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Thomas Paine

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Sunday, October 24, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • India's Female Peacekeepers Inspire Liberian Girls
    It is break time at the Victory Chapel School in Congo Town. Children dressed in their royal blue uniforms with bright yellow and white trim fight to get under the shade of the only mango tree in the yard. It is the start of the dry season and the scorching sun will soon be almost unbearable to st ...
  • Without Investment in Agriculture, Africans Stay H ...
    Inadequate access to water, recurring floods and droughts as well as a lack of political will to invest in small-scale agriculture perpetuate hunger across Africa, the continent's food security experts say.
  • MEXICO: Juárez Residents Fight for Safe Public Spa ...
    The setting sun creates long shadows on the pavement in the crowded Del Safari neighbourhood in the southwest of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Casting the shadows are young people playing percussion instruments or children breakdancing or performing daring skateboard jumps.
  • NICARAGUA: Machismo Just Isn't Cool
    As he left a workshop in the Nicaraguan capital about gender equality, Alejandro Silva was forced to confront a show of machismo, ironically, with his fists. He was attacked by classmates who taunted him that he was gay.
  • African Govts Urged to Invest in Social Protection
    Allocating just one percent of GDP to social protection could make a massive difference to the lives of the continent's poorest children.

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

  • Thief's hand 'cut off in front of prisoners'
    Authorities in Iran have amputated the hand of a convicted thief in front of other prisoners, state radio is reporting.
  • James Cameron labelled climate change 'hypocrite'
    The eco-themed science fiction movie Avatar helped cement James Cameron's standing as one of Hollywood's most strident environmentalists. Now, in a gesture that perfectly captures the fractious spirit of a polarised nation, comes the inevitable backlash: a political attack advert entitled "James Cam ...
  • Gold rush brings wealth but kills 400 children in ...
    Ibrahim Bello says extracting gold from the ground can earn him $23 (£15) in two hours – more than subsistence farmers hereabouts make in two months. Such are the sums to be made in northern Nigeria's "gold rush", with impoverished farmers digging up rocks by hand in open mines – but many are in de ...
  • Robert Fisk: The shaming of America
    As usual, the Arabs knew. They knew all about the mass torture, the promiscuous shooting of civilians, the outrageous use of air power against family homes, the vicious American and British mercenaries, the cemeteries of the innocent dead. All of Iraq knew. Because they were the victims.
  • Assange defends leaks, and says more will come
    There can be few more incongruous settings in which to unveil documents itemising the squalid deaths of innocent Iraqi people than against the deep-pile carpets of the Park Plaza Riverbank Hotel in London. But here it was that the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, held a press conference yesterday ...

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

  • Juan Williams Is Right: Political Correctness Abou ...
    ...an open letter to Juan Williams Dear Juan, Sorry to hear you got fired by National Public Radio for saying on Fox that you get nervous when you see Muslims on a plane with you. It was dumb to say such a thing, but I don't think saying one dumb thing should be a firing offense. (I DO think an NP ...
  • Dollar Stores: Top Link in the Sweatshop Chain
    Abel Lopez was a busy man. The El Paso resident's job with Family Dollar, Inc. averaged 60-80 hours a week. A former graphic designer and ad man from neighboring Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Lopez spent his days unloading trucks, processing freight, scouring toilets, running cash registers, cleaning, shel ...
  • The first teacher banned for life for being useles ...
    A teacher who is judged to be incapable of ever improving his work has become the first to be banned for life from the classroom due to incompetence. Nisar Ahmed will never reach 'requisite standards' of teaching and cannot work in state schools again, a panel ruled. The General Teaching Council f ...
  • 11 Hurt In Plunge 'Fleeing From Devil'
    Eleven people have been injured jumping out of a second-floor flat window after apparently thinking they had seen the devil. Police are investigating the incident which took place in the early hours in the small town of La Verriere, west of Paris. Officers said some of the injured were children i ...
  • Thai floods 'worst in 50 years'
    A quarter of Thailand has been inundated in the worst flooding in half a century with riverside areas of Bangkok set to be affected by rising water. The death toll from the floods has now risen to 12 and is mainly attributed to flash flooding which has washed away homes. Four people died in Burira ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • At it again...
    First it was Airshow and Red Dawn . Now it's Conservative MP for Nanaimo-Alberni Dr. James Lunney , seen here all dolled up like a sailor on HMCS Calgary .� Ok, to be fair, this was part of a program where members of the upper and lower houses get to go play sailor, soldier or pigeon for five days: ...
  • Oh man, just kick it because it feels good!
    The one and only TBogg explains to the coaches of the San Diego Chargers why kicking a field goal in the last minutes of the game when you're down by 30 points is sad, pathetic and a waste of time. He also explains to the "War on Drugs" guys why they look like the coaches of the San Diego Chargers ...
  • Rex Murphy pulls out your mother's answer to every ...
    There he is. A loser. How many times have you been in an argument with your spouse, partner or the like and heard the words,� "Yeah. Whatever?" How many times have your been bent over on an issue and heard the word from a parent or an acquaintance. "Who cares?" Your mother. When you've left her w ...
  • Now that it's over, let's get started. BC Rail ain ...
    The sudden termination of the BC Rail trial, convenient in that it comes just days before BC premier and convicted drunk driver Gordon Campbell addresses the citizens of British Columbia while they're washing up from supper on 27 October, doesn't mean it's all over. As The Gazetteer points out, wi ...
  • Today is the day Stockwell Day celebrates as the D ...
    Don't be bugging Stockwell Day for anything today. He will be wrapped up in Genesis 1 - 2 marveling at how some entity out there in... wherever, got bored and decided to invent a planet complete with a few dozen species of plants, some animals (dinosaurs included, although they aren't mentioned in t ...

Media Matters for America

  • Conspiracy: Conservative media link Beck's "spook ...
    Since NPR terminated Juan Williams' contract, numerous conservative media figures, led by Fox News hosts, have suggested -- citing no evidence whatsoever -- that the firing is related to a recent $1.8 million donation to NPR from Open Society Foundations, a philanthropy started by George Soros. ...
  • Fox uses Juan Williams as excuse to continue its ...
    Fox News figures have seized on NPR's decision to terminate Juan Williams' contract following controversial comments he made about Muslims on Fox News, and are using the story to continue their war on NPR and call for its defunding. Fox News figures, particularly Bill O'Reilly, have long crusad ...
  • Economists agree: Legislation Reid led to passage ...
    Right-wing media have mocked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for saying that "But for me, we'd be in a worldwide depression." In fact, economists have credited legislation that passed the Senate under Reid's leadership for averting a far deeper economic collapse. Reid defends his economic record ...
  • 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 ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • What The Palestinians Want
    Not to be missed: This week's little column in Haaretz by Palestinian Authority leader and sometime negotiator Nabil Sha'ath. He is not the most popular of leaders in the West Bank; he's grown curiously rich, and was never a man of the people. Still, he's a straight talker, who clearly represents ma ...
  • They are Calling Out for Bill Clinton's Magic
    Last night, I got to talk to and briefly hang with former President of the United States Bill Clinton (along with 400 other folks) who temporarily paused his "rejuvenation tour" for beleaguered Democratic Party friends in Congress and the Senate. Clinton was at DC's Ritz Carlton to keynote along wi ...
  • 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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TruthOut

  • Do Afghan Peace Talks Have Traction?
    Washington - Reports over the past 10 days of high-level talks between the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and senior representatives of the Taliban have spurred growing speculation here about whether Washington is looking for a speedy exit to the longest foreign war in its history. read ...
  • Cinema Libre 10: The Best Government Money Can Buy ...
    The Best Government Money Can Buy Clip #10 from Cinema Libre Studio on Vimeo .read more
  • Ecuador's Challenge: Rafael Correa and the Indigen ...
    The recent right-wing coup attempt in Ecuador shed light on the rupture between President Rafael Correa and the country’s indigenous movements. This rocky relationship demonstrates the challenges of protesting against a leftist leader without empowering the right. read more
  • Big Oil Goes to College: BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, ...
    Over the past five years, ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Royal Dutch Shell and ConocoPhillips have given millions of dollars to support energy research at top US universities. The private funds might fill a gap left by declining public investment, but a new report from the Center for American Progress w ...
  • In Search of the Real Tea Party
    Is there more to the Tea Party movement than the birthers, tenthers, and Obama-as-Nazi-ers? More than fervent followers of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and FOX News? Is it a real "movement" or deceptive corporate Astroturf? Do Tea Partiers possess an authentic libertarian taxed-enough-already approach ...

Planetsave

  • Crop Failures to Increase Due to Global Weirding
    As we’ve written a few times on Planetsave, one big effect of global weirding is likely to be massive crop failures. Rudy Ruitenberg of Bloomberg recently reported: Crop failures such as this year in Russia are likely to become more common as climate change causes more extreme weather with heat and ...
  • 10 Cool Bike Stories
    I subscribe to the RSS news feed for Bike Radar and most of the stories are really just for hard-core cyclists (which I am not), but from time to time there are great stories that I think anyone at all supportive of bicycling would be interested in. I also subscribe to a few other bike sites... Read ...
  • Macedonia Town Planting 5,000 Roses to Clean Up To ...
    Have toxic soil? Plant some roses. That’s what residents of a town in Macedonia have been advised to do since the lead and zinc mill that contaminated their soil isn’t doing anything to clean it up. Jess Leber of Change.org writes: For 30 years, nothing has come up roses for a Macedonia town sufferi ...
  • Chevron’s Alter-ego
    Chevron has a horrible environmental record, especially in South America. As Jeremy Bloom of Red, Green and Blue writes: For years, Chevron (and predecessor companies now owned by Chevron) trashed the pristine Amazon rainforest, drilling, spilling, and then walking away. They were sued by a coalitio ...
  • Has Indoor Air Quality Been Getting Better or Wors ...
    I recently had the chance to interview Dr. Mark Sneller, an expert on the topic of indoor air quality (IAQ) and author of the new book Greener, Cleaner Indoor Air: A Guide to Healthier Living (Wheatmark, 2010). He gave me such in-depth answers on this critical topic that I decided I’d publish them i ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • How Progressive Ideas Protect Inequality - Critica ...
    “There’s class warfare, all right,” Mr. Buffett said, “but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” - NYT, Nov. 26, 2006 There is indeed a class war whose outcome will determine whether our society will remain one based on inequality with real control over societ ...
  • Israeli Settler Sewage Floods Beit Ommar Land - Wo ...
    (2 videos) Thousands of liters of raw sewage from the illegal Gush Etzion settlement flooded over 50 dunams of Palestinian farmland in the village of Beit Ommar last night (Oct 17). The sewage was pumped from a storage unit inside the settlement onto the land of the Sabarna family, flooding. ...
  • Weaving New Alliances with Cultural Threads in Afr ...
    (2 reports) Weaving New Alliances with Cultural Threads CARACAS, Oct 28 (IPS) - Venezuela, the biggest oil producer in Latin America and the fifth biggest in the world, has launched an offensive to forge closer diplomatic ties with Africa, initially focusing on political and cultural questions ...
  • A Powerful Anti-Zionist Action at University of Mi ...
    This video was just posted from a silent protest yesterday during a presentation from two IDF soldiers at the University of Michigan. They certainly know how to clear out a room. The students are wearing the names of Palestinians killed by the IDF: Source: MondoWeiss and You Tube ...
  • Cholera epidemic in quake-hit Haiti, 135 dead - Wo ...
    A cholera epidemic in northern Haiti has claimed 135 lives and infected 1,500 people over the last few days, Claude Surena, president of the Haitian Medical Association, said Thursday. The epidemic has not yet reached the major displaced persons camps in and around the capital Port-au- ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Demand that the tea party candidate on your ballot answer these questions And make them give real answers. Don't settle for empty, buzzwords-laden talking points. We have been saying this since 2008. This country will be attacked by terrorists again. That is just a given. The question isn't "if," it ...
  • Repugs Want Impeachment? OK, Let's Impeach - Corpo ...
    Susie Madrak at Crooks and Liars: I take back what I wrote last week. Apparently at least one Democrat does understand how to fight back against one of the worst corporatists on the Supreme Court: With Democrats increasingly outraged over the Supreme Court's Citizen United decision that allowed unli ...
  • Sheriff Tells Fraudster Banks: Not in My County, Y ...
    Remember Tom Dart? A couple of years ago, the Sheriff of Cook County, IL (Chicago) made headlines for refusing to evict renters from apartments because the landlord was being foreclosed. Those families had paid their rent in good faith, and had done nothing to deserve eviction, he said. Now he's app ...
  • Pomposity and Piety Among the Parasites
    There's so much credulous crap about the teabaggers being broadcast despite - or perhaps because of - the tsunami of evidence that they are the same old racist assholes we've been fighting for 240 years, we can't post enough correctives. And no one writes bracing correctives better than Matt Taibbi: ...
  • Democracy Threatened Without Church-State Separati ...
    You'd think that after more than 4,400 US military deaths, along with untold thousands of Iraqi civilians killed, and largely because Sunnis, Shias and Kurds cannot get past their religious differences to form a stable and peaceful country, that patience in this country would have long since expired ...

Care 2

  • Big Brother Is Watching - A Corporate License To K ...
    911 Patriot Act organization known as Infragard was formed by the Dept. of Homeland Security and further coordinated by the FBI, which has currently enlisted 32,000 business owners across America to spy on terrorists and civilians with dubious methods. Submitted by Third Eye Open to US Politics & G ...
  • Don't Become the Next Victim of Lead Poisoning - T ...
    Lead is a poisonous metal that can cause serious negative reactions in the human body. It's been proven to severely damage brain function, the nervous system, and the kidneys. Would you apply a substance with those implications to your face or body? Submitted by Tarequl I. to Health & Wellness �|� ...
  • Measure to legalize marijuana trails in California ...
    California's Proposition 19, which would legalize marijuana use for adults, is trailing 51 percent to 39 percent, a poll released Friday shows. But some say polling on this issue may be problematic. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • "DAKOTA 38" MOVIE TRAILER!
    We're looking to take the film on the road as soon as it's finished and screen it along the route of the ride to the many small towns and reservations we rode through. Earlier this year we bought Winnie, a 1972 Winnebago Indian, and now we need to get ... Submitted by Kat Yazzie to Society & Culture ...
  • Demand Investigation of Minnesota Wildlife Connect ...
    A captive wolf in Minnesota had to be euthanized after it was allowed to approach a young girl and bit her. The wolf was owned by Lee Greenly of the Minnesota Wildlife Connection, a business that sells photographing opportunities. Paying customers have Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...

Smirking Chimp

  • The Bush Lie
    First the Big Reagan Lie, now the Even Bigger Bush Lie. It was only a matter of time, of course, before conservatives would come out of hiding. Pummeled over the years for their association with the catastrophe known as the Bush administration, singing its praises had become too great a lie even for ...
  • Election 2010: Choosing the Abuser
    Every day, 10,000 U.S. women are assaulted by their husband or boyfriend. Most often they do not leave, and the violence continues; psychologists call it battered women's syndrome . On Nov. 2, we're likely to see the political counterpart, where American voters -- despite a history of egregious Re ...
  • Backdoor Bailout, Tea Party Fakeout: The GOP's Sec ...
    GOP candidates are making a point of running against "bailouts" this year. Yet even as they rail about rescuing big banks, they're working on a plan that would slip those same banks an estimated $90 billion in taxpayer money...and that's just in the first ten years. "Fiscal conservatism," anyone? ...
  • The Tea Party Test Case
    What is the Tea Party? Many have tried to answer that question ever since CNBC's Rick Santelli first launched the backlash with his trading-floor rant against the poor. Democratic operatives, for instance, say the Tea Party is merely a Republican Party facade. As proof, they point to GOP-linked corp ...
  • Admiral Joe Sestak's big truth
    The strong comeback in the Pennsylvania Senate campaign of Democratic Rep. and retired Adm. Joe Sestak is, from my point of view, one of the few great moments in the 2010 campaign. In a national campaign full of sickening slanders and second-rate minds, Sestak stands out for one big truth that has g ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Dems Facing Disaster in Florida
    This is not wishful thinking. The Dems are in big trouble, at least in South Florida. I live in the Fort Lauderdale area. I was out of town for three weeks and came back to a daunting stack of mail. Every single political flyer in the stack was from a Republican [...]
  • Saturday’s Wide Open Thread
    Woah! Check out the movement afoot in Chicago’s mayoral race dubbed “Anybody But Rahm” ⦠And Rahm Is Facing Many More Challenges to His Evident Belief That He Can Be Crowned the Mayor of Chicago Simply Because He’s Declared Himself The One (rather like his previous boss) ⦠Alaska Senate candidat ...
  • GOT VALUES??? Rating the Candidates
    Vote all the bums out! Why just look at the dark mess they have made of things! But wait? Do I see some stars peeking out in that muddy pandemonium we call the U.S. Congress? Yes, I do, especially among the more moderate/centrist/independent members of both parties who have the courage to think f ...
  • The Cultural Revolution Continues!
    Readers of NQ might recall a previous Youtube video of mine called “The Cultural Revolution Starts Here”. I have used some of the themes I mentioned in that video in a play I have just had published in Britain. The play is partly inspired by the Tennyson poem, “The Lady of Shalott” (a [...]
  • Rewarding Loyal
    POTUS Bush returns directly after the election with his memoir of office. He looks fit, tan and rested. Love the low-key presentation. POTUS Bush will be selling into a fertile market for GOP thinking. Note that POTUS Clinton is expressing cagey regrets at the Democratic tactics on the campa ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Russia’s Appetite for Organic Food
    The Russian market is clearly showing trends that it is ready for a more organic lifestyle yet at the moment, choices are limited. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Hermit Who's Saved 160 People at a Suicide Hot ...
    Don Ritchie, an 84-year-old "angel walking among us" has saved more than 160 people from suicide over the cliffs in front of his home in the past 50 years. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 6 Amazing Environmental Initiatives Around the Glo ...
    There is an on-going race, both economically and politically. But at the end of the race, where will everyone stand environmentally? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Meerkats: The Dedicated Sentries of the Animal Wor ...
    We know that meerkats are cute and heart-warming, but there is much more sentiment and hard work behind their cute demeanor. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Rare Earths: The Real Unobtanium
    Unobtanium is a term used to describe fictional or desired minerals that do not exist in marketable quantities. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Currency turbulence and FEMA cyberwarfare exciteme ...
    The old days... " 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. ".... -link Now that's what I call a currency war! DXZ Flash Crash Detonates Entire Currency Co ...
  • Randomly enough: Spotting today's Obama motorcade ...
    Entirely by random I ended up right where & when President Obama left an unannounced evening event with his entourage -- over at Franklin & LaSalle Avenues. I'm pretty sure I saw him in this car. I didn't even want to be dealing with the stuff, but it happened to be right in front of me when going t ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • Does an heir of Goebbels measure Cuban failure?
    The United States slogs through its worst crisis since the Great Depression, but some editorial writers in leading newspapers practice denial of their reality and focus instead on Cuba’s “failed socialist system.” I wonder if these opinion crafters who specialize in fostering illusions, berating ene ...
  • Do No Evil Google & US Taxes
    By Numerian First published in The Agonist Google, which encourages employees to “Do No Evil”, managed this past quarter to reduce its international tax rate to 2.4% of net income, despite earning most of its revenue in countries like the US, the UK, Germany, and Japan that have corporate tax rates ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

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

  • IOT: Stop Global Warming – Environment Issu ...
    The April 21 meeting of the Stop Global Warming/Environmental IOT featured guests Bill Snapes Senior Counsel for the Center for Biological Diversity and jounalist and author Jeff Biggers who writes on Mountain-top mining. We also ...
  • 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 ...

Marler Blog

  • Why the Tea Party is going to make me even richer
    Thanks to the folks at Think Progress for passing along the video of GOP House candidate Jesse Kelly, who is running in Arizona’s 8th congressional district, at a campaign rally hosted by the Pima County Tea Party Patriots. During a question-and-answer period, a voter asked Kelly about the recent Sa ...
  • Report on Outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis at Ca ...
    Athens City County Health Department has released its preliminary report  on the Salmonella Enteritidis Outbreak that sickened 56 linked to Casa Lopez Mexican Restaurant. Of those case patients entered into the Ohio Disease Reporting System (ODRS), 47 reside in Athens County, including some with tem ...
  • SanGar's Chopped Celery Linked to Listeria Outbrea ...
    Perhaps SanGar has been too long in the shadow of the last stand at the Alamo, or the owners believe the Tea Party mantra of blaming the government for all that is bad will work to deflect that SanGar may well be responsible for the deaths of at least 4 and perhaps 5 and sickening of 6 to 10. But h ...
  • Leading Government Officials and Litigation Counse ...
    Wednesday, October 27 to Thursday, October 28, 2010 Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States  In the wake of one of the largest national egg recalls in history, now is the time for in-house counsel, regulatory affairs and compliance officers within the food industry to cl ...
  • Quality Egg - Wright County Egg Sued by Texan in I ...
    We filed yet another lawsuit against Quality Egg – Wright County Egg in Federal District Court in Iowa this afternoon. Here are some of the details: On or about June 25, 2010, the plaintiff, Jim Bussey of Brookshire, Texas, purchased and consumed an egg and sausage breakfast taco in Sealy, Texas. ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 10.22.10
    SEMA preview: Neil Young's LincVolt will be ready for its close-up Young will also be on a panel discussion we want to hear. Report: Renault Zoe electric will cost less than $21,000 Batteries ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Want to Buy the Pennsylvania Turnpike?
    By  Matt Taibbi In the summer of 2009 I got a call from an acquaintance who worked in the Middle East. He was a young American who worked for something called a sovereign wealth fund, a giant state-owned pile of money that swims around the world in search of things to buy. Sovereign wealth funds, o ...
  • Barney Frank Does the Barney Shuffle
    One of the Massachusetts Congressional races is using a new, more unorthodox approach to video ads! YouTube Related reading: Barney Frank Wikipedia Sean Bielat Wikipedia
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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 ...

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 look at America from a superior perspective: th ...
    Summary:  Today we have a guest author from another time.  He’s a philosopher and playwright, providing an insightful look at our time as seen from the future — a decade after the ending of our war on terror.  Although he provides few details, the events described are easy to identify.  Con ...
  • We have trouble coping with our present because we ...
    Summary:   Americans know so little of our past, and much of what we know is wrong.  Might this contribute to our difficulties, our inability to see, understand, and grapple with our problems?  Here we example some of the worse examples of our hidden history.  How much might we benefit by reclaiming ...
  • 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Wall St. mogul picked for State Department post
    Washington Times – President Obama’s nominee for deputy secretary of state has earned more than $8 million in salary and bonuses since January 2009 as an executive at a Wall Street bank that received a federal bailout. Thomas R. Nides, a six-figure fundraiser for Hillary Rodham Clinton during her 20 ...
  • Regulators shut down 7 US banks
    CNN – Bank regulators closed seven banks Friday, bringing the total of number of bank failures for the year to 139, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said. Friday marked the largest number of banks closed since July 23, when the FDIC also closed seven banks, according to the FDIC’s website. ...
  • Taliban launch attack on U.N. compound in western ...
    Washington Post – The Taliban launched a midday assault on the United Nations headquarters in western Afghanistan on Saturday, crashing a car bomb into a compound gate to create an opening for suicide bombers disguised as women, according to U.N. and Afghan officials.The attack was a startling remi ...
  • Patients’ anger after they are unable to opt out o ...
    Daily Mail – Patients’ groups have expressed anger over this year’s seasonal flu jab programme because people are unable to opt out of having the swine flu vaccine. The H1N1 vaccine will be the dominant of three flu strains included in the shot, meaning millions of elderly and vulnerable patients w ...
  • Bayer Settles Texas Suits Alleging Its GM Seed Con ...
    Bloomberg-.A Bayer AG unit settled a lawsuit brought by three Texas growers over claims its genetically engineered seed contaminated U.S. long-grain rice fields, causing a plunge in exports to Europe. The settlement was reached Oct. 15 after three days of trial in federal court in St. Louis and anno ...

