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Thomas Paine

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

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • MIDEAST: Israeli Police Given Protection for Killi ...
    A peaceful morning is interrupted by the sounds of an Israeli helicopter circling overhead -- often a sign of trouble on the ground. Later Sunday the news broke -- a Palestinian man was shot dead in the village of Issawiya by Israeli paramilitary border police as he tried to enter Israel in ...
  • Education Collapses in Haiti
    When Angelique tells her story, sadness and anger are mixed in her voice. She's a student at the bustling University of Paris 8 here, but her country and family are never far from her thoughts.
  • Support Growing for Degrowth
    In the face of a global recession that has not yet run its course, there is growing demand now for an economic model away from reliance on continued growth.
  • RIGHTS-CHINA: For Too Many, Domestic Violence Part ...
    Despite successful campaigns to promote gender equality, China continues to struggle with high rates of domestic violence, which experts say impacts not only families but society as a whole.
  • EU to Ease Trade Rules for Poor Countries
    The EU is due to adopt a simplified set of rules of origins for developing countries exports. Particular relaxations are foreseen for the least developed countries (LDCs), but the rules may mainly profit the strongest of them.

Scoop - NZ

  • VIDEO: The milk ad they don't want you to see
    The true cost of Fonterra's industrial dairy business revealed *WARNING: Some content may offend. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Experts Warn Against D.C.'s Planned, Insane Intern ...
    The first missive [PDF] questions whether the digital vote by mail system is "voter-verifiable," as required under the city's new election laws. The voter has no way of confirming that the ballot he or she sent is the same one that is counted by elections officials, the letter argues. Th ...
  • 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 ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

  • UFO Closes Chinese Airport
    Three flights to Baotou from Shanghai and Beijing were reportedly forced to circle the airport until the UFO disappeared.
  • Gold hits record above $1,340 as dollar slides
    Gold jumped nearly 2 percent on Tuesday, its biggest one-day rise since May, resuming its march to record highs as the dollar tumbled and currency market volatility ignited safe-haven buying.
  • Court: NSA doesn't have to say if it has records
    The Supreme Court won't make the super-secret National Security Agency divulge whether it has records of the warrantless wiretapping it did of lawyers representing Guantanamo Bay inmates.
  • Iraqi Oil Reserves: Why Exxon Stands To Win Big
    Iraq increased the official size of its proven reserves Monday to 143.1 billion barrels of oil, which — if true — pushes the war-torn country past Iran to become the world’s second-largest holder of conventional oil reserves.
  • Where growing too many vegetables is illegal
    I TRIED to get out of writing about zoning and regulation, but they keep pulling me back in. It seems that DeKalb County, Georgia, enforces strict legal limits on how many vegetables you grow on your property.

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. Farmers Realize Disadvantages of Genetically ...
    Seed farmers throughout the United States are complaining that biotech seeds (which are genetically altered seeds) are becoming much too expensive, resistant to weed killer, and can contaminate conventional seed crops. However, they still continue to use the seeds. But with anti-competitive practice ...
  • Europe's Largest Military Exercise 'Joint Warrior' ...
    Clyde Naval Base, Scotland: Thirteen European countries along with the US will showcase their military might when they kick start 'Exercise Joint Warrior' off the coast of Scotland and across the UK this month. The coalition exercise, designed and led by Britain's Joint Tactical Exercise Planning ...
  • US agency exploited Guatemalans for lethal medical ...
    The exposure of a 64-year-old secret study conducted in Guatemala on human subjects by the US Public Health Service has created an international uproar, forcing the US government to issue a belated apology. The criminal experiment was brought to light last May in a paper presented by Wellesley Univ ...
  • Steps toward a two-class health system in Germany
    On September 22, the German government passed a resolution on health reform that constitutes a further step toward a two-class system of medical provision. Statutory public health insurance will deteriorate into a scheme offering coverage of only basic requirements, uncertain at that, while many ser ...
  • Florida: Gunman Kills Father, Self; Wounds 5
    A gunman with a history of mental illness shot his father to death, then drove through his Gainesville neighborhood on a 13-minute, three-mile shooting spree that wounded five others before he killed himself, police said Tuesday. Clifford Miller Jr., 24, killed his 52-year-old father, Clifford Mill ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Just one complaint is reason to change policy?
    Really , Tony? Is that the test of government policy ? Oh, you� slimy bastard, I have you. I so own you and your Harperists. I can give you a single legitimate complaint about everything your band of hillbillies has ever done. You, Tony, and everyone around you, are liars. Blatant fucking liars. ...
  • Would you rather be governed by a listerner or an ...
    I've got a little point to add to Boris's latest excellent post . This was noted in the quoted report: (emphasis mine) But Emerson was also impressed by Harper’s discipline at the cabinet table, compared with Martin’s disorganized leadership style, where meetings dragged on. “Paul would just ...
  • Visceral hatred
    They were “viscerally hating their political opposition,” he said. “Sometimes it was just startling to me.” - David Emerson quoted in Lawrence Martin's new book about Harper.(via Buckdog ) It's a safe bed that at the end of the day, that hatred is the motivation behind everything Harper and his b ...
  • Unbeweavable hair salon
    Unbeweavable hair salon . Weally. Twooly. I shudder to think that it might not be a send-up . . . 
  • Boy racers and teh stupid
    Young people are dumb. Some stay that way all their lives, but many learn through experience. Sometimes hard experience. Young men, in my view, are especially dumb. It's relatively easy to convince the average one that drinking 20 pints of lager and swimming across a lake at night is a good idea. Ar ...

