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Thomas Paine

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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • ENVIRONMENT-PHILIPPINES: Mining Project Digs Up Lo ...
    Depending on who one talks to, Mt Mantalingahan is either a treasure trove of untapped minerals lying underneath the earth's crust, or a biodiversity hotspot that is home to some of the worlds rarest and threatened animals.
  • HEALTH: H1N1 Pandemic Is Over, But Vigilance Neede ...
    The World Health Organisation (WHO) is urging countries in Asia to remain vigilant about the spread of the H1N1 influenza virus, which the international body declared was no longer a pandemic a month ago.
  • US: Religious Leaders Condemn Growing Islamophobia
    Leaders of some three dozen mainstream U.S. religious denominations Tuesday condemned what many commentators have called a rising tide of Islamophobia touched off by the recent controversy over the construction of a Muslim community centre in Lower Manhattan, two blocks from the site of th ...
  • UNICEF Shifts Gears to Target Poorest of Children
    A focus on the children at the very bottom of the economic ladder is the most effective and efficient way to help children and communities in need, concludes a new report from the United Nations children's agency UNICEF released Tuesday.
  • Adapt or Perish
    A changing climate will prompt changes in behaviour across Southern Africa. And when it comes to adaptation, Swazi farmer Bongani Phakathi is a frustrated man a few steps ahead of his neighbours.

Scoop - NZ

  • Roubini: No defence left against double-dip recess ...
    The United States, Japan and large parts of Europe have exhausted their policy arsenal, leaving them defenceless against a double-dip recession as recovery slows to a4stall speed'. "The US has run out of bullets," said Nouriel Roubini, professor at New York University, and one of a caste ...
  • Dick Cheney's Oily Dream
    Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is currently saying that Dick Cheney's vision of policy towards the Middle East after 9/11 was to re-draw the map: Vice-President Dick Cheney's vision of completely redrawing the map of the Middle East following the 9/11 attacks is "not stupid,&quot ...
  • US intervenes in Bank of Kabul
    In a bid to fend off the threat of a nationwide financial crisis, the Afghan government scrambled to shore up Afghanistan's largest bank on Saturday after lines of frantic depositors mobbed the bank for a third day. The efforts, which an Afghan official said could include the injection of Afghan g ...
  • Anti-whaling activists wrongly convicted
    Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, known as the Tokyo Two, exposed widespread corruption in Japan's whaling programme - in return, they have been handed a one year suspended prison sentence. However, despite the harsh punishment the two anti-whaling activists stood in court as heroes today, having succes ...
  • 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 ...

Independent - London

  • Six killed in two separate bomb attacks in Baghdad
    Iraqi officials said at least six people were killed and 35 were wounded in two separate attacks in Baghdad today.
  • 300 protesters throw rocks and eggs at LA police
    Los Angeles police say 22 people have been arrested during a second night of protests over an officer's fatal shooting of a Guatemalan immigrant wielding a knife.
  • 300 protesters throw rocks, eggs at LA police
    Los Angeles police say 22 people have been arrested during a second night of protests over an officer's fatal shooting of a Guatemalan immigrant wielding a knife.
  • Big quake aftershocks plague New Zealand city
    A powerful new 5.1-magnitude aftershock rattled terrified residents of New Zealand's earthquake-stricken city of Christchurch today, as officials doubled their estimate for repairing the damage from nearly 300 aftershocks in five days.
  • UN reports over 500 rapes in eastern Congo
    The United Nations reported yesterday that more than 500 systematic rapes were committed by armed combatants in eastern Congo since late July — more than double the number previously reported — and accepted partial responsibility for not protecting citizens.

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

  • 9/11 widow: The media duped us
    As I watch other victims argue over Park51, I feel like reporters turned us into the experts we never were The first time I heard about the Park51 Islamic community center was on May 6, 2010, when I received the following e-mail from a New York TV reporter: "I'm doing story today about the prop ...
  • Detroit Burning From Illegal Electric Hookups
  • BEST OF WEB: 30 Statistics That Prove The Elite Ar ...
    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 was reflected in ...
  • 'Radical Islam' Threat a Mirage
    People often wind up believing their own cover story. Former British prime minister Tony Blair, for example, is trapped forever in the rationalisations he used in 2003 to explain why he was going along with George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq. He was at it again last week, telling the BBC "radical I ...
  • Apartheid Israel: Half of Israeli teens don't want ...
    Study polling 500 teens aged 15 to 18 finds that most don't think Arabs enjoy equal rights in Israel, and most of those don't think Arabs deserve equal rights. Sixty four percent of Israeli teens aged 15 to 18 say that Arab Israelis do not enjoy full equal rights in Israel, and from that group, 59 ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Steve gets mad and goes off the page
    Then starts making comments which make no sense. Furthermore, he and his band of hillbillies are lying about the ramifications of withdrawing from the future purchase of the F-35 Lightning II. We haven't signed a contract yet and we won't until 2013. Harper's yapping coincides, coincidentally, w ...
  • Keep Your 'Net Neutral . . . .
    Corporate USA is doing their damnedest to mess with your Internet for the benefit of their profit structure. You now have another chance to express your displeasure at this prospect. Via PC World today : September 02, 2010 6:18 AM FCC Takes Net Neutrality to Court of Public Opinion (Again) By ...
  • Psycho grizzly . . .
    VANITY FAIR has a fine article by Michael Joseph Gross, "Sarah Palin: The Sound and the Fury" , and it's worth the read. Even as Sarah Palin’s public voice grows louder, she has become increasingly secretive, walling herself off from old friends and associates, and attempting to enforce silence from ...
  • Hurricane Earl, Tropical Storm Fiona and Tropical ...
    Hurricane Earl , an intense category 4 cyclone, is now about 300 miles south of Cape Hatteras. The storm is moving north at about 16 knots (30 kmh/18 mph). It is packing sustained winds of 125 knots (232 kmh/144 mph). The centre of Earl is expected to be abeam the North Carolina Outer Banks by toni ...
  • Teh burning burning stupid
    Yeah. A Florida pastor said Tuesday he would go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Qur'an on Sept. 11, despite condemnation by the top U.S. general and NATO commander in Afghanistan. Pastor Terry Jones, of Gainesville's Dove World Outreach Center, said he considered Gen. David Petraeus' co ...

Media Matters for America

  • Why is Fox carrying water for Sheriff Joe?
    Fox News has forwarded Sheriff Joe Arpaio's claim that he is cooperating with a Department of Justice investigation into charges of racial profiling, and that the investigation is politically motivated. However, Arpaio's own lawyer has reportedly acknowledged that they have not fully cooperated ...
  • Fox calls for repeal of the 20th century
    Since President Obama's election, Fox personalities have expressed opposition to or called for the repeal of virtually every progressive achievement of the 20th century, including Social Security, Medicare, the Americans with Disabilities Act, portions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the 1 ...
  • Right-wing media respond to Obama's jobs plan by ...
    The right-wing media responded to Obama's new six-year jobs plan by rehashing the tired falsehood that the 2009 stimulus "failed." In fact, the stimulus has been estimated by both the White House and independent analysts to have increased employment by about 2 million jobs relative to a baselin ...
  • Glenn Beck's anti-gay army of God
    As he attempts to rebrand himself as a spiritual leader, Glenn Beck has surrounded himself with religious and secular figures who share a fervent opposition to the "homosexual agenda." David Barton James Dobson Randy Forbes Jim Garlow John Hagee Terence Henry Alveda King Richard Land Da ...
  • Conservatives celebrate Labor Day by attacking or ...
    Following Fox News' lead, conservative media outlets celebrated Labor Day by attacking labor unions, often smearing them as "socialist" and violent. Conservatives attack unions as "socialist" "thugs" on Labor Day Beck guest host Thompson: "Happy socialism day!" During the September 6 edition ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • More Sign In Updates
    We rolled out a new feature to the new sign in system this afternoon. If you look up at the upper left hand corner of the site, just below the TPM logo, there's now a "settings" link. If you click that link you can either change your username or reclaim your old TPM identity if you haven't done so ...
  • NEW YEAR-NEW PEACE?
    As Jews around the world gather tomorrow night to usher in the New Year--and as Muslims worldwide mark the end of Ramadan, no doubt many words from religious leaders will be uttered about the latest peace initiative initiated by the Obama Administration between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Ind ...
  • Why Obama Is Proposing Whopping Corporate Tax Cuts ...
    President Obama reportedly will propose two big corporate tax cuts this week. One would expand and make permanent the research and experimentation tax credit, at a cost of about $100 billion over the next ten years. The other would allow companies to write off 100 percent of their new investment ...
  • The Real Lesson of Labor Day
    Welcome to the worst Labor Day in the memory of most Americans. Organized labor is down to about 7 percent of the private work force. Members of non-organized labor -- most of the rest of us -- are unemployed, underemployed or underwater. The Labor Department reported on Friday that just 67,000 new ...
  • Re-launched Talks: The PowerPoint
    Why they started Abbas: No other reason for power; Hamas makes war, Fatah makes peace , brings donors Netanyahu: Fears international isolation, breach with Washington; possibly, aware of historic role, like Begin, Sharon, and Olmert before him Obama: Needs Arab (Muslim) street; pillar of foreign p ...

TruthOut

  • Labor Day Heroes
    Let's pause for a moment this Labor Day to recognize some of our most important, yet most maligned workers. They're teachers and librarians, police officers and firefighters. They're bus drivers, doctors and nurses. They're judges and lawyers, landscape gardeners and arborists. They're laborers an ...
  • The Spirit of New Orleans
    No other story about New Orleans matches the efforts of citizens who took the initiative to clean up the mess left by Hurricane Katrina and begin rebuilding their city. Likewise, people's determination to return home turned out to be the driving force toward recovery - even amid heartache, suffering ...
  • Time Running Out Faster Than Water, Experts Warn
    Stockholm - A major weeklong international water conference opened in the Swedish capital Monday with an ominous warning: time is running out faster than fresh water. If the "massive and complex challenges" facing one of the world's most finite natural resources are not resolved soon, the future lo ...
  • North Korea Releases Prisoners in Exchange for Hum ...
    North Korea's release of a fishing boat and its seven-man crew in exchange for humanitarian aid could bode well for North and South Korean reconciliation. South Korea on Tuesday recovered a fishing boat and its seven-man crew from North Korea after agreeing to an exchange that analysts see as augur ...
  • Tom Engelhardt | The Military's Media Megaphone an ...
    The fall issue of Foreign Policy magazine features Fred Kaplan’s “The Transformer,” an article-cum-interview with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. It received a flurry of attention because Gates indicated he might leave his post “sometime in 2011.” The most significant two lines in the piece, ho ...

Planetsave

  • Googling for Extinction – Popular Algorithm ...
    Two ecologist discover that by adapting Google's Page Rank algorithm they were able to "reverse engineer" the collapse of food webs, and thus determining which species in a given web are most critical to the web's existence.
  • Going Green Tip #6: Cut the Coal
    Continuing on with our Going Green Tips series, Going Green Tip #6 should be no surprise (we’re starting with the big boys). The general tip is to stop using coal power. Easier said than done, right? Maybe, but it is VERY important, and there are a lot of reasons why it’s easier now than ever.... Re ...
  • Sea Otter Populations Need Your Help
    We’ve had a couple posts on sea otters on this site recently — a 10 Friday Photos post on otters and a post about the declining sea otter populations in California. I have to be honest and let you know that one particular friend has been the driver behind these posts. She also recently recommended.. ...
  • Extinct Fox Not Extinct, Found in California
    Fox thought to be extinct found in California. Three weeks ago, U.S. Forest Service biologists thought they found a fox in the mountains of central California that is supposed to be extinct. The biologists looked to experts at the University of California, Davis to confirm this finding. Sure enough, ...
  • Northern Countries to Grow and Thrive
    A University of California LA geographer notes in book that northern countries such as Canada, Scandinavia and Russia are likely to thrive and become formidable economic powers. Laurence C. Smith writes in “The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilizations Northern Future” that northern countries ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Workers Fired for not Wanting to Work for Free - W ...
      ZEFAM stands for Zielona Gora Furniture Factory. Workers there had not received salaries for months. Some had not been paid for four months and nobody was receiving overtime payments. On August 19, the workers asked about this. The manager went to consult with the director of the firm, Marek... ...
  • Israel gearing up for ‘mother of all flotillas’ - ...
    09/07/2010 NGOs planning to sail up to 20 ships to Gaza in coming months; IDF closely tracking planned flotilla, preparing for wide-range of scenarios. Talkbacks (58)   Israel is preparing for what is being described in the IDF as the “mother of all flotillas,” which could ...
  • When ‘Scholars’ become Pawns of The Propagandists ...
    Selig Harrison loses no opportunity to show that Pakistan’s disintegration is only around the corner and to prove that Sino-Pakistan relations threaten US interests. Among those who lay claim to scholarship, yet instead of being objective in their analysis they openly promote bias, readily l ...
  • Economic fault lines deepen in Europe - World News
    7 September 2010 Last week, the European Central Bank (ECB) raised its forecast for growth in the 16-nation Eurozone by just over half a percent, to an average rate of 1.6 percent for 2010. Earlier estimates had predicted growth of only 1.0 percent. This predicted increase is largely due ...
  • Rising tide of acid mine water threatens Johannesb ...
    A toxic tide of acid mine water is rising steadily beneath Johannesburg which, if left unchecked, could cause earth tremors, power blackouts and even cancer among residents, experts have warned. 06 Sep 2010 Particularly at risk is the central business district which is built over the central ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    We are going to go ahead and call these combat fatalities "A gunman wearing an Iraqi army uniform killed two American soldiers in northern Iraq on Tuesday, the U.S. military said. ... A military statement said the Americans were among a group of U.S. soldiers meeting with Iraqi security forces Tuesd ...
  • How to Excite Democratic Voters
    What President Obama's Labor Day speech yesterday cried out for, more than anything else, is massive, Blue-Dog-crushing follow-through. Susie Madrak has some suggestions: Dear President Obama, We've had our differences. But because we're looking at a major disaster for the Democrats in November, I'm ...
  • That's the Candidate We Remember
    Yesterday, Blue Girl noted that President Obama signaled his willingness to fight with his proposal for a new $50 billion infrastructure stimulus. But his new fighting spirit showed in more than just that proposal. His speech bordered on - dare I say it? - inspirational. A transcript cannot do it ju ...
  • The end of an era
    Chicago Mayor Richard Daley will not run for another term. A public official has to know when it's time to move on, Daley said during a press conference. "For me that time is now." Daley said he's thought about the decision for weeks. "I've done my all," Daley said. "I've done my best. Now, I'm rea ...
  • That's the Candidate We Remember
    Yesterday, Blue Girl noted that President Obama signaled his willingness to fight with his proposal for a new $50 billion infrastructure stimulus. But his new fighting spirit showed in more than just that proposal. His speech bordered on - dare I say it? - inspirational. A transcript cannot do it ju ...

Care 2

  • Donate Now to Help Homeless Pets! PETFINDER NEEDS ...
    As a public charity, the Petfinder.com Foundation relies on contributions from caring individuals like you in order to assist thousands of animal shelters and Submitted by Sue BARKO WOLF to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • WWF, gift center and adoption center helps animals ...
    Not sure which species to adopt for that special someone? Donate to WWF and let them choose their own! Four card designs available. Your donation will be used in general support of WWF's efforts around the world. 82 cents Submitted by Sue BARKO WOLF to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Activism is not a crime! Write to Japan's Foreig ...
    GREENPEACE INTERNATIONAL..whaling...Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, known as the Tokyo Two, exposed widespread corruption in Japan's whaling programme in return, they have been handed a disproportionate one year jail term, Submitted by Sue BARKO WOLF to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Low vitamin D linked to schizophrenia
    Babies born with low vitamin D levels are twice as likely to develop schizophrenia later in life, researchers from the Queensland Brain Institute have found. Submitted by Katie Miller to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The Amazons: Mysterious Warrior Maidens Explored i ...
    For the past three centuries, the exploits of the Amazon tribe have become the stuff of legend. These implacable female warriors are supposed to have battled before Troy and laid siege to Athens. Submitted by Marty Powell to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

  • Rabid Dog Briefly Mistaken for Tea Party Candidate ...
    JEFFERSON CITY, MO (The Borowitz Report) - A rabid Doberman Pinscher jumped on stage at a Tea Party rally in Missouri on Labor Day and barked at the crowd for nearly twenty minutes before people realized he was not a candidate. The dog, later identified by its owner as "Mister Buster," held the crow ...
  • What a Second Stimulus Should - and Shouldn't - Lo ...
    Recounting the findings of a new study by the Keystone Research Center, the Denver Business Journal reports that "the unemployment rate would approach 16 percent nationally -- more than 6 percentage points higher than the current jobless rate -- if not for the federal stimulus program." This compor ...
  • The Summer of Our Sporting Discontent
    First run in thenation.com By any measure this country is in an ugly mood. Double-digit unemployment and a growing sense that the environment, economy, and empire are heading south, has Americans walking with a stoop and a scowl. We have seen this national ageda expectorate into the world of sports. ...
  • Labor Pains 2010
    On Labor Day we celebrate those who work -- as opposed to those who inherit family wealth and those whose financial investments work so they don't have to. Many workers who deserve to be honored on this special day have come from across the border. In a global economy, workers who strive for justice ...
  • Blair Reveals Cheney's War Agenda
    Ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s new memoir offers the expected rationalizations for his joining in an illegal, aggressive war against Iraq, even to the point of quibbling about the death toll. But Blair does reveal how much more war was favored by Vice President Dick Cheney and the neocons ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Gibbs Needs To Do His Homework Before Talking
    This is rich. I am not sure what Spokesweasel Gibbs expects to accomplish by this recent bill of goods he is trying to sell, but wow, this is quite the revisionist history in which he is engaged. I know, I know – what else is new. But this particular issue is one [...]
  • The Tragedy of Pat Tillman
    Angry, grieving mothers are not rationale or logical. Pat Tillman’s mom fits in that category. So does Cindy Sheehan. I cannot begin to imagine the pain felt by a woman who loses their son (or daughter) in a war. They are entitled to vent their anger. But that does not [...]
  • Earth To President Obama, Adding Speed To Our Deat ...
    Happy Labor Day, Mr. President! Now can I give you some Main Street advice?  Get yourself some new advisors.  Maybe some earthbound ones.  Because, after listening to your speech on the economy from the White House Rose Garden last Friday, I, along with most of Main Street America, got the distinct ...
  • Labor Day Celebration *Open Thread*
    I hope everyone is having a good day today. If you are with family and friends, I trust you are having a lovely day. If you are traveling, stay safe. And if you are working, well, sorry! I have a few tunes for you for the day. First up, the Judds back [...]
  • Where Have The Jobs Gone? And Who’s To Blame? Labo ...
    Hmmm… where to start? I know going in that my opinions and observations will be sure to gore everyone’s ox at some point, so I’ll try to be sure I don’t miss anyone. Oh, and the opinions expressed in this piece are solely those of the author and not necessarily those of anyone else in [...]

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Macabre Art of Dimitri Tsykalov
    Dimitri Tsykalov's amazing art with raw meat, naked models and rotting fruit is his unique way of protesting against animal abuse, world hunger, mass food waste and savag read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
  • How to Naturally Cleanse Your Liver
    Detoxifying your liver is a skill every college student should have. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Natural Remedies for High Blood Pressure
    Ways to get ahold of your blood pressure without drugs. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Is Fasting Healthy?
    Every major religion and your crazy uncle Dave all recommend a yearly fast, but is it really a good idea? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Chemical Free Skincare Solutions
    Make-up, sun damage and harsh chemicals can add up and take their toll on your epidermis. Fight back without compounding the problem. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

  • Bacevich Held Over Another Week!
    When it comes to evaluating our military, Andrew Bacevich's analyses are as accurate as they are eloquent.
  • Repackaging Assassination
    An idea for a new CIA-based reality show.
  • Obama Fighting on all Fronts
    United States President Barack Obama will try this week to underline his progress in extricating the US from the morass his predecessor's "war on terror" in the Greater Middle East.
  • Obama's Failing Middle East Policy
    Avni Dogru summarises the Middle East's falling in and out of love with President Barack Obama. Without a rapid reversal of U.S. policy, it looks as if the downward trend will only accelerate.
  • The Unmaking of a Company Man: An Education Began ...
    For as long as I could remember, the Brandenburg Gate had been the preeminent symbol of the age and Berlin the epicenter of contemporary history. Yet by the time I made it to the once and future German capital, history was already moving on.

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • On the Migratory Trail, Leaders and Followers
    In any herd, some animals have an acute ability to take in environmental cues like temperature and geomagnetic fields and lead the way. But there also is an advantage to being less sensitive to such cues and more attuned to other members of the herd, a study suggests.
  • Street Cred vs. Green Cred
    Arizona's Green Party is not amused by a Republican operative's effort to recruit people from the streets to run as Green candidates on the November ballot.
  • Is BPA Safe? Europe Also Seeks Answers
    Like federal and state entities in the United States, the European Food Safety Authority is now re-evaluating BPA, in this case by analyzing the data from more than 800 studies.
  • Food Crisis Worsens in Central Africa
    Floods that destroyed crops and livestock only worsened a crisis that was already under way as a result of successive years of drought and failed harvests in the region.
  • Fresh Capital in the Uranium Fuel Race
    Fresh investments in USEC, formerly the the United States Enrichment Company, reflect optimism on two fronts: that the worldwide market for enrichment will grow because of new plant construction and extended operation of old plants, and that a new type of centrifuge will prove practical.

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

  • Critical thinking: what the ruling class fears mos ...
    Abdicating reasoning: Surrendering the debate over teaching, testing and assessment to the constables of obedience training A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education confronts the issue of whether students are really learning in college classrooms and if so, how they might be able to ass ...
  • CENSORED IN 1989: SOMETHING FOUL IN THE CHICKEN IN ...
    CENSORED IN 1989: SOMETHING FOUL IN THE CHICKEN INDUSTRY AND THE USDA The number of cases of salmonella has risen to 2.5 million a year and led to an estimated 500,000 hospitalizations and 9,000 deaths. This national epidemic was caused by a massive leap in consumer demand for the “healthier food” o ...
  • The 6th Annual 9/11 Truth Film Festival Program Sc ...
    Oakland/ San Francisco Bay area This year’s 9/11 Film Festival will be held in three venues over four days and feature five different programs. The Festival runs from September 9th through September 12th and is being held in theaters in Oakland, San Francisco and San Leandro. The 9/11 Truth Film Fes ...
  • Cognitive Infiltration: Recommended Read from Proj ...
    Cognitive Infiltration: An Obama Appointee’s Plan to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory Recommended Read from Project Censored (Olive Branch Press, September 2010), by David Ray Griffin Griffin’s meritorious effort to raise public awareness and understanding Former Chicago and Harvard law professo ...
  • Anti-intellectualism in America
      The Nazis who posed as intellectual heavyweights read National Inquirer-type literature as they decided on death camps: Anti-intellectualism in America George W. Bush liked to spout off and boast about how he did not like to read the newspaper or even read at all.  Sarah Palin could not tell a pie ...