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

  • Wikileaks’ 400,000 Classified Iraq War Documents R ...
    Announcing the release of the largest collection of classified US military documents leaked by an insider — 391,832 field documents relating to the war in Iraq from 2004 to 2009 — Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said at a press conference in London today, “This disclosure is about the truth. We hop ...
  • 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

  • Faces of the Gas Rush
    NoneFrom farmer to supply shop owner, from scientist to job seeker, each Pennsylvanian has a separate view of the natural gas boom that has hit the state.
  • A Dream Dashed by the Rush on Gas
    The shale gas industry maintains that its safeguards protect drinking water and land. But there have been accidents, and mistrust has been sown as the industrial process has moved into rural communities.
  • A State Booms with New Energy
    NoneHopes are high that jobs will flow as fast as the natural gas in the energy boom that has hit Pennsylvania, although locals are finding the new work is not necessarily on the drilling rig.
  • Parks, Forests Eyed for the Fuel Beneath
    Officials realize they may not be able to protect the “Pennsylvania Wilds” and other state and national public lands from the new gas rush.
  • Forcing Gas Out of Rock With Water
    By combining and super-charging old oil field technologies, U.S. energy industry innovators unlocked the natural gas found in deep shale rock--paving the way for a rush on Pennsylvania.

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

  • Jack Kershaw, Stalwart of White Nationalism, Dies
    Jack Kershaw, one of the most iconic American white segregationists of the 20th century and the lawyer who represented James Earl Ray following his conviction for the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has died in Nashville at the age of 96. He died on Sept. 7, but his death was not made p ...
  • Seasoned Lawman Takes on Anti-Muslim Extremism
    Jim Cavanaugh always was a lawman’s lawman — a career official of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) who was in on some of the most celebrated cases of criminal extremists in this country’s recent history. Before retiring this spring after 33 ½ years with the ATF, he worke ...
  • Anti-Immigrant Groups Continue Greenwashing Campai ...
    Progressives For Immigration Reform (PFIR) held its inaugural conference Tuesday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The small, invitation-only, one-day conference was entitled, “The First National Conference on Immigration, Conservation, and the Environment.” The conclave is just another ...
  • Apparent Eco-Terrorist Holding Hostages at TV Buil ...
    The gunman holding hostages in the Silver Spring, Md., headquarters of the Discovery Channel has been tentatively identified as James Jay Lee, an apparent eco-fascist who thinks that immigrants are breeding “filthy human children” and helping to wreck the planet. Lee, 43, had been arrested in Februa ...
  • Suicides and Gay-bashings: More Violence for LGBT ...
    The violence never seems to end. This past month has been downright horrifying, with at least five teenagers nationwide committing suicide as a result of anti-gay bullying. There were also two attacks against gay victims in New York City communities normally considered LGBT-friendly. A patron was g ...

change: org.

  • Wolf Killed After Staged Photography Session
    This post is part of  series highlighting the top issues faced by wolves in North America today. Some people are so concerned with turning a profit that they are willing to put both people and animals in harm’s way. Such is the case with Minnesota Wildlife Connection, a place where people pay to pho ...
  • How Accepting LGBT People Boosts the Economy and S ...
    There are many factors you may consider when picking a place to live. How expensive is it? Is it accessible to public transportation? How many bedrooms? Is the neighborhood nice? Perhaps, in light of the recent hate crimes against LGBT people, LGBT home buyers may base their decision on whether or n ...
  • Adventures in Unconventional Collaboration
    The conference is the tip of the PopTech iceberg, and what lies under the surface is a series of "unconventional collaborations" in which the organization staff find creative ways to bring dissimilar and disparate actors together in order to see how their different perspectives and resources can amp ...
  • San Antonio Archdiocese Says No More Gays at Mass
    For 15 years, LGBT Catholics and allies were able to worship at St. Ann Catholic Church in San Antonio. On a weekly basis these folks would filter into the pews, and honor that age-old commandment to keep holy the Sabbath. Priests and other Catholics interested in building a better relationship betw ...
  • What Part of “Broken System” Don’t You Understand?
    A member of my family came to America when he was a toddler. When he turned eighteen and joined the Army, he assumed his application for citizenship would be fast-tracked. However, even after filling out all the paperwork and following every rule, years later he found himself on the phone talking to ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Candidates Ignore Media, But It's Voters Who Stand ...
    by David Lightman WASHINGTON — Many major candidates are treating the news media as enemies this year, refusing to release schedules, admit the press to campaign events, give interviews or answer routine questions. While Republicans appear to be shunning journalists more than Democrats, some De ...
  • Canada Seeks to Drop Native Peoples from New Biodi ...
    by Stephen Leahy NAGOYA, Japan - Blame Canada if countries fail to agree to a new binding treaty to curb the rapid loss of plant, animal and species that form the intricate web of life that sustains humanity. That is the view of indigenous representatives from Canada in response to a late night move ...
  • 'Super PAC' American Crossroads Continues Amassing ...
    by Michael Beckel In just seven months, American Crossroads , the highest profile conservative " Super PAC ," has raised more than $24.17 million* in the hopes of tilting the November midterm elections in favor of the Republican Party. read more
  • Google Exploits Tax Loophole that Costs US $60 Bil ...
    by Jon E. Doherty Internet search giant Google Inc. managed to cut its taxes by more than $3 billion last year using a technique that shifted most of its profits through overseas routes, Bloomberg News reported Thursday. read more
  • US Announces Massive Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia
    WASHINGTON – In its biggest arms deal ever, the United States announced it will sell up to 60 billion dollars worth of warplanes, helicopters and other weapons to Saudi Arabia, partly to help it counter Iran. The plan allows for the sale of 84 F-15 fighter jets, 70 Apache attack helicopte ...

Lifehacker

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

  • Haiti cholera outbreak spreads
    Aid groups fighting to keep cholera from reaching camps of Haiti earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince A spreading cholera outbreak in rural Haiti is threatening to outpace aid groups as they step up efforts to keep the disease from reaching the densely populated camps of earthquake survivors in Po ...
  • Osborne 'exaggerated debt crisis risk'
    Economist Christopher Pissarides says chancellor's swingeing cuts package is taking unnecessary risks with economy George Osborne was accused today by Britain's new Nobel prize-winning economist of having "exaggerated" the risk of a Greek-style debt crisis. Professor Christopher Pissarides said that ...
  • Three killed in helicopter crash
    Pilot and two passengers from south-east England were in Northern Ireland for day of shooting Police in Northern Ireland said today that three people from south-east England died in a helicopter crash in the Mourne mountains. The dead are understood to be the pilot and two passengers who were in the ...
  • Former Fifa official in votes scandal
    • Michel Zen-Ruffinen says several Fifa members can be bribed • Spain, Portugal and Qatar alleged to have struck voting deal Michel Zen-Ruffinen, a former secretary general of Fifa, has allegedly said he can identify Fifa executive members who are willing to be bribed to buy their votes for the Worl ...
  • Ecuadorean wins siesta contest
    Pedro Soria Lopez wins €1,000 after sleeping – and snoring – for 17 minutes in busy Madrid shopping mall A 62-year-old Ecuadorean man managed to ignore the uproar of a crowded Madrid shopping centre and snore loudly enough to win what was billed as Spain's first siesta championship. Organisers yeste ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Bushmeat - ending the monkey business
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting in Nagoya: Many westerners would view the idea of eating monkeys with deep distaste. But for people raised on bushmeat, in Africa and elsewhere, the equation is different. "Forbidding hunting [bushmeat] is not a solution for the Baka," Mes ...
  • 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 ...

The Wonk Room

  • ‘U.S.’ Chamber Of Commerce Is Fueled B ...
    The United States Chamber of Commerce is running an unprecedented $75 million campaign to unseat progressives from Congress, in defense of a big-oil agenda. As a ThinkProgress investigation has learned Chamber’s donors — who send their checks to the same account from which the political campaign is ...
  • After Bemoaning Regulations In Health Reform, Hous ...
    The Hill’s Julian Pecquet notes that Republicans have doubled down on their approach of criticizing both the potential coverage disruptions of the Affordable Care Act and the government’s efforts to minimize these changes. Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee have written a letter to HHS ...
  • Rubio Promises To Cut The Discretionary Budget, Bu ...
    Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio (FL) has been having a little trouble laying out exactly how he plans to balance the budget (as his proposed constitutional balanced budget amendment would require), while simultaneously cutting taxes for the rich and corporations. And when pressed for specifi ...
  • Juan Williams And The Way We Talk About Islam
    While the attempt to treat Juan Williams as some kind of martyr for free speech is ridiculous on its face, (and the use of the word “dissident” for a guy who just got a $2 million contract for his trouble is disgusting) I agree with Reuel Marc Gerecht that “We would all be better off [...]
  • Will Employers Just Dump Their Workers Into The Ex ...
    I agree with Jon Gruber’s argument that the expectation that a large number of employers will dump coverage into the Exchanges is overstated. As Gruber writes, in response to this piece by Gov. Philip Bredesen (D-TN), this argument overlooks some fairly important real-world experiences: The gist of ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Suppression of the Left
    From CommonDreams, Lydia Howell's "Is Progressive Dissent Public Enemy #1? " The pretext for the raids was investigating “material aide to terrorists”, resulting in grand jury subpoenas and confiscation of computers, books, music CDs and from one home, a Martin Luther King poster. The targeted Mi ...
  • 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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • NWC speaks with ATU Local 689
    Today Lindsey Williams and I spoke with the Executive Board of Local 689, Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) .Local 689 represents employees of Washington DC's Metro system. Lindsey is the Advocacy Director of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) . We spoke about the National Transit System Securit ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Fallacy Debunking: Successful New Business Model E ...
    I've been meaning to start to put together a series of posts that debunk the common "criticisms" we get that are all too often based on logical fallacies. I end up spending way too much time in the comments responding to people posting those same logical fallacies over and over again, and it would ...
  • Is Mark Twain's 'New' Autobiography Covered By Cop ...
    PometheeFeu pointed us to the news that Mark Twain's autobiography, to be officially published for the first time 100 years after his death is already looking like it's going to be a best seller. The book comes out on November 15th, but it's already near the top of the bestseller lists on both Amaz ...
  • There's Always A Way To Compete: Competing With Go ...
    All too often, we hear people complain that it's "impossible" to compete in some manner. "You can't compete with free." "Big companies will steal your ideas and you can't compete with big companies." And yet, time and time again, we've seen that this isn't actually true. Every company has its we ...
  • Sarkozy Wants To Use Anti-Censorship Conference To ...
    We've pointed out many times how copyright is, by its nature, a law for censorship . Now, you can argue that it's necessary or useful censorship (though, I doubt I would agree), but it cannot be denied that the basic purpose of copyright law is to stifle a form of speech. That's why I'm always ama ...
  • Focusing On Google Getting Emails & Passwords Via ...
    Back in May, we were among those who pointed out that it was incredibly bad that Google had accidentally collected data from open WiFi networks with some excess code in its Street View WiFi mapping efforts. A look at what they were doing highlighted how it was almost certainly accidental and no one ...

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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • Today, 6,000 NYC Cyclists Take Over the Bronx
    Photo: Majora Carter Group under a Creative Commons License As the city that never sleeps becomes more and more of a cyclist's city , 6,000 New Yorkers will climb on their two-wheelers today to participate in the 15th Annual Tour de Bronx . In the state's largest free cycling event, riders can ...
  • Architects Give Israel's Waterfronts Fresh Appeal
    The Tel Aviv Port public space. Image: Mayslits Kassif Architects . On Saturday mornings, I've gotten into the habit of going for a run by the Marmara Sea. The concrete path is worn, and follows a busy road, but the broad view out over the churning sea to the Asian side of the city is still rejuv ...
  • Henri Lloyd's 3-in-1 Jacket is Suitable for Every ...
    Photo: Henri Lloyd How many jackets do you really need? With sailing and lifestyle apparel brand Henri Lloyd's Blue Eco All Seasons Jacket , just one. From traversing stormy seas to braving urban rainstorms, the recycled polyester-- 'Blue Eco' fabric --coat packs a hood and an internal zip-out ...
  • Does New Public Transit Increase Gentrification an ...
    click on image to enlarge. Credit: Dukakis Center Smart Planet points us to a report ( PDF here ) from Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University that concludes that new transit can lead to gentrification. My first response was well, duh, isn't that the point? I ...
  • Lost? Bookmark Your Place In Style With Eco-Friend ...
    Photos: Gilbert13 Though it's probably greener to just rescue scrap paper and post-its to bookmark your reading, the neat-freak bookworm in me couldn't resist these adorable themed bookmarks from UK-based design studio Gilbert13 . Made from sustainably-sourced, recyclable cardboard, the colourful ...

Biosingularity

  • Examining Individual Tumor Cells
    Despite decades of research into cancer biology, researchers still dont fully understand what happens to the malignant cells DNA as they mutate. Its not an idle question: The better biologists appreciate how DNA changes, the better they can create therapies that specifically target the disease. Now ...
  • Olive Oil May Cut Risk of Ulcerative Colitis
    Two or three tablespoons a day of olive oil may help protect against ulcerative colitis, preliminary research suggests.In a new study, people with the highest consumption of oleic acid — a monounsaturated omega-9 fatty acid found in olive oil, peanut oil, and grapeseed oil, as well as in butter and ...
  • You Are Your Bacteria
    Variation in our microbial inhabitants could help tailor efforts to treat illness. via Technology Review: You Are Your Bacteria.
  • Weird, Ultra-Small Microbes Turn Up in Acidic Mine ...
    In the depths of a former copper mine in Northern California dwell what may be the smallest, most stripped-down forms of life ever discovered. The microbes — members of the domain of one-celled creatures called Archaea — are smaller than other known microorganisms, rivaled in size only by a microbe ...
  • Multiple personal genomes await
    Genomic data will soon become a commodity; the next challenge — linking human genetic variation with physiology and disease — will be as great as the one genomicists faced a decade ago, says J. Craig Venter. via Multiple personal genomes await : Article : Nature.

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

  • Land war in the West heats up
    Uintah County in Utah is suing the Interior Department, alleging that the federal government is illegally withholding federal lands in the county from oil and gas exploration. The land is within the boundary of a proposed wilderness area that has never been approved by Congress.
  • Greens shackle national security - and renewable e ...
    Now environmentalists say we need the minerals that they̢۪ve been locking up for decades. China currently produces fully 97% of the world̢۪s rare-earth oxides, the raw materials needed for a variety of defense and high-tech applications.
  • Federal government's land grab faces growing resis ...
    Fearful that the federal government̢۪s already pervasive presence in their state could expand dramatically, Montanans are rising up against another looming Washington land grab.
  • Using biotech to survive mega-droughts
    The world will need drought and salt tolerant bio-crops in the not too distant future. High-yield farming research is needed to meet growing world food demands.
  • Renewables are unsustainable
    “Renewableâ€Â energy subsidies may sustain the jobs of lobbyists, activists, politicians, bureaucrats and politically connected companies. But they will kill millions of other people’s jobs.

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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

  • 3 Lies Big Food Wants You to Believe and the Truth ...
    Most of the meat Americans consume is from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, which are horrific for animals and terrible for our health and our communities. Click here to read this article
  • Too Pig to Jail? Ban Foreclosures Now
    An employee of GMAC Mortgage admitted under oath that he personally forged 10,000 foreclosure affidavits. This low-level schlub is the tip of the tip of a massive iceberg, one of countless "robo-signers" whom voracious banks including GMAC, Bank of America, Citibank and JPMorganChase hired in order ...
  • Why Monsanto is Paying Farmers to Spray its Rivals ...
    Monsanto's ongoing humiliation proceeds apace. No, I'm not referring to the company's triumph in our recent "Villains of Food" poll. Instead, I'm talking about a Tuesday item from the Des Moines Register's Philip Brasher, reporting that Monsanto has been forced into the unenviable position of having ...
  • 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

fotoFrontera

  • Volcanes, montañas y nevados (7 fotos irrepetibles ...
    Creo que a muchos de ustedes como yo, les encanta admirar despacio nuestras bellezas naturales. Y para concderles ese pequeño deseo, comparto con mis suscriptores y visitantes en general, 7 fotos preciosas de 'Volcanes, montañas y nevados '. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver t ...
  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XIX
    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] [19] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMA ...
  • Iglesias, templos, palacios y edificios I (7 fotos ...
    Para quienes creían que no había nada nuevo que ofrecerles este fin de semana, les tengo una gran sorpresa. Resulta que este viernes, deseo regalarles 7 fotos preciosas de 'Iglesias, Templos, Palacios y Edificios'. Espero que les gusten mucho. Saludos. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para ent ...
  • Aviones supersónicos II (10 fotos gratuitas)
    Si lo desea, puede revisar nuestras entregas anteriores. [1] [2] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y v ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Karma
    Decided to fall off the wagon after driving through downtown St. Paul which has been turned into a nightmarish construction zone (made more fun by every fucking vehicle in front of me being a minivan or SUV+). The Karma title refers to my timing as the Surly Wet super-hopped beer that was supposed t ...
  • Bob “P-Daddy” Fletcher fails to get Pi ...
    Koua Fong Lee has joined in a class action suit against Toyota. You’re welcome to any opinion you like about tort law, but when the government (as personified by Susan Gaertner) refuses to prosecute corporations for selling lethally faulty cars, tort lawyers have to step into the gap. Or are you coo ...
  • This is what happens when our Constitution starts ...
    The NYTimes lists some of the corporations who think they know better than the voters which direction this country should be headed in. I think they’re in need of a moral compass. Speaking of which, Ginnie Thomas’ demand for an Anita Hill apology managed to bring Lillian McEwen out of the closet, an ...
  • 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 ...

Public News Service

  • Breast Cancer Awareness Month - Hundreds of AZ Wom ...
    Breast Cancer Awareness Month - Hundreds of AZ Women Killed a Year Phoenix, AZ – Women across Arizona are receiving their annual reminder on the importance of early detection when it comes to breast cancer. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The disease kills hundreds across the sta ...
  • New Watchdog Website Includes AZ Companies
    New Watchdog Website Includes AZ Companies Phoenix, AZ – A new website is being touted as a tool for determining the local effects of American jobs lost to other countries through outsourcing. It lists 400,000 businesses involved in layoffs, outsourcing and more, including some in Arizona. Comments ...
  • Desert West of Arizona Home to First Solar Project ...
    Desert West of Arizona Home to First Solar Projects on Federal Lands Phoenix, AZ - The California desert just west of Arizona will soon be home to the first solar projects on federal lands. Final approval has been given to two solar plants to be built in Southern California's Mojave Desert. Commen ...
  • Study: Eating Disorders and Bare Midriffs – ...
    Study: Eating Disorders and Bare Midriffs – Cheerleaders "At Risk" Phoenix, AZ – A recent study cautions that college cheerleaders whose uniforms expose their bare midriffs face a significantly higher risk of developing eating disorders. Comments from the study's author, Dr. Toni Torres-McGehee (tor ...
  • Child Advocates: Governor's AZ Child Health Day Pr ...
    Child Advocates: Governor's AZ Child Health Day Proclamation 'Ironic' Phoenix, AZ – Children’s advocates say it’s ironic that Governor Brewer declared Monday as AZ Child Health Day when enrollment is frozen in the state’s KidsCare health insurance program. Legislative leaders and the Governor are s ...

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

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Chevron Approves $7.5 Billion Gulf of Mexico Proje ...
    ShareThis Chevron Approves $7.5 Billion Gulf of Mexico Project 22 Oct 2010 Chevron Corp., the second-largest U.S. energy company, approved a $7.5 billion plan to develop oil and natural gas fields in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico, the largest investment since the Obama administration ended its drill ...
  • FBI: Powder in package sent to Arizona congressman ...
    ShareThis FBI: Powder in package sent to Arizona congressman 'nontoxic' 22 Oct 2010 The suspicious powder inside a swastika-adorned package sent to an Arizona congressman is "nontoxic," an FBI spokesman said Friday. Staffers checking mail in the Tucson, Arizona, office of U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva on ...
  • French police break fuel depot blockade
    ShareThis French police break fuel depot blockade --Nicolas Sarkozy under pressure to end the crisis before half-term holidays begin this weekend 22 Oct 2010 French police have forcibly lifted a blockade on the main refinery supplying fuel to Paris as polls show the majority of French people support ...
  • ISAF helicopter down in Taliban country
    ShareThis ISAF helicopter down in Taliban country 23 Oct 2010 Taliban militants say they have shot down a helicopter operated by the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in eastern Afghanistan. The Taliban claimed that they successfully targeted the aircraft on Saturday in remote Pa ...
  • More Blackwater shootings unveiled
    ShareThis More Blackwater shootings unveiled --Washington hired�firm under�$465M contract to provide largely unregulated mercenary services in Iraq 23 Oct 2010 The latest Wikileaks files reveal 14 unreported shooting incidents against Iraqi civilians, involving those by an infamous private security ...

