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Thomas Paine

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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

26 October - RSS SnapShot! Part 2

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Blacklisted News

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • USIP's biased "Iran Primer"
    Summary: The US Institute of Peace has published an "Iran Primer" which could not be more biased and inaccurate when it comes to their coverage of the nuclear issue (I haven't read the rest so I can't judge the rest.) The main article onthe nuclear issue is totally written by David Albright of ...
  • Qatar urges US 'dialogue' with Iran
    Summary: Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani has urged the United States to resume negotiations aimed at resolving the nuclear standoff with Iran. source: Press TV read more
  • Iran needs stern lessons in freedom
    Summary: Just because we're covertly infiltrating and interfering in virtually every Muslim country on the planet -- and just because we're actively aiding rebel groups inside their specific country -- is no reason to suspect Americans who illegally enter their country of espionage. That just g ...
  • Poll: 80% of Lebanese approve Iran’s aid to the Le ...
    Summary: a rally in Beirut, October 13, 2010 A poll conducted by the Beirut Center for Research and Information revealed that a majority of Lebanese favored the historical visit made to the country by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as well as Iran’s initiative to provide the Lebanese Army ...
  • Iran and Honduras in the Propaganda System
    Summary: As we stated at the outset of Part 1, there is no better test of the independence and integrity of the establishment U.S. media than in their comparative treatment of Iran and Honduras in 2009 and 2010. source: MRzine read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Image of the Day: The Dragon's Eye
    NGC 6826's eye-of-demon appearance is heightened by two sets of blood-red "fliers" that lie horizontally across the image. The surrounding faint green "white" of the eye is believed to be gas that made up almost half of the star's mass...
  • The Weekend Poll: What Do You Think? "Humans Have ...
    "At first, evolution proceeded by natural selection, from random mutations. This Darwinian phase, lasted about three and a half billion years, and produced us, beings who developed language, to exchange information," according to Stephen Hawking, our planet's preeminent physicist. But...
  • CERN's LHC May Provide Clues to "The Great Attract ...
    With its successful test run at the end of 2009, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, is poised to answer some of the most vexing problems of modern physics and. open new frontiers in understanding space and time, the...
  • Image of the Day: Strange Spirals of Mars' Polar C ...
    NASA reported that almost 40 years ago, the Mariner 9 spacecraft relayed to Earth the first video images of Mars' northern polar ice cap, revealing a strange pattern of spiral swirls that has puzzled scientists ever since. Using data from...
  • New Tech: Steve Jobs and Obama Meet in Palo Alto.. ...
    Steve Jobs had a one-on-one meeting yesterday with President Obama. Jobs met the president just before Obama spoke at the Palo Alto home of Google executive and Apple foe Marissa Mayer’s Friday evening. The meeting with Steve Jobs was not...

Natural News

  • Drug factories flush painkillers down the drain, c ...
    (NaturalNews) A study conducted by researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has exposed drug factories as major sources of pharmaceutical pollution, revealing drug concentrations in the wastewater downstream of these factories more than a thousand times higher than those found in other was ...
  • Best Halloween Costume Ever (comic)
    (NaturalNews) On a budget this Halloween? Here's the best (and most affordable) Halloween costume ever: Just walk around in the nude with your hands in the air. When people ask what you're doing, simply explain that you're "an air passenger as seen by the TSA's naked body scanners!" The TSA naked bo ...
  • Restaurant customers willing to pay more for local ...
    (NaturalNews) Local food continues to gain in popularity as increasing numbers of people recognize and appreciate the value of clean food from local farms. And a new study published in the International Journal of Revenue Management has found that besides being willing to pay more for local food, re ...
  • Why I'm thankful for Whole Foods Market stores
    (NaturalNews) After a recent visit to Austin, Texas to appear live on the Alex Jones show, I had the opportunity to visit the flagship store of Whole Foods. I've been to a lot of Whole Foods stores throughout the country, so I've seen the typical layouts and offerings, but this Austin store takes it ...
  • LA Times pinkwashing reaches new low by pushing "p ...
    (NaturalNews) Check this out: The LA Times is pinkwashing their entire website masthead with a pink ribbon set behind the word "Angeles," which of course means "angels." See it for yourself in this Fair Use screen shot: http://naturalnews.com/images/LATimes-PinkRibbon.jpg If that's not enough pinkwa ...

Threat Level

  • Report: ‘Spear-Phishing’ Attacks Keep on Giving
    The number of targeted phishing attacks against individuals has risen dramatically in the last five years from one or two a week in 2005 to more than 70 a day this month, according to a new report from computer security firm Symantec. The industry most recently hardest hit by so-called spear-phishi ...
  • Follow the Money: Pork-Powered Pig Preps for Fligh ...
    Whenever Marine One lifts off from the south lawn of the White House, identical decoy helicopters go with it, quickly trading places in a complex, evasive maneuver known as the presidential shell game. The shifting formation is aimed at confusing potential attackers, a concern that reached a fever ...
  • Wired.com, MAPLight.org Launch Political-Influence ...
    #sliding_panel {display:block !important; } Build your own Influence Tracker by selecting a senator or representative. Then copy and paste the embed code into your own site. Your browser does not support iframes. At Wired.com, we love data and the possibilities that arise when big public datas ...
  • Secret Button Sequence Bypasses iPhone Security
    A security flaw in the iPhone allows strangers to bypass the handset’s lock screen with a few button presses. In the video below, a Brazilian iPhone customer demonstrates the quick method to circumvent an iPhone’s passcode-protected lock screen: tap the “Emergency call” button, then enter three poun ...
  • WikiLeaks’ 400,000 Iraq War Documents Reveal Tortu ...
    The secret-spilling website WikiLeaks released almost 400,000 U.S. Army reports from the Iraq War on Friday, marking the largest military leak in U.S. history. The database covers events from the Iraq War dating from 2004 through 2009, with the vast majority of entries classified at the “secret” le ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • For Conservatives, Sarah Palin is Pretty in Pink
    By now, Americans have grown accustomed to Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio saying (and doing) what most hard-line conservatives are only thinking. So when Sheriff Joe tweeted that he gave Sarah Palin a pair of pink underwear , right-wing eyebrows weren't the only things being raised. Of course, this ep ...
  • A Midterm Triple Whammy for Democrats
    This weekend, the New York Times and Washington Post offered almost identical assessments of the 2010 Congressional elections. While the Times announced "GOP poised to seize House, if not Senate," the Post predicted 'historic" losses with "more than 90 Democratic House seats are potentially in play ...
  • Obama the Snob Talking Point Returns for Midterms
    During the 2008, the campaign of multimillionaire and multiple home owner John McCain tried and failed to paint Barack Obama as "elitist" and "out of touch." But now that moribund Democrats are showing some signs of life as Election Day nears, the right-wing Obama as Snob meme is back with a vengea ...
  • Republicans Cut and Run on Spending Cuts
    When it comes to cutting the federal budget, talk is cheap. But as the New York Times is just the latest to report, across the country Republican candidates are talking tough about spending cuts they can't - or won't - explain . Yet even as they promise another $700 billion Treasury-draining wind ...
  • Right-Wing Rage Drowns Out Massive Obama Tax Cut
    On Monday, the New York Times asked, "What if a president cut Americans' income taxes by $116 billion and nobody noticed?" As it turns out, that question neatly sums up the sad dynamic at play in the 2010 midterm elections. On the one hand, President Obama and his Democratic allies have utterly fa ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

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

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • You can attend a hearing on redistricting in your ...
    The House Committee on Redistricting as a function of it’s procedural jurisdiction and as part of the 81st legislature’s interim charges are conducting public hearings around the state regarding redistricting that will occur during the 82nd Legislature, that begins January 11, 2011.  The committee w ...
  • In Texas, Few Campaign on Renewable Energy, Climat ...
    A recent poll shows that voters are more inclined to vote for a candidate that voted for the Federal climate change and renewable energy legislation than for those who didn’t. This is interesting in a time in which many conservative groups are advocating that climate change is a hoax and humans don’ ...
  • Public Citizen Staff at PUC after protesting a beh ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Public Citizen Staff at PUC after protesting a behind-closed-door negotiation b/w NRG, CPS Energy, and Chairman Barry Smitherman
  • Corpus Christi citizens meet to begin the process ...
    TCEQ is broken. It’s not working in the public’s interest, and there are direct costs that all of us in the state of Texas are paying as a result.  But there is an opportunity for us to fix some of the problems with this broken state agency by participating in the Texas Sunset process. The Alliance ...
  • After Obama Administration Basks in Glory of Good ...
        The following is a statement by Tyson Slocum, Director of Public Citizen’s Energy Program   As the White House finally rights a wrong and installs solar panels to heat and energize the East Wing, the Obama administration will have to determine if the installation is merely a symbolic gesture or ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • NASA to lead global asteroid response
    NASA will play a leading role in Earth's response to possible asteroid threats. Details of NASA role in dealing with an asteroid threat were sent in l...
  • Seeking the Indian Bigfoot
    A team is soon to embark on an expedition to seek India's answer to Bigfoot, the Mande-burung. The group is comprised of members from the Center for F...
  • Discovery of taste receptors in the lungs
    Its a discovery so unexpected that even the scientists who found them were skeptical at first. A team of researchers at the University of Maryland Sch...
  • Harry Potter claimed to be 'Christ-like'
    Rev Dr Stephen Holmes has claimed that Harry Potter is Christ-like because he promotes Biblical values. Up until now the Harry Potter series has attra...
  • Being haunted through your mobile ?
    Paranormal investigator Phil Hayes has claimed that a third of hauntings take place via mobile phone. Such "haunted calls" usually involve heavy stati...

Grassroots

  • International Caravans for Life, Resistance, and E ...
    mexico200605-012.jpg The Via Campesina, along with their member organization the National Union of Autonomous Regional Peasant Organizations (UNORCA) – both Grassroots International partners – are organizing a march in Mexico for life and en ...
  • Outrage in a Time of Cholera
    haiti201005-142.jpg Many of us involved in the post-earthquake reality of Haiti have both feared and expected the kind of health crisis that recently surfaced in the news. In many ways, the seeming inevitability makes it all the more tragic – ...
  • US Food Sovereignty Alliance Launches in New Orlea ...
    1._sign_-_food_sovereignty_yes.jpg Grassroots International’s global partners like the Via Campesina have frequently told us: “You have to work hard to change things in the U.S. for our hard work to bear real fruit.” In other words, for anothe ...
  • Insights - Fall 2010
    An important victory is unfolding: the US Food Sovereignty Alliance is officially being launched on World Food Day, October 16. More than three years in the making, this event represents not only a first for the US, but a much awaited step forward for the food sovereignty movement worldwide. Read mo ...
  • Update from Mexico since the September Mudslide
    oaxaca.jpg For a week in late September, steady rain in the southern states of Mexico created mudslides and floods, affecting communities and farms in Oaxaca, Chiapas and surrounding southern states. Fortunately early reports overestimated the ...

Climate

GreenBiz

  • Floating Islands: Using Garbage to Clean Polluted ...
    A small company based in rural Montana has big dreams for using post-consumer plastic waste to restore fish populations, sequester carbon, remove water pollution -- and create unlimited amounts of new waterfront property.
  • Fox Snares 2 Top Awards and 12 Other Honors in 'Gr ...
    Fox Filmed Entertainment was a big winner in the recent Environmental Media Association's annual awards ceremony with top honors going to the film "Avatar" and an episode of the TV show "Bones" and Green Seal recognition of 12 other Fox productions.
  • Changing the Light Bulb as We Know It
    In late 2007, President Bush signed a federal energy bill that established energy efficiency standards for the everyday light bulb. The standards essentially retire the 125-year-old incandescent. Unfortunately, there's an effort afloat to "save" the highly inefficient� incandescent light bulb.
  • Water Utility to Save $200K per Year by Turning Hu ...
    The first biogas plant in the United States to be powered by human sewage is up and running today, and will save the city of San Antonio $200,000 a year in water treatment and energy costs.
  • German Businessman Imports 'Heatballs' to Dodge EU ...
    A businessman has a devised a way around a European Union ban on incandescent llght bulbs of more than 60 watts by producing and pitching them as mini-heaters called "heatballs."

Reuters Global

  • Clinton sees diplomats of the future in cargo pant ...
    Hillary Clinton has urged Congress to finance a major new U.S. push on overseas development aid, arguing that only by building up a global middle class will the United States increase its own national security.
  • Inside the Pirates’ Web
    Counterfeit commerce over the Internet has soared the past couple of years, turning what had been an irritant to businesses into a serious threat. Reuters journalists track the pirates from their websites to their shady workshops in China.
  • Numbed by Ciudad Juarez’s endless killings, ...
    The horrific killing of teenagers at a party in Ciudad Juarez deepens the despair in Mexico's worst drug war city, but authorities seem numbed into a state of inaction.
  • Obama in India next month;ripples in the region
    U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to India next month has set off ripples in the region, from Beijing to Islamabad.
  • “Orientalism” in Afghanistan and Pakis ...
    In the West's desire to get out of Afghanistan, is it falling prey to "Orientalism" - seeing facts on the ground as it would wish, rather than as they are?

Booman Tribune

  • Signs and Omens
    We got a call today from an OFA staffer in Washington DC who told us that she saw the Manan Trivedi lawn sign in our yard yesterday. Apparently, she grew up on our street and was home visiting. It's a small world. I'm actually seeing a weird phenomenon around here. I'm seeing a lot of yards that ...
  • Well, Duh
    Why does Gerald Seib sound surprised? The upshot is one of the great political ironies of the year: A national conservative wave will hit hardest not at the most liberal Democrats, but at the most conservative Democrats. The Democratic caucus left behind will be, on balance, more liberal than it ...
  • Just a Coincidence?
    I just started re-reading The Plot Against Against America by Phillip Roth last night. It's a frightening alternative history in which Lindbergh defeats FDR for President in 1940 and institutes a fascist US government that suspends the civil liberties of minorities deemed a threat to national secur ...
  • Wanker of the Day: Richard Cohen
    Clarence Thomas was 33 years-old when he went to work at the Department of Education, and he was 34 years-old when he went to work at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He was 42 years-old when he was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. But, for ...
  • What Losses in the Senate Will Mean
    In early October, CQ Politics laid out three scenarios for the how the midterms might turn out. All of them were painful to contemplate. Essentially the scenarios were 'catastrophically bad,' 'unthinkably bad, and 'just plain awful.' In the middle scenario, the Democrats didn't do as badly as they h ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Emotions Can Seem Tricky
    By Jim Hutt, Ph.D., Family Problems Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jim and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile Like it or not, emotions, which can seem tricky, play a crucial role in the heat conflict. Here’s a way to deal with the way emotions can be confusing when you manage confli ...
  • Recession’s Psychological Fallout Isn’t Limited to ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Psychologists and therapists nationwide, especially those who specialize in work-related counseling, report employee stress levels that are higher than any time in the past several decades. The mental health consequences of a fragile economy are significant. Often, tho ...
  • Months and Years Later, Support and Therapy Benefi ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline In a comprehensive report called “Keeping the Promise,” the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute is calling for better support services for families with adopted children. While most families are success stories, says the report, a few face stark challenges. Children ...
  • FOOD + SEX — What’s Weight Got to Do with It? (May ...
    By Ondina Nandine Hatvany, MFT, Eating & Food Issues Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Ondina and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Although research has shown little conclusive evidence of the correlation between eating disorders and sexual trauma, it is a different story in my psycho ...
  • Personality: Does Birth Order Matter?
    By Lynne Silva-Breen, MDiv, MA, LMFT, Family Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lynne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile For generations, family members have noted the differences that naturally arise in children raised in the same family. How is it that John, the first born ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Ken Heckler, Hundreds Rally on Kayford Mountain - ...
    Ken Heckler, Hundreds Rally on Kayford Mountain HNN Huntingtonnews.net Fixing the ruined landscape will provide long term jobs for those put out of work by the abolition of mountaintop removal ” said John Johnson, a forester and ...
  • EPA Official: Reject Permit for Mountaintop Remova ...
    Mother Nature Network (blog) EPA Official: Reject Permit for Mountaintop Removal Mine in WV Democracy Now The Obama administration has moved a step closer to retroactively revoking the largest mountaintop removal mining permit in West Virginia history. ... Let's Keep the Tops on Our Mountains Huffi ...
  • Commentary: Rand Paul's long list of oddities - Le ...
    msnbc.com Commentary: Rand Paul's long list of oddities Lexington Herald Leader Like saying mountaintop removal in Eastern Kentucky is no big deal because they're just "knobby little hills" anyway. �� Like saying the federal government ... Rand Paul supporter stomps on woman's head Salon all 954 n ...
  • Dems resurrect the old McCain - Politico (blog)
    Fox News Dems resurrect the old McCain Politico (blog) �While Joe Manchin is suing the Obama administration to protect West Virginia miners' ability to perform mountaintop removal , John Raese is out campaigning ... W.Va. Tea Party Questions Democrat's Coal Credentials After Industry Rally New York ...
  • West Virginia Sues Feds Over Mountain Top Removal ...
    Reuters West Virginia Sues Feds Over Mountain Top Removal Permits Care2.com (blog) Mountaintop removal , in which hundreds of feet are blasted off hills to gain access to coal seams, has become a major mining method in West Virginia, ... WV Senate candidate calls Democrat, Republican rivals on supp ...

Memeorandum

  • Full page ad in Herald Leader today touts endorsem ...
    Media Czech / Barefoot and Progressive : Full page ad in Herald Leader today touts endorsement of the Curbstomper   —  Well, it just gets more interesting.  —  Rand Paul took out a full page ad on the back page of the Herald Leader today.  —  Guess who's endorsement they tout at the bottom of the ...
  • Paul Supporter Who Wrestled Woman to Ground Identi ...
    Lisa Graas : Paul Supporter Who Wrestled Woman to Ground Identified as Mike Pezzano   —  A female Kentucky Tea Party activist who wishes to remain anonymous has identified the man who wrestled a female MoveOn.org activist to the ground after the debate last night.  In an email to me and copied …
  • GOP Senate Candidate Ken Buck: 'I Disagree Strongl ...
    George Zornick / ThinkProgress : GOP Senate Candidate Ken Buck: ‘I Disagree Strongly With The Concept Of Separation Of Church And State’   —  During a debate last week, Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell (R-DE) repeatedly questioned whether the First Amendment laid out a separation between churc ...
  • New Footage Emerges Of MoveOn Activist Stomped By ...
    Brian Beutler / TPMDC : New Footage Emerges Of MoveOn Activist Stomped By Rand Paul Supporter (VIDEO)   —  Just a quick update on the developing story out of Lexington, Kentucky, where a protester affiliated with MoveOn was dragged to the ground and stomped by Rand Paul supporters ahead of last ni ...
  • UNHINGED LEFTIST Who Lunged at Rand Paul Is Paid F ...
    Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit : UNHINGED LEFTIST Who Lunged at Rand Paul Is Paid Far Left Activist   —  For the record...  The Unhinged Leftist Who Lunged at Rand Paul Is a Paid Activist  —  MoveOn.org contract employee Lauren Valle stalked and lunged at Rand Paul outside the final debate last night.

