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Thomas Paine

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Thursday, September 30, 2010

30 September - RSS SnapShot!

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Fatal Blast Puts Focus on Web of Gas Pipelines
    A natural gas explosion in San Bruno, California that almost decimated an entire city earlier this month has fuelled concerns about the outdated, aging, and dangerous gas pipelines that underlie many U.S. cities.
  • ZIMBABWE: Neonatal Circumcision Yet to Gain Ground
    Judith Sikhosana recently gave birth to a healthy baby boy. And while she has strictly followed the advice of health workers about the post-natal care for her child, there is one thing she is yet to understand: why nurses want her baby to be circumcised.
  • AFRICA: Can Research Strike a Balance Between Food ...
    While researchers and farmers are still divided on the benefits of growing crops for biofuel production as Africa grapples with food security, Senegal is steadily working to balance the growing demands for food and biofuels.
  • CHINA: Massive Rail Network to Cross Continents
    As recently as the mid-1980s, China relied on steam-powered relics to transport citizens and goods around its vast territory. Today, the country is home to 6,900 kilometres of high-speed passenger train routes in what is the largest rail network in the world –and growing.
  • PAKISTAN: Education Falling Out of Afghan Refugees ...
    He is only 13 and a refugee in a not-too-hospitable country, but Ahmed Jamal already knows what he wants to do for the next decade or so: follow in the footsteps of his older brother.

Scoop - NZ

  • Christchurch Quake Dynamic Map
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  • 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

Rogue Government.com

  • Spain Has First General Strike in Decade as Europ ...
    Spanish workers disrupted transport and television broadcasts in the first general strike in eight years as demonstrators marched in a dozen European cities against government spending cuts.
  • Breakthrough in quantum computer race
    A team led by UNSW engineers and physicists have developed one of the key building blocks needed to make a quantum computer using silicon: a "single electron reader". Their work has been published in the journal Nature .
  • Deadly MRSA tainted MEAT Products being sold to c ...
    Meat contaminated by a potentially lethal infection is being sold to consumers -- creating a public health threat that has largely flown under the the radar due to powerful industry interests and lax accountability at the federal agency in charge of ensuring food safety, according to recent studies ...
  • Counter-Terror Operation Stops Trucks On I-20
    A team of federal agents stopped tractor-trailers on Interstate 20 just west of Atlanta, inspecting each truck as it passed through a weigh station, and Channel 2 has learned its part of a counter-terrorism operation.
  • Gallup Poll shows record high have no faith in ma ...
    When asked how much confidence they have in newspapers, TV and Radio to accurately report events, 57% of Americans surveyed said that they generally have “not very much or none at all”.

Innovation Canada

  • Tools of the mind
    The first time neuroscientist Adele Diamond walked into a New Jersey classroom where teachers were using the Tools of the Mind curriculum, she was struck by the quiet self-control of the children. Most regular preschool and kindergarten classrooms are chaotic, noisy places, but in the Tools of the M ...
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • The Secret to Healthy Pressure
    "For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth." - Sanskrit Proverb Well, it's not accurate to say that what I am sharing is a secret. In fact, most people are familiar with the expression, "Take a deep breath." The problem is that very few of us have been taught how ...
  • The Power of the Breath
    "I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am." - Sylvia Plath The breath is one of your most powerful assets for staying balanced throughout the ups and downs of living. Using your breath you can positively impact your physiological state. By deliberately taki ...
  • O'Donnell: I have no LinkedIn profile
    Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell claims she never established a LinkedIn profile that says she attended universities in California and the United Kingdom and is calling on the online networking company to remove the posting. In the latest pair of discrepancies to roil her campaign, o ...
  • Europe hit by wave of anti-austerity protests
    Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Europe today as strikes against austerity measures that have hit public spending and services on the continent caused widespread disruption. The main demonstrations were in Spain, Belgium and Greece, although there was co-ordinated action in m ...
  • Oh no, Mrs. Palin, oh no.
    The father of an 18-year-old Pennsylvania man accused of stalking Sarah Palin said Wednesday that his son is home with him and hasn't left the state. "He is not in Alaska and he's never been to Alaska," Craig Christy said Wednesday of his son, Shawn R. Christy. Anchorage Magistrate Colleen Ray gra ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • NATO uh oh
    In which Pakistan holds a pruning shear to one of NATO's dangly orbs . Pakistan has blocked one of two vital supply routes for US and Nato troops in Afghanistan, officials say. The move comes after three Pakistani soldiers were killed in a Nato helicopter attack near the border. The BBC's M Ilyas ...
  • The Canadian version of Machtergreifung
    I had such high hopes, once upon a time. Instead, a governor-general buckled . But I thought that it was quite interesting to see that this was a moment in our country to reflect on, ‘Okay, how does our system work?’ I think it was a labour of raising awareness and raising also the responsibilit ...
  • Muslim malcontents . . .
    THE NEWSPAPER YOU LOVE TO HATE, THE NATIONAL POST , has an article, "Rory Leishman: Calling out those who ignore Islamist extremists in our midst" . It seems that some of our Canadian Islamics haven't been as anti-jihadist as maybe they should be. Part of the answer can be found in some mainstream M ...
  • Oh no. This will cost us another billion dollars i ...
    Damn it! Now we have to create prisons for bears. Employees investigating a break-in at a gas station store in Radium Hot Springs, B.C., Monday soon realized that it wasn't a human that was responsible, but a black bear . The bear smashed through the front door of the Petro Canada at 4 a.m. MT ...
  • Would you rather be governed by a listerner or an ...
    I've got a little point to add to Boris's latest excellent post . This was noted in the quoted report: (emphasis mine) But Emerson was also impressed by Harper’s discipline at the cabinet table, compared with Martin’s disorganized leadership style, where meetings dragged on. “Paul would just ...

Media Matters for America

  • Conservatives respond to alleged O'Keefe&nbs ...
    Conservative media figures have begun to speak out�about�CNN's�report that James O'Keefe planned to "seduce" and publicly humiliate�CNN reporter�Abbie Bourdeau.�A number of�conservatives have condemned O'Keefe,�while�Tim Graham of NewsBusters used the�story�as an opportunity to attack CNN. Boud ...
  • The Lies of James O'Keefe
    CNN reports that conservative activist James O'Keefe attempted to "punk" a CNN reporter by luring her onto a boat "filled with sexually explicit props" and recording the encounter, a charge O'Keefe denies. If true, the alleged deception would be the latest in a string of lies and falsehoods O'K ...
  • He "deserve a Pulitzer": Right-wing media prev ...
    James O'Keefe made a name for himself in 2009 with his deceptively edited, secretly recorded, and now discredited ACORN videos. Since then, he has pleaded guilty to entering Sen. Mary Landrieu's Louisiana office under false pretenses. Now reports say that O'Keefe attempted to "punk" a CN ...
  • Fox & Friends completely wrong on m ...
    Reporting on proposals to extend a stimulus program which benefited unemployed workers,� Fox & Friends �co-host Gretchen Carlson quoted Republicans to ask "when will the Obama administration turn off government spending and extend tax cuts to stimulate the private sector?" But economists agre ...
  • Glenn Beck's Apocalypse for Dummies
    Glenn Beck has said that he is "not a prophet," but he "can see what's coming at us" and "we've never fought anything like the perfect storm that is coming to shore." Media Matters compiles Beck's advice on how to survive the "cataclysmic change" headed our way. Beck: "I can see what's coming at ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Jerusalem Post: Obama Promises Israel The World In ...
    The Jerusalem Post is reporting that President Obama is making Prime Minister Netanyahu an offer it is hard to imagine him refusing. In return for agreeing to a 60-day extension of the just lapsed settlements freeze, the Obama administration will not ask for an extension beyond that point. ...
  • Jonathan Franzen's FREEDOM Incorporates Walt-Mears ...
    I am not going to reveal anything about #1 bestseller (and Oprah choice) FREEDOM by Jonathan Franzen. Suffice it to say that the New York Times book review by Sam Tanenhaus called it "a classic of American fiction" and, honest to God, that praise was mild compared to most major reviews. Pers ...
  • The President's Backyard Discussion Of The Economy ...
    President Obama continues his economic tour today (Wednesday) with stops in Des Moines, Iowa, and Richmond, Va. In Des Moines he hosts a backyard discussion on the challenges currently facing the middle class with approximately 70 neighbors from the area, according to the White House. Here's an imag ...
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  • Palestinian Group Sells Out To The Lobby
    This is hard to understand until one realizes that this is just an example of politicians acting like politicians (i.e, with no regard for the people they claim to represent). During their recent visits to the United States, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad made ...

TruthOut

  • Sharron Angle Mocks Insurance for Autism; The Figh ...
    The woman gunning for Sen. Harry Reid's (D-NV) job doesn't believe that autism exists. Yes, you heard right. Sharron Angle believes that the neurodevelopmental disorder know to medical science as "autism" is actually a government-backed hoax to redistribute wealth from hardworking health insure ...
  • European Workers and Unions Launch Protests Agains ...
    Trade union workers launched a massive strike throughout Europe today in a protest against budget cuts. Marches are taking place in Brussels, Greece, Italy and Spain, among other countries, with additional protests planned for the near future. John Monks, general secretary of the European Trades Uni ...
  • Small-Scale Farmers and Development: Assume a Diff ...
    One version of an old joke features a shipwrecked economist on a deserted island who, when asked by his fellow survivors what expertise he can offer on how they can be rescued, replies, "Assume we have a boat." In Mexico earlier this month, I was thinking that the real-life version of the economist ...
  • Death of California Youth Puts Focus on Rise in An ...
    The death of 13-year-old Seth Walsh in California is one of at least three youth suicide cases nationwide this month that are prompting renewed attention to antigay bullying. “It appears that what has always been a crisis is that much more severe right now,” says Daryl Presgraves, spokesman for the ...
  • Paul Armentano | New Administration, Same Old Fail ...
    On Tuesday September 21, Texas Rep. Lamar Smith tried scoring political points by claiming that the Barack Obama administration is 'soft' on marijuana. Here's a reality check. read more

Planetsave

  • Climate Scientist James Hansen & 100+ More Arreste ...
    When a leading NASA scientist is willing to go to a protest in D.C. and get arrested along with hundreds of other, normal folks, you know he is concerned about something. As I wrote on the weekend, Monday was the Appalachia Rising! Day of Action. The non-violent action must have gone well, as top cl ...
  • One Fifth of Plants Face Extinction
    A global analysis of the extinction risk for the world’s plants has found that more than a fifth of all plant species on Earth are threatened with extinction. This is the first time the true extent of the threat to the estimated 380,000 plant species has been revealed. The research was conducted by ...
  • Oil Detection Made Easier and Safer
    A lot has been made of the devastating effect detecting oil has on the surrounding environment. Putting aside the fact that we’d rather not see the oil taken in the first place, CSIRO Australia scientists have developed a new technique that will minimize the destruction of the environment when searc ...
  • Extinction: Not Just for Polar Bears Any More
    Rather than wait until I do my global warming news of the week wrap-up to share this, here is another excellent video by top climate de-crocker, Peter Sinclair. While polar bears are one obvious species endangered by climate change, there are more than a few. Humans are causing the 6th mass extincti ...
  • Chance to Win Eco-Furniture or Year’s Supply ...
    Ecover, a leading company selling eco-friendly home cleaning products (and one of my favorites), is now 30 years old. In celebration of its 30th birthday, it is hosting a Thirty Under 30 contest. If you think you are living a super-environmentally-friendly life (and are between 18 & 29), you can ent ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • The Horrors of the Israeli Settlements - Palestin ...
    It looks like Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will get away with his refusal to extend the settlements freeze.� Actually, it wasn't much of a freeze in the first place (it had the consistency of ice cream after the freezer door has been left open overnight).� But it was better than...
  • US escalates killing on both sides of Afghanistan- ...
    29 September 2010 Amid signs of increasing desperation in the nine-year US war in Afghanistan, Washington has simultaneously launched a major offensive against the country’s second-largest city, Kandahar, and stepped up its attacks in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), escalat ...
  • US Census Bureau figures. 2009 income gap in the U ...
    29 September 2010 Figures released Tuesday by the US Census Bureau reveal sharply worsening conditions for tens of millions of Americans under the impact of the economic crisis and the accumulation of vast wealth by a relative handful. Some of the figures, for particular states and regions, are ...
  • More than 100 arrested at mountaintop-mining prote ...
    Read more about mountain top removal and citizen actions: "I Want to Make Sure I Have a Home To Go Back To" | Environment ... 28 Sep 2010 ... Activists from across Appalachia are in Washington, DC, this week to call attention to mountaintop removal coal mi ...
  • Currency 'war' warning from Brazil's finance minis ...
    An "international currency war" is underway, Brazil's finance minister, Guido Mantega, has warned. His comments follow a series of interventions by governments to weaken their currencies and boost export competitiveness. Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are among those that have recently tried to ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Things just took a nasty turn in Pakistan
    This could take a sharp turn and go from bad to worse in a big, big hurry . Pakistan closed the most important border crossing for trucks supplying NATO-led coalition troops in Afghanistan on Thursday in apparent retaliation for an attack by coalition helicopters on a Pakistani security post hours ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    New and different sanctions - might these work? "US President Barack Obama has ordered unprecedented sanctions against senior Iranian officials for "sustained and severe violations of human rights". The eight men include the head of the Revolutionary Guards, a former interior minister and the prosec ...
  • Which one?
    Good question. When it comes to immigration reform, this one?: May 22, 2008, 3:51 pm McCain Says Immigration Reform Should Be Top Priority By MICHAEL LUO ....When Mr. McCain's presidential bid stalled last summer, many blamed his advocacy for the immigration reform bill in the Senate, which inclu ...
  • "You can't lose heart"
    It's pretty obvious we're dealing with two Obamas: White House Obama, who thinks his job is to make the repugs like him, and Campaign Obama, who remembers why we elected him. They let Campaign Obama out to play this week, and he hit it out of the park in Madison, Wisconsin yesterday: President Obam ...
  • Can you say "peaked too soon"?
    Remember when it was tantamount to treason to question the president in wartime? Remember? Criticising the president used to be an irredeemable offense against the very republic in which we live? I do. It spanned the years 2001-2008. That paradigm ceased to be operative on January 20, 2009 at about ...

Care 2

  • OUTRAGEOUS!! Fish farmers in Scotland killing est ...
    Earlier this year the Scottish government announced a new licencing scheme which authorises the killing of seals to protect farmed fish, fisheries and fish farms. Campaigners warn the new scheme, which is planned to go live in early 2011, is just a disgui Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals �|� ...
  • Africa: Awareness Needed to Curb Rabies
    It's estimated that about 55 000 people die of rabies in Africa and Asia every year and over half a million animals die as a result of rabies.Rabies is a viral disease passed from an infected animal to a human Submitted by Michelle Matthews to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 20 Percent of Plant Species Face Extinction
    More than a fifth of the world's plant species faces the threat of extinction, a trend with potentially catastrophic effects for life on Earth, according to research released on Wednesday. Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Diet When Young Affects Future Food Responses
    A high protein diet during development primes the body to react unhealthily to future food binges. A study on juvenile rats, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Nutrition and Metabolism, suggests that lasting changes result ....... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Not ...
  • Thousands of Nigerian women 'found in Mali slave c ...
    Nigerian girls are being forced to work as prostitutes in Mali "slave camps", say officials in Nigeria. The girls, many of them under age, have often been promised jobs in Europe but ended up in brothels Submitted by kay h. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

  • Obama Scapegoats His Own Voters
    I was just going to write about how we should rally the troops to fight for strong progressives (as I did in this video ), when Obama dragged me back into the fight between real progressives and the Obama administration. As Al Pacino said in Godfather III, every time I think I'm done with it, he kee ...
  • Foreclosure Funny Business
    That US banks can skirt the paperwork required for home foreclosures shows it's one rule for them and another for us Virtually everyone has had the experience of being forced to pay a late fee or a bank penalty because of some fine-print provision that we overlooked. Sometimes, begging by good custo ...
  • But the air base is safe, right?
    For some reason, the locals are getting angry . The Pakistani military, angered by the inept handling of the country's devastating floods and alarmed by a collapse of the economy, is pushing for a shake-up of the elected government, and in the longer term, even the removal of President Asif Ali Zard ...
  • Don't You Know That You Can Count Me Out - In
    Ted Rall's new book " The Anti-American Manifesto " advocates for violent revolution, even if we have to join with rightwingers and racists to do it, and even if we have no control over the outcome which could easily be something worse than what we've got. We have a moral duty, Rall argues, to kill ...
  • The Big Guy's On Our Side
    � from Truthdig Paul Volcker, or the "big guy," as President Barack Obama refers to the former Federal Reserve chair who heads his Economic Recovery Advisory Board, nailed it in a series of blistering remarks on the sorry state of our economy. But what he said was even tougher than was indicated by ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Superstar Prez’s Jesus Christ * Open Thread
    JESUS CHRIST! There I go, quoting Obama. And again I quote him speaking to the latest visually appealing albeit imaginary Americans in a handler-arranged backyard in typical America: “The precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. Being my brother ...
  • What Did Obama Do?
    Received the following from a respected journalist. He got it from his mom. Way to go mom. (If anyone has the original link, let me know, we want to credit the originator). If George W. Bush had proposed to double the debt within 10 years, would you have approved?    If George W. Bush had [...]
  • Why Bill Gates is Completely Full of Shit
    Nah, I’m not referring to his piece of crap software (I moved to Mac and Apple in 2006 and haven’t looked back). Nope. Talking about the news that Washington state is on the verge of committing financial suicide and Bill Gates is cheerleading the effort. It is initiative 1098, which proposes [.. ...
  • Sprint Naked
    This is the summer of our discontent. If you are content, then it is possible that you are not paying attention. If you read this blog on a regular basis you may notice that there are a lot of posts by Larry Johnson, the blog owner. The other writers have not been very productive. Usually, [...]
  • Bob Beckel Threatens Pam Gellar on National TV
    Something interesting happened on Fox Business Monday night. I don’t get this channel (I’m only willing to pay so much to Time Warner), but The Lid and Atlas Shrugs also have the story. First, the video: The Lid opens its story with this: Here’s something you don’t hear very often from a Fox News ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • In Search of the Earth's Last Oil Deposits in the ...
    As the fight over arctic oil reserves begins, the important lessons we have all started to learn are being forgotten. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Schools Deprive Kids of Drinking Water
    California school children are going thirsty, and the rest of us are paying through the nose for bottled water. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Are There Psychoactive Drugs in Your Drinking Wate ...
    Psychopharmaceuticals, antibiotics and other pharmachemicals are routinely entering into the water supply and becoming an ambient part of the environment. Biomagnificati read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
  • 15 Real Locations Made Famous in Horror Movies
    Horror films often take us away from reality. But, where did these movies really take place? Do they still exist? Are they based on true stories, at least in part? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 10 Terrifying Facts About Bats!
    Bats might seem commonplace - but there are actually a number of factors that make the world's only flying mammals truly exceptional! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

  • Reducing the Deficit.
    The biggest key to reducing the deficit lies in understanding how it got there. Basically, the United States started an illegal war, actually two if one classes Osama bin Laden’s attack on the World Trade Center as a criminal Act as opposed to a war. Wars are between “nations.” W took this as an exc ...
  • Billy the Big Bad Bully for Corporate Charter-Vouc ...
    Bill Grundfest is a far-right reactionary who despises public education and organized labor. The well heeled Bel Air resident has been on a rhetorical rampage as of late, attacking random social justice activists and public education advocates like those at the South Bronx School blog. Here’s a post ...
  • The Fix
    Employment, education, and standard of living are all tied together.  People are not buying anything because they have limited funds.  Things are too expensive for the amount of money the people have.   People are going without many things, including the basics.  Because of this lack of purchasing p ...
  • The Land of Milk and Honey.
    It was no accident that Harvey Milk came to San Francisco.  California is amazing and the “Bay Area” is incredibly so.   Until recently, California has the most desirable climate of any of the fifty states.  I lived, for nearly 15 years in the high Sierras.  Even winters there are easier than almost ...
  • Breaking News
    This just arrived in my email from the Washington Post… Breaking News: Household incomes drop for second straight year, census data show Household incomes plunged for the second year in a row in 2009, as fewer families earned over $100,000 a year while the ranks of the poor rose, according to census ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

  • If you can’t join it, watch it!
    Host a 10.2.10 Watch Party In just two days, tens of thousands of union members, community activists, students, entertainers, civil and human rights leaders, and concerned citizens will gather for peace, jobs, justice, and education for ...
  • Are you on the bus …
    Or on the ground on 10.2.10? Progressive Democrats of America has joined the One Nation Working Together call for the 10.2.10 March on Washington for Peace, Jobs and Justice. This historic event will ensure that the ...
  • 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 ...

Marler Blog

  • The FDA lays an Egg, well actually 550,000,000 of ...
    I spend a lot of time supporting the FDA and the need for more resources. Come on FDA, please give me a little bit of help here. Willy Neuman and the New York Times crack another story about the seemingly error prone FDA in today’s story, “Oop! F.D.A. Error Is Talk of Henhouse.” According to Neuman ...
  • Marlerblog nominated for the Top 25 Business Law B ...
    I found out today that I’ve been honored with a nomination for the LexisNexis Top 25 Business Law blogs – sweet! Evidently, folks now get to vote on the nominations to decide on the winners. Voting involves going to the LexisNexis communities site, and commenting with your vote on the nominees. If ...
  • ACI Food-Borne Illness Litigation Conference - Adv ...
    Wednesday, October 27 to Thursday, October 28, 2010 Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States Alan Maxwell and I are co-chairing this year’s conference – again. This time, in addition to our two man show: There is a star-studded group of speakers: David Goldman, MD, MPH ...
  • 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.

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 09.30.10
    Paris preview: Mercedes-Benz Reporter plug-in hybrid is urban delivery done right Can you imagine this thing delivering boxes? GM announces small, German electric vehicle test fleet based on Opel Merivas ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 09.29.10
    Chelsea Sexton: SB 535, HOV access for plug-in and the unintended consequences of easy political wins It could be a confusing future, if California's recent law is any indication. Ad revenue could flow fr ...
  • 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 ...

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!

  • Amy Goodman on CNN’s John King, USA, Wednesday, Se ...
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King, USA, on Wednesday, September 29th at 7pm Eastern Time.
  • Part II..."The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Stor ...
    A pivotal but largely overlooked event in US history, millions of African Americans from the South migrated North during the period of the Great Migration, which began in the 1910s and continued to the 1970s. Award-winning journalist and professor Isabel Wilkerson has spent the last decade resear ...
  • FBI Raids and the Criminalization of Dissent
    Early in the morning on Friday, Sept. 24, FBI agents in Chicago and Minnesota’s Twin Cities kicked in the doors of anti-war activists, brandishing guns, spending hours rifling through their homes. The FBI took away computers, photos, notebooks and other personal property. Residents were issued subp ...
  • Amy Goodman on CNN’s John King, USA, Tuesday, Sept ...
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King, USA, on Tuesday, September 28th at 7pm Eastern Time.
  • 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 ...

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

  • Tea Party Convention Is Canceled
    Tea Party Convention Is Canceled New York Times – September 24, 2010, 11:04 am By KATE ZERNIKE The Tea Party is off. At least, the National Tea Party Unity Convention that was being planned for mid-October in Las Vegas is off. It was supposed to be a repeat of the convention in Nashville last Februa ...
  • Glenn Beck vs. Fox News: ‘Tension’ Bet ...
    Glenn Beck vs. Fox News: ‘Tension’ Between Beck & Network Huff Post- Posted: 09-29-10 11:11 AM Glenn Beck appears on the cover of this weekend’s New York Times Magazine in a lengthy profile written by Mark Leibovich. In the profile, Leibovich touches on tensions between Beck and Fox News, the networ ...
  • AZ Sheriff’s Dept Reopens Case Of Deputy All ...
    AZ Sheriff’s Dept Reopens Case Of Deputy Allegedly Shot By Drug Smugglers TPM Muckraker Eric Lach | September 27, 2010, 3:35PM The Pinal County, Arizona Sheriff’s Office has announced that it is reopening the case of a sheriff’s deputy who was shot on April 30, after an article last week raised ques ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Your Tax Preparer Now Works for the IRS
    The IRS deployed a new preparer tax identification number (PTIN) registration system Tuesday as a component of its initiative to register and regulate paid tax return preparers. All paid tax return preparers (including CPAs, attorneys and enrolled agents) must apply for and obtain a PTIN—even if th ...
  • CNN Asks: Are UFOs Deactivating Nukes?
    Videos From CNN.com
  • Meredith Whitney’s New Target: The States
    By Shawn Tully The housing crash not yet realized its full impact on budgets in the most vulnerable states. It’s the banking crisis all over again â and it’s time to stop ignoring it. Meredith Whitney, the superstar analyst who famously forecast disaster for America’s big banks before the credit ...
  • Counterfeit Court Summons
    By Tyler Durden With each passing day, the revalations in mortgage-gate, which has for now implicated GMAC and JPMorgan in foreclosing on mortgages without titles, and will likely soon proceed through the entire mortgage origination industry like wildfire as more and more of those foreclosed upon b ...
  • GATA Clashes With Fed in Federal Court - Will You ...
    By C. Powell GATA’s freedom-of-information lawsuit against the Federal Reserve in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, an action seeking access to the Fed’s records involving gold and particularly gold swaps, is nearing a critical point. The Fed has asked the court for what’s called su ...

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

  • A new contributor joins the FM website team
    Summary:  H. Thomas Hayden (Lt. Colonel, USMC, retired) has joined the FM website team!  Broad experience in the defense area, MBA, author of two books (and another on the way) — we look forward to his contributions! A brief description of his background (from the FM reference page About the autho ...
  • Building a new generation of visionary leaders for ...
    Summary:  As our military wages an apparently endless long against whatever (terror, jihadists, Islam), it’s not too soon to start thinking about the next generation of military leadership.  Petraeus and his peers took the shining instrument built from the shambles of Vietnam.  How sharp will it ...
  • A look at the future (it’s already here, but ...
    Summary:  Compare and contract this key difference between China and America.  Between future prosperity and failure. (1)  Infrastructure in America From the executive summary of “The 2009 Report Card for American Infrastructure”, published by the the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE): The ...
  • Defining the Marine Corp’ Strategic Concept
    Summary:  Finding a new strategic concept for the US military services becomes imperative.  The army rots from within under the stress of endless deployments without the prospect of victory.  The navy faces no strategic opponents, only regional opponents establishing control of literal zones we cann ...
  • 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • France faces massive fines over Roma gipsy crackdo ...
    Daily Mail – France is facing multi-million pound fines from the European Commission for deporting thousands of gipsies. Brussels decided yesterday to launch legal proceedings against France because it believes the crackdown by Nicolas Sarkozyâs government is breaching EU freedom of movement laws. ...
  • Who Is Watching You? Nine Industries That Know You ...
    Daily Finance – Don’t kid yourself. Real privacy no longer exists in this country. We’ve long had government organizations collecting data that paints a pretty clear picture of what we do with our time. The Internal Revenue Service knows everything about what you earn and any major transactions you ...
  • Nato strike kills three Pakistani soldiers
    Daily Telegraph – Nato helicopters have killed three Pakistani soldiers in a region bordering Afghanistan, according to military officials, in the fourth such strike in the past week. Pakistani officials immediately blocked all Nato supply trucks from crossing the border checkpoint to Afghanistan in ...
  • Interent Freedom Under Attack – U.S. seeks ways to ...
    Washington Post – The Obama administration is planning to seek legislation that would require social networking companies and voice-over-Internet service providers to adapt their technology so law enforcement agents can monitor users’ communications during criminal and terrorism investigations. The ...
  • World gripped by ‘international currency war’
    Guardian – 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 boost their struggling economies. The comments are the first public admission made by a senior policymaker about a practice which ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • RAIMD: Army “Kill Team” Targeted Civilians in Afgh ...
    Army “Kill Team” Targeted Civilians in Afghanistan, Business as Usual for Imperialists (raimd.wordpress.com) Recently it was revealed that a secret Amerikan “kill team” murdered Afghan civilians at random, and collected cut-off body parts as trophies, of “finger bones, leg bones, and a tooth taken f ...
  • RAIMD: Movie Review: Machete and The Baader Meinho ...
    Movie Review: Machete and The Baader Meinhof Complex (raimd.wordpress.com) Machete (2010, Ethan Maniquin and Robert Rodriguez) and The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008, Uli Edel) are two recent movies set in imperialist countries, both depicting armed struggle against reactionaries. Machete garnered cri ...
  • 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 ...

