions due to seizure for every admission from flu it prevented.
  • 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 ...

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

  • Japanese Trends Worth Watching: De-ownership, Demo ...
    Photo via: Flickr/ tomo908us It's hard to see Japan's sunny side of affairs beyond the red pool of blood in Taiji's cove. It's currently in the middle of peak dolphin killing season. When I read the following piece in Resurgence by Junko Edahiro, a Japanese environmental activist and journalist ...
  • Bad News for Coral Reefs: Global Warming Causes Bl ...
    Image Credit: mattk1979 via Flickr Global warming has done a lot of damage this summer, from deadly flooding in Pakistan to the heat wave of the millennium in Russia. Now, the New York Times reports , there's another vict... Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm (300 MW) is Ina ...
    Photo: Vattenfall Thanet Offshore Wind Farm You never know with big, expensive and technically difficult project. They have a thousand ways to die, from cost overruns to changing market conditions to insurmountable technical problems. Two years ago, Matt wrote about Vattenfall's plans to build ...
  • Thousands of Students to be Trained as Citizen Jou ...
    Photo via CFL Interview with STREAM founders Philippe Cousteau and Casi Calloway As anyone who's followed our commentary of the BP Gulf spill (and how could you miss it?) knows, one of the primary difficulties in telling the story of the disaster was simply getting access to it. Incidents aple ...
  • Why China's Environmental Laws Have Been Useless i ...
    photo: Charlotte Marillet via flickr It's no secret that China's economic growth has contributed to massive environmental problems in the nation; it's also fairly well known that China has actually enacted some pretty strict laws trying to stop that degradation, in fact some are stricter than i ...

Biosingularity

  • Gene flaw found in induced stem cells
    Stem-cell researchers have puzzled over why reprogrammed cells taken from adult tissues are often slower to divide and much less robust than their embryo-derived counterparts. Now, a team has discovered the key genetic difference between embryonic and adult-derived stem cells in mice. If confirmed i ...
  • Study: Chocolate may reduce heart risk
    The Easter Bunny might lower your chances of having a heart problem. According to a new study, small doses of chocolate every day could decrease your risk of having a heart attack or stroke by nearly 40%. German researchers followed nearly 20,000 people over eight years, sending them several questio ...
  • Prostate drug may work as a preventive
    Men at an above-normal risk of prostate cancer may be able to reduce their risk of developing the disease by taking a drug already on the market. In research reported Wednesday, the drug dutasteride, currently used to shrink enlarged prostates, was found to reduce the risk of prostate cancer by abou ...
  • Cancer vaccines may be on the verge of wider use
    One of the persistent frustrations in cancer treatment has been the way that tumors can evade our immune systems as they grow and multiply inside our bodies. Even though cancer cells have special surface markers, known as antigens, the body often doesn’t seem to be able to mount a full-fledged attac ...
  • Insulin-producing Cells Can Regenerate In Diabetic ...
    Replacements for some diabetics’ missing insulin-producing cells might be found in the patients’ own pancreases, a new study in mice suggests. Alpha cells in the pancreas can spontaneously transform into insulin-producing beta cells, researchers from the University of Geneva in Switzerland report on ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

  • Using biotech to survive mega-droughts
    The world will need drought and salt tolerant bio-crops in the not too distant future. High-yield farming research is needed to meet growing world food demands.
  • 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.

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

  • Senate Ag Committee Hearing- EPA Issues
    A news release yesterday from the Senate Agriculture Committee stated that, "U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide America's farmers and ranchers ...
  • Senate Bill 3767 Seeks to Put Dietary Supplement M ...
    Click here to read this article
  • Making Sense of Poverty Numbers
    The Great Recession has hit those on the bottom most heavily, adding six million Americans to the ranks of the officially poor. Click here to read this article
  • National Organic Week
    Organizers say we have a lot to celebrate - a vibrant alternative food system, a growing number of ecologically minded consumers and growers and new national Organic Products Regulations which we hope will unite Canadians behind a single national organic logo. Organic Week is organized by the Canad ...
  • Climate Change Enlightenment Was Fun While It Last ...
    The closer it comes, the worse it looks. The best outcome anyone now expects from December's climate summit in Mexico is that some delegates might stay awake during the meetings. When talks fail once, as they did in Copenhagen, governments lose interest. They don't want to be associated with failure ...

fotoFrontera

  • Rosas de colores parte VI (5 fotos gratis para com ...
    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 imágenes ...
  • Fotos de China or China photos (6 fotos gratuitas)
    Si lo desea, también podría usted ver fotos de Estados Unidos , México , Canadá , Brasil , España , África del Sur , Francia , Taiwan , Japón y Gran Bretaña .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 ...
  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XIII
    Estoy realmente sorprendido con lo rápido que pasa el tiempo. Pues sin darnos cuenta, ya vamos en el número 13 de nuestra serie 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. Así que -una vez más-, disfrute de nuestros contenidos y no olvide compartir con sus amigos. Si lo desea, escoja un número p ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • The WTFs
    After over a dozen years of linguistic punditry and suggestions, we still don’t have a name for the first decade of this century. I think I just came up with the perfect nickname, a designation so apt and profane it will shame those who were responsible for making the 2000-2010 decade the What the F ...
  • Dumbing down your resume/life
    The Strib writes about disembellishment, or dumbing down your resume. I left a comment: This is hardly something new From 1988-2002 I wrote resumes for over 7,000 clients. People have always dumbed down their resumes precisely because HR is clueless and more obsessed with cost than suitability. But ...
  • Disgruntling the ‘pugs
    Stephen Colbert’s entertaining testimony before a humorless Congress has Fox News apoplectic: This afternoon, Fox News host Megyn Kelly invited Rep. Steve King (R-IA) to discuss Stephen Colbertâs testimony on Capitol Hill today about migrant labor conditions. King â who is a member of the House ...
  • The Six P’s
    Pledge Pimps Promise Pointless Pain and fiscal Promiscuity I really don’t know what they were thinking. The Republicans had their base locked up but still they keep pandering to these fools. The “Pledge” will kill the Republican party in November, just like Newt’s Contract with America doomed them i ...
  • 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 [...]

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

  • Downblending Uranium From Russian Nuclear Warheads
    Downblending Russian weapons-grade uranium to low enriched uranium for commercial reactor fuel has eliminated the equivalent of 16,000 nuclear warheads by recycling 400 tonnes of uranium. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Whole Truth Coalition
    The evolution of NWO perception and Malthusian agenda Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The Collapse of Western Morality
    Americans will be the first people sent straight to Hell while wrongly thinking that they are the salt of the earth. The Americans have even devised a title for themselves to rival that of the Israels' "God's Chosen People." - "The Indispensable People." Submitted by Ralph Bland to US Politics & Gov ...
  • "UN is a showcase for US propaganda"
    The Security Council allows a few nations to override the will of the majority. The US pays the bills and calls the shots. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • BRUTAL TRUTH Of IRAQ WAR
    'War' on any country is a 'Terrorist Act.' How can it be anything else?? People sit in their cosy homes; happy and Falsely believing that the soldiers are in a Patriotic War; Well see for yourself and ask Whats Patriotic about Suffering of Human Beings? Submitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov't ...

Angry Indian News

  • Persecution and death of immigrants accrue with th ...
    palestinefreevoice: Persecution and death of immigrants accrue with the economic crisisWritten by LIT-CI Monday September 20 2010 16:48In the days of their economic boom, imperialist economies... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Democracy Now! | Headlines for September 24, 2010
    Democracy Now! | Headlines for September 24, 2010CIA Drone Strikes in Pakistan Have Killed AmericansBob Woodward’s new book is reporting CIA drone strikes in Pakistan have killed many Westerners,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • In Colombia, Drug Battle Spells Extinction
    In Colombia, Drug Battle Spells Extinction - NYTimes.comThe drug trade and other domestic strife are wreaking havoc on Colombia’s dwindling population of indigenous peoples while also threatening the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • CA Dem Rep: Vietnamese And GOPers Are Trying To Ta ...
    CA Dem Rep: Vietnamese And GOPers Are Trying To Take My Seat (VIDEO) | TPMDCIn a recent interview on Univision, Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) expressed outrage, in Spanish, at "the Vietnamese and the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • White Europocentric Power the Acknowledged Basis f ...
    Texas Board Approves Warning Textbook Makers Against 'Pro-Islamic, Anti-Christian Distortions' | TPMMuckrakerThe Texas State Board of Education today passed a resolution warning textbook publishers... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Government Sponsored Terrorism and The Brainwashin ...
    Leaked policy documents reveal that the United Nations plans to create a “green world order” by 2012 which will be enforced by a structure of global governance and funded by a gargantuan $45 trillion transfer of wealth from richer countries, as the globalists’ insidious plan to centralize power, cru ...
  • The Truth Squad Radio Show: Government-Sponsored E ...
    The topic tonight is "Government Sponsored Eco Terror, and how the so-called green movement is being used to control us and implement the New World Order Agenda 21 program.
  • G. Edward Griffin Weighs In On Obama’s Executive O ...
    The truth is what is important, and not blind allegiance to an organization that is "too big" to be wrong. Read the E.O. for yourself, and don't let others do your thinking for you. That is what the revolution is all about!
  • 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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Afghan bomb blast kills US-led troops
    ShareThis Afghan bomb blast kills US-led troops 26 Sep 2010 An improvised explosive device has left at least two US-led soldiers dead in southern Afghanistan as the war claims more lives of foreign troops. NATO said the soldiers were killed on Sunday, without giving further details, the Associated P ...
  • US-led soldier dies in Afghan war
    ShareThis US-led soldier dies in Afghan war 25 Sep 2010 A powerful bomb explosion has killed one US-led soldier in Afghanistan as the death toll of foreign forces continues to rise in the war-ravaged country. NATO issued a statement on Saturday, saying that one of the soldiers was killed by an impro ...
  • Fresh violence claims two in Iraq
    ShareThis Fresh violence claims two in Iraq 26 Sep 2010 Two people have been killed and several others wounded in the latest violence in Iraq as the Iraqi police report success in detecting militants in the war-torn country. Unidentified gunmen shot down a civilian on Saturday in front of his home i ...
  • Call for 'Gaza style' inquiry into alleged war cri ...
    ShareThis Call for 'Gaza style' inquiry into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan --Former UN official demands investigation into coalition link to deaths revealed by WikiLeaks 26 Sep 2010 A United Nations investigation into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan should be launched to identify and prosecute ...
  • Bomb attack kills Afghan child
    ShareThis Bomb attack kills Afghan child 24 --29 passengers -- most of them women and children -- were injured . Sep 2010 A child has been killed in a car bomb explosion intended for a US-led military convoy in the troubled northern Afghanistan, officials say. The attack took place in the northern p ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Mondoweiss

  • A ‘party for Marty’ greets Peretz at H ...
    The following was sent out by the organizers of the "Party for Marty": Over 100 members of the Harvard community and others "welcomed" New Republic editor and the university administration's favorite racist, Martin Peretz, at the 50th anniversary of Harvard's Social Studies program with a combinatio ...
  • UN: Two men killed on ‘Mavi Marmara’ w ...
    We've failed to post anything on the United Nations Human Rights Council's report issued three days ago on the Israeli raid on the Gaza flotilla last May that found that Israel had committed grave violations of human rights law and international humanitarian law. But big deal we're late--the mainstr ...
  • The legend of the Silwad sniper
    Last week a group of Palestinian fitness junkies no different from any group of hikers or bikers or joggers in the U.S. went for a hike in the hills of the occupied West Bank. I went along, and when we came to this ridge, an older man said we were looking down at the scene [...]
  • He willed it but it’s still a dream
    From The Complete Diaries of Theodor Herzl, the Austrian writer/statesman who founded the movement for political Zionism. August 6, 1999, Vienna.My testament for the Jewish people: Make your State in such a way that the stranger will feel comfortable among you.
  • Two conversations with Europeans in Jordan touch o ...
    A friend back in the States has told me that he's heard several anecdotes about anti-Semitism in Europe, weird comments made to Jews, and he's scared by it.�In Jordan, I've run into a couple Europeans who remind me of my friend's concern.�In one instance, a European scholar who is deeply upset by th ...

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

  • Japanese Trends Worth Watching: De-ownership, Demo ...
    Photo via: Flickr/ tomo908us It's hard to see Japan's sunny side of affairs beyond the red pool of blood in Taiji's cove. It's currently in the middle of peak dolphin killing season. When I read the following piece in Resurgence by Junko Edahiro, a Japanese environmental activist and journalist ...
  • Bad News for Coral Reefs: Global Warming Causes Bl ...
    Image Credit: mattk1979 via Flickr Global warming has done a lot of damage this summer, from deadly flooding in Pakistan to the heat wave of the millennium in Russia. Now, the New York Times reports , there's another vict... Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm (300 MW) is Ina ...
    Photo: Vattenfall Thanet Offshore Wind Farm You never know with big, expensive and technically difficult project. They have a thousand ways to die, from cost overruns to changing market conditions to insurmountable technical problems. Two years ago, Matt wrote about Vattenfall's plans to build ...
  • Thousands of Students to be Trained as Citizen Jou ...
    Photo via CFL Interview with STREAM founders Philippe Cousteau and Casi Calloway As anyone who's followed our commentary of the BP Gulf spill (and how could you miss it?) knows, one of the primary difficulties in telling the story of the disaster was simply getting access to it. Incidents aple ...
  • Why China's Environmental Laws Have Been Useless i ...
    photo: Charlotte Marillet via flickr It's no secret that China's economic growth has contributed to massive environmental problems in the nation; it's also fairly well known that China has actually enacted some pretty strict laws trying to stop that degradation, in fact some are stricter than i ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

  • Whale Sharks Killed, Displaced Due to Gulf Oil?
    The Gulf spill fouled a stretch of feeding habitat for whale sharks, possibly killing some of the world's largest fish, new research says. Fish - Whale shark - Gulf of Mexico - Biology - Flora and Fauna
  • Hybrid Panthers Helping Rare Cat Rebound in Florid ...
    Breeding rare Florida panthers with Texas cougars created tough hybrids that could save the subspecies from extinction, a new study says. Florida - Cougar - Texas - Florida panther - United States
  • Drug-filled Mice Airdropped Over Guam to Kill Snak ...
    Dead mice filled with a generic version of Tylenol are being airdropped to kill the invasive brown tree snake, U.S. officials say. Guam - Brown tree snake - United States - Tylenol - Invasive species
  • 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

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Federal judge rejects 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' disch ...
    [JURIST] A federal judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Washington [official website] on Friday ordered that a US Air Force officer be reinstated after being previously discharged under the military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" (DADT) [10 USC § 654; JURIST news archive] policy. Di ...
  • Obama administration invokes state secrets in effo ...
    [JURIST] The Obama administration on Friday filed a brief [text, PDF] with the District Court for the District of Columbia [official website], asking the court to dismiss a lawsuit [text, PDF] questioning the legality of targeted killings of terrorism suspects. The lawsuit, filed by the father of US ...
  • Kenya court convicts 7 more Somali pirates
    [JURIST] A Kenyan court on Thursday convicted seven Somali pirates [JURIST news archive] and sentenced them to five years in prison. The group was tried and convicted [BBC report] in the coastal town of Mombasa where they had been held since their capture by a Spanish warship in May 2009 after attem ...
  • DOJ asks court not to enforce ruling overturning ' ...
    [JURIST]The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] filed an objection [text] Thursday in the US District Court for the Central District of California [official website] asking the court not to issue a proposed injunction [text, PDF] prohibiting the military from enforcing its "Don't Ask D ...
  • Washington high court upholds state's Internet gam ...
    [JURIST] The Washington Supreme Court [official website] ruled [opinion text] Thursday that a state ban on online gambling [text] is constitutional. Washington resident Lee Rousso gambled online in the past and wanted to continue doing so, arguing that a new statewide ban on online gambling violates ...

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

  • Iran Confirms Stuxnet Damage to Nuclear Facilities
    The AP is reporting confirmation from Iranian sources that Stuxnet, which I’ve posted about here, has caused extensive damage with the country’s computer and industrial system: Iranian media reports say the country’s nuclear agency is trying to combat a complex computer worm that has affected indust ...
  • Not Since Rome Ruled Have They Destroyed Sukkah in ...
    UPDATE: Maan reports (and 972 live-blogs the riots–can you even do such a thing?) that in ongoing clashes throughout East Jerusalem between Palestinian residents and 3,000 Israel police, a 14 month-old baby was smothered by tear gas shot into its home.  Israel’s police PR flack had the chutzpah to ...
  • Bar Ilan Uses Ideological Criteria to Fire Faculty ...
    Ariella Azoulay, a distinguished lecturer in visual media and cultural studies at Bar Ilan University was refused promotion or tenure for the third time by the University according to Haaretz.  According to a knowledgeable source I consulted, Azoulay had been promised each prior time promotion had ...
  • 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 ...

Ode Magazine

  • 25 years of coastal cleanup
    By: KimberlyTwardochleb Coastal litter poses a threat to the health of both wildlife and people. For the past 25 years, the International Coastal Cleanup, a grassroots effort, has been bringing real change to our beaches. Last year, almost half a million volunteers worldwide collec ...
  • 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 ...

OpEd News

  • Ethical Reflections on the 9/11 Controversy
    Though research into the events of 9/11 has not yet attained the rigor achieved by Evidence Based Medicine (EBM,) it is still possible to rank the research in this field according to evidence-based principles. This article explains the principles, points to sources that exemplify them, and argues th ...
  • Inspector General Criticism Doesn't Phase FBI Raid ...
    Obviously the scathing review of post 9-11 FBI "terrorism investigations" targeting various peace and social justice groups completed by the Department of Justice Inspector General (IG) and just issued four days ago gave no pause to the FBI to reflect before continuing to do more of the same. Nor di ...
  • Modify Our Lifestyles and Production Methods or Pe ...
    Civilization ignores the obvious signs that we are destroying the planet at its peril.One of the primary problems is that in economic and social planning,there is no distinction between unsustainable and sustainable growth. Economic indicators such as the GDP, poverty and unemployment rate are very ...
  • The Mulberry Bush (satire)
    Commentary, society, Government, Tea Party, Privatization
  • Decrypting the Shadow behind Hamid Karzai
    To both Ruttig and Rohrabacher, Khalilzad's ultimate crime like the U.S. manipulation of the Ngo Dinh Diem regime in Vietnam was that his corruption of the Karzai regime had created so much internal chaos that no amount of outside effort could undo it. Yet the idea that chaos, as a form of extreme s ...

