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Thomas Paine

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Monday, September 6, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • EUROPE: New Expulsions Hit People Without a Place
    Roma gypsies are routinely described as Europe's largest ethnic minority. Numbering between 10 and 16 million, their combined population exceeds that of many European Union countries. Yet their numerical strength offers no compensation for the poverty, persecution and scapegoating that the R ...
  • INDIA: Fears of Privacy Loss Pursue Ambitious ID P ...
    Fears about loss of privacy are being voiced as India gears up to launch an ambitious scheme to biometrically identify and number each of its 1.2 billion inhabitants.
  • INDIA: Handicrafts Give Rural Women A Helping Hand
    With her arms loaded with flowers and leaves, Mohini Indrawan negotiates the dusty village track leading up to her house in this northern Indian state, pausing now and then to exchange pleasantries with a passing acquaintance. Her spending a few hours away from home each day was once label ...
  • BRAZIL: Laws No Help to Amazon Animals, or People
    Every year, more than a million Amazonian turtle eggs do not make it to the hatching period, nor do they serve as food for humans in the Tabuleiro de Embaubal, a series of beaches along the final stretch of Brazil's Xingú River.
  • MIDEAST: Media New Battleground for Palestinians a ...
    Palestinians and Israelis are using the media as a new battleground in their war to win hearts and minds across the globe, even as the protracted conflict in the Mideast drags on with no apparent end in sight.

Scoop - NZ

  • Afghanistan and the War Legend
    U.S. President Barack Obama's Aug. 31 Oval Office speech on the end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq had many purposes: to claim a measure of credit for largely fulfilling one of his major campaign promises; to thank those who have served and sacrificed in the cause; to spread the balm of unity ove ...
  • Who are the Taliban ?
    The road from Kabul to Kandahar was once known as the Eisenhower highway. Built in the 1950s, when the United States and the Soviet Union competed peacefully for Afghan friendship, this US-funded 300-mile ribbon of tarmac was plied for two decades by lorries and garishly painted buses with no concer ...
  • Kabul bank collapse points to Karzai corruption
    I write in anger. Not blind rage, mind you. A cool, searing, steady anger. I think it is a righteous anger. It is not consequential, but it is my reality. I am angry about the 1,172 US troops dead in the Afghanistan War, and all the other brave NATO and Afghan soldiers who gave their lives for a new ...
  • Long lines at troubled Kabul Bank
    Afghans have continued to withdraw money from the country's largest bank, Kabul Bank, over fears it may collapse. Government and bank officials have given repeated assurances that the bank will not fail. The run on the bank began earlier this week after allegations of corruption and mismanagement ...
  • Home truths for complacent economists
    The howls of surprised economists were everywhere last week as the government reported on Tuesday that July had sharpest single-month plunge in existing home sales on record. The next day the commerce department reported that new home sales hit a post-war low in July. All the economists who had tol ...

Independent - London

  • 17 killed in Pakistan police station attack
    At least 17 people were killed and about 40 injured in a suicide car bomb attack on a police station in north-western Pakistan today.
  • Natascha Kampusch reveals horror of living in a du ...
    Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian girl who was imprisoned for eight years and systematically tortured after being kidnapped on her way to school at the age of 10, has revealed shocking details of her ordeal for the first time.
  • Natascha Kampusch reveals her horror of living in ...
    Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian girl who was imprisoned for eight years and systematically tortured after being kidnapped on her way to school at the age of 10, has revealed shocking details of her ordeal for the first time.
  • The 12th-century facebook of Angkor Wat
    Amid the splendour of the 12th-century temple at Angkor Wat, they stand and stare like silent sentinels, sensuous rather than erotic, carved with elegance and care. But exactly who are these 1,786 mysterious women and why, more than a century after Cambodia's famed Hindu temple was rediscovered byW ...
  • Greens stoke backlash against Merkel's nuclear pow ...
    Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet met to agree plans to extend the life of Germany's atomic power plants yesterday amid angry protests from anti-nuclear activists and the country's two main opposition parties.

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

  • Tropical Storm Hermine Threatens Mexico, Texas
    Tropical storm Hermine has formed in the Gulf of Mexico and warnings have been issued from Tampico, Mexico to the Baffin Bay on the south Texas coast, the National Hurricane Center said on Monday. Hermine, the eighth tropical storm of the season, carried maximum sustained winds of 40 mph was locate ...
  • Northern Ireland: Schools Evacuated as Child Finds ...
    St Comgall's pupil brings in device found on Ballymena Road, and second school searched in security scare An eight-year-old boy walked into a Northern Ireland primary school today carrying a viable pipe bomb. The pupil found the device on Ballymena Road, in Antrim, and brought it into St Comgall's ...
  • World's Shortest Man Named as 27 Inches Tall Colom ...
    A 24-year-old Colombian has taken the title of the world's shortest man, measuring just 27 ins high (70cm) - slightly taller than the height restrictions for a piece of carry-on aeroplane luggage. Edward Nino Hernandez weighs just 22lbs and has just been officially certified as the world's short ...
  • Tension Mounts as Groups Protest Plan to Burn Kora ...
    Jakarta - As the weekend saw protests in different parts of the country against an American church's plan to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by burning copies of the Koran, pluralism advocates on Sunday called for cooler heads to prevail and violence to be avoided. The Dove World ...
  • New Zealand: Canterbury Fault Had Not Ruptured For ...
    Wellington, NZPA - The fault that ruptured and produced the magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Canterbury on Saturday appears not to have ruptured for at least 16,000 years, scientists said today. The earthquake produced a 22km-long surface rupture and up to 4m of horizontal displacement in alluvial terra ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Hurricane Earl, Tropical Storm Fiona and Tropical ...
    Hurricane Earl is tracking towards the northwest at about 15 knots. At present the outer edges of the wind field are just east of Abaco in the Bahamas. Maximum sustained winds are about 115 knots (213 kmh/132 mph). Hurricane warnings have been issued for the North Carolina coast. Conditions sugg ...
  • Abousfian Abdelrazik can sue the GoC, DFAIT and Lo ...
    Good news today . Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Montreal man who was stranded in Sudan for six years, has been given the green light to sue the federal government and Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon. In a written ruling released on Monday, the Federal Court gave Abdelrazik the right to proce ...
  • Saturday Morning Cartoons.
    Coffee first, world dominance second.
  • Tropical Storm Earl - 041200Z Updated 041300Z
    Earl was downgraded to a Tropical Storm late yesterday as it tracked northeast. The cyclone is currently moving directly northeast at 26 knots (48 kmh/30 mph). The latest satellite picture shows a resurgence of convection around the centre. As can be seen from the latest satellite shot taken just ...
  • The Chief of the Air Staff said what?
    This is one of those times I wish I had more context to work with. The Chief of the Air Staff is quoted in the Globe & Mail making statements that you could fly a bomber through. Further, as opposed to the head air honcho taking the route of laying expensive capital acquisitions at the feet of the ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox tries to have it both ways with census job fig ...
    In June, Fox News figures downplayed job growth numbers by pointing out that many of the jobs created were temporary census positions. Now, those same Fox figures are hyping net job losses over the summer while ignoring that the losses are largely explained by the conclusion of those same temporary ...
  • Sunday show economic experts agree: more stimulus ...
    On the September 5 editions of CBS's Face the Nation and ABC's This Week , economic experts noted that the initial stimulus package was too small and that the resultant slow economic recovery demanded further stimulus. Media largely ignored progressive economists' statements during the stimulus deb ...
  • 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 ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Move Chuck Hagel From Obama Team B to Team A
    This next week on Wednesday, 8 September at the New America Foundation a group of academics, business leaders, journalists, and other policy practitioners -- organized as 'The Afghanistan Study Group' will formally release this new report titled "New Way Forward: Rethinking U.S. Strategy in Afghani ...
  • Dana Milbank Pays Homage to Alan Simpson's Sexism ...
    The Washington Post insists that its columnists either produce top quality work or toe the company line. Dana Milbank falls into the latter group of columnists as he showed once again with his warm praise for former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson sexism and ignorance. Senator Simpson has been in th ...
  • Washington Post: US Intelligence Agencies Outraged ...
    Bravo to reporter Jeff Stein for even getting this story in the Washington Post which is the most pro-Likud major newspaper in America. (I am trying to avoid using the term "pro-Israel" in this context because I consider support for the Likud approach to be anything but pro-Israel). Read the open ...
  • 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. ...

TruthOut

  • Health Inequality: Gates Foundation Bans Abortion
    Melinda French Gates, philanthropist, co-founder and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was greeted with great applause on the first day of the Women Deliver conference in Washington, D.C. earlier this summer. But the hand clapping was temporary. read more
  • Joshua Holland | We're Being Conned on Social Secu ...
    They just want to steal our money. Allow me to take a moment to fix that whole “Social Security crisis” that has everyone in Washington gnashing their teeth. When you see how easily it’s done, you may begin to realize that whenever our elites start chattering about “tax-gaps," they’re almost certai ...
  • After 20 Years of Protection, Owl Declining but Fo ...
    Washington - Twenty years after northern spotted owls were protected under the Endangered Species Act, their numbers continue to decline, and scientists aren't certain whether the birds will survive even though logging was banned on much of the old-growth forest in the Pacific Northwest where they l ...
  • What Labor is Fighting for This Labor Day (Video)
    More GRITtv read more
  • Life vs. Productivity: "What Would You Live and Di ...
    "It is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself, when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks." -Malcolm X If someone broke into your house, pinned down your loved ones and began pouring poison down their throats, would you stop that person? What if someone poured crude oil all over your ...

Planetsave

  • NPR Reports on the Environment, Economy and Humani ...
    National Public Radio has some of the best and current environmental education available through their free programs and podcasts.  A long respected source, NPR covers a variety of environmental topics, and is a great place to hear the voices and names of those involved in contemplating and addressi ...
  • Greenpeace’s Arctic Defenders Deported from ...
    I just wrote the other day on four Greenpeace activists, dubbed the “Arctic Defenders,” who climbed an oil rig in the Arctic and occupied it (hanging above cold Arctic waters) for 40 hours before coming down and being arrested by the Greenland police. Their friendly Greenpeace colleagues and partner ...
  • Greenpeace, Facebook Convo on Coal, Renewable Ener ...
    Greenpeace has had a campaign going on both on Facebook and off telling Facebook to “Unfriend Coal.” In other words, Greenpeace and 500,000 supporters (so far) are urging Facebook to stop using energy from dirty coal plants. The Executive Director of Greenpeace International, Kumi Naidoo, recently ...
  • 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 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Quebec: Rash of suicides linked to nurses’ deplora ...
    6 September 2010 A 58 year-old nurse working at Quebec City’s Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec (CHUQ) recently took her own life. It was the fifth suicide of a nurse at this institution in 18 months. In a letter addressed to those nearest to her, the latest suicide victim, a...
  • Yale lending name to racist conference - World Ne ...
    3 September 2010 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" touched on anti-Je ...
  • Pathologist who investigated G20 police killing fo ...
    6 September 2010 On August 31, Dr Freddy Patel, the pathologist who carried out the first post-mortem examination of Ian Tomlinson, was found guilty of misconduct by the General Medical Council (GMC). Tomlinson died after being assaulted by riot police at the London G20 summit in April 2009. ...
  • Pollution and worsening quality focus of World Wat ...
    Stockholm (AFP) Sept 5, 2010 Increasing water pollution and dwindling water quality around the globe will be the main focus as around 2,500 experts begin gathering in Stockholm Sunday for the 20th edition of the World Water Week. "Driven by demographic change and economic growth, water is inc ...
  • Thousands protest in France vs. witch-hunt of Roma ...
    6 September 2010 Some 100,000 people joined demonstrations Saturday in 140 French towns to protest against President Nicolas Sarkozy’s anti-immigrant and repressive policies and his crackdown on Roma communities. Minister of the Interior Brice Hortefeux issued a statement in response, declaring, ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Only Unions Can Save Liberalism
    The most patriotic thing you can do today is to be part of your local Labor Day parade. Labor Day celebrates the strength and power working people find in collective action. �Today, that power is needed to save the nation. Mike Elk at Truthout: The right has been winning over working-class whites by ...
  • The Immigration Bad News
    Illegal immigration is way down, which makes sense, because who wants to pack everything up to move to the slave labor hellhole the repugs are about to make out of this once-great nation? But fewer immigrants is the bad news, because apparently immigrants were about the only thing holding our non-e ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    This sort of "advising" looks a lot like combat to us At least eighteen people were killed and 39 were wounded in an insurgent attack on the east Baghdad headquarters of the Iraqi army, located in a former Ministry of Defense building in a busy market district alongside the Tigris River. US troops c ...
  • ACORN's Real Crime: Saving New Orleans
    This is what repug election-frauders and fraidy-cat dems destroyed, not for what ACORN did wrong, but for what it did right. John Atlas in The Nation: A week after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans-while government officials and charities were still discussing how to send aid to the area-ACORN was a ...
  • Out-Cheneying Cheney
    No, I'm not going to stick my fingers in my ears and sing lalalalalalala at the top of my lungs. �This is happening; it's illegal, unconstitutional, unAmerican and unconscionable, and Barack Obama is doing it. Kevin Drum: Conor Friedersdorf on the Obama administration's creation of a "kill list" of ...

Care 2

  • Will Glenn Beck's The Blaze follow Breitbart's tr ...
    Glenn Beck has a three-hour radio show, a one-hour television show, regular guest slots on Fox News and Fox Business, and a subscription website. Still, he doesn't have enough hours in the day for some of the "stories that matter most." Submitted by Michelle Matthews to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Not ...
  • Sunday show economic experts agree: more stimulus ...
    On the September 5 editions of CBS's Face the Nation and ABC's This Week, economic experts noted that the initial stimulus package was too small and that the resultant slow economic recovery demanded further stimulus. Submitted by Michelle Matthews to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Co ...
  • Animal Legal Defense Fund Petitions Department of ...
    Cotati, Calif. On the heels of the deaths of seven puppies transported in the cargo hold on an American Airlines flight from Tulsa, Oklahoma to Chicago earlier Submitted by Sue BARKO WOLF to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Advocating For Animals... Tips and Information fro ...
    Find the tools you need to effectively communicate with law enforcement and legislators about animal issues that are important to you. Submitted by Sue BARKO WOLF to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Latest: Taiji -- Dolphins Released; None Slaughter ...
    We have several small, but I think, significant victories today to report Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

  • Our Long National Nightmare Isn't Over, It's Just ...
    In the 1930s, the only thing we had to fear was fear, itself. Today, the main thing we have to fear is us, ourselves. Looking out over the horizon, I'm starting to wonder just how many shades of dark there are on the pallette. Lately, I get the feeling that we're about to find out. I wish I could s ...
  • A Lament for Labor Day: When Unemployement Happens ...
    It's One Thing to Write About Others Losing Their Jobs, But What Happens When It Happens to You? When your life and your work is as entwined as mine has been -- fusing the personal and the political over all these years, it may be stretching things to consider yourself unemployed, but that's what I ...
  • Hatred and Stupidity...But I Repeat Myself
    � from Truthout 2010 is shaping up to be the Year of the Hate Crime in America, thanks in large part to right-bent Republicans and their Tea Party allies who have nothing to run on in the upcoming midterms. Think about it; would you want to run for office as a Republican these days? Their dearest e ...
  • Dana Milbank Pays Homage to Alan Simpson's Sexism ...
    The Washington Post insists that its columnists either produce top quality work or toe the company line. Dana Milbank falls into the latter group of columnists as he showed once again with his warm praise for former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson's sexism and ignorance. Senator Simpson has been in the ...
  • Constitution con: It already benefits Tea Party in ...
    The Tea Party should be grateful to our founders for the Constitution they shaped, yet it is not good enough for them. Some of the Constitution's key provisions invite obstruction of laws and practices that would serve all Americans, especially the most vulnerable. The Constitution's powers tilt in ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • A Bit Of A Follow Up To Trumka And Palin *Open Th ...
    To my recent post about Palin and the new McCarthyism. Michelle Malkin had this post about how President Obama will be spending his Labor day, “Obama spending Labor Day with real thugs.” Wanna guess who? That’s right, Richard Trumka. And why would Malkin say such a thing in her post? This [...]
  • Obama’s Glass Ball
    As a little kid I remember going to the Fun Zone at Balboa Park and asking the strange looking lady in a glass box urgent questions such as, “Will I ever get a puppy?” and “Can I get another teacher because the one I have is mean?” For a nickel she would blurt [...]
  • Bully Goal
    Catch Larry Johnson on John Batchelor’s syndicated radio show TONIGHT at around 10:05 to 10:35 p.m. ET. You’ll find “how to listen” instructions below. ___________________________________________________   The Magnus Effect. News from researchers in France puts forward a peer-tested explana ...
  • Cooling the Terror Hype
    I am not a Fareed Zakaria fan at all. But he has written an important piece on the Terror industry and I hope folks pay attention to it: Nine years after 9/11, can anyone doubt that Al Qaeda is simply not that deadly a threat? Since that gruesome day in 2001, once governments [...]
  • “Palinism” Is The New McCarthism?
    Could be, according to the AFL-CIO president, Richard Trumka, if she doesn’t watch her words. Okay – I have to stop right there. Can I just tell you how much I resent it when men tell women how they should talk? That would be a big pet peeve of mine. So, from the [...]