PakAlert

  • Anti-Austerity Riots in Spain and all over Europe ...
    Airlines canceled flights, picketers blocked trucks from delivering produce and police clashed with protesters as Spanish workers staged a general strike on Wednesday to protest against austerity measures imposed by a government struggling to slash its budget deficit and overcome recession.People ac ...
  • Obama To Sell US Auto Giant GM To China As Pentago ...
    An interesting report prepared by Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade for President Medvedev for his visit to China this week states that United States President Barack Obama [photo top left showing him bowing to Chinese Communist leader Hu Jintao] has “agreed in principal” to sell the American ...
  • NATO Expands Afghan War Into Pakistan
    As the U.S. delivered its 20th deadly drone missile attack of the month inside Pakistan on the 27th, five times the amount launched in August and the most in any month since they were started in 2004, NATO conducted a series of attacks with helicopter gunships in Northwest Pakistan. Claiming the "ri ...
  • Israel Seizes Jewish Boat to Gaza * UN Finds Israe ...
    The group Jewish Boat to Gaza released a statement several hours ago: "The Irene, a boat carrying nine passengers and aid for Gaza's population, has been taken over by the Israeli navy and denied access to Gaza. The boat is flying a British flag and its passengers include citizens of the U.S., the U ...
  • The Road to World War III – The Global Banking Car ...
    After analyzing our current crisis and studying well-established historical precedents, one must conclude that creating a world war is the last card the global bankers have left to play, other than conceding power, and history has taught us that the ruling class never concedes power. Of course the o ...

Andy Worthington

  • 1000 Reasons to Close Guantánamo
    Please support my work! On Monday I marked a milestone that, when I began blogging on a full-time basis in May 2007, I had no idea I would ever reach. My article about the forthcoming anti-torture week in Berkeley, California, from October 10 to 16, which I am proud to be attending, was my 10 ...
  • Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Par ...
    This is the fifth part of an eight-part series telling the stories of all the prisoners currently held in Guantánamo (174 at the time of writing). See the introduction here, and Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four. This fifth article tells the stories of 13 prisoners seized in Pakistan betw ...
  • Talkin’ ’Bout My Generation: Ed Miliband’s Bright ...
    Time will tell if Labour’s new leader, Ed Miliband, is a genuine force for change, but I was impressed during his campaign that he so clearly recognized that the Labour Party had failed and that criticizing the electorate was both insulting and counter-productive. In an interview with the Guardian i ...
  • 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

  • 80 Percent of Global Water Supplies at Risk
    River biodiversity and our water security are in serious trouble, according to a comprehensive survey of waterways released yesterday. At risk are the water supplies of nearly 80 percent of humanity, and two-thirds of the world's rivers habitats. Environment - Water resour ...
  • Best Environmental Photos of 2010 Named
    NoneSee a hummingbird-viper face-off, swarm of devil rays, and more in these winning images from a conservation group's global photo contest. Conservation movement - Dodge - Recreation - Bird - Hummingbird
  • 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

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.

  • Katherine Heigl Pledges $1 Million to Stop Shelter ...
    Pet overpopulation has resulted in an estimated 3 to 4 million cats and dogs euthanized each year. The population crisis is a community-wide issue that has solutions rooted in responsible pet ownership. The newly founded Compassion Revolution has inspired actress Katherine Heigl to donate $1 million ...
  • Who Is Allowed to Be Poor?
    A TV station in Boston recently made big headlines for doing an interview with President Obama's aunt . A native Kenyan, she was in this country illegally for 10 years before being granted asylum. She lived in a homeless shelter and then in public housing. Now she collects disability payments. Despi ...
  • Sara Gruen's Novel Ape House Brings Awarene ...
    As an author, I read a lot of books. Of these books, some are perfectly paced, some are phenomenal character studies, and still others are so beautifully written that I could (and do) cry. But some books have all of the above. Ape House (Spiegel & Grau, 2010), Sara Gruen’s newest novel, is one of th ...
  • When School Lunch Funding Expires, Will Kids Go Hu ...
    For the past several months, the House and Senate have gone back and forth with their various school lunch reform bills that would reauthorize the Child Nutrition Act , legislation that funds federal free and reduced-cost lunches. Now here we are on the eve before the day the Child Nutrition Act exp ...
  • Sexual Miseducation: 1/3 Of Teens Aren't Taught Ab ...
    How's this for a chilling thought? Only about two-thirds of U.S. teens are taught about birth control in school , according to a recent government study. Even though almost all students take sex ed, they're much more likely to learn about STDs and how to say no than they are to learn about all of th ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Senator: Fire Afghanistan Funds Inspector, Avoid R ...
    by Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON - The Obama administration should fire the special inspector general for Afghanistan, and create an office to oversee all wartime contracting, a top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee said on Tuesday. Senator Claire McCaskill, a former state auditor, said ...
  • FBI Targets US Palestine Activists
    by Chris Arsenault Tracy Molm sometimes has a hard time paying rent, so it came as a surprise when American security forces banged on her door at 7am one morning, and searched her apartment under suspicions she provided material support to a terrorist organisation. read more
  • Pakistan Cuts Off NATO Supply Route
    Pakistan has blocked a vital supply route for international forces in Afghanistan in apparent retaliation for an alleged cross-border helicopter raid by NATO troops that killed three Pakistani frontier soldiers. Over the weekend, NATO helicopters fired on targets in Pakistan at least two times, kill ...
  • Rights Activists Share Alternative Nobel
    by Malin Rising STOCKHOLM - Activists from Nepal, Nigeria, Brazil and Israel were named the winners Thursday of this year's Right Livelihood Award, also known as the "alternative Nobel," for work that includes fighting to save the Amazon rain forest and bringing health care to Palestinians cut off f ...
  • Human Impact on World's Rivers 'Threatens Water Se ...
    by Adam Vaughan Nearly 80% of the world's rivers are so badly affected by humanity's footprint that the water security of almost 5 billion people, and the survival of thousands of aquatic species, are threatened, scientists warned today. The global study put together by institutions across the globe ...

Lifehacker

  • Turn a Lighter and Altoids Tin into a Miniature Gr ...
    It's more of a show piece—or, at best, a kind of portable hot plate—but this conversion of an Altoids mint tin and Bic-style lighter into a miniature grill is definitely a fun, do-able mini-project. More »
  • Gimpbox Combines GIMP Image Editor's Tools into a ...
    Linux only (maybe): The free, open-source image editor, GIMP, uses multiple windows for its tools and dialogs, but they're getting combined into a single window in a future release. Impatient types can combine everything right now, though, wit ...
  • Easily Peel Hard-Boiled Eggs
    Hard-boiled eggs are a great, protein-packed snack, but getting them out of their shells can be messy and cumbersome. Not so much if you use the method Tim Ferriss demonstrates in this video. More��
  • ShelfLuv Creates a Live Bookshelf As You Type [Sea ...
    Continuing with trend sparked by Google Instant, ShelfLuv is an instant search for Amazon's bookstore. It can help you find new books faster (and look good doing it). More��
  • Free Your Mac's Media Keys from iTunes, No Manual ...
    We've shown you a few ways to stop iTunes from hijacking your Mac's media keys, but hacker NoMitsu has created a simple patch that, with just a few clicks, will save you the trouble of doing it yourself. More��

Water Privatization

  • City Hall argues over privatization
    Sharp words as council debates whether the private sector should run some of the city's functions.
  • 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 ...

Guardian

  • Court orders Ayodhya religious site to be shared
    Ruling prohibits Muslims from rebuilding the 16th century Babri Masjid mosque destroyed by Hindu extremists in 1992 Three Indian judges today ruled that the disputed religious site in Ayodhya, claimed by both Muslims and Hindus, should be shared by both communities. In one of the longest awaited and ...
  • Ireland faces €34bn bank bailout bill
    • Finance minister warns bank failure would 'bring down' Ireland • Bailout will take government debt to over 100% of GDP • 'Ireland's Black Thursday', says Irish Labour party The cost of bailing out Anglo Irish Bank, the lender at the centre of Ireland's financial crisis, could rise to €34bn (£29.1b ...
  • BBC stars warn against strike
    Strike action during Tory conference threatens BBC's impartiality, say senior presenters and political journalists • Read BBC political staff's letter to NUJ BBC News presenters and political journalists, including Huw Edwards, Jeremy Paxman, Martha Kearney and Nick Robinson, have sent a letter to ...
  • Harman closes Labour conference
    Deputy leader admits Ed Miliband's leadership victory and the decision by his brother to step down from frontline politics had resulted in 'real rollercoaster' Harriet Harman, the deputy Labour leader, will close the party's conference today after acknowledging that the fallout from the leadership c ...
  • PM dismisses defence cuts fears
    PM says armed forces face difficult decisions but there is no basis for fears voiced by defence secretary Liam Fox in leaked letter David Cameron today dismissed concerns over "draconian" defence cuts, voiced by his defence secretary, Liam Fox, as "unfounded". In television interview, the prime mini ...

McClatchey

  • Commentary: California governors race becomes a ba ...
    You knew the race for governor would come to this: a clash between the classes.
  • Commentary: Murkowski going against histroy with w ...
    I cast my first vote in August 1964, a college student home for the summer. There were no write-ins for statewide office.
  • Pakistan closes border with Afghanistan after dead ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan — Pakistan brought a critical NATO supply route for U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan to an abrupt halt on Thursday after NATO aircraft crossed into Pakistan in a confused attack that killed three Pakistani paramilitary troops.
  • Commentary: Outside agitators
    Louis Brandeis and William Brennan — who probably thought as deeply about law and society as any two 20th-century Americans — both regarded the states as our "laboratories of democracy." If they were to revisit that famous concept today, they'd almost surely have to conclude that many states' dist ...
  • Commentary: In North Korea, the son also rises
    The top leadership of the Workers' Party in North Korea meets once every 30 years whether it needs to or not. The congress that opened Tuesday is the party's highest-level assembly since 1980, and seems to have been called to anoint a successor to "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il — presumably his youngest ...

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • The Great Bear and the big snap
      Can a bunch of green snappers save the Great Bear? The International League of Conservation Photographers hopes so. For a few weeks now, its snappers have been deploying themselves across Canada's Great Bear Rainforest , documenting its wild nature and the people who live in, and sometimes off, ...
  • '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 ...

The Wonk Room

  • Pushing For Iran War, Joe Lieberman Is Hoping We D ...
    As I predicted with the formation of the neoconservative Foreign Policy Initiative last year, the neocons have been hard at work to repair their reputations and position themselves to push America into all kinds of new, staggeringly expensive and disastrously counterproductive military adventures. Y ...
  • Rupert Murdoch Calls For Path To Legalization To G ...
    Today, Fox News Channel owner Rupert Murdoch testified before the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law Membership on the “Role of Immigration in Strengthening Americaâs Economy.” In his testimony, Murdoch called for comprehensive immigr ...
  • To Defund Or Not To Defund, That Is The Question
    Last week, during a conference call with bloggers, Nancy-Ann DeParle â the director of the White House Office for health reform â admitted that “any aspect” of the Affordable Care Act “could be defunded” if Republicans gain control of the House after the mid term elections. “But Iâm confident ...
  • Why McDonald’s Won’t Cancel Insurance ...
    McDonald’s is denying reports that it plans to cancel health insurance for almost 30,000 workers unless federal regulators loosen requirements for plans to spend 80 to 85 percent of premium dollars on health care costs. “Media reports stating that we plan to drop health care coverage for our employe ...
  • The WonkLine: September 30, 2010
    Welcome to The WonkLine, a daily 9:30 a.m. roundup of the latest news about health care, the economy, national security, immigration and climate policy. This is what we’re reading. Tell us what you found in the comments section below. You can also follow The Wonk Room on Twitter.   Immigration ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Another Example of Us versus Them
    Check it: One of the most incendiary details in the documents is that Blackwater, through Total Intelligence, sought to become the "intel arm" of Monsanto, offering to provide operatives to infiltrate activist groups organizing against the multinational biotech firm. "This little light of mine, ... ...
  • The Torture Never Stops
    I actually feel like saying a lot but i don't have the time or the energy to say any of it. So here's a video: G'night all. (Darn fruit-flies!)
  • What Dawg Said ...
    About criticisms of the Sun newspaper chain's readership . Oh yeah, and what Montreal Simon said too. It's a continuation of a theme .
  • Standing Up to the Financializers (Important Artic ...
    Once again, CounterPunch offers excellent analysis. (I've paid for their newsletter on occasion, but I can't right now.) Mark Weisbrot: " Hungary Defies IMF and European Authorities " This is the great fear among the defenders of European “pro-cyclical” policies – that is, policies that weaken the ...
  • More Random Thoughts About Rob Ford and His Stupid ...
    Thirty-nine percent of uber-moron mayoral candidate Rob Ford's supporters like him A LOT. And why shouldn't they? Stupid people have to stick together. Big surprise: Fuck-head Ford's budgetary numbers don't add up. They're nonsense. In this he shares a lot with Fuck-head Finance Minister Flaherty. ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • PBS' Point-of-View to show documentary on Daniel E ...
    Next Tuesday, October 5, at 9:00 p.m., many public television stations will broadcast The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers . It is a 90-minute documentary about Daniel Ellsberg's life, his education and rise in the world of a secret government-funded think-tank, ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Orange Alert: Potentially Habitable Planet Found
    Just as the rumors of a UN-appointed alien ambassador are settling down, astrophysicists have reported the discovery of the first potentially life-sustaining planet outside of our solar system. This conclusion is based on 11 years of observations and some estimates that place this newly-found exopl ...
  • Appeals Court Says Section 230 Does Not Protect St ...
    A couple years ago, we pointed out what appeared to be a pure money grab by the city of Chicago, demanding that Stubhub pay an extra tax (called an "amusement fee") on sales made by sellers and buyers in that city. As we noted, the original ticket buyer already paid a tax, and resellers themselves ...
  • Was A French Court Correct In Blaming Google For I ...
    We recently wrote about yet another (the third one we know of) ruling in France that found Google liable for what "Google Suggest" suggested. Google Suggest, of course, is the autocomplete function that tries to guess what you're searching on, based on what other people searched on after typing the ...
  • Drug Rep Accidentally Admits There's No Justificat ...
    Ever wondered why brand name drugs are so much more expensive than generics? Well, so did one Reddit user, who asked what magical qualities made a branded pill worth $500 when the generic was available for $10, and got back a response he wasn't expecting (found via Consumerist ), as the rep acciden ...
  • If The BSA Is So Sure Companies Would Pay For Soft ...
    We recently did our latest debunking of the BSA's latest laughable report on "piracy" of software and its impact on the economy and jobs. We have to do this every few months, as the BSA continues to trot out the same laughable and debunked analysis, including the flat-out ridiculous idea that every ...

VacTruth

  • Tall Tales and Other Vaccine Myths
    Are parents aware that the Flu shot is not effective in preventing flu-related hospitalizations in asthmatic children? Did you realize that study found children who were vaccinated for flu had three times the risk to be hospitalized when compared with children who were NOT vaccinated for flu?
  • 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 ...

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Every time I see the amount of money SEIU has put into politics, it makes me want to cry. In news of the creepy -  They are training children to be cops in Argentina, using eye scanners on the U.S. Mexico border, and giving overzealous parents easy access to home drug testing kits.  What kind of [.. ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Particulate Air Pollution Strongly Linked With Inc ...
    photo: Simone Ramella via flickr A new study published in Diabetes Care finds that there is a strong link between particulate air pollution and the rising prevalence of adult diabetes in the United States. Pollution was found to be a serious risk factor even after other risk factors, such as ob ...
  • Rammed Earth Tidal Resonance Chamber By Robert Hor ...
    Images: Robert Horner Tacoma's new public artwork gives the river a voice Rammed earth meets river-tide in Tacoma, WA's beautiful new Tidal Resonance Chamber, an experimental pavilion for sound conceived by artist-architect Robert Horner . Constructed using sustainable materials and methods, the ...
  • Majority of World's Rivers in a State of Crisis, B ...
    Photo by Wolfgang Staudt What happens when the rivers that 80% of our planet's human population and countless species of animals rely upon, become sick beyond repair? And how, exactly, do we know when a river is suffering? A new report published in the scientific journal Nature is the first to ...
  • Falcons Fullback Ovie Mughelli Calls for End to Co ...
    Image credit: Sierra Club As a rule, celebrity eco-campaigns can be a mixed blessing. Everybody knows Sting likes organics , Prince Charles wants to save the rainforests , and that Daryl Hannah wants to save just about everything . While these TreeHugging glitterati may help raise aw... Read th ...
  • VegPledge Campaign Tackles Every Angle of Greener ...
    Image credit: VegPledge/VegOut From locavore versus lifecycle , to arguments about plastic bags being a distraction , or the real impact of carnivorous versus vegan diets , it is easy to get confused about what our priorities should be in lightening our load on the planet. But one organization ...

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 )

  • UN Millennium Goals flunk reality check
    On the 10th birthday of the UN̢۪s Millennium Development Goals, officials are lamenting that the world has made little progress in meeting them. No one should be surprised.
  • 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.

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Tax Hikes as Back Door Clawback
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The past couple of weeks have provided a neat illustration of Marshall’s Law - Washington is wired for Republican control. Through lots of breathless reporting we have seen story after story from DC-based outlets that glory in the i ...
  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • What's Wrong With Our Food System?
    Eleven-year-old Birke Baehr spoke on the food system at the TEDx Next Generation event in Ashville: "A while back, I wanted to be an NFL football player, but I've decided that I want to be an organic farmer instead. That way, I can have a greater impact on the world. "I want you to know that we c ...
  • Why Who Fishes Matters
    Current changes to fisheries policies are aiding and abetting the corporate takeover and industrialization of our source of seafood. The Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA) has launched a Who Fishes Matters campaign which includes asking fisheries regulators to put limits on consolidation of f ...
  • Are Meat and Milk From Clones in the Food Supply?
    It’s just a matter of time before we are eating clones—if we are not eating them now. Click here to read this article
  • Cloned Meat
    Hilarious piece the Daily Show did on cloning. Click here to read this article
  • Dog Park Lit by Dog Poop
    People walking their dogs are encouraged to collect the feces, place them into the supplied biodegradable doggie bags and drop them into the digester feeding tube. They then turn a hand crank to stir the mixture of excrement and anaerobic bacteria in the Spark Park digester and help the methane rise ...

fotoFrontera

  • Rosas de colores parte VI (5 fotos gratis para com ...
    Escoja usted un número para ver más fotos de rosas | [II] |[III] [IV] [V] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor)1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes ...
  • Fotos de China or China photos (6 fotos gratuitas)
    Si lo desea, también podría usted ver fotos de Estados Unidos , México , Canadá , Brasil , España , África del Sur , Francia , Taiwan , Japón y Gran Bretaña .Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO ...
  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XIII
    Estoy realmente sorprendido con lo rápido que pasa el tiempo. Pues sin darnos cuenta, ya vamos en el número 13 de nuestra serie 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. Así que -una vez más-, disfrute de nuestros contenidos y no olvide compartir con sus amigos. Si lo desea, escoja un número p ...
  • Fotos de Japón or Japan photos (6 imágenes gratis)
    Si lo desea, también podría usted ver fotos de Estados Unidos , México , Canadá , Brasil , España , África del Sur , Francia , Taiwan , Etc. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES P ...
  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XII
    Si lo desea, escoja un número para revisar nuestro archivo sobre la serie 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. ¡Son más de 100 fotos! [1] -[2] -[3] -[4] -[5] -[6] -[7] -[8] -[9] -[10] -[11] -[12] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK so ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Food & Dignity
    “So, where do the leftover veggies go?” It’s a common question around here, especially on Tuesdays. The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) operates a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, connecting students, faculty and s ...
  • Reading between the lines: FDA indicates consumer ...
    FDA hosted a hearing on Tuesday, September 21 to discuss the hypothetical labeling of genetically engineered (GE) salmon. Just fifteen hours earlier the FDA finished hearing the debate on GE salmon approval, which gave the impression that FDA was moving faster on the issue than it actually is.  This ...
  • Independent advisory committee grills FDA on genet ...
    In a chilly hotel ballroom in the Washington DC suburbs, the FDA this week is considering whether to allow genetically engineered (GE) animals in the human food supply. The test case is an Atlantic salmon that has been engineered with Chinook salmon genes to express a growth hormone. The result is a ...
  • Digging for Data in Clifton Park
    Last Tuesday I spent the evening at the Clifton Mansion, home of Civic Works, the umbrella organization of Real Food Farm (RFF), a new urban agriculture project. The occasion was Digging for Data, an event held jointly by the Center for a Livable Future and Civic Works. Located on six acres of Clif ...
  • NIAID responds to CLF on antibiotic resistance tes ...
    The principal deputy director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Hugh Auchincloss, notes “success against antimicrobial resistance will require a multifaceted approach that includes increased surveillance, more judicious use of antimicrobial drugs, and increase ...

Norwegianity

  • Links AND text (pack a lunch)
    Meg Whitman screwed over her illegal housekeeper for nine freaking years, ignoring letters from Social Security telling her the woman was illegal, then made the woman source her own replacement when she got pregnant then fired her for being illegal after her campaign started. Then eMeg cried crocodi ...
  • Nice cover
    Wolves have an intrasquad scrimmage tonight at 7 and I’m too keyed up to do a post, but I had to share this. Click on the image to read the story, something I plan to do just as soon as the scrimmage is over. I especially love the drool, aptly timed for James O‘Keefe mentor [...]
  • As the Obama slowly shifts
    Bernie Sanders comes right out and says it: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Tuesday blasted the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) for opposing legislation that attempts to in-source jobs by granting companies a payroll tax holiday that shift overseas jobs to ...
  • Disclosure time
    It’s past time I came clean and ‘fessed up to the fact that for the last six months I’ve been writing this blog under the influence of UVB rays. I’m up to four minutes a day and together with 5,000 I.U.s of Vitamin D, my mood has been annoyingly elevated despite concerted efforts to the [...]
  • Text massaging
    The Washington Post fails to examine a curious fact: Household incomes plunged for the second year in a row in 2009, as fewer families earned over $100,000 a year and the ranks of the poor rose, according to census statistics released Tuesday. Incomes are down about four percent since the recession ...

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

  • Awakening to the Truth About the Global Warming Sc ...
    Almost a year after starting to chase the story I agree opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2010/03/climate.html uses this as the leader with a short note from me underneath explaining why Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • As oceans fall ill, Washington bureaucrats squabbl ...
    WASHINGTON Off the coast of Washington state, mysterious algae mixed with sea foam have killed more than 8,000 seabirds, puzzling scientists. Submitted by For the Oceans to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Like an Acid Cloud: Entire family sickened
    Near beach smelled like muriatic acid and burnt power steering fluid… all of a sudden… feet start burning… throat, eyes burning.10 y/o son screaming my throat is on fire…Husband and daughter could not breath next morning, sons nose starts gushing blood Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� ...
  • Asia is Surely Gaining an Unquenchable Thirst
    G.Kallupati is a small village in the Theni District of western Tamil Nadu, tucked up against the rocky foothills of the Western Ghats in southern India. Unfortunately, the village is in a rain shadow of the eastern edge of these mountains, so Submitted by Naoko I. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Neanderthals were able to 'develop their own tools ...
    Neanderthals were keen on innovation and technology and developed tools all on their own, scientists say. Submitted by Marty Powell to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Video Hints at Executions by Pakistanis - NYTimes. ...
    Video Hints at Executions by Pakistanis - NYTimes.com: "ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An Internet video showing men in Pakistani military uniforms executing six young men in civilian clothes has heightened... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • BBC News - Outcry fails to prevent Belarus executi ...
    BBC News - Outcry fails to prevent Belarus executions: "Belarus is to go ahead with the execution of two men currently on death row, despite international pressure on the country to abandon the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • BBC News - US imposes sanctions on Iranian officia ...
    BBC News - US imposes sanctions on Iranian officials over abuses: "US President Barack Obama has ordered unprecedented sanctions against senior Iranian officials for 'sustained and severe violations... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • BBC News - Islamic veil ban in Dutch coalition dea ...
    BBC News - Islamic veil ban in Dutch coalition deal: "A ban on wearing the full Islamic veil in the Netherlands will be part of the government's programme under a pact to form a coalition, party... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • BBC News - Nato says aircraft did cross border int ...
    BBC News - Nato says aircraft did cross border into Pakistan: "Nato in Afghanistan says its aircraft crossed into Pakistan and fired at suspected militants, in an attack Pakistan says killed three... [[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

  • Cameron orders 26/11 Mumbai-style terror dummy-run ...
    ShareThis Cameron orders 26/11 Mumbai-style terror dummy-run after intelligence warning 30 Sep 2010 British Prime Minister David Cameron has responded to the threat of a 26/11 Mumbai-style terror attack in the country by secretly ordering a full-scale dummy-run. According to the Sun, a number of let ...
  • DHS pitches plan for air security to 190 nations
    ShareThis DHS pitches plan for air security to 190 nations 28 Sep 2010 The U.S. Homeland Security chief will urge 190 nations today to improve aviation security with body scanners and other innovations to stop terrorists from carrying plastic and powdered explosives onto airplanes. Homeland Security ...
  • Barack Obama under fire for grossly underestimatin ...
    ShareThis Barack Obama under fire for grossly underestimating Gulf oil spill --White House commission finds that administration lost public trust and may have sabotaged clean-up operations 28 Sep 2010 The Obama administration lost the public trust and may have sabotaged clean-up operations in the Gu ...
  • UN 'to appoint space ambassador to greet alien vis ...
    ShareThis UN 'to appoint space ambassador to greet alien visitors' [ Glenn Beck? ] 26 Sep 2010 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 ...
  • France on high alert after warnings of possible te ...
    ShareThis France on high alert after warnings of possible terrorist attacks --Although officials later dismissed the report as unreliable, they maintained the high alert . 28 Sep 2010 France is reportedly on a high alert following repeated intelligence warnings that terrorists may be planning to car ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • First published review of Arthur Allan Thomas: The ...
    I'll add more reviews as they come in, but here's the first, courtesy of Newstalk ZB today: Books - Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story 29/09/2010 Whether you concur with Wishart or not, you need to read this book. Arthur...
  • I hate Ian Wishart because...
    For some years now I've "enjoyed" a growing amount of internet 'hate mail' biffed my way on websites, virtually all from people I've never met and most from people who've never actually read my work themselves but who've relied on...
  • Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story...a cop kill ...
    The new book on the Crewe murders, Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story, is finally on sale. Available from Whitcoulls, PaperPlus, Take Note, Borders, The Warehouse, Dymocks and all good independent bookstores. The radio ad is available here: ThomasBook1
  • New Arthur Allan Thomas book just over a week away
    Launching 27 September...the cat will well and truly be set amongst the pigeons...
  • How objective was the Climategate inquiry?
    I've been too busy writing and editing the new Arthur Allan Thomas book to blog much in recent weeks, but couldn't resist this revelation about the old boys network's whitewash of Climategate. Here's how it happened...originally from Climate Audit, via...

