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Thomas Paine

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

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

26 October - RSS SnapShot! Part 1

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Tackling Climate Change Could Save Biodiversity
    A major change in the direction of economic development is essential to avoid the catastrophic unraveling of Earth's ecosystems that support all life, a new global analysis published in the journal Science revealed Tuesday.
  • JAMAICA: Trading Ecology for a Highway
    A construction project in Kingston's protected Palisadoes wetlands is pitting Jamaican environmentalists against the government in a showdown activists say will end up in the courts.
  • Portugal's Economy Headed Down a Dead-End Street?
    "They are a heartache," admitted Portugal's Prime Minister José Sócrates about the draconian economic measures his government approved in a bid -- with dubious effectiveness -- to calm the financial markets and recover lost credibility.
  • Cubans Queue Up for Copies of New Self-Employment ...
    "They brought me 100 copies, which sold out in less than half an hour," the vendor at one of the Cuban government's newsstands told IPS, referring to the nearly 100 pages of regulations published in the government gazette. The people queuing up "just about drove me crazy," he added.
  • U.S.: Guilty Plea for Child Fighter Averts "Public ...
    With tongue in cheek, constitutional experts congratulated the U.S. government Tuesday for negotiating a plea deal with Guantanamo prisoner Omar Khadr, thus avoiding a trial in the military commission "puppet theatre" of a defendant who was just 15 at the time of his offences.

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, a4�covered 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

  • Volcano follows tsunami in Indonesia
    Indonesia's most volatile volcano erupted yesterday, killing at least 18, just a day after a tsunami caused by an earthquake killed more than 100 people elsewhere in the country.
  • Soros gives $1m to cannabis campaign
    Billionaire financier George Soros has thrown his weight behind California's marijuana legalisation campaign with a $1m (£630,000) donation a week before the vote. The contribution is the single biggest donation from an individual other than Proposition 19's main sponsor, Oakland medical marijuana e ...
  • Tsunami kills 108 after Indonesian earthquake
    A tsunami that pounded remote islands in western Indonesia following an earthquake off the coast of Sumatra killed more than 100 people.
  • Arundhati Roy called a traitor for Kashmiri rights ...
    The Booker prize-winning writer Arundhati Roy has made a strident defence of comments she made over the disputed territory of Kashmir after the Indian government threatened to arrest her for sedition.
  • The hard place in the shadow of the rock
    Twenty-five years ago yesterday, thousands of people descended on a patch of red dirt in the Australian desert to witness a momentous event: the handing over of the title deeds to Ayers Rock, the sandstone monolith that towers over the pancake-flat landscape of central Australia, to its traditional ...

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

  • Device gives parents their child's eye view
    Yoko Ihara is watching her 5-year-old son Yoshinobu playing at a nursery in Tsukuba, Japan. She works full-time, and wonders how Yoshinobu gets on when they are apart. In this way, she's like many other mothers. Yet for the next five weeks, Ihara will gain insights into her child's life that few par ...
  • Storm Equivalent to Category 3 Hurricane Slams US ...
    The Midwestern US is being battered by heavy rain and strong winds by a storm some forecasters are comparing to a category three hurricane. Forecasters told residents of the state of Illinois to expect the most powerful storm to hit the region in over 70 years. Tornado warnings were issued across ...
  • Tsunami, Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions Strike ...
    Rescuers battled rough seas Tuesday to reach remote Indonesian islands pounded by a 10-foot tsunami that swept away homes, killing at least 113 people. Scores more were missing and information was only beginning to trickle in from the sparsely populated surfing destination, so casualties were expect ...
  • Indonesian tsunami kills 108, hundreds missing
    A tsunami that pounded remote islands in western Indonesia following an earthquake off the coast of Sumatra killed more than 100 people, officials said on Tuesday, and hundreds more were missing. The 7.5 magnitude quake hit 78 km west of South Pagai, one of the Mentawai islands, late on Monday. Loc ...
  • Bitter Taste Receptors Discovered on Human Lungs, ...
    Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore have found that the human lungs have bitter taste receptors much like those located in the mouth, which could lead to improved treatment of asthma and other lung diseases. Stephen B. Liggett, M.D., lead author of the study a ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • The Pope and Dalton McGuinty . . .
    The Pope and Dalton McGuinty are on the same stage in front of a huge crowd in Toronto .   The Pope leaned towards Mr. McGuinty and said, "Do you know that with one little movement of my hand I can make every person in this crowd go wild with joy?  This joy will not be a momentary display, but g ...
  • Words to live by
    "This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hate ...
  • And So It Begins . . . .
    The organized lynching of truth-telling by way of FoxNoise, of course. From The Guardian this morning: A Fox News contributor and former state department adviser has accused WikiLeaks of conducting "political warfare against the US" and called for those behind the whistleblowing website to be decl ...
  • Keef’s Guitar Workshop . . .
    THE NYTIMES has a great article by Janet Maslin, "Keith Richards Has Memories to Burn" . It's an interview with Keith and his collaborator about "Life" , Keith's auto-biography/memoir,  just published by Little, Brown & Company. His collaborator, James Fox, wrote the delightful "White Mischief" , so ...
  • Conservatives and refugees: punishing them for bei ...
    This, via BCL fucking inflames me this morning. In August, QMI Agency reported on a secret government survey that showed that many Tamils who came to Canada claiming that their lives were in danger in their native Sri Lanka subsequently returned safely to that country. They would then come back ...

Media Matters for America

  • Attack on MoveOn worker is just the latest example ...
    In the wake of the attack on a MoveOn.org worker apparently by supporters of Kentucky Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul, Media Matters provides a list of some of the right-wing violence and attacks on progressives that have occurred in the past year. MoveOn worker attacked at Rand Paul rally M ...
  • Fox News reports as fact a blogger's made-up attac ...
    One of Fox News' purportedly objective news programs reported�the false claim that�Mi Familia Vota submitted 3,000 "shady"�voter registrations�at the "last minute"�in Arizona�to benefit the Democratic Party.�The fake story�originated from an Arizona blogger who has a history of making questionable ...
  • Beck: "I'm not telling you who to vote for" (wink ...
    Despite repeatedly saying he does not endorse candidates and isn't "telling you who to vote for," Beck has made clear to his audience which candidates he thinks they should support or oppose in the upcoming midterm elections. Beck claims: "I'm not telling you who to vote for" Beck repeatedly ...
  • Beck and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones are two of ...
    Fox News' Glenn Beck increasingly echoes the theories and conclusions of Alex Jones, a fringe conspiracy theorist and host of a daily radio show promoting those theories. These include belief in the imposition of a "new world order" and global government, opposition to the Federal Reserve, and atta ...
  • Déjà vu: Right-wing media absurdly ...
    Right-wing media figures have seized on a� Wired� article about the classified�Iraq war�documents recently released by WikiLeaks.com to desperately claim "Bush was right" that Saddam Hussein had a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).�In fact, the� Wired �article reported the docume ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Litmus Test For GOP House Jobs Requires Admiring A ...
    Sam Stein in the Huffington Post reports today that the Republican Study Committtee is "strongly" encouraging applicants for jobs in GOP offices to first pass a litmus test devised by the Heritage Foundation. In an email passed to the Huffington Post by a congressional Democratic aide, Jonathan ...
  • Leaders on Political Right & Left Should Sign on t ...
    Former US Senator Chuck Hagel -- now teaching students chosen by lottery for his classes over at Georgetown University and of course Co-Chairman of President Obama's Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board as well as Chairman of the Atlantic Council -- has written an elegant reminder of what electe ...
  • November for New START?
    When Congress returns to work after the November 2nd elections, it is imperative that it consider and ratify the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). To do otherwise would jeopardize the possibility of progress on a wide range of issues, from global nuclear arms reductions to U.S.-Russi ...
  • Krugman: The Narcissism Of Small Differences
    Academic fights are so vicious, they say, because the stakes are so small. The narcissism of small differences, Freud said. But at times the stakes can be big, and the fighters can think they are still in the faculty club. It is a week before the congressional elections, Barack Obama is talking hims ...
  • Washington Post Reverts to Truth-Dodging: 'Blame t ...
    They're ba-a-ack! Now that America's wealth "is more concentrated in fewer hands than it's been in 80 years" and "the top one-tenth of one percent of Americans... earn as much as the bottom 120 million" (as Bob Reich put it here below) conservative opinionators are doing just what they did about it ...

TruthOut

  • Hacking Harry Reid (or Sharron's Angle)
    Sharron Angle should start filing the lawsuits right now. Then again, so should Harry Reid. However, it might be a bit more difficult politically for the Senate majority leader, given the undeserved support Reid has shown in the past for Nevada's 100 percent unverifiable, error-prone, hackable, ille ...
  • Why France Matters Here, Too
    For many weeks now, the historic social change sweeping across France has drawn increasing attention globally. It should. A genuine, mass democratic upsurge has surprised all those who thought, hoped, or feared that such things could no longer happen in countries like France or the US. Millions o ...
  • Farewell Mon Amour: Prospects on Democracy's Elect ...
    Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest: indeed, this very pursuit now constitutes whatever remains of our sense of collective purpose. We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth. ...
  • WikiLeaks Ready to Drop a Bombshell on Russia. But ...
    Moscow - The Kremlin had better brace itself for a coming wave of WikiLeaks disclosures about Russia, the website's founder, Julian Assange , told a leading Moscow newspaper Tuesday. "We have [compromising materials] about Russia, about your government and businessmen," Mr. Assange told the pro-gov ...
  • WikiLeaks and Assange Honored
    Consortium News's  Editor’s Note: WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange have received the 2010 Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence award for releasing secret U.S. military reports on the Iraq and Afghan wars. The award from the group – named after legendary CIA analyst Sam Adams – ...

Planetsave

  • 2010 Election Ads: Environmental Leaders and Failu ...
    Timothy Hurst of ecopolitology and I went on a thorough search for the best and worst campaign ads of 2010 (as concerns the environment) recently. In other words, we compiled the best “pro-environment” ads and the most ridiculous “anti-environment” ads of the 2010 election season. If you are interes ...
  • Warming Planet Affecting Storms Differently by Hem ...
    Global warming will have a varying effect on weather systems depending on which hemisphere they are in, according to new research from MIT’s Paul O’Gorman, who found that the warming of the planet will affect the availability of energy to fuel large-scale weather systems that occur at Earth’s middle ...
  • Homemade Solar Panels | Build Solar Panels | How t ...
    Benefits of Homemade Solar Panels Homemade solar panels are a popular option for a lot of people because: you can cut out the middle-man, the installer, potentially saving a ton of money; learning how to build solar panels is fun and empowering; who wouldn’t like to say, “Yeah, I built those;” you g ...
  • Small-Town Kansas is Skeptical of Global Warming, ...
    Fight global warming – just don’t mention it Sometimes the best way to fight global warming is to never mention it. And most especially don’t mention Al Gore.  The fact is, global warming (and Al Gore) have been very effectively used as a wedge, dividing generally reasonable people across a politic ...
  • Shipping Through Warming Arctic Will Hasten Global ...
    The ice that has bound the Arctic together is diminishing each passing summer, and open water is becoming available for the first time in recorded history. Shipping companies are already planning and executing passes through the ice to minimize their costs, but at what cost to the environment? A new ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • The WikiLeaks documents and the rape of Iraq - Ira ...
    26 October 2010 The nearly 400,000 documents released by WikiLeaks give some indication of the barbaric reality of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. The military reports contain ample evidence of war crimes, for which the highest levels of the US military and political establishment are re ...
  • New species discovered in the Amazon include a bal ...
    New species discovered in the Amazon every three days Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent October 26, 2010 More than 1,200 species have been discovered in the Amazon over the past decade, including giant snakes, colourful frogs and tiger-striped tarantulas, according to the WWF. A ...
  • What a scientist didn't tell the New York Times ab ...
    FORTUNE -- Few ecological disasters have been as confounding as the massive and devastating die-off of the world's honeybees. The phenomenon of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) -- in which disoriented honeybees die far from their hives -- has kept scientists, beekeepers, and regulators desperately see ...
  • Bees' tiny brains beat computers, study finds - Wo ...
    Bees can solve complex mathematical problems which keep computers busy for days, research has showN Researchers found that bees could solve the 'travelling salesman's' shortest route problem, despite having a brain the size of a grass seed. Photograph: Rex Features   Bees can solv ...
  • 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 ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • There's lots of money to be made in anti-Muslim bi ...
    The Tennessean has committed a real act of investigative journalism and followed the money by investigating the tax practices of rabid anti-Islamic pundit Steve Emerson, who founded the non-profit influential Investigative Project on Terrorism Foundation, which rakes in millions of dollars every yea ...
  • miscellany
    cross-posted at skippy despite $1m in attack ads against her, dem candidate is tied w/gop in a florida deep red district michelle malkin's accusations of massiv voter fraud in arizona turn out to be...wait for it... baseless meg whitman endorses jerry brown let the right-wing heads a'sploding begin: ...
  • Corporate Oligarchy Thinks Country Belongs to Them
    If you want a preview of the corrupting influence that unlimited Big Money can have on American elections just look at how it's already ruined the integrity of prominent conservative intellectuals. It's not often that the liberal New Republic and the conservative Weekly Standard are of one mind. But ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Wow. Bob Dudley has achieved what we thought impossible...he makes us miss Tony Hayward. "BP's new chief executive said on Monday that its rivals and the media had helped cause a climate of fear during the summer when the oil giant's blown-out Gulf of Mexico well caused the worst ever oil spill in t ...
  • blogging around
    cross-posted at skippy fed regulators are finally looking into the foreclosure mess less cowbell: �southeastern conference to penalize mississippi state for noise violations at games ousted repubbb fesses up: � gop using racism to tar obama "mean" jean schmidt talks about abortion to first graders ...