Switchboard

  • Strengthening U.S.-India Cooperation on Energy - A ...
    On the east coast this week, I’ve seen momentum building on U.S.-India cooperation on climate change and energy in the lead up to President Obama’s state visit to India .  Two events that I attended just this past week reflected heightened interest on this issue from policymakers and t ...
  • Another natural gas well explosion in West Virgini ...
    In June, a natural gas well exploded in West Virginia and� burned seven workers . Earlier this week, another well exploded . Fortunately, this time no one was injured. But the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection�determined that the well fire�"presents an imminent dange ...
  • India Climate Change and Energy News - Week of Sep ...
    Climate Change Record Rains Wreck Havoc in North India   “Relentless rains over the weekend and Monday have wreaked havoc across north India and Delhi was no exception. Haryana released 7.44 lakh cusecs of water from the Yamuna into the Capital which, officials said, is a record for ...
  • India Climate Change and Energy News - Week of Sep ...
    Climate Change Record Rains Wreck Havoc in North India   “Relentless rains over the weekend and Monday have wreaked havoc across north India and Delhi was no exception. Haryana released 7.44 lakh cusecs of water from the Yamuna into the Capital which, officials said, is a record for ...
  • Gulf Coast Disaster - Friday, September 24
    Highlights in this issue: >  Gulf oil spill at 4.4 million gallons, ten times the size of Exxon Valdez spill > Frustrated Gulf Coast claimants may do end run around claims czar > Landrieu plays hardball > European nations reject oil drilling ban Today’s summary BP’s leaking oil well ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Deep Thought, Part Duh
    If we had a hipper press corps, someone would just go ahead and ask Christine O’Donnell how all those fucking magnets work. Related posts:Deep Thought Deep Thought Deep Thought Related posts: Deep Thought Deep Thought Deep Thought
  • Deep Thought
    It could be argued that Troy Tulowitzki has been one of Colorado’s more effective players this September. Related posts:Deep Thought Deep Thought Deep Thought Related posts: Deep Thought Deep Thought Deep Thought
  • Either way, puppies will die
    An obscenely busy (yet curiously unproductive) schedule has kept me from reading much non-Alaskan coverage of our weird-ass Senate race, so I don’t know if Steve Kornacki’s optimistic take is representative of how folks are interpreting Murkowski’s decision to run as a write-in candidate. Yet here ...
  • I Obviously Have the Wrong Goddamn Friends…
    Facebook has much to answer for. Related posts:Ezra Klein: Wrong About the Academy, Wrong for America It’s About Goddamn Time… I’m Guessing that Many of His Best Friends are Jewish… Related posts: Ezra Klein: Wrong About the Academy, Wrong for America It’s About Goddamn Time… I’m Guessing that ...
  • Survival is Not Interesting…
    David Kamp’s “Lennon at 70!” is altogether craptastic. It did, however, remind me of Ian Macleod’s vastly superior Snodgrass. “Hey, John!” It’s a guy’s voice, not Cal’s after all. Sounds almost Liverpool. “Hey, wait a minute! Can’t we just talk?” The voice rings in silence. “John! It’s me!” Rel ...

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.

  • LAW SCHOOL REPORT
    Somewhere between fusty law treatises and Twitter lie law blogs, many of them written by the top legal scholars in the country. Just five years ago, the notion of law professors delivering quick and cogent commentary to the masses was a novel concept. Today, it is rare for law schools not to have at ...
  • FTC loses an easy one
    The case looked like a slam-dunk. A drug company allegedly cornered the market on a medicine — not just any medicine, but one used to treat premature babies with life-threatening heart defects — then raised prices 1,300%. How did the FTC blow it?
  • Winston kicked off Pfizer case
    A federal magistrate judge in Utah has blocked Winston & Strawn from representing Pfizer Inc. in a $1 billion lawsuit brought by Brigham Young University because of a conflict of interest.
  • Lawyers enroll in college probe
    For-profit higher education companies are on a spending spree for lawyers with experience in congressional investigations, as they try to respond to an expansive new inquiry into their operations.
  • 2010: The D.C. 25
    Washington's highest-grossing firms struggle to improve revenues as demand for legal work thins out nationwide.

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

  • Rate of Groundwater Depletion Worldwide Doubled Si ...
    A burgeoning human population has doubled the rate at which it is pumping dry sources of groundwater in recent decades, according to a new study. Relying on a global database of groundwater use and demand, the researchers from Utrecht University calculated that the rate of withdrawal of groundwater ...
  • Study Projects 4.7 Million Electric Vehicle Chargi ...
    As increasing numbers of electric vehicles enter the global market over the next few years, more than 4.7 million charging stations will be accessible worldwide by 2015 , with nearly 1 million of the those expected in the U.S., according to a new study. Of the 974,000 charging stations predicted in ...
  • A Troubling Decline in the Caribou Herds of the Ar ...
    Across the Far North, populations of caribou — an indispensable source of food and clothing for indigenous people — are in steep decline. Scientists point to rising temperatures and a resource-development boom as the prime culprits. BY ED STRUZIK
  • International Search Turns Up Three Lost Amphibian ...
    An international search for “lost” amphibians has turned up three species previously thought to be extinct , including a cave-dwelling Mexican salamander not seen since 1941 and a well-camouflaged African frog not seen in four decades. With amphibian populations declining worldwide as a result of ha ...
  • Global Warming Reaches Deep Ocean Depths, Scientis ...
    The warming trend on the planet has reached deep into world oceans over the last two decades , particularly in the waters around Antarctica, according to a new study. While earlier studies have shown that the upper levels of the planet’s oceans are getting warmer, scientists with the U.S. National O ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

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

  • Tor.com: Divided By Infinity
    When I read ‘Divided By Infinity’ eight years ago, I was in the ‘singularity’ stage of my sci-fi reading. Authors such as Greg Bear, David Brin, Greg Benford, Ian MacDonald, Iain Banks and even Michael Crichton and Stephen Coonts filled my bookcase during the late ’90s, early ’00s. The more technol ...
  • 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 [ ...

Tippers News

  • Shelter favorite, Cindy, in need of help
    Cindy is a favorite at the Baltimore Shelter sitting at this facility for too long, patiently waiting. Look beyond the brutally cropped ears, peer into the deep brown eyes and gentle soul. Cindy is a beautiful dog who needs a home. Submitted by Sandy G. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Take Action: Release Briton Unlawfully Held Iraq o ...
    UK Iraqi tells husband's harrowing story. Ramze, 68, fled Iraq in 98, accused of trying to overthrow SaddamHussein. Returned last yr to get son out of prison, but he, too, detained & tortured. Like 30,000 other Iraqis, he & his son being held w/out charge Submitted by PeasantDiva WorldMinga to World ...
  • Can you make a sea disappear?
    Can you think of a reason why the Aral Sea would disappear? If you havent heard the story, the answer will probably surprise you. The United Nations has called it one of the planets most shocking environmental disasters. Submitted by Esben Larsen to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • PASS JODI'S LAW (SB 414 Anti-Stalking) - TAKE ACTI ...
    On January 5, 2007, Jodi Sanderholm was murdered by a stalker who, as court records have shown, had been stalking her for TEN years. As Jodi's family and friends were left wondering how this could happen, more information was being released . . . Submitted by Just Carole to Society & Culture �|� � ...
  • The Navajo People & Their Homelands Poisoned by U. ...
    Uranium mining on the Navajo homeland--a tale of deception, death and, ultimately, of reckoning that begins with the Manhattan Project and still reverberates today. Submitted by Judith Emerson to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Confusion over Health Insurance Changes Sets in
    “Some provisions of the nation’s new health law that began taking effect this week come with a catch: They don’t apply to plans existing before March 23 and remaining substantially unchangedâ¦. . âI think it’s a bit confusing for people,â says Steve Findlay at Consumers Union.” (USA Today) How ...
  • Convictions, Not Justice, Sought by Federal Prosec ...
    “Federal prosecutors are supposed to seek justice, not merely score convictions. But a USA TODAY investigation found that prosecutors repeatedly have violated that duty in courtrooms across the nation. The abuses have put innocent people in prison, set guilty people free and cost taxpayers millions ...
  • The Anti-anti-authoritarians
    The elitist critics can’t imagine a good reason for people distrusting big institutions that have wronged them.
  • 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 ...

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

  • Sen. Landrieu uses disproved claims about Gulf oil ...
    When Big Oil talks, Louisiana politicians listen. Ed O'Keefe of The Washington Post reports that Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) is blocking President Obama's pick to head the Office of Management and Budget, Jack Lew . Why? Because Lew apparently doesn't buy claims being made by Louisiana polit ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The new political money game
    Date on which a Supreme Court ruling for the first time allowed corporations, unions and other organizations to spend unlimited amounts of money on behalf of political candidates: 1/2010 Amount that interest groups and political parties have reported spending on advertising ahead of the Novembe ...
  • 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 ...

Worldpress - Africa

Canadian Encyclopedia

  • New France
    France was a colonial power in North America from the early 16th century, the age of great European discoveries and fishing expeditions, to the early 19th century, when Napol�on Bonaparte sold Louisiana to the US. From
  • Native People: Eastern Woodlands
    Major Language and Tribal GroupsEastern Woodland Indians spoke languages belonging to 2 unrelated families, Iroquoian and Algonquian. At the onset of the historic period, Iroquoians occupied much of southern Ontario, northern
  • Fur Trade
    Fur trade in Canada began as an adjunct to the fishing industry. Early in the 16th century fishermen from northwest Europe were taking rich catches of COD on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and in the Gulf of St Lawrence (
  • Canadian Pacific Railway
    Commencement of a transcontinental railway within 2 years and completion within 10 years were conditions of British Columbia's entry into Confederation in 1871 (seeRAILWAY HISTORY). Competition for the lucrative contract for the
  • Group of Seven
    The Group of Seven was founded in 1920 as an organization of self-proclaimed modern artists. The original members - Franklin CARMICHAEL , Lawren HARRIS , A.Y. JACKSON , Franz JOHNSTON , Arthur LISMER , J.E.H.

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle a wicker washing basket ...
    Over on the Suggest an Item page, Cate B asked: I have an old ali baba wicker laundry basket that is unravelling itself after years of use. Do you think I could grow potatoes in it and would I have to line it to stop soil falling out? If the wicker is made from natural [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle mouldy bread?
    We’ve had an email from Milly: I know about making breadcrumbs with stale bread but is there anything that can be done with bread that’s gone a bit mouldy? I don’t mean eat it of course but compost it? Obviously the best thing to do is avoid it going mouldy in the first place – [...]
  • What’s more important: less packaging or reu ...
    At one point during the cheese course thing at the weekend, the topic of conversation turned to packaging. For us hobbyist cheese makers, it’s not an issue but for the guy running the course and the woman hoping to set up a small scale cheese company, it’s an important thing to consider: balancing a ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle wine gift bags?
    We’ve covered reuses for old gift bags in general before but Meri emailed asking about one particular type: I have a growing collection of wine bags – mostly paper – that are too nice to toss. How can I recycle them – get them to people who might reuse them? Most people I know reuse [...]
  • Crazy-wonderful & crafty emails I’ve receive ...
    This is usually a links round-up but this week everything seems to have arrived in my inbox instead ;) Daniel emailed us pictures of cannon he made reusing and recycling stuff. Yes, you read that right, a CANNON. (Ok, ok, a decorative rather than functioning cannon but still). I applied for a job wo ...

Mondoweiss

  • A ‘party for Marty’ greets Peretz at H ...
    The following was sent out by the organizers of the "Party for Marty": Over 100 members of the Harvard community and others "welcomed" New Republic editor and the university administration's favorite racist, Martin Peretz, at the 50th anniversary of Harvard's Social Studies program with a combinatio ...
  • UN: Two men killed on ‘Mavi Marmara’ w ...
    We've failed to post anything on the United Nations Human Rights Council's report issued three days ago on the Israeli raid on the Gaza flotilla last May that found that Israel had committed grave violations of human rights law and international humanitarian law. But big deal we're late--the mainstr ...
  • The legend of the Silwad sniper
    Last week a group of Palestinian fitness junkies no different from any group of hikers or bikers or joggers in the U.S. went for a hike in the hills of the occupied West Bank. I went along, and when we came to this ridge, an older man said we were looking down at the scene [...]
  • He willed it but it’s still a dream
    From The Complete Diaries of Theodor Herzl, the Austrian writer/statesman who founded the movement for political Zionism. August 6, 1999, Vienna.My testament for the Jewish people: Make your State in such a way that the stranger will feel comfortable among you.
  • Two conversations with Europeans in Jordan touch o ...
    A friend back in the States has told me that he's heard several anecdotes about anti-Semitism in Europe, weird comments made to Jews, and he's scared by it.�In Jordan, I've run into a couple Europeans who remind me of my friend's concern.�In one instance, a European scholar who is deeply upset by th ...

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 )

  • Can science help Millennium Development Goals succ ...
    As participants of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit took stock of stalled progress on objectives set a decade ago to ease global poverty by 2015, the UN on Wednesday announced a $40 billion dollar push, pledged by numerous nations and organizations, to prevent the deaths of as ...
  • Game over for British science?
    Following yesterday’s letter from the House of Lords science and technology committee to Science Minister David Willetts urging a rethink of science cuts, Lord Martin Rees , president of the Royal Society, and five heads of prominent universities held a press conference at the Royal Institution toda ...
  • Touch soothes pain by updating brain’s body map
    Grabbing hold of an injured area of the body can ameliorate acute pain. Researchers have known that touch can reduce pain, but why then are we often reluctant to let someone else put their hands on the injury? To answer that question, Marjolein Kammers at University College London and her collea ...
  • Ruth’s Reviews: Everyday Practice of Science – Fre ...
    Ruth Francis, Nature’s Head of Press, is reviewing all the entries shortlisted for the Royal Society’s science book prize. She’ll be reading one per week and posting her thoughts on The Great Beyond every Friday between now and the prize ceremony on 21 October. Science comes in three differe ...
  • New intelligent design centre launches in Britain
    Intelligent design (ID) has never really gained much of a foothold in the UK - at least compared to the United States where evolution isn't as widely accepted and a high-profile think tank, the Discovery Institute, peddles its philosophies. The newly launched Centre for Intelligent Design aims to ...

new geography

  • Latino Dems Should Rethink Loyalty
    Given the awful state of the economy, it’s no surprise that Democrats are losing some support among Latinos. But they can still consider the ethnic group to be in their pocket. Though Latinos have not displayed the lock-step party loyalty of African-Americans, they still favor President Barack Obama ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

spiked

Cryptogon

  • Los Angeles: Beware of Swindling at Farmers Market ...
    I was pleased with the advice given in this article, which is exactly the same that I would give: Know your farmers. Visit their farms. If you’re buying food from someone, you should be able to see the farm. If the person selling the food doesn’t want you to see the farm or property… That’s [...]
  • U.S. Backs $30 Billion in Bonds to Stabilize Credi ...
    Thirty to $35 billion worth of government-guaranteed bonds are going to be issued on what amounts to, “Shaky mortgage-related assets.” Does anyone understand how this, “Won’t cost taxpayers any money”? Via: Wall Street Journal: Two years after the peak of the financial crisis, the federal government ...
  • Army Reveals Afghan Biometric ID Plan; Millions Sc ...
    Via: Wired: Scanning prisoners’ irises is just Step 1. In Afghanistan, local and NATO forces are amassing biometric dossiers on hundreds of thousands of cops, crooks, soldiers, insurgents and ordinary citizens. And now, with NATO’s backing, the Kabul government is putting together a plan to issue bi ...
  • Blackwater in Iraq: Lots of Steroids, Black Market ...
    Cocaine? But of course, see Blackwater Worldwide Changes Its Name to Xe; Same Mercenaries, but Now with More “Aviation Support”: West Africa is an unlikely center for the international cocaine trade. It is not a producer of the drug nor is it a consumer, as the vast majority of its people are very p ...
  • CIA Used Defective Software to Task Drones on Assa ...
    Via: Register: The CIA is implicated in a court case in which it’s claimed it used an illegal, inaccurate software “hack” to direct secret assassination drones in central Asia. The target of the court action is Netezza, the data warehousing firm that IBM bid $1.7bn for on Monday. The case raises ser ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 19 Facts About The Deindustrialization Of America ...
    The United States is rapidly becoming the very first "post-industrial" nation on the globe.  All great economic empires eventually become fat and lazy and squander the great wealth that their forefathers have left them, but the pace at which America is accomplishing this is absolute ...
  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • 1917-2010, nothing new under the sun: It is food t ...
    Read at : http://www.foodpolitics.com/?s=hunger John Dewey on school farms. Reauthorize child nutrition! by Marion Nestle Sept. 15, 2010 ———– I highly appreciated Marion Nestle’s article on the importance of school farms (or gardens) and the “Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization … Continue readin ...
  • School farms: urging schools to teach kids how to ...
    Read at : http://www.foodpolitics.com/?s=hunger John Dewey on school farms. Reauthorize child nutrition! Thanks to Daniel Bowman Simon who knows that I love old materials on American food politics.  He just sent me this 1917 World War I pamphletâwritten by the … Continue reading →
  • Acquiring agricultural land and the water rights t ...
    Read at : http://www.foodpolitics.com/?s=malnutrition May 27, 2009 Outsourced agriculture: the new colonialism? The Economist, that radical magazine, has produced an editorial and a long article about how rich countries in the Middle East and Asia are rapidly acquiring agricultural land … Continue r ...
  • Natural disaster is surely the most important for ...
    Read at : http://www.foodpolitics.com/?s=malnutrition International food politics: Pakistan If the most important risk factor for chronic malnutrition is poverty, natural disaster is surely the most important for acute malnutrition.   Nutrition problems created by natural disasters usually can be ...
  • “With a coherent and coordinated global response, ...
    Read at : http://www.foodpolitics.com/ This is good news? U.N. says 925 million people are chronically hungry by Marion Nestle The Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Program released their most recent figures on world hunger yesterday. The good … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

  • Work Underway On Dodd-Frank Exec Pay Rules
    New federal rules are on track to oversee bank executives’ pay packages and discourage them from taking unnecessary risks for short-term pay bumps, regulators assured Congress today. The coming rules, however, will not impose any specific dollar amounts on CEOs or other senior execs, they said.
  • States Slow to Spend Stimulus Energy Efficiency Mo ...
    U.S. states have failed to spend the vast majority of 2009 stimulus money they received to encourage renewable energy and efficiency, the Energy Department's chief watchdog says .
  • 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.

