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Thomas Paine

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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Europe Offers Tax Benefits for Illegal Settlements
    Organisations raising funds to benefit the Israeli army and illegal settlements in the West Bank enjoy tax-exempt status in Europe, an IPS investigation has shown.
  • ENVIRONMENT-MALAYSIA: Tougher Wildlife Laws Not En ...
    After years of losing the war against animal traffickers and poachers, Malaysia has finally responded with the passage of a new wildlife conservation law. But experts say it might be too late for some of this South-east Asian country's endangered species.
  • INDIA: Poor Women Stitch Together New Futures
    She is now part of a group of artisan entrepreneurs, deals with people confidently, and earns enough for herself and her three children. But 20 years ago, Amir Unisha Begum was an unschooled, shy homemaker who rarely ventured out of her Indian slum neighbourhood.
  • VENEZUELA: Opposition's Comeback Presages New Poli ...
    The vigorous comeback of the opposition in Venezuela's newly elected parliament strengthens pluralism in this oil-rich country, although it may presage a new political crisis in the medium term, according to analysts.
  • FBI Raids Seen as Political Retribution
    Recent raids by federal agents on the homes and offices of peace activists are being viewed by civil libertarians and civil society groups as further proof that the U.S. is morphing into a "surveillance state" where the right to privacy and other constitutional protections are being quietl ...

Scoop - NZ

  • Christchurch Quake Dynamic Map
    Extent of the shaking [Christchurch Quake Map] ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Did 9/11 Really "Change Everything" ?
    We've been told that 9/11 changed everything. Is it true? Let's look: The Afghanistan war was planned before 9/11 (see this and this) The decision to launch the Iraq war was made before 9/11. Indeed, former CIA director George Tenet said that the White House wanted to invade Iraq long before 9/11 ...
  • 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 ...

Independent - London

  • US testing its cyber-defences
    The United States is launching its first test of a new plan for responding to an enemy cyber-blitz, including any attack aimed at vital services such as power, water and banks.
  • Suicide bomber kills six in Afghanistan
    A suicide car bomber killed a deputy governor and five other people in eastern Afghanistan today, police said.
  • Seven suspected Eta members arrested
    Spanish police said today that they have arrested seven suspected members of the armed Basque group ETA, maintaining pressure on the organisation despite its recent ceasefire announcement.
  • Has the West declared cyber war on Iran?
    Computers can go wrong, and everyone is used to it. But that's at home. We assume that the machines controlling the infrastructure that makes everything tick – power stations, chemical works, water purification plants – have rock-solid defences in place to deal with unexplained crashes or virus att ...
  • Poet forced to pulp book after row with her family
    A prominent Irish poet has lived up to descriptions of her work as provocative, anarchic and untameable by sparking family divisions with her latest collection.

Rogue Government.com

  • Lost language unearthed in a letter found in Peru ...
    Archaeologists say scrawl on the back of a letter recovered from a 17th century dig site reveals a previously unknown language spoken by indigenous peoples in northern Peru.
  • Virginâ��s Richard Branson Commits To Space ...
    Perhaps after Nasa well and truly runs out of money our astronauts should ring up Richard Branson? The British professional rich person says that he plans to launch commercial space travel—space tourism, in other words— within the next 18 months . What do I have to do to be on that first flight?
  • 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.
  • Dangerous Crossroads: US War Games in Asia Target ...
    China and other members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) wrapped up their largest ever anti-terrorism military drill Monday in Kazakhstan, the China News Service (CNS) reported.
  • S. 510: 12 Reasons Why The Food Safety Bill From ...
    As you read this, there is a bill before the U.S. Senate that has the potential to change the U.S. food industry more than any other law ever passed by the U.S. Congress.

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

  • C.I.A. Steps Up Drone Attacks on Taliban in Pakist ...
    Washington - The C.I.A. has drastically increased its bombing campaign in the mountains of Pakistan in recent weeks, American officials said. The strikes are part of an effort by military and intelligence operatives to try to cripple the Taliban in a stronghold being used to plan attacks against ...
  • Reconstructing human appearance from DNA
    Police sketch artists might soon be trading in the pencil and paper for a genetics lab. Forensic biologists say they may soon be able to reconstruct a criminal's profile from the DNA they leave at a crime scene. This would potentially render DNA databases obsolete, said molecular biologist Manfred ...
  • Zionist Dialectics
    "My God! Is this the end? Is this the goal for which our fathers have striven and for whose sake all generations have suffered? Is this the dream of a return to Zion which our people have dreamt for centuries: that we now come to Zion to stain its soil with innocent blood?" Ahad Ha'am, 1921 Th ...
  • Alternative to X-Rays Makes Its First Step
    A day when doctors need only visible light instead of X-rays to view a patient's innards can now be more easily imagined, with the announcement of a way to decipher the little light that passes through opaque materials. Normally, one cannot see through opaque barriers such as paint, skin, fabric or ...
  • University of Hawaii at Manoa Pan-STARRS discovers ...
    The University of Hawaii' at Mānoa's Pan-STARRS PS1 telescope on Haleakala has discovered an asteroid that will come within 4 million miles of Earth in mid-October. The object is about 150 feet in diameter and was discovered in images acquired on September 16, when it was about 20 million miles away ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Flaherty meets reality TV
    Honeslty, "Honest Jim", how much did you think we bought i n the first place? Scam artists are scam artists. And you are one of the accomplished ones. For an example we send you to TBogg .
  • Hmmm.
    Naw. The Tbogg Bassets win. Well, unless it comes from Scandinavia. The price of my loyalty is so cheap.�
  • Standing Room Only . . .
  • The 'It gets better' project
    You know, this little gem could actually save a life. Be sure to pass it on to anyone you know who might benefit from a bit of peer support. �
  • The reality of The World Stage(tm)
    Some years ago, just after the Harper government won its first minority,� someone with an ear to the ground in New York told me that the usually active and vocal Canada had gone silent and withdrawn. According to my source, our diplomats and representatives at the UN had been told to shut-up and the ...

Media Matters for America

  • Hume bolsters Coates' credibility with false sugg ...
    Brit Hume falsely suggested that Christopher Coates was a political appointee in the Clinton administration, and thus has credibility in pushing the New Black Panthers Party phony story. In fact, Coates was hired as a career attorney during the Clinton administration, and reportedly became a "t ...
  • REPORT: Fox News' candidates "speak through Fox N ...
    Five potential Republican presidential candidates that serve as Fox News contributors or hosts have made at least 269 appearances on the cable channel - compared to a total of six appearances on all other major news channels combined. "In-kind contribution": Potential 2012 GOP candidates "spea ...
  • Fox adopts GOP spin that delaying vote on tax cut ...
    Fox has dutifully adopted claims by GOP Reps. John Boehner and Kevin McCarthy that failing to immediately vote to extend Bush-era tax cuts injects "uncertainty" into the economy that hinders hiring, a claim which both Boehner and McCarthy made on Fox News Sunday . However, economists agree tha ...
  • Right-wing media say DOJ won't enforce voting law ...
    The right-wing media is relying on completely unsubstantiated allegations about what Justice Department officials have said to accuse the DOJ of refusing to enforce voting-rights laws against racial minorities. However, the facts clearly show that the DOJ has, in fact, enforced vot ...
  • Hume falsely claims that the stimulus failed
    Fox News' Brit Hume claimed that the stimulus "manifestly failed" to "get the unemployment rate down." This claim flies in the face of the economic consensus, as economists believe the stimulus raised GDP and increased employment and "substantial[ly]" boosted GDP. Hume claims that the stimulus ...

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

  • Women "Politicals" (Not) in the News
    We rarely hear about the prisoners of Abu Ghraib and Bagram and Guantanamo. And what we generally hear is unlikely to confront US culpability for the full horrors experienced by the prisoners of American wars of empire and occupation. And what of American political prisoners at home? The ever-suspec ...
  • Send in the Screamers
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  • UN Fact-Finding Mission Says Israelis "Executed" U ...
    The report of the fact-finding mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla released last week shows conclusively, for the first time, that US citizen Furkan Dogan and five Turkish citizens were murdered execution-s ...
  • Ashcroft's Post-9/11 Roundups Spark Lawsuit
    New York - Hundreds of people who believe they were falsely detained and imprisoned by the Department of Justice in the wake of the Sep. 11, 2001 attacks are now seeking redress through the U.S. courts. The exact number of detainees is unclear, as no lists were ever released publicly. But according ...
  • Why the Democrats' Response to the Pledge Has Been ...
    The Democratic response to the Republican Pledge to America has been factual about its economics. The September 26, 2010, Sunday New York Times' editorial goes through the economic details, and Democrats have been citing the economic facts from the Congressional Budget Office. As Dan Pfeiffer report ...

Planetsave

  • Working Together (Cool Your Green Mind Monday)
    We are all one. I know, we are each unique individuals, especially in the US. But, on another level, we are also all connected, and we can even say, on some level, all one. Even on a simple, physical level, look at how we can’t help but affect each other — if you’re in a... Read More...
  • First Independent Study of Oil Spill Confirms Disa ...
    The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill that shocked the world is fading into the background, but the effects of the disaster will long be felt. And now for the first time an independent study has confirmed the disastrous extent of the oil spill making it the largest marine oil accident ever. “We wanted ...
  • Sudden Ocean Cooling Halted Global Warming
    The mid-twentieth century saw the progressing warming of the globe come to an abrupt and for a time inexplicable hiatus. According to new research this temporary cooling was at least partially the result of a sudden cooling event centred over the North Atlantic between 1968 and 1972. “We knew that t ...
  • Groundwater Disappearing at Accelerating Rate
    Over the past fifty years the amount of water that has been pumped out of the subterranean reservoirs that sustain many billions of people has more than doubled, according to a new global assessment of groundwater use. People are drawing so much water from underground that they are adding enough of ...
  • Avatar Real-Life Struggle? James Cameron & Sigourn ...
    Avatar may have been a science-fiction story, but many of its themes were based off of some of the world’s biggest real-life struggles. One such struggle is going on in the Amazon, where a large dam, the Belo Monte Dam, is threatening the environment and tribes living in Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest. ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Despite economy, Americans don't want farm work - ...
    Visalia, Calif. (AP) -- It's a question rekindled by the recession: Are immigrants taking jobs away from American citizens? In the heart of the nation's biggest farming state, the answer is a resounding no. Government data analyzed by The Associated Press show most Americans simply don't app ...
  • "I Want to Make Sure I Have a Home To Go Back To" ...
    Activists from across Appalachia are in Washington, DC, this week to call attention to mountaintop removal coal mining, the controversial practice of blowing up mountains to reach coal reserves. Appalachia Rising participants will march from the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters to the Wh ...
  • Israel navy halts Gaza-bound boat without violence ...
    Editor's Note: One of the many problems we have with Amy Teibel's corporate news report is her clever title: "Israel navy halts Gaza-bound boat without violence." We added the question marks. The very act of stopping the boat by any means is a violent act as is the cutting off...
  • Cuba unveils private sector plans - World News
    Government issues guidelines for new measure to "save socialism" by loosening restrictions on private employment. Cuba has announced plans to expand its private sector, issuing guidelines for free enterprise activities in 178 fields, ranging from watch repairs to providing transport, state media ...
  • Developing nations leaving rich ones behind. U.S. ...
      Poverty has been in the news recently. In the US 14 per cent, or one in eight Americans, fell below the nations' poverty line. These are the worst American statistics since the Great Depression. Not only are more American poor but almost 50 million have no health insurance in...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • A Real Pro-Life Protest
    They weren't armed. They weren't demanding blood be spilled in a violent overthrow of the government. They didn't spout lies or twist history or whine about taxes. They performed peaceful civil disobedience in support of communities being murdered by corporate greed. From the Herald: About 100 peopl ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    L.A. staggers under record-shattering heatwave Temperatures soared to 113 degrees this afternoon in Los Angeles. That is the highest temperature ever recorded in downtown L.A. since records started being kept in 19877. The previous high for the city was 112, and that record was set on June 26, 1990. ...
  • Of guns, common sense and twains ne'er meeting
    Sometimes it feels like I grew up with a gun in my hand...probably because I did. Everyone I knew did. Going out in the woods? Wear sturdy boots and take the .410 snake charmer because there are copperheads and timber rattlers out there, just leave the black snakes alone - or if you get a chance cat ...
  • Vote With Protection, America
    Brad Reed at Crooks and Liars has the best sex metaphor yet for voting Democratic in November. You see, people get mad when there's 10% unemployment and a quarter of mortgages are underwater. They get even angrier when they see their government bail out the gigantic financial institutions that got u ...
  • Wealth, Education, Youth, Ethnicity And The U.S. E ...
    Judging from what the polls are telling us, the American people are on the verge of being rendered a drooling mass of chumps yet again -- by Republicans once more calling for continued low taxes on the wealthy and big corporate interests, while relentlessly whittling away at the labor arrangements a ...

Care 2

  • Colorful Sea Creature Photos
    The creatures that inhabit the world's oceans run the full spectrum of colors--often in intricate patterns, advanced camouflage, and varying degrees of transparency. Submitted by Michelle Matthews to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Stop BP's Next Drilling Disaster - Take Action
    Right now the only thing standing between BP and the next drilling disaster is the Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar. The company dodged the recent moratorium on new offshore drilling in Arctic waters off Alaska by proposing to drill from a gravel is Submitted by Daf Jind to Environment �|� �N ...
  • Top 10 Devils Plants
    What looks red all over and has a long tongue and tail, a pair of horns on his head and holds a huge fork? This creature is very bad thats why he was banished to a very hot place called hell. Submitted by Bojan R. to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Drug-filled Mice Airdropped Over Guam to Kill Snak ...
    Dead mice packed with drugs were recently airdropped into Guam's dense jungle canopy--part of a new effort to kill an invasive species of snake on the U.S. Pacific island territory. Submitted by Michelle Matthews to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Pets Are Wonderful Support (PAWS)
    Pets Are Wonderful Support (PAWS) is a volunteer-based organization that provides for the comprehensive needs of companion animals for low-income persons with disabling HIV/AIDS and other disabling illnesses, as well as senior citizens. Submitted by Ginger Geronimo to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Forever Routed by the Feral Fringe: Obama, First F ...
    The White House boasts bunglers more inept than its economic wizards: its team of public relations losers. They've only lost nearly every messaging battle against the relentless, but not exactly genius Rightwing Noise Machine. Whether about fighting the wrong overseas enemies, "Obama's" TARP, fai ...
  • Deja Vu - CIA's New Secret Army
    Revelations the US Central Intelligence Agency is operating a secret, 3,000-man Afghan mercenary force whose mission is assassinating Taliban and al-Qaida fighters has caused a major stir in the United States. This dramatic report comes in an authoritative new book, "Obama's Wars," by investigative ...
  • Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Washington Gossip Ma ...
    from TomDispatch We know the endpoint of the story: another bestseller for Bob Woodward, in this case about a president sandbagged by his own high command and administration officials at one another’s throats over an inherited war gone wrong. But where did the story actually begin? Well, here’s th ...
  • The American Way: Spreading Democracy to Afghanist ...
    US-led forces in Afghanistan sure did a bang-up job this week at promoting the concept of Western "democracy." The so-called International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and the puppet intelligence agency of the Afghan government, between them, arrested and held three journalists, Rahmatullah Nekz ...
  • On Voting for Bad Democrats: the Perriello Predica ...
    What if you told your local congress critter you'd oppose them if they funded more war, and they funded more war, but their opponent is even worse and a Republican?  Tom Perriello, first-term Democratic congress member from Virginia's Fifth district, is widely expected to lose his reelection bid, in ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Obama’s Anti-American World View
    * Bumped up * If you were waiting for proof that Obama favors an anti-America, global view of reality, his speech to the UN General Assembly should settle the matter. Let’s start with Obama’s inept handling of the Declaration of Independence preamble before an Hispanic Conference and his perfect (an ...
  • Attack of the Zombie Republicans: Part 5
    A GOP Star Breaks Rank�� Handsome, precious Paul Ryan, six-term Republican from the safe-as-apple pie Janesville, Wisconsin, has fallen into a pout that worries his friends and entertains his enemies in the family feud that is the House GOP. Eric Cantor, John Boehner & Paul Ryan (AP Photo 3)R ...
  • Losing Hope
    One just has to feel some sympathy for Shepard Fairey. During the campaign his wildly popular poster of Barack Obama rallied millions to campaign for hope and change. Yet Fairey was soon to be sued by the Associated Press for altering their copyrighted photo. Then he witnessed his creation being ...
  • Paulie’s Radio Show Tonight Postponed
    She’ll be back next Monday.
  • Pigs-at-the-trough Open Thread
    17 fire & police officials in Yonkers, NY earn between $204,034 and $230, 616 … Oregon’s principal executive of human affairs earns $296,472 … “[t]here are 182 employees earning more than $100,000 in Ohioâs Mental Health Department, including one who earned $234,000 and $83,000 in overtime pay” … ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Incredible Crocheted World of Olek
    Olek creates unique and wonderful artworks with only a creative mind and a crochet hook. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 15 Images of the Moon as You've Never Seen it Befo ...
    See the full moon captured in all its glory in photographs taken all over the world! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Offsetting Doesn't Change the Fundamental Problem ...
    As good as offsetting is, it can never solve the fundamentally polluting nature of the aviation industry. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Offsetting: If You Need Something Done Do It Yours ...
    If you're worried about whether offsetting works then why not get involved and manage your own project? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Why We Need To Fight Climate Change Now
    We must ensure that we protect the world for the future - but we also need to make changes today to prevent disaster. 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

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Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Turkish Neocon Conspiracy 1981 - Eagleburger Perle ...
    This is a pretty classic one. Turkey has suddenly passed big reforms as the nasty NATO-friendly military post-coup power structure gets knocked back a step. Ergenekon and the neocon network, etc etc. Perle and Wolfowitz, the creation of the American-Turkish Council came after this memo. Possibly b ...
  • Video: Lawsuit Zombies fight state repression with ...
    Video release of sorts from the Minneapolis zombies, and a fun edit. 1min40s, brevity! Plz subscribe to Youtube & now Scribd document service as well. If you haven't yet, check out Scribd for a marvelous array of all sorts of documents (PDFs, office, etc)...w00pw00p. Press release: Zomb ...
  • California rolls out heat cannon torture weapon Ac ...
    Oh Shit!!! Let's explain how the mass torture weapon deployment rollout program works in the global scientific dictatorship. First the weapons are used on brown people in the field by the military, then on military prisoners, then on domestic prisoners. Then on protesters, then on random people. Thi ...
  • Kanye West Masonic/Egyptian "Power"; Viktor Bout's ...
    "In the threatening situation of the world today, when people are beginning to see that everything is at stake, the projection-creating fantasy soars beyond the realm of earthly organizations and powers into the heavens, into interstellar space, where the rulers of human fate, the gods, once had the ...
  • Barclays Bank: The design of criminal banking oper ...
    Crossposted - Barclays Bank Forfeits $298 Million for Aiding Rogue Nations 18 August 2010 Court filings: http://cryptome.org/0002/barclays/usa-v-barclays.htm Barclays Bank Forfeits $298 Million for Aiding Rogue Nations http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2010/August/10-crm-933.html Department of Ju ...

Daily Censored

  • 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 ...
  • re Working the System
    For the longest time it has bothered me to see Google ads, which advance the very poison I had just written about, showing up in the middle of my article.  My attempt to copy the ad failed due to embedded coding, but I have discovered that I don’t need to do that.  They are placing [...]
  • The Outrageous G8/G20 Costs
    The costs for the last G8/G20 event in Toronto are so outrageous, that you’d think they were joking. If only they were. The final tab ran over $1.25 billion. Some of the costs were: $80 million for food and accommodation $34 million on telecommunications and electronics $17 million for vehicle renta ...
  • Take Big Business Out of Education
    I’m not waiting for Superman. Waiting for Superman, Davis Guggenheim’s new educational film is presently receiving a media blitz. Is big business behind its success?
  • Criminalizing dissent: FBI raids anti-war activist ...
    In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came [...]

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Equality Trust

  • Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
    A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details ...
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  • VAT rise would hit the poorest
    Bill Wilson's VAT motion to the Scottish Parliament reads as follows: That the Parliament notes the warning issued by Save the Children in Scotland that raising VAT to 20% could mean a £31 a week bill for the poorest families in Scotland and that the poorest 10% of the population currently spend ...
  • Excessive pay and bonuses in public sector under s ...
    Daily Telegraph reports on bold moves in the public sector . But what about the private sector which originated the "crazy" bonus system and still leads the way on excessive top pay...?

PDA AMERICA

  • IOT: Accountability and Justice Sept Call
    David Swanson was our Guest Star, talking about war powers. We discussed HR 104, introduced in Jan '09, by Rep. John Conyers and cosponsored by 50 others, which calls for a commission to study presidential ...
  • One Nation Planning Call
    We had our final planning call for people going to DC for the Oct 2 One Nation March or planning regional events around it. Please tune in for important information on all of this.
  • 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 ...

Marler Blog

  • Punitive Damage Claim filed against Wright County ...
    After nearly 18 years doing foodborne illnesses cases, I have been frustrated by the lack of any prosecutions against many of these corporations who poison and kill us. When will a prosecutor step-up? It really is left to the blunt instrument of civil litigation, and punitive damages in particular ...
  • 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.

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 09.28.10
    Report: GM will sell diesel passenger car in the U.S. This could get interesting. Kia releases more pics of bubbly Pop electric city car concept It's all fun, isn't it? ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 09.27.10
    Report: Chevy Volt will only go 25 miles on battery power - or maybe 50 Ah, yes, the all-important "up to" is important here. Brammo attracts $12.5 million in investment, millions in pre-orders ...
  • 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 ...

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!

  • Part II...Ingrid Betancourt: "Even Silence Has an ...
    Former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt was kidnapped by FARC rebels and held hostage in rebel camps in the middle of the jungle for nearly six-and-a-half years before she was freed in a dramatic military rescue in July of 2008 that made international headlines. She has just publi ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • US Helicopters Attack Pakistan, Killing More Than ...
    NATO Confirms Apache Helicopters Launched Attacks Against Pakistani Territory by Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com,  September 26, 2010 NATO spokesmen are confirming tonight that a pair of US Apache helicopters crossed the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan, launching an attack against tribesmen in Pakista ...
  • Christine O’Donnell: ‘Evolution Is A M ...
    Christine O’Donnell: ‘Evolution Is A Myth. Why Aren’t Monkeys Still Evolving Into Humans?’ (VIDEO) The Huffington Post |  Nicholas Graham First Posted: 09-25-10 11:01 AM   |   Updated: 09-25-10 11:07 AM Bill Maher has so far kept his promise to air an embarrassing clip of Tea Party favorite ...
  • SNL: Christine O’Donnell As First Political ...
    SNL Returns with Christine O’Donnell as First Political Target with Masturbation Parody Crooks & Liars- By Heather September 26, 2010 04:00 AM Saturday Night Live started off their season premier with having a bit of fun at Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell’s expense and her r ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Europe’s Central Banks Halt Gold Sales
    By Jack Farchy in Berlin Europe’s central banks have all but halted sales of their gold reserves, ending a run of large disposals each year for more than a decade. The central banks of the eurozone plus Sweden and Switzerland are bound by the Central Bank Gold Agreement, which caps their collective ...
  • UN ‘To Appoint Space Ambassador to Greet Ali ...
    By Heidi Blake A space ambassador could be appointed by the United Nations to act as the first point of contact for aliens trying to communicate with Earth. Mazlan Othman, a Malaysian astrophysicist, is set to be tasked with co-ordinating humanity’s response if and when extraterrestrials make contac ...
  • Birke Baehr - “What’s Wrong With Our F ...
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  • Money & Markets - Week of 9.26.10
    Cazenove Strategist Discusses PPT And POMO Interventions To Keep Markets Ramping Higher Zero Hedge (27 Sept 10) South Korea Reportedly Intervenes to Slow Currency’s Rise GATA (27 Sept 10) Bank of Korea Reportedly Intervenes to Curb Won MarketWatch (27 Sept 10) Some Airline Fees Up By More Than 5 ...
  • Life - Week of 9.26.10
    Levee Along Wisconsin River Fails; Extent of Possible Flooding Unkown CNN U.S. (27 Sept 10)

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Obama scores again against the Constitution. The T ...
    Summary:  Every week provides more evidence supporting the Tea Party’s belief of the Constitution’s imperiled condition.  But their failure to act shows their true colors.  As for Team Obama, their own words indict themselves.  Cry Baa, baa, baa while you read it, and  weep for our lost Repu ...
  • “Is There Hope for the Rule of Law in Americ ...
    Please read this article.  This has been said many times on the FM website, but never so well or so thoroughly: “Social Studies 50th Anniversary Symposium: Is There Hope for the Rule of Law in America?“, Brad DeLong, 26 September 2010 — Summary of remarks by Alan Gilbert (professor, Josef Korbel Sc ...
  • Endgame for the affair Assange: big win for the g ...
    Summary:  Time has proven wrong the initial FM analysis of the Assange rape charges.  If it was a government ops, they correctly estimated our gullibility, and have dealt Wikileaks a severe blow.  Even better, this example will warn future dissidents about the peril of angering the US government. Th ...
  • 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Vegas drone trial makes history
    City Life – Fourteen anti-war activists may have made history today in a Las Vegas courtroom when they turned a misdemeanor trespassing trial into a possible referendum on Americaâs newfound taste for remote-controlled warfare. The so-called Creech 14, a group of peace activists from across the co ...
  • Stroke damage to brain may not be permanent, study ...
    PhysOrg.com – After damage to certain areas of the brain in some stroke victims, nearby areas can take over the function of the damaged cells, according to a University of South Carolina study. The findings counter the long-held notion that stroke damage is permanent, much as recent research on reco ...
  • Kim Jong-un appointed general in first official hi ...
    Daily Telegraph – North Koreaâs ailing dictator Kim Jong-il appointed his youngest son a four-star general on Tuesday, giving his country the first official hint that he will be their next leader. Hours after Kim Jong-un, 28, was given his first known official position the North Koreanâs 1.2m-st ...
  • Pakistan furious over Nato cross-border Taliban ra ...
    The Guardian – Pakistan reacted angrily today after Nato said US helicopters had crossed into its territory from Afghanistan to attack militants, claiming to have killed more than 50 Taliban fighters. The admission that two incursions had taken place over the weekend by helicopters from the Nato-led ...
  • New OYEN Podcast: Climate Change, Pakistan, Tax Do ...
    On Saturday 24th September, the editor of www.OpenYourEyesNews.com, James Fairbairn, made a guest appearance on ABC720 Radio in Perth, Western Australia to discuss with host, Siobhan, some of the key news events of recent days. Check out our latest interview on our new Podcast channel and please sub ...