Care 2

  • Growing China Worries Neighbours
    China�s imperious behaviour in recent territorial spats with its edgy neighbours has touched a raw nerve. Anxiety about its intentions and the future outlook loom large as leaders of the 16-nation East Asia Summit gather this weekend in Hanoi to discuss Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �No ...
  • ACTION ALERT: Stop The Pollution of Our Air!!! ...
    Coal powerplants emit tons of harmful gases and materials like lead,mercury and carbon dioxide each year into our atmosphere. Submitted by Simone D. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Yemen's capital 'will run out of water by 2025'
    Water shortages in Yemen will squeeze agriculture to such an extent that 750,000 jobs could disappear and incomes could drop by a quarter within a decade, according to a report. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: Tell Banks to Stop Investing in Moun ...
    Mining companies clearcut native forests and blow off mountaintops with explosives to uncover thin seams of coal, then dump millions of tons of the waste rock into the valleys below, permanently burying and polluting streams Submitted by Simone D. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Voting for Republican's this election?
    Will Republicans sweep back into power in Washington this election? People should educate themselves regarding those they put into positions of power. The truth will not be kept silent. Your freedom is at stake, Corporatists are Fascists. Submitted by John Cause to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Algorithms and red wine: Is the “digital hive” a s ...
    Ferrara, Italy | Sitting in a bottliberia, one of those wine bars that brings out food to match your particular choice of wine, mystified by the table setting. What was that tiny baby spoon for? Cappuccino surely, at some point, but why no big spoon to go with the knife and fork? The things a rednec ...
  • Angry Leftists ‘Man Up’ Against Scapegoating – De ...
    Berkeley, CA: “Is this open season on leftists for having opinions, especially when correct?” fires off a new progressive group: “We’re this season’s real piñata, smeared by Tea Party red-baiting, ridiculed by the president for thinking world peace should start or the Pentagon end, and lately chided ...
  • Walmart "helps" "inform" employees
    A Walmart employee sent me a link to a website called “ Walmart Community Votes ,” which allegedly exists to help inform employees about political candidates. This employee drew my attention to a specific page that really doesn’t do much to inform. Really, it appears to exist to propagandize on beha ...
  • Socialism? What a Joke! The Rich Are Winning the U ...
    Socialism? What a Joke! The rich and their paid false prophets are doing a bang up job deceiving the poor and middle class. They have convinced many that an evil socialism is alive in the land and it is taking their fair share. But the deception cannot last - facts say otherwise. Yes, there is a cla ...
  • Should NPR Have Fired Juan Williams? You Betcha
    Was National Public Radio correct to fire Juan Williams, their National News Analyst, for saying , "...when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they're identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous"? ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Tuesday With Hot News * Open Thread
    Sweet Mama! The Loathsome Alan Grayson Is Down in the Polls … HOT! Ethics Foundation Calls For Investigation of Barbara Boxer … But Fiorina Is In the Hospital … “The Despicable Alan Grayson” is what Larry Johnson called him in a recent post. “Despicable” works for me. And the best news is that [. ...
  • Anecdote Nevada Tea
    � The anecdote is that Harry Reid has an excellent ground game (GOTV) and that Nevada is a good place to manufacture Democratic votes. The anecdote is that the Republican vote is running heavily ahead of the Democratic vote in balloting by mail. � The anecdote is that the Obama team is preparing ...
  • The HAMP Foreclosure Rap
    Process matters — if results matter. Our government designed HAMP (Home Affordable Modification Program) with three fatal flaws (features?) for homeowners: Bank were not required to participate. Banks were paid fees for homeowners entering into the modification process, without ever having to actua ...
  • Blue Monday Night Open Thread
    Is Monday a blue day for you? It sure has been for me too many Mondays in my long, long decades of working for a living … Charlie Cook is prognosticating … My Computer Is Giving Me More Grey Hair … Poor Bill Clinton, Trying Mightily to Help the Sinking Dems, Can’t Even Attract A [...]
  • Obama Administration Fights To Keep DADT (And Appe ...
    By now, I am sure most of you have heard about the ruling by a federal judge in California, Virginia A. Phillips, that DADT is unconstitutional. The Republican group, Log Cabin Republicans, brought this suit. According to Jake Tapper’s report, the judge ruled that: “Defendants faced the burden at ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Amazing Mushroom Macros
    Mushrooms have never looked as good as in these close-ups of our fungal world. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Starbucks' Contribution To Sustainability
    Starbucks is growing its contributions to help raise awareness and make actual positive changes to the environment. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Study Proves Men Are Animals When Seeing Red
    We all know that red means love in most languages, but did you know that men really are more attracted to women who wear red? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Sedlec Ossuary: The Grim Church Built with the Bon ...
    The Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic is one of a kind. Nowhere in the world can one worship and pray amongst the bones of 70,000 people. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 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

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • On Our Radar: A Panda Baby Boom
    Nineteen pandas were born in captivity in China this year, bringing the total captive-bred population there to around 300.
  • Taking a Spin in the Volt and the Leaf
    The cars' different weight distribution may be a significant factor in the handling dynamics.
  • And the Winner Is ... a Very Frugal Dorm
    A residence hall at the University of North Carolina places first in a competition sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce buildings' energy consumption.
  • In Yemen, Water Grows Scarcer
    Increasingly sharp water shortages could cost Yemen 750,000 jobs and slash incomes by as much 25 percent over the next decade, warns a new report on the increasingly troubled Middle Eastern nation.
  • Is Energy Efficiency Blue, Red or Both?
    A new scorecard indicates that the top 10 energy-efficient states voted Democratic in the last presidential election. The bottom 10 voted Republican.

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

  • The FIX: Let No Crisis Go To Waste
    The deficit is a ruse.  First, this deficit was created by the Republicans over the last ten years—Yes, ten years.  They used the war to create an endless pit and spent like crazy with the bulk of the money going to their friends.  Then they used the last two years to prevent anyone from doing [...]
  • Heathens Hold the Line as Californians Reject Corp ...
    Michael Collins The corporate takeover of California is on hold according to the latest polls out of the nation’s largest state. Just nine days before the election, the Los Angeles Times and University of Southern California poll shows a nearly impossible uphill battle for the big business ticket of ...
  • I attended a Conservative 9/11 event with “US wars ...
    source: Carl Herman at Examiner.com This article series explains what happened when I interacted with participants of a 9/11 event to welcome home US soldiers and honor the victims of 9/11, then provides the e-mail exchange with the sponsoring group’s leadership. Consistent with my last two years of ...
  • 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 ...

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Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

  • IOT: Stop Global Warming – Environment Issu ...
    At the October 20, 2010 meeting of the PDA Stop Global Warming/Environmental Issues Organizing Team, we heard from special guests Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel from the Million Letter March. The meeting included updates on ...
  • IOT: Stop Global Warming – Environment Issu ...
    At the July 21 meeting of the Stop Global Warming/Environmental IOT, we heard a report on the June BBLVs and the citizens’ lobbying effort, updates on climate/energy legislation, the PDA Annual conference in Cleveland in ...
  • IOT: Stop Global Warming – Environment Issu ...
    At the June 16 meeting of the Stop Global Warming/Environmental IOT, we heard from Danna Moore of Future 500 and voted to endorse the principles put forth to get businesses involved in the support of ...
  • 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 ...

Marler Blog

  • Wright County Egg Sued by Three-year-old Hospitali ...
    We filed another lawsuit today against Wright County Egg in Federal Court in Iowa. This time on behalf of J.T. On or about July 7, 2010, the minor plaintiff, J.T., began to suffer from severe fevers, including abdominal cramps, nausea, diarrhea and vomiting. J.T. continued to be ill with gastroint ...
  • The face of E. coli O157:H7 and Hemolytic Uremic S ...
    The Greene County Daily World reports that Bailey and Abby Stahl, the 13-month-old twin daughters of Chris and Nicole Stahl of rural Bloomfield, have been patients at Riley Children's Hospital for about two weeks. The twins suffer from hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a disease that destroys red bl ...
  • Should Estrella Family Creamery be treated differe ...
    Yesterday I hammered away on what seems to me to be Estrella Family Creamery’s inconsistent position between fetal death by abortion and the possibility of fetal death by Listeria. Some of the commentators see that as being unfair given that there are no reported fetal or other deaths linked to Est ...
  • What the Hell Does Listeria in Cheese have to do w ...
    A few facts first:  Listeria can cause fever, headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. Healthy individuals may experience only short-term symptoms but those with weakened immune systems, including young children and frail or elderly people, are particularly at risk. Listeria infe ...
  • Rock Island-Milan Education Foundation Receives $2 ...
    From a Press Release from Rock Island High School:  A new scholarship is being offered to students at Rock Island High School who are interested in pursuing a college degree in a science field. Seattle-based food safety law firm Marler Clark made a $25,000 contribution to the Rock Island-Milan Educa ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 10.26.10
    Vegan Juice: PETA to advertise on EV charging stations? Consumer crossover nirvana or not? San Francisco's green taxi fleet and how it got there Thanks to one determined cabbie. ...
  • EPA issues first-ever fuel efficiency and emission ...
    Filed under: Truck , Government/Legal , Work , Specialty , Diesel As expected , the EPA has released its first-ever proposal for greenhouse gas and fuel efficiency standards for heavy-duty vehicles. The proposal, and that's all it is at this point, would create three new categories for heavy truc ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 10.25.10
    Second Drive: 2011 Nissan Leaf - Some things you probably didn't know More tidbits than you can shake a battery pack at. CARB rules the Chevy Volt is a ULEV, emits more* than Prius or Jetta TDI ...
  • 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 ...

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!

  • TONIGHT: Amy Goodman on CNN's John King USA
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King USA on Tuesday, October 26 at 7pm ET.
  • 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 ...

Farming Pathogens

  • We Can Think Ourselves into a Plague
    The power of the mind is a New Age staple. But, really, can I concentrate enough to levitate myself (much less get my laundry done today)? The materialist answers, funny you mention it, but, yeah, you can. A few minds thought through the ideas that produced the airplane and perhaps soon enough the p ...
  • 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 actively ...
  • 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

Suzie-Q

  • Wikileaks: Top Brass warns of putting troops & civ ...
    Wikileaks recieved excellent coverage on CNN last night, including inteviews with Daniel Elsberg, Pentagon Papers, John Sloboda, the Iraq Body Count’s co-founder, and Phil Shiner of the U.K.-based Public Interest Lawyers. John Sloboda, the Iraq Body Count’s co-founder, told reporters that the names ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Foreclosure and Mortgage Fraud
    Continue reading the article . . .
  • ‪What in the World are They Spraying?‬
    I just finished watching Edward Griffin, Mike Murphy and Paul Wittenberger’s new documentary “What in the World Are They Spraying?” It is terrific. âªOfficial Trailer⬠Buy the DVD: The Chemtrail/Geo-Engineering Coverup Produced by G. Edward Griffin, Michael Murphy, and Paul Wittenberger Interview ...
  • Lawsuit Alleges that MERS Owes California $60-120 ...
    Former hedge fund manager Shah Gilani notes: In creating MERS, these institutions actually changed the land-title system that this country - for much of its history - has relied upon to determine legal ownership status of land titleholders. Not only did the lenders sidestep (read that to mean avoid ...
  • Chinese Point of View
    Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us….First, China does not export revolution; second it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say? Xi Jinping, Vice President and heir apparent ...
  • One Mess That Can’t Be Papered Over
    By Gretchen Morgenson Lawyers representing delinquent homeowners have been shouting for years about documentation problems in residential mortgages. Now that their complaints have gained traction with investors, attorneys general and some state court officials, the question of consequences looms lar ...

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

  • Will the Taliban Give us a Taste of Armageddon?
    Summary: Many comparisons have been made between the War on Terror, AKA “The Long War”, and Vietnam. Needless to say, our leaders prefer to think about happy counterinsurgencies, like the Philippines, Malaysia, and… the Philippines. Since fantasy is so much more appealing than reality (and makes for ...
  • Killing the leaders of our enemy. Is this the fast ...
    Summary:  To compel the Taliban’s leaders to negotiate US forces (and the CIA) have begun intense efforts to kill them.  While superfically logical, have they research to suggest that it will work?  The long history of such programs suggests the odds of success are low.  Also, what of the danger ...
  • 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Tariq Aziz, Iraqi ex-minister, sentenced to death
    BBC – Tariq Aziz, for many years the international face of Iraq under Saddam Hussein, has been sentenced to death by the Iraqi Supreme Court. He was convicted in connection with the persecution of religious parties, a statement said. Aziz, 74, served as foreign minister and deputy prime minister and ...
  • German report reveals war-time diplomats’ ‘Nazi ro ...
    BBC – Germany’s diplomats were more deeply involved in the Holocaust than previously known, according to an official German government report.The government is considering making the 900-page text mandatory reading for all its diplomats. The report was commissioned in 2005 after it emerged that flat ...
  • Humiliate, strip, threaten: UK military interrogat ...
    Guardian – The British military has been training interrogators in techniques that include threats, sensory deprivation and enforced nakedness in an apparent breach of the Geneva conventions, the Guardian has discovered. Training materials drawn up secretly in recent years tell interrogators they sh ...
  • Pregnancy Outcome Affected by Immune System Genes
    ScienceDaily — A team of researchers, led by Ashley Moffett, at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, has shed new light on genetic factors that increase susceptibility to and provide protection from common disorders of pregnancy, specifically recurrent miscarriage, preeclampsia, and fetal gr ...
  • Blood type O may be barrier to having baby
    Daily Telegraph – Women with blood type O could have more trouble conceiving as they age, an American survey claims. The study is the first to suggest that a woman’s blood group could influence her chances of getting pregnant. Researchers who tested a group of women seeking fertility treatment found ...

