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IPS - Inter Press Services

• POLITICS-BAHRAIN: More Than A Matter of Putting Wo ...
  Women candidates seem to be getting scarcer in Bahraini elections, but women leaders here say female poll participation is no longer about getting into office.
• 'Food Empires Creating Agricultural Crisis'
  Forget speculators, forget biofuel farmers. The real cause behind the permanent food and agricultural crisis is the imperial food regime, squeezing money out of agriculture, a Dutch professor says.
• CHINA: Revisiting History Is In, But With Much Cau ...
  The headlines of the day's newspapers strike passersby as being strangely out of sync with today's events: ‘China's quick deployment in the war with India astonishes the world'. Or ‘Corruption dealt with the bullet by Mao Zedong', and ‘The true reason why Stalin repeatedly postponed Mao Ze ...
• Q&A: Cuba's Catholic Media Multiply, But Change Is ...
  In the context of ongoing conciliation between the Cuban government and the Roman Catholic Church, the communications media of the latter are growing quickly on this Caribbean island where the press remains under strict state control.
• '12 Angry Lebanese' Touch So Many More
  Straddling the hills overlooking the Mediterranean Sea is Roumieh, Lebanon's largest and most notorious high-security men's prison. Crowded into its dank and depressing concrete cells are those convicted as religious extremists, murderers, mobsters and spies.

Scoop - NZ

• Fonterra Environmental Policy
  A search for "fonterra environmental policy" reveals an interesting result. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
• Bernard Hickey: Why we must abandon the economic o ...
  I feel like a priest who has been wrestling with his belief in god and has now decided god does not exist. It's time for me to recant and to say what I've been thinking for months: the economic god of completely free markets and capital flows is not worth believing in anymore and we must look for o ...
• Fonterra New Zealand
  "What nature creates, Fonterra exploits to bring the taint of industrial dairying to every corner of the world. Driving productivity at any cost is our life's work." ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
• Scott Horton Interviews Chris Floyd of Empire Burl ...
  Chris Floyd ...discusses the addition of neocon Frederick Kagan to the U.S. anti-corruption team in Afghanistan, the minimal proof needed to convince the MSM that the "surge" in Iraq or Afghanistan worked, the opportunity to really win hearts and minds by helping Pakistani flood victims ( ...
• Fraud Factories: How Banks Profit From The Foreclo ...
  US Congressman Alan Grayson talks about the fraudulent home foreclosures being carried out by the US Banks. Even Mortgage free homeowners are being fraudulently foreclosed on. There is one set of rules for the banks and another set of laws for everyone else. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

Independent - London

• New online database lists Nazi loot for repatriati ...
  More than 20,000 pieces of art stolen by the Nazis during World War Two can now be searched in an online catalogue for Holocaust survivors and their relatives to reclaim.
• Europe gets new terror threat warning
  Saudi intelligence services have warned of a new al-Qa'ida terror threat against Europe, particularly in France, the French government said.
• Sarkozy defiant amid fuel protests
  Nicolas Sarkozy remained defiant over his plan to raise France's retirement age to 62 and his government vowed to defeat efforts to block fuel after strikes sparked fears of a shortage.
• Strike in Belgium hits Eurostar service
  Just one Eurostar service is running between the UK and Brussels today due to industrial action in Belgium.
• UAE rules wife 'discipline' cannot leave marks
  The UAE's highest judicial body says a man can beat his wife and young children as long as the beating leaves no physical marks.

Rogue Government.com

• CNBC predicts Congress will retroactively legalize ...
  Congress will pass a bill to "forgive" banks the potentially criminal errors made in foreclosure proceedings, a senior CNBC editor predicts.
• Illuminati Occultist Pop Star Rihanna Makes Dark D ...
  Pop star Rihanna reportedly insisted everything in her trailer had to be black during her latest video shoot.� During her time off filming, the 22-year-old was also spotted reading a book about the occult.
• Illuminati Slave Katy Perry Appears As Sex Kitten ...
  Katy Perry after slutting it up with Elmo on Sesame Street now appears in an ad campaign as a sex kitten.
• WikiLeaks says funding has been blocked after gove ...
  The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks claims that it has had its funding blocked and that it is the victim of financial warfare by the US government.
• Bank of America Bonds: Junk
  Bondholders are penalizing Bank of America Corp. the most of any of the largest U.S. financial firms as the investigation into the foreclosure crisis expands.

Innovation Canada

• Sheer treasure
  Katherine Soucie gives hope to misfits. Like other eccentric adolescents, she discovered that being different can be an asset in adulthood, especially for an artist. Today, the Vancouver-based textile and garment designer collaborates with world-renowned designers, showcases her diaphanous garments ...
• Clean Green Electric Machine
  A small Jeep-like truck that runs entirely on an electric battery may soon offer a cleaner alternative to the diesel vehicles currently used to transport people and tools deep into Canada’s mines.The four-passenger vehicle, which can hold up to 225 kilograms of cargo, was recently developed with the ...
• A whale of a mystery
  What’s the next thing a graduate student should do after his master’s thesis solves a biochemical mystery that has befuddled zoologists for generations? This is a problem that 28-year-old Lawrence Szewciw recently faced after he and his professors at the University of Guelph determined the physiolog ...
• Illuminating bones
  David Cooper wants to know more about your bones. Specifically, the assistant professor of anatomy and cell biology at the University of Saskatchewan is trying to answer a chicken-and-egg question about osteoporosis: do changes in the density of cells within bones cause the disease, or does the dise ...
• Tools of the mind
  The first time neuroscientist Adele Diamond walked into a New Jersey classroom where teachers were using the Tools of the Mind curriculum, she was struck by the quiet self-control of the children. Most regular preschool and kindergarten classrooms are chaotic, noisy places, but in the Tools of the M ...

Signs of the times

• FLASHBACK: Big Pharma Genocide: Bayer has been dum ...
  Bayer Sells AIDS-Infected Drug Banned in U.S. in Europe, Asia Unearthed documents show that the drug company Bayer sold millions of dollars worth of an intravenous blood-clotting medicine -- Factor VIII concentrate, intended for hemophiliacs -- to Asian, Latin American, and some European countrie ...
• The Miracle Mineral Solution cure that could make ...
  Meet Jim Humble, a "bishop" who reckons that he can cure the sick - by getting them to drink bleach. For around £10 you can buy a bottle of Miracle Mineral Solution online. According to Humble's website, it has helped treat everything from malaria to cancer, HIV, baldness, Parkinson's disease, arth ...
• US officials told me to 'get lost', says Headley's ...
  Washington: Suspicion about US bona fides in the war on terror and its shielding of Pakistani terrorism deepened on the eve of President Barack Obama's visit to India after it was revealed that one of David Coleman Headley's wives, who alerted American officials in Islamabad about his plans for a te ...
• We put some of Jim Humble's claims about MMS to tw ...
  CLAIM: MMS cures HIV. Jim Humble claims it cured "96- 97%" of a test group of 500 people with HIV in Malawi. VERDICT: Hefin Davies of the Food Standards Agency: "We are not aware of any research that shows MMS is effective in treating HIV, or in fact in any other condition it is claimed to cure." ...
• Bleachgate: How boy's campaign against Miracle Min ...
  When a Welsh schoolboy tweeted a warning about a so-called 'miracle drug' that was in fact industrial bleach, he had little idea his message would be taken worldwide. Clare Hutchinson reports When schoolboy Rhys Morgan was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, a chronic condition that causes inflammation ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Halifax school officials with dents in their heads
  CBC : The parents of an eight-year-old Halifax boy who say he has been relentlessly bullied want him to be transferred to another school, but officials say that isn't necessary. Connor Eisenhauer, a Grade 3 student at Rockingstone Heights School in Spryfield, has been the victim of bullies at le ...
• Traffic tie-up . . .
  JALOPNIK has a nice overall coverage of the recent border closure by Pakistan, stopping military supplies bound for Afghanistan, with an article, "How Pakistan Disrupts Our Fight Against The Taliban" . As the picture indicates, FUBAR reigns supreme.
• Pearson and the air force officer
  You meet the most interesting people in airports. London MP Glen Pearson found that out and relates a conversation he had with an air force officer. “Look, of course we want what’s supposedly the best out there ; we wouldn’t be a good military if we didn’t.� But I’m not convinced that with the h ...
• ...as I idly wonder...
  from recent experience, whether there are higher intensities of exhibitionistic intellectual onanism at pub-tables of drunk English or philosophy gradstudents. Some even dress the part. Very fun to observe in action - from a safe distance. Oh, the humanities!
• Blame Ignatieff!
  We take you now live to the United Nations for a Press Conference with Stephen Harper, his hand puppet foreign minister �Laurence Cannon, spokesman Dimitri Soudas and various other members of the government (with only a small apology to Matt Stone and Trey Parker ) Stephen Harper: Times have cha ...

Media Matters for America

• Kilmeade "misspoke" about "all terrorists" being " ...
  After repeatedly claiming that "[n]ot all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims," Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade "clarif[ied]" his comment and claimed that he "misspoke." In fact, Kilmeade not only made the claim at least twice in a single day, but he also questioned w ...
• "Progressive Hunter" redux: Beck devotes entire h ...
  Less than a week after revelations that conspiracy theories pushed by Glenn Beck and the right-wing media drove a California man to plot the assassination of Tides Foundation employees, Beck devoted an hour-long show to demonizing Tides. Beck's latest attacks come just hours after Tides release ...
• Right wing and a prayer: Michelle Obama attacked ...
  Right-wing media figures have attacked recent comments by Michelle Obama in which she thanked people for their prayers, calling her words "spooky" and accusing her of "feeling entitled to America's pride and prayers." Michelle Obama thanks "prayer circles" and "people who are keeping the spiri ...
• Family Research Council leads fight against oppone ...
  Family Research Council president Tony Perkins recently suggested that gay youths who committed suicide after being bullied were actually responding to their "despair" after being told by gay-rights groups that "they are 'born gay' and can never change." The FRC has long sought to minimize ant ...
• Kilmeade makes outrageous and obviously false clai ...
  Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade defended Bill O'Reilly's recent appearance on The View by absurdly claiming that "not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims." In fact, there have been numerous domestic terror attacks committed by non-Muslims. Kilmeade falsely claims "all te ...

Global Research.ca

• THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS.
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Medical Doctor Who ‘Inspired’ Torture Program Get ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• My Oath to Israel’s “Jewish Democracy”
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• New War Rumors: U.S. Plans To Seize Pakistan’s Nuc ...
  The expansion of the West’s war in Afghanistan into Pakistan with the ultimate goal of seizing the nation’s nuclear weapons.
• The War On Terror
  The “war on terror” is now in its tenth year. What is it really all about?

TPM Cafe

• Conspiracism American Style: The Daniel Levy Deba ...
  Anyone who has spent considerable time in the Arab Middle East will soon run into the fact that conspiracy theories are part of the currency of communication and social networking. During my trips to the region, I have been dumbfounded and really shocked by some of the stories that are spun about A ...
• The Liar Lien Crisis
  The foreclosure paperwork crisis puts the tragedy of modern American democracy in full living color. Politicians are being cruelly torn between the concerns of the people who will vote in the election next month and the bankers who pay for their campaigns. The basic story is simple. The bankers ...
• A Crisis for Jews, Among Others
  I posted this cri de coeur on the site of the Columbia Spectator, which also published hard copies.
• Presented By:
• Bloody, Bloody Andy Jackson Is A Show About This E ...
  You wouldn't think a hit Broadway show would be a pop-emo musical about Andrew Jackson, played as if Jackson had the looks and sex appeal of Jim Morrison combined with the soul of Karl Rove. Or that it would be about our political predicament today. I saw the show last night and it's amazingl ...

TruthOut

• From Beautiful Nudibranchs to Coral Graveyards
  For almost three decades I’ve been studying nudibranchs in the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans. Nudibranchs are beautiful and brightly colored sea slugs that thrive on healthy coral reefs. While that has been exhilarating, it is the changes that I’ve seen on these reefs that make me sit upright i ...
• Shouts Banish Doubts
  New research suggests one reason our political discourse is so loud and angry: Planting seeds of doubt leads people to more vigorously advocate for their cherished beliefs. read more
• Corporate Charters Get the Cash: Philadelphia Char ...
  Nationally noted activist/educator Dr. Walter D. Palmer, founder of an innovative charter school in Philadelphia, is in a historic battle with Philadelphia School District officials which could impact charters across Pennsylvania as well as the current debates nationwide over reforming public educat ...
• Heroes for the Beaten, Foreclosed on, Imprisoned M ...
  Staughton Lynd could have built an enviable career as an academic but for his conscience. His conscience led him as a young undergraduate disgusted by the elitism around him to drop out of Harvard, and tortured him when he returned to finish his degree. It plagued him after he received his doctorate ...
• Another Outrage: Pushing Back Social Security Bene ...
  In France, millions march against the Sarkozy plan to push the age of eligibility for full retirement benefits from 65 to 67 . "We can no longer afford" to pay for workers' retirements at age 65, Sarkozy says. Similarly, rumors swirl in Washington and beyond that Obama's special Deficit Reduction ...

Planetsave

• In Jurassic Period Tyrannosaurus Rex eat Tyrannosa ...
  Spend any time watching a cartoon of read a book about dinosaurs and you’ll see some hapless dinosaur become the night’s meal for a Tyrannosaurus Rex. However what we didn’t know is that the undisputed king of the dinosaurs ate each other. While looking for evidence for an entirely separate study, Y ...
• Whale Wars Continuing on Animal Planet, Chance to ...
  I think our readers are quite familiar with Whale Wars. From prior to the Whale Wars first season premiere to Japan accusing Animal Planet of ecoterrorism to whale-sized marshmallows to Japanese whalers sinking a $2 million Sea Shepherd boat to exclusive interviews, we’ve covered Whale Wars in a to ...
• Humans Need the Rivers we are Killing
  Rivers across the planet are being drained as a result of human use and climate change in a day and age when we should be ensuring that their safety is one of our top priorities. Without these rivers remaining healthy, or in many instances returning to being healthy, we are shortening the food chain ...
• Americans Are Uninformed About Climate Change
  A new study conducted by researchers at Yale University has found that sixty-three percent of Americans believe that global warming is happening. However most Americans do not understand why it is happening, and are similarly unaware of the related impact of climate change. According to the study “A ...
• B.A.D. Posts from Important Media
  As most of you know, last Friday was Blog Action Day (B.A.D.), where bloggers across the Internet pull together to raise awareness about one issue.  This year’s topic was water, which is important in so many different ways.  Several sites on the Important Media network participated, so we thought it ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Spain Providing $164 Million for Safe Drinking Wat ...
  Image via Wikipedia   Seven Latin American countries will benefit from contributions approved on the
• Winton: Swan treated like sewer
  Acclaimed author Tim Winton has taken aim at the management of the Swan River, saying Perth’s
• Pyrolysis- A Chance for Current Ag Survival?
  Francis Thicke in his book A New Vision for Iowa Food and Agriculture has a chapter on Pyrolysis, wh
• Francis Fricke- Grass Farmer Runs for AG Sec.
  Francis Fricke is a grass based dairy farmer and also certified organic farmer. He has written an ex
• Ocean Girls love Ocean Defender, Protecting, Educa ...
  Aloha everyone, my name is Oriana Kalama and I am the creator of an organization called Ocean Defend

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Heroes for the Beaten, Foreclosed on, Imprisoned M ...
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig October 18, 2010 Staughton Lynd could have
• Chris Hedges: Death of the Liberal Class
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad October 18, 2010 mediasanctuary | October 18, 2010 C
• The ‘Obvious’ Silence of the Times, China’s Pipeli ...
  by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad originally published by Boiling Frogs Post 17 Octob
• Why I Loathe The Democrats by Philip A. Farruggio
  by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad October 17, 2010 You know, all I hear from fr
• US: Turkey plays an important role as an ally at t ...
  Propaganda Alert compiled by Cem Ertür Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 17 October 2010 1) US: Turkey

Axis of Logic

• Explico Algunas Cosas (I'm Explaining a Few Things ...
  Explico Algunas Cosas (I'm Explaining a Few Things) by Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973) was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda. N ...
• Two weeks before US midterm election. Democrats em ...
  18 October 2010 With only two weeks remaining in the 2010 election campaign, Democratic Party candidates in closely contested races for the Senate, the House of Representatives and many statewide offices are highlighting their right-wing policies and minimizing any differences with their Republi ...
• French government, unions try to end strikes again ...
  18 October 2010 After the national anti-riot police, the CRS, broke workers’ occupations at several key oil depots Friday, French union federations are aligning themselves with government moves to end strikes against President Nicolas Sarkozy’s unpopular pension cuts. A final vote on the c ...
• UAW: Reform or rebellion? - Workers & Labor
  18 October 2010 There is a growing rebellion by rank-and-file workers in the US against the United Auto Workers union. In recent weeks, workers at the GM stamping plant in Indianapolis overwhelmingly voted down a 50 percent wage cut pushed by the UAW. Workers at the Lake Orion GM plant...
• Liu’s Nobel Prize for Capitalism - China
  Editor's Note:  Liu Xiaobo is the Chinese dissident who was recently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. One reader, Greg Ilich, commented on Gowan's analysis of Liu's activities and the massive support he has received from the global corporate empire and its media: "On the website of the Nationa ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• Rand Paul Melt Down
  Remember the 2000 Senate race in New York? Rick Lazio refused to shake his opponent's hand after a debate because he was pissed about an ad. Hillary Rodham Clinton beat his ass by a mile. From the Herald: A debate filled with unabashed personal attacks concluded Sunday night with Republican Rand Pau ...
• From Joe's Vault, 9/21/08: This Is One Time I Sinc ...
  An Era Of Re-Regulation? Progressives Shouldn't Celebrate Too Soon Sorry that the links didn't copy. You can find them on the original post. By Manifesto Joe So, deregulation in America is supposed to have died last week? Not so fast. Laissez faire, historically, is one of those economic notions tha ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  Saudi's warn Europeans of terror threat "Several days ago European intelligence agencies received "a new message from the Saudi services which indicated that Al-Qaeda's branch on the Arabian Peninsula was possibly active or planned to be active" and was targeting "the European continent and in parti ...
• The Last Despised Minority
  This shouldn't be a surprise, coming from the man who thinks his job as the number-one law enforcement official in the Commonwealth of Kentucky is to spend millions of taxpayer dollars arguing in court that Kentuckians don't need no steenkin' laws cuz an invisible sky wizard does magic for us. From ...
• Ten years ago
  In Remembrance Remembering Mel Carnahan and the day Missouri's political landscape shook Ten years ago yesterday I received a late night phone call from my then state representative who I had been assisting with her reelection campaign. She told me that she had bad news. Governor Mel Carnahan's plan ...

Care 2

• How remembering to eat your celery could halt memo ...
  A taste for celery is one that many people never acquire, but scientists have just given them a reason to eat it.They have discovered that a chemical found in high concentrations in celery and in peppers could halt memory loss as we get older. Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� ...
• Working Hard To Save For Retirement? Work Harder
  Each year since 2006, Congress has declared the third week of October to be National Save for Retirement Week. But because of the weak economy and falling home prices, retirement experts say many Americans are in worse shape for retirement now than they w Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business �|� ...
• Top 50+ Novels for Tech Geeks
  Entire genres and subgenres exist that peer into where technological advances have come from, where they are, where they may go and what they may be like in worlds beyond the known. Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• After the emergency, we need some help! Please!
  Recently my tiny foster dog became extremely ill & had emergency vet care. It was very costly. I cant pay it alone. Plz help us! If you can donate $1 or $2 we will be very thankful. Follow the facebook link to donate and please share our request for help. Submitted by Robyn L. to Animals �|� �Note- ...
• Lion movie highlights dangers as more than 1,000 l ...
  Lions raised in captivity in South Africa are set loose in enclosed areas where hunters, many from the United States, gun them down. The toll: about 1,000 lions each year. Kevin Richardson hopes a new movie "White Lion," which opens in a few U.S. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note- ...

Smirking Chimp

• Hemp is the hidden key to legal marijuana
  Hemp is the far bigger economic issue hiding behind legal marijuana. If the upcoming pot legalization ballot in California were decided by hemp farmers like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, it would be no contest. For purely economic reasons, if you told the Constitutional Convention in 1787 ...
• A World Made by War: How Old Will You Be When the ...
  from TomDispatch When you look at me, you can’t mistake the fact that I’m of a certain age. But just for a moment, think of me as nine years old. You could even say that I celebrated my ninth birthday last week, without cake, candles, presents, or certainly joy. I’ve had two mobilized moments in m ...
• The Way We Forget
  � from Truthout This country of ours has a monstrous capacity to forget. We are able to forget - if we ever knew - what happened two hundred years ago, one hundred years ago, fifty years ago, ten years ago. Worse, we are able to forget what happened one year ago, last month, last week, and even ye ...
• Sleeping Free of Healthcare Fear
  Stress kills. Stress makes people sick. So wouldn't it make sense that a reduction in stress might actually save lives? How about families? And jobs? And freedom from want and fear? It makes perfect sense. But that's not what we're all about in the United States. We don't believe in reduction ...
• U.S. Busting Labor Unions In Iraq
  It is only in comic books and Hollywood movies that America's superheroes exist to defend the underdog. In practice, the armies of America have fanned out around the globe to show they are the willing servants of the corporate overdog. As Noam Chomsky writes in his book "Imperial Ambitions" (Metropo ...

Paul Krugman

• Why Have Deficits Exploded?
  It's the revenue, stupid.
• Core Logic, Again
  Still a necessary concept.
• The Non-Surge In Government Spending, Continued
  Some more numbers.
• A Fine European Whine
  How dare America fight deflation?
• The Boehnerization of Barack Obama
  Of tight belts and political failure.

No Quarter

• SeeSaw Days * Open Thread [Update]
  GOP’s Colorado Senate Candidate Ken Buck Is Maimed by Bad Debate Performance … Christine O’Donnell Is a “Nutjob,” says Meghan McCain … Barney Frank’s Boyfriend Heckles GOP Opponent Following Debate … The National Review Calls Maureen Dowd “Mean” (Uh, Yeah!) … Huffington Post’s “Entertainment” Sectio ...
• Wall Street’s Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost
  Fraud is fraud. No matter how you disguise it — or dare I say, securitize it — fraud smells. That stench associated with improperly, and often fraudulently, originated mortgages is growing rapidly and is poised to back up into the Wall Street plumbing. The losses connected with the inevitable outcom ...
• Pugnacious Delaware
  Editor’s Note: Catch Larry Johnson on John Batchelor’s syndicated radio show TONIGHT at around 10:05 to 10:35 p.m. ET. You’ll find programming details and “how to listen” instructions at the end of this post. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]
• The Uses and Misuses of Intelligence in Four US Wa ...
  Reprinted from Truthout.org with the express permission of of Larry’s longtime friend Mel Goodman, whose biography is at the end of this post, along with a note from Larry about Mel’s views. _______________________________________________ President Harry S. Truman created the Central Intelligence A ...
• I Finally Quit Smoking! By Accident! (OPEN THREAD! ...
  I turned 59 a couple of months ago.  35 years ago I was only 14, and the world was throbbing like the new-found excitement in my loins.  It was 1965, and Beatlemania was still in full swing, and the war in Viet Nam was still growing.  That year, I discovered sex, drugs, and rock’n'roll first-hand ...

Environmental Graffiti

• Could the Gliese 581 Star System be Home to Alien ...
  Are we so along in the universe - or could there be other planets like Earth that could support life? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• After the Global Population Bomb
  Soylent Green was a movie of the 1973 depicting a bleak and overcrowded world. How far off base was it? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Is Oregano the Answer to Methane Gas Pollution?
  Greenhouse gas has unusual sources, like termites and rice paddies. Cows are the worst culprits for producing methane gas. New research has shown an innovative solution. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the arti ...
• The 88-Year-Old House Built From Discarded Newspap ...
  88 long years have passed and the house made from newspapers is still standing. Check out the great PICTURES. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• When a Man is Struck by a Bolt of Lightning...
  In the chaos that is nature, lightning can come unexpectedly and change a life in an instant. So what actually happens when the power of lightning goes through a human bo read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Big Chocolate's Child Slavery Addiction
  This Halloween, try to ensure that your chocolate isn't tainted.
• Taking Advantage of Chile's Moment in the Sun to C ...
  Gen. August Pinochet was Chile's dark sun.
• American Base Town in Northern Japan
  According to a 2006 report, 14 of the 38 most valuable large bases in the world are concentrated in Japan.
• Big Continent and Tiny Technology: Nanotechnology ...
  The August 2010 issue of NANO Magazine, highlighting nanoscale research expected to have a positive impact on the developing world, included articles focused on energy generation, disease prevention and water purification.
• Standing Up for Democracy in Ecuador
  The uprising in Ecuador that occurred on September 30 shook the world and sparked a debate about the reason for the unrest.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K Gov ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will be c ...
• President European Commission Advocated World Gove ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International Affa ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Current C ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in the d ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of a G ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare progr ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’s p ...

Al Jazeera

• French strike hits fuel supplies
  Union says 1,500 petrol stations have run dry as workers step up action in protest against pension overhaul.
• Iraqi prime minister visits Iran
  Politically controversial trip comes amid reports in media of direct Iranian help to keep al-Maliki in power.
• Afghan guards killed by Taliban
  Attack in country's south targets private guards a day after government steps back from impending ban on security firms.
• UN charts ecosystems preservation
  Delegates from more than 190 nations gather in Tokyo to discuss how natural world threatened by pollution can be saved.
• Britain to focus on 'cyber threats'
  UK government's new security strategy set to identify cyber attacks and "terrorism" as main security threats.

Green Inc. - NYT

• A Second Disease Vanquished
  Rinderpest infects mostly cattle, Asian water buffalo and yaks, but the effects have been devastating for human, too.
• Bedbug Rider Looms in Real Estate Deals
  In recent weeks, some lawyers representing co-op and condo buyers have made bedbug disclosure a part of contract negotiation.
• E.P.A. Seeks to Revoke Mining Permit
  The E.P.A. says Arch Coal's mitigation plan would be unable to reproduce natural streams' functions.
• In NASA Image, a Submerged Pakistan
  Satellite images testify to a persistent crisis across thousands of square miles.
• The Battle of Newtown Creek
  Defending Queens, officials assert in a letter to the E.P.A. that the agency has primarily focused on the Brooklyn side of Newtown Creek in studies and sampling for a Superfund cleanup.

Dot Earth News

• Obama Takes Science Push to 'Mythbusters'
  President Obama takes his campaign for a science push onto the TV show "Mythbusters."
• A Physicist's Climate Complaints
  A physicist who has claimed global warming is "pseudoscientific fraud" once wrote a book promoting action to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
• New Climate Fight, Same as the Old One?
  A "post partisan" climate plan meets heated attacks. So much for post partisanship?
• The Mine Rescue: H. Sapiens at Its Best
  The best human traits turn a potential disaster into a moment of triumph.
• Obama's Haste On Resumed Offshore Drilling
  A moratorium on offshore drilling ends before three commissions studying the gulf gusher conclude their studies.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Cointelpro Gothic: Docs prove Iowa FBI's Wild Rose ...
  By Dan Feidt for Twin Cities Indymedia - More than 300 newly released pages of Iowa FBI investigation files confirm the existence of a busy network of federal agents across the Midwest dedicated to clamping down on political dissenters. A Freedom of Information Act request by Des Moines' David ...
• Avalanche of fed & local police state crackdown ac ...
  Stressful day in Minneapolis as feds raided antiwar activists with no actual charges in the offing. The day before the raids I checked out a weird police intelligence workgroup at the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, and with other threads coming together it was pretty freaky. But I managed to slap ...
• Turkish Neocon Conspiracy 1981 - Eagleburger Perle ...
  This is a pretty classic one. Turkey has suddenly passed big reforms as the nasty NATO-friendly military post-coup power structure gets knocked back a step. Ergenekon and the neocon network, etc etc. Perle and Wolfowitz, the creation of the American-Turkish Council came after this memo. Possibly b ...
• Video: Lawsuit Zombies fight state repression with ...
  Video release of sorts from the Minneapolis zombies, and a fun edit. 1min40s, brevity! Plz subscribe to Youtube & now Scribd document service as well. If you haven't yet, check out Scribd for a marvelous array of all sorts of documents (PDFs, office, etc)...w00pw00p. Press release: Zomb ...
• California rolls out heat cannon torture weapon Ac ...
  Oh Shit!!! Let's explain how the mass torture weapon deployment rollout program works in the global scientific dictatorship. First the weapons are used on brown people in the field by the military, then on military prisoners, then on domestic prisoners. Then on protesters, then on random people. Thi ...

Daily Censored

• The Revenge of the Body Snatchers
  It reminds me of “The Body Snatchers.”   They sneak around and infiltrate the government so they can take over the country while no one is looking.  They tell you that there is no difference, so necessary to the deadly infection of apathy they are trying to spread.  They turn the people they have co ...
• Privacy is Passé, so Broadcast Yourself (to Big Br ...
  “You had to live â you did live, from habit that became instinct â in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized,â Winston worries in George Orwellâs classic novel, 1984.  All Winston yearns for is a place outside of the all-s ...
• “They don’t have the paper” Big Banks Blow it!
  Link Michael Collins Big banks have stopped foreclosures in 23 states due to legal challenges to their ownership of mortgage notes. On Wednesday, JP Morgan upped their total to 41 states in which foreclosure operations had ceased. Why the halt in foreclosures? It seems that the banks have ignored lo ...
• So, You Think You Have A Chance? Ha!
  They move quickly from person to person and present no moving target at which to shoot.  They are like the head of the hydra.  Once the idea takes hold in a person, if you cut that person down at least two more arise in his or her place.   You cannot pin a target on an [...]
• Columbus Day: A Symbol of American Values
  Columbus Day: A Symbol of American Values There are myriad vile symbols floating throughout the American empire. Due to mass governmental programming, most Americans are oblivious to these symbols and just how reprehensible they are. From the image of the Cherokee murderer, Andrew Jackson, on the tw ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• US industrial output sees first drop since recessi ...
• Pentagon bracing for new WikiLeaks release
• US says Chinese firms ignoring Iran sanctions
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Institute for Policy Studies

• Sheridan Circle Memorial 2010
  Listen to the recreation of this year's ceremony and the moving presentations given.
• The Small Business Case for Ending Tax Cuts for th ...
  If Congress wants to help small businesses, they shouldn't spend $700 billion over the next decade in poorly targeted tax cuts.
• How Will U.S. Handle Shortage of Tritium, aka Expl ...
  The National Nuclear Security Agency finds itself "unable to overcome technical challenges" to producing tritium.
• Why Filipinos Should be Worried
  The Philippines needs to become less vulnerable to the global economy and more rooted in local production for local consumption.
• The Tritium Deficit
  An expected tritium shortage may soon hamper the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

• The only thing to fear is …
  A Republican House and Senate It’s like we’ve stepped right through the looking glass. With the election of Barack Obama and majorities in both the House and Senate just two years ago, voters gave a powerful ...
• Benjamin Jealous: One Nation, Moving Forward
  The One Nation rally this past weekend was intended to offer an alternative to anger and hate, to give progressives a way to come together to organize around the issue most pressing to nearly all ...
• Insurgency in the Democratic Party – What&#8 ...
  From Real News Political Independence The central task of all those fighting for fundamental changes in the U.S. is to participate in and help shape the impulses towards a third party. While third parties have always been ...
• IOT: End War and Occupations, Redirect Funding Oc ...
  Conor Boylan reviewed the One Nation rally in Washington DC and we all agreed that it was a good event. There was a question as to whether a sequel was planned to the One Nation ...
• PDA Weekly Field Report 9/24/10 – 10/2/10
  PDA had a very strong presence in DC and around the country at One Nation. I was personally on the ground in DC and want to thank all of our members who showed up for ...

Marler Blog

• Minnesota and Wisconsin, States seemingly awash in ...
  I am heading to Wisconsin via Minnesota in the morning and it got me thinking just how much of my law practice (specifically E. coli and Salmonella cases) over the years has centered on these two states in the upper midwest. E. coli AFG / Supervalu E. coli Outbreak - Minnesota Cargill E. coli O ...
• Good deeds, but also good marketing
  Food Safety News and the Foodborne Illness Outbreak Database turned a year old a few weeks ago. Like most of the things I do in life, both of them began out of an attempt to do good deeds that fortuitously also became good marketing. What do I mean by that? Let me give you a peek into my philoso ...
• Law firm (Marler Clark) in PCA case donates $25,00 ...
  I spoke with Dave Thompson of the Lynchburg News and Advance about our decision to donate $25,000 to Heritage High for Science Scholarships.  Here is his story: One of the legal firms that filed suit on behalf of victims in the Peanut Corp. of America salmonella case has donated $25,000 for scholar ...
• Marler Clark - The Food Safety Law Firm
  What do you think of the new logo?
• Non-E. coli O157:H7 STECS: What You Need To Know?
  So, said the headline in my favorite online magazine – Cattlenetworks yesterday. What the American Meat Institute thinks you need to know: On August 18, AMI sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Vilsack outlining a path FSIS should take to address nSTECs prior to making a regulatory decision. 1. ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 10.18.10
  LA Auto Show preview: Wheego Whip LiFe electric car to hit the stage Who thinks it's worth $32,995? Report: Hyundai eyes small-scale production, retail sales of fuel cell vehicle by 2012 Mor ...
• AutoblogGreen for 10.15.10
  Tesla CEO: Optimizing vehicle design for electric powertrains will give us better EVs No one's done it yet, says Musk. Hyundai Sonata Hybrid will qualify for $1,300 tax credit It's a limited ...
• AutoblogGreen for 10.14.10
  Video: Okay, maybe the Chevrolet Volt is a hybrid But only by definition. MI Senator "thinks out loud" about eliminating CAFE in favor of a bolder clean vehicle mandate Levin makes a bold cal ...
• EPA says E15 is ready for prime time... and your n ...
  Filed under: Government/Legal A little number on your friendly local gas station pump might be about to change. Instead of 10 percent (E10), America's national gasoline supply can now contain a blend of fuel that contains up to 15 percent ethanol (E15) following an announcement by the Environment ...
• Senator Levin in favor of a bolder clean vehicle m ...
  Filed under: Hybrid , Government/Legal , Electric , Diesel Michigan Senator Carl Levin has been called the auto industry's best friend by detractors who say he's worked hard to obtain that title by defending the status quo. At the 2010 Business of Plugging In conference in downtown Detroit today, ...

Rafe's Radar

• Reporters' Roundtable: The Social Network
  Against the odds, the movie about the founding of Facebook, 'The Social Network,' is nearly universally admired. It got a 97% on the TomatoMeter at Rotten Tomatoes, and is considered a strong candidate for the Oscars. But is it accurate? Not just on the facts, but on the spirit and ethos of en ...
• Xmarks CEO: Knight-in-shining-armor rescue likely
  The company isn't going to make it, but the popular browser sync tool is likely to live on.
• Reporters' Roundtable: The Internet vs. Hollywood
  Today: The movie and TV industries vs the Internet! Who will win -- Studios, internet companies, consumers, manufacturers, or some combination? The entire entertainment industry is, of course, in the middle of shedding its skin. The old ways of distributing and charging for entertainment conten ...
• Reporters' Roundtable: How game mechanics are infe ...
  Today we're talking about game mechanics. Check-in apps like Foursquare use philosophies of game design to pull users deeper into engaging with them. The success of this concept has begun to infect other technologies, from consumer Web services to business applications. Software and services are ...
• Reporters' Roundtable: Deciphering Apple's develop ...
  On September 9, Apple rewrote its rulebooks for developers . In its revised developers agreement , it reversed a ruling that blocked developers from using all but a very few programming languages for iPhone apps. And it also made public for the first time the guidelines it uses for deciding if ap ...

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!

• John le Carré: Calling Out the Traitors
  John le Carré, the former British spy turned spy novelist, has some grave words for Tony Blair. More than seven years after the invasion of Iraq, the former British prime minister, now out of office and touring the world pushing his political memoir, is encountering serious protests at his book sig ...
• From Tuskegee to Guatemala Via Nuremberg
  News broke last week that the U.S. government purposefully exposed hundreds of men in Guatemala to syphilis in ghoulish medical experiments conducted during the late 1940s. As soon as the story got out, President Barack Obama phoned President Alvaro Colom of Guatemala to apologize. Colom called the ...
• Amy Goodman to appear on CNN's John King USA
  Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman to appear on CNN’s John King USA on Friday, October 1 at 7pm ET.
• WATCH: Jon Stewart Gets Haiti News from Democracy ...
  See all of Democracy Now!’s Coverage of Haiti
• BREAKING...Attempted Coup in Ecuador: On the Groun ...
  Sofia Jarrin works with the Latin American Association for Radio Education.

Farming Pathogens

• How Mayor Bloomberg Causes Obesity
  Yeah the doctors don’t know, but New York was killing me / Bunch of doctors coming round, they don’t know / That New York is killing me / Yeah I need to go home and take it slow in Jackson, Tennessee -Gil Scott-Heron On October 6 Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked the United States Department of [...]
• Follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Twitter
  You can now follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Twitter here. Includes the latest in media reports and journal articles on agriculture, disease, evolution, dialectical biology, the practice of science, as well as any appearances or new work by FP contributors. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Farming Pa ...
• The Axis of Viral
  The enemy of my enemy is my friend. We might accept that viruses and bacteria at best instantiate the coincidental nature of such an alliance. The success of one bug might pave the way for another. But we’d be hard pressed to imagine that theyâd whittle the syllogism to a sharper point and activel ...
• Follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Facebook
  Follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Facebook here. Includes the latest in media reports and journal articles on agriculture, disease, evolution, dialectical biology, and the practice of science, as well as any appearances or new work by FP contributors. Filed under: Uncategorized
• Imperial Storm Scientists
  The Red Army Faction was a communist guerilla group operating 1970-1998 in, of all places, West Germany. The RAF engaged in a variety of operations in the 1970s, including assassinations and bombings, primarily around the German government’s material support of the U.S. war in Vietnam. As depicted i ...

Suzie-Q

• The Revolution Will Be Televised: Comedy Central T ...
  The Revolution Will Be Televised: Comedy Central To Air, Stream D.C. Rallies (VIDEO) Jason Linkins- Huff Post First Posted: 10-13-10 11:31 AM   |   Updated: 10-13-10 12:23 PM On last night’s “Daily Show,” host Jon Stewart announced that the upcoming Rally To Restore Sanity would be televised, ...
• CREW: 26 SITTING LAWMAKERS CORRUPTING THE HALLS OF ...
  Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) Contact:  Garrett Russo // 13 Oct 2010 // Washington, D.C. - Corrupt lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are polluting the United States Capitol.  These members highlight the need for increased oversight by the Office of Congressional Et ...
• Rush Limbaugh says there will never be equality be ...
  Rush Limbaugh says there will never be equality because:”some people are just born to be slaves” Crooks & Liars- By John Amato October 09, 2010 07:00 AM How dare you say there’s racism in the Teabircher movement? I’m so offended by that notion. Isn’t what Rush Limbaugh just soooooo true? LIMBAUGH: T ...
• Glenn Beck Mocks Fire Victims, Reaches New Depths ...
  I’ve probably written and rewritten this opening paragraph about Glenn Beck and his morning zoo sycophantic sidekick Pat Gray four or five times with various sequences of compound obscenities and ad hominem insults. But I’m opting for more restraint at this point, even though neither of these jackal ...
• Mid-Term Elections Still In Play, With Dems Gainin ...
  Mid-Term Elections Still In Play, With Dems Gaining Momentum Crooks & Liars- By Susie Madrak October 04, 2010 09:00 AM Some good news for the Democrats. So taking over the House and the Senate isn’t quite as easy as Republicans hoped – or as Democrats feared. The situation is still fluid, and Dems n ...

Solari

• Quote du Jour
  “Humans adapt remarkably well to disaster as long as the disaster occurs over a long period of time.â ~Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill, “The Age of Autismâ
• Primal Body, Primal Mind
  On this week’s Solari Report I will be speaking with nutrition and neural feedback practitioner Nora Gedgaudas. Nora is the author of Primal Body - Primal Mind: Empower Your Total Health the Way Evolution Intended (…And Didn’t). While I focus on protecting my clients’ money from the ravages of infl ...
• Money & Markets - Week of 10.17.10
  Are Irish Taxpayers About To Bail Out Goldman? Is Peter Sutherland Stealing From His Own People To Give To The Vampire Squid? Zero Hedge (17 Oct 10) Flashback to 1870 as Cotton Hits Peak The Wall Street Journal (15 Oct 10) Bill Gross Telegraphs QE2 Green Light: Buys MBS On Margin Zero Hedge (15 ...
• Precious Metals - Week of 10.17.10
  Should Germany Worry About Leaving Its Gold With U.S.? GATA (16 Oct 10)
• Housing & Mortgage Markets - Week of 10.17.10
  Mortgage Damage Spreads The Wall Street Journal (15 Oct 10) From a Maine House, a National Foreclosure Freeze Yahoo Finance (15 Oct 10) Check Out Chris Whalen’s Terrifying Presentation On The 2011 Foreclosure Crisis Wall St. Cheat Sheet (9 Oct 10) WOW – Sheriff RE Foreclosure Fraud – I Swear on the ...

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

• Let's Face It, Conservative Supreme Court Justices ...
  Conservatives interpret the Constitution to support conservative objectives, but they won't admit it.
• Every Justice is a 'Judicial Activist' -- Right-Wi ...
  Conservatives interpret the Constitution to support conservative objectives, but they won't admit it.
• Bureaucrats Use Government Databases to Snoop for ...
  Government employees just can’t seem to resist the temptation to pry into the private lives of high-profile figures.
• Comedienne Margaret Cho: Watching the Brady Bunch ...
  How network TV raised her race consciousness
• Exposing the GOP's Shameful Historical Role in the ...
  How the Native American extermination campaigns merged the dangerous forces of a standing army with the business/political interests of the Republican Party.

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

• A situation report about two headine issues &#8211 ...
  Summary:  Economic and political conditions have slowly evolved since the major nations began massive stimulus programs in early 2009.  Now the pace may be accelerating.  This post briefly looks at three major issues in the US (more coming later).  As usual on the FM website, this states analysis an ...
• Looking into the past for guidance about warnings ...
  Summary:  As we tremble in fear at the forecasts of climate apocalypse in 2030, let’s not forget the horrific forecasts made in the past.  Such as this made in 1989 for conditions in 2010. “Stormy weather“, Suzy Hansen, Salon, 23 October 2001 — “Floods, droughts, hurricanes and disease outbreaks — ...
• More about the forecast for flooded cities in the  ...
  Summary:  Much of the efforts to fan climate hysteria rely on false descriptions of current climate science, most especially on the assertion of a consensus that does not exist.  The articles on the FM website puncture this simply and surely by showing a diversity of opinion expressed in presigious  ...
• How good are our global senses, watching our chang ...
  Summary:   Our increasingly complex world creates new vulnerabilities.  New factors to watch.  New threats to which we must respond.  Can we manage the necessary coordinated global action?  The cost is trivial, especially compared to that of our wars.  This post examines one serious but little-known ...
• A background briefing about the foreclosure crisis ...
  Summary:  An introduction to the mortgage foreclosure fraud crisis.  At this time its size and importance remain unclear, but its evolution and resolution will tell us much about the state of America’s political and judicial systems. The story is complex, and well covered elsewhere (see links at ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Angry Haitians protest UN ‘occupation’
  Press TV – A group of Haitian protesters have clashed with UN troops in the capital Port-au-Prince over “the lack of foreign aid and continuing foreign military presence.” Around a hundred protesters blocked the entrance to the main UN base around Port-au-Prince’s airport on Friday and shouted anti- ...
• ‘FBI knew of Mumbai attacks in advance’
  Press TV – A media report says that US intelligence officials were aware of plans to attack Mumbai years before the terrorist incident killed more than 170 people in India’s main port city in 2008. A report published by the Washington Post on Wednesday said that the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( ...
• WHO Updates HIV Treatment Guidelines for Women and ...
  Aidsmeds.com – The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued revised HIV treatment guidelines, one for adults and adolescents and one for children, which contain guidance for treating women or infants who received a single dose of Viramune (nevirapine) to prevent HIV transmission from mother-to-chi ...
• Studies Tout Alternative HIV Regimens for Women, B ...
  HealthDay News — New research suggests that alternative drug regimens in poor countries could help HIV-infected mothers and their infants more effectively fight off the virus that causes AIDS. Currently, doctors lower the risk of transmission of mother-to-baby HIV infection by giving a drug to mothe ...
• Diaries reveal the Japanese tourist board worker w ...
  Daily Mail – A former Japanese Tourist Bureau helper’s 70-year-old diary has sparked an international search after it was discovered to contain photographs of supposedly Jewish men and women he helped escape the Nazis. The yellowing images appear to show Jews who were led from the clutches of the an ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• Next Korean Monarch Groomed
  Next Korean Monarch Groomed (llco.org) Last week, Kim Jong-un made his first appearance in front of the world’s media. Kim Jong-un, the youngest son of the current “dear leader” Kim Jong-il, is expected to succeed his father. His public “coming out,” days before the celebration of the 65th anniversa ...
• Amérikains, Les habitant du premiers monde gaspill ...
  Amérikains, Les habitant du premiers monde gaspille la nourriture, famine dans le Tiers-monde (llco.org, monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Karl Marx décrivaient le prolétariat comme étant déposséder, qui ne gagnent seulement assez que pour survivre et n’ayant rien à perdre sauf leur chaîne. Cependa ...
• Si les amérikkkains ne sont pas exploité, alors po ...
  Si les amérikkkains ne sont pas exploité, alors pourquoi sont-ils engagés par les capitalistes? (llco.org) “Cher Maoïste Tiers Mondiste,â¨â¨Si les amérikkkains ne sont pas exploité, alors pourquoi sont-ils engagés par les capitalistes? Que se passe-t-il du travail productif dans le premier ...
• El hombre común americano
  El hombre común americano (llco.org, monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) “El hombre común americano” tiene un lugar especial en la conciencia americana. Es un personaje literario popular, el “héroe de la clase trabajadora” aparece en el cine, la televisión y el escenario. Ãl es valorizado por lo ...
• Recenzja książki Malcolma Caldwella „Bogactwo niek ...
  Recenzja książki Malcolma Caldwella âBogactwo niektórych narodówâ – Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Malcolm Caldwell byÅ jednym z kilku mieszkaÅców Zachodu, którzy kiedykolwiek odwiedzili KambodÅ¼Ä w trakcie wÅadzy Czerwonych Khmerów. Najbardziej znany jest jako akade ...

