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 IPS - Inter Press Services

• Land Reform, a Top Priority of New Colombian Gover ...
  
  
  Although many believe it's a mission impossible, the Colombian government of Juan Manuel Santos is prepared to use all necessary resources to return their land to some four million peasants displaced by the war, and guarantee intensive use of the country's arable land, as part of an ambitious agri ...
• DR CONGO: Mapping Road Towards Ending Impunity
  
  
  Rights defenders in the Democratic Republic of Congo are encouraged by the publication of a report detailing grave violations of human rights in the DRC. The report, covering more than 600 incidents in the ten years between March 1993 and June 2003, has drawn criticism from several governments in ...
• AUSTRALIA: Solar Energy Gets a Boost, But Offers M ...
  
  
  Proponents of renewable energy say that a planned large-scale solar power plant in Australia's northern Victoria state, which will produce enough output to provide electricity to 60,000 homes, is just a fraction of what could be achieved if federal and state governments were fully committe ...
• ECONOMY: Electrifying African Interest in Renewabl ...
  
  
  Various countries in East Africa are making gradual progress in moving from a solely carbon-based electricity network to a cleaner power grid.
• NEPAL: Himalayas Unsettled by Melting Glaciers, Mo ...
  
  
  For the last two climbing seasons, Dawa Sherpa has missed scaling the summit of Mt Everest. But the climate ambassador for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and two-time Everest summiteer may not be relishing the thought of bearing witness once more to the impact of rising temperatures on the ...

Scoop - NZ

• US National Debt .. For Dummies
  
  
  Keep It Simple, Stupid Words to live by.  Remember that when someone starts explaining which way the smoke on an electric train is gonna blow, you should probably check your wallet.   I'm tired of convoluted explanations of simple problems.  It distracts people from the truth, which is usu ...
• AJ: Cyber attack 'targeted Iran'
  
  
  The discovery of so-called malicious software - malware - on systems in Iran and elsewhere across the world has prompted speculation of an attempted cyber attack on Iranian industry, possibly including the Bushehr nuclear reactor. The Stuxnet "Trojan worm" was designed to attack indust ...
• Friendly Fire: Whining Up Front, Warmongering in t ...
  
  
  While Barack Obama busies himself.........., behind the scenes he is rapidly escalating America's war on its own ally, Pakistan, with a series of deadly incursions that seemed designed to provoke the Pakistanis into a violent response -- which could then be used to "justify" a further esc ...
• Who was Behind the Rwandan Genocide? The Rwandan P ...
  
  
  ... as Glen Ford observes; the current conflict between this dictatorship and the UN "threatens to reveal the United States' role as enabler in the deaths of as many as six million people while Washington's allies occupied and looted the eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo.&quot ...
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Independent - London

• 'Hate' trial for far-right politician Wilders
  
  
  Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders appealed for freedom of expression today and then exercised his right to silence as he went on trial for alleged hate speech at a time when his popularity and influence in the Netherlands are near all time highs.
• Taliban attacks Nato tankers in Pakistan
  
  
  The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility today for a pre-dawn attack on tankers carrying fuel to Afghanistan for US and other Nato forces.
• Pub landlady's body found on Maldives beach
  
  
  The death of a British pub landlady whose body was found on a beach in the Maldives is being investigated by police, a spokesman for the country's police service confirmed today.
• Man held over Paris bomb threats
  
  
  A 26-year-old man has been arrested in connection with several bomb threats in Paris, including one at a central railway station, French police said today.
• Militants set Nato tankers on fire
  
  
  At least 20 oil tankers en route to supply Nato troops in Afghanistan were set ablaze in Pakistan yesterday by militants. Three guards were killed in the attack by a dozen gunmen near Islamabad.

Rogue Government.com

• Army embeds active-duty PSYOPS soldiers at local ...
  
  
  The U.S. Army has used local television stations in the U.S. as training posts for some of its psychological-operations personnel, The Upshot has learned. Since at least 2001, both WRAL, a CBS affiliate in Raleigh, N.C., and WTOC, a CBS affiliate in Savannah, Ga., have regularly hosted act ...
• CIA hired Karzai's brother before 9/11, Woodward ...
  
  
  Ahmed Wali Karzai, the half-brother of Afghanistan’s president and boss of the strategically important Kandahar province, has been on the CIA payroll for over a decade, Bob Woodward writes in his new book, “ Obama’s Wars .”
• UN suppressed report on US, Soviet â��atroc ...
  
  
  The United Nations buried a report into rights violations in Afghanistan between 1978 and 2001 that accused Soviets, Islamists and US forces of "atrocities", a Swiss newspaper said on Saturday.
• NYPD Prepares For Guerilla-Style Terror Attack
  
  
  Since Mumbai, the NYPD has trained to deal with multiple attacks at the same time and the cops can now quickly access building plans for hotels and other soft targets, something the Mumbai police lacked, causing delays and more casualties.
• Pennsylvania Homeland Security Director 'made a v ...
  
  
  The resignation of Pennsylvania’s Office of Homeland Security Director James Powers is unlikely to quell the furor that has erupted in the wake of news that his office hired a private contractor that monitored the activities and online conversations of lawful citizen groups.

Innovation Canada

• Tools of the mind
  
  
  The first time neuroscientist Adele Diamond walked into a New Jersey classroom where teachers were using the Tools of the Mind curriculum, she was struck by the quiet self-control of the children. Most regular preschool and kindergarten classrooms are chaotic, noisy places, but in the Tools of the M ...
• Going au naturel
  
  
  How often do you use natural health products (NHPs) in your everyday life? You might take a vitamin or two and an omega-3 supplement. Or maybe you take a dose of glucosamine when your joints are sore or an echinacea tablet when you’re under the weather or rub aloe vera on your skin when you’ve been ...
• A new musical reality
  
  
  Imagine a live improvised musical performance — in surround sound, with a computer manipulating and spinning instruments’ sounds around eight different speakers in real time. That’s being made possible through the University of Guelph’s new Advanced Digital Audio Production and Performance Studio. I ...
• Project UFO
  
  
  As alien invaders go, the giant hogweed is particularly nasty. The weed spreads quickly, growing up to seven metres high, and defends itself by spitting a toxic sap — a gooey concoction that causes painful skin blisters that last for weeks and purple scars that can remain visible for several years. ...
• Songbird secrets
  
  
  Talk about getting a bad rap. In the extensive scientific literature about songbirds, the purple martin has long been described as a leisurely migrant that takes its time each fall flying from breeding grounds in Canada and the northern United States to its winter home in Brazil or elsewhere in Sout ...

Signs of the times

• U.S. oil spill waters contain carcinogens
  
  
  University researchers said on Thursday they recently found alarming levels of cancer-causing toxins in an area of the Gulf of Mexico affected by BP's oil spill, raising the specter of long-lasting health concerns. Oregon State University (OSU) researchers found sharply heightened levels of chemi ...
• Settlers blamed for mosque blaze
  
  
  Palestinians say Israeli settlers in the West Bank burnt prayer rugs and Quran copies in early morning attack. Israeli settlers are reported to have set fire to a mosque in a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank, damaging prayer rugs and a large number of copies of the Quran, as well ...
• Chevron Cleared for Drilling Off UK, First Since B ...
  
  
  Chevron was given the okay to start offshore drilling in deep waters off the coast of Britain; the first oil company to be given clearance since the BP oil spill. In a decision that raised a few eyebrows, Chevron will be bringing in Halliburton, the company that did the cement work on the Deepwate ...
• Machu Picchu reveals new secrets Inkaraqay
  
  
  Only ever seen by a few people over the past century, the Inca site of Inkaraqay located on an inaccessible and nearly vertical side of the Huayna Picchu mountain that overlooks Machu Picchu, is only now being revealed to the wider world. }With the appearance of a fort hanging on to the sheer d ...
• Berlin Researchers Crack the Ptolemy Code
  
  
  A 2nd century map of Germania by the scholar Ptolemy has always stumped scholars, who were unable to relate the places depicted to known settlements. Now a team of researchers have cracked the code, revealing that half of Germany's cities are 1,000 years older than previously thought. The founding ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons
  
  
  Apparently the above scored highest on a US survey about general knowledge of religion . Atheists and agnostics scored the highest, with an average score of 21 correct on the 32-question survey. Jews and Mormons both averaged about 20 correct answers, while Protestants averaged 16 correct answers ...
• "Primal manhood"
  
  
  I think the Toronto Star is trying to reinvent itself and target the 16 to 25 year old heterosexual male demographic or so it would seem by this Cribb column . And a recent essay in The Atlantic — provocatively titled “The End of Men” — reports that after being the dominant sex since the dawn of ...
• Kate Hansen gets her Facebook back
  
  
  You may remember a post from way back in April detailing how a Vancouver Island artist had her work removed from Facebook because the Lords of Facebook deemed it to be hateful, threatening or obscene . Kate Hansen's art? Mothers breastfeeding . It would appear the Facebook gorilla has had a re-t ...
• Nerd revenge porn . . .
  
  
  WHATEVER is an acerbic blog by S-F writer (he's a creative consultant for Stargate: Universe ) John Scalzi. He has a delightful piece, "What I Think About Atlas Shrugged" , which is worthy of perusal. I enjoy Atlas Shrugged quite a bit, and will re-read it every couple of years when I feel in the mo ...
• Our mollycoddled monstrosities
  
  
  A thought occurred to me in the wake of Dave's post . Zijad Delic is not just director of the CIC. He is also a refugee of a particularly vicious war. A war where Canadian Forces members sacrificed blood, treasure, and often sanity in an attempt to safeguard the lives of Delic and millions of other ...

Media Matters for America

• Glenn Beck's guide to butchering a document and sm ...
  
  
  Glenn Beck and guests John Bolton and Stuart Varney mischaracterized a federal report to portray it as expressing "the worldview of the Obama administration." In fact, the document was issued during the Bush administration and is designed to "stimulate strategic thinking," not establish th ...
• Fox rushes to GOP candidate Meg Whitman's defense
  
  
  Following allegations that Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman knowingly employed an undocumented immigrant, Fox News has taken pains to cast doubt on the charges, alleging a "political stunt" by her Democratic opponent and that Whitman is the "victim of a last-minute smear campaign." Ho ...
• Ample evidence contradicts Murdoch's claim that " ...
  
  
  News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, a proponent of comprehensive immigration reform, said at a House subcommittee hearing recently that Fox News, which News Corp. owns, is not "anti-immigrant." In fact, Fox News routinely polarizes and degrades the debate over immigration issues wi ...
• Herridge is not alone: News Corp.'s history of di ...
  
  
  The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced it is suing Fox News for allegedly retaliating against correspondent Catherine Herridge's internal gender and age discrimination complaints. The Herridge case is only the latest in a long line of discrimination complaints against News ...
• Wash. Times misleads on health care ref ...
  
  
  A Washington Times editorial misleadingly claimed that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) "estimated that Obamacare would drive up insurance premiums by around 30 percent in the individual market and up to 3 percent in the small-group market." In fact, CBO estimated that when federal subsidie ...

Global Research.ca

• "We Demand Change in America": The Real Significan ...
  
  
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• Venezuela: Left wins, but Right Makes Gains
  
  
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• Marching on Washington: The Joy of Victory and the ...
  
  
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• In Struggle With The American Mind
  
  
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• Crisis of US Monetary Policy: Quantitative Easing ...
  
  
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TPM Cafe

• Tell Israel: Freeze Settlements Or We Slow Down Th ...
  
  
  The Obama administration's attempts at seducing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu are getting embarrassing. Netanyahu has made it quite clear he is just not into Obama. According to Haaretz , the latest (and most cringeworthy) moment in the saga came this week when Dennis Ross, the president's ...
• Henry Kissinger "Regrets"
  
  
  That is, he regrets the intrusion of moral questions into professional matters best conducted by wise men like himself; regrets, in other words, that human beings everywhere consider him to have conducted himself barbarously in prosecuting the Vietnam war with reckless disregard for human life and h ...
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• Glad About Pete Rouse
  
  
  I like Pete Rouse. And I think his presence as White House chief-of-staff will make this Presidency run better. I have only met him a few times although I did have a long conversation with him once and I walked away thinking he was the least pretentious Washington power player I ever met. He is ...
• Corrections And Amplifications: On Andrew Mellon, ...
  
  
  1. A group calling itself "Stand Up For America" says I took Herbert Hoover's treasury secretary Andrew Mellon's words out of context in my post "Republican Economics as Social Darwinism" (September 26); and that, in any event, today's Republicans who call for small government at a time of sky-high ...

TruthOut

• William Astore | Our State Department: A Tiny Bran ...
  
  
  Last week, a quotation and a joke captured the zeitgeist of the American moment. The quotation came from Philip J. Crowley , Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, related to a meeting between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Indian Defence Minister A.K. Antony: read more
• Michael N. Nagler | How to Replace the War System
  
  
  About the murderous rampage of US soldiers from the 5th Stryker Combat Brigade, who killed and dismembered Afghani civilians evidently "for sport," the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported on September 20, "Army officials have not disclosed a motive" for the outrage. Let me try. Violence is puzzling ...
• Thousands Rally in DC in a More Diverse Counterpoi ...
  
  
  Washington - Thousands of liberal and labor activists rallied in the nation’s capital on Saturday and in other U.S. cities, calling for young or disillusioned Democrats to vote in the November elections. If conservative Fox commentator Glenn Beck’s late August rally invigorated tea party enthusiast ...
• A Teenage Activist... This Girl's Soapbox: "Red Oc ...
  
  
  Editor's Note: A Teenage Activist... This Girl's Soapbox is a blog created by 16-year-old Elora Malama to document her high-school senior project about the annual dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan. As seen in the Academy Award winning documentary, The Cove, each year the sleepy little town of Taiji ...
• Come Wake Me Up
  
  
  A poem I have loved a long time has been swirling in my head these last days, and I have been trying to figure out why. There may be no reason for it. If your brain is anything like mine, you have a Nonsense Channel that broadcasts 24/7/365. Sometimes, the signal is weak, a snatch of song or an ad ...

Planetsave

• Giant Penguin Unearthed in Peru
  
  
  We don’t write on odd animal stories a ton here on Planetsave, but from time to time I see some that are too cool to pass up, like zedonk births, “extinct” foxes being spotted in the wild, and yellow lobsters being found by fishermen. This one about the skeleton of a nearly 5-foot (1.5-meter) tall.. ...
• Stop Wasting Food and Start Saving Energy
  
  
  Scientists have determined that there might be a simple yet overlooked method to saving energy; stop wasting food. The new research is reported in the ACS’ semi-monthly journal Environmental Science and Technology and states that the United States could immediately save the energy equivalent of abou ...
• Climate Projections Are Not Safe
  
  
  Targets for limiting the global temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels shouldnât be considered âsafeâ according to new research from climate change experts at the University of Exeter. Professor Chris Turney and Dr Richard Jones, both from the University’s Department of Geog ...
• Environmental Music Film of Hands Across the Sand
  
  
  I wrote a post on Kristen Farquhar’s Environmental Music Films (EMFs) and her YouTube channel a couple months ago. While her latest film was created over a month ago, and was written for Hands Across the Sand (a day of action in June that was geared towards promoting clean energy and opposing offsho ...
• The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and New TED ...
  
  
  The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has joined forces with TED and with this partnership Melinda Gates shares her hope that “TEDxChange will serve as a catalyst for our continued conversations about the future we will make together.” She asks “What does the future hold for global health and develo ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Canada's Tar Sands Are NOT Conflict Free Governor ...
  
  
  by jhwygirl The latest meme from our bloviating Governor Brian Schweitzer is that the Canadian tar s
• A Good Drink of Water
  
  
  Man, Reba Ray hit that drinkin’ thang hard, didn’t she? But it’s not so easy to keep up with 8 to 10
• Is Your Wife's Birth Control Ruining Your Fly Fish ...
  
  
  This is an article that I had originally posted on another website of mine. I felt compelled to repo
• Alabama Land Trust volunteers, collaborates with A ...
  
  
  Josh Holmes of Alabama Land Trust, Inc. was one of the volunteers helping the Alabama Aquatic Biodiv
• “Save Noisette Creek” mural unveiling set for Octo ...
  
  
  Aspiring artists at the School of the Arts have nearly completed this real-world art project that wi

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• The One Nation Rally. Time to Up the Ante By Timot ...
  
  
  By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com Oct. 3, 2010 The One Nat
• Micheal Parenti on Conspiracy Theories: How The Wo ...
  
  
  with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.michaelparenti.org Oct. 3, 2010 RadicalPrag
• Baltic States: Pentagon’s Training Grounds For Afg ...
  
  
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism S
• “The 15% Solution,” Serialization, 9th Installment ...
  
  
  Note: The Preface and Chapters One through Seven can be found here: The 15% Solution. by Jonathan We
• Bangladesh: U.S. And NATO Forge New Military Partn ...
  
  
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism S

Axis of Logic

• Justice for Haiti, via the Swiss - Haiti
  
  
  Twenty-four years after Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier left a champagne-filled party at his presidential palace and boarded a chartered jet to flee Haiti, leaving a chaotic and economically scarred nation behind, a democratically elected government in Haiti now has a chance to recover milli ...
• The Impending Collapse of Israel in Palestine - Pa ...
  
  
  October 02, 2010 "Information Clearing House" --  On November 15, 1988 the Palestine National Council (P.N.C.) meeting in Algiers proclaimed the Palestinian Declaration of Independence that created the independent state of Palestine. Today the State of Palestine is bilaterally recognized de jure by ...
• FBI Raids and the Criminalization of Dissent - Civ ...
  
  
  Early in the morning on Friday, Sept. 24, FBI agents in Chicago and Minnesota’s Twin Cities kicked in the doors of anti-war activists, brandishing guns, spending hours rifling through their homes. The FBI took away computers, photos, notebooks and other personal property. Residents were is ...
• Ecuador's Correa haunted by Honduras - Ecuador
  
  
  This was a coup attempt – encouraged by Washington's shameful support for the overthrow of Manuel Zelaya last year In June of last year, when the Honduran military overthrew the social-democratic government of Manuel Zelaya, President Rafael Correa of Ecuador took it person ...
• At War Against Islam - Featured
  
  
    “We are not at war with Islam”. U.S. President Barack Obama, 10 September 2010.   As usual, this year’s commemoration of the 9/11 attacks is marked by hate of Muslims and Islam. From New York to Florida in the U.S. to Europe, Muslims are under siege and li ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• "Even Jesus couldn't save their souls"
  
  
  BP and the Feds have fooled America and the entire world into thinking the BP Gulf Oil Spill is over, that the beaches are clean and that the seafood is safe, and everything is OK. Titled "The Gulf Oil Spill isn't over!" here's a little bit of mournful Louisiana blues to tell the real story. Let's ...
• American youth scoff at the culture warriors
  
  
  The results of a landmark study of American sexual behavior that was launched in 1992 are being released today, and the results show that, Bristol and Levi aside, most of America's youth are responsible about their choices when they become sexually active. In fact, they are more responsible than the ...
• Dems Terrified of Right's Ability to Manipulate Pu ...
  
  
  When Democrats punted on a vote that would have reduced taxes on 98% of Americans while making the top 2% of earners pay their fair share, liberals groaned along with the editors of the New York Times that Democrats had once again chickened out. Under the headline "Profiles in Timidity," the Times' ...
• Jack Conway and Rand Paul "Debate" on Fox
  
  
  No, I didn't watch it, but David Shankula at Barefoot and Progressive did. �He labels it "Conway/Paul Smackdowzzzzz:" Rand Paul and Jack Conway got their debate on this morn courtesy of the satirical current events show "FOX News Sunday." Chris Wallace asked Conway why he's called Paul "crazy" on th ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  
  
  Attention Verizon Wireless customers, you may be due a refund �Verizon Wireless said Sunday it will pay up to $90 million in refunds to 15 million cell phone customers who were wrongly charged for data sessions or Internet use, one of the largest-ever customer refunds by a telecommunications company ...

Care 2

• Food safety bill remains in limbo: act now to save ...
  
  
  Act now to save local food security. Submitted by LongBeachGrows aka LB Grows to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Bat Flower, Beautiful and Creepy in Same Time
  
  
  The Bat Flower, also known as Tacca Chantrieri is one of the worlds most creepiest looking flowers. If you carefully watch this flower you will notice how it incredibly looks similar to bat. Its weird-looking flowers are like the bat faces with huge... Submitted by Denis R. to Green Lifestyle �|� ...
• Unbelievable! Absolute friendship between a man an ...
  
  
  Man promoting better welfare of animals in captivity: (don't try this at home.) Submitted by Eco Gone MoonWalking BackASAP to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• ACTION ALERT: Save Scotland's Seals ! PLEASE TAKE ...
  
  
  Seals in Danger Did you know that many hundreds of thousands of seals all over the world are killed each year as a result of human activities? These activities include: Deliberate hunting for their fur and other body parts Shot by fishermen and Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� � ...
• McDonalds to Not Drop Health Care For Employees
  
  
  McDonald's supposedly would have dropped the health care coverage for 30.000 employees in order to protest to a health care reform provision, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. Submitted by Club Femina to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

• Bucking Up For Barry
  
  
  Phew! That was a close one! For a moment there, I was spiraling down and down, descending into a bathetic pile of self-pity, thinking about the sad state of my country. What a fool I was. I'm sure glad that Vice President Biden was good enough to give me a cold slap of reality in a speech this wee ...
• Insider Analysis: Predictions of Democratic Defeat ...
  
  
  Incessant news media reports about Republicans retaking Capitol Hill by routing Democrats in the November general election are inaccurate according to the third highest ranking Democrat in Congress, himself a former newspaper publisher. House Majority Whip James Clyburn concedes Democrats will lose ...
• The New Pessimism: Will Americans Act To Prevent E ...
  
  
  I am touring to promote my new book. "The Anti-American Manifesto" lays out America's biggest problems and what we can do to fix them. Before I started out, I knew that Americans were angry. With a real unemployment rate of 20-plus percent and a government that gave $1.4 trillion to banks instead of ...
• The morality disconnect
  
  
  Bob Herbert wrote a very good column today about what he calls the “campaign disconnect” between Democrats, Republicans, and average Americans. I highly recommend reading the whole thing, but essentially Herbert makes the argument that neither party has adequately addressed the economic desperation ...
• Payday Lenders: How Wall Street's "Undercover Bro ...
  
  
  All the major banking institutions say the right things about race and equality. They all have diversity programs. A few financial industry leaders, like Robert Rubin and Jamie Dimon, even support socially liberal causes. Yet the banking industry covertly uses payday lenders as a "front," a way t ...

Paul Krugman

• A Note On Currency Wars
  
  
  This is not the 1930s, in this respect anyway.
• Math, Models, and Mystification
  
  
  Equations without intuition.
• Roman Projections
  
  
  Friends, non-Romans, countrymen.
• How The Other Half Thinks
  
  
  Inflation, interest, and models.
• Preemptive Unilateral Disarmament
  
  
  Don't rule out action on China.

No Quarter

• Druid Caesar
  
  
  Editor’s Note: Catch Larry Johnson on John Batchelor’s syndicated radio show TONIGHT at around 10:05 to 10:35 p.m. ET. You’ll find programming details and “how to listen” instructions at the end of this post.   Do we need to fill in the blanks here? What goes around [...]
• The New Ink-Stained Wretches (You and Me)
  
  
  As election time gets closer, more and more journalists and opinionators will try to explain why Obama and his minions are unpopular so soon after enjoying massive approval. It’s hard to resist the topic. After all, how often do you see such a complete reversal of fortune? Let’s see what some jou ...
• Obama Surrenders America To Terror
  
  
  News just on the wires that the United States will issue a travel advisory warning Americans to stay away from crowded places frequented by Westerners in Europe. I shit you not. Talk about cowardice and surrendering to terrorism. We laughed when we derided the French several years as a frightened ...
• Eclectic Weekend Open Thread
  
  
  Adios, Rick Sanchez ⦠Beck’s Dreck Drops in Popularity ⦠A Truly Good Movie Is Released, and We Share Intriguing Tidbits, including the screenplay author’s question, “Why on the Internet is there an immediate rush to incredibly negative judgment based on no information at all?” Oh joy. On the r ...
• PRESS BILL PRESS to EARN his PRESS CREDENTIALS
  
  
  © 2010 jbjd Bill Press, assuming the guise of a legitimate reporter, has gotten away with perpetrating that sham long enough. It’s time someone who knows better – like you – called him out for merely putting his mouth where his money is. I only began noticing Bill Press on account of this fabricate ...

Environmental Graffiti

• Aloe Vera: The Plant with Miraculous Healing Power ...
  
  
  Aloe Vera has been cultivated for centuries, and is prized for its amazing healing properties. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Could Tornadoes Drive Power Stations?
  
  
  Tornadoes are one of nature's most violent events. Could it be possible to use them to drive a power station? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Ladybug Devours Aphid
  
  
  A real classic in the insect world, ladybird versus lice. It's a battle that happens every day in your garden, you just have to look close enough! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Cooper Union Building: The Future of Green Arc ...
  
  
  The Cooper Union's New Academic Building stands out in more ways than one read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Yakutsk: The Coldest City on Earth
  
  
  Frost-bitten and paralyzed by brutally low temperatures nearly year-round, the people of Yakutsk carry on daily life in the world's coldest city. 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

• No Mean Feat: Justifying Israel's Nukes Without Ac ...
  
  
  Expecting Arab states to go along with the pretense that Israel has no nuclear weapons is a sick joke.
• More Jobs, Less War
  
  
  We should cut the military budget and use that money to fund our transition to a greener economy.
• 60 Second Expert: America and the Arms Trade
  
  
  Russian arms seller Viktor Bout is small potatoes compared to the real pushers.
• Forget the FTA Fix, Just Say No
  
  
  The U.S.-Korean free-trade agreement holds no promise for workers or small farmers in either the United States or South Korea
• Nick Kristof's Calls for Force No Antidote to Geno ...
  
  
  Using violence to thwart genocide may just add fuel to the fire.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K Gov ...
  
  
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will be c ...
• President European Commission Advocated World Gove ...
  
  
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International Affa ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Current C ...
  
  
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in the d ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of a G ...
  
  
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare progr ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  
  
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’s p ...

Al Jazeera

• Israel 'probes' W Bank mosque blaze
  
  
  Emotions run high after mosque in occupied territory is set ablaze by settlers in early morning attack in Beit Fajjar.
• Taliban claim Nato tanker attack
  
  
  Group claims responsibility amid string of attacks in Pakistan on supply convoys headed for Afghanistan.
• S Africa charges Nigerian suspect
  
  
  Alleged leader of rebel group charged with terrorism over Friday's blasts in Nigerian capital that killed 10.
• Dutch MP on trial for 'hate speech'
  
  
  Geert Wilders appears in Amsterdam court on charges of inciting anti-Muslim sentiment stemming from his film Fitna.
• Thai court stalls Bout extradition
  
  
  Bangkok refuses to drop new charges against suspected Russian arms smuggler, delaying his extradition to the US.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Goal Looms for U.N.: Ending 'Energy Poverty'
  
  
  Bringing electricity to 1.4 billion people who lack it could be a precondition for solving other problems like infant mortality or a lack of schools.
• Polluted Air and Diabetes: A Link
  
  
  An epidemiological study of adults builds on previous laboratory studies that have tied air pollution to an increase in insulin resistance, a precursor to diabetes.
• No-Fishing Zone Shrinks in the Gulf
  
  
  Only 11 percent of federal waters in the gulf now remain closed to fishing.
• Fuel Economy Will Be, Um, Better
  
  
  Four plans announced by the Obama administration for improving cars' fuel economy raise many open questions about cost, adoption of new technologies and measurement issues.
• Green-Tech Investment Plummets
  
  
  Across the globe, venture-capital infusions fell 30 percent; in California, the drop was 61 percent. Yet investment in China soared.

Dot Earth News

• A 'Pretty Edgy' Climate Campaign
  
  
  A climate campaign blows up schoolkids in a video aimed at attracting supporters.
• 'Real Deal' Planets, Near and Far
  
  
  Scientists sitting on a living planet marvel at one that might be similarly suitable for biology.
• Obama's Chunky Energy-Climate Plan
  
  
  What "chunks" should be in Obama's incremental climate and energy policy?
• Climate Responses: Primal Easy, Ethical Hard
  
  
  Adapting to climate change is visceral and easy; mitigating gases contributing to it is a matter of ethics, and hard.
• Linking Students Over Rising Atlantic Waters
  
  
  A trio of young Britons wraps a Nantucket lighthouse in "caution" tape to demarcate the possible sea level in 2100.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Avalanche of fed & local police state crackdown ac ...
  
  
  Stressful day in Minneapolis as feds raided antiwar activists with no actual charges in the offing. The day before the raids I checked out a weird police intelligence workgroup at the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, and with other threads coming together it was pretty freaky. But I managed to slap ...
• Turkish Neocon Conspiracy 1981 - Eagleburger Perle ...
  
  
  This is a pretty classic one. Turkey has suddenly passed big reforms as the nasty NATO-friendly military post-coup power structure gets knocked back a step. Ergenekon and the neocon network, etc etc. Perle and Wolfowitz, the creation of the American-Turkish Council came after this memo. Possibly b ...
• Video: Lawsuit Zombies fight state repression with ...
  
  
  Video release of sorts from the Minneapolis zombies, and a fun edit. 1min40s, brevity! Plz subscribe to Youtube & now Scribd document service as well. If you haven't yet, check out Scribd for a marvelous array of all sorts of documents (PDFs, office, etc)...w00pw00p. Press release: Zomb ...
• California rolls out heat cannon torture weapon Ac ...
  
  
  Oh Shit!!! Let's explain how the mass torture weapon deployment rollout program works in the global scientific dictatorship. First the weapons are used on brown people in the field by the military, then on military prisoners, then on domestic prisoners. Then on protesters, then on random people. Thi ...
• Kanye West Masonic/Egyptian "Power"; Viktor Bout's ...
  
  
  "In the threatening situation of the world today, when people are beginning to see that everything is at stake, the projection-creating fantasy soars beyond the realm of earthly organizations and powers into the heavens, into interstellar space, where the rulers of human fate, the gods, once had the ...

Daily Censored

• Censorship, rights, and responsibilities.
  
  
  As a librarian, I have always been concerned about the fragility of our First Amendment. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble ...
• The Obama Administration still wants to be your bi ...
  
  
  The Obama administration is planning on delivering a bill to Congress next year that would require all internet-based communications using encryption to comply with federal wiretap orders. This includes providing information on how to decrypt messages on all devices. Currently, RIM, the makers of Bl ...
• Lawless Nation – the Executive Branch
  
  
  By Michael Collins Part I of III WASHINGTON – Selected to run by the powerful and wealthy, promising the public one thing and delivering another after elected, the President of the United States is the focus of a new political doctrine – the unitary executive. The office of the president has rapidly ...
• Corporate Hip Hop, Corporate Media & Mainstream Bl ...
  
  
  Corporate Hip Hop, Corporate Media & Mainstream Black “Leadership”: Justified Comparisons One of my mentors once told me, “When it comes to 21st century black leadership in America, most of the people who are truly of value to our community, the masses may unfortunately never know about”. He then we ...
• No title
  
  
  Obama’s Economic Team May Be Disbanding But They’ve Already Done The Damage by L. Randall Wray, Benzinga | Sep. 30, 2010, L. Randall Wray is a professor of economics at the University of Missouri — Kansas City.   A student of Hyman Minsky, his research focuses on monetary and fiscal policy as well ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Obama congratulates Germany on 20 years of reunifi ...
• US issues travel alert for Europe
• US considers travel alert for Europe
• Chapter closes on vilified US bank bailout
• US contemplating travel alert for Europe

Institute for Policy Studies

• The Lineup: Week of October 4-10, 2010
  
  
  Marge Baker weighs in on a "new breed of congressional candidate" and Donald Kaul puts this trend in historical perspective.
• More Jobs, Less War
  
  
  We should cut the military budget and use that money to fund our transition to a greener economy.
• One Year After the Recovery Act...
  
  
  A look at the effectiveness of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act one year after its passage.
• The Green Dividend
  
  
  The United States failed to capitalize on a Peace Dividend. Now, with the economy in a rut and the globe heating up, we have a second chance to shift Pentagon funds to domestic needs with a Green Dividend.
• Phyllis Bennis on al-Jazeera & US Trying New Bribe ...
  
  
  The Obama administration is offering lots of new carrots and a pretty weak stick in hopes of winning just a temporary 60-day extension of Israel's settlement slow-down.

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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• LATEST* The Equality Trust in the News
  
  
  Please visit our new Media section for the latest details.
• 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

• PDA Lobby Day and One Nation March!
  
  
  Please visit this blog post throughout the weekend for updates as they filter in… PDA 10.1.10 Citizensâ Lobby Day Article from David Swanson Progressives Take Over Capitol Hill Submitted by davidswanson ...
• If you can’t join it, watch it!
  
  
  Host a 10.2.10 Watch Party In just two days, tens of thousands of union members, community activists, students, entertainers, civil and human rights leaders, and concerned citizens will gather for peace, jobs, justice, and education for ...
• Are you on the bus …
  
  
  Or on the ground on 10.2.10? Progressive Democrats of America has joined the One Nation Working Together call for the 10.2.10 March on Washington for Peace, Jobs and Justice. This historic event will ensure that the ...
• IOT: Accountability and Justice Sept Call
  
  
  David Swanson was our Guest Star, talking about war powers. We discussed HR 104, introduced in Jan '09, by Rep. John Conyers and cosponsored by 50 others, which calls for a commission to study presidential ...
• One Nation Planning Call
  
  
  We had our final planning call for people going to DC for the Oct 2 One Nation March or planning regional events around it. Please tune in for important information on all of this.

Marler Blog

• The chickens moved in today
  
  
  We decided to make the big move to the new chicken coop after it had a few coats of white paint in the interior. �Today we also bought: Galvanized trash can (to hold feed) and some staples to nail down the wire - $26.37 50 pounds of feed, and larger waterer and feeder, shavings and a 100 foot roll ...
• Saying your sorry and then doing nothing about it ...
  
  
  When Austin DeCoster, Owner, Wright County Egg and Peter DeCoster, COO, Wright County Egg testified under oath, and Orland Bethel, President, Hillandale Farms of Iowa took the Fifth, at the hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations a few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to have ...
• After nearly 18 years doing Foodborne Illness Liti ...
  
  
  AOL and multiple Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Andrew Schneider wrote a series of pieces this week about non-E. coli O157’s – yet another of my recent projects to pull food safety out of the dark ages. He also did a bit of a profile on yours truly, that like most of the dozens over the years tend ...
• Mustang Oklahoma Salmonella Outbreak now linked to ...
  
  
  It is more that a bit ironic that the state, where its Senator single handedly held up S. 510, The Food Safety Modernization Act, would now be the epicenter of yet another growing Salmonella Outbreak. According to the Oklahoman this morning , the Oklahoma salmonella outbreak has risen to 15 identif ...
• Where in the world am I giving a speech on food sa ...
  
  
  In between suing companies who poison my clients, I have a very busy schedule teaching (for free) many of the same companies and their lawyers - "why it is a bad idea to poison customers."� Catch me if you can. Food Microbiology Symposium, U of Wisconsin - River Falls ACI Foodborne Illness Litigat ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 10.04.10
  
  
  Confirmed: U.S. considering 62 mpg CAFE target by 2025 Here we go? Lotus unveils range-extended electric city car concept It's only the sixth (!) vehicle Lotus displayed in Paris. ...
• Paris 2010: Mini Scooter E Concept can whisk us aw ...
  
  
  Filed under: Paris Motor Show , Mini , Electric Mini Scooter E concept - Click above for high-res image gallery Squaring off, in a way, against the escooter that Smart unveiled yesterday at the Paris Motor Show , is Mini 's entry in the fanciful all-electric scooter category, the Scooter E. There ...
• Confirmed: U.S. considering 62 mpg CAFE target by ...
  
  
  Filed under: Government/Legal A CAFE standard of 62 miles per gallon by 2025 might indeed come to pass. The Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency today released a " Notice of Intent to Improve Fuel Economy and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions for 2017-2025 " (PDF) th ...
• AutoblogGreen for 10.01.10
  
  
  Report: Volt's gas tank is 9.3 gallons; lengthy journeys return 36.5 mpg Nothing official, yet, but these numbers seem pretty trustworthy. Lance Armstrong's Nissan Leaf is a dazzling black and gold deligh ...
• Paris 2010: Exagon Motors Furtive eGT range-extend ...
  
  
  Filed under: Hybrid , Videos , Paris Motor Show , Electric Exagon Furtive e-GT - Click above for high-res image gallery Exagon Motors hasn't often appeared in these pages - the company built some electric ice racers last year - and so yesterday's announcement of the Furtive e-GT extended-range/al ...

Rafe's Radar

• 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 ...
• Foound launches Foursquare of the future
  
  
  Demo Fall 2010 sees the excellent demo of Foound, a clean mobile app for planning "hangouts" with friends.
• 'Smart' credit cards get closer to consumers' wall ...
  
  
  Customers of a company called Dynamics are preparing to release credit and debit cards with programmable, rewritable magnetic stripes. ...

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!

• Amy Goodman to appear on CNN's John King USA
  
  
  Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman to appear on CNN’s John King USA on Friday, October 1 at 7pm ET.
• WATCH: Jon Stewart Gets Haiti News from Democracy ...
  
  
  See all of Democracy Now!’s Coverage of Haiti
• BREAKING...Attempted Coup in Ecuador: On the Groun ...
  
  
  Sofia Jarrin works with the Latin American Association for Radio Education.
• Nnimmo Bassey wins 2010 Right Livelihood Award
  
  
  Nigerian environmental activist Nnimmo Bassey of Friends of the Earth International received the 2010 Right Livelihood Award for opposing "the practices of multinational corporations in his country and the environmental devastation they leave behind" and "for his inspired work to strengthen the env ...
• Amy Goodman on CNN’s John King, USA, Wednesday, Se ...
  
  
  Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King, USA, on Wednesday, September 29th at 7pm Eastern Time.

Farming Pathogens

• Follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Twitter
  
  
  You can now follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Twitter here. Includes the latest in media reports and journal articles on agriculture, disease, evolution, dialectical biology, the practice of science, as well as any appearances or new work by FP contributors. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Farming Pa ...
• The Axis of Viral
  
  
  The enemy of my enemy is my friend. We might accept that viruses and bacteria at best instantiate the coincidental nature of such an alliance. The success of one bug might pave the way for another. But we’d be hard pressed to imagine that theyâd whittle the syllogism to a sharper point and activel ...
• Follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Facebook
  
  
  Follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Facebook here. Includes the latest in media reports and journal articles on agriculture, disease, evolution, dialectical biology, and the practice of science, as well as any appearances or new work by FP contributors. Filed under: Uncategorized
• Imperial Storm Scientists
  
  
  The Red Army Faction was a communist guerilla group operating 1970-1998 in, of all places, West Germany. The RAF engaged in a variety of operations in the 1970s, including assassinations and bombings, primarily around the German government’s material support of the U.S. war in Vietnam. As depicted i ...
• Does Influenza Evolve in Multiple Tenses?
  
  
  The past may possess a power greater than prologue. Any one with a social networking account knows that. All of a sudden you find yourself daily interacting with people long thought boxed away. People mature, yes, but sensibilities remain largely intact and an old year, fine wine or vinegar, pours b ...

Suzie-Q

• Arizona Politics Get ‘Dirty’: Ben Quay ...
  
  
  Arizona Politics Get ‘Dirty’: Ben Quayle’s Website Controversy The Pew Forum- On Religion & Public Life Sept. 9, 2010 | Politics in Arizona’s 3rd congressional district sure are getting “Dirty.” Jon Hulburd, the Democratic candidate in the district, recently released a radio spot on three Christian ...
• Bill Maher Channels Obama’s Alter Ego &#8216 ...
  
  
  Bill Maher Channels Obama’s Alter Ego ‘Barry Whitehouse’ in his New Rules Segment Crooks & Liars- By Heather October 01, 2010 10:37 PM Apparently Bill Maher really doesn’t want to see the Republicans back in office any more than I do. Maher channeled his inner “Barry Whitehouse” and reminded everyon ...
• Tea Party Convention Is Canceled
  
  
  Tea Party Convention Is Canceled New York Times – September 24, 2010, 11:04 am By KATE ZERNIKE The Tea Party is off. At least, the National Tea Party Unity Convention that was being planned for mid-October in Las Vegas is off. It was supposed to be a repeat of the convention in Nashville last Februa ...
• Glenn Beck vs. Fox News: ‘Tension’ Bet ...
  
  
  Glenn Beck vs. Fox News: ‘Tension’ Between Beck & Network Huff Post- Posted: 09-29-10 11:11 AM Glenn Beck appears on the cover of this weekend’s New York Times Magazine in a lengthy profile written by Mark Leibovich. In the profile, Leibovich touches on tensions between Beck and Fox News, the networ ...
• AZ Sheriff’s Dept Reopens Case Of Deputy All ...
  
  
  AZ Sheriff’s Dept Reopens Case Of Deputy Allegedly Shot By Drug Smugglers TPM Muckraker Eric Lach | September 27, 2010, 3:35PM The Pinal County, Arizona Sheriff’s Office has announced that it is reopening the case of a sheriff’s deputy who was shot on April 30, after an article last week raised ques ...

Solari

• JPMorganChase Suspends Foreclosures
  
  
  By Ellen Brown “Maybe this is like shock therapy. Maybe this will actually get the lenders to the table and encourage them to work out deals that are to the benefit of everybody.â –Economist Karl E. Case, quoted in The New York Times. The hits are coming fast and furiously. It appears major Wall ...
• Catherine in Chico, CA on Oct. 30
  
  
  Related reading: Lecture and Workshop, BMU Conference Center, Chico, California October 30 and 31, 2010 O’Brien Healing Productions - Home Page TRANSFORMING WEALTH - TRANSFORMING COMMUNITY Healing Productions
• The Twister of 2010
  
  
  By Peggy Noonan In a recent trip to Omaha, Neb., I found a note prominently displayed in my hotel room warning of the possibility of “extreme weather” including “tornadic activity.” The clunky euphemism was no doubt meant to soften or obscure what they were obliged to communicate: There may be a to ...
• Money & Markets - Week of 10.3.10
  
  
  Are Or Aren’t France And China Plotting An Alternative To The Dollar? Zero Hedge (3 Oct 10)
• Precious Metals - Week of 10.3.10
  
  
  Chilean Government Copper Related Income Estimated to Double This Year MercoPress (2 Oct 10)

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

• Surveillance State: Government Snooping, Prying, a ...
  
  
  The tainting of character, the undermining of basic trust, the disruption of democratic politics -- these are the great achievements of state surveillance.
• One Nation March to Gather in Washington to Demand ...
  
  
  Black American unemployment is nearly twice that of whites. Schools are closing and Americans are being imprisoned at alarming rates. In each case, people of color suffer worse.
• Anti-Tea Partiers Descend on Washington to Fight f ...
  
  
  Black American unemployment is nearly twice that of whites. Schools are closing and Americans are being imprisoned at alarming rates. In each case, people of color suffer worse.
• Sooner or Later, Marijuana Will Be Legal
  
  
  Legalization will happen. It's just a question of how many lives and tax dollars will be wasted before it does.
• Ecuador Rocked by Attempted Police Coup Against Le ...
  
  
  An attempted coup has sent shock waves across the South American country.

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

• Toward a National Renewal for America
  
  
  Summary:  In this article guest author Bernard Finel examines the problems facing America, their causes and treatment. The FM website has an on-going discussion about “Reigniting the Spirit of America.”  I find this an interesting discussion, and one I’d like to both highlight and contribute to.  In ...
• The track record of predictions made on the FM web ...
  
  
  Summary:  Here’s a snapshot of the FM reference page showing some of the accurate predictions made on the FM website (wrong ones appear on the Smackdowns page).  As you can see in the comments, most were controversal when made.  Per the FM style sheet, theyâre mildly expressed even when apoca ...
• Awesome reading for your weekend
  
  
  Summary:  The Internet need not be an instrument promoting ignorance and prejudice.  On it are gems, brilliant and insightful.  Here are some for your weekend reading. Contents “The War Addicts – 2016 and Then Some“, Tom Engelhardt, 30 September 2010 “What I Think About Atlas Shrugged“, John Sca ...
• Can Obama, or anyone else, outmaneuver the war adv ...
  
  
  Summary by Winston Wheeler (Center for Defense Information):  Below is a short commentary by Chuck Spinney, a personal friend and colleague, to preface another commentary by William Pfaff. The subject is how presidents, and secretaries of defense, generals, politicians, and even Hill staffers and jo ...
• A new video about global warming, a Leftists&#8217 ...
  
  
  Summary:  History shows with grim clarity the values of the extreme Left, in which human life means nothing.  The Guardian newspaper gives a glowing review to the latest example — a snuf film disarmingly packaged as humor.  See it while you can.  It might prove embarrassing to its creators and ...

Open Your Eyes News

• JPMorgan reopens New York gold vault
  
  
  Financial Times – JPMorgan has reopened an underground gold vault in New York that was mothballed in the 1990s, in the latest sign of the soaring appetite for bullion. Investors are piling money into gold in record quantities, pushing the price on Friday to a record nominal high of more than $1,320 ...
• UN suppressed report on Afghan rights violations
  
  
  AFP – The United Nations buried a report into rights violations in Afghanistan between 1978 and 2001 that accused Soviets, Islamists and US forces of “atrocities”, a Swiss newspaper said on Saturday. The revelations emerged a day after the UN published a hotly contested report into crimes committed ...
• Artificial fertility treatments create a sex bias
  
  
  New Scientist – Different fertility treatments affect the ratio of boy babies to girls, and this could have serious consequences as artificial fertility treatment becomes more common. So says Michael Chapman at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, following a study that compared d ...
• British intelligence denies US terror warnings spa ...
  
  
  The Guardian – Fresh warnings of possible terror attacks in Europe issued by the US were not sparked any new intelligence, counter-terrorism, security and intelligence officials said.There seems no doubt there has been “chatter”, or intercepted communications, between suspected jihadists and al-Qaid ...
• Iraq buys 250,000 tonne wheat to cover 2011 needs
  
  
  Daily Times – Iraq has bought 250,000 tonnes of wheat from the United States, Australia and Ukraine, which is enough to cover its needs in 2011, Waleed al- Hilow, Iraqâs deputy trade minister, told Reuters on Saturday. Iraq, once a regional breadbasket, is now one of the worldâs biggest importer ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• RAIMD: Army “Kill Team” Targeted Civilians in Afgh ...
  