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

  • Are signs of 2012 galactic alignment evident now?
    In the recent past we have experienced a spike in the number of earthquakes, floods, droughts, sink holes, and other natural disasters. The tsunami that killed almost a quarter of a million people in the Indian Ocean; the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile that were record breaking; and the many floods ...
  • What They Don’t Tell You About Storable Foods
    Today's headlines scream from every sector "get your food NOW!" We are barraged by news of an economic meltdown, natural and manmade disasters and a system that's ready to implode globally. Advertising from survival food retailers impress that if you haven't purchased everything yesterday, you've mi ...
  • Video: The Federal Reserve is a Ponzi Scheme, Loot ...
    The Federal Reserve — the quasi-autonomous body that controls the US money supply — is a Ponzi scheme that created bubble after bubble in the US economy and needs to be held accountable for its actions, says Eliot Spitzer, the former governor and attorney-general of New York.
  • False Flag Terror – The Occult Connections
    William Ramsey looks at the entire sequence of the bombing events of the last decade and decodes the occult connections.
  • Israel is the most immediate threat to the future ...
    I’ve conducted a new interview with the American pro-Palestinian journalist and activist Jeffrey Blankfort. We discussed a variety of issues including the influence of Israeli lobby on the decision-makers of the U.S. government, Israel’s illegal, underground nuclear program, the prospect of Israe ...

Andy Worthington

  • The Betrayal of Omar Khadr – and of American Justi ...
    Yesterday morning, wearing a dark suit, a white shirt and a dark tie, Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen who was just 15 years old when he was seized after a firefight in Afghanistan in July 2002, ended an eight-year struggle — first by the Bush administration, and then by the Obama administration — t ...
  • No Justice for Omar Khadr at Guantánamo
    Exactly two years ago, when I began writing a weekly column for the Future of Freedom Foundation on Guantánamo, torture and other crimes and abuses committed as part of the Bush administration’s “War on Terror,” I focused on the story of Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen who was just 15 years old whe ...
  • Wikileaks’ Julian Assange Accepts Intelligence Exp ...
    On Saturday, during the press conference announcing Wikileaks’ release of nearly 400,000 classified US military field documents relating to the war in Iraq, Craig Murray, the human rights activist and former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, accompanied by Daniel Ellsberg (the Pentagon Papers whistl ...
  • “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week: Day Six – Educ ...
    Getting up at the crack of dawn to visit a high school to discuss Guantánamo could hardly have been a less appealing idea after the exhausting events of the day before — four radio interviews, and a forum on torture — and the cumulative effects of five days of speaking and campaigning as part of [. ...
  • How Paul Wolfowitz Authorized Human Experimentatio ...
    Last week, Truthout published an important article by Jason Leopold, Truthout’s Deputy Managing Editor, and psychologist and blogger Jeffrey Kaye, revealing, for the first time, a secret memorandum dated March 25, 2002, approved by deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz, which authorized human expe ...

Environment _ National Geographic

  • Did Gulf Spill Boost "Dead Zone"?
    Did the BP oil spill sap oxygen from the Gulf of Mexico? Scientists are weighing new findings against years of "dead zone" data. Video
  • 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.

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

  • JDL Leader’s Shooting Trial to Resume Next Month i ...
    Was it road rage or self defense? Or maybe even a politically motivated act of violence? That’s what a jury will decide when the trial of Jewish Defense League organizer Carl Mintz begins on Oct. 14. Mintz, 27, a state chapter organizer for the JDL in Michigan, is charged in the shooting of a 20-yea ...
  • The British (Extremists) Are Coming — Or, the Engl ...
    Saturday’s 9/11 protest in downtown Manhattan featured the by-now-familiar chants and symbols of the debate over the so-called Ground Zero mosque. But amid the sea of red, white and blue, there were a few new icons added to the usual mix. As featured in a series of pictures posted Wednesday by the N ...
  • Founding Fathers on Facebook Hijacked by the Radic ...
    The Founding Fathers as white racist poster boys? Do a Facebook page search of the name Thomas Jefferson, and the very first listing that will appear is Thomas Jefferson â American. You can click to join 11,753 people who âlikeâ the page. Well, congratulations. You just signed onto fan pages sponsor ...
  • New Report Examines ‘Tea Party Nationalism,& ...
    Back in July, the NAACP publicly called upon Tea Party leaders to repudiate extremists and racist individuals within their ranks. Although the presence of such elements in Tea Party circles had been evident for some time, movement figures tended to be dismissive and defensive in their response. Such ...
  • Little Pulaski, Tenn., to Suffer Through Another R ...
    Although it’s a small town of about 7,800, Pulaski, Tenn. may well be the white supremacist epicenter of the nation — at least if the number of rallies held there by bigoted groups is any indication. The mayor and other residents aren’t pleased. “There’s never been a local person involved in these m ...

change: org.

  • Pittsburgh Pet Store Becomes Latest Convert to the ...
    A Petland franchise store in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has decided not to support commercial breeders anymore. When the five purebred puppies and three designer dogs who were in the store earlier this week are sold out, they're turning over their inventory into  ASAP: Animal Shelter Adoption Program ...
  • Who Suffers From the "Motherhood Penalty"?
    New research on the "motherhood penalty" confirms that when poorer women have children, their careers suffer more than their wealthy counterparts'. While studies have previously confirmed that women's wages and careers suffer when they have children, a new study by sociologists Michelle J. Budig and ...
  • Will Baseball End Its Love Affair with Smokeless T ...
    The World Series starts tomorrow and despite the big unknowns surrounding the game --will the San Francisco Giants or the Texas Rangers take it?--one thing is a sure bet: a wad of chew. It's been there throughout the playoffs. San Francisco Giant Pat Burrell regularly walks to bat with his lip protr ...
  • 3 Candy Makers that Aim to Eliminate Child Labor
    "Candy's Dark Side" is a Change.org series that looks at the health, ethical, and environmental costs of producing Halloween treats. For more installments in this series, click here . Chocolate may taste all sugary and delicious, but the treat's production ain't always so sweet . Some cocoa gets sp ...
  • Arkansas School Board Member Says Gay Students Sho ...
    It's scary to think that a person who believes gay kids deserve suicide has a position of power within a school district. But sure enough, Clint McCance is a school board member at Midland School District in Arkansas. And he has some absolutely troubling and disturbing views when it comes to homosex ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Despite Heavy Oil, Louisiana Keeps Fisheries Open
    by Dahr Jamail NEW ORLEANS - Massive slicks of weathered oil were clearly visible near Louisiana's fragile marshlands in both the East and West Bays of the Mississippi River Delta during an overflight that included an IPS reporter on Oct. 23. The problem is that, despite this, the Louisiana Departme ...
  • Coming Soon to America: Big Push for Austerity
    by Roger Bybee While big crusades for austerity—reserved for workers only, of course—are being waged in France and Great Britain, working people in the United States can also look forward to a major push for cutbacks in social spending and a longer wait before retirement. read more
  • Blue Plaque for Lennon-Ono 'Two Virgins' Home
    Yoko Ono, the widow of the Beatles star John Lennon, has unveiled an English Heritage blue plaque at the first home the couple shared in London. The pair occupied the basement and ground floor of the property at 34 Montagu Square in Marylebone in 1968. During their stay a nude photograph of the coup ...
  • Health Workers Scramble to Keep Cholera Out of Hai ...
    by Ansel Herz PORT-AU-PRINCE  - Some 1.3 million people have lived in makeshift camps throughout Port-au-Prince since the January earthquake devastated the city. Living conditions are "appalling", according a recent report by Refugees International. But one bright spot of the multi-billion-dollar re ...
  • Sparks Fly on Climate Change as Californians Oppos ...
    by Huma Khan In an election cycle filled with fighting words on climate change, a ballot measure in California could set the precedent for the rest of the country and give a needed boost to Democrats who have unsuccessfully tried to pass a comprehensive energy bill. Proposition 23 would suspend Cali ...

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

  • PPP won't address water crisis, contrary to ADB cl ...
    IBON Network | Water for the People Network | 15 October 2010 | The experience of countries around the world that have implemented water privatization shows that public-private partnership (PPP) has even worsened the problem.
  • Group urges UN to probe conversion of food baskets ...
    The fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) had sent a letter of appeal to Mr. Olivier de Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food to investigate what it called an indiscriminate and wanton destruction of major food sources in the count ...
  • INAC's EBulletin
    News-related items such as news releases, background information and speeches on current and historical matters relevant to Aboriginal people and Northerners from the Indian and Northern Affairs Canada Web site.
  • 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 ...

Guardian

  • British forces exposed over Afghanistan attacks
    Exclusive: Ministry of Defence releases documents linking three military units to bulk of civilian casualties The conduct of three British military units in Afghanistan came under serious question tonight after the Ministry of Defence released unprecedented details of incidents in which troops attac ...
  • No frills but big bills for 'easyCouncil'
    London borough of Barnet's 'no-frills' council spends more than it saves in botched efficiency drive It was billed as Britain's first "easyCouncil" , a flagship for the government's town hall spending cuts and a model of no-frills prudence. But it has emerged that the London borough of Barnet is spe ...
  • Economy back on track – Osborne
    GDP grew by 0.8% in last quarter, driven by construction sector, and ratings agency confirms UK's credit status Britain's economy grew twice as fast as expected over the summer, providing a boost for George Osborne as he fights Labour warnings that the coalition is jeopardising growth with the the m ...
  • Arizona execution on hold over drug
    Judge blocks lethal injection of Jeffrey Landrigan because would-be executioners will not disclose source of anaesthetic A US court has blocked the execution of a man in Arizona after the state refused to reveal how it illicitly obtained one of the drugs to be used in the death chamber from a Britis ...
  • Swiss deal could mean £40bn lost tax
    �� Agreement was hailed as giving exchequer £1bn �� Swiss can conceal names and block UK inquiries Wealthy Britons could dodge £40bn in tax payments after the UK agreed ahead of negotiations on a tax deal with Switzerland that the country could maintain its traditional banking secrecy. Thousands of ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Obstacles to nature protection emerge as stakes ri ...
    � From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting in Nagoya: It's fair to say there's a deal of concern here that what emerges at the end of this fornight's meeting could amount to less than it was supposed to. � Mind you, it was supposed to amount to quite a bit - a pretty comprehens ...
  • 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 ...

The Wonk Room

  • Wisconsin’s Lt. Governor Candidate Calls Sam ...
    Marc Felion of FeastForFun.com catches Wisconsin’s Lt. Governor candidate Rebecca Kleefisch in an unusual explanation for why gays and lesbians should be denied the right to marry. “We just don’t have the money to be giving out for extra benefits right now,” Kleefisch told WITI-TV’s ‘Real Milwaukee’ ...
  • On Univision, Marco Rubio Says He Prefers The Term ...
    In an interview with Univision, senatorial candidate and son of Cuban immigrants, Marco Rubio (R-FL) told the Spanish language network that he doesn’t like to use the term “illegal” and prefers “undocumented” when talking about immigrants in the U.S. without papers: UNIVISION: Is there a difference ...
  • Toomey Only Able To Name One Thing He Would Cut Fr ...
    Deficit fraud Pat Toomey, who is running for the Senate on the Republican ticket in Pennsylvania, has already made it abundantly clear that he has no real interest in tackling the country’s budget deficit. After all, his main policy ideas — extending the Bush tax cuts and repealing the Affordable Ca ...
  • Gibbs Won’t Say If Obama Is Willing To Use S ...
    White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs refused to say whether President Obama would be willing to use his stop-loss authority to end discharges under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell should Congress fail to repeal the policy, telling the Advocate’s Kerry Eleveld “our efforts in the short term will be focused ...
  • CT Fox Affiliate Pulls ‘Unsubstantiated&#821 ...
    Greg Sargent points out that FOX CT, a local Fox affiliate in Connecticut, has pulled an ad bankrolled by undisclosed donors to the American Action Network. “The group has sunk at least $445,000 into attacking Rep. Chris Murphy (D-CT), who is running for reelection in a tough district against Republ ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • High Levels of Unemployment is a Bad Thing
    short n' simple : Why should governments care, above all else, about keeping unemployment down and ensuring that the greatest number of people get a fair share of the economic pie? Because if you don't, bad things happen. There.
  • Two Important Essays
    I don't have time to say much today, but these two essays are important for where I want my future thinking and action to go so I'm posting them here for my own, and others' future reference: (Please Don't) Bomb the Suburbs and Risks in an Anti-Austerity Focus
  • Financialization Again
    Just putting a bug in people's ears. I agree with the folks at Monthly Review who explain that the phenomenon of the financialization of the economy is a response to the declining rate of profit in practical economic activity in the developed countries, and that it isn't a policy decision that can b ...
  • Toronto and Hamilton City Election Results
    Well, I live in Toronto now, so I'm forced to live under Mayor Rob Ford. Two things: 1. As a city of 2.5 million people, Toronto passed the critical mass necessary for poverty and administrative incompetence to become major sources of major destabilization and social breakdown. I'm genuinely worri ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • The Vatican Concerned About Intellectual Property
    Last year, we noted that in one of the Pope's speeches, he had expressed concerns about how intellectual property laws were being used to hurt economic development and hold back things like medicines. It appears the Vatican has continued to study this subject. Jamie Love points us to a speech give ...
  • Content Is Advertising: Making Music Videos More A ...
    We often talk about the importance of recognizing that good content acts as advertising and that good advertising is no different than good content (such that people want to seek it out). And that's definitely true of the concept of music videos. They've always basically been "advertising" for the ...
  • The Revolution Will Be Distributed: Wikileaks, Ano ...
    Bear with me, as I try to connect a few different thoughts that are coming together in my mind in this particular post. My thought process kicked off with this monumentally clueless opinion piece by former state department official Christian Whiton, complaining that President Obama and Congress hav ...
  • Interview With The Guy Who Embraced The 'Pirates' ...
    This week, for our Case Study Series (check that link to see all previous case studies), we've got a fun one. Last week, we wrote about Steve Lieber , the comic artist who discovered his recent work Underground was being scanned and placed online in a 4chan forum. That story generated a ton of dis ...
  • A Look At How Many People Have Been Kicked Offline ...
    With the Hadopi three strikes program in France kicking into full speed , it may be worth jumping halfway around the world to South Korea, which put in place a very strict copyright law last year, that included the ability to kick people offline for accusations (not convictions) of file sharing. It ...