Media Matters for America

  • Glenn Beck now running his own GOTV operation
    Over the past few weeks, Glenn Beck has used his Fox News show to urge his audience to vote and to "[g]et your friends and neighbors to go in record-breaking numbers to vote," warning them of terrible consequences if they failed to do so. Beck: "Vote for America" to stop communists, Marxists, Na ...
  • Wash. Post: New Black Panthers controver ...
    In an October 4 editorial headlined "Right call on the Black Panthers," The Washington Post wrote that the phony New Black Panthers scandal "has been fueled by partisan hyperbole, conspiracy theories and misinformation." The editorial concluded, "Far from acting recklessly, the Justice Depart ...
  • D'Souza's The Roots of Obama's Rage root ...
    In his new book The Roots of Obama's Rage , Dinesh D'Souza theorizes that President Obama is motivated by an "anti-colonial" ideology inherited from his father, and boasts that this theory explains Obama's actions in a way "that no rival theory can even begin to do." In reality, D'Souza's absu ...
  • Choosing sides: Fox figures defend Paladino afte ...
    New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino threatened a New York Post editor during what the Post called an "angry confrontation." Fox personalities have since praised Paladino for the altercation, calling him "refreshingly honest" and "iconoclastic," while criticizing the ...
  • 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 ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Israel's Ambassador Demands Loyalty From US Jews
    I don't know I missed this. But it turns out that Israel's rather off-the-wall ambassador to the United States rattled his sabers in three consecutive appearances at Washington, DC synagogues on Yom Kippur. He used the holiest day of the Jewish year as a neocon festival, an opportunity to sell hi ...
  • Wall Street's Global Race To The Bottom
    Wonder what's happening with bank reform? Watch your wallets. Having created giant loopholes in the Dodd-Frank law recently passed by Congress (keeping "customized" derivatives underground, for example), fighting off attempts to cap the size of the biggest banks, and keeping capital requirements ...
  • Will Obama Be Strong?
    Returning to Jerusalem from New�Hampshire�is always something of a shock, not just trading English for Hebrew (including trading the automatic if complacent multiculturalism of America's talking heads for the self-conscious�if tortured parochialism of Israel's), but trading big space for big time, " ...
  • Israeli & Palestinian Kids Make Peace
    George Mitchell clearly can't do it. Binyamin Netanyahu won't do it. And Mahmoud Abbas can't put it over. But watch these Israeli and Palestinian kids making peace through the Beautiful Game. Thank God for the kids. And pray that this damn conflict doesn't lead to the killing of more of ...
  • US Bases Abroad Trigger Suicide Terrorism: Are Th ...
    Can it be that American military bases abroad, usually thought of as "stabilizers" in tough neighborhoods, are really the primary cause of radical terrorism against the US and its allies? That is what Robert Pape and James K. Feldman compellingly argue in their new book released this week titled Cu ...

