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Thomas Paine

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Friday, October 22, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • MIDEAST: Treasure House Under Threat
    Few outside of Gaza would consider its history much beyond the decades of Israeli occupation. But Gaza is a historical treasure house. Many of those treasures are now in Israeli museums, and those that remain are becoming difficult to preserve due to the Israeli siege.
  • HEALTH: Thai Touch in HIV Care Attracts Doctors fr ...
    Northern Thailand's Chiang Rai province has many charms to draw foreign visitors, from hilltribe communities dressed in colourful ethnic clothes, trips to gentle hills close to the Burmese and Lao borders, excursions to once infamous opium trails and a journey along the Mekong River.
  • The Prospects and Pitfalls of 1325
    Ten years after the Security Council issued its landmark resolution 1325, designed to address the "disproportionate and unique impact of war on women", U.N. officials and international human rights advocates say it is high time the principles it espouses move from paper to reality.
  • U.S.: Report Details Tea Party Ties with Hate Grou ...
    Asserting that "the majority of Tea Party supporters are sincere, principled people of good will", the head of the National Association of Colored People (NAACP) and other U.S. civil rights leaders are calling on the populist political grouping to purge itself of known racists lest they in ...
  • Could Water-Efficient Maize Boost Africa's Food Se ...
    As controlled field trials of a genetically modified (GM) crop are about to begin in five African countries amidst promises of improved crops grown under poor conditions, critics are charging organisations with selling out the interests of African farmers.

Scoop - NZ

  • NZer of the Year claims don't add up
    Ray Avery's claims that he invented the IOL and cured 30 million people of cataract blindness are disputed with compelling evidence. He was this year awarded NZer of the Year on the basis of these and other scientific inventions. Neither the award organisers, nor mainstream media, fact checked. ��� ...
  • Fighting dirty, dairya4s udderhand tactics
    In the latest skirmish, the Mackenzie cubicle dairy applicants - or, as they prefer to say, a4covered farms' - have turned an apparent setback into a tactical mini-triumph ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • The ship that sailed herself
    An amazing story from the early days on the Rainbow Warrior ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Fonterra Environmental Policy
    A search for "fonterra environmental policy" reveals an interesting result. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Bernard Hickey: Why we must abandon the economic o ...
    I feel like a priest who has been wrestling with his belief in god and has now decided god does not exist. It's time for me to recant and to say what I've been thinking for months: the economic god of completely free markets and capital flows is not worth believing in anymore and we must look for o ...

Independent - London

  • Barack Obama meets with Apple CEO Steve Jobs
    President Barack Obama met on Thursday afternoon in San Francisco with Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
  • French police clear Paris refinery blockade
    French police cleared access to the main refinery supplying fuel to Paris today as unions hardened their stance ahead of a final vote on President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reform expected later in the day.
  • Ferry capsizes after Dutch canal crash
    A German freight ship struck a small Dutch passenger ferry in a canal near Amsterdam today, capsizing the smaller vessel and knocking the skipper and any other passengers who may have been aboard into the water, national police say.
  • Toll rises in Haiti cholera outbreak
    At least 135 people have died in a suspected cholera outbreak, and aid groups are rushing in medicine and other supplies today to combat Haiti's deadliest problem since its devastating earthquake.
  • Michelle Obama: The three billion dollar woman
    Forget advertising in glossy magazines, gushing celebrity endorsements or the creation of an exclusive, hush-hush cult of desirability. The latest and greatest marketing technique is simple, in theory: get Michelle Obama to wear your clothes.

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Better infrastructure, better results
    In 2001, when the Canadian Rivers Institute (CRI) opened on the campus of the University of New Brunswick (UNB), CRI researchers knew where many of its students would have to go to conduct experiments and analyze their findings — elsewhere.While the CRI was theoretically a 21st-century effort to mea ...
  • Crime and rehabilitation
    When Hugh Brody embarked on an experiment to interview aboriginal youth in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley in 2005, spending three years in prison was the last thing he expected to do. But that all changed when he met Angela George, a member of the Chehalis First Nation near Chilliwack, who was wor ...
  • Sheer treasure
    Katherine Soucie gives hope to misfits. Like other eccentric adolescents, she discovered that being different can be an asset in adulthood, especially for an artist. Today, the Vancouver-based textile and garment designer collaborates with world-renowned designers, showcases her diaphanous garments ...
  • Clean Green Electric Machine
    A small Jeep-like truck that runs entirely on an electric battery may soon offer a cleaner alternative to the diesel vehicles currently used to transport people and tools deep into Canada’s mines.The four-passenger vehicle, which can hold up to 225 kilograms of cargo, was recently developed with the ...
  • A whale of a mystery
    What’s the next thing a graduate student should do after his master’s thesis solves a biochemical mystery that has befuddled zoologists for generations? This is a problem that 28-year-old Lawrence Szewciw recently faced after he and his professors at the University of Guelph determined the physiolog ...

Signs of the times

  • Spectacular Cosmic Display Marks 3D Launch
    The solar system has been brought to life in a spectacular display over London's skyline. The show above the Royal Greenwich Observatory was organised to promote the launch this month of Sky 3D - Europe's first 3D TV channel. Nine helium-filled "planets" up to 20ft-wide were illuminated and fl ...
  • Israel: Delayed Exit of a Toddler from Gaza Result ...
    Nasma Abu Lasheen died on Saturday, October 16, 2010 in Gaza. Israel failed to issue her an urgent entry permit for life-saving medical treatment at Ha-Emek Medical Center in Afula, Israel. She was two years old. Abu Lasheen, a young resident of Gaza diagnosed with Leukemia, was referred for emerge ...
  • Israel Torture Palestinian Children by Electric-Sh ...
    Defence for Children International (DCI) Palestine Section (DCI/Palestine) "is a national section of the international non-government child rights organisation and movement (dedicated) to promoting and protecting the rights of Palestinian children," according to international law principles. Two ea ...
  • I, Product
    You may think of yourself as a user of Google, Facebook or Amazon, but you are actually their product. Sure, Google will provide you with search results, but they are not in the search business; they are in the advertising business. Their profits come from marketing firms that buy your behavior. S ...
  • Italy calls emergency talks as riots erupt in Napl ...
    Rioting residents threw rocks at police and destroyed garbage trucks during violent skirmishes near Naples on Thursday that injured 20 officers as the region's waste disposal crisis escalated. The clashes prompted the government to call an emergency meeting for Friday. Demonstrators in the small ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • A short musical interlude.
    With a picket fence Up on a hill And a couple kids In a Coupe de Ville
  • Keef’s Guitar Workshop . . .
    THE NYTIMES has a great article by Janet Maslin, "Keith Richards Has Memories to Burn" . It's an interview with Keith and his collaborator about "Life" , Keith's auto-biography/memoir,  just published by Little, Brown & Company. His collaborator, James Fox, wrote the delightful "White Mischief" , so ...
  • Conservatives and refugees: punishing them for bei ...
    This, via BCL fucking inflames me this morning. In August, QMI Agency reported on a secret government survey that showed that many Tamils who came to Canada claiming that their lives were in danger in their native Sri Lanka subsequently returned safely to that country. They would then come back ...
  • Darth Vader held his minions to account.
    Why does Stephen Harper still employ Lawrence Cannon as Minister?
  • If this shows up on TLC Canada
    I'm cancelling my cable subscription. Although Jimmy Kimmel did the ice-floe bimbo a certain justice. Palin quote from the TLC trailer: "I'd rather be doing this than in some stuffy old political office." "I'd rather be out here being free." Right. That would be why she quit part way through ...

Media Matters for America

  • Beck's attack on Tea Party racism report: all sme ...
    Glenn Beck launched into a series of ad hominem attacks against the authors of a study that highlighted national Tea Party organizations' ties to racism and nativism. At no point did Beck refute -- or address in any way -- any of the actual findings in the report. Ad hominem abuse: Beck makes ...
  • Fox revives abortion funding falsehood to call Ses ...
    On Fox & Friends , Michelle Malkin falsely claimed that Rep. Joe Sestak had "finesse[d] the truth" when he said that he had not supported federal funding for abortions. Malkin asserted that Sestak had done so when he "voted for Obamacare." In fact, the health care legislation Sestak supported did n ...
  • Fox News: Where you can bash Islam with impunity
    In the wake of NPR's decision to terminate Juan Williams' contract following controversial remarks he made about Muslims on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor , Media Matters provides a retrospective of the many anti-Muslim statements made on Fox News or by Fox News personalities. Recent anti-Mu ...
  • Misusing "their own words": Beck attacks Soros wit ...
    Glenn Beck distorted comments by philanthropist George Soros in order to attack him as a "radical." Before misrepresenting Soros' actual words, Beck claimed he was going "use their own words" to "decide who the real radical is." Beck distorts his intentions: "We'll use their own words" to "deci ...
  • Is Glenn Beck helping the Chamber of Commerce "in ...
    Glenn Beck has vilified the Tides Foundation for what he said were efforts to "indoctrinate" children with a film that has been shown in schools. But recently, Beck helped raise money for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which reportedly plans to distribute teaching guides to schools around the co ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Wake up, America! War off the Radar, Congress Fail ...
    After nearly a decade in Iraq and Afghanistan, over 2 million Americans have served, a trillion dollars have been spent and yet only 3 percent of Americans have war on their radar this election. And where's Congress? Spinning on the campaign trail, scrambling for last-minute endorsements and as T ...
  • The Lobby Now Works To Defeat Democrats & Other "E ...
    The Anti-Defamation League has published its list of the "Top Ten Most Anti-Israel Groups in America." It's the most significant Jewish enemies list since the like-minded American Jewish Committee issued "Progressive Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism," which sought to link liberals to anti-Se ...
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  • The DeFazio Congressional Race: Stop Wall Street B ...
    After wrecking the economy and putting themselves at the edge of bankruptcy, the Wall Street gang had a few bad months. But now that profits and bonuses are again at record highs, they are back on the offensive. With their bank accounts overflowing and Congress now officially up for sale following C ...
  • Mass Consensual Hallucination
    In his cyberpunk classic, William Gibson described a society enmeshed in a "mass consensual hallucination". My guess is that in 20 years historians will use similar terms to describe the election of 2010. The Tea Party partisans actually believe they are going to bring about a giant reduction in the ...

TruthOut

  • Averting the Next Food Crisis: What Role for Food ...
    The 36th meeting of the FAO's Committee on Food Security (CFS) concluded in archetypal UN fashion: one and a half hours of apparently aimless milling about followed by a call to order, a ten minute exchange during which it becomes clear that the milling about was actually about last – very last – m ...
  • Honduran Resistance Movement Shows Signs of Progre ...
    �On October 21, the democratic resistance in Honduras will celebrate Artists in Resistance Day. This event contrasts directly with the day's official recognition of Honduras Armed Forces day. The resistance, which is working for a truly democratic Honduras, renamed the day and created an alternati ...
  • News in Brief: Fast Food Workers to Vote on Joinin ...
    Fast Food Workers to Vote on Joining Wobblies read more
  • Afghan Peace Activist Youth Bridge Ethnic Divide
    Bamiyan Diaries - Day One Bamiyan Province in Afghanistan, a stunningly beautiful mountainous region, is located in the center of the country, roughly 100 miles from Kabul. Most people here live in small, autonomous villages tucked into high mountain valleys, and work dawn to dusk just to scratch o ...
  • White House: Women Especially Impacted by Recessio ...
    American women have been particularly impacted by the recession, according to a White House report to be released today, which puts forth several measures to combat the blow. The report, authored by the National Economic Council (NEC), notes that women have been seeking and gaining employment in inc ...

Planetsave

  • Arctic Report Card 2010
    Not looking good. More on this via the NOAA. This post is a quickie, a way for us to share more news with you by linking to good stories on other sites.
  • GOP Only Political Party in World to Reject Climat ...
    Yes, for those familiar with climate politics, you know that Republicans have gone to odd lengths to dismiss the threats of global climate change. The nice thing is that the media is finally starting to pick up on this. Here are a couple quotes from the National Journal’s recent piece, GOP Gives Cli ...
  • Here Comes the Sun
    NASA reported last year that âif anything,â the Sun contributed âa very slight overall cooling in the past 25 years.â Despite that many man-made global warming deniers will try tell you that it is because of sunspots that we are seeing so much global warming. Another major 2007 study on the ...
  • Do You Take Drugs – In Your Drinking Water?
    This guest post is the first of two guest posts from David P. Tusa, CEO and President of Sharps Compliance Corp.(Nasdaq: SMED), a leading full-service provider of cost-effective management solutions for medical waste and unused dispensed medications generated outside the healthcare facility setting. ...
  • “Time is Running Out” — Chilling ...
    An excellent interview with Peter Goldmark, the director of the Environmental Defense Fund’s Climate and Air Program who recently announced that he’d be retiring at the end of the year, and reflections on that interview by Dominique Browning of EDF is one of the best articles I’ve read in awhile an ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Western Australia: Children’s deaths expose health ...
    20 October 2010 The tragic deaths of three children in regional Western Australia have highlighted the crisis of the public health system in country areas. The children died in the towns of Northam, 97 kilometres east of the state capital Perth, and Geraldton, a port city in the state’s mid-west ...
  • Haitians Protest UN Occupation of their Country - ...
    Haiti UN occupation protest...
  • Obama administration moves to strengthen wiretappi ...
    20 October 2010 Obama administration officials are pushing to strengthen a federal law facilitating telecommunications wiretapping. The move illustrates how Obama is fine-tuning and expanding the police-state apparatus developed by his predecessors, including Bush. The New York Times reports ...
  • Workers Without Status in France Emerge as a Socia ...
    At the end of the afternoon of May 27, a mass demonstration marched into the Place de la Bastille in Paris. The march itself represented what can now be viewed as a low point in the national union mobilizations to challenge the proposed weakening of France's public pension regime and...
  • U.S. : The Real Underemployment Figure Is 22.5% - ...
    Ever get the feeling that things are a lot worse than everyone is letting on? Officially the unemployment rate is 9.6%, but there's a lot more people out of work than that. If you add on top of that people who have dropped out of the labor-force, as well as...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Hmmm. Legislators supporting protesters by obstructing pension-killing legislation. What a concept. "French unions have called two more national days of action to protest at the government's pension reforms. They announced the dates of 28 October and 6 November after a meeting in Paris. Separately, ...
  • great moments in fact checking
    cross-posted at skippy betsy markey's opponent in the colorado rep. race puts up an ad that devastates her voting record...unfortunately, it's the record of the wrong person , rep. ed markey from massachusettes -- that's the new ad up from cd-4 gop candidate cory gardner, attacking incumbent betsy m ...
  • An End to 300 Years of Forced Labor
    If the takeover of our economy, our elections and our democracy by corporations and the obscenely wealthy have you on the verge of despair, find hope and inspiration in one unlikely victory of the poor and powerless over the exploiting owners. Greg Kaufmann at The Nation: It was an unlikely place to ...
  • Ginni Thomas Shows Her Authoritarian Side in Call ...
    Clarence and Ginni Thomas deserve one another. He is a deeply reactionary jurist of the Supreme Court who has reportedly yet to utter a single word in open court and whose written opinions betray the influence of Catholic Absolutism, with such preposterous notions as that the Bill of Rights is no b ...
  • don't ask, don't be a hypocrite
    cross-posted at skippy oddly enough, we are agreeing w/ted olson, of all people. he's the guy who lead the legal charge against prop. 8 in california (also he's the former bush admin. solicitor general). ted thinks the obama admin. doesn't have to appeal the injunction against don't ask, don't tell ...

Care 2

  • New Mexico: Wolves, wilderness, drilling and Latin ...
    "Nothing is more attractive to a wolf than the sound of a crying baby," said then-Rep. Steve Pearce, R, during a 2007 debate over one of his bills, which sought to kill funding for the federal Mexican wolf Submitted by Sue BARKO WOLF GUARDIAN to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • HELP STOP THE WOLF HATERS FOR CONGRESS.....DEFENDE ...
    Stop Pearce. Protect Wolves: Help Run Our New TV Ad!! The last time he was elected, Steve Pearce made a name as one of the most anti-wolf Members of Congress. He repeatedly tried to kill programs aimed Submitted by Sue BARKO WOLF GUARDIAN to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Bush Warriors Tattoo of the Day
    UNBELIEVABLE polar bear tattoo by Gabe Sandy!! This tattoo is so realistic, it's hard to believe it is actually on someone's body! AMAZING!!!! You've really got to see this one and also read some interesting information that dispels some common myths. Submitted by Dori G. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! ...
  • Greenscape Preparing to Open the World's Greenest ...
    Greenscape Capital Group, Inc. (TSX-V: GRN) is set to open the world's greenest parking lot in Denver, Colorado next month. Submitted by Nathanael B. to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The Worlds Most Amazing Coastlines
    The worlds coastlines are shaped by the forces of inland erosion, mountain-building and glaciations. They're constantly being modified by the action of waves and currents, which erode material in some places and deposit it in others Read more: http: Submitted by Ghazali Sanusi to Green Life ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Memo to the media: The Tea Party is coming for you
    That was an iconic image that emerged from Alaska in the form of a blurry snapshot that captured local online journalist Tony Hopfinger slumped in a chair in the hallway of an Anchorage middle school, with his hands cuffed behind his back. Detained by private security forces hired by Republican cand ...
  • Not like all those other silly empires
    Scarborough and (sigh) Donny Deutsch got into a bit of a tift this morning on the teevee. You see, Donny harbors the foolish notion that the American empire is in decline, while Scarborough believes America's greatness has only just now reached its genesis. Joe could barely keep his shit together as ...
  • A Clash Over 'Lesser-Evil' Voting
    It seems I upset a lot of people with my recent article looking at the four previous times in modern U.S. politics when many on the Left chose to punish the Democrats by casting ballots for third parties or not voting, a tactic under consideration again this year. My hope had been to break through t ...
  • Dr. Joycelyn Elders: Marijuana, Masturbation and M ...
    Laura: Well, that's a PSA produced by some group called MarijuanaHarmsFamilies.com opposed to California's Proposition 19 that would legalize marijuana in that state. We don't know who they are but we do know that there is a former Surgeon General who has come out in favor of Prop 19 and she joins m ...
  • Vote for Judy, Not the Spineless Puke
    So in August I went back to Wisconsin, which was glowing green under a brown cloud of mosquitos. Lotta water this past summer, and the most mosquitos since, oh maybe 1965, which is when the Schmoes first played in public at the ninth grade Halloween dance at Van Hise Junior High in Madison. We were ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • What A Day * Open Thread
    BRAIN FLASH — I Think I Know Why NPR Fired Juan Williams … Now The Free Speech-Muzzling Liberals Have Trained Their Sights On Mara Liasson … The Daily Caller Has a Fascinating Story: “Muslims speak out against NPRâs political correctness” … Harry Reid Claims That, But For Him, “We’d Be in a Worldw ...
  • Fair Game, Fantastic!
    Wow!! Doug Liman has created a terrific movie that is unlike anything ever produced about the CIA and the politics of Washington. Fair Game the movie is based on two books–Valerie Plame Wilson’s autobiography by the same name and her husband’s memoir, The Politics of Truth: A Diplomat’s Memoir: ...
  • Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame on Situation Room
    Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson and outed CIA agent Valerie Plame visit the Situation Room on CNN to discuss the new film about their ordeal, Fair Game. Larry went to the Georgetown preview last night. His review will be posted later tonight. Here’s the CNN interview on Wednesday: Share what you’ ...
  • Breaking: Juan Williams Fired by NPR [Updates]
    Update #2: Viewing notes … Bret Baier’s doing a big segment on Juan’s firing, and I, for one, cannot wait to hear what Charles Krauthammer has to say on the Special Report panel (6 p.m. ET) … and Juan will be on O’Reilly’s show tonight (8 p.m. ET). [Update #3: See the end of [...]
  • CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE LT. COL. ALLEN WEST (R-FL) ...
    © 2010 jbjd I predict Obama supporters in Florida’s 22nd District will be flocking to the polls in Florida on November 2 to vote for Lt. Col. Allen West, the Republican candidate for Congress. Here are 10 (ten) reasons why. 1. Like Obama, West personalizes political opposition, even advocating th ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Super Typhoon Megi Ravages the Philippines
    On Monday, Oct.18th,the disastrous Super Typhoon Megi slammed into the northern Philippines,resulting fatalities,landslides,floods,power outages and major damages. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Human Wellbeing: The Environmentalist's Paradox
    Environmentalists have very real and demonstrable concerns about the state of the Earth's health. But if that's true, why are humans doing so well? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Phoenix Island: The Largest Marine Protected Area ...
    Kiribati might be an island under threat from climate change, but it has taken a step forwards by creating the largest marine protected area in the world! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • London's Highgate Cemetery Through the Eyes of Aud ...
    Best-selling author Audrey Niffenegger on how working in a cemetery became second nature. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Revolution in Rechargeable Batteries: Lithium ...
    What are the health and environmental advantages of lithium iron phosphate batteries over lithium ion batteries? Which is the best rechargeable battery for consumers? 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

  • U.S. Military Aid Far Outpaces Democracy Assistanc ...
    Desperate to secure supply routes to Afghanistan, the United States has been spending at least six times more on military aid for the mostly authoritarian states of Central Asia than on efforts to promote political liberalisation and human rights in the region.
  • Would Dramatic Disarmament Impress Iran or Not?
    Conservatives believe that U.S. disarmament holds no water with Tehran.
  • Clash of the East Asian Titans
    China and Japan are at loggerheads. As columnist Conn Hallinan explains, rising nationalism and persistent U.S. militarism lie behind the crisis.
  • The Cultural Assassinations of Baghdad
    When the American tanks had completed their task breaking down the gates of the Art Museum, the first person to reach the main gallery, which was filled with hundreds of paintings by contemporary artists, was - unfortunately - a thief.
  • A World Made by War
    When you look at me, you can't mistake the fact that I'm of a certain age. But just for a moment, think of me as nine years old.

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • For Chevron, 2 Giant Gulf Drilling Ventures
    The oil company is going forward with a $7.5 billion project to develop two giant deepwater fields in the gulf that could yield the equivalent of what the world consumes in oil every five days.
  • From Bill Gates, a Gift to Fight Proposition 23
    Microsoft's founder donates $700,000 to the movement to defeat a proposed repeal of California's global warming law.
  • Another Strange Winter, This One Courtesy of La Ni ...
    La Niña, a band of cooler-than-normal water temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, is likely to bring some extreme winter weather to parts of the United States, according to the annual winter outlook from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
  • Ruling Favors the Pint-Size Pika
    A judge orders California Fish and Game Commission to reconsider a decision to deny state endangered species protection to the pika, whose numbers are declining as temperatures risein the mountains.
  • On Our Radar: A Debate Challenge for Charles Koch
    A California State student invites the chief executive of Koch Industries to explain why he is backing a repeal of the state's global warming law with millions of dollars in donations.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

  • Oh Yeah, the Volt. Oh well.
    General Motors’ release of the new Volt has generated some questions that were addressed in the N Y Times.  I would like to address the answers. Rod Panhard of Maplewood, N.J., asked: Road tests allude that when operating in generator mode, the Volt achieves about 35-38 m.p.g. What if G.M. deployed ...
  • Legend of the Fall: Snapshots of What’s Wrong in t ...
    Bill Maher presents viewers of his HBO series, Real Time, with a mix of satire and serious considerations of topics and ideas often ignored in our wider public discourse. During his 15 October 2010 episode—with panelists John Legend, Markos Moulitsas, Dana Loesch, and Dan Neil—Maher shifted the disc ...
  • Podcast: understanding US economic crimes, obvious ...
    source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com Dr. James Fetzer interviewed me on his radio show and podcast, The Real Deal, in discussion of the central problems and solutions of the US economic crisis. The interview is here.  Dr. Fetzer has published more than 100 articles and reviews, and is author to 20 book ...
  • The Rise of the Tea Partiers: A Long Time in Comin ...
    As is always the case during any time of crisis, a far-right, populist movement is developing in the United States. It calls itself the Tea Party, after the famous Boston Tea Party of 1773 – a protest of colonial settlers against British colonialism. Cultural and Political Traditions The cultural an ...
  • CENSORED IN 1994: THERE’S A LOT OF MONEY TO BE MAD ...
    CENSORED IN 1994: THERE’S A LOT OF MONEY TO BE MADE IN POVERTY Want to know what is the hottest new profit center for big blue-chip corporations like ITT, General Motors, American Express, and others? The acceptable term is “fringe banking,” the less acceptable, but more accurate, term is “loan shar ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

  • Chomsky on Tea Party Protesters
    Chomsky: We Shouldn't Ridicule Tea Party Protesters.
  • What Obama can Learn from W.
    Obama needs to put his heart on his sleeve to regain the approval of voters.
  • Not-So-Magical Realism
    The printed word, as historians and archivists and lawyers will tell you, can be very powerful indeed.
  • UN Panel to be a Dangerous Disappointment
    How much money is on the table to combat climate change, where it comes from and how it flows will be at the heart of global climate negotiations at the end of this year in Cancun.
  • The Lineup: Week of October 18-24, 2010
    Andrew Korfhage calls on Congress to get chocolate companies to stop using suppliers that rely on enslaved child labor while Jim Hightower explains that Afghanistan remains the world's biggest producer of poppies--the main ingredient in heroin.

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

  • GRIT TV: Ari Berman and Karen Finney: How the Dem ...
    Well as the Tea Partiers continue to prove they may be more than just a passing trend – at least in the fast-approaching midterms – we ask, where did the Democrats go so wrong in ...
  • In the souls of the people
    ‘In the Souls of the People’ By Michael Moore, Michael Moore’s Blogs 16 October 10   This is video of Michael Moore’s acceptance speech, given at San Jose State University, of the John Steinbeck Award. Mike’s talking revolution here. ...
  • Why a peaceful, people’s revolution is the only wa ...
    Why a peaceful, people’s revolution is the only way to take back our government By Carmen Yarrusso In God-blessed America, the land of the free, our founding fathers’ sacred idea of a government “of the people, by ...
  • The only thing to fear is …
    A Republican House and Senate It’s like we’ve stepped right through the looking glass. With the election of Barack Obama and majorities in both the House and Senate just two years ago, voters gave a powerful ...
  • Benjamin Jealous: One Nation, Moving Forward
    The One Nation rally this past weekend was intended to offer an alternative to anger and hate, to give progressives a way to come together to organize around the issue most pressing to nearly all ...

Marler Blog

  • Food Safety in America - "Pain, Death and Anger" - ...
    Lena Sun’s article this morning in the Washington Post is worth a read, “Conflicts of interest mar food producers' independent inspections.” However, the pictures of the victims (all my clients) are worth more than thousands of words. Four-year-old Zoe Warren of Bethesda was hospitalized in 2007 ...
  • Illinois Department of Health Releases Subway Salm ...
    Illinois state health officials have traced a widespread Salmonella outbreak at Subway restaurants to one Central Illinois food distributor. But, in a final report on the incident issued Thursday, the Illinois Department of Public Health said it could not identify the exact source of the problem, w ...
  • Marler Clark Potluck - A Meal from Hell
    Next week I will be co-chairing the ACI Foodborne Illness Litigation Conference in Chicago and co-hosting an evening meal for the speakers. I had to approve the dinner menu which got me thinking (after nearly 20 years) about what a Marler Clark Potluck would look like: Without much thought here is ...
  • Texas now links 6 illnesses, including 4 Deaths, t ...
    The Texas Department of Health has shut down the Sangar food processing plant, saying it was contaminated by bacteria linked to the deaths of four people. In addition to chopped celery testing positive, inspectors found a condensation leak above a food product area, dirt on a food-preparation table, ...
  • Settlement Reached in Listeria Death
    A confidential settlement was reached yesterday between the family of 87-year old John Powers and Whittier Farms stemming from an outbreak of Listeria linked to contaminated milk. The outbreak was responsible for the death of at least four. A. News of the Outbreak On November 27, 2007, a health d ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 10.21.10
    Nissan details electric Leaf's range variables; will it calm your concerns? Your mileage may seriously vary. Complaints from 2006-'08 Honda Civic Hybrid owners still pouring in The problems ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 10.20.10
    Amp Electric Vehicles leads plug-in conversion pack with Equinox EV Just who is the start-up company working with on the next SUV? For your consideration: EPA's E15 label Warning! Warning! Wa ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 10.19.10
    Chevy Volt tagline: "More Car Than Electric" How's that sound? Video: NEVs lookout, Onya Cycles' Front End Loader is the new electric grocery getter in town It's quirky and fun, if that's wh ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 10.18.10
    LA Auto Show preview: Wheego Whip LiFe electric car to hit the stage Who thinks it's worth $32,995? Report: Hyundai eyes small-scale production, retail sales of fuel cell vehicle by 2012 Mor ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 10.15.10
    Tesla CEO: Optimizing vehicle design for electric powertrains will give us better EVs No one's done it yet, says Musk. Hyundai Sonata Hybrid will qualify for $1,300 tax credit It's a limited ...

Rafe's Radar

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

Camera Obscura

  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so fre ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and the ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces of ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion in ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigorous ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmine's ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of pro ...
  • Dangerous spaces: Safe.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935029/dangerous-spaces-safe.html September 1, 2004... For me, the problem is always in content; we want to define the perspective of a film solely through its content, and not through its form. --Todd Haynes No matter how much we desire, w ...

Democracy Now!

  • When Banks Are the Robbers
    The big banks that caused the collapse of the global finance market, and received tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded bailouts, have likely been engaging in wholesale fraud against homeowners and the courts. But in a promising development this week, attorneys general from all 50 states a ...
  • BREAKING: Pentagon instructing recruiters to accep ...
    In a victory for gay rights advocates, the Pentagon is instructing military recruiters to accept the applications of gay men and lesbians who wish to join the military. See all of our coverage of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell here
  • Part II..."Slavoj Zizek: Far Right and Anti-Immigr ...
    Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist. He is author of dozens of books; his latest one from Verso Books is called Living in the End Times . This is Part II of this conversation. Watch Part I here. AMY GOODMAN: In these economically stressed times, h ...
  • John le Carré: Calling Out the Traitors
    John le Carré, the former British spy turned spy novelist, has some grave words for Tony Blair. More than seven years after the invasion of Iraq, the former British prime minister, now out of office and touring the world pushing his political memoir, is encountering serious protests at his book sig ...
  • From Tuskegee to Guatemala Via Nuremberg
    News broke last week that the U.S. government purposefully exposed hundreds of men in Guatemala to syphilis in ghoulish medical experiments conducted during the late 1940s. As soon as the story got out, President Barack Obama phoned President Alvaro Colom of Guatemala to apologize. Colom called the ...

Farming Pathogens

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

Suzie-Q

  • The Republican Swindle About ‘Obamacare and ...
    If you happen to be a swing voter who’s considering the Republican slate next month, you’re being tricked. That’s not to say you’re an idiot, but the Republicans are doing an excellent job masking over what they really stand for, and millions of Americans seem to be falling for it. The Republican st ...
  • AZ-03: Shocking Democratic Pickup Opportunity
    Daily Kos- by kos Mon Oct 18, 2010 at 11:20:03 AM PDT Public Policy Polling for Daily Kos. 10/16-17. Likely voters. MoE 3.8% (No trend lines) Ben Quayle (R) 44 Jon Hulburd (D) 46 Yeah, that was a real WTF moment for us in this open seat being vacated by conservative icon John Shadegg. Completely [.. ...
  • The Revolution Will Be Televised: Comedy Central T ...
    The Revolution Will Be Televised: Comedy Central To Air, Stream D.C. Rallies (VIDEO) Jason Linkins- Huff Post First Posted: 10-13-10 11:31 AM   |   Updated: 10-13-10 12:23 PM On last night’s “Daily Show,” host Jon Stewart announced that the upcoming Rally To Restore Sanity would be televised, ...
  • CREW: 26 SITTING LAWMAKERS CORRUPTING THE HALLS OF ...
    Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) Contact:  Garrett Russo // 13 Oct 2010 // Washington, D.C. - Corrupt lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are polluting the United States Capitol.  These members highlight the need for increased oversight by the Office of Congressional Et ...
  • Rush Limbaugh says there will never be equality be ...
    Rush Limbaugh says there will never be equality because:”some people are just born to be slaves” Crooks & Liars- By John Amato October 09, 2010 07:00 AM How dare you say there’s racism in the Teabircher movement? I’m so offended by that notion. Isn’t what Rush Limbaugh just soooooo true? LIMBAUGH: T ...

Solari

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  • Money & Markets Charts ~ 10.21.10
    View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, October 21, 2010. Click here to view all charts as a pdf file. See previous Money & Markets Charts blog posts here. Currency c ...
  • If This Is True…… KaBOOM
    By Karl Denninger I don’t know. Multiple people have told me this before. Catherine Austin Fitts has talked about this for a long time.  I get “whispers” all the time from people who I know actually are involved in securitization work related to this on occasion - and have for the last three years ...
  • Quote du Jour
    The poet and the professor… Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein, August 1941. “Evidently, the only way to find the path is to set fire to my own life.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore Related reading: Rabindranath Tagore Wikipedia Renaissance Man The Hindu (6 Jan 2008)

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • A successful smear by the US government against Wi ...
    Summary:  An udpate about the affair Wikileaks.  US government operations grind down Wikileaks and its best known member, Julian Assange.  All smoothly done.  But such success requires our disinterest and passivity.  Fortunately for our rulers, these are notable characteristics of most 21st century ...
  • Important things to know about QE2 (forewarned is ...
    Summary:  There have been megabytes of analysis of the Fed’s second quantitative easing program (QE2), most of which overlooks some important points.  See the links at the end for more information. Some important things to know about QE2: QE2 is a desperate act by the Fed Expect QE2 to be late, s ...
  • About our operations in Kandahar – all that& ...
    Summary:  After trying so many tactics in Afghanistan, including search and destroy sweeps, we’re back to that Vietnam era:  clear and hold.  A fog of vivid language disguises this from the American people.  We rely on Afghanistan security forces to hold what they cannot clear. Although the curr ...
  • Kuber-Ross gives us a good perspective on the evol ...
    Summary:  What stage is the Af-Pak War in our minds?  As it did during the Iraq War, Kuber-Ross stages of stages of dying provides perspective. In November 2006 an analysis on this website described America as moving through five of the stages of dying into bargaining with respect to its expedit ...
  • A situation report about two headine issues &#8211 ...
    Summary:  Economic and political conditions have slowly evolved since the major nations began massive stimulus programs in early 2009.  Now the pace may be accelerating.  This post briefly looks at three major issues in the US (more coming later).  As usual on the FM website, this states analysis an ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Israeli settlers start 600 new homes after ban end ...
    BBC – Jewish settlers have started building more than 600 homes in the West Bank since a building freeze expired last month, an Israeli pressure group says.The pace of building is four times faster than before the ban was put in place, Peace Now says.Recently relaunched Middle East peace talks could ...
  • Turkey sees Iraq gas investment at $3.2 bln
    Reuters – Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said on Thursday investment in two Iraqi gas fields that were won by ventures that include TPAO, Turkey’s state-run oil company, will be $3.2 billion. “We will make the investment together with TPAO and the consortia,” Yildiz told reporters at an energy ...
  • Climate Fact of The Day – Relative contributions o ...
    This graph takes data from yesterday’s graph and summarises it over one bar. As you can see relative to 600ppm, the warming effect of CO2 was over 85% saturated at the pre-industrial level of 280ppm.
  • UK: Number of rapes and sexual offences climbs
    Daily Telegraph – The number of sexual offences recorded by police has jumped, despite a fall in almost every other category of recorded crime. Read article
  • US presidential nuclear codes ‘lost for months’
    BBC – The codes used by the president to launch a nuclear strike were mislaid for months during the Clinton administration, the former highest-ranking US officer has said. Ex-chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Gen Hugh Shelton made the claim in a new book. The codes are usually held by an aide wh ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • MSH is moving********
    Monkey Smashes Heaven is moving to here: http://llco.org/monkey-smashes-heaven So far, we have the English section up and running. For now, we will continue to post articles in other languages to the English section. In the future, we will set up full operational Leading Light pages is many other la ...
  • Ashamed to be an Amerikkkan?
  • MSH moving
    MSH moving (Leading Light Communist Organization llco.org) Over the next month, MSH will be moving over to the website of the Leading Light Communist Organization (llco.org), which is currently under construction. Eventually, this blog will be shut down. Thank you, MSH Editors
  • Trzy twierdze
    Trzy twierdze -Michał Rakulski (trzeciswiat.wordpress.com) „W przeszłości przejęliśmy władzę polityczną i zmieniliśmy strukturę środków produkcji. To są dwa wielkie zwycięstwa. Jednakże jeśli ograniczymy się do tych dwóch zwycięstw, a nie dokonamy rewolucji w ideologii oraz nie doprowadzimy rewolucj ...
  • Drodzy trzecioświatowi maoiści – jesteście nacjona ...
    Drodzy trzecioświatowi maoiści – jesteście nacjonalistami (Leading Light Communist Organization llco.org) “Drodzy trzecioświatowi maoiści, Wasza pozycja jest bardzo interesująca. Wasz blog jest nacjonalistyczny, co ukrywacie pod socjalistyczną retoryką. Linia mas nie jest substytutem rewolucyjnego p ...

PakAlert

  • U.S. Wars Are Bankrupting the World
    The endless and infinite "war on terror" is bankrupting the planet. I don't mean moral bankruptcy; that goes without saying. I mean financial bankruptcy. And don't take my word for it. This is the argument made in a new book called "Terrorism and the Economy: How the War on Terror Is Bankrupting the ...
  • The Mainstream Media Is Now Obsolete
    The progression of human society relies upon the steady distribution of information. The quality of that information, its accuracy and its honesty, determines the overall health of the cultures we create. When a source of information becomes compromised by unhealthy political ambition, social dogma, ...
  • The Covert Origins of the Af-Pak War – The Road to ...
    The fact that the average American never gets the information presented in this report via mainstream media proves how tightly controlled the corporate media is. It also clearly demonstrates the blatant fact that the Global Banking Cartel doesn’t want American citizens to have even a basic understa ...
  • Video: The Gold Dinar and The Future of Money
    Abū Bakr ibn Abi Maryam reported that he heard the Messenger of Allah say: "A time is certainly coming over mankind in which there will be nothing (left) that will be of use (or benefit) save a Dinār (i.e., a gold coin) and a Dirham (i.e., a silver coin). [This prophecy clearly anticipates the event ...
  • Pakistani Military Wins Gold Medal For Toughness
    At an event organized by the British Army for world militaries to compete in toughness, with 750 soldiers participating from worldwide, Pakistani soldiers bagged the Gold Medal for being the toughest soldiers capable of patrolling in the most difficult conditions.

