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Thomas Paine

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

Thursday, October 28, 2010

28 October - RSS SnapShot! Pt 1

 Feeds Update From Opit's LinkFest at My Opera

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Finding More Fish, Between Egypt and Vietnam
    Combine the experience of Africa's leading freshwater fish producer with that of one of Asia's fastest-growing mariculture sectors. Fisheries experts in Egypt and Vietnam hope it will lead to a robust aquaculture industry that utilises both river and sea to feed growing populations and gener ...
  • China Haunts Indian PM's Tour
    When Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh returns home from his current tour of Japan, Malaysia and Vietnam he will likely reflect on how closely the spectre of a an assertive China had dogged his travels.
  • RIGHTS-JAPAN: Motherhood Is A Choice, Say Activist ...
    For years, Kanako Nashimura longed to have a child, but was diagnosed as having a blocked fallopian tube. Encouraged by her husband and in-laws, she tried various fertility treatments, but not one of them worked.
  • SRI LANKA: Rising Bread Prices Expose Trade Vulner ...
    There was a time when being a breadseller here in Colombo enabled Charmindha to have modest dreams. But the teenager from Sri Lanka's rural south has been seeing his daily earnings slide in the last two months, and indications are that's not going to change anytime soon.
  • ARGENTINA: Kirchner's Death Raises Questions About ...
    The death of former Argentine President Néstor Kirchner (2003-2007) Wednesday brought to an end the political partnership he formed with his wife, President Cristina Fernández. Now all eyes are on her.

Scoop - NZ

  • Helen Clarka4s chances of becoming the next UN Se ...
    Even before Helen Clark left New Zealand to take up her post in New York as chief of the United Nations' development programme, there has been speculation that this would be only a career stepping stone, and that Clark is a serious contender to succeed Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon who may - or may ...
  • Profiteering From Prisons: The Government's Case F ...
    The government plans to open up prison construction and management to the private sector in order to drive innovation and cut expenditure. But does anyone know the real cost? Rory MacKinnon investigates the global evidence -- and learns private prisons are no more efficient and no less expensive for ...
  • Central city schools in ChCh seek derelict sites f ...
    Heaps of empty spaces in the Central City now .Two central city schools seeking space to make them look green and great while they await developments. City Council says No .We need our sites for carparking .Yes, Carparking !!!!! Wotta ? What are they thinking ? ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • banks piss on the third rail
    You Must watch This Video: No one knows who owns real-estate in the US. Mortages are a market. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • MERS, Fraudulent documentation and Foreclosuregate
    At the center of the foreclosure fraud crisis lies something called "MERS," which is usually described in news reports as a computer system and database. However MERS is much more then a computer system or a database, as innocuous sounding as that is. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Disclosures Reveal Most Senators Are Millionaires ...
    The Senate's famed "millionaires club" is becoming a little crowded. According to a Roll Call analysis of Senate financial disclosure forms filed in 2010, more than half of the chamber's membership, 54 lawmakers, reported a minimum net worth of more than $1 million. Another four Senators fell short ...
  • Is BP Hiding Something?
    Washington - A security zone has been set up around the site of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to safeguard any evidence of the environmental disaster earlier this year, the Justice Department said Wednesday. "In response to a motion by the US Department of Justice, the US District Court ...
  • Food inspection is often flawed
    The voluntary quality control system widely used in the nation's $1 trillion domestic food industry is rife with conflicts of interest, inexperienced auditors and cursory inspections that produce inflated ratings, according to food retail executives and other industry experts. Recent outbreaks of s ...
  • Next Stop, USDA?: Birke Baehr, 11 Year Old Sustain ...
    YouTube hits don't lie: 11-year-old Birke Baehr is a celebrity. Over 200,000 people have watched his TEDx Next Generation Asheville talk on sustainable food, making him the movement's youngest star. In a mere five minutes, he hits on all of the biggest problems with our food system (no easy feat!) a ...
  • Thyroid-damaging fluoride may also be harmful to t ...
    A new study suggests that infants who are fed formula that is reconstituted with fluoridated water are at greater risk for developing discolored teeth, which is also known as dental fluorosis. The compound is also classified as an endocrine disruptor that can cause impaired thyroid function, accordi ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Now that it's over, let's get started. BC Rail ain ...
    The sudden termination of the BC Rail trial, convenient in that it comes just days before BC premier and convicted drunk driver Gordon Campbell addresses the citizens of British Columbia while they're washing up from supper on 27 October, doesn't mean it's all over. As The Gazetteer points out, wi ...
  • Today is the day Stockwell Day celebrates as the D ...
    Don't be bugging Stockwell Day for anything today. He will be wrapped up in Genesis 1 - 2 marveling at how some entity out there in... wherever, got bored and decided to invent a planet complete with a few dozen species of plants, some animals (dinosaurs included, although they aren't mentioned in t ...
  • Corruption around the world . . .
    TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL has released its 2010 world corruption index. Denmark, New Zealand and Singapore are the least corrupt, with Finland, Sweden and Canada right behind.  At the other end, there's Somalia and Myanmar.
  • US Supreme Court unravellings
    Oh yeah. When the togas come off the Bush appointees look pretty much like every other corrupt conservative. John Roberts . I'm investigating articles of impeachment against Justice Roberts for perjuring during his Senate hearings But that doesn't even touch what Clarence Thomas is facing.� The ...
  • Putting our space where our big mouth is....
    Let's make this a regular event. Blog awards are really cool if you're one of the new kids on the scene. They can give you exposure you might not otherwise be able to gather in. Hell, I did it. Vanity may be some kind of Christian sin, but it is pretty human. Most of us don't do this for money so t ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox trumpets misleading GOP report on health care ...
    Promoting a report published by Republican senators Tom Coburn (OK) and John Barrasso (WY), Fox News forwarded the false claims that the health care reform law "will kill 800,000 jobs - perhaps more" and "8 in 10 small businesses could lose their health care plans." Health care experts have said Fo ...
  • Hatchet job: Fox crops Reid statement to pretend ...
    Special Report deceptively quoted a statement from Sen. Harry Reid's office to advance what Bret Baier called "a political scandal" involving a former low-level staffer. But the portions of the statement Fox News omitted make clear that the alleged misconduct occurred before the staffer joined R ...
  • Beck connects Obama, Soros to "violent revolution ...
    Glenn Beck tied President Obama and George Soros to a group he has vilified for purportedly bringing "violent revolution" to "our shores." Beck has repeatedly demonized Soros as "evil," characterized Obama as a Soros pawn, and has accused Soros of putting a "bounty on my head." Beck ties Obama ...
  • Out of Context: The James O'Keefe Story
    One of the subjects of self-styled journalist James O'Keefe's most recent series of heavily edited smear videos reportedly says that her comments were taken out of context. The accusation is consistent with O'Keefe's history of producing distorted videos, which he then promotes with deception and l ...
  • Baseless right-wing accusations of voter fraud? Mu ...
    In the final days before the midterm elections, following a very familiar pattern, conservative media have yet again turned to hyping baseless and misleading claims of voter fraud. Right-wing media baselessly claim SEIU rigged machines to cast votes for Reid Conservative media hype claims o ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Can There Be Sagacity Without Sincerity?
    Glad though I was last summer (and am now) to see ex- war hawk Peter Beinart indict much of American Jewish leadership for corrupting the American republic and Israeli democracy out of misplaced enthusiasm for bad Israeli strategies, I've always found Beinart's conversion a bit less than convincing. ...
  • Economic Disaster, Krugman and Avishai, and Redefi ...
    The economy is a goddamn disaster and President Obama deserves much of the blame. Sorry, I am not on the Dems' payroll so I couldn't contain myself when I read Bernard Avishai's trashing of Paul Krugman. Avishai's basic narrative is about 150 percent wrong. He describes the differences between Kr ...
  • Litmus Test For GOP House Jobs Requires Admiring A ...
    Sam Stein in the Huffington Post reports today that the Republican Study Committtee is "strongly" encouraging applicants for jobs in GOP offices to first pass a litmus test devised by the Heritage Foundation. In an email passed to the Huffington Post by a congressional Democratic aide, Jonathan ...
  • Leaders on Political Right & Left Should Sign on t ...
    Former US Senator Chuck Hagel -- now teaching students chosen by lottery for his classes over at Georgetown University and of course Co-Chairman of President Obama's Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board as well as Chairman of the Atlantic Council -- has written an elegant reminder of what electe ...
  • November for New START?
    When Congress returns to work after the November 2nd elections, it is imperative that it consider and ratify the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). To do otherwise would jeopardize the possibility of progress on a wide range of issues, from global nuclear arms reductions to U.S.-Russi ...

TruthOut

  • James Kwak | Beyond Crazy
    Daniel Hamermesh points out a Wall Street Journal article on how colleges and universities are trying to increase accountability and productivity by measuring costs and benefits quantitatively. read more
  • E.J. Dionne, Jr. | Joe Sestak's Witching Hour
    Harrisburg, Pa - If there is one candidate who truly wishes that Christine O'Donnell had not won the Republican senatorial nomination in Delaware, it is the Republican Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, Pat Toomey. Toomey, a former congressman, became a hero to the right for pushing Sen. Arlen Spect ...
  • PersonhoodUSA's Radical, Fetal-Separatist Agenda
    Next week, people in Colorado will be voting on Amendment 62, a ballot measure sponsored by PersonhoodUSA. This organization seeks to establish the "pre-born,” including eggs, embryos and fetuses as separate “legal persons with protection under the law." read more
  • Alaska Judge's Order Deals Blow to Murkowski's Wri ...
    Anchorage - Calling it a "clear violation of Alaska administrative regulation," a judge on Wednesday ordered the state Division of Elections to remove a list of certified write-in candidates from polling places statewide. State Superior Court Judge Frank Pfiffner's order not only keeps the state fr ...
  • Fishermen Report Louisiana Bays Filled With Oil
    On Saturday, October 23, Truthout spotted what appeared to be massive areas of weathered oil floating near Louisiana's fragile marshlands in both East and West Bays along the Mississippi River Delta. In addition, at least two more oil leaks were spotted near oil and gas platforms along Louisiana's e ...

Planetsave

  • Tea Party Actually Started by Two British Comedian ...
    Jokes on us. Those blokes from across the pond sure do give their all for a joke! View all of Joe’s political/environmental cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com Updates on Twitter at @GreenCartoons
  • Vatican to Become First Carbon-Neutral State?
    Similar to Pope John Paul II, the current Pope has an eco-friendly heart. Most recently, he has announced that he would like Vatican City to be the first carbon-neutral state. Here’s more via PBS. The Holy See has embarked on a new mission: the fight against climate change. In 2007, Pope Benedict XV ...
  • Weather Bomb: Strongest Storm Ever Recorded in Mid ...
    Visible satellite image of the October 26, 2010 superstorm taken at 5:32pm EDT. At the time, Bigfork, Minnesota was reporting the lowest pressure ever recorded in a U.S. non-coastal storm, 955 mb. Image credit: NASA/GSFC. You have to love the intro to this excellent piece over on Climate Progress, a ...
  • Catalog Cancelling Challenge
    Our good friend Derek Markham wrote a great post over on Natural Papa recently encouraging us all to organize a Catalog Cancelling Challenge. Great idea. Derek writes: I don’t think I’m alone in being really annoyed at the amount of senseless waste we generate in our country – and a potent reminder ...
  • Glenn Beck’s 10 “Best” Anti-Environment Freak Outs
    Our good friend Timothy Hurst over at ecopolitology recently created a top 10 list of Glenn Beck’s “Greatest” (i.e. most absurd) anti-environment freak outs. Good stuff,.. if he were actually joking. From the EPA merging with churches to the green movement thinking humans are viruses to Al Gore crea ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • When is a Placebo Not Really a Placebo? Maybe More ...
    When you read in a study that a drug performed better or worse than a placebo, you probably don’t give much thought to whether the ingredients of the placebo had anything to do with the results.   Beatrice Golomb, an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San...
  • In Congo, "A Dead Rat Is Worth More Than the Body ...
    Sexual violence against women occurs everywhere in the world, yet a strife-torn pocket of the Democratic Republic of Congo has recently become a global focal point for such attacks as incidents of rape, violence and brutality have skyrocketed. The scale of sexual violence in the Congo right now i ...
  • Jam With Tarika! (Madagascar) - Music and Enterta ...
    ...
  • Ezili Danto: Haitian cholera epidemic preventable ...
    October 27, 2010 The cholera outbreak in Haiti need not have happened. In just a few days, cholera has killed more than 250 Haitians, with more than 3,500 becoming ill. Cholera is caused by drinking dirty water or eating food cooked in contaminated water. Since the January earthquake ...
  • Remembering Nestor Kirchner, South American Hero - ...
    The editor's and authors at Axis of Logic wish to express our sense of loss along with the many millions of Latin Americans who respected and loved Nestor Kirchner, former President of Argentina. Mr. Kirchner, at only 60 years of age, died suddenly this morning from a coronary. We also want...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Here is your "free market" in action
    I am no business whiz - I took just enough econ in college to make me dangerous, but I do know that the free market doesn't solve every problem, and medicine is an area where we really can't afford to let the free market run the show, because the patients always lose in that scenario. HCA understaff ...
  • Don't Let the Fuckers Intimidate You
    Are you going to let them scare you away from voting? �Are you going to let anyone you know be scared away from voting? Repugs cannot win if everyone votes. So they have to prevent people they're pretty sure will vote Democratic from voting at all. David Dayen: One thing is certain: the Republicans ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    It's a miracle he can walk with balls that big The infamous curb-stomper outside the Rand Paul/Jack Conway debate on Monday wants an apology...from the woman he stomped. Something tells us it won't be forthcoming. It's called "Projection" Conservatives scream about (non-existent) "voter fraud" but i ...
  • Calling all Plebes
    From BBWW : How Plebe Are You? 1. Can you talk about "Mad Men?" Of course. I just wouldn't know what I was talking about, having never watched it. 2. Can you talk about the "The Sopranos?" See above 3. Do you know who replaced Bob Barker on "The Price Is Right?" Actually, yeah, I do. But I won't tel ...
  • HRCC robocall in Missouri's 121st Legislative Dist ...
    You can smell the republican flop sweat. Today the Missouri House republican Campaign Committee ran a robocall in the 121st Legislative District attacking Courtney Cole (D) in terms that have never been seen before in this district: Female voice: This is an urgent alert for all Christian families. ...

Care 2

  • New Neutron Star Largest Ever Discovered
    Located about 3,000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Scorpio, a newly spotted neutron star is the largest ever discovered to date. Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Inia Boliviensis, The Pink Dolphin Of Amazon Gets ...
    �Amazon Alive! A Decade of Discoveries 1999-2009,� an articled published on Tuesday, by WWF (World Wildlife Fund) features the biggest diversity of animals, for whom the biggest rain forest of the world. �Amazon� is still a safe abode. Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comm ...
  • How Alcohol Affects People
    How Alcohol Affects People Very interesting experiment conducted by one Kazakh club, whose aim is to look at people after drinking alcohol. Submitted by . to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Chamberlin needs your help ... His abusers are goi ...
    Nelli Brock and Wilbert Morrison, Jr., have been charged with 2 counts of felony animal cruelty and are expected in court on Friday, October 29, 2010. We have only three days to contact the district attorney asking for the harshest penalty. You may use Submitted by Animalib No Emails Please to Anim ...
  • YouTube - Undercover Investigation Reveals Hormel ...
    WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT! - For more than three months, PETA went undercover at an Iowa pig factory farm, which supplies piglets who are raised and killed for Hormel products. PETA found rampant cruelty to animals - committed by workers and supervisors. Submitted by Animalib No Emails Please t ...

Smirking Chimp

  • How and Why We Subpoenaed Election Thief Karl Rove
    by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman  Election woes got you down? Imagine the look of contempt on Karl Rove's face this past Sunday as he swaggered toward his star turn on CBS's Face the Nation only to be served with our subpoena sanctioned by the Secretary of the State of Ohio.  The federal subpoena ...
  • Three reasons NPR's Mara Liasson shouldn't be on F ...
    As Juan Williams settles into his $2 million-a-year job as a Fox News talking head, and his former bosses and National Public Radio continue to take heat for the way Williams’ contract was terminated, it’s worth noting that NPR still faces a Fox News conundrum in the form of Mara Liasson’s long-runn ...
  • Handicapping the Global Midterms: Winners and Lose ...
    from TomDispatch 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 pol ...
  • What are They Hiding? Obama Administration Defendi ...
    A victory for the government in a federal court in New York City Monday marks another slide deeper into Dick Cheney's "dark side" for the Obama Administration. In a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, which has been seeking to force the Pentagon to provide information about all capt ...
  • How Meg Whitman Failed Her Way to the Top at eBay, ...
    from AlterNet By Mark Ames and Yasha Levine With the elections for governor just around the corner, most California voters probably think they have a pretty good grasp of the pros and cons of Republican candidate Meg Whitman: on the downside, she's an aloof billionaire who can't be bothered to vote ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Caprio Tells the Prez to “Shove It” an ...
    Rhode Island Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio heard in the most backhanded manner that he would not be receiving Obama’s endorsement because of the President’s “friendship” with Caprio’s opponent Lincoln Chafee. Chafee endorsed Obama in 2008 which is clearly more important to Obama t ...
  • Hump Day Open Thread
    A List of Dishonor for the U.S. as Transparency International Investigates and Condemns Our Nation’s Levels of Corruption and Scandals … So Much for China’s Adulterated Products — the U.S.’s Glaxo Smith Klein Must Pay $750 Million For Adulterated Drugs at Its Own Plant … IT’S TIME FOR DIRTY TRICKS! ...
  • Memo to Grown-Ups
    The mid-term election is an organizing theme.  The Dems are discouraged not because of the GOP excitement but because they cannot get excited about POTUS — and they got so little for their enthusiasm the last time.  Does an unemployed person vote?  Unlikely. [...]
  • Sisters
    Do you have a sister? If so, research suggests that you may feel happier, more optimistic, and better cared about than if you don’t. Why? The old saw that women express their feelings and are more willing to talk about personal issues than are men may be part of the reason. [...]
  • Ben Davies: Ex Scientia Pecuniae Libertas/Out of K ...
    I thoroughly appreciate those involved in the markets who also have an equal appreciation for history, languages, literature, and the arts and sciences. Rare is the individual who is able to intertwine their passions and fluent enough to share them with others. I thank a loyal reader of Sense on Cen ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • How to Find the Best Banana Bread Recipes for Diab ...
    Need a great banana bread recipe for overripe bananas? How can you find a healthy banana bread "diabetic" recipe? Which nutritional values are preserved when baking? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Amazing Environmental Art by Sarah-Jane van der We ...
    Sarah-Jane van der Westhuizen takes recycling as art to a whole new level with her incredibly innovative sculptures. Her mantra, gloriously, is Trash To treasure. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Are We Facing a New Kind of Hurricane Threat?
    Climate scientists have observed a new kind of El Nino in the Pacific Ocean. Is this new ocean oscillation going to bring more hurricanes? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • How Halloween is Celebrated Around the World
    Halloween is a night of ghosts and goblins for some but around the world, many celebrate a night for the dead or ancestors. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Narwhals: The Unicorns of the Sea
    The amazing unicorn of the sea, narwhal's inspired legends and live deep under the ice read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • A Nano-Solution to Energy 'Vampires'
    Like a leaky faucet, today's transistors may be in the "off" position but are never fully closed, allowing small amounts of energy to be steadily siphoned. But with nanotechnology, a far tighter seal can be achieved.
  • Meet the 'Ladle of Love'
    The food truck is powered by an electric engine, travels at a maximum of 25 miles an hour and can travel 40 miles before it needs another charge from its three-pronged plug.
  • On Our Radar: Wild Midwest Storms
    Reports of tornado sightings and high winds abound, including near-hurricane-force levels on Lake Superior.
  • A Cultural Barrier to Action on Climate Change
    A University of Michigan researcher compares inaction on heat-trapping emissions to the cultural attitudes that delayed the abolition of slavery or bans on indoor smoking.
  • Lessons Learned on an E-Waste Odyssey
    Readers submitted dozens of useful recycling tips while also posing the question: when can you be sure that the waste is being handled properly and not ending up in a landfill?

