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Thomas Paine

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Friday, September 10, 2010

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Scoop - NZ

  • Defeatism among US economic elites
    Goldilocks has played a trick on America. Growth is not warm enough to prevent hard-core unemployment climbing to post-war highs and sticking at levels that corrode the body politic, but not yet cold enough to overcome the fierce resistance of the Fed's regional hawks for a fresh blast of stimulus. ...
  • EU austerity risks civil war in Greece
    Greece's austerity measures cannot prevent default and will lead to a breakdown of the political order if continued for long, a leading German economist has warned. "This tragedy does not have a solution," said Hans-Werner Sinn, head of the prestigious IFO Institute in Munich. "The p ...
  • Afghan election fraud; Why we should care
    With little fanfare, and in the shadow of a spate of corruption and governance scandals, millions of Afghans will head to the polls in two weeks to vote in the country's second parliamentary elections. The international community has, to a large extent, adopted a a4see no evil, speak no evil' appro ...
  • Rosenberg: 13 signs it's a Depression
    David Rosenberg has outlined, in his latest letter, the 13 reasons with this so-called recovery is actually a depression. Rosenberg sums it up like this: This is what a depression is all about - an economy that 33 months after a recession begins, with zero policy rates, a stuffed central bank sheet, ...
  • Petraeus: "Burn the Koran" endangers US troops
    very day for the past few days there have been demonstrations in Afghanistan against the scheme of the Christian fundamentalist Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, to burn copies of the Qur'an on September 11. This sort of grandstanding by a tiny congregation with global ramification ...

Independent - London

  • New Zealand's top defence scientist quits over 'em ...
    Stephen Wilce, New Zealand's most senior defence scientist, had an impressive CV. He had seen combat duty in the Royal Marines, worked for MI5 and MI6, and been a member of an Olympic bobsleigh team, competing against the Jamaican team whose story inspired the film Cool Runnings. The trouble was tha ...
  • The Marines, MI5, the Olympics... CV 'lies' cost t ...
    Stephen Wilce, New Zealand's most senior defence scientist, had an impressive CV. He had seen combat duty in the Royal Marines, worked for MI5 and MI6, and been a member of an Olympic bobsleigh team, competing against the Jamaican team whose story inspired the film Cool Runnings. The trouble was tha ...
  • Philippines police 'may have shot hostages'
    Some victims in a botched hostage rescue of a tourist bus in the Philippines may have been hit by police fire, the nation's top law enforcement official said yesterday.
  • Vatican tourists 'ruining Sistine Chapel'
    The head of the Vatican Museum has warned that dust and pollution from tourists visiting the Sistine Chapel could endanger its priceless artworks.
  • New crackdown on Wall St fraud
    Federal prosecutors in New York vowed to step up their campaign to root out and punish wrongdoing by Wall Street over the credit crisis. The US attorney's office in the southern district of New York, which has much of the finance industry under its jurisdiction, yesterday named a new head of its civ ...

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Project UFO
    As alien invaders go, the giant hogweed is particularly nasty. The weed spreads quickly, growing up to seven metres high, and defends itself by spitting a toxic sap — a gooey concoction that causes painful skin blisters that last for weeks and purple scars that can remain visible for several years. ...
  • Songbird secrets
    Talk about getting a bad rap. In the extensive scientific literature about songbirds, the purple martin has long been described as a leisurely migrant that takes its time each fall flying from breeding grounds in Canada and the northern United States to its winter home in Brazil or elsewhere in Sout ...
  • Playing with fire
    As one of the world’s most powerful natural forces, fire holds many different meanings to everyone. To some, it’s an instrument of destruction — and a cause for worry. For others, it means warmth during chilly weather, or just a way to roast marshmallows. But for George Hadjisophocleous, a Carleton ...
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • Google Super Spy Eye-in-the-Sky: Total Information ...
    In setting up an action/thriller movie, let's picture mass biometric and CCTV surveillance and tracking technology that is stored in a massive computer database, holding personal information of every person in the United States. Stored personal information would include e-mails, credit card recor ...
  • Koran-burning 'pastor' loses website
    Dove World Outreach Center is out of reach Red-nosed pastor Terry Jones, who plans to burn copies of the Koran and Jewish text the Talmud at the weekend, has either had his website hacked or his ISP has pulled the plug. The site, at http://www.doveworld.org/ is unavailable this morning. The pasto ...
  • U.S. troops charged with murder of Afghan civilian ...
    Twelve U.S. soldiers have been charged with gruesome crimes in Afghanistan ranging from murdering civilians to keeping body parts as war trophies -- revelations that the Pentagon said on Thursday damaged America's image around the world. The infantry soldiers from the 5th Stryker Brigade based in W ...
  • Apropos 'Peace Talks'
  • Police: 2 shot dead at Kraft plant in Pennsylvania ...
    Philadelphia - A woman who had just been suspended from her job and escorted from a Kraft Foods Inc. facility in the city's northeast section on Thursday returned with a handgun and opened fire, killing two people and critically injuring a third, police said. The shooter was taken into custody ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Korycon . . .
  • BC's finance minister doesn't read tax briefings
    At least, that's what he's trying to tell us . Hansen insists he never read most of those documents, revealing though they were. "This is not something that was particularly important at the time. If it had been part of our plan -- when we get through the election we're going to harmonize the ...
  • Hurricane Earl takes direct aim at the Maritimes
    Hurricane Earl is weakening as it runs into cooler water and feels the effect of the mid-latitude Westerlies. Intensity on the surface is about 75 knots (139 kmh/86 mph). The cyclone is tracking in a direction of north northeast at 18 knots (33 kmh/21 mph) as generally predicted by models and the N ...
  • Dog Nutz . . .
    ACCORDING TO MACLEAN'S , things are not well in the Timmy's empire. The article, "Tim Hortons’ extra-large trouble trouble" highlights how, in the chase for the maximum profit squeeze, quality is perceived to be in decline. It all started when the honchos decided to get rid of in-store baking, in fa ...
  • Banksters, Afghan style
    Der Spiegel in July: "Billions of dollars are being secreted out of Kabul to help well-connected Afghans buy luxury villas in Dubai." The Dubai villas are usually registered in the name of those issuing the loans, such as Sherkhan Farnood , deposed chairman of Kabul Bank, who transferred hundreds ...

Media Matters for America

  • If Rauf "threaten[ed] America," then so did Gen. P ...
    The right-wing media is attacking Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf for saying that opposition to the Park51 project creates "danger from the radicals in the Muslim world to our national security," by claiming, among other things, that Rauf's comments amounted to "threaten[ing] America." But Rauf's commen ...
  • Right-wing media concoct Clinton attack on Obama
    Right-wing media omitted essential context from recent remarks made by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to falsely claim that she attacked President Obama's economic policies when she said, "I think that our rising debt levels poses a national security threat," and also to speculate that Cli ...
  • Fox promotes Boehner's falsehood that health care ...
    Fox News' Bill Hemmer uncritically repeated�House Republican leader�John Boehner's statement�that he would repeal or block funding for health�care reform before it "'bankrupts'�the country."�Hemmer ignored multiple Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports stating that health�care reform will ...
  • Media rife with anti-Muslim rhetoric in weeks lea ...
    As the nation prepares to mark the ninth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, numerous media figures have propagated anti-Muslim rhetoric, often smearing Muslims as "terrorists," "jihadists," and "extremists," and dismissing Islam altogether as a "militant" and "anti-Semitic" fait ...
  • Right wing compares book burning to building a co ...
    Media conservatives, led by Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, are comparing a Florida church's plans to burn Qurans on the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks to plans to build an Islamic community center in Manhattan. Florida church plans to burn Islamic and Jewish religious texts AP: Christian mini ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • The Tortoise Economy
    Word from the twelve Federal Reserve Banks, summarized in the Fed's so-called "Beige Book," shows the economy slowing in July and August. Duh. But the Fed is quick to point out the economy overall is still growing -- even though it's growing more slowly than in the spring. Can we have a mom ...
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  • Can Feds Arrest, And Jail, Quran Burning Pastor?
    I'm asking. Is this a crazy idea? The president, the military, and other US intelligence agencies say that the Quran burning could lead to the murder of Americans. On that basis, can't the President legitimately order the FBI to arrest the crazed pastor before he acts? I don't know what ...
  • Let the Campaign Begin
    For the almost 3 years I have been writing a blog, I have held to the belief that the self-important political pundits like Charlie Cook underestimated Barack Obama's political skills. In November of 2007, Charlie Cook was saying the Presidency was a tight race between Hillary Clinton (D) and Ru ...
  • Martin Peretz: American Muslims Should Not Have 1s ...
    As Rosh Hashanah begins, and Ramadan ends, the virulent Muslim-baiting continues. The controversy over the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" is only a pretense to express the hate that was already there. On Wednesday, the Republican leader in the House of Representatives refused to condemn the bur ...

TruthOut

  • Lawmakers and Activists Pressure Obama to Sign Lan ...
    Human rights groups are once again putting pressure on the Obama administration to join every other NATO ally and sign the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. The treaty, established during a summit in Canada, bans the antipersonnel landmines that continue to maim and kill thousands of civilians across the world. ...
  • Obama Fights to End Bush Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, ...
    Guest:  David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist. His most recent book is titled Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill) . Juan Gonzalez: There’s a battle looming in Washington over the future of tax c ...
  • The Wealthy Public-Sector Worker: A Myth Debunked
    Whenever the subject of state and local governments' fiscal plight comes up here in the United States, conservatives engage in spittle-flecked denunciations of unions and their crazy pay packages. Jonathan Cohn tells us in an online piece for The New Republic, published in August: "Conservatives sa ...
  • News in Brief: The Wealthiest Lawmakers Got Wealth ...
    The Wealthiest Lawmakers Got Wealthier Last Year Despite Recession read more
  • Petraeus Spins the Afghan War Mess
    A few weeks ago, Gen. David Petraeus pulled off a flawless remake of Gen. William Westmoreland’s 1967 performance in which the Vietnam War commander detected “light at the end of the tunnel” – just months before the Viet Cong launched its Tet offensive, proving the resistance was very much alive and ...

Planetsave

  • Frankenfish Should be OK Because of BPA (cartoon)
    Bill McKibbenâs New Book: The Old Economy is Killing the Earth; Itâs Time for a New Living Economy Don’t Let Experimental Genetically Engineered Salmon Reach Your Plate
  • Threatening CO2 Producers Yet to be built
    Research by scientists from the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology has found that the real C02 threat’s to Earth’s climate have yet to be built. Scientists Steven Davis and Ken Caldeira believe that as it stands, we can prevent the inertia in our production of carbon tipping our cli ...
  • Fourth Warmest US Summer Just Passed
    The continental United States of America has just experienced the fourth-warmest summer on record according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. According to the latest NOAA State of the Climate report the summer just passed (June to August) was the fourth warmest on record, since ...
  • Send Big Oil a Message — Join World Carfree ...
    Join World Carfree Day Of course, you know I am going to encourage you to join in on this wonderful holiday. To affirm that you will be showing up on September 22, you can make your way over to the World Carfree Day Facebook page (you will need to login to Facebook) and join the over... Read More...
  • Earth is an Oil-Coal-holic (cartoon)
    For better and worse we live in an in-between time. A trying-to-get-clean time. A turn-our-backs-on-coal-and-oil-and-change-the-scene-to-green time. (sorry) Earth will soon realize (or maybe she already has) that as she fights her addiction, some of the people she thought were friends will try to ke ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • US Interference in Venezuelan Elections - Bolivari ...
    [Ver este artículo en español aquí] In 2002, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) arrived in Venezuela with a mission: Remove Hugo Chavez from power A report commissioned by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and published in May 2010 by the Spanish Foundation fo ...
  • France steps up military intervention in Sahel - W ...
    2 September 2010 - France has seized upon reports of the execution of a French aid worker by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in July to escalate its military intervention in its former colonies in the strategic Sahel region of Western Africa. French aid worker Michel Germaneau, 7 ...
  • Explosion Rocks Honeywell Uranium Facility Run by ...
    Union workers have been locked out at the uranium enrichment facility in Metropolis, Illinois for two months now after contract negotiations broke down over Honeywell's demand that workers give up their retiree health care coverage and pension plans. The Metropolis uranium facility is the only one i ...
  • The Heirs - Colombia
    Editor's Note: This 45 minute Al Jazeera film documentary shows how the Alvaro Uribe regime and transnational corporations supported the massacres of thousands of Colombians by the AUC paramilitaries. When Uribe left office he designated Juan Manuel Santos as his successor. Santos, now president, wa ...
  • Mozambique reverses bread price rise in wake of ri ...
    Mozambique says it will reverse the increase in the price of bread that sparked deadly riots last week. The announcement of the change in policy came from the planning minister, Aiuba Cuereneia, who also said the country would restore some subsidies for electricity and water. A jump ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Without-a-Trace-of-Irony headline of the day comes from POLITICO : "POLITICO hires first opinion writers" (Who knew? We thought everyone they had ever hired was an opinion writer.) If conservatives can get away with blaming the ban on DDT for the comeback of bedbugs in this country we are going to b ...
  • What If Those Korans Had Been American Flags?
    Apparently the idiot got all the publicity he's wanted, because he's declared victory and retreated. But we're going to be debating the meaning of it for far too long, mostly because too many people who should know better missed the point. PZ Myers, who knows from free speech vs. idiot religion, exp ...
  • Once we all stopped and paid attention to his crac ...
    Well, his ego got stoked and there for a minute he was suddenly as important as he had always fancied himself tom be. He didn't do anything worthwhile to get the notoriety. In fact, he earned himself nothing but scorn, derision and hatred. The Mayor of Gainsville, where hid church is located describ ...
  • This Terry Jones character is even creepier than I ...
    I didn't give much time or attention to the wingnut hatemongering holy-roller preacher in Florida who is planning to burn copies of the Quran on September 11 until General Petraeus spoke up and said the act would get American military members killed, and it was playing into the hands of Islamic extr ...
  • The post I was too furious to think up a title for
    I want to say that this in unbelievable, but I can't. I absolutely believe it because I know what a shambles eight years of war, waged on the cheap and using the national credit card and with mercenaries to fill the holes left when the military was "downsized" and emaciated, and what that has done t ...

Care 2

  • Is this the most toe-curling Beckham advert yet? D ...
    Even the most successful couples sometimes need a lift.But its advice David and Victoria Beckham seem to have taken rather too literally.In their latest advertisement, they are shown locked in a passionate embrace in an elevator. Submitted by Anna Smith to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 10 Fashion Mistakes for Men
    Some men could care less about their style and how they dress, but some of these looks are just disastrous. Here are 10 fashion mistakes for men:. Submitted by Anna Smith to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Starting A New Life
    Macey and Mackenzie Garrison were born as conjoined twins 7 years ago, bound at the pelvis and sharing a third leg. Submitted by Pedja S. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • World Bank's Climate Change Envoy Steers Around Ho ...
    Ask Andrew Steer, the World Bank's new climate change envoy, what he thinks of his institution's controversial recent decision to help build the world's fourth-dirtiest coal plant in South Africa, and he hedges. "My job is not to give a personal opinion Submitted by Mary Coleman to World �|� �Note ...
  • North Seattleite takes climate change message to g ...
    Bob Jeffers-Schroder spent the first half of 2010 ringing more than 60,000 doorbells to inform residents about the potential dangers of global warming. Now, he'll spend the next two months preparing for his general election battle against ... Submitted by Mary Coleman to US Politics & Gov't �|� �No ...

Smirking Chimp

  • 9/11: The Rest Should Be Silence
    This past Sunday was beautiful, bright and warm, not unlike the sky blue day when those two airliners hit the World Trade Center in 2001, just a mile or so from where I live. That day, a Tuesday, was a bit hotter, a bit more humid, yet just as sunny and promising. But this Sunday morning's silence w ...
  • Implications of a Pointless War
    What does it mean that the New York Times, upon the occasion of President Obama's announced drawdown of forces in Iraq last week, called our seven and a half years of invasion and occupation of the country "a pointless war"? The editorial proceeded to do what Obama himself seemed to be under enormou ...
  • Tomgram: Juan Cole, The Media as a Security Threat ...
    from TomDispatch Call it strange or call it symptomatic. These last weeks, Afghan War commander General David Petraeus has been on a “media blitz.” He’s been giving out interviews as if they were party favors. Yet, as far as I can tell, not a single interviewer has asked him anything like: “Gener ...
  • Have We Forgotten How To Come Together?
    On a picture perfect September day in 2010, I am listening to Elvis Perkins' Ash Wednesday album, which opens with the haunting "While You Were Sleeping." A lyric from the song catches my ear, draws me up short, then another, and another. I look out the window. The sky is deep blue and the sun is sh ...
  • It's the Mortgages, Stupid
    � from Truthdig This week's proposals by the Obama administration to deal with the persistent economic crisis will be, as with previous plans that involved trillions of taxpayer dollars, little more than salt in the wounds. Once again the strategy is to stimulate the economy by funding projects and ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Military Souring On Obama
    Longtime readers of NoQuarter know that notwithstanding my criticism of Obama for his inexperience and lack of qualification to be an effective President, I did give him high marks for continuing and expanding counter terrorism military operations. That was true for the first year in office but it ...
  • to burn, or not to burn
    Pastor Terry Jones, from the Dove World Outreach Center in Florida, recently announced plans to burn copies of the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. General David Petraeus warned that the planned Quran burning could “endanger American troops in Afghanistan and be used to incite ...
  • The Conversation Continues…
    Well, this will be my last post for a while. Again, I want to thank everyone for their warm support and encouragement of me as I prepare to have my knee replaced on September 9th. It means more to me than I can say. Before I go, I want to highlight a few of [...]
  • A COUP, THROUGH and THROUGH (3 of 3)
    © 2010 jbjd A COUP, THROUGH and THROUGH (3 of 3) is the final installment in the 3-part series describing the fraud pulled off at the 2008 DNC Services Corporation Presidential Nominating Convention in order to ensure Barack Obama would receive the nomination so that his name would appear next to ...
  • 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 [...]

Environmental Graffiti

  • 19 Strange And Unusual Beds For Your Home
    If money is of no concern but being environmentally friendly, space conscious and unique is, then these beds are perfect for the person who wants it all. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Amazing Skyscraper Reflections: Nature's Urban ...
    Nature makes its own dramatic murals using glass skyscrapers as its palette. Some amazing photographs of landscapes inside. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 16 Bizarre Chairs To Liven Up Your Living Room
    These environmentally friendly, useful, bizarre and unique chairs are perfect for any decor, particularly for those who want to save the planet. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Condom Couture: Turning Rubbers into Dresses
    Wearing dresses like these would make for a lot of protection. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Most Beautiful Snakes on Earth
    a read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • For Pelosi and Markey, an Oil Sands Mission
    The House speaker and Energy and Environment subcommittee chairman get an earful about the pluses and minuses of imports from Alberta's oil sands operations.
  • German Military Braces for Scarcity After 'Peak Oi ...
    A leaked German analysis plots a peak in global oil supplies, followed by an irreversible decline that drives up transportation prices and fosters product shortages.
  • The Irrigation Juggernaut
    A computerized analysis finds that irrigation may be cooling big swaths of North America, Europe and Asia, temporarily masking the effects of global warming.
  • A Challenge to China's Energy Subsidies
    The union will ask the Obama administration to begin formal proceedings at the World Trade organization in Geneva to force China to repeal subsidies.
  • On Our Radar: An Asian Carp Czar
    A former leader of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources will oversee the federal effort to keep the invasive species out of the Great Lakes.

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

  • Proud to be an American
    Are you proud to be an American?  I had an interesting experience the other day in water aerobics.  Some how the â50s and the KGB came up in conversation.  I said, “Yes, I remember them.  We hated them.  The KGB âdisappearedâ people in the middle of the night and tortured them.”  Boy, di ...
  • Politicians, Press Cheat Taxpayers By Whitewashing ...
    Washington Post columnist David Broder last week cited New Jersey’s freshman Gov. Chris Christie as a role model for Pennsylvania’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Corbett, who similarly boasts of a platform to limit government and fight crime. But Broder got the Christie story completely bac ...
  • Unknown Bigot Given Media Megaphone
    Rev. Terry Jones had his “Balloon Boy” moment when the unknown pastor from a tiny church in Florida announced he would burn the Quran on Sept. 10, generating a media feeding frenzy spinning out over 6,000 articles (as of 9/08, according to Google Tracking).  All major corporate outlets and even ind ...
  • “Is There a Predator Drone Near Gainesville?”
    Michael Collins Military historian and author, Brian Downing, is more than a little perturbed at the foolishness of Koran burning in Gainesville, Florida (site of the most egregious election fraud in 2000). (Image) As best as I can tell, that plow-hand in Gainesville has never even had the benefit o ...
  • How Rev. Terry Jones Could Save The World
    Early on the morning of Friday, September 10, 2010, the Rev. Terry Jones hastily called a press conference on the steps of his church, the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, and emerged pale and shaken to read a short announcement to reporters from CNN, Fox, MSNBC, AP, the Daily Sho ...

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    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 ...
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    Daily Telegraph reports on bold moves in the public sector . But what about the private sector which originated the "crazy" bonus system and still leads the way on excessive top pay...?
  • 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

  • Michael Moore Teaches Rahm Emanuel a F**cking Econ ...
    By Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com Posted on September 7, 2010, Printed on September 8, 2010 http://www.alternet.org/story/148106/ Dear Rahm Emanuel, I read this week that â according to a new book by Steven Rattner, your administration’s former “Car Czar” â during ...
  • 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 ...

Marler Blog

  • I have found something I agree with Senator Grassl ...
    Senator Grassley was quoted in the Wall Street Journal today - "Just because food safety isn't 'my job' doesn't mean it should be ignored." I may not agree with him on most things, but on this one, he and I seem to see eye to eye. I just may stop putting my money on the Democrats. Here is why. La ...
  • Kern County California names names in Salmonella E ...
    My bet to the chagrin of some 200 California restaurants, Kern County published a list today of the the restaurants that received the tainted eggs from Wright County Eggs and Hillandale Farms.� You must wonder if the restaurants will be asking a few more questions of their suppliers in the future?� ...
  • They lock up Farm Fresh Eggs in Australia
    After my speech today at the 3rd Annual Australian Food Safety Conference, several people approached me trying to understand the scope of 550,000,000 eggs being recalled in the US and some 1,500 people sickened with Salmonella Enteritidis. They asked politely (as Australian’s do) if it was true tha ...
  • Nine dead, over 700 sickened by Salmonella Peanuts ...
    Thinking I had to be up at 4:30 AM this morning to participate in a phone conference (it is actually Friday morning – I’m a day ahead here in Australia), I awoke at 3:30 AM to Mary Clare Jalonick’s article about Stewart Parnell’s new job – consulting for the peanut industry – REALLY? Her best open ...
  • Marler Clark Seeks Entrance to Wright County Egg
    In the morning we will petition the Iowa Federal Court for entrance to the Iowa egg farm responsible for the massive egg recall and nationwide outbreak of Salmonella. A ‘Rule 34’ inspection – named for its position in the civil code - is a request for entry into a facility for purposes of inspectio ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 09.10.10
    Hyundai unveils i10-based BlueOn electric vehicle in South Korea One to watch. Nissan and this polar bear want to love you - if you drive a Leaf Awwww. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 09.09.10
    Pruck this: Toyota Prius gets the El Camino treatment (and a plug-in powertrain) Where to begin? Three governments, two worries: oil surpluses vs. peak oil We just might get both, given enou ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 09.08.10
    Obama announces $50m plan to build the "best infrastructure in the world" Ambition remains the president's hallmark. Toronto hydro chief: Electric car upswing would crash grid Is the sky fal ...
  • 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 ...

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!

  • Sept. 11: A Day Without War
    The ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States should serve as a moment to reflect on tolerance. It should be a day of peace. Yet the rising anti-Muslim fervor here, together with the continuing U.S. military occupation of Iraq and the escalating war in Afghanistan (and Pakistan ...
  • 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.

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

  • 9th. Anniversary of 911 rolls around with Neocons ...
    With the 9th. Anniversary of 911 Current U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan are reaching 95,000, more than we have in Iraq. We are leaving the Worlds largest embassy, Fortress America, in Iraq and currently working on a similar one in Pakistan, while boasting of 737 military bases worldwide. As the fr ...
  • Quran Burning CANCELED: Dove World Outreach’ ...
    Quran Burning CANCELED: Dove World Outreach’s Terry Jones Drops Offending ‘Stunt’ AP / Huffington Post First Posted: 09- 9-10 05:06 PM   |   Updated: 09- 9-10 05:55 PM The leader of a small Florida church that espouses anti-Islam philosophy says he is canceling plans to burn copies of the Qura ...
  • Obama Implores Minister To Call Off Quran Burning ...
    Obama Implores Minister To Call Off Quran Burning (VIDEO) First Posted: 09- 9-10 10:04 AM   |   Updated: 09- 9-10 10:04 AM Associated Press via: Huff Post WASHINGTON â President Barack Obama is exhorting a Florida minister to “listen to those better angels” and call off his plan to engage in ...
  • US soldiers ‘killed Afghan civilians for sport and ...
    Soldiers face charges over secret ‘kill team’ which allegedly murdered at random and collected fingers as trophies of war Chris McGreal in Washington, The Guardian/UK,  Sep 9, 2010 Andrew Holmes, Michael Wagnon, Jeremy Morlock and Adam Winfield are four of the five Stryker soldiers who face murder ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Money & Markets Charts ~ 9.09.10
    View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, September 9, 2010. Click here to view all charts as a pdf file. See previous Money & Markets Charts blog posts here. Currency ...
  • Yuan Trading Against Russian Ruble to Start in Sha ...
    By Artyom Danielyan and Emma O’Brien China and Russia plan to start trading in each other’s currencies as the world’s second-biggest energy consumer and the largest energy supplier seek to diminish the dollar’s role in global trade. China may start trading its currency against the ruble within week ...
  • German Farmer’s 24 Hour Milk Filling Station
    A German dairy farmer has come up with a novel way to drum up new business — he opened a “milk filling station.” The “Milchtankstelle” near Cologne in the town of Neunkirchen-Seelscheid dispenses the output of 78 cows from a stainless steel vending machine. Customers can either bring their own empt ...
  • UK Agency Fines Goldman Sachs $27 Million
    By Robert Barr Britain’s financial regulator hit Goldman Sachs International with a 17.5 million pounds ($27 million) fine on Thursday for failing to notify U.K. authorities about an investigation in the United States. It was the second-largest fine ever imposed by the Financial Services Authority, ...
  • Austrian 100 Corona
    By David Liechty The Austrian 100 Corona coin is a good choice for investors looking to maximize the value of their gold investment purchase. Weighing just under an ounce, at 0.9802 ounces (gold content only), it is roughly comparable in size to the higher priced 1 ounce coins. Because it is no ...

