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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, September 4, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • MIDEAST: Ramadan Goes Down Under Rubble
    With power cuts up to 16 hours to full days, a soaring heat wave and unbearable humidity, the Israeli-led siege on Gaza is but one of many factors leaving Ramadan miserable for the majority of Palestinians in Gaza.
  • RUSSIA: New START May End With a Whimper
    Efforts by the U.S. and Russian governments to move speedily towards the abolition of strategic nuclear weapons have hit stumbling blocks and continue to generate debates among experts about the practicality of achieving a nuclear- free world in the near future.
  • PORTUGAL: Prominent Figures Sentenced in Child Sex ...
    A trial that dragged on for six years amidst public outrage ended Friday in Portugal with the unexpected sentencing of prominent personalities, found guilty in a child sex abuse scandal that shook the nation.
  • LATIN AMERICA: Ties with China Based on Commodity ...
    Exports from Latin America and the Caribbean will grow again this year, driven largely by demand from China. But the high proportion of commodities may increase dependency on China, and Asia as a region, warns a new report by ECLAC, the regional United Nations agency.
  • LATIN AMERICA: Ties with China Based on Commodity ...
    Exports from Latin America and the Caribbean will grow again this year, driven largely by demand from China. But the high proportion of commodities may increase dependency on China, and Asia as a region, warns a new report by ECLAC, the regional United Nations agency.

Scoop - NZ

  • German military warns of drastic oil crisis
    A study by a German military think tank has analyzed how "peak oil" might change the global economy. The internal draft document -- leaked on the Internet -- shows for the first time how carefully the German government has considered a potential energy crisis. The term "peak oil&quot ...
  • Local Businesses Turn to Grassroots Financing
    In the summer of 2008, business partners Jessica Stockton Bagnulo and Rebecca Fitting were making plans to open a bookstore in Brooklyn. Their chosen neighborhood, Fort Greene, was over the moon at the prospect. For years, residents had been clamoring for a bookstore, repeatedly citing it as their t ...
  • US Mortgage Brokers, a vanishing breed
    Most of the mortgage brokers that seemed to populate every office building and commercial street in cities nationwide just five years ago have vanished. Ken Blaudow, owner of Indy Mortgage had 85 employees originating home loans in 2003. Now he has three and is about to give up his leased office in ...
  • Murdoch media destabilising Gillard government ?
    Key sections of the Australian media, representing powerful corporate and financial interests, are voicing concerns that whatever the outcome of negotiations this week, the minority government that emerges from the election of a hung parliament will be unable to proceed with what have been dubbed &q ...
  • Greenpeace activists occupy Arctic oil rig
    After evading the massive security operation courtesy of the Danish navy, our activists are aboard an oil rig and suspended 15 meters above the frigid Arctic waters of Baffin Bay. They have taken up position on the drilling rig Stena Don to call for a ban on deep sea oil drilling in the Arctic, and ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Songbird secrets
    Talk about getting a bad rap. In the extensive scientific literature about songbirds, the purple martin has long been described as a leisurely migrant that takes its time each fall flying from breeding grounds in Canada and the northern United States to its winter home in Brazil or elsewhere in Sout ...
  • Playing with fire
    As one of the world’s most powerful natural forces, fire holds many different meanings to everyone. To some, it’s an instrument of destruction — and a cause for worry. For others, it means warmth during chilly weather, or just a way to roast marshmallows. But for George Hadjisophocleous, a Carleton ...
  • Painless parenting
    Taking a child to the emergency room or to get a routine immunization is an experience most parents dread. Instinctively, they seek to soothe their children by telling them that everything will turn out fine. But Dalhousie University researchers Meghan McMurtry and Christine Chambers have some surpr ...
  • Barcoding life
    Biologist Paul Hebert couldn’t believe his eyes when a colleague found a species of moth native to Mexico fluttering over the tundra at the fringes of Hudson Bay in Churchill, Man., one summer day in 2006. The huge black witch moth with a 20-centimetre wingspan had never before been found that far n ...
  • Building smarts

Signs of the times

  • Mexican politicians killed in plane crash
    Two Mexican politicians and at least three other died when their small plane crashed in southern Mexico, according to police. Guillermo Zavaleta and Juan Huerta, both members of Mexican President Felipe Calderon's National Action Party, died in the crash in Huatulco in the state of Oaxaca. The Ce ...
  • Pat Robertson: Fueling The Mosque Arson
    The planned relocation of a 30 year old Mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee has run into official difficulty, as well as arson and vandalism, after the 700 Club descended on the town. Having already obtained approval to build from the Rutherford County Commissioners, new concerns have been manufactur ...
  • Groups Hand-Deliver 180,000 Letters to FDA
    U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently received more than 180,000 hand-delivered letters from citizens concerned about proposed FDA action on antibiotic use in animals. These concerned citizens represent people who see a connection between the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture and an incr ...
  • The Silent Treatment: Massive Attack Boycotts Isra ...
    The movement for a cultural boycott of Israel in response to its treatment of the Palestinians, modelled on the boycott of apartheid South Africa, could eclipse decades of disingenuous political charades in engaging western intellectuals, academics and artists. Internationally renowned figures such ...
  • How To Tell Who Is Influencing Whom in a Group Dis ...
    A computer model that detects who is influencing whom in a group discussion, can accurately predict who is likely to speak next One fascinating question that occupies social scientists concerns groups discussions. The problem is to determine the nature of the interaction between individuals and in ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Tony Blair.
    Is just unfuckingbelievable. Apparently he's written a book . I can't regret the decision to go to war ... I can say that never did I guess the nightmare that unfolded," said Blair, referring to the years of political and sectarian bloodshed in Iraq that followed the invasion. "I have often refl ...
  • It would be nice if the staff at FOX News would cu ...
    The head of the Ontario Provincial Police says it is against policy for officers to pose as journalists to collect information on suspects, but he won't rule out the tactic. If I pretended to be a police officer to get information, I'd go to jail and rightfully so - you can't have people running aro ...
  • Oh Manitoba!
    You are flat, freezing for much of the year, flat and freezing, but definitely not dull . Naked photographs of a senior Manitoba judge engaged in bondage are part of a man's complaints to legal watchdogs about the judge's past and that of her husband, CBC News has learned . I wonder how long befo ...
  • Korycon . . .
  • Hurricane Earl and Tropical Storm Fiona - 312230Z
    The above video provides a graphic image of the size and power of Hurricane Earl. It comes in toward the end of the clip. About half way through you can see the edge of Hurricane Danielle making a recurve out toward the North Atlantic. Earl is undergoing an eyewall replacement cycle which has a t ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox News bullies organized labor in run-up to La ...
    Fox News figures have attacked labor unions in the days leading up to Labor Day, a national holiday originally created to honor the victories of the labor movement and the achievements of American workers. Fox News figures assail organized labor Beck: "I think the unions are like Biff," the b ...
  • Fox disappears right-wing media's role in forming ...
    While discussing the September 6 Newsweek cover that highlights the commonly held and often contradictory misconceptions about Obama, Fox News contributors Angela McGlowan and John Fund disappeared the right-wing media's role in spreading the misinformation and instead attributed the misconcept ...
  • Fox strains to tie Park51 to Hamas
    Fox & Friends �continued their attack on Islam and the Park51 project, this time by smearing a Park51 investor as a "terror contributor" because he once donated to a group that was later found to be linked to Hamas. However, his donation to the Holy Land Foundation came well before the government a ...
  • Right-wing media shamefully try to pin Discovery ...
    The right-wing media have shamefully attempted to tie James Lee, who created a hostage situation in a Discovery Channel building, to former Vice President Al Gore, due to Lee's statement that he was "awakened" after reading Gore's book An Inconvenient Truth . In fact, Lee, who criticized Gore' ...
  • Where are they now? Serial Iraq misinformers find ...
    During the run-up to the Iraq war, some of the worst purveyors of misinformation about Iraq had a home at Fox News, and their ranks have swelled considerably since then. Media Matters takes a look at the track record of wrong predictions and shoddy analysis about the war in Iraq by many of Fox ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • The Fate of Reader Blogs
    I know there's been a lot of conversation here over the last week about the fate of the Reader Blogs section of TPMCafe. I've been touch and heartened by all the things people have said, most particularly how much many of you value the community that exists here. I've given this a lot of thought o ...
  • The Great Jobs Depression Worsens, and the Choice ...
    The Great Jobs Depression continues to worsen. The Labor Department reports this morning that companies created ony 67,000 new jobs in August. That's down from the 107,000 they created in July. And because the government laid off temporary Census workers, the economy as a whole lost 54,000 jobs. ...
  • Feature to Reclaim or Change TPM User Name Coming ...
    When we introduced the new login and commenting systems last week, we immediately realized a lot of you were having trouble reclaiming your old user name or changing it once you had it. There were similar problems with your user pics -- what we refer to as "avatars." We immediately began to develop ...
  • Gone Viral: Anti-Muslim Hate Even On Nutrition Web ...
    So I'm innocently trying to find an article about the advantages or disadvantages of reducing carbohydrates as a means of preventing diabetes. Nice break from politics. I find this really interesting nutrition site, devoted to, what it calls, the "low carb lifestyle." I'm reading along, checki ...
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TruthOut

  • Dean Baker | Unemployment Edges Up to 9.6 Percent ...
    This report supports the case that unemployment is cyclical, not structural. The unemployment rate edged up to 9.6 percent in August as the economy shed 54,000 jobs. The decline was entirely attributable to the loss of 114,000 temporary Census jobs. Excluding these jobs, the economy created 60,000 ...
  • Department of Justice Sues Maricopa County Sheriff ...
    The US Justice Department (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against controversial Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday for alleged civil rights violations and refusal to cooperate with a federal probe. read more
  • News in Brief: Employees Bearing Higher Portion of ...
    Employees Bearing Higher Portion of Health Insurance Costs read more
  • Vermilion 380 Explosion Reignites Drilling Fears
    On Thursday, a manageable explosion on a Gulf Coast oil rig reignited fears founded by the BP spill and revived calls for a reassessment of the country's drilling policies. Just before 9 a.m. Thursday morning, the Vermilion Oil Rig 380 exploded . Unlike the Deepwater Horizon rig, this one was l ...
  • Pakistan: Floods Fail to Trigger Pro-Army Tide
    Altaf Hussain's call for a return of the generals in Pakistan came before the betting scandal of huge proportions currently rocking the cricket-crazy country. Otherwise, he might have cited the sports scam as an argument. He based his demand for undoing democracy, instead, on floods that have caused ...

Planetsave

  • Greenpeace Stops Arctic Drilling, Activists Under ...
    An amazing Greenpeace action to stop oil drilling in fragile Arctic waters has come to a close, but the activists are still in police custody after scaling an oil rig that “looked unclimbable” and spending over 40 hours “suspended above the churning Arctic waves through freezing winds.” In one of th ...
  • Ghost Nets Further Stress Overfished Oceans
    Oceans in the 21st century – overfished, mismanaged, played out The world fishing fleet is now two or three times what is needed to take the available ocean catch and sustainably manage global fisheries.  More than 100 million tons of fish are caught in fisherman’s nets every year. Yet researchers ...
  • Bill McKibben on The Late Show with David Letterma ...
    If you haven’t seen this yet, watch Bill McKibben‘s great appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman talking about a campaign to put solar panels back on the White House and the upcoming 10/10/10 Global Work Party (that you’re invited to) this October 10th, where millions of people around the ...
  • The Clean Energy Future is Now: Why Getting Off Fo ...
    This guest post is another great response to the recent oil fire in the Gulf of Mexico, the horrible BP oil spill, the Massey Energy coal mining disaster earlier this year, and potential dirty energy disasters we may see in the future if we don’t take action now. The author, Brian F. Keane, is presi ...
  • Oil Disasters on the Horizon if We Don’t Tak ...
    In a quick response to the newest oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, some environmental organizations have reiterated what they’ve been saying for a long time, and have sent out more opportunities to take action on the issue of dirty, unsafe energy now. One I received earlier today from the Defende ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Seeing a Time (Soon) When We’ll All Be Dieting - H ...
    Book review: THE COMING FAMINE - The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It, By Julian Cribb Fifty years ago, a billion people were undernourished or starving; the number is about the same today. That’s actually progress, since a billion represented a third of th ...
  • Eine Schande - Letters from Egypt
    Journal Entry #2 Eine Schande (A Disgrace) After the shameful Annapolis “peace talks”, I never thought I’d see more shameful and degrading talks such as the ones currently being conducted in Washington.� What “peace” is there to discuss?� The “peace” that comes through daily Israeli air stri ...
  • Bush'd again? New Orleans, Mr. O and Mr. Go - Unit ...
    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 River-Gulf Outlet...
  • Flying the flag, faking the news - Iraq
    Loud noises from Washington about a US pull-out from Iraq are a poor disguise for America’s determination to keep waging war. And the same sort of spin is at work here in Britain. Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, is said to have invented modern propaganda. During t ...
  • Ban Drone-Porn War Crimes - U.S. Military
    Editorial comment: Ron Rosenbaum is revealing a lot of facts that we need to know about in this important article, even though he might be slapped for failing to remind us of the fact that all U.S. wars after World War II have been strictly illegal, according to the Geneva...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Ongoing Relevance of the White House Email Fia ...
    A detailed report on the Bush administration's loss of millions of emails has been greeted as little more than a post mortem from several years ago. �Even if it was only that, though, it would deserve much more coverage than it has received - and it has serious implications for the present and futur ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Beck admits he lied. Will the mouth-breathers care? "After being called on a white lie he told during his Restoring Honor rally, Glenn Beck admitted Thursday that he stretched the truth because he "thought it would be a little easier." ... Beck had claimed that he held George Washington's handwritte ...
  • Maybe Money Can Grow on Trees
    Awhile back I wrote that much confusion about economics and the federal deficit was caused because people really don't understand what money is. �They think it's a "thing" when it's really just a "medium of transaction" that lets a market work, like the oil you put in a car that keep the parts movin ...
  • If the medium is the message, what does this tell ...
    I realized the awesome power of Twitter and social media last summer during the post-election protests in Iran. My friend Spencer Ackerman at that time proclaimed @PersianKiwi the most important journalist in the entire world during the uprisings. Here in the states we were able to help the proteste ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    "Constructive" translation: no bloodshed in front of Secretary Clinton. "Israeli and Palestinian leaders have held their first direct negotiations in nearly two years, in Washington. The US Middle East envoy said the talks, between Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, ...

Care 2

  • Nasa hopes to send a craft into the Sun's atmosphe ...
    Nasa is aiming to get closer to the Sun than ever before, with plans to plunge a car-sized unmanned spacecraft into the star's outer atmosphere. Submitted by Sophie Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Bob Cesca: Glenn Beck the Faith-Healer Continues t ...
    Throughout his gripping new book, The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama, reporter and blogger Will Bunch augments the notion that Glenn Beck is playing a fictional character. Submitted by Michelle Matthews to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-i ...
  • Redeem Care2 Credits With Clicks To Save Lives! - ...
    Care2 members can redeem and spend their built-up credit 'butterflies' with just a click of a mouse, in order to provide safe drinking water and rehydration salts to save lives, plant a tree, offset a pound of carbon, and take other necessary actions too Submitted by SirRobert THE FIFTH KNIGHT to He ...
  • BBC News - Wolf re-introduction fails to stop elks ...
    . Submitted by mick cave to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Human- like brain found in worm
    For the first time, a structure comparable to our cerebral cortex has been found in an invertebrate -- a humble marine ragworm. Submitted by Vivien Green to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

  • Unilateral Disarmament Has Destroyed the Democrats
    President Obama spent the first two years of his administration practicing political unilateral disarmament. He laid down his arms to reach out to Republicans, and they ripped his arms off and clubbed him over the head with them. This idea of playing patty-cakes with the Republicans is enormously na ...
  • Recessions and Recoveries: The Real Story
    There appear to be, roughly, three types of recessions. There are post-war recessions. These are easy to understand. There's an abrupt decline in military spending, demobilization reintroduces a large number of people into the work force, and businesses supplying the war machine need time to switc ...
  • What Will Become of Dick Cheney's Vice Presidentia ...
    � from FindLaw As the Bush/Cheney Administration headed toward its final days, with President George W. Bush busy planning his future presidential library, the story surfaced that Vice President Dick Cheney was not planning to send his Vice Presidential papers and records to the future Bush II archi ...
  • The F Word: Accepting Defeat in Iraq
    Everyone is spinning the Iraq mission's so-called end but no one seems willing quite to accept defeat. Republicans are complaining that the president didn't mention George W. Bush often enough in his speech announcing the end of combat operations. In fact, he did, quite a bit, and in an over-genero ...
  • Son of Sharron Angle
    As the Republican purge of serious candidates continues, and the Republican surge towards far-out extremism advances, it is now possible that Alaska will have two Democratic senators in the new Congress. Sarah Palin, who trails Mitt Romney in a recent presidential poll of Alaskans, has gotten her wi ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Dumbstruck Dems * Open Thread
    Check this out from Bloomberg News on August 30, 2010 (Update: I’ve added a video of the interview at the end.) Political newcomer Joe Miller, a Tea Party-endorsed Senate candidate [said] that politicians backed by the movement simply want to ârestore the constitutional foundation of the country ...
  • Will The DOJ End Up Suing Half The Country
    Over Immigration policies? Well, if a lot of people currently running for office win, I guess the DOJ will just have to since they all want to implement an Arizona-style immigration law. Yes, fully twenty-two (22) states are looking to incorporate Arizona’s law on their own books, as the report be ...
  • Health Care Reality Will Be Ongoing Economic Drag
    I have often thought that staying physically fit is not only a good way to live but also makes enormous economic sense as well. Not that staying fit will keep one’s healthcare premiums totally in check. The simple fact is the cost of healthcare insurance in our country is downright scary. The pace o ...
  • Well, That’s ONE Way To Improve The Economy& ...
    Esteemed Director of the UVA Center for Politics, Larry Sabato, is making some major predictions for the upcoming elections. Now, many of us are pretty sure how things are going to go, but Sabato is using some pretty good numbers to make his predictions sixty days out. Oh, yes, Republicans will ta ...
  • The Pentagon’s Double Envelopment of Preside ...
    Reprinted from Truthout.org with the express permission of of Larry’s longtime friend Mel Goodman, whose biography is at the end of this post. _______________________________________________ The "double envelopment" or pincer movement is a classic military maneuver that finds the flanks of the oppo ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • When Old Tires Become Amazing Sculptures
    Used car tires may not be the first thing you associate with outstanding art, but sculptress Chakaia Booker can make you think again. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Detroit's Mind Blowing Ice House
    Artists Holm and Radune wanted to highlight the problem of disused housing in Detroit and created an architectural installation that just blows you away. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Petronas Towers: The Tallest Twin Towers on Earth
    If you want to feel like you're on top of the world, the Petronas Twin Towers is the place to go. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 8 Old Wives Tales that are Actually True
    Old wives tales are often scoffed at but many have scientific evidence to show why you should listen to your mother. Take a look at some of the more surprising findings. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the arti ...
  • Intoxicating Microscopic Images of Alcoholic Drink ...
    Microscopic images of alcoholic drinks are breathtaking, even intoxicating. The following images were created by Michael Davidson and can be enjoyed on products by Bevsho read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Mariner Rig Accident Undercuts Efforts to End Dril ...
    As lawmakers call for new inquiries into Thursday's accident, oil industry executives say it will now be more difficult to lift the government's offshore drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico.
  • Scientists Criticize System of Certifying Fisherie ...
    A group of fisheries scientists argue that the Marine Stewardship Council, an influential body that ranks fish sources as sustainable, grants its seal of approval too easily. As a result, some fish populations may be more endangered than consumers believe.
  • Vietnam Raids Restaurants Selling Exotic Meats
    The crackdown by Vietnamese forestry officials is part of a broader effort to halt the illegal international trade in the meat of threatened species.
  • Report Says Heat, Not Smart Meters, Hiked Bills
    After Pacific Gas & Electric, the giant California utility, began installing smart meters in the state's Central Valley, the company was swamped with complaints from residents that their utility bills had spiked. But an independent review of the smart meters released Thursday found that the device ...
  • On Our Radar: Tibet's High-Altitude Meadows Disapp ...
    Tibet's high-altitude meadows disappear as global warming and overgrazing accelerate desertification. "Once the grasslands are destroyed, they rarely come back," a Chinese official says.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • 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 ...
  • LinkBatch for August 19th 2010: In-Q-Tel CIA front ...
    Let's start with the FDA's plan to kill everyone: Junk food-addicted rats chose to starve themselves rather than eat healthy food . Kind of amazed that the Iraq 'combat mission' officially ended, as this seven-year epic dominated my college experience & well basically shaped a whole era. But did FOX ...

Daily Censored

  • UNMAKING WAR, REMAKING MEN
    How Empathy Can Reshape Our Politics, Our Soldiers and Ourselves Forthcoming October, 2010 Recommended Read One day at a beach Kathleen Barry witnessed an accidental death. Seeing how empathy drew together the bystanders â strangers until that moment â in shared human consciousness, she asked: ‘ ...
  • How the World Changed: Symposium of Critical Think ...
    Presented by the International News Net. Worldwide Webcast/ http://howtheworldchanged.org/ WHERE: Walker Stage – 56 Walker Street, New York, NY WHEN: 12 noon on Sat. Sept. 11th through 6pm Sun. Sept. 12th This event will be web cast for viewers around the world! Check back soon for further details. ...
  • Testimony of a charter school mom: Michigan and th ...
    ONE PARENT’S TALE OF A CHARTER SCHOOL BETRAYAL: Michigan and the National Heritage Academies EMO  By: Gina Davis As I am hearing I am just one of millions of parents all across our country who are having their eyes opened to the fight we all need to get on the band wagon of, for the future [...]
  • Michigan neo-liberalism: creating the material con ...
     The picture is of the K12, Inc. group as they happily hear the news of their new contract to open a 65,000 student body cyber charter school in the state of Michigan. Neo-liberal policies and creating the new material conditions for privatized education: Grand Valley State University and the Citize ...
  • Things the President Left Out of His Big Speech
    Michael Collins I just read the presidents big speech tonight and it struck me.  There were some key lines left out of the speech.  You may have had the same response.  For the sake of clarity and fairness, I’ve tried to reconstruct the missing lines.  I’m sure that the omissions were just an ac ...

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    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...?
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    As reported in today's Daily Telegraph , proposed hike in capital gains tax aims to part-fund increase in tax allowances for those on lower incomes. David Cameron describes second homes as "not .... necessarily splendid" for the economy.

PDA AMERICA

  • More War Lies
    By David Swanson Lies aren’t used just to start wars, but also to escalate them, continue them, and even reduce or end them. And we got a pile of war lies from the ...
  • The Anti-Empire Report
    The Anti-Empire Report September 1st, 2010 by William Blum www.killinghope.org Things which don’t go away. Things the American government and media don’t let go of. And neither do I. Iraq “They’re leaving as heroes. I want them to walk home with pride ...
  • Quiet Time
    The week leading up to Labor Day is always a quiet time politically. This short respite is the perfect time to listen to the current installment of The Agitator: Voices of PDA, our final installment ...
  • The Agitator: Voices of PDA Episode 11 – Mor ...
    In this episode of Agitator Voices of PDA, we bring you more highlights from the Sixth Annual Grassroots Leadership Conference in Cleveland. Listen to Rep. Dennis Kucinich; Norman Solomon, Co-chair of the PDA ...
  • Veterans Walk the Country in Support of Constituti ...
    By Gil Halsted Published by Wisconsin Public Radio http://www.wpr.org/news/newsheadlines.cfm MADISON, Wisc.–Two Vietnam veterans are walking across the country to rally support for a new amendment to the U.S. Constitution. At their stop in Madison, the Monahan ...

Marler Blog

  • Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, new FSIS Chief speaks on non- ...
    William Neuman of the New York Times got Dr. Hagen on record this week in his article, “Beef Recall Heats Up Fight to Tighten Rules:” Dr. Hagen has yet to say publicly what she plans to do. But in a written statement provided to The New York Times, she said, “In order to best prevent illnesses and ...
  • Food Safety in the Bush and Obama years - Has ther ...
    We compiled a bit of data and some cool charts to try and see the differences between the last two years of the Bush administration and the first two years of the Obama term.� Download all the slides here - Obama v Bush
  • Food Safety News to provide $25,000 scholarship fo ...
    In less than two weeks (on September 14) the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, headed by Representatives Dingell (D-MI), Waxman (D-CA), and Stupak (D-MI), will hold what has become an annual event--yet another hearing on the failings of the food industry to provide consumers ...
  • USDA and FSIS, it is time to act on non-E. coli O1 ...
    The CDC estimates that "non-O157 STECs (like O26, O45, 0103, O111, O121, and O145) cause 36,700 illnesses, 1,100 hospitalizations and 30 deaths in America each year.” And, with the outbreak of E. coli O26 in Cargill hamburger that was announced last weekend, I frankly fail to see what more needs to ...
  • Will the Egg Man DeCoster join Parnell the Peanut ...
    At the PulseNet conference here in Chicago there was a lot of discussion as to what happened to Stewart Parnell, the CEO of the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), who was responsible for 714 ill and nine deaths, which until this DeCoster Egg recall, was one of the larger Salmonella outbreaks in re ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 09.03.10
    Tesla Roadster eligible for $38,000 clean energy rebate in Japan Not a bad discount, right? GM says Chevy Cruze Eco with an automatic will hit 36 mpg highway This slushbox won't hurt too bad ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 09.02.10
    Official: Volt production begins November 11 As predicted, so it is. Epic fail? Mitsubishi i-MiEV gets it charge from diesel generator during cross-Canada tour It's almost like EVs need to rec ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 09.01.10
    LA Auto Show preview: Infiniti to launch 2012 M35 hybrid Perhaps you've met its cousin, the Nissan Fuga hybrid? Smart's problems mean sales will likely be under 100,000 units for 2010 Next-g ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 08.31.10
    EPA finally issues proposed fuel economy labels for plug-in vehicles What's the grade? Future Leaf owners revolt over outrageous charger installation quotes Aerovironment is, thankfully, lis ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 08.30.10
    Mitsubishi admits to serious (likely) depreciation of i-MiEV In other news, Mitsubishi shoots itself in foot. Study: Average male drives extra 276 miles/year because he won't stop for directions ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Reporters' Roundtable: Checking in with Facebook a ...
    The new hotness in tech investing today is the location check-in app. From social services like Foursquare and Gowalla to shopping-focused business like Shopkick, investors love check-in. And why not? They're making money already, even though but a tiny fraction of the population has ever used a ...
  • CNET to the Rescue: Leave the world behind
    If you're heading out of town and leaving the electronic world behind, don't forget that your e-mail contacts, Facebook friends, and Farmville plants will still be expecting to see you around online, interacting with them. Here are some tips for managing your electronic world when you step away ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable: Net neutrality
    Today we're talking about an issue that's been in the news a lot in the past few days: Net neutrality -- the concept of a network infrastructure that is nondiscriminatory when it comes to types and sources and the content of Internet traffic. To support Net neutrality is to support freedom, o ...
  • CNET to the Rescue: How to look sharp
    We've got an interesting topic to talk about before getting into questions today. It's how to look good in your pictures. Dating site OkCupid has aggregated 11.4 million opinions on what its members classify as "great" or otherwise attractive photos. Listen now: Download today's podcast ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable: Security report on Black Ha ...
    We sent three reporters to the dual security conferences, Black Hat and Defcon , last week in Las Vegas. Each has a different coverage area and perspective: Elinor Mills is CNET's security reporter. Declan McCullagh covers government and policy, and Seth Rosenblatt is an editor and reviewer for C ...

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!

  • Eve Ensler: Bald, Brave and Beautiful
    Bald, brave and beautiful: Those words can’t begin to capture the remarkable Eve Ensler. She sat down with me last week, in the midst of her battle with uterine cancer, to talk about New Orleans and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Eve, the author of the hit play "The Vagina Monologues" and the cr ...
  • Watch: Muslim Taxi Driver Attacked in Hate Crime S ...
    New York City Taxi Driver Ahmed Sharif and his supporters hold a press conference on the steps of City Hall on August 26th, just days after he was attacked by a passenger for being Muslim. Speakers include Ahmed Sharif, Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, and CAIR-NY Civil Rights ...
  • Rotten Eggs and Our Broken Democracy
    What do a half-billion eggs have to do with democracy? The massive recall of salmonella-infected eggs, the largest egg recall in U.S. history, opens a window on the power of large corporations over not only our health, but over our government. While scores of brands have been recalled, they all ...
  • Amy Goodman on CNN's John King, USA tonight at 7 p ...
    Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King, USA , on Monday, August 23rd at 7pm Eastern Time.
  • WATCH: Amy Goodman on CNN's John King, USA
    Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman appeared on CNN’s John King, USA , on Friday, August 20th at 7pm Eastern Time.

Farming Pathogens

  • 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 ...
  • Influenza’s Historical Present
    I delivered the following speech, co-written with economic geographer Luke Bergmann, at the NIH-FAO-sponsored ‘Second International Workshop on Community-based Data Synthesis, Analysis and Modeling of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 in Asia’ held in Beijing earlier this month. The speech is b ...
  • The Alan Greenspan Strain
    First, a question with which few biogeographers bother. If a goodly chunk of their discipline is dedicated toward obfuscating the impact capitalism imposes on the natural world (discussed here and here), how can researchers interested in paying their bills study the crises that threaten the croupier ...
  • King Leopold’s Pandemic
    The origins of HIV offer a great example of the ways treating human impact as an afterthought—discussed in our previous post—locks the study of pathogens into limited and oftentimes downright drunken trajectories. In 2006 Beatrice Hahn and her colleagues identified the likely source for the SIVcpz p ...

Suzie-Q

  • Glenn Beck Admits Lying During Rally Speech (VIDEO ...
    Glenn Beck Admits Lying: ‘I Thought It Would Be A Little Easier’ (VIDEO) Huff Post- First Posted: 09- 3-10 12:09 PM   |   Updated: 09- 3-10 04:23 PM After being called on a white lie he told during his Restoring Honor rally, Glenn Beck admitted Thursday that he stretched the truth because he “ ...
  • Justice Department Sues Sheriff Joe For Not Cooper ...
    Justice Department Sues Sheriff Joe For Not Cooperating With Investigation TPM Muckraker Ryan J. Reilly | September 2, 2010, 12:33PM The Justice Department on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona for refusing to fully cooperate with ...
  • Will Glenn Beck’s Creepy “Black Robe R ...
    Will Glenn Beck’s Creepy “Black Robe Regiment” Use Churches to Sway Voters? Though Beck keeps insisting that his “Black Robe Regiment” won’t be about endorsements, two members say their mission is to return to their churches and boost voter involvement. Media Matters for America / By Joe Strupp Sept ...
  • DOJ Investigating Anti-Muslim Incidents
    DOJ Investigating Anti-Muslim Incidents TPM Muckraker Rachel Slajda | September 2, 2010, 1:43PM The Department of Justice is investigating two recent, high-profile anti-Muslim incidents, TPMmuckraker confirms. A DOJ spokeswoman says the department has opened investigations into the attack on a Musli ...
  • Glenn Beck the Faith-Healer Continues to Scam His ...
    Throughout his gripping new book, The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama, Philadelphia Daily News reporter and blogger Will Bunch augments the notion that Glenn Beck is playing a fictional character named “Glenn Beck.” A faker. Specifically, ...

Solari

  • White House Considers Pre-midterm Package of Busin ...
    By Anne E. Kornblut and Lori Montgomery With just two months until the November elections, the White House is seriously weighing a package of business tax breaks - potentially worth hundreds of billions of dollars - to spur hiring and combat Republican charges that Democratic tax policies hurt smal ...
  • Quote du Jour
    -- “I found out something I never knew. I found out that my world was not the real world.” Robert Kennedy , speaking about the assassination of his brother, John F. Kennedy -- -- -- -- -- -- Catherine Austin Fitts’ Blog Commentaries YouTube How Many Unexplained Deaths Will We Tolerate? (16 Sept 1 ...
  • September DOL-Treasury Hearings on Options For Ret ...
    The U. S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) and the Department of the Treasury today announced a joint public hearing on Sept. 14, 2010, and if necessary on Sept. 15, to hear testimony on several specific issues relating to lifetime income and other arrangements ...
  • The Unhealthy Truth
    Read How One Mother’s Shocking Investigation into the Dangers of America’s Food Supply– and What Every Family Can Do to Protect Itself The Unhealthy Truth By Robyn OâBrien Continue reading the article . . .
  • Disturbing Debt Seizures
    Minnesotans struggling with debt have their bank accounts and pay seized with no judicial oversight. By Chris Serres and Glenn Howatt After two weeks without a decent meal, Van Tran looked tired and agitated as he walked into the Ramsey County courtroom for a hearing in May. Tran, 55, a janitor an ...

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

  • Death of the seas from CO2 acidification
    Summary:  The lastest scary stories from scientists.  Real data, reliable projections, but does that make the story plausible?  Part 1 of a  series. An introduction to the problem Atmospheric CO2 concentrations oscillated between 200 and 280 parts per million (ppm) over the 400,000 years before the ...
  • America takes another step towards war with Iran, ...
    Summary:  All we need do is to strike Iran with all our hatred, and our journey towards the dark side will be complete. After years of propaganda the US population has become eager for war, much like the people of Europe were in 1914.  The wars of the 20th century and the first decade of the [...]
  • What do our Constitution-loving conservatives say ...
    Summary:  The government asserts the right to kill US citizens without warrant or trial.  Few liberals show any interest in fighting this.  But we can count on Constitution-loving conservatives to defend our rights.  Or perhaps not. Prohibition of extrajudicial killing of citizens by the government ...
  • New and strange developments in the prosecution of ...
    Summary:  The accusations against Wikileaks’ director Julian Assange grows even stranger.  Since it’s bizarre, perhaps an info op by the US government, the mainstream media gives it little coverage.  Nothing to see here, sheep.  Move along. Background:  Two ex-girlfriends file rape charges in S ...
  • Every day the Constitution dies a little more
    Summary:  Next steps in the legal battle to preserve the most basic of Constitutional rights, stopping the government from executing citizens as it pleases.  Without even the pretense of warrants or trials.  A follow-up to Another step towards fascism: âSilencing the Lawyersâ and Code red! ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Chinese warships end first Burma visit
    BBC – Two Chinese warships have completed a first ever trip to Burma. The five-day visit, by two ships in China’s anti-piracy taskforce, highlighted China’s growing naval reach and its close ties with Rangoon. China also says it will receive a visit next week from the head of Burma’s military gover ...
  • Taxpayers likely to face initial loss on GM IPO: s ...
    Reuters – The U.S. government is likely to take a loss on General Motors Co in the first offering of the automaker’s stock, six people familiar with preparations for the landmark IPO said. Subsequent offerings of the government’s holdings may be profitable depending on how investors trade the newly ...
  • Syria Moves to Curb Influence of Muslim Conservati ...
    New York Times – This country, which had sought to show solidarity with Islamist groups and allow religious figures a greater role in public life, has recently reversed course, moving forcefully to curb the influence of Muslim conservatives in its mosques, public universities and charities. The gove ...
  • Link between bone drugs and oesophageal cancer
    BBC – Long-term use of bone-strengthening drugs – used to treat fractures – may boost the risk of oesophageal cancer, Oxford University research suggests. The study of 3,000 people found taking bisphosphonates for five years upped the risk from one in 1,000 to two in 1,000 for 60 to 79-year-olds. Th ...
  • FBI paid informant in Bronx synagogue bomb plot $9 ...
    New York Daily News – The jury in the Bronx synagogue bomb plot case was told Wednesday that the informant who provided the four suspects with phony bombs and missiles was paid $97,000 by the FBI. The FBI gave Pakistani immigrant Shahed Hussain $44,000 for expenses and $53,000 for “his services” ove ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • RAIMD: Antonio on Lowkey’s ‘Obama Nation’
    Music review from RAIM-Denver: (raimd.wordpress.com) [Last week, we posted the video, Obama Nation, the new single from UK hip-hop artist, Lowkey. The video itself generated some discussion which can be viewed below. Here is a comment by a RAIMer, Antonio, analyzing the content of the song:] Lowkey ...
  • Cholera epidemic, a symptom of underdevelopment in ...
    Cholera epidemic, a symptom of underdevelopment in Nigeria and the Third World (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Cholera has killed 87 and infected 1,315 over the past month in Nigeria. The two northern states affected most are Bauchi and Borno. In Bauchi alone 47 are dead and 1,200 infected. Born ...
  • O sekciarstwie
    O sekciarstwie (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (Polski) (English) „Drodzy trzecioświatowi maoiści, Wasza strona internetowa jest sekciarska. Krytykujecie tak wiele innych grup. Jak można traktować was poważnie? * Dziękujemy za twoje pytanie. Wielu liberałów bierze krytykę wobec innych grup za de ...
  • A spy and the use and abuse of history
    A spy and the use and abuse of history (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Poland is likely to extradite Uri Brodsky to Germany. Uri Brodsky  is suspected of being part of an Israeli death squad that has recently been in the spotlight. The Israeli agent, likely a member of a Mossad hit team, was inv ...
  • Israel “purchasing” advanced aircraft from U.S. fo ...
    Israel âpurchasingâ advanced aircraft from U.S. for Use Against Iran (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Israel is purchasing roughly 20 F-35I strike jets from the United States. Four billion dollars will be used to purchase the Lockheed Martin “Joint Strike Fighters,” along with services, parts ...

