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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, October 2, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

Scoop - NZ

  • Christchurch Quake Dynamic Map
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  • Did 9/11 Really "Change Everything" ?
    We've been told that 9/11 changed everything. Is it true? Let's look: The Afghanistan war was planned before 9/11 (see this and this) The decision to launch the Iraq war was made before 9/11. Indeed, former CIA director George Tenet said that the White House wanted to invade Iraq long before 9/11 ...
  • US infighting over Afghanistan
    President Barack Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan believes the current strategy can't work, according to a new book. The claim, published in the New York Times, is from a book by veteran reporter Bob Woodward. Reports say the book paints a picture of in-fighting in the administrat ...
  • SPOOF VIDEO: Does Fonterra support deforestation?
    Fonterra's Andrew Ferrier demonstrates the risk of 'foot in mouth' at the Fonterra results press conference... ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • IMF fears social explosion from unemployment
    America and Europe face the worst jobs crisis since the 1930s and risk "an explosion of social unrest" unless they tread carefully, the International Monetary Fund has warned. "The labour market is in dire straits. The Great Recession has left behind a waste land of unemployment,&quo ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

  • Senate Passes Bill To Give FCC Power To Regulate ...
    The Senate passed a bill late Thursday that would create limits on the volume of television commercials and put the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in charge of regulating them.
  • Alien life certain to exist on Earth-like planet, ...
    It is as yet unknown whether water does exist on the planet or what kind of atmosphere it has. But because conditions are ideal for liquid, which is always a precursor for life on Earth, Prof Vogt believes that life will undoubtedly have begun there.
  • Russia 'set to supply US airbase'
    The Manas Transit Centre in the Central Asian republic has long been a thorn in the side of Moscow, which resents US military presence in a former Soviet country. Kyrgyzstan is alone in the world in hosting both a US and a Russian airbase.
  • Stuxnet 'cyber superweapon' moves to China
    A 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.
  • Asked About His Advocacy of Wealth Redistribution ...
    When CNSNews.com started asking Holdren about the statement, he said, “I’m not talking to you. Bye bye. Have a nice day.”When CNSNews.com started asking Holdren about the statement, he said, “I’m not talking to you. Bye bye. Have a nice day.”

Innovation Canada

  • 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 ...
  • Going au naturel
    How often do you use natural health products (NHPs) in your everyday life? You might take a vitamin or two and an omega-3 supplement. Or maybe you take a dose of glucosamine when your joints are sore or an echinacea tablet when you’re under the weather or rub aloe vera on your skin when you’ve been ...
  • A new musical reality
    Imagine a live improvised musical performance — in surround sound, with a computer manipulating and spinning instruments’ sounds around eight different speakers in real time. That’s being made possible through the University of Guelph’s new Advanced Digital Audio Production and Performance Studio. I ...
  • Project UFO
    As alien invaders go, the giant hogweed is particularly nasty. The weed spreads quickly, growing up to seven metres high, and defends itself by spitting a toxic sap — a gooey concoction that causes painful skin blisters that last for weeks and purple scars that can remain visible for several years. ...
  • Songbird secrets
    Talk about getting a bad rap. In the extensive scientific literature about songbirds, the purple martin has long been described as a leisurely migrant that takes its time each fall flying from breeding grounds in Canada and the northern United States to its winter home in Brazil or elsewhere in Sout ...

Signs of the times

  • The Royal Society: Still Embarrassing Science
    Guest post by Indur M. Goklany Although it is encouraging that the Royal Society now acknowledges that climate science may not be as settled as it previously implied, the Society's new report still stands as an embarrassment to science because it fails to offer justifications based on science (and ...
  • Top science body cools on global warming
    THERE are gaps in scientific understanding making predicting the extent of climate change and sea level rises impossible. That's the claim of Britain's highest scientific authority, the Royal Society. The society's revised Guide to the Science of Climate Change has been interpreted as a retreat fr ...
  • "Manufacturing Dissent": the Anti-globalization Mo ...
    "Everything the [Ford] Foundation did could be regarded as "making the World safe for capitalism", reducing social tensions by helping to comfort the afflicted, provide safety valves for the angry, and improve the functioning of government (McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor to Presidents Joh ...
  • Basel III: The Global Banks at The Edge of The Pre ...
    The Global Too Big To Fail Banks are so precarious that literally anything can trigger a collapse in the coming months. I have read recent commentaries on Basel III posted to various renowned websites and financial publication, but they missed (or deliberately misled) the underlying message of the ...
  • Congressional Food Fascism Legislation
    Two earlier articles addressed corporate friendly legislation masquerading as pro-consumer. In fact, they'll destroy safe food, empower agribusiness and drug giants, and harm small farmers and consumers. Access them here and here. This article is a brief follow-up on where things now stand, as the ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Dear Globe and Mail
    Have I told you how much you are not a national newspaper and nothing but another Toronto tabloid? No? Must have been busy that day. You can't cut what you can't see. I'm with POGGE .
  • Comments... sort of policy
    Normally I would simply ignore and move on, but today I received nine emails about the "change" in comments policy. How odd. The whole visual format has changed but, policy? No. The policy has always been that if you choose to attack the author of a post or you are just some kind of dirt bag pric ...
  • Don't be a Sucker!
    This bit of film was produced in 1947 by that notorious gang of liberal pinkos, the United States War Department. Does any of it sound familiar? Let me be perfectly clear -- this is exactly where wedge issue politics leads. It is all part of a divide-and-conquer strategy to make sure we are too o ...
  • Booting a terrorist . . .
    GIZMODO has an article by Jesus Diaz, "How They Found and Killed the Bloodiest Narcoterrorist In the World" . Apparently, last Thursday, the Colombian government caught up with Mono Joyjoy, all thanks to a boot. A very special boot, it seems . . .  Víctor Julio Suárez aka Jorge Briceño Suárez aka Mo ...
  • Bake at 350 Degrees 'til Explosion Occurs . . . .
    Michael Moore gives the definitive review of Bob Woodward's new obama administration novel. Excerpts: In fact, after you read Woodward's book, you'll split a gut every time you hear a politician or a government teacher talk about "civilian control over the military." The only people really making ...

Media Matters for America

  • Glenn Beck's guide to butchering a document and sm ...
    Glenn Beck and guests John Bolton and Stuart Varney mischaracterized a federal report to portray it as expressing "the worldview of the Obama administration." In fact, the document was issued during the Bush administration and is designed to "stimulate strategic thinking," not establish th ...
  • Fox rushes to GOP candidate Meg Whitman's defense
    Following allegations that Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman knowingly employed an undocumented immigrant, Fox News has taken pains to cast doubt on the charges, alleging a "political stunt" by her Democratic opponent and that Whitman is the "victim of a last-minute smear campaign." Ho ...
  • Ample evidence contradicts Murdoch's claim that " ...
    News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, a proponent of comprehensive immigration reform, said at a House subcommittee hearing recently that Fox News, which News Corp. owns, is not "anti-immigrant." In fact, Fox News routinely polarizes and degrades the debate over immigration issues wi ...
  • Herridge is not alone: News Corp.'s history of di ...
    The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced it is suing Fox News for allegedly retaliating against correspondent Catherine Herridge's internal gender and age discrimination complaints. The Herridge case is only the latest in a long line of discrimination complaints against News ...
  • Wash. Times misleads on health care ref ...
    A Washington Times editorial misleadingly claimed that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) "estimated that Obamacare would drive up insurance premiums by around 30 percent in the individual market and up to 3 percent in the small-group market." In fact, CBO estimated that when federal subsidie ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Glad About Pete Rouse
    I like Pete Rouse. And I think his presence as White House chief-of-staff will make this Presidency run better. I have only met him a few times although I did have a long conversation with him once and I walked away thinking he was the least pretentious Washington power player I ever met. He is ...
  • Corrections And Amplifications: On Andrew Mellon, ...
    1. A group calling itself "Stand Up For America" says I took Herbert Hoover's treasury secretary Andrew Mellon's words out of context in my post "Republican Economics as Social Darwinism" (September 26); and that, in any event, today's Republicans who call for small government at a time of sky-high ...
  • Corrections And Amplifications: On Andrew Mellon, ...
    1. A group calling itself "Stand Up For America" says I took Herbert Hoover's treasury secretary Andrew Mellon's words out of context in my post "Republican Economics as Social Darwinism" (September 26); and that, in any event, today's Republicans who call for small government at a time of sky-high ...
  • What If They Held a Terror Trial in NYC and Nobody ...
    Kudos to Human Rights First for documenting the panic and chaos resulting from nonchalant reaction to this week's trial of Al Qaeda terrorist Ahmed Ghailani in a Lower Manhattan federal courtroom. HRF sent a 'roving reporter' to the scene, which wasn't really much of a scene, to record the reactions ...
  • Jerusalem Post: Obama Promises Israel The World In ...
    The Jerusalem Post is reporting that President Obama is making Prime Minister Netanyahu an offer it is hard to imagine him refusing. In return for agreeing to a 60-day extension of the just lapsed settlements freeze, the Obama administration will not ask for an extension beyond that point. ...

TruthOut

  • Congress Abandons Net Neutrality Bill
    House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-California) has given up for the year on an effort to create bipartisan legislation that would prevent broadband providers from interfering with traffic over their networks. Waxman's net neutrality bill would have prohibited Internet, cab ...
  • Obama Targets Iran for Human Rights Violations and ...
    What a stunning display of hypocrisy. On Wednesday, President Barack Obama announced that he signed an executive order that, for the first time, imposes sanctions on Iran for human rights abuses and targets eight Iranian government and military officials who are said to be complicit in the torture, ...
  • Five Ways the Democrats Can Avoid a Catastrophe an ...
    The election is one month from tomorrow and, yes, it looks hopeless. November 2nd -- the day the Dems are expected to crash and burn. Sadly, it's a situation the Democrats have brought upon themselves -- even though the majority of them didn't create the mess we're in. But they've had over a year ...
  • US Still Taking a Hard Line on Peace Talks With Ta ...
    Washington - Following serious setbacks to the U.S. military's war plan in Afghanistan, the Barack Obama administration has taken the first tentative step toward a negotiated settlement of the conflict by actively seeking to ascertain the willingness of the Taliban to enter into negotiations, accord ...
  • The Credit Meltdown and the Shadow Banking System: ...
    While local banks are held in check by the new banking czars in Basel, Wall Street's "shadow banking system" has hardly been curbed by regulators at all; and it is here that the 2008 credit crisis was actually precipitated. The banking system's credit machine is systemically flawed and needs a radic ...

Planetsave

  • Koalas (10 Friday Photos +7 Extra)
    For this week’s 10 Friday Photos post, we decided to go with adorably cute koalas. These photos below are both extremely adorable and hilarious, in my humble opinion. Enjoy, and let us know if you have any requests for future posts in the comments below. Also, as always, feels free to share links to ...
  • Global Weirding News of the Week
    Yeah, I’ve decided to start using the term “global weirding” more. While global warming and climate change have much more value in terms of SEO, global weirding nails the topic so well that it is hard not to use it. Plus, it turns out the Founder/Publisher of Important Media (Planetsave’s parent com ...
  • Big Oil and Big Coal’s Favorite Toy (cartoon)
    Find me a liberal in the Big Coal and/or Oil biz and I’ll never draw another cartoon again! Republican governor candidates deny climate change On climate change, it’s the Republicans versus reality Follow Joe Mohrâs cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons
  • Gravity Power Module: Turning Conventional Pumped ...
    Gravity power module – a step toward utility-scale energy storage The grid – that seemingly amorphous structure that delivers power on demand – requires instantly available power to light up our world. Renewable sources of energy are inherently cyclical and intermittent, making energy storage a pr ...
  • Biggest Day of Global Political Action on 10/10? [ ...
    If you weren’t informed, the International Day of Climate Action 350.org organized last year was considered by many to be the biggest day of global political action in history. There were 5248 registered events in 181 countries. CNN called it the “most widespread day of political action in the plane ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • The two Americas - Poverty/World Hunger
    Millions more Americans are living in poverty with no end in sight to their misery. But there are some people who are getting along just fine. Nicole Colson reports. SHORTLY BEFORE midnight, at the end of each month, a curious scene plays out at Wal-Mart stores around the country. C ...
  • Ecuador President Defiant After Failed Coup - Ecua ...
    Editorial comment: As has been reported in a previous article on this site, Rafael Correa was rescued form the hospital by the military and seems to now be safely back in the presidential palace.  - SON Gregory Wilpert: Right-wing forces use recession, President Correa's faltering popularity ...
  • The Anti-Empire Report - Global Empire
    In struggle with the American mindSince The Great Flood hit Pakistan in July ... many millions have been displaced, evacuated, stranded or lost their homes; numerous roads, schools and health clinics destroyed hundreds of villages washed away millions of livestock have perished; ...
  • Pakistan shuts key Afghan war supply-route - World ...
    1 October 2010 Pakistan shut down a pivotal US-NATO Afghan war supply route yesterday following a NATO attack on a Pakistani border post that killed three Pakistan Frontier Corps troops and injured three others. Attack helicopters from the US-NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF ...
  • Anti-austerity protests hit Europe - World News
    Thousands of workers from across Europe have taken to the streets to protest against a growing number of austerity measures adopted by governments to combat public deficit crises. Police barricaded banks and shops in Brussels, the headquarters of the European Union, where labour leaders estimated ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    We agree it was a crime, and if the perpetrators were still alive we would execute them ourselves. Slowly and painfully. "Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has said the US committed "crimes against humanity" in a study that infected hundreds of Guatemalans with gonorrhoea and syphilis more than 60 y ...
  • RIP, Neil Alan Smith
    Because if people like this got the prominent obituaries, the world would be a much, much better place. Andrew Meacham of the St. Petersburg Times: About 11 p.m. Sept. 12, a car struck Neil Alan Smith and threw him off his bicycle on Fourth Street N. The car didn't stop. Mr. Smith, who was pedaling ...
  • They Say You Can't - What Do You Say?
    Via Steve Benen, another crowd-pleaser from Obama, who may be on a roll. Full transcript here. �
  • Things that make me crazy - part 3,976
    One of the greatest gifts I gave my children was the gift of good nutrition, and, attendantly, good health. The only time one of them has spent a night in a hospital, we got our grandchild out of the deal. The most important piece of furniture in my house is, without a doubt, the dining room table, ...
  • Around here we call this "cynicism"
    When it comes to backing the same "tea party" candidates in November that they backed in the primaries, the 2012 republican hopefuls... aren't . The GOP figures jockeying for a 2012 bid have largely avoided contributing from their political action committees (PACs) to Christine O'Donnell in Delawar ...

Care 2

  • "To Think or Eat?" Extreme Environment Stress Gave ...
    When extreme climate change made the going tough in prehistoric East Africa, one branch of humanity's closest relatives opted for bigger jaws to eat tough tubers and nuts, rather than bigger brains to figure out better ways to adapt,feted as Homo habilis Submitted by Michelle Matthews to Science & T ...
  • What's the Footprint of Your Food?
    Quiz: Do You Know Your Food's Footprint? Test your knowledge of vegetarianism, the downside of bottled water, and organic produce. Submitted by Daf Jind to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Just 42 source sites across Asia are last hope for ...
    A new peer-reviewed paper by the Wildlife Conservation Society and other groups reveals an ominous finding: most of the world's last remaining tigers - long decimated by overhunting, logging, and wildlife trade - are now clustered in just six per cent Submitted by Simone D. to World �|� �Note-it! � ...
  • ACTION ALERT: Jane Valez-Mitchell & SHARK expose P ...
    Tonight, Thursday, September 30: Animal Activist and Television Host Jane Velez-Mitchell will expose the October 3 Pigeon Shoot in PA thanks to SHARK (SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness). Please set your recorders and share the news so that this Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • ACTION ALERT: Tell the EPA : Protect Us from Toxic ...
    The ash from coal-burning power plants is contaminated with toxic substances like arsenic, chromium, lead and mercury all of which are associated with serious health risks. But there are almost no federal regulations covering Submitted by Simone D. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

  • James O'Keefe and a media movement gone mad
    What is wrong with these people? That’s a refrain that goes through my brain many times each week, and I’m sure goes through the minds of my Media Matters colleagues as we monitor the right-wing media and continue to be dumbstruck by what passes for content. Granted, players there have never gotten ...
  • "Obama's Wars": The Real Story Bob Woodward Won't ...
    Just one year before the publication of "Obama's Wars," Bob Woodward became a player in his own book-in-progress. He morphed into his true identity: Warrior Bob . Actually, there's an even deeper persona, Agent Woodward --but we're getting ahead of ourselves. In June of 2009, Woodward traveled to Af ...
  • Linda McMahon's Body Count
    Co-written with Damian Smith Imagine if someone ran for Senate on the strength of their experience as CEO of a billion-dollar company. Now imagine if, as an aside, their employees kept ending up dead. They would routinely die of heart attacks, drug overdoses, suicides, and strokes before the age of ...
  • Celebrating pretend and cruel Conservatives
    Bobo somehow managed to survive his latest access-induced fever to scribble down some notes involving a wonderful dream he had about a “ fiscal Conservative ” named Meg Whitman. You see, Meg is a total babe because she spent $120 million on her campaign to become Californiaâs governor, but she has ...
  • CEO Obama
    "Doonesbury has turned against Obama," my wife wails. It's not only Garry Trudeau; recently, many progressive commentators have criticized the President, describing his first year in office as a failure. Were our expectations for Obama too high? Or are we using the wrong evaluation criteria? Ambi ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • On the Relative Wisdom of Insulting People You Wan ...
    * Bumped Up * With the mid-term elections five weeks away, it’s desperation time. President Obama scolds voters for “apathy,” and for “not being serious in the first place,” VP Biden tells them to “stop whining,” and Senator John Kerry pronounces voters ill-informed on the issues, i.e. stupid. One ...
  • Only In Chicago
    Can a well-connected official openly break the law. Rahm does not live in Chicago, yet he plans to be its mayor. It is possible. Especially if you helped elect Mayor Daley, Dan Rostenkowski, Blagojevich, yourself to Congress and then the wonder kid from the South Side. Election laws were made to ...
  • Barack “Imam Hussain” Obama?
    * Bumped up * Is Barack Obama our first muslim President in the same way that Bill Clinton was our first black President? Rush Limbaugh, tongue firmly in cheek, asked that question and has roiled the political waters. His satirical point is that Barack is no more a muslim than Clinton is a black [ ...
  • HOW ADOPTING the “NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE INITIATIVE ...
    UPDATE 09.29.10: Since I first posted this article on my blog over the summer, Washington, D.C. adopted the National Popular Vote. http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/pages/states.php?s=DC © 2010 jbjd Two (2) years ago, even before the DNC Services Corporation held their August 2008 Presidential Nom ...
  • The Despicable Alan Grayson
    * Bumped Up * Alan Grayson is a horror of a human being. He’s been all over the news this week because of a dramatically dishonest campaign ad he ran as part of his quest to be reelected in Orlando. How bad is it? If Jon Stewart’s kicking your ass you know it [...]

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Cooper Union Building: The Future of Green Arc ...
    The Cooper Union's New Academic Building stands out in more ways than one read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Yakutsk: The Coldest City on Earth
    Frost-bitten and paralyzed by brutally low temperatures nearly year-round, the people of Yakutsk carry on daily life in the world's coldest city. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Amazing Animals With Eyes in the Back of their H ...
    A giant pair of staring eyes can startle any attacker - however big the animal really is. Here are 5 animals with amazing defensive fake eyes! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Why Are All The World's Bees Disappearing?
    The bees are vanishing from our world - and even Doctor Who doesn't know what to do about it. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Environmental Volunteer Opportunities in the Gulf ...
    After waiting for months after the BP oil rig explosion, many volunteer opportunities in the Gulf of Mexico are now available. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • 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 ...
  • Kanye West Masonic/Egyptian "Power"; Viktor Bout's ...
    "In the threatening situation of the world today, when people are beginning to see that everything is at stake, the projection-creating fantasy soars beyond the realm of earthly organizations and powers into the heavens, into interstellar space, where the rulers of human fate, the gods, once had the ...
  • Barclays Bank: The design of criminal banking oper ...
    Crossposted - Barclays Bank Forfeits $298 Million for Aiding Rogue Nations 18 August 2010 Court filings: http://cryptome.org/0002/barclays/usa-v-barclays.htm Barclays Bank Forfeits $298 Million for Aiding Rogue Nations http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2010/August/10-crm-933.html Department of Ju ...

Daily Censored

  • Obama and the Senate Democrats Will Eliminate Soci ...
    Internet poster Jonathyn over at The Agonist came up with the most innovative and probably accurate explanation of the Democrats plans for social security. He asked the question, why aren’t the Democrats making threats to Social Security the centerpiece of their congressional campaigns? The answer i ...
  • The Great American Swindle: How Americans are gett ...
    The Great American Swindle: How Americans are getting Robbed of Prosperity By: Solomon Comissiong The late great Azanian/South African Human Rights Champion, Steve Biko, once said, “The most dangerous weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed”. Those are some of the most powe ...
  • Reducing the Deficit.
    The biggest key to reducing the deficit lies in understanding how it got there. Basically, the United States started an illegal war, actually two if one classes Osama bin Laden’s attack on the World Trade Center as a criminal Act as opposed to a war. Wars are between “nations.” W took this as an exc ...
  • Billy the Big Bad Bully for Corporate Charter-Vouc ...
    Bill Grundfest is a far-right reactionary who despises public education and organized labor. The well heeled Bel Air resident has been on a rhetorical rampage as of late, attacking random social justice activists and public education advocates like those at the South Bronx School blog. Here’s a post ...
  • The Fix
    Employment, education, and standard of living are all tied together.  People are not buying anything because they have limited funds.  Things are too expensive for the amount of money the people have.   People are going without many things, including the basics.  Because of this lack of purchasing p ...

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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

  • PDA Lobby Day and One Nation March!
    Please visit this blog post throughout the weekend for updates as they filter in… PDA 10.1.10 Citizensâ Lobby Day Article from David Swanson Progressives Take Over Capitol Hill Submitted by davidswanson ...
  • If you can’t join it, watch it!
    Host a 10.2.10 Watch Party In just two days, tens of thousands of union members, community activists, students, entertainers, civil and human rights leaders, and concerned citizens will gather for peace, jobs, justice, and education for ...
  • Are you on the bus …
    Or on the ground on 10.2.10? Progressive Democrats of America has joined the One Nation Working Together call for the 10.2.10 March on Washington for Peace, Jobs and Justice. This historic event will ensure that the ...
  • IOT: Accountability and Justice Sept Call
    David Swanson was our Guest Star, talking about war powers. We discussed HR 104, introduced in Jan '09, by Rep. John Conyers and cosponsored by 50 others, which calls for a commission to study presidential ...
  • One Nation Planning Call
    We had our final planning call for people going to DC for the Oct 2 One Nation March or planning regional events around it. Please tune in for important information on all of this.

Marler Blog

  • Where in the world am I giving a speech on food sa ...
    In between suing companies who poison my clients, I have a very busy schedule teaching (for free) many of the same companies and their lawyers - "why it is a bad idea to poison customers."� Catch me if you can. Food Microbiology Symposium, U of Wisconsin - River Falls ACI Foodborne Illness Litigat ...
  • The Tester - Hagen Amendment to S. 510 protects fo ...
    It is long past time to pass S. 510, The Food Safety Modernization Act , with Senator Jon Tester's (D-MT) and Senator Kay Hagan's (D-NC) amendment to S. 510  folded in – at least after the election in the lame duck session. I have been struck in the last dozen years as I have wandered the halls of ...
  • Cold Truth - Lawyer spends $500,000 to prove that ...
    Multiple Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Schneider and I have spoken quite a bit over the last several months as he plowed through the facts as he wrote this blog post and a three-part series for AOL News – 1 , 2 an 3 . Here are a few of my favorite “back and forth:” Why should a trial lawyer kick in ...
  • Superman and Physician, a.k.a., Oklahoma Senator C ...
    It was reported today that Mustang Public School officials and the Oklahoma State Department of Health are investigating a Salmonella outbreak among elementary children in Canadian County. �Officials said 10 cases have been confirmed in Mustang (see A) among elementary-aged children. �Health investi ...
  • Rock Island High School Receives $25,000 Donation ...
    The Rock Island High School in Illinois is the recipient of a $25,000 donation from food safety law firm Marler Clark. The Seattle-based law firm works nationwide on behalf of victims of foodborne illness, and assisted many residents in the 2009 outbreak of Hepatitis A Virus (HAV) traced to a Milan ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Paris 2010: Mini Scooter E Concept can whisk us aw ...
    Filed under: Paris Motor Show , Mini , Electric Mini Scooter E concept - Click above for high-res image gallery Squaring off, in a way, against the escooter that Smart unveiled yesterday at the Paris Motor Show , is Mini 's entry in the fanciful all-electric scooter category, the Scooter E. There ...
  • Confirmed: U.S. considering 62 mpg CAFE target by ...
    Filed under: Government/Legal A CAFE standard of 62 miles per gallon by 2025 might indeed come to pass. The Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency today released a " Notice of Intent to Improve Fuel Economy and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions for 2017-2025 " (PDF) th ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 10.01.10
    Report: Volt's gas tank is 9.3 gallons; lengthy journeys return 36.5 mpg Nothing official, yet, but these numbers seem pretty trustworthy. Lance Armstrong's Nissan Leaf is a dazzling black and gold deligh ...
  • Paris 2010: Exagon Motors Furtive eGT range-extend ...
    Filed under: Hybrid , Videos , Paris Motor Show , Electric Exagon Furtive e-GT - Click above for high-res image gallery Exagon Motors hasn't often appeared in these pages - the company built some electric ice racers last year - and so yesterday's announcement of the Furtive e-GT extended-range/al ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 09.30.10
    Paris preview: Mercedes-Benz Reporter plug-in hybrid is urban delivery done right Can you imagine this thing delivering boxes? GM announces small, German electric vehicle test fleet based on Opel Merivas ...

Rafe's Radar

  • 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 ...
  • Foound launches Foursquare of the future
    Demo Fall 2010 sees the excellent demo of Foound, a clean mobile app for planning "hangouts" with friends.
  • 'Smart' credit cards get closer to consumers' wall ...
    Customers of a company called Dynamics are preparing to release credit and debit cards with programmable, rewritable magnetic stripes. ...

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!

Farming Pathogens

  • 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 ...
  • Does Influenza Evolve in Multiple Tenses?
    The past may possess a power greater than prologue. Any one with a social networking account knows that. All of a sudden you find yourself daily interacting with people long thought boxed away. People mature, yes, but sensibilities remain largely intact and an old year, fine wine or vinegar, pours b ...

Suzie-Q

  • Tea Party Convention Is Canceled
    Tea Party Convention Is Canceled New York Times – September 24, 2010, 11:04 am By KATE ZERNIKE The Tea Party is off. At least, the National Tea Party Unity Convention that was being planned for mid-October in Las Vegas is off. It was supposed to be a repeat of the convention in Nashville last Februa ...
  • Glenn Beck vs. Fox News: ‘Tension’ Bet ...
    Glenn Beck vs. Fox News: ‘Tension’ Between Beck & Network Huff Post- Posted: 09-29-10 11:11 AM Glenn Beck appears on the cover of this weekend’s New York Times Magazine in a lengthy profile written by Mark Leibovich. In the profile, Leibovich touches on tensions between Beck and Fox News, the networ ...
  • AZ Sheriff’s Dept Reopens Case Of Deputy All ...
    AZ Sheriff’s Dept Reopens Case Of Deputy Allegedly Shot By Drug Smugglers TPM Muckraker Eric Lach | September 27, 2010, 3:35PM The Pinal County, Arizona Sheriff’s Office has announced that it is reopening the case of a sheriff’s deputy who was shot on April 30, after an article last week raised ques ...
  • US Helicopters Attack Pakistan, Killing More Than ...
    NATO Confirms Apache Helicopters Launched Attacks Against Pakistani Territory by Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com,  September 26, 2010 NATO spokesmen are confirming tonight that a pair of US Apache helicopters crossed the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan, launching an attack against tribesmen in Pakista ...
  • Christine O’Donnell: ‘Evolution Is A M ...
    Christine O’Donnell: ‘Evolution Is A Myth. Why Aren’t Monkeys Still Evolving Into Humans?’ (VIDEO) The Huffington Post |  Nicholas Graham First Posted: 09-25-10 11:01 AM   |   Updated: 09-25-10 11:07 AM Bill Maher has so far kept his promise to air an embarrassing clip of Tea Party favorite ...

Solari

  • Ambac Sues BofA For Fraudulent Inducement Over Cou ...
    By Karen Freifeld and David Mildenberg Ambac Assurance Corp. sued Bank of America Corp. over $16.7 billion of mortgage-backed securities, saying the bank’s Countrywide Financial Corp. unit fraudulently induced Ambac to insure bonds backed by improperly made loans. Ambac found that 97 percent of 6,5 ...
  • Ohio Secretary of State Sends Criminal Referral To ...
    Ohio Secretary of State Brunner has sent a criminal referral to the US attorney general over ubiquitous mortgage fraud. Continue reading the article . . . Catherine Austin Fitts’ Blog Commentaries Goldman & Mortgage Market Fraud (19 April 10) Missing Mortgages (14 Dec 09) Ohio Does Sex and Mortgage ...
  • The Solari Report Digest ~ New Podcast Available!
    Solari has produced a new free podcast—The Solari Report Digest #16. Listen to Solari Report Digest #16 The Solari Report Digest is a podcast featuring highlights from the live one-hour Solari Report briefings. In the rapidly changing political and economic landscape the Solari Report Digest pro ...
  • CIA: Scenarios for Global Governance 2025
    Global governance—the collective management of common problems at the international level—is at a critical juncture. Although global governance institutions have racked up many successes since their development after the Second World War, the growing number of issues on the international agenda, a ...
  • Distrust in U.S. Media at Record High
    By Lymari Morales For the fourth straight year, the majority of Americans say they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly. The 57% who now say this is a record high by one percentage point. Continue reading the article . . .

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Can Obama, or anyone else, outmaneuver the war adv ...
    Summary by Winston Wheeler (Center for Defense Information):  Below is a short commentary by Chuck Spinney, a personal friend and colleague, to preface another commentary by William Pfaff. The subject is how presidents, and secretaries of defense, generals, politicians, and even Hill staffers and jo ...
  • A new video about global warming, a Leftists&#8217 ...
    Summary:  History shows with grim clarity the values of the extreme Left, in which human life means nothing.  The Guardian newspaper gives a glowing review to the latest example — a snuf film disarmingly packaged as humor.  See it while you can.  It might prove embarrassing to its creators and ...
  • Obama vs. the Generals
    Summary:  Guest author Bernard Finel examines the public excerpts from the latest book of Woodward, stenographer to the greats of our Versailles-on-the-Potomac.  What does this tell us about Obama?  Nothing good.  Nothing we did not already suspect. A lot of people have been pitching the revelations ...
  • A new contributor joins the FM website team
    Summary:  H. Thomas Hayden (Lt. Colonel, USMC, retired) has joined the FM website team!  Broad experience in the defense area, MBA, author of two books (and another on the way) — we look forward to his contributions! A brief description of his background (from the FM reference page About the autho ...
  • Building a new generation of visionary leaders for ...
    Summary:  As our military wages an apparently endless long against whatever (terror, jihadists, Islam), it’s not too soon to start thinking about the next generation of military leadership.  Petraeus and his peers took the shining instrument built from the shambles of Vietnam.  How sharp will it ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • UK Police apologise for putting 200 CCTV cameras i ...
    Telegraph – West Midland Police Chief Constable Chris Sims said he was “deeply sorry” that his force got the balance between counter-terrorism and excessive intrusion into people’s lives “so wrong”. The cameras, some of which were hidden, sparked anger from civil liberties campaigners and residents ...
  • UK Government u-turn may bring back revised Contac ...
    Computer World – The government is considering bringing back a version of the controversial ContactPoint children’s database, just months after the original project was halted. The ContactPoint database project was launched by the previous Labour government, but the Tories vowed to scrap it if they ...
  • Car bomb attacks on Nigeria’s independence day kil ...
    Daily Telegraph – At least 10 people were killed in Abuja on Friday when two car bombs blew up during celebrations for Nigeria’s 50th independence anniversary. The unprecedented attack in the capital was carried out by The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, the main militant group in ...
  • U.S. Apologizes for Syphilis Tests in Guatemala
    NY Times – From 1946 to 1948, American public health doctors deliberately infected nearly 700 Guatemalans â prison inmates, mental patients and soldiers â with venereal diseases in what was meant as an effort to test the effectiveness of penicillin. American tax dollars, through the National In ...
  • Burma to release Nobel laureate Suu Kyi
    ABC – The announcement from Burma’s military government that they’ll release the Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi after the November elections has met with mostly cynicism. The democracy leader has spent most of the last 20 years under house arrest, since her party won a landslide victory in th ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • RAIMD: Army “Kill Team” Targeted Civilians in Afgh ...
    Army “Kill Team” Targeted Civilians in Afghanistan, Business as Usual for Imperialists (raimd.wordpress.com) Recently it was revealed that a secret Amerikan “kill team” murdered Afghan civilians at random, and collected cut-off body parts as trophies, of “finger bones, leg bones, and a tooth taken f ...
  • RAIMD: Movie Review: Machete and The Baader Meinho ...
    Movie Review: Machete and The Baader Meinhof Complex (raimd.wordpress.com) Machete (2010, Ethan Maniquin and Robert Rodriguez) and The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008, Uli Edel) are two recent movies set in imperialist countries, both depicting armed struggle against reactionaries. Machete garnered cri ...
  • Amerikan Cultural Hegemony Settles into Iraq
    Amerikan Cultural Hegemony Settles into Iraq by Liberation Frequency (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Ramadan is an Islamic holiday celebrated during the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. At the heart of this tradition is the act of fasting, a time when Muslims of all stripes are expected to p ...
  • Dear MTW…retardation/mental disabilities
    Dear MTW…retardation/mental disabilities (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) We received this letter from a reader, and comrade Iskra replies below: Hello. I hope this is the correct place to email this question. I can’t seem to find anyone who can answer it, then again, I haven’t looked around very ...
  • RAIMD: Antonio on Lowkey’s ‘Obama Nation’
    Music review from RAIM-Denver: (raimd.wordpress.com) [Last week, we posted the video, Obama Nation, the new single from UK hip-hop artist, Lowkey. The video itself generated some discussion which can be viewed below. Here is a comment by a RAIMer, Antonio, analyzing the content of the song:] Lowkey ...

PakAlert

  • Video: 9/11 The Missing Link – Full Movie
    Now you will discover the definitive truth about 9/11 and learn why even the most popular movies on the subject have failed to address the evidence exhaustively presented in this video. The facts will make it abundantly clear that the so-called 9/11 “Truth” movement has been infiltrated and is ultim ...
  • In 1932, Fox Helped Make Propaganda Films for Hitl ...
    Observers of the current US election season have noted the prominent role of Rupert Murdoch’s reactionary Fox News Channel, which currently employs GOP and “Tea Party” partisans Sarah Palin, Glen Beck, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Sean Hannity, and others. Some have alleged that a te ...
  • The 7 worst cyberattacks in history (that we know ...
    We get a little taste of cyber attacks all the time — look no further than this week's Twitter virus — but what about full-on cyber warfare? Recently the true destructive potential of a cyber attack became frighteningly clear: whole government, banking and military networks overloaded and shut down ...
  • Remote viewing Tibetan Monks See Nuclear War in 20 ...
    Between 2010 and 2012, the whole world will get polarized and prepare for the ultimate dooms day. Heavy political maneuvers and negotiations will take place with little progress. In 2012, the world will start plunging into a total destructive nuclear war.
  • Anti-Austerity Riots in Spain and all over Europe ...
    Airlines canceled flights, picketers blocked trucks from delivering produce and police clashed with protesters as Spanish workers staged a general strike on Wednesday to protest against austerity measures imposed by a government struggling to slash its budget deficit and overcome recession.People ac ...

Andy Worthington

  • 1000 Reasons to Close Guantánamo
    Please support my work! On Monday I marked a milestone that, when I began blogging on a full-time basis in May 2007, I had no idea I would ever reach. My article about the forthcoming anti-torture week in Berkeley, California, from October 10 to 16, which I am proud to be attending, was my 10 ...
  • Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Par ...
    This is the fifth part of an eight-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 and Part Four. This fifth article tells the stories of 13 prisoners seized in Pakistan betw ...
  • Talkin’ ’Bout My Generation: Ed Miliband’s Bright ...
    Time will tell if Labour’s new leader, Ed Miliband, is a genuine force for change, but I was impressed during his campaign that he so clearly recognized that the Labour Party had failed and that criticizing the electorate was both insulting and counter-productive. In an interview with the Guardian i ...
  • Heads You Lose, Tails You Lose: The Betrayal of Mo ...
    Back in March, when Judge James Robertson of the District Court in Washington D.C. granted the habeas corpus petition of Guantánamo prisoner Mohamedou Ould Slahi, there was uproar in Congress. For many years, Slahi, a Mauritanian national who had lived in Germany and Canada, was touted by the Bush a ...
  • Andy Worthington Attends “Berkeley Says No to Tort ...
    Remember, John Yoo, the smug, shameless apologist for unfettered executive power who once claimed that, if he so desired, the President of the United States could crush a child’s testicles and there was nothing that anyone could do about it? It was John Yoo, a follower of former Vice President Dick ...