TruthOut

  • Robert Reich | Wall Street's Global Race to the Bo ...
    Wonder what’s happening with bank reform? Watch your wallets. Having created giant loopholes in the Dodd-Frank law recently passed by Congress (keeping “customized” derivatives underground, for example), fighting off attempts to cap the size of the biggest banks, and keeping capital requirements re ...
  • China's Climate Change Talks: What's Changed Since ...
    Taipei, Taiwan -�United Nations climate officials say they hope to get talks for a new global deal on carbon cuts back on track after last year's climate talk debacle in Copenhagen. This week's climate change conference hosted by China in Tianjin could give them just that opportunity. But with mist ...
  • The Economic Hit Man Confesses Again: An Interview ...
    Reclama: Thank you for the opportunity to interview you. We've found that many Peace Corps Volunteers have read your books. One told me that "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" totally reshaped her view of our foreign policy. She just wishes she would have read it sooner. Another reconsidered a job ...
  • Oil-Eating Microbes Have the Appetite for Crude, b ...
    Science and the news media sometimes occupy different worlds. Journalists rely on scientists for the latest findings, but can be drawn to controversy and provocation because it increases readership, sometimes looking for disparities to make a point. Scientists want nothing of it; their conclusions a ...
  • Robert Reich | Wall Street’s Global Race to the Bo ...
    Wonder what’s happening with bank reform? Watch your wallets. Having created giant loopholes in the Dodd-Frank law recently passed by Congress (keeping “customized” derivatives underground, for example), fighting off attempts to cap the size of the biggest banks, and keeping capital requirements re ...

Planetsave

  • 16th Annual Heinz Award Winners
    Teresa Heinz and the Heinz Family Foundation announced the winners of the 16th annual Heinz Awards a couple weeks ago. 10 innovative individuals addressing critical environmental challenges of our time through invention, research, and education received awards this year as well as a cash prize of $1 ...
  • Water Footprint Calculator
    About a month ago, Heather Carr on our sister site Eat.Drink…Better wrote a post on a new water footprint calculator out by National Geographic. This is a cool tool and something I thought I’d share here on Planetsave (about a month later than I originally intended). Heather’s intro highlighted some ...
  • ‘Glory’ Delayed – NASA’s N ...
    NASA's Glory satellite mission to monitor key variables that impact our Earth's climate will be postponed 3 months from its original November, 2010 launch date in order to repair a faulty solar array panel. A 2009, carbon observatory satellite mission failed to deploy properly in space.
  • Monsanto Hired Blackwater to Spy on Animal Rights ...
    With all the panic around international terrorism that has dominated the media in recent years, we easily get distracted from and miss critical, internal threats (like the health threats of the food we eat), especially when such threats are hidden by mega-corporations and the former CIA officials th ...
  • First Ocean Census Revealed to the World
    A decade of work between more than 2,700 scientists from 80 nations has delivered the first global Census of Marine Life. The more than 2,700 Census scientists spent over 9,000 days at sea on more than 540 expeditions, not to mention the countless days in laboratories and archives to provide maps, t ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Down Prison Road - Crime and Punishment
    High in the mountains overlooking Bakersfield and the south end of the San Joaquin Valley is a piece of California's past, the California Correctional Institution, or, as inmates know it, Tehachapi. It was one of the state's first big prisons, built at the height of the Great Depression in 1933.. ...
  • Bach, "Little" Fugue (G minor, BWV 578) - Music a ...
    ...
  • 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. Predatory lending typically refers to loans that carry unreasonabl ...
  • US threatens wider war in Pakistan - Pakistan
    6 October 2010 The week-old standoff between Washington and Islamabad over US military attacks inside Pakistan and the blocking of a vital NATO supply line in retaliation underscores the growing threat that the nine-year-old war in Afghanistan is spiralling out of control. A dramatic escalation ...
  • China and Russia strengthen strategic ties - World ...
    6 October 2010 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to China on September 25-27 is a further sign that Moscow and Beijing are consolidating their ties in order to counter the US and its main ally in North East Asia, Japan. Medvedev and Chinese President Hu Jintao issued a joint statement. ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Foreign Money Buying Elections for Repugs
    All those anti-Conway, anti-Democratic candidate ads that you can't get away from? The ones aimed at getting repugs elected? Guess who's paying for them? �Foreign corporations. In blatant violation of federal election law. Steven Benen: President Obama recently delivered a speech warning of a "corp ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    The anti-government idiots think this kind of corporate pollution is just fine - no matter how many people die. "Emergency services in Hungary are trying to stop a torrent of toxic red sludge flowing into major waterways, including the River Danube. A state of emergency has been declared in three we ...
  • Only In America: Millionaires Collecting Unemploym ...
    I do my share of lamenting these days about how the American people seem to have lost their minds. Anger is visible in the country today, but it seems focused on all the wrong things. I keep reading that in less than a month, it's likely that the voters are going to basically hand the country back o ...
  • Really, Scotty?
    Rasmussen hasn't entirely abandoned their "spin the narrative" mission. We'll have to get within two weeks of the election before they completely abandons pretense and just straight-up polls the races. Then, their results will be exactly in line with the reputable pollsters. But for now... This may ...
  • Note to the tea party candidates...you don't take ...
    There is something noticable absent from the political stage this year... quite a few republican candidates have abdicated the campaign trail , having decided that their best chances of election lie with keeping the voters ignorant of just how extreme and out-of-sync with mainstream Americans they r ...