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

  • Act of War: US copters kill 30 inside Pakistan
    US attack helicopters have killed more than 30 people inside Pakistan, diplomatic sources told Dawn on Sunday.
  • Last Days Of The U.S. Empire? Video
    The global financial markets were startled this week when Brazilian oil giant Petrobras sold an astonishing $70 billion worth of stock in the largest stock sale in history. Petrobras will use the money to fund aggressive offshore drilling--the kind that is being hotly debated in the U.S. after the G ...
  • Why Russia Won’t Sell The S-300 System To Iran
    Russian army chief of staff Gen. N. Makarov broke the news on September 22 that Russia will not sell the S-300 air defense systems to Iran. Regardless of official explanations, it does not take an expert to realize that as a purely defensive system designed to shield a country from aircraft and crui ...
  • ANOTHER 9/11: OBAMA WARNS AND THE NUKES ARE READY
    Connect the dots: the nukes at the 'hot spots' are ready, and the warning has been given many times. Poor innocent victims. Again and again! And all for power and profit. The financiers and other banksters hegemony-pipe-dream, of ruling the whole wold in this New World Order...
  • Interview with family devastated by US drone attac ...
    I am shocked that the US can come to attack Pakistan in this way and Pakistan does not even have the authority to question them on the deaths they are causing. The civilians in all these regions are extremely frightened and fearful. They can’t work in the day, nor can they sleep during the night. As ...

Andy Worthington

  • Heads You Lose, Tails You Lose: The Betrayal of Mo ...
    Back in March, when Judge James Robertson of the District Court in Washington D.C. granted the habeas corpus petition of Guantánamo prisoner Mohamedou Ould Slahi, there was uproar in Congress. For many years, Slahi, a Mauritanian national who had lived in Germany and Canada, was touted by the Bush a ...
  • Andy Worthington Attends “Berkeley Says No to Tort ...
    Remember, John Yoo, the smug, shameless apologist for unfettered executive power who once claimed that, if he so desired, the President of the United States could crush a child’s testicles and there was nothing that anyone could do about it? It was John Yoo, a follower of former Vice President Dick ...
  • Moazzam Begg Visits Pakistan: My Return to the Sce ...
    Iâm cross-posting below an extraordinary account by former Guantánamo prisoner (and Cageprisoners director) Moazzam Begg of his first visit to Pakistan since he was abducted from his house in Islamabad on January 31, 2002, and subsequently held in US custody — in Afghanistan and at Guantánamo — ...
  • Guantánamo: If the Light Goes Out – Photos by Edmu ...
    I’m not sure quite how long I’ve known photographer Edmund Clark. I think we met in 2008 when he had published a book of photographs, Still Life: Killing Time, taken in British prisons, which captured the essence of his work: objects or places, beautifully photographed, with seemingly effortless cla ...
  • 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

  • Walruses Swarm Beaches as Ice Melts
    Thousands of walruses gathered recently on an island strip in Alaska, probably because of extreme ice melting, scientists say. Video. Alaska - Walrus - United States - Arctic - Sea ice
  • 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

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.

  • 10 Tips for Maximizing Your SoCap10 Conference
    The Social Capital Markets Conference begins in less than a week. Already social entrepreneurs, angel investors, philanthropists and more are flying in to San Francisco from all parts of the world for meetings, reunions, and hopefully, the start of the next big thing. As the whole field converges on ...
  • Transgender Student Denied Homecoming King Title
    Each year, high schools across the country pick a homecoming king and homecoming queen based on popular vote. At Mona Shores High School in Muskegon, Michigan, one candidate who had received an overwhelming number of votes for homecoming king was a senior named Oakleigh Reed. But, unfortunately ...
  • Facebook-Greenpeace Coal Conversation Gets Fun
    You are most likely reading this article on the internet. So, chances are good you have a Facebook account. Facebook has more than 500 million active users and, last month, U.S. internet users spent more time on Facebook than on any other website (including all Google sites combined) for the first t ...
  • The Abortion Pill Turns Ten and the Fight for Acce ...
    September 28th marks the ten-year anniversary of the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the abortion drug, mifepristone. An alternative to surgical abortion, the pill provides a convenient and less-invasive way for women to terminate early pregnancies. Although opponents fought ardently to p ...
  • Read Something Feminist and Censored for Banned Bo ...
    I just discovered the best reason I've heard yet for reading the Twilight series: It's number five on the American Library Association's list of Top 10 Challenged Books in 2009 . Though I've resisted friends' attempts to join the Twilight craze, nothing makes a book quite so appealing as finding out ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Anti-War Activists Targeted by FBI Speak Out
    by Karen Hawkins CHICAGO -- Two anti-war activists said Saturday that a 12-hour search of their Chicago home by the FBI was an attempt to intimidate them and silence the peace movement. Joe Iosbaker and his wife, Stephanie Weiner, said the government targeted them because they've been outspoken agai ...
  • White House Defends Targeted Killing Program
    by Evan Perez The Obama administration was preparing a request on Friday to block a lawsuit over the scope of its targeted killing program for suspected terrorists, in a case that challenges the government's powers in its war on terror. U.S. officials say national security is threatened by Yemeni-Am ...
  • Call for 'Gaza Style' Inquiry on Afghan Deaths
    by Mark Townsend 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. Philip Alston called for the UN Human Rights Council to investigate the "condu ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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

  • Background Listening and Passive Exposure Can Impr ...
    Headphones can do more than just drown out your coworkers. A study involving active practice and background exposure shows that listening to material related to a task, or just being around it, can improve your skills at that task. More�� ...
  • Google Voice App May Be Approved for iPhone Releas ...
    TechCrunch is reporting, from sources including one "close to Google," that an official Google Voice application received an App Store approval , allowing a full-featured Voice client to run on iPhones. If their report is correct, the app is a ...
  • Assign Email a 15-Minute Minimum to Avoid Unnecess ...
    Your brain isn't wired for quick-switching tasks, but it's what you want to do to avoid work you don't love. A multi-task researcher suggests assigning 15-minute minimums to your frequent click-overs, like email, to force yourself into making ...
  • Use Ubuntu Tweak to Purge and Downgrade Third-Part ...
    Ubuntu Tweak is a handy way to automatically install and upgrade third-party apps and their auto-updating repositories, but it can also be used to wipe out updates that bring bugs into your system. More��
  • Airline Fee Chart Spells Out the True Cost of Flyi ...
    One brave soul at USA Today researched and compiled all the fees charged by U.S. airlines, from check-in through landing, in a series of fairly comprehensive charts. Leg room, frequent flier usage, bag sizes, and more are covered in their wall ...

Water Privatization

  • Press Releases
    Ang Kasangga Representative Teodorico T. Haresco has filed a resolution asking the House of Representatives to conduct an inquiry on the utilization, conservation and management of the country's water resources.
  • Global water conference in Canada to be used for a ...
    MONTREAL - A call to end the privatization of municipal water is expected to spill onto the streets Monday outside the World Water Congress in Montreal.
  • H20 debate to boil at World Water Congress
    MONTREAL - A call to end the privatization of municipal water is expected to spill onto the streets tomorrow.
  • 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.

Guardian

  • Poll boost for Ed Miliband ahead of conference spe ...
    As Ed Miliband prepares to give his first major speech as party leader, a new poll shows support for Labour on 40% compared with 39% for the Conservatives Ed Miliband received a boost today on the morning of his first major speech as Labour leader as a new poll showed the party pulling ahead of the ...
  • Firm that supplied Tasers loses licence
    Company was licensed to supply Taser guns to Home Office for testing but not to supply them to police, Home Office says The company that supplied the Taser guns used by police in their standoff with Raoul Moat has had its licence revoked, the Home Office said today. The home secretary, Theresa May, ...
  • Medvedev sacks Moscow mayor
    Dmitry Medvedev orders out veteran Yuri Luzhkov citing 'loss of confidence', bringing 18-year domination to an end President Dmitry Medvedev has sacked Moscow's embattled mayor Yuri Luzhkov today, dramatically ending the most captivating political soap opera in Russia for years. In the most audaciou ...
  • Brazil warns of world 'currency war'
    • Brazilian finance minister Guido Mantega speaks out against devaluations • Economists fear increasing currency volatility and instability The world is in the midst of an "international currency war" according to Brazil's finance minister as governments force down the value of their currencies to b ...
  • Israeli navy diverts Gaza-bound yacht
    Naval personnel board boat carrying 10 Jewish activists who were trying to break sea blockade The Israeli navy today boarded a yacht carrying 10 Jewish activists who were attempting to break the sea blockade around Gaza , forcibly diverting the vessel to the nearby port of Ashdod. "There was no resi ...

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

  • Foreign Militaries Advising Pentagon On How To Rep ...
    UK’s People Management is reporting that the British army is advising the Pentagon’s Working Group on how best to eliminate Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell — part of that group’s ongoing effort to review the experiences of open service in foreign militaries: Colonel Mark Abraham told PM that fears surroundi ...
  • Johnson Claims He Could Reduce Federal Spending By ...
    Last week, after House Republicans released their “Pledge to America” — which waxed poetic about the need to reduce government spending — the plan’s architect, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), was unable to name a single program that he’d cut from the federal budget. McCarthy joined a whole host of House ...
  • Around The World, Activists Arrested For Protestin ...
    Today, scientists, youth, and coalfield residents came together to protest the coal industry’s destruction of our future in a global day of action. In Washington, DC, top climate scientist James Hansen, who warned Congress of the coming scourge of global warming in 1989, joined over a hundred others ...
  • Will The Federal Government’s Efforts To Kee ...
    Earlier last week I wondered how the federal government could prevent insurers from ending child-only policies, speculating that it can do relatively little to assuage issuers’ fears about sicker children flooding the market. Today, Politico’s Pulse informs me that aside from writing yet another str ...
  • Republican Senate Candidate Says He Supports Repea ...
    Ron Johnson, the Republican candidate challenging Sen. Russ Fiengold (D-WI) this November said that he supports ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell but would want to see the results of the Pentagon’s study group before voting to end the ban against openly gay and lesbian servicemembers: “I would like to ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • So That's What "Rope-a-Dope" Meant
  • Burma VJ
    Watched the movie Burma VJ (VJ="video journalist") and I've got mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, it's the real deal. A black-and-white struggle between an unpopular, corrupt, military dictatorship on one side and incredibly brave, civil rights-democracy champions on the other. More than thi ...
  • 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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • NWC files brief arguing that SOX protects disclosu ...
    On behalf of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC), David Colapinto and I filed a friend-of-the-court brief last week arguing that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) can protect corporate whistleblowers who make disclosures through the media. We filed the brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ni ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • More Stories Of People Arrested For Making Joke Th ...
    Earlier this year. we wrote about a guy in the UK, Paul Chambers, who was arrested after he tweeted a message about blowing up his local airport if it didn't reopen in time for the flight he had to take the following week. The message was clearly a joke. Now, as I mentioned at the time, I have no ...
  • Contractual Dispute Leads To Claims Of CIA Using H ...
    One important lesson I've heard from lawyers over and over again in cautioning companies who are too eager to sue: when you open up a lawsuit to discovery, be aware that discovery works both ways. Take, for example, the bizarre lawsuit highlighted by The Register, between Intelligent Integration Sy ...
  • Doctors Sue Blue Shield Over Rating System
    It appears some California doctors are not at all pleased with a new doctor rating system launched by Blue Shield of California and have launched a class action lawsuit against the insurance company. Blue Shield notes that the rating system uses "nationally recognized measures of care," and the dat ...
  • Home Buyers Only Finding Out About Resale Fees Whe ...
    We've been covering the growing practice of adding a "resale fee" to homes, that give developers a copyright-like extended control over a piece of your house long after the house has been sold. The idea is that they can get 1% of any future sale -- which of course makes the house worth less to both ...
  • Game Developers Can Beat Piracy By Copying Their A ...
    Drew points us to a CNN commentary piece from Scott Steinberg, a video game consultant, who suggests that video game piracy can be good for the game industry . Steinberg goes over several examples of game piracy and the corresponding complaints from game developers who are alarmed by the growing av ...

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

  • Fallen Fruit Project Turns Urban Foraging Into Com ...
    Image via Fallen Fruit Waaaaaay back in 2005, we reported on a very cool project called Fallen Fruit -- an organization that takes advantage of the free produce found in the public property of urban areas and maps out where to find the goods. If there was an orange tree with fruit-laden branche ...
  • Scotland Will Get 100% Of Its Electricity From Ren ...
    photo: Bruce McAdam via flickr Northern Ireland just outlined how it hopes to get 40% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020 and, apparently not to be outdone, First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond thinks that's not an ambitious enough target. Speaking to Reut... Read the full stor ...
  • Treehugger in Senegal: This Is the World's Biggest ...
    The mangrove tree is quite simply an ecological superhero. It not only makes up highly productive ecosystems in tropical and sub-tropical tidal zones, but it serves as a vital renewable natural resource. It's a natural habitat for fauna and a spawning area for numerous species of fish. It helps ...
  • Peru's Multi-city Festival AMO AMAZONÍA "Leaves A ...
    Images: Amo Amazonía With numerous dire (and relatively not-so-dire ) predictions about the fate of the Amazon being broadcast, it's not often that we hear something positive rising out of such a critical situation -- especially a multi-city "decentralized" festival that drew 31,000 people in its ...
  • iPhone App for Cyclists Turns Cell Phone Into a To ...
    Screengrabs via iTunes We were very excited when Google finally released a Bike There feature on Google Maps , where a cyclists could pick the best route for pedaling from place to place. However, there's competition. A new free iPhone app turns your iPhone into a cyclist's version of a TomTom ...

Biosingularity

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

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

  • An ill wind in New Jersey
    Proposed windmill would cost $7 million, stand taller than the Statue of Liberty, and when the wind isn't blowing would need to be kept turning with electricity from a traditional plant in order to avoid mechanical failure.
  • Howard Stern: 'Bring back DDT!'
    Stern argues that New York's bedbug problem is nothing compared to the millions dying from malaria in Africa, quoting extensively from an article by CFACT's Paul Driessen.
  • New York's bedbugs vs. Africa's malaria crisis
    Our obsession with pesticide “risksâ€Â has very different consequences for America and Africa.
  • Empowering the poor in the Yucatan jungle
    Local villagers struggle to survive in Becan, but a new program promises to bring prosperity by unleashing their creativity and energy.
  • The global warming fleecing of the American taxpay ...
    The federal government has spent tens of billions of taxpayer dollars on research that has completely failed to affect temperatures or demonstrate an empirical link between human CO2 emissions and global warming.

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Last 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. Spencer : “Let there be no doubt that the U.S. is at war in Pakistan.” I guess it’s fine that the military is not planning on keeping prison ...
  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • GM Food Battle Moves to Fish as Super-Salmon Nears ...
    Buried in a prospectus inviting investors to buy shares in a fledgling biotech company is an arresting claim attributed to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization. Click here to read this article
  • The FDA and Frankenfoods
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent enforcement letters warning food makers that they cannot label their products as free of genetically modified or genetically engineered ingredients. Click here to read this article
  • Norman Solomon: Higher Consciousness Won't Save Us
    Autumn 2010 is a time of disillusionment for many who deplore the USA's current political trajectory. Some who've been active for progressive causes are now gravitating toward hope that individual actions -- in tandem with higher consciousness, more down-to-earth lifestyles and healthy cultural alte ...
  • Whole Foods Dumps So-Called 'Natural' Silk Soy
    Click here to read this article
  • Save American Democracy, or What's Left of It
    This is the first election after the Citizens United decision which gave corporations complete freedom to spend as much money as they want to influence the outcome of elections. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Rosas de colores parte VI (5 fotos gratis para com ...
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    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 ...
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    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

  • Structural excuses
    This just in: we’re fucked. Details are everywhere, ramifications abound. So yeah, let’s talk about how electing America-hating Republicans will fix all that. More links today because I just don’t have a rant in me this morning. - Econacies: Krugzilla on the Structure of Excuses Reich on structural ...
  • 2 many links (hey — it’s Sunday)
    The big push is coming, but it’s coming from Karl Rove and I really don’t know how much more of his bilge voters can take. Especially given how the Democrats are planning to fight back: Democratic candidates across the country are opening a fierce offensive of negative advertisements against Republi ...
  • 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 ...

Public News Service

  • Mortgage Delinquencies: Less Stigma, More Walk-Awa ...
    Mortgage Delinquencies: Less Stigma, More Walk-Aways? Phoenix, AZ - Some Arizona lenders are aggressively pursuing homeowners who deliberately let their mortgages fall into delinquency – but a new survey from the Pew Research Center says in this economy, a growing number of Americans think it's acce ...
  • Debate Continues on the Impact of Merit Pay on Tes ...
    Debate Continues on the Impact of Merit Pay on Test Scores Phoenix, AZ – A study released last week by Vanderbilt University shows no link between test scores and bonus pay for teachers. An Arizona school boards official says the report was too limited to draw any conclusions. Comments from Janice P ...
  • AZ Voters to Decide Repeal of Early Childhood Prog ...
    AZ Voters to Decide Repeal of Early Childhood Programs Phoenix, AZ – Lawmakers are asking Arizona voters to reverse their 2006 approval of the “First Things First” early childhood health and development initiative. Money raised by the initiative’s cigarette tax would be diverted to the state’s gener ...
  • AZ Coalition Focuses on Kids With Parents in Priso ...
    AZ Coalition Focuses on Kids With Parents in Prison Phoenix, AZ – A new statewide coalition is being formed to advocate for the 175-thousand Arizona children who are affected by incarcerated parents. A major emphasis will be on recruiting volunteer mentors. Comments from Dr. Wilson Goode (GOOD), nat ...
  • AZ Abuse Shelter Challenged by State Cuts
    AZ Abuse Shelter Challenged by State Cuts Phoenix, AZ – Continuing cuts in state funding have prompted the nation’s largest domestic violence shelter to reduce available beds and put off expansion plans. However, the Phoenix-based Sojourner Center is still taking in 95-percent of women and children ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Health Benefits of Oil Pulling
    Just bumped into this. http://www.oilpulling.com/faq.htm is a related page Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • It's Official: The US Is A Police State
    The FBI is confirming that this morning they began a number of raids against the homes of antiwar activists in Illinois, Minneapolis, Michigan, and North Carolina, claiming that they are "seeking evidence". Why, and with what justification? Submitted by God Almost to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-i ...
  • US To Continue Killing Own Citizens Overseas - Ob ...
    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 would reveal state secrets. Civil liberties groups attempted to sue the US government. Submitted by God Almost to US Politics & Gov't �| ...
  • Fatima Bhutto on the Floods in Pakistan, the Gover ...
    The agricultural food belt of the country has been submerged. And we have six million children at risk of fatal diseases.This is a crisis that ought to have been contained.70 percent of funds given for dam maintenance was siphoned off. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Com ...
  • 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

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

  • Ben & Jerry’s latest flavor: genetically engineere ...
    In addition to heaping helpings of political activism, the company also served a "protest batch" of the cleverly re-named frozen treat, "Something's Fishy." It's "an outrageous flavor protesting genetically engineered salmon," and it's chocolatey, marshmallowy good.
  • Groundbreaking study shows Roundup link to birth d ...
    Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the world's best-selling weedkiller Roundup, causes malformations in frog and chicken embryos at doses far lower than those used in agricultural spraying and well below maximum residue levels in products presently approved in the European Union.
  • 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!

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Biden tells liberal base: 'Stop whining'
    ShareThis B*** me, Biden: Biden tells liberal base: 'Stop whining' 27 Sep 2010 Vice President Joe Biden on Monday urged Democrats to overcome their differences and support their candidates at the polls by telling them to "stop whining." During a fundraiser for New Hampshire Democratic candidates for ...
  • Pakistan furious over Nato cross-border CIA raids
    ShareThis Pakistan furious over Nato cross-border CIA raids 27 Sep 2010� Pakistan reacted angrily today after Nato said US helicopters had crossed into its territory from Afghanistan to attack militants, claiming to have killed more than 50 Taliban fighters. The admission that two incursions had tak ...
  • Dem Whip: GOP majority will issue birther subpoena ...
    ShareThis Dem Whip: GOP majority will issue birther subpoenas 27 Sep 2010 House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) warned Republicans will investigate President Obama's birthplace if they take over Congress. Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House, said Republicans will grind the governme ...
  • More than 100 Arrested at White House Demanding En ...
    ShareThis More than 100 Arrested at White House Demanding End to Mountaintop Removal By lacymacauley 27 Sep 2010 More than 100 people were arrested today during Appalachia Rising , the largest national protest to end mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining. Arrests included Appalachian residents; reti ...
  • 'Jews for Justice' aid boat sets sail for Gaza
    ShareThis 'Jews for Justice' aid boat sets sail for Gaza 26 Sep 2010 A boat carrying Jewish activists from Israel, Germany, the U.S. and Britain set sail on Sunday for Gaza, hoping to breach Israel's blockade there and deliver aid. Richard Kuper, an organizer with the U.K. group Jews for Justice for ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Mondoweiss

  • Israelis surround Jewish boat to Gaza, force it to ...
    Various sources are reporting that the "Irene," the catamaran carrying seven Jews to Gaza from Cyprus, was intercepted this morning by several boats in the Israeli navy, apparently in international waters, and forced to make course for Ashdod, in Israel. Reuters has an Israeli gov't spokesman compla ...
  • The details of those killed on the Mavi Marmara
    The following appears on pages 30 and 31 of the UN report into the Israeli attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Furkan Dogan, a nineteen-year old with dual Turkish and United States citizenship, was on the central area of the top deck filming with a small video camera when he was first hit with live ...
  • Blogging Israel/Palestine
    �Last week I participated in an event at the Palestine Center called The New Media & the Palestine Question: Blogging Out of Conflict. The event also featured Jerome Slater, Stephen Walt and MJ Rosenberg. You can watch it in two parts below:
  • Tutu: ‘The issue of a principled commitment ...
    Archbishop Desmond Tutu writing in The Times in South Africa ahead of the University of Johannesburg's Senate vote on whether to sever ties with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Struggles for freedom and justices are fraught with huge moral dilemmas. How can we commit ourselves to virtue - before ...
  • Oren: Colonization benefits Palestinians
    A howler from today's NYT story about the expiration of the so-called settelement freeze:Israeli officials said that Mr. Netanyahu felt it important for his credibility not to extend the moratorium beyond 10 months. “It is a read-my-lips moment,” said Michael B. Oren, the Israeli ambassador to the U ...