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

  • A review of the Thai House
    The Thai House is one of the more prominent Thai restaurants in Orlando with its location on Colonial Drive. The restaurant is owned by a local Thai family and serves up a number of traditional Thai dishes. The interior of the Thai House is well-designed and meant to give patrons the feel that ...
  • Reduced-fat cobb salad recipe
    Substituting prosciutto for bacon makes a nice light cobb salad. I never liked egg in cobb salad, so I left that out. Quantities are...
  • Family dinners are good for you and your kids ...
    Life can get busy at the Warner household in Edina, with a high school senior and a seventh-grader in the mix. But Mary Warner, as mom, has found a way for the family to sit down around the dinner table at least a few nights every week. “We eat a lot later than we used to eat when the kids were ...
  • Abbas says settlements block Mideast peace de ...
    UNITED NATIONS - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Saturday that there will be no peace deal with Israel unless the Jewish state stops settlement construction in areas the Palestinians claim for their future state. 'Israel must choose between peace and the continuation of settlements, ...
  • I Coughed, Had Tears In My Eyes, Says Ash On ...
    Mumbai, September 26: The first promo of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ambitious film Guzaarish is out. But what has instantly drawn public attention is a smoking scene featuring Aishwarya Rai- Bachchan. In a sequence of the promo, Ash is seen puffing away even as the film’s hero, Hrithik Roshan, gaz ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Vegan may need B-12 boost
    I currently follow a strict vegetarian diet and consume no animal products at all. Since vitamin B-12 is missing from the vegan diet, I wonder how many micrograms of it I should take. I've seen B-12 pills of up to 1,500 micrograms each in my food co-op, but the daily requirement is just 3 micrograms ...
  • Respecting a 'non-compliant' patient's choices
    A doctor can instruct and implore a patient to follow treatment guidelines. But it's up to a patient to decide. I saw Margaret recently. I was happy that she came in, as she was overdue for a visit. She is a delightful, middle-age woman who has been on the receiving end of more than her fair sha ...
  • Why we should get sweaty in our 60s: Why novelist ...
    From climbing to the London marathon, Rosie Thomas has made a promise to herself that she won't ever say, ‘I can’t do that, I’m too old’.
  • Pill Drop-Offs Aid Effort to Clear Medicine Cabine ...
    The program’s goal is to empty homes of legal but dangerous drugs that the authorities say are driving addiction and crime around the country.
  • Correction to the Case Report "Emergency Intervent ...
    (No abstract is available for this citation)

Common Dreams

  • Famed Obama 'Hope' Poster Artist Losing Hope
    by Aamer Madhani The artist whose poster of Barack Obama became a rallying image during the hope-and-change election of 2008 says he understands why so many people have lost faith. In an exclusive interview with National Journal on Thursday, Shepard Fairey expressed his disappointment with the presi ...
  • US Could Continue Afghan Detention
    The US military has drawn up plans to continue holding Afghan prisoners it deems a threat in a "unilateral" prison complex on Bagram airbase even after it hands control of the main detention facility to the Afghan government next year. US military authorities are expecting to retain control part ...
  • GOP Filibusters 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal, DR ...
    by John Nichols The Republican Party, which once tried to compete with Democrats for the votes of gays and lesbians, on Tuesday used the filibuster to assure that discrimination against homosexuals in the military would continue. read more
  • Massive US Military Buildup Planned for Guam
    by Audrey McAvoy HONOLULU - The U.S. military has postponed two key decisions related to its buildup of forces on the Guam to ensure it's complying with environmental and historic preservation laws. But it gave final approval to the single biggest part of the buildup: a proposal to move 8,000 Marine ...
  • Localism vs Globalism: Two World Views Collide
    by Michael McCarthy in Lyon Stop economic growth in its tracks, start living locally, at a slower pace, and share more - that was the remarkable demand yesterday at the beginning of the Sustainable Planet Forum, a three-day international conference on environmental issues in the French city of Lyon, ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Kakadu – a climate change impacts hotspot
    When ecologists, policy makers, or the public, think about the visceral impacts of climate change on Australia’s natural systems, World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park (KNP) , located in the seasonal tropics of the Northern Territory, is high on the at-risk list.
  • Reservations Halted for Nissan’s LEAF Electric Car
    [Original image from Nissan Leaf website ]
  • Is Gasoline Too Cheap?
    It's an article of faith among many observers of the oil industry that gasoline is too cheap in the US. Environmentalists and economists point to various externalities that aren't included in the price consumers pay, while carmakers and alternative energy developers need a (much) higher price to mak ...
  • How electric cars will save you money
    If you are someone who watches your dollars and cents, you probably don’t own a plug-in hybrid. Sure, they deliver good gas mileage but it’s not good enough to offset the higher sticker price needed to cover the costs of the battery. (That’s why I own a Honda Fit. ) Cars like the Toyota Prius and Ho ...
  • U.S. Navy Goes Solar with $100 Million Energy Upgr ...

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

  • ‘Troubled Waters’ overcomes censor tro ...
    By Rady Ananda After controversy erupted when the University of Minnesota yanked the opening of Larkin McPhee's new film, Troubled Waters: A Mississippi River Story , U of M officials gave the go-ahead for the October 3rd screening. The film explores agrochemical runoff and growing dead zones in t ...
  • Committee of Independent Experts on Gaza War
    by Stephen Lendman On September 21, the UN Human Rights Council's independent fact finding Committee issued its report titled, "No Safe Place," assessing "investigat(ions) and report(s) on violations of human rights law and international humanitarian law during" Operation Cast Lead. Its members ...
  • Is Ahmadinejad a sane person in an insane world?
    Von Helman Most people today are too young to really recall the 1979 American hostage situation in Iran but if they are they usually also can’t help remember how ineffective the Carter administration was in handling it. I personally remember the news reports of one specific rescue mission “Operati ...
  • THE CREDIT MELTDOWN AND THE SHADOW BANKING SYSTEM: ...
    Ellen Brown While local banks are held in check by the new banking czars in Basel, Wall Street’s “shadow banking system” has hardly been curbed by regulators at all; and it is here that the 2008 credit crisis was actually precipitated. The banking system’s credit machine is systemically flawed and ...
  • Congressional Food Fascism Legislation
    by Stephen Lendman Two earlier articles addressed corporate friendly legislation masquerading as pro-consumer. In fact, they'll destroy safe food, empower agribusiness and drug giants, and harm small farmers and consumers. Access them through the following links: http://sjlendman.blogspot.c ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Is it time to stop worrying about the economy?
    If you read the papers in this province, you’d think BC had long forgotten about the recession. Every bit of economic good news is trumpeted enthusiastically, from small increases in employment to the latest growth forecast released by private sector economists. Yet economic forecasting is a notori ...
  • Will the Olympics boost long-term tourism to BC?
    “We’ve invited the world, they’re coming, and the place is a mess.” That was the tag line the CCPA gave to our BC Solutions Budget back in 2004. At the time, we argued as strongly as we could that if BC was to change the story the world would tell of us this month, we needed to get busy tackling pov ...
  • Going for gold on minimum wages: CCPA-BC editorial ...
    Amidst all the hype about the 2010 Olympics, Iglika Ivanova and Marjorie Griffin Cohen remind us that BC is nowhere close to a gold medal on the issues that really matter.
  • CCPA-BC editorial on reforestation in the Times Co ...
    The Truck Loggers' Association meets in Victoria today and tomorrow for their annual convention and trade show. Judging from the conference program, the mountain pine beetle has fallen off the radar. But as CCPA researcher Ben Parfitt explains in today's Times Colonist, there is still much to be don ...
  • Watch videos of the Alternative Federal Budget Rou ...
    This year's Alternative Federal Budget Roundtable, entitled Recession, Recovery and Transformation: Meeting the policy challenges of our time , was held in Ottawa on November 18. CPAC was there to tape the day's proceedings and has made the videos available on-demand on their website. The first pan ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Take Us To Your Leader
    UN to appoint Earth contact for aliens | News.com THE United Nations was set today to appoint an obscure Malaysian astrophysicist to act as EarthÂs first contact for any aliens that may come visiting. Mazlan Othman, the head of the UN’s little-known Office for Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa), is to de ...
  • LOOKING IN THE MIRROR: BIGOTRY: THE CURSE OF THE A ...
    I have been planning to reflect on the above for some time. I watched an incredible movie last night entitled MY NAME IS KAHN. Its main theme is that “True Love has no Boundaries.” However, there are several other levels in this beautiful story. Rizwan Kahn is a Muslim who has Asperger’s Syndrome ...
  • Hippie.TV
    Post videos of your band, kids, stand-up routine, whatever! It’s like open mic night on the web, 24/7.
  • Nurse Wins
    Judge orders US Air Force to re-instate fired gay nurse | BBC A judge has ordered the US Air Force to re-instate a nurse fired under a policy barring openly gay military personnel. In the state of Washington, a judge ruled the ban unconstitutional and said the firing hurt morale in her unit. Maj Mar ...
  • Israel Used Violence in Flotilla Raid
    Israel Used ‘Incredible Violence’ Against Gaza Aid Flotilla, Says UN Human Rights Council | World News Daily Israeli troops broke international law by storming an aid flotilla bound for Gaza, according to a UN inquiry, which found that the killings of activists on-board were comparable to “summary e ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • The myth of nation building, or why you can’ ...
    Please note there is now a “share” button at the bottom of each post for those who wish to share a post among a variety of venues of their choice. Thanks in advance for all that do so. Another Friday, another week of an all too fleeting life passed by, yadda yadda yadda.  And as [...]
  • 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 [...]

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

  • How to Run an Oil Industry into the Ground
    Join the forum discussion on this post Hugo Chavez is putting on a clinic in Venezuela. The theme is “How to Destroy a Domestic Oil Industry.” I have warned for years that this would be the end result of Chavez’s actions. As I wrote in 2007: So, can Chavez under-invest in the industry while divert ...
  • 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 ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • 5 Amazing Pound Cake Recipes
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Who put the pound in pound cake? Finely textured, dense, and buttery, pound cake recipes traditionally called for equal parts flour, sugar, butter, and eggs—a pound of each, hence its name. Thanks to its original proportions, the French call pound cake quatre-quarts ("four-f ...
  • Drug Agents Want Your Old Meds Tomorrow
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—First it was the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that wanted you to be more careful about throwing out unused medications because they freak out the fish . Then, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) got nervous that accidental exposures to potent meds could cause unintended ...
  • Free Museum Day This Saturday! Print Out Your Free ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—From clocks and watches, kites, and coins to Civil War gear, if you have a hobby (popular or obscure) or harbor a soft spot for a particular point in history, chances are there's a museum out there dedicated to your specific interest. And this weekend, you can indulge yourse ...
  • 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 ...

big think

  • Political Communication Researcher Examines Societ ...
    From restarting the economy to dealing with climate change, society’s biggest questions turn on how they are defined by advocates and the news media and acted upon by the public and decision-makers.  It is not surprising then that one of the most interesting fields in academe to follow over the past ...
  • Can Americans Rightsize Their Desires?
    "Is this my new reality?" is the question by the CFO at the CNBC townhall program earlier this week that should have gotten all the attention. Because it is at the root of the exhaustion Mrs. Hart has expressed, a sentiment shared by many, many Americans who are wondering the very same thing ... Rea ...
  • Lunartic: A Hubless Urban Bike
    The bicycle has come a long way since the kernel of its invention in 1817 . One of the most interesting innovations in cycling over the past few years has been the hubless, spokeless wheel and a particularly compelling new iteration of it comes from British designer Luke Douglas . Lunartic is a ... ...
  • Tracking Space Junk from the Ground -- And Now Fro ...
    Nearly fifty years into mankind's space exploration, we have littered the heavens with our garbage. There is an incredible amount of debris that that is literally stuck in Earth's gravitational field, with each piece traveling at about 18,000 miles per hour. Of the estimated 600,000 pieces of old .. ...
  • Revolutions in Politics, and in Literature: Cherno ...
    Is there a truly “revolutionary” element in the current surge of anger in American politics? What is the place of madness and irrationality in revolution? If we want to speak eloquently about the relationship of our current political climate to the state of things in 1776, we must know our history . ...

Information Liberation

  • The Conspiracy
    "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." - Thomas Jefferson The Random House Webster's College Dictionary defines conspiracy as a plan or agreement formulated, espec...
  • Getting Away With Murder
    Two deaths and two injuries. *That*s what happens when you text and drive. *The punishment for such a*heinous*act? *30 months probation, two years paid salary and possible personal injury workers compensation. *No, the perpetrator is not God * just a...
  • Some Americans Distrust Authority
    According to Slate editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg, a specter is haunting America: the specter of anarchism. Not real anarchism * that*s Weisberg*s emotional hypochondria at work * but merely a growing skepticism of authority. Th...
  • Feds Expand War On Terror, Raid Communist Antiwar ...
    Following the absurd hyperbole of senior Obama administration officials earlier this week warning that the CIA*s Night of the Walking Dead cave dwellers will attempt small scale attacks against the United States, the FBI*s Joint Terrorism Task Force ...
  • The Perils of "Reaching Across the Aisle"
    According to a Pew Research Center poll, nearly half of Americans admire political leaders who, rather than making compromises, "stick to their positions," a result that arguably suggests a general desire for consistency and principles. Though it isn...

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

  • Aid to Flooded Pakistan Slow to Materialize
    “Pakistan is in the midst of a catastrophic natural disaster that has precipitated a humanitarian crisis of major proportions,” a new report (pdf) from the Congressional Research Service observes.  The widespread flooding that has displaced millions of Pakistanis also represents a political crisis ...
  • American Jihadist Terrorism, and More from CRS
    An apparent spike in Islamist terrorist plots by American citizens and residents is examined in another new report (pdf) from the Congressional Research Service. “This report describes homegrown violent jihadists and the plots and attacks that have occurred since 9/11.”  The report uses the term “j ...
  • Indictment Against Physicist is Highly Enriched
    The indictment of former Los Alamos physicist Leo Mascheroni and his wife Marjorie Mascheroni on charges of attempting to sell classified nuclear weapons information to a foreign government includes a garbled account of nuclear weapons technology, potentially casting doubt on the credibility of the ...
  • 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 ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Yet more scientific news
    Yet more science news from Sciencebase, it’s never ending: Whooping cough epidemic suggests bacteria are adapting – Nine babies have died in California, and four in Australia, so far, in the worst epidemic of whooping cough in rich countries since vaccination became widespread in the 1950s. The main ...
  • 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, ...

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 to Restore the Florida Panther: Add a Little T ...
    A relatively small stretch of swamp between Miami and Naples in south Florida was the only place on Earth where the Florida panther lived 20 years ago. In fact, scientists estimate that only roughly 26 of the animals that once roamed the entire Southeast remained in that swamp, many stunted by genet ...
  • 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 ...

RAWA News

  • Jihadi Gangster for Afghan parliament
    McClatchy Newspapers: Last year, Kabul-based artist Aman Mojadidi transformed himself into an Afghan policeman and set up a fake checkpoint where he searched cars and then offered drivers $2, along with an apology for any bribes they had been forced to pay to policemen in the past. This fall, Mojadi ...
  • Observers Debate Legitimacy of Afghanistan Electio ...
    McClatchy Newspapers: Internal reports from Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission on Tuesday provide new evidence of serious fraud in Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections, including turnouts that exceeded 100 percent in many southeastern districts under the control of the Taliban or other m ...
  • Blast Kills Eight Afghan Children
    Reuters: Eight Afghan children were killed today while playing with an unexploded rocket in a village in northern Kunduz Province. Ali Abad district chief Habibullah Mohtashim said seven died on the spot and the eighth while he was being taken for treatment.
  • For Kabul Voters, Corruption -- Up Close And Perso ...
    RFE/RL: On the streets of Kabul, it is never difficult to find people angry about the notorious level of corruption in the country. Like Haroon Yakobi, who owns a small photo shop. Asked if he will vote only for a candidate who will fight corruption, he says: "Yes, of course, all the people of Afgha ...
  • Afghan Electoral Body Worried At “Fake Ballo ...
    RFE/RL: The Afghan Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) has expressed concern over a report that some printing houses in Pakistan have been involved in “illegally publishing” ballot papers for the September 18 parliamentary elections in Afghanistan, RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan reports.

frogblog

  • Rongotai and Labour’s highways
    On Thursday night I was selected as the Green candidate for Rongotai for the general election in 2011. Cool, it should be an interesting campaign in one of the greenest electorates in the country. Curiously the response from the sitting Labour MP, Annette King, was an attack critici ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Previewing the 112th Congress
    As you may be aware, a couple of years ago two members of the New Black Panther Party stood outside a polling place in Philadelphia dressed in dark jackets and berets and doing their best to look vaguely looking menacing. One of them carried a nightstick. They chose to do this in a majority-black pr ...
  • Quote of the Day #2: Obama's Hit List
    From Glenn Greenwald, upon hearing that even a guy who makes David Addington look dovish is having second thoughts about President Obama's unilateral declaration of authority in the war on terror: Having debated him before, I genuinely didn't think it was possible for any President to concoct an ...
  • Big Spenders
    Over at the New Republic , Alexander Hart catches Republicans playing games with charts to try and make Democratic budgets look bigger than they really are. So he redraws the chart, and then Ezra Klein redraws it again. Which is fine, but I think everyone is missing the real dishonesty of the chart ...
  • Sarah Palin's Common Sense Kickbacks
    The Washington Times reports that the Republican National Committee has paid off a quarter million dollars of Sarah Palin's legal fees. RNC Treasurer Randy Pullen explains: "That was payment for services she was providing, including a couple speeches, a couple fundraising letters and a telephone ...
  • Prosopagnosia in Literature
    Via Andrew Sullivan, Jessa Crispin complains about the inescapable pressure to read certain books every year: Once you get done with the Musts — the Franzens, Mitchells, Vollmanns, Roths, Shteyngarts — and then get through the Booker long list, and the same half-dozen memoirs everyone else is readi ...