PakAlert

• Gay Mental Illness Used for Evil
  I hold the view shared by many homosexuals that homosexuality is a developmental disorder. I don't believe it is a "mental illness" except in more extreme instances. However the letter below is revealing and I suspect its thesis is accurate.
• Hamid Gul – Zionists’ new ‘Sopranos’
  Lt. Gen. Gul Hamid, the former Chief Spy of Pakistan’s intelligence Agency, ISI, – was the first intelligence officer who blamed the US government and Israeli Mossad for executing the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the US. Since then, the Jewish-controlled western mainstream media has portr ...
• Winning The Currency War: The Unleasing of a “Fina ...
  Let us be very clear about the impact of the coming massive Quantitative Easing (QEII) by the FED, the financial bully of Wall Street. It is the unleashing of a financial nuclear weapon! The financial media is portraying this process as "a war of survival" between America and the rest of the world. ...
• Preparing for World War 3? Pakistan Steps Up Produ ...
  Pakistan appears to have stepped up construction of a new atomic reactor that could help the country produce easier-to-deliver nuclear weapons, a US research institute said. Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal is one of the most sensitive topics for the United States as it tries to improve relations with its ...
• Wikileaks, Afghanistan and Pakistan
  On 25 July 2010, the New York Times carried an explosive story by Mark Mazzetti, Jane Perlez, Eric Schmitt and Andrew W. Lehren about some 92,000 classified Pentagon documents which had passed into the hands of Wikileaks, a Sweden-based whistleblowerwebsite headed by Julian Assange. Ostensibly, the ...

Andy Worthington

• “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week: Day Four – The ...
  Last Wednesday, on Day Four of âBerkeley Says No to Tortureâ Week — the largest gathering of anti-torture experts and activists since the Bush administrationâs âWar on Terrorâ began over nine years ago — one of the obstacles to attracting support for a mass movement against the crimes and ...
• Video: Andy Worthington and Justine Sharrock at “B ...
  As part of “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week (the largest gathering of anti-torture experts and activists since the Bush administration began its “War on Terror” over nine years ago), I was delighted to join Justine Sharrock, journalist and author of Tortured: When Good Soldiers Do Bad Things, at R ...
• Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Par ...
  This is the seventh part of a nine-part series telling the stories of all the prisoners currently held in Guantánamo (174 at the time of writing). See the introduction here, and Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five and Part Six. This seventh article tells the stories of 13 prisoners ...
• Liveblogging “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week: D ...
  Just keeping up with everything going on in “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week is hard enough, and this is in spite of the fact that my patrons at the World Can’t Wait have lined me up for as many of these events as possible on my week-long visit from London. The full schedule is [...]
• In the Case of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, Torture Apo ...
  âTerror ruling threatens civilian prosecutions,â screamed the Los Angeles Times last Thursday. âRuling in ‘98 East Africa embassy bombings is setback for US,â wailed the Washington Post. The headline writers were referring to the federal court trial, in New York, of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Gulf Manta Rays Affected by Oil Spill?
  The little-studied Gulf of Mexico's manta rays could be their own species—and victims of the oil spill, scientists say.
• Fuzzy Critters' Crystallized Pee Changes Climate R ...
  The crystallized urine of the rodent-like rock hyrax is filling in gaps in our understanding of climate change, experts say.
• Scientists Sniff-Test Gulf Seafood
  In the wake of the BP oil spill, scientists are literally following their noses to determine whether Gulf of Mexico seafood is dangerous. Video.
• Banking on Connections to Spur Offshore Wind
  Google and a team of investors and energy firms aim to bring an offshore wind power revolution to the East Coast of the United States.
• Surprising Ant "Mixing Bowl" Found in Manhattan
  At least 13 species of urban ants thrive along the bustling boulevards of the United States' biggest city, a new study has found.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• primary colors
  Primary season is finally over in CT. (Only 82 more days until the November elections!) The New Milford results are in. And while there's nothing particularly surprising about how the town voted, I am shocked at the low turnout. According to the tallies at the Danbury News-Times: 1497 registered R ...
• "Does Probate = Masterb-te," or "Are We Getting Je ...
  What's the deal with this primary for Probate Judge? Have you ever seen such energy put into an election campaign (Oops - I mean other than this spring's budget referendum)? Why are New Milford Republicans putting so much energy behind Judge Marty? Who stands to lose here - probate should be pretty ...
• salary salads
  Here’s some interesting news about salaries, concessions, and taxes. New Milford teachers and the Board of Ed have peacefully renegotiated teacher contracts for the 2011-2012 year. http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/New-Milford-teachers-agree-to-no-pay-increases-676941.php http://www.ne ...
• How Wrong Can One Person Be?
  I know it’s exciting when someone new walks in and turns everyone’s heads. They’re mysterious. That’s sexy. And, if they can put words together into complete, grammatically correct sentences, they (by today’s standards) are brilliant. So, suddenly, the known quantity of the person we’ve been wit ...
• Loving Books, Libraries, and the Internet
  If you read certain local blogs, or letters to the editor of local papers, you may notice a recurring theme from some disgruntled citizens. Libraries, and the books they contain, are our enemy. (Who knew?) And the best way to save money and preserve democracy from socialism is to stop buying books ...

SPL Center

• 9.12 Project Paranoia: Obama Wants to See You… Nak ...
  Unsurprisingly, Glenn Beckâs 9.12 Project has absorbed much of its founderâs famous paranoia. Based on Beckâs fevered lectures and paid endorsements, legions of 9.12âers have eagerly bought up overpriced gold coins , non-hybrid seeds, and lots of ammo for use in 9.12 Project practice shoots. ...
• World Net Daily Speakers Defend Tea Parties
  MIAMI, Fla. — Are the Tea Parties racist organizations? No, said three African-American panelists presented with that question at the third and final day of the “Taking America Back” conference here on Saturday. But given the fact that the conference was organized by the far-right World Net Daily (W ...
• Jack Kershaw, Stalwart of White Nationalism, Dies
  Jack Kershaw, one of the most iconic American white segregationists of the 20th century and the lawyer who represented James Earl Ray following his conviction for the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has died in Nashville at the age of 96. He died on Sept. 7, but his death was not made p ...
• Seasoned Lawman Takes on Anti-Muslim Extremism
  Jim Cavanaugh always was a lawman’s lawman — a career official of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) who was in on some of the most celebrated cases of criminal extremists in this country’s recent history. Before retiring this spring after 33 ½ years with the ATF, he worke ...
• Anti-Immigrant Groups Continue Greenwashing Campai ...
  Progressives For Immigration Reform (PFIR) held its inaugural conference Tuesday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The small, invitation-only, one-day conference was entitled, “The First National Conference on Immigration, Conservation, and the Environment.” The conclave is just another ...

change: org.

• Volunteers With Heart
  Late last week, I rounded up my kids and hopped on a bus headed towards the Tacoma Dome to attend this year's Project Homeless Connect . I got the opportunity to meet and talk with Ellie Ottey who has been helping to coordinate this volunteer-led event for the last four years. "We actually do this o ...
• Broadway Tells LGBTQ Youth "It Gets Better"
  Can a song save a life? That is what a number of young Broadway stars are hoping with the release of the song "It Gets Better." Songwriters Jay Kuo and Blair Shepard, inspired by the It Gets Better Project of Dan Savage, wrote this song of hope for LGBTQ youth. They recorded it with a couple dozen o ...
• Is Your Amazon Cruise All-Inclusive of Child Rape?
  More and more Brazilian teens are reporting some tour operators are selling Amazon cruise "adventure tours" that are all inclusive of more than just food, booze, and entrance fees. They also include several child sex slaves, available 24 hours a day for the duration of the trip. Is your tour operato ...
• Do Organic Chickens Deserve Real, Outdoor Access?
  That's the question up for debate on October 25th's meeting of the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), the regulatory agency that makes recommendations to the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the National Organics Program. The standards currently call for "access to the outdoors" for all certi ...
• Celebrating the Children's Sabbath
  Marian Wright Edelman, President of the Children's Defense Fund, is part of Change.org's  Changemakers network, comprised of leading voices for social change. Across the country, thousands of people of faith came together over the weekend to advocate for children in need through National Observance ...

Common Dreams -News

• A Whole New 'Green' Deal
  by Peter Seldman About two years ago, a group of North Bay residents gathered around a table in a Novato restaurant to talk about missed opportunities. The idea that old paradigms aren't meeting the unprecedented economic and environmental challenges facing the North Bay today was the topic of the m ...
• French Strikers Cut Fuel Pipeline to Paris
  Refinery workers cut off a fuel pipeline to Paris today as protesters piled on pressure to derail French president Nicolas Sarkozy's unpopular pension reform. Police broke up blockades at fuel depots in southern France but protesters blocked a terminal at Paris's Orly airport and truckers were ...
• Tomato Pickers Secure Path-Breaking Deal with Flor ...
  by Mischa Gaus The farmworker group Coalition of Immokalee Workers announced this week it has reached a landmark deal with a Florida tomato grower to govern conditions in the fields. The agreement greatly expands the proportion of Florida's $500 million tomato crop that will be produced under CIW ...
• DR Congo Troops Accused in New Rape Atrocities
  UNITED NATIONS  – DR Congo government troops are raping and killing women in remote villages where hundreds were the victims of mass rapes by militias just a few weeks ago, a top UN envoy has said. Margot Wallstrom, UN special envoy on sexual violence against women in conflict, said it was " ...
• Canada-US Pipeline on Hold Amid Oil's Recent Woes
  by James MacPherson and Josh Funk Bismarck, N.D. - The steel is staged, and crews are waiting to lay the last and most expensive leg of TransCanada Corp.'s multibillion-dollar pipeline network that would carry Canadian oil to refineries along the Gulf Coast. Yet final U.S. government approval for th ...

Lifehacker

• Use a Guitar Hero or Rock Band Microphone with an ...
  There's a built-in microphone on an iPad, but if you're looking for better sound and more audio reach, reader JeshuaSan tested out a Guitar Hero microphone with a Camera Connector kit, and it worked great for an Evernote audio memo. More�� ...
• Start Chest Compressions Immediately, Don't Worry ...
  If you're not certain how or when to perform the artificial breaths of CPR, just skip them. New recommendations out today from the American Heart Association suggest immediate chest compressions are far more valuable, and breaths are best left ...
• Leatherbound Compares Ebook Prices in Kindle, iBoo ...
  If you've got an iPad, or somehow ended up with Nook and a Kindle, webapp Leatherbound could save you real cash the next time you're browsing for ebooks. It instantly compares prices on all three major ebook platforms. More�� ...
• Upload and Share Files, URLs, and Screenshots via ...
  Windows: FluffyApp is a Windows wrapper for previously reviewed Mac-only CloudApp , and brings the same drag and drop file, URL, and screenshot sharing to Windows computers. More��
• Netflix Streaming on Wii No Longer Requires a Disc ...
  Netflix has made streaming its movie and TV catalog to the TV even easier through the most popular U.S. gaming system. There's a free Netflix app now available in the Wii Shop Channel that allows for Netflix streaming with any plan costing $8. ...

Water Privatization

• Privatization Not Answer to Water Crisis, Says WPN
  MANILA, Philippines – Advocacy group Water for the People Network (WPN) Friday said that contrary to the claim of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), allowing profit-oriented private corporations to take over the management and distribution of water resources will not address the water crisis. The (WP ...
• Commission explores privatization of Alcova cabin ...
  The lack of water and a need for upgraded sewer facilities were two major concerns brought to the Natrona County Commissioners in a meeting last week over the proposed privatization of the 100 cabin sites at Alcova Reservoir.
• Commission explores privatization of Alcova cabin ...
  The lack of water and a need for upgraded sewer facilities were two major concerns brought to the Natrona County Commissioners in a meeting last week over the proposed privatization of the 100 cabin sites at Alcova Reservoir.
• Water bottle ban complete, contract not yet finali ...
  By: Fernando Sioson The ban on the sale of single-use plastic water bottles on campus is official. But the contract re-negotiation between Aquafina, the Pepsi Corporation and Seattle University is far from over. ...
• Documentary series highlights personal, global wat ...
  By: Mike Velez, CORRESPONDENT From drinking fountains to fountains that exist and purely for decoration, displays of clean water can be found and throughout the USF and campus. However, many may not fully appreciate and the gift. ...

Guardian

• Three peers suspended from Lords over expenses
  Lady Uddin, Lord Paul and Lord Bhatia have been ordered to pay back £125,000, £40,000 and £27,000 respectively Three peers were today suspended from parliament in the toughest punishment enacted in the House of Lords in modern times after an inquiry found that each had broken expenses rules to wrong ...
• Johnson condemns 'reckless' cuts
  • Shadow chancellor sticks to plan to halve deficit in four years • Signals balance of tax rises to spending cuts should change • Calls on banks to share more of the burden Alan Johnson, the shadow chancellor, today accused the coalition government of taking a "reckless gamble" with economic growth ...
• Super typhoon Megi hits Philippines
  Power and communications cut as Filipinos shelter from 140mph winds and rest of east Asia braces for impact The strongest cyclone in years to hit the Philippines has knocked out communications and power as residents take shelter, while flooding in Vietnam has swept away a bus and 20 of its passenger ...
• May warns of rise in cyber warfare
  Home secretary outlines priority threats facing Britain ahead of the publication of the national security strategy today Theresa May, the home secretary, warned today that cyber warfare is a "growing threat" to Britain, alongside international terrorism. May outlined the top-priority threats facing ...
• Palin at launch of Tea Party bus tour
  Ex-Alaskan governor to attend launch of bus tour across US, visiting areas movement has strong chance of election Sarah Palin will be headlining at this morning's Tea Party rally in Reno, Nevada, that will kick off a 3,000-mile bus tour designed to stand the US political establishment on its head. P ...

McClatchey

• Commentary: Wait a New York minute!
  New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg takes a healthy interest in society's eating habits. At times his ideas are visionary, such as requiring chain restaurants to list nutritional information on their menus, a law that was copied in California. Better consumer information is always a good idea; it's sta ...
• Rand Paul refuses to shake hands with opponent Con ...
  LOUISVILLE — A debate filled with unabashed personal attacks concluded Sunday night with Republican Rand Paul briskly brushing past Democrat Jack Conway, refusing to shake the hand of an opponent who raised questions about his religious beliefs.
• Immigration becomes central issue in Kansas secret ...
  The race for Kansas secretary of state comes down to one question: Is voter fraud a pressing problem in Kansas, tied to illegal immigration and corrupt politics, or is it largely a myth used to drum up votes?
• Journalist handcuffed by Miller campaign security ...
  The editor of the Alaska Dispatch website was arrested by U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller's private security guards Sunday as the editor attempted to interview Miller at the end of a public event in an Anchorage school.
• Family of soldier accused of killing Afghan civili ...
  Soldiers who fought in Iraq alongside Spc. Michael Wagnon don�t recognize their friend when they read reports of his alleged role in a plot to kill civilians while deployed in Afghanistan this year with a Joint Base Lewis-McChord Stryker brigade.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• Folding the hopes of thousands
  From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya, Japan: Everywhere in Nagoya, there is origami. Arriving at the airport, I was presented with an origami crane; more of them adorn my hotel room. Origami cranes symbolise hopes for agreement on protecting the real thing At the co ...
• Climate ship trims sails but keeps captain
  IPCC plenary meeting , Busan: So: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change came to South Korea with Rajendra Pachauri in charge, and it leaves with Rajendra Pachauri in charge. In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC�Webwise for full ...
• Climate body seeks new wardrobe
  IPCC plenary meeting in Busan: The future of the world's climate science authority is being decided behind the glass and steel facade of a modern conference centre in South Korea's second city. The BEXCO centre 's principal event this week is the Busan International Footwear and Textile Fashion Sho ...
• Tianjin talks and a 'global work party'
  This Sunday - 10/10/10, if you care to write dates that way - is set for what's probably the biggest mass event ever in pursuit of curbing climate change. At the heart of things is 350.org, which is calling the event a "global work party" : "It’s been a tough year: in North America, oil gushing int ...
• Bluefin numbers shift in murky waters
  A fascinating document has fallen into my lap from a meeting now going on in Madrid looking at tuna stocks and catches. Tuna in fish market The question it asks - perhaps without intending to - is this: can the Mediterranean bluefin industry ever be properly monitored? With the bluefin having becom ...

The Wonk Room

• The WonkLine: October 18, 2010
  Welcome to The WonkLine, a daily 9:30 a.m. roundup of the latest public policy news. This is what we’re reading. Tell us what you found in the comments section below. You can also follow The Wonk Room on Twitter.   Education According to a new report from McKinsey & Co., the U.S. draws just 23 [...]
• Colorado Senate Candidate Says Being Gay Is A Choi ...
  This morning, during a Colorado Senate debate hosted by Meet The Press, Republican candidate Ken Buck said that being gay is a choice and compared it to alcoholism: GREGORY: In a debate last month, you expressed your support for don’t ask, don’t tell, which we talked about with Mr. Gibbs. And you al ...
• Whitman’s Plan To Balance California’s ...
  I pointed out yesterday that California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman’s (R) job creation plan is based on a tax cut that economists don’t believe will create jobs or boost investment. Rather, it would amount to nothing more than a giveaway to California’s wealthy. But Whitman’s plan to balance ...
• GOP May Seek To Undermine ACA By Weakening The Exc ...
  Yesterday, Scott Gottlieb and Tom Miller of the conservative American Enterprise Institute wrote a piece for the Wall Street Journal in which they conceded that even if Republicans can’t repeal the Affordable Care Act, they can at least undermine its key feature: the state-based health insurance Exc ...
• House Education Committee’s Ranking Member T ...
  Back in July, the Obama administration requested $1.4 billion to continue its Race to the Top program — which provides competitive grants to states to implement education reform — but the Senate and the House both refused to play along, with the former chopping funding for the program down to just $ ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Winston Churchill & Spider Bites
  Just some random stuff that i thought i'd share: The first involves a dream i had recently where Winston Churchill put in an appearance of sorts. As a boy, i grew up on the romantic notion of Churchill leading the mother-country democracy Britain standing alone with its fellow democratic former colo ...
• Financialization
  The folks at the Marxist journal Monthly Review have some important things to say about the INEVITABILITY of financialization for a mature capitalist economy. Financialization refers to the growing importance of the financial sector in the economy (a process most exemplified by the USA and UK econom ...
• Cold Meat and a Missed Opportunity
  I was standing in line at the liquor store when I found myself beside a case of "Moosehead" beer. There was some blurb on the price tag about the malts and hops in it and the awesome flavour and etc., as well as a suggestion to serve it with cold meat. The phrase "cold meat" gave me a bit of a shud ...
• No title
  This is going to be something of a rambling post. (What else is new, 'eh?) I've just got a lot of stuff on my mind. First of all, I'm reading Rick Hillier's biography A Soldier First . I'm only about one-third of the way through it and he's just been promoted to brigadier-general to take command of ...
• This Week's "Economist" Cover
  The weekly news journal, Britain's Economist generally has tons of factual detail and excellent, quality writing. Oftentimes they provide information and analysis on current events that is essential for understanding the world around us. BUT, their overall world view is nonsense. They subscribe to ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Appropriate Use of Science in Public Policy
  On October 27, 2010, Professionals for the Public Interest (PftPI) will present a panel discussion on the " Appropriate Use of Science in Public Policy. " Although the event will be free, registration is required . The event will be held at 4:00 pm at the American Association for the Advancement of ...
• Secretary Solis answers concerns about DOL's Whist ...
  Last July, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) joined with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and the Government Accountability Project (GAP) in submitting a letter to Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis . The letter raised concerns about whether the Department of Labor (DOL) w ...
• Secretary Solis answers concerns about DOL's Whist ...
  Last July, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) joined with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and the Government Accountability Project (GAP) in submitting a letter to Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis . The letter raised concerns about whether the Department of Labor (DOL) w ...
• President Obama signs the Veterans' Benefits Act o ...
  The White House has announced that today President Barack Obama signed into law the Veterans' Benefits Act (VBA) of 2010. Among other improvements in the law for veterans, the VBA enhances the employee protections of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA). USERRA prot ...
• Supreme Court grills attorneys on protecting oral ...
  Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on this question: Does the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) protect employees from retaliation when they verbally complain about wage and hour violations? My friend Jim Kaster of Minneapolis, Minnesota (pictured) argued the case for the employee, ...

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

• Microsoft Massively Expands Program To Freely Lice ...
  We recently wrote about reports that Microsoft was often seen as being complicit in helping the Russian government crack down on dissenting nonprofit groups by charging them with copyright infringement for software (even when some of the organizations claimed to be fully licensed). While we had rep ...
• If Fair Use Protects Free Speech, Shouldn't It Be ...
  We've talked a lot recently about questions concerning the conflict between copyright law and the First Amendment. Historically, the courts have argued that there are two "safety valves" on copyright law that protect it from running afoul of the First Amendment: the idea/expression dichotomy and fa ...
• How Not To Connect With Fans: Have Gilbert Gottfri ...
  Robert Ring was the first to send in the news that Victory Records apparently had ridiculously annoying comic Gilbert Gottfried film a video "message" to file sharers telling them to "go fuck yourself" and using some ridiculous arguments. He claims that the reason people file share is because they ...
• Would Copyright Work Better If It Was Treated More ...
  Lawyer Terry Hart, who we linked to last month for his discussion about whether or not it was okay to call infringement theft has now written another piece arguing that those of us who point out that copyright is not property may also be making a mistake. Specifically, he points to a recent paper b ...
• French ISP Free Gives In, Will Send 3 Strikes Noti ...
  Well, it looks like the saga of the Hadopi loophole is now over. We had written how the French ISP 'Free' had been refusing to pass on Hadopi "three strikes" notices, realizing that the law did not mandate that ISPs pass on the notices, but the law did say that you couldn't have your connection dis ...

VacTruth

• Are Federal Grants Being Used For State Government ...
  The Obama Administration was pressured to officially declare a Stafford Act National Emergency. In turn, the emergency declaration automatically made millions of federal grant dollars monies available to state governments. So what happened with all of the money appropriated and made available to st ...
• Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. has history of sell ...
  How many judges have links and financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry? Chief Justice Roberts recently sold $15,000 of his shares in the company Pfizer enabling him to participate in a court case today.
• Chief Justice John Roberts cashes in Pfizer stocks ...
  Chief Justice John Roberts Jr has recently sold his stock holdings in Pfizer Inc. He did this to participate in two up vaccine cases. The implications are enormous as they decide if anyone suffering a vaccine injury can ever – under any circumstances - sue a pharmaceutical company.
• Vaccinations: Much To Do About Nothing?
  The pharmaceutical industry regards the ever-increasing, publicized downside of vaccines as “much to do about nothing.” “Nothing” can be further from the facts, according to emerging statistical information and parents-turned-advocates whose children have been damaged or killed by vaccines...
• Hope On The Horizon
  Even though HBOT has been around for about 75 years, not many healthcare consumers are aware of it or how it works. As a result of HBOT treatments, Alexis now can do math problems that she couldn't prior to her treatment with HBOT. How could that be possible when all the medication she received else ...

BroadSnark

• Intellect as Evasion
  Normally, I like Jay Smooth.  But this video really irritated me. I understand why people are critical of the anti-intellectualism displayed by right wing populists who seem so disdainful of reading books, processing facts, or critical thinking of any kind.  But it amazes me when otherwise observ ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  The Renewing the Anarchist Tradition (RAT) conference is being held next month in Baltimore.  I’ll be there.  Hopefully, some of you will be too. Unfortunately the RAT conference means that I won’t be able to go to the Positive Force punk rock flea market.  But if any of you are in the DC area an ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Kids can be so incredibly mean.  What would your parents have done if they found out kids at your school were torturing you?  What if they found out you were torturing other kids? Related to that, this post calling the church out for “saving families” by being anti-gay marriage while ignoring the ...
• Owning the Edges
  A few weeks ago, I attended a Busboys and Poets A.C.T.O.R. on Islamaphobia.  Six local Muslim panelists talked about their personal experiences.  Inevitably, the subject of what to do in the face of extremism came up. As an atheist who keeps a toe in the atheist blogosphere, I have read quite a few ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Every time I see the amount of money SEIU has put into politics, it makes me want to cry. In news of the creepy -  They are training children to be cops in Argentina, using eye scanners on the U.S. Mexico border, and giving overzealous parents easy access to home drug testing kits.  What kind of [.. ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• The LaRouche Show, October 9, 2010
  Foreclose on the Empire, with Glass-Steagall
• Pakistan Implodes: The Serpent Eggs Are Natched, a ...
  By Ramtanu Maitra Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, October 15, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 40
• Schiller Institute Berlin Conference: Projects Wil ...
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, October 15, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 40
• LaRouche in 2007: Mortgage Fraud Can Topple System
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, October 15, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 40
• Foreclosure Scandal Exposes Systemic Derivatives F ...
  By John Hoefle Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, October 15, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 40

Armies of Liberation

• The blockade of South Yemen follows tactics of Saa ...
  As Yemen’s blockade on southern Yemen enters its third week, stocks of food, medicine and oil have dwindled to dangerous levels. Prices have skyrocketed and already malnourished children bear the brunt of the military action. The blockade began 17 days ago when the Western Armored Division establish ...
• بقلم الكاتبة الامريكية جين نوفاك : ثلاثة أسابيع من ...
  مع دخول الحصار اليمني على اليمن الجنوبي أسبوعه الثالث ، إنخفضت المخزونات من المواد الغذائية والدواء و المشتقات النفطية الى مستويات تنذر بالخطر. و ارتفعت الأسعار و أصبح الأطفال يعانون بالفعل من سوء التغذية تحت وطأة العمليات العسكرية. وبدأ الحصار قبل 17 يوما عندما قامت وحدات المنطقة الغربية المدرعة بإ ...
• السلام مع الكرامة في اليمن: هل يمكن ايقاف دوامه ال ...
  اÙسÙام مع اÙÙرامة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù: ÙÙ ÙÙ…Ù٠اÙÙا٠دÙام٠اÙØ­Ø±Ø¨Ø Ùتبت: جÙÙ ÙÙÙاÙ*- ÙصحÙÙØ© “إجسامÙÙر” ترجمة/ عبداÙÙ٠عبداÙÙÙاب ÙاجÙ- ترجمة خاصة بÙ: اÙمستشار Ùت Ù٠حرب م٠حرÙب صعدة ...
• Peace with Dignity in Yemen, Can the Cycle of Endl ...
  Each of the six Sa’ada wars in Yemen was a photo copy of the one before, except the bombs got bigger, the children more frail and the jails more crowded. The Yemeni government systematically denied food, medicine and international aid to civilians in the northern Sa’ada province as a tactic of war s ...
• Would Yemeni law find Anwar Awlaki guilty?
  Yemen’s Foreign Minister Abu Baker al Qirby urged Anwar Awlaki to turn himself to be tried under Yemeni law, vowing that no Yemeni citizen would be extradited to the US or any other country. The US announced last week that it had authorized Awlaki’s kill or capture, having determined he is an active ...

Dark Politricks

• Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To Push ...
• Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming Ala ...
  Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace follow ...
• Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Openin ...
  Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircraft p ...
• NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have cau ...
  John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve seen ...
• Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal government is ...
  Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll found ...

food and water watch

• By: FutureEmergency.com
  [...] elected officials across the region. He’ll be blogging from the road every day of the trip, so check back in with us to find out what’s he’s up to each [...]
• USDA Goes Back to the Drawing Board On Better Trac ...
  In early February, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) pleasantly surprised small farmers and food protection advocacy groups alike by abandoning its National Animal Identification System (NAIS). NAIS was a program put in place after a 2003 occurrence of mad cow disease with intention ...
• Two options for tap water at Vancouver Olympics: O ...
  Metro Vancouver recently took on the task of promoting the consumption of tap water over bottled water and is now battling it out with Coca-Cola at the Olympic games. As one of the Olympics biggest official sponsors, Coca-Cola, who claims their bottled water “doesn’t compete with tap water,” is of ...
• Farm to School Needs More Support
  It seems the Obama administration is starting to take some steps toward addressing the childhood obesity epidemic. The President recently requested the inclusion of an additional $1 billion in funding for child nutrition programs in the national budget. This commitment preceded the unveiling of Fir ...
• Food & Water Watch Partners With University of New ...
  Today, Food & Water Watch and the University of New Hampshire’s Office of Sustainability kickoff  “Tap In,” a series of films and lectures about water privatization, access, and quality. An initiative of our Take Back the Tap campaign, the series will commence with a showing of, and discussion abou ...

treehugger

• London Subway System is a Design and Transport Mar ...
  Photos: B. Alter: Farringdon Station A good public transit system is one of the best ways to get cars off roads and people into buses and trains. London's system; called the London Underground, or "the Tube" has been rolling along and expanding since 1863. This TreeHugger was invited on ...
• The Growing Edge Of Psychedelic Research And Green ...
  Photo: ponyfire Bioneers, the green conference held in San Rafael, California, culminated today after three full days of workshops, films and concerts. Bioneers is not your typical conference; it covers topics that have been marginalized in the past: youth, women, indigenous cultures and even p ...
• EPA Regulator Recommends Against Spruce Mountainto ...
  photo via RAN Environmental groups and community members have been warning about Arch Coal's proposed Spruce No. 1 Mine in Logan County, West Virginia, saying that the mine, among the nation's largest proposed mountaintop removal site, would devastate the area around it. Apparently, the EPA is ...
• Bike Boxes Come To Toronto In Last Gasp Of Bike In ...
  All images credit Lloyd Alter unless noted Both of the leading candidates for Mayor of Toronto want to cut back on spending and rip up bike lanes on main streets. The leader, Rob Ford , says "I can't support bike lanes. Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks. My heart bleeds when someone g ...
• Face Your Food On UN World Food Day, October 16
  Tomorrow is World Food Day , and FairFood International, which "encourages sustainability in the food industry, contributing to the fight against poverty and hunger around the world." is trying a new form of very social media to promote it. They have set up a websit... Read the full story on Tre ...

Biosingularity

• Amino Acid Supplement Makes Mice Live Longer
  When mice are given drinking water laced with a special concoction of amino acids, they live longer than your average mouse, according to a new report in the October issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication. The key ingredients in the supplemental mixture are so-called branched-chain amino ...
• Low Carb Diet Rich in Animal Fat and Protein Incre ...
  Those who adhered to a diet low in carbohydrates but rich in animal-based fats and proteins increased their risk of death – especially by cancer, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, led by Simmons College nutrition professor Teresa Fung, Sc. D. This study is the first ...
• 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 ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

• U.S. reduces dependence on foreign cobalt
  Cobalt, a precious metal that has all but disappeared from production in the United States, is on the verge of a big American comeback.
• Eco-terrorism hits Maryland: 'Inconvenient Terrori ...
  Inconvenient terrorist James Lee who was shot and killed by a SWAT team in the Discovery Channel Building in Silver Spring, Maryland, is the latest of a long line of eco-terrorists
• How to save the Chesapeake Bay: Oysters vs. Regula ...
  Oysters kept the Bay clean in the past, but the EPA is ignoring this proven solution in favor of big government regulations.
• New ethanol policy poses heavy cost for consumers
  E15 ethanol mandates would bring huge benefits for ethanol producers at the expense of the rest of us.
• New coal mine approved in Utah
  In a victory for the nation̢۪s beleaguered resources industry, Utah officials have approved a permit for a coal mine in their state.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Chinese fabrics and Russian sables in Slava Zaitse ...
  The fashion show of the major Russian fashion designer Slava Zaitsev traditionally opened the 21st Russian Fashion Week in Moscow.
• Russian banks' 2010 profits to hit record-high 200 ...
• Slava Zaitsev opens RFW-2010 with low-cost Chinese ...
  Russian Fashion Week in Moscow traditionally opens with a show by master Russian fashion designer Slava Zaitsev, and this year was no exception. Zaitsev presented his DE LUXE collection for men and women (Spring-Summer 2011). He said that he used “ordinary Chinese fabrics” and fur from Russian sable ...
• Russian Military Reform
• Russia plans to create military police by 2012 - D ...
  Russia will finalize setting up its military police force by 2012, the Defense Ministry said on Monday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russian drifting polar station SP-38 opens in Chuk ...
  In the bitterly cold darkness more than a thousand kilometers above the Arctic Circle, a team of Russian scientists have inaugurated a floating research station that will be home to 15 researchers for up to a year.
• Russia puts U.S. telecoms satellite into orbit
  Russia's Proton-M heavy carrier rocket put a U.S. Sirius XM-5 satellite into orbit on Friday, a spokesman for Russia's space agency, Roskosmos, said.
• Russia launches U.S. telecoms satellite
  A Russian Proton-M heavy carrier rocket with a U.S. Sirius XM-5 satellite blasted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Thursday, a spokesman for Russia's space agency, Roskosmos, said.
• Twitter plans Russian-language interface
  Representatives of the micro blogging site Twitter told Russian bloggers at a meeting in San-Francisco that a Russian-language interface will be launched, without specifying when, a Russian blogger said on Tuesday.
• Political obstacles for Sea Launch overcome - Ener ...
  International consortium Sea Launch plans to resume Zenit-3SL carrier rocket launches from its floating platform in the Pacific Ocean in 2011, the head of the Russian Rocket and Space Corporation Energia said Monday.

Pruning Shears

• 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 .Those links came from the Citizens for Legitimate Government daily email. You can sign up by writing Editor-in-Chief Lori Price (signup at l ...
• Why not a Nobel for Western dissidents?
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post In recent years the Nobel committee has been willing to wade into controversies. A couple of years ago it awarded its economic prize to Paul Krugman, in what appeared to be a swipe at a sitting president and the still (inexplicably) ...
• Homework
  Fifty extra credit points to the first enterprising citizen who forecloses on Vikram Pandit’s house .
• 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. Last week I quoted Catch-22, and what do you know - the news sent me another real life excerpt this week. What’s next, The Syndicate? Say No ...
• Assassination is the new torture
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Andrew Sullivan recently posted a brief defense of Barack Obama’s assassination program and received a sharp response by Glenn Greenwald. The ensuing debate (I believe this and this are the latest) at times has felt depressingly fam ...

Organic Consumers.org

• 52 Percent of Americans Flunk Climate 101
  A new study by researchers at Yale University suggests that Americans' knowledge of climate science is limited and scattershot, with some understanding of basic issues like the contribution of fossil fuels to global warming and some singular misconceptions as well. Click here to read this article
• Michael Pollan: What Do Marijuana and Catnip Have ...
  Julie Holland: Can we start with the catnip story? Michael Pollan: I always kept a little patch of catnip in my garden for my old tomcat, Frank, who really liked it. It's not a very difficult plant to grow. The patch was hard to miss, because it was so shrubby. But every evening around five or six ...
• We are Facing the Greatest Threat to Humanity: Onl ...
  Quite simply, human-centered governance systems are not working and we need new economic, development and environmental policies. Click here to read this article
• EPA Hands the Ethanol Lobby a Hollow Victory
  The EPA has acted to shore up the candidacies of threatened Midwestern Congresscritters and Governors/the finances of ethanol companies/corn prices by approving the new formulation. E15 for all! Click here to read this article
• Sign-on Letter to the Gates Foundation Sponsored b ...
  Dear Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Although we share a recognition that hunger, poverty, and climate change are inter-related through the medium of agricultural policies, we are writing to express our strong concerns that the Foundation's approach to these issues-directly and through its Allia ...

fotoFrontera

• Paisajes de ensueño parte III (9 fotos de alta res ...
  Si lo desea, revise nuestro archivo. [parte I] [parte II] [parte III] [más paisajes] 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 ...
• Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XVI
  Si lo desea, escoja un número para revisar nuestro archivo de fotos. [1] -[2] -[3] -[4] -[5] -[6] -[7] -[8] -[9] -[10] -[11] -[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] 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 ...
• Tributo a la infancia (12 fotos de niñas y niños m ...
  Para quienes están en la búsqueda de fotos e imágenes de niñas y niños muy lindos , el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas se complace en presentar ' Tributo a la Infancia '. Un set con 12 fotografías impresionantes .Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK ...
• Paisajes de ensueño parte II (7 imágenes gratis)
  Si lo desea, revise nuestro archivo. [Parte I] [Más paisajes increíbles] 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 imágene ...
• Ciudades en la oscuridad I (luces de la noche)
  A estas alturas, cada vez son más las personas que saben que mi único objetivo es compartir con los demás. Por ello mismo, con frecuencia estoy lanzando nuevas colecciones con imágenes realmente diferentes y hermosas. Un claro ejemplo, es esta nueva serie titulada ' Ciudades en la oscuridad (luces d ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Agricultural Biotech and Chemical Industry Put on ...
  In mid-October of every year, Iowa State and Central Iowa sees its fair share (or more) of dignitaries, current and former agricultural lobby folks, Farm Bureau top brass and even usually a cabinet officer or two. This is not the presidential primaries, but the World Food Prize week. This year, over ...
• CLF Knows What’s in the Nation’s Chicken
  On Thursday, CLF Director Dr. Robert S. Lawrence joined, Dr. David Kessler, former FDA Commissioner, and, Urvashi Rangan, PhD (JHSPH ‘95), Consumer Reports, on the Dr. Oz Show’s segment entitled “What’s in the Nation’s Chicken?” The guests on this national broadcast began by discussing the additive ...
• Straight Talk About The Risks of Feeding Antibioti ...
  It is time for some straight talk about the risks of using massive amounts of antibiotics in livestock and poultry. I don’t know one infectious disease expert who would disagree that there are direct links between antibiotic use in food animals and antibiotic resistance in people. Period. If you don ...
• Food & Dignity
  “So, where do the leftover veggies go?” It’s a common question around here, especially on Tuesdays. The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) operates a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, connecting students, faculty and s ...
• Reading between the lines: FDA indicates consumer ...
  FDA hosted a hearing on Tuesday, September 21 to discuss the hypothetical labeling of genetically engineered (GE) salmon. Just fifteen hours earlier the FDA finished hearing the debate on GE salmon approval, which gave the impression that FDA was moving faster on the issue than it actually is.  This ...

Norwegianity

• Groveling will be mandatory (ass kissing will repl ...
  It’s official: the new meme is that the teabaggers are so filled with rage that it won’t end on election day. Frank Rich: n the final stretch of 2010, the radical rightâs anger is becoming less focused, more free-floating â more likely to be aimed at âgovernmentâ in general, whatever the loc ...
• The lying liars get louder and louder
  I left a comment at Gary Fine’s latest MANUFACTURED YourVoices piece on the red-headed Arab bastard Christ-killing children who throw themselves at innocent Israeli cars. This would be the same YourVoices gig a client of mine tried to contribute to after she wrote about stuff happening right here in ...
• Gerson to Gorillaz, your day in G’s
  Michael Gerson personifies the two-faced nature of the Republican elites, eagerly fanning hateful memes while perched upon his lofty moral precipice from which he judges the dicks and the reds. Christopher Hitchens is a red. Christopher Hitchens is weaker on the personal and ethical challenge presen ...
• Michele Bachmann wearing black men’s clothin ...
  Former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has new book out in which he accuses Rumsfeld of gross incompetence. The US had no reason to invade Iraq in 2003, and only did so because of “a series of lies” told to the American people by the Bush administration, says Gen. Hugh Shelton, who served [...]
• Fighting cancer with beer (& other urban myths tha ...
  Unlike our economy, the buried Chilean miners are finally seeing the light of day. Americans, otoh, are just getting buried under more and more bullshit. Maureen Dowd is so worried she actually wrote a column that doesn’t knee Democrats in our collective groin: So now the Republican president who bu ...

Public News Service

• Voting or Job-Hunting, AZ Seniors say, 'I'm Not Do ...
  Voting or Job-Hunting, AZ Seniors say, 'I'm Not Done Yet' Phoenix, AZ – If the future looks anything like being put out to pasture, Arizona's over-50 generation wants nothing to do with it. AARP president-elect Rob Romasco (rah-MOSS-koe)says older workers will be key to the upcoming elections as wel ...
• 400,000 AZ Women Lose Health Exams to Budget Cuts
  400,000 AZ Women Lose Health Exams to Budget Cuts Phoenix, AZ – A less-publicized effect of the legislature’s October 1st budget cuts to AHCCCS (Access) is that routine annual well-care exams for some 400,000 low-income Arizona women are no longer covered. The action effectively shuts them out from ...
• Climate Change Paints Not-so-pretty Fall Allergy P ...
  Climate Change Paints Not-so-pretty Fall Allergy Picture in AZ Phoenix, AZ - Increased carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels are changing our climate, says the National Wildlife Federation, and it means tougher fall allergies this year and beyond for people in Arizona. Comments from NWF Climate ...
• Families USA: Health Care Reform Means Largest-Eve ...
  Families USA: Health Care Reform Means Largest-Ever Middle Class Tax Cut Phoenix, AZ – A consumer group has analyzed the impact of the health care reform signed into law this spring, and they contend it’s going to result in an enormous tax cut for the middle class, with at least 600,000 Arizonans be ...
• Other States Long for AZ's Redistricting System
  Other States Long for AZ's Redistricting System Phoenix, AZ – After the November elections, states will start the process of redrawing their political boundaries. A Wisconsin activist wishes his state would follow Arizona's approach. Comments from Mike McCabe, executive director of the Wisconsin Dem ...

Center for Food Safety

• Federal Court Strikes Down Ohio Ban On rBGH-Free L ...
  Relying on evidence of compositional differences between milk from cows treated with rbST/rbGH and milk from untreated cows, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals today struck down an Ohio state ban on labels pertaining to the use of artificial hormones in dairy products (IDFA et al v. Boggs, U.S. Cour ...
• Center for Food Safety Testifies at Congressional ...
  Congress Sharply Critical of USDA’s Biotech Crop Oversight Failures, Calls for New Regulations  Live webcast: “Are ‘Superweeds’ an Outgrowth of USDA Biotech Policy? (Part II),” at: http://domesticpolicy.oversight.house.gov, 2pm EDT. Today the Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the House Oversight and G ...
• Thirty Eight Representatives And Senators Call On ...
  Over Fifty Organizations and Businesses Endorse Congressional Letters;  CFS Calls upon FDA to Reject Approval of GE Salmon The Center for Food Safety applauds the 38 Representatives and Senators for requesting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) halt the approval of the long-shelved AquaBoun ...
• Federal Court Finds USDA Broke The Law In Allowing ...
  Court To Consider Appropriate Remedy For Industry’s Rush To Plant Monsanto’s Herbicide Resistant Crop Late yesterday, Judge Jeffrey White, federal district judge for the Northern District of California, ruled that Plaintiffs Center for Food Safety, Organic Seed Alliance, High Mowing Organic Seeds, a ...
• Misguided FDA Opposition to Labeling Could Leave P ...
  Recent Poll Shows 91% of Americans Oppose GE Animals; CFS calls for clear, mandatory labeling After a two-day public hearing on the approval of the first genetically engineered (GE) animal intended for human consumption, the AquAdvantage GE salmon, FDA held a public hearing today to discuss whether ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• Doing Exactly As They Have Been Trained
  Doing Exactly As They Have Been Trained | CommonDreams.org : "Disturbing videos of detainee abuse - subtle, mental and degrading, not Abu-Ghraib-brutal - has been released by Ethan McCord, the veteran who wrote the 'Open Letter of Reconciliation & Responsibility to the Iraqi People' after his Bravo ...
• Cuba: Mensaje de Fidel Castro
  #Cuba: Mensaje de Fidel Castro � Yohandry’s Weblog : Lo último que podía esperarse eran las noticias de la expulsión de los gitanos franceses, víctimas de la crueldad de la extrema derecha francesa, que eleva ya a siete mil de ellos, las víctimas de otra especie de holocausto racial. Es elemental ...
• Pentagon Considering Buying and Immediately Destro ...
  Pentagon Considering Buying and Immediately Destroying Every Copy of Military Memoir : [gawker.com] "The Pentagon is so worried about revelations in a new memoir about the War on Terror that it's considering buying 10,000 copies — the entire first printing — and destroying them. Sounds like a good b ...
• Inside the killing fields of Queensland
  Inside the killing fields of Queensland | The Australian The discovery of a memoir by Steele Rudd's father sheds new light on the murderous collision between settlers and Aborigines on the Darling Downs At one time we had a blackfellow skull decorating the veranda, and not until it was removed woul ...
• Columbus statue vandalized with red paint
  Columbus statue vandalized with red paint | Turn to 10 : "PROVIDENCE -- Portions of a statue of Christopher Columbus in Providence were covered in red paint, police said. The statue stands at the fork at Elmwood and Reservoir Avenues. A sign that read 'murderer' was also put around the statue's w ...

Pensieve

• Tascon List Documentary
  Those who defend Hugo Chávez need to see this documentary. The Tascón list is a list of all the voters who put their name, their fingerprint, and their social security numbers, in the 2004 recall referendum against Chávez. They were branded as “traitors” and summarily stripped of all government jobs ...
• Cobalt Bomb in Honduras!?
  Photo by Doug Wallick I completely disbelieve this news report. In it, it said that the residents of Las Tapias, Francisco Moraz�n are being evacuated because of radiation from a cobalt bomb. A cobalt bomb is a type of nuclear weapon with little blast capacity, but enormous contamination from fallou ...
• Banksy Writes on Springfield’s Walls
  Banksy, the famous British graffiti artist and activist, created this opening sequence for The Simpsons; it is brilliant, and sobering at the same time. Of course it is overstated…that’s the heart of comedy. South Korea is prosperous in comparison even to China. But, I venture to guess that most peo ...
• More Evidence of Nuclear Cover-Up in Venezuela
  Photo by Daniella Zalcman Hugo Chavez seems to believe the clichéd proverb: “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. For years there have been underreported accounts of Chavez’s collabroation with Iran’s “secret” nuclear program. Venezuela has the world’s largest uranium deposits in the mountains where ...
• Google TV Arriving Soon
  I am angry that the MPAA and RIAA punish the world by creating a byzantine bureaucracy in their licensing…which leaves us who live outside the US in the dark. Hopefully Google TV will figure out a way to break that. If it did, it could sweep Apple TV away completely. Related posts:Google Chrome is n ...