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

  • Fallen Fruit Project Turns Urban Foraging Into Com ...
    Image via Fallen Fruit Waaaaaay back in 2005, we reported on a very cool project called Fallen Fruit -- an organization that takes advantage of the free produce found in the public property of urban areas and maps out where to find the goods. If there was an orange tree with fruit-laden branche ...
  • Scotland Will Get 100% Of Its Electricity From Ren ...
    photo: Bruce McAdam via flickr Northern Ireland just outlined how it hopes to get 40% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020 and, apparently not to be outdone, First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond thinks that's not an ambitious enough target. Speaking to Reut... Read the full stor ...
  • Treehugger in Senegal: This Is the World's Biggest ...
    The mangrove tree is quite simply an ecological superhero. It not only makes up highly productive ecosystems in tropical and sub-tropical tidal zones, but it serves as a vital renewable natural resource. It's a natural habitat for fauna and a spawning area for numerous species of fish. It helps ...
  • Peru's Multi-city Festival AMO AMAZONÍA "Leaves A ...
    Images: Amo Amazonía With numerous dire (and relatively not-so-dire ) predictions about the fate of the Amazon being broadcast, it's not often that we hear something positive rising out of such a critical situation -- especially a multi-city "decentralized" festival that drew 31,000 people in its ...
  • iPhone App for Cyclists Turns Cell Phone Into a To ...
    Screengrabs via iTunes We were very excited when Google finally released a Bike There feature on Google Maps , where a cyclists could pick the best route for pedaling from place to place. However, there's competition. A new free iPhone app turns your iPhone into a cyclist's version of a TomTom ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

  • Walruses Swarm Beaches as Ice Melts
    Thousands of walruses gathered recently on an island strip in Alaska, probably because of extreme ice melting, scientists say. Video. Alaska - Walrus - United States - Arctic - Sea ice
  • 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

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Federal judge declares mistrial in murder case aga ...
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia [official website] declared a mistrial Monday in a murder case against two Blackwater [JURIST news archive] defense contractors after the jury failed to reach a verdict. The jury notified Judge Robert Doumar Monday morni ...
  • France ex-president Chirac settles with Paris in c ...
    [JURIST] The Paris city council voted Monday to accept a deal in which former French president Jacques Chirac [official profile; JURIST news archive] will pay the city USD $741,000 in compensation for money he allegedly paid to supporters for whom he created false jobs. In exchange for the compensat ...
  • Israel asks UN rights committee to cease probe int ...
    [JURIST] The Israeli Ambassador to the UN on Monday called for an end to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] investigation into Israeli actions during the 2008-2009 Gaza campaign [JURIST news archive], Operation Cast Lead, which resulted in the deaths of 1,400 Palestinians. The am ...
  • Kosovo president resigns after constitional court ...
    [JURIST] Kosovar President Fatmir Sejdiu [official website] resigned [press release] Monday following last week's Constitutional Court [official website] ruling [press release] that his dual roles as president and head of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) violated the country's constitution. Sej ...
  • Australia military prosecutor to charge soldiers o ...
    [JURIST] Australian Director of Military Prosecutions Brigadier Lyn McDade announced Monday that she will charge three Australian special forces soldiers [press release] in the deaths of six Afghan civilians during a 2009 operation. The deaths occurred as Australian forces attempted to clear a compo ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Ed Gillespie: Bullish on House, Skeptical About Se ...
    live-blogging from the Newseum In his Google-Politico interview with Mike Allen, GOP uber-strategist Ed Gillespie predicts a minimum of a 45 seat pick-up for Republicans in the House, giving the party at least a six-person majority in that chamber, and sees Republicans picking up as many as 10 addit ...
  • David Axelrod Sounds Off on the Midterms and Techn ...
    Liveblogging from the Newseum : 15:10 : Axe's favorite apps: MLB Live, Pacman, POLITICO, a lot of the news apps.� 15:03 : �Axe handicaps Rahm's prospects as a candidate for mayor. "He understands that if he does make that decision he's going to have to go door to door. One thing I know about Chicago ...
  • Obama's 'Favorite General' Heading ...
    Gen. James "Hoss" Cartwright, the Marine who's now the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, comes off with a golden sheen in Bob Woodward's new book, Obama's Wars . Critically, it's Cartwright who seemed to have the first insight that the way to put leverage on Afghanistan's government was to ...
  • Gen. McChrystal Steps Out Of The Shadows
    The former commanding general of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Gen. Stanley McChrystal (ret)., is coming out of the shadows after a short, self-imposed hiatus from public life. McChrystal, who resigned in June after his staff insulted White House officials in a Rolling Stone article, has plans to giv ...
  • How Would You Cover the White House?
    In November, I'll make the transition from politics to the White House beat. My editors and I have ideas about how to approach the Obama White House, but our perspective will benefit from the thoughts of the people who will read what I'm going to write. Before you let me borrow your thoughts, I wan ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Israeli Attack on Syrian Reactor, Template for Ira ...
    When the Times’ John Markoff wrote about the Stuxnet worm and the impact that it was having on Iran, he sent me on a chase after an interesting article, The Hunt for the Kill-Switch, that described the method by which Israel may’ve “wormed” its way into Syria’s radar defense system, which allowed it ...
  • Links for 2010-03-18 [Digg]
    Shin Bet Secretly Detains Reporter Leaking Top-Secret Docume I was the first blogger or journalist to break this story outside Israel. Anat Kam, a young Israeli reporter was secretly arrested and imprisoned for allegedly leaking top secret IDF documents about targeted assassinations.
  • Stuxnet: Paying the Piper
    The creators of Stuxnet seem to believe that they will not suffer any consequences for their deviltry.  It is almost impossible to trace the worm to its original source.  So the victims can’t even know for sure who their enemy is.  Besides, if the culprit is Israel it has a formidable defense in ...
  • Links for 2010-03-30 [Digg]
    Overseas Media Begins Reporting Kam Case An Israeli journalist disappears into the maw of the intelligence services. A gag order prevents newspapers reporting the story. Only overseas media can do so, but they hesitate since so little is known. That's why blogs exist and that's the role that ...
  • Links for 2010-05-04 [Digg]
    Dershowitz Incites Hate Against Michael Lerner It is absolutely no accident that Alan Dershowitz singled Rabbi Michael Lerner out for special opprobrium in his most recent Jerusalem Post and Huffington Post column...

Ode Magazine

  • Planting peace poles
    By: PeaceCorso It’s the week after Peace Day, and it’s never too late to plant a peace pole. The photo above is the peace pole at Gizah. I have one in my living room. Oh, not one of the big ones sunk into the floor! A small one on a stand. Here’s the wiki: ...
  • 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 ...

OpEd News

  • Christian clergy hypocritically oppose the IRS
    Christian clergy attempt to resist the IRS rule which prohibits them from promoting politicians from the pulpit. If they were sincere, they would give up their tax exempt status in order to say what they want. However, by resisting the government they are in violation of their own Bible.
  • BECKWATCH: Is He Systematically Going To Appropria ...
    REMEMBER THE ALAMO! Glenn Beck held a rally in front of the Alamo in San Antonio Texas on Tax Day last year. I've recently had conversations with a couple of Glenn Beckers and neither would or could make the connection between taxes and national infrastructure and services - they simply ranted abo ...
  • Why Hudgens Should not GA's New Insurance Commissi ...
    A GA state legislator wants the plum position of insurance commissioner, but knows little insurance regulation, and does not want to be informed. He just wants the power, the money, the pension. He is a good example of so many people distrust politicians.
  • 2010 Election - A Democratic Momentum Shift Begins ...
    Something unexpected has started to happen in the last few weeks.
  • The real story of Obama's Wars
    Obama's Wars contains hints of another story, the significance of which seems to have eluded Woodward. The theme of that story is not whether Dick likes Jane, but whether the constitution remains an operative document. The constitution explicitly assigns to the president the role of commander-in-ch ...

Switchboard

  • What Does Global Warming Look Like to You?
    Last week I posted an NRDC video showing the devastating impacts of floods, droughts, and wildfires in the United States, Pakistan, Russia, and China. For millions of people “This is What Global Warming Looks Like.” The build-up of heat-trapping pollution in our atmosphere is loading t ...
  • Searching For Gold(en Trout) in the Beartooths
    I can’t remember the exact moment I learned golden trout existed. I was in high school or college, had been fly-fishing for a number of years, and was quite familiar with rainbow, brown, brook, and cutthroat trout (the “big four,” if you will). Discovering that I shared this continen ...
  • Sprawl's Genetic Legacy? Ask Three Lizards and a B ...
    When we talk about sprawl, we frequently consider water use, driving and auto dependency, and even personal activity and obesity.� A significant aspect of sprawl, however, gets less attention: the impacts of expanding urbanization on animals and their habitat. � Nearly 31% of imperile ...
  • The Mabus Plan for the Gulf Must Think Big When It ...
    Everybody loves before and after pictures, and during my recent trip to the Gulf of Mexico, I got to see the equivalent: I traveled by boat through a struggling marshland and then I floated through lush, green, wetlands full of grasses, birds, and even a few alligators. The fading mar ...
  • California Air Board Votes to Cut Traffic and Clea ...
    Last Thursday, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), chaired by former NRDC attorney Mary Nichols, voted unanimously to accept local recommendations and adopt regional targets to reduce pollution from cars and light trucks.  In doing so they met the deadline for the first major mi ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Teaching Panel Transitions via Craig Thompson&#821 ...
    The standard caveat applies: these analyses are designed for freshmen-level composition courses.  I repeat: these analyses are designed for freshmen-level composition courses.  The wheel will not be reinvented here. I begin the quarter teaching excerpts from Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics ...
  • Yeah, Sure
    Shorter Clive Crook: People would be perfectly happy with Obama, despite the dismal economy, if he were more like David Broder. Certainly, he cannot continue to be such a populist firebrand, always pandering to hippies. Oh, and he should definitely support extremely unpopular upper-class tax c ...
  • The Full Range Of Opinion From Jonah Goldberg to R ...
    Son of a Nobel Laureate Adam Bellow continues to masterfully undermine the thesis of his own book. Related posts:Happy Jonah Goldberg Day! The Moral Clarity of Jonah Goldberg Why Does Jonah Goldberg Hate America? Related posts: Happy Jonah Goldberg Day! The Moral Clarity of Jonah Goldberg W ...
  • I Can’t Decide Whether This Is Wrong Until I ...
    Meet New York Republican nominee Carl Paladino, who has some other things besides racist emails on his cv: She was talking about her husband’s affair, a subject she was ready, if not eager, to address. Since her husband, Carl, won the Republican nomination for governor of New York last week, the onl ...
  • The Death of Brown Continues
    School boards have gotten the green light from the Supreme Court to re-segregate, and so why not just abandon any pretense of caring and go back to the same “neighborhood school” polices that maintained segregated schools in the immediate wake of Brown? Related posts:The Collapse of the Post-Bro ...

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.

  • Judge, citing 'egregious breach,' slashes BARBRI f ...
    The roller coaster ride isn't over yet for plaintiffs' lawyers attempting to recover legal fees in the antitrust case against the parent company of BARBRI.
  • Google awards legal records site $2 million
    Law.gov — the fledgling movement to compile publicly available legal documents and resources on free Web sites — got a $2 million jumpstart from Google on Friday.
  • WHO REPRESENTS CORPORATE AMERICA
    Our annual survey lists the law firms for Fortune 100 companies in five categories: corporate, contracts litigation, labor litigation, torts litigation and intellectual property. Plus, in-house counsel say they are collaborating more with law firms on fee arrangements; 17-lawyer Potter Minton of Tyl ...
  • Mississippi considering mandatory pro bono
    The Mississippi Supreme Court is considering requiring attorneys to perform 20 hours of pro bono service or else pay a $500 fee. If adopted, Mississippi would be the only state to require pro bono service, according to the American Bar Association.
  • Patent office will lose $70 million unless Congres ...
    Some $70 million in U.S. Patent and Trademark Office fees will shift to the U.S. government's coffers unless Congress moves to let the agency keep the money by the fiscal year's end on Thursday.

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

  • European Coalition Establishes Protected Zones in ...
    A coalition of European nations has established a series of protected areas in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean where fishing would be banned, the first network of protected zones outside of the territorial waters of individual states. At a meeting in Norway, the OSPAR Commission , a coalition of 15 ...
  • What Are Species Worth? Putting a Price on Biodive ...
    When officials gather for an international summit on biodiversity next month, they might look to remind the world why species matter to humans: for producing oxygen, finding new drugs, making agricultural crops more productive, and something far less tangible — a sense of wonder. BY RICHARD CONNIF ...
  • 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 ...
  • Underwater Video Confirms Gulf Spill Worst in Hist ...
    Researchers say a sophisticated analysis of underwater video confirms that the BP oil spill was the largest marine spill in history. Using optimal plume velocimetry technology that allows for detailed calculations of fluid flow rates shown in video footage, researchers at Columbia University’s Lamon ...
  • Human Exposure to BPA Far Higher Than Earlier Esti ...
    Americans are exposed to the hormone-disrupting chemical, BPA, at levels eight times higher than those recommended by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to a new study . Researchers from the University of Missouri and Washington State University reached that conclusion after tests s ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

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

  • More UFOs and Nuclear Missile Bases
    Yesterday in Washington D.C. there was a meeting of former military personnel who used to work at secret nuclear missile launch sites. And their reason for meeting? To let the public know that UFOs (their versions/opinions of what UAPs are) might be tampering with the nuclear defences of the West in ...
  • More Chinese UFOs
    The Chinese have a different take on UFOs; they call them UFOs. No mention of little green men, grays or any of that nonsense. From Technorati: China’s People’s Daily Online, the official news agency of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in China (CPC), is reporting that two students photo ...
  • 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 [...]

Tippers News

  • SCARED LITTLE BOY :( NC~ Robeson County Animal She ...
    This little boy need 10 day quarantine because of the recent outbreak of parvo that pups have been coming down with from this shelter. He need perhaps his left eye treated as it looks to be a cherry eye. Submitted by Ginger Geronimo to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Support the International Violence Against Women A ...
    Urge the United States House of Representatives, the United States Senate, and President Obama to pass the International Violence Against Women Act (S. 2982/H.R. 4594). Submitted by Cher C. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 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
  • Another Day - Another 70 Animals SAVED!
    Just a few days ago Doll and volunteer Debbie McCool (awesome real name) transported 65 dogs and 5 cats from IDA's Hope Animal Sanctuary to Every Creature Counts in Ft. Lupton, Colorado. Submitted by Michelle Matthews to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Undercover Investigation Reveals That Ringling Bea ...
    Meet Tonka, a 25-year-old elephant who has been used by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus since 1989. Since Tonka was born at Circus World-a failed circus theme park built by the owner of Ringling, who later sold it to the Mattel toy company Submitted by Michelle Matthews to Animals �|� �No ...

The Freeman

  • Europe Faces Demonstrations Over “Austerity& ...
    “Painful cuts by overspending EU countries come head to a head with mounting social anger on Wednesday when labour leaders call angry workers onto streets right across the continent. Set for its largest Europe-wide protest for a decade is Brussels where labour leaders are planning to bring 100,000 p ...
  • California Going to Pot?
    “The measure gained ground in a Field Poll released Sunday, pulling ahead 49 percent to 42 percent among likely voters. The poll also found that Californians have become steadily more permissive toward the drug since pollsters began quizzing state residents about their attitudes 40 years ago.” (NBC, ...
  • Gordon Gekko on Greed
    When profits and losses redound to those responsible for making the decisions that produce them, market participants tend to grow more responsible and make better decisions.
  • Regulations Would Simplify Internet Surveillance
    “Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is âgoing darkâ as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone. Essentially, official ...
  • Mortgage-Security Rating Agencies Turned Blind Eye ...
    “As the mortgage market grew frothy in 2006 â leading to a housing bubble that nearly brought down the banking system two years later â ratings agencies charged with assessing risk in mortgage pools dismissed conclusive evidence that many of the loans were dubious, according to testimony given l ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Contents of a journalist’s backpack
    Neerav Bhatt describes himself as a professional blogger, photographer, geek and qualified librarian. Okay, so he never says “journalist,” but if you read his post that accompanied the photo below, I think you’ll forgive my headline. He’s got some interesting choices (which he explains in his pos ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

  • Shaw Group ordered to protect whistleblowers after ...
    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ordered the Shaw Group, a Fortune 500 engineering and construction firm based in Louisiana, to improve the way it responds to safety complaints from nuclear plant workers. The NRC's order follows a ruling last year by the U.S. Labor Department th ...
  • Voices: Wal-Mart plays the victim
    By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest In the mid-1990s business groups such as the American Trucking Association -- then led by Thomas Donohue, currently head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- launched a crusade to ban union corporate campaigns. The effort fizzled out, but now Wal-Mart may be tr ...
  • Growing Clout: South to gain more Congressional se ...
    It's been clear for a while that the South's political clout will grow after the 2010 Census data was released next year and used to redo the nation's Congressional districts. But a new projection suggests the region's gains will be even bigger than had been estimated earlier, with Southern states p ...
  • 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 ...

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 ?

  • What can I reuse or recycle to make cheesemaking m ...
    Apologies for not posting yesterday – I was away on an “introduction to cheesemaking” course over the weekend and too tired to type yesterday ;) I’ve been making super-easy cheeses like paneer for a few years now but before I committed to anything that needed months of effort/ageing, I wanted to lea ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle a glass table top?
    We’ve had an email from Josie: My council (Suffolk) say they’ll only recycle glass bottles not other glass like windows. I’ve got an old glass coffee table to get rid of, what can I do with it? That’s a pretty standard glass recycling policy – only bottles and jars, not plate glass (like windows or ...
  • Have you ever stopped buying something because of ...
    Following on from the discussion we had the other week about whether people would prefer less packaging or more packaging that was easier to reuse/recycle, I’ve been wondering: have you ever stopped buying something because of its packaging? One of the purposes of packaging is to attract us to buy t ...
  • Five fantastic reuses for plastic milk bottles
    With their semi-rigid sides & strong handle, plastic milk bottles are very easily reusable – which is useful since there are bajillions generated every day. We’ve had loads of great suggestions about them over the years but here are some of my favourites: 1. Pencil sorter Mentioned as a featured lin ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle leather/suede purse/bag ...
    We’ve had an email from Joanne: Hi, I have an old leather zipped wallet type purse which is old, worn and quite grubby. I would rather recycle it somehow than put it in the bin but am not sure how to do this. Do you have any ideas? First, it obviously depends on the state [...]

Mondoweiss

  • Israelis surround Jewish boat to Gaza, force it to ...
    Various sources are reporting that the "Irene," the catamaran carrying seven Jews to Gaza from Cyprus, was intercepted this morning by several boats in the Israeli navy, apparently in international waters, and forced to make course for Ashdod, in Israel. Reuters has an Israeli gov't spokesman compla ...
  • The details of those killed on the Mavi Marmara
    The following appears on pages 30 and 31 of the UN report into the Israeli attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Furkan Dogan, a nineteen-year old with dual Turkish and United States citizenship, was on the central area of the top deck filming with a small video camera when he was first hit with live ...
  • Blogging Israel/Palestine
    �Last week I participated in an event at the Palestine Center called The New Media & the Palestine Question: Blogging Out of Conflict. The event also featured Jerome Slater, Stephen Walt and MJ Rosenberg. You can watch it in two parts below:
  • Tutu: ‘The issue of a principled commitment ...
    Archbishop Desmond Tutu writing in The Times in South Africa ahead of the University of Johannesburg's Senate vote on whether to sever ties with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Struggles for freedom and justices are fraught with huge moral dilemmas. How can we commit ourselves to virtue - before ...
  • Oren: Colonization benefits Palestinians
    A howler from today's NYT story about the expiration of the so-called settelement freeze:Israeli officials said that Mr. Netanyahu felt it important for his credibility not to extend the moratorium beyond 10 months. “It is a read-my-lips moment,” said Michael B. Oren, the Israeli ambassador to the U ...

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 )

  • Indian academies' GM crop report slammed
    Posted for Priya Shetty India’s reputation as an emerging world power has already taken a hefty beating with the seemingly doomed Commonwealth Games. Now its scientific reputation is under threat too. This week, a much-anticipated report on GM crops released by India’s top six science academie ...
  • Court of Appeals hears arguments in stem cell case
    Opposing attorneys in the legal battle over human embryonic stem cell research were grilled by some of the highest judges in the US this morning, in oral arguments before the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit . A three-judge panel from the court – which occupies the legal tier ...
  • US Fish and Wildlife Service unveils climate chang ...
    Dealing with complex problems, such as the effects of climate change, requires a collective strategy. At least, that’s the wisdom underlying a plan to coordinate conservation efforts between federal, state, and local governments, as well as Native American tribes, environmental organizations, ind ...
  • Obama green team in hiring probe
    Allegations of improper hiring practices at a flagship office for the Obama administration’s vision of a Green Economy have been referred to the U.S. Special Counsel, a prosecutorial office within the White House, according to a report from the Department of Energy’s Inspector-General (IG) releas ...
  • 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 ...

new geography

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

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • Raytheon XOS 2 Exoskeleton
  • Churning Swindles on Garbage Stocks
    Via: Reuters: Some traders are manipulating U.S. stocks that are worth less than $1 by taking both sides of trades in order to earn big rebates, according to an official at Knight Capital Group Inc. … At issue is whether an individual trader is using separate brokerage accounts to trade against hims ...
  • Millionaire with Defense Industry Ties to British ...
    Via: Telegraph: Jimi Heselden, the owner of the Segway company, has died after riding one of the two-wheeled machines off a cliff and into a river. The multi-millionaire businessman, 62, fell into the River Wharfe while inspecting the grounds of his North Yorkshire estate on a rugged country version ...
  • U.S. Government Wants All Providers of Encrypted I ...
    Wikipedia has an entry on key escrow, if you aren’t familiar with the concept. Via: New York Times: Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is âgoi ...
  • Iran Crosses Into Iraq to Attack Parade Bombing Su ...
    Via: AP: Iranian forces crossed into neighboring Iraq and killed 30 fighters from a group it says was involved in last week’s bombing of a military parade, state TV reported Sunday. Gen. Abdolrasoul Mahmoudabadi of the elite Revolutionary Guards said the “terrorists” were killed on Saturday in a cla ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Death Of Cash? All Over The World Governments ...
    Are we witnessing the slow but certain death of cash in this generation?  Is a truly cashless society on the horizon?  Legislation currently pending in the Mexican legislature would ban a vast array of large cash transactions, but the truth is that Mexico is far from alone in trying ...
  • It Is A Race To The Bottom For Global Currencies A ...
    In 2010, any nation that has a weak currency has a very significant competitive advantage in global trade.  A weak currency means that the products and services produced by that nation will be less expensive for other nations.  Therefore other nations will buy more of those products ...
  • 10 Reasons Why Conservatives Should Be Against Unf ...
    There are very few things that the top politicians in both political parties agree on these days, but one of the things that that they do agree on is that free trade with China is a good thing.  George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, John McCain, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have ...
  • S. 510: 12 Reasons Why The Food Safety Bill From H ...
    As you read this, there is a bill before the U.S. Senate that has the potential to change the U.S. food industry more than any other law ever passed by the U.S. Congress. In the name of "food safety", the U.S. government would be given an iron grip over the production, transportatio ...
  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • Sorghum is drought resistant and can grow in both ...
    Read at : http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/4047/sorghum-rise-to-prominence Sorghum: Rise to Prominence Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. Sorghum is Africa’s contribution to the world’s major food crops, with only rice, wheat, maize, and potatoes playing a larger r ...
  • The decade to raise public awareness of the threat ...
    Read at : http://www.mosaiko.gr/think-green/desertification-is-target-of-decade-of-action-innovation/ Desertification Is Target of Decade of Action, Innovation Author: Cheryl Pellerin The United Nations has designated 2010â2020 as the decade to raise public awareness of the threat posed by worseni ...
  • Major Japanese trading firms cautious about Japan ...
    Read at : http://farmlandgrab.org/15798 Land grab: Tokyo sees farming investment rules as key to survival Asahi Shimbun | 2010/09/27 BY YU MIYAJI AND MITSUKO NAGASAWA THE ASAHI SHIMBUN GLOBE Major Japanese trading firms are cautious about Japan buying agricultural land … Continue reading →
  • Protecting the family farm and protecting local fo ...
    Read at : http://farmlandgrab.org/15808 New wave of agricultural land-grabs reaches Canada The Dominion | 27 September 2010 by Amy Miller MONTREALâIn an age of escalating food insecurity and financial uncertainty, large corporations, investors, and even nations states have been stalking … Continue ...
  • Is big-business investment in global farmlands the ...
    Read at : http://farmlandgrab.org/15834 Rich see big $ in worldâs farmlands Greenbang | Monday, 27th September 2010 Is big-business investment in global farmlands the way to build a sustainable, food-secure future? Or is the fast-accelerating interest in agriculture, particularly in … Continue rea ...

The Paper Trail

  • Disclosure-O-Meter for Dodd-Frank Law
    One of our goals at Financial Reform Watch is to keep tabs on those who would influence, weaken, or delay how the Dodd-Frank law is carried out. In the early going, we’ve found that some regulatory agencies do a better job than others in publishing details of lobbyist meetings, public comments, and ...
  • PMA Lobbyist Pleads Guilty
    Paul Magliocchetti, a former lobbyist and key figure in the Center for Public Integrity’s The Murtha Method investigation, pled guilty on Friday to federal campaign finance violations.
  • 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.

backofthebook.ca

  • You really don’t care about Betty Krawczyk, ...
    By Alison@Creekside A column in the National Post last week compared the peaceful civil disobedience and incarceration of 82-year old environmental activist Betty Krawczyk with that of 62-year old anti-abortion protester Linda Gibbons: Two court injunctions; two women who violated them in a way ...
  • Vinyl Resurgent
    by Eric Pettifor A little over three years ago, I wrote here about converting vinyl records to digitial audio files. I suggested the Ebay record section as a source for vinyl, and noted at time of writing that there were 151,436 listings. At this time of writing, there ...
  • Sesame Street Bans the Boobs
    By Rachel Krueger Katy Perry’s boobs have been deemed unfit for audiences aged 1-6.  Shocked, are we?   The singer’s duet with Elmo, already disseminated via the Youtubes, won’t be appearing on Sesame Street after all.  Perry sings a reworking of her song ‘Hot N Cold’ where lines such as ‘l ...
  • 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 ...