Care 2

  • EcoAlert: Ash Clouds Loom Over China
    Is a Nobel Prize on its way to Stephen Hawking? Hawking is world renowned for his work on gravity and black holes, including his 1974 postulation of the eponymous Hawking radiation Submitted by Michelle Matthews to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Obama Agrees To Put Solar Panels Back On The White ...
    The decision goes a long way toward demonstrating that renewable energy technology is practical for U.S. homeowners and that fossil fuels are no longer an efficient way to power a home. Submitted by Beth Buczynski to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Indiana Amish Puppy Mill! Video!
    WARNING!!! GRAPHIC VIDEO!!...it will make you sad, it will make you sick, but mostly, it will make you FIGHTING MAD! Let Justice be served for the breeding dogs of the Indiana Amish! Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 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. Submitted by Michelle Matthews to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: Wolves Protected by One Federal Age ...
    The attitude that wolves need to be killed has been so deeply entrenched that it's not surprising there were some objections when gray wolves recently regained Endangered Species Act protections. States like Montana and Idaho had to abandon this years Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Don't Let the Russ Feingolds Go Down For the Sins ...
    In trying to get one-time Obama supporters to volunteer for the November election, I often hear this refrain: "The Democrats have sold us out. I'm tired of their spinelessness, their subservience to corporate interests. I'm staying home to teach them a lesson." Not everyone responds this way, but e ...
  • The doves never won
    Here is another typically useless column from Ross Douthat, who makes the absurd claim that the doves in the Democratic base are more powerful actors than the president himself. He also says everyone (Centrists, liberals, Republicans) is mad at the president. First of all, I’ve seen and read way too ...
  • Sleazy Xenophobia in Pursuit of Social Security Cu ...
    � from Truthout When Barry Goldwater ran for president as a genuine conservative back in 1964 he was often labeled as an "extremist." His campaign responded to this criticism with the slogan: "extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice." Goldwater's descendants are swarming the political playing ...
  • Texas Tea Partiers should disown Rick Perry
    The Dallas Morning News has just published the results of a sweeping investigation of the Texas Emerging Technology Fund that suggests that taxpayer-financed grants were awarded to a long list of firms that made very large campaign donations to Gov. Rick Perry (R). These are not isolated cases. The ...
  • The MAESTRO/ PRESIDENT: As Candidate It Was: "Yes, ...
    I’ve been thinking about the Maestro/ President. Actually I’ve been thinking about our current situation(s), Bob Woodward, hagiographies, books, Alan Greenspan, President Obama, campaign promises, the economy, our wars abroad, and resolutions. I look at where we find ourselves in 2010 and TH*NK back ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Obama Surrenders America To Terror
    Bumped Up 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 ...
  • The Cheese Stands Alone
    Ross Douthat of the New York Times penned A Man for All Factions. It is a similar, if more civil, companion piece to the incendiary offering from Michael Goodwin of the NY Post, The Loneliest Man in DC, intimating that President Obama is increasingly isolated from his Democratic base. As Douthat no ...
  • Inside Wall Street View of Economy and Market: ‘Py ...
    From my blog, Sense on Cents. Thanks to the friend of Sense on Cents who shared this commentary on our economy and markets. This commentary for clients emanated from a major Wall Street bank. I believe the writer’s sentiments are consistent with mine in terms of my assessment of a ‘walking pneumoni ...
  • War of the Worlds
    From the blog for the nightly, nationally-syndicated John Batchelor radio show. � Donald Duck, Patriot.� Speaking Mark Leibovich, NYT, re his energetic and detailed profile of Glenn Beck the media celebrity; and from what I read the story has miles to go before it is entirely coherent. Beck ...
  • Elizabeth Warren on Parker/Spitzer Debut
    Although CNN’s Web site “masters” (smirk) did their very best to make it impossible to find videos from the debut of the controversial Parker/Spitzer commentary show, I somehow managed to stumble on them. Here’s the interview with Elizabeth Warren, one of those rare people highly regarded on both t ...