Green Times

• Environmental News 18/10/2010
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• The GreenWay to Biodiversity
  One of Sydney’s best-kept secrets is a narrow stretch of greenery now known as the GreenWay – explore it now…
• Environmental News 15/10/2010
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Environmental News 14/10/2010
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Environmental News 07/10/2010
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• 8 mercenaries die in Afghan clash
  ShareThis 8 mercenaries die in Afghan clash 18 Oct 2010 Eight guards of a private security company were killed and three wounded in a clash between insurgents and the private security company Sunday night, officials said. The clash took place in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, said Daud Ahm ...
• Dawn news vehicle targeted, torched by gunmen
  ShareThis Dawn news vehicle targeted, torched by gunmen 17 Oct 2010 Incidents of violence and firing continued ahead of PS-94 by-elections in Karachi on Saturday night. A Dawn news vehicle was torched and its staff targeted in an incident that took place near Safoora Chowrangi in Karachi. The Dawn n ...
• Iraq: 12 Die as Gunmen Storm Baghdad Gold Shops
  ShareThis Iraq: 12 Die as Gunmen Storm Baghdad Gold Shops 18 Oct 2010 At least 12 people died when [Blackwater?] gunmen invaded a row of gold shops in the Mansour District of western Baghdad on Sunday and ended up in a gunfight with security forces, police and military officials said. The gunmen use ...
• Roadside bomb in Baghdad kills local politician
  ShareThis Roadside bomb in Baghdad kills local politician 18 Oct 2010 A spokesman for Baghdad's Provincial Council says a roadside bomb has hit a convoy carrying a local government member, killing him and wounding eight people. The spokesman, Mohammed Hashim, says the politician, Jassim al-Saiedi, w ...
• Federal Agents Urged to 'Friend' People on Social ...
  ShareThis Federal Agents Urged to 'Friend' People on Social Networks, Memo Reveals --Report: Official government program to spy via social networking on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Digg, Twitter, MySpace, Craigslist and Wikipedia 14 Oct 2010 A privacy watchdog has uncovered a government memo that en ...

Daily Loaf

• LeTeaze’s Curtain Call: where vaudeville meets Veg ...
  When my parents go to Vegas, they always get tickets to one of the many topless stage performances like Peep Show. I’ve never understood the need to spend $100 a person to watch near naked women dance around in feathers and crystal costumes in a city where a $100 will buy you at least two [...]
• Worst idea ever: The Human Sexipede
  Yep, they went there. The porno gods have squeezed stag films out of every pop culture icon from Lindsay Lohan to Lucille Ball, Avatar to Happy Days; but The Human Sexipede is the first to shock me. It takes titanium balls – not to mention seriously questionable judgment – to turn The Human Centi ...
• In defense of bacon: Despite what the critics say, ...
  Let’s admit it: the bacon jubilee has gotten out of hand and is just plain silly. But despite years of this absurd bacon bacchanal, the trend shows no sign of receding. Bacon isn’t going anywhere.
• EarthTalk: Does oil drilling cause sinkholes or ea ...
  What, if anything, fills the empty space underground created by the extraction of billions of gallons of oil? Could oil drilling be one of the causes of increasing amounts of land settling and sinkholes in oil rich areas?
• Dems hammering harder on undocumented campaign fun ...
  Good Monday morning to you all. Hope y’all enjoyed your weekend. As a San Francisco Giants fan, I’m sanguine after splitting in Philly this weekend. Can we hear from Gator fans out there this morning? Anyway, love to chat sports with you, but we’re 15 days from an election! Early voting commences ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Settler-style thugs operating inside Israel
  by Jesse Bacon One after another, the parallels to fascism pile up in Israel, like the sticks (which is what the root of Fascism means) on a fire. Now a town in Israel has adopted perhaps the most visible feature of many a dictatorship: paramilitary police. The settlers have long functioned in this ...
• Premiere of a Film Documenting Relationships betwe ...
  Tuesday, September 28th, brought us at the Villages Group great satisfaction. On that day, we and many of our friends in Susiya had the pleasure of attending the world premiere of the film “The Human Turbine” at the Haifa International Film Festival. Over a period of two years from 2008 to 2010, a f ...
• Works in progress: the partitions of Iraq and Pale ...
  By Rela Mazali Works in Progress: - The partition of Palestine (most recently into Gaza Strip; East Jerusalem; West Bank) - The partition of Iraq In Iraq, the occupation is attempting “ethnic” partition. See: Statement issued this week (October 10, 2010) by the BRussels Tribunal, stating among ot ...
• “We will not be citizens of a fascist state ...
  From Gush Shalom October 10, 2010 A protest rally against the government’s “Loyalty Oath Bill” was held outside the Tel Aviv house where Ben-Gurion read the 1948 the Declaration of Independence. There, today, the “Declaration of Independence from Fascism” was signed. “We are citizens of the Israel w ...
• Abdallah Abu Rahmah gets one year in prison despit ...
  from the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Bil’in protest organizer Abdallah Abu Rahmah was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment today, for his involvement in his village’s unarmed struggle against the wall. Abdallah Abu Rahmah was sentenced today to 12 months in prison, plus 6 month ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Easy unsubscribing in GMail
  From the GMail Blog. If you want to unsubscribe…, click “show details” in the top-right corner of the message, then click “Unsubscribe from this sender.” GMail will then send the unsubscribe request for you. This only works for legitimate listservs. For spammers, do just that. Mark it as spam. Unsub ...
• Sexual abuse by priests. How long has this been go ...
  Sister Mary MacKillop of Australia was canonized by the Vatican. She exposed sexual abuse by priests of minors and in retaliation, the male hierarchy excommunicated her in 1871 and tried to shut down the order she founded. The excommunication was lifted after five months. While I suppose it’s good t ...
• Nonviolence does not equal complacency
  I went to a protest in Philadelphia this past Saturday, and it was more disheartening than anything else.  It was against the wars and various other injustices, with a special focus on he recent FBI raids of peace activists and Pennsylvania Homeland Security spying on innocent civilians and activist ...
• Mumbia attacker’s wife warned Feds he was terroris ...
  Emphasis added “Get lost” was what the US officials in Islamabad told the young Moroccan wife of [accused 2008 Mumbia attacker] David Headley when she informed them that her husband was planning a terror attack in India “I told them, he’s either a terrorist, or he’s working for you,” she recalled sa ...
• Score voting and approval voting. Ways to break th ...
  Our two-party duopoly is supported and kept in power by a plurality voting system that makes it difficult for third parties to break through. But it doesn’t have to be that way. There are other, far more equitable voting methods. Among them are score voting and approval voting. I plan to explore the ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

• Drug cartels plan to send assassins to Arizona
  PHOENIX â A recently leaked memo from the Department of Homeland Security alerts law enforcement agencies that assassins are being hired by drug cartels in an effort to improve drug trafficking through Arizona. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu says the leaked memo was sent to law enforcement agenci ...
• Swine flu jab linked to rare nerve disease
  Experts are carrying out studies to examine a possible association between the vaccine and Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a condition which attacks the nervous system and can cause paralysis and even death. The authorities have always denied any link although it had been suggested a previous swine flu vac ...
• ‘G20 to agree on new regulations to control big ba ...
  Global banking regulators are expected to work out new rules aimed to control too-big-to-fail banks in the lead up to the Group of 20 summit in Seoul in November, Korea’s top watchdog official said. They will be part of an extensive set of global banking rules likely to be approved by the leaders of ...
• Global leaders mull joint governance ahead of G20
  MARRAKECH, Morocco â World leaders examined at the weekend frameworks for global governance ahead of a G20 summit in Seoul, with UN chief Ban Ki-Moon stressing no single power could tackle key issues alone. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Fu Ying told the World Policy Conference (WPC) in Marrakech: ...
• ‘Officer Bubbles’ wants YouTube users ...
  This month, Thomson Reuters, one of the largest media companies in the world, announced it would no longer allow anonymous comments on its website, citing the comments’ “repetition, taste, legal risk or political bias.” The shift away from creating an online community, once the focus of media compan ...

The Air Vent

• Denying the Catstrophe
  A very nice essay by Warren Meyer is linked below.  In context is Hegerel’s recent talk highlighted on Bishop Hill where she is quoted as saying: …What is frustrating to me as a scientist is that the objections raised by the skeptics groups are scientifically so stupid often…it would be really much ...
• Robust?
  I continue to learn new details of paleoclimate.  The Ljungqvist proxies have been great fun so far.  I can’t plot them individually because some are confidentially revealed but I can average them.  One surprise I had was when I took all tree proxies and all non-tree proxies and created nearly id ...
• Where do winds come from?
  Again, some very important (and simple) confirmation of condensation driven winds.  When you see the top of clouds forming or evaporating, it should make you think.  The paper is open for scientific commentary there and blog commentary here. —————- Anastassia Makarieva Where do winds come from? A ...
• Nice Job Russia — Good call.
  Fantastic news from our Russian friends, after all who wouldn’t want such a stable country and individual to be a nuclear power?! Russia to build nuclear power station in Venezuela I’m sure that our IPCC climatologist friends will agree that all countries and governments are created equal, and an en ...
• Continuing Copygate Discussions
  Climate Audit reader Geoff left this in the comments at the excellent CA copygate thread.  Not sure if this is Geoff Sherrington or not. Geoff Posted Oct 13, 2010 at 8:45 AM | Permalink | Reply I note the comment from the Office of Research Integrity of the US Department of Health & Human Services: ...

Focal Point

• Panic In Porn Valley as Actor Tests Positive for H ...
  At least five major porn studios have shut down after an actor tested positive for HIV this week. In my latest story for Working In These Times , I report on potential structural conflicts of interest in the industry-sponsored HIV testing program for straight porn in the San Fernando Valley. The in ...
• Boobs Against Breast Cancer: Dubious "Awareness" C ...
  Something I wrote for this week's edition of the Weekly Pulse health care newsletter. The gimmicky, pink breast cancer "awareness" stunts are getting old.  October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. The National Cancer Institute estimates that over 207,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer ...
• It's a Trap! NYC Law Would Force "Crisis Pregnancy ...
  Excellent: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Councilwoman�Jessica S. Lappin (D) have introduced legislation to require so-called " crisis pregnancy centers " in New York City to disclose that they are not full-service reproductive health centers.� CPCs are self-proclaimed sub-specialty of th ...
• Pregnant 13-year-old Peruvian Rape Victm Denied Me ...
  Republican senate candidate Sharron Angle says that teenagers who are raped should make lemonade out of lemons by bearing their attackers' children. Angle is one of several senate candidates who do not believe that abortion should be legal under any circumstances, even in cases of rape or incest. ...
• Candidate Visits Mailbox "HQ" of American Future F ...
  Rep Bruce Braley (D-Ia) paid a visit to the "headquarters," of the American Future Fund , a shadowy 501(c)4 group that has spent nearly $1 million to defeat him in the upcoming election. American Future Fund , a conservative nonprofit based in Des Moines, has repeatedly attacked Braley in the h ...

Inside Facebook

• Zuckerberg Signals That Facebook is Beginning to C ...
  China, which has lured and disappointed numerous U.S. consumer Internet companies, is finally beginning to attract Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s eye. “How can you connect the whole world if you leave out a billion people?” he said during Y Combinator‘s Startup School at Stanford Unive ...
• Facebook Arrives in Tanzania
  “You know Facebook?” a 21-year-old Tanzanian accounting student named Noel asked me. We were sitting on a couple of plastic chairs last night outside a tiny, concrete local store selling individually packaged shampoo packets, detergent and Cokes for about 10 to 30 cents a piece in a northern part of ...
• This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games
  Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games â tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, October 11th, 2010 Revisiting Warstorm, a Growing Zynga Strategy Title City Building Games Head This Week’s List of Fastest- ...
• 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 PlayFirst, Rocket Ninja, Mindgames, and 6wav ...
• Facebook Roundup: Photos, Chat, Video, HTML5, Even ...
  Deleted Facebook Photos Around 16 Months Later – Jacqui Cheng from ArsTechnica wrote and update to a piece from a year ago where she wanted to see how long it takes to remove a deleted photo from a social networkâs servers. Turns out her deleted photo was still on Facebookâs server more than 16 ...

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ReDress News

• Why Israel will never show a map of its borders
  Alan Hart explains that Israel will never produce a map of its internationally-recognized borders because no Israeli leader would ever have the courage and leadership to stand up to and remove Jewish squatters from the occupied territories.
• Pentagon author exposes Zelikow’s key role in 9/11 ...
  Maidhc Ó Cathail views recent evidence provided by a former US intelligence official indicating that Philip Zelikov, executive director of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, had deliberately withheld key evidence from the 9/11 Commission.
• Poets and political activists: the case of Liu Xia ...
  Paul J. Balles considers the Norwegian Nobel Committee's decision to award Chinese dissident and poet Liu Xiaobo the Nobel Peace Prize by looking at the qualities that are common to poets and political activists.
• My oath to Israel's "Jewish democracy": why my fin ...
  Jonathan Cook describes his misgivings at having to swear an oath of loyalty to Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state” and explains that the loyalty oath requirement may be the first in a series of steps planned by Israeli leaders to fulfil their vision of a racially pure country.
• Israeli forces test ethnic cleansing scenario
  Israel has secretly staged a training exercise to test its ability to quell any civil unrest that might result from a peace deal with the Palestinian Authority requiring the forcible transfer of many Arab citizens, the Israeli media has reported.

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

• Weekly Round Up for October 17
  The ‘Obvious’ Silence of the Times, China’s Pipelineistan War, Mujahedin’s Penetration of Tajikistan The other day our friend Metem brought to my attention a story that had made it to the Project Censored list, ‘US Funds & Supports Taliban.’ Here are two excerpts from the introduction which are rela ...
• Thinking outside the box? No! Throw the Box Away!
  Breaking the Chain of Institutional Thinking   Largely as a result of the Bush administration’s “war on terror,” the traditional framework of the East-West political dialogue has broken and fallen entirely under the spell of the extremists on both sides. Since much of the West’s relationship was bas ...
• China-Turkmenistan Score: Another Wave of US-Mujah ...
  Extreme Competitions May Bring More Familiar Extreme Measures Here is one of the latest on China-Turkmenistan Pipeline deals: China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has announced the discovery of yet another gas field on the right bank of the Amu Darya River in Turkmenistan, holding in excess o ...
• Friends-Enemies-Both? Our Foreign Policy Riddle
  The Three-Decade US-Mujahideen Partnership Still Going Strong In the last few weeks I’ve been reading and talking about the latest developments in Central Asia and the Caucasus. I am planning to post a few updates on the status of the score board in this region (pipeline rivalries, military base ‘er ...
• American Conservative Magazine Beats UK Papers in ...
  UK-US Media Reports⦠Only When itâs Safe to Publish? Yesterday this made the headlines in UK: Britain Held Secret War Talks With US Generals 11 Months Before Iraq Invasion America’s most senior general flew into Britain for top secret talks on the invasion of Iraq 11 months before the attack on ...

Afro Spear

• Back to the Future: Chinese Neocolonialism in Afri ...
  While the world watched and celebrated the rescue of 33 Chilean miners on Wednesday, 11 Zambian miners were shot and wounded by Chinese managers on Friday when they were presenting their grievences about poor working conditions. This same mine was shut down in January of this year because of a chole ...
• sat’day riddymz
• Dr. Aafia Siddiqui: “Injustice in the age o ...
                Article by Cindy Sheehan. From English Al Jazeera:   “Face it, we all know that since 9/11, there have been numerous false “terror” alerts and lies leading to the capture and torture of hundreds of innocent individuals - and the heinous treatment we have all witnessed to from Abu [... ...
• “My Challenge to the Race Hustlers” By ...
  Op-ed submission by Project 21 At a recent press conference sponsored by the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, Walter Fauntroy blasted Glenn Beck’s August 28 “Restoring Honor” rally by saying that when one refers to the Ku Klux Klan and the tea party movement, âyou have to use [the term ...
• Black Blogger Network Monthly Blogging Contest
  Hello Afrospear family, I am Jessica Ann Mitchell, the facilitator of The Black Love Speak Column (BlackLoveSpeak.com). A few months ago I started another website, BlackBloggerNetwork.com. The purpose of the site is to support the initiatives of Black Bloggers. In an effort to encourage healthy dial ...

Expose the BNP

• Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
  Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a nation ...
• Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
  A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep his po ...
• Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
  The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative candidat ...
• Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
  On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop denying ...
• Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
  On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well ...

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

• As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed at ...
  Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage at h ...
• An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Clinic: ...
  I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
• NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again on Ga ...
  NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner whic ...
• The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised as ...
  John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
• A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and love ...
  We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine providence ...

David J. Gregory

• Conservative Conundrum
  Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because s ...
• HURRAY FOR SHORT MEMORIES!
• Never Forget: Bad Wars Aren’t Possible Unles ...
  This is a very good article from Michael Moore, what he delineates are the reasons we are still in such a mess as a Nation and a people. These reasons are blatant and should never be allowed to happen again. Even though Obama seems to be tied to the Bush Doctrine of appeasing the military-industrial ...
• Truth for Tea Baggers!
  War Machine, all the money for killing, nothing for helping to save lives, war is much more profitable, especially when you supply both sides! Sheeple time to wake up….
• Rand Paul the road to disaster
  Do you remember Rand Paul? He’s the Republican candidate for Senate in Kentucky that went on Rachel Maddow to oppose provisions in the Civil Rights Actafter his surprise victory in the primary. He’s taken max-out checks from Citizens United – the group whose lawsuit led to the new avalanche of corpo ...

Unsuitable Blog

• Million Letter March: Just Say No!
  If anyone sends anything to you asking to join the Million Letter March, treat it like spam. Look, I’m being serious: it’s the idea of Lester Brown, head of the Earth Policy Institute, who’s primary driver doesn’t appear to be saving the global ecology or humanity in general, but saving civilization ...
• What I Am Doing For 10/10/10
  After all, it is a special day.
• Brilliant Rant About Symbolic Action and 10:10
  I have been sent a link to this wonderful “rant” – no, it’s not a rant, it’s telling it like it is – on the Powershift forum. Here’s the Richard Curtis video he refers to, and if Mr Curtis would like my opinions on 10:10 then I would love him to bring his little red [...]
• Reveal Handbags : Revile Fashion
  > Dear Keith, > For your next high-fashion piece, consider REVEAL, the hottest eco-luxury handbags. made of recycled plastic bottles. REVEAL just launched their new Recycled Collection, and it’s perfect for women who are SEXY with SUBSTANCE. You know which women we are referring to. it’s your super ...
• 10 Things That Will Actually Make a Difference On ...
  As I write, thousands of activities are being planned around the world to coincide with the date 10 October 2010, which has been fortuitously chosen for its parallels with the aim to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 10% by the end of 2010 (well that’s one plan blown, then). Anyone on any ma ...

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

• 577 U.S. News Sites Now Using hNews
  The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865. It is the only daily broadsheet newspaper in San Francisco -- and is published online at SFgate.com . In the 1960s Paul Avery was a police reporter at the Chronicle when he started investigating the so-called "Zodiac Killer." Earlier this year Mark ...
• Student Team -- Including Five "Programmer-Journal ...
  In December 2008, a class of Northwestern University journalism master's students -- including two Knight "programmer-journalist" scholarship winners -- unveiled a prototype news Web site called News Mixer . The site, one of the first to integrate Facebook Connect as a system for identity managemen ...
• LocalWiki to Create Collaborative, Community-Owned ...
  So much of the unique knowledge and experiences we acquire through years of living in a community gets spread only by word of mouth, or worse it just stays "locked up" in our heads. But this is great stuff, valuable expert knowledge that can benefit everyone. After all, when it comes to the communit ...
• 'Sourcing Through Texting' Brings Public into Radi ...
  If a large truck illegally barrels through a neighborhood and no reporters are around to see it, does it make the news? It does if local residents with mobile phones can text truck sightings to a local public radio station. This is the premise behind a new pilot project called Sourcing Through T ...
• How to Build a Website: One Piece at a Time
  The likelihood that an online video editing site, a 21st century technological innovation if ever there were one, would draw inspiration from a 34-year-old Johnny Cash song about a broken-down, piece of junk Cadillac is, admittedly, a tad anachronistic. But as my partner, Nonny de la Peña, and I ...

Cutting Edge News

• Book Review - Looking at Lincoln and Darwin's Diff ...
  James Lander. Lincoln and Darwin: Shared Visions of Race, Science, and Religion. Southern Illinois University Press, 2010. 384pp. “Seek and ye shall find.” Matthew 7: 7 The bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s and Abraham Lincoln’s births on February 12, 1809 has prompted a flurry of comparisons in the ...
• Edge on the Economy - The New Dark Financial Ages
  It’s been two months since Timothy Geithner welcomed us to what he called economic recovery in a New York Times op-ed.� It’s been about that long since I argued here that the so-called recovery was a joke. Who can you trust?� Is there a consensus shaping up elsewhere that would help you decide betwe ...
• Inside Mexico - China Eyes Mexican Investments des ...
  Investors from�Pacific Rim nations are also showing greater interest in Tijuana, the Mexican border town that�is adjacent to San Diego CA.�A government delegation from the People's Republic of China visited Tijuana in recent days, greasing the wheels for a tour of Chinese businessmen who are expecte ...
• Mideast Peace on Edge - Mideast Negotiations stall ...
  In negotiating tradecraft, the distinction between positions and interests is a fundamental one. Parties with divergent interests can unite behind common positions, like the environmentalists and trade unions who opposed NAFTA in the 1990s. Just as often, parties with opposing positions fail to perc ...
• Stimulus on the Edge - The Stimulating Hypocrisy o ...
  Rep. Pete Sessions, the firebrand conservative from Dallas, Texas, has relentlessly assailed the Democratic-passed stimulus law as a wasteful “trillion dollar spending spree” that was “more about stimulating the government and rewarding political allies than growing the economy and creating jobs.” B ...

High Country News

• The way it is for some people
  Life on the other side of the border is hard, even for dentists.
• Gas drilling has blighted my life
  We need energy -- but not at the cost of clean water
• In defense of wood heat
  Why not burn trees where they'll do some good -- in your woodstove?
• The birds and the bee(tle)s
  A controversial tamarisk control program is shut down over worries that it threatens rare southwestern willow flycatchers.
• Down the Black Hole
  This summer, journalist Jeremy Miller descended two notorious Utah slot canyons with an equally notorious guide.

CounterCurrents

• All Party Deception
  By Tariq Shah Kashmir continues to be Indias indescribable nightmare, and New Delhi has its own follies to blame. The political engineers in New Delhi have yet again demonstrated, if any evidence was needed, the bankruptcy of their political vision on the dispute of Kashmir. They have unimaginativ ...
• Pentagon Author Exposes Zelikows Key Role In 9/11 ...
  By Maidhc O Cathail In an interview on the Fox Business Network , a retired U.S. intelligence officer accused the official in charge of the 9/11 Commission of a cover-up of intelligence failures leading up to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001
• Smothered By Settlements
  By Mustafa Barghouthi The only way to save the two-state solution is for the Palestinians to declare the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the territories occupied by Israel in 1967, including East Jerusalem, and to demand that the world community recognize it and its borders as ...
• The State Of Bla-Bla-Bla
  By Uri Avnery Will Germany enact a law that demands that every Turk aspiring to citizenship swear allegiance to the German Federal Republic, the Nation-State of the German People? Sounds like a ridiculous idea
• Growing Conflict Over Arctic Resources And The Thr ...
  By Dr. Peter Custers The Moscow Forum on the Arctic seemed a rather surrealistic event. For the Arctic circle is the very region where the drama of the worlds climate catastrophe threatens being enacted. Two of the natural phenomena which scientists describe when speaking of tipping points, of nat ...

Contagious Love Experiment

• Dangerous Activity Thwarted in Afghanistan!
• Tenth Year of War, March to Stop Deployment of Tra ...
  Thursday marked the beginning of the 10th year of war in Afghanistan. There is much to protest about U.S. action there–some performed a die-in to highlight the use of drones (http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/200657/us-drone-kills-7-militants-in-nw-pakistan)–and a group of veterans of The Global ...
• 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 ...

Yid With Lid

• Presidential Hypocrisy: Democrats Get 2x The Forei ...
  This weekend the President and his troops kept pushing the lie about the Chamber of Commerce and foreign donations. David Axelrod continued the administration's offensive against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and conservative groups Sunday, saying there had to be a shady reason behind non-disclosu ...
• Dutch Treat: How Holland's New Government May Set ...
  By Barry Rubin The Netherlands is about to� be Europe's great experiment: Can a center-right government manage�an overblown welfare state, nationally suicidal multiculturalism, and virtually open-door immigration policies in a way that can maintain popular support and solve problems? Af ...
• Is Maurice Hinchey (D-NY-22) Losing it? Has Pre De ...
  Maurice Hinchey, the progressive Democrat from NY's 22 Congressional district is acting as if the campaign pressure is getting to him. This Thursday night, he debated opponent George Phillips,before the debate had a nasty verbal duel with William Kemble correspondent for local newspaper The Daily Fr ...
• Saudi Prince Who Killed Servant Faces Death Penalt ...
  Boy oh boy, that religion of peace certainty has a great sense of justice. Especially the Wahhabi version of Islam practiced in the Saudi Kingdom. Saud Bin Abdulaziz Bin Nasir al Saud, 34, who is a grandson of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, is accused of killing Bandar Abdullah Abdulaziz in a to ...
• Lisa Murkowski Runs Endorsement From Ted Stevens ( ...
  What is it with Senators who are trying to hang on too long, last week Harry Reid named two dead people as his greatest living Americans, today Lisa Murkowski begins running a commercial starring Ted Stevens, the former Alaska Senator who died in a plane crash weeks before Murkowski lost the GOP nom ...

The Real Agenda

• Experimentos Médicos dos EUA sobre os guatemalteco ...
  Já foi amplamente revelado que os Estados Unidos realizaram experiências médicas em prisioneiros e doentes mentais na Guatemala em 1940. Realizado por um médico do governo que trabalhava em um hospital psiquiátrico, os experimentos envolviam infectar guatemaltecos intencionalmente com sífilis (e out ...
• Composto em Agrião “desliga” Proteína ...
  Por Luis R. Miranda Enquanto um tumor canceroso se desenvolve, cresce mais rápido do que seu suprimento sangüíneo pode alimentá-lo. Assim uma proteína chamada Fator Inducivel Hipóxia (HIF) é liberada e envia sinais que causam que o tecido normal circundante crie novos vasos sanguíneos ao red ...
• Governos se Preparam para Confiscar Fundos de Pens ...
  Em preparação para roubar os fundos de previdência privada, os governos agirão da mesma forma como o governo argentino, em 2008, nacionalizou os planos de previdência privada no país, conhecidos como AFJP, e confiscou a riqueza de milhões de pessoas. "Não temos dúvida de que isso violaria o direito ...
• Tecnologías Cibernéticas Invaden Privacidad en Int ...
  Se trata del futuro, en concreto, el orden mundial sombrío que las corporaciones alarmistas rápidamente están haciendo realidad. Al igual que con otros aspectos de la vida cotidiana en el mundo post constitucional, decisiones administrativas, que van desde si debe o no contratar a alguien o despedi ...
• Colonel Anthony Schaffer: Government Covered-up 9/ ...
  During an interview on Freedom Watch, Schaffer said a massive cover-up at the highest levels of the U.S. government exists regarding the September 11 attacks in 2001. Filed under: Corruption, War Zone

Wind Watch

• Mineral County Commission, U.S. Wind Force, Allegh ...
  KEYSER — Mineral County Commissioners once again heard from both sides of the wind farm issue as they gathered information this week in regard to the independent consultant required to conduct a study of what it would take to decommission — or dismantle — the turbines at Pinnacle Wind Farm once they ...
• Turbines make ‘lousy neighbours’
  Rick Vezina and his wife Judy love peace and quiet. They found it 12 years ago, settling with their two children into a dream home on the Graham Sideroad in what is now Kingsville’s Gosfield North. “We searched hard to find this place – it’s perfect,” Vezina says. “The property is treed in, no neigh ...
• County council extends ban on large wind turbines
  WHATCOM COUNTY, Wash. — No large wind-turbine projects will be popping up in Whatcom County in the next six months. The county council on Tuesday night extended a moratorium for large wind energy systems. Council members Barbara Brenner and Ken Mann have been working on long-term solutions. âIâm ...
• Permission for €12m windfarm revoked
  An Bord Pleanála yesterday refused planning permission for a €12 million windfarm due to fears it could result in a peat landslide. The proposed 375ft, eight-turbine windfarm in the Slieve Aughty mountain range in northeast Clare lies 17km south of a windfarm at Derrybrien, Co Galway, which was the ...
• Fighting wind farms at the Capitol
  Critics of proposed statewide rules of permitting wind farms in Wisconsin unloaded complaints on legislators, during a hearing at the Capitol Wednesday. A state Senate committee is reviewing the rules from the Public Service Commission, which would create statewide standards for the construction of ...

Not My Tribe

• Has Faulkner bin beatin’ his old lady?
  Who knows? Gary Faulkner will undoubtedly get more Due Process from Colorado’s courts (Go ahead, Gary, THANK us “bleeding heart do-gooder Liberals” for not just turning over Due Process meekly and without protest to your Fascist Whore-lords) than he was willing to give Osama bin Dead_for_8_years. Wh ...
• Dial-a-BabyKiller service offered by Craigslist
  Actually, it was a post offering Body Armor published against C.L. rules (weapons are supposedly prohibited, and according to the Pig Establishment, body armor is an offensive weapon if used by a non-Police criminal, as opposed to the Criminals who make up the Pig Establishment) said he had been a C ...
• So-called Free Market Capitalism doesn’t pay ...
  It instead leeches off Tax-supported Publicly paid enterprises like the Army and Police agencies, not coincidentally the only agencies they want to be continued to have Public Funding…Allow the wealthiest to not pay taxes on money they obtained through blatantly aggressive Government Interventions i ...
• Power already knows the truth
  Nearing the election, I’m reminded of Ward Churchill’s rejection of a modern activist’s purported objective, as left-leaning voices speak up to validate the Democratic Party’s inherent claim to represent what the Republicans do not. As if the corporate status quo doesn’t know very well the reforms i ...
• Marlon Brando’s lost Oscar speech
  In 1973 Marlon Brando declined his Godfather best actor award in solidarity with the American Indian. Yada yada yada, only that much we remember. Something to do with Wounded Knee, but the average American might be excused for confusing the massacre of 300 Lakota in 1890 with a contemporary deadly F ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Jesse Ventura: The Constitution Says They Can Do I ...
  Bill O'Reilly says Muslims killed us on 911 on the View. Whoopi Goldberg & Joy Behar Walk Off the set Jesse Ventura afterward on the Joy Baher Show... Related Info: TruTV's 'Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura' - 9/11
• Hello Everyone
  Hey everybody, my name is Fakeham and I'm just posting this as an introductory post to let everyone know that I am a new contributor to this blog. There's not much to tell about myself because everything important will be in my biography. I have a youtube channel and occasionally do videos on 9/11 r ...
• Iraq Inquiry: your opportunity to demand a new 9/1 ...
  28 September 2010 From Reinvestigate 911 YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO DEMAND A NEW 9/11 INVESTIGATION Reinvestigate 911 is asking 9/11 truth activists worldwide to write to the Iraq Inquiry in London in support of our submission. Please forward this email to any politicians or journalists who may be inter ...
• Debunking the Debunkers
  Permanent Top Post--Scroll Down for Newer Posts Comments are only open to blog contributors , but feel free to contact us here if you have a point of contention or some kind words you would like to share. Ad hominems will be ignored, but well-formed rebuttals may be addressed (and that is a subjec ...
• What We Believe According to JREFers
  So I've just taken a look over at ae911truth.info to see if Mr. Joseph Nobles has been up to anything recently. His latest addition to his site concerns a post by someone on the JREF forum on a thread titled "Why do you still believe that a collapse due to fire wouldn't be possible?". I was ready to ...

Fooducate

• Which is Better for Me: Coke or Diet Coke?
  The obvious answer is: neither. Drink water. Drink tea. Yadda yadda… For most people that answer is not good enough. They aren’t going to make the switch to water, at least not completely. They need their fizzy sweetness. Yes, they know better. And yet… They want to choose the lesser of 2 evils. So ...
• ADA and Hershey Partnership Raises Questions About ...
  This a guest blog post by Carol Plotkin, MS, RD, CDN Like many of my colleagues, I have a mixed reaction to the partnership between my professional organization, the American Dietetic Association (ADA), and the Hershey Center for Health and Nutrition. Many dietitians are up in arms over this l ...
• Today is World Food Day
  It’s World Food Day today. While here in the US most people have a problem with too much food intake, there are millions starving in third world countries. Save the Children, a non-profit whose mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and las ...
• Product Review – Odwalla Heart Health Superfood Fr ...
  Odwalla, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Coca Cola Company, has been making juices, smoothies, and food bars since the mid 1980’s. A company representative reached out to us a few weeks ago regarding a new product with the very promising name you see in the title of this blog post. We had samples ...
• Canada: BPA is Toxic!
  Kudos to our friends north of the border for a brave decision yesterday – Canada became the first country in the world to declare Bisphenol-A a toxin: In the order adding BPA to the toxic register, Health Canada identified dietary intake as the primary source of human exposure. It underlined conc ...

Traffikd

• Increasing Your Blog’s Interactivity: 10 Tips for ...
  Guest post by Alexis Bonari Success in attracting and retaining readers is often influenced by a blog’s level of interactivity. Many readers are more active than passive and want to feel like they have a role in affecting a blog’s content, design, structure, and overall ongoing conversation. Posts ...
• 5 Facebook Apps That Really Make Money
  Guest post by Alexis Bonari If you aren't on Facebook by now, you are probably the only one who isn't. My grandmother has a Facebook page and anyone who can type, is able to start their own page with no problem. Most everyone uses Facebook as a social meeting place, but did you know that you coul ...
• Online Profits Re-Opens (and now it’s free)!
  Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips started a membership site, Online Profits , last year to help people learn about making money online. Daniel has just re-launched and re-vamped Online Profits, and this time there is no charge to get all of the valuable content. The only requirement is that you open ...
• 3 Ways to Ensure Internet Marketing Continues to W ...
  This is a guest post by Susan White Gone are the days when Internet marketing was perceived as the bold, new and innovative way to market and publicize your products and services. Today, email marketing and other forms of pushing your products on the web are passé. The Internet is growing faster th ...
• Cloud Living Now Available From Glen Allsopp
  One of my friends has just launched a new product that I think may be of interest to many Traffikd readers. Glen Allsopp has written an e-book, Cloud Living , based on his experiences from making a five-figure monthly income from his websites. Cloud Living is actually more than an e-book, it i ...

Survival International

• Finsbury wins ‘PR Disaster of the Year’ award
  Two Naâvi protested outside Vedantaâs AGM. © Survival On the eve of the PR Week Awards, Survival has presented its ’PR Disaster of the Yearâ Award to Finsbury PR and its founder Roland Rudd for their work with FTSE -100 mining company Vedanta Resources . Finsbury is the retained PR age ...
• UN warned about oil pipeline in Peru
  Peru's isolated Indians are highly vulnerable to diseases brought in by outsiders. © Anon Survival is warning the United Nations of massive oil operations in the northern Peruvian Amazon that could decimate uncontacted tribal people . ‘By permitting companies to operate in this region Peru’s g ...
• Survival publishes ‘Top 5 Hall of Shame’ for Colum ...
  Peru's isolated Indians have made it clear they want outsiders to stay out. © Heinz Plenge Pardo / Frankfurt Zoological Society Survival is marking Columbus Day (October 12th/ October 11th in US) by publishing its ‘Top 5 Hall of Shame’ – the key companies violating tribal peoples’ rights worldw ...
• Aboriginal anger at gas project plans
  The proposed gas project in Western Australia has become highly contentious © Keith Wood/ Wilderness Society Preliminary work has started on a controversial gas project on the Western Australian coast. The state’s premier has aroused fury by announcing that land for the development will be comp ...
• Mapuche hunger strike ends
  Mapuche protests are often met with a violent police response © Flickr user antitezo, Creative Commons license Many of the 34 Mapuche prisoners on hunger strike in Chile have ended their protest, after reaching an agreement with the Chilean government. Around ten of the prisoners, however, sa ...

Greg Palast

• Fighting Bob Fest Attracts Big Names
  By Tim Damos, News Republic Greg Palast doesn't pull any punches. His investigative stories are written in classic muckraker style; hard-hitting in both the juiciness they uncover and the language they use. Author of the New York Times best sellers "Armed Madhouse" and "The Best Democracy Money C ...
• Greg Palast Wows Thousands in Wisconsin
  Watch Greg Palast talk at the outdoor 2010 Fighting Bob Festival in Baraboo, Wisconsin.
• Crisis in EcuadorGreg Palast Interviews President ...
  Ecuador news today Ecuador's president attacked by police. Country's leader trapped in hospital after assault, as government declares a one-week state of emergency. In February 2008 Greg Palast met with Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa. They discussed the Lawsuit against Chevron, Eradicating F ...
• Tonight: Palast on Firedoglake.comLive-Chat on New ...
  Join the conversation tonight. Greg will be discussing Big Easy to Big Empty - The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans. You can ask Greg questions on live-chat tonight at 8pm ET on the Firedoglake.com homepage. If you're not already registered, go to Firedoglake.com and register to get your ...
• Palast at the 2010 Fighting Bob Fest
  Watch Greg Palast's speech at the Barrymore Theater on September 10, 2010 for the opening of the annual Fighting Bob Fest Festival in Wisconsin. *** Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Armed Madhouse and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. Palast is a Nation Institute/Puffi ...

Telegraph UK - oil

• Vladimir Putin calls for calm in battle for Arctic ...
  Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, called for calm in the battle for the Arctic's vast untapped energy resources, accusing unnamed forces of trying to stir up trouble.
• Deepwater lessons
  Telegraph View: It is crucial that we learn from the oil-spill catastrophe.
• Greenpeace claims to have shut down Greenland oil ...
  Greenpeace claims its activists have shut down a ''dangerous'' oil drilling operation by a British energy company in the Arctic.
• BP handout 'saved the summer' in Florida
  Visitor numbers in Florida have risen despite the BP oil spill, thanks to a £20m promotion, reports Richard Luscombe.
• Microbe eating spilled oil in Gulf of Mexico
  A newly discovered species of microbe is breaking down oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico much faster than scientists thought possible.

Ian Welsh

• Repudiating Liberalism or Obama
  We’re coming up on the midterms, and the Republicans are cruising.  Odds are very high that  they will retake the House, there is an outside chance they will retake the Senate.  This is being spun as, is being seen as, a repudiation of liberalism and progressivism. Back in early 2009 I told other ...
• Bankers’ extortion
  And we as a society may be on the line for hundreds of billions more to sort out of the title clusterfuck as we can't afford to hurt the banksters' feelings by sacking, shaming, seizing assets and taxing their wealth.
• You can generally count on Obama…
  … to do the wrong thing. The Obama administration said it plans to appeal a ruling striking down the law (DADT), and asked a federal judge for an emergency stay of her decision. And think the reason he has problems it that folks think he’s too left wing, but his policies were all good ones [...]
• Washington State May Cut Medicaid Drug Benefits
  I notice that of the solutions suggested, raising taxes on the rich isn’t one of them. Truly, such a thing is unthinkable: far more unthinkable than poor people dying because they don’t have medication. Interesting set of priorities. I also strongly suspect that the savings will be less than the gov ...
• Bankers’ extortion
  And we as a society may be on the line for hundreds of billions more to sort out of the title clusterfuck as we can't afford to hurt the banksters' feelings by sacking, shaming, seizing assets and taxing their wealth.

Age of Autism

• Announcing The Combating Autism Act Reauthorizatio ...
  President Bush signed into law the Combating Autism Act (CAA) on December 19, 2006. This landmark legislation authorized $700 million in research funding over five years and set the goal of finding the cause (including possible environmental causes) and treatments...
• Attorney and Autism Expert Mary Holland On Fox & F ...
  Watch Fox & Friends on Saturday, October 16 at 9:20am EDT to see Mary Holland, Age of Autism Contributor discuss the landmark Supreme Court case of Bruesewitz v. Wyeth. (Check your local listings for airtime.) Mary Holland is Director of...
• Chief Justice Roberts Sells Pfizer Shares Before L ...
  Many Americans are unaware that vaccinations, a medical product with known side effects that can include death, are exempt from the standard jury trial system of every other product sold in the country. Drugs that you swallow, rub onto your...
• Read the Bruesewitz Supreme Court Document Here
  Read the Bruesewitz Supreme Court document HERE. By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. In an oral argument before the Supreme Court the justices have read all of the briefs and motions. They come to oral argument with their best, most provocative questions....
• Henry Waxman: Father of the Autism Epidemic as Sup ...
  Managing Editor's Note: We ran this post in October of 2008. We're running it today as background about the 1986 law that is being challenged in the Supreme Court (see HERE.) By J.B. Handley Almost 22 years ago, on October...

Global BDS Movement

• Press Release: Five countries boycott tourism conf ...
  Five countries boycott tourism conference in Jerusalem FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15 October 2010 • UK, Sweden, Turkey, South Africa, and Ireland will not attend controversial conference hosted by Israel • Many countries undecided or set to only send low-level delegations • OECD General Secretary wa ...
• Palestinian Civil Society Urges COOP to Boycott Ag ...
  COOP ITALIA Via del Lavoro 6/8 40033 Casalecchio di Reno BOITALIA 7 October 2010 Dear COOP board members, read more
• Open letter to UK Trades Union Congress General Se ...
  4th October 2010 Brendan Barber General Secretary Trades Union Congress Congress House Great Russell Street London WC1B 3LS   Dear Mr Barber,   The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), of which all of Palestinian trade union federations are members, war read m ...
• TIAA-CREF: Divest from Injustice
  Occupied Palestine, October 4th 2010 - The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), on behalf of its constituent organizations and unions representing the majority of Palestinian civil society, calls upon the US non-profit pension fund TIAA-CREF to li read more
• Czech public figures call on Václav Havel: “Do not ...
  [ ISM Czech Republic ] - In response to news about Václav Havel’s support for an international campaign to fight so-called ’delegitimisation’ of Israel and to fight against the worldwide boycott movement against Israelinitiated by the former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar, ISM Czech Republ ...

Farm Wars

• Republic Defiance Radio – What’s wrong with food t ...
  Republic Defiance Radio hits the airwaves Sunday night, October 17, 2010. Times: 9 pm Pacific, 10 pm Central, 11 pm Eastern This week’s show: What’s Wrong With Food Today: A Producer’s Perspective This week’s guest is Paul Griepentrog. Paul is a lifetime farmer with 30 years of direct marketing expe ...
• James and Barb Yack it up about Food, Eugenics, an ...
  This one-hour conversation with James of Food World Order gets into the “corporate shenanigans … and invasive gmo technology designed to make it next to impossible to raise animals and organic food.” LISTEN HERE…
• The Truth Squad Radio Show with Paul Griepentrog!
  This Sunday we will be talking about the use of "Administrative Admissions Requests" with Paul Griepentrog!
• Scientific Consensus: MSG, GMO’s, and Aspartame ar ...
  Obesity and degenerative diseases are on the rise...but few people are aware that the very foods they eat for nutrition are having quite the opposite effect.
• Just Say No to GMO!
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Open Your Eyes News

• Speed cameras to stay despite faults
  Herald Sun – Victoria Police is unlikely to scrap “point-to-point” speed cameras despite failures resulting in erroneous charges against innocent drivers. Nine drivers have been wrongly issued with speeding infringements on the Hume Highway in Victoria since the new cameras – which measure vehicles’ ...
• Study: Legal California pot wouldn’t undercu ...
  AP — If Californians vote to legalize marijuana on Nov. 2, Mexico’s drug cartels would feel the pinch, but the significance wouldn’t be overwhelming, a U.S. policy research center said Tuesday. The 57-page study by the RAND Corp. of Santa Monica, Calif., says that the U.S. government routinely over ...
• Lack of demand blamed for US jobs level
  Financial Times – The high level of US unemployment is the result of low demand and not structural deficiencies in Americaâs labour market, Peter Diamond, the Nobel laureate in economics and nominee to join the Federal Reserveâs board of governors, has said. Mr Diamondâs comments carry particu ...
• Angry Haitians protest UN ‘occupation’
  Press TV – A group of Haitian protesters have clashed with UN troops in the capital Port-au-Prince over “the lack of foreign aid and continuing foreign military presence.” Around a hundred protesters blocked the entrance to the main UN base around Port-au-Prince’s airport on Friday and shouted anti- ...
• ‘FBI knew of Mumbai attacks in advance&#8217 ...
  Press TV – A media report says that US intelligence officials were aware of plans to attack Mumbai years before the terrorist incident killed more than 170 people in India’s main port city in 2008. A report published by the Washington Post on Wednesday said that the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• EPA's "environmental justice" tour comes to Califo ...
  Environmental justice, a movement to focus attention on pollution in low-income communities, is a burning cause for Lisa Jackson, the first African American to head the U.S. Environmental Protection agency. Over the last several months, Jackson has toured poor white,...
• Nation's forests help offset greenhouse gas emissi ...
  U.S. forests sequester enough carbon every year to offset roughly 11% of the country's industrial greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new federal report. The inventory ranks California among the top states in forest carbon storage, not far behind its...
• Prop. 23: Avatar's James Cameron kicks in $1 milli ...
  James Cameron, the director of Avatar, the environmental fable masquerading as a 3-D blockbuster, popped a million dollars Friday into the campaign to defeat Proposition 23, a California ballot initiative to suspend the state's global warming law. Cameron, who has...
• Group races against clock to save redwoods from lo ...
  The Save the Redwoods League launched a campaign Friday to raise $7 million to purchase 426 acres that contain one of the last stands of old-growth redwoods in Mendocino County. If the group fails to raise the money by April...
• Big Oil goes to college: a conflict of interest?
  Have hundreds of millions of dollars in grants from major oil companies compromised the ethics of energy research at such institutions as UC Berkeley, UC Davis and Stanford? That's what Jennifer Washburn, a longtime critic of academic conflicts of interest,...

water.org

• What causes more death than war? (Change.org)
  What causes more death than war? (Asnycnow Radio/Change.org) – This summer, the United Nations voted to make access to clean water a recognized human right. This was welcome news to those fighting the disturbing reality that more people die each year from contaminated water than all forms of violenc ...
• Filmmakers Gear Up for ‘One Day on Earth’ (Wired)
  DIY Filmmakers Gear Up for âOne Day on Earthâ (Wired) – Anyone who registers at the One Day on Earth site can submit footage, which will be archived for perusal by other members of the projectâs online community. [T]he One Day on Earth project is backed by the United Nations, American Red Cros ...
• ‘One Day on Earth’ project (NYTimes)
  Numerology Meets Filmmaking in âOne Day on Earthâ Project (New York Times) – What will you be doing on 10-10-10? The organizers of One Day on Earth donât care what the answer is as long as you videotape yourself doing it. The goal: To compile an online archive and subsequent feature film showc ...
• Write a post for clean water (Mashable)
  Write a Post for Clean Water [Blog Action Day 2010] (Mashable) – On October 15, thousands of bloggers across more than 100 countries will participate in Blog Action Day to debate, brainstorm and raise awareness around clean water. Blog Action Day has set up its very own Twitter account, @blogactiond ...
• Reducing poverty through water, sanitation (MediaG ...
  Reducing poverty through water and sanitation (MediaGlobal) – Nicole Wickenhauser, senior manager at Water.org, told MediaGlobal, âClose to half of all people in developing countries are suffering at any given time from a health problem caused by water and sanitations deficits. Lack of access to c ...