Environment _ National Geographic

  • Undersea Mountain Photos: Brittlestar Swarm, More ...
    NoneSwarms of orange fish and other deep-sea creatures have been spotted during a five-year survey of the world's underwater mountain ranges. Fish - Deep sea - Scuba diving - Recreation - Outdoors
  • Replacing Oil Addiction With Metals Dependence?
    China’s pivotal role as world supplier of rare-earth metals raises alarm that the new energy economy will mean the same old foreign dependence. Rare earth element - Energy - China - People's Republic of China - Environment
  • Whale Snot, Cursing Away Pain Among 2010 Ig Nobels
    Profanity against pain and whale-snot-collecting helicopters are just a few of the unusual scientific achievements awarded Ig Nobels on Thursday. Ig Nobel Prize - Merrill Lynch - Harvard University - Marc Abrahams - Nobel Prize
  • Renewable Energy: Ontario’s New Gold Rush
    Ontario is better known for majestic falls and forests than for its sun, but a one-year-old government incentive program has made the province a solar energy hotbed. Renewable energy - Ontario - Energy - Solar energy - Renewable
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drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • 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 ...
  • Restoring America’s Awesomeness (Through Truthines ...
    Say what you will about Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, but they are perhaps the smartest journalists working in comedy, or the most soulful comedians working in journalism. Yes, they are wickedly funny. Yes, they make sometimes jokes best appreciated by a fourteen year-old boy. But Jesus ...
  • Conflict Minerals and the "Ore on Terror"
    Steven D at the BooMan Tribune pointed out this interesting video on a campaign to raise awareness concerning the grave situation in the Congo: Profiting from the worst war on the planet that no one in America knows anything about by purchasing "conflicts minerals" from the Congo for their products: ...
  • Dem Dems are Dumb Dumbs
    Yep - the local New Milford Democrats are lead by dumb dumbs. Their entire leadership team is continually outmaneuvered and outsmarted by the Republican Town Committee ( RTC ). Why they seek leadership positions year after year - and why they're re-elected by the membership - is beyond me. John Lil ...

SPL Center

  • Homophobic Megachurch Pastor Accused of Exploiting ...
    If the allegations in two lawsuits filed Tuesday in Georgiaâs DeKalb County are true, staunchly anti-gay megachurch leader Bishop Eddie L. Long told two teenage boys that, according to Holy Scripture, it was cool for them to have sex with him. Maurice Robinson, 20, and Anthony Flagg, 21, have ac ...
  • Veterans Against Jihad Takes on ‘Threat’ of Sharia ...
    The latest fairy tale to emerge from the paranoid right is the idea that the United States legal system is haunted by the specter of Sharia law. Although strict Islamic legal codes are the rare exception even among Muslim-majority nations, anti-Muslim groups and individuals â including well-known ...
  • Wave of Hate Crimes Directed at Muslims Breaks Out
    A string of attacks against Muslims and their religious centers has broken out over the past few weeks, apparently inspired by the protests in New York City over the planned Muslim community center and mosque near where the 9/11 attacks took place. Leaders of those protests have repeatedly made hate ...
  • Lying About Auschwitz: The Barnes Review on the Na ...
    You probably thought you knew a thing or two about Auschwitz: It was a nightmarish Nazi extermination camp in Poland where more than 1 million people were murdered, most of them gassed to death with Zyklon-B and then cremated. Dr. Josef Mengele performed horrible medical experiments on live humans t ...
  • End of Summer Sees Growing Threats to Abortion Cli ...
    Recent weeks have seen one attack and one stymied attack on abortion clinics around the country. Both have shared a subplot of anti-Muslim extremism. On Sept. 2, in the small central California city of Madera, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the local Planned Parenthood building, the first such att ...

change: org.

  • "Formaldehyde-Free" Hair Product Found to Contain ...
    It's well known that some hair products aren't exactly safe. Women are advised to steer clear of dying their hair while pregnant and standing near a bunch of hairspray-happy peers will immediately leave you lightheaded. But what about a product that claims to be free from a harmful chemical -- but a ...
  • Food Trucks: A Solution to Overcoming Food Deserts ...
    In cities across the country, from D.C. to Los Angeles to my home town of San Francisco, a food truck craze has rolled in. And I'm all for it — I'm down with the woman by my park who sells noodles out of a wicker basket on the back for her bike, and the gal with the velvet cupcake cart, and the old ...
  • Do Animals Have Spiritual Experiences?
    I like to think that the bumper sticker for evolutionary continuity between humans and nonhuman animals would simply be: "If we have something they have it too." Charles Darwin's well-accepted ideas about evolutionary continuity remind us that the differences among species are differences in degree ...
  • Rookie Who Grew Up Poor Drops $55,000 on Dinner
    Professional football players are rich. No one can deny that. The median NFL salary in 2009, depending on the team, ranged from $488,000 to $1.3 million. Still, how could any athlete justify spending $55,000 on dinner ? While this tab was paid by Dallas Cowboys player Dez Bryant as a result of some ...
  • North Carolina's Shocking Legal Rape Case Law
    Almost 5,000 of you have taken action since I wrote about North Carolina's 1979 Supreme Court decision that if a woman withdraws consent to sex after intercourse has started, but her partner refuses to stop, that is not rape. "If the actual penetration is accomplished with the woman's consent, the a ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Ecuador in Turmoil as President Denounces 'Coup At ...
    QUITO -- Ecuador's government declared a state of emergency Thursday saying rebel troops and police were staging a coup, after seizing the main airport and storming Congress in a mutiny over pay cuts. About 150 renegade troops seized a runway at Ecuador's international airport in the capital of the ...
  • Breaking: Live Coverage From Ecuador
    Follow coverage here (in Spanish) as TeleSur covers the upheaval in Ecuador.
  • Obama Administration Should Oppose Any Attempted C ...
    Washington, D.C. - There are currently reports of a possible attempted coup d'etat underway in Ecuador. There have been violent protests by police and some elements of the military, reports that President Correa has been injured, and reports that the air force has closed down a number of airports. T ...
  • Senator: Fire Afghanistan Funds Inspector, Avoid R ...
    by Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON - The Obama administration should fire the special inspector general for Afghanistan, and create an office to oversee all wartime contracting, a top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee said on Tuesday. Senator Claire McCaskill, a former state auditor, said ...
  • FBI Targets US Palestine Activists
    by Chris Arsenault Tracy Molm sometimes has a hard time paying rent, so it came as a surprise when American security forces banged on her door at 7am one morning, and searched her apartment under suspicions she provided material support to a terrorist organisation. read more

Lifehacker

  • Make a Flexible and Effective Flash Diffuser from ...
    Commercial flash diffusers and bounce cards are pricey for what they are, thin sheets of foam and plastic. This DIY version uses a sheet of craft foam and a band of elastic for nearly-free flash diffusion. More��
  • Isolate an Object from a Complex Background in Pho ...
    If you need to pull a person or thing out of an image with a busy background and you'd like to do it with a minimal amount of fuss, this simple tutorial can help. More��
  • Ubuntu Adding Mobile Streaming to its Ubuntu One C ...
    Ubuntu One, the free syncing service given to every user of Ubuntu's Linux operating system, is stepping up its appeal by adding mobile music streaming to its service. Right now there's an early-stage Android client for users to try out, but U ...
  • Voice Plus Creates Google Voice Number Rules on An ...
    Android only: Google Voice allows detailed rules for people calling you. But your outgoing Google Voice calls? Not so much, unless you've installed Voice Plus, which lets you choose contact groups to call with or without your Google Voice numb ...
  • Goodsie Lets You Create a Highly Customizable Onli ...
    Goodsie, a new webapp from the creators of the awesome Flavors.me , helps you create an attractive storefront to sell your stuff. It's currently in private beta, but we've got 10,000 invites so you can give it a try. More�� ...

Water Privatization

  • The Water Fountain [Casaubon's Book]
    Like everyone in the rich world, I carry bottles of water with me everywhere I go. Were someone from the past to spot me, they'd be stunned by the sight of all the people, clearly headed on long treks into the uninhabited jungle, carrying water lest they die of dehydration. Because, after all, in hi ...
  • City Hall argues over privatization
    Sharp words as council debates whether the private sector should run some of the city's functions.
  • Press Releases
    Ang Kasangga Representative Teodorico T. Haresco has filed a resolution asking the House of Representatives to conduct an inquiry on the utilization, conservation and management of the country's water resources.
  • Global water conference in Canada to be used for a ...
    MONTREAL - A call to end the privatization of municipal water is expected to spill onto the streets Monday outside the World Water Congress in Montreal.
  • H20 debate to boil at World Water Congress
    MONTREAL - A call to end the privatization of municipal water is expected to spill onto the streets tomorrow.

Guardian

  • Indonesian train crash kills dozens
    At least 36 people killed and more than 40 injured as one train crashes into rear of another in Central Java A train crash at a railway station in Indonesia has killed at least 36 people and injured more than 40. The crash happened at 3am local time when a train from the capital, Jakarta, ploughed i ...
  • Review of health and safety 'excess'
    Killjoy councils who wrongfully ban public events could face compensation claims under new legislation proposal Councils that wrongly ban events and activities on health and safety grounds could be forced to pay compensation under plans being considered by the government. The proposal is among plans ...
  • Day two, hole-by-hole
    • Hit F5 for the latest or select auto-refresh to update • Email your thoughts to scott.murray@guardian.co.uk • Read Graeme McDowell's interactive hole-by-hole guide • Look back at how the rather damp day one unfolded • Please buy my golf book, you may enjoy the tale 1.25pm: Cink misses a short one ...
  • Tea and militancy
    This week saw the introduction of the Equality Act 2010 and the release of Made in Dagenham, a film about the women's strike at the Ford factory in 1968. How far have we come, ask two leading feminists We do not hear of women rocking the corporate boat now Our hearts should leap up when we behold a ...
  • Nigerian capital rocked by bombs
    At least eight people killed by militants from Niger delta over what they call '50 years of failure' At least eight people were killed in Nigeria today when suspected militants from the country's oil region attempted to wreck 50th anniversary celebrations for the country's independence with an unpre ...

McClatchey

  • Commentary: We must stop harming our planet
    The planet keeps trying to tell us to stop industrialization's punishment to the air, water and land.
  • CNN fires Rick Sanchez over comments about Jews
    CNN fired Miami homeboy anchor Rick Sanchez Friday, a day after he said on a radio show that Jews control U.S. television networks. "Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company," a CNN spokesman said. "We thank Rick for his years of service and we wish him well."
  • Commentary: California's marijuana legalization ad ...
    I'm willing to admit that I might be wrong to oppose Proposition 19, the November ballot initiative to legalize marijuana for recreational use.
  • Pakistan's Zardari defiant in fight for political ...
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Under pressure from the military, the judiciary and the Pakistani news media, Pakistan's pro-Western president, Ali Asif Zardari, is fighting for his survival, while relations with the U.S. are rocked by tensions that led Pakistan to close down a major resupply route to U.S.-le ...
  • Brazil's embrace of U.S. adversaries likely to con ...
    BRASILIA — With their economy growing and standard of living rising, Brazilians Sunday will choose the successor to highly-popular President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and his hand-picked candidate Dilma Rousseff leads in the polls.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • The Great Bear and the big snap
      Can a bunch of green snappers save the Great Bear? The International League of Conservation Photographers hopes so. For a few weeks now, its snappers have been deploying themselves across Canada's Great Bear Rainforest , documenting its wild nature and the people who live in, and sometimes off, ...
  • 'Warmist' attack smacks of 'sceptical' intolerance
    It seems that something new, and not altogether welcome, may be happening in the politicking over climate change. � I have written before of the orchestrated villification that comes the way of climate scientists from some people and organisations who are unconvinced of the case for human-indu ...
  • Condom hole in the Papal vision?
    From a British perspective, there's a certain irony in the fact that a clarion call for better access to family planning is published in a leading scientific journal on the same day that the Pope hits the streets of London . � The letter published in Science doesn't reference Roman Catholic oppos ...
  • Nulear waste goes the hole way
    First week back from holidays last week, and straight down a big hole in the ground at the BBC's behest. Onkalo - no ordinary hole... It's no ordinary hole. It's where Finland will store all of the high-level waste from its nuclear power programme, if things go according to plan. I last visi ...
  • Mea culpa and au revoir
    As several readers have pointed out in comments on my previous post , and several more by e-mail, I made a schoolboy howler in this week's article about how rice yields are responding to temperature rise in Asia. There are 101 reasons I could bore you with as to why it happened, but essentially it ...

The Wonk Room

  • Can Feingold Save His Seat By Touting Health Refor ...
    Jonathan Cohn makes the point I wanted to make after seeing Sen. Russ Feingold’s (D-WI) campaign ad touting the benefits of the Affordable Care Act. Recognizing that the long drawn out process of passing reform allowed Republicans to define the law as a grandmother killing, job shrinking, cost raisi ...
  • In Bizarre Interview, Crist Pretends He Never Supp ...
    Before announcing his independent bid for the Senate, Republican Governor Charlie Crist had supported Florida’s ban on gay parent adoption because “children are best raised in a traditional family.” As late as February 2010, Crist told told the Palm Beach Post that he had “respect” for the current l ...
  • Why The First Amendment Doesn’t Protect Anti ...
    After spending much of the week refusing to discipline an assistant attorney general who launched a bizarre harassment campaign against the first openly-gay president of the University of Michigan student body, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox (R) finally announced today that his subordinate would ...
  • HealthCare.gov Now Has Pricing Information, Head-T ...
    The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has unveiled a new series of tools to help Americans find affordable coverage options through HealthCare.gov, a web portal first unveiled on July 1st. Starting today, applicants will be able to compare plan benefits, prices, and application denial r ...
  • U.S. Apologizes For Intentionally Infecting Guatem ...
    Today, the U.S. delivered what was described as an “unusual apology” to Guatemala for conducting an experiment in the 1940s in which prisoners, soldiers and mental patients were deliberately infected with syphilis. The news came to light while Wellesley College Professor Susan M. Reverby was resear ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • thwap is back!
    But I don't have time to say anything today! Keep 'em flying!
  • Interview With Oskar LaFontaine
    I can't speak or understand German, but if anyone who reads this can, you can check this out. (I liked what I read about this guy.) Yeah, I'm still busy.
  • Another Example of Us versus Them
    Check it: One of the most incendiary details in the documents is that Blackwater, through Total Intelligence, sought to become the "intel arm" of Monsanto, offering to provide operatives to infiltrate activist groups organizing against the multinational biotech firm. "This little light of mine, ... ...
  • The Torture Never Stops
    I actually feel like saying a lot but i don't have the time or the energy to say any of it. So here's a video: G'night all. (Darn fruit-flies!)
  • What Dawg Said ...
    About criticisms of the Sun newspaper chain's readership . Oh yeah, and what Montreal Simon said too. It's a continuation of a theme .

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Metro report finds employees afraid to raise safet ...
    In June 2009, a Metrorail accident near Ft. Totten in Washington, DC, killed nine people. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a report this summer that found Metro lacked a "safety culture." Now an internal Metro report finds the same problem. Katherine Shaver wrote about the repo ...
  • Arrests vindicate Wackenhut whistleblower in Miami
    Marty Bair was a senior supervisor for Wackenhut in Miami, Florida, when he blew the whistle on how the company was overbilling the county for empty guard posts on transit systems. Now, eight Wackenhut employees, supervisors and executives have been arrested and charged with racketeering. "I felt vi ...
  • Philippine authorities catch tax cheat with anonym ...
    The Philippine Daily Inquirer reports that the Philippine Bureau of Customs has filed charges that Oillink, an import company, cheated the government out of 700 million Philippine pesos (16 million US dollars). The Bureau of Customs discovered the fraud through an anonymous letter, apparently from a ...
  • Catholic canonization raises whistleblower issue
    David Gibson has written an article for Commonweal Magazine suggesting that in 1870 Australian Mother Mary MacKillop participated in blowing the whistle on a priest engaged in sexual abuse of children. Pope Benedict XVI has scheduled a canonization for Mother MacKillop on October 17, 2010. She will ...
  • UGA Wins, Scientific Integrity Loses
    My client Dr. David Lewis has written an essay about a disappointing outcome of his qui tam whistleblower lawsuit. It is called "UGA Wins, Scientific Integrity Loses." If you want to read more, I recommend another piece he wrote called, " EPA Fired Oil-Degradation Expert Concerned about Deepwater O ...

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

  • Is Uncompensated Commercial Use Of An Artist's Con ...
    We've discussed a few times how the whole distinction between "commercial use" and "non-commercial use" can be somewhat arbitrary . Even though many Creative Commons supporters insist that a "non-commercial" license is the way to go, there are some good arguments as to why such a limitation isn't ...
  • Good Ideas Come From Sharing, Random Collisions An ...
    This is a point that we've been making for years (and often highlighting the research that proves this), but innovation and good ideas tend not to come from the proverbial "spark of genius." Study after study after study has shown that's almost never the case. Almost all good ideas come from peopl ...
  • Social Mores At Work: Sigur Rós Calls Out C ...
    We've been talking about how social mores can awful be a lot more effective in dealing with "unauthorized copying," rather than calling up the copyright lawyers. In discussing it, some people have wondered how those making copies get caught. Well, sometimes it just takes the person/band/company w ...
  • Senate Passes Bill To Try To Quiet TV Commercials
    While it's been talked about for ages, the Senate has now passed a bill that attempts to force TV commercials to be at a similar volume to the shows that they're paired with . As many people have complained over the years, it often feels that the commercials are set to a much higher volume to gain ...
  • Microsoft Sues Motorola For Patent Infringement... ...
    Just as Microsoft is out there trying to make bad patents easier to invalidate , it's still acting like a big patent bully itself. Remember a few months back when it got HTC to license some patents, which Microsoft claimed covered Google's Android mobile operating system? Well, apparently, Motorol ...

VacTruth

  • Hillary Clinton and Kathleen Sebelius apologize fo ...
    Today finally sees two of the USA's most prominent women in politics finally apologize for one of the most cruel and despicable experiments ever carried out on man to date. Mind you, it only took the USA seven decades to offer one.
  • Tall Tales and Other Vaccine Myths
    Are parents aware that the Flu shot is not effective in preventing flu-related hospitalizations in asthmatic children? Did you realize that study found children who were vaccinated for flu had three times the risk to be hospitalized when compared with children who were NOT vaccinated for flu?
  • Flu Vaccine Caused Over 1000 Adverse Reactions
    Over 1000 reports of adverse reactions following the flu vaccine. Fluvax and Fluvax Junior may have caused two to three hospital admissions due to seizure for every admission from flu it prevented.
  • Open Letter to President Barack Hussein Obama & Th ...
    Since voters, consumers, and taxpayers have NO input nor any ability to accept, reject, or counter FORCED legislation as enacted by Presidential Executive Orders—nor does Congress have any authority over them, which I find absolutely counter to a democratic form of governance—I think it behooves us ...
  • Aborted Human Fetal Cells in Vaccines
    Doctor Nancy Snyderman, a very attractive, gregarious and outgoing physician, appeared on the MSNBC Today Show and promoted vaccines in a segment titled Vaccines 101. She said there was a small amount of "medicine" and salt water in the vaccines but forgot to mention this...

BroadSnark

  • 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 [.. ...
  • What is Pornography?
    I was getting all ready to write a long diatribe in response to another one of those anti-porn feminists who claims that all porn is rape.  You know, the people who refer to those of us who disagree as male-identified, “fun feminists.”  This “feminist” was particularly irritating me.  It’s bad en ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Remember the woman in Vancouver who had acid thrown in her face.  Turns out it was all a hoax.  The nut threw acid in her own face.  I had to comb through a few different versions of the story to find one that mentioned who she originally blamed for the attack – a random African [...]
  • The Limits of Blogging
    I set up my first blog in a couple of minutes. It was mostly to keep people updated on our marathon trip through Latin America (all ten people who were interested).  Eventually, the travel blogging died out and made way for BroadSnark.  Finally, I had somewhere to write down all those conversations ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

  • 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

  • The Potential, and the Pit Falls, of Energy Effici ...
    Image credit: Alliance to Save Energy When I wrote about the idea that burning wood could do more harm than good , it ignited a fierce debate. Yet most commenters agreed that energy efficiency and concervation have to come first. Yet when John wrote about the Alliance to Save Energy back in 200 ...
  • Population 4x More Important Than Climate Change o ...
    Photo via victoriapeckham We're well aware of the fact that humans have a significant impact on water supplies -- from groundwater pumping to altering the course and flow of the world's rivers, we are no small player in how much fresh water exists on the planet. However, would we ever have gues ...
  • The Week in Pictures: Scotland To Get All Electric ...
    On the renewable energy front, it's been good news this week: Northern Ireland just outlined how it hopes to get 40% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020 and, not to be outdone, First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond, speaking to Reuters, said Scotland should be able to produce 100 ...
  • iFixit's Break Down of Apple TV Shows the Gadget's ...
    Images via iFixit We're big fans of iFixit , an open source repair manual for gadgets. The premise of iFixit follows in the footsteps of the Maker's Bill of Rights, "If you can't open it, you don't own it." Because fewer and fewer of our electronics, gadgets, vehicles and everything else come w ...
  • Cougar Annie: An UnSung Eco-Heroine
    Image from Ecotrust Canada Gather 'round the campfire and we will tell you a story of a real-life cowgirl who lived in the wilds of British Columbia until she was 97 years old. She was Ada Annie Rae-Arthur, known as Cougar Annie because she was so good at shooting and trapping cougars. It was ...

Biosingularity

  • 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 ...
  • You Are Your Bacteria
    Variation in our microbial inhabitants could help tailor efforts to treat illness. via Technology Review: You Are Your Bacteria.
  • Weird, Ultra-Small Microbes Turn Up in Acidic Mine ...
    In the depths of a former copper mine in Northern California dwell what may be the smallest, most stripped-down forms of life ever discovered. The microbes — members of the domain of one-celled creatures called Archaea — are smaller than other known microorganisms, rivaled in size only by a microbe ...
  • Multiple personal genomes await
    Genomic data will soon become a commodity; the next challenge — linking human genetic variation with physiology and disease — will be as great as the one genomicists faced a decade ago, says J. Craig Venter. via Multiple personal genomes await : Article : Nature.
  • Low Vitamin D Level Tied to Cognitive Decline
    Two new studies add to evidence that older people with low levels of vitamin D may be more likely to suffer from cognitive impairment. The hope is that vitamin D supplements may be able to slow mental decline — an intervention that one research team plans to put to the test this summer. Vitamin D [. ...

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Pruning Shears

  • Tax Hikes as Back Door Clawback
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The past couple of weeks have provided a neat illustration of Marshall’s Law - Washington is wired for Republican control. Through lots of breathless reporting we have seen story after story from DC-based outlets that glory in the i ...
  • Last 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. Spencer : “Let there be no doubt that the U.S. is at war in Pakistan.” I guess it’s fine that the military is not planning on keeping prison ...
  • Always and Forever, Bad Apples
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post But the measures implemented to assist deeply underwater [savings and loans] (in the very high interest rate environment of 1980-1982) were exploited by outsiders to the industry, who acquired thrifts on extremely favorable terms. Ma ...
  • 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. American presidents are above the law . Via . God help you if you’re cannon fodder though. Scott Horton :The dilemma faced by the Justice D ...
  • The Ideological Assault on the Fourth Amendment
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Last week the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on the privacy of cell phone records. It seems at best a mixed bag; while the ACLU was largely happy with it, Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney Kevin Bankston noted the decisi ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • DeLauro Bill Would Require Labels on GM Fish
    Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), chairwoman of the House committee that controls the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Department of Agriculture budgets, introduced a bill Wednesday that would mandate labeling of genetically modified fish. Click here to read this article
  • What's Wrong With Our Food System?
    Eleven-year-old Birke Baehr spoke on the food system at the TEDx Next Generation event in Ashville: "A while back, I wanted to be an NFL football player, but I've decided that I want to be an organic farmer instead. That way, I can have a greater impact on the world. "I want you to know that we c ...
  • Why Who Fishes Matters
    Current changes to fisheries policies are aiding and abetting the corporate takeover and industrialization of our source of seafood. The Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA) has launched a Who Fishes Matters campaign which includes asking fisheries regulators to put limits on consolidation of f ...
  • Are Meat and Milk From Clones in the Food Supply?
    It’s just a matter of time before we are eating clones—if we are not eating them now. Click here to read this article
  • Cloned Meat
    Hilarious piece the Daily Show did on cloning. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Rosas de colores parte VI (5 fotos gratis para com ...
    Escoja usted un número para ver más fotos de rosas | [II] |[III] [IV] [V] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor)1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes ...
  • Fotos de China or China photos (6 fotos gratuitas)
    Si lo desea, también podría usted ver fotos de Estados Unidos , México , Canadá , Brasil , España , África del Sur , Francia , Taiwan , Japón y Gran Bretaña .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 ...
  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XIII
    Estoy realmente sorprendido con lo rápido que pasa el tiempo. Pues sin darnos cuenta, ya vamos en el número 13 de nuestra serie 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. Así que -una vez más-, disfrute de nuestros contenidos y no olvide compartir con sus amigos. Si lo desea, escoja un número p ...
  • Fotos de Japón or Japan photos (6 imágenes gratis)
    Si lo desea, también podría usted ver fotos de Estados Unidos , México , Canadá , Brasil , España , África del Sur , Francia , Taiwan , Etc. 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 P ...
  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XII
    Si lo desea, escoja un número para revisar nuestro archivo sobre la serie 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. ¡Son más de 100 fotos! [1] -[2] -[3] -[4] -[5] -[6] -[7] -[8] -[9] -[10] -[11] -[12] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK so ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • 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 ...
  • Independent advisory committee grills FDA on genet ...
    In a chilly hotel ballroom in the Washington DC suburbs, the FDA this week is considering whether to allow genetically engineered (GE) animals in the human food supply. The test case is an Atlantic salmon that has been engineered with Chinook salmon genes to express a growth hormone. The result is a ...
  • Digging for Data in Clifton Park
    Last Tuesday I spent the evening at the Clifton Mansion, home of Civic Works, the umbrella organization of Real Food Farm (RFF), a new urban agriculture project. The occasion was Digging for Data, an event held jointly by the Center for a Livable Future and Civic Works. Located on six acres of Clif ...
  • NIAID responds to CLF on antibiotic resistance tes ...
    The principal deputy director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Hugh Auchincloss, notes “success against antimicrobial resistance will require a multifaceted approach that includes increased surveillance, more judicious use of antimicrobial drugs, and increase ...

Norwegianity

  • eBay/sheSay
    Meg Whitman isn’t just going to not be the next Governor of California, she’s really seriously so totally not going to be the next guv. Whitman knew since 2003 What the Whitmans actually did Whitman v Whitman See also: McMahon, Linda [more] Christine O’ Donnell [more] James O’Keefe (these things hap ...
  • Links AND text (pack a lunch)
    Meg Whitman screwed over her illegal housekeeper for nine freaking years, ignoring letters from Social Security telling her the woman was illegal, then made the woman source her own replacement when she got pregnant then fired her for being illegal after her campaign started. Then eMeg cried crocodi ...
  • Nice cover
    Wolves have an intrasquad scrimmage tonight at 7 and I’m too keyed up to do a post, but I had to share this. Click on the image to read the story, something I plan to do just as soon as the scrimmage is over. I especially love the drool, aptly timed for James O‘Keefe mentor [...]
  • As the Obama slowly shifts
    Bernie Sanders comes right out and says it: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Tuesday blasted the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) for opposing legislation that attempts to in-source jobs by granting companies a payroll tax holiday that shift overseas jobs to ...
  • Disclosure time
    It’s past time I came clean and ‘fessed up to the fact that for the last six months I’ve been writing this blog under the influence of UVB rays. I’m up to four minutes a day and together with 5,000 I.U.s of Vitamin D, my mood has been annoyingly elevated despite concerted efforts to the [...]

Public News Service

  • Mortgage Delinquencies: Less Stigma, More Walk-Awa ...
    Mortgage Delinquencies: Less Stigma, More Walk-Aways? Phoenix, AZ - Some Arizona lenders are aggressively pursuing homeowners who deliberately let their mortgages fall into delinquency – but a new survey from the Pew Research Center says in this economy, a growing number of Americans think it's acce ...
  • Debate Continues on the Impact of Merit Pay on Tes ...
    Debate Continues on the Impact of Merit Pay on Test Scores Phoenix, AZ – A study released last week by Vanderbilt University shows no link between test scores and bonus pay for teachers. An Arizona school boards official says the report was too limited to draw any conclusions. Comments from Janice P ...
  • AZ Voters to Decide Repeal of Early Childhood Prog ...
    AZ Voters to Decide Repeal of Early Childhood Programs Phoenix, AZ – Lawmakers are asking Arizona voters to reverse their 2006 approval of the “First Things First” early childhood health and development initiative. Money raised by the initiative’s cigarette tax would be diverted to the state’s gener ...
  • AZ Coalition Focuses on Kids With Parents in Priso ...
    AZ Coalition Focuses on Kids With Parents in Prison Phoenix, AZ – A new statewide coalition is being formed to advocate for the 175-thousand Arizona children who are affected by incarcerated parents. A major emphasis will be on recruiting volunteer mentors. Comments from Dr. Wilson Goode (GOOD), nat ...
  • AZ Abuse Shelter Challenged by State Cuts
    AZ Abuse Shelter Challenged by State Cuts Phoenix, AZ – Continuing cuts in state funding have prompted the nation’s largest domestic violence shelter to reduce available beds and put off expansion plans. However, the Phoenix-based Sojourner Center is still taking in 95-percent of women and children ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Pakistanis Hate the Drones, Back Suicide Attacks o ...
    Stopping the drones is a remote possibility. Itll take more than local outrage over the drones to get an administration ( allegedly ) fearing DOMESTIC terror attacks to place them back in their hangars. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • IDF intercepts Jewish boat to Gaza
    No reports of serious injuries Note most of the post contains updates on the previous IDF action against aid shipment Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Shocker! Over 90% of Americans Choose Swedens Soc ...
    Nearly every American in a survey chose Swedens Socialist wealth distribution over Americas Capitalist system. Over 90% of Americans when presented Swedens Socialism chose that system Submitted by Hans Mueller to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • What happens to a society that cannot distinguish ...
    A country entranced by illusions. It spends its emotional and intellectual energy on the trivial and the absurd. It is captivated by the hollow stagecraft of celebrity culture as the walls crumble. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Health Benefits of Oil Pulling
    Just bumped into this. http://www.oilpulling.com/faq.htm is a related page Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • U.S. apologizes for syphilis experiment in Guatema ...
    U.S. apologizes for syphilis experiment in Guatemala | Reuters(Reuters) - The United States apologized on Friday for an experiment conducted in the 1940s in which U.S. government researchers... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Against deporting kiwis
    No Right Turn: Against deporting kiwisThis is absolutely disgusting: the government is about to deport three kiwi kids to live in a slum in India because their parents are overstayers: ... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Venezuela: “Only Ecuadorans Can Neutralise Coup At ...
    Venezuela: “Only Ecuadorans Can Neutralise Coup Attempt” | venezuelanalysis.comMérida, September 30th 2010 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – As a coup attempt takes place in Ecuador, Venezuela and regional... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Conference puts spotlight on Indigenous jailings - ...
    Conference puts spotlight on Indigenous jailings - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland says he is optimistic all parties will support... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • BNP expels Richard Barnbrook as bitter feud threat ...
    BNP expels Richard Barnbrook as bitter feud threatens to tear apart party | Politics | The Guardian: "Richard Barnbrook, one of the British National party's most senior figures, has been expelled as... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • AMERICAN POLITICS WITH JOHN WALLACE – RADIO SHOW
    NEXT SHOW – THIS FRIDAY – OCT 1st  at 5:00PM Eastern Time TOPIC : CODEX ALIMENTARIUS: THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO SEE! Although most Americans do not know it, they are eating food that is injected with foreign genes (GMOs), blasted with pesticides, irradiated beyond recognition ...
  • Ben & Jerry’s latest flavor: genetically engineere ...
    In addition to heaping helpings of political activism, the company also served a "protest batch" of the cleverly re-named frozen treat, "Something's Fishy." It's "an outrageous flavor protesting genetically engineered salmon," and it's chocolatey, marshmallowy good.
  • Groundbreaking study shows Roundup link to birth d ...
    Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the world's best-selling weedkiller Roundup, causes malformations in frog and chicken embryos at doses far lower than those used in agricultural spraying and well below maximum residue levels in products presently approved in the European Union.
  • Government Sponsored Terrorism and The Brainwashin ...
    Leaked policy documents reveal that the United Nations plans to create a “green world order” by 2012 which will be enforced by a structure of global governance and funded by a gargantuan $45 trillion transfer of wealth from richer countries, as the globalists’ insidious plan to centralize power, cru ...
  • The Truth Squad Radio Show: Government-Sponsored E ...
    The topic tonight is "Government Sponsored Eco Terror, and how the so-called green movement is being used to control us and implement the New World Order Agenda 21 program.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Global Strike command reaches full operational cap ...
    ShareThis Global Strike command reaches full operational capability 01 Oct 2010 Officials declared Air Force Global Strike Command to be at full operational capability Sept. 30, on schedule, and less than 14 months after its initial activation as a command. In 2009, Global Strike Command was charter ...
  • US drone attack kills 4 in Pakistan
    ShareThis US drone attack kills 4 in Pakistan 02 Oct 2010 At least four people have been killed in an unsanctioned US drone attack in Pakistan's tribal belt along the border with Afghanistan, local security officials said. The US unmanned plane targeted a house by missiles in Dashgah village near Da ...
  • 2 US-led troops killed in Afghanistan
    ShareThis 2 US-led troops killed in Afghanistan 02 Oct 2010 Two more US-led soldiers have lost their lives in a bomb explosion in eastern Afghanistan, says NATO's International Security Assistance Force. NATO said in a Saturday statement that the incident took place on Friday.
  • Blackwater Wins Piece of $10 Billion Mercenary Dea ...
    ShareThis Blackwater Wins Piece of $10 Billion Mercenary Deal By Spencer Ackerman 01 Oct 2010 Through a "joint venture," the notorious private-security firm Blackwater has won a piece of a five-year State Department contract worth up to $10 billion, Danger Room has learned. Apparently, there is no m ...
  • News Corp. gave $1 million to pro-GOP group
    ShareThis News Corp. gave $1 million to pro-GOP group 30 Sep 2010 News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, contributed $1 million this summer to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the business lobby that has been running an aggressive campaign in support of the Republican effort to retake Congress, a ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • 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...
  • I hate Ian Wishart because...
    For some years now I've "enjoyed" a growing amount of internet 'hate mail' biffed my way on websites, virtually all from people I've never met and most from people who've never actually read my work themselves but who've relied on...
  • Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story...a cop kill ...
    The new book on the Crewe murders, Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story, is finally on sale. Available from Whitcoulls, PaperPlus, Take Note, Borders, The Warehouse, Dymocks and all good independent bookstores. The radio ad is available here: ThomasBook1
  • New Arthur Allan Thomas book just over a week away
    Launching 27 September...the cat will well and truly be set amongst the pigeons...
  • How objective was the Climategate inquiry?
    I've been too busy writing and editing the new Arthur Allan Thomas book to blog much in recent weeks, but couldn't resist this revelation about the old boys network's whitewash of Climategate. Here's how it happened...originally from Climate Audit, via...

Mondoweiss

  • Enter the Israel Project’s ‘Best Shots ...
    As a service to The Israel Project we thought we’d let you know about their new photo contest –TIP Photo Competition Send Us Your Best Shots of Israel! 1st Prize: $150.00 2nd Prize: $100.00 3rd Prize: $50.00 We are particularly looking for colorful photos that show the full variety of daily life in ...
  • Sanchez’s first mistake
    I must point out that Rick Sanchez, who was unceremoniously fired by CNN today for talking some trash about Jon Stewart and the Jewish ownership of networks, was one of the few network anchors to give any attention to the Palestinian side of the story. He was plainly alarmed by the Israeli assault o ...
  • Jewish boat’s captain says IDF used ‘c ...
    Glyn Secker, the British captain of the Jewish boat to Gaza, reports on its interception earlier this week, and his deportation. Key excerpts: There then developed a sight which will remain with me for the rest of my life – with the frigate in the background, two gunboats, two landing craft and ...
  • ‘Commentary’: legitimacy issues, Pales ...
    Here is an interesting/twisted piece that reaffirms my belief that Israel is not about the actual safety of Jews-- guess what, we're back in Berlin and we're doing fine all over the U.S.-- it is a symbol for a certain kind of Jewish identity, and increasingly a militant and isolated one. Daniel Gord ...
  • Videos from Silwan
    The video above depicts a woman in Silwan testifying that late at night an Israeli border policeman, who was stationed on her roof, broke the glass window in the video and instructed her to make him coffee. He seems to have thought she was alone in the house, although her husband was there. Joseph ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • 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 ...
  • VRM: CDC-Gate Exposes Trail of Fraud Behind Autism ...
    The US Center For Disease Control suddenly finds itself at the center of a huge media storm, rocked by a recent scandal implicating  Dr. Paul Thorsen, chief co-author of a 2003 Danish Study financed by the CDC (which is now recognized as THE flagship model ostensibly disproving the vaccine-mercury-a ...
  • VRM: Canada’s 2010-11 Flu Vaccine A Deadly C ...
    Canadian health practitioners should soon expect a flood of adverse reactions to this year’s flu shot ‘Fluviral’. Not only does the GSK produced vaccine contain twice the Industry standard for Thimerosal considered to be an “acceptable”, formaldehyde, multiple toxic buffers & detergent; but with add ...
  • VRM: New Generation Cancer Vaccine Will Cause Infe ...
    In the race to the top of the Vaccine manufacturing foodchain product side effects such as infertility are being overlooked in favor of scientific advancement. One competitor, U.S. firm Celldex Theraputics are vying for major positioning in the ranks with a radical new generation cancer vaccine now ...
  • VRM: United States 2010-11 Flu Vaccine Affluria &# ...
    The United States flu vaccine for 2010-2011/AFLURIA® will be manufactured by CSL Laboratories in partnership with Merck Pharmaceuticals. Ingredients: 24.5 mcg of thimerosal mercury (safe level for a 2450 pound adult), Neomycin & Polymyxin (antibiotics associated with Kidney Failure, hazardous to ...