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.0, southwest of Sumatra, Indonesia
    Tuesday, October 26, 2010 19:40:41 UTC Wednesday, October 27, 2010 02:40:41 AM at epicenter Depth : 29.50 km (18.33 mi)
  • M 5.3, Mariana Islands region
    Monday, October 25, 2010 02:59:12 UTC Monday, October 25, 2010 12:59:12 PM at epicenter Depth : 49.40 km (30.70 mi)
  • M 5.1, Caspian Sea
    Friday, October 22, 2010 09:08:29 UTC Friday, October 22, 2010 12:08:29 PM at epicenter Depth : 26.00 km (16.16 mi)
  • M 5.1, Tonga
    Friday, October 22, 2010 02:52:55 UTC Friday, October 22, 2010 03:52:55 PM at epicenter Depth : 42.30 km (26.28 mi)
  • M 5.7, Gulf of California
    Wednesday, October 20, 2010 04:09:44 UTC Tuesday, October 19, 2010 10:09:44 PM at epicenter Depth : 14.40 km (8.95 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Keeping within our earthly limits
    The Living Planet Report , produced by WWF and its partners, shows that humanity’s demands still outstrip the world’s natural resources – a trend likely to worsen. chinadialogue looks inside the 2010 edition. Populations of tropical species are plummeting and humanity’s demands on natural resources ...
  • Turning point in Tianjin
    Dozens of Chinese civil-society groups came together to host events at this month’s climate talks in Tianjin. Programme coordinator Lu Sicheng tells Meng Si it was a historic milestone. Lu Sicheng was the coordinator of “Green China, Race to the Future”, a series events organised by Chinese NGOs at ...
  • Peru’s water, UK’s asparagus
    Large-scale production of a luxury vegetable for European tables risks a water disaster in the dry Ica valley, an NGO warns. Felicity Lawrence explains the human impact of Britain’s reliance on “virtual water”. Asparagus grown in Peru and sold in the United Kingdom is commonly held up as a symbol of ...
  • Struggling to adjust
    The need for humans to adapt to climate change is clear, but the where, when and how remain fuzzy. Tan Copsey reports on existing – and hotly debated – plans for financing change in vulnerable countries. The climate is changing and human beings will need to change with it. People will have to adap ...
  • Slideshow: thirsty Beijing
    Per capita drinking water resources in the Chinese capital have sunk to 4% of the global average. In a series of images, photographer Olli Geibel documents the city’s predicament.

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Report: ‘Spear-Phishing’ Attacks Keep on Giving
    The number of targeted phishing attacks against individuals has risen dramatically in the last five years from one or two a week in 2005 to more than 70 a day this month, according to a new report from computer security firm Symantec. The industry most recently hardest hit by so-called spear-phishi ...
  • Follow the Money: Pork-Powered Pig Preps for Fligh ...
    Whenever Marine One lifts off from the south lawn of the White House, identical decoy helicopters go with it, quickly trading places in a complex, evasive maneuver known as the presidential shell game. The shifting formation is aimed at confusing potential attackers, a concern that reached a fever ...
  • Wired.com, MAPLight.org Launch Political-Influence ...
    #sliding_panel {display:block !important; } Build your own Influence Tracker by selecting a senator or representative. Then copy and paste the embed code into your own site. Your browser does not support iframes. At Wired.com, we love data and the possibilities that arise when big public datas ...
  • Secret Button Sequence Bypasses iPhone Security
    A security flaw in the iPhone allows strangers to bypass the handset’s lock screen with a few button presses. In the video below, a Brazilian iPhone customer demonstrates the quick method to circumvent an iPhone’s passcode-protected lock screen: tap the “Emergency call” button, then enter three poun ...
  • WikiLeaks’ 400,000 Iraq War Documents Reveal Tortu ...
    The secret-spilling website WikiLeaks released almost 400,000 U.S. Army reports from the Iraq War on Friday, marking the largest military leak in U.S. history. The database covers events from the Iraq War dating from 2004 through 2009, with the vast majority of entries classified at the “secret” le ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

IntelNews

  • Greek-Cypriot spies behind largest document theft ...
    Agents of the Greek-Cypriot government were behind the largest document theft in the history of the United Nations, according to reports in the Cypriot and Turkish press. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #444
    Kyrgyz leader says spies tried to kill him. Pakistanâs ISI organized Mumbai attacks, say Indians. Russian sleeper agents receive highest state honor. Continue reading →
  • Mysterious Russian spy goes on trial in Poland
    The trial has started in Warsaw, Poland, of an unnamed Russian citizen accused of working for Russian military intelligence. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #443
    First budget cuts in a decade for UK spy agencies. South Koreans arrested for trying to defect to North. Plame calls Fair Game movie 'accurate portrayal'. Continue reading →
  • Iran admits some of its nuclear scientists spied f ...
    A top-level Iranian government official has admitted that some scientists and technicians in Iranâs nuclear energy program were successfully lured into spying for Israeli and Western intelligence agencies in the past. The disclosure, which was characterized as âstunningâ by the Associated Press, mar ...

After Downing Street.org

  • Of Principalities and Powers ~ “Restoring Honor: A ...
    Writer’s Note: In the aftermath of Glenn Beck’s Washington rally, I’ve drawn a picture of what “restoring honor” in this country might actually mean, using the example of Colin Powell. The column, as harsh as it may seem, isn’t intended to sit in judgment of Powell; that’s a matter between him an ...
  • Kucinich: Karzai Offers Further Proof of the Immed ...
    Cleveland, OH (October 26, 2010) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement about Afghanistan President Karzai’s admission that he receives “bags of cash” from the Iranian government: "The Karzai regime is so corrupt; it doesn’t even bother to try to hide it anymore. It ...
  • War-hit countries 'most corrupt'
    War-torn states are still seen as being the most corrupt in the world, according to a new report from Transparency International . � 26 October 2010 - The Berlin-based watchdog monitors perceived corruption and has published its annual report, based on a poll of businesses and people in 178 nations. ...
  • An Ocean Full of Oil
    By David Swanson Earlier this year, we put millions of barrels of oil, billions of cubic feet of gas, and 1.5 million gallons of chemical dispersants into the Gulf of Mexico. Of those dispersants, designed for use on the surface, 800,000 gallons were sprayed directly into the oil gusher on the dark ...
  • The Women’s Harvest
    By Jerica Arents Kabul, Afghanistan - After a week visiting Bamiyan, a rural Afghan Province, one thing has been made abundantly clear to me: the experience of being a woman in this country is much different than being a woman in the United States. Here, the inescapable and indelible fact of gender ...

Grist - News

  • The Biggest Loser (of energy waste): UNC dormitory
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Back in April the EPA launched a quirky little competition inspired by The Biggest Loser in which 14 buildings competed to see which could trim the most waste from their energy usage. The competitors were a 23-story Manhattan office building, a San Diego Marriott hotel, a C ...
  • The Senate livability bill has no teeth. That&#821 ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. The Obama administration is shifting federal transportation and housing funding away from its historical focus on sprawl-inducing highways and toward walkable, transit-friendly, mixed-use development. The work got started with the creation of the Partnership for Sustainable ...
  • States have clean-energy momentum, but it’s ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. For all the dysfunction , moral cowardice and hamfisted leadership in the fight for a federal climate bill, there's a good deal of ambitious work being done at the state level. Cleantech entrepreneurs are finding ways to build profitable businesses nearly everywhere, but part ...
  • Minnesota governor’s race: Dayton vs. Horner ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. When Sarah Palin and the "drill, baby, drill" chant rose to prominence at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, two leading Minnesota Republicans reacted in very different ways. And their responses represent two distinct directions that state voters could c ...
  • We’re tearing this highway down, Transportat ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. It's one thing to talk about designing cities and towns for people instead of cars, as Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has done . It's another thing to make good on that pledge by tearing down elevated highways that prevent foot traffic and isolate neighborhoods from each ...

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Washington Independent

  • Court Rules Arizona Can’t Demand Proof of Ci ...
    The state of Arizona cannot require documents proving citizenship for new voter registration, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today. The court ruled that a 2004 law created by Proposition 200 that made voters show a birth certificate, driver’s license or passport before registering to vote ...
  • More on Escalated Oil Spill Claims
    I’ve reported twice now (here and here) on the issue of Gulf oil spill victims being told their claims have been expedited, or “escalated,” only to wait days and in some cases weeks without receiving compensation for the losses they incurred. My post yesterday elicited a number of responses, but one ...
  • Anti-Gay Marriage Groups Organize Big Final Push O ...
    Social issues might be taking a back seat to fiscal issues in many states in the lead-up to next week’s elections, but don’t tell that to Iowa. The state’s judicial retention election for three Iowa Supreme Court justices who voted to allow gay marriage in 2009 is drawing in conservative groups from ...
  • Judge in Arizona Immigration Law Appeal Once Faced ...
    Leading up the the first appeal hearings next week on Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law, the East Valley Tribune has a piece breaking down some of the possible biases of the three judges who will hear the case brought by the Justice Department. As with most stories speculating on how judges will mak ...
  • U.S. Chamber Pens an Op-Ed for Joe Manchin
    With all the public barbs being traded back and forth between the Chamber of Commerce and the Obama administration, it’s easy to forget that the Chamber is backing at least one Democrat this year in a pretty public way. In today’s Charleston Gazette, Chamber president Thomas Donohue explained once a ...

Digg Green

  • Science Of Lightsabers
    This was the formal weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster.
  • NASA back on track to the Moon
    Obama wants NASA to finance the development of commercial rockets that would take astronauts to the International Space Station. NASA also would focus on developing new space technologies with the eventual goal of reaching Mars.
  • Virgin Galactic opens first spaceport
    Virgin Galactic has opened its first commercial spaceport "Spaceport America" in New Mexico. The facility will be able to launch all known types of spacecraft.
  • The Unspoken Truth About Ben Frankin's Kite-F ...
    Did Benjamin Franklin actually fly a kite in a lightening storm? One author is trying to debunk the legend involving lightning and electricity.
  • Planets in 'habitable zone' may provide answe ...
    The Gliese 581 system has been making headlines recently for the most newly announced planet that may lie in the habitable zone. Hopes were somewhat dashed when we were reminded that the certainty level of its discovery was only 3 sigma (95%, whereas most astronomical discoveries are at or abov ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • It’s All a Matter of Degrees
    By Les Visible You know, I don’t have much of anything. I want what any man would want, I think. I don’t know everybody. I don’t even know who I am. My life is stranger than you can imagine and trust me; that is an understatement. I look at this thing with Jeff Rense and [...]
  • What a Gravity-Driven Demolition Looks Like
    The official story is that the North Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed due to gravity. This has been critiqued in an analysis by Graeme MacQueen and Tony Szamboti, and in a related analysis by David Chandler (both in the Journal of 9/11 Studies). The Balzac-Vitry demolition was a true gravit ...
  • Quadruple-dose seasonal flu “super” va ...
    By Mike Adams The vaccine industry has now decided that injecting senior citizens with the “standard” vaccine dose just isn’t working. (Gee, really?) So now they’ve decided the way to make it work better is to offer a quadruple viral potency vaccine that packs 400% more viral fragments into one toxi ...
  • Plants Clean Up More Air Pollution Than Previously ...
    Let’s just take it as a given that plants are awesome in many practical and inherent ways and go from there: New research, led by scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, shows that plants clean out air pollution to a much greater extent than previously thought. In fact, some ty ...
  • MRI scans ‘lead to unnecessary breast surger ...
    By Stephen Adams, Medical Correspondent Published: 7:30AM BST 22 Oct 2010 Magnetic resonance mammography (MRM) is particular good at finding tumours that are hard to spot using standard x-ray mammography. Younger women with a genetically high risk of breast cancer can be offered MRMs on the NHS if r ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

  • Republican Energy Plan (cartoon)
    Same old same old from the right side of the aisle. As Treehugger columnist, Brian Merchant recently shared, “they are the only major political party of any democracy in the world that gets away with denying climate science.” Scary. More on the ever-tan Mr. Boehner: John Boehner on the Issues (sc ...
  • Here Comes Trouble (cartoon)
    Recent news of the habitable planet that circles a star called Gliese 581, and the ensuing article in the Huffington Post, by James Napoli inspired this little cartoon. The news is also reminiscent of one of my favorite children’s books Wump World, by Bill Peet. Look out Wumps! Here we come! New ...
  • Republican Clouds (cartoon)
    Obama announced recently that he plans to add solar panels to the White House. I can’t see anyone or anything standing in the way. White House gets into 10/10/10 spirit with solar-panel plan Obama: âNo industry with more potential to create jobs now than clean energyâ Follow Joe Mohrâs cartoonery ...
  • Big Oil and Big Coal’s Favorite Toy (cartoon)
    Find me a liberal in the Big Coal and/or Oil biz and I’ll never draw another cartoon again! Republican governor candidates deny climate change On climate change, it’s the Republicans versus reality Follow Joe Mohrâs cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons Related pos ...
  • Wrong Way for Right Whales
    Mysterious whale die-off is largest on record Gandhi quotes Follow Joe Mohrâs cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons Related posts:Dances With the Moon: Earth Day is Coming! Can’t Spell HATE Without T-E-A (cartoon) Tea Partiers and Suicide Bombers (cartoon) R ...

Inhabitat

  • Reclaimed Wood Desks Feature Vintage Soda Crates a ...
    Koff Designs has been making reclaimed furniture in Brooklyn with love for years. Now they’re using vintage soda crates as magazine drawers for their tables – adding a special touch to their beautiful recycled designs. Check out their other upcycled and reclaimed wood furniture here. READ MORE > ...
  • BOOK REVIEW: Land/Art New Mexico
    If there is such a thing as a Land Art Party, it went down last year — titled Land/Art New Mexico, the gathering heaved itself at the mystery of Earth and the vitality of creative work. Now only this book remains. It’s a collection of giant photographs and in-depth essays, documenting and analyzing ...
  • Princeton Charter School Builds a More Sustainable ...
    The Princeton Charter School (PCS) has always been ahead of the curve when it comes to education, and now it’s upping its environmental credentials as well. The school recently made a very sustainable addition to its Campus Center – a multi-use facility that houses a sports complex as well as art an ...
  • Colored Pencil Shelf Adds a Burst of Brightness to ...
    Designer Dominic Wilcox has created an awesome shelf made entirely of colored pencils. He glued all of the pencils together in two rows to create a surprisingly sturdy surface, and even the brackets that hold the shelf up are cool – they were made by cutting a single pencil case into two parts allow ...
  • This Thigh Bone’s Connected to Your Lampshade
    Have you ever broken a bone, had an x-ray, and thought the photo was actually quite cool? Swedish design students Sture Pallarp, Elin Hedlund and Emmelie Karlström, took the x-ray aesthetic to a whole new level and incorporated the film into a lighting fixture. Their X-ray Lamp is a conceptual appro ...

Pogue's Posts

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

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Shade of Red Preserved in Jurassic Fossils
    Most biological colors of past geological ages are lost to time, existing only in the imagination’s eye. But one algae’s delicate reddish hue has survived intact, appearing in much the same tones as it did 150 million years ago. Called Solenopora jurassica, the algae is responsible for fossils unea ...
  • Video: Fingerless Robotic Hand Can Pick Anything
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience649672739001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); A small bag filled with coffee grounds is lending robots a fingerless hand. The new kind of gripper, described online the week of October 25 in the Proceedi ...
  • Signs of Destroyed Dark Matter Found in Milky Way’ ...
    Cosmologists say they’ve found the most compelling evidence of dark matter particles to date, deep inside the Milky Wayâs core. There, the thinking goes, the mysterious stuff is colliding to create cosmic rays more frequently than anywhere else in the celestial neighborhood. Similar studies hav ...
  • 50 Million-Year-Old Insect Trove Found in Indian A ...
    Images: Courtesy of David Grimaldi, American Museum of Natural History. See Also: 95-Million-Year-Old Bugs Found in African Amber Surprise Oldest Preserved Spider Web Dates Back to Dinosaurs Bizarre Ancient Fly With Three-Eyed Horn Discovered Citation: “Biogeographic and Evolutionary Implications ...
  • Pet Frogs Transmit Salmonella
    VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Buying your tyke a pet frog might carry a downside that extends well beyond the “ick” factor, a new study finds. Pet African dwarf frogs harboring salmonella have sickened at least 113 people, most of them children, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Karzai and Iran: Much Ado About Nothing
    The recent revelation that Hamid Karzai received cash payments from Iran has sparked accusations that the Islamic Republic is trying to buy influence over the Afghan government. The story broke at an especially inconvenient time for Iran, following the coverage of Iranâs influence over Iraqâs Prime ...
  • Three Cheers for Wikileaks
    The last few days have seen a fury of debate about Wikileaks’ latest disclosures.   To my mind, Wikileaks’ release of the Iraq and earlier Afghanistan documents is a public service—throwing critical light on the way in which America has pursued its wars at ground level.   Some have dismissed the do ...
  • Stopping Domestic Terror
    Peter Finn points to a study by the Institute for Homeland Security Solutions examining domestic terror plots between 1999 and 2009. The study has a few eye-opening stats, but here's the first one: Note the importance of the public role in helping start investigations. Finn notes that the study ack ...
  • WikiLeaks Iraq Edition and "WMDs"
    I have not had the opportunity to really peruse the latest WikiLeaks dump on Iraqi combat reports. Over the weekend, I couldn't get onto their site, probably due to the number of interested parties going through the files. Noah Schachtman at the Danger Room did file this report on "WMD finds" by US ...
  • Turkey’s Regional Engagement: Navigating Through P ...
    Visitors to Turkey are warned about developing a “Turkish muscle” – the extra belly fat that you get from eating too much Turkish food. Yet it’s the country’s desire to flex its foreign policy muscle that has, at times, proved worrisome. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s “Zero-Problems” foreign ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Bad Moon Rising.
    Here's what the energized conservative base is prioritizing a week before the midterms: The Tea Party Nation is pushing voters to "retire" Rep. Keith Ellison because "He is the only Muslim member of [C]ongress" (he's actually one of two). The Republican National Lawyers Association warns that Georg ...
  • Blue Dogs Should Blame Themselves.
    This should have been obvious to everyone paying attention: More than half the members of the Blue Dog Coalition—the organization of moderate to conservative Democrats in the House—are in peril in next week's election, a stark indicator of how the balloting could produce a Congress even more polari ...
  • The Little Picture: Incubating Innovation.
    (Flickr/ Andrew Warchy ) Google's offices in Zurich. Today, the online giant announced a $5 million donation to foster innovative in digital journalism.
  • Cohen: Real "Men" Harrass Their Subordinates.
    Via Amanda Hess , self- (and by nobody else ) described very funny guy Richard Cohen leaps to the defense of Clarence Thomas : Every 20 years or so, some woman surfaces to accuse the now-Supreme Court justice of being a male chauvinist pig -- to resurrect an old term from the tie-dyed era -- but fa ...
  • Confronting Big Issues in the Navajo Nation.
    The Navajo nation is experiencing, in microcosm, broader national problems in transitioning to cleaner energy: from confronting the very real health and environmental effects of pollution to the prospect of shifting from a stable, carbon-based economy to a less certain one that relies on nascent sol ...