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

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

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

  • How did Las Vegas, Diseneyland and Hawaii get the ...
    The monies that are released in various government programs, in this case California, are government moniess designed to help the most needy, the devastated working class and the continuous unemployed.  Yet these funds seem to always end up in the silk pockets of the rich corporations and their mini ...
  • CENSORED IN 1980: SOMETHING ROTTEN IN THE GLOBAL S ...
    CENSORED IN 1980: SOMETHING ROTTEN IN THE GLOBAL SUPERMARKET While modern technology has increased worldwide food production and raised per capita income, millions of landless peasants in Third World countries face starvation and malnutrition. Prime agricultural lands in Third World countries have i ...
  • The Herd Of Elephants In The Corner
    NPR was about to explore the dangers of a “protective tariff” that was just passed on goods from countries with state controlled currencies.  Specifically, that would be China.  Because China keeps their currency “low” relative to the dollar, that makes Chinese goods cheaper than American goods.  It ...
  • 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 ...

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Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

  • PDA Weekly Field Report 9/24/10 – 10/2/10
    PDA had a very strong presence in DC and around the country at One Nation. I was personally on the ground in DC and want to thank all of our members who showed up for ...
  • 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 ...

Marler Blog

  • Why it is a bad idea to poison your customers!
    In between a deposition and a phone conference with a judge, I had time to finish up my PowerPoint for my upcoming speech in China.� The last slide is a video that is getting Chinese subtitles.� Actually, this would have been a good speech to give at February's ABA Food Conference in Atlanta that is ...
  • Heritage High School to Receive $25,000 Scholarshi ...
    Lynchburg, Virginia Heritage High School will be the recipient of a $25,000 donation for science scholarships from food safety law firm Marler Clark. The Seattle-based law firm works nationwide on behalf of victims of foodborne illness, and represented many in the 2008-2009 outbreak of Salmonella i ...
  • Well, the ABA, may not want to hear what I have to ...
    From the 3rd Australian Food Safety Conference in Melbourne: Bill Marler, a US lawyer who acts for victims of food poisoning listed the revolting conditions in one of the two US factory farms that have recently poisoned 1,600 people with Salmonella. They included chicken manure so deep that rats bu ...
  • Wedding from Hell in Roseville California - 7 hosp ...
    Lien Hoang of the Roseville Press Tribune got to cover the wedding from hell. Seven people were hospitalized last Saturday night after food served at a wedding poisoned at least 30 guests, according to the Roseville Fire Department. Firefighters responded around 8:45 p.m. to a Roseville church whe ...
  • Four Oklahoma Elementary Schools Now Linked to Fou ...
    So, where is Senator Coburn when you need him? �According to local press reports, as the investigation continues, the number of kids exposed to Salmonella in Mustang Public Schools grows. Thursday afternoon officials from the State Health Department told parents there were 10 students exposed to the ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 10.05.10
    Tesla denies it is having a "Europe problem" 300 sold in a year isn't bad, but is it what the company had hoped for? Think relying on Goverment support more than you know The DOE holds the f ...
  • 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 ...

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!

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

  • Mid-Term Elections Still In Play, With Dems Gainin ...
    Mid-Term Elections Still In Play, With Dems Gaining Momentum Crooks & Liars- By Susie Madrak October 04, 2010 09:00 AM Some good news for the Democrats. So taking over the House and the Senate isn’t quite as easy as Republicans hoped – or as Democrats feared. The situation is still fluid, and Dems n ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • MERS/MBS/Foreclosure Goes RICO
    By Karl Denninger It’s about damned time. This is worth a read, even though it’s VERY long.  The bottom line is that all the Tickers I’ve written on this subject, from bad conveyances into REMICs, to the tax issues, to the fraudulent documents, to the fact that the MBS are “empty boxes”, up and dow ...
  • Top Censored News of 2009-10 Now Posted
    The mission of Project Censored is to teach students and the public about the role of a free press in a free society – and to tell the News That Didn’t Make the News and Why, About Project Censored The Top 25 Index #1.Global Plans to Replace the Dollar 
#2. US Department of Defense is the Worst Pol ...
  • Ameriquest Files Civil RICO Lawsuit for Mortgage F ...
    Defendants include Ameriquest Employees Ameriquest filed a civil lawsuit alleging that the defendants fraudulently obtained approximately 75 properties in Kansas City, Missouri and its neighboring areas from Ameriquest by helping to create or by submitting loan applications and documents, title rep ...
  • Citigroup, Ally Sued for Racketeering Over Databas
    By Margaret Cronin Fisk and Thom Weidlich Citigroup Inc. and Ally Financial Inc. units were sued by homeowners in Kentucky for allegedly conspiring with Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. to falsely foreclose on loans. The lawsuit, filed as a civil-racketeering class action on behalf of ...
  • 3rd Quarter 2010: Looking Back
    In our year-end wrap up, 2009: The Year of the Giant Vampire Squid, I said that in 2010, the “Year of the Tiger,” that the road would turn east and that the geopolitics of the Grand Chessboard would dominate capital flows and military actions. In the United States, the gears would [...]