Worldnews

  • Reader recommendation: Little Dorrit
    Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit was my...
  • What's the best way to test a novel before yo ...
    First line, last line, or Ford Madox Ford's p99 challenge? Actually, a good book should pass all of these Ninety-nine way to judge a novel ... Ford Madox Ford. Photograph: Hulton Ford Madox Ford is such an evergreen English writer. The Good Soldier is one of the most remarkable and influential ...
  • Labour Party Conference: Alistair Darling urg ...
    Alistair Darling has urged Ed Miliband not to bow to trade union pressure to abandon the previous Government's plans to cut public spending and pay off Britain's record debts. Mr Darling (right) urged Labour to stay on the "centre ground of British politics" after Ed Miliband declared that the ...
  • Phillies clinch 4th consecutive NL East title ...
    WASHINGTON -- Ryan Howard is a veteran when it comes to clubhouse celebrations. So the Philadelphia Phillies' slugging first baseman was well-prepared this time around, holding a smoldering cigar in his right hand and a tall can of beer in his left - and sporting a wide set of ski goggles to pr ...
  • Bayern Munich Coach Louis Van Gaal Wary Of Ba ...
    Bayern Munich coach Louis van Gaal has made it clear that Basel won't be pushovers. By Stefan Coerts Share Share Reigning German champions Bayern Munich have been struggling to find their best form this season and the Bavarians are eager to return to winning ways in their Champions League game ...

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Common Dreams

  • Anti-War Activists Targeted by FBI Speak Out
    by Karen Hawkins CHICAGO -- Two anti-war activists said Saturday that a 12-hour search of their Chicago home by the FBI was an attempt to intimidate them and silence the peace movement. Joe Iosbaker and his wife, Stephanie Weiner, said the government targeted them because they've been outspoken agai ...
  • White House Defends Targeted Killing Program
    by Evan Perez The Obama administration was preparing a request on Friday to block a lawsuit over the scope of its targeted killing program for suspected terrorists, in a case that challenges the government's powers in its war on terror. U.S. officials say national security is threatened by Yemeni-Am ...
  • Call for 'Gaza Style' Inquiry on Afghan Deaths
    by Mark Townsend 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. Philip Alston called for the UN Human Rights Council to investigate the "condu ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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

  • Planning for an Energy Future: The Zero Carbon Aus ...
    The creation of realistic plans for a viable energy future have, as of yet, received far to little attention. Energy goals should be tested with the creation of plans intended to demonstrate that the goals can be realized. Plans. in turn, should be subjected to rigorous criticism intended to test ...
  • UN climate chief Christiana Figueres: There will b ...
    Brad Johnson of The Wonk Room is covering the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City. Speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative on Tuesday, new UN climate chief Christiana Figueres criticized the failures of the Copenhagen talks and said that a comprehensive “big bang” global climate treaty is ...
  • Doing the Right Thing on Energy Policy
    “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.” � Winston Churchill made this statement in the context of a World War and a Cold War.� Today, the context is a new “arms race” – to be the global leader in energy security technologies encompassing clean ...
  • Cancun and Beyond: Financing the Energy Future
    Pick up almost any article on climate change today and it won’t be too long before your attention is turned towards the subject of financing. There are also many conferences, seminars and workshops on financing, not to mention the UN High Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing. The Copenha ...
  • Why 3M is unique
    What kind of company is 3M? Yes, I know that 3M is a 108-year-old manufacturing company, based in St. Paul, Minnesota, which brought in $23 billion in revenues last year from� a range of products including abrasives, adhesives and, famously, Post-it notes. Remarkably, 3M makes 55,000 different produ ...

Green House - USA Today

  • Top 10 toxins and how to protect your family
    What can you do to protect your family from everyday toxins? Plenty, writes USA TODAY health reporter Liz Szabo in Fresh: Women's Health Guide, a new USA TODAY publication that hits newsstands today.
  • Study: Wind could generate half of East Coast's po ...
    Offshore wind has so much potential off the U.S. Atlantic coast that with modest investments, it could generate nearly half the current electricity supply in East coast states, says a report today by an ocean conservation group.
  • Stink bugs challenge bed bugs as year's worst pest
    Bed bugs have a new challenger as pest of the year. Stink bugs are proliferating in the Middle Atlantic states, damaging fruit and vegetable crops. They don't bite but they're grossing people out (myself included), because they can creep into almost any room and smell slightly skunklike when crushed ...
  • Ten rookie gardening mistakes (and how to avoid th ...
    How many plants have you killed? How many never quite thrive? I seem to have a brown thumb so I was pleased to come across a helpful piece on how to avoid the most common beginner gardening mistakes.
  • Engineering experts take issue with BP's oil spill ...
    Engineering experts found holes in BP's internal report as the energy giant was questioned Sunday about its findings.

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

  • In Praise of Hemp
    Jim Prues Photo of hemp, credit: Hendrike Creative Commons 2.5 license. Hemp is the common name for cannabis, the first plant cultivated by humanity as we crept from being Neolithic to becoming Agrarian. Likely this was due to a few reasons. First, hemp is an extremely versatile plant,  with leav ...
  • Venezuela Votes
    by Stephen Lendman On September 26, Venezuelans again voted, the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign (VSC - vicuk.org) saying to elect members to the 165-seat National Assembly. It happens every five years, and it's the 16th national election or referendum since Chavez's 1998 victory, taking office as Pr ...
  • LIVING ON THE EDGE OF POVERTY
    Allen L Roland Poverty in the U.S. today has many faces. For a homeless man on the streets of Los Angeles, it means not knowing where he will spend the night or where his next meal will come from. For a child in rural Alabama, it means going without breakfast and wearing tattered hand-me-down clo ...
  • On Gaza and Chutzpah
    Gilad Atzmon The UN probe into the Israeli massacre in high seas concluded yesterday that Israeli forces violated international law and showed ‘incredible violence’ when they raided a flotilla attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. The UN fact finding mission also argues that Israel's nav ...
  • Big Brother terrorizes more activists
    Mary Shaw It's like McCarthyism all over again. On September 24, FBI agents raided the homes of some anti-war activists in Chicago and Minneapolis on suspicion that they were providing material support to terrorism. This follows only a few weeks after it was discovered that Pennsylvania's Office ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Government Choices: Advertising
    The AFB has long argued that budgets are always about choices. �Canada is a rich country and governments can and should spend our money on priorities that are important to us. �Today, it was revealed that the Government spent $130 million on Advertising last year alone driven in part by the endless ...
  • The economic case for universal pharmacare
    The main argument that is typically made against the establishment of universal Pharmacare is economic in nature. However, a new CCPA report shows that the economic argument in favour of such a program is loud and clear, regardless of which industrial policy is subsequently considered. Canadians ...
  • Living from paycheque to paycheque
    The recession may be officially over, but six in 10 Canadians say they would be in financial trouble if their paycheque was delayed by just a week, according to a new national survey. The survey coincides with an OECD warning that record high debt levels have left many Canadians vulnerable “to any ...
  • “Public Solutions Are The Cure For Health Care Wai ...
    � � A Public Forum with Dr. Michael Rachlis � Health policy analyst, University of Toronto Associate professor and author of Prescription for Excellence: How Innovation is Saving Canada's Health System. � Public Solutions are the Cure for Health Care Wait Lists Wednesday, September ...
  • CCPA's YouTube Channel is Canada's number one non- ...
    How exciting to see the little gold ribbons on our YouTube homepage! The CCPA's YouTube channel is the most viewed non-profit channel in Canada, and the second most subscribed non-profit channel in Canada. Our most popular videos are from the BC Office's 2007 Gala, when Naomi Klein was our keynote s ...

World Wide Hippies

  • 41.3 Billion Dollars Saved, 46.7 Billion Dollars E ...
    The Budgetary Impact of Ending Drug Prohibition | The Cato Institute tate and federal governments in the United States face massive looming fiscal deficits. One policy change that can reduce deficits is ending the drug war. Legalization means reduced expenditure on enforcement and an increase in tax ...
  • Patriot ACT Nightmare Sees the Light of Day as FBI ...
    The government is attempting to criminalize the organizing of antiwar protests | Counterpunch On September 24, 2010 the FBI raided several houses and a couple offices in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Chicago and North Carolina under the guise of looking for proof that the people living in those houses wer ...
  • Honduran Regime Targets Musicians
    Cafe Guancasco, a favorite of the Honduran coup resistance movement, sees concert attacked by police and military. Real News speaks with two of the musicians attacked while performing. Produced by Jesse Freeston For more visit www.therealnews.com More at The Real News
  • Hippies and Gutter-Politics
    WWH – In the series “Hippies may be the only sane and rational force left.” Autumn is here; Ahhh cool mornings, the changing of the leaves, kids back in school and harvest of late summer crops. I enjoy this time of year. But just as sure as the winds of winter are slowly sinking down from the [...]
  • Dogs Become Hippies For A Day
    Hippie Clad Dogs Get All The Attention In A Macon Festival | CBS Atlanta Dog owners dressed their pets in hippie attire and brought them to a park in Macon to spend a day frolicking while raising money for animal adoption agencies. The Woofstock Festival on Sunday was sponsored by the FURever Friend ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • McCain Proposes Indefinite Detention Without Trial ...
    Still, this proposed law is scary. The whole concept is so foreign to the principles the country was founded upon that it’s like being in a bad dream and not being able to wake up. This proposed law basically turns the Constitution and the Bill of Rights into a piece of toilet paper and gives [...]
  • 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 ...

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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

  • The Lesson from Rising Ethanol Prices
    Join the forum discussion on this post I thought it was a bit humorous recently — when corn ethanol prices dipped and were cheaper than both sugarcane ethanol and gasoline (even when adjusted for lower energy content)  — that some corn ethanol proponents pointed to this as a watershed event. Their ...
  • 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.

Discovery Educator Network

  • 4th Grade GarageBand
    Tags: 4th , garageband , podcasts , music , student-centered by: Dean Mantz
  • Google Forms: how to create a quiz or a test that ...
    Comments: Creating self-grading Google forms/quizzes/tests - Dean Mantz Tags: quiz , google , googledocs , forms , docs , tools , googleforms , self-grading by: Dean Mantz
  • educationalwikis - home
    Tags: wiki , education , web2.0 , wikis , technology , wikispaces , tutorials , collaboration by: Dean Mantz
  • deviantART muro
    Tags: deviantart , muro , html5 , graphics , paint , design , tools , draw , art by: Toni Olivieri-Barton
  • Stages of PLN adoption
    Tags: pln , education , stages , technology , utecht , ple , teaching , learning by: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

  • How to Cook Cannellini Beans, Plus 5 Tasty, Fill-Y ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Ever popular in Italy, creamy white cannellini beans are catching on in the U.S., too. About the same size as kidney beans, cannellini, are related to navy and great northern beans, and are sometimes referred to as white kidney beans. Because this bean maintains its shape we ...
  • Preventing the Flu Protects Your Heart
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Now that the swine flu pandemic is officially behind us , according to the World Health Organization, this flu season is gearing up to be much less dramatic than last year's. But that's no less reason to skip out on getting the seasonal flu vaccine, particularly if you're at ...
  • Diet Soda Linked to Preterm Birth
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—In the United States, one out of every eight babies is born prematurely, according to the March of Dimes. It's not clear why preterm births are so common, but it could have something to do with pesticide exposures, stress, and rising obesity levels, the organization suggests ...
  • How to Bread Anything, Plus 5 Great Recipes for Cr ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Make dinner more fun—and oh, so tasty—by creating crispy crusts that liven up the usual chicken, pork, or fish. You can cover those cutlets and fillets in a tasty and beautiful brown crust using breadcrumbs, or go beyond breaded recipes and try using ground or chopped nuts, ...
  • How Slop from Natural Gas Fracking Could End Up in ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Here's an unappetizing reality of our food production system: Today's farming practices include the application of sewage sludge (muck that's left over after wastewater is treated); it can be sprayed all over food crops and on the crops grown for animals that we go on to eat ...

big think

  • Former Irish President Mary Robinson on the Need f ...
    As the world grows more interconnected, support for developing countries should be an even bigger concern, says former Irish President Mary Robinson . A failed state like Somalia, which lacks any social stability, can be the breeding grounds for pirates and terrorists. "You have a danger of ... Read ...
  • 482 - Dam Peculiar: Switzerland Slicing Into Italy
    Borders are to maps what icing is to cakes. Tracing their course between countries and across continents is a source of great enjoyment for the cartophile, as is contemplating their history and function. This contemplating is usually conducted while consulting maps of a relatively large scale ... R ...
  • ADHD and Stimulants: Brain Boost or Drug Abuse?
    The narrative of personal improvement is as American as baseball—almost as American as a fondness for illegal and prescription drugs. From steroids and human growth hormones on the baseball diamond to amphetamines in college libraries and quadrangles, performance enhancing drugs combine a desire for ...
  • The Sacred Space of Libraries in Our Lives
    Who gets to say who owns our libraries, and what are the risks embedded in making a library profit-driven? The New York Times choice to give Library Systems and Services (and their project to invest in local libraries) front-page space was adequate editorial force to forefront the question: is an .. ...
  • Sharron Angle Thinks "Autism" is a Socialist Consp ...
    GOP senate hopeful Sharron Angle will see your lunacy and raise you. These days it's fashionable to claim that vaccination is a Big Pharma/Big Government conspiracy to cause autism. Angle can do better. She believes that autism is a socialist conspiracy to shower undeserving children with free ... ...

Information Liberation

  • HBO's Teenage Paparazzo Review: A Boring Socialist ...
    A young capitalist entrepreneur goes into the business of being a self-employed paparazzi, instead of working the fields he chooses to take a camera and shoot pictures of celebrities for both profit and personal enjoyment. The story of the beau...
  • An Introduction to Austrian Economics (Or Why Soci ...
    Economic progress is the number one enemy of the state. The richer people are, the less dependent, and the poorer people are, the more dependent. Austrian economics should not be studied merely to understand the basics of supply and demand, Austrian ...
  • 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...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • The Cognoscenti Speak
    Here’s a post where you can discuss the current JD thread in a bit more detail. I never really knew much about the Bilderberg group. They seem to be compromised of pretty much everyone who actually runs the world, and … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

FAS - Secrecy News

  • Is Publication of Classified Info a Criminal Act?
    When Wikileaks published tens of thousands of classified U.S. military records concerning the war in Afghanistan last July, did it commit a criminal act under U.S. law?  That was the question posed by a new report (pdf) from the Congressional Research Service.  In the end, the CRS report tentative ...
  • DNI Directive on Unauthorized Disclosures (2007) R ...
    The Office of the Director of National Intelligence last week released Intelligence Community Directive 701 (pdf), entitled “Security Policy Directive for Unauthorized Disclosures of Classified Information,” dated March 14, 2007. The directive sets forth procedures and requirements for identifying a ...
  • FOIA, Trade Secrets, and More from CRS
    Some new reports from the Congressional Research Service that have not been made readily available to the public include the following (all pdf). “The Freedom of Information Act and Nondisclosure Provisions in Other Federal Laws,” September 13, 2010. “The Role of Trade Secrets in Innovation Policy,” ...
  • Various Items
    The possible near-term declassification of historical intelligence satellite programs was examined by Dwayne Day in “A Paler Shade of Black,” The Space Review, September 20. The author also noted the pending Fundamental Classification Guidance Review that is supposed to purge obsolete classification ...
  • 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 ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Latest science stuff
    Latest science stuff from Sciencebase: How to Memorize the Periodic Table With a Song – Kind of these people to link to my site, but I take issue with the idea of learning Tom Lehrer's song as a means to chemical education. It's fun and might help you remember the names of the elements, but [...] La ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • Carbon Disclosure Project 2010: Global 500 Report
    Price Waterhouse Coopers on behalf of the Carbon Disclosure Project https://www.cdproject.net/CDPResults/CDP-2010-G500.pdf [Executive Summary Introduction] In the 10 years since the launch of the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), the quality and quantity of reporting on climate change have increased ...
  • How Good Politics Results in Bad Policy: The Case ...
    Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ. / by Robert Z. Lawrence http://tinyurl.com/2c6sxju [From Introduction] This paper argues that the growing list of concerns about the impact of biofuel targets and mandates are the predictable result of a failure to follow the basic principles of good poli ...
  • Mine the Gap: Connecting Water Risks and Disclosur ...
    World Resources Institute / by Marta Miranda, Amanda Sauer, and Deepa Shinde http://pdf.wri.org/working_papers/mine_the_gap.pdf [Abstract] Water issues are becoming a considerable factor affecting growth and profitability of companies in many regions of the world. This paper outlines potential water ...
  • Next-generation Ethanol and Biochemicals: What&#82 ...
    Bloomberg New Energy Finance http://tinyurl.com/2ezm83u [From Introduction] This report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance explores the potential results of the development of a next-generation ethanol and biochemicals industry in the European Union in the next decade, and also the barriers standing in ...
  • CCS in Southern Africa: An Assessment of the Ratio ...
    Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands http://www.ecn.nl/docs/library/report/2010/e10065.pdf [From Summary] With climate change becoming a more urgent problem, many studies indicate that all mitigation options will need to be used to globally reduce emissions sufficiently to stabilise atmospheric ...

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

  • Afghan warlords hedge bets, contest elections
    The Associated Press: Several warlords supported candidates in Afghanistan's parliamentary elections last weekend, and observers allege they engaged in widespread intimidation and vote-buying. While analysts say it's important to give such groups a way into the mainstream, they suspect warlords will ...
  • U.S. strike kills 70 in Afghanistan
    Press TV: A U.S. airstrike has reportedly left 70 people dead in southeastern Afghanistan as the war-ravaged country votes to elect a new parliament. According to Afghan officials, the incident took place in province of Paktia on Saturday when a Taliban convoy came under attack. Provincial official ...
  • Members of U.S. platoon in Afghanistan accused of ...
    The Washington Post: The U.S. soldiers hatched a plan as simple as it was savage: to randomly target and kill an Afghan civilian, and to get away with it. For weeks, according to Army charging documents, rogue members of a platoon from the 5th Stryker Combat Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, floated ...
  • Warlord TV
    Foreign Policy: On Thursday nights, when Afghan Star, a popular American Idol-like talent show, is on TV, the streets of Kabul are noticeably quieter. Even in a land torn apart by fighting and where people consume less energy per person than in any other country, somehow 65 local television stations ...
  • Afghanistan says over 3,000 complaints about vote
    AFP: Afghanistan’s electoral watchdog said on Tuesday it has received over 3,000 complaints about irregularities in the run-up to Saturday’s parliamentary election and on polling day itself. The Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) said 1,388 complaints had been received specifically about election ...

frogblog

  • Anne Tolley has another Merv Wellington moment
    Merv Wellington was Minister of Education under the Muldoon administration. In my opinion - at least until yesterday - Wellington was the worst Minister of Education New Zealand has ever seen. But the current Minister, Anne Tolley, seems to be having more and more "Merv Wellington moments"; where t ...
  • More jobseekers + no more jobs = lower wages
    New Zealand’s labour force grew by around 43,000 yesterday. That is the approximate number of single parents receiving domestic purposes benefit whose youngest child is aged six or over.  As of yesterday, they all became part of the labour force; not necessarily because they all wan ...
  • General debate, September 28, 2010
  • Podcast: Rock n Roll to the rescue?
    Can we make a lot of noise with a small footprint?  Can we mosh sustainably?  What can we do about the environmental effects of going to a big gig?  We also find out which Green MP is a Metallica fan and hear about a few favourite shows.   Click to play If you’re having problem ...
  • New Lynn opens with new hope for Auckland
    I attended the opening of the New Lynn transport hub last Friday. I always enjoy attending the openings of great transport projects but this one was particularly fun. It wasn’t just a lot of boring speeches but included a troupe of dancing dragons, a Maori kapa haka group performed ...

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

  • The Power of Fox
    Paul Waldman argues today that although the left has made some progress catching up to the right's media infrastructure, it hasn't closed the gap yet. That's especially true in one key area: Todd Gitlin, professor of journalism at Columbia University, says the key is Fox News....On the right, he ...
  • Why Income Matters
    I'm a little bored at the moment. How about another post on income inequality to liven things up? That should bring the page views pouring in, shouldn't it? I'm going to start by reporting on Will Wilkinson's emotional state: he's sad. He's been trying to explain the idea that there can be differen ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 24 September 2010
    I spaced this week and forgot to take any new cat pictures. Bad blogger. So instead you get Catblogging Classic™! Hopefully these pictures are old enough that no one remembers seeing them before. (In fact, the tree on the right doesn't even exist anymore.) Anyway, these are from 2007, and they've be ...
  • Inside the Blue Dog Mind
    Are the Blue Dogs congenital morons? Wait. Don't answer that. First read this passage about their support for extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy: "People are very imprecise with the way they are talking about it and reporting it," Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md) said in an interview last we ...
  • Help for the Chesapeake?
    This post is outsourced to regular reader rph3 from the great state of Virginia: I know you're all left coast and all that, but here we have long had one of the most open festering environmental sores in existence — the Chesapeake Bay and the cleanup efforts that have failed miserably for over 30 y ...

Insanity Report

  • 3 More Reasons Black Men Don’t Want Black Women
    Over the weekend, I had a conversation with a SBF (Single Black Female) about the murdered to death with an ice pick subject of why Black men don’t seem to be attracted to Black women like they used to be. As a woman of color (but not a lot of color) often this subject gets [...]
  • IC 198: Pinky and the Brain
    "A straight man isn't corrupted by the thoughts of penis."
  • 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 ...
  • Movie Trailer Review: For Colored Girls
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Simple Climate

e!Science News

  • First study of its kind finds children with food a ...
    In the first-ever study to assess the social impact of food allergies in children, Mount Sinai researchers have found that approximately 35 percent of children with food allergies, who are over the age of five, were reported to have experienced bullying, teasing, or harassment as a result of their a ...
  • Striding towards a new dawn for electronics
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  • University of Hawaii at Manoa Pan-STARRS discovers ...
    STARRS PS1 telescope on Haleakala has discovered an asteroid that will come within 4 million miles of Earth in mid-October. The object is about 150 feet in diameter and was discovered in images acquired on September 16, when it was about 20 million miles away. It is the first "potentially hazardous ...
  • Researchers use CT to predict heart disease
    Using incidental findings from routine diagnostic CT, radiologists may be better able to identify people at high risk for cardiovascular disease, according to a new study appearing online and in the November issue of Radiology . read more
  • Single electron reader opens path for quantum comp ...
    A team led by engineers and physicists at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia, have developed one of the key building blocks needed to make a quantum computer using silicon: a "single electron reader". Their work was published today in Nature. read more

unEarthed

  • The Impact of "War" on Gulf Oil Spill Must Be Asse ...
    Planes prays dispersant on Gulf oil spill Here, in a one-sentence assessment by a U.S. Coast Guard commander, is what went right and wrong with the Gulf-oil spill clean up. As reported by the Wall Street Journal : "My person ...
  • Mountaintop Removal Mining Continues Despite Obama ...
    Appalachians call for an end to watershed poisoning caused by mountaintop removal coal mining On�the campaign trail, President Obama shared his thoughts about mountaintop removal mining: We have to find more environmentall ...
  • Groups Battle Against Industry for Cleaner Air
    So, imagine breathing in a substance that not only exacerbates but causes known breathing problems such as asthma. You'd want the Environmental Protection Agency to do something about it, right? Well, they did: in June the EPA ...
  • Grand Canyon, Petty Bureaucrats
    The Grand Canyon - home of the humpback chub. National Park Service photo. First impressions can be deceiving. In 1861, as America entered its first year of civil war, the Government Printing Office published the report of ...
  • 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 ...