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • FBI investigated American Trucking Association lin ...
    Wellstone plane crash was super sketchy. There was no icy condition that it was spun as. Fortunately MPR got the Wellstone FBI files, a lot of redacted materials. There is an interesting logical flow - including "justice center" ... Service Transportation Act - expose board members of ATA - DOT t ...
  • Rap News vs the News World Order - gotta see this ...
    Any friend of this site pretty much is required to watch the latest rapnews: Marvelous work! As posted: Who let the Logs out!? Wikileaks drops 400,000 classified documents shedding new light on the Iraq war — the biggest leak of classified military documents in history — sending shockw ...
  • Facebook Twitter HTTP security shown as hosed by t ...
    Sound advice (to the extent anything on the internet is really secure ha): Change your passwords , and logout of everything Do not use open WiFi to login to Facebook, Twitter or anything else Use only a hard-wired connection until this subsides Do not check the “remember my password” ...
  • FedWire and Wachovia / Wells Fargo = Pipeline for ...
    "It would be important for this task force to have access to records of the Federal Reserve and the central banks of cooperating nations to find out which financial institutions are depositing large amounts of American dollars. (If investigators had had such access years ago, it would have been easy ...
  • Currency turbulence and FEMA cyberwarfare exciteme ...
    The old days... " The BCCI scandal gave citizens of the world a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the covert global banking intelligence power structure, revealing power politics in its purest form. ".... -link Now that's what I call a currency war! DXZ Flash Crash Detonates Entire Currency Co ...

Daily Censored

  • The FIX: Let No Crisis Go To Waste
    The deficit is a ruse.  First, this deficit was created by the Republicans over the last ten years—Yes, ten years.  They used the war to create an endless pit and spent like crazy with the bulk of the money going to their friends.  Then they used the last two years to prevent anyone from doing [...]
  • Heathens Hold the Line as Californians Reject Corp ...
    Michael Collins The corporate takeover of California is on hold according to the latest polls out of the nation’s largest state. Just nine days before the election, the Los Angeles Times and University of Southern California poll shows a nearly impossible uphill battle for the big business ticket of ...
  • I attended a Conservative 9/11 event with “US wars ...
    source: Carl Herman at Examiner.com This article series explains what happened when I interacted with participants of a 9/11 event to welcome home US soldiers and honor the victims of 9/11, then provides the e-mail exchange with the sponsoring group’s leadership. Consistent with my last two years of ...
  • Does an heir of Goebbels measure Cuban failure?
    The United States slogs through its worst crisis since the Great Depression, but some editorial writers in leading newspapers practice denial of their reality and focus instead on Cuba’s “failed socialist system.” I wonder if these opinion crafters who specialize in fostering illusions, berating ene ...
  • Do No Evil Google & US Taxes
    By Numerian First published in The Agonist Google, which encourages employees to “Do No Evil”, managed this past quarter to reduce its international tax rate to 2.4% of net income, despite earning most of its revenue in countries like the US, the UK, Germany, and Japan that have corporate tax rates ...

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Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

  • Connect the Dots with Lila Garrett: Interview wit ...
    PDA board member Lila Garrett spent the first 15 minutes of her show this past Monday talking with PDA national director Tim Carpenter about the upcoming ...
  • IOT: Stop Global Warming – Environment Issu ...
    At the October 20, 2010 meeting of the PDA Stop Global Warming/Environmental Issues Organizing Team, we heard from special guests Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel from the Million Letter March. The meeting included updates on ...
  • IOT: Stop Global Warming – Environment Issu ...
    At the July 21 meeting of the Stop Global Warming/Environmental IOT, we heard a report on the June BBLVs and the citizens’ lobbying effort, updates on climate/energy legislation, the PDA Annual conference in Cleveland in ...
  • IOT: Stop Global Warming – Environment Issu ...
    At the June 16 meeting of the Stop Global Warming/Environmental IOT, we heard from Danna Moore of Future 500 and voted to endorse the principles put forth to get businesses involved in the support of ...
  • IOT: Stop Global Warming – Environment Issu ...
    The April 21 meeting of the Stop Global Warming/Environmental IOT featured guests Bill Snapes Senior Counsel for the Center for Biological Diversity and jounalist and author Jeff Biggers who writes on Mountain-top mining. We also ...

Marler Blog

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

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 10.27.10
    GM director: Fuel cell vehicles will be cost competitive with hybrids by 2025 Yes, that's 15 years away. Still. Video: Focus Designs introduces SBU V2.0; a one-wheeled electric wonder Segway ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 10.26.10
    Vegan Juice: PETA to advertise on EV charging stations? Consumer crossover nirvana or not? San Francisco's green taxi fleet and how it got there Thanks to one determined cabbie. ...
  • EPA issues first-ever fuel efficiency and emission ...
    Filed under: Truck , Government/Legal , Work , Specialty , Diesel As expected , the EPA has released its first-ever proposal for greenhouse gas and fuel efficiency standards for heavy-duty vehicles. The proposal, and that's all it is at this point, would create three new categories for heavy truc ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 10.25.10
    Second Drive: 2011 Nissan Leaf - Some things you probably didn't know More tidbits than you can shake a battery pack at. CARB rules the Chevy Volt is a ULEV, emits more* than Prius or Jetta TDI ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 10.22.10
    SEMA preview: Neil Young's LincVolt will be ready for its close-up Young will also be on a panel discussion we want to hear. Report: Renault Zoe electric will cost less than $21,000 Batteries ...

Rafe's Radar

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

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • War Should Be an Election Issue
    Just days away from crucial midterm elections, WikiLeaks, the whistle-blower website, unveiled the largest classified military leak in history. Almost 400,000 secret Pentagon documents relating to the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq were made available online. The documents, in excruciating de ...
  • TONIGHT: Amy Goodman on CNN's John King USA
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King USA on Tuesday, October 26 at 7pm ET.
  • When Banks Are the Robbers
    The big banks that caused the collapse of the global finance market, and received tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded bailouts, have likely been engaging in wholesale fraud against homeowners and the courts. But in a promising development this week, attorneys general from all 50 states a ...
  • BREAKING: Pentagon instructing recruiters to accep ...
    In a victory for gay rights advocates, the Pentagon is instructing military recruiters to accept the applications of gay men and lesbians who wish to join the military. See all of our coverage of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell here
  • Part II..."Slavoj Zizek: Far Right and Anti-Immigr ...
    Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist. He is author of dozens of books; his latest one from Verso Books is called Living in the End Times . This is Part II of this conversation. Watch Part I here. AMY GOODMAN: In these economically stressed times, h ...

Farming Pathogens

  • We Can Think Ourselves into a Plague
    The power of the mind is a New Age staple. But, really, can I concentrate enough to levitate myself (much less get my laundry done today)? The materialist answers, funny you mention it, but, yeah, you can. A few minds thought through the ideas that produced the airplane and perhaps soon enough the p ...
  • How Mayor Bloomberg Causes Obesity
    Yeah the doctors don’t know, but New York was killing me / Bunch of doctors coming round, they don’t know / That New York is killing me / Yeah I need to go home and take it slow in Jackson, Tennessee -Gil Scott-Heron On October 6 Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked the United States Department of [...]
  • Follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Twitter
    You can now follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Twitter here. Includes the latest in media reports and journal articles on agriculture, disease, evolution, dialectical biology, the practice of science, as well as any appearances or new work by FP contributors. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Farming Pa ...
  • The Axis of Viral
    The enemy of my enemy is my friend. We might accept that viruses and bacteria at best instantiate the coincidental nature of such an alliance. The success of one bug might pave the way for another. But we’d be hard pressed to imagine that theyâd whittle the syllogism to a sharper point and actively ...
  • Follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Facebook
    Follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Facebook here. Includes the latest in media reports and journal articles on agriculture, disease, evolution, dialectical biology, and the practice of science, as well as any appearances or new work by FP contributors. Filed under: Uncategorized

Suzie-Q

  • Rand Paul Supporter Tim Profitt Wants Stomping Vic ...
    Rand Paul Supporter Tim Profitt Wants Stomping Victim To Apologize To HIM The Huffington Post |  Nick Wing First Posted: 10-27-10 10:30 AM   |   Updated: 10-27-10 11:24 AM Tim Profitt, the Rand Paul supporter behind the white sneaker that notoriously stomped on a MoveOn activist’s head in Ke ...
  • Wikileaks: Top Brass warns of putting troops & civ ...
    Wikileaks recieved excellent coverage on CNN last night, including inteviews with Daniel Elsberg, Pentagon Papers, John Sloboda, the Iraq Body Count’s co-founder, and Phil Shiner of the U.K.-based Public Interest Lawyers. John Sloboda, the Iraq Body Count’s co-founder, told reporters that the names ...
  • The Republican Swindle About ‘Obamacare and ...
    If you happen to be a swing voter who’s considering the Republican slate next month, you’re being tricked. That’s not to say you’re an idiot, but the Republicans are doing an excellent job masking over what they really stand for, and millions of Americans seem to be falling for it. The Republican st ...
  • AZ-03: Shocking Democratic Pickup Opportunity
    Daily Kos- by kos Mon Oct 18, 2010 at 11:20:03 AM PDT Public Policy Polling for Daily Kos. 10/16-17. Likely voters. MoE 3.8% (No trend lines) Ben Quayle (R) 44 Jon Hulburd (D) 46 Yeah, that was a real WTF moment for us in this open seat being vacated by conservative icon John Shadegg. Completely [.. ...
  • The Revolution Will Be Televised: Comedy Central T ...
    The Revolution Will Be Televised: Comedy Central To Air, Stream D.C. Rallies (VIDEO) Jason Linkins- Huff Post First Posted: 10-13-10 11:31 AM   |   Updated: 10-13-10 12:23 PM On last night’s “Daily Show,” host Jon Stewart announced that the upcoming Rally To Restore Sanity would be televised, ...

Solari

  • Reinventing Everything
    Catherine giving a keynote address at Schweibenalp The Green Phoenix Rising conference at Schweibenalp was one of the most inspiring times I can remember, bringing leaders in science, engineering and energy together with permaculturists and ecovillage founders as well as financial and spiritual le ...
  • Ambac Sues Countrywide, Alleging False Information ...
    By Erik Holm Ambac Financial Group Inc. (ABK) sued Bank of America Corp. (BAC) over “false and misleading” information it says the bank’s Countrywide unit provided to trick it into insuring mortgage-backed bonds. Ambac filed suit after a review of 6,533 of the home loans — just a fraction of the 26 ...
  • The Threat To Health Freedom Now
    An Exclusive Interview With Attorney Jonathan Emord By Jon Rappoport October 25, 2010. As a medical investigative reporter for 28 years, I’ve seen public interest in health freedom come and go.  Right now, in 2010, it is at a low point. In the early 1990s, there was a tremendous fervor in America.  ...
  • Kurzweil: Back Up For Human Brain Possible
    Back-up for the human brain, including its entire memory, will be possible within the next two decades. Award-winning scientist Raymond Kurzweil, 62, told 500 guests at a sponsored ‘Future talk’ event in Vienna, Austria, that the human brain backup was now already technically possible. Kurzweil has ...
  • The Subprime Debacle, Part 2
    New Testimony Reveals Citigroup Knew Exactly What Crap It Was Selling By John Mauldin At the end of last week’s letter on the whole mortgage foreclosure mess, I wrote: “All those subprime and Alt-A mortgages written in the middle of the last decade? They were packaged and sold in securities. They h ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Which is better? Rioting in France and Greece or ...
    Summary:  Riots in France and Greece.  Calm in the United States.  Which shows clearer vision and greater willingness to institute reforms?  As usual, the media coverage gets it backwards.  First in another series about the end of the post-WWII era, and our preparations for it. Rioters in Franc ...
  • Our geopolitical experts will destroy America, if ...
    Summary:  Our foreign policy has been a shambles since the fall of the Berlin Wall.  But our mistakes have been made on the basis of expert advice.  Here are some examples, most ranging from ineffective to crazy. The geopolitical experts at Foreign Policy magazine have some free advice:  “A Pl ...
  • Will the Taliban Give us a Taste of Armageddon?
    Summary: Many comparisons have been made between the War on Terror, AKA “The Long War”, and Vietnam. Needless to say, our leaders prefer to think about happy counterinsurgencies, like the Philippines, Malaysia, and… the Philippines. Since fantasy is so much more appealing than reality (and makes for ...
  • Killing the leaders of our enemy. Is this the fast ...
    Summary:  To compel the Taliban’s leaders to negotiate US forces (and the CIA) have begun intense efforts to kill them.  While superfically logical, have they research to suggest that it will work?  The long history of such programs suggests the odds of success are low.  Also, what of the danger ...
  • A look at America from a superior perspective: th ...
    Summary:  Today we have a guest author from another time.  He’s a philosopher and playwright, providing an insightful look at our time as seen from the future — a decade after the ending of our war on terror.  Although he provides few details, the events described are easy to identify.  Con ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Commodity Futures Trading Commission: Silver Marke ...
    Market Watch – A federal futures regulator said Tuesday he believes there have been numerous attempts to fraudulently influence silver market prices, and he urged the agency to prosecute those who may have violated commodities laws. Bart Chilton, a commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commi ...
  • Report: US agencies don’t track Afghan spending
    AP — A new government report says the U.S. agencies spending the most in Afghanistan can’t easily show where their money goes. The special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction also found federal agencies still aren’t tracking their contracts in a shared database. The lack of coordination ...
  • Aborigines ‘have received fraction of benefits fro ...
    Daily Telegraph – On the 25th anniversary of the hand back of what is known as Uluru to the local Aboriginal people, traditional owners of the central Australian landmark have demanded more funding from the government, greater employment opportunities and a larger cut of benefits from tourism. Read ...
  • Russia brokers Nagorno-Karabakh prisoner-swap deal
    BBC – The ex-Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia have agreed to swap prisoners captured during fighting in the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. The deal was agreed at a meeting hosted by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in the city of Astrakhan. Mr Medvedev said the discussions had al ...
  • China minister says dlr printing “out of control”
    Reuters – Dollar issuance by the United States is “out of control”, leading to an inflation assault on China, the Chinese commerce minister said in comments reported on Tuesday. Chen Deming, speaking at a trade fair in southern China, said that exporters had done a good job of preparing themselves f ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

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

PakAlert

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

Andy Worthington

  • Andy Worthington Discusses Omar Khadr’s Depressing ...
    On Monday, after former child prisoner Omar Khadr accepted a plea deal at Guantánamo, nodding his assent to a vast list of crimes (PDF), including membership of al-Qaeda and the “illegal” killing of a US Special Forces soldier, I responded to an urgent request for an interview and spoke to my old fr ...
  • Moazzam Begg Interviews Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Ade ...
    Over the last 18 months, as part of the slow-moving process of closing Guantánamo, the Obama administration — having refused to offer new homes on the US mainland to cleared prisoners who cannot be repatriated because they face the risk of torture — has prevailed on other countries to help out. To ...
  • The Betrayal of Omar Khadr – and of American Justi ...
    Yesterday morning, wearing a dark suit, a white shirt and a dark tie, Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen who was just 15 years old when he was seized after a firefight in Afghanistan in July 2002, ended an eight-year struggle — first by the Bush administration, and then by the Obama administration — t ...
  • No Justice for Omar Khadr at Guantánamo
    Exactly two years ago, when I began writing a weekly column for the Future of Freedom Foundation on Guantánamo, torture and other crimes and abuses committed as part of the Bush administration’s “War on Terror,” I focused on the story of Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen who was just 15 years old whe ...
  • Wikileaks’ Julian Assange Accepts Intelligence Exp ...
    On Saturday, during the press conference announcing Wikileaks’ release of nearly 400,000 classified US military field documents relating to the war in Iraq, Craig Murray, the human rights activist and former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, accompanied by Daniel Ellsberg (the Pentagon Papers whistl ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • The Words of Bishop Eddie Long
    Long before Bishop Eddie L. Long became embroiled this week in allegations of using his leverage as pastor and mentor to compel three teenage boys into sexual relationships, the leader of the Atlanta-area New Birth Missionary Baptist Church recorded a sermon â and sold copies of it in the church boo ...
  • Political Mudslingers Populate Far-Right Miami Con ...
    MIAMI, Fla. — Self-described “birther king” and World Net Daily (WND) founder Joseph Farah said today that he thinks one or two states will pass legislation in the next year requiring presidential candidates to provide irrefutable proof that they are U.S. citizens in order to have their names placed ...
  • Religious Right Claims Gay Advocates to Blame for ...
    More than a little rhetorical contortionism is required to follow their logic, but according to several better-known leaders of the religious right, responsibility for the recent wave of suicides of gay teens rests largely with⦠gay-rights activists. The argument goes something like this: Young hom ...
  • Racist Novel Glorifying Assassination of SPLC Staf ...
    It should surprise no one that former hate group leader Kyle Bristow has self-published a white nationalist novel that features the graphic assassination of a character based on a prominent Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) figure. After all, Bristow has an ax to grind with the SPLC and first attai ...
  • Racist E-mails Lead to Resignation of a Florida Po ...
    An embattled South Florida police chief â already serving a 30-day unpaid suspension for using city computers to share racist, tasteless Internet jokes with his command staff, including one E-mail suggesting President Obama should have been shot by his own honor guard â resigned late Tuesday. A city ...

change: org.