Andy Worthington

  • Judge Denies Guantánamo Prisoner’s Habeas Petition ...
    On September 22, in the District Court in Washington D.C., Judge Reggie B. Walton denied the habeas corpus petition of Tawfiq al-Bihani (described in court documents as Toffiq al-Bihani), a Yemeni who was raised in Saudi Arabia, giving the government its 18th victory out of 56 cases decided, with th ...
  • Butchering the Poor, the Ill, the Weak, the Dispos ...
    For those who think the new coalition government’s much-vaunted promise of “fairness” means using the deficit triggered in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis as an excuse to destroy the welfare state, and to take an axe to the State in general, George Osborne’s unprecedented assault on the poor i ...
  • Great Malvern Gives Resounding Welcome to “Outside ...
    Congratulations to the Malvern Hills Amnesty International Group for demonstrating, on Tuesday evening, that compassion and empathy are not dead. Less than 24 hours before the coalition government announced its spending review, which demonstrated a notable absence of compassion and empathy for the p ...
  • Nick Davies and Andy Worthington debate “Is print ...
    Debate: Is print media dying a slow death? If so, what is the future of respectable journalism? With Nick Davies, Andy Worthington, Dr. An Nguyen and Paula O’Shea Where: Red Roaster Coffee Shop, 1d St. James’s Street, Brighton, BN2 1RE When: Wednesday October 27, 2010, 7.30 pm Next Wednesday I’ll be ...
  • “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week: Day Five – Hum ...
    In the five years that I have spent researching Guantánamo and writing about it, my aims have been simple: to close Guantánamo (with the remaining 174 prisoners either released or put forward for federal court trials), to make sure no experimental prison like Guantánamo is ever allowed to exist agai ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • For those who argued against Catholic Parishioners ...
    to the Catholic Church... Is it more than just political donations and actions that the church is trying to hide? A Roman Catholic priest in Connecticut has been arrested on charges he stole $1.3 million in church money over seven years to use for male escorts, expensive clothing, and luxury hotel ...
  • rope-a-what?
    Wow, our chattering class sure loves horse races, doesn't it? Even when there's not a pony in sight. Guess what? Richard Blumenthal remains ahead of Linda McMahon! By about the same, comfortable but not Delaware-style oh-my-god-we-can't-possibly-pull-the-lever-for-the-crazy-lady-wide margin as he ...
  • primary colors
    Primary season is finally over in CT. (Only 82 more days until the November elections!) The New Milford results are in. And while there's nothing particularly surprising about how the town voted, I am shocked at the low turnout. According to the tallies at the Danbury News-Times: 1497 registered R ...
  • "Does Probate = Masterb-te," or "Are We Getting Je ...
    What's the deal with this primary for Probate Judge? Have you ever seen such energy put into an election campaign (Oops - I mean other than this spring's budget referendum)? Why are New Milford Republicans putting so much energy behind Judge Marty? Who stands to lose here - probate should be pretty ...
  • salary salads
    Here’s some interesting news about salaries, concessions, and taxes. New Milford teachers and the Board of Ed have peacefully renegotiated teacher contracts for the 2011-2012 year. http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/New-Milford-teachers-agree-to-no-pay-increases-676941.php http://www.ne ...

SPL Center

  • SCV Plans to ‘Celebrate’ Racist Confederate Govern ...
    The American Civil War was the costliest, most devastating conflict in the history of our country. At least 620,000 soldiers died, as did some 400,000 civilians who fell to disease, suicide, murder and similar causes. Hundreds of thousands of others suffered horrible wood-saw amputations and terribl ...
  • JDL Leader’s Shooting Trial to Resume Next Month i ...
    Was it road rage or self defense? Or maybe even a politically motivated act of violence? That’s what a jury will decide when the trial of Jewish Defense League organizer Carl Mintz begins on Oct. 14. Mintz, 27, a state chapter organizer for the JDL in Michigan, is charged in the shooting of a 20-yea ...
  • The British (Extremists) Are Coming — Or, the Engl ...
    Saturday’s 9/11 protest in downtown Manhattan featured the by-now-familiar chants and symbols of the debate over the so-called Ground Zero mosque. But amid the sea of red, white and blue, there were a few new icons added to the usual mix. As featured in a series of pictures posted Wednesday by the N ...
  • New Report Examines “Tea Party Nationalism,” Chart ...
    Back in July, the NAACP publicly called upon Tea Party leaders to repudiate extremists and racist individuals within their ranks. Although the presence of such elements in Tea Party circles had been evident for some time, movement figures tended to be dismissive and defensive in their response. Such ...
  • Little Pulaski, Tenn., to Suffer Through Another R ...
    Although it’s a small town of about 7,800, Pulaski, Tenn. may well be the white supremacist epicenter of the nation — at least if the number of rallies held there by bigoted groups is any indication. The mayor and other residents aren’t pleased. “There’s never been a local person involved in these m ...

change: org.

  • Taiwan SPCA Uses Smartphones to Save Lives
    While luring an injured dog into a cage with food, Sean McCormack uses his smartphone to take pictures and record video testimony from a man who witnessed a farmer cutting off the leg of another dog caught in a wire trap. The footage is evidence, building an animal cruelty case to present to local a ...
  • Success! Chicago Moms And Schools Reach Compromise
    They went to bat for their children, fought for a library and won. After more than a month of camping out in a field house next to the neighborhood elementary school,  a group of South Side mothers have reached a preliminary compromise with Chicago Public Schools . The school system will build a lib ...
  • After Frat's "No Means Yes" Chant, Yale Daily Tsk- ...
    Following the incident in which Yale's Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) fraternity pledges marched around first-year dorms chanting " no means yes, yes means anal ," the Yale Daily News decided the appropriate response to this was an editorial in the vein of: geez, what do you feminists want anyway? Beginn ...
  • 'Missing' Ronald Reagan as Nuclear Disarmament Fal ...
    It is one of the great ironies in the history of American domestic politics and foreign policy: the champion of the START ( Strategic Arms Reduction ) Treaty , which heralded the formal nuclear disarmament process between the US and the USSR, was none other than Republican President Ronald Reagan. B ...
  • Jack Black Takes on Health Care Lies in New Video
    Yet another reason to love comedian Jack Black: he's taking on the rampant lies and misinformation surrounding the health care law in a new video, "The Mis-Informant." Sponsored by Health Care for America Now , a group of labor and consumer groups, the video has Black as a undercover liar for hire, ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Iran Confirms Two Detained Americans to Face Trial
    by Farhad Pouladi TEHRAN — Iran will begin prosecuting from November 6 three US hikers on charges of espionage and for illegally entering the Islamic republic, their lawyer Masoud Shafii told AFP on Wednesday. Two of the three hikers, Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, have been held in a Tehran jail ...
  • Carter in Syria: Israel Must Fully Lift Gaza Block ...
    Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, during a visit to Damascus on Tuesday, called for Israel to lift completely its blockade on the Gaza Strip. Carter made the remarks in the forum of a delegation known as The Elders, who met with Syrian President Bashar Assad and Hamas leaders in Syria. Despite th ...
  • Docs on Pharma Payroll Have Blemished Records, Lim ...
    by Charles Ornstein , Tracy Weber and Dan Nguyen The Ohio medical board concluded [1] that pain physician William D. Leak had performed “unnecessary” nerve tests on 20 patients and subjected some to “an excessive number of invasive procedures,” including injections of agents that destroy nerve t ...
  • US Military Accepts Openly Gay Recruits
    by Paul Harris in New York America's military yesterday began accepting openly gay recruits into its ranks for the first time in its history as the controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy suffered another serious blow. The move comes after California judge Virginia Phillips ruled last week t ...
  • Rachel Corrie Case: Israeli Soldier to Testify Ano ...
    by Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem The Israeli soldier at the controls of a bulldozer that crushed to death 23-year-old Rachel Corrie in Gaza in March 2003 is due to give evidence tomorrow in the civil lawsuit brought by the American activist's family. However the judge hearing the case in Haifa has r ...

Lifehacker

  • Consider Your Mind's Association with Numbers to A ...
    We are constantly evaluating numbers, whether in personal finance or other areas of life, but often the number's value is overshadowed by associations that number may have in your mind, or even the sound it makes when you say it out loud. M ...
  • Judge the Value of an Idea After You Finish [Ideas ...
    Because creative thinking isn't usually logical, it can be hard to gauge how good an idea really is when you come up with it. Instead, better to just do it, share it, and then make your judgments. More��
  • The Power of Time Off [Republished]
    In his blog post, Michael Karnjanaprakorn highlights the value of just taking time off to relax and clear his head. By pushing away all the stresses of modern life, he was able to focus clearly on the direction he wanted to take with his futu ...
  • How Can I Integrate Other Music Streaming Services ...
    Dear Lifehacker, Last.fm has announced that they're getting rid of some streaming services in November. What other streaming services can replace these features, and how can I continue scrobbling their songs to Last.fm? More�� ...
  • Best Mobile Alarm App? [Hive Five Call For Contend ...
    Whether you're setting an alarm on your iPhone to wake you up or a timer on your Android phone to signal the end of study time, this week we want to hear about your favorite mobile alarm application. More��

Water Privatization

  • Utility authority starts looking for advisers on p ...
    A suggestion to privatize the city's water and sewer systems has triggered the utility board to arm itself with both an independent financial adviser and an outside attorney.
  • ADWEA selects "KEPCO/Sumitomo" for "Shuweihat S-3" ...
    H.H. Sheikh Diab bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority ( ADWEA ADWEA ), told Al Ittihad local daily in a statement that Shuweihat S-3 has obtained the best offers under the most difficult conditions set by ADWEA ADWEA ...
  • Assuaging people’s worries on sewage
    IN a press announcement on Wednesday, Metro Pacific Investments Corp. and the DMCI Holdings-led Maynilad Water Services Inc. (Maynilad) bared plans to build five wastewater-treatment plants in Quezon City, seen to benefit 6,000 households and establishments once completed in 2012.
  • H20 debate to boil at World Water Congress
    A call to end the privatization of municipal water is expected to spill onto the streets Monday outside the World Water Congress in Montreal.
  • Privatization Not Answer to Water Crisis, Says WPN
    MANILA, Philippines – Advocacy group Water for the People Network (WPN) Friday said that contrary to the claim of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), allowing profit-oriented private corporations to take over the management and distribution of water resources will not address the water crisis. The (WP ...

Guardian

  • David Kelly injuries were self inflicted – postmor ...
    Government releases previously secret medical files on death of weapons inspector at centre of BBC's Iraq dossier story The death of weapons inspector David Kelly was "typical of self-inflicted injury", according to previously secret medical documents released today. The postmortem report into his d ...
  • Submarine runs aground off Scotland
    No reports of injuries or environmental damage as nuclear-powered HMS Astute runs aground off Isle of Skye A nuclear submarine has run aground off the Isle of Skye, the Ministry of Defence said today. Early reports suggested the incident involving HMS Astute was not nuclear and no one was hurt. An M ...
  • Geithner in currency plea to G20
    US treasury secretary tells G20 members to stop manipulating currencies and urges rebalancing of world economy • Timothy Geithner's letter US treasury secretary Timothy Geithner has told the G20 nations to stop manipulating their currencies to prevent "excessive volatility" and a global currency wa ...
  • US to cut aid to Pakistan army units
    Obama administration to agree separate aid package for counter-terrorism operations The US government plans to cut military aid to several Pakistani military units as punishment for human rights abuses, including torture and extra-judicial executions, according to senior officials. But at the same t ...
  • 'Super council' plan for London
    Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham, and Kensington & Chelsea would keep councillors but share frontline staff Radical proposals to create the UK's first "super council" were revealed today. The London boroughs of Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham, and Kensington & Chelsea said all their services coul ...

McClatchey

  • NOAA: Warming Arctic unlikely to return to how it ...
    WASHINGTON — New observations this year about snow, ice and temperatures support the conclusion that the Arctic is unlikely to return to the conditions known in the 20th century — and that's likely to affect the weather in the lower 48 United States.
  • U.S. officials, experts: No high-level Afghan peac ...
    WASHINGTON_ Despite news reports of high-level talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government, no significant peace negotiations are under way in Afghanistan, U.S. officials and Afghanistan experts said Thursday.
  • Pentagon revives 'don't ask, don't tell,' but with ...
    WASHINGTON — Only top members of the Defense Department now can expel service members under the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, the Pentagon announced Thursday in response to the ongoing legal battle over whether the military's ban on gays and lesbians serving openly is constitutional.
  • Judge to decide whether New York can release teach ...
    NEW YORK — A New York Supreme Court judge will decide whether the public has a right to see individual teacher ratings based on student test scores in the nation's largest school district, an indication that the days when 99 percent of teachers were rated "satisfactory" are over.
  • Jury selection in Chandra Levy trial crawls toward ...
    WASHINGTON — Attorneys on Thursday slogged through a protracted jury selection in the trial of the man accused of killing former Modesto resident Chandra Levy, but they still have more work ahead of them.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Green dollars to save the planet?
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya: If there are any youngsters in your neighbourhood who are looking to you for career advice, environmental accountancy might be a good thing to recommend. Forget studying iconic animal species - forget plants - even forget fungi and so ...
  • Marine protection: The legal route
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya, Japan: The oceans may cover three-quarters of the world's surface, but they make a tiny contribution towards the total extent of area that governments have put under protection in order to promote conservation. Despite a number of int ...
  • Solving nature loss: Child's play?
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya, Japan: "The children are the future," says Homer Simpson in a favourite quote from the TV series. "We've got to stop them now..." � At the opening ceremony here , there was lots of talk of children being the future. The caveat wa ...
  • Folding the hopes of thousands
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya, Japan: Everywhere in Nagoya, there is origami. Arriving at the airport, I was presented with an origami crane; more of them adorn my hotel room. Origami cranes symbolise hopes for agreement on protecting the real thing At the co ...
  • Climate ship trims sails but keeps captain
    IPCC plenary meeting , Busan: So: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change came to South Korea with Rajendra Pachauri in charge, and it leaves with Rajendra Pachauri in charge. In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC�Webwise for full ...

The Wonk Room

  • Burr: ‘Founders’ Wrote 14th Amendment, ...
    During tonight’s North Carolina senate debate, Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) said he was against changing the 14th amendment to eliminate birthright citizenship, but said “it is important for the courts to determine” if the “founders” intended to allow for the practice: BURR ON THE 14th: But I think when ...
  • As It Was Outsourcing Jobs And Making Billions, Fi ...
    On the campaign trail, California’s Republican Senate nominee Carly Fiorina has repeatedly defended the decision to outsource thousands of jobs that tech giant Hewlett-Packard made while she was its CEO. “During my time at Hewlett Packard, yes, I had to make some tough choices like families and busi ...
  • Orszag To Democrats: You Should Have Included Malp ...
    Peter Orszag laments in the New York Times today about the Democrats’ failure to include more robust malpractice reform in the Affordable Care Act, noting that “what’s needed is a much more aggressive national effort to protect doctors who follow evidence-based guidelines“: The health care reform ac ...
  • UVA Fights Back Against Cuccinelli’s Climate ...
    Our guest blogger is Luke Cole, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli was confronted at the University of Virginia for targeting one of its scientists in his crusade against the science of global warming. Despite the o ...
  • In Response To Choi, Jarrett Insists Obama Must Ap ...
    This morning, Lt. Dan Choi denounced White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett for suggesting that those who urge the administration not to appeal a recent federal court decision overturning Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell don’t “actually understand” President Obama’s duty to defend existing laws. “I’m so ab ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Would You Kill Hitler to Save the Planet?
    Just thinking about stuff after reading this : If the Arctic becomes six degrees warmer, then half of the world's permafrost will likely thaw, probably to a depth of a few metres, releasing most of the carbon and methane accumulated there over thousands of years, said Vladimir Romanovsky of the ...
  • Inside the Mind of a Rob Ford Supporter
    Rob Ford is currently the front-runner in the race to be Toronto's mayor. He's apparently a stupid, oafish, incompetent dunce. The Toronto Sun is in love with his fat ass and fellates him on a daily basis. For them, it's a contest between stereotypical downtown lefty elitists and respectable salt of ...
  • Yves Engler on Canada's UN Humiliation
    Yves Engler is one of the most principled and courageous activists against Canada's detestable, corporate-directed foreign policy today. Therefore, even while other things have pushed it off the news cycle, I thought it a good idea to present his comprehensive take on harper's failures and the way t ...
  • Bill Maher on Islam
    Now Bill Maher is an okay guy so far as US-American liberals go. I don't agree with everything he says by any stretch, but for such a backward, indoctrinated political culture he's done a good job of establishing an independent viewpoint. I don't even take much issue with most of what he says in th ...
  • We're the Worst
    From the Toronto Star : OTTAWA—Canadian mining companies are far and away the worst offenders in environmental, human rights and other abuses around the world, according to a global study commissioned by an industry association but never made public. Oh yeah, ... The research surfaced as a long, fie ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Fair Game is the best movie ever reviewed on this ...
    Fair Game is a new feature movie about the Valerie Plame affair. Naomi Watts plays Valerie Plame. Sean Penn plays her husband, Ambassador Joe Wilson. I am having trouble containing how much I appreciate this movie, so let me start with the facts: In the buildup for the Iraq War, the Bush Administr ...
  • Is your boss using a "key logger"? Find out.
    A "key logger" is a computer program that keeps a record of every keystroke someone types on a computer. Hackers can use key loggers to infiltrate a computer system, or to steal someone's identity. They might use a key logger as part of a computer virus, and once a computer is infected, the hacker c ...
  • Appropriate Use of Science in Public Policy
    On October 27, 2010, Professionals for the Public Interest (PftPI) will present a panel discussion on the " Appropriate Use of Science in Public Policy. " Although the event will be free, registration is required . The event will be held at 4:00 pm at the American Association for the Advancement of ...
  • Secretary Solis answers concerns about DOL's Whist ...
    Last July, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) joined with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and the Government Accountability Project (GAP) in submitting a letter to Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis . The letter raised concerns about whether the Department of Labor (DOL) w ...
  • President Obama signs the Veterans' Benefits Act o ...
    The White House has announced that today President Barack Obama signed into law the Veterans' Benefits Act (VBA) of 2010. Among other improvements in the law for veterans, the VBA enhances the employee protections of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA). USERRA prot ...

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

  • RIAA, Chamber Of Commerce: Censorship Via COICA Is ...
    While the COICA bill introduced by Senators Patrick Leahy and Orin Hatch was initially designed to be rushed through Congress, after people pointed out that it pretty clearly violated due process and prohibitions against prior restraint, the Senators realized they needed to hold off for a bit . Eve ...
  • Golan Appealed To The Supreme Court; Important Cas ...
    We've been covering the Golan case for a while now. It's an important case in determining the contours of copyright and the public domain. Many details of the case involve a lot of legal specifics, but the general point was to question whether or not taking works out of the public domain, and putt ...
  • Belle & Sebastian Considers Opening Up A Taqueria
    We're always interested in creative and new business model ideas involving using infinite goods to make scarce goods more valuable. So I have to admit I'm a bit intrigued by the (slightly tongue-in-cheek) claim by Stuart Murdoch of the popular band Belle & Sebastien that he's considering opening a ...
  • EU Court Of Justice Says Private Copying Levy On D ...
    Thanks to David Hammerstein and Glyn Moody for pointing us to the news that the European Court of Justice has rejected an attempt to collect a private copying levy in Spain that was being disputed by a consumer electronics firm, Padawan. The Spanish collection society SGAE demanded that Padawan, wh ...
  • File Sharing... In... Spaaaaaaace
    Various folks are sending over stories reporting on rather preliminary conversations on the Pirate Parties International (PPI) mailing list, concerning ideas for a file sharing platform... in space . More or less, the idea was that there needs to be an effort to get out from various regional jurisd ...

VacTruth

  • New Evidence States H1N1 Vaccine Has Elevated Risk ...
    A recent news report suggests that the UK government's position has changed regarding the H1N1 vaccine and related cases of Guillian-Barre Syndrome (GBS).
  • Do Drug Firm Bribery Charges Implicate the U.S. FD ...
    How can anyone have implicit faith in the science and products produced by BIG Pharma when they are charged with bribing government officials?
  • Are Federal Grants Being Used For State Government ...
    The Obama Administration was pressured to officially declare a Stafford Act National Emergency. In turn, the emergency declaration automatically made millions of federal grant dollars monies available to state governments. So what happened with all of the money appropriated and made available to st ...
  • Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. has history of sell ...
    How many judges have links and financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry? Chief Justice Roberts recently sold $15,000 of his shares in the company Pfizer enabling him to participate in a court case today.
  • Chief Justice John Roberts cashes in Pfizer stocks ...
    Chief Justice John Roberts Jr has recently sold his stock holdings in Pfizer Inc. He did this to participate in two up vaccine cases. The implications are enormous as they decide if anyone suffering a vaccine injury can ever – under any circumstances - sue a pharmaceutical company.

BroadSnark

  • Solidarity?
    I am really beginning to despise the word solidarity.  I’m constantly hearing calls for solidarity – with women just because they’re women, with anarchists just because they’re anarchists, with workers just because they’re workers. Do you know what I think of when someone asks for solidarity?  I t ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    This is going to be a short one, as I just got back from New Orleans and haven’t been reading much the last few days.  Also, tonight is my fourteenth anniversary and I have to get back to the bfriend. While I was in NoLa, I ran into some people who had just visited DC and [...]
  • Intellect as Evasion
    Normally, I like Jay Smooth.  But this video really irritated me. I understand why people are critical of the anti-intellectualism displayed by right wing populists who seem so disdainful of reading books, processing facts, or critical thinking of any kind.  But it amazes me when otherwise observ ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    The Renewing the Anarchist Tradition (RAT) conference is being held next month in Baltimore.  I’ll be there.  Hopefully, some of you will be too. Unfortunately the RAT conference means that I won’t be able to go to the Positive Force punk rock flea market.  But if any of you are in the DC area an ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Kids can be so incredibly mean.  What would your parents have done if they found out kids at your school were torturing you?  What if they found out you were torturing other kids? Related to that, this post calling the church out for “saving families” by being anti-gay marriage while ignoring the ...

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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

  • Behind the Scenes Look at Industrial-Scale Compost ...
    Image credit: Videoprod From bicycle-based compost collection to city-wide mandatory composting , TreeHugger is a big fan of taking waste organic matter and putting it to good use. But what happens once your kitchen scraps and other organic waste are collected from your doorstep? I've just come ...
  • Why You Should Care About Psychedelic Research
    Photo: ponyfire Bioneers , the green conference held in San Rafael, California, covers topics that have been marginalized in the past: youth, women, indigenous cultures and even psychedelic drugs. I surprisingly found myself in a session on the current state of psychedelic research. Many other ...
  • PepsiCo.'s New (Quieter?) Chip Bag Made From Potat ...
    Photo credit Walt_Dabney via flickr and a Creative Commons license. In the U.K. they call them crisps, not potato chips. And perhaps because U.S. consumers made such as incredible fuss over SunChips crisps in (noisy) biodegradable bags , PepsiCo, owner of Frito-Lay and the British brand Walkers, ...
  • Measuring Fashion's Environmental Footprint with S ...
    Sourcing sustainable textiles at Source4Style. Photo: Source4Style As I wrote earlier this month , sourcing textiles can be difficult for fashion and interior designers--and sustainable textiles, even more so. This week in New York City, Source4Style co-founders Summer Rayne Oakes and Benita Si ...
  • Romans Not Totally Committed to Bicycle Sharing
    Photo: B. Alter You have to love the Romans: they promenade stylishly down their glorious streets, they park their Smart cars on the sidewalks, and now they have bicycle-sharing. Sort of.... ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Biosingularity

  • Cell bio, automation merge to screen every human g ...
    Every now and then, there’s a bit of science that’s a combination of brute force and tour de force. Examples that spring to mind mostly come from the world of small, manageable experimental animals, like the mapping of every single cell division of the worm C. elegans, a feat that won John Sulston a ...
  • A Two-Pronged Attack on Cancer
    Last year marked a first for engineered antibodies–the European Commission approved a new cancer drug called Removab catumaxomab, an antibody specially designed to grab both cancer cells and immune cells in such a way that the immune cell can kill the cancer cell. The drug is undergoing testing for ...
  • Lesser-known C-diff a bigger hospital threat than ...
    Theres good and bad news on the “superbug” front. In community hospitals in the Southeast, an easily spread bacterium appears to have overtaken the widely feared MRSA as the most common hospital-acquired infection. But a pilot project in Ohio found that pushing hard on simple things such as hand was ...
  • Light Switches for Neurons
    Just five years ago, scientists at Stanford University discovered that neurons injected with a photo-sensitive gene from algae could be turned on or off with the flip of a light switch. This discovery has since turned hundreds of labs onto the young field of optogenetics. Today researchers around th ...
  • Life’s smallest motor, cargo carrier of the ...
    Life’s smallest motor, a protein that shuttles cargo within cells and helps cells divide, does so by rocking up and down like a seesaw, according to research conducted by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Brandeis University. The researchers crea ...

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Pruning Shears

  • Banks created the foreclosure crisis - they should ...
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post On Tuesday Prairie Weather linked to this episode of the Diane Rehm show on the foreclosure crisis. Representing the mortgage industry was Tom Deutsch of the American Securitization Forum, and his oily insincerity positively oozed o ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims .Those links came from the Citizens for Legitimate Government daily email. You can sign up by writing Editor-in-Chief Lori Price (signup at l ...
  • Why not a Nobel for Western dissidents?
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post In recent years the Nobel committee has been willing to wade into controversies. A couple of years ago it awarded its economic prize to Paul Krugman, in what appeared to be a swipe at a sitting president and the still (inexplicably) ...
  • Homework
    Fifty extra credit points to the first enterprising citizen who forecloses on Vikram Pandit’s house .
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. Last week I quoted Catch-22, and what do you know - the news sent me another real life excerpt this week. What’s next, The Syndicate? Say No ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Monsanto's Losing Bet on GM Sugar Beets Has Bitter ...
    In 2008, the USDA approved planting of Monsanto's Roundup Ready sugar beet, equipped with a gene that allows them to withstand unlimited doses of Monsanto's Roundup herbicide. Click here to read this article
  • Turning Asphalt Into Edible Education
    The P.S. 216 project, known as an Edible Schoolyard, is part of a second generation of gardens, which involve things like state-of-the art greenhouses, professional staff, large city grants, and ever-more-ambitious agendas. Click here to read this article
  • Beef Industry Woes May Mean Poorer Meat
    Many ranchers say the market for domestic meat has withered to the point where they often receive only a single reasonable bid for their animals - a trend that could eventually mean lesser-quality meat on dinner tables across the United States. Click here to read this article
  • SOS: OCA's Ongoing Campaign to Safeguard Organic S ...
    Over the last twelve years the OCA and the organic community have been forced to organize a series of national campaigns to safeguard organic standards. While the OCA and our allies have basically been able to prevent the standards from being significantly watered down, constant vigilance and mobili ...
  • Is There Child Slave Labor in Your Child's Hallowe ...
    WASHINGTON - Good news for parents this Halloween: It's easier than ever to avoid buying chocolate from Hershey, the largest U.S. chocolate company. Hershey fails to ensure that child labor is not part of its chocolate. Two major reports this September called out Hershey's failure and the prevalence ...

fotoFrontera

  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XVIII
    Si lo desea, escoja un número para revisar nuestro archivo de fotos. [1] -[2] -[3] -[4] -[5] -[6] -[7] -[8] -[9] -[10] -[11] -[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] Para ver más fotos, no olvide usted también visitar nuestros sitios ' Fotofrontera ' ' Free Amazing Pictures ' ' 1m4g3n3s ' y ' Reportero s ...
  • Paisajes de ensueño parte IV (11 fotos de alta res ...
    Si lo desea, revise nuestro archivo. [parte I] [parte II] [parte III] [parte IV] [...] 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 orige ...
  • 10 fondos mágicos para poner tus fotos en Photosho ...
    Si estás buscando más fondos y otras texturas, puedes hacer click aquí .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 imáge ...
  • Playas paradisiacas parte VIII (9 paisajes del mar ...
    Si usted lo desea, puede escoger un número para ver nuestras entregas anteriores sobre la serie 'Playas Paradisiacas'. [II] [III] [IV] [V] [VI] [VII] [VIII] 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 XVII
    Si lo desea, escoja un número para revisar nuestro archivo de fotos. [1] -[2] -[3] -[4] -[5] -[6] -[7] -[8] -[9] -[10] -[11] -[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] 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 ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Hoop dreams: A Baltimore community farm gets winte ...
    On a recent crisp October weekend, Reservoir Hill community members, friends, farmers, and two bus loads of Johns Hopkins undergraduate students gathered at the Whitelock Community Farm for a modern barn raising. The various volunteer groups, totaling close to 50 people, built an inexpensive but pra ...
  • Better Beef, It’s What’s For Lunch? Kids in Four o ...
    It looks like the “Eat less meat, eat better meat” motto, first coined by sustainable cattle rancher and author Nicolette Hahn Niman, is catching on. According to School Food FOCUS, a national initiative dedicated to helping urban school districts buy healthier, more sustainable and locally sourced ...
  • Agricultural Biotech and Chemical Industry Put on ...
    In mid-October of every year, Iowa State and Central Iowa sees its fair share (or more) of dignitaries, current and former agricultural lobby folks, Farm Bureau top brass and even usually a cabinet officer or two. This is not the presidential primaries, but the World Food Prize week. This year, over ...
  • CLF Knows What’s in the Nation’s Chicken
    On Thursday, CLF Director Dr. Robert S. Lawrence joined, Dr. David Kessler, former FDA Commissioner, and, Urvashi Rangan, PhD (JHSPH ‘95), Consumer Reports, on the Dr. Oz Show’s segment entitled “What’s in the Nation’s Chicken?” The guests on this national broadcast began by discussing the additive ...
  • Straight Talk About The Risks of Feeding Antibioti ...
    It is time for some straight talk about the risks of using massive amounts of antibiotics in livestock and poultry. I don’t know one infectious disease expert who would disagree that there are direct links between antibiotic use in food animals and antibiotic resistance in people. Period. If you don ...

Norwegianity

  • Wingnuts freeping MPR poll
    Bob Collins asks if Juan Williams should have been fired and the comments are packed with out of state wingnuts. I’m not PZ and this isn’t Pharyngula, but if you all head over there and vote, this ridiculous poll result can be turned around. Do it now.
  • Electoralizing
    He talks openly about how he has been overtaken in the past by alcoholism and depression, although he says he is now sober. Republicans have been heckling him for months as a coward for closing his Senate office in Washington in 2004 to protect his staffers from a terrorist threat no other senator p ...
  • Dear Claire from the DFL
    If you ever robo-call me again, I’ll slash your fucking tires. It’s called Get Out The Vote and not Piss Off The Voters for a reason.
  • Bubble teabaggers
    Steve Chapman doesn’t understand why Ginni Thomas went after Anita Hill, then proceeds to write a column witlessly illustrating exactly what Thomas was after: further rehashing of how Clarence Thomas was wrongfully accused of being a creepy pervert. [Fwiw, Clarence Thomas is extraordinarily creepy a ...
  • Joe Miller actually makes Sarah Palin look good
    By comparison, obviously, but still. Today we have learned that Joe: lies uses guards who are active-duty military and therefore prohibited from serving as goons at a political rally [more] uses security goons from an unlicensed security company is a tax cheat and is canceling a campaign appearanc ...

Public News Service

  • Consumer Alert: Halloween Costumes Can be Toxic
    Consumer Alert: Halloween Costumes Can be Toxic Phoenix, AZ - Arizona parents may be exposing their children to harmful chemicals from Halloween costumes. Some plastic masks contain PVC, which can cause harm to kids, and a lot of face paints contain lead, according to the Environmental Working Group ...
  • Bee Gees' 'Stayin' Alive' Approach to CPR Comes to ...
    Bee Gees' 'Stayin' Alive' Approach to CPR Comes to AZ Phoenix, AZ – The age-old method of doing CPR is changing. The American Heart Association is out with a new recommendation - one that focuses on steady, regular chest compressions first, instead of mouth-to-mouth first. Comments from Shirley Hage ...
  • Call for C-O-L-A Changes for Social Security
    Call for C-O-L-A Changes for Social Security Phoenix, AZ – Last year there was not enough inflation for a Social Security cost of living adjustment, or "COLA," to kick in. Once again this year, no inflation, so there will be no increase for those on Social Security. Regional AARP director Janis Ch ...
  • Voting or Job-Hunting, AZ Seniors say, 'I'm Not Do ...
    Voting or Job-Hunting, AZ Seniors say, 'I'm Not Done Yet' Phoenix, AZ – If the future looks anything like being put out to pasture, Arizona's over-50 generation wants nothing to do with it. AARP president-elect Rob Romasco (rah-MOSS-koe)says older workers will be key to the upcoming elections as wel ...
  • 400,000 AZ Women Lose Health Exams to Budget Cuts
    400,000 AZ Women Lose Health Exams to Budget Cuts Phoenix, AZ – A less-publicized effect of the legislature’s October 1st budget cuts to AHCCCS (Access) is that routine annual well-care exams for some 400,000 low-income Arizona women are no longer covered. The action effectively shuts them out from ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

  • CNN drops the C-bomb
    Photo by BY-YOUR-â It’s not the four letter word. Iâm a bit tired of this topic, but this article seems to need a few comments. After announcing a nuclear cooperation with Russian President Medvedev to build a nuclear plant in Venezuela, Hugo Chávez continues his tour of Asia by visiting Iranian ...
  • Tascon List Documentary
    Those who defend Hugo Chávez need to see this documentary. The Tascón list is a list of all the voters who put their name, their fingerprint, and their social security numbers, in the 2004 recall referendum against Chávez. They were branded as “traitors” and summarily stripped of all government jobs ...
  • Cobalt Bomb in Honduras!?
    Photo by Doug Wallick I completely disbelieve this news report. In it, it said that the residents of Las Tapias, Francisco Moraz�n are being evacuated because of radiation from a cobalt bomb. A cobalt bomb is a type of nuclear weapon with little blast capacity, but enormous contamination from fallou ...
  • Banksy Writes on Springfield’s Walls
    Banksy, the famous British graffiti artist and activist, created this opening sequence for The Simpsons; it is brilliant, and sobering at the same time. Of course it is overstated…that’s the heart of comedy. South Korea is prosperous in comparison even to China. But, I venture to guess that most peo ...
  • More Evidence of Nuclear Cover-Up in Venezuela
    Photo by Daniella Zalcman Hugo Chavez seems to believe the clichéd proverb: “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. For years there have been underreported accounts of Chavez’s collabroation with Iran’s “secret” nuclear program. Venezuela has the world’s largest uranium deposits in the mountains where ...

Green Times

  • Our Green Future – when will the Government suppor ...
    When we will see both sides of our government, finally cut the political point scoring and put a price on carbon?
  • Walk4Water
      We all know that getting clean water from the tap and taking a daily shower is not available for everyone. But did you know that 884 million people in the world have to walk 10,000 steps every day just to fetch water? Most of the time that water isn’t even acceptable to drink and ...
  • Desperate and Living Green
    Some celebrities claim to be green, but Eva is living green and building green – she’s helping create green restaurants and shopping malls…
  • Environmental News 19/10/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Environmental News 18/10/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • AP: US to give Pakistan $2B in new military aid
    ShareThis The day ends in 'y,' so it's time for another taxpayer-funded blowjob for US contractors, to bribe Pakistan to allow the US to�slaughter civilians with CIA killer drones: AP: US to give Pakistan $2B in new military aid 22 Oct 2010 The Obama administration is laying out a new multiyear, mul ...
  • 'Al Qaeda' Leader Dined at the Pentagon Just Month ...
    ShareThis 'Al Qaeda' Leader Dined at the Pentagon Just Months After 9/11 20 Oct 2010 Anwar Al-Awlaki may be the first American on the CIA's kill or capture list, but he was also a lunch guest of military brass at the Pentagon within months of the [Bush-Cheney] Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Fox New ...
  • DoD expanding domestic cyber role
    ShareThis DoD expanding domestic cyber role --Military to likely be key part of response to cyber attack 20 Oct 2010 The Defense Department is quietly taking on an expanding role in defending U.S. critical infrastructure from cyber attacks. In a break with previous policy, the military now is prepar ...
  • Federal Appeals Court Reinstates 'Don't Ask, Don't ...
    ShareThis Federal Appeals Court Reinstates 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' 20 Oct 2010 A federal appeals court Wednesday reinstated "don't ask, don't tell," the military's policy forbidding openly gay troops from serving. A three-judge panel granted the Justice Department's emergency request to allow the po ...
  • Blast kills 9 civilians in Afghanistan
    ShareThis Blast kills 9 civilians in Afghanistan 20 Oct 2010 An explosion in southwestern Afghanistan has killed at least nine civilians as security situation continues to deteriorate in the war-ravaged country. The incident occurred after a civilian bus hit a Taliban-style roadside bomb in a distri ...

Daily Loaf

  • Ghouls and Games at Necronomicon 2010
    You’ll have no problem finding comic books at Necronomicon this weekend. But the event, now in its 29th year, is a whole lot more than a comic book convention. There will be games (miniature, board and role-playing), a variety of contests, art shows, more than 50 discussion panels and performance ...
  • Top 10 mistakes women make in bed
    For too long all the suggestions for how to improve a couple’s sex life have been very one-sided. Women assume that just because men don’t spend huge chunks of time complaining to our lover or friends about unsatisfying sex that the blame for bedroom problems resides on the business end of our dick ...
  • Lightning sloppy, fall to Islanders in controversi ...
    The Bolts' night ended on a "goal" that was decided after a lengthy review at the NHL central command in Toronto. Historically, video review has not been kind to the Tampa Bay franchise.
  • Mike Prendergast unveils his plan on “putting Tamp ...
    Few Republicans want to touch defense when talking about spending cuts, but everybody knows that after the entitlement programs, that's where the big money is. So Prendergast, the former veteran, deserves credit for calling for this, which would be to mandate the Defense Department to conduct a qu ...
  • Do It This Weekend: Art After Dark, Tom Petty trib ...
    Parties galore, a Tom Petty tribute and Miss Sass herself, Chelsea Handler.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • A true Democracy; if Israel would only let it
    A Palestinian state – despite serious obstacles – could become the true democracy of the Middle East, if only Israel would let it. The world is abuzz with the news that Palestinian leadership is talking about soliciting support from the UN for a declaration of statehood (hey, remember when pre-Isr ...
  • PHR-Israel: Delayed Exit of a Toddler from Gaza Re ...
    By Jesse Bacon Saturday, a child the same age as my daughter was killed in Gaza. She was not killed by a missile, or a suicide bomber, or any of the other dramatic ways children die in the Middle East. She was killed by an Israeli  policy, that the people of Gaza are to be imprisoned as punishment ...
  • Mike Leigh joins the growing Israeli boycott festi ...
    By Jesse Bacon You could already have a quite a film festival with the stars supporting the Ariel settlement boycott. Now one of my favorite directors Mike Leigh, has refused to come to Israel at all. On the same weekend that I heard JVP advisory board member Udi Aloni speak about artists who let th ...
  • Settler-style thugs operating inside Israel
    by Jesse Bacon One after another, the parallels to fascism pile up in Israel, like the sticks (which is what the root of Fascism means) on a fire. Now a town in Israel has adopted perhaps the most visible feature of many a dictatorship: paramilitary police. The settlers have long functioned in this ...
  • Premiere of a Film Documenting Relationships betwe ...
    Tuesday, September 28th, brought us at the Villages Group great satisfaction. On that day, we and many of our friends in Susiya had the pleasure of attending the world premiere of the film “The Human Turbine” at the Haifa International Film Festival. Over a period of two years from 2008 to 2010, a f ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • The future of US politics is Prop 19
    Al Giordano Nomadic, and on the move, more reliant on the Internet than the television for their news intake, theyâre the future of the United States. And theyâre also a lot more multi-racial â and more actively defy societal apartheids – than the rest of the population. OMG! Wait⦠wait⦠s ...
  • Offset half of airline carbon emissions with human ...
    [The video shows] how if we capture our urine–like has been done in China (both recently and historically)–and use it as fertilizer instead of petro–chemicals we could be saving huge amounts of carbon emissions. The village in China must have a separate place for people to pee so they can easily sto ...
  • How Neoliberals and Green Keynesians wrecked the p ...
    The Breakthrough Institute has a knack for summing things up succinctly The reason Obama’s plan for economic renewal through clean energy came up empty cannot be blamed on Republicans and global-warming deniers. In truth, the president’s strategy was flawed from the start. Cap-and-trade would not ha ...
  • Death wish
    20-year-old female criminology student becomes top cop in violent Mexican municipality Everyone else was too scared to take it.
  • Something to ponder
    Is the universe a holographic illusion?