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Greatest Flying Aces in History
    They fought and died in the most extreme kind of warfare, high above the ground. These amazing pilots showed the world what genuine bravery is all about. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Largest Dinosaur Graveyard Ever Discovered
    The largest dinosaur graveyard ever found answers one question: "Why are so many dinosaurs so often found dead in one place?" read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Skin Disease That Turns People Into Trees
    Lewandowsky-Lutz dysplasia is a rare, hereditary disease that causes one to branch out with tree-like roots. The disease often leads to cancer and is very disfiguring. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the articl ...
  • Toad Escapes From the Jaws of Death
    An epic battle between a southern black racer and a toad, captured in a cinematic sequence of photos, with the snake trying to devour its smaller prey. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Graveyard Where Ice Cream Goes to Die
    Graveyards hold a strange mystique for many people. Some consider them tranquil havens where lost loves can be remembered and celebrated, yet to others they are eerie enc 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

  • Turkey Joins Europe, Electrically Speaking
    Turkey may be frustrated in its bid to become part of the European Union, but by the end of September, it will join Europe's electric grid.
  • A Voice From the Next Offshore Oil Frontier
    The energy industry centered in Prudhoe Bay is the economic engine of the North Slope, helping preserve the Inupiat culture, but it also presents a potential threat to that culture. Mayor Edward Itta of the North Slope Borough e-mailed answers to our questions about these conflicts.
  • 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.

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

  • We don’t need no education, we don’t need no thoug ...
    Hands Down: Banishing questioning from schools “All and all you’re just another brick in the Wall” What is deemed a ‘Classroom Experiment’ in England, using methods that were tested on 25 pupils at Hertswood school in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire for one term has come to the lofty conclusion that stud ...
  • 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 ...

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  • VAT rise would hit the poorest
    Bill Wilson's VAT motion to the Scottish Parliament reads as follows: That the Parliament notes the warning issued by Save the Children in Scotland that raising VAT to 20% could mean a £31 a week bill for the poorest families in Scotland and that the poorest 10% of the population currently spend ...
  • Excessive pay and bonuses in public sector under s ...
    Daily Telegraph reports on bold moves in the public sector . But what about the private sector which originated the "crazy" bonus system and still leads the way on excessive top pay...?
  • Splendid: government targets second homes
    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

  • PDA Weekly Field Report 8/27/10 – 9/3/10
    We are only days away from the elections in Rhode Island and New York. In Rhode Island we have David Segal and in New York we have Jonathan Tasini. Both of these elections are on ...
  • 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 ...

Marler Blog

  • 3rd Australian Food Safety Conference
    Great thing about wireless on a plane traveling for 20 hours is that you can work constantly.� I am just about finished with my PowerPoint for my speech on September 9th. ( AUS2010 )� Blank slide is a video.
  • Food Safety Speeches 2010 and 2011
    In between my day job as managing partner at Marler Clark , my evening job as blogger at Marler Blog and my middle of the night job as publisher at Food Safety News , I spend some time traveling the world pitching “why it is a bad idea to poison your customers.” Here are some upcoming trips: Septe ...
  • 1,469 Salmonella Enteritidis Illnesses now linked ...
    In July 2010, CDC identified a nationwide sustained increase in the number of Salmonella Enteritidis isolates with PFGE pattern JEGX01.0004 uploaded to PulseNet, the national subtyping network made up of state and local public health laboratories and federal food regulatory laboratories that perform ...
  • 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

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

  • Arizona Governor Jan Brewer Admits She Was Wrong A ...
    Jan Brewer Admits She Was Wrong About Beheadings PAUL DAVENPORT and AMANDA LEE MYERS | 09/ 4/10 04:11 AM | Via: Huff Post PHOENIX â A claim by Arizona’s governor that rising violence along the U.S.-Mexico border has led to headless bodies turning up in the desert came back to haunt her during a st ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Goldman Following Morgan in Ending Proprietary Tra ...
    By Christine Harper and Saijel Kishan Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is shutting its principal-strategies business, a group that makes bets with the firm’s own capital, to comply with new U.S. rules aimed at curbing risk, two people with knowledge of the decision said. Wall Street’s most profitable inves ...
  • The Great American Food Experiment
    By Alex Bogusky Video Interview with Jeffrey Smith author of Seeds of Deception. YouTube The Great American Food Experiment and how to opt out. Jeff is in the middle of everything you see and read about Genetically Modified Organisms. Continue reading the article . . .
  • US Students - Drowning in Debt
    YouTube A ticking time bomb of American debt. Over $830 billion are owed by college students in the US with $3 thousand more added on every second. This is debt that is NOT extinguished in bankruptcy. Continue reading the article . . .
  • A Letter From Fleurette
    Dear Catherine, I miss having our mini conversations but I am thrilled that you have had that road trip and time in Montana. I l-o-v-e Montana and have driven its vast and varied expanses of beauty so many times. My friends are in Deer Lodge, Missoula, Bozeman and (formerly) in Big Fork, so everythi ...
  • Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis
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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

  • Two perspectives on the Afghanistan War
    Summary:  Here are two examples of American geopolitical analysis.  Both deserve attention, illustrating the two modes of American thinking about our role in the world. “Afghanistan: Why the Taliban are Winning“, Stratfor, 1 September 2010 — Careful, well-supported, logical. “Staying Power – The ...
  • Who is to blame for our civil-military dysfunction ...
    Summary:  Guest author Bernard Finel writes about one of the key factors driving US foreign policy.  Since WWII our grand strategy has become increasingly militarized.  General Marshall attempted to rebalance this as Secretary of State (1947-1949), aborted by the difficulty of the job and his ill he ...
  • Updates in the news to articles on the FM website
    Updates in the news to articles on the FM website. Contents Slavery (yes, it still exists) The rape accusations against Assange of Wikileaks The return on investment in a college investment Assassination via drones Justice in America means prison rape (1)  Slavery (yes, it still exists) “Foreign wo ...
  • 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 [...]

Open Your Eyes News

  • West Bank settlements expand as PA, Israel talk
    Press TV – Israeli settlements construction has continued despite Palestinian Authority officials’ engagement in talks with Israelis, the head of the Palestinian National Initiative says. Israeli settlers have illegally annexed 130 square kilometers of land in Qaryout, a village south of the norther ...
  • US military chief seeks Turkish support over Iran
    The Independent – The United States’ top military officer stressed today the need for Turkey to help enforce United Nations sanctions against Iran aimed at deterring it from obtaining a nuclear bomb. Turkey voted against the US-backed sanctions against Iran in June, insisting that its neighbor’s nuc ...
  • Man Dies After Being Tasered by Wash. Police
    CBS – A man stopped breathing and died after a Pierce County sheriff’s deputy stunned him with a Taser. Sgt. Jerry Bates told CBS Affiliate KIRO that officers were called about 8:30 a.m. this morning to a reported attempted break-in at a home. Bates said the man was breaking windows and refused to c ...
  • Frank Garland, who co-discovered vitamin D shortfa ...
    Washington Post – Frank C. Garland, 60, the University of California at San Diego epidemiologist who, with his brother Cedric, was the first to demonstrate that vitamin D deficiencies play a role in cancer and other diseases, died Aug. 17 at UCSD Thornton Hospital. He had cancer of the esophageal ju ...
  • Nineteen killed in suicide bombing in Pakistan
    Reuters – A suicide bomber rammed his car into a police station in northwest Pakistan on Monday killing at least 19 people, police said, in a new wave of attacks by al Qaeda- and Taliban-linked militants. Read Article

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

  • Hit on Iran would spell Israel’s ‘eradication’
    Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ruled out an attack on the Islamic republic over its nuclear programme, during a visit to Qatar on Sunday, because any such action would result in Israel’s destruction. “Any act against Iran will lead to the eradication of the Zionist entity,” he told a joint new ...
  • “The Militarization of Hollywood”: Unlocking “The ...
    "The Hurt Locker" is a movie of pro-war propaganda. Had this powerful war film instead told the truth about America's ongoing imperial adventure in Iraq, even as it continued to focus mainly on the dilemmas confronting the bomb disposal team, it never would have been nominated for, much less become ...
  • Video: Best UFO Cases Caught On Tape
    Many researchers have a logical reason to believe that UFOs are one of the secret super-weapons of the Globalist Elite. Just like first atomic bomb went off and took the enemies in complete surprise, the UFOs will be unleashed during World War 3 to finally end the war. Here is the popular TV Special ...
  • Pentagon Bulks Up Yemen’s Arsenal as Shadow War Gr ...
    Yemen is the new Pakistan — well, at least it is to many in the Pentagon, the White House, and the intelligence community. U.S. spies think al-Qaeda’s Yemeni affiliate is the most likely terrorist network to attack us, And just like last year’s $400 million U.S. “counterinsurgency fund” for Pakistan ...
  • Double dip recession appears inevitable
    The UK government has been warned by union leaders to abandon their idea of “ideological mantra of cuts” or face a double dip recession.

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

  • SCV Plans to ‘Celebrate’ Racist Confederate Govern ...
    The American Civil War was the costliest, most devastating conflict in the history of our country. At least 620,000 soldiers died, as did some 400,000 civilians who fell to disease, suicide, murder and similar causes. Hundreds of thousands of others suffered horrible wood-saw amputations and terribl ...
  • Religious Right Reacts With Fury to Prop 8 Knockdo ...
    In the hours since a federal judge struck down California’s ban on same-sex marriage yesterday, religious-right organizations have sent up an angry howl of protest, accusing the judge of doing everything from overruling the Constitution to laying the groundwork for a contemporary version of Sodom an ...
  • 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 ...

change: org.

  • Celebrating Black and Brown Labor Leaders
    Work. From chattel slavery to today's bitter debates over undocumented immigrants, it has defined the African-American and Latino experience in the United States. And for decades, Black and Brown leaders resisted workplace discrimination and abusive bosses by organizing, leading and participating as ...
  • Street People Have Ideas Too, but No One's Asking ...
    This new video comes from Mark's InvisiblePeople.tv 30-city, 11,000-mile, 75-day road trip , going on now. Imagine you need to clean up but the only privacy you can find is between the wall on a freeway overpass and a cement barricade. That's where I met William and Senina while walking in Atlanta. ...
  • Cat Abuse: Now Available on Your iPhone
    There are a lot of animal-friendly apps out there ... this is not one of them. Talking Tom Cat is among the latest in iPhone, iPad and iPod touch apps. Apple says "Tom is your pet cat that responds to your touch." By "touch," they mean petting the kitty, and poking him, pulling his tail and beating ...
  • Drunk Baboons Raise Hell in Cape Town
    They're raiding vineyards, terrorizing neighborhoods and passing out drunk in public. This isn't a group of reckless teenagers, but  a troop of baboons in Cape Town, South Africa. Every day, the marauding monkeys come down from the mountains into Cape Town's wine country to binge on the grapes. (The ...
  • DC Youth Jobs Program: A Case of Robbing Peter to ...
    Here in Washington, D.C., the Summer Youth Employment Program has just wrapped up another controversial season . As is so often the case, what you see depends on where you stand. The program aims to provide summer-long subsidized jobs for as many young D.C. work-eligible residents as possible. Accor ...

Common Dreams -News

  • After 20 Years of Protection, Owl Declining but Fo ...
    by Les Blumenthal WASHINGTON — Twenty years after northern spotted owls were protected under the Endangered Species Act, their numbers continue to decline, and scientists aren't certain whether the birds will survive even though logging was banned on much of the old-growth forest in the Pacific ...
  • Mozambique's Food Riots – the True Face of Global ...
    by Raj Patel It has been a summer of record temperatures – Japan had its hottest summer on record , as did South Florida and New York . Meanwhile, Pakistan and Niger are flooded and the eastern US is mopping up after hurricane Earl. None of these individual events can definitively be attributed t ...
  • The True Cost of the Iraq War: $3 Trillion and Bey ...
    by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes Writing in these pages in early 2008, we put the total cost to the United States of the Iraq war at $3 trillion. This price tag dwarfed previous estimates, including the Bush administration's 2003 projections of a $50 billion to $60 billion war. read mor ...
  • Israeli Raids Claim Lives in Gaza
    Two Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air raids in the Gaza Strip, medics and security sources say. Another person has been critically injured. The Israeli army launched three raids in the south of Gaza on Saturday after Palestinian fighters fired a rocket over the border. The flare-up of ...
  • Big Oil Rallies to Save Big Oil
    by Sue Sturgis The organizer of the Rally for Jobs events, The American Petroleum Institute (API), with help from other industry groups including the Independent Petroleum Association of America, the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association and the International Association of Drilling Co ...

Lifehacker

  • Top 10 Fitness Tips and Tools [Lifehacker Top 10]
    You can do a lot with your mind and a computer, but a healthy and honed body will get you even more out of life (if only more of it). Here are our favorite tips and tools for staying in shape. More��
  • DIY Four-Pronged Campfire Toasting Fork [DIY]
    Why roast one marshmallow when you can roast four? Or, alternatively, why use a grill when you could cook an entire burger on a stick? This Labor Day, step up the campfire with a simple four-pronged toasting fork. More�� ...
  • iPhone 3G Speed Test: iOS 4.0 versus iOS 4.1 [IPho ...
    iOS 4.0 was so slow on our 3G, we promptly downgraded after updating. Earlier this week, Apple announced, among other things, that iOS 4.1 fixed performance on the iPhone 3G . We put their claim to the test. More��
  • Taskos Is a Voice-Powered Mobile To-Do List for An ...
    Android: If you prefer to use your Android as hands-free as possible, Taskos is a voice-driven to-do list manager that supports contexts, alarms, dialer integration and more. More��
  • Without a Trace: Turn Your Flash Drive into a Port ...
    Whether you're trying to increase your security at an internet café, tunnel your way to your home computer from your cubicle, or leave no trace on your friend's borrowed computer, a flash drive turned portable privacy toolkit is invaluable. ...

Water Privatization

  • Muskegon County road work schedule for the week of ...
    Road work project schedules may be altered by weather.
  • Bennet, Buck face tough questions on spending issu ...
    Sen. Michael Bennet has tried twice, in person, to answer the tough deficit queries of Tea Party advocate Peter Boddie. And Boddie still isn't satisfied, an omen that bodes ill for Bennet and other Democrats.
  • SARI Announces the Appointment of Mr. Daouda Camar ...
    HONG KONG--(Marketwire - September 5, 2010) - SARI is pleased to announce the appointment of Daouda Camara as Director General of Sky Alliance Resources Guinée S.A and Chairman of Sky Alliance Resources Inc. Daouda Camara has had a distinguished career with successes in both the public and private s ...
  • Penyataan bersama PSM dan PRP tentang krisis Malay ...
    Salam semua, ini kenyataan bersama Partai Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) dan PRP berkaitan isu Malaysia-Indonesia yang saya baru terima dari teman di PSM. Buat masa ini kenyataan ini belum tersiar di laman web dan saya turunkan di sini sepenuhnya penyataan tersebut.
  • Peaceful, progressive, and stable country
    The title of our column as most students of history would readily see, is so broad that for practical purposes, it encompasses the whole purpose of installing governments. I have placed peaceful ahead of the other subjects, because without it, we cannot move forward towards a better life, a more pro ...

Guardian

  • Phone hacking: Met says NoW case under review
    Downing Street communications chief Andy Coulson happy to voluntarily discuss News of the World phone-hacking allegations Downing Street communications chief Andy Coulson told police today that he would be happy to meet them voluntarily to discuss fresh phone-hacking allegations, as Scotland Yard sa ...
  • Spain says Eta too weak to attack
    Ministers rule out immediate talks with Basque seperatist group, saying it is regrouping after arrests of senior members Spain's socialist government today ruled out negotations with the armed Basque separatist group Eta, claiming the organisation had announced a ceasefire yesterday purely because i ...
  • London faces tube chaos
    Boris Johnson unveils plans for alternative travel as London Underground warns most journeys will be affected by walkout Most journeys on London Underground will be disrupted in the next 48 hours, Transport for London warned today as a series of strikes over job losses were due to start. Last night, ...
  • Deadly bombing in Pakistan
    Seventeen killed, including officers and schoolchildren, as militants target law enforcement centre in Lakki Marwat A suicide car-bomber today attacked a police station in north-west Pakistan, killing at least 17 police and civilians. About 40 people were wounded in the attack in Lakki Marwat, in Kh ...
  • ELO cellist killed by giant hay bale
    Musician's van collided with bale that tumbled down hill A former member of the rock group Electric Light Orchestra has been killed by a giant hay bale that crashed into his van while he was driving. Cellist Mike Edwards died instantly when the 300kg bale landed on the front of the white van after i ...