Mondoweiss

  • Avigdor Lieberman’s UN speech shows the true ...
    Yisrael Beiteinu’s strong third-place showing in Israel’s February 2009 elections for the Knesset was met with dread and disgust from many different quarters. Avigdor Lieberman, the founder and leader of the far-right party and the current Foreign Minister, ran a campaign filled with fascist overto ...
  • Rosengarten, sole American on boat: It is Jew agai ...
    We have received two accounts of the treatment of passengers and crew on the Jewish boat to Gaza. The first is from the American passenger on the boat, Lillian Rosengarten of New York (pictured at left among boat's passengers in Cyprus earlier this week), a former refugee from Nazi Germany. The seco ...
  • B’Tselem: In the 10 years since the beginnin ...
    And other news from Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing It was barely a slowdown The official statistics supplied by the Central Bureau of Statistics describe the story behind the 10-month construction moratorium in the West Bank. The story can be called many ...
  • Once again, PA caves on Goldstone Report
    Complete cave: The Palestinian Authority today acted in the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva to freeze the Goldstone Report, preventing it from going to the Security Council and International Criminal Court. Raji Sourani of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights blasted the PA's action as a "grave ...
  • UN report: Israeli interception of the Gaza flotil ...
    More from the UN report into the Israeli attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Notice that the report also makes clear that the entire Israeli blockade of Gaza is illegal as a form of collective punishment. The following appears on pages 14 and 15 of the UN report: Under the laws of armed conflict, a ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Medical Martial Law In The US – Sleepin ...
    “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endange ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Our Muslim Friends Suffer, Too
    Terrorism knows no bounds.� This atrocity happened in Iraq and the sadness still lingers in many hearts. I republish these two emails with permission of CSM Jeffrey Mellinger. Mohemmed's name has been changed to protect his family.� May God cherish his brave Soul. From: Mellinger Jeffrey J CS ...
  • 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
  • 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}

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

  • Particulate Air Pollution Strongly Linked With Inc ...
    photo: Simone Ramella via flickr A new study published in Diabetes Care finds that there is a strong link between particulate air pollution and the rising prevalence of adult diabetes in the United States. Pollution was found to be a serious risk factor even after other risk factors, such as ob ...
  • Rammed Earth Tidal Resonance Chamber By Robert Hor ...
    Images: Robert Horner Tacoma's new public artwork gives the river a voice Rammed earth meets river-tide in Tacoma, WA's beautiful new Tidal Resonance Chamber, an experimental pavilion for sound conceived by artist-architect Robert Horner . Constructed using sustainable materials and methods, the ...
  • Majority of World's Rivers in a State of Crisis, B ...
    Photo by Wolfgang Staudt What happens when the rivers that 80% of our planet's human population and countless species of animals rely upon, become sick beyond repair? And how, exactly, do we know when a river is suffering? A new report published in the scientific journal Nature is the first to ...
  • Falcons Fullback Ovie Mughelli Calls for End to Co ...
    Image credit: Sierra Club As a rule, celebrity eco-campaigns can be a mixed blessing. Everybody knows Sting likes organics , Prince Charles wants to save the rainforests , and that Daryl Hannah wants to save just about everything . While these TreeHugging glitterati may help raise aw... Read th ...
  • VegPledge Campaign Tackles Every Angle of Greener ...
    Image credit: VegPledge/VegOut From locavore versus lifecycle , to arguments about plastic bags being a distraction , or the real impact of carnivorous versus vegan diets , it is easy to get confused about what our priorities should be in lightening our load on the planet. But one organization ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

  • 80 Percent of Global Water Supplies at Risk
    River biodiversity and our water security are in serious trouble, according to a comprehensive survey of waterways released yesterday. At risk are the water supplies of nearly 80 percent of humanity, and two-thirds of the world's rivers habitats. Environment - Water resour ...
  • Best Environmental Photos of 2010 Named
    NoneSee a hummingbird-viper face-off, swarm of devil rays, and more in these winning images from a conservation group's global photo contest. Conservation movement - Dodge - Recreation - Bird - Hummingbird
  • 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

Jurist - Legal Research

  • EU threatens legal action against France over Roma ...
    [JURIST] The European Commission [official website] warned France Wednesday that the country would face disciplinary proceedings and potential legal action if it did not follow EU regulations in its relations with Roma [JURIST news archive] migrants. The warning was delivered by letter [Guardian rep ...
  • Rights groups urge Obama to halt use of local auth ...
    [JURIST] More than 500 international, US, state and local human rights and immigration advocacy organizations sent a letter [text, PDF] to US President Barack Obama Wednesday expressing concern over the use of local law enforcement agencies in the enforcement of federal immigration law. The organiza ...
  • Bosnia court upholds Croatia lawmaker's war crimes ...
    [JURIST] The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina [official website] on Wednesday upheld the war crimes conviction [press release] former Croatian Parliament [official website] member Branimir Glavas [JURIST news archive] for ordering the torture and death of Croatian Serbs in the town of Osijek in 1991 ...
  • India court allows appeal by convicted Mumbai gunm ...
    [JURIST] The Bombay High Court [official website] on Tuesday allowed an appeal by Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab [NDTV profile], the lone gunmen to survive the three-day siege of Mumbai [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] that killed 166 in November 2008. Kasab, a Pakistani national, filed the appeal ...
  • China not considering eliminating death penalty fo ...
    [JURIST] The National People's Congress [official website, in Chinese] never considered removing the death penalty [JURIST news archive] as a punishment for corruption during the consideration of an amendment to the criminal code, legislator Chen Sixi stated [Xinhua report] Tuesday. The proposed ame ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Emanuel Has a Campaign Manager
    White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel will have a campaign team ready when, as expected, he announces Friday he's leaving Washington to run for mayor of Chicago.� Unless Emanuel changes his mind at the last minute, which associates say is highly unlikely, he will return to Chicago as early as Sund ...
  • Move Over 'Macaca': In 2010, Campaigns B ...
    In the annals of the internet and technology, 2006 will forever be known as the year of "Macaca," when an errant, arguably racist comment from Sen. George Allen was caught on videotape and then spread across the world when it was posted on YouTube. Allen subsequently lost his re-election bid.� Fou ...
  • If Democrats Hold Back Republicans, Thank Early Vo ...
    In 1994, when Republicans regained control of Congress, only about 35 percent of Americans could vote before election day. In 2010, 7 in ten Americans enjoy that privilege. If Democrats are able to hold the House, they'll have early voters to thank.� Democratic strategists credit the party's sophist ...
  • A Step Forward for Oversight of Intelligence
    Tomorrow, the House is expected to pass its first intelligence oversight bill in six years, ending a contentious inter-branch battle over who gets to know what about covert action. For months, Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to budge on the subject of notifications. Under the National Security Act, the ...
  • The White House, Rouse Style
    If President Obama selects Pete Rouse, his former Senate chief of staff, to be a caretaker executive in the White House, there will be little visible manifestation of Rouse's presence to the outside world. Inside the White House, however, while circadian�rhythm�will be less frenetic, the changes wil ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Haaretz’s Melman Suspects Israeli Involvement in S ...
    The N.Y. Times offers some intriguing theories and reporting on the Stuxnet worm affair.  Among the tantalizing issues it raises is that the name “Myrtus” (Latin for “myrtle”) has been discovered in the malware’s computer code and may indeed have been the overall name of the project.  Also, one of ...
  • Dungeons of Shabak–Version 2.0 (or 3.0?)
    One of the most ‘sensational’ Shabak “spy” (you’ll see why I use quotation marks shortly)  dramas of the past few months has been the “middle of the night” arrest of Israeli Palestinian community activist Ameer Makhoul–with the accompanying arrest of naturopathic pharmacist Omar Said–for allegedl ...
  • 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 ...

Ode Magazine

  • All Africa, all the time
    Most of what the world reads about Africa is focused on the continent’s many problems—famine, genocide, HIV/AIDS, corruption—and it is not written by Africans. Salim Amin, CEO of the photo agency Camerapix and son of the late Kenyan photojournalist Mohamed Amin, wants to change that thr ...
  • Beyond sustainability
    It takes more than growth and development for a city, an economy or an ecosystem to flourishâit takes resilience. Biloxi is gone. That’s what Toshiro Kida, a 21-year-old graphic design student at Yale University, thought when he arrived in the Mississippi coastal town during the summer ...
  • A (thankful) nod to the past
    By: VictoriaKlein Today has been one of those days: no matter what you eat, drink or do, you just can’t get energized or motivated to do much of anything. I see you, to-do list, sitting there, mocking my lack of get-up-and-go (inanimate pieces of paper can be so cr ...
  • Color their world
    Photo: Douglas Engle The favelas, grimy, dismal slums in the heart of Rio de Janeiro, are widely considered hotbeds of violence and crime. But Dre Urhahn (pictured on the right) has a different perspective. He sees the favelas as “a source of inspiration and creativity” and think ...
  • Nature's healing response
    A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog entry about the remarkable response of nature to the oil pollution in the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists were reporting that the oil slick in the Gulf appeared to be dissolving far more rapidly than anyone had expected. They said that much oil had been biodeg ...

OpEd News

  • Rage: The Missing Ingredient
    Whatever disagreements I may have with the way in which the Obama Administration and various "fools" in Congress have failed to repair the vast damage to this country committed by the Junior Bush Administration, I realize that the damage WAS done by that administration....
  • Obama Will Triumph -- So Will America
    We faithful Obama supporters still trust our initial impression of him as a great, good and uniquely qualified man to lead us.
  • WHEN THE TALIBAN CALLS, SHOULD YOU ANSWER?
    What Should you do when the Taliban reaches out to "friend" you on Facebook? Should you be very, very afrad? Danny Schechter asks: Do We Live In a "Republic of Fear?"
  • The Real ClimateGate, Part 1: Getting over the non ...
    The first in a two-part series investigating recent climate 'scandals', and the role of special interests in the fossil fuel industries in deliberately muddying the waters of public understanding to obstruct a clean energy transition. This article focuses on the hacked emails from the University of ...
  • Scrambled Eggs: Report Spotlights "Systemic" Abuse ...
    An independent report has been released that focuses on widespread abuses in organic egg production, primarily by large industrial agribusinesses. The Cornucopia Institute, a Wisconsin-based farm policy research group, developed the report, Scrambled Eggs: Separating Factory Farm Egg Production fro ...

Switchboard

  • NRDC submits recommendations for upcoming EPA frac ...
    As the EPA prepares to launch what we hope will be the first-ever credible, comprehensive study on the risks associated with hydraulic fracturing, a key component of oil and natural gas drilling, on Tuesday NRDC submitted  formal comments  on what we believe the study must explore. If ...
  • Getting to 60 mpg: "You must play boldly to win"
    Arnold Palmer, one of the greatest to ever play men’s professional golf once insightfully said, “You must play boldly to win.” While I’m not a golfer, it’s still one of my favorite quotes. This week, the Obama Administration is scheduled to make an announcement that will lay the grou ...
  • Groups Representing Over 5 Million Latinos Call on ...
    This past June, some in the U.S. Senate attempted to weaken the Clean Air Act (CAA) by overturning the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) scientific finding that global warming pollution is harmful to people’s health and welfare. Thanks to calls, letters and emails from clean air ...
  • Preamble to China climate conference; Pushing for ...
    In a National Journal: Congress Daily article, Jake Schmidt , Anjali Jaiswal , and Barbara Finamore discussed the climate change conference next week in Tianjin, China, and how the international community is disappointed in the United States’ failure to enact climate legislation.    ...
  • Hydraulic fracturing implicated in another inciden ...
    In June, 2010, the day hydraulic fracturing began on a nearby well in southern Colorado's Las Animas County, landowner Tracy Dahl checked his cistern and found approximately 500 gallons of grayish brown murky water where water had previously run clear for years. The Dahls have extensiv ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Good Point
    Niewert: Maybe now is the time to start asking people exactly why ACORN was killed by Congress — and doing something about it. It is worth noting that prior to exposing himself as such an obvious, creepily misogynist fraud that virtually nobody will defend him, O’Keefe was able to destroy an organiz ...
  • More From A Rough Week In Movies
    Arthur Penn and Sally Menke, R.I.P. This means I definitely need to see Bonnie and Clyde when it screens at the Palace in a couple months. To be honest, on small screen viewings it has seemed to me a pretty good movie and nothing more than that. [...] Related posts: The F-22: Can’t Even S ...
  • “Every Movie I’ve been in has Ended Up ...
    RIP Tony Curtis. And I can’t seem to find an embeddable version of this clip in English: Related posts:Must-See Movie Pick of the day (week? month?) What I Ended Up Reading In Between World Cup Matches Abroad A Movie So Crass, And Awkwardly Cast, Even I Could Be the Star Related posts: Must-S ...
  • His superiors no doubt consider him the most prest ...
    A few months back, during an exchange which still bothers me for all the obvious reasons, The Donalde defended himself against my charge that certain of his posts created a hostile learning environment for female students with a riposte in which he claimed that This is a private blogging matter. ...
  • The fact that it sounds like they’re plannin ...
    While the fact that none of the major conservative blogs have rushed to O’Keefe’s defense is amusing, the document CNN acquired is not.  Or only differently.  It contains statements like: That the people planning the prankâO’Keefe includedâknow that O’Keefe’s normal persona (or “personality” ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI Researcher Develops Bioengineering Company
    DRI’s Joseph J. Grzymski, Ph.D. partnered with Adam G. Marsh, Ph.D. from the University of Delaware to develop Evozym Biologics, a company created to bridge the gap between research and innovation and commercial value.
  • 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.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Human Impacts on Rivers Threaten Water Security Wo ...
    More than 5 billion people — nearly 80 percent of the planet’s population — live in regions where water security is threatened because of mismanagement and pollution of rivers and watersheds, according to a new study. This degradation of the planet’s waters also threatens the existence of thousands ...
  • U.S. Home Energy Use As High as in 1970s, Despite ...
    The average American household uses the same amount of energy it did in the early 1970s , despite significant improvements in the efficiency of household appliances, according to a report in the Washington Post . Even though appliances such as dishwashers and refrigerators now use half the amount o ...
  • A High-Risk Fossil Fuel Boom Sweeps Across North A ...
    Energy companies are rushing to develop unconventional sources of oil and gas trapped in carbon-rich shales and sands throughout the western United States and Canada. So far, government officials have shown little concern for the environmental consequences of this new fossil fuel development boom. ...
  • Interview: A Landmark Agreement To Protect Canada’ ...
    Canada’s boreal forest stretches from British Columbia to Newfoundland, covering 2.2 million square miles, an area nearly 60 percent the size of the United States. Much of that forest is intact, making it — along with Russia’s northern forest and portions of the Amazon — one of three great tracts o ...
  • Forging a Landmark Agreement To Save Canada’s Bore ...
    Last spring, conservation groups and timber companies signed an historic agreement to protect a large swath of Canada’s boreal forest. In an interview with Yale Environment 360 , the Pew Environment Group's Steven E. Kallick, a key player in the agreement, explains why the accord is integral to a la ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

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

  • House of Representatives pass compromise NASA Auth ...
    We now interrupt our regularly scheduled esoteric programming to bring you some mainstream NASA stuff. Yeah, I know, it’s “mainstream” NASA, which hardly brings any inspiration and “Never A Straight Answer” comes to mind. But you know what? I still love rockets flaming off the launch pads and I stil ...
  • Rectangular Texas UFO
    From a MUFON report via Examiner.com; Two Texas women pulled their vehicle over at 8:45 p.m. on September 26, 2010, to watch a rectangular-shaped object floating in the sky, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database. “It was very dark in color when we saw ...
  • 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 ...

Tippers News

  • Middle age Practises in India-Student loses eye to ...
    The fears that government was risking lives of students by decreeing them to attend schools amidst curfew & protests came true on Wednesday when a schoolboy lost his eye after being hit by a marble shot at him through sling shot allegedly by paramilitary Submitted by Riyaz R. to World �|� �Note-it ...
  • Take Action! Week 2-Worldwide Campaign to Save the ...
    The Grand Canyon is one of the worlds 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! Signatures are needed! Please make sure you have signed both! Submitted by Suzanne S. to Environment �|� �Not ...
  • No to Monsanto and GMO: SEN-Care2 Worldwide Action ...
    The scourge of Monsanto and GMO must be thwarted! Learn why, and support our MULTIPLE-PETITION campaign of Care2 activists, SEN and other orgs to increase the impact of YOUR voice. Submitted by Gregory Hilbert to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 45613, 45612 Golden Retriever 2 LIL SISTER LAB PUP ...
    Hi Everyone, we need you're help please. We have a family to go home to. However we can't make it out of this place until we get the needed funds for the vet . Can you please get us to our NEW MOMMY? Puppy Kisses Submitted by Ginger Geronimo to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Help Save New Jersey's Feral Cats!
    New Jersey political leaders are considering an initiative that would allow hunters to begin hunting and shooting feral cats. We have to stop them!!!! Submitted by Penelope Ryan to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Chinese Tariff Clears House
    “The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to punish China for policies that unfairly favor its exports at the expense of the United States and other countries, the latest volley in what is developing as a global battle over jobs and commerce.” (Washington Post) A trade war with China â just wh ...
  • Gold Sets Record
    “Gold hit a lifetime high on Wednesday, its 10th record in 12 sessions, as the dollar dropped against a basket of currencies on expectations the Federal Reserve would take new measures to shore up the economyâ¦. Gold rose as high as $1,312.05 an ounce….” (Christian Science Monitor) The “market” is ...
  • The Newspeak of Paul Krugman
    No critic of free-market economics can ever again accuse us of being irrational and immoral when it is Paul Krugman who says destruction creates wealth, and war is an acceptable second-best path to economic growth.
  • Born on this Date: Ludwig von Mises
    Ludwig von Mises was born on this date in 1881. Mises accomplished so much in his long life and so much has been written about the great Austrian economist and political/social philosopher that trying to say anything is a daunting task. So I will simply refer readers to Edmund Opitz’s lecture “The P ...
  • Gulf Between Top and Bottom Incomes Expands
    “The income gap between the richest and poorest Americans grew last year to its widest amount on record as young adults and children in particular struggled to stay afloat in the recession.” (USA Today) It would be a mistake to assume this is just the free market at work. FEE Timely Classic “The Sub ...

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

  • Gulf spill paymaster says he has eliminated claims ...
    By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica Five weeks after taking over the oil spill damage claims from BP, and after widespread criticism of delays in processing applications, claims czar Kenneth Feinberg said his operation had eliminated the backlog of older claims that had been sitting in the system unpaid ...
  • Pending strike by catfish workers in Mississippi d ...
    By Joe Atkins, Labor South Months-long negotiations between Delta Pride Catfish Inc. and members of the United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 1529, have defused a potential strike by hundreds of workers at the company's plant in Indianola, Miss., and with plants operated by a partner firm in ...
  • Senate bill would fund long-awaited discrimination ...
    John Boyd of Baskerville, Va., rumbled into Washington on a tractor last week looking to harvest some justice. A fourth-generation farmer and president of the National Black Farmers Association, Boyd was in the nation's capital to join more than 100 other black farmers who rallied for Sen ...
  • 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 ...

Worldpress - Africa

Canadian Encyclopedia

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • Definitions for being green: you a treehugger, a h ...
    Over on The Really Good Life today, I’ve asked a question: I’m not self-sufficient, so what I am? I’m asking how people who grow their own food, making their own stuff, cook their meals etc define themselves — I might be alone on the issue but I don’t like calling myself “self-sufficient” because I’ ...
  • Fab free recycling posters – what you can an ...
    Illustrator Fee Harding (also known as Burntfeather) got in touch this morning to confess: I’ve been guilty of not recycling! This overwhelming guilt forced me to start looking into what I could and could not recycle and then set out to design a set of posters to blu tak above my recycling stash in ...
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make small toys for ...
    From making dog toys last week to kids toys this week… We’ve had an email from Petra: Thank you for your very nice and useful site. You helped me before, but now I have a new (reverse) question: In a few months, my youngest daughter becomes 3 years old. On her day care, it is [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle spark plugs?
    We’ve had an email from Scott, asking: Is there any use for old sparkplugs? As someone who barely knows what a sparkplug looks like let alone does, I’m not really in a position to answer this question. Google tells me that they can be cleaned up again but it’s not recommended (although disclaimer: a ...
  • 5 fantastic reuses: what to do with egg shells
    We’ve had loads of really good suggestions for what to do with egg shells over the years but here are some of my favourites: 1. Feed them back to your chickens (or lizards, or dogs…) Eggs shells contain a considerable amount of calcium – they’re 95% calcium carbonate, with the remaining 5% being a b ...

Mondoweiss

  • Avigdor Lieberman’s UN speech shows the true ...
    Yisrael Beiteinu’s strong third-place showing in Israel’s February 2009 elections for the Knesset was met with dread and disgust from many different quarters. Avigdor Lieberman, the founder and leader of the far-right party and the current Foreign Minister, ran a campaign filled with fascist overto ...
  • Rosengarten, sole American on boat: It is Jew agai ...
    We have received two accounts of the treatment of passengers and crew on the Jewish boat to Gaza. The first is from the American passenger on the boat, Lillian Rosengarten of New York (pictured at left among boat's passengers in Cyprus earlier this week), a former refugee from Nazi Germany. The seco ...
  • B’Tselem: In the 10 years since the beginnin ...
    And other news from Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing It was barely a slowdown The official statistics supplied by the Central Bureau of Statistics describe the story behind the 10-month construction moratorium in the West Bank. The story can be called many ...
  • Once again, PA caves on Goldstone Report
    Complete cave: The Palestinian Authority today acted in the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva to freeze the Goldstone Report, preventing it from going to the Security Council and International Criminal Court. Raji Sourani of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights blasted the PA's action as a "grave ...
  • UN report: Israeli interception of the Gaza flotil ...
    More from the UN report into the Israeli attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Notice that the report also makes clear that the entire Israeli blockade of Gaza is illegal as a form of collective punishment. The following appears on pages 14 and 15 of the UN report: Under the laws of armed conflict, a ...

Media Consortium

  • Putting the 'Ad' in iPad - Digital Editions @ Foli ...
    Some have referred to the current marketplace as the ‘golden age’ of online advertising, with the advent of 3G technology and the iPad craze. But the publishing industry seems to be missing out on at least part of what could be a $50 billion ad spend. Time spent with print media accounts for 12 perc ...
  • Building Mobile Newsstands and Subscription Models ...
    Good news for the magazine industry: Apple is developing a digital newsstand that would allow publishers to sell magazines across the iPad and possibly other Apple devices. The bad news: negotiations with Apple are anything but certain, and Apple’s insistence on controlling customer data could be ...
  • 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 ...

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 )

  • House approves NASA Reauthorization Act 2010
    The US House of Representatives burned the midnight oil to pass S.3729, an appropriations bill for NASA, by a vote of 304 to 118 on 29 September. The pressure to pass the bill—which has already cleared the Senate—was on the House due to the 30 September end of the federal fiscal year, after whic ...
  • ADHD gets the attention of geneticists
    True to its name, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has had a tough time garnering much notice from behavioural geneticists. The condition is highly heritable, but genetic association studies of ADHD, which affects about 2% of children, have mostly come up blank – until now. A te ...
  • Report recommends adaptive adaptation strategy for ...
    Back in June the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research hosted a National Climate Adaptation Summit that brought together roughly 150 people representing the US science, business and policy communities for a three-day conversation about coping with the impacts of global warming. On Wednesda ...
  • Most Earth-like planet yet spotted in a habitable ...
    Not too hot. Not too cold. Those are the criteria that astronomers have applied in their search for habitable worlds beyond our solar system. Now, an Earth-sized planet has been discovered that apparently meets the Goldilocks test. The planet is the sixth detected around Gliese 581, a cool red d ...
  • US Department of Interior refines scientific integ ...
    Only nine days after the end of the comment period on the US Department of Interior’s proposed policy on scientific integrity , Secretary Ken Salazar has issued a memo that appears to address some of the issues raised by critics and recently reported in Nature . The memo orders the development of ...

new geography

  • Portland Metro's Competitiveness Problem
    Portland Metro's president, David Bragdon, recently resigned to take a position with New York’s Bloomberg administration. Bragdon was nearing the end of his second elected term and ineligible for another term. Metro is the three county (Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties) planning agency t ...
  • Latino Dems Should Rethink Loyalty
    Given the awful state of the economy, it’s no surprise that Democrats are losing some support among Latinos. But they can still consider the ethnic group to be in their pocket. Though Latinos have not displayed the lock-step party loyalty of African-Americans, they still favor President Barack Obama ...
  • Why We Have to Learn to Love the Subdivision – Aga ...
    When did anyone last hear officials and professionals talking enthusiastically about the social and economic benefits resulting from the subdivision of land to create secure, clean and tradable title? Indeed, any planning document is likely to include a long list of potential problems caused by the ...
  • Health Care: Booster Shot for Jobs?
    As a former health care human resources executive, I'm often drawn to the local hospital in whatever city I'm visiting. A city's health care environment reflects its social, cultural and economic state. Because the local medical center complex is often the largest employer in town, it would seem tha ...
  • California’s New Grassroots Movement: High-Speed R ...
    In 2008, California voters approved Proposition 1A to allocate $9.95 billion of the state’s money to a high-speed rail system. Just two years later, many of these same voters are yelling and screaming at the High-Speed Rail Authority to revise their plans. Why have Californians turned against this p ...

GM Watch

spiked

Cryptogon

  • Despite Clinton Pledge, State Department to Pay Ou ...
    Via: Wired: Get ready to meet America’s new mercenaries. They could be the same as the old ones. A new multibillion-dollar private security contract to protect U.S. diplomats is “about to drop” as early as this week, say two State Department sources, who requested anonymity because the contract is n ...
  • The U.S. Military Depends on China for the Metals ...
    Via: Bloomberg: A senior manager at a company that churns out metals routinely used in U.S. smart bombs pauses in mid-sentence when his phone rings: a Wall Street stockbroker looking for information. He makes a note to have an assistant call back — someone who is fluent in English, not just Chinese. ...
  • Ireland: Banking Wreck
    Via: Bloomberg: Ireland is preparing to take majority control of Allied Irish Banks Plc and pump extra cash into Anglo Irish Bank Corp., raising the cost of repairing the financial system to as much as 50 billion euros ($68 billion). “The Irish banking system is at rock bottom today,” Finance Minist ...
  • Average Distressed Property Sells at 26% Discount; ...
    Via: Bloomberg: Homes in the foreclosure process sold at an average 26 percent discount in the second quarter as almost one-fourth of all U.S. transactions involved properties in some stage of mortgage distress, according to RealtyTrac Inc. A total of 248,534 homes that sold in the period had receiv ...
  • Fort Hood: Army’s Largest Base Had Four Appa ...
    Via: CNN: Four soldiers from Fort Hood, Texas died over the week. In all four cases, it appears the soldiers, all decorated veterans from the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan, took their own lives, according to Christopher Haug, a Fort Hood spokesman. If confirmed as suicides, it would be on top of 14 ot ...

The Economic Collapse

  • As Americans Celebrate Labor Day 2010, U.S. Factor ...
    Labor Day 2010 comes in the midst of a stunning wave of U.S. factory closings that stretches from coast to coast.  Once upon a time America was the greatest manufacturing machine that the world has ever seen, but now it seems as though the only jobs available for working class Ameri ...
  • The Proof Is In The Numbers: America Is Getting Po ...
    How in the world can anyone claim that things are getting better?  Sometimes the numbers are so clear that they simply cannot be denied.  According to the U.S. Census Bureau, median household income in the United States fell from $51,726 in 2008 to $50,221 in 2009.  That was the sec ...
  • 30 Statistics That Prove The Elite Are Getting Ric ...
    Not everyone has been doing badly during the economic turmoil of the last few years.  In fact, there are some Americans that are doing really, really well.  While the vast majority of us struggle, there is one small segment of society that is seemingly doing better than ever.  This ...
  • Is The Federal Reserve Out Of Control? Markets Acr ...
    What in the world is going on over at the Federal Reserve?    Has it gotten to the point where the Federal Reserve is completely and totally out of control?  There is increasing speculation in the financial community that the Federal Reserve is on the verge of unleashing another rou ...
  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • Spineless Opuntia robusta (Willem Van Cotthem)
    Anywhere on this planet, the beauty of plants in a garden is food for the soul. Therefore, from time to time, I post pictures of flowers and plants in my own garden. I like to share these with my readers, … Continue reading →
  • WFP blamed for food crisis in Kenya (NGO News Afri ...
    Read at : http://www.ngonewsafrica.org/?p=3775 WFP blamed for food crisis in Kenya WFP have been accused of being bias in picking agencies for food distribution. They (World Food Programme) and the government are also accused of delaying relief food distribution to … Continue reading →
  • Egypt to lease at least 200,000 acres of farmland ...
    Read at : http://farmlandgrab.org/15880 Egypt to lease at least 200,000 acres of farms: government Reuters | Wed Sep 29, 2010 CAIRO (Reuters) â Egypt will lease at least 200,000 acres of farmland this year for agri-business projects in North Sinai, … Continue reading →
  • Desertification Threatens Green Africa (Google / W ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.wiziq.com/tutorial/92486-Desertification-Threatens-Green-Africa Slideshow Desertification Threatens Green Africa An elementary understanding of the causes, ramifications and remedial approaches of desertification of the continent Africa.
  • Techniques that improve late-season harvesting, be ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100920151811.htm Winter Drought Stress Can Delay Flowering, Prevent Fruit Loss in Orange Crops ScienceDaily (Sep. 27, 2010) â Successful mechanical harvesting of perennial fruit crops requires efficient, economical harvesting systems that do n ...