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

  • Deadline Live – October 20 2010
    Jack Blood’s commentary on the news & topics of the day in the first hour. In the second hour Jack welcomes John Loftus to Deadline LIVE to discuss his latest book, ‘America’s Nazi Secret: An Insider’s History’.
  • RIP Joan Veon – Trusted Friend of Liberty, F ...
    On October 18, 2010, with her husband Rod holding her hand, Joan answered her Master’s call and slipped quietly away to be with her Lord and Savior after a courageous three year battle with breast cancer. She was 61 years old. Joan’s remarkable life began in Racine WI on May 17, 1949, born as a [... ...
  • Rachel Corrie case: Israeli soldier in bulldozer & ...
    The Israeli soldier at the controls of the bulldozer that crushed the pro-Palestinian activist Rachel Corrie told a court today that the first time he saw her was when fellow protesters were already tending to her dying body in the dirt. Giving evidence for more than four hours in the civil case bro ...
  • ‘Exterminator’ armored truck will watc ...
    NICHOLAS J.C. PISTOR Creative law enforcement isn’t new to St. Clair County Sheriff Mearl Justus. Last year, the dean of the region’s chief cops sponsored a “haunted crack house” that used an old grange hall to depict the life of a young drug addict. Before that, Justus publicized a “drug house of t ...
  • Iran, Venezuela leaders seek “new world orde ...
    Ahmadinejad and Chavez promote a “strategic alliance” with oil agreements, joint shipping venture Salon.com The leaders of Iran and Venezuela hailed what they called their strong strategic relationship on Wednesday, saying they are united in efforts to establish a “new world order” that will elimina ...

The Air Vent

  • Winning and Losing
    I need a break from reading model papers.  Tom fuller recently made the point that skeptics are winning the AGW discussion, at least temporarily.  It’s an interesting concept, victory in science by those who question. __What is won? __What was lost? I’m sure that some will agree, that on average t ...
  • Modeling the Basics, A mathematical summary of con ...
    An important point often made by critics of climate models is that they often represent our best guess at specific phenomena.  One of the biggest uncertainties in climate models is in proper modeling of atmospheric moisture.  Considering that H2O is widely accepted to be the strongest of all greenho ...
  • Momentary Lapse of Reason
    Read the following with caution but this is potentially the most important story the Air Vent has carried.  A paper for open review by Makarieva A.M., Gorshkov V.G., Sheil D., Nobre A.D., Li B.-L. in open discussion here, has revealed what appears to be a gaping hole in climate models.  In previous ...
  • Circular Reasoning Explained
    Dr. Roy Spencer has in interesting explanation regarding CO2 as the only real driver of greenhouse warming. Does CO2 Drive the Earth’s Climate System? Comments on the Latest NASA GISS Paper There was a very clever paper published in Science this past week by Lacis, Schmidt, Rind, and Ruedy that uses ...
  • Denying the Catstrophe
    A very nice essay by Warren Meyer is linked below.  In context is Hegerel’s recent talk highlighted on Bishop Hill where she is quoted as saying: …What is frustrating to me as a scientist is that the objections raised by the skeptics groups are scientifically so stupid often…it would be really much ...

Focal Point

  • Madison Young, a Hardhat on a Construction Site is ...
    Tracy Clark-Flory interviews porn performer and producer Madison Young about condoms in porn. Young argues that individual performers should be allowed to decide whether to use condoms on set: CLARK-FLORY: What do you think of the push to mandate condom use in the industry? YOUNG: I think it cou ...
  • The Counterproductive Condom Conjecture and Other ...
    Sady Doyle has a piece in the Atlantic about how the latest case of HIV in the porn industry has revived public concern about the lack of condoms in straight porn. An actor tested positive for HIV last week. The news sparked panic in the industry because he has reportedly worked with dozens of big s ...
  • Panic In Porn Valley as Actor Tests Positive for H ...
    At least five major porn studios have shut down after an actor tested positive for HIV this week. In my latest story for Working In These Times , I report on potential structural conflicts of interest in the industry-sponsored HIV testing program for straight porn in the San Fernando Valley. The in ...
  • Boobs Against Breast Cancer: Dubious "Awareness" C ...
    Something I wrote for this week's edition of the Weekly Pulse health care newsletter. The gimmicky, pink breast cancer "awareness" stunts are getting old.  October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. The National Cancer Institute estimates that over 207,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer ...
  • It's a Trap! NYC Law Would Force "Crisis Pregnancy ...
    Excellent: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Councilwoman�Jessica S. Lappin (D) have introduced legislation to require so-called " crisis pregnancy centers " in New York City to disclose that they are not full-service reproductive health centers.� CPCs are self-proclaimed sub-specialty of th ...

Inside Facebook

  • Mappr Lets Users Share Their Location with Faceboo ...
    Cartomapic‘s Mappr is an iPhone and web app which lets you publish check-ins to a specific Facebook Group youâre a member of. One of the first apps to integrate the Groups API, it allows users to select which subset of friends to share their location with on a check-in by check-in basis. The Mapp ...
  • Facebook Groups — a Tool for Enterprise?
    The following is a brief excerpt from the October 2010 edition of the Facebook Marketing Bible, the comprehensive guide to marketing your company, app, or brand on Facebook. Groups is Facebook’s new lightweight web product that enables users to organize around a shared interest or community affiliat ...
  • Facebook Places Users Can Now Tag Friends in Pre-E ...
    Authors of Facebook Places check-ins can now tag additional friends in an existing Places check-in through the Facebook web interface. Check-in authors can also remove tags of other individuals from the check-in without deleting the check-in itself. The change will help users cumulate friends as the ...
  • Kleiner’s Bing Gordon to Lead $250M Fund Focused o ...
    Kleiner Perkins may not have many investments in social web companies to date, but that’s about to change because the esteemed venture firm is committing $250 million towards these startups, together with Facebook, Zynga, Amazon, Comcast, Liberty Media and Allen & Company. Kleiner partner and Amazon ...
  • Facebook Spends $120,000 on Lobbying in Third Quar ...
    Facebook spent $120,000 on lobbying in the third quarter this year, double what the company paid last quarter to reach government officials and elected representatives and roughly what it spent last year during the same time. The social network lobbied the usual suspects — The Department of Homeland ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Israel's fear of boycott movement behind obsession ...
    Lawrence Davidson unpicks the subtext behind the current emphasis by Zionists on recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, which he says is aimed primarily "at undermining the growing boycott movement that seeks to isolate Israel and call into serious question the legitimacy of a state designed exclu ...
  • “Zionism and peace are incompatible”
    Alan Hart speculates whether US President Barack Obama will make one last bid for peace in the Middle East by not vetoing a possible UN Security Council resolution recognizing Palestinian independence within the 1967 borders of the West Bank and Gaza.
  • Jazza festival highlights breadth of support for P ...
    Gilad Atzmon argues that the breadth of support shown for the Jazza music festival, held in London on 12 and 13 October, demonstrates that the extent to which the tide has turned in favour of the Palestinian struggle, which has now become "part of Western collective conscience".
  • Committing perjury is all in a day's work for Isra ...
    Richard Lightbown considers the obfuscations and downright lies of Israeli Chief Military Advocate-General Avichai Mandelblit, one of the main witnesses before the Turkel Commission, set up by the Israeli government to examine the Israeli attack on the Turkish aid ship, the Mavi Marmara, which resul ...
  • We can't rely on American intelligence, so why ent ...
    Yvonne Ridley contrasts the bungled rescue attempt of UK aid worker Linda Norgrove, which resulted in her being killed by her American "rescuers", with her own successful release from Taliban captivity following local Afghan mediation. She argues that the lesson to be learnt is "never, ever, leave t ...

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

  • Did You Know: The King of Madrasas Now Operates Ov ...
    Fethullah Gulen Takes the Great Game a Step Further The Controversial Muslim preacher has now extended his tentacles into schools in the United States, where he controls and operates more than 100 charter schools within a calculatively set up maze of dubious NGOs. Fethullah Gulen, whose organization ...
  • ‘Kosher’ Schakowsky: Still AIPAC’s Number One Darl ...
    Fierce Competition Between Two Jewish Candidates in Chicago According to the latest reports the degree of allegiance to Israel and its lobby has taken center stage in two Chicago election campaigns for a congressional seat. As far as the two candidates, the incumbent Jan Schakowsky and the Republica ...
  • Weekly Round Up for October 17
    The ‘Obvious’ Silence of the Times, China’s Pipelineistan War, Mujahedin’s Penetration of Tajikistan The other day our friend Metem brought to my attention a story that had made it to the Project Censored list, ‘US Funds & Supports Taliban.’ Here are two excerpts from the introduction which are rela ...
  • Thinking outside the box? No! Throw the Box Away!
    Breaking the Chain of Institutional Thinking   Largely as a result of the Bush administration’s “war on terror,” the traditional framework of the East-West political dialogue has broken and fallen entirely under the spell of the extremists on both sides. Since much of the West’s relationship was bas ...
  • China-Turkmenistan Score: Another Wave of US-Mujah ...
    Extreme Competitions May Bring More Familiar Extreme Measures Here is one of the latest on China-Turkmenistan Pipeline deals: China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has announced the discovery of yet another gas field on the right bank of the Amu Darya River in Turkmenistan, holding in excess o ...

Afro Spear

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

  • NAU Receives $1 Million to Teach Native Kids How G ...
    Northern Arizona University have been given $1 million by the National Science Foundation to create a program to teach rural and indigenous people (you know, those people whose land was stolen from them in order to extract minerals and oil, and grow industrial scale crops) science and technology. Th ...
  • Million Letter March: Just Say No!
    If anyone sends anything to you asking to join the Million Letter March, treat it like spam. Look, I’m being serious: it’s the idea of Lester Brown, head of the Earth Policy Institute, who’s primary driver doesn’t appear to be saving the global ecology or humanity in general, but saving civilization ...
  • What I Am Doing For 10/10/10
    After all, it is a special day.
  • Brilliant Rant About Symbolic Action and 10:10
    I have been sent a link to this wonderful “rant” – no, it’s not a rant, it’s telling it like it is – on the Powershift forum. Here’s the Richard Curtis video he refers to, and if Mr Curtis would like my opinions on 10:10 then I would love him to bring his little red [...]
  • Reveal Handbags : Revile Fashion
    > Dear Keith, > For your next high-fashion piece, consider REVEAL, the hottest eco-luxury handbags. made of recycled plastic bottles. REVEAL just launched their new Recycled Collection, and it’s perfect for women who are SEXY with SUBSTANCE. You know which women we are referring to. it’s your super ...

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

  • Journalists Should Play and Discuss Newsgames Like ...
    Evangelizing newsgames is not just about convincing journalists that they should create and use games to express ideas and inform the public. It's also about getting journalists to recognize newsgames that are created outside of professional institutions as works in dialogue with their field. Even i ...
  • Basetrack Pushes Off to Follow Marines in Afghanis ...
    Safi Airways flight 4Q-52. Sept 28, 2010 at 20:00 GMT -Zulu -- I'm airborne and en route to link up with First Battalion, Eighth Marine Regiment (a.k.a. "one-eight," the subject of our Knight News Challenge grant ), in southern Afghanistan. We're at cruising altitude, somewhere between Hungary an ...
  • BookBrewer Makes Major Self-Publishing Deal with B ...
    This has been one of the most amazing, rewarding and surreal weeks of my life. Borders has chosen BookBrewer -- the first product of my startup, FeedBrewer , which grew out of a News Challenge grant -- to power the engine for its e-book self-publishing service. You can read about our partnership in ...
  • 577 U.S. News Sites Now Using hNews
    The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865. It is the only daily broadsheet newspaper in San Francisco -- and is published online at SFgate.com . In the 1960s Paul Avery was a police reporter at the Chronicle when he started investigating the so-called "Zodiac Killer." Earlier this year Mark ...
  • Student Team -- Including Five "Programmer-Journal ...
    In December 2008, a class of Northwestern University journalism master's students -- including two Knight "programmer-journalist" scholarship winners -- unveiled a prototype news Web site called News Mixer . The site, one of the first to integrate Facebook Connect as a system for identity managemen ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Edge of Safety - Sleep and Fatigue Endangers A ...
    Accidents happen in a matter of seconds. An airplane pilot takes a moment too long to react in an emergency. A trucker who has been on the road all day wanders across the median. A train engineer is lulled to sleep by the isolation and monotony of the job and misses a signal. It’s impossible to say ...
  • Midterm Elections - Organized Labor Increases Spen ...
    Unions are joining the air war of radio and television ads surrounding this year's mid-term election. Over the last week, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) spent at least $200,000 on billboard signs, direct mail and radio ads, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records. Th ...
  • Mexico on the Edge - Sex-Trafficking is Mexico's O ...
    The “War on Drugs” as viewed in Mexico and the U.S. is changing. No longer are President Felipe Calderón, the police, and Mexican military forces fighting just drug trafficking; now they must do battle against the rising trafficking of sex. Over the past decade there has been a dramatic rise in viol ...
  • Turkey on the Edge - Implications for America in T ...
    On September 12, Turkey went to the polls to vote on constitutional amendments proposed by the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP). Nearly 38.3 million people turned out, with 21.8 million voting in favor of a variety of changes to the Turkish political system, from establishing constituti ...
  • Haiti on the Edge - K Street Lobbyists Assist Cons ...
    A number of construction and disaster-response firms have hired Washington lobbyists to help navigate the contracting process for rebuilding Haiti. In January 2010, Haiti suffered a devastating earthquake that left thousands dead and millions homeless. Since then, the U.S. government and its interna ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Ensuring Right To Education In The Red Corridor
    By Gladson Dungdung The Indian State must understand that the right to education and the police camps in the schools cannot go together. The Indian State has been practicing betrayal tricks (giving rights by one hand and taking away by another mighty hand) with the marginalized people of the countr ...
  • Jewistan: Finally Recognizing Israel As The Jewish ...
    By Francis Boyle If Netanyahu is really serious about Israel being recognized internationally as the Jewish State then there is a simple manner by which this universal diplomatic status can instantly be achieved unilaterally and without the consent of the Palestinians. Under basic principles of in ...
  • Zionism And Peace Are Incompatible
    By Alan Hart At last somebody has said it in the most explicit way possible. The somebody also said: The problem is Zionism and the solution is dismantling the Zionist framework and instituting a secular democracy that does not discriminate between Israelis and Palestinians.The somebody was Miko Pe ...
  • Viva Palestina Convoy Breaks Siege And Enters Gaza ...
    By Viva Palestina The Viva Palestina convoy of almost 150 vehicles, 370 people from 30 different countries and $5 million of aid has entered Gaza
  • In A Nuclear War The Collateral Damage Would Be Th ...
    By Fidel Castro The Worlds peoples have an obligation to demand of their political leaders their Right to Live. When the life of humankind, of your people and your most beloved human beings run such a risk, nobody can afford to be indifferent; not one minute can be lost in demanding respect for th ...

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Dangerous Activity Thwarted in Afghanistan!
  • Tenth Year of War, March to Stop Deployment of Tra ...
    Thursday marked the beginning of the 10th year of war in Afghanistan. There is much to protest about U.S. action there–some performed a die-in to highlight the use of drones (http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/200657/us-drone-kills-7-militants-in-nw-pakistan)–and a group of veterans of The Global ...
  • WAR IS OVER… If You Claim It?
    In the midst of pleasant nods about “the end of the Iraq War,” Mr. Stephen Colbert celebrates in style… (Click The Word-What if they threw a peace and nobody came) The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – What If You Threw a Peace and Nobody Came? www.colbertnation.com Colbert Repo ...
  • Vigiling in Afghanistan
    More amazing work from Our Journey to Smile
  • 92219 Pieces of my Broken Afghan Heart
    The following letter was sent to me from the young people in Afghanistan who tried to come to the U.S. this summer for our speaking tour. The U.S. embassy flatly denied them, but their voices continue to cry out. The official narrative of the Afghan War is that it has greatly served the people of A ...

Yid With Lid

  • New Harry Reid Comic Relief: Now He Claims He Save ...
    Once he is defeated in the coming mid-term elections, I hope Harry Reid gets a regular TV gig, lets face it the guy is always good for comic relief. Earlier this week there was the campaign ad he created to bash opponent Sharon Angle which also slammed Progressive Democratic Congresswoman Dina Titus ...
  • Congressman Jim Moran Says Serving in the Military ...
    The philosophy of Congressman Jim Moran, the incumbent Democratic Congressman from Virginia's 8th congressional district can be summed up with a statement he made after his last reelection: We have been guided by a Republican administration who believes in the simplistic notion that people who hav ...
  • More Good GOP News Alan West Moves Ahead In Florid ...
    One of the highlights of my trip to CPAC 2010 was getting the opportunity to meet with Lt. Col. (retired) Allen West, GOP candidate for Florida's 22nd Congressional District. West was unusual among the politicians I met, no false bravado, just a quiet confidence and a look into my eyes that convi ...
  • Juan Williams Wasn't Fired For Muslim Comments, He ...
    Juan Williams was fired yesterday, the reason given was comments he made on the Bill O'Reilly show earlier this week. The reason given was nonsense. Juan Williams was not fired for the comments he made, but he was fired for where he made the comments, Fox News.� This was the opening shot of the rene ...
  • North Korean Missile, Iranian Warhead: Communism a ...
    By Barry Rubin Now appearing in Pyongyang: North Korean missile; Iranian nosecone. Ain't international cooperation wonderful? Joshua Pollack, a very smart arms' expert, has just published an article and a� paper on cooperation between these two countries which is well worth reading. One ...

The Real Agenda

  • U.K. to Spy on every E-mail, Call and Web Click
    London Telegraph It will allow security services and the police to spy on the activities of every Briton who uses a phone or the internet. Moves to make every communications provider store details for at least a year will be unveiled later this year sparking fresh fears over a return of the surveill ...
  • 244,000 Germans say ‘no’ to Google&#82 ...
    AP Internet giant Google says more than 244,000 Germans have asked that their homes be made unrecognizable in its Street View program, scheduled to launch in Germany next month. Google estimated in a statement released Thursday that the requests amount to about 3 percent of the total number of house ...
  • United Kingdom Austerity includes cutting 500,000 ...
    BBC Chancellor George Osborne has unveiled the biggest UK spending cuts since World War II, with welfare, councils and police budgets all hit. � The pension age will rise sooner than expected, some incapacity benefits will be time limited and other money clawed back through changes to tax credits an ...
  • Hormones for Menopause Increase Breast Cancer Haza ...
    LiveScience.com Women undergoing hormone therapy for the symptoms of menopause face an increased risk of developing invasive breast cancer or dying of the disease, according to the results of an 11-year study. Women taking a hormone therapy that uses a combination of estrogen and progestin were 1.25 ...
  • Hay que Matar Bebes para Salvar el Planeta
    Tras ser revelado un plan de las Naciones Unidas que describe como reemplazar alarmismo sobre el calentamiento global con la amenaza de la sobrepoblación, un informe de la revista Scientific American imita exactamente el punto del que habla este informe, empujando la idea de que los programas de abo ...

Wind Watch

  • Nest could nix wind plan; Wildlife Service asks fo ...
    The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would like wind turbines in Wasco County to be sited no closer than six miles from a golden eagle nest. On Monday, the Bend office of the federal agency submitted that recommendation in a letter to the Oregon Department of Energy. Under discussion is the Summit Rid ...
  • Bats battle windmills
    Massive wind turbines have been going up along the mountains of western Maryland since the middle of the summer. It’s part of our state’s efforts to get 20 percent of its energy from renewable sources by the year 2022. Some ecologists are objecting to the spread of windmills; they fear the turbines ...
  • Board opposes Milford becoming a Green Community
    MILFORD â The town may not be going green after all, as the Planning Board last night said it does not support making certain zoning bylaw changes to receive a Green Community grant. After reviewing information about a Green Communities designation offered by the state Department of Energy Resourc ...
  • Iberdrola lists wind conflicts
    While several past and current government officials are receiving lease payments — some in excess of $1 million — from the Maple Ridge Wind Farm, the most recent disclosure by Iberdrola Renewables Inc. indicates that only one of its ongoing north country wind projects — Stone Church in Hammond — inc ...
  • Wind farm opponents fight bill
    BRIMFIELD — The organization that formed to block a wind farm from being installed atop West Mountain is focusing its attention these days on pending legislation that could significantly restrict a town’s say over whether such a project can proceed. “The legislation could make it really difficult fo ...

Not My Tribe

  • Ward Churchill wants his dollar back
    DENVER– Remember the dollar bill awarded to Professor Churchill last year because the jury took him at his word that return of his tenure at the University of Colorado was the chief demand of his lawsuit for unlawful dismissal? Judge Larry [K]naves rescinded the award and the verdict, which is why C ...
  • Green is the new blue
    I’m not talking about the verdant environmentalists, of the “Green Scare,” the syntax applied by the government to categorize eco-defenders under the axis of terrorism. Nor the hue of the ecological mind shift that launched the global political movement. The US Green Party stands for what, beside ou ...
  • Judge not lest ye also be judged…
    Which is a distillation of the basic part of Jewish law. When one brings an accusation against another in before the priests (judges) both parties are supposed to be judged. Equally. Leviticus goes on and on about using the same measurements to sell as you use to buy. Standardized weights in every f ...
  • Has Faulkner bin beatin’ his old lady?
    Who knows? Gary Faulkner will undoubtedly get more Due Process from Colorado’s courts (Go ahead, Gary, THANK us “bleeding heart do-gooder Liberals” for not just turning over Due Process meekly and without protest to your Fascist Whore-lords) than he was willing to give Osama bin Dead_for_8_years. Wh ...
  • Dial-a-BabyKiller service offered by Craigslist
    Actually, it was a post offering Body Armor published against C.L. rules (weapons are supposedly prohibited, and according to the Pig Establishment, body armor is an offensive weapon if used by a non-Police criminal, as opposed to the Criminals who make up the Pig Establishment) said he had been a C ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • "Jacque Fresco Exposed" Debunked
    Well, I made a few videos and was persuaded to post them so I will. They are debunkings of a guy named PeterWhitlock on Youtube. The videos are about The Venus Project and The Zeitgeist Movement, if you haven't heard of either of them, you can watch the documentary "Zeitgeist: Addendum": or go t ...
  • Jesse Ventura: The Constitution Says They Can Do I ...
    Bill O'Reilly says Muslims killed us on 911 on the View. Whoopi Goldberg & Joy Behar Walk Off the set Jesse Ventura afterward on the Joy Baher Show... Related Info: TruTV's 'Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura' - 9/11
  • Hello Everyone
    Hey everybody, my name is Fakeham and I'm just posting this as an introductory post to let everyone know that I am a new contributor to this blog. There's not much to tell about myself because everything important will be in my biography. I have a youtube channel and occasionally do videos on 9/11 r ...
  • Iraq Inquiry: your opportunity to demand a new 9/1 ...
    28 September 2010 From Reinvestigate 911 YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO DEMAND A NEW 9/11 INVESTIGATION Reinvestigate 911 is asking 9/11 truth activists worldwide to write to the Iraq Inquiry in London in support of our submission. Please forward this email to any politicians or journalists who may be inter ...
  • Debunking the Debunkers
    Permanent Top Post--Scroll Down for Newer Posts Comments are only open to blog contributors , but feel free to contact us here if you have a point of contention or some kind words you would like to share. Ad hominems will be ignored, but well-formed rebuttals may be addressed (and that is a subjec ...

Fooducate

  • 40% of Kids’ Calories are from Junk Food
    Wondering why childhood obesity is running rampant? Now you know. They’re eating crap. This, according to statistics compiled by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey  (NHANES) and reported by ABC News. Half of the fattening calories come from just 6 foods: Soda Sugary fruit drinks ...
  • Not All Calories are Equal. Indeed?
    In mathematics, there are certain axioms, universally accepted truths. For example the shortest distance between 2 points is a straight line. 2 +2 =4. These axioms serve as the foundation for science and engineering progress. In nutrition, the “calorie axiom” states that a calorie is a calorie no m ...
  • Confusing Egg Labels
    We’re big on eggs here at Fooducate. They are a cheap and reliable source of protein, especially for meat avoiders. They are one of few foods naturally containing vitamin D and they are also a good source of vitamin A, riboflavin, folic acid, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, choline, iron, calcium, phosph ...
  • Which is Better for Me: Coke or Diet Coke?
    The obvious answer is: neither. Drink water. Drink tea. Yadda yadda… For most people that answer is not good enough. They aren’t going to make the switch to water, at least not completely. They need their fizzy sweetness. Yes, they know better. And yet… They want to choose the lesser of 2 evils. So ...
  • ADA and Hershey Partnership Raises Questions About ...
    This a guest blog post by Carol Plotkin, MS, RD, CDN Like many of my colleagues, I have a mixed reaction to the partnership between my professional organization, the American Dietetic Association (ADA), and the Hershey Center for Health and Nutrition. Many dietitians are up in arms over this l ...

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

  • Troubled Vedanta loses appeal for controversial re ...
    Vedanta's plan to expand its refinery at the foot of the Niyamgiri hills has now been blocked. © Lewis Davids/Survival The Indian government has blocked FTSE 100 company Vedanta Resources’ plan to expand its highly controversial alumina refinery below the Niyamgiri hills in Orissa, in the late ...
  • Shocking video of Papuan torture prompts calls for ...
    The footage has caused widespread outrage and revulsion. © Survival Disturbing and graphic footage of two tribal Papuan men being tortured, allegedly by Indonesian soldiers, has led to widespread demands for an independent inquiry. One of the victims is an elderly man. The incident is believed ...
  • Quentin Blake designs Christmas cards for Survival ...
    Illustrator and and Survival supporter Quentin Blake has designed cards for Survival's Christmas catalogue © Survival The world’s best-loved illustrator Quentin Blake has designed three exclusive Christmas cards for Survival’s 2010 Christmas catalogue. The three designs inspired by tribal peop ...
  • Finsbury wins ‘PR Disaster of the Year’ award
    Two Naâvi protested outside Vedantaâs AGM. © Survival On the eve of the PR Week Awards, Survival has presented its ’PR Disaster of the Yearâ Award to Finsbury PR and its founder Roland Rudd for their work with FTSE -100 mining company Vedanta Resources . Finsbury is the retained PR age ...
  • UN warned about oil pipeline in Peru
    Peru's isolated Indians are highly vulnerable to diseases brought in by outsiders. © Anon Survival is warning the United Nations of massive oil operations in the northern Peruvian Amazon that could decimate uncontacted tribal people . ‘By permitting companies to operate in this region Peru’s g ...

Greg Palast

  • SarahPAC Candidate "Should Be in Jail"NBC TV airs ...
    by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash "What he [Griffin] did was absolutely illegal and he should be in jail." Illustration from Steal Back Your Vote comic That's hardly the kind of endorsement a candidate for Congress expects. But that is the conclusion of voting rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy ...
  • Decision 2010:Tim Griffin and Voter Caging
    Reported by: Melissa Simas, KARK 4 NBC News After two years, and several resignations among Department of Justice staffers, in July, a special prosecutor wrapped up her investigation of the nine U.S. Attorneys fired in 2006. Bud Cummins, a Republican from Arkansas, was one of the U.S. Attorneys f ...
  • Tonight on NBC TV:Greg Palast busts Rove's Caging ...
    Tim Griffin, Congressional candidate, exposed Catch the report tonight on KARK 4 Little Rock 7pm Eastern, 6pm local Arkansas. It's not Tim Griffin's day. In 2004, BBC Television exposed Karl Rove's crony Tim Griffin, for running an operation to challenge the right to vote of active duty soldiers ...
  • Fighting Bob Fest Attracts Big Names
    By Tim Damos, News Republic Greg Palast doesn't pull any punches. His investigative stories are written in classic muckraker style; hard-hitting in both the juiciness they uncover and the language they use. Author of the New York Times best sellers "Armed Madhouse" and "The Best Democracy Money C ...
  • Greg Palast Wows Thousands in Wisconsin
    Watch Greg Palast talk at the outdoor 2010 Fighting Bob Festival in Baraboo, Wisconsin.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • No the rich aren’t like you
    It’s quite noticeable that the conservative rich massively outspend their more liberal brethren when it comes to influencing politics.  I’ve seen estimates as high as a 9/1 difference in outside spending for Republicans vs. Democrats.  Part of this is because Obama isn’t a liberal (and so, Soros, ...
  • Repudiating Liberalism or Obama
    We’re coming up on the midterms, and the Republicans are cruising.  Odds are very high that  they will retake the House, there is an outside chance they will retake the Senate.  This is being spun as, is being seen as, a repudiation of liberalism and progressivism. Back in early 2009 I told other ...
  • Repudiating Liberalism or Obama
    We’re coming up on the midterms, and the Republicans are cruising.  Odds are very high that  they will retake the House, there is an outside chance they will retake the Senate.  This is being spun as, is being seen as, a repudiation of liberalism and progressivism. Back in early 2009 I told other ...
  • Bankers’ extortion
    And we as a society may be on the line for hundreds of billions more to sort out of the title clusterfuck as we can't afford to hurt the banksters' feelings by sacking, shaming, seizing assets and taxing their wealth.
  • You can generally count on Obama…
    … to do the wrong thing. The Obama administration said it plans to appeal a ruling striking down the law (DADT), and asked a federal judge for an emergency stay of her decision. And think the reason he has problems it that folks think he’s too left wing, but his policies were all good ones [...]

Age of Autism

  • Announcing The Combating Autism Act Reauthorizatio ...
    President Bush signed into law the Combating Autism Act (CAA) on December 19, 2006. This landmark legislation authorized $700 million in research funding over five years and set the goal of finding the cause (including possible environmental causes) and treatments...
  • Attorney and Autism Expert Mary Holland On Fox & F ...
    Watch Fox & Friends on Saturday, October 16 at 9:20am EDT to see Mary Holland, Age of Autism Contributor discuss the landmark Supreme Court case of Bruesewitz v. Wyeth. (Check your local listings for airtime.) Mary Holland is Director of...
  • Read the Bruesewitz Supreme Court Document Here
    Read the Bruesewitz Supreme Court document HERE. By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. In an oral argument before the Supreme Court the justices have read all of the briefs and motions. They come to oral argument with their best, most provocative questions....
  • Henry Waxman: Father of the Autism Epidemic as Sup ...
    Managing Editor's Note: We ran this post in October of 2008. We're running it today as background about the 1986 law that is being challenged in the Supreme Court (see HERE.) By J.B. Handley Almost 22 years ago, on October...
  • Kim Stagliano on Huffington Post: Vaccine Safety W ...
    Please pop over to HuffPo to read and comment on my latest post about a study stating that 89% of parents put vaccine safety at the top of their list of medical concerns: Vaccine Safety: Why Parents Are Concerned. Thank...

Global BDS Movement

  • Eight countries absent from OECD Tourism Conferenc ...
    EIGHT COUNTRIES ABSENT FROM OECD TOURISM CONFERENCE   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 21 October 2010     - Norway, Canada, Ireland, UK, Sweden, Iceland, Turkey and South Africa not present at OECD tourism conference     - Czech Republic only EU country to send political representation to „High-level roundtab ...
  • BNC releases Memo and Recommendations for OECD cou ...
    Israel’s accession to OECD: encouraging impunity, rewarding war crimes read more
  • Press Release: Five countries boycott tourism conf ...
    Five countries boycott tourism conference in Jerusalem FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15 October 2010 • UK, Sweden, Turkey, South Africa, and Ireland will not attend controversial conference hosted by Israel • Many countries undecided or set to only send low-level delegations • OECD General Secretary wa ...
  • Palestinian Civil Society Urges COOP to Boycott Ag ...
    COOP ITALIA Via del Lavoro 6/8 40033 Casalecchio di Reno BOITALIA 7 October 2010 Dear COOP board members, read more
  • Open letter to UK Trades Union Congress General Se ...
    4th October 2010 Brendan Barber General Secretary Trades Union Congress Congress House Great Russell Street London WC1B 3LS   Dear Mr Barber,   The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), of which all of Palestinian trade union federations are members, war read m ...

Farm Wars

  • UN Tricks and Treaties
    The United Nations has ensnared the world in voluntary treaties intended to become mandatory later, tricking politicians and the public.
  • States of Emergency
    Thirty-two states are on the path to UN-inspired carbon reduction, Cap-and-Trade schemes and unconstitutional alliances
  • Truth Squad Radio Show this Sunday with Author RT ...
    This Sunday we will be talking about the BLM and saving our wild horse herds with the author of Straight from the Horse's Heart, RT Fitch!
  • NWO White Supremacy In the Crosshairs
    Some of the people we look up to, who have been in the spotlight fighting to "expose" the NWO, are not who they seem to be.
  • Republic Defiance Radio – What’s wrong with food t ...
    Republic Defiance Radio hits the airwaves Sunday night, October 17, 2010. Times: 9 pm Pacific, 10 pm Central, 11 pm Eastern This week’s show: What’s Wrong With Food Today: A Producer’s Perspective This week’s guest is Paul Griepentrog. Paul is a lifetime farmer with 30 years of direct marketing expe ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Nearly 3 percent of Germans opt out of Street View
    CNet – Google Street View is coming to Germany in the next few weeks, but nearly 3 percent of homes will be blurred, the company said today. Since April 2009, Germans have been able to petition the search company to have their homes blurred in Street View images, Google said in today’s blog post. In ...
  • US Prosecutor proposes jail for parents who skip k ...
    Detnews.com – Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy is pushing for a law that calls for jail time for parents who skip parent-teacher conferences, a plan some call inspired and others consider the nanny state run amok. Worthy pitched her plan Tuesday to the Detroit City Council and is shopping it to th ...
  • US: Alarms over radiation from thyroid cancer pati ...
    AP â Cancer patients sent home after treatment with radioactive iodine have contaminated hotel rooms and set off alarms on public transportation, a congressional investigation has found. They’ve come into close contact with vulnerable people, including pregnant women and children, and the househo ...
  • U.S. presses Turkey to enforce sanctions on Iran
    Reuters – A top U.S. government official prodded Turkey on Thursday to enforce international sanctions against Iran, increasing pressure on Ankara to scale back its flourishing trade ties with its neighbor. Read Article
  • Climate change is no threat-Czech president
    Reuters- Climate change is not a threat and the consequences of global warming will not be catastrophic, the President of the Czech Republic said on Tuesday. Vaclav Klaus is a vocal sceptic on the topic of global warming. He published a book in 2007 in which he said global warming had turned into a ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Two more hikers missing after Mt. Whitney snowstor ...
    Searchers who on Thursday morning rescued three mountain climbers stranded on Mt. Whitney expanded their operation to include two additional missing hikers believed to be in the area. Still missing were Sinh Baghsohi, 27, and his father, whose first name...
  • Missing Mt. Whitney hikers found alive
    Three mountain climbers who had been missing for 4-1/2 days on Mt. Whitney were found uninjured by Thursday and transported to a regional Inyo County hospital for medical examinations. The three Omaha men -- Phillip Michael Abraham, 34; Stevan James...
  • Support for Proposition 23 drops sharply in new po ...
    Opposition to Proposition 23, a November ballot initiative to suspend California's sweeping global warming law, has surged in recent weeks, according to a poll by the Public Policy Institute of California, or PPIC. Among likely voters, 48% say they will...
  • Obama: No on Prop. 23 and 'corporate polluters'
    Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Shultz, Robert Redford, Bill Gates, James Cameron, Leonardo Di Caprio and Al Gore have all weighed in to oppose California's Proposition 23, a November ballot initiative. Now comes the uber-endorsement for the No on 23 campaign: President...
  • Keeping spray cans out of landfills
    The soda can, beer bottle and newspaper all end up in the same place nowadays -- the recycling bin. But what about the roughly 3 billion aerosol cans sold in the U.S. annually? Odds are they go into landfills. Hence,...

water.org

  • BeAHero challenge for charities (CNN)
    Readers take the #BeAHero challenge for charities (CNN) – This morning we asked complete strangers to step up to the plate to become an everyday hero. Today’s challenge – the first of several – was inspired by a report that donations to the United Statesâ 400 biggest charities plunged last year by ...
  • What do I write about for Blog Action Day? (Change ...
    What Do I Write About for Blog Action Day? (Change.org) – The good news is that there are great organizations working on solutions and new tools that empower people to do their part to address the water crisis. Building Wells: Organizations like Water.org and charity: water are leading the charge in ...
  • Water heroes making a difference (Building Ord.)
    Good news Friday: Water heroes making a difference on Blog Action Day 2010 (Building Ordinary) – Matt Damon and Gary White, cofounders of Water.org, think we can help communities worldwide get safe, clean water in our lifetime. Today is Blog Action Day 2010: Water. That means bloggers, tweeters and ...
  • Blog Action Day: Working to solve water crisis (4Y ...
    Blog Action Day: Working together to solve the water crisis (Four Years.Go)Over the past 20 years, Water.org has transformed thousands of communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America by providing access to safe water and sanitation. We deliver innovative solutions for long-term success and our Wat ...
  • What causes more death than war? (Change.org)
    What causes more death than war? (Asnycnow Radio/Change.org) – This summer, the United Nations voted to make access to clean water a recognized human right. This was welcome news to those fighting the disturbing reality that more people die each year from contaminated water than all forms of violenc ...

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

  • Death of South Street Annie, Profane Mother of Ful ...
    THE fish men see her still, their Annie, in South St's hide-&-seek shadows, telling her dirty jokes, doing anything for a $: hustling newspapers, untaxed cigs, favors, irregular socks shed buy cheap on Canal. She endures the elements calling out Yoo-hoo Submitted by PeasantDiva WorldMinga to Societ ...
  • Cleaning house at the local level
    No less than 44 candidates in the last local government elections have been sentenced at some point to prison, which should have rendered their candidacy ineligible, and 29 candidates declared bankruptcy in the past. Some of the candidates in these two ca Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �N ...
  • Violent Hunter of Progressives Tips His Hat to Gle ...
    When do we say enough is enough ? Do we wait for something to happen before we decide that words of TV personalities can and do incite some people into committing acts of violence ? Submitted by Linda R. to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Al Qaeda threatens Ahmadinejad's Lebanon visit, US ...
    A Sunni Islamist group in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli posted large banners and pictures of the Iranian president with large crosses and the slogan: "You are not welcome in Lebanon." Submitted by Bob Algeron to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Malnourished Children Swell Ranks of World's Hungr ...
    With the number of hungry people growing to more than a billion last year, the world is "nowhere near" reaching the objectives outlined in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to the latest Global Hunger Index (GHI) released Monday. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture �| ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Historical Notes

libcom

  • The Enduring Rationality of Revolt
    657337_605146_694291b.jpg A defence of the road blockade as a tactic, presumably written against the Treatment Action Campaign and the South African Community Party, from a social justice news agency tha ...
  • UK Workplace News Roundup - October 2010
    AZ strike day Sept 10 016.jpg Recent industrial news from the UK, including the Firefighters Strike, The ongoing Astrazeneca dispute in Macclesfield, and more. London firefighter s ...
  • Protest of Hospital Sanitary Workers in Starachowi ...
    zrzutekranu-634.png Workers protest against outsourcing of jobs. A group of orderlies from a hospital in Starachowice have been protesting for a week over plans to outsource their ...
  • South African Communist Party Attacks Road Blockad ...
    333087.JPEG The South African Communist Party (SACP), long considered one of the most Stalinist Communist Parties anywhere, has joined the liberal NGOs in their attempt to rally public opinion against a ...
  • Autonomous Community Oaxaca on the TV Fri 22 Oct C ...
    Unreported World Mexico's Indian Rebellion Friday 22nd October 7.30pm Channel 4 In the mountains of southeastern Mexico, Unreported World finds 400 members of an indigenous community, who are fighting for independence, holed up in b ...