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

  • Judges Deny Stem Cell Plaintiffs’ Motion To ...
    Earlier this week, the Wonk Room noted that the plaintiffs seeking to end all federal embryonic stem cell funding requested that the same three right-wing judges who handled a preliminary issue in this case be reassigned to hear the case again.  To those judges’ credit, they denied this request: Op ...
  • 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 ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Running a country into the ground
    The absolutely stupid harpercon decision to blow $9,000,000,000.00 on new prisons (ostensibly to jail those convicted of the unreported crimes our useless and intrusive national statistics agency said rose by three percentage points in 2004), joined with the $1,200,000,000.00 wasted on the G8 & G20 ...
  • What's the Point of Blogging?
    Or discussion boards? Or writing letters to newspapers and magazines? Or writing your own zines? Or attending protests? I guess the real practical value of these things is the creation of a culture of dissent. I think it's been very important for progressives, to know that they're not alone in the ...
  • Racism in the USA
    This isn't meant to toot Canada's horn as a bastion of tolerance and love. It's just that two stories were just in the news that show a huge level of disconnect between perception and reality. Story 1: The black Agriculture Dept. worker Shirley Sherrod who was attacked because a heavily edited vide ...
  • The Gun Registry and the NDP
    So the harpercons have decided to use a private members bill to accomplish one of their chief aims, which is to kill the Liberals' gun registry. The NDP has a tradition of not whipping votes on private members bills and several NDP MPs representing rural ridings want to vote their constituents' wish ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Can Big Society Save the Planet, and Squash Big Go ...
    Image credit: Conservative Home I've always found the assertion that all environmentalists are socialist a little hard to swallow. I know plenty of conservatives who love the natural world and abhor waste. And I know plenty of radical greens whose anti-authoritarian, DIY streak puts them in dir ...
  • New Green Fashion Website is a One-Stop-Shop for F ...
    Samantha Pleet; Camilla Norrback. Photo: Label Gazer I'll keep this one light and fun: it's Labor Day , after all. Label Gazer is the Style.com of green fashion: it's a resource for consumers to browse designers and collections -- without added commentary -- and it's user friendly; accordin ...
  • Banksy Continues His Environmental Theme in Graffi ...
    Images from artkrush Banksy, that super-productive and ubiquitous graffiti artist, is at it again. Last week his work was popping up as a children's ride that was an anti-BP statement. He is back from his North American tour, where he visited Toronto , San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, and B ...
  • Asian Elephants Get a New Home at the Smithsonian ...
    Image Credit: Mehgan Murphy, National Zoo If you've been to the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. lately, you may have noticed that they've been working on the first stage of their "Elephant Trails" project- a bold initiative to build a complex of indoor and outdoor habit ...
  • 50,000 Minks Loose In Greece After Fur Farm Raid ( ...
    Photo via qmnonic Nothing like a flood of minks loose in a country's already fragile ecosystem to put environmentalists in a tough spot. Two fur farms in northern Greece were raided, the results of which saw 50,000 minks running for the hills. Fortunately for everyone (except the minks) the pro ...

Biosingularity

  • Multiple personal genomes await
    Genomic data will soon become a commodity; the next challenge — linking human genetic variation with physiology and disease — will be as great as the one genomicists faced a decade ago, says J. Craig Venter. via Multiple personal genomes await : Article : Nature.
  • Low Vitamin D Level Tied to Cognitive Decline
    Two new studies add to evidence that older people with low levels of vitamin D may be more likely to suffer from cognitive impairment. The hope is that vitamin D supplements may be able to slow mental decline — an intervention that one research team plans to put to the test this summer. Vitamin D [. ...
  • Essentials of Genetics | Learn Science at Scitable
    Why does a commercial dairy cow produce four times as much milk as most other mammals? Why do we look like our cousins? Why do roses come in so many different colors? The answers to these and other questions about the diversity of living things involve processes that occur at the level of genes. Ess ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The ACLU provided the latest reason for card carrying members (like me) to be grateful they’re around. Thanks for nothing, President Corleone. I’ve linked to this Paul Krugman piece before (here is his latest version of it), but I t ...
  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Telling Porkies: The Big Fat Lie About Doubling Fo ...
    The oft-quoted statistic that food production must double by 2050 to feed a growing population is a misrepresentation of the original data. Instead of encouraging more intensive farming methods, agricultural policy should promote sustainability, says a report by the UK's Soil Association. Click here ...
  • Note to Jay Leno: Marijuana Is Not "Essentially Le ...
    Leno articulated a common misperception about marijuana enforcement in the United States, that it may be technically illegal, but as he put it, "Anyone that wants to smoke can smoke." In fact, enforcement of marijuana laws is at an all-time high in this country, especially in California. Click here ...
  • Life vs. Productivity: "What Would You Live and Di ...
    If someone broke into your house, pinned down your loved ones and began pouring poison down their throats, would you stop that person? What if someone poured crude oil all over your crops and livestock? Wouldn't you try to stop them from doing it? Click here to read this article
  • 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 ...

fotoFrontera

  • Colección de 9 ilustraciones fantásticas (Chen Wei ...
    Cuando se habla de los grandes genios de la ilustración y dibujo vectorial, no podemos omitir el nombre de los grandes maestros como Chen Wei y Kerem Beyit . Para ejemplificar mi versión sobre estas personalidades, le tengo como regalo especial 9 obras de arte que han convertido a estos grandes arti ...
  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes VI
    Nuestra serie 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes', ha sido un verdadero acierto para quienes como yo, se consideran grandes admiradores de las fotos lindas y selectas. Por eso mismo, no pierdo la oportunidad de ofrecerle a nuestros suscriptores y visitantes en general, las mejores imágene ...
  • Fondos en alta resolución para tu pc, ipad y lapto ...
    Con la cada vez mayor cantidad de usuarios que han decicido comprar un ipad, una pc de escritorio, una laptop o una pequeña netbook, la demanda de fondos o wallpapers para personalizar sus dispositivos portátiles, tiende a subir cada vez más. Y Aunque existen sitios especializados en el tema como; w ...
  • Colección con 10 wallpapers muy creativos
    Ya lo decía mi abuela, lo dice mi madre y lo digo yo, cuando tenemos frente a nosotros un ordenador, Photoshop, Illustrator, Corel Draw, In Design y algo de tiempo libre, nadie puede limitar nuestra creatividad, ingenio y talento. Si lo dudan, disfruten de esta interesante colección de wallpapers re ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Yearning for accountability in a paywalled world
    Frank Rich: AMONG the few scraps of news to emerge from Barack Obama’s vacation was the anecdote of a Martha’s Vineyard bookseller handing him an advance copy of Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, “Freedom.” The book has since rocketed up the Amazon best-seller list, powered by reviews even more ecstatic ...
  • Stuff
    UPDATE: Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Paul Conrad has died. Digby has posted some of his cartoons, including this classic: - The good stuff: Gov. Gary Johnson on legalizing marijuana National Journal touts Media Matters (just last night I got “schooled” by yet another wingnut who told me Media M ...
  • Natural born killers
    Just got an email from Trent, a former client who some of you may have met at Drinking Liberally a few years back. Trent moved to Panama in late 2009. He made friends with a woman named Cher who was killed in July of this year. Her murder led to the capture of a serial [...]
  • 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’ . . . .

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 resuscitation of the peace process
    Ah, the peace process. Like Shimon Peres, Big Brother and Ernie the Giant Chicken, it just wont fucking die already. No one can even muster the energy to pretend. Palestinians and Israelis are united in dismissing the talks as an irrelevency. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� ...
  • The environmentalists 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. The natural world, however, is going to sh*t. What explains the disparity? Submitted by Roseann D. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Group Receives 'Tsunami of Vile Hate' After ABC Ex ...
    I thought this and http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7643 might have been missed in the roundup of news on 'religion' being used as hatemongering Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Radio show caller confirms New Orleans pumps proba ...
    NOLA : Bosworth was explaining why expensive pumps installed at the mouths of the 17th Street, Orleans and London Avenue Canals might not work if needed. ( Levees.org monitors US water infrastructure - formed after Katrina ) Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comm ...
  • Pro-Bombing Iran Is Anti-Israel
    Argument is all about Israel and the threat an Iranian nuclear weapon might pose to it.That is ironic. Imagine the Republic of Georgia deciding that the best way to defend against Russia is by bombing Moscow and then seeing what happens next. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...

Angry Indian News

  • Report: Basque Separatists Announce Cease-Fire
    Report: Basque Separatists Announce Cease-Fire - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty � 2010: "The militant Basque separatist group ETA has announced that it will forsake violence in the interest of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Military police investigator’s testimony reveals a ...
    Military police investigator’s testimony reveals additional flaws in the investigation into Rachel Corrie’s killing | The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice: "Haifa, Israel – On Sunday,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Monsanto - USA To Establish Genetically Modified T ...
    Progressive Radio Network :: The Thinking Person's Forum - Monsanto - USA To Establish Genetically Modified Totalitarian Regime on World Food�Market: "The World Bank has urged world grain exporters... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin’s admission: Israel ...
    Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin’s admission: Israel “expelled Arabs” across Palestine in 1948 :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]In a little... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Israeli spies wooing U.S. Muslims, sources say
    SpyTalk - Israeli spies wooing U.S. Muslims, sources say: [washingtonpost.com] "The CIA took an internal poll not long ago about friendly foreign intelligence agencies. The question, mostly directed... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • A Silent Forest – Genetically Engineered Trees
    Watch A Silent Forest - A point of view documentary about the unknown dangers to human health, and the environmental health of our planet, posed by the planned introduction of genetically engineered trees.
  • The Loss of One Small Dairy Farm
    Our country was founded on agriculture. With vast land to be settled and tamed, farming was originally seen as the most noble of professions. These days, farmers and others who work with their hands and bodies often earn ridicule rather than respect.
  • S 510 Has Farmers and Ranchers In the Crosshairs!
    A glimpse into the future of farming...
  • The Truth Squad Radio Show with Guest Nicole Johns ...
    Nicole will be talking about how we are being hoodwinked into believing that the pending food safety legislation will make our food safer when in fact its unstated purpose is to empower unelected and unaccountable federal bureaucrats to unconstitutionally usurp local, state and federal regulations, ...
  • 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!

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Stay Vigilant, Bird Flu Could Spark Next Global Ou ...
    ShareThis Pimping their new pandemic: Stay Vigilant, Bird Flu Could Spark Next Global Outbreak, Urges Expert 05 Sep 2010 Robert Webster, an influenza expert, says health authorities worldwide need to remain watchful for possible influenza outbreaks, despite swine flu being much less deadly than peop ...
  • Gaza tunnels exploded by IAF forces
    ShareThis Gaza tunnels exploded by IAF forces 05 Sep 2010 Israeli aircraft have been striking at smuggling tunnels in southern Gaza. The air-force started a campaign on Saturday night, as peace talks were being held in Washington between the Israelis and Palestinians. The IAF struck targets in the K ...
  • Suicide bus driver kills two in Baghdad: officials
    ShareThis Suicide bus driver kills two in Baghdad: officials 05 Sep 2010 A suicide bomber in a minibus killed two people on Sunday at an Iraqi defence ministry complex that three weeks ago was hit by a massive suicide attack that killed dozens, security officials said. The bomber blew up his vehicle ...
  • US 'likely to stay in Iraq beyond 2011'
    ShareThis US 'likely to stay in Iraq beyond 2011' 05 Sep 2010 Despite US announcement of complete withdrawal from Iraq in 2011, Washington will reportedly keep thousands of soldiers in the war-torn nation. American military experts said the remaining forces are expected to stay in Iraq beyond 2011 a ...
  • German held by U.S. troops planned Europe attacks: ...
    ShareThis German held by U.S. troops planned Europe attacks: report 04 Sep 2010 A German Islamist held by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and interrogated since July has revealed details of planned attacks on targets in Germany and Europe, a news weekly reported Saturday. Without naming its sources, Der ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • Biggest aftershock rocks Christchurch again
  • 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...

Mondoweiss

  • Culture of impunity
    AFP:Israel picks Gaza war commander as new military chief...
  • 150 American actors, writers, directors and artist ...
    From Haaretz:More than 150 American actors, writers, directors and other artists signed a letter of support for the Israeli actors who declared they would not perform in the West Bank. The American signatories include Cynthia Nixon, who plays Miranda on "Sex and the City"; Mandy Patinkin, who played ...
  • ‘NYT’ runs Indyk, then more Indyk, and ...
    The usual suspects are quoted in this highly-positive New York Times front-page piece today on Hillary Clinton and the peace talks: Martin Indyk, Abraham Foxman, and Aaron David Miller. You'd think the Times might vary the line-up now and then, especially after 20 losing seasons? Indyk had the Op-Ed ...
  • How Marty Peretz misrepresented Cordoba in Muslim ...
    Marty Peretz's reading of "Islamic" history is selective. He reads Islamic history in the same manner an anti-Semite reads Jewish history (to demonize them). He quotes a claim that "Cordoba," the name chosen for the Islamic center near Ground Zero, "is confrontational and provocative." That the "fi ...
  • Ken Loach and Arundhati Roy are latest narrators o ...
    Surely you know that Goldstonefacts is an effort to dramatize the Goldstone Report on the Gaza onslaught with celeb readings. Noam Chomsky's sonorous monotone. Norm Finkelstein's Brooklyn twang. Well the latest chapter they've dramatized is a key section, about Israel's indiscriminate attacks on civ ...

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

  • One Cell Phone at a Time: Countering Corruption in ...
    Dan Rice and Guy Filippelli American commanders are preparing for a major offensive in Afghanistan to attack one of the most formidable enemies we face in country: corruption.��� Despite sincere efforts to promote governance and accountability initiatives, Afghanistan has slipped from 112th to158th ...
  • Even While the World Watched: Part I
    Michael Yon 20 June 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand Recent violence focused world attention on the Kingdom of Thailand.  As the attention flowed in, foreigners poured out, even though fighting was tightly localized and not focused on travelers.  Tourists literally had to search for trouble to find it.  ...
  • Perspective
    Published: 21 July 2010 Apologies that this article is available only in Thai language. Please click here to view the entire article. {loadposition user8}
  • Even as the World Watched IV: Peaceful, or Pistol?
    12 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand During the Thailand fighting in May, the rain of media mixed with the dust of politics, creating mud that left honest people feeling bogged down.  People desiring clarity slogged knee deep, then waist deep, and it kept coming. My reports avoided politics largely ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Can Big Society Save the Planet, and Squash Big Go ...
    Image credit: Conservative Home I've always found the assertion that all environmentalists are socialist a little hard to swallow. I know plenty of conservatives who love the natural world and abhor waste. And I know plenty of radical greens whose anti-authoritarian, DIY streak puts them in dir ...
  • New Green Fashion Website is a One-Stop-Shop for F ...
    Samantha Pleet; Camilla Norrback. Photo: Label Gazer I'll keep this one light and fun: it's Labor Day , after all. Label Gazer is the Style.com of green fashion: it's a resource for consumers to browse designers and collections -- without added commentary -- and it's user friendly; accordin ...
  • Banksy Continues His Environmental Theme in Graffi ...
    Images from artkrush Banksy, that super-productive and ubiquitous graffiti artist, is at it again. Last week his work was popping up as a children's ride that was an anti-BP statement. He is back from his North American tour, where he visited Toronto , San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, and B ...
  • Asian Elephants Get a New Home at the Smithsonian ...
    Image Credit: Mehgan Murphy, National Zoo If you've been to the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. lately, you may have noticed that they've been working on the first stage of their "Elephant Trails" project- a bold initiative to build a complex of indoor and outdoor habit ...
  • 50,000 Minks Loose In Greece After Fur Farm Raid ( ...
    Photo via qmnonic Nothing like a flood of minks loose in a country's already fragile ecosystem to put environmentalists in a tough spot. Two fur farms in northern Greece were raided, the results of which saw 50,000 minks running for the hills. Fortunately for everyone (except the minks) the pro ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Egyptian journalist going on trial for alleged lib ...
    [JURIST] An independent journalist is expected to go on trial for allegedly libeling Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abult Gheit [official website] according to Sunday press reports. Gheit alleges that Hamdi Qandeel insulted him [AFP report] in an article he wrote for the independent daily Shorouk [ ...
  • Argentina appeals court re-opens investigation int ...
    [JURIST] An appeals court in Argentina Friday reopened an investigation into crimes against humanity committed in Spain during the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War and the subsequent regime of General Francisco Franco. The country adopted an amnesty law in 1977 [JURIST report] after Franco's death barring ...
  • Craigslist removes adult services section under pr ...
    [JURIST] The classified advertising website Craigslist [website] removed its "adult services" section Saturday, replacing it with a "censored" label after 18 state attorneys general criticized the section in a letter [text] sent last month. The letter, written by Connecticut Attorney General Richard ...
  • Iran concludes trial of journalist charged with 'w ...
    [JURIST] Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Iran [GlobaLex backgrounder] on Saturday concluded the one-day trial of Shiva Nazar Ahari, a journalist arrested following the 2009 presidential election [JURIST news archive]. During the Tehran trial, conducted by head judge Pyrbasy, Ahari faced char ...
  • France protesters rally against Sarkozy security m ...
    [JURIST] Over 100,000 people in 130 cities across France protested Saturday against the security policies of President Nicolas Sarkozy [official website, in French]. The protesters called the expulsion of illegal Roma [JURIST report] and a recent burqa ban [JURIST report], xenophobic [Le Monde repor ...

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

  • A Tale of Two Books
    Two books I was reading simultaneously but didn't realize would reward such close comparison until I began to try it as an exercise.
  • Dems Must Make Jobs The Message
    For far too many Americans, there wasn't much to celebrate this Labor Day holiday...
  • Honduran Repression Continues Unabated
    Washington's support lets the Honduran junta exploit, murder and pillage
  • Pat Robertson's Governor McDonnell, Ralph Reed and ...
    Pat Robertson enjoys political influence through the likes of Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, former Jack Abramoff associate Ralph Reed and others. The march towards turning America into a theocracy must be stopped.
  • On the Way to Washington: Damage Control
    Can one rely on Obama? They say that after the elections in November he will be free of Jewish pressure. But then he will already start to think about the presidential election in two years' time. Only if he is reelected -" and I am not at all sure that this will happen -" will he be able to act wit ...