  • How Chicago Moms Sat Down To Stand Up
    Editor's Note: This is Part 1 of an interview with Laura Ramirez, an ally to the Chicago moms staging a sit-in to demand a library  for their children. Part 2 will be up later today. A 3 a.m. shift? Laura Ramirez looked at the sign-up sheet for the Whittier Elementary School sit-in and thought, Isn' ...
  • Manitoba's Strong New Animal Law
    Recently, Change.org has looked at some new animal welfare laws passed in various parts of the U.S., such as El Paso's restrictions on pet sales and Suffolk County's animal abuser registry . However, we would be remiss if we didn't point out a positive law that our neighbors to the north enacted. In ...
  • President Obama Hints at Changing Attitude on Marr ...
    This isn't the historic announcement that many are hoping for, but it is a sign that when it comes to the issue of marriage equality, President Obama might be shifting his political position. Perhaps this doesn't come as a surprise, especially for those who always thought that President Obama's oppo ...
  • An Anti-Gay Hate Crime on Prince Edward Island?
    A small house fire in a Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) community has citizens convinced that something hateful is brewing under the surface. Police are now investigating the arson of a gay couple's home in Little Pond, P.E.I., and everyone in the community seems to be outraged. Even an influential lo ...
  • Eating Chips to Cure Cancer? That's What Pepsi Wan ...
    October is Breast Cancer Awareness month , and companies across the country are awash in pink to support the cause. With more than 200,000 women and men diagnosed with the disease every year, funneling money into breast cancer research ranks as a top priority. While many respectable organizations ha ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Our Families Can’t Afford to Stay Home on Election ...
    by Sarah van Gelder If you're like me, this election doesn't feel anything like 2008. The excitement and hope of that historic election have been replaced by worry and disappointment. The 2008 campaigns at least occasionally addressed our country's serious problems. read more
  • Coffee Party Seeks to Outbrew Tea Party in US Poli ...
    WOODBRIDGE, Virginia -- A progressive infusion in US politics, the Coffee Party is brewing a strong counter-movement to the ultra-conservative Tea Party, just a week ahead of the US legislative elections. Born in January in reaction to the bashing President Barack Obama's proposed health care reform ...
  • Campaign Spending by Outside Groups Tops $257 Mill ...
    by David Lightman WASHINGTON - With a week to go before the elections, independent groups, most of them with sharp partisan leanings, have spent $257.7 million to influence political campaigns, nearly quadrupling such interest groups' total spending in the last midterm election, according to a Washi ...
  • Global Food Crisis Forecast as Prices Reach Record ...
    by John Vidal Rising food prices and shortages could cause instability in many countries as the cost of staple foods and vegetables reached their highest levels in two years, with scientists predicting further widespread droughts and floods. Although food stocks are generally good despite much of th ...
  • Planting Oases in a Land of Burgers and Fries
    by Matthew Berger WASHINGTON - Though close to a billion people remain undernourished worldwide, one in three U.S. children are overweight - a problem that First Lady Michelle Obama has made her priority over the first two years of her husband's administration. This rate of overweight or obese U.S. ...

Lifehacker

  • Longreads Collects and Sorts Great Articles by Rea ...
    You've got about 15 minutes to wait in the doctor's office, but not 30. Fill that specific space with Longreads, an aggregator of great long-form writing that offers keyword search and a time/word count filter for your time-pressed reading. ...
  • Firefox 4 Release Pushed Back to Early 2011 [Firef ...
    We've been keeping a close eye on the betas for the newest version of Firefox, from the first beta that got us excited to the most recent iterations that keep on improving. However, it seems it's not improving fast enough—Mozilla, originally p ...
  • Get the Most from Evil and Other Theme Weeks on Fa ...
    Every so often, Lifehacker digs in on a certain topic— food , perhaps, or this week's evil obsesssion. You might not catch them all on a page visit, but our Facebook feed is a nice way to track our obsessive tendencies. More » ...
  • Do You Prefer Mobile Browsing or Dedicated Apps? [ ...
    For all the buzz about them, you'd think mobile apps were how everybody interacted with their phone. A new survey suggested otherwise, but we thought we'd put it to you, our readers: when do you prefer mobile browsers over apps? More�� ...
  • How to Boost Your BitTorrent Speed and Privacy [Bi ...
    BitTorrent's been around for a whopping ten years, but it continues to evolve and remains one of the best file-sharing tools available. If you really want to make your downloads soar—and keep Big Brother out of your business—this guide's for y ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • We have nothing to do with torture, says MI6 chief
    Sir John Sawers talks of dilemma between protecting Britain and using intelligence drawn from tortured terrorist suspects The head of MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service, has insisted it has "nothing whatsoever" to do with torture but warned that it had to work with agencies from other countries wh ...
  • Boardroom pay soars by 55%
    'Don't they know that this is meant to be austerity Britain?' said TUC general secretary Brendan Barber Britain's bosses have been accused of ignoring economic reality after boardroom pay leapt by 55% over the last year. FTSE 100 directors saw their total earnings soar in the 12 months to June, than ...
  • 100,000 searches, zero terror arrests
    Just 504 people out of 101,248 searches under counter-terror powers last year were held for any offence, Home Office reveals More than 100,000 people were stopped and searched by police under counter-terrorism powers last year but none of them were arrested for terrorism-related offences, according ...
  • Tebbit tells PM to fight EU budget
    Veteran Tory Eurosceptic says David Cameron must refuse to accept plans for 2.9% budget increase The veteran Tory Eurosceptic Norman Tebbit today warned David Cameron that he risked a "Vichy-style" surrender unless he refused to accept an increase in the EU budget. In a sign of deep unease among Con ...
  • Police helicopter crashes in Ulster
    Four injured when helicopter comes down near site of earlier crash in Mourne mountains A helicopter hired by police to investigate the scene of an earlier crash on Northern Ireland's Mourne mountains flipped over and plunged to the ground this morning. Four people have been taken to hospital. Their ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Raiders of the lost bark
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya: The second Tuesday of this meeting was the day glamour came to town - in good and ugly guises. On the good side, I had the chance to sit down with Harrison Ford - an actor whose oeuvre looms large for anyone of my generation, from Wit ...
  • Obstacles to nature protection emerge as stakes ri ...
    � From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting in Nagoya: It's fair to say there's a deal of concern here that what emerges at the end of this fornight's meeting could amount to less than it was supposed to. � Mind you, it was supposed to amount to quite a bit - a pretty comprehens ...
  • Bushmeat - ending the monkey business
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting in Nagoya: Many westerners would view the idea of eating monkeys with deep distaste. But for people raised on bushmeat, in Africa and elsewhere, the equation is different. "Forbidding hunting [bushmeat] is not a solution for the Baka," Mes ...
  • Green dollars to save the planet?
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya: If there are any youngsters in your neighbourhood who are looking to you for career advice, environmental accountancy might be a good thing to recommend. Forget studying iconic animal species - forget plants - even forget fungi and so ...
  • Marine protection: The legal route
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya, Japan: The oceans may cover three-quarters of the world's surface, but they make a tiny contribution towards the total extent of area that governments have put under protection in order to promote conservation. Despite a number of int ...

The Wonk Room

  • In Sit Down With Bloggers, Obama Hints At Change O ...
    During a first-of-its-kind sit down with progressive bloggers at the White House this afternoon, President Obama told AmericaBlog’s Joe Sudbay that he didn’t think the LGBT community’s “disillusionment and disappointment” in his approach to issues like Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was justified, saying “I ...
  • Utah’s Republican Senate Candidate Calls For ...
    House Republicans, in their much-ballyhooed “Pledge to America,” suggested immediately cutting $100 billion from the non-defense discretionary portion federal budget, which would require a 21 percent reduction in, among other things, federal education funding. But Mike Lee, the Republican nominee fo ...
  • Republicans Will Likely Preserve The Health Insura ...
    On Friday, Joel Ario, the Director of the Office of Insurance Exchanges at HHS reiterated his claim that regulators on the state level are far more open to implementing the exchanges in the Affordable Care Act than the current political rhetoric suggests. Speaking at a panel for the Alliance on Heal ...
  • Rep. Royce Says GOP Would Allow Bank Regulators To ...
    Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee have already made it quite clear that they intend to attempt to defund the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau if the GOP gains control of the lower chamber. Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), one of the top Republicans on the committee, ...
  • When Asked What Latinos Care About, Newt Gingrich ...
    Today, the South Florida Sun Sentinel posted an interview with former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. In the interview, Gingrich was asked several times about what he thinks Latinos care about. Each time, Gingrich provided an array of answers from the Pope, to abortion, to the economy. However, ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • What Alison Says About Librocon Assault on Democra ...
    This is what I've wanted to write about but haven't had the time. I agree with Alison and the blogs she links to.
  • Canadians are not revolutionaries
    Most of us are still far too comfortable. Even those of us who know that the system is evil and doomed don't feel the dagger in our side telling us it's do or die. We feel that we can wait, or that, given the difficulties of the task (revolutions are messy, uncertain affairs) we have to wait, for ot ...
  • Right-wing voters
    Hah .
  • Argh
    Too busy (as usual).
  • High Levels of Unemployment is a Bad Thing
    short n' simple : Why should governments care, above all else, about keeping unemployment down and ensuring that the greatest number of people get a fair share of the economic pie? Because if you don't, bad things happen. There.

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • NWC speaks with ATU Local 689
    Today Lindsey Williams and I spoke with the Executive Board of Local 689, Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) .Local 689 represents employees of Washington DC's Metro system. Lindsey is the Advocacy Director of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) . We spoke about the National Transit System Securit ...
  • Fair Game is the best movie ever reviewed on this ...
    Fair Game is a new feature movie about the Valerie Plame affair. Naomi Watts plays Valerie Plame. Sean Penn plays her husband, Ambassador Joe Wilson. I am having trouble containing how much I appreciate this movie, so let me start with the facts: In the buildup for the Iraq War, the Bush Administr ...
  • Is your boss using a "key logger"? Find out.
    A "key logger" is a computer program that keeps a record of every keystroke someone types on a computer. Hackers can use key loggers to infiltrate a computer system, or to steal someone's identity. They might use a key logger as part of a computer virus, and once a computer is infected, the hacker c ...
  • Appropriate Use of Science in Public Policy
    On October 27, 2010, Professionals for the Public Interest (PftPI) will present a panel discussion on the " Appropriate Use of Science in Public Policy. " Although the event will be free, registration is required . The event will be held at 4:00 pm at the American Association for the Advancement of ...
  • Secretary Solis answers concerns about DOL's Whist ...
    Last July, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) joined with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and the Government Accountability Project (GAP) in submitting a letter to Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis . The letter raised concerns about whether the Department of Labor (DOL) w ...

Science Express

  • Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
    If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant radio ...
  • Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratospheric ...
    The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the glo ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes spend ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20th c ...
  • New approach precisely tracks evolution's footprin ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for example. T ...

TechDirt

  • Planet Money T-Shirt Plans Include Recognizing Tha ...
    Earlier this year, we wrote about how the NPR podcast Planet Money was planning to go into the t-shirt business to better understand the whole process of creating a small clothing retail operation, top to bottom. The idea was to create high quality t-shirts that people would actually want (and pay ...
  • Myriad Appeals, Says Gene Patents Should Be Allowe ...
    This will come as no surprise to anyone, but Myriad Genetics has officially appealed the ruling that invalidated gene patents . As you may recall, earlier this year, a court noted that genes are unpatentable , noting that they "are directed to a law of nature and were therefore improperly granted." ...
  • FTC Concludes Investigation Into Google's Street V ...
    For all the hype about Google's Street View data collection , it appears that the FTC now agrees that it was an accident , where Google didn't even realize it was collecting the data. Even with the recent revelation that some of the data included emails and passwords , the FTC has now concluded its ...
  • Group Of Prominent Law Professors Urge President O ...
    A group of rather prominent law professors have sent an open letter to their former law professor colleague, now President, Barack Obama , asking him to "halt [his administration's] public endorsement of ACTA and subject the text to a meaningful participation process that can influence the shape of ...
  • Model Wins Lawsuit Against French Playboy For Publ ...
    Erik sent over the the news that Dutch model Lara Stone has apparently won damages against French Playboy for publishing what were referred to as "unauthorized" photos of her in their June issue. Tragically, much of the reporting on this doesn't explain what kind of photos we're talking about (from ...

VacTruth

  • Multiple Deaths Linked to Childhood Vaccines
    New evidence suggesting that forty children have died over the past seven years following a routine childhood vaccination. A Freedom of Information (FOI) data request to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority (MHRA). The FOI data revealed that childhood vaccinations are suspected ...
  • Mind Virus Injected into New Mothers by Pharma and ...
    Through repetition, the "reassuring" voice that many parents crave will soon be injected into the minds of pregnant and new mothers everywhere, thanks to companies with deep financial pockets. The latest trend in building a support system for new parents who may find themselves tired, overwhelmed, ...
  • New Evidence States H1N1 Vaccine Has Elevated Risk ...
    A recent news report suggests that the UK government's position has changed regarding the H1N1 vaccine and related cases of Guillian-Barre Syndrome (GBS).
  • Do Drug Firm Bribery Charges Implicate the U.S. FD ...
    How can anyone have implicit faith in the science and products produced by BIG Pharma when they are charged with bribing government officials?
  • Are Federal Grants Being Used For State Government ...
    The Obama Administration was pressured to officially declare a Stafford Act National Emergency. In turn, the emergency declaration automatically made millions of federal grant dollars monies available to state governments. So what happened with all of the money appropriated and made available to st ...

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Let me kick things off with this excellent piece by Tony Karon.  You do not speak for me Netanyahu.  Israel is not my homeland. If you have been following this blog for any length of time, you probably know that my university studies focused primarily on human rights violations related to the drug w ...
  • Solidarity?
    I am really beginning to despise the word solidarity.  I’m constantly hearing calls for solidarity – with women just because they’re women, with anarchists just because they’re anarchists, with workers just because they’re workers. Do you know what I think of when someone asks for solidarity?  I t ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    This is going to be a short one, as I just got back from New Orleans and haven’t been reading much the last few days.  Also, tonight is my fourteenth anniversary and I have to get back to the bfriend. While I was in NoLa, I ran into some people who had just visited DC and [...]
  • Intellect as Evasion
    Normally, I like Jay Smooth.  But this video really irritated me. I understand why people are critical of the anti-intellectualism displayed by right wing populists who seem so disdainful of reading books, processing facts, or critical thinking of any kind.  But it amazes me when otherwise observ ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    The Renewing the Anarchist Tradition (RAT) conference is being held next month in Baltimore.  I’ll be there.  Hopefully, some of you will be too. Unfortunately the RAT conference means that I won’t be able to go to the Positive Force punk rock flea market.  But if any of you are in the DC area an ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

  • The blockade of South Yemen follows tactics of Saa ...
    As Yemen’s blockade on southern Yemen enters its third week, stocks of food, medicine and oil have dwindled to dangerous levels. Prices have skyrocketed and already malnourished children bear the brunt of the military action. The blockade began 17 days ago when the Western Armored Division establish ...
  • بقلم الكاتبة الامريكية جين نوفاك : ثلاثة أسابيع من ...
    مع دخول الحصار اليمني على اليمن الجنوبي أسبوعه الثالث ، إنخفضت المخزونات من المواد الغذائية والدواء و المشتقات النفطية الى مستويات تنذر بالخطر. و ارتفعت الأسعار و أصبح الأطفال يعانون بالفعل من سوء التغذية تحت وطأة العمليات العسكرية. وبدأ الحصار قبل 17 يوما عندما قامت وحدات المنطقة الغربية المدرعة بإ ...
  • السلام مع الكرامة في اليمن: هل يمكن ايقاف دوامه ال ...
    اÙسÙام مع اÙÙرامة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù: ÙÙ ÙÙ…Ù٠اÙÙا٠دÙام٠اÙØ­Ø±Ø¨Ø Ùتبت: جÙÙ ÙÙÙاÙ*- ÙصحÙÙØ© “إجسامÙÙر” ترجمة/ عبداÙÙ٠عبداÙÙÙاب ÙاجÙ- ترجمة خاصة بÙ: اÙمستشار Ùت Ù٠حرب م٠حرÙب صعدة اÙستة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù ÙÙ Ùسخة Ù…Ùررة م٠ا ...
  • Peace with Dignity in Yemen, Can the Cycle of Endl ...
    Each of the six Sa’ada wars in Yemen was a photo copy of the one before, except the bombs got bigger, the children more frail and the jails more crowded. The Yemeni government systematically denied food, medicine and international aid to civilians in the northern Sa’ada province as a tactic of war s ...
  • Would Yemeni law find Anwar Awlaki guilty?
    Yemen’s Foreign Minister Abu Baker al Qirby urged Anwar Awlaki to turn himself to be tried under Yemeni law, vowing that no Yemeni citizen would be extradited to the US or any other country. The US announced last week that it had authorized Awlaki’s kill or capture, having determined he is an active ...

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • Amazon Rainforest Teeming With Undiscovered Life
    Photo: WWF The Amazon rainforest , one of the largest and most diverse ecosystem on the planet, has been a virtual treasure-trove for ambitious biologists aiming to uncover new species . In the last ten years alone, scientists have identified 1,200 remarkable organisms which were previously unkn ...
  • How Chinese Stink Bugs Helped Inspire One Man To S ...
    Chinese stink bugs sucking juices from a large Hubbard squash. Photo by John Laumer, Flickr. All rights reserved. I've written before about how people in the US Mid-Atlantic states hate Chinese Stink Bugs (which first hitch-hiked into the US State of Pennsylvania via crates or whatever from C ...
  • Beyond (or Beside) Environmentalism: Rise of the ' ...
    Photo: Michael Baird, Picasa , Creative Commons Last week, the climate writer Dave Roberts called for his readers and colleagues to leave suggestions for a new term to describe anyone who doesn't consider themselves a full-blown environmentalist, but is nonetheless concerned with climate and cl ...
  • 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 ...

Biosingularity

  • Genetic Testing Heads to the Pharmacy
    Even though nearly 2,000 genetic tests are available today, most Americans have never taken one. (Save, perhaps, for newborn screening.) That may soon change, as the nation’s largest businesses responsible for managing prescription benefits, Medco and CVS Caremark, delve into the DNA testing busines ...
  • Scientists turn stem cells into pork
    Call it pork in a petri dish — a technique to turn pig stem cells into strips of meat that scientists say could one day offer a green alternative to raising livestock, help alleviate world hunger, and save some pigs their bacon. Dutch scientists have been growing pork in the laboratory since 2006, a ...
  • Mind reading, brain fingerprinting and the law
    What if a jury could decide a man’s guilt through mind reading? What if reading a defendant’s memory could betray their guilt? And what constitutes ‘intent’ to commit murder? These are just some of the issues debated and reviewed in the inaugural issue of WIREs Cognitive Science, the latest interdis ...
  • Scientists achieve first rewire of genetic switche ...
    Researchers in Manchester have successfully carried out the first rewire of genetic switches, creating what could be a vital tool for the development of new drugs and even future gene therapies. A team of scientists from the School of Chemistry and the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre (MIB) at ...
  • Why humans outlive apes
    Genetic adaption to meat-rich diets may also lead to high rates of Alzheimer’s and heart disease The same evolutionary genetic advantages that have helped increase human lifespans also make us uniquely susceptible to diseases of aging such as cancer, heart disease and dementia, reveals a study to be ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

Ria Novosti Online News

  • A dog’s Halloween in New York
    While people are only preparing to celebrate Halloween, dogs in New York have already done so. So did the owners of the animals, as it is impossible for them to get dressed in sophisticated clothes themselves. The owner of a Chihuahua, Eli, did not only dress her pet like Cleopatra but also made her ...
  • Ilyushin Finance Co. not to hold IPO in winter 201 ...
    Russian aircraft leasing company Ilyushin Finance Co., part of United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), will not hold an initial public offering in winter 2011 as previously planned, UAC head Alexei Fyodorov said on Thursday.
  • Guilty verdict against Khodorkovsky would blemish ...
    A guilty verdict for former Yukos oil major CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev in a second case may blemish the entire Russian judicial system, Khodorkovsky's lawyer said on Thursday.
  • Russia, Germany to synchronize positions ahead of ...
    Russia and Germany will coordinate their positions in the run-up to a series of top level meetings, including a NATO summit, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
  • Russia plans to restrict flights of 'noisy' planes
    Flights of "noisy" aircraft should be restricted at night time in airports located within city limits across Russia, the head of Rosaviatsia, Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency, said on Thursday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

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

Pruning Shears

  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims .The latest WikiLeaks document dump is remarkable: A man who was detained by Iraqi soldiers in an underground bunker reported that he had been ...
  • Banks created the foreclosure crisis - they should ...
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post On Tuesday Prairie Weather linked to this episode of the Diane Rehm show on the foreclosure crisis. Representing the mortgage industry was Tom Deutsch of the American Securitization Forum, and his oily insincerity positively oozed o ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims .Those links came from the Citizens for Legitimate Government daily email. You can sign up by writing Editor-in-Chief Lori Price (signup at l ...
  • Why not a Nobel for Western dissidents?
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post In recent years the Nobel committee has been willing to wade into controversies. A couple of years ago it awarded its economic prize to Paul Krugman, in what appeared to be a swipe at a sitting president and the still (inexplicably) ...
  • Homework
    Fifty extra credit points to the first enterprising citizen who forecloses on Vikram Pandit’s house .