Free Range International

  • Inchon
    Inchon is the call sign for the 1st Marine Regiment which is currently deployed in southern Helmand Province.  They are  operating out of a large FOB in the middle of nowhere, about 50 kilometers from the Provincial capitol of Lashka Gah, named Camp Dwyer.  Unlike other FOB’s I have visited this ...
  • The Going Is Getting Tough
    The ongoing saga about banning security contractors continues with the need for them is so obvious even CNN has gotten a clue.  Many of the reconstruction projects in the country are grinding to a halt and let me tell you something – the local people are sick and tired of this.  We have been at [. ...
  • What A Mess
    I’m not referring to the controversy surrounding the attempted rescue of Linda Norgrove which is currently consuming the news cycle. My experience is that Special Operations folks do not attempt rescue operations unless the odds are stacked in their favor.  I don’t know anything about what happened ...
  • Meet a Couple of Hero’s
    Hero is one of those terms which comes up often in reporting about the military.  Not every service member is a hero nor is every hero we encounter in our lives associated with the military.  I point this out because the label “hero” is at risk of becoming a meaningless cliche as we approach the [ ...
  • Five Hundred Meter War
    Herschel Smith at the Captains Journal has put up a great post which addresses a topic near and dear to my heart; infantry tactics. The post is The Five Hundred Meter War which had the video below from James Foley, a professional journalist writing at Global Post embedded in it.  His full report ca ...

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • We are drowning in a bipartisan cesspool of corrup ...
    On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Obama Hires a Hustler Excerpt from Article: The more one learns about the political roots of our economic meltdown, the more the Democratic Party stands revealed as an … Continue reading →
  • Sheriff in Illinois’ Cook County says he wil ...
    On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Tuesday, October 19th, 2010, 1:52 pm Cook County, Illinois Sheriff Thomas Dart said Tuesday he would not carry out evictions involving Bank of America (BAC: 11.50 -2.54%), Ally … Continue reading →
  • Fed Govt-Wants Banks to Buy Back Some Bad Mortgage ...
    On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ Published: October 19, 2010 To the long list of those picking fights with banks over bad mortgages, add the Federal Reserve. Two years after … Continue reading →
  • Home Foundation Repair-Basic Guide-Rock Foundation
    On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Home Foundation Repair: The Basics Green builders and home preservationists have a common goal: conservation. If youâre looking to bring an older home up to modern standards of … Continue reading →
  • Don’t Let Big Polluters Buy the Election!
    On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Politicians talk about fighting the special interests all the time. But meanwhile anti-climate congressmen are taking campaign cash in exchange for keeping global warming off the agenda. Tell … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

  • U.S. Military Aid Far Outpaces Democracy Assistanc ...
    Desperate to secure supply routes to Afghanistan, the United States has been spending at least six times more on military aid for the mostly authoritarian states of Central Asia than on efforts to promote political liberalisation and human rights in the region.
  • Clash of the East Asian Titans
    China and Japan are at loggerheads. As columnist Conn Hallinan explains, rising nationalism and persistent U.S. militarism lie behind the crisis.
  • A World Made by War
    When you look at me, you can't mistake the fact that I'm of a certain age. But just for a moment, think of me as nine years old.
  • American Base Town in Northern Japan
    According to a 2006 report, 14 of the 38 most valuable large bases in the world are concentrated in Japan.
  • Standing Up for Democracy in Ecuador
    The uprising in Ecuador that occurred on September 30 shook the world and sparked a debate about the reason for the unrest.

Law.com

  • Court Allows Chevron to Depose Lead Plaintiffs Law ...
    A federal judge has taken the extraordinary step of granting Chevron's motion to depose a counsel for its adversaries in the massive toxic tort litigation over oil contamination in Lago Agrio, Ecuador. If the ruling stands, Chevron's counsel and counsel for two former Chevron lawyers facing criminal ...
  • Labaton Seeks $55 Million Paycheck in Countrywide ...
    The lead plaintiffs firm that obtained a $624 million shareholder settlement against Countrywide Financial Corp. and KPMG LLP -- the largest recovery to date in a securities class action filed over the housing crisis -- is seeking more than $55 million in attorney fees and expenses. Labaton Sucharow ...
  • Is Tide Turning for Big Tobacco in 'Engle' Trials?
    After winning two defense verdicts last week in Florida's so-called Engle progeny cases, Philip Morris crowed in a press release that the company has now been cleared by four Florida juries in the last two weeks. If you count another win for R.J. Reynolds, tobacco defendants have won the last five E ...
  • Law Firms Staff Experts to Manage EDD
    Many Am Law 200 firms have taken at least some new steps to grapple with the fast-changing world of e-discovery. Several different models for tackling the e-discovery behemoth have emerged, which include an EDD practice group or task force as well as full-time e-discovery partners.
  • Third-Party Liability Ruled Out in N.Y. Suits for ...
    New York law does not permit lawsuits against third parties, such as accountants and attorneys, whose negligence or even out-and-out collusion has encouraged corporate malfeasance that has harmed employees, shareholders or creditors, a divided state Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. Ruling on certifi ...

Iranian.com

  • Calif. man home after release from Iranian prison
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  • Iran brokers behind-the-scenes deal for pro-Tehran ...
    Iran has brokered a critical deal with its regional neighbours that could see a pro-Tehran government installed in Iraq, a move that would shift the fragile country sharply away from a sphere of western influence. The Guardian can reveal that the Islamic republic was instrumental in forming an allia ...
  • Sanctions an 'opportunity' for local companies: Ir ...
    VIENNA — A large-scale withdrawal from Iran by international companies as part of economic sanctions represent an "opportunity" for domestic companies, the Islamic republic's oil minister said Thursday. "Iran is not a poor country," Masoud Mir Kazemi told reporters at a meeting of OPEC oil ministers ...
  • عاملان انتشار استاکس‌نت شناسایی شدند
    رضا تقی‌پور، وزیر ارتباطات و فناوری اطلاعات ایران از شناسایی عاملان انتشار کرم جاسوسی استاکس‌نت خبر داد. تقی‌پور، امروز به تلویزیون دولتی ایران گفت: مسیر انتشار استاکس‌نت که از طریق حافظه‌های قابل حمل و فلش مموری بود، شناسایی شده است. read more
  • Iran, Venezuela leaders seek 'new world order'
    TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- The leaders of Iran and Venezuela hailed what they called their strong strategic relationship on Wednesday, saying they are united in efforts to establish a "new world order" that will eliminate Western dominance over global affairs. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and vi ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Third-Worldization of Britain
    (it’s a real word, I looked it up) Britain’s Conservative economic minister just announced plans to lay off 490,000 public workers over the next four years – his solution to the UK’s current economic difficulties. His proposal will make 25% cuts in several government ministries – with an across the ...
  • The Obama Whitehouse: A Sinking Ship?
    There is growing concern about the growing number of resignations from the Obama White House, another significant sign his administration is in deep trouble. Especially as seven of the resignations have occurred within the last six months. Both parties try to avoid major White House changes in the s ...
  • What’s Really Happening in France
    It’s extremely hard to get good information about the present massive labor unrest in France. US media coverage of the month of rolling strikes is full of half-truths and distortions. Many progressives feel this relates to the specific focus of the strikes – the efforts by the French government to ...
  • Chinese Investment in Africa
    I have just read a fascinating article, “Africa’s Eastern Promise” in Foreign Affairs , published by the Council on Foreign Relations ( http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/65916/deborah-brautigam/africa%E2%80%99s-eastern-promise ). I hear people groaning already, as most activists view the CFR – ...
  • Bankrupt the CIA: Boycott Heroin
    The above title is an example of a novel international counterculture offensive called “culture jamming” or “meme warfare,” popularized by the Vancouver-based Adbusters Magazine and Adbusters Media Foundation ( https://www.adbusters.org/ ). A “meme,” as defined in Adbusters founder Kalle Lasn’s 2000 ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • Scientists prove that humans can see into the futu ...
    OK, maybe that’s not quite literally what has been discovered, but close enough. A set of careful experiments has shown that the human brain can be influenced by events that haven’t happened yet! Let me repeat that just so it sinks in, scientists have discovered scientific proof that the human brain ...
  • Through Thick and Thin, from UFOs to PC Gay Bashin ...
    Poot, the UFOs didn’t show up as promised. Well, except for some escaped mylar balloons in NYC apparently. Yes, the aliens cleverly disguised their spacecraft to look like balloons, then brainwashed some hapless human into thinking they had lost some balloons. All part of the alien’s diabolical, and ...
  • The Ten Most Influential People in History?
    I saw this question on Yahoo Answers and it got me thinking. So my post about UFOs, Chilean Miners, the American Elections, Robert Gates and gays, and the nightmare in Mexico is going to have to wait. Who are the most influential people in history is a very debatable question, and honestly my knowle ...
  • The aliens are coming and other news from outer sp ...
    A former NORAD officer claims that on October 13th aliens will make their presence on Earth unmistakably known with “a massive UFO display over the world’s principal cities.” I have my doubts, but hey, it will certainly be fodder for any number of blog posts should it happen. And San Francisco is ce ...
  • Liu Xiaobo Wins Nobel Peace Prize
    If the gentle reader wants to read a fawning endorsement of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize choice, pretty much any western mainstream media has it covered in spades. Fortunately my readers don’t come here for fawning endorsements of anything. I am troubled on a  number of levels by the Nobel committ ...

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

  • Food Versus Fuel – Again
    Join the forum discussion on this post Upcoming I am off to Malaysia on Saturday for a business trip. I will actually spend some time in Bintulu, so I am looking forward to driving by and seeing Shell’s gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant there. I am unsure about my prospects for Internet access over the f ...
  • In Case You Missed It
    Join the forum discussion on this post In addition to the EPA’s decision to raise the allowed ethanol blends to 15%, there were three other energy-related stories of interest this week. Deep-Water Ban Ends The first was that the Obama administration has lifted the ban on deep-water drilling: Oba ...
  • EPA Grants E15 Waiver for Newer Vehicles
    Join the forum discussion on this post The news was just announced: EPA Grants E15 Waiver for Newer Vehicles WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today waived a limitation on selling fuel that is more than 10 percent ethanol for model year 2007 and newer cars and light truc ...
  • The Gas Cartel Idea: On the Road to Another OPEC?
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest analysis was written by the staff of Global Intelligence Report. ————————- As oil sees its image tarnished from the disastrous oil spills that took place off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Dalian, China, and as the m ...
  • Solazyme CEO Clarifies Costs
    Join the forum discussion on this post Prior to publishing the previous essay, U.S. Navy Pays Big Bucks for Biofuels, the editor for Consumer Energy Report asked why I didn’t go with a more descriptive title like “U.S. Navy Pays $425 per Gallon for Biofuels.” I told him that the reason I didn’t is ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • Survey reveals school leaders' opinions on 21st-ce ...
    Tags: school , survey , education , 21stcenturyskills by: Dean Mantz
  • Profile Publisher - ReadWriteThink
    Tags: profile , writing , readwritethink , biography , socialnetworking by: Tim Childers
  • Testmoz - The Test Generator
    Tags: test , quiz , assessment , quizzes by: Tim Childers
  • TCI TeacherGenius Webmix - Symbaloo
    Comments: Aggregate of online Educational tools - Jackie Gerstein Tags: webmix , aggregators , education , web_2.0 , classroom by: Jackie Gerstein
  • Cure the Bullies
    Comments: Interactive game to teach students about cyberbullying: "A cyberbullying “epidemic” has hit our shores and threatens to contaminate our children through emails, chatrooms, blogs, mobile phones and social networking sites. The Bullies are nasty, highly contagious viruses that lurk in cyber ...

Rodale News

  • Landmark Report Links Breast Cancer to Everyday Ch ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Breast cancer now affects one in eight women in the U.S. every year, a 20 percent increase from 40 years ago. And despite all the pink ribbons, pink NFL sneakers, even pink KFC buckets , scientists aren't getting very close to discovering all the potential causes of the dis ...
  • Eat Vegan: Be Healthy, Well-Fed, and Kind
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Years ago, actress Alicia Silverstone's vegetarian diet included plenty of french fries, and even the occasional forkful of chicken swiped from a buddy's plate. She loved animals and knew she really didn't want to eat them, but vegan power foods like beans and seaweed were n ...
  • 5 Flavorful Recipes for Sweet, Sticky, Mineral-Ric ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—It’s a scary fact: The average American consumes 130 grams of added refined sugar every day. So it’s no surprise that experts all agree we should cut back on refined sugar. But many dishes benefit from a bit of added sweetness. The answer? Molasses, a sweetener that is natur ...
  • How to Shop for Low-Energy Lightbulbs
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—It was on this day, October 21, 131 years ago, that Thomas Edison successfully tested the first lightbulb sold to the public. Yet, despite the Industrial Revolution that followed that bright idea, we're still using essentially the same bulb nearly a century and a half later. ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: Make Your Own Organic Deodoran ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—From Madison Avenue’s point of view, I’m a very poor consumer: I don’t use much in the way of fancy skin-care products or cosmetics. I’ve been brushing my teeth with plain baking soda for 30 years (look, Ma, another perfect checkup!), and when I feel the need to rinse out my ...

big think

  • The "Glass Ceiling" Is Actually a Labyrinth
    As notable women have reached the highest echelons of business, and as women have surpassed men in higher education, it's tempting to think that the idea of a "glass ceiling" is becoming outdated. But research indicates that prejudice still persists in the workforce in the form of wage, employment ...
  • Twitter - Crystal Ball Into the Future?
    What if you had a crystal ball that could predict the rise and fall of the stock market? Or that predicted which candidate would win the election and thus if your taxes would rise or fall? It’s hard to predict both the vagaries of financial markets and the winner of a tight election race. Hundreds . ...
  • George Soros Gives Openly
    Conservatives have long accused billionaire George Soros of funding activist watchdog group Media Matters . Soros has been suspected of being behind every liberal group after giving more than $23 million dollars to progressive groups in 2004 and saying that he would give up his entire fortune ... Re ...
  • Jon Stewart Tells Larry King that Rally to Restore ...
    Last night on CNN , Jon Stewart told Larry King that the Rally to Restore Sanity "is in fact not a political rally,” and instead will be an extension of the content of his program.  When the news media started covering rallies as the new thing, said Stewart, the Daily Show decided that the format wa ...
  • GVP Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for October 13 ...
    It sure has felt like a quiet fall - at least volcanically-speaking - and this week's Global Volcanism Program Weekly Volcanic Activity Report seems to back up that feeling. There is only one "new activity" report, that being the latest eruption at Piton de la Fournaise on Reunion Island. Now, this ...

Information Liberation

  • How To Opt Out of the TSA's Naked Body Scanners at ...
    I encountered my first airport naked body scanner while flying out of California today, and of course I decided to "opt out" of the scan. You do this by telling the blue-shirted TSA agents that you simply wish to opt out of the body scanner. Here's w...
  • The Crime of Living
    The new term 'overcriminalization' describes the last few decade's legislative orgy of criminalizing trivial or harmless behavior. From 2000 to 2007, Congress added 452 new federal crimes to the 4,450 some already in effect and the approximately 300,...
  • How I See the World Today | Jim Rogers
    Presented by Jim Rogers at the 2010 Mises Institute Supporters Summit: "The Economic Recovery: Washington's Big Lie." Recorded in Auburn, Alabama; 9 October 2010....
  • The Truth About Terrorism, and the U.S. Government
    My writing this was inspired by Paul Craig Roberts*s great article The War on Terror, in which he tells the truth about what*s really going on, and I wanted to expand more on this terrorism subject. There are many reasons why the U.S. gov...
  • The Sorry State of Neocon Argumentation
    There are times in a man*s life when he must gird his loins and summon all of his powers of ratiocination in order to do battle with an intellectual opponent. The need for courage and peak performance arises whenever his opponent*s gifts of rea...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • It’s Started Again – Biodiversity And ...
    We’ve been predicting it, and now it appears to have happened. After Cancún, Anthropogenic Global Warming is generally expected to have oulived (by far) its fifteen minutes of fame, and will be quietly dropped by Western governments; so quietly, in … Continue reading →
  • Has Multiculturalism Failed?
    It has, if you believe the words of German Chancellor Angela Merkel this week. Multikulti, the concept that we are now living side by side and are happy about it, she declared, has failed utterly. For a modern German leader to … Continue reading →
  • The Dragon And The Chrysanthemum
    It is the world’s fastest-growing economy. Within our lifetimes, it will become the largest. And yet, the face China presents to the world belies the truth of the lives of 1.4 billion people. To speak of broad generalities and the … Continue reading →
  • A Bit Of British Fair Play…
    …or so it seems from this story in the UK Daily Telegraph. Under new guidelines published on Tuesday, the BBC will henceforth be required to give “appropriate weight” to dissenting views on controversial subjectsâlike Anthropogenic Global Warming. Our God-Emperor is … Continue reading →
  • Should Governments Fund Science?
    With this topic, we are getting close to the heart of the whole matter. The history of government funding for the arts and sciences closely parallels the 20th-century transition of Western governments from liberal democracies to social democracies I discussed … Continue reading →

FAS - Secrecy News

  • GAO Role in Intel Oversight to be Determined
    The recently enacted 2010 Intelligence Authorization Act requires the Director of National Intelligence to prepare a directive concerning access by the congressional Government Accountability Office (GAO) to intelligence information.  The forthcoming directive, the content of which was not clearly s ...
  • Invention Secrecy Still Going Strong
    There were 5,135 inventions that were under secrecy orders at the end of Fiscal Year 2010, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office told Secrecy News last week.  It’s a 1% rise over the year before, and the highest total in more than a decade. Under the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951, patent application ...
  • New Books Received
    Secrecy News was pleased to receive the following books, though we have not yet had a chance to read them closely. “The Reagan Files: The Untold Story of Reagan’s Top-Secret Efforts to Win the Cold War” edited by Jason Saltoun-Ebin is a rich collection of declassified letters, transcripts and Nation ...
  • EFF Announces Pioneer Awards
    I’m very grateful to the Electronic Frontier Foundation for naming me as one of the four recipients of its 2010 Pioneer Awards, which are intended “to recognize leaders on the electronic frontier who are extending freedom and innovation in the realm of information technology.” EFF is not only a prom ...
  • Confronting Overclassification
    The problem of overclassification — in which inappropriate restrictions are imposed on the disclosure of information in the name of national security — is at the root of many current disputes over access to government information, including controversies over leaks, FOIA litigation, prepublication r ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Six sexy science books
    Six sexy science books at least one or two of which would make perfect holiday gifts for the science geek, nerd, dweeb, or dork in your life. Remember Science is Vital and so are books. Science: The Definitive Guide by Piers Bizony – As a kid, I devoured books like this, you probably did too, [...] ...
  • Progress or PR
    Progress or PR? – SciDev.net recently published a "guide" for journalists on separating real progress from PR hype surrounding clinical trials. It's a well-written and quite timely piece given the backlash against medical reporting in recent years. Unfortunately, this kind of advice is only ever tak ...
  • Scientists dodge Osborne’s axe
    Scientists dodge Osborne’s axe – The Science is Vital campaign has turned UK Chancellor George Osborne who recognised at the 11th hour that the £4.6 billion science budget should be maintained over the next four years. He accepted that research will be key to long-term economic growth. More to the p ...
  • GERD’s dirty little secret
    GERD’s dirty little secret – When omeprazole's patent expired AstraZeneca launched the optically pure version esomeprazole, which is apparently four times as active and gave them a new patent and a corner of the acid reflux market. Bizarrely, both forms of the drug (pro-drug in fact) are converted t ...
  • Science news
    Yet more science: Antibiotics and budgets – Seven days. That's the usual length of an antibiotic scrip – 3 pills a day for a week – 21 pills. But would 20 pills be okay? Would that eradicate the bacterial infection just the same? That's a 5% saving. What about 19 pills? 18? Fifteen even? The [...] S ...

RFF Library

  • Make it in America: the Apollo Clean Transportatio ...
    The Apollo Clean Transportation Manufacturing Action Plan (TMAP) Supporting Research From Duke University, Northeastern University, Worldwatch Institute, and Economic Policy Institute http://apolloalliance.org/tmap/ …With millions unemployed, it is time to put Americans back to work rebuilding our p ...
  • DSIRE — Database of State Incentives for Ren ...
    North Carolina Solar Center, Interstate Renewable Energy Council http://www.dsireusa.org/ DSIRE is a comprehensive source of information on state, local, utility and federal incentives and policies that promote renewable energy and energy efficiency. Established in 1995 and funded by the U.S. Depart ...
  • BioEnergy Atlas
    US DOE, National Renewable Energy Line http://maps.nrel.gov/bioenergyatlas BioFuels Atlas is an interactive map for comparing biomass feedstocks and biofuels by location. This tool helps users select from and apply biomass data layers to a map as well as query and download biofuels and feedstock dat ...
  • Tracking Progress Towards Kyoto and 2020 Targets i ...
    European Environment Agency http://tinyurl.com/39an6nf This report presents an overview of the progress achieved so far by the EU, its Member States and other EEA member countries towards their respective targets under the Kyoto Protocol and the EU burden-sharing agreement. The assessment is based o ...
  • Wasted Food, Wasted Energy: the Embedded Energy in ...
    Environmental Science and Technology (2010) v44 n16, pp6464–6469 / by Amanda D. Cullar and Michael E. Webber (open access) http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es100310d [H/T: Yale Environment 360] The amount of food wasted each year by Americans represents the energy equivalent of 350 million barre ...

Scientific American - News

  • Early Bloomer: Faraway Galaxy Pushes Cosmic View C ...
    Astronomers claim to have identified a galaxy in the distant universe that is farther away than any known object in space. The galaxy is so far away that, inasmuch as researchers can see such a faint object, they see it as it looked about 13 billion years ago, just 600 million years or so after the ...
  • Volatile Organic Compounds May Worsen Allergies an ...
    Children who sleep in bedrooms containing fumes from water-based paints and solvents are two to four times more likely to suffer allergies or asthma, according to a new scientific study. � [More]
  • Air Power: The Making of a Modern Wind Turbine and ...
    In the past decade the amount of electricity produced by harnessing the wind in the U.S. has grown 13-fold, now supplying some 2.3 percent of U.S. electricity needs, or enough juice to power the state of Wisconsin. Wind turbines have been rising above the plains in Texas, cropping up on ridge line ...
  • Flower Power: Genetic Modification Could Amply Boo ...
    Human activities currently add about nine gigatons of carbon to the atmosphere yearly. Photosynthetic organisms on land and in the ocean absorb about five of those gigatons through the natural uptake of CO2, leaving to humans the task of dealing with the rest. But no matter how much carbon there is, ...
  • New Real-Time Blood Monitoring May Lessen the Need ...
    A patient on the operating table starts bleeding profusely. Medical staff use sponge after sponge to soak up the blood, unsure of exactly how much has been lost. Should the attending physician order a transfusion ? The patient may still have enough red blood cells for the rest of the surgery, but a ...

RAWA News

  • Video Surfaces of Fraud in Afghan Elections
    ABC News Radio: A videotape obtained by ABC News appears to show fraud in last month's Afghanistan elections. Cell phone video captures underage voters and ballot stuffing, and may mean thousands of votes may have to be thrown out. One part of the video shows someone in a police uniform watching as ...
  • Fresh claims US is running secret prison in Afghan ...
    BBC News: Prisoners are being abused at a “secret jail” in the main American military base in Afghanistan, according to a report from a US policy think tank. Ex-detainees said they were deprived of sleep and held in cold isolation cells in the site at Bagram, says New York-based Open Society Foundat ...
  • ICRC: Kandahar casualties reflect worsening securi ...
    CNN: War casualties in a Kandahar hospital are “hitting record highs,” figures that illustrate the “deteriorating security situation in southern Afghanistan, the International Committee for the Red Cross said on Tuesday. Mirwais Regional Hospital had nearly 1,000 new patients with weapon-related inj ...
  • Taliban kill woman accused of murdering mother-in- ...
    BBC News: A woman accused of murdering her mother-in-law has been killed by Taliban in the eastern Afghan province of Ghazni, local officials say. The mother-in-law was pushed into a bread oven by two of her daughters-in-law after a spat on Monday, they say. The incident took place in the remote Abe ...
  • Millions of Afghans at risk from parasitic disease ...
    France 24: Afghanistan’s health authorities Friday appealed for international help in dealing with a parasitic disease that is believed to threaten millions in the impoverished country. Leishmaniasis, transmitted by a species of sandfly, threatened the health of 13 million Afghans, the World Health ...

frogblog

  • Nick Smith needs to open his ears to the deaf
    As an MP I receive many lobbying letters.  Today one arrived that really caught my attention.  It was from the National Foundation for the Deaf, and it was about the cutbacks to ACC cover and entitlements for work-related hearing loss. Attached to the letter was a very detailed 82 p ...
  • Time for a pecuniary interest register for judicia ...
    The announced resignation of Justice Wilson has highlighted the need for a register of the financial interests of the judiciary. Such a register would stop financial conflict of interests or perceived conflicts of interests from occurring in the future. While the case against Justic ...
  • Hobbit fallout mustn’t affect workers rights
    The dispute over the Hobbit shouldn’t be used to attack workers rights. Earlier this morning Gerry Brownlee spoke about ‘clarifying’ employment laws.
  • Wellington 2040? How about Wellington now?
    Good on the Wellington City Council for taking a long view and developing a Wellington 2040 strategy – all too often in politics short term thinking leads to poor decision making. The Council have recently released a summary of public submissions, which make for interesting reading… ...
  • Tolley’s miserly early childhood education p ...
    Last night I went to a meeting at my son’s crèche about the changes the Government has made to early childhood funding and what that would mean for parents. They weren’t a group of naturally political people but boy were they annoyed at the Government, and at Anne Tolley in particul ...

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 Chamber of Commerce's Hobby
    The New York Times writes today about the vast tidal wave of secret cash that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is spending this year to support the Republican Party: Dow Chemical delivered $1.7 million to the chamber last year....And Goldman Sachs, Chevron Texaco, and Aegon, a multinational insurance c ...
  • Same Old, Same Old
    The outrage du jour heure comes, once again, from Delaware, where Christine O'Donnell today questioned the constitutional basis of secular government: "Where in the Constitution is separation of church and state?" O'Donnell asked while Democrat Chris Coons, an attorney, sat a few feet away. Coons r ...
  • Banks and the New Rules
    Barbara Kiviat reads Bank of America's earnings press release today to find out how they're reacting to all those draconian new regulations on their credit card business. Then she translates for the rest of us: So, let’s see. We’re getting 1) more transparent financial products; 2) better banking s ...
  • Not Your Father's Recession
    Over at The Corner, Stephen Spruiell is unimpressed with the Obama administration's decision to effectively spread out its tax cut over time by withholding less money from workers' paychecks each month: To me, this demonstrates just how much of the administration’s thinking is guided by Keynesian e ...
  • Why Is Obama Fighting to Keep DADT?
    After a district court judge ruled the military's Don't Ask Don't Tell policy unconstitutional last month, the Obama administration went to court to defend it. Why? Officially, they say it's because they feel obligated to defend all properly enacted federal laws as long as they're even arguably cons ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 204: Penis Trading Cards
    Topics for the show: We’re moving the show to Thursday now We hate fat people Part Deux Why are we fat? Just check out the nutrition facts on the Fast Food menu Steven Seagal & his “elite team” of doughnut eaters The NFL enforces the “illegal hits” rule but in the end it won’t matter [...]
  • Movie Trailer Review: Due Date
    High-strung father-to-be Peter Highman is forced to hitch a ride with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay on a road trip in order to make it to his child’s birth on time. Share with your friends:
  • WTF Wednesday: Silly White Woman…Tricks Are For…I ...
    You know, Clarence Thomas isn’t the most beloved member of the black community.  He’s the only black man sitting on the Supreme Court but I feel that most black people (hell, most people not ultra conservative) would rather see Thomas forced into retirement and Mickey Mouse appointed to the Supreme ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: Do You See What Obama is Wo ...
    When Democrats lose control of the House and lose seats in the Senate in next month’s midterm election, President Obama will be blamed for the loss. It’s ridiculous but we all know that’s going to be the narrative starting November 3rd in the media.  The truth is, the democrats in the President’s p ...
  • IC 203: Stop Being Gay (Video)
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Simple Climate

  • Rapid climate change poses ecological questions
    Cold-blooded tropical creatures, like lizards, are more affected by global warming than their relatives in colder areas, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology's George Wang has found. Now, he says that this unexpected result shows just how much ecologists don't know about what the current s ...
  • CO2 dominates Earth’s climate, NASA reveals
    Earth's temperature would fall 35°C in 50 years without CO2, as water vapour condenses into water and ice and the greenhouse effect collapses, show Andrew Lacis and colleagues at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, demonstrating that CO2 alone is the “thermostat” for climate change.
  • Seeds of doubt flourish as climate debate hots up
    Vested interests want the US to think scientists are still arguing about climate change, says Edward Maibach, director of George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communication.
  • Global warming gives tropical lizards energy probl ...
    Small temperature changes make a big difference to ectotherms – also known as “cold-blooded” creatures – around the equator, scientists based in the US and Germany find.
  • Naturalists show climate effects from beyond the g ...
    Not zombie scientists, but museum collections provide data on how climate change is affecting timing of natural events like flowering

e!Science News

  • Clearing the cosmic fog
    A European team of astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has measured the distance to the most remote galaxy so far. By carefully analysing the very faint glow of the galaxy they have found that they are seeing it when the Universe was only about 600 million years old (a redshift of 8.6 ...
  • Preschool promises: Starting early on a new educat ...
    Two children, both age 3, enroll in publicly funded preschool. But they may have vastly different experiences: One child may attend preschool for 8 hours a day and be taught by a teacher with a bachelor's degree while the other child may be in preschool for only a few hours a day, under the supervis ...
  • Scary chupacabras monster is as much victim as vil ...
    As Halloween approaches, tales of monsters and creepy crawlies abound. Among the most fearsome is the legendary beast known as the chupacabras. read more
  • Berkeley Lab scientists open electrical link to li ...
    The Terminator. The Borg. The Six Million Dollar Man. Science fiction is ripe with biological beings armed with artificial capabilities. In reality, however, the clunky connections between living and non-living worlds often lack a clear channel for communication. Now, scientists with the Lawrence Be ...
  • NASA-engineered collision spills new Moon secrets
    Scientists led by Brown University are offering the first detailed explanation of the crater formed when a NASA rocket slammed into the Moon last fall and information about the composition of the lunar soil at the poles that never has been sampled. The findings are published in a set of papers in Sc ...

unEarthed

  • Why Do Jewelry Makers Get Off Easy With Cadmium?
    "Shrek" glasses were recalled because of cadmium I wish I could just issue myself a ticket instead of dealing with police or worse - those pesky speed cameras. That’s essentially what the Consumer Product Safety Commission i ...
  • Feds Don't Know Enough—So Let's Drill The Arctic!
    Here's the latest on the Obama administration's approach to oil drilling in the Arctic seas. In July, a court agreed with Earthjustice lawyers that a hastily approved federal oil development plan for the Chukchi Sea is illegal. ...
  • Amok In The Obama Administration: Climate Change D ...
    The "bathtub ring" at Lake Powell in Utah. Climate change is worsening drought that is reducing the Lake's level. It's true that the Obama administration is taking climate change more seriously than any of its predecessors.� ...
  • Wolf Killing Is Back On Government Agendas
    Since Earthjustice attorneys won a court decision in August ordering the federal government to once again extend Endangered Species Act protections to wolves in the northern Rockies, state governments have been busy trying to co ...
  • Day of Mourning - The 6-month Anniversary of Gulf ...
    Today, six months from the day the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded 42 miles off the Louisiana shore, much is still unknown about the effects of the nation's biggest oil spill, which gushed for 95 continuous days and spilled n ...

Brave New Climate

  • Another ZCA 2020 Critique – will they respon ...
    When I was at UNSW yesterday — prior to my debate with Mark Diesendorf — I met up with Ted Trainer, author of ‘Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society“. We had a great chat, and I think I even inched him a little towards IFRs (ever the optimist). Anyway, Ted asked me to post [...]
  • Do the recent floods prove man-made climate change ...
    I was asked by the Adelaide Advertiser newspaper to write a short piece last week which addressed the question “Does all the recent rain across the country prove man made climate change is real?“, in less than 500 words. My response, given below, appeared in the print edition on Thursday 9 September ...
  • Fast reactor future – the vision of an atomi ...
    When I was in Idaho Falls in August 2010, one of the places I visited was the Experimental Breeder Reactor I. It’s now a publicly accessible U.S. National Historic Landmark, and has some incredible experimental X-39 atomic aircraft engines sitting out the front (see little inset photo). I’ll talk mo ...
  • IFR FaD 7 – Q&A on Integral Fast Reactors &# ...
    Back in 2001, Dr George Stanford conducted an interview with the National Policy Analysis Center on the IFR. Nearly ten years later, in September 2010, George has updated this material, which is pitched squarely a layman audience. I post the updated version below (7-page printable PDF version here), ...
  • Book review: The Flooded Earth – Our Future ...
    This is a book review I wrote for the UK Times Higher Education Supplement, for the book “The Flooded Earth” by Peter D. Ward. You can read my original THE piece here. Click on the cover image of the book for details of the title. ——————————- A chilling look at our possible destiny indicates the li ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

  • The Covert Origins of the Af-Pak War - The Road to ...
    The bottom line is that we have entered a period of major wars over declining resources. The Af-Pak operations are only initial moves in an attempt to control the earth's remaining oil supply. -- Here's the latest excerpt from David DeGraw's new book, "The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War ...
  • Inside the Global Banking Intelligence Complex, BC ...
    Here is Part II of David DeGraw’s new book, “The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War III.” The BCCI scandal gave citizens of the world a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the covert global banking intelligence power structure, revealing power politics in its purest form.
  • Bill Moyers on The Economic Elite Vs. The People o ...
    On March 1st, Bill Moyers gave his first public speech in three years, as the final speaker in the Dowmel Lecture series. In his speech, he addressed what he feels is "the greatest threat" to our country: the staggering inequality of wealth and the death of the middle class.
  • WAKE UP MEDIA! Lehman Report is Further Evidence o ...
    How much more evidence of a financial coup and the theft of trillions of dollars do we need before the media and our politicians do something, anything , to restore a rule of law in this nation? What is it going to take?
  • Jon Stewart & Dylan Ratigan: How Wall Street Robs ...
    Why are Jon Stewart and Dylan Ratigan the only two sources on US television who consistently report on the biggest theft of wealth in history? Consider this a devastatingly accurate introduction to the economic coup, or the Daily Show's Economic Coup for Dummies.

+972

  • Netanyahu’s government: from here it’s ...
    The current government has reached the end of the road. Soon, Netanyahu will have to chose between changing his coalition to new elections Benjamin Netanyahu returned to the Prime Minister office determined not to repeat the mistakes of his previous term, those that led to his premature downfall in ...
  • Israel imprisons a non-violent protest leader from ...
    Adeeb Abu Rahmah, a protest leader from Bil’in, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by the Military Court of Appeals, for his involvement in organizing demonstrations. The decision dramatically aggravates the one-year sentence originally imposed in the first instance Judge Lieutenant Colon ...
  • Oct 21: Barak attacks Netanyahu on Peace Process
    The Headlines: Most Palestinian are (still) Willing to Recognize a Jewish State >Surveys continue to show that a (diminishing) plurality of Palestinians is willing to recognize Israel as a Jewish state if all other outstanding issues are resolved (Yedioth). > Defense Minister Barak (Labor) criticiz ...
  • Wild Card part IV: NYTimes puts unilateral move on ...
    (Part I, Part II, Part III) Ethan Bronner of the NYTimes gives a nice big shove to the Wild Card, only to get a slap in the face from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the next day. Bronner says that: The Palestinian leadership, near despair about attaining a negotiated agreement with Israel on a t ...
  • From Sheikh Jarrah with love
    by Yoav Peled

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Federal environmental approval for coal seam gas ...
    The Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, has approved, with strict environmental conditions, two coal seam gas projects at Gladstone, and the dredging of Gladstone Port's western basin.
  • National Water Storage snapshot now on-line
    The Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water today officially launched the Bureau of Meteorology's national Water Storage information website.
  • National Water Storage snapshot now on-line
    Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, Senator Don Farrell, today officially launched the Bureau of Meteorology's national Water Storage information website.
  • Gillard Government supports 168 community environ ...
    The Gillard Government today announced an additional $241 million for the successful projects of the open call component of the 2010—11 Caring for our Country business plan.
  • Parliamentary inquiry into the Murray-Darling Bas ...
    The Minister for Regional Australia, Simon Crean, the Minister for Water, Tony Burke and the Minister for Agriculture, Joe Ludwig, will invite the new Parliamentary committee for Regional Australia to conduct an inquiry into the impact of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.

Matt Weidner Blog

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • The Sour Smell of Success
    The Bank of Canada’s Mark Carney released an update on the Canadian economy yesterday that told us third-quarter growth has been disappointingly less than expected and that the next four quarters will also fall behind expectations.  He then informed Canadians that we’ll eventually get out of this ec ...
  • New Digs
    Only a couple of months to go before I have to clear out of my office and into the new Promenade building on Sparks Street.  All of West Block – the building I’m in at present - will be gutted and eventually the House Chamber itself (where Question Period is held) will be moved over to [...]
  • Sudan – Late To The Game
    Our view on Africa is about ready to face a litmus test on a massive scale.  It might turn pretty ugly, or usher in a new era of hope on a troubled continent. Africa’s largest nation of Sudan is set to launch an exercise in democracy that will remind many of the heady era of [...]
  • “Quiet Crisis”
    The maddening distraction begins again, as Parliament resumes today.  You’ll hear about jet fighters, the gun registry, the long-form census, and other issues 24/7.  There will be virtually nothing about the increasing gap between rich and poor, the down-on-their-luck Nortel pensioners, the lack of ...
  • Angels On The Hill
    Opening day of the fall session of Parliament sees the MPs exchanging friendly greetings before the wars begin in earnest at Question Period in the afternoon.  I was fortunate enough first thing in the morning to run into some of the maintenance and planning staff in West Block – the building that h ...