Daily Loaf

  • The Water Cooler: Wallace to State Senate; U.S. Se ...
    Hillsborough REC Chair Deborah Cox-Roush said, “We didn’t think it was appropriate to put someone on the ballot who was rejected by voters on Primary Election Day” — referring to Ambler.
  • McCollum’s last stand? He won’t appeal gay adoptio ...
    McCollum was willing to sacrifice the best interests of children and their families — including members of his own staff — in a futile attempt to win higher office.
  • Under the covers of Sex and the University with au ...
    It’s hard not to think about sex when sitting in the Stadium Center of The University of Tampa. The school is notorious for its lopsided female-to-male ratio, a fact that’s quite apparent in the dining area. The subject of college sex lives has undoubtedly been discussed many times in this room, bu ...
  • Alex Sink on Bill McCollum endorsing Rick Scott: “ ...
    Sink of Scott, "All of Florida's newspapers are endorsing me, it's 13-zip. What they're saying is he can't be trusted. "
  • State Senate D 12 is like a beauty pageant
    A satire By Chris Ingram Imagine for a moment that you’re a total loser with nothing better to do on a Saturday night than watch the Miss America pageant. After putting up with the insipid “how would you change the world?” question responses, followed by the ridiculous “talent” session whereby yo ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Association for Civil Rights in Israel on democrac ...
    From the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, reprinted by permission. Ed’s note: This is long, but close enough to our mission to warrant reprinting in full. Here you have the definite guide to anti-democracy bills in the Israeli Knesset, some that will be familiar to readers of this blog, some ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Watergate II inevitable as cash floods election
    From Al Hunt, executive editor Washington at Bloomberg A prediction: The U.S. is due for a huge scandal involving big money, bribery and politicians. Not the small fry that dominates the ethics fights in Washington; really big stuff; think Watergate. His article seems to imply he knows far more than ...
  • Aargh, UK kills massive Severn tidal power plan
    And opts for nuclear instead, apparently
  • Countering the ideologues of the Two-Party State
    Poli-Tea effectively counters the tedious arguments against voting for third parties, such as “Monsters might win, be scared”, “I know we suck but the other side is suckier”, “You poor deluded idealistic fool”, “You’re wasting your vote”, and so on. Like, how is voting for a major party not wasting ...
  • CNG-powered cars from Russia
    This new line of compressed natural gas cars from Russia will transport 4 adults at up to 74 mpg getting 61 mpg.
  • Mercedes to lease 100 fuel cell cars in US
    A three-minute fill-up gives the Mercedes F-Cell hatchback a range of 250 miles. Now we just need many more hydrogen refueling stations and fuel cell cars could become popular.

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

The Air Vent

  • Scientific World
    Scientific American on Judith Curry. Climate Heretic: Judith Curry Turns on Her Colleagues Certainly, it’s not surprising that media is not making money these days, they blame the internet but check out that gorgeous title for an otherwise reasonable article. For most of her career, Curry, who heads ...
  • Skeptics Poll
    Die Klimazweibel posted the results of their poll of skeptics.  I’m amazed that the Air Vent isn’t listed on it as a frequent referencer.  Considering that it took them a month to collect 600 skeptics, and I linked to it from here, that’s a little surprising.   We could probably do that in a day ...
  • 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 ...

Focal Point

  • The Physics of Wet Dog Shake (Video)
    The physics of wet mammal shake, explained. Dogs and other furry mammals shake to dry themselves off. Experimenters at the Georgia Institute of Technology calculated how fast an animal has to oscillate to overcome surface tension and throw water off its hairs. It turns out, the smalle ...
  • 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 ...

Inside Facebook

  • Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job B ...
    Recently, we launched the Inside Network Job Board – dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at iWin, Fuel Industries, Large Animal Games,  ...
  • Facebook Roundup: Zynga, Lawsuits, Chrome, Taxes, ...
    Followup on the Story About Public Information Being Leaked – The Wall Street Journal discovered in an investigation that Facebook applications were inadvertently leaking URLs to third-parties that included user identification numbers. The story was overhyped, considering that the data was already p ...
  • Apple’s iPhoto ’11 Includes Sharing and Privacy In ...
    Apple’s recently launched iLife ‘11 software suite includes new integrations between iPhoto, iMovie, and Facebook. It’s now easier to share photos albums and videos directly to Facebook. Users can also see Likes and comments on those photos within iPhoto, choose basic privacy settings for photos, or ...
  • Facebook Prompts Users with Few Likes to Add More ...
    Facebook is running a prompt on the profiles of users with few Likes encouraging them to add more Pages. Page updates can fill out a user’s news feed, keeping them engaged with Facebook until they accumulate more friends and are socially tied to the site. Facebook recently launched a Page discovery ...
  • With Its Facebook Marketing Business Growing, Budd ...
    The most lucrative area for developers on the Facebook platform has been social gaming to date, but the companies that provide marketing products for businesses on Facebook have been telling us that they’re having a great year. Buddy Media is one of the larger ones, having established itself as a pr ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Weimar in Jerusalem: the rise of fascism in Israel
    Uri Avnery warns that fascism will overwhelm Israel unless progressive forces "awake from the coma, understand what is happening and where it is leading to, protest and struggle by all available means ... in order to arrest the fascist wave that is threatening to engulf us".
  • Jews, jazz and socialism
    Gilad Atzmon deconstructs the mindset of Mike Gerber, a self-proclaimed Jewish "socialist" who believes that there is a distinctive genre of music called "Jewish jazz", and asks why "Jewish jazz" should be any more acceptable than "Aryan classical music".
  • 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".

Amazon Rainforest

  • Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of Doro ...
    A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]
  • Yasuni National Park- SAVED!
    President Raphael Correa now has approved an agreement to leave Ecuador’s largest oil reserves, amounting to some 900 million barrels, underground in Yasuni National Park in exchange for more than $3 billion. Under the unprecedented agreement, known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the government of Ec ...
  • Amazon watchgroups SILENT over new Chevron oil spi ...
    In the space of a week, a Chevron technical team has discovered two fresh oil spills in Ecuador’s oil-producing Amazon region. One covers three hectares (7.4 acres) near state-owned oil company Petroecuador’s Guanta production station in the heart of Cofan indigenous country. The other impacts half ...
  • Amazon River dolphin new stunning photos!
    The Amazon River dolphin (Bufeo, Bufeo Colorado, Boto, Boto Cor de Rosa, Boutu, Nay, Tonina) or Pink River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), is a freshwater River dolphin endemic to the Orinoco, Amazon and Araguaia/Tocantins River systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. These we ...
  • Belo Monte dam auction proceeds despite protests!
    Bidding for electricity generated by Brazil’s planned Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon rainforest has been marked by protests and legal confusion. A court injunction issued late Monday suspended the dam auction overnight, throwing the bidding process into a state of chaos. Just moments before the aucti ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Podcast Show #34
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Tony Hall Tony Hall provides us with an overview of his recently released book Earth into Property, and discusses the relationship between the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and the making of global capitalism, beginning with Christopher Columbus’s inception of a Ne ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • BHP Billiton: New Chair, Same Old Story
    From the wonderful London Mining Network comes this report of the BHP Billiton. I have emphasised key phrases that demonstrate the hypocrisy of one of the most destructive companies ever to grace planet Earth. At today’s London AGM of the world’s biggest mining company, BHP Billiton, new company cha ...
  • 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 [...]

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

  • Book Review - "The Chosen Peoples" Chooses Well on ...
    The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election. Todd Gitlin and Liel Leibovitz.�Simon & Schuster. 2010. 192 pages. My initial reaction to encountering a book with this title was to be be reminded of Randy Newman's camp-classic song "It's Lonely at the Top": a smug alert went ...
  • The Metal Edge - The US Should Ramp Up Offensive t ...
    Earlier this year, China announced a 72 percent reduction in the export quotas for rare-earth metals for the second half of 2010, sending tremors across America's industrial complex. Rare earths are a group of 17 metals vital to the production of precision-guided munitions, cruise missiles, radar an ...
  • Labor on the Edge - Activists Accuse Family Dollar ...
    For more than an hour, business slowed to a trickle at the Family Dollar store in downtown El Paso. Chanting slogans and hoisting signs, a few dozen picketers marched in disciplined, circular formation on the sidewalk in front of the popular discount store on Stanton Street. Organized by El Paso's n ...
  • Mining on the Edge - Dangerous Diesel Exhaust Adds ...
    A long-delayed government epidemiological study of possible ties between diesel exhaust and lung cancer in miners may finally be published this fall— but only after a mining industry group, represented by the Washington lobbying powerhouse Patton Boggs, finishes a pre-publication review of the study ...
  • The Edge of Terror - Hezbollah-Iran-Syria: An Isla ...
    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Beirut on October 13 for his first official visit to Lebanon since becoming president in 2005. He is reportedly returning to the country after a stint there in the 1980s as a young Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officer tasked with training ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Climate Change Denial - Scrabble
    By Bill Henderson A wiki process has already been proposed to help speed up and improve the IPCC review of climate science . If President Obama asked the AAAS or NAS to facilitate this science innovation an American lead global initiative to finally get serious about effective mitigation might beco ...
  • The Violence Debate: Teaching The Oppressed How To ...
    By Ramzy Baroud Only the unique experience of the Palestinian people and their genuine struggle for freedom could yield what Palestinians as a collective deem appropriate for their own. This is what happened with the people of India, France, Algeria and South Africa, and many others nations that s ...
  • Weimar In Jerusalem
    By Uri Avnery I dont know if the Berlin exhibition tries to answer these questions. Perhaps not. Even now, 77 years later, there is no final answer to the question: Why did the German republic collapse? This is an all-important question, because now people in Israel are asking, with growing concer ...
  • Seven Million Without Shelter Months After Pakista ...
    By Sampath Perera Seven of the 21 million Pakistanis affected by this summers floods are still without shelter, the United Nations Pakistan Office reported this week. And an estimated 14 million continue to need urgent humanitarian assistance
  • Iraq - War Logs Reflections
    By Layla Anwar This is what happened yesterday to Iraqis who felt so alone with their Truth - they sighed a little relief and hoped to sleep with a little peace, hoping like I did, that maybe, just maybe they will be woken up from their solitary nightmare

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

  • Illinois League of Women Voters Big Shot Who Bashe ...
    It happened Wednesday night at the beginning of a debate between Democratic incumbent Melissa Bean, GOP challenger Joe Walsh and Green Party candidate Bill Scheurer.� The debate for Illinois 8th congressional district took place at Grayslake Central High School. While League of Women Voters moderat ...
  • They Came for Juan Williams...: Why This Event Is ...
    By Barry Rubin The firing of Juan Williams by NPR is important for a dozen reasons--violation of free speech; a demonstration of NPR's leftist bias;�Political (In)Correctness run wild; an insanely ridiculous example of the inability to deal with Islamism; and so on. But there's one aspe ...
  • "Airplane" Producer Apologizes For Past Support of ...
    Famed filmmaker David Zucker (of Airplane Fame) wrote an apology to Big Hollywood readers for backing Barbara Boxer in past elections for the US Senate. It turns out that the producer of comedy classics gave money to� Boxer during her first campaign for Senate. My first reaction was surely he can ...
  • America's Biggest International Problem: Global Po ...
    By Barry Rubin One of the main features of this sick, sad era in international relations is that hugely important developments are ignored, having no effect on Western policy. Here’s one such case: Indian investigators have confirmed that Pakistani intelligence was deeply involved in the m ...
  • CAUGHT IN A LIE: Barney Frank Took Campaign Dollar ...
    If the Guinness Book of World records had a political hypocrisy category, the winner would be Barney Frank, Chairman of the House Banking Committee. Let me revise that, Frank wouldn't be the winner, they would retire the category and name it after the Boston Democrat. After promising not to ta ...

The Real Agenda

  • Free Thinkers, Non-conformers are Mentally Ill
    Author: Brian D. Hill It is now confirmed by USWGO News that the DSM-IV-TR Manual labels free thinkers, non conformers, civil disobedient advocates, those that question authority, and people considered hostile toward the government (aka Oath keepers and local militias) as mentally ill with the illne ...
  • 244,000 alemanes dicen NO a Google ‘Street V ...
    El gigante de Internet Google dice que más de 244.000 alemanes han pedido que sus casas no sean incluidas en su programa ‘Street View’, programado para ser lanzado en Alemania el próximo mes. El programa permite a usuarios de Google ubicar lugares, casas, barrios y otros que han sido grabados por ...
  • Hormonas Aumentan Posibilidad de Contraer Cáncer d ...
    LiveScience.com Versión en Español Luis R. Miranda Las mujeres sometidas a terapia hormonal para los síntomas de la menopausia se enfrentan a un mayor riesgo de desarrollar cáncer de mama o de morir de la enfermedad, de acuerdo con los resultados de un estudio de 11 años. Las mujeres que toman una t ...
  • Google uses ‘transfer pricing’ to pay ...
    Google’s transfer pricing contributed to international tax benefits that boosted its earnings by 26 percent last year, company filings show.
  • 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 ...

Wind Watch

  • Concern after rural village hit with second wind f ...
    A community that is battling a giant windfarm proposal has been hit with a second wind turbine plan. Residents from tiny Birdsedge are anxiously waiting the outcome of a plan to install four 125m (410ft) tall turbines close to homes in the village. Kirklees planning chiefs are currently considering ...
  • Wind foes power up
    People have been fighting wind turbines in Nantucket Sound ever since they were proposed almost a decade ago but now land-based turbines on Cape Cod have an organized foe. Windwise Cape Cod, composed at present of 25 or so folks, has coalesced to battle the “irresponsible siting of industrial wind t ...
  • Frasers looking for relief from wind turbines
    LINGAN — Sitting at their kitchen table Bruce and Janet Fraser stare out the window to see five sleek giants just beyond their backyard, churning in a counter-clockwise direction and changing line with the wind speed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It’s become the couple’s nightmare. “It’s in you ...
  • Proposals for National Forest draw questions
    VERONA — The U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday night outlined the six proposals for management of George Washington National Forest that have divided conservationists, industry, localities and the public. The forest service is scheduled to decide on a comprehensive plan of action for the 1-million-acre ...
  • Italy supervisor sees progress in lawsuit
    Italy, N.Y. — Town Supervisor Brad Jones says he’s satisfied with the way things went during a Sept. 27 courtroom session in Rochester before Judge John J. Ark. Ark is presiding over the case filed by Ecogen LLC against the Town of Italy. Ecogen is trying to force the town to permit the construction ...

Not My Tribe

  • Since I’ve been “insulted” by be ...
    By people who don’t understand Russian. Bolshevik. Hmmm… not as bad as the French word Peasant, although there’s a Russian term that mirrors that. Translates to “landsman”. Only in Aristocracies, the feudal system, the “peasants’ actually are property along with the land. When the Old Lord dies or i ...
  • Say it ain’t so…
    Oh my. There’s been an acknowledgment from the Pentagoons that the Police units of the U.S. Army didn’t investigate abuses by Iraqi troops, even when there was plenty of reliable evidence and complaints made. DUH! 7 1/2 years and they get around to figuring that out. Maybe in another couple of decad ...
  • 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 ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Debunking Screw Loose Change: The Movie
    A detailed rebuttal to the film Screw Loose Change- Not Freakin' Again Edition. Note: This critique only addresses the WTC, as many issues about the Pentagon, Shanksville, and the hijackers are geniuely misrepresented in Loose Change. Related Info: Constructive Criticism of the Films Loose Chang ...
  • Who is Really "Stupid and Wrong": Key Ideas and Ev ...
    A letter sent to Australian media: Recently the President of the Trades Hall Council and Secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia, Kevin Bracken, telephoned into a local radio program that was discussing the Australian troop deployment to Afghanistan. Mr Bracken aired the implicit view that, in ...
  • "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 ...

Fooducate

  • Eight Myths About Vegetarians and Vegetarian Food
    This is a guest blog post by Daniel Koontz Long-time readers know all about Casual Kitchen’s predilection for what we call part-time vegetarianism. Since vegetarian cuisine is typically very inexpensive, one great way to stretch your food budget and make your diet healthier is to replace two or thr ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Indonesian government admits its soldiers tortured ...
    The footage has caused widespread outrage and revulsion. © Survival The Indonesian government has admitted that the men seen torturing two Papuans in a video released on the internet this week are soldiers. The minister for security said the soldiers would be punished. An investigation into t ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Praying for the French
    In news you may not have heard, the French have been protesting a bill to raise the retirement age in France from 60 to 62. And by protesting, I don’t mean just showing up for one day. Sarkozy has struck back: Clashes have broken out outside a major oil refinery in France after riot police [...]
  • 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, ...
  • 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 ...

Age of Autism

  • Missing Person
    By Cathy Jameson I had an A-ha moment two months ago, a happy, joyful, let’s do some cartwheels in the backyard moment. Ronan craves deep pressure and likes to read. He has a closet in his room but the doors...
  • SafeMinds on FDA Press Conference on Heavy Metal C ...
    The FDA issued a media release and held a press conference on over-the-counter chelating products. A recording of the press conference was made available this afternoon (recording available at 800-839-7073). FDA issued warning letters to 8 companies promoting over-the-counter nutritional...
  • Alert your Lawmaker That Vaccine Safety Is an Amer ...
    Alert your candidates and legislators that a new study found that 89% of parents place vaccine safety at the top of the list of medical priorities today. TAKE ACTION HERE! (The link brings you to the easy to use, pre-written...
  • Temple Grandin's Logical Mind on Early Interventio ...
    Below is a wonderful interview with Temple Grandin on a variety of topics. She will be presenting at the All Ages and Abilities Autism/Asperger's Conference this weekend in New York City. From The Charlotte Observer. By Karen Garloch kgarloch@charlotteobserver.com At...
  • Anthony Westbury Follows Up On "Lucky Short Bus Ri ...
    Anthony Westbury of the TCPalm printed a column that isn't an apology but acknowledges that calling out the children who ride the special ed buses "lucky" (See original column here) as compared to the regular ed kids who live within...

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

  • The Freeman Perspective goes live on Republic Defi ...
    Republic Defiance Radio hits the airwaves Sunday night. Prepare to go back down the rabbit hole as Freeman of FreemanTV.com joins us live on Republic Defiance Radio Sunday October 24, 2010.
  • Wisconsin DATCP: A rogue agency and its war on Wis ...
    While Wisconsin politicians turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the police state actions being carried out by the rogue Department of Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) agents for DATCP kick the efforts to eradicate family and independent farmers into high gear.   In an effort to force compliance ...
  • 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!

Open Your Eyes News

  • Wall St. mogul picked for State Department post
    Washington Times – President Obama’s nominee for deputy secretary of state has earned more than $8 million in salary and bonuses since January 2009 as an executive at a Wall Street bank that received a federal bailout. Thomas R. Nides, a six-figure fundraiser for Hillary Rodham Clinton during her 20 ...
  • Regulators shut down 7 US banks
    CNN – Bank regulators closed seven banks Friday, bringing the total of number of bank failures for the year to 139, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said. Friday marked the largest number of banks closed since July 23, when the FDIC also closed seven banks, according to the FDIC’s website. ...
  • Taliban launch attack on U.N. compound in western ...
    Washington Post – The Taliban launched a midday assault on the United Nations headquarters in western Afghanistan on Saturday, crashing a car bomb into a compound gate to create an opening for suicide bombers disguised as women, according to U.N. and Afghan officials.The attack was a startling remi ...
  • Patients’ anger after they are unable to opt ...
    Daily Mail – Patients’ groups have expressed anger over this year’s seasonal flu jab programme because people are unable to opt out of having the swine flu vaccine. The H1N1 vaccine will be the dominant of three flu strains included in the shot, meaning millions of elderly and vulnerable patients w ...
  • Bayer Settles Texas Suits Alleging Its GM Seed Con ...
    Bloomberg-.A Bayer AG unit settled a lawsuit brought by three Texas growers over claims its genetically engineered seed contaminated U.S. long-grain rice fields, causing a plunge in exports to Europe. The settlement was reached Oct. 15 after three days of trial in federal court in St. Louis and anno ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Last of missing Mt. Whitney hikers are safe
    The National Park Service says two mountain climbers who were listed as missing after a snowstorm blanketed Mt. Whitney walked out of the wilderness area early Thursday morning. Sina Sadeghi Baghsorkhin, 27, and his father, Abdolreza Sadeghi, 56, were uninjured...
  • 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...

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

  • Israel finally confirms the obvious The collecti ...
    "Instead of considering security concerns, on the one hand, and the rights and needs of civilians living in Gaza, paralyzing normal life in Gaza and impairing the moral character of the State of Israel. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The international community's final test
    Negotiations between two unequal parties cannot succeed. Success in Palestinian-Israeli negotiations requires a reasonable balance of power, clear terms of reference and abstention of both sides from imposing unilateral facts on the ground. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
  • Ardent Zionist turns boycott advocate
    "The current government is the most extreme and right-wing Israeli government ever. It is no longer enough to try and change Israel from within. Israel has to be pressured in the same way apartheid South Africa was forced to change." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Com ...
  • UN: Settlement construction rate undermining Midea ...
    The AP report showed that Israel has begun building at least 544 apartments since a 10-month halt on new housing starts in the settlements expired late last month. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Hilton Hotels: Say No to Sex Trafficking - PLEASE ...
    The global Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children From Sexual Exploitation in Travel and Tourism, compels hotels to train their staff to detect and assist the victims. The Code works, but so far Hilton has not signed up. Submitted by beatrice d. to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

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libcom

  • Belfast - Thousands march to oppose the cuts
    Workers came out in their thousands in Belfast today to protest against government cuts that will see services slashed, benefits cut and an estimated 30,000 job losses. Sammy Wilson may have told them they were wasting their time but wor ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Clean Up the American Economy
    On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Samer, Care2 Action Alerts wrote: Care2 subscriber since Aug 29, 2010 | Tell Your Friends | Take Action you have 53 butterfly credits Hi Scotts, If this country is going to … Continue reading →
  • News You Can Use for October 22, 2010
  • BUILDER Pulse: October 22, 2010
    BUILDER Pulse highlights Business: After comments cut-off, FHFA weighs fate of developer transfer fees Management: As Q3 builder earnings roll, questions point to 2011- Economics: Fed’s Beige Book: heavy reading when it comes to chapter on jobs Finance: Financial reform … Continue reading →
  • Basement Conversion Photos
    On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Contact Scotty, Scotts Contracting for a Free Site Evaluation / Project Bid on the Construction for your Next Basement Project. Ideal Situation Think functionality for any type of … Continue reading →
  • Your voice can block oil industry attacks on clima ...
    On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Scotty, Scotts Contracting wrote: Build Green, Scotty View Scotts Contractings, Green and Eco Friendly Web Sites www.stlouisrenewableenergy.com www.stlouisrenewableenergy.blogspot.com scottscontracting.wordpress.com — On Thu, 10/21/10, Union of Concerned ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

  • Abandoning Sabotage in Iran
    Although sabotage may prove successful in slowing Iranian nuclear progress in the short term, it actually stands as a barrier to a long-term resolution.
  • 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.

Law.com

  • New York Grants Right to Claim Attorney Fees to Pr ...
    Over banks' opposition, New York's governor has signed into law a measure that will allow prevailing homeowners in many foreclosure actions to claim attorney fees from lenders. The Access to Justice in Lending Act will put defendants in foreclosure proceedings on the same footing as lenders, who oft ...
  • Cell Phone Liability Lawsuits Pre-empted by FCC, 3 ...
    In a major victory for cell phone makers and service providers, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that consumers cannot sue over possible biological hazards allegedly caused by cell phone radio emissions because such suits would interfere with the Federal Communications Commission's ex ...
  • Patent Litigation Survey 2010: An Unexpected Turn
    Corporate Counsel's 2010 Patent Litigation Survey found that while there may have been less litigation work to go around overall last year, there was certainly plenty to keep the top law firms busy. One patent litigation trend that just won't quit is the ongoing flood of suits filed by "patent troll ...
  • Backup? There's a Service for That
    Florida-based Bush Ross needed a new backup system and decided not to continue to support a Dell PowerVault storage device. Instead, the firm decided on an online service, Backup My Info, because it offered comprehensive backup for a fraction of the cost of the firm's on-premise system.
  • Georgia Mulls Citizens' Right to Access Courts via ...
    A Georgia county judge expressed surprise when an attorney for the parent company of LexisNexis asserted that the public has no constitutional right of access to the courts. The exchange came in a hearing for a case that seeks to declare Fulton County's e-filing system unconstitutional.