PakAlert

  • 10 films the US Government would rather you not se ...
    These are 10 films that I believe if watched by the majority of US citizens there would be demands of impeachment, a push to pull out of Afghanistan/Iraq and a complete shift in thought or at the very least some questioning of the government.
  • William Cooper – Exposing the Illuminati Dajjal Go ...
    This is a short yet important video presenting Bill Cooper's 9/11 prediction, rare 9/11 footage and audio from his book "Behold a Pale Horse" and the Illuminati agenda. Bill Cooper was one of the top conspiracy researchers, he was active on exposing the Illuminati (secret government) and most import ...
  • Fidel Castro: Osama bin Laden Worked for CIA
    Fidel Castro has more reason than most to believe conspiracy theories involving dark forces in Washington. After all, the CIA tried to blow his head off with an exploding cigar.
  • Gerald Celente: Economic Collision Course The ‘Cra ...
    Following the "Panic of '08" and the subsequent "Great Recession," Washington, Wall Street and the media united to promote the belief that extreme crisis management measures enacted by governments had rescued the world, and staved off even worse disaster. "Recovery" was in the air. "Recovery" was ...
  • Pakistan in HAARP-watersnood: Een nieuwe zet op he ...
    De grote machten achter de schermen van het wereldtoneel, hebben hun eigen -uiterst geheime- agenda. Een van de grootste wapens in de wereld is het HAARP systeem in Alaska (en waarschijnlijk andere delen van de wereld). Dit systeem is tot heel heftige zaken in staat. Wij wijzen je graag op diverse ...

Andy Worthington

  • Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Freed in Libya After Three ...
    On Tuesday evening — the day before Colonel Muammar Gaddafi marked the 41st anniversary of the coup that brought him to power — 37 political prisoners were released from the notorious Abu Salim prison in Tripoli, site of a brutal massacre of prisoners in 1996, when up to 1,200 men were murdered. Alt ...
  • First Glimpse of Guantánamo Prisoners’ Art
    I hesitate to do anything that might create the impression that Guantánamo is a humane, well-functioning prison, because it is, of course, an experimental project in detention without charge or trial, in which the men held have no idea of when, if ever they will be released. In this particular respe ...
  • The Blair Bitch Project: But Behind the Savaging o ...
    OK, I admit that the heading is more accurate in relation to Tony Blairâs sniping at Gordon Brown in his recently released memoir than it is to the issues that really concern us here — Iraq, Guantánamo, and the âWar on Terrorâ — but I couldnât resist using it. So what are Blairâs revelati ...
  • New London Screening of “Outside the Law: Stories ...
    After a summer hiatus, the first in a series of autumn screenings of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” the documentary film directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthington, takes place at 11 am on Sunday September 12 at the Renoir Cinema in the Brunswick Centre, London WC1 (nearest tube Russel ...
  • No Surprise at Obama’s Guantánamo Trial Chaos
    Surprise is the last thing that anyone ought to feel on hearing the news that the Obama administration “has shelved the planned prosecution,” in a trial by Military Commission, “of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged coordinator of the Oct. 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole in Yemen,” as the Wash ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • The Root Of The Problem: Education
    From former New Milford raised a glass and brewed Todd Umbarger and without further comment since it says enough on its own (and I could add an essay to this BUT...) : click on this for larger With previous permission from Todd Umbarger . Todd is a New York-based illustrator and draws the politi ...
  • Add hawk
    I’m a regular citizen. I love my town, I love my town’s school system. I hate arbitrarily high taxes, and I hate wasting time and money. Like most people, I have ideas on how things in my town could be improved. But I’m not an elected official, or a personal friend of the mayor, and I don’t have ...
  • Is Walter Bayer a DINO?
    Walter Bayer was at the Republican fundraiser for Probate Judge Martin Landgrebe last night. He appeared to be meeting and greeting like a member of the "R" crowd. And you can sometimes find him tipping back a beverage with Roger Szendy and other "R's" at local watering holes. Considering how eas ...
  • Simmons Running Senate Ads
    Considering Simmons is running neck and neck with Linda McMahon in the primaries even after he dropped out of the race. Why not? From The Day: Rob Simmons, who halted his campaign for the Republican Senate nomination after losing the party endorsement to former WWE CEO Linda McMahon, will begin ai ...
  • No Big Surprises In the Latest CT Gov Race Q-Poll
    The latest KWIN-uh-pe-ack© numbers are out for the CT-Gov race of 2010 and ctblogger looks at the data overall and the questions a bit , while Ct Bob looks at the inside game of the likely voter numbers . Needless to say, the numbers look good for the Democratic party candidates no matter how it go ...

SPL Center

  • Author Interview: Journalist Probes ‘Backlash’ Und ...
    After Barack Obama’s 2008 election as the nation’s 44 th president, the Tea Party movement sprang up, as did increasingly shrill assertions that the president was a socialist, a communist, a Muslim and more. Gun-rights advocates fretted that the new administration would impose draconian gun controls ...
  • A Kinder, Gentler Lou Dobbs?
    Ever since he was bounced from his high-profile gig at CNN nearly nine months ago, we have seen a kinder, gentler Lou Dobbs than the commentator who became synonymous with vilifying undocumented immigrants. The latest from Dobbs came this week, when he told Megyn Kelly at Fox News and George Stephan ...
  • Racists Need Funds to Give Terrorist a Viking Fune ...
    So many causes, so little money. With groups beseeching us for financial help to find cures for diseases, to protect the environment, to help the less fortunate and so forth, it can be tough to decide to whom and what to dole out donations. And now this: An appeal for money so that a murderous terro ...
  • Anti-Latino Hate Crimes Seen From Baltimore to Ari ...
    Record-breaking high temperatures have been the norm this summer in the United States and other countries. But for Latinos, it’s been even hotter than the thermometer suggests, with one after another targeted for hate crimes around the country. Here’s a sampling of recent incidents: Early last Satu ...
  • Little Pulaski, Tenn., to Suffer Through Another R ...
    Although it’s a small town of about 7,800, Pulaski, Tenn. may well be the white supremacist epicenter of the nation — at least if the number of rallies held there by bigoted groups is any indication. The mayor and other residents aren’t pleased. “There’s never been a local person involved in these m ...

change: org.

  • Sen. Lincoln's Farm "Aid" Plan Falls Flat
    Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas must be feeling pretty bummed – her proposed $1.5 billion in farm “aid” may be nixed by the White House after all. Lincoln, chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee who is gearing up for a tough re-election battle this fall, has been fighting for the funds since Jul ...
  • Better Business Bureau Warns Against Shady Breeder ...
    The Better Business Bureau says they haven't been able to resolve more than half the complaints they received against Texas dog breeders over the past three years. It's not for lack of trying; it's the lack of regulation and enforcement that gets in their way. Earlier this year, the U.S. Department ...
  • John Bolton and His Moustache Support Gay Marriage
    Controversial former UN Ambassador John Bolton caused the political chattering classes to perk up this week, when he mentioned that he might be considering a run for President in 2012. My, what a colorful candidacy that would bring. War hawk views mixed with the most powerful moustache in politics. ...
  • Fox News' Family Values Guest Compared Dr. Tiller ...
    Just because Fox News regularly scrapes the bottom of the barrel in providing offense and biased content, doesn't mean they shouldn't be held accountable for a single thing they do. There is such a thing as "crossing a line," even for them. That's why Change.org Gay Rights Editor Michael A. Jones wa ...
  • In Somalia, Pirates Are About More Than Just Booty
    In war-torn Somalia, where civil strife has claimed the lives of over 100 people in just the past 10 days, strange partnerships seem to be forming. Local government officials, who had previously aimed to take on the problem of piracy in their zones, are now turning to pirates for help. The pirates s ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Feds Warn Residents Near Wyoming Gas Drilling Site ...
    by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica The federal government is warning residents in a small Wyoming town with extensive natural gas development not to drink their water, and to use fans and ventilation when showering or washing clothes in order to avoid the risk of an explosion. read more
  • NATO Probes Afghan Civilian Deaths Claims
    KUNDUZ, Afghanistan - An Afghan official said Thursday that 10 election campaigners had been killed in an airstrike by international forces in the relatively peaceful north of the country. Two other people, including a candidate in the September 18 parliamentary elections, were injured in the allege ...
  • Greenpeace Activists Arrested After Abandoning Occ ...
    by Severin Carrell, Scotland correspondent Four Greenpeace activists who halted drilling by a British-owned oil exploration rig off Greenland have been arrested after they abandoned their occupation because of severe weather. Greenlandic police arrested the four after high winds buffeted the Stena D ...
  • The Great Jobs Depression Worsens, and the Choice ...
    by Robert Reich The Great Jobs Depression continues to worsen. The Labor Department reports this morning that companies created ony 67,000 new jobs in August. That's down from the 107,000 they created in July. And because the government laid off temporary Census workers, the economy as a whole lost ...
  • Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill’s 30-Year Legacy
    by Matthew Berger WASHINGTON - A surprisingly small number of scientists have studied the impacts of the oil spill resulting from the 1979 blowout at the Ixtoc I oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Wes Tunnell, who first studied the spill's effects in July and August of 1980 and has returned many times s ...

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

  • Dave Johnson: Labor Day: Labor Got It Right -- Who ...
    "Who could have known?" That's the cry from the big-corporate and DC elite as the economy and the environment and so many imporant things crash...
  • 6 initiatives, 1 referendum up for vote
    OLYMPIA -- Washington voters could reshape the state's budget outlook for the next couple of ye
  • Talks of Pontiac layoffs continue
    The talk at Pontiac City Hall of a possible 51 layoffs suggested by Mayor Leon Jukowski hasn’t cooled since the city’s Pension Board voted down a request to investigate the legality of transferring funds to help cover the costs of retiree health care.
  • Doyon Utilities Selects NorthStar Utilities Soluti ...
    Doyon Utilities (Fairbanks, Alaska) selected NorthStar Utilities Solutions' MeterSense MDMS as part of their ongoing project with the US Army to study utility energy management at three military bases in Alaska. NorthStar's MeterSense MDMS system will empower the military with utility usage informat ...
  • Free up more information, governments urged
    Canada’s information and privacy commissioners are calling on all governments – provincial, territorial and federal – to put more information on the public record, making it easier for citizens to access.

Guardian

  • 6 million hit by tax errors
    Around 1.4 million taxpayers owe up to £5,000 after computer system finds PAYE underpayments totalling £2bn Nearly 6 million people in the UK are to be told they have paid the wrong amount of tax, with some facing bills demanding up to £5,000 in extra payments. Around 1.4 million people will be told ...
  • Eggs and shoes thrown at Blair
    Former prime minister attacked by anti-war protesters in Dublin as he promotes memoirs Violence has broken out at the first public signing for Tony Blair's memoirs, with anti-war protesters hurling shoes and eggs at the former prime minister. The projectiles did not hit Blair as he arrived at a book ...
  • Fashion Statement: Banned adverts
    For a unique take on the world of fashion, sign up to the Guardian's fashion email and get all the latest news delivered straight to your inbox FASHION DILEMMA What does it take to get a fashion advert banned? It was only a few weeks ago that Julianne Moore found herself shamefully cast into our Fas ...
  • Blair gives TV interview in Ireland
    In his only live TV interview since his memoirs were published, he tried to convince the audience of his motivations for the Iraq war Tony Blair tried to bury his "toxic legacy" last night by flying to Ireland to appear on The Late Late Show. In his only live TV interview since his memoirs were publ ...
  • Andy Coulson 'lied' over phone hacking – reporter
    • Pressure mounts as No 10 spin doctor's ex-colleague speaks • Tessa Jowell says phone was hacked 28 times • Prominent figures to sue Met for lack of warning Andy Coulson, the No 10 communications chief, found himself in the direct line of fire in the News of the World phone hacking scandal tonight ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Mea culpa and au revoir
    As several readers have pointed out in comments on my previous post , and several more by e-mail, I made a schoolboy howler in this week's article about how rice yields are responding to temperature rise in Asia. There are 101 reasons I could bore you with as to why it happened, but essentially it ...
  • Delivering biochar's triple win
    Last year, there seemed to be an unwritten rule in enviro-circles: whenever two or more enviro-folks were gathered together in a place of meeting, talk must turn to biochar . Accounts would be exchanged of articles half-read and half-digested...the pros would be arrayed against the cons...the words ...
  • Noaa: The right answer to the wrong question?
    While listening to the latest briefing on the Gulf of Mexico oil leak , I've been wondering whether the questions being answered are the right ones. The key factoid presented by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) is that about three-quarters of the 4.9 million barrels that e ...
  • An equal partnership with the land?
    The journal Nature this week debates one of the most important questions of our age: how can we feed the Earth's growing population such that no-one goes hungry and nature is left with some land and water of its own? Being a science journal, you'll not be surprised to hear that one of the things it ...
  • Climate campaigns down the pan
    Apologies issued by two campaign groups, WWF and Oxfam , may or may not bring to a close one of the more bizarre yet telling episodes that have materialised within the UN climate convention. At the convention's annual two-week session in June in Bonn , activists removed the nameplate of the Saudi A ...

The Wonk Room

  • Citing No Data, Gary Bauer Claims Two-State Scenar ...
    Last week, the pro-Israel, pro-peace group J Street successfully shamed the neocon Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI) into finally endorsing a two-state solution, which they had previously refused to do. In Politico today, however, ECI board member Gary Bauer shares his concerns with the two-state ...
  • Deficit Fraud Kirk Proposes Tiny Spending Reductio ...
    When we last encountered Illinois’ Republican Senate candidate Mark Kirk, he was scaring farmers into thinking that they’re going to have to pay the estate tax, when it affects just 1.6 percent of farm estates. And Kirk isn’t any more concerned about the details when it comes to federal spending, if ...
  • Associated Press Debunks The ‘Birth Tourism& ...
    Earlier this summer, when Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suggested that he may try to amend the Constitution to deny the American-born children of undocumented immigrants citizenship, he argued that “[p]eople come here to have babies. They come here to drop a child. It’s called ‘drop and leave.’” Graha ...
  • As The Employment Slog Continues, Successful Jobs ...
    Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released another report showing that job-creation continues to slog along at a less-than-encouraging pace. The economy lost 54,000 jobs in August (though 67,000 private sector jobs were created) and the unemployment rate remained essentially unchanged. June and ...
  • Financial Reform Rulemaking Gets Underway With Meg ...
    One of the legitimate criticisms of the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill that passed this year is that it leaves a lot of the details of reform up to regulators, instead of laying out hard-and-fast rules. There are pros and cons to this approach, but one of the big drawbacks is that the r ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Hypocritical Bullshit
    Here's what Admiral Mike Mullen had to say about Julian Assange and the Wikileaks exposure of military information on the war in Afghanistan. Disagree with the war all you want, take issue with the policy, challenge me or our ground commanders on the decisions we make to accomplish the mission we ...
  • Thanks to last batch of comments ...
    ... among them, Alison, Eugene and Simon, ... but I've been crushed by a mountain of work. Thanks for your contributions, and perhaps I'll be able to respond to them soon, unless another government atrocity occurs and my focus changes. To keep the blog alive, ... I do the traditional YouTube link: ...
  • Bleak
    That's all.
  • Bankrupt Politics
    I would say that there's now only a few millimetres separating Canada's dismal political culture from the thoroughly debased political culture in the United States. I'm linking to this Glenn Greenwald article about the morass of US politics simply because it's so well written and insightful: There a ...
  • Sympathy For The Devil?
    Okay, somebody can correct me if I'm wrong, I don't follow Canadian personalities as much as I do Miley Cyrus, but there's some half-witted shit-back named Kory Tennuckooluck or something, who wants to bring Glenn Beck to Canada so that he can fellate him and then they can both snort cocaine off of ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • New York court orders reinstatement of whistleblow ...
    A New York State appellate court has ordered the�New York City Department of Transportation to reinstate whistleblower John Tipaldo. When Tipaldo reported that his superiors violated bidding rules, we was demoted from his position as Acting Assistant Commissioner for Planning. That was in 1996. In 2 ...
  • Harper's reports on yet another whistleblower pros ...
    Harper's Magazine is publishing a report by Scott Horton on yet another prosecution for releasing information. Called " Obama's War on Whistleblowers ," the article focuses on the prosecution of Steven Kim, a scholar of North Korea’s nuclear program. Since Kim did consulting work for the State Depar ...
  • DOL issues new regulations for whistleblower cases
    Today the Department of Labor has issued new regulations for whistleblower claims under four new laws. These laws include two laws included in the 2007 law that adopted recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, the National Transit Systems Security Act (NTSSA) and the Federal Railroad Safety Act (FRSA ...
  • NWC Executive Director Appears on C-Span
    Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center , appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal. He talked about legislative efforts to protect congressional employees who report corruption, waste and other violations committed by Members of Congress. "Everyone loves a whistle ...
  • Katrina documentary in theaters for one-night only
    Five years after Hurricane Katrina a new feature-length documentary “The Big Uneasy” is taking a look at the true cause of the disaster. Humorist and New Orleans resident Harry Shearer speaks to an Army Corp of Engineers whistleblower who reveals that “some of the same flawed methods responsible for ...

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

  • Lessons In Smart Trademark Management: Free Licens ...
    A year and a half ago, we noted how nice it was to see Twitter's rather laissez-faire attitude towards trademarks , where it seemed to have no problem with third parties making use of Twitter-related terms in their own names -- such as TwitPic, Stocktwits, Tweetdeck and many others. So, at first I ...
  • Did Activision Violate Arnold Schwarzenegger's Pub ...
    Ah, the fun never stops with the still ambiguous world of publicity rights , a relatively recent, but growing field of "intellectual property" that has all sorts of problems. THREsq points us to a legal analysis of whether or not California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger would have a publicity righ ...
  • MLB Using Trademark To Decapitate Fan Promotion Of ...
    Major League Baseball is notorious for it's incredibly over aggressive enforcement of copyright and trademark laws, often well-beyond what is reasonable. Reader Mark alerts us to MLB's latest move, which is to demand that a flugtag team from Philadelphia remove the head of the Philly Fanatic that i ...
  • German Court Says YouTube Has To Pay Because A Use ...
    Just after a court ruling saying that YouTube did not have to rush and takedown videos covered by German collection society GEMA, but warning that YouTube could very well lose during a full trial, it appears that a German court has ordered YouTube to pay up , because some users uploaded videos of si ...
  • Eminem Wins Appeal Over Universal Music: iTunes Do ...
    Well, well, well. A few years back, we noted that Eminem's publisher was upset about the royalty cut they were getting from sales on iTunes, and they eventually sued both Apple and Universal Music over this (though, I'm still confused why Apple is involved). The issue is a contractual one: as is s ...

VacTruth

  • Epidemic of vaccine suspensions worldwide, as adve ...
    This year alone, has seen India suspend the Measles vaccine, the Cervical cancer vaccine and the HIB vaccine, Australia, the Flu vaccine, Sweden, the Swine Flu vaccine along with Finland and the USA, Switzerland and Jordan, the Rotavirus vaccine. What is going on? Last year the world faced a 'so ca ...
  • India halts vaccine programme after the deaths of ...
    The four children were reported to have fainted soon after they were vaccinated and witnesses reported seeing the children's eyes roll back as they began to have seizures.
  • Part II: Rockefeller Vaccine Secret Revealed
    Many people understand the Rockefellers, along with corporate interests, manipulate the United States money supply through the private Federal Reserve Bank. The Rockefeller Institution also had heavy influence pushing through a vaccine as the only answer to the false-flag polio epidemic.
  • Penn and Teller kick out at anti vaccine lobby
    In a recently released video 'Penn and Teller Bullshit – Vaccination', the pair of magicians Penn and Teller, use their usual male chauvinistic and pratt like abilities, to go all out to prove to the world that vaccines are safe, that they have eradicated illnesses, that they are super efficient and ...
  • Autistic girl uses laptop to break silence
    A child displaying autistic behaviours suddenly, at aged eleven, broke out of her autistic state and with the help of a computer, describe exactly what was making her act in this way. Here suddenly was the breakthrough that scientists have been waiting for.

BroadSnark

  • Is Universal Possible?
    A couple weeks ago, I went to a forum at Cato called Are Liberty and Equality Compatible?.  (Cato, meh.  Free lunch, score!)  The short story is that James P. Sterba was trying to find a way to squeeze a liberal philosophy into a libertarian mold.  What he came up with was this: 1.  Libertarians bel ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Hello all.  Sorry that I disappeared again last week.  I had every intention of posting while on vacation, but once we busted out that bottle of vodka on the train up there, it was pretty much over.  Who was I kidding? If you haven’t seen it already, the results of the anarchist survey are in.  ...
  • Wondering About Wage Labor
    I generally stay away from economics, as I’m still doing my 101.  But I’ve been pondering some things and hope you might share your wisdom with me. If you read my post on How I Became an Anarchist, you know that it was facing the corrupting influence of organizational hierarchies that finally pushe ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Really important post over at Womanist Musings on the rape of an elderly woman and how we treat rape in general – in society, in the media… Read it. And then there are the perpetrators.  Or are they victims? Smoke em if you got em, ladies.  Looks like weed might treat breast cancer. Speaking of sm ...
  • Who Will Notice?
    I met a Palestinian woman who came to the United States for her graduate degree.  She picked the U.S. because she wanted to see imperialism from the inside.  She wanted to understand the richest, most powerful country on earth.  Imagine her surprise when she learned that the kind of economic develop ...

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

  • 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 ...
  • USDA Admits Lack of Food Safety Follow-Through
    The USDA finally admitted to a small group of consumer group representatives last week that its official policy is to take very little action when it finds ground beef contaminated with E. coli in commerce. That is, unless several human illnesses have already been identified with the product. I pre ...

treehugger

  • On James Lee and the Events at Discovery Communica ...
    photo: Michael Graham Richard As most readers have probably heard or read by now, yesterday was a dramatic day at the Silver Spring, Maryland headquarters of TreeHugger's parent company, Discovery Communications. Early in the afternoon a lone man, later identified to be James J. Lee , entered t ...
  • Déjà Vu All Over Again: Offshore Oil Platform Expl ...
    Image: Google Maps Thankfully, No Deaths This Time An offshore oil platform exploded and caught fire today in the Gulf of Mexico. It is located about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site of BP's massive oil spill. All 13 people who were on the rig were evacuated and only one was ...
  • Taiji Opens Season on Dolphins Today
    Photo via Animal Planet Each year in early September, Japan opens season on dolphins, and today marks the start of the season in Taiji, a now notorious place for slaughtering cetaceans thanks to the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove . And of course, activist Ric O'Barry is on the move. He deli ...
  • Obama's Oval Office Is Beige And Could Have Been G ...
    New York Times Everyone in the red state is piling on the redesign of the oval office, complaining it is not patriotic enough, even though George Bush took Bill Clinton's red, white and blue garish extravaganza and turned it into a muted southern living room (and lost the red, white and blue) ...
  • HP Competition Winner Has Rooftop Farms, Plugin Un ...
    images from Bustler The HP Skyline 2020 competition "outlined fresh visual imaginations for the skyline discarding preconceived notions" and "allowed students and professionals to partner and elucidate their visions and designs that would change the skyline thereby transforming the city itself. ...

Biosingularity

  • Chemists create synthetic ‘gene-like’ ...
    UCLA chemists report creating a synthetic “gene” that could capture heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions, which contribute to global warming, rising sea levels and the increased acidity of oceans. “We created three-dimensional, synthetic DNA-like crystals,” said UCLA chemistry and biochemistry pro ...
  • Researchers develop dietary formula that maintains ...
    Researchers at McMaster University have developed a cocktail of ingredients that forestalls major aspects of the aging process. “As we all eventually learn, ageing diminishes our mind, fades our perception of the world and compromises our physical capacity,” says David Rollo, associate professor of ...
  • Chocolate lovers could be lowering their risk of s ...
    Giving chocolates to your Valentine on February 14th may help lower their risk of stroke based on a preliminary study from researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital. The study, which is being presented at the American Academy of Neurology in April, also found that eating chocolate may lower the risk of ...
  • Scientists synthesize unique family of anti-cancer ...
    Yale University scientists have streamlined the process for synthesizing a family of compounds with the potential to kill cancer and other diseased cells, and have found that they represent a unique category of anti-cancer agents. Their discovery appears in this week’s online edition of theJournal o ...
  • Mediterranean Diet May Prevent Stroke-Related Brai ...
    Avoiding potentially dangerous silent strokes may be another health benefit of following a Mediterranean diet. A new study shows people who most closely followed a Mediterranean-style diet were 36% less likely to have areas of brain damage linked to silent strokes than those who least closely follow ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

  • An Inconvenient Terrorist
    Armed eco-terrorist who experienced an “awakeningâ€Â by watching Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth was shot and killed after storming Discovery Channel Building. Radical manifesto condemns 'parasitic children' and human civilization, calling for sterilization and giving the planet back to the squirr ...
  • End environmental experiments on Africans!
    Environmentalists are using African parents and children in anti-DDT experiments. They are playing with our lives. So are the government agencies and others who support their policies. This is wrong and immoral. And it is only one of the ways they use Africans as experimental laboratory animals.
  • Prepare for an ice age!
    "Little ice ages" are the flip side of the 1500-year warming cycle. We should take advantage of the favorable climate we are currently enjoying to increase research on high-yield agriculture, biotechnology, water conservation and other advances now only dreamt of.
  • U.K. cancels airport plans over global warming fea ...
    Climate Depot's Morano on FNC's July 2, 2010 'Your World'
  • Obama’s deliberate Katrina
    Bungling the BP oil spill cleanup? Or never letting the crisis go to waste?

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Pruning Shears

  • The Ongoing Relevance of the White House Email Fia ...
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post On Monday Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released a detailed report ( pdf ) on the Bush administration’s loss of millions of emails. They inherited a system called ARMS (Automatic Records Managements Sys ...
  • PAYPAL IS THE WORST COMPANY IN THE WORLD
    Per your request , John.� Hope it helps.
  • 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. It probably is not too great an idea to bomb our allies even if they assure us it’s totally fine with them and they really don’t mind at all. ...
  • All Those Partnerships With Business Might Not Be ...
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post On last Sunday’s “Meet the Press” Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm discussed the economy, and did so with an unmistakable emphasis: smartly, strategically, surgically intervening to invest with the private sector [snip] smartly in ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Julian Assange got an agreement with the Swedish Pirate Party (my second favorite political party in the whole world) to provide hosting for WikiLeaks, thus giving it a measure of protection. Which it clearly needs. Assange was acc ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Restoring the Gulf the Right Way, With Sustainable ...
    Specifically, the Gulf is an oceanic hostage to a terrestrial threat that dominates the "heartland" of the Lower Forty-eight: modern industrialized agriculture. And if ever there was an ecological wolf in sheep's clothing, this is it: "conventional" farms throughout the vast Mississippi-Missouri-Ohi ...
  • The Environmentalist's Paradox: We Do Better While ...
    More people have more money, better health, more mobility, more food, and more security than ever before in human history. That chart on the right is from the Human Development Index, which tracks life expectancy, literacy, and other indicators of human well-being. The lines are heading up almost ev ...
  • How Toxic Finance First Met Toxic Chemical
    Is the tie between industrial poisons and speculative excess a mere accident of timing? History suggests otherwise. Deregulation, financial bubbles, and chemical contamination have a common heritage that goes back all the way to Victorian England. They became linked in 1880, when the great British s ...
  • Beef Recall Intensifies Fight for Tighter Rules
    For the first time in this country, public health officials have linked ground beef to illnesses from a rare strain of E. coli, adding fuel to an already fierce debate over expanding federal rules meant to keep the toxic bacteria out of the meat supply. Click here to read this article
  • Bon Appetit CEO Criticizes Hyper-Industrialized Ag ...
    Like many of you, I am shocked by the recent recall of over half a billion eggs. However, what is so stunning to me is not the sheer magnitude of the recall. Rather, I'm shocked that this is the first offense perpetrated by the egg industry large enough to trigger America's outrage regarding food sa ...

fotoFrontera

  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes parte ...
    No podía yo esperar más tiempo para traer hasta usted las nuevas fotografías de la serie 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. En esta ocasión y celebrando ya nuestra V entrega, le tengo ni más ni menos que 10 nuevas postales para ver, disfrutar y compartir. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la ...
  • Playas paradisiacas parte IV (15 paraísos naturale ...
    En poco tiempo, hemos llegado ya a la IV entrega de nuestra serie 'Playas paradisiacas'. Las aguas cristalinas y color turquesa, son una clara invitación a pasear descalzo por las blancas arenas de estos paraísos naturales. La bruma de las olas, la brisa, los rayos del sol y el viento cálido, dejar ...
  • Ciudades con vista nocturna (10 postales para comp ...
    Hace no mucho, estuve contemplando desde la lejanía cómo lucía la ciudad de Nashville en el Estado de Tennessee EEUU a las 3 de la mañana. Quedé tan fascinado, que hoy decidí compartir con ustedes 10 bellísimas imágenes de ciudades en la noche. Vea cómo las luces de colores, hacen de estos lugares u ...
  • Texturas y fondos abstractos parte III (5 elemento ...
    Dedicado especialmente para quienes se dedican a la creación de plantillas para Blogger, Wordpress, TypePad, Etc., he traído este paquete que contiene 5 imágenes de fondos abstractos en alta resolución y completamente gratis. No deje ir la oportunidad de vertir su imaginación y creatividad haciendo ...
  • Felicidades Blogger por tu 11th aniversario (Blogg ...
    Esperando que se hayan divertido a lo grande en la Blogger Fiesta el pasado 31 de agosto, aprovecho la ocasión para enviar mi más sincera felicitación y mi total agradecimiento a quienes hacen posible la existencia de esta fabulosa plataforma de publicación de blogs llamada Blogger . Muchas, pero m ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Tour dem veggies: An East Baltimore bicycle garden ...
    Fueled by cherry tomatoes and lemonade, three-dozen bikers (this blogger included) hit the pavement last Saturday afternoon for a seven-mile tour of seven great community gardens in East Baltimore. We started the ride at the 22-year old Duncan Street Miracle Garden, a one-acre fruit and vegetable ha ...
  • Richmond’s Urban Agriculture Institutes: A First ...
    I wanted to post an impact study that I performed this year of the Urban Agriculture Institutes that I used to run in Richmond, Calif.  This paper represents the first step in a program evaluation of Urban Tilth’s Urban Agriculture Institutes.  While this study had an intervention/control cross se ...
  • Response to “Math Lessons for Locavores” op-ed
    Grist.org recently invited bloggers through it’s Grist Talk: Food Fight series to respond to an August 20th op-ed piece, “Math Lessons for Locavores,” by Stephen Budiansky in the New York Times.  What follows is my response: “I agree with Mr. Budiansky that freight is by some measures cheap, and ...
  • Exposing the role of the food industry in conditio ...
    Book Review:  The end of overeating.  By David Kessler, MD David Kessler the former FDA Chief under George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton has written a very important book in the evolution of public thinking about food, nutrition and the obesity epidemic that is gripping our nation.  The basic premise ...
  • Government officials sent ‘clarifying’ letter from ...
    Congressional testimony by two high-ranking government officials in April revealed some misconceptions about the mounting evidence over the use of antibiotics in industrial farm animal production and links to antibiotic resistance in humans. To clarify the case, Keeve Nachman, PhD, MHS, and directo ...

Norwegianity

  • Labor Day cont.
    I was looking for this: And instead I found this. Yes, I think we’ve sufficiently mercantilized the concept.
  • The exception that proves the rule
    The fact that it’s 58° in the Twin Cities today with an expected high of 61° is in fact entirely consistent with global warming theories. Just sayin’ . . . .
  • Every day is Labor Day (when you’re out of w ...
    I had a thought while passing out last night. How utterly cool it would be if O made a speech ‘fessing up to how severe unemployment is in this country and then proposed we publicly acknowledge this by encouraging the unemployed to gather in parks every day. The gathered masses would gain from the s ...
  • The few, the crazed, the unvetted
    Unexpected early morning errands compounded by a McDonald’s breakfast. Yes, this is going to be one of those days. And not entirely because of forces beyond my control. Shit happens mostly because of things we’ve done that prove to have consequences, usually quite predictably so. Eric Deaton knows w ...
  • The politics of entranxitional privatization
    The NY Times editorializes that Obama was right not to declare victory. Fox, of course, disagrees â not just with Obama but with everything imaginable including themselves. Read the speech itself here. Juan Cole’s analysis here. See also Glenn Greenwald’s take. [ATR with the shorter Glenn Greenwa ...

Public News Service

  • AZ Dentist for Homeless Gets National Award
    AZ Dentist for Homeless Gets National Award Phoenix, AZ – An Arizona dentist who gave up his private practice to treat the homeless has received a national award for creating a free dental clinic. The CASS (Central Arizona Shelter Services) clinic serves more than 6,000 homeless patients largely thr ...
  • Report Catalogs Oil and Gas Disasters: AZ on the L ...
    Report Catalogs Oil and Gas Disasters: AZ on the List Phoenix, AZ – A new report (from the National Wildlife Federation) looks back at ten years of oil and gas production accidents, spills, fires and other incidents across the country, including a major pipeline break in Arizona. Comments from Tim W ...
  • New Website Critical for Arizona Dieters
    New Website Critical for Arizona Dieters Phoenix, AZ – These days many Arizonans have questions about nutrition, like what does trans-fat mean? How much sodium is required daily? There is now a website that can answer those questions and more. Comments from Joan Enderle, registered dietitian wit ...
  • Social Security 75-Year Milestone This Weekend
    Social Security 75-Year Milestone This Weekend Phoenix, AZ - Tomorrow (Saturday) marks the 75th birthday of Social Security. It's a program that was created during the depths of the Great Depression. Since then, it's been credited for keeping millions of seniors out of poverty. Comments from Len Ki ...
  • County Chief: AZ Public Health Threatened by Ballo ...
    County Chief: AZ Public Health Threatened by Ballot Measure Phoenix, AZ – Arizonans will decide in November whether to reverse their 2006 decision to tax cigarettes an extra 80-cents a pack for early childhood health and education programs. Lawmakers want that money to instead help remedy the state’ ...