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

  • 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 ...
  • Iraq: Inside the Inferno
    Dear Friend, I have just returned to Afghanistan and I’m writing to tell you about a new book project I’m working on and an important organization that I’m backing with this book. I hope you will too. ABOUT SOLDIERS’ ANGELS Soldiers’ Angels is a volunteer-led nonprofit organization dedicated to ...
  • One Cell Phone at a Time: Countering Corruption in ...
    Dan Rice and Guy Filippelli American commanders are preparing for a major offensive in Afghanistan to attack one of the most formidable enemies we face in country: corruption.��� Despite sincere efforts to promote governance and accountability initiatives, Afghanistan has slipped from 112th to158th ...
  • Even While the World Watched: Part I
    Michael Yon 20 June 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand Recent violence focused world attention on the Kingdom of Thailand.  As the attention flowed in, foreigners poured out, even though fighting was tightly localized and not focused on travelers.  Tourists literally had to search for trouble to find it.  ...
  • Perspective
    Published: 21 July 2010 Apologies that this article is available only in Thai language. Please click here to view the entire article. {loadposition user8}

The Killing Train

  • 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 ...
  • Reading the incidents in Pakistan - some notes
    [Analysis of the Wikileaks Afghan War Diary]. I pulled out the 170-or-so incidents that mention Pakistan and are actually in Pakistan. A lot of them involve coordination with the Pakistani military, getting it, failing to get it, etc. An observation post comes under indirect fire, they track the poi ...

treehugger

  • The Potential, and the Pit Falls, of Energy Effici ...
    Image credit: Alliance to Save Energy When I wrote about the idea that burning wood could do more harm than good , it ignited a fierce debate. Yet most commenters agreed that energy efficiency and concervation have to come first. Yet when John wrote about the Alliance to Save Energy back in 200 ...
  • Population 4x More Important Than Climate Change o ...
    Photo via victoriapeckham We're well aware of the fact that humans have a significant impact on water supplies -- from groundwater pumping to altering the course and flow of the world's rivers, we are no small player in how much fresh water exists on the planet. However, would we ever have gues ...
  • The Week in Pictures: Scotland To Get All Electric ...
    On the renewable energy front, it's been good news this week: Northern Ireland just outlined how it hopes to get 40% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020 and, not to be outdone, First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond, speaking to Reuters, said Scotland should be able to produce 100 ...
  • iFixit's Break Down of Apple TV Shows the Gadget's ...
    Images via iFixit We're big fans of iFixit , an open source repair manual for gadgets. The premise of iFixit follows in the footsteps of the Maker's Bill of Rights, "If you can't open it, you don't own it." Because fewer and fewer of our electronics, gadgets, vehicles and everything else come w ...
  • Cougar Annie: An UnSung Eco-Heroine
    Image from Ecotrust Canada Gather 'round the campfire and we will tell you a story of a real-life cowgirl who lived in the wilds of British Columbia until she was 97 years old. She was Ada Annie Rae-Arthur, known as Cougar Annie because she was so good at shooting and trapping cougars. It was ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

  • Undersea Mountain Photos: Brittlestar Swarm, More ...
    NoneSwarms of orange fish and other deep-sea creatures have been spotted during a five-year survey of the world's underwater mountain ranges. Fish - Deep sea - Scuba diving - Recreation - Outdoors
  • Replacing Oil Addiction With Metals Dependence?
    China’s pivotal role as world supplier of rare-earth metals raises alarm that the new energy economy will mean the same old foreign dependence. Rare earth element - Energy - China - People's Republic of China - Environment
  • Whale Snot, Cursing Away Pain Among 2010 Ig Nobels
    Profanity against pain and whale-snot-collecting helicopters are just a few of the unusual scientific achievements awarded Ig Nobels on Thursday. Ig Nobel Prize - Merrill Lynch - Harvard University - Marc Abrahams - Nobel Prize
  • Renewable Energy: Ontario’s New Gold Rush
    Ontario is better known for majestic falls and forests than for its sun, but a one-year-old government incentive program has made the province a solar energy hotbed. Renewable energy - Ontario - Energy - Solar energy - Renewable
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Jurist - Legal Research

  • Ukraine constitutional court expands presidential ...
    [JURIST] The Constitutional Court of Ukraine [official website] ruled Friday that a 2004 law that transferred powers from the presidency to parliament was unconstitutional, ordering the powers be restored to the president. The ruling invalidates the reforms [AP report] passed at the height of the Or ...
  • UN releases long-awaited report on human rights vi ...
    [JURIST] The UN on Friday released a report on war crimes [text, PDF] and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The report, originally expected to be released in September [JURIST report], lists 617 of the most serious violations of human rights, including violence against c ...
  • Senators introduce immigration reform bill
    [JURIST] US Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) [official profiles] introduced the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2010 [legislative materials] Wednesday, which, if passed would greatly change US immigration [JURIST news archive] law. The bill incorporates previously pro ...
  • UN rights panel to appoint expert on freedom of ex ...
    [JURIST] The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] adopted resolutions [press release] Thursday establishing the mandate of a Special Rapporteur for freedom of association and assembly. The Special Rapporteur will be responsible for reporting on how nations promote freedom of associatio ...
  • Dutch lawmaker announces plans to ban burqa
    [JURIST] Dutch politician Geert Wilders [personal website, in Dutch] saidThursday that the Netherlands will ban the burqa [JURIST news archive] and other full Islamic veils as part of the government's plan to form a minority coalition. The Liberals and Christian Democrats (CDA) must make concessions ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Washington Conservatives Worried About Movement Co ...
    Washington conservatives will send their more libertarian-inclined movement brethren a message on Monday: don't short change national defense. In an op ed to be published in the Wall Street Journal , the heads of the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Foreign Policy Ini ...
  • The Pundit Consensus: Gridlock Ahead in Washington
    Punditry closes the Washington Ideas Festival for 2010. NBC's Chuck Todd : "What we know is that we're going to have gridlock. �Because we know you're not going to have large majorities. More likely than not, I think Republicans are going to be in charge of both. ... Two big political fights: the bu ...
  • Webb: Obama Had Wrong Focus in the Beginning
    Jim Webb, historian, Marine, Navy Secretary, senator, needs more time before he puts a period on the end of the sentence that describes the past two years. But he has some�tentative�conclusions: "I believe that the administration should have brought a different set of issues to the table when it cam ...
  • Barbour: GOP Will Gain at Least Four Governorships
    The Atlantic's good ol' boy Jeffrey Goldberg interviewed good ol' boy Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS) today, and the two got right down to good ol' politics.� Barbour said he wasn't worried about some of his party's more colorful nominees, like Christine O'Donnell. When he was RNC chair in 1994, "Our poli ...
  • White House Staffers Welcome Peter Rouse
    No one associates Pete Rouse with dead fishes. Cats ... he has a few.� A lot of the news coverage has focused on how he's different than outgoing Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. (Emanuel, in tears, admitted he rode herd on the staff at his goodbye senior staff conclave this morning, but only because he ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Memo to Ethan Bronner: Peace Talks are Dead
    Ever one to put a high gloss on news unfavorable to Israel, Ethan Bronner’s latest report on the Israel-Palestine peace negotiations avoids the obvious–that they’re dead. Saeed Barnoura of the International Middle East Media Center wrote after today’s failure of George Mitchell’s latest round of tal ...
  • CNN’s Rick Sanchez: ‘White Liberal=Jew’
    In reading the melodrama of Rick Sanchez’ implosion in front of a national radio audience when he called Jon Stewart both a “white liberal,” “bigot,” and “Jew,” not necessarily in that order, I was reminded how racism is an equal opportunity employer.  Just because you’re a discriminated-against mi ...
  • Israel-Palestine Talks Dead…for Now
    As I predicted, Haaretz is reporting that by Saturday, Fatah will meet and decide to abandon U.S. brokered Israel-Palestine peace talks due to Bibi Netnayahu’s refusal to extend a settlement freeze.  It’s the only way this could’ve gone. Now, what I’m wondering about is whether a clamor from the wo ...
  • IDF Cyber Warfare Unit 8200 Press-Ganged Felonious ...
    OK, that headline was a bit extreme.  There’s only three known sex offenders in Unit 8200.  But there are quite a few hackers with dubious pedigrees who’ve been press-ganged into military service there according to the Telegraph: Israel demonstrated its intent to conquer cyber warfare in the 1990s ...
  • Israeli Military Breaks Into Silwan Home, Beats Up ...
    Not content merely to have murdered Samar Sirhan last week at the hands of a trigger happy settler security guard, Israel’s hallowed Border Police added insult to injury by breaking into the Sirhan home yesterday morning at 2:30AM where they promptly severely beat several of his brothers and arreste ...

Ode Magazine

  • A "Ka-Nabi" and divine intervention
    By: Anne Thomas My friend Izumi loves machines. She has about six watches, three or four cameras, several TVs, two computers, a mobile phone, and a Ka-Nabi. A "Ka-Nabi," for those of you who do not know, is Jap-lish (Japanese-English) for "car navigator." Izum ...
  • All Africa, all the time
    Most of what the world reads about Africa is focused on the continent’s many problems—famine, genocide, HIV/AIDS, corruption—and it is not written by Africans. Salim Amin, CEO of the photo agency Camerapix and son of the late Kenyan photojournalist Mohamed Amin, wants to change that thr ...
  • Beyond sustainability
    It takes more than growth and development for a city, an economy or an ecosystem to flourishâit takes resilience. Biloxi is gone. That’s what Toshiro Kida, a 21-year-old graphic design student at Yale University, thought when he arrived in the Mississippi coastal town during the summer ...
  • A (thankful) nod to the past
    By: VictoriaKlein Today has been one of those days: no matter what you eat, drink or do, you just can’t get energized or motivated to do much of anything. I see you, to-do list, sitting there, mocking my lack of get-up-and-go (inanimate pieces of paper can be so cr ...
  • Color their world
    Photo: Douglas Engle The favelas, grimy, dismal slums in the heart of Rio de Janeiro, are widely considered hotbeds of violence and crime. But Dre Urhahn (pictured on the right) has a different perspective. He sees the favelas as “a source of inspiration and creativity” and think ...

OpEd News

  • Punitive Justice Distilled: the Stanford Prison Ex ...
    Our prison industrial complex is plagued with problems so complex it is difficult to figure out where they begin. The Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by a group of social scientists in the early 1970s helps unravel the mystery
  • For Telling the Truth About Zionist Media Influenc ...
    Rick Sanchez, one of CNN's most popular and educated anchors was fired because he told the truth. What he made clear is that the zionists run U.S.media and that Jews in America are not an oppressed minority, as are Latinos, Arabs, Muslims, and Indians.
  • Disturbing STD Experiments on Guatemalans by U.S. ...
    An article written by Susan M. Reverby, a professor of women's studies at Wellesley College, has uncovered details on a study conducted between 1946 and 1948 in Guatemala, which involved experiments on Guatemalans. Essentially, the Public Health Service (PHS) inoculated people with syphilis.
  • Baltic States: Pentagon's Training Grounds For Afg ...
    Baltic States: Pentagon's Training Grounds For Afghan and Future Wars
  • Why the US Doesn't Talk to Iran
    US foreign policy decisions, especially in the Middle East, seem to be driven not so much by broad national interests as they are by narrow (but powerful) special interests, represented largely by the military-security-AIPAC forces, which tend to perceive international peace and stability as detrime ...

Switchboard

  • New poll shows overwhelming bipartisan support for ...
    A recent poll in Colorado conducted by the National Wildlife Federation makes clear that most people don't buy the oil and gas industry's advertisements that stronger environmental protections must lead to economic sacrifice or�job losses. We have been saying that it's a false trade-of ...
  • Of Whitebark Pine and the Amazing Axolotl
    Last week, I had the chance to reflect on whitebark pine and the Axolotl, a rare salamander that has the unique ability to re-grow dismembered limbs.  I was out near Axolotl Lakes in southwest Montana, where these unique creatures reside , with some of the members of “Team Whitebark, ...
  • Pulp and paper industry's junk economic analysis o ...
    In response to toxic air pollution standards proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for industrial boilers, the American Forest and Paper Association (AFPA) just released a ‘study ’ projecting massive job losses from the proposed standards. However, only a cursory examin ...
  • Heritage Gate
    It’s hardly news that most anti-science climate deniers play fast and loose with the facts, including grossly selectively editing the work of climate scientists. But the fine folks at the Heritage Foundation have just turned in quite an editing whopper.    The irony here is that Herit ...
  • Climate, Energy and Environment News from Latin Am ...
    Chile: During a trip to California with President Sebastian Piñera, Energy Minister Ricardo Raineri signed an agreement with the State of California to increase the exploration and utilization of geothermal energy.  ( El Mercurio, 9/27/10) HidroAysén’s Executive Vice President, Danie ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Requiem For A Lightweight
    Buh-bye. Related posts:Requiem for Tower A Very, Very , Very Lightweight Bout Requiem For An Academic Related posts: Requiem for Tower A Very, Very , Very Lightweight Bout Requiem For An Academic
  • Rick Sanchez’s formula for achieving more ba ...
    Throw the Jew Down the Well. First, Sanchez started out expressing an anecdote from his own experience, when someone who was âtop brassâ at CNN told Sanchez to his face that he saw Sanchez as âmore as John Quiñones,â referring to the Hispanic ABC News reporter. Sanchezâs example was an i ...
  • Friday Nugget Blogging
    “If you were going to do suicide by jumping, wouldn’t you rather land on concrete than water?” I believe my son is genuinely puzzled when he hears of people jumping off bridges. But what disturbs me is that he seems less puzzled by the concept of suicide itself. Perhaps thatâs because he hears so ...
  • Getcher Hot Links
    Meghan O’Rourke and Ruth Franklin with more on sexism and book reviewing. Although if the NYTBR fails to review this, I wouldn’t say it’s evidence of sexism. Thesis: Carl Paladino is a bigger trainwreck than Christine O’Donnell. The best book about baseball not written by Bill James turns 40. Bazel ...
  • The UK Nuclear Deterrent from the US Point of View
    Idea: Today, the United States has virtually no interest in the modernization of the British nuclear force. To the extent that the United States has influence over British defense decisions, it should push the UK to spend money on things other than a Trident replacement. Thoughts? Related posts:I ...

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

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Back in Business
    The high court returns with three women, but few blockbuster cases.
  • Treasury lines up law firms to help run TARP
    In one of the federal government's biggest legal services contracts ever, the Treasury Department has hired 13 law firms to help run the Troubled Assets Relief Program at a cost to taxpayers of up to $100 million. But the TARP watchdog, the Congressional Oversight Panel, has faulted the agency for e ...
  • An investigation's tragic toll
    Nicholas Marsh, one of six prosecutors under investigation for misconduct in the public corruption case against former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, hanged himself on Sept. 26.
  • All three Federal Circuit vacancies now have nomin ...
    President Barack Obama's recent nomination of Jimmie Reyna for one of three vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit covers all open slots and adds a candidate with deep international trade expertise. But court watchers expect that at least two of the confirmations to the 12-ju ...
  • Attorney who impersonated fellow lawyer loses appe ...
    A Connecticut attorney who impersonated another attorney in connection with a drug bust gone wrong has lost a bid to reverse a defamation verdict against him for his role-switching stunt.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • 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
  • Keep the Promise Town Hall-PA Severance Tax!
    September 9, Thursday— Keep the Promise Town Hall in Jersey Shore, Lycoming County between Williamsport and Lock Haven, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Robert H. Wheeland Center, 1201 Locust Street, Jersey Shore, PA 17740 (part of Citizens Hose Company, Station 45) www.station45.org/wheeland_center.htm To register a ...
  • EPA’s Public Meeting on Hydraulic Fracturing
    EPA’s Public Meeting on Hydraulic Fracturing Study to Take Place in Binghamton, New York; Meeting Scheduled for September 13 and 15 at the Broome County Forum Theater Release date: 08/31/2010 Contact Information: John Senn, (212) 637-3667, senn.john@epa.gov New York, NY – The U.S. Environmental Prot ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Genetically Altered Trees Could Store Billions of ...
    Developing genetically modified trees and plants could capture billions of tons of carbon from the atmosphere annually and reduce the impacts of global warming, a new U.S. study says. In the study, researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory explore m ...
  • U.S. Home Energy Use As High as in 1970s, Despite ...
    The average American household uses the same amount of energy it did in the early 1970s , despite significant improvements in the efficiency of household appliances, according to a report in the Washington Post . Even though appliances such as dishwashers and refrigerators now use half the amount o ...
  • A High-Risk Energy Boom Sweeps Across North Americ ...
    Energy companies are rushing to develop unconventional sources of oil and gas trapped in carbon-rich shales and sands throughout the western United States and Canada. So far, government officials have shown little concern for the environmental consequences of this new fossil-fuel development boom. ...
  • Burma Corporation Continues to Clear-Cut Massive T ...
    A powerful Burma real estate developer is continuing to clear-cut forests in a region of Kachin State recently declared the world’s largest tiger reserve, according to a new report. A coalition of organizations promoting sustainable development, the Kachin Development Networking Group, says in its r ...
  • Interview: A Landmark Agreement To Protect Canada’ ...
    Canada’s boreal forest stretches from British Columbia to Newfoundland, covering 2.2 million square miles, an area nearly 60 percent the size of the United States. Much of that forest is intact, making it — along with Russia’s northern forest and portions of the Amazon — one of three great tracts o ...

Red Ice Creations

  • The Boy with the Amber Necklace: Stonehenge skelet ...
    The boy was unearthed with a cluster of amber beads around his neck, and is one of several sets of foreign remains found around the ancient ring of imposing stones, whose exact purpose remains unknown. The find adds considerable weight to the idea that people traveled long distances to visit Stonehe ...
  • EU governments slam Brussels' GM crops plan
    The European Commission's plans to hand over to member states the power to ban or authorise genetically modified (GM) crops were strongly criticised by key EU governments at an Agriculture Council yesterday (27 September). All the EU's heavyweights opposed proposals put forward in July by EU Health ...
  • Robot learns to shoot bow and arrow
    The robot apocalypse took one step closer to becoming reality this weekend when researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology revealed a program that allows a robot to learn how to shoot a bow and arrow. The algorithm, called ARCHER (Augmented Reward Chained Regression), was developed to allow ...
  • Past Ocean Cold Snap More Dramatic Than Thought
    The study found that between 1968 and 1972, the sea surface temperature of the Northern Hemisphere dropped by about 0.54 degrees F (0.3 degrees C), a change so dramatic that it cannot be explained by natural cycles in ocean temperature or cooling caused by aerosols, small particles of pollution, whi ...
  • Protesting police throw Ecuador into chaos
    Hundreds of police angry over a law that would cut their benefits plunged this small South American nation into chaos Thursday, roughing up and tear-gassing the president, shutting down airports and blocking highways in a nationwide strike. At least one person was killed and six injured in clashes b ...

Russia Today

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

  • House of Representatives pass compromise NASA Auth ...
    We now interrupt our regularly scheduled esoteric programming to bring you some mainstream NASA stuff. Yeah, I know, it’s “mainstream” NASA, which hardly brings any inspiration and “Never A Straight Answer” comes to mind. But you know what? I still love rockets flaming off the launch pads and I stil ...
  • Rectangular Texas UFO
    From a MUFON report via Examiner.com; Two Texas women pulled their vehicle over at 8:45 p.m. on September 26, 2010, to watch a rectangular-shaped object floating in the sky, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database. “It was very dark in color when we saw ...
  • More UFOs and Nuclear Missile Bases
    Yesterday in Washington D.C. there was a meeting of former military personnel who used to work at secret nuclear missile launch sites. And their reason for meeting? To let the public know that UFOs (their versions/opinions of what UAPs are) might be tampering with the nuclear defences of the West in ...
  • More Chinese UFOs
    The Chinese have a different take on UFOs; they call them UFOs. No mention of little green men, grays or any of that nonsense. From Technorati: China’s People’s Daily Online, the official news agency of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in China (CPC), is reporting that two students photo ...
  • Tor.com: Divided By Infinity
    When I read ‘Divided By Infinity’ eight years ago, I was in the ‘singularity’ stage of my sci-fi reading. Authors such as Greg Bear, David Brin, Greg Benford, Ian MacDonald, Iain Banks and even Michael Crichton and Stephen Coonts filled my bookcase during the late ’90s, early ’00s. The more technol ...

Tippers News

  • PETITION ~ Stop Internet Blacklisting !
    Oppose bill S. 3804. The US Congress is trying to censor the Internet here at home. A new bill being debated this week would have the Attorney General create an Internet blacklist of sites that US Internet providers would be required to block. Submitted by Tippers a. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Not ...
  • Congress Has Plans for an Internet Blacklist in th ...
    A group of powerful Senators -- Republicans and Democrats alike -- have signed onto a bill that would vastly expand the government's power to censor the Internet. Submitted by Roseann D. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 80 Percent of Global Water Supplies at Risk
    River biodiversity and our water security are in serious trouble, according to a comprehensive survey of waterways released yesterday. At risk are the water supplies of nearly 80 percent of humanity, and two-thirds of the world's river habitats. Submitted by Michelle Matthews to Environment �|� �No ...
  • After Citizens United: A Look into the Pro-Corpora ...
    The Supreme Courts 5-4 ruling in Citizens United v. FEC decided that the First Amendment right of free speech should apply with little distinction to both individuals and corporations. Since Buckley v. Valeo established money as a form of speech, the... Submitted by Kathy B. to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • India considers speed limits on trains through ele ...
    Union Forest and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday said he would meet Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee shortly and urge her to impose speed restrictions on trains passing through elephant corridors. Submitted by Michelle Matthews to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • TARP Comes in Below Estimate
    “Even as voters rage and candidates put up ads against government bailouts, the reviled mother of them all â the $700 billion lifeline to banks, insurance and auto companies â will expire after Sunday at a fraction of that cost, and could conceivably earn taxpayers a profit.” (New York Times) It ...
  • Health Insurer Exits Market
    “The Principal Financial Group announced on Thursday that it planned to stop selling health insurance, another sign of upheaval emerging among insurers as the new federal health law starts to take effectâ¦. Principalâs decision closely tracks moves by other insurers that have indicated in recent ...
  • Questionable Lender Tactics Stall Foreclosures
    “The foreclosure machinery that has forced millions of Americans out of their homes is beginning to seize up as some lenders and their lawyers are accused of cutting corners in their pursuit of rapid home repossessions.” (New York Times) The lender isnât always right. FEE Timely Classic “The Econo ...
  • What Education Needs
    As an antidote to the blather masquerading on MSNBC as serious discussion of education, I prescribe the wisdom of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804).
  • More Hand-Wringing over Education
    MSNBC is devoting this week to the education crisis. Every ten years or so, the media, politicians, and intelligentsia remember how bad the government schools are. They then go into overdrive discussing what’s wrong and what to do about it. Funny thing is, they never look back to the last time they ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Killing jobs for political sport
    Date that Republicans used Senate rules to block an extension of the TANF Emergency Fund that directly subsidized jobs for the unemployed in government, nonprofits and small businesses: 9/28/2010 Date that the program expired: 9/30/2010 Amount of money the program had given states for job cre ...
  • Lone senator denies justice to black farmers
    For the ninth time, the U.S. Senate has denied funding for a settlement with black and Native American farmers who faced decades of discrimination in government loan programs . Last week, following a protest by farmers in Washington, Sens. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and Bla ...
  • Can labor out-organize the Tea Party?
    By Jane Slaughter and Mark Brenner, Labor Notes As tens of thousands of activists rally in Washington October 2 , not all union members will be on the same page. No one knows how many unionists attended Glenn Beck's "Restore Honor" gathering last month -- they were surely a small minority - ...
  • SPECIAL REPORT: Industry wraps coal ash regulation ...
    Standing out among the more than 250 people who testified at the recent Environmental Protection Agency hearing on proposed coal ash regulations in Charlotte, N.C. was one speaker with an especially distinguished background: Charles Steele Jr. ( in photo at right ), the first African-American membe ...
  • Gulf spill paymaster says he has eliminated claims ...
    By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica Five weeks after taking over the oil spill damage claims from BP, and after widespread criticism of delays in processing applications, claims czar Kenneth Feinberg said his operation had eliminated the backlog of older claims that had been sitting in the system unpaid ...

Worldpress - Africa

Canadian Encyclopedia

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle apple peels & cores?
    Frequent commenter on Recycle This, Linda, the bookstorebabe, emailed to tell us about a recipe for using up apple peel and cores: I just read this on Craftster, about making jelly from the peels and cores of apples. Seems like a nice way to use something that otherwise would be composted. Especiall ...
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make a dog/puppy to ...
    Recycle This regular Anna left a question on the Suggest an Item page: What could I use to make dog toys? My friend got a puppy and I’d like to make him some toys. I’ve made cat toys for ages, but puppy toys definitely need to be stronger and bigger. Dog toys do typically need [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle microwaved plastic wrap ...
    Over on Twitter, fairygirl25 (aka Elizabeth) asked us: how can u reuse plastic wrap after u use it once in the microwave? We don’t use plastic wrap in the microwave so I’m not sure how it changes it to stop you being able to reuse it like ordinary plastic wrap/cling film/saran wrap again. Could anyo ...
  • Bottle caps and corks – two requests
    We’ve had two similar requests over the last couple of days so I thought I’d post them together. First up, Alan wants bottle caps: I make beautiful replicas of fine art (e.g. Matisse, Warhol) and logos from bottle caps: See my site at www.bottlecapartwork.com Also, If you have caps, please email me ...
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make a foraging/har ...
    Nearly every time we go out for a walk at the moment, we seem to find a new set of berries aching to be picked. And every time that happens, we kick ourselves for not having a bag with us. After our discussion about making one earlier in the year, I have a trug-ish basket [...]

Mondoweiss

  • Enter the Israel Project’s ‘Best Shots ...
    As a service to The Israel Project we thought we’d let you know about their new photo contest –TIP Photo Competition Send Us Your Best Shots of Israel! 1st Prize: $150.00 2nd Prize: $100.00 3rd Prize: $50.00 We are particularly looking for colorful photos that show the full variety of daily life in ...
  • Sanchez’s first mistake
    I must point out that Rick Sanchez, who was unceremoniously fired by CNN today for talking some trash about Jon Stewart and the Jewish ownership of networks, was one of the few network anchors to give any attention to the Palestinian side of the story. He was plainly alarmed by the Israeli assault o ...
  • Jewish boat’s captain says IDF used ‘c ...
    Glyn Secker, the British captain of the Jewish boat to Gaza, reports on its interception earlier this week, and his deportation. Key excerpts: There then developed a sight which will remain with me for the rest of my life – with the frigate in the background, two gunboats, two landing craft and ...
  • ‘Commentary’: legitimacy issues, Pales ...
    Here is an interesting/twisted piece that reaffirms my belief that Israel is not about the actual safety of Jews-- guess what, we're back in Berlin and we're doing fine all over the U.S.-- it is a symbol for a certain kind of Jewish identity, and increasingly a militant and isolated one. Daniel Gord ...
  • Videos from Silwan
    The video above depicts a woman in Silwan testifying that late at night an Israeli border policeman, who was stationed on her roof, broke the glass window in the video and instructed her to make him coffee. He seems to have thought she was alone in the house, although her husband was there. Joseph ...

Media Consortium

  • 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 ...
  • Apple Said to Negotiate With Publishers Over Digit ...
    Apple Inc. is developing a digital newsstand for publishers that would let them sell magazines and newspapers to consumers for use on Apple devices, said two people familiar with the matter. ...The newsstand would be separate from Apple’s App Store, where people can buy some publications now, they ...

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 )

  • US apologizes for infecting Guatemalans with syphi ...
    The US government issued a formal apology for a 1940s study on the efficacy of penicillin in which as many as 695 Guatemalan prisoners, insane asylum inmates, and soldiers were infected with syphilis. Study subjects were encouraged to pass the infection to others, and about a third never got ful ...
  • French research budget escapes axe, but not contro ...
    France's ministry of science and higher education is the only ministry, along with the justice ministry, to be spared from deep cuts in the country's deficit-reducing budget for 2011 announced by the government this week. Valérie Pécresse, the minister for research and higher education, yesterday ou ...
  • China moon probe launch a success
    Chinese media are reporting on the successful launch of Chang’e 2, an unmanned moon probe that is playing a key role in the country’s effort to scale up its lunar exploration program. Chang’e 2 will take five days to reach a 100 km lunar polar orbit. It is carrying a laser altimeter, a CCD camera, ...
  • Ruth’s Reviews: Why does E=mc2? (and why should we ...
    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. Mark Haddon’s The Curious Inci ...
  • Small cuts offer little relief for Spanish science
    Posted for Michele Catanzaro Science has not been spared from cuts in Spain’s 2011 budget . The draft budget was disclosed yesterday, after the government presented it to parliament. In 2011, the science ministry will receive 7.7% less than 2010, less than half the average cut to ministries o ...

new geography

  • Redefining 'Niners': Football on The Great Plains
    At 0.5 people per square mile, Harding County, South Dakota is one of the least populated places in the nation. The county’s only high school, located in Buffalo, is small by even small-town standards, with 85 students in grades 9-12. However, few schools can match its gridiron success. Nicknamed af ...
  • Shifting Religious Climate
    While the new Memphis Islamic Center in Cordova, TN awaits completion, members meet at a nearby church building that houses Cordova’s Heart Song Church. The Christian congregation has opened its doors to the Muslim community as a gesture of good will. This kind act is in contrast with other rec ...
  • Portland Metro's Competitiveness Problem
    Portland Metro's president, David Bragdon, recently resigned to take a position with New York’s Bloomberg administration. Bragdon was nearing the end of his second elected term and ineligible for another term. Metro is the three county (Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties) planning agency t ...
  • Latino Dems Should Rethink Loyalty
    Given the awful state of the economy, it’s no surprise that Democrats are losing some support among Latinos. But they can still consider the ethnic group to be in their pocket. Though Latinos have not displayed the lock-step party loyalty of African-Americans, they still favor President Barack Obama ...
  • Why We Have to Learn to Love the Subdivision – Aga ...
    When did anyone last hear officials and professionals talking enthusiastically about the social and economic benefits resulting from the subdivision of land to create secure, clean and tradable title? Indeed, any planning document is likely to include a long list of potential problems caused by the ...

GM Watch

spiked

Cryptogon

  • Big Picture Gallery: Human Landscapes in South Wes ...
    Via: Boston Globe / Big Picture: A couple weeks ago, I was listening to a story by NPR’s Planet Money team about “Toxie” a toxic asset they had purchased to follow and help tell the story of the recent financial meltdown. One of the mortgages in Toxie was on a home bought for investment in [...]
  • U.S. Government Medical Researchers Deliberately I ...
    Via: Reuters: The United States apologized on Friday for an experiment conducted in the 1940s in which U.S. government medical researchers deliberately infected Guatemalan prison inmates with syphilis. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and othe ...
  • Has There Ever Been This Much “Alien” ...
    The Event is on NBC now. V starts up on ABC again in November. That’s two prime time series on different networks about human looking aliens that infiltrate society. Skyline will be released in November. Battle: Los Angeles will be released in March 2011. If I know about these, there are probably mo ...
  • The U.S. Government has Deployed Mobile X-Ray Tech ...
    Via: Christian Science Monitor: As an antiterror measure, the US government has deployed mobile X-ray technology to randomly scan cars and trucks. But the measure is riling privacy proponents. For many living in a terror-spooked country, it might seem like a great government innovation: Use vans equ ...
  • 1010: No Pressure
    Via: 1010Global: Whippersnapping climate campaign 10:10 teams up with legendary comic screenwriter Richard Curtis – you know, Blackadder, Four Weddings, Notting Hill, co-founded Comic Relief – and Age of Stupid director Franny Armstrong to proudly present their explosive new mini-movie “No Pressure” ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Green Police
    Is someone out behind your house digging through your trash?  Don't worry, it is probably just the government.  When Audi ran their now famous "Green Police" commercial during the Super Bowl last year, most Americans laughed it off and thought that nothing like that could ever happe ...
  • Rampant Inflation In 2011? The Monetary Base Is Ex ...
    Are you ready for rampant inflation?  Well, unfortunately it looks like it might be headed our way.  The U.S. monetary base has absolutely exploded over the last couple of years, and all that money is starting to filter through into the hands of consumers.  Commodity prices are abso ...
  • As Americans Celebrate Labor Day 2010, U.S. Factor ...
    Labor Day 2010 comes in the midst of a stunning wave of U.S. factory closings that stretches from coast to coast.  Once upon a time America was the greatest manufacturing machine that the world has ever seen, but now it seems as though the only jobs available for working class Ameri ...
  • The Proof Is In The Numbers: America Is Getting Po ...
    How in the world can anyone claim that things are getting better?  Sometimes the numbers are so clear that they simply cannot be denied.  According to the U.S. Census Bureau, median household income in the United States fell from $51,726 in 2008 to $50,221 in 2009.  That was the sec ...
  • 30 Statistics That Prove The Elite Are Getting Ric ...
    Not everyone has been doing badly during the economic turmoil of the last few years.  In fact, there are some Americans that are doing really, really well.  While the vast majority of us struggle, there is one small segment of society that is seemingly doing better than ever.  This ...

Desertification

  • Building bio sand filters and teaching households ...
    Read at : Innovation of the Week: Using Dirt to Make Water Clean by Molly Theobald http://blogs.worldwatch.org/nourishingtheplanet/innovation-of-the-week-using-dirt-to-make-water-clean/ Video Spotlight of the Week by Danielle Nierenberg http://blogs.worldwatch.org/nourishingtheplanet/video-spotlight ...
  • Bioenergy is not only compatible with food product ...
    Read at : Africa InfoServ http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=53012 Title: Food and biofuel – is a balance possible? Author: Busani Bafana Category: Ecology Date: 9/30/2010 Source: Inter Press Service News Agency Source Website: www.ipsnews.net African Charter Article# 24: ...
  • flour made from black-eyed peas, a crop that has b ...
    Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2010/09/senegal-experiments-with-cowpea-as.html Senegal experiments with cowpea as wheat substitute in bread-baking by Artis Henderson At a pilot bakery inside the Food Technology Institute in Dakar, Senegal’s capital, cooks in white smocks tried to ma ...
  • Assessing food needs, speeding up data-collection ...
    It’s really nice to hear that WFP is now using HP Smartphones in Burundi to assess food needs, to speed up data-collection and to improve accuracy : http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?Reportid=90645 Unlike before, when WFP’s monitors used to conduct surveys on paper forms, … Continue reading →
  • Could the black-eyed pea (Vigna unguiculata) be th ...
    Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2010/09/potential-of-cowpea-for-africas-food.html The potential of cowpea for Africa’s food future by George Fominyen With concern growing that climate change will lead to shortages in classic food staples such as maize and rice, could the black-eyed p ...