Before It's News

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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

• Uganda Tabloid Urges "Hanging of Homos"
  A Ugandan tabloid has published photos of 100 allegedly homosexual men, including their addresses and workplaces, calling for their hanging. The weekly has sold freely around the country. Submitted by Naoko I. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Support the Afghan Women Empowerment Act ! PLEASE ...
  Urge the United States House of Representatives, the United States Senate, and President Obama to pass the Afghan Women Empowerment Act (H.R.2214, S.229). Submitted by Cher C. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• cant we all come together as just humans who care
  Its crazy how we are seperated by religion, race, wealth, political parties, we are just humans and until we learn that there will be no peace, if you feel the same visit this petition just to show that you care Submitted by anthony c. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Israel makes settlement offer; Palestinians say no
  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered the Palestinians a trade off on Monday to revive peace talks they quit -- a new freeze on building in settlements if they recognize Israel as a Jewish state. The Palestinians rejected that offer. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
• MALAWI: Welfare of Poverty-Stricken Families Depen ...
  For HIV-positive Tereza Chatsilizika, the monthly cash grant of 10 dollars she receives means that she can educate her disabled daughters and put food on the table.Since the 2006 introduction of a social cash transfer scheme by an NGO and government, thou Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �N ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• The Renewable Energy Leaders Forum: Martin Ritchie ...
  With its Green Energy Act and precedent-setting feed-in tariffs , Ontario is not only becoming Canada's clean energy hub, but also a worldwide hotspot .� read more
• Ikea Plans to Power its California Stores Using th ...
  IKEA has announced plans to install 20,000 solar panels on seven stores and a distribution center in California. read more
• U.S. Solar Capacity Expected to Exceed One Gigawat ...
  A new report from the Solar Energy Industries Association and GreenTech Media Research estimates that the United States' solar capacity will reach more than one gigawatt this year -- enough to power 200,000 homes. read more
• Time for Solar to Push Back
  Solar now enjoys a powerhouse set of assets that many industries spend dearly to acquire: explosive growth, wide and deep public support, and a base of authentic citizen advocates – many of whom aren’t in the industry but see it as a ...
• American Sporting Centers Going Solar
  The National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has created tools, guidelines and comprehensive software to help American sports franchises reduce their carbon footprint, specifically the NRDC has been pushing solar power. read more

News Blaze

• General Hospital #1 in Women 18-34 Demographic
  ABC Daytime management would have viewers and advertisers believe that the increase in ratings is an indication that more viewers are watching and therefore more viewers are satisfied with the current direction of the show.
• Illegal South-Korean Fishing Vessel Held in Somali ...
  The owners as well as the international navies have been keeping mum until today, when the British mastered Maritime Security Centre MSC(HOA) notified the case based on a statement by South Korea's Foreign Ministry.
• Government Abducts Newborn Daughter From U.S. Fede ...
  Couple's newborn baby was taken from them by officials because the father is involved with a group opposed to government suppression.
• Secretary Clinton Speaks about Innovation and Amer ...
  I have been invited to come to the Commonwealth Club many times over the years and was unable to accept that kind invitation, but I thought it would be an appropriate time for me to have this conversation.
• Sanskrit Mantras Opened 100th Anniversary of Scout ...
  Wearing saffron colored attire, a ruddraksh mala (rosary), and traditional sandalpaste tilak (religious mark) on the forehead, Rajan Zed sprinkled few drops of sacred water from river Ganga in India around before the prayer.

Historical Notes

• Fidel Castro
• Fidel Castro History Archive
  Tab seemed to migrate to others !
• Castro Speech database

libcom

• South African Communist Party Attacks Road Blockad ...
  333087.JPEG The South African Communist Party (SACP), long considered one of the most Stalinist Communist Parties anywhere, has joined the liberal NGOs in their attempt to rally public opinion against a ...
• Autonomous Community Oaxaca on the TV Fri 22 Oct C ...
  Unreported World Mexico's Indian Rebellion Friday 22nd October 7.30pm Channel 4 In the mountains of southeastern Mexico, Unreported World finds 400 members of an indigenous community, who are fighting for independence, holed up in b ...
• Round 2 of the TEKEL struggle: workers against the ...
  The TEKEL struggle has restarted - this time in Istanbul. The TEKEL struggle which gave birth to the "Ankara Soviet", a collection of tents which workers gathered and lived around for 80 days in the center of Ankara, Kızılay, was one of ...
• Brutal repression in the Acropolis as riot police ...
  Riot police beats and tear-gases workers within the Acropolis, one journalist injured. The moment was acutely symbolic for a country that brags as the cradle of democracy and indicative of the Greek government's loss of measure in face o ...
• The mood in the Royal Mail sorting office - Roy Ma ...
  royal-mail-sorting-006.jpg Vince Cable has spoken: Royal Mail is to be privatised. Postal worker Roy Mayall and his colleagues wonder whether things can get any worse, and describe the demoralisation cau ...

Free Range International

• The Going Is Getting Tough
  The ongoing saga about banning security contractors continues with the need for them is so obvious even CNN has gotten a clue.  Many of the reconstruction projects in the country are grinding to a halt and let me tell you something – the local people are sick and tired of this.  We have been at [. ...
• What A Mess
  I’m not referring to the controversy surrounding the attempted rescue of Linda Norgrove which is currently consuming the news cycle. My experience is that Special Operations folks do not attempt rescue operations unless the odds are stacked in their favor.  I don’t know anything about what happened ...
• Meet a Couple of Hero’s
  Hero is one of those terms which comes up often in reporting about the military.  Not every service member is a hero nor is every hero we encounter in our lives associated with the military.  I point this out because the label “hero” is at risk of becoming a meaningless cliche as we approach the [ ...
• Five Hundred Meter War
  Herschel Smith at the Captains Journal has put up a great post which addresses a topic near and dear to my heart; infantry tactics. The post is The Five Hundred Meter War which had the video below from James Foley, a professional journalist writing at Global Post embedded in it.  His full report ca ...
• A New Way Forward?
  A very tense week for those of us outside the wire has finally passed which means it is time for some good news.  We have been on a restricted movement routine (for the first time in five years) which provided the opportunity to digest a report from The Afghanistan Study Group entitled A New Way For ...

The Story Behind the Story

• INSIDERS REPORT: OBAMA SUFFERING FROM SEVERE DEPR ...
  So you state that President Obama is depressed?  How did you come by this information?  From a direct source still working within the White House on a daily basis.  As I had stated previously, tensions at the White House have reached a critical stage.  The infighting among staff is off the charts.  ...
• Obama Begins Cashing in On Carbon Credits in KENYA
  The new world currency apparently will be tied to “carbon credits” as the standard of value.   Never mind that global warming (aka CLIMATE-GATE) is a massive hoax and fraud.  Rather than issue worthless fiat paper money, why not issue ‘carbon credits’ on a global scale.  Keep in mind that any an ...
• America’s Entitlement Elitists
  America is Great —– Because America is Good!! By  A. True Ott, PhD, June 1, 2010 The famous French statesman and historian Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) traveled widely through America in the year 1832.  Following his tour of America, he wrote extensively about what he saw and experienced here. ...
• SENATORS TO BE ADDED TO UNEMPLOYMENT ROLLS
  ALL the senators on this list need to be OUT OF OFFICE by November 15. It will soon be payback time for these senators – forward this list to everyone you know.  Don’t forget.  November 2nd  is “Take out the trash day” !!!!!! The following senators voted against making English the official langua ...
• IMPORTANT BREAKING NEWS — Horowitz and Kane ...
  In a most cowardly and dastardly fashion, Leonard G. Horowitz and his consort/accomplice Sherri Kane have chosen to target me, A. True Ott, PhD in a clear and actionable case of libel where they accuse me of being “A Satanist” with only the flimsiest of circumstantial hearsay as their “evidence”.  ...

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

• James Cameron (Oct 2, 2010)
  He's one of Hollywood's most powerful figures, and, he's been one of the oil sands most vocal critics. That combination had the oil industry on edge when Avatar director, Canadian James Cameron visited Alberta.
• 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, ...

Scotts Contracting

• Record-Breaking Solar Cell Efficiencies, Part 1
  On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: What’s Behind Record-Breaking Solar Cell Efficiencies, Part 1 By Jennifer Kho, Contributor | October 8, 2010 | In this two-part series on solar cell efficiencies, we examine laboratory … Continue reading →
• Connecting Small-scale Renewables to the Smart Gri ...
  On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: By Dick DeBlasio, NREL Smart grid enthusiasm is everywhere, and much is rooted in the opportunity to increase reliance on renewable energy sources such as biomass, geothermal heat, … Continue reading →
• Illinois smart grid collaborative effort reaches c ...
  On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Knoxville, Tenn., October 7, 2010 â EnerNex Corp., selected by the Illinois Commerce Commission as the facilitator for the Illinois statewide Smart Grid Collaborative, has finalized a two-year … Continue reading →
• Gateway List for Energy Star Commercial Equipment
  On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Compiled List for Energy Star Commercial Equipment Web Site Links Commercial Appliances Commercial Clothes Washers · ENERGY STAR-Qualified Model List · Sample Procurement Language · Savings Calculator Commercial … Con ...
• Google.org-backed Drilling Geothermal Technique
  On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: September 22, 2010 Company founded by geothermal legend Bob Potter Potter Drilling seeks to make geothermal exploration and development cheaper and more efficient $5 million in Recovery Act … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

• Statist Policies Cause More Harm Than Good
  A sure fire way to make a situation worse is to involve the government.
• Republican Proposals Reaffirm the Party’s Commitme ...
  The House Republican's "A Pledge to America" is a pathetic policy proposal.
• Deregulation Did Not Cause the Financial Crisis, W ...
  Statists criticize "libertarian" deregulation for the financial crisis. It's all a smokescreen to hide the real cause: the welfare state.
• Deregulation did not Cause the Financial Crisis, W ...
  Statists criticize "libertarian" deregulation for the financial crisis. It's all a smokescreen to hide the real cause: the welfare state.
• Obama’s Policies Hurt the Working Class
  The unintended consequences of Obama's Cash for Clunkers and credit card reform are hurting the working class.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• American Base Town in Northern Japan
  According to a 2006 report, 14 of the 38 most valuable large bases in the world are concentrated in Japan.
• Standing Up for Democracy in Ecuador
  The uprising in Ecuador that occurred on September 30 shook the world and sparked a debate about the reason for the unrest.
• When It Comes to Terrorism, History Reveals U.S. I ...
  Savagery in the American Civil War was an early version of sectarian violence in Iraq.
• The White Noise of War
  The hearts and minds of Pakistan have spoken. But they can't be heard above the white noise of war.
• How Green Grows My War Economy
  Not for the first time, the Defense Department announced a green initiative.

Law.com

• The Careerist: When Mom Disses Your Work
  Check out some of the latest posts on the lawjobs.com blog, The Careerist. When Mom Disses Your Work Also How to Keep Them Satisfied: How Paul Hastings jumped from 66th to sixth place on The American Lawyer's midlevel associates survey Plus Bond Like the Big Boys
• Former Countrywide Executives Settle SEC Charges a ...
  Just days before trial was scheduled to open, Angelo Mozilo, the former chief executive officer and chairman of Countrywide Financial, once the nation's largest mortgage lender, has agreed to pay $67.5 million to settle claims by the SEC that he misled shareholders about the risks associated wit ...
• Suit Against Law Firm Could Signal Next Wave of Mo ...
  Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy has sued a Los Angeles-area law firm for allegedly collecting illegal fees from a couple for a "forensic loan audit," promising to stop the foreclosure of their property -- which they quickly lost. The lawsuit accuses attorney Francisco Nogales of promising the audit w ...
• The Lawyer Who Reined In the Rubber Stampers and R ...
  With a firestorm still raging over revelations that loan-servicing companies used "robo-signers" to churn out affidavits used to foreclose on massive numbers of homes, the origins of the controversy are becoming clearer. The allegations that lenders were using questionable practices began to crystal ...
• 'Perfect' Is the Enemy of Green Initiatives
  Consultant and attorney Theodore Banks set the tone at the Green Matters conference in New Orleans as he reminded attendees that to successfully promote green programs, everyone must remember that "the perfect is the enemy of the good," reports Monica Bay, LTN editor-in-chief.

Iranian.com

• "عنایت خاص امام زمان به رهبری،دلیل رفت وآمدهای بی ...
  جرس: در آستانه سفر رهبری به قم، رئیس جامعه مدرسین حوزه علمیه قم که این روزها بیانیه های این مجمع را به تنهایی امضا می کند در گفت و گوی مفصلی به بيان ابعاد شخصیتی و علمی رهبري ، تدابیر وی در اداره نظام اسلامی پرداخته و بر این باور است که آقای خامنه ای تحت عنایت خاص امام زمان کشور را اداره می کند و اگ ...
• American held in Iran for 30 months says to sue gr ...
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• Beyond the Headlines on Iran’s Economic Transforma ...
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• هفدهم اکتبر
  این روز برای نخستین بار در سال ۱۹۸۷ با گردهم آمدن حدود صد هزار نفر در میدان تروکادروی پاریس، گرامی داشته شد و در سال ۱۹۹۲ با ثبت در سازمان ملل متحد، در سراسر جهان رسمیت یافت. سازمان ملل متحد در بیانیه‌ای به بهانه روز هفدهم اکتبر، همه ملت‌ها را به تلاش برای گسترش فرصت‌های شغلی و پدید آوردن محیطی امن ...
• Iran releases American held for 2 years in Tehran
  WASHINGTON — Iran on Saturday set free an American businessman jailed in Tehran for more than two years on suspicion on ties to an allegedly violent opposition group. Reza Taghavi, 71, hadn't been charged with a crime and denied knowingly supporting the organization, known as Tondar.

Most Revolutionary Act

• What’s Really Happening in France
  It’s extremely hard to get good information about the present massive labor unrest in France. US media coverage of the month of rolling strikes is full of half-truths and distortions. Many progressives feel this relates to the specific focus of the strikes – the efforts by the French government to ...
• Chinese Investment in Africa
  I have just read a fascinating article, “Africa’s Eastern Promise” in Foreign Affairs , published by the Council on Foreign Relations ( http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/65916/deborah-brautigam/africa%E2%80%99s-eastern-promise ). I hear people groaning already, as most activists view the CFR – ...
• Bankrupt the CIA: Boycott Heroin
  The above title is an example of a novel international counterculture offensive called “culture jamming” or “meme warfare,” popularized by the Vancouver-based Adbusters Magazine and Adbusters Media Foundation ( https://www.adbusters.org/ ). A “meme,” as defined in Adbusters founder Kalle Lasn’s 2000 ...
• Addressing Overpopulation: Too Important to Leave ...
  I have blogged before about chronic disease (and the need to produce extra farm labor) being the primary population pressure in the third world. Demographers seeking to understand first world population pressures simply look at the US with its 2.1 fertility rate – compared to a 1.1 – 1.4 rate in the ...
• Dropping Fertility Rates: A Capitalist’s Wo ...
  The most famous “involuntary” solution to population explosion is China’s infamous “one-child” policy, accompanied by mandatory abortion for women who conceive a second child. The main problem I see with such a policy in western democracies is achieving majority support for it. Without majority su ...

Doug's Darkworld

• The Ten Most Influential People in History?
  I saw this question on Yahoo Answers and it got me thinking. So my post about UFOs, Chilean Miners, the American Elections, Robert Gates and gays, and the nightmare in Mexico is going to have to wait. Who are the most influential people in history is a very debatable question, and honestly my knowle ...
• The aliens are coming and other news from outer sp ...
  A former NORAD officer claims that on October 13th aliens will make their presence on Earth unmistakably known with “a massive UFO display over the world’s principal cities.” I have my doubts, but hey, it will certainly be fodder for any number of blog posts should it happen. And San Francisco is ce ...
• Liu Xiaobo Wins Nobel Peace Prize
  If the gentle reader wants to read a fawning endorsement of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize choice, pretty much any western mainstream media has it covered in spades. Fortunately my readers don’t come here for fawning endorsements of anything. I am troubled on a  number of levels by the Nobel committ ...
• No brainer, it’s just common sense that maki ...
  “It’s just common sense” is probably one of the most seductive and deadly false arguments out there. When someone says “it’s just common sense” what they are really saying is “reality conforms to my idea of what makes sense.” Yes, often times reality does indeed operate in a perfectly “sensible” mat ...
• A Hard Act to Follow
  Well, my last post has turned out to be my most successful post ever, more than 40,000 hits so far. So now what do I do? Rest on my laurels? Sounds painful, don’t laurels have thorns? It’s especially curious in that it wasn’t a particularly well thought out or researched post, it was just something ...

FourWinds10

• Hungary toxic sludge reaches Danube
• Giant oil plume appears to have climbed into shall ...
  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute published the following labeled image, that clearly shows the plume making its way up the continental shelf: VIEW VIDEO http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/plume-appears-climbed-continental-shelf Oct. 2, 2010
• Entire family sickened: Like an "Acid Cloud" -- 10 ...
  FULL VIDEO HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwW5vf...
• HOW WE TRASHED AN ENTIRE CONTINENT IN 150 YEARS
• Big oil's "life or death" campaign
  Dear Friend, "The difference between life and death for our industry."1 That's how the National Petroleum Refiners Association, in a memo to oil companies across the country, just framed Proposition 23 — the Texas oil company funded, California ballot initiative that would gut AB 32, California's la ...

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

• In Case You Missed It
  Join the forum discussion on this post In addition to the EPA’s decision to raise the allowed ethanol blends to 15%, there were three other energy-related stories of interest this week. Deep-Water Ban Ends The first was that the Obama administration has lifted the ban on deep-water drilling: Oba ...
• EPA Grants E15 Waiver for Newer Vehicles
  Join the forum discussion on this post The news was just announced: EPA Grants E15 Waiver for Newer Vehicles WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today waived a limitation on selling fuel that is more than 10 percent ethanol for model year 2007 and newer cars and light truc ...
• The Gas Cartel Idea: On the Road to Another OPEC?
  Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest analysis was written by the staff of Global Intelligence Report. ————————- As oil sees its image tarnished from the disastrous oil spills that took place off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Dalian, China, and as the m ...
• Solazyme CEO Clarifies Costs
  Join the forum discussion on this post Prior to publishing the previous essay, U.S. Navy Pays Big Bucks for Biofuels, the editor for Consumer Energy Report asked why I didn’t go with a more descriptive title like “U.S. Navy Pays $425 per Gallon for Biofuels.” I told him that the reason I didn’t is ...
• U.S. Navy Pays Big Bucks for Biofuels
  The U.S. military, as the single biggest consumer of fossil fuels in the world, are particularly interested in alternatives due to supply risks and price security.

Discovery Educator Network

• The Best Sites For Creating Online Polls & Surveys ...
  Tags: polls , surveys , web2.0 , tools , survey , LarryFerlazzo by: Dean Mantz
• Stixy: For Flexible Online Creation Collaboration ...
  Comments: Think of Stixy as your online bulletin board. Create as many Stixyboards as you like, one for each project. Use Stixy to easily organize and share: * Your family’s schedule * Projects at work * An upcoming holiday with your friends * Your photos from yo - Fred Delventhal Like glogster - Fr ...
• 7 Fantastic Free Social Media Tools for Teachers
  Tags: education , tools , socialmedia , edtech , edu20 , symbaloo , Mashable by: Dean Mantz
• simplebooklets.com
  Tags: simplebooklets , LarryFerlazzo , writing by: Dean Mantz
• The Best Resources For Helping Teachers Use Bloom’ ...
  Tags: bloomstaxonomy , blooms , teaching , LarryFerlazzo , Education , blooms_taxonomy , pedagogy by: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• Smart Choice? What Does That Mean?
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Earlier this year, when Froot Loops and Fudgsicles were dubbed healthy choices under the food industry's new "Smart Choices" front-of-package food labeling system , the U.S. Food and Drug Administration did a double take. The agency sent the Smart Choices' general manager a ...
• Cyber-Bullying May Be More Damaging Than Schoolyar ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Cyber-bullying cases always seem to garner attention and outrage, but perhaps no more so than the recent, well-publicized tragedy at Rutgers University, where a student committed suicide after a friend and his roommate secretly filmed a compromising video of him and posted i ...
• 5 Savory, Satisfying Recipes Using Parmesan Cheese
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Firm and somewhat dry, but packed with tangy flavor, Parmesan cheese is an essential ingredient for many cooks (and not all of them live in Italy). Though Parmesan-type cheeses are manufactured around the world, Italy is the source of the most revered version of this cow’s m ...
• What's the Big Deal about GMOs Anyway?
  RODALE NEWS, BETHLEHEM, PA—Sometimes, protecting the future means going back to your roots…and back to the soil, to the seeds. That's how Vandana Shiva, PhD, world-renowned physicist and relentless eco-crusader, is leading the charge to save her country from a corporate GMO takeover. (GMO refers to ...
• Your Car Could Be Wrecked by New Corn Oil Ruling
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA— The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the agency will permit more corn-based ethanol in certain vehicles. Critics say that the decision will put some consumers' cars at risk, and that it will make us more reliant upon GMOs, or genetically modified org ...

big think

• Eruptions Word(s) of the Day: Harmonic Tremor and ...
  Eruptions Word of the Day : Harmonic Tremor and Tornillos. There are few methods that get as much attention in the world of volcanic monitoring than measuring the release of seismic energy . Not only does seismicity inform us on the depth and location of magma movement, but it can also give vital . ...
• Kevin Bales: How to End Modern Slavery
  The word "slavery" has a very specific resonance for Americans. But slavery is a practice that has existed since the very first records of human history, and it continues to this day , says anti-slavery advocate Kevin Bales. "Part of the challenge of today is helping people understand that slavery i ...
• The Wrong Economic Climate for Clean Energy
  For all the obstacles President Obama has faced—the terrible economy and the bitter, partisan bickering—he managed to accomplish much of what he set out to accomplish.  He implemented a recovery plan to lessen the impact of the financial crisis, got health care reform through Congress, and even ... ...
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being Nick Denton
  He is charismatic. He is attractive. And perhaps his best weapon is an apparent agnosticism when it comes to the Money/Power manna of classic media moguls. Denton is a mogul, no doubt. His business, Gawker , has become something which matters, even for those who pretend not to know what it is, who . ...
• 485 - Planet Berlin
  Maps are two parts truth, one part lie. They ignore one of the world’s three dimensions so they can squeeze the other two onto a flat surface. These projections mess up the shape and size of the area depicted. Distortions of this sort plague all maps, but are more noticeable on larger ones. Most of ...

Information Liberation

• The Government Would Rather You Die If It Nets Mor ...
  An absolutely astonishing story was quietly reported recently without much fanfare. The story was unquestionably viral, it made the rounds on the internet, but it never got the major boost of coverage from the major media to propel it into the natio...
• Mother Calls 911 For Help, Cop Helps By Killing He ...
  It - just - doesn't - stop. FOX 10 News reports on the latest 911 victim: ...This all started at a trailer park near Central and South Mountain. A woman called 911 to report domestic violence on the part of her son, 29-year-old Danny Frank Rod...
• Capitalism Saved the Miners
  A fantastic piece in the WSJ by Daniel Henninger. If those miners had been trapped a half-mile down like this 25 years ago anywhere on earth, they would be dead. What happened over the past 25 years that meant the difference between life and death f...
• Applying for Citizenship? U.S. Citizenship and Imm ...
  EFF recently received new documents as a result of our FOIA lawsuit on social network surveillance, filed with the help of UC Berkeley's Samuelson Clinic, that reveal two ways the government has been tracking people online: surveillance of social net...
• Gallup: 46 Percent Say U.S. Government 'Poses Imme ...
  (CNSNews.com) - The percentage of Americans who think the federal government poses "an immediate threat" to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens has*increased*significantly over the last seven years, rising from 30 percent to 46 percent, acco...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• The Dragon And The Chrysanthemum
  It is the world’s fastest-growing economy. Within our lifetimes, it will become the largest. And yet, the face China presents to the world belies the truth of the lives of 1.4 billion people. To speak of broad generalities and the … Continue reading →
• A Bit Of British Fair Play…
  …or so it seems from this story in the UK Daily Telegraph. Under new guidelines published on Tuesday, the BBC will henceforth be required to give “appropriate weight” to dissenting views on controversial subjectsâlike Anthropogenic Global Warming. Our God-Emperor is … Continue reading →
• Should Governments Fund Science?
  With this topic, we are getting close to the heart of the whole matter. The history of government funding for the arts and sciences closely parallels the 20th-century transition of Western governments from liberal democracies to social democracies I discussed … Continue reading →
• Another Scientist Jumps Ship
  I was horrified to hear on the grapevine yesterday that Al Lewis has resigned from the American Physical Society. A likeable New Yoiker rogue, Lewis in his letter of resignation to APS president Curtis G Callan Jr, reportedly said of … Continue reading →
• The Decade of Hype
  I need to get away from AGW for a day or so. So I thought I’d ruminate briefly on the media hype surrounding what would have been John Lennon’s seventieth birthday today. It’s been said that if you can remember … Continue reading →

FAS - Secrecy News

• DNI Disbands the Intelligence Science Board
  The Intelligence Science Board (ISB), which was established in 2002 to provide independent scientific advice to the Director of National Intelligence, has been disbanded by the new DNI, James R. Clapper Jr., as part of a process of reorganizing and streamlining the ODNI organization. “My understandi ...
• A Look Back at the Soviet Army
  “The Soviet Army is the best prepared force in the world to conduct both offensive and defensive NBC [nuclear, biological and chemical] operations,” according to a 1984 U.S. Army manual (large pdf) that is newly available online. The three-part manual, based on Soviet military literature and other o ...
• Secrecy and Deception in a Detainee Ruling
  After a court issued a ruling last spring that a Yemeni detainee held in U.S. custody should be released, the opinion was briefly published in the case docket and then abruptly withdrawn for classification review.  When it reappeared, reporter Dafna Linzer discovered, it was not only redacted but h ...
• The History of MI-6, Authorized and Unauthorized
  Two histories of the early decades of MI-6, the United Kingdom’s foreign intelligence service, have recently been published.  “MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949″ by Keith Jeffery is the authorized version, prepared with the cooperation of the Service.  “Six: A History o ...
• Federal Conspiracy Law, and More from CRS
  Noteworthy new reports from the Congressional Research Service that have not been made readily to the public include the following (all pdf). “North Korea: Legislative Basis for U.S. Economic Sanctions,” September 29, 2010. “China’s Sovereign Wealth Fund: Developments and Policy Implications,” Septe ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Science news
  Yet more science: Antibiotics and budgets – Seven days. That's the usual length of an antibiotic scrip – 3 pills a day for a week – 21 pills. But would 20 pills be okay? Would that eradicate the bacterial infection just the same? That's a 5% saving. What about 19 pills? 18? Fifteen even? The [...] S ...
• Water blog action day
  Five facts about water Unsafe drinking water and lack of sanitation kills more people every year than all forms of violence, including war – that’s 42,000 deaths each week. More people have access to a cell phone than to a toilet. 2.5 billion people lack access to a toilet, which mean sewage spills ...
• String, energy, and cats
  It was inevitable that the “Dummies” series of books would get around to String Theory for Dummies. Intriguingly, it’s written by the physics guide at About.com, Andrew Zimmerman Jones (with Daniel Robbins). The Dummies guide explains the basic concepts of what the cover refers to as the controversi ...
• Blue skies science, pie in the sky?
  Lucy Marcus is the Founder and CEO of Marcus Venture Consulting, Ltd, a company that endeavours to foster sustainable success for funding organisations. She is non-executive chair of the Mobius Life Sciences Fund and chair of the audit committee for BioCity Nottingham. As the Science is Vital campai ...
• Science is vital
  More news that proves science is vital: Is your dog a "bowl half full" kind of dog" – Dogs are either optimists or pessimists, according to a new study that helps explain why some dogs are less than calm when you leave them alone. They see the bowl as half empty rather than half full. [...] Science ...

RFF Library

• Geologic Storage Formation Classifications: Unders ...
  US Department of Energy http://tinyurl.com/23lwoqt [From executive summary] A need exists for further research on carbon storage technologies to capture and store carbon dioxide (CO2) from stationary sources that would otherwise be emitted to the atmosphere. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technolo ...
• Improving Water Quality in the Mississippi River B ...
  National Academies Press, Committee on Clean Water Act Implementation Across the Mississippi River Basin http://tinyurl.com/2e7rkjg (free PDF with registration) [From Report Website] Most water resources managers, scientists, and other experts would agree that nonpoint source pollution is a more pre ...
• Beyond Copenhagen: Reconciling International Fairn ...
  Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ. / by Jing Cao http://tinyurl.com/2bppg4m Time to respond to the severe threat posed by global climate change is running short. Though the most recent international climate negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC ...
• Post-Partisan Power: How a Limited and Direct Appr ...
  American Enterprise Institute, Breakthrough Institute / by By Steven F. Hayward, Mark Muro, Ted Nordhaus, Michael Shellenberger http://www.aei.org/paper/100149 [From a Climate Wire article by Saqib Rahim, subscription required] A paper out today says energy innovation is the way to bridge the partis ...
• EPA FY 2011-2015 Strategic Plan
  US EPA http://www.epa.gov/ocfo/plan/plan.htm [From press release] The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued its fiscal year (FY) 2011 to 2015 strategic plan, which provides a blueprint for advancing EPA’s mission and Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s priorities. This plan presents five ...

Scientific American - News

• Stretchable Light-Emitting Sheets Could Form the B ...
  An international team of researchers has devised a way to embed tiny light emitters and light sensors into stretchable, bendable, twistable sheets. The flexible systems might someday find use as implanted sensors to keep tabs on biological processes. [More]
• Taking Waves: FCC Green Lights Unlicensed Use of W ...
  Consumer electronics companies got an early Christmas present this year when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided to grant unlicensed smart phones, computers and other wireless devices approval to connect to the Internet via vacant "white space" airwaves. Exactly which Christmas, howe ...
• The spirit of Lindau: the past, present & future o ...
  The years following World War II were dark days for science in Germany. But in 1951, a light began to glimmer. Two physicians from the island of Lindau, supported by wealthy Swedish count Lennart Bernadotte, established a meeting of Nobel Laureates. At first they drew participants from Germany and i ...
• Tell-Trail: Astronomers Discover Debris Tailing a ...
  On January 6 an asteroid-spotting telescope at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico detected a new and unusual object in the night sky. Towing a streaky debris tail, the object was classified as a comet, although its orbit belied a different origin. Visible comets generally have elongated orbits ...
• Student Surveys Contradict Claims of Evolved Sex D ...
  For more than three decades evolutionary psychologists have advanced a simple theory of human sexuality: because men invest less reproductive effort in sperm than women do in eggs, men's and women's brains have been shaped differently by evolution. As a result, men are eager for sex whereas women ar ...

RAWA News

• “Taliban” kill woman accused of murder ...
  BBC News: A woman accused of murdering her mother-in-law has been killed by Taliban in the eastern Afghan province of Ghazni, local officials say. The mother-in-law was pushed into a bread oven by two of her daughters-in-law after a spat on Monday, they say. The incident took place in the remote Abe ...
• Afghan companies “pay off Taliban with forei ...
  Reuters: Cash from the US military and international donors destined for construction and welfare projects in restive parts of Afghanistan is ending up in the hands of insurgents, a contractor and village elders said. The alliance of largely Western nations who back President Hamid Karzai and have n ...
• Civilian casualties doubled in north: UN
  PAN: Casualties inflicted on ordinary people in northern Afghanistan over the past six months this year has doubled compared to the same period last year, a United Nations official said on Wednesday. The casualties increased by 55 percent among children and a six percent among women, Georgette Gagno ...
• 6 civilians killed as rocket hits car in Paktika
  PAN: A Taliban-fired rocket hit a vehicle in southwestern Paktika province on Tuesday, killing six civilians, the interior ministry said. The early morning incident happened in the Ghaibikhel area of Yahyakhel district, the ministry said in a statement. The dead included a woman, it said. However, a ...
• Afghan Warlords, a Larger Stability Threat Than Ta ...
  The Epoch Times: In Afghanistan, where warlords and their militias still play a large role in ruling the tribal lands, U.S. and NATO forces are faced with the challenge of stabilizing the country as a democracy while not overstepping their boundaries. Warlords and their militias have a lengthy histo ...

frogblog

• Will Labour really take action on child poverty?
  Annette King’s speech to the Labour Party conference over the weekend was all about how Labour’s policy will focus on children and “put our children first”. It all sounds quite familiar, but, all cynicism aside, it is really good to hear Labour talking like this. The more politica ...
• New trap promises better protection of the birds w ...
  I was able to announce some good news for our native birds and trees today. The Greens are launching a $4 million pest control package working jointly with the Government to trial a promising new trap called the Henry. The origin for this project lay in our second Green New Deal pac ...
• Aged Care report launch promotes debate
  There was a great turn out to the launch of our Aged Care report on Friday, including many in the sector such as the Nurses Organisation, Aged Concern, and the Service and Food worker’s Union, who welcomed the report and its recommendations.
• The Day the Raids Came
  On Friday night (October 15) I attended the launch of a book titled “The day the raids came” edited by Valerie Morse. This book reminds us that the October 15 2007 “terror raids” might be old news for most of the country but are an ongoing stress and cost for the 18 people still awa ...
• Labour and overseas ownership of land
  I welcome Labour’s apparent change in intention about the sale of land into overseas ownership. But I do have a question about how different it really is. Phil Goff says that: ”No overseas person has the right to buy our land – it is a privilege.” Yep, and this is what the Overseas ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

• As Western Civilization Lies Dying
  The Western commercial system exists to extract more from consumers than it supplies in products and services. Its goal is profit and has never been the improvement of the human condition but to exploit it. When governments institutionalize this system, they place their nations on suicidal paths, be ...
• Is Perfect Research Possible
  Some claim that there is no hope of doing perfect research. So, is there hope of doing perfect research? Of course there issometimes! It all depends on the whetherwhether the subject is limited and whether the researcher can write and is intelligent enough to adequately evaluate the evidence. ...
• The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: Last Gasp of ...
  No civilization in history that collapsed after a period of greatness has ever regained its dominance. Egypt lasted for three millennia; today it is little more than a field for archeological study. The Persian Empire, which lasted for more than three hundred years, became the largest and most p ...
• Specie, Script, and War: The Contradictory Practic ...
  Wars are fought for business, but business and the economy are synonymous. Wars will continue to be fought for the economy as long as this economy is not abandoned. War is a logical consequence of it, not a means utilized by it. No attempt to eliminate war and preserve the economy can succeed. A ...
• Knowledge, Truth and Human Action: America Hits th ...
  Americans have a problem with the truth. They seem to be unable to accept it. Beliefs somehow always overwhelm it, even when they are so contradictory that any effective action becomes impossible. By calling people with opinions experts and relying on adversarial debate between them, not only is ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Bailouts, Deficits, and Spending, Oh My!
  Ross Douthat says today that the tea partiers' main concerns really are "bailouts, deficits and spending," but liberals refuse to take them at their word and accept this. So we keep coming up with one weird theory after another that "explains the Tea Parties — and then explains them away." One of th ...
• Life in a Bubble
  The modern, tea party-inflected conservative movement is based on a few core principles. Global warming is a hoax. Income inequality hasn't been growing. Tax cuts don't increase the deficit. America has the best healthcare in the world. Evolution is a myth. The economy is weak because of regulatory ...
• From the Annals of Non-Stories, Part Infinity
  The Washington Post writes today about the recent ruckus over Campbell Soup's introduction of a line of halal soups in Canada. Here's their explanation of how it started: Blogger Pamela Geller began calling for a boycott.... Stop. Just stop. Even if we agree on nothing else, can't we agree nev ...
• Sarah P. Comes to Town
  I'm not quite sure why I had to go to the New York Times to read this, but apparently Sarah Palin headlined a Republican Party rally a few miles up the street from me today, and neither one of our top Republican candidates wanted to be seen with her: The two Republicans at the top of the Californ ...
• Eric Cantor on Earmarks
  Eric Cantor explains today why he's obsessed with earmark reform even though it wouldn't have the slightest impact on federal spending: If we hope to preserve Social Security and Medicare for seniors, younger workers and our children, we must begin the conversation about common-sense ways to refo ...

Insanity Report

• Who are These Phantom Obama Supporters?
  Who are these phantom 2008 Obama supporters?  You know who I’m talking about; the ones who have been popping up since January 21st, 2009 in the media and polls talking about how they are disappointed in the things the President has done?  We’ve literally been hearing this talk since the President’s ...
• IC 203: Stop Being Gay
  Topics for the show: Because of an extensive night of drinking, we didn’t have any show notes or topics to talk about, so we just do what we do best: Talk shit in the most offensive and ridiculous way. Join the Facebook Group for weekly updates on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Share with [...] ...
• Brian Kilmeade Should Walk Into Traffic
  And he should take Bill O’Reilly with him. Seriously if you can’t see the ethnic/religious scare tactics going on here then you are a blind fool. I won’t even comment on Kilmeade’s ignorance because…well, he’s on Fox & Friends which is  scraping the bottom of the barrel of intelligence on a good da ...
• The Reason I Haven’t Written Anything in a While
  You’ve probably noticed that I haven’t written anything in a while.  The truth is, I’ve been a little burned out.  Between the Podcast, Twitter discussions/debates, my actually 9-5 and working on Movie Trailer Reviews and the new site, I found myself having a little less motivation to actually wri ...
• IC 202: Please Don’t Be Fat
  Topics for the show: Ryce is back Making fun of Dylan Pt 2 Ryce tells the story of the fat guy at the airport Don’t blame it on disease, blame it on the double cheese burger 3year old Chinese kid who weighs in over 100 pounds The Vibe Article about gays, homophobia and Morehouse College [...]

Simple Climate

• CO2 dominates Earth’s climate, NASA reveals
  Earth's temperature would fall 35°C in 50 years without CO2, as water vapour condenses into water and ice and the greenhouse effect collapses, show Andrew Lacis and colleagues at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, demonstrating that CO2 alone is the “thermostat” for climate change.
• Seeds of doubt flourish as climate debate hots up
  Vested interests want the US to think scientists are still arguing about climate change, says Edward Maibach, director of George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communication.
• Global warming gives tropical lizards energy probl ...
  Small temperature changes make a big difference to ectotherms – also known as “cold-blooded” creatures – around the equator, scientists based in the US and Germany find.
• Naturalists show climate effects from beyond the g ...
  Not zombie scientists, but museum collections provide data on how climate change is affecting timing of natural events like flowering
• I don’t care what the weatherman says, when ...
  Many people trust weathercasters' professionalism when it comes to climate change - but researchers' survey of US weathercasters' response to the Climategate scandal shows political outlook had a greater influence than professional credentials on how it affected their certainty that global warming i ...

e!Science News

• Medicaid reimbursement and childhood flu vaccinati ...
  Increasing the amount that physicians are reimbursed by Medicaid for administering influenza shots may raise vaccination rates among poor children. That is the conclusion of a study published online today in the journal Pediatrics . read more
• Chest compression-only CPR improves survival in ca ...
  Heart attack patients whose hearts have stopped beating and who receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) from bystanders fare better if their resuscitators skip the rescue breaths and do only chest compression, according to a study led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in ...
• Genetic test to predict early menopause
  The first research from the Breakthrough Generations Study could lead to a test to predict a woman's reproductive lifespan. read more
• Carbon dioxide controls Earth's temperature
  Water vapor and clouds are the major contributors to Earth's greenhouse effect, but a new atmosphere-ocean climate modeling study shows that the planet's temperature ultimately depends on the atmospheric level of carbon dioxide. read more
• Study documents wrong-site, wrong-patient procedur ...
  Data from one liability insurance database in Colorado indicate that wrong-site and wrong-patient surgical and procedure errors continued to occur despite nationwide steps to help prevent them, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. rea ...

unEarthed

• Friday Finds: Breathing's More Fatal Than Air Cras ...
  It turns out airplane emissions will kill you before airplane crashes. Photo courtesy of Stock.Xchng Humans won't fly high on airplane emissions Good news, aerophobics . New research has found that more people die from plan ...
• Spruce Mine Targeted By EPA Veto Recommendation
  Today signals a historic and hugely positive step taken�by the EPA�to protect�the people of Appalachia, who have suffered the harmful and grave consequences of mountaintop removal mining for too long. The news, just released, i ...
• Are Oil Dispersants, Like, Magic? Or Toxic?
  Third-generation shrimp fisherman Clint Guidry. Credit: Matthew Preusch/Gulf Restoration Network Yesterday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazer lifted the moratorium on deepwater oil drilling and declared the Gulf of Mexico " open ...
• Nation Will Suffer if California's Prop 23 Passes
  Earthjustice usually stays clear of election-year politicking, but we're making a strong exception this year because of a California ballot proposition that would kill the nation's strongest climate change regulations. Financed ...
• Salazar Turns Gulf Oil Spigot Back On
  Only days before BP's oil well blew in the Gulf of Mexico, Interior Sec. Ken Salazar was on the Gulf Coast wearing a 10-gallon cowboy hat and preaching the good news about oil drilling in the Gulf. Soon after his sermon, Salazar ...

Brave New Climate

• Who crippled the Murray Darling Basin?
  Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. If I see another fruit tree, I’ll throw up! I guess that most people have seen information about the eco-footprint of different foods ...
• SNE 2060 – are uranium resources sufficient?
  In the previous SNE2060 post, I considered four possible scenarios for expansion of ‘Generation III’ thermal nuclear power reactors for the period 2010 to 2060. I attached no probability to them, but obviously not all are equally plausible. For instance, I strongly doubt that the TR2 scenario, which ...
• TCASE Video – Interactive discussions about ...
  Thinking Critically About Sustainable Energy (TCASE) is a series of posts I’ve built up over the last year on BNC (and continue to add to). This has also branched off into a live seminar series (described in detail in this post), hosted by the Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus), and has proven t ...
• Discussion Thread – can nuclear be kick star ...
  I’ve split this discussion from Open Thread 6. I want to use this post to focus comments on whether lower-cost Gen II+ (e.g. via the Chinese CPR-1000 and Indian PHWR) are a better current option to be pursuing than higher-cost Gen III+ (like the AREVA EPR and any US proposal that you’d care to think ...
• IFR FaD 8 – Two TV documentaries and a new f ...
  Want to know more about the Integral Fast Reactor technology from the comfort of your lounge room chair? Then these two fascinating videos, recently transcoded and uploaded by Steve Kirsch to the “ifr.blp.tv” website, are for you. You can watch online, or download in .MP4 format (choose the format a ...

Indigenist Opinion

• Doing Exactly As They Have Been Trained
  Doing Exactly As They Have Been Trained | CommonDreams.org : "Disturbing videos of detainee abuse - subtle, mental and degrading, not Abu-Ghraib-brutal - has been released by Ethan McCord, the veteran who wrote the 'Open Letter of Reconciliation & Responsibility to the Iraqi People' after his Bravo ...
• Cuba: Mensaje de Fidel Castro
  #Cuba: Mensaje de Fidel Castro � Yohandry’s Weblog : Lo último que podía esperarse eran las noticias de la expulsión de los gitanos franceses, víctimas de la crueldad de la extrema derecha francesa, que eleva ya a siete mil de ellos, las víctimas de otra especie de holocausto racial. Es elemental ...
• Pentagon Considering Buying and Immediately Destro ...
  Pentagon Considering Buying and Immediately Destroying Every Copy of Military Memoir : [gawker.com] "The Pentagon is so worried about revelations in a new memoir about the War on Terror that it's considering buying 10,000 copies — the entire first printing — and destroying them. Sounds like a good b ...
• Inside the killing fields of Queensland
  Inside the killing fields of Queensland | The Australian The discovery of a memoir by Steele Rudd's father sheds new light on the murderous collision between settlers and Aborigines on the Darling Downs At one time we had a blackfellow skull decorating the veranda, and not until it was removed woul ...
• Columbus statue vandalized with red paint
  Columbus statue vandalized with red paint | Turn to 10 : "PROVIDENCE -- Portions of a statue of Christopher Columbus in Providence were covered in red paint, police said. The statue stands at the fork at Elmwood and Reservoir Avenues. A sign that read 'murderer' was also put around the statue's w ...