My Care2 Picks

  • On the Road to Political Power and Theocracy
    The past two decades have seen a growing symbiosis between the mass movement of evangelical Christians and the Republican Party. Leaders of the Christian Right have built one organization after another, with the avowed purpose of winning state power. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Terrorism: I am a Muslim; I am a victim of terrori ...
    Can those who use torture, assassination, corruption and wars as their declared method of occupying one Muslim country after another and killing millions of innocent Muslims accuse those who defend freedom, dignity and sovereignty of terrorism?. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow
    Updated about 4 months ago Satire Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The View From Here - Military
    Geopolitics breeds lies like no other variation of psyops, media control, secrecy...all mixed with blatant violence. I thought another backgrounder was due...with suitable new material added. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • UNUSUAL fish kills that have covered the ENTIRE W ...
    Normal fish kills cause fish to come to the surface to be in distress, flopping around, and slowly they die, and new ones come up. All we had was a massive amount of dead fish coming to the surface Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Karzai urges Afghans not to panic as bank withdraw ...
    Karzai urges Afghans not to panic as bank withdrawals accelerate: [washingtonpost.com] "'Kabul Bank is safe,' Karzai said at a joint news conference at the presidential palace in Kabul with Defense... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • ei: Mass arrests, clashes follow settler shootings
    ei: Mass arrests, clashes follow settler shootings: "On 1 September the Palestinian Authority's (PA) security forces launched an unprecedented arrest campaign against Palestinians affiliated with the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Secret ‘Kill Lists’ Fly in the Face of US and Int’ ...
    Secret ‘Kill Lists’ Fly in the Face of US and Int’l Law - IPS ipsnews.net: "NEW YORK, Aug 31, 2010 (IPS) - Two of the nation’s most influential human rights organisations have filed a lawsuit... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • FBI: No Probable Cause Required For Surveillance
    FBI: No Probable Cause Required For Surveillance - IPS ipsnews.net: "NEW YORK, Aug 30, 2010 (IPS) - The bitter controversy over the building of a Muslim community centre and mosque near the site of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • MIDEAST: Netanyahu Ignores President, and Wife
    MIDEAST: Netanyahu Ignores President, and Wife - IPS ipsnews.net: "By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre KlochendlerTEl AVIV, Aug 31, 2010 (IPS) - Thousands of Israelis have protested in a central park here... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Tests find sickened family has 50.3 ppm of Corexit ...
    Wonder where all that Corexit is going? Well, the good news is we've found it! Or at least some of it. The bad news is that it is showing up in Florida's swimming pools!
  • S 510 : Testor Amendment Means Nothing
    by:Lynn Swearingen-PPJ Gazette The Testor Amendment.  – It’ll free my direct sales to consumers. Or so the “opposition” to S. 510 seems to be saying now.  Once I started reading this,  “shock kept me up all night” would be an understatement. Attempting to understand the logic behind the argument tha ...
  • S 510: Republic Defiance is Taking it to the Stree ...
    We will be at the Nashville Farmers' Market at 1:00 this Saturday afternoon, Sept. 4, protesting S510, and distributing flyers. We plan to do this two weekends in a row.
  • S.510: Your government welcomes you to the new “na ...
    Marti Oakley W/ Paul Griepentrog (c)copyright 2010 The PPJ Gazette A glimpse into the near future?  Welcome to nationalized, government owned and operated farming and ranching! This is the new government run farming and ranching, everything will have to be done to meet criteria yet to be determined. ...
  • Vaccine Death Coverup Implodes Worldwide
    Once again the government wants to push its mercury filled vaccines on everyone, especially children.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • 'Expect nuclear war if US attacks Iran'
    ShareThis 'Expect nuclear war if US attacks Iran' 04 Sep 2010 Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in his first open-air rally since a near-death illness four years ago, has warned about the threat of a nuclear war if the United States or Israel attack Iran... He said a nuclear conflict was inevitable ...
  • Dutch free men held at airport as terrorism suspec ...
    ShareThis Dutch free men held at airport as terrorism suspects 01 Sep 2010 Two Yemeni men arrested at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport under suspicion of terrorism have been freed without charge after triggering a 24-hour trans-Atlantic security scare, Dutch prosecutors said on Wednesday. The men were a ...
  • Karzai's brother calls for U.S. to bail out Kabul ...
    ShareThis Karzai's brother calls for U.S. to bail out Kabul Bank 02 Sep 2010 As depositors thronged branches of Afghanistan's biggest bank, Mahmoud Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a major shareholder in beleaguered Kabul Bank called on Thursday for intervention by the United States t ...
  • US Soldiers Quarantined in Turkey After Anthrax Sc ...
    ShareThis US Soldiers Quarantined in Turkey After Anthrax Scare 03 Sep 2010 Six U.S. soldiers and a Turk were quarantined in a Turkish hospital after a suspicious powder was found in a parcel at Istanbul's main airport, local media reported Friday. Laboratory experts were set to analyze the substanc ...
  • Pentagon declined to investigate hundreds of purch ...
    ShareThis Pentagon declined to investigate hundreds of purchases of child pornography --Names included staffers for the secretary of defense, contractors for the ultra-secretive National Security Agency, and a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency . By John Cook 03 Sep 201 ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • Open thread on Christchurch earthquake
    Your comments and experiences are welcome
  • IPCC gets a credibility hammering
    This alert through from Benny Peiser's newsletter The Daily Telegraph. 31 August 2010 By Stephen Adams and Robert Winnett An independent investigation into the UN's climate change body has warned it to stop lobbying and to restrict its role to...
  • History in colour
    We've all seen the black and white photos of yesteryear, a time before the invention of colour photography. So how's this picture from the days of Imperial Russia, 1909, grab you: They were taken by a process involving three b&w...
  • Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story by Ian Wisha ...
    It's just been brought to my attention that I haven't offered non-subscribers the chance to pre-order the new book on the Crewe murders being released by us next month. Accordingly, here's the gist of the email that went out to...
  • ClimateDepot locates possibly the world’s dumbest ...
    As an indicator of just how dumbed-down global warming believers are on the science of climate change, Climate Depot's Mark Morano revealed tonight a seminar delegate seriously believed the CO2 from car exhaust fumes would kill him in an enclosed...

Mondoweiss

  • Report finds US policy toward Israel/Palestine con ...
    In April the American Friends Service Committee organized an important daylong mock Congressional hearing on whether US foreign policy towards Israel/Palestine upholds American values. The organizers explain:Rather than wait for Congress to debate the morality and utility of U.S. policy towards Isra ...
  • Bard College speaker attacks Muslims’ prayin ...
    In two weeks Bard College is staging a lecture in New York by New Republic editor Martin Peretz. You have to wonder how appropriate this is given Peretz's latest rant against Muslims and the First Amendment.� Peretz's anti Arab-racism is by now well known and an embarrassment even to the staff of hi ...
  • Armed settlers steal 35 acres of Palestinian land ...
    And other news from Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Source: Abbas under U.S. pressure to continue talks even if settlements expand Even if the PA agrees that some settlement blocs will remain in Israeli hands in a future agreement, Abbas cannot agree to a ...
  • Hear, O Israel– first the Pixies and Elvis C ...
    New Statesman, a piece by Bill Parry, author of Against the Wall:now one of Britain's most successful bands, Massive Attack, is publicly backing the boycott.“I've always felt that it's the only way forward," Robert Del Naja, the band's lead singer, tells me when we meet at the Lazarides gallery in ...
  • On Al-Quds Day
    [Editor's note: Today is Al-Quds Day, an international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people that is held annually on the last Friday of Ramadan.] Al Quds - Jerusalem: The city of martyrs; the occupied city. A city painted a deep shade of crimson with the blood of the oppressed. A city occup ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: New Generation Cancer Vaccine Will Cause Infe ...
    In the race to the top of the Vaccine manufacturing foodchain product side effects such as infertility are being overlooked in favor of scientific advancement. One competitor, U.S. firm Celldex Theraputics are vying for major positioning in the ranks with a radical new generation cancer vaccine now ...
  • VRM: United States 2010-11 Flu Vaccine Affluria &# ...
    The United States flu vaccine for 2010-2011/AFLURIA® will be manufactured by CSL Laboratories in partnership with Merck Pharmaceuticals. Ingredients: 24.5 mcg of thimerosal mercury (safe level for a 2450 pound adult), Neomycin & Polymyxin (antibiotics associated with Kidney Failure, hazardous to ...
  • VRM: Multi-Virus Vaccine Quinvaxem Proving Deadly
    Quinvaxem, a powerful 5 in 1 vaccine currently being distributed in India, containing live Diphtheria, Tetanus, Hib oligosaccharide (Haemophilus influenzae) & Hepatitis B virus plus an inactivated B. pertussis virus (heat treated or attenuated), has already caused the deaths of at least 5 children i ...
  • VRM: The Rockefeller Foundation – Rulers of ...
    “Will you walk into my parlour?” said the Spider to the Fly, ‘Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy; The way into my parlour is up a winding stair, And I’ve a many curious things to shew when you are there.” Oh no, no,” said the little Fly, “to ask me is in vain, For who goes [...]
  • VRM: Britain’s National Health Service &#821 ...
    Britain’s National Health Service is rapidly destroying the UK Health Care system; dismantling local programs, stripping hospitals of essential service staff, downsizing hospitals altogether, refusing to upgrade old equipment – all under the guise of tightening the belt, preserving what’s left of di ...

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

  • Even While the World Watched: Part I
    Michael Yon 20 June 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand Recent violence focused world attention on the Kingdom of Thailand.  As the attention flowed in, foreigners poured out, even though fighting was tightly localized and not focused on travelers.  Tourists literally had to search for trouble to find it.  ...
  • Perspective
    Published: 21 July 2010 Apologies that this article is available only in Thai language. Please click here to view the entire article. {loadposition user8}
  • Even as the World Watched IV: Peaceful, or Pistol?
    12 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand During the Thailand fighting in May, the rain of media mixed with the dust of politics, creating mud that left honest people feeling bogged down.  People desiring clarity slogged knee deep, then waist deep, and it kept coming. My reports avoided politics largely ...
  • Even as the World Watched III: Getting Hit to Get ...
    Published: 07 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand During the Bangkok fighting in May, radio interviewers back America kept asking about the overuse of force by the Thai Army.  I answered that’s not happening, and there seem to be hundreds of journalists crawling over the streets, and I see them with ...
  • Even as the World Watched II: Tasting the Kool-Aid
    Published: 05 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand This journalist was all over the place.  She stood out from the crowd for obvious reasons.  One evening, as the sun was setting, she was walking down a mostly desolate street not far from Dusit Thani hotel, and she was alone with that little camera.  ...

The Killing Train

  • 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 ...
  • Afghan War Diary incidents in Pakistan
    [Analysis of Wikileaks's Afghan War Diary]. I thought it might be useful to show a map of the (approx. 170) incidents in the Afghan War Diary that mention Pakistan and also take place within Pakistan's borders. I will be reading the summaries to see what happened here, but take a look at it - there ...

treehugger

  • On James Lee and the Events at Discovery Communica ...
    photo: Michael Graham Richard As most readers have probably heard or read by now, yesterday was a dramatic day at the Silver Spring, Maryland headquarters of TreeHugger's parent company, Discovery Communications. Early in the afternoon a lone man, later identified to be James J. Lee , entered t ...
  • Déjà Vu All Over Again: Offshore Oil Platform Expl ...
    Image: Google Maps Thankfully, No Deaths This Time An offshore oil platform exploded and caught fire today in the Gulf of Mexico. It is located about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site of BP's massive oil spill. All 13 people who were on the rig were evacuated and only one was ...
  • Taiji Opens Season on Dolphins Today
    Photo via Animal Planet Each year in early September, Japan opens season on dolphins, and today marks the start of the season in Taiji, a now notorious place for slaughtering cetaceans thanks to the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove . And of course, activist Ric O'Barry is on the move. He deli ...
  • Obama's Oval Office Is Beige And Could Have Been G ...
    New York Times Everyone in the red state is piling on the redesign of the oval office, complaining it is not patriotic enough, even though George Bush took Bill Clinton's red, white and blue garish extravaganza and turned it into a muted southern living room (and lost the red, white and blue) ...
  • HP Competition Winner Has Rooftop Farms, Plugin Un ...
    images from Bustler The HP Skyline 2020 competition "outlined fresh visual imaginations for the skyline discarding preconceived notions" and "allowed students and professionals to partner and elucidate their visions and designs that would change the skyline thereby transforming the city itself. ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • France appeals court upholds judgment against eBay ...
    [JURIST] The Paris Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a 2008 judgment against the online auction house eBay [corporate website] for its role in the sale of counterfeit goods but significantly reduced the amount of damages eBay has to pay. The appeals court cut the damages [AP report] to be paid to Fr ...
  • Canada G-20 protesters file class action suit agai ...
    [JURIST] Two individuals detained during the Group of 20 (G-20) [official website] summit in Toronto in July filed a class action suit [statement of claim, PDF] on Thursday on behalf of 1,150 individuals detained during the summit. The individuals, Miranda McQuade and Mike Barber, named three defend ...
  • DOJ brings charges in largest US human trafficking ...
    [JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] announced Thursday that a Hawaii grand jury has indicted six people on human trafficking charges [press release]. The defendants allegedly enticed approximately 400 Thai nationals to come to the US by falsely promising them job opportuni ...
  • California appeals court refuses to order state to ...
    [JURIST] A judge for California's 3rd District Court of Appeal [official website] ruled [case summary; San Francisco Chronicle report] Wednesday that neither Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger nor Attorney General Jerry Brown [official profiles] is required to appeal last month's federal district court ...
  • Equatorial Guinea president says coup plotters had ...
    [JURIST] Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang said Friday that last month's trial of four men sentenced to death for a 2009 attack on the presidential palace was fair. Obiang stated that the country's laws were respected, and procedures guaranteeing a legal, open and fair trial [AFP report], i ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Political Science and Journalism: Some Thoughts
    The American Political Science Association's annual meeting has come to Washington, D.C., and I've been asked to participate on a panel about the interaction -- and lack of interaction -- between academia and the media. Usually, the interactions are short. Journalists will call a political scientist ...
  • What Cornyn Didn't Say About Gays
    Live by Google, die by Google. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) did not equate homosexuality with bestiality, it turns out. Earlier, I linked to a story quoting Cornyn to the effect of: "It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle . But that does not mean it is right. ...
  • Bloomberg for Treasury? Don't Bet On It
    Page Six rumports (rumor-reports) today that White House officials are sounding out New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to succeed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, assuming that Geithner, ah, steps down, or is ousted somehow after the projected Democratic midterm bloodbath. A White House official f ...
  • Top GOP Party Strategists Attending Log Cabin Even ...
    Suddenly, it's becoming less of a stigma for bigwigs to associate with gays in the Republican Party. Not only has former RNC chairman Ken Mehlman's 9/22 fundraiser for gay marriage rights attracted numerous high-octane Republican donors and activists, but Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the Nation ...
  • "Our Troops Are The Steel In Our Ship Of Stat ...
    Good evening. Tonight, I'd like to talk to you about the end of our combat mission in Iraq, the ongoing security challenges we face, and the need to rebuild our nation here at home. Three major topics in fifteen minutes, and the challenge will be to see if the President can knit them together. ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Links for 2010-04-03 [Digg]
    Anat Kam-Uri Blau Top Secret Israeli Leak Case The foreign media continue to open up the gagged Anat Kam-Uri Blau case with new stories in The Guardian, The Times, and The National.
  • Who Killed One of Russia’s Top Spies?
    The Telegraph is reporting that Maj. Gen. Yuri Ivanov, deputy head of Russian intelligence service known as GRU, died in Syria recently.  Speculation is rampant that he was assassinated.  He had been staying in the northwestern Syrian resort of Tartous when he disappeared, with his body later haul ...
  • Links for 2010-08-17 [Digg]
    Israel Wakes Up and Discovers Its Soldiers Abuse Palestinian Yesterday, a major scandal erupted in Israel over an IDF soldier, Eden Aberjil, who posted pictures on her Facebook account of her abusing bound Palestinian...
  • Israel’s ‘Curtis LeMay’: IDF Attack Iran Before U. ...
    Israeli Brig. Gen. (res.) Oded Tira, former IDF artillery chief, has the unmitigated gall and impudence to urge that Israel attack Iran just before the Congressional mid-term elections when Pres. Obama’s hands will be tied in terms of any punishment he can mete out for the country’s misbehavior.  H ...
  • Hamas Terror Attack Unmasks Fatal Weakness of Peac ...
    There have been so many miscalculations going into the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks one hardly knows where to begin in portraying them.  First, let’s start with Hamas’ military wing, to whom we owe thanks for their gruesome point-blank killings of four Hebron Hills settlers including two women, ...

Ode Magazine

  • Elise Boulding: Peace on the other side
    By: PeaceCorso Elise Boulding often said her path in life was determined by World War II. When she was a girl, she recalled, her mother had been homesick for Norway, and young Elise conceived of that country as a haven, a place to hold in reserve as a retreat, whe ...
  • Taking root in the city
    How urban agriculture is changing our relationship with food - for good. Novella Carpenter turned her backyard in Oakland, California into a small farm to feed herself. Now she's selling produce and trying to make a small profit. Photo: Mark Richards Dave Bell still remembers the ...
  • Peace van
    By: PeaceCorso My friend, award-winning Rolling Around Heaven author, Jessica Maxwell, sent me this email. Dear Friends of RAH! First, a big thank-you to all who sacrificed our First Sunny Weekend of the Year last week to attend Molly's fabulous Roll Arou ...
  • New York artist launches
    By: Laura_Silver Where do artists go for advice, camaraderie and shop talk? Sure, there’s the coffee shop, the bar, and Master of Fine Arts programs around North America and the world. But for cheaper, more instant access to career strategies and collective wi ...
  • Four ways that kindness promotes a healthy lifesty ...
    By: sheasteinberg We may feel this instant rush of gratitude when someone does something nice for us without asking, or even a feeling of pride when we ourselves “pay it forward,” but do we truly know the effect kindness has on us? After doing some research I came ...

OpEd News

  • Banging the Drums of War: Iran and the Neo-Cons
    How the Neo-Cons are manipulating the press in an effort to start one more war.
  • The Yield Curve Twists Again
    As I explained in my article "The Yield Curve Twist Omen" long-term yields have been undervalued for an extended period of time. Although that undervaluation can last an extended period of time once the arbitrage has started it can reach its fair value in a very quickly. This article is meant to bri ...
  • Should Black People Stop Using the N-Word?
    Which word from the headline would you like to see eliminated from the English language? One (Black) person's answer just might surprise you.
  • 5 Videos You Should See This Week (September 4th)
    Your 5 videos from the last week. Enjoy and then go celebrate Labor Day.
  • Mad Men: The Psychopaths of Power Play the Insanit ...
    Manning will perhaps escape the extremities of torture doled out to Padilla; he has at least been formally charged and has access to legal counsel -- something denied to Padilla for years during this torment. But make no mistake: the depraved minds in charge of our morally insane empire seek to brea ...

Switchboard

  • LADWP needs an Advocate for Customers, not an Advo ...
    The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is proposing to create a “Ratepayer Advocate” who would be paid with LADWP customer funds but remain an independent analyst.  LADWP has formed an advisory group to help them shape the role, qualifications, and compensation of such a ...
  • What kills more people each day, car accidents or ...
    Air pollution.  It kills 25 people a day to be exact.   California is notorious for having the worst air pollution in the country, resulting in thousands of emergency room trips, billions of dollars in healthcare costs, thousands of lost work and school days and as released in a recen ...
  • Gulf Coast Disaster - Thursday, September 2
    Day 137 Highlights in this issue - Oil platform explodes in Gulf - Second Gulf disaster puts moratorium back in play - Temporary cap removed - Allen: The well could have been killed sooner - BP gets tough with Congress - BP’s cost for spill hits $8 billion This morning’s summary A ...
  • Another Gulf oil explosion, a fiery reminder of wh ...
    On the way to a meeting held by BP claims czar Ken Feinberg in Slidell yesterday, Derrick Evans wheeled his diesel pickup truck and FEMA trailer to a Mississippi River ferry crossing south of New Orleans. Derrick is probably the world’s most experienced hand at dragging FEMA trailers. ...
  • Ghost Fleet inspection shows welcome progress
      I'm sharing this space today with guest-blogger and legal fellow Jon Wiener. I grew up gazing at the Suisun Bay Ghost Fleet through the window of my parents’ car as we would cross the Benicia Bridge on our way to the mountains.  Later, when I started riding Amtrak to visit friends ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • I Have Seen The Future
    Like Rob, I’m heading off to the American Political Science Association Annual Conference for the weekend, and while I’m thinking about my professional obligations as a social scientist and educator, let me point out this newsflash from the Chronicle of Higher Education: The Texas A&M University Sys ...
  • The short answer Yglesias’s question is &#82 ...
    But as I’m incapable of short answers, let me provide a slightly longer one. In this post, Yglesias shares his experience of having learned that itâs not merely that taking time to help inform a non-specialist audience about political science findings isnât specifically rewarded, itâs positiv ...
  • Friday Nugget Blogging
    “Mom, which would be worse, to have acid thrown in your face or have your nose cut off?” My son has a penchant for proposing these kinds of grotesque thought experiments, but he’s more sensitive than it might seem. He refuses to watch movies with torture scenes in them and is distressed if he sees ...
  • The War on Choice
    Alas, a large number of states still seem to have not received Ross Douthat’s memo about how no restrictions on abortion are permitted in the United States. Related posts:Douthat Again The War On (Poor) Women Who Want Access To (Safe) Abortions Win-Win Related posts: Douthat Again The War On (P ...
  • Can You Be Pathetic When You’re That Malevol ...
    Advocate for arbitrary torture attempts to engage in rational discourse, fails: What I want to note is that John Yoo knows that he is already on trial â not just in Spain, but here in the United States â and he is already attempting to put on his defense. And if his performance at Chapman is an ...

Desert Research Institute

  • The American Indian Science and Engineering Societ ...
    The Most Promising Engineer/Scientist Award will be presented to Dr. Karletta Chief at the 32nd American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) Annual National Conference.
  • Innovative Equipment Manufacturer Features Work wi ...
    The latest update from Campbell Scientific features a cover article on DRI’s Community Environmental Monitoring Program (CEMP), touting the program for providing information gathered by volunteers in near-real time and posting it to the program website.
  • Dr. Henry Sun: Looking for Life on Mars
    The Viking landers found strange evidence that suggested the presence of life on Mars (later disproven). A new study about life's preference for left- or right-handedness could help scientists design better versions of the Viking life tests.
  • DRI Assists with West Point Cadet Training
    Dr. Eric McDonald his group of DRI scientists have partnered with West Point to develop a curriculum to teach cadets how to take soil samples and measurements with different geotechnical equipment, as well as manage large data sets.
  • DRI Researcher Named to National Committee
    Duane Moser, Ph.D., has been elected to the Executive Committee for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory Research Association (DuRA).

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Bailout Busters
    The FDIC's expanded authority to dissolve megacompanies with almost no judicial oversight is sending shock waves through the bankruptcy bar.
  • Lawyering up for the NCAA
    In 2009, the NCAA's enforcement staff processed 29 cases of major infractions — the most serious type of rules violations. The large number of high-profile probes that have become public means a steady stream of business for the small complement of attorneys who specialize in NCAA matters.
  • Senate preps for trial of federal judge
    Next week, a special U.S. Senate committee is scheduled to begin the impeachment trial of G. Thomas Porteous Jr. The rarely held proceeding will determine the future of the New Orleans federal district judge who is accused of decades of corruption, including an alleged kickback scheme with a law fir ...
  • LAW SCHOOL REPORT
    Somewhere between fusty law treatises and Twitter lie law blogs, many of them written by the top legal scholars in the country. Just five years ago, the notion of law professors delivering quick and cogent commentary to the masses ? with the opportunity for instant feedback, no less ? was a novel co ...
  • LAW SCHOOLS REPORT: Opposition to clinics tests at ...
    Students working on pro bono cases leave schools vulnerable to confidentiality challenges.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • NEW PENN STATE RESEARCH CENTER
    This is brand new… http://www.marcellus.psu.edu/
  • Majority of Marcellus Well Operators Fail to Meet ...
    http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/newsroom/14287?id=13825&typeid=1 COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Dept. of Environmental Protection Commonwealth News Bureau Room 308, Main Capitol Building Harrisburg PA., 17120 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 08/27/2010 CONTACT: Helen Humphreys, Departmen ...
  • Eminent Domain Issues…
    Check this link for a map that corresponds to the pipeline information below. Central New York Oil And Gas Company Proposed MARC I Hub Line Project (tentative) Central New York Oil & Gas (CNYOG) company has applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to build and operate  a 39-mile lo ...
  • Marcellus Shale Drillers in Pennsylvania Amass 143 ...
    952 Identified as Most Likely to Harm the Environment The Pennsylvania Land Trust Association has reviewed environmental violations accrued by Marcellus Shale drillers working in Pennsylvania between January 2008 and June 25, 2010.  The records were obtained via a Right to Know Request made to the P ...
  • Up In the Air
    I made an announcement shortly after Memorial Day weekend, that I would be putting my home in DISH on the market.  This decision was made by my family after several instances of both of my children having nosebleeds during the night.  These nosebleeds correlated with strong odors and spikes in the c ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Chimpanzees in Guinea Learn to Deactivate Traps Se ...
    Researchers in the African nation of Guinea have observed male chimps in the wild that have learned to spring snares set by humans without getting caught in the traps. Their findings, reported in the journal Primates , apparently mark the first time that chimps have been observed demonstrating the i ...
  • Commercial Organic Farms Produce Superior Soil and ...
    The most comprehensive study to date comparing commercial organic farms with conventional farms shows that the organic farms produce more flavorful and nutritious fruit and help create soils with superior chemical and biological properties. Researchers from Washington State University, conducting a ...
  • A Steady, Steep Decline for The Lowly, Uncharismat ...
    The freshwater eel, which spawns in the middle of the ocean, was once abundant in much of the world. But the proliferation of dams, coastal development, and overfishing have drastically reduced eel populations, with few defenders coming to the aid of these fascinating — though still not fully unders ...
  • Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon Dropped 48 Perce ...
    Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research reported that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon declined 48 percent in the past year , falling from 1,689 square miles to 886 square miles for the 12-month period ending July 31. A Brazilian conservation group, Imazon, issued a more conservative est ...
  • Climate Change Skeptic Changes Stance and Calls fo ...
    In an upcoming book, high-profile global warming skeptic Bjorn Lomborg acknowledges that rising temperatures are “undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today ” and calls for investing $100 billion annually to deal with climate change. Lomborg, who has attacked environmentalists and ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

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

  • Hawking and God
    Stephen Hawking, that physicist emeritus extraordinaire, has made another pronouncement of universal proportions. My old buddy Highwayman isn’t going to like it, especially since he supported ol’ Stephen in the past, but I don’t think he will this time. Because Dr. Hawking says that (a) God isn’t ne ...
  • Interstellar Red Rain
    Red Rain is a phenomenon that seems to be rare and has strange properties. Many papers have been written and this one in 2001 by Rajkumar Gangappa, Chandra Wickramasinghe, Milton Wainwright, A. Santhosh Kumar and Godfrey Louis theorize that Red Rain cells when nurtured and incubated actually start t ...
  • Danes to launch rocket Thursday 9/2/2010 now
    From Space.com: A private Danish rocket built by volunteers to launch one person into suborbital space could see its first test flight as soon as Thursday with a dummy pilot riding aboard. If successful, the rocket should carry its payload up almost 19 miles (30 km) into the upper atmosphere. The pr ...
  • Fortean Frankensteins
    Recently, Dr. Craig Venter has made the claim of “creating life” by constructing a bacterium from dead material. While not a 9 foot tall monster, the artificial bacterium has the potential to become the first practical biological nano-particle that could have industrial and medical applications. But ...
  • Is Space Colonization Still Just Fantasy?
    Space colonization has been a theme (or meme?) in literature for over 150 years, probably thousands of years earlier than that really (Book of Enoch). Anyway, humans have dreamed of traveling to alien worlds in the heavens for a very long time, it isn’t a recent phenomenon. Dr. Stephen Hawking is on ...

Tippers News

  • Redeem Care2 Credits With Clicks To Save Lives! - ...
    Care2 members can redeem and spend their built-up credit 'butterflies' with just a click of a mouse, in order to provide safe drinking water and rehydration salts to save lives, plant a tree, offset a pound of carbon, and take other necessary actions too Submitted by SirRobert THE FIFTH KNIGHT to He ...
  • Tokyo Two: Online March for Justice
    Greenpeace anti-whaling activists Toru Suzuki and Junichi Sato (the "Tokyo Two") have been facing trial for nearly two years in Japan and now a verdict will be announced on Monday September 6th. Submitted by Penelope Ryan to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Food Agenda 2020: A National Petition on Agricultu ...
    A Petition from Organic Consumers Association that calls on U.S. elected officials, political candidates, and regulatory agencies to support and implement public policies on food labeling, food subsidies, and building an organic and green economy. Submitted by Di Anna Kruse to Environment �|� �Not ...
  • Comment Period Begins for Controversial Water Exch ...
    Portland, Ore. Today marks the start of a 30-day public comment period on a controversial water exchange that would allow Nestlé to bottle and sell water currently being used by endangered fish from the Columbia River Gorge. Oregon Water Resources... Submitted by Kathy B. to Business �|� �Note-it ...
  • Drugmakers script social media to push meds
    In February 2009, a popular New York blogger attended a brunch with fellow "frazzled moms." They took in tips from a style expert and listened to a nurse extol the virtues of Mirena, a birth control device sold by Bayer Healthcare. Submitted by Kathy B. to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Commen ...

The Freeman

  • More Private-Sector Jobs in August; Government Lay ...
    “With the American economic recovery showing clear signs of slowdown, private employers added 67,000 jobs in August, the Labor Department said on Friday. The number was more than forecast. Over all, the nation lost 54,000 jobs in August, the agency said, as state and local governments, many of them ...
  • Fed Chief Missed Last Crisis, Welcomes New Powers
    “Ben S. Bernanke, who told Congress in 2007 that the subprime mortgage crisis was âlikely to be contained,â said Thursday that he had failed to recognize flaws in the financial system that amplified the housing downturn and led to an economic disasterâ¦. Mr. Bernanke, the chairman of the Federa ...
  • Obama Team Looks at Fine Turning Tax Code to Encou ...
    “With just two months until the November elections, the White House is seriously weighing a package of business tax breaks — potentially worth hundreds of billions of dollars — to spur hiring and combat Republican charges that Democratic tax policies hurt small businesses, according to people with k ...
  • Paying for Tax Cuts?
    Tax cuts don't cost money; government programs do.
  • Econ Adviser Leaves Post Calling for More “Stimulu ...
    “Departing White House chief economist Christina Romer urged Congress on Wednesday to âfinish the job of economic recoveryâ by pumping more cash into the economy through additional tax cuts for businesses and middle-class families, as well as fresh investments in the nation’s infrastructure.” (W ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • New York Times seeks multimedia journalism interns
    Poking around in The New York Times’s job listings, I found this description of three distinct internships “in the Web Newsroom of The New York Times”: Front-end Interactive Designer: full skill-set of client-side technologies including HTML, CSS and JavaScript/Prototype. Experience with Ruby on ...
  • A fresh look at reporting skills
    In June I posted a ranked list of skills needed by todayâs journalists . In reviewing it today, I wondered whether it would be different if instead of saying journalist we said reporter . Say you want to hire a reporter — for a Web-only organization, a magazine, a newspaper, a TV or documentary o ...
  • Getting started with WordPress
    Here’s a new, stripped-down, easy-to-follow introduction to WordPress — the free blogging platform that also works as a versatile content management system: WordPress Basics This short tutorial is based on the second installment in my Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency , but I have shorten ...
  • Online video still growing, gaining viewers
    Just because comedy or humorous videos are the most popular among U.S. adults ( source ) does not mean journalists should wring their hands and despair about public tastes. What’s more important, I think, is that among people who have broadband Internet access at home, 75 percent watch online video ...
  • Is J-school relevant? (#wjchat)
    @killbutton Q1 Yes, because the foundation of journalism is SO important. Journos need a strong foundation in ethics! #wjchat @dnvolz Brian Williams never got any college degree and is considered a top journalist even in an ever-changing market #wjchat @mhinojosa Q1 Yes, I think it’s more importa ...

Facing South

  • Latest oil rig explosion in the Gulf renews calls ...
    The Gulf Coast is breathing a collective sigh of relief today in the wake of yesterday's explosion and fire at an oil and gas production rig 100 miles off the Louisiana coast -- an incident that initially sparked fears that the environmental and economic crisis afflicting the region in the wake of t ...
  • Who's the company behind today's Gulf of Mexico oi ...
    There was another explosion and fire on an oil rig off Louisiana's coast in the Gulf of Mexico this morning. Thirteen crew members were on the platform at the time of the blast, and all have been accounted for and safely evacuated. An initial flyover reportedly found no oil spilling from ...
  • Labor Day: Honoring Labor in the South
    When Glenn Beck decided to hold his " Restoring Honor " rally last week at the very site in Washington, D.C. where Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, the Fox commentator's dubious attempt to draw parallels between his right-wing agenda and King's quite different vision wa ...
  • Big Oil rallies to save Big Oil
    A nationwide series of rallies kicked off in Texas this week urging Congress to block legislation proposed in the wake of the BP oil disaster that would regulate the oil and gas industry more strictly and eliminate tax breaks. The organizer of the Rally for Jobs events? The American Petro ...
  • Federal agents open inquiry into order authorizing ...
    By Robin Fields, ProPublica Federal agents are looking into allegations that high-ranking New Orleans police commanders gave orders after Hurricane Katrina authorizing officers to shoot looters, our partners at the New Orleans Times-Picayune report. Agents have asked for information from New Orl ...

Worldpress - Africa

Canadian Encyclopedia

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle body jewellery?
    We’ve had an email from Toni: Do you know of any charities that collect used body piercing jewellery? Everyone seems to want gold and these aren’t gold they’re steel. Your earring suggestions don’t apply either because they’re ring and bars. Marie Curie’s jewellery recycling scheme claims to accept ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle old vitamin tablets?
    We’ve had an email from Andi: Can I Compost vitamin tablets? I have two jars in date but have gone moist from the air. What can I do with the bottles? We’ve covered pill bottles already on the site but the vitamin question is a good one – and I’m not sure of the answer. [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle wine gift bags?
    We’ve covered reuses for old gift bags in general before but Meri emailed asking about one particular type: I have a growing collection of wine bags – mostly paper – that are too nice to toss. How can I recycle them – get them to people who might reuse them? Most people I know reuse [...]
  • How can I repair a rusted up barbeque?
    After reading last week’s barbecue themed posts, Ali got in touch to ask about repairing a rusted up bbq: The grill is rusty pretty much all over and there is a rust hole in the base too. My husband wants to throw it out and get another but I’d like to try fixing it first. [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle (and reduce my use of) ...
    Ok, this is a bit of a rant dressed up as a Recycle This style question – it’s a genuine question but I feel the need to rant too! ;) So many people in my (geeky) world are going nuts for these at the moment and it makes me want to cry — all the [...]