The Paper Trail

  • Funding Aleady Flowing to New Consumer Agency, Fed ...
    Trust a central banker to focus on the money. The Federal Reserve has already set up the operating accounts and initial funding for the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which will officially open for business next July, says Fed chief Ben Bernanke.
  • 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 .

backofthebook.ca

  • Some oil sands history wouldn’t hurt James C ...
    By Frank Moher As he continues his visit to the oil sands and neighbouring communities today, James Cameron will have no clue what they represent to so many Albertans. He will learn that they are a threat to the health and livelihood of the people who live downstream from them, in Fort ...
  • 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 ...

Worldnews

  • UPDATE 2-Glaxo's herpes vaccine fails in tria ...
    WASHINGTON — * Vaccine showed 20 percent efficacy or less * Doctors do not understand why it did not work * Glaxo stopping development * Glaxo shares up about 1 pct (Updates throughout) By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor GlaxoSmithKline said on Thursday that it was stopping development of ...
  • McDonald's Denies Report Of Dropping Health C ...
    OAK BROOK, Ill. -- The fast-food restaurant chain McDonald's Corp. has denied a report that it's considering dropping health care coverage for some employees in response to a health care reform provision. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that McDonald's, the world's largest hamburger ...
  • Volvo's Smallest US Car Still Rare On Roads ...
    The Volvo C30 three-door, small hatchback sure isn't a "me-too" car. Three years after it came to the United States as Volvo's smallest vehicle here, the not-quite-14-foot-long C30 with distinctive, large rear liftgate glass and four seats has sold in such low volumes that it's still a rarity o ...
  • Stiff resistance dogs India's ID plan
    ���� Oct 1, 2010 Stiff resistance dogs India's ID plan By Indrajit Basu KOLKATA - Tembhali is little known beyond its neighborhood in northern Maharashtra. Yet, as Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi descended by on Wednesday, the tiny hamlet with less than 1,500 residents suddenly became the cente ...
  • US sees Damascene route to Middle East peace ...
    ���� Oct 1, 2010 US sees Damascene route to Middle East peace By Sami Moubayed DAMASCUS - In their first one-on-one since President Barack Obama came to power in 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with her Syrian counterpart Walid Mouallem in New York last Sunday; they have previously ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Obese Type 2 Diabetes Patients Have Long-Term Bene ...
    If obese/overweight patients with diabetes Type 2 are helped to get fit, lose weight and control blood glucose levels, their long-term outlook improves significantly, according to a report published in Archives of Internal Medicine...
  • Malaria Vaccine Development Meeting Begins In Wash ...
    Agence France-Presse reports on a malaria vaccine development meeting that kicks off Tuesday in Washington, D.C. "One of the stars at the meeting will be the RTS,S malaria vaccine, which has been developed by GlaxoSmithKline [GSK] and the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, with funding from" the B ...
  • MS patients may sue banned doctor
    A doctor struck off by the General Medical Council for offering unproven stem cell treatments to people with MS could be facing legal action by patients.
  • Proposed Ban on Drop-side Cribs
    Health Canada Launches Public Consultation on Proposed Ban on Drop-side Cribs. (Source: Disabled World)
  • Zeal for Dream Drove Scientist in Secrets Case
    P. Leonardo Mascheroni believed he could achieve nuclear fusion, if only people would listen.

Common Dreams

  • Senator: Fire Afghanistan Funds Inspector, Avoid R ...
    by Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON - The Obama administration should fire the special inspector general for Afghanistan, and create an office to oversee all wartime contracting, a top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee said on Tuesday. Senator Claire McCaskill, a former state auditor, said ...
  • FBI Targets US Palestine Activists
    by Chris Arsenault Tracy Molm sometimes has a hard time paying rent, so it came as a surprise when American security forces banged on her door at 7am one morning, and searched her apartment under suspicions she provided material support to a terrorist organisation. read more
  • Pakistan Cuts Off NATO Supply Route
    Pakistan has blocked a vital supply route for international forces in Afghanistan in apparent retaliation for an alleged cross-border helicopter raid by NATO troops that killed three Pakistani frontier soldiers. Over the weekend, NATO helicopters fired on targets in Pakistan at least two times, kill ...
  • Rights Activists Share Alternative Nobel
    by Malin Rising STOCKHOLM - Activists from Nepal, Nigeria, Brazil and Israel were named the winners Thursday of this year's Right Livelihood Award, also known as the "alternative Nobel," for work that includes fighting to save the Amazon rain forest and bringing health care to Palestinians cut off f ...
  • Human Impact on World's Rivers 'Threatens Water Se ...
    by Adam Vaughan Nearly 80% of the world's rivers are so badly affected by humanity's footprint that the water security of almost 5 billion people, and the survival of thousands of aquatic species, are threatened, scientists warned today. The global study put together by institutions across the globe ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • What will drive the Smart Grid – policy or the ele ...
    Last week, I discussed the important role energy policy will play in accelerating Smart Grid deployment. After all, without clear federal guidance, you can imagine it might be a bit of a head-scratcher for utility executives to know – with 100 percent certainty – where to put their money, especially ...
  • Mired in Tight Race, Ohio Gov. Strickland Does Awa ...
    The State of Ohio on Wednesday took a big step toward lowering the barriers to entry for building/installing renewable energy facilities across the state. Governor Ted Strickland issued an Executive Order eliminating the state’s tangible personal tax and real property tax for advanced and renewable ...
  • Does California need AB32?
    Among the usual slew of propositions California voters will face this fall is the much-disputed Prop 23, which would put� AB32 �on hold indefinitely. AB32 was signed into law by Governor Schwarzenegger in 2006, and if left standing it will reach its full effect in a year or two.
  • Nuclear Technology: The Rewards and Penalties of B ...
    By Ted Rockwell Years ago, a newspaper columnist intrigued me with a statement that science cannot tell us anything about real people. To the columnist, science could talk only about “average people,” which exist only in the imagination of the speaker. The scientifically average American, for exampl ...
  • Amyris trading at $16/share
    Despite the lower-than-expected initial public offering (IPO) price of $16/share as opposed to between $18-$20/share, Amyris, the California-based synthetic biology start-up did pretty well as it raised nearly $85m on the first day and its stock closed at $16.85/share on the second day of trading at ...

Green House - USA Today

  • Has the Gulf oil spill changed U.S. attitudes?
    Has the Gulf oil spill changed your attitude about energy use? Has it affected politics or the oil industry? The worst oil spill in U.S. history has made the industry more safety conscious and altered Gulf residents' way of life but otherwise has had little impact, reports The Washington Post.
  • Google invests in pedal-powered bike monorail
    Tired of traffic jams or crowded buses? Google is investing $1 million in an entirely new transport idea in which human-powered plastic tubes hang upside down from a monorail.
  • Report: U.S. military must move beyond oil by 2040 ...
    The U.S. military should operate all of its systems on non-petroleum fuels in the next 30 years and rid itself of its 77% dependence on oil, a recent report by the Center for a New American Security recommends.
  • BP's incoming CEO announces new safety division
    BP's incoming chief executive announced Wednesday that he's creating a new safety division following criticism of the energy giant's recent internal report on what caused the massive Gulf oil spill.
  • Refrigerators to get tougher U.S. efficiency stand ...
    Home refrigerators and freezers will soon have to reduce energy use by up to 25% under a tougher efficiency standard proposed Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Energy.

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

  • Zombie World
    By Slushpup With all the latest rage with Zombies, I thought I would like to throw my two cents in to the pot. We are inundated with movies, video games, books all about the so called scary world of the mindless undead that have an unquenchable hunger to feast upon human flesh. Some of the more fam ...
  • Politically Active Americans Facing Searches and S ...
    Kevin Zeese Trend of Activist Searches Began Under Bush, Continues Under Obama Series of Inspector General Reports Shows FBI Violating Constitutional Rights of American Peace Activists While Raids Occur in Illinois and Minneapolis Earlier this week the FBI raided six homes of eight peace activist ...
  • David Ray Griffin v. Cass Sunstein
    by Stephen Lendman Griffin is Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Theology, Emeritus, Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA where he's still co-director of the Center for Process Studies. He's authored and/or edited three dozen books, mainly in his ...
  • AMERICA'S REAL ANTI-GOVERNMENT THREAT
    By Gordon Duff FIND OUT WHO IS FINANCING AMERICA'S EXTREMIST "PATRIOTIC REVOLT?" "However, an investigation of site ownership and client lists funding the "Patriotic Revolt" were not what we expected. The "patriots" that were going to replace the armed militia's of the 1990's were actually the Re ...
  • OBAMA AND AMERICAN GLOBAL LEADERSHIP
    By Jack A. Smith In the history of U.S. foreign policy, the insistence upon "American global leadership" has been articulated and defended by every occupant of the White House since the end of World War II in 1945. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are enthusiastic advo ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • CCPA in Nova Scotia - Three exciting upcoming even ...
    CCPA-NS is pleased to bring two speakers to Nova Scotia for back-to-back lectures. The first speaker, Leah Vosko, will discuss issues related to precarious employment. Drawing on her field research, she will present three different approaches to uncertainty, low income, and limited benefits in the w ...
  • All the latest on the census long-form debacle
    On June 30th, the CCPA's Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan was among the initial voices leading the criticism over the government decision to eliminate the census long-form questionnaire. Since then, a groundswell of alarm has turned into a wall of opposition, across the political spectrum. Stay tu ...
  • 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 ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Conservative activist James O’Keefe’s ...
    Stay classy, Conservatives! James O’Keefe: hoist on his own petard | The Guardian O’Keefe, 26, is the man who brought down the conservative bete noir Acorn â an organisation that advocated for low-income Americans and tried to get them to vote â by posing as a pimp with a prostitute and filming ...
  • “You Mean We Gotta Go Back And READ All Thes ...
    J.P. Morgan Chase freezes 56,000 foreclosures | The Washington Post J.P. Morgan Chase issued a freeze on 56,000 foreclosures on Wednesday, acknowledging that some employees may have signed off on documents submitted in support of them without proper review. Chase spokesman Tom Kelly said the company ...
  • Multi-National Corporate Shock Troops: Coming Soon ...
    Nigeria Torture Case Decision Exempts Companies From U.S. Alien Tort Law | Bloomberg Companies including Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s Nigerian unit aren’t subject to U.S. lawsuits by foreigners seeking damages for human rights violations, a federal appeals court in New York ruled. A panel of the court ru ...
  • The Overlords – SCOTUS
    WWH – In the series “Hippies may be the only sane and rational force left.” “Citizens United!” It’s a name hippies might’ve easily chosen for the name of their political party, that is, if they ever wanted to have one. Could it be because it’s so reminiscent of “The_People_United_Will_Never_Be_Defea ...
  • Gotta Know Your Enemy!
    KNOW YOUR ENEMY. Who are the faces behind the NO on 19 effort? | Cannabis Warrior So it is safe to say that there are a handful of loud, obnoxious, and most importantly, misinformed “stoners” that want you to vote against your self interest and vote to keep cannabis illegal for adults. Who are these ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • ALLIES HELPLESS AS FLEETS OF UNSTOPPABLE NAZI STEA ...
    1943, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, the commander of Germany’s Air Force, issued his now famous “1000, 1000, 1000.” requirements, the so called  “3 X 1000 project.” This was a call for a bomber that could carry a 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) load for 1,000 km (620 mi) at 1,000 km/h (620 mph. ) And ...
  • The Mystery of the Dog Legged Gate?
    History is full of mysteries, and this is one of them. Granted it’s not a very big mystery, as mysteries go it’s pretty minor. In fact if the importance of this mystery was turned into gasoline, it wouldn’t drive an ant’s motorcycle halfway around the inside of a cheerio. (I’ve been waiting more tha ...
  • 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. ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Have We Hit Peak Coffee?
    Join the forum discussion on this post // The following is a guest essay authored by R-Squared regular Paul Nash. (Credit to Ronald Steenblik for the “Carter-Reagan Parallel” portion.) Have We Hit Peak Coffee? There is continued debate about whether the world will soon hit “Peak Coffee,” with ...
  • 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 ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • 'Pre-crime' Comes to the HR Dept. — Datamation.com
    Comments: Great article talking about how "H R" departments are starting to search for the "Real You". - Dean Mantz Tags: socialmedia , socialnetworking , pre-crime , digital footprint , socialintelligence , slogs by: Dean Mantz
  • The Case For Social Media in Schools
    Comments: Very interesting points and great Web 2.0 tools shared within this article as it explains why social networking is a positive for education. - Dean Mantz Tags: education , schools , media , socialmedia , learning , technology , social_media , social , socialnetworks , web20 , tools by: Dea ...
  • Cydia App: Display Out for iPad | iEvolution
    Comments: Cydia app for iPad to display - Dean Mantz Tags: ipad , app , display , cydia , projector by: Dean Mantz
  • Project Planning Chart « WRDSB CATC Camp
    Comments: Here is a chart of possible tools/apps to enhance classroom instruction. - Dean Mantz Tags: project , planning , chart , tasks , tools , standards by: Dean Mantz
  • Skill sorting
    Comments: Interactive activity to learn each level of Blooms Taxonomy and what verbs fit those levels. - Dean Mantz Tags: skill , sorting , bloomstaxonomy , verbs , interactive , pedagogy by: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

  • Climate Change: Women Care, Men Shrug
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Worldwide, scientists are trying to convince an increasingly skeptical public that global climate change is in fact happening and that humans are the primary cause. Yet, despite all the facts about climate change they have at their disposal—from international bodies like the ...
  • How to Plan a Home Funeral (Yes, It's Legal—and Do ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PAâIt used to be that when someone passed, a family member called the funeral home, and a stranger showed up and whisked the body away, never to be cared for by loved ones again. But things are changing, or rather, returning, to more intimate rituals such as home funerals , w ...
  • 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 ...

big think

  • Murdering A Political Theory With A Brutal Gang Of ...
    A sentiment registering somewhere between disgust and loathing rose up in my chest yesterday when I read that Delaware Tea Party candidate Christine O’Donnell had claimed on the site LinkedIn that she had attended the University of Oxford .  In case you don’t know which Oxford this is, it is the one ...
  • What Would Aliens Look Like? Ideas from Richard Da ...
    Yesterday, Howard University hosted a panel discussion on "The Poetry of Science" featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson and Richard Dawkins. Among subjects, Tyson and Dawkins discussed the prospects for life on another planet and public fascination with extraterrestrials. Karen Frantz, a graduate student . ...
  • Richard Branson: Why We’re so Interested in How th ...
    Why are we so interested in how rich people spend their money, and how much they give away? Is it a factor of envy, or do we, as a society have a vested interest in knowing that those with great fortunes are spending them wisely? Billionaire adventurer Richard Branson says that " there should be .. ...
  • Can Computers Be Conscious?
    We kicked off the Month of Going Mental with the question " what is consciousness? "—a question that has proven elusive since Descartes first pondered his own existence. As the month draws to a close, we return to the same issue, this time to speculate about how we might recreate consciousness in .. ...
  • Going Deep: Art and the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop
    When critic Randall Jarrell mentioned Vermeer in a review of Elizabeth Bishop ’s poetry, Bishop excitedly expressed her joy over someone making the connection. We can only guess how she’d feel about Peggy Samuels’ Deep Skin: Elizabeth Bishop and Visual Art , in which the Drew University professor .. ...

Information Liberation

  • 17 Years After Being Convicted of a Rape He Did No ...
    As reported by the Associated Press: DALLAS * A judge on Monday overturned the 1993 conviction of a deaf man who was sent to prison for raping a 5-year-old girl despite an absence of physical evidence linking him to the attack. Stephen Brodie, 39...
  • Police Lt. Orders Deletion of Thousands of Hours o ...
    The Connecticut Post reports: MILFORD -- A police lieutenant was suspended for one day without pay for inadvertently ordering the destruction of thousands of hours of dashboard video sought by the family of one of the two teens killed when a speedin...
  • New Cybersecurity Bill Gives Obama 'Power To Shut ...
    An amalgamated cybersecurity bill that lawmakers hope to pass before the end of the year includes new powers which would allow President Obama to shut down not only entire areas of the Internet, but also businesses and industries that fail to comp...
  • Surveillance Nation: Austin Library Won't Let You ...
    JJ sends over the latest news of our surveillance society gone nutty. It seems that the Austin Public Library in Texas has officially decided to ban baseball caps, sunglasses and hoodies. What does that have to do with surveillance? The Austin Ame...
  • Maryland Judge Tosses the Felony Wiretapping Charg ...
    Graber is the Maryland motorcyclist who had his home raided, was arrested, jailed, and charged with two felonies for recording his traffic stop and posting it to the Internet. Here's Harford County, Maryland Circuit Court Judge Emory A Pitt Jr.: ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • The Pioneer
    The Lincolnshire Sniffer Dog strikes yet again! LibertyGibbert’s Pavarotti of pictorial punditry, Fenbeagle, this week brings his historical epic forward to the Victorian era, and that greatest of all British engineers. At least, when he stuck to building railways, bridges … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

FAS - Secrecy News

  • Behind the Censorship of Operation Dark Heart
    By censoring Anthony Shaffer’s new book “Operation Dark Heart” even though uncensored review copies are already available in the public domain, the Department of Defense has produced a genuinely unique product:  a revealing snapshot of the way that the Obama Administration classifies national secur ...
  • Inspectors General to Help Oversee Classification
    The House and Senate this week approved legislation that will require the Inspector General of each executive branch agency that classifies information to evaluate the agency’s classification program and to assess its implementation of classification policies and procedures. The new measure should h ...
  • GAO Gains a Foothold in Intelligence Oversight
    The Government Accountability Office seems poised to play an increased role in intelligence oversight, despite a series of legislative setbacks and the Obama Administration’s threat of a veto earlier in the year. The issue remains alive in the FY2010 Intelligence Authorization Act which was approved ...
  • 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 ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Chalking one up for science vs religion
    Apparently, atheists and agnostics performed very well in a survey of religious knowledge (on a par with Jews and Mormons and better than Protestants and Catholics) on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions. More about that here. But it wasn’t the su ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • PAGER—Rapid Assessment of an Earthquake’s Impact
    USGS http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/pager/ [From Background] PAGER (Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response) is an automated system that produces content concerning the impact of significant earthquakes around the world, informing emergency responders, government and aid agencie ...
  • GHG Targets as Insurance Against Catastrophic Clim ...
    Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ.  / by Martin L. Weitzman http://tinyurl.com/3xv8oo7 [Abstract] A critical issue in climate change economics is the specifcation of the so-called “damages function” and its interaction with the unknown uncertainty of catastrophic outcomes. This paper asks ...
  • U.S. Natural Gas Imports & Exports: 2009
    US DOE, Energy Information Administration http://tinyurl.com/2v76mdg [Overview and Highlights] In 2009, net U.S. imports of natural gas were the lowest since 1994, representing just 12 percent of total consumption. The primary underlying cause for the lower level of net imports was continued strong ...
  • The Demand for Ethanol as a Gasoline Substitute
    NBER Working Paper 16371 / by Soren T. Anderson (free on-site for RFFers; $5.00 fee for non-subscribers) http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16371 [Abstract] This paper estimates household preferences for ethanol as a gasoline substitute. I develop a theoretical model linking the shape of the ethanol dem ...
  • Trends in Sustainable Development: Small Island D ...
    UN Department of Social and Economic Affairs, Division for Sustainable Development http://tinyurl.com/3a8nahq [Foreword] Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face unique and special challenges. The special case of SIDS within the context of sustainable development was first formally recognized by t ...

Scientific American - News

  • Ancient "Fossil" Virus Shows Infection to Be Milli ...
    Viruses can be thought of as hyperspeed shape-shifters, organisms that can adapt quickly to overcome barriers to infection. But recent research has been finding ancient traces of many viruses in animal genomes, DNA insertions that have likely been there for much longer than the viruses were previo ...
  • Sex and stigma, with Francoise Barre-Sinoussi
    Fran�oise Barr�-Sinoussi won her Nobel Prize for identifying HIV as the cause of AIDS. The virus is made more dangerous by the social stigmas that surround infection. Young physicist Markita Landry explores social and educational issues in HIV research with Fran�oise. The pair also share their exper ...
  • Tinker Joys: DIYers Turn Inspiration into Everythi ...
    The do-it-yourself (DIY) movement, which has been steadily gathering momentum over the past decade, was on full display this weekend in New York City. The World Maker Faire--New York, held at the New York Hall of Science, was a celebration of makers--individuals and teams that embody the scrappy inv ...
  • Crude Alternatives: Energy Industry Heavyweights D ...
    A truth that floated to the surface during the BP energy company's Deepwater disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, along with hundreds of millions of liters of oil, is that the world does not have a ready replacement for conventional forms of fuel such as crude oil and likely will not have one for some ...
  • Was Darwin a Punk? A Q&A with Punker-Paleontologis ...
    Editor's Note: This is an expanded version of the Q&A with Greg Graffin, who lives in Ithaca, N.Y., that will appear in the November 2010 issue of Scientific American. He is both lead singer of the punk rock band Bad Religion and a lecturer in life sciences and paleontology at the University ...

RAWA News

  • Thousands of Afghans displaced by fighting
    AFP: Hundreds of families have been displaced by fierce clashes in southern Afghanistan as NATO-led forces fight to eradicate the Taliban from the militants’ heartland, officials said Wednesday. People are fleeing insurgent-infested districts around Kandahar city as Afghan and US-led NATO forces ste ...
  • Tony Blair “knew of torture risk for Guantan ...
    Telegraph: Papers released to lawyers for six former terrorism suspects detained at Guantanamo Bay show that the former Prime Minister was “initially sceptical about claims of torture” but had changed his mind and wanted reassurances from the Americans. The detainees, who include Binyam Mohamed, are ...
  • U.S. Probes Karzai’s Kin
    The Wall Street Journal: Federal prosecutors in New York have opened a criminal probe of one of Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s brothers, raising the stakes in Washington’s sometimes-contentious dealings with the Karzai government. U.S. officials said Mahmood Karzai has become a focus in a corruptio ...
  • 20 % Increase in Birth Deformities in Afghanistan
    Tolo News: Officials in the Ministry of Public Health say the malformation of babies during child birth has increased 20 percent in the country. Doctors in Indra Gandhi Child Healthcare Hospital say the use of unprescribed medicines by pregnant women, poverty, the chemical impact of weapons used dur ...
  • Afghan “vote-rigging videos” emerge
    Al Jazeera: The integrity of Afghanistan's recent parliamentary election has been plunged into fresh doubt with the emergence of amateur videos that appear to show police officers tasked with stopping fraud allowing vote-rigging to occur. The videos, obtained exclusively by Al Jazeera, cannot be ind ...

frogblog

  • The Italian Job (i)
    It’s hard to be in Rome (a first for me) and not just rave about the experience of being in what is a truly remarkable city.  Arrived early yesterday (Wednesday) morning after 30-odd hours of travel, and spent a few hours being a tourist (the Pantheon, the Trevi Fountain, the Eque ...
  • Freedom for Vanunu now
    Today, people around the globe will be putting th slogan ‘Freedom for Vanunu now’ on their Facebook page in response to a call from Israeli anti-nuclear campaigner Mordechai Vanunu. September 30 is the 24th anniversary of the Rome kidnapping in Vanunu for exposing the existence of a ...
  • We’ve got it easy…
    Dear friends (and foes) A reminder in the MSM today as to how lucky we are.  Lucky to be able to engage in a battle of ideas without fear. Iranian-Canadian Hossein Derakhshan, nicknamed “the Blogfather” and credited with starting a blogging revolution in Iran, has been sentenced to ...
  • The OIA and your right to know
    The Law Commission has just put out a discussion paper on the Official Information Act and how it can be improved. They want your input by the 10th of December. While having the OIA has clearly been a good thing, it could work a whole lot better in terms of timeliness and making sur ...
  • 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 ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • As Western Civilization Lies Dying
    The Western commercial system exists to extract more from consumers than it supplies in products and services. Its goal is profit and has never been the improvement of the human condition but to exploit it. When governments institutionalize this system, they place their nations on suicidal paths, be ...
  • 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 ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • The Foreclosure Scandal
    I haven't posted yet about the news that thousands of delinquent homeowners are being booted out of their houses in special "expedited" courtrooms using flimsy and often fraudulent documentation produced by foreclosure mills that handle thousands of cases with factory-like efficiency. Part of the re ...
  • Outraged!
    The New York Daily News reports that city residents are "outraged" because silly federal bureaucrats have ordered all their street signs to be changed from all-uppercase to upper-and-lowercase. Go down nine paragraphs however, and you get this: The mixed upper- and lowercase rule was adopted in 200 ...
  • The Latest Healthcare Non-Story
    Last night, in the latest evidence that the Murdoch-ization of the Wall Street Journal proceeds apace, the WSJ reported that McDonald's was threatening to cancel its employee health insurance, calling it "the latest indication of possible unintended consequences from the health overhaul." Yawn. Put ...
  • Everything Old is New Again
    So, how about that whole tea party movement, eh? Quite the contemporary phenomenon, isn't it? After all, they mostly seem to be mad about newly skyrocketing deficits, a recently passed healthcare bill, an unprecedented bank bailout, and a huge new stimulus bill enacted last year. But no. That's real ...
  • 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 sa ...

Insanity Report

Simple Climate

e!Science News

  • Twins provide clue that genetic epilepsy can origi ...
    An Australian study of identical twins shows that a rare genetic form of epilepsy can be caused by a genetic mutation that occurs in the embryo, and not necessarily passed down from parents. read more
  • Diet when young affects future food responses
    A high protein diet during development primes the body to react unhealthily to future food binges. A study on juvenile rats, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Nutrition and Metabolism , suggests that lasting changes result from altering the composition of the first solid food that i ...
  • Age 50 as mammography screening threshold proven u ...
    The landmark breast cancer screening study of women 40-49, published online in Cancer , has proven that annual mammography screening of women in their 40s reduces the breast cancer death rate in these women by nearly 30 percent. The results of this largest study ever conducted on women in this age g ...
  • NIST 'Vision Science Facility' aims for lighting r ...
    Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, have become popular with backpackers and cyclists who mount them on headbands for a reliable, hands-free source of illumination. Now, a new lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is helping to bring these tiny but brilliant devices into your ...
  • Researchers find first genetic evidence for loss o ...
    In contrast to a toothed whale, which retains teeth that aid in capturing prey, a living baleen whale (e.g., blue whale, fin whale, humpback, bowhead) has lost its teeth and must sift zooplankton and small fish from ocean waters with baleen or whalebone, a sieve-like structure in the upper jaw that ...

unEarthed

  • Nation's Health Is At Risk From Climate Change
    Health organizations across the country are urging President Obama and Congress to recognize the damaging public health effects of climate change and to take measures that will reduce its impacts and the causes of climate change ...
  • Washingtonians Rally for 'Coal to Green by 2015'
    Rev. Tim Phillips of Seattle's First Baptist Church speaks for a coal-free future in Washington. Conservation, faith, and public-health organizations held rallies across the state of Washington today calling for the TransAlta coal plant near Centralia to clean up its act by 2015. “This dirty, o ...
  • Monday Reads: The Great White Feast Edition
    Great white shark, ready for a meal. Photo: Fedorenko Gennady. It turns out you really can get a free lunch—at least, if you're a great white shark. A group (or, a shiver, if you prefer a more alliterative group name) of sha ...
  • Obama Redux—Energy Legislation On Tap for 2011
    So, now, President Obama—in a  surprising interview  with Rolling Stone magazine—says he will again push for climate change legislation in 2011, despite his inability this year to make it happen in the halls of Congress. Here's ...
  • What BP And General Custer Had In Common
    Yesterday, in�a�report�on the government's oil spill commission hearing, we wrote of the mounting scientific evidence that a bunch of spilled, toxic�oil still haunts the Gulf and may� be resistant�to degradation. Today, we�revis ...

Brave New Climate

  • SNE 2060 – thermal reactor build rates, uranium us ...
    Read this for the context. The first set of scenarios looks at the possible build out of Gen II+/III/III+ thermal reactors (i.e., current and advanced water-moderated reactors: PWRs, BWRs, HWRs etc.), over a 50 year time frame (2011 to 2060). The focus of this exercise is not to predict which reacto ...
  • 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 [...]