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • “Terrorism, Vigilance and the Limits of the ...
    Summary:  Some say that America suffers from a disability, unable to learn even simple things from history or the example of other nations.  They point to examples such as our inability to construct a rational health care system (a task solved one or more generations ago by our peers), and the rodeo ...
  • Presidential decision-making about Vietnam and Afg ...
    Summary:  More similarities between the Vietnam and Af-Pak Wars.  These wars are different in almost every way.  The only common element:  us.  We’re using the same flawed decision-making process — making similar mistakes. Consequently, IASF requires more forces. ⦠The greater resources will ...
  • 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Special report: The Pentagon’s new cyber warriors
    Reuters – Guarding water wells and granaries from enemy raids is as old as war itself. In the Middle Ages, vital resources were hoarded behind castle walls, protected by moats, drawbridges and knights with double-edged swords. Today, U.S. national security planners are proposing that the 21st centur ...
  • Australian police taser video sparks anger
    BBC – There has been anger in Australia over a newly released video which shows an unarmed Aboriginal man being tasered 13 times by police officers. The incident occurred in Perth in 2008, and has been released as part of a report on the use of taser guns by the Western Australian police. The state’ ...
  • Haiti food aid hurting local farmers – report
    Reuters – A massive influx of free foreign food to Haiti after January’s earthquake helped feed many displaced people, but undercut Haitian agriculture and hurt farmers’ incomes, Oxfam International said Monday. The international community has put too much emphasis on donating food to the rebuildin ...
  • Musharraf admits Kashmir militants trained in Paki ...
    BBC – Former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf has told a magazine that his forces trained militant groups to fight in Indian-administered Kashmir.He told the German magazine, Der Spiegel, that the government turned a blind eye because it wanted to put pressure on India to enter talks. India ...
  • Inappropriate police use of Tasers overseas now ha ...
    Australian – Some police in Australia are using Tasers inappropriately in a mirror of the misuse of the stun guns overseas, says the NSW Ombudsman. Ombudsman Bruce Barbour was speaking after the death of a Sydney man who had been stunned by a Taser – the second death in two days to follow the use [. ...

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

  • Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Par ...
    This is the sixth part of a nine-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, Part Four and Part Five. This sixth article tells the stories of 14 prisoners seized in two ...
  • Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Par ...
    This is the fifth part of a nine-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 betwee ...
  • First Guantánamo Habeas Appeal to US Supreme Court
    Last week, two years and three months after the US Supreme Court granted the prisoners held at Guantánamo constitutionally guaranteed habeas corpus rights in Boumediene v. Bush, Fawzi al-Odah, a Kuwaiti prisoner held for nearly nine years, became the first prisoner to appeal to the Supreme Court â ...
  • 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • primary colors
    Primary season is finally over in CT. (Only 82 more days until the November elections!) The New Milford results are in. And while there's nothing particularly surprising about how the town voted, I am shocked at the low turnout. According to the tallies at the Danbury News-Times: 1497 registered R ...
  • "Does Probate = Masterb-te," or "Are We Getting Je ...
    What's the deal with this primary for Probate Judge? Have you ever seen such energy put into an election campaign (Oops - I mean other than this spring's budget referendum)? Why are New Milford Republicans putting so much energy behind Judge Marty? Who stands to lose here - probate should be pretty ...
  • salary salads
    Here’s some interesting news about salaries, concessions, and taxes. New Milford teachers and the Board of Ed have peacefully renegotiated teacher contracts for the 2011-2012 year. http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/New-Milford-teachers-agree-to-no-pay-increases-676941.php http://www.ne ...
  • 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 ...