Mondoweiss

  • Report finds US policy toward Israel/Palestine con ...
    In April the American Friends Service Committee organized an important daylong mock Congressional hearing on whether US foreign policy towards Israel/Palestine upholds American values. The organizers explain:Rather than wait for Congress to debate the morality and utility of U.S. policy towards Isra ...
  • Bard College speaker attacks Muslims’ prayin ...
    In two weeks Bard College is staging a lecture in New York by New Republic editor Martin Peretz. You have to wonder how appropriate this is given Peretz's latest rant against Muslims and the First Amendment.� Peretz's anti Arab-racism is by now well known and an embarrassment even to the staff of hi ...
  • Armed settlers steal 35 acres of Palestinian land ...
    And other news from Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Source: Abbas under U.S. pressure to continue talks even if settlements expand Even if the PA agrees that some settlement blocs will remain in Israeli hands in a future agreement, Abbas cannot agree to a ...
  • Hear, O Israel– first the Pixies and Elvis C ...
    New Statesman, a piece by Bill Parry, author of Against the Wall:now one of Britain's most successful bands, Massive Attack, is publicly backing the boycott.“I've always felt that it's the only way forward," Robert Del Naja, the band's lead singer, tells me when we meet at the Lazarides gallery in ...
  • On Al-Quds Day
    [Editor's note: Today is Al-Quds Day, an international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people that is held annually on the last Friday of Ramadan.] Al Quds - Jerusalem: The city of martyrs; the occupied city. A city painted a deep shade of crimson with the blood of the oppressed. A city occup ...

Media Consortium

  • 10 of the Web's Most Insightful News Infographics
    Great round up of different kinds of interactive journalism products. "A picture is worth a thousand words. But if you include an entire database, make it interactive, and add filtering options, the word-to-picture exchange rate is even better. Infographics at their best are more than just pictu ...
  • The Media Consortium » Weekly Diaspora: Immigrants ...
  • Can apps save news journalism? | Adrian Monck | Co ...
    "Serious news organisations have placed their bets. With Apple selling a million iPads in barely a month, paid iPad applications from the likes of the Times and the Financial Times line up on app stores with free offerings from the BBC and Thomson Reuters. But already there are signs that native ne ...
  • Can apps save news journalism? | Adrian Monck | Co ...
    But taking Anderson's argument face on, where does the rise of the app leave the news business, the flatulent Rottweiler in the dog shelter of online content? Can apps give it a caring home at last?
  • Times Builds 'Jargonator' to Help Readers Decipher ...
    Apparently the Times Interactive News Technologies team also realized that the two dozen or so documents they were unleashing on their Web site weren't going to have much impact if their readers couldn't make head or tails of them. So they quickly developed a nifty roll-over tool, which internally t ...

Reality Asserts Itself

  • 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 ...
  • "Martial Law" G20 charge disappears
    It appears government doesn't want to test Public Works Protection Act in court. [View:http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRealNews#p/u/3/ZdFj9EsKM5Y:640:360]

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Stem cell plaintiffs blast NIH chief, question tot ...
    James Sherley (right) of the Boston Biomedical Research Institute in Watertown, Massachusetts, and Theresa Deisher of AVM Biotechnology in Seattle, Washington, the two plaintiffs behind a recent court injunction that has frozen US government funding for human stem cell research, have filed a memoran ...
  • Eaters of the dead, back to life in Cambodia
    Asia’s vultures are in trouble, but Cambodia has become a haven for the scavengers. An annual census shows some of the most endangered species are increasing slightly there. In 2003, researchers figured out the culprit behind a massive die-off of Asian vultures first noticed in the late 1990s: th ...
  • Research group asks judge to stay stem cell injunc ...
    A stem cell research advocacy group consisting of nearly 100 universities, scientific societies, patient organizations and foundations has filed a court document explaining why Judge Royce Lamberth, who last month issued an injunction against federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, sh ...
  • Research group asks judge to stay stem cell injunc ...
    A stem cell research advocacy group consisting of nearly 100 universities, scientific societies, patient organizations and foundations has filed a court document explaining why Judge Royce Lamberth, who last month issued an injunction against federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, sh ...
  • Massive earthquake rocks New Zealand
    An earthquake registering 7.2 on the Richter scale hit New Zealand, causing widespread damage to Christchurch, the country’s second largest city, on 3 September. No injuries have been reported at this stage and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says there is no immediate danger of a tsunami. Man ...

new geography

  • The Suburbanization of Religious Diversity
    You can see the changes. A drive through suburban Lake County, IN, an hour from downtown Chicago makes you feel like you are somewhere between the set of Jean Shepherd’s A Christmas Story and the movie Hoosiers . Cultural and religious diversity would probably be the last two things on your mind ...
  • A Pill For Los Angeles? Medicating the Megacities
    Los Angeles — and other modern megacities — conjure increasingly unique genetic profiles that point the way to a new medical industry: Call it urbo-pharmaceuticals. Investors are needed. Is there a pill that might inoculate us from smog? Is there a gene we can target that would make us resistan ...
  • Progressives Against Progress
    F or the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, American liberals distinguished themselves from conservatives by what Lionel Trilling called “a spiritual orthodoxy of belief in progress.” Liberalism placed its hopes in human perfectibility. Regarding human nature as essentially both beneficent a ...
  • America's 21st-Century Business Model
    Current attitudes aren't too kind to the old American way of doing business. In our globalized economy, the most enthusiastically touted approaches are those adopted by centralized, state-dominated economies such as China, Brazil and Russia as well as--somewhat less oppressively--those of the major ...
  • What’s Behind China’s Big Traffic Jam
    The world press has been fixated on the "Beijing" traffic jam that lasted for nearly two weeks. There is a potential lesson here for the United States, which is that if traffic is allowed to far exceed roadway capacity, unprecedented traffic jams can occur. The Inner Mongolia Traffic Jam: First we ...

GM Watch

spiked

  • ‘Lifestyles will have to be redesigned&#8217 ...
    A Guardian journalist’s ranting about the ‘neglect, greed and human filth’ of modern China shows that new prejudices about a Green Peril have replaced old fears of the ‘Yellow Peril’.
  • The Tarantino of food writing
    Still raucous, hedonistic and bullshit-intolerant, Kitchen Confidential author and celeb chef Anthony Bourdain serves up more scrumptious food stories in Medium Raw.
  • Playing the genocide card
    The Politics of Genocide, an unflinching attack on Western meddling in foreign affairs, challenges the idea that external intervention can be a force for good.
  • Is the motor car driving the world to destruction?
    Two Billion Cars, like many modern green tracts, mixes demands for restraint with celebrations of techno-solutions to the problems we face. And as always, the restraint wins out.
  • Après le deluge, the ghoulish opportunists
    Everyone from anti-terror crusaders to end-of-the-world greens is exploiting the Pakistani floods to revive their own flagging careers.

Cryptogon

  • Donald Trump Counting Sheep
  • New Zealand: Large Earthquake in Christchurch
    Several people have written in, wondering if we’re ok. We’re fine. We live in the Far North and didn’t even feel it up here. I was awake at the time of the quake, washing nappies, of all things, and it was just another quiet night here. Via: New Zealand Herald: Sewage and water concerns are [...]
  • Elite Paedophile Ring in Portugal
    Extensive background: Beyond the Dutroux Affair. Via: Guardian: One of Portugal’s most famous television presenters and a former ambassador to Unesco were among those who abused boys in a paedophile ring involving the country’s state-run orphanages, according to a court verdict released today. The v ...
  • Baffled White House Economic Adviser Heads Back to ...
    Via: Washington Post: It wasn’t the food; it was the entertainment. Christina Romer, chairman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, was giving what was billed as her “valedictory” before she returns to teach at Berkeley, and she used the swan song to establish four points, each more unn ...
  • Russia Extends Wheat Export Ban
    Via: Bloomberg: Wheat rose in Chicago after Russia, the world’s third-largest grower, extended a ban on grain exports into next year, raising the prospect of higher food prices that already have sparked riots in Mozambique. Wheat for December delivery rose as much as 1.5 percent to $7.2475 a bushel, ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 10 Reasons Why Conservatives Should Be Against Unf ...
    There are very few things that the top politicians in both political parties agree on these days, but one of the things that that they do agree on is that free trade with China is a good thing.  George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, John McCain, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have ...
  • The Horrific Derivatives Bubble That Could One Day ...
    Today there is a horrific derivatives bubble that threatens to destroy not only the U.S. economy but the entire world financial system as well, but unfortunately the vast majority of people do not understand it.  When you say the word "derivatives" to most Americans, they have no id ...
  • Helicopter Ben Bernanke Says Everything Is Going T ...
    Don't worry everybody. Federal Reserve Chairman "Helicopter Ben" Bernanke says that the U.S. economy is going to be just fine, and that if it does slip up somehow the Federal Reserve is ready to rush in to the rescue. That was essentially Bernanke's message to an annual gathering of ...
  • 18 Signs That America Is Rotting Right In Front Of ...
    Sometimes it isn't necessary to quote facts and figures about government debt, unemployment and the trade deficit in order to convey how badly America is decaying.  The truth is that millions of Americans can watch America rotting right in front of their eyes by stepping out on thei ...
  • Foreclosures Continue To Dramatically Increase In ...
    In a very alarming sign for the U.S. economy, foreclosures have continued to dramatically increase in 2010.  But there has been a shift.  Back in 2007 and 2008, experts tell us that most foreclosures were due to toxic mortgages.  People were being suckered into mortgages that they c ...

Desertification

  • World Currency Tax To Fund Development Aid (Kaiser ...
    Read at : Kaiser Family Foundation http://globalhealth.kff.org/Daily-Reports/2010/September/03/GH-090310-Financial-Transaction-Tax.aspx At U.N. MDG Summit, Ministers Will Propose World Currency Tax To Fund Development Aid “A group of 60 nations, including France, Britain and Japan, will propose at t ...
  • VIDEO ON DESERTIFICATION : YOU TUBE in French (Goo ...
    Read at : Google Alert Рdesertification YouTube РLa Desertification РLe dessous des cartes pr̩sent̩ par Jean-Christophe Victor, est un magazine hebdomadaire de g̩opolitique produit et diffus̩ par ARTE, en collaboration avec le L̩pac.
  • Desertification: ‘Nigeria is losing over 35,000sqk ...
    Read at : Google Alert – deserification http://www.peoplesdaily-online.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13687:desertification-nigeria-is-losing-over-35000sqkm-of-forest-landmass-every-year&catid=57:special-report&Itemid=137 Desertification: âNigeria is losing over 35,000sqkm of for ...
  • To boost development with sound environmental mana ...
    Read at : Sustainable Development Announcement List New Web Resource: to boost development with sound environmental management Governments and other stakeholders can boost sustainable development with the help of a new online resource that identifies effective tools and approach ...
  • UNCCD News Alert / 20 August – 03 September ...
    Read at : Land Degradation Announcement List UNCCD News Alert / 20 August – 03 September 2010 COP 10 COP 10 logo: The Republic of Korea has released the COP 10 logo. Read about it from: http://www.unccd.int/publicinfo/announce/cop-10-logo-announced.php 194th Party … Continue r ...

The Paper Trail

  • MONEY & POLITICS: Independent GOP Fundraising ...
    Another big name GOP veteran in Washington, lobbyist and operative Scott Reed, is jumping into the crowded field of independent groups raising tens of millions of dollars to help Republican congressional candidates win on Election Day.
  • ENVIRONMENT: What’s the Cost of Fixing BP&#8 ...
    BP tripled its spending on corporate advertising after its devastating crude oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico in April, paying more than $93.4 million for a massive public relations blitz, according to the chairman of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee.
  • ENVIRONMENT: Utilities, Citizens Weigh in on Coal ...
    Steven Fox of Chesapeake, Va. says the first he heard of a coal ash dump site near his home was when he read a local newspaper story about how the material was used as structural fill for a newly-built golf course.
  • ENVIRONMENT:  Green Groups See Red In Recent ...
    The environmental groups that helped propel Barack Obama to the White House are feeling betrayed during a summer of discontent and climate inaction.
  • MONEY & POLITICS: Conservative Fund Taps &#822 ...
    The American Future Fund , which aims to almost triple its issue advertisement spending for this year’s election, launched a hard-hitting television ad today using the proposed Islamic mosque in New York City to attack Iowa GOP candidate Ben Lange’s Democratic opponent.

backofthebook.ca

  • Sun TV vs. Avaaz: who’s the real hate-monger ...
    By Frank Moher Sure we should wonder what Stephen Harper was doing having lunch with Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes in New York last year. And of course the CRTC was right to refuse Quebecor a Category 1 specialty TV licence for its proposed SUN TV News Channel, which would force ...
  • Lessons for Project Samosa
    By Alison@Creekside The publication ban on Project Samosa, the RCMP's latest salvo in the war on terror, has the media scrambling to get unnamed sources and security experts to augment and substitute for accounts of court proceedings. By a happy coincidence for war on terror fans, this allows ...
  • Lady Gaga twats Edmonton
    By Frank Moher Could Edmonton mayor Stephen Mandel have been any more humourless in his response to Lady Gaga's cheerful twit-pic from Rexall Place on Saturday? (That's it to the left.) Crews had removed the letter "O" from a sign to position a spotlight; our lady, or one among her entourage, ...
  • Anatomy of a G20 mishmash
    By Frank Moher The massive article, "Anatomy of the G20," published by the Toronto Star last Friday, is a curious document indeed, especially coming from a newspaper that has taken a hard editorial line against the police's actions that weekend. It feels like one of those articles that has gone a ...
  • Oil sands science seeps out
    By Alison@Creekside Remember that two year Environment Committee study on the tarsands that was ultimately shredded because the four parties at the table couldn't agree on the wording of the witnesses's testimony? The Lib members of that committee have now released their own report on the testimo ...

Worldnews

  • Motherhood has affected film choices: Alba ...
    Hollywood actress Jessica Alba reveals motherhood has affected her choice of film roles. The "...
  • Stop, look and listen: Liv Tyler teaches son ...
    Protective mother Liv Tyler guides son Milo safely across the road on his scooter. The 33-year-old actress appeared to be teaching the five-year-old to 'stop, look and listen' as they enjoyed an afternoon out in the New York sunshine yesterday. Liv showed off her never-ending legs in a pair of ...
  • Hot Property: Scarlett Johansson, Ryan Reynol ...
    It seems as though actress Scarlett Johansson had no sooner sold her old place in the Hollywood Hills than she and her husband, actor Ryan Reynolds, closed on a house in Los Feliz for $2.9 million. Built in the late '60s, the restored Buff & Hensman-designed Wong House has walls of glass lookin ...
  • Kristen Bell: Working with Sigourney, Jamie L ...
    Even a veteran actress such as Kristen Bell can be intimidated when it comes to working with other fellow actors on a project. That was the case when she was cast in the upcoming comedy, “You Again,” with Sigourney Weaver, Jamie Lee Curtis and Betty White....
  • My real life is a disaster: Drew Barrymore ...
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Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Feds Warn Residents Near Wyoming Gas Drilling Site ...
    by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica The federal government is warning residents in a small Wyoming town with extensive natural gas development not to drink their water, and to use fans and ventilation when showering or washing clothes in order to avoid the risk of an explosion. read more
  • NATO Probes Afghan Civilian Deaths Claims
    KUNDUZ, Afghanistan - An Afghan official said Thursday that 10 election campaigners had been killed in an airstrike by international forces in the relatively peaceful north of the country. Two other people, including a candidate in the September 18 parliamentary elections, were injured in the allege ...
  • Greenpeace Activists Arrested After Abandoning Occ ...
    by Severin Carrell, Scotland correspondent Four Greenpeace activists who halted drilling by a British-owned oil exploration rig off Greenland have been arrested after they abandoned their occupation because of severe weather. Greenlandic police arrested the four after high winds buffeted the Stena D ...
  • The Great Jobs Depression Worsens, and the Choice ...
    by Robert Reich The Great Jobs Depression continues to worsen. The Labor Department reports this morning that companies created ony 67,000 new jobs in August. That's down from the 107,000 they created in July. And because the government laid off temporary Census workers, the economy as a whole lost ...
  • Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill’s 30-Year Legacy
    by Matthew Berger WASHINGTON - A surprisingly small number of scientists have studied the impacts of the oil spill resulting from the 1979 blowout at the Ixtoc I oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Wes Tunnell, who first studied the spill's effects in July and August of 1980 and has returned many times s ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

  • Paul Allen v. The Internet
    Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies....
  • Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recuse Hi ...
    With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been selec ...
  • Law360 Calls Lawyer-Owned Shell Company a "Public ...
    seems to have a pretty flexible definition of that term. Last month, it included . Who is so concerned about such fairness? That would be , the Texas law firm that owns Americans for Fair Patent Use, which is a limited liability company set up to prosecute a false marking lawsuit filed in E ...
  • Eben Moglen on Bilski, software patents, and big p ...
    Moglen's position on the subject of software patents—that they should be banned—is, to say the least, outside the mainstream in legal circles. It has, however, garnered support among software developers and other techies, especially those who work in the world of open-source and free softw ...
  • Patent Litigation Weekly: International Trade Comm ...
    Over the past two decades, the question of what constitutes a domestic industry has typically been heard by the same ITC administrative law judges who ultimately rule on the patent disputes that come before the agency. It's rare that the full commission considers the issue. On April 14, th ...

Peoples Voice

  • BLOODY MEMOIR
    GILAD ATZMON Tony Blair, a man who launched a criminal war with no end, declared once again today that “Radical Islam is the world's greatest threat” He made the remark in a BBC interview marking the publication of his memoirs. Mr Blair said radical Islamists believed that whatever was done in th ...
  • Here We Go Again: Another Rig Explosion
    by Stephen Lendman Drilling means spilling, hundreds of annual incidents, most small, unreported, yet their cumulative effect is devastating, what the industry and nightly news won't mention or explain. On February 25, 2009, Environmental Research web.org writer Kate Ravilious did, headlini ...
  • Why Americans Elect Awful Presidents
    Joel S. Hirschhorn For years I muttered mentally to myself about the insanity of Americans electing George W. Bush president. Now I go through the same agony about the craziness of the nation electing Barack Obama president. As much as I thought Bush was a manipulated second-rate politician that ...
  • Fascism in Ramallah
    By Khalid Amayreh The American-backed, Israeli-tolerated Palestinian Authority has been unmasking its ugly face. In recent days and weeks, ruthless and undisciplined Security forces have been suppressing public dissent, especially opposition to futile talks with Israel. Such talks are looked upon b ...
  • US pushing drugged, vaccinated, chlorinated chicke ...
    By Rady Ananda Food Freedom After over half a billion eggs were recalled from two factory hen layer operations in Iowa,[1] New York lawmakers proposed mandating vaccines against salmonella. [2] Mainstream media then blasted this message across the world. As the world’s largest producer of poult ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • “Public Solutions Are The Cure For Health Care Wai ...
    � � A Public Forum with Dr. Michael Rachlis � Health policy analyst, University of Toronto Associate professor and author of Prescription for Excellence: How Innovation is Saving Canada's Health System. � Public Solutions are the Cure for Health Care Wait Lists Wednesday, September ...
  • CCPA Saskatchewan presents Trevor Herriot
    Join us on October 15th and 16th for a special evening with Trevor Herriot. A renowned prairie naturalist, essayist and commentator, Trevor will discuss the intersection of culture and nature on the northern Great Plains in his talk entitled "All Flesh is Grass: Toward a Re-Engagement with the Prair ...
  • Canada's housing bubble
    A new CCPA study finds that for the first time in 30 years, six of Canada's hottest real estate markets are in a housing bubble. Canada’s Housing Bubble: An Accident Waiting to Happen examines trends in house prices in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal and Ottawa between 1980 and 2010 ...
  • Reflections on the Tamil migrants from the child o ...
    Many of us at the CCPA have been troubled by Canada's reaction to the arrival of 492 Tamil asylum seekers on the MV Sun Sea. Seth Klein, Director of our BC Office, put words to this discomfort in an excellent post on PolicyNote.ca (our blog on BC public policy issues). Seth, son of Vietnam war resis ...
  • Climate Change: Who's Carrying the Burden? CCPA b ...
    The Education Project's latest publication is now in the bookstore.� Climate Change -- Who's Carrying the Burden? The chilly climates of the global environmental dilemma, goes beyond the traditional analyses of climate change that focus on global techno-fixes and free-market solutions. Instead, ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Puppy Killer Found
    ‘Puppy drowning’ girl found by Bosnian police after disturbing video released | NY Daily The red-hooded puppy pitcher has been busted. Police in Bosnia said that they have located the girl who caused global outrage this week after an online video of her surfaced, showing the blonde hurling six cryin ...
  • “I told you I was innocent.”
    Not guilty. The Israeli captain who emptied his rifle into a Palestinian schoolgirl | Guardian An Israeli army officer who fired the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then said he would have done the same even if she had been three years old was acquitted ...
  • Tea Party Problems
    5 Ways the Tea Party Agenda Screws Tea Party Supporters | Alternet In their quest to save the country from liberals, Tea Partiers signed on to an agenda that will cause them untold pain while granting unlimited powers to corporations. If people could be counted on to vote in their own best interests ...
  • Weekly Trivia
    A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 8:00 pm (EST). You can post your answer in the comments section below the question and be entered into a chance to win a WWH Bumpersticker! This weeks question – He served as president in the early 60’s. His “Draft” was unique. Who is He and [. ...
  • Democratic Party’s “favorable” r ...
    The spoiled-brat American electorate | The Washington Post According to polls, Americans are in a mood to hold their breath until they turn blue. Voters appear to be so fed up with the Democrats that they’re ready to toss them out in favor of the Republicans — for whom, according to those same polls ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • “What a thing it is to have a country that c ...
    Well, I tried to watch Obama’s speech on Iraq, but couldn’t do it. I read the text though, and was appalled. Frightened even. According to Obama, the IrawqWar was a glorious and successful undertaking. Right. The above quote says it all, Iraq was at best an expensive miscalculation. Redefining it as ...
  • Mutiny on the Batavia, Postscript
    This is the third and final article in a series that started with the shipwreck of the Batavia, and the ensuing mutiny and massacre. Well, despite all the carnage the surviving crew and passengers of the Batavia were lucky in one sense, they were eventually rescued. In 1711 another Dutch ship, the Z ...
  • The Mutiny on the Batavia, the Massacre
    This is a continuation of the prior post, Mutiny on the Batavia. When we left off Captain Pelsaert had sailed to Indonesia with his officers to arrange a rescue ship, leaving (unbeknown to him) Jeronimus Cornelisz, the chief plotter of the incipient mutiny, in charge of the survivors. Cornelisz,  ha ...
  • The Mutiny on the Batavia. Part One: Shipwrecked
    28 October 1628, the newly built Batavia, pride of the Dutch East India company, sailed for Indonesia with 322 people on board. It was a trade and passenger ship, and carried a cargo of gold and silver that would be used to buy spices in Indonesia.  It sailed under one Captain Francisco Pelsaert (hi ...
  • Through Thick and Thin
    Another week gone. First, the economy. It’s in big trouble. The “stimulus” of last year has run its course. Printing a huge pile of money and spending it was never any more than a stopgap solution, and there doesn’t seem to have been a “Plan B.” In fact in a very real sense that sums [...]

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

  • Leaked Study on Peak Oil Warns of Severe Global En ...
    A study on energy supply conducted by a German military think tank reports on the potential for serious consequences as oil production declines.
  • E85 Case Study: Iowa
    Join the forum discussion on this post The Saudi Arabia of Ethanol Iowa is to corn ethanol what Saudi Arabia is to oil. At present Iowa has the capacity to produce 3.5 billion gallons of ethanol per year, which is 26% of the nation’s total (Source). This is of course due to the large amount of [.. ...
  • It’s the Oil, Stupid
    Join the forum discussion on this post I am no economist, but bear with me while I try to explain why I think we are in for a very long and difficult economic period. My thesis for The Long Recession goes something like this: Historically, when oil prices rose quickly and remained high the economy ...
  • Guest Essay: Why Conservatives Are Bad on Energy
    Join the forum discussion on this post I am working on yet another project, due at the end of this week. Therefore, I haven’t had a chance to work much on my next essay, which will be about the potential for E85 to push Iowa much closer to energy self-sufficiency. Meanwhile, I have been sent [...]
  • What’s Really Holding Cellulosic Biofuels Back
    Join the forum discussion on this post There was a recent article in MIT Technology review called What’s Holding Biofuels Back? There is a relatively simple answer to the question that I will delve into below, but the short answer is “what’s holding biofuels back” is that we placed unreasonable exp ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • 3 Ways to Prep Your Garden for Fall and Winter, th ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Many chemical-based farmers commit a cardinal sin of soil management every fall—they till under plant debris in their fields and walk away, leaving the soil exposed and vulnerable to harsh winter conditions. "Unfortunately, most of those farmers don’t cover their soil," expl ...
  • 5 Mouth-Watering, Meat-Free (and Tofu-Free) Burger ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—If slimy slabs of tofu come to mind when you hear the term "veggie burger," you've never had a truly gourmet version. This Labor Day, why not pass by the ground beef and reach for some fresh local portobello mushrooms (mushroom season is just getting underway in many areas o ...
  • You Pay $88 a Year for "Free" Plastic Bags
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Not even the sun-loving, environmentally conscious, forward-thinking state of California could overcome the plastics industry lobby and ban plastic bags in the Golden State, even though the "urban tumbleweeds" cost billions of bucks to clean up. Tuesday, the California legis ...
  • For a Cheap, Fun Labor Day Vacation, Find a Swimmi ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PAâWith Hurricane Earl bearing down on the East Coast this holiday weekend, some of us may have had to scratch our Labor Day beach vacation plans. But if skies stay clear where you are, that doesn't mean you have to spend summer's last hurrah poolside, inhaling chlorine and t ...
  • Is Your City in the Bedbug Top 10?
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Bedbugs have become such a hot topic that they've sparked Top 10 lists, two to be exact. Two leading pest-control companies, Terminix and Orkin, have published lists of America's most bedbug-infested cities. And if you live in one of them, you may already know what it's like ...

big think

  • ANDREA Air: Turn Any Plant into a Powerful Air Pur ...
    The benefits of keeping plants in living spaces have long been documented, both in science and in popular wisdom. But plants were not designed to handle, let alone counter, many of the environmental pollutants found in today's air. Enter ANDREA Air , an air filtration system that turns any household ...
  • Not Over Yet
    Associated Press’ standards editor Tom Kent says the war in Iraq is not over. Jim Romenesko posted a memo Kent distributed to AP staffers this week, instructing them not to “uncritically repeat suggestions” that the war in Iraq is over. Even though President Obama announced “the end of our combat .. ...
  • The International Marriage Market Is a Casualty of ...
    In the first post I did for Dollars and Sex, Do Women Really Value Income Over Looks in a Mate? , I wrote about how dating sites provide a wealth of data for analyzing individual preferences on mate choice.  At that time, I discussed whether or not income matters for women who are looking for a ... ...
  • M7.2 Earthquake near Christchurch, New Zealand
    Not exactly volcanic, but... Not many details yet, but the USGS Earthquake list shows a M7.2 earthquake ~25-30 km from Christchurch , New Zealand. I'll post more details as I find them, but here is a Google Map of the epicenter - UPDATE : the refined location puts it further from Christchurch, to t ...
  • Aljazeera: The Rest Of The World Can See It. Why C ...
    THE Dean of Columbia’s School of Journalism recently bemoaned the lack of public broadcasting in the United States, and went on to argue that America needed its own version of the BBC. I’m sure that he did not intend to upset the venerable PBS when he made those comments, but you get his drift. And ...

Information Liberation

  • California Cops Taser Senior Citizen in His Own Ho ...
    In America, now officially a police state, you will be tasered in your own home if you lip off to the police. Senior citizen Peter McFarland of Marin County, California, discovered this after he fell down the stairs outside his home last year....
  • And That's the Problem, Lt. Healy
    The Philadelphia Daily News interviews nine men the city*s police department has arrested for carrying guns, even though all nine were carrying legally. Eight of the men said that they were detained by police * two for 18 hours each. Two were hospit...
  • Amusement Parks and Private Property
    This past weekend, I had the opportunity to visit an amusement park * immediately, I realized how much it showed the potentials of private property. When entering the park, there is a requirement to purchase a ticket as an entrance fee. *This purc...
  • ABC News Nightline Runs Piece on Alex Jones
    To Alex Jones, the world is a very dark place. "Good old Uncle Sam will stage attacks ... that's how they keep the slaves in line," the libertarian radio host says during a rant on his show. "We have to wake up and face the fact that we have a cri...
  • Conspiracy Theories Spread Violence, Claims Govern ...
    One of the authors of a report which called for the authorities to infiltrate conspiracy websites in a bid to *increase trust in the government* has responded to an online backlash by claiming conspiracy theories, and not the government, are respo...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Green Scam: Business Creating Its Own Demand
    I commented on this issue recently on the DT blog in response to this article by Christopher Booker, but it’s a topic worthy of further attention. I’m sure most of you have heard of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a … Continue reading →
  • The Next Emperor?
    Even the Middle Kingdom is no match for one small sniffer dog when he’s in the mood! LibertyGibbert’s grand master of mirth, Fenbeagle, this week aims his pencil at an oft-forgotten but oddly familiar chapter in Chinese history…
  • Libertarianism And The Welfare State
    Today I’d like to talk about an aspect of Libertarianism that is often widely misunderstood. Those of you that have been following my series on Libertarianism will know that, around a century ago, most of the societies of the West … Continue reading →
  • Dobson, Dykes And Diverse Disputes
    G’day All, Ozboy here. As you may have noticed recently, I haven’t had as much time as I’d like to spend here creating posts. Rather than me offering another mere one-paragraph “spill post”, MemoryVault has kindly offered his services in … Continue reading →
  • The Dragon’s Dissent
    As you’re probably aware, most warmists appear to believe it vitally important that the reputed consensus in the scientific community regarding CAGW remains inviolate. Any questioning of this consensus, any appearance of pockets of dissent anywhere in the world, is ruthlessly … Continue reading →

FAS - Secrecy News

  • FISA Court Proposes New Court Rules
    The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has proposed new rules to comply with the provisions of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008.  The Court reviews government applications for intelligence surveillance and physical search under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The proposed FISA ...
  • GAO Access to Intelligence in Dispute
    The continuing controversy over whether the Government Accountability Office will be permitted to participate in intelligence oversight, as some in Congress wish, or whether cleared GAO auditors and investigators will be excluded from intelligence oversight tasks, as the Obama Administration prefers ...
  • U.S. Nuclear Stockpile Secrecy: A View from 1949
    The question of whether or not to disclose the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal “goes to the very heart of our democratic system of government,” said Senator Brien McMahon (D-CT) in a newly rediscovered 1949 speech (pdf) on secrecy in nuclear weapons policy. “Do we possess five bombs, o ...
  • Another Leak Prosecution
    The Obama Administration continued its pursuit of individuals who leak classified information to the press with another indictment of a suspected leaker. The Department of Justice announced last week that Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, a State Department contractor, had been indicted (pdf) under the Espionage ...
  • Geoengineering, and More from CRS
    Technologies to modify the Earth’s climate are at least conceivable and, in the absence of a comprehensive national and international climate change policy, may soon emerge as practical alternatives, a new survey of the subject from the Congressional Research Service suggests. “The term ‘geoengineer ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Spectroscopy now!
    These are the latest science news links and snippets from Sciencebase: Diabetics drop the needle – A new device based on Raman spectroscopy has been developed by scientists at MIT to help patients with diabetes monitor their blood glucose levels without needing to prick their fingers to take a blood ...
  • Cialis in glass and a shortage of helium
    Science news links for July 23rd through July 26th: ACS and RSC Sustainability Alliance – The Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Chemical Society have joined forces to launch a sustainability website. Be interesting to know what is the carbon footprint of this endeavour and the server elect ...
  • Risky teams, forged banknotes, frost-proof frogs
    An eclectic mix of science snips from Sciencebase: Novel algorithm cuts the risks of choosing ineffectual team members – The risky business of putting together a team Counterfeit spectroscopy – Banknote counterfeiting is a growing problem for fraud investigators across the globe and criminals involv ...
  • Are spiders repelled by conkers?
    Arachnophobics the world over have often turned to a folk tale that suggests placing conkers along one’s skirting boards or at the edges of doorways might somehow deter spiders from entering a building. The modern scientific brain might wonder whether it is some odour chemical released by the fruit ...
  • Spectroscopic science news
    These are my links for July 30th from 18:21 to 18:27: Space balls redux – I've reported on this briefly elsewhere, but here are more details of the research involving infrared spectroscopic data from the planetary nebula Tc 1 in the southern constellation Ara that revealed convincing evidence that t ...

RFF Library

  • WTO World Trade Report 2010: Trade in Natural Reso ...
    World Trade Organization http://tinyurl.com/38nlmpg [WTO Publication page] The World Trade Report 2010 focuses on trade in natural resources, such as fuels, forestry, mining and fisheries. The Report examines the characteristics of trade in natural resources, the policy choices available to governme ...
  • Tropical Forests Were the Primary Source of New Ag ...
    PNAS / H.K. Gibbs, A.S. Ruesch, F. Achard, M.K. Clayton, P. Holmgren, N. Ramankutty, and J.A. Foley http://tinyurl.com/3867tq7 Abstract:  Global demand for agricultural products such as food, feed, and fuel is now a major driver of cropland and pasture expansion across much of the developing world. ...
  • Statistical Aspects of the Energy Economy in 2009
    Eurostat http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-SF-10-043/EN/KS-SF-10-043-EN.PDF [Yale Environment 360] The use of renewable sources of energy in Europe continues to grow at a brisk pace and energy efficiency also is improving, significantly reducing reliance on coal and natural gas, a ...
  • New to DOE Website: Historical/Selected Significan ...
    US DOE, Energy Information Administration http://www.eia.gov/special/disruptions/ [Energy Blog, comments by Richard Newell, Assistant Secretary of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy ]The Hurricane Earl web page is part of a new energy disruptions section of the EIA website that includes links to ...
  • Dams in Amazonia
    International Rivers and Fundación PROTEGER http://www.dams-info.org/en [Yale Environment 360] A new online database maps more than 140 dams being built or planned in the Amazon basin and documents the impacts these projects are likely to have on human communities and the environment. Using official ...

Scientific American - News

  • Wind Turbine or Airplane? New Radar Could Cut Thro ...
    Wind turbines function best in wide-open spaces where they can capture airflow unobstructed by buildings or mountains. Unfortunately, these same conditions are also optimal for aircraft takeoffs and landings, creating tension between wind energy utilities and airports in a number of locations worldw ...
  • Lased and Confused: Off-the-Shelf Infrared Lasers ...
    Helicopter-mounted lasers that can dazzle and defend against heat-seeking missiles are now under development, researchers reveal. [More] Laser - Missile - Infrared homing - Helicopter - Business
  • New Microscope Enables Real-Time 3-D Movies of Dev ...
    Using a revolutionary new microscope, scientists can now peer into embryos and watch, in one of the world's smallest 3-D movies, as brains, eyes and other organs form. A team at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, watched zebra fish and fruit flie embryos develop ...
  • Pox Swap: 30 Years After the End of Smallpox, Monk ...
    The ancient scourge smallpox was relegated to biowaste bin of history more than 30 years ago, the result of the world's first and only successful disease eradication programs. Since then, however, cases of monkeypox--a serious, although less severe smallpoxlike illness--have substantially increased ...
  • Shades of 'Gray Literature': How Much IPCC Reform ...
    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 report from the group working on global warming's impacts contained at least one error. "Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world (see Table 10.9) and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them ...