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

  • Currency Wars: The Real Battlefield
    The so-called “currency wars” have been headline news here in “export or die” New Zealand. Most of the US press has been focused on China and its refusal to devalue the yuan. However here there has been more concern about the breakdown of IMF talks at the beginning of October. Apparently, not just C ...
  • 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 – ...

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

Rodale News

  • More Meatless Meals May Avert Disaster, Says Nat'l ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—A new National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report warns that people will have to cut back on meat consumption to help keep the world safe from planet-warming greenhouse gases, nitrate pollution, and habitat destruction. That’s because commercial livestock farming increases emi ...
  • 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. ...

big think

  • A Method to His Madness: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt
    “Though this be madness, yet there is method in't,” Polonius says in Act 2 of Shakespeare’s Hamlet after an exchange with the title character. After encountering the unique sculpture of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt , you can’t help but feel the same way. In Franz Xavier Messerschmidt 1736-1783: From .. ...
  • i-crop: Pepsi's Revolutionary Precision Farming Sy ...
    Sustainable farming is a topic of pressing interest and a domain of growing innovation in agriculture, but it's an incredibly complex issue involving multiple interrelated factors. A new partnership between Pepsi UK and Cambridge University addresses one of the most critical components in ... Read M ...
  • Team CoCo? The Social Media Campaign Behind Conan ...
    In a guest post today, AU graduate student Allison Kind takes a look at the social media campaign behind the launch of comedian Conan O'Brien's new show on TBS. --Matthew Nisbet     In 1993, at just thirty years old, unknown comedian Conan O’Brien was hired to replace David Letterman as host of ...
  • Bonanza Time For The Bosses!
    While rail passengers are being warned to expect fare increases of up to 40% - possibly even more - over the next four years it’s bonanza time in the boardrooms of Britain’s main private transport operators.    The “UK Transport Rich List” is topped by Keith Ludeman – boss of the Go-Ahead group – . ...
  • Is an Obamaville in Your Future?
    Is an Obamaville in your future? That’s the question asked by a mailer sent in by one of Greg Sargent’s readers. The mailer is sponsored by the 60 Plus Association , which describes itself as “the conservative alternative to The American Association of Retired Persons. ” The mailer, which features . ...

Information Liberation

  • Deck Chair Politics on the USS Titanic
    "Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." ~ H.L. Mencken The political consensus is following the 2010 election, the Tea Partiers and the GOP establishment will breathe a sigh of relief and celebrate their victo...
  • Time to Rescind the Social Contract
    In the classical era, the modern concept of social contract theory had yet to be developed, and political theory therefore largely confined its focus to the question of what makes the good polity. The state, owing to its nature as such, was to be sub...
  • Burning the Wrong Effigy in Mexico
    Mexican authorities recently burned 134 tons of marijuana in a display of Drug War success. The flames of the burning goods were a visible statist spectacle casting marijuana and the people who use it as villains, while the smoke from state propagand...
  • Orlando's Copwatch brought back to life by liberta ...
    Spurred by Orlando police officer Travis Lamont's neck-snapping takedown of 84 year-old Daniel Daley in September, Orlando Copwatch -- a group once headed by firebrand radio host George Crossley * convened yesterday to protest in front of police head...
  • 75 Ways That The Government And The Financial Elit ...
    The American people are experiencing financial death by a thousand cuts and most of them don't even realize it.* The U.S. government, state governments, local governments and the financial elite are draining us financially in dozens*upon dozens of di...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • MWP – The Warmists’ Retreat Gains Spee ...
    I’m on the road at the moment, so just a brief post today. I was most amused to read the latest article in Watt’s Up With That? concerning a climate conference that occurred a month ago in Portugal, and attended … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

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

  • When is yawning contagious?
    When is yawning contagious? – Apparently, yawns are most contagious at 7:30 pm. But, why? No one knows for sure even why we yawn, let alone why we yawn after seeing someone else yawn or even simply after seeing someone pretend to yawn. (If it were a change in air pressure or CO2 levels in [...] When ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • "Fatted Eagle" Joins "Green Hornet" in U.S. Milita ...
    The F-15 Eagle is the latest jet fighter to receive the alternative fuels treatment, flying October 22 on a 50-50 blend of conventional jet fuel and an alternative--in this case made from specially processed animal fat: beef tallow bio-jet fuel. [More]
  • Collateral Data: NASA's Planned Moon Crash Churned ...
    An spent rocket stage that NASA sent hurtling into the moon last year in hopes of kicking up water from a polar crater delivered on that mission, revealing that at least a moderate portion of its target was indeed made of ice. But the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) reveale ...
  • Noise Reduces Ocean Habitat for Whales
    The oceans were once a relatively quiet place. Yet in recent decades, anthropogenic ocean noise levels have risen markedly--doubling every decade for the past 50 years, according to research by scientists at Scripps Whale Acoustic Lab. Today, due to the volume of shipping as well as offshore oil and ...
  • 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]

RAWA News

  • Bombs in Afghanistan kill more than 20 civilians
    CNN: A vehicle headed to a wedding party and a school bus carrying students hit insurgent-planted bombs in southwestern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 22 people and wounding 20, authorities said. The incidents, which occurred in different districts of Nimruz province, are the latest in Afghanista ...
  • Iranian Weapon Shipment to Afghan Taliban Raises A ...
    Fox News: Two weeks ago Afghan officials intercepted a shipment of Iranian weapons en route to the Taliban in the Afghan province of Nimroz. “The police chief of Nimroz announced that they had intercepted a couple tons of Iranian explosives marked as food and toys,” said Michael Rubin of the America ...
  • U.S. Soldier Held in Death of Afghan Detainee
    The Wall Street Journal: A U.S. soldier is being held for the alleged shooting of an Afghan detainee found dead in his holding cell in southern Kandahar province on Sunday, according to a statement from U.S. officials. The motive behind the shooting is unclear, but the statement from U.S. Forces in ...
  • Hidden justice
    The Los Angeles Times: Mullah Tractor wore an orange jumpsuit, signaling maximum security. He looked to be about 60 years old, with thin downturned lips, a contoured nose that might once have been broken and a short black-and-white beard. His real name is Gul Shah Wazir, and he is in U.S. detention ...
  • Afghans say two students killed by NATO troops
    Reuters: Afghan officials accused NATO-led troops of killing two school boys in central Afghanistan on Saturday after a patrol came under fire by Taliban insurgents, but foreign troops said the circumstances were unclear. Civilian casualties caused by international troops while fighting insurgents a ...

frogblog

  • Gerry Brownlee: The “employers’ representat ...
    If an employer’s representative made a statement like this one from Gerry Brownlee, it would be in serious breach of prohibition of duress under the Employment Relations Act. But Gerry thinks he can say it anyway. Unless he’s actually acting as the “employer’s representative”, which maybe he is. Per ...
  • 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… ...

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

  • Afghanistan Update
    I don't know how seriously to take this, but I could use some good news and I guess I'll take it wherever I can find it. So here it is: Carlotta Gall reports in the New York Times that our offensive in Kandahar is going pretty well: NATO commanders are careful not to overstate their successes — the ...
  • The Asymmetry of Incompetence
    From Thoreau, who lives nearby and who I really ought to meet someday: I’m probably just dwelling on the trivialities of my comfortable suburban professional existence, but my basic grievance against big companies is that when they screw up they take 6-8 weeks to fix it, usually after multiple ph ...
  • Quote of the Day: The Great Conservative ACA Sham
    From Boeing spokeswoman Karen Forte: If you would've asked me if we would've made these changes without the enactment of the law, I would've said yes. The subject is the healthcare reform law, and whether Boeing is making changes to its health plan because of the law's new regulations. The ans ...
  • Watching the Collapse
    Noam Scheiber writes today about two different views of the recession. The first, represented by Johns Hopkins economist Chris Carroll, relies on a model that says recovery depends on three things: wealth, unemployment expectations, and access to credit. As they recover, so will the economy: "The be ...
  • The Emperor's Clothes
    Jon Cohn asks a question about the provision in the healthcare reform bill that requires everyone to get health insurance: The individual mandate continues to be health care reform's most controversial element, both in the courts and on the campaign trail. And many of the mandate's critics see th ...

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

  • Climate-driven species creep hangs in the balance
    Competing influences are allowing the equatorial end of some organisms' range to stay in place, while warming allows them to move further polewards, but when the competition breaks down, population decline can be expected, scientists have suggested this week.
  • 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.

e!Science News

  • Quebec City researchers pave the way for novel tre ...
    A Heart and Stroke Foundation researcher has discovered what could be the first truly effective breakthrough in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension, a devastating, life-threatening condition which results in an enlargement of the heart. read more
  • How H1N1 differs from other viruses as a respirato ...
    The 2009/2010 Influenza A (H1N1) is one of several viruses responsible for respiratory-related infections. A new study from Rhode Island Hospital examined patients with viruses and found distinguishing characteristics of the H1N1 virus in how it affects respiratory illness. Their findings will be pr ...
  • From obscurity to prime time: Viral political vide ...
    What's the mechanism that makes a political video go viral? What causes a video clip to spread from a few people to millions, sometimes in a matter of hours? Is it a top-down process led by elite gatekeepers or bottoms up, driven by people at the grass roots? And how do blogs affect the life cycle o ...
  • UH engineering professors featured in consecutive ...
    Researchers can spend entire careers producing outstanding work but still not see their efforts featured in the pages of Science , one of the world's most prestigious scientific journals. That won't be the case, though, for two junior faculty members in engineering at the University of Houston (UH). ...
  • Mount Sinai researchers discover origin of immune ...
    Mount Sinai researchers have discovered that microglia, the immune cells that reside in the brain, have a unique origin and are formed shortly after conception. It was previously thought that microglia originated at the same time as macrophages, which are other immune cells that are thought to deve ...

unEarthed

  • New U.K. Carbon Tax a Double-Edged Sword
    Elementary school children are notorious for calling out new rules during games of handball on the playground. “No waterfalls!” “I call no handsies!” The United Kingdom’s new Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme ...
  • Papua New Guinea Licenses Seafloor Mineral Mining
    Following the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the idea of continuing deep water drilling sounded more than dubious. But, Interior Sec. Ken Salazar apparently found the idea perfectly sensible when he lifted the deep wa ...
  • Friday Finds: Chevron Can't Handle the Truth
    The Yes Men's latest victim is Chevron's "We Agree" ad campaign. Image courtesy of theyesmen.org Rag tag activists smear Chevron oil ad The notorious Yes Men , a loose-knit association of activist imposters, have struck aga ...
  • 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. ...

Brave New Climate

  • Pebble Bed Advanced High Temperature Reactor at UC ...
    When I visited California earlier this month, Tom Blees and I paid a visit to Prof Per Peterson and Prof Jasmina Vujic at the Nuclear Engineering Department of UC Berkeley. After chatting over lunch, Per took us on a personal tour of his lab, which was quite an experience. Per’s research focuses on ...
  • Peak Oil Discussion
    Given the flurry of heated discussion on the topic of ‘peak oil‘ on another BNC post, I invited one of the protagonists, Dave Lankshear (a.k.a. “Eclipse Now” — see here for his blog), to write up a summary piece which described his position on the topic. This is given below, and should provide a goo ...
  • Does wind power reduce carbon emissions? Counter-R ...
    About 1 year ago, I posted on BNC two important pieces by Peter Lang – “Does wind power reduce carbon emissions?” and a follow-up reply. Together, these stirred up considerable discussion (about 500 comments to date) and raised important questions about the ability of wind-energy to reduce emissions ...
  • Open Thread 6
    Open Thread 5 has spooled off the BNC front page, so it’s time for new one. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like â there is nothing âoff topicâ here â within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy ap ...
  • IFR FaD 6 – fast reactors are easy to control
    There are many topics in the IFR FaD series that I want to develop in sequence — and in some detail. But for the moment, here’s a little diversion. People often complain that sodium-cooled fast reactors are about as easy to control as wild stallions — at least compared to the docile mares that are [ ...

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

  • Republicans Hate The Troops
    According to this story, 92% of politicians receiving a D, or an F grade are Republicans. Go figure. Raw Story Article
  • 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 ...

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

  • Oct 22-23: Foreign donors funded 98% of Netanyahu’ ...
      The Headlines: Brutal and Incompetent > The mess over the illegal migrant worker employed by the wife of Defense Minister Barak (Labor) is not going away. The Attorney General turned down her request to pay an administrative fine, and is considering an indictment. The immigration police is scourin ...
  • The peace talks game is nearly over
    The Palestinians reach for the nuclear option. Good for them. Binyamin Netanyahu spoke during the Rabin Memorial ceremony on Wednesday, and as is his wont, informed the Israeli public he is Rabin’s rightful heir. Anyone who did not gag over this abomination, whose memory reached 15 years back and ...
  • Barak’s Last Scandal?
    Spouse’s employment of an alien is Ehud Barak’s latest scandal. We offer a short history of the others. On Monday, Israeli media reported Nilly Priâel, wife of Security Minister Edud Barak, sent a letter to the General Attorney, Yehuda Winstein, informing him she is willing to pay a fine for ille ...
  • Rachel Corrie: The driver testifies
    YB, the driver who ran over ISM activist Rachel Corrie seven years ago, took his first public stand yesterday, appearing as a key witness in the Corrie family lawsuit against the State of Israel. Well, almost public: He spoke from behind a tight screen, placed despite the Corrie family’s protest. H ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • ProcessServiceFraudGate- The Next Chapter in Forec ...
    It’s so nice to know that RobosignerGate is over. You’ve seen the press reports, right?  Bank of America has completed their review, they’re confident that nothing is wrong and now they’re ready to move forward with throwing Americans back onto the streets again. Next, the American title industry h ...
  • Is The Foreclosure Rocket Docket Unconstitutional?
    I believe there are many elements in the implementation of the Foreclosure Rocket Dockets that make these courts Unconstitutional.  Most of the arguments are made within the attached transcript, but the most important in my mind is the requirement that elected judges, who are at least theoretically ...
  • THE BEST FORECLOSURE ORDER YET PUBLISHED IN THIS S ...
    Fraudclosuregate continues to spin out of control.  Absurd statements from Bank of America and the other institutions and law firms that fostered the festering crisis to the contrary, things are only going to get worse.  Title claims and will soil our public records for decades and litigation will c ...
  • America- Just Who Is Getting Bajillions of Dollars ...
    âOh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceiveâ The memo below is a basic and frankly poorly written motion that I first filed many years ago that challenged the most basic element of foreclosure litigation….the fact that we have no idea who is collecting bajillions of dollar ...
  • A Foreclosure Defense Lawyer Goes To War
    Foreclosure defense lawyers are not the bad guys in this fight.  We have been screaming for years that systemic problems throughout the foreclosure process will have severe consequences in the years to come.  The breakdowns in this process represent real and critical breakdowns in our entire justice ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Gravitas Afoot
    “To A Great Lieutenant.” I looked up from the inscription and stared skeptically at the craggy face.  Romeo Dallaire stared back with a certain glint in his eye. In my hands I held his brand new book – They Fight Like Soldiers.  They Die Like Children.  “This is the second copy, hot off the press, [ ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...

2020 Science

  • Lost in the Maize – Poster Day at the UM School of ...
    Today was my first Poster Day at the School of Public Health.  For those readers not intimately attuned to the School’s calendar (i.e. most of you), it’s a chance for second year Masters students to present and talk about their Summer field experiences (something all students are required to do).  ...
  • Limited resources and emerging technologies: China ...
    New technologies depend on uncommon materials, and society depends on new technologies.  Which means that economies that develop the former and control the latter have something of an upper hand in today’s interconnected and technology-dependent world. This has clearly not escaped the notice of the ...
  • Science and the Media – a collection of essays fro ...
    Back in August, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences published a collection of essays under the editorship of Donald Kennedy and Geneva Overholster on the (seemingly) increasingly strained relationship between science and the media.  I was too embroiled in the move to Michigan at the time to pay ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    A weekly reflection on life in academia. Ann Arbor in the fall is beautiful. It’s possibly the closest I’ve come to an English Autumn since arriving in the US nearly eleven years ago. Walking the dog the other morning, there was a definite scent of damp, decaying leaf-litter in the air; a scent shar ...
  • Rehabilitating “Risk”
    Now that I’ve had some time to get to grips with my new position as Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, I thought it was high time I started letting people know something about where the Center will be heading over the next few years.  Cross-posted on the Risk Science Center ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Food Stamp Usage Soars Among Working Families
    With more than 1 in 8 Americans now on food stamps, participation in the program has jumped about 70 percent from 26 million in May 2007, while the nation's unemployment rate rose from 4.3 percent to 9.2 percent through September of this year.
  • G20 struggles to find common ground on currency wa ...
    Finance ministers from the Group of 20 nations struggled to agree on how to prevent a currency war on Friday, with the United States switching tack to focus on a way to rebalance global trade.
  • Vatican Banking Fraud Probe Widens: Church 'Astoni ...
    The Associated Press reported today that the Vatican expressed "astonishment" when an Italian court rejected the release of Vatican bank funds seized by authorities for failing to comply with international money laundering laws.
  • Vatican Banking Fraud Probe Widens: Church 'Astoni ...
    The Associated Press reported today that the Vatican expressed "astonishment" when an Italian court rejected the release of Vatican bank funds seized by authorities for failing to comply with international money laundering laws.
  • Vatican Banking Fraud Probe Widens: Church 'Astoni ...
    The Associated Press reported today that the Vatican expressed "astonishment" when an Italian court rejected the release of Vatican bank funds seized by authorities for failing to comply with international money laundering laws.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran-Egypt relations
    Summary: Iran and Egypt The air transport agreement signed recently by Egypt and Iran met with US objections. The Americans argue that the agreement is in breach of the UN Security Council sanctions on Iran, although the sanctions only ban air transport of nuclear substances destined for use in ...
  • 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 Daily Galaxy

  • Sci, Space, Tech Fans: Win a Free $500 Apple Gift ...
    Use it to Buy an iPhone, iPad or Hundreds of Other Apple Products and Accessories. Users of Reddit, StumbleUpon, and Digg are invited to discover, review and share Daily Galaxy posts you love on any one or combination of the...
  • The Lost Lakes and Seas of Mars -Do They Harbor Fo ...
    J. Alexis Palmero Rodriguez, research scientist at Planetary Science Institue, has been studying the Martian northern lowlands region, which contains extensive sedimentary deposits that resemble the abyssal plains of Earth's ocean floors. It is also like the floors of other...
  • Image of the Day: Halley's Meteor Fragments streak ...
    Look up at the night skies this week and you could see a fragment of Halley's comet, even though it won't be passing Earth until 2061. As the comet travels on its 76-year trip around the sun, it leaves small...
  • Google Brings Dead Sea Scrolls Online
    The technology giant, Google, and Israel announced Tuesday that they are teaming up to give researchers and the public the first comprehensive and searchable database of the Dead Sea Scrolls -- a 2,000-year-old collection of Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek documents...
  • The Daily Poll - What Do You Think? Carl Sagan on ...
    "The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." Carl Sagan What do you think?

Natural News

  • Doctors needlessly order blood transfusions for ca ...
    (NaturalNews) A new report published in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals a shocking trend in the medical industry that is putting countless patients at needless risk. According to Dr. Jeannie Callum and her colleagues from the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center in Toronto, doctors often or ...
  • Regulators prey on food processing plant in effort ...
    (NaturalNews) The Texas Department of State Health Services recently ordered Sangar Produce, a San Antonio-based produce processor, to cease operations and recall all of its bagged salads and cut up fruit and vegetable products. Authorities say the plant was contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, ...
  • Big Pharma trying to convince women they need to f ...
    (NaturalNews) The pharmaceutical industry is in the midst of a major push to secure FDA approval for drugs to treat "female sexual dysfunction," including a public relations campaign to convince women that the condition is real in the first place. "This is really a classic case of disease branding," ...
  • How I cured diabetes in five steps, and why one-th ...
    (NaturalNews) First it was Fast Food Nation. Now it's Diabetic Nation. That's because fast food leads to diabetes, and America is now drowning in both. A new report by the CDC says that by 2050, one-third of American adults will be diabetic. It's a windfall of profits for the drug companies, diabeti ...
  • Thirty percent of Americans could be diabetic by 2 ...
    (NaturalNews) The overall health of the American public continues to decline because of bad diets and lack of exercise. And if major changes do not occur very soon, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that the number of people with diabetes could triple by the year 20 ...

Threat Level

  • WikiLeaks’ 400,000 Iraq War Documents Reveal Tortu ...
    The secret-spilling website WikiLeaks released almost 400,000 U.S. Army reports from the Iraq War on Friday, marking the largest military leak in U.S. history. The database covers events from the Iraq War dating from 2004 through 2009, with the vast majority of entries classified at the “secret” le ...
  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Obama the Snob Talking Point Returns for Midterms
    During the 2008, the campaign of multimillionaire and multiple home owner John McCain tried and failed to paint Barack Obama as "elitist" and "out of touch." But now that moribund Democrats are showing some signs of life as Election Day nears, the right-wing Obama as Snob meme is back with a vengea ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • A Perjurer on the US Supreme Court
    An ex-girlfriend of US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ends a long silence and exposes his perjury, notes Robert Parry. October 23, 2010
  • Mystery of American Political Madness
    The crazy place where US politics now finds itself is the end of a long, winding and weird road, explains Bernard Weiner. October 23, 2010
  • The Financial Puzzle Behind 9/11
    The power struggle for Near East oil led to a twisted tale of financial intrigue and personal betrayal, writes David DeGraw. October 22, 2010
  • Is Israel Poisoning the Peace Talks?
    Israel's demand that Palestinians accept the "Jewish state" may be a new poison pill for peace talks, says Lawrence Davidson. October 21, 2010
  • A Clash Over 'Lesser-Evil' Voting
    Robert Parry responds to criticism of his article asking if the Left's punishing of Democrats at the polls has ever worked. October 20, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Renewables, renewable, my kingdom for renewables
    Dean Kamen is known for his many inventions, some of which have transformed the world, from the insulin pump and an all-terrain wheelchair to portable water purification systems and robotic prosthetic limbs. Of course, others, like his Segway self-balancing electric scooter (which visitors to the Te ...
  • TCEQ Status Update on Las Brisas Application an Ef ...
    This morning at a Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) hearing, Las Brisas Energy Center attempted to try to move their permitting process along by asking the commissioners to intervene in the State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH) process, but the SOAH Admininistrative Law Judge ...
  • STOP: Stop Tarsands Oil Pipelines – Voices From Te ...
    Meet Audrey and Jim Thornton, two of the landowners who have the threat of a Canadian tarsands pipeline proposed to run through their land. Tarsands crude is many times more concentrated with toxins and carcinogens than typical, Texas, crude oil. Like just about every other land-owner along the pipe ...
  • You can participate in setting new fuel efficiency ...
    The Obama Administration released a notice of intent on Friday, October 15 to opened up a public comment session on fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks, specifically setting a goal of an average of 60 mpg by the year 2025. Comments on this first proposal should be sent by October 31, 2010. ...
  • Austin Energy offers consumers assistance with cha ...
    In the coming weeks you might notice a sleek, new Nissan LEAF or Chevy Volt cruising past you on the road. Many of the major car companies are introducing electric, plug-in vehicles (EVs) designed for the American family market. They range in cost from about $20,000-$45,000 and are small and practic ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • One-way Mars trip could initiate colonization
    Physicists have contended that a manned one-way trip to Mars could be the way forward. The greatest expense in a manned mission to Mars would be in re...
  • Dogs recognise their owner's face
    Dogs rely heavily on identifying their owners by looking at their face scientists have found. The study showed how much domestication had changed the ...
  • Man tattoos whites of his eyes
    Known as the Human Chequerboard Matt Gone has taken his tattoo obsession one step further. Without supervision Gone injected ink in to the whites of e...
  • CERN eyes parallel universe breakthrough
    CERN are hoping to turn up the first evidence of parallel universes within less than a year. The people being the Large Hadron Collider are looking to...
  • Airbag for cyclists created
    Designers have come up with an airbag that can protect a cyclist during an accident. The airbag deploys just seconds before the cyclist hits their hea...