  
  Army “Kill Team” Targeted Civilians in Afghanistan, Business as Usual for Imperialists (raimd.wordpress.com) Recently it was revealed that a secret Amerikan “kill team” murdered Afghan civilians at random, and collected cut-off body parts as trophies, of “finger bones, leg bones, and a tooth taken f ...
• RAIMD: Movie Review: Machete and The Baader Meinho ...
  
  
  Movie Review: Machete and The Baader Meinhof Complex (raimd.wordpress.com) Machete (2010, Ethan Maniquin and Robert Rodriguez) and The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008, Uli Edel) are two recent movies set in imperialist countries, both depicting armed struggle against reactionaries. Machete garnered cri ...
• Amerikan Cultural Hegemony Settles into Iraq
  
  
  Amerikan Cultural Hegemony Settles into Iraq by Liberation Frequency (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Ramadan is an Islamic holiday celebrated during the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. At the heart of this tradition is the act of fasting, a time when Muslims of all stripes are expected to p ...
• Dear MTW…retardation/mental disabilities
  
  
  Dear MTW…retardation/mental disabilities (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) We received this letter from a reader, and comrade Iskra replies below: Hello. I hope this is the correct place to email this question. I can’t seem to find anyone who can answer it, then again, I haven’t looked around very ...
• RAIMD: Antonio on Lowkey’s ‘Obama Nation’
  
  
  Music review from RAIM-Denver: (raimd.wordpress.com) [Last week, we posted the video, Obama Nation, the new single from UK hip-hop artist, Lowkey. The video itself generated some discussion which can be viewed below. Here is a comment by a RAIMer, Antonio, analyzing the content of the song:] Lowkey ...

PakAlert

• Video: 9/11 The Missing Link – Full Movie
  
  
  Now you will discover the definitive truth about 9/11 and learn why even the most popular movies on the subject have failed to address the evidence exhaustively presented in this video. The facts will make it abundantly clear that the so-called 9/11 “Truth” movement has been infiltrated and is ultim ...
• In 1932, Fox Helped Make Propaganda Films for Hitl ...
  
  
  Observers of the current US election season have noted the prominent role of Rupert Murdoch’s reactionary Fox News Channel, which currently employs GOP and “Tea Party” partisans Sarah Palin, Glen Beck, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Sean Hannity, and others. Some have alleged that a te ...
• The 7 worst cyberattacks in history (that we know ...
  
  
  We get a little taste of cyber attacks all the time — look no further than this week's Twitter virus — but what about full-on cyber warfare? Recently the true destructive potential of a cyber attack became frighteningly clear: whole government, banking and military networks overloaded and shut down ...
• Remote viewing Tibetan Monks See Nuclear War in 20 ...
  
  
  Between 2010 and 2012, the whole world will get polarized and prepare for the ultimate dooms day. Heavy political maneuvers and negotiations will take place with little progress. In 2012, the world will start plunging into a total destructive nuclear war.
• Anti-Austerity Riots in Spain and all over Europe ...
  
  
  Airlines canceled flights, picketers blocked trucks from delivering produce and police clashed with protesters as Spanish workers staged a general strike on Wednesday to protest against austerity measures imposed by a government struggling to slash its budget deficit and overcome recession.People ac ...

Andy Worthington

• US Court Denies Justice to Dead Men at Guantánamo
  
  
  On Wednesday, in the District Court in Washington D.C., Judge Ellen Huvelle turned down (PDF) a second attempt by the families of Yasser al-Zahrani, a Saudi, and Salah al-Salami, a Yemeni (two of the three men who died in mysterious circumstances in Guantánamo on June 9, 2006, along with Mani al-Uta ...
• 1000 Reasons to Close Guantánamo
  
  
  Please support my work! On Monday I marked a milestone that, when I began blogging on a full-time basis in May 2007, I had no idea I would ever reach. My article about the forthcoming anti-torture week in Berkeley, California, from October 10 to 16, which I am proud to be attending, was my 10 ...
• Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Par ...
  
  
  This is the fifth part of an eight-part series telling the stories of all the prisoners currently held in Guantánamo (174 at the time of writing). See the introduction here, and Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four. This fifth article tells the stories of 13 prisoners seized in Pakistan betw ...
• Talkin’ ’Bout My Generation: Ed Miliband’s Bright ...
  
  
  Time will tell if Labour’s new leader, Ed Miliband, is a genuine force for change, but I was impressed during his campaign that he so clearly recognized that the Labour Party had failed and that criticizing the electorate was both insulting and counter-productive. In an interview with the Guardian i ...
• Heads You Lose, Tails You Lose: The Betrayal of Mo ...
  
  
  Back in March, when Judge James Robertson of the District Court in Washington D.C. granted the habeas corpus petition of Guantánamo prisoner Mohamedou Ould Slahi, there was uproar in Congress. For many years, Slahi, a Mauritanian national who had lived in Germany and Canada, was touted by the Bush a ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Undersea Mountain Photos: Brittlestar Swarm, More ...
  
  
  NoneSwarms of orange fish and other deep-sea creatures have been spotted during a five-year survey of the world's underwater mountain ranges. Fish - Deep sea - Scuba diving - Recreation - Outdoors
• Replacing Oil Addiction With Metals Dependence?
  
  
  China’s pivotal role as world supplier of rare-earth metals raises alarm that the new energy economy will mean the same old foreign dependence. Rare earth element - Energy - China - People's Republic of China - Environment
• Whale Snot, Cursing Away Pain Among 2010 Ig Nobels
  
  
  Profanity against pain and whale-snot-collecting helicopters are just a few of the unusual scientific achievements awarded Ig Nobels on Thursday. Ig Nobel Prize - Merrill Lynch - Harvard University - Marc Abrahams - Nobel Prize
• Renewable Energy: Ontario’s New Gold Rush
  
  
  Ontario is better known for majestic falls and forests than for its sun, but a one-year-old government incentive program has made the province a solar energy hotbed. Renewable energy - Ontario - Energy - Solar energy - Renewable
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drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• "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 ...
• How Wrong Can One Person Be?
  
  
  I know it’s exciting when someone new walks in and turns everyone’s heads. They’re mysterious. That’s sexy. And, if they can put words together into complete, grammatically correct sentences, they (by today’s standards) are brilliant. So, suddenly, the known quantity of the person we’ve been wit ...
• Loving Books, Libraries, and the Internet
  
  
  If you read certain local blogs, or letters to the editor of local papers, you may notice a recurring theme from some disgruntled citizens. Libraries, and the books they contain, are our enemy. (Who knew?) And the best way to save money and preserve democracy from socialism is to stop buying books ...
• Restoring America’s Awesomeness (Through Truthines ...
  
  
  Say what you will about Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, but they are perhaps the smartest journalists working in comedy, or the most soulful comedians working in journalism. Yes, they are wickedly funny. Yes, they make sometimes jokes best appreciated by a fourteen year-old boy. But Jesus ...

SPL Center

• SCV Plans to ‘Celebrate’ Racist Confederate Govern ...
  
  
  The American Civil War was the costliest, most devastating conflict in the history of our country. At least 620,000 soldiers died, as did some 400,000 civilians who fell to disease, suicide, murder and similar causes. Hundreds of thousands of others suffered horrible wood-saw amputations and terribl ...
• JDL Leader’s Shooting Trial to Resume Next Month i ...
  
  
  Was it road rage or self defense? Or maybe even a politically motivated act of violence? That’s what a jury will decide when the trial of Jewish Defense League organizer Carl Mintz begins on Oct. 14. Mintz, 27, a state chapter organizer for the JDL in Michigan, is charged in the shooting of a 20-yea ...
• The British (Extremists) Are Coming — Or, the Engl ...
  
  
  Saturday’s 9/11 protest in downtown Manhattan featured the by-now-familiar chants and symbols of the debate over the so-called Ground Zero mosque. But amid the sea of red, white and blue, there were a few new icons added to the usual mix. As featured in a series of pictures posted Wednesday by the N ...
• Author Interview: Journalist Probes ‘Backlash’ Und ...
  
  
  After Barack Obama’s 2008 election as the nation’s 44 th president, the Tea Party movement sprang up, as did increasingly shrill assertions that the president was a socialist, a communist, a Muslim and more. Gun-rights advocates fretted that the new administration would impose draconian gun controls ...
• Little Pulaski, Tenn., to Suffer Through Another R ...
  
  
  Although it’s a small town of about 7,800, Pulaski, Tenn. may well be the white supremacist epicenter of the nation — at least if the number of rallies held there by bigoted groups is any indication. The mayor and other residents aren’t pleased. “There’s never been a local person involved in these m ...

change: org.

• "Bag Lady," the New Face of Homelessness
  
  
  A woman named Patricia Reid was recently profiled in the New York Times . She has been unemployed for four years. Before being cut loose in massive layoffs, she worked for two decades as an internal auditor and analyst at Boeing. The biggest fear for this 57-year-old college graduate? "Becoming a ba ...
• Federal Court Strikes Down Ohio Ban on "rBGH Free" ...
  
  
  Those of us who prefer our milk hormone-free have a reason to celebrate. A federal judge just struck down an Ohio law banning the use of the "rBGH free" label.  Ohio was the last state to maintain such a ban after a largely unsuccessful campaign by a Monsanto-backed trade group a few years ago. The ...
• Dolce & Gabanna Photoshops Madonna to Make Her ...
  
  
  Only flawed women in our culture get old. Only those who haven't learned the tricks of the stars; who've refused the battle to prove that they're still our culture's version of "perfect" (22, thin as a wisp of grass, blond, and doe-eyed); who don't accept the aggressively promoted notion that age is ...
• Getting to Work: 350 Days of Sunshine in New Mexic ...
  
  
  "Getting to Work" is a series of dispatches from around the world in support of 10/10/10 , an important day global day of climate action taking place this October 10th. New Mexico is getting to work with 350.org . (So is Barcelona , Pakistan , Africa , the Arctic , and thousands of other locales ...
• Blue Whales Make an Extinction Comeback Off the So ...
  
  
  Do you want to see blue whales up close? Just hop on a surfboard, paddle a kayak, or sail a boat a couple of miles off the coast of Southern California. Chances are you’ll see these magnificent creatures — the largest ever to inhabit the Earth — swimming almost near enough to touch. The word "awesom ...

Common Dreams -News

• Cancún Failure Would Make Climate Talks 'Irrelevan ...
  
  
  by Jonathan Watts in Tianjin TIANJIN, China - International climate talks are at risk of becoming irrelevant if countries fail to substantially narrow their differences before the end of this year, a senior European diplomat warned today. The grim prognosis by Artur Runge-Metzger, director of the ...
• Himalayas Unsettled by Melting Glaciers, More Aval ...
  
  
  by Bhuwan Sharma KATHMANDU - For the last two climbing seasons, Dawa Sherpa has missed scaling the summit of Mt Everest. But the climate ambassador for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and two-time Everest summiteer may not be relishing the thought of bearing witness once more to the impact of risi ...
• Sanders: GOP Doesn't Want America to Succeed
  
  
  by David S. Morgan A progressive Senator accused the Republican Party of putting their drive for power ahead of the public interest, saying this morning that the GOP chooses to obstruct legislation aimed at creating jobs in their bid to regain power in Congress. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., als ...
• Israel Convicts Troops of Using Human Shield in Ga ...
  
  
  JERUSALEM — An Israeli military court on Sunday convicted two soldiers of using a Palestinian child as a human shield by forcing him to check for booby traps during the 2008-2009 Gaza war. A transcript of the court decision made available by the army said the infantry sergeants were found guilty ...
• Interest-Group Spending for Midterm up Fivefold fr ...
  
  
  by T.W. Farnam and Dan Eggen Interest groups are spending five times as much on the 2010 congressional elections as they did on the last midterms, and they are more secretive than ever about where that money is coming from. read more

Lifehacker

• Use Toothpaste to Restore Old Sneakers []
  
  
  Your trusted, well-tested sneakers feel fine on your feet, but they look like they've seen better days. If you've got toothpaste and a scrubbing brush to spare, you can restore your kicks to their just-out-of-box looks. More�� ...
• Evernote for Chrome Searches Your Notes as You Sea ...
  
  
  Chrome only: Evernote's web "clipping" extension can now show and link you to relevant notes inside your Evernote database when you search Google on the web. If you're the type to forget what you've got saved, it can be a helpful reminder. ...
• The Many Reasons We Procrastinate, Including the M ...
  
  
  Procrastination is inherently illogical to objective observers. Why make things so much harder on yourself, when avoiding last-minute stress seems easy? But we all do it. The New Yorker offers a great tour of different explanations for why we ...
• This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
  
  
  HyperDock Brings Window Previews, Other Dock Enhancements to OS X (Mac) If you wish you had Windows' Aero Peek-like window previews in OS X's Dock, free app HyperDock brings them to OS X, along with other window management features. Windows Live Essentials 2011 Leaves Beta, Availabl ...
• Refine Your Old Mouse's Grip with Sugru [DIY]
  
  
  We've sung the praises of Sugru moldable silicone on more than one occasion . Instructables user gmjhowe shows us yet another great use: reinvigorating the grip on an old, worn gaming mouse. More��

Water Privatization

• School kids learn value of water during festival
  
  
  ALBANY, GA. — Hundreds of school children went through stations at the Flint Riverquarium recently, learning the value of water as a part of the annual Water Festival.
• Water supply privatization starts on pilot basis w ...
  
  
  Meant as a pilot project, Delhi Jal Board is set to allow a private player to manage water distribution in Vasant Kunj.
• Art review: 'Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits'
  
  
  Everyone thinks about water now, even we who still enjoy it in potable abundance. Water falls high on the Pentagon's list of resources over which 21st century military conflict is likely to occur. When we worry about rainfall, pollution and the creeping... Drinking water - Water - Mami Wata - Pentag ...
• The Water Fountain [Casaubon's Book]
  
  
  Like everyone in the rich world, I carry bottles of water with me everywhere I go. Were someone from the past to spot me, they'd be stunned by the sight of all the people, clearly headed on long treks into the uninhabited jungle, carrying water lest they die of dehydration. Because, after all, in hi ...
• City Hall argues over privatization
  
  
  Sharp words as council debates whether the private sector should run some of the city's functions.

Guardian

• Osborne announces cap on family benefits
  
  
  • Osborne announces cap on benefits • Child benefit withdrawn for higher rate taxpayers • He says: 'Let Britain be a hopeful country' 12.54pm: Here's the exact wording of Osborne's announcement about a cap on benefits: For the first time, we will introduce a limit on the total amount of benefits any ...
• British IVF pioneer wins Nobel prize
  
  
  Robert Edwards, the British scientist who pioneered IVF, was responsible for the conception of Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby The Nobel prize for physiology or medicine for 2010 has been awarded to the British scientist who pioneered in-vitro fertilisation, a procedure that has helpe ...
• Boris Johnson wants strike curbs
  
  
  London mayor tells Tory conference MPs should make it more difficult for unions to take industrial action Boris Johnson today accused striking tube unions in London of making a "nakedly and blatantly political gesture" on behalf of Labour as he urged David Cameron's coalition government to strengthe ...
• Football club's chairman found dead
  
  
  David Le Cluse, close friend of club owner and fraud suspect Mazhar Majeed, dies in suspected suicide The chairman of a football club caught up in the Pakistan spot-fixing scandal has died in a suspected suicide. David Le Cluse, 44, was found dead from a gunshot wound on Saturday in a garage near hi ...
• EDL march in Leicester banned
  
  
  Home secretary authorises blanket ban on marches in the city this Saturday, including planned protest by far-right group The home secretary, Theresa May, today authorised a ban on a planned march by far-right group the English Defence League (EDL), due to take place in Leicester on Saturday. The bla ...

McClatchey

• Commentary: When fears that visiting ER will lead ...
  
  
  The excruciating pain hit about midnight — an indescribable, side-wrenching feeling that pummeled me again and again. The attack arrived suddenly, and I was fraught with panic, not knowing why I was in such agony.
• Commentary: Ecuador is on shaky ground
  
  
  The political violence that rocked Ecuador this week, endangering President Rafael Correa, exposed the fragile nature of democracy in that country and the critical need for the president to shore up the nation's democratic institutions.
• Returning solidiers boost Columbus, Georgia econom ...
  
  
  Waiting for Staff Sgt. William Fields to arrive last week from a yearlong deployment to Iraq, Kim Fields didn�t hesitate when asked what her husband would want most for his homecoming.
• Rand Paul says students should be able to chose sc ...
  
  
  FRANKFORT — Republican U.S. Senate nominee Rand Paul said he favors charter schools and allowing students to choose what public neighborhood school they attend during a round-table discussion with three members of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce.
• In Florida, judge attempts to get handle on forecl ...
  
  
  MANATEE — The fifth time was the final straw for Manatee County Circuit Court Judge Janette Dunnigan.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• The Great Bear and the big snap
  
  
    Can a bunch of green snappers save the Great Bear? The International League of Conservation Photographers hopes so. For a few weeks now, its snappers have been deploying themselves across Canada's Great Bear Rainforest , documenting its wild nature and the people who live in, and sometimes off, ...
• 'Warmist' attack smacks of 'sceptical' intolerance
  
  
  It seems that something new, and not altogether welcome, may be happening in the politicking over climate change. � I have written before of the orchestrated villification that comes the way of climate scientists from some people and organisations who are unconvinced of the case for human-indu ...
• Condom hole in the Papal vision?
  
  
  From a British perspective, there's a certain irony in the fact that a clarion call for better access to family planning is published in a leading scientific journal on the same day that the Pope hits the streets of London . � The letter published in Science doesn't reference Roman Catholic oppos ...
• Nulear waste goes the hole way
  
  
  First week back from holidays last week, and straight down a big hole in the ground at the BBC's behest. Onkalo - no ordinary hole... It's no ordinary hole. It's where Finland will store all of the high-level waste from its nuclear power programme, if things go according to plan. I last visi ...
• Mea culpa and au revoir
  
  
  As several readers have pointed out in comments on my previous post , and several more by e-mail, I made a schoolboy howler in this week's article about how rice yields are responding to temperature rise in Asia. There are 101 reasons I could bore you with as to why it happened, but essentially it ...

The Wonk Room

• Gregg Says Republican Debt Commission Members Have ...
  
  
  Back in June, I spoke to Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), one of the members of President Obama’s debt commission, who said that the commission was likely to “deadlock,” because its Republican members were ruling out any and all tax increases as part of a comprehensive budget solution. “[Conservatives] g ...
• Michigan To Place A Bureaucrat Between You And You ...
  
  
  In what looks like a gift to the medical devise industry wrapped in a pro-life bow, the Michigan state Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that requires doctors to use “the most advanced ultrasound equipment available at their office to a woman considering an abortion with images of her fetus” — to g ...
• Johnson: Instead Of The Stimulus, I Would Have Ext ...
  
  
  In July, economists Mark Zandi and Alan Blinder released a study showing that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the stimulus package) raised Gross Domestic Product by about 2 percentage points and kept the unemployment rate one and half points lower than it would have been otherwise. In co ...
• Angle Introduced Legislation Expanding Coverage Ma ...
  
  
  Throughout her campaign for U.S. Senate in Nevada, GOP candidate and tea party favorite Sharron Angle has railed against government intervention in health care and has campaigned on the claim that coverage mandates only drive up health care costs. “Take off the mandates for coverage in the state of ...
• The WonkLine: October 4, 2010
  
  
  Welcome to The WonkLine, a daily 9:30 a.m. roundup of the latest news about health care, the economy, national security, immigration and climate policy. This is what we’re reading. Tell us what you found in the comments section below. You can also follow The Wonk Room on Twitter.   Immigration ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Financialization
  
  
  The folks at the Marxist journal Monthly Review have some important things to say about the INEVITABILITY of financialization for a mature capitalist economy. Financialization refers to the growing importance of the financial sector in the economy (a process most exemplified by the USA and UK econom ...
• G-20 Anatomy
  
  
  Saturday's Toronto Star had an " Anatomy of the G20 " that described the confluence of circumstances that led to the police overreacting to the Black Block rioters and curtailing the civil, political, and legal rights of hundreds of innocent people. I found the whole thing a stupid waste of time. L ...
• Toronto Election: Ford or Smitherman?
  
  
  Indicative of the intellectual bankruptcy of Canadian politics in general is the Toronto mayoral race where the front-runner is the shithead Toronto Sun's golden slab of rancid pork Rob Ford and the great white hope of the "liberals" is George Smitherman (who Ford rightly slammed for having presided ...
• Paradox
  
  
  Canadians didn't seem to care about the state's abuse of our civil, legal, and political rights at the G-20 because it didn't really affect them directly. But why do they go along with, or even agree with the assaults on our freedoms from the asinine war on terrorism? Most Canadians are never going ...
• Thoughts on Ezra Levant, Kory Nyuk,Hyuk, and etc.,
  
  
  When it comes to sheer brain power, I'd match up our homegrown Canadian right-wing shit-heads against the sputtering, brainless, scumbags of the USA, any day. O'Reilly or Coulter or Beck or Hannity or Kristol vs. Levant, Frum, Coren, DiManno? They're all so intellectually insignificant that even an ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Metro report finds employees afraid to raise safet ...
  
  
  In June 2009, a Metrorail accident near Ft. Totten in Washington, DC, killed nine people. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a report this summer that found Metro lacked a "safety culture." Now an internal Metro report finds the same problem. Katherine Shaver wrote about the repo ...
• Arrests vindicate Wackenhut whistleblower in Miami
  
  
  Marty Bair was a senior supervisor for Wackenhut in Miami, Florida, when he blew the whistle on how the company was overbilling the county for empty guard posts on transit systems. Now, eight Wackenhut employees, supervisors and executives have been arrested and charged with racketeering. "I felt vi ...
• Philippine authorities catch tax cheat with anonym ...
  
  
  The Philippine Daily Inquirer reports that the Philippine Bureau of Customs has filed charges that Oillink, an import company, cheated the government out of 700 million Philippine pesos (16 million US dollars). The Bureau of Customs discovered the fraud through an anonymous letter, apparently from a ...
• Catholic canonization raises whistleblower issue
  
  
  David Gibson has written an article for Commonweal Magazine suggesting that in 1870 Australian Mother Mary MacKillop participated in blowing the whistle on a priest engaged in sexual abuse of children. Pope Benedict XVI has scheduled a canonization for Mother MacKillop on October 17, 2010. She will ...
• UGA Wins, Scientific Integrity Loses
  
  
  My client Dr. David Lewis has written an essay about a disappointing outcome of his qui tam whistleblower lawsuit. It is called "UGA Wins, Scientific Integrity Loses." If you want to read more, I recommend another piece he wrote called, " EPA Fired Oil-Degradation Expert Concerned about Deepwater O ...

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

• World Progress Report Promotes Program About 'Scam ...
  
  
  We recently pointed out that the latest name for Vision Media TV appeared to be World Progress Report , and it appeared to be doing the same thing that it has been heavily criticized for by both the New York Times and NPR . Basically, it's the same deal: they hire a semi-famous retired news person ...
• Negotiators Get Close On ACTA, And Continue To Mis ...
  
  
  All last week, what negotiators hoped to be the "final" round of negotiations on ACTA were taking place in Tokyo. It was odd that little was heard from the negotiations, but late Friday, word came out that an agreement was still "weeks" away , as there were still substantial differences to be worke ...
• Verizon Wireless To Pay $90 Million Back To Users ...
  
  
  Well, well, well. For over a year now there have been widespread reports of how Verizon Wireless would charged users $1.99 for data services, even if they have data services turned off. This was happening sometimes to users with phones turned off or even batteries drained. The whole thing was inc ...
• Social Mores At Work: Sigur Ros Calls Out Commerci ...
  
  
  We've been talking about how social mores can awful be a lot more effective in dealing with "unauthorized copying," rather than calling up the copyright lawyers. In discussing it, some people have wondered how those making copies get caught. Well, sometimes it just takes the person/band/company wh ...
• Is Uncompensated Commercial Use Of An Artist's Con ...
  
  
  We've discussed a few times how the whole distinction between "commercial use" and "non-commercial use" can be somewhat arbitrary . Even though many Creative Commons supporters insist that a "non-commercial" license is the way to go, there are some good arguments as to why such a limitation isn't ...

VacTruth

• Do vaccines cause autism?
  
  
  Do parents trust studies Japanese and British studies showing data proving that vaccines do indeed cause Autism? Or do parents believe the government, who are lap dogs for big pharma, paid to say that vaccines do not cause Autism?
• Hillary Clinton and Kathleen Sebelius apologize fo ...
  
  
  Today finally sees two of the USA's most prominent women in politics finally apologize for one of the most cruel and despicable experiments ever carried out on man to date. Mind you, it only took the USA seven decades to offer one.
• Tall Tales and Other Vaccine Myths
  
  
  Are parents aware that the Flu shot is not effective in preventing flu-related hospitalizations in asthmatic children? Did you realize that study found children who were vaccinated for flu had three times the risk to be hospitalized when compared with children who were NOT vaccinated for flu?
• Flu Vaccine Caused Over 1000 Adverse Reactions
  
  
  Over 1000 reports of adverse reactions following the flu vaccine. Fluvax and Fluvax Junior may have caused two to three hospital admissions due to seizure for every admission from flu it prevented.
• Open Letter to President Barack Hussein Obama & Th ...
  
  
  Since voters, consumers, and taxpayers have NO input nor any ability to accept, reject, or counter FORCED legislation as enacted by Presidential Executive Orders—nor does Congress have any authority over them, which I find absolutely counter to a democratic form of governance—I think it behooves us ...

BroadSnark

• Owning the Edges
  
  
  A few weeks ago, I attended a Busboys and Poets A.C.T.O.R. on Islamaphobia.  Six local Muslim panelists talked about their personal experiences.  Inevitably, the subject of what to do in the face of extremism came up. As an atheist who keeps a toe in the atheist blogosphere, I have read quite a few ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  
  
  Every time I see the amount of money SEIU has put into politics, it makes me want to cry. In news of the creepy -  They are training children to be cops in Argentina, using eye scanners on the U.S. Mexico border, and giving overzealous parents easy access to home drug testing kits.  What kind of [.. ...
• What is Pornography?
  
  
  I was getting all ready to write a long diatribe in response to another one of those anti-porn feminists who claims that all porn is rape.  You know, the people who refer to those of us who disagree as male-identified, “fun feminists.”  This “feminist” was particularly irritating me.  It’s bad en ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  
  
  Remember the woman in Vancouver who had acid thrown in her face.  Turns out it was all a hoax.  The nut threw acid in her own face.  I had to comb through a few different versions of the story to find one that mentioned who she originally blamed for the attack – a random African [...]
• The Limits of Blogging
  
  
  I set up my first blog in a couple of minutes. It was mostly to keep people updated on our marathon trip through Latin America (all ten people who were interested).  Eventually, the travel blogging died out and made way for BroadSnark.  Finally, I had somewhere to write down all those conversations ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• In What Sense Do You Mean Immortality?
  
  
  By Cody Jones, Sky Shields, and Michelle Lerner Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, September 24, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 37
• Despite Primary Outcome: Rachel Brown To Escalate ...
  
  
  By Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, September 24, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 37
• How Adam Smith Fooled You Suckers!: Most of the Ti ...
  
  
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, September 24, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 37
• It Was No Conspiracy! MacArthur & Eisenhower
  
  
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, September 24, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 37
• LaRouche on LPAC-TV: Congress Must Stay in Session ...
  
  
  EIR News Service press release.

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

• Violent Climate Change Film Lands 10:10 Campaign i ...
  
  
  Image credit: 10:10 Campaign At times it's seemed like the 10:10 Campaign has got the whole of Britain cutting its carbon . From football teams to corporations to schools, individuals and organizations have committed to 10% CO2 cuts in just one year. Even the new UK Government pledged to cut it ...
• Valencia Design Week 2010: Rugs! Natural, Ethical ...
  
  
  Patricia Urquiola for Gandia Blasco. Image Credit: Gandia Blasco (more photos below) At this year's Valencia Design Week in Spain, not a huge amount of companies convinced us about their products being truly good for our planet, in fact, we noticed a lot of greenwashing going on. However, a few ...
• Ireland's Newly-Studied Smooth-Hound Sharks Alread ...
  
  
  Photo via Edward Farrell The starry smooth-hound shark is considered an abundant species off the Irish coast, and they were thought to grow and reproduce quickly. However, new research shows that they actually take twice as long to mature as previously thought, and produce just one pup every tw ...
• How To Discuss Getting Off Oil Without Politics: R ...
  
  
  Much of Russel Gehrke's Renewable Energies for your Home is a useful compendium of information for people who want to build a solar dryer or make biodiesel without killing yourself. There is a neat design for a quick and easy solar heater made out of hollow core doors. A third of the book is a g ...
• French Towns Establish Horse-Drawn Recycling
  
  
  Image credit: SITA There's a lot to be said for horses as a greener form of transportation. In many ways, they are the ultimate use of biofuels—they run on grass, and their output is a biodegradable fertilizer. In fact, TreeHugger has been asked before whether we should start using horses inste ...

Biosingularity

• Novel sensing mechanism discovered in dendritic ce ...
  
  
  Dendritic cells are the grand sentinels of the immune system, standing guard 24/7 to detect foreign invaders such as viruses and bacteria, and bring news of the invasion to other immune cells to marshal an attack. These sentinels, however, nearly always fail to respond adequately to HIV, the virus c ...
• New Research Finds Evidence of Charitable Behavior ...
  
  
  Researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard and from Boston University have discovered that charitable behavior exists in one of the most microscopic forms of life—bacteria.  Their findings appear in the current issue of Nature. In studying the development of ...
• Exercise, calorie restrictions can rejuvenate olde ...
  
  
  Harvard researchers have uncovered a mechanism in mice through which caloric restriction and exercise delay some of the debilitating effects of aging by rejuvenating the connections between nerves and the muscles that they control. The research, published online by the journal Proceedings of the Nat ...
• Researchers discover that gut bacteria affect mult ...
  
  
  Biologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have demonstrated a connection between multiple sclerosis (MS)—an autoimmune disorder that affects the brain and spinal cord—and gut bacteria. The work—led by Sarkis K. Mazmanian, an assistant professor of biology at Caltech, and postdoc ...
• HIV prevention science scores a victory — th ...
  
  
  Today at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, members of the International Rectal Microbicide Advocates (IRMA) and thousands of other HIV advocates and scientists cheered a long-awaited, much anticipated success in the quest for new HIV prevention technologies. Researchers ann ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

• Federal government's land grab faces growing resis ...
  
  
  Fearful that the federal government̢۪s already pervasive presence in their state could expand dramatically, Montanans are rising up against another looming Washington land grab.
• Using biotech to survive mega-droughts
  
  
  The world will need drought and salt tolerant bio-crops in the not too distant future. High-yield farming research is needed to meet growing world food demands.
• Renewables are unsustainable
  
  
  “Renewableâ€Â energy subsidies may sustain the jobs of lobbyists, activists, politicians, bureaucrats and politically connected companies. But they will kill millions of other people’s jobs.
• 3 billion and counting
  
  
  New film challenges DDT myths and lies that have caused millions of needless deaths.
• Climate change and renewable energy movements falt ...
  
  
  The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. Today, on energy security issues, we unfortunately have less to worry about from external enemies, than from our own elitist politicians, bureaucrats and pressure groups.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Russia hopes for fair verdict in alleged arms deal ...
• Death penalty: crime or punishment?
  
  
  The death penalty has always been a controversial issue. Despite the fact that more than half of the world has officially banned capital punishment, opinion polls indicate an overwhelming support for such measure. Sergei Nikitin, head of Amnesty International's Moscow office discusses the arguments ...
• Foreign presidents should not interfere with Russi ...
  
  
  Foreign presidents should not interfere with Russia's internal affairs, the president's press secretary Natalya Timakova said on Monday.
• Russian observers to make unbiased assessment of B ...
  
  
  Russian observers will make an unbiased assessment of the December 19 presidential elections in Belarus, a Kremlin source said on Monday.
• Peter the Great ready to set sail for the Baltic
  
  
  Sculptor Zurab Tsereteli's monument to Peter the Great in the middle of the Moscow River, one of the tallest outdoor statues in the world, has been dividing public opinion in the Russian capital ever since it was erected there in 1998.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russia's Rokot carrier rockets to launch two ESA s ...
  
  
  Russia's Rokot carrier rockets will take two European Space Agency (ESA) scientific satellites to orbit in 2012-2013, the head of the ESA Moscow Office said on Monday.
• New Glonass-K satellite to be launched in December
  
  
  The first launch of the new generation Glonass-K navigation satellite from Russia's Plesetsk space center will take place in December.
• New Glonass-K satellite to be launched in December
  
  
  The first launch of the new generation Glonass-K navigation satellite from Russia's Plesetsk space center will take place in December.
• Glonass to provide global coverage this year - top ...
  
  
  Russia's top space official confirmed on Monday Russia's navigation system Glonass will cover 100% of the Earth's surface by the end of the year.
• Rusnano and Renova to start producing solar panels ...
  
  
  Khevel company, a joint venture of Russia's state-owned Rusnano and Renova group, owned by tycoon Viktor Vekselberg, will start producing solar thin-film panels in 2012, Vekselberg said on Friday.

Pruning Shears

• This Week In Tyranny
  
  
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post UPDATED BELOW Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. One way to prevent allies from remaining allies is to bomb them. Turns out they hate it at both official and street levels. A ...
• Tax Hikes as Back Door Clawback
  
  
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The past couple of weeks have provided a neat illustration of Marshall’s Law - Washington is wired for Republican control. Through lots of breathless reporting we have seen story after story from DC-based outlets that glory in the i ...
• Last 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. Spencer : “Let there be no doubt that the U.S. is at war in Pakistan.” I guess it’s fine that the military is not planning on keeping prison ...
• Always and Forever, Bad Apples
  
  
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post But the measures implemented to assist deeply underwater [savings and loans] (in the very high interest rate environment of 1980-1982) were exploited by outsiders to the industry, who acquired thrifts on extremely favorable terms. Ma ...
• 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. American presidents are above the law . Via . God help you if you’re cannon fodder though. Scott Horton :The dilemma faced by the Justice D ...

Organic Consumers.org

• DeLauro Bill Would Require Labels on GM Fish
  
  
  Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), chairwoman of the House committee that controls the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Department of Agriculture budgets, introduced a bill Wednesday that would mandate labeling of genetically modified fish. Click here to read this article
• What's Wrong With Our Food System?
  
  
  Eleven-year-old Birke Baehr spoke on the food system at the TEDx Next Generation event in Ashville: "A while back, I wanted to be an NFL football player, but I've decided that I want to be an organic farmer instead. That way, I can have a greater impact on the world. "I want you to know that we c ...
• Why Who Fishes Matters
  
  
  Current changes to fisheries policies are aiding and abetting the corporate takeover and industrialization of our source of seafood. The Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA) has launched a Who Fishes Matters campaign which includes asking fisheries regulators to put limits on consolidation of f ...
• Are Meat and Milk From Clones in the Food Supply?
  
  
  It’s just a matter of time before we are eating clones—if we are not eating them now. Click here to read this article
• Cloned Meat
  
  
  Hilarious piece the Daily Show did on cloning. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

• Rosas de colores parte VI (5 fotos gratis para com ...
  
  
  Escoja usted un número para ver más fotos de rosas | [II] |[III] [IV] [V] 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 ...
• Fotos de China or China photos (6 fotos gratuitas)
  
  
  Si lo desea, también podría usted ver fotos de Estados Unidos , México , Canadá , Brasil , España , África del Sur , Francia , Taiwan , Japón y Gran Bretaña .Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO ...
• Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XIII
  
  
  Estoy realmente sorprendido con lo rápido que pasa el tiempo. Pues sin darnos cuenta, ya vamos en el número 13 de nuestra serie 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. Así que -una vez más-, disfrute de nuestros contenidos y no olvide compartir con sus amigos. Si lo desea, escoja un número p ...
• Fotos de Japón or Japan photos (6 imágenes gratis)
  
  
  Si lo desea, también podría usted ver fotos de Estados Unidos , México , Canadá , Brasil , España , África del Sur , Francia , Taiwan , Etc. 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 P ...
• Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XII
  
  
  Si lo desea, escoja un número para revisar nuestro archivo sobre la serie 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. ¡Son más de 100 fotos! [1] -[2] -[3] -[4] -[5] -[6] -[7] -[8] -[9] -[10] -[11] -[12] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK so ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Food & Dignity
  
  
  “So, where do the leftover veggies go?” It’s a common question around here, especially on Tuesdays. The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) operates a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, connecting students, faculty and s ...
• Reading between the lines: FDA indicates consumer ...
  
  
  FDA hosted a hearing on Tuesday, September 21 to discuss the hypothetical labeling of genetically engineered (GE) salmon. Just fifteen hours earlier the FDA finished hearing the debate on GE salmon approval, which gave the impression that FDA was moving faster on the issue than it actually is.  This ...
• Independent advisory committee grills FDA on genet ...
  
  
  In a chilly hotel ballroom in the Washington DC suburbs, the FDA this week is considering whether to allow genetically engineered (GE) animals in the human food supply. The test case is an Atlantic salmon that has been engineered with Chinook salmon genes to express a growth hormone. The result is a ...
• Digging for Data in Clifton Park
  
  
  Last Tuesday I spent the evening at the Clifton Mansion, home of Civic Works, the umbrella organization of Real Food Farm (RFF), a new urban agriculture project. The occasion was Digging for Data, an event held jointly by the Center for a Livable Future and Civic Works. Located on six acres of Clif ...
• NIAID responds to CLF on antibiotic resistance tes ...
  
  
  The principal deputy director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Hugh Auchincloss, notes “success against antimicrobial resistance will require a multifaceted approach that includes increased surveillance, more judicious use of antimicrobial drugs, and increase ...

Norwegianity

• & their Foxist regime
  
  
  [more pictures] No, I’m not letting this go because we need to be honest about ourselves. Ours is the side getting hammered hardest by the economy. We’re younger, more unemployed, and more broke than they are and yes, that’s lawn showing on the left side. Gas isn’t free and who has hundreds of extra ...
• One Nation, undercovered
  
  
  I wish I had more on yesterday’s rally, but what the major media chooses not to cover is the set up for Q&A jokes about Catholic bears and shitting popes. This is the best crowd shot I could find, but I’m still looking (this, btw, is the only crowd shot from DK that doesn’t look [...]
• As it gets deeper, I pile ‘em higher
  
  
  I have a new definition of the weekend. Weekends are when your favorite websites won’t finish loading because some jag-off third-party site won’t load its fucking widget. Not to mention the infamous graphics8.nytimes.com or meter-svc.nytimes.com…. Meg Whitman is now fully toasted (if not reviled), R ...
• eBay/sheSay
  
  
  Meg Whitman isn’t just going to not be the next Governor of California, she’s really seriously so totally not going to be the next guv. Whitman knew since 2003 What the Whitmans actually did Whitman v Whitman See also: McMahon, Linda [more] Christine O’ Donnell [more] James O’Keefe (these things hap ...
• Links AND text (pack a lunch)
  
  
  Meg Whitman screwed over her illegal housekeeper for nine freaking years, ignoring letters from Social Security telling her the woman was illegal, then made the woman source her own replacement when she got pregnant then fired her for being illegal after her campaign started. Then eMeg cried crocodi ...

Public News Service

• Advocates for Wild Lands Gather in DC for Wilderne ...
  
  
  Advocates for Wild Lands Gather in DC for Wilderness Week Phoenix, AZ – Nearly 100 wilderness advocates from Arizona and over a dozen other states will gather starting Sunday in Washington, D.C. They’ll be meeting with each other and federal lawmakers to urge consideration this year of legislation p ...
• Bring Back DDT? Bedbug and Malaria-Fighting Pestic ...
  
  
  Bring Back DDT? Bedbug and Malaria-Fighting Pesticide Debated Phoenix, AZ - A movement is gaining momentum that endorses expanding the use of DDT in fighting malaria in sub-Sahara Africa. The controversial pesticide, which helped eradicate bedbugs in the U.S. in the 1950s, was banned by the U.S. Env ...
• First Day of Fall Is Fall Prevention Day
  
  
  First Day of Fall Is Fall Prevention Day Phoenix, AZ – Falling down will soon become the number one cause of traumatic injury in Arizona, overtaking car crashes, shootings and stabbings. A new coalition is working to reduce the number of falls by promoting National Fall Prevention Day. Comments from ...
• Study: Impatience Helps Explain AZ's Rising Cesare ...
  
  
  Study: Impatience Helps Explain AZ's Rising Cesarean Rate Phoenix, AZ – A study from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development finds that impatience is a big reason behind the rising cesarean birth rate nationwide. In Arizona, the rate has risen by 63-percent since 1996 according ...
• Immigrants’ DREAM to Face U.S. Senate Realit ...
  
  
  Immigrants’ DREAM to Face U.S. Senate Reality This Week Tucson, AZ – U.S. Senate Democrats will try this week to pass a bill offering an eventual path to citizenship for certain undocumented immigrants. The DREAM Act would require two years of college or military service to qualify for legal status. ...

My Care2 Picks

• Pakistanis Hate the Drones, Back Suicide Attacks o ...
  
  
  Stopping the drones is a remote possibility. Itll take more than local outrage over the drones to get an administration ( allegedly ) fearing DOMESTIC terror attacks to place them back in their hangars. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• IDF intercepts Jewish boat to Gaza
  
  
  No reports of serious injuries Note most of the post contains updates on the previous IDF action against aid shipment Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Shocker! Over 90% of Americans Choose Swedens Soc ...
  
  
  Nearly every American in a survey chose Swedens Socialist wealth distribution over Americas Capitalist system. Over 90% of Americans when presented Swedens Socialism chose that system Submitted by Hans Mueller to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• What happens to a society that cannot distinguish ...
  
  
  A country entranced by illusions. It spends its emotional and intellectual energy on the trivial and the absurd. It is captivated by the hollow stagecraft of celebrity culture as the walls crumble. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Health Benefits of Oil Pulling
  
  
  Just bumped into this. http://www.oilpulling.com/faq.htm is a related page Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

• U.S. apologizes for syphilis experiment in Guatema ...
  
  
  U.S. apologizes for syphilis experiment in Guatemala | Reuters(Reuters) - The United States apologized on Friday for an experiment conducted in the 1940s in which U.S. government researchers... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Against deporting kiwis
  
  
  No Right Turn: Against deporting kiwisThis is absolutely disgusting: the government is about to deport three kiwi kids to live in a slum in India because their parents are overstayers: ... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Venezuela: “Only Ecuadorans Can Neutralise Coup At ...
  
  
  Venezuela: “Only Ecuadorans Can Neutralise Coup Attempt” | venezuelanalysis.comMérida, September 30th 2010 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – As a coup attempt takes place in Ecuador, Venezuela and regional... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Conference puts spotlight on Indigenous jailings - ...
  
  
  Conference puts spotlight on Indigenous jailings - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland says he is optimistic all parties will support... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• BNP expels Richard Barnbrook as bitter feud threat ...
  
  
  BNP expels Richard Barnbrook as bitter feud threatens to tear apart party | Politics | The Guardian: "Richard Barnbrook, one of the British National party's most senior figures, has been expelled as... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• Just a note from Barb….
  
  
  Dear Farm Wars Readers! Barb asked me to let you know her internet service is down again.  We have no idea how long this will last this time.  She’ll be back just as soon as service on the mountain has been restored. Marti
• The Truth Squad Radio Show – Open Mike Night!
  
  
  Join us this Sunday for open mike night!
• AMERICAN POLITICS WITH JOHN WALLACE – RADIO SHOW
  
  
  NEXT SHOW – THIS FRIDAY – OCT 1st  at 5:00PM Eastern Time TOPIC : CODEX ALIMENTARIUS: THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO SEE! Although most Americans do not know it, they are eating food that is injected with foreign genes (GMOs), blasted with pesticides, irradiated beyond recognition ...
• Ben & Jerry’s latest flavor: genetically engineere ...
  
  
  In addition to heaping helpings of political activism, the company also served a "protest batch" of the cleverly re-named frozen treat, "Something's Fishy." It's "an outrageous flavor protesting genetically engineered salmon," and it's chocolatey, marshmallowy good.
• Groundbreaking study shows Roundup link to birth d ...
  
  
  Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the world's best-selling weedkiller Roundup, causes malformations in frog and chicken embryos at doses far lower than those used in agricultural spraying and well below maximum residue levels in products presently approved in the European Union.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - Todd ...
  
  
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• MoD manual reveals 'execution' of prisoner by Afgh ...
  
  
  ShareThis MoD manual reveals 'execution' of prisoner by Afghan soldier 03 Oct 2010 A prisoner has been "executed" on a British base in Helmand province by an Afghan soldier, Ministry of Defence documents have disclosed. The shooting of the detainee on the small UK-controlled patrol base in Musa Qala ...
• Palestinians: Israeli settlers set fire to mosque
  
  
  ShareThis Palestinians: Israeli settlers set fire to mosque --Official: Qurans burned at West Bank site 04 Oct 2010 Palestinians accused Jewish settlers of setting fire to a mosque in the occupied West Bank on Monday, an incident that coincided with U.S. efforts to save peace talks stalled by a disp ...
• Iraq raises oil reserve estimate 24 pct
  
  
  ShareThis Mission accomplished! Iraq raises oil reserve estimate 24 pct 04 Oct 2010 Iraq's oil minister on Monday sharply boosted the estimate on the country's proven reserves of oil to 143.1 billion barrels, an almost 25 percent increase that transforms the war-ravaged nation into the home of the w ...
• Banks may need new bailout, warns think-tank
  
  
  ShareThis Banks may need new bailout, warns think-tank 04 Oct 2010 Taxpayers should be braced for another multi-billion bail-out of Britain’s banks, a left-leaning think tank claims today. Financial institutions face a funding shortfall next year as existing borrowing ends, forcing them to look for ...
• Taliban claim attacks on NATO convoys in Pakistan
  
  
  ShareThis Taliban claim attacks on NATO convoys in Pakistan 04 Oct 2010�Pakistani Taliban on Monday claimed responsibility for two recent attacks on NATO supply convoys in Pakistan and threatened to carry out more, a spokesman said. "We accept responsibility for the attacks on the NATO supply trucks ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• First published review of Arthur Allan Thomas: The ...
  
  
  I'll add more reviews as they come in, but here's the first, courtesy of Newstalk ZB today: Books - Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story 29/09/2010 Whether you concur with Wishart or not, you need to read this book. Arthur...
• I hate Ian Wishart because...
  
  
  For some years now I've "enjoyed" a growing amount of internet 'hate mail' biffed my way on websites, virtually all from people I've never met and most from people who've never actually read my work themselves but who've relied on...
• Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story...a cop kill ...
  
  
  The new book on the Crewe murders, Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story, is finally on sale. Available from Whitcoulls, PaperPlus, Take Note, Borders, The Warehouse, Dymocks and all good independent bookstores. The radio ad is available here: ThomasBook1
• New Arthur Allan Thomas book just over a week away
  
  
  Launching 27 September...the cat will well and truly be set amongst the pigeons...
• How objective was the Climategate inquiry?
  