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

  • OU research team uncovers key molecule for keeping ...
    A University of Oklahoma research team has uncovered a key to arresting the growth of thrush—a type of oral yeast infection that sickens patients with compromised immune systems, diabetes and newborns as well as healthy individuals, who may contract the disease following antibiotic treatment of an i ...
  • UK's shipping emissions 6 times higher than expect ...
    As the shipping industry's emissions are predicted to continue to grow in the future, the UK will fail to meet its commitment to avoid dangerous climate change if additional cuts are not made to other sectors. read more
  • Study of bloodstream infections reveals inconsiste ...
    A new study looking at how hospitals account for the number of pediatric patients who develop catheter-associated bloodstream infections (CA-BSIs) found substantial inconsistencies in the methods used to report the number of patients who develop these infections. read more
  • Phantom limbs more common than previously thought
    After the loss of a limb, most patients experience the feeling of a phantom limb – the vivid illusion that the amputated arm or leg is still present. Damage to the nervous system, such as stroke, may cause similar illusions in weakened limbs, whereby an arm or leg may feel as if it is in a completel ...
  • NIST pair of aluminum atomic clocks reveal Einstei ...
    Scientists have known for decades that time passes faster at higher elevations—a curious aspect of Einstein's theories of relativity that previously has been measured by comparing clocks on the earth's surface and a high-flying rocket. read more

unEarthed

  • Holdren's Remark Sets Off the Naysayers
    John Holdren, with President Obama. In a speech in Oslo on September 6, John Holdren, President Obama's science advisor, suggested that 'global warming' be replaced by 'global climate disruption' as a more accurate expressio ...
  • Judge Announces Big Victory for Tahoe
    Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe. "I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole world affords." Thus spake Mark Twain of Lake Tahoe, the magnificent high-altitude lake nestled in an alpine cup between Nevada and Califor ...
  • Joe Barton: Wants To Turn Out The Lights on Common ...
    Rep. Joe Barton wants to spend his time keeping old, outdated light bulbs on store shelves Joe Barton (R-TX) is proving that he has better things to do than apologize to Tony Hayward and BP . Now, he is trying to repeal energ ...
  • Friday Finds: New Name, Same Shame
    High fructose corn syrup gets a makeover. Photo courtesy of Flickr. Corn industry sugarcoats syrupy sweetener This week, the Corn Refiners Association petitioned the FDA to change the name of high fructose cor ...
  • White House Spurns Carter Solar Panels
    The White House has reportedly said thanks but no thanks to the offer, reported here , by Bill McKibben and 350.org to return one of the solar panels installed on the White House roof during the Carter administration 35 years ag ...

Brave New Climate

  • Kakadu – a climate change impacts hotspot
    When ecologists, policy makers, or the public, think about the visceral impacts of climate change on Australia’s natural systems, World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park (KNP), located in the seasonal tropics of the Northern Territory, is high on the at-risk list. But looking deeper into the huma ...
  • 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, “ ...

Indigenist Opinion

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • BP: The unfinished crimes and plunder of Anglo-Ame ...
    Summary: Mohammad Mossadeq In the light of British Petroleum’s grotesque crime, as yet unfinished, against humanity in the Gulf of Mexico, it is well to recall briefly BP’s no less hideous crime perpetrated in its earlier incarnation as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) and, later, the Anglo- ...
  • Russia against sanctions to Iran despite missiles ...
    Summary: Iran and Russia Russia remains opposed to any unilateral sanctions against Iran despite banning the delivery of S-300 air defense missile systems to Tehran earlier this week, Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday. source: Reuters read more
  • “Iran Is Not What You Think It Is”
    Summary: � On Thursday Sept. 16, William Beeman visited Grinnell College and gave a lecture entitled “Iran Is Not What You Think It Is.” He is currently a professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. source: Scarlet&Black read more
  • US and Iran fire salvos at the UN
    Summary: Afrasiabi For his part, Ahmadinejad stated Iran's "readiness for a dialogue based on justice and respect" and scolded Western governments for ignoring the April "Tehran Declaration" signed by Iran, Turkey and Brazil on a nuclear fuel-swap deal designed to cool tensions over Tehran’s nuc ...
  • Full speech of President Ahmadinejad before the UN ...
    Summary: source: United Nation read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The Daily Galaxy Faceb ...
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  • Stephen Hawking: "Why Isn't the Milky Way Crawling ...
    In his famous lecture on Life in the Universe, Stephen Hawking asks: "What are the chances that we will encounter some alien form of life, as we explore the galaxy?" If the argument about the time scale for the appearance...
  • Ancient Organic Particles from Space Discovered in ...
    A new family of extraterrestrial particles, probably of cometary origin, were discovered this spring by researchers from the Center for Nuclear Spectrometry and Mass Spectrometry (CSNSM) in central Antarctica. The micrometeorites, which are remarkably well preserved, are made up of...
  • Arctic Bacteria With 100-Million-Year Hibernation ...
    With a hibernation period of up to 100 million years, bacteria discovered on the Arctic sea floor may have longest life cycle of any known Earthly organism. Casey Hubert from the Geosciences Group at Newcastle University, UK, and colleagues came...
  • "Will Proof of an Adjacent Universe Be the Next Gr ...
    "The idea of multiple universes is more than a fantastic invention—it appears naturally within several scientific theories, and deserves to be taken seriously." Aurelien Barrau, a French particle physicist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). The Hollywood blockbuster,...

Natural News

  • Obama health care reform imposes 3.8% tax on all h ...
    (NaturalNews) The news about Obama's health care reform just keeps getting worse -- and we only find these things long after the bill has passed, of course. The newest revelation concerns a 3.8% tax on home sales and home rental income which will go into effect in 2013. So if you sell a home worth $ ...
  • Depression can be treated with electromagnets (bet ...
    (NaturalNews) A therapy known as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), which involves inducing electromagnetic fields in the brain, may ease the symptoms of depression in hard-to-treat patients better than antidepressant drugs, researchers have found. "This study should help settle th ...
  • Schoolchildren have access to milk and sugary drin ...
    (NaturalNews) Some school districts around the country have taken drastic measures to improve childhood health by banning sugary soda beverages from their cafeterias, but according to the Los Angeles Times millions of California schoolchildren -- and probably millions of children in other states as ...
  • Help end criminalization of vitamin, supplement ma ...
    (NaturalNews) Telling the truth in America is currently illegal... at least as far as food and supplements are concerned. You see, for decades the federal government has suppressed the free speech rights of food and supplement manufacturers, preventing them from telling the truth about how their pro ...
  • Mammograms don't really work, say researchers
    (NaturalNews) You now have another good reason to skip that next mammogram, based on new research out of Norway. According to findings by Dr. Mette Kalager and his team from Oslo University Hospital, getting a mammogram appears to cut the risk of dying from breast cancer by meager two percent at bes ...

Threat Level

  • Comcast.net Hijackers Sentenced to 18-Months
    Two former member of the hacker gang Kryogeniks were hit with 18-month prison sentences Friday for a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast’s homepage with a shout-out to other hackers. Twenty-year-old Christopher Allen Lewis, a.k.a. “EBK,” of Newark, Delaware, and 28-year-old Michael Paul Nebel, a.k.a, ...
  • Video: Bank Customers Foil ATM Skimmer
    Authorities in Europe have seized a nice video recorded by a group of carders showing the criminals installing a skimming device and hidden camera at an ATM in the United Kingdom to steal customer PINs. Filmed from the hidden pinhole camera itself, installed above the ATM, the video shows how easy ...
  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • AP Poll, GOP Pledge Back Health Care Changes
    Almost from the moment President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, Republicans have campaigned on a rejectionist platform of " repeal and replace ." The promise to "repeal the job killing health care law" is one of the pillars of their so-called " Pledge to America " released this week ...
  • 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 ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • The Tea Party's Misinformation Superhighway Runs T ...
    I met Delaware Tea Party dynamo Christine O'Donnell in the "green room" set up for right-wing bloggers attending Americans for Prosperity's "Right Online" conference at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas in late July. The free-market-loving, climate-change-denying group launched by Kansas oil billionai ...
  • Speaking in Tongues: Bilingual Education and Immig ...
    " America has evolved for the better. She will pretty much meet you on your terms. In fact, I think she has finally come to the conclusion that Blacks, Mexicans, Indians, etc. are here to stay. And the only way to perceive them is to accept them and their existence as valid. Acceptance, that's real ...
  • Bicentennial Nothing to Celebrate, Say Indigenous ...
    Mexico City, Sep 24, 2010 - "I don't understand why we should celebrate [Independence]. There will be no freedom in Mexico until repression against indigenous peoples is eliminated," says Sadhana, whose name means "moon" in the indigenous Mazahua language. read more
  • Untitled
    Click through to a video interview with the other Warren Ellis and Nick Cave. Scrub through to 6.10, to discover what Nick Cave thinks should happen to me. (Also, a nice plug for the French edition of my novel.)
  • "Waiting for 'Superman'": A simplistic view of edu ...
    In the eyes of some education observers, "Waiting for 'Superman'" oversimplifies the problems facing US students and implies an education reform silver bullet for struggling public schools. read more

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

  • Local, Small Businesses Benefit from Stimulus
    Republicans keep rejecting the success of the stimulus package but that is nothing new, being opposed is just a Republican thing to do nowadays. President Obama said yesterday that even if he said the sky is blue, Republicans would disagree. Despite all that, in Texas, the stimulus seems to serve it ...
  • Texas State Rep. Patrick Rose rails against PEC Bo ...
    Rep. Patrick Rose this morning had an opinion piece printed regarding transparency reforms at the  Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) , echoing similar criticism from the Austin American Statesman last week.  I’m not saying I agree with every word Rep. Rose wrote here in this morning’s San Marc ...
  • Smitty’s statement on former PEC/AE GM Juan Garza’ ...
    Statement of Tom “Smitty” Smith: We are shocked to hear the news that former Austin Energy and Pedernales Electric Cooperative General Manager Juan Garza has taken a job promoting nuclear power with New Jersey-based NRG Energy. While Garza rightfully acknowledges the danger climate change poses to T ...
  • State Bar to hold public hearings about proposed r ...
    In a message from the State Bar President Terry Tottenham to members of the Bar, he reminds attorney’s in this State that there are  important changes being considered to the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct (TDRPC) and that the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors is conducting ...
  • P2080110 [Flickr]
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Were cavemen better parents than us ?
    Today's generation could learn a thing or two about raising a child from our ancient ancestors. Professor Darcia Narvaez has claimed that our ancestor...
  • Saturn's aurora captured on film
    Astronomers have succeeded in filming Saturn's magnificant Aurora using the Cassini space probe. The aurora of Saturn is the equivalent to our norther...
  • Woman snaps strange winged object
    Abbey Linfoot has photographed a strange angel-like object flying over the streets of Nuremberg. She'd been on holiday taking photographs of the city ...
  • 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 ...

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

Reuters Global

Booman Tribune

  • Mondo Bullcrap
    Mondo Frazier wrote a column for The Hill on why the Tea Party exists and why they have a future. It's an interesting piece, but one part of it caught my eye. Here it is: At the Tea Party events that Ive personally covered, the majority of the attendees appear to be in the 40 and older range. ...
  • Obama Administration is Overreaching
    If an American citizen is living in Yemen and directing military and terrorist attacks against U.S. interests and citizens, do we have the right to kill him? That's the question the administration doesn't want to have to answer in court. They think they have that right, but they don't want to sett ...
  • Kill the Talking Point
    Anyone who thinks the Stimulus Bill didn't create any jobs needs to read this. Here are the basics: The money that pays Mr. Daviss salary, and the salaries of tens of thousands of other people around the country, will dry up after next Thursday, when the welfare program in the stimulus act that ...
  • Don't Let Big Oil Kill Clean Energy in CA
    Proposition 23 is the referendum measure in California which would eliminate suspend the state law, the Global Warming Solutions Act (a/k/a AB 32), that calls for lowering California's greenhouse gas emissions until California's unemployment rate hits 5.5% (well that is effectively the elimination o ...
  • Stupid Democrats
    Ahem: Voters who say the new health reform law was too conservative outnumber by 2 to 1 those supporting repeal, according to a poll released Saturday. About 40 percent of respondents said the law was too timid in overhauling the nation's healthcare system, while 20 percent said they'd like t ...

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

  • The Power of Physical Touch
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Physical touch is a powerful thing, and it affects our emotions and perceptions of the world more than we might realize. New research indicates that clasping your own hand can help reduce acute pain and that human connection often starts with a friendly touch. One pre ...
  • Budget Cuts and Mental Health: 10 Most Dire States
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is raising awareness about how state budget cuts are impacting mental health coverage across the nation. In the past two years, $2 billion has been cut from state mental health coverage nationwide, and more than half of a ...
  • Even For Resilient Survivors, Holocaust Pain Persi ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A new article published by the American Psychological Association looks a numerous studies, published between 1964 and 2008, focused on the mental health and psychological well-being of Holocaust survivors. Most living survivors were children during World War II, and ...
  • How Does Co-dependency Affect Us as Adults?
    By Joyce McLeod Henley, MSW, LCSW, CEAP, SAP, Codependency Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Joyce and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile How does growing up in a dysfunctional family affect us as adults? The same behaviors and beliefs that we thought enabled us to survive as children c ...
  • Feeling Anxious? Turn it DOWN!!
    By Becki A. Hein, MS, LPC, Anxiety Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Becki and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Have you ever gotten an anxious thought stuck in your mind and really wished you just had a mute button for your head? Wouldn’t that be great?! You’re in luck! While I don’ ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Mountaintop Removal for Coal Mining - WABI
    All Access Music Group Mountaintop Removal for Coal Mining WABI They're asking Mainers for help in stopping mountaintop removal mining. There's currently a bill in the US Senate that will put an end to it. ... Group decries mountaintop removal Bangor Daily News "Appalachia Rising" Against Mountaint ...
  • Thousands will rally against mountain top removal ...
    Thousands will rally against mountain top removal WYMT Thousands of people are gathering in Washington DC this weekend to rally against mountain top removal coal mining. WYMT's Angela Sparkman met with some ... and more��
  • EPA still reviewing W.Va. mountaintop mine permit ...
    WBOY-TV EPA still reviewing W.Va. mountaintop mine permit BusinessWeek The Environmental Protection Agency says a decision on the fate of West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal mine won't be coming for a while. ... EPA Decision Nears On Arch Coal's Spruce No. 1 Mine NASDAQ Waiting on EPA … dec ...
  • Group decries mountaintop removal - Bangor Daily N ...
    All Access Music Group Group decries mountaintop removal Bangor Daily News Mountaintop removal is the practice of blowing the top off mountains, removing the coal and then dumping the blown-off mountaintop into rivers and streams, ... Stand with Coalfield Residents at Appalachia Rising It's Getting ...
  • Activists seek ban on mountaintop removal mining - ...
    Activists seek ban on mountaintop removal mining The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Activists from the Appalachian region called on the Obama administration Monday to end the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining, ... Strip-Mining and Mountaintop Removal Are Fun! Big Coal Launches New ... Huff ...

Memeorandum

  • Brown leads Whitman 49%-44% in poll (Cathleen Deck ...
    Cathleen Decker / Los Angeles Times : Brown leads Whitman 49%-44% in poll   —  Boxer leads Fiorina 51%-43% in Senate race, survey finds.  Both Republicans are hampered by voters' negative impressions of them, poll says.  —  Democrat Jerry Brown has moved into a narrow lead over Republican Meg Whitm ...
  • Allen West- Obama and Pelosi- "Welcome to the Jung ...
    Javier Manjarres / The Shark Tank : Allen West- Obama and Pelosi- “Welcome to the Jungle” (VIDEO)   —  At the “Vets for West” picnic today in Delray Beach, Florida, Congressional Candidate Allen West in true form called out the Democrat Party and its spineless minions that include none other than ...
  • Weekly Address: President Obama: GOP Leadership St ...
    The White House : Weekly Address: President Obama : GOP Leadership Standing up for Outsourcing and Special Interests, Instead of American Workers  —  WASHINGTON - In this week's address, President Barack Obama broke with Republicans in Congress who are putting special interests ahead of the America ...
  • Obama invokes 'state secrets' ... (Spencer S. Hsu/ ...
    Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post : Obama invokes ‘state secrets’ claim to dismiss suit against targeting of U.S. citizen al-Aulaqi   —  The Obama administration urged a federal judge early Saturday to dismiss a lawsuit over its targeting of a U.S. citizen for killing overseas, saying that the case ...
  • Dakota Dreaming - The presidential hopes of John T ...
    Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard : Dakota Dreaming   —  The presidential hopes of John Thune.  —  John Thune leaned forward, peered out of the small window in the 9-seat King Air 200, extended his index finger, and smiled.  —  “That's the Murdo airport right there.”  —  We'd been flying over the ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.1, Vanuatu
    Sunday, September 26, 2010 00:23:25 UTC Sunday, September 26, 2010 11:23:25 AM at epicenter Depth : 59.10 km (36.72 mi)
  • M 5.4, Central Alaska
    Saturday, September 25, 2010 12:06:00 UTC Saturday, September 25, 2010 04:06:00 AM at epicenter Depth : 84.50 km (52.51 mi)
  • M 5.6, northern Peru
    Friday, September 24, 2010 19:01:32 UTC Friday, September 24, 2010 02:01:32 PM at epicenter Depth : 148.80 km (92.46 mi)
  • M 5.3, Izu Islands, Japan region
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    Thursday, September 23, 2010 17:13:03 UTC Friday, September 24, 2010 06:13:03 AM at epicenter Depth : 14.10 km (8.76 mi)

China Dialogue

  • My solar road-trip
    This summer, Bill McKibben and three students travelled to Washington on a mission to get solar panels back on the White House. Here, he describes the dismal outcome – and its lessons for America. I got to see the United States’ now-famous enthusiasm gap – the difference in passion between the Dem ...
  • “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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Russ Feingold, the Senate's True Maverick in the P ...
    If Feingold keeps his seat in a tough election in Wisconsin, it will signal that people power can still beat money power.
  • Stephen Colbert to Testify at Immigration Hearing; ...
    From The Hill: Comedian Stephen Colbert’s scheduled appearance on Capitol Hill Friday elicited mixed reactions from lawmakers, with some grateful for his participation and others incensed he had been invited in the first place. The star of Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” will testify at a Hous ...
  • Republican Pledge: A Rotten Egg for the Middle Cla ...
    When Herbert Hoover ran for president in 1928, the Republican party promised his victory would assure the prosperity of “a chicken in every pot.” This week, Republicans proffered a similar pledge to America. Hoover won, and in 1929, after a decade of GOP rule in Washington, Republicans did deliver ...
  • How To Be A Golden Girl
    Are you worried about ending up old and poor? The Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies, a non-profit, private foundation, recently released the results of their 11th annual survey on retirement issues.  The study is packed with eye-popping data such as:74% of women feel they do not know a ...
  • Why Did She Wait So Long? Later Abortions and the ...
    Written by Susan Yanow and Kimberly Bullard for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.*The stories in this article are true summaries of women who presented for services at the ParkMed Physicians clinic in New York during 2009.  Details have been c ...