Switchboard

  • Clean Water is Basic Human Right, General Assembly ...
    There were no shouting matches about it on the cable news shows.  Very few newspapers covered the story.  And you had to search carefully to find it mentioned even on environmental blogs. But this summer, in an historic vote, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution aff ...
  • 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. ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Politics by Military Means?
    Army Colonel Matthew Moten has a piece in this month’s Foreign Affairs criticizing the declining professionalism of the US military: Professions gain and maintain the trust of society with proven expertise derived from a long, formal education, years of practice and a demonstrated commitment to empl ...
  • And the Way They Provoked Those Nice Boys From the ...
    Roy follows up on Michelle Malkin with some examples of union violence. Related posts:Advertising and agency Nice Reproductive Freedom You’ve Got There, Shame If Something Would Happen To It But If Ed Koch Says It, It Must Be True! Related posts: Advertising and agency Nice Reproductive Freedo ...
  • APSA Panel on Political Science and Journalism
    I was in the audience for the APSA panel that Scott refers to below, although to maintain my anti-establishment cred* I sat in the back, away from the front row seats reserved for “major” political science bloggers.  I live-tweeted the proceedings, and unlike Dan Drezner managed to avoid comments a ...
  • 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 ...

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 ?

  • Gas Bubbling from the Susquehanna River
    http://74.95.82.237:591/rconline/FMPro?-db=RCOnline.fp5&-format=record_detail.html&-Lay=Detail&CurrentRecordID=12635350&-find Gas Bubbling from River at Sugar Run – by David Keeler – 9/2/2010 Click here for video clip
  • Keep the Promise Town Hall-PA Severance Tax!
    September 9, Thursday— Keep the Promise Town Hall in Jersey Shore, Lycoming County between Williamsport and Lock Haven, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Robert H. Wheeland Center, 1201 Locust Street, Jersey Shore, PA 17740 (part of Citizens Hose Company, Station 45) www.station45.org/wheeland_center.htm To register a ...
  • EPA’s Public Meeting on Hydraulic Fracturing
    EPA’s Public Meeting on Hydraulic Fracturing Study to Take Place in Binghamton, New York; Meeting Scheduled for September 13 and 15 at the Broome County Forum Theater Release date: 08/31/2010 Contact Information: John Senn, (212) 637-3667, senn.john@epa.gov New York, NY – The U.S. Environmental Prot ...
  • Letter to the Editor, Aug. 29, 2010
    A Letter to the Editor, Towanda, PA: Loss of one resource for another? EDITOR: Being a licensed Pennsylvania water well driller for the past 40 years and being born and raised in the Towanda area, I feel I must respond to the stories I keep reading about the gas drilling companies shifting the blame ...
  • NEW PENN STATE RESEARCH CENTER
    This is brand new… http://www.marcellus.psu.edu/

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

  • Russia and Israel sign military agreement
    A new five year plan has been hammered out and signed during a meeting of the Russian and Israeli defense ministers in Moscow.
  • Olympic capital Sochi to host KHL team
    Sochi, the upcoming 2014 Winter Olympics venue, may soon appear on the KHL map as Moscow side Krylia Sovietov are linked with a move to the Russian resort city and a place in Europe’s top hockey league.
  • Ovechkin, Malkin and Kovalchuk fight fire with ice
    Russia's top ice hockey stars Aleksandr Ovechkin, Ilya Kovalchuk and Evgeny Malkin joined forces to play a charity match to raise money for children affected by last month's forest fires.
  • Fan support to help Russia crack Slovakian defense
    Russia’s football team is back in Moscow following a 2-0 win in Andorra in their first Euro 2012 qualifier. Dick Advocaat's men now prepare for what should be a much tougher test as they take on Slovakia on Tuesday.
  • “US tax policy is fiscal child abuse” – professor
    Current US fiscal policy places the hardest burden on young people in favor of the older generation and can be branded “fiscal child abuse”, believes professor of economics from Boston University Larry Kotlikoff.

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

  • Tor.com: ‘The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business ...
    It’s been quite a while since I posted anything resembling a science-fiction story, so this weekend I decided to remedy that with this little tome written by Charlie Jane Anders. The topic of the tale is the Fermi Paradox and it gives a unique perspective of how it could be utilized in the free ente ...
  • 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 ...

Tippers News

  • Help Save the Last 130 Western Gray Whales! - TAK ...
    The Western North Pacific gray whale is critically endangered, with population numbers as low as 130 individuals and only around 30 breeding females alive today. In spite of this Rosneft, a Russian oil and gas company plans to conduct seismic testing this Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �No ...
  • Environment
    RESCUED BILE FARM BEARS ARE FROM VIETNAM. Submitted by Dianna Mcallister to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Four in court after raids on seven suspected bro ...
    A woman and two men have been charged with human trafficking following raids at seven suspected brothels in Belfast, Northern Ireland Submitted by Veronica G. to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Dogs in Pascagoula, Miss., Rescued After Call for ...
    Puppy Mill in Mississippi, shut down. Dogs on road to recovery. Happy News Submitted by Vinnie M. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Center for Biological Diversity
    Frogs Saved,Arizona wants to build two cities in diverse biological area.Six Happy Stories, Three Bad. Submitted by Vinnie M. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

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

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • Five fantastic reuses for plastic milk bottles
    With their semi-rigid sides & strong handle, plastic milk bottles are very easily reusable – which is useful since there are bajillions generated every day. We’ve had loads of great suggestions about them over the years but here are some of my favourites: 1. Pencil sorter Mentioned as a featured lin ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle squash or marrow leaves ...
    I always feel a bit silly asking for suggestions for vegetable/garden waste because the vast majority of the time, it just goes in the compost bin, job done — but sometimes I think it’s worth asking because what is a common place use/reuse to someone is completely mindblowing to the next (for exampl ...
  • What can I reuse/recycle to make plant/vegetable f ...
    So how is your garden/allotment/window box doing this summer? Due to a combination of a underestimation of seed germination rates, disorganisation/ignoring plans and demon slugs, my growing hasn’t gone quite as I thought it might but we’re doing ok and I’ve learned a lot about growing here. One thin ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle leather/suede purse/bag ...
    We’ve had an email from Joanne: Hi, I have an old leather zipped wallet type purse which is old, worn and quite grubby. I would rather recycle it somehow than put it in the bin but am not sure how to do this. Do you have any ideas? First, it obviously depends on the state [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle jigsaws?
    We’ve had an email from Kathy asking about getting rid of her children’s old jigsaws: I just know they’ve got pieces missing so would feel bad about giving them to a charity shop. They’re cardboard with a shiny paper top so they could be recycled? Probably – as long as it’s just paper and not [...]

Mondoweiss

  • Culture of impunity
    AFP:Israel picks Gaza war commander as new military chief...
  • 150 American actors, writers, directors and artist ...
    From Haaretz:More than 150 American actors, writers, directors and other artists signed a letter of support for the Israeli actors who declared they would not perform in the West Bank. The American signatories include Cynthia Nixon, who plays Miranda on "Sex and the City"; Mandy Patinkin, who played ...
  • ‘NYT’ runs Indyk, then more Indyk, and ...
    The usual suspects are quoted in this highly-positive New York Times front-page piece today on Hillary Clinton and the peace talks: Martin Indyk, Abraham Foxman, and Aaron David Miller. You'd think the Times might vary the line-up now and then, especially after 20 losing seasons? Indyk had the Op-Ed ...
  • How Marty Peretz misrepresented Cordoba in Muslim ...
    Marty Peretz's reading of "Islamic" history is selective. He reads Islamic history in the same manner an anti-Semite reads Jewish history (to demonize them). He quotes a claim that "Cordoba," the name chosen for the Islamic center near Ground Zero, "is confrontational and provocative." That the "fi ...
  • Ken Loach and Arundhati Roy are latest narrators o ...
    Surely you know that Goldstonefacts is an effort to dramatize the Goldstone Report on the Gaza onslaught with celeb readings. Noam Chomsky's sonorous monotone. Norm Finkelstein's Brooklyn twang. Well the latest chapter they've dramatized is a key section, about Israel's indiscriminate attacks on civ ...

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

  • A Mass Transit New England Ramble
    To escape the summer crowds in the Hamptons, I rode the S92 bus (fare $1.50) for almost three hours, as it cruised the south and north forks of Long Island, before leaving me at the ferry that connects Orient Point to New London, Connecticut. I might end up late to some meetings, but this way I cou ...
  • A Tsunami Approaches: The Beginning of the Great D ...
    In the distant horizon, a giant wave is building. There are some who recognized the swell and raised the alarm. There are others who deny the possibility of such a wave. Most remain blissfully unaware. The wave is building and when it reaches our shores, it will hit with the force of a tsunami. The ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

spiked

Cryptogon

  • Belarus Beb activist Oleg Bebenin Found Hanged
    Via: BBC: Officials in Belarus say a prominent opposition figure found hanged at his weekend home outside the capital, Minsk, on Friday committed suicide. Forensic examiners established that, apart from the noose mark on Oleg Bebenin’s neck, there were no other injuries, a local prosecutor said. Mr ...
  • Combat Over in Iraq? U.S. Troops Battle Heavily Ar ...
    Via: AP: Days after the U.S. officially ended combat operations and touted Iraq’s ability to defend itself, American troops found themselves battling heavily armed militants assaulting an Iraqi military headquarters in the center of Baghdad on Sunday. The fighting killed 12 people and wounded dozens ...
  • Iraq: Fake Bombs Planted in Celebrities’ Car ...
    There will be no peace. At any given moment for the rest of our lifetimes, there will be multiple conflicts in mutating forms around the globe. Violent conflict will dominate the headlines, but cultural and economic struggles will be steadier and ultimately more decisive. The de facto role of the US ...
  • Pentagon Declined to Investigate Hundreds of Purch ...
    Via: Yahoo News: 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 — including some with the highest available security clearance — who used credit cards or PayPal t ...
  • Police Release Scientist in Miami Airport Scare Wh ...
    Via: NBC Miami: A world-renowned Texas scientist specializing in infectious diseases who was once charged with smuggling dangerous samples of plague bacteria into the U.S. was questioned by authorities after a suspicious item found in his luggage caused a massive evacuation at Miami International Ai ...

The Economic Collapse

  • As Americans Celebrate Labor Day 2010, U.S. Factor ...
    Labor Day 2010 comes in the midst of a stunning wave of U.S. factory closings that stretches from coast to coast.  Once upon a time America was the greatest manufacturing machine that the world has ever seen, but now it seems as though the only jobs available for working class Ameri ...
  • 5 Trillion MORE Dollars To Fix Fannie Mae And Fred ...
    Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have become gigantic financial black holes that the U.S. government endlessly pours massive quantities of money into.  Unfortunately, if the U.S. government did allow Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to totally implode, both the mortgage industry and the housing ...
  • 30 Statistics That Prove The Elite Are Getting Ric ...
    Not everyone has been doing badly during the economic turmoil of the last few years.  In fact, there are some Americans that are doing really, really well.  While the vast majority of us struggle, there is one small segment of society that is seemingly doing better than ever.  This ...
  • The American People Don’t Need More Handouts ...
    Without millions more good jobs, the U.S. economy is simply never, ever going to recover.  But at this point, there is every indication that the U.S. economy is going to continue to bleed jobs.  In the past, employment would bounce up and down as the economy went through various cyc ...
  • Bancor: The Name Of The Global Currency That A Sho ...
    Sometimes there are things that are so shocking that you just do not want to report them unless they can be completely and totally documented.  Over the past few years, there have been many rumors about a coming global currency, but at times it has been difficult to pin down evidenc ...

Desertification

  • Late Summer in my Garden (Linaria purpurea)
    Anywhere on this planet, the beauty of plants in a garden is food for the soul. Therefore, from time to time, I post pictures of flowers and plants in my own garden. I like to share these with my readers, … Continue reading →
  • Making corn-derived plastics more heat-tolerant (S ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100901111630.htm Helping Corn-Based Plastics Take More Heat ScienceDaily (Sep. 4, 2010) â Your favorite catsup or fruit juice might be “hot-filled” at the food-processing plant — that is, poured into its waiting container while the catsup or … ...
  • The effect of drought on people (Google / LA Times ...
    Read at : Google Alert – drought http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/09/syria-photos-reveal-hidden-devastation-of-a-years-long-drought-doha-hassan.html SYRIA: Photos reveal hidden devastation of a years-long drought On a dusty, rocky plain patches of dried grass try to poke through. A ...
  • Late Summer in my Garden (
    Anywhere on this planet, the beauty of plants in a garden is food for the soul. Therefore, from time to time, I post pictures of flowers and plants in my own garden. I like to share these with my readers, … Continue reading →
  • The food crisis (Google / The Guardian)
    Read at : Google Alert – drought http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/sep/05/commodities-food-drink-industry UN calls special meeting to address food shortages amid predictions of riots Poor harvests and demand from developing countries could push cost of weekly shop up by 10% Julia Kollewe The O ...

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

  • President praises city where China's "economi ...
    Hong Kong - Chinese President Hu Jintao on Monday led celebrations marking the 30th anniversary of the special economic zone in Shenzhen, where the nation's economic transformation began. Hu praised the former fishing village on the border with...
  • Paris Hilton in contract breach
    2010-09-06 15:07:51.0Paris Hilton in contract breachParis Hilton1159103Celebrities2@webnews/enpproperty--> Paris Hilton may owe $160,000 after her film flopped. The socialite - who was sued by producers for failing to adequately promote 2006 comedy 'National...
  • Toshack rumours surface after loss
    John Toshack's future as Wales manager is uncertain after unconfirmed reports began to circulate claiming he was willing to quit. There was no official word from the Football Association of Wales to validate the rumours, but the 61-year-old's position has been under increased scrutiny since Fri ...
  • Prez Pratibha Patil to visit Laos
    New Delhi, September 06: Indian President Pratibha Patil is scheduled to pay a five-day visit to the land-locked communist country at the invitation of President Choummaly Sayasone, the Lao Presidential Palace announced in a statement. Laos, a mountainous country half the size of France, is a m ...
  • Broadway Is Busy, With Pedestrians, if Not Ca ...
    It is Manhattan’s most famous thoroughfare, known around the world for its theater marquees and giant Macy’s. It has come to symbolize the outsize aspirations and swagger of New York. Related But under the Bloomberg administration, Broadway has been transformed, from a grand avenue that ferried ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Prostate biopsy: What to expect and how to prepare
    Prostate biopsy — Overview covers definition, risks, results of this procedure to detect prostate cancer.
  • BioDelivery Sciences Announces Positive Meeting Wi ...
    BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. (NASDAQ:BDSI) announced a positive meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Meda and BDSI that occurred on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 to discuss significant modifications to the existing Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) program fo ...
  • First clinical trials successfully completed on po ...
    The first clinical trials on a new investigational drug being developed to treat infections caused by hepatitis C virus have been successfully completed. Completion of the initial phase (phase 1a) of trials of INX-189, discovered and first prepared by res
  • Red Cross Responds To Hurricane Earl Along The Atl ...
    The American Red Cross is responding with help to people affected by the winds, rains and flooding of Hurricane Earl in North Carolina and is ready as the storm moves up the Atlantic Coast. A dozen Red Cross shelters were opened in North Carolina, giving more than 260 a safe place to ride out the st ...
  • Exercise equipment that makes routines less so
    Inventions such as the Altus Rip Slide, CoreGlide, KoreFit and Spheerz enhance workouts through challenging, dynamic movements. Adding dynamic movement to strength exercises, such as doing a squat on a moving surface, is a good thing, forcing your body to balance, coordinate and challenge a wide ...

Common Dreams

  • After 20 Years of Protection, Owl Declining but Fo ...
    by Les Blumenthal WASHINGTON — Twenty years after northern spotted owls were protected under the Endangered Species Act, their numbers continue to decline, and scientists aren't certain whether the birds will survive even though logging was banned on much of the old-growth forest in the Pacific ...
  • Mozambique's Food Riots – the True Face of Global ...
    by Raj Patel It has been a summer of record temperatures – Japan had its hottest summer on record , as did South Florida and New York . Meanwhile, Pakistan and Niger are flooded and the eastern US is mopping up after hurricane Earl. None of these individual events can definitively be attributed t ...
  • The True Cost of the Iraq War: $3 Trillion and Bey ...
    by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes Writing in these pages in early 2008, we put the total cost to the United States of the Iraq war at $3 trillion. This price tag dwarfed previous estimates, including the Bush administration's 2003 projections of a $50 billion to $60 billion war. read mor ...
  • Israeli Raids Claim Lives in Gaza
    Two Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air raids in the Gaza Strip, medics and security sources say. Another person has been critically injured. The Israeli army launched three raids in the south of Gaza on Saturday after Palestinian fighters fired a rocket over the border. The flare-up of ...
  • Big Oil Rallies to Save Big Oil
    by Sue Sturgis The organizer of the Rally for Jobs events, The American Petroleum Institute (API), with help from other industry groups including the Independent Petroleum Association of America, the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association and the International Association of Drilling Co ...