The Paper Trail

  • New Systemic Risk Regulatory Council Sets Goals
    Reform watchers expecting a “Showdown in the Cash Room” between the primary U.S. financial regulators didn’t see anything resembling a regulatory fight club this afternoon.
  • Labor Dept’s Handling of Whistleblower Cases ...
    A new watchdog report says the U.S. Labor Department often fails to properly investigate complaints by corporate workers who seek whistleblower protection.
  • California Republican Lampooned in Tropical Ad
    As election ads paid for by third-party groups begin to flood U.S. airways, one group seeking campaign finance reform is running an ad blasting a California Republican who has protected the current election financing system. The ad lampoons Dan Lungren, now seeking his 9th term representing Long Bea ...
  • Live From the Cash Room:  Your Risk Regulator ...
    The Financial Stability Oversight Council – the new panel that is supposed to spot any early signs of systemic risks in U.S. markets – makes its debut this afternoon. The council’s first meeting starts at 2:30 p.m. ET and will be webcast here from the Treasury Department’s aptly-named “Cash Room.”
  • BP Pays Another Fine for Texas Refinery
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said today it will collect a $15 million fine from BP for Clean Air Act violations, the latest in a series of federal government fines and settlements linked to BP’s Texas City, Texas refinery.

backofthebook.ca

  • Libs go AWOL on own war resisters bill
    By Alison@Creekside For want of just eight more votes, Bill C-440 -- the war resisters bill to give protection to US Iraq war deserters -- went down to defeat on Wednesday 136 to 143. The following 18 Libs expedited that defeat by going awol on the vote: Michael Ignatieff, Jean-Claude D'Amo ...
  • Some oil sands history wouldn’t hurt James C ...
    By Frank Moher As he continues his visit to the oil sands and neighbouring communities today, James Cameron will have no clue what they represent to so many Albertans. He will learn that they are a threat to the health and livelihood of the people who live downstream from them, in Fort ...
  • You really don’t care about Betty Krawczyk, ...
    By Alison@Creekside A column in the National Post last week compared the peaceful civil disobedience and incarceration of 82-year old environmental activist Betty Krawczyk with that of 62-year old anti-abortion protester Linda Gibbons: Two court injunctions; two women who violated them in a way ...
  • Vinyl Resurgent
    by Eric Pettifor A little over three years ago, I wrote here about converting vinyl records to digitial audio files. I suggested the Ebay record section as a source for vinyl, and noted at time of writing that there were 151,436 listings. At this time of writing, there ...
  • Sesame Street Bans the Boobs
    By Rachel Krueger Katy Perry’s boobs have been deemed unfit for audiences aged 1-6.  Shocked, are we?   The singer’s duet with Elmo, already disseminated via the Youtubes, won’t be appearing on Sesame Street after all.  Perry sings a reworking of her song ‘Hot N Cold’ where lines such as ‘l ...

Worldnews

  • Paine-Johnson consolidate Australian total ...
    Mohali, Oct 2 (PTI): Saturday, October 02, 2010 --> A gritty maiden Test half century by wicketkeeper-batsman Tim Paine and a nice little cameo from Mitchell Johnson helped Australia reach 390 for eight, at tea on the second day of the first Test match against India, at the PCA Stadium here. Du ...
  • Tibetan netizens debate their prime ministeri ...
    Dharamsala, Oct 2, (IANS): Saturday, October 02, 2010 --> The Tibetan cyberspace is abuzz with activity ahead of Sunday's primary elections to shortlist candidates for the 'prime minister' and parliament of the Tibetan government-in-exile here. The primary elections to nominate candidates for t ...
  • Abbas to consult aides on fate of Mideast tal ...
    October 2, 2010 � (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is to consult with senior Palestinians to decide whether to quit Mideast peace talks over Israel's refusal to extend a slowdown in West Bank settlement construction. Saturday's meeting of leading members of the PLO and Abbas' Fatah... ...
  • 60 Years of Porsche in America
    From October 1st to 7th, 2010, you have the chance to see the amazing Porsche concept sports car, the 918 Spyder at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen. The special exhibit coincides with the 60th anniversary when the first Porsche 365 models were introduced and shipped to the United S ...
  • 9/11 conspiracy theories rife in Muslim world ...
    CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press Writer= ISTANBUL (AP) — About a week ago, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared to the United Nations that most people in the world believe the United States was behind the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. To many people in the West, the stateme ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Also In Global Health News: African Bank Donates T ...
    Africa's Access Bank Donates $1M To Global Fund Africa's Access Bank "has announced a donation of the sum of $1 million to the Global Fund's Gift from Africa" project redeemable over a 3-year period (2010 - 2012)," according to the New Times/allAfrica.com...
  • World Bank President Calls For New, More Open Appr ...
    "World Bank President Robert Zoellick on Wednesday called on economists to rethink the way they look at issues affecting developing nations and said he was overhauling the way his institution approached research," Reuters reports (Wroughton, 9/29)...
  • Resource Restoration Planning Process Has Begun Fo ...
    The Department of the Interior, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the co-trustees for natural resources affected by the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill have announced that they have started the injury assessment and restoration planning phase of the Natural Resource Damage Asse ...
  • Apology 60 Years After Prisoners And Mentally Ill ...
    Sixty years ago the US government deliberately infected hundreds of Guatemalan mentally ill patients and prisoners with syphilis and gonorrhea in an experiment. The aim, apparently, was to test some vaccines for sexually transmitted infections (venereal diseases). None of the infected individuals ha ...
  • FDA says recall of adult Motrin 'took too long'
    FDA official says the agency waited too long to ask McNeil Consumer Healthcare to recall defective adult Motrin.

Common Dreams

  • Ecuador in Turmoil as President Denounces 'Coup At ...
    QUITO -- Ecuador's government declared a state of emergency Thursday saying rebel troops and police were staging a coup, after seizing the main airport and storming Congress in a mutiny over pay cuts. About 150 renegade troops seized a runway at Ecuador's international airport in the capital of the ...
  • Breaking: Live Coverage From Ecuador
    Follow coverage here (in Spanish) as TeleSur covers the upheaval in Ecuador.
  • Obama Administration Should Oppose Any Attempted C ...
    Washington, D.C. - There are currently reports of a possible attempted coup d'etat underway in Ecuador. There have been violent protests by police and some elements of the military, reports that President Correa has been injured, and reports that the air force has closed down a number of airports. T ...
  • Senator: Fire Afghanistan Funds Inspector, Avoid R ...
    by Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON - The Obama administration should fire the special inspector general for Afghanistan, and create an office to oversee all wartime contracting, a top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee said on Tuesday. Senator Claire McCaskill, a former state auditor, said ...
  • FBI Targets US Palestine Activists
    by Chris Arsenault Tracy Molm sometimes has a hard time paying rent, so it came as a surprise when American security forces banged on her door at 7am one morning, and searched her apartment under suspicions she provided material support to a terrorist organisation. read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

  • Emanuel's replacement could calm climate debate
    With White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's departure, President Obama is turning to the journeyman sage who helped acquaint him with the nuances of energy policy as a new senator in Washington. Now he might steer a splintered debate on climate.
  • Sen. Bingaman pushes to pass energy bills
    The chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has a laundry list of energy measures he wants to see approved this fall and is pressing Senate leaders to schedule votes during the short legislative session after the November election.
  • Green buildings include casinos, prisons, fast-foo ...
    Green-certified buildings aren't just for treehuggers anymore. They now include a surprising mix of frat houses, gas stations, fast food stores, discount retailers, casinos, gas stations and prisons.
  • BP has spent $11.2 billion so far on Gulf oil spil ...
    BP has spent $11.2 billion dollars so far responding to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the company said Friday as U.S.-born Bob Dudley took over as chief executive officer.
  • Homeowners focus on energy efficiency, outdoor liv ...
    As the U.S. economy remains weak, homeowners are focusing on affordability with strong interest in energy efficiency and rooms that get the most use, reports the American Institute of Architects.

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

  • US War Crimes in Fallujah
    by Stephen Lendman Numerous previous articles documented two decades of US war crimes in Iraq, the latest titled, "One of History's Greatest Crimes," accessed through the following link: sjlendman.blogspot.com On August 31, declaring an "end to the combat mission in Iraq," Obama disgracefully said ...
  • New Internet Censorship Bill Introduced
    by Stephen Lendman Like most others in Congress, Senator Patrick Leahy is no progressive. He voted to fund imperial wars, regressive Obamacare, Wall Street-friendly financial reform, and other pro-business measures, including agribusiness-empowering bills, harming small farmers and consumers. ...
  • The American message to Palestinians and Arabs
    Salim Nazzal Obama started his Mideast involvement by demanding that Israel stop building settlements. The settlements are the land the government of Israel stealing from Palestine to construct housing project for Jews only. Streets only for Jews, schools only for Jews, and so forth. These settleme ...
  • Obama is rolling the dice and playing the numbers
    By Von Helman One thing is for certain, anything that comes out of Washington DC regardless of political alignment or the person spewing it, or even if it’s from political pundits within the MSM all of it contains numbers. There is a fascination for numbers, and there are numbers attached to al ...
  • Failed Washington-Sponsored Ecuadorean Coup Attemp ...
    by Stephen Lendman Post-9/11, Washington sponsored four coup d'etats. Two succeeded - mostly recently in Honduras in 2009 against Manuel Zelaya, and in Haiti in 2004 deposing Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Two others failed - in Venezuela in 2002 against Hugo Chavez, and on September 30 in Ecuador agai ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • 20/20 : A Clear Vision for Winnipeg. 2010 Alterna ...
    CCPA-Manitoba is releasing the 2010 Alternative Municipal Budget on Thursday September 9th at 10:30 a.m. at the Magnus Eliason Recreation Centre, 430 Langside Street. This is a timely event as Winnipeggers consider the future of their city in the run-up to the October 27th civic election. The Alte ...
  • CCPA Saskatchewan presents Trevor Herriot
    Join us on October 15th and 16th for a special evening with Trevor Herriot. A renowned prairie naturalist, essayist and commentator, Trevor will discuss the intersection of culture and nature on the northern Great Plains in his talk entitled "All Flesh is Grass: Toward a Re-Engagement with the Prair ...
  • Anti-Racism In Education: A one day conference
    Join us on October 4, 2010 for a one-day conference at the University of Toronto Scarborough celebrating the release of " Anti-Racism in Education: Missing in Action ." The day will feature Charles C. Smith (editor) and prominent thinkers including George Dei, Tim McCaskell, Tina Lopes, Carol Schi ...
  • Canada's housing bubble
    A new CCPA study finds that for the first time in 30 years, six of Canada's hottest real estate markets are in a housing bubble. Canada’s Housing Bubble: An Accident Waiting to Happen examines trends in house prices in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal and Ottawa between 1980 and 2010 ...
  • Reflections on the Tamil migrants from the child o ...
    Many of us at the CCPA have been troubled by Canada's reaction to the arrival of 492 Tamil asylum seekers on the MV Sun Sea. Seth Klein, Director of our BC Office, put words to this discomfort in an excellent post on PolicyNote.ca (our blog on BC public policy issues). Seth, son of Vietnam war resis ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Internet Engineers Say “Hell No” To Bi ...
    An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the Senate Judiciary Committee | Electronic Freedom Foundation Today, 87 prominent Internet engineers sent a joint letter the US Senate Judiciary Committee, declaring their opposition to the “Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act” (COICA). The t ...
  • Prop 19 Gains Favor
    Marijuana Legalization Initiative Increasingly Popular Among California Voters | Alternet More than half of Californians now say that they will vote ‘yes’ this November on Proposition 19, which would legalize the private adult use and cultivation of limited amounts of cannabis, and allow local gover ...
  • We’ll Be There, Will You?
    Dre and Joe are heading for Washington. We would love to meet and march with others from WWH. Come along and represent the new Hippie movement. If you cannot make it, you can donate on the WWH website to help with our expenses. For a donation of $10.00 or more you will receive a bumper sticker. [.. ...
  • Weekly Trivia
    A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 8:00 pm (EST). You can post your answer in the comments section below the question and be entered into a chance to win a WWH Bumpersticker! This weeks question: This man has repeatedly said that he has no memory of belonging to the Federalist So ...
  • Stocks Are Up!
    And yet, profitable corporations are still laying off workers… Stocks end best September in 71 years down | AP Stocks ended a monthlong rally on a weak note, but still chalked up the best September in 71 years. Indexes rose sharply at the open Thursday following some better news on the economy, but ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • The mind, formerly boggled, reels uncontrollably
    I finally figured it all out watching the mainstream news on TV the other day. We’re not living in The Matrix, we’re living in a  dystopian 1980′s scifi movie. Robocop, Blade Runner, The Running Man, Terminator, Max Headroom, and others all nicely contributing to this farce. Not that reality itself ...
  • ALLIES HELPLESS AS FLEETS OF UNSTOPPABLE NAZI STEA ...
    1943, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, the commander of Germany’s Air Force, issued his now famous “1000, 1000, 1000.” requirements, the so called  “3 X 1000 project.” This was a call for a bomber that could carry a 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) load for 1,000 km (620 mi) at 1,000 km/h (620 mph. ) And ...
  • The Mystery of the Dog Legged Gate?
    History is full of mysteries, and this is one of them. Granted it’s not a very big mystery, as mysteries go it’s pretty minor. In fact if the importance of this mystery was turned into gasoline, it wouldn’t drive an ant’s motorcycle halfway around the inside of a cheerio. (I’ve been waiting more tha ...
  • McCain Proposes Indefinite Detention Without Trial ...
    Still, this proposed law is scary. The whole concept is so foreign to the principles the country was founded upon that it’s like being in a bad dream and not being able to wake up. This proposed law basically turns the Constitution and the Bill of Rights into a piece of toilet paper and gives [...]
  • The myth of nation building, or why you can’ ...
    Please note there is now a “share” button at the bottom of each post for those who wish to share a post among a variety of venues of their choice. Thanks in advance for all that do so. Another Friday, another week of an all too fleeting life passed by, yadda yadda yadda.  And as [...]

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

  • Economic Musings VI: Modern Economies – Dyin ...
    There is a great debate in the history of economics whether there can be under-consumption in any real historic moment of the state of an economy and if so, whether it has detrimental effects and if so, what is to be done about it. And modern economists seem to have found a magic wand with [...]
  • Blogs and Web Sites you may want to follow
    The following is a list of blogs and websites that CrisisMaven has followed and observed over the last few months and that readers may want to check out from time to time. Note: neither the sequence of how the blogs are listed here nor any comments by CrisisMaven are an endorsement nor criticism of ...
  • Economic Musings VII: Marketing doesn’t adve ...
    Have you ever wondered if marketing and advertising are the same, if not, what’s the difference and which is the more important of the two? And why should you care? The most successful economic model is without doubt the market economy. It is the consequence of the wealth effects of the division of ...
  • CrisisMaven’s Blog News 2010-03-07: Over 25,000 We ...
    Yesterday around 16:37 GMT we passed the 25,000 threshold … - next report will probably be posted when we’re past the 50,000 mark. Thanks to all avid readers: on 2010-03-18 at around 19:25 GMT we went past our first 20,000 views on our blog in about eight weeks since we began publishing! After that, ...
  • Economic Musings VIII: Is there a limit to economi ...
    Something which puzzles many thinkers and frightens many young people concerned about waste or the pillaging of our natural resources is the question: can “an economy” (whatever that is – we’ll come to that in a minute) grow indefinitely? How can there be unlimited economic growth if we’ve never hea ...

Capital Flow Analysis

  • Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further evid ...
    In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted. The following ...
  • Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagflatio ...
    The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest bus ...
  • How long would it take to work off the US trade de ...
    The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
  • Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy porte ...
    In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the current crisis. This articl ...
  • Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
    No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings were ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Book Review: Power Hungry
    Join the forum discussion on this post Introduction “There is no more complex or fascinating topic than energy.” — Robert Bryce As I began to work on my review of Robert Bryce’s latest book, Power Hungry: The Myths of “Green” Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future, it became less a traditional ...
  • Have We Hit Peak Coffee?
    Join the forum discussion on this post // The following is a guest essay authored by R-Squared regular Paul Nash. (Credit to Ronald Steenblik for the “Carter-Reagan Parallel” portion.) Have We Hit Peak Coffee? There is continued debate about whether the world will soon hit “Peak Coffee,” with ...
  • The Lesson from Rising Ethanol Prices
    Join the forum discussion on this post I thought it was a bit humorous recently — when corn ethanol prices dipped and were cheaper than both sugarcane ethanol and gasoline (even when adjusted for lower energy content)  — that some corn ethanol proponents pointed to this as a watershed event. Their ...
  • How to Run an Oil Industry into the Ground
    Join the forum discussion on this post Hugo Chavez is putting on a clinic in Venezuela. The theme is “How to Destroy a Domestic Oil Industry.” I have warned for years that this would be the end result of Chavez’s actions. As I wrote in 2007: So, can Chavez under-invest in the industry while divert ...
  • Peak Oil Interview: Misconceptions, Replacing Oil, ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Back in June, I gave a presentation on Peak Oil at the Global Footprint Conference in Siena, Italy. (More on the event here). Following my presentation, I was asked to do a pair of interviews. One was for an upcoming documentary called Critical Mass. The secon ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • Learn to Type | Free Typing Tutor | Typing Lessons
    Comments: Free online typing tutuorial, games, certification for typing and 10-key. - Randy Rodgers Tags: typing , keyboarding , education , tutorial , tools , keyboard , tutorials , learning by: Randy Rodgers
  • Make stories - storify.com
    Comments: Turn what people post on social media into compelling stories. You collect the best photos, video, tweets and more to publish them as simple, beautiful stories that can be embedded anywhere. - Fred Delventhal Tags: story , writing , digitalstorytelling , socialnetworking by: Fred Delventha ...
  • [video] Quartiere Villa Granata, Rionero in Vultur ...
    Comments: Le fabbriche dell’ex distilleria del Vulture con i tetti di eternit, l’ex vetreria con rifiuti pericolosi, cumuli di rifiuti quasi a contatto con il dedalo delle case. In questo luogo in degrado, quasi invisibile: “Villa Granata” luogo simbolo della coltivazione della vite. Un monumento ar ...
  • ZooBurst
    Comments: Create your own 3D pop-up books for digital storytelling projects. - Dean Mantz Tags: books , zooburst , elementary , digitalstorytelling , 3D by: Dean Mantz
  • Digital Storytelling with Comic Master | The White ...
    Comments: Tell a story digitally using comic strips using Comic Master as well as some other recommendations. - Dean Mantz Tags: digital , storytelling , comiccreator , comicmaster , Reading for Life by: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

  • Mattel Recalls Millions of Fisher-Price Toys and P ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—This time, it's not Salmonella or tainted tomatoes, but Dora the Explorer tricycles, Little People, and inflatable balls that have government regulators overseeing a massive recall. Thursday morning, toy maker Mattel announced a massive recall involving over 10 million Fishe ...
  • 5 Fabulous Sweet and Savory Crepe Recipes
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The versatile, classic crepe—essentially a light, super-thin pancake—works great as the foundation for all kinds of delicious dinners and desserts. Don't be too intimidated by the French name to try some crepe recipes at home. Once you have the basic recipe and crepe-making ...
  • Massage Boosts Your Immunity, New Study Finds
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The benefits of massage are immediately obvious to anyone who's had one. A massage session calms you down, eases your anxieties, and even helps you sleep at night . Now a new study, funded by the government's National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine, finds ...
  • Should Your Fish Oil Pills be Thrown Back?
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The beneficial fatty acids in fish oil have been associated with a reduced risk of breast cancer , fatal heart attacks , better brain function, and more. But a recent report conducted by a consumer watchdog group has discovered some fish-oil-supplement claims are downright f ...
  • 5 Simple Recipes for Tasty After-School Snacks
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—It’s important to refuel your kid after school with smart, healthy snacks. Sure, his or her school day is over, but it’s been hours since lunch, and dinnertime is still a ways off. Healthy snacks for kids will satisfy their hunger, keep them from filling up on empty calories ...

big think

  • Do the Bird: Maurizio Cattelan’s Protest Sculpture
    When Maurizio Cattelan unveiled his 30-foot-high sculpture titled L.O.V.E. in front of the Milan Stock Exchange recently, many people were wondering exactly where the love was. The massive hand with middle finger upraised resembles in style and marble structure Michelangelo ’s David , if the young . ...
  • Emphasizing Environmental Sacrifice Or a New Visio ...
    Last night I appeared on a panel here at AU with the editors and contributors to the bold new book " The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice ."  The goal of the book is to raise a discussion about the concept of sacrifice which according to the editors “has been curiously unexamined in both activist ...
  • Levytator: The World's First Free-Form Escalator
    Since its invention in 1859, the escalator has been the most widely used mode of non-vehicle urban transpiration, ubiquitous everywhere from airports to shopping malls to subways. It is estimated that an escalator is used over 90 billion times a year in the US alone. But the traditional moving ... R ...
  • Would You Like a Receipt With Your Taxes?
    Yesterday, Ezra Klein flagged an excellent idea from progressive think tank The Third Way: why don’t we give taxpayers a receipt for their taxes? As The Third Way’s David Kendall and Jim Kessler point out, many Americans pay more in taxes than on any other single thing. But for the most part they . ...
  • A Tea Party Treasury: Taibbi & Drum
    There's been a lot of great writing about the conservative backlash known as the tea party lately. Matt Taibbi has an astute take on racism and the tea party movement in Rolling Stone : It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists. They're ...

Information Liberation

  • Looking for Leaders -- And That's the Problem
    Thomas Friedman says we need a leader. In a recent op-ed he laments that the Tea Party we hear about -- which he dubs the Tea Kettle movement because it's full of steam -- "has no plan to restore America to greatness." It focuses merely on symptom...
  • The Next Stage: Global Naked Body Scanners
    Madame Napolitano of the Ministry of the Fatherland plans to take naked body scanners to the next level. She is urging 190 nations to adopt the machines. It*s all part of a push to counter terrorists who might use international flights for attacks by...
  • Authorities Plan To Trawl Phone Calls And E Mails ...
    Do you resent the government for enforcing Obamacare or raising your taxes? Write about it in an email or talk about it on the phone and you could be placed under surveillance as a potential terrorist, if frightening new technology being shopped t...
  • Police Brutality: Ohio Cop Smashes Handcuffed Man' ...
    Per usual, the victim of this violent assault was charged with "assaulting a peace officer." That the video tape clearly shows that's a complete lie is irrelevant to the state agent. After an "internal investigation," the costumed thug was puni...
  • Quinnipiac student arrested after filming another ...
    In the video, Quinnipiac University senior Kenneth Hartford films the arrest of another student from his cell phone. After Hartford stepped away from the scene, then returned (poised to begin recording again), he was arrested and charged with "Diso...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Nullius In Verba
    China isn’t buying it. Russia isn’t buying it. The citizens of the United States of America aren’t buying it and are making this fact painfully clear to their legislators; my own countrymen, with their well-attuned B.S. radar, aren’t buying it. … Continue reading →
  • The Pioneer
    The Lincolnshire Sniffer Dog strikes yet again! LibertyGibbert’s Pavarotti of pictorial punditry, Fenbeagle, this week brings his historical epic forward to the Victorian era, and that greatest of all British engineers. At least, when he stuck to building railways, bridges … Continue reading →
  • The Cognoscenti Speak
    Here’s a post where you can discuss the current JD thread in a bit more detail. I never really knew much about the Bilderberg group. They seem to be compromised of pretty much everyone who actually runs the world, and … Continue reading →
  • The Time To Let Up?
    G’day everyone ,and thanks for keeping LibertyGibbert humming away while I’ve been out on the road. I note the rather triumphalist tone in James Delingpole’s latest post in the UK Daily Telegraph; I’m not so sure I agree with it. … Continue reading →
  • Here’s A Real One-Way Climate Trend
    Seeing as we’re back onto our favourite topic, I thought I’d mention an issue that’s been buzzing around the Ozboy headspace for a while now. In the AGW debate, it’s clear the battle lines (for such they are) were drawn … Continue reading →

FAS - Secrecy News

  • Behind the Censorship of Operation Dark Heart
    By censoring Anthony Shaffer’s new book “Operation Dark Heart” even though uncensored review copies are already available in the public domain, the Department of Defense has produced a genuinely unique product:  a revealing snapshot of the way that the Obama Administration classifies national secur ...
  • Inspectors General to Help Oversee Classification
    The House and Senate this week approved legislation that will require the Inspector General of each executive branch agency that classifies information to evaluate the agency’s classification program and to assess its implementation of classification policies and procedures. The new measure should h ...
  • GAO Gains a Foothold in Intelligence Oversight
    The Government Accountability Office seems poised to play an increased role in intelligence oversight, despite a series of legislative setbacks and the Obama Administration’s threat of a veto earlier in the year. The issue remains alive in the FY2010 Intelligence Authorization Act which was approved ...
  • Is Publication of Classified Info a Criminal Act?
    When Wikileaks published tens of thousands of classified U.S. military records concerning the war in Afghanistan last July, did it commit a criminal act under U.S. law?  That was the question posed by a new report (pdf) from the Congressional Research Service.  In the end, the CRS report tentative ...
  • DNI Directive on Unauthorized Disclosures (2007) R ...
    The Office of the Director of National Intelligence last week released Intelligence Community Directive 701 (pdf), entitled “Security Policy Directive for Unauthorized Disclosures of Classified Information,” dated March 14, 2007. The directive sets forth procedures and requirements for identifying a ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Science news with a spectral twist
    My latest science updates on SpectroscopyNOW.com: Soft solar cell – US researchers have demonstrated that water-gel-based solar devices can act like "artificial leaves" heralding the possibility of soft matter solar energy conversion devices. X-Ray resistance – An X-ray structure determined by US re ...
  • Chalking one up for science vs religion
    Apparently, atheists and agnostics performed very well in a survey of religious knowledge (on a par with Jews and Mormons and better than Protestants and Catholics) on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions. More about that here. But it wasn’t the su ...
  • Latest science stuff
    Latest science stuff from Sciencebase: How to Memorize the Periodic Table With a Song – Kind of these people to link to my site, but I take issue with the idea of learning Tom Lehrer's song as a means to chemical education. It's fun and might help you remember the names of the elements, but [...] La ...
  • Yet more scientific news
    Yet more science news from Sciencebase, it’s never ending: Whooping cough epidemic suggests bacteria are adapting – Nine babies have died in California, and four in Australia, so far, in the worst epidemic of whooping cough in rich countries since vaccination became widespread in the 1950s. The main ...
  • Calculating science writer
    Fellow science writer and author of Black Bodies and Quantum Cats, Jennifer Ouellette has a new book out – The Calculus Diaries – which she attempts to de-traumatize those of us who were force-fed derivatives and integrals but perhaps never got past pi-r-squared. The marketing blurb explains how mat ...

RFF Library

  • PAGER—Rapid Assessment of an Earthquake’s Impact
    USGS http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/pager/ [From Background] PAGER (Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response) is an automated system that produces content concerning the impact of significant earthquakes around the world, informing emergency responders, government and aid agencie ...
  • GHG Targets as Insurance Against Catastrophic Clim ...
    Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ.  / by Martin L. Weitzman http://tinyurl.com/3xv8oo7 [Abstract] A critical issue in climate change economics is the specifcation of the so-called “damages function” and its interaction with the unknown uncertainty of catastrophic outcomes. This paper asks ...
  • U.S. Natural Gas Imports & Exports: 2009
    US DOE, Energy Information Administration http://tinyurl.com/2v76mdg [Overview and Highlights] In 2009, net U.S. imports of natural gas were the lowest since 1994, representing just 12 percent of total consumption. The primary underlying cause for the lower level of net imports was continued strong ...
  • The Demand for Ethanol as a Gasoline Substitute
    NBER Working Paper 16371 / by Soren T. Anderson (free on-site for RFFers; $5.00 fee for non-subscribers) http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16371 [Abstract] This paper estimates household preferences for ethanol as a gasoline substitute. I develop a theoretical model linking the shape of the ethanol dem ...
  • Trends in Sustainable Development: Small Island D ...
    UN Department of Social and Economic Affairs, Division for Sustainable Development http://tinyurl.com/3a8nahq [Foreword] Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face unique and special challenges. The special case of SIDS within the context of sustainable development was first formally recognized by t ...

Scientific American - News

  • Would Wiretapping Laws Spell the End of Quantum En ...
    The nascent industry of quantum communications could suffer a fatal blow if the U.S. enacts sweeping new regulations to provide wiretapping access to law enforcement. [More] Law - Telephone tapping - United States - Law Enforcement - Security
  • Artificial Event Horizon Emits Laboratory Analogue ...
    Stephen Hawking is famous for many things: provocative best-selling books, Simpsons guest stints and his long and productive life with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis among them. In the field of astrophysics, the University of Cambridge physicist is also known for his work on gravity and black holes ...
  • Legislation Setting NASA's New Direction Finally C ...
    President Obama's plan for NASA--or at least a modified version of it--cleared a major hurdle late on Sept. 29, when the House of Representatives agreed to the Senate's version of a three-year authorization bill for the space agency. The legislation would add one space shuttle flight to the docket, ...
  • Horizontal Gene Transfer: Bacteria Transmit Geneti ...
    Oceans are highly dynamic habitats: nutrients flood in from a river only to dwindle away over intervening days or weeks; currents shift the mix of waters; an oil spill suddenly makes hundreds of millions of liters of hydrocarbons available to eat . Without sex--and many bacteria don't have sex than ...
  • Planet Hunters Discover a World That Could Harbor ...
    After more than a decade of telescopic monitoring, astronomers have added two newfound worlds to a nearby planetary system already known to harbor four other planets , and one of the new discoveries looks to be the kind of place where life might be able to take hold. [More] ...

RAWA News

  • An Excess of Corruption and a Deficit of Toilets: ...
    RAWA News: Afghanistan might be characterized as having a paucity of toilets and an excess of corruption. These two aspects capture the post-Taliban essence of the country. The “achievements” of Hamid Karzai the de facto mayor of Kabul, the United States and NATO in Afghanistan after more than eight ...
  • Afghan Media Freedoms Erode
    The Wall Street Journal: President Hamid Karzai's government is taking a series of steps to chip away at the country's media freedoms, one of Afghanistan's few success stories since the Taliban regime's downfall nine years ago. In the past week, the government ordered the shutdown of Benawa.com, a p ...
  • Laghman civilian deaths spark protest
    PAN: Protestors in eastern Laghman province said on Saturday civilians were also among 30 people killed in an ongoing coalition operation in the Alishang district. More than 250 Afghan army, police and coalition personnel conducted the air assault in the Alishang district on Friday after they came u ...
  • UK defence chiefs silent on Afghan civilian deaths ...
    The Guardian: The Ministry of Defence yesterday refused to disclose any details of its investigations into the shooting of innocent civilians by troops in Afghanistan. This follows the disclosure in the Guardian of the existence of 21 separate such cases which have apparently been covered up. The ca ...
  • Twin blasts injure 19 in E. Afghanistan
    Xinhua: Two bomb blasts in a span of few minutes in Jalalabad city, the capital of Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, Wednesday night left 19 people injured, provincial administration spokesman said Thursday.

frogblog

  • Scary speech of the week award: “Double Southland ...
    The Land and Water Forum’s recent report suggests we need to see some tougher regulations around water pollution in New Zealand. But the scary speech of the week award goes to Chairman of South Port (Bluff) John Harrington. Speaking to South Port shareholders, he suggested doubling the dairy cow num ...
  • Play it one more time: “National’s not ...
    "If we do a half decent job at growing our economy, I’m confident that won’t be happening and that’s not on our agenda." - John Key
  • The Italian Job (i)
    It’s hard to be in Rome (a first for me) and not just rave about the experience of being in what is a truly remarkable city.  Arrived early yesterday (Wednesday) morning after 30-odd hours of travel, and spent a few hours being a tourist (the Pantheon, the Trevi Fountain, the Eque ...
  • Freedom for Vanunu now
    Today, people around the globe will be putting th slogan ‘Freedom for Vanunu now’ on their Facebook page in response to a call from Israeli anti-nuclear campaigner Mordechai Vanunu. September 30 is the 24th anniversary of the Rome kidnapping in Vanunu for exposing the existence of a ...
  • We’ve got it easy…
    Dear friends (and foes) A reminder in the MSM today as to how lucky we are.  Lucky to be able to engage in a battle of ideas without fear. Iranian-Canadian Hossein Derakhshan, nicknamed “the Blogfather” and credited with starting a blogging revolution in Iran, has been sentenced to ...

Patronus Analytical

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

  • The Latest Healthcare Non-Story
    Last night, in the latest evidence that the Murdoch-ization of the Wall Street Journal proceeds apace, the WSJ reported that McDonald's was threatening to cancel its employee health insurance, calling it "the latest indication of possible unintended consequences from the health overhaul." Yawn. Put ...
  • How the Game is Played
    The Senate confirmed a bunch of Obama appointees before it recessed today, including a couple of Federal Reserve governors (though not Peter Diamond, who's presumably still held up in Richard Shelby hell ) and such dignitaries as Nancy Lindborg as Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 1 October 2010
    I have fresh new pictures of the furballs this week. Unfortunately, it's been pretty hot in Southern California this week, which means the cats were even more lethargic than usual. Basically, they roused themselves briefly when they heard food being dumped in the food bowl, and then immediately conk ...
  • What Caused the Flash Crash?
    So what caused the "flash crash" of May 6th? Today the SEC and the CFTC issued a joint report confirming earlier speculation: it was caused by a large sell order on E-Mini futures contracts, a security that mimics trading in the S&P 500 stock index. Before it happened, the market was already on edge ...
  • Chart of the Day: Healthcare Spending
    Dr. Aaron Carroll has finished up his series on healthcare spending, and the chart on the right shows the main areas where America overspends. In short: everywhere. Here is his summary: It’s been interesting to read the emails I’ve gotten over the last two weeks on this series. Many of you seem ...

Insanity Report

Simple Climate

e!Science News

  • Johns Hopkins researchers turn off severe food all ...
    Johns Hopkins Medicine read more
  • Classroom canines stimulate children's love of lit ...
    University of Alberta researcher Lori Friesen's classroom assistants are very attentive, love to listen to children read and can keep their composure in a classroom full of energetic Grade 2 students. However, her assistants are more likely to lick the students' faces than give them a gold star. re ...
  • University of Hawaii at Manoa professor co-authors ...
    You've heard them at tennis matches â a loud, emphatic grunt with each player's stroke. A University of Hawai'i at Mānoa researcher has studied the impact of these grunts and come up with some surprising findings. read more
  • Newly discovered planet may be first truly habitab ...
    A team of planet hunters led by astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz), and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and NASA, has announced the discovery of an Earth-sized planet (three times the mass of Earth) o ...
  • Growth of biofuel industry hurt by GMO regulations
    Faster development of the promising field of cellulosic biofuels – the renewable energy produced from grasses and trees – is being significantly hampered by a "deep and thorny regulatory thicket" that makes almost impossible the use of advanced gene modification methods, researchers say. read more

unEarthed

  • Climate Change Is The Change bin Laden Can Believe ...
    If military commandos ever capture Osama bin Laden in some remote hideout, they might be surprised to find him clad in Birkenstocks and a quarter-zip fleece, poring over his aged copy of "Silent Spring" under the glow of a compa ...
  • This Road Leads to a Clean Energy Future
    Though the Senate may be standing still, America's roads are moving fast toward a clean-energy future.Today the Obama administration announced its goals for its next set of clean cars standards , picking up where the first clean ...
  • Huge Increase of Cancer Substances In Area of Gulf ...
    Oil in Gulf of Mexico marshes Cancer-causing substances have been discovered in the waters and air of the Gulf of Mexico near the BP oil spill area, at levels much greater than before the spill occurred, according to research ...
  • Friday Finds: OMG, GMOs
    Genetically engineering foods could make them more allergenic. Photo courtesy of evah, stock.xchng. FDA's food policy makes people sneeze On the heels of the FDA's decision to approve genetically engineered or GE salmon, a ...
  • Latino Groups Urge Obama to Protect Them From Poll ...
    Photo: Fresno Bee Across the United States—from California's Central Valley to Chicago, Houston and New York—people are breathing polluted air and suffering. Asthma, bronchitis, heart disease, birth defects and even cancer ar ...

Brave New Climate

  • SNE 2060 – thermal reactor build rates, uranium us ...
    Read this for the context. The first set of scenarios looks at the possible build out of Gen II+/III/III+ thermal reactors (i.e., current and advanced water-moderated reactors: PWRs, BWRs, HWRs etc.), over a 50 year time frame (2011 to 2060). The focus of this exercise is not to predict which reacto ...
  • Scenarios for nuclear electricity to 2060 – ...
    Back in April 2010, I wrote a post “Nuclear century outlook – crystal ball gazing by the WNA”. It looked at an interesting study, undertaken by the World Nuclear Association, that made some low/high bound projections for electricity production between 2008 and 2100, including nuclear, new renewables ...
  • Kakadu – a climate change impacts hotspot
    When ecologists, policy makers, or the public, think about the visceral impacts of climate change on Australia’s natural systems, World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park (KNP), located in the seasonal tropics of the Northern Territory, is high on the at-risk list. But looking deeper into the huma ...
  • TerraPower’s Travelling Wave Reactor – ...
    There has been a lot of hype recently about the “Travelling Wave Reactor” (TWR), thanks largely to a very popular TED talk given recently by none other than Microsoft founder and multi-billionaire Bill Gates. In the 20 min talk, he describes the urgent need for cheap, abundant, low-CO2 energy, if we ...
  • Travels to US and China: ecological models and the ...
    I’m about to fly out for a 3-week trip to the US and China (24 July to 15 Aug). But fear not! The BNC blog will remain active over that time. Indeed, there are quite a number of new posts in the pipeline for this period, including guest pieces by Rob Parker (this Sunday), Geoff [...]