Vaccine Awakening

  • Vaccine Science: A Search for Truth
    by Barbara Loe Fisher February 2009 turned out to be a month when vaccine science was put on trial in the U.S. Court of Claims in Washington, D.C., in mainstream media and on the internet, in the British Medical Journal and in vaccine safety research initiatives by the U.S. Department of Health and ...
  • Talking Vaccine Science with Government: Why Do It ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher After the historic election in November that saw Barack Obama elected President, I wondered what he and his Administration would do about addressing the question that is on the minds of many parents: Why are so many vaccinated children today chronically ill, suffering with lea ...
  • Vaccine Bullies & Fighting Back
    By Barbara Loe Fisher During the past decade, families in the United Kingdom, Canada and America have witnessed the demonization of brave doctors and parents of vaccine injured children. It has been both sickening and frightening to watch physicians and some journalists engage in a relentless perse ...
  • Doctor-Heroes Standing For Better Vaccine Science
    by Barbara Loe Fisher The cry that was heard around the world in the early 1980's, when mothers and fathers realized an old, crude pertussis vaccine was killing and damaging the brains of their children, is being echoed today by new generations of parents struggling to raise vaccine injured childre ...
  • Politics, Profits & Pandemic Fear Mongering
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Are you grabbing your face mask, stocking up on food and Tamiflu, locking your doors and keeping your TV tuned to the news to find out just how bad the "swine flu pandemic" really is going to get? While Americans are being scared to death, few are noticing how much of their ta ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Stimulus Swindle: Los Angeles Spent $70 Million in ...
  • States of Emergency
    Thirty-two states are on the path to UN-inspired carbon reduction, Cap-and-Trade schemes and unconstitutional alliances; the supporting Governors must be held accountable.
  • Bankruptcy Judge Bombshell: I Never Approved The S ...
    Lehman execs have been somewhat successful in convincing Judge Peck, who will decide in January or February whether or not Lehman is owed money from Barclays, that he can overturn the final sale of Lehman to Barclays.
  • Canadian air force colonel jailed for sex murders
    - A top Canadian military commander whose obsession with stealing women's underwear escalated into two horrific sex murders was jailed for life on Thursday without possibility of parole for 25 years.
  • ‘Exterminator’ armored truck will watch Illinois n ...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Ahmadinejad and Chavez highlight the need for unit ...
    Summary: President Ahmadinejad welcomes President Chavez to Tehran Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez have underlined the need to expand cooperation in fighting imperialism. source: Press TV read more
  • IRAN AS A THRESHOLD NUCLEAR STATE?
    Summary: Bushehr Nuclear Reactor www.RaceForIran.com recently reproduced five reasons why Gareth Evans, QC, former foreign minister of Australia, has come to the conclusion, see here, that Iran’s Islamic leaders do not intend to acquire nuclear weapons, in breach of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation ...
  • Ahmadinejad deserves fair reporting
    Summary: Mathew Cassel Media in the west paint Islamic figures from Iran to Hezbollah with a broad "anti-western" brush that neglects their origins source: The Guardian, UK read more
  • Iran-P5+1 talks to resume on Nov. 15
    Summary: European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has announced that the new round of nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 group will take place from November 15 to 18. source: Press TV read more
  • THE TRUE SIGNIFICANCE OF AHMADINEJAD’S LEBANON VIS ...
    Summary: In short Islam – particularly Shi’i Islam – is taking over the clothes of the European early Renaissance (before the Enlightenment); Islam stands, for many Muslims, for a humanism and a respect for justice, human dignity and defiance of tyranny that Europe once espoused. Of course, few ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Rawesome Foods raw milk co-op raid conducted by cr ...
    (NaturalNews) On June 30, 2010, a group of armed government agents from local, state, federal and even the Canadian government illegally trespassed on private property and raided Rawesome Foods , a private food buying club in Venice, California. With guns drawn, these agents tore through the propert ...
  • Anxiety can be treated with herbs and nutrients, s ...
    (NaturalNews) Who hasn't felt anxious before a test, or after some personal upset or accident? But sometimes anxiety can become chronic. And ongoing feelings of apprehension, fear or nervousness can rob people of their quality of life and even negatively impact their health. According to the America ...
  • Researchers suggest Viagra for young boys
    (NaturalNews) New research out of the University of Washington (UW) has some astounding new propositions for the use of Viagra, an erectile dysfunction drug made by Pfizer Inc. According to the report, young boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) can benefit from taking the drug because it alle ...
  • Thyroid cancer patients turned into walking dirty ...
    (NaturalNews) My, you look glowing today! Cancer patients who receive radiation of their thyroid glands by being given radioactive iodine are highly radioactive for up to a week following their release from the hospital -- and they end up irradiating not just hospital rooms but also other patients, ...
  • Monarch butterflies use medicinal plants to treat ...
    (NaturalNews) What happens when animals get sick in the wild -- do they just fight off disease by themselves? It seems they may actively treat themselves, and their sick offspring, with natural therapies. If that sounds like a far-fetched idea, listen up. Although few studies have been conducted on ...

Threat Level

  • Prosecutors Seek to Block Xbox Hacking Pioneer Fro ...
    Want a live tutorial on how to hack an Xbox by the guy who actually wrote the book on it? If so, you should plan to attend what likely will be the nation’s first federal jury trial of a defendant accused of jailbreaking Xbox 360s — installing mod chips that allow the console to run pirated [...]
  • Judge Clears CAPTCHA-Breaking Case for Criminal Tr ...
    A federal judge in New Jersey has cleared the way for a landmark criminal case targeting CAPTCHA circumvention to proceed to trial. The case targets a ring of defendants who used various means to bypass CAPTCHA — the squiggly letters and numbers websites display to prove a visitor is human — in ord ...
  • No, We Don’t Hate WikiLeaks
    We interrupt our regular coverage to address a rare dispatch from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that crossed the WikiLeaks Twitter feed this morning. In it, Assange slams Wired.com, and this writer in particular, for what he labels a false report that WikiLeaks is preparing to release a database ...
  • Supreme Court Takes Ashcroft Appeal in Detention C ...
    The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether former Attorney General John Ashcroft may be sued by an American detained for 16 days. It’s a case that a lower court judge said tests “the excesses of a powerful national government.” The lawsuit the justices decided to hear concerns whether Ashcrof ...
  • Teen to Plead Guilty to Staging Bomb Hoaxes For Lu ...
    A North Carolina teenager has agreed to plead guilty to a federal conspiracy charge for phoning in hoax bomb threats to colleges, middle schools and FBI offices around the country for the amusement of a live internet audience. Ashton Lundeby, 17, and his associates staged bomb hoaxes from mid-2008 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Republicans Cut and Run on Spending Cuts
    When it comes to cutting the federal budget, talk is cheap. But as the New York Times is just the latest to report, across the country Republican candidates are talking tough about spending cuts they can't - or won't - explain . Yet even as they promise another $700 billion Treasury-draining wind ...
  • Right-Wing Rage Drowns Out Massive Obama Tax Cut
    On Monday, the New York Times asked, "What if a president cut Americans' income taxes by $116 billion and nobody noticed?" As it turns out, that question neatly sums up the sad dynamic at play in the 2010 midterm elections. On the one hand, President Obama and his Democratic allies have utterly fa ...
  • Republican Candidates Run - and Try to Hide
    According to legend, the boxer Joe Louis introduced the expression, " you can run, but you can't hide ." Well, he never met this year's crop of GOP candidates. Earlier this month, Politico surveyed the extreme media avoidance strategies of Sharron Angle, Ron Johnson, Rand Paul, Christine O'Donnell ...
  • Sunni Awakening in Danger of Unraveling in Iraq
    Even more than the 2007 surge of U.S. troops, it was the earlier Sunni Awakening which helped dramatically seduce the sectarian carnage in Iraq. While Colonel John Tien called it "the tipping point in Anbar province," the BBC cited U.S. soldiers insisting it was the Awakening, not the Surge, which ...
  • Fox News' Brian Kilmeade Meets the Non-Muslim Terr ...
    When Brian Kilmeade of Fox News declared Friday that "not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims," he revealed he knows little about terrorism and even less about recent American history. If, as Adam Serwer defines it , "Terrorism is the deliberate murder of civilians or destruc ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • TCEQ GETTING A STATUS UPDATE ON LAS BRISAS
    Tomorrow  at 9:30 a.m. the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality will have a hearing at their headquarters off Interstate 35 and Parmer Lane in north Austin regarding a status-update on the air permit application for the controversial Las Brisas coke-fired coal plant proposed for Corpus Christi. ...
  • Matt Johnson at Al Armendariz welcome party in El ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Matt Johnson at Al Armendariz welcome party in El Sol Y La Luna
  • Texas slipping in Energy Efficiency ranking
    According to an American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) study, Texas now ranks 32nd among U.S. states in energy efficiency, down from 23rd in 2009. The current 10 top-ranked states in energy efficiency are shown below: 1. California 2. Massachusetts 3. Oregon 4. New York 5. Vermont ...
  • CPS Energy adds another 30 MW of Solar to its gene ...
    CPS Energy in San Antonio continues to move forward with its renewable plans under Mayor Julian Castro. A major new solar announcement, just as its 14 MW solar system is getting finished, is good news indeed. San Antonio has been a leader in wind energy and now leads the state in solar, where is the ...
  • Solar power is coming to President Barack Obama’s ...
    The most famous residence in America plans to install solar panels. The solar panels are to be installed by spring 2011 atop the White House’s living quarters and will heat water and supply some electricity for the first family. Former Presidents Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush both tapped the sun d ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • NASA preps "100-year-spacecraft"
    A senior NASA official has announced a project to create a new type of interplanetary spacecraft. NASA Ames director Simon Worden is working with DARP...
  • 'Drunken' gene discovered by scientists
    Scientists have identified a gene that determines how quickly alcohol goes to your head. The "drunken" gene is involved with how the body breaks down ...
  • "God" revealed on Google Street View
    An anomalous object in the sky on Google Street View has sparked a flurry of unusual interpretations. The mysterious figure was sighted in the skies a...
  • Stone Age man 'ate bread, not just meat'
    Prehistoric man may have fed on a balanced diet consisting of both meat and bread. Early man has been long associated with the idea of cavemen sitting...
  • Does Mayan calendar really end in 2012 ?
    A new book argues that the conversions of Mayan dates may be off by as much as 100 years. If so then the concept of the end of the world being in 2012...

Grassroots

  • US Food Sovereignty Alliance Launches in New Orlea ...
    1._sign_-_food_sovereignty_yes.jpg Grassroots International’s global partners like the Via Campesina have frequently told us: “You have to work hard to change things in the U.S. for our hard work to bear real fruit.” In other words, for anothe ...
  • Insights - Fall 2010
    An important victory is unfolding: the US Food Sovereignty Alliance is officially being launched on World Food Day, October 16. More than three years in the making, this event represents not only a first for the US, but a much awaited step forward for the food sovereignty movement worldwide. Read mo ...
  • Update from Mexico since the September Mudslide
    oaxaca.jpg For a week in late September, steady rain in the southern states of Mexico created mudslides and floods, affecting communities and farms in Oaxaca, Chiapas and surrounding southern states. Fortunately early reports overestimated the ...
  • People Across the U.S. Celebrate Indigenous People ...
    marcelina_sirien_xinico.jpg The below press release from Grassroots International's ally the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) discusses some of the events that were held on Indigenous Peoples' Day. IEN�is a network of indigenous peoples ...
  • Communities in Oaxaca Buried in Mud
    oaxaca.jpg The hillsides of Oaxaca literally slipped into mud and slid through community villages nearby.�Among those affected by the deluge are Grassroots International partners: Mixe Peoples' Services ; Center to Support the Popular Movement ...

Climate

GreenBiz

  • Changing the Light Bulb as We Know It
    In late 2007, President Bush signed a federal energy bill that established energy efficiency standards for the everyday light bulb. The standards essentially retire the 125-year-old incandescent. Unfortunately, there's an effort afloat to "save" the highly inefficient� incandescent light bulb.
  • Water Utility to Save $200K per Year by Turning Hu ...
    The first biogas plant in the United States to be powered by human sewage is up and running today, and will save the city of San Antonio $200,000 a year in water treatment and energy costs.
  • German Businessman Imports 'Heatballs' to Dodge EU ...
    A businessman has a devised a way around a European Union ban on incandescent llght bulbs of more than 60 watts by producing and pitching them as mini-heaters called "heatballs."
  • Why Every Company Needs a Corporate Energy Manager
    This lack of energy ownership can cost companies millions. In many cases, senior management does not realize how much they're spending on energy across all sites, or that energy is often second only to healthcare in terms of overall cost growth.�
  • Life in the Real World after EDF Climate Corps
    People often remark on the incredible amount of financial savings uncovered by green MBAs participating in the EDF Climate Corps program. Just as remarkable is how these fellows parlayed their summer experiences into long-term careers at the nexus of business and the environment.

Reuters Global

Booman Tribune

  • Casual Observation
    After the 9/11 attacks, everyone loved New York and was eager to bomb someone to avenge it. After the economic collapse, everyone hates New York again. Somehow, this feels more comfortable. Like an old pair of sneakers. Discuss
  • Grijalva's Office On Lockdown
    Breaking News out of Tucson: U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalvas congressional office is closed this afternoon as police respond to a suspicious piece of mail. An envelope arrived with swastikas drawn on the outside and a white powdery substance on the inside, said Adam Sarvana, Grijalvas spokesman. ...
  • Casual Observation
    So, they found water on the moon , but they also found a lot of Mercury. I don't want to go any place with a lot of Mercury. The stuff is totally toxic. There's no word on whether they found any Venus. The science and coordination behind these discoveries are pretty amazing. Discuss
  • GOP's Soc. Sec. Plan = Less Payouts
    Yes, I know what your thinking. You didn't even know the Republicans had an official plan to deal with Social Security, did you? I mean, it's not like I've seen any campaign ads touting their plan to save social security and I'll bet you haven't either. And a wonderful plan it it, too, especially ...
  • Google Tax Loophole
    Google is a great company, but they've robbed us of more than a billion dollars a year over the last three years . Google Inc. cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda. Google ...

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

  • Violence and Video Games: A New Study
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline The association between violent videogames and violent behavior or thinking is not a new suggestion. But a new study explores the issue more comprehensively than previous work. Researchers exposed male teens to varying levels of violent imagery, and monitored their br ...
  • Peers and Mental Health: In All Walks Of Life, Rea ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Humans are inherently social creatures, yet we often feel the need to hide feelings of depression, anxiety, grief and stress from those around us. What is it that keeps us from speaking our fears and feelings to friends, family, coworkers, or peers, let alone acting on ...
  • Free Play Enhances Creativity
    By Inge Dean, MS LMFT, Play Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Inge and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile As a Child Play Therapist I read with interest the July 10, 2010 Newsweek article “The Creativity Crisis”. The subtitle read, âFor the first time, research shows that Amer ...
  • Even For Active Kids, Mental Health and Screen Tim ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Ideally, kids would be emotionally resilient enough to deal with social and emotional stresses in a balanced way. But are lifestyle factors increasing the number of kids who need the guidance of a therapist or counselor to get by? A sedentary lifestyle can encourage b ...
  • Studying Tai Chi
    By Kalila Borghini, LCSW and Ordained Yoruba Priest, Spirituality Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Kalila and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile I recently started studying Tai Chi with a Sensei (Master) who’s almost 69 years old. He moves gracefully and powerfully and also looks great ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • EPA avoids another purple mountain travesty - Natu ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) EPA avoids another purple mountain travesty Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) The massive Spruce No.1 Mine in Logan County, one of the largest mountaintop removal mines ever proposed in Appalachia, would destroy 2278 acres of ... and more��
  • Kentucky Congressman Backs Move Against Mountain T ...
    Capitol News Connection Kentucky Congressman Backs Move Against Mountain Top Removal Mining Capitol News Connection The mine run by the company 'Arch Coal' was designed to be the country's largest mountain top removal coal mining project. West Virginia lawmakers released ... Colorado Lawmakers Back ...
  • More on the Spruce Mine: What about alternatives? ...
    More on the Spruce Mine: What about alternatives? Charleston Gazette (blog) When I wrote yesterday's post, Wondering about the Spruce Mine: Toward a more thoughtful discussion of mountaintop removal , I hadn't seen the commentary ... and more��
  • AP Ahead: Sen. foes give mountaintop mining a pass ...
    msnbc.com AP Ahead: Sen. foes give mountaintop mining a pass BusinessWeek Kentucky's US Senate candidates are unwilling to blast the practice of mountaintop removal mining as the two rivals depict themselves as ... Senate candidates' answers to mining question Lexington Herald Leader Ky. US Senate ...
  • EPA Moving Forward to Save Waters and Protect Loca ...
    EPA Moving Forward to Save Waters and Protect Local Community From Harm Media Newswire (press release) 1 Mine, one of the largest mountaintop removal mines ever proposed in Appalachia. This regional recommendation begins the final stage of the EPA's process ...

Memeorandum

  • Cyber Attack Strikes FreedomWorks (Peter Wallsten/ ...
    Peter Wallsten / Washington Wire : Cyber Attack Strikes FreedomWorks   —  A mysterious cyber attack apparently struck the computer servers at the pro-tea party group FreedomWorks this morning, just as it launched a major fund-raising drive.  —  FreedomWorks officials are investigating, but they sus ...
  • Screw Free Speech, NPR Fires Juan Williams for Mus ...
    P.J. Salvatore / Big Journalism : Screw Free Speech, NPR Fires Juan Williams for Muslim Remarks   —  NPR terminated its contract this evening with Juan Williams, who worked with them as a senior political analyst, after Williams appeared on Bill O'Reilly and spoke of a “Muslim dilemma:” … A taxpay ...
  • Coalition Forces Routing Taliban in Key Afghan Reg ...
    Carlotta Gall / New York Times : Coalition Forces Routing Taliban in Key Afghan Region   —  ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan — American and Afghan forces have been routing the Taliban in much of Kandahar Province in recent weeks, forcing many hardened fighters, faced with the buildup of American forces, to ...
  • Poll: Majority says no 'change' under Obama, or ch ...
    Sean J. Miller / The Hill : Poll: Majority says no ‘change’ under Obama, or change for the worse   —  A majority of voters in key battleground races say President Obama has either brought no change to Washington or has brought change for the worse.  —  In 10 competitive House districts, 41 percent ...
  • Democrats accuse Rand Paul of 'misogyny' (Manu Raj ...
    Manu Raju / The Politico : Democrats accuse Rand Paul of ‘misogyny’   —  Down in the polls and running out of time in the Kentucky Senate race, Democrats are broadening their attack over the alleged “Aqua Buddha” prank from Republican Rand Paul's college days, saying it shows he's insensitive to w ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.1, Tonga
    Friday, October 22, 2010 02:52:55 UTC Friday, October 22, 2010 03:52:55 PM at epicenter Depth : 42.30 km (26.28 mi)
  • M 5.1, Tonga
    Tuesday, October 19, 2010 21:16:24 UTC Wednesday, October 20, 2010 10:16:24 AM at epicenter Depth : 44.50 km (27.65 mi)
  • M 5.0, Sunda Strait, Indonesia
    Tuesday, October 19, 2010 20:49:08 UTC Wednesday, October 20, 2010 03:49:08 AM at epicenter Depth : 41.80 km (25.97 mi)
  • M 5.5, Tonga
    Tuesday, October 19, 2010 20:39:38 UTC Wednesday, October 20, 2010 09:39:38 AM at epicenter Depth : 21.10 km (13.11 mi)
  • M 5.0, Tonga
    Tuesday, October 19, 2010 10:58:17 UTC Tuesday, October 19, 2010 11:58:17 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Struggling to adjust
    The need for humans to adapt to climate change is clear, but the where, when and how remain fuzzy. Tan Copsey reports on existing – and hotly debated – plans for financing change in vulnerable countries. The climate is changing and human beings will need to change with it. People will have to adap ...
  • Slideshow: thirsty Beijing
    Per capita drinking water resources in the Chinese capital have sunk to 4% of the global average. In a series of images, photographer Olli Geibel documents the city’s predicament.
  • Pointing the finger the wrong way
    America’s largest union has persuaded Obama to investigate China’s cleantech subsidies – a protectionist move that will only hinder green progress and foster climate scepticism, writes Dale Jiajun Wen. On September 9, the biggest union in the United States, United Steelworkers , filed a 5,800-page p ...
  • Why Nagoya matters
    As global governments gather in Japan to negotiate a new path for fighting species loss, Mike Shanahan explains how human welfare and biodiversity are intricately entwined. In the late 1990s, I spent 18 months living in Lambir Hills National Park in Sarawak , in the Malaysian part of Borneo, where ...
  • “China must tax carbon”
    Chinese officials are reportedly preparing to introduce a levy on greenhouse-gas emissions. Energy finance expert Jiang Kejun tells Meng Si it cannot come soon enough. China ranks second in the Forbes 2009 Tax Misery & Reform Index , coming only behind France. But Jiang Kejun, senior researcher at t ...

AlterNet Top Stories

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  • Prosecutors Seek to Block Xbox Hacking Pioneer Fro ...
    Want a live tutorial on how to hack an Xbox by the guy who actually wrote the book on it? If so, you should plan to attend what likely will be the nation’s first federal jury trial of a defendant accused of jailbreaking Xbox 360s — installing mod chips that allow the console to run pirated [...]
  • Judge Clears CAPTCHA-Breaking Case for Criminal Tr ...
    A federal judge in New Jersey has cleared the way for a landmark criminal case targeting CAPTCHA circumvention to proceed to trial. The case targets a ring of defendants who used various means to bypass CAPTCHA — the squiggly letters and numbers websites display to prove a visitor is human — in ord ...
  • No, We Don’t Hate WikiLeaks
    We interrupt our regular coverage to address a rare dispatch from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that crossed the WikiLeaks Twitter feed this morning. In it, Assange slams Wired.com, and this writer in particular, for what he labels a false report that WikiLeaks is preparing to release a database ...
  • Supreme Court Takes Ashcroft Appeal in Detention C ...
    The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether former Attorney General John Ashcroft may be sued by an American detained for 16 days. It’s a case that a lower court judge said tests “the excesses of a powerful national government.” The lawsuit the justices decided to hear concerns whether Ashcrof ...
  • Teen to Plead Guilty to Staging Bomb Hoaxes For Lu ...
    A North Carolina teenager has agreed to plead guilty to a federal conspiracy charge for phoning in hoax bomb threats to colleges, middle schools and FBI offices around the country for the amusement of a live internet audience. Ashton Lundeby, 17, and his associates staged bomb hoaxes from mid-2008 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Obama meets with Apple CEO Jobs
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama met on Thursday afternoon in San Francisco with Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
  • HP unveils $799 tablet with a PC feel
    SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co unveiled its first product for the fast-growing tablet market, a $799 device running Microsoft Windows that is aimed at business customers.
  • Fed officials at odds on further easing
    ST. LOUIS/ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (Reuters) - Two top U.S. Federal Reserve officials gave competing views on the need for more monetary stimulus to the U.S. economy, continuing a public debate over further easing even as the core view at the U.S. central bank appears to favor such a move.
  • Haiti says 138 dead in suspected cholera outbreak
    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Nearly 140 people have died in central Haiti in an outbreak of severe diarrhea that Haitian health officials suspect is cholera, the government and U.N. officials said on Thursday.
  • Tokyo urges Japan and China to avoid tit-for-tat c ...
    TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan and China should focus on the big picture and avoid tit-for-tat recriminations, Japan's chief cabinet secretary said on Friday, as public protests and sharp comments by senior officials suggested mounting tensions between Asia's two biggest economies.

IntelNews

  • Iran admits some of its nuclear scientists spied f ...
    A top-level Iranian government official has admitted that some scientists and technicians in Iranâs nuclear energy program were successfully lured into spying for Israeli and Western intelligence agencies in the past. The disclosure, which was characterized as âstunningâ by the Associated Pres ...
  • News you may have missed #442
    Israeli lobby intensifies Pollard release effort. No compromise in WikiLeaks expose, concludes Pentagon. Niger ex-spy chief arrested. Continue reading →
  • CIA sues former officer for publishing unauthorize ...
    The US Central Intelligence Agency has announced a lawsuit against a former officer who authored a book without the Agencyâs prior approval. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #441
    Bomber who killed seven at CIA base was not vetted. Ex-CIA officer decries Israeli policies. US officials admit terrorist suspect was DEA informant. Continue reading →
  • British citizen among Mossad assassins intrigues i ...
    Only a handful of the 33 members of an Israeli assassination squad, who killed a senior Hamas member in Dubai last January, carried non-fraudulent passports. Most of the assassins, who in all probability worked for Kidon, an elite assassination unit within Israelâs Mossad intelligence agency, use ...

After Downing Street.org

  • FOUR NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE A ...
    WHO: The Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore was formed for individuals willing to engage in nonviolent civil resistance to first try to prevent and later to protest the war in Iraq. It is affiliated with several national peace groups, including the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance [NCNR]. ...
  • Army Enlistment Drops, Again
    Even the Recession Has Failed to Resuscitate a Desperate Military, New Report Suggests read more
  • Our Brave Troops in Afghanistan Make Civilians Wal ...
    That's the criminal allegation in this report from The Independent . And here's Derrick Crowe on the New York Times' latest support for more war . And Robert Naiman on trading human needs for more pointless war in both the UK and the US. read more
  • Alabama Democratic Senate Nominee Bill Barnes Want ...
    9:30 a.m. National Press Club News Conference Who: Bill Barnes, 2010 Democratic Senate Nominee for Alabama What: News conference briefing and Q&A When: 9:30 a.m., Friday, Oct. 22, 2010 Where: National Press Club Zenger Room, 13th Floor, 529 14th St., NW, Washington, DC Washington, DC (Oc ...
  • Brian Becker: “End The Wars!”
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Grist - News

  • Minnesota governor’s race: Dayton vs. Horner ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. When Sarah Palin and the "drill, baby, drill" chant rose to prominence at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, two leading Minnesota Republicans reacted in very different ways. And their responses represent two distinct directions that state voters could c ...
  • We’re tearing this highway down, Transportat ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. It's one thing to talk about designing cities and towns for people instead of cars, as Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has done . It's another thing to make good on that pledge by tearing down elevated highways that prevent foot traffic and isolate neighborhoods from each ...
  • IBM’s OneCity urban fix-it game
    by Jonathan Hiskes. IBM is hyping its new flash video game, OneCity , which is sort of a hybrid between SimCity and a well-produced product pitch. Rather than building a metropolis from scratch, as in SimCity, players inherit a picturesque mountain city and try to fix problem scenarios that aris ...
  • Angry county could cut California out of $33 milli ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. How lovely: California may lose $33 million in energy-efficiency funds because officials in Riverside County are upset they didn't get more than half of the sum for their region. Earlier this year the Western Riverside Council of Governments, which represents part of a county ...
  • How does population affect climate change?
    by Lisa Hymas. Population growth obviously has an impact on climate change, but there's been little rigorous study of exactly what that impact is. New research published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences begins to fill that gap. The top-level takeaway: "lowing populati ...

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Washington Independent

  • Markey Raises Concerns About China Blocking Rare E ...
    Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, sent a letter to key Obama administration officials today asking for more information about reports that China is blocking shipments of rare earth minerals to the United States. The letter ...
  • Calculating the Impact of the Oil Spill on Wildlif ...
    On a conference call today on the Obama administration’s efforts to determine the extent of natural resources damages from the oil spill, an Interior Department official gave reporters a sense of the impact of the spill on wildlife. Of the 8,000 oiled birds found by the government in the aftermath o ...
  • Everyone Is Violating FEC Rules!
    It’s less than two weeks until election day, which means the time for levying complaints with the Federal Election Commission against political opponents is well underway. First off, Alaska GOP Senate candidate Joe Miller is accusing Alaskans Standing Together, a group that’s poured nearly $600,000 ...
  • GOP Senators Accuse Obama Administration of Avoidi ...
    Senate Republicans have long criticized the Obama administration as lax on immigration enforcement, and their argument was bolstered by news this week that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is dismissing a record-high number of cases against immigrant detainees in Houston. In response, seven pro-e ...
  • One Climate Skeptic Gives His Thoughts on the Futu ...
    I reached out to prominent climate skeptic Warren Meyer, who runs the website climate-skeptic.com, for his views on whether future generations will raise questions about climate science in the same way that many Republicans do today. I wrote about the issue earlier today. Meyer, in an email, said th ...

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Invisible Opportunity

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Republican Energy Plan (cartoon)
    Same old same old from the right side of the aisle. As Treehugger columnist, Brian Merchant recently shared, “they are the only major political party of any democracy in the world that gets away with denying climate science.” Scary. More on the ever-tan Mr. Boehner: John Boehner on the Issues (sc ...
  • Here Comes Trouble (cartoon)
    Recent news of the habitable planet that circles a star called Gliese 581, and the ensuing article in the Huffington Post, by James Napoli inspired this little cartoon. The news is also reminiscent of one of my favorite children’s books Wump World, by Bill Peet. Look out Wumps! Here we come! New ...
  • Republican Clouds (cartoon)
    Obama announced recently that he plans to add solar panels to the White House. I can’t see anyone or anything standing in the way. White House gets into 10/10/10 spirit with solar-panel plan Obama: âNo industry with more potential to create jobs now than clean energyâ Follow Joe Mohrâs cart ...
  • 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) ...

Inhabitat

  • Lighthouse Stadium is a Glowing Green-Roofed Beaco ...
    In the city of Belfort, France a new green-roofed stadium has arisen on top of the centuries-old fortification of a defensive wall. The glass-shrouded green-roofed sports complex stands in smart contrast with the neighboring 17th century stone walls, and at night it gives off a gentle glow signaling ...
  • SMASH CAN: A Trash Bin That Compacts Your Waste
    Dealing with more trash than you can handle? Apart from consciously trying to cut back on everyday waste, another alternative is the Smash Can – a trash that can reduce the volume of trash sent to landfills by smashing and compacting waste. Each Smash Can can shrink your household garbage up to half ...
  • San Diego to Unveil Nation’s Largest Wind-Powered ...
    Attention, residents of San Diego, California: keep an eye out for the launch of the largest interactive green energy lighting project in North America! The Port Commissioners and Caltrans just unveiled plans for a programmable LED light show on the San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge that will be 100% po ...
  • Use Your Tote Bags As Throw Pillows!
    Even though reusable tote bags are touted as being more eco friendly than plastic bags, the rate at which they’re being given out (at least one and sometimes two at every single event we’ve been to this year), seems a bit counter-productive. What is one supposed to do with 20 organic cotton bags? We ...
  • NYC Readers: Join Our Focus Group THIS FRIDAY!
    Heads up New York Inhabitat Readers! Are you an avid Inhabitat reader? Do you want to meet the team behind Inhabitat and have a hand in helping us improve the website? Looking for a free meal and some Inhabishwag for your time? We’re looking for some awesome NYC-area readers who would like to com ...

Pogue's Posts

  • Office for Mac Isn't an Improvement
    Office 2011 for Mac is a big step backward. The new Outlook is the biggest disappointment.
  • Farewell, GOOG-411
    On Nov. 12, Google will turn off its free, voice-activated directory-assistance service forever. There are several options for those intending to soldier on in the post-GOOG-411 world.
  • Shifting Time Zones on Online Calendars
    Making an appointment in one time zone does not mean your calendar will remind you at the right time if you travel to another time zone-unless you adjust a setting.
  • How Do You Test a Battery?
    Help David Pogue design a protocol for testing the battery life of a smartphone running Flash videos.
  • Testing Videos on Cellphones - With Flash
    Flash on Android cellphones makes a world of watchable content available. Except for Hulu videos.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Marathon Math: How Not to Hit the Wall
    A marathoner’s worst nightmare — hitting “the wall” — may be completely avoidable if athletes adhere to personalized pace limits proposed by a biomedical engineer and runner. Benjamin Rapoport’s mathematical formula, published online Oct. 21 in PLoS Computational Biology, shows the speediest pa ...
  • The Moon Hides Ice Where the Sun Don’t Shine
    The moon is pockmarked with cold, wet oases that could contain enough water ice to be useful to manned missions. A year after NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) smashed into the surface of the moon, astronomers have confirmed that lunar craters can be rich reservoirs of ...
  • DIY Bat-Saving: Build Your Own Bat House
    Looking for a simple, outdoorsy fall project that could help save threatened bats from dying out? Then it’s time to put up a bat box. If you put it up now, bats will have a chance to scout it out — and come next summer, you might have your very own colony. Full instructions are available [...]
  • Physics of Wet Dogs Shake Out in High-Speed Videos
    By Duncan Geere, Wired UK The last time a wet dog looked Andrew Dickerson in the eye, readying a shake, he didn’t flee in terror like most people would. Instead, like any true physicist, he whipped out a slow motion video camera to see if he could capture the exact frequency at which [...]
  • Video: Sloth’s Strange Walk Is Really Just Upside ...
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience631980243001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); Two-toed sloths spend a lot of time hanging upside down from tropical tree branches in Central and South America, and looking very odd. But new research suggests they move just like a mirror image of ma ...

The Progressive Realist

  • NATO and Missile Defense: Conspicuous Vagueness
    Recently, the issue of NATO missile defense capabilities has come to the fore. The United States is hoping that at November’s NATO summit in Lisbon, the alliance will officially approve a plan to turn the U.S. Phased Adaptive Approach into the centerpiece of a comprehensive NATO missile defense syst ...
  • Brookings’ Ken Pollack: Airstrikes on Iran "Will B ...
    There’s a lot to recommend in Ken Pollack’s new piece outlining an Iran containment strategy , but I’d put his dismantling of the argument that Iran’s nuclear program can be dealt with through air strikes at the top of the list. Many of the key points — an attack would unify Iranians, deal a death b ...
  • The Neocon New-START Whip
    In a show of dedication to the two-front war doctrine, neoconservative thought leaders gave three warning shots to the rest of the Republican establishment yesterday. Those shots are a message to get in line on opposing the New START treaty – the second front in the GOP’s internecine war, with the ...
  • The Problem with Pakistan: They Want Different Stu ...
    I don’t share Joshua Foust’s semi-personal level of animus toward Zalmay Khalilzad but I think Foust’s critique of Khalilzad’s latest offering makes some extremely valuable general points. Khalilzad starts out with a banal point masquerading as insight derived from on-the-ground experience: When I ...
  • UK Strategic Review and the New Security Protectio ...
    The U.K. defense review is now available (.pdf), and to make a long story short, London -- with a great deal of help from Washington -- broke its military and is now looking at about a decade of shore leave . There are some parallels with France's Defense White Paper from two years ago, with the maj ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Year of the Zombie Political Narr ...
    Ron Johnson , a Republican businessman hoping to unseat Russ Feingold in Wisconsin, summarizes the GOP platform this year: "I don't believe this election is about details. I really don't." Somewhat contradictorily, Johnson also says that he wants to tell people "what my philosophy is." I don't know ...
  • Health-Care Implementation Moves Forward.
    Today, an organization of state health-care regulators made an important decision . The Affordable Care Act mandated that 85 percent of each dollar patients pay their health insurers go toward actual medical costs, not business expenses or profit, but it didn't define medical costs. The state regula ...
  • The Little Picture: Spitzer's Image Rehab.
    (Flickr/ Center for American Progress ) Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer at the Center for American Progress. Despite a largely successful attempt to rehabilitate his public image after being caught in a prostitution sting -- including getting his own talk show on CNN -- Spitzer was shown the d ...
  • When It Doesn't Pay to Tell The Truth.
    I made this point on this week's soon-to-be published podcast, and I had planned to write a longer post about it, but Sally Quinn beat me to it with a post called "Why Anita Hill Deserves an Apology": Women like Anita Hill who try to tell the truth about being sexually harassed all too often are di ...
  • The "Reasonable" Approach to Repealing DADT.
    Adam makes a great point about the Obama administration's duty to defend "don't ask, don't tell" in court -- one many of us who have been calling on the administration not to defend the discriminatory law have glossed over: I think it's perfectly valid to argue, as former Solicitor General Paul Cle ...

Buzzflash

  • Why Did Donna Brazile Use the F-word in Oprah's Ma ...
    SUE WILSON FOR BUZZFLASH In the October issue of O magazine , the DCCC's Donna Brazile did the unthinkable:  she used the "F" word - in Oprah Winfrey's publication, no less.  Eyebrows are being raised across the political spectrum. Okay, not that "F" word, but one that is far more controversial ...
  • Dr. J.'s BF Commentary No. 156: The GOP's Perfect ...
    In an article in The New York Times on December 2, 2007 (Herzenhorn, D., "How the Filibuster Became the Rule") the GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told us how it would be whenever the GOP had that solid minority of 40 votes in the Senate: "I think that we can stipulate once again for the ...
  • "The Ones Who are Bitching Loudest Today are Preci ...
    BARBARA'S BUZZ FROM ATLANTA http://www.smirkingchimp.com/ thread/david-michael-green/ 31807/how-do-you-take-your- tea-with-heaping-spoonfuls-of- irony-of-course "It's ironic, to begin with, that the ones who are bitching loudest today are precisely the people who created the mess we're in."  Eight ...
  • America's Founders Were Deistic Liberal Humanists ...
    HARVEY WASSERMAN FOR BUZZFLASH This is a Greco-Roman nation, gathered in a Hodenosaunee longhouse. As they wrap themselves in the Constitution they mean to shred, that is the self-evident Truth the Tea/GOP Party ultimately cannot face. Our legal godfathers--the ones Glenn Beck loves to conjure--were ...
  • Brash NJ GOP Gov. Christie Boldly Kills $9 Billion ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH Supporters of this cancellation In both parties were rather few; The man with many appetites Bit off more than he could chew. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101008/ap_on_bi_ge/us_trans_hudson_tunnel In addition to Verse-Case Scenario, Tony Peyser writes about California ...

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The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Six sexy science books
    Six sexy science books at least one or two of which would make perfect holiday gifts for the science geek, nerd, dweeb, or dork in your life. Remember Science is Vital and so are books. Science: The Definitive Guide by Piers Bizony – As a kid, I devoured books like this, you probably did too, [...] ...
  • Progress or PR
    Progress or PR? – SciDev.net recently published a "guide" for journalists on separating real progress from PR hype surrounding clinical trials. It's a well-written and quite timely piece given the backlash against medical reporting in recent years. Unfortunately, this kind of advice is only ever tak ...
  • Scientists dodge Osborne’s axe
    Scientists dodge Osborne’s axe – The Science is Vital campaign has turned UK Chancellor George Osborne who recognised at the 11th hour that the £4.6 billion science budget should be maintained over the next four years. He accepted that research will be key to long-term economic growth. More to the p ...
  • GERD’s dirty little secret
    GERD’s dirty little secret – When omeprazole's patent expired AstraZeneca launched the optically pure version esomeprazole, which is apparently four times as active and gave them a new patent and a corner of the acid reflux market. Bizarrely, both forms of the drug (pro-drug in fact) are converted t ...
  • Science news
    Yet more science: Antibiotics and budgets – Seven days. That's the usual length of an antibiotic scrip – 3 pills a day for a week – 21 pills. But would 20 pills be okay? Would that eradicate the bacterial infection just the same? That's a 5% saving. What about 19 pills? 18? Fifteen even? The [...] S ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Statement by Leslie Kantor, National Director of ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 20, 2010 Planned Parenthood Planned Parenthood Federation of America issued the following statement today regarding a new CDC report showing disparity in teen birthrates by states: The full CDC report can be found HERE. read more
  • Publice Has a Right to Know What Tom Delay Did and ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 20, 2010 CREW Why did disgraced former Congressman Tom DeLay (R-TX) never face federal prosecution? The public has a right to know, but the Department of Justice isn’t telling. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has filed a Freedom of Informa ...
  • Communities Face Unacceptable Dangers from Chrome ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 21, 2010 Earthjustice The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today issued a notice of its proposed decision not to update the emission standards for chromium electroplating plants, an action that poses significant threats to the health of people who live near such fac ...
  • Free Press: FCC Should Consider Comcast-NBC’s Impa ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 20, 2010 Free Press On Wednesday, Free Press sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission urging it to weigh the impact of the proposed Comcast-NBC merger on future retransmission disputes. The group argues that conflicts like the one between Cablevision and F ...
  • Throwing Good Money at Bad Land
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 20, 2010 Environmental Working Group (EWG) A new Environmental Working Group (EWG) analysis has found that a federal Bureau of Reclamation proposal to continue farming on a vast swath of selenium-tainted acreage in the Central Valley's giant Westlands Water District ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Corporate Corruptistan
    by Jim Hightower The teabag forces are out front in today's politics, noisily trying to oust Democrats and install a new Congress that they think will end "business-as-usual" in Washington. Nice political rhetoric, but peek behind the curtain. read more
  • 10 Reasons Not to Tax the Rich. And Why They're Al ...
    by Paul Buchheit We hear them all the time, the reasons for unrestricted capitalism, minimal government, lower taxes for the rich. So often that many Americans start to believe them. But the facts and common sense reveal good reasons NOT to NOT tax the rich. (1) The rich deserve what they earn becau ...
  • Bamiyan Diaries – Day One
    by David Smith-Ferri Bamiyan Province in Afghanistan, a stunningly beautiful mountainous region, is located in the center of the country, roughly 100 miles from Kabul. Most people here live in small, autonomous villages tucked into high mountain valleys, and work dawn to dusk just to scratch out a ...
  • When Banks Are the Robbers
    by Amy Goodman The big banks that caused the collapse of the global finance market, and received tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded bailouts, have likely been engaging in wholesale fraud against homeowners and the courts. read more
  • Fight for Your Right to Vote for CEO Pay
    by Laura Flanders From the file marked "Good but could go bad," there's this news. We already know that CEO pay has spiked alarmingly over the last decade or so, causing dangerous rifts as ordinary working people struggle to get by and watch their jobs go poof. read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • The New York Times Hypes the Afghanistan War, Agai ...
    By Derrick Crowe The New York Times just published a story under the headline, "Coalition Forces Routing Taliban in Key Afghan Region" that could not include more Pentagon talking points if it were written by General David Petraeus himself. In both the broad outline of the story and in the part ...
  • Massaging The Messaging On Afghan "Progress"
    By Steve Hynd As a follow-up to my post earlier today about the US military's deliberate spin of a quagmire as "deliberate progress", it's worth reading this report by Ben Gilbert of Global Post: KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – A major military operation involving hundreds of American troops, U.S. ...
  • Taliban Flee U.S. Offensive, But Promise To Return
    By Steve Hynd The New York Time's Carlotta Gall has a report today, sourced mainly from U.S. military accounts, that echoes the military's tale of "gradual progress" near Kandahar in South Afghanistan. NATO commanders are careful not to overstate their successes — they acknowledge they made that mis ...
  • Iran Offers to "Help Stabilize Afghanistan"
    By Steve Hynd Yesterday, at the Rome conference, Iran offered to help NATO stabilize Afghanistan in return for some quid pro quo from the US. "Iran is convinced that a regional approach is needed to stabilise Afghanistan but clearly we need the support of the international community, including the U ...
  • General Petraeus, Proconsul of Fantasyland
    By Derrick Crowe The gap between General Petraeus' rhetoric and the reality on the ground in Afghanistan grows every day. On October 14, 2010, the Afghan NGO Safety Office (ANSO) released its quarterly report (.pdf) on the security situation in Afghanistan , which described the continued gro ...