Buzzflash

  • Brewer, Angle & O'Donnell Share A Page From The GO ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH   You would think they'd camouflage these attacks Or make them a little vague Considering that they are the party of Mark Foley, Jeff Gannon and Larry Craig. read more
  • America's Founders Were Deistic Liberal Humanists ...
    HARVEY WASSERMAN FOR BUZZFLASH This is a Greco-Roman nation, gathered in a Hodenosaunee longhouse. As they wrap themselves in the Constitution they mean to shred, that is the self-evident Truth the Tea/GOP Party ultimately cannot face. Our legal godfathers--the ones Glenn Beck loves to conjure--were ...
  • Mr. President, Stop Talking to Us Like a Professor ...
    DEE EVANS FOR BUZZFLASH I am the definition of an Obama voter.  I am an Independent by voting record and am not loyal to the Democratic Party but have been extremely loyal to the President. I have been one of the biggest supporters of President Obama and have even canvassed and made phone calls on ...
  • Chavez Blows It on Human Rights When He Denounces ...
    NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH/TRUTHOUT To be sure Hugo Chávez may boast of many political and social accomplishments, but his foreign policy utterances are fast making a mockery of Venezuela.  The latest erratic salvo from señor presidente came a few days ago, when Chávez decried the awarding of a N ...
  • Holy Palin! O’Donnell Can’t Name A Recent Supreme ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH Christine! Psst! If that's asked again, here's How to perk up your persona: Calmly announce that it would have to be ... Carmen Miranda vs. Arizona. read more

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Sciencebase

  • When is yawning contagious?
    When is yawning contagious? – Apparently, yawns are most contagious at 7:30 pm. But, why? No one knows for sure even why we yawn, let alone why we yawn after seeing someone else yawn or even simply after seeing someone pretend to yawn. (If it were a change in air pressure or CO2 levels in [...] When ...
  • Six sexy science books
    Six sexy science books at least one or two of which would make perfect holiday gifts for the science geek, nerd, dweeb, or dork in your life. Remember Science is Vital and so are books. Science: The Definitive Guide by Piers Bizony – As a kid, I devoured books like this, you probably did too, [...] ...
  • Progress or PR
    Progress or PR? – SciDev.net recently published a “guide” for journalists on separating real progress from PR hype surrounding clinical trials. It’s a well-written and quite timely piece given the backlash against medical reporting in recent years. Unfortunately, this kind of advice is only ever tak ...
  • Scientists dodge Osborne’s axe
    Scientists dodge Osborne’s axe – The Science is Vital campaign has turned UK Chancellor George Osborne who recognised at the 11th hour that the £4.6 billion science budget should be maintained over the next four years. He accepted that research will be key to long-term economic growth. More to the p ...
  • GERD’s dirty little secret
    GERD’s dirty little secret – When omeprazole's patent expired AstraZeneca launched the optically pure version esomeprazole, which is apparently four times as active and gave them a new patent and a corner of the acid reflux market. Bizarrely, both forms of the drug (pro-drug in fact) are converted t ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Karzai Offers Further Proof of the Immediate Need ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 26, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement about Afghanistan President Karzai’s admission that he receives “bags of cash” from the Iranian government: “The Karzai regime is so corrupt; it doesn’t ev ...
  • Human Rights Groups Ask State Department to Call f ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 26, 2010 CODEPINK Representatives from four US human rights groups met with State Department officials on Friday, October 22nd, and delivered a letter addressed to Secretary of State Clinton signed by more than 5,000 individuals calling for the US government to demand ...
  • Lawyers Establish Flotilla Justice Group for Floti ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 26, 2010 Free Gaza Movement International legal experts and lawyers representing victims of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla today announced the establishment of the “Flotilla Justice Group.” The announcement came at the conclusion of a two-day meeting held on 23 and 24 Oct ...
  • Fish and Wildlife Service Asked to Refuse State Re ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 26, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity The Center for Biological Diversity and Humane Society of the United States submitted comments today telling the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that wolves in the Great Lakes region still need Endangered Species Act protectio ...
  • Message to IRS: Enforce Laws Against Tax Exempt Re ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 26, 2010 CREW Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to investigate whether voter guide/legislative scorecards distributed by the Pray in the Jesus Name Project violate federal tax code. The project ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Real Reason Obama Has Let Us All Down
    by Johann Hari Is Barack Obama a politician whose actions should be judged soberly, or a figure from a feel-good fairytale to be revered from afar? read more
  • Corporations Get More Power, Political Parties Get ...
    by Zach Carter War chests from right-wing billionaires and corporate titans are funding tremendous portions of political activity, from the so-called grassroots activism of the Tea Party to the streamlined lobbying assaults of the nation’s largest corporations. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’ ...
  • Obama Administration Continues to Disregard Congre ...
    by Alexander Main In the midst of a particularly busy and nail-biting election season, 30 congressional Democrats have taken time to focus on an issue that isn’t on anyone’s campaign agenda:  the appalling state of democracy and human rights in Honduras.  In a letter sent to Secretary of State Hil ...
  • The Case for California's Prop 19
    by Joseph Huff-Hannon As midterm mania reaches a fever pitch, and hundreds of millions of dollars are spent to influence which party will control the house and senate after 2 November, another important neck-and-neck race in the bankrupt and beleaguered state of California is causing a lot of… buzz. ...
  • The Tea Party Movement: Deluded and Inspired by Bi ...
    by George Monbiot The Tea Party movement is remarkable in two respects. It is one of the biggest exercises in false consciousness the world has seen – and the biggest Astroturf operation in history. These accomplishments are closely related. read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Taliban Talks: After The Hype, The Pullback
    By Steve Hynd Last week, the media was full of stenography of the official narrative that the awesomely Saintly General Petareus and his surge(tm) were forcing the Taliban to the negotiating table and the insurgency was in its last throes, with success just around the corner etc. etc. That was until ...
  • A One Trick Pony
    By Steve Hynd Andrew Exum, known as Abu Muqawama, is a fellow at the neoliberal, interventionist mothership - the Center for a new American Security. As such, he's a fairly influential voice within the D.C. "serious people" foreign policy set. So you'd think he could do better than his summary of th ...
  • Talking About Taliban Talks - Just Psyops?
    By Steve Hynd We've heard an awful lot about talks with Taliban leaders recently. There have been reports, deliberately leaked by the Pentagon, of senior leaders being smuggled into Kabul for talks by the US military. There have been rumors that Pakistan has released Mullah Baradar. There's been a l ...
  • The New York Times Hypes the Afghanistan War, Agai ...
    By Derrick Crowe The New York Times just published a story under the headline, "Coalition Forces Routing Taliban in Key Afghan Region" that could not include more Pentagon talking points if it were written by General David Petraeus himself. In both the broad outline of the story and in the part ...
  • Massaging The Messaging On Afghan "Progress"
    By Steve Hynd As a follow-up to my post earlier today about the US military's deliberate spin of a quagmire as "deliberate progress", it's worth reading this report by Ben Gilbert of Global Post: KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – A major military operation involving hundreds of American troops, U.S. ...

Water Wars

  • 10 ways to survive a zombie economy
    Investors face a host of potential horrors, including looming debt, currency disasters and water wars. Here's how to face down the scary monsters and still make money.
  • Annexation angers Flagler chairman
    It's not the Army that the Flagler County Commission chairman takes issue with. It's the notion the city of Palm Coast might attempt to annex an Armed Forces Reserve Center if it is built adjacent to the Flagler County Airport, and that it would wage "water wars" to do it.
  • Appeal means a murky solution to water wars
    A look at water resources in Georgia and how the issue plays into the Nov. 2 general election. The next governor must find a solution before July 17, 2012, to the water war that has plagued Georgia.
  • A ringside seat at the end of the world: Haiku fro ...
    these haiku plumb truths gleaned from writers’ conference held in Missoula my dogma is: earth’s trajectory is on path to catastrophe boost in wildfires, temps, glacier melt; the West’s up a creek, paddlelessly! invasive species so fruitful — no hills left for natives to flee to land snatched from tr ...
  • Water wars: Is a tougher approach to irrigators ne ...
    CLIFF Hayes is settling into his new surrounds outside Swan Hill. He's shifted his cattle 20 kilometres closer to the river, where his new farm lies. It's smaller, more manageable, has better access to water and, unlike his old farm, the new place boasts an electricity connection.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

  • Iran admits to funding Afghan government
    TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran admits that it has been sending funds to neighboring Afghanistan to aid in its reconstruction efforts.Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that he has received millions...
  • Bomb kills 4 police in west Afghanistan
    ** FILE ** This photo, displayed on a leaflet that was distributed by the U.S. military to civilians in Logar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 25, 2010, shows a missing U.S. Navy sailor, ...
  • No clear replacements for Afghan security guards
    An Afghan policeman frisks a villager at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Kandahar City, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
  • Claim over Afghanistan troop levels
    Oct 26 2010 British forces in southern Afghanistan were under-resourced until the US troop surge earlier this year, the spokesman for the head of the Armed Forces has claimed. Major General Gordon M...
  • “In Afghanistan we focus on the progress&rdq ...
    As violence in Afghanistan reaches its worst levels since 2001, a Swiss human rights expert tells swissinfo.ch about the everyday challenges in the battered country.

Futurismic

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

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on Government Oversight

  • Chief Pentagon Tester’s Memo Partly Directed at th ...
    J. Michael Gilmore, the Pentagon�s director of operational test and evaluation, has recently urged that �production-representative articles should be used for test and evaluation,� according to an October 18 memo by him. by In other words, the Defense Department should be testing weapons that co ...
  • Morning Smoke: SIGTARP: Treasury May Have Used Mis ...
    TARP watchdog questions AIG valuation; reveals that Treasury has appointed observers to monitor "deadbeat'' banks by Ryan Holeywell [BailoutSleuth] The Australian continues to mislead its readers about Defence and the F-35 by Eric Palmer [DOD Watch] Potential compromise offered on...
  • Morning Smoke: Treasury Shielding Citigroup with F ...
    Treasury Shielding Citigroup as Deletions Make FOIA Meaningless by Bob Ivry [Bloomberg] SEC Aims to Streamline Complaint Process by Suzanne Barlyn [The Wall Street Journal] Wall Street Sold ‘Tragically Deficient’ Product, Angelides Says by Phil Mattingly [Bloomberg] Editorial: Transparency essential ...
  • BLM Chief Asks Inspector General to Renew Investig ...
    Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Bob Abbey has responded to POGO’s request and asked the Department of the Interior's in-house watchdog to "renew its investigative inquiries regarding certain questionable activities" surrounding the departure of a former district manager. Interior’s...
  • Watchdogs Battle Agencies Over Access to Records
    Thirteen inspectors general (IGs) described their struggles with the government agencies they oversee in letters made public this week by Republican Sens. Charles Grassley of Iowa and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma. The two senators canvassed 69 IGs earlier this year...

Digital Journal

  • A tale of 2 Mayoral candidates the victory & conce ...
    On Monday, October 25th, the City of Toronto elected its 64th Mayor, Rob Ford, a now former city councillor and businessman from Etobicoke. The streak remains in tact, Toronto has never voted in a Mayor who did hold an elected office.
  • Police checking out secretly filmed videos of wome ...
    Someone has been secretly filming women from behind as they walk around the area of Dalhousie University, and then posting the footage on YouTube. Police in Halifax are now reviewing the videos.
  • 'Weather bomb' headed for SW Ontario fizzles
    The CBC called it a "weather bomb," an unseasonably strong low pressure system with central pressure dropping more than 24 millibars in 24 hours. But it won't be running rampant in Southern Ontario as fiercely as first predicted.
  • Deserted Taliban outpost to be transformed
    A Government of Canada-funded initiative plans to take a deserted al-Qaeda training camp and in its place build an agricultural institute that will offer Afghani farmers viable alternatives to growing poppies that produce opium.
  • Abnormal arteries found in obese children
    Obese children were found to have blood vessels which look more like those found in much older adults with cardiovascular disease.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Salute! Iowa Non-Profit Proposes National Homeless ...
    Knoxville, Iowa could be transforming a former veterans' hospital into a new  national center for homeless veterans with 400 beds and federally-subsidized education and treatment programs. The proposed National Veterans Recovery Center would provide services to homeless and at-risk veterans for up t ...
  • Make Sure the National Resource Center on LGBT Agi ...
    Homeless advocates should be thrilled to learn of the creation of the new National Resource Center on LGBT Aging , the first resource of its kind for this population. This is important for homelessness for two reasons: lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are more susceptible to homelessnes ...
  • My Homelessness Hero Is Still in the 7th Grade
    While I was driving around the country this summer, a young man who is currently in the seventh grade walked from Tampa to Los Angeles for homeless youth. That young man is  Zach Bonner , and Zach is one of the most amazing people I have ever met. This was not his first walk. In 2007, he walked from ...
  • This Bites: Australia's Homeless Face a Mosquito P ...
    Australians apparently call mosquitoes "mozzies." Too bad a cute name isn't enough to make them any less bothersome. Darwin, Australia in the Northern Territory is currently seeing the worst mosquito plague since officials started keeping records in 1979. Local homeless people are, of course, bearin ...
  • It Can't Be Said Enough, Housing Is Cheaper Than H ...
    It's a proven fact that it costs less to place a homeless person in an apartment than it does to keep him or her in a shelter. But what's the use arguing over the type of dwelling we're providing without first proving another thing: that it's cheaper to house a chronically homeless individual period ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • New poll shows Canadians committed to peacekeeping
    A new Nanos research poll conducted for the Globe and Mail indicates that Canadians think peacekeeping is more important than combat missions (Campbell Clark, ”Canadians pick peacekeeping over combat,” Globe and Mail, 25 October 2010). According to the poll, Canadians are strongly opposed to sending ...
  • Canada backs NATO missile defence
    The Harper government has pledged its support for a proposed NATO missile defence system for Europe (Juliet O’Neill, “Canada backs European missile defence program,” Postmedia News, 20 October 2010): The Conservative government says it supports a European ballistic missile defence system proposed fo ...
  • Aerospace companies jump into the fray over F-35s
    From the Department of Dog-Bites-Man: The Aerospace Industries Association of Canada is warning Canadians not to cancel the Harper government’s plan to purchase F-35 fighters (“Cancelation [sic] of F-35 purchase threatens Canadian jobs,” Aerospace Industries Association of Canada communique, 14 Octo ...
  • Canadian troops destroyed villages to save them?
    A New York Times report (Carlotta Gall, “In Afghan South, U.S. Faces Frustrated Residents,” 16 October 2010) on the frustration and disillusion expressed by Afghan civilians in the region around Kandahar cites Canadian actions as one of the sources of complaints: Three years ago, Canadian troops bui ...
  • Join the No Stealth Fighters Campaign conference c ...
    Ceasefire.ca’s No Stealth Fighters Campaign Canada-wide strategic briefing conference call, with Steven Staples and special guest Michael Byers. Thursday, October 28, 2010 12:00 Eastern (1:00 AT, 11:00 CT, 10:00 MT, 9:00 PT) Join us to learn more about Stephen Harper’s plan to spend $16 billion on “ ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 10-26-10
    Today, Kevin reveals the real reason why everything is censored in America and what the drug companies are doing to keep you hooked on their drugs. Plus, get the truth behind crop circles and secret society rituals.    Self Help: Increase Testosterone Levels   Improve Your Education   Further Your T ...
  • McDonald’s Burger 14 Years Later
    October 25th, 2010 Mercola By: Dr. Mercola Manhattan artist Sally Davies has photographed a McDonald’s Happy Meal every day for six months. And it looks almost as fresh as the day it was bought, with no trace of decay. The Daily Mail reports: “In a work entitled The Happy Meal Project, Mrs. Davies, ...
  • This New Antidepressant Maker Has Lots of Folks Ex ...
    October 25th, 2010 Daily Finance By: Gene Marical Fighting depression, a highly prevalent and serious mood disorder that affects about 18.1 million adults in the U.S. is one of the largest markets in the pharmaceutical industry — and it’s still growing. More than 212 million antidepressant prescript ...
  • Baldness Drug Grows Hair But May Cause Sexual Prob ...
    October 21st, 2010 AOL By Deborah Huso The popular hair growth drug finasteride, commercially known as Propecia, is indeed effective at re-growing hair, but it may lead to sexual dysfunction in some users. Many men suffering from baldness who have taken the drug satisfactorily report it increases th ...
  • Dad’s High Fat Diet May Cause Diabetes in Da ...
    October 21st, 2010 AOL By: Deborah Huso While everyone knows a pregnant mother’s poor health habits can have negative effects on the development and long-term health of her offspring, very little attention has been given to the health of fathers. But a preliminary study suggests that fathers who eat ...

Pambazuka News

  • Africa: Angola hosts 3rd African meeting on Cuba s ...
    The third African meeting on Solidarity with Cuba was held in Luanda, Angola, 11-12 September, to consolidate the friendship between the African and Cuban people and contribute to strengthening African solidarity towards the Caribbean island nation. ...
  • Global: US city opens doors to Cuban 5
    On Saturday March 13, in the auditorium of the Lavonya DeJean Middle School, in the City of Richmond California, a large number of people gathered to commemorate International Women's Day for the third consecutive year. Under the title "Women in Soli...
  • Extradition threat for Black Liberation activist
    As the US opens up political channels with Cuba, Black Liberation Army - http://www.thetalkingdrum.com/freedomfighters.html activist Assata Shakur faces extradition from the country where she has lived under political asylum since 1984, writes Paul Scott. While the mainstream media portrays Shakur h ...
  • Stop senate renege on black farmer compensation
    ColorOfChange.org - http://www.colorofchange.org/farmers/?id=1842-429864 is campaigning to ensure that a US senate bill to compensate black farmers in the South for discrimination gives them the money they deserve, rather than capping the total amount available at $100 million, which would only cove ...
  • Ekiti must hold free, fair elections
    The North America-based Ekiti Focus Group has strongly condemned election violence and intimidation in Nigeria’s Ekiti State, describing reported cases of ‘arson, maiming, ballot stuffing, ballot hijacking, and shooting’ as ‘barbaric acts’. In a statement the group called for ‘the release of true an ...