VacTruth

  • Multiple Deaths Linked to Childhood Vaccines
    New evidence suggesting that forty children have died over the past seven years following a routine childhood vaccination. A Freedom of Information (FOI) data request to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority (MHRA). The FOI data revealed that childhood vaccinations are suspected ...
  • Mind Virus Injected into New Mothers by Pharma and ...
    Through repetition, the "reassuring" voice that many parents crave will soon be injected into the minds of pregnant and new mothers everywhere, thanks to companies with deep financial pockets. The latest trend in building a support system for new parents who may find themselves tired, overwhelmed, ...
  • 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 ...

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 اÙستة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù ÙÙ Ùسخة Ù…Ùررة م٠ا ...
  • 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

  • Artist Prints Posters With Oil from BP Spill (Vide ...
    Photo: GulfofMexico2010 It's a cliched slogan applied to a novel idea -- and the result is a memorable bit of anti-oil spill message (not to mention a surefire PR coup). Artist Anthony Burrill took the ageless adage "Oil & Water Do Not Mix", created a stark design, and used actual oil from the ...
  • Is this the 7-Seat Toyota Prius MPV? (Leaked Photo ...
    Photo: Toyota, if this is really the Prius MPV... Some Have Been Waiting a Long Time for a Hybrid Minivan Autoblog Italy has a supposedly leaked pic of what could very well be the Prius hybrid's big brother, a Prius MPV with three rows of seats (we mentioned it here: Worldwide Prius Sales Top ...
  • The Next Mazda 2 Will Get 70 MPG (But Only in the ...
    Photo: Mazda Testing Methodology Matters Mazda's press release about the next general of its "2" model has been spreading around the net like wildfire in the past few days, and sadly, it seems that many of these stories omit some important facts and focus on "70 MPG OMG LIKE HYBRID!". While M ...
  • 10 Green Halloween Costume Ideas Inspired by the P ...
    Photo credit: Tuesday Phillips/ecolutionist This guest post was written by Tuesday Phillips, founder and editor of ecolutionist . As the one and only time of year that you can put on just about anything you want and act completely out of character, Halloween is the paramount time for sendin ...
  • "We Didn't Know the Impacts" of Dispersants on Sea ...
    Photo: CNBC As the director of the US Geological Survey and leader of the scientific response to the BP Gulf spill, Marcia McNutt had some interesting things to say about the disaster when she spoke last week at this year's Poptech conference . For one, she admitted that the Obama administratio ...

Biosingularity

  • The Gates of Immortality
    Did biology evolve a way to protect offspring from the ravages of aging by creating a physical barrier that separates the parent from its young? The idea that every organism must age was a concept that surprised many biologists. For a long time, aging was thought to be a process occurring only in mu ...
  • Essentials of Genetics | Learn Science at Scitable
    Why does a commercial dairy cow produce four times as much milk as most other mammals? Why do we look like our cousins? Why do roses come in so many different colors? The answers to these and other questions about the diversity of living things involve processes that occur at the level of genes. Ess ...
  • Replacement Bones, Grown to Order in the Lab
    IF a lover breaks your heart, tissue engineers can’t fix it. But if sticks and stones break your bones, scientists may be able to grow custom-size replacements. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, a professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, has solved one of many problems on the way to succe ...
  • Seeing a Bionic Eye on Medicine’s Horizon
    Television’s Six Million Dollar Man foresaw a future when man and machine would become one. New research at Tel Aviv University is making this futuristic “vision” of bionics a reality. Prof. Yael Hanein of Tel Aviv University’s School of Electrical Engineering has foundational research that may give ...
  • Addicted to Fat: Overeating May Alter the Brain as ...
    Like many people, rats are happy to gorge themselves on tasty, high-fat treats. Bacon, sausage, chocolate and even cheesecake quickly became favorites of laboratory rats that recently were given access to these human indulgences—so much so that the animals came to depend on high quantities to feel g ...

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.

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • IAEA head hails Russia's efforts in nuclear medici ...
    The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency praised on Tuesday Russia's achievements in fighting cancer using nuclear technology and said the IAEA will continue cooperating with Russian experts in the sphere.
  • Icebreaker Rossiya completes Arctic expedition
    Russia's nuclear-powered icebreaker Rossiya has successfully completed its Arctic expedition by returning to the northern port of Murmansk, RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
  • Soyuz launch with next ISS crew to be postponed fo ...
    The launch of the manned spaceship Soyuz TMA-20 with the next International Space Station (ISS) crew will be postponed from December 13 to December 15, the head of the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Friday.
  • Russian hi-tech experts to visit U.S.
    A delegation of experts from Russia's Rosnano hi-tech government corporation will visit the United States on October 20-22, Rosnano said on its website.
  • Israel to put Dead Sea Scrolls on Internet
    The Israel Antiquities Authority and Google on Tuesday announced plans to digitalize the Dead Sea Scrolls and put them online, allowing widespread access to the documents.

Pruning Shears

  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims .The latest WikiLeaks document dump is remarkable: A man who was detained by Iraqi soldiers in an underground bunker reported that he had been ...
  • 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 .

Organic Consumers.org

  • Don't Let Halloween Mask Unfair Labor Practices
    If you want to act on your concern for the environment and human rights this Halloween, give treats that come from reputable local or Fair Trade vendors. That could mean foregoing some familiar brands. Click here to read this article
  • Wikileaks: The Shaming Of America by Robert Fisk
    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. Click here ...
  • UN Admits Industrial Farming is "Suicide"
    Geneva - The UN top official on the right to food called for wholesale changes in farming methods to safeguard the environment and ensure everyone has enough to eat. Click here to read this article
  • Acknowledging Women's Role in the Sustainable Food ...
    The literary critic William Deresiewicz once identified a kind of rule-of-one in U.S. popular culture: Like a poor man's Noah, we take one of each. One physicist: Stephen Hawking. One literary theorist: Harold Bloom. One radical social critic: Noam Chomsky. Before her death, we had one intellectua ...
  • Maria Rodale: Top 10 Ways to Avoid GMOs
    This month, October, is Non-GMO Month. I find most people are really confused about what a GMO is and where GMOs are found. Some people tend to think that GMO seeds are similar to the type of hybridization that has been going on amongst gardeners for centuries. Not true! The type of genetic modifica ...

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 ...
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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

  • At the Ditches of Madness
    Karoli has the economy in a ditch story as retold by Al Franken: When the President took office, not only had the car gone into a ditch, the car had flipped over and was rolling down a steep embankment. We, the American people, were in the back seat, and the Bush Administration had removed all [...]
  • Voter suppression on a massive scale
    Two posts because there’s just too much shit happening right now. Polling data going in every direction and reports back from the grassroots that are completely at odds with the national pundits and so-called analysts. However this election shakes out, the one sure casualty will be pollster reputati ...
  • Deconstructing the lies
    Politics (heavy on the DC): Another installment in the Post’s series on illegal gun dealing When do we get the story about media errors in the Levy trial? Robert J. Samuelson explains everything without any of it sticking to the Republicans (it’s like he took the facts and ran them through a blende ...
  • The United States of Booga-Booga
    The Strib continues to be a very special newspaper: columnists aren’t allowed to discuss the election, but former columnists turned weekly contributors Katherine Kersten and Nick Coleman are allowed to talk about politics so Coleman rehashes Juan Williams while Kersten engages in gratuitous Obama ba ...
  • 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 ...

Public News Service

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

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • The Existentialist Cowboy: Cold War Origins of the ...
    The Existentialist Cowboy: Cold War Origins of the CIA Holocaust By Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy A new book by James W. Douglass [JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters] addresses an "an evil whose depth and deceit seemed to go beyond the capacity of words to describe." A fe ...
  • John John: The View From Occupied Canada
    The Tyee – The Fight of Our Lives How do progressives decide on which issues to fight? The question reminds me of my conversations with Myles Horton, founder of the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee and one of the most brilliant and effective leadership-trainers of the past century. He died in 199 ...
  • John John: Cops = Murderers: John T. Williams and ...
    Cops = Murderers: John T. Williams and 6 More Killed by Washington State Cops | Mostly Water : Cops = Murderers - John T. Williams and 6 more killed by Washington Cops By Annie Elation - September 11, 2010 Blog posts are the work of individual contributors, reflecting their thoughts, opinions and ...
  • Letters: WikiLeaks reveals the stark reality of Ir ...
    Letters: WikiLeaks reveals the stark reality of Iraq | World news | The Guardian : "Winston Churchill once said: 'When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.' It is common practice in conflicts that governments ignore and cover up potential war crim ...
  • 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 ...

Pensieve

  • Honduras: Among the 3 Most Corrupt Nations in the ...
    Transparency international has published its results on its annual survey of perception of government corruption. The format is a zoomable world map with a ranked list below it. Honduras, at 134th place with a score of 2.4 is tied with Nigeria and Bangladesh and 7 others; not a good place to be. In ...
  • CNN Doctoring
    Is it me or did CNN want to soften news of Hugo Chavez expropriating two US-owned businesses in Venezuela? Related posts:Is this our future? CNN drops the C-bomb The Zelayistas Got There First? Related posts: Is this our future? CNN drops the C-bomb The Zelayistas Got There First?
  • 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 Pre ...
  • 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 ...

Green Times

  • Vitamin C
    When you feel not so well or think you might be getting ill, get some extra vitamins! Oranges are full of vitamin C – so visit the market or wholefood store and make yourself a glass of organic juice (food-drink/why-organic-juice-is-good-for-you.html). Photo by: Manja Louman
  • Wasp searching for nectar
    Biodiversity (glosarry/categories/wildlife/biodiversity.html) refers to the variety of life forms that inhabit the planet. It consists of all the different organisms of the ecosystem (glossary/wildlife/ecosystem.html) that make up the Earth’s biosphere (glossary/categories/wildlife/biosphere.html), ...
  • Green Family
    A happy family is a green family, says this image, displayed in the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne. Becoming a green family is not as hard as it may seem - there are many ways to make your life more eco-friendly. Cook with organic (glossary/food-drink/organic-food.html) and seasonal produce ...
  • Turn off your lights
    All the lights shining from within these buildings may give a pretty image, but off course it’s not very eco-friendly! Companies and individuals can reduce their carbon footprint (glossary/categories/climate-change/carbon-footprint.html) by turning off the lights when they are not in the office or ...
  • Poaching
    1. DEFINITION: "poaching" Any illegal obtaining of animals or wild plants, that violates internal conversation and wildlife management laws, is known as poaching. Only wild animals can be poached, while domestic animals can only be stolen.   Plant poaching activities are starting to rise. In th ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Rand Paul Borwnshirt Stomps on Head of Liberal Act ...
    ShareThis Rand Paul Borwnshirt Stomps on Head of Liberal Activist 26 Oct 2010 'It reminds me of the Thirties, in another country.' --MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Tuesday's 'Hardball,' describing the following video footage from Associated Press: A Rand Paul supporter stomped on the head of a woman repr ...
  • Paul thugs ID'ed. Paul county coordinator Tim Prof ...
    ShareThis Paul thugs ID'ed. Paul county coordinator Tim Profitt served with criminal summons By Yobie Benjamin 26 Oct 2010 Lexington, Kentucky, Police Public Information Officer Sherelle Roberts has confirmed that a criminal summons is being served on a Mr. Tim Profitt who has been ordered to appear ...
  • Court voids Arizona law on voter proof of citizens ...
    ShareThis Court voids Arizona law on voter proof of citizenship 26 Oct 2010 Arizona's requirement that people show proof of citizenship to register to vote was struck down by a federal appeals court, which said it conflicts with the National Voter Registration Act. The U.S. Court of Appeals in San F ...
  • WikiLeaks files should prompt Iraq abuse probe: U. ...
    ShareThis WikiLeaks files should prompt Iraq abuse probe: U.N. 26 Oct 2010 Washington should investigate reports from a trove of leaked military documents indicating that American troops killed Iraqi civilians or ignored prisoner abuse by Iraqis, the U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday. U.N. Hig ...
  • Military Interrogators Trained to 'Humiliate'
    ShareThis 'Get them naked. Keep them naked if they do not follow commands.' Military Interrogators Trained to 'Humiliate' 26 Oct 2010 British military interrogators are reportedly being trained to terrify and humiliate prisoners by enforcing nudity and sensory deprivation when questioning them. The ...