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

  • "U.S. troops join Baghdad battle against militants ...
    BAGHDAD —"Days after the U.S. officially ended combat operations and touted Iraq's ability to defend itself, American troops found themselves battling heavily armed militants assaulting an Iraqi military headquarters in the center of Baghdad on Sunday. The fighting killed 12 people and wounded doze ...
  • Ripping Off Dead War Vets' Beneficiaries
    by Stephen Lendman Wall Street and other financial scammers do it from the living, Prudential and many insurers from the dead, ripping off families of killed war vets. On July 28, Bloomberg.com's David Evans discussed how it works in an article titled, "Fallen Soldiers' Families Denied Cash as I ...
  • 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 ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Anti-Racism In Education: A one day conference
    Join us on October 4, 2010 for a one-day conference at the University of Toronto Scarborough celebrating the release of " Anti-Racism in Education: Missing in Action ." The day will feature Charles C. Smith (editor) and prominent thinkers including George Dei, Tim McCaskell, Tina Lopes, Carol Schi ...
  • CCPA's YouTube Channel is Canada's number one non- ...
    How exciting to see the little gold ribbons on our YouTube homepage! The CCPA's YouTube channel is the most viewed non-profit channel in Canada, and the second most subscribed non-profit channel in Canada. Our most popular videos are from the BC Office's 2007 Gala, when Naomi Klein was our keynote s ...
  • All the latest on the census long-form debacle
    On June 30th, the CCPA's Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan was among the initial voices leading the criticism over the government decision to eliminate the census long-form questionnaire. Since then, a groundswell of alarm has turned into a wall of opposition, across the political spectrum. Stay tu ...
  • Apply now for the Next Up youth leadership program
    Applications are now being accepted for the fourth year of Next Up: A Leadership�Program for Young People Committed to Social and Environmental Justice . This is an amazing, intensive and transformative program for young social change activists between the ages of 18 and 32. This year we're exci ...
  • New Report: In the Red: The Green Behind Nuclear P ...
    Regina — The Saskatchewan office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has released a new study on the economic costs of pursuing nuclear power in Saskatchewan. "In the Red: The Green Behind Nuclear Power," authored by policy researcher Heath Packman, critically examines the economic costs ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Register Cell Phones? WTF?
    Tempe residents asked to register cellphones for emergencies | AZ Central The Tempe Police Department is urging residents to register their cellphones for the emergency system that lets people know about emergencies. If you have a home phone, you already have the feature. All landline phones in Mari ...
  • REFLECTIONS ON RONALD GOETZ’S “CLEAR A ...
    I just finished an incredible little book which is knowledgeable enough to captivate both the Scholars and the People Sitting in the Church Pews across this land. It should be on all readings lists in Every Seminary, whether considered Fundamental, Conservative or Liberal. Though Ron and I Travel o ...
  • “Our marijuana policy is dangerous and wrong ...
    Marijuana’s true potency and why the law should change | The Seattle Times I DON’T smoke pot. And I pretty much think people who do are idiots. This certainly includes Marc Emery, the self-styled “Prince of Pot” from Canada whom I indicted in 2005 for peddling marijuana seeds to every man, woman and ...
  • Time To Bail Out Kabul, Karzai?
    Wait, haven’t we sent this guy billions already? Karzai urges Afghans not to panic as bank withdrawals accelerate | Washington Post As depositors thronged branches of Afghanistan’s biggest bank, President Hamid Karzai told Afghans on Thursday not to panic shortly after his brother, a major sharehold ...
  • Beats Arizona’s Two Pair
    Study: California leads U.S. in illegal immigrants | Press Telegram A new study says nearly a quarter of the nation’s illegal immigrants live in California, despite a nearly 4 percent drop in the state’s illegal population. A Pew Hispanic Center report released Wednesday estimates California had 2.5 ...

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

  • Crude Oil From Biomass: Evaluating KiOR
    Join the forum discussion on this post Cracking Biomass Back when I worked in a refinery, I used to spend a lot of time thinking about how biomass would behave in certain refining processes. A fluidized catalytic cracker (FCC), for instance, takes oil and subjects it to heat and a catalyst to frac ...
  • 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 [...]

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

  • Monday Musings: New Zealand (times two) and a Sina ...
    Monday is here already and although lots of folks in the States have today off (Labor Day), I don't (from blogging or teaching)!   Some news: There is a whole lot more information out there on the Christchurch earthquake that occurred last Friday . It is remarkable that no one died due to the . ...
  • The Mind’s Eye: Freud and Photography
    When we think of Sigmund Freud , we think first of words—the “talking cure” of psychoanalysis, books such as The Interpretation of Dreams , and the infamous Freudian slip. In Mirrors of Memory: Freud, Photography, and the History of Art , Mary Bergstein, Professor in the History of Art and Visual .. ...
  • Income and Infidelity
    We have this perception that most cheating that goes on in marriage is among the extremely wealthy. Well, of course we do. When a man in the bottom of the income distribution discovers that the child he is raising is not his own, it doesn’t exactly make the evening news. Rationally we all know this ...
  • The Odd Case of Phineas Gage
    As we discussed in the previous Going Mental posts, some of the most fundamental mechanisms of the human brain remain a mystery to scientists. Consciousness , intelligence , and sleep are so fascinating largely because they require such complicated interactions among disparate brain areas to produce ...
  • President Obama's Modus Operandi Under Fire
    I spend more time than a sane person should wending my way through conservative, liberal and moderate political blogs to keep an eye on the latest groupthink on the web. The surprising thing is, over the last six months, I’ve noticed that they seem to be singing the same song, despite their ... Read ...

Information Liberation

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • An ill wind
    No ill wind can pass unnoticed by the nose of the Lincolnshire Sniffer Dog! Continuing his historical romp through alternative energy sources, LibertyGibbert’s Leonardo of lampoon, Fenbeagle, this week zeroes in on the Tudor era, and one man’s relentless alchemic quest … Continue reading →
  • Green Scam: Business Creating Its Own Demand
    I commented on this issue recently on the DT blog in response to this article by Christopher Booker, but it’s a topic worthy of further attention. I’m sure most of you have heard of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

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

  • Periodic Table of Google Elements
    This Periodic Table has even less to do with chemistry than my PT of science bloggers. Regardless, it’s still worth a mention, just because it hints at chemistry however indirectly. More periodicity A Periodic Table of Google Elements Using the Periodic Table Blogging the Periodic Table: Rare earths ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • “Afghan children killed in NATO air strike&# ...
    AFP: An Afghan police commander said Friday that NATO warplanes targeting Taliban insurgents killed six children in a mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan known to be a militant hotbed. The alliance said it was investigating claims that civilians had died following the air strike on Thursday ag ...
  • U.S. occupation increases violence against Afghan ...
    Workers World: The Aug. 9 Time magazine featured a shocking cover photo: a portrait of an Afghan woman named Aisha whose nose had been cut off, allegedly by the Taliban, for resisting abusive in-laws. Time used this picture to build support for U.S. troops as a “last line of defense” that will not “ ...
  • Key Karzai Aide in Corruption Inquiry Is Linked to ...
    The New York Times: The aide to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan at the center of a politically sensitive corruption investigation is being paid by the Central Intelligence Agency, according to Afghan and American officials. Mohammed Zia Salehi, the chief of administration for the National Secu ...
  • One Year After the Kunduz Air Strike - No Sign of ...
    Der Spigel: After the deadly German-ordered air strike in Kunduz on Sept. 4, 2009, German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised a full investigation. One year on, questions about the bombing in Afghanistan are still unanswered and many of the details remain classified.
  • NATO air strike kills 10 civilians: Afghan preside ...
    AFP: Ten Afghan civilians were killed Thursday in a NATO air strike on three vehicles carrying election campaign workers in northern Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai said in a statement. Karzai strongly condemned the incident in his statement, confirming earlier reports of an air strike that kill ...

frogblog

  • Goff and Cullen come out for a republic
    It was good to see Labour leader Phil Goff come out in the Herald on Sunday for starting the move to a republic. According to Phil the âsuccession of the monarchy is the time to have a head of state who is a New Zealander”.  This echoed the view of former deputy PM Michael Cullen ...
  • Young people inspire others to believe change is p ...
    One of the events I really wanted to take part in last year was a festival called “A Day at the Beach”. It was the idea of a couple of young West Coasters, Louis Brown and Guy Ryan. Louis would walk 350km (to represent 350 ppm Carbon in the atmosphere) down the beach from Karamea [. ...
  • General debate, September 5, 2010
  • It must be time for a Tolley thread
    I'm busy for a lot of today, but it must be time for a thread about one of the most incompetent Ministers ever. So, I'll borrow stuff. What's your view on the competence of OUR CHILDREN'S Minister of Education?
  • When will we have real police culture change?
    In 2007, the Herald named Louise Nicholas New Zealander of the Year for her brave exposure of police violence against women. However, as I blogged a couple of weeks ago, female victims of “police misconduct” like Louise have been told they will not be compensated. This week they als ...

    Blacklisted News

  • The Humanitarian Invasion of Afghanistan: Occupati ...
    They’re called NGOs — non-governmental organizations — but the description is misleading at best, or an outright lie generated by intelligence agencies at worst.
  • High Frequency Chicanery
    High-frequency trading (HFT) is algorithmic-computer trading that finds "statistical patterns and pricing anomalies" by scanning the various stock exchanges. It's high-speed robo-trading that oftentimes executes orders without human intervention.
  • Mafia cash in on lucrative EU wind farm handouts - ...
    An ill wind is blowing over Italy's green revolution, as the Mafia seek to capitalise on generous grants for renewable energy.
  • International Backing Grows For Globallist Bank Ta ...
    EU ministers edge closer to financial transaction levy amid signs that International Monetary Fund is softening opposition to 'Robin Hood tax'
  • Americans drowning in prescription drugs
    Nearly half of all Americans now use prescription drugs on a regular basis according to a CDC report that was just released.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Fidel Castro Warns Against Attack on Iran By 'Impe ...
    Summary: Is the world hurtling headlong toward a nuclear war? For months, former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro has been warning that the United States and Israel are planning to attack Iran - and that as a result of this, a war with untold consequences would erupt. According to this news item from ...
  • UN nuclear chief asks Israel to join treaty
    Summary: Israel's Dimona nuclear facility VIENNA — The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency asked Israel to consider signing up to the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in a boost to Arab-led pressure on the Jewish state to do so, a report said Friday. source: AP read more
  • 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

The Daily Galaxy

  • Extraterrestrial Water Sources of the Milky Way Ma ...
    The Herschel Space Observatory's HIFI instrument was designed to follow the water trail in the Universe over a wide range of scales, from the Solar System out to extragalactic sources. Early results, presented this week at the Herschel First Results...
  • Neutrino Discovery Could Reveal Why Antimatter Fai ...
    A team of physicists, including some from MIT, has found surprising differences between the flavor-switching behavior of neutrinos and antineutrinos. If confirmed, the finding could help explain why matter, and not antimatter, dominates our universe. Neutrinos, elementary particles generated by... ...
  • US Astronauts: "NASA should use private spaceship ...
    NASA should use private spaceships, say astronauts An open letter to Congress signed by 24 former NASA astronauts told Congress that privately owned spacecraft could carry people safely to the International Space Station. This illustration provided by SpaceX shows the...
  • Evolution's 'Big Bang' Links Global Warming to Mas ...
    To understand the fossil record and the diversity at any given time, scientists need to gain insight into conditions and match them up with the fossil record. Greg Retallack of the University of Oregon in Eugene suggests that climate, and...
  • Mystery of India's "Red Rain" of 2001 Points to Ex ...
    New evidence has been discovered that reinforces the panspermia thoery that the red rain which fell in India in 2001, contained cells unlike any found on Earth. Panspermia is the idea championed by physicist Fred Hoyle that life exists throughout...

Natural News

  • Horrifying environmental impact of non-Gulf shrimp
    (NaturalNews) Shrimp is the most popular seafood in the United States, with the average resident consuming 4.1 pounds per year. But this food comes at a serious cost for the planet and for human health, warns Jill Richardson, author of Recipe for America: Why Our Food System Is Broken and What We Ca ...
  • Metal from hip replacements could cause tumors
    (NaturalNews) Metal hip replacements may cause soft tissue destruction and even tumors, the British health regulatory agency has warned. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) recently announced that it would test all 40,000 patients who had received metal hip implants for hi ...
  • Amino acid L-arginine vital for fighting, preventi ...
    (NaturalNews) Researchers from the University of Alberta (UA) have made an interesting discovery about the way the body fights and prevents infections. Richard Lamb and post doctoral fellow Virginie Mieulet, found that L-arginine, an amino acid present in protein-rich foods, is necessary for the imm ...
  • Americans drowning in prescription drugs
    (NaturalNews) Nearly half of all Americans now use prescription drugs on a regular basis according to a CDC report that was just released (1). Nearly a third of Americans use two or more drugs, and more than one in ten use five or more prescription drugs regularly. The report also revealed that one ...
  • GreenRay Solar offers amazingly simple, inexpensiv ...
    (NaturalNews) Not everyone gets excited about the idea of installing solar panels at their home or business. Sure, solar panels may help to cut costs in the long run and establish some level of "off the grid" self-sufficiency, but they are typically expensive and require complex installation and mai ...

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

  • McCain Switches Sides in the Class War
    In perhaps the greatest comic moment of the 2010 campaign to date, John McCain last month complained, "I know how popular it is for the Eastern press to paint me as having changed positions. That's not true." Of course, his flip-flops are now so numerous that he long ago earned nicknames like " Ju ...
  • The Republican Party is Paging Dr. Freud
    Somewhere in America, a psychology graduate student is doubtless preparing the definitive thesis of the modern conservative mindset. After all, the Bush years produced a cottage industry of analyses on the roots of Dubya's "dead or alive, bring 'em on" macho talk. And now that Sarah Palin has adde ...
  • 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 ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

  • 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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Emily Cross: Global Warming and Campaign Finance I ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Emily Cross is a Political Science student at Rice University. Emily hugs trees during her free time.
  • Veronica Valesquez: Solar Intern from Austin Colle ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Veronica majors in Environmental Studies and Cultural Anthropology
  • Tres Amigas SuperStation on Track for 2014
    Local energy storage company Xtream Power inks a deal to supply the Tres Amigas project with their technology. CH2M, another firm with central Texas connections (who has been hiring some of Austins finest green talent) lands the construction contract. Will local green engineers Kurt Lyell (one of th ...
  • 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 ...

Unexplained Mysteries

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 6, 2010
    Carbon Market Won't Have U.S. Cap and Trade This Decade: HSBC (Bloomberg)  The global market for low-carbon energy and efficiency projects probably won't benefit from a U.S. cap-and-trade program this decade, banking giant HSBC said. Tony Blair: 'Heavy Price' for Climate Inaction (BBC N ...
  • September 4-5, 2010
    BP Gulf Well "Secured," Awaiting Final Kill: U.S. (Reuters) BP's ruptured Gulf oil well is secure with no threat of spewing crude again, the top U.S. official overseeing the spill response said on Saturday. Oil Dispersant Effects Remain a Mystery (Los Angeles Times) Despite more t ...
  • 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 ...

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

Booman Tribune

  • Open Thread
    Hamburgers, Salmon, and corn on the grill here. What's on your grill?
  • More Idiocy from the Dean
    David Broder is insufferable. Suddenly Joe Sestak is equally far to the left as Pat Toomey is far to the right? Give me a break. Is Joe Sestak a member of the House Progressive Caucus or the DLC-inspired New Democrat Coalition? Does he have a voting record in the liberal third of the party or in ...
  • Latest Outrage: The Oval Office Rug
    Here's a quote from 19th-Century abolitionist Theodore Parker: "I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I ...
  • NFL Thread
    Well, NFL teams had to cut down their rosters to 53 men today and a lot of people are now out of a job. We have our BooTrib fantasy football draft tomorrow, so if you are in the league, don't forget. I'm not taking Ben Roethlisberger on principle, and I wish a lot of other people would make the ...
  • Casual Observation
    Tony Blair's decision to go along with the invasion of Iraq destroyed his reputation, killed the Labour Party, discredited Blairism, and gave new life to the Tories. In other words, it was good news for conservatives. There is something odd about punishing the left for the sins of the right. Afte ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • If Already Struggling, Kids Exposed To Major Disas ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill have drawn increased attention to the mental health and well being of those who experience major disasters. Recent studies have also illuminated the lack, even five years later, of adequate counseling, therapy, and mental health ...
  • Diverse Families? The Kids Are Alright
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Two new studies show that kids raised as only children or with same-sex parents are socially and academically well adjusted. Researchers at Ohio State University found that only children, while somewhat behind on social skills during kindergarten, had fully caught up ...
  • 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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Stadium, not strip mine, now in WVU uniform ad - B ...
    Stadium, not strip mine, now in WVU uniform ad Boston Herald Nike revised the ad Thursday after environmentalists complained about the depiction of a mountaintop removal mine behind the image of a uniform intended to ... and more��
  • Mining activists demand WVU, Nike pull uniform ad ...
    Washington Post Mining activists demand WVU, Nike pull uniform ad CBSSports.com (AP) - Activists trying to stop mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia are furious over a Nike Inc. promotional ad for a new West Virginia football ... One More Reason to Boycott Nike: Exploiting Mountaintop Remo ...
  • Jesse Johnson for Senate in WV - Firedoglake (blog ...
    Jesse Johnson for Senate in WV Firedoglake (blog) In 2009, Johnson was featured in “Coal Country: Rising Up Against Mountaintop Removal Mining”. He also was a founder of project Talkback, Children Respond ...
  • Local clergy join crusade against coal industry - ...
    Local clergy join crusade against coal industry Duluth News Tribune Duluth pastors say mountaintop-removal coal mining that occurs in Kentucky and West Virginia is a sin against God's creation. This photo posted to Wikipedia ... and more��
  • - 6 hours ago - planetgreen.discovery.com - Care2. ...
    - 6 hours ago - planetgreen.discovery.com Care2.com Encouraging news on the devastating practice of mountaintop removal coal mining: banks are starting to shy away ...