Threat Level

  • Comcast.net Hijackers Sentenced to 18-Months
    Two former member of the hacker gang Kryogeniks were hit with 18-month prison sentences Friday for a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast’s homepage with a shout-out to other hackers. Twenty-year-old Christopher Allen Lewis, a.k.a. “EBK,” of Newark, Delaware, and 28-year-old Michael Paul Nebel, a.k.a, ...
  • Video: Bank Customers Foil ATM Skimmer
    Authorities in Europe have seized a nice video recorded by a group of carders showing the criminals installing a skimming device and hidden camera at an ATM in the United Kingdom to steal customer PINs. Filmed from the hidden pinhole camera itself, installed above the ATM, the video shows how easy ...
  • 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Travel Picks: Top 10 sexiest buildings
    LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Just like people, some buildings have a je ne sais quoi that can only be described as sex appeal, so with that in mind the members and editors of travel website VirtualTourist.com (http://www.virtualtourist.com) have compiled this list of the world's Top 10 Sexiest Buildings ...
  • Republican economic proposals "disastrous" says Ob ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama hammered Republicans on Saturday over their newly unveiled campaign agenda, calling the opposition party's economic ideas "an echo of a disastrous decade we can't afford to relive."
  • "The Social Network" opens in NY to buzz, controve ...
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billed as an exhilarating, visceral tale about the founding of Facebook, "The Social Network" gave the opening of the New York Film Festival on Friday an aura of anticipation and a touch of controversy.
  • Ratings, merger force exit of NBC Universal and CN ...
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two of the media industry's highest profile executives said on Friday they would leave NBC Universal and CNN, victims of a ratings war and chaotic shifts in the business.
  • Verizon to End the Unlimited Data Party
    It’s the beginning of the end for unlimited data plans on smartphones. Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile carrier, plans to stop selling unlimited data plans to new customers and instead introduce two service plans with monthly data caps. The new data plans are expected roll out over the nex ...

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 →

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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

  • Landrieu Calls For Extension of BP’s Rig Wor ...
    Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) is calling on BP to extend the deadline to apply for relief under a $100 million compensation fund for rig workers who have lost their jobs under the Obama administration’s moratorium on deepwater drilling. The Associated Press reported this week that fewer than 400 people ...
  • Despite DISCLOSE Act Disappointment, Campaign Fina ...
    It’s been a hard week for campaign finance reform advocates, what with the failure of the DISCLOSE Act to once again overcome a Republican filibuster on Thursday in the Senate, but Congress did make progress on a different, yet related, measure in the House yesterday. It’s called the Fair Elections ...
  • White House Writing Pipeline Leak Detection Regula ...
    The Obama administration is drafting a second pipeline plan, which is expected to be released in the coming days. While the first administration proposal was meant to be included in pipeline safety legislation, the second proposal will directly address leak detection regulations at the Pipeline and ...
  • Anti-War Activists’ Homes Searched in Terror ...
    The Associated Press is reporting that the FBI is searching the homes of anti-war activists during terrorism raids: The home of Minneapolis anti-war activists Mick Kelly and Jess Sundin were among those searched, they told the AP. “The FBI is harassing anti-war organizers and leaders, folks who oppo ...
  • Amid Cost Concerns, Senators Debate Adding New Dis ...
    At a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing Thursday, senators expressed concerns over oversight and deficit spending in the discussion over whether to add three new conditions to the Agent Orange Act.

Digg Green

  • Why Heartbreak Hurts: Your Brain On Love
    Love. What else can cause such obsessions, cravings, mood swings, compulsions, distortions of reality, changes in personality, losses of self-control, and risk-taking? Addiction, that’s what. Biologists, psychologists, poets, and musicians have long been at odds over whether love is a deeply sp ...
  • How the Food Industry Fights to Keep Us Sick ...
    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 c ...
  • 4 Weapons Systems for Unmanned Vehicles
    Defense-industry scientists have been tasked with creating diminutive weapons for the hose of unmanned vehicles proliferating on the battlefield. Here's a roundup of some of the most promising.
  • What would happen if you put your hand in the ...
    Scientists, they've made our lives infinitely easier, healthier, and longer, but sometimes even their giant intellects can be stumped. Here we have a perfect example of such a scenario, where the seemingly innocuous question of what might happen if one were to dip a hand inside the Large Hadron ...
  • How Do You Build a Rocketpack?
    The design for a proper working rocket pack (jet pack, rocket belt, etc.) has been as elusive as the alchemist’s quest to create gold from iron, or the discovery of the fountain of life, but as technology has become more sophisticated, the dreams of building a functional rocket pack has been re ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Same Old Same Old don’t say my Name
    By Les Visible Control the perception of the past and you can guide the direction of the future in the mind of humanity as it tries to escape it or…. runs back to embrace it however you choose. This is the key power that the Chosen People faction uses. It was the most important part [...]
  • Video – Justice For 9/11
    This interesting video takes a look at the culpability of some of the people who were responsible for preventing an attack such as 9/11. Even if we forget the mountain of evidence that shows that 9/11 was an inside job, the Bush administration should still be impeached and prosecuted for deliberatel ...
  • WHAT AHMADINEJAD ISN’T TELLING US
    By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor When President Ahmadinejad announced, before the United Nations that most people in the world believe that the U.S. government was involved in the planning and execution of the 9/11 attacks, he told the truth. In America, groups have been popping up for year ...
  • Ahmadinejad Speaks 9/11 Truth at UN, American Dele ...
  • Video Proof of the 9/11 Conspiracy, The Kurt Sonne ...
    September 23, 2010 by Alex Kurt Sonnenfeld, currently a political refugee in Buenos Aires Argentina, has stated that he has evidence that proves 9/11 was “An Inside Job.” The release of the many pictures has been assembled by AboveTopSecret – these videos are presented in this article to disseminate ...

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

  • Take Our Reader Survey and Snag an Ecouterre T-Shi ...
    Inhabitat’s eco fashion website Ecouterre is officially a year old and we’d like thank you for all your support as we’ve gone from our sustainably-made cradle to delivering the latest green fashion news to you daily. So with just about a year under our belts weâre dying to know who you are, dear ...
  • 5 Smartphone Apps to Help You with Buying Local!
    There’s no better way to ensure your getting the freshest fruits, veggies and other products, than buying local. But buying in and around your ‘hood is goes beyond the benefit of avoiding pre-mature spoiling – going local with your goods also reduces the fuels that goes into carting products across ...
  • 6 Amazing Examples of Groundbreaking Green Technol ...
    Just as we love to hear, green technology is going the extra mile these days zipping well past the realm of solar power, into the boundless world of innovative ideas that no man has ever explored before. From a printer that can build a whole buildings from stone to an entire city that flips the disc ...
  • Join Inhabitat for the Opening of ‘MIRED IN THE BA ...
    Join Inhabitat for the opening reception October 15th in New York City! There is no denying the sheer ecological destruction the the BP Oil Spill has inflicted on the Gulf waters and its coastline, since the wellhead first exploded in April. For five months and running, the media inundated us with ...
  • Compostable Sculptures: Human Forms Sprout from Wh ...
    “We are one with the earth”  - what a tired phrase. But leave it to an enterprising artist to effectively undo that cliché. Mathilde Roussel Giraudy has created a series of soil sculptures, entitled “ca pousse!” (“it’s growing!”) – an array of human forms set in various states of peril. Each pi ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Mars Dust-Devil Mystery Solved on Earth
    Bright sand streaks can form in the wake of desert cyclones when the whirlwinds break up popcorn-ball-like clumps of sand, a new study shows. The first-ever sighting of bright, instead of dark, dust devil tracks on Earth could help decipher how these funny features form on Mars. “This is the first ...
  • Terraforming Earth: How to Wreck a Planet in 3,000 ...
    By Ed Grabianowski, io9 We usually think of terraforming as something we’ll do in the future to other planets, but we have thousands of years of experience changing the shape of our own planet in profound ways. The term “terraforming” was invented by author Jack Williamson in his 1942 short story “ ...
  • New Lion Cubs, More Webcam Goodness
                    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience615422051001', 'anId'); brightcove.createExperiences(); The Smithsonian National Zoo now has two litters of extraordinarily cute lion cubs to look at via webcam, after the birth of three new cubs on September 22. These new cubs are ...
  • NASA Maps Global Air Pollution
    By Duncan Geere, Wired UK Many estimates of air pollution in developing countries are innaccurate, as there’s no network of surface-based sensors that can find the worst-polluted areas. Scientists regularly have to rely on a few dated observations of questionable veracity. However, Nasa has just pu ...
  • Video: Huge Hurricanes Seen From Space
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience610793669001', 'anId'); brightcove.createExperiences(); Three hurricanes — Julia, Igor and Karl — look oddly serene in this footage taken from the International Space Station on September 16. The video is almost 15 minutes ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Should We Let Rising Powers into Our Club?
    Sometimes when you run across an opposing viewpoint, it can really spur you to sharpen your own argument. Such was the case when I read former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda's "Not Ready for Prime Time" article on rising powers in Foreign Affairs (published in shorter, paywall-less form in ...
  • Ahmadinejad at the UN: He Came, He Saw, He Prevari ...
    Mahmoud Ahmadinejad managed to sustain his star billing for yet another year. This is his sixth visit to New York, and in what has become the ritual opening of the fall season he has worked his way through a grueling – but apparently personally exhilarating – schedule of A-list media spots. The work ...
  • State Department Must Stand Up for Itself More in ...
    Many are lauding President Obama's UN General Assembly speech highlighting America's rededicated, slightly shifting course on which countries to focus development aid on -- and which not. The US Global Leadership Coalition , which is having a mega conference this week on the focus of America's int ...
  • Values Meal: Obama at the UN
      As the United States works to regain other nations' trust, it has to convincingly draw connections between American aims and the international common good and combat perceptions of completely self-serving policies. Key to this framework is the notion that the ideals of liberty are indeed universal ...
  • The Economist Loses Its Patience on New START
    The tiresome New START ratification debate has put the Economist ‘s editorial writers in an irritable mood . The case against New START is a mixture of political opportunism, ignorance and perfectionism. Shamefully, some Republicans, disregarding the convention that you should not play politics with ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: White House Solar Panels and the ...
    I like Jonathan Zasloff 's analysis of why Democrats did not bring a middle-class tax-cut bill to the floor before the midterm elections. He argues that there wasn't a clear way to win on the issue given the procedural rules of the Senate and the House, and thus the best option was to simply wait u ...
  • The More Things Change...
    In an interview with Bloomberg, Bill Clinton offered some tidbits of advice to Democrats: Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said his fellow Democrats should stop "mealy mouthing around" and start taking the fight to Republicans in the final weeks before this year's congressional elections. "The D ...
  • The Little Picture: Colbert's Congressional Testim ...
    (Flickr/ Mike Browne ) Comedian Stephen Colbert , who testified before Congress today about illegal immigration. "America's farms are presently far too dependent on immigrant labor to pick our fruits and vegetables," Colbert said. "Now the obvious answer is for all of us to stop eating fruits and ...
  • Will Money Factor Into the Post-Election Spin?
    On the Citizens United front, it appears that even if large public corporations fearing backlash haven't put too much effort into influencing the elections, private corporations and other interests are more than filling the gap : Republican-favoring groups have paid for $23.6 million ads versus $4.8 ...
  • No Country for Black Republicans.
    Previous assertions notwithstanding, it seems that this year isn't a record one for black Republicans: Well, the primary data are now in — and Johnson’s claim that 2010 would be a record year is out the window. Only 13 African Americans are left running for the House on the GOP ticket this fall. Th ...

Buzzflash

  • "Tax the Rich!" Must be the Slogan that Working Pe ...
    SHAMUS COOKE FOR BUZZFLASH   States everywhere across the United States are facing the common enemy of extreme budget deficits. Many states have deficits in the multi-billion dollar realm, as the budget crises dominate the debates for the upcoming gubernatorial elections. In these debates, Re ...
  • Stewart & Colbert’s 10-30 March & Rally On The D.C ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH   Will this help more Democrats vote in November? That's a worthy thing to try. But the hidden agenda behind this demonstration Is to make Glenn Beck cry.   http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42359.html In addition to Verse-Case Scenario, Tony Peyser writes ...
  • Stop the Missile Shield Now
    PETER G. COHEN FOR BUZZFLASH/TRUTHOUT The United States is now installing a missile shield from Northern Poland through the Mediterranean and Black Sea to Asia and Japan. The nations and warships involved are near to or bordering on Russia and China, though the stated intent is to protect our allies ...
  • Tea Party Lament: Knowing That I'm Confused About ...
    WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH Man oh man, I’m mad. I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore. Take what? I don’t know. And that makes me mad too. Angry. Riled up. Cranky. Irate. Livid. Bellicose. Splenetic. Which has something to do with the spleen. Think it involves leakage. Whatever it is, i ...
  • BuzzFlash was Hacked for the First Time in 10 1/2 ...
    BUZZFLASH ALERT Thanks for the hundreds of E-mails of concern.   Yes, for the first time in 10 1/2 years, BuzzFlash was hacked on Saturday afternoon.  As a result, Google, which does occasional scans of sites, issued a warning to readers that "malware" -- or essentially viruses -- might be present ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Yet more scientific news
    Yet more science news from Sciencebase, it’s never ending: Whooping cough epidemic suggests bacteria are adapting – Nine babies have died in California, and four in Australia, so far, in the worst epidemic of whooping cough in rich countries since vaccination became widespread in the 1950s. The main ...
  • 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, ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Army Must Cancel Evangelistic Event at Fort Bragg, ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 23, 2010 Americans United for Separation of Church and State An evangelistic rally jointly sponsored by U.S. military personnel and evangelical Christian churches and ministries violates the U.S. Constitution and must be cancelled, says Americans United for Separation ...
  • Key Leaders and Experts: Filibustering Transparenc ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 23, 2010 Common Cause, People for the American Way and Sierra Club On the heels of a press call highlighting unprecedented filibuster abuse and a Senate Rules Committee hearing on the same topic, today’s filibuster of the DISCLOSE Act once more demonstrates how unpr ...
  • Activists Drop Banner on Grain Exchange Skyway to ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 23, 2010 Rainforest Action Network (RAN) Five activists with Rainforest Action Network (RAN) hung billboard sized banners off of a 3rd Street South skyway (between 4th and 5th Ave South) during morning rush hour today, protesting Cargill’s continuing refusal to addres ...
  • Voting Record of Wall Street’s Favorites Shows Con ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 23, 2010 Public Citizen As lawmakers today consider legislation to provide public funding of congressional elections, a new Public Citizen analysis shows that members of Congress who voted Wall Street’s way on the two most important financial services bills in recent ...
  • Coalition of National LGBT Rights Groups Joins Wit ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 23, 2010 Coalition of National LGBT Rights Groups The National Black Justice Coalition, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, National Stonewall Democrats and Pride At Work are co-convening the “LGBTQ Table” for One Nation Working Together , a new progressive movement ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Keep Frankenfish Fiction
    by Derrick Z. Jackson I'M NOT getting anywhere near Frankenfish. I mean, do I really want to eat an aquatic Roger Clemens? read more
  • Another Feeble-Headed Nuke Drops Dead
    by Harvey Wasserman As the "reactor renaissance" desperately demands new billions from a lame duck Congress, one of its shining stars has dropped dead. Other much-hyped "new generation" plans may soon die with it.  For years "expert" reactor backers have touted the "Pebble Bed" design as an "i ...
  • Why Mitchell Said ‘No’ to Hamas
    by Ramzy Baroud One key difference between Hamas and its rival, the Fatah movement in the West Bank, is that Hamas is accountable to a much more complex set of priorities and expectations. While Fatah is effortlessly co-opted, Hamas remains confined by ideological standards and the stringiest politi ...
  • Petraeus Cons Obama on Afghan War
    by Ray McGovern One thing that comes through clearly in Bob Woodward's new book, Obama's Wars, is the contempt felt by Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, toward President Barack Obama. One of Woodward's more telling vignettes has Petraeus, after quaffing a glass o ...
  • One Step Forward, Two Steps Apart on UN’s Developm ...
    by Michelle Chen Whether you're looking at the recession's impact at home or abroad, the news is universally grim. Last week's 2009 U.S. poverty statistics  showed more Americans living in poverty than in the 51 years Washington has kept track. read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Afghan Elections A Bust, Obama Opts To Stay The Co ...
    By Steve Hynd The Afghan parliamentary election, the very thing the Surge (tm) was supposed to protect and ensure more fairness in by allowing more monitoring, is a complete bust. Turnout cratered, violence was actually higher than the presidential election last year which had set a nine-year record ...
  • 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 ...