Brave New Climate

  • Scenarios for nuclear electricity to 2060 – ...
    Back in April 2010, I wrote a post “Nuclear century outlook – crystal ball gazing by the WNA”. It looked at an interesting study, undertaken by the World Nuclear Association, that made some low/high bound projections for electricity production between 2008 and 2100, including nuclear, new renewables ...
  • 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 ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • "Israeli Ties: A Chance To Do The Right Thing" by ...
    Times Live (South Africa) Sep 26, 2010 12:00 AM The University of Johannesburg's Senate will next week meet to decide whether to end its relationship with an Israeli institution, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, on the grounds of that university's active support for and involvement in the Israel ...
  • 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Republicans Do Create Jobs
    In China.
  • Mitch McConnall Doing His Best to Defend the Rich
    “We canât let the people whoâve been hit hardest by this recession and who we need to create the jobs that will get us out of it foot the bill for the Democratsâ two-year adventure in expanded government” is what ‘ol Mitch said on the Senate floor. In fact her personally knows more than [...]
  • Any More Christine McDonnell
    And I think I might be sick… And then you have Michele Bachman talking about Nancy Pelosi’s $100,000 bar tab on military jets when she doesn’t drink, and there is no alcohol on military jets. Do right wing lunatics ever pay a price for lying? I will bet the brain dead sheep that listen to [...]
  • Keep Your Hands Off Social Security GOP Frauds
    So called “conservatives” are opposed to any form of government that works effectively. That is one reason they have been trying to “change” Social Security for decades. Because it works. In fact the effectiveness of Social Security and Medicare in helping to keep senior citizens out of poverty has ...
  • The Lunatics Want to Run The Asylum Again
    When Republicans ran all 3 branches of government after the 2000 election, they damaged America so badly with their insane policies we barely survived. Their attempts to eliminate or weaken Wall Street, and banking regulation, and then not enforcing regulations that existed caused the greatest econo ...

Appalachia Rising

  • Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
    Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a found ...
  • Press Conference to be Held on June 15
    Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-2688 o ...
  • Press Inquiries
    All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conference H ...
  • New Flier for Appalachia Rising
  • Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachian ...
    Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind coalfi ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Rand Paul kisses neocons' ring, but some neocons r ...
    One faction of the GOP that has remained particularly wary of Rand Paul's Senate candidacy are neoconservatives who are still angry about his father Ron Paul's criticism of Israel and his disdain for Bush-era military adventurism.
  • Dangerous Crossroads: US War Games in Asia Target ...
  • Stuxnet worm is the 'work of a national government ...
    Malware believed to be targeting Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant may have been created by Israeli hackers
  • Censorship of the Internet Takes Center Stage in " ...
    Senator Patrick Leahy yesterday introduced the "Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act" (COICA). This flawed bill would allow the Attorney General and the Department of Justice to break the Internet one domain at a time — by requiring domain registrars/registries, ISPs, DNS prov ...
  • Pentagon destroys thousands of copies of Army offi ...
    The Department of Defense recently purchased and destroyed thousands of copies of an Army Reserve officer's memoir in an effort to safeguard state secrets, a spokeswoman said Saturday.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • The President and I
    Summary: I was pleasantly surprised when my request for an interview with Mr. Ahmadinejad, Iran's president was accepted. President Ahmadinejad has never shied away from being heard, but these interviews had been exclusive to prominent mainstream media personalities such as Larry King and Charli ...
  • President Ahmadinejad's New York Meeting with U.S. ...
    Summary: New York City, September 21, 2010 The opening week of the United Nations' 65th session was a busy one for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In addition to giving his annual address before the U.N. General Assembly and granting interviews with everyone from ABC's Charlie Rose to Fox ...
  • Arming Saudi Arabia against Iran is off target
    Summary: The United States should not be sending $60 billion of sophisticated weaponry to Saudi Arabia’s air force. source: The Progressive read more
  • Former Russian Diplomat: US may be seeking provoca ...
    Summary: war with Iran US rhetoric on Iran and its efforts to involve Russia is a “dangerous precedent” that may indicate that Washington is seeking a pretext to launch a war source: Global Research, Canada read more
  • US should stop interfering in Iran
    Summary: A leading US lawyer has denounced as "illegal" sanctions imposed by his country on Iran, urging the US government to stop interfering in Tehran's internal affairs. source: Press TV read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Will a Trillion Galaxy "Lenses" Unlock the Mysteri ...
    Astronomers are now using entire galaxies as lenses to look at other galaxies, providing them with precise tool to measure the size and age of the universe and how rapidly it is expanding. The measurement determines a value for the...
  • An ET Astronomer's View of Our Solar System
    Supercomputer simulations tracking the interactions of thousands of dust grains show what the solar system might look like to alien astronomers searching for planets. The models also provide a glimpse of how this view might have changed as our planetary...
  • Earth's "ET" Atmosphere: The Air You're Breathing ...
    Some scientists say that there really is something Kryptonian among us, brought to Earth by impacting objects from outer space – only it's the noble gas, not a noble hero, because there's nothing more Kryptonian than Krypton itself. A new...
  • World-Leading Physicist Says Extraterrestrials "Co ...
    The intriguing remark was made by Lord Martin Rees, a leading cosmologist and astrophysicist who is the president of Britain’s Royal Society and astronomer to the Queen of England. Rees, who last month hosted the National Science Academy’s first conference...
  • 1st Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Sighted by NEO ...
    The Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System instrument on the summit of Haleakala on Maui, Hawaii, has discovered an asteroid that will come within 4 million miles of Earth in mid-October, a release by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...

Natural News

  • NaturalNews.TV video site experiences rapid growth ...
    (NaturalNews) Viewer traffic on our video site www.NaturalNews.TV is exploding! It's up 300% in the last 30 days and continues to climb. More and more people are finding NaturalNews.TV to be an amazing site full of informative, fun and inspirational videos on all sorts of topics that really matter. ...
  • Natural health news headlines now available each d ...
    (NaturalNews) Natural health news stories are now available as playable (and downloadable) MP3 audio files from NaturalNews.com. The audio files are available five days a week, and each day's audio summarizes the top natural health news stories of the day in under a minute per story. Each day's audi ...
  • New hope for liver disease: curcumin in tumeric sp ...
    (NaturalNews) For countless centuries, turmeric has been used not only as a spice but as a healing aid in traditional Asian medicine. For example, historically it has been consumed to help gastrointestinal problems, arthritic pain, and a lack of energy. And in recent years, scientists have document ...
  • It's not the bugs in Similac that make me sick - l ...
    (NaturalNews) It has been a few days since Abbott Laboratories, makers of Similac infant formula, issued a recall after discovering some of its products may have been contaminated with beetles (and beetle larvae). The mainstream media ran with this story and parents everywhere suddenly got concerned ...
  • FDA refuses to require labeling of genetically mod ...
    (NaturalNews) As the FDA stands poised to approve genetically modified (GM) salmon safe for public consumption, the next logical question concerns how GM salmon would be labeled. Would the fish come with a large red warning that says, "Genetically modified salmon"? As it turns out, no. In fact, the ...

Threat Level

  • FBI Drive for Encryption Backdoors is Déjà vu for ...
    The FBI now wants to require all encrypted communications systems to have backdoors for surveillance, according to a New York Times report, and to the nation’s top crypto experts it sounds like a battle they’ve fought before. Back in the 1990s, in what’s remembered as the crypto wars, the FBI and N ...
  • Unpublished Iraq War Logs Trigger Internal WikiLea ...
    A domino chain of resignations at the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks followed a unilateral decision by autocratic founder Julian Assange to schedule an October release of 392,000 classified U.S. documents from the war in Iraq, according to former WikiLeaks staffers. Key members of WikiLeaks were an ...
  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Rich Vote with Their Wallets to End Bush Tax Cuts. ...
    Over a year before the GOP " Pledge to America " demanded permanent tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans costing $700 billion over the next decade, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) fretted, "We're running out of rich people in this country." But as it turns out, anecdotes and polls alike reveal that t ...
  • Americans' Incomes Sank After Bush Tax Cuts
    On Sunday, House Minority Leader John Boehner called Democrats' refusal to hold a pre-election vote on extending the Bush tax cut windfall for the wealthy the "most irresponsible thing that I have seen since I have been in Washington, D.C." And in one sense, he's right. After all, the national deb ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Big Media Won't Forgive Colbert
    Comedian Stephen Colbert still riles up Washington media bigwigs four years after he mocked them, reports Jeff Cohen. September 26, 2010
  • New FBI Raids in 'War on Dissent'
    Despite criticism of past "war on terror" investigations, the FBI mounts new raids on anti-war activists, notes Coleen Rowley. September 26, 2010
  • Obama's Anti-Historical UN Speech
    President Obama appealed for Mideast peace but still distorted the facts behind the conflict, argues Lawrence Davidson. September 25, 2010
  • Petraeus Cons Obama on Afghan War
    Gen. David Petraeus continues to outmaneuver President Obama on the future of the Afghan War, writes Ray McGovern. September 24, 2010
  • Testing the Value of Truth
    Political operatives of all stripes are tempted to twist the truth as a shortcut to achieve their goals, says Rory O'Connor. September 23, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • EPA’s New Program to Fix Texas’s Broken Flexible P ...
    It has been about half a year since the battles started between the EPA and TCEQ over the Texas’s flexible air-permitting program. Unfortunately, the Governor has taken advantage of this issue to use to attack the Federal Government in his bid for the Governor post. Many have us have forgotten that ...
  • 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 ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • UN to appoint space ambassador
    The UN are appointing an astrophysicist to be the world's representative in the event of alien contact. Mazlan Othman has been assigned the position a...
  • Hair-washing robot developed in Japan
    Scientists in Japan are to unveil a new robot from Panasonic that can wash and dry people's hair. The machine uses two robotic arms with eight fingers...
  • Synthetic life could make trips to Mars
    Scientists are researching the possibility of using synthetic life forms to create food and and fuel. The idea stems from a need to keep astronauts su...
  • Does a sixth sense really exist ?
    A five-year study has revealed evidence that two people can become physiologically aligned. The study is based on the monitoring of brain activity dur...
  • Chocolate boat sets sail in France
    A chocolatier in France has set sail in his newly built boat made entirely out of chocolate. The 3.5m vessel got off to a choppy start but was soon af...

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 28, 2010
    Obama Under Fire for Grossly Underestimating Gulf Oil Spill (Guardian) The Obama administration lost the public trust and may have sabotaged clean-up operations in the Gulf by grossly underestimating the amount of oil gushing from BP's broken Macondo well, according to a White House commissi ...
  • September 27, 2010
    Panel Probes Decisions Made After Gulf Spill (AP) How well did the White House react to the Gulf oil spill disaster? A federal panel appointed by Pres. Obama starts its investigation today. Halliburton Slams "Erroneous" BP Rig Blast Report (Reuters)  Halliburton, the oilfield servic ...
  • September 25-26, 2010
    Climate Change Activists Close World's Largest Coal Port Company (Reuters) Australian climate change activists on Sunday closed down the world's largest coal port, a spokesman for terminal operator Port Waratah Coal Services said. Proposition 23 Poll Shows a Dead Heat Among California Voters ...
  • 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 Handful or M ...
  • 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 Outloo ...

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Booman Tribune

  • Freedom Watch: Banned Books Week
    Even I was surprised to see that the following books were banned (or attempts were made to ban them) once upon a time in a state or county far, far away (or maybe not so far): Gone With The Wind Forrest Gump Lord of the Rings (actually burned as a Satanic book, something it shares, I suppose wi ...
  • Settling the Cat Fight
    Jane Hamsher and John Cole are in a shouting match, and that's fine. I don't care. One bone of contention between them is rather important, though. Hamsher claims that 53 Democratic senators were on the record at one point or another as being in favor of a public option. Cole, on the other hand, ...
  • Progressives Pissing at One Another
    With all that's going on in this country and the world right now, one would think that progressive bloggers have better things to do than carp back and forth at each other. Really what is the benefit of a pissing contest when the Republicans and their mega-corporate (Wall Street bankers, Insurance ...
  • I Am Not A Burned Down House
    I am not a burned down house. Like millions of Americans, I have a "pre-existing condition." But I am not a "burned down house", as Mike Huckabee and those who applauded his recent statement seem, to think. When Republicans attack health care reform, Democrats like to counter by accusing Repu ...
  • How the Pentagon Games the System
    Bob Woodward has started rolling out teasers for his new book in the Washington Post. The first one explains how the military refused to provide Obama with the alternatives to escalation in Afghanistan that he sought. The options they gave him would have resulted in more troops in Afghanistan in 2 ...

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

  • Through Therapy and Training, Impulse Control Is P ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A new study has used brain monitoring to show that through training and therapy, we can strengthen our ability to control our own impulses. Many people who pursue therapy and counseling for addiction, attention issues (e.g. ADHD), and eating disorders (especially bing ...
  • Addressing a Misconception in Body-Psychotherapy
    By Aylee Welch, LICSW, Body Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Aylee and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Oddly enough, a recent ant bite has got me thinking about human behavior and psychotherapy! The little guy lived in the dessert where survival skills are paramount an ...
  • The Secret That All Clients Should Know but Few Th ...
    By Sarah Noel, MS, LMHC Click here to contact Sarah and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile So, you made it through the hardest part– you made the decision to seek therapy. You asked for recommendations, sorted through therapist profiles and websites, maybe even spoke to a few. Finally, you selected ...
  • For Teens, Team Sports Boost Both Physical and Men ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A new study from researchers at West Virginia University shows that team sports and athletic activity in general have different impacts on young teens aged 12-14 years. Young teens who had participated in “vigorous activity” reported the same levels of life satisfacti ...
  • Why Do I Feel So Unsafe When Nothing Much is Happe ...
    By Delyse Ledgard, MA, RCC, Family of Origin Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Delyse and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile How are we suppose to feel safe in a world full of danger and impermanence? Why is it that some people can breeze through life with confidence and calm, wh ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Over 100 Arrested, Including James Hansen, At Whit ...
    Boston Globe Over 100 Arrested, Including James Hansen, At White House Over Mountaintop Removal Treehugger "The science is clear, mountaintop removal destroys historic mountain ranges, poisons water supplies and pollutes the air with coal and rock dust. ... More than 100 Arrested at White House Dem ...
  • Hundreds rally against mountaintop mining in DC - ...
    Hundreds rally against mountaintop mining in DC The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Environmentalists and other protesters are rallying in the nation's capital to urge the Obama administration to end mountaintop removal mining ...
  • More than 100 arrested at coal mining protest in f ...
    More than 100 arrested at coal mining protest in front of the White House The Hill (blog) The White House protest was one of several rallies in Washington on Monday by coal-state residents and others opposed to mountaintop removal . ...
  • Thousands to Converge in DC to Call For End to Mou ...
    Thousands to Converge in DC to Call For End to Mountaintop Removal Common Dreams (press release) 27 for 'Appalachia Rising,' the largest national protest to demand the end to mountaintop removal coal mining. Appalachia Rising is being led by citizens of ... Mainers urged to help stop mountaintop re ...
  • Activists will march on Washington to end mountain ...
    This Dish Is Veg Activists will march on Washington to end mountaintop removal Facing South Activists working to end to mountaintop removal coal mining will gather in Washington, DC from Sept. 25 to 27 for Appalachia Rising -- a weekend conference ... Big Kenny and others demand an end to mountaint ...

Memeorandum

  • Trumka: Working-Class Anger Fueled by Right's 'Dee ...
    Mike Hall / AFL-CIO NOW BLOG : Trumka: Working-Class Anger Fueled by Right's ‘Deeply Dishonest’ Message   —  With the economy continuing to stagger and job creation not moving quickly, “working people are justifiably angry and frustrated” as they approach the Nov. 2 elections, says AFL-CIO Preside ...
  • Mrs Taliban Dan submits and dutifully defends her ...
    Digby / Hullabaloo : Mrs Taliban Dan submits and dutifully defends her husband   —  Mrs Taliban Dan Submits  —  If you haven't seen the ad that's causing a flurry among the very, very delicate Republicans, check it out:  —  The good wife speaks up: … Uhm.  They can't refute it because it's all tru ...
  • Rahm Emanuel Likely to Leave White House This Week ...
    ABCNEWS : Rahm Emanuel Likely to Leave White House This Week   —  Final Decision Not Yet Made, White House Chief of Staff All but Certain to Explore Campaign for Mayor of Chicago  —  Although no final decision has been made because of family considerations, ABC News has learned that White House off ...
  • Vice President Biden to Democratic Base: 'Stop Whi ...
    Jake Tapper / Political Punch : Vice President Biden to Democratic Base: ‘Stop Whining’   —  At a fundraiser in Manchester, NH, today, Vice President Biden urged Democrats to “remind our base constituency to stop whining and get out there and look at the alternatives.  This President has done an in ...
  • Vulnerable Dem Rep. Embraces Bush In Latest Ad (Th ...
    The Note : Vulnerable Dem Rep. Embraces Bush In Latest Ad   —  ABC News' Amy Walter reports:  —  We've seen plenty of Democrats in tight races trying to distance themselves from President Obama.  But one Democrat, North Dakota's Rep. Earl Pomeroy, is taking this a step farther by actually embracin ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.4, south of the Mariana Islands
    Tuesday, September 28, 2010 03:15:06 UTC Tuesday, September 28, 2010 01:15:06 PM at epicenter Depth : 22.60 km (14.04 mi)
  • M 5.0, Bonin Islands, Japan region
    Tuesday, September 21, 2010 19:26:08 UTC Wednesday, September 22, 2010 05:26:08 AM at epicenter Depth : 34.50 km (21.44 mi)
  • M 5.1, Coquimbo, Chile
    Tuesday, September 28, 2010 01:48:16 UTC Monday, September 27, 2010 09:48:16 PM at epicenter Depth : 63.90 km (39.71 mi)
  • M 5.1, offshore Oaxaca, Mexico
    Tuesday, September 21, 2010 14:42:11 UTC Tuesday, September 21, 2010 09:42:11 AM at epicenter Depth : 52.90 km (32.87 mi)
  • M 5.0, Tonga region
    Monday, September 27, 2010 19:18:14 UTC Tuesday, September 28, 2010 07:18:14 AM at epicenter Depth : 97.40 km (60.52 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Stretching city limits (2)
    In the conclusion of a two-part interview with Jared Green, Kristina Hill forecasts a changing relationship between urban dwellers and local wildlife – and argues clever landscape design has a crucial role in species preservation. Kristina Hill chairs the landscape architecture department at the Uni ...
  • Stretching city limits (1)
    American academic Kristina Hill is an expert on the impact of climate change on both built and natural environments. Here she tells Jared Green how design professionals must prepare – both practically and psychologically – to help cities adapt. Kristina Hill chairs the landscape architecture departm ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Hillary Clinton and State Dept. to Celebrate War C ...
    Future historians will marvel at how U.S. leaders failed to learn from their horrific crimes in Indochina, and are instead repeating many of them today.
  • New Evidence That Rand Paul May Be the Craziest Ma ...
    This post first appeared on Hullabaloo. Ok, this is getting ridiculous now: Republican U.S. Senate nominee Rand Paul belongs to a conservative doctors’ group that, among other things, has expressed doubts about the connection between HIV and AIDS and suggested that President Barack Obama may ha ...
  • Breaking: Mass Arrests in DC: We Shall No Longer B ...
    Over one hundred protesters from the Appalachian coalfields were arrested in front of the White House today, defiantly calling on the Obama administration to abolish mountaintop removal mining. As part of the Appalachia Rising events, the coalfield residents took part in a multi-day series of event ...
  • Prince Abdul Ali Seraj: U.S. weakening of Karzai c ...
    By Kathleen Wells, Prince Abdul Ali Seraj is a direct descendant of nine generations of kings of Afghanistan. He is also the president of the National Coalition for Dialogue with Tribes of Afghanistan, a grassroots trans-tribal movement that has had much success in unifying all the tribes and an org ...
  • GOP Senate Candidate John Raese Blames Volcanoes f ...
    Cross-posted from Think Progress. Millionaire businessman John Raese, running as the GOP Senate nominee to fill Robert Byrd’s West Virginia seat, wants to take the state back to the 19th century. Not only does he want to return capitalism to the era before child labor laws, Social Security, and ...

Threat Level

  • FBI Drive for Encryption Backdoors is Déjà vu for ...
    The FBI now wants to require all encrypted communications systems to have backdoors for surveillance, according to a New York Times report, and to the nation’s top crypto experts it sounds like a battle they’ve fought before. Back in the 1990s, in what’s remembered as the crypto wars, the FBI and N ...
  • Unpublished Iraq War Logs Trigger Internal WikiLea ...
    A domino chain of resignations at the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks followed a unilateral decision by autocratic founder Julian Assange to schedule an October release of 392,000 classified U.S. documents from the war in Iraq, according to former WikiLeaks staffers. Key members of WikiLeaks were an ...
  • 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Wall Street drops as confidence shrinks
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks extended declines on Tuesday and the Nasdaq fell 1 percent after September data showed consumer confidence fell to its lowest level since February.
  • North Korean leader's son unveiled, seen as succes ...
    SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's ailing leader Kim Jong-il gave his youngest son his first public title on Tuesday, naming him a general in a move analysts said marked the first stage of dynastic succession in the secretive state.
  • Mahan paired with Woods in U.S. team practice
    NEWPORT, Wales (Reuters) - Tiger Woods was paired with Hunter Mahan in official practice for the Ryder Cup on Tuesday, offering the first clue as to the world number one's partner for Friday's opening fourball matches against Europe.
  • U.S. Nuclear Weapons Have Been Compromised by Unid ...
    U.S. Nuclear Weapons Have Been Compromised by Unidentified Aerial Objects PR Newswire
  • 5 Reasons the Media Cover Apple So Much
    A study published Monday drew on a host of metrics to conclude something we all already knew: The media covers Apple more than any other company. In the past year, headlines about Apple took up 15.1 percent of tech news coverage, while articles about Google constituted about 11.4 percent, and a mea ...

IntelNews

  • Lawsuit claims CIA uses pirate software in drone a ...
    By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | The Central Intelligence Agency is using stolen software code in its covert Predator drone assassination program in Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to a lawsuit filed by a software company in the US state of … Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #434 (book news edition)
    CIA drone strikes have killed Americans, claims journalist. In his new book, Obama’s Wars, veteran US journalist Bob Woodward claims that CIA drone strikes in Pakistan have killed many Westerners, including some US citizens. Norway’s greatest spy case to be … Continue reading →
  • Lebanon charges PKK Kurds with spying for Israel
    By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | Lebanese authorities have detained three alleged members of the Kurdistan Workersâ Party (PKK) on charges of spying for Israel. The three arrestees, whose names have not been released to the media, were reportedly arrested … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

After Downing Street.org

  • Venezuela Votes
    Venezuela Votes - by Stephen Lendman On September 26, Venezuelans again voted, the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign (VSC - vicuk.org) saying to elect members to the 165-seat National Assembly. It happens every five years, and it's the 16th national election or referendum since Chavez's 1998 victory, ta ...
  • Crimes Are Crimes
  • The Road to World War III - The Global Banking Car ...
      Part One I: Economic Imperial Operations II: Violence on the Horizon III: The IMF Riot, Step 3.5 IV: Bang the Drums of War V: The Chinese Scapegoat: Trade & —- Currency Wars VI: Moves Upon the Grand Chessboard VII: Resource Wars VIII: Private Military Complex IX: History Repeats Its ...
  • Replace the War System: Why and How
    By Michael Nagler, CommonDreams.org About the murderous rampage of U.S. soldiers from the 5th Stryker Combat Brigade who killed and dismembered Afghani civilians, evidently “for sport,” the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported on September 20th, “Army officials have not disclosed a motive” for the ou ...
  • UN Fact-Finding Mission Says Israelis "Executed" U ...
    By Gareth Porter, Truthout The report of the fact-finding mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla released last week shows conclusively, for the first time, that US citizen Furkan Dogan and five Turkish citizen ...

Grist - News

  • Friedman misses what’s really holding Americ ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman returns to familiar ground in contrasting the staggering ambition of China's infrastructure program with America's failure to invest in big public projects. He describes four of China's multibillion-dollar, long-term efforts: a net ...
  • Confusion hampered Gulf oil spill response, says T ...
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- The federal government's pointman for the Gulf oil spill said Monday that a separate entity was needed to coordinate government and company responses to such disasters to avoid public confusion over who was in charge. "Procedures that worked terrific for ...
  • Big fashion brands up use of organic cotton
    by Agence France-Presse. PARIS -- Poisonous pesticides, soil pollution, and water waste: Big-brand fashion has a lot to answer for in the environmental game. But can major clothing companies use their global clout to drive the green revolution? If green is the new black on the high street, the ...
  • 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 ...

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Washington Independent

  • Broken Federal Election Commission Fails to Enforc ...
    “I do not think that most citizens know that, for all practical purposes, we do not have a campaign finance enforcement agency," says Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21. "We have a set of laws on the books, but we have an agency that basically refuses to enforce them, or misinterprets the la ...
  • Police Argue Against School-Issued Guide on Immigr ...
    There is a debate brewing in San Diego over how much schools should teach students about their rights in immigration raids and deportation proceedings, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported this weekend. As immigration enforcement efforts grow, some schools across the country have handed out guides t ...
  • Voting on the Tax Cuts, Ctd.
    David Axelrod promises it will happen: White House senior adviser David Axelrod predicted on Monday that Congressional Republicans will ultimately “blink” in the tax cut debate as the deadline approaches for all rates to rise to Clinton-era levels. Speaking shortly after an appearance at a Google/ ...
  • The Pledge to Increase the Deficit
    The Center for American Progress’ Michael Ettlinger and Michael Linden do quick work dismantling the GOP’s Pledge to America, a governing platform released with great fanfare but to little applause last week. Lo and behold, cutting taxes without cutting spending leads to yawning deficits and a fatte ...
  • The Economics of Cohabitation
    It’s common to assert that the rise of cohabitation — couples living together outside of marriage — is a sociological phenomenon. Consider Michael Gerson: “In the absence of a courtship narrative, young people have evolved a casual, ad hoc version of their own: cohabitation. From 1960 to 2007, the ...