Memeorandum

  • Obama to seek extension of R&D tax credits (Christ ...
    Christi Parsons / Los Angeles Times : Obama to seek extension of R&D tax credits   —  Helping businesses that invest in research and development is part of the president's broader plan for the economy.  Other proposals call for increasing infrastructure spending and continuing tax cuts for the midd ...
  • Despite formal combat end, US joins Baghdad battle ...
    Barbara Surk / Associated Press : Despite formal combat end, US joins Baghdad battle   —  BAGHDAD (AP) - Days after the U.S. officially ended combat operations and touted Iraq's ability to defend itself, American troops found themselves battling heavily armed militants assaulting an Iraqi military ...
  • Cynthia Tucker: Voter Anger Is About Racism - 'Fea ...
    Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org : Cynthia Tucker: Voter Anger Is About Racism - ‘Fear of a White Minority’   —  Are you sick and tired of being called a racist because you don't agree with Barack Obama's policies?  —  If you are, you shouldn't read any further, for Cynthia Tucker this weekend claim ...
  • Who is responsible for Warmabomber's violent agend ...
    Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Washington Examiner : Who is responsible for Warmabomber's violent agenda?   —  Filthy.  Parasites.  Disgusting, overbreeding candidates for sterilization and extermination.  Possessed of false morals and a “breeding culture.”  —  Hitler talking about the Jews?  Nope.  This ...
  • Analysts: White House Panicking Over Elections (Ji ...
    Jimmy So / CBS News : Analysts: White House Panicking Over Elections   —  Say Dems Are Distancing Themselves From Obama, Angry Over Economy, Health Care Fallout  —  (CBS) With many polls indicating the Republicans may win back control of the House of Representatives (and possibly the Senate as well ...

Energy & Environment News

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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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Chuck Hagel: GOP Is Not ‘Presenting Any Alternativ ...
    This post first appeared on Think Progress. Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), the chairman of the Atlantic Council, recently sat down for an interview with the Washington Diplomat. In the interview, the former senator touched on a variety of topics, including what he feels is the need for the United S ...
  • Jan Brewer Fesses up to Lying About Beheadings
    This post first appeared on Washington Monthly. Just to put a coda on one of the week’s more peculiar stories, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) conceded she was wrong about immigrants committing beheadings — but she waited until late Friday afternoon on a holiday weekend to fess up. If you’re just joinin ...
  • Is War About to Break Out on the Israeli-Lebanese ...
    While the world is riveted by the on-going crisis around Iran's nuclear program, the most immediate danger of a war may be on Israel's border with Lebanon
  • In the Face of the Drug War's Total Failure, Can C ...
    Drug prohibition is remarkably ineffective, costly and counter-productive -- it has cost people their lives, and put millions behind bars. Is the tide turning?
  • Labor Day: When "Work Ethic" Is Not a Di ...
    It's important to have this 24- hour period to honor ordinary Americans. Real folks who don't think "work ethic" is a dirty word.

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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Jobs data continues to lift global equities
    LONDON (Reuters) - Encouraging news about the U.S. employment picture continued to spill over onto financial markets on Monday, lifting world stocks on hopes that a slip back into recession could be avoided.
  • Analysis: More talk of Belgium split as coalition ...
    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - If Belgium were a marriage it would surely have ended by now.
  • Tropical storm Hermine threatens Mexico, Texas
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tropical storm Hermine has formed in the Gulf of Mexico and warnings have been issued from Tampico, Mexico to the Baffin Bay on the south Texas coast, the National Hurricane Center said on Monday.
  • UK police seek information on newspaper eavesdropp ...
    LONDON, Sept 5 (Reuters) - British police said on Sunday they had sought more information about claims that reporters at the News of the World newspaper illegally hacked into voicemail accounts to eavesdrop on people's phone messages.
  • Obama launches big week on economy
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama launches several economic initiatives this week aimed at generating some desperately needed U.S. job growth and limiting predicted Democratic losses in November 2 congressional elections.

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

  • War Is Hell on Presidential Approval Ratings
    From L.A. Times : Harry Truman (Korea) lost 25 points during his conflict. Lyndon Johnson (Vietnam) dropped 32. And George W. Bush ( Iraq) plummeted 43. Even without formal wars, foreign incidents can pummel pols back home; just ask helpless President Carter about the Iranian hostage crisis that he ...
  • “U.S. troops join Baghdad battle against militants ...
    BAGHDAD —"Days after the U.S. officially ended combat operations and touted Iraq's ability to defend itself, American troops found themselves battling heavily armed militants assaulting an Iraqi military headquarters in the center of Baghdad on Sunday. The fighting killed 12 people and wounded dozen ...
  • Chris Hedges at Vets for Peace
    Chris Hedges on Moral Courage - Watch more Politics Videos at Vodpod .
  • Farmland is being readied for a nuclear crop
    By KEVIN COLLISON, Kansas City Star * Bulldozers are rolling on a billion-dollar project that will transform a former soybean field in south Kansas City into America’s only privately developed plant making parts for nuclear weapons. When it comes to the area economy, there is no question about t ...
  • The National Constitution Center's 2010 Liberty Me ...
    2010 Liberty Medal Ceremony Monday, September 13, 2010, 7:00 p.m. Event Admission: FREE, processing fees apply Reservations Required: Tickets will be available to the public beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, August 11 by calling Ticketmaster at 866.492.6326 (limit of two tickets per household) ...

Grist - News

  • 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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Washington Independent

  • 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 ...

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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

  • Foster + Partners Design Undulating Eco Villas for ...
    Inhabitat favorite Foster and Partners designed these gorgeous eco-friendly residences for a community called Banyan Tree Corniche Bay in Mauritius back in 2006. The plan calls for discreet and environmentally-sensitive homes that integrate harmoniously with the lush landscape. The project makes use ...
  • Spain Shines Bright With Elegant Eco Lighting Opti ...
    Living in country that constantly basks in the beautiful sun, it comes as no surprise that Spain’s lighting designers know a thing or two about inspiring light. From lighting systems reminiscent of comets, to parasols that provide shade and solar illumination, here are some Spanish lighting designs ...
  • Win a ReFind Originals Upcycled Leather Purse (Wor ...
    We love summer, but we definitely can’t wait to start digging into our fall wardrobes! If you’ve been looking for a lasting piece sure to compliment your autumn style, the ReFind Originals luscious leather bag is the perfect way to accessorize your outfit with an eco-friendly punch. Made from re-pur ...
  • Nike Shoes That Double Up as Wii Controllers (Vide ...
    The Wii has given new meaning to working-out, taking the heat off your trainers and setting a compact console on fire! But if you’re looking to get a more true-to-life experience when it comes to breaking a sweat, we recommend taking some inspiration from Nick Marsh, who brilliantly hacked his Nike ...
  • Awesome Net Zero Ocean Adventure Lab Up for Auctio ...
    This year’s Project Playhouse brought forth a bevy of whimsical designs that got us wishing we were 4-feet tall again, but it was the design submitted by the folks at LPA Inc. and Turner Construction that really blew our socks off! More than just a space for kids to sit around and sip air-tea, the O ...

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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

  • Maliki and US Cut Deal to Exclude Shiite Parties f ...
    Two newspapers Al-Sharq al-Awsat and Al-Zaman have reported that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and the United States have a cut deal over forming a new Iraqi government. The two media sources said that Maliki had promised the Americans to exclude the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) and the Sad ...
  • 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 ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The TAP Five.
    The five TAP pieces that have made a stir around the web this week. " Homegrown Mujahideen " " No, YOU Want Sharia " " They're With Stupid " " The Case for Presidential Action " " The Impending Democratic Bloodbath "
  • Happy Labor Day.
    TAPPED will be closed Monday while we take some well-deserved rest. If you're itching for something to read, please check out our special report on jobs , featuring Robert Kuttner on how Obama can create jobs without legislation and Harold Meyerson on the next battle against Wal-Mart's labor practic ...
  • 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 ...

Buzzflash

  • Poor Labor Day Gets No Respect. It’s the Rodney Da ...
    WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH Poor Labor Day. Gets no respect. It’s the Rodney Dangerfield of holidays. The runt of the holiday litter. Just hearing the name conjures up depressing images of a last plastic souvenir sports bottle of lemonade poured on the dying charcoal briquettes of summer. It’s the end ...
  • While Entire Governments Don't Come Cheap, This On ...
    STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH What do you get someone who already has everything? Someone (in the plural) who has made so damn much money over the last decade they have it piled up like cord wood in their backyard.� That’s pretty much describes America’s top 1%-2%. Now empowered in a way even the ...
  • Hammering, Slamming, and Pounding the President Ha ...
    WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH A few years ago anybody who spoke disparagingly of the President of the United States was immediately labeled a traitor and accused of coddling the terrorists with a back rub. Not any more. Hammering, slamming, and pounding the President these days has once again become a co ...
  • Martin Luther King Had a Dream and Glenn Beck Was ...
    BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG BY MARK KARLIN Martin Luther King had a dream of hope, not hate. Martin Luther King had a dream of rising to embrace our better angels, not descending into a pit of our worst fears. Martin Luther had a dream, and Glenn Beck wasn't in it. 47 years ago Martin Luther King gave h ...
  • Jon Stewart Nails it Again by Describing Glenn Bec ...
    BARBARA'S BUZZ FROM ATLANTA http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/nypd_charges_man_with_hate_crime_after_allegedly_stabbing_muslim_cabbie.php ?"NYPD Charges Man With Hate Crime After He Allegedly Stabbed Muslim Cab Driver"� To all those who so eagerly jumped on the "Ban the Mosque band ...

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Sciencebase

  • Periodic Table of Google Elements
    This Periodic Table has even less to do with chemistry than my PT of science bloggers. Regardless, it’s still worth a mention, just because it hints at chemistry however indirectly. More periodicity A Periodic Table of Google Elements Using the Periodic Table Blogging the Periodic Table: Rare earths ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Latest Gulf of Mexico Explosion Again Illustrates ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 2, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity Today's explosion in the Gulf of Mexico serves as another tragic reminder of the inherent danger of offshore drilling and the urgent need for a large-scale moratorium on all offshore oil an ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Why the Big Lie About the Job Crisis? And the $10 ...
    by Les Leopold The August unemployment numbers are ugly, yet again. Nearly 30 million Americans are still jobless or forced into part-time jobs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics official unemployment rate is 9.6%. It's borader and more telling jobless rate (U6) of 16.7% confirms that we're stuck in ...
  • Honoring Those Who Toil
    by Ralph Nader What does Labor Day mean anymore other than another day off, another store sale and, in some cities, parades ever smaller and more devoid of passion for elevating the well-being of working people? read more
  • Laos and the Legacy of Vietnam
    by Brett Dakin As US combat troops return from Iraq, remnants of another American war – fought more than three decades ago – are still claiming casualties today. The tiny south-east Asian landlocked nation of Laos has the dubious distinction of being the most bombed country, per capita, in the w ...
  • Despite Celebration, the Iraq War Continues
    by David Sirota 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, front-line dispatch, political machination and wartime icon as momentous ...
  • Right Response to Unemployment Is Smart Stimulus S ...
    by John Nichols The new unemployment figures are damned disappointing -- from a social, economic and political standpoint. read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • It's Good To Be The...President's Brother
    By Steve Hynd Just...wow. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Struggling to contain asset-stripping at Afghanistan's biggest bank, Afghan authorities have barred the sale of Kabul properties held by the troubled bank's principal owners. But the freeze excludes President Hamid Karzai's brother, who is the ...
  • Rich Man's War And Poor Man's Fight
    By Steve Hynd Andrew Bacevich picks up on a new study: Kriner and Shen possess little of Moore's penchant for self-aggrandizing theatrics. Yet by cross-referencing official casualty records with Census data, they reach a conclusion that affirms Moore's verdict: "when America goes to war, it is the p ...
  • In Afghanistan, Waiting For The MAN
    By Steve Hynd Here's one from the NY Times, right out of the "Duh" files: "Loss of Faith in Afghan Leaders May Hurt Push Against Taliban." First, the Western view: Since 2001, one of the unquestioned premises of American and NATO policy has been that ordinary Afghans don’t view public corruption in ...
  • 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 ...

Water Wars

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  • Letters to the Editor Sept. 3, 2010
    In response to Al Kay’s letter on Aug. 28 (“If you want to shoot animals at Tolowa Dunes, use a camera”) I laughed out loud when he wrote, “I heard the sound of gunshots and wondered if I would be hit by a bullet.”
  • 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.

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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

  • Iran paying Taliban 1,000 dollar bounty for each U ...
    Iran is reportedly paying bonuses of 1,000 dollars to the Taliban for killing an American soldier in Afghanistan and 6,000 dollars for destroying a U.S. military vehicle.
  • Kabul Bank Security Tight as Afghan Finance Chiefs ...
    Sept. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Armed security officers guarded Kabul Bank’s headquarters as finance officials prepared to outline steps to restore confidence in Afghanistan’s biggest private lende...
  • Afghan TV journalist stabbed to death
    Sayed Hamid Noori, who was also deputy head of Afghanistan's National Journalists' Association, was found dead of knife wounds late yesterday."Someone called him and asked him to come down from h...
  • Afghan TV journalist stabbed to death
    Sayed Hamid Noori, who was also deputy head of Afghanistan's National Journalists' Association, was found dead of knife wounds late yesterday."Someone called him and asked him to come down from h...
  • As many as 2,000 more US troops may be going to Af ...
    As many as 2,000 additional troops -- including a number of U.S. forces -- may be headed to Afghanistan in the coming weeks under a plan being proposed by Gen. David Petraeus, CNN has learned. Petraeu...

Futurismic

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

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on Government Oversight

  • 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

  • Canada's next GG has first official visit with the ...
    David Johnston, Canada's next governor general, had his first official meeting with Queen Elizabeth on Sunday. The visit took place at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.
  • Brazil lifestyle celebrated at Brazil Day Canada F ...
    The Brazilian way of life and culture was put on display at the second annual Brazil Day Canada Festival at the Yonge-Dundas Square in downtown Toronto. The event attracted tens of thousands of visitors last year.
  • Human remains found in Ontario
    Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) announced a short time ago that human remains were found in a wooded area near the Town of Caledon this morning.
  • Jewish, Yiddish culture celebrated at Ashkenaz Fes ...
    The 15th annual Ashkenaz Festival took place at the Habourfront Centre in Toronto. The "premier North American event" celebrates Jewish and Yiddish culture with cuisine, music, literature, theatre and art.
  • Alberta is behind on protection of some workers
    Labour Day weekend may be a nice three-day break but for some workers in Alberta it's also a time to get the word out that workplace safety is lagging behind the rest of the nation for farm workers and temporary foreign workers.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Street People Have Ideas Too, but No One's Asking ...
    This new video comes from Mark's InvisiblePeople.tv 30-city, 11,000-mile, 75-day road trip , going on now. Imagine you need to clean up but the only privacy you can find is between the wall on a freeway overpass and a cement barricade. That's where I met William and Senina while walking in Atlanta. ...
  • The Future of Public Housing: Promising or Profit- ...
    The Preservation, Enhancement and Transformation of Rental Assistance Act, or  PETRA (pdf), could be the biggest change to public housing policy in decades — and quite possibly the most divisive. Proponents cheer because it will streamline the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)'s whop ...
  • Doctors and Drug Dealers Team Up to Exploit Homele ...
    Exploiting the homeless for personal profit seems to be a popular trend lately, with everyone from doctors to drug dealers jumping on the deplorable bandwagon. This week Dr. Zhiwei Lin, a Los Angeles physician, was arrested on charges of prescribing pain medication to homeless individuals who appare ...
  • 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 ...