Water Wars

  • Blue Gold examines the politics of water
    - Blue Gold: World Water Wars will have its first screening at the Vancouver International Film Festival October 9 at 7:15 p.m. at the Empire Granville 7 theatres. It screen again October 10 at 1 p.m. at the same location.
  • Water wars: Mercer students stay cool while having ...
    Mercer senior Briana Boatwright gets shot with water by senior Katie Wibell during a water gun fight on campus Friday afternoon.
  • Blue Gold examines the politics of water
    - Blue Gold: World Water Wars will have its first screening at the Vancouver International Film Festival October 9 at 7:15 p.m. at the Empire Granville 7 theatres. It screen again October 10 at 1 p.m. at the same location.
  • Peru water wars threaten agricultural export boom
    Source: Reuters (Corrects Sept 10 story to change title of Agrokasa employee to chief financial officer in paragraph 16; adds details in paragraphs 3, 14, 16, 26) By Emily Schmall ICA, Peru, Sept 10 (Reuters) - ...
  • Peru water wars threaten agricultural export boom
    The World Bank, which has lent millions of dollars to turn Peru's fragile desert coast into verdant farmland, has stumbled into a film noir scene straight out of Roman Polanski's 'Chinatown' about the violent water wars of 1930s Los Angeles.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • Your Input Needed: How to Evaluate Open Government ...
    POGO, as part of an effort spearheaded by the folks at OpenTheGovernment.org, will soon be helping evaluate the openness of agencies in the executive branch. But before that process begins, we want to make sure to have input from the...
  • Morning Smoke: This Year in Iraq and Afghanistan: ...
    This Year, Contractor Deaths Exceed Military Ones in Iraq and Afghanistan by T. Christian Miller [ProPublica] Oil and Gas Pipeline Disasters Fail to Spur Bill Bolstering Oversight by Elana Schor [Greenwire] Former Marine Corps sniper and security contractor Shane Schmidt...
  • 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...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Welcome to Nickelsville, Seattle's Inspiring Tent ...
    I recently decided to check out Nickelsville , a self-governing tent city in Seattle, because I might find myself there one day. It was as simple as calling the number on the Nickelsville website. A man named Nate told me I could come down between the hours of 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. Nickelsville is curre ...
  • Demanding More From Our Politicians, and Ourselves
    The numbers have been streaming in from all across the country and there's no ignoring it; poverty is on the rise . In 2009, almost 44 million Americans fell below the poverty line. Most tragically, more young people than ever are leaving for school in the morning not from home but from shelters, fr ...
  • Somebody Ought to Do Something
    Somebody ought to do something. Everywhere I surf, I see it — blog post after blog post, comment after comment — "Ain't it awful! Somebody ought to do something!" I get dozens of emails a week from people asking me to "do something." Write an article, sign a petition, march in protest. They're busy, ...
  • Giving Homeless Vets a Fighting Chance
    According to the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans , over 100,000 veterans are homeless on a given night . That's almost one-fifth of the homeless population, and doesn't come close to representing the 1.5 million other veterans who are at risk of homelessness. But organizations in New Jersey ...
  • "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 ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Canadian government supports UN, but not peacekeep ...
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s speech at the opening of the United Nations General Assembly has made a number of things clear about his attitude towards that organization. The first is that his government would very much like Canada to be elected to one of the temporary seats on the UN Security Co ...
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • How to Lower Risks of Diabetes and High Blood Pres ...
    September 24, 2010 NaturalNews.com Jonathan Benson Two new studies add to the growing body of research about the many health benefits of consuming blueberries. Researchers from Pennington Biomedical Research Center (PBRC) have found that blueberries help to prevent obesity-related insulin resistance ...
  • Avandia: The Death Medicine
    September 24, 2010 Natural News Mike Adams 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 b ...
  • Senate bill 3767
    September 24, 2010 Natural News Mike Adams 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 describin ...
  • FBI Spys on Anti-war Groups
    September 24, 2010 InfoWars.com Kurt Nimmo The Justice Department’s Inspector General has issued a report critical of the FBI for its spying on anti-war activists, animal-rights groups, and environmentalists. The report, entitled A Review of the FBI’s Investigations of Certain Domestic Advocacy Grou ...
  • No jobs to be Found Since Last 5 Weeks
    September 24, 2010 InfoWars.com Dirk Van Dijk Initial Claims for Unemployment Insurance climbed by 12,000 last week to 465,000. That is the first increase in five weeks. Since claims can be volatile from week to week, it is better to track the four-week moving average to get a better sense of the tr ...

Pambazuka News

  • Africa: Angola hosts 3rd African meeting on Cuba s ...
    The third African meeting on Solidarity with Cuba was held in Luanda, Angola, 11-12 September, to consolidate the friendship between the African and Cuban people and contribute to strengthening African solidarity towards the Caribbean island nation. ...
  • Global: US city opens doors to Cuban 5
    On Saturday March 13, in the auditorium of the Lavonya DeJean Middle School, in the City of Richmond California, a large number of people gathered to commemorate International Women's Day for the third consecutive year. Under the title "Women in Soli...
  • Ekiti must hold free, fair elections
    The North America-based Ekiti Focus Group has strongly condemned election violence and intimidation in Nigeria’s Ekiti State, describing reported cases of ‘arson, maiming, ballot stuffing, ballot hijacking, and shooting’ as ‘barbaric acts’. In a statement the group called for ‘the release of true an ...
  • Global: Why Haiti can't forget its past
    Thank you for the attention you have brought to the country of Haiti. In response to your New York Times op ed piece I wanted to widen your perspective a bit. I don't pretend to represent anyone. I've been living in Haiti since 1985. I grew up in New...
  • Global: Conference will establish African Socialis ...
    On the weekend of May 22-24, African organizers from across the U.S. and Canada will converge on Washington, D.C. for a conference recognizing African Liberation Day (ALD) with the theme, “One Africa, One Nation: Separated by Colonial Slavery, Reunit...

War in Context

  • Bush White House security adviser: Israel likely s ...
    In an interview on Bloomberg TV, Richard Falkenrath suggested that Israel is the most likely source of the Stuxnet malware which seems designed to cripple industrial facilities in Iran. Falkenrath is currently the Deputy Commissioner of Counter-Terrorism for the NYPD and held several positions in t ...
  • The Siddiqui sentence: 86 years for pointing a wea ...
    The details of a bizarre incident at an Afghan National Police facility in Ghazni, eastern Afghanistan, on July 18, 2008, are still in dispute. Even so, the woman at the center of the story will probably spend the rest of her life in jail. Without any evidence being produced that she had fired a s ...
  • The myth of Israeli democracy
    Johann Hari interviews Gideon Levy: “the most hated man in Israel — and perhaps the most heroic.” Any conversation about the region is now dominated by a string of propaganda myths, [Levy] says, and perhaps the most basic is the belief that Israel is a democracy. âToday we have three kinds of peo ...
  • Beyond the brink of a diplomatic fiasco
    After coming away from a dinner hosted by American Jewish leaders for Mahmoud Abbas, Roger Cohen comes away “convinced the United States is on the brink of a diplomatic fiasco.” Less than a month after President Obama put the imprimatur of a White House ceremony on renewed Israeli-Palestinian talks ...
  • 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, ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Where Consensus Fails – The Science Cannot B ...
    Guest Post by Thomas Fuller Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch have just published the findings of a survey conducted with practicing climate scientists. The survey was conducted in 2008 with 379 climate scientists who had published papers or were … Continue reading →
  • Enviro and Media Agenda on Extreme Weather – ...
    As we’ve previously seen with Professor Bob Carter in “The phenomena of disinvitation and the brotherhood of silence“, the surfacetemperatures.org meeting in Exeter, where the people that raised the issues about metadata and siting  were not invited, but their work was … Continue reading →
  • New paper in Nature on ocean cycles finally causes ...
    Our sceptical connection in Germany, Pierre Gosselin, has taken notice of an article in Der Spiegel that speaks of the link to ocean cycles for climate. Of course we’ve known this for some time, but like with the New Scientist … Continue reading →
  • Climate science solar shock and awe
    I saw this yesterday, but I decided to wait a day just in case it disappeared. It’s quite the surprise to see the New Scientist dedicate a story, much less and editorial saying that the sun has a role in … Continue reading →
  • Igor cool ocean
    As I’ve written before, hurricanes are natural heat engines. They transport surface heat to the upper atmosphere for dissipation to space. They do a splendid job of cooling the ocean surface over which they travel. In the animation above from … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Commonwealth Games Fiasco: What do you expect from ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad finian.cunningham@yahoo.com 25 September, 2010 As the Commonwealth Games open in Delhi, India, the controversy over sub-standard accommodation and facilities for the participating nations continues to rage. Several weeks ago, visiting country dele ...
  • U.S. Consolidates New Military Outposts In Eastern ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism Sept. 23, 2010 Two weeks after the United States started its third rotation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Baltic air patrol on September 1, with the deployment of F-15C Eagle fighter jets ...
  • Ahmadinejad: ‘Shift the balance of power&#82 ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RTAmerica | September 21, 2010 Speaking on the UN summit sidelines, Iran’s leader says the biggest trouble facing the world is domination by the United States. In an exclusive interview with RT’s Marina Portnaya, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad explains how he wants to ch ...
  • 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 ...
  • Wisdom of the Terrorist’s Son by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig September 20, 2010 Those who embrace violence, whether in the form of acts of terrorism or acts of war, are necrophiliacs. They worship death. They sacrifice life, including at times their own, for the heady intoxication that comes with becomi ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Mars Dust-Devil Mystery Solved on Earth
    Bright sand streaks can form in the wake of desert cyclones when the whirlwinds break up popcorn-ball-like clumps of sand, a new study shows. The first-ever sighting of bright, instead of dark, dust devil tracks on Earth could help decipher how these funny features form on Mars. “This is the first ...
  • Terraforming Earth: How to Wreck a Planet in 3,000 ...
    By Ed Grabianowski, io9 We usually think of terraforming as something we’ll do in the future to other planets, but we have thousands of years of experience changing the shape of our own planet in profound ways. The term “terraforming” was invented by author Jack Williamson in his 1942 short story “ ...
  • New Lion Cubs, More Webcam Goodness
                    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience615422051001', 'anId'); brightcove.createExperiences(); The Smithsonian National Zoo now has two litters of extraordinarily cute lion cubs to look at via webcam, after the birth of three new cubs on September 22. These new cubs are ...
  • NASA Maps Global Air Pollution
    By Duncan Geere, Wired UK Many estimates of air pollution in developing countries are innaccurate, as there’s no network of surface-based sensors that can find the worst-polluted areas. Scientists regularly have to rely on a few dated observations of questionable veracity. However, Nasa has just pu ...
  • Video: Huge Hurricanes Seen From Space
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience610793669001', 'anId'); brightcove.createExperiences(); Three hurricanes — Julia, Igor and Karl — look oddly serene in this footage taken from the International Space Station on September 16. The video is almost 15 minutes ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Shir Hever: Why Does Israel Still Occupy the Pales ...
    Although colonists do have a powerful impact on Israeli politics, this is because the majority of the public allows them to... [T]he colonists actually serve a useful function for the Israeli... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now i ...
  • CODEPINK on Jon Stewart: We do it loud and proud
    October 2, march on DC with One Nation: March to Rebuild America and End War! Do you love The Daily Show as much as we do? Maybe like a lot of us, you go to bed with Jon Stewart four nights a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • Israel’s settlement industry under boycott pressur ...
    A report by the Electronic Intifada covering the most recent BDS activities against Israel's settlement program. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • Eric Walberg: Boycotting apartheid
    The BDS campaign continues to pick up steam. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • NLG calls on State Department to intervene in the ...
    The National Lawyers Guild, in coordination with other legal and grassroots human rights organizations, addressed this letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, calling upon the State... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • HHS Awards $26.2 Million to Expand Primary Care to ...
    Grants awarded to 43 community agencies nationwide.
  • From Kitchen to Classroom, New Course Nourishes Bu ...
    Within the last decade, the genre of food writing has become an American obsession. A new food writing course at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia inspires students to develop a new food consciousness and to grow as writers as they discover the plate on many levels -- not just as cuisine, bu ...
  • Now Is a Good Time to Discard Unused, Expired Medi ...
    If your household is like most in America, you could be unwittingly contributing to accidental poisonings, drug overdoses, and drug abuse simply by keeping unused, outdated, or expired pharmaceuticals in your medicine cabinet.
  • Professors 'Boldly Go' Where Few Scholars Have Gon ...
    The visionaries behind "Star Trek,'' "The Twilight Zone,'' "Highlander: The Series,'' "Battlestar Galactica,'' and many others relied upon their own creative impulses and talents to create their hit TV series. The writers and producers, though, also based some of their otherworldly episodes on their ...
  • Researchers Create First Molecule Able to Block Ke ...
    In the quest to arrest the growth and spread of tumors, there have been many attempts to get cancer genes to ignore their internal instruction manual. In a new study, a team led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists has created the first molecule able to prevent cancer genes from "hearing" tho ...

Natural Health News

  • Chest Compressions Save Lives in Sudden Cardiac Ar ...
    Survival statistics for people who suffer sudden cardiac arrest outside a hospital are dismal. � But in a new study by the University of Michigan Health System, researchers determined that chest compressions first vs. defibrillation first is as effective as immediate defibrillation in cases where ...
  • Early Prostate Cancer Detection, Screening: No Ben ...
    According to a study published online in the American Cancer Society’s journal Cancer , for men between the ages of 55 and 74 with low baseline blood levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA) -- between zero and 1.9 ng/ml �-- further prostate cancer screening and treatment provides no benefit. � A ...
  • Cute Girl with the Catchiest Dance You Ever Saw
    This little tyke has more backup dancers than a Broadway musical!
  • Who Pays the Most Taxes in America?
    Share of Federal Income Tax Liabilities � Year Lowest 20% Second 20% Middle 20% Fourth 20% ...
  • Twins Die Minutes after Measles Vaccination
    Nine month-old twins in Ghaziabad, India reportedly died within minutes of receiving a measles vaccine. � Avika and Anika Sharma were given the vaccinations at a private nursing home by Dr. Satyaveer Singh. Within about 15 minutes, both little girls were dead. � Dr. Singh disappeared shortly af ...

Antemedius

  • Nikola Tesla Sought Abundant, Clean Energy for Hum ...
    (From The Paragraph .) Nikola Tesla was a visionary inventor who devoted his life to making an abundant, clean energy supply for humanity. Among his inventions toward that end were alternating current (AC) power transmission, the AC motor, and the bladeless turbine. 1 He also invented radio, ...
  • Democrats Retreat Again, This Time on Tax Cuts
    Those of us fascinated by American History recall those delightful days when the Democratic Party took the fight to the Republicans on programs it championed. How markedly different is the timid example demonstrated under the “leadership” of Harry Reid. Earlier in the week I wrote an article advanc ...
  • A Reminder: "Wall Street's Mercenaries Ride Donkey ...
    From David Swanson's review of TruthDig.com's Editor in Chief and veteran journalist Robert Scheer 's new book "The Great American Stickup : How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street" : Here's the short answer that Scheer provides: Reagan announced ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Obama Administration: Keep Your Hands off Our Arme ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The Obama administration recently filed its motion to dismiss the ACLU/CCR lawsuit that seeks to enjoin the government from using lethal force against Anwar al-Aulaqi.  Predictably, the motion relies on a potpourri of reasons why no court should ever revie ...
  • Bobby Chesney Responds to My Post
    by Kevin Jon Heller Bobby Chesney has graciously responded at Lawfare to my post about detention in non-international armed confilct (NIAC). Unfortunately, I think Chesney's response not only misconstrues what Steve Vladeck and I have been arguing, but also demonstrates some important misconce ...
  • A Simple Proposal: A Principled Approach To State ...
    by Chiara Giorgetti by Chiara Giorgetti In the last couple of days I explained why I argue that State failure is a problematic phenomenon of contemporary international society which could endanger domestic population and the international community. State failure is the prolonged implosion of gov ...
  • Does the International Right to Life Prohibit Abor ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku One way to build political coalitions for greater use of international law in the U.S. would be to use international law to advance political goals of folks who would otherwise be suspicious of international law.  So I wonder if there is some reason to think liberal inte ...
  • Failed and failing states: how has the internation ...
    by Chiara Giorgetti by Chiara Giorgetti My earlier post on Somalia received some interesting comments which I would like to develop further. First, framing state failure as a continuum is important because where a state stands in this continuum (i.e. its ability to react to international security ...

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

  • IEN Delegates, Jasmine Thomas and Rhiannon Ball at ...
  • ei: Israel's evidence questioned as Corrie trial r ...
    ei: Israel's evidence questioned as Corrie trial resumes : "Testimonies resumed in the ongoing civil suit lodged by Rachel Corrie's family against the State of Israel in Haifa's District Court this week, as the state's defense team called three witnesses to the stand. On 16 March 2003, Rachel Corri ...
  • Shir Hever: Why Does Israel Still Occupy the Pales ...
    Shir Hever: Why Does Israel Still Occupy the Palestinians? 1. The Cost of the Occupation to Israeli Society The majority of Israel’s anti-occupation movement, unfortunately, does not focus on the rights of Palestinians to live free, but on the damage that the occupation causes to Israeli society (S ...
  • Adam Serwer : "Race Neutral" Enforcement
    Adam Serwer Archive | The American Prospect : "Conservatives have made copious use of the term 'race-neutral enforcement' to refer to how the Civil Rights Division should conduct business and to accuse the Obama Justice Department of doing the opposite. Bush-era Voting Section Chief Christopher Coat ...
  • Open letter to OECD regarding decision to host tou ...
    Open letter to OECD regarding decision to host tourism conference in Jerusalem | Global BDS Movement : 18 September 2010 Your Excellency Angel Gurría SecretaryGeneral of OECD Cc:OECD Member States The PalestinianBoycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), a broad coalitiono ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Afghan bomb blast kills US-led troops
    ShareThis Afghan bomb blast kills US-led troops 26 Sep 2010 An improvised explosive device has left at least two US-led soldiers dead in southern Afghanistan as the war claims more lives of foreign troops. NATO said the soldiers were killed on Sunday, without giving further details, the Associated P ...
  • US-led soldier dies in Afghan war
    ShareThis US-led soldier dies in Afghan war 25 Sep 2010 A powerful bomb explosion has killed one US-led soldier in Afghanistan as the death toll of foreign forces continues to rise in the war-ravaged country. NATO issued a statement on Saturday, saying that one of the soldiers was killed by an impro ...
  • Fresh violence claims two in Iraq
    ShareThis Fresh violence claims two in Iraq 26 Sep 2010 Two people have been killed and several others wounded in the latest violence in Iraq as the Iraqi police report success in detecting militants in the war-torn country. Unidentified gunmen shot down a civilian on Saturday in front of his home i ...
  • Call for 'Gaza style' inquiry into alleged war cri ...
    ShareThis Call for 'Gaza style' inquiry into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan --Former UN official demands investigation into coalition link to deaths revealed by WikiLeaks 26 Sep 2010 A United Nations investigation into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan should be launched to identify and prosecute ...
  • Bomb attack kills Afghan child
    ShareThis Bomb attack kills Afghan child 24 --29 passengers -- most of them women and children -- were injured . Sep 2010 A child has been killed in a car bomb explosion intended for a US-led military convoy in the troubled northern Afghanistan, officials say. The attack took place in the northern p ...

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

  • The Green New Deal
    One of Bob’s most frequent criticisms of the Democratic Party states that Democrats no longer stand for anything, except, perhaps, the reproduction of the reigning status-quo.  Green Party candidates across the country, on the other hand, have come together in support of a “Green New Deal.”  What ...
  • Charming
    Two days after being confronted by ABC News, Bank of America has fired a debt collection agency after several of its operators were caught using racist and obscene phone calls to collect debts from bank customers
  • Silicon Vally hiring conspiracy. And superangel co ...
    How dumb was the Silicon Valley hiring conspiracy? Let us count the ways When I think of Google, Apple, Intel, Intuit, Adobe and Pixar, the words that come to mind are usually innovative and progressive. In the wake of their shocking settlement with the federal government Friday over charges they co ...
  • Electric motorcycle, superbus, ATV bike, and mini ...
    The godfather of electric motorcycles. Gas 2.0 has more, including the video how to smoke a Mavizen electric motorcycle tire. 155 mph electric superbus. Dutch students are designing and now testing the cross between an electric muscle car and a luxury limo. With 800 hp, it can do 155 mph. Electric A ...
  • Huffington Post Election Dashboard
    Everyone is aggregating election polling. This HuffPo contribution has the usual mouse-over popups to see what happening in a state, plus positive / negative social media mentions. Nice. The races for Governor and Senate in California should not be toss ups. They should be easy wins for Democrats, w ...