Digg Green

  • Similac Recall 2010: Insects Found in Baby Fo ...
    Abbot Labs, makers of the Similac line of baby formulas, has announced a voluntary recall of its products after discovering many of the powdered food items are contaminated with the body parts of insects.
  • Study Finds Landfills May Be Greener Than Rec ...
    The study found that in communities with limited infrastructure, recycling can actually result in a bigger carbon footprint than simply throwing plastics in a landfill.
  • Egyptian Desert Expedition Confirms Spectacul ...
    A 2008 Google Earth search led to the discovery of Kamil crater, one of the best-preserved meteorite impact sites ever found. Earlier this year, a gritty, sand-blown expedition reached the site deep in the Egyptian desert to collect iron debris and determine the crater's age and origins.
  • Bill Clinton Drops Meat, Dairy, and 24 Pounds ...
    Image Credit: sskennel via Flickr Former President Bill Clinton, reputed for his legendary consumption of snack foods, has made a surprise move. In an effort to drop weight before his daughter Chelsea's (vegan) wedding, the father of the bride gave up meat and dairy products, becoming a vegan. ...
  • Seafood Crisis - Will There Be Any Left In Th ...
    Time for a Sea Change--Too many hooks in the water. That’s the problem with today’s fisheries. Working from small pole-and-line boats to giant industrial trawlers, fishermen remove more than 170 billion pounds of wildlife a year from the seas. A new study suggests that our current appetite coul ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Queen and Sexy Sady need some Heat
    By Les Visible It doesn’t get much better when you can find out that the Queen of England wanted to tap the money set aside for the poor to heat her palaces and dwellings. It’s certain to make a heart feel glad that her Royal Shitstress need not be concerned about the temperature in any [...]
  • Quote of the Day – The true nature of mankin ...
    The true nature of mankind is manifested in the love for other fellow humans and love for all the good in the world. Love is the best foundation for establishing relations among people and among nations. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Iran’s Ahmadinejad proposes nuclear deal, de ...
    Addressing a packed press conference in a New York hotel, Mr Ahmadinejad also said Iran was prepared to set a date for resumption of talks with six world powers to discuss Tehran’s nuclear programme, saying October would be the likely time for the two sides to meet. He also defended his remarks at t ...
  • ’9/11 was an inside job’: Full speech ...
  • Alternative Media and Ahamadinejad’s Speech: ...
    By pfgetty I have just perused some of the most popular “alternative” media sites this Saturday morning to see what is being written about Ahmadinejad’s speech at the UN this week. Seems like complete avoidance. Censorship is a better word. While the msm at least covered the story, the alternative m ...

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

  • The Best of the Brompton District at London Design ...
    Food and furniture were the order of the day at the exhibitions in the Brompton Design District at this year’s London Design Week. Offering a wonderful array of delicious treats and a handful of delectable design products, Brompton didn’t fail to cook up a five-star feast for the eyes, which includ ...
  • Solar Energy To Help Pakistan Flood Victims
    In recent disasters such as the Haiti earthquake and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, renewable energy has been used to help those in need by powering shelters and emergency equipment. Now those who have lost everything in the Pakistan floods are to be aided by portable solar energy units that could ea ...
  • College of Wooster to Get Largest Solar Roof on Co ...
    This week the College of Wooster in northeast Ohio announced plans to install a 20,000-square-foot solar roof – the largest on any college facility in the nation – on its new student athletic and recreation center, set to open in January 2012. The solar installation will generate 271,000 kilowatt ho ...
  • Grow Greens Indoors with this Hydroponic Kitchen I ...
    If you’ve been dreaming of an indoor garden, but simply don’t have the space or the sunlight to manage growing inside, then check out this kitchen island that doubles as a small hydroponic garden. Made from walnut and steel, and secured with simple yet beautiful wood joinery, Peter Buley’s new islan ...
  • Drained Chevy Volt Batteries To Be Used In Smart G ...
    Drained battery disposal is one of the pitfalls of the electric car, however GM is set to give used cells a second lease on life by collaborating with ABB Group, a power grid supplier, to store energy generated by solar and wind power systems. General Motors said that the plan is to find “creative a ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Being Single Is a Drag for Exploding Spores
                    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience619362315001', 'anId'); brightcove.createExperiences(); Fungi don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. They make their own. Forcibly ejecting thousands of spores into still air creates a little puff that can carry t ...
  • Utah Is Perfect for Pretending You Are on Mars
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience614692260001', 'anId'); brightcove.createExperiences(); Six wannabe Martians are are taking life on Mars for a test drive here on Earth. In a small cylindrical building in the Utah desert, the would-be space explorers live ...
  • Flying Robot Swarm Takes Off
    By Olivia Solon The Ecole Polytechnic Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland is developing swarms of flying robots that could be deployed in disaster areas to create communication networks for rescuers. The Swarming Micro Air Vehicle Network (SMAVNET) project comprises of robust, lightweight robot ...
  • High-Speed Videos: The Hidden World of Insect Flig ...
    Video: Andrew Mountcastle See Also: High-Speed Video Shows How Flies Change Direction So Quickly High-Speed Video of Locusts Could Help Make Better Flying Robots High-Speed Video: Bursting Bubbles Breed Ever-Smaller Bubbles 6 Super Close-Ups of Crazy Bug Eyes See Them While You Can: Endangered Butt ...
  • 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 ...

The Progressive Realist

  • What Got Accomplished at the UN Last Week
    As usual, the sideshows like Mahmoud Ahmidenijad’s 9-11 trurtherism sucked up much of the mainstream media attention around UN week.  But beyond the sideshows, last week brought some very real, substantive accomplishments that could potentially transform the lives of millions of people around the w ...
  • Magical Military Thinking About Afghanistan: The S ...
    Someday when the history of the US war in Afghanistan is written historians will point to this op-ed by James Stavridis NATO Supreme Allied Commander for Europe as Exhibit A in the magical military thinking that doomed the US effort there. I'm not sure my prodigious amounts of snark can do justice t ...
  • "Gitmo 9" Lawyer Defending Targeted Killing
    I will be posting on the Obama administration's filing in the Anwar al-Awlaki case asserting its authority to kill anyone, even an American citizen, suspected of terrorism but for now I just want to point out who signed the brief: Who is Tony West ? He's the Assistant Attorney General for the Civ ...
  • It's About Respect: More on Civilian/Military Rela ...
    In the continuing discussion about civil-military affairs in the government, I had meant to highlight LTG Douglas Lute's performance in the past Obama AfPak strategy review. Lute, as you might recall, was plucked from the Joint Staff operations role to be Pres. Bush's advisor on Iraq and Afghanista ...
  • Obama vs. the Generals
    A lot of people have been pitching the revelations in the Woodward book as Obama vs. the Generals.  But, if it was contest, it wasn’t much of one.  The Gates, Mullen, Petraeus trioka dug in their feed for a major escalation (on top of an initially 19,000 man increase ordered immediately after Obam ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Political Golden Age Blogging.
    Conor Friedersdorf 's comparison between Wall Street hucksters whose exotic financial products wrecked the economy and modern conservatives who cynically exploited their adherents has a lot of truth. Conservatives commonly assume that liberals don't "get" the populist rumblings on the right. Not tr ...
  • The Upsides of Misplaced Focus.
    Writing at her blog, Dana Goldstein reminds would-be education reformers that most American schools actually serve their students pretty well: This is, in part, the point Nick Lemann made in his New Yorker column on “the overblown crisis in American education.” It’s important to note that the major ...
  • The Little Picture: Truth in Art.
    The above sculpture was erected today in front of the Italian Stock Exchange as part of a retrospective dedicated to Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan . It will remain there until Oct. 3.� I guess in Italy the bankers come right out and say what America's financial sector only thinks. -- Tim Fern ...
  • What Is Leon Wieseltier Talking About?
    I like negative reviews and New Republic Literary Editor Leon Wieseltier's essay on the subject, but I do want to ask what Wieseltier is talking about when he identifies "the sick desire of a technologically intoxicated and economically panicked society to see its highbrow institutions hobbled or de ...
  • Tyranny in the Real World.
    There's a portion in the GOP's " Pledge for America " where the authors decry an "unchecked executive" who "strikes down long-standing laws and institutions" while "scorning the deepest beliefs of the American people." Given their past rhetoric, Republicans are probably referring to our duly elected ...

Buzzflash

  • Dr. J.'s BF Commentary No. 154: Reflections on 9/1 ...
    The 9/11 remembrances and memorials seem to have come and gone very quickly this year, except to the extent that the GOP/Tea-Party led campaign for Islamophobia had gained strength and will continue on, to what ends and endings no one at this point can say with certainty.  (For more of my thoughts o ...
  • Republicans Thrive on Wedge Issues
    Body   America used to be called “the land of opportunity” in better times before our economy tanked. Today cries ring out at Tea Party rallies about “taking the country” back, or to be more accurate, taking the country backward. The fact is the ‘good old days’ weren’t equally good fo ...
  • We Have Nothing to Fear but a Bunch of Republicans ...
    BARBARA'S BUZZ FROM ATLANTA     http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/20/will-the-supreme-court-strike-down-health-care-reform.html http://blog.buzzflash.com/editorblog/322 "Will the Supreme Court strike down controversial provisions of the new healthcare law?"  Does a bear s*&t in the woods, is the P ...
  • Are the Democrats so Busy Trying to Keep Their Job ...
    DEE EVANS FOR BUZZFLASH   I am so sick and tired of being represented by cowardly Democrats who constantly have nothing but their own personal interests at heart!  I'm officially over it!   As a longtime Democrat, now "left-leaning" Independent, it constantly amazes me how on a consistent b ...
  • O’Donnell Says Media’s Trying To Paint Her As An E ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH   What she calls "painting" others call "reporting." It's clear she's rattled & Maher's footage hurt. But it was nice to see new video of Christine Peeking out from under Sean Hannity's skirt. read more

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The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Latest science stuff
    Latest science stuff from Sciencebase: How to Memorize the Periodic Table With a Song – Kind of these people to link to my site, but I take issue with the idea of learning Tom Lehrer's song as a means to chemical education. It's fun and might help you remember the names of the elements, but [...] La ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • California Drops Park Hunting Plan, For Now
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 24, 2010 PEER California Department of Parks and Recreation Director Ruth Coleman has abandoned her controversial plan to reclassify a portion of Tolowa Dunes State Park as a State Recreation Area.  The unprecedented reclassification scheme was an attempt to allow ...
  • Statement on Tibet at the Human Rights Council
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 24, 2010 Human Rights Watch (HRW) Human Rights Watch is concerned about the situation of the Tibetan minority nationality in the People’s Republic of China as they continue to be the target of systematic governmental repression. The Chinese government continues to ...
  • "We've Been Forgotten"- IJDH New Report on Conditi ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 24, 2010 MADRE The following comes from our friends at the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH): read more
  • National Lawyers Guild Issues New Report on Unlawf ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 24, 2010 National Lawyers Guild The National Lawyers Guild has released its third comprehensive report on government violations of First Amendment rights on the one-year anniversary of the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh. “The Policing of Political Speech: Constraints on ...
  • Interfaith Alliance Counters Effort to Have Clergy ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 24, 2010 Interfaith Alliance Interfaith Alliance President Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy criticized the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) for once again asking members of the clergy to violate the Constitution and IRS regulations by endorsing political candidates from the pul ...

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
  • 'Waiting for Superman': A Missed Opportunity for E ...
    by Rick Ayers While the education film Waiting For Superman has moving profiles of students struggling to succeed under difficult circumstances, it puts forward a sometimes misleading and other times dishonest account of the roots of the problem and possible solutions. read more
  • President Obama: Finding Love in the Wrong Places
    by Cliff Schecter Accompany me, if you will, to an alternative universe. It is one where President Richard Nixon said “we’re all Keynesians now” and founded the Environmental Protection Agency, and President Eisenhower warned of the military-industrial complex, and dismissed any party that would ...
  • 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

  • "This is the way you end insurgencies"
    By Steve Hynd The New York Times headline is an interesting break from the run-of-the-mill: "Petraeus Says Taliban Have Reached Out to Karzai". Notice the direction of the reaching out, and who is revealing it. “There are very high-level Taliban leaders who have sought to reach out to the highest le ...
  • "No NATO Trainers, no transition to Afghan control ...
    By Steve Hynd The United States, in the person of Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, the man responsible for all training of Afghan security forces, is trying to blackmail its NATO allies into providing more trainers after those allies have dragged their feet on escalating their involvement in the nine-year ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • What if peace talks "succeed?"
    Many commentators expect the direct talks between Israelis and Palestinians to fail. But there is a much worse scenario: what if they "succeed?" Nadia Hijab comments.
  • Review: Norwegian doctors' "Eyes in Gaza"
    Eyes in Gaza is a detailed and harrowing account by the Norwegian doctors Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse of their experiences in al-Shifa Hospital during Israel's deadly assau ...
  • "Why aren't the Bedouin treated like Jewish citize ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours interviews Ismael Abu Saad, Associate Professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the founder of the university's Center for Bedouin Studies and De ...
  • Abdel Nasser Amer's "Intelligent dreams"
    Abdel Nasser Amer is an artist who lives and works in the city of Khan Younis in the occupied Gaza Strip. During Israel's 2008-09 winter invasion of Gaza, Amer's studio and some of ...
  • Israel's settlement industry under boycott pressur ...
    Palestinian activists in the occupied West Bank have called for the boycott of the popular Rami Levy Israeli supermarket chain which has several stores inside Israel's ille ...

Afghanistan Sun

  • 3,600 complaints filed about Afghan vote
    Afghanistan's electoral watchdog said Tuesday it had received more than 3,600 complaints of fraud and irregularities since the Sep 18 parliamentary polls, with more than half of them serious enough that they could affect the results.
  • Malik vows enquiry into NATO attack violating Pak ...
    Following aerial engagement in Pakistani territory by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has called it a violation of Pakistan's sovereignty, and assured the Senate that the Afghan ambassador would be summoned to explain his position over the ...
  • NATO forces in massive rescue operation to free S ...
    NATO forces are reportedly carrying out a massive rescue operation in Eastern Afghanistan in an attempt to rescue a Scottish female aid worker and three Afghans who were kidnapped by suspected insurgents.
  • 'Parachute buggies', Brit Army's la ...
    The British Army's special forces regiment, the Special Air Service (SAS), has plans to launch surprise attacks on militants in Afghanistan by parachuting behind enemy lines on buggies.
  • Don't send troops to Afghanistan, Taliban war ...
    The Taliban has warned Bangladesh against sending its troops to Afghanistan after the US asked Dhaka to send its forces to the war-ravaged country.

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • Morning Smoke: Has the White House Adequately Addr ...
    Reorganization of Minerals Management Service raises doubts by Katherine McIntire Peters [Government Executive] Defense goes all-in for incumbents by Jen DiMascio [Politico] What's Long, Hard, and Wrapped in a "Wal-Mart Tarp"? by Adam Weinstein [Mother Jones] Spill panel: Federal confusion...
  • Avandia: What Message Is FDA Sending to Industry a ...
    Late last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that they were severely restricting use of GlaxoSmithKline’s controversial diabetes drug Avandia because of an increased risk of heart attacks. Minutes before the announcement, the European Medicines Agency, the regulator...
  • Morning Smoke: Avandia Decision Signals New Approa ...
    New F.D.A.: Transparence and Flexibility by Gardiner Harris [The New York Times] Avandia: Lessons Learned & Unanswered Questions by Ed Silverman [Pharmalot] Congress passes new TARP-like program by Ryan Holeywell [Bailoutsleuth] DoD needs robust acquisition work force [Federal Times editorial]...
  • 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...

Digital Journal

  • Surrey, BC: Conference on black unity
    A conference to bring together black people from the Caribbean islands and Africa was recently held at Kwantlen University in Surrey, British Columbia.
  • Unknown when 1,200 residents at Toronto highrise c ...
    Officials from the city of Toronto, Toronto Community Housing and the city's fire services provided the general public an update of the current situation of the Wellesley Street apartment building that caught on fire and left more than 1,200 homeless.
  • Montreal City Chronicles (Part 5)
    As allegations of corruption hang over the Liberal government of Jean Charest, another look at life in the French-speaking province's biggest city of Montreal.
  • Anne Frank's tree gets new life in Montreal
    Last month the sad news of Anne Frank's chestnut tree in Amsterdam fell during a storm made the headlines. Tonight a sapling from that tree was planted in Montreal.
  • Elevator ride turns deadly in Toronto
    Two people were in an elevator at 500 Scarlett Road Saturday evening but only one survived the ride. The other died shortly after of stab wounds to the chest.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Lindsay Lohan Spends Time With the Homeless for Go ...
    Sometimes actress/sometimes jailbird Lindsay Lohan, who might be headed back to the slammer after failing a recent drug test, obviously needs to work on her image. Her handlers recognize this. So what did they decide was the quickest and easiest way to make her sympathetic? Send Lohan to spend a day ...
  • Haiti's Homeless Are Treated Just Like America's — ...
    Last week Time magazine reported that when a devastating earthquake killed more than 200,000 people in Haiti earlier this year, more than 75 families fled to a small church for safety. The church, owned by preacher Samuel Farncois in the Delmas district of Port-au-Prince, is no more than a small sha ...
  • Homelessness, Hypothermia and (Maybe) Housing in W ...
    Although it's been only days since Autumn began, it's never too early to start thinking about winter, especially if you're the District of Columbia Department of Human Services. To comply with city law (and, more importantly, to prevent its most vulnerable citizens from getting hypothermia), the Dep ...
  • Homeless Services Beyond Church and State
    Traditionally, caring for the have-nots has been left to governments that apply tax revenue to the needs of "the poor" while some charitable, usually religious, groups make up the difference (often with government grants). This old model has served the political needs of government well and served ...
  • 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 ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • “Combat phase” of battle for Kandahar begins: ISAF
    The “combat phase” of the battle for the Kandahar region has begun, says a spokesperson for the International Security Assistance Force (Rob Nordland, “American and Afghan Troops Begin Combat for Kandahar,” New York Times, 26 September 2010): Code-named âOperation Dragon Strike,â the push is f ...
  • F-35 Memorandum of Understanding
    To view the 2006 Memorandum of Understanding on F-35s signed by Canada (which did not commit any of the parties to purchase  the aircraft), click here. Photo by Robert Plaskota
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • New Bank Charges To Hit Accounts Soon
    September 28, 2010 CNN Money Blake Ellis NEW YORK — Bank fees: They’re like a game of Whac-a-Mole. The minute one set is banned, a whole new set pops up. In August, the Card Act banned a variety of fees — including certain overdraft and excessive late charges. But one month later, banks are increasi ...
  • Are Organic Eggs Safer?
    September 28, 2010 Mercola.com Dr. Mercola Federal officials have matched the Salmonella responsible for current egg recalls to bacteria found in barns and chicken feed at two major Iowa egg producing facilities. This has relaunched the debate over whether eggs from smaller, organic farms are safer. ...
  • Independent Thinkers May Be Considered Mentally Il ...
    September 28, 2010 The Sovereign Society Mark Nestmann Do you question authority? Fail to accept conventional wisdom?  Lose your temper when you hear a politician make a promise that you know he or she can’t keep? If so, you may be mentally ill, according to the most recent revision of the Diagnosti ...
  • Fidel Castro Showcases Book About Bilderberg Group
    September 28, 2010 Associated Press Will Weissert HAVANA – Fidel Castro is showcasing a theory long popular both among the far left and far right: that the shadowy Bilderberg Group has become a kind of global government, controlling not only international politics and economics, but even culture. Th ...
  • Obama To Make Internet Eavesdropping Easier
    WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is drawing up legislation to make it easier for US intelligence services to eavesdrop on the Internet, including email exchanges and social networks, The New York Times said Monday. The White House intends to submit a bill before Congress next year that would re ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • An interview with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal
    Sharmine Narwani interviews Hamas political bureau chief, Khaled Meshaal (part two): Palestinian resistance group Hamas has beaten some unusual odds to survive today: Israel’s unlawful siege of Gaza has crippled the coastal strip’s economy and left Hamas scrambling to govern a restless population l ...
  • Andrew Bacevich: the Washington gossip machine
    Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com We know the endpoint of the story: another bestseller for Bob Woodward, in this case about a president sandbagged by his own high command and administration officials at one another’s throats over an inherited war gone wrong.  But where did the story act ...
  • 20 per cent of US soldiers returning from Iraq suf ...
    Channel 4 News (UK) reports: America’s decade long “war on terror” has been deployment heavy, with little time at home in between. That experience is translating into some worrying figures at America’s largest military base, Fort Hood, in Texas – home to 60,000 troops, one tenth of the US army. Ch ...
  • Dilip Hiro: the waning of America
    Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com This has been the week of American decline at TomDispatch.� On Sunday, Michael Klare considered that decline in the context of�the rise of China�as an energy superpower.� I gave a�muted cheer-and-a-half�for it on Tuesday.� Today, Dilip Hiro, who has been ...
  • Expanding secrecy and diminishing privacy in Obama ...
    The US government might not have enough evidence to issue an arrest warrant for a US citizen but it claims the right to kill such a person and to keep secret its reasons for doing so. The U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi is now on the CIA and Joint Special Operations Command capture-or-kill list of ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Loehle: Vindication
    Guest Post by Craig Loehle (cloehle@ncasi.org) When I published my 2000 year reconstruction (Loehle, C. 2007. A 2000 Year Global Temperature Reconstruction based on Non-Treering Proxy Data. Energy & Environment 18:1049-1058) and the subsequent correction with better confidence intervals (Loehle, … C ...
  • Cancel all your European travel and vacation plans ...
    This is idiotic. The EU carbon trading cabal has decided to extort the rest of the air travel world starting in 2012. In a nutshell, they’ll ban flights from landing if the airlines don’t engage in carbon trading. It’s yet … Continue reading →
  • Rebuild California! Vote for your favorite Jerry ...
    The California governor’s race is heating up with former governor Jerry Brown (D) running against former EBay CEO Meg Whitman (R).  Brown, after decades in government has apparently run out of ideas for campaign commercials and is looking for people … Continue reading →
  • Los Angeles laughs at recent “invisible summ ...
    Downtown Los Angeles scorches with temperatures 110+ F … NWS Current temp at USC [UPDATE: 2:30 PM Pacific: USC station no longer reporting?- Ryan  2:52 FIXED LINK - Anthony]   WUWT:  oh little sensor: why did you stop reporting the temperature … Continue reading →
  • Examining Trenberth’s: ‘The heat will ...
    Inspired by a WUWT comment from Bill Illis in the Maybe theyâve found Trenberthâs missing heat thread, I’ve elevated this to full post status and provided the relevant graphics from the links Bill provided. From a National Science Foundation article on … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Israel warships intercept Gaza aid boat
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ PressTV Tue Sep 28, 2010 Israeli warships have intercepted a Jewish aid boat heading for the Gaza Strip to break the crippling blockade of the impoverished territory. “Ten Israeli warships forced the boat to head for (the Israeli port) of Ashdod by force, but wit ...
  • Primate Wars at KU Med: Anatomy of an Intense Gras ...
    by Jason Miller Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Thomas Paine’s Corner Sept. 28, 2010 At the request of Anthony Nocella II, I have composed a summary of Bite Club’s campaign to stop primate vivisection at the University of Kansas Medical Center. This summary will also appear on Lib Now! In late 2009, ...
  • Christopher Hitchens and David Berlinski Debate on ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ thefilmarchive | September 25, 2010 September 7, 2010 http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2… David Berlinski (born 1942 in New York City) is an American educator and author of several books on mathematics. He is a leading critic of evolution within the intellige ...
  • Did He Really Say That? by Cindy Sheehan
    by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox September 25, 2010 “We can absorb a terrorist attack. We’ll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger.” Barack Obama ...
  • 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 ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Being Single Is a Drag for Exploding Spores
                    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience619362315001', 'anId'); brightcove.createExperiences(); Fungi don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. They make their own. Forcibly ejecting thousands of spores into still air creates a little puff that can carry t ...
  • Utah Is Perfect for Pretending You Are on Mars
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience614692260001', 'anId'); brightcove.createExperiences(); Six wannabe Martians are are taking life on Mars for a test drive here on Earth. In a small cylindrical building in the Utah desert, the would-be space explorers live ...
  • Flying Robot Swarm Takes Off
    By Olivia Solon The Ecole Polytechnic Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland is developing swarms of flying robots that could be deployed in disaster areas to create communication networks for rescuers. The Swarming Micro Air Vehicle Network (SMAVNET) project comprises of robust, lightweight robot ...
  • High-Speed Videos: The Hidden World of Insect Flig ...
    Video: Andrew Mountcastle See Also: High-Speed Video Shows How Flies Change Direction So Quickly High-Speed Video of Locusts Could Help Make Better Flying Robots High-Speed Video: Bursting Bubbles Breed Ever-Smaller Bubbles 6 Super Close-Ups of Crazy Bug Eyes See Them While You Can: Endangered Butt ...
  • 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Yitzhak Laor: Left? “Like”
    Israel's streets are silent. Supporters of the left can be found mainly on Facebook and on Internet petitions. There you can sign as much as you want and under any name. The political context is not... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Israeli ties – a chance t ...
    Israeli Universities are an intimate part of the Israeli regime, by active choice. While Palestinians are not able to access universities and schools, Israeli universities produce the research,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Nathan Thrall: Our Man in Palestine
    Bassem Eid, head of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group: "I would like to suggest that General Dayton not just train agents in the use of weapons, beating and torture … but also train them... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Jewish Boat to Gaza sets sail from Cyprus
    A boat carrying aid for Gaza’s population and organized by Jewish groups worldwide has set sail from Cyprus today [26 Sept 2010] at 13:32 local time. The boat, Irene, is sailing under a British flag... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • New app makes boycotting West Bank settlements a t ...
    Israeli bloggers have recently released a new Android application that informs users whether their potential purchases were manufactured in Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decad ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Baking Soda: For Cooking, Cleaning, and Kidney Hea ...
    A daily dose of sodium bicarbonate--baking soda, already used for baking, cleaning, acid indigestion, sunburn, and more--slows the decline of kidney function in some patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD), reports an upcoming study in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (J ...
  • New Science of Learning Offers Preview of Tomorrow ...
    Of all the qualities that distinguish humans from other species, how we learn is one of the most significant. In the July 17, 2009 issue of the journal Science, researchers who are at the forefront of neuroscience, psychology, education, and machine learning have synthesized a new science of learnin ...
  • Study Finds Earliest Evidence of Memory Decline in ...
    Memory lapses that occur with normal aging are a source of worry for many who fear Alzheimer's disease. Now a new Mayo Clinic-led study published in the July 16 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that the carriers of a common genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease begin to h ...
  • Can Children Outgrow Chronic Daily Headache?
    Most children who suffer from chronic daily headache may outgrow the disabling condition, according to research published in the July 15, 2009, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Nearly 1.5 percent of middle school children are affected by chronic da ...
  • Experts from Columbia University Medical Center/Ne ...
    The following embargoed research from Columbia University Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is being presented at the Alzheimer's Association's 2009 International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease (ICAD) in Vienna, Austria.