RAWA News

  • Talibani Terrorists Brutally Beheaded a Shia Musli ...
    Ahlul Bayt News Agency: A Shia man named Naurooz has been beheaded by Taliban in Sai Ganj area of Ghazni. He was from Nahoor District of Ghazni, and on the way for business travel to Ghazni city. This is not the first incident in this year. About a month ago, 10 Hazara Shia from Jaghori district of ...
  • Taliban tries to stop the music in Afghanistan &#8 ...
    McClatchy Newspapers: Mohammed Tariq was looking after his uncle's music shop one recent afternoon when two bearded men with turbans pulled up on a motorcycle to deliver an ominous warning. "Where is your uncle?" one of the armed men demanded of the 14-year-old boy. "Tell him to shut down this shop. ...
  • Afghans Stage Protests Against NATO in E Afghanist ...
    Tolo News: Dozens of Afghans rallied Wednesday shouting anti-American slogans for the killing of civilians in NATO operations in eastern Afghanistan. Angry protesters in the eastern Nangarhar province rallied on Wednesday morning for the killing of two civilians and the arrest of three others by for ...
  • Karzai aide part of wider investigation, Afghan of ...
    The Washington Post: A close adviser to President Hamid Karzai, arrested last month on charges of soliciting a bribe, was also under investigation for allegedly providing luxury vehicles and cash to presidential allies and over telephone contacts with Taliban insurgents, according to Afghan official ...
  • Afghan women, children turn to drugs
    CNN: The 18 women sit cross-legged on metal beds, wearing long, loose dresses and nightgowns, their heads completely covered with shawls. They do not want us to see them. Some of them are holding babies in their laps. They are addicted to heroin and opium, products of Afghanistan's richest and cruel ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Corporate Take Over 101: BP ultimatum: Let us dril ...
  • Major human trafficker is huge GOP donor who fough ...
    The FBI considers this the largest human-trafficking case in US history, and those indicted face maximum sentences of five to 70 years in prison, the Justice Department confirmed to AP.
  • Vets Get Ecstasy to Treat Their PTSD
    A pair of psychiatric experts think they’ve got the answer to the soaring number of troops coming back from war with PTSD: have them undergo intensive psychotherapy — while they’re rolling on ecstasy.
  • Middle East Loses Trillions As U.S. Strikes Record ...
    The Internet has provided the world with, if nothing else, instantaneous access to news and in-depth information previously available only to governments and think tanks.
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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Unrepentant Tony Blair Calls for Iran Attacks
    Summary: Blair Back in the public eye with the release of his memoirs, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair might lead one to believe it is 2003 all over again. Praising George W. Bush as a great leader and one of the most decisive men he had ever met, Blair also lauds the Iraq War. source ...
  • DOES THE WEST WANT A REAL DISCUSSION WITH IRAN?
    Summary: Mottaki In the lead up to a likely resumption of Western “diplomacy” with Iran, conducting an interview with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, with questions designed to elicit substantive and revealing responses, could potentially yield real benefits for the international co ...
  • SPIEGEL Interview with Iran's Foreign Minister
    Summary: In a SPIEGEL interview, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, 57, discusses the stoning of adulterers, the consequences of Western sanctions against Iran and the risk of a military strike against his country. source: SPIEGEL read more
  • Iran: Any negotiation with the U.S. should be unde ...
    Summary: US Nuclear Posture Report (April 2010) Amid strained relations between Tehran and Washington, Iran says it will enter talks with the US only under "equal and respectful conditions" and without any prejudice. "If the US seriously seeks to revive relations with Iran, it should make chan ...
  • Larijani: Iran ready for nuclear talks
    Summary: As the US expresses optimism about future talks on Iran's nuclear program, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says Tehran has never refused nuclear talks. source: Press TV read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Sci, Space, Tech Fans -Win a Free Droid X Phone! ( ...
    Volunteers invited to review and share Daily Galaxy posts you love on Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon. Win a Free Droid X smartphone for generating most views of Daily Galaxy posts in September. Send us copies of your Digg and/or Reddit...
  • EcoAlert: Road Will Cut Off Main Serengeti Wildlif ...
    A new form of gridlock may be coming to the Serengenti. The Tanzania government plans to build a commercial road in the north of Serengeti National Park, cutting through the annual migratory route of two million wildebeest and zebra severing...
  • NASA's History Captured In Awesome Photograph Coll ...
    As a teaser, we've showcased the Gossamer Penguin, an experimental solar-powered aircraft cruising above a dry lakebed at NASA Dryden's Flight Research Center in July 1979 -one of many strange, woot images of NASA's early days. The images come from...
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  • The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (9/02)
    New Technique Finds Gaseous Metals in Exoplanet Atmospheres A previously undetected element has been found in the atmospheres of two different extrasolar planets. Using a new technique at a new telescope, two separate groups of exoplanet scientists have discovered potassium...

Natural News

  • Dr Oz colon polyps raises question of "spontaneous ...
    (NaturalNews) Dr Oz was recently found to have a precancerous colon polyp which was surgically removed. Following this experience, he appears to be surprised and confused about the origin of the condition, and he credits colonoscopy screening with saving his life. Dr Oz even seems to think he has a ...
  • Inspections found recalled egg farms filthy, full ...
    (NaturalNews) U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspection reports have revealed that the two egg producers implicated in the current egg recall have been running operations conducive to contamination -- and in clear violation of the law. The reports highlight filthy conditions at both the Wri ...
  • Ancient 'Paleo' diet key to healthy living and wei ...
    (NaturalNews) Eat like a cave man to lose weight, build muscle and feel great. This is what advocates of the "Paleo" diet say is the key to healthy living, a diet that consists only of meat, vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds and mushrooms -- also known as the "Paleolithic", or Paleo diet. A recent Chi ...
  • Another offshore oil rig explodes in the Gulf of M ...
    (NaturalNews) It's a war zone out there! ... if you're an oil platform worker, anyway. Another oil rig, the Vermilion Oil Rig 380 , has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, just a few miles from the infamous Deepwater Horizon that started the massive volcano of oil that poisoned the Gulf this summer. U.S ...
  • Antibiotic tainted beef illegally sold for human c ...
    (NaturalNews) The conventional U.S. food supply is no stranger to chemicals, pesticides, growth hormones and antibiotics. But a Michigan dairy has violated what minimal restrictions do exist concerning these additives by illegally selling antibiotic-ridden dairy cows to be processed for human consum ...

Threat Level

  • ‘Evil’ Eric Schmidt Debuts in Video Targeting Goog ...
    A creepy caricature of Google CEO Eric Schmidt drives an ice cream truck in this video produced by a consumer group targeting the search giant for its data collection practices. The video is part of a lobbying effort by Consumer Watchdog to get the government to create a so-called “Do Not Track M ...
  • Murdoch Reporters’ Phone Hacking Was Endemic; Vict ...
    A phone hacking scheme involving British royals and reporters working for one of Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid newspapers went far beyond what was previously disclosed and prosecuted, according to the New York Times. Andy Coulson, who is currently media advisor to British Prime Minister David Cameron, i ...
  • Police Kill Hostage Taker Who Besieged Discovery C ...
    After a daylong standoff, authorities shot and killed an armed man wearing an explosive device who had taken three hostages at the Discovery Channel’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, just outside the District of Columbia. Most of the hundreds of employees, including children at an on-site d ...
  • Attorney: Army Disabled Manning’s Weapon Prior to ...
    A civilian defense attorney hired recently by alleged WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning says the Army was so concerned about his client’s mental health prior to the alleged leaks that supervisors removed the bolt from his military weapon, disabling it. Attorney David Coombs told CNN, however, that o ...
  • Pirate Bay Documentary in the Works
    By Duncan Geere, Wired UK Notorious filesharing website The Pirate Bay is a long-standing enemy of the movie industry, but one Swedish filmmaker has plans to create a documentary called TPB AFK about the three founders of the site, and their reactions to being found guilty of being accessory to cri ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Employers Accelerate Shift of Health Care Costs to ...
    A new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation forecast that family health insurance premiums will rise by only 3% in 2010. Sadly, the good news from the Employer Health Benefits 2010 Annual Survey ends there. Coming on the heels of several reports showing financially-strapped Americans dramatically ...
  • Sacrilege at Gettysburg
    On Thursday, NPR offered a tour of the neighborhood around the proposed Islamic center in lower Manhattan. But while Brian Reed offered a tour of the Starbucks, some Indian restaurants, a tobacconist, a strip club, a Christian Science Reading room, some churches and an Off Track Better OTB) facilit ...
  • President McCain Speaks on Iraq
    In the wake of President Obama's speech last, the neoconservative architects of the Iraq War predictably reemerged to claim credit for the national disaster they portray as success. But one of them, Bill Kristol , allowed that the address was, "on the whole, not a bad speech by the president," addi ...
  • Palin Demands Honesty from Obama, Not Bush, on Ira ...
    In her predictable Facebook pre-buttal to the President's primetime speech on Iraq , Sarah Palin demanded that Barack Obama "admit you were wrong about the surge." But in insisting that "the more honest you are about the past, the more likely it is you will gain the support of the American people," ...
  • The Iraq War: Such a Bargain!
    "At that price," the shopper says, "even if you don't need it, it's a bargain." And so it is with the Iraq War , at least according to Fox News . Citing numbers from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), "the total cost of the eight-year war was less than the stimulus bill passed by the Democrati ...

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    Bidding is still running on these beautiful Eliza Gauger art pieces.
  • New York State Senate passes gas drilling (frackin ...
    ByJerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted atOnline Journal www.jerrymazza.com August 13, 2010 It isnt often these days that the good guys win one. But heres a beautiful example of a successful effort so far by the activist groupCatskill Mountainkeeper and friends. The fight to preven ...
  • The Women Who Won't Abandon the Gulf
    While the two main industries on the Gulf Coast, oil and fishing, are both male-dominated, it’s women who are now in leadership roles picking up after this latest mess.
  • Gas Is Really Costing Us About $15 a Gallon
    Calculating the true cost of living in a country built on oil.
  • EPA defers hearing on fracking By Jerry Mazza
    ByJerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.jerrymazza.com August 13, 2010 The New York Times and Catskill Mountainkeeper have reported that the EPAs last hearing on fracking, held in Canonsburg, Pa. in July drew over 1200 people without a hitch. Unfortunately, the follow-up, all-day hearing t ...

Consortium News

  • Will US Really Prosecute WikiLeaks?
    The US government's threat to prosecute WikiLeaks for publishing Afghan War documents is anti-democratic, says Ivan Eland. September 2, 2010
  • The Afghan Pincer Attack on Obama
    Afghan War hawks have outmaneuvered President Obama by overrunning his political flanks, writes Melvin A. Goodman. September 2, 2010
  • How the Right Still Frames Iraq
    The Right framed the debate over President Obama's Iraq War speech as the need to thank George W. Bush, says Robert Parry. September 1, 2010
  • Obama Sugarcoats Iraq War Realities
    In "turning the page" on Iraq, President Obama spared those responsible for this war of aggression, writes David Swanson. September 1, 2010
  • Beck's Washington Monument Myth
    Though often spouting US history, Glenn Beck gummed up the story of the Washington Monument, notes Jonathan Schwarz. September 1, 2010

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • A new direction for energy efficiency in Texas
    Today, Public Citizen and Environmental Defense Fund sent a letter to the Legislature calling on them to support the creation of a new state agency dedicated to efficiency. I tend to think in the problem-cause-solution framework about public policy issues so here’s the short version: Problem: Energy ...
  • Human error causes a partial shutdown of Texas nuc ...
    Human error appears to have caused a partial shutdown last Friday at the South Texas Project, one of the state’s two nuclear plants. Last week, prices spiked in the wholesale electricity market.  On Monday the 16th,  wholesale electricity, which had been selling for less than $30 per megawatt-hour s ...
  • TCEQ POSTS INTERACTIVE BARNETT SHALE MAP
    Live downwind from the Barnett Shale ? The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality posted an interactive map of the Barnett Shale on its website that allows you to see the latest data from the various air quality monitoring sites near natural gas drilling and pipeline facilities. Be forwarned howe ...
  • Tom "Smitty" Smith at Al Armendariz welcome party ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Tom "Smitty" Smith at Al Armendariz, the new Region 6 EPA Administrator welcome party in El Sol Y La Luna
  • Matt Johnson at Al Armendariz welcome party in El ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Matt Johnson at Al Armendariz welcome party in El Sol Y La Luna

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Grassroots

  • Director of Grantmaking & Advocacy
    Grassroots International (GRI) is a dynamic, social justice-oriented, human rights and international development organization and public foundation that works to create a just and sustainable world by building alliances with progressive movements through grantmaking and advocacy. GRI’s grantmaking a ...
  • Referendum on Land Holding Used to Educate about L ...
    plebiscito_popular_logo.jpg As part of a larger campaign to support the right to land, this week Grassroots International provided a $10,000 grant to boost education and organizing around a powerful national referendum in Brazil. The referendu ...
  • Pakistan Floods: Secular, Liberal & Progressive Or ...
    pakfloods2.jpg The recent monsoonal floods in Pakistan have devastated nearly a third of the country’s landmass – by some estimates�area the size of Italy. More than 20 million people have been directly impacted by the rising waters of the Ind ...
  • Pakistan Floods: Secular, Liberal and Progressive ...
    pakfloods2.jpg The recent monsoonal floods in Pakistan have devastated nearly a third of the country’s landmass – by some estimates�area the size of Italy. More than 20 million people have been directly impacted by the rising waters of the Ind ...
  • Reimagining Israel’s Negev
    bedouin.jpg Down south in the Negev desert, the sounds of jets fill wide-open spaces. Increasing militarization is constant�-- at least 80% of the land there is used for military training purposes, including weaponry development. The Negev als ...

Climate

  • September 3, 2010
    Mariner Platform Blast May Extend Deep-Water Drilling Ban (Bloomberg)  The explosion aboard a Mariner Energy Inc. oil platform shows Pres. Obama should maintain the drilling ban imposed after the BP Plc blowout in April, lawmakers and environmentalists said. BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Costs ...
  • September 2, 2010
    Developed Nations Arrange $10 Billion Financing in 2010 for Climate Fight (Bloomberg) Developed nations have identified sources for $10 billion in "fast track" climate financing for poorer nations this year and almost $30 billion through 2012, the UN’s chief climate negotiator said. Greenpeace ...
  • September 1, 2010
    Court Ruling Gives Cape Wind Project Green Light to Build (Boston Globe)  A divided Supreme Judicial Court ruled yesterday that a state board had the power to sidestep community opposition to grant the controversial Cape Wind energy project local and state permits it needs to start construction ...
  • August 31, 2010
    Climate 'Skeptic' Bjørn Lomborg Now Believes Warming is One of World's Greatest Threats (Telegraph) Bjørn Lomborg, a self-styled "skeptical environmentalist" who has long opposed international curbs on carbon emissions, is now urging world leaders to invest heavily in clean energy. German En ...
  • August 30, 2010
    Judge Denies Cuccinelli's Demand for Climate Researcher's Records (Roanoke Times)  A county judge has blocked AG Ken Cuccinelli's quest for documents related to the work of former University of Virginia climate scientist Michael Mann, ruling that Cuccinelli failed to show why he suspects the prof ...

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  • God Outed as Republican Fundraiser
    Yes, it's true. Joe Miller, Alaska's GOP nominee for the Senate after a surprising, some would say miraculous victory over Lisa Murkowski in the Republican primary, has revealed that the Supreme Being is indeed raising money for Miller's campaign. While runmors have circulated in the past that God ...
  • Not-so-casual Observation
    I think Chuck Hagel ought to know his party better than this. They aren't going to find a new center and this isn't a storm that is just going to blow through. A bunch of whack-a-doodles are going to get elected, some of them to six-year terms. And then they're going to nominate for president som ...
  • Campaign Advice
    I guess the reason that the Republicans are polling so well at the moment is almost entirely based on the pollsters estimate of likely differential turnout. That's what Public Policy Polling's Tom Jensen says anyway. If true, it gives me cause of optimism. We can't change the economy, but we ...
  • The Most Dangerous People in America
    It's not that secret Muslim President Obama, Devil-eyed Nancy Pelosi, "illegal aliens" or even left wing bloggers. No, serial liar right wing hero and media maven Andrew Breitbart has done us all a favor by identifying the most dangerous people in America, people he says are engaged in a war agains ...
  • Some Friendly Advice
    I don't know if David Axelrod will see this, but maybe he will. He says the following: "We'll continue to do everything we can, understanding that recovery will require persistent effort. There are no silver bullets," senior Obama adviser David Axelrod said in an interview Thursday. "At the same ...

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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

  • Trauma is a Seed of Depression
    By Cynthia W. Lubow, MS, MFT, Depression Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Cynthia and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Most of the time, depression can be traced back to trauma. Emotional trauma is an overwhelming shock to a person’s equilibrium. This may mean getting attacked emotio ...
  • Part I: How to Stop Enabling the Enabler
    By Darren Haber, MFT, Addictions & Compulsions Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Darren and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile How can one “enable” an enabler? In my last column (“Breathing Room”), I discussed parents of addicted children, and the response was mostly critical of those ...
  • Creativity and the Relationship with Yourself
    By Lisa A. Riley, LMFT Creative Blocks Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lisa and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile The relationship you have with yourself can directly affect your creativity. When faced with the blank canvas or computer screen, you must also face your internal process ...
  • How to Create a Strong, Satisfying Relationship
    By Yvonne Sinclair, MA, MFCC, Relationship Enhancement Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Yvonne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Slow down and listen. When we communicate, sometimes we ignore what our partner is saying. Instead of focusing on our partner, our thoughts ar ...
  • Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up
    A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up Great week in Psychotherapy News! Hope these give you something to think about over the long weekend :-) ⢠If Baby Doesn’t Like to Gaze at Faces, it Could be an Early Sign of Autism ⢠A Wandering Mind May Hold the Key to a Healthy Sense of Sel ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Will Banks Ever Stop Financing Mountaintop Removal ...
    Care2.com (blog) Will Banks Ever Stop Financing Mountaintop Removal ? Care2.com (blog) Mountaintop removal (MTR) is a rather nasty form of coal mining which basically blows the top off of mountains in Southern Appalachia. ...
  • Banks Are Increasingly Doing Environmental Due Dil ...
    Environmental Leader Banks Are Increasingly Doing Environmental Due Dilligence Reuters ... multinational banks are growing weary of delivering debt to industrial extraction projects, such as mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. ... Lenders Back Off of Environmental Risks New York Times ...
  • Teens have mixed feelings on mountaintop removal - ...
    Teens have mixed feelings on mountaintop removal Charleston Gazette Mountaintop removal is a type of strip mining that involves leveling the top of a mountain to mine for coal. ... and more��
  • Strip-Mining and Mountaintop Removal Are Fun! Big ...
    Kansas City Star Strip-Mining and Mountaintop Removal Are Fun! Big Coal Launches New ... Huffington Post (blog) reminds so-called environmentalists that instead of harping on the destruction of strip-mining operations in 24 states -- mountaintop-removal mining in ... Activists seek ban on mountaint ...
  • Nike alters WVU graphic - istockAnalyst.com (press ...
    Nike alters WVU graphic istockAnalyst.com (press release) ... created to promote the WVU football team's new Pro Combat uniforms in response to concerns that it also promotes mountaintop-removal coal mining. ... and more��

Memeorandum

  • Dems have few options on economy (Ben White/The Po ...
    Ben White / The Politico : Dems have few options on economy   —  With another tepid jobs report in the books Friday, Democrats desperate for quick policy action to boost the economy face an excruciating dilemma, experts say.  —  The few things that might pass Congress — such as a payroll tax holid ...
  • Pentagon declined to investigate hundreds of purch ...
    John Cook / Yahoo! News : Pentagon declined to investigate hundreds of purchases of child pornography   —  A 2006 Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigation into the purchase of child pornography online turned up more than 250 civilian and military employees of the Defense Department—includ ...
  • Broader U-6 Jobless Rate up to 16.7%: Why the Jump ...
    Phil Izzo / Real Time Economics : Broader U-6 Jobless Rate up to 16.7%: Why the Jump?   —  The U.S. jobless rate rose to 9.6% in August, but the government's broader measure of unemployment rose even more to 16.7%, the highest rate since April.  —  The comprehensive gauge of labor underutilization, ...
  • Colo. GOP tries to push Maes out (David Catanese/T ...
    David Catanese / The Politico : Colo. GOP tries to push Maes out   —  Top Colorado Republicans are attempting to convince gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes to drop his bid for governor by the end of Friday, a well-placed Republican in the state tells POLITICO.  —  In a meeting Friday morning, party c ...
  • The irony of Jesse Jackson's stripped SUV (Henry P ...
    Henry Payne / Detroit News : The irony of Jesse Jackson's stripped SUV   —  Add Jesse Jackson's ride to prominent vehicles being stripped in Detroit.  —  Following the embarrassing news that Mayor Dave Bing's GMC Yukon was hijacked by criminals this week, Detroit's Channel 7 reports that the Revere ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.1, South Island of New Zealand
    Saturday, September 4, 2010 04:55:55 UTC Saturday, September 4, 2010 04:55:55 PM at epicenter Depth : 8.00 km (4.97 mi)
  • M 5.1, Papua, Indonesia
    Saturday, September 4, 2010 03:39:22 UTC Saturday, September 4, 2010 12:39:22 PM at epicenter Depth : 71.20 km (44.24 mi)
  • M 5.6, Papua, Indonesia
    Saturday, September 4, 2010 03:14:34 UTC Saturday, September 4, 2010 12:14:34 PM at epicenter Depth : 40.30 km (25.04 mi)
  • M 5.0, Guam region
    Tuesday, August 31, 2010 21:16:01 UTC Wednesday, September 1, 2010 07:16:01 AM at epicenter Depth : 124.80 km (77.55 mi)
  • M 5.0, Seram, Indonesia
    Tuesday, August 31, 2010 20:47:46 UTC Wednesday, September 1, 2010 05:47:46 AM at epicenter Depth : 53.10 km (32.99 mi)

China Dialogue

  • On shaky ground
    The devastating mudslide in Zhouqu last month was far from a one-off, write Lu Zongshu and Tang Jing. Millions in China are threatened by geological disaster – and they need protection. On August 7, a huge mudslide struck Zhouqu, in Gansu, western China. By August 16, more than 1,200 people had been ...
  • Anger over “frontier oil”
    Far from the Gulf of Mexico, environmental campaigners are accusing energy companies of destroying land and livelihoods in the search for increasingly scarce resources. Richard Wachman and Jon Stibbs report. The eyes of the world are on BP after the April disaster that left massive amounts of oil sp ...
  • Muddy waters
    A project to flush sediment from the Yellow River has been hailed as a technological and environmental triumph. But, writes Meng Si, local communities are at risk. At four in the morning one day in early July, 31 villagers living on the banks of the Yellow River in Jiaozuo county, central China, wok ...
  • Testing time for green California
    As governor Arnold Schwarzenegger leaves office in November, state residents will be asked to vote on a ballot measure that could kill their landmark climate bill. Jan McGirk reports. Post Copenhagen, support for carbon trading has been falling globally. Now it appears that even California, famed fo ...
  • “China’s interests must come first&#82 ...
    Until recently, Yu Qingtai was Beijing’s top climate negotiator. At a speech earlier this month, Yu argued that the developing world must continue to resist unfair demands from rich countries. Here, chinadialogue publishes a summary of his remarks. On August 6, Yu Qingtai – until recently China’s sp ...

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  • ‘Evil’ Eric Schmidt Debuts in Video Targeting Goog ...
    A creepy caricature of Google CEO Eric Schmidt drives an ice cream truck in this video produced by a consumer group targeting the search giant for its data collection practices. The video is part of a lobbying effort by Consumer Watchdog to get the government to create a so-called “Do Not Track M ...
  • Murdoch Reporters’ Phone Hacking Was Endemic; Vict ...
    A phone hacking scheme involving British royals and reporters working for one of Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid newspapers went far beyond what was previously disclosed and prosecuted, according to the New York Times. Andy Coulson, who is currently media advisor to British Prime Minister David Cameron, i ...
  • Police Kill Hostage Taker Who Besieged Discovery C ...
    After a daylong standoff, authorities shot and killed an armed man wearing an explosive device who had taken three hostages at the Discovery Channel’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, just outside the District of Columbia. Most of the hundreds of employees, including children at an on-site d ...
  • Attorney: Army Disabled Manning’s Weapon Prior to ...
    A civilian defense attorney hired recently by alleged WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning says the Army was so concerned about his client’s mental health prior to the alleged leaks that supervisors removed the bolt from his military weapon, disabling it. Attorney David Coombs told CNN, however, that o ...
  • Pirate Bay Documentary in the Works
    By Duncan Geere, Wired UK Notorious filesharing website The Pirate Bay is a long-standing enemy of the movie industry, but one Swedish filmmaker has plans to create a documentary called TPB AFK about the three founders of the site, and their reactions to being found guilty of being accessory to cri ...

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IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #424 (suspicious deaths e ...
    Top Russian spy dead after ‘swimming accident. The body of Major General Yuri Ivanov, 52, who was the deputy head of Russian military intelligence (GRU), washed up on the Turkish coast earlier this month, after he disappeared close to a … Continue reading →
  • Analysis: How the CIA bedded down in Burma
    By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | It is a story that was largely ignored when it surfaced last year: since 1994, US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) officer Richard A. Horn had been claiming that CIA agents illegally wiretapped his conversations … Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #423
    Mysterious Russian numbers station changes frequency. The output of a mysterious radio station in Russia, which has been broadcasting coded information to secret agents almost continuously for 20 years, has suddenly changed. US contractor charged with leaking North Korea intel … Continue reading →
  • Taliban operate ‘very extensive’ spy network in Br ...
    By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | The former head of British troops in Afghanistan has warned that the Taliban are gathering intelligence from a âvery, very extensive network of intelligenceâ operating inside British military bases in the Central Asian country. … Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #422 (suspicious deaths e ...
    Self-described CIA assassin dies in gun accident. Roland W. Haas, a senior intelligence officer in the US Army Reserve who claimed in a 2007 memoir that he was a CIA assassin, died over the weekend when he accidentally shot himself, … Continue reading →

After Downing Street.org

  • Here We Go Again: Another Rig Explosion
    Here We Go Again: Another Rig Explosion - by Stephen Lendman Drilling means spilling, hundreds of annual incidents, most small, unreported, yet their cumulative effect is devastating, what the industry and nightly news won't mention or explain. On February 25, 2009, Environmental Research web.org w ...
  • Way Past Time!!!
    It's way past Time the Country does what they should have Years Ago, Way Past!!   With new 'AO' rule out, VA readies spigot of payments   3 September 2010 - The Department of Veterans Affairs published its final regulation Aug. 31 for compensating Vietnam veterans with ischemic heart disease, Parkin ...
  • A world in collapse?
    Robert Jensen interviewed by Alex Doherty, New Left Project http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/a_world_in... Robert Jensen is a professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas. He is the author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity; The ...
  • Critic Review for The Tillman Story
    The Tillman Story � Debunking the myth-making of the U.S. military � September 3, 2010 - In an otherwise slack season at the movies, "The Tillman Story" emerges as the summer's first true must-see film, required viewing for everyone, but especially audiences in Washington. Because even though Pat Ti ...
  • Two Tales of Islamophobia: the US and Germany
    Dirty Jews and Ragheads: If Modern America Resembles Weimar, the Tea Party Resembles... By Betsy Rossinsky I learned I was Jewish the hard way. Soon after my mother died, her ex-husband (my father) took me away to live with him. I was seven. “You killed Christ,” a pretty little girl named Peggy to ...

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  • BP spill costs hit $8 billion as crews unearth clu ...
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- British oil giant BP revealed on Friday that it has so far spent $8 billion to battle the Gulf of Mexico disaster. At the same time, its crews worked to retrieve key evidence about the spill from the seabed. Robotic submarines recorded the delicate operat ...
  • Explosion on Gulf of Mexico oil platform contained ...
    by Agence France-Presse. NEW ORLEANS -- An oil platform explosion Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico forced the crew to dive into the sea and threatened further damage to waters still recovering from the BP disaster. Fire engulfed the offshore platform 100 miles south of the Louisiana coast shortl ...
  • Fuel tanker runs aground in Canadian Arctic
    by Agence France-Presse. OTTAWA -- A fuel tanker has run aground in Canada's far north, carrying 2.4 million gallons of diesel fuel that risk spilling into the Arctic waters, the Canadian Coast Guard said Thursday. A Coast Guard spokesman told AFP no leaks from the tanker had yet been detected i ...
  • Oil rig blast forces 13 workers into Gulf of Mexic ...
    by Agence France-Presse. NEW ORLEANS -- An explosion ripped through an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday forcing 13 people into the water, one of whom was injured, the U.S. Coast Guard said. There was no immediate sign of an oil spill and everything "appears to be" contained "at this tim ...
  • Feds lease prime solar land, but narry a panel is ...
    by Randy Rieland. Ready for your morning bowl of crazy? Five years ago, Congress set aside millions of acres of public land in the Southwest for the development of solar farms. This was primo real estate for solar, considered one of the best spots in the world. So far not one solar panel has b ...

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  • The Frayed Social Safety Net
    The Institute for Women’s Policy Research recently released a study (PDF) showing that a shocking number of poor women with children do not receive adequate assistance, due to cuts to social safety net programs. The Obama administration’s expansion of programs such as Temporary Assistance for Needy ...
  • Miller’s Anti-Earmark Stance
    Joe Miller, now officially Alaska’s Republican candidate for Senate, is another insurgent who fits into a pattern Jesse has identified of politicians shirking earmarks in the run-up to November’s election. It’s a particularly surprising stance to take in Alaska, where the late Sen. Ted Stevens unaba ...
  • Why Is Long-Term Unemployment Declining?
    One interesting detail in this morning’s jobs report: The number of workers out of a job for more than six months declined by about 600,000. Moreover, the long-term unemployed made a smaller percentage of the total pool of unemployed workers. The Wall Street Journal reports that this is perhaps a go ...
  • Why Aren’t Americans More Prepared for Disas ...
    Part of FEMA’s business is to make sure that Americans are prepared to respond to disasters, and in September — National Preparedness Month — the agency tries to hammer home the message, recommending a three step plan: get a kit, make a plan, be informed. It’s a message the agency has been pushing f ...
  • Students Continue Push for DREAM Act
    Immigrants rights groups have shifted their immigration organizing efforts to smaller bills, such as the DREAM Act for undocumented students, as comprehensive immigration reform efforts stall in Congress. Prospects for the DREAM Act are also uncertain, but students continue to push for legislation ...

Digg Green

Invisible Opportunity

  • Let’s send British Petroleum into the Fires ...
    By Les Visible When you talk about British Petroleum you have to talk about the Bride of Dracula, the original noxious, bat cave, the Queen of England, also the head of the Black Nobility; or close enough. My favorite picture of this slithering reptile is when she goes around on Christmas Day or New ...
  • New Video of World Trade Center 7 Released
    After the first World Trade Center tower is hit, Barry Jennings, a City Housing Authority worker, and Michael Hess, New York’s corporation counsel, head up to the emergency command center of the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM), which is on the 23rd floor of WTC 7. Testimony from Barry J ...
  • British spy found dead in bath was padlocked into ...
    The authorities still aren’t sure if they can call this a murder!?!!?! Williams, 31, was found dead in his flat in Pimlico half a mile from MI6 headquarters in Vauxhall, on Monday August 23rd. After colleagues reported him missing, police broke into his flat and found his partially decomposed body l ...
  • Control Of Food Supply To Be Handed Over To Depart ...
    The words “homeland security” are found 41 times in the text of the bill S. 510, also known as the Food Safety Modernization Act. Unprecedented powers over food are set to be handed over to Homeland Security if the bill is not stopped. The bill opens opens the door to even more federal control over ...
  • Latest Report on Flu Fatalities: A Shocking Fabric ...
    We have been telling you recently about phony data from the government. Here is another egregious example—and no one in the major media seems to know or care. For years, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has been citing an annual estimate of 36,000 deaths from flu. That figure has been used to j ...

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

  • 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 ...
  • Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon)
    A victory for anyone who likes healthy food, soil, and water! Monsanto’s sour plans for the sweet beet were spoiled as a federal judge banned genetically modified sugar beets. This is great news and hopefully a large step forward to getting food production back on a less toxic track. Sugar beet, ...
  • Chemicals and Obesity Speeding up Puberty in Girls ...
    The news that chemicals and obesity causes premature puberty in girls is the latest of thousands of red flags waving high above our food production and consumption status quo. Of course, things are changing, but are they changing fast enough? Nope. The only thing changing quickly is the level of t ...
  • BP’s Getting All Cap-Happy (cartoon)
    If only BP would put all of this new found cap success to work to stop other toxic gushers… Follow Joe on Twitter @GreenCartoons Follow all of his green cartooning at JoeMohrToons.com. Related posts:Monsanto: They Made good WMD’s–I bet They Make Healthy Food! (cartoon) If Climate Change Was ...

Inhabitat

  • Win a Back to School Solar Bag Bundle Worth Over $ ...
    GO BACK TO SCHOOL WITH AN AMAZING NEW SOLAR BAG! If you want to put your best (and greenest) foot forward as you start the new school year, we’ve got something that will help – a lot. We’re giving away a fantastic Back to School Prize Package (worth over $500) packed with green school supplies to [ ...
  • Gorgeous Green Tree Home Takes Root in Bulgaria
    Read the rest of Gorgeous Green Tree Home Takes Root in Bulgariahttp://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: Bignatov Studios, brownfeild redev ...
  • Garden City K66 is a Pixelated Modular City Filled ...
    Read the rest of Garden City K66 is a Pixelated Modular City Filled with Terraceshttp://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 arch ...
  • West Coast Green 2010 Kicks off September 30th!
    Join Inhabitat at West Coast Green this month! Heads up Bay Area architects, designers, and green builders! West Coast Green 2010 will be taking San Francisco by storm this September with another incredible event that explores green innovation in the built environment. We’re looking forward to an e ...
  • Get the Drip Detective iPhone iPad Water Conservat ...
    Drip Detective is a smart new iPhone/iPad app that shows you exactly how much water and money is lost from a water leak. Designed with a fun, interactive interface, the app is a lot more appealing than most conservation oriented apps. Check out a demo video here or to download Drip Detective for fre ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • “Earth-like” Exoplanet Could Have a Comet’s Tail
    When the super-Earth COROT-7b was discovered in 2009, it was heralded as the rockiest, most truly Earth-like exoplanet yet. But a new study suggests it’s more like a comet. In a paper to be published in the journal Icarus, an international team of astronomers led by Alessandro Mura of the Italian I ...
  • Glint of Starlight Could Reveal Liquid Oceans on E ...
    The sparkle of starlight off water could be the clincher for finding oceans on extrasolar planets. And it could be observable with the tech that will be deployed in the next generation of space telescopes. “A glinting planet looks different from a non-glinting planet, and it’s detectable with curre ...
  • NASA Flies First Drone Over Hurricane
    Hurricane Earl is waning as it moves northward up the east coast of the United States. Some of the first researchers to notice the weakening had front row seats, watching the eye of the hurricane via drone flights. In addition to the usual cadre of satellites, NASA is using a small fleet of unmanne ...
  • Baby Lion Cub Live Webcam Launched
    The Smithsonian National Zoo has just launched a live webcam of the zoo’s four new baby African lion cubs and their mother. The cubs were born during the late night and early morning of Aug. 30 and 31 and will remain indoors until late fall. The litter is the first for 5-year-old mother lion Shera, ...
  • Clustered Networks Spread Behavior Change Faster
    Unlike infectious diseases and news, behavior change spreads faster through online networks that have many close connections instead of many distant ties. Redundancy is key, as people are more likely to engage in a behavior if they see many others doing it. “There has been a lot of theory about the ...