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

  • Guns drawn, FBI raids peace activist’s apart ...
    As part of a sting against anti-war activists suspected of connections to terrorism, on September 24 the FBI raided six homes in Minneapolis-St. Paul and elsewhere in the country. At the Hard Times Cafe in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, we interviewed peace activist Mick Kelly while the FBI searc ...
  • FBI Raids Peace Activist Homes Looking For Terrori ...
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  • Deadline Live – September 24 2010
    In hour 1 we get commentary and news from our narrator and radio gun. At the end of the first hour Darren Craddock from Enerfood makes an appearance. In hour 2 ‘Researcher’ Tod Fletcher joins Deadline LIVE to discuss David Ray Griffin’s new book, ‘Cognitive Infiltration: An Obama Appointee’s Plan to ...
  • Stephen Colbert Opening Statement To Congress At I ...
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  • Dead, Freak Accident kills again
    Freak accident claims life of wildlife pioneer Malcolm Douglas survived boats capsizing, angry crocodiles, “terminal” prostate cancer and severe blood poisoning but a freak car accident claimed his life yesterday. The famed conservationist, 69, was crushed by the door of his Toyota LandCruiser when ...

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 Roundup: RockYou, Canada, Zuckerberg, Sec ...
    Canada Ends Facebook Probe, Govts Work on Privacy – The Canadian governmentâs probe into issues surrounding the way third parties gather Facebook user data has wrapped up. Meanwhile, the privacy agencies of governments around the world â U.S., Canada, several in Europe, Australia and New Zealand ...
  • Facebook Growth Accelerates Among Older Users in I ...
    [Editor's Note: The following article presents analysis and data excerpts from Inside Facebook Gold, our research and data membership service tracking Facebook's traffic growth and demographic landscape in global markets.] Older users gained ground in some of Facebook’s most important emerging mark ...
  • Facebook’s Page Discovery “Browser” Is Live Once A ...
    Facebook has brought its Page discovery system “Page Browser” back online. The tool, which helps users find Pages to Like, debuted earlier this month but was quickly removed after going live, for unclear reasons. It also appears to work the same as before. Users can navigate to Page Browser via a li ...
  • Japanese Mobile Users Can Sign In to Facebook Usin ...
    Following test appearances on other Facebook products in recent months, QR codes are starting to show up in Japan. The company has been busy localizing its mobile site, m.facebook.com, in the country, and now it is using using the “quick response” codes to let users easily sign in. QR codes are matr ...
  • Facebook Pushes Slight Home Page Update, Moving Ap ...
    As part of its broader changes to how games and other applications interact with users on the Facebook home page, third-party requests and invites are moving over to the left-hand navigation bar (we covered the bulk of the interface changes and related ads and policy updates earlier this week). More ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • UK Lib Dem leader Clegg now singing off Zionist hy ...
    Stuart Littlewood shows how Britain’s Liberal Democrat leader and deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, has done an about face by rapidly retreating from his previously principled position in support of justice in the Holy Land and is now aligning himself with Israel and Zionism.
  • What links HSBC, Asil Nadir and Dr David Kelly?
    Christopher King detects a whiff of corruption linking the death of Iraq war whistleblower Dr david Kelly, the relationship between the former director of the now-bankrupt company Polly Peck and the takeover of the UK’s Midland Bank by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, HSBC.
  • 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 ...

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

  • The Latest on the Police State Front
    Pilots vs. Indignities at the Airports, Midland FBI Spying, Snitching on Your ‘Terrorist Neighbor,’ & More Here are a few updates for those of you who may have been wondering about the continuity of my interest in our nation’s police state status. I may be too busy to write my usual ten-page plus ed ...
  • 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 ...

Afro Spear

  • sat’day riddymz
    Let me thank Patrick-Bernard for introducing me to this.  More on l’Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste
  • EDDIE LONG = THE ENTIRE BLACK CHURCH in North Amer ...
    Are We Having Fun Yet?   OK.  Here we go.  It’s time to blast and lambaste the ENTIRE black church!!  Here comes the smart ones who know every DAMNED thing about the black church.  They say that every body in the church is gay;  that the pastors are swinging their penises in front of everybod ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Big Alcohol Funding Anti-Marijauna Campaigns
    I’ve seen both the good side of recreational cannabis use (creativity and good feelings) and also the bad side (psychosis and laziness), so I’m not taking sides here as far as legalisation is concerned. On the other hand, I’ve seen a hell of a lot more aggression, violence, bloodshed and death from ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Turks Refuse a Cross on the Armenian Church But De ...
    Turks refuse to allow a cross to show on the ancient Armenian Church they have blockaded in the region they exterminated Armenians. That is okay. But these same people want us to place their victory mosque over Ground Zero. What are we missing?
  • Waiting for an Answer on Baha'i and Ground Zero Mo ...
    After I read a prior letter writer's comment about the Muslim persecution of Bahai's and how they would never be admitted to the Ground Zero Mosque, I waited for anyone to answer or for the mainstream media to cover this. All I got was silence. Is anyone willing to stand up for the Baha'i faith? Or ...
  • The Deaf After Mendoza Eugenics Should Say Never A ...
    After my involvement fighting during the California bill AB 2072 (Mendoza), I thought it would be appropriate to look at the wisdom of Deaf leaders in the past to understand the struggles of the Deaf community which continue to this day.�The words of George Veditz, former president of the National A ...
  • Edge on Terror - Electromagnetic Pulse Attack Deba ...
    Over the past decade there has been an ongoing debate over the threat posed by electromagnetic pulse (EMP) to modern civilization. This debate has been the most heated perhaps in the United States, where the commission appointed by Congress to assess the threat to the United States warned of the dan ...
  • Ground Zero Mosque and Islam Will Not Welcome Baha ...
    Why does the media fail to ask the important question of Ground Zero Mosque advocates and Muslims in general? Are Bahai's welcome? The answer is no. Islam has been persecuting Baha'i' since its beginning. Baha'i believes in the oneness of all religions--but because it began in a Muslim lands after M ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Aafia Siddiqui Sentenced: A Grievous Miscarriage O ...
    By Stephen Lendman 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 shes already endured following her March 30, 2003 abd ...
  • Global Warming Reaches Deep Ocean Depths
    By Environment 360 The warming trend on the planet has reached deep into world oceans over the last two decades, particularly in the waters around Antarctica, according to a new study
  • Nuclear Winter And Peace
    By Fidel Castro The nuclear winter theory postulates that the only way to prevent the use of nuclear weapons is by eliminating them. Living in a privileged place on the planet, which allows them to enjoy the highest standards of living and the worlds riches despite the their incredible waste of no ...
  • Global Solidarity Levy Urgently Needed
    By William Minter One proposal making its way onto the agenda this year could fill a significant part of that gap. A group of 60 countries the Leading Group on Innovative Financing for Development is proposing a new fee on currency transactions they call a Global Solidarity Levy. At the proposed ...
  • The End Of The World As We Know It In 10 Years?
    By Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed While we may not be able to stop various catastrophes and collapse-processes from occurring, we still retain an unprecedented opportunity to envisage an alternative vision for a new, sustainable and equitable form of post-carbon civilization.The imperative now is for co ...

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

  • Alan Grayson's Nasty Campaign Lies
    �Alan Grayson, is known for being nasty to just about everyone who disagrees with him, whether it be a former Vice President (a Vampire) or a consultant in the treasury department (K street whore). The progressive Congressman from the Disneyworld area of Florida has a unique combination of traits ...
  • Are Your Children Being Indoctrinated? Examining W ...
    By Barry Rubin Are your children being indoctrinated? In past� Rubin Reports� I pointed out that�almost the entire social studies’ curriculum of my son’s fourth grade class last year consisted of three topics: --America has not kept its promises and has been a racist and often bad count ...
  • Obama's Racist DOJ "I Believe There Was An Environ ...
    Today we received affirmation of the true nature of the Department of Justice in the Obama administration and its incredibly disturbing.� Christopher Coates, former chief of the Justice Department’s Voting Section, and still a DOJ employee defied his bosses orders and testified before the U.S. Co ...
  • BREAKING: J-Street , a Fake Pro-Israel Lobby Group ...
    Until the election of Barack Obama J-Street was generally ignored by mainstream Israel advocates because its views generally did not take into consideration the safety of Israel. Indeed many (including me) have called the group anti-Israel.� President Obama gave the group legitimacy, because he agre ...
  • 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 ...

The Real Agenda

  • “Designing Humans With Unique Abilities” Under Glo ...
    Recently a document was disclosed by the grace of the Freedom of Information Act entitled Global Governance 2025: At a Critical Juncture. The document, written by the American National Intelligence Council (NIC) and the European Union’s Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), outlines the agenda fro ...
  • Where´s the cash Bono? ONE?
    An organization spokesman admits it receives a great deal of funding from the nerd turned eugenicist, William Gates.
  • 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 ...

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

  • Our Elitist Friend Beep-beep and the Anti-po&#8217 ...
    play in snow aka beep beep Who is leading or at least cheerleading the charge to keep bicyclists from Acacia Park. She wrote in a comment to the Indy that “only ‘the homeless’ have bicycles at Acacia Park”. Which is a huge crock of shit. The Indy didn’t publish it. I don’t know if the [...]
  • 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 ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • The CONSEQUENCES of Ignoring the Reality of False ...
    There is no way to stop further 911-type attacks unless we accept the reality of false flag terror . You can arrest or kill every terrorist on earth but when our own side is perpetrating atrocities then there can never be any peace. Disinformation artists (debunkers), mainstream journalists and aca ...
  • K.T. Penn Exposed
    I have had my fair share of irritating debates with debunkers, but this is one for the books. K.T. Penn, a man who has written a book titled Lifting Up the Couch Cushions: Exposing the Loose Change , has some of the oddest beliefs about 9/11 I have ever heard. Mr. Penn is known as "loosechangeexpose ...
  • Three Pictures ... Your Argument is Invalid!
    How retarded do you have to be to think this is paint ?
  • 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 ...

Fooducate

  • Flat Out’s Whole Wheat Flatbread [Inside the Label ...
    Paul asked for a breakdown of Flat Out’s Flatbreads. More specifically, their 100% Stone Ground Whole Wheat. We’ll gladly oblige. First, a few words about flatbreads. They are not a new invention, and have been used in various cultures for ages.  Examples include Indian naan bread and chapati, Mex ...
  • Schools, an Important Part of the Nutrition Puzzle
    Children enter the public education system at the tender age of 5 and stay there for 13 years. During that time, they learn to read, write, and hopefully to become contributing members of society.This is not something to be taken lightly, as free public education was something unheard of a few hund ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Amazon Indians condemn destructive Madeira river d ...
    Indians protest against dams in the Amazon © Telma Monteiro/ Survival Indians of several tribes have harshly criticized the Brazilian government for allowing the construction of large hydroelectric dams in the Amazon, including dams on the Madeira river. In a Declaration signed at the ‘Gatheri ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Deirdre Imus Reviews The Age of Autism on Fox News ...
    Read the full post and leave a comment at the Fox News Health Blog. Read an excerpt (and order) The Age of Autism: Mercury Medicine and a Manmade Epidemic HERE. By Deirdre Imus Over the past 25 years, autism spectrum...
  • Primates’ Progress: Disturbing Findings from a Stu ...
    By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill We reported earlier this summer (see HERE ) on an important new study from Thoughtful House and the University of Pittsburgh describing neuroimaging results that compared a small group of vaccinated monkeys to unvaccinated...
  • Jonathan Mitchell On His Life with Autism in LA Ma ...
    Below is an article from Jonathan Mitchell, from LA Magazine HERE. Los Angeles magazine, September 2010 I am a 54-year-old man with mild autism. I have poor fine-motor coordination and can barely handwrite. At one time I made a living...
  • Book Review Autism: The Diagnosis, Treatment & Eti ...
    By Anne Dachel I don’t know how much longer health officials, doctors, and the media can trivialize and dismiss autism and the controversy swirling around this disorder and the vaccine program. The numbers continue to mount and the science now...
  • CBS Asks: Vaccines, Autism and Brain Damage: What' ...
    From CBS News's Sharyl Attkisson Vaccines have saved untold millions of lives, and the vast majority of people who get them suffer no major problems. But there's a trade-off: occasionally, vaccines cause injury or death. Very rarely, patients are left...

Global BDS Movement

  • Czech public figures call on Václav Havel: “Do not ...
    [ ISM Czech Republic ] - In response to news about Václav Havel’s support for an international campaign to fight so-called ’delegitimisation’ of Israel and to fight against the worldwide boycott movement against Israelinitiated by the former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar, ISM Czech Republ ...
  • Open letter to OECD regarding decision to host tou ...
      18 September 2010   read more
  • BDS France calls for demonstrations of support for ...
    Colonization, apartheid, refugees     It is Israel that is breaking the law     It's Israel that should be brought to justice!     In Bordeaux, Perpignan, Mulhouse, Paris and Pontoise, certain activists are soon to appear in court due to their participation in the citizen and non-violent read more
  • BNC welcomes cancellation of visit by settlement m ...
    Occupied Palestine, 23 September 2010 - The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), on behalf of its constituent organizations and unions representing the majority of Palestinian civil society, warmly salutes the decision taken by the Association of Netherlands Munici ...
  • BNC Event: "South African anti-apartheid strategy ...
    The Palestinian Boycott Divestment and Sanctions National Committee(BNC)cordially invites you to a public presentation entitled(الدعوة العربية في المرفق) "South African anti-apartheid strategy and BDS, then and now" by Professor Patrick Bond read more

Farm Wars

  • Government Sponsored Terrorism and The Brainwashin ...
    Leaked policy documents reveal that the United Nations plans to create a “green world order” by 2012 which will be enforced by a structure of global governance and funded by a gargantuan $45 trillion transfer of wealth from richer countries, as the globalists’ insidious plan to centralize power, cru ...
  • The Truth Squad Radio Show: Government-Sponsored E ...
    The topic tonight is "Government Sponsored Eco Terror, and how the so-called green movement is being used to control us and implement the New World Order Agenda 21 program.
  • G. Edward Griffin Weighs In On Obama’s Executive O ...
    The truth is what is important, and not blind allegiance to an organization that is "too big" to be wrong. Read the E.O. for yourself, and don't let others do your thinking for you. That is what the revolution is all about!
  • 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Climate Fact Of The Day – Has warming happen ...
    After the invention of thermometers, records started to be kept. The central England Temperature is the longest temperature series in the world. A number of interesting things can be seen in this record, including the depths of the Little Ice Age in the late 17th century, and the Dalton Minimum whi ...
  • Quotation Of The Week
    “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.” - Jean-Paul Sartre As voted for by readers on our Facebook page. Have you yet joined the daily debate?
  • UK: Ed Miliband defeats brother to be elected new ...
    The Guardian – Ed Miliband has seized the Labour leadership in a dramatic, knife-edge victory that left his elder brother David’s political dreams in tatters. The younger Miliband, who ran a left-leaning campaign and only emerged as favourite in the last 24 hours, declared himself proud and elated a ...
  • Afghan insurgency claims 40 lives in 2 days
    Xinhua – Insurgency and counterinsurgency have left 40 people dead with majority of them insurgents since Friday, according to officials in the militancy-plagued Afghanistan. The militants in the latest waves of violent attacks targeted NATO-led forces killing one soldier on Saturday, the military a ...
  • T-Mobile admits to censoring text messages
    Inquirer – Mobile operator T-Mobile has admitted that it picks and chooses which text messages to deliver on its network. The admission came in legal case in which the mobile operator is being sued by the short-code text service EZ Text. The text marketing firm, which signed up a California marijuan ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Proposition 23 poll shows a dead heat among Califo ...
    California voters believe global warming is a significant issue and are inclined to trust scientific views on the subject, but they remain closely divided on a November ballot measure that would suspend the state's global warming statute, according to a...
  • Gulf oil spill: Oil concentrations in gulf waters ...
    Federal scientists say the concentrations of oil they are finding in Gulf of Mexico waters are continuing to decline. "We've been seeing a very clear trend of diminished concentrations," said Sam Walker, a chief science advisor with the National Oceanic...
  • Genetically engineered salmon: Ban it or label it?
    Consumer groups Tuesday called for genetically modified salmon to be strictly labeled if it is eventually authorized for consumption by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The demands came in the second day of testimony before an independent panel of...
  • California's largest solar photovoltaic plant to s ...
    Southern California has gotten the bulk of the solar industry’s attention lately as a group of solar thermal projects weave their way through state regulatory agencies. But photovoltaic activity is about to kick up farther north as a project set...
  • At USC, smartphone cameras taking aim at dirty ski ...
    On a clear day, you should be able to see close to 140 miles across our warm western skies. That's about the distance from Malibu to Palm Springs. But thanks to decades of air pollution, haze and debris have reduced...

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

  • Jews, Power and Privilege: A Sermon for Yom Kippur
    I prefer to say it this way: that it is in my self interest as a Jew to stand in solidarity with the oppressed because I believe that Jews cannot be fully human while they benefit from a system that denies others their own humanity. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comm ...
  • The things they see: children at play in Jerusalem
    "I don't know how to protect my children. How to protect them from the violence. I don't let them watch the news on television and I walk them to school, but it's not enough. My wife wants another child and I think, for what? To bring him into this..?" Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note ...
  • Forgive me father for I know not what I do
    Netanyahu's Pravda - also known as Yisrael Hayom in some circles - let some public figures ask for forgiveness and repent on their paper ahead of Yom Kippur. I've chosen my three "favorites". Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Settlers attack Palestinians; army represses Pales ...
    The Israeli military responded to the settler violence with repression of the Palestinians in the form of tear gas and sound bombs. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • IDF uses live ammunition against unarmed demonstra ...
    Ashraf Khatib suffered a fracture to his leg today after being shot in the calf by an Israeli sniper during an anti-wall demonstration in the West Bank village of Bil'in.He was hit with an 0.22 caliber bullet, which was prohibited for crowed control use. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �No ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • U.S. Navy Expands Sustainable Initiatives
    large The United States Navy recently announced the completion of a solar system at its Naval Weapons Station (NWS) Seal Beach location in California.
  • Sharp Purchases Recurrent Energy for $305 Million
    large U.S. solar developer Recurrent Energy has been purchased by Sharp Corporation (OTC:� SHCAY.PK ) for US $305 million.
  • SunRun Solar Finance Company Accused of Working to ...
    SunRun, a solar financing company that aids homeowners with their home solar installations, has been accused of working to undermine the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program which would make public funding available for similar ...
  • Walmart Expands Solar Initiative
    Wal-Mart Stores, Inc . (NYSE: WMT ) announced it is expanding its solar generating systems program. According to a company press release , new rooftop solar systems will be installed at 20 to 30 locations in California and Arizona.
  • Ink in Solar Cells? U.S. Government Spends $1.6 Mi ...
    When you think of solar cells, you most likely don’t think of ink as an important component. However, Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. ( OTC: APNT ) has just received $1.6 million from the U.S.