Organic Consumers.org

  • GlaxoSmithKline Pays $750 Million Over Tainted Dru ...
    GlaxoSmithKline, the British drug giant, has agreed to pay $750 million to settle criminal and civil complaints that the company for years knowingly sold contaminated baby ointment and an ineffective antidepressant - the latest in a growing number of whistle-blower lawsuits that drug makers have set ...
  • More of the Estrogen Pollution Found in Waterways ...
    Click here to read this article
  • Everyday Chemicals May Be Harming Kids, Panel Told
    Of the 84,000 chemicals on the market today -- many of which are in objects that people come into contact with every day -- only about 1 percent of them have been studied for safety, Sen. Frank Lautenberg said Tuesday. Click here to read this article
  • Don't Let Halloween Mask Unfair Labor Practices
    If you want to act on your concern for the environment and human rights this Halloween, give treats that come from reputable local or Fair Trade vendors. That could mean foregoing some familiar brands. Click here to read this article
  • Wikileaks: The Shaming Of America by Robert Fisk
    As usual, the Arabs knew. They knew all about the mass torture, the promiscuous shooting of civilians, the outrageous use of air power against family homes, the vicious American and British mercenaries, the cemeteries of the innocent dead. All of Iraq knew. Because they were the victims. Click here ...

fotoFrontera

  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XX
    Si lo desea, escoja un número para revisar nuestro archivo de fotos. [1] -[2] -[3] -[4] -[5] -[6] -[7] -[8] -[9] -[10] -[11] -[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU ...
  • Playas paradisiacas parte IX (9 paisajes del mar)
    Si usted lo desea, puede escoger un número para ver nuestras entregas anteriores sobre la serie 'Playas Paradisiacas'. ¡Cada día, tenemos más! [II] [III] [IV] [V] [VI] [VII] [VIII] [IX] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si de ...
  • Iglesias, templos, palacios y edificios II (10 fot ...
    Si lo desea, puede revisar nuestro archivo. [1] [2] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y vea más fotogr ...
  • Aviones supersónicos III (9 fotos gratuitas)
    Si lo desea, puede revisar nuestras entregas anteriores. [1] [2] [3] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes ...
  • Volcanes, montañas y nevados (7 fotos irrepetibles ...
    Creo que a muchos de ustedes como yo, les encanta admirar despacio nuestras bellezas naturales. Y para concderles ese pequeño deseo, comparto con mis suscriptores y visitantes en general, 7 fotos preciosas de 'Volcanes, montañas y nevados '. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver t ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

Norwegianity

  • A great wind is blowing
    One way the right is getting away with their moneybombs is that local newspapers simply aren’t explaining what’s happening to their readers. From today’s NYTimes: Bruce Braley, a Democrat from northeastern Iowa, has been a popular two-term congressman and seemed likely to have an easy re-election un ...
  • As plebeian as I wanna be
    I thought I’d take the Charles Murray “elitist” quiz, courtesy of Ricochet. 1. Can you talk about “Mad Men?” No. 2. Can you talk about the “The Sopranos?” Yes. 3. Do you know who replaced Bob Barker on “The Price Is Right?” Yes. 4. Have you watched an Oprah show from beginning to end? No. [...]
  • Norm the Coleman
    Thanks to TPM Muckraker, here’s the text of Norm Coleman’s latest fundraising letter (red emphasis mine, pink emphasis for funny): George Soros Wants to Buy America’s Elections He’s spending Millions Again on his Secretary of State Project You Can Help. Dear Friend: Every Vote Counts. You know that ...
  • Cognitive hypocrisy / shitsliding away
    It turns out that the jackass with his boot on Lauren Valle’s head was one of Rand Paul’s county coordinators. [more on Valle] [still more on Valle] [more on cognitive hypocrisy] [more] [criminal summons] [Rand & Profitt together] Still it’s really hard to believe that Rand Paul is a bigger asshole ...
  • At the Ditches of Madness
    Karoli has the economy in a ditch story as retold by Al Franken: When the President took office, not only had the car gone into a ditch, the car had flipped over and was rolling down a steep embankment. We, the American people, were in the back seat, and the Bush Administration had removed all [...]

Public News Service

  • Report: Border Security Not Harmed by Wild Lands P ...
    Report: Border Security Not Harmed by Wild Lands Protection Tucson, AZ – A new report disputes the idea that security along the Mexican border is being compromised by laws protecting fragile public lands. The report cites numerous examples of cooperation among the Border Patrol and federal land mana ...
  • Halloween: Too Much Sugar Not so Sweet for Your H ...
    Halloween: Too Much Sugar Not so Sweet for Your Health Phoenix, AZ – Helping your kids make good choices on Halloween can go a long way toward keeping them healthy. A couple days with a few extra treats won't do permanent damage, but nutritionists say you should be careful of too much added sugar ...
  • "Don't Vote" Message Mobilizes Latinos...to Vote
    "Don't Vote" Message Mobilizes Latinos...to Vote Phoenix, AZ – Charges of voter suppression have been leveled against an out-of-state company airing radio ads in Nevada that advise Latino voters not to cast ballots this year. The ads have been canceled, but the fallout continues, with plenty of vote ...
  • AZ Students “Storm the Dorms” to Turn ...
    AZ Students “Storm the Dorms” to Turn Out Voters Phoenix, AZ – Student leaders at Arizona’s universities are in the final days of a statewide effort to boost young voter turnout. The number of under-30 voters has sharply increased in recent elections. Comments from Michael Wong, co-chair of the Ariz ...
  • Breast Cancer Awareness Month - Hundreds of AZ Wom ...
    Breast Cancer Awareness Month - Hundreds of AZ Women Killed a Year Phoenix, AZ – Women across Arizona are receiving their annual reminder on the importance of early detection when it comes to breast cancer. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The disease kills hundreds across the sta ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • The Existential Lifespan of White Victimisation in ...
    It should hardly come as a surprise to anyone living in South Africa that the myth of a racially reconciled nation is a lot of insidious hogwash. The truth is that South Africa is a racist cesspool replete with the usual historical aggressors and victims that characterise the binary of racialised o ...
  • Aziz's story will remain untold
    Aziz's story will remain untold :[globalresearch.ca] The neo-conservatives always contended that the United States invaded Iraq to bring "democracy" (from the barrel of a gun). Seems like if not democracy, at least the greatest hits of the US judicial system are indeed being implemented in (still oc ...
  • 8 Reasons Black Men Are Still Under Attack
    8 Reasons Black Men Are Still Under Attack | Clutch Magazine: The Digital Magazine for the Young, Contemporary Woman of Color Sadly, it seems the media rhetoric alleging a ‘Single Black Woman’ crisis is getting under our skin. Black love is under attack. And the most damaging part about it all is, m ...
  • Ignorance on religion is a civic, spiritual danger ...
    Ignorance on religion is a civic, spiritual danger: Experts - Faith & Reason : At a symposium at the Newseum in Washington D.C., Prothero acknowledged "a kind of jeopardy quality" to Pew's 32 question survey, in which most people couldn't get more than 16 questions correct. It matters because, he ...
  • Finally free, and still fighting | SocialistWorker ...
    Finally free, and still fighting | SocialistWorker.org : ON SEPTEMBER 21, Victor Safforld was released after 20 years in prison. In 1990, Safforld was convicted of two murders and sent to death row. Safforld had confessed to the murders after his arrest and torture by Chicago police officers under ...

Pensieve

  • Honduras: Among the 3 Most Corrupt Nations in the ...
    Transparency international has published its results on its annual survey of perception of government corruption. The format is a zoomable world map with a ranked list below it. Honduras, at 134th place with a score of 2.4 is tied with Nigeria and Bangladesh and 7 others; not a good place to be. In ...
  • CNN Doctoring
    Is it me or did CNN want to soften news of Hugo Chavez expropriating two US-owned businesses in Venezuela? Related posts:Is this our future? CNN drops the C-bomb The Zelayistas Got There First? Related posts: Is this our future? CNN drops the C-bomb The Zelayistas Got There First?
  • CNN drops the C-bomb
    Photo by BY-YOUR-â It’s not the four letter word. Iâm a bit tired of this topic, but this article seems to need a few comments. After announcing a nuclear cooperation with Russian President Medvedev to build a nuclear plant in Venezuela, Hugo Chávez continues his tour of Asia by visiting Iranian Pre ...
  • Tascon List Documentary
    Those who defend Hugo Chávez need to see this documentary. The Tascón list is a list of all the voters who put their name, their fingerprint, and their social security numbers, in the 2004 recall referendum against Chávez. They were branded as “traitors” and summarily stripped of all government jobs ...
  • Cobalt Bomb in Honduras!?
    Photo by Doug Wallick I completely disbelieve this news report. In it, it said that the residents of Las Tapias, Francisco Moraz�n are being evacuated because of radiation from a cobalt bomb. A cobalt bomb is a type of nuclear weapon with little blast capacity, but enormous contamination from fallou ...

Green Times

  • Vitamin C
    When you feel not so well or think you might be getting ill, get some extra vitamins! Oranges are full of vitamin C – so visit the market or wholefood store and make yourself a glass of organic juice (food-drink/why-organic-juice-is-good-for-you.html). Photo by: Manja Louman
  • Wasp searching for nectar
    Biodiversity (glosarry/categories/wildlife/biodiversity.html) refers to the variety of life forms that inhabit the planet. It consists of all the different organisms of the ecosystem (glossary/wildlife/ecosystem.html) that make up the Earth’s biosphere (glossary/categories/wildlife/biosphere.html), ...
  • Sculpture by the Sea 2010 at Bondi, Sydney
    Summer’s approaching down under – how do we know? The annual Sculpture by the Sea is underway and the whales are saying hello!
  • Environmental News 28/10/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Green Family
    A happy family is a green family, says this image, displayed in the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne. Becoming a green family is not as hard as it may seem - there are many ways to make your life more eco-friendly. Cook with organic (glossary/food-drink/organic-food.html) and seasonal produce ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Midterm elections to usher in further shift by Oba ...
    ShareThis Midterm elections to usher in further shift by Obama to the right By Barry Grey 27 Oct 2010 There are indications that Obama would welcome a Republican takeover of the House of Representatives and a reduced Democratic majority in the Senate. He has conspicuously campaigned in the run-up to ...
  • UK should not put up with US airport security – BA ...
    ShareThis UK should not put up with US airport security – BA chairman 27 Oct 2010 Britain should stop "kowtowing" to US demands over airport security, the chairman of British Airways, Martin Broughton, said yesterday, adding that American airports did not implement some checks on their own internal ...
  • Porn fetish Supreme Court judge Clarence Thomas wa ...
    ShareThis Porn fetish Supreme Court judge Clarence Thomas was 'raving alcoholic' ... until he quit booze and went downhill, says ex-girlfriend 26 Oct 2010 Clarence Thomas, the U.S. Supreme Court Justice caught in a long running sexual harassment fight, has been described by an ex-girlfriend as 'ravi ...
  • Bomb kills US-led soldier in Afghanistan
    ShareThis Bomb kills US-led soldier in Afghanistan 27 Oct 2010 A bomb explosion has killed a US-led soldier in war-torn Afghanistan as the number of attacks against Western troops in the country has soared significantly in the past months. The bomb went off in the north of the country on Wednesday, ...
  • Karzai: Blackwater behind terrorism
    ShareThis 'In fact we don't yet know how many of these blasts are by Taliban and how many are carried out by them (US security companies).' Karzai: Blackwater behind terrorism 25 Oct 2010 Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said US private security firms, including Xe Services LLC, formerly known as B ...

Daily Loaf

  • Tampa’s adult events: Halloween bashes and Jesse J ...
    Sex & love events around Tampa Bay this weekend and beyond.
  • Crist inches closer to Rubio in new poll, but is i ...
    Good morning!  Although I didn’t write this yesterday (I didn’t write anything about the World Series) a colleague of mine at CL can vouch that I did say yesterday afternoon that Texas Rangers pitching ace Cliff Lee did not walk on water, and no way was I conceding Game One of the 2010 Series to [ ...
  • Vibrator giveaways on Election Day (Nov. 2) and Se ...
    Who doesn’t want a free sex toy? Okay, maybe the Tea Party candidate Christine OâDonnell isn’t a big fan of vibrators as she has long campaigned against masturbation. It’s not O’Donnell’s fault. She has probably never had an orgasm; like many sexually repressed men and women across the country she ...
  • New Quinnipiac poll confirms more Democrats suppor ...
    The poll also shows that only 11% of voters have not yet made up their minds — which isn't good news for Crist, though again, with the perception that he could actually win gaining a tiny bit of momentum, perhaps those locked-in Meek supporters may think again.
  • Upscale and down-home: Diner Sixty West serves com ...
    Burgers, pasta and ribs — the heart of a diner’s nighttime menu — and plenty of simple fried food dominate the pages. Despite a few flourishes like braised shortribs atop a specialty burger or lobster bisque on the soup selection, the food largely sticks to its roots. And, of course, sticks to your ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • New resource in the fight for Israeli Democracy
    By Jesse Bacon Amidst the dispiriting news coming from both American and Israeli democracy, one of the signs of hope has been the people who have continued to resist the downward trend. Association for Civil Rights in Israel is one of those hope-inducing groups, and they recently launched a new engl ...
  • The mathematics of strangulation of Gaza
    By Jesse  Bacon When the specifics of Israel’s siege of Gaza came to light, it appeared almost random in its insanity and cruelty. The famous example is the prohibiting of pasta while allowing rice, all the while claiming this was somehow ensuring Israel’s security. Well wonder no longer. Through t ...
  • Association for Civil Rights in Israel on democrac ...
    From the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, reprinted by permission. Ed’s note: This is long, but close enough to our mission to warrant reprinting in full. Here you have the definite guide to anti-democracy bills in the Israeli Knesset, some that will be familiar to readers of this blog, some ...
  • A true Democracy; if Israel would only let it
    A Palestinian state – despite serious obstacles – could become the true democracy of the Middle East, if only Israel would let it. The world is abuzz with the news that Palestinian leadership is talking about soliciting support from the UN for a declaration of statehood (hey, remember when pre-Isr ...
  • PHR-Israel: Delayed Exit of a Toddler from Gaza Re ...
    By Jesse Bacon Saturday, a child the same age as my daughter was killed in Gaza. She was not killed by a missile, or a suicide bomber, or any of the other dramatic ways children die in the Middle East. She was killed by an Israeli  policy, that the people of Gaza are to be imprisoned as punishment ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Traffic-straddling bus could come here
    This unique bus allows traffic to pass underneath it, is partly solar-powered, and greatly cuts congestion. China will have them next year, and the manufacturer wants to bring them to the US. I want to be in Los Angeles videoing when the first one rolls down the street, causing all manner of conster ...
  • Wall Street proprietary trading under cover: Micha ...
    The new law, surprise, has a giant loophole, compliments no doubt of its authors Dodd and Frank, both of whom are Democrats. What, you actually thought they championed reform? Silly you.
  • Living in an ultra-efficient 150 sq ft RV
    The RV has a microscopic environmental footprint. The owner explains how he does it, and has a utility bill of less than $5 a month!.
  • Barack Obama: The oligarchs’ president
    From Charles Ferguson, the director of “Inside Job” Nearly two years later, the Obama administration has established a clear record. Beginning almost immediately, the president consistently opposed any effort to control financial industry compensation — even for firms receiving federal aid, as most ...
  • Carve a pumpkin with a gun

Coteret

  • Yediot: NIS 9 million for settlement “touris ...
    The fact that these grants will fund highly politicized and inflammatory projects is best exemplified by the NIS 2 million slated for the “City of David” project in Silwan. This East Jerusalem settlement in the guise of an “archeological park” is at the cutting edge of efforts to insert Israelis i ...
  • Yediot: Despite Berlusconi’s promises, Italy ...
    Paper sanctions Menahem Ganz, Yediot, September 14 2010 [page 19, Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] Rome — Half a year after returning from a visit to Israel, in the course of which Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi promised to act to reduce the volume of trade between Italy and Ira ...
  • Yediot to Abe Foxman: Are we anti-Semitic too?
    Not exactly, but close. For those of you who have missed the latest chapter of what Matt Duss calls “the continuing attempt to redefine ‘blood libel’ as ‘saying things about Israel I don’t particularly like’”, here’s a brief: This week’s TIME Magazine cover story was a feature by Karl Vick, entitle ...
  • The new frontiers of Israeli diplomacy: Lieberman ...
    This morning’s Israel Hayom reports: (full translated text at bottom): a decision was made that, for the first time, the Foreign Minister will address the UN General Assembly in New York at the end of the month You don’t need to be an expert to understand that this is not a very wise matching of [.. ...
  • Maariv: French and American envoys working to re-s ...
    Maariv summarizes a news item from the Lebanese A-Safir. It’s unclear, however, whether the section on Mitchell visit is also from that source. The byline is unusual. Bardenstein is the junior diplomatic affairs correspondent and probably does not speak Arabic. Items based on direct monitoring of ...

Deadline Live

The Air Vent

  • Weight of Water and Wind, Hurricane Pro’s We ...
    An email from Dr. Kerry Emanuel reproduced with permission from him and George Bryan.  It took a little while to get permission, but this is what I was receiving behind the scenes during the recent wind scuffle.  It sent me down another multi-hour adventure of reading. —- Kerry Emanuel: All:  The ...
  • Remarkable Heretic
    Guest post Dr. Judith Curry.  I asked permission to repost this here in it entirety because it is a perfect description of the current climato-political situation.   There is so much nuance and reality in it I promise that you will be impressed, unless you are TCO. Honesty and reality all balled up ...
  • Independence
    M10 linked again here, starts with the following equation. dQ = CvdT + PdV  + L dλ   — Eq 1, from first law of Thermo. From this equation many on and offline comments were sent to me which claimed heat release was a far greater concern, gavin placed one here although his latent heat [...]
  • Scientific World
    Scientific American on Judith Curry. Climate Heretic: Judith Curry Turns on Her Colleagues Certainly, it’s not surprising that media is not making money these days, they blame the internet but check out that gorgeous title for an otherwise reasonable article. For most of her career, Curry, who heads ...
  • Skeptics Poll
    Die Klimazweibel posted the results of their poll of skeptics.  I’m amazed that the Air Vent isn’t listed on it as a frequent referencer.  Considering that it took them a month to collect 600 skeptics, and I linked to it from here, that’s a little surprising.   We could probably do that in a day ...