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

  • Which political party will best protect our libert ...
    Summary:  Our decades of experience with both parties makes this question easy to answer.  Neither.  They are partners, chopping at the tree of liberty from opposite sides.  The next post in this series describes the group most responsible for the situation, and for our accelerating loss of rights. ...
  • Cutting down the tree of liberty
    Summary:   Another day, another small slice taken from our liberty.  This is another chapter describing this process, the saddest aspect of which is our indifference to the loss of our hard-won liberties.  This was originally part of the previous post about Obama, but its importance warranted separa ...
  • Another bold action by the radical leftists of Tea ...
    Summary:  The rodeo clown show that is 21st century America provides us with entertainment — dark humor.  Here’s today’s episode, as the radical leftists of Team Obama continue the work of the Bush Jr Administration. Future historians will express astonishment at the successful effort by Republic ...
  • 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, ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • US pastor Terry Jones cancels Koran burning
    BBC – The pastor of a small US church who planned to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11 has cancelled his protest. Terry Jones said he was calling off the event after the group behind a planned Islamic centre near Ground Zero in New York agreed to relocate it. But [...]
  • Mars Drops Hints of an Active Past Involving Water
    space.com âBy tasting a little bit of the rocks and air on Mars, NASA’s robotic Phoenix lander discovered secrets about the history of water on the Red Planet over the last 4 billion years, scientists now reveal. Phoenix was the most recent spacecraft to land on Mars and spent about five months st ...
  • ‘Mind-reading machine’ can convert thoughts into s ...
    Telegraph – Researchers have been able to translate brain signals into speech using sensors attached to the surface of the brain for the first time. The breakthrough, which is up to 90 per cent accurate, offers a way to communicate for paralysed patients who cannot speak and could eventually lead to ...
  • Peril of the sleeping pill: Users a third more lik ...
    Daily Mail – Popping a pill might seem a small price to pay for a good nightâs rest. But experts warn the long-term cost could be far greater. Research shows that those who take sleeping tablets are a third more likely to die prematurely than those who do not. Read article
  • US military deaths in Afghanistan at 1,176
    AP – As of Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010, at least 1,176 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. Read Article

Monkey Smashes Heaven

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

PakAlert

  • Insider Says We’re Entering “the Age of Satan”
    We are entering the Age of Satan, the Age of Fire and We look forward to His reign and the pleasures which are to come! Generations of us have come and gone with this aim and our plans are coming to fruition. Indeed, we can almost be as open as we like because there's no turning back and every day w ...
  • Photos: 50 Of The World’s Strangest Buildings
    These are the photos of world's 50 strangest buildings, a must watch.
  • THE DECLINE AND FALL OF AMERICA
    The shocking new full length film that will change the way you look at our once great country and what America has become today. After the ... all » pre-release viewing of the movie on 01/21/08, many people compared it to Aaron Russo's "Freedom To Fascism". B.A. Brooks is currently writing his new b ...
  • Gerald Celente Calls Out General Petraeus On Koran ...
    “You hear someone like General Petraeus saying burning the Koran could be dangerous to American troops – hey General Petraeus – how about invading Arab countries and occupying them and killing innocent people? You think that could be dangerous to American troops? Oh no no, our foreign policy has not ...
  • Video: Oracle corporation and their involvement in ...
    This video will show you how the CIA approached Oracle corporation to create their list of fake victims for September 11, 2001, and also to find someone who would fake their death to lie to the media to support their story (Todd Beamer and his wife). Furthermore, because Oracle knew of this attack i ...

Andy Worthington

  • Nabil Hadjarab, an Algerian in Guantánamo, Appeals ...
    Yesterday, Reprieve, the London-based legal action charity, published a letter to President Sarkozy in which Guantánamo prisoner Nabil Hadjarab pleads to be allowed to live with his family in France. Just 22 years old at the time of his capture, Nabil, who spent much of his childhood in France and h ...
  • Quarterly Fundraising Appeal: Please Support My Wo ...
    Please support my work! Every three months, I ask my readers and supporters to help me continue my long-standing project, which I began in the spring of 2006: to chronicle the crimes committed in the “War on Terror,” to tell the stories of the prisoners, and to call for accountability for tho ...
  • Respected Think-Tank Calls Afghan War a Disaster, ...
    For years, we have been told by our elected leaders that US and British soldiers have been dying in Afghanistan to prevent al-Qaeda from committing another terrorist attack, or to keep them off the streets of Britain. On December 1, 2009, announcing a “surge” of 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan, P ...
  • RIP Sid Rawle, Land Reformer, Free Festival Pionee ...
    So farewell, then, Sid Rawle, who passed away, aged 64, at the end of his annual SuperSpirit summer camp, overlooking the River Severn near Rodley, on August 31. The âKing of the Hippies,â as the press dubbed him — although it was never a title that he claimed for himself — Sid played a major [. ...
  • Nine Years After 9/11, US Court Concedes that Inte ...
    Under President George W. Bush, a small group of advisors tied closely to Vice President Dick Cheney argued that neither Congress nor the judiciary should attempt to prevent the President from doing whatever he felt was appropriate as the Commander-in-Chief of a “War on Terror” that was declared aft ...

Environment _ National Geographic

  • Warming Solution: Just Stop Cold?
    The burden on the planet from today's cars and buildings is bearable, say researchers who warn that future added emissions are the real risk. Environment - Climate change - Opposing Views - United States - Greenhouse gas
  • Oil Inside Gulf Crabs May Be Shed
    Found to have oil droplets inside them, blue crab larvae from near the BP spill may lose the oil as they grow, scientists say. Video. Blue crab - BP - Oil spill - Larva - Food chain
  • Mining the Truth on Coal Supplies
    A new study challenges the belief that the globe holds vast stores of coal, the world's leading and most carbon-intensive electricity fuel. Coal - Mining - Technology - Energy - Electricity
  • Photos: Few Remaining River Dolphins Indicators of ...
    NoneThe decline and near extinction of several species of river dolphins is a reflection of the deterioration of water quality and quantity around the globe, according to a new report. Water quality - River dolphin - Species - Health - 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 - ...

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

  • The Sick Farce of Glenn Beck’s ‘Restoring Honor’ R ...
    America, the first step in your spiritual and political redemption is finally at hand. Or so Glenn Beck would have us believe. After an eight-month build-up that began at an Orlando retirement community last November, Beck is now making the final preparations for his “Restoring Honor” rally on the N ...
  • Judge Upholds Restraining Order Against Leading Na ...
    A superior court in Arizona has ruled that Chris Simcox, the disgraced former head of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC), must continue to maintain distance from his estranged wife Alena and their children. In recent years, MCDC was one of the most important of the country’s anti-immigration e ...
  • 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 ...

change: org.

  • Court Overturns "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" — But We S ...
    Has a federal judge struck the final blow against the military's ban on openly gay and lesbian servicemembers, or will an appeal and an opposed Senate mean it will linger, perhaps for years? U.S. District Court Judge Virginia A. Phillips ruled Thursday that the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) policy ...
  • Rosh Hashanah: Freedom in the New Year
    Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of the new year for Jews around the world. Holiday dinner starts with apples, honey, and wishing family and friends a sweet and happy new year. The apples that are eaten on Rosh Hashanah also signify the start of the fall harvest, which is celebrated in the upcoming ...
  • The Denver Post Thinks Pit Bull Service Dog ...
    Yesterday, The Denver Post published an editorial making the paper's position on pit bulls crystal clear: They want to keep Denver's ban on pit bulls, no matter what. Earlier this summer, the U.S. Department of Justice took on breed discrimination against service dogs, ruling that it violates the Am ...
  • Spotlight on Haiti: Post-Earthquake Violence
    I am, in my non-online existence, a self-professed George Clooney fanatic. So I was thrilled to see him get the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the Emmy's last week, and even more thrilled by his speech . Clooney noted that when disaster first strikes, we all want to help, but then the news shifts to ...
  • Food Safety Crisis: 85 Recalls in One Year
    The recent salmonella outbreak continues to get a ton of media attention, and with good reason: More than a half-billion eggs were recalled after tainted ovas sickened more than 1,500 people. While it's easy to see why this recent scandal has Americans in a scramble, as a group of food safety groups ...

Common Dreams -News

  • US Asks Firms to Reveal Gas Extraction Liquid
    WASHINGTON - The US environmental regulator on Thursday asked gas companies to reveal what chemicals are used in deep extraction, addressing concerns by residents that their drinking water is being contaminated. US companies have increasingly tapped shale gas, which lies deep underground and was onc ...
  • Petraeus Spin on IED War Belied by Soaring Casualt ...
    by Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - Gen. David Petraeus claimed limited success this week in the war within a war over the Taliban's planting of roadside bombs, but official Pentagon data shows the Taliban clearly winning that war by planting more bombs and killing many more U.S. and NATO troops since the ...
  • Land Grabs in Poor Countries Set to Increase
    by Hilaire Avril PARIS - After weeks of rumors sparked by the leaking of a draft World Bank position paper on so-called land grabs in poor countries, the international financial institution has officially released its report on the surge in farmland purchases and leasing which have elicited controve ...
  • During War There Are No Civilians
    by Nora Barrows-Friedman "During War there are no civilians," that's what "Yossi," an Israeli military (IDF) training unit leader simply stated during a round of questioning on day two of the Rachel Corrie trials, held in Haifa's District Court earlier this week. "When you write a [protocol] manu ...
  • US Religious Leaders Condemn Growing Islamophobia
    by Jim Lobe and Daniel Luban WASHINGTON - 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 ...

Lifehacker

  • How Flash Can Be Actually Useful on an Android Pho ...
    Some have stated that the Flash video on Android phones is " startlingly bad ." That might be true, depending on your setup . But there are smarter ways to set up Flash on an Android, and get some real use from it. More�� ...
  • Fix VirtualBox's Guest Additions in Ubuntu 10.10 [ ...
    If you're intrigued by the just-released Ubuntu 10.10 beta and want to try it out in a virtual machine, you might run into some problems. The latest Ubuntu release uses a desktop system that's not quite compatible with VirtualBox's built-in to ...
  • Ecofreek Finds Free or Swap-Friendly Goods in Any ...
    Aquariums in Fort Lauderdale, shelving in Boston, wood fencing in Omaha—free stuff is out there, waiting to be picked up and put to good use. Free search and email alert service Ecofreek combs at least 45 sites for such freebies. More » ...
  • SlimDrivers Offers Easy Windows Driver Updating, S ...
    Windows: SlimDrivers is a feature-packed driver-management tool for Windows that downloads and installs new drivers, schedules future scans, and archives your old drivers for easy rollback in case problems crop up. More�� ...
  • Foodpickle Answers Your Need-Help-Quick Food Quest ...
    With two hours left until the guests arrive, you need a chocolate dessert that doesn't use flour. Foodpickle, a foodie answers webapp by the crowd-sourced recipe site food52, is a great place to ask such questions and get inspired by answers. ...

Water Privatization

  • Privatization 'going to be a tough sell'
    The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee threw cold water yesterday on the plan to privatize the state's liquor stores.
  • Things Could Be Worse
    Japan and the United States both had real estate bubbles that burst and led to crisis. Both responded with half-measures. What happens now, especially if Republicans win big in November?
  • The "New Penitentiary Culture": US Designs for Col ...
    Amid much talk of human rights and improved conditions for those deprived of liberty, in March of 2000, the US ambassador and Colombia’s Minister of Justice signed the “Program for the Improvement of the Colombian Prison System.”
  • Chicago and the Legacy of the Daley Dynasty
    Both father and son remade the city physically and politically. But the younger Daley may not pass on the old political clout to his successor
  • Lost in Ryan's Roadmap? Get some direction
    U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan's Roadmap envisions a wide variety of changes in U.S. fiscal policy and social programs. Here's a look at four areas that would be heavily affected: taxes, the deficit, Medicare and Social Security.

Guardian

  • Florida pastor suspends Qur'an burning
    Florida pastor says he was 'lied to' over supposed deal to move Islamic centre away from Ground Zero The Florida pastor who threatened to burn copies of the Qur'an has said he has only "suspended" the event because he was "lied to" over a deal to call it off in exchange for a promise to move a plann ...
  • Osborne faces benefit cuts backlash
    Coalition MPs question chancellor's plan to slash the benefit budget for the unemployed by a further £4bn Chancellor George Osborne today faced a growing backlash from coalition MPs over his decision to slash the benefit budget for the unemployed by a further £4bn. Bob Russell, a Liberal Democrat, h ...
  • MP hired private eye to check on staff
    Jonathan Djanogly says he wanted to identify who was behind 'malicious allegations' made in press A justice minister hired private detectives to investigate aides and colleagues surreptitiously to uncover the source of media reports about his parliamentary expenses. Jonathan Djanogly, the under secr ...
  • China-Japan sea dispute escalates
    Beijing moves to reassert sovereignty over islets in East China Sea after trawler's collision with Japanese coastguard A territorial row between China and Japan escalated today when Beijing ordered the release of a fishing boat captain seized by Japan in disputed waters. China's foreign minister, Ya ...
  • Typical Briton is a 'fuzzy believer'
    While secularism is on the increase, immigration from Poland and the Indian subcontinent could reverse this trend A blue plaque on a white stucco house just off the seafront in Brighton is a rare monument to atheism in a country where religion is a minority belief. It marks the former home of George ...

McClatchey

  • Afghan police often find themselves in combat
    RAYSNAR, Afghanistan — Fazlur Ahmed is a guard at a rural school in southern Afghanistan, but on Thursday the Afghan police officer was thrown into battle and severely wounded in a U.S.-led assault on a Taliban position.
  • Quran burning canceled after Pentagon calls pastor
    WASHINGTON — Under tremendous pressure from U.S. officials all the way up to President Barack Obama, a Florida pastor on Thursday called off a Quran burning that he'd scheduled for Saturday, the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, which had drawn international condemnation and posed a potential threat ...
  • In Afghanistan, vital information is sometimes los ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan — American soldiers in Afghanistan are relying on civilian interpreters who in some cases don't know the languages they were hired to speak, resulting in dangerous military mistakes.
  • Stryker brigade soldiers allegedly kept 'trophy' b ...
    New details in Army charge sheets released Wednesday paint a disturbing picture of depravity, deceit and savage internal discipline involving at least 12 Stryker soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-Mc-Chord in Washington state during their recent deployment to Afghanistan.
  • Idaho authorities go after pot substitude 'Spice'
    The merchants who sell "Spice" in the Treasure Valley say it is meant to be burned as incense - not smoked as a substitute for marijuana. Each jar or package sold has a disclaimer that reads "not for human consumption."

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

  • Federal Judge Finds Don’t Ask, Don’t T ...
    Moments ago, a federal judge in California struck down the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy as unconstitutional in a case brought forward by the Log Cabin Republicans. In an 86 page opinion, Judge Virginia A. Phillips ruled that DADT violated the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment and the service ...
  • Sebelius To Health Insurers: We ‘Will Not To ...
    Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has written a letter to AHIP President and CEO Karen Ignagni chastising the insurance lobby for blaming the recent insurance premium increases on the early benefits in the health care law — provisions that “were fully supported by AHIP and its me ...
  • Europe Grapples With Immigration Issue
    This summer, while the immigration debate broiled in the U.S., the government of France launched a countrywide crackdown on the Roma, an ethnic group with origins in South Asia or Eastern Europe, that drew criticism from both the United Nations and the Roman Catholic Church. And, in a “rare” move, ...
  • Jay Rockefeller Rebukes Coal-Powered Climate Denie ...
    Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), now the only serving senator from the Appalachian state after Sen. Robert Byrd’s death this year, rebuked his state’s climate deniers at a forum about the future of coal on Wednesday. West Virginia’s politics are dominated by coal interests, including the mountaintop rem ...
  • Insurers’ Contradictory Argument On Health R ...
    This morning, AHIP President and CEO Karen Ignagni appeared on Fox News to defend the notion that the health care law is substantially contributing to skyrocketing premiums. Insisting, quite correctly, that premium growth follows health care costs, Ignagni stressed that the law’s early benefits are ...

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

  • Seattle Teacher Released After Revealing School's ...
    A recent story published by Seattle’s KOMO News presented yet another case of an individual’s seemingly wrongful termination, after blowing the whistle on his superiors. Sean Taeschner, a former seventh grade teacher at the St. Paul School in Seattle, WA, claims he was fired after revealing that the ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Daily Variety Refuses To Back Down On Vandals Laws ...
    Earlier this year, we wrote about how publishing giant Reed Elsevier had decided to sue the band The Vandals , for supposedly violating a previous agreement not to use an album logo that parodied Reed's publication, Daily Variety: While the band had agreed not to use the logo, images w ...
  • Transparency Pea Soup: The USTR Planned From The B ...
    We've been discussing for a while just how anti-transparent the USTR has been on ACTA negotiations, making totally bogus arguments, such as the idea that negotiators would walk away from the table if they didn't keep the document secret. Of course, it later turned out that it's been the US who has ...
  • Commodore Threatens Blogger For Being Skeptical Ab ...
    Slashdot recently pointed us to the fact that OSNews received a legal threat from Commodore USA for publishing an article that was highly skeptical of Commodore's Amiga plans . Slashdot focuses on the fact that the legal nastygram is obviously copied from ChillingEffects.org , including odd formatt ...
  • You Shouldn't Lose Section 230 Protections By Help ...
    Last year, we wrote about a lawsuit against Yahoo where Yahoo effectively lost its Section 230 safe harbors because an employee told someone they would takedown content , even if they didn't have to, based on Section 230. Taking that argument a step further, a guy named Scott P. sued Craigslist aft ...
  • Judge Says Craigslist Can't Just Dilute eBay Off I ...
    We were pretty skeptical two plus years ago when the details came out concerning the lawsuit between eBay and Craigslist over Craigslist's decision to exclude an eBay representative from its board to unilaterally diluting eBay and ignoring a proposed new board member, while holding board meetings wi ...

VacTruth

  • Protecting Our Children and The Vaccine Program
    Armies of parents are reporting that they took a normally developing child to the pediatrician for routine shots and their child’s health or behavior changed--never to be the same as before that visit. Thousands upon thousands of parents report similar “coincidental” symptoms related in time to vac ...
  • 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.

BroadSnark

  • Growing Up Jewish – High Holiday Edition
    Happy New Year!!!!! L’Shanah Tovah !!!!!* Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur are the big deal Jewish holidays.  If you work for a law firm, you might get those days off.  If not, you’ll be working, but the token Jew in your office might not.  (Note: If they are anything like me, they are not going to [. ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Aprons are Back in Style With a Vengeance
    Image from Sugar Baby In the "old days" every woman wore an apron in the kitchen. They were a sensible way to protect your clothes while cooking. Then the hapless apron fell into disfavour; they became a symbol of women's drudgery and being tied to the kitchen when men were out having a life. ...
  • Being An Environmentalist and Preservationist Can ...
    Telegraph Angelo Vassallo was Mayor of the pretty little Italian town of Pollica, which Eric Reguly of the Globe and Mail calls "a cultural and environmental treasure." He said no to illegal construction that Reguly says " spreads like a cancer over so many seaside Italian towns". He said no to ...
  • The Greater Challenge To Retirement Planning: Maya ...
    Image credit: Brendtwood For many the idea of Retirement Planning has been derailed by a global economic slump and increasing health care expenses. Those who take seriously the December 21, 2012, Maya Prophecy about astronomical alignment obviously won't bother at all. (This latter force is h ...
  • Irrigation May Reduce Climate Change. Not Good New ...
    Image credit: GenBug (Creative Commons) With all the evidence of human-induced global warming , you'd think it would be good news that some of our activities, like releasing aerosols for example, are also helping to cool the atmosphere. Unfortunately, often the opposite is true. This is starkly ...
  • 2 Billion Pencils* and A School Supply Quandary
    Photo credit topgold via flickr. Last year at around the start of school, I just said no to new school supplies. We went through our house and found 90% of the supplies we needed (the pencils we gathered were a combination of unused and stubs we resharpened) and went out for a treat on the money ...

Biosingularity

  • Novel sensing mechanism discovered in dendritic ce ...
    Dendritic cells are the grand sentinels of the immune system, standing guard 24/7 to detect foreign invaders such as viruses and bacteria, and bring news of the invasion to other immune cells to marshal an attack. These sentinels, however, nearly always fail to respond adequately to HIV, the virus c ...
  • New Research Finds Evidence of Charitable Behavior ...
    Researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard and from Boston University have discovered that charitable behavior exists in one of the most microscopic forms of life—bacteria.  Their findings appear in the current issue of Nature. In studying the development of ...
  • 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 ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

  • Climate change and renewable energy movements falt ...
    The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. Today, on energy security issues, we unfortunately have less to worry about from external enemies, than from our own elitist politicians, bureaucrats and pressure groups.
  • 'Reconstructing' climate change
    The IPCC may therefore be allowed to die a timely death. Its budgets can be cut or frozen, and its transition to the added status of becoming a full-blown UN agency pushed further back.
  • 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.

Ria Novosti Online News

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Pruning Shears

  • The Persistence of Selfishness
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post While reading ECONned by Yves Smith I was struck by the following from her coverage of neoclassical economics (p. 99): Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen uses an anecdote to illustrate the problem of assuming actors act solely out of sel ...
  • 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. ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Organic House? Hemp Concrete Used for Carbon-Negat ...
    A house built with hemp makes a green alternative to standard construction. WLOS' Karen Wynn reports. Click here to read this article
  • Square Lohkoh - French Hip Hop Against Monsanto
    Video from French Hiphop group that talks about Monsanto. Click here to read this article
  • Genetic Engineering: A Worldwide Experiment on Peo ...
    Video on Genetic engineering and how it is a threat to food security, especially in a changing climate. The introduction of genetically manipulated organisms by choice or by accident grossly undermines sustainable agriculture and in so doing, severely limits the choice of food we can eat. Click here ...
  • Co-op Grocers to Stop Organic Cosmetics Fraud
    This week, after receiving 6,000 letters from OCA members, the National Cooperative Grocers Association alerted their 134 retail coops that, as of June 2011, they expect all "organic" claims on body care products to comply with USDA National Organic Program standards for products that are "USDA Orga ...
  • Meat Eating Can be an Environmentally Friendly Cho ...
    As a meat-eater, I've long found it convenient to categorize veganism as a response to animal suffering or a health fad. But, faced with these figures, it now seems plain that it's the only ethical response to what is arguably the world's most urgent social justice issue. -George Monbiot, "Why vegan ...

fotoFrontera

  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes VIII
    Casi sin darnos cuenta, hemos llegado ya a la parte número VIII de nuestra serie titulada 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. Sin perder mi buen gusto y esperando que sean de su agrado, aquí están 7 nuevas fotos para disfrutarlas despacio o para decorar el fondo de su ordenador. Para ver ...
  • Barcos, yates y veleros parte III (10 fotos inolvi ...
    Continuando con mi compromiso de ofrecerles las series completas de nuestras colecciones, le tengo en exclusiva la parte número III del paquete ' Barcos, yates y veleros '. Disfruta estas nuevas imágenes y gracias por preferir nuestros recursos. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y v ...
  • Colección de felinos exóticos y hermosos
    No sé a ustedes, pero a mi me fascinan los felinos. Empezando por los gatitos, adoro a todo tipo de animal como los leones, tigres, leopardos, pumas, panteras, etc. Considerando que a muchos de ustedes también les gustan estas tiernas criaturas, le ofrezco 8 fotografías que podrán hacerle pasar lind ...
  • Fantásticas fotografías a colores de Rusia (1863-1 ...
    Hace más de 100 años, diversos fotógrafos capturaron la belleza de los paisajes rusos y la calidez de sus habitantes. Aunque suene increíble, existe una basta colección de imágenes a colores que nos hacen ver cómo era Rusia hace más de una centuria. Es un gran privilegio que a pesar del tiempo, poda ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • I make promises, not threats.
    I just left this note under the windshield of a car parked a few blocks from my place. Dear Neighbor, Today at 12:20 pm I was walking north on Raymond to mail a letter at the box next to the Hampton Park Coop. Just as I was about to enter the crosswalk I saw your [...]
  • A modest economic proposal
    I take heart from the oddest things sometimes. The PiPress has some dreck today that apologetically makes the case for letting our lords and masters keep their low tax rates, but if you turn to the comments you discover a boatload of salient facts provided by readers who are sick and tired of being ...
  • Way the fuck too many links
    It’s election season and it has to be said: The Republicans/Teabaggers are the worst assholes ever! Election fraud, Republican style Tea Party Tinderbox The last thing I want to hear from a candidate for State Auditor is politics, especially not withLafferesque Powernapkin presentations Digby on the ...
  • 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 ...