News Blaze

Historical Notes

libcom

  • DRS Group expands its Packers and Movers Network
    00002.JPG DRS Group is one of the leading integrated Logistics Companies in India, with specialization in movement of 3M (Man, Machine & Material). DRS Group is one of the leading ...
  • Meetings for the Working Class of the United State ...
    velvet-revolution.jpg "If anything is to be learned from the tragedies of the twentieth century, it is that the repetition of these horrors in the twenty-first century, on an even bloodier scale, can be ...
  • Amongst the Rubble: a look at the Christchurch Ear ...
    4102450_600x400.jpg While the dust settles and Christchurch recovers from the 7.1 earthquake, people have begun to pick up the pieces and get on with their lives. But for many working class people this i ...
  • Truck drivers and railway workers strike in Greece
    After the August thaw between the Greek government and the fuel carrying truck drivers, the latter are once again showing their teeth, while railway workers defy court ruling and strike. The thaw between fuel carrying truck drivers and t ...
  • Spain: Madrid CNT Calls for Strike Participation, ...
    arton932-11afe_0.jpg The CNT of Madrid are calling for participation in the September 29 general strike while noting the dangerous possibility that the state-sponsored unions who are calling the strike m ...

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

  • Winston & Strawn Kicked Off $1 Billion Pfizer Case
    Citing a conflict of interest, a federal magistrate judge in Utah has blocked Winston & Strawn from representing Pfizer in a $1 billion lawsuit brought by Brigham Young University over the drug Celebrex. The problem is that Winston & Strawn partner Gene Schaerr represented BYU in other matters at th ...
  • Law Firm Leaders Express 'Guarded Optimism' About ...
    When managing partners of law firms large and small gathered in the same room last week at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, the inevitable question arose: Will business get any better? A straw poll conducted at the meeting revealed "guarded optimism," according to a New York State Bar Association tas ...
  • New Recusal Controversy in W. Va. High Court
    A West Virginia Supreme Court justice has refused to take himself out of a case involving the state cap on punitive damages, even though he pledged during his election campaign that he would never vote to overturn the law imposing the cap. A decision by another judge on the West Virginia high court ...
  • Project Management With SharePoint Task Lists
    The need to better manage client projects and costs is driving law firms to get up to speed on process and project management tools, says Mark Gerow of Fenwick & West. Law firms' best choices are tools that are easy to learn and use, such as Microsoft SharePoint task lists.
  • Ga. Attorney Arrested on Drug Charges for Giving P ...
    Agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation have arrested a criminal defense lawyer who was acquitted last year of federal money laundering charges, charging him with eight felony counts of drug distribution for giving 11 prescription pills to a friend who turned out to be an undercover informan ...

Iranian.com

  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Press Conference, Tehran
    Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Press Conference at Tehran Mehrabad Airport, September 25, 2010:
  • گفتگوی اختصاصی خودنویس با زهرا رهنورد
    - بخش بزرگی از طبقه متوسط نگاهی متفاوت به انقلاب دارد. اکثریت خاموش یا همان بخش خاکستری جامعه آنقدر بزرگ است که باید تلاش بیشتری برای جذب آن انجام گیرد. چرا پیام‌های آقای موسوی آنچنان که باید و شاید روی این گروه تاثیر نگذاشته است؟ چرا چنین به نظر می‌رسد که نگرانی عمده آقای موسوی ریزش نیروهای ارزشی ا ...
  • Iran's nuclear agency trying to stop computer worm
    TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's nuclear agency is trying to combat a complex computer worm that has affected industrial sites throughout the country and is capable of taking over power plants, Iranian media reports said.
  • تامین اعتبار برای ساخت چهار بازداشتگاه در تهران
    جرس: معاون عمرانی استاندار تهران گفت: در دور سوم سفرهای استانی رئیس جمهور به استان تهران اعتبارات لازم برای ساخت چهار بازداشتگاه در حاشیه تهران تصویب شد. � read more
  • Iranian journalists' website puts Ahmadinejad spin ...
    A group of Iranian journalists sympathetic to the world view of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has launched barackobama.ir , a website set up to address "an Iranian viewpoint on Barack Obama 's opinions". read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Open Source and the Sustainability Movement
    As strange as it may sound, switching to Open Source operating systems and software - and getting your boss, co-workers, friends and relatives to do so - can save a lot more carbon emissions than getting them to change their lightbulbs. I myself have switched to Firefox (instead of Microsoft Explo ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Ed Miliband new leader of Britain’s oppositi ...
    For SMB News MANCHESTER: Former climate change minister Ed Miliband was elected the new leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party on Saturday, beating his older brother David in a knife-edge race.?
  • 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 ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Kakadu – a climate change impacts hotspot
    When ecologists, policy makers, or the public, think about the visceral impacts of climate change on Australia’s natural systems, World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park (KNP) , located in the seasonal tropics of the Northern Territory, is high on the at-risk list.
  • Reservations Halted for Nissan’s LEAF Electric Car
    [Original image from Nissan Leaf website ]
  • Is Gasoline Too Cheap?
    It's an article of faith among many observers of the oil industry that gasoline is too cheap in the US. Environmentalists and economists point to various externalities that aren't included in the price consumers pay, while carmakers and alternative energy developers need a (much) higher price to mak ...
  • How electric cars will save you money
    If you are someone who watches your dollars and cents, you probably don’t own a plug-in hybrid. Sure, they deliver good gas mileage but it’s not good enough to offset the higher sticker price needed to cover the costs of the battery. (That’s why I own a Honda Fit. ) Cars like the Toyota Prius and Ho ...
  • U.S. Navy Goes Solar with $100 Million Energy Upgr ...

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

  • Book Club: Into the Wild
    Tonight is our first crack at a on-line, right here on the ding dang front page, book club.  So take a (brief) break from sharpening your political skills and dive in to help with the discussion. I'm going to post some questions, one at a time, in hopes of sparking the conversation.... Tags: into th ...
  • Deep Duda: Mets 5, Phillies 2
    More photos » Hunter Martin - Getty Images Ryan Howard giveth, Ryan Howard taketh. (Photo by Hunter Martin/Getty Images) Browse more photos » If you were going to pick a game of the current handful in which a scalding hot Phillies team might finally cool down and lose one, tonight's... Tags: queens ...
  • There's a 'public safety crisis' in state's home h ...
    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday called the state's inability to stop scores of convicted felons from working in its home healthcare program a "public safety crisis" and demanded that lawmakers take action to address the situation. The governor made his comments in a letter to... Tags: arnold sc ...
  • That all-American urge to punish
    On Thursday afternoon I took the long drive down to the far southeastern corner of Virginia and took part in solemn observances to mark-- and protest-- our state's killing of one of its citizens, Teresa Lewis. It was a big and moving event. I was there not only as an individual but... Tags: death pe ...
  • Quick thoughts on Texas' 34-12 loss to UCLA
    Mack Brown is embarrassed. Stunned. The UT players seemed to feel the same way. Nothing against UCLA, but Texas didn't seem to see this one coming. It's the Longhorns' first loss at home since a 41-21 beating by Kansas State in Austin in 2007. The 12 points were UT's fewest... Tags: texas oklahoma k ...

Groklaw

  • Akin Gump, Creditors Win Philly Papers Auction
    One additional note for bankruptcy buffs: The rules of the auction banned senior creditors from making a so-called credit bid, through which creditors essentially exchange their debt holdings for equity in the new company. The creditors in this auction would have to pay cash to the bankruptcy estate ...
  • Townsend: Video Bios of The Firm's Attorneys
    [PJ: Here's something I haven't seen anyone else doing yet, but I'm sure they will now: the law firm you saw represent Apple in the Psystar litigation, Townsend and Townsend and Crew, has begun posting video bios of some of their lawyers describing the firm and their practice areas instead of jus ...
  • Encourage the USPTO to stop issuing software paten ...
    If you're a U.S. citizen, please write to the USPTO at Bilski_Guidance@uspto.gov and tell them that their new guidance should include a strong stand against software patents. Submissions are due by Monday, September 27. Please share a copy of your letter with us, by CCing licensing@fsf.org. That way ...
  • Translating Google's CEO: Apple is frenemy, Bing i ...
    Schmidt made the comments in a video interview with the Wall Street Journal's Alan Murray, and he acknowledged the regulatory context at the outset of the exchange. Also fascinating were his comments about Apple's "closed" system, in light of his passing confirmation of a recent extension of Google ...
  • The Surprising Religion of Jack Ma (Alibaba)
    Ma says three things are at the core of his company and business philosophy, calling them "his religion" on the show. ... The second element of his "religion" is that shareholders come last- the most important groups are customers and then employees. He says matter-of-factly that customers are the o ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

  • The Green New Deal
    One of Bob’s most frequent criticisms of the Democratic Party states that Democrats no longer stand for anything, except, perhaps, the reproduction of the reigning status-quo.  Green Party candidates across the country, on the other hand, have come together in support of a “Green New Deal.”  What ...
  • Charming
    Two days after being confronted by ABC News, Bank of America has fired a debt collection agency after several of its operators were caught using racist and obscene phone calls to collect debts from bank customers
  • Silicon Vally hiring conspiracy. And superangel co ...
    How dumb was the Silicon Valley hiring conspiracy? Let us count the ways When I think of Google, Apple, Intel, Intuit, Adobe and Pixar, the words that come to mind are usually innovative and progressive. In the wake of their shocking settlement with the federal government Friday over charges they co ...
  • Electric motorcycle, superbus, ATV bike, and mini ...
    The godfather of electric motorcycles. Gas 2.0 has more, including the video how to smoke a Mavizen electric motorcycle tire. 155 mph electric superbus. Dutch students are designing and now testing the cross between an electric muscle car and a luxury limo. With 800 hp, it can do 155 mph. Electric A ...
  • Huffington Post Election Dashboard
    Everyone is aggregating election polling. This HuffPo contribution has the usual mouse-over popups to see what happening in a state, plus positive / negative social media mentions. Nice. The races for Governor and Senate in California should not be toss ups. They should be easy wins for Democrats, w ...

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Just World News

  • That all-American urge to punish
    On Thursday afternoon I took the long drive down to the far southeastern corner of Virginia and took part in solemn observances to mark-- and protest-- our state's killing of one of its citizens, Teresa Lewis. It was a big and moving event. I was there not only as an individual but also in my capac ...
  • 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 ...

First Truths

  • A Distinction Without A Difference
    My reaction to the announcement of troop withdrawals from Iraq, entitled A Distinction Without A Difference , comes through the Center for a Stateless Society. Thanks again to the Center for being so receptive to my ramblings.
  • The Nerve to Break Ranks
    In my latest opinion piece , I suggest that hierarchical structures like the military and the state in general impair the capacity to make individualized moral judgments and create a condition of ubiquitous blackmail. The case of Adam Winfield, the would-be whistleblower now charged with murder, sho ...
  • 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.

Media Co-Op

  • Making Noise for Jailed Tamil Refugees
    Saturday marked the third noise demonstration outside of Burnaby jail where Tamil women and children are detained More than two dozen people gathered outside of a Burnaby jail today to make noise and show their support for the 25 Tamil women a ...
  • Vancouver Solidarity with Political Prisoners in C ...
    A small group of demonstrators gathered yesterday in front of the Chilean Consulate in Vancouver to show their solidarity with Mapuche and anarchist political prisoners in Chile. Over thirty Mapuche prisoners have been on hunger strike since July 12, and dozens more have joined the strike in solidar ...
  • Letters from the G20
    Toronto Transit Commision Worker Arrested for Going to Work Editors Note:� the Toronto Media Co-op received the following letter this week from Elroy Yau.� Mr. Yau's story was reported on shortly after his arrest and detainment by the G20 Poli ...
  • Hotel Workers across North America protest corpora ...
    Workersâ actions at TIFF draw attention to sector-wide struggle In the days leading up to Labour Day, UNITE-HERE workers at Hyatt hotels in Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles and Honolulu organized one day strikes to protest against the attacks t ...
  • Ensemble pour demain no. 2
    Deuxième 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

  • How Drug Companies Bribe Doctors to Suck You Into ...
    PharmedOut is a project that educates physicians on how drug companies influence prescribing. Dr. Douglas Melnick, a former drug company insider, explains how these companies get around the bans on promoting drugs for non-FDA-approved uses. Shahram Ahari, a former drug company representative, tells ...
  • Don’t Ever Drink This During Pregnancy…
    Fluoride avoidance reduced anemia in pregnant women, and decreased preterm births, according to a new study. Anemia in pregnancy can lead to maternal and infant mortality; it continues to be a problem despite nutritional counseling and maternal iron and folic acid supplementation. Medical News Tod ...
  • This "Miracle Drug" Could Nearly Double Your Risk ...
    Oral bisphosphonate osteoporosis drugs, which include such Actonel, Boniva, and Fosamax, could be associated with an approximately twofold increased risk of esophageal cancer. A new study showed that long-term users of the drugs had nearly double the risk for the rare but deadly cancer. Concerns a ...
  • Amazing but True - Monkey Babysits Indian Baby
  • The Ultimate Impossible Tennis Shot
    Jimmy Connors wins a point in the most unbelievable way you have ever seen.

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Amazon Indians condemn destructive Madeira river d ...
    Indians protest against dams in the Amazon © Telma Monteiro/ Survival Indians of several tribes have harshly criticized the Brazilian government for allowing the construction of large hydroelectric dams in the Amazon, including dams on the Madeira river. In a Declaration signed at the ‘Gatheri ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • And Another Thing ...
    A new StatsCan study seems to show that anglophones are no longer the rich, pampered minority Parti Quebecois founder Rene Levesque accused them of being in the 1970s. This decline in fortunes depends to some degree on definitions. If statisticians look at median income, anglophones, despite ...
  • At last: fresh ideas on financing universities
    Without fresh infusions of money, Quebec's universities will ultimately start to stagnate. The quality of their teaching and research will decline and their ability to attract top-rated academics and the best students will erode. These are simple facts. Quebecers should know them by heart by ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Vatican Bank Investigated For Alleged Money Launde ...
    source:  NPR.org,  September 21, 2010   Angelo Carconi /Associated Press Italian financial Police officers talk to each other in front of St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010.  (AP Photo/Angelo Carconi)
  • 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."

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Jay-Z Deception
    Although coming from a Christian viewpoint it contains lots of good information
  • Police Officers Sent on Hypnosis Courses in the &# ...
    Officers are being encouraged to sign up to a course by Tom Silver, who is better known as a ‘celebrity hypnotherapist’ on American chat shows, in an attempt to gain more information from suspects. Mr Silver, who has appeared on the Montel Williams and Ricki Lake chat shows on US TV, where he gave a ...
  • Plan to Oust Saddam Drawn up Two Years Before the ...
    ‘A secret plan to foster an internal coup against Saddam Hussein was drawn up by the Government two years before the invasion of Iraq, The Independent can reveal. Whitehall officials drafted the “contract with the Iraqi people” as a way of signalling to dissenters in Iraq that an overthrow of Sadda ...
  • Berlusconi Pushing for Israeli Membership of the E ...
    Italian Prime Minister says Israel should join the European Union, in a u-turn from his earlier remarks criticizing Israel’s settlement policy as an impediment to peace. “My greatest desire, as long as I am a protagonist in politics, is to bring Israel into membership of the European Union,” said Si ...
  • Iceland President Accuses England, Holland of Fina ...
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Calif. push for renewables could blow across West
The Associated Press
- Sep 25, 2010
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The regulation could allow California utilities to meet much of the new mandate through credits obtained by investments in renewables elsewhere. ...
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The Good News About the Proposed Renewable Energy Standard
CleanTechnica
- Sep 25, 2010
- 13 hours ago
States that already meet or exceed Renewable Energy Standards of 15% by 2021 would not be held back by the latest Democratic attempt to pass nationwide ...
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Calif. Raises Renewable Portfolio Standard to 33%
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- Sep 24, 2010
- Sep 24, 2010
By COLIN SULLIVAN of Greenwire California regulators raised the state's renewable portfolio standard to 33 percent by 2020 in a unanimous vote yesterday ...
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Techno-leapfrogging and renewable energy
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- Sep 25, 2010
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They are using decentralized systems using renewable energy to pave their way out of darkness. The Indian government is investing heavily in renewable power ...
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Gas Works Park will be closed so crews can investigate sediment contamination
Seattle Times
- Sep 25, 2010
- 10 hours ago
By Susan Gilmore Portions of Gas Works Park will be closed for about seven weeks beginning Monday as the state Department of Ecology drills six wells to ...
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Ecology Coatings Accepts Term Sheets for a $2.4 Million Funding
PR Newswire (press release)
- Sep 23, 2010
- Sep 23, 2010
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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Frankenfish -- genetically modified salmon -- take food and ecology to a new level
Christian Science Monitor
- Sep 22, 2010
- Sep 22, 2010
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) appears close to approving the 'frankenfish' salmon. That raises all sorts of questions. By the Monitor's Editorial ...
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Old, pressed flowers give climate clues: study
Reuters
- Sep 21, 2010
- Sep 21, 2010
Ecologists compared samples of early spider orchids, held in collections with notes showing the exact day in spring when they were picked in southern ...
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Work begins on water tunnel under SF Bay
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- Sep 25, 2010
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AP SAN FRANCISCO—Work is under way on a new 5-mile tunnel under San Francisco Bay that will transport billions of gallons of water to cities on the ...
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Biehle restaurant repeatedly fails to complete drinking-water testing
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- Sep 25, 2010
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Bill's Place, restaurant and bar in Biehle has repeatedly failed to complete drinking -water testing required by the state law, according to the Missouri ...
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Zumbro River towns are inundated
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- Sep 25, 2010
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First-floor water levels averaged 6 feet in the Zumbro Falls homes that were flooded, Neville said. The average was slightly lower in Hammond. ...
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