Focal Point

  • Rand Paul Supporter Stomps on MoveOn Activist's He ...
    A group of Rand Paul supporters accosted an activist from MoveOn.org before the Conway-Paul senate debate in Kentucky last night. As you can see in the video, some Paul supporters grabbed the victim and forced her to the pavement. A man in a black and white shirt pinned her down while another guy ...
  • The Physics of Wet Dog Shake (Video)
    The physics of wet mammal shake, explained. Dogs and other furry mammals shake to dry themselves off. Experimenters at the Georgia Institute of Technology calculated how fast an animal has to oscillate to overcome surface tension and throw water off its hairs. It turns out, the smalle ...
  • Madison Young, a Hardhat on a Construction Site is ...
    Tracy Clark-Flory interviews porn performer and producer Madison Young about condoms in porn. Young argues that individual performers should be allowed to decide whether to use condoms on set: CLARK-FLORY: What do you think of the push to mandate condom use in the industry? YOUNG: I think it cou ...
  • The Counterproductive Condom Conjecture and Other ...
    Sady Doyle has a piece in the Atlantic about how the latest case of HIV in the porn industry has revived public concern about the lack of condoms in straight porn. An actor tested positive for HIV last week. The news sparked panic in the industry because he has reportedly worked with dozens of big s ...
  • Panic In Porn Valley as Actor Tests Positive for H ...
    At least five major porn studios have shut down after an actor tested positive for HIV this week. In my latest story for Working In These Times , I report on potential structural conflicts of interest in the industry-sponsored HIV testing program for straight porn in the San Fernando Valley. The in ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Files for Patent on Inferential Ad Target ...
    Facebook has filed for an ad targeting patent that lets the company direct ads based on the tastes of a a user’s friends, on top of their own explicit interests. It seems to be linked to a “Friends of Connections” targeting feature that the company launched last November, allowing marketers to reach ...
  • Facebook Tries to Jumpstart Vietnam Despite Blocka ...
    [Editor's Note: This article presents analysis from our Inside Facebook Gold research and data membership service, and includes references to the service's global data tracking Facebook's growth around the world. Visit Inside Facebook Gold to learn more.] After years of leaving international markets ...
  • Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job B ...
    Recently, we launched the Inside Network Job Board – dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at MetroGames, Playfish, Posit Science, EA, and ...
  • Facebook Expands Test of Spam Filter for Wall Post ...
    Facebook continues to test a spam filter for posts to the walls of Pages. Appearing as a separate wall tab which is only visible to admins, the filter automatically removes posts to the Page’s wall which are likely to be spam. These include those that link to spammy websites and requests for users t ...
  • The 25 Most Liked Pages on Facebook, Fall 2010
    The 25 most Liked Pages on Facebook are mostly for musicians, movies, television shows, games, sports and big brands. It’s not surprising that entertainment comprises almost the entire list, because entertainment generates lots of positive attention by nature. What’s more surprising is that an older ...

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ReDress News

  • Wikileaks for dummies: exposing the Iraq war crime ...
    Mamoon Alabbasi views some of the disinformation and spin propagated by the mainstream media regarding the leaking of the US’s secret Iraq war files by the whistleblower website Wikileaks.
  • Obama puts political expediency ahead of US Consti ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues that by upholding the principle of immunity from prosecution for senior officials who commit crimes – a principle that was established during George W. Bush's era – President Obama is undermining the Nuremberg principle that following orders is no excuse for criminal behavio ...
  • Israel's US propaganda machine at work
    Paul J. Balles views one of Israel's mouthpieces in the United States, the American Jewish Committee, and debunks some of their propaganda lines on peace, Iran, human dignity, energy security and the nature of Israel.
  • Increasing European-Russian convergence
    Christopher King argues that Britain and Europe should look eastwards, towards Russia and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and abandon the deadly embrace of the United States if they are to realize their economic potential and regain their political independence.
  • Weimar in Jerusalem: the rise of fascism in Israel
    Uri Avnery warns that fascism will overwhelm Israel unless progressive forces "awake from the coma, understand what is happening and where it is leading to, protest and struggle by all available means ... in order to arrest the fascist wave that is threatening to engulf us".

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Going on Record on Labeling & Labelers
    Censorship Fanatics Come from All Walks of Life It is funny and sad at the same time. In the course of one week I have gone from Anti-Semite to Anti-Muslim. Within a week I have been labeled Filthy Jew-Basher and Fear-Mongering Islamophobic. I find it funny since the logic-free arguments of these fa ...
  • Podcast Show #34
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Tony Hall Tony Hall provides us with an overview of his recently released book Earth into Property, and discusses the relationship between the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and the making of global capitalism, beginning with Christopher Columbus’s inception of a Ne ...
  • Did You Know: The King of Madrasas Now Operates Ov ...
    Fethullah Gulen Takes the Great Game a Step Further The Controversial Muslim preacher has now extended his tentacles into schools in the United States, where he controls and operates more than 100 charter schools within a calculatively set up maze of dubious NGOs. Fethullah Gulen, whose organization ...
  • ‘Kosher’ Schakowsky: Still AIPAC’s Number One Darl ...
    Fierce Competition Between Two Jewish Candidates in Chicago According to the latest reports the degree of allegiance to Israel and its lobby has taken center stage in two Chicago election campaigns for a congressional seat. As far as the two candidates, the incumbent Jan Schakowsky and the Republica ...
  • Weekly Round Up for October 17
    The ‘Obvious’ Silence of the Times, China’s Pipelineistan War, Mujahedin’s Penetration of Tajikistan The other day our friend Metem brought to my attention a story that had made it to the Project Censored list, ‘US Funds & Supports Taliban.’ Here are two excerpts from the introduction which are rela ...

Afro Spear

  • “Is Black Support for Obama Racist?” b ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 With poverty at an all-time high, daunting black unemployment levels and Obamacare threatening black babies, black support for Barack Obama remains surprisingly strong. Why? Blacks are not uniformly as radical as Obama. So why do 91 percent of blacks still support him ...
  • Kiva: A Story of the Poor
    AfroSpear supports microfinancing towards development (read here). October 2010 AfroSpear Initiatives: 1. Kelvin Rutherford 2. Keyembe 3. Vasi Business Center Group 4. God Bless You Group
  • sat’day riddymz
  • from tribal intellectualism to cultural lyricist
    A few days ago, my brother The Field Negro contacted me to say that he had used a post I did about 2 years ago entitled: “Tribal Intellectualism and the concept of the House Negro”, as the basis of an article he had posted on his blog. I was like “cool”, went over to his blog and read [...]
  • The Black Christ and the Black Madonna
      Very informative and interesting article at The Silver People Chronicle. 

Expose the BNP

  • Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
    Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a nation ...
  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep his po ...
  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative candidat ...
  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop denying ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well. Griffi ...

Sen4Earth

  • No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
    "SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainability ...
  • Bill Gates On Climate Change & Energy: We Must and ...
    Whether you know a little or a lot about Climate Change (aka Global Warming), SEN urges you to watch this one-hour video, because you will learn a great deal either way. Gates lays out a sweeping set of ideas for reducing CO2 emmissions to zero. Gates is no fool when it comes to matters of [...]
  • Week 2 – Worldwide Campaign to Save the Gran ...
    The Grand Canyon is one of the world's most pristine and majestic treasures. Mother Nature needs our help to save it. We all need to act to protect the Grand Canyon. Pledge to do your part. Help us by adding your signature to the petitions and ask everyone you know and who cares for earth to do the ...
  • Seize BP Demonstrations Nationwide
    SEN believes these demonstrations will help awaken politicians to outrage over inadequate regulation and control of international corporations, even if they do not succeed in gaining temporary seizure of BP on the basis of national emergency and evidence of criminal neglect and fraud by BP.
  • Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox
    SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...

If Americans Knew

  • As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed at ...
    Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage at h ...
  • An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Clinic: ...
    I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again on Ga ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner whic ...
  • The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised as ...
    John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
  • A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and love ...
    We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine providence ...

David J. Gregory

  • Conservative Conundrum
    Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because s ...
  • HURRAY FOR SHORT MEMORIES!
  • Never Forget: Bad Wars Aren’t Possible Unles ...
    This is a very good article from Michael Moore, what he delineates are the reasons we are still in such a mess as a Nation and a people. These reasons are blatant and should never be allowed to happen again. Even though Obama seems to be tied to the Bush Doctrine of appeasing the military-industrial ...
  • Truth for Tea Baggers!
    War Machine, all the money for killing, nothing for helping to save lives, war is much more profitable, especially when you supply both sides! Sheeple time to wake up….
  • Rand Paul the road to disaster
    Do you remember Rand Paul? He’s the Republican candidate for Senate in Kentucky that went on Rachel Maddow to oppose provisions in the Civil Rights Actafter his surprise victory in the primary. He’s taken max-out checks from Citizens United – the group whose lawsuit led to the new avalanche of corpo ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • After The Yes Men’s Chevron Spoof, What Next ...
    Strike while the iron is hot, or take a breather and think about your next move. The feelings of an Underminer during a hot spoof are often confused, but in some cases a retrospective look is necessary in order to understand what effective action really means. Case in point, the action by the Yes Me ...
  • BHP Billiton: New Chair, Same Old Story
    From the wonderful London Mining Network comes this report of the BHP Billiton. I have emphasised key phrases that demonstrate the hypocrisy of one of the most destructive companies ever to grace planet Earth. At today’s London AGM of the world’s biggest mining company, BHP Billiton, new company cha ...
  • NAU Receives $1 Million to Teach Native Kids How G ...
    Northern Arizona University have been given $1 million by the National Science Foundation to create a program to teach rural and indigenous people (you know, those people whose land was stolen from them in order to extract minerals and oil, and grow industrial scale crops) science and technology. Th ...
  • Million Letter March: Just Say No!
    If anyone sends anything to you asking to join the Million Letter March, treat it like spam. Look, I’m being serious: it’s the idea of Lester Brown, head of the Earth Policy Institute, who’s primary driver doesn’t appear to be saving the global ecology or humanity in general, but saving civilization ...
  • What I Am Doing For 10/10/10
    After all, it is a special day.

Subalternate Reality

  • Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
    Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constructi ...
  • Wealthy Far More Likely To Default On Mortgages
    crossposted at Political Correction For much of the past two years, Congressional Republicans have wasted few opportunities to blame poor and working class Americans for the financial meltdown and the subsequent recession. They’ve argued that through well-intentioned government initiatives, includ ...
  • GOP House Candidate: Mosque Near Ground Zero Is A ...
    Conservative activists and the Muslim-baiters among them are furious about a proposed Islamic community center to be built near Ground Zero.  The debate has become entirely unhinged and some of the more hateful folks are using the controversy as a rallying cry to oppose the construction of all futur ...
  • Ex-Muslim Ergun Caner Is A Fraud
    Ergun Caner is one of the most prominent figures in the evangelical movement. He is also one of the most deceptive. A self-professed Muslim convert to Christianity, Caner plays an important, and arguably dangerous, role in the community. After the 9/11 attacks, when many Americans were searching for ...
  • Aliou Kumbaya
    My brother Aliou Niasse has saved the day.  He was the first to spot smoke coming out of the Nissan Pathfinder that Faisal Shahzad intended to detonate in crowded Times Square. Thankfully, the incompetence of Shahzab and the alertness of Niasse and two other gentlemen, both of whom are Vietnam War v ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • DocumentCloud Users Make Ballot Design An Election ...
    When we make lists of the kinds of source documents users can upload to DocumentCloud , they can get pretty long. DocumentCloud is court filings, hearing transcripts, testimony, legislation, lab reports, memos, meeting minutes, correspondence. I can say with absolute confidence that in all of our pl ...
  • Journalists Should Play and Discuss Newsgames Like ...
    Evangelizing newsgames is not just about convincing journalists that they should create and use games to express ideas and inform the public. It's also about getting journalists to recognize newsgames that are created outside of professional institutions as works in dialogue with their field. Even i ...
  • Basetrack Pushes Off to Follow Marines in Afghanis ...
    Safi Airways flight 4Q-52. Sept 28, 2010 at 20:00 GMT -Zulu -- I'm airborne and en route to link up with First Battalion, Eighth Marine Regiment (a.k.a. "one-eight," the subject of our Knight News Challenge grant ), in southern Afghanistan. We're at cruising altitude, somewhere between Hungary an ...
  • BookBrewer Makes Major Self-Publishing Deal with B ...
    This has been one of the most amazing, rewarding and surreal weeks of my life. Borders has chosen BookBrewer -- the first product of my startup, FeedBrewer , which grew out of a News Challenge grant -- to power the engine for its e-book self-publishing service. You can read about our partnership in ...
  • 577 U.S. News Sites Now Using hNews
    The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865. It is the only daily broadsheet newspaper in San Francisco -- and is published online at SFgate.com . In the 1960s Paul Avery was a police reporter at the Chronicle when he started investigating the so-called "Zodiac Killer." Earlier this year Mark ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Unsafe Edge - Safety Board Less Aggressive in ...
    The National Transportation Safety Board issued significantly fewer recommendations for improvements in travel safety during the eight years of the George W. Bush administration than during any other presidency in its 36-year history. An analysis of NTSB data shows that for most of its history the b ...
  • The Edge of Tolerance - Is It Islamic or Islamist?
    Now that even the tolerant, liberal Swedes have elected an anti-Islam party to their Parliament, it's pretty clear that such controversies are mounting because both the left and the right are confused over the politics of Islam. The left is wrongly defending Islamism—an extremist and at times violen ...
  • Edge on the Mideast - Saudi Diplomat Bandar bin Su ...
    For a generation, Prince Bandar bin Sultan was Riyadh's man in Washington. As the Saudi ambassador to the United States from 1983 to 2005, he was even dubbed "Bandar Bush" for his close ties to that powerful American political dynasty. After leaving Washington, apparently burned out, he returned to ...
  • Midterm Elections - Fifty Democrats or More to be ...
    Republicans are headed for a blowout election win that seems certain to seize more than enough seats to knock out the Democrats and take control of the House.The Hill 2010 Midterm Election poll, surveying nearly 17,000 likely voters in 42 toss-up districts over four weeks, points to a massive Republ ...
  • Inside Islam - Muslims Accuse Fearful Egyptian Chr ...
    Fears for the safety of Egyptian Christians are growing after a series of false allegations, violent threats and mass demonstrations against Christians in Egypt, according to the Barnabas Fund - an advocacy and charitable organization based in the United Kingdom. According to a news release, Muslim ...

High Country News

  • Voting at the dump
    In rural Idaho, determined voters head out to a muddy dump to cast their ballots.
  • When voting, listen to the grass
    At the Land Institute's Prairie Festival in Kansas, the glory of the short-grass prairie is remembered and celebrated.
  • Solar spree
    New solar energy projects are coming to California and Nevada.
  • Fields of dreams
    "Farmworker Reality Tours" teach citizens about the lives of California's migrant farmworkers.
  • A raw-edged memoir
    In her second memoir, Raw Edges, Phyllis Barber leaves her marriage and tries to find herself.

CounterCurrents

  • An Open Letter To President Obama
    By Ravikiran Shinde Your mentor Martin Luther King Jr. visited India when Dr. Ambedkar was alive but met only the then prime minister Nehru and seems to have been kept in the dark about his civil rights counterpart in India and perhaps never came to know about him. Please do what MLK couldnt. Get ...
  • A Buddhist Vision of Life Beyond Consumerism
    By Craig K. Comstock Is there an alternative to consumerism? If the future will be less affluent than the past, for whatever reasons -- we dont know -- will we cling to a system that is failing, or will we have adopted new basic premises? If the latter, what are values that dont depend on having a ...
  • Toxic Brew
    By George Monbiot The Tea Parties didnt arise spontaneously: they were boiled up by big business
  • Interview with Julian Assange
    By Amy Goodman Democracy Now! interview with Julian Assange
  • Pity The nation
    By Arundhati Roy Arundhati Roy replies to sedition charges

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • ANOTHER Spontanious Pledge of Allegiance Incident ...
    What is it with the League of Woman's Voters and the Pledge of Allegiance? For the second time in less than a week a debate began with a request for a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, the League of Woman's Voters moderator said no, and the audience got up and said it anyway. The debate b ...
  • U.S. Officials Aren't Understanding and Responding ...
    By Barry Rubin If you've lost faith in the current administration's ability and mass media's ability to respond to Middle East developments, here's more evidence. There's a relatively new American idiomatic expression, "Ya [you] think?" Said sarcastically, it means: Wow, duh, the answer to ...
  • Meet Part of Conservative Tidal Wave Trying to ...
    This morning I met three different Illinois Republican Congressional candidates Bob Dold (IL-10), Adam Kinzinger (IL-11) and Bobby Schilling (IL-17) via a conference call hosted by Congressman Peter Roskam (IL-6). Bobby Schilling is running in the 17th congressional district. Shilling is a ...
  • CNN's John King Says Alex Sink Lied About Debate C ...
    �;;;;;;;;;;; (note if you cannot see videos below (click here) It was the text seen round the world. During the final Florida gubernatorial debate, Democratic Candidate Alex Sink got caught getting a text message with debate advice from her staff, which was against debate rule ...
  • Is The SEIU Behind Nevada Voting Machines Automat ...
    Something wacko is going on in Nevada.� Some voters in Boulder City are complaining that their ballots were cast before they went to the polls. These complaints are raising questions about Clark County's electronic voting machines. Guess who holds the contract to conduct maintenance on those mach ...

The Real Agenda

  • Placebo Fraud Shakes Modern Medical Science
    NaturalNews.com You know all those thousands of clinical trials conducted over the last few decades comparing pharmaceuticals to placebo pills? Well, it turns out all those studies must now be completely thrown out as utterly non-scientific. And why? Because the placebos used in the studies weren’t ...
  • Jack Conway Involved in Investigation Cover-up
    Courier-Journal.com A Jefferson County prosecutor was tipped off by Louisville narcotics detectives twice in the past two years that he was under investigation for possible drug use or trafficking, according to police records obtained by The Courier-Journal. When investigators learned of the leaks a ...
  • General Hugh Shelton: Iraq war “based on a series ...
    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 ...
  • Karzai: Blackwater behind terrorism
    PressTV Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said US private security firms, including Xe Services LLC, formerly known as Blackwater, are being behind terrorism in the country. At a press conference in Kabul, Karzai said that US security companies have been behind explosions that have claimed the lives ...
  • Ruled from Abroad: How Bankers Control Everything
    By Joan Veon In 1913, at 11:45 p.m., on Dec. 23, Congress approved a private corporation designed to form a private corporation, designed to control the monetary system of our country. They moved with a calculated craftiness and deceit to pass legislation that would enslave every American as a debto ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind farm effects were underestimated
    A Manawatu wind farm is facing court action amid lingering doubt it is complying with noise limits. After receiving hundreds of complaints about noise from Te Rere Hau wind farm on the Tararua Range for more than a year, Palmerston North City Council has applied to the Environment Court for stricter ...
  • Oregon Public Health office decides it’s tim ...
    Oregon has boosted wind energy projects with a vengeance in recent years, adopting a renewable power standard and tax breaks that have helped spread wind farms across the state’s northern reaches and into eastern Oregon. Now comes the Oregon Public Health office, which announced Thursday that it’s e ...
  • Massive protest greets wind turbine developers
    FERGUS � A massive protest greeted officials from wpd Canada in Fergus Tuesday evening, and flowed into the renewable energy developer�s open house on the proposed Springwood Wind Project (formerly known as Belwood Wind Farm), a four turbine wind energy system planned for agricultural land in the no ...
  • A new slant on wind farms
    Jerusalem, N.Y. â John Grabski, representing the Jerusalem Preservation Association, brought a seldom explored topic to the subject of wind farms at the Oct. 20 Jerusalem Town Council meeting – economic devaluation. Public discussions on wind farms usually include noise, flicker, dead birds and disc ...
  • Wind power showdown set in Austin
    To get a sense of how contentious Monday’s hearing about where to build a massive electric transmission line through the Hill Country will be, consider this: It’s being held at the Austin Convention Center. That’s big enough to hold more than 1,000 people â and there are easily that many with a stak ...