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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

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 09.07.10
    David Vespremi: A lot is hanging on the Leaf Here's what the Leaf and the iPad have in common. Dealers flunk the EPA NADA not happy with proposed fuel economy letter grades. ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Petraeus Condemns Dove World Outreach’s Plan ...
    Petraeus Condemns Dove World Outreach’s Plan To Burn Qurans: ‘It Could Endanger Troops’ AP / Huffington Post First Posted: 09- 6-10 05:22 PM   |   Updated: 09- 6-10 06:18 PM General David Petraeus has condemned a Florida church’s plans to burn Qurans this week, warning that the scene “could en ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Precious Metals Market Report
    By Catherine Austin Fitts I will be calling from Michigan on Thursday evening to join Franklin Sanders of The Moneychanger for the Precious Metals Market Report. I will be at the Thunder Bay Resort in Hillman, Michigan for the Regional Economic Prosperity Alliance Workshop: “Building Persona ...
  • 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 ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • A pity party for America’s rich and powerful
    Summary:   Brad DeLong often nominates people for the ”stupidest man alive” award (e.g., here).  Here is a new nominee. Second Quarter 2010 Investor Letter, Daniel S. Loeb, Third Point Partners LP, 27 August 2010 — Excerpt: As every student of American history knows, this countryâs core foun ...
  • Generals read “Ender’s Game” and ...
    Summary:  The outline for today’s post comes from the youngest member of the FM website’s staff, a Corporal of the USMC.  He’s completed one tour in Afghanistan and will deploy again in 2011.  Here he describes a dark side to one of the most popular science fiction books of the past 20 years, ...
  • 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Bank Shares Fall in Europe
    Wall Street Journal – European stocks fell Tuesday, with banks leading the way after a Wall Street Journal article on European stress tests raised fears about lenders’ exposure to sovereign debt. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index was down 0.5% at 259.58. London’s FTSE 100 Index was down 0.8% at 5396.48, Pa ...
  • Rome prepares to demolish 200 illegal Gypsy camps
    The Guardian – Plans by Rome city officials to demolish up to 200 illegal Gypsy camps this week have raised fears by aid workers that thousands of Roma, including women and small children, will be forced on to the streets. In the wake of France’s controversial repatriation of Romanian Gypsies last ...
  • Stay out of Washington, Rice told Bush after 9/11
    The Guardian – 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 Wh ...
  • 700 bodies found in WWII-era mass grave
    ABC – The bodies of about 700 people killed in the wake of World War II have been discovered in a mass grave in Slovenia.Officials believe the victims might have been suspected Nazi collaborators killed by communist-backed anti-fascists. Investigators say most of the bodies have their hands tied beh ...
  • New lawsuit to challenge laptop searches
    Washington Post – Criminal defense lawyers, press photographers and a university student are challenging the Obama administration’s search policy permitting officers at U.S. borders to detain travelers’ laptop computers and examine their contents even without suspecting the traveler of wrongdoing. I ...

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

  • Asteroid Strikes Colombia – American Media Buries ...
    Such a colossal event, so little media coverage. Around 3:10PM Sunday afternoon residents of Colombia were awestruck when the clear sky was cracked open by a massive fireball that exploded upon impact leaving a 300 foot wide crater and a lot of rattled nerves. This is not the first time this year th ...
  • From the Shadows, emerges a New World Order, THEIR ...
    From the Shadows they have engineered every major war, revolution and recession. They control Everything You Read, Everything You Hear and Everything You See. They have managed to indoctrinate an entire populous to their way of thinking, and have infiltrated key positions in places of authority. And ...
  • Pakistan: Finance Minister Warns Imminent Complete ...
    The Sinister Plan is in final phase now.. Pakistani citizens simply have no idea that they are facing the worst ever crises in recent history. Floods will bring hyper-inflation, shortage of food, magnified power crises and collapse of entire political and economical system if this devastation contin ...
  • Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US m ...
    Files declassified in America have revealed covert public relations and lobbying activities of Israel in the U.S. The National Archive made the documents public following a Senate investigation. They suggest Israel has been trying to shape media coverage of issues it regards as important. You can do ...
  • The Kabbalah is a Hoax
    Modernism and secularism are based on the Kabbalah. It is the reason our "civilization" is preoccupied with violence, sex and the occult, and why current events appeared to be scripted in Hollywood. It is the reason our political and cultural leaders are liars and why society has lost its bearings. ...

Andy Worthington

  • Andy Worthington Discusses Obama’s Guantánamo Iner ...
    On Friday, I was delighted to take part in my 18th interview with Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio. The one-hour show is available here, and my interview begins 35 minutes in. Scott was standing in for Gustavo Arellano on Pacifica Radio’s KFPK channel in Los Angeles, and our interview follows fascinati ...
  • Judge Denies Habeas Petition of Afghan Shopkeeper ...
    On Friday September 3, in the District Court in Washington D.C., Judge John D. Bates handed another victory to the government in its ongoing effort to continue holding insignificant prisoners at Guantánamo, when he denied the habeas corpus petition of Shawali Khan, an Afghan prisoner. Khan was accus ...
  • 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

  • How to Stem a Global Food Crisis? Store More Water
    The key to averting a global food crisis in the face of climate-change related droughts and floods may simply be a matter of storing more water, according to a new report released yesterday at World Water Week in Stockholm. Climate change - World Water Week in Stockholm - ...
  • New Zealand Earthquake Pictures: Walls, Roads Crum ...
    NoneSee wrecked cars and collapsed buildings following a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that hit Christchurch, New Zealand, on Saturday. New Zealand - Earthquake - Oceania - Christchurch - South Island
  • Fire-Tornado Pictures: Why They Form, How to Fight ...
    NoneRecent "firenadoes" in Brazil and Hawaii aren't rare, just rarely reported, an expert says: Large-scale versions occur once a year in the U.S. Hawaii - United States - Brazil - South America - Tornadoes
  • Why Hurricane Earl Weakened on Path to Cape Cod
    Changes in the wall of clouds around Hurricane Earl's eye helped it diminish to a Category 1 storm as it moved toward Cape Cod, experts say. Cape Cod - Hurricane Earl - United States - Massachusetts - Eye
  • Oil Rig Explosion Photos: Mariner Energy Platform ...
    NoneJust months after BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, which leaked millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, another Gulf oil rig exploded into flames Thursday. Gulf of Mexico - Deepwater Horizon - BP - Oil platform - Business

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.

  • Does Low-Carb Mean Good Health? Consumers Think So ...
    Food marketers are are eager to latch onto the latest diet and nutrition trends to promote their questionable goods. Some of these descriptors might be useful -- such as low-salt -- but catchy labels don't tell us much about the nutritional content of the product. However, many consumers think they ...
  • UN Creates Trust Fund for Human Trafficking Surviv ...
    This week the UN is encouraging countries to give generously to a new trust fund, created to help support human trafficking survivors around the world. The money will help governments and NGOs provide resources to trafficked persons to reduce re-trafficking and help them heal from slavery. But will ...
  • Judge Overturns VA Prison Reading Policy
    William Couch wasn't allowed to read Lady Chatterly's Lover, or Ulysses , for fear they would titillate him, but he was free to order Playboy if he was so inclined. Does that make sense? Hardly. From the Virginia prison he resides in, William Couch challenged the state policy that allowed him soft c ...
  • Do a Few Clean Shrimp Warrant Re-Opening Gulf Wate ...
    Here's some news that may be even more depressing than the fact that the Gulf of Mexico got hit with yet another oil rig explosion last week . The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently re-opened 5,130 square miles of Gulf waters to fishing and shrimping. On its face, the re ...
  • Homophobia in the Digital Age
    For generations, homophobia and its many manifestations went unchecked: certainly before Stonewall gay people had little to no voice with which to combat anti-gay attitudes. Despite landmark legislation and social progress in the subsequent decades, homophobia remains part and parcel of the gay expe ...

Common Dreams -News

  • UN 'Failed' DR Congo Rape Victims
    UN troops failed 242 women and children who suffered a mass rape attack in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a top UN peacekeeping official has said. Congo hosts the largest and most costly UN peacekeeping mission in the world, but the mass rape attacks happened just 30km from a UN ...
  • 'Many Failures' Caused BP Spill
    BP says no single factor caused the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst ecological catastrophe in recent US history. Instead, "a sequence of failures involving a number of different parties" led to the explosion which killed 11 people and caused the leak. The company said i ...
  • BP: Let Us Drill – or We May Not Have Cash to Pay ...
    by Rupert Cornwell With the permanent sealing of its blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico perhaps just days away, BP is warning that it may not have the money to pay the colossal clean-up bill if Congress passes a law that would stop it obtaining permits for offshore drilling in US waters. The new c ...
  • The Great Jobs Depression Worsens, and the Choice ...
    by Robert Reich The Great Jobs Depression continues to worsen. The Labor Department reports this morning that companies created ony 67,000 new jobs in August. That's down from the 107,000 they created in July. And because the government laid off temporary Census workers, the economy as a whole lost ...
  • Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill’s 30-Year Legacy
    by Matthew Berger WASHINGTON - A surprisingly small number of scientists have studied the impacts of the oil spill resulting from the 1979 blowout at the Ixtoc I oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Wes Tunnell, who first studied the spill's effects in July and August of 1980 and has returned many times s ...

Lifehacker

  • Firefox 4 Beta 5 Now Available with Default Hardwa ...
    Windows/Mac/Linux: Firefox 4 Beta 5 is out tonight , and it firms up a few things that have been slowly taking shape in previous betas of the browser. Most significantly, it enables by default the (Windows-only) hardware acceleration that had ...
  • What's the Best Way to Sync Extensions Across Comp ...
    Dear Lifehacker, I'm a die-hard Firefox users, but now that Chrome's stable release features extension syncing , I'm really frustrated with my reliable little 'fox. What options do I have if I want to sync my extensions but prefer to stick w ...
  • Remains of the Day: iOS 4.1 Update Coming Tomorrow ...
    Google TV is set to arrive in Autumn, Mint showcases average spending in local spots, and Apple's releasing the iOS 4.1 update tomorrow. More��
  • Zoomy Automatically Enlarges Web Pages to Fit Your ...
    Chrome: Zoomy is a small Chrome extension that automatically enlarges websites to fill the available screen space. Whether you're trying to read small text more comfortably or you're tired of the massive page gutters on your widescreen monitor ...
  • Nike+ Now Available with GPS Tracking (and Without ...
    iOS only: Nike+, the popular run tracking system that utilizes an iPhone/iPod touch and a sensor chip placed in your shoe, has released a new version that doesn't require a single-use chip, and also provides GPS mapping for social exercise man ...

Water Privatization

  • On our ballot: The best initiatives big $ can buy
    Statewide initiatives are corrupting our politics: Powerful special interests buy a place on the ballot. They wreck checks and balances of representative government. They mislead the public and try to buy the public's support.
  • Many South Side residents agree: Time for Daley to ...
    They're happy to see him go. That was the sentiment in a nutshell offered Tuesday by 19th Ward residents reacting to Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's announcement that he will not seek re-election for a seventh term in 2011. Whatever the demographic - young and old, black and white, male and female - t ...
  • Hinchey remarks in announcing his candidacy for re ...
    In a series of appearances in his district, U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey today announced his candidacy for re-election to Congress.
  • Meet your County Council candidates
    The Garden Island asked the Kaua‘i candidates running for mayor,Kaua‘i County Council, state Senate and state House ofRepresentatives to respond to three general questions about theirdecision to seek elected office. Responses were limited to 300words.
  • MHI Receives Order for Two Steam Turbine/Generator ...
    Tokyo, Sept 8, 2010 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Marubeni Corporation (Marubeni) have jointly received an order for two sets of a steam turbine and generator, 1,000 megawatts (MW) each, for ultra-super-critical-pressure (USC)* coal-fired power generation units of Ko ...

Guardian

  • CPS head backs US-style murder charges
    Director of public prosecutions tells Today programme he supports introduction of different degrees of murder charges The director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, has said he supports the introduction of different degrees of murder charges in England and Wales. Starmer told BBC Radio 4's Today ...
  • Clinton: Qur'an burn plan a disgrace
    Obama administration weighs in against proposed burning, which state department calls 'un-American' Hillary Clinton has called an American church's threat to burn copies of the Qur'an to mark the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks a "disrespectful, disgraceful act". Others in the Obama ad ...
  • BP to admit partial blame for oil spill
    Report likely to show BP workers misread crucial pressure readings hours before explosion, but will accuse rig owners Transocean over integrity of blowout preventer BP is expected to admit today that it was partly to blame for the Deepwater Horizon disaster , but will also claim that other companies ...
  • Tomlinson postmortem withheld
    Coroner is among those denied access to results of examination commissioned by lawyers for policeman who hit G20 bystander A separate postmortem into the death of Ian Tomlinson carried out on behalf of the policeman filmed hitting him at the G20 protests last year has been withheld from the authorit ...
  • Militants kill Pakistan police families
    Eighteen killed and 94 wounded as militants attack residential compound of officers' complex in Peshawar A car bomb ripped through a police compound in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing 18 people, including 14 women and children and four officers, the latest in a string of attack ...

McClatchey

  • U.S. offensive expected in home district of Afghan ...
    ASHEQUE, Afghanistan — Zhari, the birthplace of the Taliban movement and once again a major stronghold of the Taliban insurgency, looks set to become a battle zone where some 2,400 U.S. troops will lead an attempt to reclaim the region for the Afghan government.
  • Looted treasures back in Iraq, but don't plan on s ...
    BAGHDAD — Gold earrings made for an Assyrian queen, a sacred 4,000-year-old statue and 540 other looted pieces of Iraq's ancient history went on display in Iraq on Tuesday in what was billed as a triumph of justice and international cooperation.
  • Feds: Gulf oil blowout won't lead to dead zones
    WASHINGTON — The amount of oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico near oil plumes created by the BP well blowout is 20 percent lower than normal, but not so low as to create dead zones where little life exists, federal scientists reported Tuesday.
  • Sitting too long can affect your risk of death
    The American Cancer Society has a message for Americans: Stand up.
  • California water bank sued as wells go dry
    A story worthy of Hollywood will soon unfold in California courtrooms -- allegations of government corruption and corporate greed to rival the infamous Los Angeles water grab that inspired the film "Chinatown."

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

  • Sen. Alexander: The Bush Tax Cuts Are Free, But Ob ...
    A handful of Republican lawmakers have tried to claim recently that extending all of the Bush tax cuts, including those for the wealthiest two percent of Americans, is free. “Continuing the [Bush] tax cuts isnât a cost,” said Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK). “It doesnât score anything to continue them.” ...
  • Will Obama’s Business Investment Plan Lead T ...
    Tomorrow, the Obama administration will reportedly unveil a new measure allowing businesses to deduct 100 percent of their equipment investments from their tax bills until the end of 2011. The proposal is being paired with one regarding infrastructure investment (which I
  • Rick Scott’s Trinidadian Immigrant Running M ...
    Following his victory in the Republican primary for Florida governor, Latino GOP strategists began urging Rick Scott (R-FL) to consider a Latino from South Florida as his running mate “to broaden his appeal and diffuse the immigration issue.” However, last week, Scott tapped Jennifer Carroll (R-FL) ...
  • Could Whitman Really Create Two Million Jobs By Cu ...
    California’s Republican gubernatorial nominee, former Ebay CEO Meg Whitman, has been touting her economic platform, calling job creation “the number one thing we have to do.” Today, on Fox News, Whitman once again asserted that she will create two million “new, good, private sector jobs,” and when a ...
  • Are Professional Islam-Bashers Endangering U.S. Tr ...
    Yesterday, Think Progress reported on Gen. David Petraeus’ comments that the “International Burn a Quran Day” being planned by the right-wing Dove World Church in Florida âcould endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effortâ in Afghanistan. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • This is a REAL Crisis Folks
    When I was just starting to learn about political-economic history I had a habit of responding to economic crises as if they were signalling the end of the current order. Time and time again I underestimated the strength and resiliency of the the US-led economic system. So when the financial crisis ...
  • Tony Blair and Glenn Beck
    There's a nauseating combo 'eh? But this post is just about two quick separate reflections on these two assholes. About Tony Blair, I'd like to review Heather Mallick's review of Tony Blair's latest exercise in self-pity and hypocrisy, My Journey: Andrew Rawnsley, whose recent The End of the Party ...
  • 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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • State Department gives no mention of whistleblower ...
    Last April, I submitted a report to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the U.S. State Department about how U.S. law fails to give whistleblowers customary remedies for their retaliation claims. My report listed the international treaties that required the United States to prot ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Big Brother In Your Garbage Cans
    Reader Stan alerted us to a recent report out of Cleveland, where the city will apparently be placing RFID chips in recycling bins to monitor whether or not you've been a good little earth saver lately. The way it works, apparently, is that the system will monitor whether or not you bring your recy ...
  • Iron Maiden, Connects With Fans, And The Fans Buy
    There really isn't that much specifically new about what the band Iron Maiden has done, but as this NY Times article shows, the band figured out ages ago, that really connecting with fans is a useful trait in having those fans continue to support you. The article notes that the band was never reall ...
  • Juror Has To Write Essay As Punishment For Comment ...
    We've written many, many times about how technology is invading the courtroom in ways that courts still aren't entirely prepared to handle. Social networking sites are definitely becoming an issue. There was the juror who Twittered during a trial, and almost led to a retrial. There was the juror ...
  • Betcha Loses Its Big Bet: Court Now Says It's Ille ...
    Back in 2007, we wrote about a startup that was trying to sneak its way through anti-online gambling laws by trying to squeeze through a loophole . The site, called Betcha, would let people bet each other on various things, but which let bettors renege on any bet if they lost. Of course, doing so ...
  • Misguided Insult To Misguided Injury: HP Sues To S ...
    The most credible explanation I've seen so far as to why HP fired Mark Hurd last month, even after it determined that he had not actually engaged in sexual harassment, was that the Mark Hurd help lead the investigation into the board over the infamous pretexting scandal , and that the whole story ab ...

VacTruth

  • Vaccine Meeting at FDA
    Both sides of the vaccine injury issue need to interact intelligently because, as one member at that meeting said privately, “We’re both on the same page only at different paragraphs.”
  • Shoulder Injury Related to Vaccine Administration
    A “new” type of vaccine injury that is surfacing called Shoulder Injury Related to Vaccine Administration, or SIRVA. The damage centers on the shoulder and/or upper arm where a vaccine was administered. Sometimes there is an inability to use the affected arm.
  • 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.

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Hope you all had a lovely long weekend.  The weather here in DC is gorgeous.  Hopefully, it will stay nice for the radical book fair in Baltimore this weekend. I expect to read about how coops fair better in economic crisis from Dominion.  But I don’t expect to read a plug for coops from The Wall ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Is Riding a Bike On The Sidewalk OK?
    April recently wrote In Defense of Sidewalk Bike Riding , suggesting that it's OK in certain circumstances: "I believe there are in everyday cycling occasions on which a cyclist may need to sidewalk ride." Meanwhile economist Felix Salmon weighs in at Reuters: ... Read the full story on TreeHu ...
  • A Technical Look At Termite Mounts Foretells Chang ...
    Photo by sheilaellen Despite their reputation as pests, termites are actually fascinating creatures particularly for their complex social structures. But that isn't the only thing that hast attracted the attention of scientists lately. It seems that by watching where termites decide to build mo ...
  • Scientists Drill into Ancient Coral Reefs To Find ...
    Photo Credit: ECORD/IODP via Live Science In an instance where drilling into the Great Barrier Reef is a good thing, scientists are pulling core samples of ancient coral to unravel how sea level changes have impacted corals in the past, and perhaps help predict what can happen to them in the fu ...
  • Cool Green Bus Terminal Coming to San Francisco
    An artist's conception of the green new Transbay Terminal being built in San Francisco. Image via Inhabitat . One of my favorite things to do in Turkey is go down to the main otogar (bus station), ask around for buses to interesting destinations, and hop on. The station itself is no great shake ...
  • Extinct Fox Turns Up Again in California
    Photo via Keith Slausen / US Forest Service The Sierra Nevada red fox was thought to be extinct, until three weeks ago anyway. U.S. Forest Service biologists captured photos of the fox with a camera set up on a trail, and took DNA samples of saliva pulled from a bait bag the fox bit into to exp ...

Biosingularity

  • Exercise, calorie restrictions can rejuvenate olde ...
    Harvard researchers have uncovered a mechanism in mice through which caloric restriction and exercise delay some of the debilitating effects of aging by rejuvenating the connections between nerves and the muscles that they control. The research, published online by the journal Proceedings of the Nat ...
  • Researchers discover that gut bacteria affect mult ...
    Biologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have demonstrated a connection between multiple sclerosis (MS)—an autoimmune disorder that affects the brain and spinal cord—and gut bacteria. The work—led by Sarkis K. Mazmanian, an assistant professor of biology at Caltech, and postdoc ...
  • HIV prevention science scores a victory — th ...
    Today at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, members of the International Rectal Microbicide Advocates (IRMA) and thousands of other HIV advocates and scientists cheered a long-awaited, much anticipated success in the quest for new HIV prevention technologies. Researchers ann ...
  • Novozymes reveals knowledge on new antibiotic agai ...
    Scientists from Novozymes have now found the mechanism by which plectasin, an anti-microbial peptide, kills bacteria that cause severe infections in humans. Peptide antibiotics such as plectasin have retained antibiotic activity throughout evolution. The new knowledge shows that plectasin and other ...
  • First Self-Replicating, Synthetic Bacterial Cell C ...
    Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute JCVI, a not-for-profit genomic research organization, published results today describing the successful construction of the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cell. The team synthesized the 1.08 million base pair chromosome of a modified Mycoplas ...

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

  • Why Bother? Activists for a Better World
    We must unite in spirit, but be independent in action because when those in power feel threatened with any real change they will takeout any leaders, denigrate any group and activities with accusations and criticisms. They will call them anti or un-American even when they stand up for the rights of ...
  • Ecuador Government Accepts a Binding Agreement to ...
    After years of intense local and international campaigning and lobbying by environmentalists and indigenous peoples, the Ecuador government finally signed on to the Yasuni-ITT Initiative (link) on August 2. Thus for the first time in history a nation state accepts a binding agreement to leave fossil ...
  • California Pot Legalization Could Stop the Murdero ...
    The Mexican drug war that has taken the lives of 28,000 people over the past four years could conceivably come to an end if California votes to legalize marijuana, say prominent American and Mexican policy makers. Click here to read this article
  • Not Crying over Spilt Soymilk
    It’s not often that family-scale farmers can go toe-to-toe with a $12 billion agribusiness and come out victors. But organic soybean producers, and a modestly scaled but powerful ally, The Cornucopia Institute, are claiming victory over Dean Foods in the organic marketplace. Click here to read this ...
  • Meat Back on Menu for Animal Feed 20 Years After B ...
    Meat could once again be fed to animals under plans to relax rules introduced to prevent the transmission of BSE more than 20 years after the emergence of "mad cow disease" caused a public health and political crisis. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Imágenes HDR (High Dynamic Range) - ¡Extraordinari ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y vea más fotografías 2.- Conozca nuestro fotoblog oficial (www.1m4g ...
  • Lo más nuevo y selecto de las imágenes fantásticas
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y vea más fotografías 2.- Conozca nuestro fotoblog oficial (www.1m4g3 ...
  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes VII
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y vea más fotografías 2.- Conozca nuestro fotoblog oficial (www.1m4g3 ...
  • Nueva colección de autos bonitos (12 fondos para p ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y vea más fotografías 2.- Conozca nuestro fotoblog oficial (www.1m4 ...
  • 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 ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • NPR Asks CLF Scholar: Is Organically Produced Food ...
    Center for a Livable Future Visiting Scholar, Kate Clancy, joined two other prominent scientists for a panel discussion Friday on National Public Radio’s Science Friday program. The conversation centered on recent research showing organically grown strawberries have more vitamin C and antioxidants t ...
  • 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 ...

Norwegianity

  • A handful of themes and a zillion links
    Yes, the same Republican party that recruits the homeless to run as Greens, the party of underqualified but highly aggressive and ethically challenged underlings, the neglecters of infrastructure and the privatizers of healthcare, are still at it. Studies show the pain stops at $75,000 a year which ...
  • Without decent pay, there is no freedom
    I think Roy Edroso sums up it up best: On Labor Day, Rightbloggers Denounce Labor Day, Unions, Minimum Wage, Etc. “Obama Backs Violent Labor Leader,” roared Men’s News Daily. “Obama, the self-styled man of peace, the reconciler, and the hope of mankind, is cozy with violence, from Islam to labor uni ...
  • 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 [...]