Natural Health News

  • Finally, the FDA Decides to Curb Avandia – But Did ...
    A September 23, 2010 article in the New England Journal of Medicine announced that, finally, the FDA has stepped forward and decided on regulatory action for Avandia, a diabetes drug that last year claimed 1,354 lives as a result of cardiac-associated problems. � The FDA is restricting access to A ...
  • Don’t Eat These Beans If You’re Thinking of Having ...
    By Jeffrey M. Smith � If you’re still eating genetically modified (GM) soybeans and you plan on having kids, a Brazilian study may make you think again about what you put in your mouth. Female rats fed GM soy for 15 months showed significant changes in their uterus and reproductive cycle, compar ...
  • Why Your Natural Organic Soap, Cosmetics and Other ...
    The organization Health Care Without Harm, which was working to get phthalates out of medical supplies and equipment, noticed data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) showing that women of child-bearing age had high levels of phthalates in their bodies. � They wondered why -- and suspected ...
  • After a Wave Vaccine-Induced Convulsions in Kids, ...
    Australian health officials were aware of severe and unusual side effects with the flu vaccine three weeks before they made the data public, and now experts are demanding for a better national surveillance plan. � It took over three months to clearly identify CSL's Fluvax vaccine as the likely cul ...
  • And You Thought You Were Having a Bad Day? 10 Peop ...
    If you’ve ever had a day when you thought life was unfair, and you just didn’t want do it anymore, then take a look at this video, to see how these people have overcome and embraced what life dished out to them. �

Antemedius

  • Life of Illusion
    An experienced economist and a novice economist are walking down the road. They come across some dog sh*t lying on the pavement. The experienced economist says, "If you eat that dog sh*t, I'll give you $20,000!" The novice economist runs his optimization program and figures out he's better off eatin ...
  • Research Study: Most Americans, Poor & Rich Alike, ...
    A new research study (PDF) carried out by Associate Professor of Business Adninistration Michael I. Norton of Harvard Business School and James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics Dan Ariely of Duke University finds that most Americans generally underestimate the degree of income inequality in ...
  • You Want Better Choices? Better Start Working Now
    This election cycle does not look very good for Democrats. There are structural problems of having won seats in the House that we might not have taken if we had not had the massive outpouring of support for President Obama’s campaign. There is the issue of the economy where voters tend to punish the ...
  • GOP Leader Claims Richest “Hit Hardest” by Great R ...
    (From The Paragraph .) As Democrats try to extend tax cuts for 98% of the people, Republicans threaten to kill those tax cuts by filibuster, unless they can also extend tax cuts for the 2% with the highest incomes ($250,000+, filing jointly). 1 Last week, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell ...
  • There Is No Reason, and The Truth Is Plain To See
    The truth is plain to see. It doesn't happen quite so much here, but all across the blogosphere people sit in front of their computers all day and argue about which national political party is "better". Which one is more likely to give the people what they want. On the "left" blogs people talk about ...

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

  • My Summer Vacation (Part II): More on the Transpar ...
    by J.E. Alvarez The IISD’s paper on transparency I mentioned this morning demonstrates why the investment regime is globalization’s Rorschach test. Recent scholarship (most prominently the work of one of the participants at Barcelona, York University Professor Gus Van Harten (see, e.g., “A Case fo ...
  • What I Did on My Summer Vacation (Part I): The Tra ...
    by J.E. Alvarez by J.E. Alvarez The opportunity to guest blog on Opinio Juris is most appreciated. It is almost like having the ASIL Presidency forum all over again.  My first topic emerges from a conference hosted by the Canadian-based Institute for Sustainable Development in Barcelona in July 2 ...
  • Welcoming Guest Blogger José Alvarez
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis I’m delighted to introduce José Enrique Alvarez as our guest blogger for the next few days.  Professor Alvarez is the Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law at NYU Law School, and serves as a special adviser to the Prosecutor of the Internationa ...
  • Failed States and Legal Fictions
    by Greg Fox by Greg Fox I am struck by the remarkable number of legal fictions salted throughout our discussion of failed states. All states, of course, are fictions. But the fictional norms of statehood carry with them a series of assumptions of how states will function and how they can be persu ...
  • First Contact and the Frontiers of Global Governan ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Congratulations to David Bosco and the rest of the folks at American University’s School of International Service on the conference over the last couple of days on the future of global governance.  I took part on a panel on how to globally govern for which ...

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

  • "Israeli Ties: A Chance To Do The Right Thing" by ...
    Times Live (South Africa) Sep 26, 2010 12:00 AM The University of Johannesburg's Senate will next week meet to decide whether to end its relationship with an Israeli institution, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, on the grounds of that university's active support for and involvement in the Israel ...
  • 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 ...

Pensieve

  • Immigration Only a Dream
    The following Arizona Republic article is the only one I have read that gives a balanced and thorough, analysis of the immigration issues in the US. All others I’ve read are politically biased, sadly. I highly recommend reading it. Ironically, it was published in Arizona, which is now infamous for i ...
  • 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 ...

Green Times

  • Stop Your TV Ending Up In Landfill
    Australians generate 140,000 tonnes of e-waste each year. And with the rapid introduction of 3D TV, itâs likely to become an even bigger pile…
  • Environmental News 28/09/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Visit the park
    If you’re asking yourself what to do on your day off, visit the park. Invite your friends and bring some nice eco-friendly (glossary/categories/lifestyle/eco-products.html) food and drinks for a picnic. Getting some fresh air, lying on the grass and talking with your friends… it will be good! Phot ...
  • Healthy chocolate
    Chocolate is very popular because of the taste. But it can be good for your health too! Dark chocolate contains antioxidants, which protects the body from heart disease. It also helps lower blood pressure and balance certain hormones in your body. Plus, chocolate acts as an anti-depressant and give ...
  • Green galleries
    Visiting a museum or gallery now and then can be very interesting and inspiring. Some galleries focus on the environment and show eco-friendly art and design. Or be creative yourself and create something with environmentally friendly paint. Find eco-friendly galleries and art supplies in the Arts ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Biden tells liberal base: 'Stop whining'
    ShareThis B*** me, Biden: Biden tells liberal base: 'Stop whining' 27 Sep 2010 Vice President Joe Biden on Monday urged Democrats to overcome their differences and support their candidates at the polls by telling them to "stop whining." During a fundraiser for New Hampshire Democratic candidates for ...
  • Pakistan furious over Nato cross-border CIA raids
    ShareThis Pakistan furious over Nato cross-border CIA raids 27 Sep 2010� Pakistan reacted angrily today after Nato said US helicopters had crossed into its territory from Afghanistan to attack militants, claiming to have killed more than 50 Taliban fighters. The admission that two incursions had tak ...
  • Dem Whip: GOP majority will issue birther subpoena ...
    ShareThis Dem Whip: GOP majority will issue birther subpoenas 27 Sep 2010 House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) warned Republicans will investigate President Obama's birthplace if they take over Congress. Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House, said Republicans will grind the governme ...
  • More than 100 Arrested at White House Demanding En ...
    ShareThis More than 100 Arrested at White House Demanding End to Mountaintop Removal By lacymacauley 27 Sep 2010 More than 100 people were arrested today during Appalachia Rising , the largest national protest to end mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining. Arrests included Appalachian residents; reti ...
  • 'Jews for Justice' aid boat sets sail for Gaza
    ShareThis 'Jews for Justice' aid boat sets sail for Gaza 26 Sep 2010 A boat carrying Jewish activists from Israel, Germany, the U.S. and Britain set sail on Sunday for Gaza, hoping to breach Israel's blockade there and deliver aid. Richard Kuper, an organizer with the U.K. group Jews for Justice for ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Something new is happening in Palestine
    An-Nabi Salih, September 25, 2010 Something new is happening in Palestine. I saw and heard things today that are relatively rare in my experience. I saw conflict erupt in the village between those who wanted to throw stones at the Israeli soldiers and generate more violence, as in the past, and the ...
  • Trying to visit the Tamimi Family in the West Bank
    by Amir Terkel, Saturday, September 25, 2010 This morning we went to visit our friends the Tamimi Family and their kids in Nabi Saleh, in the west bank about 40 minutes from Tel Aviv. As it turns out this weekend village residents and Israeli peace activists had planned on marking Intern ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Democratic Party Method for energizing the base
    Obama: Democratic voter apathy ‘inexcusable’ Biden: Democratic base should ‘stop whining’ Y’all feel motivated, pumped up, and ready to get out there and vote Democratic now?
  • Pablo Escobar’s son: Choose peace
    New Europe He has a $1 million price tag on his head from drug cartels, but Pablo Escobar’s son continues to work for peace and reconciliation in Columbia. This is a brave man who knows more than most of us how violence can spin sickeningly out of control. He could have taken over his father’s [...]
  • Schwarzenegger slams Valero, Tesoro and Prop 23
    “This is a corruption of the democratic process. Texas oil companies have descended upon California to overturn a California law. There is a struggle playing out right here in California that the world does not know much about. Today, Valero and Tesoro are in a conspiracy. Not in a criminal conspira ...
  • The left right paradigm is over: It’s you vs. corp ...
    Ritholtz sums it up well. Be sure to read the whole thing The new dynamic, however, has moved past the old Left Right paradigm. We now live in an era defined by increasing Corporate influence and authority over the individual. These two “interest groups” – I can barely suppress snorting derisively o ...
  • Adsense needs a Stop Carpet Bombing Me option
    First it was the omnipresent Brown Bailout ads, then Groupon began deluging websites with ads. their No, I don’t think people will click on an ad if Adsense allows the same ads to run over and over again on a website. When viewing individual posts here, sometimes Brown Bailout or Groupon ads appeare ...

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

  • Alberta’s homeless to get ID cards
    CALGARY – The city’s homeless will be better equipped to get back on their feet thanks to new Alberta ID cards in a first-of-its-kind program rolling out in the coming days. The province is set to unveil its new homeless ID program which will enable anyone without a fixed address, living on the stre ...
  • John Avlon: “We Cant Wait For A Digital Pear ...
    John Avlon: “We Cant Wait For A Digital Pearl Harbour” Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d16269').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
  • This Day In History – September 28
    551 BC – Confucius, Chinese philosopher (d. 479) was born. 1779 – Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay. 1781 – American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War. 1787 – The newly co ...
  • Clips Of Military Men Talking About UFO Encounters ...
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  • Obama calls for longer school year
    President Obama said on the “Today” show Monday morning that American students attend school a month less than kids in other countries — contending that the school-year gap puts them at a competitive disadvantage in the global economy. “The idea of a longer school year, I think, makes sense,” he sai ...

The Air Vent

  • Survey of Skeptics
    For fun: Skeptics survey at Die Klimazweibel. H/T CO2Fan. I think that climatologists are struggling to understand people who don’t go along with the IPCC conclusions. I think it’s an honest approach although the survey questions won’t support anyone’s views well.
  • UN: On the sunny side of the street
    Still warm from the presses, the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa) has decided to expand its role in our galaxy. Mazlan Othman, a Malaysian astrophysicist has been given the role of first contact for any aliens visiting Earth.  Yes that’s right, the UN, seeing all countries and cultures in ...
  • Really?
    More rare than the alignment of four planets or a politician actually reducing government, it appears that Phil Jones and Anthony Watts have accidentally agreed with each other – at least a little bit.  By email, Anthony called my attention to a post he particularly liked by Juraj Vanovcan.  It’s ...
  • Thermoelectric Generation
    Catching heat is the purpose of every internal combustion engine ever developed.  Anywhere you see a hear gradient (difference in temp) between two objects, there is energy flow available and energy to be captured.  Think of it as a pre-charged battery.  Warm ocean surface water vs cold subsurface, ...
  • 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.  ...

Focal Point

  • Sharron Angle Thinks "Autism" is a Socialist Consp ...
    GOP senate hopeful Sharron Angle will see your lunacy and raise you. These days it's fashionable to claim that vaccination is a Big Pharma/Big Government conspiracy to cause autism. Angle can do better. She believes that autism is a socialist conspiracy to shower undeserving children with free hea ...
  • Steve Jobs, Chelsea Kate Isaacs, Journalism and "E ...
    Sometimes I think "entitled" is the new "uppity." It's the new all-purpose put down for anyone who seems too aware of their own power. By way of backstory, college journalism student Chelsea Kate Isaacs wrote an impassioned email to Apple CEO Steve Jobs after the Apple PR department blew off her si ...
  • 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 ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook’s Publisher Now Shows Who Content Will Be ...
    Facebook’s content publisher now automatically shows who the content you’re posting will be shared with. The lock icon users can click to set the distribution parameter for status updates and other content now sits above the publisher and displays if the content will be visible to Everyone, Friends ...
  • Facebook Adds Topics Manager to Questions
    Facebook has added a topics manager to its Q&A product Facebook Questions. A prompt for the manager explains, “Welcome to Questions. We’ll show you more interesting questions if you tell use what you’re interested in.” The manager lets users select from general topics or topics from specialized cate ...
  • Peanut Labs Sells to Research Now, Promises New Su ...
    An early virtual goods monetization service provider, Peanut Labs, is announcing today that it is selling to traditional online survey and sampling provider Research Now for an undisclosed amount. The company began life as a social network called Xuqa in 2005 then morphed into a surveys and CPA offe ...
  • Facebook Investor Says Company Worth Around $30 Bi ...
    Peter Thiel, Facebook’s angel investor and board member — and top entrepreneur and hedge-fund manager — said today that Facebook is one of the “least overvalued or most undervalued” tech companies. And what is the valuation? Around $30 billion, he said. Speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference ...
  • Ifeelgoods Helps Online Retailers Incentivize Cust ...
    Newly launched shopping incentive platform Ifeelgoods today announced that it will help retail websites to give away Facebook Credits as rewards to customers. Users can earn Credits for making purchases, sharing with friends, clicking ads, signing up for email updates, or for redeeming loyalty progr ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Reaping terror’s reward: get in there first – that ...
    Stuart Littlewood looks at how modern terrorism was in fact pioneered by the Zionists and how Israeli and the US behaviours fit the US definition of terrorism like a glove.
  • Truth will set US free: breaking Israel’s strangle ...
    Maidhc Ó Cathail argues that it is vital for the American public to understand that unconditional support for Israel is doing incalculable damage to the US national interest and that, to steer US policy back so that it serves the American people, it is crucial to break the Israel lobby’s stranglehol ...
  • Eight US universities say yes to apartheid
    Lawrence Davidson argues that by signing student exchange agreements with Israeli universities that practise apartheid, eight US universities, including Harvard, Columbia and Michigan, are lending themselves to the destruction of the very educational virtues they claim to cherish.
  • US Zionists in uproar over article showing Israeli ...
    Paul J. Balles reviews the uproar created among Israeli and American Zionists following an article in Time magazine analysing the results of a poll which showed that most Israelis don’t care about peace. He argues that Israel’s apologists and stooges have been lying and brainwashing others for so lo ...
  • 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.

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

  • Matt Bryza: From Evasive to Perjurer?
    Obama’s Nominee for Azerbaijan Ambassadorship Misleads Congress on the Issues of Conflict of Interest & Questionable Ties In response to questions at the hearing that he was too close to Azerbaijani Government officials with highly questionable ties, Matt Bryza remained evasive and provided half-ans ...
  • 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 ...

Afro Spear

  • “Madness and self seeking in the name of God ...
    Recent stand-off-cum-threat by American quack Terry Jones to enflame 200 copies of Koran gave us many lessons. The biggest lesson we got is some Muslims and politicians proved to be mad and awkward thanks to their lush and myopia. For many people in various “Muslim” countries took to the streets to ...
  • 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 ...

Expose the BNP

  • Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
    Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a nation ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Conservative Conundrum
    Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because s ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Lehman on the Edge - Lehman Brothers and Governmen ...
    On September 1, former Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld Jr. testified about the failure of his Wall Street firm, painting himself and his company as victims of “uncontrollable market forces” and unsympathetic government banking officials. Afterward, The New York Times said the seemingly “tragic and ...
  • J-Street Should Lose Tax Exempt Status
    J-Street is a disgrace. They have lied about the source of their funding and misrepresented their true aims. They are part and parcel of the George Soros-oil lobby Obama White House which lifted them into the saddle. Should this group not be compelled to forfeit its tax-exempt standing for misleadin ...
  • Turkey on Edge - Iran Bankrolls Creeping Islamizat ...
    Iran has agreed to donate $25 million (£16 million) to Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in a move that will increase fears that Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is preparing to abandon the country's secular constitution through a referendum. The government of Turkey promptly denied t ...
  • Midterm Electionbs on the Edge - Democrats Can Run ...
    Like many, I like to spend my summer months catching up on some good books and vacationing in Europe. Only this year, I’ve stopped reading fiction. Why bother when real life is so much more interesting? In fact, I think I’ll stop reading books altogether for the next several weeks. All I need are th ...
  • Toxic Edge - Plastics Ingredient Vinyl Chloride is ...
    Bryan Freund compares his fragile condition to having “a time bomb in your head. You just don’t know when it’s going to go off.” Freund, 49, has brain cancer, which he blames on careless practices at a chemical plant just north of his home. He’s among 17 current or former residents of the village of ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Public Mobilization For A Nuclear-Free World
    By Lawrence S. Wittner One of the ironies of the current international situation is that, although some government leaders now talk of building a nuclear weapons-free world, there has been limited public mobilization around that goal - at least compared to the action-packed 1980s
  • We Need Millennium Development RIGHTS, Not Just Go ...
    By Phyllis Bennis Millennium Development Rights would transform the global struggle against poverty and provide accountability for governments, corporations, and others who deny those rights
  • Could Peak Oil Save The Human Species?
    By Kurt Cobb The discovery of a miraculous, cheap, easily scalable new energy source would probably allow our current arrangements to persist for a while longer. But such a development would be a death sentence for the human race since it would lead to the total destruction of the life support sys ...
  • The Collapse Of Western Morality
    By Paul Craig Roberts Yes, I know, as many readers will be quick to inform me, the West never had any morality. Nevertheless things have gotten worse
  • Historical Reasons Against UID//Aadhar Project
    By Gopal Krishna & Prakash Ray UID/Aadhar project gives a sense of deja vu. It is the same path which IBM (International Business Machines) traversed with the Nazi Germany for targeted asset confiscation, ghettoisation, deportation, and ultimately extermination with its punch card and card sorting ...

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

  • House Majority Whip James Clyburn Suffers Bout Of ...
    Its something sad to see but it seems that Congressman James Clyburn is suffering from some sort of disorder that fries his brain cells, or maybe he is suffering from the early stages of dementia, or possibly his Underoos are too tight. Whatever the malady, the house majority whip had another public ...
  • Abbas Looks For A Way to End Peace Talks--With A S ...
    By Barry Rubin It never ceases to amaze me how�hysteria and mystification�so clouds peoples' minds over the�Arab-Israeli (or Israeli-Palestinian) conflict. Consider this simple point of logic which�you may not�see explained�anywhere else. And see the point at the end about President Barack ...
  • ACORN: Brand New Names-Same Crooked Stench
    For those of you wondering what ACORN has been doing during the summer vacation, never fear, despite the groups supposed death, and new names and the criminal enterprise is alive, well and still ripping of the public. A new investigation U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) takes ...
  • New Poll: Most Americans Never Even Heard of MSNBC ...
    I'm not sure which number is worse, the fact that� a new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll reports that MSNBC is not a very popular source for political news, or that same poll reporting that many of MSNBC's key talking heads are unknown by most of the country. According t ...
  • Turkey's Referendum Doesn't Mean Popular Support f ...
    By Barry Rubin It is true that the passage of the referendum in Turkey with 58 percent of the vote can be seen as a victory for the AKP regime. But that point shouldn't be exaggerated. The bad feature of the reforms--in terms of consolidating the Islamist government's power--is to strengthe ...

The Real Agenda

  • Genetically Engineered Salmon Will Hit Food Chain ...
    This is a Frankenfood cover-up, pure and simple, and the public is going to be outraged that the FDA would introduce a genetically engineered fish into the food supply without even requiring it to be accurately labeled!We'll be watching this issue very closely, waiting for the FDA's final decision.
  • Internet Wiretapping Coming to a Server Near You
    The legislation, which the Obama administration plans to submit to Congress next year, raises fresh questions about how to balance security needs with protecting privacy and fostering technological innovation. And because security services around the world face the same problem, it could set an exam ...
  • Secretive Committee meets again to “save Eur ...
    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."
  • Is Brazil ready for more Socialism?
    Note: Former Guerrilla Leader and street fighter Dilma Rousseff is ready to become Brazil’s next president in an election to be held October 3rd. Rousseff, a former head of a revolutionary group during the military coup in the mis 1960′s is back. This time, she sided with the PT political party, the ...
  • Obama Stimulus Made Economic Crisis Worse
    "You have a person who has cancer and instead of removing the cancer, you give him tranquilizers.When you give tranquilizers to a cancer patient, they feel better but the cancer gets worse.”

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

  • Who’s pushing for a mayor impervious to the ...
    News on the local election PR front. The Strong Mayor ballot measure is now being pitched as the “Elected Mayor” initiative. Perhaps quite a few voters in Colorado Springs might easily be convinced that we don’t have that already, rationalizing that Mayor Lionel Rivera could not possibly have been e ...
  • R W Lunartic fringe and the Lunar Year
    One would think that people who claim to be very pro-Israel (long as them thar jewboys don’t get too uppity) would at least know when the High Holy Days are. Glenn Beck, for instance, Breitbart, Fox News, all of them claiming a victory for Right Wing Lunatic Fringe politics and policies because the ...
  • Are FBI raids on activists focused on UNAC strateg ...
    The UNAC is claiming that recent FBI raids on the offices of various antiwar organizations are linked to those which attended its July conference, an attempt to coordinate national antiwar activities. Even the title of the conference was never pinned down. Here are the 28 action points decided for t ...
  • 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 ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Actually, no Mr. Nobles...
    I think it's time to correct you on a few issues. A couple of weeks ago Mr. Joseph Nobles posted a response to my debunking of his posts on the thermal conductivity of the WTC steel and the corroded steel samples. And on Tuesday, he posted a request to me that I correct myself. I'll be doing some ...
  • What We Believe According to JREFers
    So I've just taken a look over at ae911truth.info to see if Mr. Joseph Nobles has been up to anything recently. His latest addition to his site concerns a post by someone on the JREF forum on a thread titled "Why do you still believe that a collapse due to fire wouldn't be possible?". I was ready to ...
  • The beam that fell too fast...
    I normally don't like discussing little anomalies in videos like this, but I found this kind of interesting. Some time ago I posted the image below and noted the single beam that's fallen much further than the rest of the debris, as if it was falling faster than freefall. In many videos this b ...
  • 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 ...