Public News Service

  • AZ Abuse Shelter Challenged by State Cuts
    AZ Abuse Shelter Challenged by State Cuts Phoenix, AZ – Continuing cuts in state funding have prompted the nation’s largest domestic violence shelter to reduce available beds and put off expansion plans. However, the Phoenix-based Sojourner Center is still taking in 95-percent of women and children ...
  • AZ Immigration Law Heading to Supreme Court - (No, ...
    AZ Immigration Law Heading to Supreme Court - (No, Not That One...) Phoenix - Another Arizona immigration law will be coming before the U.S. Supreme Court soon. At issue is whether the state can require employers to use the federal electronic employment eligibility verification system. So far, most ...
  • 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 ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Tomgram: Juan Cole, The Media as a Security Threat ...
    Twenty percent of Pakistan, which supposedly harbors Osama bin Laden and various militant groups involved in the Afghan War, and whose intelligence agency reportedly has an ongoing stake in the Afghan Taliban, is now underwater. What effect will this have Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & G ...
  • Googling for Extinction Popular Algorithm Finds ...
    Two ecologist discover that by adapting Googles 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 webs existence. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Access to Abortion: Red State, Blue State, Interst ...
    Lower abortion rates in more conservative areas are likely to be the result of lack of access. If you drive to the next county to get an abortion, their abortion rate goes up. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • MEDIA CENSORSHIP - BANNED from Huffington Post's G ...
    Please sign the PETITION to stop the arbitrary and out of control censorship at Huffington Post. Click where indicated at the top of this article, and it will take you to the petition. You'll also see al lot of examples of HuffPo censorship. Submitted by Care For A. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �No ...
  • On the resuscitation of the peace process
    Ah, the peace process. Like Shimon Peres, Big Brother and Ernie the Giant Chicken, it just wont fucking die already. No one can even muster the energy to pretend. Palestinians and Israelis are united in dismissing the talks as an irrelevency. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� ...

Angry Indian News

  • For Chile, Colossal Trouble On Easter Island
    For Chile, Colossal Trouble On Easter Island : NPR: "First and foremost is the title to the land, because there you have the right to determine local politics, to represent the Rapanui people, the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Little Pulaski, Tenn., to Suffer Through Another R ...
    Little Pulaski, Tenn., to Suffer Through Another Racist Event | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center: Although it’s a small town of about 7,800, Pulaski, Tenn. may well be the white supremacist... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Violent Qur'an-burning attacks predicted by Interp ...
    Violent Qur'an-burning attacks predicted by Interpol: [montrealgazette.com] "Interpol issued a global alert Thursday if the proposed Qur'an burning by a pastor in the U.S. goes ahead, there is a... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • The power of the panther
    The power of the panther - Entertainment - NZ Herald News: "One of the first things Emory Douglas had to do in his new job in January 1967 was to draw the pig. 'Huey and Bobby would come over after... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Monsanto genetically modified corn harvest fails m ...
    Monsanto genetically modified corn harvest fails massively in South Africa | Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy: South African farmers suffered millions of dollars in lost income... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • N.Y. man alleges Homeland Security violated his ri ...
    ShareThis N.Y. man alleges Homeland Security violated his rights during Newark airport search 09 Sep 2010 To worries about full-body X-ray at airports, add this: little-known Homeland Security searches of travelers' laptops, cellular phones, digital cameras and other electronics — without a stated r ...
  • Afghans rally against US Koran burning
    ShareThis Afghans rally against US Koran burning 10 Sep 2010 Thousands of Afghans marched through a small town northeast of Kabul on Thursday, chanting anti-US and anti-Christian slogans to protest against plans by a US church to burn the Koran, an official said. The protesters, mostly men, took to ...
  • Four Al Qaeda in Iraq militants escape from U.S. c ...
    ShareThis Four Al Qaeda in Iraq militants escape from U.S. custody 10 Sep 2010 Four inmates affiliated with the militant group Al Qaeda in Iraq broke out of the U.S.-guarded wing of an Iraqi prison in a major breach of security, Iraqi and American officials said Thursday. The wing, policed by U.S. ...
  • Gas line explosion sparks hillside inferno in San ...
    ShareThis Gas line explosion sparks hillside inferno in San Bruno; many injuries feared 09 Sep 2010 (CA) A massive fire burned homes as it roared through a mostly residential neighborhood in the hills south of San Francisco following an explosion early Thursday evening. The fire is burning a few mil ...
  • US drone strikes kill 18 in Pakistan
    ShareThis US drone strikes kill 18 in Pakistan 08 Sep 2010 Three US drone attacks on a single day have killed at least 18 people, injured several others in Pakistan's tribal district of North Waziristan. Pakistani security officials say the latest attack has killed four people, adding that 14 others ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • How objective was the Climategate inquiry?
    I've been too busy writing and editing the new Arthur Allan Thomas book to blog much in recent weeks, but couldn't resist this revelation about the old boys network's whitewash of Climategate. Here's how it happened...originally from Climate Audit, via...
  • 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...

Mondoweiss

  • Meeting 3 U.S. officers who are angered by the spe ...
    I often look around the political rabbithole I went down a few years ago and wonder what I’m doing here and whether I’ll ever get out. I think of all the associations and even interests I had earlier in life that I’ve cut myself off from. I wonder if I'm not bonkers or if I’ve [...]
  • Extra large peace process to go
  • Gideon Levy: ‘Zionism in its present meaning ...
    Jamie Stern-Weiner has a wonderful wide-ranging interview with Israeli journalist Gideon Levy at the New Left Project. In addition to discussions about the Israeli left, Gaza, the Israeli media and the prospects for peace, the interview includes this interesting exchange below. Please be sure to rea ...
  • Two Palestinian Legislative Council members releas ...
    And other news from Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing 'Freeze-ending' settlement construction was legal, probe finds Structures that were built in response to last week's terror attack in the West Bank were not included in the terms of the settlement constr ...
  • ‘There Are No Civilians In Wartime’: R ...
    Cindy, Sarah, and Craig Corrie in the Haifa District Court for the second round of hearings in their civil suit against the Israeli government. (Photo: Max Blumenthal) In a small courtroom in Haifa’s District Court, a colonel in the Israeli engineering corps who wrote a manual for the bulldozer uni ...

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

  • Aprons are Back in Style With a Vengeance
    Image from Sugar Baby In the "old days" every woman wore an apron in the kitchen. They were a sensible way to protect your clothes while cooking. Then the hapless apron fell into disfavour; they became a symbol of women's drudgery and being tied to the kitchen when men were out having a life. ...
  • Being An Environmentalist and Preservationist Can ...
    Telegraph Angelo Vassallo was Mayor of the pretty little Italian town of Pollica, which Eric Reguly of the Globe and Mail calls "a cultural and environmental treasure." He said no to illegal construction that Reguly says " spreads like a cancer over so many seaside Italian towns". He said no to ...
  • The Greater Challenge To Retirement Planning: Maya ...
    Image credit: Brendtwood For many the idea of Retirement Planning has been derailed by a global economic slump and increasing health care expenses. Those who take seriously the December 21, 2012, Maya Prophecy about astronomical alignment obviously won't bother at all. (This latter force is h ...
  • Irrigation May Reduce Climate Change. Not Good New ...
    Image credit: GenBug (Creative Commons) With all the evidence of human-induced global warming , you'd think it would be good news that some of our activities, like releasing aerosols for example, are also helping to cool the atmosphere. Unfortunately, often the opposite is true. This is starkly ...
  • 2 Billion Pencils* and A School Supply Quandary
    Photo credit topgold via flickr. Last year at around the start of school, I just said no to new school supplies. We went through our house and found 90% of the supplies we needed (the pencils we gathered were a combination of unused and stubs we resharpened) and went out for a treat on the money ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

  • Warming Solution: Just Stop Cold?
    The burden on the planet from today's cars and buildings is bearable, say researchers who warn that future added emissions are the real risk. Environment - Climate change - Opposing Views - United States - Greenhouse gas
  • Oil Inside Gulf Crabs May Be Shed
    Found to have oil droplets inside them, blue crab larvae from near the BP spill may lose the oil as they grow, scientists say. Video. Blue crab - BP - Oil spill - Larva - Food chain
  • Mining the Truth on Coal Supplies
    A new study challenges the belief that the globe holds vast stores of coal, the world's leading and most carbon-intensive electricity fuel. Coal - Mining - Technology - Energy - Electricity
  • Photos: Few Remaining River Dolphins Indicators of ...
    NoneThe decline and near extinction of several species of river dolphins is a reflection of the deterioration of water quality and quantity around the globe, according to a new report. Water quality - River dolphin - Species - Health - 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 - ...

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Europe court rules Austria gambling monopoly breac ...
    [JURIST] The European Court of Justice (ECJ) [official website] ruled [judgment text] Thursday that Austria's state gambling monopoly, which blocks foreign casino companies from the licensing process, is incompatible with EU law. The court held that allowing only domestic operators to apply for lice ...
  • California high court refuses to order state appea ...
    [JURIST] The California Supreme Court [official website] on Wednesday denied a request from a conservative group to order Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown [official profiles] to appeal the federal court ruling that struck down the controversial ban on same-sex marriage ...
  • Federal appeals court temporarily lifts stem cell ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted the Obama administration's request for an emergency stay [order, PDF] Thursday, lifting the ban on stem cell research [JURIST news archive]. The Obama administration sought the stay Wednesday after Judge Royce Lamberth of ...
  • China rights activist released after serving 4-yea ...
    [JURIST] A Chinese prison on Thursday released Chen Guangcheng [HRW case timeline, JURIST news archive], a blind Chinese human rights legal activist who has finished serving a four-year sentence [JURIST report] for damaging property and "organizing a mob to disturb traffic." According to Human Right ...
  • Guatemala judge orders soldiers to stand trial for ...
    [JURIST] A Guatemalan judge ruled Wednesday that three soldiers charged in connection with a 1982 peasant massacre [JURIST news archive] that left more than 260 dead will face trial. Of the 17 soldiers accused of committing crimes against humanity during the 1960-1996 Guatemalan civil war [GlobalSec ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Flashcard: Predator Drone Strikes
    Following news coverage can be easy. Understanding some of the terms it uses, less so. In our Flashcard series, The Atlantic explains ideas you may read about but never see spelled out. In this installment, we dig into the facts about the CIA's Predator drone strikes in Pakistan. The News In the p ...
  • The FISA Court Sends a Message to the Executive Br ...
    The Foreign�Intelligence�Surveillance Court, which oversees the National Security Agency's domestic wiretapping programs and approves all Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants, has subtly challenged the idea that the executive branch, and only the executive branch, can control the release o ...
  • Donilon Tops Almost Everyone's Lists, but May ...
    The President will have to act expeditiously to choose Rahm Emanuel's replacement as chief of staff, assuming that Emanuel decides to leave after the November elections to run for mayor of Chicago. Some mid-level White House officials assume that the President has already made up his mind, altho ...
  • Fears for Tears: Everybody Wants to Rule the World
    In the American system of government, one of the executive branch's most powerful tools is the ability to decide what information can be classified, or withheld, from anyone whom the executive branch does not want to give access. In any given circumstances, the government can use this authority, the ...
  • What Obama Needs From His Next Chief of Staff
    That White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel will announce shortly whether he intends to leave to run for mayor of Chicago is not news. Smartly, the White House, knowing that Emanuel was planning to leave the White House after two years in any event, is using Daley's retirement to frame the eventual ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • To a Good, Sweet and Peaceful New Year
    Blessed are You God and may we have a good and sweet New Year! I hope you’re able to enjoy my favorite apple variety, Honeycrisp, and dip them in some local honey and enjoy that indescribable mix of sweet and sour that comes from a bite of apple dipped in honey. May we have a [...] Related posts: ...
  • Mossad Recruiting U.S. Muslims, CIA Poll Ranks Isr ...
    Jeff Stein, writing about intelligence matters at the Washington Post, notes a recent poll of CIA personnel ranking U.S. allies from best to worst in terms of the nature of their coöperation and relationship with our spy agency.  Here’s the result: âIsrael came in dead last,â a recently retire ...
  • Chernick Funds Horowitz-Spencer Attacks on Park51 ...
    Pajama Media’s alum Pam Geller struck gold when she discovered a Sufi group intended to building a mosque and Muslim community center two blocks from Ground Zero.  Now, her cause has been embraced by more powerful rightist pro-Israel forces, Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch and his patron, David Horow ...
  • Hollywood, Broadway Stars Support Israeli Cultural ...
    Last week, the newly inaugurated, multi-million dollar West Bank cultural center in Ariel announced that all Israel’s major drama companies would perform there in its new theater, marking the first time they ever crossed the Green Line for such performances.  The news raised a stir since Israel’s t ...
  • Israeli Right Has Knickers in a Twist Over New IDF ...
    The Israeli far-right is sniffing at what it hopes will be its own Eden Aberjil Facebook controversy.  This one involves a 19 year-old sports reporter for the IDF’s radio station, Galey Tzahal, whose name is Ariel Chamish.  The reporter is quite the non-conformist acknowledging on his Facebook pag ...

Ode Magazine

  • Less money means more compassion
    By: VictoriaKlein Money is a popular subject around here. I’ve talked about the wide world of renting , shopping for quality over quantity , and today, inspired by a recent study, let’s talk about Ebenezer Scrooge. Do you remember Ebenezer Scrooge, from the c ...
  • Silk saves: the Kohtrad Silk Project
    By: Kohtrad The Kohtrad Silk Project , a social enterprise that helps silk producers sell their goods online , has begun the first phase of building a community internet hub in the rural Thai village where many of the silk products are made. The hub is being funded ...
  • The joys (and perils) of a weekend in Yiddishland
    By: Laura_Silver I had mixed feelings about going to Yidish-Wokh, an all-Yiddish week-long retreat for speakers of all ages, backgrounds and levels sponsored by Yugntruf - Youth for Yiddish . I am a beginner, newly graduated from the Uriel Weinreich Program i ...
  • Soap for rubbish
    By: kjritter Chembe Village Community Project Centre is taking a new approach to cleaning up rural Africa. As of September 1, 2010, the team leaders of a number of community-based projects have come together to clean up their village by providing soap to the people ...
  • 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 ...

OpEd News

  • 9 Years After 9-11, Justice on an International Sc ...
    What were the lessons we learned from 9-11, and what lessons have we yet to learn? Perhaps giving consideration to how unitive and punitive justice play out on an international scale can provide helpful insight.
  • Pastor Terry Jones- Divisive, Dangerous and Delusi ...
    Just as there are radical extremist Muslims, there are also extremist Christians. Terry Jones is one of those radical, extremist Christians who is organizing Burn a Koran day.
  • Rules From The Manual of Phelpsian Publicity Foll ...
    Let's face it: Fred Phelps wrote a manual on demigoguery and publicity and Terry Jones used it to perfection.
  • Collapsing America
    On September 11, 2001, someone stabbed America. She's being murdered right now. As Americans, we need to get to the heart of this, because this madness and deceit are perpetuating themselves. If we don't have the courage and clarity to confront this evil, we won't regain our sanity or move forward. ...
  • Waiting for a Conquering Hero? A Messianic Religio ...
    Many people want and wait for a conquering hero, a champion to govern and lead them to victory. At the same time, many people want and wait for a messianic religious figure. Their expectation is that such a person will elevate their nation and their religion to preeminence and predominance. But, are ...

Switchboard

  • Evocative images of cities past, 'reclaiming the u ...
    As some readers may know, I occasionally cross-post from this blog to a few other excellent sites, including Huffington Post , DailyKos , Sustainable Cities Collective , Rooflines , and CNU Salons , all of which I recommend, as well as some others who are authorized to reproduce my wor ...
  • Speaker Pelosi and Chairman Markey to hear directl ...
    Speaker Pelosi and Chairman Markey are in Ottawa for meetings on tar sands tonight and tomorrow.  They arrive in the midst of a firestorm over a heavyweight report released last week linking the tar sands operations with contamination of the Athabasca River watershed. They will have di ...
  • Bambi v. Godzilla: A Critique of Pure Ideology
    According to George Will the Senate’s failure to pass effective climate legislation this summer can be attributed to environmentalists becoming too powerful.  Never mind about oil companies outspending environmental organizations by more than 7 to 1. Never mind about obstructionists in ...
  • (Even) More On the Job Benefits of Transit
    Perhaps it's what Donald Rumsfeld would call a "known known," but one must never skip the opportunity to tout convenient truths, even if one already has ( twice ). This time, it's the Transportation Equity Network that has commissioned a report from the University of Missouri-St Louis ...
  • Pro Sports Leagues Embrace Solar Power
    “Sports matter. They hold a singular position among leisure time activities and have an unparalleled impact on the everyday lives of billions of people…Sports shape and stabilize social and …political identifies around the globe…to an unprecedented extent…Sports’ major protagonists…[ar ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Jim Crow Returns To 11CA
    Ah, the American judicial system.   An employer engages in racial discrimination sufficiently egregious that an Alabama jury find it illegal.     The 11th Circuit throws out the verdict.    Its reasoning is so specious that a unanimous Supreme Court rejects it.  Another jury finds the discrimination ...
  • On Attempts to Turn MLK Into K-Lo
    This is so good I’d be linking it even if it didn’t mention Edroso…. Related posts:WA Gov. controversy takes an ugly turn "Before you could say Eric Keroack you’d turn your back and I’d be gone." Bush Attempts to Undo Legacy of Roosevelt, Again Related posts: WA Gov. controversy takes an ugly t ...
  • Friday Nugget Blogging
    Mom. High-school is really depressing. No wonder so many kids drop out. Did you know that during the Holocaust doctors used to do science experiments on children? Like cutting twins in half and sewing their body parts together? No. I didn’t know. Or at least, I didn’t know that you were going to kno ...
  • And I Declare the Browns +2.5 at Tampa Smooth Scoo ...
    This is normally Farley’s department, but with insufficient notice I’ve created a Pigskin Pick ‘Em group for those degenerate LGM readers who just have to not-bet.     Info is the usual: Group:  Lawyers, Guns and Money Password: zevon See you there!   I also recommend this article about Donov ...
  • “State Secrets” Swallow the Constituti ...
    I largely echo what Adam, Glenn, and Nick Baumann have to say about yesterday’s disgraceful 9th Circuit ruling upholding the Obama administration’s efforts to shield the government’s arbitrary-rendition-for-torture program from scrutiny.   It’s worth remembering what’s at stake here.   The major ...

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.

  • Major Lindsey withdraws lawsuit against former rec ...
    Major Lindsey & Africa has filed a notice to withdraw its lawsuit against a former recruiter, following sharp criticism from a federal judge about the validity of the search firm's case.
  • 1st Circuit hears habeas case alleging counsel's f ...
    The 1st Circuit heard arguments Thursday in a habeas corpus case in which a man convicted of double homicide is seeking a new trial, alleging ineffective assistance of counsel because his trial lawyer failed to raise the defense that he killed in a Zoloft-induced state of agitation.
  • Wisconsin's Davis is the latest law dean to step d ...
    University of Wisconsin's Dean Kenneth Davis Jr. is the latest law school dean to announce that he will step down at the end of this academic year. Davis has been at the helm at Wisconsin since 1997 — an unusually long run, as the average tenure for a law dean hovers at around five years.
  • Associate salaries proved more resilient than expe ...
    Associate salaries stagnated last year at large law firms, according to NALP data. While $160,000 remained the prevailing starting salary at large firms in major cities such as New York and Los Angeles, a higher percentage of associates last year started with salaries of between $130,000 and $145,00 ...
  • PTO director looks back on his first year on the j ...
    In a wide-ranging discussion with reporters about his first year as director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, David Kappos discussed the application backlog, controversial parts of the agency's three-track patent processing proposal and agency funding.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Are We Nearing Peak Coal?
    A controversial new study suggests that the world is nearing the peak of readily exploitable reserves of high-quality coal, contradicting prevailing estimates that the globe has enough coal to help meet energy needs for at least a century. Tad Patzek, chairman of the Department of Petroleum and Geos ...
  • Decline in Bee Pollination
    The pollination of plants and flowers by bees appears to be declining, a phenomenon that is likely linked to a drop in overall bee numbers as well as a mismatch in bee hibernation and plant flowering that seems to be linked to climate change, according to a new study. James Thomson, a University of ...
  • German Chancellor Defends Decision to Extend Life ...
    Noting that it will take time to develop alternative energy sources, the German government has agreed to extend the operating life of the nation’s 17 nuclear plants. AFP/Getty Images Angela Merkel The decision, which will extend the life of Germany’s nuclear facilities an average of 12 years, was c ...
  • Reserves of Forest Carbon May Be Widely Overestima ...
    The amount of carbon stored in the world’s tropical forests varies widely according to underlying geology and other factors, and current estimates of forest carbon reserves may be too high , according to a new study. A research team from the Carnegie Institution for Science used satellite mapping, l ...
  • A Symbolic Solar Road Trip To Reignite a Climate M ...
    An activist caravan to bring one of Jimmy Carter’s 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. BY BILL MCKIBBEN

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

  • Spartak destroy CSKA in KHL’s first Moscow derby
    The opening bragging rights in Moscow this season have gone the way of Spartak. The Red-and-Whites saw off city-rivals CSKA in their KHL campaign kick-off.
  • Youzhny awaiting Nadal in US Open semi
    He has been a top-50 player throughout the last decade and earned some $6 million in prize money. But what really drives Mikhail Youzhny is reaching a Grand Slam final - a prospect that has never been closer for him.
  • Diana’s diamonds shine in Venice
    “Diamonds”, a black-and-white silent masterpiece starring the leading light of the Mariinsky Ballet, Diana Vishneva, has had its premiere at the oldest film festival in the world, Venice.
  • Global security tops agenda on Day Two of Yaroslav ...
    The Global Policy Forum enters its second and final day, as representatives from more than 30 countries take on such pressing problems as global peace, security and economic modernization.
  • American converts to Islam defy stereotypes
    Facing judgment and misconceptions, American converts to Islam struggle to defy stereotypes and promote peaceful religious practices.

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

  • Close Shaves and Alien Volcanoes
    Did you hear of the close shave we had with an asteroid yesterday? (The asteroid is the streak) Check this out from Wired: When asteroid 2010 RX30 zipped past Earth early Wednesday, observers at the Remanzacco Observatory in Italy were ready. At 12:45 a.m. Mountain time, amateur astronomers Ernesto ...
  • 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 ...

Tippers News

  • Square Lohkoh - French Hip Hop Against Monsanto (V ...
    I envy those of you who speak French, I had to read when I really wanted to watch. Submitted by Kathy B. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Stupid goes viral: The Climate Zombies of the new ...
    Instead of brains, they moan for caaaash Submitted by Kathy B. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Women Courage-30-Year-Old Cop Bullet Paralyzed w ...
    Muneera Dhobi, a resident of Sirnoo village of Indian Kashmir, symbolizes the tragedy of sorts. A Police bullet has rendered her paralyzed. But Muneera doesnt know that she would hardly be able to walk again.This reveals the dreaded face of indian forces Submitted by Riyaz R. to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • No Utah Valley Animal Shelter selling animals for ...
    University of Utah purchases homeless dogs and cats from animal shelters for use in cruel and deadly experiments. As a result of our investigation and the resulting public outcry, Utah legislators voted overwhelmingly to amend its pound-seizure law to Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! � ...
  • Help find missing teens ! TAKE ACTION !
    On September 6 2008 Maisy and Shannon went missing from the Kitigan Zibi/Maniwaki Quebec area about an hour and a half north of Ottawa. The families are certain the girls did not run away as things were happy and only the girls are missing,all their Submitted by Cher C. to Society & Culture �|� �No ...

The Freeman

  • Recovery Slowing, Fed Says
    “The United States economy showed âwidespread signsâ of slowing, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday, though modest growth continued from mid-July through the end of August.” (New York Times) Have we been stimulated yet? FEE Timely Classic “Transforming America: The Bush-Obama Stimulus Program ...
  • U.S. Less Competitive, Study Shows
    “Large deficits and a weakened financial system have made the United States less competitive in the global economy, the World Economic Forum said in its annual review of the competitiveness of countries.” (Washington Post) Stop the presses. FEE Timely Classic “The Irresistible Force of Market Compet ...
  • Study Sees No Big Change in Health Care Spending
    “A new government study says President Obamaâs health care law will have negligible effects on total national health spending in the next 10 years, neither slowing nor fueling the explosive growth of medical costs.” (New York Times) The trick is assume future Medicare cuts and taxes on union healt ...
  • Mr. Keynes’s Aggregates
    Stimulus spending, bailouts, and extension of unemployment benefits only prevent the fundamental mechanisms of change from doing their work.
  • In Defense of the Market Economy
    Defending the free economy in his Los Angeles Times column, Jonah Goldberg quotes FEE founder Leonard Read’s classic, “I, Pencil.” In 1958, Leonard Read wrote one of the most famous essays in the history of libertarianism, “I, Pencil.” It begins, “I am a lead pencil â the ordinary wooden pencil fa ...