Public News Service

  • AZ Homeless Teens Come Out of Shells With Drama Tr ...
    AZ Homeless Teens Come Out of Shells With Drama Training Phoenix, AZ – Dozens of Arizona homeless teenagers are being taught the basics of acting, improvisation and performance in a series of workshops put on by a Phoenix-based theater group. The workshops are credited with boosting the self-confide ...
  • Some Carpool Lanes Filling up with Single Drivers
    Some Carpool Lanes Filling up with Single Drivers Phoenix, AZ - Just before the busy Labor Day holiday driving period, California this week upgraded its laws, allowing more single-driver cars in high-occupancy vehicle (HOV), or carpool, lanes. That's to include those driving the next generation of l ...
  • Fighting Childhood Obesity a Family Affair
    Fighting Childhood Obesity a Family Affair Phoenix, AZ - September is the first-ever Childhood Obesity Awareness Month. It's promoted as a family affair in order to successful fight childhood obesity. Comments from cardiologist Suzanne Sorof SOAR-off), president of the Phoenix metro board of directo ...
  • Bed Bugs Make Comeback in AZ: What You Can Do
    Bed Bugs Make Comeback in AZ: What You Can Do Phoenix, AZ - They've been found in college dorms, hotels and apartments. Bedbugs are making a comeback, in Arizona and around the country. Experts say it's due to a variety of reasons including more travel, lack of awareness and stigma. Dr. Dini (DEE-kn ...
  • Harnessing the Power of the Sun in a “Smart& ...
    Harnessing the Power of the Sun in a “Smart” Way Lucerne Valley, CA - A solar power project planned for the Mohave Desert west of Arizona has the support of national conservation groups because it demonstrates that large-scale solar energy projects can be planned in a way that protects plants, wildl ...

My Care2 Picks

  • U.N. climate panel urged to reform, stick to scien ...
    The U.N. climate panel should make predictions only when it has solid evidence and should avoid policy advocacy, scientists said in a report on Monday that called for thorough reform of the body. IPCC errors show science behind global warming questionable Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech ...
  • Gordon Duff: Is Israel Running The Taliban?
    43 Pakistanis were killed in a terror attack, killed for supporting Palestinians in Gaza. The signs had been there, the Wikileaks attempt to put responsibility for the Taliban on Veterans Today editor General Hamid Gul ; debunked in a heartbeat. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • On the Road to Political Power and Theocracy
    The past two decades have seen a growing symbiosis between the mass movement of evangelical Christians and the Republican Party. Leaders of the Christian Right have built one organization after another, with the avowed purpose of winning state power. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Terrorism: I am a Muslim; I am a victim of terrori ...
    Can those who use torture, assassination, corruption and wars as their declared method of occupying one Muslim country after another and killing millions of innocent Muslims accuse those who defend freedom, dignity and sovereignty of terrorism?. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow
    Updated about 4 months ago Satire Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Burmese women expose military’s complicity in the ...
    Poisoned hills -- New InternationalistBeyond the dusty streets of Mae Sot, a border town on the edge of Thailand’s frontier with Burma, Lway Dang Jar shows me into a small yard surrounding the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Airports aren't the only place to find companies s ...
    Airports aren't the only place to find companies selling X-ray scanners | Center for Investigative ReportingWhile debate continues in the United States over whether whole-body imagers now being used... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Merkel to award prophet cartoonist
    PressTV - Merkel to award prophet cartoonist: "Merkel is scheduled to address a ceremony about freedom of press in Potsdam, near Berlin on Wednesday where she will give an award to Danish cartoonist... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Iraq: The forgotten 'nakba'
    Iraq: The forgotten 'nakba' - In Depth - Al Jazeera English: "The US invasion of Iraq marked a dramatic turning point for the Arab world, but the recent partial American withdrawal generated notably... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • US criticises Quran burning plan
    US criticises Quran burning plan - Americas - Al Jazeera English: "The Obama administration has said that it is concerned about the proposed burning of the Quran by a US church group.On Tuesday, the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Iraq After Invasion Bloodiest Country for Journali ...
    ShareThis Iraq After Invasion Bloodiest Country for Journalists �--230 journalists have been murdered in Iraq since the US invasion in March 2003 07 Sep 2010 Another journalist was gunned down in Iraq today, prominent Al-Iraqiya television anchor, Riad al-Saray. According to Iraqi police al-Saray wa ...
  • US expands military training in Yemen, reflecting ...
    ShareThis US expands military training in Yemen, reflecting a broader counterterror program 08 Sep 2010�U.S. special operations forces are expanding their training of the Yemeni military as the Obama administration broadens its program to counter terrorism in countries reluctant to harbour a visible ...
  • 9/11 Koran burning 'disrespectful' and 'disgracefu ...
    ShareThis 9/11 Koran burning 'disrespectful' and 'disgraceful', Hillary Clinton says 08 Sep 2010 A Florida church's threat to burn copies of the Koran to mark the September 11 attacks has been condemned by Hillary Clinton as "disrespectful" and "disgraceful". The American Secretary of State is the h ...
  • Massive Israel spy base exposed
    ShareThis Massive Israel spy base exposed 08 Sep 2010 A French periodical has revealed the location of a secret Israeli espionage center, which ranks among the world's largest and most significant. The base, which intercepts information for the Israeli Spy Agency (Mossad) and the Israel Defense Forc ...
  • Health Insurers Plan Hikes
    ShareThis Well, kinock me over with a feather! Health Insurers Plan Hikes �08 Sep�2010�Health insurers say they plan to raise premiums for some Americans as a direct result of the 'health overhaul' in coming weeks, complicating Democrats' efforts to trumpet their signature achievement before the mid ...

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

  • Boycott grows as Stephen Sondheim, Mira Nair and J ...
    Jewish Voice for Peace's campaign to support 60 leading Israeli actors and playwrights who are refusing to play a new theater in Ariel continues to grow. New notable figures are joining by the day. Ed Asner explains his support, "It is always amazing when actors turn down jobs.To have the actors of ...
  • Are the settlers civilians?
    Although I have replied individually to a few comments to my recent post regarding the recent killing of four Israeli settlers, there was one issue repeatedly raised in several comments. To what extent should Jewish settlers in the West Bank be considered civilians?Armed - Some have questioned wheth ...
  • Traveler
    I'm off to the Middle East for a couple weeks. I wish everyone a happy end to Ramadan and happy beginning of the Jewish new year. Well-- those sons and daughters of Abraham, anyway!I'm going to try and write from my destinations and keep an eye on the news. Others will be carrying the weight. [...]
  • Meet the Chernicks
    A few weeks back Juan Cole created a data point to explain the neocons:They have more assets than is visible on the surface. They have perhaps half of America’s 400 billionaires on their side.I am deeply grateful to Cole for that assertion. Even if it's imprecise, even if it's off, it's obviously b ...
  • Palestinian parents donate organs of their dead 4- ...
    and other news from Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Abbas asks US to step into settlement dispute (AP) AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he has asked the U.S. to settle a dispute with Israel over settlement expansion that is threatening to dera ...

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

  • Is Riding a Bike On The Sidewalk OK?
    April recently wrote In Defense of Sidewalk Bike Riding , suggesting that it's OK in certain circumstances: "I believe there are in everyday cycling occasions on which a cyclist may need to sidewalk ride." Meanwhile economist Felix Salmon weighs in at Reuters: ... Read the full story on TreeHu ...
  • A Technical Look At Termite Mounts Foretells Chang ...
    Photo by sheilaellen Despite their reputation as pests, termites are actually fascinating creatures particularly for their complex social structures. But that isn't the only thing that hast attracted the attention of scientists lately. It seems that by watching where termites decide to build mo ...
  • Scientists Drill into Ancient Coral Reefs To Find ...
    Photo Credit: ECORD/IODP via Live Science In an instance where drilling into the Great Barrier Reef is a good thing, scientists are pulling core samples of ancient coral to unravel how sea level changes have impacted corals in the past, and perhaps help predict what can happen to them in the fu ...
  • Cool Green Bus Terminal Coming to San Francisco
    An artist's conception of the green new Transbay Terminal being built in San Francisco. Image via Inhabitat . One of my favorite things to do in Turkey is go down to the main otogar (bus station), ask around for buses to interesting destinations, and hop on. The station itself is no great shake ...
  • Extinct Fox Turns Up Again in California
    Photo via Keith Slausen / US Forest Service The Sierra Nevada red fox was thought to be extinct, until three weeks ago anyway. U.S. Forest Service biologists captured photos of the fox with a camera set up on a trail, and took DNA samples of saliva pulled from a bait bag the fox bit into to exp ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

  • How to Stem a Global Food Crisis? Store More Water
    The key to averting a global food crisis in the face of climate-change related droughts and floods may simply be a matter of storing more water, according to a new report released yesterday at World Water Week in Stockholm. Climate change - World Water Week in Stockholm - ...
  • New Zealand Earthquake Pictures: Walls, Roads Crum ...
    NoneSee wrecked cars and collapsed buildings following a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that hit Christchurch, New Zealand, on Saturday. New Zealand - Earthquake - Oceania - Christchurch - South Island
  • Fire-Tornado Pictures: Why They Form, How to Fight ...
    NoneRecent "firenadoes" in Brazil and Hawaii aren't rare, just rarely reported, an expert says: Large-scale versions occur once a year in the U.S. Hawaii - United States - Brazil - South America - Tornadoes
  • Why Hurricane Earl Weakened on Path to Cape Cod
    Changes in the wall of clouds around Hurricane Earl's eye helped it diminish to a Category 1 storm as it moved toward Cape Cod, experts say. Cape Cod - Hurricane Earl - United States - Massachusetts - Eye
  • Oil Rig Explosion Photos: Mariner Energy Platform ...
    NoneJust months after BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, which leaked millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, another Gulf oil rig exploded into flames Thursday. Gulf of Mexico - Deepwater Horizon - BP - Oil platform - Business

Jurist - Legal Research

  • HRW calls on Zambia to stop police abuse of prison ...
    [JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Tuesday urged the Zambian government to investigate the inhumane treatment of prisoners [press release] in the nation's jails and to hold those implicated accountable. HRW claims that Zambian police officials "routinely engage" in abusing and t ...
  • Rwanda genocide tribunal opens trial of ex-mayor
    [JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday began the trial [press release] of former Kivumu, Rwanda, mayor Gregoire Ndahimana [case materials; Trial Watch profile]. Ndahimana was charged [indictment, PDF] in July 2001 on charges o ...
  • Rights groups file suit challenging border laptop ...
    [JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the New York Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) [advocacy websites] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] Tuesday against the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) [official website] challenging a g ...
  • Black farmers urge US Senate to fund settlement in ...
    [JURIST] Founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association (NBFA) [advocacy website] James Boyd, Jr. [official profile] called [press release] Tuesday for the US Senate [official website] to fund a settlement [JURIST report] in a discrimination case involving minority farmers. The requ ...
  • Spain high court confirms trial for judge Garzon o ...
    [JURIST] The Criminal Chamber of the Spanish Supreme Court [official website, in Spanish] unanimously confirmed on Tuesday the lower court order that National Court judge Baltasar Garzon [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] abused his power and must face trial. Garzon was charged [JURIST report] in Ap ...

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

  • Peace through [fill in the blank]
    By: PeaceCorso I loved this graphic! I found it on Wise Earth: The Network for Social Responsibility. “Volunteers of Shanti Fund are ambitious about celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of the Mahatma Gandhi Statue on Long Island. Volunteers have contacted many s ...
  • Farm Aid: 25 years and still needed
    By: VictoriaKlein I’m always delighted each time I see a “ No Food, No Farms ” bumper sticker because its 100% true. What we eat is directly linked to our personal health and well-being. Without farms, we wouldn’t have real food to eat - plain and simple. Even with ...
  • 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 ...

OpEd News

  • A not so new U.S. public policy
    The collection of essays that comprise "Toward A New Public Policy" could be summarized in four words: arrogance, ignorance, image, fail. This policy is all about changing image and not much about changing actions.
  • Anti-Muslim Mania - Come on Babe, Don't Light that ...
    You know that I would be fool - You know that I would be a schmuck - If I was to burn the Noble Koran just to make some kind of point that I don't seem capable of understanding anyway because alien insect people took away my ability to make good decisions - and I know that none of that rhymed, anywa ...
  • What Did Tony Blair Expect?
    What is worth getting in a fight over is honest government. Being lied to and misled into needless wars and other questionable adventures is not something we should have to accept. Some people do not, as Tony Blair is witnessing first hand.
  • Take Back the Land, Give Root to Democracy
    Review of the book "Take Back the Land" by Max Rameau. Review by Alex Knight, endofcapitalism.com
  • Mixed Media
    A recent study shows that the appropriate kind of art in the hospital could speed-up a patient's recovery and could enhance a facility's identity.

Switchboard

  • Washington Post: Two Birds in the Bush Are Worth ...
    Under the provocative title “ Mr. Obama vs. the Greens ,” the Post today offered an internally contradictory view of a lawsuit against the nation’s five biggest carbon polluters.  The editorial begins by praising the Justice Department’s Solicitor General for asking the Supreme Court t ...
  • India Climate Change and Energy News - Week of Aug ...
    Climate Change India will Back Pachauri Irrespective of Criticism “Indian will back the UN's Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chief Rajendra Pachauri irrespective of an independent review finding flaws in its structure and suggesting shortening the chair's 12-year t ...
  • EPA Chief: Veto Coming If Congress Tries Blocking ...
    Bloomberg Businessweek ran a story last week on the actions taken by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to begin curbing the carbon pollution that drives global warming.  Jackson is acting under the Supreme Court’s 2007 decision holding that carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping pollutant ...
  • NY Times on BPA - how long can this boxing match g ...
    Yesterday, the New York Times (NYT) published a story on the Battle of the BPA Experts, titled, " In Feast of Data on BPA Plastic, No Final Answer ". This battle, like the one between Godzilla and King Kong, involves powerful minds and powerful interests.  On one side, independent rese ...
  • New National Ocean Policy Will Help Protect the "B ...
    Tomorrow evening at the Commonwealth Club of California , the Council on Environmental Quality Chairwoman Nancy Sutley and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Administrator Jane Lubchenco will be discussing the Obama administration's national ocean policy. Just as we have ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • How Did I Get it Right?
    In honor of the trend of “How did I get it wrong” posts, this is a brief examination of how I managed to get it right on Iraq.  Revisiting correct decisions can often be just as productive as probing failures.  I’m also interested in working through it again because it’s kind of surprising that [ ...
  • Still the Gold Standard of Hackery After All These ...
    Yep, Glenn Reynolds has still got it.     His latest crackpot claim is that “eliminationist rhetoric” is far from confined to one nut who took hostages at the Discovery Channel but is prevalent among contemporary environmentalists.    His “evidence” for this assertion is as follows: The tran ...
  • Data!
    The XXers have done what I was too lazy to do with respect to the NYTBR’s treatment of female writers, and the data supports Weiner’s position (at least on the more general point of whether the NYTBR gives proportionate attention to female writers) more powerfully than I would have guessed.    It’ ...
  • Two things memeorandum informs me that Google will ...
    Rick Santorum’s presidential hopes. Howard Kurtz’s patience Serious journalism. Sadly, I believe these are both overreactions. Related posts:Less Health Care, More Arbitrary Death Panels! Ongoing Reports From the Death Of Satire Google Earth vs. New Dehli Related posts: Less Health Care, More ...
  • War Is Boring I
    David Axe’s War Is Boring belongs, in a very general sense, to the grand tradition of American road trip narratives. Unlike Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley, in which the Nobel Laureate set out to reconnect with an idea of America; or Thompson’s Fear [...] Related posts: Well, Oral Arguments Are ...

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.

  • ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY: Social networking sites: Sub ...
    Ruling holds that messages and comments visible to a restricted set of users are protected.
  • Molestation conviction overturned because of error ...
    A Kansas man convicted of child molestation will get a new trial because of misconduct by the judge and the prosecutor. The Kansas Supreme Court ruled that the judge improperly questioned the 8-year old victim and prosecutor violated the defendant's right to remain silent.
  • Vermont project to study smart-grid technology and ...
    Vermont Law School has launched a project intended to help modernize and improve the efficiency of the nation's energy system. The school has hired two energy experts who will help students research regulatory and privacy issues created by the so-called smart grid, which uses digital technology to ...
  • FBI official's retaliation case headed to trial
    Bassem Youssef, the highest-ranking Arab-American at the FBI, says he was denied career-advancing posts after complaining to a member of Congress and to FBI Director Robert Mueller III about cultural problems in the agency's management ranks.
  • 7th Circuit favors British firm in dispute over Fr ...
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, in ruling in favor of a British manufacturer of French press coffee makers, served up extensive dicta about how U.S. courts should interpret foreign law.

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

  • Colleges Compete to Recycle at Football Games
    As part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 2010 Game Day Challenge, colleges across the country will compete to see who can reduce, reuse, and recycle the most waste.
  • Corporate Excellence Finalists Selected for 2010
    Twelve finalists have been selected for the Secretary of State's prestigious 2010 Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE). These U.S. companies were chosen from a record number of 78 nominations.
  • Dowry Prohibition Act of 1961 Not Effective Enoug ...
    'Dowry ... is publicly condemned but privately condoned and practised; a subject of moral outrage only when the girl's family finally collapses under the weight of the incessant demands for more money, jewellery, property...more material goods, or
  • Bahrain Crackdown Grows More Concerning
    Freedom House is deeply concerned about the ongoing crackdown against human rights activists, political opposition, and religious minorities in Bahrain leading up to the October parliamentary elections.
  • Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Grants Awarded ...
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has begun to award its competitive grants under President Barack Obama's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which is targeting the most significant environmental problems in the region.

environment 360

  • Spurred by Warming World, Beetles Threaten Coffee ...
    Coffee production has long been vulnerable to drought or excess rains. But recently, a tiny insect that thrives in warmer temperatures — the coffee berry borer — has been spreading steadily, devastating coffee plants in Africa, Latin America, and around the world. BY ERICA WESTLY
  • How Marketplace Economics Can Help Build a Greener ...
    Consumers now have little information about the true ecological impacts of what they buy. But that may be about to change, as new technologies that track supply chains are emerging and companies as diverse as Unilever and Google look to make their products more sustainable. BY DANIEL GOLEMAN
  • New Whiskey Biofuel Is Developed by Scottish Scien ...
    Scottish researchers have developed what they call a “super” biofuel using by-products of whiskey production. Employing a method similar to a 100-year-old process that produces butanol and acetone through the fermentation of sugar, scientists at Edinburgh Napier University developed a process to con ...
  • Nearly Extinct Toad To Be Re-Introduced Into the W ...
    The Kihansi spray toad, which last year was declared extinct in the wild, has been brought back from the brink by a captive breeding program and will soon be reintroduced into its native habitat in Tanzania. Click to enlarge Julie Larsen Maher/WCS A Kihansi spray toad with newborn The New York-based ...
  • Spike In Ocean Temperatures Causes Massive Coral B ...
    A spike in ocean temperatures has devastated coral reef populations off the Indonesian coast this summer, bleaching more than 60 percent of the coral off Aceh province, scientists say. Coral bleaching, which occurs when heat drives out algae living within coral tissues, is an indicator of stress tha ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

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

  • Out of body experiences, 9/11 Premonitions and Syn ...
    My ol’ pal Highwayman have been having quite a discussion lately (with him doing most of the ‘discussin’ of course lol!) about Dr. Hawking, God and such. While talking about spiritual things leave me feeling a little itchy, I of course ran across this little synchronistic piece on Jason Offutt’s blo ...
  • Hawking Again Under Fire
    As if you didn’t know it, religious figures didn’t like Dr. Stephen Hawking’s last heretical statement against God, and how ‘He’ wasn’t needed to create the Universe. Namely the chief honchos of the Church of England: Religious leaders in Britain on Friday hit back at claims by leading physicist St ...
  • 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 ...

Tippers News

  • S.B. 250 is defeateda win for cats and their care ...
    Your voices were heard! Californias S.B. 250 was finally defeated because the bill would have cited anyone helping cats who had not yet spayed or neutered their cat, regardless of their ability to pay for surgeries or trap a cat. Submitted by Kenny V. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The New Agtivist: Gene Fredericks is thinking insi ...
    They're the bane of urban and suburban areas alike: the vacant, boarded-up K-Marts and Home Depot Expos, squatting like concrete cowpies amidst a landscape of weedy parking lots. But where most people see blight and a waste of space... Submitted by Kathy B. to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comm ...
  • Gay birds!
    In greylag geese, nearly a fifth of all long-term couples are composed of two males. They're not alone: More than 130 bird species are known to engage in homosexual behavior at least occasionally, a fact that has puzzled scientists. Submitted by Tarequl I. to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • Mexican Fishers Throw a Lifeline to Lobsters
    Faced with the voracious international demand for lobsters from the Mexican Pacific and Atlantic, fishers and environmental organisations have come together to institute sustainable lobstering practices -- although the financial benefits are slow in comin Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals �|� ...
  • Animal rights groups face off with scientists over ...
    Almost 200 have had a long break from testing that dates to NASA's early days, but that could end. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Will More Infrastructure Cut Unemployment?
    Whenever the economy is in recession, people claim we can “put America back to work” by “rebuilding the infrastructure.” So I am not surprised that President Obama has decided to continue the “infrastructure” mantra as his latest economic idea.
  • Obama Wants Business Tax Break through Next Year
    “President Barack Obama will call on Congress to pass new tax breaks that would allow businesses to write off 100 percent of their new capital investments through 2011, the latest in a series of proposals the White House is rolling out in hopes of jump-starting economic growth ahead of the November ...
  • $50 Billion Infrastructure Plan Pushed to Stimulat ...
    “President Obama, looking to stimulate a sluggish economy and create jobs, called Monday for Congress to approve major upgrades to the nationâs roads, rail lines and runways â part of a six-year plan that would cost tens of billions of dollars and create a government-run bank to finance innovati ...
  • Financial Oversight Board Faces Daunting Task
    “How’s this for a daunting assignment: Monitor the entire financial landscape for risks that could spark another crippling crisis. Identify and supervise firms that could pose those systemic risks. And make sure they never grow so large, complex and leveraged that their failure can wreak havoc acros ...
  • 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 ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Smacking down the hierarchies
    My favorite word this week is heterarchy . I don’t think I’ve ever had a favorite word before, and I confess I was not familiar with the meaning of this one when I saw it in an article from one of those scholarly journals at which journalists like to scoff. So I turned to merriam-webster.com , as I ...
  • New York Times seeks multimedia journalism interns
    Poking around in The New York Times’s job listings, I found this description of three distinct internships “in the Web Newsroom of The New York Times”: Front-end Interactive Designer: full skill-set of client-side technologies including HTML, CSS and JavaScript/Prototype. Experience with Ruby on ...
  • A fresh look at reporting skills
    In June I posted a ranked list of skills needed by todayâs journalists . In reviewing it today, I wondered whether it would be different if instead of saying journalist we said reporter . Say you want to hire a reporter — for a Web-only organization, a magazine, a newspaper, a TV or documentary o ...
  • Getting started with WordPress
    Here’s a new, stripped-down, easy-to-follow introduction to WordPress — the free blogging platform that also works as a versatile content management system: WordPress Basics This short tutorial is based on the second installment in my Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency , but I have shorten ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

  • Six Southern states to watch for 2010 legislative ...
    Labor Day has passed, which is typically the time that people in this country close up their grills, turn in their pool passes -- and start paying attention to politics. The national focus is on the predicted big gains for Republicans in the U.S. Senate and House. But a critical third area where R ...
  • VOICES: Defecting black vote spells big trouble fo ...
    By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media It's no overstatement to say that Barack Obama would not be president if Latino and especially black voters had not turned the 2008 election into a holy crusade -- not an election, in the traditional sense, but a holy crusade. That bears repeating beca ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: A new day for labor?
    Date of the first Labor Day celebration in the United States: 9/5/1882 Number of days after the end of the 1894 Pullman railcar company strike that President Grover Cleveland signed into law a bill making Labor Day a national holiday: 6 Number of federal troops Cleveland deployed to break th ...
  • 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 ...