Grassroots

  • Outrage in a Time of Cholera
    haiti201005-142.jpg Many of us involved in the post-earthquake reality of Haiti have both feared and expected the kind of health crisis that recently surfaced in the news. In many ways, the seeming inevitability makes it all the more tragic – ...
  • 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 ...

Climate

  • U.S. Envoy Hopeful on Climate Deal
    Source:� Wall Street Journal The top U.S. climate negotiator said Friday after a "constructive" meeting with his Chinese counterpart that "there's a deal to be had" at the November warming summit in Mexico.
  • U.S. to Issue Guidance on Greenhouse Gas Rules Soo ...
    Source:� Reuters U.S. EPA will soon provide guidance on its greenhouse gas regulations for stationary sources, the head of the agency, Lisa Jackson, said on Thursday.
  • Clinton Remarks on Canadian Pipeline Stir Debate
    Source:� AP Senators from both parties criticized Secretary of State Clinton on Thursday for signaling likely support for a $7 billion pipeline to carry Canadian oil to refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
  • Feds Failing to Meet Legal Obligations Regarding O ...
    Source:� Postmedia News Canada is contributing to international controversy over the oil sands by failing to live up to its legal and constitutional responsibilities to regulate the industry, says a new report.
  • U.S. Launches Renewable Energy Initiative
    Source:� AFP The U.S. launched a renewable energy initiative to boost biofuel production to create jobs, lessen the effects of climate change and wean the country off oil imports, an official said. �

GreenBiz

  • Fox Snares 2 Top Awards and 12 Other Honors in 'Gr ...
    Fox Filmed Entertainment was a big winner in the recent Environmental Media Association's annual awards ceremony with top honors going to the film "Avatar" and an episode of the TV show "Bones" and Green Seal recognition of 12 other Fox productions.
  • 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.�

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Booman Tribune

  • Kinda Weird Obsession
    Last year I got obsessed with reading about bear attacks. I read about every fatal bear attack on record for a couple of weeks until I ran out of material and got bored. This year, my current obsession is reading about how people died on Mt. Everest. There's the sudden and obvious like this poor ...
  • Casual Observation
    Bob Shrum has lost eleventy-billion presidential campaigns, so he knows a little bit about who is unelectable . And he thinks all the Republicans are unelectable except Jeb Bush. Could be that that's true. America just might be clamoring for a more competent Bush in 2012. You never know. But I ...
  • Let Them Know That You Are Voting
    With Newsweek showing a sharp improvement in the Democrats' performance and Nate Silver moving in the other direction to forecast a more than 50-seat pickup for the Republicans, it seems that there is just a bunch of statistical noise going on. It's hard to analyze anything. But, one thing I do kn ...
  • WP Sends Racially-Charged Gift to GOP
    Jerry Markon and Krissah Thompson have a five-page article in the Washington Post on the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case. The timing is wonderful, as this is catnip for the Republican race-baiters who want to claim that the Obama Justice Department has no interest in protecting the ...
  • Time to Feel Sick, Again
    Oh, great, we get to feel good about ourselves all over again. A grim picture of the US and Britain's legacy in Iraq has been revealed in a massive leak of American military documents that detail torture, summary executions and war crimes. Almost 400,000 secret US army field reports have been ...

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

  • Kids Benefit From Resilience Programs Based On Pee ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Psychological and emotional resilience have been hot topics among therapists, counselors and social workers, especially in areas affected by trauma. Professor Michelle Slone, of the Department of Psychology at Tel Aviv University, has developed a template for teaching ...
  • One Teen is Too Many!
    By John Sovec, LMFT, LGBT Issues (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact John and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile Seth Walsh, 13, Asher Brown, 13, Billy Lucas, 15, Tyler Clementi, 18, Raymond Chase, 19, all died within the last three weeks as a result ...
  • Reclaiming Pollyanna
    By Yael Schweitzer, LCSW, BC-DMT, Mindfulness Based Approaches / Contemplative Approaches Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Yael and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Often, in the context of cultivating mindfulness, I heard people emphasize – “I don’t want to become a Pollyanna”. As s ...
  • Addiction and Sense of Time
    By Daniel Goldin, LMFT, Addictions & Compulsions Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Daniel and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile Ever since Bill W. started Alcoholics Anonymous in the early 1950s, most people in recovery have looked at the need to take substances as stemming from “a de ...
  • When the Fat Lady Sings
    By Kelly Chicas, LPCC, NCC, CRS, Relationships & Marriage Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Kelly and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile In therapy, one of the most frequent questions I am asked is “How do you know when it’s really over? When is it time to give up?” That’s a good questi ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Shawn M. Garvin: Arch Coal's proposed Spruce No. 1 ...
    Shawn M. Garvin: Arch Coal's proposed Spruce No. 1 Mine should be stopped Coal Geology ... reports that a top federal regulator has recommended revoking the permit for one of the nation's largest planned mountaintop removal mining projects, ... Arch Coal wants 'day in court' on Spruce Mine Charlest ...
  • EPA: Coal industry shows 'utter lack of irreparabl ...
    EPA: Coal industry shows 'utter lack of irreparable harm' from tougher ... Charleston Gazette (blog) ... Mining Association's request for a preliminary injunction in the industry's lawsuit challenging EPA's crackdown on mountaintop removal coal mining. ... and more��
  • Music v. King Coal After the Coal Rush - CounterPu ...
    Music v. King Coal After the Coal Rush CounterPunch In a May 16 editorial penned for the Nashville Tennessean, singer Emmylou Harris described the core of it: “ Mountaintop removal is an extreme form of strip ... The coal miner's granddaughter Anchorage Daily News all 4 news articles��
  • The Pine Creek Mine: Did EPA do all it could do? - ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) The Pine Creek Mine: Did EPA do all it could do? Charleston Gazette (blog) The general beef is that environmentalists aren't especially happy with the US Environmental Protection Agency's approval of several key 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��

Memeorandum

  • Palin: Americans fear Obama policies (Kevin Bogard ...
    Kevin Bogardus / The Hill : Palin: Americans fear Obama policies   —  Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) refuted President Obama Saturday, saying that Americans are afraid of Democratic policies coming out of Washington.  —  Speaking at a campaign rally in Orlando, Fla., the 2008 GOP vice president ...
  • Judge orders Miller documents released (Kyle Hopki ...
    Kyle Hopkins / Anchorage Daily News : Judge orders Miller documents released   —  FAIRBANKS — A judge ruled today that the Fairbanks North Star Borough must release personnel records of Senate candidate Joe Miller.  —  In an unusual Saturday hearing, retired Superior Court Judge Winston Burbank rul ...
  • NPR: A Test Case for Republicans (National Review)
    National Review : NPR: A Test Case for Republicans   —  If they cannot defund NPR, you can bet they will not reverse Obamacare.  —  The least significant aspect of NPR's canning of Juan Williams is#...#Juan Williams.  The important thing is what the world should start looking like after November 2. ...
  • The second investigation - During a March 10 inter ...
    Courier-Journal : The second investigation   —  During a March 10 interview with investigators, Detective Russ initially denied being the source of the second leak to Matt Conway.  But roughly 30 minutes after the questioning ended, Russ returned and acknowledged that he warned Conway when he encou ...
  • They Hate Our Guts (P.J. O'Rourke/Weekly Standard)
    P.J. O'Rourke / Weekly Standard : They Hate Our Guts   —  And they're drunk on power.  —  Perhaps you're having a tiny last minute qualm about voting Republican.  Take heart.  And take the House and the Senate.  Yes, there are a few flakes of dander in the fair tresses of the GOP's crowning glory—a ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Peru’s water, UK’s asparagus
    Large-scale production of a luxury vegetable for European tables risks a water disaster in the dry Ica valley, an NGO warns. Felicity Lawrence explains the human impact of Britain’s reliance on “virtual water”. Asparagus grown in Peru and sold in the United Kingdom is commonly held up as a symbol of ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • WikiLeaks’ 400,000 Iraq War Documents Reveal Tortu ...
    The secret-spilling website WikiLeaks released almost 400,000 U.S. Army reports from the Iraq War on Friday, marking the largest military leak in U.S. history. The database covers events from the Iraq War dating from 2004 through 2009, with the vast majority of entries classified at the “secret” le ...
  • 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 ...
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    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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • China breaks up anti-Japan protests
    LANZHOU, China (Reuters) - Chinese police on Sunday broke up protests against Japan in the northwestern city of Lanzhou over a territorial dispute that has stoked tensions between Asia's two biggest economies.
  • Giants see off Phillies to reach World Series
    PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The San Francisco Giants reached the World Series by beating the Philadelphia Phillies in a 3-2 nail-biter on Saturday to clinch the National League Championship Series and set up an underdogs' Fall Classic.
  • G20 inks pact to avert trade war
    GYEONGJU, South Korea (Reuters) - The Group of 20 major economies agreed on Saturday to shun competitive currency devaluations but stopped short of setting targets to reduce trade imbalances that are clouding global growth prospects.
  • "The Social Network" a true story, twins say
    CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss -- two of the central characters portrayed in "The Social Network" -- say the film accurately portrays Facebook's birth, the focus of a legal dispute in which they are involved.
  • Travel Picks: Top 10 places to celebrate Halloween
    NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - If encounters with ghosts, ghouls or vampires are your idea of fun, then Halloween is probably a favorite time. Places across the globe are getting ready to scare people out of their wits -- and their money.

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 ...
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  • 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 →
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    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

  • "Done In Our Names!!"
    "They Will Never Forget!!"   UN calls on Obama to investigate human rights abuses   • Demand follows massive leak of military documents • UK lawyer warns crimes may have involved British forces • Files show how US ignored torture • Full coverage of the Iraq war logs 23 October 2010 - The UN has call ...
  • Creating a New Courage
    By Jerica Arents Kabul, Afghanistan – After an exhausting day trekking through the dirt roads of the city of Bamiyan and outlying settlements, three Americans were guided by a dozen Afghan boys to a tent packed with overstuffed pillows and comforters. After the boys served them a delicious meal coo ...
  • New report: Racism Still Pollutes Tea Party Ranks
    By Linn Washington Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (R-MN), head of the Tea Party Caucus in Congress, constantly dismisses charges about racism roiling within the ranks of the Tea Party, despite her fingerprints frequently appearing on racism-tinged stink bombs. For example, Tea Party starlet Bachman ...
  • With Wars Come Responsibilities
    Only ‘fixing’ the VA needs. and has always needed since Korea, is for the Country to Actually Pony Up for the Results of their Wars of Choice, and a strong dose of reality, thus causing the Agency to actually become the Best in the World in Care, Research, Training and more and saving money by doing ...
  • "Conversations with Terrorists"
    Conversations with Terrorists: Reese Erlich: All violence against the U.S. is being defined as "terrorism" To watch a multi-part episode, click here � � read more

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

  • SpeechNow.org Attacks Feingold Over Free Speech to ...
    SpeechNow.org, which won a major victory against the Federal Election Commission in a case that came on the heels of Citizens United and expanded the scope of campaign finance deregulation, is up with a new advertisement attacking Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) in his uphill Senate re-election battle a ...
  • Wind Industry Pushes Back Against Report of Mislea ...
    Wind industry officials are working overtime to counter a story published yesterday by American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop that finds many of the wind farms that received stimulus money were built during the Bush administration or earlier, potentially undercutting the Obama admini ...
  • Not Content With Ads, U.S. Chamber Investing in Ma ...
    The U.S. Chamber of Commerce isn’t just using its cash to flood the airwaves, reports the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard this afternoon; it’s also been investing in its own publishing platform, running both a national site and a network of local publications that focus on legal issues (like tort ...
  • Environmentalists Seek to Paint Buck as Inconsiste ...
    Environmentalists slammed Ken Buck, the Republican running for Senate in Colorado, today for “Buck-pedaling” on his stance on climate change, painting the candidate as inconsistent on the issue. Buck suggested earlier this week that he agrees with Sen. James Inhofe’s (R-Okla.) view that global warmi ...
  • How Involved Should Undocumented Immigrants Be in ...
    There are about 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States, many of whom have children in public schools and pay property and sales taxes. They can’t vote in federal elections or in most municipal elections, but they can volunteer for campaigns and canvass for causes they support. The Washin ...

Digg Green

Invisible Opportunity

  • Coca Cola, Max Keiser and the Prison Planet Killer ...
    By Les Visible Max is right. Take down Coca Cola and you can take down the whole thing. Of course, when they first made Coca Cola they used Coca leaves and cocaine was in it. There’s a whole story there. There’s another story where Coca Cola was killing people in South America; sorta like United [.. ...
  • Video – B-25 Bomber Crashes into Empire Stat ...
    On July 28 1945 a US Army B-25 bomber crashes into the Empire State Building between the 78th and 79th floors. An engine plunges down an elevator shaft, sparking a fire in the basement. Eleven people in the building are killed, in addition to the three man bomber crew. Elevator operator Betty Lou Ol ...
  • Fox News Viewership Plunges 21%
    I guess you can’t fool all the people all the time… By Politicususa Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:53 CDT The cable news ratings for the third quarter of 2010 were released today, and Fox News is showing signs of decline as their viewership has decreased by 21%, and their top shows all posted double digit [... ...
  • Top U.S. “Terrorist” Invited To Pentag ...
    Have you been invited to lunch at the Pentagon?  I haven’t.  It seems that this “terrorist” had pals in the Pentagon. This can’t more blatant, can it?
  • Mike Rivero on Mortgage Fraud
    By Mike Rivero The reason investors are demanding their money back is that the bankers OVER-SOLD THOSE MORTGAGE BACKED SECURITIES, pledging the same home-loan as collateral as many as 20 times. Of course, the only way that scheme can work for the crooks is for the homes to be foreclosed so that the ...

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

  • ONLY 1 Day Left to Enter the Recycled Denim Challe ...
    Hey crafters – don’t miss your chance to show of your stuff and win a $200 Gap shopping spree! If you haven’t already submitted your entry in the Recycled Denim Challenge, the awesome design competition that our sister site Ecouterre is running in partnership with Gap 1969 Stream, what are you wa ...
  • Green-Roofed 8 Tallet Complex Officially Opens In ...
    Read the rest of Green-Roofed 8 Tallet Complex Officially Opens In Denmarkhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 8 house, big, Bjarke Ing ...
  • 5 Green Business Models That Are Booming in Hard T ...
    As we all know, the economy has been in a rough patch for awhile. But while many businesses are going under and closing up shop, certain types of green businesses have been doing extraordinarily well during the recession. What is their secret? Businesses built on service/relationships that help cust ...
  • Don’t Forget to Enter Inhabitots’ Green Halloween ...
    Halloween is just around the corner and we know you and your tot have been hard at work on that homemade costume! If you can’t wait to show off that spooktastic DIY costume, then now is the perfect time to give the world a sneak peek into your creation at our Green Halloween® contest site. [...]
  • 5 Green Business Models That Are Booming Despite H ...
    Think taking on any business venture in this tired economy is bound to be a bust? Well think again, because there are a number of businesses out there going against all the odds and turning out more than just a few bucks. Despite hard times, a handful of green businesses have managed to build a [... ...

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

  • Watch NASA Build the Next Mars Rover
    By Olivia Solon, Wired UK Space enthusiasts can now watch a Mars rover being built at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory thanks to a well-positioned webcam. Curiosity is a large rover with six wheels about the size of a car, weighing in at more than 900 kilos. It is about twice as long and five tim ...
  • Chemists Inch Closer to Stable Superheavy Atoms
    Chemists searching for the island of stability now have a better map. Thanks to the discovery of six new variations of the superheavy elements on the bottom rung of the periodic table, scientists are closer to creating elements that are expected to last long enough for in-depth study. Researche ...
  • Wolf Nannies Shorten Sex Lives of Male Pups
    It takes a lupine village to raise a red wolf, but nannied pups don’t grow up to be the sex machines scientists expect. Non-breeding wolves that help raise pups ultimately shorten the sex lives of the male pups when they grow up, according to findings published this week in the journal Proceedings ...
  • 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 ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Lower the Curtain on the Airborne Laser
    By Matt Sugrue The Airborne Laser (ABL) missile defense system failed its second shoot-down test in a row yesterday. The Missile Defense Agency, which oversees the ABL program, released a statement saying that investigators are looking at the “intermittent performance of a valve within the laser sys ...
  • Operation Dragon Strike and Kandahar
    The New York Times is reporting that ISAF troops are making progress in Kandahar . �Credit for progress is given equally to the surge in troops and a new mobile rocket which has "pinpoint accuracy -- like a small cruise missile." �While military commanders are cautious, Western and Afghan civilians ...
  • 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 ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: The Empire Strikes Back.
    The gang at First Read says : "If Republicans take back control of the House and maybe even the Senate, it will return American politics to its standard state: divided government. ... Also since LBJ , the longest one party has controlled those three bodies is just for four years (1977-1981 and 2003 ...
  • There Are No Systemic Problems! Or Something.
    African Americans are overrepresented in the nation's prisons and jails, and it's common to attribute some of this to systemic forces; poverty, poor schools, inadequate legal representation, drug-enforcement policies, and sentencing laws. It's not that black people are more prone to criminality, it' ...
  • The Little Picture: Divine Riches.
    (Flickr/ Laura Padgett ) The dome of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Today, an Italian court denied a request from the Vatican to release a hold on $30 million in its bank account that was placed after the bank was accused of failing to comply with international money-laundering rules.
  • Linguistic Oppression, There and Here.
    Some disturbing news from Tibet: Protests have erupted over the Chinese government's plan to severely limit the use of the Tibetan language in schools, sometimes even relegating it to the status of an elective course. I did my master's thesis on the syntax of Lhasa Tibetan, a rare type of language ...
  • Yes, Black People Talk About Responsibility.
    Last night, CNN aired a documentary on the financial standing of African American families, that featured this inspired plea on the problem of debt by Pastor DeForest B. Soaries Jr ., the senior pastor at the First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, New Jersey. Here's the promo: I don' ...

Buzzflash

  • Count ACORNula: GOP Resurrects Minority Voter Enfr ...
    BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG BY MARK KARLIN There they go again! It's another election and another outbreak of the GOP claiming impending massive voter fraud in minority areas, when there has been no adjudication of any large-scale fraud occurring over the past several elections. Predictably, BuzzFlas ...
  • The Nazi Virus and Human Experimentation
    BOB KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH I call it the Nazi virus. Even as we were prosecuting Nazis at Nuremberg for their barbaric behavior, including their notorious medical experiments on death camp inmates, we were, it turns out, conducting our own medical experiments on a vulnerable and unsuspecting popu ...
  • GOP Candidate for Governor of New York: Porn Good; ...
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  • Then They Came for Me
    BOB KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH Speaking out a year ago against the idea of holding civilian trials for terrorism suspects, Liz Cheney captured the paranoid arrogance of the past decade with stunning efficiency: "This demonstrates conclusively that we are going back to a pre-9/11 mentality," she said. ...
  • Meg Whitman's Love Affair with Texas Oil
    JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH In the first televised debate between the candidates for Governor of the Golden State, Meg Whitman had the audacity to brag about turning the awesome coast of California into- choke -Texas!  My first thought was if she likes Texas so much, why doesn't she move ther ...

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Sciencebase

  • When is yawning contagious?
    When is yawning contagious? – Apparently, yawns are most contagious at 7:30 pm. But, why? No one knows for sure even why we yawn, let alone why we yawn after seeing someone else yawn or even simply after seeing someone pretend to yawn. (If it were a change in air pressure or CO2 levels in [...] When ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • 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 ...
  • Amnesty International Welcomes the Decision of the ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 21, 2010 Amnesty International Amnesty International today welcomed the Indian government's decision to reject plans for the expansion of an alumina refinery by a subsidiary of UK-based Vedanta Resources, in the state of Orissa. "The decision is very welcome - and treme ...
  • U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Confronted at Press ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 21, 2010 Friends of the Earth Friends of the Earth showed up at a press conference held by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack this morning to protest his newly announced support for extending federal subsidies to ethanol. Several activists, dressed as “Billionaires for B ...
  • Statement on China Rare Earth Materials Policy
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 21, 2010 Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Eileen Appelbaum , a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research issued the following statement regarding China's decision to end the export of several classes of rare earth materials: read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Arms and the World
    by Christopher Brauchli The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms. — John Dryden, A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day It is time for an update on arms sales and the economy and happily, the news in 2010 could not be better. Not about the economy but about arms sales of which the economy is an inc ...
  • Iraq War Logs: Military Privatization Run Amok
    by Pratap Chatterjee Shortly after 10am on 14 May 2004, a convoy of private security guards from Blackwater riding down "Route Irish" - the Baghdad airport road - shot up a civilian Iraqi vehicle. While they were at it, the Blackwater men fired shots over the heads of a group of soldiers from th ...
  • They're Trying To Sell the Brooklyn Bridge Again
    by Robert Fisk Refusing to buy The Wall Street Journal, I sometimes sneak a look at copies that are left behind by other people. read more
  • Echoes of El Salvador in Tales of US-Approved Deat ...
    by Patrick Cockburn The Iraqi documents released by Wikileaks produce significantly more detail on US actions in the war in Iraq , but do they produce anything that we did not know already? The Pentagon will huff and puff with rage as it did over the Wikileaks release of US military documents about ...
  • Restore Sanity? Jon Stewart Gave Senator Coburn a ...
    by Robert Naiman Like many Americans, I have a great deal of sympathy with the thrust of Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity on October 30. It's bad enough that the debasement of public discourse is unpleasant, and encourages some Americans to want to withdraw from politics completely; but the deb ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Talking About Taliban Talks - Just Psyops?
    By Steve Hynd We've heard an awful lot about talks with Taliban leaders recently. There have been reports, deliberately leaked by the Pentagon, of senior leaders being smuggled into Kabul for talks by the US military. There have been rumors that Pakistan has released Mullah Baradar. There's been a l ...
  • 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 ...