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

  • Do Democrats need to cave on extending Bush's tax ...
    In 1992, country singer Travis Tritt released one of the year's hottest singles in the '90s country revival: " Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man ." Penned by Greek-born songwriter Kostas (go figure), Tritt's tune had this memorable refrain: Why's the rich man dancing While the poor man pays the b ...
  • Study sheds light on potential health problems fac ...
    A new study of fishermen involved in cleaning up an oil spill along the Spanish coast sheds light on the health problems that could be facing oil spill cleanup workers in the Gulf. Conducted by Spanish researchers and published late last month in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the study ...
  • Arrest made in murders of union activists at Colom ...
    The brother of the former Inspector General of Colombia has been arrested in connection with the murder of two union activists working for Drummond, a multinational coal company based in Birmingham, Ala. Jaime Blanco Maya allegedly ordered the killing of labor rights activists Valmore Loc ...
  • Quran-burning plans by Florida church come on risi ...
    A Florida church says it intends to follow through with plans to burn copies of the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks despite warnings from top U.S. officials that the action presents a risk to American soldiers. "It could endanger troops and it could endanger the ove ...
  • 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 ...

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 wine gift bags?
    We’ve covered reuses for old gift bags in general before but Meri emailed asking about one particular type: I have a growing collection of wine bags – mostly paper – that are too nice to toss. How can I recycle them – get them to people who might reuse them? Most people I know reuse [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle (and reduce my use of) ...
    Ok, this is a bit of a rant dressed up as a Recycle This style question – it’s a genuine question but I feel the need to rant too! ;) So many people in my (geeky) world are going nuts for these at the moment and it makes me want to cry — all the [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle mouldy bread?
    We’ve had an email from Milly: I know about making breadcrumbs with stale bread but is there anything that can be done with bread that’s gone a bit mouldy? I don’t mean eat it of course but compost it? Obviously the best thing to do is avoid it going mouldy in the first place – [...]
  • Crazy-wonderful & crafty emails I’ve receive ...
    This is usually a links round-up but this week everything seems to have arrived in my inbox instead ;) Daniel emailed us pictures of cannon he made reusing and recycling stuff. Yes, you read that right, a CANNON. (Ok, ok, a decorative rather than functioning cannon but still). I applied for a job wo ...
  • What can I reuse or recycle to build a wormery/ver ...
    We’ve had an email from Kate/Glitter Pixie: Hi, I wonder if the Recycle This community can help. My husband and I have finally moved into a house with outdoor space and want to seize the opportunity to begin composting. However, our yard is completely concreted over so a normal compost bin won’t wor ...

Mondoweiss

  • Meeting 3 U.S. officers who are angered by the spe ...
    I often look around the political rabbithole I went down a few years ago and wonder what I’m doing here and whether I’ll ever get out. I think of all the associations and even interests I had earlier in life that I’ve cut myself off from. I wonder if I'm not bonkers or if I’ve [...]
  • Extra large peace process to go
  • Gideon Levy: ‘Zionism in its present meaning ...
    Jamie Stern-Weiner has a wonderful wide-ranging interview with Israeli journalist Gideon Levy at the New Left Project. In addition to discussions about the Israeli left, Gaza, the Israeli media and the prospects for peace, the interview includes this interesting exchange below. Please be sure to rea ...
  • Two Palestinian Legislative Council members releas ...
    And other news from Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing 'Freeze-ending' settlement construction was legal, probe finds Structures that were built in response to last week's terror attack in the West Bank were not included in the terms of the settlement constr ...
  • ‘There Are No Civilians In Wartime’: R ...
    Cindy, Sarah, and Craig Corrie in the Haifa District Court for the second round of hearings in their civil suit against the Israeli government. (Photo: Max Blumenthal) In a small courtroom in Haifa’s District Court, a colonel in the Israeli engineering corps who wrote a manual for the bulldozer uni ...

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 )

  • NIH tells researchers to recommence stem cell work
    Hours after a federal appeals court temporarily lifted an injuction blocking the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from funding human embryonic stem cell research, agency officials told grantees and staff that they can pick up where they left off when a US district court judge issued the injunctio ...
  • Americans split on risks and benefits of synthetic ...
    Scientists may argue that synthetic biology could create life-saving drugs or spawn malevolent bioterrorism agents but do average Americans even care? A survey released today suggests that while awareness of the burgeoning field is growing, Americans remain divided on whether the potential benefi ...
  • Oil spill science: On the oil trail
    Scientists from the University of Texas and University of Georgia aboard the R/V Cape Hatteras have continued mapping subsurface oil this week, collecting data at eight more stations. Chief scientist Tracy Villareal says that the oil plume they are tracking in the Gulf of Mexico is like the summ ...
  • Appeals court temporarily lifts stem cell injuncti ...
    Responding to an emergency appeal by government lawyers, the U.S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit temporarily reversed a lower court judge's ruling freezing US government funding for human embryonic stem cell research. The appeals court said on Thursday morning that th ...
  • Rockefeller University chooses Genentech scientist ...
    The Rockefeller University has announced the election of Marc Tessier-Lavigne, of San Francisco-based biotechnology firm Genentech , as its tenth president - the first to be chosen from industry rather than academia. He succeeds Nobel laureate Paul Nurse, president since 2003, who will return to Bri ...

new geography

  • The Livable Communities Act: A Report Card
    With much fanfare, the Banking Committee of the United States Senate approved the Livable Communities Act. A purpose of the act is expressed as: ...to make the combined costs of housing and transportation more affordable to families. The Livable Communities Act would provide financial incentiv ...
  • Cities: Size Does Not Matter Much Anymore
    The heart and brain are certainly not the largest organs in the human body, but they are arguably the most important. Why? The heart, through a miles-long network of capillaries, keeps every part of the body supplied with nutrients, and the brain, through an equally extensive network of nerves, pr ...
  • 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 coul ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

spiked

Cryptogon

  • Use of Psychiatric Medications Soaring In Military
    Via: Navy Times: Use of psychiatric medications among people ages 18 to 34 — mostly active-duty troops and their spouses — is rising at a significantly higher rate than other age groups in the military health care system, according to data newly released to Military Times. Overall, the number of pre ...
  • DHS Cybersecurity Watchdogs Miss Hundreds of Vulne ...
    Via: Wired: The federal agency in charge of protecting other agencies from computer intruders was found riddled with hundreds of high-risk security holes on its own systems, according to the results of an audit released Wednesday. The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, or US-CERT, moni ...
  • DARPA Antics: ‘Remote Control of Brain Activ ...
    Via: U.S. Department of Defense: …my laboratory has engineered a novel technology which implements transcranial pulsed ultrasound to remotely and directly stimulate brain circuits without requiring surgery. Further, we have shown this ultrasonic neuromodulation approach confers a spatial resolution ...
  • North Carolina: Sheriffs Want Lists of Patients Us ...
    Via: News Observer: Sheriffs in North Carolina want access to state computer records identifying anyone with prescriptions for powerful painkillers and other controlled substances. The state sheriff’s association pushed the idea Tuesday, saying the move would help them make drug arrests and curb a g ...
  • Obama Wins Right to Invoke “State Secrets&#8 ...
    Via: Salon: In a 6-5 ruling issued this afternoon, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals handed the Obama administration a major victory in its efforts to shield Bush crimes from judicial review, when the court upheld the Obama DOJ’s argument that Bush’s rendition program, used to send victims to be tort ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 5 Trillion MORE Dollars To Fix Fannie Mae And Fred ...
    Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have become gigantic financial black holes that the U.S. government endlessly pours massive quantities of money into.  Unfortunately, if the U.S. government did allow Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to totally implode, both the mortgage industry and the housing ...
  • 30 Statistics That Prove The Elite Are Getting Ric ...
    Not everyone has been doing badly during the economic turmoil of the last few years.  In fact, there are some Americans that are doing really, really well.  While the vast majority of us struggle, there is one small segment of society that is seemingly doing better than ever.  This ...
  • Bancor: The Name Of The Global Currency That A Sho ...
    Sometimes there are things that are so shocking that you just do not want to report them unless they can be completely and totally documented.  Over the past few years, there have been many rumors about a coming global currency, but at times it has been difficult to pin down evidenc ...
  • The Death Of Cash? All Over The World Governments ...
    Are we witnessing the slow but certain death of cash in this generation?  Is a truly cashless society on the horizon?  Legislation currently pending in the Mexican legislature would ban a vast array of large cash transactions, but the truth is that Mexico is far from alone in trying ...
  • 15 Economic Statistics That Just Keep Getting Wors ...
    A little over a week ago, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner penned an article for the New York Times entitled "Welcome To The Recovery" in which he touted the great strides that the U.S. economy was making.  But with unemployment still dangerously high and with foreclosures a ...

Desertification

  • Enhancing soil anywhere enhances life everywhere ( ...
    Read at : http://www.blogcatalog.com/search/frame?term=desertification&id=b162e5b061f826e09c18cdc55f36fd64 Will desertification stretch the Gobi to UB Over 90 percent of the land area in Mongolia is classified as a fragile dry-land and 72.3 percent of which is affected by desertification, says the D ...
  • Desertification has a crippling effect on the live ...
    Read at : http://www.blogcatalog.com/search/frame?term=desertification&id=cfe1b368240fe7894e84458a61170c61 THE BORGEN PROJECT BLOG Thursday, June 17, 2010 Desertification Threatens Livelihood of Nomadic People Today is the World’s Day to Combat Desertification. It is part of the UN Convention to Com ...
  • EU and US biofuels policies have resulted in a rus ...
    Read at : http://farmlandgrab.org/15419 EU, US biofuels rules aggravating third world land grab, World Bank says EU Observer | 09.09.2010 LEIGH PHILLIP EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS â The World Bank has said that EU and US biofuels policies have resulted in … Continue reading →
  • Late Summer in my Garden (Willem Van Cotthem)
    Anywhere on this planet, the beauty of plants in a garden is food for the soul. Therefore, from time to time, I post pictures of flowers and plants in my own garden. I like to share these with my readers, … Continue reading →
  • Venta de tierra en países pobres (Fiood Crisis and ...
    Read at : http://farmlandgrab.org/15403 Banco Mundial pide controles a venta de tierra en países pobres El Banco Mundial (BM) pidió la aplicación de controles más estrictos a la compra de grandes extensiones de tierra agrícola en países en desarrollo. El … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

  • Will New Debit Card Fee Controls Revolutionize Car ...
    Imagine strolling into Bob’s Sandwich Emporium to discover that the chalkboard behind the counter lists both lunch specials and financing specials.
  • Oxygen-Starved “Dead Zones” in U.S. Wa ...
    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.
  • Despite Court Win After Citizens United, SpeechNow ...
    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.
  • Obama Proposal Aims At Problems Highlighted in Cen ...
    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.
  • Independent GOP Fundraising Picks Up Steam
    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.

backofthebook.ca

  • A Facebook narcissist? Moi?
    By Frank Moher I have been outed. A new study by a York University student reveals that heavy Facebook users are "narcissists" who enjoy monitoring "how many friends they have." Guilty as charged. I'm not sure I qualify as a "heavy" Facebook user -- I'm much too busy twittering for that -- ...
  • Postmedia: Layoffs? What layoffs?
    By Brian Brennan Television reporter Tom Clark parts company with CTV News, and the network issues a public statement to that effect. Kevin Newman steps down as Global anchor, and his network does the same. But what happens when dozens, perhaps hundreds of print reporters in this country leave th ...
  • 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 ...

Worldnews

  • OPEC at 50 and the next 50 years
    VIENNA: OPEC on Sept 14 marks 50 years of existence. In its early years in the 1960s, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries had little price impact. That changed with the Arab-Israeli War of 1973 and an Arab oil embargo, which oil producers said was in response to the US decisio ...
  • The Bonfire of the Qurans
    Creators Syndicate – Is there anyone who has not weighed in on the Saturday night, Sept. 11, bonfire of the Qurans at the Rev. Terry Jones' Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla.? Gen. David Petraeus warns the Quran burnings could inflame the Muslim world and imperil U.S. troops in Afg ...
  • LRT operations shorter by an hour starting ne ...
    MANILA, Philippines The Light Rail Transit (LRT) lines will be closing one hour earlier every day starting September 15 to allow more time for maintenance work on the trains and rail tracks. The LRT Authority (LRTA) announced late Thursday night that lines 1 and 2 will revert to their...
  • Major Luzon dams far from full due to little ...
    MANILA, Philippines Around this time of the year, the major dams in Luzon usually have enough or more than enough water to supply Metro Manila and the rest of region. But this year, the water levels in the dams are still well below normal due to the lack of rain, the weather bureau said. Dr. ...
  • Sea temperatures around Japan hit record high ...
    Tokyo: Japan, which has just endured its hottest summer on record, said Friday it had also last month recorded the warmest sea temperatures since it started gathering comparable data 25 years ago. Ocean surface temperatures in much of the archipelago's Pacific Ocean and Sea of Japan waters reac ...

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Common Dreams

  • US Asks Firms to Reveal Gas Extraction Liquid
    WASHINGTON - The US environmental regulator on Thursday asked gas companies to reveal what chemicals are used in deep extraction, addressing concerns by residents that their drinking water is being contaminated. US companies have increasingly tapped shale gas, which lies deep underground and was onc ...
  • Petraeus Spin on IED War Belied by Soaring Casualt ...
    by Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - Gen. David Petraeus claimed limited success this week in the war within a war over the Taliban's planting of roadside bombs, but official Pentagon data shows the Taliban clearly winning that war by planting more bombs and killing many more U.S. and NATO troops since the ...
  • Land Grabs in Poor Countries Set to Increase
    by Hilaire Avril PARIS - After weeks of rumors sparked by the leaking of a draft World Bank position paper on so-called land grabs in poor countries, the international financial institution has officially released its report on the surge in farmland purchases and leasing which have elicited controve ...
  • During War There Are No Civilians
    by Nora Barrows-Friedman "During War there are no civilians," that's what "Yossi," an Israeli military (IDF) training unit leader simply stated during a round of questioning on day two of the Rachel Corrie trials, held in Haifa's District Court earlier this week. "When you write a [protocol] manu ...
  • US Religious Leaders Condemn Growing Islamophobia
    by Jim Lobe and Daniel Luban WASHINGTON - 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Republican Candidates Wield Cap and Trade as Polit ...
    If you live in states like Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia or Kentucky, you may have already seen them: new political hatchet ads attacking Democrats and even some moderate Republicans for support of Congressional cap and trade bills.
  • Google PowerMeter "Take Action" Is a Small Step Fo ...
    Google PowerMeter now provides a simple analysis of your electrical consumption, compared to similar houses, and provides some recommendations for things you can do. It’s called “Take Action.”
  • Nature warns: “The anti-science strain pervading t ...
    US citizens face economic problems that are all too real, and the country’s future crucially depends on education, science and technology as it faces increasing competition from China and other emerging science powers….� Yet the public often buys into anti-science, anti-regulation agendas that a ...
  • The Rise of China’s Green Mercantilism
    China is rising to dominate the clean energy industry primarily due to direct government subsidies, according to a new investigative report by the New York Times . The rise of China’s “green mercantilism” marks a new stage in the global clean energy race — and it� raises critical questions for U.S. ...
  • Listen to: Beyond the Meter - The Next Smartgrid
    Intro text:� The modernization of electrical grids presents an opportunity to improve the efficient use of energy through analytics of energy consumption data. Uses of this data can go well beyond efficiency and flexible pricing programs. Energy ...

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

  • Growing Thought Control in Israel
    by Stephen Lendman Since its 1948 establishment, IDF military censor authority banned or sanitized material potentially damaging to Israel's security. Thereafter, voluntary media/government agreements prevailed, all domestic and foreign news organizations abiding by censorship rulings. Som ...
  • How the War Racket Means the Beginning of the End ...
    by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Used to be --there was good news and there was bad news. Of late, the bad news is that there is no good news and there may not be any good news in the foreseeable future. Unless things change, there may not be any good news ever! I know whose fault this is! T ...
  • LAUREN BOOTH: AN AL QUDS DAY LETTER TO TONY BLAIR. ...
    from Gilad Atzmon I guess that Tony Blair’s sister in law, Lauren Booth, could easily use the phone and tell Tony what she thinks of him, his politics and his new memoir. However, being a peace activist she decided also to share it with the rest of us. An Al Quds day letter to Tony Blair. Fro ...
  • Why You are Free and the Right Wing is Not!
    by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The essence of Sartre is found in a slim volume of just under 100 pages: Existentialism and Human Emotions. In a single sentence, Sartre turned several centuries of conventional thinking on its head: "Existence precedes essence". Sartre himself, however, credi ...
  • The Lamentation of Hadja Hassan Mohammed
    from Franklin P. Lamb How I envy those of you who were there when my loved ones died. Did they die thirsty? Or were you merciful enough to give them a drink? Dearest Franklin, Thank you very much for forwarding this to me. It is very difficult but I recall every single event the night of 17 Sep ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • 20/20 : A Clear Vision for Winnipeg. 2010 Alterna ...
    CCPA-Manitoba is releasing the 2010 Alternative Municipal Budget on Thursday September 9th at 10:30 a.m. at the Magnus Eliason Recreation Centre, 430 Langside Street. This is a timely event as Winnipeggers consider the future of their city in the run-up to the October 27th civic election. The Alte ...
  • Anti-Racism In Education: A one day conference
    Join us on October 4, 2010 for a one-day conference at the University of Toronto Scarborough celebrating the release of " Anti-Racism in Education: Missing in Action ." The day will feature Charles C. Smith (editor) and prominent thinkers including George Dei, Tim McCaskell, Tina Lopes, Carol Schi ...
  • CCPA's YouTube Channel is Canada's number one non- ...
    How exciting to see the little gold ribbons on our YouTube homepage! The CCPA's YouTube channel is the most viewed non-profit channel in Canada, and the second most subscribed non-profit channel in Canada. Our most popular videos are from the BC Office's 2007 Gala, when Naomi Klein was our keynote s ...
  • All the latest on the census long-form debacle
    On June 30th, the CCPA's Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan was among the initial voices leading the criticism over the government decision to eliminate the census long-form questionnaire. Since then, a groundswell of alarm has turned into a wall of opposition, across the political spectrum. Stay tu ...
  • Apply now for the Next Up youth leadership program
    Applications are now being accepted for the fourth year of Next Up: A Leadership�Program for Young People Committed to Social and Environmental Justice . This is an amazing, intensive and transformative program for young social change activists between the ages of 18 and 32. This year we're exci ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Ruled Unconstitut ...
    Judge: Military’s Ban on Gays Is Unconstitutional | ABC A federal judge in Southern California has declared the U.S. military’s ban on openly gay service members unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips on Thursday granted a request for an injunction halting the government’s “don’t as ...
  • John LeCarre Nails It
    You should listen to this BBC interview. Le Carre on ‘the Russification of Britain’ | BBC Author John Le Carre is to publish a new thriller dealing with issues of money laundering, international espionage and the Russification of British life. He spoke to Justin Webb about the background of the book ...
  • Pittsburgh in the 60’s
    Post Labor Day Thoughts UHA: UNITED HIPPIES OF AMERICA Yeah, I know. We of the hippie heart were not and are not known for being a united, rules type of a bunch. BUT, we are still united in wanting peace and love and brotherhood. A union of man so- it stands to reason that not only are we [...]
  • What is that, Yoga?
    Ganja yoga combines marijuana and meditation | The Globe and Mail Following on the barefoot heels of hot yoga, circus yoga and hip hop yoga, cannabis-enhanced classes offer a way to cut through inhibitions. They chat away breezily between vaporizer tokes, sometimes veering off into conspiracy theori ...
  • Glenn Beck Has Nazi Tourettes
    Oldie but a goodie!

Doug's Darkworld

  • “The Only Divine Light is a Burning Church.& ...
    Well, I’ll finish the Deerfield thing later, I don’t have it in me today. Benoni and his friends and family will be OK, sort of. Today I’m inspired to comment on current events, especially the plan to burn Korans on 9/11. My first thought is that I’m with Perroquet, if you’re gonna burn one “holy” [ ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Why Oil Prices Aren’t Going Down
    Join the forum discussion on this post I saw a humorous story a few days ago: Oil Should Be Around $10 a Barrel The price of a barrel of oil would be closer to $10 if the commodity wasn’t traded as an investment instrument, given the record-high levels of U.S. oil inventories, Peter Beutel, presi ...
  • 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 ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • Junior High School Smartboard Lesson
    Tags: smartboard , IWB , lessons , interactive , high , jrhi , elementary , Longwood by: Dean Mantz
  • Google Family Safety Center
    Comments: "We know how important it is to protect and educate young people on using the Internet and want to provide all of our users with a safe experience. When it comes to family safety, we aim to: * Provide parents and teachers with tools to help them choose what content their children see ...
  • Sweet Search
    Comments: Every Web site in SweetSearch has been evaluated by our research experts. - Jennifer Dorman Tags: searchengine , search , research , education , engine , search engines , tools , resources by: Jennifer Dorman
  • Home | Mission US | THIRTEEN
    Tags: history , socialstudies , interactive , game , simulation , education , mission , us , americanhistory by: Dean Mantz
  • California Schools Replace Math Textbooks with iPa ...
    Tags: California , textbooks , mathematics , iPads , replace , schools , education by: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

  • Could Your Kitchen Pass a Public Health Inspection ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—You’re a clean cook: You keep meats and vegetables separate and you wash your hands obsessively. But that may not be enough to "pass inspection," according to the results of a new survey. The Los Angeles Department of Public Health recently decided to see how home chefs woul ...
  • For Happiness, Sitting in Church Beats Shopping at ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Can money buy happiness ? No, and neither can spending money, suggest researchers from Ben-Gurion University in Israel. Their as-yet-unpublished study took a look at consumer shopping habits over the last three decades and compared it to participation in religious activities ...
  • The Best Strawberries Are Organic, Says Science
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—It’s hard to find fault with the latest field trials showing that organically grown strawberries are more nutritious than their chemically grown counterparts. The study also shows that the soil in which the organic strawberries were grown is healthier. THE DETAILS: The comp ...
  • 75,000 Bags of Hartz Dog Treats Recalled
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—As you check your fridge for eggs included the recent massive egg recall , you'd better check your pup's treat d read more
  • 5 Easy Recipes Using the Wondrous, Tasty Eggplant
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Eggplant is available all year long, but it’s in peak form (fresh and local) from August through September, the prime time for trying out new recipes for eggplant. Though commonly used as a vegetable, the eggplant—like its close cousin the tomato—is technically a fruit. Reci ...

big think

  • Ultimate Survivor Stories (Part 4): Imprisoned by ...
    On February 16th, 2008, former CBS news correspondent and Afghanistan expert Jere Van Dyk had been hiking through the remote and mountainous tribal areas of Pakistan when his interpreters and he were surrounded and captured by a gang of Taliban fighters. "I saw a man standing three feet away from me ...
  • Bizarre Disorders of the Brain
    Enjoying a piece of music or recognizing the face of a loved one seems like a simple, instantaneous process. But like all things associated with the brain, they aren't. Both these activities arise from complex, interconnected networks in the brain—networks that we normally take for granted, until .. ...
  • Burning Questions: Art, Protest, and the Quran on ...
    In the midst of the circus surrounding Pastor Terry Jones ’ plan to burn Quran s on the anniversary of September 11th, perhaps the most disturbing aspect is the emerging meme among conservatives that Jones’ act is somehow analogous to other religious statements in the form of art that liberals have ...
  • Getting Away With Torture
    It is technically illegal for the government to torture prisoners. Almost no one would deny that. Section 2340 of the federal criminal code makes it a crime punishable by up to 20 years to “inflict severe physical or mental pain and suffering” on anyone in custody. Common Article 3 of the Third ... ...
  • Kissinger’s Prescience
    In Greek mythology, the gods sometimes punished man by fulfilling his wishes too completely. This is the first line of Henry Kissinger ’s 1957 Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy . Always controversial, always compelling, Kissinger—according to the new Atlantic —is worth re-reading right now. What ma ...

Information Liberation

  • Why It's Not Time for Helicopter Ben to Drop Some ...
    Ellen Brown wrote an article recently for Truthout called "Time for Helicopter Ben to Drop Some Money on Main Street." In it she argues the government should print money in a bunch of fancy ways to bailout main street. She says the government needs...
  • Stimulus? Yet Again?
    This week the Obama administration lays out its plans to further "stimulate" the economy. In particular, the president unveiled his proposals for $50 billion more in infrastructure spending, and a $100 billion extension to a tax credit on research an...
  • The Dupes of Socialism
    Pictures of the Socialistic Future warns that socialism, promising equality, can deliver only equal poverty and death. It was the details of the socialist program that Eugene Richter could never get from his German Parliament colleagues who beat the ...
  • Obama Added More to National Debt in First 19 Mont ...
    (CNSNews.com) - In the first 19 months of the Obama administration, the federal debt held by the public increased by $2.5260 trillion, which is more than the cumulative total of the national debt held by the public that was amassed by all U.S. presid...
  • The Government's Winning the Drug War
    In Orwell*s *1984,* Oceania*s perpetual war with the other superpowers of Eurasia and Eastasia was never meant to be won. Its primary purpose was to absorb the economy*s surplus output and serve as a prop to the kind of domestic authoritarianism gen...