SPL Center

  • Does Robert Rodriguez’s ‘Machete’ Advocate ‘Race W ...
    Most film critics have come to a similar conclusion about Robert Rodriguezâs new film, âMachete.â With few exceptions, the movie has been received as a directorially accomplished and modestly enjoyable comic-book revenge fantasy â easy to look at, easy to laugh at, and easy to forget. There ...
  • Anti-Semitic Activist Now Into ‘Liberty Villages,’ ...
    The last few years have been trying for New Mexico anti-Semite and militia proponent Clayton Douglas , but that hasn’t dampened his entrepreneurial spirit — or the high esteem in which he holds himself. Douglas, 64, is a motorcycle aficionado who used to publish a biker magazine called Thunder Rider ...
  • The Sick Farce of Glenn Beck’s ‘Restoring Honor’ R ...
    America, the first step in your spiritual and political redemption is finally at hand. Or so Glenn Beck would have us believe. After an eight-month build-up that began at an Orlando retirement community last November, Beck is now making the final preparations for his “Restoring Honor” rally on the N ...
  • The Words of Bishop Eddie Long
    Long before Bishop Eddie L. Long became embroiled this week in allegations of using his leverage as pastor and mentor to compel three teenage boys into sexual relationships, the leader of the Atlanta-area New Birth Missionary Baptist Church recorded a sermon â and sold copies of it in the church b ...
  • Political Mudslingers Populate Far-Right Miami Con ...
    MIAMI, Fla. — Self-described “birther king” and World Net Daily (WND) founder Joseph Farah said today that he thinks one or two states will pass legislation in the next year requiring presidential candidates to provide irrefutable proof that they are U.S. citizens in order to have their names placed ...

change: org.

  • Joe the Plumber Invites Puppy Mills to the Tea Par ...
    There is nothing good about puppy mills. I'm not sure I can sum it up any better than dog trainer Victoria Stilwell (of Animal Planet's It's Me or the Dog ): "I literally fail to understand how any decent, moral self-respecting human being can oppose efforts to curb the horrific and cruel practice o ...
  • Domestic Workers Most Vulnerable to Trafficking
    In a recent address, U.S. anti-trafficking czar Luis CdeBaca said that domestic workers are one of the groups must vulnerable to human trafficking all over the world. In the America, domestic workers are at risk for abuse and exploitation in part because they aren't given the same legal protections ...
  • Staking Out the High and Low Ground of Appalachia' ...
    The latest chapter in the Appalachia coal wars finds Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen capturing the high ground, and West Virginia's Governor Joe Manchin staking out the low. Last week, in submitting a "historic petition" to the Department of Interior, Bredesen became the first-ever governor to dema ...
  • Coastal Contenders East: Global Mamas
    From coast to coast, regular Americans are fighting human trafficking in creative and exceptional ways. Each month, your East and West Coast correspondents give you the play-by-play as contenders from both coasts battle the returning nemesis, modern-day slavery. Join us ringside for our East Coast/W ...
  • Transgender Women Targeted by D.C. Police
    What's life like for a transgender woman in Washington, D.C.? It leaves quite a bit to be desired. Police are charged with routinely harassing transgender women under the "assumption that everyone is a sex worker" who is simply outside or in possession of condoms, according to Sadie-Ryanne Baker of ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Sanders: GOPs 'Do Not Want Americans to Succeed'; ...
    by Bridget Johnson Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Sunday that Republicans "do not want Americans to succeed" in laying out his case for energizing the liberal base to go to the polls in November. Sanders, a self-proclaimed Democratic socialist who caucuses with Democrats, discussed President O ...
  • 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
  • Malaria Threatens 2 Million in Pakistan as Floodwa ...
    by Declan Walsh in Islamabad More than 2m cases of malaria are expected in Pakistan in the coming months in the wake of the country's devastating floods, aid workers have warned. Two months into the crisis, large areas remain submerged in southern Sindh province, creating stagnant pools of standing ...
  • Anti-War Activists Whose Homes Were Raided To Refu ...
    by Michael Tarm CHICAGO  - Anti-war activists whose homes or offices were raided as part of an FBI terrorism funding investigation will refuse to testify before a grand jury as ordered, in a show of defiance that could land them in jail. Attorneys for the 14 activists called to testify have coordin ...