Daily Loaf

  • Last Florida Senate debate from Orlando – 4 guys s ...
    David Gregory has been as solid as any host on network or cable television in discussing Afghanistan, so he tried to push the candidates to provide an original response on the issue, but didn't get any. When Meek said that it was important that the rest of the U.S.' allies step up. Gregory immedi ...
  • Sink makes amends to black community in Miami, but ...
    In Tuesday night's debate, Sink was asked where she differed from the President, as Rick Scott continued to label her what apparently is the ultimate epithet uttered to Democrats this year, that she's an "Obama Democrat."
  • On the Radar: Pale Horse’s Point and Shoot Yoursel ...
    Big Day of the Day fiesta in Dunedin, crazy black metal mayhem at Pale Horse, Extremities at Silver Meteor, John's Pass Seafood Festival and more.
  • Dissecting Dexter: Season 5, episode 5 “First Bloo ...
    Thankfully, after its fifth episode of the season, Dexter is on its way to being top-notch again. A possible affair scandal! Creepy “f**k buddies” around the baby! Sex offenders galore! Harrison scratches another baby at Mommy and Me playtime! Yeah, the baby stuff does seem a bit out of place amid ...
  • A new twist on a holiday classic: Streuseled caram ...
    Instead of using the recommended regular pie crust for this one, I decided to try it with a spicy gingersnap crust. I just liked the idea of something crunchy to go with all that creaminess.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • The mathematics of strangulation of Gaza
    By Jesse  Bacon When the specifics of Israel’s siege of Gaza came to light, it appeared almost random in its insanity and cruelty. The famous example is the prohibiting of pasta while allowing rice, all the while claiming this was somehow ensuring Israel’s security. Well wonder no longer. Through t ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Federal auditor: Obama’s anti-foreclosure effort i ...
    Ask yourself, who benefited from Obama’s anti-foreclosure programs? Why it was the banks, of course. “Others, who may have somehow found ways to continue to make their mortgage payments, have been drawn into failed trial modifications that have left them with more principal outstanding on their loan ...
  • Massive storm hitting Illinois, shutting down O’Ha ...
    I hope you’re not flying today. Because when O’Hare shuts down, it corkscrews the entire air transit system. A monster two-day storm is hitting the area with winds up to 60 mph and sustained gusts of 35 mph. “The storm system will be one of the most powerful we have seen in this part of [...]
  • Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs: Iraq War “Bas ...
    In his recently published memoir, “Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior,” General Hugh Shelton, who served as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1997 to 2001, called the Iraq war “unnecessary” and said that the Bush team went to war “based on a series of lies.” Shelton ...
  • Oops, I did it again, says Bank of America
    Why it was just last week BofA was squawking about how error-free their foreclosure process was, no problems here, thanks for asking. Now that they’ve deigned to actually examine their foreclosures, they now say, oopsie, pesky bookkeeping errors were happening all over the danged place. Well, it mus ...
  • Eco car contest. Los Angeles Car Show
    This Honda Air is among the entries. The cars must be “comfortable, stylish, and safe”, run on renewable fuels, and weigh less than 1500 pounds.

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

  • This Day In History – October 26
    1640 – The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Scotland and Charles I of England. 1774 – The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1775 – King George III goes before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion, and authorized a military respon ...
  • Deadline Live – October 25 2010
    Jack Blood’s commentary on the news & topics of the day in the first hour. Hour 2 welcomes the return of Michael Shaw to Deadline LIVE for further discussion on Agenda 21. (http://www.freedomadvocates.org/)
  • Porker of The Month for October 2010: Debbie Wasse ...
    Reason.tv presents: Citizen’s Against Government Waste’s Porker of the Month for October 2010: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz! What do you do when you and your friends in congress go on a taxpayer funded spending binge, only to see massive unemployment and a floundering economy? Just say something th ...
  • 10 Questions for “Tea partiers” by Ral ...
    Thanks for not calling them “Tea Baggers” Ralph…… If My answers seem repetitive its because your questions all sounded alike… NOTE TO DEADLINELIVE.INFO READERS: FEEL FREE TO ANSWER THESE “QUESTIONS” IN OUR COMMENT SECTION. I WILL READ SOME OF THEM ON THE AIR ~ Jack Blood Here are ten questions for T ...
  • Shoe Attack over Iraq: Boots thrown at Ex-PM Howar ...
    Former prime minister John Howard had two shoes hurled at him by an Iraq war protester during an appearance on ABC Australia’s Q&A on Monday. In echoes of the infamous incident in which former US president George Bush had two shoes thrown at him during a trip to Iraq in 2008, Howard came under attac ...

The Air Vent

  • Remarkable Heretic
    Guest post Dr. Judith Curry.  I asked permission to repost this here in it entirety because it is a perfect description of the current climato-political situation.   There is so much nuance and reality in it I promise that you will be impressed, unless you are TCO. Honesty and reality all balled up ...
  • Independence
    M10 linked again here, starts with the following equation. dQ = CvdT + PdV  + L dλ   — Eq 1, from first law of Thermo. From this equation many on and offline comments were sent to me which claimed heat release was a far greater concern, gavin placed one here although his latent heat [...]
  • 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 ...

Focal Point

  • Rand Paul Supporter Stomps on MoveOn Activist's He ...
    A group of Rand Paul supporters accosted an activist from MoveOn.org before the Conway-Paul senate debate in Kentucky last night. As you can see in the video, some Paul supporters grabbed the victim and forced her to the pavement. A man in a black and white shirt pinned her down while another guy ...
  • 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 ...

Inside Facebook

  • Majority of DST’s stakes in Facebook, Zynga Remain ...
    Investors hoping to get some exposure to Facebook through Mail.Ru Group’s forthcoming initial public offering are getting access to just a share of Russian investor Digital Sky Technologies Ltd.’s holdings in the social network. “We just renamed the Russian operations of DST into Mail.ru Group and ...
  • Plastic Jungle Lets Users Instantly Convert Gift C ...
    Plastic Jungle, a gift card exchange where consumers trade in unused gift cards for cash, e-commerce store credit, or Facebook Credits, today launches a partnership with PayPal allowing users to fund their PayPal account by selling gift cards to Plastic Jungle. The exchange is also transitioning to ...
  • Best Buy, Walmart Follow Target as Distributor of ...
    Pre-paid gift cards have been around for years, and social gaming companies began offering them since 2009 — Facebook has followed suite as it has expanded Credits this year. It introduced its own, Credits-branded cards to retailer Target at the beginning of September. Today, it is expanding the car ...
  • PayPal Introduces More Frictionless Virtual Goods ...
    Today at its developer conference in San Francisco, PayPal is announcing new payment products designed for virtual goods. It will allow developers to sell virtual goods within games in as little as two clicks, instead of taking users off to another page, and will include the eBay-owned company’s exi ...
  • Top 20 Gaining Facebook Pages: Zynga, SpongeBob, M ...
    Big brands made a comeback appearance on our Top 20 Gaining Facebook Pages list this week. Zynga’s Texas Hold’em Poker made a comeback, SpongeBob SquarePants, MTV, Disney and Converse joined YouTube, Facebook and Coca-Cola on the list. The typical list of pop stars was also on the list, though most ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Israel's US propaganda machine at work
    Paul J. Balles views one of Israel's mouthpieces in the United States, the American Jewish Committee, and debunks some of their propaganda lines on peace, Iran, human dignity, energy security and the nature of Israel.
  • Increasing European-Russian convergence
    Christopher King argues that Britain and Europe should look eastwards, towards Russia and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and abandon the deadly embrace of the United States if they are to realize their economic potential and regain their political independence.
  • 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 ...

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

  • Going on Record on Labeling & Labelers
    Censorship Fanatics Come from All Walks of Life It is funny and sad at the same time. In the course of one week I have gone from Anti-Semite to Anti-Muslim. Within a week I have been labeled Filthy Jew-Basher and Fear-Mongering Islamophobic. I find it funny since the logic-free arguments of these fa ...
  • 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 ...

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. Griffi ...

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

  • After The Yes Men’s Chevron Spoof, What Next ...
    Strike while the iron is hot, or take a breather and think about your next move. The feelings of an Underminer during a hot spoof are often confused, but in some cases a retrospective look is necessary in order to understand what effective action really means. Case in point, the action by the Yes Me ...
  • 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.

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

  • Edge on Energy - A Quixotic Quest for Ethical Oil ...
    Oil sands: satanic horror, or priceless jewel? To describe the extremes of the debate over Canada’s large bitumen deposits thus is barely to exaggerate the positions taken up by opponents and supporters of exploitation of this rising source of crude oil. For environmentalists, oil sands, or as they ...
  • Edge on Politics - How Political In-Action Committ ...
    Jay Peters is a psychology instructor at a Durham, North Carolina, community college who has donated tens of thousands of dollars to conservative, Republican, and Libertarian causes over the past two decades. One repeated recipient of his generosity has been a political action committee (or “PAC”) f ...
  • The Ancient Edge - Archaeologists Find Evidence of ...
    The pre-Columbian American�societies that once lived in the Amazon rainforests may have been much larger and more advanced than researchers previously realized.�Brazilian and Swedish�archaeologists have found the remains of approximately 90 settlements in an area South of the city of Santarém, in th ...
  • The Toxic Edge - Federal Convicts Exposed to Toxic ...
    Federal inmates have been processing computers, televisions and other discarded gadgets known as e-waste for a poorly administered and potentially dangerous prison jobs program, according to a new�report by the U.S. Department of Justice . Old electronics equipment often contains cadmium and lead, h ...
  • 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 ...

High Country News

  • When voting, listen to the grass
    At the Land Institute's Prairie Festival in Kansas, the glory of the short-grass prairie is remembered and celebrated.
  • Solar spree
    New solar energy projects are coming to California and Nevada.
  • Fields of dreams
    "Farmworker Reality Tours" teach citizens about the lives of California's migrant farmworkers.
  • A raw-edged memoir
    In her second memoir, Raw Edges, Phyllis Barber leaves her marriage and tries to find herself.
  • Hello, and goodbye
    High Country News welcomes new assistant editor Cally Carswell and says goodbye to business employee Jessica Spencer; Sen. Michael Bennet visits; Paonia "hippie reunion"; visitors.

CounterCurrents

  • The Fishing Communities And The Politics Of Climat ...
    By K.P. Sasi The ultimate need is to restructure our dominant world view, a revolution which determines the future of all species including the human beings. The only way is to unite with all like minded activists globally and have common struggles to force some wisdom to our global leaders who de ...
  • Embrace The Cooperative Movement
    By Carlos Perez de Alejo In the midst of mounting economic insecurity, fueled by widespread unemployment, foreclosures and budget cuts, many people are seeking alternative models to business as usual. From community gardens to bartering networks, grassroots efforts are sprouting up across the coun ...
  • How Reliable Are OPEC Estimates?
    By Dave Cohen So the next time these Persian Gulf countries dont answer the IEAs call on OPEC to produce more oil to prevent the price from getting into the stratosphere, as it did in mid-2008, you should remember that its not for lack of oil they ve got over a trillion barrels now! And Im sure th ...
  • Growing Calls For Moratorium On Climate Geoenginee ...
    By Stephen Leahy Delegates to the world summit on biodiversity here are calling for a moratorium on climate engineering research, like the idea of putting huge mirrors in outer space to reflect some of the suns heating rays away from the planet
  • Bible Does Not Legitimize The Occupation Of Palest ...
    By Salim Nazzal The synods for the Middle East which lasted two weeks in the Vatican, have issued an important document which supports the Palestinian right to live free in Palestine. The document signed by more than 180 bishops from the catholic churches and other churches invalidated the Jewish ...