  
  I've been too busy writing and editing the new Arthur Allan Thomas book to blog much in recent weeks, but couldn't resist this revelation about the old boys network's whitewash of Climategate. Here's how it happened...originally from Climate Audit, via...

Mondoweiss

• Halper: American Jews (and the Congress) don&#8217 ...
  
  
  For anyone who tries to imagine a life of meaning amid inhumane circumstances, Jeff Halper is a hero. The Minnesota-born founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, Halper has for decades now dedicated himself to Palestinian human rights, resisting the occupation by helping Palestin ...
• Israel’s Palestinian citizens are not a nego ...
  
  
  Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, has insisted from the launch of the current peace talks that the Palestinians set no preconditions, while making his own precondition the centrepiece of negotiations. Mr Netanyahu has said talks are futile unless the Palestinians and their leader, Mahmoud ...
• IDF soldiers convicted of using 11-year-old as hum ...
  
  
  And more news from Today in Palestine:Land and property theft and destruction / Ethnic cleansing / ApartheidActing Hebron governor slams land confiscation HEBRON (Ma'an) -- The acting governor of Hebron denounced on Saturday the confiscation of 66 dunums of land in the Taffuh village in the district ...
• Meeting Alan Dershowitz
  
  
  Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz is currently in Sydney for the Festival of Dangerous Ideas and last night debated, in front of 2000 people at the Sydney Opera House, lawyer Geoffrey Robertson on The Sins of the Father; Should the Pope be Held to Account? over the massive number of child sex ...
• Israeli forces toss gas bomb on protester near Heb ...
  
  
  And other news from Today in Palestine:Land and property theft and destruction / Ethnic cleansingSettlers burn 10 dunums of farmlands south of Nablus NABLUS, (PIC)--�Israeli settlers from the Itamar settlement in south Nablus burned on Friday at least ten dunums of land cultivated with olive trees i ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: GlaxosmitheKline Herpes Vaccine Fails Safety ...
  
  
  GlaxoSmythKline recently conducted safety trial studies on their new experimental Genital Herpes vaccine ‘Simplirix’. 8,323 women aged 18-30 years participated in the trial at 50 sites in the US & Canada. Based on the results the product has failed miserably. The question is why were these women inf ...
• VRM: Closed Door CDC Meeting Reveals Industry Cove ...
  
  
  VACCINE INDUSTRY COVER-UP EXPOSED – Selected vaccine authorities from CDC, FDA, and manufacturers discussed, in a closed meeting, the possibility of neurodevelopment disorders resulting from vaccine components. Documents released through the Freedom of Information Act detail the transcript of a meet ...
• VRM: Former Pharmaceutical Representative Gwen Ols ...
  
  
  “The Pharmaceutical Industry is in the business of disease maintenance & symptom management. They are not in the business to cure Cancer, to cure Alzheimer’s, to cure heart disease, because if they were they would be in the business of putting themselves out of business; and that in fact doesn’t mak ...
• VRM: Medical Martial Law In The US – Sleepin ...
  
  
  “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endange ...
• VRM: CDC-Gate Exposes Trail of Fraud Behind Autism ...
  
  
  The US Center For Disease Control suddenly finds itself at the center of a huge media storm, rocked by a recent scandal implicating  Dr. Paul Thorsen, chief co-author of a 2003 Danish Study financed by the CDC (which is now recognized as THE flagship model ostensibly disproving the vaccine-mercury-a ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

• Our Muslim Friends Suffer, Too
  
  
  Terrorism knows no bounds.� This atrocity happened in Iraq and the sadness still lingers in many hearts. I republish these two emails with permission of CSM Jeffrey Mellinger. Mohemmed's name has been changed to protect his family.� May God cherish his brave Soul. From: Mellinger Jeffrey J CS ...
• Iraq: Inside the Inferno
  
  
  Dear Friend, I have just returned to Afghanistan and I’m writing to tell you about a new book project I’m working on and an important organization that I’m backing with this book. I hope you will too. ABOUT SOLDIERS’ ANGELS Soldiers’ Angels is a volunteer-led nonprofit organization dedicated to ...
• One Cell Phone at a Time: Countering Corruption in ...
  
  
  Dan Rice and Guy Filippelli American commanders are preparing for a major offensive in Afghanistan to attack one of the most formidable enemies we face in country: corruption.��� Despite sincere efforts to promote governance and accountability initiatives, Afghanistan has slipped from 112th to158th ...
• Even While the World Watched: Part I
  
  
  Michael Yon 20 June 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand Recent violence focused world attention on the Kingdom of Thailand.  As the attention flowed in, foreigners poured out, even though fighting was tightly localized and not focused on travelers.  Tourists literally had to search for trouble to find it.  ...
• Perspective
  
  
  Published: 21 July 2010 Apologies that this article is available only in Thai language. Please click here to view the entire article. {loadposition user8}

The Killing Train

• Bruce Levine on Surviving America's Depression Epi ...
  
  
  I'm reading Bruce Levine's "Surviving America's Depression Epidemic". The story of how I got the book is interesting. I was reading some psychology books a while back (Alfie Kohn, Alice Miller) and a reader of this blog suggested that no psychology reading list would be complete without Levine's "Co ...
• The Rwandan Election
  
  
  Paul Kagame is headed for a landslide victory at the Rwandan polls. Exit polls indicate 93% of the electorate voted for him. If some Western media commentators could vote in Rwandan elections, the number would likely be even higher. Take Stephen Kinzer, who wrote a biography of Kagame subtitled “Rwa ...
• The Afghan War Diary Data - an initial look
  
  
  An initial look at the first 76,000 records in the "Afghan War Diary" leaked by Wikileaks yields some important information, much of which has been known or suspected by analysts for years. Given the sheer size of the database, there is a great deal more to be learned, but here are some initial find ...
• The Drug War in Afghanistan - the Dyncorp connecti ...
  
  
  Just reading some of the 800+ hits on the drug war in Afghanistan, and these are real - the US is fighting a drug war in Afghanistan. There are DEA agents running around arresting people, there are troops eradicating poppy in farmers fields, and they are finding and burning piles of opium, heroin, h ...
• Reading the incidents in Pakistan - some notes
  
  
  [Analysis of the Wikileaks Afghan War Diary]. I pulled out the 170-or-so incidents that mention Pakistan and are actually in Pakistan. A lot of them involve coordination with the Pakistani military, getting it, failing to get it, etc. An observation post comes under indirect fire, they track the poi ...

treehugger

• Violent Climate Change Film Lands 10:10 Campaign i ...
  
  
  Image credit: 10:10 Campaign At times it's seemed like the 10:10 Campaign has got the whole of Britain cutting its carbon . From football teams to corporations to schools, individuals and organizations have committed to 10% CO2 cuts in just one year. Even the new UK Government pledged to cut it ...
• Valencia Design Week 2010: Rugs! Natural, Ethical ...
  
  
  Patricia Urquiola for Gandia Blasco. Image Credit: Gandia Blasco (more photos below) At this year's Valencia Design Week in Spain, not a huge amount of companies convinced us about their products being truly good for our planet, in fact, we noticed a lot of greenwashing going on. However, a few ...
• Ireland's Newly-Studied Smooth-Hound Sharks Alread ...
  
  
  Photo via Edward Farrell The starry smooth-hound shark is considered an abundant species off the Irish coast, and they were thought to grow and reproduce quickly. However, new research shows that they actually take twice as long to mature as previously thought, and produce just one pup every tw ...
• How To Discuss Getting Off Oil Without Politics: R ...
  
  
  Much of Russel Gehrke's Renewable Energies for your Home is a useful compendium of information for people who want to build a solar dryer or make biodiesel without killing yourself. There is a neat design for a quick and easy solar heater made out of hollow core doors. A third of the book is a g ...
• French Towns Establish Horse-Drawn Recycling
  
  
  Image credit: SITA There's a lot to be said for horses as a greener form of transportation. In many ways, they are the ultimate use of biofuels—they run on grass, and their output is a biodegradable fertilizer. In fact, TreeHugger has been asked before whether we should start using horses inste ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Politicians rue ‘no vote’ campaign
  
  
  Democratic Party chairman and Shan candidate claim anti-elections campaigns will weaken any chances of opposition voices after polls
• Ditch sanctions for a ‘parallelist’ st ...
  
  
  The West is stuck with ineffective sanctions that are politically difficult to remove, but a go at tactical negotiation would fare much better
• Thailand planning Burma refugee return
  
  
  Thai FM says that plans are being made to return refugees after the 7 November elections but comments are rubbished by aid groups
• Troops and police arrested over Bago shootings
  
  
  Legal expert says Burmese government may look to make an example of those involved in the killing of two youths in Bago last month
• Burmese troops clash with Karen, Shan armies
  
  
  Fighting erupts with renegade Shan force only hours after the Burmese army loses a soldier to an ambush in Karen state

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Osama bin Laden 'trying to change image with clima ...
  
  
  Osama bin Laden's message of worry about climate change and the Pakistan floods could be an attempt to improve his image among Muslims according to a Western analyst.
• Oxfam's Dame Barbara Stocking: Challenges to being ...
  
  
  The Oxfam chief executive says food shortages, climate change and a faltering recovery means the charity needs the support of donors and business even more.
• Bill Bryson: 'Have faith, science can solve our pr ...
  
  
  Bill Bryson will honour scientists in a lecture celebrating 350 years of the Royal Society. He tells Max Davidson why his favourite is an obscure 18th-century vicar
• Business could be hit by new green tax
  
  
  Thousands of Britain's businesses could be hit by a new green tax to help raise money for the Treasury, a leading advisory body to the Government has warned.
• CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year 2010 ...
  
  
  CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year 2010 award winners.

National Geographic | Environment

• Undersea Mountain Photos: Brittlestar Swarm, More ...
  
  
  NoneSwarms of orange fish and other deep-sea creatures have been spotted during a five-year survey of the world's underwater mountain ranges. Fish - Deep sea - Scuba diving - Recreation - Outdoors
• Replacing Oil Addiction With Metals Dependence?
  
  
  China’s pivotal role as world supplier of rare-earth metals raises alarm that the new energy economy will mean the same old foreign dependence. Rare earth element - Energy - China - People's Republic of China - Environment
• Whale Snot, Cursing Away Pain Among 2010 Ig Nobels
  
  
  Profanity against pain and whale-snot-collecting helicopters are just a few of the unusual scientific achievements awarded Ig Nobels on Thursday. Ig Nobel Prize - Merrill Lynch - Harvard University - Marc Abrahams - Nobel Prize
• Renewable Energy: Ontario’s New Gold Rush
  
  
  Ontario is better known for majestic falls and forests than for its sun, but a one-year-old government incentive program has made the province a solar energy hotbed. Renewable energy - Ontario - Energy - Solar energy - Renewable
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Jurist - Legal Research

• Israel military tribunal convicts soldiers of usin ...
  
  
  [JURIST] Two Israeli soldiers were convicted by a military tribunal on Sunday of using a 9-year-old Palestinian boy to search confiscated bags for explosives in during the 2008-2009 Gaza war [Guardian backgrounder]. The boy described the incident in an affidavit to the advocacy group Defence for Chi ...
• Afghanistan government dissolves eight private sec ...
  
  
  [JURIST] The Afghan government on Sunday began the process of assuming responsibility for the country's security by disbanding eight Afghan and foreign private security firms and confiscating their weapons and ammunition. The banning of the firms [CNN report] is being conducted in accordance with a ...
• Fiji ex-PM detained for violating law against publ ...
  
  
  [JURIST] Fijian opposition leader Mahendra Chaudry was arrested by military authorities Friday for allegedly holding public meetings in violation of regulations imposed by the military government of Prime Minister Commodore Josaia Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama [BBC profile]. Chaudry, a former prime min ...
• Ecuador to revise austerity law following unrest
  
  
  [JURIST] The Ecuadorean government will revise a controversial austerity law following unrest and a suspected coup attempt, government officials announced Saturday. The announcement came after days of unrest [BBC report], during which protesting police officers fired tear gas at President Rafael Cor ...
• US financial oversight committee convenes for firs ...
  
  
  [JURIST] The US Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) [offical website] convened [press release] for the first time on Friday and approved a number of documents related to its duties under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act [text, PDF]. The FSOC, which operates with ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Washington Conservatives Worried About Movement Co ...
  
  
  Washington conservatives will send their more libertarian-inclined movement brethren a message on Monday: don't short change national defense. In an op ed to be published in the Wall Street Journal , the heads of the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Foreign Policy Ini ...
• The Pundit Consensus: Gridlock Ahead in Washington
  
  
  Punditry closes the Washington Ideas Festival for 2010. NBC's Chuck Todd : "What we know is that we're going to have gridlock. �Because we know you're not going to have large majorities. More likely than not, I think Republicans are going to be in charge of both. ... Two big political fights: the bu ...
• Webb: Obama Had Wrong Focus in the Beginning
  
  
  Jim Webb, historian, Marine, Navy Secretary, senator, needs more time before he puts a period on the end of the sentence that describes the past two years. But he has some�tentative�conclusions: "I believe that the administration should have brought a different set of issues to the table when it cam ...
• Barbour: GOP Will Gain at Least Four Governorships
  
  
  The Atlantic's good ol' boy Jeffrey Goldberg interviewed good ol' boy Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS) today, and the two got right down to good ol' politics.� Barbour said he wasn't worried about some of his party's more colorful nominees, like Christine O'Donnell. When he was RNC chair in 1994, "Our poli ...
• White House Staffers Welcome Peter Rouse
  
  
  No one associates Pete Rouse with dead fishes. Cats ... he has a few.� A lot of the news coverage has focused on how he's different than outgoing Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. (Emanuel, in tears, admitted he rode herd on the staff at his goodbye senior staff conclave this morning, but only because he ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] Success! AntiCANSEC arms-bazaar campaign - ...
• [COAT] Raging Grans video: CANSEC-NO CANSEX-YES!&q ...
• [COAT] Arms Bazaar in Ottawa Citizen, letters-to-e ...
• [COAT] Oppose the CANSEC War Machine! - coat
• [COAT] Letters-to-Editor needed re:CANSEC weapons ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | Ass ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious blast ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms tre ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's energy ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans closed ...

Tikun Olam

• Settlers Torch Another West Bank Mosque
  
  
  Not to be outdone by the magnificent handiwork of their settler colleagues of Yizhar, who burned down a nearby mosque several months ago, residents of Gush Etzion torched the mosque of Beit Fajjar, a village near Bethlehem.  Haaretz calls this a “price tag” action by settlers warning the Israeli pu ...
• Free Ameer Makhoul
  
  
  After breaking the Shabak gag order on his case, I helped found an international working group to support the imprisoned Israeli Palestinian nationalist activist, Ameer Makhoul (though I haven’t taken an active role in it lately). Now called the Committee for the Defense of Ameer Makhoul, it is ente ...
• Israeli Border Police Always Get Their Man…Dead or ...
  
  
  Today, they got him dead.  It seems a few poor Palestinian day laborers were making their daily trek into West Jerusalem looking for work.  The only problem?  Crossing from East to West Jerusalem is illegal.  And the job of the Border Police is to nab these working stiffs who do nothing more tha ...
• How Did Eli Lake Get Confidential IRS Documents fo ...
  
  
  I said my piece yesterday about Eli Lake’s fake expose on George Soros’ donations to J Street.  But a new question came to me today.  J Street is a 501c4.  As such the IRS does not publicly disclose donors to such groups.  So how did Lake get the names of Soros and the organization’s other [...] ...
• Washington Times Smears J Street Over Soros Gifts
  
  
  Before I begin this post let me make a few disclosures.  I once thought very highly of J Street.  I don’t anymore.  I think it’s a useful organization, but little more than that.  At one time, I believed it would be an independent progressive voice for a just Jewish approach to the Israeli-Arab ...

Ode Magazine

• A "Ka-Nabi" and divine intervention
  
  
  By: Anne Thomas My friend Izumi loves machines. She has about six watches, three or four cameras, several TVs, two computers, a mobile phone, and a Ka-Nabi. A "Ka-Nabi," for those of you who do not know, is Jap-lish (Japanese-English) for "car navigator." Izum ...
• All Africa, all the time
  
  
  Most of what the world reads about Africa is focused on the continent’s many problems—famine, genocide, HIV/AIDS, corruption—and it is not written by Africans. Salim Amin, CEO of the photo agency Camerapix and son of the late Kenyan photojournalist Mohamed Amin, wants to change that thr ...
• Beyond sustainability
  
  
  It takes more than growth and development for a city, an economy or an ecosystem to flourishâit takes resilience. Biloxi is gone. That’s what Toshiro Kida, a 21-year-old graphic design student at Yale University, thought when he arrived in the Mississippi coastal town during the summer ...
• A (thankful) nod to the past
  
  
  By: VictoriaKlein Today has been one of those days: no matter what you eat, drink or do, you just can’t get energized or motivated to do much of anything. I see you, to-do list, sitting there, mocking my lack of get-up-and-go (inanimate pieces of paper can be so cr ...
• Color their world
  
  
  Photo: Douglas Engle The favelas, grimy, dismal slums in the heart of Rio de Janeiro, are widely considered hotbeds of violence and crime. But Dre Urhahn (pictured on the right) has a different perspective. He sees the favelas as “a source of inspiration and creativity” and think ...

OpEd News

• Tomgram: Stephan Salisbury, Keeping an Eye on Ever ...
  
  
  Let H. David Kotz put American surveillance activities in context by focusing our attention on what this government hasn't spent much time looking at while it was putting its 24/7 efforts into watching the rest of us.
• Breast Cancer: A Story of Survivor-ship
  
  
  Martha "Marti" Wilkinson shares her story of surviving breast cancer, and questions the roles that non-profits and industry plays in the promotion/exploitation of the disease.
• U.S. Hypocritical Imposition of Sanctions On 8 Ir ...
  
  
  It is hypocritical of U.S. to impose sanctions on Iran.
• Johnny Cash-Jimi Hendrix--Folsom Teabag Blues
  
  
  Purty little lovesong, Teabag, sing-a'long, theme song, can't be wrong.
• Homophobia, Religion, and The Collapse of Industri ...
  
  
  Connecting the dots between these three realities

Switchboard

• A fisherman casts for his future in the polluted m ...
  
  
  JJ Creppel stood in his baseball cap and white rubber boots and threw his small net into the muddy bayou. Pickups and cars zoomed nearby along Hwy 23, the only road connecting oil-wrecked lower Plaquemines Parish to the wealthier suburbs of New Orleans. Creppel hauled in the net and fl ...
• State agencies should not slacken their standards ...
  
  
  It is more important than ever for Patagonia’s state agencies to maintain their integrity and independence from commercial pressure as they begin an intense period reviewing Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Addenda for two major hydroelectric proposals. Friday afternoon, the agen ...
• Murray Energy Turns Captina Creek Into Coal Sludge ...
  
  
  What is it with dirty energy companies spilling pollution into our nation’s waters this year?  First it was BP’s massive disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.  Then, a few months ago an Enbridge pipeline carrying tar sands oil burst, spilling nearly a million gallons of oil into the Kalamazo ...
• Wildlife Roundup: The Good News
  
  
  Here’s some good news about wildlife conservation for the fall, my favorite season: Up until last month, the only known population of Sierra Nevada red foxes ( vulpes vulpes necator ), a high-elevation subspe cies of red fox native to California, was a small band of twenty or so kno ...
• What Needs to be Accomplished at the China Interna ...
  
  
  I’ve just arrived in Tianjin, China for the next round of climate negotiations and the last one before countries meet in Cancun, Mexico to finalize some agreements .  This meeting is important for three reasons: It will be a chance for many people to see first-hand (or read about) w ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Whither “Human Security”?
  
  
  In an International Affairs article earlier this year, Mary Martin and Taylor Owen point out that the term is all but dead, both in the UN system and within the governments who once championed the concept: “The term ‘human security’ has all but vanished from the reports of the UN Secretary-General ...
• Faux Judicial Restraint
  
  
  Dahlia Lithwick and Barry Friedman have a very strong article about the various camouflages used by the Roberts Court. There’s nothing new about most of this stuff — selecting favorable cases, hollowing out precedents that are nominally being reaffirmed, and the like have an extensive history on t ...
• “WE UNDERSTAND, the yogurt said. WE HOPE YOU ...
  
  
  Though I tend to disagree with his criticism of other science fiction authors, I do love it when Scalzi embraces his titular WHATEVER and goes off on an anti-objectivist rant: Itâs no exaggeration when I say that Atlas Shrugged probably saved my sanity on that bus trip. So well done, Ms. Rand, an ...
• Was That Good News?
  
  
  The Yankee-hater had a real dilemma yesterday — it’s not clear whether their losing the division was actually a good thing or not. Having thought about it, the difference between the Twins and Rangers (who are almost dead even when you adjust for everything) is virtually nil. With Hamilton pla ...
• Russian Narco Subs
  
  
  This is genuinely fascinating: When police found a russian-engineered submarine under construction on the outskirts of landlocked Bogota last week, one senior officer swore they had stumbled on “irrefutable proof of the presence of the Russian mafia” in Colombia. Before the 100ft vessel could be bol ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Infiniti Sketches Out 2013 EV (Sort Of)
• One Super Cheesy Knick-Knack LED Light
• Could Nevada Sludge Keep the Lights On?
• GE Aims For Greener Refrigerators
• EV Chargers At Gas Stations Being Tested

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Back in Business
  
  
  The high court returns with three women, but few blockbuster cases.
• Treasury lines up law firms to help run TARP
  
  
  In one of the federal government's biggest legal services contracts ever, the Treasury Department has hired 13 law firms to help run the Troubled Assets Relief Program at a cost to taxpayers of up to $100 million. But the TARP watchdog, the Congressional Oversight Panel, has faulted the agency for e ...
• An investigation's tragic toll
  
  
  Nicholas Marsh, one of six prosecutors under investigation for misconduct in the public corruption case against former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, hanged himself on Sept. 26.
• All three Federal Circuit vacancies now have nomin ...
  
  
  President Barack Obama's recent nomination of Jimmie Reyna for one of three vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit covers all open slots and adds a candidate with deep international trade expertise. But court watchers expect that at least two of the confirmations to the 12-ju ...
• Attorney who impersonated fellow lawyer loses appe ...
  
  
  A Connecticut attorney who impersonated another attorney in connection with a drug bust gone wrong has lost a bid to reverse a defamation verdict against him for his role-switching stunt.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• Do ‘Environmental Extremists’ Pose Criminal Threat ...
  
  
  by Abrahm Lustgarten Sept 8th, 2010 As debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus shale reaches a fever pitch, state and federal authorities are warning Pennsylvania law enforcement that “environmental extremists” pose an increasing threat to security and to the energy sector. A confide ...
• Marcellus Money
  
  
  Here’s a website that is keeping tabs on which PA politicians have been offered money from from the gas industry and which ones have accepted that money.  Enjoy. http://www.marcellusmoney.org/
• Gas Bubbling from the Susquehanna River
  
  
  http://74.95.82.237:591/rconline/FMPro?-db=RCOnline.fp5&-format=record_detail.html&-Lay=Detail&CurrentRecordID=12635350&-find Gas Bubbling from River at Sugar Run – by David Keeler – 9/2/2010 Click here for video clip
• Keep the Promise Town Hall-PA Severance Tax!
  
  
  September 9, Thursday— Keep the Promise Town Hall in Jersey Shore, Lycoming County between Williamsport and Lock Haven, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Robert H. Wheeland Center, 1201 Locust Street, Jersey Shore, PA 17740 (part of Citizens Hose Company, Station 45) www.station45.org/wheeland_center.htm To register a ...
• EPA’s Public Meeting on Hydraulic Fracturing
  
  
  EPA’s Public Meeting on Hydraulic Fracturing Study to Take Place in Binghamton, New York; Meeting Scheduled for September 13 and 15 at the Broome County Forum Theater Release date: 08/31/2010 Contact Information: John Senn, (212) 637-3667, senn.john@epa.gov New York, NY – The U.S. Environmental Prot ...

News Blaze

• Armed Nepalese Police Seize Ballot Boxes from Tibe ...
  
  
  Armed Nepalese police in riot gear seized ballot boxes that were being used by Tibetans to vote for a new Prime Minister and Parliament in exile in a dramatic new development in Kathmandu today.
• Gov Candidate Sets Monday Press Availability At Ca ...
  
  
  'Nanny-gate,' budget focus of Capitol press conference Monday for independent gubernatorial candidate Laura Wells
• Wal-Mart's Cheaper Medicare Drug Plan
  
  
  Humana, based in Louisville, Ky., is one of the largest U.S. health insurers and second largest provider of privately run Medicare health plans. It has the highest exposure to Medicare among the major national managed care businesses.
• Costa Rica Medical Tourism on the Rise with Europe ...
  
  
  According to a recent Currencies.co.uk report, one in twenty Britons have had or are considering, medical or dental procedures outside of Britain. With increasingly higher rates for medicare, more are opting for taking their dollars overseas.
• Breaking News: Americans Traveling and Working in ...
  
  
  Thank you for standing by. At this time, all participants are going to be in a listen-only mode. During the question-and-answer session, please press *1 on your touchtone phone. Today's conference call is being recorded.

environment 360

• Food Wasted in the U.S. Leads to Massive Amounts o ...
  
  
  The amount of food wasted each year by Americans represents the energy equivalent of 350 million barrels of oil , or about 2 percent of the nation’s annual energy consumption, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Texas say it takes the equivalent of about 1.4 billion barrels o ...
• Global Survey of Marine Life Identifies Thousands ...
  
  
  A decade-long survey of the world’s oceans has revealed more than 6,000 previously unknown species and says a total of 250,000 marine species have now been identified. But the census , conducted by 2,700 scientists who participated in 540 expeditions, predicts that the world's oceans may contain ano ...
• U.S. Agency Changes Guidelines on Cellphone Safety
  
  
  A U.S. agency has changed its guidance to cellphone users about radiation safety , siding with the cellphone industry by suggesting that data on a phone’s radiation emissions is not a useful gauge of potential health risks. On its website , the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) removed a recom ...
• Video Captures Massive Haul-Out of Walruses as Sum ...
  
  
  Aerial video footage recently released by the U.S. Geological Survey captures the epic scale of a mass migration of walruses to the coast of Alaska in the face of diminished summer sea ice. Researchers say 10,000 to 20,000 walruses have abandoned the shrinking ice of the Chukchi Sea for land along t ...
• U.S. Military Must End Oil Dependence Within 30 Ye ...
  
  
  America’s military should wean itself off oil by 2040 in order to end the high vulnerability of its fuel supply to attack and price spikes, according to a new report. The U.S. Department of Defense currently relies on petroleum for about 77 percent of its energy needs, including aircraft, ground tra ...

Red Ice Creations

• Scientists Take Quantum Steps Toward Teleportation
  
  
  "Quantum entanglement" may sound like an awful sci-fi romance flick, but it's actually a phenomenon that physicists say may someday lead to the ability to teleport an object all the way across the galaxy instantly. It's not exactly the Star Trek version of teleportation, where an object disappears t ...
• The island that came out of nowhere
  
  
  On the horizon, a low, white crescent shimmered in the sunshine: the perfect image of a desert island, save for a disappointing shortage of palm trees. "There you have it," said Pierre Becker, chairman of the Sauveteurs de Mer (lifeboatmen) of Royan, a seaside resort at the mouth of the Gironde estu ...
• Diagrams of the Sinking of the Deepwater Horizon ( ...
  
  
  The US Federal Government, a full-blown accomplice, has enabled BP – the perpetrator of a Crime against Humanity, a Crime against the Planet, a Crime against a Nation (USA), a Crime against a Major Body of Water – to completely control its own crime scene. What we have, therefore, are psychopaths, w ...
• New Find Pushes Age of Stone Tools Back A Million ...
  
  
  The genus Homo is no longer the sole primate lineage known to have used stone tools to consume the meat of large mammals. New research pushes that skill back nearly a million years. Large fossilized animal bones with ends shattered for sucking out marrow and cut marks deliberately made with sharp st ...
• With BP spill under control, US looks at drill ban
  
  
  Now that the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history has effectively been stopped, the White House is considering an early end to its moratorium on deepwater drilling. But four months after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, regulators have only started to make good on promises to overhaul dri ...

Russia Today

• Future forecast engine peers into crystal ball of ...
  
  
  If you are into stories about how new technology is dragging us towards an Orwellian future, you have one more thing to worry about. A new search engine can predict the future by hearing the buzz on the Internet.
• “SKA–Carolina clash another episode of KHL-NHL riv ...
  
  
  Legendary 39-year old SKA defender Sergey Zubov spoke with Russia’s Sport-Express newspaper on the eve of his club’s clash against NHL Carolina in St. Petersburg.
• “Lukashenko’s election campaign built on accusing ...
  
  
  The Belarusian president’s recent anti-Russian rhetoric connected with his election campaign must not affect relations between the peoples of the two countries, President Dmitry Medvedev has said in his videoblog.
• Extradition of alleged arms baron stalled
  
  
  A court in Thailand has rejected a US request to drop a second set of charges against alleged Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout – a decision that stalls his extradition to the United States.
• Zenit makes another step towards second RPL title
  
  
  It is still very much Zenit's championship to lose as they sit on top of the Russian Premier League table six points clear of second-placed Rubin with two games in hand.

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

• UFOs, Abductions and U.S. Government Human Experim ...
  
  
  It is common knowledge now-a-days in the U.S. about the African-American syphilis experimentation done on men during the 1932-1972 timeframe and the recently admitted experiments done on Guatemalans during 1946-1948. Now there’s possible news of experimentation done on ordinary citizens using variou ...
• House of Representatives pass compromise NASA Auth ...
  
  
  We now interrupt our regularly scheduled esoteric programming to bring you some mainstream NASA stuff. Yeah, I know, it’s “mainstream” NASA, which hardly brings any inspiration and “Never A Straight Answer” comes to mind. But you know what? I still love rockets flaming off the launch pads and I stil ...
• Rectangular Texas UFO
  
  
  From a MUFON report via Examiner.com; Two Texas women pulled their vehicle over at 8:45 p.m. on September 26, 2010, to watch a rectangular-shaped object floating in the sky, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database. “It was very dark in color when we saw ...
• More UFOs and Nuclear Missile Bases
  
  
  Yesterday in Washington D.C. there was a meeting of former military personnel who used to work at secret nuclear missile launch sites. And their reason for meeting? To let the public know that UFOs (their versions/opinions of what UAPs are) might be tampering with the nuclear defences of the West in ...
• More Chinese UFOs
  
  
  The Chinese have a different take on UFOs; they call them UFOs. No mention of little green men, grays or any of that nonsense. From Technorati: China’s People’s Daily Online, the official news agency of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in China (CPC), is reporting that two students photo ...

Tippers News

• Unsafe drinking water in 35 states
  
  
  EPA needs to clean up the drinking water Submitted by Kris B. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Nike sweatshops - Try not to cry
  
  
  As a result of globalization many companies let their products be produced where they find the cheapest workers, working under the worst conditions. No moral and no compassion you find there. Slavery made legal by paying some cents as an excuse. Submitted by Ralph X. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
• The cost of freedom
  
  
  Critical song with pictures about the cost of freedom. Submitted by Ralph X. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Police hunting for
  
  
  A recent incident - police entering an organic food co-op with guns drawn in search of "illegal" food. America going ...... where ...? Submitted by Ralph X. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Roar For Tony On World Animal Day October 4, 201 ...
  
  
  Please participate in World Animal Day by taking action in a petition blitz for Tony. Tonys petition is currently at 4,700 plus names do you think we can reach the half way goal of 5,000 in 3 days? Submitted by Dee D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

• Ballot Initiatives Challenge Obamacare
  
  
  “Following the lead of the successful Missouri initiative, which passed with 71 percent of the vote, Arizonans, Coloradans and Oklahomans will decide this fall whether to approve proposed constitutional amendments that would allow them to opt out of key provisions of President Obama’s signature nati ...
• Firms Borrow But Hold on to the Money
  
  
  “Companies like Microsoft are raising billions of dollars by issuing bonds at ultra-low interest rates, but few of them are actually spending the money on new factories, equipment or jobs. Instead, they are stockpiling the cash until the economy improves. The development presents something of a chic ...
• TARP Comes in Below Estimate
  
  
  “Even as voters rage and candidates put up ads against government bailouts, the reviled mother of them all â the $700 billion lifeline to banks, insurance and auto companies â will expire after Sunday at a fraction of that cost, and could conceivably earn taxpayers a profit.” (New York Times) It ...
• Health Insurer Exits Market
  
  
  “The Principal Financial Group announced on Thursday that it planned to stop selling health insurance, another sign of upheaval emerging among insurers as the new federal health law starts to take effectâ¦. Principalâs decision closely tracks moves by other insurers that have indicated in recent ...
• Questionable Lender Tactics Stall Foreclosures
  
  
  “The foreclosure machinery that has forced millions of Americans out of their homes is beginning to seize up as some lenders and their lawyers are accused of cutting corners in their pursuit of rapid home repossessions.” (New York Times) The lender isnât always right. FEE Timely Classic “The Econo ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• Contents of a journalist’s backpack
  
  
  Neerav Bhatt describes himself as a professional blogger, photographer, geek and qualified librarian. Okay, so he never says “journalist,” but if you read his post that accompanied the photo below, I think you’ll forgive my headline. He’s got some interesting choices (which he explains in his pos ...
• Teaching Twitter to students
  
  
  This semester I took a course I have been teaching for 10 years and moved it to a WordPress.com blog. The students and I still meet in person once a week to discuss ideas, but otherwise, everything is on the blog. Each student was required to start his or her own WordPress.com blog, and all their a ...
• Smacking down the hierarchies
  
  
  My favorite word this week is heterarchy . I don’t think I’ve ever had a favorite word before, and I confess I was not familiar with the meaning of this one when I saw it in an article from one of those scholarly journals at which journalists like to scoff. So I turned to merriam-webster.com , as I ...
• New York Times seeks multimedia journalism interns
  
  
  Poking around in The New York Times’s job listings, I found this description of three distinct internships “in the Web Newsroom of The New York Times”: Front-end Interactive Designer: full skill-set of client-side technologies including HTML, CSS and JavaScript/Prototype. Experience with Ruby on ...
• A fresh look at reporting skills
  
  
  In June I posted a ranked list of skills needed by todayâs journalists . In reviewing it today, I wondered whether it would be different if instead of saying journalist we said reporter . Say you want to hire a reporter — for a Web-only organization, a magazine, a newspaper, a TV or documentary o ...

Facing South

• INSTITUTE INDEX: Killing jobs for political sport
  
  
  Date that Republicans used Senate rules to block an extension of the TANF Emergency Fund that directly subsidized jobs for the unemployed in government, nonprofits and small businesses: 9/28/2010 Date that the program expired: 9/30/2010 Amount of money the program had given states for job cre ...
• Lone senator denies justice to black farmers
  
  
  For the ninth time, the U.S. Senate has denied funding for a settlement with black and Native American farmers who faced decades of discrimination in government loan programs . Last week, following a protest by farmers in Washington, Sens. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and Bla ...
• Can labor out-organize the Tea Party?
  
  
  By Jane Slaughter and Mark Brenner, Labor Notes As tens of thousands of activists rally in Washington October 2 , not all union members will be on the same page. No one knows how many unionists attended Glenn Beck's "Restore Honor" gathering last month -- they were surely a small minority - ...
• SPECIAL REPORT: Industry wraps coal ash regulation ...
  
  
  Standing out among the more than 250 people who testified at the recent Environmental Protection Agency hearing on proposed coal ash regulations in Charlotte, N.C. was one speaker with an especially distinguished background: Charles Steele Jr. ( in photo at right ), the first African-American membe ...
• Gulf spill paymaster says he has eliminated claims ...
  
  
  By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica Five weeks after taking over the oil spill damage claims from BP, and after widespread criticism of delays in processing applications, claims czar Kenneth Feinberg said his operation had eliminated the backlog of older claims that had been sitting in the system unpaid ...

Worldpress - Africa

• Nigeria's Delicate Presidential Election Transitio ...
  
  
  Nigeria's election history is shambolic and corrupt. If the country's new national electoral body is to conduct a free and fair election in January, it has its work cut out for it.
• Africa's Women Turn 50
  
  
  Fifty years into African independence, African women still face a much more challenging existence than men, with significant political, social and economic changes needed for gender equality.
• Public Schools in Sierra Leone Gasping for Life Su ...
  
  
  Sierra Leone has diverse tribal and cutural practices that works against the education of the nation's children.
• Re: Public Schools in Sierra Leone Gasping for Lif ...
  
  
  Our children are taught right from wrong when growing up.
• Re: Public Schools in Sierra Leone Gasping for Lif ...
  
  
  Despite war, we are doing our best to cope.

Canadian Encyclopedia

• Trudeau, Pierre Elliott
  
  
  Pierre Elliott Trudeau, politician, writer, constitutional lawyer, prime minister of Canada 1968-79 and 1980-84 (b at Montr�al 18 Oct 1919; d at Montr�al 28 Sept 2000). Trudeau was born into a wealthy family, the
• Hydroelectricity
  
  
  Hydroelectricity is obtained from the ENERGY contained in falling water; it is a renewable, comparatively nonpolluting energy source and Canada's largest source of ELECTRIC-POWER GENERATION . In N America in the 1850s the
• Champlain, Samuel de
  
  
  Samuel de Champlain, cartographer, explorer, governor of New France (b at Brouage, France c 1570; d at Qu�bec City 25 Dec 1635). The major role Champlain played in the St Lawrence River area earned him the title of
• Carr, Emily
  
  
  Emily Carr, painter, writer (b at Victoria 13 Dec 1871; d there 2 Mar 1945). Her parents were English people who had settled in the small provincial town of Victoria, where her father became a successful merchant and respected
• King, William Lyon Mackenzie
  
  
  William Lyon Mackenzie King, politician, prime minister of Canada 1921-26, 1926-30 and 1935-48 (b at Berlin [Kitchener], Ont 17 Dec 1874; d at Ottawa 22 July 1950), grandson of William Lyon MACKENZIE. Leader of the LIBERAL PARTY

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I reuse or recycle wooly winter scarves?
  
  
  Brr! For few days last week, it felt like we were getting a last minute reprieve from summer’s sayonara but now it feels very autumnal indeed. I guess it’s time to shift into winter mode – I’ve got a list of insulating chores to complete, the garden needs more tidying, I need to make soup, [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle a baby’s cot?
  
  
  We’ve had an email from Jess: What can I do with my little girl’s cot now she’s too big for it? We’re not having any more so don’t want to keep it and I know you’re not supposed to use second hand beds for babies. There is apparently an increased risk of cot death if [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle aluminium foil/tin foil ...
  
  
  Every now and then I search for something on Recycle This and am floored when I find we’ve not covered it. The most recent example: tin foil. We’ve talked about possibly recycling aluminium foil for charity and about related items such as easter egg/chocolate wrapping foil, foil trays for pet food o ...
• How can I reduce my use of disposable razors/razor ...
  
  
  We’ve kinda touched on this topic before when talking about reusing and recycling disposable razors but that was a long time ago and I thought it might be worth bringing it up again. As when we were talking about it in 2007, I still use disposable razors occasionally – perhaps one a month since I’m ...
• Reduce This: How can you tell when something is go ...
  
  
  Over on my new frugal living/growing/cooking blog The Really Good Life today, I’ve asked a Reduce This related question: How can you tell when something is good quality? The first stage of the recycling triangle is Reduce – reduce the amount of things you buy/use and buy items that’ll last and can b ...

Mondoweiss

• Halper: American Jews (and the Congress) don&#8217 ...
  
  
  For anyone who tries to imagine a life of meaning amid inhumane circumstances, Jeff Halper is a hero. The Minnesota-born founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, Halper has for decades now dedicated himself to Palestinian human rights, resisting the occupation by helping Palestin ...
• Israel’s Palestinian citizens are not a nego ...
  
  
  Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, has insisted from the launch of the current peace talks that the Palestinians set no preconditions, while making his own precondition the centrepiece of negotiations. Mr Netanyahu has said talks are futile unless the Palestinians and their leader, Mahmoud ...
• IDF soldiers convicted of using 11-year-old as hum ...
  
  
  And more news from Today in Palestine:Land and property theft and destruction / Ethnic cleansing / ApartheidActing Hebron governor slams land confiscation HEBRON (Ma'an) -- The acting governor of Hebron denounced on Saturday the confiscation of 66 dunums of land in the Taffuh village in the district ...
• Meeting Alan Dershowitz
  
  
  Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz is currently in Sydney for the Festival of Dangerous Ideas and last night debated, in front of 2000 people at the Sydney Opera House, lawyer Geoffrey Robertson on The Sins of the Father; Should the Pope be Held to Account? over the massive number of child sex ...
• Israeli forces toss gas bomb on protester near Heb ...
  
  
  And other news from Today in Palestine:Land and property theft and destruction / Ethnic cleansingSettlers burn 10 dunums of farmlands south of Nablus NABLUS, (PIC)--�Israeli settlers from the Itamar settlement in south Nablus burned on Friday at least ten dunums of land cultivated with olive trees i ...

Media Consortium

• Maximizing the Value of Digital Editions - Digital ...
  
  
  The iPad is a game changer and the release of other tablets in the future will continue to advance digital publishing. But it remains early days (a recent FOLIO: blog quoted editors of The New Yorker as saying "writing for the iPad is like producing TV after WWII") and the "traditional" digital edit ...
• Putting the 'Ad' in iPad - Digital Editions @ Foli ...
  
  
  Some have referred to the current marketplace as the ‘golden age’ of online advertising, with the advent of 3G technology and the iPad craze. But the publishing industry seems to be missing out on at least part of what could be a $50 billion ad spend. Time spent with print media accounts for 12 perc ...
• Building Mobile Newsstands and Subscription Models ...
  
  
  Good news for the magazine industry: Apple is developing a digital newsstand that would allow publishers to sell magazines across the iPad and possibly other Apple devices. The bad news: negotiations with Apple are anything but certain, and Apple’s insistence on controlling customer data could be ...
• Checking In on Kachingle : CJR
  
  
  That’s the catch: the service is voluntary, and it only works if everyone’s on board. The big news sites can’t imagine that the relatively small number of early-adopter Kachinglers will make it financially worth it, but Kachingle can’t get more readers to sign up until they see their favorite sites ...
• Apple Said to Negotiate With Publishers Over Digit ...
  
  
  Apple Inc. is developing a digital newsstand for publishers that would let them sell magazines and newspapers to consumers for use on Apple devices, said two people familiar with the matter. ...The newsstand would be separate from Apple’s App Store, where people can buy some publications now, they ...

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Oil-drilling worms and brittlestar cities: taking ...
  
  
  What lives in the sea? That question has been the singular focus of the Census of Marine Life , an ambitious 10-year survey, launched in 2000, that is reporting its findings at a Royal Society symposium in London today. Of course, the project hasn’t catalogued all the life in the world’s ocean ...
• Nobel 2010: IVF snags medicine prize
  
  
  Robert Edwards has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his pioneering work in in vitro fertilization (IVF). Edwards began his work on in the 1950s, developing a procedure by which an egg could be removed from a women, fertilized and returned to the womb. Edwards figured out wh ...
• Imaging embryos eliminates octomoms
  
  
  Filming human embryos used for in vitro fertilisation (IVF) at an early stage in their development has allowed scientists to select those with the best chance of going on to develop into healthy babies with an accuracy of more than 93%. Once the technique is available for use in IVF clinics ...
• US apologizes for infecting Guatemalans with syphi ...
  
  
  The US government issued a formal apology for a 1940s study on the efficacy of penicillin in which as many as 695 Guatemalan prisoners, insane asylum inmates, and soldiers were infected with syphilis. Study subjects were encouraged to pass the infection to others, and about a third never got ful ...
• French research budget escapes axe, but not contro ...
  
  
  France's ministry of science and higher education is the only ministry, along with the justice ministry, to be spared from deep cuts in the country's deficit-reducing budget for 2011 announced by the government this week. Valérie Pécresse, the minister for research and higher education, yesterday ou ...

new geography

• Environmentalism as Religion
  
  
  Traditional religion is having a tough time in parts of the world. Majorities in most European countries have told Gallup pollsters in the last few years that religion does not “occupy an important place” in their lives. Across Europe, Judeo-Christian church attendance is down, as is adherence to re ...
• Redefining 'Niners': Football on The Great Plains
  
  
  At 0.5 people per square mile, Harding County, South Dakota is one of the least populated places in the nation. The county’s only high school, located in Buffalo, is small by even small-town standards, with 85 students in grades 9-12. However, few schools can match its gridiron success. Nicknamed af ...
• Shifting Religious Climate
  
  
  While the new Memphis Islamic Center in Cordova, TN awaits completion, members meet at a nearby church building that houses Cordova’s Heart Song Church. The Christian congregation has opened its doors to the Muslim community as a gesture of good will. This kind act is in contrast with other rec ...
• Portland Metro's Competitiveness Problem
  
  
  Portland Metro's president, David Bragdon, recently resigned to take a position with New York’s Bloomberg administration. Bragdon was nearing the end of his second elected term and ineligible for another term. Metro is the three county (Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties) planning agency t ...
• Latino Dems Should Rethink Loyalty
  
  
  Given the awful state of the economy, it’s no surprise that Democrats are losing some support among Latinos. But they can still consider the ethnic group to be in their pocket. Though Latinos have not displayed the lock-step party loyalty of African-Americans, they still favor President Barack Obama ...

GM Watch

• GM salmon - a Canadian perspective
• Shane Morris wades in on GM soy report
• Dangers of GM soy and Roundup
• Day of action against agribusiness and Monsanto
• Bt toxin contaminating waterways

spiked

• The case against Geoffrey Robertson
  
  
  The celebrity QC’s war against Vatican sovereignty is motivated less by liberal-humanist instincts than by a desire finally to finish off the principle of non-intervention in other states’ affairs.
• Is Sarah Silverman going all identity crisis-y?
  
  
  In her autobiography, the normally taboo-busting comedian flat-out refuses to break certain new taboos. So maybe she’s not as ballsy as her fans – including me – thought she was.
• Serving up some home truths about food
  
  
  Although it is more of a textbook than a polemic, Robert Paarlberg’s Food Politics flambés many of the myths about the food price crisis and the Malthusian lobby’s fearmongering about mass hunger.
• How to ask awkward questions and annoy people
  
  
  In his endless, often exasperating pursuit of Truth, Socrates made many enemies. Yet his ideas and his questioning outlook remain invaluable to understanding the present.
• Battle of Britain: empires at war
  
  
  On the seventieth anniversary of the Battle of Britain, it’s worth looking back at Richard Overy’s cutting-edge revisionist history, which shoots down many a myth.