War in Context

  • Israel’s vain quest for sovereignty
    Why is it that a country that defines itself in terms of existential threats and the need to provide a safe refuge for the Jewish people, nevertheless seems strangely remiss in securing its own autonomy? Even if Israel stands out as the preeminent military power in the Middle East, it has only been ...
  • Lieberman orders a “day after” plan for dealing wi ...
    Reuters reports: Hardline Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has commissioned a report on how to prepare for a nuclear-armed Iran as doubt mounts about the efficacy of preventive action, an Israeli source said on Monday. Publicly, Israel has pledged to deny the Iranians the means to make a ...
  • Rebecca Solnit: invasion of the democracy crushers
    Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com In fiction, these have been the modernizing years for vampires.  Following the path blazed by novelist Anne Rice, in text and on screen they have become more complex, more human, and increasingly (dare I use the word) heartthrobs.  Think “True Blood,” th ...
  • Why the threat of cyber-warfare is being exaggerat ...
    In an assessment of the dangers posed by cyber-warfare and while noting that the threats posed by cyber-warfare and cyber-espionage are repeatedly being conflated, Seymour Hersh points out that the interests of the National Security Agency and those of hackers coincide: both want communications netw ...
  • Not getting to the promised land
    “I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!” Dr Martin Luther [...]

Watts Up With That?

  • Take the Scientific American poll on Judith Currry
    Scientific American writes: As a profile of Judith Curry in the November 2010 issue of Scientific American makes clear, the University of Georgia climate scientist has become an increasingly polarizing figure IN the past year or so. … Yet Curry … Continue reading →
  • Inconvenient hurricane facts
    Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. had this great set of factoids up on his blog, and I just can’t resist sharing. He writes: Adam Lea, of University College London, shares these interesting hurricane factoids related the the remarkable dearth of US … Continue reading →
  • Mega storm in the midwest
    Of course, it will only be a matter of time before some pundit blames this storm on “global warming”. Readers feel free to post links to such stories in the comments. click images to enlarge. Loop the radar image here … Continue reading →
  • US Carbon trading – not worth a plug nickel
    I wrote a few weeks ago that The only lower price than todayâs closing price on a ton of carbon is ZERO. That’s true now more than ever. See the chart below from yesterday’s close of the Chicago Climate Exchange: … Continue reading →
  • Climate mitigation built on eggshells
    No word in yet from the Easter Bunny… Scrambling for climate change solutions Eggshell membrane can absorb 7 times its weight in carbon dioxide The food industry generates a lot of waste products, but one of these, eggshells, could help … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • The World Liberal Opportunists Made by Chris Hedge ...
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig October 25, 2010 The lunatic fringe of the Republican Party, which looks set to make sweeping gains in the midterm elections, is the direct result of a collapse of liberalism. It is the product of bankrupt liberal institutions, including the p ...
  • Thin Evidence from War Logs of Iranian Backing of ...
    by Jeremy R. Hammond Featured Writer DandelionSalad Foreign Policy Journal 25 October, 2010 Under the headline “Leaked Reports Detail Iran’s Aid for Iraqi Militias“, the New York Times reports that documents from the Wikileaks Iraq War Logs “provide a ground-level look – at least as seen by American ...
  • Good News! Viva Palestina Broke the Siege on Gaza!
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Palgaz | October 23, 2010 PressTV Viva Palestina members tour Gaza *** Gaza TV News – 32nd phonecast: Breaking the Siege! *** Viva Palestina Aid Convoy Breaks Gaza Siege. شرÙا٠اÙØ­Ùاة 5 تÙسر حصار غزة *** President Jimmy Carter in Sheikh-Garah – 2 ...
  • WikiLeaks’ Iraq War Documents Reveal Unrepor ...
    by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 23 October, 2010 Announcing the release of the largest collection of classified US military documents leaked by an insider — 391,832 field documents relating to the war in Iraq from 2004 to 2009 — Wikileaks founder Julian ...
  • Toxicologist Riki Ott: Serious Health Risks in Gul ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Updated: Oct. 24, 2010 added another video report roseaguilar3 | October 20, 2010 In this interview with Rose Aguilar, Riki Ott talks about the health crisis caused by the BP oil disaster in the Gulf. She says she’s currently dealing with three or four autopsies ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Shade of Red Preserved in Jurassic Fossils
    Most biological colors of past geological ages are lost to time, existing only in the imagination’s eye. But one algae’s delicate reddish hue has survived intact, appearing in much the same tones as it did 150 million years ago. Called Solenopora jurassica, the algae is responsible for fossils unea ...
  • Video: Fingerless Robotic Hand Can Pick Anything
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience649672739001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); A small bag filled with coffee grounds is lending robots a fingerless hand. The new kind of gripper, described online the week of October 25 in the Proceedi ...
  • Signs of Destroyed Dark Matter Found in Milky Way’ ...
    Cosmologists say they’ve found the most compelling evidence of dark matter particles to date, deep inside the Milky Wayâs core. There, the thinking goes, the mysterious stuff is colliding to create cosmic rays more frequently than anywhere else in the celestial neighborhood. Similar studies hav ...
  • 50 Million-Year-Old Insect Trove Found in Indian A ...
    Images: Courtesy of David Grimaldi, American Museum of Natural History. See Also: 95-Million-Year-Old Bugs Found in African Amber Surprise Oldest Preserved Spider Web Dates Back to Dinosaurs Bizarre Ancient Fly With Three-Eyed Horn Discovered Citation: “Biogeographic and Evolutionary Implications ...
  • Pet Frogs Transmit Salmonella
    VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Buying your tyke a pet frog might carry a downside that extends well beyond the “ick” factor, a new study finds. Pet African dwarf frogs harboring salmonella have sickened at least 113 people, most of them children, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Open Letter to Mike Leigh
    We are writing to you as a group of fellow filmmakers and academics, Palestinians, Israelis and others, to thank you for your principled and courageous step of withdrawing from the Jerusalem Sam... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
  • Israeli Arab eyes plea bargain over Hezbollah spyi ...
    According to Makhoul's brother Issam, a former MK for Hadash, his brothers' Attorneys ... will ask the prosecution to drop the severe charge of espionage in exchange for Makhoul's confession on... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Shin Bet supports revoking citizenship of Israelis ...
    Interior Minister Eli Yishai's proposal has been presented as a method of deterring potential criminals from embarking on terrorist activities, seen as targeting Israeli Arabs in particular. IOA... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Report: Caterpillar to delay supply of D9 bulldoze ...
    Caterpillar, the company which supplies the IDF with bulldozers, has announced that it is delaying the supply of D9 bulldozers during the time that the trial of Rachel Corrie proceeds. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fift ...
  • Report: Turkish intelligence severed relations wit ...
    Turkish newspaper reports agencies stopped exchanging intelligence and conducting joint operations following Turkish government decision. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more.. ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Study Raises Concern About Ability of Tests to Pre ...
    The method used to assess infertility in at-home tests might not be the best for identifying which women will have trouble getting pregnant, according to new research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
  • UIC Receives $1.9 Million for Asian American Stude ...
    The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a five-year, $1.86 million federal grant to help underserved Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander students.
  • 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 ...
  • Project Eagle Rock
    50 students from Eagle Rock High School will participate in a large scientific-agriculture conference in Long Beach to get a first-hand look at the science of agriculture, including careers, college admission, research opportunities, and minority outreach.
  • Texas Tech's Fibertect Selected As Top Innovation ...
    The products are highlighted in short vignettes on Cotton Incorporated's Cotton Today website.

Natural Health News

  • Docs on Pharma Payroll Have Blemished Records, Lim ...
    Physician William D. Leak was found to have performed unnecessary nerve tests and excessive invasive procedures, including injecting some patients with agents that destroy nerve tissue. ��But that didn�t stop Eli Lilly from using him as a promotional speaker and adviser Leak is part of the drug ind ...
  • Beware -- Cholesterol Lowering Supplement Quality ...
    If you�ve used the popular cholesterol-lowering supplement red yeast rice, it probably listed 600 milligrams of rice as the sole ingredient on the bottle. But different brands of capsules contain widely varying amounts of monacolins, the active ingredient. An investigation found that the level ...
  • A Theatrical Take on Shadow Puppets
    The dance group Pilobolus shows what you can really do with shadow puppets.
  • 6 Year Old Piano Prodigy
    6-year old Emily Bear has wowed audiences everywhere -- including the White House.� She has played the piano since age 3, and also composes her own music.
  • Probiotics Send Signals From Your Gut to Your Skin
    Much more is known about how probiotics work in your gut than is known about their effects elsewhere in your body.� But new research shows that there may be signals coming from these gut microorganisms that are sent to your skin and mucosa. According to Professor Christine Lang, the potential b ...

Antemedius

  • Elena Kagan and the Supremes
    So far the newest Justice of the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan , is still pretty much an enigma as to her judicial philosophy. The former Solicitor General to President Obama has had to recuse herself from 25 of the 51 cases that will be heard by the Court this session. So far she has sided with the m ...
  • Drunk Driving and Highway Robbery on Wall Street
    Real News Network's Paul Jay talks with Sony Kapoor, Managing Director of Re-Define (Rethinking Development, Finance & Environment), an international Think Tank promoting financial system reform. Kapoor metaphorically compares the actions of Wall Street and the US Finance Industry to the psychology ...
  • The Betrayal of Omar Khadr – and of American Justi ...
    Originally published at www.andyworthington.co.uk 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 admi ...
  • Paramilitaries And Vigilantes What The Right Is Br ...
    One of the things that kills democracies is political violence. When outright violence and more aggressive forms of intimidation become the norm in politics there is very little change that the will of the people, any people, can be accurately heard. While there will be those who are so in love with ...
  • Separation of Powers Game of Chicken
    Here is the argument for President Obama to appoint Peter Diamond, the Economics Nobel laureate , to the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve and make other appointments that have been blocked by the obstructionist Republicans and some blue Dog Democrats. Dr. Diamond's confirmation has been blo ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • The Mary Ellen O’Connell and Benjamin Wittes Debat ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Interest in targeted killing and drone warfare is not letting up in intensity to judge by the pace of events on the topic. Right on top of my debate with Mary Ellen O’Connell on this at Washington University two weeks ago, Mary Ellen and Ben Wittes undertoo ...
  • Holding the UP Law Faculty in Contempt Would Be a ...
    by Evan Criddle and Evan Fox-Decent by Evan Criddle and Evan Fox-Decent [Opinio Juris is delighted to post these remarks by Professors Evan Fox-Decent (McGill) and Evan Criddle (Syracuse) on the fallout from the allegations that their article was plagiarized by a member of the Philippines Supreme ...
  • Ben Wittes’ Misguided Attack on Mary Ellen O’Conne ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Ben Wittes has a post today at Lawfare provocatively entitled “Is Barack Obama a Serial Killer?”  Wittes does not think so — but he believes that Notre Dame’s Mary Ellen O’Connell does, given her approach to the law of armed conflict.  It’s a remarkably p ...
  • The Other Face of Collective Punishment: Israel’s ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller AFP ran an interesting story yesterday about how Palestinians are using their tunnels to smuggle goods into Egypt, in defiance of Israel’s ongoing ban on exports from Gaza: But the canvas sacks full of food, beauty products and second-hand clothes that use ...
  • Logan Act Watch: Korea Trade Agreement Edition
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro No surprise that that the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement is languishing short of congressional approval in an election year.  But who knew that members of Congress now feel free to team up with foreign legislators jointly to lobby their executive counterparts.  Fr ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • New lead in Swedish tourists cold case
    Latest Investigate magazine, on sale this morning...Missing Swedish tourist Heidi Paakkonen was last seen alive on Kawau Island in Auckland's Hauraki gulf, in the company of a man who was not David Wayne Tamihere...
  • NEWS: Previously unreported attempt on Jeannette C ...
    EXCLUSIVE KILLER TRIED TO MURDER CREWES TWICE SUB: Jeannette’s Brakes Cut In 1969 By Ian Wishart TGIF Edition The killer of Pukekawa farmers Harvey and Jeannette Crewe tried to murder the couple twice, and only succeeded on the second occasion....
  • New TGIF Edition: Crewe case bombshell
    The new TGIF Edition is now free, and available from this page, just click on the link labelled TGIF 22 October when the page opens and you will get the PDF version which you can save to disk for fast...
  • TGIF Edition tonight: Jeannette was victim of earl ...
    EXCLUSIVE. Only in TGIF Edition this weekend. Available for free by signing up to our Facebook page, or Twitter account. Tell your friends.
  • Police renege on Crewe case promise
    STATEMENT BY IAN WISHART Police National Headquarters has broken a written promise it made 11 years ago, by refusing to re-open the investigation into the Crewe murders. In 1999, police wrote to the Thomas family, pledging to re-open the murder...

My Care2 Picks

  • One good reason Iranians might hate us
    The 1953 coup has often been depicted as a CIA venture to save Iran from international communism. In fact, it was a joint British-American venture to preserve the international oil cartel." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: Days left to stop mass extinction ! ...
    A third of all animals and plants on earth face extinction -- endangered blue whales, coral reefs, and a vast array of other species. The wave of human-driven extinction has reached a rate not seen since the fall of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Submitted by Simone D. to Environment �|� �No ...
  • Humiliate,Strip,Threaten : UK Torture Manuals Unco ...
    This is the new torture paradigm and crucially they differentiate these methods of torture from others which they call �torture�. Provoke humiliation, insecurity, disorientation, exhaustion, anxiety and fear in prisoners Sensory deprivation is lawful Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! ...
  • URGENT RED ALERT: Bill C-36 sneaked back into the ...
    On October 7, 2010, Bill C-36 was sneaked back into the Standing Committee on Health with the support of ALL four major Parties to be fast tracked into law without opposition! [This is a heads-up for Canadian citizens!] Submitted by Ellyn S. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comme ...
  • Wikileaks, Assorted Actors And Faith-Based Frolics ...
    I really wish I had access to a reliable census on what the majority of people in this world believe about the purported 'Islamic terror threat', 9/11 etc. Media reports: we forget what the words mean.Weapons maker 'news' from corps...not al Qaeda radio Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note- ...

Angry Indian News

  • U.S. slips to historic low in global corruption in ...
    U.S. slips to historic low in global corruption index | Reuters: "(Reuters) - The United States has dropped out of the 'top 20' in a global league table of least corrupt nations, tarnished by... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • US to Unveil $2B in Pakistani Military Aid; Traini ...
    Democracy Now! | Headlines for October 22, 2010: "US to Unveil $2B in Pakistani Military Aid; Training Denied to Units Linked to KillingsThe Obama administration is preparing to unveil today a new $2... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Racism at the FOX Propaganda Mill...
    Democracy Now! | Headlines for October 21, 2010: NPR Fires Analyst over Comments on MuslimsIn media news, National Public Radio has severed ties with longtime analyst Juan Williams after Williams... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • FBI Documents Raise Questions over Paul Wellstone’ ...
    Democracy Now! | Headlines for October 26, 2010: Minnesota Public Radio has obtained the FBI record of the late Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, who died in a plane crash eight years ago this... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • GOP State Senate candidate calls Hitler ‘strong le ...
    Whoa: GOP State Senate candidate calls Hitler ‘strong leader’ | Raw StoryA Republican state Senate candidate in Wisconsin called Adolf Hitler a "strong leader" in a tweet, and the action is garnering... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

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 ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • New lead in Swedish tourists cold case
    Latest Investigate magazine, on sale this morning...Missing Swedish tourist Heidi Paakkonen was last seen alive on Kawau Island in Auckland's Hauraki gulf, in the company of a man who was not David Wayne Tamihere...
  • NEWS: Previously unreported attempt on Jeannette C ...
    EXCLUSIVE KILLER TRIED TO MURDER CREWES TWICE SUB: Jeannette’s Brakes Cut In 1969 By Ian Wishart TGIF Edition The killer of Pukekawa farmers Harvey and Jeannette Crewe tried to murder the couple twice, and only succeeded on the second occasion....
  • New TGIF Edition: Crewe case bombshell
    The new TGIF Edition is now free, and available from this page, just click on the link labelled TGIF 22 October when the page opens and you will get the PDF version which you can save to disk for fast...
  • TGIF Edition tonight: Jeannette was victim of earl ...
    EXCLUSIVE. Only in TGIF Edition this weekend. Available for free by signing up to our Facebook page, or Twitter account. Tell your friends.
  • Police renege on Crewe case promise
    STATEMENT BY IAN WISHART Police National Headquarters has broken a written promise it made 11 years ago, by refusing to re-open the investigation into the Crewe murders. In 1999, police wrote to the Thomas family, pledging to re-open the murder...

Mondoweiss

  • Two sides of the Wall in Bil’in
    (Photo: Hamde Abu Rahme) I went on a tour to photograph the Apartheid Wall that was built on the territory of the Palestinian village of Bil'in, located in the West Bank. After a ruling of the highest Israeli Court, the path of which the first wall had been built had to be changed and now the Israe ...
  • Settler network promotes racist comics to bring Me ...
    The following comic celebrating the life of Meir Kahane appeared last week on an Israeli website called the Israel News Network, which is associated with Arutz Sheva and the settler movement. Kahane was the founder of the fascist Jewish Defense League and the Kach movement, which was barred in Israe ...
  • Pregnant woman injured by settler hit & run, 13-ye ...
    And more news from Today in Palestine:Settlers/ Land, Property, Resource Theft & Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Man and his pregnant wife injured in deliberate settler hit and run accident An Israeli settler deliberately ran into a Palestinian car near Halhul village, Al-Khalil district, on Monday nig ...
  • Kufur Qassim, Rachel Corrie and premeditated forge ...
    Hussain Abu-Hussain, the Corries’ lawyer, thought his was a depressing profession. I sought to cheer him up by pointing out the dismal case of the oncology specialty in medicine. It didn’t seem to work; he had spent the whole day trying in vain to trick witnesses of the murder of the late ISM volunt ...
  • Dennis Ross strokes AIPAC on delegitimization and ...
    Is it election season? Laura Rozen reports that Dennis Ross, the Obama aide at large, and really a representative of the Israel lobby, went to AIPAC in Florida to talk about Iran etc. Read the speech and you will see all the talk about the joint exercises with Israel and fighting delegitimization. D ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Wikileaks: Statement from Office of U.S. Secretary ...
    This just came in my email from Geoff Morrell: "We deplore Wikileaks for inducing individuals to break the law, leak classified documents and then cavalierly share that secret information with the world, including our enemies. We know terrorist organizations have been mining the leaked Afghan docume ...
  • Surobi Sentinel - Oct 2010
    Published: 17 Oct 2010 Click here to view entire document. {loadposition user8}
  • Soldiers' Angels and Inside the Inferno
    I am very proud that with my publisher we have been able to send a check for almost $5000.00 to Soldiers' Angels because you have helped by buying my new book Iraq: Inside the Inferno 2005 - 2008 . You may pre-order order copies of my book here .But we want to raise more for Soldiers' Angels because ...
  • The Linda Norgrove Rescue Tragedy
    Published: 11 October 2010 Ms. Linda Norgrove was kidnapped on 26 September during an ambush in eastern Afghanistan.� A trusted and knowledgeable source told me he expected there was a high likelihood she would be killed by these particularly brutal people.� Several days ago, during a rescue attemp ...
  • To Follow these Steps
    I first met Steve Shaulis about 27 years ago during Special Forces training.� We�ve been friends ever since and have traveled many places together. Back in 2001, six months before the 9/11 attacks, we were at his U.S. home in Vero Beach, Florida.� We were preparing to swim out into the night in ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

  • 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 ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

  • 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.