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

  • WHY Did State Department Sponsor Saudi Trip of a P ...
    By Barry Rubin There are days when you think: No, this nightmare can't be real! Is the Obama Administration really so bad? Have the policymakers really taken leave of�their senses? And then you see this : The U.S. Consulate-General in Saudi Arabia "hosted Dr. Trita Parsi, founder a ...
  • This Halloween PLEASE DON'T GIVE ANY MONEY TO UNIC ...
    On Sunday, millions of children across America will be putting on their scariest costumes and going door to door asking for candy. Its that Halloween time of the year again. Whether you are a parent or not, or whether your children go "trick or treating" or not, I guarantee that your house is go ...
  • Must Watch Video: John Stewart on the Juan William ...
    While I don't agree with everything, the Daily Show's take on the Juan Williams firing is hilarious.� Watch the video below (if you cannot see the video click here ) The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c NPR Staffing Decision 2010 www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full ...
  • BREAKING !!! BARBARA BOXER Caught Lying on Her Dis ...
    OOPS! It looks like Senator Ma'am herself,� Barbara Boxer, the chair of the Senate ethics committee has some "splaining" to do. According to Roger Simon at Pajamas Media that Boxer neglected to disclose that she had a huge interest in a million-dollar residence in Oakland, as well as the mortgage. ...
  • New Poll: One Week Before Election Webster Beating ...
    If the latest trend holds and no hanging chads get in the way, the nastiest man in Congress may get some extra time to work on some sensitivity training. The latest Sunshine News Poll shows Daniel Webster with a 7% lead over Mr. Nasty himself, incumbent Alan Grayson. A poll taken four weeks ago r ...

The Real Agenda

  • Ruled from Abroad: How Bankers Control Everything
    By Joan Veon In 1913, at 11:45 p.m., on Dec. 23, Congress approved a private corporation designed to form a private corporation, designed to control the monetary system of our country. They moved with a calculated craftiness and deceit to pass legislation that would enslave every American as a debto ...
  • “We do not Torture”. Sort of.
    AP President Barack Obama stepped into the White House pledging to end George W. Bush’s gloves-off approach to interrogations and detention â but a flood of leaked documents suggests that some old habits were hard to break. Field reports from the Iraq war published by WikiLeaks show that, despite Ob ...
  • Cuba to fire 500,000 raise taxes up to 50% for man ...
    Reuters Cuba has set income tax rates at 25 to 50 percent for its soon to be expanded private sector, with the biggest earners paying the most taxes, according to official decrees published on Monday. The rates will range from nothing for those making 5,000 pesos — equivalent to $225 — or less a yea ...
  • Wall Street’s Big Six Preying on Homeowners
    So millions of American families, including many that have completely paid off their homes, now find themselves in danger of being thrown out on to the street over an unpaid property tax bill.
  • Bristish Government Selling Forests to Developers
    Phil Brennan Infowars.com The British Government is about to sell off over half of all UK Forests that are currently under the control of the Forestry Commission to private corporations as the asset-stripping of the UK is begun on behalf of the International Monetary Fund and the Big Six Beast Banks ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind farm opponents fight bill
    BRIMFIELD — The organization that formed to block a wind farm from being installed atop West Mountain is focusing its attention these days on pending legislation that could significantly restrict a town’s say over whether such a project can proceed. “The legislation could make it really difficult fo ...
  • Properties ‘virtually unmarketable’
    A survey by a local realtor may have confirmed the worst suspicions of Stan Mundy, whose home is closest to Chevron�s wind farm northeast of Casper. Glen Taylor, of Equity Brokers in Casper, did a real estate survey Sept. 10, 2010, and concluded properties directly adjacent to the Chevron Wind Tower ...
  • Turbines make ‘lousy neighbours’
    Rick Vezina and his wife Judy love peace and quiet. They found it 12 years ago, settling with their two children into a dream home on the Graham Sideroad in what is now Kingsville�s Gosfield North. �We searched hard to find this place � it�s perfect,� Vezina says. �The property is treed in, no neigh ...
  • County council extends ban on large wind turbines
    WHATCOM COUNTY, Wash. — No large wind-turbine projects will be popping up in Whatcom County in the next six months. The county council on Tuesday night extended a moratorium for large wind energy systems. Council members Barbara Brenner and Ken Mann have been working on long-term solutions. âIâm adv ...
  • Permission for €12m windfarm revoked
    An Bord Pleanála yesterday refused planning permission for a ��12 million windfarm due to fears it could result in a peat landslide. The proposed 375ft, eight-turbine windfarm in the Slieve Aughty mountain range in northeast Clare lies 17km south of a windfarm at Derrybrien, Co Galway, which was the ...

Not My Tribe

  • Happy 18th Re-Birthday, to me…
    It was 18 years ago last Friday that I woke up as a healthy, badly underpaid and moderately radicalized minimum wage Construction Laborer and 5 minutes before quiting and pay time (they didn’t pay me either) was reborn as a badly disabled, even worse paid and definitely Radicalized Ex-Construction w ...
  • US considers using 1917 Espionage Act to thwart Ju ...
    The first targets of the regrettable 1917 Espionage Act were antiwar labor organizers against US WWI conscription. Read the March 1917 cover of the anarchist THE BLAST:   “This man subjected himself to imprisonment and probably to being shot or hanged under the new Espionage Bill   The prisoner used ...
  • 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 ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • "Sometimes we do it to ourselves..."
    "Sometimes we do it to ourselves" NIST bluntly admits cyber false flags! Investigate NIST Officials Shyam Sunder and John Gross
  • Multiple Explosions at the WTC site.
    Looking through the newly released batch of videos from NIST and I found some interesting stuff in the folder "Richard Peskin." I have a edited together bits from four of the clips in that folder where you can hear what sound like explosions (after both towers have fallen), and the videographer (pre ...
  • Pat Curley Claims to Find Strawmen, but Only Expos ...
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog posted the following video by Architects & Engineers for 9//11 Truth today: Pat states: Steven Jones tackles two objections to his "research" that I have never heard before: 1. That somebody contaminated the samples with nanothermite. Huh? No, Steven, w ...
  • 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 ...

Fooducate

  • Trick or (tiny) Treat
    With Halloween coming up this weekend, you’re probably reading and viewing lots of advice regarding chocolate choices and snack strategies. While some may go out of their way to prepare and receive only healthy snacks, we’re of the mass market camp, allowing the kids to enjoy whatever is handed to ...
  • Whole Foods Market Pilots Non-GMO Labels
    Heard about GMO? Genetically modified organisms are plants or animals that have had their DNA altered through gene splicing techniques. This enable scientists to insert the DNA from one species into that of another in order to obtain a certain desired effect, for example resistance to pests. From a ...
  • Which is Healthier for Me – Tea or Coffee ?
    Inhabitants of earth can be roughly divided in to 2 groups: tea lovers and coffee addicts. Some countries are home to many more of one kind than the other. The US is a coffee nation, but the UK and many parts of Asia are firmly rooted in tea culture. That said, many people enjoy both drinks.  [...]
  • 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 ...

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

  • Richard Long designs T-shirt for Survival
    Actress and Survival supporter Gillian Anderson models our Richard Long T-shirt © Survival World-renowned artist Richard Long has designed a new t-shirt for Survival Internationalâs 2010 Christmas catalogue, modelled by actors Gillian Anderson and Sophie Okonedo. The design inspired by nature ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Was Tim Griffin merely a "Rove-bot"?Did Karl Rove ...
    Special to the Arkansas Times by Greg Palast (New York, London) Illustration from Steal Back Your Vote Comic book voterguide.To learn more click on the image. Greg Palast, the journalist who blew the whistle on Republican vote suppression activities in Florida ("caging"), has communicated with ...
  • 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 ...

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The insurgency, the Iraqi army and unity kill rate ...
    Gary Farber at Obsidian Wings is pulling out numerous bullet points from the Wikileaks Iraq Warlogs. One of the points concerns casualty figures that the US military attributed to insurgents and the US military’s count of Iraqi government security forces casualties. The database records the followin ...
  • Cowardly Republicans attack woman
    One guy headstomps her while another one holds her down.  Wanna-be stormtroopers without the guts to take on someone who can fight back.  Find out their names, and publish them, so that they can be held up as the gutless wonders they are. Update: The curb stomping coward turns out to be Tim Profitt ...
  • This is what happens when you bail out the rich
    David Cay Johnston: Every 34th wage earner in America in 2008 went all of 2009 without earning a single dollar, new data from the Social Security Administration show. Total wages, median wages, and average wages all declined, but at the very top, salaries grew more than fivefold… …The number of Amer ...
  • The insurgency, the Iraqi army and unity kill rate ...
    By Dave Anderson: Gary Farber at Obsidian Wings is pulling out numerous bullet points from the Wikileaks Iraq Warlogs. One of the points concerns casualty figures that the US military attributed to insurgents and the US military’s count of Iraqi government security forces casualties. The database re ...
  • Cowardly Republicans attack woman
    One guy headstomps her while another one holds her down.  Wanna-be stormtroopers without the guts to take on someone who can fight back.  Find out their names, and publish them, so that they can be held up as the gutless wonders they are.

Age of Autism

Global BDS Movement

  • Legal opinion by Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill on ...
    � Legal Brief entitled: Certain Legal Issues Arising from theApplication of Israel to become a Member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development  � Prepared by: Guy S. Goodwin-Gill read more
  • Legal Memorandum by Professor Karma Nabulsi on Isr ...
    � Memorandum presented by Dr Karma Nabulsi , University of Oxford, to OECD member-states about their legal obligations during Israel's accession process (May 2010)  � Dr Karma Nabulsi is  Fellow of St Edmund Hall and lecturer at Oxford University � read more
  • 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 ...

Farm Wars

  • How Collectivists Create their Own Opposition – an ...
    Collectivist strategists realize that, as the New World Order unfolds, there will be public opposition to many of their programs. They reason that it would be stupid to wait for this to spring from natural forces, because then it might become too powerful to overcome. Instead, they anticipate this t ...
  • Are Jews and Masons and Jesuits Conspiring to Cont ...
    People who accept the authenticity of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion are not likely to be paying much attention to what is happening in the Rhodesian and Leninist camps – and that’s where the action really is.
  • 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.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Iraq asks for help to clear landmines
    AFP – Iraq called for international help on Monday to clear the estimated 20 million mines which pose a death threat in one of the world’s most heavily mined countries after three decades of conflict. “Removing mines from Iraq is difficult because there are no maps to indicate the mined areas,” Prim ...
  • UK economy grows twice as fast as predicted
    Telegraph – GDP expanded 0.8 per cent, well above the 0.4 per cent predicted by economists, as the prospects of a double dip recession receded. The latest figures improve the chances that Britain will be able to withstand the effects of the Government’s austerity package and will reduce the likeliho ...
  • US approves world’s biggest solar energy pro ...
    AFPâ The United States approved on Monday a permit for the largest solar energy project in the world — four massive plants at the cost of one billion dollars each in southern California. “The Blythe solar power plant will consist of four, 250-Megawatt plants, built on public lands in the sun-drenche ...
  • Tariq Aziz, Iraqi ex-minister, sentenced to death
    BBC – Tariq Aziz, for many years the international face of Iraq under Saddam Hussein, has been sentenced to death by the Iraqi Supreme Court. He was convicted in connection with the persecution of religious parties, a statement said. Aziz, 74, served as foreign minister and deputy prime minister and ...
  • German report reveals war-time diplomats’ &# ...
    BBC – Germany’s diplomats were more deeply involved in the Holocaust than previously known, according to an official German government report.The government is considering making the 900-page text mandatory reading for all its diplomats. The report was commissioned in 2005 after it emerged that flat ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • The Roan Plateau goes to court
    Negotiations have fizzled between an energy company that wants to drill on a treasured plateau in western Colorado and the environmental groups that sued to stop it. That means a federal judge will decide whether to halt energy exploration on...
  • Blythe solar project gets BLM approval in Riversid ...
    What’s the sunny equivalent of “when it rains, it pours”? Because that’s what’s happening in Southern California, as yet another massive solar plant cleared the permitting process Monday. This time, it’s the Blythe Solar Power Plant, backed by German company...
  • ‘A Force for Nature’: John Adams and the Natural R ...
    John Adams, founder of Natural Resources Defense Council, talks about his new book.
  • 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...

water.org

  • iReport challenge: #BeAHero for clean water (CNN)
    iReport challenge: #BeAHero for clean water (CNN) – An outbreak of cholera in Haiti has killed more than 250 people and sickened thousands. The culprit: Contaminated drinking water. Worldwide, the water crisis is huge. Nearly a billion people lack access to safe drinking water. Thatâs one in eight o ...
  • Credit for water, toilets – the ripple effec ...
    Credit for water and toilets – the ripple effect (Women Economic Empowerment Review) – Over the past couple of years, WaterCredit has enabled Water.org to reach more than twice the number of people with safe access to water and sanitation than a traditional, subsidy-driven approach. By providing sma ...
  • Thursday’s Connector: Matt Damon (CNN)
    Thursday’s Connector: Matt Damon (CNN) – The American actor, philanthropist and screenwriter Matt Damon is known for his roles in a wide range of successful movies as well as his charity work. In addition to his acting career, Damon has been a budding philanthropist since the age of 12, creating cha ...
  • 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 1 ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • CORPORATE LACKEYS: The Supreme Court Sold Out Our ...
    Historian Thom Hartmann discusses the history of corruption that led up to the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Jewish leaders slam archbishops remarks
    ADL: Statements �worst kind of anti-Judaism, bordering on anti-Semitism�; Wiesenthal Center urges Pope to reject Bustros remarks. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • In Wake of Citizens United Ruling, Democratic Rep ...
    Roberts, an ardent judicial activist, manipulated deliberations in Citizens United v. FEC in order to effectively eliminate limits on corporate campaign spending. Submitted by Linda R. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Hold mining companies Barrick and PJV responsible ...
    The livelihoods of families living alongside the Porgera gold mine have been attacked. Last year, local police burned down over 100 homes, slaughtered livestock and reportedly raped women all for the sake of corporate business..Please help them Submitted by beatrice d. to World �|� �Note-it! � ...
  • ACTA - People Before Profits: PLEASE TAKE ACTION!
    Millions of people rely on generic medicines to treat diseases like malaria and HIV. If the so-called Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) goes forward, they could find themselves unable to afford the drugs that keep them alive. Submitted by beatrice d. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Historical Notes

libcom

  • An attempt to report on the situation in France - ...
    Blaockade_Nice_airport-Oct-19-2010.jpg Mouvement Communiste report their impressions of the past several weeks of struggles in France. This is based on eye witness accounts, testimony of comrades and fri ...
  • Address to the wage-earners, unemployed and precar ...
    English translation of a leaflet written by some participants to the current movement against pension reforms in France Address to the wage-earners, unemployed and precarious workers of all the countries in the European Union
  • 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 ...