Cryptogon

• Mystery Mercenary Group Is Blackwater’s 34th ...
  
  
  Via: Wired: This tasteful, quaint red-brick house on a tree-lined street in northwest Washington doesn’t appear to be the headquarters for a private security company that stands to make millions in a war zone. But the online trail for a mysterious firm, partially owned by Blackwater, leads here. And ...
• One Program to Watch Them All: DARPA’s INSIG ...
  
  
  Yet again, it’s the Information Awareness Office by another name. Via: Wired: No surprise that Darpa, the militaryâs blue-sky research arm, is the agency behind the lofty five-year program, called Insight. The agencyâs goal is to replace âlargely manual exploitation andâ¦chat-based operator i ...
• “Me and my friend went to the mechanic today ...
  
  
  They found a government of law enforcement GPS tracking unit. Via: Reddit: Me and my friend went to the mechanic today and we found this on his car. http://imgur.com/OM6nE.jpg i am pretty confident it is a tracking device by the FBI but my friend’s roommates think it is a bomb..any thoughts? Edit 1: ...
• Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI): New ...
  
  
  I wonder what surveillance hell lurks inside this… Via: Daily Tech: Microsoft reportedly plans to unleash a new PC firmware interface called Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) in 2011. Microsoft is rumored to be coming out with the successor to Windows 7 next year, dubbed “Windows.NEXT”. T ...
• Two-Year Treasury Yield Falls to Record Low
  
  
  Via: Bloomberg: Treasury two-year yields fell to a record before a government report that economists said will show orders to U.S. factories declined, adding to speculation the Federal Reserve will increase asset purchases. Three-year note yields touched the lowest since 1962 before an employment re ...

The Economic Collapse

• Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations ...
  
  
  Back in 1983, approximately 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the United States.  Today, ownership of the news media has been concentrated in the hands of just six incredibly powerful media corporations.  These corporate behemoths control most of what ...
• Winners And Losers
  
  
  When you mention the word "globalism" to most people, they think of something that is going to happen someday in the future.  But the truth is that globalism is already here.  At this point we essentially already have a one world economy.  Goods and services flow across national bor ...
• The Green Police
  
  
  Is someone out behind your house digging through your trash?  Don't worry, it is probably just the government.  When Audi ran their now famous "Green Police" commercial during the Super Bowl last year, most Americans laughed it off and thought that nothing like that could ever happe ...
• Rampant Inflation In 2011? The Monetary Base Is Ex ...
  
  
  Are you ready for rampant inflation?  Well, unfortunately it looks like it might be headed our way.  The U.S. monetary base has absolutely exploded over the last couple of years, and all that money is starting to filter through into the hands of consumers.  Commodity prices are abso ...
• As Americans Celebrate Labor Day 2010, U.S. Factor ...
  
  
  Labor Day 2010 comes in the midst of a stunning wave of U.S. factory closings that stretches from coast to coast.  Once upon a time America was the greatest manufacturing machine that the world has ever seen, but now it seems as though the only jobs available for working class Ameri ...

Desertification

• MEA Bulletin – Issue No. 101
  
  
  Read at : Multilateral Environmental Agreement List meabulletin101 MEA Bulletin – Issue No. 101 IISD RS is pleased to announce that the newest issue of MEA Bulletin is now available. The 101st issue of MEA Bulletin includes reports on … Continue reading →
• Lack of access to clean water has had many ripple ...
  
  
  Read at : http://mediaglobal.org/article/2010-10-03/reducing_poverty_through_water_and_sanitation Reducing poverty through water and sanitation By Charissa Sparks Unsafe water and a lack of basic sanitation cause an estimated 80 percent of all diseases in the developing world and together kill more ...
• Earth observation (EO) satellite technologies allo ...
  
  
  Read at : http://www.hypnotikworld.com/?p=1929 Steel storage buildings â Remote Sensing Data Aid in Monitoring Global Desertification Desertification, land degradation and drought deprive people of food and water and force millions to leave their homes. Desertification refers to the creation of … ...
• 45 million hectares of land in developing countrie ...
  
  
  Read at : http://farmlandgrab.org/15964 World divided over new scramble for African land The East African | October 4 2010 By Paul Redfern A World Bank report has confirmed that 45 million hectares of land in developing countries were bought in … Continue reading →
• Looking back at UNICEF’s project 2005-2007 i ...
  
  
  I just published on my Facebook account (Willem van Cotthem) an album on tree planting with the soil conditioner TerraCottem, developed at my laboratory at the University of Ghent (Belgium).

The Paper Trail

• New Systemic Risk Regulatory Council Sets Goals
  
  
  Reform watchers expecting a “Showdown in the Cash Room” between the primary U.S. financial regulators didn’t see anything resembling a regulatory fight club this afternoon.
• Labor Dept’s Handling of Whistleblower Cases ...
  
  
  A new watchdog report says the U.S. Labor Department often fails to properly investigate complaints by corporate workers who seek whistleblower protection.
• California Republican Lampooned in Tropical Ad
  
  
  As election ads paid for by third-party groups begin to flood U.S. airways, one group seeking campaign finance reform is running an ad blasting a California Republican who has protected the current election financing system. The ad lampoons Dan Lungren, now seeking his 9th term representing Long Bea ...
• Live From the Cash Room:  Your Risk Regulator ...
  
  
  The Financial Stability Oversight Council – the new panel that is supposed to spot any early signs of systemic risks in U.S. markets – makes its debut this afternoon. The council’s first meeting starts at 2:30 p.m. ET and will be webcast here from the Treasury Department’s aptly-named “Cash Room.”
• BP Pays Another Fine for Texas Refinery
  
  
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said today it will collect a $15 million fine from BP for Clean Air Act violations, the latest in a series of federal government fines and settlements linked to BP’s Texas City, Texas refinery.

backofthebook.ca

• Saskatchewan sucks
  
  
  By Frank Moher After an extensive investigation, backofthebook.ca has determlned that Saskatchewan sucks. It really, really sucks. The great state of Saskatchewan asserts that it doesn't suck, and demands that backofthebook.ca apologize for saying it does. Backofthebook.ca refuses to apolog ...
• Libs go AWOL on own war resisters bill
  
  
  By Alison@Creekside For want of just eight more votes, Bill C-440 -- the war resisters bill to give protection to US Iraq war deserters -- went down to defeat on Wednesday 136 to 143. The following 18 Libs expedited that defeat by going awol on the vote: Michael Ignatieff, Jean-Claude D'Amo ...
• Some oil sands history wouldn’t hurt James C ...
  
  
  By Frank Moher As he continues his visit to the oil sands and neighbouring communities today, James Cameron will have no clue what they represent to so many Albertans. He will learn that they are a threat to the health and livelihood of the people who live downstream from them, in Fort ...
• You really don’t care about Betty Krawczyk, ...
  
  
  By Alison@Creekside A column in the National Post last week compared the peaceful civil disobedience and incarceration of 82-year old environmental activist Betty Krawczyk with that of 62-year old anti-abortion protester Linda Gibbons: Two court injunctions; two women who violated them in a way ...
• Vinyl Resurgent
  
  
  by Eric Pettifor A little over three years ago, I wrote here about converting vinyl records to digitial audio files. I suggested the Ebay record section as a source for vinyl, and noted at time of writing that there were 151,436 listings. At this time of writing, there ...

Worldnews

• Emerging Market ADRs: Winners and Losers
  
  
  China: Winners and Losers China's top performing ADRs were AirMedia Group(AMCN), which surged 54.5% on news that the company has renewed its agreement with China Southern Airlines to operate digital TV screens on the carrier's aircraft through 2015. As per the contract, AirMedia will install TV ...
• Happy to be back to form after injury: Yuvraj ...
  
  
  Jaipur, October 04: Out of favour for the Indian Test team, Yuvraj Singh today refused to read much on the timing of his double ton against Mumbai in the Irani Trophy and said he was happy...
• India makes a super start as tennis makes deb ...
  
  
  India put up a dominant show on the debut day of tennis at the Commonwealth Games as all three singles players recorded easy wins and star pair of Leander Paes and Sania Mirza also began their quest for gold by storming into the quarterfinals of the mixed doubles....
• Hatem Ben Arfa Promises Newcastle United Fans ...
  
  
  Winger sidelined with double break of leg... By John Elmes Share Share Hatem Ben Arfa has promised Newcastle United fans he'll be back before the end of the season, despite his horrific injury against Manchester City on Sunday....
• Wolfsburg Keeping Tabs On Galatasaray Star El ...
  
  
  Elano has reportedly attracted the interest of Bundesliga side Wolfsburg. By Stefan Coerts Share Share Bundesliga outfit Wolfsburg are considering making a move for Galatasaray star Elano, according to a report on Radyospor...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embedded ...
  
  
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Daily Briefing—15th-16th Sept 2010
  
  
  News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
• Report: U.S. Troops ‘Still Killing Civilians’ in I ...
  
  
  A U.S.-Iraqi night raid results in the deaths of eight civilians weeks after U.S. combat operations were announced as over.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any Time ...
  
  
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Because the System’s Not Rigged Enough for Cops an ...
  
  
  Kevin Carson on the criminal injustice system 'shrills' pushing the narrative that the letter of the law aides criminals against so-called 'crime fighters'.

MY Daily Apple

• Light drinkers denied IVF to save NHS cash: Even h ...
  
  
  Women who barely drink at all could be turned down if their partners are deemed to be exceeding recommended alcohol limits.
• Gym-goers 'are wasting money on sports drinks'
  
  
  Fitness enthusiasts who buy energy sports drinks are probably wasting their money and consuming extra calories for nothing, an expert has said.
• Unions query speed of NHS reforms
  
  
  The speed and scale of the government's planned reforms of the NHS in England are questioned by health unions.
• NHS 'freezes out' private firms
  
  
  The NHS has a "closed shop mentality" which stops it working well with private health providers, a think tank says in a report.
• The downside of breast cancer awareness campaigns
  
  
  Despite the pink ribbon push, cancer deaths have dropped only slightly. And the focus on awareness may be pushing more women into treatment unnecessarily. As predictably as the leaves turn yellow in autumn, America turns pink each October with the arrival of National Breast Cancer Awareness Mont ...

Common Dreams

• Cancún Failure Would Make Climate Talks 'Irrelevan ...
  
  
  by Jonathan Watts in Tianjin TIANJIN, China - International climate talks are at risk of becoming irrelevant if countries fail to substantially narrow their differences before the end of this year, a senior European diplomat warned today. The grim prognosis by Artur Runge-Metzger, director of the ...
• Himalayas Unsettled by Melting Glaciers, More Aval ...
  
  
  by Bhuwan Sharma KATHMANDU - For the last two climbing seasons, Dawa Sherpa has missed scaling the summit of Mt Everest. But the climate ambassador for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and two-time Everest summiteer may not be relishing the thought of bearing witness once more to the impact of risi ...
• Sanders: GOP Doesn't Want America to Succeed
  
  
  by David S. Morgan A progressive Senator accused the Republican Party of putting their drive for power ahead of the public interest, saying this morning that the GOP chooses to obstruct legislation aimed at creating jobs in their bid to regain power in Congress. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., als ...
• Israel Convicts Troops of Using Human Shield in Ga ...
  
  
  JERUSALEM — An Israeli military court on Sunday convicted two soldiers of using a Palestinian child as a human shield by forcing him to check for booby traps during the 2008-2009 Gaza war. A transcript of the court decision made available by the army said the infantry sergeants were found guilty ...
• Interest-Group Spending for Midterm up Fivefold fr ...
  
  
  by T.W. Farnam and Dan Eggen Interest groups are spending five times as much on the 2010 congressional elections as they did on the last midterms, and they are more secretive than ever about where that money is coming from. read more

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• Roberto Luongo
• Wendel Clark
• Tegan and Sara
• Lee Daniels
• James Cameron

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Stop the pretending and seek to k ...
  
  
  ExamineReligion: Stop the pretending and seek to know him!: Proverbs 9:10 (King James Version): 10 The fear of the LORD is the begi... http://exm.nr/ahW0Kb
• ExamineReligion: Fearlessness (part 4): How can fe ...
  
  
  ExamineReligion: Fearlessness (part 4): How can fearlessness be practically experienced?Honesty.The first act of salvation is being... http://exm.nr/cX2MZS
• ExamineReligion: ACLU hops in bed with Ground Zero ...
  
  
  ExamineReligion: ACLU hops in bed with Ground Zero Mosque Imam: Apparently, the ACLU can find nothing better to do than to kick san... http://exm.nr/cuFPRn
• ExamineReligion: Words can kill: Sticks and stones ...
  
  
  ExamineReligion: Words can kill: Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.If only this phrase were true.... http://exm.nr/8Zcuap
• ExamineReligion: Is God's love conditional: The so ...
  
  
  ExamineReligion: Is God's love conditional: The song says Jesus loves the children of the world - red and yellow, black and white, ... http://exm.nr/9Be2cl

Energy Collective

• In Tianjin This Week, Hope and Fresh Urgency on Cl ...
• India to Launch Satellite to Monitor Deforestation ...
  
  
  The Indian space agency plans to launch a satellites dedicated to monitor deforestation activities and afforestation efforts in 2013. The minister of Environment and Forests, Mr.
• Green Product Paradox: When Too Much Good Is Bad f ...
  
  
  A common mantra in green marketing is that if you want the masses to buy your product, focus your messaging on more traditional attributes such as price, quality or service.� A product’s “greenness” is likely secondary for many mainstream consumers. For green marketers then, the holy grail may be to ...
• The New Yorker: How the Senate and White House mis ...
  
  
  As the Senate debate expired this summer, a longtime environmental lobbyist told me that he believed the “real tragedy” surrounding the issue was that Obama understood it profoundly. “I believe Barack Obama understands that fifty years from now no one’s going to know about health care,” the lobb ...
• The continuing debate over wind power and net emis ...
  
  
  We’ve discussed the complicated relationship between wind power and the net reductions in greenhouse gas and other emissions here previously.

Green House - USA Today

• How to boost home efficiency during energy awarene ...
  
  
  Fed up with high utility bills? Since October is National Energy Awareness Month, and winter is not far off, this is a good time to review ways to make your home more efficient.
• Genetically altered plants could counter global wa ...
  
  
  Forests of genetically altered trees and other plants could ameliorate global warming by sequestering several billion tons of carbon from the atmosphere each year, a new study reports.
• Green Sonoma farmhouse emerges from 1960 home
  
  
  Cathy O'Neill's cozy white home blends into its neighborhood in Sonoma, Calif. Yet it's still distinctive in one way. It's so energy-efficient that its mechanical system can fit into a linen closet.
• Emanuel's replacement could calm climate debate
  
  
  With White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's departure, President Obama is turning to the journeyman sage who helped acquaint him with the nuances of energy policy as a new senator in Washington. Now he might steer a splintered debate on climate.
• Sen. Bingaman pushes to pass energy bills
  
  
  The chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has a laundry list of energy measures he wants to see approved this fall and is pressing Senate leaders to schedule votes during the short legislative session after the November election.

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

• Economic Inequity, Manufactured Populism, and the ...
  
  
  by Phil Rockstroh I was born, at slightly past the midpoint of the Twentieth Century, in the deep south city of Birmingham, Alabama -- "The Heart of Dixie." My earliest memories are of a time of societal upheaval and cultural trauma. At the time, as the world witnessed and history chronicles, Birmi ...
• What if Hillary were President?
  
  
  Mary Shaw Like many other progressive Democrats who are disappointed in President Obama's failure so far to bring about as much social change as we had hoped for, I've been pondering the alternatives. If John McCain had won the White House, this country would surely be in far worse straits -- perh ...
• Lawless Arrests, Detentions and Torture in Iraq
  
  
  by Stephen Lendman An earlier article discussed Iraq's dire conditions after seven years of occupation, and over a decade of sanctions, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/04/iraq-today-afflicted-by-violence.html It presents a grim overall picture, bes ...
• Lawless Nation - the Executive Branch
  
  
  By Michael Collins Part I of III WASHINGTON - Selected to run by the powerful and wealthy, promising the public one thing and delivering another after elected, the President of the United States is the focus of a new political doctrine - the unitary executive. The office of the president has ...
• SHOCK THERAPY FOR WALL STREET: JPMORGAN SUSPENDS 5 ...
  
  
  Ellen Brown “Maybe this is like shock therapy. Maybe this will actually get the lenders to the table and encourage them to work out deals that are to the benefit of everybody.” --Economist Karl E. Case, quoted in the New York Times   The hits are coming fast and furiously.  Major Wall Street mo ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Green jobs key to climate strategy and equality
  
  
  Today the CCPA released a new report by Marc Lee and Ken Carlaw that looks at industrial and employment strategies the BC government can use to transition to a sustainable economy and create a new generation of well-paying green jobs. Read the report or summary ...
• CCPA in Nova Scotia - Three exciting upcoming even ...
  
  
  CCPA-NS is pleased to bring two speakers to Nova Scotia for back-to-back lectures. The first speaker, Leah Vosko, will discuss issues related to precarious employment. Drawing on her field research, she will present three different approaches to uncertainty, low income, and limited benefits in the w ...
• All the latest on the census long-form debacle
  
  
  On June 30th, the CCPA's Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan was among the initial voices leading the criticism over the government decision to eliminate the census long-form questionnaire. Since then, a groundswell of alarm has turned into a wall of opposition, across the political spectrum. Stay tu ...
• Government Choices: Advertising
  
  
  The AFB has long argued that budgets are always about choices. �Canada is a rich country and governments can and should spend our money on priorities that are important to us. �Today, it was revealed that the Government spent $130 million on Advertising last year alone driven in part by the endless ...
• The economic case for universal pharmacare
  
  
  The main argument that is typically made against the establishment of universal Pharmacare is economic in nature. However, a new CCPA report shows that the economic argument in favour of such a program is loud and clear, regardless of which industrial policy is subsequently considered. Canadians ...

World Wide Hippies

• One Nation March – Don’t Mourn, Vote!
  
  
  No Fear And Not Much Loathing In Washington Stop greed in its tracks. Reverse the plutocracy the US Government has become through corporate manipulation of our laws and our marketplace. Rally the moral and the just to get out and vote Democrat on November 2nd. Sure, the Dem’s are almost as bad as th ...
• A New Breed of Eco Terrorist?
  
  
  The Green Agenda Is About Getting Rid Of As Many Humans As Possible | Canadian Free Press Most people tend to think of environmentalists as warm, cuddly hippies that just want all of us to love one another and to do what is right for the environment. And in fact, there are a few people [...]
• LOOKING INTO THE MIRROR: ALL WE REALLY HAVE IS OUR ...
  
  
  I saw another DVD that reminded me that we really do live in the world of survival of the fittest. The FITTEST are usually those who live for Power and Control over others. ‘FORMOSA BETRAYED” is the story of how the U.S. used another Dictator who rule his people with an IRONED FIST, simply [...]
• Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins
  
  
  PBS The activist priest Father Roy Bourgeois campaigns to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas. POLITICS OF ASSASSINATION: The Bloody Legacy of the US Army School of the Americas By W. E. Gutman Getting rid of someone is easy. Destroying popular aspirations takes more effort but you can alway ...
• No Fear And Not Much Loathing In Washington:
  
  
  Almost Nothing Happens On The Long Journey To The One Nation March, Except We Beat That Punk Beck Like A Gong, So You Owe It To Us To Get Off Your Ass And Vote Democrat On November 2nd We’ve got an eighth of a bottle of bourbon, two e-cigarettes, one crappy internet connection, two laptops, valet [. ...

Doug's Darkworld

• The mind, formerly boggled, reels uncontrollably
  
  
  I finally figured it all out watching the mainstream news on TV the other day. We’re not living in The Matrix, we’re living in a  dystopian 1980′s scifi movie. Robocop, Blade Runner, The Running Man, Terminator, Max Headroom, and others all nicely contributing to this farce. Not that reality itself ...
• ALLIES HELPLESS AS FLEETS OF UNSTOPPABLE NAZI STEA ...
  
  
  1943, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, the commander of Germany’s Air Force, issued his now famous “1000, 1000, 1000.” requirements, the so called  “3 X 1000 project.” This was a call for a bomber that could carry a 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) load for 1,000 km (620 mi) at 1,000 km/h (620 mph. ) And ...
• The Mystery of the Dog Legged Gate?
  
  
  History is full of mysteries, and this is one of them. Granted it’s not a very big mystery, as mysteries go it’s pretty minor. In fact if the importance of this mystery was turned into gasoline, it wouldn’t drive an ant’s motorcycle halfway around the inside of a cheerio. (I’ve been waiting more tha ...
• McCain Proposes Indefinite Detention Without Trial ...
  
  
  Still, this proposed law is scary. The whole concept is so foreign to the principles the country was founded upon that it’s like being in a bad dream and not being able to wake up. This proposed law basically turns the Constitution and the Bill of Rights into a piece of toilet paper and gives [...]
• The myth of nation building, or why you can’ ...
  
  
  Please note there is now a “share” button at the bottom of each post for those who wish to share a post among a variety of venues of their choice. Thanks in advance for all that do so. Another Friday, another week of an all too fleeting life passed by, yadda yadda yadda.  And as [...]

FourWinds10

• Fish Kills and Dead Zones Create Confusion in the ...
  
  
  Earlier this week, thousands of fish died and floated to the surface of Bayou Robinson in the Plaquemines Parish area of southern Louisiana. The massive die-off was the third found near the parish in a week, prompting outrage from local leaders who want to know if leftover oil and toxic dispersants ...
• "WORST CASE SCENARIO": "Oil may be emerging on to ...
  
  
  Critical Ocean Life Threatened by Oil on Gulf Floor, CNN, August 17, 2010: LARRY MCKINNEY, TEXAS A&M'S HARTE RESEARCH INST. FOR GULF OF MEXICO STUDIES: ... [T]hey do tend to support some of our greatest concerns about the fate of these underwater plumes that were discovered back in June, and that is ...
• 100 Tons of Diesel Spill into Nile
  
  
  Cairo - At least 100 tons of diesel fuel spilled into the Nile river after a barge partially sank in southern Egypt, media and state sources reported on Sunday. The barge was carrying 244 tons of diesel fuel when it sank on Saturday while attempting to dock near Aswan, some 980km south of the capita ...
• BP spill: White House says oil has gone, but Gulf' ...
• BP Oil Spill Disaster! Corexit in Florida and Alab ...
  
  
  This is some raw video footage taken from a Project Gulf Impact boat trip we took on August 24th, 2010. Within minutes of departing in Perdido Bay, Florida, we came across massive amounts of oil that had been obviously freshly sprayed with Corexit. The problem was, the dispersed oil wasn't just in o ...

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

• Book Review: Power Hungry
  
  
  Join the forum discussion on this post Introduction “There is no more complex or fascinating topic than energy.” — Robert Bryce As I began to work on my review of Robert Bryce’s latest book, Power Hungry: The Myths of “Green” Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future, it became less a traditional ...
• Have We Hit Peak Coffee?
  
  
  Join the forum discussion on this post // The following is a guest essay authored by R-Squared regular Paul Nash. (Credit to Ronald Steenblik for the “Carter-Reagan Parallel” portion.) Have We Hit Peak Coffee? There is continued debate about whether the world will soon hit “Peak Coffee,” with ...
• The Lesson from Rising Ethanol Prices
  
  
  Join the forum discussion on this post I thought it was a bit humorous recently — when corn ethanol prices dipped and were cheaper than both sugarcane ethanol and gasoline (even when adjusted for lower energy content)  — that some corn ethanol proponents pointed to this as a watershed event. Their ...
• How to Run an Oil Industry into the Ground
  
  
  Join the forum discussion on this post Hugo Chavez is putting on a clinic in Venezuela. The theme is “How to Destroy a Domestic Oil Industry.” I have warned for years that this would be the end result of Chavez’s actions. As I wrote in 2007: So, can Chavez under-invest in the industry while divert ...
• Peak Oil Interview: Misconceptions, Replacing Oil, ...
  
  
  Join the forum discussion on this post Back in June, I gave a presentation on Peak Oil at the Global Footprint Conference in Siena, Italy. (More on the event here). Following my presentation, I was asked to do a pair of interviews. One was for an upcoming documentary called Critical Mass. The secon ...

Discovery Educator Network

• Google Översätt
  
  
  Tags: google , salvage , virtual , titanic by: Dean Mantz
• Expedition Titanic | Return to the Deep
  
  
  Comments: Awesome interactive website with resources and information about the Titanic. - Dean Mantz Tags: titanic , history , expedition , interactive , web2.0 , education , resources by: Dean Mantz
• K12 Online Conference 2008
  
  
  Comments: Free professional development from educators and students around the globe. - Dean Mantz Tags: web2.0 , conference , education , technology , e-learning , edtech , k12 , profession , development , conferences by: Dean Mantz
• Neave Planetarium - Interactive star map and virtu ...
  
  
  Comments: A very nice interactive website that is flash based providing information about astrology. - Dean Mantz Tags: astronomy , science , planetarium , stars , flash , interactive , constellations , space by: Dean Mantz
• The Ultimate Guide to Wordle - Thinking Skills - E ...
  
  
  Comments: Complete guide and examples for successful Wordle creation. - Dean Mantz Tags: Wordle , education , thinking , Guide , skills by: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• Mattel Recalls Millions of Fisher-Price Toys and P ...
  
  
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—This time, it's not Salmonella or tainted tomatoes, but Dora the Explorer tricycles, Little People, and inflatable balls that have government regulators overseeing a massive recall. Thursday morning, toy maker Mattel announced a massive recall involving over 10 million Fishe ...
• 5 Fabulous Sweet and Savory Crepe Recipes
  
  
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The versatile, classic crepe—essentially a light, super-thin pancake—works great as the foundation for all kinds of delicious dinners and desserts. Don't be too intimidated by the French name to try some crepe recipes at home. Once you have the basic recipe and crepe-making ...
• Massage Boosts Your Immunity, New Study Finds
  
  
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The benefits of massage are immediately obvious to anyone who's had one. A massage session calms you down, eases your anxieties, and even helps you sleep at night . Now a new study, funded by the government's National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine, finds ...
• Should Your Fish Oil Pills be Thrown Back?
  
  
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The beneficial fatty acids in fish oil have been associated with a reduced risk of breast cancer , fatal heart attacks , better brain function, and more. But a recent report conducted by a consumer watchdog group has discovered some fish-oil-supplement claims are downright f ...
• 5 Simple Recipes for Tasty After-School Snacks
  
  
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—It’s important to refuel your kid after school with smart, healthy snacks. Sure, his or her school day is over, but it’s been hours since lunch, and dinnertime is still a ways off. Healthy snacks for kids will satisfy their hunger, keep them from filling up on empty calories ...

big think

• Columns: Not just for basalt anymore
  
  
  There has been a wave of articles over the last few weeks out on the geoblogosphere on columnar jointing in lavas – with many , many great images of columns seen around the world . I thought I’d jump in the fray, but as usual, basalt seems to have gotten the center stage when it comes to looking at ...
• America’s Fears Bigger Than Its Dreams
  
  
  If you  are planning on holding a large political rally in Washington, and you want to do it right, you really need to buy a TV network first, so you can get tons of free publicity. The One Nation rally , which took place on the Mall in Washington yesterday, has gotten so little press it can be ... ...
• New Yorker: Obama White House to Blame for Failure ...
  
  
  At The New Yorker this week, Ryan Lizza provides an account of why the Senate cap and trade legislation failed, told mostly from the perspective of staffers working for Senate co-sponsors John Kerry, Lindsay Graham, and Joe Lieberman (aka KGL).  According to Lizza's account, a combination of ... Re ...
• The Realm of Hammered, Horizontal Academics
  
  
  Most university graduates are happy to have their senior honors thesis behind them. None more though than a recent Duke University student whose "mock" honors thesis , chronicling her drunken sexual exploits over her last two years of college, isn’t likely to be forgotten any time soon.  This ... Re ...
• Residential WattStation: Sleek Electric Vehicle Ch ...
  
  
  Last month, design and innovation firm fuseproject introduced WattStation -- a revolutionary electric vehicle charging station for public spaces, developed in partnership with GE. Leveraging the technology and its critical acclaim, fuseproject has just released a residential version of GE ... Read M ...

Information Liberation

• The Pretended Populism of Politics
  
  
  In the United States and around the globe, statism benefits from sharing its conceptual space with populism, which may be broadly defined as an advocacy for the interests of common, working people, for the general improvement of their lot. The interr...
• Apology Not Accepted
  
  
  As has been reported recently, officials of the US Government issued an official *apology* for a scientific experiment done in the 1940s, in which 1500 or so Guatemalans were deliberately infected with syphilis and/or gonorrhea without their knowledg...
• One Human's Taxation is a Tragedy; Three Hundred M ...
  
  
  An itemized receipt for taxes? How lovely and desirable! A think tank called Third Way just issued a paper analyzing what the median US taxpayer of 2009 (who earned $34,140 and paid $5,400 in federal taxes) actually purchased. Bloggers respondi...
• A Liberal's Awakening to the Reality of ObamaCare
  
  
  On December 24, 2009, H.R. 3590 * Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law.* Liberals around the world rose up in appreciation that Health Care Reform was finally coming to America.* The Bill was touted as a major victory fo...
• Climate Film Depicts Children Assassinated For Not ...
  
  
  UPDATE: The 10:10 Global organization has been forced to remove the video from their website and issue an apology. Given the fact that the clip was pulled hours after it first appeared and yet involved the contribution of dozens of actors and film pr...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• How Can You Not Laugh?
  
  
  Splattergate! I’ve seen the film once. and not really had the stomach for a second viewing. But the Richard Curtis-directed short promo on behalf of the 10:10 movement is turning out to be one of marketing’s all-time disaster stories. On … Continue reading →
• Nullius In Verba
  
  
  China isn’t buying it. Russia isn’t buying it. The citizens of the United States of America aren’t buying it and are making this fact painfully clear to their legislators; my own countrymen, with their well-attuned B.S. radar, aren’t buying it. … Continue reading →
• The Pioneer
  
  
  The Lincolnshire Sniffer Dog strikes yet again! LibertyGibbert’s Pavarotti of pictorial punditry, Fenbeagle, this week brings his historical epic forward to the Victorian era, and that greatest of all British engineers. At least, when he stuck to building railways, bridges … Continue reading →
• The Cognoscenti Speak
  
  
  Here’s a post where you can discuss the current JD thread in a bit more detail. I never really knew much about the Bilderberg group. They seem to be compromised of pretty much everyone who actually runs the world, and … Continue reading →
• The Time To Let Up?
  
  
  G’day everyone ,and thanks for keeping LibertyGibbert humming away while I’ve been out on the road. I note the rather triumphalist tone in James Delingpole’s latest post in the UK Daily Telegraph; I’m not so sure I agree with it. … Continue reading →

FAS - Secrecy News

• Behind the Censorship of Operation Dark Heart
  
  
  By censoring Anthony Shaffer’s new book “Operation Dark Heart” even though uncensored review copies are already available in the public domain, the Department of Defense has produced a genuinely unique product:  a revealing snapshot of the way that the Obama Administration classifies national secur ...
• Inspectors General to Help Oversee Classification
  
  
  The House and Senate this week approved legislation that will require the Inspector General of each executive branch agency that classifies information to evaluate the agency’s classification program and to assess its implementation of classification policies and procedures. The new measure should h ...
• GAO Gains a Foothold in Intelligence Oversight
  
  
  The Government Accountability Office seems poised to play an increased role in intelligence oversight, despite a series of legislative setbacks and the Obama Administration’s threat of a veto earlier in the year. The issue remains alive in the FY2010 Intelligence Authorization Act which was approved ...
• Is Publication of Classified Info a Criminal Act?
  
  
  When Wikileaks published tens of thousands of classified U.S. military records concerning the war in Afghanistan last July, did it commit a criminal act under U.S. law?  That was the question posed by a new report (pdf) from the Congressional Research Service.  In the end, the CRS report tentative ...
• DNI Directive on Unauthorized Disclosures (2007) R ...
  
  
  The Office of the Director of National Intelligence last week released Intelligence Community Directive 701 (pdf), entitled “Security Policy Directive for Unauthorized Disclosures of Classified Information,” dated March 14, 2007. The directive sets forth procedures and requirements for identifying a ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• New Sciencebase element
  
  
  I’ve updated the Sciencebase tumblr account, for those of you who would like an alternative one-stop shop for science and technology news and views from David Bradley. The site aggregates the Sciencebase, Sciencetext, SciScoop, and Reactive Reports newsfeeds as well as my “likes” in Google Reader. T ...
• Science news with a spectral twist
  
  
  My latest science updates on SpectroscopyNOW.com: Soft solar cell – US researchers have demonstrated that water-gel-based solar devices can act like "artificial leaves" heralding the possibility of soft matter solar energy conversion devices. X-Ray resistance – An X-ray structure determined by US re ...
• Chalking one up for science vs religion
  
  
  Apparently, atheists and agnostics performed very well in a survey of religious knowledge (on a par with Jews and Mormons and better than Protestants and Catholics) on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions. More about that here. But it wasn’t the su ...
• Latest science stuff
  
  
  Latest science stuff from Sciencebase: How to Memorize the Periodic Table With a Song – Kind of these people to link to my site, but I take issue with the idea of learning Tom Lehrer's song as a means to chemical education. It's fun and might help you remember the names of the elements, but [...] La ...
• Yet more scientific news
  
  
  Yet more science news from Sciencebase, it’s never ending: Whooping cough epidemic suggests bacteria are adapting – Nine babies have died in California, and four in Australia, so far, in the worst epidemic of whooping cough in rich countries since vaccination became widespread in the 1950s. The main ...

RFF Library

• PAGER—Rapid Assessment of an Earthquake’s Impact
  
  
  USGS http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/pager/ [From Background] PAGER (Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response) is an automated system that produces content concerning the impact of significant earthquakes around the world, informing emergency responders, government and aid agencie ...
• GHG Targets as Insurance Against Catastrophic Clim ...
  
  
  Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ.  / by Martin L. Weitzman http://tinyurl.com/3xv8oo7 [Abstract] A critical issue in climate change economics is the specifcation of the so-called “damages function” and its interaction with the unknown uncertainty of catastrophic outcomes. This paper asks ...
• U.S. Natural Gas Imports & Exports: 2009
  
  
  US DOE, Energy Information Administration http://tinyurl.com/2v76mdg [Overview and Highlights] In 2009, net U.S. imports of natural gas were the lowest since 1994, representing just 12 percent of total consumption. The primary underlying cause for the lower level of net imports was continued strong ...
• The Demand for Ethanol as a Gasoline Substitute
  
  
  NBER Working Paper 16371 / by Soren T. Anderson (free on-site for RFFers; $5.00 fee for non-subscribers) http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16371 [Abstract] This paper estimates household preferences for ethanol as a gasoline substitute. I develop a theoretical model linking the shape of the ethanol dem ...
• Trends in Sustainable Development: Small Island D ...
  
  
  UN Department of Social and Economic Affairs, Division for Sustainable Development http://tinyurl.com/3a8nahq [Foreword] Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face unique and special challenges. The special case of SIDS within the context of sustainable development was first formally recognized by t ...

Scientific American - News

• Robert Edwards Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine or Phy ...
  
  
  Robert Edwards has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work to develop in vitro fertilization (IVF), the Nobel committee announced Monday . The procedure allows a human egg to be fertilized outside of the body and then implanted in a woman's; it has been used as a treatme ...
• Would Wiretapping Laws Spell the End of Quantum En ...
  
  
  The nascent industry of quantum communications could suffer a fatal blow if the U.S. enacts sweeping new regulations to provide wiretapping access to law enforcement. [More] Law - Telephone tapping - United States - Law Enforcement - Security
• Artificial Event Horizon Emits Laboratory Analogue ...
  
  
  Stephen Hawking is famous for many things: provocative best-selling books, Simpsons guest stints and his long and productive life with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis among them. In the field of astrophysics, the University of Cambridge physicist is also known for his work on gravity and black holes ...
• Legislation Setting NASA's New Direction Finally C ...
  
  
  President Obama's plan for NASA--or at least a modified version of it--cleared a major hurdle late on Sept. 29, when the House of Representatives agreed to the Senate's version of a three-year authorization bill for the space agency. The legislation would add one space shuttle flight to the docket, ...
• Horizontal Gene Transfer: Bacteria Transmit Geneti ...
  
  
  Oceans are highly dynamic habitats: nutrients flood in from a river only to dwindle away over intervening days or weeks; currents shift the mix of waters; an oil spill suddenly makes hundreds of millions of liters of hydrocarbons available to eat . Without sex--and many bacteria don't have sex than ...

RAWA News

• Afghan warlords hedge bets, contest elections
  
  
  The Associated Press: Several warlords supported candidates in Afghanistan's parliamentary elections last weekend, and observers allege they engaged in widespread intimidation and vote-buying. While analysts say it's important to give such groups a way into the mainstream, they suspect warlords will ...
• Warlord TV
  
  
  Foreign Policy: On Thursday nights, when Afghan Star, a popular American Idol-like talent show, is on TV, the streets of Kabul are noticeably quieter. Even in a land torn apart by fighting and where people consume less energy per person than in any other country, somehow 65 local television stations ...
• Thousands of Afghans displaced by fighting
  
  
  AFP: Hundreds of families have been displaced by fierce clashes in southern Afghanistan as NATO-led forces fight to eradicate the Taliban from the militants’ heartland, officials said Wednesday. People are fleeing insurgent-infested districts around Kandahar city as Afghan and US-led NATO forces ste ...
• Afghanistan says over 3,000 complaints about vote
  
  
  AFP: Afghanistan’s electoral watchdog said on Tuesday it has received over 3,000 complaints about irregularities in the run-up to Saturday’s parliamentary election and on polling day itself. The Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) said 1,388 complaints had been received specifically about election ...
• Tony Blair “knew of torture risk for Guantan ...
  
  
  Telegraph: Papers released to lawyers for six former terrorism suspects detained at Guantanamo Bay show that the former Prime Minister was “initially sceptical about claims of torture” but had changed his mind and wanted reassurances from the Americans. The detainees, who include Binyam Mohamed, are ...

frogblog

• Paul Henry should actually apologise
  
  
  Paul Henry has expressed his racism on TV. Talking to John Key about the Governor General Anand Satyanand, and Anand’s replacement next year, he said: “Is he even a New Zealander?” Henry asked. ”Are you going to choose a New Zealander who looks and sounds like a New Zealander this t ...
• Stop the East Coast drilling plans!
  
  
  Yesterday the communities of the Te Tairawhiti and Whakatane again lit fires on their beaches to highlight their opposition to the offshore oil drilling proposals. They are highlighting the lack of legal opportunities for community input as well as the sheer madness of risking the e ...
• Have your say on John Key’s plans to undermine ACC
  
  
  On Friday, the Government released consultation papers on levy increases and experience ratings for ACC. They are calling for submissions by 29 October.  Let them know what you think!  Reading between the lines, the papers also make clear that there is no financial crisis in ACC. As ...
• A short lesson for Sir Peter on employment relatio ...
  
  
  I have no doubt that Sir Peter Jackson is a well-meaning person, with the interests of his workers at heart. But he does need a short lesson in how to relate to unions. So, Sir Peter, I would advise that: 1. You don’t attack the legitimacy of a union, as you have with Actors Equity. ...
• How to stop drink driving?
  
  
  A few days ago the government announced another set of tough penalties for teen drink drivers. They have effectively reduced the blood alcohol limit for teenage drink drivers to zero. I think it is a case of youth scapegoating but I’m not complaining about this because we need to cu ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Welfare in California
  
  
  Here is the lead story in today's LA�Times : More than $69 million in California welfare money, meant to help the needy pay their rent and clothe their children, has been spent or withdrawn outside the state in recent years, including millions in Las Vegas, hundreds of thousands in Hawaii and thous ...
• The Counterintuitive World
  
  
  Back during World War II, the RAF lost a lot of planes to German anti-aircraft fire. So they decided to armor them up. But where to put the armor? The obvious answer was to look at planes that returned from missions, count up all the bullet holes in various places, and then put extra armor in the ar ...
• Campaign Spending Update
  
  
  Here's the latest on campaign spending: The $80 million spent so far by groups outside the Democratic and Republican parties dwarfs the $16 million spent at this point for the 2006 midterms....The bulk of the money is being spent by conservatives, who have swamped their Democratic-aligned competiti ...
• The Human Nature Top Ten
  
  
  Over the past few days I happen to have posted about two aspects of human nature that most people don't pay enough attention to: Loss aversion: people really, really hate to lose something they already have and will forego even favorable risks to avoid it. Regression to the mean: ...
• Prospect Theory and the Taxpayer Receipt
  
  
  Yesterday �I wrote about Third Way's proposal to send taxpayers an annual "receipt" showing them roughly where their tax dollars go. I thought it sounded like a good idea that just about everyone could support, but ended with a rhetorical question: "And yet, I'll bet that neither party would actuall ...

Insanity Report

• Rick Sanchez and the Awesome Suckage of Race Baiti ...
  
  
  After listening to the whole clip, it’s clear that Sanchez’s biggest problem is that he has a huge chip on his shoulder.  Sanchez is trying to race bait and claim that the reasons Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert make fun of him his because of his Hispanic background and humble beginnings.  The son o ...
• IC 200: Business as Usual
  
  
  "Rick Sanchez is just mad that a comedian is doing a better job at informing the public than he is"
• Secrets, Lies, and Power in the Pulpit
  
  
  When the news first broke that ATL All-Star “Bishop” Eddie Long was being accused of having had improper sexual relationships with young men in his flock, I admit that I was not surprised. I only knew a little bit about Mr. Long, but from what I knew, I knew he was the type of man [...]
• IC 199: No Hymen, No Husband (Video)
  
  
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Simple Climate

• I don’t care what the weatherman says, when ...
  
  
  Many people trust weathercasters' professionalism when it comes to climate change - but researchers' survey of US weathercasters' response to the Climategate scandal shows political outlook had a greater influence than professional credentials on how it affected their certainty that global warming i ...
• But, how do we know this is right?
  
  
  Peer-review weeds out bias – and peer-reviewed scientists talk to Simple Climate
• Spider orchid flowering crawls forward with warmin ...
  
  
  Peak flowering occurs 6 days earlier for each degree increase
• Immense energy emissions challenge “not unde ...
  
  
  Steven Davis finds hopes of keeping temperatures down slim
• Saturday round-up: All quiet on the northern seas
  
  
  Frequency of 'Arctic hurricanes' is set to fall, following sea ice

e!Science News

• 1st census shows life in planet ocean is richer, m ...
  
  
  After a decade of joint work and scientific adventure, marine explorers from more than 80 countries today delivered a historic first global Census of Marine Life. read more
• Climate change affects horseshoe crab numbers
  
  
  Having survived for more than 400 million years, the horseshoe crab is now under threat – primarily due to overharvest and habitat destruction. However, climatic changes may also play a role. Researchers from the University of Gothenburg reveal how sensitive horseshoe crab populations are to natural ...
• A step toward lead-free electronics
  
  
  Research published today by materials engineers from the University of Leeds could help pave the way towards 100% lead-free electronics. read more
• Disappearing glaciers enhanced biodiversity
  
  
  Biodiversity decreases towards the poles almost everywhere in the world, except along the South American Pacific coast. Investigating fossil clams and snails Steffen Kiel and Sven Nielsen at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU) could show that this unusual pattern originated at the end ...
• New approach to underweight COPD patients
  
  
  Malnutrition often goes hand in hand with COPD and is difficult to treat. In a recent study researchers at the University of Gothenburg, have come up with a new equation to calculate the energy requirement for underweight COPD patients. It is hoped that read more

unEarthed

• Climate Change Is The Change bin Laden Can Believe ...
  
  
  If military commandos ever capture Osama bin Laden in some remote hideout, they might be surprised to find him clad in Birkenstocks and a quarter-zip fleece, poring over his aged copy of "Silent Spring" under the glow of a compa ...
• This Road Leads to a Clean Energy Future
  
  
  Though the Senate may be standing still, America's roads are moving fast toward a clean-energy future.Today the Obama administration announced its goals for its next set of clean cars standards , picking up where the first clean ...
• Huge Increase of Cancer Substances In Area of Gulf ...
  
  
  Oil in Gulf of Mexico marshes Cancer-causing substances have been discovered in the waters and air of the Gulf of Mexico near the BP oil spill area, at levels much greater than before the spill occurred, according to research ...
• Friday Finds: OMG, GMOs
  
  
  Genetically engineering foods could make them more allergenic. Photo courtesy of evah, stock.xchng. FDA's food policy makes people sneeze On the heels of the FDA's decision to approve genetically engineered or GE salmon, a ...
• Latino Groups Urge Obama to Protect Them From Poll ...
  
  
  Photo: Fresno Bee Across the United States—from California's Central Valley to Chicago, Houston and New York—people are breathing polluted air and suffering. Asthma, bronchitis, heart disease, birth defects and even cancer ar ...

Brave New Climate

• Challicum Hills wind farm and the wettest Septembe ...
  
  
  I’m back on my BNC blog tonight, albeit briefly. You see, I’ve been on annual leave since Wednesday, and have spent the last few days on a motoring tour (with my parents and my two boys, Billy and Eddy, aged 11 and 8) around western Victoria — Castlemaine, Ararat, Lake Fyans, the spectacular Grampia ...
• SNE 2060 – thermal reactor build rates, uranium us ...
  
  
  Read this for the context. The first set of scenarios looks at the possible build out of Gen II+/III/III+ thermal reactors (i.e., current and advanced water-moderated reactors: PWRs, BWRs, HWRs etc.), over a 50 year time frame (2011 to 2060). The focus of this exercise is not to predict which reacto ...
• Scenarios for nuclear electricity to 2060 – ...
  
  
  Back in April 2010, I wrote a post “Nuclear century outlook – crystal ball gazing by the WNA”. It looked at an interesting study, undertaken by the World Nuclear Association, that made some low/high bound projections for electricity production between 2008 and 2100, including nuclear, new renewables ...
• Kakadu – a climate change impacts hotspot
  
  
  When ecologists, policy makers, or the public, think about the visceral impacts of climate change on Australia’s natural systems, World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park (KNP), located in the seasonal tropics of the Northern Territory, is high on the at-risk list. But looking deeper into the huma ...
• TerraPower’s Travelling Wave Reactor – ...
  
  
  There has been a lot of hype recently about the “Travelling Wave Reactor” (TWR), thanks largely to a very popular TED talk given recently by none other than Microsoft founder and multi-billionaire Bill Gates. In the 20 min talk, he describes the urgent need for cheap, abundant, low-CO2 energy, if we ...

Indigenist Opinion

• A Witness to Iraq’s Health Crisis: Nahoko Takato S ...
  