The Progressive Realist

  • FinReg, Afghan Style
    Amy Davidson sums up the strange tale of how the Kabul Bank bank run came about: One is his brother, Mahmoud Karzai. He is in a better position to come out of this well than the depositors who were heading to the bank to get their money out this morning ; there is a fair amount of confusion at the ...
  • In Defense of Politics and National Security
    A few days ago, I came across a post by Gulliver at the excellent Inkspots , decrying how the politicization of national security was eroding his will to blog. Judging from the number of posts Gulliver has written since this sad lament, I’m skeptical the situation is nearly as dire as he originall ...
  • Lucky Hakimullah
    Joshua Foust on the paradoxes of the Obama administration indicting Tehrik-i-Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud : Which brings us to this criminal charge: conspiracy to kill Americans and using a weapon of mass destruction. The latter charge is fundamentally stupid, the result of the U.S. government d ...
  • Cry for Me Pakistan
    The United States spent nine years (1980-89) working closely with Pakistan's military against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan; followed by 11 years (1990-2001) of punishing Pakistan with all manner of sanctions for its secret nuclear weapons development that it kept denying even existed; follo ...
  • The World's Most Dangerous Crisis
    Earlier this week, President Obama announced the end of America’s combat mission in Iraq and pledged his commitment to begin drawing down American forces in Afghanistan beginning next summer. A key theme in his address to the nation was the need for the United States to redirect resources from nea ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: People Who Know Nothing About Ame ...
    The interesting thing about political pundits flopping about trying to explain Democrats and Obama sinking in the polls is that it unintentionally reveals their prejudices about American political life. So, you get Eugene Robinson venting about "spoiled" Americans in our Vibrant Economy, or Jonah G ...
  • Good Government, Populism, and the Left.
    In New York, there's an epic battle among the Democrats for control of Pedro Espada's Bronx state Senate seat. The story is either "crusading reformers challenge corrupt politician" or "the people's champion versus the Big Guys." Not to be a spoiler, but I'm leaning toward the former: [State Sen ...
  • One Sharp-Looking Campaign.
    Last year, I wrote a column about how the Obama design aesthetic -- including, but not limited to, the use of the Gotham font and the reassuring palette of blues the campaign used -- was spreading around the world. If you're into this kind of thing, we learn ( Via kottke.org ) that Scott Thomas, t ...
  • Young Voters Are Still Really Liberal.
    ( Damon Winter/The New York Times ) Paul Waldman already tackled this, but it's worth adding a few more words on this�new Pew survey showing declining Democratic identification among young voters: Self-identification figures for Democrats — in national polls asking young people what party they ...
  • The Path to a High-Wage Society.
    Peter Dreier says the explosion of low-wage jobs is due, for the most part, to the declining bargaining power of America's employees : A good job means one that pays enough to allow a family to buy or rent a decent home, put food on the table and clothes on their backs, afford health insurance and ...

Buzzflash

  • The Only Domestic Group Actively Dedicated to Over ...
    BARBARA's DAILY BUZZ FROM ATLANTA It's sad really, that the "Tea-Party, Tea-Baggers" who profess strict adherence to the Constitution,�those "I want my country back" people, really want to turn this country into a theorcracy, they want to limit "religious freedom" to their�specific brand of reli ...
  • Are Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, Elisabeth Hasselbeck ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH The GOP’s Gay Problem? Conservatives Supporting Same-Sex Marriage! There’s a gay problem within the Republican Party From Ann Coulter’s upcoming speaking engagement at GOProud’s HOMOCON 2010 to Glenn Beck’s apathy over same-sex marriage and support for Ken Mehlman’s ...
  • Dr. J.’s BF Commentary No. 153: It's Not About the ...
    As Alan Grayson said (Email message, 8/22/10): "As far as the Republican Party is concerned, they wouldn't mind if Timothy McVeigh wins the Republican primary [in his Florida Congressional district] on Tuesday. (And by the way, if McVeigh ran, he would win.) The National Republican Party doesn't car ...
  • What Will be Remembered About August 28, 2010: A.B ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH This was the day Glenn Beck morphed Into this new media monster By formally announcing that God had Become his latest sponsor. � read more
  • Ground Zero For Hate In America Is Near Ground Ze ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH The bile that the Tea Party movement spews Is ear-splitting, non-ending and numbing. I’m waiting for one of them to soon say, “That stabbed Muslim cabbie had it coming.” read more

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Spectroscopy now!
    These are the latest science news links and snippets from Sciencebase: Diabetics drop the needle – A new device based on Raman spectroscopy has been developed by scientists at MIT to help patients with diabetes monitor their blood glucose levels without needing to prick their fingers to take a blood ...
  • Sciencebase science news links for August 23rd thr ...
    These are the latest science news links and snippets from Sciencebase: Chemical news – Two years on, a simple color change test emerges from China for melamine in milk, The Alchemist learns. Also, with a Chinese connection, new insights into the mode of action of a former herbal remedy for fever cou ...
  • Sciencebase science news links for August 16th thr ...
    These are the latest science news links and snippets from Sciencebase: That underwater hydrocarbon plume is still there – Things in the Gulf of Mexico may not be cleaning themselves up quite as fast as some had claimed and many had hoped. Surprise, surprise Paracetamol use and risk of asthma in teen ...
  • What’s the point of the semantic web?
    I was scanning journal tables of contents as usual this week and it occurred to me that there must be a better way to find relevant and timely research information that would be of interest to Sciencebase readers…and, of course, out pops the following title: Technically approaching the semantic web ...
  • Cleaning up emissions
    Emissions trading is an economic workaround, a fudge if you will, to reducing one’s pollution levels by buying off the emissions credits of others who are polluting less. Emissions trading (also known as cap and trade) is a market-based approach used to control pollution by providing economic incent ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • U.S. Human Rights Review Both Necessary and Worthw ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 2, 2010 US Human Rights Network The report on human rights in the United States submitted by the State Department to the United Nations on August 20 has been met with criticism from conservative quarters. Most recently, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer demanded that an inn ...
  • GE Sugar Beets: Groups Condemn USDA Action Avoidin ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 2, 2010 Earthjustice On September 1, 2010, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced that it was in the process of issuing permits to authorize the planting of genetically engineered (GE) sugar beet seedlings ...
  • DOJ Suit Shows Sheriff Joe Arpaio Not Above the La ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 2, 2010 America's Voice Today news broke that the U.S. Department of Justice is suing Maricopa County, AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio to compel him to turn over documents needed for the federal government's civil rights investigation.  Arpaio has denied investigators acces ...
  • Offshore Wells Connected With Exploded Platform in ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 3, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity At least three of the wells served by the offshore production platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday were exempted from environmental review, according to a new analysis by the Center for Biological Div ...
  • Public Transit Projects Create More Jobs than High ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 2, 2010 US PIRG New data released today by the Transportation Equity Network reveals that investment in public transit can create hundreds of thousands more jobs than highway projects. More Transit Equals More Jobs examines official project lists from 20 federally a ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Moral Leadership and the Myth of 'Centrist' Thinki ...
    by George Lakoff If you have not read Drew Westen's outstanding piece, " What Created the Populist Explosion and How Democrats Can Avoid the Shrapnel in November ", on the Huffington Post, Alternet, and other venues, read it immediately. Westen states as eloquently and forcefully as anyone what h ...
  • Unseizing Gaza
    by Ann Wright In an interview with National Public Radio aired on August 30, 2010, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said that the three-year blockade on most foodstuffs and other materials was "a mistake" and that "denying different items or products into Gaza was not effective."  read m ...
  • Flying the Flag, Faking the News
    by John Pilger Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, is said to have invented modern propaganda. During the First World War, he was one of a group of influential liberals who mounted a secret government campaign to persuade reluctant Americans to send an army to the bloodbath in ...
  • Top 10 Reasons for Higher Taxes on the Top 1%
    by Paul Buchheit Funding for our country's children is being cut, but we allow a hedge fund manager to make enough money to pay the salaries of every public school teacher in New York City. Most of his earnings are taxed at a rate less than that of his secretary. We haven't been able to do anyt ...
  • Buddhism, Peace, and Ecology
    by Jo Confino There is something extraordinarily child-like about the 84-year-old Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh .read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Petraeus Touts Special Forces Raids In Afghanistan
    By Steve Hynd General David Petraeus is, in the words of Associated Press' Kimberly Dozier, "talking up" the use of US special forces troops to "try to convince skeptics the war can be won." More than previous commanders, Gen. David Petraeus has released the results of special operations missions — ...
  • Where Are The Hagel Republicans?
    By Steve Hynd The Atlantic Council today republishes an interview with their chairman, former Senator Chuck Hagel, that originally appeared in The Washington Diplomat. Read it. It'll leave you wishing Hagel Republicans were the current opposition instead of the wingnut crazies and self-serving polit ...
  • Poland Says It Can't Afford To Be In Afghanistan
    By Steve Hynd Another coming departure from the Coalition of the Unwilling: After his meeting with NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Wednesday evening, President Bronislaw Komorowski said Poland’s involvement in Afghanistan was taking away vital funds for defence modernisation. "The costs of operati ...
  • Desperation strikes the Taliban
    By Dave Anderson: We were told that the Iraqi insurgencies were desperate from 2003 to today despite most of those groups achieving one of their primary objectives, forcing the United States out of Iraq, or at least out of their region and their hair. High levels of US casualties were a sign of desp ...
  • China Deploys Troops In Pakistani Kashmir
    By Steve Hynd On Thursday, veteran correspondent and director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy Selig S. Harrison had some important geopolitical news in an op-ed piece for the New York Times. Harrison reports that Pakistan has effectively handed control of an entire strateg ...

Water Wars

  • Protecting the Valleyâs precious resource
    CLARKSVILLE, Va. — A recent symposium on Kerr Reservoir water resources drew a lot of attention to the fact North Carolina and Virginia share a vital water system and future economic growth depends on coming to some equitable conclusions to questions that recently began popping up.
  • Protecting the Valleyâs precious resource
    CLARKSVILLE, Va. — A recent symposium on Kerr Reservoir water resources drew a lot of attention to the fact North Carolina and Virginia share a vital water system and future economic growth depends on coming to some equitable conclusions to questions that recently began popping up.
  • Protecting the Valleyâs precious resource
    CLARKSVILLE, Va. — A recent symposium on Kerr Reservoir water resources drew a lot of attention to the fact North Carolina and Virginia share a vital water system and future economic growth depends on coming to some equitable conclusions to questions that recently began popping up.
  • Rocky River Nature Center offers food, films in 'I ...
    Head to the Rocky River Nature Center in North Olmsted for a film and food series: the screening of a film about sustainable food one week, a program on cooking and eating sustainably the next.
  • Protecting the Valleyâs precious resource
    CLARKSVILLE, Va. — A recent symposium on Kerr Reservoir water resources drew a lot of attention to the fact North Carolina and Virginia share a vital water system and future economic growth depends on coming to some equitable conclusions to questions that recently began popping up.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Mass arrests, clashes follow settler shootings
    On 1 September the Palestinian Authority's (PA) security forces launched an unprecedented arrest campaign against Palestinians affiliated with the Hamas party in the occupi ...
  • Yale lending name to racist conference
    A conference last week, sponsored by Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism, raises questions about the Initiative's commitment to fighting all forms of bi ...
  • Why Israel imprisoned my best friend
    And just as Israel has gradually increased restrictions of where we can go, the boundaries of what is permissible to do as a Palestinian have narrowed markedly. We have reached a p ...
  • "Solidarity with the entire Palestinian people"
    The BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights recently published Rights in Principle -- Rights in Practice , which examines a rights-based approach to craf ...
  • "Bureaucratic weapons worse than bombs"
    Firas al-Maraghi from the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem has been on hunger strike outside the Israeli embassy in Berlin since 26 July. Al-Ma ...

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • At Stake in the Ubl Case: Safeguards Protecting $5 ...
    This week POGO submitted an amicus brief in a case—Ubl v IIF Data Solutions, Inc.—that could have big implications for taxpayers. From the brief: This case is special and unique as it will determine which pricing safeguards apply to IDIQ...
  • Morning Smoke: New Treasury Research Office Can De ...
    Treasury Research Office Will Have Power to Unlock Wall Street's Secrets by Robert Schmidt [Bloomberg] Bernanke: U.S. regulators fell short before financial crisis by Ariana Eunjung Cha [Political Economy] Moody’s Escapes SEC Lawsuit, Now Moves to Shield Itself From Liability...
  • A Simple Justice?
    We wanted to highlight this video explaining the story of Rocky Baragona. The video, a joint effort by the Center for Public Integrity and the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, is of particular interest to POGO: it shows an incredible family's...
  • Morning Smoke: New Election Rules on Coordination ...
    Mixed reaction to new FEC rules on candidates, interest groups working together by Dan Eggen [Washington Post] Improper time-and-materials contracts prove costly by Robert Brodsky [Government Executive] GSA chief pushes agency to up its acquisition game by Emily Long [Government...
  • Billion Dollar Contract Slips Under DCAA's Radar
    More bad news about the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA). Despite promises that DCAA is improving management, Pratap Chatterjee at Corp Watch reports that DCAA had missed a billion dollar contract for translators for the U.S. military until they were...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Little Rock Wants to Ban Anything Remotely Homeles ...
    Another day, another criminalization measure. This time it comes out of Little Rock, Arkansas, where officials have begun drawing up ordinances that would ban just about everything all at once — so-called "aggressive panhandling," public feedings and the sale of 40-ounce beers. Like I've said before ...
  • From Living in His Car to Becoming a Five-Term May ...
    This new video comes from Mark's InvisiblePeople.tv 30-city, 11,000-mile, 75-day road trip , going on now. Paul Lambi had a great life and then ended up homeless. Today he runs a business and is a true leader in his community. He's proof that homelessness can happen to anyone — and that there's lif ...
  • How to Exploit the Homeless: Write a Book Called " ...
    How to Live Homeless In Style: 50 Ways to Survive on Plastic Bottles in These Economic Times. This is the real title of a real book that was recently really published. Seriously. See for yourself . The author is Dr. Robert Spalding, a podiatrist practicing in Tennessee. According to an article writt ...
  • Nobody Wants to Be the Poster Child for Homelessne ...
    Erika Schultz over at the Seattle Times posted some thoughts this week on her experience reporting the paper's excellent "Invisible Families" series. The series focused on families experiencing homelessness, much of it due to the shortage of employment during the current recession. Family homelessne ...
  • Was the Discovery Channel Eco-Terrorist Homeless? ...
    Yesterday morning, the world knew almost nothing about James Jay Lee, the man who took over the Discovery Channel's office building in Silver Spring, Maryland and held three people hostage while insisting that the station abide by his bizarre manifesto advocating human sterilization, among other thi ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Petraeus tightens rules of engagement
    U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, the recently appointed commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, has reportedly added further restrictions to the “rules of engagement” that govern the use of force by most international forces in Afghanistan (Jason Motlagh, “Petraeus Toughens Afghan Rules of Engage ...
  • Canadians still want out of Afghanistan
    Almost 80 percent of Canadians want Canadian soldiers out of Afghanistan by the end of 2011, as currently scheduled, reports a recent Ipsos-Reid poll (Carmen Chai, âCanadians want to end Afghan mission by 2011, poll shows,â Postmedia News, 5 August 2010): “These numbers are very indicative of a ...
  • Ex-Pakistani spy chief says Afghanistan war cannot ...
    A former head of Pakistani intelligence, Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul, has stated that the conflict in Afghanistan cannot be won. Gul, whose agency worked closely with the Taliban prior to the U.S. invasion and continues to maintain ties with the organization, argued in an interview with CNN that the U.S. pre ...
  • BATTLE FOR KANDAHAR IS ON - Real News Network
    In Afghanistan, the battle for Kandahar is on. That's receiving strangely little attention in the American media—quite low-key if you compare it to other major American campaigns in Afghanistan. Joining us from England, from Essex, is Muhammad Junaid, who's a research scholar studying the Pashtun na ...
  • Ceasefire.ca ad campaign continues in the Hill Tim ...
    The Ceasefire.ca ad campaign continued this week, targeting political circles in Ottawa by running a second ad in the Hill Times. The ad calls on Prime Minister Harper to "Call off the attack on Kandahar," an Afghanistan military offensive expected at the end of the summer.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Doctors Finally Testing Patients For Vitamin D Def ...
    September 3rd, 2010 Natural News By: David Gutierrez Growing awareness about the prevalence and risks of vitamin D deficiency is leading more and more doctors to test their patients’ blood levels of the vitamin. “Upwards of 70 percent of American adults are vitamin D deficient or insufficient,” s ...
  • Ancient ‘Paleo’ Diet Key To Healthy Li ...
    September 3rd, 2010 Natural News By: Jonathan Benson Eat like a cave man to lose weight, build muscle and feel great. This is what advocates of the “Paleo” diet say is the key to healthy living, a diet that consists only of meat, vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds and mushrooms — also known as the “ ...
  • Barack Obama Is No Longer Unpopular
    September 3rd, 2010 TIME By: Michael Scherer The Barack Obama that most Hoosiers remember voting for can still be found on YouTube. He stands before a cheering Elkhart high school gymnasium in August 2008, tireless, aspirational, promising a new America of jobs and hope. “We can choose another ...
  • 120 Days Until Largest Tax Hike In History
    September 3rd, 2010 Americans for Tax Reform By: Ryan Ellis In just 120 days, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect.  They will hit families and small businesses in three great waves on January 1, 2011: First Wave: Expiration of 2001 and 2003 Tax Relief In 2001 and 20 ...
  • Unemployment Rises To 9.6%
    September 3rd, 2010 Wall Street Journal By: Tom Barkley and Victoria McGrane Job losses continued to mount in the U.S. economy last month, though at a more modest pace than expected, putting further pressure on policy makers to take action to spur growth and employment. A separate report indicate ...

Pambazuka News

  • Global: US city opens doors to Cuban 5
    On Saturday March 13, in the auditorium of the Lavonya DeJean Middle School, in the City of Richmond California, a large number of people gathered to commemorate International Women's Day for the third consecutive year. Under the title "Women in Soli...
  • Ekiti must hold free, fair elections
    The North America-based Ekiti Focus Group has strongly condemned election violence and intimidation in Nigeria’s Ekiti State, describing reported cases of ‘arson, maiming, ballot stuffing, ballot hijacking, and shooting’ as ‘barbaric acts’. In a statement the group called for ‘the release of true an ...
  • Global: Why Haiti can't forget its past
    Thank you for the attention you have brought to the country of Haiti. In response to your New York Times op ed piece I wanted to widen your perspective a bit. I don't pretend to represent anyone. I've been living in Haiti since 1985. I grew up in New...
  • Global: Conference will establish African Socialis ...
    On the weekend of May 22-24, African organizers from across the U.S. and Canada will converge on Washington, D.C. for a conference recognizing African Liberation Day (ALD) with the theme, “One Africa, One Nation: Separated by Colonial Slavery, Reunit...
  • Global: Guadeloupe paralyzed by widespread strikes
    Riot police from mainland France have arrived on the French Caribbean islands as protests threaten to paralyse tourism and spread further afield. Strikes on Guadeloupe and Martinique have closed shops and schools and the reinforcements will help loca...

War in Context

  • Israel and Palestine: A true one-state solution
    Israel should adapt to the 21st century. Is that really a utopian idea? As Tony Judt succinctly distilled the issue a few years ago: “The very idea of a âJewish stateâ — a state in which Jews and the Jewish religion have exclusive privileges from which non-Jewish citizens are forever excluded — ...
  • Poll reveals local support for Manhattan Islamic c ...
    “New Yorkers Divided Over Islamic Center, Poll Finds,” says the New York Times in one of its headlines. Another says “New York Poll Finds Wariness About Muslim Center.” Neither headline suggests a careful reading of the poll results — a poll conducted by the New York Times itself. This is how the ...
  • Understanding the Taliban
    Jonathan Steele notes that during almost a decade of war with the Taliban, none of their top leaders have been interviewed which leaves many important questions unanswered. Have the Taliban changed in the decade since they lost office? Is there a neo-Taliban, as some suggest? What of the younger ge ...
  • In asymmetric diplomacy the Palestinians are guara ...
    Hussein Agha and Robert Malley write: The status quo, though sub-optimal, presents no imminent danger to Israel. What Israelis want from an agreement is something they have learned either to live without (Palestinian recognition) or to provide for themselves (security). The demographic threat many ...
  • Hamas says negotiations have already failed
    If the political purpose behind this week’s attacks on Israeli settlers in the West Bank is still hard to decipher, it seems the message they sent out was directed more to Palestinians in the West Bank than to the parties currently gathered in Washington. Nicolas Pelham considers Hamas’ resilience ...

Watts Up With That?

  • In Search of Cooling Trends
    by Verity Jones and Tony Brown (Tonyb) Back in October Tony asked me to help with a big idea. Searching Norwegian climate site Rimfrost (www.rimfrost.no) Tony had found many climate stations all over the world with a cooling trend in … Continue reading →
  • And the hits just keep on coming: The Book the IPC ...
    I have a bit of time free and a connection available so I just had to get this story up that I’ve been reading on my cellphone. I have to hand it to Donna Laframboise of nofrakkingconsensus, she’s a tireless … Continue reading →
  • Earl sputters and the Atlantic quiets down a bit
    Hurricane Earl is quickly losing steam as it barrels northward and begins its recurvature in the middle latitudes.  The main threat to New England will be a broad area of tropical storm force winds with gusts near hurricane force.  Yet, … Continue reading →
  • Open Thread
    [posted by autoscheduler] I’ll be offline most of today and tomorrow, but may check in via my cellphone. If you have story ideas, news, etc be sure to flag the comment for a moderator’s attention. – Thanks, Anthony Keep it … Continue reading →
  • ESA shows movement of Petermann berg
    The “deniersberg” is on the move. Chances are though it will not leave Nares strait before the refreeze occurs. Like most everything to do with Arctic ice, winds are the biggest factor. Earth from Space: Giant iceberg enters Nares Strait … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Bush’d again? New Orleans, Mr. O and Mr. Go ...
    by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com 27 August, 2010 crossposted at The Huffington Post 3 September, 2010 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 k ...
  • Responding to the call of conscience… Jennifer Bow ...
    by Jason Miller Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Thomas Paine’s Corner August 26, 2010 Sept. 2, 2010 Jennifer Bowman: So let’s cut right to the chase. In some of your recent writings, you’ve indicated that you’re dealing with some serious challenges in your life right now. What are they? Jason Miller ...
  • Flying the Flag, Faking the News By John Pilger
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By John Pilger Information Clearing House www.Newstatesman.com September 02, 2010 Loud noises from Washington about a US pull-out from Iraq are a poor disguise for America’s determination to keep waging war. And the same sort of spin is at work here in Britain Ed ...
  • Falling Rate of Profit by Brendan M. Cooney (repos ...
    Dandelion Salad brendanmcooney Why does capitalism go into crisis? In this video I attempt to summarize the basic ideas behind the theory of the falling rate of profit, often considered the corner-stone of crisis theory. Full Text …  Read More via Dandelion Salad see cooney-brendan m Filed under: B ...
  • What Would Socialism Be Like? by Leela Yellesetty ...
    A must-read series all in one post. http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Leela Yellesetty SocialistWorker.org July 20, 2010 Part 1: A crying need for change At the Socialism 2010 conference in Oakland, Calif., SocialistWorker.org contributor Leela Yellesetty spoke on “What Would Socialism Be Like ...

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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    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

  • “Earth-like” Exoplanet Could Have a Comet’s Tail
    When the super-Earth COROT-7b was discovered in 2009, it was heralded as the rockiest, most truly Earth-like exoplanet yet. But a new study suggests it’s more like a comet. In a paper to be published in the journal Icarus, an international team of astronomers led by Alessandro Mura of the Italian I ...
  • Glint of Starlight Could Reveal Liquid Oceans on E ...
    The sparkle of starlight off water could be the clincher for finding oceans on extrasolar planets. And it could be observable with the tech that will be deployed in the next generation of space telescopes. “A glinting planet looks different from a non-glinting planet, and it’s detectable with curre ...
  • NASA Flies First Drone Over Hurricane
    Hurricane Earl is waning as it moves northward up the east coast of the United States. Some of the first researchers to notice the weakening had front row seats, watching the eye of the hurricane via drone flights. In addition to the usual cadre of satellites, NASA is using a small fleet of unmanne ...
  • Baby Lion Cub Live Webcam Launched
    The Smithsonian National Zoo has just launched a live webcam of the zoo’s four new baby African lion cubs and their mother. The cubs were born during the late night and early morning of Aug. 30 and 31 and will remain indoors until late fall. The litter is the first for 5-year-old mother lion Shera, ...
  • Clustered Networks Spread Behavior Change Faster
    Unlike infectious diseases and news, behavior change spreads faster through online networks that have many close connections instead of many distant ties. Redundancy is key, as people are more likely to engage in a behavior if they see many others doing it. “There has been a lot of theory about the ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Arab League chief wants to give peace talks a chan ...
    Amr Moussa: "Let us see what kind of compromise Netanyahu is offering, we have never heard from the Israeli side any initiative or any concrete position." The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA websit ...
  • Not guilty. The Israeli captain who emptied his ri ...
    An Israeli army officer who fired the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then said he would have done the same even if she had been three years old was... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Antoine Raffoul: Lifta’s legacy under threat
    Lifta must be preserved and rebuilt by/for its original owners to raise awareness about the history of 1948. Lifta, in its new image, should pave the way for establishing a determined campaign for... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Ahmad Tibi: Pressing Netanyahu is the key to succe ...
    The only way out of the impasse is for Jews to recognize Palestinians as their equals and negotiate with them on that basis. A fair two-state solution requires the abrogation of all laws, both in... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Nicolas Pelham: Hamas Back Out of Its Box
    [A] strategy predicated on the belief that a few more humanitarian truckloads will make the problem of Gaza go away is as deeply flawed as the notion that Ramallah’s surfeit of new high-street cafés... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

Natural Health News

  • Increasing Selenium Intake Decreases Bladder Cance ...
    According to results of a study, selenium intake is associated with decreased risk of bladder cancer. Selenium is an essential micronutrient found in about 25 proteins. Most of these so-called selenoproteins are enzymes with antioxidant properties.� The main dietary sources of selenium are plant f ...
  • Botox Found Guilty of Illegal Marketing and Promot ...
    Allergan, which manufactures the cosmetic medication Botox, has agreed to pay $600 million to settle a federal investigation into its marketing of the botulin-based drug. The company will plead guilty to one misdemeanor charge of "misbranding" – meaning the company's marketing led physicians to use ...
  • Diet Drug Increases Risk of Heart Disease & Stroke
    A new study links the popular weight loss drug Meridia to an increased risk of heart attacks and stroke.� According to the authors of the trial, which was funded by Meridia's maker, the findings are generally in line with what was already known about the drug. Since January, Meridia has carried a l ...
  • What is Best Way to Prevent Inevitable Muscle Wast ...
    The reasons why muscles wither with age is a problem that is intriguing a growing number of scientists.� Drug companies are trying to develop drugs that can build muscles or forestall their weakening, while food companies are exploring nutritional products with the same objective. Both doctors and ...
  • Accommodating Resistance with Tubes & Bands (Part ...
    By John Paul Catanzaro Today, there are more training tools available for personal trainers than ever. How do you decide what equipment is best to use? Well, that really depends on the situation. Let’s take resistance training, for example. As far as I’m concerned, free weights reign supreme! Eve ...

Antemedius

  • More Than One Truth
    Glen Ford writing at Black Agenda Report said on Wednesday "We Are Cornered: There's No Way Out Without A Fight" : "Obama and his Democratic legislative allies have successfully shielded their Wall Street masters from anything worthy of the name financial reform.", and "The pace of finance capital d ...
  • New Stimulus Needs One Big Project
    Complexity is really only attractive to nerds. I say this as someone who loves complex systems and way they interact. Given the choice most folks would rather have a description boiled down to the barest of truths and then they go from there in thinking about it. This is part of the problem with the ...
  • Obama's "New Dawn" in Iraq
    Since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq the occupation of Iraq has been called Operation Iraqi Freedom by the Pentagon and the US administration. In February this year the Obama administration decided to give the war in Iraq a new name: "Operation New Dawn". Ironically, since it appears to have slipped d ...
  • Is Glenn Beck Playing Race Card While Being Coy?
    Is Glenn Beck trying to play the race card for the benefit of his followers while being coy? Is it mere coincidence that Beck selected the Lincoln Memorial, the venue Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. chose for his 1963 “I have a dream” speech? The date of August 28 also happens to fall on the forty-seven ...
  • Banks’ Self-Dealing Super-Charged Financial Crisis
    from Jake Bernstein and Jesse Eisinger ProPublica ( view source ) Over the last two years of the housing bubble, Wall Street bankers perpetrated one of the greatest episodes of self-dealing in financial history. Faced with increasing difficulty in selling the mortgage-backed securities that had bee ...

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

  • Ben Wittes’ Unconvincing “Hostage-Taking” Analogy
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Julian noted a couple of days ago that the ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights have challenged the Obama administration’s “asserted authority to carry out âtargeted killingsâ of U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism far from any field of armed con ...
  • Armstrong on the Regulation of Public Diplomacy
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen Matt Armstrong, who blogs at MountainRunner, has an article in the current World Politics Review called Reforming Smith-Mundt: Making American Public Diplomacy Safe for Americans. While the full version is only available online for a fee, there is a brief excerpt o ...
  • Welcome to the Blogosphere, Lawfare
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis Bobby Chesney, Jack Goldsmith, and Ben Wittes have started a new blog, Lawfare: Hard National Security Choices.  Here’s how Ben Wittes describes it in the opening post: We mean to devote this blog to that nebulous zone in which actions taken or contemplated to p ...
  • Here Comes the “Global” Currency Tax
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The movement for a global currency tax gains momentum. PARIS, Sept 1 (Reuters) - A group of 60 nations, including France, Britain and Japan, will propose at the U.N. this month that a tax be introduced on international currency transactions to raise funds for development ...
  • Rising Seas and Sinking States
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen Brad Roth has sent along a link to this New York Times editorial, which begins: If a country sinks beneath the sea, is it still a country? That is a question about which the Republic of the Marshall Islands — a Micronesian nation of 29 low-lying coral atolls — is n ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Open thread on Christchurch earthquake
    Your comments and experiences are welcome
  • IPCC gets a credibility hammering
    This alert through from Benny Peiser's newsletter The Daily Telegraph. 31 August 2010 By Stephen Adams and Robert Winnett An independent investigation into the UN's climate change body has warned it to stop lobbying and to restrict its role to...
  • History in colour
    We've all seen the black and white photos of yesteryear, a time before the invention of colour photography. So how's this picture from the days of Imperial Russia, 1909, grab you: They were taken by a process involving three b&w...
  • Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story by Ian Wisha ...
    It's just been brought to my attention that I haven't offered non-subscribers the chance to pre-order the new book on the Crewe murders being released by us next month. Accordingly, here's the gist of the email that went out to...
  • ClimateDepot locates possibly the world’s dumbest ...
    As an indicator of just how dumbed-down global warming believers are on the science of climate change, Climate Depot's Marc Morano revealed tonight a seminar delegate seriously believed the CO2 from car exhaust fumes would kill him in an enclosed...

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

  • Public Still In The Dark On Transgenic Salmon
    FDAâs Incomplete Data Release is âToo Little, Too Lateâ — Fails to Uphold President Obamaâs Call for Openness and Transparency A broad coalition of consumer and environmental groups, along with community fishing organizations and food retailers, declared todayâs partial data release by th ...
  • Coalition Of Farm And Consumer Groups Condemns USD ...
    USDA VIOLATES ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS IN ATTEMPT TO CIRCUMVENT RECENT FEDERAL COURT ORDER MAKING THE PLANTINGS ILLEGAL On September 1, 2010, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced that it was in the process of issuing permits to a ...
  • Proposed Canadian Organic Aquaculture Standard Opp ...
    “Organic” Label for Farmed Fish Fails to Meet Consumer Expectations and Environmental Principles Over 40 organizations, including the Center for Food Safety, from across Canada and the U.S. submitted a joint letter opposing the Canada General Standards Board (CGSB) proposed organic standards that al ...
  • Coalition Demands FDA Deny Approval Of Controversi ...
    FDA Considers Approval of GE Salmon–the First GE Food Animal–Yet Fails to Inform the Public of Environmental and Economic Risks A coalition of 31 consumer, animal welfare and environmental groups, along with commercial and recreational fisheries associations and food retailers submitted a joint stat ...
  • Americans to U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Pr ...
    More than 100,000 citizens join scientific experts and public interest organizations in calling on FDA to tighten oversight and curtail misuse and overuse of antibiotics on industrial farms Today a broad coalition of organizations hand-delivered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) more than ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • ei: Yale lending name to racist conference
    ei: Yale lending name to racist conference : "A conference last week, sponsored by Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism, raises questions about the Initiative's commitment to fighting all forms of bigotry. While speakers at 'Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity' touc ...
  • AP: The Iraq War's Not Over
    AP: The Iraq War's Not Over : [gawker.com] "In your pre-vacation Friday media column: the AP warns reporters on war propaganda, another Newsweek departure, China's 'future of journalism' candidate, and ABC pulls a story, while standing by it. The AP issues its staffers an important memo: 'Unless th ...
  • Unequal South Africa
    For those who still view South Africa's transition from apartheid as a miracle of good over evil it is unlikely that the massive strikes that have hit the public sector will evoke the rumblings of revolutionary revolt. In fact more than a few soccer visitors who traveled here recently may even argu ...
  • A Review of Widdowson and Howard’s, Disrobing the ...
    Redressing Racist Academics, Or, Put Your Clothes Back On, Please!: A Review of Widdowson and Howard’s, Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry « The Speed of Dreams Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation From the excited, glowing reviews of Disrobing the ...
  • Agency, Initiative, and Obstacles to Health Among ...
    Agency, Initiative, and Obstacles to Health Among Indigenous Immigrant Women From Oaxaca, Mexico — Home Health Care Management Practice : "Multi-ethnic, indigenous Mexican immigrants from Oaxaca, the poorest state in Mexico, have engaged in transnational migration to the United States in increasing ...

Pensieve

  • When Suffering is Good
    Photo by G!zM() 17 We live in a world where hedonism and despair abound. It is as if the black death were knocking at our doors, like in Chaucerâs Canterbury Tales. Imagine a world without pain and suffering. Imagine not ever getting sick, physically or mentally. Imagine no disadvantages. Everyone ...
  • Inductee to the Creative Class
    Photo by Gui Trento For the past year or so Iâve been flirting with a design college. Iâve been to their events, spoken to their faculty, visited the campus. After 12 years of yearning to return to college, I could very soon enroll again. The degree they are offering sounds slightly business-lik ...
  • Asleep (a short story)
      Photo by eye of einstein I am holding a thread and staring into a labyrinth. Darkness is falling, and the gold of sunset begins to fade from the moss that drapes its walls. Ancient stones lose their friendliness and succumb to moist cold. Only the sky remains cheerful. Inside the labyrinth darknes ...
  • Criminal Rule in Honduras
    Photo by markarinafotos While Rome is burning, everyone is hypnotized by the fiddling emperor Chavez. Crime and impunity in Honduras, which steadily worsened during Manuel Zelaya’s administration, has only gotten worse under Porfirio Lobo. But Mr. Lobo is busy courting international opinion, in the ...
  • Hurricane Alex Aftermath
    (I wrote the following entry on Friday, July 2, but have been unable to post it until today. As of now, there is no water in my house.) I just arrived home after exploring the are around my home after Hurricane Alex tore through Monterrey. The hurricane made landfall Wednesday night as a category tw ...