Indigenist Opinion

  • Ignorance on religion is a civic, spiritual danger ...
    Ignorance on religion is a civic, spiritual danger: Experts - Faith & Reason : At a symposium at the Newseum in Washington D.C., Prothero acknowledged "a kind of jeopardy quality" to Pew's 32 question survey, in which most people couldn't get more than 16 questions correct. It matters because, he ...
  • Finally free, and still fighting | SocialistWorker ...
    Finally free, and still fighting | SocialistWorker.org : ON SEPTEMBER 21, Victor Safforld was released after 20 years in prison. In 1990, Safforld was convicted of two murders and sent to death row. Safforld had confessed to the murders after his arrest and torture by Chicago police officers under ...
  • Pseudo-Freeze Ends, Pseudo-Liberals Rejoice - Lobe ...
    Pseudo-Freeze Ends, Pseudo-Liberals Rejoice � LobeLog.com : "Israel’s mostly-for-show settlement moratorium has expired, over the objections of the liberal pro-Israel group J Street, and the usual suspects on the right couldn’t be happier. More revealing, however, is the sight of Jeffrey Goldberg’s ...
  • "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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Tea Bagger Zombies Will Be Disappointed!
    Do you want to know what is sad? After the billionaires and Corporate America pour hundreds of millions into the campaigns of “conservatives” do you think when push comes to shove they won’t get their handouts? Their tax cuts? Their loopholes? Their subsidies? When the tea baggers work so hard to ge ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...

Amped Status

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • 'P5+1 ignores Iran's talks' offer'
    Summary: Tehran's recent offer to hold ministerial talks with the members of P5+1 group in New York has been ignored despite their slogans, Iran's foreign minister says. source: Press TV read more
  • Reality Check: Is Stuxnet’s Iran Connection The Ne ...
    Summary: The Stuxnet worm isn’t just infecting thousands of industrial control systems–its hype is also spreading unchecked throughout the news outlets of the Western world. The latest take on the media’s new favorite piece of malicious software:  this article in the New York Times wherein ...
  • MOVING FORWARD WITH IRAN ON THE NUCLEAR ISSUE
    Summary: Bushehr Nuclear Reactor In this new post-Bushehr reality, it is no longer realistic for the West to be stuck in a “no enrichment,” “no break-out” posture. Now, Iran is signaling a readiness to negotiate its nuclear posture with a proposal for Russia or China, or even others, to jointly ...
  • 'We Will Not Accept the New Tone' from the IAEA
    Summary: Salehi: We are not threatening anyone. It is merely a friendly, but serious, warning that one should not allow oneself to be politically instrumentalized. We are asking ourselves: Is Mr. Amano interested in providing a pretext for an attack against us? ElBaradei's objective approach ear ...
  • 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 ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Does NASA Antarctica Discovery Mirror Potential Ex ...
    In a discovery at the bottom of the world that could have implications on the search for extraterrestrial life, researchers were astounded to find an amphipod swimming beneath a massive Ross Ice Shelf, about 12.5 miles away from open water....
  • 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...
  • Search for Dark Energy Heats Up at the Bottom of t ...
    “We’re looking at a tug-of-war with dark energy and gravity trying to expand or collapse the universe.” John Carlstrom, South Pole astronomer and University of Chicago astrophysicist. A big telescope, as high as a seven-story building, with a main mirror...
  • The Lost World? A Third of Planet's 'Extinct' Mamm ...
    Last week Conservation International reported that its scientists had rediscovered three species of amphibians, including a Mexican salamander not seen since 1941. Australian species returned from the supposed dead also include Gilbert's pottoroo and Leadbeater's possum, Victoria's state animal embl ...

Natural News

  • POM Wonderful under attack by FTC over truthful he ...
    (NaturalNews) The FTC has never met a natural product it didn't want to destroy, it seems. They've gone after all sorts of natural foods like cherries , threatening to put companies out of business if they told the truth about the nutritional benefits of their products. They've even tried to crimina ...
  • Age related hearing loss halted with folate nutrie ...
    (NaturalNews) Hearing loss is the most common sensory disorder in the United States, and more than 36 million Americans have lost some of their hearing. Mostly, hearing loss is blamed on getting older. But evidence is accumulating that the real culprit could be a lack of B vitamins -- especially fol ...
  • Breastfeeding better than vaccines at preventing i ...
    (NaturalNews) Researchers in Greece are urging mothers to exclusively breastfeed their babies for at least the first six months of their lives, based on new research findings. According to the study, babies who are exclusively breastfed for the first six months experience fewer infections than those ...
  • Health Ranger to join Alex Jones show this Friday, ...
    (NaturalNews) NaturalNews editor Mike Adams (the Health Ranger) will be a special guest on the Alex Jones radio show this Friday, October 1st, beginning at 1pm. The Alex Jones show runs from 11am to 3pm Central Standard Time in the USA. Here's the listen page where you can tune in from anywhere in t ...
  • Protect Your Teeth with Leonard Fazio on the next ...
    (NaturalNews) The NaturalNews Talk Hour presents Holistic Dentistry - with our special guest Leonard Fazio, D.D.S., IAMFD, IAOMT. Discover safe alternatives to mercury metal fillings, root canal and tooth extractions. Save your teeth, avoid unwanted toxins and improve your health. Personally-trained ...

Threat Level

  • EFF Sues Newspaper Chain’s Copyright Troll
    Righthaven, the Las Vegas-based copyright troll, may have sued one website too many. The Electronic Frontier Foundation hit the company with a lawsuit Monday alleging Righthaven is abusing copyright law by suing for excerpting or posting newspaper articles without permission. Law firm Righthaven was ...
  • British Raid Nabs 19 Suspects in $9 Million Online ...
    In a rash of dawn raids, police in the United Kingdom nabbed 19 people suspected of stealing more than $9 million from online bank accounts, according to reports. The suspects — 15 men and 4 women ranging in ages 23 to 47 — are believed to be part of an East European gang that allegedly used [...]
  • 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, ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • CBO Warns Permanent Bush Tax Cuts Will Hurt Econom ...
    The Republican demand to make the Bush tax cut windfall for the wealthy permanent is like Jason from the Friday the 13th slasher movies. Incredibly dangerous but once presumed dead, the GOP's perpetual payday for the rich rises again to wreak havoc and ruin lives. And delivering the warning this t ...
  • Like Father, Like Son for Ben Quayle
    Addressing the United Negro College Fund back in 1991, Vice President Dan Quayle declared, "What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is." Especially true, it turns out, of his son Ben . As he showed in discussing the economy in a new campai ...
  • 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 ...

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

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • Report Shows Dangers of Coal Ash Waste Sites Throu ...
    In Winter of 2008 a coal ash slurry pond in Tennessee broke its damn, contaminating miles of downstream waterways and people’s homes with deadly carcinogens and other toxic substances. At the time it was called the worst environmental disaster since the Exxon Valdez and brought  a wake up call to t ...
  • TCEQ Proves Incompetent Once Again, Approves White ...
    Today the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) continued their decades-long campaign of ineptitude and inadequacy as they approved the air quality permit for the White Stallion Coal Plant proposed for Matagorda County on the Texas Gulf Coast. Their ruling was unanimous despite the fact t ...
  • Texas and Dirty Energy Money
    Recently, I learned about a good website that tracks the flow of corporate energy money in Congress. The website is a great tool for someone who is interested in knowing who gets what from who and if you are a Texan you will get to see your state initials in many places in the website. [...]
  • Bill White Talks Solar, Clean Energy Jobs
    Finally, energy is now moving to the center of the debate in the governor race. Bill White announced yesterday his energy plan. For a while, the democratic candidate’s position on energy was a bit blurry but yesterday White set the record straight. He is in for green energy. While the current gove ...
  • EDF’s Jim Marston in HouChron on Single State Agen ...
    Some great points from the director of Environmental Defense Fund‘s Texas Regional Office (and Energy Program), Jim Marston. If you’re concerned about government spending, consolidating existing efficiency programs and oversight into one agency has the potential to reduce overlap and redundancy in g ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Iron Man-style suits in development
    Power armour like that worn by Iron Man Tony Stark may soon be a regular sight on the battlefield. Technology firm Raytheon Sarcos are currently devel...
  • How they hide the evidence
    Anthony Bragalia examines how evidence from the Roswell Incident may have been covered up. If bodies and materials from the alleged UFO crash of Roswe...
  • Fish that suckles its young discovered
    Biologists have discovered a remarkable fish, the European eelpout, that suckles its young. Its the first time that a fish has been discovered that do...
  • Pyramid building secrets unlocked
    A Norwegian University researcher believes he has unlocked the key to the pyramids' construction. For years experts have tried to figure out how the p...
  • Long-lost Apollo 11 footage found
    Long-lost footage showing Neil Armstrong descending on to the lunar surface is to be screened in Sydney. The video was recorded at the time of the lan...

Grassroots

  • Communities in Oaxaca Buried in Mud
    oaxaca.jpg The hillsides of Oaxaca literally slipped into mud and slid through community villages nearby.�Among those affected by the deluge are Grassroots International partners: Mixe Peoples' Services ; Center to Support the Popular Movement ...
  • Via Campesina Denounces Gates Foundation, Monsanto ...
    Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� The Via Campesina is an international movement of peasants, small- and medium-sized producers, landless, rural women, indigenous people, rural youth and agricultural workers. The Via is a Grassroots International pa ...
  • 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 ...

Climate

  • September 30, 2010
    Hopes Dim for Energy Bill in Senate (Politico)  Senate Democratic leaders are backing away from plans to tackle any type of energy legislation during the upcoming lame duck session, including a renewable electricity standard. GOP Senators Predict Energy Victories Next Year (Greenwire) ...
  • September 29, 2010
    Durbin Says Energy Legislation in Lame-Duck a 'Long Shot' (The Hill) Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) Tuesday threw cold water on suggestions that the Senate would respond legislatively to the Gulf spill or take up a renewable power mandate during a lame-duck session. Energy ...
  • 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 ...

GreenBiz

  • Bay Area Startup Turns Dirty Diapers into Compost
    Fed up with sending their kids' dirty diapers to the local landfill, three Bay Area families launched a business two years ago aimed at turning soiled diapers into compost used on farms, golf courses and plant nurseries.
  • J&J Beats Goals for Cutting Carbon Emissions, Wate ...
    Johnson & Johnson is reporting double-digit reductions in carbon emissions, water use and waste, exceeding environmental goals in six areas while being on track with 2010 targets in another four key categories.
  • Sara Lee Creates More Trash But Sends Less to Land ...
    Sara Lee has cut the amount of waste it sends to landfill by 32 percent in the last five years, and six of its facilities send no waste to landfill, although the total amount of waste the company produces has gone up 7 percent in that same time.
  • Kimberly-Clark Helps Save Water One Flush as a Tim ...
    After a water footprint revealed that 85 percent of the water use associated with its toilet paper takes place during flushing, the company set out to create a product that would address an environmental impact long viewed to be outside its reach.
  • Clinton Initiative Spurs Pledges for Efficiency, S ...
    The final days of the Clinton Global Initiative brought more developments in the realm of business and environmental stewardship from Cisco, Duke, Ceres and the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute.

Reuters Global

  • From Celtic Tiger to road kill: Ireland’s ra ...
    UKI Bureau Chief Jodie Ginsberg lived in Ireland between 2004 and 2007. As the country discloses the size of its bank bailouts, she reflects on Ireland's rapid descent from economic powerhouse to financial weakling
  • Special Relationship? How quickly they forget&#823 ...
    It was just last year when U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gushed to Vogue magazine about former British Foreign Secretary David Miliband.
  • The dark side of German reunification
    The dark side of German reunification - there is still lingering discontent, especially in the east, even 20 years after East and West Germany merged on Oct. 3, 1990. While Chancellor Angela Merkel calls unification a success, another native easterner said it was not a unification by West Germany bu ...
  • Morbid money-spinners
    A British scandal involving wealthy Americans, mortality rates and magic potions in the Amazonian rainforest. And fraud.
  • Does that U.S. “retribution plan” for ...
    One of the more interesting details in Woodward's Obama's Wars is talk of a U.S. "retribution plan" if a major attack is traced back to Pakistan.

Booman Tribune

  • Froggy Bottom Cafe
  • Shooting Yourself in the Face
    It's almost unbelievable that the Democrats could take their strongest issue, tax-breaks for millionaires and billionaires, and not only fail to use it before they adjourned, but to actually let themselves get hammered for not protecting the middle class tax cuts. House Democratic leaders barely ...
  • Stupid and Thoughtless
    Things that piss me off: A Rutgers University freshman appears to have killed himself by jumping off the George Washington Bridge after his roommate broadcast live images of the 18-year-old having a sexual encounter with another man on the internet, according to campus and law enforcement sources ...
  • Gone Crazy
    Yeah, I noticed that a lot of us have gone crazy, too. As with other forms of dementia, the signs weren't obvious at first. After the 2008 election, when former House majority leader Tom DeLay suggested that instead of a formal inauguration, Barack Obama should "have a nice little chicken dinne ...
  • Question about Jackass Conservatives
    Isn't fraud with the intent to destroy someone's career a violation of probation? According to the document, O'Keefe was to record a video of the following script before Boudreau arrived: "My name is James. I work in video activism and journalism. I've been approached by CNN for an interview wher ...

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

  • Of All Teen Health Issues, Psychological Health is ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Roughly one in five teens experiences a psychological health issue serious enough to disrupt their daily life, according to a new survey by the National Institute of Mental Health. Emotional needs such as depression or bipolar were top, with eleven percent of teens. T ...
  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Happy Fall! What a great, interesting week in Psychotherapy News! Think about these articles while enjoying your first weekend of crisp air and crunchy leaves :-) • Mental Illness is a Major Cause of Sick Leave • 8 Ways to Overcome Envy • Insomni ...
  • Baby Boomers Affected Suicide Rate in Teens, Again ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline When the generation considered “baby boomers” reached adolescence, suicide rates among adolescents and teenagers rose sharply. As boomers aged, their suicide rates stabilized, but new research shows that the population is experiencing a resurgence of increased suicide ...
  • What Helps Kids Make It Through Bullying?
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Bullying among school-aged children is an age-old problem, but increased awareness of the breadth and consequences of bullying is making this topic a high priority for many school districts and parent advocate groups. Bullying has been linked with poor academic perform ...
  • Antidepressants Reduce Aggression by Altering Mora ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Rarely are antidepressants advised as a primary course of treatment for depression. Generally, therapy and counseling are considered essential to helping people who struggle with depressive thoughts. If medications are used, they ought to be accompanied by therapy as ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • "Appalachia Rising" demands end to mountaintop rem ...
    Tennessee Journalist "Appalachia Rising" demands end to mountaintop removal Tennessee Journalist The most extreme form of strip mining is known as mountaintop removal . As the name suggests, MTR essentially decapitates the mountain. ... and more��
  • 100 mining protesters arrested in D.C. - Columbia ...
    100 mining protesters arrested in D.C. Columbia Daily Tribune WASHINGTON (AP) — About 100 people were arrested Monday outside the White House while protesting against mountaintop removal mining, temporarily trading ...
  • Drew protests mountaintop removal - Acorn
    Capitol News Connection Drew protests mountaintop removal Acorn Mountaintop removal is the method of surface strip-mining that involves the demolition of mountains to expose thin deposits of coal beneath the sedimentary ... Appalachian Activists Protest Mountain Top Removal Mining Capitol News Conn ...
  • 'Appalachia Rising' conference draws attention to ...
    'Appalachia Rising' conference draws attention to issue of mountaintop removal Transcript The conference gave the students the opportunity to learn more about mountaintop removal and to participate in a walk of solidarity. ... Movement to End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Raises Hell in DC OpEdNe ...
  • About 100 Arrested In Mountaintop Mining Protest - ...
    CBS News About 100 Arrested In Mountaintop Mining Protest NPR 27, 2010, during a demonstration calling for the end of mountaintop removal for mining. Associated Press Maggie Fry of Huntington W.Va., shouts with other ... "I Want to Make Sure I Have a Home To Go Back To" Mother Jones (blog) 100 arre ...

Memeorandum

  • Paladino and Post reporter square off (Jennifer Fe ...
    Jennifer Fermino / New York Post : Paladino and Post reporter square off   —  Tweet  —  Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino and Post State Editor Fredric U. Dicker last night got into an angry confrontation — during which Paladino threatened, “I'll take you out.”  —  It started when Di ...
  • Michael Steele Tacitly Endorses Government Shutdow ...
    Faiz Shakir / Think Progress : Michael Steele Tacitly Endorses Government Shutdown: ‘Anything Can Happen’   —  Earlier this month, right-wing congressman Steve King (R-IA) publicly demanded a “blood oath” from House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) to repeal the Affordable Care Act if the GOP t ...
  • Obama to meet Dem leaders before they leave to cam ...
    Sam Youngman / The Hill : Obama to meet Dem leaders before they leave to campaign   —  President Obama will meet with Democratic leaders one last time on Thursday before a midterm election that could decimate their numbers on Capitol Hill.  —  Obama is expected to talk about a variety of issues alo ...
  • $27 million to change NYC signs from all-caps (Jer ...
    Jeremy Olshan / New York Post : $27 million to change NYC signs from all-caps   —  Tweet  —  The Capital of the World is going lower-case.  —  Federal copy editors are demanding the city change its 250,900 street signs — such as these for Perry Avenue in The Bronx — from the all-caps style used fo ...
  • Hugo Lindgren Named New York Times Magazine Editor ...
    John Koblin / New York Observer : Hugo Lindgren Named New York Times Magazine Editor   —  In a stunning move, The New York Times is expected to announce that Hugo Lindgren will be the next editor of The New York Times Magazine, according to three people familiar with the deal.  —  Mr. Lindgren spen ...

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China Dialogue

  • The Frozen Zoo
    California’s San Diego Zoo has long collected animals’ skin samples, hoping they might someday protect endangered species. Progress in stem-cell technology is bringing that day closer, writes Paul Harris. The inside of a metal box filled with liquid nitrogen and frozen to -173° Celsius (-280° Fahren ...
  • The ash cloud over China
    A new report from Greenpeace argues that growing piles of coal ash in China pose a serious – and largely ignored – threat to public welfare. Meng Si looks at the findings. Fly ash , a residue generated by the combustion of coal, is China’s single biggest source of solid industrial waste and, accordi ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • No Fluke: Republicans Support Off-Shoring Jobs
    Like the clear results on a pH test strip, the vote in the U.S. Senate this week on the Creating American Jobs and Ending Off-Shoring Act showed Republicans’ true color: Red. Red for China. Or Mexico. Or Indonesia. Or anywhere multi-national corporations get tax breaks for exporting American jobs. I ...
  • Sheriff Joe Arpaio Accused of Illegally Misspendin ...
    Arpaio's office used a shadow system, a separate set of payroll books to get around the law barring the use of taxpayer-supported jail funds for other purposes.
  • Did Nixon Try to Assasinate a Reporter?
    This post first appeared on Mother Jones Online. A dying journalist. He has one final assignment: Find out if President Richard Nixon ordered him assassinated. That’s what occurred at the end of the life of the infamous columnist Jack Anderson, one of the most influential Washington reporters of ...
  • “Spiritual Amway” – Eddie Long&# ...
    Millions of dollars in church and charity based income. A $350,000 Bentley. A $1.4 million dollar mansion. Even by the often lavish standards of high-profile megachurch pastors, Bishop Eddie Long’s lifestyle has appeared extravagant. Where does all the money come from? The members of his 25,000 memb ...
  • GOP Candidate Threatens Journalist Who Asks Him Ab ...
    This post first appeared on Balloon Juice. Here’s the best video I could find of Carl Paladino threatening the New York Post’s State Editor, Fred Dicker, saying he’ll “take out” Dicker if Dicker sends his “goons” again to take photos of Paldino’s ten-year-old daughter, who was fathered by Pala ...

Threat Level

  • EFF Sues Newspaper Chain’s Copyright Troll
    Righthaven, the Las Vegas-based copyright troll, may have sued one website too many. The Electronic Frontier Foundation hit the company with a lawsuit Monday alleging Righthaven is abusing copyright law by suing for excerpting or posting newspaper articles without permission. Law firm Righthaven was ...
  • British Raid Nabs 19 Suspects in $9 Million Online ...
    In a rash of dawn raids, police in the United Kingdom nabbed 19 people suspected of stealing more than $9 million from online bank accounts, according to reports. The suspects — 15 men and 4 women ranging in ages 23 to 47 — are believed to be part of an East European gang that allegedly used [...]
  • 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, ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Pakistan halts NATO supplies after border attack
    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities blocked a vital supply route for NATO troops fighting in Afghanistan on Thursday after the killing of three soldiers in two NATO cross-border incursions, officials said.
  • China rich make "generous" gifts at Gates and Buff ...
    BEIJING (Reuters) - Bill Gates and Warren Buffett received some "very generous" gifts during a dinner in Beijing with a small group of ultra-rich Chinese to promote charity, saying on Thursday that the event had exceeded expectations.
  • Study finds first evidence that ADHD is genetic
    LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists have found the first direct evidence attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a genetic disorder and say their research could eventually lead to better treatments for the condition.
  • Special report: How Dubai got serious
    DUBAI (Reuters) - Once filled with the cacophony of cranes and construction laborers, Dubai today hums to the work of a quieter crowd. The brash Gulf emirate, renowned for extravagant real estate projects and flashy living, has turned into a city of auditors.
  • North Korea's leader-in-waiting goes on show
    SEOUL (Reuters) - A photograph of a plump, poker-faced young man seated near North Korea's ailing ruler confirmed the rise of Kim Jong-il's youngest son as the leader-in-waiting of the secretive state.

IntelNews

  • Experts see nation-state behind sophisticated comp ...
    By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | Computer forensics specialists are split as to the purpose and initial target of a sophisticated computer virus that infected computers used in the Iranian governmentâs nuclear energy program. The virus, named Stuxnet, was discovered … Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #435 (cyberwarfare editio ...
    Analysis: Cyber attacks test US Pentagon. US military and civilian networks are probed thousands of times a day, and the systems of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters are attacked at least 100 times a day. Meanwhile, more than 100 … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

After Downing Street.org

  • Barbara Lee Introduces Legislation to Repeal the 2 ...
    Washington, DC - This week, Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced legislation to sunset and repeal Public Law 107-40, the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), over a six month period. On September 14, 2001, Congresswoman Lee was the only Member of Congress to vote against th ...
  • The Book the Pentagon Burned
    By David Swanson The Pentagon spent $50,000 of our money to buy up the first edition of "Operation Dark Heart" by Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and destroy every copy. The second printing has lots of words blacked out. Wikileaks claims to have a first edition, but hasn't shared it. However, reading th ...
  • Progressives Ask Progressive Caucus to Change
    The two co-chairs of Progressive Democrats of America's Healthcare Not Warfare Caucus, Norman Solomon and Donna Smith, have written to members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus asking them to change their ways. "Many PDA members--and millions of other progressives--were disheartened by the cou ...
  • {UpDated} ATTN: Keith, Rachel and The Few Others: ...
    Please Help get the word out as we are Quickly Approaching the October 21st deadline for the Soldiers and their Families who were Stop Lossed, in order to fight in the long extended occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq, and many still haven't made contact, some can't for various reasons like homeless ...
  • 'Hurt Quite a Lot'
    CONVERSATION AIR DATE: Sept. 29, 2010 Former Labor Secretary Reich: Bush-Era Tax Cuts 'Hurt Quite a Lot' � SUMMARY In the last of the series of conversations about whether to extend Bush-era tax cuts for any, all or some Americans, Robert Reich, who served as secretary of labor in the Clinton admini ...

Grist - News

  • Potentially habitable planet discovered. Climate b ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable planet in orbit around a nearby star, the internet reports . The Guardian has details : The planet is in the "Goldilocks zone" of space around a star where surface temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for liquid wa ...
  • New BP boss launches safety crackdown after Gulf o ...
    by Agence France-Presse. LONDON -- New BP chief executive Bob Dudley on Wednesday launched a major shake-up in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, creating a powerful safety division and overhauling the group's structure. Dudley, who officially starts his job in two days, descri ...
  • Depression soars among Gulf residents after oil sp ...
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- The number of Gulf Coast residents who say they suffer from depression rose by more than 25 percent following the catastrophic BP oil spill that sullied their shorelines and devastated their livelihoods, a Gallup poll showed Tuesday. Pollsters said inhab ...
  • More than 100 arrested at mountaintop-mining prote ...
    by Grist. WASHINGTON—Climate scientist James Hansen was among more than 100 people arrested on Monday at the Appalachia Rising protest against mountaintop-removal coal mining . The biggest mountaintop-removal protest to date brought together Appalachian residents, retired coal miners, faith ...
  • 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 ...

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Washington Independent

  • Lunchtime Links
    The Senate doesn’t work. To score a visit from Obama, live in a swing state and take good care of your backyard. John Boehner backs plan to subpoena everyone. A Michele Bachmann ad bashes Bush. Michael Steele doesn’t rule out government shutdown. Canada legalizes prostitution. The Holocaust Museum s ...
  • Two Nominees Make It to the Fed, One Does Not
    Yesterday, in the waning hours before the long October recess, during which members of Congress campaign, the Senate confirmed a spate of nominees. Among them were Janet Yellen and Sarah Bloom Raskin to the board of the Federal Reserve, much-needed policy-making positions. But do not take this as mu ...
  • Salazar Announces Two New Offshore Drilling Safety ...
    Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, in a speech today, announced two new offshore drilling safety rules. “Under these new rules, operators will need to comply with tougher requirements for everything from well design and cementing practices to blowout preventers and employee training,” Salazar said. “Th ...
  • Salazar: Moratorium Will End When We’ve Redu ...
    Interior Secretary Ken Salazar made no announcements today about the Obama administration’s deepwater drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico, despite expectations by many observers. Salazar said Michael Bromwich, head of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, will deliver him a report on the mora ...
  • Elizabeth Warren Takes Conciliatory Tone With Bank ...
    Yesterday evening, Elizabeth Warren, responsible for setting up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, spoke at a meeting of the Financial Services Roundtable, a trade association for the country’s biggest banks. In the past, Warren has lambasted banks for purposefully creating opaque, obscure pr ...

Digg Green

  • "Unobtainium" for NASA's Next Space Observato ...
    Just as a chassis supports the engine and other components in a car, the ISIM will hold four highly sensitive instruments, electronics, and other shared instrument systems flying on the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's next flagship observatory. Imagine building a car chassis without a bluepr ...
  • New Glue Uses Tofu to End Toxic Fumes
    An ingredient found in tofu and soy milk is now being used to make formaldehyde-free adhesive for plywood, furniture and other wood products.
  • Threats to the world's plants assessed : Natu ...
    More than 20% of the world's 380,000 plant species are at risk of extinction, making plants more threatened than birds, according to the first global analysis of the status of plant biodiversity.
  • 'Iron Man' Exoskeleton Kicks Ass
    Raytheon unveiled the latest generation of its wearable robotic suit developed for the military, and wow, it packs a wallop. It's lighter, stronger and faster than the previous version, and uses 50 percent less power. The research scientists hope to reduce that to 20 percent of the original mod ...
  • 9 Prehistoric Species Still Roaming the Earth ...
    While it's been about 65 million years since dinosaurs went extinct, some of their back-in-the-day neighbors still exist -- and with biologies that are similar (if not exact) to those they had when Tyrannosaurus Rex was the king of the predators.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Door-to-door spies in Utah County?
    This happened before 911.  Hundreds of  “Israeli art students” were determined to be spies, targeting people who worked in sensitive areas of the government for their sales and here they are again… By Brent Hunsaker Last Update: 9/29 2:15 am SARATOGA SPRINGS, Utah (ABC 4 News) – Sales people worki ...
  • Wake Up, America
    By Philip Giraldi Let us suppose for a moment that an individual enjoying the full confidence and trust of the United States government was given access to the most secret information possessed by the US military, to include how it would react to an attack by an aggressor armed with nuclear weapons ...
  • Video – EXPOSED This is how Israel controls ...
  • America Through The Looking Glass
    This article from 2002 is uncanny in its analysis of the US administration… by David McGowan April 8, 2002 In the immortal words of Lewis Carroll, things are getting curiouser and curiouser. If there has ever been a more bizarre presidential team in place at the White House at any other time in U.S. ...
  • AMERICA’S REAL ANTI-GOVERNMENT THREAT
    By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor “However, an investigation of site ownership and client lists funding the “Patriotic Revolt” were not what we expected. The “patriots” that were going to replace the armed militia’s of the 1990′s were actually the Republican Party, their phony “think tanks” ...