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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Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • BLM Chief Asks Inspector General to Renew Investig ...
    Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Bob Abbey has responded to POGO’s request and asked the Department of the Interior's in-house watchdog to "renew its investigative inquiries regarding certain questionable activities" surrounding the departure of a former district manager. Interior’s...
  • Watchdogs Battle Agencies Over Access to Records
    Thirteen inspectors general (IGs) described their struggles with the government agencies they oversee in letters made public this week by Republican Sens. Charles Grassley of Iowa and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma. The two senators canvassed 69 IGs earlier this year...
  • Morning Smoke: GAO May Be Excluded from Nearly Eve ...
    GAO Role in Intel Oversight to be Determined by Steven Aftergood [Secrecy News] Pentagon Mostly Gets a Pass From Deficit Hawks by Nathan Hodge [The Wall Street Journal] NARA makes headway in solving FOIA disputes by Max Cacas [Federal News...
  • 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...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • How to Count Homeless Youth
    When it comes to being counted, homeless youth are often the slipperiest of that slippery group of people known as "the homeless." It's well known that most estimates of the homeless population are on the low end since their methodology is generally flawed . Some people avoid homeless counts and the ...
  • How Surviving Trauma Can Kill
    It is imperative that homeless shelters and services embrace the best practice of trauma-informed care. The sequelae, or after-effects, of childhood trauma can literally ruin one's life or lead to deadly circumstances. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA, provide ...
  • Paris Hilton Helps the Homeless — and Tweets About ...
    Is party girl Paris Hilton giving up her rock 'n' roll ways for a simpler life of community service? If her tweets are to be believed, then perhaps so. Known more for inspiring gossip rather than generosity, Paris lent a helping hand this week, along with her sister Nicky, by serving shepherd's pie ...
  • 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 ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Aerospace companies jump into the fray over F-35s
    From the Department of Dog-Bites-Man: The Aerospace Industries Association of Canada is warning Canadians not to cancel the Harper government’s plan to purchase F-35 fighters (“Cancelation [sic] of F-35 purchase threatens Canadian jobs,” Aerospace Industries Association of Canada communique, 14 Octo ...
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • FDA Warns of Prostate Cancer Drug risks
    October 21st, 2010 FiercePharma.com By: Tracy Staton Hormone treatments for prostate cancer need new warnings about a small increased risk of diabetes and heart problems including sudden death, U.S. health officials said on Wednesday. The medications include Abbott Laboratories Inc’s Lupron, AstraZe ...
  • 4 Deaths Tied to Bacteria at Food Processing Plant
    October 21st, 2010 CNN By: Greg Botelho Authorities have shut down a Texas food processing plant, saying it was contaminated by bacteria linked to the deaths of four people, state health officials said. The Texas Department of State Health Services on Wednesday ordered Sangar Produce and Processing ...
  • Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Bailouts Could Hit $363 Bi ...
    October 21st, 2010 LA Times By: Jim Puzzanghera The taxpayer bailouts of housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could more than double over the next three years to as much as $363 billion, according to government projections released Thursday. The Federal Housing Finance Agency, which has ...
  • NPR Fires Juan Williams After O’Reilly Appea ...
    October 21st, 2010 Fox News National Public Radio fired Fox News contributor Juan Williams on Wednesday after a Monday night appearance on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor” in which Williams said that it makes him nervous to fly on airplanes with devoutly-clad Muslims. “I mean, look, Bill, I’m not a b ...
  • Man Sues Tuna Company for Mercury Poisoning
    October 21st, 2010 AOL Health By: Deborah Huso A White Plains, N.Y. man is suing Bumble Bee Foods alleging mercury poisoning from eating the company’s canned tuna. Forty-eight-year-old Lee Porrazzo says he ate about 10 cans of tuna a week for nearly two years because he thought it was a healthy way ...

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

  • Torture and terrorism
    One of the strange aspects relating to conspiracy theories concerning 9/11 is that they unwittingly obscure something even worse: that the US government foments terrorism not by design but by neglect; that its policies have had a direct and instrumental role in creating terrorists not simply by prov ...
  • Letter from Islamophistan
    Pepe Escobar writes: Austrian-American psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich, in his Mass Psychology of Fascism, stressed that racial theory is not a creation of fascism. On the contrary; fascism is a creation of racial hatred and its politically organized expression. [...] In the extremely well-argued book ...
  • Foreign occupation, not religious fervor, is the p ...
    Robert Pape writes: On Oct. 23, 1983, a suicide bomber drove a truck laden with explosives into the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 Marines as they slept. This dark chapter of American history was one of the country’s first experiences with suicide attack since the Japanese kamikaze pil ...
  • U.S. officials, experts: No high-level Afghan peac ...
    McClatchy reports: 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. These same experts said the reports, which appeared in a number of U.S. m ...
  • Viva Palestina aid convoy #5 breaks Gaza siege

Watts Up With That?

  • NPR weighs in on climate change policy, predictabl ...
    NPR helpfully weighs in on climate change and the upcoming election.  Even though a certain party has had super-majority control of the Congress and the Executive branch for the past 2-years (and done nothing on energy/climate policy),  NPR blames the … Continue reading →
  • Major Winter Storm headed for the US West Coast
    Snow will come to California’s Sierra Nevada a bit earlier than usual. Animate this image >>> Ryan Maue adds:  “as this storm pulls eastward, it will “bomb” out or explosively deepen over the Great Plains and move into the upper-Midwest.  … Continue reading →
  • More Oddities with the IPCC Numbers
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A number of people have said Hey, in your previous post, the missing forcing is going into the ocean, so it’s still “in the pipeline”. I had considered that, but it didn’t make sense. I’ve … Continue reading →
  • Breakthrough at Scientific American
    Vincent Gray advises me via email: Dear Folks I have been a subscriber to the “Scientific American” for as long as I can remember. I have been bitterly disappointed at there persistent embrace of the climate change fraud and the … Continue reading →
  • Discovery: more than just water in moon’s cr ...
    From Science@NASA: Nearly a year after announcing the discovery of water molecules on the moon, scientists have revealed new data uncovered by NASA’s Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LROâand it’s more than … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • The Secret Iraq Files: Cover-up of Torture and Exe ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ AlJazeeraEnglish | October 23, 2010 It is the biggest leak of military secrets ever. Al Jazeera has obtained access to almost 400,000 classified American documents. Torture, claims of murder at the checkpoint – revelations that make a mockery of the rules of comb ...
  • The GOP’s Perfect Storm by Steven Jonas, MD, ...
    by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash.com October 22, 2010 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 ...
  • Ten Questions for Tea Partiers by Ralph Nader
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Oct. 22, 2010 by Helen Cox, used with permission © All rights reserved. Here are ten questions for Tea Partiers that they want or do not want to answer. I say it this way because people who call themselves Tea Partiers do not have th ...
  • US forces turn a blind eye to torture + WikiLeaks ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Note: sorry the very last video is on autostart. Warning These videos may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience. AlJazeeraEnglish | October 22, 2010 The Iraq war documents from WikiLeaks con ...
  • Kucinich Announces Protection for Homeowners
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis Kucinich Washington, Oct 21, 2010 Legislation Will Create Accountability for Banks who Race to Foreclose Without First Attempting to Work With Troubled Homeowners Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today announced that he is preparing legisl ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Watch NASA Build the Next Mars Rover
    By Olivia Solon, Wired UK Space enthusiasts can now watch a Mars rover being built at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory thanks to a well-positioned webcam. Curiosity is a large rover with six wheels about the size of a car, weighing in at more than 900 kilos. It is about twice as long and five tim ...
  • Chemists Inch Closer to Stable Superheavy Atoms
    Chemists searching for the island of stability now have a better map. Thanks to the discovery of six new variations of the superheavy elements on the bottom rung of the periodic table, scientists are closer to creating elements that are expected to last long enough for in-depth study. Researche ...
  • Wolf Nannies Shorten Sex Lives of Male Pups
    It takes a lupine village to raise a red wolf, but nannied pups don’t grow up to be the sex machines scientists expect. Non-breeding wolves that help raise pups ultimately shorten the sex lives of the male pups when they grow up, according to findings published this week in the journal Proceedings ...
  • 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • What led to IDF bombing house full of civilians du ...
    Amira Hass: The many incidents described in the human rights organizations' reports indicate that the drone photographs are not as precise or clear as they are said to be, or that the technology... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
  • As’ad Ghanem: Thank you for bringing us together
    The [Israeli] right ... is well on its way to negating Israel's earlier achievements in crushing the Palestinian people, and it will bring about their reunification. The Israeli left and center did... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Students protest IDF soldiers campus visit (video)
    Silent protest during a University of Michigan visit by two IDF soldiers on 20 October 2010. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • President Jimmy Carter visiting Sheikh-Jarrah week ...
    Former US president Jimmy Carter and two other Elders visit the weekly Friday Sheikh Jarrah demonstration in Jerusalem. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • IDF probes top officers on Gaza war strike that ki ...
    Senior army officers are under investigation for authorizing an air strike in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead that killed 21 members of the same family despite possibly receiving warnings from... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Practice Changing Studies on How Oncologists Treat ...
    The following are highlights of new cancer research being released at the American Society for Radiation Oncology's (ASTRO) 52nd Annual Meeting to be held October 31 through November 4, 2010, in San Diego.
  • Succimer Found Ineffective for Removing Mercury
    Succimer, a drug used for treating lead poisoning, does not effectively remove mercury from the body, according to research supported by the National Institutes of Health.
  • Survey Shows Rise in New Antibiotic-Resistant Bact ...
    In a survey of Chicago-area healthcare facilities, researchers at Rush University Medical Center and the Cook County Department of Public Health have found that the incidence of KPC-producing bacteria is rising. These bugs cause infections with high mortality rates and are resistant to the most comm ...
  • From Obscurity to Prime Time: Viral Political Vide ...
    Two elite blogs often post the most interesting political videos that are then picked up by top general-interest blogs.
  • Real-Time Emergency Response: Oil Spill Responders ...
    The April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico reminded emergency managers just how critical it is to share up-to-date information in a disaster. When the oil washed up on beaches and threatened lives and property, many agencies had to coordinate rapidly to contain the threat.

Natural Health News

  • Booty Vs. Belly: Fat Cells Grow Differently
    Differences in the way your body fat grows could explain why belly fat increases the risk for certain diseases, while fat on the thighs and lower body decreases the risk. A study looked at 28 volunteers who were allowed to eat almost anything they wanted for eight weeks. On average, the participant ...
  • Obesity's Impact on Gastrointestinal Health
    New research suggests that there are associations between obesity and gastrointestinal health, including such maladies as gastrointestinal-related cancers and the severity of Crohn's disease. A number of new studies have shown that obesity can have an effect on these conditions.� One study found th ...
  • The Persistent Problem of Phthalates
    A recent report published by a consortium of 140 environmental groups shows that potentially risky chemicals known as phthalates are present in dozens of everyday plastic items which are still for sale by European retailers.� The items range from shoes to erasers. Six phthalates have been virtually ...
  • 8 Mediterranean Super Ingredients
    The Mediterranean diet is often used as an example of healthy eating.� But what is it about the ingredients that makes them so healthy?� ABC News took a look at the question. Nuts One aspect of the Mediterranean diet that is a strong contributor to its success is the presence of nuts. Nuts like al ...
  • Fat Cells are not Just Dormant Storage Depots for ...
    Scientists have discovered new evidence that the fat tissue is much more than a dormant storage depot for surplus calories.� In fact, your body far is an active organ that sends chemical signals to other parts of your body. Researchers have recently uncovered 20 new hormones and other substances no ...

Antemedius

  • Wikileaks and Iraq Body Count News Conference Foll ...
    Julian Assange of Wikileaks and Professsor John Sloboda of the Iraq Body Count project spoke this morning in a news conference at the Frontline Club in London, England. Sloboda gave his early assessment of what the Iraq War Logs released by WikiLeaks add to the known Iraqi death toll, while Assange ...
  • The September Jobs Report & The Demise of the US E ...
    RTAmerica | October 08, 2010 Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during President Reagan’s first term. September Jobs Report Reveals America’s Emerging Third World Economy Paul Craig Roberts, October 08, 2010 For a number of years I reported on the monthly non-fa ...
  • Biggest Document Leak in History Exposes Real War
    from Rachel Oldroyd , The Bureau of Investigative Journalism ( view source ) These documents formed a database of nearly 400,000 military logs recorded over six years of the Iraq war and covering the years 2004 to 2009. There are over 37 million words used to recount military significant action ...
  • Wikileaks Releases Iraq War Logs
    warlogs.wikileaks.org : At 5pm EST Friday 22nd October 2010 WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. The 391,832 reports ('The Iraq War Logs'), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March ...
  • Obama Administration Refuses to Confirm or Deny Sp ...
    On Monday October 04... ...the Supreme Court said it would not take up a warrantless surveillance case, Wilner v. National Security Agency (NSA), filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). The lawsuit argued that the Executive Branch must disclose whether or not it has records related to t ...

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

  • Philippines Supreme Court Threatens Law Faculty Wi ...
    by Julian Ku Back in July, I  noted this story out of the Philippines, which alleged that a justice of the Philippines Supreme Court had plagiarized (and distorted) an article by Evan Criddle and Evan Fox-Descent in the Yale Journal of International Law (and featured here at Opinio Juris). (see th ...
  • Governing Civil Society Symposium at Brooklyn Law ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Although everyone is justly excited about International Law Weekend, I wanted to mention another conference in New York that took place yesterday at Brooklyn Law School, Governing Civil Society: NGO Accountability, Legitimacy and Influence.  Congratulations ...
  • Recording of Seminar on Targeted Killing and Al-Au ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller On Thursday night I had the privilege of participating in a live webinar on targeted killing and Al-Aulaqi held by the Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research.  The other participants included Yale’s Andrew March, Emory’s Laurie Blank, ...
  • Interdisciplinarity in International Law Scholarsh ...
    by John Louth by John Louth As a publisher I am used to staying behind the scenes and cajoling my authors into writing for us, so it is with trepidation that I take up this kind invitation from the OJ team – but as the quote from Bull Durham goes “the world is made for people who aren’t [...]
  • Goldsmith Responds About “Co-Belligerency”
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Jack Goldsmith has responded to my post about the D.C. Circuit’s rejection of co-belligerency in Al-Bihani.  It’s an interesting response, worth a few additional thoughts. To begin with, it is important to note that Goldsmith does not respond to the substa ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • New TGIF Edition: Crewe case bombshell
    The new TGIF Edition is now free, and available from this page, just click on the link labelled TGIF 22 October when the page opens and you will get the PDF version which you can save to disk for fast...
  • 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

My Care2 Picks

  • WHO swine flu advisors had links to drug companies
    Systemic corruption ties to related consumer advocacy concerns http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2010/10/22-october-vaccinations-past.html Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Biggest document leak in history exposes real war ...
    Twelve weeks ago the Bureau of Investigative Journalism was given access to the biggest leak of military documents in history. These documents formed a database of nearly 400,000 military logs recorded over six years of the Iraq war and covering the year Submitted by Uhoud Abdulmajeed to World �|� ...
  • Investor Fraud & Waste bailed these investor fraud ...
    Rockefeller family establishes strict drug laws and sentences and funds a ponzi schemer, drug trafficker, money launderer, employment fraud and identity theft Submitted by John Farnham to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Foreign Policy & War Profiteering
    Corporate machinations promote permanent war Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 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 ...

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

  • The Freeman Perspective goes live on Republic Defi ...
    Republic Defiance Radio hits the airwaves Sunday night. Prepare to go back down the rabbit hole as Freeman of FreemanTV.com joins us live on Republic Defiance Radio Sunday October 24, 2010.
  • Wisconsin DATCP: A rogue agency and its war on Wis ...
    While Wisconsin politicians turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the police state actions being carried out by the rogue Department of Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) agents for DATCP kick the efforts to eradicate family and independent farmers into high gear.   In an effort to force compliance ...
  • 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!

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Chevron Approves $7.5 Billion Gulf of Mexico Proje ...
    ShareThis Chevron Approves $7.5 Billion Gulf of Mexico Project 22 Oct 2010 Chevron Corp., the second-largest U.S. energy company, approved a $7.5 billion plan to develop oil and natural gas fields in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico, the largest investment since the Obama administration ended its drill ...
  • FBI: Powder in package sent to Arizona congressman ...
    ShareThis FBI: Powder in package sent to Arizona congressman 'nontoxic' 22 Oct 2010 The suspicious powder inside a swastika-adorned package sent to an Arizona congressman is "nontoxic," an FBI spokesman said Friday. Staffers checking mail in the Tucson, Arizona, office of U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva on ...
  • French police break fuel depot blockade
    ShareThis French police break fuel depot blockade --Nicolas Sarkozy under pressure to end the crisis before half-term holidays begin this weekend 22 Oct 2010 French police have forcibly lifted a blockade on the main refinery supplying fuel to Paris as polls show the majority of French people support ...
  • ISAF helicopter down in Taliban country
    ShareThis ISAF helicopter down in Taliban country 23 Oct 2010 Taliban militants say they have shot down a helicopter operated by the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in eastern Afghanistan. The Taliban claimed that they successfully targeted the aircraft on Saturday in remote Pa ...
  • More Blackwater shootings unveiled
    ShareThis More Blackwater shootings unveiled --Washington hired�firm under�$465M contract to provide largely unregulated mercenary services in Iraq 23 Oct 2010 The latest Wikileaks files reveal 14 unreported shooting incidents against Iraqi civilians, involving those by an infamous private security ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • New TGIF Edition: Crewe case bombshell
    The new TGIF Edition is now free, and available from this page, just click on the link labelled TGIF 22 October when the page opens and you will get the PDF version which you can save to disk for fast...
  • TGIF Edition tonight: Jeannette was victim of earl ...
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  • 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

Mondoweiss

  • Israel Crushes A Palestinian Gandhi: Bil’in Organi ...
    The other day I vowed to show this video of Adeeb Abu Rahma till everyone in America had seen it. And I'm just stupid enough to try. Because if anything can change the American paradigm of Palestinian resistance, it is watching Adeeb Abu Rahma, at a demonstration in 2008 in Bil'in, brave bullets and ...
  • Brooklyn rabbis Lippman and Bachman are part of th ...
    Yesterday Weiss did a post expressing surprise that liberal Brooklyn rabbis Ellen Lippman and Andy Bachman are urging Brooklynites to buy products made in the West Bank at an illegal settlement! Barry Weiss, a California activist (and no relation), says Weiss is naive: I do not know why this surpris ...
  • Maybe now Obama can say something?
    Jerusalem Post:New York Times opinion columnist Thomas Friedman said that many Americans are becoming "fed up" with Israel. Friedman's comments came in an interview with Channel Two reporter Dana Weiss aired on Saturday.... Friedman derided Israel's calls for the Palestinians to recognize Israel ...
  • Pelosi’s ‘progressive,’ antiwar ...
    Out here in San Francisco, progressives are furious with Nancy Pelosi for enabling the Bush war machine, Obama's escalation in Afghanistan, and her utter disdain for (our crappy definition of) democracy, as she has refused to debate her libertarian Republican opponent John Dennis. Although his is cl ...
  • Nir Rosen on the media’s double standard for ...
    On Thursday night the Nation Institute and the Arthur Carter Journalism Institute at NYU held a "Backstory" panel on foreign reporting with Nir Rosen, Ann Jones and Aram Roston. Jones carried the evening with entertaining tales about how being a woman in the Middle East has allowed her to break stor ...

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

  • Wikileaks: Statement from Office of U.S. Secretary ...
    This just came in my email from Geoff Morrell: "We deplore Wikileaks for inducing individuals to break the law, leak classified documents and then cavalierly share that secret information with the world, including our enemies. We know terrorist organizations have been mining the leaked Afghan docume ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Today, 6,000 NYC Cyclists Take Over the Bronx
    Photo: Majora Carter Group under a Creative Commons License As the city that never sleeps becomes more and more of a cyclist's city , 6,000 New Yorkers will climb on their two-wheelers today to participate in the 15th Annual Tour de Bronx . In the state's largest free cycling event, riders can ...
  • Architects Give Israel's Waterfronts Fresh Appeal
    The Tel Aviv Port public space. Image: Mayslits Kassif Architects . On Saturday mornings, I've gotten into the habit of going for a run by the Marmara Sea. The concrete path is worn, and follows a busy road, but the broad view out over the churning sea to the Asian side of the city is still rejuv ...
  • Henri Lloyd's 3-in-1 Jacket is Suitable for Every ...
    Photo: Henri Lloyd How many jackets do you really need? With sailing and lifestyle apparel brand Henri Lloyd's Blue Eco All Seasons Jacket , just one. From traversing stormy seas to braving urban rainstorms, the recycled polyester-- 'Blue Eco' fabric --coat packs a hood and an internal zip-out ...
  • Does New Public Transit Increase Gentrification an ...
    click on image to enlarge. Credit: Dukakis Center Smart Planet points us to a report ( PDF here ) from Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University that concludes that new transit can lead to gentrification. My first response was well, duh, isn't that the point? I ...
  • Lost? Bookmark Your Place In Style With Eco-Friend ...
    Photos: Gilbert13 Though it's probably greener to just rescue scrap paper and post-its to bookmark your reading, the neat-freak bookworm in me couldn't resist these adorable themed bookmarks from UK-based design studio Gilbert13 . Made from sustainably-sourced, recyclable cardboard, the colourful ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Cyclone Giri flattens coastal towns
    Thousands left homeless in Arakan state with landfall winds thought to be stronger than cyclone Nargis in May 2008
  • 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

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

  • Faces of the Gas Rush
    NoneFrom farmer to supply shop owner, from scientist to job seeker, each Pennsylvanian has a separate view of the natural gas boom that has hit the state.
  • A Dream Dashed by the Rush on Gas
    The shale gas industry maintains that its safeguards protect drinking water and land. But there have been accidents, and mistrust has been sown as the industrial process has moved into rural communities.
  • A State Booms with New Energy
    NoneHopes are high that jobs will flow as fast as the natural gas in the energy boom that has hit Pennsylvania, although locals are finding the new work is not necessarily on the drilling rig.
  • Parks, Forests Eyed for the Fuel Beneath
    Officials realize they may not be able to protect the “Pennsylvania Wilds” and other state and national public lands from the new gas rush.
  • Forcing Gas Out of Rock With Water
    By combining and super-charging old oil field technologies, U.S. energy industry innovators unlocked the natural gas found in deep shale rock--paving the way for a rush on Pennsylvania.