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

  • Moisture Content and Wood Movement
    On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Understanding Moisture Content and Wood Movement by Carl Hagstrom on September 3, 2010 (with Gene Wengert, The Wood Doctor.) Expected movement can be accurately predicted, which means avoiding … Continue reading →
  • Roof and Attic Ventilation
    On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Roof Ventilation Update The construction industry’s leading researcher explains why what we think is true often isn’t, and how some of our best hunches, based on observation of … Continue reading →
  • Wall RValue, Configuring Wall RValues, Wall RValue ...
    On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Wall R-Values that Tell It Like It Is
  • Wall RValue, Configuring Wall RValues, Wall RValue ...
    On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Wall R-Values that Tell It Like It Is
  • Radiation, Convection, Conduction-Warm to Cold
    Convection is the movement of air in response to heat Warm air rises, cool air sinks. Because walls and windows are usually cooler than the middle of a room, they spur convective loops that can feel like a draft. A … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

  • Military vs. Climate Security: The 2011 Budgets Co ...
    The gap between federal spending on military as opposed to climate security has narrowed but compared to China our progress is meager.
  • Whose Siberia?
    Despite the fevered minds of right-wing Russians and Americans, a Chinese military invasion of Siberia is not in the works.
  • 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.

Law.com

  • Law Firms Feel Pressure From New Breed of Competit ...
    The legal industry is falling apart, but not in the way pundits meant when they gave that diagnosis in 2008 as firms were hit with the reality of the recession. Rather, the industry is moving away from a monolithic provider of legal services -- the law firm -- to a fragmented platform where the comp ...
  • Gitmo 'Child Soldier' Pleads Guilty to All Charges
    A Canadian accused of killing an American soldier as a teenage al-Qaida militant pleaded guilty Monday in a deal that avoids a war crimes trial for someone labeled a "child soldier" by his defenders. Omar Khadr pleaded to five charges including murder for throwing a grenade that mortally wounded the ...
  • 'Don't Ask' Ruling Puts Judge in Spotlight
    California federal Judge Virginia Phillips prefers to keep a low profile, and has for much of her career on the district court. But her ruling that "don't ask, don't tell" is unconstitutional and can't be enforced has propelled her to the front of the fight over gays in the military, earning her her ...
  • Would You 'Friend' the Judge?
    With sites like Facebook hosting over 500 million users, attorneys are aggressively pursuing social media for evidence. Facing obstacles such as the Stored Communications Act, litigants and courts are trying novel approaches: One judge invited the witnesses to "friend" him.
  • Plaintiff Sues A&E for Misidentifying Her as Murde ...
    A Waco, Texas, woman has filed a libel suit in a U.S. District Court in Austin, alleging she fears for her life because she was misidentified as a murder witness on the A&E Network's reality series "The First 48." Dorothy Isabel alleges that a Nov. 1, 2007, episode of the show "misappropriated" ...

Iranian.com

  • Iran hangs 'satanic' man
    Iran has hanged a man in the southwestern city of Ahvaz who was found guilty of carrying out "satanic" and "immoral" acts, Quds Daily newspaper reported on Tuesday. The man, who was only identified by his initials M.S., was executed in the city's prison on Saturday, the report said without elaborat ...
  • Iran plowing ahead with closed network separate fr ...
    It's behind schedule, but Iran is pushing ahead with a closed, tightly controlled intranet that would offer no or little access to the global Internet, an Iranian news outlet has reported. A limited test version was launched in January in the province of Qom, site of Iran's holiest city, reports M ...
  • هجمه ی "دین خویان" دانشگاهی به آرامش دوستدار
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  • هشدار در مورد اعدام قریب الوقوع بیش از ششصد زندانی ...
    «کمپین بین المللی حقوق بشر در ایران» به افزایش نگران کننده آمار اجرای احکام اعدام در زندان وکیل آباد مشهد هشدار داده  و از مقامات قضایی جمهوری اسلامی خواسته است تا همه این اعدام ها را متوقف کنند. read more
  • ريیس جمهوری بولیوی وارد تهران شد
    ایوو مورالس، ريیس جمهوری بولیوی، برای سفری سه روزه شامگاه یکشنبه وارد تهران شد. هدف از این سفر افزایش روابط دو جانبه اعلام شده است. آقای مورالس قرار است با محمود احمدی نژاد، ريیس جمهوری اسلامی، ملاقات کند تا روابط میان دو کشور را در زمینه هایی از جمله بازرگانی و صنایع، تحکیم کند. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Working Class Culture
    One of the things I like best about living in New Zealand is the strong working class consciousness here. Any American who has entered professional or academic life from a blue collar home will tell you there is a distinct working class culture in the US, as in the rest of the world. Despite the bes ...
  • Working Class Culture
    One of the things I like best about living in New Zealand is the strong working class consciousness here. Any American who has entered professional or academic life from a blue collar home will tell you there is a distinct working class culture in the US, as in the rest of the world. Despit ...
  • 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 ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • Mars or Bust, Scientists Call for Suicide Mission ...
    Has NASA really put out a call for people who want to volunteer for a one way mission to Mars? Well, not yet, but two scientists did float the idea to test the waters so to speak. And it turns out, which shouldn’t be too surprising, that there are indeed people who would volunteer for [...]
  • 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 ...

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

  • The U.S. Navy and Biofuels – Part I
    Robert Rapier and Sam Avro conducted an interview with the Deputy Assistant Secretary to the Navy (Energy) in which the Navy’s investments in biofuels were discussed.
  • Tourism Resorts and Oil Exploration in the Caspian ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest analysis was written by the staff of Global Intelligence Report. ———————- SITUATION: One indirect consequence of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is the impact it may have on the financing of the many tourism projects that have sprouted alo ...
  • 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 ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • High Temps Turn Bagged Greens Gross
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Bagged, prewashed salad greens have become a time-saving staple in this country. Exhibit A? The fresh-cut lettuce business has more than quadrupled in the past decade. You can even find organic greens in the bagged produce aisle these days. And, as many of you have discovere ...
  • Caution: Floor May Be Toxic
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Nowadays, many of us are really trying to put our best foot forward when it comes to living healthier, greener lives. But if you're not paying attention to what you're actually walking on with those feet, you could be ignoring a major source of indoor air pollution and toxic ...
  • Lotion vs. Oil: Which Is Better for Your Bod?
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PAâAutumn is here and we'll soon be entering winter, which for many of us means our skin will start looking like the desert, minus the tumbleweeds: Dry, cracked, dehydrated. If you're one for piling on lotion, but you don't seem to get the moisturizing results you'd like, it mi ...
  • Mind-Body-Mood Advisor: What the Chilean Miners Ca ...
    RODALE NEWS, LENOX, PA—Not long ago, we celebrated with a billion others around the world the dramatic rescue of the trapped Chilean miners. The 33 men emerged from the narrow capsule into a totally new life than the one they had left 69 days earlier—a world that will challenge them with instant c ...
  • Protect Your Pearly Whites This Week
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Staying on top of dental health is important all year long. A growing number of studies are showing that healthy teeth are linked not just to non-smelly breath but to improved brain health and to healthier hearts as well. But this week, it's particularly important to lavish ...

big think

  • Population Part 4: Climate Change Results from How ...
    Yesterday's post ended by suggesting that a single-minded obsession with population actually distracts people from the difficult realities of the quest for sustainability in this century. Lest this sound like an attack on a straw man (doesn't everybody know that economic and political change is also ...
  • Population Part 4: Climate Change Results from How ...
    Yesterday's post ended by suggesting that a single-minded obsession with population actually distracts people from the difficult realities of the quest for sustainability in this century. Lest this sound like an attack on a straw man (doesn't everybody know that economic and political change is also ...
  • New Frog-Inspired Sensor May Revolutionize Medical ...
    In another nod to biomimicry as a potent source of design and engineering innovation, researchers at Princeton University have developed a new sensor that can change the way drugs and medical devices are tested for contamination, and it uses frog skin to do it. The innovative chip utilizes ... Rea ...
  • Population Part 4: Climate Change Results from How ...
    Yesterday's post ended by suggesting that a single-minded obsession with population actually distracts people from the difficult realities of the quest for sustainability in this century. Lest this sound like an attack on a straw man (doesn't everybody know that economic and political change is also ...
  • Halloween's Media Myth: Did the War of the Worlds ...
    The War of the Worlds dramatization that aired October 30, 1938 has been called “the most famous radio show of all time.” It was a vivid, clever, fast-paced broadcast that told of an invasion of Earth by Martians wielding deadly heat rays. The program was an adaptation of H.G. Welles’ famous 1898 ...

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!

  • Stealing Democracy?
    G’day everyone, Ozboy here. The United States mid-term elections are just one week away, and the mounting resentment many Americans feel about the way their country is being governed appears certain to be made clear at the polls. One of … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

FAS - Secrecy News

  • Counting the Casualties of War
    Thousands of previously unrecognized civilian casualties of the war in Iraq were documented in a collection of classified U.S. military records that were published online October 22 by the Wikileaks organization. The unauthorized release of the records was presented with Wikileaks’ usual understatem ...
  • Wash Post Traces Dealers of Crime Guns
    The Washington Post is publishing a rather spectacular series of stories this week tracing the flow of guns through American society and their use in criminal activity.  The Post series directly challenges — and partially overcomes — the barriers to public disclosure of gun sales that were put in p ...
  • Israel’s Nuclear Ambiguity Reconsidered
    The Israeli policy of “nuclear opacity” — by which that country’s presumptive nuclear weapons program is not formally acknowledged — is examined in the new book “The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb” by Avner Cohen (Columbia University Press, October 2010). For a variety of reasons, ...
  • Hezbollah, and More from CRS
    Noteworthy new reports from the Congressional Research Service that have not been made readily available to the public include the following (all pdf). “Hezbollah: Background and Issues for Congress,” October 8, 2010. “Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons: Proliferation and Security Issues,” October 7, 2010. ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Climate Change: A Coordinated Strategy Could Focus ...
    Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-903?source=ra Policymakers have raised questions about geoengineering–large-scale deliberate interventions in the earth’s climate system to diminish climate change or its impacts–and its role in a broader strategy of mitigating and ...
  • Phytosequestration: Carbon Biosequestration by Pla ...
    Bioscience (Oct. 10, 2010) v60 n9 pp685-696 / by by Christer Jansson, Stan D. Wullschleger, Udaya C. Kalluri, and Gerald A. Tuskan www.aibs.org/bioscience-press-releases/…/Jansson%20et%20al.pdf [From a Scientific American article by Mike Orcutt] Human activities currently add about nine gigatons of ...
  • Carbon Prices and Automobile Greenhouse Gas Emissi ...
    National Bureau of Economic Research / Christopher R. Knittel and Ryan Sandler http://www.nber.org/papers/w16482.pdf?new_window=1 Abstract: The transportation sector accounts for nearly one third of the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions. While over the past number of decades, policy makers hav ...
  • Free Access to Springer Economics Journals Through ...
    Springer Journals http://www.springer.com/?SGWID=0-102-0-0-0 Until November 30, 2010, Springer Publishing is offering free unlimited access to a number of new and established economics journals.  You can access the individual journals by clicking on their names below. Public Choice Environmental & R ...
  • Climate Change and the EU Emissions Trading Scheme ...
    Congressional Research Service http://opencrs.com/document/R41049/ A Phase 3 will begin in 2013 designed to reduce emissions by 21% from 2005 levels. Several positive results from the Phase 1 “learning by doing” exercise assisted the ETS in making the Phase 2 process run more smoothly, including: (1 ...

Scientific American - News

  • Plastic from Plants: Is It an Environmental Boon o ...
    More than 2.5 billion plastic bottles--partially made from plants--are already in use around the world in a bid to replace petroleum as the fundamental building block of everyday plastics. The so-called PlantBottle from the Coca-Cola Co. is made by converting sugars from sugarcane farmed in Brazil ...
  • Not Neutrality?: U.S. Weighs Options for Turbo-Boo ...
    The Internet has ushered in an era of largely unfettered access to a wide variety of information. Yet, although so much of what the Internet has to offer is gratis, access to the Internet itself has never been free. This dichotomy lies at the heart of the prolonged and hairy "net neutrality" debate ...
  • "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 ...