Fooducate

  • Kix Kids’ Cereal – Optimal Mix of Taste and Nutrit ...
    Kix is a kid’s cereal that’s been around for over 70 years. It recently went through what marketing professionals call a “brand refresh”. See the new package image above. The package promises “Kid Tested, Mother Approved”. So we had two fooducate community members receive a sample box to try with t ...
  • Coming Soon? FDA Plans Nutrition Label Upgrades
    We’ve lamented often on the poor usability of nutrition fact labels on foods. The whole purpose of this blog is to help people decode nutrition labels. We’ve even made some suggestions for the FDA to rectify the situation. Now Marion Nestle reports that the FDA is planning several improvements: A ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Shell in row over Brazilian Indian land grab
    The film 'Birdwatchers' highlights the plight of the Guarani Kaiowá Indians in Brazil © Marie Hippenmeyer Brazilian authorities have written to energy giant Shell expressing concern over the activities of its new Brazilian joint-venture partner, which is producing biofuels from land taken ...
  • Survival calls for boycott of Botswana tourism
    The pool of Wilderness Safaris' new lodge in the CKGR. © Survival Survival today called for tourists to boycott Botswana until the government ends a brutal campaign of persecution against Kalahari Bushmen. The call coincides with World Tourism Day, September 27, which Botswana is using to ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Tonight: Palast on Firedoglake.comLive-Chat on New ...
    Join the conversation tonight. Greg will be discussing Big Easy to Big Empty - The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans. You can ask Greg questions on live-chat tonight at 8pm ET on the Firedoglake.com homepage. If you're not already registered, go to Firedoglake.com and register to get your ...
  • Palast at the 2010 Fighting Bob Fest
    Watch Greg Palast's speech at the Barrymore Theater on September 10, 2010 for the opening of the annual Fighting Bob Fest Festival in Wisconsin. *** Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Armed Madhouse and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. Palast is a Nation Institute/Puffi ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Join Jenny McCarthy Today for "Love, Lust & Faking ...
    Guys, I'm sure Jenny would never fake it with you.... Congratulations to our friend Jenny McCarthy. Today is release day for her new book, Love, Lust & Faking It: The Naked Truth About Sex, Lies, and True Romance . Available...
  • A ‘Medical Nightmare’—Refrigerator Mothers
    By Anne Dachel How could doctors have gotten it SO WRONG FOR SO LONG? Recently I heard about a PBS Point of View program called Refrigerator Mothers, produced in 2002. The segments I found showed how autism was viewed going...
  • The Autism Anomalies
    By Julie Obradovic Stupid is a bad word in my house. Although I have to admit I can have a potty mouth at times, this is the one word that I just don't use, and if I do, you know...
  • SafeMinds Comments on Pediatrics Study on Thimeros ...
    Prenatal and Infant Exposure to Thimerosal From Vaccines and Immunoglobulins and Risk of Autism. Price, CS. et. al. Pediatrics 2010;126:656-664. Comments by SafeMinds Background This study was funded by CDC and conducted by several parties with an interest in protecting...
  • Sex!
    Break out the "good panties", ladies. Guys - charge up that ManGroomer. Tuesday we have sex, love and lust. And we're not faking it. KS

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

  • Ben & Jerry’s latest flavor: genetically engineere ...
    In addition to heaping helpings of political activism, the company also served a "protest batch" of the cleverly re-named frozen treat, "Something's Fishy." It's "an outrageous flavor protesting genetically engineered salmon," and it's chocolatey, marshmallowy good.
  • Groundbreaking study shows Roundup link to birth d ...
    Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the world's best-selling weedkiller Roundup, causes malformations in frog and chicken embryos at doses far lower than those used in agricultural spraying and well below maximum residue levels in products presently approved in the European Union.
  • 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!

Open Your Eyes News

  • Stroke damage to brain may not be permanent, study ...
    PhysOrg.com – After damage to certain areas of the brain in some stroke victims, nearby areas can take over the function of the damaged cells, according to a University of South Carolina study. The findings counter the long-held notion that stroke damage is permanent, much as recent research on reco ...
  • Kim Jong-un appointed general in first official hi ...
    Daily Telegraph – North Koreaâs ailing dictator Kim Jong-il appointed his youngest son a four-star general on Tuesday, giving his country the first official hint that he will be their next leader. Hours after Kim Jong-un, 28, was given his first known official position the North Koreanâs 1.2m-st ...
  • Pakistan furious over Nato cross-border Taliban ra ...
    The Guardian – Pakistan reacted angrily today after Nato said US helicopters had crossed into its territory from Afghanistan to attack militants, claiming to have killed more than 50 Taliban fighters. The admission that two incursions had taken place over the weekend by helicopters from the Nato-led ...
  • New OYEN Podcast: Climate Change, Pakistan, Tax Do ...
    On Saturday 24th September, the editor of www.OpenYourEyesNews.com, James Fairbairn, made a guest appearance on ABC720 Radio in Perth, Western Australia to discuss with host, Siobhan, some of the key news events of recent days. Check out our latest interview on our new Podcast channel and please sub ...
  • Leading cause of blindness identified
    New Scientist – The mechanism behind a leading cause of blindness has been discovered, which could result in new treatments for a disease that causes 50 per cent of all blindness in the western world. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is caused by damage to the macula â part of the retina at ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Hollywood looks to preserve its natural back lot: ...
    Along with the sunny weather and world-class crews, California offers something else that is sought by filmmakers: an abundance of state parks with diverse landscapes, from the redwood forests in Northern California to the desert of Anza-Borrego and the vast...
  • California cougars: a conflict between man and bea ...
    More than half of California is considered mountain lion territory, with some 5,000 of the big cats, also known as cougars, roaming free. Fast and powerful, they can leap 18 feet into a tree and take down a bull elk...
  • Purple gallinules: Birders converge for rare sight ...
    Hard-core birder Raul Roa knew it would take a good deal of patience to catch a glimpse of the two purple gallinules that had reportedly hunkered down in the reeds along a stretch of the San Gabriel River a few...
  • 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...

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

  • Dozens of Arab families may be evicted from East J ...
    In 1997 Palestinians sued, arguing that the property on which Jews settled in the 19th century had not been sold to them but leased and that the ownership remained Palestinian. In 2006 the Jerusalem District Court rejected the suit and they appealed to th Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �N ...
  • With the settlement freeze over, Netanyahu's magic ...
    Netanyahu had been unable to pull a rabbit out of his hat. He had yet to find a formula that would both protect the pride and interests of a U.S. president hungry for success while also sating settlers who hunger for bricks and mortar. (Protests lodged by Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �N ...
  • U.S. envoy speeds to Mideast in effort salvage pea ...
    On Monday night, Washington dispatched special envoy George Mitchell to the region to try to bridge gaps that Palestinian, Israel and American officials failed to close in a frenetic round of meetings in the U.S. last week. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Peace talks cannot take place in the dark
    Now Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is conducting secret negotiations that might very well determine Israel's future. It is said that his party colleagues have no inkling of what is going on in the negotiations with Mahmoud Abbas, held under American tu Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �N ...
  • Netanyahu is failing to create a climate for peace
    The Palestinian leadership, headed by President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, has been impressively successful at persuading Palestinians to abandon the armed struggle in favor of an effort to create a flourishing civil society. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �| ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Free Range International

  • Five Hundred Meter War
    Herschel Smith at the Captains Journal has put up a great post which addresses a topic near and dear to my heart; infantry tactics. The post is The Five Hundred Meter War which had the video below from James Foley, a professional journalist writing at Global Post embedded in it.  His full report ca ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Citing 'Egregious Breach,' Judge Slashes BAR/BRI F ...
    The roller-coaster ride isn't over for plaintiffs lawyers attempting to recover fees in the antitrust case against the parent company of BAR/BRI. U.S. District Judge Manuel Real, citing an "egregious breach of McGuireWoods's ethical duties," on Monday granted $500,000 in fees to the firm -- signific ...
  • 'D.C. 25' Report Shows Law Firms' Pain on the Poto ...
    The Beltway is no longer a barrier against the pitfalls of a down economy. The majority of Washington, D.C.'s top-grossing law firms saw revenues slide in 2009, and 2010 isn't shaping up to be a strong year either, firm leaders say. The National Law Journal D.C. 25 survey, an annual ranking of the t ...
  • Another Bid for Privileged WaMu Documents Fails
    A group of Texas bondholders became the latest group to make a grab for records of communication between Washington Mutual and its attorneys, and like most of those who came before them, the bondholders have failed to get what they wanted, according to court records and lawyers involved in the case. ...
  • Labor Disputes Arising out of Social Media
    With a Facebook page, YouTube channel, and Twitter feed, the NLRB seems poised to address disputes over social media in the workplace. Will employers who allow nonbusiness use of social media, but exclude their use for union-related activity, be found in violation of federal labor laws?
  • The Lawyers of the 'Forbes' 400
    Forbes released its annual list of the 400 wealthiest Americans last week and according to The American Lawyer's analysis, 37 of those who made the cut are law school graduates. While most of them didn't accumulate their fortunes in the legal trade, Forbes does identify Houston's Joe Jamail as the n ...

Iranian.com

  • حسین درخشان به 19.5 سال زندان محکوم شد
    به گزارش شبکه ایران، یک منبع آگاه در گفت‌وگو با مشرق با اعلام این خبر، گفت: بنابر این حکم که امروز از سوی شعبه 15 دادگاه انقلاب اسلامی به ریاست قاضی صلواتی صادر شد، درخشان که در مهرماه 87 بازداشت شده است، به جرم همکاری با دولت‌های متخاصم، تبلیغ علیه نظام اسلامی، تبلیغ به نفع گروهک‌های ضدانقلاب، توهی ...
  • دکتر سودبخش دومین قربانی جامعه پزشکی در فاجعه کهر ...
    دوارنیوز: دکتر عبدالرضا سودبخش، دانشیار دانشگاه تهران که طی هفته گذشته مورد سوء قصد مسلحانه قرار گرفته و جان باخته است، از پزشکان مرتبط با پرونده بازداشتگاه کهریزک و زندانیانی بوده است که از بیماریهای عفونی در مجاری اداری و تناسلی آسیب دیده بودند و مقامات امنیتی به وی دستور داده بودند که بیماری کلیه ...
  • طلافروشان جلسه با وزیر اقتصاد را ترک کردند
    به گزارش خبرنگار جامعه مشرق، پس از اعتراض طلافروشان نسبت به اجرای مالیات بر ارزش افزوده، وزارت اقتصاد و سازمان امور مالیاتی از مسئولان اتحادیه صنف طلا و جواهر دعوت کردند در جلسه‌ای به اختلاف‌نظرها و ابهامات رسیدگی شود. read more
  • Iranian-American Dreams
    How fantastic and unbelievable! Finally, an Iranian has made a visual Travel Account, an Epistle about his own country as well as the foreign land of America. It has always been a question why Iranians with the exception of Naser Khosrow in the old past and Hajj Sayyah two centuries ago and perhaps ...
  • دلار 1115 تومان شد
    روند افزایش قیمت دلار آمریکا در بازار تهران هنوز ادامه دارد. روز گذشته قیمت هر دلار آمریکا با 15 تومان افزایش دیگر، به نرخ 1115 تومان رسید. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Iran, China and the Gwadar Port
    The Gwadar Port in Balochistan (one of Pakistan’s tribal regions) has been headline news in Pakistan, India and China this month. Interesting that I can’t find one mention of it in the western media – not even in on-line publications. Since many Pakistani commentators trace the US shift in military ...
  • 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 ...

Free Movement

  • New Zimbabwe fact finding report
    UKBA has published a new fact finding report on the situation in Zimbabwe. It is, probably not by co-incidence, just in time for the new test case on Zimbabwe, due to begin on 20 October 2010 and in which the Immigration Advosory Service are again acting. Presumably, UKBA will be seeking to argue th ...
  • Eliza Doolittle Exposed As Cockney Flower Girl Sho ...
    The methods and reports of controversial linguistic analysis company Sprakab, based in Sweden and used by UKBA in disputed nationality asylum cases, have been warmly endorsed by the tribunal in the case RB (Linguistic evidence Sprakab) Somalia [2010] UKUT 329 (IAC). Sprakab works only for government ...
  • 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 ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Howard Zinn's last testament to the immorality ...
    Howard Zinn died this year. He is perhaps best known for his People's History of the United States , a book that has featured in The Simpsons and was recommended by Matt Damon's character in the film Good Will Hunting. This book, which offered a view of US history in terms of 500 years of imperialis ...
  • Is Gideon Levy the most hated man in Israel or jus ...
    Gideon Levy is the most hated man in Israel – and perhaps the most heroic. This “good Tel Aviv boy” – a sober, serious child of the Jewish state – has been shot at repeatedly by the Israeli Defence Force, been threatened with being “beaten to a pulp” on the country’s streets, and faced ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Ali Gilani India Spurn Form 8-point Ali Gilani In ...
    For SMB News Ali Gilani India Spurn 8-point formulaSRINAGAR: In occupied Kashmir, the veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani has urged the international community to India impressed the Kashmiri people their inalienable right to self determination. Syed Ali Gilani in a media interview in ...
  • 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 ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Planning for an Energy Future: The Zero Carbon Aus ...
    The creation of realistic plans for a viable energy future have, as of yet, received far to little attention. Energy goals should be tested with the creation of plans intended to demonstrate that the goals can be realized. Plans. in turn, should be subjected to rigorous criticism intended to test ...
  • UN climate chief Christiana Figueres: There will b ...
    Brad Johnson of The Wonk Room is covering the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City. Speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative on Tuesday, new UN climate chief Christiana Figueres criticized the failures of the Copenhagen talks and said that a comprehensive “big bang” global climate treaty is ...
  • Doing the Right Thing on Energy Policy
    “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.” � Winston Churchill made this statement in the context of a World War and a Cold War.� Today, the context is a new “arms race” – to be the global leader in energy security technologies encompassing clean ...
  • Cancun and Beyond: Financing the Energy Future
    Pick up almost any article on climate change today and it won’t be too long before your attention is turned towards the subject of financing. There are also many conferences, seminars and workshops on financing, not to mention the UN High Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing. The Copenha ...
  • Why 3M is unique
    What kind of company is 3M? Yes, I know that 3M is a 108-year-old manufacturing company, based in St. Paul, Minnesota, which brought in $23 billion in revenues last year from� a range of products including abrasives, adhesives and, famously, Post-it notes. Remarkably, 3M makes 55,000 different produ ...

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

  • Autism Problems Explained in Reseach
    ScienceDaily (Oct. 26, 2005) — New research from Melbourne's Howard Florey Institute helps to explain why children with autism spectrum disorders (autism) have problem-solving difficulties. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging technology (fMRI) the Florey scientists have shown that children ...
  • 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 ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • How did Sofia Vergara get on Modern Family without ...
    How did Sofia Vergara get on Modern Family without losing her accent? Do Americans have a double standard when it comes to accepting foreign accents?  Why are accents sexy and appealing coming from movie or TV stars, but aggravating or unacceptable coming from our co-workers or... Tags: learn to spe ...
  • ‘DWTS’ Watch: Jennifer Grey & Derek Hough Rule the ...
    Jennifer Grey and Derek Hough ruled the floor again on Dancing with the Stars on Monday night, jiving to a top score of 24. The Dirty Dancing actress, 50, who waltzed into  viewers’ hearts last week by evoking memories of her hit movie, showed her versatility with a fast... Tags: quickstep bristol p ...
  • Trampoline Extravaganza!
    Everybody loves trampolines. They are a genuine anomaly – healthy and fun! In a world where almost every form of decent exercise is painful and torturous, the trampoline offers you a breath of fresh air. At last, someone in California has cottoned on to this and built a fitness... Tags: fitness extr ...
  • Open Thread Tuesday
    You know the midterm elections are looking bad for the left when Barney Frank is actually… being nice. Yesterday I asked him some questions. I was bracing to get hammered by his reply. This time, though, he didn’t tell me I was asking something dumb. He didn’t get mad. He... Tags: midterm elections ...
  • Personalized Wedding Gift Apparel for Every Bride ...
    If you are looking for an unusual wedding gift for friends or family, consider the gift of clothing. Generally, wedding gifts fall into two categories, mementoes of the wedding, or gifts for the home. Apparel gifts are not common, which is why they can be standout gifts in the minds of... Tags: base ...

Groklaw

  • Copyright law needs a digital-age upgrade
    The statutory damage rule might have made sense in the 1960s, when the copyright law was drafted. Back then, copyright mattered only to professional authors, publishers and the like and mainly was designed to deter commercial-scale infringements. The copyright landscape has, however, changed radical ...
  • The Facebook Movie is WRONG Here's How Much Zuck ...
    On Sharespost, a market for private company stock, investors are currently bidding ~$75 per share for Facebook common stock. That price suggests the settlement is currently worth around $120 million. Even that sum isn't enough for the Winklevoss brothers, however. Alleging that Facebook misled th ...
  • Lawyers Set to Press 'Play' in Jasmine/Marvell Voi ...
    The case has already featured nine years of trench warfare, including two trips to California's 6th District Court of Appeal, one over an eleventh-hour dismissal that was later reversed. Jasmine's key evidence -- which will be laid out this week in opening statements in Santa Clara County Superior ...
  • Wikileaks: documents aiming to stop Free and Open ...
    This file is an edited version of the EU OSS Strategy draft with the input of Jonathan Zuck, President of the Association for Competitive Technology, an organisation that has strong ties with Microsoft[1] The file is a draft for an expert panel formed by the European Commission. - Wikileaks
  • How 2 Pro Bono Lawyers Uncovered Robo-Signer, Ha ...
    A Maine pro bono lawyer's suspicions helped uncover a "robo-signer" mortgage employee and halt mortgage foreclosures in 23 states. Pro bono lawyer Thomas Cox, who is retired from law practice, was representing a homeowner in a foreclosure case when he came across several documents signed by one GMA ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

  • Democratic Party Method for energizing the base
    Obama: Democratic voter apathy ‘inexcusable’ Biden: Democratic base should ‘stop whining’ Y’all feel motivated, pumped up, and ready to get out there and vote Democratic now?
  • Pablo Escobar’s son: Choose peace
    New Europe He has a $1 million price tag on his head from drug cartels, but Pablo Escobar’s son continues to work for peace and reconciliation in Columbia. This is a brave man who knows more than most of us how violence can spin sickeningly out of control. He could have taken over his father’s [...]
  • Schwarzenegger slams Valero, Tesoro and Prop 23
    “This is a corruption of the democratic process. Texas oil companies have descended upon California to overturn a California law. There is a struggle playing out right here in California that the world does not know much about. Today, Valero and Tesoro are in a conspiracy. Not in a criminal conspira ...
  • The left right paradigm is over: It’s you vs. corp ...
    Ritholtz sums it up well. Be sure to read the whole thing The new dynamic, however, has moved past the old Left Right paradigm. We now live in an era defined by increasing Corporate influence and authority over the individual. These two “interest groups” – I can barely suppress snorting derisively o ...
  • Adsense needs a Stop Carpet Bombing Me option
    First it was the omnipresent Brown Bailout ads, then Groupon began deluging websites with ads. their No, I don’t think people will click on an ad if Adsense allows the same ads to run over and over again on a website. When viewing individual posts here, sometimes Brown Bailout or Groupon ads appeare ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • 23% of Israelis ready to leave Israel at any hint ...
    In the latest issue of the always informative journal Middle East Policy , University of Pennsylvania prof Ian Lustick expresses the notable observation that, Last year, a poll by David Menashri of the Iran center at Tel Aviv University reported ... that 70 percent of Israeli Jews said they would n ...
  • 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 ...

First Truths

  • The State Is...
    In the final decade of the nineteenth century, Benjamin Tucker published his essay The Individual, Society, and the State . His words advanced an early explication of the anarcho-capitalist theory of a competitive market for defense services, and in doing so provided a penetrating criticism of the ...
  • Senate Candidate Paul, the Civil Rights Act, and L ...
    Media coverage of Rand Paul’s supposedly racist remarks regarding the Civil Rights Act demonstrates once again that the Left’s animus toward the Tea Party movement has nothing to do with genuine, principled advocacy for a free and open society or for concerns about civil liberties and race. Instea ...
  • The Oil Disaster: Further Evidence That We Need Ma ...
    As with the Rand Paul scandal, prevailing analysis of the disaster in the Gulf adopts broad misunderstandings regarding the fundamental principles of the voluntaryist, market-based society. So complete are those misconstructions that a perfectly representative example of neo-mercantilist state cor ...
  • Corporate America, Libertarianism, and the Politic ...
    As I write, I’ve just finished reading an exciting and penetrative treatment of the often thrashed out relationship between Christianity (as both a theological and philosophical statement and a set of religious institutions) and matters of the state and social theory; in that piece, Jay Munroe arg ...
  • The State Is... Redux
    That commentators of all political persuasions almost always misunderstand the anarchist position probably goes without saying, but most of the confusion results from the varied ways in which very common words (e.g., “state” and “government”) are used. Anna Morgenstern , a contributing writer at t ...

Media Co-Op

  • Media Co-op Investor: September Part II
    Digging up dirt on Suncor and ARC Energy Trust Welcome to Media Co-op Investor! The Media Co-op Investor Series aims to help the general public understand the stock market, how it works and the major companies which benefit from it. � Every tw ...
  • Ensemble pour demain no. 3
    Troisième édition du journal de la Conférence internationale « Quel projet de société pour demain ? » L'équipe d'Ensemble pour demain est très fière d’avoir contribué à la réussite de la Conférence internationale. Forte de cette ...
  • Ensemble pour demain no. 3
    Troisième 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 e ...
  • We will fight until every prison is abolished and ...
    Harsha Walia speaks at a demonstration in support of detained Tamil migrants On Saturday, September 25, a group of people gathered at a jail in Burnaby to support Tamil women and children detained inside. Harsha Walia from No One Is Illegal wa ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Could This be the Key Factor Spiking the Rise in D ...
    Large doses of B vitamins can halve the rate of brain shrinkage in elderly people with memory problems. It may slow their progression toward dementia. A two-year clinical trial was the largest to date into the effect of B vitamins on "mild cognitive impairment," a condition which is a major risk fa ...
  • 13 of the Ugliest Animals on the Planet
    As Bryan Nelson for the Mother Nature Network says : "Not every animal is as cuddly as a giant panda or as extravagant as a peacock, but every animal has its role to play and every organism is important. As they say, beauty is only skin deep. Let's hope — for the sake of these 13 unsightly animal ...
  • Should American Women Learn to Give Birth at Home?
    Each year, roughly 25,000 American women decide to deliver their babies at home, and the numbers are on the rise. The main reason is a wish to avoid overly invasive procedures during childbirth. Deliveries taking place at home tend to involve far fewer medical interventions and complications. How ...
  • If Only Your Child Could Digest 24 Hours of Your I ...
    Things said by moms everywhere – set to Rossini’s famous William Tell Overture . Twenty-four hours of parental guidance squeezed into just 2 min., 55 sec. If it weren’t so true, it wouldn’t be nearly as funny!
  • Statins Increase Your Risk of Foodborne Illness
    The U.S. government claims that it is trying to address the problem of foodborne illnesses. So why is it recommending drugs that may actually put its citizens at greater risk from food poisoning? Cholesterol drugs make you more vulnerable to bacterial infections such as e. coli and salmonella -- a ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Shell in row over Brazilian Indian land grab
    The film 'Birdwatchers' highlights the plight of the Guarani Kaiowá Indians in Brazil © Marie Hippenmeyer Brazilian authorities have written to energy giant Shell expressing concern over the activities of its new Brazilian joint-venture partner, which is producing biofuels from land taken ...
  • Survival calls for boycott of Botswana tourism
    The pool of Wilderness Safaris' new lodge in the CKGR. © Survival Survival today called for tourists to boycott Botswana until the government ends a brutal campaign of persecution against Kalahari Bushmen. The call coincides with World Tourism Day, September 27, which Botswana is using to ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • A sensible proposal on the Olympic Stadium
    Action democratique du Quebec leader Gerard Deltell has made the first really sensible suggestion about the Olympic Stadium to come our way in years. He has demanded that Quebec City hold a parliamentary commission into its future before taxpayers are asked to put one more red cent toward th ...
  • Maclean's failed to make its case
    Could it be true? Did Maclean's prove its case? Or is the article just another in a long line of gratuitously offensive sorties against the one province that dares to insist on having its own identity, complete with Europeanstyle state interference in the economy?
  • No excuse for electoral inequality
    The principle of voting equality is so old that it's not politically correct: "one man, one vote." But it's a principle now greatly abused in Quebec. To get to one person, one vote today, the pampered and protected status of small-town populations will have to end. They, and especially their ...
  • 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 ...

Food World Order

  • natural news launches food investigations with 'ph ...
    from natural news : What do you get when you combine fast food with Big Pharma? Pharmaburger! That's the name of episode one of the new " Food Investigations " mini-documentary series created by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews.com. Food Investigations features short documen ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...

The Economic Collapse

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