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 ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

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

  • Chicago Environmental Center is a Carbon Neutral U ...
    The area south of Chicago has long been a vast patchwork of natural land, industry and working class neighborhoods. But the soon to be built Ford Calumet Environmental Center explores the city’s wildlife corridor by collecting the discarded materials across the region, like a nest, to create an educ ...
  • Barclays Center Plaza To Feature Green Roof Subway ...
    Read the rest of Barclays Center Plaza To Feature Green Roof Subway Entrancehttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architect ...
  • Nano Ink Allows Simple Office Paper to Conduct Ele ...
    Decker Yeadon is back at it, inventing incredible materials with architectural applications. This time they’ve made simple office paper capable of conducting electricity with ink made out of nanoparticles. Their amazing discovery, which also works with cotton fabric, has the potential to revolutioni ...
  • Super Futuristic Kia Pop EV Unveiled At Paris Moto ...
    What’s small, compact, able to be charged in six hours and has a top speed of the 87mph? Why it’s the Kia Pop, the latest concept car from Kia that is not only fully-electric but, despite its small size, has a range of 100 miles. As smart cars go, it’s a striking design with its [...]
  • Italian Green Frame Home Explores Sustainable Cont ...
    Read the rest of Italian Green Frame Home Explores Sustainable Container Housinghttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable archi ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Monkeys See Selves in Mirror, Open a Barrel of Que ...
    Monkeys may possess cognitive abilities once thought unique to humans, raising questions about the nature of animal awareness and our ability to measure it. In the lab of University of Wisconsin neuroscientist Luis Populin, five rhesus macaques seem to recognize their own reflections in a mirror. M ...
  • A Habitable Exoplanet — for Real This Time
    After years of saying habitable exoplanets are just around the corner, planet hunters have finally found one. Gliese 581g is the first planet found to lie squarely in its star’s habitable zone, where the conditions are right for liquid water. “The threshold has now been crossed,” said astronomer R. ...
  • A Third of ‘Extinct’ Mammals May Still Be Alive
    There may be many more “extinct” mammals waiting to be rediscovered than conservation biologists previously thought. Categorizing a mammal species as extinct has rested upon two criteria: It has not been seen for more than 50 years, or an exhaustive search has come up empty. But “extinctâ species ...
  • How Plants Drove First Animals Onto Land
    About 350 million years ago, evolution took one small step for fish, and a giant leap for every terrestrial animal since. According to a new study, it was all made possible by plants. Prehistoric oxygen levels extrapolated from ancient mineral sediments suggest aquatic life went into overdrive afte ...
  • Ultrafast Laser Pulse Makes Desktop Black Hole Glo ...
    A desktop black hole created in a lab in Italy has been shown to emit light, a discovery that could seal one of the biggest holes in theoretical physics and pave the way for physicist Stephen Hawking to win a Nobel Prize. The eerie glow is called Hawking radiation, and physicists have been hunting ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Senior Ayatollah Criticizes Khamenei for Overstepp ...
    Ayatollah Ali-Mohammad Dastgheib, member of the Assembly of Experts and an outspoken critic of the government, issued a new theological verdict about Velayat Faqih, or rule of Islamic jurist, and stated that the current implications of this theory are contradictory to what the Iranian constitution ...
  • Key Surge Successes Now Losing Ground
    The New York Times reports that, “ even as officials in the United States and Iraq made public pronouncements that reveled in Al Qaeda in Mesopotamiaâs demise,” the group has “embarked on a wave of terror that managed to shake even an Iraqi public inured to violence”: [D]uring the past two months ...
  • How Radical Is the Administration's Internet Surve ...
    I don't think I adequately expressed how fundamentally radical it is that the administration is planning to propose legislation that would force internet communications companies to build their systems in a way that allows the government to have a backdoor. Part of the problem, I think, is that we s ...
  • The “Cancer” in Pakistan
    You can’t make this kind of stuff up.  More from Woodward : Safe havens would no longer be tolerated, Obama had decided. “We need to make clear to people that the cancer is in Pakistan,” he declared during an Oval Office meeting on Nov. 25, 2009, near the end of the strategy review. The reason to c ...
  • Distinctly Not Terrified
    Wittes, responding to Adam Serwer: In other words, Adam’s fear that “the president can have someone executed on his say-so based on mere suspicion of a crime” does not describe the claimed power properly. The better description would read: “The president has the power to target a U.S. national whom ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • TAP's Take: Rahm's Legacy.
    On this week's podcast from The American Prospect : Now that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel seems headed out the door, TAP Executive Editor Mark Schmitt and staff writers Adam Serwer and Tim Fernholz talk about his role in the White House and his working relationship with the president. L ...
  • You Just Don't Mess with DNS.
    Since the dawn of the Internet era, people have condemned the big American entertainment industry players for failing to meet the challenges of the new age with a spirit of innovation. But that ignores the tremendous amount of creative energies that the RIAA (music) and MPAA (movies) have put into ...
  • Risky Business.
    Matthew Yglesias says the Chinese goods tariff bill currently in Congress is a bad solution to the very real problem of the dollar's value. The issue is trade. Over the past 30 years, China has liberalized its economy substantially relative to the Mao-era baseline. That has vastly increased China's ...
  • Elizabeth Warren Rashomon.
    I reported earlier on a speech by Elizabeth Warren , the Obama administration's new consumer finance adviser. Warren is considered polarizing, but that reputation has less to do with Warren's views -- she espouses a common-sense approach to regulatory capitalism -- and more to do with the beholder's ...
  • Who Gets Married.
    A the same time I've been busy writing the portrayal of out-of-wedlock births as the scourge of all humanity and the misguided notion that marriage is a cure-all for poverty, the New York Times reported that "The United States crossed an important marital threshold in 2009, with the number of young ...

Buzzflash

  • The Same Corporate Bottle Repackaged as the Tea Pa ...
    JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH E.J. Dionne Jr. expressed what most Americans think about the tea party in his TruthOut.org piece, " Tempest in a Very Small Teapot ": The tea party is a fringe; it does not represent our opinions, angry or not.  But as usual what most Americans believe is routine ...
  • Stoned on Righteousness: Time to End the War on Po ...
    BOB KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH   It's not just about us. If Californians legalize marijuana on Nov. 2, maybe Mexico will end its horrific drug war.   The "war on drugs," like the war on terror, is a simplistic and brutally stupid solution imposed on a complex, multifaceted human problem, born out ...
  • "Tax the Rich!" Must be the Slogan that Working Pe ...
    SHAMUS COOKE FOR BUZZFLASH   States everywhere across the United States are facing the common enemy of extreme budget deficits. Many states have deficits in the multi-billion dollar realm, as the budget crises dominate the debates for the upcoming gubernatorial elections. In these debates, Re ...
  • Stewart & Colbert’s 10-30 March & Rally On The D.C ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH   Will this help more Democrats vote in November? That's a worthy thing to try. But the hidden agenda behind this demonstration Is to make Glenn Beck cry.   http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42359.html In addition to Verse-Case Scenario, Tony Peyser writes ...
  • The Trapped Chilean Miners: A Metaphor for Our Pre ...
    JAMES McENTEER FOR BUZZFLASH/TRUTHOUT Today is sunny and warm where I happen to be, with a light breeze, perfect for riding bikes with the dogs, enjoying a cool swim and eating lunch outside under the trees. But for thirty-three Chilean miners trapped more than two thousand feet below the earth's su ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Chalking up one for science vs religion
    Apparently, atheists and agnostics performed very well in a survey of religious knowledge (on a par with Jews and Mormons and better than Protestants and Catholics) on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions. More about that here. But it wasn’t the su ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • “Rogues’ Gallery” Report Profiles Far-Right Senate ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 30, 2010 People For the American Way (PFAW) People For the American Way today released " The Rogues' Gallery ," profiling 15 far-right Republican nominees for Congress. From pledges to radically restrict reproductive choice to demands that the EPA and the Department ...
  • House Judiciary Chair John Conyers to Address Prog ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 30, 2010 Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) The two co-chairs of Progressive Democrats of America's Healthcare Not Warfare Caucus, Norman Solomon and Donna Smith, have written to members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus asking them to change their ways. rea ...
  • Stone-Walled by Obama Justice Department, Anti-Tor ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 30, 2010 Witness Against Torture After meeting with the Justice Department’s Office of Intergovernmental and Public Liaison on June, 15 2010 to discuss the Obama administration’s controversial record on detention issues, a coalition of human rights advocates were prom ...
  • Killings by Concealed Handgun Permit Holders Top 2 ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 30, 2010 Violence Policy Center Concealed handgun permit holders have killed at least 202 individuals since May 2007 with 34 percent of the killings involving family violence according to the September update of Concealed Carry Killers, a Violence Policy Center (VPC) ...
  • Food Integrity Campaign Website Launched
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 30, 2010 Government Accountability Project The Government Accountability Project (GAP) today announced the launch of a new website for its Food Integrity Campaign (FIC) , a campaign to protect the rights of employees in the food industry and government who speak out a ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The War Addicts: 2016 and Then Some
    by Tom Engelhardt Sometimes it’s the little things in the big stories that catch your eye.  On Monday, the Washington Post  ran the first of three pieces adapted from Bob Woodward’s new book  Obama’s Wars , a vivid account of the way the U.S. read more
  • Dwight Was Right
    by Michael Moore So...it turns out President Eisenhower wasn't making up all that stuff about the military-industrial complex .read more
  • Big Coal Lobby Gets Big Taxpayer Payout
    by Jeff Biggers Party down, Big Coal lobbyists! Give those Ameren utility dudes a raise. After investing nearly $800,000 in political contributions , Big Coal utility giant Ameren just got confirmation that a pay off check for nearly $1 billion is in the mail, courtesy of US taxpayers. Rock on ...
  • Privatisation - Financial Fundamentalism without A ...
    by Antony Loewenstein Last year's cessation of hostilities between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers, after up to 40,000 Tamil civilians were murdered in the last months of the conflict, has heralded a Beijing-led invasion of the island. The authoritarian Rajapaksa regime was assisted b ...
  • Charmer in Chief
    by Elizabeth DiNovella President Barack Obama rolled into Madison, Wisconsin, on a crisp fall afternoon to rally his base for the upcoming midterm election. He spoke on the stairs of U.W.-Madison’s Memorial Library to an energetic crowd of 26,500 people. “I don’t know about you, but I’m fired up, ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Pakistan Closes NATO Supply Route
    By Steve Hynd Yesterday morning I wrote about how similiar current cross-border strikes into Pakistan were to raids in September 2008 that ended up with the Khyber Pass supply routes to NATO troops in Afghanistan being closed five times in as many months - and how those closures taught NATO a lesson ...
  • A Broken Training Strategy In Afghanistan
    By Steve Hynd Here's an amazing admission by Lt. General Bill Caldwell, the guy in charge of training Afghans so "we can stand down as they stand up": there are 1,200 less soldiers in the Afghan National Army than there were a year ago. (hat tip: @petulantsage.) Caldwell went on to try to spin this ...
  • Pakistani Border Incursions & Khyber Supply Lines
    By Steve Hynd Following cross-border raids by US troops in hot pursuit of insurgents, Pakistan is threatening consequences for a violation of its sovereignty. Pakistan has told NATO leaders it will stop protecting U.S. and NATO supply lines to Afghanistan if foreign aircraft stage further cross-bord ...
  • In defense of Hamid Karzai
    By Steve Hynd Joshua Foust mounts a spirited and comprehensive defense of Afghan president Hamid Karzai over at Foreign Policy mag's Af/Pak Channel today. A "must read", Joshua argues that Karzai is as much a victim of unfortunate circumstance as an instigator, and that no other possible candidate w ...
  • "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 ...

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

  • Nilin journalist "determined to film"
    Hamoudeh Amireh participates in the resistance against Israel's settlements through his documentation of the grassroots struggle in the occupied West Bank village of Nilin. Jody Mc ...
  • PA decision at UN a "betrayal of Gaza victims' rig ...
    As members of the Palestinian Council of Human Rights Organizations, we strongly condemn the decision of the Palestinian Authority (PA) to support a UN Human Rights Council ...
  • Unrest continues after East Jerusalem killing
    SILWAN, occupied East Jerusalem (IPS) - Tension, the twisted carcasses of gutted vehicles, buses with smashed windows, smoldering dumpsters, streets riddled with rubber-coated stee ...
  • EU offers tax benefits for Israeli settlements
    BRUSSELS (IPS) - Organizations raising funds to benefit the Israeli army and illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank enjoy tax-exempt status in Europe, an IPS investigation h ...
  • Protection by any means necessary
    This month, Palestinians in Lebanon commemorated the 28th anniversary of a crime whose perpetrators remain unpunished and whose victims still wait for justice. Around the anniversa ...

Afghanistan Sun

  • Pakistan blocks NATO supply to Afghanistan after a ...
    Pakistan Thursday blocked a vital supply route for NATO oil tankers to Afghanistan, hours after a coalition force helicopter attacked a Pakistani border post killing three soldiers.
  • Shahzad contacted Pak Taliban to report failed Tim ...
    Failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad had returned to his home in Connecticut, and contacted the Taliban to inform one of his handlers about his act in New York, new court documents have revealed.
  • Afghan opium production halved in 2010
    Afghanistan's opium production declined by almost half this year due largely to a disease that damaged poppy plants, but the land area used for growing the crop remained the same, the UN's dru...
  • Suicide Bomber Reportedly Targets NATO Convoy Near ...
    A suicide car bomber has reportedly targeted a NATO military convoy near the southern city of Kandahar, killing and injuring several Afghan civilians.Afghan police could not say whether foreign troops...
  • Afghan opium output drops 50 percent
    Opium output in Afghanistan, the world's biggest producer of the drug, has dropped by almost a half this year due to a crop disease but its value has soared, a U.N. report said Thursday. Afghanistan ...

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

  • FAPIIS Update: New Data Entry Procedures; Public V ...
    It’s been almost six months since the federal government’s new contractor integrity and performance database, the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS), has gone live, and contracting officials are putting the finishing touches on policies and procedures regarding...
  • Morning Smoke: Key Congressional Committee Says a ...
    No Cuts Now, HASC Tells DoD by Colin Clark [DoD Buzz] U.S. Reviews FDA Scientists' Complaints by Alicia Mundy [The Wall Street Journal] GAO Gains a Foothold in Intelligence Oversight by Steven Aftergood [Secrecy News] Supreme Court Takes Up A-12...
  • Whistleblower Office Vindicates FAA Whistleblower, ...
    The federal Office of Special Counsel (OSC) yesterday announced that it substantiated the findings of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) whistleblower Robert Spahr. Spahr, who is an aviation safety inspector, reported to the OSC that the FAA’s flight standards district office...
  • Dept. of Energy Investigating Armed Livermore Lab ...
    The San Jose Mercury News reports that the Department of Energy (DOE) is investigating an incident that suggests poor off-site protocol for the Livermore Lab guard force--as well as a possible misuse of Lab security resources and personnel. DOE’s investigation...
  • Morning Smoke: DHHS Re-Opens Key Investigation Int ...
    Feds reopen probe into medical scanner approvals by Matthew Perrone [Associated Press] Senator calls for permanent wartime contracting watchdog by Katherine McIntire Peters [Government Executive] Inspectors General to Help Oversee Classification by Steven Aftergood [Secrecy News] Pelosi: No ‘retreat ...

Digital Journal

  • Bear breaks into BC store and wanders through aisl ...
    CCTV cameras caught images when there was a break in at a British Columbia convenience store Monday, but police were surprised to see footage of a bear walking up and down the aisles.
  • Toronto mayoral candidates debate the arts, Ford g ...
    The Toronto mayoral candidates discussed arts funding in Toronto at the Art Gallery of Ontario. The packed house booed and heckled Rob Ford, laughed at Joe Pantalone, was indifferent towards Rocco Rossi and cheered for George Smitherman.
  • George Piprah - Serving Ghana in BC
    One of the hardest working Ghanaians I have ever met in British Columbia is the Honorary Consul-General of Ghana, Goeorge Piprah, an accountant and avid golfer.
  • Is James Cameron sitting on the fence when it come ...
    Canadian born James Cameron came to Alberta this past week to tour the oil sands. He had been invited by Alberta First Nations groups in hopes they could solicit his assistance.
  • Canada will oppose new ruling that allows bawdy ho ...
    A day after an Ontario judge issued a landmark ruling that struck down key parts of Canadian law that essentially make prostitution illegal - even though the profession is legal in the country, Ottawa has announced it will opposed the ruling.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Will Congress Protect the Homeless?
    Yesterday Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) chaired a hearing entitled "Crimes Against America's Homeless: Is the Violence Growing?" . It is believed to be the first held by the United States Congress that specifically and exclusively addresses a homeless civil rights issue. The witnesses included the sister ...
  • Congress Considers Adding Homelessness to Hate Cri ...
    Today a Senate judiciary subcommittee held a hearing on widespread violence against the homeless . The hallowed halls of Congress couldn't be further from the alleys and bridges where many of these vicious attacks occur, but compassion is welcome everywhere. Last year the subcommittee's chairman, Se ...
  • A Dog Is Often a Homeless Man's Best Friend
    This new video comes from Mark's InvisiblePeople.tv 30-city, 11,000-mile, 75-day road trip , going on now. Walking down the street in Missoula, Montana, I could not help but notice Troy. He was visibly emotional. Troy recently lost his job, place to live and his dog. He had been out of work for just ...
  • New York's Governor Puts HIV+ Residents at Greater ...
    In an unthinkable and utterly insensitive move, New York State Governor David A. Paterson vetoed a bill that would have provided additional rental assistance to residents who are living with HIV/AIDS. The legislation would have put a cap on the percentage of income that HIV+ individuals on public as ...
  • Santa Cruz Stops Ticketing the Homeless for Sleepi ...
    Earlier this month the city of Santa Cruz set a fine example for myopic towns that still hand out "camping" tickets to homeless people sleeping outdoors. Santa Cruz's city council voted unanimously to waive such tickets given to homeless people on nights when the local shelters are full, as long as ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Rideau Institute Leadership Award to go to antinuc ...
    The Rideau Institute Board of Directors will present the inaugural Rideau Institute Leadership Award to Murray Thomson, Doug Roche, and John Polanyi, founders of Canadians for a Nuclear Weapons Convention, at the Rideau Institute Gala Dinner on October 7, 2010. Their hard work and strong leadership ...
  • “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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 9-29-10
    Broadcasting from Germany, Kevin explains how harmful prescription and nonprescription drugs are, and how feeding your children the wrong food can give them mental problems! Also, KT gives you all the way to fight the blues, and how energetic balancing can help your health! Self Help: How to Treat Y ...
  • Which Words are Google Blocking?
    September 29, 2010 PCMag.com By: Leslie Horn Google recently added a predictive feature to its search engine called Google Instant, which is intended to display desired search results as you type. “It’s search at the speed of thought,” Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search products and us ...
  • FDA: Popular Mouthwashes Make False Claims
    September 28, 2010 WebMD By: Bill Hendrick The FDA has warned Walgreen Co., Johnson & Johnson, and CVS Corp. to stop making unproven claims that their mouth rinse products can reduce plaque above the gum line, promote gum health, and prevent gum disease. The companies claim their mouthwashes are eff ...
  • Most Americans Immune to Swine Flu
    September 28, 2010 MSNBC.com By: Amanda Chan If the H1N1 virus is to continue its contagious ways this coming flu season, it will have to adapt to a highly immune population, according to a new study. Epidemiologists estimate that 183 million Americans — 59 percent of the U.S. population — are alrea ...
  • Nine Industries That Watch Your Every Move
    September 24, 2010 Daily Finance By: Douglas McIntyre Don’t kid yourself. Real privacy no longer exists in this country. We’ve long had government organizations collecting data that paints a pretty clear picture of what we do with our time. The Internal Revenue Service knows everything about what yo ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • Robert Wright’s bright idea
    Robert Wright has discovered a third way to Middle East peace. There’s always something seductive about a third way — the way between extremes; the way free of dogma traversed by pragmatists with flexible minds. Wright’s third way breaks the impasse on the road to a two-state solution by co-opting ...
  • Obamanation by Lowkey
    Lowkey, a 24-year-old British musician, poet, playwright and political activist of English and Iraqi descent, in an interview on RT News, describes “Obamanation” by saying: It was an examination of America’s role in the world. The main purpose of the song was to draw the American people’s attention ...
  • Iran’s blogfather: 19 years in jail for speaking h ...
    For anyone blogging in the US or most other democratic countries, it’s easy to take freedom of speech for granted. The case of Hossein Derakhshan, an Iranian-Canadian blogger who was just sentenced to 19 years in prison, is a salutary reminder of the dangers individuals face when simply voicing thei ...
  • Does every disaster present an American diplomatic ...
    Did the Washington Post’s David Ignatius really travel all the way to Pir Sabak, west of Islamabad in flood-devastated Pakistan, just to ask the villagers there what they think of America? When I arrived, villagers were erecting a big tent to serve as a mosque — even before they had built a school ...
  • Military overstretch means lives lost
    (Sebastian Errazuriz)

Watts Up With That?

  • Extreme Weather, Extreme Claims
    Via email press release: A new paper at SPPI looks at the history of extreme weather events. The on-going claims of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming have been ramped up again lately because of the opportunities presented by the heat wave … Continue reading →
  • Royal Society blinks – embraces sceptics and ...
    WUWT Flashback: Royal Society to review climate consensus position Posted on May 27, 2010 âI donât think they were very pleased. I donât think this sort of thing has been done before in the history of the society.â Society to review … Continue reading →
  • Nicole lasts all of 6-hours as a named tropical st ...
    Easy come, easy go.  Nicole was upgraded from TD16 at 11 AM and dissipated as a tropical storm at 5 PM.  Nicole joins Tropical Storm Chris from 2000 as the only other 6-hour 35-knot maximum sustained wind tropical storm [since … Continue reading →
  • White House science advisor Holdren’s climat ...
    While Obama seems to be a non-starter on climate, John Holdren is out stumping for climate change issues. For those who wonder what we are up against, watching this slideshow is enlightening. Comments on specific slides welcome. – Anthony Via … Continue reading →
  • Quote of the Week – David Suzuki, a farce of ...
    Tagging this one was a tough choice between “Quote of the Week” and “Climate Craziness of the Week”. Quote won. September 27, 2010: Dr. David Suzuki, co-founder of the environmental activist group, The David Suzuki Foundation, is now touring Canada … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Economism Rules OK! By William Bowles
    By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad WilliamBowles.info 30 September, 2010 Lenin’s famous pamphlet ‘What is to be done?’ was written in 1901 and addressed in part, the issue of the political versus the economic struggle socialists have to engage in (not that the two can be separated) in ...
  • NATO Expands Afghan War Into Pakistan by Rick Rozo ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism Sept. 28, 2010 On October 7 the United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization military allies will begin the tenth year of their war in Afghanistan, over 3,000 miles from NATO Headquarters i ...
  • Retribution for a World Lost in Screens by Chris H ...
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig September 27, 2010 Nemesis was the Greek goddess of retribution. She exacted divine punishment on arrogant mortals who believed they could defy the gods, turn themselves into objects of worship and build ruthless systems of power to control th ...
  • Fallujah, Tony Blair and a Man with a Mission by F ...
    Warning This article and links to other websites may contain words/graphics depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be read/viewed by a mature audience. by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 27 September, 2010 “The reason governments have secrets is not b ...
  • Commonwealth Games Fiasco: What do you expect from ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad finian.cunningham@yahoo.com 25 September, 2010 As the Commonwealth Games open in Delhi, India, the controversy over sub-standard accommodation and facilities for the participating nations continues to rage. Several weeks ago, visiting country dele ...

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

  • Monkeys See Selves in Mirror, Open a Barrel of Que ...
    Monkeys may possess cognitive abilities once thought unique to humans, raising questions about the nature of animal awareness and our ability to measure it. In the lab of University of Wisconsin neuroscientist Luis Populin, five rhesus macaques seem to recognize their own reflections in a mirror. M ...
  • A Habitable Exoplanet — for Real This Time
    After years of saying habitable exoplanets are just around the corner, planet hunters have finally found one. Gliese 581g is the first planet found to lie squarely in its star’s habitable zone, where the conditions are right for liquid water. “The threshold has now been crossed,” said astronomer R. ...
  • A Third of ‘Extinct’ Mammals May Still Be Alive
    There may be many more “extinct” mammals waiting to be rediscovered than conservation biologists previously thought. Categorizing a mammal species as extinct has rested upon two criteria: It has not been seen for more than 50 years, or an exhaustive search has come up empty. But “extinctâ species ...
  • How Plants Drove First Animals Onto Land
    About 350 million years ago, evolution took one small step for fish, and a giant leap for every terrestrial animal since. According to a new study, it was all made possible by plants. Prehistoric oxygen levels extrapolated from ancient mineral sediments suggest aquatic life went into overdrive afte ...
  • Ultrafast Laser Pulse Makes Desktop Black Hole Glo ...
    A desktop black hole created in a lab in Italy has been shown to emit light, a discovery that could seal one of the biggest holes in theoretical physics and pave the way for physicist Stephen Hawking to win a Nobel Prize. The eerie glow is called Hawking radiation, and physicists have been hunting ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Obama: Israelis in Jordan Valley even after Palest ...
    Obama offered to support the presence of IDF soldiers in the Jordan Valley even after the establishment of a Palestinian state, if Israel would agree to a two month settlement building freeze, in a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Israeli Army publication: Settlers heavily overrep ...
    Thirteen percent of all combat company commanders on active service in the IDF come from settlements ... a five-fold over-representation based on their proportion in the general population of Israel. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Jewish Gaza-bound activists: IDF used excessive fo ...
    Israel Defense Forces soldiers used excessive force while taking over a Gaza-bound aid ship organized by Jewish and Israeli activists, flotilla participants said Tuesday, countering the military's... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Gideon Levy, Fatima Mohammadi on the Gaza siege an ...
    Israeli commandos have boarded and seized a Gaza-bound aid ship of Jewish activists just miles off the Gaza coast. The activists were attempting to deliver a symbolic load of medicine, a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its ...
  • Dror Etkes: Settlement freeze? It was barely a slo ...
    [T]he truth is that the settlers know better than anyone else that not only did construction in settlements continue over the last 10 months, and vigorously, but also that a relatively large part of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Why Do Some Dialysis Centers Have Higher Survival ...
    Characteristics such as patient engagement, physician communication, and staff coordination may help to explain why some dialysis centers achieve higher patient survival rates than others, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrolo ...
  • Age 50 as Mammography Screening Threshold Proven U ...
    The landmark breast cancer screening study of women 40-49, published online in Cancer, has proven that annual mammography screening of women in their 40s reduces the breast cancer death rate in these women by nearly 30 percent. The results of this largest study ever conducted on women in this age gr ...
  • Flu Season Has Arrived: Here's How to Protect Your ...
    Loyola physician says this season will be different in several ways.
  • Metric Week Begins 10/10/10!
    Every day is a metric day at NIST. But that won't stop the agency from celebrating Metric Week, held annually the week of Oct. 10-the tenth day of the tenth month.
  • Researchers Discover Way to Overcome Radiation Res ...
    Radiation-resistant leukemia cells can be killed by radiation after inhibition of a molecular target by a rationally-designed new drug.

Natural Health News

  • Systemic Abuses in Organic Egg Production
    The Cornucopia Institute has released a report that exposes widespread abuses in the production of organic eggs, primarily by large factory farms. � The study compares management practices employed by small organic egg farmers with those of large industrial operations that label eggs ‘organic’ tha ...
  • More Evidence Cinnamon Helps Control Blood Sugar
    A 12-week London study was recently conducted involving 58 type 2 diabetics with hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels over 7 percent. Hemoglobin A1c is a marker for long-term glycemic control in diabetics. � After 12 weeks on 2g of cinnamon per day, study subjects had significantly lower HbA1c levels, as ...
  • What is In the Flu Vaccine that Can Cause Infertil ...
    GlaxoSmithKline’s Fluarix swine flu vaccine, among others, contains Polysorbate 80, also known as Tween 80. � A study done in Slovakia on female rats found that when newborn rats were injected with the substance within a week of birth, they developed damage to the vagina and uterine lining, hormon ...
  • World’s Scariest Bridges
    Per Travel & Leisure: � This bridge is practically brand new, but it’s amazing it hasn’t been shut down. During a violent storm in May 2010, the roadway began to shake and oscillate, in a similar manner to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge before it collapsed in 1940. The rippling roadway caused cars to b ...
  • The Worst Sadistic Experiments
    The following scientific experiments are considered sick, unethical or just plain sadistic by today's standards: � 1939 ‘Monster Study’ World War II Porton Down and Program F Experiments 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment Milgram Experiment 1950s to 1970s Holmesburg Derm ...