Not My Tribe

  • Who decided Ghurkas make good peacekeepers?
    So the Haitian cholera outbreak is being investigated by the U.N. and the suspect so far is a Nepalese “peacekeeping” base with sewage issues, in a blunt and literal sense. This is the device they’re most famous for perfecting and using. It’s a machete, really, with the bent-forward blade, which can ...
  • Rap News and Wikileaks thumb noses at US junta and ...
    I’d say Juice Media’s Hugo Farrant and Wikileaks’ Julian Assange are showing up the powers that be. Catch today’s episode of Rap News: Some may imagine kindred discontents at MSNBC and the Daily Show, but Jon Stewart’s Obamafest tonight couldn’t make the facade plainer. Developments this week with t ...
  • Brownshirt attacker demands apology from victim
    In the attack on Lauren Valle. Three attackers and one demanding an apology from Ms Valle. They’re also claiming they were just “restraining” her and “accidentally stepped on her”. It’s on the same level of Sarah Palin telling people “don’t sit down and don’t shut up” while having the Arizona cops v ...
  • In Iraq, willful killing, torture and forced disap ...
    Former Iraq Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz has been sentenced to death by the US Iraqi puppet regime. Pending an automatic appeal, the internationally popular diplomat will hang with other henchmen/assistants of Saddam Hussein for the crimes of “willful killing, torture and enforced disappearance ...
  • Libertarian me-first values exemplified by face-st ...
    Move over RNC Kicker, Rand Paul preemptive-linebackers Tim Profitt and cohort Mike Pezzano have been identified as the “lead stomper” and protester-wrangler of yesterday’s face-stomping video. MoveOn activist Lauren Valle was holding a sign meant to highlight Kentucky senate candidate Paul’s corpora ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • How NWO shills are compromised ...
    "Attorney Steven Eggleston was suspicious when his boss pressed him to attend a weekend male retreat , but refused to tell him what would be happening there, saying participants were sworn to secrecy . So he did a Google search and found out why. Men would be holding hands and walking naked, blind ...
  • Aussie Trades Unionist Exposes 9/11 Cover-up
    alawson911 YouTube.com October 27, 2010 Listen to an overbearing gatekeeper, Jon Faine, attempt to rubbish the genuine concerns of an Australian trades unionist, Kevin Bracken, in an attempt to stifle any debate about the many anomalies in the official 9/11 story. Seldom have I heard anyone, who o ...
  • Top Ten Signs Your Country May Be Going Fascist
  • Losers for 9/11 Truth...
    I have no idea who made this, but it made me laugh.
  • John Lennon's 70th birthday: How will you mark the ...
    That was the question here: http://music-mix.ew.com/2010/10/09/john-lennon-70-birthday/?xid=partner-CNNHome-John+Lennon+tributes+mark+70th+birthday My answer is by speculating that he would not be a debunker ! Happy Birthday John! Related Info: To all the mentally deficient Christians and Mu ...

Fooducate

  • “Grapples” – Apples that Taste Like Grapes
    We love apples. We love grapes. Kids do too. Great natural snacks. That’s why we were very intrigued to learn about the existence of Grapple (pronounced Grape – L). Grapple is a new fruit, or so we thought, that combines the look and mouthfeel of apples with the taste of grapes. After taking a clos ...
  • Trick or (tiny) Treat
    With Halloween coming up this weekend, you’re probably reading and viewing lots of advice regarding chocolate choices and snack strategies. While some may go out of their way to prepare and receive only healthy snacks, we’re of the mass market camp, allowing the kids to enjoy whatever is handed to ...
  • Whole Foods Market Pilots Non-GMO Labels
    Heard about GMO? Genetically modified organisms are plants or animals that have had their DNA altered through gene splicing techniques. This enable scientists to insert the DNA from one species into that of another in order to obtain a certain desired effect, for example resistance to pests. From a ...
  • Which is Healthier for Me – Tea or Coffee ?
    Inhabitants of earth can be roughly divided in to 2 groups: tea lovers and coffee addicts. Some countries are home to many more of one kind than the other. The US is a coffee nation, but the UK and many parts of Asia are firmly rooted in tea culture. That said, many people enjoy both drinks.  [...]
  • Eight Myths About Vegetarians and Vegetarian Food
    This is a guest blog post by Daniel Koontz Long-time readers know all about Casual Kitchen’s predilection for what we call part-time vegetarianism. Since vegetarian cuisine is typically very inexpensive, one great way to stretch your food budget and make your diet healthier is to replace two or thr ...

Traffikd

  • Blogging Event Ideas to Spice Up Your Blog
    If you've ever gone to an industry conference, film festival, grand opening, or author signing, then you can appreciate the energy such events can create. Industry conferences gather together the best and brightest minds in order to share ideas and plan for the future. Film festivals celebrate great ...
  • Increasing Your Blog’s Interactivity: 10 Tips for ...
    Guest post by Alexis Bonari Success in attracting and retaining readers is often influenced by a blog’s level of interactivity. Many readers are more active than passive and want to feel like they have a role in affecting a blog’s content, design, structure, and overall ongoing conversation. Posts ...
  • 5 Facebook Apps That Really Make Money
    Guest post by Alexis Bonari If you aren't on Facebook by now, you are probably the only one who isn't. My grandmother has a Facebook page and anyone who can type, is able to start their own page with no problem. Most everyone uses Facebook as a social meeting place, but did you know that you coul ...
  • Online Profits Re-Opens (and now it’s free)!
    Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips started a membership site, Online Profits , last year to help people learn about making money online. Daniel has just re-launched and re-vamped Online Profits, and this time there is no charge to get all of the valuable content. The only requirement is that you open ...
  • 3 Ways to Ensure Internet Marketing Continues to W ...
    This is a guest post by Susan White Gone are the days when Internet marketing was perceived as the bold, new and innovative way to market and publicize your products and services. Today, email marketing and other forms of pushing your products on the web are passé. The Internet is growing faster th ...

Survival International

  • Indians demand answers as Amazon is sold
    Oil exploration in Peru's Amazon has generated wide-scale indigenous protests. © David Dudenhoefer Peru’s latest Amazon auction has been challenged by indigenous groups after it emerged that they may not have been consulted before their land was sold off to foreign oil companies last week. An ...
  • Survival’s new petition for Botswana Bushmen goes ...
    Survival's petition has gathered signatures from more than 80 countries. © Survival A new petition calling on controversial holiday company Wilderness Safaris to move its luxury lodge off Bushman land in Botswana is gathering support from all over the world. While the Central Kalahari Bushmen ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • The Petroleum Broadcast SystemOwes Us an Apology
    by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash Tonight, my dog Pluto and I watched the PBS 'Frontline' investigation of BP, "The Spill." PBS has uncovered a real shocker:  BP neglected safety! Well, no shit, Sherlock! Pluto rolled over on the rug and looked at me as if to say, Don't we already know t ...
  • Was Tim Griffin merely a "Rove-bot"?Did Karl Rove ...
    Special to the Arkansas Times by Greg Palast (New York, London) Illustration from Steal Back Your Vote Comic book voterguide.To learn more click on the image. Greg Palast, the journalist who blew the whistle on Republican vote suppression activities in Florida ("caging"), has communicated with ...
  • SarahPAC Candidate "Should Be in Jail"NBC TV airs ...
    by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash "What he [Griffin] did was absolutely illegal and he should be in jail." Illustration from Steal Back Your Vote comic That's hardly the kind of endorsement a candidate for Congress expects. But that is the conclusion of voting rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy ...
  • Decision 2010:Tim Griffin and Voter Caging
    Reported by: Melissa Simas, KARK 4 NBC News After two years, and several resignations among Department of Justice staffers, in July, a special prosecutor wrapped up her investigation of the nine U.S. Attorneys fired in 2006. Bud Cummins, a Republican from Arkansas, was one of the U.S. Attorneys f ...
  • Tonight on NBC TV:Greg Palast busts Rove's Caging ...
    Tim Griffin, Congressional candidate, exposed Catch the report tonight on KARK 4 Little Rock 7pm Eastern, 6pm local Arkansas. It's not Tim Griffin's day. In 2004, BBC Television exposed Karl Rove's crony Tim Griffin, for running an operation to challenge the right to vote of active duty soldiers ...

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Gulf Dispersants Still Making People Sick
    The Obama administration and BP were warned, but they kept using Corexit (h/t: T-Bear): “I was with my friend Albert, and we were both slammed with exposure,” Matsler explained of his experience on August 5, referring to toxic chemicals he inhaled that he believes are associated with BP’s dispersant ...
  • The insurgency, the Iraqi army and unity kill rate ...
    Gary Farber at Obsidian Wings is pulling out numerous bullet points from the Wikileaks Iraq Warlogs. One of the points concerns casualty figures that the US military attributed to insurgents and the US military’s count of Iraqi government security forces casualties. The database records the followin ...
  • Cowardly Republicans attack woman
    One guy headstomps her while another one holds her down.  Wanna-be stormtroopers without the guts to take on someone who can fight back.  Find out their names, and publish them, so that they can be held up as the gutless wonders they are. Update: The curb stomping coward turns out to be Tim Profitt ...
  • This is what happens when you bail out the rich
    David Cay Johnston: Every 34th wage earner in America in 2008 went all of 2009 without earning a single dollar, new data from the Social Security Administration show. Total wages, median wages, and average wages all declined, but at the very top, salaries grew more than fivefold… …The number of Amer ...
  • The insurgency, the Iraqi army and unity kill rate ...
    By Dave Anderson: Gary Farber at Obsidian Wings is pulling out numerous bullet points from the Wikileaks Iraq Warlogs. One of the points concerns casualty figures that the US military attributed to insurgents and the US military’s count of Iraqi government security forces casualties. The database re ...

Age of Autism

  • How Vaccine Damage Deniers Threaten Us All
    By Jake Crosby In “PBS Frontline: The Vaccine Wars,” one particular scene that caught my attention was when NVIC’s Barbara Loe Fisher argued that the right to question vaccine safety and right to choose to be vaccinated should be no...
  • Order the SafeMinds Free Flu Vaccine Brochure Toda ...
    Order SafeMindsflu vaccine brochures and distribute it to your doctors, pharmacists, nurses, hospitals, family and friends. The first 25 are free. This is particularly critical for pediatricians and obstetricians/ gynecologists. To order click HERE.
  • The Sunday Times Reports on Adverse Vaccine Reacti ...
    The community was surprised to see the following headline in the UK's Sunday Times newspaper: 40 deaths linked to child vaccines over seven years along with a photo of beautiful little George Fisher, who died following fever and seizure post...
  • Double Double Making Toil and Trouble! (How Dare W ...
    In a short while, a new book by Dr. Paul Offit will be released. The title alone makes me shake my head in disbelief: Dangerous Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All. An honored guest, he shared this message...
  • Win HandHold Adaptive's AutismTrack iApp at Age of ...
    Our friends from HandHold Adaptive have kindly offered to give NINE Age of Autism readers a free copy of their newest app, AutismTrack. We have eight left! Just leave a comment here with your email address in the email line...

Global BDS Movement

  • Legal opinion by Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill on ...
    � Legal Brief entitled: Certain Legal Issues Arising from theApplication of Israel to become a Member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development  � Prepared by: Guy S. Goodwin-Gill read more
  • Legal Memorandum by Professor Karma Nabulsi on Isr ...
    � Memorandum presented by Dr Karma Nabulsi , University of Oxford, to OECD member-states about their legal obligations during Israel's accession process (May 2010)  � Dr Karma Nabulsi is  Fellow of St Edmund Hall and lecturer at Oxford University � read more
  • Eight countries absent from OECD Tourism Conferenc ...
    EIGHT COUNTRIES ABSENT FROM OECD TOURISM CONFERENCE   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 21 October 2010     - Norway, Canada, Ireland, UK, Sweden, Iceland, Turkey and South Africa not present at OECD tourism conference     - Czech Republic only EU country to send political representation to „High-level roundtab ...
  • BNC releases Memo and Recommendations for OECD cou ...
    Israel’s accession to OECD: encouraging impunity, rewarding war crimes read more
  • Press Release: Five countries boycott tourism conf ...
    Five countries boycott tourism conference in Jerusalem FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15 October 2010 • UK, Sweden, Turkey, South Africa, and Ireland will not attend controversial conference hosted by Israel • Many countries undecided or set to only send low-level delegations • OECD General Secretary wa ...

Farm Wars

  • Africa, Chocolate, Bill Gates, Monsanto, and the G ...
    The bait and switch routine, GM style. Give poor farmers some free technology in return for softening up the biotech patent laws in that country, then slam them with a food and land grab the likes of which we have never seen.
  • Watch What in the World are They Spraying!
    Watch the entire What in the World are They Spraying movie by Michael J. Murphy, Paul Whittenberger, and G. Edward Griffin.
  • 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.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Human rights challenge to Met over Jean Charles de ...
    Telegraph – The family of Jean Charles de Menezes has launched a new fight for justice at the European Court of Human Rights over the failure to prosecute seven police officers over the Brazilianâs shooting. Cressida Dick, who led the Metropolitan Police operation, is named in legal papers along wit ...
  • Wheat Advances Most in Two Weeks on Weather Concer ...
    Bloomberg – Wheat futures rose the most in two weeks on renewed concern that dry weather in the U.S. Great Plains will hurt the early development of winter crops. Growing areas in the central and southern Plains for the hard red-winter variety will get âminimal to non-existentâ rainfall in the next ...
  • New date for Guinea presidential run-off poll
    BBC – Guinea has scheduled its long-delayed presidential run-off vote for 7 November, according to a presidential decree read out on state TV. The vote was initially due to be held in July, but street violence and political infighting have forced it to be postponed three times. An inconclusive resul ...
  • Copper Extends Rally to 27-Month High in New York ...
    Bloomberg – Copper prices rose in New York, extending a rally to a 27-month high, on signs that global demand will outpace supplies. Inventories monitored by the London Metal Exchange have dropped to the lowest level in a year amid analyst forecasts for a global shortfall this year and next. Copper ...
  • US: The perils of taking experimental cancer drugs
    Reuters – Clinical trials done in the US, the researchers found, had trouble recruiting participants and took nearly twice as long to complete when the drug under scrutiny was already on the market. “The concern is that you have fewer people choosing to enter the trial if the drug is already availab ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • EPA fuel economy labeling: Is there a better metri ...
    The U.S. Department of Transportation and Environmental Protection Agency face twin and equally daunting tasks as they revise the fuel economy labels as mandated by the 2007 Energy and Independence Security Act. Not only must they incorporate accurate fuel economy,...
  • Red palm weevil spotted in Southern California, al ...
    Palm tree lovers, look out. The California Department of Food and Agriculture says the red palm weevil -– which it has dubbed "the world’s worst pest of palm trees" –- has been spotted in the Laguna Beach area. The insect,...
  • Fifty species move closer to extinction every year ...
    Agricultural expansion, logging, over-exploitation and invasive alien species are pushing an average of 50 species closer to extinction every year, according to a study published this week in the journal Science. Unveiled as the conference on global biodiversity began in...
  • Brightsource's Ivanpah solar project breaks ground ...
    The weather was nippy and the casinos of Primm were looming within eyeshot, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was still in a jolly mood Wednesday morning. After all, the largest solar thermal project in the world was breaking ground on his...
  • Strawberries, thyme approved for L.A.'s residentia ...
    L.A.'s Board of Public Works approved new rules for residential parkways Monday. The city's Residential Parkway Landscape Guidelines allow homeowners to plant drought-tolerant, turf-substitute ground-cover plants in their parkways without obtaining a permit. Previously, the only permit-free planting ...

water.org

  • iReport challenge: #BeAHero for clean water (CNN)
    iReport challenge: #BeAHero for clean water (CNN) – An outbreak of cholera in Haiti has killed more than 250 people and sickened thousands. The culprit: Contaminated drinking water. Worldwide, the water crisis is huge. Nearly a billion people lack access to safe drinking water. Thatâs one in eight o ...
  • Credit for water, toilets – the ripple effec ...
    Credit for water and toilets – the ripple effect (Women Economic Empowerment Review) – Over the past couple of years, WaterCredit has enabled Water.org to reach more than twice the number of people with safe access to water and sanitation than a traditional, subsidy-driven approach. By providing sma ...
  • Thursday’s Connector: Matt Damon (CNN)
    Thursday’s Connector: Matt Damon (CNN) – The American actor, philanthropist and screenwriter Matt Damon is known for his roles in a wide range of successful movies as well as his charity work. In addition to his acting career, Damon has been a budding philanthropist since the age of 12, creating cha ...
  • BeAHero challenge for charities (CNN)
    Readers take the #BeAHero challenge for charities (CNN) – This morning we asked complete strangers to step up to the plate to become an everyday hero. Today’s challenge – the first of several – was inspired by a report that donations to the United Statesâ 400 biggest charities plunged last year by 1 ...
  • What do I write about for Blog Action Day? (Change ...
    What Do I Write About for Blog Action Day? (Change.org) – The good news is that there are great organizations working on solutions and new tools that empower people to do their part to address the water crisis. Building Wells: Organizations like Water.org and charity: water are leading the charge in ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • PersonhoodUSA's Radical, Fetal-Separatist Agenda
    She was taken into custody, forcibly restrained while in active labor, judged without representation and forced to undergo cesarean surgery, depriving her of her right to liberty, privacy, bodily integrity, medical decision-making and due process of law. Submitted by Katherine T. to US Politics & Go ...
  • Israel is relieved not to be the only war criminal
    Their revelations prove the futility of war and its crimes. Imagine how much hatred America has sown in Iraq, with its thousands of mourning families, and how much hatred Israel has sown in Gaza, with its thousands of mourning families and its ruination. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �No ...
  • U.S. lawmakers concerned by professor's anti-Israe ...
    Video of a September 3 rally in Washington, D.C., shows tenured literature professor Kaukab Siddique saying Israel must be destroyed, if possible by peaceful means. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 'Israel's new housing units decision violates int' ...
    UN slams refusal to extend W.Bank settlement freeze; UN representative says "we have brief, crucial window to overcome current impasse." Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Islamaphobia Rapidly Spreads Through Europe
    The European extreme right is more turbocharged than ever, peddling Islamic hatred from France to Denmark, from Italy to Sweden. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Historical Notes

libcom

  • From self-organised French people in struggle
    Pont.jpg This is the translation of a text that was partly read on the French National Radio today Wed 27 Oct 2010 by a few people who went on stage to interrupt a live show. When ...
  • An attempt to report on the situation in France - ...
    Blaockade_Nice_airport-Oct-19-2010.jpg Mouvement Communiste report their impressions of the past several weeks of struggles in France. This is based on eye witness accounts, testimony of comrades and fri ...
  • Address to the wage-earners, unemployed and precar ...
    English translation of a leaflet written by some participants to the current movement against pension reforms in France Address to the wage-earners, unemployed and precarious workers of all the countries in the European Union
  • Belfast - Thousands march to oppose the cuts
    Workers came out in their thousands in Belfast today to protest against government cuts that will see services slashed, benefits cut and an estimated 30,000 job losses. Sammy Wilson may have told them they were wasting their time but wor ...
  • The Enduring Rationality of Revolt
    657337_605146_694291b.jpg A defence of the road blockade as a tactic, presumably written against the Treatment Action Campaign and the South African Community Party, from a social justice news agency tha ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Does Energy Legislation Compromises Help Our Futur ...
    On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Oct 25, 2010, Politico, Darren Samuelsohn Republicans have a familiar playbook to turn to on energy policy if they take control of the House or Senate next year. … Continue reading →
  • America in the Dark over Energy Confusion?
    On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Energy confusion could put America in the dark, insider tells First Coast audience Oct 25, 2010 The Florida Times-Union– (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) Steve Patterson – … Continue reading →
  • Cash for Caulkers–Homestar Govt Program
    On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: ‘Cash For Caulkers’ Seals Savings For Homeowners Oct 23, 2010-NPR This year was supposed to be the year when the U.S. government redesigned the energy economy and took … Continue reading →
  • The Bull Stops Here by Robin Carnahan
    On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Dear Scotts Contracting, "Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place." President Truman … Continue reading →
  • Campaign News-People are worth more than Money!!!
    On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Dear friends, The only way we’ll beat the power of their money is with the power of people, including you. Weâve built an amazing new web resource that … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

  • 9th Circuit Orders Mediation in Rio Tinto Alien To ...
    Nearly a decade into a court battle involving a foreign company and its alleged role in spurring civil war in a South Pacific country, the 9th Circuit is suggesting mediation. The court issued the surprising en banc order in a case that stood to test the scope and reach of the 1789 Alien Tort Act. A ...
  • Judge's Unusual Order Revives Law Firm Diversity I ...
    A stir recently erupted in the securities class action bar after Southern District of New York Judge Harold Baer Jr. issued an order in a case against Gildan Activewear, directing two of the largest firms in the field, Labaton Sucharow and Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, to "make every effort" to put ...
  • Appeals Courts Criticize Child Porn Sentencing Gui ...
    As the sentencing guidelines for child pornography crimes have grown increasingly harsh, a strong trend has developed among federal judges to reject the proposed prison terms as draconian. Now two influential federal appellate courts have declared that the child pornography guidelines are seriously ...
  • Ethics of Advising Clients to Make Social Networks ...
    Attorney Dan Nabel considers an ethical problem: What do you do if you discover something potentially harmful to your case on the public portion of a client's social networking page? Can you advise the client to change privacy settings to make that information invisible to the public?
  • 'Robo-Calls' Spark Debate Over Justice O'Connor's ...
    What began as an amusing story about a technical glitch in some automated phone calls that went out to voters in Nevada has since turned into a discussion of judicial ethics involving retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and her passionate campaign in favor of judicial election reform. ...