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

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

War in Context

  • Anti-Israel economic boycotts are gaining speed
    In Haaretz, Nehemia Shtrasler writes: The world is changing before our eyes. Five years ago the anti-Israel movement may have been marginal. Now it is growing into an economic problem. Until now boycott organizers had been on the far left. They have a new ally: Islamic organizations that have stre ...
  • No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst ...
    Those are the words of James Madison, cited by Fareed Zacharia as the anniversary of 9/11 approaches. Nine years after 9/11, can anyone doubt that Al Qaeda is simply not that deadly a threat? Since that gruesome day in 2001, once governments everywhere began serious countermeasures, Osama bin Laden ...
  • Hamas official: Israeli settlers are a legitimate ...
    Haaretz reports: Israeli settlers in the West Bank are legitimate targets since they are an army in every sense of the word, a senior Hamas official told the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper on Saturday, adding that Palestinians were still committed to an armed struggle against Israel. The comment ...
  • CIA views Israeli intelligence service as worst US ...
    In the Washington Post, Jeff Stein reports: The CIA took an internal poll not long ago about friendly foreign intelligence agencies. The question, mostly directed to employees of the clandestine service branch, was: Which are the best allies among friendly spy services, in terms of liaison with th ...
  • The Listening Post – The media and the ‘Ground Zer ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Sea Ice News #21
    This week was a true roller coaster ride with Arctic Sea Ice. It is best summed up by looking at the JAXA graph for extent, shown below: Below, see the area of interest magnified. I’ve added the 5 million square … Continue reading →
  • New gadget finally kills the power vampires in my ...
    I’m back home. Thanks to everyone who helped while I was offline with family medical issues. There are larger challenges ahead but for now things are back to near normal. Thanks to everyone who left kind words in the announcements … Continue reading →
  • Climate Change Is Not a Forever Problem
    Guest post by Thomas Fuller Okay, all–this is a slow developing post. I hope you can stick with me to the end here. If you’re reading this, the chances are better than even that you are a well-educated male who … Continue reading →
  • Analysis: CRU tosses valid 5 sigma climate data
    Above: map of mean temperature and departure by state for February 1936 in the USA, a 5 sigma event. Source: NCDC’s map generator at http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/cag3.html Steve Mosher writes in to tell me that he’s discovered an odd an interesting discrepancy … Continue reading ...
  • Failure to forecast morphs to criminal investigati ...
    From an AGU press release, potential charges for failure to forecast an earthquake. h/t to Dr. Leif Svalgaard. Scientists May Face Manslaughter Charges After Earthquake 22 June 2010 AGU Science Policy Alert 10-18 Seven Italian scientists and government officials are … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • The British Military in Iraq: A Legacy of War Crim ...
    by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at Global Research 3 September, 2010 “Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.” (Tony Blair, speech as newly elected Prime ...
  • They Kill Alex by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig September 6, 2010 Carlos Arredondo, a native Costa Rican, stands in a parking lot of a Holiday Inn in Portland, Maine, next to his green Nissan pickup truck. The truck, its tailgate folded down, carries a flag-draped coffin and is adorned with ...
  • Follow Da Money… Foolish Ones!! by Philip A. ...
    by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad - September 1, 2010 September 6, 2010 In 1981, when cold warrior Ronald Reagan was president, total military spending ( I refuse to call it ‘ Defense Spending ‘ ) was 158 billion dollars. Each year in office, Reagan coerced the Congress to conti ...
  • John F. Kennedy just won’t die By Roland Michel Tr ...
    By Roland Michel Tremblay Featured Writer Dandelion Salad The Marginal 4 September, 2010 I couldn’t care less for JFK, apart from the fact that he is now but an international airport. I only care to see how many died talking about his death, over 40 now at the last count, and I wonder, deep down, if ...
  • When Will We Finally Get It? by Jason Marks
    by Jason Marks Guest Writer Dandelion Salad The Revolution is Coming Aug. 26, 2010 Sept. 4, 2010 Dear Friends, I don’t know about you, but I can’t but help in feeling hopeless with all that’s going on in the world. After reading two very important books by author and activist, John Perkins (Confessi ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • “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

  • Financial Times: Israel’s choice is land or peace
    It should be perfectly obvious that talks aimed at the creation of a Palestinian state cannot possibly prosper while Israel continues its strategic colonisation of the land on which that state would... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Israel has one of world’s largest ‘eavesdropping’ ...
    The base ... is central to the [global] activities of the main Israel Defense Forces signals intelligence unit, 8200, according to report in Le Monde Diplomatique. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the I ...
  • Geographies of aid intervention in Palestine
    27-28 Sept 2010 Conference on the geographies of aid intervention in Palestine - Birzeit University. The aim of the conference is to critically explore the ways in which aid intervention reshapes... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Ameer Makhoul: “Solidarity tastes different inside ...
    I am doing a lot of efforts to bring hope and steadfastness to freedom prisoners. It is one of my missions inside prison. I have to keep in contact with Ittijah and the community and all solidarity... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Withdraw the Last Combat Politicians from Washingt ...
    By David Swanson Pretending to end a war and occupation, while stationing 50,000 soldiers, 18,000 mercenaries, and 84,000 support contractors in massive and permanent military bases in Iraq is a far cry from what candidate Barack Obama described as ending "the mind-set that got us into war in the fi ...
  • The Collapse of American Liberalism
    Real News Network - September 5, 2010 Chris Hedges: "When you have bankrupt liberalism you descend into moral nihilism" This is Part 1. I'll post each part of this interview as they become available.
  • Pollutants From BP Oil Leak As Far North As New En ...
    As Atlantic hurricane season heats up, storms could send toxic hydrocarbons lingering from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill surging inland, scientists say. National Geographic: Could pollutants from the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico end up as far north as New England? That could happen if a hurric ...
  • Mr. Unpopular
    How Barack Obama Became Mr. Unpopular Michael Scherer, Sept. 02, 2010, Time.com A couple of weeks back and a dozen miles west of Elkhart, hundreds gathered in another school gym — except this time it was for a job fair. With the local unemployment rate above 12% and rising again this summer, about ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Thought Experiments: The Embassy of the Drowned Na ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen Via BLDGBLOG and Pruned (1, 2), here are two suggestions that are not so much literal proposals but rather thought experiments, each meant to prod the viewer. (And a third one from me.) The first is one of the winners of SeaChange 2030+, an “ideas competition” spo ...
  • Call for Papers - Int’l Law Assoc. Asia-Pacific Re ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Professor Pasha Hsieh of Singapore Management University School of Law has asked us to alert our readers about the following call for papers for the 2011 International Law Association Asia-Pacific Regional Conference scheduled for May 29-June 1, 2011 Taipei, Taiwan, Repu ...
  • Drone Strikes Against Fox News?
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The Washington Post is reporting that a State Department contractor has been charged with leaking defense information to Fox News: A State Department contractor was indicted Friday by a federal grand jury in the District, becoming the latest target of a se ...
  • ACLU Sues Obama Administration Over Targeted Killi ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I’m a little late (in blogospheric time) to comment on the ACLU/CCR lawsuit today challenging the legality of the Obama Administration’s policy on targeted killings of U.S. citizens. (Hat Tip WSJ Law Blog) Here is the complaint. It’s is not surprising. As I noted before, ...
  • Thought Experiments: The Embassy of the Drowned Na ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen Via BLDGBLOG and Pruned (1, 2), here are two suggestions that are not so much literal proposals but rather thought experiments, each meant to prod the viewer. (And a third one from me.) The first is one of the winners of SeaChange 2030+, an “ideas competition” spo ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Biggest aftershock rocks Christchurch again
  • 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...

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

  • The late Prof Hastings Okoth-Ogendo, on indigenous ...
  • Stop persecution of Roma people, stop deportations ...
    Stop persecution of Roma people, stop deportations from France|28Aug10|Socialist Worker : "Some 200 Roma people have been deported from France as part of President Sarkozy’s racist scapegoating. Within weeks 700 Roma will be expelled. So far police have broken up over 50 Roma camps, and Sarkozy has ...
  • Blair: Egg on His Face and Blood on His Shoes
    "It really is shameful that somebody (Tony Blair) can be responsible for the death and destruction that he was responsible for in Iraq and Afghanistan and walk away without any accounting for that and become a very wealthy man off the back of it." So says Richard Boyd-Barrett of the Anti-War Movemen ...
  • Minister apologizes to Inuit for forced arctic rel ...
    Minister apologizes to Inuit for forced arctic relocation | rabble.ca This past week newly appointed Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development John Duncan issued an official apology from the government of Canada to Inuit for the forced high arctic relocation: On behalf of the Government o ...
  • UN expert urges acceleration of progress for Russi ...
    DisplayNews GENEVA (24 August 2010) – The United Nations expert on indigenous people on Tuesday welcomed “important steps” made by the Government of the Russian Federation towards protecting the rights of the country’s indigenous peoples, while noting that “many indigenous people in Russia continue ...

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

  • Stay Vigilant, Bird Flu Could Spark Next Global Ou ...
    ShareThis Pimping their new pandemic: Stay Vigilant, Bird Flu Could Spark Next Global Outbreak, Urges Expert 05 Sep 2010 Robert Webster, an influenza expert, says health authorities worldwide need to remain watchful for possible influenza outbreaks, despite swine flu being much less deadly than peop ...
  • Gaza tunnels exploded by IAF forces
    ShareThis Gaza tunnels exploded by IAF forces 05 Sep 2010 Israeli aircraft have been striking at smuggling tunnels in southern Gaza. The air-force started a campaign on Saturday night, as peace talks were being held in Washington between the Israelis and Palestinians. The IAF struck targets in the K ...
  • Suicide bus driver kills two in Baghdad: officials
    ShareThis Suicide bus driver kills two in Baghdad: officials 05 Sep 2010 A suicide bomber in a minibus killed two people on Sunday at an Iraqi defence ministry complex that three weeks ago was hit by a massive suicide attack that killed dozens, security officials said. The bomber blew up his vehicle ...
  • US 'likely to stay in Iraq beyond 2011'
    ShareThis US 'likely to stay in Iraq beyond 2011' 05 Sep 2010 Despite US announcement of complete withdrawal from Iraq in 2011, Washington will reportedly keep thousands of soldiers in the war-torn nation. American military experts said the remaining forces are expected to stay in Iraq beyond 2011 a ...
  • German held by U.S. troops planned Europe attacks: ...
    ShareThis German held by U.S. troops planned Europe attacks: report 04 Sep 2010 A German Islamist held by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and interrogated since July has revealed details of planned attacks on targets in Germany and Europe, a news weekly reported Saturday. Without naming its sources, Der ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Songs by Ikhlas-Yasmin Jebara from Salem: Part II
    This continues the previous post, showing for the first time songs by our friend Ikhlas. The picture above was taken a few weeks ago, when Ikhlas visited the Mediterranean Sea for the second time in her life. The sea is only 47km from her home (measured via Google Maps), but the Occupation regime – ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Sunset Point, Bryce Canyon National Park
    My sister-in-law and I did a three mile hike down Navajo Loop then up Queens Garden. The guide map says it’s the “world’s best three mile hike.” They could be right. That’s me among the hoodoos (that’s what the eroded spires are called.)
  • Earth to Jerry Brown
    You should be well ahead of Meg Whitman. Yet polls are showing you consistently behind.
  • A tsunami approaches: The beginning of the Great D ...
    New Geography In the distant horizon, a giant wave is building. There are some who recognized the swell and raised the alarm. There are others who deny the possibility of such a wave. Most remain blissfully unaware. The wave is building and when it reaches our shores, it will hit with the force of a ...
  • Oopsie
    Anti-illegal immigration critic arrested in major human-trafficking case
  • The Left, Glenn Beck, and that vision thing
    Byron DeLear makes the point that Glenn Beck profits mightily from his political stances and that much of it is just pure Hollywood, entertainment stereotypes wrapped in in dangerous political rhetoric. Quite possibly all true, but the real job for the left should be not to fulminate at Beck (and Pa ...

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

  • The Breakdown of Capitalism and the fight for Soci ...
    The following document was adopted by the First National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held August 11-15, 2010 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. A pdf version of this program is available for download here. The Economic Crisis and its Social Impact 1. The world capitalist system is ensnared i ...
  • Taliban announces attacks to be launched on the Un ...
    In the second major attack this week, a suicide bomber killed at least 54 people during a rally in the city of Quetta on Friday. Pakistan’s Taliban has claimed responsibility for this latest bombing, claiming that it would launch attacks in the United States and Europe “very soon.” Counterterrorism ...
  • Fareed Zakaria: America Overreacted To 9/11
    Nine years after 9/11, can anyone doubt that Al Qaeda is simply not that deadly a threat? Since that gruesome day in 2001, once governments everywhere began serious countermeasures, Osama bin Laden’s terror network has been unable to launch a single major attack on high-value targets in the United S ...
  • US mulls approval of GM salmon
    US authorities have begun to consider approval for the first time the sale of genetically engineered salmon, a move that some say could open the door to more transgenic animals on American dinner tables. A US Food and Drug Administration panel has set a hearing for September 19-20 to consider a prop ...
  • Stay out of Washington, Rice told Bush after 9/11
    Condoleezza Rice ordered George Bush not to return to Washington after the 9/11 attacks before hanging up the phone, the former national security adviser has revealed in a documentary interview. In a heated exchange, Rice argued with the US president in Florida not to return to the White House becau ...

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

  • This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games
    Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games â tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, August 30th, 2010 Another Look at a Smaller Facebook App, Galaxy Legion Playdom Becomes Third-Largest Developer on This Week ...
  • Thanks to Our Sponsors
    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 ...

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ReDress News

  • Hamas must exploit the fake talks, reposition and ...
    Stuart Littlewood argues that the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas’s threats to step up violence serve only to aid Israeli and allied Zionist propaganda. He calls on the movement to seize the moment by repositioning and rebranding itself in a manner that would give impetus to the growing public ...
  • Obama has signalled his coming complete surrender ...
    Alan Hart argues that behind US President Barack Obama’s declaration that the US will not force Israel to accept a just peace – in effect, his surrender to Zionism – may lurk the conclusion that the Zionist state is already a monster beyond control.
  • Tony Blair’s bloody memoir
    Gilad Atzmon calls on the Middle East Quartet – the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and Russia – to do the decent thing and hand over suspected war criminal Tony Blair to the Hague to face justice.
  • 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.

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

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  • 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 ...

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

  • Debt Compels Growth
    By Tim Murray Why the Numbers are Stacked Against Steady State Policies
  • 5 Jaw-Dropping Stories In Wikileaks Archives Beggi ...
    By Nick Turse Many files, beyond the Afghan War Diary and the Collateral Murder video, continue to hide in plain sight on Wikileaks Web site
  • Flying The Flag; Faking The News
    By John Pilger Two classified documents recently released by WikiLeaks express the CIAs concern that the populations of European countries, which oppose their governments war policies, are not succumbing to the usual propaganda spun through the media. For the rulers of the world, this is a conundru ...
  • Obama Has Signalled His Coming Complete Surrender ...
    By Alan Hart So it could be that in the privacy of his own mind, Obama knows it is already too late (not to mention too dangerous) to try to push Israels leaders much further than they are willing to go. What, I wonder, will honest historians of the future make of what is happening right now? My g ...
  • Food Riots Erupt In Mozambique
    By David Walsh Rioting continued in Maputo, Mozambiques capital city, for a third day on Friday in response to increased bread prices and the general rise in the cost of living. At least 10 people are dead, including a six-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy, and more than 400 wounded as police hav ...

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

  • One Screw-up Away From Double Dip Recession
    Nouriel Roubini is considered one of the greatest minds in the world. In a September 2006 of NY Mag he was asked whether the real estate ride was over, he said, "Not only is it over, it’s going to be a nasty fall.� This spring when the economy looked as if it might recover� warned that despite an ...
  • Diplomats' Dilemma: What to Do Other Than Appeasem ...
    By Barry Rubin Diplomats, a British ambassador explained several centuries ago,�are gentlemen�sent abroad to lie for their country. I'd add that the problems start when they start to lie on behalf of�other countries, while the disaster begins when they start to lie for enemies of their coun ...
  • The Jewish High Holidays, Personal Responsibility ...
    With the setting of the sun this Wednesday night, Jews across the world will begin the observance of�the Yomim Noraim (Days of Awe), a ten day period book-ended by the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The popular view is the two holidays are observed by going to Synagogue saying a ...
  • 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 ...

The Real Agenda

  • Star Wars High Power Invisible Energy Weapons Tech ...
    Journalists Maurizio Torrealta and Sigfrido Ranucci along with Retired Colonel John Alexander, former Pentagon Analyst and Washington Post Reporter William Arkin and Human Rights Watch's Marc Garlasco explain how modern warfare went from kinetic to high power energy weapons. The United States spend ...
  • 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.

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

  • Bush’s Poodle gets shoed and egged in Dublin ...
    Damn, the Irish must be getting mellow in their old age. There was an attempted Citizens Arrest and of course he got escorted in, escorted out, and still shoed and egged. Oh, and that’s his first book signing. He he he he he… Say, isn’t his master Bush supposed to put out his pop-up book [...]
  • QuiBids internet racketeers threaten Not My Tribe ...
    Game On QuiBids. We received a letter today from an Oklahoma law firm, on behalf of “QuiBids LLC,” apparently the preeminent of “penny auction site” confidence scams, who took exception to our earlier look-see into their rip-off operation. Frankly, I assumed our cries of foul were latecomers, while ...
  • Glenn Beck going blind, yes, it IS paybacks… ...
    Now, I do know that Macular Degeneration isn’t caused by lifestyle choices. Where HIS guilt in his own blindness is that the Corporations who FUND and ORGANIZE the TeaTards and also pay him more money a month than Real Construction Workers make in a LIFETIME of REAL work, to pose as a Working Class ...
  • 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”

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Building What? is up...
    And according to Joseph Nobles , there's a lie on every page. I have just recently looked through the website myself, and while I admittedly have some differences with it, Mr. Nobles seems to think that almost everything on the site is either false or misleading. Mr. Nobles' responses to the evidenc ...
  • 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 ...

Fooducate

  • Five Things Parents Can Do to Combat School Vendin ...
    The school year has begun and millions of children have returned to a “vending machine diet.” This, according to a worrying post in the LA Times health blog, Booster Shots (one of our favorites). The post refers to a study recently published  in the Journal of School Health. The stats are frighteni ...
  • Natural Jif: What’s The Dif?
    This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl Recently, one of Snack Girl’s readers asked me to define the difference between Regular Jif and “Natural” Jif.So, I went to the store and purchased them to evaluate.  Here are the ingredients in regular Jif: Here is Natural Jif: I looked a ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Thirty-four Colombian tribes face extinction, says ...
    The Nukak need 'special attention' to survive, according to the report. © David Hill/Survival A report released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has warned that more than thirty-four Colombian tribes face extinction due to continuing violence on their lands. The report fou ...
  • ‘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 ...