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Florida AG declines to appeal decision striking do ...
    [JURIST] Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum [official profile] announced [press release] Friday that his office will not appeal a decision [text, PDF] by Florida Third District Court of Appeals [official website] striking down the state's prohibition [text] against adoption by gay men and women. ...
  • France senate approves retirement reform amid prot ...
    [JURIST] The French Senate [official website, in French] on Friday approved [press release, in French] retirement reform legislation designed to keep the country's pension system viable. The bill [text, in French; materials, in French], which passed by a 177-153 vote, increases the age at which indi ...
  • UN investigator calls for inquiry into Iraq rights ...
    [JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak [official website] called fSaturday or the Obama administration to launch an inquiry into the role of US in human rights violations allegedly committed in Iraq [JURIST report] Nowak's comments follow the release of government information on Wik ...
  • Haiti report finds officers killed 12 unarmed deta ...
    [JURIST] Haitian prison officers are alleged to have killed 12 detainees "deliberately and without justification," using "inappropriate, abusive and disproportionate force" during a January 19 prison uprising, according to an independent commission, the New York Times [media website] reported [text] ...
  • Russia prosecutors seek 14-year sentence in second ...
    [JURIST] Russian prosecutors asked Friday for a 14-year prison sentence in the second case against former oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky [defense website; JURIST news archive], though his sentence could be reduced based on time served for a prior conviction. Khodorkovsky and his business partner ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Wikileaks Iraq: A Quick Summary
    The big reveal from the hundreds of thousands of documents posted on Wikileaks today is probably going to be the incredibly awful reports of systematized detainee abuse by Iraqi soldiers and security forces right under the noses of the American-led coalition, which appears to have had virtually no i ...
  • Why Clinton's Losing The Nuclear Biscuit Was Reall ...
    Former President Clinton's office declined to comment today on reports that he managed to lose the personal identification code needed to confirm nuclear launches and never told anyone about it. GEN. Hugh Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the last few years of Clinton's term, wri ...
  • Linda McMahon: Skeezy CEO or Bold Outsider?
    Democratic Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal began with a 40 percent lead in this race over first time candidate Linda McMahon, who won a fairly contentious Republican primary by beating Peter Schiff and Rob Simmons. Now, b y all measures, Blumenthal's lead is within the margin of erro ...
  • 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 ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • NGO Forces IDF to Release Secret Memo Documenting ...
    While Wikileaks may have the biggest national security expose of the moment, the one I’m going to report tonight on one that in the Israeli context is a close second. Thanks immensely to Ed Mad X for alerting me to the IDF’s release of a much sought after April, 2009 memo (23 pages linked here, [... ...
  • Channel 1 Correspondent Confirms Ilan as Shabak Di ...
    Several weeks ago, I reported here that Bibi Netanyahu had settled upon a candidate to succeed Yuval Diskin as Shabak chief.  While Israeli news sources could and still cannot report his name (they call him “Y.”), I did: Yitzhak Ilan.  Today, Channel 1‘s military correspondents, Yoav Limor confirm ...
  • Israeli Military Judge Attempts to Extort Machsom ...
    Despite the fact that I seem to collect many similar stories of Israeli democracy and justice gone awry, this story came close to leaving me at a loss for words.  One of the finest Israeli NGOs exposing the shocking inadequacy of Israeli military justice is Machsom Watch.  In fact, it was through a ...
  • Links for 2010-08-17 [Digg]
    Israel Wakes Up and Discovers Its Soldiers Abuse Palestinian Yesterday, a major scandal erupted in Israel over an IDF soldier, Eden Aberjil, who posted pictures on her Facebook account of her abusing bound Palestinian...
  • ‘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 ...

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

  • DON'T ALLOW THE RADICAL CONSERVATIVES TO SCAM YOU ...
    Conservatives and the corporate rich are trying to once again spin a tale allowing them to scam us once again and hopefully without citizens ever knowing.
  • Suppose Your Actions Swung the Election
    Also if you happen to know anyone who works on a campus (or if you're on a campus yourself), here's an article that I sent to my educators lists on 45 ways to still get students involved in the election. People have found it very useful, so please do forward it if you're in a position to do so.
  • Genetically Modified Foods and the Monsanto Initia ...
    An investigation into Monsanto and US government initiatives as they relate to consumer health
  • The "Tea Party" Would Make Slaveholders of Us All
    An American tradition uses secret traitors as a galvanizing fear message to bring centrists in line with extremists. In pre-Civil War slave-holding psychology, this "traitor" paranoia was a reaction to social change. Southern out-migration spread the tactic southwest, where it aligned with Goldwate ...
  • Part 3: What constitutes overpopulation in America ...
    When you multiply 100 million added humans times 12.6 acres--that equals a loss of 1.26 billion acres of wilderness habitat in the next 25 years. Since demographers expect the USA to double to 600 million, work the math!

Switchboard

  • Climate change denial from the Book of Hesitations
     In the Bible-studying Protestant circles I travel in when I am not fighting court battles for NRDC, we occasionally engage in lame Bible-geek humor about the Book of 2 Hesitations.  For those of you whose background does not include vacation Bible school, that’s not actually in the Bi ...
  • EPA regulating hydraulic fracturing when diesel fu ...
    Earlier this year, NRDC and partner organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), asking the agency to fully enforce the Safe Drinking Water Act when it comes to hydraulic fracturing using diesel fuel. Hydraulic fracturing (aka "fracking"), as I've blog ...
  • Climate, Energy and Environment News from Latin Am ...
    Chile: In a New York Times Op-Ed piece this week, Jeffrey Sachs complimented Chile on its successful economic development and political capability, and said it is a burgeoning regional and international leader. (New York Times, 10/20/10) President Piñera traveled to France this week ...
  • Vilsack points to report that shows ending corn et ...
    Despite disappointing statements indicating the administration’s support for a short-term extension of wasteful corn ethanol subsidies, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack’s speech yesterday at the National Press Club included some not-to-be-overlooked comments on the economic impacts ...
  • Commissioner Grannis was right to reject Gov's cri ...
    Alexander “Pete” Grannis, the former Commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation who was fired yesterday by Governor David Paterson, has been a friend of New York’s environment for more than 40 years. As a long-time State Assemblyman from Manhattan’s Ea ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Oh Right, This Is Why I Thought He Was A Moron
    I should probably be enjoined from criticizing Charlie Manuel again, since I’ve never been more wrong about a manager. He is, on balance, very good. But tactically…ye gods. One worked and one didn’tm but…the IW of Huff was bizarre; depending on how much weight you put on Huff’s dismal [...] ...
  • “War Diaries 2.0″: Is Wikileaks Moving ...
    In a number of respects the Iraq War Diaries constitute a repeat of the Afghan War Diaries – a massive data dump bringing to light few unknowns but casting knowns in much sharper relief. And as in July, Julian Assange is predictably being hailed or harangued by different corners. However, a few thin ...
  • D’oh!!!
    Less than ideal time for this to happen: The Royal Navy hastened to assemble an official inquiry Friday evening to explore why Britain’s newest nuclear submarine, H.M.S. Astute, ran aground while undergoing sea trials off the coast of northwest Scotland on Friday morning and remained stuck on a bank ...
  • Iraqi Casualties
    I gave up on the Lancet fight a long time ago; I can’t remember now whether the flurry of allegations and counter-allegations about error and fraud raised sufficient question in my mind about Lancet’s conclusions, or if the entire discussion just became too technical and complicated for me to follow ...
  • The Iran Bits…
    There’s obviously much of interest in the Wikileaks Iraq release; for the moment the Iran stuff holds the bulk of my attention: But the field reports disclosed by WikiLeaks, which were never intended to be made public, underscore the seriousness with which Iranâs role has been seen by the American ...

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.

  • 9th Circuit grants stay of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' ...
    A federal appeals court on Wednesday granted the government's emergency motion for a temporary stay of a worldwide injunction barring enforcement of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the military's ban on openly gay service members.
  • Special Report: Diversity
    Opportunities for disabled attorneys are increasing both through advances in technology and changing attitudes toward the rights and abilities of those with handicaps. In this special report, The National Law Journal profiles disabled attorneys forging successful careers at large law firms, on the b ...
  • Hot Commodity
    Hordes of big-firm lawyers and their clients have been beating a path to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, all eager to influence the tiny agency as it tackles a breathtaking array of new rules, including the first ever regulation of the $615 trillion market for over-the-counter derivatives.
  • Duty to defend? Not always
    Senate records show that the Justice Department has told Congress it is not defending an act of Congress 13 times in the past six years, during both the Bush and Obama administrations.
  • Heller II: The Sequel
    In Heller II, the sequel to 2008's landmark Second Amendment case, District of Columbia residents and officials again go to battle over the city's gun laws.

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

  • Plants More Crucial to Reducing Air Pollution Than ...
    Plants play an even more critical role in keeping the atmosphere clean than previously believed, according to a new study. Using observation, gene expression studies, and computer models, researchers found that deciduous plants absorb a common class of pollutants known as oxygenated volatile organic ...
  • 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 ...
  • Indian Government Pledges to Account for Nation's ...
    The Indian government has pledged to publish an account of the nation’s natural wealth , a valuation of such resources as forests, wildlife, and freshwater supplies that international officials call critical to avoiding the financial costs of biodiversity loss. India’s commitment coincides with the ...
  • 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.

Red Ice Creations

  • Ex-Secret Service officer: I almost shot LBJ
    Retired Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine has a book coming out -- "The Kennedy Detail" -- that contains a rather stunning revelation: In the chaotic wake of the power transfer that took place after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Blaine says he almost shot Lyndon Johnson, when he mistook him ...
  • US foes seek ’new world order’
    Venezuela and Iran denounce US imperialism as they flex their economic muscles by signing a raft of energy deals. Hugo Chavez, left, and Ahmadinejad called their relationship a "strategic alliance" [AFP] Venezuela and Iran have denounced US imperialism and called for a "new world order", saying they ...
  • "Fractal" Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot Dies Age ...
    Benoit Mandelbrot, who discovered mathematical shapes known as fractals, has died of cancer at the age of 85. Mandelbrot, who had joint French and US nationality, developed fractals as a mathematical way of understanding the infinite complexity of nature. The concept has been used to measure coastli ...
  • Mubai Terrorist Scout Was America’s Man in Pakista ...
    US Federal officials have acknowledged that David Coleman Headley, the US businessman who confessed to being a terrorist scout in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, was working as a Drug Enforcement Administration informant while training with terrorists in Pakistan. Headley is the son of a Pakistani father a ...
  • Russia hails Prince Michael, the Royal Family memb ...
    It was Prince Michael of Kent's short aside, delivered before he began his official speech at the Saratov Opera and Ballet Theatre, that was the crowd-pleaser for his predominantly Russian audience. At the end of a lavish three-course dinner that acted as the extended interval for the night's entert ...

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

  • The real terrorist was me - US Soldier -
    The Truth from a American Soldier who fought in an Unjust WAR in Iraq; thankfully his conscience willed him to admit that it was just a war for the rich elite few to get richer and had nothing to do with Patriosm or Security of Americans.He is a True Hero Submitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • BRUTAL TRUTH Of IRAQ WAR
    'War' on any country is a 'Terrorist Act.' How can it be anything else?? People sit in their cosy homes; happy and Falsely believing that the soldiers are in a Patriotic War; Well see for yourself and ask Whats Patriotic about Suffering of Human Beings? Submitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • CNN's Larry King Interview with Iran's President A ...
    America is setting up the platform for a WAR on IRAN. Due to Previous, Mainstream Media's Propaganda,Lies and Bias news, before an attack ; I wish to HIGHLIGHT All Interviews for American People to make up their OWN MINDS about IRAN and Its President Submitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov't �|� ...
  • The backlash begins against the world landgrab
    Western corporations exploit the 3rd World (as ever.) Seen on http://www.maxkeiser.com/ Submitted by Graeme that's Graeme to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • GM Food: Facts Not Crops. Take Action!
    To the President of the European Commission J.M. Barroso: We call on you to put a moratorium on the introduction of GM crops into Europe and set up an independent, ethical, scientific body to research the impact of GM crops .. Sign the petition! Submitted by Graeme that's Graeme to Green Lifesty ...

The Freeman

  • Taking On Unions
    In my last column I noted that unions seem to be losing respect among the public. It now appears that that loss of respect is translating into an increased willingness by voters, and even some politicians, to challenge unions, especially those that represent government employees. Rahm Emanuel famous ...
  • The Power of Freedom
    WARNING: After reading this column, many of you will want to send me emails condemning me for my apostasy or telling me why I am mistaken. I welcome your feedback as I beg your indulgence. So, here goes: I don’t believe that the welfare state, or the regulatory state, inevitably leads to widespread ...
  • Malts in the Cafeteria
    When I was in sixth grade, three of my classmates and I ran for student council president. The entire student body would vote, and the one with the most votes would be president; second-most, vice president; third, secretary; and fourth, treasurer. Looking back, I suppose the other three offices wer ...
  • The Most Dangerous Derivative
    In the October 1962 issue of The Freeman an obscure 28-year-old lawyer wrote, in one of his first published works, “Giant government has outgrown the capacity of the institutions designed to restrain its encroachments and abuses. . . . [F]reedom, to be meaningful, must find direct expression in prac ...
  • Bank Deregulation: Friend or Foe?
    Banking has changed a lot during my lifetime—for the better. The changes are partly due to technology (ATMs, online access), but also to deregulation that subjected banks to a lot more competition. What were the major deregulatory moves and how might they have contributed to the recent crisis? Befor ...

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

  • Rebellions of 1837
    The Rebellions of 1837 took place in both Upper and Lower Canada. In LOWER CANADA the rebellion was in large part an expression of a resurgent FRENCH CANADIAN NATIONALISM . The French Canadian majority constituted the
  • Prohibition
    Prohibition was an attempt to forbid by law the selling and drinking of intoxicating beverages. It was enacted in Prince Edward Island in 1901 and in the remaining provinces, the Yukon, and Newfoundland during the First World
  • Seven Years' War
    The Seven Years' War, 1756-63, was the first global war. The protagonists were Britain, Prussia and Hanover against France, Austria, Sweden, Saxony, Russia and eventually Spain. Britain declined to commit its main forces on
  • Laurier, Sir Wilfrid
    Sir Wilfrid Laurier, lawyer, journalist, politician, prime minister of Canada (b at St-Lin, Canada E 20 Nov 1841; d at Ottawa 17 Feb 1919). As leader of the LIBERAL PARTY 1887-1919 and prime minister 1896-1911, Laurier was the
  • Cartier, Jacques
    Jacques Cartier, navigator (b at St-Malo, France, between 7 June and 23 Dec 1491; d there 1 Sept 1557). Cartier led 3 voyages of exploration to the St Lawrence region in 1534, 1535-36 and 1541-42. He is usually credited with

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • What can I reuse or recycle to make a chair?
    We’ve had an email from Adele: For my Product Design A2 level I am aiming to create a chair made from recycled materials. Iâve got to be able to collect them in a fairly short time, and of course it would be very helpful if the items were free…Iâve got an open mind about it, [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle aluminium foil/tin foil ...
    Every now and then I search for something on Recycle This and am floored when I find we’ve not covered it. The most recent example: tin foil. We’ve talked about possibly recycling aluminium foil for charity and about related items such as easter egg/chocolate wrapping foil, foil trays for pet food o ...
  • How can I reduce my use of disposable razors/razor ...
    We’ve kinda touched on this topic before when talking about reusing and recycling disposable razors but that was a long time ago and I thought it might be worth bringing it up again. As when we were talking about it in 2007, I still use disposable razors occasionally – perhaps one a month since I’m ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle tea towels?
    We’ve had an email from Louise W: Our church hall has accrued dozens and dozens of tea towels over the years, I don’t know where they come from. We usually tear the tatty ones in half and use them for cleaning rags but I was wondering if you had any ideas for other things we [...]
  • Have you ever stopped buying something because of ...
    Following on from the discussion we had the other week about whether people would prefer less packaging or more packaging that was easier to reuse/recycle, I’ve been wondering: have you ever stopped buying something because of its packaging? One of the purposes of packaging is to attract us to buy t ...

Mondoweiss

  • Israel Crushes A Palestinian Gandhi: Bil’in Organi ...
    The other day I vowed to show this video of Adeeb Abu Rahma till everyone in America had seen it. And I'm just stupid enough to try. Because if anything can change the American paradigm of Palestinian resistance, it is watching Adeeb Abu Rahma, at a demonstration in 2008 in Bil'in, brave bullets and ...
  • Brooklyn rabbis Lippman and Bachman are part of th ...
    Yesterday Weiss did a post expressing surprise that liberal Brooklyn rabbis Ellen Lippman and Andy Bachman are urging Brooklynites to buy products made in the West Bank at an illegal settlement! Barry Weiss, a California activist (and no relation), says Weiss is naive: I do not know why this surpris ...
  • Maybe now Obama can say something?
    Jerusalem Post:New York Times opinion columnist Thomas Friedman said that many Americans are becoming "fed up" with Israel. Friedman's comments came in an interview with Channel Two reporter Dana Weiss aired on Saturday.... Friedman derided Israel's calls for the Palestinians to recognize Israel ...
  • Pelosi’s ‘progressive,’ antiwar ...
    Out here in San Francisco, progressives are furious with Nancy Pelosi for enabling the Bush war machine, Obama's escalation in Afghanistan, and her utter disdain for (our crappy definition of) democracy, as she has refused to debate her libertarian Republican opponent John Dennis. Although his is cl ...
  • Nir Rosen on the media’s double standard for ...
    On Thursday night the Nation Institute and the Arthur Carter Journalism Institute at NYU held a "Backstory" panel on foreign reporting with Nir Rosen, Ann Jones and Aram Roston. Jones carried the evening with entertaining tales about how being a woman in the Middle East has allowed her to break stor ...

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 )

  • California awards $72 million in grants for stem c ...
    The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) yesterday announced awards worth $72 million to fund stem cell researchers in the state in a second series of grants meant to move experimental stem cell treatments into the clinic ( press release ). Last year, in the initiative’s firs ...
  • Microscopic art contest winners announced
    It's a shame that all data is not as pretty as the images in the Small World Microtography Competition, a 36-year-old award sponsored by Nikon. This year's winner is Vanderbilt University biologist Jonas King's image of mosquito hearts, magnified 100 times and pictured below.
  • 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 ...

new geography

  • The Urban Bike Tribes of Los Angeles
    A recent Los Angeles Times article chronicled a showdown between drivers and bicyclists, inspired by the installation of bike lanes and — more significantly — the reduction of auto traffic lanes on a San Fernando Valley boulevard. The change was clearly intended to encourage cyclists, but I had to ...
  • A Price on Carbon: the New Greenmail
    Hidden from view during the Australian election, a carbon price is back on the political agenda. This comes as no surprise. Anyone following the debate, however, will see that it has nothing to do with the environment. For some time we have been urged to “act now”, but the grounds keep shifting and ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Na ...
    Via: New York Daily News: Airline passengers might want to consider a trip to the gym before heading to the airport now that high-tech body scanners have been unveiled at Kennedy Airport. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano yesterday hailed them as an important breakthrough fo ...
  • WikiLeaks: Iraq War Diaries
    Via: WikiLeaks: At 5pm EST Friday 22nd October 2010 WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. The 391,832 reports (‘The Iraq War Logs’), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March 2009) a ...
  • $19 Billion Later, Pentagon’s Best Bomb-Dete ...
    Alternate title: The U.S. Military Is Putting the Dog Back in Boondoggle. Via: Wired: Drones, metal detectors, chemical sniffers, and super spycams — forget ‘em. The leader of the Pentagon’s multibillion military task force to stop improvised bombs says there’s nothing in the U.S. arsenal for bomb d ...
  • 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 ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Rampant Inflation In 2011? The Monetary Base Is Ex ...
    Are you ready for rampant inflation?  Well, unfortunately it looks like it might be headed our way.  The U.S. monetary base has absolutely exploded over the last couple of years, and all that money is starting to filter through into the hands of consumers.  Commodity prices are abso ...
  • California Is Broke – 19 Reasons Why It May ...
    Back in the 1960s and 1970s, there was a seemingly endless parade of pop songs about how great life was in California, and millions of young Americans dreamed of moving to the land of sandy beaches and golden sunshine.  But now all of that has changed.  Today, millions of California ...
  • The Proof Is In The Numbers: America Is Getting Po ...
    How in the world can anyone claim that things are getting better?  Sometimes the numbers are so clear that they simply cannot be denied.  According to the U.S. Census Bureau, median household income in the United States fell from $51,726 in 2008 to $50,221 in 2009.  That was the sec ...
  • 75 Ways That The Government And The Financial Elit ...
    The American people are experiencing financial death by a thousand cuts and most of them don't even realize it.  The U.S. government, state governments, local governments and the financial elite are draining us financially in dozens upon dozens of different ways, and yet we have bec ...
  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • If we can grow food in the desert, why not anywher ...
    Growing vegetables and fruit trees in the desert: here is an example of small family gardens in the refugee camps of the Saharawis in S.W. Algeria :
  • Why Mali is missing its old way of life (Google / ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2010/oct/20/mali-desertification-environment-climate-change Why Mali is missing its old way of life Madeleine Bunting Madeleine Bunting is in Mali to find out about the impact of climate change on s ...
  • System of Rice Intensification, or SRI, involves p ...
    Read at : http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=11929261 New Method Yields More Rice With Less Water: Oxfam By Emily Stephenson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Rice farmers could boost their yields by 50 percent with a new method that uses less water Oxfam America said on … Continue reading →
  • The simplest, cheapest small-scale solutions are o ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2010/oct/21/mali-climate-change-crops-adapting-environment Mali’s big challenge is finding funds for small schemes Madeleine Bunting Villagers in Dandoli are finding ways to adapt their crops becaus ...
  • A much drier planet emerging as a result of climat ...
    Read at : Google Alert – drought http://www.earthweek.com/2010/ew101022/ew101022a.html A Century of Worsening Drought A second report in as many weeks points to a much drier planet emerging as a result of climate change. Researchers from the U.S. National Center for … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

  • Weekend Reading Suggestions
    Autumn temperatures are dipping lower this weekend, making it a good time to catch up on reading.
  • Iowa TV Station Won’t Air “Pull the Pl ...
    A Des Moines TV station is refusing to air an attack ad against Republican Sen. Charles Grassley created by two liberal groups unless they change what the station says is an out-of-context sound bite by the senator.
  • Crossroads GPS Ad Attacks Harry Reid, and Attack A ...
    Crossroads Grassroots Political Strategies (GPS), a conservative group that has poured millions of dollars into attack ads, is airing a new spot mocking the glut of negative advertising as a way to amplify its own attack on Democrat Harry Reid . Backed by Republican strategists Karl Rove and Ed Gil ...
  • 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.

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

  • Cristiano Ronaldo scores four in Real Madrid ...
    Cristiano Ronaldo stole the show with a four-goal haul as Real Madrid walloped Racing Santander 6-1 at home to restore their one-point La Liga lead. The winger struck twice in each half, with his fourth goal coming from a 55th-minute penalty, with Gonzalo Higuain and Mesut Ozil also netting. "I ...
  • Adopt an adult cat in the Wichita area
    Give an older cat a chance next time you consider adoption. Many people think that only kittens are adoptable because we have heard that cats can't adjust to new locations, people or surroundings. That simply isn’t true. It is true that older cats may take longer to adapt to a new home than a c ...
  • Naomi Campbell: Editor 'sacked' in racism row ...
    Naomi Campbell, the supermodel, claims that the editor-in-chief of a fashion magazine was sacked for putting her face on the front cover. Naomi Campbell walks the catwalk in her Fashion For Relief show at the National History Museum, during London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2009 Photo: Dave Hog ...
  • Real Salt Lake draws 2-2 with Colorado
    Posted �|�Comment �|�Recommend | | | COMMERCE CITY, Colorado (AP) � Costa Rica forward Alvaro Saborio scored in the 90th minute and in stoppage time to give Real Salt Lake a 2-2 draw with the Colorado Rapids to extended its Major League Soccer unbeaten streak to 14 games Saturday. Real Salt Lak ...
  • First spaceport runway opens in US
    A new runway has been completed at the world's first spaceport in a remote region in the US state of New Mexico, pushing space tourism closer to becoming a reality. Richard Branson, the British tycoon,�opened the 3.2km-long main runway at Spaceport America near the town of Las Cruces on Friday. ...