Indigenist Opinion

  • The Existential Lifespan of White Victimisation in ...
    It should hardly come as a surprise to anyone living in South Africa that the myth of a racially reconciled nation is a lot of insidious hogwash. The truth is that South Africa is a racist cesspool replete with the usual historical aggressors and victims that characterise the binary of racialised o ...
  • EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE-Israeli soliders abducting pales ...
    YouTube - EXCLUSIF FOOTAGE-Israeli soliders abducting palestinian patients : "On April 9th 2006, a little past 1 AM, about 30-40 Israeli soldiers entered Al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron, and abducted two Palestinian patients, one of which was in a stretcher. Their actions were caught on the hospital's ...
  • 8 Reasons Black Men Are Still Under Attack
    8 Reasons Black Men Are Still Under Attack | Clutch Magazine: The Digital Magazine for the Young, Contemporary Woman of Color Sadly, it seems the media rhetoric alleging a ‘Single Black Woman’ crisis is getting under our skin. Black love is under attack. And the most damaging part about it all is, m ...
  • Ignorance on religion is a civic, spiritual danger ...
    Ignorance on religion is a civic, spiritual danger: Experts - Faith & Reason : At a symposium at the Newseum in Washington D.C., Prothero acknowledged "a kind of jeopardy quality" to Pew's 32 question survey, in which most people couldn't get more than 16 questions correct. It matters because, he ...
  • Finally free, and still fighting | SocialistWorker ...
    Finally free, and still fighting | SocialistWorker.org : ON SEPTEMBER 21, Victor Safforld was released after 20 years in prison. In 1990, Safforld was convicted of two murders and sent to death row. Safforld had confessed to the murders after his arrest and torture by Chicago police officers under ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • 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.
  • Mitch McConnall Doing His Best to Defend the Rich
    “We canât let the people whoâve been hit hardest by this recession and who we need to create the jobs that will get us out of it foot the bill for the Democratsâ two-year adventure in expanded government” is what ‘ol Mitch said on the Senate floor. In fact her personally knows more than [...]
  • Any More Christine McDonnell
    And I think I might be sick… And then you have Michele Bachman talking about Nancy Pelosi’s $100,000 bar tab on military jets when she doesn’t drink, and there is no alcohol on military jets. Do right wing lunatics ever pay a price for lying? I will bet the brain dead sheep that listen to [...]
  • Keep Your Hands Off Social Security GOP Frauds
    So called “conservatives” are opposed to any form of government that works effectively. That is one reason they have been trying to “change” Social Security for decades. Because it works. In fact the effectiveness of Social Security and Medicare in helping to keep senior citizens out of poverty has ...

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

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • 'IAEA chief's path leads to catastrophe'
    Summary: Ali Akbar Salehi Iran's nuclear chief cautions the head of UN nuclear agency that he should not allow himself to be used as a political instrument for starting a war against Tehran. source: Press TV read more
  • Iran: War Anniversary Focused on Youth Amity
    Summary: Iranian and Iraqi youth were the stars at a 24 September ceremony to celebrate peace between their countries. On this date thirty years ago began the eight year Iran‐Iraq war that killed and injured hundreds of thousands of both sides. With a whole generation of orphans wishing to preve ...
  • Contingent in Oct. 2 Jobs Rally to demand: “Money ...
    Summary: On Oct. 2, tens of thousands of people from across the United States – members of civil rights organizations, labor unions, community groups and religious institutions – will rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., to demand “Jobs, Justice and Education!” CASMII and FOR are ...
  • Why the US doesn't talk to Iran
    Summary: The question is why? Why have successive US administrations been reluctant to enter into a conflict-resolution dialogue with Iran, which could clearly be in the national interests of the United States? The answer, in a nutshell, is that US foreign policy, especially in the Middle East, ...
  • Freed American Hiker Sarah Shourd denounces threat ...
    Summary: Sara Shourd AMY GOODMAN: And when you come here and hear threats of war? SARAH SHOURD: I can just—I can only pray that’s not true, that that’s not going to happen. I really don’t believe it has to happen in any way. I think it would be a huge, huge mistake. And I’ve always been a peace ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Does NASA Antarctica Discovery Mirror Potential Ex ...
    In a discovery at the bottom of the world that could have implications on the search for extraterrestrial life, researchers were astounded to find an amphipod swimming beneath a massive Ross Ice Shelf, about 12.5 miles away from open water....
  • Search for Dark Energy Heats Up at the Bottom of t ...
    “We’re looking at a tug-of-war with dark energy and gravity trying to expand or collapse the universe.” John Carlstrom, South Pole astronomer and University of Chicago astrophysicist. A big telescope, as high as a seven-story building, with a main mirror...
  • The Lost World? A Third of Planet's 'Extinct' Mamm ...
    Last week Conservation International reported that its scientists had rediscovered three species of amphibians, including a Mexican salamander not seen since 1941. Australian species returned from the supposed dead also include Gilbert's pottoroo and Leadbeater's possum, Victoria's state animal embl ...
  • Image of the Day: Patagonia's Pristine Wild Rivers ...
    The Aysén region of Chilean Patagonia is threatened by a plan to build five dams on the Baker and the Pascua rivers – two of the wildest most pristine rivers on the planet. The Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition (Rave), an...
  • The Social Network -The Facebook Story (VIDEO Prev ...
    The Social Network captures the irony that a character with limited social skills builds a site that redefines social relationships for half a billion people. Facebook investor Peter Thiel told the Disrupt Conference in San Francisco yesterday that even at...

Natural News

  • US government deliberately infected Guatemalans wi ...
    (NaturalNews) The U.S. government made an interesting announcement this week, admitting it purposely infected hundreds of Guatemalans with gonorrhea and syphilis back in the 1940s as part of an "inoculation study". Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) K ...
  • Most Canadians, Americans skipped H1N1 vaccine las ...
    (NaturalNews) Despite all the scare tactics, fear mongering, and pseudoscience about the alleged importance of being vaccinated, a new report from Statistics Canada has revealed that 60 percent of Canadians decided against getting an H1N1 influenza vaccine last year. Even the World Health Organizati ...
  • Drastic lifestyle changes are best treatment for d ...
    (NaturalNews) A new study published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine has found that making considerable lifestyle and dietary changes are highly effective at improving the health of diabetes patients, as well as preventing of cardiovascular illness. Getting regular exercise and eating be ...
  • Bill Gates says vaccines can help reduce world pop ...
    (NaturalNews) In a recent TED conference presentation, Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, who has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to new vaccine efforts, speaks on the issue of CO2 emissions and its effects on climate change. He presents a formula for tracking CO2 emissions as follows: CO2 = ...
  • Catch the Robert Scott Bell radio show this Sunday ...
    (NaturalNews) The Robert Scott Bell radio show airs this Sunday, covering a diverse assortment of topics on natural health and health freedom (see below). Learn more about Robert Scott Bell at www.RobertScottBell.com and catch archives of his recent radio shows at this NaturalNews.TV channel: http:/ ...

Threat Level

  • 5 Key Players Nabbed in Ukraine in $70-Million Ban ...
    Ukrainian authorities have arrested five key suspects in a massive international bank fraud ring that used malware to steal at least $70 million from small businesses, municipalities, churches and others in the U.S. The five are alleged to be part of a multi-national ring that includes about 60 oth ...
  • New Clues Point to Israel as Author of Blockbuster ...
    New clues released this week show a possible link between Israel and sophisticated malware targeting industrial control systems in critical infrastructure systems, such as nuclear plants and oil pipelines. Late Thursday, security firm Symantec released a detailed paper with analysis of the headline ...
  • Texting Censorship Flap Settled Out of Court
    A legal flap concerning whether wireless carriers may censor text messages was settled out of court Friday, leaving unanswered the highly contentious question of whether wireless carriers have the same “must carry” obligations as traditional phone companies. The month-old New York federal case pitt ...
  • All Rise: Supreme Court’s Geekiest Generation Begi ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court begins a new term Monday with a slew of technology and civil rights issues queued on its docket, some of which could have far-reaching implications for the Freedom of Information Act, copyright, warrantless searches of private residences, the “state secrets” privilege and fr ...
  • U.S. Charges 37 Alleged Mules and Others in Online ...
    Thirty-seven people are being charged in the United States for their alleged role in an international fraud ring based in East Europe that stole more than $3 million from bank accounts belonging primarily to small businesses and municipalities, according to indictments released Thursday. The sophis ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Right-Wing Terror Returns to Oregon
    This week, Time magazine offered an inside look at " the Secret World of Extreme Militias ," the increasingly dangerous ranks of anti-government extremists, white supremacists, tax deniers, gun rights activists and anti-abortion radicals. But even as Barton Gellman reported that "Obama's ascendancy ...
  • The Real GOP Pledge: A Perpetual Obama Witch Hunt
    Last week, would-be House Speaker John Boehner unveiled the GOP Pledge to America to dismal reviews from, among others, himself. "We can't have that serious conversation [about policy] until we lay out the size of the problem," Boehner said of the Pledge, adding, "Let's not get to the potential sol ...
  • CBO Warns Permanent Bush Tax Cuts Will Hurt Econom ...
    The Republican demand to make the Bush tax cut windfall for the wealthy permanent is like Jason from the Friday the 13th slasher movies. Incredibly dangerous but once presumed dead, the GOP's perpetual payday for the rich rises again to wreak havoc and ruin lives. And delivering the warning this t ...
  • Like Father, Like Son for Ben Quayle
    Addressing the United Negro College Fund back in 1991, Vice President Dan Quayle declared, "What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is." Especially true, it turns out, of his son Ben . As he showed in discussing the economy in a new campai ...
  • Rich Vote with Their Wallets to End Bush Tax Cuts. ...
    Over a year before the GOP " Pledge to America " demanded permanent tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans costing $700 billion over the next decade, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) fretted, "We're running out of rich people in this country." But as it turns out, anecdotes and polls alike reveal that t ...

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

  • CIA Analysts Shut Out on Afghan War
    President Obama's chaotic Afghan War review ignored the protocol of a formal intelligence estimate, notes Ray McGovern. September 30, 2010
  • Our Unheeded Warnings to Obama
    From the Archive: After Barack Obama won the White House, Robert Parry issued three warnings that were ignored about dangers ahead.
  • Fear Still Erodes American Liberties
    Under the Obama administration, fear among American dissenters hasn't significantly abated, Danny Schechter discovers. September 30, 2010
  • Israeli Commandos Accused of Murder
    A UN report on Israel's assault on a Turkish ship off Gaza says commandos murdered six passengers, Gareth Porter reports. September 29, 2010
  • Mystery of a 'Disgraced' War Reporter
    In 1944, Canadian reporter Paul Morton parachuted behind German lines, into an enduring mystery of betrayal, says Don North. September 28, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Austin Energy and the EGRSO: EUC Chairman Schmandt ...
    For those in Austin who don’t know, the EGRSO (the Economic Growth and Redevelopment Services Office… I had to look it up too) gets a substantial portion of its funding from the municipally-owned utility Austin Energy. What does this office do? From its city website: [The EGRSO] implements the City ...
  • Ramon A Sanchez: Solar Intern at Public Citizen [F ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Ramon Sanchez majors in math at the University of Texas at Austin.
  • Ali Rawaf: Media and Campaign Finance Intern at Pu ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Ali Rawaf studies Government and International Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
  • Power Plants Suck… (lots and lots of water)
    In 2009, a drought nearly emptied Lake Travis. People living and working in the surrounding communities remember businesses closing up as the economic activity around the lake ground to a halt. In 2010, a new threat to lake levels and local businesses has emerged. Despite rising temperatures and pro ...
  • Human error causes a partial shutdown of Texas nuc ...
    Human error appears to have caused a partial shutdown last Friday at the South Texas Project, one of the state’s two nuclear plants. Last week, prices spiked in the wholesale electricity market.  On Monday the 16th,  wholesale electricity, which had been selling for less than $30 per megawatt-hour s ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Dolphin species attempt 'common language'
    When two dolphin species interact they try to find a common language with which to communicate. New research observing the behaviour of Bottlenose and...
  • Space hotel plan unveiled in Russia
    A company in Russia have unveiled plans to build and launch an orbiting hotel for space tourists. Planned for as early as 2016 the hotel would offer g...
  • Was "Hobbit" an iodine-deficient human ?
    Scientists in Australia have reconfirmed the idea that Homo floresiensis is an iodine-deficient human. The debate over the origins of the hobbit-like ...
  • Iron Man-style suits in development
    Power armour like that worn by Iron Man Tony Stark may soon be a regular sight on the battlefield. Technology firm Raytheon Sarcos are currently devel...
  • How they hide the evidence
    Anthony Bragalia examines how evidence from the Roswell Incident may have been covered up. If bodies and materials from the alleged UFO crash of Roswe...

Grassroots

  • 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 ...
  • Ending Poverty by Rebuilding Local Food Economies- ...
    us_food_sovereignty_alliance.jpg Emerging out of the US Working Group on the Food Crisis , the US Food Sovereignty Alliance will be the first of its kind in the United States. Grassroots International is a member of this new alliance. To celeb ...
  • Director of Grantmaking & Advocacy
    Grassroots International (GRI) is a dynamic, social justice-oriented, human rights and international development organization and public foundation that works to create a just and sustainable world by building alliances with progressive movements through grantmaking and advocacy. GRI’s grantmaking a ...
  • Referendum on Land Holding Used to Educate about L ...
    plebiscito_popular_logo.jpg As part of a larger campaign to support the right to land, this week Grassroots International provided a $10,000 grant to boost education and organizing around a powerful national referendum in Brazil. The referendu ...

Climate

  • October 1, 2010
    U.S. Issues New Rules on Offshore Drilling (New York Times)   The Interior Department tightened its rules on offshore oil and gas operations on Thursday but left in place the moratorium on deepwater drilling that has left oil executives frustrated and Gulf Coast officials fuming. U.S. Oi ...
  • September 30, 2010
    Hopes Dim for Energy Bill in Senate (Politico)  Senate Democratic leaders are backing away from plans to tackle any type of energy legislation during the upcoming lame duck session, including a renewable electricity standard. GOP Senators Predict Energy Victories Next Year (Greenwire) ...
  • September 29, 2010
    Durbin Says Energy Legislation in Lame-Duck a 'Long Shot' (The Hill) Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) Tuesday threw cold water on suggestions that the Senate would respond legislatively to the Gulf spill or take up a renewable power mandate during a lame-duck session. Energy ...
  • September 28, 2010
    Obama Under Fire for Grossly Underestimating Gulf Oil Spill (Guardian) The Obama administration lost the public trust and may have sabotaged clean-up operations in the Gulf by grossly underestimating the amount of oil gushing from BP's broken Macondo well, according to a White House commissi ...
  • September 27, 2010
    Panel Probes Decisions Made After Gulf Spill (AP) How well did the White House react to the Gulf oil spill disaster? A federal panel appointed by Pres. Obama starts its investigation today. Halliburton Slams "Erroneous" BP Rig Blast Report (Reuters)  Halliburton, the oilfield servic ...

GreenBiz

  • Bay Area Startup Turns Dirty Diapers into Compost
    Fed up with sending their kids' dirty diapers to the local landfill, three Bay Area families launched a business two years ago aimed at turning soiled diapers into compost used on farms, golf courses and plant nurseries.
  • J&J Beats Goals for Cutting Carbon Emissions, Wate ...
    Johnson & Johnson is reporting double-digit reductions in carbon emissions, water use and waste, exceeding environmental goals in six areas while being on track with 2010 targets in another four key categories.
  • Sara Lee Creates More Trash But Sends Less to Land ...
    Sara Lee has cut the amount of waste it sends to landfill by 32 percent in the last five years, and six of its facilities send no waste to landfill, although the total amount of waste the company produces has gone up 7 percent in that same time.
  • Kimberly-Clark Helps Save Water One Flush as a Tim ...
    After a water footprint revealed that 85 percent of the water use associated with its toilet paper takes place during flushing, the company set out to create a product that would address an environmental impact long viewed to be outside its reach.
  • Clinton Initiative Spurs Pledges for Efficiency, S ...
    The final days of the Clinton Global Initiative brought more developments in the realm of business and environmental stewardship from Cisco, Duke, Ceres and the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute.

Reuters Global

  • Claiming Jinnah’s mantle: Musharraf joins th ...
    Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf launched his political career, invoking the spirit of the country's founding father Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The problem is every politician in Pakistan claims to inherit Jinnah's legacy, but who are voters to believe in ?
  • Ireland’s boasts come home to roost
    Ireland's now crippled economy has done everything but recover. Unemployment is stubbornly high, property prices remain depressed, taxpayers face years of cutbacks and, in the second quarter, growth again went into reverse. What happened?
  • Former British Ambassador recalls German unificati ...
    Sir Christopher Mallaby, deputy chairman of the Thomson Reuters Trustee Directors, had a front row seat to German Unification as Britain's ambassador to Germany from 1988 to 1992. Mallaby, who was later ambassador to France, served in the British Diplomatic Service from 1959 to 1996. He was also a m ...
  • From Celtic Tiger to road kill: Ireland’s ra ...
    UKI Bureau Chief Jodie Ginsberg lived in Ireland between 2004 and 2007. As the country discloses the size of its bank bailouts, she reflects on Ireland's rapid descent from economic powerhouse to financial weakling
  • Special Relationship? How quickly they forget&#823 ...
    It was just last year when U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gushed to Vogue magazine about former British Foreign Secretary David Miliband.

Booman Tribune

  • Conservatives Just Killed 240,000 Jobs
    Conservatives in Congress just fired 240,000 American workers. Conservatives in Congress just killed 240,000 jobs. Conservatives in Congress just essentially added 240,000 more Americans to the ranks of the unemployed. However you frame it, people who want to work and have been working are soon to ...
  • Wanker of the Day: David Brooks
    David Brooks is living in a fantasy land. [Meg] Whitman is representative of an emerging Republican type what you might call the austerity caucus. Flamboyant performers like Sarah Palin get all the attention, but the governing soul of the party is to be found in statehouses where a loose conf ...
  • Whitman Saga is Entertaining
    I'm kind of enjoying the Meg Whitman meltdown. How much of her money has she spent trying to become governor of California? I think the highlight so far has to be this press release by the rabid anti-Latino group, Americans for Legal Immigration. ALIPAC is asking Immigration and Customs Enforce ...
  • Casual Observation
    You know, if Michele Bachmann accused Obama of wanting to do this, I'd think she was nuts. But, it turns out, it was done under Harry Truman, so who knows? This is a part of history we just ignore. It doesn't fit with our self-image. We're about freedom and apple pie, not giving foreigners the c ...
  • Now It's Rouse's Show
    Rahm is now officially gone. In his place, is Pete Rouse. Intensely private, Mr. Rouse is unmarried and lives alone in northwest Washington with his two cats. (He is a big cat person, friends say.) He is not given to socializing; when Mr. Daschle hosted a huge staff reunion just before he left ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Community Mental Health Centers Boosted By SAMHSA ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Concern for health care should not exclude mental health care, said U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius as she awarded $26.2 million in grants designed to benefit individuals with behavioral health issues nationwide. The grants will help 43 c ...
  • Masochistic Anger Part III: Is Being Angry with Yo ...
    By Jeanette Raymond, Ph.D., Anger Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jeanette and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Byron tried hard to please but his anger got in the way Byron’s anger terrified him. He did everything he could to avoid feeling it and showing it when it washed over him. ...
  • What PTSD Knowledge Means for People with Anxiety
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary People find a therapist or counselor for any number of reasons. Some are dealing with the loss of a loved one or a major life transition. Others are struggling with personal behavioral patterns that they don’t know how to change on their own. Yet others are dealing wit ...
  • Depression, Need for Therapy, Continue to Rise alo ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Mental health advocates warned of the psychological fallout that the Gulf Coast oil spill would have on residents who live and work in the area. Now a poll has illustrated in numbers exactly how dire the mental health situation is. Based on representative surveys, it’ ...
  • Newly Diagnosed with Chronic Illness or Disability ...
    By Helena Madsen, MA Disability Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Helena and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Several years ago, I worked with a young couple in the midst of a health crisis. Mary and Tom (not their real names) were in their late 30’s with two young children ages 6 an ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Shielding plateau areas - istockAnalyst.com (press ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) Shielding plateau areas istockAnalyst.com (press release) The move effectively would ban mountaintop removal there, but not prohibit more traditional forms of coal mining. "We've really needed something like this ... Tennessee Governor's Petition Could Stop Mountaintop Min ...
  • Mountaintop removal mining continues despite Obama ...
    Connect2 OWU Mountaintop removal mining continues despite Obama's pledge Mother Nature Network Nearly two years into President Obama's term, we've seen small steps toward reducing the destruction of mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia, ... Mountaintop-removal mining: How it affects Appalachia ...
  • Mountaintop rally merited a story, not just a phot ...
    Mountaintop rally merited a story, not just a photo Washington Post You published a great teaser photo of a rally against mountaintop-removal mining on the Sept. 28 front page but no story. Your readers care intensely about ...
  • Thousands will rally against mountain top removal ...
    Thousands will rally against mountain top removal WYMT Thousands of people are gathering in Washington DC this weekend to rally against mountain top removal coal mining. WYMT's Angela Sparkman met with some ... and more��
  • Mountaintop-removal mining: How it affects Appalac ...
    Mother Nature Network Mountaintop-removal mining: How it affects Appalachia Helium Mountaintop removal mining or MTR, a mining practice, common in Appalachia, has come under scrutiny in recent years by the federal ... Mountaintop removal mining continues despite Obama's pledge Mother Nature Network ...

Memeorandum

  • Whitman within law, immigration lawyers say (Carol ...
    Carolyn Lochhead / San Francisco Chronicle : Whitman within law, immigration lawyers say   —  (10-01) 04:00 PDT Washington - —  Whether or not Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman received a letter from the Social Security Administration saying her former housekeeper's false documents di ...
  • Guv signs marijuana decriminalization bill (Marisa ...
    Marisa Lagos / San Francisco Chronicle : Guv signs marijuana decriminalization bill   —  (10-01) 16:49 PDT Sacramento — Citing the need to reduce spending on prosecution and courts, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a measure that makes marijuana possession an infraction, on par with traffic and li ...
  • Breaking: Rick Sanchez fired from CNN (Allahpundit ...
    Allahpundit / Hot Air : Breaking: Rick Sanchez fired from CNN   —  The formal announcement is shockingly brief — which, actually, speaks volumes.  —  Monday's “Daily Show” should be a very special episode indeed, my friends. … I assume everyone already knows why, but if you missed Ed's post this mo ...
  • Christine O'Donnell: After Witchcraft I Tried to B ...
    Christina Bellantoni / TPMDC : Christine O'Donnell: After Witchcraft I Tried to Be A Hare Krishna — But Liked Meatballs Too Much (VIDEO)   —  In 1999 Christine O'Donnell told Bill Maher that she'd briefly tried Buddhism, and that she'd tried to be a Hare Krishna but couldn't take the vegetarianism ...
  • Palin jousts with Rouse (Gschwarzcnn/CNN)
    Gschwarzcnn / CNN : Palin jousts with Rouse   —  (CNN) - Pete Rouse was just installed as White House chief of staff on Friday, but he's already been facing fire from Sarah Palin for over a week.  —  Now White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is hitting back, calling the former Alaska governor's ...

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China Dialogue

  • A new coastal path
    Frantic land reclamation along China’s coastline is harming fragile ecosystems, say Jiang Gaoming, Dou Guanyi and Chen Bosen. Here, they set out a proposal for making shore development work for the environment. Land reclamation in China has caused a steep decline in coastal plant life and seriously ...
  • The Frozen Zoo
    California’s San Diego Zoo has long collected animals’ skin samples, hoping they might someday protect endangered species. Progress in stem-cell technology is bringing that day closer, writes Paul Harris. The inside of a metal box filled with liquid nitrogen and frozen to -173° Celsius (-280° Fahren ...
  • The ash cloud over China
    A new report from Greenpeace argues that growing piles of coal ash in China pose a serious – and largely ignored – threat to public welfare. Meng Si looks at the findings. Fly ash , a residue generated by the combustion of coal, is China’s single biggest source of solid industrial waste and, accordi ...
  • Stretching city limits (2)
    In the conclusion of a two-part interview with Jared Green, Kristina Hill forecasts a changing relationship between urban dwellers and local wildlife – and argues clever landscape design has a crucial role in species preservation. Kristina Hill chairs the landscape architecture department at the Uni ...
  • Stretching city limits (1)
    American academic Kristina Hill is an expert on the impact of climate change on both built and natural environments. Here she tells Jared Green how design professionals must prepare – both practically and psychologically – to help cities adapt. Kristina Hill chairs the landscape architecture departm ...

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Threat Level

  • 5 Key Players Nabbed in Ukraine in $70-Million Ban ...
    Ukrainian authorities have arrested five key suspects in a massive international bank fraud ring that used malware to steal at least $70 million from small businesses, municipalities, churches and others in the U.S. The five are alleged to be part of a multi-national ring that includes about 60 oth ...
  • New Clues Point to Israel as Author of Blockbuster ...
    New clues released this week show a possible link between Israel and sophisticated malware targeting industrial control systems in critical infrastructure systems, such as nuclear plants and oil pipelines. Late Thursday, security firm Symantec released a detailed paper with analysis of the headline ...
  • Texting Censorship Flap Settled Out of Court
    A legal flap concerning whether wireless carriers may censor text messages was settled out of court Friday, leaving unanswered the highly contentious question of whether wireless carriers have the same “must carry” obligations as traditional phone companies. The month-old New York federal case pitt ...
  • All Rise: Supreme Court’s Geekiest Generation Begi ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court begins a new term Monday with a slew of technology and civil rights issues queued on its docket, some of which could have far-reaching implications for the Freedom of Information Act, copyright, warrantless searches of private residences, the “state secrets” privilege and fr ...
  • U.S. Charges 37 Alleged Mules and Others in Online ...
    Thirty-seven people are being charged in the United States for their alleged role in an international fraud ring based in East Europe that stole more than $3 million from bank accounts belonging primarily to small businesses and municipalities, according to indictments released Thursday. The sophis ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • HP and new CEO brace for wave of software deals
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard's choice of CEO may spur a flurry of deals in the software industry, as it shores up one of the weakest parts of its business to do battle with Oracle and IBM.
  • Single trade helped spark May's flash crash
    NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A computer-driven sale worth $4.1 billion by a single trader helped trigger the May flash crash, setting off liquidity shocks that ricocheted between U.S. futures and stock markets, regulators concluded in a report.
  • TV anchor Sanchez leaves CNN after comments on Jew ...
    ATLANTA (Reuters) - CNN and its high-profile anchor Rick Sanchez parted ways on Friday, a day after Sanchez made controversial comments about Jews on a radio show.
  • Democrats see signs of hope for election
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After enduring months of bad news and gloomy political forecasts, some Democrats are seeing signs of hope that Republican gains in the November 2 congressional elections will not be as big as predicted.
  • BofA suspends foreclosures in 23 states
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amid growing public anger over U.S. home seizures, Bank of America Corp has suspended some of its foreclosures and JPMorgan Chase & Co has come under investigation in California and Connecticut.

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #437
    Huge demand for spy balloons in Afghan war. The hottest US weapon in Afghanistan lacks a lethal capability, floats thousands of feet in the air and doesn’t carry troops. It’s a spy balloon. Similar contraptions have been making appearances at … Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #436
    Iran crosses into Iraq to hit bombing suspects. Iranian forces crossed into neighboring Iraq and killed 30 Kurdish fighters from a group it says was involved in last week’s bombing of a military parade, Iranâs state TV reported Sunday. The … Continue reading →
  • Experts see nation-state behind sophisticated comp ...
    By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | Computer forensics specialists are split as to the purpose and initial target of a sophisticated computer virus that infected computers used in the Iranian governmentâs nuclear energy program. The virus, named Stuxnet, was discovered … Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #435 (cyberwarfare editio ...
    Analysis: Cyber attacks test US Pentagon. US military and civilian networks are probed thousands of times a day, and the systems of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters are attacked at least 100 times a day. Meanwhile, more than 100 … Continue reading →
  • Lawsuit claims CIA uses pirate software in drone a ...
    By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | The Central Intelligence Agency is using stolen software code in its covert Predator drone assassination program in Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to a lawsuit filed by a software company in the US state of … Continue reading →

After Downing Street.org

  • US War Crimes in Fallujah
    US War Crimes in Fallujah - by Stephen Lendman Numerous previous articles documented two decades of US war crimes in Iraq, the latest titled, "One of History's Greatest Crimes," accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/09/one-of-historys-greatest-crimes_70... On August ...
  • NSARCHIVE: THE IRAQ WAR -- PART II
    Was There Even a Decision? U.S. and British Documents Give No Indication Alternatives Were Seriously Considered National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 328 Edited by John Prados and Christopher Ames Posted - October 1, 2010 � read more
  • Iran sanctions = US hypocrisy?
  • CRIMES ARE CRIMES NO MATTER WHO DOES THEM
    What's our plan to stop these immoral wars and the continuing torture being carried out in our names? And why go into The New York Times next week with an expensive advertisement? Well, as you can see from all the articles and reports on our website, World Can't Wait is out on the streets and in the ...
  • As Pakistan-US Tensions Mount, Tankers Burn and Ob ...
    By Jim White Less than twenty-four hours after Pakistan closed the border crossing at Torkham in response to a NATO helicopter attack that killed three Pakistani soldiers, insurgents set fire to 27 NATO fuel tankers that were waiting to enter Afghanistan at this strategic crossing. Rather than strik ...

Grist - News

  • Will Pete Rouse, Obama’s new chief of staff, ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Rahm Emanuel is out, resigning as White House chief of staff to run for mayor of Chicago. Pete Rouse is in, stepping into the powerful role (at least through the end of the year) after an influential career as chief of staff to Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), t ...
  • U.S. unveils new rules to prevent new BP-like oil ...
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- U.S. authorities announced new safety rules Thursday for offshore oil and gas drilling, a move aimed at preventing a recurrence of the disastrous Deepwater Horizon accident earlier this year. The Interior Department said two new rules will toughen require ...
  • Potentially habitable planet discovered. Climate b ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable planet in orbit around a nearby star, the internet reports . The Guardian has details : The planet is in the "Goldilocks zone" of space around a star where surface temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for liquid wa ...
  • New BP boss launches safety crackdown after Gulf o ...
    by Agence France-Presse. LONDON -- New BP chief executive Bob Dudley on Wednesday launched a major shake-up in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, creating a powerful safety division and overhauling the group's structure. Dudley, who officially starts his job in two days, descri ...
  • Depression soars among Gulf residents after oil sp ...
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- The number of Gulf Coast residents who say they suffer from depression rose by more than 25 percent following the catastrophic BP oil spill that sullied their shorelines and devastated their livelihoods, a Gallup poll showed Tuesday. Pollsters said inhab ...

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Washington Independent

  • Breaking Down the Menendez Immigration Bill
    Change.org links to a good summary of the 874-page comprehensive immigration reform bill Sens. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) introduced Wednesday. The bill includes paths to legalization for non-criminal illegal immigrants in the country, provided they pay a fine and application ...
  • Ahead of China Climate Talks, Group Calls for Clim ...
    United Nations climate change talks get underway next week in Tianjin, China. In advance of the talks, international development group Oxfam is calling for negotiators to work to set up a climate fund to help poor countries deal with the impacts of climate change. In a statement, Kelly Dent, Senior ...
  • Liberals to Rally at One Nation Event Tomorrow on ...
    There’s going to be a rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. tomorrow and, for once, it won’t involve the tea parties. The Washington Post reports that more than 400 progressive groups, who’ve been planning the event for months, hope to draw tens of thousands of supporters to the event — dub ...
  • Reading the Tea Leaves of Rahm’s White House ...
    Now that Rahm Emanuel has officially bid his adieu to the White House, Paul Blumenthal at the Sunlight Foundation figured it would be a good time to trawl through the White House visitor logs to see who visited the famously gruff chief of staff during his tenure and what it might mean for his future ...
  • Environmentalists: Lame Duck Could be Last Chance ...
    Though Senate Democrats say there won’t be much time in the lame-duck session to pass significant energy legislation, environmentalists know it could be their last chance to move key bills, given the potential for Republicans to make gains in the mid-term elections. I wrote about this in a story tod ...

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  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware. George Green will be a featured speaker. September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CA Click here for Tickets & Reservations  
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the Ame ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to put an ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catas ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-openin ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to focus ...

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Twilight Earth

  • Big Oil and Big Coal’s Favorite Toy (cartoon)
    Find me a liberal in the Big Coal and/or Oil biz and I’ll never draw another cartoon again! Republican governor candidates deny climate change On climate change, it’s the Republicans versus reality Follow Joe Mohrâs cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons Related p ...
  • Wrong Way for Right Whales
    Mysterious whale die-off is largest on record Gandhi quotes Follow Joe Mohrâs cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons Related posts:Dances With the Moon: Earth Day is Coming! Can’t Spell HATE Without T-E-A (cartoon) Tea Partiers and Suicide Bombers (cartoon) ...
  • Can’t Spell HATE Without T-E-A (cartoon)
    Opposition to health care reform, threats of holy book burning, anti-immigration legislation, opposition to gay marriage, and the growing influence of the horrifically xenophobic Hate-Everyone-Not-Like-Me Party…WOW! Is this 2010 or 1810??? We are on a fast track to SCARY!!! These hate-children of P ...
  • Frankenfish Should be OK Because of BPA (cartoon)
    Bill McKibbenâs New Book: The Old Economy is Killing the Earth; Itâs Time for a New Living Economy Don’t Let Experimental Genetically Engineered Salmon Reach Your Plate Follow all of Mean Joe Green’s environmental cartoons on JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons. Related post ...
  • Water: Nature’s Wonderdrug–Now with Wonderdrugs! ( ...
    Between 2006 and 2007, the Southern Nevada Water Authority in Las Vegas screened tap water from 19 US water utilities for 51 different compounds. The 11 most frequently detected compounds are highlighted in the cartoon and described below. 1.used to treat cardiovascular disease, 2.an herbicide ba ...

Inhabitat

  • Is Data Visualization the Next Big Thing for Green ...
    By now, most of us know that driving gas-guzzling cars, leaving your lights on all day and taking hour-long showers are activities that have a negative impact on our Earth and our future. But while this knowledge exists in our minds, it’s often difficult to tell ourselves to ride a bike, turn off ou ...
  • Bright Lights: Sustainable Futures and Day Two of ...
    Read the rest of Bright Lights: Sustainable Futures and Day Two of TENT Londonhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Danish design, green ...
  • Italian Green Frame Home Explores Sustainable Cont ...
    Read the rest of Italian Green Frame Home Explores Sustainable Container Housinghttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable archi ...
  • National Solar Tour Shines Tomorrow, Saturday Octo ...
    The 15th annual Solar Tour organized by the American Solar Energy Society is ready to kick-off tomorrow morning and promises to be by far, the largest ever of its kind. Nearly 650 grass root tours from across all fifty states, Mexico, and the Virgin Islands will be participating this year, so you ar ...
  • Mobile Wind Turbine Could Provide Portable Power O ...
    The problem with wind farms is that they’re stuck wherever they’ve been stationed. Granted, they’ve been installed in areas that benefit from high wind activity, but what if you had a portable wind farm that could follow you wherever you needed power? Enter the Mobile Wind Turbine, designed by Pope ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Close Encounter Coming With Ghostly Green Comet
    Comet Hartley 2 will swoop within 11 million miles of Earth on October 20, one of the closest approaches of any comet in the last few centuries. Hartley 2 is already visible as a pale green streak in the W-shaped constellation Cassiopeia. NASA astronomer Bill Cooke caught the comet on September 28 ...
  • Intelligent Individuals Don’t Make Groups Smarter
    An early effort at defining general intelligence in groups suggests that individual brainpower contributes little to collective smarts. Instead, it’s social awareness — the ability to pick up on emotional cues in others — that seems to determine how smart a group can be. “We lack a shared criterion ...
  • Solar System’s Shield Could Leak Cosmic Rays
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience621764290001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); The bubble that separates our sun from the galaxy is surprisingly active. The second global map from the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) shows that the edge of the s ...
  • Monkeys See Selves in Mirror, Open a Barrel of Que ...
    Monkeys may possess cognitive abilities once thought unique to humans, raising questions about the nature of animal awareness and our ability to measure it. In the lab of University of Wisconsin neuroscientist Luis Populin, five rhesus macaques seem to recognize their own reflections in a mirror. M ...
  • A Habitable Exoplanet — for Real This Time
    After years of saying habitable exoplanets are just around the corner, planet hunters have finally found one. Gliese 581g is the first planet found to lie squarely in its star’s habitable zone, where the conditions are right for liquid water. “The threshold has now been crossed,” said astronomer R. ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Stunning Satellite Images of Displacement in Somal ...
    The UN Refugee Agency just released these two satellite images of 30 kilometer stretch of road west of Mogadishu known as the Afgooye corridor. The first was taken October 2007: And this was taken July 2010: As you can see, a veritable city has sprung up over the past two and a half years. UNHCR es ...
  • Gingrich: Iran’s Leaders Are "Suicidal Jihadists"
    At the risk of giving Newt Gingrich the attention he so obviously desperately craves , this is silly in a couple different and very significant ways : Gingrich said he needs no further evidence Iran is building nuclear weapons, and he claims Iranian leadership is willing to trade destruction of Teh ...
  • Magical Military Thinking About Afghanistan—the Ir ...
    I'm a bit late to this one, but Kimberly Dozier's interview with General David Petraeus from a few days ago is incredibly eye-opening . . . and depressing: When pressed about the dour headlines of diving public opinion polls back home, he turns to his computer and digs out the latest statistics on v ...
  • Nick Kristof's Calls for Force No Antidote to Geno ...
    The New York Times’ man-about-the-global-village returned to his op-ed spot yesterday with a grisly timeline of how genocide might play out in Sudan over the coming months. Kristof sets the scene: The place is southern Sudan, and the timetable is the next few months. The South, which holds more ...
  • Bin Laden's Concern-Trolling
    Since Osama bin Laden 's last tape was all about how world governments weren't acting fast enough on climate change, I expected his latest offering to be similarly topical--like about how that new show Outsourced really sucks and how NBC should bring Parks and Rec back. He's chosen to criticize Paki ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Jingoes United Against Liberal Fa ...
    Kevin D. Williamson reluctantly gives messaging advice to the GOP: " Frederick Douglass should be as much the face of the Republican party as Reagan and Goldwater ." The most charitable way to understand this is that movement conservatives see the Republican party as an imperfect but reliable vesse ...
  • The Little (Moving) Picture: Gay Teens, It Gets Be ...
    http://www.youtube.com/user/itgetsbetterproject In the wake of several high-profile incidents of anti-gay bullying -- including one that involved the suicide of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi -- Dan Savage has started the " It Gets Better Project " -- a YouTube channel featuring videos from mem ...
  • In the Future, Everyone will be Rick Sanchez.
    I thought Paul Campos had a fine response to Rick Sanchez 's self-pitying rant about himself, CNN and the Jews: Look Rick, in America in 2010 you and me are basically white guys — just like Jon Stewart . Now I’m not doubting that somebody somewhere has said or done something nasty to you because ...
  • Stimulus Kudos.
    It may not be the kind of thing that gets people joyously running to the polls, but the administration deserves some credit for this : The massive economic stimulus package President Obama pushed through Congress last year is coming in on time and under budget - and with strikingly few claims of fr ...
  • Republicans: Still Not Very Diverse.
    Leslie Sanchez , author of Los Republicanos: Why Hispanics and Republicans Need Each Other , sees this year as a sign that the GOP is becoming more diverse: Overall, 14 African-Americans across the country are running as GOP nominees for Congress. As the Frederick Douglass Foundation has pointed ou ...