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 ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle a baby’s cot?
    We’ve had an email from Jess: What can I do with my little girl’s cot now she’s too big for it? We’re not having any more so don’t want to keep it and I know you’re not supposed to use second hand beds for babies. There is apparently an increased risk of cot death if [...]
  • Reduce This: How can you tell when something is go ...
    Over on my new frugal living/growing/cooking blog The Really Good Life today, I’ve asked a Reduce This related question: How can you tell when something is good quality? The first stage of the recycling triangle is Reduce – reduce the amount of things you buy/use and buy items that’ll last and can b ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle walnut shells?
    Echoing the pistachio shells that started this site, I was thinking about walnut shells recently. It’s advised not to compost walnuts/walnut shells because the trees contain a chemical called juglone, which is toxic to some trees, plants and vegetables (especially members of the Solanaceae family – ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle a glass table top?
    We’ve had an email from Josie: My council (Suffolk) say they’ll only recycle glass bottles not other glass like windows. I’ve got an old glass coffee table to get rid of, what can I do with it? That’s a pretty standard glass recycling policy – only bottles and jars, not plate glass (like windows or ...
  • How can I find the perfect – green – k ...
    (First, sorry for the lack of posts for the last two days – it was my birthday on Tuesday and so I’ve had two days off. Back to the grindstone now though ;) ) We’ve had an email from Su: Sorry about this, as it’s not about recycling or repairing, but I thought some like-minded [...]

Mondoweiss

  • Boycott grows as Stephen Sondheim, Mira Nair and J ...
    Jewish Voice for Peace's campaign to support 60 leading Israeli actors and playwrights who are refusing to play a new theater in Ariel continues to grow. New notable figures are joining by the day. Ed Asner explains his support, "It is always amazing when actors turn down jobs.To have the actors of ...
  • Are the settlers civilians?
    Although I have replied individually to a few comments to my recent post regarding the recent killing of four Israeli settlers, there was one issue repeatedly raised in several comments. To what extent should Jewish settlers in the West Bank be considered civilians?Armed - Some have questioned wheth ...
  • Traveler
    I'm off to the Middle East for a couple weeks. I wish everyone a happy end to Ramadan and happy beginning of the Jewish new year. Well-- those sons and daughters of Abraham, anyway!I'm going to try and write from my destinations and keep an eye on the news. Others will be carrying the weight. [...]
  • Meet the Chernicks
    A few weeks back Juan Cole created a data point to explain the neocons:They have more assets than is visible on the surface. They have perhaps half of America’s 400 billionaires on their side.I am deeply grateful to Cole for that assertion. Even if it's imprecise, even if it's off, it's obviously b ...
  • Palestinian parents donate organs of their dead 4- ...
    and other news from Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Abbas asks US to step into settlement dispute (AP) AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he has asked the U.S. to settle a dispute with Israel over settlement expansion that is threatening to dera ...

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 )

  • Oxygen "sags" and oil "snow storm" near spill site
    A new report from the Joint Analysis Group (JAG), which includes the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, found that oxygen levels have dropped by about 20% below average in locations around the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In an unrelated develo ...
  • No stay for stem cell injunction
    A Washington DC court this afternoon denied the government’s motion requesting that last month’s injunction against federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research be lifted. “Defendants are incorrect about much of their “parade of horribles” that will supposedly result from this Court’s p ...
  • An end to (large-scale) deforestation in the Amazo ...
    Could it be? Things are changing so quickly in the Amazon that it's hard to come up with a satisfactory explanation of anything, but the latest deforestation statistics certainly make you wonder. Here's the gist: Brazil's National Institute for Space Research issued preliminary satellite data la ...
  • International demand for university places on the ...
    The financial benefits of a university education, and the demand for it in the world’s richest countries, are both increasing, according to figures published today. Students are increasingly looking to study abroad. But where they are going is shifting, with universities in countries including t ...
  • UK ‘needs new research integrity body’
    The UK should establish a one-stop shop for advice on research integrity to rebuild public confidence undermined by a series of scandals, says a government-backed report. Such a body could offer guidance across scientific disciplines on issues such as poor practice and misconduct, suggests the R ...

new geography

  • Where’s Next: November May Determine Regional Winn ...
    As the recovery begins, albeit fitfully, where can we expect growth in jobs, incomes and, most importantly, middle class opportunities? In the US there are two emerging “new” economies, one largely promoted by the Administration and the other more grounded in longer-term market and demographic forc ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

spiked

Cryptogon

  • Combat Over in Iraq: Iraqi Soldier Kills 2 U.S. So ...
    Via: CNN: An Iraqi soldier opened fire Tuesday on a group of U.S. soldiers in northern Iraq, killing two and wounding nine others, the U.S. military and the Iraqi military said. They are the first American deaths in Iraq since the U.S. combat mission officially ended last week. The attack occurred i ...
  • Monbiot: “I Was Wrong About Veganism”
    Meat: A Benign Extravagance by Simon Fairlie Via: Guardian: This will not be an easy column to write. I am about to put down 1,200 words in support of a book that starts by attacking me and often returns to this sport. But it has persuaded me that I was wrong. More to the point, [...]
  • Genetically Modified Salmon
    Unlikely to escape… Unlikely. Via: Guardian: Last Friday, though, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took a potentially dangerous step. The agency ruled that salmon whose genes have been altered so that they grow more rapidly than their wild counterparts are safe for human consumption. In so ...
  • Gold Trying to Break Higher
    WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. $1256.70 is the close to beat. $1265.05 is the high to beat. It’s currently $1257. This is a big make or break area.
  • Robot Snake Now Climbs Trees
    I’ll sleep well as long as that thing requires an extension cord. Via: PhysOrg: Uncle Sam, Carnegie Mellon’s latest robotic snake, has been taught to climb trees. The snake is the newest version of “modsnake” created by the Biorobotics Laboratory at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. The ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 50 Mind Blowing Facts About America That Our Found ...
    If our Founding Fathers were alive today, what would they think of America?  Surely they would be very proud that the United States stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific and has built some of the most amazing cities that the world has ever seen.  They would probably be surprise ...
  • Even Tony Robbins Is Warning That An Economic Coll ...
    It seems like almost everyone is warning of a coming economic collapse these days.  Do you remember Tony Robbins?  He is probably the world's best known "motivational speaker" and his infomercials dominated late night television during the 80s and 90s.  He was always urging all of u ...
  • 10 Practical Steps That You Can Take To Insulate Y ...
    Most Americans are still operating under the delusion that this "recession" will end and that the "good times" will return soon, but a growing minority of Americans are starting to realize that things are fundamentally changing and that they better start preparing for what is ahead. ...
  • The Trade Deficit Nightmare
    When they hear the word deficit, most Americans immediately think of the U.S. government budget deficit which is rapidly spiralling out of control.  But that is not the only deficit which is ripping the U.S. economy to shreds.  In fact, many economists commonly speak of the "twin de ...
  • Look What Surprises They Snuck Into The Financial ...
    Even just a decade ago, major pieces of legislation in the U.S. Congress would be just a few dozen pages long.  But today, it seems like every time Congress passes an important bill it ends up being over a thousand pages long.  In fact, the final version of the new financial reform ...

Desertification

  • Climate change will result in declining discharge ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100616090225.htm Climate Change Threatens Food Supply of 60 Million People in Asia ScienceDaily (June 18, 2010) â According to an article by three Utrecht University researchers published in the journal Science on 11 June, climate change will ...
  • Increased investment in diverse forms of water sto ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100905231239.htm In a Changing Climate, Erratic Rainfall Poses Growing Threat to Rural Poor, New Report Says ScienceDaily (Sep. 6, 2010) â Against a backdrop of extreme weather wreaking havoc around the world, a new report warns that … Continu ...
  • Late Summer in my Garden (Foeniculum vulgare)
    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 →
  • ‘Urgent need to recognize the efforts of local far ...
    Read at : http://findyourfeet.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/whose-intellectual-property-is-it/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FindYourFeetsBlog+%28Find+Your+Feet%27s+Blog%29 Whose Intellectual Property is it? Since I started my internship at Find Your Feet I have become aware ...
  • African countries will need to spend more of their ...
    Read at : http://findyourfeet.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/africa-is-not-spending-enough-on-food/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FindYourFeetsBlog+%28Find+Your+Feet%27s+Blog%29 Africa is not spending enough on food This piece was posted by Hilde Faugli, Communications Intern ...

The Paper Trail

  • ENVIRONMENT: Oxygen-Starved “Dead Zones&#822 ...
    The number of “dead zones” in U.S. coastal waters — where oxygen is so depleted that it can harm marine life — has soared 30-fold over the last half century, according to a new White House report that warns the phenomenon poses both economic and environmental hazards.
  • MONEY & POLITICS: Despite Court Win After Citi ...
    Last week, a Houston-based group called Texas Tea Party Patriots PAC, alerted the Federal Election Commission that it intends to raise unlimited sums of money, without following any contribution size limits.
  • TRANSPORTATION: Obama Proposal Aims At Problems Hi ...
    President Barack Obama’s proposal to spur the ailing U.S. economy by investing in transportation infrastructure is an effort to restart a stalled and chaotic process detailed by the Center for Public Integrity last year.
  • 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.

backofthebook.ca

  • Marc Emery’s unlikely ally
    By Alison@Creekside In a guest column in the Seattle Times on Friday, the former US attorney who indicted Marc Emery in 2005 for selling pot seeds over the internet wrote: "The U.S. war against marijuana has failed and actually threatens public safety and rests on false medical assumptions. Ou ...
  • Google dots
    The ever-changing Google homepage logo is usually my first clue that it’s Earth Day or that PacMan has turned 30. It’s informative, whimsical, and a Thing To Look At while I type in my search terms. But today’s logo, made up of colorful circles that seem to flee your cursor, ...
  • Sun TV: Teneycke’s cat and dog show
    By Alison@Creekside Here's Korncob Kory Teneycke on CBC's Power and Politics on Friday, stating that his baby, Quebecor's Fox News North, never asked the CRTC for a must-carry licence—the kind that would require cable and satellite providers to include the channel in their basic package: "We a ...
  • 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 ...

Worldnews

  • Obama To Pitch Economic Proposals In Ohio
    WASHINGTON -- Seeking to give anxious Democrats a boost ahead of the November elections, President Barack Obama is pitching a trio of economic initiatives Wednesday and voicing unwavering opposition to Bush-era tax breaks for the wealthy, an issue on which he's looking to draw a stark contrast ...
  • BP oil leak report: blame shared for rig disa ...
    A report into the BP oil rig blast which killed 11 people and cost billions in compensation and clean up costs shares blame for "sequence of failures" which led to the disaster. The oil giant's internal report said that a "sequence of failures" involving a "number of parties" led to the�explosi ...
  • Pepsi to expand charity program in 2011
    - AP Retail Writer Share thefresnobee_994:/2010/09/08/2069856/pepsi-to-expand-charity-project.html E-Mail Print Text Size: tool name tool goes here Comments (0) | Similar stories: Summary Box: Pepsi to expand Refresh Project Summary Box: Pepsi to expand Refresh Project REFRESH CONTINUES: Pepsi ...
  • Clinton condemns Quran-burning plan
    Feeling passionate about this story? Put your thoughts on video and share them with CNN iReport. - iReport: Pastor should 'embrace Christianity' instead (CNN) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has condemned the planned burning of Qurans on the anniversary of the 2001 attacks on the Uni ...
  • Blair postpones book party at Tate Modern
    LONDON (Reuters) – Former premier Tony Blair has postponed a party at the Tate Modern art gallery celebrating the launch of his autobiography because of threats from protesters, his office said on Wednesday. Anti-war demonstrators had planned to disrupt the...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • COLGATE (Sodium Fluoride And Triclosan) Gel, Denti ...
    Updated Date: Sep 7, 2010 EST
  • The real war on drugs
    The murder of ten aid workers, including an optometrist and a surgeon, in Afghanistan last month refocused the world's attention on the difficulties of providing health care in conflict zones. Beyond the dangers of delivering acute care such as surgery, dispensing medicines for chronic illnesses ran ...
  • Patients on statins to lower cholesterol 'at less ...
    Drugs taken by millions of patients to cut cholesterol levels may also keep arthritis at bay.
  • Thyroid hormones: igniting brown fat via the brain
    Thyroid hormones increase the energy metabolism of the body in a process called 'thyroid thermogenesis'. Its molecular mechanism, however, has been elusive. Recent findings in rats suggest that it is localized to brown adipose tissue—our one truly thermogenic organ—and is mediated via the brain (pag ...
  • International Study Led By VA-Harvard Physician Yi ...
    An international study of clinical data led by a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)-Harvard University cardiologist found that patients with deposits of fatty plaque in their arteries are at especially high risk for life-threatening cardiovascular events if they have diabetes, disease in multiple a ...

Common Dreams

  • UN 'Failed' DR Congo Rape Victims
    UN troops failed 242 women and children who suffered a mass rape attack in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a top UN peacekeeping official has said. Congo hosts the largest and most costly UN peacekeeping mission in the world, but the mass rape attacks happened just 30km from a UN ...
  • 'Many Failures' Caused BP Spill
    BP says no single factor caused the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst ecological catastrophe in recent US history. Instead, "a sequence of failures involving a number of different parties" led to the explosion which killed 11 people and caused the leak. The company said i ...
  • BP: Let Us Drill – or We May Not Have Cash to Pay ...
    by Rupert Cornwell With the permanent sealing of its blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico perhaps just days away, BP is warning that it may not have the money to pay the colossal clean-up bill if Congress passes a law that would stop it obtaining permits for offshore drilling in US waters. The new c ...
  • The Great Jobs Depression Worsens, and the Choice ...
    by Robert Reich The Great Jobs Depression continues to worsen. The Labor Department reports this morning that companies created ony 67,000 new jobs in August. That's down from the 107,000 they created in July. And because the government laid off temporary Census workers, the economy as a whole lost ...
  • Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill’s 30-Year Legacy
    by Matthew Berger WASHINGTON - A surprisingly small number of scientists have studied the impacts of the oil spill resulting from the 1979 blowout at the Ixtoc I oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Wes Tunnell, who first studied the spill's effects in July and August of 1980 and has returned many times s ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

  • America's Grand Strategy: Militarizing Space
    by Stephen Lendman On January 3, 2001, the UN General Assembly's Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space Resolution A/55/32 said: "The exploration and use of outer space....shall be for peaceful purposes and be carried out for the benefit and in the interest of all countries, irrespective ...
  • Alien Forest, Alien Ocean, Alien Sky
    By Rady Ananda Imagine our declining pollinators – bees, moths, butterflies and bats – coming upon thousands of acres of toxic trees, genetically engineered so that every cell in the tree exudes pesticide, from crown to root. Imagine a world without pollinators. Without seed dispersers. Without soi ...
  • Munir’s Story 28 years after the Massacre at ...
    Franklin Lamb Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp, Beirut The untreated psychic wounds are still open. Accountability, justice and basic civil rights for the survivors are still denied. Scores of horror testimonies have been shared over the past nearly three decades by survivors of the September 1982 ...
  • 'V' is for Vendetta or How the Banksters Heisted A ...
    by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The movie of 2006, based upon the original 'graphic novel' stars Hugo Weaving as 'V', Natalie Portman, and John Hurt as Adam Sutler -- the Big Brother-like dictator/tyrant seen on giant telescreens. It is a future Britain following a nuclear holocaust but, in ...
  • Moment of reckoning
    Khaled Amayreh in the West Bank Palestinian women from Ramallah stopped at a checkpoint by an Israeli soldier on their way to Ramadan prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque As direct Palestinian-Israeli talks begin, few are optimistic, but all know the outcome will be decisive. As US-brokered peace t ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Protesting the G20 - was it a waste of time?
    Brigette DePape, an international development student, is working in our office this summer.� In June she travelled in a colourful bus to Toronto to join thousands of others in exercising their right to protest and to bring� issues of critical importance to the front and centre of the world's stag ...
  • Test your knowledge of the 2010 Federal Budget
    What's different between this recession and the last one?�� How many jobs did the stimulus funding create?� What proportion of the federal deficit was caused by corporate tax cuts? Find out how much you know about the 2010 Federal Budget and the state of Canada's finances by taking the CCPA's 2010 ...
  • Iglika Ivanova on stimulus, recovery and the Frase ...
    This week Iglika Ivanova published two posts on Policy Note that clearly explain the benefits of stimulus spending. She doesn't buy the federal government's claim that they can take full credit for Canada's economic "recovery," but she also dismisses the Fraser Institute's assertion that stimulus sp ...
  • Ontario budget analysis
    The Ontario government tabled its budget today, putting deficit reduction ahead of jobs. The budget also penalizes social assistance recipients and threatens to burden postsecondary students with tuition fee hikes. For full details, see Off target: Ontario budget misses the point on economic recover ...
  • CCPA Saskatchewan's Response to the Provincial Bud ...
    March 24, 2010 Saskatchewan Budget 2010: Quality of our public services sure to suffer Regina — Brad Wall stated that this year’s budget would lead Saskatchewan down “a different path.” Unfortunately, in a manner that is far too reminiscent of other conservative governments, the Saskatchewan Part ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Canada, eh?
    The quiet Americans who are Canada’s invisible immigrants | The Globe And Mail Canada takes pride in being a country of immigrants. Scholars devote much time to researching the social and economic outcomes of newcomers, most of whom hail from visible-minority communities. It is fitting, then, that s ...
  • US trying to cram DRM rules down the world’s ...
    Latest leaked draft of secret copyright treaty: US trying to cram DRM rules down the world’s throats | Boing Boing Michael Geist writes in with the latest news on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the secret, closed-door copyright treaty that will bring US-style copyright rules (and wo ...
  • Teens Making a Difference
    Two Parma, Ohio sisters are determined to make a difference in the world. Maria Toth, 13 and her 16 year-old sister, Caitlyn started their activism adventures when they collected bottles of Dawn dish soap to help clean the animals affected by the Gulf oil leak. After reaching their goal and succes ...
  • GOP Dirty Tricks 101
    Republican Runs Street People on Green Ticket | The New York Times Benjamin Pearcy, a candidate for statewide office in Arizona, lists his campaign office as a Starbucks. The small business he refers to in his campaign statement is him strumming his guitar on the street. The internal debate he is ha ...
  • Bestival on the Isle of Wight is Bestest
    No tedious hippies, ponces or lager louts: Bestival is the best of all festivals | Telegraph As I pulled on my black, wintry tights this morning and bristled at the nip in the air outside, my spirits were buoyed by one thought: it’s Bestival 2010 this weekend. The music event held on the Isle of Wig ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • The Raid on Deerfield. Part One: Unexpected Guests
    In 1702 Queen Anne’s War broke out. This was the second in what would later be called the French and Indian Wars, which is to say that they were conflicts between England and France. Since the French at the time had many Indian allies in what is now Canada, much of the fighting was between [...]
  • Reader’s Choice Week on Doug’s Darkwor ...
    I honoured the Labour Day weekend by doing exactly nothing. Well, the last two days I did nothing, the first day I moved a ton of my belongings from one place to another in a frenzied hurry that involved many stairs. I sometimes believe that the purpose of human civilization is to put stuff into [.. ...
  • “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 ...

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 Easy Ways to Save Energy This Fall
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Looking for some good news in the midst of increasing unemployment and talk of a "double dip" recession? Here's something to celebrate. According to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Americans are using less energy overall, and more renewable energy, than ever befo ...
  • Delay Dementia: Exercise Your Brain Every Day
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—New research has found that activities that engage the mind, such as reading and performing crossword puzzles, seem to help offset the early symptoms of dementia. And while the progression of Alzheimer's and other forms of cognitive decline may seem faster once symptoms appe ...
  • Mind-Body-Mood Advisor: Will Money Motivate You to ...
    RODALE NEWS, LENOX, MA—When trying to map out a strategy for losing weight, it's easy to overlook a key factor that's less tangible than calorie counts, meal plans, and waist sizes: motivation. Prize money may spark your interest in a weight-loss competition; support, learning, and camaraderie may ...
  • 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 ...

big think

  • Ultimate Survivor Stories (Part 2)
    Few people have felt the muzzle of an automatic machine gun in their gut, let alone survived a kidnapping on their birthday. In January 1998, then-federal prosecutor Stanley Alpert was walking home through the streets of Manhattan, expecting to spend his evening celebrating his birthday with friends ...
  • The Neurobiology of Evil
    Is a person's propensity toward evil a matter of malfunctioning synapses and neurons? Michael Stone , professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University and author of “The Anatomy of Evil,” says it is.  Ever-more-detailed brain scans are revealing the biological origins of psychological issues ...
  • Rethinking Happiness: An Architectural Exploration ...
    For the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale this year, Italian architect Aldo Cibic has embarked upon an architectural exploration of how space can impact and improve the happiness of a community. Rethinking Happiness is a research project that investigates how we can build new, happier communities as ...
  • NASA Is Running Out of Money to Monitor Earth-Dest ...
    NASA is in a catch 22 situation.  Five years ago, Congress mandated by law that NASA should track 90% of all of the dangerous asteroids and comets that may threaten the Earth by 2020. Just last month, though, the National Academy of Sciences announced that NASA may be out of money to meet this ... R ...
  • Copycat: Damien Hirst, Plagiarist?
    When you compile a list of artists that other artists love to hate, a few names typically appear: Jeff Koons , Thomas Kinkade , and, perhaps most virulently, Damien Hirst . You can call it jealousy over their financial success, or you can call it disdain for the artwork that brings those riches home ...