  
  A Witness to Iraq’s Health Crisis: Nahoko Takato Speaks about her Experiences as an Activist and Aid Worker in Iraq :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1] : Nahoko Takato, a Japanese aid worker, quickly developed strong connections in Ramadi ...
• Notorious Body Part Snatcher Dr. Hiss Autopsied Ra ...
  
  
  Notorious Body Part Snatcher Dr. Hiss Autopsied Rachel Corrie – Parts Still Missing :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1] : Sometimes, reading an article about war, I want to puke. Recovering from Max Blumenthal’s latest bombshell from Haif ...
• The Myth of the Founding Fathers
  
  
  Tom Turnipseed: The Myth of the Founding Fathers By TOM TURNIPSEED Led by Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, Tea Party worshippers of the Founding Fathers want to return to the “good ol’ days” of 1787, when most African-Americans were slaves, many poor whites were indentured servants, and women couldn’t v ...
• Defend and Free Diop!
  
  
  Diop Olugbala Convicted! Defend and Free Diop! PHILADELPHIA-On Tuesday, August 24, the US government gave another example of its desperation in the face of popular resistance with the conviction of Diop Olugbala in Philadelphia. Despite all the efforts to paint imperialism with a new, benign and fr ...
• 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

• No Income Tax = 83 Of America’s 100 Largest ...
  
  
  83 of the nations largest 100 companies paid zero income tax last year. When the teabaggers to to Washington to try to take their country back, who is it that truly controls their country? I haven’t seen any anti corporate control, anti lobbyist signs at their rallies. Do they even know who their re ...
• Tea Bagger Zombies Will Be Disappointed!
  
  
  Do you want to know what is sad? After the billionaires and Corporate America pour hundreds of millions into the campaigns of “conservatives” do you think when push comes to shove they won’t get their handouts? Their tax cuts? Their loopholes? Their subsidies? When the tea baggers work so hard to ge ...
• Republicans Do Create Jobs
  
  
  In China.
• Mitch McConnall Doing His Best to Defend the Rich
  
  
  “We canât let the people whoâve been hit hardest by this recession and who we need to create the jobs that will get us out of it foot the bill for the Democratsâ two-year adventure in expanded government” is what ‘ol Mitch said on the Senate floor. In fact her personally knows more than [...]
• Any More Christine McDonnell
  
  
  And I think I might be sick… And then you have Michele Bachman talking about Nancy Pelosi’s $100,000 bar tab on military jets when she doesn’t drink, and there is no alcohol on military jets. Do right wing lunatics ever pay a price for lying? I will bet the brain dead sheep that listen to [...]

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

• Bill Moyers on The Economic Elite Vs. The People o ...
  
  
  On March 1st, Bill Moyers gave his first public speech in three years, as the final speaker in the Dowmel Lecture series. In his speech, he addressed what he feels is "the greatest threat" to our country: the staggering inequality of wealth and the death of the middle class.
• WAKE UP MEDIA! Lehman Report is Further Evidence o ...
  
  
  How much more evidence of a financial coup and the theft of trillions of dollars do we need before the media and our politicians do something, anything , to restore a rule of law in this nation? What is it going to take?
• Jon Stewart & Dylan Ratigan: How Wall Street Robs ...
  
  
  Why are Jon Stewart and Dylan Ratigan the only two sources on US television who consistently report on the biggest theft of wealth in history? Consider this a devastatingly accurate introduction to the economic coup, or the Daily Show's Economic Coup for Dummies.
• The Best Way to Rob a Country, Own a Bank
  
  
  The best way to understand the theft of trillions of our dollars, listen to William Black on The Real News Network...
• Is It Time for Law Abiding American Citizens to St ...
  
  
  The evidence is now overwhelming. The United States government has facilitated the theft of trillions of dollars of national wealth and 99% of the US population no longer has political representation.

  Blacklisted News

• Wall Street Sees World Economy Decoupling From U.S ...
• Wall Street Sees World Economy Decoupling From U.S ...
  
  
  Just three years since America began dragging the world into its deepest recession in seven decades, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Credit Suisse Holdings USA Inc. and BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research are forecasting that this time will be different. Goldman Sachs predicts worldwide growth will slow 0. ...
• IMF admits that the West is stuck in near depressi ...
  
  
  If you strip away the political correctness, Chapter Three of the IMF's World Economic Outlook more or less condemns Southern Europe to death by slow suffocation and leaves little doubt that fiscal tightening will trap North Europe, Britain and America in slump for a long time.
• We're In a Global Currency War ... But What Does I ...
  
  
  Japan, Brazil, Peru and countries all over the world are trying to beggar thy neighbor (just as happened during the 1930s) and gain a leg up for their exports by cheapening their currencies.
• Obama’s Grab for New Spy Powers
  
  
  I n a reprise of the crypto wars of the 1990s, the U.S. secret state is mounting an offensive that would force telecommunication companies to redesign their systems and information networks to more easily facilitate internet spying.

The Intelligence Daily

• IntelFilter: October 4, 2010
  
  
  Headline of the day: Army embeds active-duty PSYOPS soldiers at local TV stations; US Military...
• Crypto Wars! Obama Wants New Law to Wiretap the In ...
  
  
  By Tom Burghardt In a reprise of the crypto wars of the 1990s, the U.S. secret state is mounting an...
• Lawless Nation – the Executive Branch
  
  
  By Michael Collins WASHINGTON – Selected to run by the powerful and wealthy, promising the public...
• Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations ...
  
  
  By Michael Snyder Back in 1983, approximately 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all...
• Economic Inequity, Manufactured Populism, and the ...
  
  
   By Phil Rockstroh I was born, at slightly past the midpoint of the Twentieth Century, in the deep...

My AntiWar

• US Warns Americans on Travel to Europe
• Sunday: 13 Iraqis Killed, 14 Wounded
• Future of Large Jewish Enclave in West Bank Far Fr ...
• Europe Terror Alert: Likely Suspected Groups
• PLO Demands Settlements Freeze Before Peace Talks

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Iran and the Oct 2 national rally for jobs
  
  
  Summary: Oct. 2 Iran Contingent I was standing in the middle of the massive rally for jobs in Washington, D.C., holding one end of a 10-foot-long banner that read “Money for Jobs, not for War or Sanctions against Iran,” watching the faces of the hundreds of people walking by. ... folks were here ...
• International Flaw: With New Iran Sanctions, POTUS ...
  
  
  Summary: On Wednesday afternoon, in a joint press conference, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner announced that the United States had imposed a new set of unilateral sanctions, including a travel ban and freezing of assets, against a number of to ...
• 'IAEA chief's path leads to catastrophe'
  
  
  Summary: Ali Akbar Salehi Iran's nuclear chief cautions the head of UN nuclear agency that he should not allow himself to be used as a political instrument for starting a war against Tehran. source: Press TV read more
• Iran: War Anniversary Focused on Youth Amity
  
  
  Summary: Iranian and Iraqi youth were the stars at a 24 September ceremony to celebrate peace between their countries. On this date thirty years ago began the eight year Iran‐Iraq war that killed and injured hundreds of thousands of both sides. With a whole generation of orphans wishing to preve ...
• Contingent in Oct. 2 Jobs Rally to demand: “Money ...
  
  
  Summary: On Oct. 2, tens of thousands of people from across the United States – members of civil rights organizations, labor unions, community groups and religious institutions – will rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., to demand “Jobs, Justice and Education!” CASMII and FOR are ...

The Daily Galaxy

• The Search for ET: Should It Focus on Hot Stars, B ...
  
  
  In the current search for advanced extraterrestrial life SETI experts say the odds favor detecting alien AI rather than biological life because the time between aliens developing radio technology and artificial intelligence would be brief. “If we build a machine...
• Image of the Day: A Ghostly Reflection Nebula
  
  
  Ghostly NGC 1999, a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion, shows a remarkable jet-black cloud near its center, located just to the right and lower right of the bright star. This dark cloud is an example of a "Bok globule,"...
• Beyond the X Files? "With U.S. Air Force Testimony ...
  
  
  There has been some outrage recently, spurred on by Stephen Hawkings view of hostile ETs, over attempts to contact intelligent aliens, where instead of just listening real hard some astronomers beamed intense directional messages up up and away. Critics decried...
• Sci, Space, Tech Fans: Win a Free $500 Apple Gift ...
  
  
  Use it to Buy an iPhone, iPad or Hundreds of Other Apple Products and Accessories. Users of Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Reddit are invited to discover, review and share Daily Galaxy posts you love on any one or combination of the...
• Hubble's Heir will Orbit at the Lagrange Point 1 M ...
  
  
  Imagine a place colder than Pluto where rubber behaves like glass and where most gasses are liquid. The place is called a Lagrange point where the James Webb Space Telescope will orbit. NASA engineers have created a unique engineering marvel...

Natural News

• Calcium and vitamin supplements reduce breast canc ...
  
  
  (NaturalNews) Taking vitamin and calcium supplements may reduce women's risk of breast cancer by as much as 40 percent, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Ponce School of Medicine in Puerto Rico, and presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. ...
• Dark chocolate prevents damage from strokes
  
  
  (NaturalNews) Researchers from Johns Hopkins University believe they have discovered a biochemical pathway by which a chemical naturally found in dark chocolate can help protect the body from strokes. Previous research has shown that a flavanol known as epicatechin appears to protect the body agains ...
• Doctor admits that most MDs know nothing about nut ...
  
  
  (NaturalNews) Most people probably assume that their doctors know everything there is to know about health because, after all, they went through many years of medical school. But according to a recent New York Times piece written by a doctor, most medical schools teach few, if any, courses in nutrit ...
• GE salmon? Are you out of your minds?
  
  
  (NaturalNews) Has the FDA gone completely mad? Why are they trying to open the flood gates to genetically engineered (GE) salmon -- a move that will go down in history as one of the most asinine and dangerous ever made by our government? What's it going to take for them to actually start protecting ...
• BPA found in canned foods, health risks for pregna ...
  
  
  (NaturalNews) The hormone-disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) is found in high levels in canned food, a coalition of environmental groups has warned, sparking warnings from some doctors that pregnant women should avoid such products. "Fresh fruits and vegetables may be more expensive, but I believ ...

Threat Level

• 5 Key Players Nabbed in Ukraine in $70-Million Ban ...
  
  
  Ukrainian authorities have arrested five key suspects in a massive international bank fraud ring that used malware to steal at least $70 million from small businesses, municipalities, churches and others in the U.S. The five are alleged to be part of a multi-national ring that includes about 60 oth ...
• New Clues Point to Israel as Author of Blockbuster ...
  
  
  New clues released this week show a possible link between Israel and sophisticated malware targeting industrial control systems in critical infrastructure systems, such as nuclear plants and oil pipelines. Late Thursday, security firm Symantec released a detailed paper with analysis of the headline ...
• Texting Censorship Flap Settled Out of Court
  
  
  A legal flap concerning whether wireless carriers may censor text messages was settled out of court Friday, leaving unanswered the highly contentious question of whether wireless carriers have the same “must carry” obligations as traditional phone companies. The month-old New York federal case pitt ...
• All Rise: Supreme Court’s Geekiest Generation Begi ...
  
  
  The U.S. Supreme Court begins a new term Monday with a slew of technology and civil rights issues queued on its docket, some of which could have far-reaching implications for the Freedom of Information Act, copyright, warrantless searches of private residences, the “state secrets” privilege and fr ...
• U.S. Charges 37 Alleged Mules and Others in Online ...
  
  
  Thirty-seven people are being charged in the United States for their alleged role in an international fraud ring based in East Europe that stole more than $3 million from bank accounts belonging primarily to small businesses and municipalities, according to indictments released Thursday. The sophis ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Right-Wing Terror Returns to Oregon
  
  
  This week, Time magazine offered an inside look at " the Secret World of Extreme Militias ," the increasingly dangerous ranks of anti-government extremists, white supremacists, tax deniers, gun rights activists and anti-abortion radicals. But even as Barton Gellman reported that "Obama's ascendancy ...
• The Real GOP Pledge: A Perpetual Obama Witch Hunt
  
  
  Last week, would-be House Speaker John Boehner unveiled the GOP Pledge to America to dismal reviews from, among others, himself. "We can't have that serious conversation [about policy] until we lay out the size of the problem," Boehner said of the Pledge, adding, "Let's not get to the potential sol ...
• CBO Warns Permanent Bush Tax Cuts Will Hurt Econom ...
  
  
  The Republican demand to make the Bush tax cut windfall for the wealthy permanent is like Jason from the Friday the 13th slasher movies. Incredibly dangerous but once presumed dead, the GOP's perpetual payday for the rich rises again to wreak havoc and ruin lives. And delivering the warning this t ...
• Like Father, Like Son for Ben Quayle
  
  
  Addressing the United Negro College Fund back in 1991, Vice President Dan Quayle declared, "What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is." Especially true, it turns out, of his son Ben . As he showed in discussing the economy in a new campai ...
• Rich Vote with Their Wallets to End Bush Tax Cuts. ...
  
  
  Over a year before the GOP " Pledge to America " demanded permanent tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans costing $700 billion over the next decade, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) fretted, "We're running out of rich people in this country." But as it turns out, anecdotes and polls alike reveal that t ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

• CIA Analysts Shut Out on Afghan War
  
  
  President Obama's chaotic Afghan War review ignored the protocol of a formal intelligence estimate, notes Ray McGovern. September 30, 2010
• Our Unheeded Warnings to Obama
  
  
  From the Archive: After Barack Obama won the White House, Robert Parry issued three warnings that were ignored about dangers ahead.
• Fear Still Erodes American Liberties
  
  
  Under the Obama administration, fear among American dissenters hasn't significantly abated, Danny Schechter discovers. September 30, 2010
• Israeli Commandos Accused of Murder
  
  
  A UN report on Israel's assault on a Turkish ship off Gaza says commandos murdered six passengers, Gareth Porter reports. September 29, 2010
• Mystery of a 'Disgraced' War Reporter
  
  
  In 1944, Canadian reporter Paul Morton parachuted behind German lines, into an enduring mystery of betrayal, says Don North. September 28, 2010

CounterPunch

• :
• Alexander Cockburn : Autumn of the Driveler
• Carl Ginsburg : Life in the Low to Mid-Teens
• Alexander Cockburn : Loose-Lip McChrystal Did Obam ...
• Alexander Cockburn : He Should Have Kept His Mouth ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Abbas: No freeze, no talks (Ma'an News)
  
  
  President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated Sunday that he would not return to negotiations if Israel did not freeze settlement building, the Israeli daily Haaretz said. Full scale settlement cons ...
• Palestinian worker killed at barrier (The Associa ...
  
  
  Israeli police shot and killed a building worker from the West Bank village of Sair yesterday, after he used a rope to scale the "separation barrier" meant to keep Palestinians from enter ...
• Israeli soldiers convicted of using Palestinian bo ...
  
  
  Two Israeli soldiers were today convicted of using a nine-year-old Palestinian boy as a human shield during the three-week Gaza war in 2008-9 and could face a prison sentence of up to thr ...
• Remembering Iqrit (The Alternative Information Ce ...
• Construction fever (Khaled Amayreh, Al-Ahram Week ...
  
  
  With the Arab world and Palestinian Authority seemingly caught in a spiral of weakness and vacillation, and the Obama administration unwilling or unable to pressure Israel, the Israeli go ...

Water - AlterNet

• Misusing California Water Numbers for Political Pu ...
  
  
  Central Valley Tea Partiers and right wing media are using a pack of lies to launch a full-scale assault on the environment of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
• Misusing California Water Numbers for Political Pu ...
  
  
  Central Valley Tea Partiers and right wing media are using a pack of lies to launch a full-scale assault on the environment of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
• Senate Passes Bill to Aid 100 Million of the World ...
  
  
  Some people might be skeptical (with reason) about the effectiveness of this legislation—what will make it any different than similar, not-so-successful efforts?
• Dolphins Escape as Nets Are Cut During Japan's Ann ...
  
  
  Every year, fishermen in Taiji herd about 2,000 dolphins into a shallow bay, select several dozen for sale to aquariums and marine parks and harpoon the rest for meat.
• Rising Energy Demand Hits Water Scarcity 'Choke Po ...
  
  
  Criticism of the impact that water-cooled solar plants could have on water priorities in the U.S. Southwest even came from within the government.

Public Citizen in Texas

• Judges Recommend Tenaska Coal Plant Permit Not Be ...
  
  
  The Administrative Law Judges (The Judges) who heard the case against the proposed Tenaska Coal Fired Power plant ruled Friday that Tenaska’s air permit should not be granted as it stands! “The Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) have concluded, based on their review of the evidence and applicable law, ...
• Bill White Talks Solar, Clean Energy Jobs
  
  
  Finally, energy is now moving to the center of the debate in the governor race. Bill White announced yesterday his energy plan. For a while, the democratic candidate’s position on energy was a bit blurry but yesterday White set the record straight. He is in for green energy. While the current gove ...
• EDF’s Jim Marston in HouChron on Single State Agen ...
  
  
  Some great points from the director of Environmental Defense Fund‘s Texas Regional Office (and Energy Program), Jim Marston. If you’re concerned about government spending, consolidating existing efficiency programs and oversight into one agency has the potential to reduce overlap and redundancy in g ...
• Pedernales Board Votes for More Transparency
  
  
  Pedernales Electric Cooperative.  The name used to be synonymous with closed-door meetings and conjured up images of a good ol’ boys club and the smoke-filled room, where the public was shut out of the decision-making process. Today Pedernales Electric Co-op (PEC) board members voted for a proposed ...
• EPA’s New Program to Fix Texas’s Broken Flexible P ...
  
  
  It has been about half a year since the battles started between the EPA and TCEQ over the Texas’s flexible air-permitting program. Unfortunately, the Governor has taken advantage of this issue to use to attack the Federal Government in his bid for the Governor post. Many have us have forgotten that ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Seeking alien life in Earth's atmosphere
  
  
  Britain is launching a mission to search for signs of alien micro-organisms in the upper atmosphere. The mission is a joint venture with the European ...
• 750,000 undiscovered species in the oceans
  
  
  A massive new census of life in the oceans has been completed following 10 years of research. The census has revealed an astonishing number of marine ...
• Lost letters reveal DNA discovery twist
  
  
  Recently discovered letters and postcards have revealed the fierce competition between scientists. Significant rivalries existed between the men who w...
• Druidry recognised as religion in UK
  
  
  Druidry has been recognised as an official religion in the UK for the first time in history. Druids have been a part of Britain's history for thousand...
• One third of extinct animals turn up again
  
  
  Scientists believe that conservationists are overestimating the number of species that go extinct. In a recent study it was revealed that a third of a...

Grassroots

• Communities in Oaxaca Buried in Mud
  
  
  oaxaca.jpg The hillsides of Oaxaca literally slipped into mud and slid through community villages nearby.�Among those affected by the deluge are Grassroots International partners: Mixe Peoples' Services ; Center to Support the Popular Movement ...
• Via Campesina Denounces Gates Foundation, Monsanto ...
  
  
  Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� The Via Campesina is an international movement of peasants, small- and medium-sized producers, landless, rural women, indigenous people, rural youth and agricultural workers. The Via is a Grassroots International pa ...
• Ending Poverty by Rebuilding Local Food Economies- ...
  
  
  us_food_sovereignty_alliance.jpg Emerging out of the US Working Group on the Food Crisis , the US Food Sovereignty Alliance will be the first of its kind in the United States. Grassroots International is a member of this new alliance. To celeb ...
• Director of Grantmaking & Advocacy
  
  
  Grassroots International (GRI) is a dynamic, social justice-oriented, human rights and international development organization and public foundation that works to create a just and sustainable world by building alliances with progressive movements through grantmaking and advocacy. GRI’s grantmaking a ...
• Referendum on Land Holding Used to Educate about L ...
  
  
  plebiscito_popular_logo.jpg As part of a larger campaign to support the right to land, this week Grassroots International provided a $10,000 grant to boost education and organizing around a powerful national referendum in Brazil. The referendu ...

Climate

• October 4, 2010
  
  
  Climate Change Talks Open in China (AP) China, the world's biggest carbon emitter, opened a UN conference on climate change Monday aimed at narrowing differences before a major year-end meeting in Mexico. Climate Chief Urges Nations to Show Deal Can Be Done (Reuters) The UN climat ...
• October 2-3, 2010
  
  
  Obama Promotes Clean Energy (AP) Wind, solar and other clean energy technologies produce jobs and are essential for the country's environment and economy, Pres. Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday, Emanuel's Replacement Might Calm the Climate Debate (ClimateWire ...
• October 1, 2010
  
  
  U.S. Issues New Rules on Offshore Drilling (New York Times)   The Interior Department tightened its rules on offshore oil and gas operations on Thursday but left in place the moratorium on deepwater drilling that has left oil executives frustrated and Gulf Coast officials fuming. U.S. Oi ...
• September 30, 2010
  
  
  Hopes Dim for Energy Bill in Senate (Politico)  Senate Democratic leaders are backing away from plans to tackle any type of energy legislation during the upcoming lame duck session, including a renewable electricity standard. GOP Senators Predict Energy Victories Next Year (Greenwire) ...
• September 29, 2010
  
  
  Durbin Says Energy Legislation in Lame-Duck a 'Long Shot' (The Hill) Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) Tuesday threw cold water on suggestions that the Senate would respond legislatively to the Gulf spill or take up a renewable power mandate during a lame-duck session. Energy ...

GreenBiz

• Bay Area Startup Turns Dirty Diapers into Compost
  
  
  Fed up with sending their kids' dirty diapers to the local landfill, three Bay Area families launched a business two years ago aimed at turning soiled diapers into compost used on farms, golf courses and plant nurseries.
• J&J Beats Goals for Cutting Carbon Emissions, Wate ...
  
  
  Johnson & Johnson is reporting double-digit reductions in carbon emissions, water use and waste, exceeding environmental goals in six areas while being on track with 2010 targets in another four key categories.
• Sara Lee Creates More Trash But Sends Less to Land ...
  
  
  Sara Lee has cut the amount of waste it sends to landfill by 32 percent in the last five years, and six of its facilities send no waste to landfill, although the total amount of waste the company produces has gone up 7 percent in that same time.
• Kimberly-Clark Helps Save Water One Flush as a Tim ...
  
  
  After a water footprint revealed that 85 percent of the water use associated with its toilet paper takes place during flushing, the company set out to create a product that would address an environmental impact long viewed to be outside its reach.
• Clinton Initiative Spurs Pledges for Efficiency, S ...
  
  
  The final days of the Clinton Global Initiative brought more developments in the realm of business and environmental stewardship from Cisco, Duke, Ceres and the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute.

Reuters Global

• Claiming Jinnah’s mantle: Musharraf joins th ...
  
  
  Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf launched his political career, invoking the spirit of the country's founding father Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The problem is every politician in Pakistan claims to inherit Jinnah's legacy, but who are voters to believe in ?
• Ireland’s boasts come home to roost
  
  
  Ireland's now crippled economy has done everything but recover. Unemployment is stubbornly high, property prices remain depressed, taxpayers face years of cutbacks and, in the second quarter, growth again went into reverse. What happened?
• Former British Ambassador recalls German unificati ...
  
  
  Sir Christopher Mallaby, deputy chairman of the Thomson Reuters Trustee Directors, had a front row seat to German Unification as Britain's ambassador to Germany from 1988 to 1992. Mallaby, who was later ambassador to France, served in the British Diplomatic Service from 1959 to 1996. He was also a m ...
• From Celtic Tiger to road kill: Ireland’s ra ...
  
  
  UKI Bureau Chief Jodie Ginsberg lived in Ireland between 2004 and 2007. As the country discloses the size of its bank bailouts, she reflects on Ireland's rapid descent from economic powerhouse to financial weakling
• Special Relationship? How quickly they forget&#823 ...
  
  
  It was just last year when U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gushed to Vogue magazine about former British Foreign Secretary David Miliband.

Booman Tribune

• Serious Question
  
  
  Remember how Mayor Daley supposedly stole the election for JFK? Can you wait for the story about how Mayor Rahm is going to steal election for Obama? With ACORN? Assuming Rahm wins, of course.
• European Travel Advisory
  
  
  The State Department has issued a travel advisory to Americans traveling in Europe: The State Department alerts U.S. citizens to the potential for terrorist attacks in Europe. Current information suggests that al-Qaida and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks. European g ...
• Populist Cred or Diversionary Tactic?
  
  
  Frank Rich is kind of off-the-mark. Most of what he says about Christine O'Donnell is actually more true of Sarah Palin. O'Donnell is just a mini-Palin. But her usefulness isn't that she gives the Republicans some anti-elite cred. Palin has that covered. O'Donnell's usefulness is that she draws ...
• It's Crazy Out There
  
  
  Want to know why Nevadans are even considering Sharron Angle over Harry Reid? August was the 44th consecutive month in which Nevada led the nation in housing foreclosures. That's why. Well, that and 14.4% unemployment. Look, this is a race where the mainstream Republican lost because she w ...
• Serious Question
  
  
  Do you feel badly for Wall Street?

European Tribune

• Dive, dive, dive!
  
  
  In yet another attempt to appease the Gods of the Market, the Irish government is...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 4 ...
  
  
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Geekdom on this date in history:1985 - founding of...
• Sunday Open Thread
  
  
  Good afternoon....
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 3 ...
  
  
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europe on this date in history:52 BC - Gaulish...
• Saturday Open Thread
  
  
  Only on Saturdays...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

• Community Mental Health Centers Boosted By SAMHSA ...
  
  
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Concern for health care should not exclude mental health care, said U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius as she awarded $26.2 million in grants designed to benefit individuals with behavioral health issues nationwide. The grants will help 43 c ...
• Masochistic Anger Part III: Is Being Angry with Yo ...
  
  
  By Jeanette Raymond, Ph.D., Anger Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jeanette and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Byron tried hard to please but his anger got in the way Byron’s anger terrified him. He did everything he could to avoid feeling it and showing it when it washed over him. ...
• What PTSD Knowledge Means for People with Anxiety
  
  
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary People find a therapist or counselor for any number of reasons. Some are dealing with the loss of a loved one or a major life transition. Others are struggling with personal behavioral patterns that they don’t know how to change on their own. Yet others are dealing wit ...
• Depression, Need for Therapy, Continue to Rise alo ...
  
  
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Mental health advocates warned of the psychological fallout that the Gulf Coast oil spill would have on residents who live and work in the area. Now a poll has illustrated in numbers exactly how dire the mental health situation is. Based on representative surveys, it’ ...
• Newly Diagnosed with Chronic Illness or Disability ...
  
  
  By Helena Madsen, MA Disability Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Helena and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Several years ago, I worked with a young couple in the midst of a health crisis. Mary and Tom (not their real names) were in their late 30’s with two young children ages 6 an ...

Mountaintop Removal

• More than 100 arrested in mountaintop removal coal ...
  
  
  Lexington Herald Leader More than 100 arrested in mountaintop removal coal mining protest This Dish Is Veg More than 100 people were arrested during Appalachia Rising, the largest national protest to end mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining. ... One man's fight against mountaintop removal Los Ange ...
• Following protest, EPA board upholds finding that ...
  
  
  Charleston Gazette (blog) Following protest, EPA board upholds finding that mountaintop removal ... Facing South More than 100 people were arrested at the White House last week during a protest against mountaintop removal . The nonviolent civil disobedience was part of ... Spruce Mine update: What ...
• Campaign Against UBS Mountaintop Removal Begins At ...
  
  
  Campaign Against UBS Mountaintop Removal Begins At Highline Ballroom! NewsBlaze The Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) is now the world's biggest financier of mountaintop removal (MTR) strip-mining. It would be a stretch to argue that MTR ...
• Bland maturity meets poverty of imagination - Mail ...
  
  
  CBC.ca Bland maturity meets poverty of imagination Mail & Guardian Online And the mountaintop-removal issue turns out to be a real tar baby. The local grassroots groups have all demonised the coal industry and especially ... Jonathan Franzen's Freedom Watching the Watchers.org Week in Pics: Treehug ...
• "Mountain Justice: Homegrown Resistance to Mountai ...
  
  
  Lexington Herald Leader "Mountain Justice: Homegrown Resistance to Mountaintop Removal , for the Future ... The Daily Tar Heel ... for coal in Appalachia since 2004, primarily as a freelance embedded reporter with the ongoing civil disobedience campaign against mountaintop removal . ... One man's f ...

Memeorandum

• Busted- High School Students Admit They're Getting ...
  
  
  Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit : Busted- High School Students Admit They're Getting Class Credit to Attend Leftist One Nation Rally (Video)   —  How sad.  This leftist rally was a complete astroturfed sham.  —  No justice.  No Peace.  —  Not only were thousands of supporters given free rides by unions ...
• Gay skydive teach axed for 'gal grope' (Kieran Cro ...
  
  
  Kieran Crowley / New York Post : Gay skydive teach axed for ‘gal grope’   —  Tweet  —  A skydiving instructor who joked with a female student that he couldn't be falling for her because he's gay has filed a discrimination suit, claiming he was cut loose from his job because of the quip.  —  Donald ...
• Trump says he's not behind mysterious NH poll (Aha ...
  
  
  Aharding / CNN : Trump says he's not behind mysterious NH poll   —  (CNN) - Business mogul Donald Trump is making clear he had nothing to do with a mysterious poll in New Hampshire that, accordant to TIME Magazine, asked Granite State voters about a potential Trump presidential bid.
• How the Roberts Court disguises its conservatism. ...
  
  
  Slate : How the Roberts Court disguises its conservatism.   —  It's dark and silent.  Reporters trickle into the grand ceremonial room from a door on the left; like everyone, they've been instructed that no recording devices of any sort are allowed.  A clutch of spectators, some of whom have been ...
• Chasing Fox - The loud, cartoonish blood sport tha ...
  
  
  Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine : Chasing Fox   —  The loud, cartoonish blood sport that's engorged MSNBC, exhausted CNN—and is making our body politic delirious.  —  In the spring of 2006, a year and a half after he was hired to run CNN/U.S., Jonathan Klein went to his boss Jim Walton with an ...

Energy & Environment News

• Goal Looms for U.N.: Ending 'Energy Poverty'
  
  
  Bringing electricity to 1.4 billion people who lack it could be a precondition for solving other problems like infant mortality or a lack of schools.
• Polluted Air Linked to Diabetes
  
  
  An epidemiological study of adults builds on previous laboratory studies that have tied air pollution to an increase in insulin resistance, a precursor to diabetes.
• A 'Pretty Edgy' Climate Campaign
  
  
  A climate campaign blows up schoolkids in a video aimed at attracting supporters.
• Paris Auto Show Focuses on Green Cars as Automaker ...
  
  
  The show highlights industry hopes that the cars of tomorrow will be electric — even as automakers race to build more of today’s cars in China.
• I.H.T. Special Report: Global Clean Energy: U.K. F ...
  
  
  Despite growing opposition from citizens, nature conservation trusts and local lawmakers, the British government continues to push for more wind farms.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.1, Kuril Islands
  
  
  Monday, October 4, 2010 14:35:27 UTC Tuesday, October 5, 2010 02:35:27 AM at epicenter Depth : 70.80 km (43.99 mi)
• M 6.3, southwestern Ryukyu Islands, Japan
  
  
  Monday, October 4, 2010 13:28:39 UTC Monday, October 4, 2010 10:28:39 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.90 km (22.31 mi)
• M 5.1, Cuba region
  
  
  Monday, October 4, 2010 11:48:34 UTC Monday, October 4, 2010 07:48:34 AM at epicenter Depth : 26.00 km (16.16 mi)
• M 5.2, South Island of New Zealand
  
  
  Monday, October 4, 2010 09:21:50 UTC Monday, October 4, 2010 10:21:50 PM at epicenter Depth : 9.80 km (6.09 mi)
• M 5.1, south of the Kermadec Islands
  
  
  Sunday, October 3, 2010 16:42:48 UTC Monday, October 4, 2010 04:42:48 AM at epicenter Depth : 105.10 km (65.31 mi)

China Dialogue

• “False hope gets us nowhere”
  
  
  Paul Kingsnorth is co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project, a literary movement built on the belief that ecological disaster is inevitable – and mainstream environmentalism hopelessly naive. Here, he explains his outlook to Matt Sellwood. Paul Kingsnorth is a   British   journalist and author   of   ...
• A new coastal path
  
  
  Frantic land reclamation along China’s coastline is harming fragile ecosystems, say Jiang Gaoming, Dou Guanyi and Chen Bosen. Here, they set out a proposal for making shore development work for the environment. Land reclamation in China has caused a steep decline in coastal plant life and seriously ...
• The Frozen Zoo
  
  
  California’s San Diego Zoo has long collected animals’ skin samples, hoping they might someday protect endangered species. Progress in stem-cell technology is bringing that day closer, writes Paul Harris. The inside of a metal box filled with liquid nitrogen and frozen to -173° Celsius (-280° Fahren ...
• The ash cloud over China
  
  
  A new report from Greenpeace argues that growing piles of coal ash in China pose a serious – and largely ignored – threat to public welfare. Meng Si looks at the findings. Fly ash , a residue generated by the combustion of coal, is China’s single biggest source of solid industrial waste and, accordi ...
• Stretching city limits (2)
  
  
  In the conclusion of a two-part interview with Jared Green, Kristina Hill forecasts a changing relationship between urban dwellers and local wildlife – and argues clever landscape design has a crucial role in species preservation. Kristina Hill chairs the landscape architecture department at the Uni ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Shocker! Monsanto’s Transgenic Crops Found t ...
  
  
  It was news to me that biotechnology companies think that some of their products are ‘eco-friendly,’ but according to Tom Laskawy at Grist, that’s exactly what Monsanto likes to claim about their Bt corn, soy and cotton. The trouble is, someone took the time to do a little research on the issue and ...
• Meg Whitman Continues to Call for Crack Down on Em ...
  
  
  This post first appeared on Think Progress. This weekend, California gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman (R-CA) and Jerry Brown (D-CA) squared off in a debate hosted by Univision for Spanish-speaking audiences. During the debate, Whitman reiterated her commitment to cracking down on employers who ...
• Does Health Care Reform Do Anything for Midwifery?
  
  
  Written by Eileen Ehudin Beard for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.This post is one in a series of pieces RH Reality Check is publishing to highlight National Midwifery Week 2010 (Oct 3- 9).Most midwives would agree that The Patient Protection ...
• The Vegetable Express: A Way to Sell Produce to Th ...
  
  
  One Vermont farm has found a creative way to get healthy food to underserved communities.
• Surveillance State: Government Snooping, Prying, a ...
  
  
  The tainting of character, the undermining of basic trust, the disruption of democratic politics -- these are the great achievements of state surveillance.

Threat Level

• 5 Key Players Nabbed in Ukraine in $70-Million Ban ...
  
  
  Ukrainian authorities have arrested five key suspects in a massive international bank fraud ring that used malware to steal at least $70 million from small businesses, municipalities, churches and others in the U.S. The five are alleged to be part of a multi-national ring that includes about 60 oth ...
• New Clues Point to Israel as Author of Blockbuster ...
  
  
  New clues released this week show a possible link between Israel and sophisticated malware targeting industrial control systems in critical infrastructure systems, such as nuclear plants and oil pipelines. Late Thursday, security firm Symantec released a detailed paper with analysis of the headline ...
• Texting Censorship Flap Settled Out of Court
  
  
  A legal flap concerning whether wireless carriers may censor text messages was settled out of court Friday, leaving unanswered the highly contentious question of whether wireless carriers have the same “must carry” obligations as traditional phone companies. The month-old New York federal case pitt ...
• All Rise: Supreme Court’s Geekiest Generation Begi ...
  
  
  The U.S. Supreme Court begins a new term Monday with a slew of technology and civil rights issues queued on its docket, some of which could have far-reaching implications for the Freedom of Information Act, copyright, warrantless searches of private residences, the “state secrets” privilege and fr ...
• U.S. Charges 37 Alleged Mules and Others in Online ...
  
  
  Thirty-seven people are being charged in the United States for their alleged role in an international fraud ring based in East Europe that stole more than $3 million from bank accounts belonging primarily to small businesses and municipalities, according to indictments released Thursday. The sophis ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Racial predatory loans fueled U.S. housing crisis: ...
  
  
  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Predatory lending aimed at racially segregated minority neighborhoods led to mass foreclosures that fueled the U.S. housing crisis, according to a new study published in the American Sociological Review.
• Sanofi launches hostile $18.5 billion bid for Genz ...
  
  
  PARIS (Reuters) - French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis launched a hostile bid for Genzyme at $69 per share on Monday, taking its $18.5 billion offer direct to shareholders after Genzyme management refused to negotiate.
• Wall St opens lower on Swiss bank rules, Microsoft
  
  
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks opened slightly lower on Monday after a ratings downgrade weighed on Microsoft and new Swiss banking rules raised fears of smaller bank profits.
• UK finance minister dismisses fresh bank bailout s ...
  
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Finance minister George Osborne on Monday dismissed a thinktank report that British banks may need another state bailout next year and their borrowing requirements could hit 25 billion pounds ($39.5 billion) a month.
• Witness: Hungover in the hottest place on earth
  
  
  DANAKIL, Ethiopia (Reuters Life!) - I turn to my girlfriend, barely able to see her through the sweat that stings my eyes. "I know how this sounds," I say. "But is my head still the same size?"

IntelNews

• Iran announces arrests of alleged nuclear spies
  
  
  By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | The Iranian government has announced the arrest of an unspecified number of alleged nuclear spies, reportedly in connection with a sophisticated virus that infected computers used in Iranâs nuclear energy program. The arrests were … Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #437
  
  
  Huge demand for spy balloons in Afghan war. The hottest US weapon in Afghanistan lacks a lethal capability, floats thousands of feet in the air and doesn’t carry troops. It’s a spy balloon. Similar contraptions have been making appearances at … Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #436
  
  
  Iran crosses into Iraq to hit bombing suspects. Iranian forces crossed into neighboring Iraq and killed 30 Kurdish fighters from a group it says was involved in last week’s bombing of a military parade, Iranâs state TV reported Sunday. The … Continue reading →
• Experts see nation-state behind sophisticated comp ...
  
  
  By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | Computer forensics specialists are split as to the purpose and initial target of a sophisticated computer virus that infected computers used in the Iranian governmentâs nuclear energy program. The virus, named Stuxnet, was discovered … Continue reading →
• News you may have missed #435 (cyberwarfare editio ...
  
  
  Analysis: Cyber attacks test US Pentagon. US military and civilian networks are probed thousands of times a day, and the systems of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters are attacked at least 100 times a day. Meanwhile, more than 100 … Continue reading →

After Downing Street.org

• In Case You Think Presidents Should Be Free to Mur ...
  
  
  Here's a good reaponse from Barry Eisler to a truly stupid defense of criminality by Andrew Sullivan that I'm not sure merits any response.
• Lawless Arrests, Detentions and Torture in Iraq
  
  
  Lawless Arrests, Detentions and Torture in Iraq - by Stephen Lendman An earlier article discussed Iraq's dire conditions after seven years of occupation, and over a decade of sanctions, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/04/iraq-today-afflicted-by-violence.html I ...
• “No Torture” Week Brings Top Experts to Berkeley T ...
  
  
  A grassroots campaign in Berkeley is drawing national attention to an upcoming week of public educational events, art events and political protests to take place. Now declared the official “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week by the Berkeley City Council, the week-long series of panels, debates, and ...
• Audit finds flaws in US arms sales to Gulf
  
  
  By Daniel Dombey, FT The US administration has concluded multibillion-dollar arms deals with Gulf states without establishing whether they were in the national interest, according to a congressional investigators’ report seen by the Financial Times. The report by the Government Accountability Office ...
• Video: What Should Progressives Do?

Grist - News

• China to promote green credentials at climate talk ...
  
  
  by Agence France-Presse. TIANJIN, China -- China will on Monday host its first U.N. climate conference as it seeks to showcase its green credentials, but hopes are dim that the event will yield major breakthroughs that environmentalists crave. Three thousand delegates will converge on the northe ...
• Will Pete Rouse, Obama’s new chief of staff, ...
  
  
  by Jonathan Hiskes. Rahm Emanuel is out, resigning as White House chief of staff to run for mayor of Chicago. Pete Rouse is in, stepping into the powerful role (at least through the end of the year) after an influential career as chief of staff to Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), t ...
• U.S. unveils new rules to prevent new BP-like oil ...
  
  
  by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- U.S. authorities announced new safety rules Thursday for offshore oil and gas drilling, a move aimed at preventing a recurrence of the disastrous Deepwater Horizon accident earlier this year. The Interior Department said two new rules will toughen require ...
• Potentially habitable planet discovered. Climate b ...
  
  
  by Jonathan Hiskes. Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable planet in orbit around a nearby star, the internet reports . The Guardian has details : The planet is in the "Goldilocks zone" of space around a star where surface temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for liquid wa ...
• New BP boss launches safety crackdown after Gulf o ...
  
  
  by Agence France-Presse. LONDON -- New BP chief executive Bob Dudley on Wednesday launched a major shake-up in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, creating a powerful safety division and overhauling the group's structure. Dudley, who officially starts his job in two days, descri ...

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Time - Top Stories

• IVF Pioneer Robert Edwards Wins Nobel Prize
  
  
  Thirty two years after the first test tube baby was born, the biologist who was the first to successfully mix egg and sperm in a lab dish and generate a healthy human baby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.
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• Coleman’s American Action Network Infuses Ca ...
  
  
  Former Sen. Norm Colman (R-Minn.), who now heads the conservative 501(c)4 group American Action Network that shares an office building with Karl Rove-brainchildren American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS, is drawing some flack back home for reneging on his previous support for banning soft money in p ...
• Lunchtime Links
  
  
  It’s hard to stay awake watching Congress. Jim DeMint doesn’t want gay people teaching in public schools. The Naked Cowboy announces he’s running for president. Baby boomers need sex ed. Elena Kagan recuses herself from half the cases for this term. Valerie Jarrett won’t endorse Rahn Emanuel. …and S ...
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Digg Green

• Doctors challenge right-to-die opposition
  
  
  Doctors should be able to help terminally ill patients to end their own lives, a group of leading health professionals has said in a challenge to the medical establishment.
• Radical D Series Airplane Design - Cleaner an ...
  
  
  The Brilliant Idea: A cleaner, quieter craft with a radical new design, setting the stage for a fundamental shift in aviation. This could burn 70 percent less fuel than a Boeing 737.
• Perspective (PIC)
  
  
  I absolutely love this picture. It really gives you a feeling of our size and scope in this wonderful universe.
• The Scary Truth Inside Baby Food
  
  
  Your baby or toddler might be getting more than you think in store-bought foods – and it’s not the good stuff. More than 60% of the baby/toddler foods examined in a recent study were high in sodium, sugar, or both. The worst offender was was...
• No Evidence for Clovis Comet Catastrophe
  
  
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Invisible Opportunity

• Fear is a Magnetic Force and often Appears as Ange ...
  
  
  By Les Visible I’ve been watching Alan Grayson for awhile. He’s a congressman from Central Florida. He’s been a truthful and relentless gadfly against the vampire establishment of Zionist Jewish bankers and general, corporate malfeasance. Though he hasn’t named these miscreants as to their claimed a ...
• Iran nabs several ‘nuclear spies’
  
  
  Iran’s intelligence minister has announced the arrest of a number of “nuclear spies,” insisting that the nation’s intelligence apparatus is actively engaged in countering massive enemy schemes. Heidar Moslehi also said the enemy has designed and sent electronic worms through the Internet to undermin ...
• Sea Level Falling In 2010
  
  
  We are constantly being told that 2010 is the hottest year ever, and that the polar ice caps are melting down at a record rate. Dr. Hansen tells us to expect 3-6+ metres of sea level rise this century. That would be a minimum of 30 mm/year. Given Dr. Hansen’s record heat, the oceans must [...]
• Feds deploy mobile X-ray fleet to radiate, scan Am ...
  
  
  By Ethan Huff The encroaching Big Brother nightmare has escalated even further with a recent announcement that the U.S. government has purchased mobile X-ray vans to scan people and vehicles at sporting events, road stops and even at random. The initiative is part of alleged counter-terror efforts t ...
• CIVIL WAR IN GERMANY? Stuttgart 21 protests
  
  
  It has become familiar sight in Stuttgart, Germany. Anti-riot police in dark-blue uniforms wearing helmets with visors, body armour and carrying batons and pepper sprays gathered in Stuggart’s main park last Thursday. It was a familiar formation. A thousand police standing in lines in front of truck ...

Global Insights

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

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  The bill reduces simple possession from a misdemeanor to an infraction.
• 'Born Illegal' -- Exploring the Powerful Advanced ...
  
  
  Surveying Alexander Shulgin pioneering work phenethylamine compounds, the ‘alchemy of medicinal chemistry,’ and the threat posed by the Federal Analogue Act.
• Sooner or Later, Marijuana Will Be Legal
  
  
  Legalization will happen. It's just a question of how many lives and tax dollars will be wasted before it does.
• Podcast: Sacred Psychedelics and Their Transformat ...
  
  
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Twilight Earth

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  Opposition to health care reform, threats of holy book burning, anti-immigration legislation, opposition to gay marriage, and the growing influence of the horrifically xenophobic Hate-Everyone-Not-Like-Me Party…WOW! Is this 2010 or 1810??? We are on a fast track to SCARY!!! These hate-children of P ...
• Frankenfish Should be OK Because of BPA (cartoon)
  
  
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Inhabitat

• What Recession? For Cupcake Bakers, Business is Bo ...
  
  
  At a time when many businesses are throwing in the towel, why are more and more new cupcake shops opening up everywhere? It’s not just sheer sugary audacity – the sweet treats might be some of the few consumer goods that are seeing a boom even in the wake of joblessness and general frugality. [...]
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  Jaguar recently unveiled a luxurious hybrid super-vehicle at the Paris Auto Show 2010 that is powered by four 195-horsepower electric motors (one at each wheel) coupled with two 80,000-rpm gasoline turbines situated under the vehicle’s rear lid. The “twin-turbine-equipped, electrically powered, fou ...
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Pogue's Posts

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• Why Credit Cards?
  
  
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WIRED Magazine | Science

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The Progressive Realist

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  He's not alone , of course, but scholar Gilles Dorronsoro is quite pessimistic about the Afghan surge and ongoing counterinsurgency campaign: The current counterinsurgency campaign shows little signs of accomplishing its mission. The surge is not enough to reverse the Taliban’s gains, or the quick ...
• Pakistan Blocks NATO Supply Lines, Testing Fragile ...
  
  
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  According to my calculation, if we were to cut America’s $663.8 billion defense budget by 1%, that would free up enough funds to double the budget of the FBI. Doesn’t it seem like that would probably, on net, reduce the risk of Americans dying in a terrorist attack? And in the meantime we might catc ...
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TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Wiretapping the Internet.
  