Iranian.com

  • Iran Braces for Popular Backlash as Subsidies Are ...
    Prices for energy due to skyrocket, squeezing the pocketbooks of ordinary Iranians From President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to housewives and shopkeepers, all of Iran is on tenterhooks as the government readies to slash the subsidies that have kept down the cost of everything from gasoline to flour. ...
  • New E.U. rules let Iran import, export oil and gas ...
    The European Union issued regulations this week that went well beyond a U.N. Security Council resolution passed in June, outlining tough restrictions on the sale of equipment and technology to the Iranian oil and gas industry, as well as on investment in those sectors. But the regulations - unlike l ...
  • Iran set for board of UN Women
    U.S. diplomats and human rights groups are outraged that Iran is set to become a member of the board of the new U.N. agency to promote equality for women. Rights groups are angry...
  • Turkey's Imports from Iran up by 130.7 Percent
    Turkey's imports from Iran increased by 130.7 percent to reach 5,360 million USD in the January-September period this year as Tehran faces UN-sponsored international sanctions over its refusal to halt uranium enrichment activities, according to foreign trade figures announced Wednesday by TurkStat, ...
  • Emirate power struggle threatens stability in wake ...
    Ras al-Khaimah is a strategic western ally that sits on the Straits of Hormuz, the world's most important seaway, and is just 60 miles across the water from Iran. Sheikh Khalid al-Qasimi, the elder son of the late ruler, Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed al-Qasimi, was on Wednesday night holed up in his pala ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • How Resource Scarcity Threatens Democracy
    If I should suddenly develop a fatal cancer, Richard Heinberg, author of Peak Everything , is definitely the person I would want to break the news. Heinberg is a soft spoken, gentle, Mahatma Gandhi kind of guy who blows you away by telling you the party is over and there is no soft landing. But in s ...
  • Working Class Culture
    One of the things I like best about living in New Zealand is the strong working class consciousness here. Any American who has entered professional or academic life from a blue collar home will tell you there is a distinct working class culture in the US, as in the rest of the world. Despite the bes ...
  • Working Class Culture
    One of the things I like best about living in New Zealand is the strong working class consciousness here. Any American who has entered professional or academic life from a blue collar home will tell you there is a distinct working class culture in the US, as in the rest of the world. Despit ...
  • Currency Wars: The Real Battlefield
    The so-called “currency wars” have been headline news here in “export or die” New Zealand. Most of the US press has been focused on China and its refusal to devalue the yuan. However here there has been more concern about the breakdown of IMF talks at the beginning of October. Apparently, not just C ...
  • The Third-Worldization of Britain
    (it’s a real word, I looked it up) Britain’s Conservative economic minister just announced plans to lay off 490,000 public workers over the next four years – his solution to the UK’s current economic difficulties. His proposal will make 25% cuts in several government ministries – with an across the ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • Mars or Bust, Scientists Call for Suicide Mission ...
    Has NASA really put out a call for people who want to volunteer for a one way mission to Mars? Well, not yet, but two scientists did float the idea to test the waters so to speak. And it turns out, which shouldn’t be too surprising, that there are indeed people who would volunteer for [...]
  • Scientists prove that humans can see into the futu ...
    OK, maybe that’s not quite literally what has been discovered, but close enough. A set of careful experiments has shown that the human brain can be influenced by events that haven’t happened yet! Let me repeat that just so it sinks in, scientists have discovered scientific proof that the human brain ...
  • Through Thick and Thin, from UFOs to PC Gay Bashin ...
    Poot, the UFOs didn’t show up as promised. Well, except for some escaped mylar balloons in NYC apparently. Yes, the aliens cleverly disguised their spacecraft to look like balloons, then brainwashed some hapless human into thinking they had lost some balloons. All part of the alien’s diabolical, and ...
  • The Ten Most Influential People in History?
    I saw this question on Yahoo Answers and it got me thinking. So my post about UFOs, Chilean Miners, the American Elections, Robert Gates and gays, and the nightmare in Mexico is going to have to wait. Who are the most influential people in history is a very debatable question, and honestly my knowle ...
  • The aliens are coming and other news from outer sp ...
    A former NORAD officer claims that on October 13th aliens will make their presence on Earth unmistakably known with “a massive UFO display over the world’s principal cities.” I have my doubts, but hey, it will certainly be fodder for any number of blog posts should it happen. And San Francisco is ce ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • The U.S. Navy and Biofuels – Part II
    Join the forum discussion on this post In Part I of my recent interview with Tom Hicks, Deputy Assistant Secretary to the Navy (Energy), we covered the nature of what the Navy is trying to achieve (and why) with respect to incorporating renewable energy into their operations. Part II begins with a ...
  • The U.S. Navy and Biofuels – Part I
    Robert Rapier and Sam Avro conducted an interview with the Deputy Assistant Secretary to the Navy (Energy) in which the Navy’s investments in biofuels were discussed.
  • Tourism Resorts and Oil Exploration in the Caspian ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest analysis was written by the staff of Global Intelligence Report. ———————- SITUATION: One indirect consequence of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is the impact it may have on the financing of the many tourism projects that have sprouted alo ...
  • Food Versus Fuel – Again
    Join the forum discussion on this post Upcoming I am off to Malaysia on Saturday for a business trip. I will actually spend some time in Bintulu, so I am looking forward to driving by and seeing Shell’s gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant there. I am unsure about my prospects for Internet access over the f ...
  • In Case You Missed It
    Join the forum discussion on this post In addition to the EPA’s decision to raise the allowed ethanol blends to 15%, there were three other energy-related stories of interest this week. Deep-Water Ban Ends The first was that the Obama administration has lifted the ban on deep-water drilling: Oba ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Natural Gas Drilling Releases Uranium, Study Revea ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Like "clean coal," natural gas drilling in deep shale formations may go down in history as one of the biggest greenwashing campaigns the world has ever seen. This novel type of drilling, called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," has never been proven safe, although the U.S ...
  • Chefs Move to Schools; Schools Snub Chefs
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—In June, there was a sight never seen before on the south lawn of the White House: 600 white-jacketed chefs , broiling (but not as part of a cooking demonstration) under an intense summer sun, listening to the first lady ask them to join her crusade and bring healthful food ...
  • High Temps Turn Bagged Greens Gross
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Bagged, prewashed salad greens have become a time-saving staple in this country. Exhibit A? The fresh-cut lettuce business has more than quadrupled in the past decade. You can even find organic greens in the bagged produce aisle these days. And, as many of you have discovere ...
  • Caution: Floor May Be Toxic
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Nowadays, many of us are really trying to put our best foot forward when it comes to living healthier, greener lives. But if you're not paying attention to what you're actually walking on with those feet, you could be ignoring a major source of indoor air pollution and toxic ...
  • Lotion vs. Oil: Which Is Better for Your Bod?
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PAâAutumn is here and we'll soon be entering winter, which for many of us means our skin will start looking like the desert, minus the tumbleweeds: Dry, cracked, dehydrated. If you're one for piling on lotion, but you don't seem to get the moisturizing results you'd like, it mi ...

big think

  • Tariq Aziz Should Not Hang
    The decision by Iraq's high tribunal to pass a death sentence on Tariq Aziz, once the international face of dictator Saddam Hussein's regime, over “the persecution of Islamic parties”, has the feel of retribution about it. After all, this sentence follows from the fifteen year sentence meted out to ...
  • Juan Williams Takes The Buckwheat Seat At FOX
    Maybe it was a good thing that I was headed out of town the day Juan Williams got whacked by the NPR head honchos. Because it probably wouldn’t have taken more than two or three hours before I would have had to write "take your handkerchief head wearing ass somewhere and sit the hell down."  By th ...
  • Juan Williams Takes The Buckwheat Seat At FOX
    Maybe it was a good thing that I was headed out of town the day Juan Williams got whacked by the NPR head honchos. Because it probably wouldn’t have taken more than two or three hours before I would have had to write "take your handkerchief head wearing ass somewhere and sit the hell down."  By th ...
  • Juan Williams Takes The Buckwheat Seat At FOX
    Maybe it was a good thing that I was headed out of town the day Juan Williams got whacked by the NPR head honchos. Because it probably wouldn’t have taken more than two or three hours before I would have had to write "take your handkerchief head wearing ass somewhere and sit the hell down."  By th ...
  • Ingrid Betancourt on Surviving in the Jungle
    The jungle has often been a metaphor for the breakdown of morality. Think "Heart of Darkness" or "Aguirre: Wrath of God." And now we have a true story to add to those classics—that of Ingrid Betancourt, the former Colombian presidential candidate who was kidnapped and held for six years by ... Read ...

Information Liberation

  • Cyberwarfare: US Seeks To Shut Down Enemy Power Gr ...
    While proponents of cybersecurity continually emphasize the necessity of passing legislation that will hand the Obama administration the power to shut down the Internet in the name of defending critical infrastructure, every indication suggests ...
  • Firefighters Fiddle While Roseville Burns
    I hear endlessly from firefighters who typically earn pay and benefit packages of $175,000 a year here in California that they are heroes who put their lives on the line to keep us and our property safe. Yet, so often when tragedy strikes, thes...
  • Tax Official Threatens to Shut Down Kids' Pumpkin ...
    LEWISTON, Idaho (The Blaze/AP) * An Idaho family that operates a roadside pumpkin stand is scared out of its gourd after a state tax collector showed up and tried to squash the business. ...
  • Italian women face 500 euro fine for wearing minis ...
    In a move sharply at odds with a country which produced the likes of Monica Bellucci and Sophia Loren, the town of Castellammare di Stabia, near Naples, intends to prohibit women from wearing provocative clothing. The town's council also wants to ...
  • Should it be illegal to post ad seeking Christian ...
    GRAND RAPIDS -- The 31-year-old nursing student was looking to keep her expenses down when she decided to invite someone to share her home. But when she posted an advertisement for a Christian roommate on her local church's bulletin board, the Gra...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Stealing Democracy?
    G’day everyone, Ozboy here. The United States mid-term elections are just one week away, and the mounting resentment many Americans feel about the way their country is being governed appears certain to be made clear at the polls. One of … Continue reading →
  • MWP – The Warmists’ Retreat Gains Spee ...
    I’m on the road at the moment, so just a brief post today. I was most amused to read the latest article in Watt’s Up With That? concerning a climate conference that occurred a month ago in Portugal, and attended … Continue reading →
  • It’s Started Again – Biodiversity And ...
    We’ve been predicting it, and now it appears to have happened. After Cancún, Anthropogenic Global Warming is generally expected to have oulived (by far) its fifteen minutes of fame, and will be quietly dropped by Western governments; so quietly, in … Continue reading →
  • Has Multiculturalism Failed?
    It has, if you believe the words of German Chancellor Angela Merkel this week. Multikulti, the concept that we are now living side by side and are happy about it, she declared, has failed utterly. For a modern German leader to … Continue reading →
  • The Dragon And The Chrysanthemum
    It is the world’s fastest-growing economy. Within our lifetimes, it will become the largest. And yet, the face China presents to the world belies the truth of the lives of 1.4 billion people. To speak of broad generalities and the … Continue reading →

FAS - Secrecy News

  • ODNI Issues New Security Standards for Intel Facil ...
    The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has issued new standards for the construction of Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIFs). SCIFs (pronounced “skiffs”) are rooms, vaults, or even entire buildings that are specially constructed and certified for the handling and stora ...
  • Information Sharing: Feast or Famine
    Sharing of intelligence and other sensitive information within government and with selected private sector entities remains a work in progress.  Depending on one’s perspective, there is too little sharing, or too much, or else the right stuff is not being shared. J. Alan Orlob, the Vice President f ...
  • Polygraph Testing Against Border Corruption
    A bill passed by the Senate last month would require U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to administer polygraph tests to all applicants for law enforcement positions within the agency. The move was prompted by reports (originally in the New York Times) and testimony before the Senate Homeland ...
  • Counting the Casualties of War
    Thousands of previously unrecognized civilian casualties of the war in Iraq were documented in a collection of classified U.S. military records that were published online October 22 by the Wikileaks organization. The unauthorized release of the records was presented with Wikileaks’ usual understatem ...
  • Wash Post Traces Dealers of Crime Guns
    The Washington Post is publishing a rather spectacular series of stories this week tracing the flow of guns through American society and their use in criminal activity.  The Post series directly challenges — and partially overcomes — the barriers to public disclosure of gun sales that were put in p ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

  • Promoting Safe, Secure, and Peaceful Growth of Nuc ...
    Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ. and Russian Research Center “Kurchatov Institute” http://tinyurl.com/2d8cvap This report is intended to provide recommendations for enabling large-scale growth of nuclear energy while achieving even higher standards of saf ...
  • Climate Change: A Coordinated Strategy Could Focus ...
    Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-903?source=ra Policymakers have raised questions about geoengineering–large-scale deliberate interventions in the earth’s climate system to diminish climate change or its impacts–and its role in a broader strategy of mitigating and ...
  • Phytosequestration: Carbon Biosequestration by Pla ...
    Bioscience (Oct. 10, 2010) v60 n9 pp685-696 / by by Christer Jansson, Stan D. Wullschleger, Udaya C. Kalluri, and Gerald A. Tuskan www.aibs.org/bioscience-press-releases/…/Jansson%20et%20al.pdf [From a Scientific American article by Mike Orcutt] Human activities currently add about nine gigatons of ...
  • Carbon Prices and Automobile Greenhouse Gas Emissi ...
    National Bureau of Economic Research / Christopher R. Knittel and Ryan Sandler http://www.nber.org/papers/w16482.pdf?new_window=1 Abstract: The transportation sector accounts for nearly one third of the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions. While over the past number of decades, policy makers hav ...
  • Free Access to Springer Economics Journals Through ...
    Springer Journals http://www.springer.com/?SGWID=0-102-0-0-0 Until November 30, 2010, Springer Publishing is offering free unlimited access to a number of new and established economics journals.  You can access the individual journals by clicking on their names below. Public Choice Environmental & R ...

Scientific American - News

  • Hard-Core Astrophysics: Massive Neutron Star Hints ...
    An extremely dense celestial object thousands of light-years away is serving as a natural nuclear physics experiment, providing clues to processes that cannot be reproduced in the lab. [More]
  • Plastic from Plants: Is It an Environmental Boon o ...
    More than 2.5 billion plastic bottles--partially made from plants--are already in use around the world in a bid to replace petroleum as the fundamental building block of everyday plastics. The so-called PlantBottle from the Coca-Cola Co. is made by converting sugars from sugarcane farmed in Brazil ...
  • Not Neutrality?: U.S. Weighs Options for Turbo-Boo ...
    The Internet has ushered in an era of largely unfettered access to a wide variety of information. Yet, although so much of what the Internet has to offer is gratis, access to the Internet itself has never been free. This dichotomy lies at the heart of the prolonged and hairy "net neutrality" debate ...
  • "Fatted Eagle" Joins "Green Hornet" in U.S. Milita ...
    The F-15 Eagle is the latest jet fighter to receive the alternative fuels treatment, flying October 22 on a 50-50 blend of conventional jet fuel and an alternative--in this case made from specially processed animal fat: beef tallow bio-jet fuel. [More]
  • Collateral Data: NASA's Planned Moon Crash Churned ...
    An spent rocket stage that NASA sent hurtling into the moon last year in hopes of kicking up water from a polar crater delivered on that mission, revealing that at least a moderate portion of its target was indeed made of ice. But the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) reveale ...