Information Liberation

  • Libertarianism in Ancient China
    The three main schools of political thought: the Legalists, the Taoists, and the Confucians, were established from the sixth to the fourth centuries BC. Roughly, the Legalists, the latest of the three broad schools, simply believed in maximal power t...
  • Cop Fires Twelve Shots at Dog, Hits Two Animal Con ...
    Ahh, protecting and serving in action! MyFoxDetriot Reports: It all started when Detroit Police went to check out a house that allegedly doubled as a chop shop and realized it was protected by pit bulls. [...] Detroit Police needed to remo...
  • What would we do without the government protecting ...
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  • Hostage Taker Besieges Discovery Channel, Posts De ...
    Authorities were negotiating Wednesday with an armed man who has taken an unknown number of hostages, who might have an explosive or *metallic device* at the Discovery Channel*s headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, just outside the District of Co...
  • Full Text of Enviro-Nazi James Lee's Socialist Scr ...
    From SaveThePlanetProtest.com: The Discovery Channel MUST broadcast to the world their commitment to save the planet and to do the following IMMEDIATELY: 1. The Discovery Channel and it's affiliate channels MUST have daily television programs a...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Be Prepared
    Today I’m taking a slight detour around AGW, with a brief visit to one of my own personal hobby horses. I’d like to talk to you about disaster preparedness; why you should think about it, and some of the simple … Continue reading →
  • An ill wind
    No ill wind can pass unnoticed by the nose of the Lincolnshire Sniffer Dog! Continuing his historical romp through alternative energy sources, LibertyGibbert’s Leonardo of lampoon, Fenbeagle, this week zeroes in on the Tudor era, and one man’s relentless alchemic quest … Continue reading →
  • Green Scam: Business Creating Its Own Demand
    I commented on this issue recently on the DT blog in response to this article by Christopher Booker, but it’s a topic worthy of further attention. I’m sure most of you have heard of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

FAS - Secrecy News

  • Pentagon Seeks “Coordination” of Media ...
    The Department of Defense last week increased its efforts to require that Department contacts with the media be monitored and approved by DoD public affairs officials. “I am asking the heads of the Military Services, the Joint Staff and the Combatant Commands to reinforce to all of their employees t ...
  • A Report Card on Secrecy
    Last year, the number of “original classification decisions” — or new national security secrets — actually declined by almost ten percent from the year before. This and other empirical measures of government secrecy were compiled in a new Secrecy Report Card (pdf) that was issued today by Openthegov ...
  • 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 ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Research in the past and structural correctness
    These are the latest science news links and snippets from Sciencebase: Scientific Research in the Past – Literally a blast from the past: This item about science in museums and finding a job in museum research was posted on Sciencebase.com way back in 2005, but was originally an “Adapt or Die” featu ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • Overcoming the Common Pool Problem Through Volunta ...
    Robert T. Deacon, Dominic P. Parker, Christopher Costello / NBER Working Paper 16339 http://www.nber.org/papers/w16339.pdf?new_window=1 [Abstract] We analyze a seldom used, but highly promising form of rights-based management over common pool resources that involves the self-selection of heterogeneo ...
  • Climate Change Assessments: Review of the Processe ...
    Inter-Academy Council http://tinyurl.com/2bslkx4 [Executive Summary] Climate change is a long-term challenge that will require every nation to make decisions about how to respond. The  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established by the World Meteorological Organization and the U ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Were Afghan schoolgirls who collapsed in classroom ...
    Mail Online: Blood samples taken from Afghan schoolgirls who collapsed in an apparent mass poisoning showed traces of toxic chemicals found in nerve gas, the Health Ministry said today. Suspicion has fallen on the Taliban, the hard-line Islamist militia that opposes education for women and prohibite ...
  • US deaths in Afghanistan hit record in 2010
    AFP: he toll of US soldiers killed in the Afghan war this year is the highest since the conflict began, an AFP count found, as NATO said Wednesday it had killed two insurgents for every soldier lost last month. A total of 323 US soldiers have been killed in the Afghan war 2010, compared with 317 for ...
  • Where Did The Money Go?
    Yahoo News: OK. The roads are impressive. Specifically, the fact that they exist. When the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001, more than two decades of civil conflict had left the country bereft of basic infrastructure. Roads, bridges and tunnels had been bombed and mined. What didn't blow up got grou ...
  • Corruption Tie in Afghanistan Has Echoes of CIA&#8 ...
    AOL News: Has Afghanistan become just one more troubled foreign land where Americans must hold their noses and support corrupt leaders for the sake of U.S. aims? The New York Times reported today that a top aide to President Hamid Karzai at the center of the country's biggest corruption probe is on ...
  • “U.S.-Led Airstrikes Kill 14 In Afghanistan& ...
    Aljazeera: At least 14 people have been killed in two U.S.-led airstrikes in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand, according to a provincial statement. In the first airstrike, two civilians and six militants have been killed in Sangin district in the east of the province, the provincial govern ...

frogblog

  • What about communities of national significance?
    Transport will be one of the big local issues of the looming Mana by-election. The Kapiti Expressway, currently being rammed through by the Government, is attracting considerable opposition because it is an unpopular, unsustainable and uneconomic 1950s-style solution. Rather than a smart, integrated ...
  • Australia has a Government, but needs to consider ...
    The decision of Independent MPs Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor to support Labor has given Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard the numbers to govern. Their decision follows those of the sole Green Party House of Representatives MP Adam Bandt and former Tasmanian Green Andrew Wilk ...
  • Will the Black Ferns get the credit they deserve?
    What comes after ‘three peat’?  ‘Four peat’ doesn’t quite have the same ring to it. That’s the problem we have describing the awesome success of the Black Ferns who just won the Rugby World Cup for the fourth time in a row. It’s a great problem to have.   Congratulations to all the ...
  • It’s dob in a bludger time
    Someone dropped a pen from ACC near my lilypad yesterday. Could it have been Dr Felicity Goodyear-Smith, who advised ACC to require a diagnosis of mental illness before sex abuse survivors could get counselling paid for by ACC and who thinks sexual abuse counselling is ‘a scam’?
  • 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 ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran: IAEA report politically influenced
    Summary: IAEA head Amano Iran says the latest report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the country's nuclear work has been politically influenced. "The agency should maintain its technical dignity defined within the NPT framework. It would be outside its legal duty ... if it de ...
  • New IAEA Report on Iran Says Little, Sparks Flurry ...
    Summary: The IAEA’s latest report on Iran, leaked today to a number of media outlets, has sparked a wild array of stories and speculation, though it appears to say very little. CNN’s headline “IAEA: Iran still enriching uranium” perhaps says it all, as there was no one who actually thought they ...
  • S.F. shop closes after Iran sanctions ban rugs
    Summary: Our mentor, Agha Halajion, has nearly single-handedly kept Iran's felt rug tradition alive. It is an art form that speaks from the heart of Iran, where carpet making has been a way of life for thousands of years. When we are forced to close this month, felt rug making will once again be ...
  • 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

The Daily Galaxy

  • Quasars Hint That the Laws of Nature Change Over ...
    Precise measurements on the light from distant quasars suggest that the value of the fine-structure constant may have changed over the history of the universe. If the quasar results are eventually confirmed, our concepts of space and time are sure...
  • Volcanoes Could Signal Presence of an Earth-like P ...
    With the Kepler mission in an all out search for rocky, Earth-like planets, astronomers are asking the next logical questions: Do any of those worlds have volcanoes? And if so, could we detect them? Work by theorists at the Harvard-Smithsonian...
  • A Black Hole With the Mass of a Galaxy (Today's Mo ...
    Located in the Cancer constellation about 3.5 billion light years away, an object dubbed OJ287 is part of a binary black hole system and produces a huge amount of light, fact that is usually associated with the formation of a...
  • Image of the Day: Our Solar System's Perilous 200- ...
    The dusty disk of the Milky Way contains billions of stars, including, of course our Sun which orbits the galaxy every 200-250 million years traveling at a velocity of about 155 miles per second (250 km/sec). It is extremely difficult...
  • EcoAlert: New Map Helps Monitor Destruction of Ama ...
    Scientists are studying the effects of global warming in a new high-resolution map that shows carbon locked up in tropical forest vegetation and emitted by land-use practices in Peru's Amazon. The maps were created with satellite mapping, airborne-laser technology, and...

Natural News

  • Michael Douglas chooses toxic chemotherapy, radiat ...
    (NaturalNews) One by one, celebrities with cancer are killed off by the cancer industry and its extremely toxic (even inhumane ) treatments of chemotherapy and radiation. The next potential victim is actor Michael Douglas, who recently revealed he is suffering from stage 4 throat cancer. While Dougl ...
  • Grapefruit compound could treat diabetes, lower ch ...
    (NaturalNews) Big Pharma has been doggedly searching for drugs that target a group of nuclear receptor proteins in the human body known by the long title of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs, for short). The reason? PPARs regulate the expression of genes that are involved in fat and ...
  • GM fish are safe to eat, says FDA prior to public ...
    (NaturalNews) Eager to thrust untested genetically-modified (GM) salmon on the public, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently made a preliminary announcement that Aqua Bounty's "AquAdvantage" salmon is safe to eat, despite a total lack of evidence proving this to be true. The FDA is se ...
  • Non-stick cookware chemical PFOA linked to high ch ...
    (NaturalNews) Another day, another headline about the dangers of a synthetic chemical in our food... This time it's PFOA, or perfluoroalkyl acid -- the non-stick chemical used on cookware surfaces. According to a study just published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine , high level ...
  • Gender bender chemical atrazine widely contaminate ...
    (NaturalNews) Emerging research increasingly indicates that the U.S. water supply is widely contaminated with the endocrine disrupting chemical atrazine, but that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking almost no action on the threat. Atrazine is an herbicide widely sprayed on corn field ...

Threat Level

  • Court OKs Warrantless Cell-Site Tracking
    A federal appeals court said Tuesday the government may obtain cell-site information that mobile phone carriers retain on their customers without a probable-cause warrant under the Fourth Amendment. The decision by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (.pdf) was not, however, an outright Obama admi ...
  • ACLU Sues Over Warrantless Laptop Border Searches
    An Obama administration policy allowing U.S. border officials to seize and search laptops, smart phones and other electronic devices for any reason was challenged as unconstitutional in federal court Tuesday. Citing the government’s own figures, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National A ...
  • ‘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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • The Sad History of Trusting the GOP on the Economy
    The bad news just keeps coming for Democrats. A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll gives the GOP a record 9-point edge in the generic Congressional ballot for November. Meanwhile, an ABC News/Washington Post survey shows that as President Obama's approval ratings continue to slide, support for his m ...
  • Some Republicans Uneasy with the Party of No
    "Ninety percent of life," Woody Allen famously said, "is just showing up." For Congressional Republicans, the other 10% is voting no. But despite the apparent success of their unprecedented obstructionism , heading into the midterm elections a handful of Republicans are starting to get a little un ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • God no longer male, church rules
    A new order of service has generated significant controversy by rendering God genderless. The change made by the Scottish Episcopal Church involves th...
  • Mars may not be lifeless, say scientists
    Scientists have revisited the idea that organic molecules could be present in the soil on Mars. Tests conducted in the Atacama Desert in Chile intende...
  • Are aliens eavesdropping on us ?
    SETI have spent years trying to detect signals from another world but could aliens be actually listening to us ? Critics have argued for years that th...
  • NASA takes exotic new Mars images
    NASA's HIRise camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken a series of stunning new photographs. In total 236 new images have been revealed...
  • Woman passes driving test at 960th attempt
    A grandmother from South Korea has finally passed her triving test on her 960th attempt. The 69-year-old whose name actually means "vehicle" in Korean...

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 8, 2010
    U.S. Won't Pass Carbon-Price Law for Power Generators This Year, Reid Says (Bloomberg)  The U.S. won't pass legislation this year that charges power plants a price for releasing CO2 and other gases that scientists have linked to climate change, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said. Con ...
  • September 7, 2010
    Australian Greens Seek 'Fast, Furious' Climate Steps (Bloomberg) The Australian Greens plan "fast and furious" action to establish a climate change committee and impose a price on carbon emissions under a government led by the Labor Party's Julia Gillard. Low-Carbon Market to Treble by 2020 ...
  • 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 ...

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

Booman Tribune

  • At What Point Does Peretz Become a Pariah?
    It's not that Marty Peretz doesn't raise some issues worthy of discussing. He does. But his conclusion has to be condemned. Why do not Muslims raise their voices against these at once planned and random killings all over the Islamic world? This world went into hysteria some months ago when the ...
  • A Message from Plouffe
    In case you need to see a plan for yourself. Are you going to be one of those organizers?
  • Two Sets of Lies
    The super-awesome 9/11 Commission's (PDF) version of events: About this time Card, the lead Secret Service agent, the President's military aide, and the pilot were conferring on a possible destination for Air Force One. The Secret Service agent felt strongly that the situation in Washington was ...
  • Playtime is Over
    Okay. It's the day after Labor Day. It's the official start of the midterm campaign. I asked people to get serious about the midterms in early July, but no one can deny that it is campaign season now. If you've been reading this site you don't need me to tell you what kind of hell this country i ...
  • GOP Dirty Tricks
    I guess they were never able to prove definitively that South Carolina Democratic senate nominee Alvin Greene was recruited by the GOP. But there isn't any question about the phony candidates the GOP is supporting in Arizona: TEMPE, Ariz. Benjamin Pearcy, a candidate for statewide office in Ar ...

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

  • Be Aware: Self-Embedding, a Form of Self-Harm
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Radiologists are helping to treat patients with psychological and emotional needs, due to a disturbing and less-common form of self-harm known as “self-embedding.” With self-embedding, a person inserts a foreign object under their skin through an existing (or created) ...
  • Part II: Trauma’s Impact on Relationships
    By Susanne M. Dillmann, Psy.D., Post Traumatic Stress / Trauma Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Susanne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Most of us are aware that communication and trust are key ingredients in any relationship, yet these pivotal ingredients are often negatively i ...
  • Inner Work[Play]
    By Mary Alice Long, PhD Jungian Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Mary Alice and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile The dream shows the inner truth and reality of the patient as it really is: not as I conjecture it to be, and not as he would like it to be, but as it is. ~J ...
  • Understanding Alcoholism: A Variety of Therapies C ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline No single addiction therapy is a cure-all for every drinker. This idea is receiving increased media attention, such as in this recent Newsweek feature, “Rethinking Alcoholism.” Between Alcoholics Anonymous, personal counseling and psychotherapy, and prescription drug ...
  • The Crack Cocaine of Sex Addiction
    By Jill Denton, LMFT, CSAT, CSE, CCS, Sexuality / Sex Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jill and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile In the early 2000s my colleague Al Cooper dubbed online pornography as “the crack cocaine of sexual addiction.” He wrote about the “three As” that ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Coal's hidden costs - Boston Herald
    Coal's hidden costs Boston Herald It doesn't count the lives ruined by mountaintop removal , aquifer pollution and the devastation wreaked by ash ponds. If those costs actually were included ...
  • The Nike ad controversy was as silly as it gets - ...
    The Nike ad controversy was as silly as it gets Daily Mail - Charleston Apparently, a couple of mountaintop removal opponents got in touch with the press, or vice versa. A few reporters then called WVU. ...
  • Activists seek ban on mountaintop removal mining - ...
    Kansas City Star Activists seek ban on mountaintop removal mining The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Activists from the Appalachian region called on the Obama administration Monday to end the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining, ... US activists demand ban on mountaintop removal mining; call ...
  • 8 of the Most Toxic Energy Projects On the Planet ...
    8 of the Most Toxic Energy Projects On the Planet Fast Company The Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States are often subject to mountaintop removal mining, a coal mining technique that slices off soil, ... and more��
  • Freedom by Jonathan Franzen - Bookslut
    Freedom by Jonathan Franzen Bookslut From the left, die-hard environmentalists picket Walter, protesting the mountaintop removal ; from the right, the cronies find a way not only to again make a ... and more��

Memeorandum

  • Health Insurers Plan Hikes (Janet Adamy/Wall Stree ...
    Janet Adamy / Wall Street Journal : Health Insurers Plan Hikes   —  Rate Increases Are Blamed on Health-Care Overhaul; White House Questions Logic  —  Health insurers say they plan to raise premiums for some Americans as a direct result of the health overhaul in coming weeks, complicating Democrat ...
  • Obama channels Hendrix on critics: 'They talk abou ...
    Holly Bailey / Yahoo! News : Obama channels Hendrix on critics: ‘They talk about me like a dog’   —  Has President Obama been listening to a lot of Jimi Hendrix lately?  With just under two months to go before Election Day, Obama kicked off the fall campaign season Monday with an aggressive speech ...
  • Building on Faith - AS my flight approached Americ ...
    Feisal Abdul Rauf / New York Times : Building on Faith   —  AS my flight approached America last weekend, my mind circled back to the furor that has broken out over plans to build Cordoba House, a community center in Lower Manhattan.I have been away from home for two months, speaking abroad about c ...
  • Obama Against a Compromise on Extension of Bush Ta ...
    Jackie Calmes / New York Times : Obama Against a Compromise on Extension of Bush Tax Cuts   —  WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday will make clear that he opposes any compromise that would extend the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy beyond this year, officials said, adding a populist twist t ...
  • AP Exclusive: Murkowski says she's not a quitter ( ...
    Becky Bohrer / Associated Press : AP Exclusive: Murkowski says she's not a quitter   —  JUNEAU, Alaska — A week after conceding the GOP primary, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she's not a quitter and is “still in this game.”  —  Murkowski told The Associated Press on Tuesday that she's been inundate ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 6.2, Vanuatu
    Wednesday, September 8, 2010 11:37:38 UTC Wednesday, September 8, 2010 10:37:38 PM at epicenter Depth : 54.10 km (33.62 mi)
  • M 5.0, Bougainville region, Papua New Guinea
    Wednesday, September 8, 2010 10:54:53 UTC Wednesday, September 8, 2010 08:54:53 PM at epicenter Depth : 36.10 km (22.43 mi)
  • M 5.3, Vanuatu
    Wednesday, September 8, 2010 08:01:20 UTC Wednesday, September 8, 2010 07:01:20 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 6.3, Fiji region
    Tuesday, September 7, 2010 16:13:32 UTC Wednesday, September 8, 2010 04:13:32 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.3, Kyrgyzstan
    Tuesday, September 7, 2010 15:41:42 UTC Tuesday, September 7, 2010 09:41:42 PM at epicenter Depth : 39.70 km (24.67 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Their own worst enemy
    Zijin Mining’s environmental disasters have overshadowed the firm’s meteoric rise. Li Taige wonders when polluting companies – and the officials who protect them – will realise the value of proper supervision. In its previous incarnation, back in the 1990s, Zijin Mining – now one of China’s most loa ...
  • China may cap-and-trade before US
    While the US Senate has backed off on climate legislation, China is considering launching emissions-trading programmes within five years, write Alexander Ochs and Haibing Ma. Just when leaders in the United States Senate admitted to abandoning their plan of issuing a federal climate bill by the end ...
  • 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 ...

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Threat Level

  • Court OKs Warrantless Cell-Site Tracking
    A federal appeals court said Tuesday the government may obtain cell-site information that mobile phone carriers retain on their customers without a probable-cause warrant under the Fourth Amendment. The decision by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (.pdf) was not, however, an outright Obama admi ...
  • ACLU Sues Over Warrantless Laptop Border Searches
    An Obama administration policy allowing U.S. border officials to seize and search laptops, smart phones and other electronic devices for any reason was challenged as unconstitutional in federal court Tuesday. Citing the government’s own figures, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National A ...
  • ‘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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • China Mobile falls as Vodafone sells $6.5 billion ...
    HONG KONG (Reuters) - China Mobile shares fell the most in a year after Vodafone Group Plc sold its stake in the company for $6.5 billion, nearly double what it paid, but analysts expect the stake sale to have no major impact on the Chinese firm.
  • Religious leaders condemn "anti-Muslim" frenzy
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. religious leaders on Tuesday condemned an "anti-Muslim frenzy" in the United States, including plans by a Florida church to burn a Koran on September 11, an act a top general said could endanger American troops abroad.
  • Gold rises on bank scare and holds near lifetime h ...
    SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Gold gained on Wednesday, within sight of a 2-month high hit the previous day, as global stocks tumbled and the euro slipped on renewed fears about the health of the global economy.
  • U.S. religious leaders condemn "anti-Muslim" frenz ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. religious leaders on Tuesday condemned an "anti-Muslim frenzy" in the United States, including plans by a Florida church to burn a Koran on September 11, an act a top general said could endanger American troops abroad.
  • Obama pitches spending and tax incentives in Ohio
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will push billions of dollars in new business tax incentives and spending on big construction projects on Wednesday, as he tries to convince a balky Congress to pass measures intended to spur the economy and create jobs.

IntelNews

  • Emirates police says US, Israel, use BlackBerry to ...
    By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | The alleged use of encrypted BlackBerry communications by adversary intelligence services operating in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is prompting local authorities to consider a nationwide ban on the popular phone. This was revealed … Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #426 (Gareth Williams edi ...
    ‘Turf war’ over Williams killing. British media claim that a turf battle has erupted between British police and the country’s external intelligence agency, MI6, with some police officers complaining that MI6 personnel are hindering their investigation into the death of … Continue reading →
  • CIA spies consider Mossad ‘most unfriendly’ agency
    By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | This blog frequently considers the issue of US-Israeli intelligence relations, said to be undergoing a turbulent period in recent times. Indeed, the change of guard at the White House, the rearrangement of Washingtonâs policy … Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #425 (US edition)
    US Pentagon considering pre-emptive cyber-strikes? This is what The Washington Post is reporting, noting that military officials are “still wrestling with how to pursue the strategy legally”. If anyone in the DoD discovers a legal method of launching pre-emptive aggression, … Continue reading →
  • Killer submerged British spy’s body in ‘chemical s ...
    By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | Investigators are still in the dark about vital clues behind last monthâs killing of a British intelligence employee in his London apartment. Detectives say they are still unsure about the exact cause of death … Continue reading →

After Downing Street.org

  • Blair Cancels Book Event in London Due to Protests
    From National Petroleum Radio After meetings and interviews in Washington, former Prime Minister Tony Blair flew back to Europe, to hawk his memoir, A Journey: My Political Life . Suffice it to say, the book tour didn't get off to a great start. "Skirmishes broke out between protesters and police at ...
  • First US "Non-combat" Troops Killed in Combat Sinc ...
    Two US troops gunned down by Iraqi comrade after sports row By Agence France Presse BAGHDAD – Two American soldiers were killed on Tuesday when an Iraqi army comrade opened fire after an argument over a sports match, the first US deaths since Washington declared an end to combat operations here. Th ...
  • Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Pentagon Triumphant on th ...
    This story originally appeared at TomDispatch.com . read more
  • If In New York City on Sept 10th 2010
    Please join New York Neighbors for American Values for our Candlelight Vigil � read more
  • The bill for Agent Orange
    We may be getting older, way too many have passed on needlessly, and have fought a long time for those that seek and support Wars of Choice to do their part 'Sacrifice' as to what is owed those who serve, but be aware we'll not let the Country treat this new generation of Veterans the way we were tr ...

Grist - News

  • Michigan governor’s race: Snyder vs. Bernero
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Michigan gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder is an unusual Republican. In a year when Tea Party fervor has propelled fire-breathing extremists onto ballots around the country, Snyder comes across as a moderate, sensible Republican with crossover appeal. He's a high-tech ventu ...
  • Avatar director vows to publicize Amazon tribe&#82 ...
    by Agence France-Presse. BRAZIL -- Film director James Cameron said Sunday he will return to Brazil this year to make a 3D film on indigenous people of the Amazon who oppose construction of a huge dam for fear it could flood tribal lands. "I want to return to meet some of the leaders of the Xik ...
  • Obama: Rebuild America by slashing oil tax breaks
    by Randy Rieland. President Obama told a Labor Day crowd about a new stimulus plan that would seem to be a sure winner: Let's create jobs by rebuilding America's highways and infrastructure and, while we're at it, get serious about high-speed trains. What's not to love? Well ... More bank for ...
  • Colorado governor’s race: Hickenlooper vs. M ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Bicycling doesn't get a lot of attention in election campaigns, but Colorado governor candidate Dan Maes (R) ensured a cycle-focused news cycle in early August when he suggested Denver's new bike-sharing program was a step toward "converting Denver into a United Nations commu ...
  • 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 ...

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Washington Independent

  • With Washington Pressing for Wind Energy, Companie ...
    “A lack of transmission lines is the single greatest barrier to wind here in the Midwest," says Jamie Karnik of Wind on the Wires.
  • How Will Obama Pay for His New Tax Breaks for Busi ...
    The Obama administration is this week proposing a series of expensive tax breaks for businesses as part of a larger effort to create new jobs: $100 billion to make permanent a research and development tax credit and $200 billion to let companies to deduct the full cost of the capital investment ne ...
  • Chipping Away at ‘Sanctuary Policies’ ...
    A proposed Utah immigration law that would allow police and federal immigration officials to access Utah’s driving privilege-card database could scare some illegal immigrants away from obtaining licenses, immigration attorneys told the Salt Lake Tribune this weekend. Utah, along with Washington and ...
  • How Much Happiness Money Will Buy
    An interesting review of the scientific literature from The Associated Press: People’s emotional well-being — happiness — increases along with their income up to about $75,000, researchers report in Tuesday’s edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. For folks making less than th ...
  • Castle Takes Aim at O’Donnell in Delaware
    Taking a cue from Joe Miller’s upset victory over Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) last month, Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) is taking no chances a week before his Senate primary contest against Tea Party-backed candidate Christine O’Donnell. Unlike Murkowski, who only failed to take her challenger seriou ...