Republicans are a Disease

• Fascism Is Finally Here
  Wait until all the corporate mobsters drop by the offices of the Republican tools they paid to have elected, and want more handouts, tax breaks, and subsidies. Do you think billionaires, and corporations spent all those anonymous millions on Republicans so said Republicans can serve the “people” ...
• Think Republicans Are On Your Side?
  If you think Republicans are on your side, you are either a billionaire, in which case it is true, or you are mentally retarded, and you should be in an institution.
• No Income Tax = 83 Of America’s 100 Largest ...
  83 of the nations largest 100 companies paid zero income tax last year. When the teabaggers to to Washington to try to take their country back, who is it that truly controls their country? I haven’t seen any anti corporate control, anti lobbyist signs at their rallies. Do they even know who their re ...
• Tea Bagger Zombies Will Be Disappointed!
  Do you want to know what is sad? After the billionaires and Corporate America pour hundreds of millions into the campaigns of “conservatives” do you think when push comes to shove they won’t get their handouts? Their tax cuts? Their loopholes? Their subsidies? When the tea baggers work so hard to ge ...
• Republicans Do Create Jobs
  In China.

Appalachia Rising

• Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
  Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a found ...
• Press Conference to be Held on June 15
  Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-2688 o ...
• Press Inquiries
  All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conference H ...
• New Flier for Appalachia Rising
• Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachian ...
  Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind coalfi ...

Amped Status

• Inside the Global Banking Intelligence Complex, BC ...
  Here is Part II of David DeGraw’s new book, “The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War III.” The BCCI scandal gave citizens of the world a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the covert global banking intelligence power structure, revealing power politics in its purest form.
• Bill Moyers on The Economic Elite Vs. The People o ...
  On March 1st, Bill Moyers gave his first public speech in three years, as the final speaker in the Dowmel Lecture series. In his speech, he addressed what he feels is "the greatest threat" to our country: the staggering inequality of wealth and the death of the middle class.
• WAKE UP MEDIA! Lehman Report is Further Evidence o ...
  How much more evidence of a financial coup and the theft of trillions of dollars do we need before the media and our politicians do something, anything , to restore a rule of law in this nation? What is it going to take?
• Jon Stewart & Dylan Ratigan: How Wall Street Robs ...
  Why are Jon Stewart and Dylan Ratigan the only two sources on US television who consistently report on the biggest theft of wealth in history? Consider this a devastatingly accurate introduction to the economic coup, or the Daily Show's Economic Coup for Dummies.
• The Best Way to Rob a Country, Own a Bank
  The best way to understand the theft of trillions of our dollars, listen to William Black on The Real News Network...

+972

• Between the Lines (Oct 17): Thousands Protest ‘Loy ...
  The Headlines: Demonstration against Racism > Thousands demonstrated against the proposed loyalty oath bill, and other racist and anti-democratic proposals. > The US and other major countries have expressed disappointment at the decision to resume settlement construction in East Jerusalem. A plann ...
• The Kaufman Critique: Double Whammy
  If you’re not into negative reviews, this post isn’t for you. On Saturday Karen and I took the kids up north to the grottos of Rosh Hanikra. After doing the classic cable car ride, we went to a cafe in nearby Nahariya we were at last year which we very much enjoyed. BaNachala is located smack in [.. ...
• It’s not fascism, but…
  Notes on the anti-democratic movement in Israel Yedioth Aharonot’s weekend supplement devoted a large space yesterday (Friday) to the rise of the noxious anti-democratic wave in Israel, under the title “Fascism Won’t Pass! (Or, Maybe, it Will)” . This is in itself is commendable: all too often, new ...
• Undercover IDF forces attack unarmed demonstration ...
  Undercover soldiers from the IDF’s special forces unit, Duvdevan, attacked the demonstration in Nabi Saleh as it was coming to an end. Four were arrested and four were injured. Patience certainly didn’t characterize the IDF’s behavior today during the weekly demonstration in Nabi Saleh. The dozens o ...
• Oct 15-16: Resuming settlement construction in Eas ...
  The Headlines: Ahmedinijad’s Biggest Fans > Another day of hysterical coverage of Iranian President Ahmedinijad’s visit to Lebanon. A former general draws [Heb] two conclusions from the visit: Israel should prepare for likely war and retain sovereignty over the Jordan Valley (and if you’re confuse ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Environment wins as Commonwealth supports stormwa ...
  The City of Hobsons Bay is set to benefit from $3.1 million in Australian Government funding to help secure future water supplies through five innovative water efficient stormwater projects.
• Uluru tourism plan maps out exciting directions
  Exciting new visitor experiences are on the cards for Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, with the release today of a plan to guide future tourism development in the park.
• Derwent Estuary Program wins top river prize
  The Derwent Estuary Program has been awarded the 2010 National Riverprize for outstanding catchment management activities.
• $4.5 Million for Dubbo City Stormwater Harvesting ...
  Water supplies in the City of Dubbo have been given a boost today with the Federal Labor Government committing $4.5 million for an innovative and water efficient stormwater harvesting scheme.
• $22 million for water savings in metering pilot
  The Gillard Government will provide $22 million in funding to the NSW Government for a pilot water metering project in the upper Murray.

Matt Weidner Blog

• Florida FraudclosureGate is a Constitutional Crisi ...
  Have a seat people, it’s going to be a rough ride.  Things are going to get tough, but the genie cannot be put back in the bottle.  Pandora’s box cannot be closed, no multi state settlement agreement will settle things.  Class actions will not make things right.  When this all plays we’re going ...
• Washington Post Shows ForeclosureGate- A Tale of T ...
  Read the article then answer the question….which circuits will show more examples of fraud, abuse and violations of fundamental rights and destruction of our judicial system in general? New Washington Post Article Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb f ...
• The Newest Fraudclosure Scam
  An example of a story reported to me…the third similar such in a week.  The previous two involved borrowers sending money their lender to reinstate their mortgages….only their lender didn’t credit them….identity theft from within the lender/servicer.  People on the inside taking information and us ...
• FraudclosureGate- Kafkaesque….
  The first book I had to read when I got admitted to lawschool was Kafka’s The Trial.  I hated that book and everything it stood for. Confusing, dark, terrifying.  But our courts are not what I learned in law school or what I’ve learned from years of practice….FraudclosureGate reveals that our cour ...
• Bank of America Announces That It Has Discovered S ...
  Bank of America Announces That It Has Discovered Some Trivial Technical Problems With a Small Number of its Mortgages Bank of America announced that it has discovered a few trivial, easily-remedied technical problems with some of its mortgages. “We will stop foreclosure sales in some states until ou ...

abelard - news

• state 'education' - uk style | politics uk news at ...
  Thirteen years of laissez faire and weak leadership have left a very unpleasant mark.
• obama sings - must view | fun news at abelard.org
  "I am the very model of a US president". Video.
• rip-off britain | politics uk news at abelard.org
  Compare and contrast: Swiss honest toil and socialist British slacking and graft.
• if only brown the clown and obama had as much sens ...
  Maybe having a serious illness and reading so much on the net has put Fidel in touch with reality.
• basel 2/3 kicks the ball far down the road to 2019 ...
  Trying to tie banks up in more knots so they never ever fail.

  Blacklisted News

• Feds Confirm Mumbai Plotter Trained With Terrorist ...
  Federal officials acknowledged Saturday that David Coleman Headley, the U.S. businessman who confessed to being a terrorist scout in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, was working as a DEA informant while he was training with terrorists in Pakistan.
• France to Run Out of Fuel in Days as Strikes Escal ...
• Experts admit swine flu jab 'may cause' deadly ner ...
• Federal Agents Urged to 'Friend' People on Social ...
  A privacy watchdog has uncovered a government memo that encourages federal agents to befriend people on a variety of social networks, to take advantage of their readiness to share -- and to spy on them. In response to a Freedom of Information request, the government released a handful of doc ...
• The Fed's New Bubble Masquerading as a Jobs Progra ...
  The latest jobs bill coming out of Washington isn't really a bill at all. It's the Fed's attempt to keep long-term interest rates low by pumping even more money into the economy ("quantitative easing" in Fed-speak).

The Intelligence Daily

• IntelFilter: October 18, 2010
  Headlines of the day Wall Street Journal Catches Facebook, Zynga Giving Your Info To Advertisers...
• New War Rumors: U.S. Plans To Seize Pakistan’s Nuc ...
  By Rick Rozoff Two recent news items emanating from the United States have begun to reverberate in...
• U.S. Busting Labor Unions in Iraq
  By Sherwood Ross It is only in comic books and Hollywood movies that America’s superheroes...
• Earthquake Stricken Haitians Victimized by World I ...
  By Stephen Lendman Over 10 months post-quake, Haitian suffering continues, victimized by world...
• Washington should look closer at Uzbekistan’s Afgh ...
  Written by John CK Daly for Global Intelligence Report On 14 October the Atlantic Council hosted an...

My AntiWar

• Sunday: 17 Iraqis Killed, 16 Wounded
• US Reform Rabbis Oppose Proposed Loyalty Oath Law
• Court: Ex-Nigerian Leader Can Be Extradited to UK
• The 1 Billion Hostage Trade
• US Political Ads Stoke Fear of Foreigners

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Iran-P5+1 talks to resume on Nov. 15
  Summary: European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has announced that the new round of nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 group will take place from November 15 to 18. source: Press TV read more
• THE TRUE SIGNIFICANCE OF AHMADINEJAD’S LEBANON VIS ...
  Summary: In short Islam – particularly Shi’i Islam – is taking over the clothes of the European early Renaissance (before the Enlightenment); Islam stands, for many Muslims, for a humanism and a respect for justice, human dignity and defiance of tyranny that Europe once espoused. Of course, few ...
• Irans “soft-power” increasingly checks US power
  Summary: Twenty years ago, Harvard’s Joseph Nye famously coined the term “soft power” to describe what he saw as an increasingly important factor in international politics—the capacity of “getting others to want what you want”, which he contrasted with the ability to coerce others through the ...
• The Iran Report
  Summary: The new Iran NIE has been delayed a number of times because of conflicting demands from the CIA analysts involved and from the White House. The analysts, badly burned by the heavily politicized 2002 NIE on Iraq, which led to a war, and also nervous about the barrage of criticism of the ...
• President Sleiman: Lebanon appreciates Iran's supp ...
  Summary: President Sleiman welcomes President Ahmadinejad “Lebanon appreciates Iranian support in the confrontation with Israeli aggression, particularly after the July 2006 war which enabled Lebanon to withstand the enemy. That was by virtue of [Lebanon’s] army, people, and Resistance and its a ...

The Daily Galaxy

• "Could Time Flow Backwards in Another Universe?" ...
  A new rock star in theoretical physics offers a fresh vision of our universe and beyond, all beginning with a simple question: "Why does time move forward?" Caltech physicist Sean Carroll suggests that our perception of time is informed by...
• 'Deep Thought' -Top Responses to the Weekend Poll ...
  Our 4.5 billion-year old Solar System exits in a universe that is estimated to be between 13.5 and 14 billion years old. Experts believe that there could be advanced civilizations out there that have existed for 1.8 gigayears (one gigayear...
• Experts See Robots Mirroring Human Evolution
  “I see a strong parallel between the evolution of robot intelligence and the biological intelligence that preceded it. The largest nervous systems doubled in size about every fifteen million years since the Cambrian explosion 550 million years ago. Robot controllers...
• Image of the Day: The Violent Beauty of a 100 Bill ...
  This dramatic Hubble image of the Nebula M1-67 around star WR124 as 100 billion-mile wide glowing gas blobs 15,000 light-years away, located in the constellation Sagittarius. Each blob is about 30 times the mass of the Earth. WR124 is surrounded...
• Sci, Space, Tech Fans: Win a Free $500 Apple Gift ...
  Use it to Buy an iPhone, iPad or Hundreds of Other Apple Products and Accessories. Users of Reddit, StumbleUpon, and Digg are invited to discover, review and share Daily Galaxy posts you love on any one or combination of the...

Natural News

• Vote NO for Congress - why Congress has failed the ...
  (NaturalNews) Ah, election season is upon us again, and the nation -- ever in dire need of some new disorder to treat with drugs -- is suffering from electile dysfunction . Nobody seems to know which political party or congressional candidates might lead us out of the national mess we're in today, w ...
• Plant, herb compound prevents brain inflammation
  (NaturalNews) Age-related brain illnesses like Alzheimer's disease are devastating, but there are many ways in which individuals can help thwart their onset. According to a new study published in the Journal of Nutrition , luteolin, a nutrient found in various vegetables and herbs, reduces inflammat ...
• Amino acids in watermelon lower blood pressure
  (NaturalNews) Watermelon is a classic summertime favorite packed with vitamins, minerals, fiber, and many other nutrients. And a new study out of Florida State University (FSU) has pinpointed a few specific amino acids present in watermelon that help improve arterial function and lower blood pressur ...
• Why McDonald's Happy Meal hamburgers won't decompo ...
  (NaturalNews) It's always entertaining when the mainstream media "discovers" something they think is new even though the natural health community has been talking about for years. The New York Times, for example, recently ran a story entitled When Drugs Cause Problems They Are Supposed to Prevent (h ...
• Raising soda prices reduces consumption better tha ...
  (NaturalNews) Raising soda prices appears to reduce consumption significantly, but nutrition education campaigns have little impact, according to a study conducted by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and published in the American Journal of Public Health .Growing concern over ...

Threat Level

• Teen to Plead Guilty to Staging Bomb Hoaxes For Lu ...
  A North Carolina teenager has agreed to plead guilty to a federal conspiracy charge for phoning in hoax bomb threats to colleges, middle schools and FBI offices around the country for the amusement of a live internet audience. Ashton Lundeby, 17, and his associates staged bomb hoaxes from mid-2008 ...
• Will 400,000 Secret Iraq War Documents Restore Wik ...
  After a brief quiescence, the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks is about to explode again onto the global stage with the impending release of almost 400,000 secret U.S. Army reports from the Iraq War, marking the largest military leak in U.S. history. Measured by size, the database will dwarf the 9 ...
• Supreme Court Won’t Review President’s Right to Ej ...
  The Supreme Court is refusing to hear a legal challenge by two Americans ejected from a President George W. Bush event in 2005 for having a “no more blood for oil” bumper sticker on their vehicle. Only two justices voted Tuesday to review a lower court’s ruling that said the pair had no First Amendm ...
• School District Pays $610,000 to Settle Webcam Spy ...
  A suburban Philadelphia school district is agreeing to pay $610,000 to settle two lawsuits brought by students who were victims of a webcam spying scandal in which high school-issued laptops secretly snapped thousands of pictures of pupils. The agreed payout by the Lower Merion School District come ...
• Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker ...
  A California student got a visit from the FBI this week after he found a secret GPS tracking device on his car, and a friend posted photos of it online. The post prompted wide speculation about whether the device was real, whether the young Arab-American was being targeted in a terrorism investigat ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Sunni Awakening in Danger of Unraveling in Iraq
  Even more than the 2007 surge of U.S. troops, it was the earlier Sunni Awakening which helped dramatically seduce the sectarian carnage in Iraq. While Colonel John Tien called it "the tipping point in Anbar province," the BBC cited U.S. soldiers insisting it was the Awakening, not the Surge, which ...
• Fox News' Brian Kilmeade Meets the Non-Muslim Terr ...
  When Brian Kilmeade of Fox News declared Friday that "not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims," he revealed he knows little about terrorism and even less about recent American history. If, as Adam Serwer defines it , "Terrorism is the deliberate murder of civilians or destruc ...
• Being Dick Cheney Means Never Having to Say You're ...
  On Thursday, the Washington Post literally offered a blast from the past with its profile of vice presidential buckshot recipient Harry Whittington . As the Post reports, "Nearly five years on, he's still waiting for Dick Cheney to say he's sorry" for accidentally shooting him the face during a 200 ...
• The GOP Presents Stupid Millionaire Tricks
  It's awfully tough to present your party as the champion of populist fury when the centerpiece of your 2010 campaign is another $700 billion tax cut windfall for the wealthiest two percent of Americans. Alas, for Republicans, that steep challenge is getting much worse. After all, at a time of reco ...
• GOP Obstructionism Fueling State and Local Job Los ...
  While today's employment report showed the private sector added jobs for the ninth straight month, those gains were more than offset by the deep cuts by state and local governments . But those layoffs, the biggest in 30 years , didn't have to be this severe. After all, President Obama in June aske ...

Blackspot News Feed

• The Tea Party's Misinformation Superhighway Runs T ...
  I met Delaware Tea Party dynamo Christine O'Donnell in the "green room" set up for right-wing bloggers attending Americans for Prosperity's "Right Online" conference at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas in late July. The free-market-loving, climate-change-denying group launched by Kansas oil billionai ...
• Speaking in Tongues: Bilingual Education and Immig ...
  " America has evolved for the better. She will pretty much meet you on your terms. In fact, I think she has finally come to the conclusion that Blacks, Mexicans, Indians, etc. are here to stay. And the only way to perceive them is to accept them and their existence as valid. Acceptance, that's real ...
• Bicentennial Nothing to Celebrate, Say Indigenous ...
  Mexico City, Sep 24, 2010 - "I don't understand why we should celebrate [Independence]. There will be no freedom in Mexico until repression against indigenous peoples is eliminated," says Sadhana, whose name means "moon" in the indigenous Mazahua language. read more
• Untitled
  Click through to a video interview with the other Warren Ellis and Nick Cave. Scrub through to 6.10, to discover what Nick Cave thinks should happen to me. (Also, a nice plug for the French edition of my novel.)
• "Waiting for 'Superman'": A simplistic view of edu ...
  In the eyes of some education observers, "Waiting for 'Superman'" oversimplifies the problems facing US students and implies an education reform silver bullet for struggling public schools. read more

Consortium News

• The 'Teach-the-Dems-a-Lesson' Myth
  As some lefties vow to "teach the Democrats a lesson" on Nov. 2, few ask if that strategy has ever worked, notes Robert Parry. October 15, 2010
• Treating Detainees Like Guinea Pigs
  The Bush administration's use of torture followed rule changes on human experimentation, write Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye. October 14, 2010
• Leakers, Beware the Corporate Media
  The days of brave U.S. newspapers defying the government may be over, but the Internet offers new hope, says Ray McGovern. October 13, 2010
• The Foreclosure Fraud Outrage Gap
  Given all the faux outrage these days, where's the fury over the banks' engaging in foreclosure fraud, asks Danny Schechter. October 12, 2010
• Awe of Military vs. Free Speech
  A tiny right-wing church's grotesque behavior pits free-speech principles against reverence of the US military, notes Ivan Eland. October 12, 2010

CounterPunch

• :
• Alexander Cockburn : Autumn of the Driveler
• Carl Ginsburg : Life in the Low to Mid-Teens
• Alexander Cockburn : Loose-Lip McChrystal Did Obam ...
• Alexander Cockburn : He Should Have Kept His Mouth ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Oxfam urges lifting of barriers to olive productio ...
  The first day of the Palestinian olive harvest officially began on 15 October, and Rani Ali and his family were out among their olive trees, starting to bring in what looks like being a g ...
• Demolishing a Life (aic )
• British director Mike Leigh cancels Israel trip to ...
  British director Mike Leigh has canceled his scheduled visit to Israel after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet approved a controversial amendment to the Citizenship Law last wee ...
• IDF uses disguised troops in anti-fence rallies ( ...
  The Israel Defense Forces and the defense establishment recently used soldiers disguised as Arabs during Friday anti-fence rallies in the West Bank. The enclosed video shows members of t ...
• Clashes erupt in Silwan (Ma'an News)
  Clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians erupted in the flashpoint East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on Sunday. Ma'an's correspondent said large numbers of Israeli forces were ...

Water - AlterNet

• We are Facing the Greatest Threat to Humanity: Onl ...
  Quite simply, human-centered governance systems are not working and we need new economic, development and environmental policies.
• 3 Countries in South America Defending Local Right ...
  Communities in Ecuador, Brazil and Peru all threatened by massive water-related projects.
• US Lifts Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Drilling Ban
  Drilling will resume but with stricter rules, among them an obligation that companies "certify that the rig has complied with all new and existing rules."
• New Book Exposes the Dirty Truth Behind Coca-Cola: ...
  Coke has been accused of violence against union members in South America, water pollution overseas, and contributing to child health problems. Is it true?
• Sludge Not So Dirty After All: Clean Energy from W ...
  From sludge-derived biodiesel to microbial fuel cells, it seems like the possibilities for wastewater are endless.

Public Citizen in Texas

• Foreign Countries and Big Corporations Fund Mid-te ...
  By Ali Rawaf and Andy Wilson This election cycle will be the most expensive midterm in US history. With money pouring in from big corporations and foreign entities, this election has become more about how much can a candidate raise than it is about debating the real issues at stake. It is estimated ...
• U.S. nuclear loan-guarantee program is testing how ...
  Constellation Energy Group Inc. said last week it was pulling out of talks on a $7.5 billion loan guarantee to build a reactor at its Calvert Cliffs facility in Maryland.  Constellation Energy Group’s Chief Operating Officer Michael Wallace told the Energy Department that they felt the estimated $88 ...
• Is my property ripe for the TAKING?
  As you may have read in an earlier blog, Texas landowners who live in the path of the proposed Keystone Pipeline route may be dealing with the threat of eminent domain to force them into a contract.  If the landowner doesn’t come to an agreement with the entity intent on “taking” their land, then ...
• P2080110 [Flickr]
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
• Ali Rawaf: Media and Campaign Finance Intern at Pu ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Ali studies Political Science and Int'l Studies at University of Texas at Austin.

Unexplained Mysteries

• Inside the Soviets' failed moon program
  Back in the 1960s both the USA and the Soviet Union raced to place the first humans on the moon. While the Americans succeeded when Neil Armstrong fir...
• Giant pterosaurs could fly 10,000 miles
  Scientists believe that prehistoric pterosaurs could have gone for thousands of miles non-stop. The giant winged reptiles would burn off their copious...
• The McDonald's everlasting Happy Meal
  Artist Sally Davies has discovered what happens when you leave a Happy Meal out for six months. The answer - nothing at all apparantly. Davies has lef...
• Tyrannosaurus Rex was a cannibal
  One of the most fearsome predators to ever walk the earth may have also been a cannibal. Scientists believe that Tyrannosaurus Rex would have feasted ...
• Was the New York UFO a bunch of balloons?
  It is believed that the object sighted above New York a few days ago was actually a bunch of balloons. Hundreds of people in the Big Apple took to the...

Grassroots

• Insights - Fall 2010
  An important victory is unfolding: the US Food Sovereignty Alliance is officially being launched on World Food Day, October 16. More than three years in the making, this event represents not only a first for the US, but a much awaited step forward for the food sovereignty movement worldwide. Read mo ...
• Update from Mexico since the September Mudslide
  oaxaca.jpg For a week in late September, steady rain in the southern states of Mexico created mudslides and floods, affecting communities and farms in Oaxaca, Chiapas and surrounding southern states. Fortunately early reports overestimated the ...
• People Across the U.S. Celebrate Indigenous People ...
  marcelina_sirien_xinico.jpg The below press release from Grassroots International's ally the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) discusses some of the events that were held on Indigenous Peoples' Day. IEN�is a network of indigenous peoples ...
• Communities in Oaxaca Buried in Mud
  oaxaca.jpg The hillsides of Oaxaca literally slipped into mud and slid through community villages nearby.�Among those affected by the deluge are Grassroots International partners: Mixe Peoples' Services ; Center to Support the Popular Movement ...
• Via Campesina Denounces Gates Foundation, Monsanto ...
  Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� The Via Campesina is an international movement of peasants, small- and medium-sized producers, landless, rural women, indigenous people, rural youth and agricultural workers. The Via is a Grassroots International pa ...

Climate

• China Rejects Clean Energy Probe, Calls U.S. Unfai ...
  Source:� AP A senior Chinese official rejected a U.S. trade complaint about Beijing's clean energy policy and said Sunday that Washington might be improperly supporting its own industry.
• World Needs Urgent Action to Stop Species Loss: U. ...
  Source:� Reuters The world cannot afford to allow nature's riches to disappear, the UN said on Monday at the start of a major meeting to combat losses in animal and plant species.
• China Unveils Ambitious Plan to Protect Wildlife a ...
  Source:� Guardian Foreign supporters say China's ambitious new biodiversity plan will put the country at the forefront of global efforts to reverse habitat and species decline.
• Gamesa Beefs Up Chinese Presence with Flurry of Ne ...
  Source:� BusinessGreen Spanish wind giant Gamesa has agreed deals to supply three Chinese companies with 197 turbines as it looks to cement its position in the world's fast growing wind market.
• Vestas Using Potentially Harmful Chemicals
  Source:� The Coloradoan The international wind turbine company Vestas is using potentially harmful chemicals -- epoxy resins -- in its blades factory in Colorado that have injured several workers.

GreenBiz

• Life in the Real World after EDF Climate Corps
  People often remark on the incredible amount of financial savings uncovered by green MBAs participating in the EDF Climate Corps program. Just as remarkable is how these fellows parlayed their summer experiences into long-term careers at the nexus of business and the environment.
• A Sustainability Checklist to Finish the Year and ...
  The fourth quarter presents important challenges and opportunities for business sustainability leaders, as it does for all executives and managers. It's often the time for planning, for budgeting for the coming year, and sometimes for spending remaining budget for the current year. Here are importan ...
• Starbucks Tests How Coffee Cups Fare in NYC's Recy ...
  �Starbucks is using New York City as a testing ground for recycling its ubiquitous coffee cups. If successful, it could mean the 3 billion cups it uses each year go to the recycling bin instead of landfill.
• California Tops ACEEE State Rankings for a Fourth ...
  California again leads the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy's annual list of the states that do the most to advance energy efficiency, but Massachusetts is closing in on the Golden State and its four-year claim to the top spot.
• States' Critical Role in Fostering Energy Efficien ...
  For businesses to go green, it doesn't just take a smart CEO and savvy business plan. It also takes strong state leadership to ensure that the best incentives, policies, and programs are in place to help businesses improve both the sustainability and profitability of their companies.

Reuters Global

• Mongolia’s El Dorado stirs shareholder battl ...
  In Mongolia’s South Gobi desert lies the Oyu Tolgoi mine, often described as having the world’s largest untapped copper and gold deposits. Little wonder mining titans are battling over this El Dorado. The mine is part of a resource dream in Genghis Khan’s old kingdom and could make Mongolia one of t ...
• Gen Petraeus turns up the heat on Pakistan, Afghan ...
  The United States under new commander General David Petraeus has escalated an air campaign over Afghanistan and Pakistan. The question is will it work or suck America deeper into the quagmire.
• Quadriplegic in an age of austerity
  Every time I write a story on European countries cutting public spending, I can't help but fear my health, lifestyle and liberty could be a casualty of the "age of austerity". On assignment covering the Sri Lankan civil war for Reuters four years ago, I broke my neck in a minibus smash. It left me q ...
• Taliban talks: “an iffy, high-level treaty&# ...
  Talk of talking to the Taliban is gathering pace but the likely outcome is summed up by a four-letter word - "iffy"
• “Is our country really that dangerous?&#8221 ...
  Veteran reporter Benjamin Kang Lim offers impressions from the Hermit Kingdom after a four-day visit to witness the debut of Kim Jong-il's son and heir-apparent.

Booman Tribune

• Stupid Democrats
  How many of the following Democrats have pledged to vote for Nancy Pelosi for Speaker, voted for the health care bill, voted for Cap and Trade, voted for the stimulus bill, and voted for Wall Street Reform? Among the endangered Democrats counting on a substantial black turnout are Representativ ...
• Casual Observation
  Maybe they should have a rule that you have to be under-30 to serve in the U.S. Senate . I hope the good people of Colorado, especially the young people, get out and vote, because we do not need Ken Buck serving in the Senate. Discuss
• Will the Tea Party Crack Up?
  Timothy Rutton of the Los Angeles Times makes an astute observation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's epoch-changing New Deal coalition survived only so long as its constituent groups agreed not to discuss the one difference between them they could not reconcile race. When the civil rights m ...
• McCain is a Real Pleasure
  Shrill : Former Republican presidential contender John McCain reunited with his onetime advisor Carly Fiorina on the campaign trail Saturday in San Diego, offering a blistering indictment of Barbara Boxers record on military issues and calling her the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense s ...
• Holocaust Guilt Has Expired
  I guess sixty-five years is long enough for Germans to get over the guilt and start talking trash about religious minorities again. That seems about right. You'd have to be over eighty years old to have had any shot in actually participating, even indirectly, in the Holocaust. It's safe to go bac ...

European Tribune

• Monday Open Thread
  Anything to say in your defence?...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 18 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europe on this date in history:1977 - end of...
• Sunday Open Thread
  Just a thread, but very open....
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 1 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europe on this date in history:1961 - Maurice Papon,...
• Saturday Open Thread
  Whoosh....

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

• How to Help Disaster Survivors? Best Practice Migh ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary With many psychologically damaging experiences, the sooner help is given, the better. For example, kids who are bullied or those who experience abuse respond much better over the long haul if they receive therapy early on to deal with their experiences. But for survivo ...
• Psychiatric Nurses Are Highly Invested in their Pa ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A survey of nurses who attend to patients hospitalized for psychiatric reasons shows that these nurses are highly invested in their patients’ care. Nurses help bridge communication gap between doctors and patients and are often the ones who educate patients and their ...
• 2010 Voice Awards: Entertainment Industry Casts Me ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline This week, the 2010 Voice Awards recognized film and television writers and producers who have incorporated “dignified, respective and accurate portrayals of people with mental illnesses” into their work, including emphasis on recovery. The awards, which began in 2005 ...
• Preventing, Not Just Reacting To, Aggressive Youth ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline From taunting and bullying to fights and school shootings, students of all ages have shown a capability for a wide range of aggressive behavior toward their peers.  Part of mitigating these behaviors involves swift and effective response to early signs of bullying or ...
• The Healing Power of the Therapeutic Relationship
  By Sarah Noel, MS, LMHC Person Centered/Rogerian Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Sarah and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Have you ever been in a relationship that challenged your assumptions and beliefs about yourself and the world around you? If so, then you know h ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Mountaintop removal column full of fallacies - Vir ...
  Environment News Service Mountaintop removal column full of fallacies Virginia Tech Collegiate Times Secondly, the term “ mountaintop removal ” is often used by opponents of mining to categorize all surface coal operations. In actuality, only a portion of ... Obama Administration Sued Over Mountain ...
• West Virginia Sues Feds Over Mountain Top Removal ...
  Reuters West Virginia Sues Feds Over Mountain Top Removal Permits Care2.com (blog) Mountaintop removal , in which hundreds of feet are blasted off hills to gain access to coal seams, has become a major mining method in West Virginia, ... WV Senate candidate calls Democrat, Republican rivals on supp ...
• More than 100 arrested in mountaintop removal coal ...
  Lexington Herald Leader More than 100 arrested in mountaintop removal coal mining protest This Dish Is Veg More than 100 people were arrested during Appalachia Rising, the largest national protest to end mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining. ... Mountaintop removal mining continues despite Obama's ...
• Dishonorable energy? - University of Virginia The ...
  Dishonorable energy? University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily Coal is born into the world of energy-production by the unholy act of mountaintop removal — the utter demolition of mountains to extract the coal within. ...
• Readers' voice: Oct. 18, 2010 - Charleston Gazette
  Readers' voice: Oct. 18, 2010 Charleston Gazette People working on mountaintop removal aren't coal miners, they're heavy equipment operators. John Raese said he will appeal Obamacare. ...

Memeorandum

• Asked 7 Times, Fiorina Fails To Give A Frustrated ...
  Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress : Asked 7 Times, Fiorina Fails To Give A Frustrated Wallace One Solution To Cut Spending   —  Touting her outisde, business-executive saavy, GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina (R-CA) constantly chants the GOP mantra to cut government spending.  She even released a bu ...
• NATO official: Bin Laden, deputy hiding in northwe ...
  Barbara Starr / CNN : NATO official: Bin Laden, deputy hiding in northwest Pakistan   —  Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri are believed to be hiding close to each other in houses in northwest Pakistan, but are not together, a senior NATO official said.
• Facebook in Privacy Breach (Wall Street Journal)
  Wall Street Journal : Facebook in Privacy Breach   —  Top-Ranked Applications Transmit Personal IDs, a Journal Investigation Finds  —  Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed the F8 developer conference this spring.  —  Many of the most popular applications, or “apps,” on the social-net ...
• Alaska Dispatch editor detained at Miller event [u ...
  Alaska Dispatch : Alaska Dispatch editor detained at Miller event [updated]   —  Alaska Dispatch founder and editor Tony Hopfinger was grabbed and handcuffed by a private security detail working for U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller on Sunday while trying to ask the Fairbanks Republican questions f ...
• Miller security guards handcuff editor (Richard Ma ...
  Richard Mauer / Anchorage Daily News : Miller security guards handcuff editor   —  The editor of the Alaska Dispatch website was arrested by U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller's private security guards Sunday as the editor attempted to interview Miller on camera at the end of a public event in an An ...

Energy & Environment News

• Europe May Ease Jet Carbon Fees
  A top European transportation official said that steps to reduce air pollution in the United States might be taken into account.
• Green Column: Financing Dearth Holds Solar Back in ...
  The American solar energy industry is having its best year ever, yet financing remains scarce for the billion-dollar projects needed for it to gain ground on global leaders like Germany.
• Silicon Valley’s Solar Innovators Retool to ...
  As California companies begin mass production of a new solar cell, the industry has been changed — by China.
• Plug-In Cars Pose Riddle for E.P.A.
  Just two months before the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf enter showrooms, how the E.P.A. will measure the cars’ fuel economy remains a question.
• U.S. Military Orders Less Dependence on Fossil Fue ...
  With insurgents attacking American fuel supply convoys into Afghanistan, the military is pushing renewable energy sources like solar power.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.1, New Britain region, Papua New Guinea
  Monday, October 18, 2010 08:02:17 UTC Monday, October 18, 2010 06:02:17 PM at epicenter Depth : 41.20 km (25.60 mi)
• M 5.0, Sichuan-Yunnan-Guizhou region, China
  Sunday, October 17, 2010 21:49:39 UTC Monday, October 18, 2010 05:49:39 AM at epicenter Depth : 13.50 km (8.39 mi)
• M 6.1, Tonga
  Tuesday, October 12, 2010 12:02:55 UTC Wednesday, October 13, 2010 01:02:55 AM at epicenter Depth : 9.90 km (6.15 mi)
• M 5.5, Tonga
  Tuesday, October 12, 2010 12:01:10 UTC Wednesday, October 13, 2010 01:01:10 AM at epicenter Depth : 23.20 km (14.42 mi)
• M 5.2, central Peru
  Sunday, October 17, 2010 08:27:51 UTC Sunday, October 17, 2010 03:27:51 AM at epicenter Depth : 21.10 km (13.11 mi)

China Dialogue

• “China must tax carbon”
  Chinese officials are reportedly preparing to introduce a levy on greenhouse-gas emissions. Energy finance expert Jiang Kejun tells Meng Si it cannot come soon enough. China ranks second in the Forbes 2009 Tax Misery & Reform Index , coming only behind France. But Jiang Kejun, senior researcher at t ...
• Obama’s mixed signals
  Jake Schmidt is an expert in international climate policy. Catching up with Meng Si in Tianjin, he talked about America’s low-carbon prospects, and the need for major powers – including China – to agree on transparency. Jake Schmidt is international climate policy director at the US-based Natural Re ...
• Pakistan’s push for climate cash
  Flood-hit Pakistan is seeking priority access to climate-change aid, challenging the United Nations’ definition of the neediest countries. Rina Saeed Khan reports. As Pakistan struggles to recover from recent devastating floods, it is pushing for recognition in United Nations climate negotiations as ...
• An alliance worth striving for
  In the week of high-level talks between China and Europe, Bernice Lee and Nick Mabey argue the two parties have the power to accelerate global action on climate change – as long as they can work together. Today, the imperative of meeting global energy and climate security needs is driving a third in ...
• Tianjin by numbers
  Mistrust between the United States and China dominated last week’s climate talks. After another disappointing round of negotiations, Sam Geall considers the figures behind the impasse. Disappointment lingered in the air of Tianjin's Meijiang centre on Saturday morning, as pervasive as the polluted h ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• More Dobbs Hypocrisy: Immigrant Bashing TV Persona ...
  For years Dobbs waged nightly diatribes on CNN against the undocumented immigrants who cared for his show horses and toiled on the grounds of his Florida estate.
• Frank Rich: Tea Party Extremism and Rage Will Only ...
  In today’s column, Frank Rich lists actual and attempted acts of violence that seem to have been inspired by wingnut/tea party rage, including a planned attack on a charitable group known as the Tides Foundation, a frequent Glenn Beck target, and the stabbing of a Muslim cabdriver just as anger ...
• Young People Who Don’t Attend College Face B ...
  This post first appeared on the Daily Kos. High School graduates without higher education have seen their incomes decline substantially before and since the onset of the Great Recession. Additionally, a report to Congress by the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance noted college enr ...
• GOP Senate Candidate Ken Buck Compares Homosexuali ...
  This post first appeared on Washington Monthly. Ken Buck has already made quite a name for himself as Colorado’s right-wing Senate candidate. From extremist positions on the issues to inexplicable professional misjudgments, the Republican nominee stands out — but not in a good way.This morning ...
• LA Sheriff Pledges to Bust People for Pot Even If ...
  Sheriff Baca, who is sworn to uphold California state law, has essentially said that the voters don't matter.

Threat Level

• Teen to Plead Guilty to Staging Bomb Hoaxes For Lu ...
  A North Carolina teenager has agreed to plead guilty to a federal conspiracy charge for phoning in hoax bomb threats to colleges, middle schools and FBI offices around the country for the amusement of a live internet audience. Ashton Lundeby, 17, and his associates staged bomb hoaxes from mid-2008 ...
• Will 400,000 Secret Iraq War Documents Restore Wik ...
  After a brief quiescence, the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks is about to explode again onto the global stage with the impending release of almost 400,000 secret U.S. Army reports from the Iraq War, marking the largest military leak in U.S. history. Measured by size, the database will dwarf the 9 ...
• Supreme Court Won’t Review President’s Right to Ej ...
  The Supreme Court is refusing to hear a legal challenge by two Americans ejected from a President George W. Bush event in 2005 for having a “no more blood for oil” bumper sticker on their vehicle. Only two justices voted Tuesday to review a lower court’s ruling that said the pair had no First Amendm ...
• School District Pays $610,000 to Settle Webcam Spy ...
  A suburban Philadelphia school district is agreeing to pay $610,000 to settle two lawsuits brought by students who were victims of a webcam spying scandal in which high school-issued laptops secretly snapped thousands of pictures of pupils. The agreed payout by the Lower Merion School District come ...
• Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker ...
  A California student got a visit from the FBI this week after he found a secret GPS tracking device on his car, and a friend posted photos of it online. The post prompted wide speculation about whether the device was real, whether the young Arab-American was being targeted in a terrorism investigat ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Clearwire and Sprint set big city high-speed launc ...
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel and its Clearwire Corp venture will begin offering their high-speed wireless services from November across some of the busiest U.S. cities: New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
• Dollar rises, emerging stocks fall on QE jitters
  LONDON (Reuters) - Investors pulled back some of their bets on additional monetary easing by the Federal Reserve, lifting the dollar and generally selling off equities on Monday.
• French gas station pumps dry up amid pension prote ...
  PARIS (Reuters) - A growing number of pumps in French gas stations were drying up on Monday at the start of a second week of action by refinery and port strikers to block fuel supplies over an unpopular pension reform bill.
• BHP, Rio scrap $116 billion iron ore joint venture
  MELBOURNE (Reuters) - BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto scrapped their proposed $116 billion iron-ore joint venture as expected, caving in to opposition from regulators, steelmakers and major investors 16 months after unveiling the plan.
• PRECIOUS-Gold extends losses, weighed by dollar re ...
  SINGAPORE, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Gold fell more than half a percent on Monday, extending losses from the previous session after U.S. Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke gave away no details of possible monetary easing moves, while a stabilising dollar offered little impetus.

IntelNews

• Israel may have helped FBI nab American Jewish inf ...
  The government of Israel may have tipped off US federal agents about the activities of an American Jew, who was arrested by the FBI earlier this month for sharing confidential information with an undercover FBI agent. Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #438 (Stuxnet edition)
  Stuxnet cyber superweapon moves to China. The Stuxnet computer virus, dubbed the world’s “first cyber superweapon” by experts, and which may have been designed to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, has found a new target: China. The computer worm has infecting … Continue reading →
• Iran announces arrests of alleged nuclear spies
  By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | The Iranian government has announced the arrest of an unspecified number of alleged nuclear spies, reportedly in connection with a sophisticated virus that infected computers used in Iranâs nuclear energy program. The arrests were … Continue reading →
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After Downing Street.org

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• Nearly Helpless
  By Missy Comley Beattie I call one of my sons and say, “Listen, I have something to tell you." He says, “As long as it isn’t about bedbugs.” Expertly, with parental precision, I slickly shift from the bedbug scene in my head to one of the many issues among a plethora of plagues (POP). I talk about t ...
• Electoral Coup d'Etats
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• Afghanistan War Weekly: October 17, 2010
  Official war information now needs to be evaluated in light of the US political timetable and the crises of legitimacy beginning to threaten NATO governments. The most important milestones for the United States are, of course, the congressional elections, the December “review” of the progress of th ...
• Afghanistan - The Forgotten War
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Grist - News

• Angry county could cut California out of $33 milli ...
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• How does population affect climate change?
  by Lisa Hymas. Population growth obviously has an impact on climate change, but there's been little rigorous study of exactly what that impact is. New research published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences begins to fill that gap. The top-level takeaway: "lowing populati ...
• Wisconsin governor’s race: Barrett vs. Walke ...
  by Jonathan Hiskes. For a glimpse at the future of Wisconsin, look to the recent past of Milwaukee. The city's mayor, Tom Barrett (D), is running for governor against Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker (R). The two have disagreed plenty in the past, and their local clashes over clean en ...
• Australia, Pacific kick off global climate action
  by Agence France-Presse. SYDNEY -- With tree plantings in Australia's biggest city Sydney and gardening near its iconic Bondi Beach, hundreds took part Sunday in what organizers say will be the world's biggest day of climate change action. The 10/10/10 event known as the "Global Work Party ...
• China and U.S. blame each other as climate talks c ...
  by Agence France-Presse. TIANJIN, China - The United States and China clashed on the final day of climate change talks on Saturday, accusing each other of blocking progress ahead of a major summit next month on global warming. The world's two biggest greenhouse-gas polluters sparred throughout t ...