  
  Julian Sanchez says new regulations would give law enforcement a "back door" to monitor online communications, threatening civil liberties and stifling innovation in the process. The details are still being hammered out, but the Times reports that next year the Obama administration will seek legisl ...
• Wiretapping the Internet.
  
  
  Julian Sanchez says new regulations would give law enforcement a "back door" to monitor online communications, threatening civil liberties and stifling innovation in the process. The details are still being hammered out, but the Times reports that next year the Obama administration will seek legisl ...
• The Death of the Climate Bill.
  
  
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• Science Marches On.
  
  
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• It's the Institutions, Silly.
  
  
  I agree with Jamelle 's criticisms of Tom Friedman 's widely and justly mocked column calling for a third party that coincidentally agrees with Tom Friedman about everything. This kind of longing for a party that allegedly transcends politics is indeed anti-democratic. Just to pile on, it's als ...

Buzzflash

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  BARBARA'S BUZZ FROM ATLANTA http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/26/boehner-pledge-problem-not-solution/ "WALLACE: Congressman Boehner, as Willie Sutton said about banks, entitlements are where the money is. More than 40% of the budget. Yet, I've looked through this pledge and there is not one single pr ...
• A Modest Proposal on Immigration Reform, Inspired ...
  
  
  RANDALL AMSTER FOR BUZZFLASH/TRUTHOUT It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great nation, when they see the streets, the roads, and the schoolhouse doors teeming with the alienated and undocumented masses who seek complimentary supplication at the teat of our hard-earned, god ...
• The Tea/GOP Would HATE Our Actual Founders
  
  
  HARVEY WASSERMAN FOR BUZZFLASH This is a Greco-Roman nation, gathered in a Hodenosaunee longhouse. As they wrap themselves in the Constitution they mean to shred, that is the self-evident Truth the Tea/GOP Party ultimately cannot face. Our legal godfathers---the ones Glenn Beck loves to conjure--- ...
• Another Thought About Fox Not Allowing Republican ...
  
  
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH I wasn't born yesterday or even the day before. Murdoch's ownership of the GOP is factual; But it gets a bit more ominous when we discover These relationships are actually contractual.   http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42745.html  
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  This is the ninth installment of a project that is likely to extend over a two-year-period from January, 2010.  It is the serialization of a book entitled The 15% Solution: A Political History of American Fascism, 2001-2022 .  Under the pseudonym Jonathan Westminster, it is purportedly published in ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

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  The justifications for Obama's hit list reveal what is missing most from American political thought
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  The U.S. increases its efforts to apprehend war criminals. . . . provided they're not American
• Questions for Andrew Sullivan
  
  
  A partial defense of Obama's assassination program highlights the corrupted rationale which justifies it
• Obama to finally punish torturers!
  
  
  Sanctions imposed today by the U.S. on Iranians reveal a rather glaring double standard

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate floo ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• New Sciencebase element
  
  
  I’ve updated the Sciencebase tumblr account, for those of you who would like an alternative one-stop shop for science and technology news and views from David Bradley. The site aggregates the Sciencebase, Sciencetext, SciScoop, and Reactive Reports newsfeeds as well as my “likes” in Google Reader. T ...
• Science news with a spectral twist
  
  
  My latest science updates on SpectroscopyNOW.com: Soft solar cell – US researchers have demonstrated that water-gel-based solar devices can act like "artificial leaves" heralding the possibility of soft matter solar energy conversion devices. X-Ray resistance – An X-ray structure determined by US re ...
• Chalking up one for science vs religion
  
  
  Apparently, atheists and agnostics performed very well in a survey of religious knowledge (on a par with Jews and Mormons and better than Protestants and Catholics) on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions. More about that here. But it wasn’t the su ...
• Latest science stuff
  
  
  Latest science stuff from Sciencebase: How to Memorize the Periodic Table With a Song – Kind of these people to link to my site, but I take issue with the idea of learning Tom Lehrer's song as a means to chemical education. It's fun and might help you remember the names of the elements, but [...] La ...
• Yet more scientific news
  
  
  Yet more science news from Sciencebase, it’s never ending: Whooping cough epidemic suggests bacteria are adapting – Nine babies have died in California, and four in Australia, so far, in the worst epidemic of whooping cough in rich countries since vaccination became widespread in the 1950s. The main ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Bipartisan Group of Former Attorneys General and L ...
  
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 4, 2010 People For the American Way (PFAW) and Free Speech For People As the Supreme Court returns today for its new term, a bipartisan group of law professors and prominent attorneys, including seven former state attorneys general, issued a  letter criticizing the Cour ...
• ACLU and Brennan Center Reports Expose Resurgence ...
  
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 4, 2010 ACLU Poor defendants are being jailed at increasingly alarming rates for failing to pay legal debts they can never hope to afford, according to two new reports released today by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Brennan Center for Justice. The reports d ...
• Inspector General Rips OSHA Whistleblower Program
  
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 4, 2010 Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) The federal program to protect private sector whistleblowers does an appallingly poor job, according to a new report from the Labor Department Office of Inspector General. The vast majority of federal inv ...
• Education Policy: What "Superman" Got Wrong
  
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 30, 2010 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) RICK AYERS read more
• Obama Administration Should Oppose Any Attempted ...
  
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 30, 2010 Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) There are currently reports of a possible attempted coup d'etat underway in Ecuador. There have been violent protests by police and some elements of the military, reports that President Correa has been injured, a ...

Common Dreams-Views

• Looking at the Real Cost of Fossil Fuel
  
  
  by Barbara Hill and Matthew Pawa Imagine an economic report that proposed to lower the price of milk by deregulating water pollution from dairy farms; or to make aluminum more affordable by letting corporations pile up mine tailings and emit toxins from smelters without consequence. No economic stud ...
• Why Building a Bike-Safe City Is Key to a Clean En ...
  
  
  by Sarah Laskow Congress couldn’t get it together to vote even on the smallest of possible energy bills—the renewable energy standard—before the October recess. That doesn’t change the reality that our energy dependent society needs to find alternatives quickly. Changing up our approach to transport ...
• Proposition 23: The Real Job Killer
  
  
  by Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher The climate denial lobby behind Proposition 23 in California argues they're fighting to protect jobs by overturning what they like to call California's "Job Killing Global Warming Law." But don't be fooled: if passed, Proposition 23 will remove all hope of protect ...
• Getting Some Rays: Forget Radar, Now the Governmen ...
  
  
  by Dave Lindorff If you have been feeling uneasy about having to be X-rayed by a Transportation Security Administration goon who can look under your clothes every time you fly, consider this: at least you can say no, and agree to be subjected to an old-fashioned full-body search. No opt-out for the ...
• Farm-to-School's Teachable Moment
  
  
  by JoAnne Berkenkamp Schools throughout the country are shaking up the cafeteria through new initiatives to improve children's health while giving a boost to local farmers. It's time to give the mystery meat a break and bring out locally produced apples, squash, tomatoes, and chicken. read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Afghanistan Disbanding Security Companies? Maybe N ...
  
  
  By Steve Hynd CNN has this: Afghanistan has banned eight private security firms, including the company formerly known as Blackwater, a spokesman for President Hamid Karzai told reporters Sunday. Among the companies whose operations are being dissolved are Xe (formerly known as Blackwater), NCL, FHI, ...
• So, How Much Did Petraeus' Mistake Hurt NATO Suppl ...
  
  
  By Steve Hynd It's inconceivable that last week's cross-border incursions in to Pakistan by US helicopters - in which three Pakistani frontier guards were killed by American gunfire - could have been authorised anywhere but at the highest levels of NATO command in the region. Specifically, General D ...
• Fraud, No-Shows, and Rockets: Gopal on Afghan Elec ...
  
  
  By Steve Hynd Via Russ Wellen, my recommendation for "must read" piece of today is Anand Gopal's personal account of what he witnesses during the recent Afghan parliamentary elections. Suddenly a group of white Toyota pickups, with armed men stuffed in the back, sped towards the center and screeched ...
• Afghanistan strategy in "fingers crossed" mode
  
  
  By Steve Hynd Michael Cohen, in an excellent post today, notes that Petraeus and others are still pointing to the "success" of Iraq as something they hope to duplicate in Afghanistan - when violent incidents in the former are trending upwards and it has just become the record holder for the longest ...
• Pakistan Closes NATO Supply Route
  
  
  By Steve Hynd Yesterday morning I wrote about how similiar current cross-border strikes into Pakistan were to raids in September 2008 that ended up with the Khyber Pass supply routes to NATO troops in Afghanistan being closed five times in as many months - and how those closures taught NATO a lesson ...

Water Wars

• Hall board retakes vote on Glades in public
  
  
  lakeman: September 24, 2010 5:33 a.m. Why have our governors not been working tirelessly to come up with a viable solution to the water wars quagmire?
• Ga senators file legislation aimed at fixing water ...
  
  
  WASHINGTON -- Georgia's senators just fired another salvo in the state's ongoing water wars with Alabama and Florida.
• Georgia senators propose bills to legalize Atlanta ...
  
  
  Bills sidestep negotiations in the Alabama-Georgia-Florida water wars
• Blue Gold examines the politics of water
  
  
  - Blue Gold: World Water Wars will have its first screening at the Vancouver International Film Festival October 9 at 7:15 p.m. at the Empire Granville 7 theatres. It screen again October 10 at 1 p.m. at the same location.
• Water wars: Mercer students stay cool while having ...
  
  
  Mercer senior Briana Boatwright gets shot with water by senior Katie Wibell during a water gun fight on campus Friday afternoon.

WordPress | Economics

• Those Damn Banks!
  
  
  We’ve heard it before.  I’m sure we’ll hear it again. Wall Street banks and their
• For Whom Does the Bell Toll?
  
  
  It’s Time We Heed The Words of John Donne The latest Census Bureau data (collected in 2009 and early
• More Debt Data: Mortgages in the Crosshairs
  
  
  I mentioned last time that there were stronger trends in the Mortgage data. In the comments Mike Kon
• Practicing Poses Certain Creates a Sense of Power
  
  
  When suiting up With That "power tie," You May Also Want to strike a pose – a power
• Census shows connectedness of marine life worlds
  
  
  WASHINGTON – The world's oceans May Be VAST and deep, decade-long goal has count of marin

Electronic Intifada

• Israeli mayors' visit runs aground in Spain, Nethe ...
  
  
  The Association of Netherlands Municipalities (VNG) canceled a 19 September visit by Israeli mayors because the delegation included leaders of illegal Israeli settlements i ...
• Musical storytelling: Reem Kelani interviewed
  
  
  Reem Kelani, born in Manchester, UK to Palestinian parents and raised in Kuwait, tells a tough tale of her struggle to establish herself as a Palestinian artist in the "world" musi ...
• In defense of South African academics' boycott cal ...
  
  
  When African National Congress leader Chief Albert Luthuli made a call for the international community to support a boycott of apartheid South Africa in 1958, the response was a w ...
• Days of action planned after FBI raids on activist ...
  
  
  Activists are planning new actions after rallies took place in dozens of cities across the United States to protest raids by the FBI on homes of anti-war and Palestine and ...
• Days before birthday, my son sees Gaza's horror
  
  
  The Electronic Intifada reporter Rami Almeghari was in the hospital with his son, whose lips were being stitched up, when the victims of an Israeli air strike were rushed i ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Afghanistan 'bans eight private security firm ...
  
  
  Afghanistan has reportedly announced a formal ban on eight private security companies.
• Dhaka not to send troops to Afghanistan
  
  
  Bangladesh has said it will not send its troops to war-ravaged Afghanistan despite a request from the US.
• Pak Taliban claim attacks on NATO supply convoys i ...
  
  
  The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for the attack on an oil depot close to Islamabad in which at least six people were killed and 27 NATO tankers were set on fire.
• UN Welcomes Australia's Move to Lift Afghan A ...
  
  
  Suspected Afghan illegal immigrants, who were in transit in the province of North Sumatra, possibly bound for Australia, rest at a police station in Medan, Indonesia, after being brought in for questi...
• EA drops Taliban from Medal of Honor multiplayer
  
  
  In response to criticism from families of soldiers and the ban from the Army & Air Force Exchange Service, EA has changed the name of the Taliban in Medal of Honor's multiplayer to the "Opposing F...

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

• Geithner's Dirty Little Secret
• Swine Flu
• Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: Or ...
• The Fake Oil Crisis of 1973
• Fossiles Erdöl
  
  
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on Government Oversight

• Morning Smoke: Feds Suspend Major Government Contr ...
  
  
  SBA suspends major contractor GTSI from government work by Robert O'Harrow Jr. [The Washington Post] Count on Sequels to TARP by Gretchen Morgenson [The New York Times] Mystery Merc Group Is Blackwater’s 34th Front Company by Spencer Ackerman [Danger Room]...
• Secret Deals May Lead to Bailouts for Defense Cont ...
  
  
  We may be unknowingly bailing out defense contractors such as KBR for the harm they cause, according to Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore. This week, Blumenauer, along with Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Ore., and Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.,...
• Morning Smoke: Interior Releases New Offshore Rule ...
  
  
  Tougher rules for offshore drilling by Juliet Eilperin [The New York Times] Budget battle looms for Wall St. law by Silla Brush [The Hill] Lawmakers: Give Us Gates, and Give Us Documents by Nathan Hodge [Washington Wire] SEC 'Moving Rapidly'...
• Congressman Grijalva Asks, "What happened to that ...
  
  
  So how did the Administration calculate the size of the BP oil spill and determine that it all seemed to go away? Congressman Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., plans on getting to the bottom of this. In letters to the Coast Guard,...
• FAPIIS Update: New Data Entry Procedures; Public V ...
  
  
  It’s been almost six months since the federal government’s new contractor integrity and performance database, the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS), has gone live, and contracting officials are putting the finishing touches on policies and procedures regarding...

Digital Journal

• Singer Paris Black used TTC subway for photo shoot ...
  
  
  As the rest of Toronto was on the streets Saturday night singer Paris Black was riding the subway shooting stills and video for his latest venture.
• Toronto's Nuit Blanche - 12 hours of art, performa ...
  
  
  Once a year Toronto is turned into an all-night canvas of contemporary art. On Saturday from sundown until Sunday morning at sunrise the fifth edition of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche took place.
• Ontario Premier, hundreds pay tribute to province' ...
  
  
  At the annual fire services memorial at Queen's Park in downtown Toronto, hundreds of people, including Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, paid tribute to those who risk their lives everyday and those who have lost their lives.
• Leading the way: The Park Spark turns dog poop int ...
  
  
  A Massachusetts artist, who doesn't own a dog, came up with a visionary art project that saw dog owners picking up their dog's do-do and turning it into an 'eternal' flame.
• Iran's Ahmadinejad says U.S. leaders should be 'bu ...
  
  
  In the wake of additional US sanctions against Iran and what appears to be a cyber attack against Iranian nuclear facilities, Ahmadinejad calls for US leaders to be "buried."

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Florida Coach Faces Fine for Housing Homeless Stud ...
  
  
  Giving a homeless student a roof over his head should be considered a good thing. Instead, Florida high school football coach Bill Buldini could face thousands in fines for letting a player with nowhere to go live with him. As a means of curbing unfair player recruitment, Florida High School Athleti ...
• "Bag Lady," the New Face of Homelessness
  
  
  A woman named Patricia Reid was recently profiled in the New York Times . She has been unemployed for four years. Before being cut loose in massive layoffs, she worked for two decades as an internal auditor and analyst at Boeing. The biggest fear for this 57-year-old college graduate? "Becoming a ba ...
• Homeless Kids Say the Darnedest Things
  
  
  Art Linkletter's old television show is a far cry from what homeless kids have to say. There is a place in Seattle where homeless youth can go called Peace for the Streets by Kids from the Streets (PSKS). Peace is what they'll find here. Located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, PSKS has been a safe ...
• S.F. Police Somehow Oppose Outreach Event in the P ...
  
  
  Get this. Police didn't want an event full of services for the homeless to be held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park because that would bring homeless people back to an area cops have been working to shoo them away from. Huh? The event is the semi-regular Project Homeless Connect , spearheaded by ...
• The Machiavellian Homeless Shelter
  
  
  How should a homeless shelter be run? What attributes should a service worker have? Let me present a hypothetical example relevant to my culture in Australia. Gordon Ramsay , the acerbic TV chef, has a reputation for being aggressive, sometimes rude, but with a doubt brilliant at what he does. His w ...

Ceasefire.ca

• Afghanistan’s new Peace Council: Stopped in its tr ...
  
  
  Afghan President Hamid Karzai established a High Council for Peace on September 28, 2010 with the objective of paving the way towards peace with the Taliban through negotiation and reconcilation (”Karzai sets up body for peace talks,” Aljazeera News, 28 September 2010). Karzai hand-picked the nearl ...
• NATO supplies blocked by Pakistan after soldiers k ...
  
  
  The relationship between Pakistan and the coalition forces in Afghanistan was further strained this week after coalition forces killed three Pakistani soldiers at a border checkpoint between the two countries (Deb Reichmann & Hussain Afzal, “Pakistan blocks war supply route after NATO cross-border s ...
• Rideau Institute Leadership Award to go to antinuc ...
  
  
  The Rideau Institute Board of Directors will present the inaugural Rideau Institute Leadership Award to Murray Thomson, Doug Roche, and John Polanyi, founders of Canadians for a Nuclear Weapons Convention, at the Rideau Institute Gala Dinner on October 7, 2010. Their hard work and strong leadership ...
• “Combat phase” of battle for Kandahar begins: ISAF
  
  
  The “combat phase” of the battle for the Kandahar region has begun, says a spokesperson for the International Security Assistance Force (Rob Nordland, “American and Afghan Troops Begin Combat for Kandahar,” New York Times, 26 September 2010): Code-named âOperation Dragon Strike,â the push is f ...
• F-35 Memorandum of Understanding
  
  
  To view the 2006 Memorandum of Understanding on F-35s signed by Canada (which did not commit any of the parties to purchase  the aircraft), click here. Photo by Robert Plaskota

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Doctor Admits That Most MDs Know Nothing About Nut ...
  
  
  October 4th, 2010 Natural News By: Ethan Huff Most people probably assume that their doctors know everything there is to know about health because, after all, they went through many years of medical school. But according to a recent New York Times piece written by a doctor, most medical schools teac ...
• Dark Chocolate Prevents Damage From Strokes
  
  
  October 4th, 2010 Natural News By: David Gutierrez Researchers from Johns Hopkins University believe they have discovered a biochemical pathway by which a chemical naturally found in dark chocolate can help protect the body from strokes. Previous research has shown that a flavanol known as epicatech ...
• Calcium and Vitamin Supplements Reduce Breast Canc ...
  
  
  October 4th, 2010 Natural News By: David Gutierrez Taking vitamin and calcium supplements may reduce women’s risk of breast cancer by as much as 40 percent, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Ponce School of Medicine in Puerto Rico, and presented at the annual meeting of the Amer ...
• New Laptop Warning
  
  
  October 4th, 2010 MSNBC By: Lindsay Tanner Have you ever worked on your laptop computer with it sitting on your lap, heating up your legs? If so, you might want to rethink that habit. Doing it a lot can lead to “toasted skin syndrome,” an unusual-looking mottled skin condition caused by long-term he ...
• US Children Get 40% of Their Calories From Junk Fo ...
  
  
  October 1st, 2010 ABC News By: Kim Carollo If there were ever a reason to cut back on kids’ consumption of cake, cookies, pizza and soda, nutrition experts say a new study highlights just how unhealthy young people’s diets really are. Researchers from the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md. a ...

Pambazuka News

• Africa: Angola hosts 3rd African meeting on Cuba s ...
  
  
  The third African meeting on Solidarity with Cuba was held in Luanda, Angola, 11-12 September, to consolidate the friendship between the African and Cuban people and contribute to strengthening African solidarity towards the Caribbean island nation. ...
• Global: US city opens doors to Cuban 5
  
  
  On Saturday March 13, in the auditorium of the Lavonya DeJean Middle School, in the City of Richmond California, a large number of people gathered to commemorate International Women's Day for the third consecutive year. Under the title "Women in Soli...
• Ekiti must hold free, fair elections
  
  
  The North America-based Ekiti Focus Group has strongly condemned election violence and intimidation in Nigeria’s Ekiti State, describing reported cases of ‘arson, maiming, ballot stuffing, ballot hijacking, and shooting’ as ‘barbaric acts’. In a statement the group called for ‘the release of true an ...
• Global: Why Haiti can't forget its past
  
  
  Thank you for the attention you have brought to the country of Haiti. In response to your New York Times op ed piece I wanted to widen your perspective a bit. I don't pretend to represent anyone. I've been living in Haiti since 1985. I grew up in New...
• Global: Conference will establish African Socialis ...
  
  
  On the weekend of May 22-24, African organizers from across the U.S. and Canada will converge on Washington, D.C. for a conference recognizing African Liberation Day (ALD) with the theme, “One Africa, One Nation: Separated by Colonial Slavery, Reunit...

War in Context

• Stuxnet, Bushehr and Siemens WinCC software
  
  
  Ben D, a commenter at this site and Arms Control Wonk is skeptical about my assertion that Siemens SCADA software is being used at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear facility. I based that claim on a UPI photograph that led the German industrial security expert, Ralph Langner, to speculate that Bushehr was the ...
• The Israeli threat to global security
  
  
  A USB memory stick carrying the Stuxnet malware is believed to have provided intruders with access to Iran’s nuclear program. The same technique was used in November 2008 to break into CENTCOM, providing a foreign government with unfiltered access to the Pentagon’s command of the wars in Iraq and Af ...
• Israel: smart enough to create Stuxnet and stupid ...
  
  
  Ever since speculation began, suggesting that Israel is the source of the Stuxnet malware, there has been a buzz of excitement in the Zionist corner of the blogosphere. The DEBKAfile — trusted source for pro-Israel fantasists all over the world — declared that if it turns out that millions of Irania ...
• Preemptive strikes or preemptive revenge in Waziri ...
  
  
  Newsweek reports: For weeks now, as missiles from American drones have snuffed out their leaders and terrorized their recruits in the remote mountains of Pakistan’s North Waziristan area, Al Qaeda fighters have kept their spirits up by telling each other they were about to have their revenge. “It’s ...
• Robert Wright’s bright idea
  
  
  Robert Wright has discovered a third way to Middle East peace. There’s always something seductive about a third way — the way between extremes; the way free of dogma traversed by pragmatists with flexible minds. Wright’s third way breaks the impasse on the road to a two-state solution by co-opting ...

Watts Up With That?

• NSF grants $700,000 for theater production on clim ...
  
  
  Get your tickets!  The National Science Foundation has awarded $700,000 to the Civilians, a New York theater company for a great new show on climate change.  From the New York Times Arts Briefly (required reading for fly-over country): âThe Great … Continue reading →
• Sea Ice News – delayed a day – but sti ...
  
  
  Normally I have a Sea Ice News feature on Sundays. I’m holding it a day, because I’m waiting for NSIDC to make an announcement, and I want to include it. Arctic Sea Ice is making a quick turnaround, the DMI … Continue reading →
• Length of day correlated to cosmic rays and sunspo ...
  
  
  From techno-science.net This tip came in on our tip & notes page, and at first I was quite surprised because I could not see a possible mechanism for it. Then as I read the translation (from French) it started to … Continue reading →
• Delivering Messages Is Not Communicating
  
  
  Guest post by Thomas Fuller It should be clear to all who are following climate issues that the establishment is flailing a bit in regards to how they should be dealing with a pesky public. Ever since Climategate, Copenhagen, and … Continue reading →
• Wasted food a huge energy gobbler
  
  
  I’ll have to admit, Professor Webster has a point. Food is so abundant in the western world that household trashbins are routinely stuffed with uneaten food. Now If I can just get my mind around eating more leftovers. – Anthony … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• The GOP, the Tea Party & the class struggle By Dav ...
  
  
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By David Sole www.workers.org Sep 30, 2010 by Helen Cox, used with permission © All rights reserved. The corporate media can’t give enough coverage to the Tea Party movement and its relationship to the Republican Party. Little, however, gives any useful informati ...
• Shock Therapy for Wall Street: JPMorgan Suspends 5 ...
  
  
  by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com September 24, 2010 “Maybe this is like shock therapy. Maybe this will actually get the lenders to the table and encourage them to work out deals that are to the benefit of everybody.” –Economist Karl E. Case, quoted in the New York Times T ...
• Feral Fringe Unravels Obama’s Ruinous Outreach By ...
  
  
  by Robert S. Becker Featured Writer Dandelion Salad rbecker@cal.net October 1, 2010 Even more inept than Obama’s economic wizards, no easy task, is this White House’s crew of public relations losers. They’ve only lost nearly every messaging battle against the relentless, outrageous Rightwing Noise ...
• ‘Not Red Ed’ – reinventing Labour, again and again ...
  
  
  By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info 30 September, 2010 It strikes me that we here in the UK have been top dog for so damn long that we’ve forgotten what it feels like to be an ordinary country, yet the memory lingers on⦠“And it is why I will commit to you here [.. ...
• Greg Palast: Ecuador- The Presidential Interview ( ...
  
  
  Note: the video was posted previously but without the transcript. by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com 1 October, 2010 Ecuador news today Ecuador’s president attacked by police. Country’s leader trapped in hospital after assault, as government declares a one-week state ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

• Why Can’t We Be Friends? Top 10 Interspecies BFF V ...
  
  
  What is it about interspecies friendship that makes it universally cute, hilarious and heartwarming? I don’t know the answer, but if you tell me there is something better on the internet, I won’t believe you. These videos of friendship between a tortoise and a hippo, a gorilla and a kitten, and an e ...
• Mutant Worms Produce Piles of Spider Silk
  
  
  Snippets of spider genes let mutant silkworms spin silk stronger than steel. Scientists have coaxed miles of spider-like silk from a colony of transgenic silkworms, opening the door for large-scale production of super-strong, tough and flexible fibers. “We can make a lot more silk from the silkworm ...
• Close Encounter Coming With Ghostly Green Comet
  
  
  Comet Hartley 2 will swoop within 11 million miles of Earth on October 20, one of the closest approaches of any comet in the last few centuries. Hartley 2 is already visible as a pale green streak in the W-shaped constellation Cassiopeia. NASA astronomer Bill Cooke caught the comet on September 28 ...
• Intelligent Individuals Don’t Make Groups Smarter
  
  
  An early effort at defining general intelligence in groups suggests that individual brainpower contributes little to collective smarts. Instead, it’s social awareness — the ability to pick up on emotional cues in others — that seems to determine how smart a group can be. “We lack a shared criterion ...
• Solar System’s Shield Could Leak Cosmic Rays
  
  
  runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience621764290001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); The bubble that separates our sun from the galaxy is surprisingly active. The second global map from the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) shows that the edge of the s ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Jonathan Cook: Obama’s cave-in to Israel
  
  
  In fact, the terms of Obama’s letter were drafted in cooperation with Ehud Barak, Israel’s defence minister and leader of the supposedly leftwing Labor party. When he was prime minister a decade ago,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
• Abe Hayeem: Architects against Israeli occupation
  
  
  Architecture and planning are instruments of the occupation, and constitute part of a continuing war against a whole people... Since this involves dispossession, discrimination and acquisition of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
• Diplomats: Mitchell misrepresented initial success ...
  
  
  Netanyahu refused to hold a serious discussion on any of the core issues apart from security, Abbas reportedly told diplomats... Israeli and foreign sources say the main problem is that Netanyahu... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
• Mazin Qumsiyeh: The Extraordinary Rendition of Pal ...
  
  
  Who would have thought it possible to gather members of a particular ideology into one spot on earth, displacing its native people and making them refugees, and yet label the victims as terrorists? ... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• Gideon Levy: A Nobel Peace Prize laureate in priso ...
  
  
  Israel, like North Korea, must have something to hide about its occupation regime and this is why it prevents people of conscience from entering and report about it to the world. Israel, like North... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Ukraine's Antonov aircraft producer to compete for ...
  
  
  Ukraine's state-run Antonov aircraft producer will compete with U.S. aerospace giant Boeing and Europe's EADS in a multi-billion tender to supply almost 180 airborne refueling tankers to the United States Air Force (USAF).
• Russia increases combat capabilities in Arctic
  
  
  Russia is currently increasing its combat potential in the Arctic with new ships and additional station sites, Navy Commander Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky said on Saturday.
• Russian army to go Wi-Fi
• Medvedev, Obama discuss process of new START ratif ...
  
  
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama discussed the process of ratifying the new strategic arms reduction treaty during a telephone conversation on Friday, the Kremlin's press service said.
• Russia's nuclear subs to continue Arctic navigatio ...
  
  
  Russia's nuclear-power submarines will continue under-ice navigation in the Arctic, a senior Navy official said on Friday.

NewsWise

• Study Highlights Sexual Behavior, Condom Use of Am ...
  
  
  An Indiana U. study is the largest nationally representative survey of sexual behavior ever fielded, providing an updated and much needed snapshot of Americans' sexual behaviors. The data are critical for health professionals addressing AIDS/HIV.
• What Mimicking One's Language Style May Mean About ...
  
  
  People match each other's language styles more during happier periods of their relationship than at other times, according to new research from psychologists at The University of Texas at Austin.
• Expert Who Helped Track Zeus Botnet Case Is Avail ...
  
  
  Gary Warner, Director of Research in Computer Forensics at UAB, is available to comment on the breaking story about the financial and cyber crimes related to the Zeus botnet.
• Breast Cancer Awareness Month Story Ideas
  
  
  As October marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month, here are some of the hot topics in breast cancer from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.
• Snow Blowers: Handle With Care
  
  
  Most snow-blower injuries occur when the operator does not follow the instructions in the safety manual and attempts to remove snow from the blades of the snow blower with a hand.

Natural Health News

• Avoid this After Exercise if You Want to Lose Weig ...
  
  
  A study conducted by Australian researchers concluded that cooling off with a dip in the pool after a good work-out may make exercisers more likely to eat than those who don’t go for a swim after exercising. According to the Chicago Tribune: “Test subjects ate more after (two different types of) ...
• Breast Cancer Rates Fell When Regular Hormone Ther ...
  
  
  Breast cancer rates dropped by half in tandem with the discontinuation of hormone replacement therapy, according to a study published online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The study was reported in the Telegraph in the United Kingdom. The Telegraph said: “Dr Prithwish De, of ...
• GMO Pigs May Be Coming to a Table Near You Sooner ...
  
  
  They’re nick-named “Enviropigs” and they’re already in production, just waiting on one thing: the FDA’s final stamp of approval for genetically modified (GM) pig meat meant for consumption. With all eyes on GMO salmon farming, and questions swirling as to whether the FDA will approve these lab-cre ...
• More Deaths Tied to HPV Vaccine
  
  
  In a stunning report, Washington DC-based Judicial Watch has revealed that it has received new documents from the FDA showing at least 16 new deaths – including four suicides – related to the HPV vaccine Gardasil. As it did in 2008, Judicial Watch obtained the new data through a Freedom of Informa ...
• Illegal Drug Residues Found in Ohio Bob Veal Calf
  
  
  The FDA has cited an Ohio dairy farm for violating USDA and FDA rules about humane treatment of calves bred as veal, and for the unlawful use of antibiotics on some of the animals. According to a report in Food Safety News, Raber View Holstein Farm, based outside Millersburg, Ohio, sold at least one ...

Antemedius

• Republicans Double Talk On Liberty Gets Right Up M ...
  
  
  There is going to be a lot of analysis on the Republican Pledge to America today, and here is some more! Instead of going into the actual policy, which others can and will cover better, I thought I’d talk about the wording. There is a lot to be learned by how a group talks about its policies. Commun ...
• All Gallup Indicators Point to Democratic Debacle ...
  
  
  " The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. " -- Hunter S. Thompson Leading up to the 1994 midterm elections, Bill Clinton's job approval measured by Gallup was 46%. The Democrats subsequently lost 53 seats i ...
• Fraud Factories: Rep. Alan Grayson Explains the Fo ...
  
  
  Posted to YouTube September 30, 2010 by Rep. Alan Grayson...
• David Ellison for Cuyahoga County Executive
  
  
  In FDL entries here and here , as well as on other web sites, we went all out to help Jill Stein raise the $125,000 needed to qualify for entry into the Massachusetts gubernatorial debates and receive matching state funds. This was an amazing and productive action on the part of Green Party volunte ...
• The War Addicts - 2016 and Then Some
  
  
  Originally published at TomDispatch.com Sometimes it’s the little things in the big stories that catch your eye.� On Monday, the Washington Post �ran the first of three pieces adapted from Bob Woodward’s new book� Obama’s Wars , a vivid account of the way the U.S. high command boxed the Commander-in ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• How Bird Dung Affected American Imperialism and U. ...
  
  
  by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen The Summer 2010 issue of Cabinet has an interview with Professor Christina Duffy Burnett of Columbia about the legal status of islands.  When we’ve written about this issue here on Opinio Juris, we thought of issues relating to how islands can affect claims to un ...
• Thanks to Amos Guiora and our Guest Bloggers
  
  
  by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen On behalf of all of us at Opinio Juris, I want to thank Amos Guiora for taking time to blog with us this past week about his new book, Freedom from Religion. We would also like to thank Paul Cliteur, John Lentz, and Mark Movsesian for guest blogging with us as well ...
• Apologizing to Guatemala — and Perjury at Nu ...
  
  
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Obama apologized on Friday for experiments conducted in Guatemala between 1946 and 1948 in which American scientists deliberately infected prison inmates, prostitutes, and mental patients with syphilis without their consent.  The apology is a striking remin ...
• How Bird Dung Affected American Imperialism and U. ...
  
  
  by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen The Summer 2010 issue of Cabinet has an interview with Professor Christina Duffy Burnett of Columbia about the legal status of islands.  When we’ve written about this issue here on Opinio Juris, we thought of issues relating to how islands can affect claims to un ...
• Thanks to Amos Guiora and our Guest Bloggers
  
  
  by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen On behalf of all of us at Opinio Juris, I want to thank Amos Guiora for taking time to blog with us this past week about his new book, Freedom from Religion. We would also like to thank Paul Cliteur, John Lentz, and Mark Movsesian for guest blogging with us as well ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• First published review of Arthur Allan Thomas: The ...
  
  
  I'll add more reviews as they come in, but here's the first, courtesy of Newstalk ZB today: Books - Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story 29/09/2010 Whether you concur with Wishart or not, you need to read this book. Arthur...
• I hate Ian Wishart because...
  
  
  For some years now I've "enjoyed" a growing amount of internet 'hate mail' biffed my way on websites, virtually all from people I've never met and most from people who've never actually read my work themselves but who've relied on...
• Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story...a cop kill ...
  
  
  The new book on the Crewe murders, Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story, is finally on sale. Available from Whitcoulls, PaperPlus, Take Note, Borders, The Warehouse, Dymocks and all good independent bookstores. The radio ad is available here: ThomasBook1
• New Arthur Allan Thomas book just over a week away
  
  
  Launching 27 September...the cat will well and truly be set amongst the pigeons...
• How objective was the Climategate inquiry?
  
  
  I've been too busy writing and editing the new Arthur Allan Thomas book to blog much in recent weeks, but couldn't resist this revelation about the old boys network's whitewash of Climategate. Here's how it happened...originally from Climate Audit, via...

The World We Live In

• Domain Name Being Changed
  
  
  Some of your might have noticed that i have not been posting for a while. It was mostly out of frustration, you see when i started this site, I figured i would use it as a space to publish information, that i felt needed more attention in our life’s. New, views or even just facts [...]
• One Facebook, Two Faces: A Piece By A Virtually De ...
  
  
  I had been banned from Facebook and my account had been disabled a night before Facebook was banned in Pakistan. Before all this happened, I visited the blasphemous page “Draw Muhammad Day” and the content on the page hurt me badly. Once again a certain group of westerners called it the “freedom of ...
• New Chemical Element Discovered In Pakistan
  
  
  Pakistani researchers have discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, so far only discovered and found in Pakistan , has been named Zardarium (Symbol = Zm). It has one Presitron, 1 Priministron, 77 Ministrons, 98 deputy Ministrons, 298 National Assemblions, and 100 Senatr ...
• At least we are not Dubai
  
  
  We haven’t got a lot to be thankful for these days in Pakistan. But at least we are not Dubai. Fed up with loadshedding, bombs, and TV cynicism pervading Pakistan, I recently escaped to Dubai for a holiday. Big mistake. Huge. Ten days later I returned, gasping for Karachi’s polluted, but far sweete ...
• 9/11 Hijackers Not on Flight Manifests?
  
  
  The claim that no Arab names appeared on the flight manifests for the planes hijacked on the morning of September 11, 2001 arose shortly after the terrorist attacks, and variations on the theme have persisted to this day. The claim initially arose when lists of passengers published by CNN, The Guar ...

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

• A Witness to Iraq’s Health Crisis: Nahoko Takato S ...
  
  
  A Witness to Iraq’s Health Crisis: Nahoko Takato Speaks about her Experiences as an Activist and Aid Worker in Iraq :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1] : Nahoko Takato, a Japanese aid worker, quickly developed strong connections in Ramadi ...
• Notorious Body Part Snatcher Dr. Hiss Autopsied Ra ...
  
  
  Notorious Body Part Snatcher Dr. Hiss Autopsied Rachel Corrie – Parts Still Missing :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1] : Sometimes, reading an article about war, I want to puke. Recovering from Max Blumenthal’s latest bombshell from Haif ...
• The Myth of the Founding Fathers
  
  
  Tom Turnipseed: The Myth of the Founding Fathers By TOM TURNIPSEED Led by Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, Tea Party worshippers of the Founding Fathers want to return to the “good ol’ days” of 1787, when most African-Americans were slaves, many poor whites were indentured servants, and women couldn’t v ...
• Defend and Free Diop!
  
  
  Diop Olugbala Convicted! Defend and Free Diop! PHILADELPHIA-On Tuesday, August 24, the US government gave another example of its desperation in the face of popular resistance with the conviction of Diop Olugbala in Philadelphia. Despite all the efforts to paint imperialism with a new, benign and fr ...
• 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 ...

Pensieve

• Police Protest Endangers Ecuador
  
  
  Photo by philippe leroyer A protest against a congressional measure to reduce perks for Ecuadorian police escalated to a violent confrontation that threatens the stability of the South American nation. President Rafael Correa tried to quell the police force by going to their barracks to speak to the ...
• The Trap
  
  
  Photo by Stuck in Customs Sometimes I feel trapped by the choices, even the seemingly excellent choices, that I have made. But I would not change them. I recognize them to be the best direction for my life. I can see their fruit, and would not alter them. But I still feel imprisoned. Here is [...] ...
• Immigration Only a Dream
  
  
  The following Arizona Republic article is the only one I have read that gives a balanced and thorough, analysis of the immigration issues in the US. All others I’ve read are politically biased, sadly. I highly recommend reading it. Ironically, it was published in Arizona, which is now infamous for i ...
• Cuban Communism’s Death Knell?
  
  
  Photo by “Carolonline” Last week, Fidel Castro made statements that were astoundingly out of character for him. Instead of the usual âblack is whiteâ propaganda, he publicly said that the âCuban modelâ no longer works. This week Cuba has announced mass layoffs from government jobs, and the s ...
• When Suffering is Good
  
  
  Photo by G!zM() 17 We live in a world where hedonism and despair abound. It is as if the black death were knocking at our doors, like in Chaucerâs Canterbury Tales. Imagine a world without pain and suffering. Imagine not ever getting sick, physically or mentally. Imagine no disadvantages. Everyone ...

Green Times

• Environmental News 01/10/2010
  
  
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Ilse Savenije
  
  
  Read more (contributors/ilse-savenije.html)
• Looking Young and Healthy: Organic and Green but V ...
  
  
  Eternal youth… wouldnât it be nice to stop the aging process? Apparently the key ingredient is literally within you…
• Sliding House
  
  
      A beautiful video about a radically extraordinary house in England, designed by Alex de Rijke. The owner Ross Russel started with the purpose of creating something to retire in, with plans to grow food, entertain and enjoy the East Anglia landscape. The house is designed to ada ...
• Environmental News 30/09/2010
  
  
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• MoD manual reveals 'execution' of prisoner by Afgh ...
  
  
  ShareThis MoD manual reveals 'execution' of prisoner by Afghan soldier 03 Oct 2010 A prisoner has been "executed" on a British base in Helmand province by an Afghan soldier, Ministry of Defence documents have disclosed. The shooting of the detainee on the small UK-controlled patrol base in Musa Qala ...
• Palestinians: Israeli settlers set fire to mosque
  
  
  ShareThis Palestinians: Israeli settlers set fire to mosque --Official: Qurans burned at West Bank site 04 Oct 2010 Palestinians accused Jewish settlers of setting fire to a mosque in the occupied West Bank on Monday, an incident that coincided with U.S. efforts to save peace talks stalled by a disp ...
• Iraq raises oil reserve estimate 24 pct
  
  
  ShareThis Mission accomplished! Iraq raises oil reserve estimate 24 pct 04 Oct 2010 Iraq's oil minister on Monday sharply boosted the estimate on the country's proven reserves of oil to 143.1 billion barrels, an almost 25 percent increase that transforms the war-ravaged nation into the home of the w ...
• Banks may need new bailout, warns think-tank
  
  
  ShareThis Banks may need new bailout, warns think-tank 04 Oct 2010 Taxpayers should be braced for another multi-billion bail-out of Britain’s banks, a left-leaning think tank claims today. Financial institutions face a funding shortfall next year as existing borrowing ends, forcing them to look for ...
• Taliban claim attacks on NATO convoys in Pakistan
  
  
  ShareThis Taliban claim attacks on NATO convoys in Pakistan 04 Oct 2010�Pakistani Taliban on Monday claimed responsibility for two recent attacks on NATO supply convoys in Pakistan and threatened to carry out more, a spokesman said. "We accept responsibility for the attacks on the NATO supply trucks ...

Daily Loaf

• Lightning beat Panthers in preseason finale
  
  
  The Tampa Bay Lightning were looking to get off to a quick start in their own building for the first time this year, and for the most part, they did just that. After a shaky first period, the Lightning put some nerves behind them and dominated the rest of the game, beating the Florida Panthers [. ...
• Rosanne’s heart belongs to daddy — Rosanne Cash’s ...
  
  
  Bob Dylan raised the bar for musician memoirs when he published Chronicles, Volume 1 a couple of years back. It was a literary work that toyed with the concepts of time and memory, and left us eager for more. But now Rosanne Cash has published Composed and finally there is a companion worthy of Dy ...
• Rubio and Romney’s Reclaiming America Rally reache ...
  
  
  Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney visit Land O Lakes to speak with citizens. Issues like entrepreneurship, role of government, and political tact were discussed with an eager crowd.
• Restaurant News: Cuenelli’s Peruvian Style Rotisse ...
  
  
  Although it is unfortunate that Riverview is losing such a great restaurant, hopefully this move will allow Cuenelli's the opportunity to get the recognition it deserves in a new part of town.
• Bill’s Sports Binge Friday freeway: Rays two-game ...
  
  
  Is it beer-30 yet? Not to worry, Dilbert dorks. After your Friday feast of brief but pointless bite-size sports morsels, you’ll be sufficiently armed to impress the Happy Hour homies and hussies alike. Maybe even the hot bartender you’ve been eyeballing for way too many months now. Also, it might ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Yonatan Shapira’s testimony from the Jewish ...
  
  
  From Occupation Magazine Journal of a voyage, by Yonatan Shapira 26 September 2010 The course is 120. Another 200 miles to the port in Cyprus and the automatic pilot in the boat, which is supposed to maintain the course, refuses to work and leaves me with the unending task of maintaining the course ...
• Avigdor Lieberman takes settlement policy to its l ...
  
  
  by Jesse Bacon Lost in the debate over the settlement phase is its real purpose, to claim Palestinian land for Israel. Even its hardcore defenders like Avigdor Lieberman, know there will come a time when that has reached its end, when all available Palestinian land has been taken, and all Palestini ...
• Something new is happening in Palestine
  
  
  An-Nabi Salih, September 25, 2010 Something new is happening in Palestine. I saw and heard things today that are relatively rare in my experience. I saw conflict erupt in the village between those who wanted to throw stones at the Israeli soldiers and generate more violence, as in the past, and the ...
• Trying to visit the Tamimi Family in the West Bank
  
  
  by Amir Terkel, Saturday, September 25, 2010 This morning we went to visit our friends the Tamimi Family and their kids in Nabi Saleh, in the west bank about 40 minutes from Tel Aviv. As it turns out this weekend village residents and Israeli peace activists had planned on marking Intern ...
• Sheikh Jarrah Sukkot
  
  
  September 22, 2010 It may sound unlikely, but we’re in ‘Uthman ibn ‘Affan Street in Sheikh Jarrah and, together with Salah and other Palestinian friends from the neighborhood, we’re building a sukkah. The Sukkot holiday, my favorite, starts tonight. Religious Jews build little booths covered with pa ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Focusing on Polizeros
  
  
  I’m putting my little personal / tech blog on hiatus for a while so I can focus on Polizeros. Those posts will now appear here, so you’ll be seeing more tech and humorous posts along with the political content. I tweaked some things here lately and the result has been substantially more readers (and ...
• Did the dog eat Florida foreclosure summons filing ...
  
  
  Naked Capitalism thinks not. Homes in Florida seized without Notice of Foreclosure: Suspiciously large number of “the dog ate my summons” filings What are the odds that these “lost” notices reflect legitimate lost documents, as opposed to failure to provide proper notice at all and lying to the cour ...
• Renewable power for frontier markets. Fenix
  
  
  2.6 billion people don’t have reliable access to grid power. Old car batteries are often used instead to charge cell phones, power lghts, etc. Fenix has developed ReadySet, a portable device with a lead-acid battery that can recharge from solar, bicycle, or the grid, with lots of outlets to power wh ...
• Mormon leader apologizes for legacy of Prop. 8
  
  
  After meeting with LGBT Mormons about Prop 8 and LDS views on homosexuality, an elder of the church said “To the full extent of my capacity, I say that I am sorry… I know that many very good people have been deeply hurt, and I know that the Lord expects better of us.” An apology. [...]
• California mandates renewable energy grid storage
  
  
  Renewable energy will now be required to be stored in California so it can be used in off-hours. The most common method is pumped-hydro, with batteries an obvious choice too. With pumped hydro, water is pumped uphill to a holding area. When power is needed, the water is released and used to create e ...

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

• NAU – Indiana AG hosts ‘transition tra ...
  
  
  Tania E. Lopez indystar.com Justice is a goal shared by Indiana and Mexico, so Hoosier legal experts have incentive to share their knowledge with their south-of-the-border colleagues, the state’s top law enforcement officer said Sunday. Attorney General Greg Zoeller is hosting 80 prosecutors, judges ...
• U.S. Sentator: Mexican Drug War Now A Narco-Insurg ...
  