Water Wars

  • Annexation angers Flagler chairman
    It's not the Army that the Flagler County Commission chairman takes issue with. It's the notion the city of Palm Coast might attempt to annex an Armed Forces Reserve Center if it is built adjacent to the Flagler County Airport, and that it would wage "water wars" to do it.
  • Appeal means a murky solution to water wars
    A look at water resources in Georgia and how the issue plays into the Nov. 2 general election. The next governor must find a solution before July 17, 2012, to the water war that has plagued Georgia.
  • A ringside seat at the end of the world: Haiku fro ...
    these haiku plumb truths gleaned from writers’ conference held in Missoula my dogma is: earth’s trajectory is on path to catastrophe boost in wildfires, temps, glacier melt; the West’s up a creek, paddlelessly! invasive species so fruitful — no hills left for natives to flee to land snatched from tr ...
  • Water wars: Is a tougher approach to irrigators ne ...
    CLIFF Hayes is settling into his new surrounds outside Swan Hill. He's shifted his cattle 20 kilometres closer to the river, where his new farm lies. It's smaller, more manageable, has better access to water and, unlike his old farm, the new place boasts an electricity connection.
  • Canal-Aqueduct Tunnel Project Near Tracy May Ease ...
    The promise of reliable water supplies in one of the areas hardest hit by drought and job losses brought together U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Thursday for a project designed to ease the conditions.

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Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

  • NATO forces put civilians in danger while pou ...
    Civilians in southern Afghanistan are in greater danger now more than ever, with American-led forces mercilessly pounding Taliban strongholds in the region, especially in Kandahar province.
  • US' 'fight Taliban or lose funding' ...
    The United States has reportedly warned Pakistan that continued inaction against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda havens bordering Afghanistan could jeopardize the billions of dollars provided to the country.
  • Worried US demands China nuclear pact details from ...
    The United States has asked Pakistan to give a detailed account of its nuclear pact with China, US Special Envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke has said.
  • Afghan insurgents say "no hope" for peac ...
    KABUL (Reuters) - Mid-level Taliban insurgency commanders do not believe their leaders have begun tentative peace talks with the Afghan government, with many vowing on Friday not to give up the fight ...
  • 1-Nato soldier, four Afghan cops killed .....
    The soldier died following “an insurgent attack”, Nato’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement, without further detail. The death brings to 598 the number of foreign...

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

  • Risky Business: Bailout Watchdog Criticizes Treasu ...
    Bloomberg reports that taxpayers received higher returns on the government’s investments in financial firms through the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) than they would have made investing in 30-year Treasury bonds, high-yield savings accounts, money-market funds, or certificates of deposit....
  • Morning Smoke: Federal Prosecutors Foundering in C ...
    Efforts to Prosecute Blackwater Are Collapsing by James Risen [The New York Times] Americans give low marks to Obama transparency effort at agencies by Aliya Sternstein [Nextgov] FBI's Sentinel project $100 million over budget, 2 years behind schedule by Nicole...
  • New Details Emerge out of POGO's BLM Ethics Invest ...
    POGO readers recently pointed out a few details we missed in our investigation into the bungled ethics ruling at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). For one, it turns out that Linda Rundell, the BLM manager who had "tears in...
  • Morning Smoke: Are Government Officials Hindering ...
    Watchdog Interference: Inspectors General Say Agencies Hinder Investigations by John Solomon and Amy Biegelsen [Center for Public Integrity] Telling Secrets by Steven Aftergood [Foreign Policy] Security Firms Plan Code in Bid for Self-Regulation Tuesday by Nathan Hodge [The Wall Street...
  • British Shift to F-35C: A Blow to the Beleaguered ...
    The UK government has decided to shift its Royal Navy purchases of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) from the F-35B short take-off and vertical model (STOVL) to the F-35C carrier version, according to news reports. UK Prime Minister David Cameron...

Digital Journal

  • Naheed Nenshi steps into Canadian history
    I have a confession to make: I had never heard of the new Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi, until last night when he popped up on all Canadian and several international news media for being Canada's first Muslim mayor.
  • Man who rescued baby from dumpster didn't realize ...
    A man who crawled into a dumpster to rescue a newborn baby on Tuesday said he has now learned that he is the child’s father. The baby was discovered inside a rubbish bag in a metal trash bin at a townhouse complex.
  • Autumn's colourful sights in Nova Scotia
    In a few short weeks the towering gates of the Halifax Public Gardens will be closed for the season. One of the finest surviving examples of Victorian Gardens in North America, it was established in 1836.
  • Canada: Google Street View breaks privacy laws
    Google Street View cars collected more than street scenes as they cruised Canadian neighbourhoods; They also inadvertently collected private information in contravention of Canadian privacy laws.
  • Economic outlook and debt reduction for businesses
    Businesses can benefit greatly from low interest rates currently available by prioritizing debt reduction in their organizations.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Increasingly, the Homeless Log On When They're Dow ...
    Regardless of the intent of those who recently posted images of homeless men using laptops , a discussion has emerged around the more-common-than-one-might-think bewilderment at how a homeless person could possibly (1) acquire a technological device and (2) benefit from one. To many, a homeless pers ...
  • Boo! Girl Scouts Lead a Halloween Costume Drive fo ...
    Christmas is probably the donation-spurring holiday — and for good reason — but many homeless children need a little help participating in other important events, like trick-or-treating. Growing up, was there anything more exciting than dressing up as a witch, a pumpkin or a rock star and going door ...
  • Atlanta Councilman Urges Colleagues to Hire the Ho ...
    Having a roof over one's head is nice. Having a job that will enable one to pay for said roof is even nicer. Atlanta City Councilman Kwanza Hall helped Erica Merriwether get just that. Merriwether lost her accounting job at an Atlanta law firm in July 2008 and eventually lost her home and her car. B ...
  • Tax-Evading Restaurateur's Sentence Is Delivering ...
    Who's hungry? This is the kind of rough justice we can get behind: a pizza shop owner in Buffalo, NY who cheated the government out of more than $100,000 in sales tax in the last four years has been sentenced to good works. Instead of getting prison time for his guilty plea to third-degree grand lar ...
  • The Fair Housing Five Sure Beats Huck Fi ...
    Add this to the reading list:  The Fair Housing Five , a new book about housing discrimination from the non-profit, civil rights organization the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center . In the children's book, a little girl named Samaria and her friends are scared of a haunted house across ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Canadian troops destroyed villages to save them?
    A New York Times report (Carlotta Gall, “In Afghan South, U.S. Faces Frustrated Residents,” 16 October 2010) on the frustration and disillusion expressed by Afghan civilians in the region around Kandahar cites Canadian actions as one of the sources of complaints: Three years ago, Canadian troops bui ...
  • Join the No Stealth Fighters Campaign conference c ...
    Ceasefire.ca’s No Stealth Fighters Campaign Canada-wide strategic briefing conference call, with Steven Staples and special guest Michael Byers. Thursday, October 28, 2010 12:00 Eastern (1:00 AT, 11:00 CT, 10:00 MT, 9:00 PT) Join us to learn more about Stephen Harper’s plan to spend $16 billion on “ ...
  • Why the F-35 is the wrong plane for Canada
    Steven Staples’ op-ed detailing why the Conservative government’s intended $16 billion F-35  fighter jets are the wrong plane for Canada appeared in today’s edition of Embassy.   Click here for the full article. Photo by World’s Saddest Man
  • Taliban and Afghan government begin informal talks
    Several sources have confirmed over the past week that informal peace talks have begun between Taliban leaders and Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s government. NATO has been facilitating the meetings by providing Taliban leaders with safe passage to Kabul to meet with high-level members of the Karzai ...
  • Little oversight for security contracts: U.S. Sena ...
    According to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, the Pentagon has little oversight over contracted security deals in Afghanistan and, as a result, local security deals between Western companies, American military commanders, and Afghan warlords with close connections to the Taliban are being ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Fluoridated Water Dangerous, Especially For Babies
    October 21st, 2010 Natural News By: Ethan A. Huff Advocates of fluoridated water insist that the chemical additive is good for teeth, but actual science routinely shows otherwise, including a new study published in the Journal of the American Dental Association confirming fluoride as a toxic substan ...
  • Pilot Not Allowed Through Security After He Refuse ...
    October 20th, 2010 TechDirt There’s been a lot of talk lately about the new body scanners at airports, which create a “virtually naked” image of you — bringing up all sorts of privacy concerns, especially as reports are coming out about how the machines can record images. Many people, concerned abou ...
  • Eating Tofu to Fight Tumors?
    October 20th, 2010 Time – Healthland By: Alice Park Soy may be good for the heart, but if you’re trying to keep the ticker healthy and happen to be a breast cancer patient as well, then it’s not so clear how beneficial soy products may be for you. The studies so far haven’t helped. Soy contains isof ...
  • Vitamin B12 May Reduce the Risk of Alzheimer&#8217 ...
    October 19th, 2010 AOL Health By: Marrecca Fiore Mounting evidence suggests that vitamin B12 may play a role in protecting the brain against Alzheimer’s disease and in reducing the risk of memory loss. The latest research, published in the Oct. 19 issue of the journal Neurology, followed 271 Finnish ...
  • Alcohol Gene ‘Could Help Curb Alcoholism&#82 ...
    October 19th, 2010 BBC News By: Michelle Roberts Experts say they have found a “tipsy” gene that explains why some people feel alcohol’s effects quicker than others. The US researchers believe 10% to 20% of people have a version of the gene that may offer some protection against alcoholism. That is ...

Pambazuka News

  • March on Washington scheduled for November
    The Black is Back Coalition has announced a march and rally on the White House to take place November 13, 2010 beginning in Washington, DC’s historic Malcolm X Park. This will mark the second year in a row that this black coalition will be protestin...
  • USA: Black community activist faces possible 10 ye ...
    Diop Olugbala (aka Wali Rahman) will be sentenced on Wednesday, 13 October to a possible 10 years in prison for speaking out on behalf of the rights of the black community. A press conference and demonstration will be held prior to Olugbala’s sentenc...
  • Morocco: Expats returning home in greater numbers
    Faced with the woes of the global economic crisis, an increasing number of Moroccan expatriates are coming back home. Meanwhile, the government is intensifying effort to aid the community abroad as well as help them maintain ties with their home coun...
  • 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...

War in Context

  • How to deal with Islamophobia in the media
    So, as just about everyone now knows, NPR analyst and Fox News contributor, Juan Williams said this to Bill O’Reilly on Monday: Iâm not a bigot… But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying [...]
  • The post-colonial era is slow coming
    “It seems like the ragheads and the Pakis are worrying your dad, but your dad’s favorite food is curry and kebab,” sings Lowkey, summing up the multicultural dilemma facing quite a few white Englishmen. Peyvand Khorsandi provides another multicultural vignette: Golborne Road, on the outskirts of N ...
  • Nick Turse: base desires in Afghanistan
    Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com As we know from a single April 19, 2003 New York Times piece, the Pentagon arrived in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq preparing for a long stay.  They already had at least four mega-military bases on the drawing boards as they entered the country (all subsequently ...
  • Israel’s coma
    While most Israelis can’t visit Ariel Sharon in hospital, they can now do the closest thing: go stand next to a life-size model of the former prime minister, propped up in bed, attached to a drip and steadily breathing in an otherwise empty room in a Tel Aviv art gallery. “Sharon’s still breathin ...
  • “No Pakistani child is worth one whit less that an ...
    FB Ali at Sic Semper Tyrannis drew my attention to a blog post that appeared in Pakistan’s Express Tribune. It was written by a US Army helicopter pilot, John Bockmann, who was recently deployed to help in relief work, following this summer’s devastating flooding. US humanitarian aid — especially w ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Eight tenths of a degree? Think of the Grandchildr ...
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach James Hansen and others say that we owe it to our Grandchildren to get this climate question right. Hansen says “Grandchildren” with a capital G when he speaks of them so I will continue the … Continue reading →
  • Spencer on the Lacis-NASA GISS CO2 paper
        Does CO2 Drive the Earthâs Climate System? Comments on the Latest NASA GISS Paper by Dr. Roy Spencer There was a very clever paper published in Science this past week by Lacis, Schmidt, Rind, and Ruedy that uses … Continue reading →
  • On Bradley: Blackmail or Let’s Make a Deal.
    Guest Post by Steven Mosher Not the funniest Monty Python sketch, but for me it illustrates what the climate wars have finally come down to: blackmail. The examples range from the benign–pressuring journalists not listen to skeptics– to the professional– … Continue reading →
  • China halts rare earth minerals to US – Hi-t ...
    China Halts Shipments to U.S. of Tech-Crucial Minerals From LiveScience by Jeremy Hsu A nasty trade dispute appears to have prompted Chinese customs officials to block shipments of rare earth minerals to the U.S. The move underscores a deepening U.S. … Continue reading →
  • Summer 2010 in the Arctic and Other Sea Ice Topics
    Guest post by Dr. Walt Meier Now that the summer is over, I thought people might be interested in a bit of retrospective of the sea ice melt season in 2010 and in the longer-term context. NSIDC provided a brief … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • BP Oil Disaster: Terry Tempest Williams Asks &#822 ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! Oct. 21, 2010 6 Months Since BP Oil Spill, Writer and Environmentalist Terry Tempest Williams Asks “Where Is Our Outrage?” Six months ago, BPâs Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and triggering the wor ...
  • Southeast Asia: West Completes Plans For Asian NAT ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism October 21, 2010 In keeping with the global trend manifested in other strategically vital areas of the world, the United States and its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization – a consortium o ...
  • Peter Schiff Vs. Doug Henwood on Economic Crisis
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ http://www.therealnews.com Free market guru Peter Schiff debates Doug Henwood of Left Business Observer on causes and solutions Doug Henwood is the editor and publisher of Left Business Observer, a contributing editor of The Nation, and hosts a radio weekly progr ...
  • Nobody To Blame But… by Philip A. Farruggio
    by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad October 19, 2010 My dear friend Rita B. was a real stalwart activist. She was 70 something, had emphysema , and still came out each and every week to stand with us. We stood ( and still stand ) each Tuesday at rush hour on a busy corner [...]
  • Heroes for the Beaten, Foreclosed on, Imprisoned M ...
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig October 18, 2010 Staughton Lynd could have built an enviable career as an academic but for his conscience. His conscience led him as a young undergraduate disgusted by the elitism around him to drop out of Harvard, and tortured him when he ret ...

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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    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

  • Marathon Math: How Not to Hit the Wall
    A marathoner’s worst nightmare — hitting “the wall” — may be completely avoidable if athletes adhere to personalized pace limits proposed by a biomedical engineer and runner. Benjamin Rapoport’s mathematical formula, published online Oct. 21 in PLoS Computational Biology, shows the speediest pa ...
  • The Moon Hides Ice Where the Sun Don’t Shine
    The moon is pockmarked with cold, wet oases that could contain enough water ice to be useful to manned missions. A year after NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) smashed into the surface of the moon, astronomers have confirmed that lunar craters can be rich reservoirs of ...
  • DIY Bat-Saving: Build Your Own Bat House
    Looking for a simple, outdoorsy fall project that could help save threatened bats from dying out? Then it’s time to put up a bat box. If you put it up now, bats will have a chance to scout it out — and come next summer, you might have your very own colony. Full instructions are available [...]
  • Physics of Wet Dogs Shake Out in High-Speed Videos
    By Duncan Geere, Wired UK The last time a wet dog looked Andrew Dickerson in the eye, readying a shake, he didn’t flee in terror like most people would. Instead, like any true physicist, he whipped out a slow motion video camera to see if he could capture the exact frequency at which [...]
  • Video: Sloth’s Strange Walk Is Really Just Upside ...
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience631980243001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); Two-toed sloths spend a lot of time hanging upside down from tropical tree branches in Central and South America, and looking very odd. But new research suggests they move just like a mirror image of ma ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Nabil Sha’ath: Does Israel want peace or to play t ...
    Let us be clear: Palestinians long ago recognized Israel and its right to exist in peace and security. Twenty-two years ago, to be precise. The peace process that began 17 years ago has repeatedly... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Elders censure Israel over discrimination in east ...
    "If a solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is to be found it has to be here in Jerusalem as well," said delegation leader and former Irish president Mary Robinson. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fif ...
  • AHAVA boycott campaign brings out protesters and c ...
    On October 26th, Brooklyn For Peace, CODEPINK NYC, Adalah-NY, Jews Say No!, Jewish Voice for Peace, and other local groups will bring the Stolen Beauty Ahava boycott campaign to Brooklyn for a third... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • IDF to block Facebook, Gmail to prevent ‘gifts for ...
    Following the Second Lebanon War in 2006, the IDF established a special unit whose purpose was to prevent the leakage of classified information onto the internet via social networks. The unit... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
  • Naabil Sha’ath: Does Israel want peace or to play ...
    Let us be clear: Palestinians long ago recognized Israel and its right to exist in peace and security. Twenty-two years ago, to be precise. The peace process that began 17 years ago has repeatedly... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Scary Chupacabras Monster Is as Much Victim as Vil ...
    As Halloween approaches, tales of monsters and creepy crawlies abound. Among the most fearsome is the legendary beast known as the chupacabras.
  • New Chapter on Colorectal Cancer Added to the Fema ...
    The New York State Chapter of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, District II (ACOG) has partnered with the Jay Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center to develop the fifth and final chapter to the Focus on Female ...
  • Lean on Me: Social Support is Critical to Dialysis ...
    Dialysis patients with little social support from friends and family are more likely to ignore doctors' orders, experience a poorer quality of life, and die prematurely, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The result ...
  • Simple Blood Test Helps Predict Chronic Kidney Dis ...
    Measuring three biomarkers in a single blood sample may improve physicians' ability to identify patients at high risk of developing chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
  • Global Experiment Will Shed Light on Biodiversity ...
    Professor Emmett Duffy of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science has received a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a global experimental network for studying how changes in biodiversity impact seagrass beds.

Natural Health News

  • California Surfer Films Great White Sharks Circlin ...
    Most surfers don’t want to have great white sharks getting close to them.� But surfer Chuck Patterson saw it as a filming opportunity.
  • Fox on a Trampoline
    A wild fox plays on a trampoline in a back garden in Kent, England.
  • Is Insulin Resistance Associated with Stroke Risk?
    Insulin resistance, which occurs when insulin produced by your body becomes less effective, appears to be associated with an increased risk of stroke. Researchers assessed insulin resistance for more than 1,500 non-diabetic study participants, who were then followed for an average of 8.5 years.� In ...
  • New Superbugs Raising Concerns Worldwide
    Some germs now carry a new gene with the power to destroy some types of antibiotics.� These bacteria are intensifying fears that new types of “superbugs” could eventually make antibiotics obsolete. The bacteria with the gene include previously unseen strains of E. coli and other common pathogen ...
  • 3 Lifestyle Choices Lower Breast Cancer Risk
    Women who make healthy lifestyle choices can lower their risk of breast cancer even if their family has a history of the disease, according to a new study. Researchers found that women lowered their risk by about one-fourth by getting regular exercise, limiting their alcohol consumption, and maint ...

Antemedius

  • People Power: European Activism & Constitutional C ...
    All across Europe recently there have been wave after wave of co-ordinated general strikes and massive demonstrations showing a solidarity and a unity across unions representing different kinds of workers in different countries, different levels of skill, against austerity proposals by governments, ...
  • What Scares Fox and Other Neocons: War Brings Dir ...
    Here is a lesson from the neocons at Fox and elsewhere. If you cover up a war rather than covering it and refuse to show the direct results of conflict then you are a patriot. Let us say that someone chooses to cover that same war and shows the bloodshed that resulted. To do so is giving aid and c ...
  • Yes, Jonah Goldberg, The Supreme Court Is Supposed ...
    Noted Conservative Hack Jonah Goldberg posted a little article tearing into the idea that the Supreme Court is the place where we define what is and is not constitutional. He is defending the new radical Republican talking point that all legislation should have a constitutional justification attache ...
  • Inverted Totalitarianism, & Why The 2010 Midterm E ...
    In case you missed it, following on the heels of the January 2010 'landmark' decision in the Citizens United v Federal Election Commission case by the US Supreme Court holding that corporate funding of independent political broadcasts in candidate elections cannot be limited under the First Amendmen ...
  • Will Islamophobes Object To Saudi Arms Deal? Don't ...
    I know that expecting consistency from conservatives is like expecting your Springer Spaniel to jump up and sing a chorus of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “I am the very model of a modern Major General” but somehow I continue to yearn to see some of it. This is why today’s announcement of a proposed $60 bi ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • John Louth Guest-Blogging
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller On behalf of all of us at Opinio Juris, I am delighted to announce that John Louth of Oxford University Press will be blogging with us this week.  John joined OUP in 1997 and is now Editor-in-Chief of Academic Law, covering books, journals, and online servi ...
  • A Toast for Lou Henkin
    by Martin Flaherty by Martin Flaherty [Martin Flaherty is the Leitner Family Professor of International Human Rights and Director of the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School. He is a visiting professor at St. John's Law School Fall 2010.] Louis Henkin influenced ...
  • Louis Henkin: An Extraordinary Professor and Colle ...
    by Sean D. Murphy by Sean D. Murphy [Sean D. Murphy is the Patricia Roberts Harris Research Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School] I recall that Louis Henkin’s first-year constitutional law course at Columbia Law School was unique in that he assigned extraordinarily short read ...
  • “Timely” International Law Publishing
    by John Louth by John Louth When asked the secret of his success, ice hockey great Wayne Gretzky is said to have responded “I skate where I think the puck will be”. This gets trotted out in a number of management texts as exemplifying the “planning school” of strategy. You can see how it might be ...
  • “Timely” International Law Publishing
    by John Louth by John Louth When asked the secret of his success, ice hockey great Wayne Gretzky is said to have responded “I skate where I think the puck will be”. This gets trotted out in a number of management texts as exemplifying the “planning school” of strategy. You can see how it might be ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • TGIF Edition tonight: Jeannette was victim of earl ...
    EXCLUSIVE. Only in TGIF Edition this weekend. Available for free by signing up to our Facebook page, or Twitter account. Tell your friends.
  • Police renege on Crewe case promise
    STATEMENT BY IAN WISHART Police National Headquarters has broken a written promise it made 11 years ago, by refusing to re-open the investigation into the Crewe murders. In 1999, police wrote to the Thomas family, pledging to re-open the murder...
  • SFO raids WSD Group
    The company pinged by TGIF Edition and Investigate magazine for its links to money launderers working for Islamic terror group Al Qa'ida, has today been raided by the Serious Fraud Office. WSD had on its board at one time no...
  • The book so controversial, none dare speak its nam ...
    From the TVNZ Close-up debate, the elephant in the room is Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story
  • Urban heat island effect officially admitted
    Australian Met Office confirms Urban Heat Island effect responsible for higher temperature trends: MEDIA RELEASE Wednesday 13 October 2010 Hot cities If you thought our cities are getting warmer, you’re right. “We can now confidently say that the reason our...

My Care2 Picks

  • From Gods Lips to Republican Ears
    I am amazed that throughout history, every time a new movement to control the masses begins, it always starts with someones exclusive ability to speak with GOD and KNOW Gods will. You can always count on extremists to take notes when God speaks to th Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & G ...
  • Nephew Tommy and Binary Thinking is Dangerous
    This weekend I spent time seeing comedy performances and discussing the shackles of binary thinking at a philosophy discussion group.I am trying to simultaneously explain myself to a group of comedians and philosophers. Binary thinking and comedy ? Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� ...
  • How propaganda is disseminated: WikiLeaks Edition
    This is how the U.S. government and American media jointly disseminate propaganda: make wild and reckless claims and trumpet them around the world without question or challenge.They become widely accepted fact. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Blasts hit secret Iranian missile launching-pad fo ...
    Sources report the site held most of the Shehab-3 medium-range missile launchers Iran had stocked for striking US forces in Iraq and Israel in the event of war Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Scrubbing Micro-Bubbles Clean Polluted Lake
    Environmental remediation can take what feels like forever, and entirely removing an oil sheen from water is especially tough. An advanced technological process involving microbubbles could do the trick. ( Use with Costner's oil-water separator ? ) Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • UN Tricks and Treaties
    The United Nations has ensnared the world in voluntary treaties intended to become mandatory later, tricking politicians and the public.
  • States of Emergency
    Thirty-two states are on the path to UN-inspired carbon reduction, Cap-and-Trade schemes and unconstitutional alliances
  • Truth Squad Radio Show this Sunday with Author RT ...
    This Sunday we will be talking about the BLM and saving our wild horse herds with the author of Straight from the Horse's Heart, RT Fitch!
  • NWO White Supremacy In the Crosshairs
    Some of the people we look up to, who have been in the spotlight fighting to "expose" the NWO, are not who they seem to be.
  • Republic Defiance Radio – What’s wrong with food t ...
    Republic Defiance Radio hits the airwaves Sunday night, October 17, 2010. Times: 9 pm Pacific, 10 pm Central, 11 pm Eastern This week’s show: What’s Wrong With Food Today: A Producer’s Perspective This week’s guest is Paul Griepentrog. Paul is a lifetime farmer with 30 years of direct marketing expe ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • AP: US to give Pakistan $2B in new military aid
    ShareThis The day ends in 'y,' so it's time for another taxpayer-funded blowjob for US contractors, to bribe Pakistan to allow the US to�slaughter civilians with CIA killer drones: AP: US to give Pakistan $2B in new military aid 22 Oct 2010 The Obama administration is laying out a new multiyear, mul ...
  • 'Al Qaeda' Leader Dined at the Pentagon Just Month ...
    ShareThis 'Al Qaeda' Leader Dined at the Pentagon Just Months After 9/11 20 Oct 2010 Anwar Al-Awlaki may be the first American on the CIA's kill or capture list, but he was also a lunch guest of military brass at the Pentagon within months of the [Bush-Cheney] Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Fox New ...
  • DoD expanding domestic cyber role
    ShareThis DoD expanding domestic cyber role --Military to likely be key part of response to cyber attack 20 Oct 2010 The Defense Department is quietly taking on an expanding role in defending U.S. critical infrastructure from cyber attacks. In a break with previous policy, the military now is prepar ...
  • Federal Appeals Court Reinstates 'Don't Ask, Don't ...
    ShareThis Federal Appeals Court Reinstates 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' 20 Oct 2010 A federal appeals court Wednesday reinstated "don't ask, don't tell," the military's policy forbidding openly gay troops from serving. A three-judge panel granted the Justice Department's emergency request to allow the po ...
  • Blast kills 9 civilians in Afghanistan
    ShareThis Blast kills 9 civilians in Afghanistan 20 Oct 2010 An explosion in southwestern Afghanistan has killed at least nine civilians as security situation continues to deteriorate in the war-ravaged country. The incident occurred after a civilian bus hit a Taliban-style roadside bomb in a distri ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • TGIF Edition tonight: Jeannette was victim of earl ...
    EXCLUSIVE. Only in TGIF Edition this weekend. Available for free by signing up to our Facebook page, or Twitter account. Tell your friends.
  • Police renege on Crewe case promise
    STATEMENT BY IAN WISHART Police National Headquarters has broken a written promise it made 11 years ago, by refusing to re-open the investigation into the Crewe murders. In 1999, police wrote to the Thomas family, pledging to re-open the murder...
  • SFO raids WSD Group
    The company pinged by TGIF Edition and Investigate magazine for its links to money launderers working for Islamic terror group Al Qa'ida, has today been raided by the Serious Fraud Office. WSD had on its board at one time no...
  • The book so controversial, none dare speak its nam ...
    From the TVNZ Close-up debate, the elephant in the room is Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story
  • Urban heat island effect officially admitted
    Australian Met Office confirms Urban Heat Island effect responsible for higher temperature trends: MEDIA RELEASE Wednesday 13 October 2010 Hot cities If you thought our cities are getting warmer, you’re right. “We can now confidently say that the reason our...

Mondoweiss

  • Tibi: American unwillingness to challenge inequali ...
    Ahmed Tibi has a great op-ed in the International Herald Tribune today entitled The Other Citizens of Israel. Too bad it didn't run the Times. It's really worth reading the whole thing, but here are some highlights:Is there no limit to what the American government will accept from Israeli Prime Mini ...
  • Image and reality of Barack Obama’s Israel policy
    PHOTO:� Agence France Presse The photo shown above of an Israeli throwing a shoe at an image of Barack Obama perfectly captures the bizarre notion emanating from right-wing Zionist circles, both in the U.S. and in Israel, that President Obama is hostile to the State of Israel. In the U.S., neoconse ...
  • Let them eat cake
    Ali Abunimah's Pizza analogy for Israel's facts-on-the-ground negotiating style has taken the world by storm. I have it on good authority that the clip has been watched and enjoyed on the most extreme Israeli settlements. One settler was even heard to say “that guy's really cool for a Palestinian, ...
  • Hebron Fund to celebrate West Bank settlements wit ...
    The Hebron Fund presents:� Remember last year's Hebron Fund fundraiser at Citi Field was widely attacked by activists. It will be interesting to see how this one develops. Here is a press release sent out by Ronn Torossian: From: Ronn Torossian [rtorossian@5wpr.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 ...
  • Israel finally confirms the obvious – The co ...
    After one and a half years in which Israel at first denied their existence and then claimed that revealing them would harm "state security", the State of Israel today released�three documents�that outline its policy for permitting transfer of goods into the Gaza Strip prior to the May 31 flotilla in ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 2 – Syne ...
    Toxicity is defined in the Medical lexicon as “a condition that results from exposure to a toxin or to toxic amounts of a substance that does not cause adverse effects in smaller amounts.” Vaccine-induced toxicity, while similar in some respects to this model, requires a deeper understanding in term ...
  • VRM: The Awakening Has Begun
    On the heals of Ukraine’s 2009 Black Lung Infection, a mysterious variation of flu which bypassed trachea, targeting the lungs directly, a “bilateral pneumonia, the result of viral distress syndrome, i.e the total destruction of the lungs.” (1.3 million infected, over 75,000 hospitalized), eye witn ...
  • VRM: GlaxosmitheKline Herpes Vaccine Fails Safety ...
    GlaxoSmythKline recently conducted safety trial studies on their new experimental Genital Herpes vaccine ‘Simplirix’. 8,323 women aged 18-30 years participated in the trial at 50 sites in the US & Canada. Based on the results the product has failed miserably. The question is why were these women inf ...
  • VRM: Closed Door CDC Meeting Reveals Industry Cove ...
    VACCINE INDUSTRY COVER-UP EXPOSED – Selected vaccine authorities from CDC, FDA, and manufacturers discussed, in a closed meeting, the possibility of neurodevelopment disorders resulting from vaccine components. Documents released through the Freedom of Information Act detail the transcript of a meet ...
  • VRM: Former Pharmaceutical Representative Gwen Ols ...
    “The Pharmaceutical Industry is in the business of disease maintenance & symptom management. They are not in the business to cure Cancer, to cure Alzheimer’s, to cure heart disease, because if they were they would be in the business of putting themselves out of business; and that in fact doesn’t mak ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury featur ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. � If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner fo ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new low- ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller. T ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal for o ...

Michael Yon

  • Surobi Sentinel - Oct 2010
    Published: 17 Oct 2010 Click here to view entire document. {loadposition user8}
  • Soldiers' Angels and Inside the Inferno
    I am very proud that with my publisher we have been able to send a check for almost $5000.00 to Soldiers' Angels because you have helped by buying my new book Iraq: Inside the Inferno 2005 - 2008 . You may pre-order order copies of my book here .But we want to raise more for Soldiers' Angels because ...
  • The Linda Norgrove Rescue Tragedy
    Published: 11 October 2010 Ms. Linda Norgrove was kidnapped on 26 September during an ambush in eastern Afghanistan.� A trusted and knowledgeable source told me he expected there was a high likelihood she would be killed by these particularly brutal people.� Several days ago, during a rescue attemp ...
  • To Follow these Steps
    I first met Steve Shaulis about 27 years ago during Special Forces training.� We’ve been friends ever since and have traveled many places together. Back in 2001, six months before the 9/11 attacks, we were at his U.S. home in Vero Beach, Florida.� We were preparing to swim out into the night in ...
  • Our Muslim Friends Suffer, Too
    Terrorism knows no bounds.� This atrocity happened in Iraq and the sadness still lingers in many hearts. I republish these two emails with permission of CSM Jeffrey Mellinger. Mohemmed's name has been changed to protect his family.� May God cherish his brave Soul. From: Mellinger Jeffrey J CS ...

The Killing Train

  • Azkintuwe and the Mapuche Struggle
    An interview with Pedro Cayuqueo Justin Podur and Manuel Rozental October 20, 2010 read more
  • Isabel McDonald and Lou Dobbs!
    My friend Isabel did a fantastic story for the Nation about the anti-immigration pundit Lou Dobbs who had undocumented workers caring for his horses and grounds , and she had the chance to talk to Lou Dobbs about it on MSNBC. Check it out. read more
  • Bruce Levine on Surviving America's Depression Epi ...
    I'm reading Bruce Levine's "Surviving America's Depression Epidemic". The story of how I got the book is interesting. I was reading some psychology books a while back (Alfie Kohn, Alice Miller) and a reader of this blog suggested that no psychology reading list would be complete without Levine's "Co ...
  • The Rwandan Election
    Paul Kagame is headed for a landslide victory at the Rwandan polls. Exit polls indicate 93% of the electorate voted for him. If some Western media commentators could vote in Rwandan elections, the number would likely be even higher. Take Stephen Kinzer, who wrote a biography of Kagame subtitled “Rwa ...
  • The Afghan War Diary Data - an initial look
    An initial look at the first 76,000 records in the "Afghan War Diary" leaked by Wikileaks yields some important information, much of which has been known or suspected by analysts for years. Given the sheer size of the database, there is a great deal more to be learned, but here are some initial find ...

treehugger

  • Behind the Scenes Look at Industrial-Scale Compost ...
    Image credit: Videoprod From bicycle-based compost collection to city-wide mandatory composting , TreeHugger is a big fan of taking waste organic matter and putting it to good use. But what happens once your kitchen scraps and other organic waste are collected from your doorstep? I've just come ...
  • Why You Should Care About Psychedelic Research
    Photo: ponyfire Bioneers , the green conference held in San Rafael, California, covers topics that have been marginalized in the past: youth, women, indigenous cultures and even psychedelic drugs. I surprisingly found myself in a session on the current state of psychedelic research. Many other ...
  • PepsiCo.'s New (Quieter?) Chip Bag Made From Potat ...
    Photo credit Walt_Dabney via flickr and a Creative Commons license. In the U.K. they call them crisps, not potato chips. And perhaps because U.S. consumers made such as incredible fuss over SunChips crisps in (noisy) biodegradable bags , PepsiCo, owner of Frito-Lay and the British brand Walkers, ...
  • Measuring Fashion's Environmental Footprint with S ...
    Sourcing sustainable textiles at Source4Style. Photo: Source4Style As I wrote earlier this month , sourcing textiles can be difficult for fashion and interior designers--and sustainable textiles, even more so. This week in New York City, Source4Style co-founders Summer Rayne Oakes and Benita Si ...
  • Romans Not Totally Committed to Bicycle Sharing
    Photo: B. Alter You have to love the Romans: they promenade stylishly down their glorious streets, they park their Smart cars on the sidewalks, and now they have bicycle-sharing. Sort of.... ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Cries of foul play as ‘new Burma’ is h ...
    Lawyers and opposition politicians claim the new flag should not have been raised until after the elections as Burma undergoes a facelift
  • Aung Htoo, BLC: ‘Than Shwe fears the ICC’
    As calls for Than Shwe to be indicted for war crimes gather momentum, DVB speaks to exiled Burmese lawyer, Aung Htoo, who heads the Burma Lawyers’ Council. He claims that China’s rise as an international player may indeed be detrimental to the ruling junta, as it works to maintain its dignity and ‘a ...
  • Struggling airline looks to elections
    Flag carrier Myanmar Airways International hopes Burma's new government will encourage more tourists to visit Southeast Asian pariah
  • Not in my backyard
    Thai and Indian citizens are growing increasingly intolerant of environmentally destructive mega-projects – so their governments are moving them to Burma
  • Thai police raid Mae La camp
    Police carry out drugs raid on Thailand's most populous refugee camp in what may be preparation for visit by Thai government official

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • European rights court rules against Russia over ga ...
    [JURIST] The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] ruled [judgment; press release, PDF] Thursday that Russia violated the rights of gay activists by banning gay rights parades in Moscow. Russian gay rights activist Nikolai Alekseyev argued before the court that the ban violated Ar ...
  • New York courts requiring lawyers to confirm accur ...
    [JURIST] New York Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman [official profile] announced [statement, PDF] Wednesday a new court rule that requires lawyers to file a separate affirmation [form, PDF] confirming the accuracy of paperwork used in residential foreclosure cases. The new rule is effective immediately a ...
  • Myanmar high court sets date to hear Suu Kyi appea ...
    [JURIST] Myanmar's Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will hear the appeal filed by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] asking for her release from house arrest on October 29. Suu Kyi's lawyers will present their arguments [Reuters report] before the Special ...
  • Sudan war crimes suspects agree not to contest ICC ...
    [JURIST] Two Sudanese men suspected of committing war crimes related to the ongoing violence in the Darfur [JURIST news archive] region of Sudan agreed earlier this week not to contest the charges [briefing text, PDF] during an upcoming International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] confirma ...
  • Environmental groups sue BP for oil spill harm to ...
    [JURIST] Environmental advocacy groups Defenders of Wildlife, Gulf Restoration Network and Save the Manatee Club [advocacy websites] filed a federal lawsuit [complaint, PDF] Wednesday against oil British Petroleum (BP) [corporate website] for the ongoing harm to endangered and threatened wildlife ca ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Angle Baits Obama as He Visits Nevada
    Sharron Angle's campaign pitches this ad to reporters as the "first" ad of the 2012 cycle. It will air all day tomorrow in Nevada. It begins with Obama's words from September 2008...       It's pretty compelling.
  • Ray Mabus, It's on You to Kick Gays Out
    In a background briefing for reporters today, a "senior administration official" at the Pentagon outlined the way the Department of Defense will deal with Don't Ask, Don't Tell discharges in this period of legal and political uncertainty: beginning now, the Service secretaries -- the Secretary of th ...
  • A Closer Look At Early Voting In Colorado
    Democrats are happy with early vote totals in general, but the news appears grim in Colorado , where Republicans have requested and returned more ballots than Democrats. However, a look behind the numbers show something slightly different. There is no Republican surge/tsunami/wave/upwelling/floo ...
  • Don't Ask, Don't Tell Guidance Expected
    Early this afternoon, the Pentagon will send out revised guidance for recruiters and others about the status of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy banning gays in the military. Yesterday, the 9th circuit court of appeals agreed with the Obama Administration's plea for an emergency stay of an order get ...
  • How Far Will Kentucky Go to Condemn National Democ ...
    Do Kentuckians dislike Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and national Democrats more than they fear being potentially embarrassed by Rand Paul? That's the question that will be answered at the state's polls on November 2. At the annual Fancy Farm political gathering that kicks off K ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • ‘Follow the Money’ of Jewish Neocons
    I just came across this Ben Smith Politico post I missed when it came out during the J Street funding imbroglio.  It notes that, at least according to J Street, the IRS was at fault for posting publicly the names of the donors to its 501c4.  Here’s the organization’s statement: We are also committ ...
  • Yediot Publishes List of Bibi’s Campaign Donor Pro ...
    98% of the money donated to Bibi Netanyahu for his 2007 Likud primary campaign came from abroad.  Much of that from the U.S.  Yediot has published a prospect-list written in Bibi’s own hand which notes the prospects.  What I don’t have (and would love an Israeli reader to provide) is an actual li ...
  • Juan Williams: ‘Muslims Scare Me’
    Juan Williams is a “liberal.” FoxNews says so. So does the N.Y. Times media correspondent. That’s why on a Fox show, Juan Williams ‘fessed up that when he sees Muslims in traditional garb it gives him the willies: On the “OâReilly Factor” broadcast…after Mr. OâReilly conveyed to viewers that the ...
  • Links for 2010-03-18 [Digg]
    Shin Bet Secretly Detains Reporter Leaking Top-Secret Docume I was the first blogger or journalist to break this story outside Israel. Anat Kam, a young Israeli reporter was secretly arrested and imprisoned for allegedly leaking top secret IDF documents about targeted assassinations.
  • Links for 2010-03-30 [Digg]
    Overseas Media Begins Reporting Kam Case An Israeli journalist disappears into the maw of the intelligence services. A gag order prevents newspapers reporting the story. Only overseas media can do so, but they hesitate since so little is known. That's why blogs exist and that's the role that ...