Antemedius

  • No, Newt, There Won't Be Shariah In The US, Trust ...
    There is a meme out there in the radical Republican Party about Shariah (Islamic law based on the Qur’an and other works) being imposed here in the United States. It has so much acceptance that a supposed 2012 Republican Presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich , could call for a Federal law banning it ...
  • What, Exactly, Is The "Radical Homosexual Agenda"? ...
    Okay, call me a dope if you must but I just can’t figure out what the hell the “radical homosexual agenda” that so many conservatives talk about actually is. Yeah, yeah, you could insert a lot of sexual identity jokes here, but really that just plays into stereotypes about our gay citizens. The fact ...
  • People Need To Buck Up
    The biggest mistake I see many make when trying to sell the Democrats is to call the prospects stupid, and tell them buying the product is the only way they can stop being stupid, apparently thinking the prospects will immediately reach for their wallets and say "where do I sign"? Of course, that re ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • A Quick Thought on the “Surrender” Option
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller In its motion to dismiss the ACLU/CCR lawsuit, the government argues that the plaintiffs lack standing to bring the lawsuit on al-Aulaqi’s behalf, because al-Aulaqi has the option of surrendering to the government and bringing the lawsuit himself: Defendant ...
  • Is Religion Really That Bad?
    by Mark Movsesian by Mark Movsesian Thanks to Opinio Juris for inviting me to comment on Professor Guiora’s new book. I look forward to the interchange with him and the other participants. Professor Guiora deserves credit for tackling the very controversial and timely topic of religious terrorism ...
  • Freedom From Religion Response - Four Points
    by John Lentz by John Lentz As a pastor of a church I find Professor Guiora’s words both challenging and problematic.  Here are four points: 1.  Professor Guiora writes, “Society has historically - unjustifiably and blindly - granted religion immunity.”   What society?  Separating “society” ...
  • Book Discussion: Freedom from Religion by Amos Gui ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen We are very pleased to host for the next three days a discussion of Amos Guiora’s new book, Freedom from Religion: Rights and National Security(Oxford 2009).  Amos is probably well known to many readers of this blog, a professor at the University of Utah’s S.J. Qu ...
  • Chess: The Final Conflict
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen Between Jose’s guest blogging and book discussion we are about to start on Amos Guiora’s book on religious freedom I  want to sandwich a short notice about my recent favorite topic: no-holds-barred full contact chess arbitration. Backstory: here for the arbitratio ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • First published review of Arthur Allan Thomas: The ...
    I'll add more reviews as they come in, but here's the first, courtesy of Newstalk ZB today: Books - Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story 29/09/2010 Whether you concur with Wishart or not, you need to read this book. Arthur...
  • I hate Ian Wishart because...
    For some years now I've "enjoyed" a growing amount of internet 'hate mail' biffed my way on websites, virtually all from people I've never met and most from people who've never actually read my work themselves but who've relied on...
  • Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story...a cop kill ...
    The new book on the Crewe murders, Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story, is finally on sale. Available from Whitcoulls, PaperPlus, Take Note, Borders, The Warehouse, Dymocks and all good independent bookstores. The radio ad is available here: ThomasBook1
  • New Arthur Allan Thomas book just over a week away
    Launching 27 September...the cat will well and truly be set amongst the pigeons...
  • How objective was the Climategate inquiry?
    I've been too busy writing and editing the new Arthur Allan Thomas book to blog much in recent weeks, but couldn't resist this revelation about the old boys network's whitewash of Climategate. Here's how it happened...originally from Climate Audit, via...

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

  • Center for Food Safety Testifies at Congressional ...
    Congress Sharply Critical of USDA’s Biotech Crop Oversight Failures, Calls for New Regulations  Live webcast: “Are ‘Superweeds’ an Outgrowth of USDA Biotech Policy? (Part II),” at: http://domesticpolicy.oversight.house.gov, 2pm EDT. Today the Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the House Oversight and G ...
  • Thirty Eight Representatives And Senators Call On ...
    Over Fifty Organizations and Businesses Endorse Congressional Letters;  CFS Calls upon FDA to Reject Approval of GE Salmon The Center for Food Safety applauds the 38 Representatives and Senators for requesting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) halt the approval of the long-shelved AquaBoun ...
  • Federal Court Finds USDA Broke The Law In Allowing ...
    Court To Consider Appropriate Remedy For Industry’s Rush To Plant Monsanto’s Herbicide Resistant Crop Late yesterday, Judge Jeffrey White, federal district judge for the Northern District of California, ruled that Plaintiffs Center for Food Safety, Organic Seed Alliance, High Mowing Organic Seeds, a ...
  • 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 ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Ignorance on religion is a civic, spiritual danger ...
    Ignorance on religion is a civic, spiritual danger: Experts - Faith & Reason : At a symposium at the Newseum in Washington D.C., Prothero acknowledged "a kind of jeopardy quality" to Pew's 32 question survey, in which most people couldn't get more than 16 questions correct. It matters because, he ...
  • Finally free, and still fighting | SocialistWorker ...
    Finally free, and still fighting | SocialistWorker.org : ON SEPTEMBER 21, Victor Safforld was released after 20 years in prison. In 1990, Safforld was convicted of two murders and sent to death row. Safforld had confessed to the murders after his arrest and torture by Chicago police officers under ...
  • Pseudo-Freeze Ends, Pseudo-Liberals Rejoice - Lobe ...
    Pseudo-Freeze Ends, Pseudo-Liberals Rejoice � LobeLog.com : "Israel’s mostly-for-show settlement moratorium has expired, over the objections of the liberal pro-Israel group J Street, and the usual suspects on the right couldn’t be happier. More revealing, however, is the sight of Jeffrey Goldberg’s ...
  • "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 ...

Pensieve

  • The Trap
    Photo by Stuck in Customs Sometimes I feel trapped by the choices, even the seemingly excellent choices, that I have made. But I would not change them. I recognize them to be the best direction for my life. I can see their fruit, and would not alter them. But I still feel imprisoned. Here is [...] ...
  • 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 ...

Green Times

  • Looking Young and Healthy: Organic and Green but V ...
    Eternal youth… wouldnât it be nice to stop the aging process? Apparently the key ingredient is literally within you…
  • Sliding House
        A beautiful video about a radically extraordinary house in England, designed by Alex de Rijke. The owner Ross Russel started with the purpose of creating something to retire in, with plans to grow food, entertain and enjoy the East Anglia landscape. The house is designed to ada ...
  • Environmental News 30/09/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Feeding birds
    It’s fabulous to see birds in the park or in your backyard, but feeding them is not always the right thing to do, even though it may seem innocent. Some foods can be very harmful. For example, it could contain salt - which is toxic to birds. Feeding birds also makes them dependent of people. If you ...
  • Environmental News 17/09/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Cameron orders 26/11 Mumbai-style terror dummy-run ...
    ShareThis Cameron orders 26/11 Mumbai-style terror dummy-run after intelligence warning 30 Sep 2010 British Prime Minister David Cameron has responded to the threat of a 26/11 Mumbai-style terror attack in the country by secretly ordering a full-scale dummy-run. According to the Sun, a number of let ...
  • DHS pitches plan for air security to 190 nations
    ShareThis DHS pitches plan for air security to 190 nations 28 Sep 2010 The U.S. Homeland Security chief will urge 190 nations today to improve aviation security with body scanners and other innovations to stop terrorists from carrying plastic and powdered explosives onto airplanes. Homeland Security ...
  • Barack Obama under fire for grossly underestimatin ...
    ShareThis Barack Obama under fire for grossly underestimating Gulf oil spill --White House commission finds that administration lost public trust and may have sabotaged clean-up operations 28 Sep 2010 The Obama administration lost the public trust and may have sabotaged clean-up operations in the Gu ...
  • UN 'to appoint space ambassador to greet alien vis ...
    ShareThis UN 'to appoint space ambassador to greet alien visitors' [ Glenn Beck? ] 26 Sep 2010 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 ...
  • France on high alert after warnings of possible te ...
    ShareThis France on high alert after warnings of possible terrorist attacks --Although officials later dismissed the report as unreliable, they maintained the high alert . 28 Sep 2010 France is reportedly on a high alert following repeated intelligence warnings that terrorists may be planning to car ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Yonatan Shapira’s testimony from the Jewish ...
    From Occupation Magazine Journal of a voyage, by Yonatan Shapira 26 September 2010 The course is 120. Another 200 miles to the port in Cyprus and the automatic pilot in the boat, which is supposed to maintain the course, refuses to work and leaves me with the unending task of maintaining the course ...
  • Avigdor Lieberman takes settlement policy to its l ...
    by Jesse Bacon Lost in the debate over the settlement phase is its real purpose, to claim Palestinian land for Israel. Even its hardcore defenders like Avigdor Lieberman, know there will come a time when that has reached its end, when all available Palestinian land has been taken, and all Palestini ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Will the Netherlands rule high altitude wind?
    The country has three key ingredients: good technology, a cooperative government and really bad weather. High altitude wind uses tethered kites or planes at very high altitudes to generate electricity. Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? But so did solar and wind power in their infancy too. A Dutch company, D ...
  • California governor’s race. The nutty uncle vs the ...
    CalWatchdog, an investigative journalism site that tilts rightward, weighs in on the governor’s race. [Meg Whitman] says sheâs willing to stake a fortune on a candidacy in order to save the state. I just canât figure what ideas she has that will dramatically reform the state. Itâs that authent ...
  • Yet another sign Democrats are in deep trouble
    Liberal columnist Colin McEnroe of the Hartford Courant on Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumental’s campaign for Senate as a Democrat. Blumenthal should be coasting to victory against his Republican opponent, WWE magnate Linda McMahon, but he’s not. He was ahead by upwards of 32 points, now ...
  • Wave power finally comes to US
    An Ocean Power Technology power-generating buoy is now generating electricity off Hawaii. Most excellent!
  • Goodbye Karen
    In honor and in sorrow for our sister-in-law Karen Slater who died this morning much too young after a five year battle with cancer, which she fought against like a tiger and with a smile on her face. She lived three years longer than most thought possible and leaves behind her husband and a zillion ...

Coteret

  • Yediot: NIS 9 million for settlement “touris ...
    The fact that these grants will fund highly politicized and inflammatory projects is best exemplified by the NIS 2 million slated for the “City of David” project in Silwan. This East Jerusalem settlement in the guise of an “archeological park” is at the cutting edge of efforts to insert Israelis i ...
  • Yediot: Despite Berlusconi’s promises, Italy ...
    Paper sanctions Menahem Ganz, Yediot, September 14 2010 [page 19, Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] Rome — Half a year after returning from a visit to Israel, in the course of which Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi promised to act to reduce the volume of trade between Italy and Ira ...
  • Yediot to Abe Foxman: Are we anti-Semitic too?
    Not exactly, but close. For those of you who have missed the latest chapter of what Matt Duss calls “the continuing attempt to redefine ‘blood libel’ as ‘saying things about Israel I don’t particularly like’”, here’s a brief: This week’s TIME Magazine cover story was a feature by Karl Vick, entitle ...
  • The new frontiers of Israeli diplomacy: Lieberman ...
    This morning’s Israel Hayom reports: (full translated text at bottom): a decision was made that, for the first time, the Foreign Minister will address the UN General Assembly in New York at the end of the month You don’t need to be an expert to understand that this is not a very wise matching of [.. ...
  • Maariv: French and American envoys working to re-s ...
    Maariv summarizes a news item from the Lebanese A-Safir. It’s unclear, however, whether the section on Mitchell visit is also from that source. The byline is unusual. Bardenstein is the junior diplomatic affairs correspondent and probably does not speak Arabic. Items based on direct monitoring of ...

Deadline Live

  • This Day In History – September 30
    1399 â Henry IV is proclaimed King of England. 1882 â The world’s first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States. 1888 â Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizab ...
  • Deadline Live – September 28 2010
    Breaking News from Deadline Live.info and guests Dave Robertson and Mikey Weinstein Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d16343').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
  • Kids with food allergies may be the target of scho ...
    As if kids with food allergies didn’t have enough to deal with at school, now they may have to worry about being bullied. A study finds that some children who have food allergies could be the target of bullies — and some of those bullies could be the teachers. A new report in the journal [...]
  • Al Qaeda Is Plotting Attacks on European Cities, O ...
    PARIS — Al Qaeda and related groups are plotting new attacks on Western European capitals, European officials said on Wednesday, but they had no actionable intelligence suggesting either the timing or specific locations. French and German officials on Wednesday played down reports of a significant n ...
  • Judge says man within rights to record police traf ...
    In a decision that could make it easier for citizens to record police officers in Maryland, a Harford County judge ruled Monday that state police and prosecutors were wrong to arrest and charge a man for taping his own traffic stop and posting it on the Internet. Circuit Court Judge Emory A. Plitt J ...

The Air Vent

  • Corruption
    Well GM, a company now owned primarily by the US federal government, a company which received billions in bailout money which ended up being payoffs to democratic party supporting unions, has now decided to invest back in the politicians which supported them. From here: WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–Genera ...
  • Honesty in Blogging
    Tamino’s wrote a quick reply to Dr. Loehles vindication post at WUWT. The post ended with this comment. Gee. When compared honestly, Loehleâs so-called âvindicationâ becomes an indictment. What a surprise. Below is the first graph from his site which Dr. Loehle used to point out the amazing si ...
  • Design a poll
    This might work,  let’s design a reasonable survey of AGW opinions.  People don’t like the VonStorch blogs work very much but if the design was done better, it could better represent the various views.  Steve Mosher would probably be a perfect guy to do the whole thing but what I’m looking for is ...
  • Global Cooling?
    It’s amazing if this is true.  I don’t know many who are predicting extreme cooling of any kind in the near future.  Anthony Watts pointed out a 2015 alignment of cyclic ocean temperatures in their cold phase, but that should be a short event.  Still, it doesn’t matter which way temperatures are ...
  • 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.

Focal Point

  • Dirty Trickster James "Honey Trap" O'Keefe Schemed ...
    Talk about hubris... Dirty trickster James O'Keefe's foray into gonzo porn has ended disastrously for him. O'Keefe schemed to seduce CNN investigative reporter Abbie Boudreau in front of hidden cameras. The right wing media activist, who recently pleaded guilty to charges of attempted phone tamperin ...
  • Federal Regulators Vindicate Dr. Maria New
    This month, federal regulators vindicated Dr. Maria New, a leading pediatric endocrinologist who studies prenatal treatment for congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), a hereditary disease that exposes the fetus to excessive male hormones in the womb. In February, a group of activist bioethicists sent ...
  • 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.]

Inside Facebook

  • BetaPond Releases LoyaltyBuilder Multi-Venue Leade ...
    Irish developer BetaPond has released two applications which integrate Facebook Places. LoyaltyBuilder is a branded multi-venue checkin leaderboard tab application which helps businesses encourage users to check in to specific Places. I Spy Places is a simple Places dashboard which lets users see a ...
  • Facebook Careers Posts: Research, Communications, ...
    Facebook is looking for people to fill positions in content strategy, research, communication, commerce, intellectual property, a few positions in Latin America, online sales and market solutions, according to listings recently added to the company’s Careers page this week. A couple Software Enginee ...
  • Facebook Says “Likers” Click Links To External Web ...
    Facebook has released new statistics on its Facebook+Media Page about users who click Like buttons on Open Graph-enabled websites, as well as the influence of the Like button and social plugins on site traffic and engagement. They show that the “likers” have more friends and click more links on Face ...
  • Advertisers Can Now Set Lifetime Budgets for Faceb ...
    Facebook now allows advertisers to set a lifetime budget for their ad campaigns instead of only a daily spending limit. This helps pace a campaign’s daily spend to be even across the period of time the campaign is set to run for. The more control Facebook offers to advertisers, the more who will be ...
  • Facebook Now Shows Four Ads Per Page Instead of Th ...
    Facebook has increased the number of ads displayed in many areas of the site from three to four. In some cases the fourth ad is partially or completely below the fold of the page, meaning Facebook now serves ad impressions users might not necessarily see. This change could reduce ad click-through ra ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Israel's reasoning against peace: deal comes at hi ...
    Jonathan Cook considers the forces ranged against a just peace for the Palestinians, arguing that these forces include not just the squatters that inhabit the ever-expanding colonies in the West bank, but also many Israeli Jews living within Israel's recognized borders and retired senior army office ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • “Are You Serious? MDG in Africa!” by P ...
    Repost from CRY ME AN ONION The UN is prone to throw challenges here and there to the world. One of the challenges lingering from its start in 2000 is the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). All UN Members ceremoniously enlisted for this homework. The aim of the MDG is to meet 8 poverty reduction go ...
  • The Business of Poverty
    Jesus stated: “The poor you will always have with you…” and there are those who want to ensure that these words will always ring true. Last week, from 20-22 September, there was an U.N. summit regarding the progress of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). For those unfamiliar with what this ...
  • “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 ...

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

  • Greenwash Of The Week: The Nature Conservancy and ...
    From my friend David at The Good Human comes the opening gambit of a big investigation into The Nature Conservancy. This will be worth watching… Seems The Nature Conservancy, an âenviroâ org with billions of dollars in assets, has some very good rich friends who spend their days destroying the e ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • American Sign Language Celebrates its Worldwide Cu ...
    On September 30th, Sacramento, California will have an American Sign Language Celebration which attracts thousands of people who use American Sign Language. It is a global movement to celebrate International Day of Sign Language Rights and promote awareness about Deaf people. Senator Wiggins, Senato ...
  • J-Street Funding Revelations Show the Soros-Saudi ...
    The latest revelations show that J-Street--a so-called pro-Israel lobby--is a just massive deception by Saudi money and the George Soros fortune, a fortune which he is determined to use for anti-Jewish and anti-Israel purposes. Since Soros is�a major funder of President Barack Obama, it explains the ...
  • Mendoza Eugenics a Threat to Deaf People Nationall ...
    I have read with shock the saga of Tony Mendoza and his eugenic campaign against the Deaf of California. This is not a crisis just for California. This legislation will be emulated throughout the country. Mendoza should now be yanked from office, voted out or recalled and referred for prosecution if ...
  • Mideast Peace - Hamas and the Peace Process--Inter ...
    Unsurprisingly, the Hamas leadership—both in Gaza and Damascus, and less so in the West Bank—has greeted the resumption of direct Israeli–Palestinian talks with a flood of contrarian rhetoric. Characterizing the process as a “sellout” of the Palestinian “cause,” the movement argues that President Ma ...
  • Inside Islam - What Arabs Really Think About Iran
    It is no secret that Arab public opinion toward U.S. President Barack Obama has soured since his June 2009 speech in Cairo, Egypt. According to a slew of recent opinion polls, Arabs have been deeply disappointed with Obama’s accommodations to Israel. Analysts have suggested that this discontent has ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • An Israeli Gandhi Seized At Sea
    By Ira Chernus Shouldnt we be looking for the Israeli Gandhi? The search might not take as long as you think. There are plenty of Israeli Jews nonviolently resisting their own governments policies of occupation and oppression. The latest to find the public spotlight is Rami Elhanan, a former Israel ...
  • We Cant Use It -So Why The Heck Are We Prospecting ...
    By George Monbiot Why are we still prospecting for oil when we cant afford to use existing reserves?
  • US Military Must Stop Using Oil In 30 Years, Defen ...
    By Mason Inman The success of the US military in coming decades will depend largely on the development of a world-wide system for producing a variety of biofuels, according to a new report released today. That way, the military can stay refueled and able to operate anywhere, even when petroleum su ...
  • UK Governments Oil Shock Warning
    By Matthew Wild A UK government minister is preparing for a coming global oil shock a possible doubling of the price of oil. As Mondays UK Daily Telegraph newspaper reported, Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, told the Liberal Democrat conference last week that in a world facing economic shocks it was ...
  • Energy Security: An Annotated Military/Security Bi ...
    By Rick Munroe A selected list of studies of various aspects of energy security (including peak oil) which have either been conducted by members of the military/security research community, or which raise issues with direct military/security relevance

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

  • New J-Street Bombshell: Tried To Help Goldstone Co ...
    Less than one week after the faux Israel advocacy group J Street was caught lying about taking cash from progressive financier George Soros, new evidence has been revealed about the group that eliminate any doubt about its true intentions vis a vis the Jewish State. J Street was involved in trying c ...
  • Fear and Survival: The Tragedy And Threat That Is ...
    By Barry Rubin I’ve long pondered the bizarre doings of billionaire financier George Soros, who's become the single biggest funder of left-wing and often anti-Jewish (certainly, anti-Israel) causes in Europe and North America. Most recently, it was revealed that Soros was a huge contributor to ...
  • HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Needs To Stay Away ...
    Brown Acid Warning sound bite � Big Bucket O' Random sound bites Maybe Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius drank the "bad" kool aid. The kind only heard about in urban legends---spiked with some high tech LSD. That is the only explanation. Somehow she got her hands on the fame ...
  • Iranian Version of Mercy? Innocent Woman Will be ...
    Sakineh Ashtiani sits in a prison in Iran waiting for her death sentence to be carried out. But the Iranian masters of the religion of peace has decided to show mercy, instead of being stoned to death she will be hung. The 42-year-old woman from the northern city of Tabriz was convicted of adu ...
  • Latest Poll Shows Alan Grayson DOWN by 7%-There Is ...
    Sometimes being nasty doesn't work. In the race to determine who will represent Florida's 8th Congressional District, Republican Daniel Webster has jumped out to a seven percentage point lead. Webster, leads Alan Grayson� 43-36%� in the survey of 559 likely voters conducted Sept. 25-27 for Sunshine ...

The Real Agenda

  • “Diseñar Humanos con Características Unicas” bajo ...
    Recientemente, un documento titulado Gobernabilidad Global 2025: En un momento Crítico fue divulgado a través de una demanda impuesta bajo el Acto de Libertad de Información . El documento, escrito por el American National Intelligence Council (NIC) y el Instituto de la Unión Europea de Estudios de ...
  • Salmón Transgénico entra en Cadena Alimenticia sin ...
    Esta nueva especie de salmón, literalmente, cultivado en un laboratorio, pondrá fin a la población natural de salmón en tan sólo unas pocas generaciones. Entre los genes que estos salmones contienen se encuentran anguila, insectos y arácnidos. La FDA está a punto de aprobar salmón genéticamente modi ...
  • Massive Austerity causes Wave of Protests in Europ ...
    Is this the beginning of a mass wake up against the tyranny and irresponsibility of the bankers and elites of the planet? AP Anti-austerity protests erupted across Europe on Wednesday – Greek doctors and railway employees walked out, Spanish workers shut down trains and buses, and one man even block ...
  • Fetuses, recently born Babies are not Humans
    Jurriaan Maessen It is almost tiresome, but yet another writing by White House science czar John P. Holdren has surfaced- this time questioning the right of a “potential human” to live and grow in the womb of an “actual woman”. One could fill a medium-sized library with the writings by this Malthusi ...
  • “The U.S. should be able to shut internet do ...
    Former CIA Chief, Michael Hayden added that his personal view is that “it is probably wise to legislate some authority to the President” Reuters Cyberterrorism is such a threat that the U.S. president should have the authority to shut down the Internet in the event of an attack, Former CIA Director ...

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

  • Was Jesus a Muslim? (tee-hee)
    Listening to Islamic studies scholar Robert Shedinger taunt the CC audience with whether Jesus may have been a Muslim reminds me of the not-so-old joke about returning the Statue of Liberty to the French, because we’re not using her anymore. At his fundamental, Jesus espoused what we are accustomed ...
  • War Criminals Bush and Cheney coming to the Broadm ...
    Should-be jailbirds Darth Cheney and Dubya Bush are coming to Colorado Springs! Monday Oct. 4 and Tuesday Oct. 5 respectively. Each will be the day’s 8:30 AM keynote speaker at the Annual Insurance Leadership Forum held in the Broadmoor Rocky Mountain Ballroom. Coloradans For Peace will host a stand ...
  • Put your dog-lover on a leash
    How about a dog collar for dog lovers? If you find companionship in dogs, and read in their faces such human qualities as insight and empathy, why not show some empathy yourself and submit to their leash. I don’t mean a collar and rope which your dog can restrict or yank at whim, but a [...]
  • Celebrity Leaders of the Anti-Peasant Crusade
    Why is Lou Dobbs considered an “expert” on Immigration, but not Colbert? Now they’re barking because Colbert testified in Congress as an “expert witness”. And say that his only expertise was that he’s a “Celebrity” Say whut? The problem they’re having with his expertise isn’t the shock to the senses ...
  • 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 ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Debunking the Debunkers
    Permanent Top Post--Scroll Down for Newer Posts Comments are only open to blog contributors , but feel free to contact us here if you have a point of contention or some kind words you would like to share. Ad hominems will be ignored, but well-formed rebuttals may be addressed (and that is a subjec ...
  • 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 ...

Fooducate

  • Ben & Jerry’s Getting Honest about “All Natural” L ...
    As fooducate readers probably know by now, we take great care in pointing out marketing claims disguised as health claims. You know, the smart wordy quotes that make you feel you’re gonna live forever, disease free if you just buy this product and consume it every day, preferably twice daily. Even ...
  • The Protein Marketing Myth
    Quick question – are you getting enough protein in your diet? For most Americans, the answer is YES, more than enough. How then, can you explain the huge business that is protein supplements? All those bars and meal replacements bragging boatloads of protein? Not to mention Greek yogurts that tout t ...
  • FTC Accuses POM of False Advertsing
    The Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday that it has filed a complaint against POM Wonderful for deceptive advertising. From the FTC: As part of its ongoing efforts to uncover over-hyped health claims in food advertising, the Federal Trade Commission has issued an administrative complaint c ...
  • 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 ...

Traffikd

  • Increasing Your Blog’s Interactivity: 10 Tips for ...
    Guest post by Alexis Bonari Success in attracting and retaining readers is often influenced by a blog’s level of interactivity. Many readers are more active than passive and want to feel like they have a role in affecting a blog’s content, design, structure, and overall ongoing conversation. Posts ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Leftists Should Take Credit for Bringing Down Demo ...
    Peter Dauo has a pair of well received articles on how the left, and specifically bloggers, have brought down the Obama administration.  This is in contrast to what many see as the attempt by the White House to portray left wingers as responsible for Democratic losses. What? Look, if the left is so ...
  • I Trust It Is Now Clear Democrats Hate The Left
    Now that virtually everyone of any importance, up to and including the President has told you that they hate you, that you are a bunch of unrealistic ingrates who need to be drug tested, I trust no one still thinks the White House doesn’t hate the left’s guts, and that it comes from the very [...]
  • 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 ...

Age of Autism

  • Observations from UPENN's "The Science, Ethics and ...
    The Science, Ethics and Politics of Vaccine Mandates (When you assume that vaccines are safe) By Louise Kuo Habakus BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY This is a long post but I encourage you to read my remarks. Compulsory vaccination represents a severe...
  • Imus Interviews Blaxill & Olmsted Authors of The A ...
    Tune into Imus in the morning Thursday, 9/23 on Fox Business Channel around 8:30am to hear Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill discuss their new book, The Age of Autism Mercury Medicine and a Manmade Epidemic. Visit the Imus site HERE.
  • Ask Dr. Sears and Meet Dr. Sears in Maryland on Oc ...
    From our friends at TACA's Maryland chapter Dr. Sears will be discussing The Autism Book: What Every Parent Needs to Know About Early Detection, Treatment, Recovery and Prevention. The Autism Book introduces readers to the world of autism and guides...
  • Dr. Peter Bearman, Autism and the House of Nonsens ...
    Bearman answers: “genes, old parents and possibly a virus.” This is the best he has got? The NIH gave this guy millions to come up with that? By Katie Wright Dr. Peter Bearman, a professor of sociology at Columbia University,...
  • Video: Don Imus Interviews Mark Blaxill and Dan Ol ...
    Watch Mark Blaxill and Dan Olmsted on Imus on Fox Business channel as they discuss their new book, The Age of Autism Mercury Medicine and a Manmade Epidemic. Thank you to Don and Deirdre Imus (check out the HuffPo post...