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Invisible Opportunity

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AlterNet - DrugReporter

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Twilight Earth

• Here Comes Trouble (cartoon)
  Recent news of the habitable planet that circles a star called Gliese 581, and the ensuing article in the Huffington Post, by James Napoli inspired this little cartoon. The news is also reminiscent of one of my favorite children’s books Wump World, by Bill Peet. Look out Wumps! Here we come! New ...
• Republican Clouds (cartoon)
  Obama announced recently that he plans to add solar panels to the White House. I can’t see anyone or anything standing in the way. White House gets into 10/10/10 spirit with solar-panel plan Obama: âNo industry with more potential to create jobs now than clean energyâ Follow Joe Mohrâs cart ...
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Inhabitat

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Pogue's Posts

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• Shifting Time Zones on Online Calendars
  Making an appointment in one time zone does not mean your calendar will remind you at the right time if you travel to another time zone-unless you adjust a setting.
• How Do You Test a Battery?
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WIRED Magazine | Science

• Bat Disease Threatens to Close America’s Caves
  A nightmare bat-killing disease could have an unexpected victim: America’s access to its caves. To slow the spread of a fungus that causes White Nose Syndrome, government agencies are systematically closing caves to the public. Confronted with a disease that’s killed at least one million bats since ...
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The Progressive Realist

• The AK-47 - Not a WMD
  Every now and then, journalists and some scholars feel compelled to talk about AK-47s (or automatic rifles in general) as "weapons of mass destruction" because so many people have died as the result of its employment in the Third World. It generally bothers me as a defense professional, because it a ...
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• The EU as a Strategic Actor
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• Green Epiphany: Media Notices Energy Security
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• Spoilers in Afghanistan
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TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: Talking About My Generation.
  When you read stories like this one, about college-educated 20-somethings with very little in the way of decent job prospects, who overwhelmingly end up living with their parents again after finishing their degrees, you begin to appreciate the depth and severity of the economic catastrophe that's s ...
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• Expect More Footnotes.
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• The Mis-Informant.
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Buzzflash

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Glenn Greenwald - Salon

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  On the eve of a new leak, widely trumpeted Pentagon accusations about the whistleblowing site have proven false
• A political culture free of accountability
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• The Wars on Drugs and Terror: mirror images
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• Robert Gibbs, hypocritical transparency crusader
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• Kagan's first steps on the Court
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The BiPartisan Report

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Sciencebase

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• Science is vital
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Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Canada-EU Free Trade: Treat or trick? Groups to Pr ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 15, 2010 Council of Canadians In the spirit of Halloween, Canadian and European Union trade negotiators are in Ottawa next week to continue closed-door talks on a monster trade deal called the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, or CETA. While improving ties ...
• Illegal Israeli Settlement Plans Threaten Palestin ...
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• League Calls on Media to Stop Secret Political Adv ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 15, 2010 League of Women Voters Today, the League of Women Voters called on television and radio stations to refuse political advertising paid for with secret money. The League also called for political candidates to repudiate campaign advertising in their races tha ...
• Coalition for an Ethical Psychology Calls for Inve ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 15, 2010 Coalition for an Ethical Psychology On Thursday, Mark Benjamin in Salon.com reports that former American Psychological Association (APA) President Martin Seligman received a no-bid, $31 million contract from the Department of Defense (DOD) for “resilience train ...
• Signs of Hope That International Community Might B ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 15, 2010 Oxfam International UN countries began to find common ground on some important and deep-seated problems contributing to global hunger, at a meeting of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) that ends in Rome tomorrow. read more

Common Dreams-Views

• Heroes for the Beaten, Foreclosed on, Imprisoned M ...
  by Chris Hedges Staughton Lynd could have built an enviable career as an academic but for his conscience. His conscience led him as a young undergraduate disgusted by the elitism around him to drop out of Harvard, and tortured him when he returned to finish his degree. It plagued him after he receiv ...
• A World Made by War
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• Stop Supporting Fox News or You'll Have Blood on Y ...
  by Drummond Pike Dear Fox Advertiser, I am writing to ask your company to take a simple step that may well save lives in the future. And it is not unimportant that taking this action will remove your company and its products from any connection to what could very likely be an unpleasant trage ...
• The 'Teach-the-Dems-a-Lesson' Myth
  by Robert Parry If my e-mail inbox is any indication, many American progressives plan to use the Nov. 2 election as an opportunity to “teach the Democrats a lesson” by either not voting or casting ballots for third parties, even if this contributes to the expected Republican (and Tea Party) land ...
• ‘Saving’ Social Security From Its Previous Rescue
  by Jim Naureckas Way back in 1983, corporate media helped sell the dubious notion that Social Security needed saving by a blue-ribbon commission (Extra!,  1-2/88 ). The panel-headed by future Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan-raised payroll taxes and the retirement age for the ostensible purpose ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Admission Aid Worker Was Killed By U.S. Grenade On ...
  By Steve Hynd Marc Ambinder and others are now confirming the Guardian story today that a U.S. SEAL killed kidnapped aid worker Linda Norgrave when he threw a fragmentation grenade instead of a smoke one, fatally wounding her. Marc writes: A senior military official tells me that a preliminary inves ...
• A Last Patrol In "The Devil's Playground"
  By Steve Hynd Today's must-read is "The Last Patrol", an account of the last day on the frontline in Afghanistan for a unit from the 82nd Airborne by imbedded reporter Brian Mockenhaupt. It's deeply harrowing, emotional and detailled - the kind of coverage of the occupation of Afghanistan that is la ...
• UNSC Calls For More Troops For Afghanistan
  By Steve Hynd If General Petraeus wanted cover for "staying the course" - indeed, for doubling down - in Afghanistan, then he just got some from a major source - the UNSC. The Security Council today extended the mission of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan for another ...
• China, Pakistan and the war for "Pipelineistan"
  By Steve Hynd I heartily recommend Pepe Escobar's piece China's Pipelineistan "War" over at Mother Jones today. Not only is it an informative read, but it also opens up questions about US threats to take the Af/Pak war fully into Pakistan. Would China stand idly by? Not likely. Here's an extended ex ...
• The Next Escalation Of A Failed War - Into Pakista ...
  By Steve Hynd It is a central tenet of counter-insurgency operations that they cannot be successful while the insurgents have a safe haven to operate from. It seems logical on the face of it, but from Laos to Cambodia to Afghanistan - in every situation where those safe havens exist aplenty in a hos ...

Water Wars

• A ringside seat at the end of the world: Haiku fro ...
  these haiku plumb truths gleaned from writers’ conference held in Missoula my dogma is: earth’s trajectory is on path to catastrophe boost in wildfires, temps, glacier melt; the West’s up a creek, paddlelessly! invasive species so fruitful — no hills left for natives to flee to land snatched from tr ...
• Water wars: Is a tougher approach to irrigators ne ...
  CLIFF Hayes is settling into his new surrounds outside Swan Hill. He's shifted his cattle 20 kilometres closer to the river, where his new farm lies. It's smaller, more manageable, has better access to water and, unlike his old farm, the new place boasts an electricity connection.
• Canal-Aqueduct Tunnel Project Near Tracy May Ease ...
  The promise of reliable water supplies in one of the areas hardest hit by drought and job losses brought together U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Thursday for a project designed to ease the conditions.
• Shelby Wades into Water Wars Dispute
  Sen. Richard Shelby says the Army Corps of Engineers must remain neutral in the water wars dispute between Alabama, Florida and Georgia.
• Florida Appeals In Water Wars
  Florida is appealing a judge's decision that protects Georgia from demands that it release more water from a series of dams to protected threatened or endangered species downstream. Florida filed its notice of appeal Monday in federal court in Orlando, Fla. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's...

WordPress | Economics

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• 10:1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons
  The trip was too long for him this year, so? Youre right, Mandy, as usual, he agreed. 20:4 And why h
• Surely all these stories are directly related?
  Obama urged to act on China’s currency manipulation Ok, so according to the US government, Chi

Electronic Intifada

• Forced to take the apartheid oath
  In all likelihood, I will be one of the very first non-Jews expected to swear loyalty to Israel as an ideology rather than as a state. Until now, naturalizing residents, li ...
• German firm helps Israel cement occupation with li ...
  Last month, the German company T�V NORD Group announced that it will test the technical safety of the first line of the controversial Jerusalem light rail project that crit ...
• Shooting in "buffer zone," air strikes across Gaza
  Israeli snipers shot a Palestinian boy collecting scrap building material in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday. The shooting follows several air strikes across the Gaza Str ...
• Israel conducts population transfer training exerc ...
  Israel secretly staged a training exercise last week to test its ability to quell any civil unrest that might result from a peace deal with the Palestinian Authority requir ...
• Surplus of coffins, shortage of medicines in Gaza
  GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - Samir Tahseen al-Nadeem died after waiting 35 days for an exit permit for treatment for his heart condition. He was 26. The medicines ...

Afghanistan Sun

• 1 million votes may be nullified amid reports ...
  In the wake of the preliminary results of the September 18 Afghan parliamentary elections having been postponed, interviews with Afghan and Western officials have indicated that fraud was pervasive in the elections, and nearly 25 percent of the votes are likely to be thrown out.
• US officials say concrete progress in Afghan war a ...
  Top U.S. officials insist that there is concrete progress in the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
• Pak Taliban recruiting teenagers as suicide bomber ...
  The Taliban is recruiting young boys as suicide bombers in Pakistan.
• NATO, Afghan soldiers strike near Kandahar to flus ...
  Commander of British Forces in southern Afghanistan, Major General Nick Carter, has said that a critical air assault has been carried out in Panjwai, a wide area that has served as the main base for the Taliban threatening Kandahar.
• Detainee in NATO Afghan custody "found dead&q ...
  KABUL (Reuters) - A detainee being held by troops from the NATO-led force in Afghanistan was found dead in his holding cell, and an investigation is underway, the force said in a statement Monday.The ...

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

• Geithner's Dirty Little Secret
• Swine Flu
• Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: Or ...
• The Fake Oil Crisis of 1973
• Fossiles Erdöl
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on Government Oversight

• Morning Smoke: FDA Rescinds Approval of Knee Devic ...
  FDA to Revoke Knee-Device Approval, Saying It Erred by Alicia Mundy [The Wall Street Journal] Watchdog Finds Treasury’s Reliance on Contractors Shielded Bailout Work from Scrutiny by Marian Wang [ProPublica] Obama Senate ally 'frustrated' with White House inaction on Afghanistan...
• Second Annual Whistleblower Film Series Kicks Off ...
  The second annual Whistleblower Film Series is just around the corner! The Series—part of the 10th annual DC Labor FilmFest—showcases films that explore the valuable role of whistleblowers at a critical time in the effort to restore and modernize protections...
• Morning Smoke: Pentagon Senior Mentor Program to S ...
  Financial disclosure ordered for military mentors by Tom Vanden Brook [USA TODAY] — check our blog post from earlier this morning for analysis GAO: Contractors get federal business despite violations by Joe Davidson [Federal Diary] Treasury awarded more TARP aid...
• Pentagon's Senior Mentors to File Public Financial ...
  The Defense Department (DoD) will now require any newly hired senior mentors who are paid more than $119,554 by the Department to file public financial disclosure reports, according to a Pentagon letter obtained by POGO. USA Today’s Tom Vanden Brook...
• Col. T.X. Hammes Says Private Security Contractors ...
  Among the reasons for his opposition to security contractors, Hammes said the widespread use of security contractors has “made it easier to go to war,” because it is less difficult politically to deploy contractors than members of the military.  He also said that the U.S. government cannot conduct e ...

Digital Journal

• Multiculturalism better in America than Europe?
  Angela Merkel’s cat-amongst-the-pigeons declarations concerning the failure of German multiculturalism are pertinent and they must not go unheeded by the rest of Europe. Should we be looking towards America for new sources of inspiration?
• Ahmadinejad: plans being made for Israel and West ...
  Coming off a provocative visit to the Lebanon-Israel border area, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suggested that Israel and countries that support Israel will 'soon go to hell.'
• Toronto's TTC needs improvement, not just expansio ...
  As Toronto gets ready to elect its next mayor later this month, public transit has never played such an integral role in an election campaign.
• European court to hear Christian group's tax case ...
  The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled unanimously that a complaint filed by Jehovah’s Witnesses in France is admissible regarding alleged interference with their freedom of religion by means of excessive taxation.
• Kokodiko, the dance monster
  Comfort Ero is an African-Canadian story-teller, playwright, choreographer and writer. She is a middle-aged but very energetic lady with a passion to transmit some of the rich cultural heritage of Africa to the younger generation.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Hasta La Vista, A.B. 2706, Legal Protections for t ...
  In 1976, the Ralph Civil Rights Act , named after civil rights activist Ralph David Abernathy, was passed in California. The bill tries to guarantee any state resident freedom from violence or intimidation based on personal characteristics including race, gender or political affiliation. Decades ear ...
• Running in the Face of Traditional Solutions
  "Getting back on your feet" usually means finding a new job, maybe a place to live and whatever else it takes to become independent and self-sufficient once again. But for Anne Mahlum, it means more than changes in circumstances. If Mahlum's name sounds familiar, maybe it's because you saw her on th ...
• Too Much Water Worsens Problem of Not Enough
  You might think that more water would be the last thing a flood victim would want to see, but gaining access to clean drinking water can mean the difference between life and death after a devastating deluge. Floods not only hold the devastating potential to displace thousands of people from their ho ...
• All Too Often, Homeless Also Means Showerless
  Homelessness could often just as easily be described as refrigeratorless, bedless, air conditioningless or showerless. It's true. When one is homeless, the prospect of a shower can be terrifying, not in a Psycho way, but because it seems so far out of reach. Shelters have showers (bring your flip fl ...
• Make a Decision Already, Before Homeless Families ...
  When I wrote about Washington, D.C.'s  impending winter housing crisis last month, I did so with what one might call "a shred of optimism." It appears that shred might have been misplaced. It's been more than a month since D.C. officials promised to improve the city's efforts to house homeless famil ...

Ceasefire.ca

• Little oversight for security contracts: U.S. Sena ...
  According to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, the Pentagon has little oversight over contracted security deals in Afghanistan and, as a result, local security deals between Western companies, American military commanders, and Afghan warlords with close connections to the Taliban are being ...
• Steven Staples on CTV’s Power Play Discussing F-35 ...
  Steven Staples discusses the CCPA/Rideau Institute report on F-35 stealth fighters with the Globe and Mail's Jane Taber on CTV Power Play.
• Media coverage of CCPA F-35 report by Steven Stapl ...
  Here are some links to media outlets reporting on the just released F-35 report: Jane Taber, “Defence expert decries purchase of ’shock-and-awe’ fighter jets,” Globe and Mail, 14 October 2010 Juliet O’Neill, “Scrap F-35s for cheaper drones, defence analyst argues,” Ottawa Citizen, 14 October 2010 ...
• Get your copy — Pilot Error: Why the F-35 Stealth ...
  We do not need ‘flying cadillacs’ to provide security to Canada and North America. The government, air force, and defence companies have made it clear why they want them, but not why Canada needs them, and why Canadians should pay for them.
• Canada’s loss at the UN - What’s your reaction?
  UN members denied Canada a coveted seat at the UN Security Council Tuesday. In a last ditch effort to avoid a complete defeat, Canada withdrew its bid before what was expected to be a complete drumming by member states as support swung to Portugal over Canada. At home, the Stephen Harper’s governme ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• New Book Exposes the Dirty Truth Behind Coca-Cola
  October 7th, 2010 Alternet.org By: Tara Lohan Coca-Cola spends $2.8 billion a year in advertising to make sure its soda is seen as the most iconic American drink — a beverage enjoyed around the world, virtual peace-building in a bottle. The company has spent 124 years polishing its image, but it too ...
• In Canada, BPA Officially Labelled ‘Toxic&#8 ...
  October 14th, 2010 The Ottawa Citizen By: Amy Minsky The federal government has made good on a two-year-old promise to add bisphenol A, a hormone-disrupting chemical linked to some cancers, to the country’s list of toxic substances, in spite of industry opposition. In 2008, Canada became the first c ...
• Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Paid to Help Run TARP
  October 14th, 2010 TheHill.com By: Silia Brush The Treasury Department has paid $437 million to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and private contractors to help run the Wall Street bailout program, a congressional oversight panel said in a report Thursday. The Congressional Oversight Panel said some of the 9 ...
• GM Corn Destroys US Rivers
  October 14th, 2010 Natural News By: Ethan A. Huff New research reveals that genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) are destroying both human health and the environment. According to Emma Rosi-Marshall from the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y., GM corn crops are leeching a toxic ...
• New FDA Regulations to Destroy Small Organic Farms
  October 15th, 2010 Natural News By: David Gutierrez A proposed law to bring farms more directly under FDA supervision could be the death of small organic farms, natural food advocates have warned. “How do we trust that the FDA is going to know about things that the San Francisco Bay Area has been ve ...

Pambazuka News

• Africa: Angola hosts 3rd African meeting on Cuba s ...
  The third African meeting on Solidarity with Cuba was held in Luanda, Angola, 11-12 September, to consolidate the friendship between the African and Cuban people and contribute to strengthening African solidarity towards the Caribbean island nation. ...
• Global: US city opens doors to Cuban 5
  On Saturday March 13, in the auditorium of the Lavonya DeJean Middle School, in the City of Richmond California, a large number of people gathered to commemorate International Women's Day for the third consecutive year. Under the title "Women in Soli...
• Stop senate renege on black farmer compensation
  ColorOfChange.org - http://www.colorofchange.org/farmers/?id=1842-429864 is campaigning to ensure that a US senate bill to compensate black farmers in the South for discrimination gives them the money they deserve, rather than capping the total amount available at $100 million, which would only cove ...
• Ekiti must hold free, fair elections
  The North America-based Ekiti Focus Group has strongly condemned election violence and intimidation in Nigeria’s Ekiti State, describing reported cases of ‘arson, maiming, ballot stuffing, ballot hijacking, and shooting’ as ‘barbaric acts’. In a statement the group called for ‘the release of true an ...
• Global: Why Haiti can't forget its past
  Thank you for the attention you have brought to the country of Haiti. In response to your New York Times op ed piece I wanted to widen your perspective a bit. I don't pretend to represent anyone. I've been living in Haiti since 1985. I grew up in New...

War in Context

• The decline of the West
  Perhaps the clearest evidence of the decline of Western civilization is the example of those who now shout it its defense. In the name of protecting civilization, a movement promoting racial supremacism is infecting Western consciousness with the notion that a set of values and cultural constructio ...
• Time to make national heroes out of those who stea ...
  Coleen Rowley, legal counsel to the FBI field office in Minneapolis from 1990 to 2003 and Bogdan Dzakovic, a special agent for the Federal Aviation Authority’s security division, suggest that had WikiLeaks existed in 2001, they might have been able to make public information that could have prevente ...
• Chas Freeman: Engaging the Middle East — after the ...
  By Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.), Tufts University, October 15, 2010 As an American, I look at the results of U.S. policies in the Middle East and they remind me of the T-shirt someone once gave me. It said: “Sinatra is dead. Elvis is dead. And me, I don’t feel so [...]
• Gilad Atzmon joins forces with Robert Wyatt
  Yaron Frid writes: In 1963 a baby was born in Israel. In 1972 a man fell from the third floor (or the fourth – views are divided ) in England in the middle of the night. Both of them took off on the wings of music, and life would one day organize a surprising encounter between [...]
• Obama’s escalating robot war in Pakistan is making ...
  Johann Hari writes: Imagine if, an hour from now, a robot plane swooped over your house and blasted it to pieces. The plane has no pilot. It is controlled with a joystick from 7,000 miles away, sent by the Pakistani military to kill you. It blows up all the houses on your street, and so barbecues [ ...

Watts Up With That?

• El Niño Modoki: The big shifter?
  UNISYS Current Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Plot – click to enlarge From the Georgia Institute of Technology Climate change may alter natural climate cycles of Pacific While it’s still hotly debated among scientists whether climate change causes a shift from … Continue reading →
• Sea Ice News #27
  This week we continue to see strong gains in Arctic Sea Ice. JAXA’s extent paused briefly, but has resumed a strong upwards climb, now exceeding 2005 for this date. JAXA AMSR-E Sea Ice Extent -15% or greater – click to … Continue reading →
• The Three Chinas
  Guest Post by Thomas Fuller The choices we make about energy, the environment and climate will be limited by The Three Chinas. The Real China 1. One of the Chinas is very real and familiar. It has a population of … Continue reading →
• Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
  By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) On Tuesday, the Obama administration lifted its controversial ban on deep water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico while demanding that the oil industry must meet new, complex … Continue reading →
• Help Climate Audit in Canada
  Steve McIntyre is too modest to ask for any help on this, so I’ll do it for him. While some of his countrymen have told me they would like to give him the Order of Canada, and that may well … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• Heroes for the Beaten, Foreclosed on, Imprisoned M ...
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig October 18, 2010 Staughton Lynd could have built an enviable career as an academic but for his conscience. His conscience led him as a young undergraduate disgusted by the elitism around him to drop out of Harvard, and tortured him when he ret ...
• Chris Hedges: Death of the Liberal Class
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad October 18, 2010 mediasanctuary | October 18, 2010 Chris Hedges, whose book, Death of the Liberal Class (Perseus) came out the day of this presentation, is also the best-selling author of “War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning” (2003), which was a fi ...
• American Feudalism… Alive and Kicking by Phi ...
  by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad October 16, 2010 Winter of  ‘74 was hard times for many. There was another economic recession , beginning a year earlier, a part of the endless business cycle of boom and bust. Having just graduated from Brooklyn College with a degree in Speech ...
• Bob Avakian: Yes theres a conspiracy, to get the c ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RevolutionTalk | February 21, 2010 “Yes there’s a conspiracy… to get the cops off.” – clip from Revolution: Why It’s Necessary, Why It’s Possible, What It’s All About, a film of a talk by Bob Avakian given in 2003 in the United States. Bob Avakian is the Chairma ...
• China-Turkmenistan Score: Another Wave of US-Mujah ...
  by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad originally published by Boiling Frogs Post 15 October, 2010 Extreme Competitions May Bring More Familiar Extreme Measures Here is one of the latest on China-Turkmenistan Pipeline deals: China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has announced the dis ...

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

• Bat Disease Threatens to Close America’s Caves
  A nightmare bat-killing disease could have an unexpected victim: America’s access to its caves. To slow the spread of a fungus that causes White Nose Syndrome, government agencies are systematically closing caves to the public. Confronted with a disease that’s killed at least one million bats since ...
• Cold, Dead Stars Could Help Limit Dark Matter
  Hunting for cold stellar corpses near the center of the galaxy or in star clusters could put new limits on the properties of dark matter. “You can exclude a big class of theories that the experiments cannot exclude just by observing the temperature of a neutron star,” said physicist Chris Kouvaris ...
• Inside The Soviets’ Secret Failed Moon Program
  By Matt Hardigree, Jalopnik The Soviet lunar program was covered up, forgotten after failing to put a man on the moon. These rare photos from a lab inside the Moscow Aviation Institute show a junkyard of rarely-seen spacecraft, including a never-to-be-used Russian lunar lander. Soviet scientists wer ...
• Antarctic Ice Sheet Preserves Invisible Mountain R ...
  Buried deep beneath East Antarctica’s ice sheet, the Gamburtsev Mountains are the world’s most invisible range. New research suggests that overlying ice like that hiding them from view today could have preserved their rugged topography for the past 300 million years. The work bolsters the counterin ...
• Large Hadron Collider Starts Edging Out Rivals
  The Large Hadron Collider has made its first steps beyond the standard model of particle physics. With just four months of data gathered, the monster collider has already edged past the Tevatron, its particle-smashing rival. “The surprising thing for me is how quickly the experiments started to top ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• British director Mike Leigh cancels Israel trip to ...
  British director Mike Leigh has canceled his scheduled visit to Israel after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet approved a controversial amendment to the Citizenship Law last week requiring... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• Gideon Levy: Time to stick it again to the Arabs
  Underneath everything is hatred - hatred and contempt for Arabs ... Manifestations of hatred are received with sympathy or indifference, even by those who should be standing in the breach: the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
• Netanyahu approves tenders for 238 homes east of G ...
  Israeli officials said they discussed the construction with the U.S. administration and cut the number of planned units to temper American displeasure. The Palestinian Authority has insisted that it... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
• Kahane’s vision for loyalty oath was not so differ ...
  The extremist rabbi proposed every non-Jew wishing to become a naturalized Israeli would have to pledge to 'the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state in the spirit of the Declaration of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
• Jewish group makes ADL blacklist
  ADL's Foxman: "These groups are not promoting peace, they are spreading propaganda to assault Israel's legitimacy. We want to Americans to know who these groups are and what it is they really... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russia plans to create military police by 2012 - D ...
  Russia will finalize setting up its military police force by 2012, the Defense Ministry said on Monday.
• Russian Military Reform
• Latvia hosts large-scale NATO military drills
  Units from the Baltic states, Poland and the United States started joint military exercises at the Adazi Training Area in Latvia on Monday, the Latvian Defense Ministry said.
• Russian-Indian joint drills enter active anti-terr ...
  Russian troops started on Sunday an active phase of anti-terrorist drills on Indian territory as part of joint Russian-Indian exercises, the Russian Defense ministry said.
• Russian warship to visit port of Djibouti
  The Russian destroyer RFS Admiral Levchenko will visit the port of Djibouti in the Horn of Africa on October 17-19 as part of its current anti-piracy mission off the Somali coast, a Russian Navy spokesman said.

NewsWise

• High Blood Pressure May Take Greater Toll on Young ...
  Persistently high blood pressure, or hypertension, may spell worse heart trouble for black children under the age of 13 than for other children of the same ages, according to research led by scientists at Johns Hopkins Children's Center and published in the November issue of Pediatrics.
• Studies Reveal a Need to Identify and Implement a ...
  As Americans get heavier and heavier, the incidence of obstructive sleep apnea increases, and results from two clinical studies presented at ANESTHESIOLOGY 2010 reinforce the need for physicians to screen for the disorder prior to surgery in order to appropriately manage the patient in the operating ...
• Older Women with Normal T-Scores May Not Need Bone ...
  A new study led by UNC's Dr. Margaret L. Gourlay finds that women aged 67 years and older with normal bone mineral density scores may not need screening again for 10 years. She presented these results on Sunday, Oct. 17, at the annual meeting of the American Society for Bone Mineral Research (ASBMR) ...
• Promise of Outpatient Brain Gene Therapy is One St ...
  In the October 17 issue of Nature Methods, researchers at Thomas Jefferson University describe how they can transfer genes into brain neurons intravenously, using a viral gene delivery vehicle (vector) that causes no side effects.
• Climate Change May Alter Natural Climate Cycles of ...
  While it's still hotly debated among scientists whether climate change causes a shift from the traditional form of El Nino to one known as El Nino Modoki, online in the journal Nature Geoscience, scientists now say that El Nino Modoki affects long-term changes in currents in the North Pacific Ocean.

Natural Health News

• The Cutest Twin Rabbits, Sitting in Twin Dixie Cup ...
  It’s impossible not to find these two bunnies absolutely adorable.
• Kitten Versus the Giant Dog
  Kitten Larry decides to have some fun with his pal Peebuck’s ears.
• After Mercury Removal -- What is the Best Materia ...
  By Dr. Lina Garcia, DDS, DMD For decades, it’s been known that mercury is dangerous to human health because it accumulates in the body and damages its cells. Mercury is a potent neurotoxin that can cause memory loss, headaches, loss of coordination, weakness, kidney damage, respiratory damage, ...
• How Monsanto Controls the Future of Food
  Over the past 15 years or so, a collection of five giant biotech corporations -- Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, Dow and DuPont -- have bought up more than 200 other companies, allowing them to dominate access to seeds. The takeover has been so dramatic that it is becoming difficult for farmers to f ...
• New Study Finds this Fat Useful to Improve ADHD
  A clinical study in children with ADHD showed that they significant improved both their clinical scores and identified EEG patterns when their diets were supplemented with krill oil for a period of 13 weeks. The EEG patterns of the study participants were compared to a database of more than 400 chi ...

Antemedius

• "Even Jesus couldn't save their souls"
  BP and the Feds have fooled America and the entire world into thinking the BP Gulf Oil Spill is over, that the beaches are clean and that the seafood is safe, and everything is OK. Titled "The Gulf Oil Spill isn’t over!" here's a little bit of mournful Louisiana blues to tell the real story. ...
• Tea Party Nuttiness Costs, Dem Poll Numbers Improv ...
  If you’re a Liberal or Progressive or just a vanilla Democrat who has been thinking about an electoral rout this fall, congratulations, you’re a member of the elite. I can’t really estimate how many of us there are, but the fact is that most of the nation did not really start paying attention to the ...
• Questioning Growth: "I Want You To Imagine A World ...
  " Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must. " "the only thing that has actually remotely slowed down the relentless rise of carbon emissions over the last two to three decades is recession." -- Tim Jackson British Economist T ...
• All Gallup Indicators Point to Democratic Debacle ...
  " The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. " -- Hunter S. Thompson Leading up to the 1994 midterm elections, Bill Clinton's job approval measured by Gallup was 46%. The Democrats subsequently lost 53 seats i ...
• Fraud Factories: Rep. Alan Grayson Explains the Fo ...
  Posted to YouTube September 30, 2010 by Rep. Alan Grayson...

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

• John Louth Guest-Blogging
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller On behalf of all of us at Opinio Juris, I am delighted to announce that John Louth of Oxford University Press will be blogging with us this week.  John joined OUP in 1997 and is now Editor-in-Chief of Academic Law, covering books, journals, and online servi ...
• Chinese Currency Manipulation and the WTO
  by Roger Alford If passed, the House bill, " Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act " (H.R. 2378) has all the markings of a major trade battle before the WTO. At bottom, the law requires the United States administrative agencies to treat currency manipulation as a subsidy that would be subject to cou ...
• On the Wittes/Heller Debate over Al-Aulaqi
  by John Dehn by John Dehn [John Dehn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Law at the United States Military Academy. The views expressed in this post are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Defense, U.S. Army, U.S. Military Academy, or any other department ...
• No More Non-Citizen Law Clerks?
  by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro That appears to be the upshot of section 704 of Public Law 111-117, a doorstop appropriations measure enacted last December: SEC. 704. Unless otherwise specified during the current fiscal year, no part of any appropriation contained in this or any other Act shall be ...
• Louis Henkin: Remember and Emulate
  by Mary Ellen O'Connell by Mary Ellen O’Connell [Mary Ellen O'Connell is Robert and Marion Short Chair in Law and Research Professor of International Dispute Resolutin at Notre Dame Law School] Louis Henkin dedicated his classic work, How Nations Behave, to his father Who All His Days Loved Law, ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• Urban heat island effect officially admitted
  Australian Met Office confirms Urban Heat Island effect responsible for higher temperature trends: MEDIA RELEASE Wednesday 13 October 2010 Hot cities If you thought our cities are getting warmer, you’re right. “We can now confidently say that the reason our...
• Limiting emissions not worth the cost - Economist
  An MIT economist and climate change believer has broken ranks, arguing that the costs of fighting climate change will outweigh the benefits: The sound and the fury that has characterized the public discourse on global warming often obscures a basic...
• Crewe murders bombsell: Rochelle asks police to re ...
  For the first time in 40 years, the little girl left alone in her cot by the killer of her parents has broken her silence on the case. Rochelle, the only daughter of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe, has come forward...
• Conspicuous by her absence
  Forbes magazine today released its list of the top 100 most powerful women in the world. It features notables like Singapore's Ho Ching at #30, Finland president Tarja Halonen at #62, Icelandic leader Johanna Sigurdardottir at #80, and even reformed...
• First published review of Arthur Allan Thomas: The ...
  I'll add more reviews as they come in, but here's the first, courtesy of Newstalk ZB today: Books - Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story 29/09/2010 Whether you concur with Wishart or not, you need to read this book. Arthur...

My Care2 Picks

• Blasts hit secret Iranian missile launching-pad fo ...
  Sources report the site held most of the Shehab-3 medium-range missile launchers Iran had stocked for striking US forces in Iraq and Israel in the event of war Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Scrubbing Micro-Bubbles Clean Polluted Lake
  Environmental remediation can take what feels like forever, and entirely removing an oil sheen from water is especially tough. An advanced technological process involving microbubbles could do the trick. ( Use with Costner's oil-water separator ? ) Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note ...
• Use of Religion as a Tool of the State
  An important by-product of the ever-growing complexity that develops around the theology of religion is an increasingly sophisticated analysis of language that is generated as thinkers attempted to rationalise the ridiculous. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...
• "Third Eye Open: Care2 Save The World?" - New Care ...
  Petitions, phone calls, marching and protesting can be ignored by government leaders and business owners alike, but they cannot resist for very long the power of the human mind imposing systematic interference upon their decision-making! PLZ Join & Share. Submitted by Third Eye Open to US Politics & ...
• Islam - a Threat ? This is the world turned upside ...
  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/how_democracy_dies_lessons_from_a_master_20101011/?ln A comment from an excellent 'thread' of commentary on a Chris Hedges piece Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

• RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Activists Wary of Plan to ‘Expor ...
  RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Activists Wary of Plan to ‘Export’ Asylum Centres - IPS ipsnews.net: MELBOURNE, Australia, Oct 15, 2010 (IPS) - As the Australian government steps up its efforts to establish a... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Haiti's 1.3 Million Camp Dwellers Waiting in Vain ...
  Haiti's 1.3 Million Camp Dwellers Waiting in Vain - IPS ipsnews.net: GRAND GOÂVE, Oct 15, 2010 (IPS/Haiti Grassroots Watch) - Rosie Benjamin is just one of over 1.3 million people living in... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Anti-UN protesters block Haiti base - Americas - A ...
  Anti-UN protesters block Haiti base - Americas - Al Jazeera English: "Demonstrators have blocked the entrance to the UN military headquarters in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, spraying anti-UN slogans on... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Palestinians attacked by armed settlers in Burin | ...
  Palestinians attacked by armed settlers in Burin | International Solidarity Movement: "People from the village of Burin were attacked by 20 settlers, 5 of which had guns. They wanted to make a road... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• U.S. Weighs Endorsing Indigenous Rights Declaratio ...
  U.S. Weighs Endorsing Indigenous Rights Declaration - IPS ipsnews.net: WASHINGTON, Oct 15, 2010 (IPS) - Just over three years after having voted against it at the United Nations, the United States... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• Republic Defiance Radio – What’s wrong with food t ...
  Republic Defiance Radio hits the airwaves Sunday night, October 17, 2010. Times: 9 pm Pacific, 10 pm Central, 11 pm Eastern This week’s show: What’s Wrong With Food Today: A Producer’s Perspective This week’s guest is Paul Griepentrog. Paul is a lifetime farmer with 30 years of direct marketing expe ...
• James and Barb Yack it up about Food, Eugenics, an ...
  This one-hour conversation with James of Food World Order gets into the “corporate shenanigans … and invasive gmo technology designed to make it next to impossible to raise animals and organic food.” LISTEN HERE…
• The Truth Squad Radio Show with Paul Griepentrog!
  This Sunday we will be talking about the use of "Administrative Admissions Requests" with Paul Griepentrog!
• Scientific Consensus: MSG, GMO’s, and Aspartame ar ...
  Obesity and degenerative diseases are on the rise...but few people are aware that the very foods they eat for nutrition are having quite the opposite effect.
• Just Say No to GMO!
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• 8 mercenaries die in Afghan clash
  ShareThis 8 mercenaries die in Afghan clash 18 Oct 2010 Eight guards of a private security company were killed and three wounded in a clash between insurgents and the private security company Sunday night, officials said. The clash took place in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, said Daud Ahm ...
• Dawn news vehicle targeted, torched by gunmen
  ShareThis Dawn news vehicle targeted, torched by gunmen 17 Oct 2010 Incidents of violence and firing continued ahead of PS-94 by-elections in Karachi on Saturday night. A Dawn news vehicle was torched and its staff targeted in an incident that took place near Safoora Chowrangi in Karachi. The Dawn n ...
• Iraq: 12 Die as Gunmen Storm Baghdad Gold Shops
  ShareThis Iraq: 12 Die as Gunmen Storm Baghdad Gold Shops 18 Oct 2010 At least 12 people died when [Blackwater?] gunmen invaded a row of gold shops in the Mansour District of western Baghdad on Sunday and ended up in a gunfight with security forces, police and military officials said. The gunmen use ...
• Roadside bomb in Baghdad kills local politician
  ShareThis Roadside bomb in Baghdad kills local politician 18 Oct 2010 A spokesman for Baghdad's Provincial Council says a roadside bomb has hit a convoy carrying a local government member, killing him and wounding eight people. The spokesman, Mohammed Hashim, says the politician, Jassim al-Saiedi, w ...
• Federal Agents Urged to 'Friend' People on Social ...
  ShareThis Federal Agents Urged to 'Friend' People on Social Networks, Memo Reveals --Report: Official government program to spy via social networking on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Digg, Twitter, MySpace, Craigslist and Wikipedia 14 Oct 2010 A privacy watchdog has uncovered a government memo that en ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Urban heat island effect officially admitted
  Australian Met Office confirms Urban Heat Island effect responsible for higher temperature trends: MEDIA RELEASE Wednesday 13 October 2010 Hot cities If you thought our cities are getting warmer, you’re right. “We can now confidently say that the reason our...
• Limiting emissions not worth the cost - Economist
  An MIT economist and climate change believer has broken ranks, arguing that the costs of fighting climate change will outweigh the benefits: The sound and the fury that has characterized the public discourse on global warming often obscures a basic...
• Crewe murders bombsell: Rochelle asks police to re ...
  For the first time in 40 years, the little girl left alone in her cot by the killer of her parents has broken her silence on the case. Rochelle, the only daughter of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe, has come forward...
• Conspicuous by her absence
  Forbes magazine today released its list of the top 100 most powerful women in the world. It features notables like Singapore's Ho Ching at #30, Finland president Tarja Halonen at #62, Icelandic leader Johanna Sigurdardottir at #80, and even reformed...
• First published review of Arthur Allan Thomas: The ...
  I'll add more reviews as they come in, but here's the first, courtesy of Newstalk ZB today: Books - Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story 29/09/2010 Whether you concur with Wishart or not, you need to read this book. Arthur...

Mondoweiss

• Palestinian child abuse
  For me, the most spectacular thing about Zionist hasbara has been how they've managed to convince most Americans that Palestinian parents "don't care about their children," "send them out to blow themselves up,"� and "celebrate the martyrdom of their children."� They've even created a word for an ...
• Palestine, I hear you
  Palestine! You call to me with whispers of pain. You speak of lost poets, children who cry for lost parents, lost teachers lost childhoods, dreams torn from their roots, mangled in a desert gone dry. In this place, water is poisoned, air putrid from the blood belly of war There is no escape, only ...
• British director Mike Leigh cancels trip to Israel ...
  and other news from Today in Palestine:Settlers / Land, property & resource theft and destruction / Ethnic cleansingIOA renews building in Revava settlement SALFIT, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) resumed construction in Revava settlement established on land of the Hares and Deir Esti ...
• Trainwreck in Boston: Dershowitz calls a Palestini ...
  Here is further evidence that the collapse of the two-state solution is creating despair and anxiety inside the Israel lobby: Alan Dershowitz going ballistic as a young Palestinian novelist calls for one democratic state in Israel and Palestine. At the Boston Book Festival yesterday, the Jewish Comm ...
• Why didn’t Dershowitz give up his American c ...
  Tell me if I'm wrong, but Dershowitz seems to get defensive on the dual-loyalty front at the beginning of this conversation with Eliot Spitzer on CNN. He confirms the rumor that Netanyahu "urged" him to be Israel's UN ambassador, and says he "would have loved to do it" (and namedrops that it would h ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: The Awakening Has Begun
  On the heals of Ukraine’s 2009 Black Lung Infection, a mysterious variation of flu which bypassed trachea, targeting the lungs directly, a “bilateral pneumonia, the result of viral distress syndrome, i.e the total destruction of the lungs.” (1.3 million infected, over 75,000 hospitalized), eye witn ...
• VRM: GlaxosmitheKline Herpes Vaccine Fails Safety ...
  GlaxoSmythKline recently conducted safety trial studies on their new experimental Genital Herpes vaccine ‘Simplirix’. 8,323 women aged 18-30 years participated in the trial at 50 sites in the US & Canada. Based on the results the product has failed miserably. The question is why were these women inf ...
• VRM: Closed Door CDC Meeting Reveals Industry Cove ...
  VACCINE INDUSTRY COVER-UP EXPOSED – Selected vaccine authorities from CDC, FDA, and manufacturers discussed, in a closed meeting, the possibility of neurodevelopment disorders resulting from vaccine components. Documents released through the Freedom of Information Act detail the transcript of a meet ...
• VRM: Former Pharmaceutical Representative Gwen Ols ...
  “The Pharmaceutical Industry is in the business of disease maintenance & symptom management. They are not in the business to cure Cancer, to cure Alzheimer’s, to cure heart disease, because if they were they would be in the business of putting themselves out of business; and that in fact doesn’t mak ...
• VRM: Medical Martial Law In The US – Sleepin ...
  “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endange ...

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

• Surobi Sentinel - Oct 2010
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• Soldiers' Angels and Inside the Inferno
  I am very proud that with my publisher we have been able to send a check for almost $5000.00 to Soldiers' Angels because you have helped by buying my new book Iraq: Inside the Inferno 2005 - 2008 . You may pre-order order copies of my book here .But we want to raise more for Soldiers' Angels because ...
• The Linda Norgrove Rescue Tragedy
  Published: 11 October 2010 Ms. Linda Norgrove was kidnapped on 26 September during an ambush in eastern Afghanistan.� A trusted and knowledgeable source told me he expected there was a high likelihood she would be killed by these particularly brutal people.� Several days ago, during a rescue attemp ...
• To Follow these Steps
  I first met Steve Shaulis about 27 years ago during Special Forces training.� We’ve been friends ever since and have traveled many places together. Back in 2001, six months before the 9/11 attacks, we were at his U.S. home in Vero Beach, Florida.� We were preparing to swim out into the night in ...
• Our Muslim Friends Suffer, Too
  Terrorism knows no bounds.� This atrocity happened in Iraq and the sadness still lingers in many hearts. I republish these two emails with permission of CSM Jeffrey Mellinger. Mohemmed's name has been changed to protect his family.� May God cherish his brave Soul. From: Mellinger Jeffrey J CS ...

The Killing Train

• Isabel McDonald and Lou Dobbs!
  My friend Isabel did a fantastic story for the Nation about the anti-immigration pundit Lou Dobbs who had undocumented workers caring for his horses and grounds , and she had the chance to talk to Lou Dobbs about it on MSNBC. Check it out. read more
• Bruce Levine on Surviving America's Depression Epi ...
  I'm reading Bruce Levine's "Surviving America's Depression Epidemic". The story of how I got the book is interesting. I was reading some psychology books a while back (Alfie Kohn, Alice Miller) and a reader of this blog suggested that no psychology reading list would be complete without Levine's "Co ...
• The Rwandan Election
  Paul Kagame is headed for a landslide victory at the Rwandan polls. Exit polls indicate 93% of the electorate voted for him. If some Western media commentators could vote in Rwandan elections, the number would likely be even higher. Take Stephen Kinzer, who wrote a biography of Kagame subtitled “Rwa ...
• The Afghan War Diary Data - an initial look
  An initial look at the first 76,000 records in the "Afghan War Diary" leaked by Wikileaks yields some important information, much of which has been known or suspected by analysts for years. Given the sheer size of the database, there is a great deal more to be learned, but here are some initial find ...
• The Drug War in Afghanistan - the Dyncorp connecti ...
  Just reading some of the 800+ hits on the drug war in Afghanistan, and these are real - the US is fighting a drug war in Afghanistan. There are DEA agents running around arresting people, there are troops eradicating poppy in farmers fields, and they are finding and burning piles of opium, heroin, h ...

treehugger

• London Subway System is a Design and Transport Mar ...
  Photos: B. Alter: Farringdon Station A good public transit system is one of the best ways to get cars off roads and people into buses and trains. London's system; called the London Underground, or "the Tube" has been rolling along and expanding since 1863. This TreeHugger was invited on ...
• The Growing Edge Of Psychedelic Research And Green ...
  Photo: ponyfire Bioneers, the green conference held in San Rafael, California, culminated today after three full days of workshops, films and concerts. Bioneers is not your typical conference; it covers topics that have been marginalized in the past: youth, women, indigenous cultures and even p ...
• EPA Regulator Recommends Against Spruce Mountainto ...
  photo via RAN Environmental groups and community members have been warning about Arch Coal's proposed Spruce No. 1 Mine in Logan County, West Virginia, saying that the mine, among the nation's largest proposed mountaintop removal site, would devastate the area around it. Apparently, the EPA is ...
• Bike Boxes Come To Toronto In Last Gasp Of Bike In ...
  All images credit Lloyd Alter unless noted Both of the leading candidates for Mayor of Toronto want to cut back on spending and rip up bike lanes on main streets. The leader, Rob Ford , says "I can't support bike lanes. Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks. My heart bleeds when someone g ...
• Face Your Food On UN World Food Day, October 16
  Tomorrow is World Food Day , and FairFood International, which "encourages sustainability in the food industry, contributing to the fight against poverty and hunger around the world." is trying a new form of very social media to promote it. They have set up a websit... Read the full story on Tre ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Foreign media barred during polls
  Burma's Election Commission announces that a ban on foreign journalists is justified because diplomats will be the observers
• Suu Kyi to ‘tweet’ after release
  Detained Burmese opposition leader tells her lawyer that she would open a Twitter account once free to 'speak with the world's teenagers'
• Junta tries old tactics on new ‘insurgents’
  Kachin army branded as 'insurgents' for the first time since a ceasefire in 1990 as a smear campaign by the junta appears to be underway
• Intelligence unit to return to Khin Nyunt days
  New intelligence chief acknowledges shortcomings of current system and will reintroduce the tactics of ousted department leader
• Thai army boosts security ahead of 7 Nov
  Border security stepped up as Thailand fears major unrest in Burma's ethnic regions, some of which are banned from voting in 7 Nov polls

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Is climate change activism dead?
  A year ago climate change activists were storming Parliament. This year they are holding meetings with cupcakes and copious amounts of tea. So is climate activism dead or has it just been sleeping?
• Tropical species decline by 60 per cent
  The exotic birds and animals of the tropics are disappearing at a catastrophic rate as the rich world strips poor countries of their natural resources, the WWF has warned.
• BBC told to ensure balance on climate change
  Climate change sceptics are likely to be given greater prominence in BBC documentaries and news bulletins following new editorial guidelines that call for impartiality in the corporation's science coverage.
• Global warming summit heads for failure amid snub ...
  World leaders have snubbed the next round of international climate change negotiations in Mexico next month amid fears the talks will collapse.
• Ed Miliband is the costliest politician in British ...
  When Ed Miliband won the Labour leadership, the commentators overlooked his most startling achievement, says Christopher Booker.

National Geographic | Environment

• Gulf Manta Rays Affected by Oil Spill?
  The little-studied Gulf of Mexico's manta rays could be their own species—and victims of the oil spill, scientists say.
• Fuzzy Critters' Crystallized Pee Changes Climate R ...
  The crystallized urine of the rodent-like rock hyrax is filling in gaps in our understanding of climate change, experts say.
• Scientists Sniff-Test Gulf Seafood
  In the wake of the BP oil spill, scientists are literally following their noses to determine whether Gulf of Mexico seafood is dangerous. Video.
• Banking on Connections to Spur Offshore Wind
  Google and a team of investors and energy firms aim to bring an offshore wind power revolution to the East Coast of the United States.
• Surprising Ant "Mixing Bowl" Found in Manhattan
  At least 13 species of urban ants thrive along the bustling boulevards of the United States' biggest city, a new study has found.