Green Times

  • Environmental News 01/09/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • What's On 30 August 2010
    Green Buildings, Green Ups, an Environmental Film Festival and Sustainable House Day! These are our top picks of things to make sure you put in our diary! On the cycling front, apart from the Green Ups Cycling Celebration, a competition to elevate the humble bike rack into a glorious work of urban a ...
  • Choose your transport carefully
    Are you going on a holiday? Thinking about the transport you want to use? Some means of transport are not very eco-friendly. The most environmentally friendly way to go from one place to another is by bike. Other options include getting about by bus or by train. Taking plane is the worst way to ge ...
  • What's On 23 August 2010
    Now the election is over, it’s time to start looking and moving forward. With September almost upon us, and brimming full of events for ecological action, we thought we’d look forward a little. September is “Biodiversity Month”
  • Try a veggie meal sometime
    Do you want to help the environmentand animals? Try a vegan (glossary/categories/lifestyle/vegan.html) or vegetarian meal.   Photo by: Ilse Savenije  

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • 'Expect nuclear war if US attacks Iran'
    ShareThis 'Expect nuclear war if US attacks Iran' 04 Sep 2010 Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in his first open-air rally since a near-death illness four years ago, has warned about the threat of a nuclear war if the United States or Israel attack Iran... He said a nuclear conflict was inevitable ...
  • Dutch free men held at airport as terrorism suspec ...
    ShareThis Dutch free men held at airport as terrorism suspects 01 Sep 2010 Two Yemeni men arrested at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport under suspicion of terrorism have been freed without charge after triggering a 24-hour trans-Atlantic security scare, Dutch prosecutors said on Wednesday. The men were a ...
  • Karzai's brother calls for U.S. to bail out Kabul ...
    ShareThis Karzai's brother calls for U.S. to bail out Kabul Bank 02 Sep 2010 As depositors thronged branches of Afghanistan's biggest bank, Mahmoud Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a major shareholder in beleaguered Kabul Bank called on Thursday for intervention by the United States t ...
  • US Soldiers Quarantined in Turkey After Anthrax Sc ...
    ShareThis US Soldiers Quarantined in Turkey After Anthrax Scare 03 Sep 2010 Six U.S. soldiers and a Turk were quarantined in a Turkish hospital after a suspicious powder was found in a parcel at Istanbul's main airport, local media reported Friday. Laboratory experts were set to analyze the substanc ...
  • Pentagon declined to investigate hundreds of purch ...
    ShareThis Pentagon declined to investigate hundreds of purchases of child pornography --Names included staffers for the secretary of defense, contractors for the ultra-secretive National Security Agency, and a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency . By John Cook 03 Sep 201 ...

Daily Loaf

  • Tampa Bay gets the best of Baltimore 4-1
    The Rays got out to an early lead and never surrendered, with great hitting by Carl Crawford and solid pitching all around.
  • Report: The U.S. and China working together for cl ...
    The United States and China will be giving a total of $100 million in funding to research for cleaner vehicles and clean coal technologies.
  • CD review: of Montreal, False Priest (with video)
    Kevin Barnes is a lyrical savant who’s capable of weaving together seemingly disparate topics into a colorful narrative of thoughts and feelings and ideas and observations he expels in streams of inspired brilliance too clever and literary and pop art appealing for their own good. He makes you lau ...
  • Sexcast #12: Natasha Kizmet on belly dancing, trai ...
    Natasha Kizmet’s life has unfolded like a female version of Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat and Bruno, though with more topless scenes. Natasha came to America with a thick Uzbekistan accent, a dream of making it in show business, and a bombshell figure—all of which got her into some precarious situation ...
  • It’s football season!: Finger foods for all of you ...
    Beer, food and football — three things that go great together and are essentials for a successful tailgating party. Here are some easy suggestions and recipes to keep your football fanatics happy and well-fed. Baked Chicken Wings Try marinating you wings in beer. Douse the wings in your ale of ch ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Audrey Farber, intern, from Mada Al-Carmel on New ...
    By Audrey Farber Speculation has run wild on the as-yet-unreleased updated New Israel Fund funding guidelines. Here’s Richard Silverstein, âMy source tells me the proposed guidelines will include a provision acknowledging Israel as a Jewish homeland. But the language will also affirm that Israel i ...
  • Real Dialogue happening in the Israeli Knesset?
    By Jesse Bacon Or at least in Foreign Policy magazine. Dimi Reider has a great article about far-right and far-left members of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset. See if you can guess which person quoted is Likud speaker Reven Rivlin and which is Palestinian Israeli Member Ahmed Tibi. mending the g ...
  • Max Blumenthal finds some real terrorist-loving re ...
    by Jesse Bacon Max Blumenthal exposes some religious leaders calling for the actual killing of babies and other Palestinians, a far worse rehtorical offense then “failing to condemn terrorism.” According to the book’s author, Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, ‘Non-Jews are “uncompassionate by nature’ and shou ...
  • Songs by Ikhlas (“Yasmin”) Jebara from ...
    Villages Group friend Ikhlas Jebara from Salem near Nablus, had been mentioned here before under her nickname “Yasmin”. Her father Sa’el was murdered in 2004 by a settler as he was performing his daily work as a van driver (the settler was convicted but escaped justice). Ever since then, we have be ...
  • Major Israeli Theaters Embrace The Settlements
    Some cultural news from Israel: Several of Israel’s leading theater companies have agreed to perform in the new cultural center in the settlement of Ariel, due to open on November 8. The companies include the Habima National Theater, the Cameri Theater, the Be’er Sheva Theater and Jerusalem’s Khan ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • On the contradictory and reactionary character of ...
    Poli-Tea explains why the Republicans may make big gains in November despite being the lesser-popular party Primary ideological support for the reproduction of the failed two-party state Nevertheless, of those who favored a Democrat-controlled Congress, 48% stated that they actually support Democrat ...
  • Banksy anti-BP kiddie ride
    Treehugger has more, including video.
  • Economy seen avoiding double dip as U.S. data can’ ...
    Bloomberg (or, considering the topic, maybe that should be Doomberg) The U.S. economy is so bad that the chance of avoiding a double dip back into recession may actually be pretty good. The sectors of the economy that traditionally drive it into recession are already so depressed it’s difficult to s ...
  • How Wall Street made the financial crisis worse
    From NPR and Pro Publica We believe we can show that some Wall Street bankers had evidence, a year or two before the financial crisis hit, that there were serious problems with subprime mortgage investments. Rather than wind down this business, they sped it up using financial trickery. These people ...
  • Grooming for subservience
    Promoted from the comments to our Electronic tracking system for preschoolers in Calif. from John Couzin in Scotland It is often said that we are sleepwalking into a police state. I would disagree and say that if we aren’t already there we are certainly galloping straight into the cage. On top of al ...

Coteret

  • Maariv: Israel a significant importer (and re-expo ...
    This is a fairly wide-raging, if shallow, review. I found the section the section describing a botched attempt by an Israeli company to re-export Iranian marble to the US interesting. Particularly insightful was the justification for an Israeli double standard on this issue, as articulated by Danny ...
  • “A silk purse from a sow’s ear”: Israe ...
    As always happens when the diplomatic process resumes, the air is filled with talk of economic and infrastructure projects. For the principals, the buzz helps in creating an “atmosphere of progress.” The bureaucrats and businessmen behind the leaks are usually angling for a share of the funding that ...
  • Yediot publishes minutes of White House negotiatio ...
    Agreement now, peace later Shimon Shiffer, Yediot, August 27 2010 [front-page] The Obama administration intends to present Israel and the Palestinians with a new outline for ending the conflict.  Yedioth Ahronoth has learned that the Americans will pressure the sides to sign a framework agreement f ...
  • Is Im Tirzu planning to sue author Meir Shalev?
    In February, I joined a number of other activists — Roy Yellin, Yuval Yellin, Noam Wiener, Edan Ring, Ari Remez, Tal Niv and Noam Livne — in establishing a Facebook group aimed at exposing the personae and motivation behind the  Im Tirzu smear campaign against the New Israel Fund. Entitled I ...
  • Yediot reports on damage to settlement industry ca ...
    The Politics of economics: The boycott on Israel is expanding Daniel Bettini, Navit Zumer and Ofer Petersburg, Yediot, August 25 2010 [Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] The decision made on Monday by the Norwegian oil fund to divest from Africa Israel and Danya Cebus on the grounds that th ...

Deadline Live

  • Report: Blackwater created shell companies
    WASHINGTON – The security company Blackwater Worldwide formed a network of 30 shell companies and subsidiaries to try to get millions of dollars in government business after the company faced strong criticism for reckless conduct in Iraq, The New York Times reported Friday. The newspaper said that i ...
  • Deadline Live – September 2 2010
    Breaking News From Deadline Live. info and guest Judith Riceman Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d15438').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
  • Homeland Security Deploys Predator in Texas
    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will initiate Predator Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) flights out of Corpus Christi, Texas, beginning on Wednesday, according to a DHS press release. Flights will cover the Texas stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border, which means that aerial surveillance of t ...
  • Native-American leaders condemn police shooting
    The Native-American community is throwing out some strong accusations against Seattle police after the fatal shooting of a wood carver by a Seattle officer. In an emotional news conference on Friday morning, angry community leaders said the shooting of John T. Williams was unjustified and just the l ...
  • Police find girl who threw puppies in a river
    Police have reportedly found the young woman in a red shirt who was filmed throwing puppies into a river. Local police in Travnik, on the eastern edge of Bosnia near the Croatian border, identified the girl after her parents reportedly turned her in, according to news report leaked to local online n ...

The Air Vent

  • Mass media
    Often we here about energy shortage, followed by energy conservation.  In my opinion it’s the dumbest two statements anyone can make in polite conversation without being punched in the nose.   Almost equally as often, I’m referred to as an extremist myself. So what does that mean? From Wikipedia t ...
  • Two Years Old
    The Air Vent turned two last month.  It’s been a lot of blogging.  Here are the stats as of today: Blog Stats Summary Tables Total views: 2,192,456 Busiest day: 36,431 â Friday, November 20, 2009 Views today: 3,110 Totals Posts: 933 Comments: 28,432 Categories: 1 Tags: 146 Email Subscribers Blog ...
  • In Search of Cooling Trends
    This is a repost from the ‘digging in the clay’ blog by Verity Jones, re-posted by request.   I’m not sure the purpose of looking for cooling stations results in what they were hoping for, but the results are fairly thorough and readers may find them interesting.  I’m certain the globe has warmed ...
  • Uh oh.
    Steve M may have found the holy grail for climate skeptics.  We don’t know what is in this data, and I’m guessing that neither do most climatologists and it covers 70 percent of the earth.  What if the historic ocean temp trend is modified significantly by manual or algorithmic adjustment – I’m no ...
  • DeWitt Payne – FARIMA Mann 08
    I’m sure I freaked out some of the science minded around here with my posts on Lomborg and Lee. It’s just a blog though and it’s about whatever catches my attention next.  You are all welcome to contribute and dilute my opinions at your whim.  DeWitt Payne, is very much science first, and he’s don ...

Focal Point

  • Exploding Rig: Mariner Energy and Its Parent Compa ...
    Another oil rig has blown up in the Gulf of Mexico. The Vermilion 360 is owned by Mariner Energy which was recently purchased by by Apache Energy, according to Think Progress . Together, these two companies have paid $745,000 in fines to the Minerals Management Service in 2010 alone, according to my ...
  • Condoms and Cal-OSHA: AIDS Healthcare Foundation T ...
    Last week, the indefatigable AIDS Healthcare Foundation launched the latest salvo in its long running battle to pressure California's occupational health and safety agency to enforce the bloodborne pathogens standard on porn sets: Lodging a complaint against porn magnate Larry Flynt with Cal-OSHA an ...
  • Angle Donor: Employer, "Husband"; Occupation, "Sla ...
    Republican senate candidate Sharron Angle is a staunch defender of traditional marriage. However, one of Angle's campaign donors one-upped her in the tradition department. While leafing through FEC reports this morning, I discovered a record of one Maria Gladd of Concord, CA giving Angle's campaign ...
  • Center for Inquiry (Kinda) Dials Down Park51 Rheto ...
    The secularist Center for Inquiry issued a press release on Friday headlined: " The Center for Inquiry Urges That Ground Zero Be Kept Religion-Free ." The press release outraged many CFI supporters , including me . In the original release, CFI opposed the construction of an Islamic cultural center, ...
  • Women Who Wasted Years Fighting Her Divorce Sorry ...
    Beverly Willett spent five years and thousands of dollars contesting her divorce in court and lost. Now that New York has become the 50th state to adopt no-fault divorce, she's "heartsick" that others won't have the same opportunity to impoverish themselves and tie up the courts in a grim struggle f ...

Inside Facebook

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    Inside Facebook extends a big thank you to our sponsors for supporting the continued growth of Inside Facebook. Check them out below! RightScale provides cloud computing management for social application and game developers. Alchemy provides management and optimization tools for creating and buying ...
  • Facebook Roundup: Search, Revenue, Traffic, Music, ...
    Facebook Integrates News Stories Into Search – Facebook now displays items friends have Liked on third-party web sites within the suggested matches drop-down menu of its top search bar. Articles are not surfaced solely on the number of Likes a given article receives, the company explains, and adds ...
  • Facebook Prevents Users From Sending Suspicious Fr ...
    Facebook has begun implementing new security measures to prevent friend request spamming. Some users are  being shown a “This Request Can’t Be Sent” pop-up if their request is deemed suspicious. To determine if a request is suspicious, Facebook takes into account how many mutual friends you and the ...
  • Users Not Able to Comment or Like Some Posts on Fa ...
    Facebook Pages began exhibiting a change yesterday afternoon wherein posts made to a Page’s wall directly or through tagging do not show the option to comment. Page admins are frustrated because they can’t respond to comments, queries or accusations made to their Page through tagged updates, and can ...
  • New Security Features Lets Users End Active Facebo ...
    Facebook is rolling out a new security allowing users to remotely log out of any Facebook session active on another device. If a user logs in to Facebook on a public computer or a friend’s mobile device and forgets to log out when they’re done, they can visit their Account->Account Settings->Setting ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Middle East loses trillions as US strikes record a ...
    Rick Rozoff views the United States’ growing arms exports to Middle East countries, which will spend an estimated 100 billion dollars on arms from the US by 2014, and the lost opportunities for development in a region that “has known the least peace in the past 60 years and that is in most need of i ...
  • David Miliband’s murky past
    Gilad Atzmon remind us of the murky not-so-distant past of former British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who is a leading contender for the Labour Party leadership, from his complicity in “extraordinary rendition” to his support for suspected Israeli war criminals.
  • George Mitchell hoping for a quick-fix fake peace?
    Stuart Littlewood argues that the US-sponsored direct talks between Israel and Mahmoud Abbas are farcical, lopsided and designed to achieve “a fake, temporary peace” whose aim is temporarily “to save a few worthless political skins”.
  • Bedouin land fight: claim for native title threate ...
    Jonathan Cook considers the legal battle of one Bedouin to repossess his ancestral land in the Negev – a battle that could have ramifications for tens of thousands of Bedouin whose land had been stolen long ago as well as for millions of Palestinian refugees scattered across the Middle East.
  • Hurricane of inhumanity: five years after Katrina
    Mamoon Alabbasi argues that, five years after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the principal lesson from that disaster – the need to put humanity above prejudice and greed – has still not been learnt, and greed and inhumanity can be found in the responses to the Haiti earthquake and the Pakista ...

Amazon Rainforest

  • Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of Doro ...
    A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]
  • Yasuni National Park- SAVED!
    President Raphael Correa now has approved an agreement to leave Ecuador’s largest oil reserves, amounting to some 900 million barrels, underground in Yasuni National Park in exchange for more than $3 billion. Under the unprecedented agreement, known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the government of Ec ...
  • Amazon watchgroups SILENT over new Chevron oil spi ...
    In the space of a week, a Chevron technical team has discovered two fresh oil spills in Ecuador’s oil-producing Amazon region. One covers three hectares (7.4 acres) near state-owned oil company Petroecuador’s Guanta production station in the heart of Cofan indigenous country. The other impacts half ...
  • Amazon River dolphin new stunning photos!
    The Amazon River dolphin (Bufeo, Bufeo Colorado, Boto, Boto Cor de Rosa, Boutu, Nay, Tonina) or Pink River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), is a freshwater River dolphin endemic to the Orinoco, Amazon and Araguaia/Tocantins River systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. These we ...
  • Belo Monte dam auction proceeds despite protests!
    Bidding for electricity generated by Brazil’s planned Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon rainforest has been marked by protests and legal confusion. A court injunction issued late Monday suspended the dam auction overnight, throwing the bidding process into a state of chaos. Just moments before the aucti ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Podcast Show #32
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Tom Engelhardt Tom Engelhardt discusses his latest book, The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s, Washington’s ongoing commitment to military bases to extend its empire, and the US empire’s deep historical roots that precede the former administration and ...
  • Pretty Words & the Same-O-Same-O
    Is “This” the New Era of Activism? So I haven’t been writing; pouring out pages and pages of words; analyzing a bit of a sick foreign policy issue here and a handful of plentiful corruption stories there, or marveling at the rapid uncontested descent toward the ever-approaching ‘police state,’… I am ...
  • Podcast Show #31
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Ray McGovern Ray McGovern shares with us his analysis of the recent article published in the Atlantic written by the infamous American-Israeli writer Jeffrey Goldberg on Israel’s case for bombing Iran and the reasons why the United States should join in. He talks about t ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Jamiol Presents

Afro Spear

  • Africa: States of Independence
    There is an excellent and informative documentary series on Aljazeera English entitled: Africa: States of Independence. It looks at African countries that are celebrating 50 years of independence from European colonial rule and what factors have led to the progress… or the lack of progress… which ...
  • Walking the narrow path
    “The man who is following a path can never know truth. Truth is not something in the distance; there is no path to it, there is neither your path nor my path; there is no devotional path, there is no path of knowledge or path of action, because truth has no path to it. The [...]
  • “The day Kenya was born” by Nkwazi Mha ...
    No doubt. The overwhelmingly passing of the new constitution in Kenya can be termed as the rebirth of a new true Kenya that had nary existed. This, if anything, I believe, will bury the demons of tribalism, self seeking, land grabbing, dictatorship, corruption, irresponsibility and unaccountability ...
  • Happy 100th Birthday Mother Teresa
    26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997 100 years ago this selfless humanitarian who dedicated her life to serving the poor, orphans, sick and dying  in Calcutta, India was born in Albania. In 1950 she founded the Missionaries of Charity and in 1979 she won the Nobel Peace Prize. Here is a link to her con ...
  • Why I Chose Obama For President
    Because of hunger.  Not the kind of distended belly hunger from poverty and having no food.  But a hunger none the less.  A hunger for the beauty of my blackness.  The hunger for a representation that I can be proud of and hold my head up for.  A representation that stares back at me and [...]

Expose the BNP

  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep his po ...
  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative candidat ...
  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop denying ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well ...
  • Nick Griffin: “If Hitler hadn’t been s ...
    The following is a transcript of Dominic Carmen’s speech given at the Expose the BNP media briefing, held at the NUJ headquarters on 7th April. At the 1987 General Election, the BNP put up two candidates and received 553 votes. It was beaten hands down by the Monster Raving Loony Party which put up ...

Sen4Earth

  • 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 ...
  • Gulf Oil Disaster Action Central
    The Gulf Oil Disaster is the latest symptom of the madness being unleashed on Mother Earth, Mankind, Wildlife and Life itself. SEN will here post links to every action you can take. Visit often because more will arise in coming weeks and months. If you learn of one we've missed, please enter it in a ...
  • Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox News, PLU ...
    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

  • AUDITING THE FED!
    We did this. Together. At every moment, as the Fed and Wall Street sought to undermine this cause, it was the phone calls, letters, e-mails, blogging and sheer power of the people -- ordinary people who cared -- that beat them back. We have delivered a succinct message to Wall Street and the Fed: "W ...
  • CORPORATE STATES OF AMERICA
    Do you want to continue to have a say, albeit, not very much, in what goes on in this government? If you do, you must act, as outlined below, as soon as possible. We have got to give it a try, even if we go down, we must stop the corporate takeover. This is so [...]
  • TEABAGGERS REFRAIN
    Government is the only thing standing between us and all those who would harm us, in one form or another! Be it war, medicine, unsafe products, the list is endless. Corporate America has taken over our Government and it is the reason we’re in such a mess. Don’t blindly get on a bandwagon of non-thin ...
  • Doomsday: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered ...
    A huge gash on the ocean floor—like a ragged wound hundreds of feet long—has been reported by the NOAA research ship, Thomas Jefferson. Before the curtain of the government enforced news blackout again descended abruptly, scientists aboard the ship voiced their concerns that the widening rift may go ...
  • BP BLOCKED WORKERS
    BP blocked workers cleaning up the oil disaster in the Gulf from wearing protective respirators.

Unsuitable Blog

  • Astroturf Alert: Rally For Jobs is Oil Industry Fr ...
    Just in from Public Citizen is a report on a series of rallies around the USA which are being organised by the American Petroleum Institute (API) on behalf of the oil industry. Here is the report: Rallies Against Congressional Oil Spill Measures Represent Industry Views – Not Citizens Today marks ...
  • Greenpeace Inc. [Guest Article]
    As some readers may have noted, an email recently came through Greenpeaceâs UK newsletter inviting its supporters to take part in a poll: We’re carrying out a global poll to find out what Greenpeace means to you and which issues you think are most important. This is to help us do an even better j ...
  • Cairn Energy Buries Truth in Business Speak
    Below is a verbatim lift from the Corporate Responsibility page on the website of Cairn Energy. I have just highlighted the one key point that you must bear in mind when reading: Cairn’s strategy is to deliver shareholder value through establishing commercial reserves in high potential exploration ...
  • Pat Michaels Lets His Funding Veil Slip
    After umpteen years denying the (civilized) human influence on climate change, and in parallel denying he was influenced financially or otherwise by fossil fuel interests, uber-denier Pat Michaels let slip some of the source of his funding – and by implication, some of the source of his climate chan ...
  • Greenwashing In The BBC [Guest Article]
    Greenwashing has a habit of making it into every facet of our society, not just from the obvious sources such as the PR offices of polluting corporations, but also for example from major charities and in the media. A recent example I came across is a blog post from last October by the BBC’s [...]

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

  • The Cartoonist Aims to Bring Newsgames to the Mass ...
    The Cartoonist, our winning entry in the 2010 Knight News Challenge, emerged from two research programs. For the past two years, my research group at the Georgia Institute of Technology has been cataloging and analyzing the burgeoning genre of "newsgames" -- videogames about current and past real-wo ...
  • SeenReport Helps Citizens Report on Floods in Paki ...
    The devastating floods in Pakistan have been covered by trained reporters and mainstream media outlets around the world. Citizens, often on the front lines of the flood, have also been contributing thousands of reports though mobile phones, in part enabled by the citizen journalism service Seen ...
  • New Media Tools Play Pivotal Role in Kenya's Const ...
    Kenya is moving towards greater democracy and more transparent governance thanks to the recent constitutional referendum that received 70 percent "yes" votes. The new constitution, which is scheduled to be signed into law on Friday, replaces the one drafted during Kenya's colonial era. It includ ...
  • Helping D.C. Drinkers and Bikers with Custom Maps
    In my last post about TileMill , I outlined some of our general plans and the background for why we’re working on this project to help make it easier for people to design very custom maps online. One question that we get a lot from people who are new to the GIS space is, “When would I need this? How ...
  • One-Eight, Afghanistan: Social Media + U.S. Marine ...
    As the saying goes, "Be careful what you wish for." In my case, I won a Knight News Challenge grant to launch an online, social media reporting network that follows a battalion of U.S. Marines throughout their deployment to southern Afghanistan. (Congratulations! You've won a year in Helmand Prov ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Inside Judaism - Reflections on Rosh Hashanah 5771
    The start of the New Year offers a chance to reflect on the events of the past year and contemplate what lies ahead for the Jewish people, the State of Israel and the world. Anti-Semitism knows no borders and persistently rears its head in countries around the globe, particularly in Latin America an ...
  • California Deaf Eugenics Law Was Obviously Up for ...
    From what I can see, the legislation in California known as AB2072 was up for sale to the highest bidder. Whoever stood to make the most money from legislating Deaf ASL out of existence controlled the legislation. Pick them: audiologists, cochlear implant makers, schools for the deaf--whoever. While ...
  • Book Review - Creating the College Man Will Educat ...
    Creating the College Man: American Mass Magazines and Middle-Class Manhood, 1890-1915. Daniel Clark.�University of Wisconsin Press. 2010. 256 pp. Daniel Clark begins by quoting a grumpy Andrew Carnegie: “A college education unfits rather than fits men to affairs.” Clark, a historian at Indiana State ...
  • Calling for Meetings with Local Clergy and Educato ...
    I am�tired of counting swastikas and hearing antisemitic cat calls when� my wife and I� head home from synagogue. It happened to us�again on Friday night August 20th on Route 27, where Jew-baiting by local teens has become trendy over the last year.�On Friday night the lighting was so poor near the ...
  • The Mortgage Meltdown - Some Foreclosure Rescue Sc ...
    Desperate U.S. homeowners facing foreclosure are being duped by con artists. The scammers employ a variety of schemes such as a “forensic mortgage loan audit” that promises to find errors in loan origination terms that will help the homeowner negotiate a loan modification or even cancel the loan, ac ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Kevin Keiths Death Sentence Commuted
    By Mary Shaw Good news for all who care about true justice: On September 2, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland commuted Kevin Keiths death sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole
  • Supreme Court Forces The Govt To Act, To Stop Grai ...
    By Devinder Sharma Amidst all the raging controversy and debates over wasted grains and hungry people, the Supreme Court has certainly created quite a flutter by asking the government to provide foodgrains free to the poor than to allow it to rot. This verdict, although not practically implementab ...
  • Behind The Israeli Wall: A Lesson In Reality
    By Ramzy Baroud Rich Wiles book Behind the Wall: Life, Love and Struggle in Palestine is an important contribution to what I insist on referring to as a Peoples History of Palestine. In order for this genre to endure and flourish, it must remain honest, and duty-bound to the truth - to reality as ...
  • Oil Rig Explodes Off The Louisiana Coast
    By Kate Randall An offshore oil rig exploded and caught fire Thursday morning off the shore of Louisiana, sending 13 workers jumping into the water to be rescued by boat. Firefighters battled the flames on the rigs platform throughout the day and had extinguished the fire by Thursday afternoon
  • A World In Collapse?
    Robert Jensen interviewed by Alex Doherty Robert Jensen spoke to NLPs Alex Doherty about the threat of environmental catastrophe

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

  • MUST WATCH VIDEO: Anderson Cooper DESTROYS Scholar ...
    All week we have been reporting on the growing scandal involving Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson. Johnson violated Congressional Black Caucus Foundation rules by awarding scholarship money to four relatives and a top aide's two children, according to an attorney for the Foundation. While the Congressw ...
  • Informing (or Misinforming) the U.S. MIlitary on I ...
    By Barry Rubin Commander Youssef H. Aboul-Enein, a U.S. Navy officer, has written a really interesting book with a lot of good information—even though I disagree with some of his basic premises—about Militant Islamist Ideology: Understanding the Global Threat (Naval Institute Press, 2010). The ...
  • Major Blow to DOJ Sheriff Joe Law Suit, ICE Had Al ...
    Uh-oh, it looks as if Attorney General Stedman Graham , er Eric Holder may have screwed up a bit. Yesterday Holder's Department of Justice filed suit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio alleging that his department was refusing to cooperate with an investigation into whether Arpaio's officers were ...
  • US Terrorist Leader Blames GOP AND Tea Party For I ...
    Twenty-months ago the supposed the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was implicated as an un-indicted co-conspirator in the Holyland terrorist financing case. One key piece of evidence in the case was Wiretap evidence that put CAIR's executive director, Nihad Awad, at a Philadelphia ...
  • America Here's Your Chance: Pick The Name of the N ...
    Sources are claiming that the White House is considering a second stimulus package before the mid term election--but at all costs do not want to call it a stimulus. While Presidential mouthpiece� Robert Gibbs said there are no plans for a "big new stimulus plan" to goose the sluggish economy. ...

The Real Agenda

  • Hijacking the Stock Market with High Frequency Tra ...
    Ted Kaufman, a US senator for Delaware, where many of America’s listed companies are incorporated, wrote to the Securities and Exchange Commission last month arguing that “excessive messaging traffic, the dissemination of proprietary market data catering to high-frequency traders, and order-routing ...
  • Developing: Oil Rig Explodes in Gulf of Mexico
    An offshore petroleum platform exploded and was burning Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site where BP’s undersea well spilled after a rig explosion. The Coast Guard says no one was killed in the blast, which was reported by a commercial helicopter f ...
  • Operation New Dawn: U.S. Engaged in Combat in Iraq
    Yet another "Mission Accomplished" for the U.S. led war in Iraq. This time, Barack H.Obama is the flag pole from which the people in the United States and the rest of the world see the deceit waving in front of them. Combat is not over, combat troops are still there.
  • Egg Contamination: False-flag to Pass “Food ...
    Senate Bill S.510 is called 'The Food Safety Bill'. It should be called 'The Food Monopoly Bill'. You see it will require all farms to purchase and use high-tech equipment that family farms and organic farms cannot afford and do not need. It will put these farms out of business.
  • The Economy When Debt is Everywhere
    International Forecaster August 25 2010: Greece forced into a harsh reality, madness, next is Spain, Portugal and Italy to be sold to IMF servitude for decades, twenty countries now headed into bankruptcy, no relief from unemployment, reduced US GDP, a million jobs to be lost… nightmares for the eco ...

Wind Watch

  • Human noise ‘leads fish from habitats’
    Noise pollution from shipping, drilling for oil or wind farms could lead fish away from their natural habitat into areas where they could die, potentially devastating future fish stocks. A British-led team made the discovery while working on the Great Barrier Reef â as well as debunking the myth t ...
  • Villagers ready for another battle against giant t ...
    Villagers have stepped up their latest campaign against a wind farm plan believed to be among the most unpopular planning applications Dorset has ever seen. Two years ago, a record 1,987 people wrote to North Dorset District Council to object to plans to build six giant turbines – each 120 metres (3 ...
  • JCIDA: all jurisdictions must agree to PILOTs
    Jefferson County could see repeats of the rancor that accompanied the Galloo Island Wind Farm payment-in-lieu-of-taxes approval at the county Legislature after changes made Tuesday morning. A payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement for any wind power project will need approval from all of the involved ta ...
  • Lightning strike burns down wind turbine
    PETERSON, Iowa — A lightening strike started a fire in a wind turbine Saturday morning, destroying the turbine and one of three new blades that had been laid out on the ground beneath it in order to be installed as replacements. Damages totaled $760,000, according to Peterson Fire Chief John Winterb ...
  • Wind farms could face new restrictions as Governme ...
    Energy companies could face new restrictions on wind farm projects after ministers launched a review of the way noise pollution is taken into account by planners. The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has admitted noise regulations are applied “inconsistently” by councils and planning ...

Not My Tribe

  • Wall Street Journal in Anti-Mosque Rant.
    Saying that moderate Islam doesn’t exist, that al Qa’eda and Taliban operatives would kill anybody who expressed in the Arab Countries any non-extremist position. What a Fat Load Of Shit. Again painting Islam as a monolithic entity, no differences between nations or even PEOPLE. Let’s put that in Ch ...
  • Meet the LARP, new name for the TeaTards.
    Acronym for “Lying Asshole Racist Pricks”
  • James Lee, eco-vigilante caricature, assails Disco ...
    The plus side of eco-vigilante James Lee’s Falling Down routine at the Discovery Channel headquarters is that viewers might be prompted to wonder what’s there to protest. The media will paint the 43-year-old Lee as a kook, without addressing what gave offense to the aspiring superhero: the cable pro ...
  • National “burn the confederate flag” d ...
    Because the Hatemongers and Deathmongers have gotten increasingly abusive in their rallies to drum up support of Killing People. While they say they’re not Racist about it in any way, they do fly the Confederate Battle Flag, the “Southern Cross” and sometimes bear signs saying “Not Hate, Heritage” a ...
  • Beck says that a flock of geese means he’s G ...
    Kind of like the Miracle Inflamed Hemorrhoid that kept his buddy Rush from not only the draft, but enlisting as well. On our blog, one of Glenn’s Peeps wrote the other day that if we don’t join their Hate Speech Mob we must be cowards. What an amazing Epiphany that was! Here I’d always thought [...]

Debunking the Debunkers

  • 9/11 Debunkers Violate The Official 9/11 Report
    Steeper33 YouTube.com August 25, 2010 9/11 debunkers violate the official 9/11 report while defending the official report. Getting a bit desperate are we? The Bush administration failed to provide proof of osama bin ladens guilt, so the burden of proof is still and always will be on them . NIST ...
  • Thank You Mr Curley: Debunker PROMOTES the "Buildi ...
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog was nice enough to help promote the " BuildingWhat? "campaign recently by posting their ad. Pat, your strategy of posting their video to help out and then inspiring truthers to donate more by insisting that the campaign is failing is brilliant, simply br ...
  • As Screw Loose Change Would Say: Moron Dave Thomas
    So, I've had a chance to listen to some of the Richard Gage and Dave Thomas debate and have a few things to add to the already stellar debunking job of Gage and others . Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog posted this bingo card mocking the evidence that Gage would raise. Let's examine an ...
  • CIT's corruption spreads...
    Dammit, just when I thought we were making progress in distancing ourselves from these clowns . I'm sure this will make them some more money as more activists waste $1,000 on 500 copies of their 'movie' that's mostly just white scrolling text on a black background, and contribute to the the discredi ...
  • 9/11 Heroes Ask for Medical Attention; Receive Nai ...
    The House of Representatives recently voted down the 9/11 workers' health fund and Rep. Weiner of New York "blasted" them for it . Now I would like to do a bit of blasting myself in the blogosphere. In a post that presented only one side of the story about the cause of death of 9/11 hero James Zad ...

Fooducate

  • Top Ten School Snacks
    Last week we asked for your help build out our Top Ten School Snack list. We asked for snacks that 1. kids will actually eat 2. taste good or great 3. add, not detract nutritional value 4. are easy to prepare 5. are cheap We got lots of great and interesting suggestions – you folks sure are a creat ...
  • Chef Boyardee’s Whole Grain Hoax
    ConAgra’s Chef Boyardee brand is out with a whole grain canned pasta product – Chef Boyardee Pasta, Whole Grain, Beefaroni – and they’re letting the world know about it. Take a look at this  “silent” commercial where parents are hiding the whole grain truth from their daughter. If she thinks it’s ...
  • Four Graphic Examples of Portion Distortion – You’ ...
    One of the most important pieces of information in a nutrition label is the serving size. Many people look at the calorie count, and are happy to see low numbers. But what they don’t notice is that they are consuming twice or more than the stated serving size. Which means twice the calories, twice t ...
  • Read It Before You Eat It
    Last May I received an email from Bonnie Taub Dix, a dietitian based in New York, complimenting Fooducate on the information presented in the blog about nutrition labels and how to decode them. She told me she was writing a book on reading food labels, and a beautiful friendship ensued. Today, Bonn ...
  • What Do People Look For on Nutrition Labels?
    Earlier this month, The NPD Group, a market research firm, released a report on consumer trends in reading Nutrition Labels. Hey, that’s our favorite subject matter, so we were eager to take a look. Top 5 items consumers are most interested in (ranked from highest down): total calories total fat c ...