Ode Magazine

  • A planet is a terrible thing to waste
    Why caring about the ecosystem means caring for the ecosystem. A recent conversation with a friend got me thinking. This friend had just returned from a conference on species survival and habitat preservation. While there, he learned, to his great surprise, that among a small subset of s ...
  • Cosmic salad
    Bring the abundance of nature to your plate. Photo: Pieter de Swart The science of economics revolves around the concept of scarcity. How do you handle something you have too little of, like money? How do you distribute something that isn’t plentiful enough, like food? And how ...
  • Keeping carpets clean
    Child labor is common in rug factories in Nepal; GoodWeave wants to end that. Photo: Romano - www.romanophotography.com By the time Kusum, from Nepal, was eight, her mother had died from the physical abuse of her alcoholic father, her two sisters had been sold into forced lab ...
  • Self-confidence: signed, sealed, delivered
    Employees at Mirakle Couriers in Mumbai may be deaf, but they deliver. Photo: Mirakle Couriers Every afternoon, 22-year-old Bhupesh Boir heads out to a warehouse on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, to bring a batch of mobile phone bills to the offices of his employer, Mirakle ...
  • How the Stirling engine works
    A Stirling engine uses internal gas that’s alternately heated and cooled to produce energy. Hydrogen, for instance, is sealed in a chamber connected to a series of pistons. When the hydrogen is heated, it expands, driving the pistons through the chamber. When the hydrogen is cooled, it ...

OpEd News

  • The Growing Agitation of Pakistanis Against the US ...
    A an extremely interesting article about why Pakistanis see the US, rather than the Taliban, as the enemy.
  • Denied! NY vetoes Autism Spectrum care
    A bill to expand care for treatment of autism spectrum was vetoed by outgoing NY Governor David Paterson in a victory for health insurers and their lobbyists. As 23 other states fight to prevent insurers discriminating against kids with autism, Paterson defied a unanimous Legislature in a veto that ...
  • Our Weird and Wanton Wars
    Why all these wars?
  • Time to Get Tough on Get-tough-on-crime Politician ...
    We now have enough data to know that voting for candidates who promise to get tough on crime is a big mistake. That's political jingoism used to play on our fears, not because it is good public policy, but because it's good for getting themselves elected. It is time to get tough on politicians who p ...
  • When Should We Speak?
    What should Progressives say in response to attacks by Teapublicans on Obama? When and where should we speak out? This article provides a scenario and three possible solutions to those questions. In the end, it is as the late Martin Luther King, Jr. put it: In the end, we will remember not the wo ...

Switchboard

  • US launches trade probe into China's green tech an ...
    NRDC has been working in China for fifteen years on such issues as climate, energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy, governance and law, health, and green supply chain issues. This China Environmental News Alert is a weekly compilation of news from around the world on China an ...
  • NO on Prop. 26: A Bad Idea for California
    It seems like everyone and their sister is opposed to Proposition 26.  The American Lung Association in California, American Cancer Society, Sierra Club, NRDC, police officers, firefighters, teachers, and the League of Women Voters all urge their members to vote NO on 26.  These groups ...
  • Good News for California's Premier Energy and Wate ...
    Thankfully, the California Court of Appeal Fourth District lifted a restraining order today that would have blocked the California Energy Commission’s (CEC) ability to distribute $33 million in federal energy funds in time to meet a critical Department of Energy (DOE) deadline. The qui ...
  • Wyoming's hydraulic fracturing chemical disclosure ...
    In a� recent Denver Post column,� David Sirota explains very clearly why� Wyoming's new rules governing the disclosure of hydraulic fracturing chemicals�make sense. Sirota wrote:�"This standard should, of course, be the regulatory rule, not the exception." if Wyoming can do this, Siro ...
  • EPA avoids another purple mountain travesty
    Three cheers for�the Region 3 office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which last week moved closer to�revoking�the federal permit issued in 2007 to Arch Coal to blow up a mountain in West Virginia.� The massive Spruce No.1 Mine in Logan County,�one of the largest mountaint ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Yet More Williams
    In response to Jon Chait and his many other defenders, I think it’s worth making a few points about the Williams firing. Let’s start off by assuming, arguendo, that his comments were objectionable (which they were) but not in and of themselves a firable offense, and also leave aside questions of ...
  • Big Dog Coming Back to Kentucky
    Dems smell blood in the Bluegrass… LAWRENCEBURG â Former President Bill Clinton will return to Kentucky a day before the Nov. 2 election to campaign for Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Jack Conway. Conway campaign spokeswoman Allison Haley confirmed Thursday that Clinton will visit the state Nov. 1 ...
  • Does the Obama Administration Have to Appeal the D ...
    Absolutely not. There’s nothing particularly complex here. The DOJ has no legal obligation to do appeal the DADT ruling, and there’s ample precedent for allowing a ruling of unconstitutionality to stand. And the case for making an exception here couldn’t be more compelling: the law unjustly burde ...
  • Williams: The Bottom Line
    As gmack also says in our comments, this is correct: But as in the case of Rick Sanchez it seems to me that if you assume Williams has been doing valuable work all these years, firing him over this single incident is excessive. But as an NPR listener, Iâm a good deal more familiar with Williamsâ ...
  • He Probably Drunk-Dials at 7AM, Too
    While Ginni Thomas probably has the Bob Packwood award for the “creepiest act of communication from a conservative to hit the news this week” locked up, it must be conceded that Todd Seavey gave it a strong effort: Especially priceless: Jonah’s peals of laughter after one of Seavey’s “some of you p ...

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.

  • LABOR & EMPLOYMENT: Dodd-Frank offers key protecti ...
    Employers covered by the act must prepare for the likelihood of increased and publicized complaints.
  • Labaton seeks $55 million paycheck in Countrywide ...
    The lead plaintiffs' firm that obtained a $624 million shareholder settlement against Countrywide Financial Corp. and KPMG LLP — the largest recovery to date in a securities class action filed over the housing crisis — is seeking more than $55 million in attorney fees and expenses.
  • Court cuts contingency fee in whistleblower case
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit has upheld a lower court that slashed a lawyer's contingency fee with two clients from about $292,000 to $50,000.
  • OPINION: Fair pay? No way
    Though ostensibly aimed at narrowing the gender pay gap, the Paycheck Fairness Act ignores market realities and threatens to put well-meaning employers out of business.
  • Irvine paying one-third of tuition for new class
    The University of California, Irvine School of Law has announced that members of the class of 2014 will each receive a scholarship worth one third of their $40,000 in-state tuition, or the $50,000 out-of-state tuition.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Hungary’s Red Sludge Spill: The Media and the Eco- ...
    The sludge spill in Hungary dominated world news for days, as horrific images of red-mud rivers appeared nonstop on the Internet, newspaper front pages, and TV screens. Yet other environmental threats — less visible, but potentially more devastating — often go largely unnoticed. BY ELISABETH ROSEN ...
  • Drought Drops Lake Mead to Lowest Level in Nearly ...
    Lake Mead, the massive reservoir that supplies water to millions of people across the southwestern U.S., has reached its lowest levels in nearly 75 years . Water levels dropped to 1,083 feet above sea level on Oct. 17, the lowest elevation since 1937, when the lake was first filled with the completi ...
  • Chile Launches Initiative to Measure 'Water Footpr ...
    Chilean officials are launching an initiative that will require companies to measure the effects of water consumption on local watersheds and their own business sustainability. A coalition of partners, including the government-created Chile Foundation, is advocating the use of the “water footprint,” ...
  • A Positive Path for Meeting The Global Climate Cha ...
    Climate policies that require public sacrifice and limiting economic growth are doomed to failure. To succeed, policies to reduce emissions must promise real benefits and must help make clean energy cheaper. BY ROGER A. PIELKE JR.
  • U.S. Solar Market Will Add 1 GW of New Capacity in ...
    A market analysis of the U.S. solar industry predicts that nearly 1 gigawatt of added capacity will be installed in 2010 , a 114 percent increase from last year. About 314 megawatts were added during the first six months of the year, according to the report by the Solar Energy Industries Association ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Plane Exhaust Kills More People Than Plane Crashes ...
    There’s a new fear of flying: You’re more likely to die from exposure to toxic pollutants in plane exhaust than in a plane crash, a new study suggests. In recent years, airplane crashes have killed about a thousand people annually, whereas plane emissions kill about ten thousand people each year, re ...
  • Artist brings undersea world to life with surreal ...
    Lots of people have created artificial reefs, using old ships and various debris. But nobody turns them into masterful creations the way artist Jason deCaires Taylor does with his life-sized and almost life-like cement sculptures. The Silent Evolution by Jason deCaires Taylor Video from: YouTube.com ...
  • NASA Cover-Up Evidence!: Altered Image
    Alien conspiracy theorists are confident they’ve caught NASA in the act of covering up the fact that we are not alone in the universe. A video posted on YouTube yesterday showed how an image of Saturn’s moons Dione and Titan, taken by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, had been digitally altered before being a ...
  • New 9/11 Footage Reveals WTC 7 Explosions (Videos)
    Newly obtained 9/11 eyewitness footage that NIST fought tooth and nail to keep secret contains what appears to be the sound of explosions coming from the vicinity of WTC 7 after the collapse of the twin towers, offering yet more startling evidence that the building, which was not hit by a plane yet ...
  • WikiLeaks accuses US of ‘financial warfare’
    The Guardian has obtained correspondence between WikiLeaks and British-based online payment company Moneybookers, in which the company explains that it has "terminated the business relationship" with WikiLeaks because the Web site has been added to "blacklists in Australia and watchlists in the USA. ...

Russia Today

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

  • Impromptu Conversation Between Mike Clelland and C ...
    On October 13th last week, UFOs appeared over Manhattan Island as seemingly predicted by former military person Stanley Fulham. The mainstream media carried the UFO stories all day long, especially when it was found out the UFOs were nothing but balloons. Esoteric researchers Mike Clelland and Chris ...
  • The Secret Sun: Authors of the Impossible
    When it comes to writing articles and books of esoteric symbolism, archetypes and just plain, strange Fortean subjects in general, nobody beats Chris Knowles. But this time Chris acknowledges an author of supreme expertise in the area of the different; Jeff Kripal. In yesterday’s Secret Sun post, Ch ...
  • The UFO Invasion That Wasn’t
    When retired military officer Stanley Fulham predicted a massive UFO display over major cities (U.S. or world?) last week, I was glued to my computer all day checking any news out. I didn’t hear about any kind of UFO activity until the balloon UFOs over New York City last Friday. I was bummed. A few ...
  • The Paracast: EVP Expert Michael Esposito
    When one hears about “EVPs” (electronic voice phenomenon), it conjures up visions of ‘Ghost Hunters’, Ghost Adventures’, ‘Paranormal State’ and other bevy of ghost hunting shows haunting the air and cable ways these days. This past Sunday’s Paracast with Gene Steinberg and co-host Christopher O’Brie ...
  • Now for a little “Pro” Singularity Tec ...
    Last week I showed a couple of points against a technological singularity happening, but today I’ll show how a Singularity is being actively pursued by governments and corporations via the Internet. From Red Ice Creations: This is an interesting commercial for BBC’s “Superpower” about “The Extraordi ...

Tippers News

  • Targeted Dog Expected to Recover; Another Feared D ...
    On Saturday morning, "Shiloh" and "Weenie" went out in the fields across from their home on Ninepin Branch Road in Berlin as they normally do. But only "Shiloh" returned to the doorstep, and her owner discovered disturbing wounds. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment ...
  • Dog Beating Charge Sends Key Largo Man To Jail
    A witness said Bubba upset Mitchell when he tried to run away. Mitchell caught the dog by the collar, the witness said, and dragged him so violently inside he damaged the dog's neck and esophagus. Then Bubba grabbed a steak from the kitchen counter. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...
  • Edward Janus | Disability Advocate and Activist - ...
    Edward Janus | Disability Advocate and Activist (Disabled myself). Doing Daily Internet Activism for Supporting Causes of Change. Talking about: Armchair Activism for Oil-Spill Animals. Submitted by Edward Janus to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Access: Disability Rights Activists in Action
    Edward Janus | Disability Advocate and Activist (Disabled myself). Campaign and Mission is Fighting for Persons with Disabilities. Making Our Voices Heard. Access: Disability Rights Activists in Action posted by: Kristina Chew Submitted by Edward Janus to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Evidence Refutes Bp's and Fed's Deception
    In August, Truthout conducted soil and water sampling in Pass Christian Harbor, Mississippi; on Grand Isle, Louisiana; and around barrier islands off the coast of Louisiana, in order to test for the presence of oil from BP's Macondo Well. [extremely high] Submitted by Ellyn S. to Environment �|� �N ...

The Freeman

  • Obamacare Reality Bites
    One might think that letting government officials exercise discretion in the enforcement of bad regulations would be a good thing. But I’m not so sure.
  • Obamacare: Rule by Decree
    Is there a way to make Obamacare worse? Yes, by giving the authorities loads of discretionary power so they can selectively exempt favored companies from the onerous rules. And that’s what’s happening right now. Bloomberg reports, Nearly a million workers won’t get a consumer protection in the U.S. ...
  • Keynes Ignored in England
    “The British economist John Maynard Keynes may live on in popular legend as the worldâs most influential economist. But in much of Europe, and most acutely here in the land of his birth, his view that deficit spending by governments is crucial to avoiding a long recession has lately been willfully ...
  • Economy Plodding Along, Fed Says
    “The nation’s economy grew modestly in recent weeks, with nine of 12 districts expanding, according to a Federal Reserve report released Wednesdayâ¦. Overall, the survey portrayed an economy that continued to plod along in September and early October â after expanding fairly robustly early this y ...
  • Of Football Helmets and Bailouts
    Attempts to reduce risk can themselves create it; correctly pricing risk is crucial to keeping an economy healthy.

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Best advice for Soundslides
    I was asking around recently, among my friends at other j-schools who teach photojournalism. Yes, they are still teaching Soundslides. The No. 1 reason is almost unanimous: It’s a great transition from making stills to making video. I think it also helps — a lot — with teaching storytelling. Right ...
  • Storytelling 101 with ‘The Annoying Orange’
    Let’s look at storytelling again. I always use this diagram to show students how to structure a very short video story or audio slideshow (120 seconds): Recently a student showed me this video, and I noticed that at about 1 min. 30 sec., it illustrates the story arc perfectly! ...
  • Journalism education: Irrelevant, or lacking conte ...
    Journalism students around the world seem to be very similar. Many of them say this: Personally, I enrolled in a journalism course because I wanted to get into magazines or newspaper column writing — less hard news, more conversational. That comes from a June 2010 column at MediaShift, written b ...
  • Boring old news media: Still boring, still old
    I was just rereading a post by Steve Yelvington — whom I used to call the smartest man in online journalism (and he may still be — it’s just that there are so many more people in it now, it’s hard to name just one). Steve’s post ( A tablet revolution: It’s like it’s the ’70s all over again ) has se ...
  • Contents of a journalist’s backpack
    Neerav Bhatt describes himself as a professional blogger, photographer, geek and qualified librarian. Okay, so he never says “journalist,” but if you read his post that accompanied the photo below, I think you’ll forgive my headline. He’s got some interesting choices (which he explains in his pos ...

Facing South

  • Art Pope: Still dancing at the Tea Party?
    This past spring, as the Tea Party movement was gearing up for one of its big moments in the spotlight -- the April 15 Tax Day protests -- the conservative cause found itself mired in controversy. After a year of rowdy Congressional town hall meetings, extremist rhetoric and bitter internal ...
  • VOICES: Buying elections with dirty money
    By Jennifer Rennicks, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy At two weeks and counting, we are officially in the home stretch of the 2010 midterm election season . Every election cycle in our country brings candidates together to debate the issues and pundits together to analyze those comments before ...
  • BP sued for harm to Gulf's endangered wildlife
    Three conservation groups have brought suit against oil giant BP under the federal Endangered Species Act for the ongoing harm or killing of endangered and threatened wildlife caused by the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The lawsuit was filed on Oct. 20, the six-month a ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: In New Orleans, still waiting for ...
    "An Inconvenient Truth" director Davis Guggenheim's latest documentary, "Waiting for 'Superman,'" opened this month in theaters nationwide. An examination of the state of U.S. public education, the film has sparked controversy for its criticism of teachers' unions and promotion of charter schools. B ...
  • Six months after BP oil disaster, Gulf Coast deman ...
    Today marks six months since BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers, injuring 17 others and causing the largest offshore oil spill in the industry's history. Scientists are still working to understand the full ecological impact of the unprecedent ...

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
  • World War II
    Memories of WWI - the tragic loss of life, the heavy burden of debt and the strain on the country's unity imposed by CONSCRIPTION- made Canadians, including politicians of all parties, loath to contemplate another such
  • War of 1812
    On 18 June 1812, at the height of the Napoleonic conflict ( see NAPOLEONIC WARS ), the US declared war on Great Britain and struck at the only British possession on the continent: Canada. Most of the battles that followed
  • Winnipeg General Strike
    The Winnipeg General Strike, 15 May-25 June 1919, was Canada's best-known general strike. Massive unemployment and inflation, the success of the Russian Revolution (1917), a wave of strikes across Canada and rising
  • Mowat, Farley
    Farley Mowat, author (b at Belleville, Ont 12 May 1921). Mowat has been writing since his pre-teens. He recalls composing "mostly verse" while living with his family in Windsor (1930-33) and then publishing a regular

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • 5 fantastic recycling ideas for used tyres
    Just because a tyre is too old and worn to use on a car, it doesn’t mean that it’s useful life is over. Here’s our top five reuses for used tyres. 1. Planters for the garden Used tyres can be used as instant planters in a garden – either wide and low containers on their [...]
  • 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 ...
  • How can I repair a broken bra?
    After a couple of years of faithful service, one of my beloved bras has broken. It’s one of the two really quite expensive bras I own – they cost a lot of money but worth it — supportive, comfortable to wear and resulting in (what is I’ve been told is) a pleasant boob shape. Because [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle plastic biscuit wrappin ...
    I am a fan of biscuits (aka cookies). I have written of my love of biscuits. I am eating a biscuit while writing this. I do try to make my own biscuits but we eat store-bought ones too – and that obviously means packaging waste. My favourite shop-bought ones are McVitie’s dark choc digestives so [.. ...
  • Pencil stub insects, apple core cider, snow globe ...
    They’re been some really great suggestions on Recycle This recently so I thought I’d highlight a few in case you’ve missed them. Scott Bedford popped by our conveniently timed post about how to reuse or recycle pencil stubs to tell us about the little insects he’s been making out of the ends of penc ...

Mondoweiss

  • Tibi: American unwillingness to challenge inequali ...
    Ahmed Tibi has a great op-ed in the International Herald Tribune today entitled The Other Citizens of Israel. Too bad it didn't run the Times. It's really worth reading the whole thing, but here are some highlights:Is there no limit to what the American government will accept from Israeli Prime Mini ...
  • Image and reality of Barack Obama’s Israel policy
    PHOTO:� Agence France Presse The photo shown above of an Israeli throwing a shoe at an image of Barack Obama perfectly captures the bizarre notion emanating from right-wing Zionist circles, both in the U.S. and in Israel, that President Obama is hostile to the State of Israel. In the U.S., neoconse ...
  • Let them eat cake
    Ali Abunimah's Pizza analogy for Israel's facts-on-the-ground negotiating style has taken the world by storm. I have it on good authority that the clip has been watched and enjoyed on the most extreme Israeli settlements. One settler was even heard to say “that guy's really cool for a Palestinian, ...
  • Hebron Fund to celebrate West Bank settlements wit ...
    The Hebron Fund presents:� Remember last year's Hebron Fund fundraiser at Citi Field was widely attacked by activists. It will be interesting to see how this one develops. Here is a press release sent out by Ronn Torossian: From: Ronn Torossian [rtorossian@5wpr.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 ...
  • Israel finally confirms the obvious – The co ...
    After one and a half years in which Israel at first denied their existence and then claimed that revealing them would harm "state security", the State of Israel today released�three documents�that outline its policy for permitting transfer of goods into the Gaza Strip prior to the May 31 flotilla in ...

Media Consortium

  • Traffic Bait Doesn’t Bring Ad Clicks - NYTimes.com
  • New Voices: What Works
    A report on how to fund community-based journalism startups--worth a read!
  • Maximizing the Value of Digital Editions - Digital ...
    The iPad is a game changer and the release of other tablets in the future will continue to advance digital publishing. But it remains early days (a recent FOLIO: blog quoted editors of The New Yorker as saying "writing for the iPad is like producing TV after WWII") and the "traditional" digital edit ...
  • Putting the 'Ad' in iPad - Digital Editions @ Foli ...
    Some have referred to the current marketplace as the ‘golden age’ of online advertising, with the advent of 3G technology and the iPad craze. But the publishing industry seems to be missing out on at least part of what could be a $50 billion ad spend. Time spent with print media accounts for 12 perc ...
  • Building Mobile Newsstands and Subscription Models ...
    Good news for the magazine industry: Apple is developing a digital newsstand that would allow publishers to sell magazines across the iPad and possibly other Apple devices. The bad news: negotiations with Apple are anything but certain, and Apple’s insistence on controlling customer data could be ...

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 )

  • Ruth’s Reviews: Life Ascending scoops Royal Societ ...
    Nick Lane’s Life Ascending has won the annual Royal Society Book Prize, beating the other shortlisted titles to a £10,000 reward. His book is eloquent and elegant, guiding the reader through the authors’ chosen top ten great inventions of evolution. Lane joins a list of accomplished authors, inc ...
  • White House science office faces lawsuit
    The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is in court over its failure so far to put forward recommendations to ensure scientific integrity in government. It’s a discouraging development in a process that began with the rosy hopes raised by Barack Obama’s March 2009 memo ...
  • Bill Gates joins California climate law war
    Silicon Valley’s richest barons are lining up to fight for California’s climate change laws, as the good, the bad and the ugly all pick sides in the fight over ‘Prop 23’. Voters in California are deciding on 2 November whether to pass Proposition 23 , which would suspend laws clamping down on gre ...
  • Wildlife photography competition ups the ante agai ...
    This year’s photos from the Natural History Museum’s long running wildlife photography competition have been released for your perusal. The winner – shown here – shows leaf-cutter ants in Costa Rica. Photographer Bence Mate says, “They proved to be wonderful subjects. ... I love the contrast ...
  • NIH supporters line up to file legal stem cell arg ...
    Some formidable friends of human embryonic stem cell research are lining up to support the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in a major court case challenging the agency’s ability to fund the research. Yesterday, the Genetics Policy Institute , a Florida-based advocacy group and sponsor of ...

new geography

  • Environmental Consequences of Low Fertility Rates
    But isn’t it great news for the environment that we are having fewer children?” We should always stress the positive in life. Were it not for the dramatic slowdown in birthrates that began the late 1960s and 70s, the apocalyptic warnings of overpopulation then voiced Paul Ehrlich, the Club of Rome ...
  • Living In Denial About Transportation Funding
    The reaction of various advocacy groups to President Obama’s recent call for a $50 billion stimulus spending plan for transportation infrastructure was predictable. They applauded the President’s initiative and thought that Congress should promptly approve the spending request. The benefits of inves ...
  • The EPA: Leading Into A Rain Garden?
    Newly-installed solar Panels on the White House are an obvious signal that this administration wants to lead by example. Conservatives will no doubt find ways to ridicule the panels, and liberals will praise them as a display to the world that we are a green nation. About one year ago, on Oct. 5 ...
  • Who’s Racist Now? Europe’s Increasing Intolerance
    With the rising tide of terrorist threats across Europe, one can somewhat understandably expect a ��surge in Islamophobia across the West. Yet in a contest to see which can be more racist, one would be safer to bet on Europe than on the traditional bogeyman, the United States. One clear indicator o ...
  • Chicago’s Eroding Competitive Performance (Chicago ...
    A lot of my thinking on Chicago has been shaped by an overarching view of its performance. Believe it or not, I used to be a huge Chicago cheerleader. I don’t think there’s any doubt that during the 1990’s, Chicago rediscovered its mojo and was really tearing up the charts of performance for big ci ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • Stimulus Swindle: Los Angeles Spent $70 Million in ...
    Via: The Upshot: A new piece of evidence has emerged in the debate over the effectiveness of President Obama’s 2009 stimulus package, and it’s not good for Democrats. According to two newly released audits performed by the Los Angeles controller, L.A. spent enormous portions of the $594 million in s ...
  • WikiLeaks Claims to Be Under Attack, Calls Press C ...
    Here are a few recent tweets, for whatever they’re worth: # Major WikiLeaks press conference in europe coming up; to book [press/NGO only], mail sunshine.booking@mail.be # WikiLeaks communications infrastructure is currently under attack. Project BO move to coms channel S. Activate Reston5. # Now is ...
  • Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Bailouts Could Hit $363 Bi ...
    Via: Los Angeles Times: The taxpayer bailouts of housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could cost as much as $363 billion through 2013, according to government projections released Thursday. The Federal Housing Finance Agency, which has regulated the former government-sponsored enterpris ...
  • Hacking the D.C. Internet Voting Pilot
    Via: Freedom to Tinker: The District of Columbia is conducting a pilot project to allow overseas and military voters to download and return absentee ballots over the Internet. Before opening the system to real voters, D.C. has been holding a test period in which they’ve invited the public to evaluat ...
  • Google Pays 2.4% Corporate Tax Rate; $60 Billion L ...
    Via: Bloomberg: Google Inc. cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda. Googleâs income shifting — involving strategies known to lawyers as the âDouble Irishâ and the âDutch San ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Is The Federal Reserve Out Of Control? Markets Acr ...
    What in the world is going on over at the Federal Reserve?    Has it gotten to the point where the Federal Reserve is completely and totally out of control?  There is increasing speculation in the financial community that the Federal Reserve is on the verge of unleashing another rou ...
  • The Big Wall Street Banks Have Found A New Way To ...
    It turns out that the big Wall Street banks have found a dirty new way to make loads of cash from U.S. homeowners, and they really, really don't want to talk about it.  So what is this dirty new business?  America's biggest financial institutions have become property tax collectors, ...
  • It Is A Race To The Bottom For Global Currencies A ...
    In 2010, any nation that has a weak currency has a very significant competitive advantage in global trade.  A weak currency means that the products and services produced by that nation will be less expensive for other nations.  Therefore other nations will buy more of those products ...
  • Unfair Trade: 10 Questions About Our Globalized Ec ...
    Most Americans still seem to be convinced that "free trade" is "fair trade" and that to be against current U.S. trade policies and globalization means that you are anti-business, anti-free enterprise and anti-American.  In the mainstream media, any unfair trade practices that are br ...
  • S. 510: 12 Reasons Why The Food Safety Bill From H ...
    As you read this, there is a bill before the U.S. Senate that has the potential to change the U.S. food industry more than any other law ever passed by the U.S. Congress. In the name of "food safety", the U.S. government would be given an iron grip over the production, transportatio ...

Desertification

  • C-130 military transport planes to literally aeria ...
    My grandson Chase (Mukilteo/Seattle, USA) shared an article with me on Facebook: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/10/old-military-planes-drop-900000-tree-bombs-day.php?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+treehugger%2Fbusiness-politics+%28Business+&+Politics%29 Old Mili ...
  • Zombi Bean (Vigna vexillata), a close relative to ...
    Read at : http://agro.biodiver.se/2010/10/zombi-bean-resurrected/ Zombi bean resurrected? by Jeremy on October 20, 2010 Vigna vexillata is a close relative of the cowpea (V. unguiculata) that (sometimes) rejoices in the common name Zombi Bean. (It is also called the tuber cowpea.) … Continue reading ...
  • An eyecatcher in my house: Phalaenopsis (Willem Va ...
    Anywhere on this planet, the beauty of plants and animals in a garden is food for the soul. Therefore, from time to time, I post pictures of plants and animals in my own garden. I like to share these with … Continue reading →
  • Subsistence homestead farming, small holder planta ...
    Read at : http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/south-indian-agricultural-model-mimics-fragile-ecosystem/ South Indian agricultural model mimics fragile ecosystem by A.V. Santhoshkumar and Jiji Joseph Managing natural resources with conscious respect for the needs of future generations is the basis of sustaina ...
  • Access to land and secure land tenure are key to p ...
    Read at : http://ifad-un.blogspot.com/2010/10/sharing-practices-to-make-land-tenure.html Sharing practices to make land tenure securer #sfaddis Posted by Roxanna Samii By Willem Bettink The land pathway got underway with knowledge from land right practitioners from Benin, Tanzania, Niger, Madagascar ...

The Paper Trail

  • A Peek Into The Art of Mortgage Duplicity
    In many of Ameriquest Mortgage’s far-flung sales branches, employees outfitted break rooms or spare cubicles with the tools they needed to create fake tax documents and other paperwork required in the loan-approval process: Wite Out, X-Acto Knives, Scotch Tape. They dubbed these workspaces The Lab o ...
  • Retiring CFTC Judge Levels Unfairness Accusations ...
    Here’s a cautionary tale about the lack of oversight of administrative law judges and the limitations of accountability journalism.
  • Americans for Prosperity Blasts Ohio Democrat&#821 ...
    Americans for Prosperity , a conservative group with links to the billionaire co-owner of industrial giant Koch Industries, has launched an ad attacking Democratic Rep. Zack Space of Ohio for voting in favor of climate change legislation.
  • Fed, GAO Move Ahead on Home Appraisals
    As controversy rages over whether foreclosure documents were pushed through the system by lenders' robo-signers , the government is moving ahead with cleaning up another part of the home lending industry – the independence of home appraisers.
  • Not Just Alaska:  Boston Reporter Stopped by ...
    Word spread quickly Saturday that an Alaska journalist was detained by private security guards at a town hall event for Republican Joe Miller, who is running for the Senate. Tony Hopfinger, editor of the Alaska Dispatch, was handcuffed, thrown against a wall, and held until police arrived and releas ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Officer Bubbles: the poem
    By Frank Moher The saga of Officer Bubbles continues. The Toronto Police Services constable (aka Adam Josephs) became notorious during the G20 for threatening to arrest a particularly pacific young woman if she continued to blow bubbles in his vicinity. "If the bubble touches me," he growled, "yo ...
  • Lay off Officer Bubbles
    Item: Officer Bubbles to sue YouTube Verse by Frank Moher Lay off Officer Bubbles The bubble busting cop He may be big on YouTube But as a tough guy he's a flop For the insults and derision And the giggling just won't stop So lay off Officer Bubbles The bubble busting cop Lay of ...
  • Nenshi: Canada’s first Facebook mayor
    By Jodi A. Shaw Naheed Nenshi’s wall on Facebook is flooded with congratulatory notes today. Elected Calgary’s new mayor yesterday, Nenshi is the city’s first from a visible minority, as well as Canada’s first Muslim mayor of a major city. Nenshi says ethnicity and religion were not issues ...
  • Beware the Evercookie!
    by Eric Pettifor Yea, though ye have taken to heart the teaching that all men shall be as friendly smurfs one unto another, know that not all smurfs are as they seem, and trust no one. I believe that's from the Book of Ecclesiastes. Or possibly Saturday morning cartoons. X-Files? ...
  • BC Railroaded
    By Alison@Creekside Just as former BC finance minister Gary Collins was due to take the stand in BC's biggest and longest running political corruption case, it's all over. Defendants Dave Basi and Bob Virk, ministerial aides to Collins and former BC transport minister Judith Reid respectively, ...