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

  • How to Welcome a Student with Autism Back To Schoo ...
    Managing Editor's Note: I was invited by AofA contributor Dan Burns and Nancy Churnin to guest contribute to the Dallas Morning News MomsBlog. Here's an excerpt from my first post on how parents of regular ed students can help their...
  • Vaccine Injury: The Fletchers and Cedillos – a Tal ...
    By John Stone This weekend the British government conceded as little as possible as late as possible in the case of Robert Fletcher (HERE), the son of Jackie Fletcher, the UK’s leading vaccine safety campaigner, and director of JABS (HERE)....
  • California Advises Pregnant Women to Take Tdap Vac ...
    Dr. Bob Sears talks about California advising all pregnant women to take a Tdap vaccine, even though testing has not been done on this population, or their fetuses. Read the full post and please comment at Huffington Post HERE. His...
  • Dan Burns on Dallas MomsBlog: Autism and Murder Ri ...
    Fear and Grief: Autism and Murder Rip East Texas Family Apart By Dan Burns / Guest blogger The police found David Adam Wilson, a 21-year-old with autism, hiding in the tool shed beside his rural East Texas home. "We tried...
  • Share Your Back To School Tips
    By Kim Stagliano This week marks back to school for a good portion of our readers. Share your tips for a smooth start. How do you prepare your child? Do you pack GFCF lunch each day? Is your classroom nut...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • A Silent Forest – Genetically Engineered Trees
    Watch A Silent Forest - A point of view documentary about the unknown dangers to human health, and the environmental health of our planet, posed by the planned introduction of genetically engineered trees.
  • The Loss of One Small Dairy Farm
    Our country was founded on agriculture. With vast land to be settled and tamed, farming was originally seen as the most noble of professions. These days, farmers and others who work with their hands and bodies often earn ridicule rather than respect.
  • S 510 Has Farmers and Ranchers In the Crosshairs!
    A glimpse into the future of farming...
  • The Truth Squad Radio Show with Guest Nicole Johns ...
    Nicole will be talking about how we are being hoodwinked into believing that the pending food safety legislation will make our food safer when in fact its unstated purpose is to empower unelected and unaccountable federal bureaucrats to unconstitutionally usurp local, state and federal regulations, ...
  • 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!

Open Your Eyes News

  • Man Dies After Being Tasered by Wash. Police
    CBS – A man stopped breathing and died after a Pierce County sheriff’s deputy stunned him with a Taser. Sgt. Jerry Bates told CBS Affiliate KIRO that officers were called about 8:30 a.m. this morning to a reported attempted break-in at a home. Bates said the man was breaking windows and refused to c ...
  • Frank Garland, who co-discovered vitamin D shortfa ...
    Washington Post – Frank C. Garland, 60, the University of California at San Diego epidemiologist who, with his brother Cedric, was the first to demonstrate that vitamin D deficiencies play a role in cancer and other diseases, died Aug. 17 at UCSD Thornton Hospital. He had cancer of the esophageal ju ...
  • Nineteen killed in suicide bombing in Pakistan
    Reuters – A suicide bomber rammed his car into a police station in northwest Pakistan on Monday killing at least 19 people, police said, in a new wave of attacks by al Qaeda- and Taliban-linked militants. Read Article
  • Oceans on brink of mass extinction: study
    ABC-Climate change, over-fishing and other human impacts have pushed the oceans to the brink of a mass extinction that could take tens of millions of years to recover from, an Australian scientist says. Dr John Alroy from Macquarie University in Sydney has used the fossil record of the ocean, dating ...
  • Britain’s drug policy will not improve until ...
    The Guardian – For years, the UK government has consistently used a myth to stave off any bold innovations in our failing drug policy. It has predicted that liberalisation would inevitably lead to higher rates of drug use and related harms. The example of Portugal seriously challenges this argument. ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Students compete to join deep-sea research around ...
    Southern California high school students are competing for a chance to participate in deep-sea research missions around Santa Catalina Island aboard the Antipodes: an acrylic-bubbled submarine that will descend to where no one has gone before. Eight students, including two...
  • Gulf oil spill: BP engineer's idea to prevent futu ...
    A BP drilling engineer told federal investigators Friday that he thinks it would be helpful if the oil company had a real-time operations center that rig officials could call for help, an idea that the lead Coast Guard investigator considered...
  • Gulf oil spill: Hearing focuses on BP decision mak ...
    Federal investigators are honing in on the role that BP’s Houston operations had in possible design flaws that may have contributed to the April 20 Deepwater Horizon well blowout. In particular, they are focusing on John Guide, a Houston-based supervisor...
  • Port of L.A.'s 'clean truck' program prevails in c ...
    A federal judge has given the nation's busiest port complex authority to require shipping trucks to reduce air pollution. U.S. District Court Judge Christina Snyder ruled Thursday that the Port of Los Angeles' Clean Trucks Program can require trucks coming...
  • High school students chronicle the lives of desert ...
    Armed with digital cameras, 13 Southern California high school students ignored the discomfort of temperatures hovering above 100 degrees, lying on their stomachs in the dirt and cactus spines to document the behavior and habitat needs of desert tortoises. "It...

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

  • George Bisharat - Israel and Palestine: A true one ...
    "Where is the Palestinian Mandela?" pundits occasionally ask. But after these latest Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Washington fail -- as they inevitably will -- the more pressing question may be: "Where is the Israeli de Klerk?" Submitted by Michelle Matthews to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • A response to Pfc. Benn - Levy's response to Aluf ...
    You didn't return home to riot in the streets and abuse innocent people, you write, and that's all very well. But you were silent. You were a complete accomplice to the crime, and you don't even have a guilty conscience. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Gideon Levy in a talk entitled The Punishment of G ...
    Join us as Mr. Levy discusses the findings of his most recent book, The Punishment of Gaza, in which he tracks Israel's progressive abandonment of diplomacy in favour of a policy of provocation and the exercise of raw military power. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Com ...
  • "AAPER Citizen's Hearing on US Policy Towards Pale ...
    Rich Forer and Curtis Sollohub, back from recent trips to Israel/ Palestine, provide testimony and answer questions on their experiences to a panel of citizen questioners and an assembled audience in Albuquerque, NM. For part II, http://vimeo.com/1459736 Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �N ...
  • Margaret Atwood takes on Fox News North
    Prime Minister Harper is trying to push American-style hate media onto our airwaves, and make us all pay for it. His plan is to create a Fox News North to mimic the kind of hate-filled propaganda with which Fox News has poisoned U.S. politics. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �| ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Historical Notes

libcom

  • The Struggle of the banana workers in Bocas de Tor ...
    An article written by the International Communist Current on the basis of information received from comrades in Central America. This struggle seems to have received no publicity in the official media. The Struggle of the banana workers ...
  • Reflections On The 4th September Demos in France ...
    This is my translation of a text that appeared on the internet on September 2nd, before the demonstrations on September 4th (which were not much to write home about). It's more like a discussion document than strictly news, and has probably looked at much of ...
  • New Zealand: Workers Rally Nationwide
    CTU Rally 21st August 2010 014.jpg Saturday August 21st saw thousands of workers rally in the main centres across New Zealand against the National Government's proposed changes to employment laws. The Ao ...
  • SeaSol - Victory: Lorig drops lawsuit, pays $22,00 ...
    umojaqueen-small.jpg After thirteen months of aggressive actions, we have finally won our fight against developer Lorig Associates . The have granted our "final offer" demands, dropping their lawsuit aga ...
  • Fast food workers form union, hold action in Minne ...
    JJ Union.jpg Workers at the fast food chain Jimmy John's have formed and IWW-affiliated union, presented demands for better wages and more control over scheduling, and held large pickets in Minneapolis. ...

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

  • IMPORTANT BREAKING NEWS — Horowitz and Kane ...
    In a most cowardly and dastardly fashion, Leonard G. Horowitz and his consort/accomplice Sherri Kane have chosen to target me, A. True Ott, PhD in a clear and actionable case of libel where they accuse me of being “A Satanist” with only the flimsiest of circumstantial hearsay as their “evidence”.  ...
  • Ellen Brown LIVE on The Story Behind the Story &#8 ...
    Axing the Bankersâ Money Tree: Homeowners’ Rebellion against Wall Street Recent Rulings Could Shield 62 Million Homes from Foreclosure by Ellen Brown http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20688 Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in ...
  • IMPORTANT INFO ON MORTGAGES!!!!
    Every homeowner in America needs to read this very carefully. Homeowners’ Rebellion: Could 62 Million Homes Be Foreclosure-Proof? August 20th, 2010 | Author: Stephanie Over 62 million mortgages are now held in the name of MERS, an electronic recording system devised by and for the convenience of the ...
  • 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 ...

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

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

  • سخنگوی شورای نگهبان شایعه درگذشت آیت‌الله جنتی را ...
    آفتاب: صبح امروز شایعه‌ای دال بر درگذشت آیت‌الله احمد جنتی دبیر شورای نگهبان مطرح شد که سخنگوی این شورا این خبر را تکذیب کرد. عباسعلی کدخدایی، با رد خبر درگذشت آیت‌الله جنتی و حتی رد شایعه سکته مغزی ایشان، اظهار داشت: شایعه‌ای که مطرح شد، اعتبار read more
  • وزارت اطلاعات: ریچارد فرای جاسوس سازمان سیا است
    ریچارد فرای مبدع نظریه مکتب ایرانی که چندی پیش برای سخنرانی در همایش ایرانیان خارج از کشور به ایران سفر کرد، بر اساس اسناد آشکار وزارت اطلاعات در گذشته نیز با هدف جاسوسی و جمع آوری اطلاعات به کشورمان سفر کرده است. read more
  • Iran Risks Crash With Record Stock Market Boom, Sa ...
    the bull market has been dismissed as a "state-created bubble" by seasoned analysts who attribute it to the deliberate buying and selling of assets by supposedly private companies that are in reality owned by organizations like the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), which has been playing an ...
  • تشکیلات خودگردان فلسطین: غاصب دروغین قدرت، حرف زیا ...
    به دنبال انتقادات محمود احمدی‌نژاد از روند گفت‌وگوها صلح، سخنگوی تشکیلات خودگردان فلسطینی، در سخنانی گفت:« کسی که نماینده مردم خود نیست و قدرت را با جعل آرا و دروغ از مردم ربوده‌، حق اظهارنظر درباره فلسطین و رهبرانش را ندارند.» read more
  • Toward a Green Foreign Policy for Iran
    There are several reasons why the articulation of such a foreign policy vision has become very important. One is that as the drumbeats of a possible war with Iran get louder and debate over it gets more heated, the Green Movement must make its position regarding possible military attacks on Iran abs ...

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

  • New PBS cases
    The tribunal has allowed two appeals on the basis that Pankina does not only apply to the three month rule and that all an applicant need do is comply with the requirements of the Immigration Rules themselves. See FA and AA (PBS effect of Pankina) Nigeria [2010] UKUT 304 (IAC) in relation to the sco ...
  • Immigration Judges and Migration Watch
    I am back from my very pleasant holidays and thought I would kick off what feels like a new season with some juicy gossip. I have previously covered the news that ex immigration judges (then plain old adjudicators, in fact) Patricia Skitmore, John Disley and Harry Mitchell QC joined Migration Watch ...
  • 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 ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • HOW THEY GOT THEIR FICTITIOUS WAR
    Part I: Revving Up the Lie Machine ; "... we now know that Saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons. Among other sources, we've gotten this from the firsthand testimony of defectors – including Saddam's own son-in-law ..." – Vice President Dick Cheney in August 27, 2002 spe ...
  • 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 ...

Salon

  • Ground zero church launches with anti-Muslim, anti ...
    To an audience of about 50 people -- fully half of whom were members of the press -- Pastor Bill Keller launched his 9-11 Christian Center at ground zero this morning with a fiery sermon targeting Muslims and Mormons as hell-bound followers of false faiths. Keller took aim in particular at Glenn ...
  • Legal endangered wolf killings to rise
    Government agencies are seeking broad new authority to ramp up killings and removals of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes, despite two recent court actions that restored the animal's endangered status in every state except Alaska and Minnesota.
  • Tea party, GOP, primed for November wins
    In the turbulent year of the tea party, Republican Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware set out to jangle no nerves as he ran for a Senate seat long held by Vice President Joseph Biden. It's the way Republican strategists originally envisioned 2010, a roster of seasoned politicians pointing the party toward ...
  • The most important race you don't know about -- ye ...
    With the fight over Congress intensifying and President Obama’s agenda hanging in the balance, coverage of this fall's governor’s races has largely fallen by the wayside. But the outcomes of some of these races will have significant consequences -- none more so than the contest in Texas, between ...
  • Earl hits Nova Scotia
    Forecasters say Tropical Storm Earl has made landfall near Western Head, Nova Scotia.

SMB News

  • Hameed rubbishes accusing players in betting row
    LONDON: Pakistan batsman Yasir Hameed denied Saturday having told a British newspaper that his teammates on the England tour were involved in a betting scam. The News of The World quoted Hameed in its edition due out Sunday as saying that some Pakistan players were fixing in “almost every match”. “I ...
  • 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 ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • New blood for city hall
    With the mayor and at least nine sitting councillors declining to run for re-election, Toronto City Hall will soon receive a healthy injection of new blood. While most of the departing politicians have served the city well, their decisions to leave ...
  • Editorial: Tough times for unions
    The annual Labour Day parade today is to wind along Queen St. to its destination at the Canadian National Exhibition, itself a dinosaur. The union members in the parade can only hope the route is not somehow symbolic.
  • Harper scores own goal
    When Quebec separatists stumble and provide a political gift to the federalist cause, it’s part of the Prime Minister’s job description to make the most of it — not for himself, but for Canada.
  • Editorial: Don't raise interest rates
    There are calls from some bank economists and conservative think-tanks for the Bank of Canada to hike interest rates again. It would be the third consecutive increase by the central bank after a year of keeping rates at rock bottom. It would also b ...
  • Bus lanes make sense
    Under discussion for more than six years and finally approved in June, new “bypass” lanes for GO buses on the Don Valley Parkway are to open Tuesday. It’s about time.

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

  • Postcard From Turkey
    Remains of Temple of Artemis, Ottoman castle above it. I’ve been in Turkey, well I still am, but just hit Istanbul after a brief jaunt to Ephesus and the Temple of Artemis in the adjacent town of Selcuk. Tonight I see U2 play at Ataturk Stadium, which is quite the talk on the... Tags: one of the sev ...
  • Heading Home. By Geniusofdespair
    All good things must come to an end...why?I am headed home. The only bad thing to happen is that my thumb was slammed in the closing trunk. It took a few seconds to start hurting - hasn't stopped since. Aside from that, the trip has been thankfully uneventful. I spent a lot of time on...
  • Happy Labor Day! Some Holiday Highlights from My F ...
    As I was reading through the posts of some of my favorite interior design blogs this morning, there were a couple of Labor Day highlights that I thought my readers might also appreciate….. Enjoy! Fellow blogger, CocoCozy , featured this Perfect Party Porch photo that I sooooo... Tags: kitchen labor ...
  • Mailbox Monday – September 6, 2010
    Welcome to this week’s edition of Mailbox Monday hosted this month by Kathy at BermudaOnion . I’m in New Hampshire with my sister, so Kip is my helper with Mailbox Monday for the next few weeks – if books arrive, he lets me know so I can post them. What a guy, huh? I’m a... Tags: philadelphia sweats ...
  • Amanda Cabot's Scattered Petals ~ Reviewed
    Scattered Petals Amanda Cabot Number of Pages: 400 Vendor: Revell Publication Date: 2010 ISBN: 0800733258 Description: Longing for adventure, Priscilla Morton leaves Boston and heads for Texas, never dreaming that the adventure she seeks will leave her badly injured and her... Tags: the adventure bo ...

Groklaw

  • Former H.P. Chief May Move to Oracle
    Mark V. Hurd, who was forced to resign as Hewlett-Packard's top executive last month after an investigation into a sexual harassment charge found that he had manipulated his expenses, is in talks with Oracle about a top executive position there, according a person briefed on the matter. - Miguel He ...
  • How much do you think Time Warner's top lawyer mak ...
    If you guessed $1.25 million a year, plus $2.5 million in bonus if things go well, you'd be right. - THR, Esq.
  • 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 ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

  • Sunset Point, Bryce Canyon National Park
    My sister-in-law and I did a three mile hike down Navajo Loop then up Queens Garden. The guide map says it’s the “world’s best three mile hike.” They could be right. That’s me among the hoodoos (that’s what the eroded spires are called.)
  • Earth to Jerry Brown
    You should be well ahead of Meg Whitman. Yet polls are showing you consistently behind.
  • A tsunami approaches: The beginning of the Great D ...
    New Geography In the distant horizon, a giant wave is building. There are some who recognized the swell and raised the alarm. There are others who deny the possibility of such a wave. Most remain blissfully unaware. The wave is building and when it reaches our shores, it will hit with the force of a ...
  • Oopsie
    Anti-illegal immigration critic arrested in major human-trafficking case
  • The Left, Glenn Beck, and that vision thing
    Byron DeLear makes the point that Glenn Beck profits mightily from his political stances and that much of it is just pure Hollywood, entertainment stereotypes wrapped in in dangerous political rhetoric. Quite possibly all true, but the real job for the left should be not to fulminate at Beck (and Pa ...

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 ...

First Truths

  • Antitrust and the Ultimate Monopoly Redux
    In a leading text for the study of antitrust law, law professors Phillip Areeda, Louis Kaplow and Aaron Edlin assert: In the absence of legal impediments, competitors would like to join together to eliminate competition among themselves, restricting output and raising prices. A perfect scheme wou ...
  • Peace Talks For War
    I opined for the Center for a Stateless Society on the United States-negotiated peace talks between Israel and Palestine. I've previously written on the issue here .
  • Green Rising: Dissecting Environmentalism's Lethal ...
    For those who value individual rights, the question of whether human beings are responsible for global climate change can bear no weight on arguments concerning the role of the state in society; the answer to that question, no matter what it is, could not justify or legitimize any measure that woul ...
  • Intellectual Property Against Freedom: The Hidden ...
    Both the justness and the economic efficacy of intellectual property laws, as embodied in copyrights and patents, are taken for granted by almost all political theorists who consider the question. The prevailing conversation, perhaps due to the extent to which economic life is saturated with the pr ...
  • The Ugly Realities of Protectionism
    With current debates on the United States economic embargo against Cuba and a possible free trade agreement with South Korea, the arguments of protectionists are once again in the news. Today’s mercantilists present tariffs and quotas as protecting the U.S. worker from having his job “stolen” by ...

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