  
  Speech by Senator Dick Lugar at the Indiana AG-sponsored legal training for Mexican prosecutors last week. I would like to thank my good friend Attorney General Greg Zoeller for inviting me here today.  I am proud of the work that he and Governor Daniels have undertaken to strengthen the relationshi ...
• Galloway plans to sue the Canadian government
  
  
  Controversial former British MP George Galloway is planning to sue the Canadian government for allegedly breaching his privacy rights and branding him a terrorist supporter. Galloway – who was told last year that he would be blocked from coming to Canada – arrived in Toronto on Saturday. In a speech ...
• SERCO – The Corporate Dictatorship
  
  
  SERCO – The Biggest Company You’ve Never Heard Of. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d16466').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
• This Day In History – October 4
  
  
  1822 – Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (d. 1893), was born 1918 – An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. Fires and explosions continue for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading or ...

The Air Vent

• Climate Crazy
  
  
  [self snip the whole thing] Genetically altered plants to save you from AGW.
• Conversation with a climatologist
  
  
  I’ve been wrong before, comment away. Blogs which require passwords and codes drive me nuts.  Get wordpress people and stop moderating.  What a waste of my time. I’ve been discussing with James Amman MMH10 which is the single premier skeptic paper ever published.   Although even blogland hasn’t ...
• Two Civil Conversations on Other Blogs
  
  
  I’ve been enjoying a couple of conversations away from tAV.  One where I’m discussing with James Annon the McKitrick McIntyre and Herman paper which shows models far exceeding trends.  His blog is moderated so the pace is very slow.  The link is here. James has made (and published) the claim that ...
• Cull the Skeptics
  
  
  Ok, this  was sent by email to me.  I see Anthony Watts already has it up — big surprise there.  What the heck is wrong with envirowhackos.  This isn’t funny, it isn’t sane, it will convince noone of anything, it’s gratuitously violent, it’s indirectly threatening and worst of all, it’s obnoxiou ...
• Corruption
  
  
  Well GM, a company now owned primarily by the US federal government, a company which received billions in bailout money which ended up being payoffs to democratic party supporting unions, has now decided to invest back in the politicians which supported them. From here: WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–Genera ...

Focal Point

• CNN Fires Rick Sanchez For Anti-Semitic Tirade Aga ...
  
  
  CNN anchor Rick Sanchez was fired after letting loose an anti-semitic tirade against Jews in the media in general, and Daily Show host Jon Stewart in particular. Here's a transcript of Sanchez's meltdown , which took place Thursday on Pete Dominick's XM radio show . Sanchez was on to promote his new ...
• A Tea Party Treasury: Taibbi & Drum
  
  
  There's been a lot of great writing about the conservative backlash known as the tea party lately. Matt Taibbi has an astute take on racism and the tea party movement in Rolling Stone : It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists. They're ...
• Future Generations Will Condemn Us For: Legalizing ...
  
  
  Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah sparked an internet meme with his op/ed entitled " What Will Future Generations Condemn Us For "? The challenge is to predict which widely accepted practices or institutions will be regarded as barbaric by future generations. Apiah argues future generations will look ...
• Dirty Trickster James "Honey Trap" O'Keefe Schemed ...
  
  
  Talk about hubris... Dirty trickster James O'Keefe's foray into gonzo porn has ended disastrously for him. O'Keefe schemed to seduce CNN investigative reporter Abbie Boudreau in front of hidden cameras. The right wing media activist, who recently pleaded guilty to charges of attempted phone tamperin ...
• Federal Regulators Vindicate Dr. Maria New
  
  
  This month, federal regulators vindicated Dr. Maria New, a leading pediatric endocrinologist who studies prenatal treatment for congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), a hereditary disease that exposes the fetus to excessive male hormones in the womb. In February, a group of activist bioethicists sent ...

Inside Facebook

• Phrases, Other Quiz Apps Draw Millions on This Wee ...
  
  
  It has been over a week since Phrases became the second-largest app on Facebook, as measured by monthly active users, but the user-generated quiz and quote app keeps chugging along. With 2.8 million new users, it’s the top entry on this week’s AppData list of fastest-gaining apps by MAU: Top Gainers ...
• Interview with John Earner of Playfish on Using Fa ...
  
  
  Electronic Arts’ Playfish was recently the first of the four major social game developers to implement in-app Like buttons which Facebook released 3 weeks ago. The change allowed developers to place Like buttons on specific content within their games, such as virtual goods. The Like buttons generate ...
• This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games
  
  
  Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games â tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, September 27th, 2010 CrowdStar Becomes Second-Largest by MAU on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games Possible ...
• Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job B ...
  
  
  Recently, we launched the Inside Network Job Board â dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this weekâs highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Electronic Arts, Toy Studio, Storm8, One ...
• Thanks to Our Sponsors
  
  
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ReDress News

• After the journey – a UN man’s open letter to Tony ...
  
  
  Hans von Sponeck, UN humanitarian coordinator during 1998-2000, demands answers from the former British Prime Minister and war crimes suspect Tony Blair to a simple question: why is Iraq in such a mess?
• America’s homeland insecurity
  
  
  Paul J. Balles argues that the United States’ ill-defined “war on terror” poses a real and present danger to US civil liberties, as evidenced by US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s exhortation that “homeland security begins with hometown security” and hometown security begins with loca ...
• Overcoming AIPAC is not enough
  
  
  Lawrence Davidson outlines a strategy for unshackling the United States from Israel, based on melding the liberation of the US from AIPAC with the revival of American national interests in the broader Middle East and Muslim world, and with the viable future of Palestine.
• Israel's reasoning against peace: deal comes at hi ...
  
  
  Jonathan Cook considers the forces ranged against a just peace for the Palestinians, arguing that these forces include not just the squatters that inhabit the ever-expanding colonies in the West bank, but also many Israeli Jews living within Israel's recognized borders and retired senior army office ...
• Reaping terror’s reward: get in there first – that ...
  
  
  Stuart Littlewood looks at how modern terrorism was in fact pioneered by the Zionists and how Israeli and the US behaviours fit the US definition of terrorism like a glove.

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

• Jamiol Presents
  
  
• ‘This’ is the ‘Real’ Picture of Our War: Isn’t it ...
  
  
  Seeking Unison in Justified Outrage   Please take a moment and look at these pictures. Really look at them. Not just a cursory glance or a rushed and distracted glance. Isn’t it heartbreaking looking at them? Isn’t it revolting and outrageous?  Next, please read, process, and think about the followi ...
• Matt Bryza: From Evasive to Perjurer?
  
  
  Obama’s Nominee for Azerbaijan Ambassadorship Misleads Congress on the Issues of Conflict of Interest & Questionable Ties In response to questions at the hearing that he was too close to Azerbaijani Government officials with highly questionable ties, Matt Bryza remained evasive and provided half-ans ...
• The Latest on the Police State Front
  
  
  Pilots vs. Indignities at the Airports, Midland FBI Spying, Snitching on Your ‘Terrorist Neighbor,’ & More Here are a few updates for those of you who may have been wondering about the continuity of my interest in our nation’s police state status. I may be too busy to write my usual ten-page plus ed ...
• Decrypting the Shadow behind Hamid Karzai
  
  
  The Long Intended Chaos According to news reports, the Obama administration is once again reevaluating how to deal with Afghanistanâs Hamid Karzai out of fear that it may now be holding him to unrealistic standards of U.S. law enforcement. This comes after a summer of news that Karzai continues to ...

Afro Spear

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• Does The Black Church Care? Mother of Peace Orphan ...
  
  
  The children with Mama Jean at the Mother of Peace Orphanage in Mutoko, Zimbabwe In 1989 a South African warrior woman was inspired to promote the setting up of orphanages that would care for children who had been abandoned due to the AIDS pandemic. In 1993 five people from Harare took up the challe ...
• “Our Father, Who Aren’t in Washington& ...
  
  
  Op-ed submission by Project 21  Conservatives argue that the liberal social programs of the 1960s destroyed the black family as the notion of the black man as the patriarch of his family took a beating. In just a few generations, an intact black family became so hard to recognize that blacks ridicul ...
• “Are You Serious? MDG in Africa!” by P ...
  
  
  Repost from CRY ME AN ONION The UN is prone to throw challenges here and there to the world. One of the challenges lingering from its start in 2000 is the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). All UN Members ceremoniously enlisted for this homework. The aim of the MDG is to meet 8 poverty reduction go ...
• The Business of Poverty
  
  
  Jesus stated: “The poor you will always have with you…” and there are those who want to ensure that these words will always ring true. Last week, from 20-22 September, there was an U.N. summit regarding the progress of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). For those unfamiliar with what this ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

• Rebecca Spillson’s Propaganda Machine Underm ...
  
  
  Everything’s fine on the Alabama coast, especially at Gulf Shores / Orange Beach, especially now it’s Shrimp Festival time. Hey! Those persistent organic toxins aren’t going to eat themselves: Yes, that really was posted on YouTube in the last few days, [dreamily] almost as though nothing had happen ...
• Greenwash Of The Week: The Nature Conservancy and ...
  
  
  From my friend David at The Good Human comes the opening gambit of a big investigation into The Nature Conservancy. This will be worth watching… Seems The Nature Conservancy, an âenviroâ org with billions of dollars in assets, has some very good rich friends who spend their days destroying the e ...
• Big Alcohol Funding Anti-Marijauna Campaigns
  
  
  I’ve seen both the good side of recreational cannabis use (creativity and good feelings) and also the bad side (psychosis and laziness), so I’m not taking sides here as far as legalisation is concerned. On the other hand, I’ve seen a hell of a lot more aggression, violence, bloodshed and death from ...
• IBM Financing Greenwash: 2 PCs Better Than 1?
  
  
  This gem of a corporate sales pitch was sent to me by an Unsuitablog reader, which somehow manages to turn replacing a computer twice as often as normal into a green decision. The main problem with corporate attempts to be green is that they come from corporations, and corporations exist to make pro ...
• Monthly Undermining Task September/October 2010: U ...
  
  
  Fashion! Turn to the left Fashion! Turn to the right Oooh, fashion! We are the goon squad and we’re coming to town (âFashionâ, David Bowie) The Unsuitablog is being fashionably late in publishing the latest Monthly Undermining Task; the main reason being that I wanted leave the previous one up a ...

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

• 'Sourcing Through Texting' Brings Public into Radi ...
  
  
  If a large truck illegally barrels through a neighborhood and no reporters are around to see it, does it make the news? It does if local residents with mobile phones can text truck sightings to a local public radio station. This is the premise behind a new pilot project called Sourcing Through T ...
• How to Build a Website: One Piece at a Time
  
  
  The likelihood that an online video editing site, a 21st century technological innovation if ever there were one, would draw inspiration from a 34-year-old Johnny Cash song about a broken-down, piece of junk Cadillac is, admittedly, a tad anachronistic. But as my partner, Nonny de la Peña, and I ...
• An Anaylsis of Six Journalism Startups
  
  
  In the last few weeks there has been some interesting and exciting news in the journalism startup world. I wanted to take some time to highlight new players and provide my own personal analysis. Collaborative Storytelling: Three New Startups Kommons.com Kommons was founded by the young Cody ...
• SeedSpeak To Sprout Community Improvement Projects ...
  
  
  The excitement continues to build in the Phoenix community over a new mobile and web platform that will help people sow positive change in the community. Since the June Knight News Challenge funding announcement, my development partner Cody Shotwell and I have fielded dozens of calls and emails from ...
• PRX Story Exchange, Spot.us Bring Crowdfunding to ...
  
  
  Story Exchange (formerly Story Market) is a way for local public radio stations, producers, and listeners to pitch, find and fund documentaries and stories on important local issues. We're also one of this year's winners of a Knight News Challenge grant. Here's how we envision it working: Let's s ...

Cutting Edge News

• Edge on Solar Power - BrightSource Shines a Light ...
  
  
  The Israeli-founded solar energy company, BrightSource, is building in California the largest solar-powered steam turbine generator ever built in the world. It hasn’t been without its struggles: environmentalists showed how the original build site for the solar panels interfered with wildlife such a ...
• The Economic Crisis on Edge - More Virtue, Not Les ...
  
  
  It would be foolish for me to pick an argument with Paul Krugman on economics. A Nobel Prize winner, he is one of the foremost economists in the world. But the statement in his latest New York Times column that “Economics is not a morality play” is not so much about economics as it is about ethics, ...
• Weather on the Edge - How Honeycomb Clouds Exhibit ...
  
  
  Like shifting sand dunes, some clouds disappear in one place and reappear in another. New work this week in Nature shows why: Rain causes air to move vertically, which breaks down and builds up cloud walls. The air movement forms patterns in low clouds that remain cohesive structures even while appe ...
• Book Review - Terrorizing Women: Femicide in the A ...
  
  
  Terrorizing Women: Femincide in the Americas. Cynthia Bejarano and Rosa-Linda Fregoso. Duke University Press. 2010. 408 pp. In a room hidden away in the basement floor of a campus building, gut-wrenching images greeted visitors. A life-size collage”constructed like a statue projected women's faces, ...
• Religion of Peace Should Seek to Coexist with Baha ...
  
  
  I recently saw a reference in The Cutting Edge News to Islam persecuting Baha'i. Just now, Baha'i leaders are still jailed, their possessions seized and their families persecuted by the Iranian regime solely because they are worshipers of the Baha'i faith. Why does the media ignore this reality when ...

High Country News

• The Weird West
  
  
  A slide show of images from HCN's 40th anniversary photo contest.
• The Ghosts of Yosemite
  
  
  Modern-day scientists, retracing the path of Joseph Grinnell in Yosemite National Park, document conspicuous changes in the natural world and find a culprit unimagined by biologists 100 years ago: global warming
• His photographs trace the passage of time
  
  
  Photographer Mark Klett has made an art of rephotographing Western landscapes first documented about 100 years ago
• Stealing the West, bone by bone
  
  
  People who take fossils from public lands are no better than thieves.
• High Country Views, episode 10
  
  
  The aftermath of Boulder's destructive Fourmile Canyon fire.

CounterCurrents

• The Un-Common Wealth Games Begin: Incredible India ...
  
  
  By Partha Banerjee Jim Yardley writes in New York Times today: As Global Games Begin, India Hopes for Chance to Save National Pride. Wrong title, Mr. Yardley. India doesnt hope to save national pride: its the violent, corrupt and inefficient people on top who are trying to save their national power ...
• An Army Too Near The Edge
  
  
  By Gordon Duff Coming home, sick, injured, unemployed, divorced, alone, angry, alienated, those staying in the military, those fit enough to remain in and the thousands, hundreds of thousands who just couldnt take it anymore are killing themselves in record numbers
• Inside Story Of A Funding God: A Case Study
  
  
  By Vibhed Dhurvey In some parts of the country now Action Aid is not known as an organization to provide support or aid for action, but now it is known as Fraction Aid, means it is using money, strategies and ideas to capture peoples struggle across the country to break to process of social change ...
• Corporatism: The Cyborg Amongst Us
  
  
  By Aetius Romulous In a world of fragile mortal beings, the corporation is a cyborg
• Big Oil And Corporate Polluters Spent Over $500 Mi ...
  
  
  By Climate Progress The entire electric utility industry spent more than $264 million on lobbying alone in 2009 and the first half of 2010. Oil and gas interests spent, a record $175 million lobbying in 2009 a 30 percent increase from 2008 and have spent $75 million already in 2010. The oil, gas, a ...

Contagious Love Experiment

• 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 ...
• The other side of Afghanistan
• Days 9-11: Solitude, Mountains, and Humanity
  
  
  The first time I talked to Ymani, one of our hosts in Asheville, NC, I was at Salam’s house in Berkeley, CA. The first cross-country trek that I embarked on was drawing to an end and I was entering all kinds of scenarios into google maps to try to incorporate Asheville into the plans before [...]

Yid With Lid

• A First-hand Account of The Status of Northern Ira ...
  
  
  By Barry Rubin Dr. Jonathan Spyer, senior fellow at the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, has just returned from a visit to northern Iraq. He is the first Israeli analyst to meet leaders of the Kurdish-ruled region there, and to interview the leader of the radical Ku ...
• Fox Is Not So Fair and Balanced in Their Middle E ...
  
  
  Fox News is really two networks, on one side you have people like Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity who are not reporters but commentators, they make no illusions about the fact their shows are opinion oriented not pure news.� Then on the other hand Fox has the reporters who generally play ...
• Gloria Allred Has Played The "Nanny Card" Before
  
  
  Last week the California Governor's race was taken over by Gloria Allred, attorney, Democratic Party advocate, and protector of scandalous "other woman." According to Allred (who was a delegate to the Democratic Convention in 2008), Nicky Diaz-Santillan worked "toiled" Republican Gubernatorial Can ...
• Socialists Have A Washington Rally "Disappointing" ...
  
  
  For those who had the stomach to watch, today was the The One Nation, Working Together get out the vote movement led by United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ). United For Peace and Justice, started as an anti-war group, but has expanded its scope into promoting social justice, globalization, the ...
• What Was Behind Rick Sanchez’s Agonizing Twenty Mi ...
  
  
  On Thursday Rick Sanchez spent twenty minutes on the radio committing career suicide in a most slow agonizing manner. Appearing on the Sirrus/XM satellite radio program, Stand Up! with Pete Dominic he started out placing himself in a little hole and kept digging until he exposed a giant pink slip. ...

The Real Agenda

• 1010 Global: Niños Asesinados por No Reducir Su Hu ...
  
  
  Bajo el título "No hay presión", el clip comienza mostrando un profesor lavandole el cerebro a los niños sobre las emisiones de CO2, antes de volarle la cabeza a dos niños que no están de acuerdo y se niegan a reducir su "huella de carbono".
• Film: Children Assassinated For Not Reducing Carbo ...
  
  
  A new climate change infomercial released by a prominent global warming activist organization depicts children being assassinated for not reducing their carbon footprint, as AGW skeptics are grotesquely blown up with innards and blood splattering everywhere, a frightening reminder of the fact that t ...
• “Diseñar Humanos con Características Unicas” bajo ...
  
  
  Recientemente, un documento titulado Gobernabilidad Global 2025: En un momento Crítico fue divulgado a través de una demanda impuesta bajo el Acto de Libertad de Información . El documento, escrito por el American National Intelligence Council (NIC) y el Instituto de la Unión Europea de Estudios de ...
• Salmón Transgénico entra en Cadena Alimenticia sin ...
  
  
  Esta nueva especie de salmón, literalmente, cultivado en un laboratorio, pondrá fin a la población natural de salmón en tan sólo unas pocas generaciones. Entre los genes que estos salmones contienen se encuentran anguila, insectos y arácnidos. La FDA está a punto de aprobar salmón genéticamente modi ...
• Massive Austerity causes Wave of Protests in Europ ...
  
  
  Is this the beginning of a mass wake up against the tyranny and irresponsibility of the bankers and elites of the planet? AP Anti-austerity protests erupted across Europe on Wednesday – Greek doctors and railway employees walked out, Spanish workers shut down trains and buses, and one man even block ...

Wind Watch

• Lookout Mountain residents fighting plan for wind ...
  
  
  Lookout Mountain residents near Ga. 157 have been contacted about a potential wind turbine farm being located in the area. Residents were approached last week (Sept, 13-17) by a representative of Iberdrola Renewables, which claims to be the worldwide leader in wind turbines, with their turbines in 2 ...
• Properties ‘virtually unmarketable’
  
  
  A survey by a local realtor may have confirmed the worst suspicions of Stan Mundy, whose home is closest to Chevron’s wind farm northeast of Casper. Glen Taylor, of Equity Brokers in Casper, did a real estate survey Sept. 10, 2010, and concluded properties directly adjacent to the Chevron Wind Tower ...
• Records show area officials profit from leases wit ...
  
  
  Twelve public officials who sat on county and town boards in Lewis County stand to make a combined $7.5 million from the region’s largest wind-turbine project, government disclosure forms show. And numerous other officials in Herkimer County stand to profit as well from new projects there, although ...
• U.S. wrestling with property values and setbacks f ...
  
  
  While residents in Wellington County are struggling to stave off a number of wind farm pro­jects in their communities, their counterparts in the United States are facing the same battles and arguing with the same tools. The difference is that here the provincial govern­ment has taken away the rights ...
• Wind turbine ordinance passes overwhelmingly
  
  
  PHILLIPS — Residents voted 32-9 on Thursday to adopt an ordinance that allows the town to govern where wind turbines are located in town, interim Town Manager Elaine Hubbard said Friday. The ordinance, which is effective immediately, sets guidelines for the turbines for both commercial and residenti ...

Not My Tribe

• What would Bush war cabal have to say to America&# ...
  
  
  Why would Dick Cheney, George W. Bush and General Stanley McChrystal be addressing US insurance execs? McChrystal of all people, specifically. How to make war on poor people, even in America? My best guess would be motivational speeches about how to stay out of jail, no matter what the enormity of t ...
• TeaBag Heroin (she’s a Dope) Palin exploitin ...
  
  
  The latest episode had HER royal lowness being booed on a celebrity dance competition show in which she wasn’t a participant, her Daughter Bristol was. Bristol who would rightfully be the Poster Child for “Abstinence only” sex education. Her son Trig she exploits as though she’s a loving mom, but wo ...
• Transit Authority “Let them Eat Cake” ...
  
  
  Public meeting that was scheduled for this past Monday, 27 Sep 2010, postponed until Monday after next, the 11th of October. Strong-arm Mayor Rivera and his Puppet Council are pushing to sever Front Range Express, thus ending any chance of a Regional transportation system, along with the Ute Pass bu ...
• Unexpurgated then and now.
  
  
  Because of the massive amount of bigotry, jingoism and violent wishes expressed in reaction to one of our more popular Visitor Attractions showing just a minimal sample of war atrocity in the form of dead Soldiers. Like, what was expected, eh? The hate-speech brought forth from those who want to con ...
• Was Jesus a Muslim? (tee-hee)
  
  
  Listening to Islamic studies scholar Robert Shedinger taunt the CC audience with whether Jesus may have been a Muslim reminds me of the not-so-old joke about returning the Statue of Liberty to the French, because we’re not using her anymore. At his fundamental, Jesus espoused what we are accustomed ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Hello Everyone
  
  
  Hey everybody, my name is Fakeham and I'm just posting this as an introductory post to let everyone know that I am a new contributor to this blog. There's not much to tell about myself because everything important will be in my biography. I have a youtube channel and occasionally do videos on 9/11 ...
• Iraq Inquiry: your opportunity to demand a new 9/1 ...
  
  
  28 September 2010 From Reinvestigate 911 YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO DEMAND A NEW 9/11 INVESTIGATION Reinvestigate 911 is asking 9/11 truth activists worldwide to write to the Iraq Inquiry in London in support of our submission. Please forward this email to any politicians or journalists who may be inter ...
• Debunking the Debunkers
  
  
  Permanent Top Post--Scroll Down for Newer Posts Comments are only open to blog contributors , but feel free to contact us here if you have a point of contention or some kind words you would like to share. Ad hominems will be ignored, but well-formed rebuttals may be addressed (and that is a subjec ...
• Actually, no Mr. Nobles...
  
  
  I think it's time to correct you on a few issues. A couple of weeks ago Mr. Joseph Nobles posted a response to my debunking of his posts on the thermal conductivity of the WTC steel and the corroded steel samples. And on Tuesday, he posted a request to me that I correct myself. I'll be doing some ...
• What We Believe According to JREFers
  
  
  So I've just taken a look over at ae911truth.info to see if Mr. Joseph Nobles has been up to anything recently. His latest addition to his site concerns a post by someone on the JREF forum on a thread titled "Why do you still believe that a collapse due to fire wouldn't be possible?". I was ready to ...

Fooducate

• “Naturally Flavored” Crystal Light Drink Mix. Inde ...
  
  
  We’ve lamented the fuzzy definition of the word “natural” when it comes to food labeling. Let’s take a look at a “naturally flavored” drink mix to emphasize the absurdity. With “90% fewer calories than leading beverages”, Crystal Light sounds like a good deal for calorie conscious consumers who nee ...
• It’s Not About Nutrition
  
  
  One of our favorite blogs is Dr. Dina Rose’s aptly named, It’s Not About Nutrition. You see, Dr. Rose does not come from the medical or nutrition fields, rather Sociology. She is a food sociologist (see below). And yet, each and every one of her blog posts hits the spot with solid advice for parents ...
• DIY Packaging Tricks For Healthy Snacks
  
  
  This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl If you think something will taste really delicious you will eat it. Most of us would assume that taste is based on using our taste buds, but what about our eyes? Can you alter healthy food to make children want to eat it? [...]
• Ben & Jerry’s Getting Honest about “All Natural” L ...
  
  
  As fooducate readers probably know by now, we take great care in pointing out marketing claims disguised as health claims. You know, the smart wordy quotes that make you feel you’re gonna live forever, disease free if you just buy this product and consume it every day, preferably twice daily. Even ...
• The Protein Marketing Myth
  
  
  Quick question – are you getting enough protein in your diet? For most Americans, the answer is YES, more than enough. How then, can you explain the huge business that is protein supplements? All those bars and meal replacements bragging boatloads of protein? Not to mention Greek yogurts that tout t ...

Traffikd

• Increasing Your Blog’s Interactivity: 10 Tips for ...
  
  
  Guest post by Alexis Bonari Success in attracting and retaining readers is often influenced by a blog’s level of interactivity. Many readers are more active than passive and want to feel like they have a role in affecting a blog’s content, design, structure, and overall ongoing conversation. Posts ...
• 5 Facebook Apps That Really Make Money
  
  
  Guest post by Alexis Bonari If you aren't on Facebook by now, you are probably the only one who isn't. My grandmother has a Facebook page and anyone who can type, is able to start their own page with no problem. Most everyone uses Facebook as a social meeting place, but did you know that you coul ...
• Online Profits Re-Opens (and now it’s free)!
  
  
  Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips started a membership site, Online Profits , last year to help people learn about making money online. Daniel has just re-launched and re-vamped Online Profits, and this time there is no charge to get all of the valuable content. The only requirement is that you open ...
• 3 Ways to Ensure Internet Marketing Continues to W ...
  
  
  This is a guest post by Susan White Gone are the days when Internet marketing was perceived as the bold, new and innovative way to market and publicize your products and services. Today, email marketing and other forms of pushing your products on the web are passé. The Internet is growing faster th ...
• Cloud Living Now Available From Glen Allsopp
  
  
  One of my friends has just launched a new product that I think may be of interest to many Traffikd readers. Glen Allsopp has written an e-book, Cloud Living , based on his experiences from making a five-figure monthly income from his websites. Cloud Living is actually more than an e-book, it i ...

Survival International

• Church demands end to armed attacks on Guarani
  
  
  Guarani Indians often suffer violent attacks after they return to their ancestral land © CIMI Brazilian bishops have demanded that the government take urgent action to put an end to armed attacks on Guarani communities in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, south of the Amazon. Last month, Guara ...
• Pro-Indian bishop wins ‘alternative Nobel prize’
  
  
  Dom Erwin Krautler, Bishop of Xingu, has won the 2010 Right Livelihood Award © Prelazia do Xingu A leading supporter of Indian rights in Brazil has won the Right Livelihood Award , known as the ‘alternative Nobel prize’. Dom Erwin Krautler, the Bishop of the Xingu in Brazil’s Amazon region, wo ...
• Shell in row over Brazilian Indian land grab
  
  
  The film 'Birdwatchers' highlights the plight of the Guarani Kaiowá Indians in Brazil © Marie Hippenmeyer Brazilian authorities have written to energy giant Shell expressing concern over the activities of its new Brazilian joint-venture partner, which is producing biofuels from land taken ...
• Survival calls for boycott of Botswana tourism
  
  
  The pool of Wilderness Safaris' new lodge in the CKGR. © Survival Survival today called for tourists to boycott Botswana until the government ends a brutal campaign of persecution against Kalahari Bushmen. The call coincides with World Tourism Day, September 27, which Botswana is using to ...
• Amazon Indians condemn destructive Madeira river d ...
  
  
  Indians protest against dams in the Amazon © Telma Monteiro/ Survival Indians of several tribes have harshly criticized the Brazilian government for allowing the construction of large hydroelectric dams in the Amazon, including dams on the Madeira river. In a Declaration signed at the ‘Gatheri ...

Greg Palast

• Crisis in EcuadorGreg Palast Interviews President ...
  
  
  Ecuador news today Ecuador's president attacked by police. Country's leader trapped in hospital after assault, as government declares a one-week state of emergency. In February 2008 Greg Palast met with Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa. They discussed the Lawsuit against Chevron, Eradicating F ...
• Tonight: Palast on Firedoglake.comLive-Chat on New ...
  
  
  Join the conversation tonight. Greg will be discussing Big Easy to Big Empty - The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans. You can ask Greg questions on live-chat tonight at 8pm ET on the Firedoglake.com homepage. If you're not already registered, go to Firedoglake.com and register to get your ...
• Palast at the 2010 Fighting Bob Fest
  
  
  Watch Greg Palast's speech at the Barrymore Theater on September 10, 2010 for the opening of the annual Fighting Bob Fest Festival in Wisconsin. *** Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Armed Madhouse and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. Palast is a Nation Institute/Puffi ...
• Bush'd again? New Orleans, Mr. O and Mr. Go
  
  
  by Greg Palast for The Huffington Post Five years ago this week, a beast drowned New Orleans. Don't blame Katrina: the lady never, in fact, touched the city. The hurricane swept east of it. You want to know the name of the S.O.B. who attacked New Orleans? Locals call him "Mr. Go" - the Mississippi ...
• No “Home Sweet Home”Five years after Katrina
  
  
  Matt Pascarella and I encountered Patricia Thomas while she was breaking into a home at the Lafitte Housing Project in New Orleans. It was her own home. Nevertheless, if caught, she'd end up in the slammer. So would we. Matt was my producer for the film, Big Easy to Big Empty, and he encouraged [.. ...

Telegraph UK - oil

• Vladimir Putin calls for calm in battle for Arctic ...
  
  
  Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, called for calm in the battle for the Arctic's vast untapped energy resources, accusing unnamed forces of trying to stir up trouble.
• Deepwater lessons
  
  
  Telegraph View: It is crucial that we learn from the oil-spill catastrophe.
• Greenpeace claims to have shut down Greenland oil ...
  
  
  Greenpeace claims its activists have shut down a ''dangerous'' oil drilling operation by a British energy company in the Arctic.
• BP handout 'saved the summer' in Florida
  
  
  Visitor numbers in Florida have risen despite the BP oil spill, thanks to a £20m promotion, reports Richard Luscombe.
• Microbe eating spilled oil in Gulf of Mexico
  
  
  A newly discovered species of microbe is breaking down oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico much faster than scientists thought possible.

Ian Welsh

• Republic of Men Rather Than Laws
  
  
  A friend of mine notes the wave of fraudulent foreclosures, foreclosures where firms simply faked the paperwork needed to prove they have standing to foreclose (that they actually own the mortgage.)  There have been some moves to stem the fraud, not the least of which is by Florida’s Attorney Gener ...
• Is America past the point of no return economicall ...
  
  
  This, from Numerian, is the sort of thing I was talking about when I noted that: If you can build a factory overseas which produces the same goods for less, meaning more profit for you, why would you build it in the US? Until that question is adequately answered, by which I mean “until it’s [...]
• Corrente is fundraising
  
  
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• Corrente is fundraising
  
  
  If you value what they do and you can afford to help, you should give. Stuff that’s free, isn’t.
• Leftists Should Take Credit for Bringing Down Demo ...
  
  
  Peter Dauo has a pair of well received articles on how the left, and specifically bloggers, have brought down the Obama administration.  This is in contrast to what many see as the attempt by the White House to portray left wingers as responsible for Democratic losses. What? Look, if the left is so ...

Age of Autism

• Sex!
  
  
  Break out the "good panties", ladies. Guys - charge up that ManGroomer. Tuesday we have sex, love and lust. And we're not faking it. KS
• Fox News Airs Segment Asking about "Vaccine Autism ...
  
  
  Thank you to Rebecca Estepp and SafeMinds for coordinating this media coverage of the state of the Autism Vaccine coverage. Mary Holland speaks to Fox News. If the embed does not work for you, go to Media Matters HERE. Fox...
• Observations from UPENN's "The Science, Ethics and ...
  
  
  The Science, Ethics and Politics of Vaccine Mandates (When you assume that vaccines are safe) By Louise Kuo Habakus BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY This is a long post but I encourage you to read my remarks. Compulsory vaccination represents a severe...
• Establishment Journal Nature Refuses Discussion on ...
  
  
  The authors put their results into perspective – “the population attributable risk ... is estimated to be 3.3%”. This says, in effect, that 96.7% of ASD cannot be attributed to these genetic changes. Moreover, the figure of 3.3% includes ID...
• New Jersey Home of The Situation and The Autism Si ...
  
  
  By Claudine Liss It’s great living in the grand State of New Jersey home of; the highest autism rates globally, the most mandated vaccines in the world and the famous television shows Jersey Shore, The Real Housewives of New Jersey...

Global BDS Movement

• Czech public figures call on Václav Havel: “Do not ...
  
  
  [ ISM Czech Republic ] - In response to news about Václav Havel’s support for an international campaign to fight so-called ’delegitimisation’ of Israel and to fight against the worldwide boycott movement against Israelinitiated by the former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar, ISM Czech Republ ...
• Open letter to OECD regarding decision to host tou ...
  
  
    18 September 2010   read more
• BDS France calls for demonstrations of support for ...
  
  
  Colonization, apartheid, refugees     It is Israel that is breaking the law     It's Israel that should be brought to justice!     In Bordeaux, Perpignan, Mulhouse, Paris and Pontoise, certain activists are soon to appear in court due to their participation in the citizen and non-violent read more
• BNC welcomes cancellation of visit by settlement m ...
  
  
  Occupied Palestine, 23 September 2010 - The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), on behalf of its constituent organizations and unions representing the majority of Palestinian civil society, warmly salutes the decision taken by the Association of Netherlands Munici ...
• BNC Event: "South African anti-apartheid strategy ...
  
  
  The Palestinian Boycott Divestment and Sanctions National Committee(BNC)cordially invites you to a public presentation entitled(الدعوة العربية في المرفق) "South African anti-apartheid strategy and BDS, then and now" by Professor Patrick Bond read more

Farm Wars

• Just a note from Barb….
  
  
  Dear Farm Wars Readers! Barb asked me to let you know her internet service is down again.  We have no idea how long this will last this time.  She’ll be back just as soon as service on the mountain has been restored. Marti
• The Truth Squad Radio Show – Open Mike Night!
  
  
  Join us this Sunday for open mike night!
• AMERICAN POLITICS WITH JOHN WALLACE – RADIO SHOW
  
  
  NEXT SHOW – THIS FRIDAY – OCT 1st  at 5:00PM Eastern Time TOPIC : CODEX ALIMENTARIUS: THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO SEE! Although most Americans do not know it, they are eating food that is injected with foreign genes (GMOs), blasted with pesticides, irradiated beyond recognition ...
• Ben & Jerry’s latest flavor: genetically engineere ...
  
  
  In addition to heaping helpings of political activism, the company also served a "protest batch" of the cleverly re-named frozen treat, "Something's Fishy." It's "an outrageous flavor protesting genetically engineered salmon," and it's chocolatey, marshmallowy good.
• Groundbreaking study shows Roundup link to birth d ...
  
  
  Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the world's best-selling weedkiller Roundup, causes malformations in frog and chicken embryos at doses far lower than those used in agricultural spraying and well below maximum residue levels in products presently approved in the European Union.

Open Your Eyes News

• Artificial fertility treatments create a sex bias
  
  
  New Scientist – Different fertility treatments affect the ratio of boy babies to girls, and this could have serious consequences as artificial fertility treatment becomes more common. So says Michael Chapman at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, following a study that compared d ...
• British intelligence denies US terror warnings spa ...
  
  
  The Guardian – Fresh warnings of possible terror attacks in Europe issued by the US were not sparked any new intelligence, counter-terrorism, security and intelligence officials said.There seems no doubt there has been “chatter”, or intercepted communications, between suspected jihadists and al-Qaid ...
• Iraq buys 250,000 tonne wheat to cover 2011 needs
  
  
  Daily Times – Iraq has bought 250,000 tonnes of wheat from the United States, Australia and Ukraine, which is enough to cover its needs in 2011, Waleed al- Hilow, Iraqâs deputy trade minister, told Reuters on Saturday. Iraq, once a regional breadbasket, is now one of the worldâs biggest importer ...
• ‘France arms sub with nuclear missiles&#8217 ...
  
  
  Press TV – France has violated international disarmament treaties by arming its latest nuclear submarine with nuclear missiles, a report says. The French newspaper La Tribune on Friday reported that the country has secretly armed its fourth nuclear submarine, Le Terrible, with new generation nuclear ...
• Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders goes on trial
  
  
  BBC – The Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders has gone on trial in Amsterdam on charges of inciting hatred against Muslims. If found guilty, Mr Wilders faces up to a year in jail or a fine of up to 7,600 euros ($10,000). The trial comes as Mr Wilders’ political influence soars – he is set [...]

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Ocean pollution: Environmentalists vs. the DWP
  
  
  State regulators have issued a plan to allow the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to push back rules meant to keep coastal power stations from harming plants and animals living in ocean waters. A proposal released Thursday by...
• California's largest solar photovoltaic plant to s ...
  
  
  Southern California has gotten the bulk of the solar industry’s attention lately as a group of solar thermal projects weave their way through state regulatory agencies. But photovoltaic activity is about to kick up farther north as a project set...
• Storm-water runoff: Malibu's elegant solution
  
  
  When Malibu's new central park opens Saturday, visitors will see sculptures of a giant king snake and burrowing owl covered in jazzy mosaic tiles. And those who stroll the park's decomposed granite pathways will observe hillocks, 500 freshly planted trees...
• Gulf Oil Spill: Researchers say levels of harmful ...
  
  
  Levels of some cancer-causing oil compounds rose significantly in the waters off the Louisiana coast during the BP spill, according to Oregon State University researchers. “It’s an incredibly huge jump in concentration in a natural environment,” said OSU environmental toxicology...
• Karl Wolfgang Boer, solar pioneer, reflects on a l ...
  
  
  Karl Wolfgang Boer stumbled upon a few little yellow crystals in a drawer of a German physics lab. The accidental discovery would turn out to change his life and the future of green energy. The crystals were cadmium sulfide (CdS)...

water.org

• One Day on Earth project (DSLR NS)
  
  
  âOne Day on Earthâ project needs your help (DSLR News Shooter) – On October 10th, 2010 the records of filmmaking history will have a note called âOne Day on Earthâ. The United Nations, over 70 nonprofits from around the world, and thousands of filmmakers have teamed up with âOne Day on Ear ...
• Barclay Martin Ensemble new music, mission (KC Sta ...
  
  
  The Barclay Martin Ensemble has new music and a mission (KC Star) KANSAS CITY, MO – Water became the bandâs noble cause; it also became the theme of its next project, in more ways than one. Friday night at the Folly Theater, Martin and his band will celebrate the release of their third recording, ...
• Social good and philanthropy (Mashable)
  
  
  How Social Good Has Revolutionized Philanthropy (Mashable) – Philanthropy has always been a balance between raising money and raising awareness for a cause. For Mike McCamon, chief community officer for Water.org, social media is making both possible at the same time. Much of that comes from raising ...
• Water, women, a concert, and ongoing projects (UMK ...
  
  
  Water, Women, a Concert, and Ongoing Projects (UMKC Women’s Center) – The connection comes through Barclay Martin Ensembleâs newly-formed partnership with the Kansas City-based organization water.org. A portion of proceeds from their new album, Pools That Swell With the Rain, and merchandise, alon ...
• Water.org eco-bottles at TIFF bash (Globe and Mail ...
  
  
  Rubbing shoulders with stars never goes out of (In)Style (The Globe and Mail) TORONTO, Canada – The annual TIFF bash hosted by InStyle and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is still the hottest party ticket around, mostly because of the high-wattage guest list. But statement-making ensembles a ...

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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

• 'We were supposed to enter quietly - instead we th ...
  
  
  "Defensive Shield is a complicated and hysterical story ... they constantly spoke in terms of war. It took me two or three months to understand ... that I hadn't returned from a war. I was in some campaign ... that was worthless in many senses. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
• 'Netanyahu agrees to extend settlement freeze by 2 ...
  
  
  The American president also reportedly vowed to upgrade Israel's security capabilities and increase the three billion dollar security aid package that Israel receives annually. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Palestinian mosque torched in suspected 'price tag ...
  
  
  The attack is thought to be the latest in so-called "price tag" operations, intended to pressure the Israel government away from making concessions regarding settlement building in the West Bank. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• There's no such thing as moderate settlement build ...
  
  
  "My people in East Jerusalem report that their living conditions (that is, your living conditions; after all, you say the same rules apply to Jerusalem as to Tel Aviv ) are so crowded, they're beginning to resemble Gaza. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Canada's governments need to be much more open | N ...
  
  
  "The norm should really be proactive disclosure," Susanne Legault, information commissioner of Canada, told Postmedia News. "We feel that all Canadian governments at all levels should really embrace this approach and this cultural shift." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• Sarnia, Ontario Welcomes the World's Largest Photo ...
  
  
  Enbridge, Inc. (NYSE:� ENB ) will open the world's largest solar photovoltaic power plant in Sarnia, Ontario on October 4, 2010. read more
• New York Jets Go Solar at Team Headquarters
  
  
  large The New York Jets are now more than just green in uniform with the completion of a new rooftop 3,000 solar panel installation on their Atlantic Health Training Center. ...
• Market Leader? Increased Demand Will Grow Yingli's ...
  
  
  large Yingli Green Energy Holding Company, Ltd. (NYSE:� YGE ), one of the world's largest photovoltaic solar cell manufacturers, has announced it will increase its productio ...
• Sharp Electronic Corp. Pens 58 MW Solar Power Deal
  
  
  Sharp Electronics Corp. has signed a deal to supply thin-film solar panels to the massive Avenal Solar Power Facility soon to be under construction in Avenal, California.
• Sun Powers T-Mobile Cell Tower in PA
  
  
  T-Mobile USA Inc. has been testing the power of the sun at the company’s only solar-powered cellular site.  1 2 south-facing solar panels were installed at a cell site located in the small community of Chalfont, Pennsylvania .

News Blaze

• Armed Nepalese Police Seize Ballot Boxes from Tibe ...
  
  
  Armed Nepalese police in riot gear seized ballot boxes that were being used by Tibetans to vote for a new Prime Minister and Parliament in exile in a dramatic new development in Kathmandu today.
• Gov Candidate Sets Monday Press Availability At Ca ...
  
  
  'Nanny-gate,' budget focus of Capitol press conference Monday for independent gubernatorial candidate Laura Wells
• Wal-Mart's Cheaper Medicare Drug Plan
  
  
  Humana, based in Louisville, Ky., is one of the largest U.S. health insurers and second largest provider of privately run Medicare health plans. It has the highest exposure to Medicare among the major national managed care businesses.
• Costa Rica Medical Tourism on the Rise with Europe ...
  
  
  According to a recent Currencies.co.uk report, one in twenty Britons have had or are considering, medical or dental procedures outside of Britain. With increasingly higher rates for medicare, more are opting for taking their dollars overseas.
• Breaking News: Americans Traveling and Working in ...
  
  
  Thank you for standing by. At this time, all participants are going to be in a listen-only mode. During the question-and-answer session, please press *1 on your touchtone phone. Today's conference call is being recorded.

libcom

• Commonwealth Games in Delhi: the Reality of Exploi ...
  
  
  Article by the International Communist Current looking at the reality of day-to-day exploitation on the site of the approaching Commonwealth Games in India. There has been a great scandal in the media about the atrocious state of athlete ...
• US Judge Dismisses Hearing into Guantánamo "Suicid ...
  
  
  r72694_504843.jpg A US federal Judge dismissed a complaint Wednesday (9/29) brought by the families of two Guantánamo prisoners that alleged that the circumstances surrounding the men's deaths had been c ...
• Behind the spectacle of The Hobbit
  
  
  BilboInTheHobbit.jpg One of the most popular products exported from New Zealand has been the atmospheric Lord of the Rings films. They invoke images of a far off land called Middle Earth complete with ma ...
• Obama should embrace attacks of 'Kenyan anti-colon ...
  
  
  obamacare protesters2.jpg When Newt Gingrich last weighed in with the National Review Online, the former Speaker of the House issued scathing remarks about President Obama and his “Kenyan, anti-colonial ...
• Spain: Eulogy for unionism (CNT)
  
  
  The CNT of Spain discuss the recent campaign against unionism in Spain, while distinguishing genuine revolutionary unionism from the collaborationist unionism of the majority unions in Spain. It’s clear that a complete campaign, orchestr ...

Free Range International

• 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 ...
• A New Way Forward?
  
  
  A very tense week for those of us outside the wire has finally passed which means it is time for some good news.  We have been on a restricted movement routine (for the first time in five years) which provided the opportunity to digest a report from The Afghanistan Study Group entitled A New Way For ...
• Rocky Road
  
  
  As the summer started I was optimistic regarding the chances that we would see some indications that we are gaining ground in Afghanistan but that has not happened.  Incident rates are skyrocketing which in and of itself is not a negative thing if it is our side who are instigating the incidents but ...
• The Dog Days of Summer
  
  
  Many apologies for the delay on posting.  I was laid low by some sort of viral affliction which mimicked  malaria.  Like most people who get sick maybe once a decade, when I do catch a bug you would think I was on death’s door I’m such a sissy about it.  But the fever is gone [...]
• The Good Don’t Always Die Young
  
  
  The Godfather of Free Range International – the man who pioneered the techniques, tactics and procedures we use to travel in remote districts was executed last week in Badakhshan Province. Dan Terry was a good man.  He was humble, self-effacing, and competent.  He lived in Afghanistan with his fam ...

The Story Behind the Story

• 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”.  ...
• Ellen Brown LIVE on The Story Behind the Story &#8 ...
  
  
  Axing the Bankersâ Money Tree: Homeowners’ Rebellion against Wall Street Recent Rulings Could Shield 62 Million Homes from Foreclosure by Ellen Brown http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20688 Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in ...

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

• Robert Fowler, Held Hostage by al Qaeda in Africa ...
  
  
  Kidnapped by al Qaeda. The very thought causes shudders. But it happened to this week's guest: one of Canada's former senior diplomats in Africa on a special mission for the United Nations. The challenge: solving a dispute between the government of Niger and the rebel movement MNJ. This week, the Un ...
• Steve Nash, Two-time NBA MVP (Sept 19, 2009)
  
  
  He's one of the best basketball players on the planet, and he's made millions at it. But there's more to this week's guest than just the game. A lot more. This Canadian now makes his name on the courts, in the movies, and doing some pretty good things around the world. This week, he's our guest.
• Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada (Sept ...
  