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

  • Interent Freedom Under Attack – U.S. seeks w ...
    Washington Post – The Obama administration is planning to seek legislation that would require social networking companies and voice-over-Internet service providers to adapt their technology so law enforcement agents can monitor users’ communications during criminal and terrorism investigations. The ...
  • World gripped by ‘international currency war ...
    Guardian – 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 boost their struggling economies. The comments are the first public admission made by a senior policymaker about a practice which ...
  • Ultrasound pregnancy dating risky for girl babies
    Reuters – Using ultrasound to gauge gestational age could put late-term female fetuses at risk of poor outcomes and even death, a new study from Sweden shows. Indeed, up to a third of stillbirths among girls born post-term could be due to inaccuracies in these estimates, the researchers conclude. ...
  • US drone missile strike kills 4 in NW Pakistan
    AP — A suspected American missile strike killed four militants in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, intelligence officials said, the latest in an unprecedented barrage this month against suspected al-Qaida and Taliban targets. There was no word on the identities of those killed in the attack in South W ...
  • Gold Futures Are Steady After Surging to Another R ...
    Bloomberg – Gold futures were little changed after climbing to another record following the dollarâs decline. Silver reached the highest price since 1980. In New York, gold rose to a record $1,314.80 an ounce, and silver climbed above $22 an ounce. The greenback dropped to the lowest level since J ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • AltCar Expo offers alt cars that can actually be d ...
    We've been hearing about them for months: The all-electric Nissan Leaf, the extended-range electric Chevrolet Volt, the Mercedes-Benz B-class F-cell. During this weekend's AltCar Expo at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, 20 alternative-propulsion vehicles won't just be on display. They...
  • It takes an island: Hawaii builds hydrogen infrast ...
    Islands are often targeted for experiments, many of them social and/or scientific. Take Hawaii, which will soon be the site of an ambitious plan for the first viable hydrogen fuel cell network in the United States. Over the summer, the...
  • Proposition 23: Environmentalists power up
    California environmental groups are launching a massive grassroots organizing effort to defeat Proposition 23, the November ballot initiative to suspend the state's 2006 global warming law. On Monday, a conference call to rally opposition drew 23,077 participants. The call was...
  • 'Avatar' director urges slowdown for Canadian oil ...
    The epically ruinous "unobtainium" mine on Pandora that provided the scene of most of the villainy in James Cameron's hit movie "Avatar" was modeled, he said, on an open pit copper mine. But that hasn't stopped many in his native...
  • Regulators clear nearly 1,000 megawatts of solar f ...
    Two more major solar projects moved ahead in the permitting process Wednesday after the California Energy Commission cleared the way to construction. The 250-megawatt Genesis Solar Energy Project and the 709-megawatt Imperial Valley Solar Project were unanimously approved to start...

water.org

  • One Day on Earth project (DSLR NS)
    âOne Day on Earthâ project needs your help (DSLR News Shooter) – On October 10th, 2010 the records of filmmaking history will have a note called âOne Day on Earthâ. The United Nations, over 70 nonprofits from around the world, and thousands of filmmakers have teamed up with âOne Day on Ear ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • IDF intercepts Jewish boat to Gaza
    No reports of serious injuries Note most of the post contains updates on the previous IDF action against aid shipment Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Confessions of an Israeli anti-settler bigot
    The majority here wants a state of Israel alongside a sovereign and separate state of Palestine. The majority is fed up. The majority sees the settlements as a bad bargain for Israel. The majority is tired of being pushed around. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment ...
  • 10 Terrible Things Republicans Will Try to Do If T ...
    Think things are bad now? Take a look at what could happen if Republicans retake Congress in November. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Let's continue talks to achieve peace
    "I say to President Abbas: For the sake of our two peoples, let's focus on what really matters. Let's continue expedited and serious peace talks to reach a historic framework peace agreement within a year." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Settler leader: Construction freeze was needless, ...
    "We, as settlers and partners in the Zionist enterprise, must remember that the peace process and the maintenance of a supportive atmosphere in Israel is an existential Zionist interest of the first degree," Schneller said. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • New York Jets Go Solar at Team Headquarters
    large The New York Jets are now more than just green in uniform with the completion of a new rooftop 3,000 solar panel installation on their Atlantic Health Training Center. ...
  • Market Leader? Increased Demand Will Grow Yingli's ...
    large Yingli Green Energy Holding Company, Ltd. (NYSE:� YGE ), one of the world's largest photovoltaic solar cell manufacturers, has announced it will increase its productio ...
  • Sharp Electronic Corp. Pens 58 MW Solar Power Deal
    Sharp Electronics Corp. has signed a deal to supply thin-film solar panels to the massive Avenal Solar Power Facility soon to be under construction in Avenal, California.
  • Sun Powers T-Mobile Cell Tower in PA
    T-Mobile USA Inc. has been testing the power of the sun at the company’s only solar-powered cellular site.  1 2 south-facing solar panels were installed at a cell site located in the small community of Chalfont, Pennsylvania .
  • U.S. Navy Expands Sustainable Initiatives
    large The United States Navy recently announced the completion of a solar system at its Naval Weapons Station (NWS) Seal Beach location in California.

News Blaze

  • Nepal Celebrates World Tourism Day and Looks Ahead ...
    This is the 30th World Tourism Day, sponsored by the UN World Tourism Organization. This year's theme, celebrating diversity, rings true in Nepal, which has both natural wonders and cultural and historic attractions.
  • Secretary's Remarks: Republic of Palau's Independe ...
    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today, congratulated the people of the Republic of Palau on their Independence Day this coming Friday.
  • Expanded Adoption Credit Available for Tax-Year 20 ...
    The Affordable Care Act raises the maximum adoption credit to $13,170 per child, up from $12,150 in 2009. It also makes the credit refundable, meaning that eligible taxpayers can get it even if they owe no tax for that year.
  • UN Agency Touts Potential of Small-Scale Dairy Pro ...
    Smallholder farmers are also comparatively resilient to rising feed prices since they only use small amounts of purchased feed for their cows.
  • UN to Take The Lead in Establishing a New, More De ...
    Two Latin American countries today called for a strengthened and reformed United Nations to take the lead in establishing a new, more democratic and open system in the fields of international finance and economy.

    libcom

  • Behind the spectacle of The Hobbit
    BilboInTheHobbit.jpg One of the most popular products exported from New Zealand has been the atmospheric Lord of the Rings films. They invoke images of a far off land called Middle Earth complete with ma ...
  • Obama should embrace attacks of 'Kenyan anti-colon ...
    obamacare protesters2.jpg When Newt Gingrich last weighed in with the National Review Online, the former Speaker of the House issued scathing remarks about President Obama and his “Kenyan, anti-colonial ...
  • Spain: Eulogy for unionism (CNT)
    The CNT of Spain discuss the recent campaign against unionism in Spain, while distinguishing genuine revolutionary unionism from the collaborationist unionism of the majority unions in Spain. It’s clear that a complete campaign, orchestr ...
  • The Greek government has secretly widened the Anti ...
    diadhlwsh-thumb-medium.jpg ...The government completely removed the protective mechanisms within the previous Anti-Terrorism law, mechanisms which protected political and Trade union activity, even those ...
  • Longshoremen solidarity strike shuts down Port of ...
    port2.jpg Flying pickets have hit the Port of New York and New Jersey as Philadelphia longshore workers spread the dispute north. The following two stories cover the struggle of the workers who are defy ...

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

  • Renewable Energy Rebates-Ameren UE-Federal Tax Inc ...
    Good News for all those who would like additional Monetary Incentives for Installing RE (Renewable Energy) Sytems. The Ameren Rebate and the Federal Tax Incentive can add up to as much as 2/3 of the cost of the RE System. Continue reading →
  • Paid for By Big Oil- “Pledge to America&#822 ...
    Paid For By BIG OIL See what is spilling from the mouths of Big Oil and their favorite candidates As the GOP releases its "Pledge to America" — an unabashed promise to continue bowing to Big Oil and fighting clean … Continue reading →
  • Seven things you didn’t know about light bulbs (bu ...
    Seven things you didnât know about light bulbs (but should) By Brian Clark Howard Posted Fri Sep 24, 2010 1:12pm PDT Related topics: Tips, Electricity, Lights, House Lighting is a significant expense for many of us, and it also affects … Continue reading →
  • Wall Street Noir: Moody’s “Double Agen ...
    What happened to Moody’s is what happens to every "agent" who thinks he can serve two masters. The sad thing is that it keeps happening, even though we’ve seen this movie before. Credit rating agencies are supposed to monitor debt … Continue reading →
  • Global warming critic plots revenge
    Global warming critic plots revenge Sensenbrenner predicted in 2008 that cap and trade would cost Democrats the House. | AP Photo Close By DARREN SAMUELSOHN | 9/28/10 4:32 AM EDT Updated: 9/28/10 8:44 AM EDT Most House Republicans envision killing … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

  • The Careerist: When the Stay-Home Parent Wants to ...
    Check out some of the latest posts on the lawjobs.com blog, The Careerist. When the Stay-Home Parent Wants to Go Back to Work: A how-to guide Also Law School News: Pushy Mom; Spammed Prof, Spurned Students; Lit Prize Also So That's What Men Do!
  • 2nd Circuit Upsets Order Requiring Wiretap Turnove ...
    A unanimous federal appeals panel has overturned an order requiring defendants in the sprawling Galleon securities fraud case to hand over to the SEC roughly 18,000 wiretapped conversations they had been given by prosecutors in a parallel criminal prosecution. The 2nd Circuit panel found a lower cou ...
  • Leahy Introduces Bill to Allow Retired Supreme Cou ...
    Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., has put into writing a proposal he first discussed publicly in June: allowing a retired U.S. Supreme Court justice to hear a case when a sitting justice has recused. A big question has been how to decide which retired justice would serve during times when there is more tha ...
  • Business Groups Sue SEC Over New Proxy Rules
    The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable filed suit against the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday, objecting to new proxy access rules for nominating corporate directors. The groups assert that the rules impose unjustified costs and empower unions and other special inte ...
  • GCs: Legal Directories Out, Online Searches In
    Google searches and online bios are replacing traditional legal directories when it comes to finding outside firms to hire, according to a panel of top legal officers gathered in Denver this summer. Lessons for law firms? Beef up online bios, diversity sells, and get a handle on tech.

Iranian.com

  • لاریجانی موسوی و کروبی را تهدید کرد (ویدئو)
    Head of Iranian judiciary, Sadegh Larijani states that opposition leaders will be prosecuted.
  • Is German Chancellor Angela Merkel Pro-Israel and ...
    Neocon Weekly Standard Magazine: "What Brüggmann and many German journalists fail to understand is flexing one's economic muscles to promote democracy and protect the West is the right form of American economic might. Invoking economic leverage to change despotic regimes should be embraced by German ...
  • Senior Ayatollah Criticizes Khamenei for Overstepp ...
    Ayatollah Ali-Mohammad Dastgheib, member of the Assembly of Experts and an outspoken critic of the government, issued a new theological verdict about Velayat Faqih, or rule of Islamic jurist, and stated that the current implications of this theory are contradictory to what the Iranian constitution h ...
  • احتمال ممنوعیت اجرای کنسرت بانوان در تالار وحدت
    آفتاب: شورای انتخاب تالاروحدت تصمیم گرفت؛ سیستم ارزش‌گذاری وزارت‌ارشاد را برای انتخاب آثار بپذیرد و از گزینش آثار در تالاروحدت صرف‌نظر کند. اما این تصمیم در دست بررسی است که بانوان اجازه اجرای کنسرت در تالار وحدت نداشته باشند. درپی تصویب قانون جدید read more
  • محروم کردن نوجوانان از تفکر و انتقاد
    چندين نسل از ايرانيان درس و کلاس انشاء مدرسه را با موضوع های کليشه ای و نخ نمائی چون«علم بهتر است يا ثروت؟»،«بهار(يا پاييز) را توصف کنيد»،«تعطيلات نوروزی خود را چگونه گذرانديد» و يا با متن هائی به ياد می آورند که بايد در باره جمله ها و کلمات قصار پيامبر،امامان و آيت الله خمينی يا در باره مفاهيمی چون ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Balochistan – the Place to Watch
    Guest Post by Alexander Achmatowicz   (above) Proposed Natural Gas Pipeline Routes Transiting Balochistan  If either IPI (Iran-Pakistan-India or more likely IPC Iran-India-China pipeline) or TAPI (Trans-Afghan Pipeline running between Turkmenistan-Afghanistan and Pakistan) is goi ...
  • 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 ...

Free Movement

  • Zimbabwe removals still suspended
    As recently as 14 September 2010 the Government’s position was that it is not enforcing returns to Zimbabwe. In a debate in the Commons on that day the following question and answer were given: Keith Vaz (Leicester East) (Lab): Given the critical situation in Zimbabwe, does it remain the Government’ ...
  • Entry clearance deception refusals
    Practitioners have seen a considerable increase in the number of applications for entry clearance that have been refused on the general grounds for refusal. The reasons are often opaque at best. Some simply refer to the contents of a Document Verification Report (DVR) and do not disclose this report ...
  • 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 ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • It's time for nation to stand together for job ...
    In Washington this Saturday, I will join tens of thousands of Americans to march for jobs, justice and education. The march is called together under the banner of One Nation: Working Together, a large coalition of more than 400 organizations. Why do we march? We march for hope. We've seen the politi ...
  • Whose America Is That?
    Nothing about the content of the Pledge to America is surprising--it's the same Bush-era economic agenda that got us into the mess we're in today: deregulate business, starve government services, starve the middle class and starve the working class so corporate special interests and the wealthy can ...
  • 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 ...

Salon

  • Carl Paladino and reporter nearly come to blows
    About the only thing to say about this is, "Wow." At an impromptu press conference Wednesday, Carl Paladino, the Tea Party-backed New York Republican gubernatorial candidate, got into a heated and intensely personal shouting match with Fred Dicker of the New York Post.
  • Don't be fooled by the GOP's sick healthcare rheto ...
    Just how gullible are you? Of the many absurdities in the Republican Party's "Pledge to America," the most problematic may be the GOP's vow to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act, colloquially called "Obamacare." Not the most ridiculous, mind you. That would have to be the vow to reinstate the ...
  • Questions for Andrew Sullivan
    Andrew Sullivan quotes from an excellent column by Alex Massie in The Spectator . �Massie points to Obama's assassination program and writes: "you can make an argument that Obama's actions are worse than Bush's since a) he wasn't charged with cobbling together a security framework in the confused ...
  • Obama backs Jon Stewart's sanity rally on Oct. 30
    "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart has won some high-level backing for his "Rally to Restore Sanity" next month in Washington: President Barack Obama.
  • What Islamophobia really threatens
    With the volume of Islamophobia on the rise in the United States, a recent report prepared for Congress and new law enforcement data are shining fresh light on the significant role American Muslims play in foiling terrorist plots, particularly those of the domestic "homegrown" variety.

SMB News

  • Obama to demand India for Kashmir issue resolution
    For SMB News Obama to demand India for Kashmir issue resolutionWASHINGTON: Go for a Kashmir solution and help bring stability to the region for a ticket to UN Security Council membership and fulfilling your big power aspirations. That’s the broad message President Barack Obama will be bringing to Ne ...
  • Dr. Aafia faith Altaf wants an explanation from th ...
    For SMB News Dr. Aafia Karachi: MQM Chief Altaf Hussain’s statement of the American government insisted on a conviction of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, Geo News on Tuesday. MQM chief said by phone from London, the rally participants conviction against Dr Aafia Siddiqi U.S. court. He said that people are info ...
  • ndijski Court of Justice ruling on Thursday Ayodhy ...
    For SMB News Indian court issued an opinion on the ThursdayLUCKNOW Ayodhya: India’s Supreme Court on Thursday decided in a religious dispute is responsible for some of the bloodiest sectarian violence since independence, the clerk said Tuesday. “The final decision in the case of Ayodhya on September ...
  • 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.?

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • What will drive the Smart Grid – policy or the ele ...
    Last week, I discussed the important role energy policy will play in accelerating Smart Grid deployment. After all, without clear federal guidance, you can imagine it might be a bit of a head-scratcher for utility executives to know – with 100 percent certainty – where to put their money, especially ...
  • Mired in Tight Race, Ohio Gov. Strickland Does Awa ...
    The State of Ohio on Wednesday took a big step toward lowering the barriers to entry for building/installing renewable energy facilities across the state. Governor Ted Strickland issued an Executive Order eliminating the state’s tangible personal tax and real property tax for advanced and renewable ...
  • Does California need AB32?
    Among the usual slew of propositions California voters will face this fall is the much-disputed Prop 23, which would put� AB32 �on hold indefinitely. AB32 was signed into law by Governor Schwarzenegger in 2006, and if left standing it will reach its full effect in a year or two.
  • Nuclear Technology: The Rewards and Penalties of B ...
    By Ted Rockwell Years ago, a newspaper columnist intrigued me with a statement that science cannot tell us anything about real people. To the columnist, science could talk only about “average people,” which exist only in the imagination of the speaker. The scientifically average American, for exampl ...
  • Amyris trading at $16/share
    Despite the lower-than-expected initial public offering (IPO) price of $16/share as opposed to between $18-$20/share, Amyris, the California-based synthetic biology start-up did pretty well as it raised nearly $85m on the first day and its stock closed at $16.85/share on the second day of trading at ...

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

  • Raw Food Recipe - Zucchini Pasta with Marinara Sau ...
    My wife Jeanette has been on the Raw Food Diet since June 1, 2010 and as of today she has lost 28 pounds. She says that eating raw has changed her life. Her back is now pain free and she has more energy. In fact, she even gave up drinking coffee and all other caffeinated drinks. There are so many ...
  • Teaching Toolbox: Diagnosis and Assessment
    This article is written in its entirety by my good friend Diane Fesler-Macaluso Teaching Toolbox: Diagnosis and Assessment Abstract This paper provided a discussion about what kind of special education teacher the author would like to be ...
  • Sleep Deprived Marines and Our Mission
    From my Triond page: "The longest period I ever went without sleep was fifty six hours when I in the Marine Corp stationed at Marine Corp Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, Japan in 1989. I was assigned to a squadron where we worked on KC-130 F/R cargo transport and refueling aircraft. I was an aircraft ...
  • 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 ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Mariah Carey Rolls Into LA In A Wheelchair
    Last weekend Mariah Carey performed live on stage in celebration of the LG Live at 2010 Formula 1 Singtel Singapore Grand Prix and, as you may recall, took a bit of a tumble during her performance of Make It Happen . But, as you also may recall, we learned that Mimi laughed off... Tags: mariah carey ...
  • This is one home-erotic blog post
        First of all, I need to start working better, harder, faster and stronger to start creating work of this caliber. I mean, cheap sex jokes are one thing, but actually working them into the copy in a meaningful way? Well done, sir. I will say, though, that I'm quite disappointed Mr.... Tags: real ...
  • a spotlight on Little Scream (tour dates included)
    words by JW Byer , Pop Montreal 2009 photos by Ryan Muir Just when you thought Montreal was tapped out on its music talent, along comes Little Scream . Singer-songwriter Laurel Sprengelmeyer aka Little Scream (who bears a striking resemblance to a young Susan Sarandon), just... Tags: the arcade fire ...
  • The Strategically Small Church: Small is the new M ...
    Less than 1% of the total number of churches in the U.S. are what are considered mega-churches, yet in book after book, conference after conference, it is those churches and their leaders who are setting the agenda and the criteria for what constitutes success in ministry. It can be... Tags: u.s. le ...
  • Today’s Lowest Mortgage Interest Rates – Refinance ...
    Today’s lowest mortgage interest rates remain a very attractive levels that have bounced off all time lows as the 10 year treasury rate yield has moved slightly higher. For those looking for refinance 30 year home loan rates it the lowest levels in the history of the housing... Tags: lowest mortgage ...

Groklaw

  • The Defenders of Free Software
    Mr. Hemel says companies should make sure they know the ins and outs of everything they sell. "If we all play by the rules, we can make some really good stuff," he says. - Ashlee Vance, NYTimes
  • Funeral protests, violent video games on center st ...
    In the two biggest First Amendment cases before the Supreme Court in the fall term, one involving violent video games and the other a challenge to virulent protests at military funerals, the initial signs appear ominous for defenders of free expression. - Tony Mauro, First Amendment Center
  • Red Hat Responds to USPTO Request for Guidance on ...
    Today there are hundreds of thousands of patents relating to software, and tens of thousands continue to be granted each year. In many cases, these patents have vague and uncertain boundaries. Thus it is virtually impossible to determine whether a new software product could be deemed to infringe an ...
  • David Boies Seeks BP Litigation Role
    Reuters reports that the Boies, Schiller & Flexner founder has submitted an application for a seat on a committee overseeing multidistrict litigation against the British oil giant and other corporate defendants related to the three-month oil spill stemming from an April explosion on a drilling rig ...
  • Patent Examiner Technical Training Program (PETTP) ...
    The USPTO is seeking public assistance in providing technical training to patent examiners within all technology centers. The Patent Examiner Technical Training Program (PETTP) is intended to provide scientists and experts as lecturers to patent examiners in order to update them on technical develo ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

  • Will the Netherlands rule high altitude wind?
    The country has three key ingredients: good technology, a cooperative government and really bad weather. High altitude wind uses tethered kites or planes at very high altitudes to generate electricity. Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? But so did solar and wind power in their infancy too. A Dutch company, D ...
  • California governor’s race. The nutty uncle vs the ...
    CalWatchdog, an investigative journalism site that tilts rightward, weighs in on the governor’s race. [Meg Whitman] says sheâs willing to stake a fortune on a candidacy in order to save the state. I just canât figure what ideas she has that will dramatically reform the state. Itâs that authent ...
  • Yet another sign Democrats are in deep trouble
    Liberal columnist Colin McEnroe of the Hartford Courant on Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumental’s campaign for Senate as a Democrat. Blumenthal should be coasting to victory against his Republican opponent, WWE magnate Linda McMahon, but he’s not. He was ahead by upwards of 32 points, now ...
  • Wave power finally comes to US
    An Ocean Power Technology power-generating buoy is now generating electricity off Hawaii. Most excellent!
  • Goodbye Karen
    In honor and in sorrow for our sister-in-law Karen Slater who died this morning much too young after a five year battle with cancer, which she fought against like a tiger and with a smile on her face. She lived three years longer than most thought possible and leaves behind her husband and a zillion ...

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 Libertarian Lexicon Redux
    In considering the confused relationship between libertarian anarchism and elitism, William A. Henry III’s book In Defense of Elitism sprung to mind. Though no one could mistake Henry for a libertarian, his book opened with an eloquent endorsement of an elitism that may not be inconsistent with th ...
  • "I Support the Troops" = "I Support Murder and Imp ...
    The banal platitude “support the troops” occupies a sacrosanct position beyond question in America, screened from debate more fanatically even than religion. Claiming opposition to war while supporting the troops (whatever that means) is silly enough no matter what a person’s social philosophy, bu ...
  • "But What About the Poor?"
    Libertarian appraisals of the pernicious relationship between the state, Big Business and its many relatives or subcategories (e.g., Big Pharma, Big Labor, Big Defense, Big Agriculture, and other things “Big” and hated) are often, as they should be, front and center in our attacks on the state. It ...
  • Antitrust and the Ultimate Monopoly
    Although antitrust law, perhaps like intellectual property law , would seem to many to be a soporific concern joined to few philosophically important questions, its consequences are far-reaching, and discussions of it are made more critical by the fact that it is so commonly misunderstood. If we t ...
  • State Worship as (the Most Practiced) Religion
    I typically ignore the numbers not because they’re unimportant, but because, although they—without exception—favor the anarchist cause, I think they can befog the more philosophical, ethical claims of anarchists, turning political debate into nothing more than a cost-benefit calculus. I’ve always ...

Media Co-Op

  • Victoria city council candidate is a sex offender
    Pedro Mora served time for sexual assault This fall, Victoria residents have a unique opportunity to decide if a convicted sex offender should represent them on city council. In a refreshingly-honest statement for an aspiring politician, Mora ...
  • 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 ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • What exactly is the USA?
    These are terrible times for many people in this country. Poverty, especially acute poverty, has soared in the economic slump; millions of people have lost their homes. Young people can’t find jobs; laid-off 50-somethings fear that they’ll never work again. Yet if you want to find real political rag ...
  • 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 ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • Few Sunscreens Shield From UVA Rays
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org Washington, D.C. – With fall here, millions of Americans are outside at football and soccer games, cross-country meets, school fairs, picking apples and raking leaves. As... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • 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. ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Government Funding Drug Companies to Make Vaccines ...
    The U.S. government plans to spend close to $2 billion in order to pay researchers and biotechnology companies to develop new drugs, vaccines and equipment to shorten the six- to nine-month time frame currently needed to make a flu vaccine. U.S. health officials plan to persuade more Americans to g ...
  • 93 Percent of Women Wash Their Hands Versus Only 7 ...
    A recent observational study found that 85 percent of adults washed their hands in public restrooms -- significantly less than the 96 percent of adults who say they do. Men do worse than women -- just 77 percent washed their hands, compared with 93 percent of women. However, both numbers are up -- ...
  • Deadlier than AIDS: Why is This Travesty Allowed t ...
    Following a� Lancet Infectious Diseases report of the spread of a new drug-resistant superbug spreading from south Asia, news agencies have reported "panic" over the germs' possible consequences. Writing in the Guardian , for example, editor and columnist Sarah Boseley said: “The era of antibio ...
  • Ugly Story Proves the Media is Lying to You About ...
    By Barbara Loe Fisher On October 17, 2009 I was at the Atlanta airport on my way back to Washington, D.C. when I stopped at a newsstand. Like most weary travelers waiting for a plane, I was looking for something to read that would give me a break from my work, which included, two weeks earlie ...
  • One in Six Patients Report Getting Wrong Diagnosis
    A new survey found that nearly one in six patients believed their physician had made a wrong diagnosis or a treatment error. Roughly one in seven had changed doctors as a result. In some cases, the doctor had not actually done anything wrong. But other cases suggested true errors -- one woman said ...

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

  • When it comes to style, Montreal has it
    Montreal Fashion Week doesn't have as high a public profile as August's Montreal Fashion & Design Festival. But the event going on now, aimed at the trade more than the public, is really the more important of the two. So it's good to see so much local talent on display.
  • Too many bureaucrats, too few caregivers
    The original figures, compiled by the Federation des medecins specialistes du Quebec, confirmed by the ministry Friday, and published in La Presse Tuesday, said that since 2000, administrative staff in the health network has increased by 52 per cent, management staff by 30 per cent, and fron ...
  • 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 ...

Food World Order

  • 9/30 binge & purge: 100% all-natural deception
    the nature conservancy & corporate donors: monsanto, nestle, altria & more * ben & jerry's taking 'all-natural' label off products * gm salmon frankenfish about to be unleashed into US food supply * ftc complaint charges deceptive advertising by pom * farmer, consumer outcry helping t ...
  • pacific northwest grocery stores setting up fake f ...
    from grist : Without a doubt, farmers markets have got a good thing growing . Unfortunately, sneaky copycats have been cropping up as they try to get their paws on the green that comes with that success. In June, Safeway supermarkets in Seattle set up stacks of fruits and veggies outside of their ow ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • As Americans Celebrate Labor Day 2010, U.S. Factor ...
    Labor Day 2010 comes in the midst of a stunning wave of U.S. factory closings that stretches from coast to coast.  Once upon a time America was the greatest manufacturing machine that the world has ever seen, but now it seems as though the only jobs available for working class Ameri ...
  • The Proof Is In The Numbers: America Is Getting Po ...
    How in the world can anyone claim that things are getting better?  Sometimes the numbers are so clear that they simply cannot be denied.  According to the U.S. Census Bureau, median household income in the United States fell from $51,726 in 2008 to $50,221 in 2009.  That was the sec ...
  • 30 Statistics That Prove The Elite Are Getting Ric ...
    Not everyone has been doing badly during the economic turmoil of the last few years.  In fact, there are some Americans that are doing really, really well.  While the vast majority of us struggle, there is one small segment of society that is seemingly doing better than ever.  This ...
  • Is The Federal Reserve Out Of Control? Markets Acr ...
    What in the world is going on over at the Federal Reserve?    Has it gotten to the point where the Federal Reserve is completely and totally out of control?  There is increasing speculation in the financial community that the Federal Reserve is on the verge of unleashing another rou ...
  • 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 ...

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