Digg Green

  • Everything you need to know about recycling y ...
    How many old mobile phones do you have lying around? One, two, three? A recent consumer survey found that 44% of the world’s phones are lying unused in drawers, yet only 3% of people recycle them. Want to make some extra cash and help save the planet? Here's how.
  • 'Magic mushrooms' ingredient may ease end-of- ...
    Terminally ill cancer patients struggling with anxiety may get some relief from a guided "trip" on the hallucinogenic drug psilocybin, a new study suggests.
  • Giant Metal Transmission Towers Designed to L ...
    Boston-based architecture firm Choi + Shine designs giant electric transmission towers with lifelike features! Nothing spoils a peaceful drive or bike ride through nature more than passing by a series of ugly manmade transmission towers...
  • First-Ever Baby Seahorse Spotted in British W ...
    The Dorset waters are Britain's largest known breeding colony for seahorses, according to the Telegraph, which writes that adult, pregnant male, and juvenile spiny seahorses have been spotted there since surveys of the area began in 1994. But this was the first time a baby has been spotted.
  • Research: Early Man 'Butchered & Ate the Brai ...
    Other than that, early man was fantastic...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Hey Buddy, You want to Buy a Watch?
    By Les Visible It’s not like we need a schedule. These things tend to repeat themselves, while weird, inexplicable shit keeps right on happening. Let’s see, major earthquake and nobody dies… okay and moving right along. Where was I? Who am I? No one will be seated during the last ten minutes of thei ...
  • Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling
    Full Text Here I Stand Erica Goldson There is a story of a young, but earnest Zen student who approached his teacher, and asked the Master, “If I work very hard and diligently, how long will it take for me to find Zen? The Master thought about this, then replied, “Ten years . .” â¨The [...]
  • Vaccinate the World: Gates, Rockefeller Seek Globa ...
    source: Daniel Taylor… The global elite has launched a world-wide operation against an unaware population to reduce and control fertility. Vaccines and even staple food crops have been modified to achieve these goals. If you can’t seem to bring yourself to believe that such an undertaking is possibl ...
  • Blood on our Farms: Is Monsanto Responsible for 1 ...
    By Dr. Mercola India is in the midst of a flood of suicides among farmers. A new feature film written and directed by Anusha Rizwi and produced by Bollywood megastar Aamir Khan, called Peepli Live, takes a look at this grim topic. The vast majority of people in India still farm for a living, but [.. ...
  • Homeopathy Comes under Fire from British Medical A ...
    By Marek Doyle What has worried natural healthcare advocates is how the BMA has decided that homeopathy is nonsense because it deems there is insufficient evidence to support its use. Neutrals may well agree that there is only a small amount of double-blind studies that support the use of this metho ...

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

  • Water Tower Transformed Into Minimalist Modern Hom ...
    Read the rest of Water Tower Transformed Into Minimalist Modern Homehttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Belgium modern, Bham Design St ...
  • Notre Dame Launches First Paperless ‘iPad Class’
    Remember the good old days, when you’d go to your lectures with nothing more than a pad and a pen? Well, those days may be coming to a close now that the University of Notre Dame has launched the first paperless class taught using Appleâs iPad instead of traditional textbooks. Read the rest of No ...
  • World’s First Flax Fiber Bicycle Wins EuroBike Gol ...
    Here at Inhabitat we love bikes that boast the latest and greatest high-tech materials, but we’re equally impressed by more organic takes on two-wheeled transportation. Combining both of these approaches, Schwinn recently rolled out the Vestige, the world’s first bike built from biodegradable flax f ...
  • Town Eyesore Turned Beautiful Green Terraced Build ...
    Bob Shervin, the owner of a gas station and tire store adjacent to an unsightly metal structure in Jackson, Wyoming, wanted to create an environmentally-friendly, aesthetically-pleasing building that also provided some much-needed affordable housing for his community. He approached Ward + Blake Arch ...
  • Alex Whitney’s Pennyfields Chair Made from Bamboo ...
    Combining the eco-friendly benefits of fast growing bamboo and refurbishable steel with the nostalgia-evoking shape of an elementary school seat, Alex Whitneyâs âPennyfieldsâ chair is a simple, elegant design for modern living. The chair has already received a Metamorphisis award from Metropol ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Soy Sauce, Soap and Saccharin: Microphotography Wi ...
    Image courtesy Nikon Small World See Also: 35 Years of the World’s Best Microscope Photography 6 Super Close-Ups of Crazy Bug Eyes Mini Microbe Portraits From the Micropolitan Museum
  • Why Alcohol Is Good For You
    It’s one of those medical anomalies that nobody can really explain: Longitudinal studies have consistently shown that people who don’t consume any alcohol at all tend to die before people who do. At first glance, this makes little sense. Why would ingesting a psychoactive toxin that increases our ri ...
  • Asteroid Double Whammy Near Earth Wednesday
    Get out your telescopes! Two small asteroids will come within moon distance of Earth Wednesday. The first, asteroid 2010 RX30, will come within 154,100 miles of Earth — about 60 percent of the Earth-moon distance — at 5:51 a.m. EDT (1251 UT). This asteroid is estimated to be about 42 feet across. T ...
  • Photo: Galactic Cannibals Discovered in Deep Space
    Small galaxies, beware. A new survey caught several distant galaxies ripping up their dwarfish galactic neighbors and devouring them whole. Astronomers have long thought this sort of intergalactic violence could be the normal way large galaxies grow. The Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy, the two ...
  • Procrastination Pit: 8 Cutest and Weirdest Live An ...
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The Progressive Realist

  • NATO: Fat, Bloated Job-Creation Project?
    Lost amidst the welcome news of British-French cooperation on military cost-sharing in some tough talk from their ministers of defense on NATO. Last week, I noted that the  FT 's superb reporter Ben Hall buried the lead, waiting until the 13th paragraph of a story to pass along Liam Fox's pronouncem ...
  • Changing What Counts as “Strategic”
    7-11s in Stockholm, like Ikeas and H&Ms in the USA, are signs of a everyday impact of transatlantic ties (my photo available under cc license) Roger Cohen writes about the clocks on the wall in Dennis McDonough’s office : What is striking, just two decades after the end of the Cold War, is the abs ...
  • David Petraeus Is Out of Line
    So apparently some jackasses in Florida want to burn copies of the Koran on September 11th and General Petraeus is not happy about it - and he emailed a note to the Associated Press decrying the act: "Images of the burning of a Quran would undoubtedly be used by extremists in Afghanistan - and aroun ...
  • Are Professional Islam-Bashers Endangering US Troo ...
    Yesterday, Think Progress reported on Gen. David Petraeus’ comments that the “International Burn a Quran Day” being planned by the right-wing Dove World Church in Florida âcould endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effortâ in Afghanistan. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal ...
  • The Latest from Kabul Bank
    No problems here report Afghan authorities: Abdul Qadir Fitrat, governor of Afghanistan’s Central Bank, told reporters at an afternoon news conference that the country’s largest private bank has been stabilized over the past several days and has been able to meet customers’ withdrawals with its own ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • More Confusing Data on the November Elections.
    As everyone knows, this November's election will be a disaster for Democrats. Or will it be? As Mark Blumenthal tells us , most (not all, but most) of the political scientists who presented their forecasts to the American Political Science Association's annual meeting agreed that, according to their ...
  • Lightning Round: In Praise of Our New Gilded Age O ...
    Harold Pollack breaks down �conventional wisdom about the unemployed: "People seeking work aren't dogs fighting over bones. The real insult is that we act as though they are." These are words worth keeping in mind as you read Timothy Noah 's article on the return of Gilded Age-scale income inequali ...
  • Empathy and the 11th Circuit.
    Apparently, racial discrimination doesn't exist for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals: Last month, for the third time and in the face of a 2006 rebuke from the United States Supreme Court, the federal appeals court in Atlanta said there were no racial overtones when a white supervisor called an adu ...
  • What's Wrong With Plan B?
    Andrew Sullivan passes along Dave Weigel's assessment of the Democrats' message options for the 2010 elections: [D]o you break out the defibrillator and try to convince people that their local economy is turning around because of legislation X, Y, and Z, or do you rev up the base by saying that the ...
  • Long-Distance Relationships and Gendered Expectati ...
    Kevin Johnson and Michelle Rhee Yesterday I saw Going the Distance , the new rom-com about a dilemma faced by a lot of young professional couples: What happens when job opportunities put you in different cities? The movie -- which I thought was better than a lot of films in this genre -- is a dece ...

Buzzflash

  • The Inhabitants Of Glennbeckistan
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH With their fondness for Early American clothing One easily & soon understands They’re like Revolutionary War reenactors with Too much time on their hands. http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/beck-rally-attendees-say-tea-party-misunderstood.php �
  • Message to Tea Party: Don’t Be Fooled Again
    JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH On my way home to California from Maui where I’ve been trying to launch a solar power business, I was seated next to a woman in her mid to late 50s.� After settling in, we began to chat about the islands, weather, etc.� It didn’t take long to learn that she was a ...
  • Dreams Are Not For the Taking
    Body Dreams are not for the taking, especially when they are someone else’s dreams. In Rogers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific the character Bloody Mary sings “you’ve got to have a dream, if you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?” Martin Luther King’s original me ...
  • Jonathan Westminster: The 15% Solution, Serializat ...
    This is the eighth installment of a project that is likely to extend over a two-year-period from January, 2010. It is the serialization of a book entitled The 15% Solution: A Political History of American Fascism, 2001-2022 . Under the pseudonym Jonathan Westminster, it is purportedly published in ...
  • Now They are Calling Obama an Atheist
    MARC PERKEL FOR BUZZFLASH Right wing commentator Ann Coulter is now saying that Obama isn't a Muslim, he's an Atheist, as if being an Atheist is a bad thing. As an Atheist myself I don't have an invisible friend telling me to fly planes into buildings or to invade Iraq after fabricating false rea ...

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Sciencebase

  • Research in the past and structural correctness
    These are the latest science news links and snippets from Sciencebase: Scientific Research in the Past – Literally a blast from the past: This item about science in museums and finding a job in museum research was posted on Sciencebase.com way back in 2005, but was originally an “Adapt or Die” featu ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • World Bank Land Grab Report Comment: Biofuels Caus ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 8, 2010 Friends of the Earth International Commenting on a new World Bank report published today in which the Bank backs the practice of nations selling vast agricultural lands to foreign investors [1], Mariann Bassey, African food and agriculture coordinator for Envi ...
  • Greenpeace Response to BP Report
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 8, 2010 Greenpeace Responding to BP’s report on the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Tzeporah Berman, head of Greenpeace International Energy Campaign, said: “BP’s self penned review is a sorry attempt to spread the blame for the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, but st ...
  • Center for Biological Diversity Statement on BP’s ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 8, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, issued the following statement today in response to BP's just released report on the Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill: "BP's internal investiga ...
  • MMS Crosses Its Fingers, Hopes for the Best
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 3, 2010 Food & Water Watch “Yesterday’s oil rig fire was not surprising. The MMS, now BOEMRE, has shown repeatedly during the year and a half long supposed investigation of BP Atlantis that it’s not interested in ensuring safe regulation of these platforms. “Michael B ...
  • BP Uses Gulf Drilling Permits as Bargaining Chip
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 3, 2010 Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) According to the New York Times, BP is warning Congress that if lawmakers pass tougher regulations on offshore drilling in the Gulf, BP may not provide promised funding for clean-up. Below is a statement from ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Who Dares Question the Industrial Food System over ...
    by Dan Kennedy With fish stocks around the world depleted by overfishing and disrupted by climate change , farm-raised salmon stands as a viable if not entirely appetising alternative. read more
  • War Talk, Peace Talk
    by Saif Shahin It is difficult to avoid bumping into Jeffrey Goldberg these days. The Atlantic commentator's prediction that there is a good chance Israel will strike Iran by next July to destroy its alleged nuclear weapons program has got everyone talking, and writing, and then talking some more ...
  • The Gulf Will Be Beautiful Again
    by Van Jones Not a lot of people talk about "beauty" and "the Gulf" in the same breath these days. Five years ago, New Orleans was under 15 feet of water, debris, toxic waste and dead bodies. The disaster killed 1,800 people and caused $75 billion in damage. read more
  • Labor Day News Flash
    by Donna Smith As I was pulling my Labor Day weekend brain cells back to consciousness with my first morning cup of coffee, I saw the scroll.  “Tony Orlando concert postponed in New Jersey amid fears of Hurricane Earl aftermath.”  I almost flew out of my chair.  I watched for a few more moments to m ...
  • Biden and the False Iraq War Narrative
    by Gareth Porter In an interview on the PBS NewsHour last Wednesday , Joe Biden was unwilling to contradict the official narrative of the Iraq War that Gen. David Petraeus and the Bush surge had  turned Iraq into a good war after all.  That interview serves as a reminder of just how completely t ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Prozac Army
    By Steve Hynd A bit of news from Danger Room that should give you pause. An untold number of active-duty troops and recent veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are coming home with mental health conditions inflicted during service — and their spouses and children are suffering too. Now, with ...
  • Plan B Is No Exit Plan
    By Steve Hynd I had so hoped I wouldn't be disappointed in the "Plan B" for Afghanistan proposed by Steve Clemons' Afghanistan Study Group, which is out today. (Full report PDF) But, like the report from Britain's International Institute for Strategic Studies also out today, it relies on a continued ...
  • Guess Who Paid For Karzai Coteries' Mansions?
    By Steve Hynd Guess who paid for the shiny Dubai mansions the Karzai elite of Afghanistan purchased? I invite you to join the dots. Firstly, US taxpayers have always been the ones paying for much of the Afghan government's structure, especially the security forces. They're going to be doing it for t ...
  • 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 ...

Water Wars

  • Earth over a barrel of oil
    HONG KONG — Oil prices continue to fluctuate nervously with every report or rumor that the world economy is either on the mend or heading for double dip recession. They slithered again when it became clear that the U.S. economy is still in trouble. Ben Bernanke, the U.S. Federal Reserve chairman, an ...
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  • Letters: Shop local, buy local given lip service
    Shop local, buy local given lip service Dear Editor, Great article! Only a few vendors are actually from Morgan Hill. This is why we purchase most of our fruit from Andy's Orchard! By the way I have the same feelings about Taste of Morgan Hill. Most, if not all, vendors are from out of town and wher ...
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Electronic Intifada

  • Israel's evidence questioned as Corrie trial resum ...
    Testimonies resumed in the ongoing civil suit lodged by Rachel Corrie's family against the State of Israel in Haifa's District Court this week, as the state's defense team ...
  • For a morally consistent boycott of Israel
    While we welcome acts of protest against any manifestation of Israel's regime of colonialism and apartheid -- including the recent announcement by 150 prominent Israeli aca ...
  • Siege casts shadow over Ramadan
    GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - The Muslim festival approaches, but not the end to power cuts that have darkened the month-long Ramadan fasting leading up to the festival. O ...
  • Ramadan in Gaza's boundary zone
    JOHR AL-DIK, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - With power cuts up to 16 hours to full days, a soaring heat wave and unbearable humidity, the Israeli-led siege on Gaza is but one of many ...
  • Price tag reprisals in Hebron
    The Palestinian families which live along Route 60 in the South Hebron Hills in the occupied West Bank have no recourse when settlers attack. The area is under full Israeli civil a ...

Afghanistan Sun

  • Terrorists in Pak, Afghanistan 'threat not on ...
    US White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has said that the presence of al-Qaeda and its extremist allies in Afghanistan and Pakistan is not an issue of concern for only the US, rather it is of international concern and that is the reason for deploying the international security force there.
  • US drone attacks kill 10 militants in Pakistan
    At least 10 militants were killed in two attacks by unmanned aircraft in Pakistan's tribal region along the Afghan border Wednesday, security officials said.
  • US drone strike kills six in Pakistan
    At least six people were killed in a US drone attack in Pakistan's tribal region near Afghan border, a media report said Wednesday.
  • Security think tank says west's Afghan counte ...
    The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) has claimed that the west's counter-insurgency strategy has "ballooned" out of proportion to the original aim of preventing al-Qaeda from mounting terrorist attacks there, and must be replaced by a less ambitious but more sensible policy of "c ...
  • Britain's Afghan envoy quits
    Britain's special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan is quitting with immediate effect, London says, following a reported clash with NATO and US officials on fighting the Taliban.Sherard C...

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

  • Morning Smoke: SEC Enjoys Surge of High-Quality Ti ...
    New SEC Awards For Informants Already Yielding Tips by Jessica Holzer and Fawn Johnson [Dow Jones] GAO bows to CIA decision to waive conflicts of interest by Matthew Weigelt [Federal Computer Week] Regulators to hash out major new finance regulations...
  • 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...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Boulder Fire Victims Somehow Less "Homeless" Than ...
    If you're left homeless because of the economy, you can't sleep in the parks in Boulder, thanks to the city's short-sighted no-camping ordinance . But if you're a firefighter whose house burned down in the ongoing "Boulder fire," you probably can. Boulder is apparently redefining "homelessness" — at ...
  • Coming Soon to a Theater Near You: Hobo With a ...
    This summer has seen plenty of movie monsters — from piranhas to predators to vampires. A new trailer though, relies on quite a different breed to spook moviegoers: a hobo with a shotgun. Not only is that the character, it's the whole title. And the whole plot. Based on one of the faux trailers from ...
  • Homeless People Vote Too
    Well, election season is in full swing now. And though many people may be unaware, homeless people vote too, having won that right (or, the recognition of that right)  thanks to myriad court cases . A federal judge in Ohio has even ruled that a homeless person may list a park bench as her address wh ...
  • Why We Turn a Blind Eye to Child Abuse
    In Australia, where I live and work with homeless persons, the National Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN) reports that while almost 33,000 Australian children suffered some form of abuse last year, more than half the population would turn a blind eye when confronted ...
  • NY Governor Hopeful Longs for Return of Poorhouse ...
    Next week, New Yorkers will be going to the polls to vote in the primaries for their candidates for governor ahead of the general election in November. One Republican candidate is Tea Party-backed  Carl Paladino , a wealthy real estate developer from Buffalo. For some, that's enough to question his ...

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

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 9-7-10
    Everything Kevin: Become An Insider! Support Kevin! Kevin is on YouTube! Sign Up For Kevinâs FREE Podcast Follow Kevin on Twitter Become Kevinâs Friend on Facebook Kevin’s Film Club Kevin’s Book Club Take Trudeau on the Go! Click here to download this show to your iPod, mp3 player, or PC throu ...
  • Some Targets Of Righthaven Lawsuits Fighting Back
    September 7, 2010 Las Vegas Sun by Steve Green The Righthaven lawsuits filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas at first glance seem pretty simple: They show bloggers, nonprofits and generally small-time websites around North America for years have been cutting and pasting entire Las Vegas Review-J ...
  • Scientists Develop Fuel Cells Powered By Urine
    September 7, 2010 Natural News by Ethan A. Huff Efforts to develop alternative, renewable forms of energy have taken a whole new direction as researchers from the University of Edinburgh’s School of Engineering and Physical Sciences recently announced a strange, almost humorous, new way to develop e ...
  • Johnson & Johnson Being Sued For Drug Conspiracy
    September 7, 2010 Natural News by Ethan A. Huff Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is the subject of a California lawsuit alleging that the “family company” colluded with pharmaceutical consultant Omnicare to push its drugs on nursing home residents. Among the charges are allegations that J&J violated federal ...
  • Government Pays For Flu Shots, “Free” ...
    September 7, 2010 USA Today by Steve Sternberg Getting a flu shot will be far easier this fall than last, with retailers already stocking millions of doses and free shots available through Medicare and private insurance, officials say. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius says th ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • Tom Engelhardt: The Pentagon triumphant on the med ...
    The military’s media megaphone and the U.S. global military presence By Tom Engelhardt The fall issue of Foreign Policy magazine features Fred Kaplan’s “The Transformer,” an article-cum-interview with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.  It received a flurry of attention because Gates indicated he ...
  • Pastor Jones’ phony Muslim-friendly posture on CNN
    In an interview on CNN this morning, Dr Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who has organized “International Burn a Koran Day” for September 11, said: We want to send a clear message to the peaceful Moslems. We have freedom of speech. We have freedom of religion. They are more than welcome to be here. ...
  • Pastor Jones’ Quran burning stunt
    The Wall Street Journal reports: The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said the planned burning of Qurans on Sept. 11 by a Florida church could put the lives of American troops in danger and damage the war effort. Gen. David Petraeus said the Taliban would exploit the demonstration for propaganda ...
  • Ground zero church launches with anti-Muslim, anti ...
    Justin Elliot reports: 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 p ...
  • Jewish supremacism among Israeli youth
    Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics released numbers today which show that almost a third of the population is under 15 years old. What can we expect from the next generation? A new poll reveals how deeply entrenched bigotry is in Israel. A survey of Israeli teens revealed that most believe tha ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Working 9,25 What a way to make a livin (at AGW)
    9,25 – a factor that could close the global warming debate Guest post by Frank Lansner (hidethedecline) The CO2-sensitivity describes the warming effect induced by a doubling of the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, and is thus the epicentre of … Continue reading →
  • Arctic in the Holocene, narwhals, and all that
    Readers may have seen this BBC story: BBC – Earth News – Climate change threatens slow swimming narwhals “That places them at high risk from climate change, as narwhals will not be able to cope with shifting, highly mobile ice … Continue reading →
  • Penn State’s greenhouse gas solution: cow be ...
    Now if they could only provide a solution for Mannian emissions, they’d really have something. It does seem better though than the Bovine Fish Oil Methane Cure and certainly less ridiculous than Climate idiocy at the Monterey Bay Aquarium â cow … Continue reading →
  • Climate Craziness of the Week: Global scale nanosp ...
    Let’s see, what would we make those nano-disks out of? He says (see PNAS paper below): Silica-alumina ceramic hollow microspheres with diameters of 1 μm. (aka 1 micron) Do you think putting nano-sized silicon based pollutants into the atmosphere will … Continue reading →
  • Atlantic hurricane season halfway point
    Tropical Storm Hermine rapidly developed and has moved into South Texas soaking rather moist ground from previous Hurricane Alex and TD2.  Scattered areas of interest in the Atlantic include the remnants of Gaston and a couple African Easterly Waves about … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Middle East Loses Trillions As U.S. Strikes Record ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism Sept. 2, 2010 Sept. 8, 2010 The Internet has provided the world with, if nothing else, instantaneous access to news and in-depth information previously available only to governments and think tanks. It ...
  • Afghanistan: North Atlantic Military Bloc’s Ten-Ye ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism Aug. 31, 2010 Sept. 6, 2010 In slightly over a month, on October 7, the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan will enter its tenth year. The conflict represents the longest continuous combat operations in the hi ...
  • Obama makes Abbas & Bibi an offer they can’t ...
    by Michael Carmichael Featured Writer Dandelion Salad PlanetaryMovement.org September 5, 2010 President Obama is making the Israelis and the Palestinians an offer they can’t refuse. Reports in Israel suggest that Prime Minister Netanyahu will appeal for national unity tomorrow in a Rosh Hashanah sta ...
  • Pretty Words and the Same-O-Same-O – Is &#82 ...
    by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad originally published by Boiling Frogs Post 27 August, 2010 5 September, 2010 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 m ...
  • Tom Engelhardt on The American Way of War, intervi ...
    by Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad originally published by Boiling Frogs Post 3 September, 2010 5 September, 2010 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 ...