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

  • Antioxidants, fingerprint testing, peers
    These are the latest science news links and snippets from Sciencebase: Healthy antioxidants may do more harm than good – This has been my hunch for years. Now, scientists (J Agric Food Chem, ACS) are calling for more research on the possibility that some supposedly healthy plant-based antioxidants – ...
  • Phantom radiation protection
    Ionizing radiation exists as either subatomic particles (alpha and beta particles, and neutrons) or photons (electromagnetic waves at X-ray and gamma ray wavelengths, i.e. energies of a few electron volts). The energy from such radiation can strip electrons from atoms or molecules, thus ionizing the ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • California’s Next Million Acre-Feet: Saving Water, ...
    The Pacific Institute / Heather Cooley, Juliet Christian-Smith, Peter H. Gleick, Michael J. Cohen, Matthew Heberger http://tinyurl.com/36omrfd [From Press Release] A new analysis released today by the Pacific Institute recommends specific actions that can annually save a million acre-feet of water q ...
  • EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook September 2010
    Energy Information Administration http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/steo/pub/steo_full.pdf Report Highlights: These projections reflect updated expectations for economic activity, with forecasted U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 2.8 percent in 2010 and 2.3 percent in 2011, down from the pr ...
  • The Role of Agriculture in Reducing Greenhouse Gas ...
    John Horowitz and Jessica Gottlieb / USDA ERS Economic Brief No. 15 http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/EB15/EB15.pdf Agriculture could play a prominent role in U.S. efforts to address climate change if farms and ranches undertake activities that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or take greenh ...
  • Field Level Storage Data from Form EIA-191A
    US Energy Information Administration (EIA) http://tinyurl.com/3xywy9x [From EIA What's New page] This [Excel] spreadsheet contains field-level data as of December 31, 2009 for all underground natural gas storage facilities in the Lower 48 States [from 2005-2009]. Data include company and field name, ...
  • Climate Not to Blame for African Civil Wars
    Halvard Buhaug / PNAS http://tinyurl.com/2wqcmks [Abstract] Vocal actors within policy and practice contend that environmental variability and shocks, such as drought and prolonged heat waves, drive civil wars in Africa. Recently, a widely publicized scientific article appears to substantiate this c ...

Scientific American - News

  • How Much Global Warming Is Guaranteed Even If We S ...
    Humanity has yet to reach the point of no return when it comes to catastrophic climate change, according to new calculations. If we content ourselves with the existing fossil-fuel infrastructure we can hold greenhouse gas concentrations below 450 parts per million in the atmosphere and limit warming ...
  • 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 ...

RAWA News

  • Getting drunk in Kabul bars? Pass the sick bag
    The Guardian: "Kabul is the new Beirut." This frivolous drivel fell from the mouth of a journalist in Afghanistan. She was effervescent with excitement about the prospect of Kabul's expatriate bars being even more hip than those in Beirut. Beirut – where they dance to the beat of the bombs, where al ...
  • Afghan authorities take over biggest bank to avoid ...
    The Washington Post: Afghanistan's Central Bank has taken control of the country's biggest and most politically potent private bank and ordered its chairman to hand over $160 million worth of luxury villas and other real estate purchased in Dubai for well-connected insiders, according to Afghan bank ...
  • Stryker soldiers allegedly plotted to kill Afghan ...
    The Seattle Times: In one of the most serious war-crimes cases to emerge from the Afghanistan war, five soldiers from a Stryker infantry brigade based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord are now charged with murder for their alleged roles in killing three Afghan civilians. In two of the incidents, grenades ...
  • Afghan journalist stabbed to death in Kabul-palace
    Reuters: Sayed Hamid Noori, an anchor for state network Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA), was stabbed repeatedly near his home late on Sunday. Possible motives and identity of the killer remain unclear. Afghanistan remains one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists. At least 14 ...
  • “US should leave Afghanistan before it is de ...
    Sify News: The US is heading for a catastrophic rout in Afghanistan like in Iraq and should hurry to leave these countries 'or for that matter, the entire Asian continent' before its defeat becomes complete, an editorial in a Pakistani paper said Saturday. 'America is heading for a defeat in Afghan ...

frogblog

  • Another day, another oil platform explosion
    Another oil platform off the Louisiana coast has experienced an explosion and fire. Fortunately, no lives were lost and earlier reports of a mile long slick have been recanted.
  • Williamson and English running racial interference ...
    Yesterday, Land Information Minister Maurice Williamson claimed that opposition to foreign investment is more about racism than overseas ownership. He needs to have a word to his colleague, Finance Minister Bill English, who last month seemed to be pandering to the supposed racism Williamson critici ...
  • Bill McKibben on David Letterman: Put Solar on the ...
    I’ll let Bill McKibben from 350.org tell you all about it. I’m a third of the way through his new book, eaarth, and I recommend it to anyone concerned about where we’re going to be as a species in just a few decades. Climate change is now, not the problem of the next generation. Wh ...
  • SIS looking in the wrong direction
    The SIS is pretty good at checking people's backgrounds, its just that they are looking at the wrong people.
  • Christchurch rocked by mag 7.4 earthquake
    The details are sketchy as the sun has just come up, but there are reports of widespread damage, the airport is closed and the civil defense folk have activated the national response centre. I’ve already heard from one Green party member downtown, whose doing alright. The Press has ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Is Perfect Research Possible
    Some claim that there is no hope of doing perfect research. So, is there hope of doing perfect research? Of course there issometimes! It all depends on the whetherwhether the subject is limited and whether the researcher can write and is intelligent enough to adequately evaluate the evidence. ...
  • The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: Last Gasp of ...
    No civilization in history that collapsed after a period of greatness has ever regained its dominance. Egypt lasted for three millennia; today it is little more than a field for archeological study. The Persian Empire, which lasted for more than three hundred years, became the largest and most p ...
  • Specie, Script, and War: The Contradictory Practic ...
    Wars are fought for business, but business and the economy are synonymous. Wars will continue to be fought for the economy as long as this economy is not abandoned. War is a logical consequence of it, not a means utilized by it. No attempt to eliminate war and preserve the economy can succeed. A ...
  • Knowledge, Truth and Human Action: America Hits th ...
    Americans have a problem with the truth. They seem to be unable to accept it. Beliefs somehow always overwhelm it, even when they are so contradictory that any effective action becomes impossible. By calling people with opinions experts and relying on adversarial debate between them, not only is ...
  • The Psychopathic Criminal Enterprise Called Americ ...
    Is America a criminal enterprise? Government in America consists of law. Legislators write it, executives apply it, and courts adjudicate it. But the law is a lie. We are told to respect the law and that it protects us. But it doesn't. The law and law enforcement only come into play secundum vit ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Here's What's the Matter With Kansas
    Why has income inequality grown so explosively over the past 30 years? Why do so many working and middle class voters cast their ballots for a party that's so obviously a captive of corporations and the rich? Why is there no longer any real sustained effort to improve the lot of the middle class? T ...
  • Cell Phones and the End of History
    From Stephen Randall, on the demise of landlines and the growth of cell phones: Bluetooth is ugly and frustrating; no wonder everyone likes it. Bluetooth alone has done more to destroy civil discourse than cable news and talk radio put together. I'm convinced that the reason so many teens and ...
  • The Revenge of the Insurance Industry
    The Wall Street Journal reports that health insurers are planning to dramatically raise premiums to pay for extra benefits required by the healthcare reform bill passed earlier this year. Is this legit? Or are insurers just using ACA as a handy excuse to jack up rates? My guess is that a couple of s ...
  • The Circular Firing Squad
    A couple of days ago on This Week ,�Tony Blair made the fairly unoriginal observation that lefties tend to engage in circular firing squads a lot: "I love my own politics and progressives and all the rest of it," Blair told ABC's Christiane Amanpour in an unaired portion of his This Week intervie ...
  • Chart of the Day: Follow the Bouncing Ball
    Last week's generic congressional poll from Gallup got a lot of attention because it suggested Republicans were ahead by a landslide with only two months until election day. And this week? Suddenly the parties are tied again. I don't think there's any real lesson here except that these numbers ca ...

    Blacklisted News

  • DOD Exploring Remote Control of Brain Activity Usi ...
    Recent advances in neurotechnology have shown that brain stimulation is capable of treating neurological diseases and brain injury, as well as serving platforms around which brain-computer interfaces can be built for various purposes.
  • Tough Economy Forcing Record Number of Workers to ...
  • US soldiers 'killed Afghan civilians for sport and ...
    Soldiers face charges over secret 'kill team' which allegedly murdered at random and collected fingers as trophies of war
  • After a Year of Setbacks, U.N. Looks to Take Charg ...
    After a year of humiliating setbacks, United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-Moon and about 60 of his top lieutenants — the top brass of the entire U.N. system — spent their Labor Day weekend at a remote Austrian Alpine retreat, discussing ways to put their sprawling organization in charge ...
  • BP report shifts blame for Gulf of Mexico oil spil ...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Who pays for the loss of life in Iran?
    Summary: Funeral of the victims of the Tehran plane crash in 2005 Since the victory of Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979 which toppled the U.S.-backed regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran has been facing with devastating and agonizing financial sanctions of the United States and its Europe ...
  • 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 ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Black-Hole Powered Blobs -The Most Massive Objects ...
    "Blobs" might sound as scientific as an astrologer at a NASCAR rally, but it's a real astrophysical term - in fact, it's a giant one. Blobs are immense clouds of gas -some stretch for tens of thousands of light years-...
  • Mysterious Q Balls -Created in the Heat of the New ...
    Q-balls zoom through the Universe, according to CERN physicist Brian Cox, vaporizing stars and flouting the laws of physics. Each one is like a new universe in a nutshell. Inside a Q-ball, the familiar forces that hold our world together...
  • EcoAlert: Climate's Tipping Points Arrive Suddenly ...
    "Climate scientists worry about 'tipping points' ... thresholds beyond which a small additional increase in average temperature or some associated climate variable results in major changes to the affected system. Among the tipping points we face in the near future...
  • Image of the Day: Tuning in to a Spectacular Radio ...
    The image above is part of the northern part of the galaxy cluster Abell 1758, located about 3.2 billion light years from Earth, showing the effects of a collision between two smaller galaxy clusters. Chandra X-ray data (blue) reveals hot...
  • The Daily "140" Insight
    "Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?" Steve Jobs

Natural News

  • Tell the FDA 'NO!' to GMO fish
    (NaturalNews) Consumers may soon have a new "Frankenfood" to contend with as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will soon decide whether or not to approve genetically-modified (GM) salmon as food. If approved, the GM salmon -- known as AquAdvantage -- will be the first GM animal officially ...
  • Healthcare workers to be fired if they refuse flu ...
    (NaturalNews) Forget the U.S. Constitution. Forget basic human rights. Forget the fact that research shows flu shots don't work most of the time (http://www.naturalnews.com/029641_vaccines_junk_science.html). A group of the nation's leading infectious disease experts are demanding forced vaccination ...
  • Much like humans, mushrooms generate vitamin D whe ...
    (NaturalNews) Food companies are beginning to capitalize on a little known capability of mushrooms: like humans, they synthesize vitamin D when exposed to ultraviolet radiation like that in sunlight. Vitamin D is an essential nutrient that helps the body form and maintain healthy bones and teeth. Mo ...
  • LFO singer Rich Cronin dies at age 35 after chemot ...
    (NaturalNews) LFO singer-songwriter Rich Cronin, creator of the smash hit "Summer Girls," died after receiving chemotherapy as a "treatment" for leukemia. He was 35. Yes, 35. He was first diagnosed with leukemia in 2005 and underwent chemotherapy. Not surprisingly, the cancer returned in 2007 becaus ...
  • FDA censorship of nutritional science threatens he ...
    (NaturalNews) Concerned about breast cancer? There are three nutrients that virtually eliminate your risk of the disease, even if you carry "breast cancer genes." Wondering how to cure arthritis? A combination of four different nutrients virtually eliminates arthritis symptoms. Afraid of diabetes? F ...

Threat Level

  • TSA Campaign Targets Photographers in Hoodies
    A new TSA terror warning seems to be targeting photographers in hoodies as a national security threat. That’s the way photographers are viewing a new poster distributed by the Transportation Security Administration to encourage airport employees to report suspicious activity. The poster shows a man ...
  • Massive Cache of Iraq War Docs to Be Published by ...
    A massive cache of previously unpublished classified U.S. military documents from the Iraq War is being readied for publication by WikiLeaks, a new report has confirmed. The documents constitute the “biggest leak of military intelligence” that has ever occurred, according to Iain Overton, editor of ...
  • Koran-Burning Church’s Website Yanked From Interne ...
    The website of the church that plans to burn a Koran on Saturday to commemorate 9/11 was removed from the internet after its hosting service said the site violated its terms of service agreement. The removal of the doveworld.org site comes as President Barack Obama urged the Florida pastor not to b ...
  • RBS WorldPay Hacker Gets Suspended Sentence for $9 ...
    One of the masterminds behind the $9 million hack into RBS WorldPay received a six-year suspended sentence in Russia, according to local reports Wednesday. Viktor Pleshchuk, 29, who pleaded guilty to his role in the heist, also got four years of probation and was ordered to pay $8.9 million in rest ...
  • DHS Cybersecurity Watchdogs Miss Hundreds of Vulne ...
    The federal agency in charge of protecting other agencies from computer intruders was found riddled with hundreds of high-risk security holes on its own systems, according to the results of an audit released Wednesday. The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, or US-CERT, monitors the Ei ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Respect, Not a Veto, for 9/11 Families
    For the families who lost loved ones in the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001, the anguish and suffering must be incomprehensible - and never ending. But the compassion, sympathy and respect Americans rightly feel for them cannot obscure the fact that 9/11 was an attack on the United States an ...
  • Obama Says No to the $700 Billion Club
    A $700 billion, 10-year windfall for the wealthiest Americans who need it least. With both parties generally supporting the continuation of middle class relief already on the books, that's the difference between Republicans and Democrats when it comes to making the expiring Bush tax cuts permanent ...
  • 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 ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Emily Cross: Global Warming and Campaign Finance I ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Emily Cross is a Political Science student at Rice University. Emily hugs trees during her free time.
  • Veronica Valesquez: Solar Intern from Austin Colle ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Veronica majors in Environmental Studies and Cultural Anthropology
  • Tres Amigas SuperStation on Track for 2014
    Local energy storage company Xtream Power inks a deal to supply the Tres Amigas project with their technology. CH2M, another firm with central Texas connections (who has been hiring some of Austins finest green talent) lands the construction contract. Will local green engineers Kurt Lyell (one of th ...
  • A new direction for energy efficiency in Texas
    Today, Public Citizen and Environmental Defense Fund sent a letter to the Legislature calling on them to support the creation of a new state agency dedicated to efficiency. I tend to think in the problem-cause-solution framework about public policy issues so here’s the short version: Problem: Energy ...
  • Human error causes a partial shutdown of Texas nuc ...
    Human error appears to have caused a partial shutdown last Friday at the South Texas Project, one of the state’s two nuclear plants. Last week, prices spiked in the wholesale electricity market.  On Monday the 16th,  wholesale electricity, which had been selling for less than $30 per megawatt-hour s ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

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

Climate

  • September 10, 2010
    EPA Officials: Kan. Must Revise Air Permit Process (AP) Federal officials told Kansas legislators Thursday that the state will be expected to cut greenhouse gas emissions as it considers air-quality permits for power plants, large factories and oil refineries — and if it refuses, the EPA cou ...
  • September 9, 2010
    Global Warming Bill a Lose-Lose Issue for GOP Candidates (LA Times) A November ballot measure that would rescind California's landmark global warming bill until unemployment drops significantly has become an albatross for the Republican candidates for governor and U.S. Senate. Studies: C ...
  • 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 ...

GreenBiz

  • Making Energy Awareness Month a Boon for Green Ini ...
    Sustainability leaders should consider sponsoring employee activities in October for Energy Awareness Month. An internal program this fall can complement a company's Earth Day activities in the spring, providing an organization with two major companywide opportunities for education and awareness.
  • Boston, Hartford Among Cities Chosen for Green Cap ...
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has named the five cities that will be the first to participate in the Greening America's Capitals program and receive free expert assistance to turn their towns into models of sustainable design.
  • Coca-Cola Reveals Lessons Learned from 3 Water Foo ...
    The Nature Conservancy and Coca-Cola released a report today with the results from three product water footprints. A big takeway:�The numbers associated with a water footprint aren't nearly as important as how its water use impacts local watersheds.
  • How Water Footprinting is More Complex than Carbon
    A report published today by Coca-Cola and the Nature Conservancy looks at the fluid impact of the beverage giant's operations, and finds there are three key kinds of water used in making your favorite beverages.
  • How to Drive the Smart Grid Forward: Connect with ...
    We've been pushing ahead on smart grid efforts at a very aggressive pace for months, but not without our share of speed bumps and lessons learned along the way. One of the most challenging obstacles to overcome as we move along the road to a smarter grid is consumer education. Policymakers or regula ...

Reuters Global

Booman Tribune

  • YouTube Thread
  • A Show of Tolerance In An Unlikely Place
    Marty Aussenberg (f/k/a "Gadfly"), previously a columnist for the alternative newsweekly, The Memphis Flyer, is a lawyer in Memphis, Tennessee. He was, at one time, an attorney in the enforcement division of the SEC in Washington, D.C., when its good reputation was still intact. I live in a city ...
  • NFL Thread
    Tonight the NFL season starts up again, so I am going to make my predictions. This way, we can all look back in January and make fun of me. NFC East Dallas Cowboys (12-4) New York Giants (11-5) Washington Redskins (7-9) Philadelphia Eagles (7-9) NFC South New Orleans Saints (13-3) Atl ...
  • A Breakthrough
    Finally, a grown-up: Retiring Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) said he plans to help push a package of small-business incentives through the Senate next week, a move that would give President Obama and congressional Democrats a key victory on the economy in the final weeks before the November midte ...
  • Some Strategy Advice on Taxes
    The strategy should be very simple. If nothing happens in Congress, the Bush tax cuts will expire on the rich and the poor alike. Some kind of bill has to pass in order for us to avoid a tax hike on everyone who pays income taxes. Even if, as Peter Orszag tried to express, we cannot afford these ...

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

  • Family Trauma: Is Psychological Impact Passed Thro ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline New research by geneticists has found that exposure to traumatic events may actually alter the way a person’s genes behave, even after those genes have been passed on to his or her child. The research is just one avenue of exploration into how PTSD impacts not only th ...
  • Mental Illness Awareness Week and Walks Fight Stig ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Mental Illness Awareness Week in the United States is October 3rd through 9th. Nationwide, NAMIWalks (through NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness) will be held throughout the months of September, October, and November. These walks promote awareness by provid ...
  • Untying Knots in the Body to Untie Knots in the Mi ...
    By Renee Burgard, LCSW, Mindfulness Based Approaches/Contemplative Approaches Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Renee and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Mindfulness of the Body Regulates Emotions and Changes Minds “Mindfulness is paying attention, on purpose, in a particular way, in ...
  • What do I do if my Child is Cutting Themselves?
    By Becky Grenfell, MS, MHCI Click here to contact Becky and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Where Does this Behavior Come From? Cutting is the physical expression of hidden mental pain. Often times children start cutting when their mental pain reaches a level that they can no longer deal with. Wh ...
  • Practicing Radical Acceptance – a Beginner’s Guide ...
    By Julia Flood, LCSW Click here to contact Julia and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Remember the Serenity Prayer? “Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change”. What’s difficult about this is that we often believe that certain things shouldn’t be happening in the first place, but ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Hoppy's Commentary on Nike Ad Controversy - West V ...
    Washington Post Hoppy's Commentary on Nike Ad Controversy West Virginia MetroNews Apparently, a couple of mountaintop removal opponents got in touch with the press, or vice-versa. A few reporters then called WVU. ... Nike To Modify Ad For WVU Jersey After Environmentalists Object SportsBusiness Dai ...
  • The War Against Mountaintop Mining Heats Up - Capi ...
    Capitol News Connection The War Against Mountaintop Mining Heats Up Capitol News Connection Rooth countered that mountaintop removal and other forms of modern strip mining have actually meant a loss of jobs in the region. ... and more��
  • Banks Back Away from Financing Mountain Top Remova ...
    Banks Back Away from Financing Mountain Top Removal Reuters ... activists have sought to engage financial institutions over financing of the environmentally destructive practice of mountain top removal (MTR). ... and more��
  • Roslyn Native Makes Senate Bid - Rosyln News
    Roslyn Native Makes Senate Bid Rosyln News Hechler didn't win, but he polled a respectable 17 percent, winning 16000 votes while running on a platform opposing mountaintop removal mining in West ...
  • THEIR VIEW: About that Nike ad ... get a life! - W ...
    West Virginia Record THEIR VIEW: About that Nike ad ... get a life! West Virginia Record Apparently, a couple of mountaintop removal opponents got in touch with the press, or vice versa. A few reporters then called WVU. ...

Memeorandum

  • Judge Rules That Military Policy Violates Rights o ...
    John Schwartz / New York Times : Judge Rules That Military Policy Violates Rights of Gays   —  The “don't ask, don't tell” policy toward gay members of the military is unconstitutional, a federal judge in California ruled Thursday.  —  Judge Virginia A. Phillips of Federal District Court struck dow ...
  • Judge: Military's ban on gays is unconstitutional ...
    Associated Press : Judge: Military's ban on gays is unconstitutional   —  RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A federal judge in Southern California has declared the U.S. military's ban on openly gay service members unconstitutional.  —  U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips on Thursday granted a request for an in ...
  • If Obama names Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic ba ...
    Brent Budowsky / Pundits Blog : If Obama names Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic base erupts like a volcano and votes   —  Within hours and possibly minutes I expect the president will name Elizabeth Warren to lead the new consumer protection agency, and if he does, the Democratic base will erupt an ...
  • Federal judge overturns 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' (B ...
    Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog : Federal judge overturns 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'   —  A Federal Judge in California has ruled that the ban on gays in the military violates the Constitutional rights of gay and lesbian soldiers to due process and to freedom of expression.  —  District Court Judge Virgi ...
  • Pastor cancels Quran-burning, then reconsiders (An ...
    Antonio Gonzalez / Associated Press : Pastor cancels Quran-burning, then reconsiders   —  GAINESVILLE, Fla. - An anti-Islamic preacher backed off and then threatened to reconsider burning the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, angrily accusing a Muslim leader of lying to him Thursday wi ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.2, Reykjanes Ridge
    Thursday, September 9, 2010 10:31:05 UTC Thursday, September 9, 2010 08:31:05 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.4, Banda Sea
    Thursday, September 9, 2010 07:42:36 UTC Thursday, September 9, 2010 04:42:36 PM at epicenter Depth : 517.40 km (321.50 mi)
  • M 6.1, offshore Bio-Bio, Chile
    Thursday, September 9, 2010 07:28:02 UTC Thursday, September 9, 2010 03:28:02 AM at epicenter Depth : 17.60 km (10.94 mi)
  • 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)

China Dialogue

  • Coming back down to earth
    As global warming intensifies, demands for human manipulation of the climate system are likely to grow. But carrying out geoengineering plans could prove a political and logistical nightmare, says Mike Hulme. [This article was originally published by Yale Environment 360 on June 7 and is used here w ...
  • Toward a transparent economy
    Sustainability is higher up the corporate agenda than ever, but deeper forms of accountability are needed to achieve real change – and honest reporting is the place to start, writes John Elkington. Back in May, as we at Volans raced to complete a new report, Harvard Business Review published a cover ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Los Angeles Launches Nation’s First Israel D ...
    On April 1, 2010, in a no-holds-barred interview with the Christian Science Monitor, Israeli peacemaker Jonathan Ben Artzi, a PhD candidate at Brown University and nephew to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, made clear his belief that equality and social justice will prevail in Israel whe ...
  • Family Research Council attacks same-sex marriage ...
    Perusing the Family Research Council’s webpage is always a bonanza for me because there is always something there which can be pointed out as an example of how religious right groups distort studies and current events to push the false “radical homosexual activists are hurting America” narrative ...
  • Florida Cult Leader Terry Jones Calls Off Qu&#8217 ...
    The Dove World Outreach Center’s extremist pastor, Terry Jones, announced that he would call off plans to burn copies of the Qu’ran on September 11. The New York Times reports: Terry Jones, a controversial Florida pastor, announced on Thursday that he will not burn hundreds of Korans to mark the ann ...
  • Roma Are Stereotyped, Vilified, and Reduced to Fou ...
    Last week I was watching the movie Drag Me to Hell with a friend. At some point I had a moment of clarity, turned to her and said, “damn, the Roma have it harder than black folks.” The film jarred loose a series of memories. When I was a teenager I clearly recall my Korean [...]
  • The Sooner Rahm Leaves Washington, the Better
    This post first appeared on the Nation. Chicago Mayor Richard Daleyâs announcement that he will not seek a seventh term has prompted widespread speculation that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel will run as Daleyâs successor. “I’d be shocked if he doesn’t run,” a senior administration ...