Jurist - Legal Research

• UAE court allows extradition of ex-Nigeria state g ...
  [JURIST] The Dubai Court of First Instance [official website] has ruled that a former Nigerian Delta state [official website] governor can be extradited to the UK to face charges of money laundering, fraud and embezzlement. James Ibori was arrested [BBC report] in the United Arab Emirates by INTERPO ...
• Former Japan ruling party leader seeks dismissal o ...
  [JURIST] The former president of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan [official website], Ichiro Ozawa, filed a lawsuit Friday seeking to overturn corruption charges brought against him last month. The Tokyo No. 5 Committee for the Inquest of Prosecution, an 11-member body composed of members of the ...
• Amnesty International calls for review of 'Cuban F ...
  [JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] released a report [text, PDF] outlining fairness concerns the group has with the 2001 conviction of the "Cuban Five" [advocacy website; JURIST news archive]. The men - Fernando Gonzalez, Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Antonio Guerrero and Re ...
• California enacts measure on funding disclosure fo ...
  [JURIST] California's Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) [official website] on Thursday issued a rule [press release] that will require sponsors of "thinly veiled" political ads reveal their funding sources. The FPPC said disclosure is no longer precluded in the absence of certain key words ...
• Dutch prosecutor requests politician's acquittal f ...
  [JURIST] The Dutch Public Prosecution Service (OM) [official website, in Dutch] on Friday concluded its case [prosecution materials, in Dutch] against right-wing politician Geert Wilders [personal website; JURIST news archive] by asking for Wilders' acquittal on all charges [materials, PDF]. The pro ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• A Virginia Democrat Running on Retail Politics
  In a 2008 race for retiring moderate Republican Tom Davis's seat, Virginia Democrat Gerry Connolly defeated Republican Keith Fimian by more than 10 percent. Without a doubt, Connolly was aided by the influx of Barack Obama voters. Obama won Virginia's Fairfax County, which is in Connolly's district, ...
• Labor's Ground Game Isn't Stingy
  Union members have distributed 17.5 million pamphlets at more than 4,000 worksites, made more than 23 million phone calls and volunteers have knocked on more than 1.3 doors as part of the coordinated labor effort to increase support for Democrats in union-dense Congressional districts, according to ...
• Is Rahm Clearing The Field?
  Reliable (if cryptic) sources say that former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has raised $3.6 million in the two weeks since he announced his run for mayor of Chicago. And word from the city tonight is that several major potential challengers are expected to drop from contention. (Not everyo ...
• Sharron Angle's Employment Program
  When Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle announced last week that her campaign had raised $14 million in a quarter, even Republicans were amazed that a candidate could raise so much off of a challenge to the emblem of Democrats, Harry Reid. But with the actual filings today, we know now that Ang ...
• Can Tacking Right Save a Freshman Democrat in Virg ...
  During the debate over the passage of the cap-and-trade bill in the House, freshman Democratic Congressman Glenn Nye wrote one letter to a constituent expressing his support for the bill another to a different constituent detailing his opposition to it. Nye also, despite not being in Congress when i ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] Success! AntiCANSEC arms-bazaar campaign - ...
• [COAT] Raging Grans video: CANSEC-NO CANSEX-YES!&q ...
• [COAT] Arms Bazaar in Ottawa Citizen, letters-to-e ...
• [COAT] Oppose the CANSEC War Machine! - coat
• [COAT] Letters-to-Editor needed re:CANSEC weapons ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | Ass ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious blast ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms tre ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's energy ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans closed ...

Tikun Olam

• Mossad Chief’s ‘Targeted Killing’ of Investigation ...
  Reports are beginning to find their way into Israel’s media about what News1 ironically calls Meir Dagan’s “targeted killing” of an external investigation into a Mossad “incident” that occurred this year.  The fact that the article uses the specific term targeted killing and notes that the incident ...
• Yediot Poll Notes Threat of Fascism in Israel
  I am usually loathe to use words like “fascism” in this blog to denote anything about Israel since the term is loaded, incendiary and draws fierce rebuke from apologists for Israeli policy here.  But when I read polls like this one and see powerful graphics like this one published with the poll, th ...
• Israeli Poll: 80% Support Democracy, 55% Support L ...
  Thanks to Zvi Solow for sending along these two hilarious pieces of political satire from the Friday Israeli papers: More Laws That Ehud Barak May Support 1. Death penalty for traitors 2. A quota for non-Jews in universities. 3. A Basic Law: The security minister will always be named Ehud Barak. 4. ...
• Yakobov Interviewed by Maariv: ‘What’s All the Fus ...
  Avi Yakobov, the IDF abuser of Palestinian prisoner, Ihsan Dababseh, pictured in a YouTube video, has finally thought better of threatening Israeli reporters with a pistol and given an actual interview (Hebrew).  Naturally, he spoke with Maariv, one of Israel’s most right-wing papers.  The abuser’ ...
• ‘Mama, Please Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Go ...
  Eyal Clyne writes a powerful blog post about the Birthright and Israel Experience youth “education” programs, which have brought several hundred thousand Diaspora Jews to Israel.  He begs Jewish mothers to refuse to send their children on these trips: I ask this as an Israeli, who is trying to make ...

Ode Magazine

• A tribute to Herman Scheer 1944 - 2010
  By: EmilyAviles Perhaps one of the most pivotal advocates of solar and renewable energy, German-born Hermann Scheer passed away Thursday, October 14, 2010. His sudden death is cause for sadness, and we gratefully recognize his dedicated efforts to promote the use o ...
• Inspiration through images: week 2
  By: VictoriaKlein Dedicated to the power of pictures, Inspiration thorough images is a new series of posts here on Ode Magazine . We all come to Ode looking for the positive, the inspirational, and the enjoyably optimistic. Each week, “Inspiration through Images” f ...
• The youthful spirit of a super grandma
  By: Anne Thomas Igarashi Asayo San (Mrs. Asayo Igarashi, in English) is an 82-year-old widow. She wears kimonos everyday and spends a lot of time attending to them. I first heard about Igarashi San from one of my adult students, who is a speech therapist. Igarashi ...
• Lighten up!
  Should we stay out of the summer sun? Not at all, according to a growing group of physicians. Sunlight can be good for you. We’ve been hearing about the dangers of sun exposure for decades. Yet people still swarm to outdoor cafés, parks and beaches during the summer months, eager to catc ...
• The yoga of writing
  By: Chintana In Eat, Pray, Love , Elizabeth Gilbert chronicled her search for solace as she journeyed alone to Italy, India and Indonesia. While we can all be inspired by her book or the movie, most of us can't afford to hop on a plane and land in exotic locations ...

OpEd News

• Lazy Rich People
  And why, I wonder, are rich people rich, George?
• Electoral Coup d'Etats
  Hard to believe but even condo board elections are rigged.
• Photo-Essay with Video: Haiti After the Earthquake ...
  My series on Haiti is winding down now as I take my last tour of downtown Port-au-Prince, making it all the way to the banking district in this segment.
• NY 19: Nan Hayworth is For and Against Wall Street ...
  Republican congressional candidate Nan Hayworth from New York's 19th is pandering to Tea Party anti-bailout populism while simultaneously espousing the corporate agenda which got America into this financial mess.
• Traitors in the Supreme Court Erased Our Most Prec ...
  It has become clear that the Citizens United Supreme Court decision went beyond free speech. It was a betrayal of American security that opened the gates to an assault on American Demcracy. It would have been easy and simple for the Supreme court to include in their decision that allowed unlimite ...

Switchboard

• Oil and gas producers measure their methane emissi ...
  According to an article posted by the New York Times , “some of the nation's largest oil and gas producers have asked to delay or pare down regulations that would require them to submit annual greenhouse gas emissions reports to U.S. EPA.” It takes a lot to shock me these days, but th ...
• China Environmental News Alert
  NRDC has been working in China for over twelve years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental governance and public participation, and green supply chain issues. This China Environmental News Alert is a weekly compilation of news fr ...
• The road to civilization leads through the sewer
  I was reading recently about toilets.  More specifically, about how Melinda Gates, wife of Bill Gates and co-Chair of their foundation , has been pushing hard to provide toilets to impoverished people in various regions of Africa and India.  Having observed that poor sanitation contrib ...
• Tar sands, putting our waters in Jeopardy
  And for $200: Depletion or contamination of the Athabasca River, the Ogallala Aquifer, and local water sources in the U.S. Gulf Coast region could occur because of this piece of infrastructure. Ding!: What is the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline? *             *             *  ...
• Protecting Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula and our tree ...
  Thanks to the support of our members, NRDC’s Revive a Rainforest  project in Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula - one of the wildest places on earth - has gotten off to a very successful start!  Over the past several months our partners at Friends of the Osa (FOO) have been busy preparing the ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Aqua Buddha Make RAND ANGRY!
  There was a bit of a fracas last night in Louisville: Whatever was left of the gloves in the heated Kentucky Senate race came off tonight. In a televised debate from the University of Louisville, Republican nominee Rand Paul lashed out at his Democratic opponent, Jack Conway — even refusing to shake ...
• Needs More Cult of Personality…
  I don’t care for this Chinese tendency to change leadership every few years. Makes it so hard to get a good, personality-driven hate on; just when you can finally remember who Hu Jintao is, they bring in some new guy. And all of these guys are pretty much boring career technocrats; don’t the [...] ...
• I’m pretty sure it’s in The Federalist ...
  It’s good to know that when Joe “Noun, Verb, Unconstitutional” Miller represents Alaska in the World’s Worst Deliberative Body, he’ll be prepared to stand up for the kind of society imagined by our nation’s founders.  For example, I’m sure we all remember when James Madison proposed that candidates ...
• How To Be A Hack
  Reynolds can always be counted on for at least a daily lesson, but holding Obama responsible for incidents of anti-Muslim bigotry is impressive even by his standards. And the magical powers attributed to Bush’s magical speechifying make this an instant classic in the fake-libertarian Republican h ...
• Kudos to Joel Burns
  This video is a wake-up call and a resource to share with young people we know – gay and straight – and with each other. Related posts:The Awfulness of Billy Joel Joel Schumacher Can Direct It Burns Related posts: The Awfulness of Billy Joel Joel Schumacher Can Direct It Burns

Desert Research Institute

• DRI Researcher Develops Bioengineering Company
  DRI’s Joseph J. Grzymski, Ph.D. partnered with Adam G. Marsh, Ph.D. from the University of Delaware to develop Evozym Biologics, a company created to bridge the gap between research and innovation and commercial value.
• DRI Researcher Authors New Book
  William Albright, Ph.D., DRI research hydrogeologist, is lead author of Water Balance Covers for Waste Containment Principles and Practice about selection and design of an innovative new method for final closure of solid waste landfills. The new cover designs offer reduced cost, excellent environmen ...
• The American Indian Science and Engineering Societ ...
  The Most Promising Engineer/Scientist Award will be presented to Dr. Karletta Chief at the 32nd American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) Annual National Conference.
• Innovative Equipment Manufacturer Features Work wi ...
  The latest update from Campbell Scientific features a cover article on DRI’s Community Environmental Monitoring Program (CEMP), touting the program for providing information gathered by volunteers in near-real time and posting it to the program website.
• Dr. Henry Sun: Looking for Life on Mars
  The Viking landers found strange evidence that suggested the presence of life on Mars (later disproven). A new study about life's preference for left- or right-handedness could help scientists design better versions of the Viking life tests.

Earth Techling

• Ohio Plans Massive Solar For Strip Mine
• Missouri College Gets A Living Building
• Electric Ford Focus To Come With A Cord
• Repurposing Tester Photovoltaic Panels
• Wind Power Demand Has Optimistic Future

National Law Journal | U.S.

• LABOR & EMPLOYMENT: Dodd-Frank offers key protecti ...
  Employers covered by the act must prepare for the likelihood of increased and publicized complaints.
• Clerkship scramble
  Are the Wild West days of federal clerk hiring back? Some law school administrators and judges worry that the voluntary system whereby federal judges wait until September of the 3L year to hire clerks is teetering.
• Trial lawyers don't retreat from Dems
  Trial lawyers are holding steady as one of the Democratic Party's biggest sources of campaign contributions, providing a cushion for the party as it struggles to maintain control of Congress in the midterm elections.
• No last call for this argument
  Under fire from judges, DOJ lawyer in rum case takes battle to the briefs.
• Countrywide former executives settle SEC charges a ...
  Angelo Mozilo, the former chief executive officer and chairman of Countrywide Financial Corp., once the nation's largest mortgage lender, has agreed to pay $67.5 million to settle claims by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that he misled shareholders about the risks associated with his co ...

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• The Right to Know!
  Do you know how to file a “Right to Know” request? Do you know why you might want to know how to do this? Since the gas drilling in Pennsylvania has taken off at full speed many people are finding the “Open Records Law” , also known as the “Right to Know Law”, a necessary [...]
• Ya’ll Get Together Now, Ya Hear?
  Today I attended the Conservation PA event in Camp Hill, PA. I was sitting in the conference room among the other 100 or so attendees and trying to remember when I had first heard of the Marcellus Shale, or the term fracking. When I couldn’t dig up a memory of the beginning of my relationship [...]
• Do ‘Environmental Extremists’ Pose Criminal Threat ...
  by Abrahm Lustgarten Sept 8th, 2010 As debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus shale reaches a fever pitch, state and federal authorities are warning Pennsylvania law enforcement that “environmental extremists” pose an increasing threat to security and to the energy sector. A confide ...
• Marcellus Money
  Here’s a website that is keeping tabs on which PA politicians have been offered money from from the gas industry and which ones have accepted that money.  Enjoy. http://www.marcellusmoney.org/
• Gas Bubbling from the Susquehanna River
  http://74.95.82.237:591/rconline/FMPro?-db=RCOnline.fp5&-format=record_detail.html&-Lay=Detail&CurrentRecordID=12635350&-find Gas Bubbling from River at Sugar Run – by David Keeler – 9/2/2010 Click here for video clip

News Blaze

• General Hospital #1 in Women 18-34 Demographic
  ABC Daytime management would have viewers and advertisers believe that the increase in ratings is an indication that more viewers are watching and therefore more viewers are satisfied with the current direction of the show.
• Illegal South-Korean Fishing Vessel Held in Somali ...
  The owners as well as the international navies have been keeping mum until today, when the British mastered Maritime Security Centre MSC(HOA) notified the case based on a statement by South Korea's Foreign Ministry.
• Government Abducts Newborn Daughter From U.S. Fede ...
  Couple's newborn baby was taken from them by officials because the father is involved with a group opposed to government suppression.
• Secretary Clinton Speaks about Innovation and Amer ...
  I have been invited to come to the Commonwealth Club many times over the years and was unable to accept that kind invitation, but I thought it would be an appropriate time for me to have this conversation.
• Sanskrit Mantras Opened 100th Anniversary of Scout ...
  Wearing saffron colored attire, a ruddraksh mala (rosary), and traditional sandalpaste tilak (religious mark) on the forehead, Rajan Zed sprinkled few drops of sacred water from river Ganga in India around before the prayer.

environment 360

• A Positive Path for Meeting The Global Climate Cha ...
  Climate policies that require public sacrifice and limiting economic growth are doomed to failure. To succeed, policies to reduce emissions must promise real benefits and must help make clean energy cheaper. BY ROGER A. PIELKE JR.
• U.S. Solar Market Will Add 1 GW of New Capacity in ...
  A market analysis of the U.S. solar industry predicts that nearly 1 gigawatt of added capacity will be installed in 2010 , a 114 percent increase from last year. About 314 megawatts were added during the first six months of the year, according to the report by the Solar Energy Industries Association ...
• Rising Hopes that Electric Cars Can Play a Key Rol ...
  Will electric cars one day become part of a network of rechargeable batteries that can help smooth out the intermittent nature of wind and solar power? Many experts believe so, pointing to programs in Europe and the U.S. that demonstrate the promise of vehicle-to-grid technology. BY DAVE LEVITAN
• U.S. Offshore Wind Could Provide 20 Percent of Ele ...
  Click to enlarge USDOE Potential offshore wind resources The U.S. could generate 20 percent of its electricity from wind energy by 2030 if it develops offshore wind farms in the coastal waters of 26 states, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab . D ...
• Water Cycle Pushed to Limit In Southern Hemisphere ...
  Soils in large areas of the Southern Hemisphere have been drying up in the past decade as temperatures have risen in Australia, Africa, and South America, according to the first major study of evapotranspiration on a global basis. The study found that from 1982 to 1998, the evaporation of water from ...

Red Ice Creations

• Machines of War: Blackwater, Monsanto, and Bill Ga ...
  A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation (Blackwater's Black Ops, 9/15/2010) revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (now called Xe Services) clandestine intelligence services was sold to the multinational Monsanto.
• Is this how the EU got a Yes to Lisbon from the Ir ...
  The European Commission has just flown 15 Irish journalists to Brussels for a two-day ‘information visit’. Or as those of us who know Brussels and talk straight would put it, for a two-day, two-night taxpayer-funded propaganda junket at a four-star hotel. Ireland and the other eurozone countries mig ...
• More "ET" Entertainment - BBC's Intriguing "Superp ...
  This is an interesting commercial for BBC's "Superpower" about "The Extraordinary Power Of The Internet". Showing how humanity is being turned into "Aliens"? It's just one more tidbit of "Alien" entertainment that we've been getting lately. Watch out they are Waging Peace! See their website: bbc.co. ...
• The Odd Masonic Imagery of the 33 Chilean Miners’' ...
  The rescue of the 33 unfortunate Chilean miners has definitely turn into an international media event. All aspects of the rescue have been carefully staged to make the entire thing a spectacular show inspiring emotions, admiration and national pride. For those knowledgeable of Masonic and occult sym ...
• Mysterious Light Pulse From Planet Gliese 581g - A ...
  The recent discovery of Gliese 581g, an alien planet in the habitable zone of another star, has been an exciting development for scientists probing the galaxy for signs of extraterrestrial life. At least one claim of a possible signal from the planet has already surfaced - and been met with harsh sk ...

Russia Today

• RT journalist shot and wounded in Moscow restauran ...
  RT journalist Natalia Arhiptseva has been shot in the foot by a fellow customer in a central Moscow restaurant.
• Leaders of Germany, France and Russia brainstorm b ...
  The tiny French resort town of Deauville is hosting a brainstorming session for three major world powers.
• Children of Russia’s elite accused of living above ...
  A Russian official’s daughter, who knocked down two people when driving, killing one, is facing a retrial. A Russian court says there were major violations in procedure during the first hearing.
• UK on verge of new crisis
  Public services in Britain are facing massive cuts in their budget as the government looks to fill the huge black hole in its balance sheet.
• CSKA bring three points from Grozny
  CSKA Moscow continue their battle for second place in the Russian Premier League as the Army Men destroy Terek 3-0 away in Grozny.

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

• Now for a little “Pro” Singularity Tec ...
  Last week I showed a couple of points against a technological singularity happening, but today I’ll show how a Singularity is being actively pursued by governments and corporations via the Internet. From Red Ice Creations: This is an interesting commercial for BBC’s “Superpower” about “The Extraordi ...
• The Anti-Singularity
  Definition of Technological Singularity from Wikipedia: “A technological singularity is a hypothetical event occurring when technological progress becomes so extremely rapid, due in most accounts to the technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligences, that it makes the future after the ...
• Gliese 581g Discoverer Stands By His Claim
  In a rebuttal to claims that Gliese 581g doesn’t exist, Dr. Steven Vogt, leader of the team that detected Gliese 581g said he respects the work of those who interpret the data differently, but until they publish a paper stating their case, he stands by himself and his team’s work: “I stand by our d ...
• Does Gliese 581 g Exist?
  The excitement last month surrounding the discovery of a possible life supporting planet in the nearby Gliese 581 red dwarf system raised the expectations of meeting neighbors. Many scenarios were discussed on the InnerTubes, one including a possible laser light message from closeby to the area in w ...
• Dark Matters Radio: Nick Redfern’s ‘Fi ...
  This was originally broadcast on Don Ecker’s Dark Matters Radio last week in which Don interviews Nick Redfern and they discuss Nick’s new book ‘Final Events, and the Secret Government Group on Demonic UFOs and the Afterlife’ .  Such discussion includes the Collins Elite, Jack Parsons (Father of JP ...

Tippers News

• Domestic violence
  The statistics are startling: It's estimated that every 18 minutes a woman in the United States is beaten. Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Yes, trafficking happens right here
  A common misconception about human trafficking and modern slavery is that it does not happen here. But it does. It's a documented fact. Take the case of two girls, ages 15 and 16, who ran away from a juvenile home in Fremont in 2007. Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment ...
• Human smuggling
  THERE is no doubt that rampant poverty, unemployment and a bleak future stare young Pakistanis in the face. The situation invariably provides a breeding ground Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Why Did Aggie Boys Buy Sex at the Chicken Ranch?
  The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the Texas A&M football team celebrates a win with a visit to their local brothel, the Chicken Ranch. The Aggie Boys are f Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Two survivors of human trafficking share their sto ...
  She fiddles with her cell phone. In mid conversation, she holds it out, showing off whos on the screen. Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

• No Social Security For You!
  “More than 58 million retirees and disabled Americans will get no increase in Social Security benefits next year, the second year in a row without a raise. “The Social Security Administration said Friday inflation has been too low since the last increase in 2009 to warrant an increase for 2011. The ...
• Bernanke Argues For More Economic Intervention
  “Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke made a case for new steps by the central bank to boost economic growth, saying inflation was running below the Fed’s objective of 2% and that the economy was on a course to grow too slowly to reduce unemployment.” (Wall Street Journal, Friday) Sure glad they le ...
• The Charade
  The best phrase to sum up Barack Obama’s presidency is not "African anticolonial socialist" but "American Progressive corporatist."
• Banks Foreclosure Troubles
  “At Citigroup and GMAC, dotting the iâs and crossing the tâs on home foreclosures was outsourced to frazzled workers who sometimes tossed the paperwork into the garbage.” (New York Times, Wednesday) The hidden cost of regulation? FEE Timely Classic: “Regulatory Overkill” by Doug Bandow
• September Foreclosures Top 100,000
  “The number of homes taken over by banks topped 100,000 for the first time in September, though foreclosures are expected to slow in coming months as lenders work through questionable paperwork, real estate data company RealtyTrac said on Thursday.” (Reuters, Thursday) The hidden cost of regulation? ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• Storytelling 101 with ‘The Annoying Orange’
  Let’s look at storytelling again. I always use this diagram to show students how to structure a very short video story or audio slideshow (120 seconds): Recently a student showed me this video, and I noticed that at about 1 min. 30 sec., it illustrates the story arc perfectly! ...
• Journalism education: Irrelevant, or lacking conte ...
  Journalism students around the world seem to be very similar. Many of them say this: Personally, I enrolled in a journalism course because I wanted to get into magazines or newspaper column writing — less hard news, more conversational. That comes from a June 2010 column at MediaShift, written b ...
• Boring old news media: Still boring, still old
  I was just rereading a post by Steve Yelvington — whom I used to call the smartest man in online journalism (and he may still be — it’s just that there are so many more people in it now, it’s hard to name just one). Steve’s post ( A tablet revolution: It’s like it’s the ’70s all over again ) has se ...
• Contents of a journalist’s backpack
  Neerav Bhatt describes himself as a professional blogger, photographer, geek and qualified librarian. Okay, so he never says “journalist,” but if you read his post that accompanied the photo below, I think you’ll forgive my headline. He’s got some interesting choices (which he explains in his pos ...
• Teaching Twitter to students
  This semester I took a course I have been teaching for 10 years and moved it to a WordPress.com blog. The students and I still meet in person once a week to discuss ideas, but otherwise, everything is on the blog. Each student was required to start his or her own WordPress.com blog, and all their a ...

Facing South

• INSTITUTE INDEX: Taking on the mortgage banksters
  Number of states where attorneys general are investigating the mortgage-servicing industry following allegations that questionable documents and procedures were used to support home foreclosures: 50 Number of foreclosures nationwide where flawed documents may have been used: hundreds of thousand ...
• Gulf spill fund offers little information to claim ...
  By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica Many claimants seeking compensation for damages from the Gulf oil spill say they are struggling to get basic information about what is happening with their claims. Dozens of claimants have told ProPublica they are having trouble getting information about their sub ...
• Blessed to Have a Pope
  James "Art" Pope is probably the most important conservative benefactor in North Carolina -- and, increasingly, one of the most influential in the country, thanks to his leadership in national groups like Americans for Prosperity. Yet North Carolina conservatives, while grateful for Pope's g ...
• Tomato pickers secure path-breaking deal with Flor ...
  By Mischa Gaus, Labor Notes The farmworker group Coalition of Immokalee Workers announced this week it has reached a landmark deal with a Florida tomato grower to govern conditions in the fields. The agreement greatly expands the proportion of Florida's $500 million tomato crop that will be ...
• Politics and the lifting of the offshore drilling ...
  The Obama administration lifted the moratorium on deepwater oil and gas drilling on Tuesday, a month and a half before its originally scheduled Nov. 30 expiration date. In announcing the move -- which comes as oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster that led to the ban continues to was ...

Worldpress - Africa

• Nigeria's Delicate Presidential Election Transitio ...
  Nigeria's election history is shambolic and corrupt. If the country's new national electoral body is to conduct a free and fair election in January, it has its work cut out for it.
• Africa's Women Turn 50
  Fifty years into African independence, African women still face a much more challenging existence than men, with significant political, social and economic changes needed for gender equality.
• Public Schools in Sierra Leone Gasping for Life Su ...
  Sierra Leone has diverse tribal and cutural practices that works against the education of the nation's children.
• Re: Public Schools in Sierra Leone Gasping for Lif ...
  Our children are taught right from wrong when growing up.
• Re: Public Schools in Sierra Leone Gasping for Lif ...
  Despite war, we are doing our best to cope.

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 window envelopes?
  We’ve talked about envelopes in general and special types of envelopes – liked padded ones and plastic mailing bags – but I wondered if there are any reuses that take advantage of the see-through bit of window envelopes. Different places have different policies on whether or not they can be includin ...
• Definitions for being green: you a treehugger, a h ...
  Over on The Really Good Life today, I’ve asked a question: I’m not self-sufficient, so what I am? I’m asking how people who grow their own food, making their own stuff, cook their meals etc define themselves — I might be alone on the issue but I don’t like calling myself “self-sufficient” because I’ ...
• What can I reuse or recycle to make a moneybox/pig ...
  A couple of weeks ago on The Really Good Life, I was umming and ahhing about whether or not to buy an automatic chicken coop door. There were several reasons arguments for it but we don’t *need* one, it would just be a convenience – and I didn’t know whether convenience is worth £100. The [...]
• Fab free recycling posters – what you can an ...
  Illustrator Fee Harding (also known as Burntfeather) got in touch this morning to confess: I’ve been guilty of not recycling! This overwhelming guilt forced me to start looking into what I could and could not recycle and then set out to design a set of posters to blu tak above my recycling stash in ...
• How can I reuse or recycle plastic Nesquik tubs?
  Recycle This regular Lizzie has asked: Any suggestions for Nesquik tubs? I think Nesquik is probably the greenest solution to my chocolate milkshake addiction , but what, oh what can I do with the bright-yellow rectangular-ish tubs? Google informs me that there are several types of Nesquik tub but t ...

Mondoweiss

• Palestinian child abuse
  For me, the most spectacular thing about Zionist hasbara has been how they've managed to convince most Americans that Palestinian parents "don't care about their children," "send them out to blow themselves up,"� and "celebrate the martyrdom of their children."� They've even created a word for an ...
• Palestine, I hear you
  Palestine! You call to me with whispers of pain. You speak of lost poets, children who cry for lost parents, lost teachers lost childhoods, dreams torn from their roots, mangled in a desert gone dry. In this place, water is poisoned, air putrid from the blood belly of war There is no escape, only ...
• British director Mike Leigh cancels trip to Israel ...
  and other news from Today in Palestine:Settlers / Land, property & resource theft and destruction / Ethnic cleansingIOA renews building in Revava settlement SALFIT, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) resumed construction in Revava settlement established on land of the Hares and Deir Esti ...
• Trainwreck in Boston: Dershowitz calls a Palestini ...
  Here is further evidence that the collapse of the two-state solution is creating despair and anxiety inside the Israel lobby: Alan Dershowitz going ballistic as a young Palestinian novelist calls for one democratic state in Israel and Palestine. At the Boston Book Festival yesterday, the Jewish Comm ...
• Why didn’t Dershowitz give up his American c ...
  Tell me if I'm wrong, but Dershowitz seems to get defensive on the dual-loyalty front at the beginning of this conversation with Eliot Spitzer on CNN. He confirms the rumor that Netanyahu "urged" him to be Israel's UN ambassador, and says he "would have loved to do it" (and namedrops that it would h ...

Media Consortium

• New Voices: What Works
  A report on how to fund community-based journalism startups--worth a read!
• Maximizing the Value of Digital Editions - Digital ...
  The iPad is a game changer and the release of other tablets in the future will continue to advance digital publishing. But it remains early days (a recent FOLIO: blog quoted editors of The New Yorker as saying "writing for the iPad is like producing TV after WWII") and the "traditional" digital edit ...
• Putting the 'Ad' in iPad - Digital Editions @ Foli ...
  Some have referred to the current marketplace as the ‘golden age’ of online advertising, with the advent of 3G technology and the iPad craze. But the publishing industry seems to be missing out on at least part of what could be a $50 billion ad spend. Time spent with print media accounts for 12 perc ...
• Building Mobile Newsstands and Subscription Models ...
  Good news for the magazine industry: Apple is developing a digital newsstand that would allow publishers to sell magazines across the iPad and possibly other Apple devices. The bad news: negotiations with Apple are anything but certain, and Apple’s insistence on controlling customer data could be ...
• Checking In on Kachingle : CJR
  That’s the catch: the service is voluntary, and it only works if everyone’s on board. The big news sites can’t imagine that the relatively small number of early-adopter Kachinglers will make it financially worth it, but Kachingle can’t get more readers to sign up until they see their favorite sites ...

Reality Asserts Itself

• Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
  My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terroriz ...
• PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NOT TH ...
  A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli children w ...
• FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END FEAR ...
  I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become such a phenomena ( ...
• PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. Gen ...
  Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many more l ...
• China and the end of the end of history
  Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world politi ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Intelligence Science Board Disbanded
  The Intelligence Science Board (ISB), an advisory panel established to ensure independent scientific advice to the US Director of National intelligence (DNI), is being abolished. The abolition raises concerns about a possible loss of independent advice to government on topics ranging from nuclear ...
• Ruth’s Reviews: God’s Philosophers – James Hannam
  Ruth Francis, Nature’s Head of Press, is reviewing all the entries shortlisted for the Royal Society’s science book prize. She’ll be reading one per week and posting her thoughts on The Great Beyond every Friday between now and the prize ceremony on 21 October. Far from their reputation as ‘dark ...
• Canadian government declares bisphenol A 'toxic'
  Canada has become the first country in the world to officially declare bisphenol A (BPA) – a common plasticizer found in food containers – to be a toxic substance. ( Globe and Mail ) BPA has been linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes in humans. And animal studies have ...
• IPCC: Pachauri carries on
  Rajendra Pachauri will continue as chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). “I can say with confidence that I will stay until the end of my term in 2014,” the Indian economist said today at a press conference in Busan, South Korea, where delegates from more than 100 count ...
• ‘Bonfire of the quangos’ singes science advice
  The full list of bodies offering scientific advice, oversight and scrutiny to the UK government that are to be axed or reformed was released today, a part of the final account of the new coalition’s ‘bonfire of the quangos’. As previously announced, among the high profile casualties are the respe ...

new geography

• Chicago’s Eroding Competitive Performance (Chicago ...
  A lot of my thinking on Chicago has been shaped by an overarching view of its performance. Believe it or not, I used to be a huge Chicago cheerleader. I don’t think there’s any doubt that during the 1990’s, Chicago rediscovered its mojo and was really tearing up the charts of performance for big ci ...
• Green Jobs for Janitors: How Neoliberals and Green ...
  In August 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama traveled to Lansing, Michigan, to lay out an ambitious ten-year plan for revitalizing, and fundamentally altering, the American economy. His administration, he vowed, would midwife new clean-energy industries, reduce dependence on foreign oil, and create f ...
• The Future of a Hub: Can Singapore Stay On Top of ...
  Viewed from abroad, historical perspective, Singapore’s position as a hub is far from inevitable or unassailable. History shows that hubs come and go. Malacca used to be the centre of the spice trade in Southeast Asia. Venice was the centre of East-West trade throughout the Middle Ages. Rangoon, ...
• London Special Report: Britain Drifts South – and ...
  The British Broadcasting Corporation wants 1500 of its staff to move to its new ”MediaCity” headquarters in Salford, near Manchester in northwest England. The Corporation, they say with some justification, is too southern, too much part of the metropolitan elite. The move ”addresses concerns that th ...
• London Special Report: The Making of the Hundred M ...
  (Part I of II.) The writer Ford Madox Ford summarised the inventiveness of the early twentieth century in an essay The Future of London (1909) by lambasting what he called the “tyranny of the past.” “The future,” he argued on the other hand, wages a ceaseless war against the monuments of the past’. ...

GM Watch

• Re: It pays not to cultivate GM crops
• African responses to the Gates Foundation's Green ...
• Science Media Centre director made fake call
• The troubled waters of Big Ag’s academic influence
• In China, no meeting of minds on GM crops

spiked

• India: making history or living in the past?
  A trip to Bangalore gives spiked's editor-at-large a glimpse of the capitalist law of uneven development at work.
• Facebook: the heart in a heartless world
  David Fincher’s brilliant The Social Network teases out what is driving the FB juggernaut: our need for narrative.
• There’s more to science than making money
  Pro-science protesters are playing a dangerous game by arguing against government cuts on economic grounds only.
• A slap in the face to the bourgeoisie
  Why Christos Tsiolkas’s romp-of-a-novel about a suburban Australian hitting someone else’s child has got the literary classes in a flap.
• Paying Lip Service to proper drama
  BBC3’s dire new show recycles every dating and relationship cliché known to man, only with lesbians.

Cryptogon

• And Now… Dollar Bounce Underway
  The relevant and recent analysis is: Gold: New Record High, $1388. Via: Reuters: The dollar rose against a basket of currencies on Monday and pulled away from a 10-month low, with market players saying the short-covering bounce may have more room to run given the recent build-up of bets against the ...
• “Brooklyn Space Program” Sends Video C ...
  I don’t have a “dad blog,” so this kind of post is bound to happen occasionally. Many stories that I’ve read about this incorrectly state that the iPhone was shooting the video. If you read through the comments on Vimeo, Luke Geissbühler let’s everyone know that the camera is the incredible GoPro H ...
• France to Run Out of Fuel in Days as Strikes Escal ...
  Via: Independent: Petrol pumps could run dry in France by Wednesday, experts warned yesterday, as the stand-off over pension reforms reached crisis point. Airlines advised pilots to refuel abroad and UFIP, the country’s oil industry association, said that if strikes continued at all 12 of France’s r ...
• Who Got Stimulated?
  Thanks to BD for sending this one over:
• Australia: Alleged Cult Leader Works as Government ...
  Via: The Age: A WOMAN accused of leading a cult that has damaged the lives of scores of people is working as a psychologist with vulnerable patients at a community mental health service in Queensland. Natasha Lakaev’s Universal Knowledge organisation was offering courses until last year that prophes ...

The Economic Collapse

• 20 Signs That The Economic Collapse Has Already Be ...
  For most Americans, the economic collapse is something that is happening to someone else.  Most of us have become so isolated from each other and so self-involved that unless something is directly affecting us or a close family member than we really don't feel it.  But even though m ...
• The Number One U.S. Export To China: Waste Paper A ...
  Historians tell us that by the very end of the Roman Empire, goods were pouring into Rome from all over the known world, but about the only thing being sent out of Rome was human waste and garbage.  America has not yet reached that point, but we are certainly well on our way.  In 20 ...
• The Bernanke Speech
  When Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gives a speech about the U.S. economy, it gets a whole lot more attention than when Barack Obama gives a speech about the U.S. economy.  Why is this true?  Well, it is because Bernanke has a whole lot more control over the U.S. economy than ...
• The Real Horror Story: The U.S. Economic Meltdown
  This October, millions of Americans are going to watch horror movies and read horror stories because they enjoy being frightened.  Well, if you really want to be scared, you should just check out the real horror story unfolding right before our eyes - the U.S. economic meltdown.  It ...
• Foreclosure Fraud: 6 Things You Need To Know About ...
  The foreclosure fraud crisis seems to escalate with each passing now.  It is being reported that all 50 U.S. states have launched a joint investigation into alleged fraud in the mortgage industry.  This is a huge story that is not going to go away any time soon.  The truth is that i ...

Desertification

• Transitioning to a green economy for feeding the w ...
  Read at : http://mediaglobal.org/article/2010-10-16/how_to_feed_9_billion_people_in_40_years How to feed 9 billion people in 40 years By Nosh Nalavala 15 October 2010 [MediaGlobal]: Away from the rounds of discussions on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary Gene ...
• The importance of drylands (Dimidia)
  Read at : http://blog.dimidia.com/2010/10/one-more-time-why-are-worlds-drylands.html One More Time: Why are the World’s Drylands Important? What are the Drylands and why are they important is nicely summarized in this UN Address: Restoring Worldâs Dry Lands Strengthens Food Security, Addresses Cli ...
• The Living Proof: smart aid is having a lasting im ...
  Read at : http://www.gatesfoundation.org/press-releases/Pages/living-proof-2010-london-101018.aspx Millions Saved Through Smarter Aid: Share the Proof, Save Millions More New campaign to bust the myths and share the success of global development initiatives to be launched in London with Bill and Mel ...
• Singapore students to learn how to grow rice (City ...
  Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/10/17/rice-institute-is-giving-10000-small-packets-of-rice-seed-to-singapore-students-to-help-them-learn-about-rice/ Rice Institute is giving 10,000 small packets of rice seed to Singapore students to help them learn about rice Linked by Michael Levenston Si ...
• State of Emergency Over Amazon Drought (Indyposted ...
  Read at : http://www.indyposted.com/117816/brazil-declares-state-of-emergency-over-amazon-drought/ Brazil Declares State of Emergency Over Amazon Drought Read The Full Story: Brazil Declares State of Emergency Over Amazon Drought â Indyposted Posted in International by Dina Ely The worst drought i ...

The Paper Trail

• Reform Roundup: What the Foreclosure Lawyers Did E ...
  It’s foreclosure Friday at Financial Reform Watch as we take a closer look at one of the groups responsible for the latest scandal to engulf the housing market.
• Campaign MoneyWatch takes Aim at Ken Buck’s ...
  It must be Ken Buck week here at You Report central. A reader in Colorado followed up yesterday’s post about an education group’s attack ad against the Republican candidate for Senate by alerting us to another one.
• Card Games in the Office - An Unintended Consequen ...
  One unintended consequence of the Dodd-Frank law: A new FDIC team of bankruptcy specialists spends its days sitting in the office playing card games while waiting for a giant financial company to collapse.
• Republican Allies Pour Money Into Ads Targeting 50 ...
  Four Republican-allied groups are targeting between 50 and 60 House races in a new coordinated round of hard-hitting television ads.
• Teachers’ Union Spends Big Bucks to Defeat B ...
  A reader in Denver alerted us to an ad that went up yesterday in Colorado by the NEA Advocacy Fund, blasting Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck for his views on education funding.

backofthebook.ca

• Meghan McCain: Savvy by Comparison
  by Rachel Krueger Christine O’Donnel has proven herself as hilariously uninterviewable as her Dopple-bangser Sarah Palin (her inability to name a recent Supreme Court decision she disagreed with eerily echoed Palin’s description of which periodicals she read…something along the lines of ‘All of t ...
• UN flop: Harper should be thanking Iggy
  By Alison@Creekside ... careful consideration of the reasons for Canada's failure to gain a seat on the UN Security Council continues among the Cons and their supporters in the media. . "Canada barely escaped with its integrity intact at the United Nations", writes Kelly McParland at NaPo, "A ...
• Imaginary friend time
  By Chris Bowman I was driving with my friend the other day to get his tuxedo fitted for his wedding. Naturally, we were talking about all his old girlfriends. He told me he’d done some online dating. A couple years ago he made a profile on plentyoffish.com to see what ...
• Canada’s UN flop is well-earned
  By Alison@Creekside It would seem that such international policies as 1) unstinting support for everything Israel 2) actively undermining the Copenhagen summit climate talks 3) delaying debt relief to Africa to advance the interests of a Canadian mining company 4) flip flopping hostility to ...
• Good news for Ralphie
  By Bev Schellenberg A revolution is underway in our classrooms. No one’s walking around with pithy statements on picket signs; no one’s blasting headlines across newspapers. But the reality is our school system is undergoing a monumental transition, and you may not even know it. How come I kno ...

Worldnews

• Mel Gibson To Star In 'The Hangover 2'?
  Mel Gibson is reportedly set to bounce back from his recent personal problems with a high-profile cameo role in The Hangover sequel. � The Braveheart star has endured a tough year which saw him split from his girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva, the mother...
• Facebook Privacy Breach: Users' Info Leaked T ...
  (AP/HUFFINGTON POST) NEW YORK -- The Wall Street Journal is reporting that 10 popular Facebook applications have been transmitting users' personal identifying information to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies. The newspaper said Monday that the breach also includes users who ...
• Cracking the Facebook Code
  by Thomas E. Weber Info Thomas E. Weber covers technology for The Daily Beast. He is a former bureau chief and columnist at The Wall Street Journal and was editor of the award-winning SmartMoney.com. Follow him on Twitter. text --> - + Single Page print � Twitter Emails...
• Somalia's government takes border town from I ...
  Mogadishu - Somali government troops have recaptured a town near the Kenyan border from Islamist insurgent forces, the ministry of information said. The government said its troops entered Bula...
• Super typhoon Megi lashes Philippines amid fl ...
  Super Typhoon Megi became the strongest cyclone in years to buffet the Philippines on Monday, while flooding in Vietnam swept away a bus and left 20 people missing, including a girl pulled from her mother's grasp by the raging waters. The huge storm striking...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embedded ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Daily Briefing—15th-16th Sept 2010
  News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
• Report: U.S. Troops ‘Still Killing Civilians’ in I ...
  A U.S.-Iraqi night raid results in the deaths of eight civilians weeks after U.S. combat operations were announced as over.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any Time ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Because the System’s Not Rigged Enough for Cops an ...
  Kevin Carson on the criminal injustice system 'shrills' pushing the narrative that the letter of the law aides criminals against so-called 'crime fighters'.

MY Daily Apple

• Hope for spinal cord patients
  The latest in how human embryonic stem cells are being put to use to treat spinal cord injuries and other debilitating conditions. History was made this month when a patient in Atlanta was treated for the first time with a therapy derived from human embryonic stem cells. It was part of a clinica ...
• KONDREMULliquid [Insight Pharmaceuticals]
  Updated Date: Oct 9, 2010 EST
• TRILIPIX (Fenofibric Acid) Capsule, Delayed Releas ...
  Updated Date: Oct 15, 2010 EST
• CLOTRIMAZOLEcream [Taro Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., In ...
  Updated Date: Oct 9, 2010 EST
• BISOPROLOL FUMARATE AND HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE (Bisop ...
  Updated Date: Oct 15, 2010 EST

Common Dreams

• A Whole New 'Green' Deal
  by Peter Seldman About two years ago, a group of North Bay residents gathered around a table in a Novato restaurant to talk about missed opportunities. The idea that old paradigms aren't meeting the unprecedented economic and environmental challenges facing the North Bay today was the topic of the m ...
• French Strikers Cut Fuel Pipeline to Paris
  Refinery workers cut off a fuel pipeline to Paris today as protesters piled on pressure to derail French president Nicolas Sarkozy's unpopular pension reform. Police broke up blockades at fuel depots in southern France but protesters blocked a terminal at Paris's Orly airport and truckers were ...
• Tomato Pickers Secure Path-Breaking Deal with Flor ...
  by Mischa Gaus The farmworker group Coalition of Immokalee Workers announced this week it has reached a landmark deal with a Florida tomato grower to govern conditions in the fields. The agreement greatly expands the proportion of Florida's $500 million tomato crop that will be produced under CIW ...
• DR Congo Troops Accused in New Rape Atrocities
  UNITED NATIONS  – DR Congo government troops are raping and killing women in remote villages where hundreds were the victims of mass rapes by militias just a few weeks ago, a top UN envoy has said. Margot Wallstrom, UN special envoy on sexual violence against women in conflict, said it was " ...
• Canada-US Pipeline on Hold Amid Oil's Recent Woes
  by James MacPherson and Josh Funk Bismarck, N.D. - The steel is staged, and crews are waiting to lay the last and most expensive leg of TransCanada Corp.'s multibillion-dollar pipeline network that would carry Canadian oil to refineries along the Gulf Coast. Yet final U.S. government approval for th ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• James Moore
• Neill Blomkamp
• Sarah Polley
• Jay Baruchel
• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Abraham the consciousness of conn ...
  ExamineReligion: Abraham the consciousness of connection:  Bereishis 18: 10. And he said, "I will surely return to you at this time... http://exm.nr/aVBPQX
• ExamineReligion: Moon in PIscees - Heightened Aw ...
  ExamineReligion: Moon in PIscees - Heightened Awareness: Today, the Moon in  watery Pisces gives our actions an intuitive vibe.  ... http://exm.nr/9GVV2I
• ExamineReligion: Fasting 9; Sabbath and Sunday 10: ...
  ExamineReligion: Fasting 9; Sabbath and Sunday 10: why no fasting on weekends:  John Ernst (a reader in First Peninsula, Nova Scoti... http://exm.nr/a5e14z
• ExamineReligion: Indian Givers - A Devotion: Roman ...
  ExamineReligion: Indian Givers - A Devotion: Romans 12:1-3 (CEV)Dear friends, God is good. So I beg you to offer your bodies to him... http://exm.nr/c8uKMu
• ExamineReligion: There must be intelligent reform ...
  ExamineReligion: There must be intelligent reform beyond our own self-interests: The Episcopal House of Bishops goes on to say, in ... http://exm.nr/aTMkHP

Energy Collective

• Concentrated benefits and dispersed costs
  Recently I went looking for a source for the idea that special interest lobbying succeeds due to the logic of concentrated benefits and dispersed costs.
• Interview: Sustainability at Eastman
  My apologies for posting this interview so late...I really have to cut back on interviews lately because of my weekly column (not to mention several features stories) at ICIS Chemical Business. Eastman launched its first sustainability review in June this year and the company is actually aiming for ...
• Solar City: making solar easy
  “Install solar. Save money from day one. No upfront investment. And you have a predictable forecast of what your power costs will be for the next 20 years.”
• Governors 2010: Climate change deniers threaten th ...
  The northeastern United States remains a bastion of the clean energy economy, though global warming deniers are vying to take over leadership of the state governments.� Wonk Room’s Brad Johnson has the story.
• Renewables Advisory Board faces the Axe
  The abolition of the Renewables Advisory Board was announced this week, alongside 191 other UK Quangos. In what has been described as the ‘Quango bonfire’ another 118 bodies will be merged and 171 ’substantially reformed’.� 50 bodies to be affected are within the Environment Department.