Buzzflash

  • George Lakoff Who the White House Needs More Than ...
    GEORGE LAKOFF FOR BUZZFLASH/TRUTHOUT George Lakoff may be one of the few men and women in America who fully understands how the White House has failed to launch an effective leadership communication strategy; i.e., how to frame a vision around common values and lead the people into the future.  T ...
  • Anti-Abortion Activist Randall Terry Will Teach Te ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH Tearing is quite a step down from burning. Responses won't be the same kinds of rages. In this downscaling protest, what's next: Maybe just ... dog-earing a couple of pages? read more
  • The Unqualified and The Abysmally Stupid
    Body Among the many choices voters are being asked to make this November does one of them have to be deciding between the clearly unqualified and the abysmally stupid? One of the alarming features of our hooked-up, tuned-in society is a growing awareness that many members of Congress ...
  • Increase Funding to the Public Universities That H ...
    TOM MEISENHELDER FOR BUZZFLASH/TRUTHOUT Recently major newspapers and internet news sites have seen a lot of discussion of the worth (or lack thereof) of a university education in the liberal arts and sciences.  Columns and articles on the subject have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington ...
  • Exploiting a Recession
    Body The current administration is a convenient target for anger, the originating causes of our troubled economy given short shrift by restless voters who just want jobs. Still it is hard to fathom, in the face of a projected election tsunami, how a decision to empower a party whose p ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Science news with a spectral twist
    My latest science updates on SpectroscopyNOW.com: Soft solar cell – US researchers have demonstrated that water-gel-based solar devices can act like "artificial leaves" heralding the possibility of soft matter solar energy conversion devices. X-Ray resistance – An X-ray structure determined by US re ...
  • Chalking up one for science vs religion
    Apparently, atheists and agnostics performed very well in a survey of religious knowledge (on a par with Jews and Mormons and better than Protestants and Catholics) on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions. More about that here. But it wasn’t the su ...
  • Latest science stuff
    Latest science stuff from Sciencebase: How to Memorize the Periodic Table With a Song – Kind of these people to link to my site, but I take issue with the idea of learning Tom Lehrer's song as a means to chemical education. It's fun and might help you remember the names of the elements, but [...] La ...
  • Yet more scientific news
    Yet more science news from Sciencebase, it’s never ending: Whooping cough epidemic suggests bacteria are adapting – Nine babies have died in California, and four in Australia, so far, in the worst epidemic of whooping cough in rich countries since vaccination became widespread in the 1950s. The main ...
  • Calculating science writer
    Fellow science writer and author of Black Bodies and Quantum Cats, Jennifer Ouellette has a new book out – The Calculus Diaries – which she attempts to de-traumatize those of us who were force-fed derivatives and integrals but perhaps never got past pi-r-squared. The marketing blurb explains how mat ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • New Report Concludes Synthetic Biofuels Won’t Help ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 30, 2010 Friends of the Earth The environmental watchdog group Friends of the Earth released a report today warning policymakers of the dangers of misguided attempts by the biotechnology industry to apply synthetic biology to the climate crisis, including the producti ...
  • CREW: FOIA Workers Need Reinforcements
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 30, 2010 CREW Today Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released a report detailing the state of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) under the Obama administration based on the results of a survey CREW conducted of hundreds of FOIA profession ...
  • Tunisia: Government Ratifies Cluster Munition Ban
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 30, 2010 Human Rights Watch (HRW) Tunisia ratified the international treaty banning cluster munitions on September 28, 2010, becoming the first country in the Middle East and North Africa to do so. The move should encourage others from the region to ratify or accede t ...
  • Petition Filed to Protect Rare Texas Salamanders F ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 30, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity The Center for Biological Diversity and Save Our Springs Alliance today filed a formal petition asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to provide Endangered Species Act protection for a rare Texas salamander, the Jollyvill ...
  • “Rogues’ Gallery” Report Profiles Far-Right Senate ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 30, 2010 People For the American Way (PFAW) People For the American Way today released " The Rogues' Gallery ," profiling 15 far-right Republican nominees for Congress. From pledges to radically restrict reproductive choice to demands that the EPA and the Department ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Hands Off Social Security
    by Bernie Sanders A White House deficit commission is reportedly considering deep benefit cuts for Social Security, including a steep rise in the retirement age. We cannot let that happen. The deficit and our $13 trillion national debt are serious problems that must be addressed, but we can and ...
  • Obama-Men: Innocents Abroad; Politicos at Home
    by Ray McGovern Paging through Bob Woodward’s “Obama’s Wars,” I should not have been surprised that the index lacks any entry for “intelligence.” The excerpts that dribbled out earlier this week had made unavoidably clear that there was, in fact, no entry for intelligence in the disorderly process l ...
  • What We Can Learn from Our Hunter-Gatherer Ancesto ...
    by Caroline Wickham-Jones As an archaeologist my work is rooted in the past. As an inhabitant of the 21st century, I try to be "green". As an academic I am keen to re-awaken interest in the ancient hunter-gatherer population who lived in Britain before the arrival of farming 6,000 years ago. In my r ...
  • 'The New Racism is the Old Racism'
    by Naima Ramos-Chapman Sometimes the road to racial justice can feel like it’s paved with the coldest of stones, riddled with torturous twists and turns that seemingly lead to nowhere. It gets even harder when the powers that be construct divisive forks in that road, forcing advocates of the mar ...
  • The War Addicts: 2016 and Then Some
    by Tom Engelhardt Sometimes it’s the little things in the big stories that catch your eye.  On Monday, the Washington Post  ran the first of three pieces adapted from Bob Woodward’s new book  Obama’s Wars , a vivid account of the way the U.S. read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Afghanistan strategy in "fingers crossed" mode
    By Steve Hynd Michael Cohen, in an excellent post today, notes that Petraeus and others are still pointing to the "success" of Iraq as something they hope to duplicate in Afghanistan - when violent incidents in the former are trending upwards and it has just become the record holder for the longest ...
  • Pakistan Closes NATO Supply Route
    By Steve Hynd Yesterday morning I wrote about how similiar current cross-border strikes into Pakistan were to raids in September 2008 that ended up with the Khyber Pass supply routes to NATO troops in Afghanistan being closed five times in as many months - and how those closures taught NATO a lesson ...
  • A Broken Training Strategy In Afghanistan
    By Steve Hynd Here's an amazing admission by Lt. General Bill Caldwell, the guy in charge of training Afghans so "we can stand down as they stand up": there are 1,200 less soldiers in the Afghan National Army than there were a year ago. (hat tip: @petulantsage.) Caldwell went on to try to spin this ...
  • Pakistani Border Incursions & Khyber Supply Lines
    By Steve Hynd Following cross-border raids by US troops in hot pursuit of insurgents, Pakistan is threatening consequences for a violation of its sovereignty. Pakistan has told NATO leaders it will stop protecting U.S. and NATO supply lines to Afghanistan if foreign aircraft stage further cross-bord ...
  • In defense of Hamid Karzai
    By Steve Hynd Joshua Foust mounts a spirited and comprehensive defense of Afghan president Hamid Karzai over at Foreign Policy mag's Af/Pak Channel today. A "must read", Joshua argues that Karzai is as much a victim of unfortunate circumstance as an instigator, and that no other possible candidate w ...

Water Wars

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Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

  • US diverting drones from Afghanistan to bolster at ...
    The US military is secretly diverting its aerial drones and weaponry from the Afghan battlefront to Pakistan, in order to significantly expand the CIA's campaign against terrorist sanctuaries there, which are being used by militants to plan and launch attacks on US and NATO troops in Afghanistan.
  • Videogame manufacturer to stop players assuming ro ...
    Videogame manufacturer Electronic Arts, bowing to strong criticism from U.S. military officials and veterans organizations, made changes Friday to "Medal of Honor," the newest installment in its series of American-based war games.
  • US struggling to counter Taliban propaganda
    The U.S.-led coalition is finding itself on the defensive in the media war against the Taliban.
  • Canada confirms Afghan insurgents responsible for ...
    An investigation by Canadian military officials has confirmed that insurgents in Afghanistan were responsible for forcing down a Chinook helicopter in August. But the investigation failed to dete...
  • Taliban role pulled from video game
    Medal of Honor has pulled the role of the Taliban from its latest game. CALGARY - The retreat from the use of the name Taliban in a video war game has earned the grudging salute of a Calgary man who...

Futurismic

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

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on Government Oversight

  • Secret Deals May Lead to Bailouts for Defense Cont ...
    We may be unknowingly bailing out defense contractors such as KBR for the harm they cause, according to Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore. This week, Blumenauer, along with Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Ore., and Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.,...
  • Morning Smoke: Interior Releases New Offshore Rule ...
    Tougher rules for offshore drilling by Juliet Eilperin [The New York Times] Budget battle looms for Wall St. law by Silla Brush [The Hill] Lawmakers: Give Us Gates, and Give Us Documents by Nathan Hodge [Washington Wire] SEC 'Moving Rapidly'...
  • Congressman Grijalva Asks, "What happened to that ...
    So how did the Administration calculate the size of the BP oil spill and determine that it all seemed to go away? Congressman Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., plans on getting to the bottom of this. In letters to the Coast Guard,...
  • FAPIIS Update: New Data Entry Procedures; Public V ...
    It’s been almost six months since the federal government’s new contractor integrity and performance database, the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS), has gone live, and contracting officials are putting the finishing touches on policies and procedures regarding...
  • Morning Smoke: Key Congressional Committee Says a ...
    No Cuts Now, HASC Tells DoD by Colin Clark [DoD Buzz] U.S. Reviews FDA Scientists' Complaints by Alicia Mundy [The Wall Street Journal] GAO Gains a Foothold in Intelligence Oversight by Steven Aftergood [Secrecy News] Supreme Court Takes Up A-12...

Digital Journal

  • U.S. drone strikes continue pace in Pakistan, 18 m ...
    With tensions between the US and Pakistan high, and after a monthly record of 21 drone strikes in Pakistan in September, the US military continued its pursuit in Pakistan's troubled northwest - this time killing 18 militants.
  • Canada announces oil sands water review panel memb ...
    Canada's Environment Minister, Jim Prentice, unveiled his picks for the six person review panel he had announced he would set up. The panel is to review all the Alberta oil sands water monitoring information.
  • Five-month-old clings to life, police hunt Ronnie ...
    For over two weeks a five-month-old little boy has been clinging to life at Sick Children's Hospital in Toronto. The child was allegedly assaulted by his primary care-giver for the day, Ronnie Munoz-Hernandez.
  • Four coal-fired units to be shut down in Ontario
    The Canadian government announced that they will be shutting down four coal-fired units today applauded by The Green Energy Act Alliance (GEAA), nurses, farmers, First Nations, trade unionists, environmentalists and builders of clean energy.
  • Globe and Mail redesigns newspaper, website
    The Globe and Mail newspaper has changed its format today. The new design features a glossy, 11-inch style for print news and a relaunched online Life section featuring more videos and blogs.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • S.F. Police Somehow Oppose Outreach Event in the P ...
    Get this. Police didn't want an event full of services for the homeless to be held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park because that would bring homeless people back to an area cops have been working to shoo them away from. Huh? The event is the semi-regular Project Homeless Connect , spearheaded by ...
  • The Machiavellian Homeless Shelter
    How should a homeless shelter be run? What attributes should a service worker have? Let me present a hypothetical example relevant to my culture in Australia. Gordon Ramsay , the acerbic TV chef, has a reputation for being aggressive, sometimes rude, but with a doubt brilliant at what he does. His w ...
  • Advocates Sound Off on NY Governor's Decision to C ...
    As we  recently reported , New York Governor David A. Paterson has  vetoed a bill that  would have put a cap on the percentage of income that HIV+ individuals who receive public assistance pay for their rent. The bill, passed in both the State Senate and Assembly by wide margins, would not have requ ...
  • Small Towns Set Examples for Big Cities When It Co ...
    Three cheers for Puyallup! That's Puyallup, Washington, a town of just over 30,000 that recognizes the rights of the homeless better than much larger cities. The Puyallup City Council voted this week to approve an ordinance that will allow religious groups to host tent cities and other camps . The c ...
  • The Business of Harm and Neglect: NYC Experiments ...
    Neil Donovan is part of Change.org's  Changemakers network, comprised of leading voices for social change. Neil is the Executive Director of the National Coalition for the Homeless. Hundreds of families on the brink of homelessness in New York City are part of a draconian experiment cooked up under ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • NATO supplies blocked by Pakistan after soldiers k ...
    The relationship between Pakistan and the coalition forces in Afghanistan was further strained this week after coalition forces killed three Pakistani soldiers at a border checkpoint between the two countries (Deb Reichmann & Hussain Afzal, “Pakistan blocks war supply route after NATO cross-border s ...
  • Rideau Institute Leadership Award to go to antinuc ...
    The Rideau Institute Board of Directors will present the inaugural Rideau Institute Leadership Award to Murray Thomson, Doug Roche, and John Polanyi, founders of Canadians for a Nuclear Weapons Convention, at the Rideau Institute Gala Dinner on October 7, 2010. Their hard work and strong leadership ...
  • “Combat phase” of battle for Kandahar begins: ISAF
    The “combat phase” of the battle for the Kandahar region has begun, says a spokesperson for the International Security Assistance Force (Rob Nordland, “American and Afghan Troops Begin Combat for Kandahar,” New York Times, 26 September 2010): Code-named âOperation Dragon Strike,â the push is f ...
  • F-35 Memorandum of Understanding
    To view the 2006 Memorandum of Understanding on F-35s signed by Canada (which did not commit any of the parties to purchase  the aircraft), click here. Photo by Robert Plaskota
  • Canadian government supports UN, but not peacekeep ...
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s speech at the opening of the United Nations General Assembly has made a number of things clear about his attitude towards that organization. The first is that his government would very much like Canada to be elected to one of the temporary seats on the UN Security Co ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Vaccines Useful For Population Reduction
    October 1, 2010 Natural News Mike Adams In a recent TED conference presentation, Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, who has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to new vaccine efforts, speaks on the issue of CO2 emissions and its effects on climate change. He presents a formula for tracking CO2 em ...
  • US Gave Syphilis To Mentally Ill For Medical Testi ...
    October 1, 2010 CBS News David S. Morgan The U.S. government has formally apologized for a secret study conducted in the 1940s in which Guatemalan prisoners, service members and mental hospital patients were secretly infected with gonorrhea and syphilis without their knowledge or consent, calling th ...
  • Big Pharma Exaggerate Female Libido Problems For P ...
    October 1, 2010 Daily Telegraph Stephen Adams Writing in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), Ray Moynihan said pharmaceutical firms were guilty of wrongly giving the impression that “hypoactive sexual desire disorder” was widespread. Mr Moynihan, a broadcaster and lecturer at Newcastle University ...
  • CDC Admits H1N1 Is No Longer A Threat
    October 1, 2010 USA Today Steve Sternberg Swine flu no longer represents a major threat to the U.S. population, because most people are immune to the virus that caused last season’s pandemic, health officials report Tuesday.Of the 310 million people in the USA, 59% are now believed to be immune to p ...
  • Insecticide Chemicals Now Polluting Rivers Across ...
    October 1, 2010 The Independent Steve Connor An insecticide used in genetically modified (GM) crops grown extensively in the United States and other parts of the world has leached into the water of the surrounding environment.  The insecticide is the product of a bacterial gene inserted into GM maiz ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • Israel: smart enough to create Stuxnet and stupid ...
    Ever since speculation began, suggesting that Israel is the source of the Stuxnet malware, there has been a buzz of excitement in the Zionist corner of the blogosphere. The DEBKAfile — trusted source for pro-Israel fantasists all over the world — declared that if it turns out that millions of Irania ...
  • Preemptive strikes or preemptive revenge in Waziri ...
    Newsweek reports: For weeks now, as missiles from American drones have snuffed out their leaders and terrorized their recruits in the remote mountains of Pakistan’s North Waziristan area, Al Qaeda fighters have kept their spirits up by telling each other they were about to have their revenge. “It’s ...
  • Robert Wright’s bright idea
    Robert Wright has discovered a third way to Middle East peace. There’s always something seductive about a third way — the way between extremes; the way free of dogma traversed by pragmatists with flexible minds. Wright’s third way breaks the impasse on the road to a two-state solution by co-opting ...
  • Obamanation by Lowkey
    Lowkey, a 24-year-old British musician, poet, playwright and political activist of English and Iraqi descent, in an interview on RT News, describes “Obamanation” by saying: It was an examination of America’s role in the world. The main purpose of the song was to draw the American people’s attention ...
  • Iran’s blogfather: 19 years in jail for speaking h ...
    For anyone blogging in the US or most other democratic countries, it’s easy to take freedom of speech for granted. The case of Hossein Derakhshan, an Iranian-Canadian blogger who was just sentenced to 19 years in prison, is a salutary reminder of the dangers individuals face when simply voicing thei ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Blow Me Up, Blow Me Down
    Guest post by Thomas Fuller Well, with the calming passage of 24 hours, let’s take another look at the 10:10 video showing the splatterfest of gore as skeptics play the more volatile roles from the worst portions of the movie … Continue reading →
  • WUWT’s story on 10:10 – 3rd most popul ...
    People are really ticked off about this 10:10 video, and it isn’t abating. The story is making it’s way up the news food chain. Hits are increasing on it. This afternoon, this WUWT story reached #3 on WordPress. Not too … Continue reading →
  • Now it’s 2°C climate change target ‘no ...
    Research suggests climate change target ‘not safe’ From the University of Exeter via Eurekalert An analysis of geological records that preserve details of the last known period of global warming has revealed ‘startling’ results which suggest current targets for limiting … Continue reading →
  • A message to 10:10 -”sorry”, just does ...
    Well, it’s official. The 10:10 Carbon reduction team was embarrassed enough by their vile video showing children who disagreed with carbon reduction schemes getting blown up. They’ve put an apology up on their website: It reads: Sorry. Today we put … Continue reading →
  • 10:10 exploding skeptical children video “di ...
    Well, well, somebody came to their senses. About two hours ago, around 6:30AM PST, 10:10 took down their disgusting video showing school children were skeptical of carbon reduction suggestions from their teacher, get blown up in a gory bloodbath that … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • VOTE… OR REVOLT? By Gary Corseri
    By Gary Corseri Featured Writer Dandelion Salad October 2, 2010 They want me to go and vote again, To sanction their rigamarole; For all their rot and all their snot— To trade my immortal soul! They want me to tell’em: Thanks for the choice Twixt Tweedle Dum and Dee; Or that that vixen with the [... ...
  • The secret to understanding US foreign policy by W ...
    by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org 2 October, 2010 The Anti-Empire Report In struggle with the American mind Since The Great Flood hit Pakistan in July … many millions have been displaced, evacuated, stranded or lost their homes; numerous roads, schools and health c ...
  • Behind the Coup in Ecuador – The Attack on ALBA By ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Eva Golinger Translation: Machetera Oct. 1, 2010 “The placard reads, Yankees, get out out Latin America.” The latest coup attempt against one of the countries in the Bolivarian Alliance For The People of Our America (ALBA) is attempt to impede Latin American ...
  • Kucinich Renews Call to Cease Hostilities in Pakis ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis Kucinich Washington, Sep 30, 2010 “We are killing the same troops we claim to be helping.” Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who previously forced a vote in the House to stop the war in Afghanistan from spilling over the border into Pakist ...
  • The New Media & the Palestine Question: Blogging O ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ http://thejerusalemfund.org 23 September 2010 The Palestine Center Washington, DC Panel 1 – Changing the Public Discussion Participants: Jerome Slater, Adam Horowitz Moderator: Will Youmans Addressing: How has blogging/new media affected the public debate on Isra ...

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

  • Close Encounter Coming With Ghostly Green Comet
    Comet Hartley 2 will swoop within 11 million miles of Earth on October 20, one of the closest approaches of any comet in the last few centuries. Hartley 2 is already visible as a pale green streak in the W-shaped constellation Cassiopeia. NASA astronomer Bill Cooke caught the comet on September 28 ...
  • Intelligent Individuals Don’t Make Groups Smarter
    An early effort at defining general intelligence in groups suggests that individual brainpower contributes little to collective smarts. Instead, it’s social awareness — the ability to pick up on emotional cues in others — that seems to determine how smart a group can be. “We lack a shared criterion ...
  • Solar System’s Shield Could Leak Cosmic Rays
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience621764290001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); The bubble that separates our sun from the galaxy is surprisingly active. The second global map from the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) shows that the edge of the s ...
  • Monkeys See Selves in Mirror, Open a Barrel of Que ...
    Monkeys may possess cognitive abilities once thought unique to humans, raising questions about the nature of animal awareness and our ability to measure it. In the lab of University of Wisconsin neuroscientist Luis Populin, five rhesus macaques seem to recognize their own reflections in a mirror. M ...
  • A Habitable Exoplanet — for Real This Time
    After years of saying habitable exoplanets are just around the corner, planet hunters have finally found one. Gliese 581g is the first planet found to lie squarely in its star’s habitable zone, where the conditions are right for liquid water. “The threshold has now been crossed,” said astronomer R. ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Court denies Nobel laureate’s appeal against depor ...
    Israeli Court rejected Friday an appeal against deportation filed by Irish Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, who has been denied entry to Israel. The deportation has been... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
  • Israel-bound submarines banned from testing in Nor ...
    Norway's foreign ministry advised that it will no longer allow us[ing] its territory for naval experiments on submarines intended for the Israeli navy. This is not Norway's first security boycott on... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Obama: Israelis in Jordan Valley even after Palest ...
    Obama offered to support the presence of IDF soldiers in the Jordan Valley even after the establishment of a Palestinian state, if Israel would agree to a two month settlement building freeze, in a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Israeli Army publication: Settlers heavily overrep ...
    Thirteen percent of all combat company commanders on active service in the IDF come from settlements ... a five-fold over-representation based on their proportion in the general population of Israel. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Jewish Gaza-bound activists: IDF used excessive fo ...
    Israel Defense Forces soldiers used excessive force while taking over a Gaza-bound aid ship organized by Jewish and Israeli activists, flotilla participants said Tuesday, countering the military's... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

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NewsWise

Natural Health News

  • Study: Too Much of This Necessary Element Can Adve ...
    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 Per ...
  • GMO Poisons Found in Indiana Waterways
    A story in Indiana Business Journal reports that proteins from genetically altered crops are showing up in Indiana waterways. According to the Journal, the University of Notre Dame and Loyola University looked at 217 streams, drains and ditches near Indiana cornfields and found genetically modified ...
  • More Insanity: Flu Shot "May Prevent Heart Attack"
    A British study widely publicized in various online and print media outlets claims that flu vaccines can reduce the risk of heart attacks by as much as 19 percent. Critics, however, say the study is flawed, and that the "data" in it do not mean what the researchers are telling media. The study ...
  • Americans Still Eating Plenty of Junk Food
    We’ve been told to eat our veggies. And told and told and told. But despite two decades of public health initiatives, stricter government dietary guidelines, record growth of farmers’ markets and the ease of products like salad in a bag, The New York Times is now telling us something that, in truth, ...
  • Time Magazine Runs Article on Raw Milk Wars
    Milk may be a symbol of wholesomeness for most of us, but according to Time Magazine, it’s also a battleground between government regulators and natural health food proponents who want to drink whole, raw milk. The war is a test of their freedom to choose to drink a rich-tasting beverage full of ben ...

Antemedius

  • Fraud Factories: Rep. Alan Grayson Explains the Fo ...
    Posted to YouTube September 30, 2010 by Rep. Alan Grayson...
  • David Ellison for Cuyahoga County Executive
    In FDL entries here and here , as well as on other web sites, we went all out to help Jill Stein raise the $125,000 needed to qualify for entry into the Massachusetts gubernatorial debates and receive matching state funds. This was an amazing and productive action on the part of Green Party volunte ...
  • The War Addicts - 2016 and Then Some
    Originally published at TomDispatch.com Sometimes it’s the little things in the big stories that catch your eye.� On Monday, the Washington Post �ran the first of three pieces adapted from Bob Woodward’s new book� Obama’s Wars , a vivid account of the way the U.S. high command boxed the Commander-in ...
  • Chicken Hawks, Carry Home My Seabag, The Heavy One
    Originally posted at my site Bob Higgins I read a piece last night by Jason Linkins at Huff Post in which he describes the experience of CNN correspondent Michael Ware and Ware's difficulty in dealing with the memory of the death of a presumably innocent young Iraqi shot execution style by US troops ...
  • Senators In Gangland
    Not much of value comes from gangs. Oh sure there are some rap artists who started as gang members and I am not going to minimize the art that they have created, but really they are the exception not the rule. Gangs in history and in contemporary America are generally associated with criminal activ ...

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

  • Coded language
    by John Lentz by John Lentz I am interested in the issue of “coded language.”   As a protestant minister who preaches from sacred texts often using theological language concerning, for example, “sin” “redemption” “judgement,” etc., am I to interpret that this theological language is “coded?”  ...
  • More on Incitement
    by Mark Movsesian by Mark Movsesian Thanks to Professors Guiora and Cliteur, and my colleague and friend Chris Borgen, for their helpful responses to my posts. I find that I can agree with some important aspects of Prof. Cliteur’s most recent response. For example, he advocates a theoretical appr ...
  • Freedom from Religion—Rights and National Security
    by Amos Guiora by Amos Guiora In response to the previous comments, I very much appreciate the justified concern raised regarding my identification of the danger posed by religious extremists. Prof Movsesian is, of course, correct that non-religious terrorism (the groups he identifies) is also a ...
  • Freedom from Religion—Rights and National Se ...
    by Amos Guiora by Amos Guiora In response to the previous comments, I very much appreciate the justified concern raised regarding my identification of the danger posed by religious extremists. Prof Movsesian is, of course, correct that non-religious terrorism (the groups he identifies) is also a ...
  • How to Write a Book in 674 Easy Steps (Part One)
    by Kevin Jon Heller So, I finished my book on the Nuremberg Military Tribunals last Friday. Okay, that's a lie.  Or at least an exaggeration.  I still have about 2,500 footnotes to fix (literally).  And a few thousand precious, perfectly crafted words to cut.  But I have a very polished first ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • 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...
  • I hate Ian Wishart because...
    For some years now I've "enjoyed" a growing amount of internet 'hate mail' biffed my way on websites, virtually all from people I've never met and most from people who've never actually read my work themselves but who've relied on...
  • Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story...a cop kill ...
    The new book on the Crewe murders, Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story, is finally on sale. Available from Whitcoulls, PaperPlus, Take Note, Borders, The Warehouse, Dymocks and all good independent bookstores. The radio ad is available here: ThomasBook1
  • New Arthur Allan Thomas book just over a week away
    Launching 27 September...the cat will well and truly be set amongst the pigeons...
  • How objective was the Climategate inquiry?
    I've been too busy writing and editing the new Arthur Allan Thomas book to blog much in recent weeks, but couldn't resist this revelation about the old boys network's whitewash of Climategate. Here's how it happened...originally from Climate Audit, via...

The World We Live In

  • Domain Name Being Changed
    Some of your might have noticed that i have not been posting for a while. It was mostly out of frustration, you see when i started this site, I figured i would use it as a space to publish information, that i felt needed more attention in our life’s. New, views or even just facts [...]
  • One Facebook, Two Faces: A Piece By A Virtually De ...
    I had been banned from Facebook and my account had been disabled a night before Facebook was banned in Pakistan. Before all this happened, I visited the blasphemous page “Draw Muhammad Day” and the content on the page hurt me badly. Once again a certain group of westerners called it the “freedom of ...
  • New Chemical Element Discovered In Pakistan
    Pakistani researchers have discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, so far only discovered and found in Pakistan , has been named Zardarium (Symbol = Zm). It has one Presitron, 1 Priministron, 77 Ministrons, 98 deputy Ministrons, 298 National Assemblions, and 100 Senatr ...
  • At least we are not Dubai
    We haven’t got a lot to be thankful for these days in Pakistan. But at least we are not Dubai. Fed up with loadshedding, bombs, and TV cynicism pervading Pakistan, I recently escaped to Dubai for a holiday. Big mistake. Huge. Ten days later I returned, gasping for Karachi’s polluted, but far sweete ...
  • 9/11 Hijackers Not on Flight Manifests?
    The claim that no Arab names appeared on the flight manifests for the planes hijacked on the morning of September 11, 2001 arose shortly after the terrorist attacks, and variations on the theme have persisted to this day. The claim initially arose when lists of passengers published by CNN, The Guar ...

Center for Food Safety

  • 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

  • The Existential Lifespan of White Victimisation in ...
    It should hardly come as a surprise to anyone living in South Africa that the myth of a racially reconciled nation is a lot of insidious hogwash. The truth is that South Africa is a racist cesspool replete with the usual historical aggressors and victims that characterise the binary of racialised o ...
  • EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE-Israeli soliders abducting pales ...
    YouTube - EXCLUSIF FOOTAGE-Israeli soliders abducting palestinian patients : "On April 9th 2006, a little past 1 AM, about 30-40 Israeli soldiers entered Al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron, and abducted two Palestinian patients, one of which was in a stretcher. Their actions were caught on the hospital's ...
  • 8 Reasons Black Men Are Still Under Attack
    8 Reasons Black Men Are Still Under Attack | Clutch Magazine: The Digital Magazine for the Young, Contemporary Woman of Color Sadly, it seems the media rhetoric alleging a ‘Single Black Woman’ crisis is getting under our skin. Black love is under attack. And the most damaging part about it all is, m ...
  • Ignorance on religion is a civic, spiritual danger ...
    Ignorance on religion is a civic, spiritual danger: Experts - Faith & Reason : At a symposium at the Newseum in Washington D.C., Prothero acknowledged "a kind of jeopardy quality" to Pew's 32 question survey, in which most people couldn't get more than 16 questions correct. It matters because, he ...
  • Finally free, and still fighting | SocialistWorker ...
    Finally free, and still fighting | SocialistWorker.org : ON SEPTEMBER 21, Victor Safforld was released after 20 years in prison. In 1990, Safforld was convicted of two murders and sent to death row. Safforld had confessed to the murders after his arrest and torture by Chicago police officers under ...

Pensieve

  • Police Protest Endangers Ecuador
    Photo by philippe leroyer A protest against a congressional measure to reduce perks for Ecuadorian police escalated to a violent confrontation that threatens the stability of the South American nation. President Rafael Correa tried to quell the police force by going to their barracks to speak to the ...
  • The Trap
    Photo by Stuck in Customs Sometimes I feel trapped by the choices, even the seemingly excellent choices, that I have made. But I would not change them. I recognize them to be the best direction for my life. I can see their fruit, and would not alter them. But I still feel imprisoned. Here is [...] ...
  • Immigration Only a Dream
    The following Arizona Republic article is the only one I have read that gives a balanced and thorough, analysis of the immigration issues in the US. All others I’ve read are politically biased, sadly. I highly recommend reading it. Ironically, it was published in Arizona, which is now infamous for i ...
  • Cuban Communism’s Death Knell?
    Photo by “Carolonline” Last week, Fidel Castro made statements that were astoundingly out of character for him. Instead of the usual âblack is whiteâ propaganda, he publicly said that the âCuban modelâ no longer works. This week Cuba has announced mass layoffs from government jobs, and the s ...
  • When Suffering is Good
    Photo by G!zM() 17 We live in a world where hedonism and despair abound. It is as if the black death were knocking at our doors, like in Chaucerâs Canterbury Tales. Imagine a world without pain and suffering. Imagine not ever getting sick, physically or mentally. Imagine no disadvantages. Everyone ...

Green Times

  • Enjoy the market
    Going to a market is a good way to spend some spare time. Buy yourself some organic (glossary/food-drink/organic-food.html) vegetables or some oranges to make a fresh orange juice (food-drink/why-organic-juice-is-good-for-you.html). It’s also a great place to take nice colourful pictures. Picture ...
  • Plastic Soup
    This sticker refers to The Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean. It says: ‘In some parts of the ocean there is more plastic than plankton.’ Watch the video about the Plastic Soup (videos/plastic-soup.html) or read the article Midway to... Disposable Hell (wildlife/midway-to-disposable-h ...
  • Stop Your TV Ending Up In Landfill
    Australians generate 140,000 tonnes of e-waste each year. And with the rapid introduction of 3D TV, it’s likely to become an even bigger pile…
  • Environmental News 28/09/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Visit the park
    If you’re asking yourself what to do on your day off, visit the park. Invite your friends and bring some nice eco-friendly (glossary/categories/lifestyle/eco-products.html) food and drinks for a picnic. Getting some fresh air, lying on the grass and talking with your friends… it will be good! Phot ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Global Strike command reaches full operational cap ...
    ShareThis Global Strike command reaches full operational capability 01 Oct 2010 Officials declared Air Force Global Strike Command to be at full operational capability Sept. 30, on schedule, and less than 14 months after its initial activation as a command. In 2009, Global Strike Command was charter ...
  • US drone attack kills 4 in Pakistan
    ShareThis US drone attack kills 4 in Pakistan 02 Oct 2010 At least four people have been killed in an unsanctioned US drone attack in Pakistan's tribal belt along the border with Afghanistan, local security officials said. The US unmanned plane targeted a house by missiles in Dashgah village near Da ...
  • 2 US-led troops killed in Afghanistan
    ShareThis 2 US-led troops killed in Afghanistan 02 Oct 2010 Two more US-led soldiers have lost their lives in a bomb explosion in eastern Afghanistan, says NATO's International Security Assistance Force. NATO said in a Saturday statement that the incident took place on Friday.
  • Blackwater Wins Piece of $10 Billion Mercenary Dea ...
    ShareThis Blackwater Wins Piece of $10 Billion Mercenary Deal By Spencer Ackerman 01 Oct 2010 Through a "joint venture," the notorious private-security firm Blackwater has won a piece of a five-year State Department contract worth up to $10 billion, Danger Room has learned. Apparently, there is no m ...
  • News Corp. gave $1 million to pro-GOP group
    ShareThis News Corp. gave $1 million to pro-GOP group 30 Sep 2010 News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, contributed $1 million this summer to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the business lobby that has been running an aggressive campaign in support of the Republican effort to retake Congress, a ...