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

  • Soy Sauce, Soap and Saccharin: Microphotography Wi ...
    Image courtesy Nikon Small World See Also: 35 Years of the World’s Best Microscope Photography 6 Super Close-Ups of Crazy Bug Eyes Mini Microbe Portraits From the Micropolitan Museum
  • Why Alcohol Is Good For You
    It’s one of those medical anomalies that nobody can really explain: Longitudinal studies have consistently shown that people who don’t consume any alcohol at all tend to die before people who do. At first glance, this makes little sense. Why would ingesting a psychoactive toxin that increases our ri ...
  • Asteroid Double Whammy Near Earth Wednesday
    Get out your telescopes! Two small asteroids will come within moon distance of Earth Wednesday. The first, asteroid 2010 RX30, will come within 154,100 miles of Earth — about 60 percent of the Earth-moon distance — at 5:51 a.m. EDT (1251 UT). This asteroid is estimated to be about 42 feet across. T ...
  • Photo: Galactic Cannibals Discovered in Deep Space
    Small galaxies, beware. A new survey caught several distant galaxies ripping up their dwarfish galactic neighbors and devouring them whole. Astronomers have long thought this sort of intergalactic violence could be the normal way large galaxies grow. The Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy, the two ...
  • Procrastination Pit: 8 Cutest and Weirdest Live An ...
    See Also: Baby Lion Cub Live Webcam Launched Top 10 Amazing Animal Videos Video: Dancing Parrot Boogies Better With a Partner Penis Jousting and 7 Other Great Animal Mating Rituals Clever Critters: 8 Best Non-Human Tool Users

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Avi Shlaim: This time in Washington, honest broker ...
    [Netanyahu's] rhetoric has changed, but his policy can still be summed up in one ominous word: politicide – to deny the Palestinian people any independent political existence in Palestine. This... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
  • Making History: Support for Israeli Artists Who Sa ...
    It's thrilling to think that these Israeli theatre artists have refused to allow their work to be used to normalize a cruel occupation which they know to be wrong, which violates international law... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • US actors back Israeli boycott of West Bank theate ...
    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. IOA Editor: Read letter... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Take Action Against Isolation – Free Ahmad Sa’adat ...
    Imprisoned Palestinian leader Ahmad Sa'adat will be returning to court in mid-October 2010 challenging his isolation and the isolation of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons. Write... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Poll: Half of Israeli teens don’t want Arab studen ...
    Sixty four percent of Israeli teens aged 15 to 18 say that Arab Israelis do not enjoy full equal rights in Israel, and from that group, 59 percent believe that they should not have full equal... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Have Asthma? Vitamin D May Help
    Supplement your asthma action plan with Vitamin D and you may experience improved asthma control according to an article this month in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. Vitamin D deficiency is more common with obesity, in African American ethnicity and westernization of countries reflecting a ...
  • Experts Find Shortage of FSC Wood Statewide Could ...
    The United States is in the thick of a "green trend." Increased awareness of and commitment to sustainability and improving the environment through reduced carbon emissions and energy use have led to more consumer demand for "green" products--including green construction. Even with the downturn in ...
  • Review: Helping Kids Cope With Chemo
    Nausea and vomiting are common in children undergoing chemotherapy. A class of drugs called 5-HT3 antagonists appear to be the most effective anti-nausea agents.
  • Alternative Birthing Rooms Safe for Mom, Baby
    Giving birth in an alternative setting within a hospital − like a bed-free birthing room or one designed to be "homelike"− is just as safe for healthy women as laboring in a traditional hospital bed.
  • More Seniors Get Flu Shot After Personalized Remin ...
    Personalized post cards or phone calls can be effective in encouraging more seniors to get their annual flu shots, according to a new review of evidence.

Natural Health News

  • Hair Provides Proof of Link Between Chronic Stress ...
    Researchers have found the first direct, biological evidence showing how chronic stress plays an important role in heart attacks. Stressors have been linked to the increased of cardiovascular disease, but until now there has been no biological marker that could be used to measure chronic stress. Bu ...
  • Osteoporosis Drugs Linked to Cancer Risk
    Oral bisphosphonate osteoporosis drugs, which include such Actonel, Boniva, and Fosamax, could be associated with an approximately twofold increased risk of esophageal cancer. A new study showed that long-term users of the drugs had nearly double the risk for the rare but deadly cancer.� Concerns a ...
  • Lifting Weights for Dummies in Four Easy Steps
    by Darin L. Steen Everyone knows the benefits of gaining more muscle and losing fat. What many people don't realize, however, is that the most time efficient way to make this happen is by lifting weights. So most people spend a whole lot of time on cardio – and little to no time with weights. ...
  • The Real Truth About the Top 12 Health Myths
    CNN has published a list of the “truth about twelve “health myths”.� Among the myths this article busts?� “If you cross your eyes, they’ll stay that way.”� “To get rid of hiccups, have someone startle you.” Seriously?� There is massive medical misinformation circulating right now which is causi ...
  • Outgunned FDA Tries to Gets Tough with Drug Ads
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has vowed to crack down on the increasingly aggressive marketing tactics being used by drug companies. However, the agency lacks the resources to halt misleading drug ads. In 2009, companies spent $4.8 billion in direct-to-consumer advertising in the United Sta ...

Antemedius

  • Obama Losing Liberal Base And Youth Could Cost Dem ...
    President Obama is not only losing support among the general public but also of the liberals and college students who did so much to energize his presidential campaign. Now, even some Democratic incumbents whose seats had been considered safe are in trouble. According to Rasmussen pollsters, Obama's ...
  • US Economy Grinds To Halt... Again
    Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion WASHINGTON— The U.S. economy ceased to function this week after unexpected existential remarks by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke shocked Americans into realizing that money is, in fact, just a meaningless and intangible social ...
  • Arson And Reported Gun Shots At TN Islamic Center ...
    The anti-Muslim whirlwind continues to be reaped in the United States. For all that the Sarah Palins and Rudy Giuliani’s of the world think that the fight over the Park51 Islamic Center is confined to Manhattan the reality is that it is spreading and getting more and more violent. This weekend the s ...
  • Muslims Have Constitutional Right to Build Mosque
    The stalwarts on the political right for years have been the ones to wave the U.S. Constitution in the faces of progressives, claiming that they have ventured beyond it and threaten its very existence. Such assaults earnestly commenced during the era of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as he sought to impl ...
  • The Collapse of Everything?
    In case you missed it Daniel Tencer posted an article at RawStory on September 01 titled: German military report: Peak oil could lead to collapse of democracy Peak oil has happened or will happen some time around this year, and its consequences could threaten the continued survival of democratic go ...

Climategate

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks more tr ...
    ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
  • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
    What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoking g ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Report ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of global wa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

  • Ben Wittes’ Unconvincing “Hostage-Taking” Analogy ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Julian noted a couple of days ago that the ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights have challenged the Obama administration’s “asserted authority to carry out âtargeted killingsâ of U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism far from any field of armed con ...
  • Armstrong on the Regulation of Public Diplomacy
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen Matt Armstrong, who blogs at MountainRunner, has an article in the current World Politics Review called Reforming Smith-Mundt: Making American Public Diplomacy Safe for Americans. While the full version is only available online for a fee, there is a brief excerpt o ...
  • Welcome to the Blogosphere, Lawfare
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis Bobby Chesney, Jack Goldsmith, and Ben Wittes have started a new blog, Lawfare: Hard National Security Choices.  Here’s how Ben Wittes describes it in the opening post: We mean to devote this blog to that nebulous zone in which actions taken or contemplated to p ...
  • Two Questions on LOAC
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I have no desire to have the final word with Ken.  But I would like answers to two questions. First, where does Melzer or the ICRC say that armed conflict is a geographically-bounded concept, such that a participant in an armed conflict ceases to be targeta ...
  • Here Comes the “Global” Currency Tax
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The movement for a global currency tax gains momentum. PARIS, Sept 1 (Reuters) - A group of 60 nations, including France, Britain and Japan, will propose at the U.N. this month that a tax be introduced on international currency transactions to raise funds for development ...

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

  • AP: The Iraq War's Not Over
    AP: The Iraq War's Not Over : [gawker.com] "In your pre-vacation Friday media column: the AP warns reporters on war propaganda, another Newsweek departure, China's 'future of journalism' candidate, and ABC pulls a story, while standing by it. The AP issues its staffers an important memo: 'Unless th ...
  • Unequal South Africa
    For those who still view South Africa's transition from apartheid as a miracle of good over evil it is unlikely that the massive strikes that have hit the public sector will evoke the rumblings of revolutionary revolt. In fact more than a few soccer visitors who traveled here recently may even argu ...
  • IEN Delegates, Jasmine Thomas and Rhiannon Ball at ...
  • ei: Israel's evidence questioned as Corrie trial r ...
    ei: Israel's evidence questioned as Corrie trial resumes : "Testimonies resumed in the ongoing civil suit lodged by Rachel Corrie's family against the State of Israel in Haifa's District Court this week, as the state's defense team called three witnesses to the stand. On 16 March 2003, Rachel Corri ...
  • Syd's Blog: Four Killed In West Bank
    Syd's Blog: Four Killed In West Bank : "Four Israeli Jews were killed on Monday near the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba on the West Bank. The victims - Yitzhak and Talya Ames (shown above), Kochava Even Chaim and Avishai Shindler - were all from the Israeli settlement of Beit Haggai in the South ...

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

  • Grocery Store Wars
        Pollution and pesticides have conquered our vege markets! The unsustainable, short-sighted practices of genetic engineering, chemically enhanced shelf life and massive pesticide use have lead to lower prices and out of season produce - resulting in people not kn ...
  • Environmental News 07/09/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • 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 ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Iraq After Invasion Bloodiest Country for Journali ...
    ShareThis Iraq After Invasion Bloodiest Country for Journalists �--230 journalists have been murdered in Iraq since the US invasion in March 2003 07 Sep 2010 Another journalist was gunned down in Iraq today, prominent Al-Iraqiya television anchor, Riad al-Saray. According to Iraqi police al-Saray wa ...
  • US expands military training in Yemen, reflecting ...
    ShareThis US expands military training in Yemen, reflecting a broader counterterror program 08 Sep 2010�U.S. special operations forces are expanding their training of the Yemeni military as the Obama administration broadens its program to counter terrorism in countries reluctant to harbour a visible ...
  • 9/11 Koran burning 'disrespectful' and 'disgracefu ...
    ShareThis 9/11 Koran burning 'disrespectful' and 'disgraceful', Hillary Clinton says 08 Sep 2010 A Florida church's threat to burn copies of the Koran to mark the September 11 attacks has been condemned by Hillary Clinton as "disrespectful" and "disgraceful". The American Secretary of State is the h ...
  • Massive Israel spy base exposed
    ShareThis Massive Israel spy base exposed 08 Sep 2010 A French periodical has revealed the location of a secret Israeli espionage center, which ranks among the world's largest and most significant. The base, which intercepts information for the Israeli Spy Agency (Mossad) and the Israel Defense Forc ...
  • Health Insurers Plan Hikes
    ShareThis Well, kinock me over with a feather! Health Insurers Plan Hikes �08 Sep�2010�Health insurers say they plan to raise premiums for some Americans as a direct result of the 'health overhaul' in coming weeks, complicating Democrats' efforts to trumpet their signature achievement before the mid ...

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

  • So said Tony Hayward
    a music video, a tango about the BP oil spill and its disastrous impacts; the story of BP CEO Tony Hayward’s hapless efforts to spin and manage; a mediation on capitalism’s indifference toward human lives and ecological health. ‘You know, I’d like my life back.’ So said Tony Hayward. Tip: Climate an ...
  • ECTunes solves silent EV vehicle “problem” with di ...
    ECTunes is developing a system that utilizes directional sound equipment to emit noise when and where it’s needed. According to the company, its technology sends audible signals only in the direction of travel, thus allowing the vehicle to be heard by those who may be in the cars path, without distu ...
  • World’s largest wave energy site now in UK
    It uses a socket on the sea floor The Wave Hub, a groundbreaking renewable energy project that is set to become the UK’s first offshore facility dedicated to wave energy, has been installed off the North Coast of Cornwall. Four wave energy generation devices will connect their arrays into the Hub, a ...
  • Our Labradoodle president
    Jim Kunstler I voted for Barack Obama. I don’t know about you, but I’m a tad disappointed in how things turned out with him. These days he makes Millard Fillmore look like Frederick the Great. His speech last week on Iraq and, incidentally, economic matters, was such a puffery of hollow platitudes t ...
  • Savage violence in Mexico and money laundering in ...
    Personally, I don’t have a problem with marijuana. But, current marijuana users do need to know that their marijuana (or other drugs too) almost certainly comes via Mexican drug cartels and their affiliates, and it is quite literally drenched in blood and corruption. Since 2006, at least 22,000 peop ...

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

  • This Day In History – September 8
    # 1157 â King Richard I of England (d. 1199), was born. 1264 â The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by Boleslaus the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland. 1504 â Michelangelo’s David is unveiled i ...
  • John Lennon’s killer is denied parole for th ...
    New York (CNN) — Mark David Chapman, John Lennon’s killer, was denied parole for the sixth time Tuesday, according to the New York State Division of Parole. A three-member panel of the New York State Parole Board Commissioners conducted a video conference interview with Chapman from their offices in ...
  • Pressure mounts in U.S. against Qur’an-burni ...
    MIAMI – Civil and military leaders stepped up calls Tuesday for an obscure U.S. pastor to drop his plans to burn copies of the Qur’an on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, as fears grew it would fan religious hatred. Pastor Terry Jones of the small Gainesville, Florida-based Dove World Outreac ...
  • Seattle Officials Want HEMPFEST Somewhere Else!
    September 06, 2010 Q13 News Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d15499').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
  • This Day In History – September 7
    70 â A Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem. 1533 â Queen Elizabeth I of England (d. 1603), was born. 1652 â Around 15,000 Han farmers and militia rebells against Dutch rule on Taiwan. 1776 â World’s first submarine attack: the American submersible craft Turtle attempts to ...

The Air Vent

  • Belief in Evidence or Evidence of Belief
    A note to climate science. Evidence drives science opinion toward truth. Evidence doesn’t seek truth, evidence is truth and the scientist is ever beholden to the evidence. It all gets confused when humans are involved. We all grasp that opinion is a form of understanding which can be thought of as a ...
  • 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 ...

Focal Point

  • Sarah Palin's Never Going to Run for President
    Will Sarah Palin run for president? Could she win? Garance Franke-Ruta argues that Palin's best strategy would be to remake herself as a leader within the Republican Party . She notes that female candidates in other democracies have used own-party leadership to break through the glass ceiling and at ...
  • 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, ...

Inside Facebook

  • Batched Facebook Notifications Decrease Clutter bu ...
    Facebook’s web and mobile versions have begun batching similar notifications into single entries in a userâs notifications inbox in recent weeks. If different friends comment on the same photo of yours, or all post on your wall, the names will accumulate in one notification entry. However, users w ...
  • Facebook Places – Product Updates and User Behavio ...
    In the weeks since Facebook launched its location service Places, it has been refining the product while users and businesses get more comfortable and explore its potential. Places is being further integrated around the site, with check-ins listed on the Events home page and in the right sidebar. Bu ...
  • Facebook Updates Payment Terms to Control Credits ...
    Facebook has been tweaking its Credits and payments terms for users, developers, and advertisers, giving them more clarity and itself more flexibility as the program expands. Most recently, it gave the user Payment Terms a small update, and here’s a look at the two main ones below. Facebook has bee ...
  • Fluid Helps Promote E-Commerce for Brands on Faceb ...
    Fluid is an interactive agency founded 15 years ago and  focused on e-commerce for nine years ago, but new to Facebook, having launched in e-commerce application in January. The company primarily works with big brands on Facebook — Coach, Nine West and Pottery Barn — with the idea of helping those c ...
  • Facebook Shows Your Likes in Common on Profiles of ...
    Facebook has been quietly adding a “Likes in Common” link to personal profiles in recent weeks. Located in the Likes box beneath Friends and above Photos in the left sidebar, it pops up a window showing which Pages both you and another user are connected to. Visibility of the Likes panel can be cont ...

Truthout - Tweets

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

  • Microfinancing towards development
    A few weeks ago I was over at Sis. Anna’s blog where she mentioned an organization called KIVA, which facilitated micro loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries via the internet. This peaked my interest as I strongly advocate investing within African economies instead of the current system of ...
  • sat’day riddymz
  • 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 ...

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

  • Bill Gates On Climate Change & Energy: We Must and ...
    Whether you know a little or a lot about Climate Change (aka Global Warming), SEN urges you to watch this one-hour video, because you will learn a great deal either way. Gates lays out a sweeping set of ideas for reducing CO2 emmissions to zero. Gates is no fool when it comes to matters of [...]
  • Week 2 – Worldwide Campaign to Save the Gran ...
    The Grand Canyon is one of the world's most pristine and majestic treasures. Mother Nature needs our help to save it. We all need to act to protect the Grand Canyon. Pledge to do your part. Help us by adding your signature to the petitions and ask everyone you know and who cares for earth to do the ...
  • Seize BP Demonstrations Nationwide
    SEN believes these demonstrations will help awaken politicians to outrage over inadequate regulation and control of international corporations, even if they do not succeed in gaining temporary seizure of BP on the basis of national emergency and evidence of criminal neglect and fraud by BP.
  • Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox
    SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Happy Fuckin’ Labor Day!
    September 6th, 2010 7:25 PM Happy Fuckin’ Labor Day! By Michael Moore Dear Rahm Emanuel: Happy Fuckin’ Labor Day! I read this week that — according to a new book by Steven Rattner, your administration’s former “Car Czar” — during White House meetings about how to save the tens of thousands of jobs t ...
  • The Grand Design
    Hawking and Mlodinow return with a unifying ‘Grand Design’   The Grand Design By Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow Bantam. 208 pp. $28   Reviewed by Fred Bortz   Rarely do the title and authorship of a book carry such high expectations as The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. ...
  • 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 ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • Sony Open Planet Ideas Exposed
    “Just imagine if todayâs technology could be re-purposed in radical ways to help solve our planetâs environmental problems? Well, a new project called Open Planet Ideas has been designed to enable you to do just that.” Ok, thought experiment, so I’m doing just that and you can join in too. What ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Digging Time Magazine Out of the Garbage to Boycot ...
    I am thoroughly outraged at TIME Magazine's clearly anti-Semitic cover story designed to irritate Jews on their holy days, Rosh HaShonah and Yom Kippur. I intend to get my copy out of the garbage, where it so richly deserves to be, tear out every advertisement, and paste them on my�refrigerator to r ...
  • CAMERA Announces Conference to Combat Global Campa ...
    I am writing to alert Cutting Edge News readers regarding upcoming conference, "War by Other Means:�the Global Campaign to Delegitimize Israel," hosted by Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America also known as CAMERA. Now, more than ever, Israel finds itself in a battle for fair tr ...
  • 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 ...
  • China on the Edge - Rumored Defection of Key Bank ...
    Rumors have circulated in China that People's Bank of China (PBC) Gov. Zhou Xiaochuan may have left the country. The rumors appear to have started following reports on Aug. 28 which cited Ming Pao , a Hong Kong-based news agency, saying that because of an approximately $430 billion loss on U.S. Trea ...
  • Mexico's Drug Wars - Mexico's War on Narcoterroris ...
    The Mexican Federal Attorney General's Office (PGR) confirmed that members of the Federal Police detained former Beltran Leyva Organization top enforcer, Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez Villarreal. Several Mexican media outlets have reported that the operation that netted Valdez Villarreal took place outsi ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Life vs. Productivity: What Would You Live And Die ...
    By Dahr Jamail One hundred and twenty species of life are erased from the planet each day. Ninety percent of all the pelagic fish in the oceans are gone. The Arctic ice cap is vanishing before our eyes as global temperatures continue to rise
  • Alien Forest, Alien Ocean, Alien Sky
    By Rady Ananda Imagine our declining pollinators bees, moths, butterflies and bats coming upon thousands of acres of toxic trees, genetically engineered so that every cell in the tree exudes pesticide, from crown to root. Imagine a world without pollinators. Without seed dispersers. Without soil ...
  • A Symbolic Solar Road Trip To Reignite a Climate M ...
    By Bill McKibben An activist caravan to bring one of Jimmy Carters solar panels back to the White House symbolizes not only the time the U.S. has lost in developing new energy technologies but also the urgent need for taking action on climate
  • The United States Of Fear:Ten Examples
    By Bill Quigley Since September 11, 2001, fear has been the main engine of change in the United States. Who would have thought that across the US, where people boast that it is the home of the free and the land of the brave, people would gladly surrender their freedom and liberty because they so f ...
  • Global BDS Against Israel Is Working
    By Stephen Lendman In July 2005, a coalition of 171 Palestinian Civil Society organizations created the Global BDS movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel Until it Complies with International Law and Universal Principles of Human Rights for Occupied Palestinians, Israeli Arabs ...

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

  • A Totally Different Approach on the "Ground Zero M ...
    By Barry Rubin As someone interested in the non-political aspects of the Ground Zero Mosque (business plan, zoning, financing, etc) I'm reaching the conclusion that what's most important is not to oppose or support construction of the mosque but to understand it. In other words, there can b ...
  • Hatred and Anti-Semitism In the Progressive Blogis ...
    Daily Kos, MyDD Mondoweiss and others are all giants in the progressive world. In some cases such as Kos, they even have influence on policy as they reflect the values of the progressive movement.� It is interesting that, while the media tries to give the Tea Party movement a false label of hatred i ...
  • The Gift Of ADHD, A Back to School Story
    I originally wrote this seven years ago for AISH.com. Today, on the first day of school, one of our friends has a child with ADHD and needed a little reassurance that everything would turn out OK.� I am republishing this for her and all the parents struggling against a school administration that doe ...
  • New Movie Calls For America To "Wake Up And Smell ...
    Everyone remembers where they were when they found out about the attacks on 9/11. I was sitting in my office when I received an IM from my brother telling me of the first crash and urging me to turn on the TV (I worked for Nickelodeon at the time and had a TV in my office). Turning on the set I saw ...
  • Net Neutrality: The Government's Way of Saying "S ...
    The Internet is the last true bastion of free and open communication in the world, � Unlike� the mainstream media, your get to select your 'point of view" on a particular issue. Broadcast media is highly regulated by the government, phones both wired and cellular are also controlled by the FCC.�� Th ...

The Real Agenda

  • Icecap Loss Estimate Cut by Half
    Scientists found that icecap size varies according to corrections for deformations of the Earth's crust.
  • IDflu: Sanofi-Pasteur’s Vaccine Cocktail
    the vaccine is the first of several types that will be offered to the public as a "cocktail" with various viruses including the infamous H1N1. With this, the consumer no longer has the option to choose which vaccine he wants to use, but will have to take them all; all in one. This eliminates the rig ...
  • IDflu de Sanofi-Pasteur: Primer “Cóctel&#822 ...
    Los globalistas que crearon la fraudulenta pandemia de gripe H1N1 -ampliamente comprobada como tal- vuelven ahora más hambrientos que nunca por más fraude y por más dólares -con ayuda por supuesto de los medios de comunicación.
  • Space Based Laser Weapons
    Current SBL planning is based on a 20 satellite constellation, operating at a 40° inclination, intended to provide the optimum TMD threat negation capability. At this degree of deployment, kill times per missile will range from 1 to 10 seconds, depending on the range from the missile. Retargeting ti ...
  • The Imperial Anatomy of Al-Qaeda Part 1
    The myth sweeps aside the facts and complex nature of terror, al-Qaeda, the American empire and literally defies the laws of physics. As John F. Kennedy once said, “The greatest enemy of the truth is not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, pervasive, and unrea ...

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

  • John Travolta caught cheating, fans?
    By all appearances, a traditional paparazzi scoop. Wanna bet Brand Travolta has calculated that being “unmasked as a cheating spouse” will be outweighed by positive inferences of the shifty Scientologist’s virility? The photo on the tabloid cover appears to have caught Travolta mid-tryst, half-towel ...
  • Glenn Beck exposes himself publicly!
    OK, not like THAT, but with his newest Crusade/Jihad/RightWing Terrorist campaign against Gays. Not just gay rights, but Gay PEOPLE. You know, Human Beings created in the Image of God, the same God Glenn Beck claims to worship? I know there’s an internet rule that arbitrarily prohibits people from c ...
  • How long before the Extremist Rightwing Conspiracy ...
    Because FOX and their subsidiaries like the “Astroturf” TeaBags, employers of Professional and Amateur Liars on a massive scale, would have somebody within their ranks who would think it a good idea to spring the notion that the recent spate of Oil Well disasters were “rigged” not by the sheer STUPI ...
  • Oil Company/TeaBag hypocrisy in Action
    Just before ANOTHER Gulf coast oil rig explosion, and following the example of FOX News Demagogue Glenn Beck, the parent corporation of the Oil Rig in question bussed in employees of their company, Just Like Fox Did at Beck’s Washing Tundy See lie-fest… to a “grass roots” political rally against mak ...
  • Self-contradictory positions taken by TeaBag and R ...
    The list is massive, their own anti-American Terrorist threats in relation to voting rights, civil rights, racism, hate-speech against Muslims, hate-speech inspired attacks against Muslims and other religious, racial, social, or cultural groups and individuals… Oh, and the constant use of Massive Co ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • An Open Letter To Ryan Owens
    Mr. Owens, Let me start off by saying that the purpose of this message is not meant in any way to insult you as a researcher or as a person in general. The purpose of this message is meant to simply inform you of errors that you have made in your 9/11 research, and my sincere hope that you will cor ...
  • 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 ...