Traffikd

  • 5 Facebook Apps That Really Make Money
    Guest post by Alexis Bonari If you aren't on Facebook by now, you are probably the only one who isn't. My grandmother has a Facebook page and anyone who can type, is able to start their own page with no problem. Most everyone uses Facebook as a social meeting place, but did you know that you coul ...
  • Online Profits Re-Opens (and now it’s free)!
    Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips started a membership site, Online Profits , last year to help people learn about making money online. Daniel has just re-launched and re-vamped Online Profits, and this time there is no charge to get all of the valuable content. The only requirement is that you open ...
  • 3 Ways to Ensure Internet Marketing Continues to W ...
    This is a guest post by Susan White Gone are the days when Internet marketing was perceived as the bold, new and innovative way to market and publicize your products and services. Today, email marketing and other forms of pushing your products on the web are passé. The Internet is growing faster th ...
  • Cloud Living Now Available From Glen Allsopp
    One of my friends has just launched a new product that I think may be of interest to many Traffikd readers. Glen Allsopp has written an e-book, Cloud Living , based on his experiences from making a five-figure monthly income from his websites. Cloud Living is actually more than an e-book, it i ...
  • 5 Reasons New Bloggers Should Use Niche Social Med ...
    I've been talking to some new bloggers recently and I've been asked questions about how they should work on growing their blog, increasing subscribers, and getting more visitors. Most bloggers know about the potential impact of social media and some even spend considerable amounts of time on sites l ...

Survival International

  • ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ winners appeal to Botswa ...
    Xoroxloo Duxee died of dehydration after the Bushmen's water borehole was disabled. © Survival âAlternative Nobel Prizeâ winners appeal to Botswana President over Bushmen Over 30 laureates of the Right Livelihood Award, known as the âalternative Nobel Prizeâ, have signed an open lette ...
  • Bushmen launch appeal over right to water
    Xoroxloo Duxee died of dehydration after the Bushmen's water borehole was disabled. © Survival The Bushmen of Botswana have lodged an appeal against a High Court decision that denied them access to water on their ancestral lands. In July, Justice Walia dismissed the Bushmenâs application fo ...
  • Norwegian government blacklists Malaysian timber g ...
    A logger handles trees felled in the Penan's region. © Andy Rain/Nick Rain/Survival The Norwegian government has excluded the Malaysian timber giant Samling from its pension fund on ethical grounds. Samling is logging the last remaining forests of the hunter-gatherer Penan tribe . Norwayâs ...
  • Brazil’s President signs ‘death sentence’ for Amaz ...
    Kayapó Indians at a protest against the Belo Monte dam © T Turner Brazilâs President Lula has signed a contract allowing the construction of the hugely controversial Belo Monte mega-dam on the Amazonian Xingu River to go ahead. Lula said, âI think this is a victory for Brazilâs energy ...
  • Indians urge Brazil’s next President to protect an ...
    Indians at landmark protest for land rights. Brazil. © Gustavo Macedo/ Survival Indians representing many of Brazilâs 233 tribes have demanded that the countryâs next President map out their ancestral land which has been taken from them for industrial projects, cattle ranching, and soya ...

Greg Palast

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Jan 19th: “In 2010 Democrats will be slaughtered”
    Yup. In 2010 Democrats will be slaughtered, absolutely slaughtered, because Obama and the senior Democratic leadership does not learn. In 2012 Obama will become a 1 term president, and a right wing populist will get into power.  That populist will turn out not to be a populist, and will do even ...
  • With stupid like this, who needs Republicans
    Seriously, could they be bigger idiots? With just two months until the November elections, the White House is seriously weighing a package of business tax breaks - potentially worth hundreds of billions of dollars - to spur hiring and combat Republican charges that Democratic tax policies hurt sma ...
  • Sean-Paul Lays it out: the Truth baby
    Go read. Excerpt: Meanwhile, I get called on the carpet for shooting off one liners and not providing enough analysis. So, here is some analysis for you: name me one big policy that the listed think tanks have proposed and has been enacted that wasn’t a total and complete fucking disaster of a pol ...
  • Ian on Blog Talk Radio
    If you missed the live session last night, you can listen to the interview here. Discussed Obama and policy, unregulated oligopolies and their political and economic effect, and even, at the end, made the case for Obama as I think he’d make it for himself if he were brutally frank.
  • Ian on Blog Talk Radio
    If you missed the live session last night, you can listen to the interview here. Discussed Obama and policy, unregulated oligopolies and their political and economic effect, and even, at the end, made the case for Obama as I think he’d make it for himself if he were brutally frank.

Age of Autism

  • Support Heeling Autism Service Dogs in the Pepsi R ...
    From our friends at the NAA NY Metro Chapter. Please vote for Heeling Autism, which provides service dogs for people on the spectrum. These dogs can protect children from wandering, running into the street, help with seizures and more. Vote...
  • Support The Mason Alert To Prevent Autism Wanderin ...
    Sheila and Kenneth Medlam are the parents of Mason, the five year old who left his home, within minutes found a pond and drowned. They are rallying for a "Mason Alert" and ask you to sign the petition: HERE. From...
  • Vaccine-Autism Decision a 'Major Disappointment' S ...
    Cedillo vs. Secretary of Health and Human Services Highlights Failure of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire The Elizabeth Birt Center for Autism Law and Advocacy (EBCALA) is deeply disappointed in the Court of Appeals for the...
  • Mercury: Why Don't Pregnant Women Know More?
    By Julie Obradovic When I started eating a lot of tuna while breastfeeding my daughter, I had no idea that I was possibly poisoning her. At that time, there was no mention of mercury toxicity and certainly no alarm bell...
  • The 1st Annual New York Autism Fashion Show
    Now featuring Taylor Morris! Annual New York Autism Fashion Show. The 1st Annual New York Autism Fashion Show Friday, October 1, 2010 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Times Square Art Center 669 8th Avenue (between 42 & 43) New York,...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Tests find sickened family has 50.3 ppm of Corexit ...
    Wonder where all that Corexit is going? Well, the good news is we've found it! Or at least some of it. The bad news is that it is showing up in Florida's swimming pools!
  • S 510 : Testor Amendment Means Nothing
    by:Lynn Swearingen-PPJ Gazette The Testor Amendment.  – It’ll free my direct sales to consumers. Or so the “opposition” to S. 510 seems to be saying now.  Once I started reading this,  “shock kept me up all night” would be an understatement. Attempting to understand the logic behind the argument tha ...
  • S 510: Republic Defiance is Taking it to the Stree ...
    We will be at the Nashville Farmers' Market at 1:00 this Saturday afternoon, Sept. 4, protesting S510, and distributing flyers. We plan to do this two weekends in a row.
  • S.510: Your government welcomes you to the new “na ...
    Marti Oakley W/ Paul Griepentrog (c)copyright 2010 The PPJ Gazette A glimpse into the near future?  Welcome to nationalized, government owned and operated farming and ranching! This is the new government run farming and ranching, everything will have to be done to meet criteria yet to be determined. ...
  • Vaccine Death Coverup Implodes Worldwide
    Once again the government wants to push its mercury filled vaccines on everyone, especially children.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Chinese warships end first Burma visit
    BBC – Two Chinese warships have completed a first ever trip to Burma. The five-day visit, by two ships in China’s anti-piracy taskforce, highlighted China’s growing naval reach and its close ties with Rangoon. China also says it will receive a visit next week from the head of Burma’s military gover ...
  • Taxpayers likely to face initial loss on GM IPO: s ...
    Reuters – The U.S. government is likely to take a loss on General Motors Co in the first offering of the automaker’s stock, six people familiar with preparations for the landmark IPO said. Subsequent offerings of the government’s holdings may be profitable depending on how investors trade the newly ...
  • Syria Moves to Curb Influence of Muslim Conservati ...
    New York Times – This country, which had sought to show solidarity with Islamist groups and allow religious figures a greater role in public life, has recently reversed course, moving forcefully to curb the influence of Muslim conservatives in its mosques, public universities and charities. The gove ...
  • Link between bone drugs and oesophageal cancer
    BBC – Long-term use of bone-strengthening drugs – used to treat fractures – may boost the risk of oesophageal cancer, Oxford University research suggests. The study of 3,000 people found taking bisphosphonates for five years upped the risk from one in 1,000 to two in 1,000 for 60 to 79-year-olds. Th ...
  • FBI paid informant in Bronx synagogue bomb plot $9 ...
    New York Daily News – The jury in the Bronx synagogue bomb plot case was told Wednesday that the informant who provided the four suspects with phony bombs and missiles was paid $97,000 by the FBI. The FBI gave Pakistani immigrant Shahed Hussain $44,000 for expenses and $53,000 for “his services” ove ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Gulf oil spill: Doomed rig had good reputation, BP ...
    The Deepwater Horizon, which exploded April 20 in the Gulf of Mexico, was considered one of the most efficient and safest mobile floating rigs in the Transocean Ltd. fleet, according to testimony Thursday at a hearing. The rig's reputation as...
  • On PolitiCal: Fiorina announces support for rollba ...
    One of the more memorable exchanges in Wednesday night's debate between Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer and Republican challenger Carly Fiorina was Fiorina's refusal to take a position on Proposition 23, which would suspend California's landmark global warming law until unemployment...
  • Supposedly extinct red fox discovered in Yosemite ...
    The genetic signature of canine slobber on a bait bag of chicken scraps and a fuzzy photograph snapped by a motion-sensitive camera north of Yosemite National Park have confirmed the existence of a supposedly extinct red fox, the U.S. Forest...
  • Up in the air...in an all-electric plane
    The electric Cri-Cri airplane was airborne Thursday – for all of seven minutes. The 4-engine aircraft, from Airbus parent corporation EADS, is the first of its kind. Its maiden flight took place at Le Bourget airport near Paris. The flight...
  • Gulf oil spill: BP managers had little experience ...
    Five high-ranking BP officials with authority over drilling by the Deepwater Horizon were relatively new to their jobs when the rig exploded April 20, according to testimony Thursday at a federal hearing. “So, we have five individuals there who have...

water.org

  • Water.org and Barclay Martin partnership (KC Star)
    Water.org and musician Barclay Martin form partnership (Kansas City Star) KANSAS CITY, Mo. – With the release of his fourth full-length album, Kansas City-based musician and international philanthropist Barclay Martin will give fans the opportunity to join him and be part of a clean water project in ...
  • Conference call tonight
    This is your chance to hear first-hand from Water.org’s International Programs Director about our work in Haiti, our approach, the progress made so far, and plans for the future. It’s also a chance to ask questions about our work during an open question and answer session. (*As a courtesy to other c ...
  • Videos to support Water.org (One Day on Earth)
    Support Water.org with your video creation (One Day on Earth)  - CALL TO ACTION: Share video of your water Without water, life would not exist. It is a prerequisite for all human and economic development. This 10.10.10 we invite you to share with the world how you access life’s most precious commodi ...
  • Water.org at TEDxKC (Brainzooming)
    What the World Needs Now â Innovative Ideas from TEDxKC â Part II (Brainzooming) – For whatever reason, McCamonâs TEDxKC presentation was incredibly brief. It provided staggering statistics about the amount of solid human waste thatâs left untreated globally in a world where more people have ...
  • Matt Damon’s trip to Ethiopia for water (Top Cel.)
    Matt Damonâs trip to Ethiopia to advocate for clean water (Top Celebrity Headlines) – Matt Damon is advocating for clean water and plumbing throughout the world as part of the charity he co-founded, Water.org. He appeared in a video for CNN to show how difficult it is for people in rural northern ...

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

  • Rabbis can apparently say whatever they want
    "May our enemies and haters come to an end," he intoned. "May Abu Mazen [Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas] and all those wicked men be lost from the earth. May God smite them with the plague of pestilence, including all those Palestinians." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
  • We're dividing. Finally
    The right wing's self-righteousness that flooded the media did not succeed in blurring the clear fact: Ariel is a settlement, not an Israeli community. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Real Dialogue happening in the Israeli Knesset?
    I live in the same country with a people that have experienced a terrible tragedy, the worst crime of all history. . So I have every amount of empathy for Holocaust survivors. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • People For the American Way: Send Sarah Palin a Co ...
    Help Us Teach Sarah Palin About the First Amendment It is clear from her recent statements attacking the so-called 'Ground Zero Mosque' and defending Dr. Laura Schlesinger's egregious on-air racial insensitivity -- among other statements -- that Submitted by joan rodriguez to US Politics & Gov't � ...
  • Glenn Beck rally in context: Events on the Mall
    The Lincoln Memorial -- and the rest of the Mall -- is a popular site for protests and rallies. Here are some noteworthy ones that show how hard it is to measure the size of a protesting crowd. Submitted by Mary Toth to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Historical Notes

libcom

  • Social activists were kidnapped by cops in Minsk, ...
    Today (3-rd of September 2010) at morning our friends and comrades were kidnapped by police. Six people are missing. We manage to get know about their kidnapping only several hours later from their neighbors which said that unknown people in police uniform took away everybody situating the apar ...
  • An attempt on life of anarchist anti-fascist in Mo ...
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  • Obama downshifts American imperialism in Colombia
    ActivistFlowers.gif It can be argued that the U.S. owes a collective “morality debt” of diplomatic reparations for centuries of state-sponsored terrorism and deplorable interventionism in and around the ...
  • Warsaw: Huge Victory for Tenants!
    W2_LOKATORZY_MR_300x250.jpg Tenants in Poland are celebrating the first successful grassroots campaign to prevent the sell-off of publicly owned housing. The grassroots fighting or ...
  • New Zealand: Mana Coach Services Strike
    Mana Coaches Picket Paraparaumu 31st Aug 2010 002.jpg On August 31st drivers employed by Mana Coach Services went on strike at the depot outside Paraparaumu Station, an hour north of Wellington, New Zeal ...

Free Range International

  • Rocky Road
    As the summer started I was optimistic regarding the chances that we would see some indications that we are gaining ground in Afghanistan but that has not happened.  Incident rates are skyrocketing which in and of itself is not a negative thing if it is our side who are instigating the incidents but ...
  • The Dog Days of Summer
    Many apologies for the delay on posting.  I was laid low by some sort of viral affliction which mimicked  malaria.  Like most people who get sick maybe once a decade, when I do catch a bug you would think I was on death’s door I’m such a sissy about it.  But the fever is gone [...]
  • The Good Don’t Always Die Young
    The Godfather of Free Range International – the man who pioneered the techniques, tactics and procedures we use to travel in remote districts was executed last week in Badakhshan Province. Dan Terry was a good man.  He was humble, self-effacing, and competent.  He lived in Afghanistan with his fam ...
  • Getting After It
    One of the Chim Chim’s dropped in for a visit last month.  He was on some sort of training inspection type team which I didn’t ask too much about and told us that every-time he asked officers from the unit he was looking at what they were doing the reply was “getting after it.”  They [...]
  • Losing Hearts and Minds
    Ben Arnoldy at the Christen Science Monitor penned an excellent tale on reconstruction efforts going pear shaped and the consequences resulting from such folly.  It is an excellent piece of reporting from one of the truly professional foreign correspondents working the country today.  The report was ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • 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 ...
  • WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CAP AND TRADE (Cra ...
    If You Own A Home You Better Read This .. What we can expect if “Cap & Trade” legislation is enacted? We thought we were in trouble in this nation before, but just wait.  It CAN get MUCH WORSE!! Well read this one, it is all verified and double-checked and reference links are at the [...]
  • BARRACK OBAMA INDICTED FOR MURDER???
    Mom of Murdered Obama Gay Lover Speaks Up Mom of Murdered Obama Gay Lover Speaks Up Posted on July 25, 2010 by Eowyn Donald Young http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.c…ver-speaks-up/ In late May, Wash. DC-based investigative journalist Wayne Madsen had a bombshell revelation about Obamaâs membershi ...
  • Dov Zakheim Retires — OH PLEASE!!!!
    Dov Zakheim retires from Booz Allen Hamilton Jerry Mazza Online Journal Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:22 EDT For those of you who don’t know who Dov Zakheim is, let me refresh your memory. The ordained rabbi served as comptroller of the Pentagon from May 4, 2001, to March 10, 2004, when he resigned to go [... ...

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

  • Top 50 Green Power Purchashers
    EPA Releases Top 50 Green Power Purchasers The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Green Power Partnership has released its latest list of top green power purchasers. Retaining their places at the top of the list were Intel Corporation, Kohl’s Department Stores, … Continue reading →
  • Renewable Energy Certificates
    Renewable Energy Certificates Western Climate Initiative Releases Comprehensive Program Design The Western Climate Initiative (WCI) released a comprehensive program design, which includes recommendations regarding voluntary purchases and the role of renewable energy certificates (RECs). WCI includes ...
  • 2010 Renewable Energy Market Conference
    Announcements Renewable Energy Markets 2010 Conference October 19-22, 2010 | Portland, OR Register now at this year’s exciting Renewable Energy Markets 2010 conference in Portland, Oregon from October 19-22, 2010. Topics include: Messaging and Marketing that Works Consumer Trends and … Continue read ...
  • What Will $514 Million Buy?
    On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Sam Parry, Environmental Defense Action Fund wrote: Having trouble using links or viewing images? View the web version. Dear Scotts Contracting, Big polluters and K St lobbyists spent a staggering $514 … Continue reading →
  • Hillary Clinton’s Global Gun Grab
    Dear fellow patriot,   With willing one-world accomplices in Washington, D.C., gun-grabbers around the globe believe they have it made. In fact, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just announced the Obama Administration would be working hand in glove with the … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

  • FDIC's New Power to Dissolve Companies Raises Conc ...
    The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s new power to take over and liquidate nonbank companies whose failure would jeopardize the financial system is intended as a "third way" between bankruptcy and bailout. But the prospect of a new regime for dissolving megacompanies -- one with almost no judicial o ...
  • Legal Sector Gained 1,000 Jobs in August
    The Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly employment report for August was released Friday and the news was still a bit glum overall -- the U.S. economy lost a total of 54,000 jobs. But the news for lawyers and legal industry employees was a bit brighter. The legal sector handed out 1,000 jobs last mo ...
  • Hodgson Russ Partners Sued Over Fla. Office Closur ...
    Claiming breach of contract and other charges, five former partners from the defunct Boca Raton, Fla., office of Hodgson Russ are suing top partners of the Buffalo, N.Y.-based law firm. The former Boca Raton partners insist they were blindsided by the firm's decision last year to close the office, w ...
  • Associate Tech Survey 2010: Less Tech Lowers Moral ...
    In a recession, should firms reduce tech investments to conserve cash or increase them to win a competitive advantage when the economy turns around? If your firm's goal is to boost tech-savvy associate morale, the results of the 2010 Associate Tech Survey say ramp it up.
  • Colonial Bancgroup Defeats FDIC Attempt to Assert ...
    In a ruling that could have a significant impact on proceedings involving failed banks, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has been rebuffed in its attempt to assert a $905 million priority claim against the holding company of the failed Colonial Bank. A federal bankruptcy judge in Alabama has ...

Iranian.com

  • IRAN: Video shows militiamen terrorizing oppositio ...
    Video uploaded to the Internet Friday purports to show pro-government henchman attacking the home of opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, a 72-year-old cleric.  The militiamen, who allegedly stormed Karroubi's house Thursday, belonged to the government backed Basiji or Ansar-e-Hezbollah militias, oft ...
  • Leader Accountable for Violence Against Opposition ...
    (3 September 2010) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran holds Iran’s Supreme Leader responsible for the safety of presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi and his family following attacks on Karroubi’s home by dozens of armed plainclothes forces. The attacks took place over three days a ...
  • رهبر ایران مسئول خشونت علیه رهبران مخالف است
    شهریور ۱۳۸۹ – به دنبال سه روز حملهء وحشیانه توسط دهها نیروی مسلح لباس شخصی به محل سکونت مهدی کروبی که سرانجام روز جمعه خاتمه یافت، کمپین بین المللی حقوق بشر در ایران اعلام کرد که آیت الله سید علی خامنه ای، رهبر جمهوری اسلامی ایران، مسئولیت امنیت مهدی کروبی، نامزد ریاست جمهوری سال گذشته و خانوادهء وی ...
  • Mousavi: We Will Defend National Interests In Case ...
    Mousavi stressed that for an attack against Iran to materialise, the aggressors would need a strong public opinion behind their actions, but “unfortunately, statements [by Ahmadinejad] that suggest that the whole planet will be targeted [in case of war against Iran] provide the necessary excuse” for ...
  • It's time for Obama to support a UN rights monitor ...
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Most Revolutionary Act

  • Grassroots Organizing: 1930s Style
    The mainstream media makes out like the economic collapse is just something that happened to us. Some greedy banksters gambled with trillions of dollars of our money and in the process, also committed embezzlement, fraud and theft. Now the money is gone, and we just have to live with it. Milli ...
  • Income Inequality: the Real Cause of Poor Health
    The University of Washington epidemiologist Dr Stephen Bezruchka has been writing and speaking for nearly two decades on the real cause of illness and poor health. As he repeatedly points out, lifestyle factors (including smoking) only account for ten percent of the causation of illness. Accor ...
  • Income Inequality: the Real Cause of Poor Health
    The University of Washington epidemiologist Dr Stephen Bezruchka has been writing and speaking for nearly two decades on the real cause of illness and poor health. As he repeatedly points out, lifestyle factors (including smoking) only account for ten percent of the causation of illness. According t ...
  • The Stigma of Being a Useless Eater
    What I find most troubling about the reactionary “useless eater” mentality (see May 24 blog) pushed by policy and opinion makers is the way Americans have internalized the belief that it’s their own fault if they become ill. In fact much of the US population seems more freaked out about gettin ...
  • Useless Eaters: the Stigmatization of Health Probl ...
    As a psychiatrist battling the stigma of mental illness for more than 30 years, I am gratified by growing public awareness that that schizophrenia, depression and bipolar disorder run in families and are, at least partly, biologically determined. Thankfully the days when it was socially acceptable t ...

Free Movement

  • Right to work for asylum seekers
    UKBA has laid Statement of Changes CM7929 to give effect (or, at least, limited effect) to the judgment of the Supreme Court in ZO (Somalia) [2010] UKSC 36. This was the case in which the Court held that an asylum claim is still an asylum claim for the purposes of the Reception Directive whether it ...
  • Post Pankina Rules Update
    Following Pankina, UKBA laid Statement of Changes HC382, different parts of which came into effect on 23 July and 12 August 2010. The main changes were to incorporate into the main Immigration Rules some provisions that had previously featured only in the policy guidance and which were declared unla ...
  • Temporary immigration cap
    I still use this blog as my own personal note book of developments I might well want to look up later. I’m currently updating and re-writing the HJT Immigration Manual (ready first week of September in time for the next round of accreditation, available now for a reduced price if pre-ordering) and t ...
  • UKBA seek feedback on settlement application proce ...
    Anyone with recent experience of applying for settlement may wish to help UKBA by completing a feedback form, available here.
  • Rights of children a primary consideration
    Yet more good news, this time for children and their parents. In LD (Article 8 best interests of child) Zimbabwe [2010] UKUT 278 (IAC) the President of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal has found that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is highly relevant to Article 8 ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • 5 Jaw-Dropping Stories in Wikileaks' Archives ...
    In December 2008, I received an email message from Julian Assange -- the now world-famous public face of the whistleblower organization, Wikileaks . I don’t recall why or how it came about, but he invited me to join a counterinsurgency “analysis team” alongside a number of other academics, ...
  • Hands off Social Security
    The White House deficit commission is reportedly considering deep benefit cuts for Social Security, including a steep rise in the retirement age. We cannot let that happen. The deficit and our $13 trillion national debt are serious problems that must be addressed. But we can — and must — address ...
  • Is WikiLeaks breaking the law?
    WASHINGTON, DC – The legal pursuit of WikiLeaks, a trans-national website devoted to publishing secret government documents worldwide, is reaching a boiling point. After publishing tens of thousands of classified U.S. documents revealing details of the war in Afghanistan, the group is now promising ...
  • Trying to exclude WikiLeaks from shield law stinks ...
    One of the odors emanating from Washington, D.C., these days is from journalists marking their territory. Whatever awkwardness previously existed as journalists desiring a federal shield law wooed the legislators they’re supposed to be watching, it’s now worse. In recent weeks, the two groups hav ...
  • BP acknowledges oil washing ashore in Florida
    For days, as thousands of pounds of oil washed up on the Florida coast , BP officials stuck to an "Oil? What oil?" stance. Despite howling by local officials , fishermen and laid-off cleanup workers, BP officials denied all knowledge of the existence of oil in the area. On Friday, th ...

Salon

  • AP refuses to use WH/NBC propaganda terms for Iraq
    On August 18, NBC�News anchor�Brian Williams began his broadcast -- shown live to West Coast viewers, something done only for very significant occasions -- by excitedly declaring :��"It's gone on longer than the Civil War, longer than World War II. �And tonight, U.S. combat troops have pulled out ...
  • Despite celebration, Iraq war continues
    Something about 21st century warfare brings out Washington's lust for historical comparison. The moment the combat starts, lawmakers and the national press corps inevitably portray every explosion, invasion, frontline dispatch, political machination and wartime icon as momentous replicas of the p ...
  • The real lesson of Labor Day
    This originally appeared on Robert Reich's blog
  • Texas youths to face capital murder in shootings
    A 13-year-old boy and his 12-year-old girlfriend will soon face capital murder charges in a Dallas-area double-shooting after the second victim died, authorities said Friday.
  • Where Obama will spend 9/11 is apparently an impor ...
    Politico, a free Washington D.C.-area newsletter, wants to know how -- or, I guess, where -- President Barack Obama will commemorate the forthcoming anniversary of 9/11 , which falls this year on Sept. 11.

SMB News

  • Iran working against Iraqi democracy: US general
    WASHINGTON: Iran is funding extremist groups in Iraq out of fear of a strong democracy as a neighbor, the commander of US forces in Iraq said Sunday. “I think they don’t want to see Iraq turn into a strong democratic country, General Ray Odierno told CNN. “They would rather see it become a weak gove ...
  • New flood tide roars into Dera Allah Yar
    JAFFERABAD: High flood tide raged its way into Jafferabad area of Dera Allah Yar, rendering thousands of people homeless, these stranded people are waiting for help, Geo News reported Monday. The new flood tide further exacerbated the situation in the area where people are present on the high places ...
  • Enraged flood victims get physical with police, Ra ...
    SUKKUR: Floods continue to cause devastation in Sukkur and rendered thousands of people stranded in various areas while enraged flood victims burned tyres, blocked road and exchanged blows with police and Rangers after one of the affectees died in a relief camp here at Sukkur-Shikarpur Road. The wat ...
  • Qaeda’s cause is gross distortion of Islam: Obama
    Qaedaâs cause is gross distortion of Islam: ObamaWASHINGTON: In a passionate defense of religious freedom, President Barack Obama on Friday waded into a bitter controversy by defending the right of Muslims to build a mosque just blocks from Ground Zero. “As a citizen, and as president, I believe t ...
  • Do they lock Geo More news from Zardari to throw s ...
    Karachi: Geo News blocked the transfer of the road at night in a cold portion of the new country after the news sent threw shoes at President Zardari’s party time in Birmingham, Geo News reported sources as kabelexploitanten zeggend. Meanwhile, many of the singer kabelexploitanten in Karachi was bad ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • Worth repeating: Time to 'turn the page' on Iraq
    Excerpt of President Obama's speech on the American withdrawal from Iraq.
  • Editorial: No alternative to road tolls
    Continued “free” use of our major highways costs too much.
  • Funding public schools
    Students of all backgrounds and family incomes learning together and getting the same opportunities: that’s the idea behind public schools.
  • Funding public schools
    Students of all backgrounds and family incomes learning together and getting the same opportunities: that’s the idea behind public schools.
  • Worst of the worst?
    One is tempted to call it “driver hell.” Toronto allegedly has the slowest commute times, most speed traps, and worst roads of all communities studied in three separate reports.

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • 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 ...
  • Italy inspired by France to expel citizens from ot ...
    Italy has said it intends to expel citizens from other EU states if they are not able to support themselves, in a move apparently inspired by France’s current crackdown on Roma. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni told daily newspaper Corriere della Sera on Saturday (21 August) that French president Ni ...

Stonecipher News

  • Can Hand Episode 3: Bedroom Fun Wakes Grandpa
    This is a sponsored post! WD-40 has more than 2000 uses. One of my favorite uses is cleaning up permanent markers off title or linoleum flooring. I discovered this by accident last week while installing my linoleum floor. I mistakenly used a permanent marker to make my marking measurements instead ...
  • Studies Claim That One Million Children Misdiagnos ...
    According to Jo Oliver "Several studies this month in the Journal of Health Economics are looking at ADHD. Separate studies by researchers at North Carolina State University, Notre Dame, the University of Minnesota, and Michigan State University all arrive at similar conclusions about ADHD. For tho ...
  • Education: What Does It Mean For Your Child
    From my Factoidz page: The PACER Center is a Minnesota training and information center funded by the U. S. Department of Education Office of Special Education (n.d., http://www.pacer.org/) writes an article for LD online explaining to lay people the evaluation process for special education. The arti ...
  • Tests and Measurements for the Parent, Teacher, Ad ...
    Peter and Pam Wright compose a comprehensive article for parents, teachers, advocates and attorneys. The purpose of which is to help lay people and professionals recognize the value of reading and understanding educational test scores. Attorney Peter Wright Esq., and Psychotherapist Pam Wright who ...
  • Fetal Xrays Can Cause Memory Loss and Schizophreni ...
    Alarming as it sounds, I hardly doubt Fetal Xrays can cause Schizophrenia . Schizophrenia is often misdiagnosed by psychiatrists who look for a reasoning for someone's memory loss. In fact, less than 1% of the population actually has Schizophrenia, so I'm in question about these findings.� ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Unique Content Article: Spy Cams Using DVR Protect ...
    Spy Cams Using DVR Protection Provide Disguised Surveillance by Boris A Zevahc While being mom to three kids, I also run a small business. Since I want to monitor everything that happens in my house and in the shop, I looked for ( http://www.safetyandsecuritycam.com/alarm-clock.html )... Tags: rca
  • My Desert Island Discs
    I have decided to do something a bit different and do something completely un-bookish on Savidge Reads today despite tagging it with a Simon’s Bookish Bits label. As I mentioned earlier in the week books have been slightly on the back burner here at Savidge HQ and I have been turning... Tags: coldpl ...
  • The Truth About Realtors
    The Truth About Realtors Recently I read that an annual poll taken among Americans rated Realtors as one of the least respected professional in the country. For the first time in history, Realtors fell not only to the bottom of the list, but even below non-licensed, non-governed... Tags: real estate ...
  • 3-D or not 2-D… ahem.
    I wonder how many times that’s been used? Anyhow, having only this last month or so actually ‘enjoyed’ the dubious benefits of 3-D cinema – Toy Story 3D as it happens, and yes, it was grand, but I preferred Inception (and indeed Up! Now I think of it), this caught my... Tags: gaming microsoft irish ...
  • Former Mustang caps playing career, now assisting ...
    Former Mullen softballer Abby Keese is currently serving as a graduate assistant with Fairfield’s team and is pursuing a masters’ degree in communication. All told, she had a nice career at Lipscomb. Over four years for the Lady Bison, Keese was a four-year starter and helped the... Tags: fairfield

Groklaw

  • Considerations For FLOSS Hackers About Oracle vs. ...
    However, this lawsuit proves that choosing some languages for newly written Free Software is dangerous and should be avoided, especially when there are safer choices like C, C++, Python, and Perl.... Even if you like your company today, you never know who will own those software patents later. I'm ...
  • Google sticks Wave in a box, puts a bow on top
    Contrary to popular belief, Google Wave is not quite dead. Google plans to expand upon the open source code it has already released to form a more complete, standalone application known as "Wave in a Box." Wave will work (or not work, depending on how you look at it) as it always has, but with the n ...
  • Android: the return of the Unix wars
    In summary, there are two separate concerns here: fragmentation and freedom. Fragmentation, of course, has been a staple of anti-Linux FUD since the beginning; surely, with the source in the open and with all those distributions, Linux would have to go in many different directions. But Linux has not ...
  • Bart Simpson- Trial Lawyer! (video)
    A world without lawyers by Bart Simpson and the Consumer Attorneys of California... - TrialLawyerTips
  • Gosling Webcast
    Next week JavaZone Lady Java and Java Forever will be held in Norway. To celebrate the opening of the new ForgeRock Norway office, we've arranged for a party just before the conference starts, on Tuesday evening. If you are in Oslo and would like to attend, please send an RSVP to the address on the ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

  • On the contradictory and reactionary character of ...
    Poli-Tea explains why the Republicans may make big gains in November despite being the lesser-popular party Primary ideological support for the reproduction of the failed two-party state Nevertheless, of those who favored a Democrat-controlled Congress, 48% stated that they actually support Democrat ...
  • Banksy anti-BP kiddie ride
    Treehugger has more, including video.
  • Economy seen avoiding double dip as U.S. data can’ ...
    Bloomberg (or, considering the topic, maybe that should be Doomberg) The U.S. economy is so bad that the chance of avoiding a double dip back into recession may actually be pretty good. The sectors of the economy that traditionally drive it into recession are already so depressed it’s difficult to s ...
  • How Wall Street made the financial crisis worse
    From NPR and Pro Publica We believe we can show that some Wall Street bankers had evidence, a year or two before the financial crisis hit, that there were serious problems with subprime mortgage investments. Rather than wind down this business, they sped it up using financial trickery. These people ...
  • Grooming for subservience
    Promoted from the comments to our Electronic tracking system for preschoolers in Calif. from John Couzin in Scotland It is often said that we are sleepwalking into a police state. I would disagree and say that if we aren’t already there we are certainly galloping straight into the cage. On top of al ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Plea of the Israeli political prisoner's wife
    Read this powerful article penned for Electronic Intifada by Janan Abdu, spouse of Palestinian-Israeli political prisoner Ameer Makhoul, who has shockingly been held without trial since May. Abdu quotes the stirring (but possibly empty?) words that Secretary Clinton uttered recently at the 10th ann ...
  • Just World Books update #4
    We're still tweaking the website at Just World Books, so until it's ready to roll out, I'll be sending out my updates from here. I've signed three new contracts in the past couple of weeks. Two are with Manan Ahmed , who's the principal blogger (Sepoy) at Chapati Mystery and also blogs at Informed ...
  • 550 IDF soldiers interrogated re possible war crim ...
    Huge kudos to Max Blumenthal, who found a report in yesterday's Yediot stating that (in Max's translation), More than 550 officers and men of IDF who participated in the “Cast Lead” operation have been interrogated by the investigative military police of the IDF in the last 18 months. The Yediot r ...
  • Powerful rebuke of SA Chief Rabbi over Goldstone
    The great, strongly anti-Apartheid South African journo Allister Sparks has penned a powerful rebuke of his country's Chief Rabbi, Warren Goldstein, over the latter's strongly expressed criticism of Constitutional Court member Richard Goldstone, and Goldstone's role in heading the UN's fact-finding ...
  • Watch Emily Henochowizc's transformational song
    Here. Hat-tip, Phil Weiss. Henochowicz is the young Jewish-American artist who lost an eye to an IDF tear-gas canister while protesting the continued building of the Apartheid Wall. She is amazing. Especially when she sings that people need "open their eyes." And then she turns and looks at the ...

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