  
  We know it was a recession, but do we know if it's really a recovery? And what about that huge deficit? A dollar again approaching parity with its US counterpart? And the unemployment rate -- could it soon be in double digits? Difficult questions for this week's guest, the man who has to consider th ...
• Dr. Shana Kelley, University of Toronto (October 3 ...
  
  
  Research labs around the world are on the constant hunt for new ways of fighting one of the world's great killers - cancer. In one lab in Toronto, exciting promise on a new technique for early detection. The possibilities are endless: for fighting cancer, and other diseases, both here in our world, ...
• Dr. Susy Hota, Infectious Diseases Specialist (Oct ...
  
  
  Are you tired of hearing about HINI -- the swine flu? That's not surprising because there's been a half year of information coming your way -- some of it contradictory, much of it confusing. This week's guest helps us get down to basics -- what you need to know, and why you need to know it.

Scotts Contracting

• House Plants and Indoor Air Quality
  
  
  Can I use house plants to improve my home’s indoor air quality? Asked by Tom Neff Fishers, IN There is data and research on the value of outdoor plantings and the positive effect on air quality through natural transpiration. It … Continue reading →
• UMTDI report calls for $3B in renewable, transmiss ...
  
  
  On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: UMTDI report calls for $3B in renewable, transmission developments in Midwest region October 1, 2010 By Dorothy Davis The Upper Midwest Transmission Development Initiative (UMTDI), a committee representing … Continue read ...
• Wind energy generation can increase fivefold in Ne ...
  
  
  30 September 2010– A study issued by the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) says wind power generation could be increased by more than five times the amount currently operating in the state of New York. The report, Growing Wind: … Continue reading →
• Deadline OCT 6-Register to vote-Message from R.Car ...
  
  
  : On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Michael Miller, Robin Carnahan for Senate wrote: Dear Scotts Contracting, This Wednesday, October 6, is the last day to register to vote in Missouri. If you aren’t registered, if you’ve … Continue reading →
• Climate change talks open in China
  
  
  By TINI TRAN, Associated Press Writer Tini Tran, Associated Press Writer â Mon Oct 4, 4:06 am ET TIANJIN, China â The U.N. climate chief urged countries Monday to identify achievable goals for fighting climate change ahead of a year-end … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

• Republican Proposals Reaffirm the Party’s Commitme ...
  
  
  The House Republican's "A Pledge to America" is a pathetic policy proposal.
• Deregulation Did Not Cause the Financial Crisis, W ...
  
  
  Statists criticize "libertarian" deregulation for the financial crisis. It's all a smokescreen to hide the real cause: the welfare state.
• Deregulation did not Cause the Financial Crisis, W ...
  
  
  Statists criticize "libertarian" deregulation for the financial crisis. It's all a smokescreen to hide the real cause: the welfare state.
• Obama’s Policies Hurt the Working Class
  
  
  The unintended consequences of Obama's Cash for Clunkers and credit card reform are hurting the working class.
• Stimulus Spenders and Their Silly Excuses
  
  
  At the end of the day, government spending, quantitative easing or whatever the political establishment wants to call it simply doesn’t work.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• 60 Second Expert: America and the Arms Trade
  
  
  Russian arms seller Viktor Bout is small potatoes compared to the real pushers.
• The Green Dividend
  
  
  The United States failed to capitalize on a Peace Dividend. Now, with the economy in a rut and the globe heating up, we have a second chance to shift Pentagon funds to domestic needs with a Green Dividend.
• Rekindling China-Japan Conflict: The Senkaku/Diaoy ...
  
  
  On September 7 an incident occurred in which a Chinese trawler tried to shake off a Japan Coast Guard patrol boat that pursued it to investigate illegal operations at sea fifteen kilometers from Kubajima of the Senkaku Islands of Okinawa prefecture.
• Another War in Lebanon? Not Likely
  
  
  Israel is focused on Iran. But the Obama administration should not ignore the few voices inside Israel that want escalation against Hezbollah.
• Gorbachev of the Pentagon?
  
  
  The United States is facing a Soviet-sized crisis. Where is the Gorbachev who can rein in our military?

Law.com

• The Careerist: Time for a Lawyers' Tea Party?
  
  
  Check out some of the latest posts on the lawjobs.com blog, The Careerist. Time for a Lawyers' Tea Party? Plus Women Lawyers, Don't Let Your Wall Street Sisters Quit And When the Stay-Home Parent Wants to Go Back to Work: A how-to guide
• On the High Court's Fall Docket, Few Blockbusters ...
  
  
  The Supreme Court's fall term opens today with a historic first -- three women on the bench -- though as yet, few blockbuster challenges have appeared on the docket. But there's plenty to watch, including a high number of business-related cases, and challenges involving speech and religion, job disc ...
• Partner Compensation: The Downturn's New Touchy Su ...
  
  
  With the economic recovery still creeping along at a snail's pace, The Recorder checked in with Kristin Stark, a San Francisco-based consultant with Hildebrandt Baker Robbins, about the prevailing mood and themes of her current day-to-day dealings with Am Law 100 and 200 clients. In this Q&A, Stark ...
• Prior Suit May Signal Fate of Cases Against Ga. Me ...
  
  
  Despite a flurry of news reports, the suits alleging that Georgia megachurch pastor Eddie Long coerced young men into sexual relationships are in the earliest stages of litigation. But some clues about how the cases may fare can be found in the matter of another megachurch pastor who was accused by ...
• Are Digital Copiers Targets for E-Discovery?
  
  
  Responding to a CBS News story that suggested digital copiers are relative treasure troves for e-discovery of document images, Rich Melville, of Maynard, Cooper & Gale, conducted his own private investigation to see what free forensic software from the internet could dig up from copiers.

Iranian.com

• Iran and Egypt to resume flights
  
  
  Egypt and Iran have agreed to resume direct flights between their capitals for the first time in three decades. Following talks in Egypt, officials said 28 weekly flights would resume between Cairo and Tehran, but did not specify when they would begin. Ties broke down in 1980 in the wake of the Isla ...
• US-Iran Relations in the Age of the Ayatollah
  
  
  Equally at home in Tehran or New York, Hooman Majd benefits from a background as intricately woven as any Persian carpet. The son of a diplomat under the shah of Iran, Majd attended schools in California, India, Iran, North Africa, and England. After the tumultuous 1979 Islamic Revolution, return ...
• سایتهای اینترنتی چند مرجع تقلید شیعه در ایران فیلت ...
  
  
  پایگاه های اطلاع رسانی چند تن از مراجع تقلید شیعه در ایران فیلتر شده است. پایگاه اطلاع رسانی آیت الله یوسف صانعی، از مراجع تقلید مقیم قم، متن اطلاعیه ای را پیرامون مسدود شدن دسترسی کاربران ایران به این سایت منتشر کرده و گفته است که علیرغم فیلتر شدن این سایت، دفتر این مرجع تقلید همچنان آماده پاسخگویی ...
• Americans Sour on Trade
  
  
  Worries about side effects of trade and outsourcing seem one of the few issues on which Americans of different classes, occupations and political persuasions agree.  While the rhetoric may be heated by approaching congressional elections, the sentiment isn't likely to disappear after November. "W ...
• احمدی نژاد از وقوع دو اتفاق بزرگ در جهان خبر داد
  
  
  وی افزود: تحولات بزرگی در جهان در حال وقوع است و باید نگاه خود را به افق‌های دور دست بدوزیم و کاروانی که به راه افتاده است به فضل الهی تمام توطئه و فتنه‌های دشمنان و بدخواهان را زیر چرخ‌های خود خواهد گرفت و با استحکام به راه خود ادامه خواهد داد. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

• Population and Sustainability: Addressing the Tabo ...
  
  
  More and more activists in the sustainability movement are coming to the conclusion that carbon emissions can’t be reduced to a safe range without curbing population growth. However at present it’s considered politically incorrect to even mention population control. The right accuses you of infringi ...
• Balochistan – the Place to Watch
  
  
  Guest Post by Alexander Achmatowicz   (above) Proposed Natural Gas Pipeline Routes Transiting Balochistan  If either IPI (Iran-Pakistan-India or more likely IPC Iran-India-China pipeline) or TAPI (Trans-Afghan Pipeline running between Turkmenistan-Afghanistan and Pakistan) is goi ...
• Iran, China and the Gwadar Port
  
  
  The Gwadar Port in Balochistan (one of Pakistan’s tribal regions) has been headline news in Pakistan, India and China this month. Interesting that I can’t find one mention of it in the western media – not even in on-line publications. Since many Pakistani commentators trace the US shift in military ...
• Open Source and the Sustainability Movement
  
  
  As strange as it may sound, switching to Open Source operating systems and software - and getting your boss, co-workers, friends and relatives to do so - can save a lot more carbon emissions than getting them to change their lightbulbs. I myself have switched to Firefox (instead of Microsoft Explo ...
• Fighting Climate Change Guerrilla Style
  
  
  It occurs to me that I and other climate change activists may be entirely wrong in the way we approach organizing around this issue. Up till now what I have envisioned pressuring government to adopt carrot and stick policies (a combination of tax credits and subsidies) that would somehow motivat ...

Free Movement

• New Immigration Rules laid
  
  
  New Immigration Rules have just been laid in Statement of Changes CM 7944. The main change is that the English language requirement for spouses and partners has been introduced, as expected. It takes effect for new applications made on or after 29 November 2010. Those with applications in before tha ...
• Zimbabwe removals still suspended
  
  
  As recently as 14 September 2010 the Government’s position was that it is not enforcing returns to Zimbabwe. In a debate in the Commons on that day the following question and answer were given: Keith Vaz (Leicester East) (Lab): Given the critical situation in Zimbabwe, does it remain the Government’ ...
• Entry clearance deception refusals
  
  
  Practitioners have seen a considerable increase in the number of applications for entry clearance that have been refused on the general grounds for refusal. The reasons are often opaque at best. Some simply refer to the contents of a Document Verification Report (DVR) and do not disclose this report ...
• New Zimbabwe fact finding report
  
  
  UKBA has published a new fact finding report on the situation in Zimbabwe. It is, probably not by co-incidence, just in time for the new test case on Zimbabwe, due to begin on 20 October 2010 and in which the Immigration Advosory Service are again acting. Presumably, UKBA will be seeking to argue th ...
• Eliza Doolittle Exposed As Cockney Flower Girl Sho ...
  
  
  The methods and reports of controversial linguistic analysis company Sprakab, based in Sweden and used by UKBA in disputed nationality asylum cases, have been warmly endorsed by the tribunal in the case RB (Linguistic evidence Sprakab) Somalia [2010] UKUT 329 (IAC). Sprakab works only for government ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• U.S. REP. GABRIELLE GIFFORDS CALLS FOR FORECLOSURE ...
  
  
  TUCSON – U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords today called for an immediate three-month national moratorium on foreclosures so lenders and loan servicers can address rampant problems that have led to homeowners being wrongly removed from their homes. “Foreclosures are at an all-time high nationally and Ari ...
• Banks Should Follow Chase and Declare Moratorium o ...
  
  
  The rest of the banking industry should follow JPMorgan Chase’s example and declare a nationwide moratorium on home foreclosures, AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker said today. Chase has announced it is temporarily halting the processing of home foreclosures. In rallies and town hall ...
• It's time for nation to stand together for job ...
  
  
  In Washington this Saturday, I will join tens of thousands of Americans to march for jobs, justice and education. The march is called together under the banner of One Nation: Working Together, a large coalition of more than 400 organizations. Why do we march? We march for hope. We've seen the politi ...
• Whose America Is That?
  
  
  Nothing about the content of the Pledge to America is surprising--it's the same Bush-era economic agenda that got us into the mess we're in today: deregulate business, starve government services, starve the middle class and starve the working class so corporate special interests and the wealthy can ...
• Howard Zinn's last testament to the immorality ...
  
  
  Howard Zinn died this year. He is perhaps best known for his People's History of the United States , a book that has featured in The Simpsons and was recommended by Matt Damon's character in the film Good Will Hunting. This book, which offered a view of US history in terms of 500 years of imperialis ...

Salon

• Rand Paul floats Social Security age rise
  
  
  Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul said Sunday the age of eligibility for Social Security and Medicare may need to be raised for future recipients.
• Bishop Eddie Long: Preaching amid questions
  
  
  A megachurch pastor accused of luring four young men into sexual relationships said Sunday that he won't be pulled into a street fight over the allegations and vowed that his faith has been strengthened.
• Ed Schultz, you're no Glenn Beck
  
  
  The hope of the organizers of Saturday's "One America" rally in Washington was that a big turnout -- something on par with the crowd Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin attracted at the end of August -- would alter the media's midterm campaign narrative, which to date has emphasized the energy of the Repu ...
• Christine O'Donnell: A long strange TV run
  
  
  Ever since Christine O'Donnell as a college student had a chance meeting with a television producer at the 1992 Republican national convention, she has never been too far from the cameras.
• Obama talks green, GOP talks freeze
  
  
  Wind, solar and other clean energy technologies produce jobs and are essential for the country's environment and economy, President Barack Obama said in promoting his administration's efforts.

SMB News

• Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
  
  
  For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage to t ...
• Nato’s 27 fuel tankers torched in Shikarpur
  
  
  For SMB News Nato’s 27 fuel tankers torched in Shikarpur SHIKARPUR: More than 27 oil tankers, meant for Nato’s fuel supply and three other vehicles, have been torched after some unidentified attackers fired rockets, which resulted in eruption of raging ablaze, meanwhile two men suffered injuries in ...
• Obama to demand India for Kashmir issue resolution
  
  
  For SMB News Obama to demand India for Kashmir issue resolutionWASHINGTON: Go for a Kashmir solution and help bring stability to the region for a ticket to UN Security Council membership and fulfilling your big power aspirations. That’s the broad message President Barack Obama will be bringing to Ne ...
• Dr. Aafia faith Altaf wants an explanation from th ...
  
  
  For SMB News Dr. Aafia Karachi: MQM Chief Altaf Hussain’s statement of the American government insisted on a conviction of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, Geo News on Tuesday. MQM chief said by phone from London, the rally participants conviction against Dr Aafia Siddiqi U.S. court. He said that people are info ...
• ndijski Court of Justice ruling on Thursday Ayodhy ...
  
  
  For SMB News Indian court issued an opinion on the ThursdayLUCKNOW Ayodhya: India’s Supreme Court on Thursday decided in a religious dispute is responsible for some of the bloodiest sectarian violence since independence, the clerk said Tuesday. “The final decision in the case of Ayodhya on September ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Dental care: Right focus on prevention
  
  
  Given its deficit problems, the government made a sensible choice to focus on helping 130,000 children in the poorest families.
• What role will Canada play?
  
  
  The Prime Minister should tell us what he is planning to do after our troops leave Afghanistan.
• Commonwealth Games: Lesson for Pan Am 2015
  
  
  The organizers of Toronto’s 2015 Pan Am Games are taking note of the problems plaguing the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.
• Catching up on ethics
  
  
  Spurred by an ongoing inquiry into municipal conflict of interest, Mississauga city council voted unanimously last week to appoint an integrity commissioner and introduce a formal code of conduct. This is a welcome sign that Canada's sixth-largest ...
• Healing Congo's scars
  
  
  No place on Earth has suffered more than Congo, where five million have died in wars since 1993, at the hands of warring Congolese factions and invading neighbours intent on plundering the country's vast reserves of diamonds, gold, copper and other ...

Energy Collective

• In Tianjin This Week, Hope and Fresh Urgency on Cl ...
• India to Launch Satellite to Monitor Deforestation ...
  
  
  The Indian space agency plans to launch a satellites dedicated to monitor deforestation activities and afforestation efforts in 2013. The minister of Environment and Forests, Mr.
• Green Product Paradox: When Too Much Good Is Bad f ...
  
  
  A common mantra in green marketing is that if you want the masses to buy your product, focus your messaging on more traditional attributes such as price, quality or service.� A product’s “greenness” is likely secondary for many mainstream consumers. For green marketers then, the holy grail may be to ...
• The New Yorker: How the Senate and White House mis ...
  
  
  As the Senate debate expired this summer, a longtime environmental lobbyist told me that he believed the “real tragedy” surrounding the issue was that Obama understood it profoundly. “I believe Barack Obama understands that fifty years from now no one’s going to know about health care,” the lobb ...
• The continuing debate over wind power and net emis ...
  
  
  We’ve discussed the complicated relationship between wind power and the net reductions in greenhouse gas and other emissions here previously.

EU Times

• The Tarim Mummies
  
  
  An amazing discovery of 2,000 year old Caucasian descent mummies in the Tarim basin of Western China occurred in the early 90s. But more amazing than the discovery itself was the astonishing fact that the mummies were blond haired and long nosed. In 1993, Victor Mayer a college professor collected D ...
• Sweden loses patience with refugee champion role
  
  
  Six years after his brother was beheaded by Iraqi insurgents, Riyad is still haunted by the memory of identifying the disfigured body and watching the mutilation on a video distributed by the killers. Yet Riyad now has fresh worries to contend with: the threat of deportation from Sweden, which recen ...
• Turkey tells US it won’t adhere to new sanctions o ...
  
  
  Turkish officials have told an American delegation that it has no intention of following unilateral US sanctions on Iran, a move likely to deepen a rift between the two NATO allies over the Islamic republic’s contentious nuclear program that Washington believes is aimed at developing nuclear weapons ...
• Official US Deficit Put At Staggering $202 Trillio ...
  
  
  The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) forecasts the U.S. budget deficit will hit $1.3 trillion this year. An astronomical figure, to be sure, but thatâs lower than was projected in March. Itâs also less than last yearâs record $1.41 trillion deficit, which was close to 10% of GDP. And, that’s ...
• Goldman Sachs accused of trying to destroy China
  
  
  Goldman Sachs & Co., reviled in the U.S. for its role in the financial crisis, is now getting hammered in the world’s No. 2 economy with a sensationalist new book accusing the investment bank of trying to destroy China. The “Goldman Sachs Conspiracy,” which has sold over 100,000 copies since it was ...

Stonecipher News

• Medical Marijuana May Help Fibromyalgia Pain
  
  
  Source: Health.com "Lynda, a 48-year-old mother of three who lives in upstate New York, was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2000. While there are prescription medications for fibromyalgia, she’s found one unconventional drug—marijuana—that really does the trick. “I would use [marijuana] when the bu ...
• Breast Cancer Gene May Raise Men’s Risk, Too
  
  
  Source: HealthDay News : "A faulty gene that greatly increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer also boosts a man’s risk for the disease, a new study finds. While most people think of breast cancer as a woman’s illness, in rare cases men can develop breast tumors as well. The new study found that m ...
• Diabetics Urged to Confer With Their Doctor About ...
  
  
  According to Amanda Gardner HealthDay Reporter , "THURSDAY, July 15 (HealthDay News) -- One day after a U.S. advisory panel recommended that the controversial diabetes drug Avandia stay on the market -- albeit with added restrictions -- several medical organizations are urging patients not to change ...
• Top Five Cleaning Mistakes
  
  
  This is a short video about the common mistakes when cleaning. You may still be sleeping with bugs after cleaning.
• Repression and the Ruling Class
  
  
  From my Triond collection : I recently read Louis Althusser’s article on Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. He discusses the production for conditions of reproduction by breaking down the Marxist theory into several fundamental aspects. Althusser discussed the differences between the prolet ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• The World Peace & Yoga Jubilee
  
  
  Who doesn't want a little more peace and love? That's the idea behind The World Peace & Yoga Jubilee happening on October 21-24 in tranquil Loveland, Ohio. Billed as four days of peace, yoga, food and music, the Jubilee will gather an international group of yogis, foodies,... Tags: jubilee yoga shar ...
• "Before we set up a watch in my village of Little ...
  
  
  "Now it's down to about 10 per cent.... On a warm, wet night they can all come out at once... I was the only person scheduled to patrol that night, and there I was frantically trying to place as many as possible in the bucket to take to the pond, while phoning for patrol reinforcements... Tags: toad ...
• The Monday Morning Microscope: Week 4 - Foot Meet ...
  
  
  More photos » Mike Roemer - AP about 18 hours ago: Detroit Lions' Alphonso Smith (27) celebrates an interception with teammates Chris Houston (23) and Cliff Avril (92) during the second half of an NFL football game against the Green Bay Packers Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010, in... Tags: sunday microscope nfl ...
• Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Vancouver ...
  
  
  Check out this great site on www.minkmakeupart.com Makeup is almost every girls passion. Whether you are going to college, parties, dinners or weddings; you certainly do not go without putting some form of makeup or the other. People also say that makeup does wonders. It can make an... Tags: makeup ...
• Let Freedom ring!
  
  
  Indiespensible Volume 21 haul At the risk of being redundant, since Frances has already posted pictures of the recent Indiespensible loot , I thought I should let you all know that my copy of Freedom along with sundry other goodies has finally arrived! I had considered not posting since... Tags: pau ...

Groklaw

• Oracle fury at HP choice of chief
  
  
  "SAP has already publicly confessed and accepted financial responsibility for systematically stealing Oracle's intellectual property over a long period of time. Much of this industrial espionage and intellectual property theft occurred while Léo was CEO of SAP," Mr Ellison wrote in an e-mail to the ...
• Interested in free video formats? We need your hel ...
  
  
  We're looking for a few volunteers willing to commit an average of a few hours per week as reliable technical consultants helping people transcode their videos to free formats like WebM and Ogg Theora. In particular, we want to provide this assistance for people who record videos of Richard Stallma ...
• Open Core is over
  
  
  Commercial open source software is becoming an increasingly important and strategic IT aspect for more and more businesses and authorities, and the sustainability offered by the open source concept is only just being discovered in many places. However, this isn't so with "open core software" which, ...
• HP picks former SAP exec Leo Apotheker as new CEO
  
  
  HP also named another former software executive, Ray Lane, as its non-executive chairman. Lane is managing Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley's most prominent venture capital firms. He once was the No. 2 executive at Oracle Corp., a position now held by Hurd. - San F ...
• Patent Protection Key to Windows Phone License
  
  
  Oracle isn't the only company threatening Android. Earlier this year HTC said that it had licensed patents from Microsoft for use in the phone maker's Android products. Microsoft said that it was talking to other vendors too about its concerns related to the use of Android. - Nancy Gohring, IDG News ...

WideShut

• Federal Court Rules US Corporations Free To Tortur ...
  
  
  US Corporations can no longer be sued for Human Rights violations, as Federal Court rules cases can only be brought against individuals.
• Keelan Balderson Discusses 7/7 Bombings On Freedom ...
  
  
  Check out Keelan Balderson on Freedomizer Radio's "MistrBrit Show" this past Friday, discussing the 7/7 London Bombings.
• European Terror Plot: An Objective Look
  
  
  Just how real is the terror threat against Europe? And what lies have the media been spurting during the coverage?
• Ed Miliband – The Manchurian Candidate
  
  
  T. Stokes gives an opinion on Ed Miliband's new role as Labour leader.
• The Doctor’s Plot
  
  
  Rothschild, The Jewish "doctor's plot", soviet infiltration and the secret history behind the Thames Barrier.

Waterkeeper Alliance

• Citizen Groups Call For the Resignation Of Marylan ...
  
  
  Department of Agriculture inappropriately collaborated with Maryland Farm Bureau to prevent release of public documents
• Quad Cities Waterkeeper Catches Factory Farm Pollu ...
  
  
  Dittmer Grandview factory hog farm possibly discharging into tributary of the Mississippi River.
• Coal Ash Retention Ponds Taking Center Stage
  
  
  Coal Ash Retention Ponds Taking Center Stage
• Algae Bloom Problems Hurt Ohio Economy
  
  
  Algae Bloom Problems Hurt Ohio Economy
• Forum: Chemical spill will test nature's resilienc ...
  
  
  Forum: Chemical spill will test nature's resilience

Politics in the Zeros

• Focusing on Polizeros
  
  
  I’m putting my little personal / tech blog on hiatus for a while so I can focus on Polizeros. Those posts will now appear here, so you’ll be seeing more tech and humorous posts along with the political content. I tweaked some things here lately and the result has been substantially more readers (and ...
• Did the dog eat Florida foreclosure summons filing ...
  
  
  Naked Capitalism thinks not. Homes in Florida seized without Notice of Foreclosure: Suspiciously large number of “the dog ate my summons” filings What are the odds that these “lost” notices reflect legitimate lost documents, as opposed to failure to provide proper notice at all and lying to the cour ...
• Renewable power for frontier markets. Fenix
  
  
  2.6 billion people don’t have reliable access to grid power. Old car batteries are often used instead to charge cell phones, power lghts, etc. Fenix has developed ReadySet, a portable device with a lead-acid battery that can recharge from solar, bicycle, or the grid, with lots of outlets to power wh ...
• Mormon leader apologizes for legacy of Prop. 8
  
  
  After meeting with LGBT Mormons about Prop 8 and LDS views on homosexuality, an elder of the church said “To the full extent of my capacity, I say that I am sorry… I know that many very good people have been deeply hurt, and I know that the Lord expects better of us.” An apology. [...]
• California mandates renewable energy grid storage
  
  
  Renewable energy will now be required to be stored in California so it can be used in off-hours. The most common method is pumped-hydro, with batteries an obvious choice too. With pumped hydro, water is pumped uphill to a holding area. When power is needed, the water is released and used to create e ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• Poison bait dropped in Fiordland National Park des ...
  
  
  A controversial 1080 poison drop is underway in Fiordland National Park, despite opposition from deerstalkers
• Police cracking down on copper thieves as thefts i ...
  
  
  The police are cracking down on thieves trying to cash in on record prices for copper
• Aucklanders turning out in force to vote
  
  
  There has been a flurry of last minute interest from Aucklanders in the battle to lead the new Super City
• Record rainfall in September
  
  
  Near record rainfall, snow and record low temperatures marked September as a miserable month for many parts of the country, a monthly climate summary has found
• Police investigate Christchurch death
  
  
  Police are investigating the cause of death of a young man found in a house in the Christchurch suburb of Riccarton

Just World News

• 23% of Israelis ready to leave Israel at any hint ...
  
  
  In the latest issue of the always informative journal Middle East Policy , University of Pennsylvania prof Ian Lustick expresses the notable observation that, Last year, a poll by David Menashri of the Iran center at Tel Aviv University reported ... that 70 percent of Israeli Jews said they would n ...
• That all-American urge to punish
  
  
  On Thursday afternoon I took the long drive down to the far southeastern corner of Virginia and took part in solemn observances to mark-- and protest-- our state's killing of one of its citizens, Teresa Lewis. It was a big and moving event. I was there not only as an individual but also in my capac ...
• Afghanistan's election: Some reflections
  
  
  Back in 2004-05, Pres. Bush and his people were trying to 're-brand' America's overseas military adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq as being part of a campaign to bring the wonderful fruits of democracy to various peoples around the world. At the tip of a cruise missile, no less... Oh my goodness ho ...
• Just World Books website is born!
  
  
  Okay, I know I've been promising my readers here that the JWB website will be published "any day now"... And the day is here! So head on over and check out the site's many great features and the fast-growing amount of content we have there! (Now including two podcasts already-- one featuring JWB aut ...
• Plea of the Israeli political prisoner's wife
  
  
  Read this powerful article penned for Electronic Intifada by Janan Abdu, spouse of Palestinian-Israeli political prisoner Ameer Makhoul, who has shockingly been held without trial since May. Abdu quotes the stirring (but possibly empty?) words that Secretary Clinton uttered recently at the 10th ann ...

First Truths

• The Pretended Populism of Politics
  
  
  In contemporary politics, populism implies, and is drawn on to justify, the boundless proliferation of statism. And, though the irony is seldom acknowledged, there is something thoroughly perverse about the idea that an organization of exclusivity, every action of which plants more deeply the roots ...
• Experts in the Ministry of Crime
  
  
  A few days ago, I was reminded of a New York Times column, The Establishment Lives! , in which David Brooks, trumpeting the efficacy of the omnipresent, total state, wrote: If you wanted to devise a name for this approach, you might pick the phrase economist Arnold Kling has used: Progressive Cor ...
• The Libertarian Lexicon Redux
  
  
  In considering the confused relationship between libertarian anarchism and elitism, William A. Henry III’s book In Defense of Elitism sprung to mind. Though no one could mistake Henry for a libertarian, his book opened with an eloquent endorsement of an elitism that may not be inconsistent with th ...
• "I Support the Troops" = "I Support Murder and Imp ...
  
  
  The banal platitude “support the troops” occupies a sacrosanct position beyond question in America, screened from debate more fanatically even than religion. Claiming opposition to war while supporting the troops (whatever that means) is silly enough no matter what a person’s social philosophy, bu ...
• "But What About the Poor?"
  
  
  Libertarian appraisals of the pernicious relationship between the state, Big Business and its many relatives or subcategories (e.g., Big Pharma, Big Labor, Big Defense, Big Agriculture, and other things “Big” and hated) are often, as they should be, front and center in our attacks on the state. It ...

Media Co-Op

• The arrogance of the regime is starting to fractur ...
  
  
  An interview with Alberto Acosta, ex-president of the Constituent Assembly in Ecuador QUITO 02/10/2010 Economist Alberto Acosta (Quito, 1948) is considered one of the ideologues of the Citizen Revolution of Rafael Correa. Co-founder of Alianz ...
• Balaclava! VMC Broadsheet, issue 20
  
  
  Gentrification and Solidarity: Historic rental house to be converted and sold, rents on the rise in DTES, SFU Woodwards and Goldcorp, and more! The October 1-15 issue covers the deepening gentrification in East Vancouver and the Downtown Eas ...
• The gentrification plot thickens at 60 W. CORDOVA…
  
  
  Real estate giant and non profit collaborators invade Downtown Eastside with “inclusive” condos. In a conference on “revitalization” last spring, Liz Evans, Executive Director and founder of the Portland Hotel Society was challenged by concern ...
• 4th Annual Power of Women March for Women's Housin ...
  
  
  Why do women in the Downtown Eastside march every year for housing? ATTN: ALL NEWS EDITORS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANNUAL DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE MARCH FOR WOMEN’S HOUSING SATURDAY OCT 2 @ 2 PM AT DTES WOMEN’S CENTRE (302 COLUMBIA) October 1 2010, V ...
• Contribute to the Vancouver Media Co-op!
  
  
  The Vancouver Media Co-op is now paying for stories! For a six month trial period, we'll be requesting pitches from contributors, and paying $100 for one story each month. See below for information on VMC travel subsidies. We prioritize local stories that examine an underreported issue, and that fea ...

David Seaton's News Links

• The Rick Sanchez affair
  
  
  David Seaton's News Links One of the best comments I have seen on the Rick Sanchez affair comes from one Snuffysmith over at Talking Points Memo, I quote: Sanchez: Jews control the media Jews: No we don’t. BTW, you’re fired. LOL I think that sums the whole thing up pretty well. I'd like to make cle ...
• Life can be very simple...
  
  
  David Seaton's News Links Sometimes the most important things in life are so simple that people hardly ever think about them. Human beings get out of bed and before they are even half awake they take a pee and a drink of water and rarely think that if there were no water to drink, there sho ...
• What exactly is the USA?
  
  
  These are terrible times for many people in this country. Poverty, especially acute poverty, has soared in the economic slump; millions of people have lost their homes. Young people can’t find jobs; laid-off 50-somethings fear that they’ll never work again. Yet if you want to find real political rag ...
• Burger and fries, hold the spies.
  
  
  Russia's Foreign Ministry condemned the arrests of 10 alleged Russian spies in the United States, calling them baseless Tuesday, and senior lawmakers suggested they had stemmed from a conspiracy in the U.S. government to undermine President Obama's efforts to improve relations with Moscow. Washingto ...
• General McChrystal covers his... flank
  
  
  Fatheaded hubris is going to take a severe hit in the years to come and Americans are going to want someone to blame it on. I think that they will blame it on whichever poor, helpless, sap wins the White House this year. Self quote - News Links, 9/15/2008 David Seaton's News Links The McChryst ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

• Few Sunscreens Shield From UVA Rays
  
  
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org Washington, D.C. â With fall here, millions of Americans are outside at football and soccer games, cross-country meets, school fairs, picking apples and raking leaves. As temperatures lower and bathing suits go in ...
• Three Top Scientists Honored with Prestigious Hein ...
  
  
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. -- Among this year’s recipients of the prestigious Heinz Family Philanthropies Global Change Awards are three preeminent scientists working to advance our understanding of the impacts that chemical exposures hav ...
• Pesticide Industry to Use Tax Dollars to Attack Cr ...
  
  
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs â 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- The California Department of Food and Agriculture has awarded $180,000 in federal funds to finance an agribusiness-chemical industry plan to combat its critics – Environmental Working Group and other hea ...
• Nanomaterials May Soon be in Your Sportswear and U ...
  
  
  Contact: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org Washington, D.C – Environmental Working Group (EWG) has sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) opposing its proposal to approve a Swiss nanosilver textile coating for sale in the U.S. EPA announced last month ...
• EWG Seeks FCC-Cell Phone Industry Communications
  
  
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Download full FOIA Letter WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, -- Environmental Working Group (EWG) filed a FOIA with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today to shed light on whether the trade association for the wireless indust ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• Great Video of Injured Baby Hummingbird Being Nurt ...
  
  
  The man who found this tiny bird lying on the sidewalk took it home hoping to nurse it back to health. He took the little fledgling outside, where it perched on a stick in his hand. He took it around to the flowers to get nectar. The poor little bird seemed to have a broken wing. As the man sat wi ...
• This Supermarket "Health Food" Killed These Baby R ...
  
  
  By Jeffrey Smith Arpad Pusztai Biologist Arpad Pusztai had more than 300 articles and 12 books to his credit and was the world’s top expert in his field. But when he accidentally discovered that genetically modified (GM) foods ar ...
• Want a Good Night's Sleep? Then Never Do These Thi ...
  
  
  By Dr. Mercola Sleep is one of the great mysteries of life. Like gravity or the quantum field, we still don’t understand exactly why we sleep—although we are learning more about it every day. We do know, however, that good sleep is one of the cornerstones of health. Six to eight hours per night s ...
• The Big Secret Commercial Water Companies Hope You ...
  
  
  “Bottled Water Matters” is a front group for the International Bottled Water Association. Some time ago, they began releasing YouTube videos. In the latest video, available at the link below, their star performer takes to the streets and urges consumers to join the movement and fight those who wish ...
• Most Americans Skip Fruits and Vegetables
  
  
  Consumption of fruits and vegetables has increased significantly in only one U.S. state during the past decade. And all 50 states continue to fall short of recommended daily intake. Idaho alone had a significant increase in the proportion of residents who consumed fruits and vegetables, but even in ...

JAMA

• Comparative Determinants of 4-Year Cardiovascular ...
  
  
  Context� Clinicians and trialists have difficulty with identifying which patients are highest risk for cardiovascular events. Prior ischemic events, polyvascular disease, and diabetes mellitus have all been identified as predictors of ischemic events, but their comparative contributions to future r ...
• Association of Telomere Length of Peripheral Blood ...
  
  
  Context� Critically short telomeres produce apoptosis, cell senescence, and chromosomal instability in tissue culture and animal models. Variations in telomere length have been reported in severe aplastic anemia but their clinical significance is unknown. Objective� To investigate the relationship ...
• Subclinical Hypothyroidism and the Risk of Coronar ...
  
  
  Context� Data regarding the association between subclinical hypothyroidism and cardiovascular disease outcomes are conflicting among large prospective cohort studies. This might reflect differences in participants' age, sex, thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels, or preexisting cardiovascular di ...
• Rethinking Rapid Response Teams [Commentary]
  
  
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Survival - tribal peoples

• Church demands end to armed attacks on Guarani
  
  
  Guarani Indians often suffer violent attacks after they return to their ancestral land © CIMI Brazilian bishops have demanded that the government take urgent action to put an end to armed attacks on Guarani communities in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, south of the Amazon. Last month, Guara ...
• Pro-Indian bishop wins ‘alternative Nobel prize’
  
  
  Dom Erwin Krautler, Bishop of Xingu, has won the 2010 Right Livelihood Award © Prelazia do Xingu A leading supporter of Indian rights in Brazil has won the Right Livelihood Award , known as the ‘alternative Nobel prize’. Dom Erwin Krautler, the Bishop of the Xingu in Brazil’s Amazon region, wo ...
• Shell in row over Brazilian Indian land grab
  
  
  The film 'Birdwatchers' highlights the plight of the Guarani Kaiowá Indians in Brazil © Marie Hippenmeyer Brazilian authorities have written to energy giant Shell expressing concern over the activities of its new Brazilian joint-venture partner, which is producing biofuels from land taken ...
• Survival calls for boycott of Botswana tourism
  
  
  The pool of Wilderness Safaris' new lodge in the CKGR. © Survival Survival today called for tourists to boycott Botswana until the government ends a brutal campaign of persecution against Kalahari Bushmen. The call coincides with World Tourism Day, September 27, which Botswana is using to ...
• Amazon Indians condemn destructive Madeira river d ...
  
  
  Indians protest against dams in the Amazon © Telma Monteiro/ Survival Indians of several tribes have harshly criticized the Brazilian government for allowing the construction of large hydroelectric dams in the Amazon, including dams on the Madeira river. In a Declaration signed at the ‘Gatheri ...

Montreal Gazette

• Right moves on the economy
  
  
  Provinces and municipalities are grumbling that Ottawa seems determined to stick to the rules about "stimulus" spending on infrastructure projects. Griping about federal stinginess is the default mode for other levels of government, and sometimes it's merely an element of negotiations. But i ...
• Why not attack tobacco on two fronts?
  
  
  We're sure it's just coincidence, but the latest changes to federal tobacco policy might as well have been designed by the tobacco companies. No wonder the provinces aren't happy.
• Quebec's drilling policy is full of holes
  
  
  Full speed ahead on exploration and exploitation of shale-gas deposits up and downtheshoresof theSt. LawrenceRiver, the Quebec government says. But full stop on even exploration for oil and gas under the St. Lawrence estuary. Isn't this just a little contradictory?
• Why not attack tobacco on two fronts?
  
  
  At a meeting this month in Newfoundland, provincial health officials learned of a sudden shift in federal policy, the Globe and Mail reported yesterday: Ottawa abruptly abandoned plans for bigger, scarier health warnings on cigarette packages, saying it would prefer to fight harder against c ...
• Macy's does well by doing good in Haiti
  
  
  They might still be living in tents, but 235 of Haiti's most expert handicraft artists have been busy producing 20,000 vases, quilts, ceramics, wood carvings, paintings, and jewelry for Macy's, the largest department store in the United States.

Food World Order

• 9/30 binge & purge: 100% all-natural deception
  
  
  the nature conservancy & corporate donors: monsanto, nestle, altria & more * ben & jerry's taking 'all-natural' label off products * gm salmon frankenfish about to be unleashed into US food supply * ftc complaint charges deceptive advertising by pom * farmer, consumer outcry helping t ...
• pacific northwest grocery stores setting up fake f ...
  
  
  from grist : Without a doubt, farmers markets have got a good thing growing . Unfortunately, sneaky copycats have been cropping up as they try to get their paws on the green that comes with that success. In June, Safeway supermarkets in Seattle set up stacks of fruits and veggies outside of their ow ...
• natural news launches food investigations with 'ph ...
  
  
  from natural news : What do you get when you combine fast food with Big Pharma? Pharmaburger! That's the name of episode one of the new " Food Investigations " mini-documentary series created by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews.com. Food Investigations features short documen ...
• fda says you have no right to know if salmon are g ...
  
  
  from allgov : If the Food and Drug Administration decides to approve for the first time the sale of a genetically-modified animal (GMO) for Americans to consume, the deal will not include a requirement that producers or retailers label the food as such . FDA officials are still deciding whethe ...
• mexico bans sodas, fried foods & junk food from pu ...
  
  
  from natural news : The Mexican government is moving forward with plans to ban all junk foods from public school by the start of the coming school year, officials have announced. " The kids are going to complain, of course ," said education minister Alonso Lujambio. " We are going to start a pro ...

CrusadeWatch

• Vatican Bank Investigated For Alleged Money Launde ...
  
  
  source:  NPR.org,  September 21, 2010   Angelo Carconi /Associated Press Italian financial Police officers talk to each other in front of St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010.  (AP Photo/Angelo Carconi)
• Pakistani Christians not beneficiary of Church run ...
  
  
  source: Pakistan Christian Post, May 17 2010 Lahore: May 17, 2010. (PCP) The admissions are underway in convents and other missionary schools administered by Catholic Church of Pakistan and Church of Pakistan in major cities of Punjab province of Pakistan. The Christian parents are standing i ...
• Vishal Arora: A Christian fundamentalist masquera ...
  
  
  source:  Sathya Sai blog, 19 May 2010 Vishal Arora is an independent & freelance journalist and writer living in New Delhi, India. Vishal Aroras articles have appeared in Hindustan Times , The Indian Express , The Deccan Herald , The Tribune , The Statesman , Mint , Indo-Asian News ...
• Christian casteism: Only in India: A Brahmin groom ...
  
  
  source:  Times of India, May 16, 2010 MUMBAI: When Winnie D'Souza wanted to marry her daughter into a decent' family, she scanned the matrimonial columns of Catholic periodicals in Panaji. After shortlisting a few young men, D'Souza made inquiries about their caste. She wanted her dau ...
• Rwanda: Will the Vatican Ever Accept That Genocide ...
  
  
  source: AllAfrica.com, 27 May 2010 Tom Ndahiro Kigali This church's lack of courage and humility made it develop what philosopher Bertrand Russell, in his book "The Conquest of Happiness" termed "persecution mania" which he says is "a recognised form of insanity."

Whole Truth Coalition

• URGENT: Loving Mother Arrested By Portsmouth Polic ...
  
  
  Her name is Cheryl Stannard and she is being persecuted - she is now in a cell at Portsmouth Central Police Station while they decide what to do with her after she was arrested this afternoon.   This is the number if you wish to call the station and ask about her welfare: 0845 045 45 45   This [...]
• The Dregs of the Cesspit Target Loving Mother
  
  
  A wonderful lady called Cheryl Stannard was charged with child abduction last night by the disgraceful and pathetic Portsmouth police in Hampshire, England.   It was the latest stage in a gross persecution of this woman by the British establishment. I can’t even talk about the other stages because ...
• In an outrageous and all too predictable decision, ...
  
  
  In an appalling yet sadly not unexpected decision, Keir Starmer the Director for Public Prosecutions, announced yesterday that no one would face charges over the death of Ian Tomlinson. Tomlinson, a newspaper vendor, was on his way home on 1st April last year, when he fell foul of what can only be c ...
• COTO Report City of Angels an Interview with Jorda ...
  
  
  COTO Report is proud to present to you an interview with legendary occult symbolism specialist Jordan Maxwell by Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-rPMOxJelc
• Manchester Truth to host BP Population Reduction t ...
  
  
  Rufmouth presents 1st speaker in 3 yrs! Ian R Crane, ex oil industry exec spills the beans in amazing talk ‘BP, population reduction and the end of an Age’ be there! Friends Meeting House 3.33pm start Sunday 12th September 2010. See www.IanRCrane.co.uk or contact daved@wfmradio.org for more infor ...

The Economic Collapse

• Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations ...
  
  
  Back in 1983, approximately 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the United States.  Today, ownership of the news media has been concentrated in the hands of just six incredibly powerful media corporations.  These corporate behemoths control most of what ...
• Winners And Losers
  
  
  When you mention the word "globalism" to most people, they think of something that is going to happen someday in the future.  But the truth is that globalism is already here.  At this point we essentially already have a one world economy.  Goods and services flow across national bor ...
• The Green Police
  
  
  Is someone out behind your house digging through your trash?  Don't worry, it is probably just the government.  When Audi ran their now famous "Green Police" commercial during the Super Bowl last year, most Americans laughed it off and thought that nothing like that could ever happe ...
• Rampant Inflation In 2011? The Monetary Base Is Ex ...
  
  
  Are you ready for rampant inflation?  Well, unfortunately it looks like it might be headed our way.  The U.S. monetary base has absolutely exploded over the last couple of years, and all that money is starting to filter through into the hands of consumers.  Commodity prices are abso ...
• As Americans Celebrate Labor Day 2010, U.S. Factor ...
  
  
  Labor Day 2010 comes in the midst of a stunning wave of U.S. factory closings that stretches from coast to coast.  Once upon a time America was the greatest manufacturing machine that the world has ever seen, but now it seems as though the only jobs available for working class Ameri ...

CASSE

• Food and Agriculture in a Steady State Economy
  
  
  Fossil-fueled factory farms and livestock slums slip out of style in a steady state economy
• Muddled Media Messages
  
  
  Puzzling product placements and pernicious prevarications permeate mainstream media.
• Steady State Transportation: Closing the Door on t ...
  
  
  The trouble with transportation is petroleum, and the problems are providing a chance for true transformation.
• Opportunity Cost of Growth
  
  
  Herman Daly swims upstream like a salmon, fighting the flow of fallacious philosophy from growth economists -- you won't want to miss his final refrain on this one.
• It’s True: One Million Dollars to a Young Steady S ...
  
  
  Finally... a big opportunity to get paid for being a steady stater!

The Talking Clock

• UKIP Leadership Special: The Talking Clock intervi ...
  
  
  Following our first three exclusive UKIP leadership contest interviews, The Talking Clock is proud to once again continue assisting UKIP members in their decision making - and to inform the wider public about the characters involved in the race to lead Britain's fourth biggest party. We invited a ...
• Temperatures rise at UKIP leadership hustings in L ...
  
  
   The candidates at the UKIP hustings in London yesterday.Image copyright The Talking Clock 2010. The Talking Clock popped along to yesterday's UKIP Leadership hustings event in London. As we're attempting to be completely neutral on all four candidates - for as long as possible, anyway - we're n ...
• Sunday Paper Review: 3rd October 2010
  
  
  All of the newspapers have stories concerning a warning to be given to U.S. tourists to avoid high profile European sites due to fears of terrorism. All very dramatic. Anyone would think Obama was facing a personal and party political disaster at the ballot box in November... What else can we fin ...
• Quote of the Day: 18th September 2010
  
  
  "There are some good people standing, but there are some idiots as well. As things stand, some of the idiots are going to get in, most likely female idiots. That's going to be an issue for the next leader."- an unnamed male member of the Labour Shadow Cabinet, cited in the Daily Telegraph, talking a ...
• Detoxifying the 'right wing' and why the British T ...
  
  
  Saturday's Daily Telegraph had an article highlighting the next step in the fledgling British 'tea party' campaign.From much conversation and no materialisation, it seems the concept of a 'tea party' movement in Britain now has genuine potential momentum due to an alliance between The Freedom Associ ...
  
  
  
  
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  Study: Miscanthus Guzzles More Water Than Corn but Soaks Up More Nitrates Too

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