Threat Level

  • TSA Campaign Targets Photographers in Hoodies
    A new TSA terror warning seems to be targeting photographers in hoodies as a national security threat. That’s the way photographers are viewing a new poster distributed by the Transportation Security Administration to encourage airport employees to report suspicious activity. The poster shows a man ...
  • Massive Cache of Iraq War Docs to Be Published by ...
    A massive cache of previously unpublished classified U.S. military documents from the Iraq War is being readied for publication by WikiLeaks, a new report has confirmed. The documents constitute the “biggest leak of military intelligence” that has ever occurred, according to Iain Overton, editor of ...
  • Koran-Burning Church’s Website Yanked From Interne ...
    The website of the church that plans to burn a Koran on Saturday to commemorate 9/11 was removed from the internet after its hosting service said the site violated its terms of service agreement. The removal of the doveworld.org site comes as President Barack Obama urged the Florida pastor not to b ...
  • RBS WorldPay Hacker Gets Suspended Sentence for $9 ...
    One of the masterminds behind the $9 million hack into RBS WorldPay received a six-year suspended sentence in Russia, according to local reports Wednesday. Viktor Pleshchuk, 29, who pleaded guilty to his role in the heist, also got four years of probation and was ordered to pay $8.9 million in rest ...
  • DHS Cybersecurity Watchdogs Miss Hundreds of Vulne ...
    The federal agency in charge of protecting other agencies from computer intruders was found riddled with hundreds of high-risk security holes on its own systems, according to the results of an audit released Wednesday. The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, or US-CERT, monitors the Ei ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • U.S. waits Japan nod on F-35 security pact
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is waiting for Japan to sign a security pact as a prelude to sales talks on Lockheed Martin Corp's new F-35 fighter jets, a senior U.S. Defense Department official said.
  • Judge rules ban on gays in military unconstitution ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military rule banning openly gay people from serving in the armed forces violates constitutional rights to free speech and due process, a federal judge in southern California ruled Thursday.
  • Host company pulls plug on Florida pastor's websit ...
    MIAMI (Reuters) - The obscure Christian pastor who plans to mark the ninth anniversary of September 11 attacks by burning copies of the Koran has had his website pulled from the Internet, the hosting company said on Thursday.
  • Thousands of Afghans protest U.S. Koran-burning pl ...
    KABUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of angry Muslims took to the streets across Afghanistan on Friday, some threatening to attack U.S. bases, prompted by a plan by a U.S. pastor to burn copies of the Koran.
  • Gas blast engulfs neighborhood near San Francisco
    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A fiery natural gas explosion ripped through a residential neighborhood in a San Francisco suburb on Thursday, ravaging some 50 homes and killing at least one person, officials said.

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #428 (history edition)
    US government study of Soviet-era spy services released. A historiographic blog has released a study by the US Federal Office of Criminal Investigations on Practices and Methods of East-Bloc Intelligence Services, which examines the spy craft and operations of Soviet-aligned … Continue reading →
  • Location of massive Israeli eavesdropping site unc ...
    By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | An author and investigative journalist from New Zealand has uncovered one of the worldâs biggest government-sponsored eavesdropping sites in a desert in Israel. Writing in French monthly review Le Monde Diplomatique, Nicky Hager reveals … Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #427
    Did Belarus KGB murder opposition activist? The death of Belarussian opposition activist and journalist Oleg Bebenin has thrown a murky light on both the circumstances of his demise and those who might be behind it. Some point the finger at … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

After Downing Street.org

  • Trying to Hide and Whitewash Our Own Human Rights ...
    As we still condemn others for doing exactly the same, in past decade using some as our allies in human rights violations, and even using that condemnation to justify our Wars of Choice!   Bush’s rendition program remains unchecked Sept. 9: Prof. Jonathan Turley shares his thoughts on an appeals cou ...
  • Growing Thought Control in Israel
    Growing Thought Control in Israel - by Stephen Lendman Since its 1948 establishment, IDF military censor authority banned or sanitized material potentially damaging to Israel's security. Thereafter, voluntary media/government agreements prevailed, all domestic and foreign news organizations abiding ...
  • Los Angeles Launches Nation's First Israel Divestm ...
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  • Petraeus Spin on IED War Belied by Soaring Casualt ...
    By Gareth Porter, IPS WASHINGTON, Sep 9, 2010 (IPS) - Gen. David Petraeus claimed limited success this week in the war within a war over the Taliban's planting of roadside bombs, but official Pentagon data shows the Taliban clearly winning that war by planting more bombs and killing many more U.S. a ...
  • Experiencing the Bomb
    By Suzy T. Kane, Taos Horse Fly, Taos, New Mexico I asked a bright and educated 33-year-old friend if she ever thought about the atomic bomb. “No,” she replied. “What would it take for you to read an article about the bomb?” “Well, I guess I’d read it if it were a story about people.” Shigeko Nimo ...

Grist - News

  • Florida governor’s race: Sink vs. Scott
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Florida governor candidate Rick Scott is largely an enigma on energy and environmental issues. The hospital-chain executive, who eked out a surprise win over an establishment candidate in the Republican primary, has no record in public office to evaluate. His website's enviro ...
  • BP takes share of blame for Gulf of Mexico oil spi ...
    by Agence France-Presse. LONDON -- Failures by BP and other companies led to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, BP concluded on Wednesday as it sought to defend itself against possible multi-billion-dollar lawsuits. As expected, BP's inquiry did not admit "gross negligence" for the oil rig explosi ...
  • BP report says there’s plenty of blame to sp ...
    by Randy Rieland. Today, BP leaned on its sword. In a report based on its own investigation, BP does accept some responsibility for the oil well explosion that killed 11 people and dumped 4.1 million barrels of crude into the Gulf. But it concludes that there's plenty of blame to spread around. ...
  • 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 ...

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Washington Independent

  • Tea Party Favorite O’Donnell Falters in Dela ...
    “The wave of positive change can really sweep across our land with the election of Constitutional Conservatives who promise to use common sense and rein in the federal government spending! Please support Christine O’Donnell in Delaware," Sarah Palin said in her endorsement.
  • Court Overturns Hazletown, Pa., Anti-Immigration L ...
    A federal appeals court struck down today a Hazleton, Pa., ordinance that criminalized anyone who rented to or hired an illegal immigrant. The ordinance was a precursor to Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law and other copy-cat anti-immigration legislation, and may signal what is to come for laws accus ...
  • The Jerry Brown Camp Responds to Whitman’s A ...
    Ask and you shall receive. In response to Meg Whitman’s ad that features Bill Clinton accusing Jerry Brown of inaccurately stating his tax record (and my blog post seeking both camps’ numbers on the issue), the Brown campaign has shared with me a press release and a “Truth Box” debunking Whitman’s ( ...
  • Democrats Against Tax Increases
    At Talking Points Memo, Brian Beutler reports that Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) is not interested in raising taxes on households making more than $250,000 a year or individuals making more than $200,000, as the White House wants. Without Nelson, the most moderate Democrat, the White House proposal becom ...
  • Obama Administration Releases Plans to Lower Feder ...
    The Obama administration released today a series of “sustainability plans” meant to meet the requirements laid out in a Oct. 2009 executive order that called for improved energy efficiency and a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions at government agencies. Under the executive order, agencies were re ...

Digg Green

Invisible Opportunity

  • Charles Manson: Global Warming Prophet
    Paul Joseph Watson Charles Manson, the man who masterminded the brutal murders of nine people in the summer of 1969 in an effort to spark a race war in America, has adopted a new cause from his prison cell in California – he is a prophet for the global warming movement – sharing common ground [...]
  • Do The Majority Of Americans Blame Bush For 9/11?
    By Gordon Duff I learned about 9/11 from the news. Before the second plane had crashed, people in the crowd told me and the rest of America it was Osama bin Laden and Arab hijackers trained in Afghanistan with the help of Saddam Hussein. A BBC reporter then told me Building 7 had just collapsed, [.. ...
  • New research shows vitamin D slashes risk of cance ...
    By Mike Adams Exciting new research conducted at the Creighton University School of Medicine in Nebraska has revealed that supplementing with vitamin D and calcium can reduce your risk of cancer by an astonishing 77 percent. This includes breast cancer, colon cancer, skin cancer and other forms of c ...
  • Orthodox Jewish youths burn New Testaments in Or Y ...
    Orthodox Jews set fire to hundreds of copies of the New Testament in the latest act of violence against Christian missionaries in the Holy Land. Or Yehuda Deputy Mayor Uzi Aharon said missionaries recently entered a neighborhood in the predominantly religious town of 34,000 in central Israel, distri ...
  • The Real Story – 911

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

  • Frankenfish Should be OK Because of BPA (cartoon)
    Bill McKibbenâs New Book: The Old Economy is Killing the Earth; Itâs Time for a New Living Economy Don’t Let Experimental Genetically Engineered Salmon Reach Your Plate Follow all of Mean Joe Green’s environmental cartoons on JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons. Related post ...
  • Water: Nature’s Wonderdrug–Now with Wonderdrugs! ( ...
    Between 2006 and 2007, the Southern Nevada Water Authority in Las Vegas screened tap water from 19 US water utilities for 51 different compounds. The 11 most frequently detected compounds are highlighted in the cartoon and described below. 1.used to treat cardiovascular disease, 2.an herbicide ba ...
  • Pesticides and ADHD (cartoon)
    From Grist: More research linking pesticide exposure to ADHD in kids Follow all of Mean Joe Green’s environmental cartoons on JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons. Related posts:Chemicals and Obesity Speeding up Puberty in Girls (cartoon) BP’s Getting All Cap-Happy (cartoon) Tea ...
  • 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 ...

Inhabitat

  • Landhouse: A Sloping Prefab Home Complete with Mea ...
    Read the rest of Landhouse: A Sloping Prefab Home Complete with Meadow Roofhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architectu ...
  • 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 ...
  • Tiny London Lot Transformed Into Amazing Green Res ...
    Read the rest of Tiny London Lot Transformed Into Amazing Green Residencehttp://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: affordable housing, ameni ...
  • AIA San Francisco Living: Home Tours Kick off This ...
    Heads up San Francisco architecture fans! The 2010 Architecture and the City Festival is now in full gear, and this weekend marks the start of one of our favorite events – the San Francisco Living: Home Tours! Each year these tours offer an incredible opportunity to step inside some of the Bay Area ...
  • PRODUCT REVIEW: thinksport BPA Free Reusable Sport ...
    With all the scary news floating around about Bisphenol-A, a dangerous chemical that’s been linked to everything from low sperm counts to early puberty to DNA damage, it’s easy to see why smart sport bottle makers choose to stick to strictly BPA-free materials. But just because there are a crop of B ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Earth’s Most Stunning Natural Fractal Patterns
    See Also: Channeling Earth: Rivers Seen From Space Inexplicable Superconductor Fractals Hint at Higher Universal Laws Geeky Math Equation Creates Beautiful 3-D World Cryosphere: Earth’s Icy Extremes Seen From Space The Oldest Trees on the Planet See Them While You Can: Endangered Butterfly Gallery ...
  • Happy g day
    Actually, it should be called Happy "Magnitude of the local Earth gravitational field" day. You know, 9.8 N/kg on September 8 (9/8). Get it?
  • Early Warning Signs Could Show When Extinction Is ...
    Animal populations headed for extinction may give the same signals seen before crashes in coral reefs, the Sahara’s climate and even stock markets. These systems are very different, but each exhibits what’s known as “critical slowing down,” in which a loss of resilience magnifies the effect of smal ...
  • Carbon Emissions Not At Doomsday Level — Yet
    There are two doomsday numbers in climate change discussions: 2 degrees Celsius and 450 parts per million. Groups of climate scientists like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change generally agree that if the world warms more than 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels, which would put the con ...
  • Rare, Tiny, Supercute Baby Seahorse Found in Briti ...
    By Mark Brown, Wired UK File this under A for adorable. The Seahorse Trust, after years of surveying the fish in British waters, has finally found, measured and photographed a baby seahorse, which is also called a fry. Despite finding many adults, plenty of pregnant males (female seahorses transfer ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Peretz Again Denies that Palestinians Are a ‘Real ...
    The New Republic’s bigot in chief Marty Peretz has been on quite a tear this week. On Tuesday, Peretz wondered whether “these people” — referring to Muslim Americans — “ are worthy of the privileges of the First Amendment which I have in my gut the sense that they will abuse.” On the upside, at leas ...
  • A New Way Forward in Afghanistan?
    There's a new report out this week from the Afghanistan Study Group , a collection of academics, think tankers and foreign policy specialists, offering a path forward for US policy in Afghanistan. It's worth taking a look if only to read its diagnosis of the war, which from a narrow USFP perspective ...
  • “State Secrets” Swallow the Constitution
    I largely echo what Adam , Glenn , and Nick Baumann have to say about yesterday’s disgraceful 9th Circuit ruling upholding the Obama administration’s efforts to shield the government’s arbitrary-rendition-for-torture program from scrutiny.   It’s worth remembering what’s at stake here.   The majori ...
  • Even COIN Wars Are Hell
    One of the fundamental flaws at the root of COIN doctrine is the omnipresent tension between theory and practice with respect to the discipline that is expected of enormous armies.  It is an attempt to make tigers into Paper Kittens . In theory, soldiers implementing COIN show remarkable levels of r ...
  • Castro: I Was Wrong During Cuban Missile Crisis
    Jeffrey Goldberg's online account just now of his recent visit with Fidel Castro, in Havana, is fascinating in many ways. But the part that got my attention comes at the end, when Castro expresses his fear that an Iranian/Israeli/US showdown could get out of control. He tells Goldberg:� "Men think ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: It's the Enthusiasm, Stupid.
    How do Democrats close the enthusiasm gap, which is the only way to prevent a midterm catastrophe? According to� Jon Taplin , they should use� Barack Obama �to re-create the excitement of 2008. And there's always Obama's vaunted election machine -- oh, wait : "The outfit that put upwards of 8 milli ...
  • Cashing In on 9/11.
    Just when you think Glenn Beck has finally run dry of uncouth tricks, he’s back with more. Two weeks after Beck and Sarah Palin descended on Washington to try to create a religious revival -- and desecrate the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech -- the two hucksters pl ...
  • Patterns in American History.
    Andrew Sullivan has returned from his vacation to write a long -- and excellent -- blog post on the Obama administration's embrace of George W. Bush 's "blanket secrecy and protection of the national security apparatus from the rule of law." Here is the core of Sullivan's argument: The Bush execu ...
  • The Little Picture: Finally Home
    (AP Photo/Press TV) American hikers Shane Bauer , left, Sarah Shourd , center, and Josh Fattal , sit at the Esteghlal Hotel in Tehran, Iran. Iran announced today that one of the three Americans jailed for more than a year will be released Saturday to mark the end of the Islamic holy month of Rama ...
  • State Secrets Swallow the Constitution.
    I largely echo what Adam , Glenn Greenwald , and Nick Baumann have to say about yesterday's disgraceful 9th Circuit ruling upholding the Obama administration's arbitrary-rendition-for-torture program. But it's worth being reminded of what's at stake here. The majority opinion, before sadly eating ...

Buzzflash

  • Poor Labor Day Gets No Respect. It’s the Rodney Da ...
    WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH Poor Labor Day. Gets no respect. It’s the Rodney Dangerfield of holidays. The runt of the holiday litter. Just hearing the name conjures up depressing images of a last plastic souvenir sports bottle of lemonade poured on the dying charcoal briquettes of summer. It’s the end ...
  • AP Reporter Claims Barney Frank’s Primary Opponent ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH “Lunatic” --- truth be told --- is a much more accurate term. A mistake like this makes me want to hold a grudge. Calling an extremist an “economist” is as absurd as saying that “King Of The Hill” creator Mike Judge is a judge. read more
  • Who Should Go to Jail: Paris Hilton or BP Execs? I ...
    JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH Another oil and gas rig in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana has exploded.� We don’t know the details on why it exploded nor do we know for certain if oil is leaking.� What we do know is that oil drilling is literally killing our marine life, seafood, ...
  • Corporate Mainstream Media Complicity in Financial ...
    DANNY SCHECHTER FOR BUZZFLASH Q: Why are media outlets doing such a bad job covering Wall Street?��� A: Could it be, because they are owned by Wall Street?� By Danny Schechter, Author of The Crime Of Our Time � When you connect the dots in your writing or look for deeper explanations behind th ...
  • After 9/11, We Launched the 100 Years War, With No ...
    BOB KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH Here is the America that refuses to rally around a common enemy or live in denial over our sins of empire. I’d like to see Ground Zero honor the Iraqi and Afghan dead as well as our own, and grieve for all civilians murdered in the name of ideology. “The holiest of a ...

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Sciencebase

  • Antioxidants, fingerprint testing, peers
    These are the latest science news links and snippets from Sciencebase: Healthy antioxidants may do more harm than good – This has been my hunch for years. Now, scientists (J Agric Food Chem, ACS) are calling for more research on the possibility that some supposedly healthy plant-based antioxidants – ...
  • Phantom radiation protection
    Ionizing radiation exists as either subatomic particles (alpha and beta particles, and neutrons) or photons (electromagnetic waves at X-ray and gamma ray wavelengths, i.e. energies of a few electron volts). The energy from such radiation can strip electrons from atoms or molecules, thus ionizing the ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • DOW Facility Fails Greenpeace Security Inspection
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 8, 2010 Greenpeace Following a citizen inspection conducted earlier this week by Greenpeace, the organization has issued a ‘failed inspection’ report to Dow Chemical Company for failing to fully secure its Texas Operations facility in Freeport, TX against terrorist ...
  • Amnesty International Criticizes Extension of Cuba ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 8, 2010 Amnesty International - USA Amnesty International criticized President Barack Obama's recent decision to extend U.S. sanctions against Cuba under the Trading With the Enemy Act (TWEA), saying that he failed to take a long overdue step toward dismantling an ine ...
  • Tons of Foods Recalled and Thousands Sickened as S ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 8, 2010 CSPI As the nation reels from the impact of a massive egg recall that has sickened well over 1,500 people, survivors of foodborne illness and consumer advocates say that antiquated laws and poor enforcement are to blame. read more
  • Internet Engineering Task Force Says ‘AT&T Is Mis ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 8, 2010 Free Press AT&T filed a letter last week with the Federal Communications Commission claiming its plans for "paid prioritization" arrangements were supported by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the international body that develops and promotes In ...
  • Appeals Court Decision Denies Extraordinary Rendit ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 8, 2010 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) A federal appeals court today dismissed a case against Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen DataPlan, Inc. for its role in the Bush administration's extraordinary rendition program. The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACL ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Arctic Oil: The Good News and the Bad News
    by Gwynne Dyer First, the good news. On 15 September, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and Norwegian foreign minister Jonas Gahr Støre will sign an agreement in Murmansk that resolves the long dispute between the two countries over their Arctic seabed. So there will be no military confrontati ...
  • Eight Ways to Confront Extremism on 9/11
    by Sarah van Gelder Who benefits when a pastor in a small town in Florida threatens to burn the Quran? Or when a proposal to build a Muslim cultural center in Manhattan erupts into a national controversy? And what can those of us who believe extremism is harmful do to stop it? read more
  • Letter to Young Americans
    by Subhankar Banerjee You’re young. You may have just started or returned to college for fall semester; maybe you’re starting senior year in high school; maybe you finished college last spring but haven't been able to find a job yet; maybe you already have a job; maybe you have nothing to do with ...
  • What US Left Behind in Iraq is Even Uglier Than Yo ...
    by Nir Rosen Hundreds of cars waiting in the heat to slowly pass through one of the dozens of checkpoints and searches they must endure every day. The constant roar of generators. The smell of fuel, of sewage, of kabobs. Automatic weapons pointed at your head out of military vehicles, out of SUVs wi ...
  • Rethinking US War in Afghanistan
    by Steve Clemons Though President Barack Obama last week gave his "Combat Operations in Iraq Are Over" speech from the Oval Office, in the hope that anxious Americans would feel that nationally unnerving, messy foreign military entanglements are being reduced, his focus should have been Afghanis ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Torture is a secret
    By Dave Anderson: We can not talk about torture because then everyone would know that the US government tortures, despite that being part of the public record and a badge of 'seriousness' for significant elements of the US political elite. Wow! Time for the states secret doctrine to have a serious r ...
  • A New Way Forward In Afghanistan?
    By Steve Hynd Here's the panel discussion for the launch of the Afghanistan Study Group's new "Plan B" report on Afghanistan. What's clear from the panel is that the group's conclusions were by no means homogenous. That's probably a good thing - there's plenty of room for a discussion about not just ...
  • 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 ...

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • Key Findings from Interior's Offshore Oil and Gas ...
    Yesterday the Department of the Interior released the Outer Continental Shelf Safety Oversight Board's federal offshore oil and gas report. And it's pretty damning. Overall, the takeaway is that BOEMRE needs to create a safety culture out of thin air...
  • Still No Accountability for Former SEC Attorney Wh ...
    In a drawn-out debacle that reveals the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) inability to hold accountable its own employees who undermine whistleblower protections, a former SEC lawyer who is now running for the U.S. Congress is improperly claiming he has...
  • Former Interior Secretary *Doesn't* Go Through the ...
    The Hill reports that former Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has been selected as the new president and CEO of the American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI). POGO always likes to highlight these examples that demonstrate that moving from public service...
  • Pentagon IG Responds to Grassley Report
    Gordon S. Heddell, the Pentagon's Inspector General, responded last night to a report issued by the office of Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) that was highly critical of the DoD IG office's audits. “I’m in the process of transforming the Department...
  • Morning Smoke: Whistleblower: Translators for U.S. ...
    Whistleblower Claims Many U.S. Interpreters Can't Speak Afghan Languages by Matt Mosk, Brian Ross and Joseph Rhee [ABC News] Court Dismisses a Case Asserting Torture by C.I.A. by Charlie Savage [The New York Times] Prosecutor launches new front in the...