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Spain police on trial for alleged torture of ETA m ...
    [JURIST] A group of Spanish police officers went on trial Tuesday for the alleged torture of two ETA activists [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] in Basque. The alleged victims, Igor Portu and Mattin Sarasola, were convicted and sentenced to 1,040 years in prison [JURIST report] after an airpor ...
  • California Supreme Court upholds dismissal of crim ...
    [JURIST] The California Supreme Court [official website] on Monday upheld [opinion, PDF] the dismissal of 18 criminal cases in Riverside County because there were not enough judges available to hear the cases. The Superior Court of Riverside County, a California state trial court, has been heavily b ...
  • Somalia again ranked most corrupt country in annua ...
    [JURIST] Somalia was once again ranked the most corrupt country by Transparency International (TI) [advocacy website] in its 2010 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) [text, PDF; press release] released Tuesday. The CPI measures the abuse of entrusted power for private gain in both the public and priva ...
  • UK Supreme Court rules Scotland suspects have righ ...
    [JURIST] The UK Supreme Court [official website] ruled [judgment, PDF] Tuesday that Scottish police can no longer question a suspect in custody without the presence of a lawyer. The court found that the previous law, which permitted interrogation of suspects without a lawyer for up to six hours, vio ...
  • Iraq court sentences Saddam-era deputy PM Aziz to ...
    [JURIST] Former Iraqi foreign minister and deputy prime minister under Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive], Tariq Aziz [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], was sentenced to death Tuesday by the Iraqi High Criminal Court [ICRC backgrounder, PDF; JURIST news archive]. The court sentenced Aziz to death ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Power Failure Shuts Down Squadron of Nuclear Missi ...
    President Obama was briefed this morning on a power failure at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming that took 50 nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), one-ninth of the U.S. missile stockpile, temporarily offline on Saturday.  The base is a main locus of the United States' strateg ...
  • Obama's Got Perriello's Back
    On Friday, President Obama will get the back of someone who's been protecting his from day one. The president will campaign in the 5th congressional district of Virginia--Charlottesville--for Rep. Tom Perriello, a freshman Democrat who has voted with the administration on every issue of significance ...
  • The Lesser of Two Evils in Illinois
    Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that the special election to fill the remainder (two months) of Barack Obama's Senate seat can go on, Illinois voters will actually be voting for two Senate elections next week: one for the lame duck session of Congress that takes place after the November electio ...
  • Seven Days Out: The Latest
    A bagful of developments overnight: 1. A big FLA GOV debate last night, but the headline is that Democrat Alex Sink violated debate rules by having a make-up artist show her a text message relating to something factual. The headline from the dean of the FL political press corps calls her a "Cheat. ...
  • The Key Early Voting Question
    Here's yet another early voting post, and the usual caveats apply: when comparing Republicans to Democrats, the best thing to do is to take snapshots in time and put them beside similarly sized snapshots from the same period of time four years ago. This is hard to do, because we often do not have th ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Avi Dichter’s Spanish Self-Expulsion, 1492/2010
    One of the most traumatic events of Jewish history was the Spanish expulsion of its large Jewish community beginning in 1492 by the newly triumphant Catholic monarchs Isabella and Ferdinand.  This event marked the beginning of the infamous Inquisition, one of the darkest moments in European history ...
  • Mossad Advertises for European Passports?
    No, not exactly.  But I found the most hilarious Walla ad which–if you think about the cloning, forgeries and fraud involved in securing the passports for the al-Mabouh assassination scheme–is quite entertaining. The ad copy reads: Own a European Passport? Earn! Abroad, you’re worth much more! Intr ...
  • Rabbi Meir Saves the World (Well, the Jews at Leas ...
    Arutz 7, the settler news portal, reveals a charming development in the branding of Israeli fascism. In order to guarantee that Kahanism will be passed on to the younger generation, some of his more loyal and innovative adherents have decided that what’s called for is a series of comic strips all co ...
  • Israeli NGO Files Suit to Block IDF Chief of Staff ...
    The Israeli anti-Occupation NGO, Yesh Gvul, filed suit in Israel’s Supreme Court ( and Galey Tzahal here, both Hebrew sources), to prevent the planned appointment of Yoav Galant to be next IDF chief of staff.  The group charges him as ground commander of Operation Cast Lead, with likely war crimes, ...
  • France’s Le Figaro Latest to Attribute Iran Missil ...
    France’s right-wing Le Figaro is the latest mainstream media source to attribute the Imam Ali missile base explosion to the Mossad.  Without naming its sources, its Israel correspondent mentions several tantalizing features of the explosion-attack that might make it the work of Israel’s intelligenc ...

Ode Magazine

  • Reading, writing and revelation
    How the written word helps refresh body, mind and soul. Photo: istockphoto.com/xaviarnau Whenever the stabbing pain in her knee becomes unbearable, 17-year-old Mackenzie Bearup picks up a book and starts to read. Usually, it’s a teen novel or a mystery. But Bearup will read “a ...
  • A planet is a terrible thing to waste
    Why caring about the ecosystem means caring for the ecosystem. A recent conversation with a friend got me thinking. This friend had just returned from a conference on species survival and habitat preservation. While there, he learned, to his great surprise, that among a small subset of s ...
  • Cosmic salad
    Bring the abundance of nature to your plate. Photo: Pieter de Swart The science of economics revolves around the concept of scarcity. How do you handle something you have too little of, like money? How do you distribute something that isn’t plentiful enough, like food? And how ...
  • Keeping carpets clean
    Child labor is common in rug factories in Nepal; GoodWeave wants to end that. Photo: Romano - www.romanophotography.com By the time Kusum, from Nepal, was eight, her mother had died from the physical abuse of her alcoholic father, her two sisters had been sold into forced lab ...
  • Self-confidence: signed, sealed, delivered
    Employees at Mirakle Couriers in Mumbai may be deaf, but they deliver. Photo: Mirakle Couriers Every afternoon, 22-year-old Bhupesh Boir heads out to a warehouse on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, to bring a batch of mobile phone bills to the offices of his employer, Mirakle ...

OpEd News

  • Orwellian Partial Withdrawal from Iraq: Genocide i ...
    President Obama's speech announcing the partial withdrawal of troops from Iraq suggested a level of success in the mission. The truth is that the U.S. committed genocide since 1991 which was caused by extensive bombing, sanctions and occupation. Iraqi's are not only worse of since 1991, they are w ...
  • Some Troubling Questions
    When you consider the sheer impact of the crimes revealed by the recent Wikileaks document release, many troubling questions come to mind. These, and many others, tell me we are already pretty far gone in America, and it's only a matter of time before we are no more.
  • TARP Special IG Asks What about Main Street?
    Neil Barofsky, the TARP Special Inspector General, just released a report that makes clear Wall Street got everything and Main Street ended up worse off than before the big bailout started.
  • WPost Downplays Iraq War Crimes
    The Post's editors, who aided and abetted President Bush in building public support for his war of aggression against Iraq, have never been willing to stand up and take full responsibility for those deceptive editorials that parroted Bush's WMD lies and contributed to the bloodbath that followed. Th ...
  • Handicapping the Global Midterms Winners and Lose ...
    You can't turn on the TV news or pick up a paper these days without stumbling across the latest political poll and the pros explaining how to parse it, or some set of commentators, pundits, and reporters placing their bets on the midterm elections. The media, of course, loves a political horse race ...

Switchboard

  • Defeat Dirty Energy and Protect California's Parks ...
    I’m counting down the days to the November 2 election and reminding my friends and family of what is at stake regarding what’s on the ballot this year. There are several propositions on California’s ballot NRDC has taken positions on and I’ll recap two of them for you here. Here is the ...
  • ORNL uses one-sided analysis to make flawed claims ...
    Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will soon release a study looking at use, production and exports of corn. Unfortunately, the authors have misinterpreted their detailed look at the supply side of the corn market to make sweeping conclusions about the impacts of U.S. ethanol policy ...
  • ORNL report tells us nothing about ILUC
    I was surprised when I recently heard that ORNL researchers were about to release a report  that concluded there had been little land-use change induced by US corn ethanol policies. A recent Climatewire article blared the headline "Corn-based ethanol doesn't result in land-use change e ...
  • A family copes with the unexpected costs of sprawl ...
       Queen Creek, Arizona, is on the far southeastern fringe of metropolitan Phoenix.  According to Google Maps, it’s 38 miles and about an hour to central Phoenix by the shortest route. The land use pattern in and around Queen Creek consists of random enclaves of newly developed leapf ...
  • This is what global warming looks like in Vancouve ...
    Last month I posted NRDC’s video (now seen more than 20,000 times) showing some of the extreme weather events experienced in 2010—just the kinds of events predicted to become more frequent as a result of global warming. I invited readers to think about what global warming looks like to ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Cohen: Real Men Treat Their Subordinates Inapprop ...
    Via Amanda Hess, self- (and by nobody else) described very funny guy Richard Cohen leaps to the defense of Clarence Thomas: Every 20 years or so, some woman surfaces to accuse the now-Supreme Court justice of being a male chauvinist pig — to resurrect an old term from the tie-dyed era — but falls fr ...
  • The Best Possible News at the Best Possible Time&# ...
    I couldn’t be more happy: Tony Scott has confirmed he will direct a sequel to his 1986 blockbuster Top Gun. The film, he told the Hitfix blog, could focus on a new era of aerial warfare in which pilots control unmanned planes remotely. Earlier this month it was reported that Tom Cruise might return ...
  • Today From the Fainting Couch
    Shorter Megan McArdle:  If I see anyone using a violent metaphor in the midst of political discourse, I’ll give them a 2×4 to the head. Related posts:Deep thoughts on the eve of the inauguration Deep Thought Defining Tyranny Down Related posts: Deep thoughts on the eve of the inauguration Deep ...
  • Aqua Buddha Would Not Approve This Message
    I think maybe probably Rand Paul should have just carried out his threat not to debate Jack Conway again: A MoveOn.org activist apparently trying to get close to U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul on Monday was shoved to the ground by supporters of Paul and stomped on, according to a video of the incid ...
  • This Is What Support of DADT Amounts To
    I had forgotten whether or not the Washington Times was still in business.   Apparently, it is, and it has a revoltingly homophobic editorial in support of DADT. The thing is, none of this irrational rhetoric is in any way unusual — “radical homosexual agenda,” “ramming [non-discriminatory] policy ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • U.C. Berkeley to hold conference on meditation and ...
    The University of California, Berkeley School of Law is hosting the first national conference on meditation and the legal profession. the program will bring together 185 lawyers, judges, law faculty, students and neuroscientists for three days to discuss the science of meditation and how it can be h ...
  • ASSOCIATE MOVERS
    Sanjay Ghosh joins Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough as an associate in the Atlanta office. Plus more movers in this week's column.
  • 1st Circuit upholds FTC's win in case over decepti ...
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit has upheld a lower court's nearly $49 million judgment for the Federal Trade Commission, giving the agency a total win in a multi-pronged deceptive advertising case against an infomercial company.
  • PTO and European Patent Office team up on classifi ...
    The latest U.S. Patent and Trademark Office innovation is a deal to work with the European Patent Office on a joint patent classification system aligned with global standards.
  • DOJ's chief of misconduct probes departs
    In May 2009, a month after she took the helm of what she called the U.S. Justice Department's "cleanup crew," Mary Patrice Brown pledged a new era of openness. As Brown prepares now to leave the office, that goal remains distant.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Failing to Pass a Severance Tax…
    Below some comments from the press and PennFuture about the state of the State’s budget sans a tax on drilling. Inaction on drill tax has a bad odor to it Sunday, October 24, 2010 By Brian O’Neill, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette …. Its [PA's Legislature] latest gaffe is passing on collecting tens of milli ...
  • Stephanie Hallowich in National Geographic
    Stephanie Hallowich has had one of the worst experiences with natural gas drilling in PA and she has also been one of the loudest voices, speaking out for her family and others in the same situations. Her story was picked up by National Geographic and can be found at the below link. She had this [.. ...
  • The Right to Know!
    Do you know how to file a “Right to Know” request? Do you know why you might want to know how to do this? Since the gas drilling in Pennsylvania has taken off at full speed many people are finding the “Open Records Law” , also known as the “Right to Know Law”, a necessary [...]
  • Ya’ll Get Together Now, Ya Hear?
    Today I attended the Conservation PA event in Camp Hill, PA. I was sitting in the conference room among the other 100 or so attendees and trying to remember when I had first heard of the Marcellus Shale, or the term fracking. When I couldn’t dig up a memory of the beginning of my relationship [...]
  • Do ‘Environmental Extremists’ Pose Criminal Threat ...
    by Abrahm Lustgarten Sept 8th, 2010 As debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus shale reaches a fever pitch, state and federal authorities are warning Pennsylvania law enforcement that “environmental extremists” pose an increasing threat to security and to the energy sector. A confide ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • New Gas-Powered Mazda Will Get More than 70 Miles ...
    Mazda will introduce a subcompact gas-powered vehicle in Japan next year that gets 70.5 miles per gallon , a model automakers say shows that combustion-powered cars can deliver fuel efficiency similar to hybrid vehicles. With a more efficient engine and transmission, and a frame and suspension syste ...
  • Island Nation Will Create Extensive Marine Mammal ...
    The Pacific Island nation of Palau has announced the establishment of a 230,000-square-mile marine mammal sanctuary that will protect whales, dolphins, and the endangered dugong — a relative of the manatee — from hunting and fishing. Harry Fritz, Palau’s Minister of the Environment, Natural Resource ...
  • Plants More Crucial to Reducing Air Pollution Than ...
    Plants play an even more critical role in keeping the atmosphere clean than previously believed, according to a new study. Using observation, gene expression studies, and computer models, researchers found that deciduous plants absorb a common class of pollutants known as oxygenated volatile organic ...
  • Microbes in Gulf of Mexico Consume Methane Faster ...
    Microbes living at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico consume methane 10 to 100 times faster than previously believed and may help consume a greater portion of the gaseous waste from the Deepwater Horizon spill than expected, according to a new study. Using spectrometry technology that is able to meas ...
  • Emerging Economies Among the Most Vulnerable to Cl ...
    Click to enlarge Maplecroft Climate Change Vulnerability Index Some of the world’s fastest-growing economies — including India and Bangladesh — are also the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change , according to a new report. The nations at the most extreme risk are those already dealing w ...

Red Ice Creations

  • WikiLeaks: A Grim Portrait of Civilian Deaths in I ...
    The reports in the archive disclosed by WikiLeaks offer an incomplete, yet startlingly graphic portrait of one of the most contentious issues in the Iraq war - how many Iraqi civilians have been killed and by whom. WikiLeaks proved at least one thing through its release of nearly 400,000 U.S. milita ...
  • ’Former Reds’ Behind Red Mud
    As the Hungarian government continues its efforts to limit the consequences of a tragic toxic leak last week, it has also used the opportunity to attack a supposed former communist-turned capitalist oligarchy that allegedly runs the country’s economy.
  • Massive stretches of weathered oil spotted in Gulf ...
    The discovery, which comes as millions of birds begin moving toward the region in the fall migration, gave ammunition to groups that have insisted the government has overstated clean-up progress, and could force reclosure of key fishing areas only recently reopened.
  • The Grasdorf Pictogram Plates
    Farmer Werner Harenberg woke up early in the morning of July 23, 1991 to discover Germany’s first spectacular crop circle near the village of Grasdorf, Lower Saxony in the historic Teutoburger Wald Area, not far from Hannover. This location is not far from the prehistoric site of Externsteine, part ...
  • Randy Quaid and wife fear Hollywood "Star Whackers ...
    The couple told the immigration adjudicator they’re being persecuted in the United States. Evi Quaid said friends such as actors David Carradine and Heath Ledger have been "murdered" under mysterious circumstances and she’s worried something will happen to her husband. "We feel our lives are in dang ...

Russia Today

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

  • FermiLab to prove Third Dimension an Illusion
    It has been postulated in the past few years that our reality, i.e., the “Third Dimension” is an illusion and thusly could be manipulated and it would be proven once and for all that we live in a multi-dimensional multi-verse. Now scientists at the FermiLab high energy research facility are building ...
  • The Electric Universe and Strawmen
    The Electric Universe Theory is very intriguing to me for the simple fact that it’s elegant, easy to grasp and can explain many anomalies that occur in Nature. In fact, I consider it an equal to Einstein’s Gravitic theories that is the mainstream thought today. Do I think it’s THE theory? No, but I ...
  • Impromptu Conversation Between Mike Clelland and C ...
    On October 13th last week, UFOs appeared over Manhattan Island as seemingly predicted by former military person Stanley Fulham. The mainstream media carried the UFO stories all day long, especially when it was found out the UFOs were nothing but balloons. Esoteric researchers Mike Clelland and Chris ...
  • The Secret Sun: Authors of the Impossible
    When it comes to writing articles and books of esoteric symbolism, archetypes and just plain, strange Fortean subjects in general, nobody beats Chris Knowles. But this time Chris acknowledges an author of supreme expertise in the area of the different; Jeff Kripal. In yesterday’s Secret Sun post, Ch ...
  • The UFO Invasion That Wasn’t
    When retired military officer Stanley Fulham predicted a massive UFO display over major cities (U.S. or world?) last week, I was glued to my computer all day checking any news out. I didn’t hear about any kind of UFO activity until the balloon UFOs over New York City last Friday. I was bummed. A few ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Inflation Fears Spur Bond Sales
    “At a time when savers complain that they are earning almost no interest from their bank accounts, some investors on Monday bought United States government bonds that effectively had a negative rate of return. Bizarre as it sounds, that is correct. In an auction of a special kind of five-year Treasu ...
  • FDIC Missed Signs of Foreclosure Problems, Chief S ...
    “Sheila C. Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., said Monday that federal officials should have recognized âwarning signsâ in recent years that the mortgage industry was cutting corners in the foreclosure process.” (Washington Post) But donât worry. Theyâll spot the next problem in ...
  • The Urban Origins of Liberty
    The city gave us the chance to think about freedom, the means to articulate its philosophy, and, in the dense social networks of cities, to spread the idea.
  • Obamacare May Undermine Employer-Based Insurance
    “The new health-care law wasn’t supposed to undercut employer plans that have provided most people in the United States with coverage for generations. But last week, a manufacturer told its workers that their costs will jump partly because of the law. Also, a governor laid out a plan for employers t ...
  • Global Food Market Raises Doubts about Inspection
    “Although this globalized bounty remains among the safest food in the world, it is testing the limits of a creaky US food-safety system built on 70-year-old laws written before genetic engineering was invented, frozen foods had gone mainstream, or Interstate highways enabled a head of lettuce to mak ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • A Pope of climate denial
    There's broad agreement among scientists nowadays that global warming is real and caused in large part by human activities like burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests. For example, a survey by university researchers published last year in EOS, the journal of the American Geophysical ...
  • European polluters financing Senate global warming ...
    Major European polluters are contributing generously to the campaigns of global warming deniers and climate bill blockers in the 2010 U.S. Senate race, according to a new report from Climate Action Network Europe. The companies examined in the report include Belgium's Solvay; Britain's BP ...
  • Still waiting for justice, black farmers rally in ...
    Black farmers gathered in a historic farming community in North Carolina over the weekend to draw attention to the continuing decline of black land ownership due to government policies -- including the ongoing failure by the Senate to fund a more than $1 billion race discrimination agreement. ...
  • No discipline for New Orleans cop despite complain ...
    By Brendan McCarthy, New Orleans Times-Picayune , and A.C. Thompson, ProPublica The disciplinary file on the New Orleans Police Department's Dwayne Scheuermann is inches thick -- as thick as any on the police force. The lieutenant has weathered more than 50 separate complaints, ranging from accu ...
  • Art Pope: Still dancing at the Tea Party?
    This past spring, as the Tea Party movement was gearing up for one of its big moments in the spotlight -- the April 15 Tax Day protests -- the conservative cause found itself mired in controversy. After a year of rowdy Congressional town hall meetings, extremist rhetoric and bitter internal ...