RAWA News

  • US not tracking spending on Afghan projects, audit ...
    BBC News: The US government has spent about $55bn on rebuilding in Afghanistan since 2001 but cannot easily show how the money was spent, a government watchdog says. The special inspector general's office for Afghanistan reconstruction talked of a “confusing labyrinth” of spending.
  • NATO Airstrike Kills 15 in Afghanistan
    VOA: NATO says it is investigating allegations of civilian casualties during a coalition airstrike in southern Afghanistan. The alliance said Monday that 15 insurgents were killed overnight in a joint Afghan-NATO operation against a senior Taliban leader in the Baghran district of Helmand province.
  • Tribal militias accused of forcefully taking usher
    PAN: Residents of northern Baghlan province have accused tribal militias, hired by government, of forcefully taking usher from them. Nearly 100 residents from different districts on Sunday gathered in front of provincial police headquarters in the capital city, Pul-i-Khumri, asking police to help th ...
  • AFGHANISTAN: Pomegranate farmers rue Kandahar figh ...
    IRIN: It is the season for harvesting pomegranates - a major fruit crop in Kandahar Province, southern Afghanistan - but some farmers say fighting there has badly affected their farms and livelihoods. “My pomegranate garden has been totally destroyed,” said Obaidullah, a farmer in Kandahar’s Arghand ...
  • Military investigating claims troops destroyed Afg ...
    Postmedia News: The Canadian military has launched an investigation into claims by an Afghan farmer that troops “totally destroyed” as many as 10 mud-walled homes three years ago in a hamlet in the Horn of Panjwaii in order to protect a small firebase.

frogblog

  • The Hobbit Bill or Employment Relations (Film Prod ...
    For those of you who were having trouble earlier accessing the The Hobbit Bill [Employment Relations (Film Production Work) Amendment Bill] , it is now up here.
  • Questioning Nick Smith on climate change
    Last week I attended a seminar on climate change and the prospects for the Cancun summit in December.  I know that in our post-Copenhagen catatonia we all prefer not to think of climate change, but that will not solve the problem. The seminar was comprised mainly of government offic ...
  • Establishing a Disability Commissioner
    Before I came to Parliament I thought making change happen was all about passing legislation and getting the numbers in the House. In many ways, that’s true, but sometimes it’s about even stranger twists of politics. Take the example of the member’s bill I placed in the ballot last ...
  • Rafting the majestic Mokihinui
    Over 100 of us rafted and kayaked down the Mokihinui River on Sunday. The Mok is a fantastic wild West Coast river, a river full of life which makes its way through some of the last of our great lowland forest. Meridian Energy wants to dam and destroy the Mokihinui and drown the sur ...
  • Wasted opportunities
    A few sharp-eyed people may have noticed that E-Day is coming around again this year, on November 6th.  The event has certainly come in under the radar, having been announced scarcely four weeks out from the event date, whereas in past years there has been quite a long lead in time ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • As Western Civilization Lies Dying
    The Western commercial system exists to extract more from consumers than it supplies in products and services. Its goal is profit and has never been the improvement of the human condition but to exploit it. When governments institutionalize this system, they place their nations on suicidal paths, be ...
  • Is Perfect Research Possible
    Some claim that there is no hope of doing perfect research. So, is there hope of doing perfect research? Of course there issometimes! It all depends on the whetherwhether the subject is limited and whether the researcher can write and is intelligent enough to adequately evaluate the evidence. Un ...
  • The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: Last Gasp of ...
    No civilization in history that collapsed after a period of greatness has ever regained its dominance. Egypt lasted for three millennia; today it is little more than a field for archeological study. The Persian Empire, which lasted for more than three hundred years, became the largest and most p ...
  • Specie, Script, and War: The Contradictory Practic ...
    Wars are fought for business, but business and the economy are synonymous. Wars will continue to be fought for the economy as long as this economy is not abandoned. War is a logical consequence of it, not a means utilized by it. No attempt to eliminate war and preserve the economy can succeed. A ...
  • Knowledge, Truth and Human Action: America Hits th ...
    Americans have a problem with the truth. They seem to be unable to accept it. Beliefs somehow always overwhelm it, even when they are so contradictory that any effective action becomes impossible. By calling people with opinions experts and relying on adversarial debate between them, not only is ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • 1.5 Cheers for Finland!
    Bob Somerby has a question about Finland: As we’ve noted, every journalist flies to Finland to examine its high-scoring (middle-class) schools. This furthers a preferred press corps narrative: Our own public schools are a mess! But please note: No one has ever flown to Finland to explore a secon ...
  • The Real Tea Party
    The Washington Post , after a massive effort to contact every tea party group in the nation, says their activism has probably been overrated: Seventy percent of the grass-roots groups said they have not participated in any political campaigning this year. As a whole, they have no official candida ...
  • Growth and Stagnation
    After a review of Amar Bhidé’s A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy that frankly makes it sound pretty much like a hundred other recent books and magazine articles, Matt Yglesias says we should all read it anyway: For one thing, though Bhidé doesn't seem super-interested in ...
  • Political Rage
    Megan McArdle reads an article about — well, it doesn't really matter what it's about. Here's what she says in response: This resonates with my growing disgust at the level of anger in the blogosphere. I don't mean irritation, pointed jibes, or even spirited discussion; I mean an aggressive revel ...
  • Voter Fraud, Take 2
    Kevin Williamson says I'm wrong to say that voter fraud is practically nonexistent. After all, maybe there really is lots of fraud, but nobody is getting convicted of it so we don't know about it. Well, OK. That's pretty hard to argue with. But I'd still like to see some evidence that it's actually ...

Insanity Report

  • “Just Stop Spending”
    So I’m going through my morning wake up routine of getting pissed off at the world to get my day started by watching Morning Joe when a discussion during one of the segments made me more frustrated than usual.  Joe Scarborough (you know the guy who starts every other sentence with “Back in 94 when [ ...
  • The Tea Party is About Civility
    …except when you protest/mock their candidate. I mean really…what the fuck?  Is this what male Tea Party supporters mean when they say they want their country back?  “I want my country back to the way it used to be…when women knew their place”. Come on.  Not only do the guys put their hands on th ...
  • IC 205: In This Economy?
    Topics for the show: Brandon from Where’s My 40 Acres is in the studio (PhenomBlak on Twitter) The Worst Concert Ever Kanye makes a 34 minute movie/music video and now we’re talking about the Illuminati…again Meth lab found in Georgetown University dorm room Relationships are like a full time job Jo ...
  • IC 204: Penis Trading Cards
    Topics for the show: We’re moving the show to Thursday now We hate fat people Part Deux Why are we fat? Just check out the nutrition facts on the Fast Food menu Steven Seagal & his “elite team” of doughnut eaters The NFL enforces the “illegal hits” rule but in the end it won’t matter [...]
  • Movie Trailer Review: Due Date
    High-strung father-to-be Peter Highman is forced to hitch a ride with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay on a road trip in order to make it to his child’s birth on time. Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • “Cherry picking” is a rotten accusation
    Choosing which data to include and which to leave out is central to science, argues Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology's George Wang, even though critics of climate scientists might object to leaving out certain weather stations from their temperature measurements.
  • Climate-driven species creep hangs in the balance
    Competing influences are allowing the equatorial end of some organisms' range to stay in place, while warming allows them to move further polewards, but when the competition breaks down, population decline can be expected, scientists have suggested this week.
  • Rapid climate change poses ecological questions
    Cold-blooded tropical creatures, like lizards, are more affected by global warming than their relatives in colder areas, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology's George Wang has found. Now, he says that this unexpected result shows just how much ecologists don't know about what the current s ...
  • CO2 dominates Earth’s climate, NASA reveals
    Earth's temperature would fall 35°C in 50 years without CO2, as water vapour condenses into water and ice and the greenhouse effect collapses, show Andrew Lacis and colleagues at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, demonstrating that CO2 alone is the “thermostat” for climate change.
  • Seeds of doubt flourish as climate debate hots up
    Vested interests want the US to think scientists are still arguing about climate change, says Edward Maibach, director of George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communication.

e!Science News

  • Many male cancer patients are missing out on sperm ...
    Many men – whose fertility may be at risk from cancer treatment – are not being offered the chance to store their sperm according to new research published today in the Annals of Oncology (Thursday). read more
  • New study suggests most preschool-age children exc ...
    The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that parents limit combined screen time from television, DVDs, computers, and video games to 2 hours per day for preschool-age children. In a study soon to be published in The Journal of Pediatrics , researchers found that many children are expose ...
  • Not so fast -- sex differences in the brain are ov ...
    People love to speculate about differences between the sexes, and neuroscience has brought a new technology to this pastime. Brain imaging studies are published at a great rate, and some report sex differences in brain structure or patterns of neural activity. But we should be skeptical about report ...
  • Deadly monkeypox virus might cause disease by brea ...
    A new study of an exotic, infectious virus that has caused three recent outbreaks in the United States reveals clues to how the virus might damage lungs during infection. The findings also suggest possible new ways to treat lung diseases in humans. read more
  • New targeted lung cancer drug produces 'dramatic' ...
    A clinical trial of a potential new targeted treatment drug has provided powerful evidence that it can halt or reverse the growth of lung tumors characterized by a specific genetic abnormality. In their report in the October 28 New England Journal of Medicine , a multi-institutional research team r ...

unEarthed

  • Gulf Oil Spill Seems A Fading Memory To The Public
    BP's Tony Hayward (f) and Bob Dudley Today's health headline is about how cigarette smoking causes Alzheimer's, but after reading the latest diatribe from BP's latest CEO, I wonder if there isn't another culprit -- oil. Just ...
  • New U.K. Carbon Tax a Double-Edged Sword
    Elementary school children are notorious for calling out new rules during games of handball on the playground. “No waterfalls!” “I call no handsies!” The United Kingdom’s new Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme ...
  • Papua New Guinea Licenses Seafloor Mineral Mining
    Following the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the idea of continuing deep water drilling sounded more than dubious. But, Interior Sec. Ken Salazar apparently found the idea perfectly sensible when he lifted the deep wa ...
  • Friday Finds: Chevron Can't Handle the Truth
    The Yes Men's latest victim is Chevron's "We Agree" ad campaign. Image courtesy of theyesmen.org Rag tag activists smear Chevron oil ad The notorious Yes Men , a loose-knit association of activist imposters, have struck aga ...
  • Why Do Jewelry Makers Get Off Easy With Cadmium?
    "Shrek" glasses were recalled because of cadmium I wish I could just issue myself a ticket instead of dealing with police or worse - those pesky speed cameras. That’s essentially what the Consumer Product Safety Commission i ...

Brave New Climate

  • SNE 2060 – can we build nuclear power plants fast ...
    The nuclear scenario I describe here requires around 10,000 GWe of nuclear capacity by 2060, to replace most of our current fossil fuel use. (For further justification of this 10 TW target, read this TCASE post.) My next step is to look critically as some of the critical underpinning assumptions — u ...
  • Pebble Bed Advanced High Temperature Reactor at UC ...
    When I visited California earlier this month, Tom Blees and I paid a visit to Prof Per Peterson and Prof Jasmina Vujic at the Nuclear Engineering Department of UC Berkeley. After chatting over lunch, Per took us on a personal tour of his lab, which was quite an experience. Per’s research focuses on ...
  • Peak Oil Discussion
    Given the flurry of heated discussion on the topic of ‘peak oil‘ on another BNC post, I invited one of the protagonists, Dave Lankshear (a.k.a. “Eclipse Now” — see here for his blog), to write up a summary piece which described his position on the topic. This is given below, and should provide a goo ...
  • Does wind power reduce carbon emissions? Counter-R ...
    About 1 year ago, I posted on BNC two important pieces by Peter Lang – “Does wind power reduce carbon emissions?” and a follow-up reply. Together, these stirred up considerable discussion (about 500 comments to date) and raised important questions about the ability of wind-energy to reduce emissions ...
  • Open Thread 6
    Open Thread 5 has spooled off the BNC front page, so it’s time for new one. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like â there is nothing âoff topicâ here â within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, [.. ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • The Existential Lifespan of White Victimisation in ...
    It should hardly come as a surprise to anyone living in South Africa that the myth of a racially reconciled nation is a lot of insidious hogwash. The truth is that South Africa is a racist cesspool replete with the usual historical aggressors and victims that characterise the binary of racialised o ...
  • Aziz's story will remain untold
    Aziz's story will remain untold :[globalresearch.ca] The neo-conservatives always contended that the United States invaded Iraq to bring "democracy" (from the barrel of a gun). Seems like if not democracy, at least the greatest hits of the US judicial system are indeed being implemented in (still oc ...
  • 8 Reasons Black Men Are Still Under Attack
    8 Reasons Black Men Are Still Under Attack | Clutch Magazine: The Digital Magazine for the Young, Contemporary Woman of Color Sadly, it seems the media rhetoric alleging a ‘Single Black Woman’ crisis is getting under our skin. Black love is under attack. And the most damaging part about it all is, m ...
  • Ignorance on religion is a civic, spiritual danger ...
    Ignorance on religion is a civic, spiritual danger: Experts - Faith & Reason : At a symposium at the Newseum in Washington D.C., Prothero acknowledged "a kind of jeopardy quality" to Pew's 32 question survey, in which most people couldn't get more than 16 questions correct. It matters because, he ...
  • Finally free, and still fighting | SocialistWorker ...
    Finally free, and still fighting | SocialistWorker.org : ON SEPTEMBER 21, Victor Safforld was released after 20 years in prison. In 1990, Safforld was convicted of two murders and sent to death row. Safforld had confessed to the murders after his arrest and torture by Chicago police officers under ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Republicans Hate The Troops
    According to this story, 92% of politicians receiving a D, or an F grade are Republicans. Go figure. Raw Story Article
  • Fascism Is Finally Here
    Wait until all the corporate mobsters drop by the offices of the Republican tools they paid to have elected, and want more handouts, tax breaks, and subsidies. Do you think billionaires, and corporations spent all those anonymous millions on Republicans so said Republicans can serve the “people” ...
  • Think Republicans Are On Your Side?
    If you think Republicans are on your side, you are either a billionaire, in which case it is true, or you are mentally retarded, and you should be in an institution.
  • No Income Tax = 83 Of America’s 100 Largest ...
    83 of the nations largest 100 companies paid zero income tax last year. When the teabaggers to to Washington to try to take their country back, who is it that truly controls their country? I haven’t seen any anti corporate control, anti lobbyist signs at their rallies. Do they even know who their re ...
  • Tea Bagger Zombies Will Be Disappointed!
    Do you want to know what is sad? After the billionaires and Corporate America pour hundreds of millions into the campaigns of “conservatives” do you think when push comes to shove they won’t get their handouts? Their tax cuts? Their loopholes? Their subsidies? When the tea baggers work so hard to ge ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

  • The Road to Revolution: 99% Uprising (Video)
    Republicans and Democrats have failed us. Both parties have been bought off by a well-organized Economic Elite who are tactically destroying our way of life. The harsh truth is that 99% of the US population no longer has political representation. The US economy, government and tax system are now bla ...
  • The Covert Origins of the Af-Pak War - The Road to ...
    The bottom line is that we have entered a period of major wars over declining resources. The Af-Pak operations are only initial moves in an attempt to control the earth's remaining oil supply. -- Here's the latest excerpt from David DeGraw's new book, "The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War ...
  • Inside the Global Banking Intelligence Complex, BC ...
    Here is Part II of David DeGraw’s new book, “The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War III.” The BCCI scandal gave citizens of the world a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the covert global banking intelligence power structure, revealing power politics in its purest form.
  • Bill Moyers on The Economic Elite Vs. The People o ...
    On March 1st, Bill Moyers gave his first public speech in three years, as the final speaker in the Dowmel Lecture series. In his speech, he addressed what he feels is "the greatest threat" to our country: the staggering inequality of wealth and the death of the middle class.
  • WAKE UP MEDIA! Lehman Report is Further Evidence o ...
    How much more evidence of a financial coup and the theft of trillions of dollars do we need before the media and our politicians do something, anything , to restore a rule of law in this nation? What is it going to take?

+972

  • “Every Jewish community needs its nigger”
    I hope that headline pissed you off. I really do. Because that’s how I pretty much felt this morning, when I picked up the paper. I was reading the coverage of the approval of a bill proposal to allow small communal settlements in the Negev and the Galilee to reject would-be newcomers, if they are u ...
  • Images: violent clashes in Umm el-Fahm
    Israeli police fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse Arabs who were protesting against a rally by ultranationalist Kahane supporters in the Israeli-Arab town of Umm el-Fahm on Wednesday, October 27th. 1,500 policeman, some of them undercover, escorted the rightwing Jews into Umm el-Fahm. —— ...
  • Israel’s “Arab problem” (by Jerr ...
    Zionism was intended to solve Europe’s “Jewish Problem,” the supposed inability of the Jews to assimilate and become equal citizens of the European states. In the late nineteenth century, which saw the rapid rise of nationalism and political anti-Semitism, some European Jews, especially in Russia an ...
  • Oct 27: Chaos in Israel’s security establishment
    The Headlines: Bad Fences > A senior government official is accusing [Heb] the Defense Ministry of refusing to comply with a government decision to build a fence between Israel and Egypt. The official further alleged that the Ministry channeled funds allocated for this purpose, to pay salaries, an ...
  • Watch: Jerusalem activists embarrass mayor Nir Bar ...
    Nir Barkat, the secular and dangerous mayor of Jerusalem, was forced to confront direct action protest during a recent art gala in Jerusalem. Jerusalem activists from the Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity movementconfronted the mayor with questions regarding his policy of ethnic cleansing in Silwan and Shiek ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • BOMBSHELL- Tampa Tribune Article on Service of Pro ...
    Fraud, sidestepping and abuses permeate the entire foreclosure process.  And oh yeah, inflated and billing and charges for services that were not performed.  But none of that matters because it’s foreclosure right?  And who cares about homeowners in foreclosure anyway?  Well how about all  of u ...
  • A Brilliant Order From Judge Shack- Quoting Florid ...
    Everyone in Florida knows Ice Legal is the very best in foreclosure defense.  I find it so incredibly significant that Ice’s work is now being quoted verbatim by judges in foreclosure cases all across the country. Read the attached Order that was just released by New York Judge Arthur Shack.  Like ...
  • Congressional Testimony on FraudclosureGate- Scary ...
    There is massive, systemic failures throughout the foreclosure process….our financial markets are in real trouble. Watch the Live Testimony Here Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • HOT OFF THE PRESSES- EXCELLENT APPELLATE COURT DEC ...
    Servedio_v_USBank Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • September’s Horrendous HAMP Numbers
    The figures published by our friends within the federal government confirm what we all know already…the government’s primary effort to resolve the mortgage crisis is an abysmal failure. $50 billion dollars and less than 500,000 modifications resulting in average payment declines of less than $500 Th ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • A Day For Peace
    A special day and a special opportunity.  Wearing a bow tie in honour of Lester Pearson, I was privileged to speak in the House in honour of United Nations Day and peacekeeping. Filed under: Personal, Politics, The New Internationalism
  • Hope In a Time of War
    It’s like something put away in a cupboard, to be dealt with another time.  But for our troops in Afghanistan there is no such luxury.  Nor is it for Afghan community leaders (including women), NATO commanders or world leaders. The conflict in that remote part of the world, and from whence the 9/1 ...
  • Grading Badges
    An odd article by Andrew Coyne in Maclean’s, in which he laments the usefulness of the United Nations and maintains that even if this country lost the Security Council seat because of the government’s pro-Israel stance, it was, in effect, a “badge of honour.”  Judging from the response to his observ ...
  • The Life of Brian
    For so many citizens, Brian Mulroney represents the past in this country.  This is what Stephen Harper is counting on.  Yet Mulroney’s personal difficulties aside, his nine years in office represented a kind of era that was one of this country’s crowning achievements in internationalism.  In a phras ...
  • Gravitas Afoot
    “To A Great Lieutenant.” I looked up from the inscription and stared skeptically at the craggy face.  Romeo Dallaire stared back with a certain glint in his eye. In my hands I held his brand new book – They Fight Like Soldiers.  They Die Like Children.  “This is the second copy, hot off the press, [ ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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    Today was my first Poster Day at the School of Public Health.  For those readers not intimately attuned to the School’s calendar (i.e. most of you), it’s a chance for second year Masters students to present and talk about their Summer field experiences (something all students are required to do).  ...
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    New technologies depend on uncommon materials, and society depends on new technologies.  Which means that economies that develop the former and control the latter have something of an upper hand in today’s interconnected and technology-dependent world. This has clearly not escaped the notice of the ...
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    Back in August, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences published a collection of essays under the editorship of Donald Kennedy and Geneva Overholster on the (seemingly) increasingly strained relationship between science and the media.  I was too embroiled in the move to Michigan at the time to pay ...
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