Digital Journal

  • A chat with lawyer Jane Rukaria of Vancouver
    The number of success stories among African-Canadian immigrants in Canada is not huge. But once in a while we come across a story that will inspire and psychologically uplift a community that’s struggling to integrate and properly settle.
  • 'Future of Media' event examines impact of social ...
    DigitalJournal.com hosted an interactive panel discussion on the future of media. Industry experts gathered in Toronto to discuss social media’s impact on news, why mobile advertising is still immature and why journalists should be entrepreneurs.
  • Survey: 70 percent of Ontarians are overweight
    A new survey by the University of Ottawa Heart Institute found that 70 percent of Ontario adults are either overweight or obese.
  • This Friday is Suicide Prevention Day
    It kills 4,000 Canadians a year. Most of us are touched by it directly or indirectly at some point in our lives. Many Canadians know someone who has tried to do it. Suicide. It touches lives in Canada every day.
  • Woman robbed and sexually assaulted in Toronto
    A Toronto woman was sexually assaulted and robbed by two men this weekend at a location in the Carlingview Drive and Dixon Road area.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Proof of the Empathy Gap Between the Housed and th ...
    When a well-dressed woman collapses on a busy sidewalk, people rush to help her within six seconds. When it's an unshaven older man in raggedy clothes, it takes an average of three minutes for someone to stop and offer assistance. When the man falls down holding a beer can the wait is much longer, a ...
  • Homeless Get Unhappy Meals as Some McDonald's Do A ...
    In the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, the homeless are upset that at least  one McDonald's franchise is getting rid of its dollar menu, putting meals out of reach for the only people who really don't have other options . According to KETK News , many of the homeless believe the move is an ...
  • Proof That Stereotypes Are Usually Wrong
    Yes, I too am guilty of stereotyping homeless people. I almost didn't talk to Sylvester. From a distance he looked a little "unstable." After a morning of making new friends in Atlanta, I had one pair of socks left. I started to cross the street so I would not have to pass him, yet became conscious ...
  • Is Your (Housing) Partner Faithful?
    Is the Housing First program in your community faithful to the principles of the theory? This is a more important question than you might realize. After all, Housing First programs  have data going back at least 10 years which shows both incredible cost savings and better personal outcomes for the h ...
  • Political Street Theater? Homeless Candidates Run ...
    A 20-year-old street kid who lists his business as "busking" is running for a seat on the Arizona Corporation Commission, which oversees public utilities, railroad safety and securities regulation. A 27-year-old tarot card reader with less than a dollar to his name is running for State Treasurer. An ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Russian bomber flights rare: NORAD
    NORAD statistics obtained by the Ottawa Citizen show that Russian bomber flights near Canadian airspace–which the Harper government has been hyping in its efforts to sell Canadians on the controversial plan to buy F-35 fighters–have occurred only three to five times a year since 2007 (David Pugliese ...
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • KT IS BACK!
    You did your part and Kevin has taken notice! He is so overwhelmed by the support he has received over the past month that he’s ready to come back on the air to show you his appreciation! Kevin’s been keeping a file of information never before revealed on this radio show. Due to the incredible resp ...
  • Popular Bone Drugs Double Cancer Risk
    September 9, 2010 Natural News by Jonathan Benson A new study out of the U.K. has found that taking popular osteoporosis and bone drugs like Boniva (ibandronate), Fosamax (alendronate) and Actonel (risedronate), doubles a person’s risk of developing esophageal cancer. Published in the online edition ...
  • Organic Farms Benefit Everyone
    September 9, 2010 Natural News by S. L. Baker Who hasn’t heard the argument that organic food isn’t better than produce grown with chemical fertilizers and pesticides — it’s just more expensive? Finally, scientists have come up with undeniable proof this isn’t so. After conducting side-by-side compa ...
  • FDA Censoring Nutritional Science
    September 9, 2010 Natural News by Mike Adams Concerned about breast cancer? There are three nutrients that virtually eliminate your risk of the disease, even if you carry “breast cancer genes.” Wondering how to cure arthritis? A combination of four different nutrients virtually eliminates arthritis ...
  • NC Police Want Names Of Prescription Med Users
    September 9, 2010 News Observer by Lynn Bonner Sheriffs in North Carolina want access to state computer records identifying anyone with prescriptions for powerful painkillers and other controlled substances. The state sheriff’s association pushed the idea Tuesday, saying the move would help them mak ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • Why burn Qurans when you can move a mosque?
    Firebrand Pastor Jones now says he won’t be burning Qurans on Saturday because he claims he extracted a deal to get the Cordoba House project moved to a different site. “Americans don’t want the mosque there and of course Muslims don’t want us to burn Qurans,” Jones said. The problem is, Jones ap ...
  • Islam and America’s most powerful cult
    M. Junaid Levesque-Alam writes: In their spirited assault on Islam, conservatives have seized upon one notion with particular delight: the Abrahamic faith embraced by a quarter of humanity is a “cult.” Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey popularized the claim in July when a constituent asked about the “ ...
  • The “insensitive” set-up in the Quran burning stun ...
    “Republicans are usually eager to trumpet their support for the troops and the war against terror. So why aren’t they condemning the Florida pastor who plans to lead his congregation in a Quran-burning bonfire on Sept. 11?,” wrote Fred Kaplan on Tuesday. His call has been answered — by Sarah Palin: ...
  • Contested America — dreams and reality
    Arguments about the construction of an Islamic center and the destruction of Qurans may have less to do with Islam than they have with who gets to define America and why this nation is grappling with its own identity. The New York Times reports: Prominent Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders held ...
  • Castro: ‘No one blames the Muslims for anything’
    Jeffrey Goldberg just went to visit the father of the Cuban revolution, Fidel Castro, and was surprised and pleased to hear the 84-year-old castigate Iran’s President Ahmadinejad and denounce anti-Semitism: Over the course of this first, five-hour discussion, Castro repeatedly returned to his excor ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Sea Level Rise: Hype and Reality
    Guest post b y Thomas Fuller At the conclusion of the last ice age, there was a surplus of ice on many parts of the planet. Nature took care of most of that over the next few thousand years, melting … Continue reading →
  • Study: “Arctic was 5C warmer during the (LIG ...
    Wikipedia says: The Eemian was an interglacial period which began about 130,000 years ago and ended about 114,000 years ago. It was the second-to-latest interglacial period of the current Ice Age, the most recent being the Holocene which extends to … Continue reading →
  • Nature uses the D-word
    From an editorial from nature.com, and published in the journal, they seem to think the d-word is proper vernacular. Science scorned Volume: 467, Page: 133 Date published: (09 September 2010) DOI: doi:10.1038/467133a The anti-science strain pervading the right wing in … Continue reading →
  • Another hockey stick – meanwhile, the death ...
    Kate at SmallDeadAnimals.com points out that there’s a new hockey stick afoot. With some homogenization and principal components analysis, I’m sure the past can be smoothed out. From: United States Unemployment rate, Aug. 2010 Meanwhile, light bulb workers of America … Continue reading →
  • Lord Oxburgh’s whirlwind whitewash tour
    When Oxburgh produced a 5 page report on the UEA/CRU Climategate issue, we immediately say it as “spartan”, while some called it “efficient”. We wondered how such a small report could be done with a team of people and 2-3 … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • A Fist in the System Oct. 2, 2010 By Timothy V. Ga ...
    By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com Sept. 5, 2010 Sept. 10, 2010 This is a fist in the system. I’m tired of all the exploitation that the rich bring down on us. I’m tired of the capitalistic system that decides who we are allowed to vote for. I’m tired of writ ...
  • Peter Dale Scott: 9/11 Questions Remain Unanswered
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ TheRealNews | September 09, 2010 Peter Dale Scott: “I do know for a certainty that there has been a cover-up of 9/11″ 9/11 Questions Remain Unanswered see Dr. Robert Bowman: Vietnam, Star Wars and 9/11 Bob McIlvaine: Remembering the Tragedy, interviewed by Cindy ...
  • Naked Insecurity, Part II by Ralph Nader
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page September 8, 2010 September 7, 2010 Members of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator, We are writing to urge you and your colleagues on the Senate Committee ...
  • Time for Helicopter Ben to Drop Some Money on Main ...
    by Dr. Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com Sept. 8, 2010 The Federal Reserve is proposing another round of “quantitative easing,” although the first round failed to reverse deflation. It failed because the money went to banks, which failed to lend it on. To reverse deflation, ...
  • The Imperial Anatomy of al-Qaeda: Empire, Energy a ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad September 8, 2010 This is Part 2 of the series, “The Imperial Anatomy of Al-Qaeda.” Part 1: The Imperial Anatomy of Al-Qaeda: The CIAâs Drug-Running Terrorists and the âArc of Crisisâ Part I by Andrew Gavin Marshall The End of the Cold ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Earth’s Most Stunning Natural Fractal Patterns
    See Also: Channeling Earth: Rivers Seen From Space Inexplicable Superconductor Fractals Hint at Higher Universal Laws Geeky Math Equation Creates Beautiful 3-D World Cryosphere: Earth’s Icy Extremes Seen From Space The Oldest Trees on the Planet See Them While You Can: Endangered Butterfly Gallery ...
  • Happy g day
    Actually, it should be called Happy "Magnitude of the local Earth gravitational field" day. You know, 9.8 N/kg on September 8 (9/8). Get it?
  • Early Warning Signs Could Show When Extinction Is ...
    Animal populations headed for extinction may give the same signals seen before crashes in coral reefs, the Sahara’s climate and even stock markets. These systems are very different, but each exhibits what’s known as “critical slowing down,” in which a loss of resilience magnifies the effect of smal ...
  • Carbon Emissions Not At Doomsday Level — Yet
    There are two doomsday numbers in climate change discussions: 2 degrees Celsius and 450 parts per million. Groups of climate scientists like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change generally agree that if the world warms more than 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels, which would put the con ...
  • Rare, Tiny, Supercute Baby Seahorse Found in Briti ...
    By Mark Brown, Wired UK File this under A for adorable. The Seahorse Trust, after years of surveying the fish in British waters, has finally found, measured and photographed a baby seahorse, which is also called a fry. Despite finding many adults, plenty of pregnant males (female seahorses transfer ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Gideon Levy Interview: Against the Stream
    Zionism in its present meaning, in its common meaning, is contradictory to human rights, to equality, to democracy, and [Zionist leftists] don’t recognise it. It’s too hard for them to recognise it,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Theodore Bikel: Legitimizing an obstacle to peace
    I have often spoken out in opposition to cultural boycotts ... but in the political arena, artists make a statement by their presence or their absence. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website f ...
  • 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 ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

Natural Health News

  • H1N1 Swine Flu Even Milder than Seasonal Strains
    The H1N1 flu was actually no more serious than most seasonal strains, according to a new study.� H1N1 virus disproportionately affected children and young adults, but the symptoms and risk of complications were similar to those of seasonal influenza viruses. For the study, researchers compared the ...
  • Wyeth Paid Writers to Promote Hormone Therapy
    The drug company Wyeth used ghostwriters to emphasize the benefits and downplay the harm of hormone replacement therapy in medical journal articles. Wyeth, now owned by Pfizer, paid a company called DesignWrite $25,000 to ghostwrite articles on clinical studies, including four regarding Prempro, th ...
  • 6 Reasons Why Interval Cardio is Better For You Th ...
    by Darin L. Steen Will jogging long distance or doing several short sprints get you to your fitness and fat loss goals faster and more safely? First, let’s define cardio. Anaerobic cardio is also called: Sprinting High Intensity / Short durational Interval Cardio Fart ...
  • The Ultimate Impossible Tennis Shot
    Jimmy Connors wins a point in the most unbelievable way you have ever seen.
  • Should American Women Learn to Give Birth at Home?
    Each year, roughly 25,000 American women decide to deliver their babies at home, and the numbers are on the rise. The main reason is a wish to avoid overmedicalized childbirth. Deliveries taking place at home tend to involve far fewer medical interventions and complications. However, midwife-assist ...

Antemedius

  • Will Our Generals Ever Shut Up?
    Originally published at TomDispatch.com The Military’s Media Megaphone and the U.S. Global Military Presence 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 bec ...
  • Peak Oil and Collapse of Everything?
    As a follow up to my post earlier this week - The Collapse of Everything? - about the report from a think-tank inside the German military warning that shrinking global oil supplies will threaten the world's economic foundations and possibly lead to mass-scale upheaval within the next 15 to 30 years, ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Live-blogging the UNCTAD Conference
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford There are some interesting comments in the live blog of the UNCTAD International Investment Agreements Conference from the likes of Todd Weiler, Susan Franck, and Jason Yackee. (You can also watch the proceedings here). Much substance in the coverage, but also so ...
  • Soros’ Gift to Human Rights Watch
    by Kenneth Anderson No doubt many readers have seen the  press articles announcing George Soros' gift of $100 million to Human Rights Watch.  Most interesting to me was that the gift is aimed, in part, at diversifying the organization, staff, and board away from its current US-centric arrangement. ...
  • 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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • How objective was the Climategate inquiry?
    I've been too busy writing and editing the new Arthur Allan Thomas book to blog much in recent weeks, but couldn't resist this revelation about the old boys network's whitewash of Climategate. Here's how it happened...originally from Climate Audit, via...
  • 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...

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

  • Farmers and Conservationists File Suit Challenging ...
    Today, the Center for Food Safety, Organic Seed Alliance, High Mowing Organic Seeds, and the Sierra Club, filed a lawsuit in federal district court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, challenging the issuance by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspe ...
  • 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 ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • The Myth of the Founding Fathers
    Tom Turnipseed: The Myth of the Founding Fathers By TOM TURNIPSEED Led by Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, Tea Party worshippers of the Founding Fathers want to return to the “good ol’ days” of 1787, when most African-Americans were slaves, many poor whites were indentured servants, and women couldn’t v ...
  • Defend and Free Diop!
    Diop Olugbala Convicted! Defend and Free Diop! PHILADELPHIA-On Tuesday, August 24, the US government gave another example of its desperation in the face of popular resistance with the conviction of Diop Olugbala in Philadelphia. Despite all the efforts to paint imperialism with a new, benign and fr ...
  • Blair: Egg on His Face and Blood on His Shoes
    "It really is shameful that somebody (Tony Blair) can be responsible for the death and destruction that he was responsible for in Iraq and Afghanistan and walk away without any accounting for that and become a very wealthy man off the back of it." So says Richard Boyd-Barrett of the Anti-War Movemen ...
  • EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE-Israeli soliders abducting pales ...
    YouTube - EXCLUSIF FOOTAGE-Israeli soliders abducting palestinian patients : "On April 9th 2006, a little past 1 AM, about 30-40 Israeli soldiers entered Al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron, and abducted two Palestinian patients, one of which was in a stretcher. Their actions were caught on the hospital's ...
  • Muslim wants to quit US military
    PressTV - Muslim wants to quit US military : "A Muslim soldier has asked to leave the US military because he says his faith forbids him from taking part in US-led wars. Private First Class Naser Abdo said Islam is a peaceful religion and he believes US-led wars are not legitimate for a Muslim to ta ...

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

  • Attracting butterflies
    Butterflies do not only look beautiful, they can help you increase the flower, fruit and vegetable production in your garden. You can attract butterflies by adding a few new plants, flowers or small trees to your backyard. Add a lot of colourful flowers to your backyard. Different butterflies prefe ...
  • Bye bye, dryer!
    A clothes dryer uses a lot of energy. The crazy thing is: it does something that will also happen when you don´t use one – your clothes will get dry anyway.   Not using a dryer is better for the environment and it decreases your energy bill (energy/cut-your-energy-bill-.with-green-colours.html ). ...
  • Give your street the green light
        Have you made the switch to energy-efficient (glossary/categories/energy/energy-efficiency.html ) globes at home? Get ready for the next step then. Give your street the green light! The Municipal Association of Victoria asks for your support to encourage the Victorian and Austra ...
  • Sports are fun
    Playing sport (directory/categories/Health%20 %20Beauty/Sports%20 %20Fitness/ ) has a lot of benefits. It makes you feel happy, healthy and fit. Plus, it’s fun! Especially when you go with a friend. There are so many ways to excersise. Join a sports club or a gym, or go for a run in the park.   Ph ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • N.Y. man alleges Homeland Security violated his ri ...
    ShareThis N.Y. man alleges Homeland Security violated his rights during Newark airport search 09 Sep 2010 To worries about full-body X-ray at airports, add this: little-known Homeland Security searches of travelers' laptops, cellular phones, digital cameras and other electronics — without a stated r ...
  • Afghans rally against US Koran burning
    ShareThis Afghans rally against US Koran burning 10 Sep 2010 Thousands of Afghans marched through a small town northeast of Kabul on Thursday, chanting anti-US and anti-Christian slogans to protest against plans by a US church to burn the Koran, an official said. The protesters, mostly men, took to ...
  • Four Al Qaeda in Iraq militants escape from U.S. c ...
    ShareThis Four Al Qaeda in Iraq militants escape from U.S. custody 10 Sep 2010 Four inmates affiliated with the militant group Al Qaeda in Iraq broke out of the U.S.-guarded wing of an Iraqi prison in a major breach of security, Iraqi and American officials said Thursday. The wing, policed by U.S. ...
  • Gas line explosion sparks hillside inferno in San ...
    ShareThis Gas line explosion sparks hillside inferno in San Bruno; many injuries feared 09 Sep 2010 (CA) A massive fire burned homes as it roared through a mostly residential neighborhood in the hills south of San Francisco following an explosion early Thursday evening. The fire is burning a few mil ...
  • US drone strikes kill 18 in Pakistan
    ShareThis US drone strikes kill 18 in Pakistan 08 Sep 2010 Three US drone attacks on a single day have killed at least 18 people, injured several others in Pakistan's tribal district of North Waziristan. Pakistani security officials say the latest attack has killed four people, adding that 14 others ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Israeli right wing admits to dispossessing Palesti ...
    By Jesse Bacon Reading the press coverage of Jewish Voice for Peace’s fabulous campaign in support of the Israeli theater artists boycotting settlements, I was struck by an item in Arutz Sheva, the settler’s news service, which ends with this paragraph.. The liberation of Israeli territory in the Wa ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • SEO is dead. Long live SEO
    Google Instant, which is available now in the search bars on Firefox, Chrome, and Safari, will be on all Google searches soon. When you type in a search phrase, it starts producing results with the first letter, based on your past search history. This continues a trend I’ve been noticing. Traditiona ...
  • After prison, maybe they can work for the Zetas
    US soldiers on trial for murdering Afghan civilians, kept fingers as trophies The Mexican drug cartels would no doubt be happy to employ trained soldiers who murder innocents because it gives them a stiffie. No word yet on whether the soldiers cut off the fingers before or after killing their victim ...
  • Obama opposes extension of tax cuts for rich!
    But still won’t say if he’d veto it, if it passes. Calling Obama a Labradoodle is too kind, I hereby dub him Marshmallow Man.
  • Mexico threatened by drug insurgency
    Hillary speaks the truth “It’s looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago,” said US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, pointing out that narco-traffickers control certain, although not significant parts, of Mexico. Borderland Beat has said it appears the cartels are slowly ...
  • Burn a Quaran day
    A “tragical” commercial for “Dr.” Terry Jones and his asinine Dove World Outreach Center (as well as a nipple tweak of Fred Phelps and his WBC family cult.) Pass this on to those who need to laugh at the darkness. This is brilliant, funny, savage – and truthful From DCDouglas.com From Cheryl, in the ...

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 10
    1608 â John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia. 1776 â Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army. 1897 â A sheriff’s posse kills 20 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States. 1922 – The Treasury in Washington has released new figures the per ca ...
  • USDA sued over genetically modified beet permits
    (Reuters) – Groups opposed to genetically modified foods announced a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday over the agency’s recent decision to allow limited plantings of altered sugar beets. According to a copy of the complaint provided to Reuters by the plaintiffs, the USD ...
  • Thermite Burns Effin’ Hot!
    The Effin’ Science crew creates lava flow from thermite, which is a violent 5000 degree chemical reaction between aluminum, an oxidizer and a little applied heat. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d15594').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
  • Pediatricians will join call for mandatory flu sho ...
    The American Academy of Pediatrics plans to call for all health workers to get flu vaccinations, saying unvaccinated doctors, nurses and other medical staffers pose a threat to patients. The academy, which represents 60,000 pediatricians, is the latest of several organizations that now back mandator ...
  • FDA Sends Warning to E-Cigarette Distributors
    THURSDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration cracked down Thursday on five distributors of electronic cigarettes, citing them for a series of violations that included unsubstantiated claims and poor manufacturing practices. The agency said that e-cigarette distributors ...

The Air Vent

  • Are Deep Oil Rigs Safer
    Microbes ate BP oil deep-water plume: study By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment CorrespondentPosted 2010/08/24 at 3:37 pm EDT WASHINGTON, Aug. 24, 2010 (Reuters) â A Manhattan-sized plume of oil spewed deep into the Gulf of Mexico by BP’s broken Macondo well has been consumed by a newly discovered f ...
  • UN plans expanding influence on world agenda
    Fox News is reporting on a UN meeting between top UN officials to expand their role in global government.  I’ve skimmed the documents which do make reference to the sovereignty of countries as problematic, the widespread goals of wealth redistribution and several sections on improved ability for th ...
  • Faster than infinity
    Ok, so this post is not about climate at all, I’m not sure why I’m writing it except that the concepts are fun, it’s controversial amongst those who haven’t spent their lives in science, and it’s well known. You can’t travel at the speed of light.  I’m not saying that other things can’t because the ...
  • Obama’s Classmate
    This article was independently confirmed to have come from Obama’s classmate.  This is exactly how I see Obama’s and Democrat party plans for America’s future.  Why Democrat voters can’t see the result from other countries experiences is beyond me.  Anyway, I probably won’t comment much in the th ...
  • Hannity on Green Swindle
    A link from the Cato institute which in my opinion sums climate science® today very well.  It discusses the politics behind the green movement primarily but with some context behind the more obvious exaggerations of main stream climate science® and the IPCC. The green swindle.

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

  • Facebook Adds “Social Context” Metrics to Its Perf ...
    Facebook has updated its performance advertising system to provide metrics on the influence of social-context on ad performance. Ad managers will now be able to see the number of impressions, clicks, and click through rate of ads with social context, as well as what percentage of an ad’s total impre ...
  • Like Button Can Now Link to Facebook Pages and Spe ...
    Today, Facebook launched a new design and new ways for applications and websites to use the Like button, which is now integrated on 350,000 sites. Users can now Like specific pages or objects within an application, providing a new viral distribution channel for application content including virtual ...
  • In Latest Intellectual Property Push, Facebook Fil ...
    Along with the introduction of its Credits gift cards last week, Facebook also filed a few trademarks around the concept — essentially taking its existing trademarks, and expanding the definition to include gift cards. Among the new filings are the “F” logo, the word “Facebook”, the Credits logo and ...
  • Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job B ...
    Recently, we launched the Inside Network Job Board – dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Playfish, Ngmoco, BOKU, Stumptown Games, and ...
  • Russia and Eastern Europe See New Facebook Growth ...
    [Editor's Note: The data cited in this article is excerpted from Inside Facebook Gold, our data service tracking Facebook's business and growth around the world. Please see Inside Facebook Gold to learn more about our complete data and analysis offering.] Today, we’re breaking out figures from four ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • New Hamas policy direction must be better marketed
    Stuart Littlewood reviews the message given recently by Hamas leader Khalid Mish’al, in which Mish’al “makes a real effort to begin the process of ‘coming in from the cold’”. He advises Mish’al to do more to ensure that his message hits the right public relations notes and thereby generate the neces ...
  • The boycott of Israel is "gaining speed"
    Lawrence Davidson outlines the reasons why the boycott of Israel is gaining speed, from “the horrors of the Israeli occupation and its ghettoizing of the people of Gaza”, to the segregation and economic and social discrimination against Israel’s non-Jewish population, to the corrupting influences of ...
  • Iran’s President Ahmadinejad should desist from ha ...
    Paul J. Balles argues that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s rhetoric on Israel and the US is pointless and counter-productive: “While one may sympathize with the reasons for his verbal attacks, Ahmadinejad would do well for himself, the Gulf and the world if he bit his tongue occasionally and ...
  • 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.

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

  • A Potpourri of Noteworthy Links
    Phony Commissioners & Phony Reports, Central Asia, Laos, Bryza Candidacy, Gulen…You Name it! This post is similar to what I usually publish under my ‘Weekly Round Up’ series, only with a caveat: the time period covers more than a week, make that more than a month. I’ve been saving links and articles ...
  • 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

Afro Spear

  • “Mr. Museveni, you can retire now” by ...
    Little bird confessed to me that Ugandan strong man wanted the retiring age to be suffocated from 60 to 55 years! What appalls so as to create amber of anger is the fact that the advocate who, in essence is a grand provocateur, is himself above 60 and he does not seem to think about retiring! This [ ...
  • 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 [...]

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

  • Rand Paul the road to disaster
    Do you remember Rand Paul? He’s the Republican candidate for Senate in Kentucky that went on Rachel Maddow to oppose provisions in the Civil Rights Actafter his surprise victory in the primary. He’s taken max-out checks from Citizens United – the group whose lawsuit led to the new avalanche of corpo ...
  • ALAN SIMPSON AN IDIOT
    Alan Simpson compared Social Security to welfare, saying: “We’ve reached a point now where [Social Security] is like a milk cow with 310 million tits.” Well, progressives in Congress are fighting back. Can you help? It’s been widely reported that Simpson’s “deficit reduction” commission will make So ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Iran's Nukes - America's Options in Iran and the I ...
    Public discussion of potential attacks on Iran’s nuclear development sites is surging again. This has happened before. On several occasions, leaks about potential airstrikes have created an atmosphere of impending war. These leaks normally coincided with diplomatic initiatives and were designed to i ...
  • The Obama Edge - Secretary Clinton Hosts Ramadan D ...
    The administration's marking of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan continues on September 7 when the State Department hosts an event geared toward young Muslims and an Iftar dinner with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. President Obama hosted an Iftar meal breaking the day's Ramadan fast on A ...
  • After the Spill - New Gulf of Mexico Oil Platform ...
    An explosion�on a Gulf of Mexico oil platform thrust the politics of offshore drilling back in the spotlight, as critics immediately seized on the accident to highlight what they called the industry’s inherent dangers. The explosion and fire happened during the morning hours of September 2 at a prod ...
  • Electoral Edge - When Truth Itself Isn’t What Matt ...
    In this modern era, in the United States, we often find ourselves, as voting adults, faced with a choice between the lesser of two evils. Take, for instance, the high-profile Senate race in Nevada where one of the most unpopular sitting elected officials in the nation, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Ha ...
  • Edge on the Universe - Search for the Secrets of D ...
    This month physicist Juan Collar and his associates are taking their attempt to unmask the secret identity of dark matter into a Canadian mine more than a mile underground. The team is deploying a 4-kilogram bubble chamber at SNOLab, which is part of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in Ontario, Cana ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Should Saudi King Abdullah Invite Netanyahu To Riy ...
    By Alan Hart Thomas L. Friedman in his column for the New York Times on 7 September wrote Saudi King Abdullah should invite Netanyahu to Riyadh. Here is Alan Harts take on it
  • Economic Recovery? What Recovery?
    By Stephen Lendman There is none, and its getting worse under a president and his predecessors policies - engineering and sustaining economic decline, not recovery, Obamas latest announced job creation program as bogus as his April 2009 $787 billion stimulus. Credit contraction persists. Job creat ...
  • Politics In The Great Transition
    By Tom Whipple Someday there will be thousands of scholarly books on how political systems coped or failed during the transition from fossil fuel-sustained civilizations to that which is to come. For now, however, there are practically none as only a relative handful of the 6.7 billion on earth to ...
  • The Lost Soul Of America
    By Maryam Sakeenah Secretary Hillary Clintons self-congratulation over American leaders unanimous disapproval of the intended burning of Muslim religious texts misses out the truth about American society and politics, and the crisis of its fundamental values
  • In Shining India, Over 5000 Children Die Every Da ...
    By Devinder Sharma Every day 5,013 children are succumbing to malnutrition. Given that a half of all children in India are under-nourished as per the National Family Health Survey III (2005-06), of which over 5,000 die every day I think every Indian needs to hang his/her head in shame

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

  • Is The Quran Burning Back ON?
    Its been a very interesting day in the world of Koran burning as Reverend and nut job Terry Jones canceled and then reconsidered his quest for his 15 minutes of fame with a plan to burn the Quran on Saturday, the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 �This afternoon Jones announced a ...
  • Must Watch Video: Chris Christie Shoves it Back at ...
    Another example of why when NJ Governor Chris Christie talks it is known as Conservative porn. At a town hall meeting yesterday in Raritan, NJ, he was asked by a teacher about teacher layoffs and why is "rhetoric" is so confrontational. This video is Classic Christie as he explains that everyone is ...
  • When WFAN-AM NY Sports Radio Reacted to 9/11 with ...
    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 ...
  • Two Issues: The War Within Islam & Israel and Isl ...
    By Barry Rubin Two readers�asked me�questions well worth answering.�The first asked�whether Islam itself isn’t the enemy; the second, how these distinctions appear from an Israeli standpoint; . Regarding the first question,�I would stress that "Islam" as a religion functioning in the wo ...
  • On The Rick Moran Show: Do We Really Think the POT ...
    Last night I had the pleasure of being a guest on the Rick Moran Show.� We talked about the Mid-Terms, Burning Qurans and why the President thinks we think he's a dog.� If you did not get a chance to listen yesterday, you can listen below ( if you cant see a player below click here ) Liste ...