Worldpress - Africa

Canadian Encyclopedia

  • Great Depression
    Few countries were affected as severely as Canada by the worldwide Depression of the 1930s. It is estimated that between 1929 and 1933 Gross National Expenditure declined by 42%, by the latter year 30% of the LABOUR FORCE was
  • Riel, Louis
    Louis Riel, M�tis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the NORTH-WEST REBELLION (b at Red River Settlement [Man] 22 Oct 1844; d at Regina 16 Nov 1885). Riel was educated at St Boniface and studied for the
  • Macdonald, Sir John Alexander
    Sir John Alexander Macdonald, lawyer, businessman, politician, first prime minister of Canada (b at Brunswick Place, across the Clyde R from Glasgow, Scot 10 Jan 1815; d at Ottawa 6 June 1891). He was the dominant creative mind
  • Confederation
    Confederation, the union of the British North American colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Canada (Canada being an earlier 1841 union of Lower Canada and Upper Canada), was achieved 1 July 1867 under the new name,
  • Vimy Ridge
    Vimy Ridge, battle fought 9-14 April 1917 during WORLD WAR I . The long, low ridge formed a key position linking the Germans' new HINDENBURG LINE to their main trench lines leading north from HILL 70 near Arras, France.

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • Green Halloween: what can I reuse or recycle to ma ...
    Continuing in our Green Halloween series… So yesterday, we looked at reuse or recycling ideas for Halloween masks – and I suppressed my desire to rant about shop-bought costumes. In my ever-so humble opinion, homemade costumes are way more fun – and they often reuse and recycle stuff, rather than us ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle waxed paper sliced brea ...
    This one came to me in my sleep the other night – the waxed paper type wrapping you get on some loaves of sliced bread. I obsessed about it until morning so I wouldn’t forget to write it down and let me tell you, I had some weird packaging related dreams that night. ANYWAY, waxed [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle straw coasters & placem ...
    We’ve had an email from Katy: Cleaning out my mum’s cupboards I’ve found some tatty straw tablemats and a set of coasters that must be as old as me! Can I compost them? Maybe. A cautious composter might want to leave them out – you don’t know if the straw has been treated with anything [...]
  • Green Halloween: How can I reuse or recycle Hallow ...
    With Halloween at the weekend, the shops are full masks and costumes at the moment. To keep this blog reasonably rant free, I shalln’t go into my feelings for a) the sudden importing of Halloween as a large scale holiday and b) the rise of shop-bought fancy dress outfits and costumes (isn’t half the ...
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make a chair?
    We’ve had an email from Adele: For my Product Design A2 level I am aiming to create a chair made from recycled materials. Iâve got to be able to collect them in a fairly short time, and of course it would be very helpful if the items were free…Iâve got an open mind about it, [...]

Mondoweiss

  • Two sides of the Wall in Bil’in
    (Photo: Hamde Abu Rahme) I went on a tour to photograph the Apartheid Wall that was built on the territory of the Palestinian village of Bil'in, located in the West Bank. After a ruling of the highest Israeli Court, the path of which the first wall had been built had to be changed and now the Israe ...
  • Settler network promotes racist comics to bring Me ...
    The following comic celebrating the life of Meir Kahane appeared last week on an Israeli website called the Israel News Network, which is associated with Arutz Sheva and the settler movement. Kahane was the founder of the fascist Jewish Defense League and the Kach movement, which was barred in Israe ...
  • Pregnant woman injured by settler hit & run, 13-ye ...
    And more news from Today in Palestine:Settlers/ Land, Property, Resource Theft & Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Man and his pregnant wife injured in deliberate settler hit and run accident An Israeli settler deliberately ran into a Palestinian car near Halhul village, Al-Khalil district, on Monday nig ...
  • Kufur Qassim, Rachel Corrie and premeditated forge ...
    Hussain Abu-Hussain, the Corries’ lawyer, thought his was a depressing profession. I sought to cheer him up by pointing out the dismal case of the oncology specialty in medicine. It didn’t seem to work; he had spent the whole day trying in vain to trick witnesses of the murder of the late ISM volunt ...
  • Dennis Ross strokes AIPAC on delegitimization and ...
    Is it election season? Laura Rozen reports that Dennis Ross, the Obama aide at large, and really a representative of the Israel lobby, went to AIPAC in Florida to talk about Iran etc. Read the speech and you will see all the talk about the joint exercises with Israel and fighting delegitimization. D ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • US Senator probes National Cancer Institute on spo ...
    A rule that limits Republican senators to six years as committee leaders means that Senator Charles "Chuck" Grassley (right) will soon be leaving the Senate Finance Committee, where he has made himself Watchdog-in-Chief of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). But the Iowa Republican is not ...
  • Despite decent showing in R&D spend, Europe warns ...
    The world’s recent financial meltdown did not hit research spending as hard as might have been expected, according to the EU’s latest investment scoreboard . R&D investment from the world’s largest spenders on research dropped 1.9% in 2009, the annual publication shows. This ends four years of up ...
  • Novel virus may have jumped from monkeys to humans
    A viral outbreak at a California monkey research facility that killed 80% of the titi monkeys (right) it infected also sickened a researcher who worked closely with the animals, scientists reported on Friday at the Infectious Diseases Society of America conference in Vancouver, Canada (see news repo ...
  • Ground coffee helps robots get a grip
    Most robotic hands are modelled on human or animal hands and use digits to grasp objects, but artificial fingers are a complicated business. Before a hand can pick up an object, the fingers must position themselves correctly and judge the force required to grasp the object correctly. This involves a ...
  • Scientists question think tanks' motives
    A dozen scientists are raising concerns about a pair of environmental and trade policy think tanks that they claim are twisting facts about tropical deforestation in order to promote an agenda of oil palm development in places like Indonesia and Malaysia. Scientists and environmentalists have lo ...

new geography

  • Prosperity Index Shows That Democracy Still Works ...
    With the Cold War well behind us, the real choice between systems lies in a growing variation in the form of capitalisms. Choices now range from the Chinese Leninist model – essential centrally planned exploitation of the greed gene – to various kleptocracies, divergent Anglo-American systems and v ...
  • Shifting Voter Demographics: America is a Differen ...
    As we head to the unpredictable 2010 elections, many pundits have been left scratching their heads and admitting that they really have no idea how this election is going to turn out. Nate Silver, today’s most careful analyst of election statistics and forecasting, examined a variety of indicators an ...
  • Portland's Runaway Debt Train
    Tri-Met, the operator of Portland's (Oregon) bus and light rail system has been in the news lately, and in less than auspicious ways. For decades, the Portland area’s media – as well as much of the national press – has been filled with stories about the national model that Tri-Met has created, espec ...
  • The Urban Bike Tribes of Los Angeles
    A recent Los Angeles Times article chronicled a showdown between drivers and bicyclists, inspired by the installation of bike lanes and — more significantly — the reduction of auto traffic lanes on a San Fernando Valley boulevard. The change was clearly intended to encourage cyclists, but I had to ...
  • A Price on Carbon: the New Greenmail
    Hidden from view during the Australian election, a carbon price is back on the political agenda. This comes as no surprise. Anyone following the debate, however, will see that it has nothing to do with the environment. For some time we have been urged to “act now”, but the grounds keep shifting and ...

GM Watch

spiked

Cryptogon

  • Sickening Boondoggle: The New and Improved Marine ...
    Via: Wired: In this, the first in an occasional series examining tech influence in politics using MAPLight’s nonpartisan political-finance–analysis tools, the trail leads to a mind boggling, 10-year campaign in which three key defense contractors have funneled more than $18 million to the pockets of ...
  • U.S. Superbase on Guam
    Via: Telegraph: The US is building an £8 billion super military base on the Pacific island of Guam in an attempt to contain China’s military build-up. The expansion will include a dock for a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, a missile defence system, live-fire training sites and the expansion of th ...
  • Decommissioned Military Jets to Serve as Satellite ...
    Via: Space.com: Jets under consideration for the NanoLauncher game plan include the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter and the McDonnell Douglas F-15D Eagle, among others. These fighters will take the payload – slung underneath the fuselage on a rocket – several miles up and then fire the rocket to send the ...
  • Chinese Investment Soars in Brazil; Mainly Related ...
    Via: AFP: Chinese investment in Brazil is expected to reach 30 billion dollars this year, according to observers — a sum aimed at securing access to the Latin American nation’s oil and other resources. The inflow has been sudden, and dramatic. “Up to the end of last year, the amount of Chinese inves ...
  • Bernanke Asset Purchases Risk Unleashing 1970s Inf ...
    WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Oil is already over $80. Either that USDX support I’ve been mentioning holds, or we could see oil back over $100 in a few weeks time. Is the “Recovery” going to run on $100+ oil? *chortle* Via: Bloomberg: For the se ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 12 Ominous Signs For World Financial Markets
    Can anyone explain the very strange behavior that we are seeing in world financial markets right now?  Corporate insiders are bailing out of the U.S. stock market at a very alarming rate.  Investors are moving mountains of money into gold and other commodities.  In fact, there is su ...
  • 11 Long-Term Trends That Are Absolutely Destroying ...
    The U.S. economy is being slowly but surely destroyed and many Americans have no idea that it is happening.  That is at least partially due to the fact that most financial news is entirely focused on the short-term.  Whenever a key economic statistic goes up the financial markets su ...
  • Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations ...
    Back in 1983, approximately 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the United States.  Today, ownership of the news media has been concentrated in the hands of just six incredibly powerful media corporations.  These corporate behemoths control most of what ...
  • Millions Of Unemployed Americans Now Live As Paupe ...
    Most Americans still do not understand just how bad the economic horror we are facing really is.  Today, millions of Americans are living as paupers in the land that their foreathers built even as America's infrastructure is literally being sold out from under their feet by corrupt ...
  • 100 Dollar Oil Is Coming
    The price of oil has been hovering around 80 dollars a barrel for quite some time now, but get ready, because it is going to move significantly higher.  Oil prices have already risen about 9 percent over the past month, and many believe that this could very well be the start of a ne ...

Desertification

  • Family gardening in the Sahara desert (Taleb BRAHI ...
    UNICEF’s family garden project in the Saharawis refugee camps in S.W. Algeria was so successful that, when UNICEF stopped its project in 2007, the refugees themselves continued to construct gardens.  Some even built greenhouses to protect their vegetables from the … Continue reading →
  • Malawi: shifting cultivation by rural farmers have ...
    Read at : http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=24491 Malawi herbalist battles deforestation Author: Collins Mtika Date Written: 21 October 2010 Primary Category: Ecology Document Origin: Inter Press Service News Agency Secondary Category: Culture Source URL: http://www.ips.org African Charter A ...
  • Does the production of agrofuels benefit African s ...
    Read at : http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=24492 Biofuels for Europe driving land grabbing in Africa Author: FOEI Date Written: 30 August 2010 Primary Category: Ecology Document Origin: Friends of the Earth International Secondary Category: Food and Land Source URL: http://www.foei.org Afri ...
  • Farmers could be forced to curb production because ...
    Read at : http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=24483 South Africa: Water is the new struggle Author: Jocelyn Newmarch Date Written: 21 October 2010 Primary Category: Food and Land Document Origin: AllAfrica.com Secondary Category: Health and AIDS Source URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/2010102 ...
  • There are already 285 school gardens in New York C ...
    Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/10/20/turning-asphalt-into-edible-education/ Turning Asphalt Into Edible Education Linked by Michael Levenston There are 285 school gardens in New York City By Sharon Otterman New York Times October 19, 2010 Excerpt: There are already 285 school gardens in N ...

The Paper Trail

  • “The Monster”—A Guide to the Sub ...
    Congratulations to my Center for Public Integrity colleague, Michael Hudson, whose new book debuted today as the No. 1 bestseller on Amazon.com's Real Estate and Banking lists.
  • Michigan PAC Robocalls Blast Democrat
    She Fires Back with YouTube Video While much of our focus has been independent groups with millions of dollars to invest in campaign ads, today we note a relatively cheap “robocall” message from Michigan political action committee whose most recent filing showed just $4,340.33 in the bank.
  • Massachusetts Foreclosure Law Firm Latest in Inves ...
    A law firm with connections to the attorney at the center of a Florida foreclosure scandal is under investigation by the Massachusetts attorney general’s office for unlawfully evicting tenants of bank-owned properties.
  • “Help Wanted” to Influence Dodd-Frank ...
    As federal agencies bulk up to handle the myriad regulations and studies ordered by the Dodd-Frank law, so is at least one influential industry group.
  • Futuristic Citizens Against Government Waste Ad Wa ...
    More than 20 years ago, a Ridley Scott-directed ad warned of possible “ Deficit Trials ” in 2017. The controversial spot, paid for by W.R. Grace and Co., offered a 60-second glimpse of a world where the future generation put 1986 leaders on trial for bequeathing a massive national debt obligation. ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Russell Williams: reality is reality
    By Frank Moher The Canadian news media have been engaged in a lot of hand-wringing and debate over the trial of Russell Williams and their own coverage of it. Should they have published photos of him dressed in his victims' lingerie? Should newspapers have kept the photos off the front page? ...
  • Officer Bubbles: the poem
    By Frank Moher The saga of Officer Bubbles continues. The Toronto Police Services constable (aka Adam Josephs) became notorious during the G20 for threatening to arrest a particularly pacific young woman if she continued to blow bubbles in his vicinity. "If the bubble touches me," he growled, "yo ...
  • Lay off Officer Bubbles
    Item: Officer Bubbles to sue YouTube Verse by Frank Moher Lay off Officer Bubbles The bubble busting cop He may be big on YouTube But as a tough guy he's a flop For the insults and derision And the giggling just won't stop So lay off Officer Bubbles The bubble busting cop Lay of ...
  • Nenshi: Canada’s first Facebook mayor
    By Jodi A. Shaw Naheed Nenshi’s wall on Facebook is flooded with congratulatory notes today. Elected Calgary’s new mayor yesterday, Nenshi is the city’s first from a visible minority, as well as Canada’s first Muslim mayor of a major city. Nenshi says ethnicity and religion were not issues ...
  • Beware the Evercookie!
    by Eric Pettifor Yea, though ye have taken to heart the teaching that all men shall be as friendly smurfs one unto another, know that not all smurfs are as they seem, and trust no one. I believe that's from the Book of Ecclesiastes. Or possibly Saturday morning cartoons. X-Files? ...

Worldnews

  • Obama says RI 'shove it' comment 'not a big d ...
    PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- President Barack Obama on Tuesday said it's "not a big deal" that Democratic candidate for governor Frank Caprio declared he could "shove it" for not endorsing him. In his first comments about Caprio's remarks, which were made Monday to a Rhode Island radio station, Obama sa ...
  • EVERY MATCH IS IMPORTANT - WENGER
    Arsene Wenger has challenged his young Arsenal side to come out firing on all cylinders in every match - whether it is the Carling Cup or Champions League. The Gunners head to Newcastle on Wednesday night looking to stay on course for a first trophy since the 2005 FA Cup. Wenger used last week' ...
  • Isner and Nalbandian progress
    Fifth seed John Isner and eighth seed David Nalbandian both eased into the second round of the Sud de France Open in...
  • What's the best Acer laptop?
    It can be hard to choose which laptop to buy, but once you've found the brand you want then what next? If you've settled on an Acer, then you're probably wondering what the best Acer laptop is for your budget. Here we've gathered together the top models for your delectation. But if you don't wa ...
  • Tea party's Senate victories unlikely to incl ...
    GREENVILLE, Del. — The tea party may be over in this state's volatile U.S. Senate race. Republican Christine O'Donnell, whose Sept. 14 upset of veteran moderate Rep. Michael Castle in Delaware's Republican primary was considered the tea party's biggest coup yet, is far behind in most polls, rai ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Exhausted? Feeling really tired can threaten healt ...
    Less sleep, longer schedules can lead to physical and emotional collapse.
  • UNICEF Responds To The Devastation Of Typhoon "Jua ...
    Super Typhoon Juan (Megi) hit Northern Luzon on 18 October 2010 and left much of the region, notably, Isabela battered and reeling. A day after the storm, UNICEF sent a team of specialists on health, nutrition, water sanitation and hygiene (WASH), education and child protection to conduct rapid ass ...
  • Johns Hopkins Medicine News Roundup, October 22, 2 ...
    Home monitoring for blood thinning, risks of hormone replacement therapy, dental procedures and cardiovascular events, and the upside of stressful life events.
  • Haiti Cholera Outbreak May Be Peaking - Over 250 D ...
    Health authorities in Haiti, as well as various aid organizations inform that the increase in daily reported cholera cases appears to be slowing down. At least 250 deaths have been reported as well as 3,000 cases of human infection, according to PAHO (PanAmerican Health Organization). Five patients ...
  • Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Opens Hong Kong O ...
    HONG KONG and PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, is pleased to announce that it has opened an office in Hong Kong. (Logo: �http://photos.prnewswir

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Guest Post by Bill Becker - Climate Action: Down ...
    This is the first two parts of a multi-part series by guest blogger William Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. 1.� THE SITUATION There will come a time when governments are forced to act on global climate change. Its impacts will be increasingly devastating and ...
  • The U.S. Navy and Biofuels – Part I
    On Tuesday, October 19, 2010 I conducted an interview with Tom Hicks, who is the Deputy Assistant Secretary to the Navy (Energy). The idea for the interview originated from my recent essays on Solazyme (here and here) in which the Navy’s investments in biofuels were discussed.
  • What’s beyond cap-and-trade?
    Given that cap-and-trade is dead–yes, dead, dead, dead–what’s next for energy and climate policy in Washington? Perhaps more than you might think, even though the incoming Congress will likely be more conservative that the outgoing crew.
  • Redwood Forests Provide a Clue to Business Sustain ...
    Thoreau did it.� So did Carter and Brezhnev, and Reagan and Gorbachev too.� They all took a walk in the woods, like I did on a recent weekend��to explore and resolve internal and external issues.� My hi
  • Video alert: When the Water Ends
    When The Water Ends: Africa’s Climate Conflicts:

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Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

  • 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 ticke ...
  • September 11th - The Occult Connection
    William Ramsey On September 11th, 2001, four rogue commercial airplanes flew through the skies of the eastern United States, headed toward high value targets in New York and Washington, D.C. Two of the planes, Flights 11 and 175, struck the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, and within an hou ...
  • If Republicans win
    Mary Shaw I hear from a lot of disillusioned Democrats who are disappointed in the Obama administration and Congress. Their disappointment is understandable. Two years ago, we were seduced by the promise of positive, progressive change. Obama was going to change Washington. Instead, the games in Wa ...
  • Systemic Washington-Sanctioned Fraud
    by Stephen Lendman It's the American way. More for the rich. Crumbs for the rest, and fraud as a way of life since the republic's beginning, though hardly on today's scale. Perhaps the first prominent example was in 1792, involving former Assistant Treasury Secretary William Duer. Appointed by Alex ...
  • Israel is the most immediate threat to the future ...
    Interview by Kourosh Ziabari Jeffrey Blankfort is an American photojournalist, radio producer and Middle East analyst. He is a well-known pro-Palestinian activist whose articles and writings have appeared on Counter Punch, Voltairenet, Palestine Think Tank, Dissident Voice and many other publicat ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • New videos on the facts & myths of medicare sustai ...
    Canadians are being told that public health care financing is not sustainable, and that the solution is a shift to more private health insurance and private delivery of services. On June 17, 2010 the CCPA and the Canadian Health Coalition hosted a breakfast lecture on the sustainability of medicar ...
  • Medicare Sustainability: Facts & Myths - with poll ...
    Canadians are being told that public health care financing is not sustainable, and that the solution is a shift to more private health insurance and private delivery of services. Renowned pollster Nik Nanos reviews the numbers, and Canada's pre-eminent health economist, Dr. Robert G. Evans, ...
  • The dangers of cutting municipal taxes
    On Policy Note, Keith Reynolds argues against the anti-tax logic of the Taxpayers' Federation. If municipalities go further down the road of tax cuts, we could end up like California: in deep financial trouble, with social services in disarray. Go to Policy Note to read Keith's full post on the dang ...
  • Canadian incomes flatlined; poverty unchanged
    Statistics Canada released 2008 income data for Canadians and finds median after-tax family incomes were flatlined and the number of families living in poverty remained virtually unchanged compared to the year before. Striking findings, considering most of 2008 represented an economic growth period ...
  • BC's Clean Energy Act will cost British Columbians ...
    In today's Vancouver Sun, Marvin Shaffer argues that the Clean Energy Act is far worse legislation than the HST — in fact, he says, this is the legislation that British Columbians should be fighting to repeal. Read Clean Energy Act will cost British Columbians on the Vancouver Sun website.

World Wide Hippies

  • New Evidence About Kent State
    Does new audio change our understanding of the Kent State Massacre? | Washington Examiner Maybe. Sometimes things we’ve always known to be true turn out to be nonsense. This is often true when it comes to stories about the hippies and the left’s golden age of the late 60s and early 70s. Take the Ken ...
  • Reducing Greenhouse Emissions
    Prop. 23 not just for hippies | Daily Titan Due to an upcoming proposition on November’s ballot, the viability and competitiveness of America’s economy is being threatened by postponing a piece of legislation known as Assembly Bill 32. The goal of California AB32 is to set a standard for the 1990 gr ...
  • Happy Birthday, Doonesbury!
    Zonker Harris was once my hero. Garry Trudeau: ‘Doonesbury quickly became a cause of trouble’ | The Guardian The first Doonesbury strip, published 40 years ago today, seems naive looked at through modern lenses. It begins with a character so sparsely drawn he barely exists, though you are intrigued ...
  • Politicians Easing into Social Media
    Campaigns not buying social media | Politico Despite the increased attention paid by the media to political Facebook and Twitter accounts, campaigns today still spend less than 5 percent of their media expenditures online, according to an expert in the field. Mindy Finn â of EngageDC and the Directo ...
  • Rand Paul supporter stomps on the head of a female ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • 9/11 Families Call for Immediate Acknowledgement o ...
    NEW YORK – October 23 – The following statement may be attributed to Colleen Kelly, a founding member of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows The information made public by Wikileaks (NY Times, A Grim Report…10/22/10) emphasizes that 9/11 families have much in common with Iraqi civ ...
  • 'A Crime Beyond Denunciation'
    This appears in a new article in the New York Observer : "The first thing that needs to happen, I think, is to get these people out of their homes," a man wearing a bespoke blue-striped shirt, a Hermés tie patterned with elephants and Ferragamo loafers said recently. "Correct! I'll explain," the ...
  • The “I” Word ...by Cindy Sheehan
    Once, when my children were young, one of them rushed into me and said: “Mama, so-and-so, said the ‘K’ word.” I don’t remember which one of my children was the tattler, or which one was the tattlee, but I remember the “k” word. I could never figure out what the “k” word was, because neither of the ...
  • Impeachment Marcher Reaches Washington – “Hello Ma ...
    John Nirenberg, who has spent the last forty days and nights walking south on Route 1 from Boston to Washington D.C., has reached the outskirts of his goal, Nancy Pelosi’s office. And rather than the last stumbling steps of exhaustion, or steps glad to be finishing up and moving on, the final ...
  • Cheney Impeachment
    Bangor Daily News Over the past 18 months, a core group of Democrats and others from the left has steadfastly maintained that President Bush and Vice President Cheney should be impeached. Mainstream Democrats in Congress are sympathetic to their arguments, but most have bowed to the political r ...

Salon

  • Rand Paul's head-stomping supporter served with su ...
    Tim Profitt, the Rand Paul campaign's Bourbon County coordinator, admitted today to stomping on the head of activist Lauren Valle outside Monday's debate between Paul and Jack Conway. The Lexington Police have issued a criminal summons for the head-stomper.
  • The Sharron Angle ad that drove Joy Behar crazy
    Adam Hanft dissects and deconstructs political advertising at Spin Season , where this originally appeared.
  • Rove group donor: Support anti-gay pols? Who, me?
    As the uproar from the LGBT�community against Gold's Gym continues today, Gold's owner, Robert Rowling, a media-shy Texas billionaire, has given an interview to Fox in which he defends his $2 million donation to the conservative American Crossroads as being about fiscal policy, not gay rights.
  • Yes, Virginia, there is some good news for Democra ...
    Don't get me wrong: It's still looking like next Tuesday will be grim for Democrats, who stand to lose the House, a bunch of governorships and state legislatures and maybe even the Senate. Still, it's worth pointing out that the party has received a little good news in the last few weeks, with tw ...
  • O'Reilly's ambush producer goes after NPR chief
    The war on NPR is continuing apace. Any good Fox News crusade requires an ambush "interview" conducted on cowardly bully Bill O'Reilly's behalf by loathful producer Jesse Watters (known for ambushing a judge who was forbidden by law from commenting on pending cases and quite literally stalking bl ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • Khadr trial: A travesty of justice
    Canada’s notorious Omar Khadr finally buckled before a discredited American military tribunal and provided the guilty plea it was set up to elicit. But nothing like justice has been done in this wretched case.
  • Toronto mayoralty: Ford needs to reach out
    Rob Ford was not the Star’s choice for mayor of Toronto, but he was clearly the people’s choice. Capitalizing on a voter backlash against the garbage strike, tax hikes, politicians’ perks, and bike lanes, he won Monday’s election by a wide margin – ...
  • Supreme Court: Journalists and sources
    The Supreme Court has sharply reminded lower courts that journalists have a qualified right to protect confidential sources.
  • Potash Corp.: PM’s dirty little secret
    Harper may shrug off concerns about foreign takeovers but working Canadians have reasons to be worried.
  • Municipal elections: Why voting is so important
    This is your opportunity to shape the direction of your community by choosing its leaders for the next four years.

Energy Collective

  • Guest Post by Bill Becker - Climate Action: Down ...
    This is the first two parts of a multi-part series by guest blogger William Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. 1.� THE SITUATION There will come a time when governments are forced to act on global climate change. Its impacts will be increasingly devastating and ...
  • The U.S. Navy and Biofuels – Part I
    On Tuesday, October 19, 2010 I conducted an interview with Tom Hicks, who is the Deputy Assistant Secretary to the Navy (Energy). The idea for the interview originated from my recent essays on Solazyme (here and here) in which the Navy’s investments in biofuels were discussed.
  • What’s beyond cap-and-trade?
    Given that cap-and-trade is dead–yes, dead, dead, dead–what’s next for energy and climate policy in Washington? Perhaps more than you might think, even though the incoming Congress will likely be more conservative that the outgoing crew.
  • Redwood Forests Provide a Clue to Business Sustain ...
    Thoreau did it.� So did Carter and Brezhnev, and Reagan and Gorbachev too.� They all took a walk in the woods, like I did on a recent weekend��to explore and resolve internal and external issues.� My hi
  • Video alert: When the Water Ends
    When The Water Ends: Africa’s Climate Conflicts:

EU Times

  • Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs
    Global humanitarian reasons for current U.S. immigration are tested in this updated version of Roy Beck’s colorful presentation of data from the World Bank and U.S. Census Bureau. The 1996 version has been one of the most viewed policy presentations on the internet. Presented by author/journalist Ro ...
  • Are growing ethnic enclaves a threat to Canada?
    The University of Victoria’s Zheng Wu is leading an important study into one of the most profound challenges facing Canada, which has the highest per-capita immigration in the world. How can waves of newcomers to Canada feel they belong here? That question, explored by Wu and his sociological team, ...
  • Interpol Issues “Global Terror Alert” ...
    Interpol today warned its 188 member countries that there may be a higher threat of terrorism if a Florida fringe pastor burns Korans on Saturday as planned. “One of INTERPOL’s primary functions is to prevent crime, and given that we have been made aware of a significant threat to public safety – an ...
  • Interpol Issues “Global Terror Alert” ...
    Interpol today warned its 188 member countries that there may be a higher threat of terrorism if a Florida fringe pastor burns Korans on Saturday as planned. “One of INTERPOL’s primary functions is to prevent crime, and given that we have been made aware of a significant threat to public safety – an ...
  • Sri Lanka MPs vote in sweeping powers for presiden ...
    Protesters burnt an effigy of President Mahinda Rajapaksa Sri Lankan MPs have approved proposals to let President Mahinda Rajapaksa seek an unlimited number of terms, in a move critics say could lead to dictatorship. The constitutional amendment also hugely boosts the president’s powers. Amid protes ...

Stonecipher News

  • What is Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
    According to Wright & Wright (2006): The definition of “least restrictive environment” did not change in IDEA 2004. Schools are required to educated children with disabilities in the least restrictive environment. Judicial decisions about “mainstreaming” and “least restrictive environment” (LRE) var ...
  • Rx - Nutritious Food and Some Important Tips for H ...
    I was surfing the net for alternative health articles when I came across my friend Ron Siojo's Factoidz page . "For centuries, bitter melon has been used therapeutically in China, India, Africa and the southeastern part of the US. It is useful in medicine as an anti-tumor, antiviral and anti-diabeti ...
  • PlayStation®Move
    This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of PlayStation MOVE . All opinions are 100% mine. Recently a little genie appeared to me one night while sleeping and gave my family the PlayStation®Move. Move Since I started using PlayStation®Move, my family and I have lost weight and spent more q ...
  • Washington State Fathers Network Annual Conference
    The Fathers Network is a group of men who have children that have a disability. According to Roseberg & Wilcox (2006), “The Washington State Fathers Network (WSFN) has served over 1,000 families in the past 20 years. Founded on the belief that men are crucial in the lives of children, WSFN is a pow ...
  • Your Child Has A Learning Disability. So What's Ne ...
    From my Factoidz page : Learning Disabilities was included in the 1975 authorization of the federal law Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) after an organization of parents formed the first Association of Children with Learning Disabilities (Heward, 2009). In the text, Exceptional Chil ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Presser Notes: Minnesota Week
    The Buckeyes got back to their winning ways Saturday with a 49-0 dismantling of the previously unbeaten (in the Big Ten) Purdue Boilermakers. Expect much the same this weekend in the Twin Cities. Minnesota looks like they're one of the worst Big Ten teams in a decade.  Ohio State... Tags: rose bowl ...
  • 'Green News Report' - October 26, 2010
    TWITTER: @ GreenNewsReport VIA SMART PHONE: Stitcher Radio ! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Cholera outbreak in Haiti; Volcanoes & tsunamis in Indonesia; BP's oil still in the Gulf, while BP's new CEO slams media "scaremongering" ... PLUS: Obama moves forward on clean energy & fuel... Tags: tea carbon tax ...
  • Chicago White Sox vs. Tampa Bay Rays Tickets, 4/7/ ...
    4/7/2011 Chicago White Sox vs. Tampa Bay Rays Live Phone Support: 1-888-583-6037 Chicago White Sox vs. Tampa Bay Rays Tickets for 4/7/2011 Game in Chicago Broa d RippleTickets.com has a great selection of home and away Chicago White Sox Tickets . Use the interactive seating... Tags: tampa bay rays c ...
  • Cream of Cauliflower Casserole with Cured Salmon
    So I entered the Casserole Party this year. It was a bit of a last-minute decision: the same afternoon, I chatted with the annual cookoff’s hostess Emily Farris on Let’s Eat In . It was enough to persuade me to run home and rummage through the kitchen to come up with something fast.... Tags: caulifl ...
  • Severe sepsis can lead to memory problems
    Advances in intensive care medicine are helping older Americans survive severe sepsis, an overwhelming infection, but according to new research these survivors are often left with major memory problems and physical limitations for years after their infection. Researchers presenting... Tags: sepsis p ...

Groklaw

  • Gemalto Sues Google, HTC, Samsung Over Java Card T ...
    The manufacturer of digital-security technology filed the patent-infringement suit against the companies in Texas federal court on Oct. 22, according to the complaint. Gemalto said the development platform for Android improperly includes its Java Card technology, which allows software written in Jav ...
  • Ubuntu changes its desktop from GNOME to Unity
    Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and the company behind it, Canonical, surprised the hundreds of Ubuntu programmers at the Ubuntu Developers Summit when he announced that in the next release of the popular Linux operating system, Ubuntu 11.04, Unity would become the default desktop interface. - ...
  • Vatican to rich countries: stop "excessive zeal" f ...
    A recent encyclical by Pope Benedict, one that speaks at length about the Catholic approach to development, is deeply concerned with economic inequality. In Benedict's view, strong IP rights can be part of such inequality. "On the part of rich countries there is excessive zeal for protecting knowle ...
  • Dawn of a New Day
    Quite important to me, I'm also quite proud of the degree to which we've continued to grow and mature in the area of responsible competition, and the breadth and depth of our cultural shift toward genuine openness, interoperability and privacy which are now such key cornerstones of everything we do. ...
  • Early Windows Phone 7 Apps Mimic the OS
    Unsurprisingly, the current selection of apps for Windows phones is sparse. Many of the top picks are games for Xbox Live. But a few of the big guns are already present, including eBay, Facebook, IMDb, Netflix, Twitter, and The Weather Channel. Microsoft also offers a mobile version of Office on Win ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

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.

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • How can I not blog when (#2)--
    ... Britain's $1.6 billion-worth of brand-new nuclear submarine runs aground off the coast of Scotland while testing its sonar! Just put this $1.6 billion figure together together with the sad facts of what I just blogged about Haiti , and you'll see how totally askew the priorities of the so-calle ...
  • How can I not blog when--
    140 of our neighbors in Haiti have now certifiedly died of cholera , and hundreds of thousands of Haitians also badly affected by last December's earthquakes are also threatened by it. And it is not the case that cholera has been "endemic" in Haiti at all, any time in recallable history. This is t ...
  • Newsweek: 'Everyone needs' Hamas at the table
    A really significant article by Babak Dehghanpisheh in this week's Newsweek: The headline is: "A place for Mr. Meshaal: No one wants the leader of Hamas at the Mideast peace table. But everyone needs him there ." Of course, it is not true that "No one wants him" there... But we can let that go. De ...
  • Chas Freeman's somber look at U.S. Middle East pol ...
    I am happy to be able to publish here-- with his permission-- the text of the presentation that Amb. Chas W. Freeman, Jr., made at a conference on the Middle East held at Tufts University, October 14-15. Freeman's book America's Misadventures in the Middle East is, of course, the first title to be p ...
  • U.S. supports Taliban talks; Still opposing Hamas? ...
    So here are Sec. of State Hillary Clinton and SecDef Bob Gates now saying they support-- and are giving active support to-- the Afghan government's initiative to negotiate with the Taliban. But the U.S. government continues to completely oppose any attempt by any parties, Palestinian or other, to r ...

First Truths

  • WikiLeaks Removes the Cloak
    My latest commentary lauds WikiLeaks for exposing the full scope of the Iraq war's horrors.
  • What It Means to be Anti-War
    Libertarianism is described variously as the philosophy of liberty, as individualism, and as anti-collectivism, and while all of those designations are accurate I want to suggest that libertarianism is at first anti-war. Even after explaining that mine is a social philosophy that makes the complet ...
  • Time to Rescind the Social Contract
    Coverage of the pension crisis in France has made a habit of implicating the hallowed "social contract" that citizens supposedly enjoy the benefits of in that country. With the French strikes as a reference point, I argue that social contract theory, the idea of implicit consent, cannot justify the ...
  • Senate Candidate Paul, the Civil Rights Act, and L ...
    Media coverage of Rand Paul’s supposedly racist remarks regarding the Civil Rights Act demonstrates once again that the Left’s animus toward the Tea Party movement has nothing to do with genuine, principled advocacy for a free and open society or for concerns about civil liberties and race. Instea ...
  • The State Is...
    In the final decade of the nineteenth century, Benjamin Tucker published his essay The Individual, Society, and the State . His words advanced an early explication of the anarcho-capitalist theory of a competitive market for defense services, and in doing so provided a penetrating criticism of the ...