Daily Loaf

  • Rubio and Romney’s Reclaiming America Rally reache ...
    Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney visit Land O Lakes to speak with citizens. Issues like entrepreneurship, role of government, and political tact were discussed with an eager crowd.
  • Restaurant News: Cuenelli’s Peruvian Style Rotisse ...
    Although it is unfortunate that Riverview is losing such a great restaurant, hopefully this move will allow Cuenelli's the opportunity to get the recognition it deserves in a new part of town.
  • Bill’s Sports Binge Friday freeway: Rays two-game ...
    Is it beer-30 yet? Not to worry, Dilbert dorks. After your Friday feast of brief but pointless bite-size sports morsels, you’ll be sufficiently armed to impress the Happy Hour homies and hussies alike. Maybe even the hot bartender you’ve been eyeballing for way too many months now. Also, it might ...
  • Gagne’s goal: contract extension with Lightning
    One of the newest members of the team, Gagne spoke after practice on Friday about how he hopes his time with Tampa Bay will play out.
  • Reel Projections Podcast: Featuring The Social Net ...
    We're back for another installment of the Reel Projections podcast, this week covering the much anticipated The Social Network , the coming re-re-release of all six Star Wars films in 3D and our preview of fall coming attractions. I hope you'll join us, and thanks for keeping it Reel …

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Yonatan Shapira’s testimony from the Jewish ...
    From Occupation Magazine Journal of a voyage, by Yonatan Shapira 26 September 2010 The course is 120. Another 200 miles to the port in Cyprus and the automatic pilot in the boat, which is supposed to maintain the course, refuses to work and leaves me with the unending task of maintaining the course ...
  • Avigdor Lieberman takes settlement policy to its l ...
    by Jesse Bacon Lost in the debate over the settlement phase is its real purpose, to claim Palestinian land for Israel. Even its hardcore defenders like Avigdor Lieberman, know there will come a time when that has reached its end, when all available Palestinian land has been taken, and all Palestini ...
  • Something new is happening in Palestine
    An-Nabi Salih, September 25, 2010 Something new is happening in Palestine. I saw and heard things today that are relatively rare in my experience. I saw conflict erupt in the village between those who wanted to throw stones at the Israeli soldiers and generate more violence, as in the past, and the ...
  • Trying to visit the Tamimi Family in the West Bank
    by Amir Terkel, Saturday, September 25, 2010 This morning we went to visit our friends the Tamimi Family and their kids in Nabi Saleh, in the west bank about 40 minutes from Tel Aviv. As it turns out this weekend village residents and Israeli peace activists had planned on marking Intern ...
  • Sheikh Jarrah Sukkot
    September 22, 2010 It may sound unlikely, but we’re in ‘Uthman ibn ‘Affan Street in Sheikh Jarrah and, together with Salah and other Palestinian friends from the neighborhood, we’re building a sukkah. The Sukkot holiday, my favorite, starts tonight. Religious Jews build little booths covered with pa ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • The Hives. Main Offender
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  • The year’s best political ads for third party and ...
    From Poli-Tea: What are the year’s best political ads for third party and independent candidates (so far)?  Over the last week, I’ve viewed dozens of political ads and short videos produced by and for Libertarian, Green, Constitution Party and Independent candidates for office from Maine to Califor ...
  • The Ramones. I Wanna Be Sedated. Live
    One of my favorite Ramones song, I saw them live many times.
  • Conspiracy Theory of the Day
    Obama ordered the FBI raids on anti-war activists because he wants evidence destroyed linking him to them when they were allied with the Socialist New Party in Chicago in 1998.
  • California’s dueling propositions. Prop 25 and Pro ...
    What would an election be in California without dueling propositions? Prop 25 would roll back the 1933 proposition which changed the budget vote threshold to two-thirds. Also on the ballot in November is Proposition 26, which would mandate a two-thirds vote for any new fees or levies. In an Op-ed, t ...

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

  • Obama Working on Plan to Wiretap Skype, Facebook, ...
    The Obama administration wants to force all communications companies to make their networks compliable with wiretapping orders from law enforcement, a change that would primarily affect the likes of Facebook, Skype, BlackBerrys and similar encrypted systems. Full Article Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('d ...
  • Obama Apologizes to Guatemala for U.S. STD Experim ...
    President Barack Obama personally apologized today for a U.S. government experiment conducted in the 1940s in which prisoners in Guatemala were deliberately infected with a sexually transmitted disease. Obama delivered the apology in a telephone call to Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom. “This is tr ...
  • Purported bin Laden message focuses on relief, dev ...
    (CNN) — A message purportedly from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is urging Muslims to tackle famine, flood relief, the effects of climate change and clean water — stark problems plaguing parts of the Islamic world. The message, which appeared on jihadist forums Friday, strongly urged Muslims to he ...
  • In 1932, Fox Helped Make Propaganda Films for Hitl ...
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net September 30, 2010 Observers of the current US election season have noted the prominent role of Rupert Murdoch’s reactionary Fox News Channel, which currently employs GOP and “Tea Party” partisans Sarah Palin, Glen Beck, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santor ...
  • California Governor Signs Marijuana Decriminalizat ...
    California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Thursday signed into law a bill that decriminalizes the possession of up to one ounce of marijuana. The bill reduces simple possession from a misdemeanor to an infraction. Currently, small-time pot possession is “semi-decriminalized” in California. There is ...

The Air Vent

  • Conversation with a climatologist
    I’ve been wrong before, comment away. Blogs which require passwords and codes drive me nuts.  Get wordpress people and stop moderating.  What a waste of my time. I’ve been discussing with James Amman MMH10 which is the single premier skeptic paper ever published.   Although even blogland hasn’t ...
  • Two Civil Conversations on Other Blogs
    I’ve been enjoying a couple of conversations away from tAV.  One where I’m discussing with James Annon the McKitrick McIntyre and Herman paper which shows models far exceeding trends.  His blog is moderated so the pace is very slow.  The link is here. James has made (and published) the claim that ...
  • Cull the Skeptics
    Ok, this  was sent by email to me.  I see Anthony Watts already has it up — big surprise there.  What the heck is wrong with envirowhackos.  This isn’t funny, it isn’t sane, it will convince noone of anything, it’s gratuitously violent, it’s indirectly threatening and worst of all, it’s obnoxiou ...
  • Corruption
    Well GM, a company now owned primarily by the US federal government, a company which received billions in bailout money which ended up being payoffs to democratic party supporting unions, has now decided to invest back in the politicians which supported them. From here: WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–Genera ...
  • Honesty in Blogging
    Tamino’s wrote a quick reply to Dr. Loehles vindication post at WUWT. The post ended with this comment. Gee. When compared honestly, Loehleâs so-called âvindicationâ becomes an indictment. What a surprise. Below is the first graph from his site which Dr. Loehle used to point out the amazing si ...

Focal Point

  • A Tea Party Treasury: Taibbi & Drum
    There's been a lot of great writing about the conservative backlash known as the tea party lately. Matt Taibbi has an astute take on racism and the tea party movement in Rolling Stone : It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists. They're ...
  • Future Generations Will Condemn Us For: Legalizing ...
    Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah sparked an internet meme with his op/ed entitled " What Will Future Generations Condemn Us For "? The challenge is to predict which widely accepted practices or institutions will be regarded as barbaric by future generations. Apiah argues future generations will look ...
  • Dirty Trickster James "Honey Trap" O'Keefe Schemed ...
    Talk about hubris... Dirty trickster James O'Keefe's foray into gonzo porn has ended disastrously for him. O'Keefe schemed to seduce CNN investigative reporter Abbie Boudreau in front of hidden cameras. The right wing media activist, who recently pleaded guilty to charges of attempted phone tamperin ...
  • Federal Regulators Vindicate Dr. Maria New
    This month, federal regulators vindicated Dr. Maria New, a leading pediatric endocrinologist who studies prenatal treatment for congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), a hereditary disease that exposes the fetus to excessive male hormones in the womb. In February, a group of activist bioethicists sent ...
  • Sharron Angle Thinks "Autism" is a Socialist Consp ...
    GOP senate hopeful Sharron Angle will see your lunacy and raise you. These days it's fashionable to claim that vaccination is a Big Pharma/Big Government conspiracy to cause autism. Angle can do better. She believes that autism is a socialist conspiracy to shower undeserving children with free hea ...

Inside Facebook

  • Thanks to Our Sponsors
    Inside Facebook extends a big thank you to our sponsors for supporting the continued growth of Inside Facebook. Check them out below! Joyent provides public cloud hosting for social application and game developers. The Buddy Media Platform enables brands to manage Facebook Pages and engage fans. Rig ...
  • Facebook Roundup: Nielsen, Ping, Zuckerberg, Faceb ...
    Facebook, Apple Will Work on Ping – Facebook CTO Bret Taylor said this week that, eventually, the company will figure out a way to work with Apple on its social music network Ping, even though the companies have failed to work out a deal to date. $100M Donation in Facebook Shares – We wrote last [.. ...
  • Facebook Reduces Visibility of Feedback to News Fe ...
    News feed stories generated by official Pages no longer use text to represent the quantity of feedback received, and instead use counts next to small thumbs-up and speech bubble icons to denote how many people have Liked or commented on the story. The change significantly de-emphasizes conversations ...
  • Mixed Games Lead This Week’s List of Emerging Face ...
    A nice variety of games leads off this week’s AppData list of emerging Facebook apps, measured as those still under a million monthly active users. The titles emphasize just how diverse Facebook gamers are becoming: Top Gainers This Week Name MAU Gain Gain,% 1. éå¿æ°´æ(å¼å¿æ°´æ) 494,158 +47 ...
  • Facebook Adds New Features to Friend Requests and ...
    Facebook is testing and implementing a number of new features surrounding friend requests and suggestions. The changes protect you from friend request spam, help you manage incoming and outgoing requests, and suggest more people you may want to connect with. Recently, Facebook added an alternative “ ...

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ReDress News

  • Overcoming AIPAC is not enough
    Lawrence Davidson outlines a strategy for unshackling the United States from Israel, based on melding the liberation of the US from AIPAC with the revival of American national interests in the broader Middle East and Muslim world, and with the viable future of Palestine.
  • Israel's reasoning against peace: deal comes at hi ...
    Jonathan Cook considers the forces ranged against a just peace for the Palestinians, arguing that these forces include not just the squatters that inhabit the ever-expanding colonies in the West bank, but also many Israeli Jews living within Israel's recognized borders and retired senior army office ...
  • Reaping terror’s reward: get in there first – that ...
    Stuart Littlewood looks at how modern terrorism was in fact pioneered by the Zionists and how Israeli and the US behaviours fit the US definition of terrorism like a glove.
  • Truth will set US free: breaking Israel’s strangle ...
    Maidhc Ó Cathail argues that it is vital for the American public to understand that unconditional support for Israel is doing incalculable damage to the US national interest and that, to steer US policy back so that it serves the American people, it is crucial to break the Israel lobby’s stranglehol ...
  • Eight US universities say yes to apartheid
    Lawrence Davidson argues that by signing student exchange agreements with Israeli universities that practise apartheid, eight US universities, including Harvard, Columbia and Michigan, are lending themselves to the destruction of the very educational virtues they claim to cherish.

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

  • ‘This’ is the ‘Real’ Picture of Our War: Isn’t it ...
    Seeking Unison in Justified Outrage   Please take a moment and look at these pictures. Really look at them. Not just a cursory glance or a rushed and distracted glance. Isn’t it heartbreaking looking at them? Isn’t it revolting and outrageous?  Next, please read, process, and think about the followi ...
  • Matt Bryza: From Evasive to Perjurer?
    Obama’s Nominee for Azerbaijan Ambassadorship Misleads Congress on the Issues of Conflict of Interest & Questionable Ties In response to questions at the hearing that he was too close to Azerbaijani Government officials with highly questionable ties, Matt Bryza remained evasive and provided half-ans ...
  • The Latest on the Police State Front
    Pilots vs. Indignities at the Airports, Midland FBI Spying, Snitching on Your ‘Terrorist Neighbor,’ & More Here are a few updates for those of you who may have been wondering about the continuity of my interest in our nation’s police state status. I may be too busy to write my usual ten-page plus ed ...
  • Decrypting the Shadow behind Hamid Karzai
    The Long Intended Chaos According to news reports, the Obama administration is once again reevaluating how to deal with Afghanistanâs Hamid Karzai out of fear that it may now be holding him to unrealistic standards of U.S. law enforcement. This comes after a summer of news that Karzai continues to ...
  • Podcast Show #33
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Glenn Walp Glenn Walp discusses his recently published book, Implosion at Los Alamos: How Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Ups Jeopardize America’s Nuclear Weapons Secrets, and describes major lapses in security at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, where scie ...

Afro Spear

  • Does The Black Church Care? Mother of Peace Orphan ...
    The children with Mama Jean at the Mother of Peace Orphanage in Mutoko, Zimbabwe In 1989 a South African warrior woman was inspired to promote the setting up of orphanages that would care for children who had been abandoned due to the AIDS pandemic. In 1993 five people from Harare took up the challe ...
  • “Our Father, Who Aren’t in Washington& ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21  Conservatives argue that the liberal social programs of the 1960s destroyed the black family as the notion of the black man as the patriarch of his family took a beating. In just a few generations, an intact black family became so hard to recognize that blacks ridicul ...
  • “Are You Serious? MDG in Africa!” by P ...
    Repost from CRY ME AN ONION The UN is prone to throw challenges here and there to the world. One of the challenges lingering from its start in 2000 is the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). All UN Members ceremoniously enlisted for this homework. The aim of the MDG is to meet 8 poverty reduction go ...
  • The Business of Poverty
    Jesus stated: “The poor you will always have with you…” and there are those who want to ensure that these words will always ring true. Last week, from 20-22 September, there was an U.N. summit regarding the progress of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). For those unfamiliar with what this ...
  • “Madness and self seeking in the name of God ...
    Recent stand-off-cum-threat by American quack Terry Jones to enflame 200 copies of Koran gave us many lessons. The biggest lesson we got is some Muslims and politicians proved to be mad and awkward thanks to their lush and myopia. For many people in various “Muslim” countries took to the streets to ...

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

  • Greenwash Of The Week: The Nature Conservancy and ...
    From my friend David at The Good Human comes the opening gambit of a big investigation into The Nature Conservancy. This will be worth watching… Seems The Nature Conservancy, an âenviroâ org with billions of dollars in assets, has some very good rich friends who spend their days destroying the e ...
  • Big Alcohol Funding Anti-Marijauna Campaigns
    I’ve seen both the good side of recreational cannabis use (creativity and good feelings) and also the bad side (psychosis and laziness), so I’m not taking sides here as far as legalisation is concerned. On the other hand, I’ve seen a hell of a lot more aggression, violence, bloodshed and death from ...
  • IBM Financing Greenwash: 2 PCs Better Than 1?
    This gem of a corporate sales pitch was sent to me by an Unsuitablog reader, which somehow manages to turn replacing a computer twice as often as normal into a green decision. The main problem with corporate attempts to be green is that they come from corporations, and corporations exist to make pro ...
  • Monthly Undermining Task September/October 2010: U ...
    Fashion! Turn to the left Fashion! Turn to the right Oooh, fashion! We are the goon squad and we’re coming to town (âFashionâ, David Bowie) The Unsuitablog is being fashionably late in publishing the latest Monthly Undermining Task; the main reason being that I wanted leave the previous one up a ...
  • Global Cool Self-Nomination Campaign Goes Awry
    Flicking through my news feeds I came across an article by George Monbiot in The Guardian entitled “Green heroes working for the right kind of environmental change”. As always, I quickly scanned it looking for anyone who was actually doing anything to undermine the industrial system, and was pleasa ...

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

  • '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 ...
  • An Anaylsis of Six Journalism Startups
    In the last few weeks there has been some interesting and exciting news in the journalism startup world. I wanted to take some time to highlight new players and provide my own personal analysis. Collaborative Storytelling: Three New Startups Kommons.com Kommons was founded by the young Cody ...
  • SeedSpeak To Sprout Community Improvement Projects ...
    The excitement continues to build in the Phoenix community over a new mobile and web platform that will help people sow positive change in the community. Since the June Knight News Challenge funding announcement, my development partner Cody Shotwell and I have fielded dozens of calls and emails from ...
  • PRX Story Exchange, Spot.us Bring Crowdfunding to ...
    Story Exchange (formerly Story Market) is a way for local public radio stations, producers, and listeners to pitch, find and fund documentaries and stories on important local issues. We're also one of this year's winners of a Knight News Challenge grant. Here's how we envision it working: Let's s ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Mendoza Eugenics - Schwarzenegger Vetoes Controver ...
    Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California vetoed the controversial state legislation, AB2072, known to its critics as “the Mendoza deaf eugenics bill.” In a September 29 letter to the California State Assembly, the governor wrote that while children experiencing hearing loss and their parents nee ...
  • Thanks for Removing Inaccurate Remarks about Rep. ...
    Yesterday, September 28, The Cutting Edge News ran a story online that was authored by a Congressional candidate which contained completely unsupported assertions about Congressman Dennis Kucinich.�I contacted you to alert you regarding the inaccurate and misleading statements in the story. I apprec ...
  • Cuba on Edge - Cuba in The U.S. Congress
    Holding true to its historic ability to garner international press attention seemingly disproportionate to its geographic size, Cuba has once again claimed the spotlight. From a now disputed statement from Fidel Castro that the ”Cuban model” no longer functions to the glimmering possibility that the ...
  • America on Edge - Antoine Dodson has Left the Hood
    Just two months ago, Antoine Dodson was just scraping by and trying to support his family. Today he is an international Internet celebrity. It all started when a Huntsville, Alabama, news crew taped an interview of the visibly upset Antoine about the attempted rape of his sister by an assailant in J ...
  • The Weapon's Edge - Massive Sale of U.S. Arms to S ...
    The Arab lobby now seeks to capitalize on fears of war with Iran to convince Congress to approve the largest arms sale in U.S. history to Saudi Arabia. In fact, the sale will do nothing to protect the Saudis from Iran and will reward them for continuing to undermine our values and interests. Who is ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Farewell To Arms: Jenny, Iraq And The Next War
    By Ramzy Baroud Abu Ghraib was only a microcosm of Iraq. No one was convicted for the much larger crime that has decimated the civilization that served as the cradle of all civilizations. Cheney, Rumsfeld and Bush are enjoying retirement to the fullest. Those who fabricated the case for war on Ira ...
  • In Struggle With The American Mind
    By William Blum The secret to understanding US foreign policy is that there is no secret. Principally, one must come to the realization that the United States strives to dominate the world. Once one understands that, much of the apparent confusion, contradiction, and ambiguity surrounding Washingt ...
  • The Impending Collapse Of Israel In Palestine
    By Francis A. Boyle For the Palestinians to sign any type of comprehensive peace treaty with Israel would only shore up, consolidate, and guarantee the existence of Zionism and Zionists in Palestine forever. Why would the Palestinians want to do that? Without approval by the Palestinians in writin ...
  • Failed Washington-Sponsored Ecuadorean Coup Attemp ...
    By Stephen Lendman Post-9/11, Washington sponsored four coup detats. Two succeeded - most recently in Honduras in 2009 against Manuel Zelaya, and in Haiti in 2004 deposing Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Two others failed - in Venezuela in 2002 against Hugo Chavez, and on September 30 in Ecuador against Ra ...
  • Force Of Faith Trumps Law And Reason In Ayodhya Ca ...
    By Siddharth Varadarajan If left unamended by the Supreme Court, the legal, social and political repercussions of the judgment are likely to be extremely damaging

Contagious Love Experiment

  • WAR IS OVER… If You Claim It?
    In the midst of pleasant nods about “the end of the Iraq War,” Mr. Stephen Colbert celebrates in style… (Click The Word-What if they threw a peace and nobody came) The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – What If You Threw a Peace and Nobody Came? www.colbertnation.com Colbert Repo ...
  • Vigiling in Afghanistan
    More amazing work from Our Journey to Smile
  • 92219 Pieces of my Broken Afghan Heart
    The following letter was sent to me from the young people in Afghanistan who tried to come to the U.S. this summer for our speaking tour. The U.S. embassy flatly denied them, but their voices continue to cry out. The official narrative of the Afghan War is that it has greatly served the people of A ...
  • The other side of Afghanistan
  • Days 9-11: Solitude, Mountains, and Humanity
    The first time I talked to Ymani, one of our hosts in Asheville, NC, I was at Salam’s house in Berkeley, CA. The first cross-country trek that I embarked on was drawing to an end and I was entering all kinds of scenarios into google maps to try to incorporate Asheville into the plans before [...]

Yid With Lid

  • Excerpt from David Kahane’s Rules for Radical Cons ...
    Who is David Kahane? Despite what I thought David is not the long lost son of Rabbi Meir Kahane, nor is he Rahm Emanuel's former Ballet partner (but I do hear he looks good in a tutu). Some also say he was the inspiration for the role of Max Bialystock in the Producers, but none of that is true. ...
  • Obama to Israel: "Make Us Look Good For Election a ...
    By Barry Rubin Contents of a White House letter have been published saying what the Obama Administration will offer Israel if it extends the moratorium on building inside West Bank settlements for two months. The specific proposals reveal again how the White House doesn’t seem to understand ...
  • Rich Sanchez, CNN is Run By Bigoted Jews, John Ste ...
    Rick Sanchez CNN anchor had fun putting down Jews yesterday. Sanchez was on the Sirrus/XM show Stand Up! with Pete Dominic when they they got into a discussion about bigotry.� He started with a story about how a CNN administrator didn't want him to become an anchor because he was Cuban. Then he rail ...
  • New CREW Report Shows Obama's Transparency Pledge ...
    Transparency. It was supposed to be one of President Obama's "Changes." He promised this would be the most transparent presidential administration is US history.� According to the left-wing government watchdog organization,� Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), the Obama admi ...
  • GOP Developing Strategy to De-Fund Obamacare
    Even if they win majorities in both the house and the senate, the GOP will not be able to have a successful vote to overturn Obamacare as long as Barack Obama wields a veto pen (unless of course they get a veto-proof majority which is not going to happen this election). For the time being, should th ...

The Real Agenda

  • Film: Children Assassinated For Not Reducing Carbo ...
    A new climate change infomercial released by a prominent global warming activist organization depicts children being assassinated for not reducing their carbon footprint, as AGW skeptics are grotesquely blown up with innards and blood splattering everywhere, a frightening reminder of the fact that t ...
  • “Diseñar Humanos con Características Unicas” bajo ...
    Recientemente, un documento titulado Gobernabilidad Global 2025: En un momento Crítico fue divulgado a través de una demanda impuesta bajo el Acto de Libertad de Información . El documento, escrito por el American National Intelligence Council (NIC) y el Instituto de la Unión Europea de Estudios de ...
  • Salmón Transgénico entra en Cadena Alimenticia sin ...
    Esta nueva especie de salmón, literalmente, cultivado en un laboratorio, pondrá fin a la población natural de salmón en tan sólo unas pocas generaciones. Entre los genes que estos salmones contienen se encuentran anguila, insectos y arácnidos. La FDA está a punto de aprobar salmón genéticamente modi ...
  • Massive Austerity causes Wave of Protests in Europ ...
    Is this the beginning of a mass wake up against the tyranny and irresponsibility of the bankers and elites of the planet? AP Anti-austerity protests erupted across Europe on Wednesday – Greek doctors and railway employees walked out, Spanish workers shut down trains and buses, and one man even block ...
  • Fetuses, recently born Babies are not Humans
    Jurriaan Maessen It is almost tiresome, but yet another writing by White House science czar John P. Holdren has surfaced- this time questioning the right of a “potential human” to live and grow in the womb of an “actual woman”. One could fill a medium-sized library with the writings by this Malthusi ...

Wind Watch

  • Lookout Mountain residents fighting plan for wind ...
    Lookout Mountain residents near Ga. 157 have been contacted about a potential wind turbine farm being located in the area. Residents were approached last week (Sept, 13-17) by a representative of Iberdrola Renewables, which claims to be the worldwide leader in wind turbines, with their turbines in 2 ...
  • Properties ‘virtually unmarketable’
    A survey by a local realtor may have confirmed the worst suspicions of Stan Mundy, whose home is closest to Chevron’s wind farm northeast of Casper. Glen Taylor, of Equity Brokers in Casper, did a real estate survey Sept. 10, 2010, and concluded properties directly adjacent to the Chevron Wind Tower ...
  • Records show area officials profit from leases wit ...
    Twelve public officials who sat on county and town boards in Lewis County stand to make a combined $7.5 million from the region’s largest wind-turbine project, government disclosure forms show. And numerous other officials in Herkimer County stand to profit as well from new projects there, although ...
  • U.S. wrestling with property values and setbacks f ...
    While residents in Wellington County are struggling to stave off a number of wind farm pro­jects in their communities, their counterparts in the United States are facing the same battles and arguing with the same tools. The difference is that here the provincial govern­ment has taken away the rights ...
  • Wind turbine ordinance passes overwhelmingly
    PHILLIPS — Residents voted 32-9 on Thursday to adopt an ordinance that allows the town to govern where wind turbines are located in town, interim Town Manager Elaine Hubbard said Friday. The ordinance, which is effective immediately, sets guidelines for the turbines for both commercial and residenti ...

Not My Tribe

  • Transit Authority “Let them Eat Cake” ...
    Public meeting that was scheduled for this past Monday, 27 Sep 2010, postponed until Monday after next, the 11th of October. Strong-arm Mayor Rivera and his Puppet Council are pushing to sever Front Range Express, thus ending any chance of a Regional transportation system, along with the Ute Pass bu ...
  • Unexpurgated then and now.
    Because of the massive amount of bigotry, jingoism and violent wishes expressed in reaction to one of our more popular Visitor Attractions showing just a minimal sample of war atrocity in the form of dead Soldiers. Like, what was expected, eh? The hate-speech brought forth from those who want to con ...
  • Was Jesus a Muslim? (tee-hee)
    Listening to Islamic studies scholar Robert Shedinger taunt the CC audience with whether Jesus may have been a Muslim reminds me of the not-so-old joke about returning the Statue of Liberty to the French, because we’re not using her anymore. At his fundamental, Jesus espoused what we are accustomed ...
  • War Criminals Bush and Cheney coming to the Broadm ...
    Should-be jailbirds Darth Cheney and Dubya Bush are coming to Colorado Springs! Monday Oct. 4 and Tuesday Oct. 5 respectively. Each will be the day’s 8:30 AM keynote speaker at the Annual Insurance Leadership Forum held in the Broadmoor Rocky Mountain Ballroom. Coloradans For Peace will host a stand ...
  • Put your dog-lover on a leash
    How about a dog collar for dog lovers? If you find companionship in dogs, and read in their faces such human qualities as insight and empathy, why not show some empathy yourself and submit to their leash. I don’t mean a collar and rope which your dog can restrict or yank at whim, but a [...]

Debunking the Debunkers

  • 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 ...
  • Actually, no Mr. Nobles...
    I think it's time to correct you on a few issues. A couple of weeks ago Mr. Joseph Nobles posted a response to my debunking of his posts on the thermal conductivity of the WTC steel and the corroded steel samples. And on Tuesday, he posted a request to me that I correct myself. I'll be doing some ...
  • 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 ...
  • The beam that fell too fast...
    I normally don't like discussing little anomalies in videos like this, but I found this kind of interesting. Some time ago I posted the image below and noted the single beam that's fallen much further than the rest of the debris, as if it was falling faster than freefall. In many videos this b ...

Fooducate

  • DIY Packaging Tricks For Healthy Snacks
    This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl If you think something will taste really delicious you will eat it. Most of us would assume that taste is based on using our taste buds, but what about our eyes? Can you alter healthy food to make children want to eat it? [...]
  • Ben & Jerry’s Getting Honest about “All Natural” L ...
    As fooducate readers probably know by now, we take great care in pointing out marketing claims disguised as health claims. You know, the smart wordy quotes that make you feel you’re gonna live forever, disease free if you just buy this product and consume it every day, preferably twice daily. Even ...
  • The Protein Marketing Myth
    Quick question – are you getting enough protein in your diet? For most Americans, the answer is YES, more than enough. How then, can you explain the huge business that is protein supplements? All those bars and meal replacements bragging boatloads of protein? Not to mention Greek yogurts that tout t ...
  • FTC Accuses POM of False Advertsing
    The Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday that it has filed a complaint against POM Wonderful for deceptive advertising. From the FTC: As part of its ongoing efforts to uncover over-hyped health claims in food advertising, the Federal Trade Commission has issued an administrative complaint c ...
  • Kix Kids’ Cereal – Optimal Mix of Taste and Nutrit ...
    Kix is a kid’s cereal that’s been around for over 70 years. It recently went through what marketing professionals call a “brand refresh”. See the new package image above. The package promises “Kid Tested, Mother Approved”. So we had two fooducate community members receive a sample box to try with t ...

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

  • Church demands end to armed attacks on Guarani
    Guarani Indians often suffer violent attacks after they return to their ancestral land © CIMI Brazilian bishops have demanded that the government take urgent action to put an end to armed attacks on Guarani communities in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, south of the Amazon. Last month, Guara ...
  • Pro-Indian bishop wins ‘alternative Nobel prize’
    Dom Erwin Krautler, Bishop of Xingu, has won the 2010 Right Livelihood Award © Prelazia do Xingu A leading supporter of Indian rights in Brazil has won the Right Livelihood Award , known as the ‘alternative Nobel prize’. Dom Erwin Krautler, the Bishop of the Xingu in Brazil’s Amazon region, wo ...
  • Shell in row over Brazilian Indian land grab
    The film 'Birdwatchers' highlights the plight of the Guarani Kaiowá Indians in Brazil © Marie Hippenmeyer Brazilian authorities have written to energy giant Shell expressing concern over the activities of its new Brazilian joint-venture partner, which is producing biofuels from land taken ...
  • Survival calls for boycott of Botswana tourism
    The pool of Wilderness Safaris' new lodge in the CKGR. © Survival Survival today called for tourists to boycott Botswana until the government ends a brutal campaign of persecution against Kalahari Bushmen. The call coincides with World Tourism Day, September 27, which Botswana is using to ...
  • Amazon Indians condemn destructive Madeira river d ...
    Indians protest against dams in the Amazon © Telma Monteiro/ Survival Indians of several tribes have harshly criticized the Brazilian government for allowing the construction of large hydroelectric dams in the Amazon, including dams on the Madeira river. In a Declaration signed at the ‘Gatheri ...

Greg Palast

  • 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 ...
  • Bush'd again? New Orleans, Mr. O and Mr. Go
    by Greg Palast for The Huffington Post Five years ago this week, a beast drowned New Orleans. Don't blame Katrina: the lady never, in fact, touched the city. The hurricane swept east of it. You want to know the name of the S.O.B. who attacked New Orleans? Locals call him "Mr. Go" - the Mississippi ...
  • No “Home Sweet Home”Five years after Katrina
    Matt Pascarella and I encountered Patricia Thomas while she was breaking into a home at the Lafitte Housing Project in New Orleans. It was her own home. Nevertheless, if caught, she'd end up in the slammer. So would we. Matt was my producer for the film, Big Easy to Big Empty, and he encouraged [.. ...

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Republic of Men Rather Than Laws
    A friend of mine notes the wave of fraudulent foreclosures, foreclosures where firms simply faked the paperwork needed to prove they have standing to foreclose (that they actually own the mortgage.)  There have been some moves to stem the fraud, not the least of which is by Florida’s Attorney Gener ...
  • Is America past the point of no return economicall ...
    This, from Numerian, is the sort of thing I was talking about when I noted that: If you can build a factory overseas which produces the same goods for less, meaning more profit for you, why would you build it in the US? Until that question is adequately answered, by which I mean “until it’s [...]
  • Corrente is fundraising
    If you value what they do and you can afford to help, you should give. Stuff that’s free, isn’t.
  • Corrente is fundraising
    If you value what they do and you can afford to help, you should give. Stuff that’s free, isn’t.
  • Leftists Should Take Credit for Bringing Down Demo ...
    Peter Dauo has a pair of well received articles on how the left, and specifically bloggers, have brought down the Obama administration.  This is in contrast to what many see as the attempt by the White House to portray left wingers as responsible for Democratic losses. What? Look, if the left is so ...

Age of Autism

  • Angie Dickinson Shares Story of Aspergian Daughter
    Angie Dickinson Breaks Her Silence and Reveals the Heartbreak of Mothering a Daughter with Asperger's by Ed Leibowitz Please go to Parent Dish to read and comment on the full article. Composer Burt Bacharach and his actress wife, Angie Dickinson,...
  • Merck Study Shows Gardasil Does Not Raise Autoimmu ...
    Read the full press release from S.A.N.E.-Vax.org. North Hollywood, CA, September 22, 2010 — According to an article posted on Sept. 3 in Infectious Disease News data was presented at the 50th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy showing...
  • Deirdre Imus Interviews Mark Blaxill and Dan Olmst ...
    Deirdre Imus, a powerful advocate for children's health in America, interviewed Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill about their new book, The Age of Autism Mercury Medicine and a Manmade Epidemic on Huffington Post. Thank you to Deirdre (and Don) for...
  • Dr. Bob Sears on Fox and Friends Saturday Talking ...
    Saturday:Tune into Fox and Friends around (time change!) 7:50am Eastern (check your local listings) to see Dr. Bob Sears. They will be looking at the April 2008 NVAC report HERE that states in a table on page 33 of the...
  • Join Jenny McCarthy Today for "Love, Lust & Faking ...
    Guys, I'm sure Jenny would never fake it with you.... Congratulations to our friend Jenny McCarthy. Today is release day for her new book, Love, Lust & Faking It: The Naked Truth About Sex, Lies, and True Romance . Available...

Global BDS Movement

  • 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 ...
  • Open letter to OECD regarding decision to host tou ...
      18 September 2010   read more
  • BDS France calls for demonstrations of support for ...
    Colonization, apartheid, refugees     It is Israel that is breaking the law     It's Israel that should be brought to justice!     In Bordeaux, Perpignan, Mulhouse, Paris and Pontoise, certain activists are soon to appear in court due to their participation in the citizen and non-violent read more
  • BNC welcomes cancellation of visit by settlement m ...
    Occupied Palestine, 23 September 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, warmly salutes the decision taken by the Association of Netherlands Munici ...
  • BNC Event: "South African anti-apartheid strategy ...
    The Palestinian Boycott Divestment and Sanctions National Committee(BNC)cordially invites you to a public presentation entitled(الدعوة العربية في المرفق) "South African anti-apartheid strategy and BDS, then and now" by Professor Patrick Bond read more

Farm Wars

  • AMERICAN POLITICS WITH JOHN WALLACE – RADIO SHOW
    NEXT SHOW – THIS FRIDAY – OCT 1st  at 5:00PM Eastern Time TOPIC : CODEX ALIMENTARIUS: THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO SEE! Although most Americans do not know it, they are eating food that is injected with foreign genes (GMOs), blasted with pesticides, irradiated beyond recognition ...
  • Ben & Jerry’s latest flavor: genetically engineere ...
    In addition to heaping helpings of political activism, the company also served a "protest batch" of the cleverly re-named frozen treat, "Something's Fishy." It's "an outrageous flavor protesting genetically engineered salmon," and it's chocolatey, marshmallowy good.
  • Groundbreaking study shows Roundup link to birth d ...
    Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the world's best-selling weedkiller Roundup, causes malformations in frog and chicken embryos at doses far lower than those used in agricultural spraying and well below maximum residue levels in products presently approved in the European Union.
  • Government Sponsored Terrorism and The Brainwashin ...
    Leaked policy documents reveal that the United Nations plans to create a “green world order” by 2012 which will be enforced by a structure of global governance and funded by a gargantuan $45 trillion transfer of wealth from richer countries, as the globalists’ insidious plan to centralize power, cru ...
  • The Truth Squad Radio Show: Government-Sponsored E ...
    The topic tonight is "Government Sponsored Eco Terror, and how the so-called green movement is being used to control us and implement the New World Order Agenda 21 program.