Worldnews

  • Language protests spread among Tibetan studen ...
    BEIJING – Demonstrations have spread among Tibetan students angered by reports that Beijing plans to make Chinese the only language of instruction in schools, an activist group said Friday. The protest marches, which began earlier this week in the town of Tongren, have spread to nearby areas in ...
  • Adebayor gunning for City start
    Roberto Mancini insists he would have no problem pairing hat-trick hero Emmanuel Adebayor with Carlos Tevez when Manchester City tackle Arsenal on Sunday. The Blues warmed up for their date with Arsene Wenger's Gunners by recording a...
  • Smart people drink more alcohol: Study
    Washington, Oct 22 (ANI): The next time you feel tempted to enjoy an extra glass of wine, consider it as a reflection of your intelligence, says a new study.� In the National Child Development Study in the UK and the National Longitudinal...
  • Cholera outbreak feared in rural Haiti _ 135 ...
    ST. MARC, Haiti - At least 135 people have died in a suspected cholera outbreak, and aid groups are rushing in medicine and other supplies Friday to combat Haiti's deadliest health problem since its devastating earthquake. The outbreak in the rural Artibonite region, which hosts thousands of qu ...
  • Obama talks innovation at Google exec's home ...
    0 Adm Golub / The Chronicle President Barack Obama arrives at San Francisco International Airport Wednesday, October 21, 2010, in San Francisco, Calif. Obama is campaigning to raise money for Democrats on a five-state and four-day trip. Images View All Images (4) (10-21) 19:35 PDT PALO ALTO -- ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • Iran Confirms Two Detained Americans to Face Trial
    by Farhad Pouladi TEHRAN — Iran will begin prosecuting from November 6 three US hikers on charges of espionage and for illegally entering the Islamic republic, their lawyer Masoud Shafii told AFP on Wednesday. Two of the three hikers, Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, have been held in a Tehran jail ...
  • Carter in Syria: Israel Must Fully Lift Gaza Block ...
    Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, during a visit to Damascus on Tuesday, called for Israel to lift completely its blockade on the Gaza Strip. Carter made the remarks in the forum of a delegation known as The Elders, who met with Syrian President Bashar Assad and Hamas leaders in Syria. Despite th ...
  • Docs on Pharma Payroll Have Blemished Records, Lim ...
    by Charles Ornstein , Tracy Weber and Dan Nguyen The Ohio medical board concluded [1] that pain physician William D. Leak had performed “unnecessary” nerve tests on 20 patients and subjected some to “an excessive number of invasive procedures,” including injections of agents that destroy nerve t ...
  • US Military Accepts Openly Gay Recruits
    by Paul Harris in New York America's military yesterday began accepting openly gay recruits into its ranks for the first time in its history as the controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy suffered another serious blow. The move comes after California judge Virginia Phillips ruled last week t ...
  • Rachel Corrie Case: Israeli Soldier to Testify Ano ...
    by Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem The Israeli soldier at the controls of a bulldozer that crushed to death 23-year-old Rachel Corrie in Gaza in March 2003 is due to give evidence tomorrow in the civil lawsuit brought by the American activist's family. However the judge hearing the case in Haifa has r ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Are EV Incentives Justified?
    The Wall St. Journal has been running an interesting series of articles on electric vehicles this week, coinciding with the mounting excitement surrounding the arrival of the first truly mass-market EVs in the US within a month or two.
  • Both Are Necessary, But Neither is Sufficient: Ca ...
    For many years, there has been a great deal of discussion about carbon-pricing – whether carbon taxes or cap-and-trade – as an essential part of a meaningful national climate policy.� It has long been recognized that although carbon-pricing will be necessary, it will not be sufficient. Economists an ...
  • Veolia Trying to Accelerate Cleantech Solutions
    Philippe Martin of Veolia EnvironnementI sat down last week with Philippe Martin and Robert Bozza of Veolia (
  • A brief history of climate deniers
    An intriguing document has come to my attention, thanks to one of the people I follow on ye olde Twitter Machine. The document is a paper from the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, which begins with the abstract (quoted below in its entirety): �
  • Property owners seek wind turbines but fight trans ...
    Jonathan Fahey observes that there seems to be little trouble finding Montana property owners willing to have wind turbines built on their property, but property owners usually fight against construction of power lines. Puzzling, right?, since wind turbines are large, moving and obtrusive, while tra ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

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

  • America's Tea Party Phenomenon
    by Stephen Lendman Tea Party.org calls itself "a grassroots movement (for making Americans aware of) any issue that challenges the security, sovereignty, or domestic tranquility of our beloved nation, the United States of America. From our founding, the Tea Party is the voice of the true owners of ...
  • Canada: Boy Scout exposed at UN
    Eric Walberg Canada’s international do-gooder image was shattered when it lost its bid for a UN Security Council seat, amid back-stabbing, maple syrup bribes, and Israeli-dictated cover-ups. The humiliating withdrawal by Canada from the race with Germany and Portugal for a covetted place on the Uni ...
  • The Black Panther Party: Its Legacy and Impact Tod ...
    Larry Pinkney “If you’re not willing to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.” -Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz] “If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.” -Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara The Black Panther Party (for self Defense) ...
  • Goon Squad Where Brains are Tenderly Washed, Disin ...
    by Greg Bacon How We Brainwash the Sheeple: From "Duck And Cover" in the 1950's to UK schools doing UFO crash drills Duck and Cover was a suggested method of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear detonation which the United States government taught to generations of United States sc ...
  • From Rabbi Yosef to Marx
    Gilad Atzmon In case the Goyim cannot find a purpose in their life, Israeli senior Sephardi Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is there to help them out. In his Saturday sermon Rabbi Yosef revealed that the sole purpose of Gentiles is to serve Jews.
“Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • New York Times article: Income Inequality too big ...
    New York Times writer Robert Frank says it's time to tackle the problems of income inequality in this article .
  • Let's Do Something About Poverty!
    The Saskatchewan office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is a proud partner of Poverty Free Saskatchewan (PFS), a coalition of groups attempting to develop a comprehensive anti-poverty program for the province. Today we released Let's Do Something About Poverty! , in order to encourage ...
  • The growing gap and the problem of recession
    Bruce Livesey writes a blog in the Progressive Economics Forum showing the link between worsening income inequality and the threat of a Great Recession that could 'go on indefinitely'. Read the blog here.
  • Does Canada really have a debt and deficit problem ...
    A new CCPA study examines Canada's debt and deficit and finds that debt in Canada—even after two years of stimulus—is still at very low levels compared to other countries, and compared to the mid-1990s. Big Train Coming: Does Canada Really Have a Deficit and Debt Problem? says a sharp turn to spe ...
  • Why the F-35 stealth fighter is wrong for Canada
    A new report by the CCPA and the Rideau Instittute says the planned purchase of 65 F-35 stealth fighter jets is the result of a ‘pilot error’ by the Canadian government. Pilot Error: Why the F-35 stealth fighter is wrong for Canada carefully examines all of Canada’s current and future security requ ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Obama Talks Jobs With Jobs
    I wish Jobs was president. Obama Meets Apple CEO Jobs in San Francisco to Discuss Education, Energy | Bloomberg President Barack Obama and Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs met today and talked about education, energy policy and ways to create jobs, according to the White House. Obama, ...
  • Hemp – God’s Answer to Global Warming
    By Jasper Moon In the beginning… God made the seed bearing plant and gave it to man for food, and saw that it was good. Then, man, thinking he knew more than God, was foolish and made it illegal to grow and use hemp and that was not good. If ever there was a plant that [...]
  • Pittsburgh in the 60’s
    Housework in heels and pearls I was thinking again about the old sitcoms that I grew up with. The recent death of âAmerica’s favorite momâ brought a lot of things back to mind. I get myself worked up about those good old days, those supposed, simpler times, HA! I call bullcrap on them. I may be ...
  • Where is the party for me?
    By D. Marie Gage-Take a moment to look at why you consider yourself a Republican or Democrat, and at when you made that determination. You may find that you have changed, or that your party has. I grew up in the 60’s in a family of Republicans. Republicans were the good guys; they did not want [...]
  • Blackwater is made of Teflon®
    Efforts to Prosecute Blackwater Are Collapsing | The New York Times Nearly four years after the federal government began a string of investigations and criminal prosecutions against Blackwater Worldwide personnel accused of murder and other violent crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, the cases are begin ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • Juan Williams' real crime: Hack punditry
    It may be, as Joan Walsh argues , that Juan Williams should not have been fired by NPR. And it's probably true, as Glenn Greenwald contends , that speech-based dismissals of media figures -- whether it's Williams because of what he said about Muslims and terrorism or Helen Thomas because of her c ...
  • Video: Juan Williams does "The O'Reilly Factor"
    Juan Williams returned to the scene of the crime Thursday night, with an appearance on "The O'Reilly Factor" -- the same Fox News venue where he made his controversial comments about Muslims earlier this week. Not surprisingly, O'Reilly dominated the segment, blaming two of his favorite punching ...
  • Army digs in for the long haul in Afghanistan
    Some go by names steeped in military tradition like Leatherneck and� Geronimo . Many sound fake-tough, like� Ramrod ,� Lightning , Cobra, and� Wolverine . Some display a local flavor, like� Orgun-E , Howz-e-Madad, and Kunduz. All, however, have one thing in common: They are U.S. and allied forwar ...
  • The Year in Sanity: Ron Artest
    Ron Artest may seem like an odd choice for a series about sanity. After all, "sane" is just about the last word many would use to describe the Los Angeles Lakers forward whose career has been marred by controversy after self-imposed controversy. From brawling with fans to boozing at halftime to r ...
  • NPR was wrong to fire Juan Williams
    I'm the last person who ought to be feeling sympathy for fired NPR analyst Juan Williams today. It was a little over a year ago, playing his role as Bill O'Reilly's liberal toady, that Williams joined the Fox bully in trashing me after I challenged O'Reilly on his nasty crusade against murdered a ...

SMB News

  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera saw ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the disq ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, believed ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage to t ...
  • Nato’s 27 fuel tankers torched in Shikarpur
    For SMB News Nato’s 27 fuel tankers torched in Shikarpur SHIKARPUR: More than 27 oil tankers, meant for Nato’s fuel supply and three other vehicles, have been torched after some unidentified attackers fired rockets, which resulted in eruption of raging ablaze, meanwhile two men suffered injuries in ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • Star’s choices in Durham: For Gray in Oshawa
    Ensuring that population growth does not result in further sprawl and improving transportation options are key issues for voters within Durham Region, east of Toronto. Add concerns over high property taxes and the need to attract new jobs to replac ...
  • Star’s choices in York:Bevilacqua for Vaughan mayo ...
    In recent years, Vaughan has morphed from “the city above Toronto” to “the city above the law,” as its politicians have become embroiled in a series of court actions and conflict-of-interest allegations. Mayor Linda Jackson, who came to office four ...
  • The Star's choices in Peel mayoral races
    In this election, questions surrounding mayoral ethics have emerged as a key concern, and for good reason. Local democracy is strengthened when fresh light is focused on integrity at city halls. Accountability matters. With that in mind, here are o ...
  • The Star's choices in Halton mayoral races
    Gridlock, jobs, loss of green space and rising taxes are top-of-mind for voters across Halton Region, an area which features a mix of tight election races and two easy acclamations. Some mayors here deserve to return, others should be ousted. Here ...
  • The Star's choices for Toronto Catholic school boa ...
    The Toronto Catholic school board has lurched from scandal to scandal for three years. Catholic trustees dipped into the public purse for so many unjustifiable perks that they drove the cost of running the board from the allowed $400,000 to $1.3 mi ...

Energy Collective

  • Are EV Incentives Justified?
    The Wall St. Journal has been running an interesting series of articles on electric vehicles this week, coinciding with the mounting excitement surrounding the arrival of the first truly mass-market EVs in the US within a month or two.
  • Both Are Necessary, But Neither is Sufficient: Ca ...
    For many years, there has been a great deal of discussion about carbon-pricing – whether carbon taxes or cap-and-trade – as an essential part of a meaningful national climate policy.� It has long been recognized that although carbon-pricing will be necessary, it will not be sufficient. Economists an ...
  • Veolia Trying to Accelerate Cleantech Solutions
    Philippe Martin of Veolia EnvironnementI sat down last week with Philippe Martin and Robert Bozza of Veolia (
  • A brief history of climate deniers
    An intriguing document has come to my attention, thanks to one of the people I follow on ye olde Twitter Machine. The document is a paper from the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, which begins with the abstract (quoted below in its entirety): �
  • Property owners seek wind turbines but fight trans ...
    Jonathan Fahey observes that there seems to be little trouble finding Montana property owners willing to have wind turbines built on their property, but property owners usually fight against construction of power lines. Puzzling, right?, since wind turbines are large, moving and obtrusive, while tra ...

EU Times

  • NYC On Madison Avenue
    Is this a beginning of a growing trend? Should we eventually find this happening everywhere? It is definitely unbelievable. A Christian Nation cannot put up a Christmas scene of the baby Jesus in a public places because it “offends” religious minorities, but the Muslims can stop normal traffic ever ...
  • City Council Meetings to Begin with Muslim Prayers
    In the wake of the battle over a mosque at Ground Zero, a move by the Hartford City Council is sure to have its critics. The Council announced Tuesday that it has invited local imams to perform Islamic invocations at the beginning of the Council meetings in September. An e-mail from the Common Counc ...
  • AMD (Not ATi) Radeon HD 6000-series to be released ...
    The first peek at the next-generation AMD graphics offerings. AMD will be back on the GPU offensive this fall with new offerings. According to DigiTimes, Radeon HD 6000-series will launch first with the HD 6700, which will replace the market currently occupied by the Radeon HD 5770 and 5750. They wi ...
  • TV4 refuses to air Sweden Democrat ads
    Swedish TV channel TV4 announced on Friday that it has refused to broadcast a campaign advert by the far-right Sweden Democrats because it claims it contains racial hatred. The party wanted to pay the channel 1.5 million kronor ($201,240) to run the ad. The half-minute advert shows a race in which a ...
  • The right’s latest weapon: ‘Zionist ed ...
    ‘Idea is not to make Wikipedia rightist but for it to include our point of view,’ Naftali Bennett, director of the Yesha Council says. “Point of view” in Wikipedia? But encyclopedias were supposed to be neutral… For years now, Wikipedia has been a fierce battleground between the Israeli right and le ...

Stonecipher News

  • Rx - Nutritious Food and Some Important Tips for H ...
    I was surfing the net for alternative health articles when I came across my friend Ron Siojo's Factoidz page . "For centuries, bitter melon has been used therapeutically in China, India, Africa and the southeastern part of the US. It is useful in medicine as an anti-tumor, antiviral and anti-diabeti ...
  • PlayStation®Move
    This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of PlayStation MOVE . All opinions are 100% mine. Recently a little genie appeared to me one night while sleeping and gave my family the PlayStation®Move. Move Since I started using PlayStation®Move, my family and I have lost weight and spent more q ...
  • Washington State Fathers Network Annual Conference
    The Fathers Network is a group of men who have children that have a disability. According to Roseberg & Wilcox (2006), “The Washington State Fathers Network (WSFN) has served over 1,000 families in the past 20 years. Founded on the belief that men are crucial in the lives of children, WSFN is a pow ...
  • Your Child Has A Learning Disability. So What's Ne ...
    From my Factoidz page : Learning Disabilities was included in the 1975 authorization of the federal law Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) after an organization of parents formed the first Association of Children with Learning Disabilities (Heward, 2009). In the text, Exceptional Chil ...
  • Dumbing Down Society Pt 2: Mercury in Foods and Va ...
    According to Vigilant , "Even though mercury is known to degenerate brain neurons and disrupt the central nervous system, it is still found in processed foods and mandatory vaccines. In this second part of the series examining the intentional dumbing-down of society, this article will discuss the pr ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Mortgage Rates Decline To Record Lows…Again
    Why do I feel a sense of Deja Vu every time I write a post on this topic? Maybe because mortgage rates have been in a state of free-fall for the last year, and every week seems to offer the same story of new record lows. This week was no exception, as Freddie Mac reported that the... Tags: monthly m ...
  • Texas Longhorns Football: Expectations Ahead
    The season started slowly, culminating in a frustrating loss to OU. We regrouped and rallied to produce one of the most impressive road wins in the Mack Brown era.  Now what? Looking at the big picture, it's not inconceivable that Oklahoma loses two games down the stretch, which of... Tags: oklahoma ...
  • Samsung X430-11 14-Inch Notebook With Microsoft Si ...
    Samsung is offering you their latest 14-inch notebook called the X430-11. This ultra-slim machine is pre-configured with Microsoft Signature, meaning you’re given free phone support for 90 days along with carefully chosen productivity software that will have you up and running in... Tags: hdmi samsu ...
  • SEC Deal or No Deal, Mid-season review
    With South Carolina's season at the midway point, it seems like a nice time to revisit the preseason SEC Deal or No Deal .  Obviously, everyone played out the season.  It's time to see which teams chose poorly , which teams chose wisely, which are so up and down , Vincent van Gogh... Tags: sugar bow ...
  • Why to Choose Wedding Celebrant?
    Wedding celebrants are the special priests or people who make your wedding day even more special for you with their experience and creativity. They make your day more important by adding lots of love, laughter and enjoyment to it. They help in making your day memorable, so that it can...

Groklaw

  • Virginia Thomas' group backs off on calling health ...
    A conservative group founded by Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, removed references to the "unconstitutional" healthcare law from its website on Thursday and blamed staff errors for statements indicating the group believed the law should be struck down.... Field's ...
  • Rob Weir: Entire OpenOffice.org Board Should Resig ...
    IMHO, the entire OpenOffice Community Council should resign and hold immediate new elections. Not just the LibreOfice guys, but everyone. It is impossible to see the creation of the Document Foundation as anything but a "vote of no confidence" in the current OpenOffice.org leadership. So instead of ...
  • Top state court drops mall's free speech challenge
    The ruling underscored California's constitutional protections for free expression, which are broader than First Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution. The state's high court ruled in 1979 that free speech rights protected non-disruptive leafleting at a shopping center, in contrast with U.S. ...
  • FossAlliance is born: More than expertise, better ...
    In the midst of the announcements and the media storm surrounding the Document Foundation, I forgot to elaborate on a quite different type of news : The birth of FossAlliance . What's FossAlliance? FossAlliance is a strategic partnership between several consultancies and practitioners in the fields ...
  • Webcast: Lowering the Cost of Your Data Center wit ...
    Tuesday, November 16, at 12 noon ET: Moderated by IBM's Benjamin Vera-Tudela, this webcast will show how IBM DB2 and Canonical Linux work together to help organizations significantly lower the cost of managing and expanding their data centers. Speakers will include Jason Chan, manager, Appliances an ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

  • The future of US politics is Prop 19
    Al Giordano Nomadic, and on the move, more reliant on the Internet than the television for their news intake, theyâre the future of the United States. And theyâre also a lot more multi-racial â and more actively defy societal apartheids – than the rest of the population. OMG! Wait⦠wait⦠s ...
  • Offset half of airline carbon emissions with human ...
    [The video shows] how if we capture our urine–like has been done in China (both recently and historically)–and use it as fertilizer instead of petro–chemicals we could be saving huge amounts of carbon emissions. The village in China must have a separate place for people to pee so they can easily sto ...
  • How Neoliberals and Green Keynesians wrecked the p ...
    The Breakthrough Institute has a knack for summing things up succinctly The reason Obama’s plan for economic renewal through clean energy came up empty cannot be blamed on Republicans and global-warming deniers. In truth, the president’s strategy was flawed from the start. Cap-and-trade would not ha ...
  • Death wish
    20-year-old female criminology student becomes top cop in violent Mexican municipality Everyone else was too scared to take it.
  • Something to ponder
    Is the universe a holographic illusion?

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Newsweek: 'Everyone needs' Hamas at the table
    A really significant article by Babak Dehghanpisheh in this week's Newsweek: The headline is: "A place for Mr. Meshaal: No one wants the leader of Hamas at the Mideast peace table. But everyone needs him there ." Of course, it is not true that "No one wants him" there... But we can let that go. De ...
  • Chas Freeman's somber look at U.S. Middle East pol ...
    I am happy to be able to publish here-- with his permission-- the text of the presentation that Amb. Chas W. Freeman, Jr., made at a conference on the Middle East held at Tufts University, October 14-15. Freeman's book America's Misadventures in the Middle East is, of course, the first title to be p ...
  • U.S. supports Taliban talks; Still opposing Hamas? ...
    So here are Sec. of State Hillary Clinton and SecDef Bob Gates now saying they support-- and are giving active support to-- the Afghan government's initiative to negotiate with the Taliban. But the U.S. government continues to completely oppose any attempt by any parties, Palestinian or other, to r ...
  • Jones's departure-- linked to dog-wagging?
    I am still trying to get my head around why-- less than a month before a crucial mid-term election, Obama's national security adviser Gen. Jim Jones felt he should leave. Of course, it is not clear at all whether he took the initiative to leave the White House, or was pushed. But the timing looks ...
  • Chas Freeman book: Buy it on Amazon!
    We've done it! The paperback version of Amb. Chas Freeman's book, America's Misadventures in the Middle East , is now available for purchase through Amazon . The paperback, hardcover, and e-book versions of the book will all be available through other sales channels in the near future. But for now ...

First Truths

  • Liberty is the Mother of Equality (And Vice Versa)
    In a commentary piece for the Center for a Stateless Society , I argue that liberty is the channel through which to achieve egalitarian goals, that free markets are the best way to attack the system of privilege we're yoked to today.
  • Statism As Chaos
    Writing of the standard prejudices directed toward anarchy, George H. Smith noted, “This identification of anarchy with chaos is deeply imbedded in the popular mind and rarely results from conscious deliberation. It is tacit rather than explicit, part of that amorphous but formidable jumble of fol ...
  • Pieces for the Center for a Stateless Society
    My most recent work can be found at the website of the Center for a Stateless Society , a project of the Molinari Institute "dedicated to building awareness of, and support for, market anarchism." The first piece, Anarchy as Order , under the Center's Feature Articles heading, is a companion to, or ...
  • A Distinction Without A Difference
    My reaction to the announcement of troop withdrawals from Iraq, entitled A Distinction Without A Difference , comes through the Center for a Stateless Society. Thanks again to the Center for being so receptive to my ramblings.
  • The Nerve to Break Ranks
    In my latest opinion piece , I suggest that hierarchical structures like the military and the state in general impair the capacity to make individualized moral judgments and create a condition of ubiquitous blackmail. The case of Adam Winfield, the would-be whistleblower now charged with murder, sho ...

Media Co-Op

  • Vigil and march to mark police violence in Montrea ...
    As the inquiry into the death of Fredy Villanueva at the hands of Montreal police continues, this weekend residents are being invited to twice take the time to remember Villanueva and others who hav ...
  • Deportation is double punishment: Villanueva suppo ...
    MONTREAL—Around 20 protesters gathered outside of the Immigration and Refugee Board early Wednesday morning to denounce the deportation of Dany Villanueva to Honduras. The demonstration took place outside the Guy Favreau Complex where the 24-year-old Villanueva, who is appealing his deportation, had ...
  • The SPOKE: Issue 13
    September's Issue of the Toronto Media Co-op's Print Publication Issue 13 of the SPOKE (released much later than intended) features stories on the G20 arrests, G20 court proceedings and Canadian military information found in the Wikileaks file ...
  • Five Minutes for Fish Lake: What you can do to hel ...
    Received this from a trusted ally today... Here's some things you can do to help protect Fish Lake. 1. The Globe and Mail has a poll on whether the feds should approve Prosperity Mine, and we're losing.  The poll will be up until tomorrow morning. The link is: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nat ...
  • Azkintuwe and the Mapuche Struggle: An interview w ...
    Pedro Cayuqueo is a Mapuche journalist who has worked for a number of newspapers and outlets. He is a founding director of Azkintuwe (azkintuwe.org), “the newspaper of Mapuche country”. The country encompasses part of Argentina and Chile: the newspaper, the important political issues affecting the M ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • China’s next president: Xi Jinping
    China’s next president: Xi Jinping Xi is China's heir-apparent, in line to succeed Hu Jintao in 2012 as China's top leader. This 56-year-old "princeling"—his father was former Vice-Premier Xi Zhongxun—earned a doctorate in Marxist theory from Tsinghua University but now has a reputation as a support ...
  • The "Big Lie"... How it works and what it is for
    The big lie kicks in: before and after Americans for Prosperity, the rightwing campaign funded in part by the energy billionaires the Koch brothers, is working with the Tea Party movement to increase its impact through the use of new media and social networking. The Guardian Rupert Murdoch has decla ...
  • Observations of and on the rich
    "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand." F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
  • "Chicken Little of the Week (Year?)" Award
    BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling operation may have triggered an irreversible, cascading geological Apocalypse that will culminate with the first mass extinction of life on Earth in many millions of years. The oil giant drilled down miles into a geologically unstable region and may have set the stage ...
  • Er, uh... it seems the world is coming to an end.. ...
    Chart from ClusterStock We are witnessing (how) a peak in a parabolic finance/asset/stock bubble of world proportions, is going to pan out. I think the entire credit crisis can be looked at from that perspective. We are merely witnessing the relentless unwinding of the biggest financial bubble in hi ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • Throwing Good Money at Bad Land
    Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org Oakland, Calif. -- A new Environmental Working Group (EWG) analysis has found that a federal Bureau of Reclamation proposal to continue farming on a vast swath of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
  • EWG Asks FDA Advisors to Back Sunscreen Regulation ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs – 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, -- Environmental Working Group (EWG) asked a prestigious expert advisory panel to urge the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue long-awaited regulations for... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • 50 Groups Challenge Government Grant to Pro-Pestic ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 OAKLAND, Calif. – More than 50 organizations concerned about the risks of pesticides to human health and the environment have joined forces to fight California officials’ award of a $180,000... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Few Sunscreens Shield From UVA Rays
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org Washington, D.C. â With fall here, millions of Americans are outside at football and soccer games, cross-country meets, school fairs, picking apples and raking leaves. As temperatures lower and bathing suits go in ...
  • Three Top Scientists Honored with Prestigious Hein ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. -- Among this year’s recipients of the prestigious Heinz Family Philanthropies Global Change Awards are three preeminent scientists working to advance our understanding of the impacts that chemical exposures hav ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • This Cooking Oil is a Powerful Virus-Destroyer and ...
    You've no doubt noticed that for about the last 60 years the majority of health care officials and the media have been telling you saturated fats are bad for your health and lead to a host of negative consequences, like elevated cholesterol, obesity, heart disease and Alzheimer's disease. Meanwh ...
  • Use this Common Device and Double Your Risk of Bra ...
    An epidemiologist and toxicologist who is an expert in environmental health has found evidence linking cell phone usage to an increased rate of certain kinds of brain tumors in young people who were heavy cell phone users. In her book, Disconnect , Dr. Devra Davis talks about how she found evidenc ...
  • A Lesson from Mom: Don’t Be a ‘Good’ Patient
    Elizabeth Cohen tells the story of how her mom's outcome ended up well after she ignored her internist's advice to 'just slow down,' and sought a second opinion. She also offers advice on how to take care of your own health to make sure that you and your health practitioner are seeing along the sa ...
  • If You Aren't Wealthy - This Mistake Could Ruin Yo ...
    In 1980, those in the lowest taxable income bracket paid 0.1 percent (one tenth of one percent) of the nation's income tax. Those in the highest income bracket paid 64.8 percent of the bill. Let's say the nation's income tax bill for 1980 was $100. The entire group of those who earned the least a ...
  • Breast Cancer Rates Fell When Regular Hormone Ther ...
    Breast cancer rates dropped by half in tandem with the discontinuation of hormone replacement therapy, according to a study published online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The study was reported in the Telegraph in the United Kingdom. The Telegraph said: "Dr Prithwish De, of th ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Troubled Vedanta loses appeal for controversial re ...
    Vedanta's plan to expand its refinery at the foot of the Niyamgiri hills has now been blocked. © Lewis Davids/Survival The Indian government has blocked FTSE 100 company Vedanta Resources’ plan to expand its highly controversial alumina refinery below the Niyamgiri hills in Orissa, in the late ...
  • Shocking video of Papuan torture prompts calls for ...
    The footage has caused widespread outrage and revulsion. © Survival Disturbing and graphic footage of two tribal Papuan men being tortured, allegedly by Indonesian soldiers, has led to widespread demands for an independent inquiry. One of the victims is an elderly man. The incident is believed ...
  • Quentin Blake designs Christmas cards for Survival ...
    Illustrator and and Survival supporter Quentin Blake has designed cards for Survival's Christmas catalogue © Survival The world’s best-loved illustrator Quentin Blake has designed three exclusive Christmas cards for Survival’s 2010 Christmas catalogue. The three designs inspired by tribal peop ...
  • Finsbury wins ‘PR Disaster of the Year’ award
    Two Naâvi protested outside Vedantaâs AGM. © Survival On the eve of the PR Week Awards, Survival has presented its ’PR Disaster of the Yearâ Award to Finsbury PR and its founder Roland Rudd for their work with FTSE -100 mining company Vedanta Resources . Finsbury is the retained PR age ...
  • UN warned about oil pipeline in Peru
    Peru's isolated Indians are highly vulnerable to diseases brought in by outsiders. © Anon Survival is warning the United Nations of massive oil operations in the northern Peruvian Amazon that could decimate uncontacted tribal people . ‘By permitting companies to operate in this region Peru’s g ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Photo radar: the right thing to do
    After a nine-month test at 15 sites across Quebec, Transport Minister Sam Hamad is convinced: Photo radar prevents accidents and saves lives.
  • An interesting idea, but lousy timing
    The Senate has proposed a new way to encourage Canadians to save for retirement. It would allow an additional lifetime investment of $100,000 in each person's Tax Free Savings Account. It's an interesting idea, but the timing is awful.
  • Questions need answering in the Williams case
    There is little to suggest that the police forces involved in investigating admitted killer Col. Russell Williams made the same mistakes that so marred the investigation into Paul Bernardo in the 1990s.
  • Mining industry owes Quebec a better deal
    Being friendly to mine-owners is fine, but what about being friendly to the owners of the province's mineral wealth -Quebecers? And what about being friendly to the environment?
  • European trade talks deserve public support
    A fourth round of trade talks between Canada and the European Union wrapped up in July, with results the participants considered satisfactory. Unlike the Canada-U. S. free trade talks of the 1980s, these discussions (on a "Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement") have drawn little public ...

Food World Order

  • produce kids grow is forbidden fruit in chicago lu ...
    kids grow veggies but can't eat them from chicago tribune : It's harvest time in Chicago Public School gardens full of chubby tomatoes, heavy squash and fragrant basil. These urban oases, carefully tended by teachers, students and volunteers, range from several square feet to several acres of fr ...
  • forbes admits it was 'wrong on monsanto, really wr ...
    from gmwatch : The only dubious aspect of this article is the suggestion that Monsanto's fortunes might be saved by its new soybean seed with " high levels of omega-3 fatty acids ," which " could appeal to health-conscious consumers ." We doubt that Monsanto soybeans (if GM) and health-conscious con ...
  • media monarchy: interview w/ barbara peterson of f ...
    interview w/ barbara peterson : download /subscribe \archive the latest special interview episode from media monarchy features a great talk with writer/activist barbara peterson of farmwars.info & truth squad radio . this one-hour conversation gets into the " corporate shenanigans ... and in ...
  • 10/14 binge & purge: can't feel the beating
    warning to glenn beck: don't drink diet coke * video: beck sidekicks attempt to debunk aspartame controversy * roger beachy's evangelical push for gm foods * build the pressure on the gates foundation * what's driving monsanto's fall from grace? *
  • 3/4's of US obese or overweight by 2020, says alar ...
    from natural news : America is already on the verge of drowning in sick-care bankruptcy, but the situation is about to get even worse. According to a new study released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development , three-fourths of Americans will be obese or overweight by 2020 . Tha ...

CrusadeWatch

  • Evangelism as part of foreign political strategy
    source:  The organiser, Oct 3, 2010   By Manju Gupta Evangelical Intrusions, Sandhya Jain, Rupa & Co., Pp 251 (HB), Rs 395.00 THIS book comes at an opportune moment when repeated reports of religio-political violence in the north-eastern states are pouring in, accompanied by the ri ...
  • What science say about religious conversion
    source:  Helium.com,  October 20, 2010 For many, religious experiences lead to religious conversion. While conversion need not stem from such an experience, per se, many convertees have cited religious awakenings as leading to a new spiritual perspective. But while science accepts a religious ...
  • Beltangady: Three Booked for Inducing Religious Co ...
    source:  Daijiworld, October 18, 2010 Beltangady, Oct 18: The personnel of Venur police station have registered cases against three persons, based on a complaint received against them. The three reportedly visited a family, derided Hindu gods, and induced the family members to convert.
  • 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 ...

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Is The Federal Reserve Out Of Control? Markets Acr ...
    What in the world is going on over at the Federal Reserve?    Has it gotten to the point where the Federal Reserve is completely and totally out of control?  There is increasing speculation in the financial community that the Federal Reserve is on the verge of unleashing another rou ...
  • The Big Wall Street Banks Have Found A New Way To ...
    It turns out that the big Wall Street banks have found a dirty new way to make loads of cash from U.S. homeowners, and they really, really don't want to talk about it.  So what is this dirty new business?  America's biggest financial institutions have become property tax collectors, ...
  • It Is A Race To The Bottom For Global Currencies A ...
    In 2010, any nation that has a weak currency has a very significant competitive advantage in global trade.  A weak currency means that the products and services produced by that nation will be less expensive for other nations.  Therefore other nations will buy more of those products ...
  • Unfair Trade: 10 Questions About Our Globalized Ec ...
    Most Americans still seem to be convinced that "free trade" is "fair trade" and that to be against current U.S. trade policies and globalization means that you are anti-business, anti-free enterprise and anti-American.  In the mainstream media, any unfair trade practices that are br ...
  • S. 510: 12 Reasons Why The Food Safety Bill From H ...
    As you read this, there is a bill before the U.S. Senate that has the potential to change the U.S. food industry more than any other law ever passed by the U.S. Congress. In the name of "food safety", the U.S. government would be given an iron grip over the production, transportatio ...

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The Talking Clock

  • More University of East Anglia lunacy, anyone?
    Of all the utter lunacy that we, the people pay for... The Daily Mail has a report on how: "Wholesale changes to the nation’s diet, with a move towards vegetarian food and away from beef and cheese, have been recommended by Government advisers. A report commissioned by the Food Standards Agency s ...
  • Quotes of the Day: 21st October 2010
    "If we left Europe today we would not have to reduce UK expenditure one iota. Britain will be paying, at current rates £82 billion pounds to Brussels over the next 5 years. Neatly matching the £81 billion in reduced expenditure announced by George Osborne over the same period." - UKIP's Nigel Farag ...
  • UKIP Leadership: DCB own-goal as Question Time wit ...
    The UKIP leadership election has taken a new twist tonight - with a strong backlash being evident against one of the four candidates. The story appears to be this. Nigel Farage had been invited onto tomorrow's BBC Question Time. We know that is a fact - UKIP had news of the appearance on their ...
  • Smoking ban: Today's Roll-Call of Shame (the 141 m ...
    Hansard has up the names of those 141 MPs who today voted against Conservative MP David Nuttall's Ten Minute Rule Bill on a partial reversal of the smoking ban, intended to exempt bars and private members clubs from the legislation provided that there were to be a seperate appropriately ventilated r ...
  • Remember those "anti terror laws" we were terroris ...
    Remember all those "anti terror" laws? And those pervy naked body scanners? Well, from the Department of "You Couldn't Make It Up" comes the following headline, courtesy of the Daily Mail, picking up on a report from Fox News: Al Qaeda leader linked to 9/11 hijackers 'was invited to the Pen ...

Facing South

  • Art Pope: Still dancing at the Tea Party?
    This past spring, as the Tea Party movement was gearing up for one of its big moments in the spotlight -- the April 15 Tax Day protests -- the conservative cause found itself mired in controversy. After a year of rowdy Congressional town hall meetings, extremist rhetoric and bitter internal ...
  • VOICES: Buying elections with dirty money
    By Jennifer Rennicks, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy At two weeks and counting, we are officially in the home stretch of the 2010 midterm election season . Every election cycle in our country brings candidates together to debate the issues and pundits together to analyze those comments before ...
  • BP sued for harm to Gulf's endangered wildlife
    Three conservation groups have brought suit against oil giant BP under the federal Endangered Species Act for the ongoing harm or killing of endangered and threatened wildlife caused by the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The lawsuit was filed on Oct. 20, the six-month a ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: In New Orleans, still waiting for ...
    "An Inconvenient Truth" director Davis Guggenheim's latest documentary, "Waiting for 'Superman,'" opened this month in theaters nationwide. An examination of the state of U.S. public education, the film has sparked controversy for its criticism of teachers' unions and promotion of charter schools. B ...
  • Six months after BP oil disaster, Gulf Coast deman ...
    Today marks six months since BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers, injuring 17 others and causing the largest offshore oil spill in the industry's history. Scientists are still working to understand the full ecological impact of the unprecedent ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Testimony in Ghailani Trial Provides ‘Vivid, if Dated,’ Look Inside al Qaeda The New York Times reports that a second day of testimony by an admitted al Qaeda trainer at the trial of Ahmed Ghailani, who is accused of participating … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Al Qaeda Trainer Testifies at Ghailani Trial; Juror Replaced A Moroccan man who joined the mujahadeen in Afghanistan and later became a trainer for al Qaeda testified Tuesday at the trial of Ahmed Ghailani, who is accused of participating in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Four Found Guilty in Bronx Synagogue Bomb Plot Trial Four men accused of plotting to bomb a Bronx synagogue and Jewish community center and to shoot down military planes with missiles were found guilty Monday in federal court in Manhattan. … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Reports: Warnings About Headley Years Before Mumbai Attack Warnings that David Headley, the U.S. citizen who scouted targets for the Mumbai terror attack, had possible links to a terror group reached American authorities years before the 2008 Mumbai attacks, it … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Khadr Trial Delayed; Plea Deal Possible The military commission trial of Omar Khadr – the first under the Obama administration – was to resume Monday, but a military judge yesterday delayed it until October 25 in order to give the … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 Mockup Looks Impressive, Work On ...
    Ubuntu Tweak is every newbie Ubuntu user's closest companion and we have already seen how Ubuntu Tweak is slowly evolving into one among the must have installation candidates for Ubuntu in our� Ubuntu Tweak review . And with the new mockup UI, the next phase of development for Ubuntu Tweak has only ...
  • 10 Slick Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Wallpapers
    Ubuntu 10.10 final is released and we already had a massive post describing the different customizations possible with Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat . Now it's time for some wallpapers. Here is a quick collection of wallpapers for Ubuntu 10.10, mostly branded ones. Ubuntu 10.10 Wallpaper by sxm ...
  • Two Blender Tutorials That Comes as Sintel DVD Ext ...
    Blender was the buzzword last month and it all started with the release of Sintel open movie by Blender foundation. We later put together an amazing collection of 12 unique Blender tutorials for our readers. Here are two more incredible Blender tutorials you should see, which were actually included ...
  • Boxee Box is All Set to Start Shipping From Nov 10 ...
    Boxee Box is all set to start shipping from Nov 10th 2010.�Boxee and D-Link will have a launch event in NYC to celebrate and demo the Boxee Box, complete with Boxee 1.0. Boxee Revolution Boxee is basically an open source media center application based on another critically acclaimed ope ...
  • Google Chrome 7 Released For Windows, Mac and Linu ...
    Google Chrome 7 stable version has been released and it is already available for Windows, Mac and Linux. The latest version is Google Chrome 7.0.517.41 to be precise. Google Chrome Stable Hits Version 7 Sticking to its promise of 6 month release cycle, Google Chrome has released Google Chr ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • The steel of Germany: Police meet unexpected resis ...
    The sheer quality of steel products made in Germany the last century became the focus of attention in Stuttgart this evening when a hundred police officers tried for over an hour to batter down a door in the station after about 100 protestors occupied the south wing. The steel door held for more tha ...
  • Geological risks associated with Stuttgart 21 sign ...
    The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has published a highly critical report of the Stuttgart 21 railway project, noting the  risks associated with building the underground station in the regiuon’s  anhydrite rock because this expands by 50 per cent to form gypsum when it comes into contact with wa ...
  • Doctors in Germany refuse to give patients flu jab ...
    Family doctors in Germany are advising their patients not to get the seasonal flu jab containing the swine flu virus this year and giving them tips, instead, for how to stay healthy by sleeping well, taking plenty of exercise and using homopathetic medicines. Dr Luise Stolz told her patients that th ...
  • Is the Stuttgart police force recruiting and prote ...
     One of my friends, George McKenzie, joined the Stuttgart police force a few years ago but continued to keep on his flat in Vienna, and every now and then we meet up for a chat.  At the beginning of summer, he told me about an experience that shocked me and strongly suggests the notion that [...]
  • BAVARIA TO SUE AUSTRIA FOR BILLIONS OVER HYPO FRAU ...
    The Bavarian government is planning to sue Austria for 3 billion euros after it emerged that the balance sheets of the Hypo Alpe Adria bank were falsified in 2006 to overstate the bankâs assets in a development that directly implicates members of the German and Austrian business “elite”, includ ...

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Vilsack Announces New Boost for Biofuels
Mid-South Farmer
- Oct 22, 2010
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Renewable fuel consumption will reach 36 billion gallons by 2022, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack said during a speech Thursday. To make sure it happens, ...
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Silver Lake Invests US$100 Mln In Nobao Renewable Energy - Source
Wall Street Journal
- Oct 22, 2010
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By Nisha Gopalan HONG KONG (Dow Jones)--Silver Lake said Friday it has made an investment in Shanghai-based Nobao Renewable Energy Holdings Ltd., ...
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Hawaii adopts feed-in tariff for small-scale renewable energy projects
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- Oct 21, 2010
- 15 hours ago
for renewable energy generators of up to 500 kW in size. The approved tariffs include applicable pricing, terms and conditions, a standard form of contract ...
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EPA honors Port of Portland
Portland Business Journal
- Oct 22, 2010
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The award recognizes EPA Green Power Partners that distinguish themselves through buying renewable energy from a green-pricing program, a competitive green ...
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New deal provides water for 23000 homes
Seattle Post Intelligencer
- Oct 22, 2010
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The agreement between the state Department of Ecology and the Pend Oreille County Public Utility District will be signed Friday. It calls for the release of ...
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Ecology update on Rayonier cleanup at open house Wednesday
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- Oct 22, 2010
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(Port Angeles) -- The Washington Department of Ecology invites the public to a Rayonier cleanup open house Wednesday, October 27th in Port Angeles. ...
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Home improvement products in toxic tests
UPI.com
- Oct 20, 2010
- Oct 20, 2010
The Michigan-based Ecology Center says it found many toxic chemicals when it tested more than 1000 flooring products and almost 2300 types of wallpaper, ...
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Ecology and Environment, Inc., Plays Key Role in First Large-Scale Solar ...
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- Oct 20, 2010
- Oct 20, 2010
Headquartered in Lancaster, NY, Ecology and Environment, Inc., has completed more than 50000 projects for a wide variety of clients in 96 countries, ...
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Parts of Port of Long Beach still without water
San Jose Mercury News
- Oct 22, 2010
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Two days after black crude oil was found in a major water pipeline, crews were still working to locate the source of the contamination that forced water to ...
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NASA Finds Astronomic Amount of Water on the Moon
ChattahBox
- Oct 22, 2010
- 14 minutes ago
The result was that the satellite found about 41 gallons of water in the debris of the crash—which, when calculated across the entire moon's area, ...
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New deal provides water for 23000 homes
Seattle Post Intelligencer
- Oct 22, 2010
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A new deal will remove water from Sullivan Lake in summer months to help spur economic development in six counties in depressed northeastern Washington. ...
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Ill. contributes $2M to Chicago water project
Chicago Tribune
- Oct 22, 2010
- 4 hours ago
AP The state is awarding the city of Chicago $2 million for a program that lets customers volunteer to have water meters installed at their homes. ...
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