Green House - USA Today

• Funky cob house is first to meet extreme-green sta ...
  On a hilltop in Victoria, British Columbia, Ann and Gord Baird lived in a trailer with his two children for 20 months while they hand-built their dream home -- out of cob.
• Climate change befuddles most Americans: Yale surv ...
  How well do you understand climate change? A new Yale University survey finds that 63% of U.S. adults believe global warming is occurring, but many do not understand why. Only 10% say they are "very well informed" on the issue.
• Going green this Halloween? What about the candy?
  Even candy can be green (and not just in color). Yet major brands including Hershey's, Mars, Nestle and Godiva aren't particularly eco-friendly, according to a new scorecard of 10 large candy companies. Only Theo Chocolate and Endangered Species Chocolate earned top grades.
• NOAA: Global temperature in 2010 ties for hottest ...
  Temperatures for the first nine months of 2010 tied with the same period of 1998 for the warmest on record.
• Chinese drywall maker to fix 300 homes in four sta ...
  A Chinese drywall company being sued by thousands of U.S. homeowners has agreed to pay to repair 300 homes in four states as part of a pilot program.

Prior Art

• Paul Allen v. The Internet
  Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies....
• Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recuse Hi ...
  With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been selec ...
• Law360 Calls Lawyer-Owned Shell Company a "Public ...
  seems to have a pretty flexible definition of that term. Last month, it included . Who is so concerned about such fairness? That would be , the Texas law firm that owns Americans for Fair Patent Use, which is a limited liability company set up to prosecute a false marking lawsuit filed in E ...
• Eben Moglen on Bilski, software patents, and big p ...
  Moglen's position on the subject of software patents—that they should be banned—is, to say the least, outside the mainstream in legal circles. It has, however, garnered support among software developers and other techies, especially those who work in the world of open-source and free softw ...
• What's so bad about "business method" patents? Sma ...
  Those who have read the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bilski decision know that — a four-justice minority that wanted to ban business method patents. While that's an ill-defined term, it's clear that such a ruling would have effectively invalidated many patents already involved in litigation. Lawsu ...

Peoples Voice

• Lazy rich people
  Mary Shaw Two clean-cut preppy-type young men emerged from the late-model Jaguar that shared a parking lot with my 10-year-old Corolla. There was a homeless person standing nearby, rattling a can and begging for donations. "Get a job," yelled preppy #1 at the homeless man. "Yeah, I'm not gonna gi ...
• “For Your Own Protection”: The US Gove ...
  Rebecca Campbell Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry Sept. 15 - Video "During the past decade, there has been a well-orchestrated campaign of hostility and prejudice toward Muslims throughout the American Empire to justify its illegal conquest of the largely Muslim lands of Central Asia: The unjust, unde ...
• Steps Toward Taking Back America
  by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The U.S. is bankrupt, literally owned by China who tops the CIA's World Fact Book with the world's largest positive Current Account Balance. The U.S. is on the very bottom as a result of the policies of four incompetent, corrupt and/or crooked U.S. GOP Preside ...
• The United States fights and pays for Israel's war ...
  Interview by Kourosh Ziabari Maidhc Ó Cathail is a widely-published Irish author and journalist. He has been living in Japan since 1999. Cathail's articles and commentaries have appeared on a number of media outlets and newspapers including Tehran Times, Khaleej Times, Antiwar.com, Foreign Policy J ...
• Earthquake Stricken Haitians Victimized by World I ...
  by Stephen Lendman Over 10 months post-quake, Haitian suffering continues, victimized by world indifference, contempt, and paralysis, a new Refugees International (RI) report saying they're "Still Trapped in the Emergency Phase." Under appalling conditions, camp inhabitants face evictions, vi ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• CCPA 30th anniversary conference and gala dinner N ...
  For 30 years, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has been giving voice to progressive ideas. In an era of shrinking progressive think tanks and growing right-wing think tanks, we’d like to celebrate our three decades of accomplishments. We hope you will be part of the celebration. On No ...
• Canadians still waiting for a jobs recovery
  Canada may have fared better than the U.S. during this past recession, but a full economic recovery should mean a jobs recovery. CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan explains why Canada's falling short on the job recovery front in this Globe and Mail article . Check out The Globe and Mail 's inter ...
• Canada ranks poorly on taxing polluters
  Today the OECD released a report on environmental taxes and found Canada ranks 29th out of 33 OECD member countries when it comes to taxing polluters. Canada's tax on environmental ills amounts to slightly more than 1% of GDP while countries such as the Netherlands and Denmark top 4% of GDP.� The ...
• Time to press 'pause' on austerity
  Yesterday's economic update showcases how fragile Canada's economic recovery is and serves as the case against implementing austerity measures anytime soon. Read AFB Coordinator David Macdonald's assessment of the economic update here .
• International best-selling author and inequality e ...
  Join us December 10th in Toronto for an evening with Richard Wilkinson, author of The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone . The CCPA is pleased to co-sponsor this event. Please see details here .

World Wide Hippies

• France Goes On Terror Alert
  France: Saudis warn of new al-Qaeda threat | BBC Saudi Arabia has warned France it is the target of an imminent al-Qaeda attack, French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux has said. He said Saudi intelligence agencies spoke of a threat to Europe, and “France in particular”, from al-Qaeda in the Arabia ...
• Jocelyn Elders is Pro-pot
  Former surgeon general calls for marijuana legalization | CNN Former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders told CNN Sunday she supports legalizing marijuana. The trend-setting state of California is voting next month on a ballot initiative to legalize pot, also known as Proposition 19. The measure wo ...
• Pros and Cons of Herb
  A bit of tarnish on marijuana’s benign reputation | Los Angeles Times As California considers legalizing pot, there has been little discussion about the potential fallout on people’s health. But it can be addictive, attested by one woman’s $5,000-a-year habit. In 1969, Carol McDonald was 28, married ...
• The People Speak – Sundance Film Festival &# ...
  Q’Orianka Kilcher performs a piece from Howard Zinn’s The People Speak at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
• Murdoch: “you have the right to vote us off ...
  Murdoch says News Corp. donations were in interest of “shareholders and the country” | Media Matters Responding to shareholder questions regarding News Corp.’s controversial $1 million contributions to the Chamber of Commerce and the Republican Governors Association, Rupert Murdoch said the donation ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• 'A Crime Beyond Denunciation'
  This appears in a new article in the New York Observer : "The first thing that needs to happen, I think, is to get these people out of their homes," a man wearing a bespoke blue-striped shirt, a Hermés tie patterned with elephants and Ferragamo loafers said recently. "Correct! I'll explain," the ...
• The “I” Word ...by Cindy Sheehan
  Once, when my children were young, one of them rushed into me and said: “Mama, so-and-so, said the ‘K’ word.” I don’t remember which one of my children was the tattler, or which one was the tattlee, but I remember the “k” word. I could never figure out what the “k” word was, because neither of the ...
• Impeachment Marcher Reaches Washington – “Hello Ma ...
  John Nirenberg, who has spent the last forty days and nights walking south on Route 1 from Boston to Washington D.C., has reached the outskirts of his goal, Nancy Pelosi’s office. And rather than the last stumbling steps of exhaustion, or steps glad to be finishing up and moving on, the final ...
• Cheney Impeachment
  Bangor Daily News Over the past 18 months, a core group of Democrats and others from the left has steadfastly maintained that President Bush and Vice President Cheney should be impeached. Mainstream Democrats in Congress are sympathetic to their arguments, but most have bowed to the political r ...
• 'And the Oscar Goes To...' ...by Cindy She ...
  ...Hillary Clinton! For phoniest display of belated emotion in a Presidential campaign! Hillary’s recent emotion at the tanking of her multi-million dollar; mass pandering campaign reminded me of a scene in Mike Myers’ Wayne’s World where he, as Wayne, throws water on his face and emotes abou ...

Salon

• Gibbs predicts Democratic majority retention
  President Barack Obama's spokesman caused a political stir this summer when he said Democrats could lose their majority in the House in November. Now he says he doesn't think that will happen.
• Christine O'Donnell says GOP not helping her
  Republican Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell of Delaware is calling out the Republican establishment in Washington for not helping her underdog campaign.
• These are the Democrats' next national faces?
  It's somewhere between possible and likely that the midterm tide will be so severe that Democrats will be forced to change leaders in both chambers of Congress. But if that happens, don't expect a blast of fresh energy and new ideas: The most likely successors to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are a ...
• How propaganda is disseminated: WikiLeaks Edition
  This is how the U.S. government and American media jointly disseminate propaganda: in the immediate wake of some newsworthy War on Terror event, U.S. Government officials (usually anonymous) make wild and reckless -- though unverifiable -- claims. The U.S. media mindlessly trumpets them around th ...
• Sharron Angle denies race-baiting charges
  U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle says a series of anti-illegal immigrant ads linking rival Sen. Harry Reid to images of sullen, dark-skinned men and a map of Mexico are not anti-Hispanic.

SMB News

• K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
  For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the disq ...
• Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
  For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, believed ...
• Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
  For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage to t ...
• Nato’s 27 fuel tankers torched in Shikarpur
  For SMB News Nato’s 27 fuel tankers torched in Shikarpur SHIKARPUR: More than 27 oil tankers, meant for Nato’s fuel supply and three other vehicles, have been torched after some unidentified attackers fired rockets, which resulted in eruption of raging ablaze, meanwhile two men suffered injuries in ...
• Obama to demand India for Kashmir issue resolution
  For SMB News Obama to demand India for Kashmir issue resolutionWASHINGTON: Go for a Kashmir solution and help bring stability to the region for a ticket to UN Security Council membership and fulfilling your big power aspirations. That’s the broad message President Barack Obama will be bringing to Ne ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Star choices: Fresher faces for city council
  With nine incumbent councillors stepping down, change is coming to city hall. Here are our election choices for Wards 1 to 21.
• G20 protests: Gag order goes too far
  Latest bail conditions for alleged ringleader of G20 protests fit the pattern of official excess that marred the summit.
• Star's choice: Smitherman for mayor
  George Smitherman is the only candidate with the political skill, commitment to change, compassion, drive and determination to be an effective mayor.
• Brother André: His spirit carries on
  That he is still venerated in an era of declining church attendance is a testament to his reputation as a true folk hero.
• Darts & Laurels
  CHRISTINE O’DONNELL: For trying to delete her record. The Republican candidate for the United States Senate was questioned in a televised debate this week about some of her past statements, including her expressed belief that the theory of evolutio ...

Energy Collective

• Concentrated benefits and dispersed costs
  Recently I went looking for a source for the idea that special interest lobbying succeeds due to the logic of concentrated benefits and dispersed costs.
• Interview: Sustainability at Eastman
  My apologies for posting this interview so late...I really have to cut back on interviews lately because of my weekly column (not to mention several features stories) at ICIS Chemical Business. Eastman launched its first sustainability review in June this year and the company is actually aiming for ...
• Solar City: making solar easy
  “Install solar. Save money from day one. No upfront investment. And you have a predictable forecast of what your power costs will be for the next 20 years.”
• Governors 2010: Climate change deniers threaten th ...
  The northeastern United States remains a bastion of the clean energy economy, though global warming deniers are vying to take over leadership of the state governments.� Wonk Room’s Brad Johnson has the story.
• Renewables Advisory Board faces the Axe
  The abolition of the Renewables Advisory Board was announced this week, alongside 191 other UK Quangos. In what has been described as the ‘Quango bonfire’ another 118 bodies will be merged and 171 ’substantially reformed’.� 50 bodies to be affected are within the Environment Department.

EU Times

• ‘Islamization’ of Paris a Warning to the West
  Friday in Paris. A hidden camera shows streets blocked by huge crowds of Muslim worshippers and enforced by a private security force. This is all illegal in France: the public worship, the blocked streets, and the private security. But the police have been ordered not to intervene. It shows that eve ...
• Gunmen fire on plane carrying aid workers in Congo
  Medical agency: Gunmen fire on plane with international aid workers landing in east Congo. Gunmen in eastern Congo fired Wednesday on a private plane carrying international aid workers who escaped into the forest and were later rescued, aid workers from the International Medical Corps told The Assoc ...
• Tony Blair Calls for Iran Attacks
  Back in the public eye with the release of his memoirs, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair might lead one to believe it is 2003 all over again. Praising George W. Bush as a great leader and one of the most decisive men he had ever met, Blair also lauds the Iraq War. And if [...]
• Record number in government anti-poverty programs
  Government anti-poverty programs that have grown to meet the needs of recession victims now serve a record one in six Americans and are continuing to expand. More than 50 million Americans are on Medicaid, the federal-state program aimed principally at the poor, a survey of state data by USA TODAY s ...
• Intel CEO Blasts Obama Administration, Says Anti-B ...
  Silicon Valley leans Democratic. Based on comments made by one of the Valley’s biggest hitters, that may be changing. Intel CEO Paul Otellini got a lot off his chest at the Aspen Forum last night–with most of his frustration directed at the business-stifling policies of the Obama administration and ...

Stonecipher News

• Washington State Fathers Network Annual Conference
  The Fathers Network is a group of men who have children that have a disability. According to Roseberg & Wilcox (2006), “The Washington State Fathers Network (WSFN) has served over 1,000 families in the past 20 years. Founded on the belief that men are crucial in the lives of children, WSFN is a pow ...
• Your Child Has A Learning Disability. So What's Ne ...
  From my Factoidz page : Learning Disabilities was included in the 1975 authorization of the federal law Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) after an organization of parents formed the first Association of Children with Learning Disabilities (Heward, 2009). In the text, Exceptional Chil ...
• Dumbing Down Society Pt 2: Mercury in Foods and Va ...
  According to Vigilant , "Even though mercury is known to degenerate brain neurons and disrupt the central nervous system, it is still found in processed foods and mandatory vaccines. In this second part of the series examining the intentional dumbing-down of society, this article will discuss the pr ...
• Waking up Teens
  According to Science Daily, "Teenagers' morning drowsiness is often caused by out-of-tune body clocks, in a condition known as "delayed sleep phase syndrome." Scientists now say that timing exposure to blue light -- avoiding it during the first two hours of being wake, then getting a good dose of it ...
• The Special Education Profession
  From my Factoidz page : Persons who desire to become special educators do so for numerous reasons. Whether making a decision to become a special educator as the initial step into the educational system, or move to special education from the ranks of general education, the teacher that chooses this f ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Marketing to Mom and Dad
  Shanelle Mullin is a full-time university student and a part-time freelance copywriter. She has over three years of experience working for Surge Marketing Inc. Most affiliates know how profitable marketing to moms can be. With mommy bloggers popping up all over the internet, it’s... Tags: internet m ...
• A Drill Sargent as a Psychiatrist?
  Don't ask me why, but this video of "Gunny" Lee Ermey - a former drill instructor in the U.S. Marines who later went on to an acting career after injuries led to a medical discharge after 11 years of service...cracks me up. It's probably become my favorite Geico Commercial (I... Tags: drill instruct ...
• Today in Tech: News around the Web
  Every day, the  Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the weekend's most newsworthy bits below. Photo: Cablevision In yet another situation of cable negotiations gone... Tags: mediamemo ...
• Everybody Loves Applications
  Today’s modern home theater is a complicated beast entailing not only music and video reproduction but also Internet connectivity and the ability to access the multitude of media available online, including the illusive App. The pressure is on for mainstream audio-video... Tags: home theater interne ...
• Untwisting the twisted falsehoods on Saint Mary Ma ...
  I receive the Inside the Vatican Newsletters put out by Dr. Robert Moynihan.  He sends out a newsflash, which you can sign up for at the ITV site . In his most recent report, he included a commentary by Australian correspondent for ITV, Andrew Rabel .  Many of you in the metro... Tags: excommunicati ...

Groklaw

• Facebook in Privacy Breach
  Many of the most popular applications, or "apps," on the social-networking site Facebook Inc. have been transmitting identifying information-in effect, providing access to people's names and, in some cases, their friends' names-to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies, a Wall Street ...
• Will Apples Culture Hurt the iPhone?
  "There is much more rapid innovation taking place in an open environment," said David B. Yoffie, a professor at the Harvard Business School who has written recent case studies on Apple. While Apple comes out with a new iPhone model once a year, slick Android phones with new features hit the market o ...
• Motorola asks court to invalidate Apple patents, p ...
  The smartphone intellectual property wars are seriously heating up, as Motorola sided with HTC this week in an effort to cover its own rear. Remember those twenty patents Apple aimed at the Taiwanese OEM? Motorola says they're no good, and is trying to get them thrown out of court -- an important t ...
• Web Browser Supports Time Travel
  For those who use the Mozilla Firefox browser, you now have the option to time travel through the web. MementoFox is a free extension that users can add-on to their browsers. The extension implements the Memento protocal , which the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Old Dominion University are d ...
• When a company asks for your copyright
  The company will probably invite you to assign or license your copyright to the company. That in itself is not inherently bad; for instance, many GNU software developers have assigned copyrights to the FSF. However, the FSF never sells exceptions, and its assignment contracts include a commitment to ...

WideShut

• Robin Cook – The Convenient Heart Attack
  Robin Cook opposed arms sales to dictators, the oppression of Palestine, the Iraq war and the faux war on terror. Then he had a heart attack.
• Oct-15-2010 MistrBrit Show On Resistance Radio
  The MistrBrit returns to Resistance Radio, discussing the latest 9/11 Truth news and more.
• 7/7 Inquest: Analysis of New CCTV and Phone Eviden ...
  Independent analysis of new evidence released during the 7/7 Inquest, and rebuttal of claim that alternative research is baseless.
• EU Superstate: WideShut Webcast On Resistance Radi ...
  On this week's show Keelan Balderson exposes the EU Superstate and the faux sovereignty legislation being proposed by Bilderberg William Hague.
• 7/7 Inquest: Causing More Questions Than Answers
  7/7 inquest raises more questions about alleged DNA evidence than it answers, and ignores important anomalies that shed doubt on official story.

Waterkeeper Alliance

• Siphoning at Savannah River raises unanswerable qu ...
  Siphoning at Savannah River raises unanswerable questions
• Organization to focus on cleaner water�
  Organization to focus on cleaner water�
• Biosolids plan gets blessing of state
  Biosolids plan gets blessing of state
• Ga senators file legislation aimed at fixing water ...
  Ga senators file legislation aimed at fixing water woes
• Canadian Nuclear Association clings to inaccurate, ...
  Canadian Nuclear Association clings to inaccurate, unsupported claims

Politics in the Zeros

• Easy unsubscribing in GMail
  From the GMail Blog. If you want to unsubscribe…, click “show details” in the top-right corner of the message, then click “Unsubscribe from this sender.” GMail will then send the unsubscribe request for you. This only works for legitimate listservs. For spammers, do just that. Mark it as spam. Unsub ...
• Sexual abuse by priests. How long has this been go ...
  Sister Mary MacKillop of Australia was canonized by the Vatican. She exposed sexual abuse by priests of minors and in retaliation, the male hierarchy excommunicated her in 1871 and tried to shut down the order she founded. The excommunication was lifted after five months. While I suppose it’s good t ...
• Nonviolence does not equal complacency
  I went to a protest in Philadelphia this past Saturday, and it was more disheartening than anything else.  It was against the wars and various other injustices, with a special focus on he recent FBI raids of peace activists and Pennsylvania Homeland Security spying on innocent civilians and activist ...
• Mumbia attacker’s wife warned Feds he was terroris ...
  Emphasis added “Get lost” was what the US officials in Islamabad told the young Moroccan wife of [accused 2008 Mumbia attacker] David Headley when she informed them that her husband was planning a terror attack in India “I told them, he’s either a terrorist, or he’s working for you,” she recalled sa ...
• Score voting and approval voting. Ways to break th ...
  Our two-party duopoly is supported and kept in power by a plurality voting system that makes it difficult for third parties to break through. But it doesn’t have to be that way. There are other, far more equitable voting methods. Among them are score voting and approval voting. I plan to explore the ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• Auckland cancer patients get high-tech scans
  A group of private hospitals in Auckland has installed a $6 million positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) scanner which will help detect tiny cancers in patients
• Man arrested after girl held at gunpoint
  A 21-year-old man who allegedly held a 10-year-old girl at gunpoint during a New Plymouth dairy robbery at the weekend has turned himself in to police
• Secondary teachers to strike this week after rejec ...
  High school teachers are to strike this week after failed pay talks with the government
• Lotto Powerball winner claims record $28.7m prize
  The winner of Saturday's record $28.7 million Powerball jackpot has claimed their prize but their identity remains secret
• Gang associates eviction fight in court at a cost ...
  The ongoing battle to evict gang associates from state houses is costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars

Just World News

• Chas Freeman's somber look at U.S. Middle East pol ...
  I am happy to be able to publish here-- with his permission-- the text of the presentation that Amb. Chas W. Freeman, Jr., made at a conference on the Middle East held at Tufts University, October 14-15. Freeman's book America's Misadventures in the Middle East is, of course, the first title to be p ...
• U.S. supports Taliban talks; Still opposing Hamas? ...
  So here are Sec. of State Hillary Clinton and SecDef Bob Gates now saying they support-- and are giving active support to-- the Afghan government's initiative to negotiate with the Taliban. But the U.S. government continues to completely oppose any attempt by any parties, Palestinian or other, to r ...
• Jones's departure-- linked to dog-wagging?
  I am still trying to get my head around why-- less than a month before a crucial mid-term election, Obama's national security adviser Gen. Jim Jones felt he should leave. Of course, it is not clear at all whether he took the initiative to leave the White House, or was pushed. But the timing looks ...
• Chas Freeman book: Buy it on Amazon!
  We've done it! The paperback version of Amb. Chas Freeman's book, America's Misadventures in the Middle East , is now available for purchase through Amazon . The paperback, hardcover, and e-book versions of the book will all be available through other sales channels in the near future. But for now ...
• When is an act of war not an act of war?
  The inimitable Matt Duss has a great post on Wonk Room today in which he notes that recent polling data from CBS News and Vanity Fair "indicates pretty strongly that Americans are not in favor of a U.S. war with Iran ." He adds, however, that supporters of a U.S. war on Iran realize that a "war", a ...

First Truths

• Mortgage Liens On Our Lives
  The state, though it assures us of the goodwill behind its housing policies, has succeeded in a master stroke of subterfuge that further condenses wealth in the troves of the elite. The mortgage fiasco once again demonstrates that the state will mobilize when the interests of its club members are im ...
• Terrorism By Any Other Name
  In federal court on Tuesday, Faisal Shahzad, whose attempt to bomb Times Square with homemade explosives was thwarted back in May, was handed a life sentence. In a statement made during a hearing, Shahzad, an American radicalized by the United States’ sanguinary, terroristic crusade against the Mu ...
• Sounding Off
  In a society that fully and consistently honors individual sovereignty, observing the nonaggression principle, an independent right to free speech is unnecessary and redundant. By making the coercive land monopolization of government impossible, libertarian anarchism preempts free speech as an issue ...
• The Pretended Populism of Politics
  In contemporary politics, populism implies, and is drawn on to justify, the boundless proliferation of statism. And, though the irony is seldom acknowledged, there is something thoroughly perverse about the idea that an organization of exclusivity, every action of which plants more deeply the roots ...
• Experts in the Ministry of Crime
  A few days ago, I was reminded of a New York Times column, The Establishment Lives! , in which David Brooks, trumpeting the efficacy of the omnipresent, total state, wrote: If you wanted to devise a name for this approach, you might pick the phrase economist Arnold Kling has used: Progressive Cor ...

Media Co-Op

• Protest Against the Acquisition of Tibet’s Gyama M ...
  Local Tibetans and supporters protested the acquisition of the Gyama (Ch. Jiama) mine by the Vancouver company China Gold International Resources (CGG). The protest occurred in front of the Terminal City Club at which a CGG shareholders meeting was taking place where the company was seeking (and rec ...
• Bikes Not Oil!
  Rapping at the pumps Cortney performed this rap at a Shell gas station rally for clean air, drinkable water, and fertile land .  We were approaching the gas station as "a symbol of a destructive system that has to be fundamentally changed" (as ...
• Interview with illogik
  Raised Fist Collective / Test theirLogik MUSIC 'G8/G20 Crash the Meeting' Test theirLogik Feature interview with Illogik of Test their Logik - Topics: Where's Testament? G20 Toronto protest, anarchist label, media portrayals, Torontonamo Bay d ...
• Balaclava! VMC Broadsheet issue 21
  Gentrification in the DTES and Commercial Drive, Alex Hundert bail update The October 16-31 issue covers gentrification in the east side in-depth, following up the gentrification of heritage houses on Commercial Drive, and the creation of new ...
• Alex Hundert “released” on bail; Thrown in solitar ...
    Thursday October 15, Toronto, Mississauga New Credit - Less than 24 hours after refusing to sign outrageous bail conditions which included not expressing political views in public and non-associations intended to further isolate him, Alex Hundert was forced to consent to his release.   On the nigh ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Observations of and on the rich
  "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand." F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
• "Chicken Little of the Week (Year?)" Award
  BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling operation may have triggered an irreversible, cascading geological Apocalypse that will culminate with the first mass extinction of life on Earth in many millions of years. The oil giant drilled down miles into a geologically unstable region and may have set the stage ...
• Er, uh... it seems the world is coming to an end.. ...
  Chart from ClusterStock We are witnessing (how) a peak in a parabolic finance/asset/stock bubble of world proportions, is going to pan out. I think the entire credit crisis can be looked at from that perspective. We are merely witnessing the relentless unwinding of the biggest financial bubble in hi ...
• Reading Don Quixote, while Iceland takes a leak
  � Gustavo Doré's Don Quixote David Seaton's News Links This summer I am rereading the world's first, and still probably the world's best novel, " Don Quixote ", by Miguel de Cervantes. The first time I read it, my Spanish was nothing like it is today, nor is the life experience that I bring to the b ...
• America: if it's broken, fix it
  Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) - Vedute di Roma Every time I come back to the United States, the airports, the roads, the public spaces look to me more tattered, battered, old-fashioned. Modernity is no longer self-evidently here. Timothy Garton-Ash, The Guardian At a time when China is bui ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

• EWG Asks FDA Advisors to Back Sunscreen Regulation ...
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs – 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, -- Environmental Working Group (EWG) asked a prestigious expert advisory panel to urge the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue long-awaited regulations for... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
• 50 Groups Challenge Government Grant to Pro-Pestic ...
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 OAKLAND, Calif. – More than 50 organizations concerned about the risks of pesticides to human health and the environment have joined forces to fight California officials’ award of a $180,000... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
• Few Sunscreens Shield From UVA Rays
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org Washington, D.C. â With fall here, millions of Americans are outside at football and soccer games, cross-country meets, school fairs, picking apples and raking leaves. As temperatures lower and bathing suits go in ...
• Three Top Scientists Honored with Prestigious Hein ...
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. -- Among this year’s recipients of the prestigious Heinz Family Philanthropies Global Change Awards are three preeminent scientists working to advance our understanding of the impacts that chemical exposures hav ...
• Pesticide Industry to Use Tax Dollars to Attack Cr ...
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs â 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- The California Department of Food and Agriculture has awarded $180,000 in federal funds to finance an agribusiness-chemical industry plan to combat its critics – Environmental Working Group and other hea ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• Warning: Please Avoid Feeding This to Your Child
  According to a report in Science Daily , a new Canadian study shows that children exposed to high concentrations of manganese in drinking water performed worse on tests of intellectual functioning than children with lower exposures. The results were published in an article in Environmental Health ...
• Employees Caught Dancing on the Job
  Watch this video for a sample of how to make a desk job less sedentary, then click on the links to see six more examples of making a boring job more interesting.
• Major Drug Company in Hot Seat Again
  Johnson & Johnson CEO William Weldon testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Thursday, September 30, apologizing for making a mistake and letting the public down with the numerous recalls his company has had lately. In a report by CNNMoney.com, Weldon also admitte ...
• The 'Other' Salt: 5 Foods Rich in Potassium
  According to Time Healthland: " A recent report shows that consuming just 4.7 grams of "good salt" (potassium) is the equivalent of cutting out 4 grams of "bad salt" (sodium) in terms of reducing blood pressure. But there are only so many bananas (.5g each) you can eat. Just in time for lunch, h ...
• FDA Sees Possible Risk of Fatal Bowel Problem With ...
  The Food and Drug Administration said preliminary results from a study in Mexico involving GlaxoSmithKline's Rotarix vaccine suggest an increased risk of a serious bowel problem that could be fatal. A statement posted to the FDA's website said the study showed an increased risk of intussusception ...

JAMA

• A 29-Year-Old Woman With Flulike Symptoms [Clinica ...
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• Racial Differences in Rates of Severe Sepsis [Lett ...
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• Racial Differences in Rates of Severe Sepsis--Repl ...
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Survival - tribal peoples

• Finsbury wins ‘PR Disaster of the Year’ award
  Two Naâvi protested outside Vedantaâs AGM. © Survival On the eve of the PR Week Awards, Survival has presented its ’PR Disaster of the Yearâ Award to Finsbury PR and its founder Roland Rudd for their work with FTSE -100 mining company Vedanta Resources . Finsbury is the retained PR age ...
• UN warned about oil pipeline in Peru
  Peru's isolated Indians are highly vulnerable to diseases brought in by outsiders. © Anon Survival is warning the United Nations of massive oil operations in the northern Peruvian Amazon that could decimate uncontacted tribal people . ‘By permitting companies to operate in this region Peru’s g ...
• Survival publishes ‘Top 5 Hall of Shame’ for Colum ...
  Peru's isolated Indians have made it clear they want outsiders to stay out. © Heinz Plenge Pardo / Frankfurt Zoological Society Survival is marking Columbus Day (October 12th/ October 11th in US) by publishing its ‘Top 5 Hall of Shame’ – the key companies violating tribal peoples’ rights worldw ...
• Aboriginal anger at gas project plans
  The proposed gas project in Western Australia has become highly contentious © Keith Wood/ Wilderness Society Preliminary work has started on a controversial gas project on the Western Australian coast. The state’s premier has aroused fury by announcing that land for the development will be comp ...
• Mapuche hunger strike ends
  Mapuche protests are often met with a violent police response © Flickr user antitezo, Creative Commons license Many of the 34 Mapuche prisoners on hunger strike in Chile have ended their protest, after reaching an agreement with the Chilean government. Around ten of the prisoners, however, sa ...

Montreal Gazette

• European trade talks deserve public support
  A fourth round of trade talks between Canada and the European Union wrapped up in July, with results the participants considered satisfactory. Unlike the Canada-U. S. free trade talks of the 1980s, these discussions (on a "Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement") have drawn little public ...
• Prosecution of David Chen amounts to persecution
  The Toronto shopkeeper is charged, with two of his clerks, with assaulting and forcibly confining Anthony Bennett, a notorious shoplifter with 43 convictions. One day in May 2009, just an hour after videotape showed Bennett stealing potted plants from Chen's Lucky Moose market, Bennett retur ...
• European trade talks deserve public support
  A fourth round of trade talks between Canada and the European Union wrapped up in July, with results the participants considered satisfactory. Unlike the Canada-U. S. free trade talks of the 1980s, these discussions (on a "Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement") have drawn little public ...
• City and its workers bury the hatchet -we hope
  In 2004, the city of Montreal's blue collar workers had a contract imposed on them, after a long and acrimonious process. That contract expired Aug. 31, 2007, and since then "les bleus" have had no contract. So yesterday's news of a signing ceremony at city hall should be intensely welcome.
• Bombardier deal the antithesis of free trade
  The courts stopped the government from handing the fat contract to Bombardier Inc. by fiat, so now Premier Jean Charest and his ministers will do so by legislation.

Food World Order

• media monarchy: interview w/ barbara peterson of f ...
  interview w/ barbara peterson : download /subscribe \archive the latest special interview episode from media monarchy features a great talk with writer/activist barbara peterson of farmwars.info & truth squad radio . this one-hour conversation gets into the " corporate shenanigans ... and in ...
• 10/14 binge & purge: can't feel the beating
  warning to glenn beck: don't drink diet coke * video: beck sidekicks attempt to debunk aspartame controversy * roger beachy's evangelical push for gm foods * build the pressure on the gates foundation * what's driving monsanto's fall from grace? *
• 3/4's of US obese or overweight by 2020, says alar ...
  from natural news : America is already on the verge of drowning in sick-care bankruptcy, but the situation is about to get even worse. According to a new study released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development , three-fourths of Americans will be obese or overweight by 2020 . Tha ...
• wheat bread sales top white bread for first time
  from allgov : For the first time in consumer history, Americans are buying more wheat bread than white bread . From July 2009 to July 2010, sales of wheat bread increased 0.6%, totaling $2.6 billion, while white bread sales declined 7%, to $2.5 billion. Americans seem to be turning to wheat bread fo ...
• cattle cloned from dead animals to produce 'that m ...
  from bbc : Some of the cattle cloned to boost food production in the US have been created from the cells of dead animals , according to a US cloning company. Farmers say it is being done because it is only possible to tell that the animal's meat is of exceptionally high quality by inspecting its car ...

CrusadeWatch

• Vatican Bank Investigated For Alleged Money Launde ...
  source:  NPR.org,  September 21, 2010   Angelo Carconi /Associated Press Italian financial Police officers talk to each other in front of St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010.  (AP Photo/Angelo Carconi)
• Pakistani Christians not beneficiary of Church run ...
  source: Pakistan Christian Post, May 17 2010 Lahore: May 17, 2010. (PCP) The admissions are underway in convents and other missionary schools administered by Catholic Church of Pakistan and Church of Pakistan in major cities of Punjab province of Pakistan. The Christian parents are standing i ...
• Vishal Arora: A Christian fundamentalist masquera ...
  source:  Sathya Sai blog, 19 May 2010 Vishal Arora is an independent & freelance journalist and writer living in New Delhi, India. Vishal Aroras articles have appeared in Hindustan Times , The Indian Express , The Deccan Herald , The Tribune , The Statesman , Mint , Indo-Asian News ...
• Christian casteism: Only in India: A Brahmin groom ...
  source:  Times of India, May 16, 2010 MUMBAI: When Winnie D'Souza wanted to marry her daughter into a decent' family, she scanned the matrimonial columns of Catholic periodicals in Panaji. After shortlisting a few young men, D'Souza made inquiries about their caste. She wanted her dau ...
• Rwanda: Will the Vatican Ever Accept That Genocide ...
  source: AllAfrica.com, 27 May 2010 Tom Ndahiro Kigali This church's lack of courage and humility made it develop what philosopher Bertrand Russell, in his book "The Conquest of Happiness" termed "persecution mania" which he says is "a recognised form of insanity."

Whole Truth Coalition

• Police Officers Sent on Hypnosis Courses in the &# ...
  Officers are being encouraged to sign up to a course by Tom Silver, who is better known as a ‘celebrity hypnotherapist’ on American chat shows, in an attempt to gain more information from suspects. Mr Silver, who has appeared on the Montel Williams and Ricki Lake chat shows on US TV, where he gave a ...
• Plan to Oust Saddam Drawn up Two Years Before the ...
  ‘A secret plan to foster an internal coup against Saddam Hussein was drawn up by the Government two years before the invasion of Iraq, The Independent can reveal. Whitehall officials drafted the “contract with the Iraqi people” as a way of signalling to dissenters in Iraq that an overthrow of Sadda ...
• Berlusconi Pushing for Israeli Membership of the E ...
  Italian Prime Minister says Israel should join the European Union, in a u-turn from his earlier remarks criticizing Israel’s settlement policy as an impediment to peace. “My greatest desire, as long as I am a protagonist in politics, is to bring Israel into membership of the European Union,” said Si ...
• Iceland President Accuses England, Holland of Fina ...
• Child Rapists Protected By The State
  In the October 2009 print edition of the UK Column, we reported in our article “BBC Hides Truth of Girl’s Sexual Abuse Ordeal” the shocking ordeal of Downs Syndrome girl, Hollie Greig, who was horribly abused by an Aberdeen paedophile ring, over a period of ten years. After investigating and planni ...

The Economic Collapse

• 20 Signs That The Economic Collapse Has Already Be ...
  For most Americans, the economic collapse is something that is happening to someone else.  Most of us have become so isolated from each other and so self-involved that unless something is directly affecting us or a close family member than we really don't feel it.  But even though m ...
• The Number One U.S. Export To China: Waste Paper A ...
  Historians tell us that by the very end of the Roman Empire, goods were pouring into Rome from all over the known world, but about the only thing being sent out of Rome was human waste and garbage.  America has not yet reached that point, but we are certainly well on our way.  In 20 ...
• The Bernanke Speech
  When Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gives a speech about the U.S. economy, it gets a whole lot more attention than when Barack Obama gives a speech about the U.S. economy.  Why is this true?  Well, it is because Bernanke has a whole lot more control over the U.S. economy than ...
• The Real Horror Story: The U.S. Economic Meltdown
  This October, millions of Americans are going to watch horror movies and read horror stories because they enjoy being frightened.  Well, if you really want to be scared, you should just check out the real horror story unfolding right before our eyes - the U.S. economic meltdown.  It ...
• Foreclosure Fraud: 6 Things You Need To Know About ...
  The foreclosure fraud crisis seems to escalate with each passing now.  It is being reported that all 50 U.S. states have launched a joint investigation into alleged fraud in the mortgage industry.  This is a huge story that is not going to go away any time soon.  The truth is that i ...

CASSE

• An Economic Irony for the Ages
  Applause or apprehension -- what's the right reaction for peaking population and soaring stocks?
• The Big Population Question
  Herman Daly doesn't dodge tough topics or prickly problems. In this post he provides perceptive perspectives on population and a hopeful future for humanity.
• Food and Agriculture in a Steady State Economy
  Fossil-fueled factory farms and livestock slums slip out of style in a steady state economy
• Muddled Media Messages
  Puzzling product placements and pernicious prevarications permeate mainstream media.
• Steady State Transportation: Closing the Door on t ...
  The trouble with transportation is petroleum, and the problems are providing a chance for true transformation.

The Talking Clock

• Globalist banker looting of British taxpayer leads ...
  We spend BILLIONS bailing out the bankers, we spend BILLIONS being part of the European Empire, we spend £1.2 billion on the fraud that was swine flu, the taxpayer has been robbed blind by MPs with criminally fraudulent expenses claims... And the result is that we can no longer afford a couple of ...
• How the European Empire plans to drive car owners ...
  The European Empire plans to infuriate British car drivers by spying on their every move and helping themselves to your money as a result. Writing for Bristol's Evening Post, Trevor Coleman - UKIP MEP for the South West - details the road pricing scheme that the European Empire plans to introduce ...
• Sunday Paper Review: 17th October 2010
  We have to start with one of the most laughable, ideological pieces of nonsense that we've seen written in any newspaper so far this year. Never one to disappoint, The Observer reports on the protests that are taking place in France. They claim that the protesters have: "...made the right shiv ...
• Douglas Carswell defends bloggers from elitist BBC ...
  Conservative MP Douglas Carswell has leapt to the defence of we humble bloggers after criticism from an employee of BBC - and ergo a public servant - who we won't name as he doesn't deserve the oxygen of publicity. Yes, let us remember. The BBC - an ultra-leftist biased broadcaster which is stron ...
• Quote of the Day: Smoking Hot Video Edition
  We often have a quote of the day. Rare that we get it in video form. However, this just in from the brilliant guys of the Save Our Pubs and Clubs campaign. This is Conservative MP David Nuttall whose Ten Minute Rule Bill to amend the smoking ban will be debated after PMQs on Wednesday. Pity th ...

Facing South

• INSTITUTE INDEX: Taking on the mortgage banksters
  Number of states where attorneys general are investigating the mortgage-servicing industry following allegations that questionable documents and procedures were used to support home foreclosures: 50 Number of foreclosures nationwide where flawed documents may have been used: hundreds of thousand ...
• Gulf spill fund offers little information to claim ...
  By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica Many claimants seeking compensation for damages from the Gulf oil spill say they are struggling to get basic information about what is happening with their claims. Dozens of claimants have told ProPublica they are having trouble getting information about their sub ...
• Blessed to Have a Pope
  James "Art" Pope is probably the most important conservative benefactor in North Carolina -- and, increasingly, one of the most influential in the country, thanks to his leadership in national groups like Americans for Prosperity. Yet North Carolina conservatives, while grateful for Pope's g ...
• Tomato pickers secure path-breaking deal with Flor ...
  By Mischa Gaus, Labor Notes The farmworker group Coalition of Immokalee Workers announced this week it has reached a landmark deal with a Florida tomato grower to govern conditions in the fields. The agreement greatly expands the proportion of Florida's $500 million tomato crop that will be ...
• Politics and the lifting of the offshore drilling ...
  The Obama administration lifted the moratorium on deepwater oil and gas drilling on Tuesday, a month and a half before its originally scheduled Nov. 30 expiration date. In announcing the move -- which comes as oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster that led to the ban continues to was ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  Khadr Trial Delayed; Plea Deal Possible The military commission trial of Omar Khadr – the first under the Obama administration – was to resume Monday, but a military judge yesterday delayed it until October 25 in order to give the … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Embassy Bombing Survivors Testify at Ghailani Trial More than half a dozen survivors of the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania testified Wednesday at the trial of Ahmed Ghailani, who is accused of being part of an al-Qaeda … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Reports: Police Look for “Hit Team”; Officials Say Plot Not Imminent, “Largely Aspirational” The Wall Street Journal reports that âEuropean police are searching for a suspected terror hit team believed to be in Europe and possibly planning a shooting spree … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Report: Officials âPlay Downâ Suspicion of Mumbai-Style Plot against UK The Associated Press, citing a Pakistani intelligence official, reports that â[e]ight Germans and two British brothers are at the heart of an al-Qaida-linked terror plot against European cities, but the … Continue reading ...
• Today’s Terrorism News
  U.S., Japan Issue Travel Alerts for Europe The U.S. State Department issued a broad travel alert Sunday to Americans living in or traveling to Europe, stating that â[c]urrent information suggests that al-Qaida and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks,â … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Today on New Scientist: 15 October 2010
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: mummies and cancer, how global warming could flatten cities, love and pain, and more
• Ghostly Smeagol fish found 7km down in trench
  A new species of reclusive, skulking fish has been discovered 7 kilometres underwater in the Peru-Chile trench
• Big promises ahead of biodiversity conference
  Countries around the world are making major commitments to safeguard the world's endangered species, but the evidence suggests they aren't enough
• Today on New Scientist: 14 October 2010
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: the now-you-see-it-now-you-don't planet, toxic splendour, Jesus's bones, and more
• Coal state fires at the cap-and-trade bill. Litera ...
  A new study shows West Virginia has plenty of geothermal energy to be tapped – but local Senate candidates stick with anti-green, pro-coal message

Tech Drive In

• AWN Lucido is an Absolute Delight to Use, Install ...
  Avant Window Navigator(AWN) is an awesome dock application for Linux. Over the years, AWN has evolved a lot and is now the almost-perfect dock application for Ubuntu/Linux users. AWN Lucido is Awesome! AWN Lucido started of as an experimental branch of AWN and is now integrated into AWN st ...
• Seabird - Mind Blowing Community Driven Mobile Pho ...
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Renewable Energy - What If...

TMCnet

- Oct 18, 2010

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Having only said that much, imagine this “what if” – what if renewable energy could provide 100 percent of your needs – or close to it? ...

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Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers Introduces M.O.R.E. POWER Service for ...

MarketWatch (press release)

- Oct 18, 2010

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Offered with support from the Montana Governor's Office of Economic Development, MORE (Maximizing & Optimizing Renewable Energy) POWER reduces the financing ...

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BioSolar launches white renewable backsheet for solar modules

BrighterEnergy.org

- Oct 18, 2010

- 44 minutes ago

California-based BioSolar says its BioBacksheet is made from renewable materials, making solar photovoltaic modules more eco-friendly. ...

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Public-Private Partnerships Can Help Finance Renewable Energy Projects

RenewableEnergyWorld.com

- Oct 18, 2010

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By Lee J. Peterson, Reznick Group | 2010-10-18 00:00:00.0 | 0 Comments Entities that don't pay taxes can still take advantage of tax credits for renewable ...

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Brigitte to challenge Sarkozy

Times of India

- Oct 18, 2010

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The former actress turned animal activist has been asked by France's Ecology Alliance party to challenge Nicolas Sarkozy for the country's leadership, ...

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Shoreline Progress Over Perfection, Governor's Chief of Staff Says

Kitsap Sun

- Oct 18, 2010

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By Steven Gardner Jay Manning, a South Kitsap native, is a former head of the state Department of Ecology who know works as the chief of staff for Gov. ...

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Pasco landfill cleanup to get $1M boost

TheNewsTribune.com

- Oct 18, 2010

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The state Department of Ecology is leading the effort, but the bill is being paid by those considered liable for the contamination. ...

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Global Ecology Corporation Completes the First Domestic Demonstration of Its ...

PR-USA.net (press release)

- Oct 18, 2010

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Global Ecology Corporation ( OTCQB : GLEC ) ( PINKSHEETS : GLEC ) announced today that it has successfully demonstrated the operation of its Mobile ...

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Some cold-water rescues during Tiburon swim race

San Jose Mercury News

- Oct 18, 2010

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Wet, chilly weather had authorities treating a half-dozen swimmers with hypothermia symptoms during a Tiburon open water race. Fire crews monitoring the RCP ...

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BP To Lead UK Project To Develop Deep-water Well Cap

Wall Street Journal

- Oct 18, 2010

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LONDON (Dow Jones)--BP PLC (BP) will lead a group of oil companies operating in the UK in the design and procurement of a device that could cap a deep-water ...

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World oil prices tread water

AFP

- Oct 18, 2010

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LONDON — Crude oil prices steadied in cautious trading on Monday, ahead of fresh US economic data, and as the under-pressure dollar made some modest gains ...

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1100 students turn out for water festival

Oxford Press

- Oct 18, 2010

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Staff photo by Samantha Grier Tahjanae Richardson, 10, plants pansies Friday at the annual Butler County Children's Water Festival at Miami University ...

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