RAWA News

  • Iraq, Afghanistan among “most corrupt” ...
    AFP: Iraq and Afghanistan on Tuesday came near the top of a closely watched global list of countries perceived to be the most corrupt, despite efforts to stamp out graft in the war-torn nations. Nearly three-quarters of the 178 countries in Transparency International's annual survey scored on the sl ...
  • Taliban schools to brainwash us: suicide bomber
    Samaylive: The Taliban have established schools on the outskirts of Pakistan's Karachi city where sermons are delivered to woo youths, said a teenaged would-be suicide bomber arrested Monday.In urban centers, the Taliban recruit from ow-income neighborhoods.
  • Afghanistan to develop $3 trillion in mining poten ...
    Reuters: Afghanistan is estimated to be sitting on $3 trillion worth of untapped mineral deposits, but poor infrastructure and investor caution are inhibiting development of its mining industry, its mines minister said. "This estimate is based only on 30 percent of the country's area; there is still ...
  • Wikileaks Nato files “only scratch the surfa ...
    The Independent: While allied governments strove yesterday to downplay the import of the online posting of more than 75,000 classified documents about Nato's war in Afghanistan, the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, said they "only scratched the surface" and 15,000 more papers were still being r ...
  • 80pc Balkh residents live in extreme poverty
    PAN: Ten out of 100 families in northern Balkh province earn a living with the assistance of others while 80 percent people are living in extreme poverty, an official said on Tuesday. Dr. Fardin, food in charge at the ActionAid International Organisation in the north, told a press conference in Maza ...

frogblog

  • Wasted opportunities
    A few sharp-eyed people may have noticed that E-Day is coming around again this year, on November 6th.  The event has certainly come in under the radar, having been announced scarcely four weeks out from the event date, whereas in past years there has been quite a long lead in time ...
  • Latest podcast – this time with transcript
    Here’s our latest podcast from Parliament, this time about the cross-party friendships Green MPs have struck up across the chamber. Parliament is a strange place, and often the only images we get are of MPs shouting at each other across the chamber during Question Time. But when th ...
  • Inspired moves
    Need some inspiration first day back at work? Check out what’s possible when you use your imagination to get around an urban landscape…
  • General debate, October 26, 2010
  • Bottom trawling for excuses: how low can they go?
    Yesterday’s paper brought back a flood of memories when I was rather surprised to see a photograph of myself in the NZ Herald. This photo from 2005 was in the paper because Peter Bodeker, chief executive of the Seafood Industry Council, had written an industry opinion piece defendin ...

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. Un ...
  • 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

  • How Plebe Are You?
    Claire Berlinski, after reading Charles Murray's Washington Post op-ed about out-of-touch elites, translates his criteria for eliteness into a "How Plebe Are You?" quiz. I think this deserves meme-dom, so I'm passing it along. Here are my answers: 1. Can you talk about "Mad Men?" No. 2. Can you ...
  • Politics in Orange County
    Over in my mother's congressional district, the Republican candidate is getting creative: Republican Van Tran, the upstart challenger to Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.), is betting on voters sniffing out his opponent's struggles — literally. Tran is sending out a scratch-and-sniff direct mail pi ...
  • Pay for Non-Performance
    The Economist's Matt Steinglass, responding to yesterday's post about skyrocketing incomes of the rich, offers this note: A few years back, this paper did an extended investigation of increasing CEO compensation, and found that while "abuses and downright crookery" were part of the story, CEO pay ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 22 October 2010
    Today's installment of catblogging features rare video footage of Domino doing — well, let's be honest: doing something not very exciting. But new! For her. And I just happened to have my camera around when she did it. That's sort of rare, so today you get rare Friday Cat Vlogging. To make up for ...
  • Quote of the Day: Social Security
    From Robert Reischauer, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, talking about Social Security: It's quite a manageable problem. Yep. We could solve Social Security for all time in about a day of easy negotiations if both Democrats and Republicans were actually serious about solving ...

Insanity Report

  • The Tea Party is About Civility
    …except when you protest/mock their candidate. I mean really…what the fuck?  Is this what male Tea Party supporters mean when they say they want their country back?  “I want my country back to the way it used to be…when women knew their place”. Come on.  Not only do the guys put their hands on th ...
  • IC 205: In This Economy?
    Topics for the show: Brandon from Where’s My 40 Acres is in the studio (PhenomBlak on Twitter) The Worst Concert Ever Kanye makes a 34 minute movie/music video and now we’re talking about the Illuminati…again Meth lab found in Georgetown University dorm room Relationships are like a full time job Jo ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • NASA's Kepler Mission changing how astronomers stu ...
    The quantity and quality of data coming back from NASA's Kepler Mission is changing how astronomers study stars, said Iowa State University's Steve Kawaler. read more
  • Water could hold answer to graphene nanoelectronic ...
    Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute developed a new method for using water to tune the band gap of the nanomaterial graphene, opening the door to new graphene-based transistors and nanoelectronics. read more
  • Targeted radiation therapy minimizes GI side effec ...
    Prostate cancer patients who receive intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) are less apt to suffer serious gastrointestinal complications following their treatment than those who receive three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (CRT), according to new research from the University of Pennsylvan ...
  • Breakthrough in understanding life-threatening chi ...
    Researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Children's Hospital have taken a big step toward understanding what causes one of the most serious liver diseases in infants. read more
  • Breaching the breech protocol
    Most babies are delivered head-first, but in about 4% of all deliveries babies are "born breech" ― with their buttocks or feet first. Doctors usually exercise caution and use caesarean sections (C-sections) as the delivery method of choice for such births, believing it safer for the baby. After a la ...

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

  • SNE 2060 – can we build nuclear power plants fast ...
    The nuclear scenario I describe here requires around 10,000 GWe of nuclear capacity by 2060, to replace most of our current fossil fuel use. (For further justification of this 10 TW target, read this TCASE post.) My next step is to look critically as some of the critical underpinning assumptions — u ...
  • 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 apply, [.. ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • The Existentialist Cowboy: Cold War Origins of the ...
    The Existentialist Cowboy: Cold War Origins of the CIA Holocaust By Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy A new book by James W. Douglass [JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters] addresses an "an evil whose depth and deceit seemed to go beyond the capacity of words to describe." A fe ...
  • John John: The View From Occupied Canada
    The Tyee – The Fight of Our Lives How do progressives decide on which issues to fight? The question reminds me of my conversations with Myles Horton, founder of the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee and one of the most brilliant and effective leadership-trainers of the past century. He died in 199 ...
  • John John: Cops = Murderers: John T. Williams and ...
    Cops = Murderers: John T. Williams and 6 More Killed by Washington State Cops | Mostly Water : Cops = Murderers - John T. Williams and 6 more killed by Washington Cops By Annie Elation - September 11, 2010 Blog posts are the work of individual contributors, reflecting their thoughts, opinions and ...
  • Letters: WikiLeaks reveals the stark reality of Ir ...
    Letters: WikiLeaks reveals the stark reality of Iraq | World news | The Guardian : "Winston Churchill once said: 'When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.' It is common practice in conflicts that governments ignore and cover up potential war crim ...
  • 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 ...

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.

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  • The political line of Israeli papers (a reader&#82 ...
    Who leans to the left and who moves to the right? which paper supports Netanyahu and who goes after him? a short guide to the subtleties of the Hebrew press Newspapers in Israel have always been of great importance. One of the first things early Zionists did in Palestine was to create their own Hebr ...
  • 26 October: one more settlement freeze?
      The Headlines: Freeze the Settlements, or Freeze the Peace Process? > According to reports, Netanyahu is planning [Heb] a comprehensive settlement freeze for three months, to be followed by nine months of restrained construction. This will take place while negotiations with the Palestinians move f ...
  • 25 October: a prodigal journalist returns home
    The Headlines: Inaction Inertia > The government threw its support behind a bill that would enshrine Jerusalem’s status as a national priority area, ensuring the city continues to receive special budgetary support. The decision applies to all parts of the city as claimed by Israel, including terri ...
  • 12-hour-long relay race in Yarmouk stadium, Gaza ( ...
    Gaza – Iâve been critical in the past of feature reporting on Palestine that takes the form of âPalestinians + Xâ where X is anything other than violence. You see feature stories in the Western press Palestinian soccer teams, Palestinian musicians, basketball players, as if it were somehow remarkabl ...
  • President Jimmy Carter at Sheikh Jarrah
    From the protest on Friday, October 22, 2010.

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • Bloomberg: Fannie Mae Suspends David J. Stern
    Our federal government, by virtue of being the largest real party in interest in foreclosure cases across this state, is responsible for fostering the environment of fraud and deceit that allowed the Law Offices of David J. Stern to become one of the largest foreclosure mills in this country.  Time ...
  • Nobel Prize Winner: FraudclosureGate is Fraud and ...
    Fraudclosuregate is not just a few attorneys screaming at the top of our lungs and trying to get the attention of judges at the trial court level….it’s a massive, crippling, potentially fatal cancer that is eating at the core of our nation.  The big policy makers and smartest people in the world ar ...
  • Lisa Epstein on Dylan Ratigan- Awesome!
    Listen to my friend Lisa Epstein from ForeclosureHamlet on Dylan Ratigan! Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • The “Secret” Underbelly of Service of ...
    Read the attached article on Fraud in Foreclosures that recently appeared in the Jacksonville Times Union. Then read carefully the huge dodge of responsibility set up by ProVest’s mouthpiece: “I expect them to sign their returns of service,” said Karen M. Kelly, the general counsel and chief compli ...
  • The First Meaningful Statement By Govt Official Ab ...
    The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is yet another branch of our government that is on the hook for trillions of dollars in the failed orgy of corruption, incompetence and greed that has become our American system of property ownership.  Our leaders are doing their best to keep the lid ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Grading Badges
    An odd article by Andrew Coyne in Maclean’s, in which he laments the usefulness of the United Nations and maintains that even if this country lost the Security Council seat because of the government’s pro-Israel stance, it was, in effect, a “badge of honour.”  Judging from the response to his observ ...
  • The Life of Brian
    For so many citizens, Brian Mulroney represents the past in this country.  This is what Stephen Harper is counting on.  Yet Mulroney’s personal difficulties aside, his nine years in office represented a kind of era that was one of this country’s crowning achievements in internationalism.  In a phras ...
  • 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 [...]

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

  • Beyond the obvious – lessons from the Deepwater Ho ...
    The immediate lessons from the Deepwater Horizon disaster are pretty obvious – we (or at least somebody) messed up!  But what about the less-obvious lessons – especially those concerning technology innovation and how it’s handled?  The Fall 2010 issue of Findings – the University of Michigan Schoo ...
  • ASME launches a new series of nanotechnology podca ...
    ASME – the organization that used to be known as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers – has just launched a series of educational podcasts on nanotechnology that are well worth checking out. Between now and next February, the ASME Nanotechnology Institute will be posting new video and/or aud ...
  • Scientist listen to the public? Surely you’re joki ...
    With apologies to Chris Mooney, and all the many scientists that really do get the need to listen to people.  And also with a rather large tongue in my cheek: Dear Mr Mooney, I’ve been way too busy this week doing important sciency stuff to engage with the trivialities of the popular press.  But t ...
  • I’m A Scientist 2010 ends, and the winner is…
    An hour or so ago, the final winners of I’m A Scientist, Get Me Out Of Here were announced.  To my surprise, I made it to the last two standing in the Silicon Zone yesterday, and have been on the edge of my seat today waiting to see whether I was going to be ousted [...]
  • I’m A Scientist – A brilliant British idea that ne ...
    Today was a tough day on I’m A Scientist, Get Me Out Of Here – three live chats almost back to back, followed by the first evictions.  And believe me – even though I live to fight another day, the evictions were traumatic!  But more of that below.  At the end of a long day, [...]

Reader Supported News

  • Borneo's Majestic Rainforest Is Being Killed by th ...
    Intro: "Felling trees to meet British demand for garden furniture is devastating villages, livelihoods and food supplies, and threatening endangered species." Villagers cope with 'dry season' flooding in Lanjak; the monsoons are still a month away, 10/24/10. (photo: Tracy McVeigh/Observer UK) ...
  • Use of Contractors Added to War's Chaos in Iraq
    Excerpt: "The documents sketch, in vivid detail, a critical change in the way America wages war: the early days of the Iraq war, with all its Wild West chaos, ushered in the era of the private contractor, wearing no uniform but fighting and dying in battle, gathering and disseminating intelligence a ...
  • Colbert-Stewart Rally: Bigger Than a Tea Party?
    "As the clock counts down to the October 30 'Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear' in Washington, the number of sister events in support of the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert extravaganza is exploding." Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. (photo: Comedy Central) Sorry, your browser cannot display ...
  • Tea Party Climate-Change Deniers Funded by BP and ...
    "BP and several other big European companies are funding the midterm election campaigns of Tea Party favourites who deny the existence of global warming or oppose Barack Obama's energy agenda." Historic re-enactors Kevin Grantz (left) and Gerry Notare pose with Tea Party activist Nighta Davis dur ...
  • WikiLeaks: Americans Handed Over Captives to Iraq ...
    "American troops in Iraq handed over captives to an infamous torture squad, according to newly-released files from the WikiLeaks war logs." Iraqi soldiers guard a blindfolded detainee during an operation outside Baquba, Iraq, 08/06/10. (photo: AFP/Getty Images)
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