The Real Agenda

  • Michael Douglas chooses Toxic Chemotherapy
    Going by its deadly, inhumane effects, the treatment composed of radiation and pharmaceuticals should be called killotherapy Natural News 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 ne ...
  • Influenza H1N1: A fraude que foi… o Perigo q ...
    "As vacinas, como tem sido constantemente encontrado, são prejudiciais para os seres humanos. Nunca foi provado que uma vacina trata ou cura qualquer doença, mas para aquelas pessoas que querem usar as vacinas, o mínimo que eles merecem é ter estudos científicos comprovando a eficácia e segurança da ...
  • OMS Distribui Vacinas para Esterilizar a População
    A OMS como um organismo de coordenação global, iníciou nos anos 70 e continuou depóis com o desenvolvimento da vacina "anti-fertilidade, financiada pela Fundação Rockefeller. O que também é cada vez mais claro é que a pesquisa foi estendida para os sistemas de entrega com que estes componentes anti- ...
  • IDflu: O Coquetel de vacinas de Sanofi-Pasteur
    Por Luis R. Miranda Como The Real Agenda relatou algumas semanas atrás, os globalistas que criaram a fraudulenta, amplamente reportado como tal, pandemia da gripe H1N1 estão de volta com mais fome do que nunca para mais fraudes e mais dólares. Recentemente, o jornal La Nación de Costa Rica publicou ...
  • Icecap Loss Estimate Cut by Half
    Scientists found that icecap size varies according to corrections for deformations of the Earth's crust.

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

  • Hairball Donald Trump, Capitalist Pig Supreme&#823 ...
    Tried to buy off the Community Center “ground zero mosque” developers, and thus, in his mind, prove that Money is Truly God and that Everybody would bow before it. His stupid looking Rich Bitch ass was Rejected. The words of Simon Peter to Simon Magus “Thy Money perish with thee, you have no part in ...
  • Blaming 9/11 on the Qu’ran is like blaming t ...
    Or blaming the Crucifixion on Judaism. In other words, bullshit. But I do know people who are Southern, Christian, White… like the Pastor in Florida… who actually DO blame Judaism for the Passion and who blame the Civil War not on Slavery, but on the slaves themselves. So go ahead, Pastor, get your ...
  • 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 ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Debunking Joseph Nobles: Other Buildings
    Mr. Nobles’ latest addition to his website is a page attempting to show how other skyscraper fires are not comparable to the Twin Towers and Building 7. He focuses on the skyscraper fires featured in the AE911Truth power point. Because Mr. Nobles uses similar arguments for more than one of the liste ...
  • Why do you even need to "debunk"?
    There are a lot of sites out there "debunking" 9/11 truthers, global warming "deniers", natural health "quacks", "anti-vaxers" and anyone who questions the dogma of Darwinism. My question is, why? If the mainstream view is so obvious, why bother? I mean you don't see many "Debunking Holocaust Denial ...
  • To all the mentally deficient Christians and Musli ...
    Stop falling for the obvious Rockefeller/CFR provocateured controversy and think about what you're about to do! Stop giving the Dawkins cultists the moral high ground! September 11 should be a day of remembrance and truth-telling, not fighting! Or don't blame me when the globalists say "This is ...
  • Conspiracy "Science" Debunked!
    Blissentia Debunking the Debunkers August 4, 2010 Over my life I've had several political awakenings. The first came at age 11, when I read a National Geographic article about GMO food , became a little freaked out over it's implications, and developed an aversion to it. For many years after it, I ...
  • More Truth Hidden In Hollywood: One-In-Five Phone ...
    This is a two year old clip from Jay Leno I stumbled across today of actor Shia Labeouf revealing that an FBI consultant on a film he starred in told him that one-in-five phone calls are recorded in the US, and proved it by playing back a recording of a phone call he made two years prior! Eerie t ...

Fooducate

  • Government: Dismal Consumption of Fruits and Veget ...
    Bleak results from a CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) telephone survey on adult produce consumption: Only a third of Americans consume 2 or more serving of fruit a day. And sadly, orange juice is the top fruit source. Only a quarter consume three or more servings of vegetables daily. ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • India forms new tribal council in wake of Vedanta ...
    The Dongria Kondh are just one of many tribes in India. © Jason Taylor Following the Dongria Kondh tribe’s groundbreaking successful defense of their mountain homeland, the Prime Minister of has created a new committee for tribal rights. Led by the Prime Minister, the new ‘National Council for ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Nigerian methods move to Mexico
    The Nigerian Movement for the Emancipation of the Nigerian Delta (MEND) group has waged an effective infrastructure sabotage and intimidation campaign in the Nigerian oil production regions.  MEND has consistently shut in 20% to 40% of total possible Nigerian oil production, and thus 18% to 36% ...
  • 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 ...

Age of Autism

  • Fishing for Answers: Autism, Genes and Mercury.
    By Teresa Conrick I continue to "fish" the internet looking for answers about autism. My recent analysis of research papers and data began when I was wondering about Redheads, Autism and a possible increased susceptibility. That connected me to melanin,...
  • Government Finds No Evidence of Harm in Pampers Dr ...
    Sound familiar? "No link. Crazy Mommies." Agency finds no link between new Pampers, diaper rashes 08:35 AM CDT on Friday, September 3, 2010 The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Government safety officials have not found a connection between a new kind...
  • Share Your Back To School Tips
    By Kim Stagliano This week marks back to school for a good portion of our readers. Share your tips for a smooth start. How do you prepare your child? Do you pack GFCF lunch each day? Is your classroom nut...
  • Government Awards Hannah Poling $1.5 Million in Va ...
    ... vaccines didn't cause Hannah's autism -- the condition just "resulted" from the vaccines. The totally twisted and unsustainable United States government approach to vaccines and autism was on full display today. A few months after the federal vaccine court...
  • Don't Forget Jenny McCarthy's Comedy All Stars for ...
    Saturday, September 11, 2010 Enjoy an Evening of Comedy All-Stars, Award-Winning Bay Area Cuisine and Acclaimed Art Click HERE for full details. Starring JENNY McCARTHY AND HER FUNNY FRIENDS The Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco An exclusive all-star benefit...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • ‘Mind-reading machine’ can convert tho ...
    Telegraph – Researchers have been able to translate brain signals into speech using sensors attached to the surface of the brain for the first time. The breakthrough, which is up to 90 per cent accurate, offers a way to communicate for paralysed patients who cannot speak and could eventually lead to ...
  • Peril of the sleeping pill: Users a third more lik ...
    Daily Mail – Popping a pill might seem a small price to pay for a good nightâs rest. But experts warn the long-term cost could be far greater. Research shows that those who take sleeping tablets are a third more likely to die prematurely than those who do not. Read article
  • US military deaths in Afghanistan at 1,176
    AP – As of Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010, at least 1,176 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. Read Article
  • Economists cut U.S. growth forecast again
    Reuters – Projected U.S. economic growth for the rest of this year and next was revised down for a third month in a row by a panel of about 50 economists. The latest Blue Chip Economic Indicators report on Thursday said the weaker outlook for second-half 2010 growth stemmed from lower expectations f ...
  • Climate Fact Of The Day: Average annual temperatur ...
    (source: National Climatic Data Centre) The rural temperature records in the USA were set in the 1930’s. The hottest year in the climate record of the lower 48 states remains 1934. The temperature decline from the late 1950’s to the mid-70’s was due to a weak Solar Cycle 20 after a strong Solar Cyc ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Prop. 23: Terrorism vs. gas price hikes?
    The fight over Proposition 23, a November ballot initiative to suspend California's global warming law, turned ugly this week, with personal attacks and emotionally charged rhetoric on both sides. In a conference call with news media Thursday, former Secretary of...
  • EPA wants companies to reveal chemicals used in co ...
    The federal Environmental Protection Agency has asked eight companies to voluntarily reveal the chemicals they use in hydraulic fracturing, a method used to extract natural gas by injecting fluids into rock formations deep underground. The practice has drawn a lot...
  • Billionaire Koch brothers back suspension of Calif ...
    A company owned by oil billionaires Charles and David Koch has contributed $1 million to Proposition 23, a November ballot initiative to suspend California’s groundbreaking 2006 global-warming law. The contribution came from Flint Hills Resources LP, based in Wichita, Kan.,...
  • Carnivorous plants: Can they be rescued?
    The Venus’ flytrap’s jaws and the cobra lily’s fangs give these meat-eaters an air of elegant menace. But don’t let that fool you: Against human encroachment of all kinds, these and other carnivorous plants have proved defenseless. In the U.S....
  • Large number of blue whales seen off Southern Cali ...
    An unusually large number of blue whales off the Southern California coastline is providing marine mammal enthusiasts with a rare opportunity to see Earth’s largest creatures lolling in the waves and spewing misty plumes. On Thursday, 77 amateur whale watchers...

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

  • U.S. pastor reconsiders cancelling Koran burning a ...
    An anti-Islamic preacher backed off , then threatened to reconsider burning the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, angrily accusing a Muslim leader of lying to him with a promise to move an Islamic center and mosque away from NY ground. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Renew our days
    On the eve of 5771, the need to disengage from the stigma of the "occupation state" is already seen by many, even within the ranks of the realistic right, not as a luxury but as an emergency lifesaving operation. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Ending a state of limboIsra
    This is not a transient population: Some have been in the country for years; many have established homes and families, and have become integrated into Israeli society and reality. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Germany Jews condemn planned U.S. Koran burning
    Germany's leading Jewish group condemned plans by a Florida pastor to burn the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11, saying it evoked the mass killings of Jews in the Holocaust that followed Nazi book burnings. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 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! � ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Secretary Clinton Dispatches U.S. Special Envoy Gr ...
    The Special Envoy will depart the United States on Thursday, September 9, 2010, and will travel to Juba and Khartoum, where he will urge the CPA parties to move forward on preparations for the January 2011 referenda.
  • Companies Share Information About Chemicals Used i ...
    Information on hydraulic fracturing chemicals is key to agency study of potential impacts on drinking water
  • Hindu Americans Join Chorus Against Religious Into ...
    The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) added its own voice today against what it described as mounting evidence of religious intolerance in the United States.
  • HOK Selected for the Planning and Design of the Ne ...
    The 15,000 square meter NOX will be constructed on the embassy compound and will embody the latest Department goals for sustainable design and construction.
  • Media Should Take Blame for 'Burn a Koran' Fears
    Whilst the obvious dangers of this event have been averted, following an agreement not to build a Mosque at Ground Zero, certain questions still remain.

    libcom

  • housing benefit cutbacks
    The cuts in housing benefits are a serious attack on working class peoples’ housing conditions. The proposed cuts: The new Local Housing Allowance, the cap for housing benefits, is currently at the median of local rents, ie. at fifty pe ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Everyone Should Weigh In on the New EPA Vehicle Ra ...
    I recommend that everyone learn about the new EPA ratings that, when implemented, will represent the first change from the famous city and highway MPG ratings that were put into effect decades ago. In fact, as youâll notice when you … Continue reading →
  • Smart Grid Innovation-Distributed Control Applicat ...
    Echelon transforms the electric grid with intelligent distributed control applications September 8, 2010 Source: Echelon Corporation Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ:ELON) unveiled the Echelon Control System (ECoS), a new open software platform for intelligent distributed control of the smart grid. The a ...
  • Fossil Fuel Pollution vs Wind Energy Emissions
    With the Energy Sectors Competing for our Energy Dollars many Un-truths are being levied by the Fossil Fuel Organizations. In the Following Article the Author explains that Wind Energy Emissions is Truly Green Energy Production with no Harmful Emissions. Build … Continue reading →
  • Gearless Wind Turbine Innovation
    Statoil tests innovative gearless turbine at world’s northernmost offshore wind farm September 8, 2010 Source: Statoil In the worldâs northernmost wind farm at Havøygavlen, Statoil is to test next generation turbine technology. The innovation is a gearless turbine that promises … Continue reading ...
  • 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 →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

  • Bacevich Held Over Another Week!
    When it comes to evaluating our military, Andrew Bacevich's analyses are as accurate as they are eloquent.
  • 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.
  • Biden Embraces Myth That Surge Turned Iraq Into Go ...
    By embracing the myth of the surge, Joe Biden reveals the extent to which Obama has continued Bush's strategy.

Law.com

  • Associate Salary Figures in a Holding Pattern, NAL ...
    Associate salaries stagnated last year at large law firms, according to data released Thursday by the National Association for Law Placement. NALP said that while $160,000 remained the prevailing starting salary at large firms in major cities such as New York and Los Angeles, a higher percentage of ...
  • 2nd Circuit Declines En Banc Review of Drug 'Pay-t ...
    The 2nd Circuit has refused to reconsider en banc its holding that antitrust laws are not violated when drug patent holders pay manufacturers of generic alternatives to keep competing products off the market. The active members of the circuit issued a brief ruling Tuesday saying they had voted to de ...
  • EBay Wins Shareholder Suit Against Craigslist
    A Delaware Chancery Court judge has ruled in favor of eBay in a shareholder suit against Craigslist and majority shareholders Jim Buckmaster and Craig Newmark. The ruling rescinds a measure adopted by Craigslist's board that would have blocked a potential hostile takeover by San Jose, Calif.-based e ...
  • Law Professors Weigh In on Their Blogs
    Just five years ago, the notion of law professors delivering commentary to the masses was a novel concept. Today, it's rare for law schools not to have at least two or three professors on faculty who are regular bloggers. The National Law Journal profiles some blogging pioneers.
  • Judge to Allow Previously Dismissed Claim Against ...
    A D.C. federal judge has given new life to one of the allegations in former Covington & Burling staff attorney Yolanda Young's racial discrimination suit against the firm. Citing the U.S. Supreme Court's Lewis v. City of Chicago ruling, which found that plaintiffs need not prove deliberate discr ...

Iranian.com

  • منشور حقوق بشر کورش صبح امروز وارد کشور شد
    منشور حقوق بشر کوروش موسوم به استوانه کوروش صبح جمعه وارد کشور و تحویل موزه ایران باستان شد. read more
  • Iran, Israel 'Meet' at Lebanon's Border
    An Iranian flag flies above a hilltop park overlooking Israel, 02 Sep 2010. The garden was a gift from Tehran to the people of South Lebanon. The revived Middle East Peace talks are focused exclusively on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  But there are other key actors in the search for an overall ...
  • Islamic charity co-founder convicted on tax charge
    EUGENE, Ore. — A federal jury convicted the co-founder of an Islamic charity chapter Thursday on charges he helped smuggle $150,000 to Muslim fighters in Chechnya. Pete Seda had been charged with conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government and filing a false return with the IRS. His lawyers say they w ...
  • Iran to Release Detained U.S. Hiker
    BEIRUT, Lebanon — Iran plans to release Sarah E. Shourd, one of the three American hikers detained last year and accused of spying, Iranian officials said Thursday. The Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in Iran has invited reporters to witness the release on Saturday morning at a Tehran hotel ...
  • Iran Is Developing Secret Uranium-Enrichment Site, ...
    Iran is developing a secret uranium enrichment site near Qazvin, 120 miles west of Tehran, a dissident group said today, citing satellite images of the area. The facility is called Behjatad-Abyek and is code-named 311, according to the Iran Policy Committee, which supports the anti-regime People’s ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Hanan Ashrawi: Women in the Palestinian Struggle
    I have just watched a remarkable talk by Palestinian leader Hanan Ashrawi at the July 2010 Chautaqua convocation (see http://fora.tv/2010/07/13/Hanan_Ashrawi_Palestinian_Womens_Quest_for_Validation ). Ashrawi, long a spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority, has been largely absent from the US med ...
  • 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 ...

Free Movement

  • Fees going up again
    Substantial rises are set for most immigration fees on 1 October 2010, on the basis of the laughable justification that UKBA ‘want to ensure that we can offer a good level of customer service’. They also openly state that the increases are to ‘mitigate against a reduction in income to the Agency’. I ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Federal judge says "Don't ask, don't tell" is unco ...
    U.S. District Court Judge Virginia A. Phillips ruled late Thursday that the U.S. military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy is unconstitutional, violating the First Amendment rights of gay and lesbian service members.
  • Palin endorses gay-baiting, anti-sex Senate candid ...
    In Delaware, ultra-conservative Christine O'Donnell is running for the GOP nomination for senator against moderate old Mike Castle. Most Republicans -- even ones who consider Castle a terrible RINO -- can't bring themselves to support O'Donnell, because O'Donnell is gross and crazy. Like, for exa ...
  • U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan at 1,176
    As of Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010, at least 1,176 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.
  • Terry Jones cancels Quran-burning
    Radical cleric Terry Jones has apparently decided not to burn Qurans on 9/11. So ... that's that! Everyone wins, but Terry Jones -- whose joke of a church has received a staggering amount of free publicity over the weekend -- wins the most. According to early reports , Jones talked to Cordoba Hou ...
  • How everyone got Orszag and Obama's tax cut positi ...
    I recently started receiving e-mails intended for Pastor Terry Jones, the Florida nutjob who is planning [ Update : And just called off ] a publicity stunt the same day that Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck planned their own publicity stunt. (On the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's biggest and worst pu ...

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

  • Editorial: Pelosi prompts a needed debate on oilsa ...
    Few issues divide Canadians as bitterly as the business of bitumen. We can’t even agree on what to call it.
  • Pelosi prompts a needed debate
    Few issues divide Canadians as bitterly as the business of bitumen. We can’t even agree on what to call it.
  • Ford’s flawed plan
    Attempting to “end the war on cars,” front-running mayoral candidate Rob Ford has issued a transportation plan that would lay siege to streetcars and risk setting back Toronto transit expansion for years.
  • MPs’ foreign junkets
    The attention of 54 Canadian parliamentarians was for sale last year at the rock bottom price of $440,000. At least, that is the impression left by the prevalence of “sponsored” trips for MPs, paid for by foreign governments or lobby groups with ag ...
  • Broaden Smith inquest
    Canada’s health-care facilities, courts and prisons did not do well by Ashley Smith during the final years of her short life. She was moved 17 times between institutions in four provinces in the last year of her life, without ever receiving the hel ...

Energy Collective

  • Republican Candidates Wield Cap and Trade as Polit ...
    If you live in states like Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia or Kentucky, you may have already seen them: new political hatchet ads attacking Democrats and even some moderate Republicans for support of Congressional cap and trade bills.
  • Google PowerMeter "Take Action" Is a Small Step Fo ...
    Google PowerMeter now provides a simple analysis of your electrical consumption, compared to similar houses, and provides some recommendations for things you can do. It’s called “Take Action.”
  • Nature warns: “The anti-science strain pervading t ...
    US citizens face economic problems that are all too real, and the country’s future crucially depends on education, science and technology as it faces increasing competition from China and other emerging science powers….� Yet the public often buys into anti-science, anti-regulation agendas that a ...
  • The Rise of China’s Green Mercantilism
    China is rising to dominate the clean energy industry primarily due to direct government subsidies, according to a new investigative report by the New York Times . The rise of China’s “green mercantilism” marks a new stage in the global clean energy race — and it� raises critical questions for U.S. ...
  • Listen to: Beyond the Meter - The Next Smartgrid
    Intro text:� The modernization of electrical grids presents an opportunity to improve the efficient use of energy through analytics of energy consumption data. Uses of this data can go well beyond efficiency and flexible pricing programs. Energy ...

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

  • Jessica's Early Years With Autism
    In my last article, The Day I Saw My Lord and Savior Jesus Christ , I discussed how Jesus helped my wife and I get through a difficult time with Jessica hospitalized as an infant with meningitis and was on life support for more than a month. With this article will be the first in a series that gives ...
  • Can Hand Episode 3: Bedroom Fun Wakes Grandpa
    This is a sponsored post! WD-40 has more than 2000 uses. One of my favorite uses is cleaning up permanent markers off title or linoleum flooring. I discovered this by accident last week while installing my linoleum floor. I mistakenly used a permanent marker to make my marking measurements instead ...
  • Studies Claim That One Million Children Misdiagnos ...
    According to Jo Oliver "Several studies this month in the Journal of Health Economics are looking at ADHD. Separate studies by researchers at North Carolina State University, Notre Dame, the University of Minnesota, and Michigan State University all arrive at similar conclusions about ADHD. For tho ...
  • 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 ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Packers Daily Links: Packers Atop NFC North Standi ...
    Yes, the headline is tongue-in-cheek . The Packers haven’t even played a regular season game yet, but the Minnesota Vikings and former Green Bay Packer Brett Favre lost their season opening game to the New Orleans Saints last night. ESPN NFC North blogger Kevin Seifert tells us... Tags: abdomen phil ...
  • Is There A Rule Book On Grief?
    She looked down toward her feet at the end of her visit. “I’ve got one more question, doctor,” she said, hesitating. I turned toward her and waited for her, letting her ask on her own time. Clearly this was something difficult for her to ask. “When will I get over the death of...
  • Compassion Begins In The Shower: Cruelty-Free Beau ...
    This post is part of a series running throughout New York's Fall Fashion Week to highlight the best and the worst of cruelty and compassion toward animals in the fashion industry. Fashion Week sets the year's trends, and hairstyles are no exception. Last year's Fashion Week brought... Tags: shampoo ...
  • African Healer Sees Higher HIV Rates, Lower Condom ...
    African men wait to learn about circumcision We've heard it stated time and again: the push to circumcise Africa by white, Western profiteers ($$) is going to prove disastrous for the African peoples. First, the trials ended early due to too many women contracting HIV after... Tags: circumcision hiv ...
  • San Bruno fire chief puts explosion death toll at ...
      The explosion and massive fire that ripped through San Bruno left six dead, the fire chief said Friday morning, and he expected the toll to rise as more homes are searched. San Bruno Fire Captain Charlie Barringer stood on Glenview Drive a block above Claremont Drive about... Tags: plastic glenvie ...

Groklaw

  • Codeplex.com contributes $25,000 to Mercurial
    Microsoft's open source project hosting site, Codeplex.com, has donated $25,000 to the developers on the GPLv2 licensed Mercurial distributed version control system (VCS). The donation comes after Mercurial founder and project manager Matt Mackall made an appeal in April for funds to allow him to wo ...
  • HP: Oracle Partnership Is Under Strain
    Ellison, however, is on the warpath, making Lesjak's comments sound a little like wishful thinking. The Oracle chief blasted HP in the statement released after market close on Tuesday. "The HP board is acting with utter disregard for that partnership, our joint customers, and their own shareholders ...
  • Microsoft games veteran jumps to Amazon in new def ...
    A Microsoft games veteran is making the leap to Amazon.com, sparking speculation about a new Amazon games initiative. Andre Vrignaud, Microsoft Director of Game Platform Strategy, announced on his personal blog that he is leaving Microsoft to take a unnamed position at Amazon. - Todd Bishop, TechFla ...
  • Google unveils 'Google Instant' to speed up Intern ...
    Unveiling new technology that it called "a fundamental shift" in Internet search, Google this morning demonstrated "Google Instant," which streams results onto the screen even as users begin to type in a query. - Mike Swift, San Jose Mercury News
  • 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 ...

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Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

  • SEO is dead. Long live SEO
    Google Instant, which is available now in the search bars on Firefox, Chrome, and Safari, will be on all Google searches soon. When you type in a search phrase, it starts producing results with the first letter, based on your past search history. This continues a trend I’ve been noticing. Traditiona ...
  • After prison, maybe they can work for the Zetas
    US soldiers on trial for murdering Afghan civilians, kept fingers as trophies The Mexican drug cartels would no doubt be happy to employ trained soldiers who murder innocents because it gives them a stiffie. No word yet on whether the soldiers cut off the fingers before or after killing their victim ...
  • Obama opposes extension of tax cuts for rich!
    But still won’t say if he’d veto it, if it passes. Calling Obama a Labradoodle is too kind, I hereby dub him Marshmallow Man.
  • Mexico threatened by drug insurgency
    Hillary speaks the truth “It’s looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago,” said US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, pointing out that narco-traffickers control certain, although not significant parts, of Mexico. Borderland Beat has said it appears the cartels are slowly ...
  • Burn a Quaran day
    A “tragical” commercial for “Dr.” Terry Jones and his asinine Dove World Outreach Center (as well as a nipple tweak of Fred Phelps and his WBC family cult.) Pass this on to those who need to laugh at the darkness. This is brilliant, funny, savage – and truthful From DCDouglas.com From Cheryl, in the ...

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Just World News

  • Just World Books website is born!
    Okay, I know I've been promising my readers here that the JWB website will be published "any day now"... And the day is here! So head on over and check out the site's many great features and the fast-growing amount of content we have there! (Now including two podcasts already-- one featuring JWB aut ...
  • Plea of the Israeli political prisoner's wife
    Read this powerful article penned for Electronic Intifada by Janan Abdu, spouse of Palestinian-Israeli political prisoner Ameer Makhoul, who has shockingly been held without trial since May. Abdu quotes the stirring (but possibly empty?) words that Secretary Clinton uttered recently at the 10th ann ...
  • 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 ...

First Truths

  • The Political Alchemy of Jobs
    My latest commentary piece , a response to the announcement of the President's jobs plan, can be found at the Center for a Stateless Society.
  • 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 ...

Media Co-Op

  • Seattle Cops Kill Indigenous Carver from Vancouver ...
    John T. Williams one of five people murdered by King County police in the last weeks *Warning: the following article contains information mostly taken from mainstream sources. Apologies if any of the statements contained below misrepresent Joh ...
  • 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 ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Burning a Koran in a crowded theater
    "America - the most contradictory, the most depressing, the most stirring, of any land in the world today." Sinclair Lewis 's Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1930 Sinclair Lewis should rise from his grave, have a stiff drink and write up the following story: A small US church says it will defy internati ...
  • 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 ...

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