Open Your Eyes News

  • U.S. Apologizes for Syphilis Tests in Guatemala
    NY Times – From 1946 to 1948, American public health doctors deliberately infected nearly 700 Guatemalans â prison inmates, mental patients and soldiers â with venereal diseases in what was meant as an effort to test the effectiveness of penicillin. American tax dollars, through the National In ...
  • Burma to release Nobel laureate Suu Kyi
    ABC – The announcement from Burma’s military government that they’ll release the Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi after the November elections has met with mostly cynicism. The democracy leader has spent most of the last 20 years under house arrest, since her party won a landslide victory in th ...
  • Cost of Ireland’s bank bail-out to hit €40 b ...
    Telegraph – The cost of Ireland’s banking bail-out will rise to â¬40 billion (£34bn), the authorities have announced, placing an unprecedented strain on the nation’s finances. The increase in the bill to bail out Anglo-Irish bank and other stricken lenders will push the country’s budget deficit up ...
  • A.I.G. Reaches Deal to Repay US Treasury and Fed f ...
    NY Times – As the government wraps up its Troubled Asset Relief Program, the company that received the most from the fund, the American International Group, is offering an exit plan with no clear sense of whether the taxpayers will end up with a gain or a loss. A.I.G.âs exit agreement, announced T ...
  • U.S. animal study shows vitamin D protects against ...
    Xinhua — Findings from an animal study suggest that obese women can reduce their increased risk of endometrial disease if they take vitamin D supplements, say researchers at the Georgetown University Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. The scientists report in Cancer Prevention Research published ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Gulf Oil Spill: Researchers say levels of harmful ...
    Levels of some cancer-causing oil compounds rose significantly in the waters off the Louisiana coast during the BP spill, according to Oregon State University researchers. “It’s an incredibly huge jump in concentration in a natural environment,” said OSU environmental toxicology...
  • Karl Wolfgang Boer, solar pioneer, reflects on a l ...
    Karl Wolfgang Boer stumbled upon a few little yellow crystals in a drawer of a German physics lab. The accidental discovery would turn out to change his life and the future of green energy. The crystals were cadmium sulfide (CdS)...
  • Gulf oil spill: Federal point man Thad Allen movin ...
    Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the voice and face of the federal government's response to the BP oil spill, is joining Rand Corp. as a senior fellow. The think tank, headquartered in Santa Monica, announced Friday that as of...
  • Profit and recycled plastic at Opportunity Green c ...
    On Thursday, Avatar actress Michelle Rodriguez, solar-powered vehicles, basketball star Shaquille O’Neal and eco-friendly bento boxes collided in downtown Los Angeles. All were elements of the fourth annual Opportunity Green conference at Los Angeles Center Studios, where television shows such...
  • Sea otters: In a warmer, sicker world
    This photo, taken earlier this month, shows the state of Pinto Lake, a small body of water in Santa Cruz County that suffers a seasonal bloom of microcystis. The strain of freshwater cyanobacteria is on the rise around the world...

water.org

  • One Day on Earth project (DSLR NS)
    âOne Day on Earthâ project needs your help (DSLR News Shooter) – On October 10th, 2010 the records of filmmaking history will have a note called âOne Day on Earthâ. The United Nations, over 70 nonprofits from around the world, and thousands of filmmakers have teamed up with âOne Day on Ear ...
  • Barclay Martin Ensemble new music, mission (KC Sta ...
    The Barclay Martin Ensemble has new music and a mission (KC Star) KANSAS CITY, MO – Water became the bandâs noble cause; it also became the theme of its next project, in more ways than one. Friday night at the Folly Theater, Martin and his band will celebrate the release of their third recording, ...
  • Social good and philanthropy (Mashable)
    How Social Good Has Revolutionized Philanthropy (Mashable) – Philanthropy has always been a balance between raising money and raising awareness for a cause. For Mike McCamon, chief community officer for Water.org, social media is making both possible at the same time. Much of that comes from raising ...
  • Water, women, a concert, and ongoing projects (UMK ...
    Water, Women, a Concert, and Ongoing Projects (UMKC Women’s Center) – The connection comes through Barclay Martin Ensembleâs newly-formed partnership with the Kansas City-based organization water.org. A portion of proceeds from their new album, Pools That Swell With the Rain, and merchandise, alon ...
  • Water.org eco-bottles at TIFF bash (Globe and Mail ...
    Rubbing shoulders with stars never goes out of (In)Style (The Globe and Mail) TORONTO, Canada – The annual TIFF bash hosted by InStyle and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is still the hottest party ticket around, mostly because of the high-wattage guest list. But statement-making ensembles a ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley break ...

Margaret's News

  • NGO demands that police investigate toddlers deat ...
    Roi Maor, executive director of human rights NGO Yesh Din, writes that, for the period of 2000-2009, less than 6 percent of nearly 2,000 investigations opened against IDF soldiers suspected of crimes against Palestinians ended in indictments. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
  • Notes from the suicide watch
    The Courts decision means that if Israel was, until recently, still arguing about the conquests of 1967, now the events of 1948 that have been reopened for discussion. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Tuesday, September 28 2010|Dahlia Scheindlin Israe ...
    But many Israelis will stop reading right at the top of those stories. The moment someone expresses subversive thoughts doubting IDF integrity, most Israeli minds will shut down. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • On the US and Israel:
    "There is therefore something bizarre in Israel's insistence that condemnations of its violations of international law are not intended to challenge the illegality of its settlements and continuing occupation but the legitimacy of its very existence." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note- ...
  • Netanyahu rejects U.S. guarantees in exchange for ...
    On Sunday, Netanyahu said he appreciated the letter but could not accept the American proposal because it included a two-month extension of the construction moratorium, which he said would damage his public credibility. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Free Range International

  • 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 ...
  • Rocky Road
    As the summer started I was optimistic regarding the chances that we would see some indications that we are gaining ground in Afghanistan but that has not happened.  Incident rates are skyrocketing which in and of itself is not a negative thing if it is our side who are instigating the incidents but ...
  • The Dog Days of Summer
    Many apologies for the delay on posting.  I was laid low by some sort of viral affliction which mimicked  malaria.  Like most people who get sick maybe once a decade, when I do catch a bug you would think I was on death’s door I’m such a sissy about it.  But the fever is gone [...]
  • The Good Don’t Always Die Young
    The Godfather of Free Range International – the man who pioneered the techniques, tactics and procedures we use to travel in remote districts was executed last week in Badakhshan Province. Dan Terry was a good man.  He was humble, self-effacing, and competent.  He lived in Afghanistan with his fam ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • 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”.  ...
  • Ellen Brown LIVE on The Story Behind the Story &#8 ...
    Axing the Bankersâ Money Tree: Homeowners’ Rebellion against Wall Street Recent Rulings Could Shield 62 Million Homes from Foreclosure by Ellen Brown http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20688 Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

  • Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny hou ...
    Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plans fo ...
  • Air powered environmentally friendly car being pro ...
    Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re in ...
  • Deforestation – environmental & human effect ...
    There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain temper ...
  • Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here’s ...
    Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing to do ...
  • Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
    It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM says t ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Robert Fowler, Held Hostage by al Qaeda in Africa ...
    Kidnapped by al Qaeda. The very thought causes shudders. But it happened to this week's guest: one of Canada's former senior diplomats in Africa on a special mission for the United Nations. The challenge: solving a dispute between the government of Niger and the rebel movement MNJ. This week, the Un ...
  • Steve Nash, Two-time NBA MVP (Sept 19, 2009)
    He's one of the best basketball players on the planet, and he's made millions at it. But there's more to this week's guest than just the game. A lot more. This Canadian now makes his name on the courts, in the movies, and doing some pretty good things around the world. This week, he's our guest.
  • Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada (Sept ...
    We know it was a recession, but do we know if it's really a recovery? And what about that huge deficit? A dollar again approaching parity with its US counterpart? And the unemployment rate -- could it soon be in double digits? Difficult questions for this week's guest, the man who has to consider th ...
  • Dr. Shana Kelley, University of Toronto (October 3 ...
    Research labs around the world are on the constant hunt for new ways of fighting one of the world's great killers - cancer. In one lab in Toronto, exciting promise on a new technique for early detection. The possibilities are endless: for fighting cancer, and other diseases, both here in our world, ...
  • Dr. Susy Hota, Infectious Diseases Specialist (Oct ...
    Are you tired of hearing about HINI -- the swine flu? That's not surprising because there's been a half year of information coming your way -- some of it contradictory, much of it confusing. This week's guest helps us get down to basics -- what you need to know, and why you need to know it.

Scotts Contracting

  • Protect Our Health & Our Planet From Coal Ash
    On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Take Action! at GreaterGood Network wrote: Content not displaying properly? View this message online: greatergood.com/emails/2010/pet-093010-enviro-solo-w.html EPA: Protect Us Coal Ash Coal-burning power plants often dump ash, contaminated with toxic substanc ...
  • A case for promoting biomass.
    On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 6:07 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Got Wood? A case for promoting biomass.http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/podcast/2010/09/wood-is-good by Stephen Lacey, Editor Published: September 22, 2010 Holland, The Netherlands — Biomass is perhaps the mo ...
  • Taste of St. Louis Recycling Volunteers Needed
    On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: If you’d like to view this email in a Web browser, please click here Please forward this email TASTE OF ST. LOUIS VOLUNTEER CHALLENGE St. Louis Earth Day … Continue reading →
  • Coal Fired Power Plant Captures CO2 !!!
    On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Southern Company captures CO2 at coal-fired power plant in Georgia September 24, 2010 Source: Southern Company Southern Company has captured carbon dioxide from one of its power plants … Continue reading →
  • MO Kit Bond Fails-Sensenbrenner Plots Revenge-Mabu ...
    On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Bond’s surprise EPA-delay gambit fails â Sensenbrenner plots ‘select’ climate revenge â Mabus report to be unveiled today â White House inches closer to lifting moratorium SNEAK PEAK … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

  • 60 Second Expert: America and the Arms Trade
    Russian arms seller Viktor Bout is small potatoes compared to the real pushers.
  • The Green Dividend
    The United States failed to capitalize on a Peace Dividend. Now, with the economy in a rut and the globe heating up, we have a second chance to shift Pentagon funds to domestic needs with a Green Dividend.
  • Rekindling China-Japan Conflict: The Senkaku/Diaoy ...
    On September 7 an incident occurred in which a Chinese trawler tried to shake off a Japan Coast Guard patrol boat that pursued it to investigate illegal operations at sea fifteen kilometers from Kubajima of the Senkaku Islands of Okinawa prefecture.
  • Another War in Lebanon? Not Likely
    Israel is focused on Iran. But the Obama administration should not ignore the few voices inside Israel that want escalation against Hezbollah.
  • Gorbachev of the Pentagon?
    The United States is facing a Soviet-sized crisis. Where is the Gorbachev who can rein in our military?

Law.com

  • On the High Court's Fall Docket, Few Blockbusters ...
    The Supreme Court's fall term opens today with a historic first -- three women on the bench -- though as yet, few blockbuster challenges have appeared on the docket. But there's plenty to watch, including a high number of business-related cases, and challenges involving speech and religion, job disc ...
  • Partner Compensation: The Downturn's New Touchy Su ...
    With the economic recovery still creeping along at a snail's pace, The Recorder checked in with Kristin Stark, a San Francisco-based consultant with Hildebrandt Baker Robbins, about the prevailing mood and themes of her current day-to-day dealings with Am Law 100 and 200 clients. In this Q&A, Stark ...
  • Prior Suit May Signal Fate of Cases Against Ga. Me ...
    Despite a flurry of news reports, the suits alleging that Georgia megachurch pastor Eddie Long coerced young men into sexual relationships are in the earliest stages of litigation. But some clues about how the cases may fare can be found in the matter of another megachurch pastor who was accused by ...
  • Are Digital Copiers Targets for E-Discovery?
    Responding to a CBS News story that suggested digital copiers are relative treasure troves for e-discovery of document images, Rich Melville, of Maynard, Cooper & Gale, conducted his own private investigation to see what free forensic software from the internet could dig up from copiers.
  • Toyota Moves to Dismiss Suit Over Va. Driver's Dea ...
    Two weeks after filing a separate motion to dismiss about 50 personal injury and wrongful death suits, Toyota has filed a motion to dismiss a suit brought on behalf of a woman who died after her Camry suddenly accelerated into a tree. Toyota contends the plaintiffs failed to state a claim because th ...

Iranian.com

  • «حماقت حد و مرز ندارد»
    یک مفسر آلمانی ‌می‌گوید، غرب باید به رفتار کج‌دارومریز با ایران پایان دهد. دمکراسی‌های غربی باید در قبال ایران موضعی قاطع و روشن اتخاذ کنند، آنهم نه فقط در مورد مناقشه‌ اتمی بلکه همچنین در روابط تجاری و مسئله حقوق بشر. read more
  • The Elephant and the Blindfolded Men
    The great Iranian mystic Roumi has a poem about an elephant surrounded by a number of blind men in a dark room. Each blind man touches one part of the elephant and describes it accordingly. To one, the elephant is a pillar. To another, it is a table-cloth. read more
  • بازار طلا فروشان تهران امروز، شنبه در اعتراض به اج ...
    امور مالیاتی در یک نشست مطبوعاتی اعتصاب و تجمع برای نپرداختن مالیات را یک رسم جدید عنوان کرد و گفت: قانون کاملا مشخص است و از نظر ما ابهامی در اجرای قانون وجود ندارد ولی آنها نیز ملاحظاتی دارند که مطرح می‌کنند. وی با اشاره به این تعطیلی، گفت: همه مودیان از جمله طلافروشان موظف به read more
  • The results from 1960 through 2010 are one qualifi ...
    What would it take to extricate ourselves from the entrapment of global dominance – intervention — military force to achieve our self-interested goals? What would it take? I fear the challenges may be too great to achieve but we must at least try. read more
  • More on Hossein Derakhshan
    This is an article written by Hossain Derakhshan in Guardian on May 7,2007!? IRAN WATCH CANADA calls for human rights of all Iranian and non Iranian citizens and Justice for all without bias. Here is Mr. Derakhshan's article: read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Balochistan – the Place to Watch
    Guest Post by Alexander Achmatowicz   (above) Proposed Natural Gas Pipeline Routes Transiting Balochistan  If either IPI (Iran-Pakistan-India or more likely IPC Iran-India-China pipeline) or TAPI (Trans-Afghan Pipeline running between Turkmenistan-Afghanistan and Pakistan) is goi ...
  • Iran, China and the Gwadar Port
    The Gwadar Port in Balochistan (one of Pakistan’s tribal regions) has been headline news in Pakistan, India and China this month. Interesting that I can’t find one mention of it in the western media – not even in on-line publications. Since many Pakistani commentators trace the US shift in military ...
  • Open Source and the Sustainability Movement
    As strange as it may sound, switching to Open Source operating systems and software - and getting your boss, co-workers, friends and relatives to do so - can save a lot more carbon emissions than getting them to change their lightbulbs. I myself have switched to Firefox (instead of Microsoft Explo ...
  • Fighting Climate Change Guerrilla Style
    It occurs to me that I and other climate change activists may be entirely wrong in the way we approach organizing around this issue. Up till now what I have envisioned pressuring government to adopt carrot and stick policies (a combination of tax credits and subsidies) that would somehow motivat ...
  • A Taste of Kiwi Culture
    TV-NZ has a new series this season, which I believe is bound for world fame, like The Rocky Horror Picture Show , Flight of the Conchords and Outrageous Fortune . This Is Not My Life isn’t exactly science fiction. Most of the technologies it features are currently available but unethical without inf ...

Free Movement

  • Zimbabwe removals still suspended
    As recently as 14 September 2010 the Government’s position was that it is not enforcing returns to Zimbabwe. In a debate in the Commons on that day the following question and answer were given: Keith Vaz (Leicester East) (Lab): Given the critical situation in Zimbabwe, does it remain the Government’ ...
  • Entry clearance deception refusals
    Practitioners have seen a considerable increase in the number of applications for entry clearance that have been refused on the general grounds for refusal. The reasons are often opaque at best. Some simply refer to the contents of a Document Verification Report (DVR) and do not disclose this report ...
  • New Zimbabwe fact finding report
    UKBA has published a new fact finding report on the situation in Zimbabwe. It is, probably not by co-incidence, just in time for the new test case on Zimbabwe, due to begin on 20 October 2010 and in which the Immigration Advosory Service are again acting. Presumably, UKBA will be seeking to argue th ...
  • Eliza Doolittle Exposed As Cockney Flower Girl Sho ...
    The methods and reports of controversial linguistic analysis company Sprakab, based in Sweden and used by UKBA in disputed nationality asylum cases, have been warmly endorsed by the tribunal in the case RB (Linguistic evidence Sprakab) Somalia [2010] UKUT 329 (IAC). Sprakab works only for government ...
  • New Iraqi Country Guideline case out
    The tribunal has held that it is safe to return to Iraq. In HM and Others (Article 15(c)) Iraq CG [2010] UKUT 331 (IAC) President Blake finds that The degree of indiscriminate violence characterising the current armed conflict taking place in Iraq is not at such a high level that substantial grounds ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • It's time for nation to stand together for job ...
    In Washington this Saturday, I will join tens of thousands of Americans to march for jobs, justice and education. The march is called together under the banner of One Nation: Working Together, a large coalition of more than 400 organizations. Why do we march? We march for hope. We've seen the politi ...
  • Whose America Is That?
    Nothing about the content of the Pledge to America is surprising--it's the same Bush-era economic agenda that got us into the mess we're in today: deregulate business, starve government services, starve the middle class and starve the working class so corporate special interests and the wealthy can ...
  • Howard Zinn's last testament to the immorality ...
    Howard Zinn died this year. He is perhaps best known for his People's History of the United States , a book that has featured in The Simpsons and was recommended by Matt Damon's character in the film Good Will Hunting. This book, which offered a view of US history in terms of 500 years of imperialis ...
  • Is Gideon Levy the most hated man in Israel or jus ...
    Gideon Levy is the most hated man in Israel – and perhaps the most heroic. This “good Tel Aviv boy” – a sober, serious child of the Jewish state – has been shot at repeatedly by the Israeli Defence Force, been threatened with being “beaten to a pulp” on the country’s streets, and faced ...
  • Never Let Fear Become A Prison For Truth
    Speech delivered by Justin Kauker on September 19, 2010 at the Free Bradley Manning, Exposing War Crimes is Not a Crime Rally in Downtown San Diego T he first time I saw Collateral Murder I had to remind myself: I’m watching people get killed. In our culture of entertainment soaked in violence, w ...

Salon

  • News Corp spends another million bucks on electing ...
    News Corp, a massive media conglomerate owned by aging Australian vulgarian Rupert Murdoch, donated $1 million to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the business lobby.
  • Ecuadorean leader calls protest a coup attempt
    It was the biggest test to date of Rafael Correa's nearly 4-year-old presidency, a bloody trial by fire for a tenacious politician whose popular government had brought relative calm to a chronically unstable country.
  • Rick Sanchez fired
    That was fast. CNN just waited until 6 pm eastern to fire Rick "CNN's Second-Dumbest Anchor" Sanchez. CNN will pay morons to read Tweets on-air, but they won't employ morons who semi-coherently express resentful antisemitic comments on satellite radio.
  • California reduces pot possession from misdemeanor ...
    Possessing up to an ounce of marijuana in California is now no more serious than getting a speeding ticket.
  • Bank of America delays foreclosures in 23 states
    Bank of America says it is delaying foreclosures in 23 states as it examines whether it rushed the foreclosure process for thousands of homeowners without reading the documents.

SMB News

  • 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 ...
  • Dr. Aafia faith Altaf wants an explanation from th ...
    For SMB News Dr. Aafia Karachi: MQM Chief Altaf Hussain’s statement of the American government insisted on a conviction of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, Geo News on Tuesday. MQM chief said by phone from London, the rally participants conviction against Dr Aafia Siddiqi U.S. court. He said that people are info ...
  • ndijski Court of Justice ruling on Thursday Ayodhy ...
    For SMB News Indian court issued an opinion on the ThursdayLUCKNOW Ayodhya: India’s Supreme Court on Thursday decided in a religious dispute is responsible for some of the bloodiest sectarian violence since independence, the clerk said Tuesday. “The final decision in the case of Ayodhya on September ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • The Tarim Mummies
    An amazing discovery of 2,000 year old Caucasian descent mummies in the Tarim basin of Western China occurred in the early 90s. But more amazing than the discovery itself was the astonishing fact that the mummies were blond haired and long nosed. In 1993, Victor Mayer a college professor collected D ...
  • Sweden loses patience with refugee champion role
    Six years after his brother was beheaded by Iraqi insurgents, Riyad is still haunted by the memory of identifying the disfigured body and watching the mutilation on a video distributed by the killers. Yet Riyad now has fresh worries to contend with: the threat of deportation from Sweden, which recen ...
  • Turkey tells US it won’t adhere to new sanctions o ...
    Turkish officials have told an American delegation that it has no intention of following unilateral US sanctions on Iran, a move likely to deepen a rift between the two NATO allies over the Islamic republic’s contentious nuclear program that Washington believes is aimed at developing nuclear weapons ...
  • Official US Deficit Put At Staggering $202 Trillio ...
    The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) forecasts the U.S. budget deficit will hit $1.3 trillion this year. An astronomical figure, to be sure, but thatâs lower than was projected in March. Itâs also less than last yearâs record $1.41 trillion deficit, which was close to 10% of GDP. And, that’s ...
  • Goldman Sachs accused of trying to destroy China
    Goldman Sachs & Co., reviled in the U.S. for its role in the financial crisis, is now getting hammered in the world’s No. 2 economy with a sensationalist new book accusing the investment bank of trying to destroy China. The “Goldman Sachs Conspiracy,” which has sold over 100,000 copies since it was ...

Stonecipher News

  • Marriage Survival After a Cheating Spouse
    From my Triond collection : It is possible for a marriage to survive a cheating spouse. Research shows that it is possible to survive a cheating spouse. The offending partner must take full responsibility for his or her actions. The offending partner must be truly sorry for his/her actions. Forgiven ...
  • When Should a Teen Get Her First Pap Smear?
    According to Kristie Leong, MD : "The guidelines for PAP smear testing have recently changed. Find out at what age a teen should get her first PAP smear – and how often women in their young adult years need this test. Pap smears are a vital screening tool for diagnosing cervical cancer – and it’s i ...
  • How to Sleep with a Snorer
    According to Ellie McGrath, Good Housekeeping, "Love can be blind and, for a while, even deaf. I was somewhat aware that my husband-to-be had a snoring problem, but I didn't realize the extent until a friend he had traveled with presented us with an unusual wedding present: a black collar studded wi ...
  • History of The Pacific Northwest and Land Rights
    From my Triond page : Over the course of our history in the Pacific Northwest, there have been various cultural expectations that have influence the encounters between various groups of northwest people. The Mexican born Spanish people, British and Native American people have encountered each others ...
  • Six Healthy Foods That Can Pack on Extra Calories
    According to Chan Lee Peng : You may think these foods are healthier, but if you are not careful to check out their nutritional facts prior to serving, you could actually gain more weight than what you aim to reach for instead. If you are not careful of the food you consume, you may be adding excess ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • A Barstool for Every Single Taste
         When you are talking about a bar stool , did you know that there are Bar stools for every single taste? Even Counter stools are becoming a part of home décor. One of these worth looking at is the Emerge Counter/Barstool.  This comes in two different stool types, has six... Tags: barstool bar st ...
  • The RPS Minecraft Servers
    We have another official server, courtesy Multiplay , who have just launched their own Minecraft service . It’s a virgin landscape! Go, despoil the rolling hills of 85.236.100.199:25565, and all feedback will be welcome. Meanwhile the original home of Castle Shotgun,... Tags: tnt
  • Pakistan: Dr. Aafia Siddiqui Case – A Veiled Myste ...
    By Sana Jamal “It is my judgment that Dr Siddiqui is sentenced to a period of incarceration of 86 years,” (for the attempted murder of US officers in Afghanistan) said Judge Richard Berman , US District Court Judge of a Federal Court in Manhattan on Sept. 23 2010. Pakistani citizen... Tags: pakistan ...
  • Unique Content Article: Currency Trading Software ...
    Currency Trading Software - Fap Turbo by Jonathan Sweeney With the economy continuing to plummet, a number of people are searching for new ways to get income. One example is the foreign exchange market. Traditionally, the foreign exchange market was once the forte of senior traders... Tags: currency ...
  • Digging in some geeky stuff at the 3 day sale of S ...
    I'm such a lazy shopper, but here in SM Cubao's 3 Day sale, which started yesterday gave me the boost to check out some items and things that I need, sympre I got the time to check out the men's department and saw lots of cool stuff that I need and yeah, the hunt for a new boxers... Tags: christmas ...

Groklaw

  • Supreme Court Will Release Argument Audio on Delay ...
    The Supreme Court just announced that starting next week, it will post the audio of all its oral arguments on the Friday after they occur. Since it only hears arguments on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, that means the release will be several days after the fact, making it of little use for conte ...
  • Software-maker Red Hat considers Austin HQ
    "We're examining our options for growth and expansion," spokeswoman Leigh Day said. "Healthy companies typically look at what's available out there." Red Hat might also stay in Raleigh, where it still has multiple years remaining at its headquarters and strong ties to North Carolina State Universit ...
  • Ninth Circuit Sanctions Attorney Who Filed Kozinsk ...
    The Ninth Circuit Judicial Council yesterday sanctioned Beverly Hills attorney Cyrus Sanai, saying he had filed frivolous complaints against 19 federal judges.... "An attorney filing a frivolous misconduct complaint diminishes the effectiveness of our system of justice, and also may have an adverse ...
  • The CodePlex Foundation is now the OuterCurve Foun ...
    The CodePlex Foundation has re-branded itself to the OuterCurve Foundation. There continued to be confusion between the Foundation originally sponsored by Microsoft and the Microsoft forge site (codeplex.com). In June the Board decided it was time to rebrand the organization to clear up the confusio ...
  • Motorcyclist wins taping case against state police ...
    "Those of us who are public officials and are entrusted with the power of the state are ultimately accountable to the public," the judge wrote. "When we exercise that power in public fora, we should not expect our actions to be shielded from public observation." - Peter Hermann, Baltimore Sun

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

  • The Hives. Main Offender
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  • The year’s best political ads for third party and ...
    From Poli-Tea: What are the year’s best political ads for third party and independent candidates (so far)?  Over the last week, I’ve viewed dozens of political ads and short videos produced by and for Libertarian, Green, Constitution Party and Independent candidates for office from Maine to Califor ...
  • The Ramones. I Wanna Be Sedated. Live
    One of my favorite Ramones song, I saw them live many times.
  • Conspiracy Theory of the Day
    Obama ordered the FBI raids on anti-war activists because he wants evidence destroyed linking him to them when they were allied with the Socialist New Party in Chicago in 1998.
  • California’s dueling propositions. Prop 25 and Pro ...
    What would an election be in California without dueling propositions? Prop 25 would roll back the 1933 proposition which changed the budget vote threshold to two-thirds. Also on the ballot in November is Proposition 26, which would mandate a two-thirds vote for any new fees or levies. In an Op-ed, t ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • 23% of Israelis ready to leave Israel at any hint ...
    In the latest issue of the always informative journal Middle East Policy , University of Pennsylvania prof Ian Lustick expresses the notable observation that, Last year, a poll by David Menashri of the Iran center at Tel Aviv University reported ... that 70 percent of Israeli Jews said they would n ...
  • That all-American urge to punish
    On Thursday afternoon I took the long drive down to the far southeastern corner of Virginia and took part in solemn observances to mark-- and protest-- our state's killing of one of its citizens, Teresa Lewis. It was a big and moving event. I was there not only as an individual but also in my capac ...
  • Afghanistan's election: Some reflections
    Back in 2004-05, Pres. Bush and his people were trying to 're-brand' America's overseas military adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq as being part of a campaign to bring the wonderful fruits of democracy to various peoples around the world. At the tip of a cruise missile, no less... Oh my goodness ho ...
  • Just World Books website is born!
    Okay, I know I've been promising my readers here that the JWB website will be published "any day now"... And the day is here! So head on over and check out the site's many great features and the fast-growing amount of content we have there! (Now including two podcasts already-- one featuring JWB aut ...
  • Plea of the Israeli political prisoner's wife
    Read this powerful article penned for Electronic Intifada by Janan Abdu, spouse of Palestinian-Israeli political prisoner Ameer Makhoul, who has shockingly been held without trial since May. Abdu quotes the stirring (but possibly empty?) words that Secretary Clinton uttered recently at the 10th ann ...

First Truths

  • 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 ...
  • The Libertarian Lexicon Redux
    In considering the confused relationship between libertarian anarchism and elitism, William A. Henry III’s book In Defense of Elitism sprung to mind. Though no one could mistake Henry for a libertarian, his book opened with an eloquent endorsement of an elitism that may not be inconsistent with th ...
  • "I Support the Troops" = "I Support Murder and Imp ...
    The banal platitude “support the troops” occupies a sacrosanct position beyond question in America, screened from debate more fanatically even than religion. Claiming opposition to war while supporting the troops (whatever that means) is silly enough no matter what a person’s social philosophy, bu ...
  • "But What About the Poor?"
    Libertarian appraisals of the pernicious relationship between the state, Big Business and its many relatives or subcategories (e.g., Big Pharma, Big Labor, Big Defense, Big Agriculture, and other things “Big” and hated) are often, as they should be, front and center in our attacks on the state. It ...
  • Antitrust and the Ultimate Monopoly
    Although antitrust law, perhaps like intellectual property law , would seem to many to be a soporific concern joined to few philosophically important questions, its consequences are far-reaching, and discussions of it are made more critical by the fact that it is so commonly misunderstood. If we t ...

Media Co-Op

  • Contribute to the Vancouver Media Co-op!
    The Vancouver Media Co-op is now paying for stories! For a six month trial period, we'll be requesting pitches from contributors, and paying $100 for one story each month. See below for information on VMC travel subsidies. We prioritize local stories that examine an underreported issue, and that fea ...
  • Denis Rancourt on anti-hierarchy activism - Nine-p ...
    I have posted a nine-part video commentary about anti-hierarchy activism here: http://activistteacher.blogspot.com/2010/09/denis-rancourt-on-anti-hiera... #1 On the need to act across hierarchical strata; act up. #2 When does our opinion mat ...
  • Attempted coup d'etat in Ecuador: Statement by the ...
    Statement on the attempted coup, and info on how to take action from Canada and the U.S. UPDATE: 11:26pm EDT -- We continue to monitor the situation in Ecuador, but report that soldiers returned Ecuador's president to the presidential palace a ...
  • No more dictatorships in Latin America
    Quito, September 30, 2010 In Latin America we have gone from bloody military dictatorship to the dictatorship of transnational capital to neoliberalism. The sectors that benefit from this have always been the same (bankers, commercial entrepreneurs, landowners). And we the impoverished, Indigenous, ...
  • Ecuador: Attempted coup
    ALAI AMLATINA, 30/09/2010 – President Correa denounced that Ecuador is experiencing an attempted coup organized by the opposition. Correa, who is currently in the police hospital in Quito, recovering from police aggression, denounced that various members of the police were trying to enter his room, ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Life can be very simple...
    David Seaton's News Links Sometimes the most important things in life are so simple that people hardly ever think about them. Human beings get out of bed and before they are even half awake they take a pee and a drink of water and rarely think that if there were no water to drink, there sho ...
  • What exactly is the USA?
    These are terrible times for many people in this country. Poverty, especially acute poverty, has soared in the economic slump; millions of people have lost their homes. Young people can’t find jobs; laid-off 50-somethings fear that they’ll never work again. Yet if you want to find real political rag ...
  • Burger and fries, hold the spies.
    Russia's Foreign Ministry condemned the arrests of 10 alleged Russian spies in the United States, calling them baseless Tuesday, and senior lawmakers suggested they had stemmed from a conspiracy in the U.S. government to undermine President Obama's efforts to improve relations with Moscow. Washingto ...
  • General McChrystal covers his... flank
    Fatheaded hubris is going to take a severe hit in the years to come and Americans are going to want someone to blame it on. I think that they will blame it on whichever poor, helpless, sap wins the White House this year. Self quote - News Links, 9/15/2008 David Seaton's News Links The McChryst ...
  • My memories of the Fourth of July
    David Seaton's News Links Fourth of July, like Christmas, is something that connects a lot of us directly with our childhood. Most of my Fourth of July memories center around summers spent in the little village in west-central Illinois where my maternal grandmother was born and raised.� A village w ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • 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 ...
  • Nanomaterials May Soon be in Your Sportswear and U ...
    Contact: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org Washington, D.C – Environmental Working Group (EWG) has sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) opposing its proposal to approve a Swiss nanosilver textile coating for sale in the U.S. EPA announced last month ...
  • EWG Seeks FCC-Cell Phone Industry Communications
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Download full FOIA Letter WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, -- Environmental Working Group (EWG) filed a FOIA with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today to shed light on whether the trade association for the wireless indust ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Want a Good Night's Sleep? Then Never Do These Thi ...
    By Dr. Mercola Sleep is one of the great mysteries of life. Like gravity or the quantum field, we still don’t understand exactly why we sleep—although we are learning more about it every day. We do know, however, that good sleep is one of the cornerstones of health. Six to eight hours per night s ...
  • The Big Secret Commercial Water Companies Hope You ...
    “Bottled Water Matters” is a front group for the International Bottled Water Association. Some time ago, they began releasing YouTube videos. In the latest video, available at the link below, their star performer takes to the streets and urges consumers to join the movement and fight those who wish ...
  • Most Americans Skip Fruits and Vegetables
    Consumption of fruits and vegetables has increased significantly in only one U.S. state during the past decade. And all 50 states continue to fall short of recommended daily intake. Idaho alone had a significant increase in the proportion of residents who consumed fruits and vegetables, but even in ...
  • This Harmful Food Product is Changing its Name - D ...
    The Corn Refiners Association (CRA) has petitioned the U.S. FDA to allow manufacturers the option of using the term “corn sugar” instead of “high fructose corn syrup”. In their press release on the subject, they claim that “independent research demonstrates that the current labeling is confusing to ...
  • Chemicals in Indoor Swimming Pools Increase Cancer ...
    A new study is the first to provide a comprehensive characterization of the effects of disinfection byproducts (DBPs) in an indoor pool environment. It found that swimming in indoor chlorinated pools may induce DNA damage that can lead to cancer. DBPs form from reactions between disinfectants and o ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Church demands end to armed attacks on Guarani
    Guarani Indians often suffer violent attacks after they return to their ancestral land © CIMI Brazilian bishops have demanded that the government take urgent action to put an end to armed attacks on Guarani communities in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, south of the Amazon. Last month, Guara ...
  • Pro-Indian bishop wins ‘alternative Nobel prize’
    Dom Erwin Krautler, Bishop of Xingu, has won the 2010 Right Livelihood Award © Prelazia do Xingu A leading supporter of Indian rights in Brazil has won the Right Livelihood Award , known as the ‘alternative Nobel prize’. Dom Erwin Krautler, the Bishop of the Xingu in Brazil’s Amazon region, wo ...
  • Shell in row over Brazilian Indian land grab
    The film 'Birdwatchers' highlights the plight of the Guarani Kaiowá Indians in Brazil © Marie Hippenmeyer Brazilian authorities have written to energy giant Shell expressing concern over the activities of its new Brazilian joint-venture partner, which is producing biofuels from land taken ...
  • Survival calls for boycott of Botswana tourism
    The pool of Wilderness Safaris' new lodge in the CKGR. © Survival Survival today called for tourists to boycott Botswana until the government ends a brutal campaign of persecution against Kalahari Bushmen. The call coincides with World Tourism Day, September 27, which Botswana is using to ...
  • Amazon Indians condemn destructive Madeira river d ...
    Indians protest against dams in the Amazon © Telma Monteiro/ Survival Indians of several tribes have harshly criticized the Brazilian government for allowing the construction of large hydroelectric dams in the Amazon, including dams on the Madeira river. In a Declaration signed at the ‘Gatheri ...

Montreal Gazette

  • She did us all proud
    Canadians have had the same queen since 1952, but in the same period we have had 10 governors-general. Today the number increases to 11.
  • Note to rights tribunal: Get serious
    Of course we do not condone ethnic or racial insults. Martin Luther King said it perfectly in 1963: His children, and everyone, should "live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character."
  • When it comes to style, Montreal has it
    Montreal Fashion Week doesn't have as high a public profile as August's Montreal Fashion & Design Festival. But the event going on now, aimed at the trade more than the public, is really the more important of the two. So it's good to see so much local talent on display.
  • Too many bureaucrats, too few caregivers
    The original figures, compiled by the Federation des medecins specialistes du Quebec, confirmed by the ministry Friday, and published in La Presse Tuesday, said that since 2000, administrative staff in the health network has increased by 52 per cent, management staff by 30 per cent, and fron ...
  • A sensible proposal on the Olympic Stadium
    Action democratique du Quebec leader Gerard Deltell has made the first really sensible suggestion about the Olympic Stadium to come our way in years. He has demanded that Quebec City hold a parliamentary commission into its future before taxpayers are asked to put one more red cent toward th ...

Food World Order

  • 9/30 binge & purge: 100% all-natural deception
    the nature conservancy & corporate donors: monsanto, nestle, altria & more * ben & jerry's taking 'all-natural' label off products * gm salmon frankenfish about to be unleashed into US food supply * ftc complaint charges deceptive advertising by pom * farmer, consumer outcry helping t ...
  • pacific northwest grocery stores setting up fake f ...
    from grist : Without a doubt, farmers markets have got a good thing growing . Unfortunately, sneaky copycats have been cropping up as they try to get their paws on the green that comes with that success. In June, Safeway supermarkets in Seattle set up stacks of fruits and veggies outside of their ow ...
  • natural news launches food investigations with 'ph ...
    from natural news : What do you get when you combine fast food with Big Pharma? Pharmaburger! That's the name of episode one of the new " Food Investigations " mini-documentary series created by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews.com. Food Investigations features short documen ...
  • fda says you have no right to know if salmon are g ...
    from allgov : If the Food and Drug Administration decides to approve for the first time the sale of a genetically-modified animal (GMO) for Americans to consume, the deal will not include a requirement that producers or retailers label the food as such . FDA officials are still deciding whethe ...
  • mexico bans sodas, fried foods & junk food from pu ...
    from natural news : The Mexican government is moving forward with plans to ban all junk foods from public school by the start of the coming school year, officials have announced. " The kids are going to complain, of course ," said education minister Alonso Lujambio. " We are going to start a pro ...

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

  • Jay-Z Deception
    Although coming from a Christian viewpoint it contains lots of good information
  • 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 ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Green Police
    Is someone out behind your house digging through your trash?  Don't worry, it is probably just the government.  When Audi ran their now famous "Green Police" commercial during the Super Bowl last year, most Americans laughed it off and thought that nothing like that could ever happe ...
  • Rampant Inflation In 2011? The Monetary Base Is Ex ...
    Are you ready for rampant inflation?  Well, unfortunately it looks like it might be headed our way.  The U.S. monetary base has absolutely exploded over the last couple of years, and all that money is starting to filter through into the hands of consumers.  Commodity prices are abso ...
  • As Americans Celebrate Labor Day 2010, U.S. Factor ...
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