Media Co-Op

  • Christie Blatchford: Coming to Your Community!!!
    Anti-Native Globe and Mail Journalist Promoting her New Book The First Nations Solidarity Working Group (FNSWG) of Toronto is issuing a call for communities to organize and respond to Christie Blatchford as she makes her way across Canada prom ...
  • Climate Justice Montreal "Fracks" Quebec Oil and G ...
    Montreal - This morning organizers with Climate Justice Montreal set up a hydraulic fracturing, gas shale extraction site outside of the Queen Elizabeth hotel, site of the Quebec Association of Oil and Gas Producers annual conference. "Extracting natural gas from shale deposits is bottom of the barr ...
  • 15% of Population vote for Ford
    While Rob Ford won the Mayoral election with 47.12% of the vote, only 15% of the city's population voted for him. Some of those who did not vote choose not to, but others were not eligible to vote or did not have sufficient I.D. “Toronto is ... home to a diverse population of about 2.6 million peopl ...
  • Fourteen new face on Toronto's city council
    These are the faces of the 14 new names elected to city council. 30 face on council will stay the same including Rob Ford, who is moving from his council seat to the mayors office. � � Ward �Name 1 �� � �VINCENT CRISANTI 2 �� � �DOUG FORD 10 �� �JAMES PASTERNAK 13� ���SARAH DOUCETTE �- defeated incu ...
  • Candidate wins with 19% of the vote, and 5% of pop ...
    Fairness of voting system called into question James Pasternak won his bid to become councillor of Ward 10 with only 19% of the popular vote. Only 5% of the Ward's population voted for him, as many stayed home or were not eligible to vote. “It ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Wikileaks: has anybody given a thought about Iraq ...
    David Seaton's News Links In all the comments on Wikileak's Iraq revelations I've read, I haven't seen much of anything about their effect on Iraq and the Iraqis.� This seems strange to me, because from beginning to end the real victims of everything we've done are the Iraqis themselves and it isn't ...
  • Julian Assange and Wikileaks, a warning: How to hi ...
    The reports make it clear that the lethal contest between Iranian-backed militias and American forces continued after President Obama sought to open a diplomatic dialogue with Iran�s leaders� New York Times It seems to me that the most significant revelations from the massive WikiLeaks document du ...
  • China’s next president: Xi Jinping
    China�s next president: Xi Jinping Xi is China's heir-apparent, in line to succeed Hu Jintao in 2012 as China's top leader. This 56-year-old "princeling"�his father was former Vice-Premier Xi Zhongxun�earned a doctorate in Marxist theory from Tsinghua University but now has a reputation as a support ...
  • The "Big Lie"... How it works and what it is for
    The big lie kicks in: before and after Americans for Prosperity, the rightwing campaign funded in part by the energy billionaires the Koch brothers, is working with the Tea Party movement to increase its impact through the use of new media and social networking. The Guardian Rupert Murdoch has decla ...
  • Observations of and on the rich
    "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand." F. Scott Fitzgerald ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • If You Use Herbs and Supplements, You've Been Betr ...
    In less than a year, virtually all medicinal herbs will be illegal in the European Union. In their take-no-prisoners strategy to wipe out every penny of competition and gain complete control of the health of the people, Big Pharma and Agribusiness have scored a major win in Europe. Similar, potenti ...
  • How to Kill a Cold, Starve a Fever -- and When You ...
    It could be just a little twitch or an irritating itch, but whatever it is, when it's happening to your body and you don't know what's causing it, it can be downright scary. The good news is that lots of scary symptoms are really no big deal. As listed on CNN Health, here is a list of symptoms tha ...
  • Clay Dyer – the Most Inspirational Fisherman Ever
    The next time you think life’s handed you a hard knock, take a look at this video and learn what it means to have the spunk and determination to overcome hard knocks – and the rewards that can come from simply putting adversity aside and doing your best.
  • Eating This Just Twice a Week Can Make You Gain Te ...
    Manhattan artist Sally Davies has photographed a McDonald's Happy Meal every day for six months. And it looks almost as fresh as the day it was bought, with no trace of decay. The Daily Mail reports: "In a work entitled The Happy Meal Project, Mrs. Davies, 54, has charted the seemingly indestruc ...
  • Comic Relief from Doctors that Put You to Sleep f ...
    5 Minnesota anesthetists show off their singing skills.

JAMA

  • Intentional Infection of Vulnerable Populations in ...
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  • This Week in JAMA [This Week in JAMA]
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  • Effects of Diet and Physical Activity Intervention ...
    Context� The prevalence of severe obesity is increasing markedly, as is prevalence of comorbid conditions such as hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus; however, apart from bariatric surgery and pharmacotherapy, few clinical trials have evaluated the treatment of severe obesity. Objective� To d ...
  • Effect of a Free Prepared Meal and Incentivized We ...
    Context� The prevalence of overweight and obesity in the United States remains high. Commercial weight loss programs may contribute to efforts to reduce the prevalence of overweight and obesity, although few studies have examined their efficacy in controlled trials. Objective� To test whether a fre ...
  • Association of KRAS p.G13D Mutation With Outcome i ...
    Context  Patients with metastatic colorectal cancer who have KRAS codon 12– or KRAS codon 13–mutated tumors are presently excluded from treatment with the anti–epidermal growth factor receptor monoclonal antibody cetuximab. Objective  To test the hypothesis that KRAS codon 13 mutations are associat ...

Survival - tribal peoples

  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • food prices expected to rise sharply
    from cnbc : Everyone is waiting for inflation . Corn is up 45 percent the last three months. We haven't seen cotton prices this high since after the Civil War. Soybeans are up. Oil is up. Metals are up. So are coffee and cocoa. In this era of massive liquidity, everything is up, except for food pric ...
  • produce kids grow is forbidden fruit in chicago lu ...
    kids grow veggies but can't eat them from chicago tribune : It's harvest time in Chicago Public School gardens full of chubby tomatoes, heavy squash and fragrant basil. These urban oases, carefully tended by teachers, students and volunteers, range from several square feet to several acres of fr ...
  • forbes admits it was 'wrong on monsanto, really wr ...
    from gmwatch : The only dubious aspect of this article is the suggestion that Monsanto's fortunes might be saved by its new soybean seed with " high levels of omega-3 fatty acids ," which " could appeal to health-conscious consumers ." We doubt that Monsanto soybeans (if GM) and health-conscious con ...
  • media monarchy: interview w/ barbara peterson of f ...
    interview w/ barbara peterson : download /subscribe \archive the latest special interview episode from media monarchy features a great talk with writer/activist barbara peterson of farmwars.info & truth squad radio . this one-hour conversation gets into the " corporate shenanigans ... and in ...
  • 10/14 binge & purge: can't feel the beating
    warning to glenn beck: don't drink diet coke * video: beck sidekicks attempt to debunk aspartame controversy * roger beachy's evangelical push for gm foods * build the pressure on the gates foundation * what's driving monsanto's fall from grace? *

CrusadeWatch

  • Evangelism as part of foreign political strategy
    source:  The organiser, Oct 3, 2010   By Manju Gupta Evangelical Intrusions, Sandhya Jain, Rupa & Co., Pp 251 (HB), Rs 395.00 THIS book comes at an opportune moment when repeated reports of religio-political violence in the north-eastern states are pouring in, accompanied by the ri ...
  • What science say about religious conversion
    source:  Helium.com,  October 20, 2010 For many, religious experiences lead to religious conversion. While conversion need not stem from such an experience, per se, many convertees have cited religious awakenings as leading to a new spiritual perspective. But while science accepts a religious ...
  • Beltangady: Three Booked for Inducing Religious Co ...
    source:  Daijiworld, October 18, 2010 Beltangady, Oct 18: The personnel of Venur police station have registered cases against three persons, based on a complaint received against them. The three reportedly visited a family, derided Hindu gods, and induced the family members to convert.
  • Vatican Bank Investigated For Alleged Money Launde ...
    source:  NPR.org,  September 21, 2010   Angelo Carconi /Associated Press Italian financial Police officers talk to each other in front of St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010.  (AP Photo/Angelo Carconi)
  • Pakistani Christians not beneficiary of Church run ...
    source: Pakistan Christian Post, May 17 2010 Lahore: May 17, 2010. (PCP) The admissions are underway in convents and other missionary schools administered by Catholic Church of Pakistan and Church of Pakistan in major cities of Punjab province of Pakistan. The Christian parents are standing i ...

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 12 Ominous Signs For World Financial Markets
    Can anyone explain the very strange behavior that we are seeing in world financial markets right now?  Corporate insiders are bailing out of the U.S. stock market at a very alarming rate.  Investors are moving mountains of money into gold and other commodities.  In fact, there is su ...
  • 11 Long-Term Trends That Are Absolutely Destroying ...
    The U.S. economy is being slowly but surely destroyed and many Americans have no idea that it is happening.  That is at least partially due to the fact that most financial news is entirely focused on the short-term.  Whenever a key economic statistic goes up the financial markets su ...
  • Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations ...
    Back in 1983, approximately 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the United States.  Today, ownership of the news media has been concentrated in the hands of just six incredibly powerful media corporations.  These corporate behemoths control most of what ...
  • Millions Of Unemployed Americans Now Live As Paupe ...
    Most Americans still do not understand just how bad the economic horror we are facing really is.  Today, millions of Americans are living as paupers in the land that their foreathers built even as America's infrastructure is literally being sold out from under their feet by corrupt ...
  • 100 Dollar Oil Is Coming
    The price of oil has been hovering around 80 dollars a barrel for quite some time now, but get ready, because it is going to move significantly higher.  Oil prices have already risen about 9 percent over the past month, and many believe that this could very well be the start of a ne ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Patriots: Why wait for politicians? Why not just d ...
    You know, as members of the public who love our country, we sit around and we whinge and moan about the undemocratic nature of the European Empire. We whinge and moan, saying that we want our country back. We wait for the Conservative Party backbenchers (who, apart from the noble Douglas Carswell ...
  • Globalist banker looting of British taxpayer leads ...
    We spend BILLIONS bailing out the bankers, we spend BILLIONS being part of the European Empire, we spend £1.2 billion on the fraud that was swine flu, the taxpayer has been robbed blind by MPs with criminally fraudulent expenses claims... And the result is that we can no longer afford a couple of ...
  • UKIP: At civil war over leadership... or are we?
    Those of you who are keen web surfers might already be aware of an apparent row within UKIP. For those who are not, here's the story so far. A communication, apparently from Mike Nattrass MEP, has appeared on the internet. Apparently originating as an email, we could not tell you who the em ...
  • Sunday Paper Review: 17th October 2010
    We have to start with one of the most laughable, ideological pieces of nonsense that we've seen written in any newspaper so far this year. Never one to disappoint, The Observer reports on the protests that are taking place in France. They claim that the protesters have: "...made the right shiv ...
  • Blogging and why do we bother? (Part 2)
    As a counter to my own argument - and in response to warm and encouraging comments from readers - we'd like to present the following to you. This post was not planned and is triggered by a bit of synchronicity. Do give the content a chance - I promise that there are no lizards in here: 'R ...

Facing South

  • A Pope of climate denial
    There's broad agreement among scientists nowadays that global warming is real and caused in large part by human activities like burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests. For example, a survey by university researchers published last year in EOS, the journal of the American Geophysical ...
  • European polluters financing Senate global warming ...
    Major European polluters are contributing generously to the campaigns of global warming deniers and climate bill blockers in the 2010 U.S. Senate race, according to a new report from Climate Action Network Europe. The companies examined in the report include Belgium's Solvay; Britain's BP ...
  • Still waiting for justice, black farmers rally in ...
    Black farmers gathered in a historic farming community in North Carolina over the weekend to draw attention to the continuing decline of black land ownership due to government policies -- including the ongoing failure by the Senate to fund a more than $1 billion race discrimination agreement. ...
  • No discipline for New Orleans cop despite complain ...
    By Brendan McCarthy, New Orleans Times-Picayune , and A.C. Thompson, ProPublica The disciplinary file on the New Orleans Police Department's Dwayne Scheuermann is inches thick -- as thick as any on the police force. The lieutenant has weathered more than 50 separate complaints, ranging from accu ...
  • Art Pope: Still dancing at the Tea Party?
    This past spring, as the Tea Party movement was gearing up for one of its big moments in the spotlight -- the April 15 Tax Day protests -- the conservative cause found itself mired in controversy. After a year of rowdy Congressional town hall meetings, extremist rhetoric and bitter internal ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Khadr Pleads Guilty; Deal Reportedly Caps Sentence at 8 Years Omar Khadr, the youngest detainee at Guantanamo and reportedly the last Western citizen held there, pleaded guilty to five charges Monday, including the murder of a U.S. Special Forces medic … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    No Deal Announced Yet in Khadr Trial, But Expected After more than a week of speculation about a possible plea deal for Omar Khadr, the youngest detainee at Guantanamo who is due before a military commission there today, the Toronto … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    U.S. to Cut Aid to Pakistani Military Units Accused of Abuses The New York Times reports that the United States will withhold training and equipment from about half a dozen Pakistan Army units accused of killing unarmed prisoners and civilians … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Testimony in Ghailani Trial Provides ‘Vivid, if Dated,’ Look Inside al Qaeda The New York Times reports that a second day of testimony by an admitted al Qaeda trainer at the trial of Ahmed Ghailani, who is accused of participating … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Al Qaeda Trainer Testifies at Ghailani Trial; Juror Replaced A Moroccan man who joined the mujahadeen in Afghanistan and later became a trainer for al Qaeda testified Tuesday at the trial of Ahmed Ghailani, who is accused of participating in … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 12 Year Old Alex Miller Spots Major Firefox Securi ...
    Alex Miller is just 12 years old, but don't let his age fool you. This teenager has just made his mark in the technology world by spotting a major security bug in the world's second most popular web browser , Mozilla Firefox. And he might just be using Ubuntu at the age of 12! The window i ...
  • Compiz Will Find It's Way Into Ubuntu Unity, Aweso ...
    Compiz 0.9.2 was revealed recently with a number of major improvements, new features and even new plugins. But the future of Compiz became uncertain since both Gnome with its GNOME Shell and KDE with its new KWin has decided to go forward with the new integrated desktop approach. But hold on, Compiz ...
  • Dell's 7-inch Android Based Tablet Will be Release ...
    Get ready for yet another Android based tablet. This one is from Dell. The first ever Android tablet was introduced by Samsung, like 2 weeks ago, and it is called Samsung Galaxy Tab . Galaxy Tab had impressive hardware specifications that rivals Apple's iPad and many even consider it as a better alt ...
  • Internet Explorer Market Share Below 50% For The F ...
    Internet Explorer has been in a steady downward spiral for years now and Microsoft is just not able to stop the decline. According to recent statistics from StatCounter, Internet Explorer might have dipped below 50% market share for the first time in 11 years. [image via firefox wallpapers ]Mic ...
  • Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" RC Comes Out With ...
    Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat release candidate is here and it's packed with a slew of new features. The amount of changes happening with Ubuntu lately is quite overwhelming. Here's a quick look through the�improvements�in the new Ubuntu 10.10 release candidate. Ubuntu Software Center ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • German military industrialists and politicians mee ...
    “Western as well as the Soviet prosecutors at Nuremberg were deeply convinced that big business – the industrialists and bankers – were the real forces behind the movement that brought Hitler to power and kept him there,” writes Eugene Davidson in his book “The Trial of the Germans.” The modern gene ...
  • Stuttgart 21 is a failure of deliberative democrac ...
    The lack of dialogue on plans to redevelop Stuttgart’s train station has led to a loss of faith in the political system Andrea Römele guardian.co.uk, Sunday 24 October 2010 09.00 BST Southern Germany, especially the state of Baden-Württemberg, is not known for being extraordinarily political or ev ...
  • The Philosopher Internet
    Thanks to the assistance of Professor Jose Ordonez Garcia, I managed to get to Seville just on time to give the opening lecture of the VI Jornadas medicine y filosofia in the Salon de Actos, Facultades de Filosofia y Psicologia, at 10: 00 am on October 21. I took courses in Logic and the Philosophy ...
  • Quadruple-dose seasonal flu “super” va ...
    By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor Originally published October 24 2010 (NaturalNews) The vaccine industry has now decided that injecting senior citizens with the “standard” vaccine dose just isn’t working. (Gee, really?) So now they’ve decided the way to make it work better is to ...
  • Patients’ anger after they are unable to opt ...
    By Jo Macfarlane Daily Mail Last updated at 7:57 AM on 25th October 2010 Patients’ groups have expressed anger over this year’s seasonal flu jab programme because people are unable to opt out of having the swine flu vaccine. The H1N1 vaccine will be the dominant of three flu strains included in the ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • It’s All a Matter of Degrees
    By Les Visible You know, I don’t have much of anything. I want what any man would want, I think. I don’t know everybody. I don’t even know who I am. My life is stranger than you can imagine and trust me; that is an understatement. I look at this thing with Jeff Rense and [...]
  • What a Gravity-Driven Demolition Looks Like
    The official story is that the North Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed due to gravity. This has been critiqued in an analysis by Graeme MacQueen and Tony Szamboti, and in a related analysis by David Chandler (both in the Journal of 9/11 Studies). The Balzac-Vitry demolition was a true gravit ...
  • Quadruple-dose seasonal flu “super” va ...
    By Mike Adams The vaccine industry has now decided that injecting senior citizens with the “standard” vaccine dose just isn’t working. (Gee, really?) So now they’ve decided the way to make it work better is to offer a quadruple viral potency vaccine that packs 400% more viral fragments into one toxi ...
  • Plants Clean Up More Air Pollution Than Previously ...
    Let’s just take it as a given that plants are awesome in many practical and inherent ways and go from there: New research, led by scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, shows that plants clean out air pollution to a much greater extent than previously thought. In fact, some ty ...
  • MRI scans ‘lead to unnecessary breast surger ...
    By Stephen Adams, Medical Correspondent Published: 7:30AM BST 22 Oct 2010 Magnetic resonance mammography (MRM) is particular good at finding tumours that are hard to spot using standard x-ray mammography. Younger women with a genetically high risk of breast cancer can be offered MRMs on the NHS if r ...

Veterans Today

  • Frustration – Part II
    Hello Folks: I am working with an OIF veteran regarding a non combat injury in Iraq. He fell off of an Army wrecker. His back is badly damaged. The VA said the injury was “dengenerative disk disease”. His AFES, pre-deployment and post deploymenet physicals did not note “dengenerative disk disease”. ...
  • U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contra ...
    No. 980-10 October 26, 2010  ——————————————————  CONTRACTS NAVY                 RLF Transystems, LLC, Inc., Winter Park, Fla. (N62470-11-D-1008); Stanley Consultants, Inc., Muscatine, Iowa (N62470-11-D-1009); and Clark Nexsen CH2M Hill, Norfolk, Va. (N62470-11-D-1010), are each bein ...
  • JOE CORTINA: THE ZIONIST ‘HOLLOWHOAX’ ...
    “HISTORY IS WRITTEN BY THE VICTORS”: old adage (Editorial note:  Views are that of the author and included for information purposes only.) PROLOGUE Since I wrote this documented expose of some of the outright lies and deceptions surrounding the so-called Zionist holocaust â better described as a âh ...
  • President Obama: ‘It Gets Better’ Stat ...
    - President Obama is committed to ending bullying, harassment and discrimination in all its forms in our schools and communities - By Brian Bond at the White House Recently, several young people have taken their own lives after being bullied for being gay – or perceived as being gay – by their peers ...
  • Obama appoints record number of gay officials
    - Bigotry under attack by most LGBTQA-friendly president in U.S. history - By Sam Hananel WASHINGTON – Less than halfway through his first term, President Barack Obama has appointed more openly gay officials than any other president in history. Gay activists say the estimate of more than 150 appoint ...
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