Fooducate

  • Baby Kardashian’s First Grocery Trip – Ugggh
    Kourtney Kardashian took her baby Mason to the supermarket for the first time. She took a picture. And published on her blog. Sweet. But what is all that crap doing in the shopping cart? Was this a paid product placement or is Ms. Kardashian actually planning to feed baby with all those processed s ...
  • Voskos Greek Yogurt – Taste Test & Nutrition Revie ...
    We’re big on yogurt here at Fooducate, and recently wrote about the growing popularity of Greek yogurt. Voskos is a brand of Greek Yogurt from Sun Valley Dairy of San Francisco, competing in a growing market. They have a “natural” line of products using milk from cows that were not treated with gro ...
  • Texas Special – Deep Fried Beer
    There is no limit to human innovation. To that will attest Mark Zable of Texas who has spent the last three years of his life perfecting (and patenting) a culinary oddity – deep fried beer! This alcoholic ravioli will compete in the Texas State Fair fried food competition later this month. What a d ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Penan tribe block logging roads in protest
    The Penan have regularly mounted blockades to stop the destruction of their forest © Survival More than 150 Penan tribespeople blocked roads in Borneo on Thursday, in protest at the destruction of their rainforest by logging companies, and at the Malaysian government’s failure to protect their ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • When Labor Is Strong Democrats Win…
    Given that itâs Labor Day weekend let’s chat about laborâorganized labor.  This post from 2007 is still relevant.  If you take a look at the map on your left something may jump out at you, as it did me. Where Labor is strong â Democrats tend to win. Where Labor is [...]
  • Jan 19th: “In 2010 Democrats will be slaught ...
    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 ...
  • When Labor Is Strong Democrats Win…
    Given that itâs Labor Day weekend let’s chat about laborâorganized labor.  This post from 2007 is still relevant.  If you take a look at the map on your left something may jump out at you, as it did me. Where Labor is strong â Democrats tend to win. Where Labor is [...]

Age of Autism

  • The Nightmare and the Dream: A Review of "The Age ...
    By Anne Dachel I am amazed at this book. How can there be all this information out there and no ones does anything? "The Age of Autism -- Mercury, Medicine and a Man-made Epidemic," to be published next Tuesday, has...
  • Contest: Glow Back To School with Glow GF Cookies!
    Glow Back to School! Three winners will scoop up a gift pack of Glow Gluten Free Cookies. Looking for a fun gluten free and casein free lunchbox treat? Glow Gluten Free cookies are both gluten free and casein free and...
  • Landon Hall Interviews Dr. Andrew Wakefield in the ...
    Landon Hall wrote an article about Dr. Andrew Wakefield, author of Callous Disregard from Skyhorse Publishing in the OC (Orange County, California) Register. Please click HERE to read the full article and to comment on their site. To many long-suffering...
  • NIEHS Workshop on Autism and the Environment: New ...
    Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Eastern View live webcast HERE. Workshop Goal The goal of this workshop is to identify novel opportunities and mechanisms to accelerate research on environmental factors and autism, guided by (1)...
  • “Yes.” He Replied: The Tragic Implications of Grou ...
    By LJ Goes Several months ago I began work on a film about autism. To date I have interviewed over 50 families, neurologists, educators, social workers, pediatricians, therapists, activists, and government employees. I’ve spent countless hours watching the erratic, exhausting,...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Rome prepares to demolish 200 illegal Gypsy camps
    The Guardian – Plans by Rome city officials to demolish up to 200 illegal Gypsy camps this week have raised fears by aid workers that thousands of Roma, including women and small children, will be forced on to the streets. In the wake of France’s controversial repatriation of Romanian Gypsies last ...
  • Stay out of Washington, Rice told Bush after 9/11
    The Guardian – 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 Wh ...
  • 700 bodies found in WWII-era mass grave
    ABC – The bodies of about 700 people killed in the wake of World War II have been discovered in a mass grave in Slovenia.Officials believe the victims might have been suspected Nazi collaborators killed by communist-backed anti-fascists. Investigators say most of the bodies have their hands tied beh ...
  • New lawsuit to challenge laptop searches
    Washington Post – Criminal defense lawyers, press photographers and a university student are challenging the Obama administration’s search policy permitting officers at U.S. borders to detain travelers’ laptop computers and examine their contents even without suspecting the traveler of wrongdoing. I ...
  • In Feast of Data on BPA Plastic, No Final Answer
    NY Times – The research has been going on for more than 10 years. Studies number in the hundreds. Millions of dollars have been spent. But government health officials still cannot decide whether the chemical bisphenol-A, or BPA, a component of some plastics, is safe. The substance lines most food an ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Gulf oil spill: BP's ad spending climbs
    As BP oil spread across the gulf this summer, the company spread advertising money across the media, spending more than $93 million to counter images of the mounting disaster. That was more than triple the amount the company spent on...
  • Mayor Villaraigosa: 'Go home, Texas oil companies! ...
    Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Tuesday rebuked Valero Energy Corp. and Tesoro Corp., which operate refineries in Wilmington, for bankrolling a measure that would effectively scuttle the state's efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions. "Go home, Texas oil companies," Villaraigosa urged...
  • California Senate tells motorcyclists to pipe down ...
    Motorcyclists who swap their bikes' stock exhaust systems for so-called loud pipes may be more likely to get a traffic ticket under a California bill that passed the Senate on Monday. SB 435, also known as the Motorcycle Anti-Tampering Act,...
  • Time to update the Energy Star program?
    The government’s Energy Star system, used to rate products and retrofitted buildings for energy efficiency, could use a fixer-upper of its own, a legislator said Monday. The voluntary program uses relative instead of absolute ratings, comparing subjects to others in...
  • Gulf oil spill: Oxygen dropped near oil plumes
    Oxygen levels fell significantly in deep-sea areas of the Gulf of Mexico contaminated by oil plumes from the BP spill. But although researchers found a 20% decline in dissolved oxygen, the drop was not steep enough to create biological "dead...

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

  • A Special Place in Hell / Celebrate Jewish New Yea ...
    "May our enemies and those who hate us be put to an end, Abu Mazen and all these evil people, may they be made gone from the world. The Holy One, Blessed be He, should smite them with plague, they and these Palestinians, the evil Israel-baiters." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! � ...
  • IDF expects flood of civil suits over Cast Lead
    Defense and justice ministry officials believe the attorneys handling these claims intentionally delayed filing suits for more than a year and a half and intend to submit them en masse shortly before the two-year deadline expires. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Commen ...
  • Abbas urges U.S. to step into settlement dispute
    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he has asked the U.S. to settle a dispute with Israel over settlement expansion that is threatening to derail Mideast peace talks. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Obama extends best wishes for Rosh Hashanah
    Obama extends best wishes for Rosh Hashanah Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Anti-Muslim Acts In Five States Being Investigated ...
    The Justice Department is investigating a handful of apparently anti-Muslim incidents in four states, including the stabbing of a Muslim cab driver in New York City. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Colleges Compete to Recycle at Football Games
    As part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 2010 Game Day Challenge, colleges across the country will compete to see who can reduce, reuse, and recycle the most waste.
  • Corporate Excellence Finalists Selected for 2010
    Twelve finalists have been selected for the Secretary of State's prestigious 2010 Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE). These U.S. companies were chosen from a record number of 78 nominations.
  • Dowry Prohibition Act of 1961 Not Effective Enoug ...
    'Dowry ... is publicly condemned but privately condoned and practised; a subject of moral outrage only when the girl's family finally collapses under the weight of the incessant demands for more money, jewellery, property...more material goods, or
  • Bahrain Crackdown Grows More Concerning
    Freedom House is deeply concerned about the ongoing crackdown against human rights activists, political opposition, and religious minorities in Bahrain leading up to the October parliamentary elections.
  • Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Grants Awarded ...
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has begun to award its competitive grants under President Barack Obama's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which is targeting the most significant environmental problems in the region.

    libcom

  • Occupation of Hospital Cleaners Against Precarity
    About 30 women spend night on roof of Municipal Office protesting their precarious work conditions. Yesterday, a group of hospital cleaners from the Specialized Hospital in Dabrowa Gornicza had a meeting with their new bosses at the Muni ...
  • 2010 US Election Spending Sets New Record
    flag and money.jpg Thanks to the US Supreme Court's 5-4 January ruling that it is unconstitutional to limit corporate campaign contributions this year's elections are on pace to shatter previous election ...
  • Mass strikes in France over proposed increase to r ...
    french strike.jpg 7th September 2010 - In response to the government's proposal to raise the pension age from 60 to 62, French workers have held widespread strikes that brought severe disruption to the F ...
  • Wildcat strike in Ankara by the University Workers
    Wildcat strike in the Turkish capital (ankara) in one of the biggest university hospitals by the contractual workers. Workers in one of the biggest university hospitals in Ankara/Turkey went to a wildcat strike over the wage dispute. It ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • renewable energy projects to create 1,400 jobs (vi ...
    Wake Up Missouri Leaders– Clean Energy Jobs, Renewable Energy Producing Systems For Americans!!! Build A Green America !!! Good Job Pennsylvania! Hopefully our Missouri Leaders will take notice of not only the Jobs Created but the savings and Green Energy … Continue reading →
  • renewable energy projects to create 1,400 jobs
    Good Job Pennsylvania! Hopefully our Missouri Leaders will take notice of not only the Jobs Created but the savings and Green Energy Production for the States Energy Needs. Build Green Scotty Pennsylvania to invest $20.5MM for 40 alternative, renewable energy … Continue reading →
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The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

  • HP Faces Uphill Battle to Stop Hurd From Taking Or ...
    Hewlett-Packard's legal team will have a hard time persuading a judge to stop former CEO Mark Hurd from becoming president of Oracle Corp., employment law experts say. HP sued Hurd on Tuesday, claiming that he violated a confidentiality provision of his severance agreement by accepting the post at O ...
  • Study: Location, Firm Size Key to Billing Rates
    A study of more than $4 billion worth of law firm time sheets submitted by 90,000 people at 3,500 firms portrays an industry fraught with inconsistency. About 85 percent of the lawyers charge clients different rates for the same work. The location of the biller and the size of the biller's firm -- n ...
  • 3rd Circuit: Probable Cause May Be Needed for Cell ...
    In the first appellate ruling on a cutting-edge privacy issue, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has declared that cell phone location data may trigger Fourth Amendment concerns and that prosecutors demanding access to such records may be required at times to satisfy a probable cause standard. T ...
  • JD Supra Links In Legal Content
    JD Supra, a legal content syndicator, added a Legal Updates application to LinkedIn, reports attorney Ari Kaplan. The new application gives LinkedIn users access to lawyer-written articles and lends JD Supra's premium members a new channel to expose their expertise to potential clients.
  • Slowdown in Filings Fuels Competition for Bankrupt ...
    Something new is hitting the bankruptcy bar: a slowdown. Just two years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings, the number of businesses filing for Chapter 11 is dropping off. Meanwhile, competition is heating up among firms eager to handle newly filed cases as recent years' large bankruptcy ...

Iranian.com

  • ۱۶ تن از فعالان سیاسی کرد در خطر اعدام می باشند
    بدنبال تداوم اعمال خشونت آمیز، احضار و دستگیری های خودسرانه ، محاکمه یا زندان، کشتار و اعدام های علنی و غیرعلنی دولتی که در مناطق مختلف ایران توسط دولت جمهوری اسلامی ایران به خصوص در مورد اقوام و ملل ایرانی (آذری، کرد، فارس، بلوچ ، عرب ، ترکمن و ...) به شدیدترین وجه اجرامی شود . read more
  • Lebanon Banks Must Comply With Iran Sanctions, Cen ...
    Lebanese banks will have to comply with stricter sanctions by the United Nations, the U.S. and the European Union on Iran, Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh said. read more
  • El Baradei said to have received $7 Million from I ...
    The Egyptian Newspaper Al Youm Al Sabeh reports: In a communication to the Attorney General of Egypt, Dr. Yasser Najib Abdel Mabboud, has accused Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, former Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency and a candidate in the Egyptian presidential elections, of receiving ...
  • بیست و دومین سالگرد کشتار زندانیان سیاسی در ایران
    اخبار روز: آن بیست و یک سال یک طرف، این یک سال یک طرف. بیست و یک سال ایستادگی خستگی ناپذیر و پررنج بازماندگان قتل عام زندان سیاسی در سال ۶۷ برای دادخواهی و علیه فراموشی، وقتی با یک سال جنبش سبز و دموکراتیک مردم ایران به هم پیوست، خاوران از فراموشی بیرون آمد. read more
  • China to build $2bn railway for Iran
    China is poised to sign a $2bn (£1.3bn) deal to build a railway line in Iran in the first step of a wider plan to tie the Middle East and Central Asia to Beijing. �

Most Revolutionary Act

  • In Defense of Smokers
    As a doctor, I am well away of the negative health effects of smoking. Studies show a life time of smoking subtracts an average of ten years from your life expectancy. I also read about the considerable health costs of treating smoking-related illnesses, such as chronic bronchitis, emphysema, heart ...
  • US Customs: the New Thought Police
    One of my New Zealand friends, a solar and wind energy engineer, travels to the US frequently to attend alternative energy conferences and check out potential venture capitalists. Every time he goes through US Customs, he is deemed to pose a security threat and taken aside to be questioned about his ...
  • 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 ...

Free Movement

  • Adverts on Free Movement
    It has come to my attention that Google Ads sometimes (or possibly always) show on Free Movement to those not already logged in as WordPress users – i.e. everyone except me sometimes sees Google Ads on my blog, basically. This blog is hosted mainly for free on WordPress.com. In truth nothing in life ...
  • Lions Led By Donkeys?
    The tragic demise of Refugee and Migrant Justice, formerly known as the Refugee Legal Centre, leaves a gaping and unfillable void in the immigration sector. With its higher than average success rate and top notch training and nurturing programme for asylum lawyers, it is simply irreplaceable. What h ...
  • 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 ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT DELIVERED BY RADIO FROM T ...
    PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT: I have been on a journey of husbandry. I went primarily to see at first hand conditions in the drought states; to see how effectively Federal and local authorities are taking care of pressing problems of relief and also how they a ...
  • The Real Lesson of Labor Day
    Welcome to the worst Labor Day in the memory of most Americans. Organized labor is down to about 7 percent of the private work force. Members of non-organized labor — most of the rest of us — are unemployed, underemployed or underwater. The Labor Department reported on Friday that just 67,000 new pr ...
  • 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 ...

Salon

  • Obama won't back Bush tax cut extension for rich
    All of a sudden, Barack Obama is showing his populist side. On the heels of a feisty Labor Day speech in Milwaukee, the president is set on Wednesday to affirm his opposition to extending the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, according to a New York Times report Tuesday night. Obama ...
  • Are Democrats toast in November?
    Tuesday was the official first day of the political season, with Labor Day finally behind us, and I woke up to this screaming headline in Politico's Playbook: "New wave of polls points to Nov. blowout - Stu Rothenberg moves 20 House races toward GOP." Cable TV was dominated by similar apocalyptic ...
  • "Delinkification" is bunk: Linking is good for you
    Nick Carr, hypertext and delinkification
  • CNN introduces show with opinionated former politi ...
    Everyone laughed when CNN announced that disgraced former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and Pulitzer-winning mediocre opinion columnist Kathleen Parker would host a show together. But now this thing is actually happening, for real. (Poor Rick Sanchez is peeved. But he is the dumbest man in the worl ...
  • Will our generals ever shut up?
    The fall issue of�Foreign Policy�magazine features Fred Kaplan's "The Transformer," an� article-cum-interview �with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. It received a flurry of attention because Gates indicated he might leave his post "sometime in 2011."� The most significant two lines in the piece ...

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

  • Ottawa spins on boat people
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives seem to be generating more spin than substance as they try to impress the public by striking a “tough” stance toward the 492 Tamil asylum-seekers who reached the west coast aboard the MV Sun Sea. ...
  • All-day JK/SK no ‘frill’
    In the eyes of the opposition Conservatives at Queen’s Park, full-day kindergarten, which was launched yesterday in Ontario, is just a “frill” or a “shiny new car.” Conservative Leader Tim Hudak has suggested he would curtail implementation of the ...
  • Editorial: Don’t cancel air show
    Every September, Torontonians can count on two major events to draw long lineups and induce rubbernecking: the CNE air show and the Toronto International Film Festival.
  • Taxes and public services help build a better city
    If low taxes were essential for success, Oklahoma and Alabama would be economic hotspots.
  • Editorial: New era for kindergarten
    As students head back to school today, there is something new waiting for 35,000 4- and 5-year-olds: full-day kindergarten.

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

  • England: How To Win Our Support Back
    England’s World Cup was a shambles. It’s been spoken about far too much since, so I’m not going to keep flogging the already heavily incapacitated horse like everyone else seems to. Instead, I’m looking at the aftermath of what may as well have been a squad holiday for England... Tags: england to so ...
  • Consumer Reports’ 7 simple steps to save energy
    From Green Right Now Reports Americans are committed to boosting their home’s energy efficiencies. A Consumer Reports survey shows that 44 percent have purchased an Energy Star appliance, while 23 percent have upgraded to a more energy-efficient heating or cooling system. The... Tags: taking action
  • North Forsyth football player who had brain surger ...
    Josh Haddock, the North Forsyth lineman who underwent brain surgery last month after collapsing at a practice, could be released from the hospital within a week, head coach Jared Zito told GHSF Daily on Tuesday.   Zito visited Haddock on Sunday, and the player’s... Tags: haddock brain surgery footba ...
  • The ‘Anti-Social Media’ Social Media
    Anyone who browses Reddit has already been exposed to the TechCrunch-Reddit fiasco over “logo day.” You can view Arrington’s statement here and the comments from Reddit here . One comment really struck me and I’m posting it here (click image to enlarge). This guy describes a... Tags: internet starcr ...
  • Rebuilding the Bank to Encourage More Business in ...
    The town of Muqdadiyah in Diyala province was once a stronghold for al Qaeda in Iraq and their onetime leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Shiites living in the town were driven out or simply executed, the market area became mostly deserted, buildings were scarred with bullet holes and... Tags: mosul iraq ...

Groklaw

  • EFF Location Privacy Win: Courts May Require Searc ...
    The Third Circuit today agreed with EFF, holding that federal law allows judges the discretion to require that the government obtain a probable cause search warrant before accessing cell phone location data. The Court further agreed with EFF that location information that can be used to demonstrate ...
  • Twitter will log that click
    Soon, Twitter will be collecting data on which Twitter users click any links in any Twitter streams. They will also be able to collect IP address info for any user (even non-Twitter users) who click on any link in any Twitter message via the Twitter Web interface. Hmm. - Lauren Weinstein, Google B ...
  • Samsung: Galaxy Tab has leg up on Apple iPad
    It permits both picture-taking and video chat with front- and back-mounted cameras. Its weight of 380 grams (0.8 pounds) is considerably less than the iPad, which weighs 680 grams (1.5 pounds) without 3G and 730g (1.6 pounds) with it....The Galaxy Tab will include Android 2.2, called Froyo, and will ...
  • Innovation: CERN collides with a patent reality
    The particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, has been reluctant to patent the inventions it creates in pursuit of exotic subatomic entities. But it hopes that will soon change: last week, it struck a deal with the United Nations' World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to ensure ...
  • Android/Linux kernel fight continues
    Google tried to do the right thing by hiring two new Android developers to work more closely with the Linux kernel development team to get Android back in sync Linux. At the time, it looked like Google and Android would quickly get back to the same page. It hasn't worked out that way. At LinuxCon, ...

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Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

  • So said Tony Hayward
    a music video, a tango about the BP oil spill and its disastrous impacts; the story of BP CEO Tony Hayward’s hapless efforts to spin and manage; a mediation on capitalism’s indifference toward human lives and ecological health. ‘You know, I’d like my life back.’ So said Tony Hayward. Tip: Climate an ...
  • ECTunes solves silent EV vehicle “problem” with di ...
    ECTunes is developing a system that utilizes directional sound equipment to emit noise when and where it’s needed. According to the company, its technology sends audible signals only in the direction of travel, thus allowing the vehicle to be heard by those who may be in the cars path, without distu ...
  • World’s largest wave energy site now in UK
    It uses a socket on the sea floor The Wave Hub, a groundbreaking renewable energy project that is set to become the UK’s first offshore facility dedicated to wave energy, has been installed off the North Coast of Cornwall. Four wave energy generation devices will connect their arrays into the Hub, a ...
  • Our Labradoodle president
    Jim Kunstler I voted for Barack Obama. I don’t know about you, but I’m a tad disappointed in how things turned out with him. These days he makes Millard Fillmore look like Frederick the Great. His speech last week on Iraq and, incidentally, economic matters, was such a puffery of hollow platitudes t ...
  • Savage violence in Mexico and money laundering in ...
    Personally, I don’t have a problem with marijuana. But, current marijuana users do need to know that their marijuana (or other drugs too) almost certainly comes via Mexican drug cartels and their affiliates, and it is quite literally drenched in blood and corruption. Since 2006, at least 22,000 peop ...

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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 ...

Media Co-Op

  • Paramilitaries rear their heads again in Oaxaca, t ...
    To Indigenous Peoples To the women's movement To the media To the social organizations, to the movements of resistance and emancipation who are in rebellion and to the men and women who are seeking justice for Indigenous peoples, for the Triqui people, to this Mexico in disobedience... To all of you ...
  • Labour Day Message from Rick Clarke, President of ...
    Halifax - On Labour Day we recognize and pay tribute to the many valuable social and economic achievements made by working people. Workers and their organizations have been at the forefront in the fight for better health care, accessible and affordable education, housing, pensions, a realistic minim ...
  • Solidarity and Support for Juan, Indy Journalist & ...
    Juan Pablo Lepore, 28, was arrested on the morning of September 2 in Montreal, for participating in the G20 Summit in Toronto this June. Juan Pablo was transferred to Toronto the same night and appeared in court Friday morning. The crown has refused his release. "It's stunning to refuse Juan a relea ...
  • Britannia Next up for Gentrification
    Stealth for Wealth on Commercial Drive and East Hastings To pervert a few familiar words of popular poetry: "The best laid plans are kept well out of the public eye as long as possible, until the time arrives to steamroll over the mice." In Va ...
  • Local Food Fraud?
    An exclusive behind-the-scenes investigative report taking an in-depth look into alleged local food fraud www.cjly.net/deconstructingdinner/090210.htm An exclusive behind-the-scenes investigative report taking an in-depth look into alleged loc ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • The Korean mess
    "As we have learnt again and again in this long period of turmoil, the impossible can become inevitable without even passing through improbable." Anatole Kaletsky - The Times David Seaton's News Links We seem to be immersed in a period of cumulative disasters, rather similar to the astrological idea ...
  • The asymmetrical revolution - part II
    Just suck it up David Seaton's News Links There is an idea prevalent among many commentators that the "markets" are something immutable, some God-given law of nature, like the law of gravity. This is part of the "end of history", pensée unique , business. In fact the markets are just human social co ...
  • Israel's massive flotilla cock-up
    (...) I call on the Government of Israel to open the crossings to allow unfettered access for aid to Gaza, and address the serious concerns about the deterioration in the humanitarian and economic situation and about the effect on a generation of young Palestinians‪." William Hague - UK Foreign Se ...
  • Israel: cold Turkey
    "Ah" says Mr. Kissinger, "If only the Bible had been written in Uganda. Everyone would be better off." Saul Bellow- "To Jerusalem and Back: a personal account "David Seaton's News Links It came to me when rolling this flotilla crisis thing around in my mind, that what we are witnessing at this mo ...
  • Helen Thomas touched the sore point
    "Jews know that they can land on their feet in any corner of the world. The real test for us is to make Israel such an attractive place--cutting edge in science, education, culture, quality of life--that even American Jewish young people want to come here. If we cannot do this, even those who were b ...
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