Alex in Wonderland

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Common Dreams

  • Candidates Ignore Media, But It's Voters Who Stand ...
    by David Lightman WASHINGTON — Many major candidates are treating the news media as enemies this year, refusing to release schedules, admit the press to campaign events, give interviews or answer routine questions. While Republicans appear to be shunning journalists more than Democrats, some De ...
  • Canada Seeks to Drop Native Peoples from New Biodi ...
    by Stephen Leahy NAGOYA, Japan - Blame Canada if countries fail to agree to a new binding treaty to curb the rapid loss of plant, animal and species that form the intricate web of life that sustains humanity. That is the view of indigenous representatives from Canada in response to a late night move ...
  • 'Super PAC' American Crossroads Continues Amassing ...
    by Michael Beckel In just seven months, American Crossroads , the highest profile conservative " Super PAC ," has raised more than $24.17 million* in the hopes of tilting the November midterm elections in favor of the Republican Party. read more
  • Google Exploits Tax Loophole that Costs US $60 Bil ...
    by Jon E. Doherty Internet search giant Google Inc. managed to cut its taxes by more than $3 billion last year using a technique that shifted most of its profits through overseas routes, Bloomberg News reported Thursday. read more
  • US Announces Massive Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia
    WASHINGTON – In its biggest arms deal ever, the United States announced it will sell up to 60 billion dollars worth of warplanes, helicopters and other weapons to Saudi Arabia, partly to help it counter Iran. The plan allows for the sale of 84 F-15 fighter jets, 70 Apache attack helicopte ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

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

  • A Party of Panic and Depression
    by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The administration of Ronald Reagan ushered in a depression of some two years, the longest and deepest since Hoover's Great Depression of the 1930s. Millions were put out of work. Many businesses, entire industries never recovered. The Reagan depression follow ...
  • Life in Palestinian Refugee Camps
    by Stephen Lendman Besides mass slaughter and destruction, wars create refugees, millions at times, uprooted, displaced and homeless, on their own somehow to survive. Israel's "War of Independence" was no different, dispossessing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, a story Western media reports ...
  • Wiki 'Leaks' the Truth About U.S. War Crimes Again ...
    by Len Hart, the Existentialist Cowboy To be expected, the U.S. government/military denounces the latest Wikileaks expose of U.S. atrocities and war crimes against Iraq. That the truth about U.S. atrocities against a sovereign nation is, in the process, of being exposed and documented continues to ...
  • Burning the holy books is a loathsome act: Prof. J ...
    Interview by Kourosh Ziabari Prof. John E. Hare is the Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at the Yale University's Divinity School. A British classicist, philosopher and ethicist, he is the author of several well-known and best-selling books in religion and morality including "God and ...
  • UN Peacekeepers Complicit in Sex Trade
    by Stephen Lendman An earlier article, titled "UN Peacekeeping Paramilitarism" explained that although Blue Helmets are supposed to restore order, maintain peace and security, and help people transition to stability, they usually create more conflict than resolution as imperial enforcers, committin ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Medicare Sustainability: Facts & Myths - with poll ...
    Canadians are being told that public health care financing is not sustainable, and that the solution is a shift to more private health insurance and private delivery of services. Renowned pollster Nik Nanos reviews the numbers, and Canada's pre-eminent health economist, Dr. Robert G. Evans, ...
  • The dangers of cutting municipal taxes
    On Policy Note, Keith Reynolds argues against the anti-tax logic of the Taxpayers' Federation. If municipalities go further down the road of tax cuts, we could end up like California: in deep financial trouble, with social services in disarray. Go to Policy Note to read Keith's full post on the dang ...
  • Canadian incomes flatlined; poverty unchanged
    Statistics Canada released 2008 income data for Canadians and finds median after-tax family incomes were flatlined and the number of families living in poverty remained virtually unchanged compared to the year before. Striking findings, considering most of 2008 represented an economic growth period ...
  • BC's Clean Energy Act will cost British Columbians ...
    In today's Vancouver Sun, Marvin Shaffer argues that the Clean Energy Act is far worse legislation than the HST — in fact, he says, this is the legislation that British Columbians should be fighting to repeal. Read Clean Energy Act will cost British Columbians on the Vancouver Sun website.
  • Winnipeg Premiere of Poor No More a great success!
    The Carol Shields Auditorium was filled to capacity last night when CCPA-Manitoba hosted the Winnipeg premiere of Poor No More , a film featuring Mary Walsh.� The movie was followed by a short presentation with a local perspective from CCPA-MB director, Shauna MacKinnon and Prof. Gregg Olsen present ...

World Wide Hippies

  • The West has long been torn between attacking and ...
    Love-hate relationship with Washington plays out in Nevada politics | LA Times There is a canyon of difference between Harry Reid and Sharron Angle, on just about every issue in their rancorous Nevada Senate race. But beyond those differences, beyond even their standing as Washington insider and “te ...
  • WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO US AND IS THERE A WAY BACK TO ...
    The Comic strip “Prickly City” has Winslow and Carmen trying to understand where all this ANGER is coming from, especially from those on the Right, but then those on the left can be just as vociferous. Kevin the ANGER candidate for senate. He keeps rising in the polls. When Carmen says “Well?” [ ...
  • Hippie.TV
    Early-morning DJ also works as a Late-night detective. Solves crimes, then talks about them. Stephanie Powers guest-stars.
  • New York Is Evil
    New York City Is an Evil Place, Say This Yearâs Campaign Ads | New York Magazine It used to be that if you wanted to smear your opponent, all you had to do was mention that they went to San Francisco to ask for money from the liberals and hippies and gays and communists. Barack Obama’s [...]
  • The Yoga Dogs – What a Great Name for A Band ...
    My dog prefers Jeet Kune Do Yoga proves so popular, even doggies are doing it | Edmonton Journal If you think yoga’s about baggy-panted, granola-crunching, ohm-chanting hippies, you’re wrong. The ancient practice of Zen masters now embraces cyclists, runners, cancer patients, MS sufferers, chocolate ...

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

  • In the House, a different Tea Party effect
    This originally appeared at Jonathan Bernstein's blog
  • America hates Wall Street, not New York City
    Adam Hanft dissects and deconstructs political advertising at Spin Season , where this originally appeared
  • Iraqi PM rips WikiLeaks over prisoner abuse charge
    New documents detailing alleged prisoner abuse by Iraqi security officials prompted fresh doubts Saturday about Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's bid to remain in power for a second term.
  • Wikileaks Iraq logs: America ignored deaths
    Military documents laid bare in the biggest leak of secret information in U.S. history suggest that far more Iraqis died than previously acknowledged during the years of sectarian bloodletting and criminal violence unleashed by the American-led invasion in 2003.
  • This week in crazy: Ginni Thomas
    "I just wanted to reach across the airwaves and the years and ask you to consider something. I would love you to consider an apology sometime and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband. So give it some thought. And certainly pray about this and hope that one day you wil ...

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

  • Human smuggling: Crackdown goes too far
    While Canadians aren’t thrilled to see boatloads of people — including both economic migrants and genuine refugees — turning up here seeking asylum, as 492 Tamils from Sri Lanka did this summer, does Ottawa need to slap them in jail for a year, den ...
  • Toronto mayoralty: Pros and cons of strategic voti ...
    In tomorrow’s Toronto mayoral election, there is pressure on supporters of the third place candidate, Joe Pantalone, to cast a ballot for George Smitherman in order to stop Rob Ford. “A vote for Joe Pantalone is the same as a vote for Rob Ford,” sa ...
  • Looking evil in the face
    Covering up the details was never a credible option.
  • Not always a bad idea
    But spending government money to hire lobbyists is harder to swallow.
  • Calgary enters an exciting new era
    New mayor has 'fabulous potential,' says Calgary Herald.

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • Interpol Issues “Global Terror Alert” ...
    Interpol today warned its 188 member countries that there may be a higher threat of terrorism if a Florida fringe pastor burns Korans on Saturday as planned. “One of INTERPOL’s primary functions is to prevent crime, and given that we have been made aware of a significant threat to public safety – an ...
  • Sri Lanka MPs vote in sweeping powers for presiden ...
    Protesters burnt an effigy of President Mahinda Rajapaksa Sri Lankan MPs have approved proposals to let President Mahinda Rajapaksa seek an unlimited number of terms, in a move critics say could lead to dictatorship. The constitutional amendment also hugely boosts the president’s powers. Amid protes ...
  • German Identity, Long Dormant, Reasserts Itself
    As a youth in the 1950s, the film director Volker Schlöndorff tried to hide his German origins by learning to speak unaccented French. This summer, his daughter painted German flags on her cheeks and joined crowds of thousands on the Kurfürstendamm, a historic avenue, waving their black, red and gol ...
  • Clan Planned Philippine Massacre Over Dinner, Witn ...
    The clan accused of orchestrating the Philippines’ worst political massacre — also considered the single worst killing of journalists on record — plotted the attack over a family dinner, a longtime housekeeper testified Wednesday at the start of a long-delayed trial here. The patriarch of the clan t ...
  • Muslims will become majority in Europe, senior Vat ...
    European Christians must have more children or face the prospect of the continent becoming Islamised, a senior Vatican official has said. Italian Father Piero Gheddo said that the low birth rate among indigenous Europeans combined with an unprecedented wave of Muslim immigrants with large families c ...

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

  • TV Talk – 10/24
    Hello my fellow television watchers!  Sorry I missed a last week’s edition of TV Talk but I got behind and just couldn’t get back on track.  This week I’m chatting away in full force!  Loads of stuff on the tube again so I won’t waste my time with lots of chatter. I’m going... Tags: schroeder nikita ...
  • Shakespeare & Company: The bookshop that thinks it ...
    By Clare Dwyer Hogg in The Independent, Saturday, 23 October 2010 Book lovers' paradise: Shakespeare & Company is a constant merry-go-round of books bought and books sold - Photo - Richard Pak When William Burroughs wanted to research his book Naked Lunch, he was in Paris.... Tags: willy wonka naked ...
  • Bullpen’s effort, Uribe’s blast send Giants into t ...
    Juan Uribe did his best Bobby Thomson impression, socking a homer to put the Giants into the World Series. Games like this make baseball the greatest sport there is. Playoff baseball at its best, with one team trying to reach the World Series for the first time since the... Tags: philadelphia baseba ...
  • The Red Menace Wins: Wisconsin 31, Iowa 30
    Charlie Neibergall - AP The agony of defeat, DJK-style. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) View full size photo » A day later and, yeah, that still sucked. * Even Les Miles thinks that clock management was not so good.  There's already been plenty of digital ink spilled about the... Tags: red menace rose ...
  • Addiction is certainly not a disease is an option
    Currently Jude Thaddeus does not plan for the faith of investment at the moment the disease of addiction, to teach more detoxification, supply of alcohol dependence or alcohol service, if the properties or worldly matters Chrisitan treatment of drug addicts. The Jude Thaddeus... Tags: alcohol drug a ...

Groklaw

  • "Reaching Acc[h]ord: Resolving Disputes Over Music ...
    I will be participating in the following CLE Program and Panel Discussion on Friday, October 29th, 9 AM - 3 PM, at St. John's University School of Law, in Jamaica, Queens: " Reaching Acc[h]ord : Resolving Disputes Over Music Downloading" October 29, 2010 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM Law School, Belson Moot C ...
  • ODF Ingredients
    I'm sure each reader will note interesting patterns on their own, but a few things stood out in my mind when looking at this chart:... A good response when you are faced with critics who claim that ODF is just based on what OpenOffice.org does. You can point out that OpenOffice was first released a ...
  • Leaving the OpenOffice.org project
    Today is a special day. I feel both sad and relieved, happy and somewhat disgusted. I have officially resigned from all my duties, roles and positions inside the OpenOffice.org project. My resignation is effective immediately and I am leaving the project. I will now be contributing to the Document F ...
  • SAP asks for gag order in legal battle with Oracle
    In a five-page court motion filed late on Friday, lawyers for SAP argued that articles like the one published in the New York Times had the potential to influence the jury. They asked U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton to order that lawyers for both sides be prohibited from making statements to t ...
  • NEC CandC Foundation Awards 2010 CandC Prize to Dr ...
    The NEC C&C Foundation today announced that the 2010 C&C Prize will be awarded to two groups. Dr. Hiroyuki Sakaki and Dr. Yasuhiko Arakawa will represent Group A and Dr. Linus Torvalds will represent Group B. Each recipient will be recognized with a certificate of merit and a plaque. Each group will ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

  • Watergate II inevitable as cash floods election
    From Al Hunt, executive editor Washington at Bloomberg A prediction: The U.S. is due for a huge scandal involving big money, bribery and politicians. Not the small fry that dominates the ethics fights in Washington; really big stuff; think Watergate. His article seems to imply he knows far more than ...
  • Aargh, UK kills massive Severn tidal power plan
    And opts for nuclear instead, apparently
  • Countering the ideologues of the Two-Party State
    Poli-Tea effectively counters the tedious arguments against voting for third parties, such as “Monsters might win, be scared”, “I know we suck but the other side is suckier”, “You poor deluded idealistic fool”, “You’re wasting your vote”, and so on. Like, how is voting for a major party not wasting ...
  • CNG-powered cars from Russia
    This new line of compressed natural gas cars from Russia will transport 4 adults at up to 74 mpg getting 61 mpg.
  • Mercedes to lease 100 fuel cell cars in US
    A three-minute fill-up gives the Mercedes F-Cell hatchback a range of 250 miles. Now we just need many more hydrogen refueling stations and fuel cell cars could become popular.

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • How can I not blog when (#2)--
    ... Britain's $1.6 billion-worth of brand-new nuclear submarine runs aground off the coast of Scotland while testing its sonar! Just put this $1.6 billion figure together together with the sad facts of what I just blogged about Haiti , and you'll see how totally askew the priorities of the so-calle ...
  • How can I not blog when--
    140 of our neighbors in Haiti have now certifiedly died of cholera , and hundreds of thousands of Haitians also badly affected by last December's earthquakes are also threatened by it. And it is not the case that cholera has been "endemic" in Haiti at all, any time in recallable history. This is t ...
  • 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 ...

First Truths

  • What It Means to be Anti-War
    Libertarianism is described variously as the philosophy of liberty, as individualism, and as anti-collectivism, and while all of those designations are accurate I want to suggest that libertarianism is at first anti-war. Even after explaining that mine is a social philosophy that makes the complet ...
  • Time to Rescind the Social Contract
    Coverage of the pension crisis in France has made a habit of implicating the hallowed "social contract" that citizens supposedly enjoy the benefits of in that country. With the French strikes as a reference point, I argue that social contract theory, the idea of implicit consent, cannot justify the ...
  • Senate Candidate Paul, the Civil Rights Act, and L ...
    Media coverage of Rand Paul’s supposedly racist remarks regarding the Civil Rights Act demonstrates once again that the Left’s animus toward the Tea Party movement has nothing to do with genuine, principled advocacy for a free and open society or for concerns about civil liberties and race. Instea ...
  • The State Is...
    In the final decade of the nineteenth century, Benjamin Tucker published his essay The Individual, Society, and the State . His words advanced an early explication of the anarcho-capitalist theory of a competitive market for defense services, and in doing so provided a penetrating criticism of the ...
  • Corporate America, Libertarianism, and the Politic ...
    As I write, I’ve just finished reading an exciting and penetrative treatment of the often thrashed out relationship between Christianity (as both a theological and philosophical statement and a set of religious institutions) and matters of the state and social theory; in that piece, Jay Munroe arg ...

Media Co-Op

  • Harvard Law School: BC needs mining law reform
    Received this in my inbox today from an ally who used to work with the Takla First Nation. [At this link] is an important news item related to Takla's recent work done with Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic. It is follow-up to a report that says legal reform in B.C. is needed to ...
  • Indigenous Sovereignty Week in Ottawa Oct 27-Nov4
    Indigenous Voices Call for Justice, Self Determination and Revitalization FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Indigenous Voices Call for Justice, Self Determination and Revitalization Ottawa , (Unceded Algonquin Territory ), October 21, 2010 : From October ...
  • Activist Alex Hundert Re-arrested
    Community organizer Alex Hundert was arrested this morning at his surety’s home. He has been arrested on an unfounded allegation, and one clearly designed to return Hundert to prison. “I witnessed the alleged incident, and I’m confident that this charge is unfounded. It is a further attempt to sil ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • BUSTED! Food Magazine’s 6 Biggest Lies about Food ...
    This article, taken from Eating Well Magazine and reported by Shine on Yahoo, assures you that high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is no different than regular sugar, and that microwaved food is perfectly fine and unchanged, with no unwanted byproducts. But the truth is, nothing could be further from t ...
  • Good News – Evil Monsanto Finally Reaping Its Just ...
    Monsanto, the giant biotechnology agriculture company that created genetically modified corn, soybeans and herbicides, isn't riding so high this year in the stocks department, as news comes in that its products aren't working like they'd hoped. According to the New York Times , weeds are becoming i ...
  • What Has Better Protein than Meat, Fish, or Eggs?
    Ori Hofmekler, author of The Warrior Diet , is an expert on how to build muscle and improve your health with foods. In this interview, Ori shares his insights about whey protein – known as the gold standard of proteins. But as you will find out, not all whey products are created equal…
  • 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 ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Indonesian government admits its soldiers tortured ...
    The footage has caused widespread outrage and revulsion. © Survival The Indonesian government has admitted that the men seen torturing two Papuans in a video released on the internet this week are soldiers. The minister for security said the soldiers would be punished. An investigation into t ...
  • 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 ...

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.
  • 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?
  • All First Nations chiefs should tell us what they ...
    The Assembly of First Nations, which claims to speak for Canada's aboriginals, has chosen to oppose a plan requiring publication of pay figures for chiefs and band councillors. Nothing could symbolize more clearly the problem with native governance in Canada.
  • Canada will survive setback at the UN
    Environmentalists said the world was holding its nose over the Conservative government's greenhouse-gas policy. Others said various countries were punishing us for failing to sign a UN declaration on indigenous-peoples' rights. Others said Arab states rejected us because we support Israel th ...

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

  • Rampant Inflation In 2011? The Monetary Base Is Ex ...
    Are you ready for rampant inflation?  Well, unfortunately it looks like it might be headed our way.  The U.S. monetary base has absolutely exploded over the last couple of years, and all that money is starting to filter through into the hands of consumers.  Commodity prices are abso ...
  • California Is Broke – 19 Reasons Why It May ...
    Back in the 1960s and 1970s, there was a seemingly endless parade of pop songs about how great life was in California, and millions of young Americans dreamed of moving to the land of sandy beaches and golden sunshine.  But now all of that has changed.  Today, millions of California ...
  • The Proof Is In The Numbers: America Is Getting Po ...
    How in the world can anyone claim that things are getting better?  Sometimes the numbers are so clear that they simply cannot be denied.  According to the U.S. Census Bureau, median household income in the United States fell from $51,726 in 2008 to $50,221 in 2009.  That was the sec ...
  • 75 Ways That The Government And The Financial Elit ...
    The American people are experiencing financial death by a thousand cuts and most of them don't even realize it.  The U.S. government, state governments, local governments and the financial elite are draining us financially in dozens upon dozens of different ways, and yet we have bec ...
  • 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 ...

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The Talking Clock

  • Lord Monckton on Alex Jones, October 2010
    Just before we post this, we are not connected to Lord Monckton. Don't know him. Never met him. But we would buy him a pint if we did, or when we do...
  • Memo to British Armed Forces: Defend the National ...
    You know, sometimes mainstream news stories don't quite measure up to the promise they excitedly introduce themselves with in their preceding headline. Or do they? We were, at first, rather disappointed to discover that the Daily Telegraph's reference to a British "military revolt" was not - i ...
  • Wicked Whispers - Bilderberg and the EU-sceptics ( ...
    Thanks to forum members today posting links to the same blog post here at The Talking Clock, we would like to welcome visitors from DavidIcke.com and The Daily Bell to our humble little, patriotic libertarian abode. As a welcome 'gift', a little gift teaser to which - sadly - we will not give you ...
  • Sunday Paper Review: 24th October 2010
    Unsurprisingly, the Independent on Sunday is not alone in trawling through the latest Wikileaks revelations about U.S. conduct in Iraq. With 391,832 documents to examine, it could take time for news sources to dig out detail as yet unheard, but everything that we know from the latest batch of revela ...
  • Quote of the Day: '9/11 Food For Thought' edition
    "CNN is now reporting that there was a third explosion at the World Trade Center, probably an explosion from the ground that caused World Trade Center 1 to collapse on top of itself. Again there was a third explosion, it is unclear what caused it, whether it was a bomb or whether the first plane tha ...

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
    U.S. to Cut Aid to Pakistani Military Units Accused of Abuses The New York Times reports that the United States will withhold training and equipment from about half a dozen Pakistan Army units accused of killing unarmed prisoners and civilians … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Dell's 7-inch Android Based Tablet Will be Release ...
    Get ready for yet another Android based tablet. This one is from Dell. The first ever Android tablet was introduced by Samsung, like 2 weeks ago, and it is called Samsung Galaxy Tab . Galaxy Tab had impressive hardware specifications that rivals Apple's iPad and many even consider it as a better alt ...
  • Internet Explorer Market Share Below 50% For The F ...
    Internet Explorer has been in a steady downward spiral for years now and Microsoft is just not able to stop the decline. According to recent statistics from StatCounter, Internet Explorer might have dipped below 50% market share for the first time in 11 years. [image via firefox wallpapers ]Mic ...
  • Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" RC Comes Out With ...
    Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat release candidate is here and it's packed with a slew of new features. The amount of changes happening with Ubuntu lately is quite overwhelming. Here's a quick look through the�improvements�in the new Ubuntu 10.10 release candidate. Ubuntu Software Center ...
  • Sintel Open Movie Released and It's Absolutely Bea ...
    We have been talking about Sintel Open Movie for some time now. Sintel is Blender foundation's third open movie project after Elephants Dream and Big Buck Bunny which we featured in our 8 stunning Blender made movies post. Blender Foundation's Sintel Open Movie Project Sintel open movie p ...
  • Amarok Keeps Getting Better, Install Latest Amarok ...
    Amarok 2.0�received a lot of flak for its rather unstable and buggy early releases. But slowly but surely, Amarok 2.0 series is getting better. Latest Amarok 2.3.2 codenamed "Moonshine" was released like a week ago and I have to say, it's a job well done. The Amarok Story Amarok 1.4 series ...

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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