Lifehacker

  • Trillian for Mac Hits Beta with Facebook and Twitt ...
    Mac only: Trillian's stepped up its multi-protocol game significantly on the Mac platform, fixing a whole bunch of items missing or jaggy in the alpha release and adding Facebook and Twitter integration, Growl notifications, a better chat hist ...
  • Outsource Your Photos and Other Cost-Saving Print ...
    CNN/Money magazine offers a thoughtful run-down of the many ways anyone can save on printer costs . They pick out the best per-page values in inkjet printers (HP Officejet 6000 Wireless) and all-in-ones (Kodak ESP 5250 All-in-One), as well as ...
  • PayPal for iPhone Deposits Checks via Camera [Upda ...
    iOS: If you truly dislike having to deal with checks, you're in luck—at least if you like PayPal. The payment platform's iPhone app can now deposit checks after you sign and snap a picture. More »
  • Gb4less Finds the Lowest Per-Gigabyte Storage and ...
    If you've just found your backup religion, or you're always in need of ever more storage, gb4less is an interesting place to start looking. The shopping filter finds the best dollar-per-gigabyte deals on NewEgg that have at least a four-star r ...
  • What Whole Wheat Really Means [Health]
    Whole wheat, multigrain, 12-grain, "Made with whole grains"—there are many labels you can put on bread to make it sound healthy. What really counts when it comes to buying better bread? Fewer ingredients, key labels, and basic weight math. ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Cameron: we need a new conversation about fairness
    Prime minister will pledge to 'support people out of poverty, not trap them in dependency' when he delivers keynote speech in Birmingham David Cameron will today say the government's commitment to fairness means giving people "what they deserve" and warn benefit claimants they will not be allowed to ...
  • UK embassy vehicle in Yemen blast
    Attack in Sana'a injures bystanders but not British embassy staff, according to Foreign Office A British embassy employee in Yemen has been injured in a mortar attack on a vehicle in the capital, Sana'a. A security official in Yemen said three bystanders were wounded. A Foreign Office spokeswoman sa ...
  • France issues UK terror alert
    After similar warnings across Europe, French advise 'extreme vigilance' on British public transport and at popular attractions France has told citizens visiting the UK to exercise caution, warning that a terrorist attack on public transport or tourist sites is "highly likely". In a notice on the def ...
  • Nobel prize for chemistry awarded
    Three scientists share the Nobel prize for chemistry after developing a technique for assembling chains of carbon atoms to make novel drugs, agrochemicals and electronic coatings The 2010 Nobel prize for chemistry has been awarded to three scientists who developed an efficient way to create chains o ...
  • Ethiopia frees opposition leader
    Release comes as government attempts to placate opponents and west over democratic curbs since disputed 2005 elections Ethiopia's best-known opposition leader was released today after spending most of the past five years in jail. Birtukan Mideksa, a 36-year-old single mother and former judge, was es ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Livestock: Lengthening the shadow?
    The environmental impact of meat is something of a well-done dish. Rajendra Pachauri , head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and Sir Paul McCartney are just two of the public figures who have called on us all to eat less meat in order to curb the rate at which the world warms ...
  • Campaigning explodes as climate process risks disi ...
    This week marks a first for China - the first time that the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, and therefore (you can argue) the country whose decisions will most affect the global climate over the next few decades, has hosted a meeting of the UN climate convention .   Whether the locati ...
  • 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 ...

The Wonk Room

  • GOP Pundits Belittle Latinos, Then Ask Them To Ret ...
    Yesterday, the Pew Hispanic Center released a polling data indicating that two-thirds, or 65 percent, of Latino registered voters say they plan to support the Democratic candidate in their local congressional district. Meanwhile a couple of articles have appeared in recent weeks authored by conserv ...
  • New Ad Shows How Affordable Care Act Covers Young ...
    Always looking for ways to get young people engaged in progressive politics, my colleagues over at Campus Progress Action teamed up with the Young Invincibles project to produce this ad touting how health reform would cover young Americans: This strikes me as a fairly clever effort to remind peopl ...
  • Will House Republicans Try To Defund Financial Reg ...
    Since it was signed by President Obama, House Republicans have threatened to essentially repeal the Affordable Care Act by refusing to fund it. “I canât imagine a Republican Congress is going to give this President the money to begin this process,â House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) has s ...
  • Cuccinelli Revives Witchhunt Against Climate Chang ...
    In August, a Virginia state judge blocked Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s (R-VA) attempt to subpoena documents from the University of Virginia to try to discredit a leading climate scientist.  In addition to citing several amateurish errors in Cuccinelli’s document request, the judge found that C ...
  • Appeals Court Rejects Denying Asylum On The Basis ...
    A while back, an immigration judge denied asylum to a young Serbian gay man, Mladen Todorovic, who claimed to have suffered persecution by government officials and others in his native country because of his sexual orientation. The judge justified the ruling by reasoning that Todorovic “does not app ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Would You Kill Hitler to Save the Planet?
    Just thinking about stuff after reading this : If the Arctic becomes six degrees warmer, then half of the world's permafrost will likely thaw, probably to a depth of a few metres, releasing most of the carbon and methane accumulated there over thousands of years, said Vladimir Romanovsky of the ...
  • Inside the Mind of a Rob Ford Supporter
    Rob Ford is currently the front-runner in the race to be Toronto's mayor. He's apparently a stupid, oafish, incompetent dunce. The Toronto Sun is in love with his fat ass and fellates him on a daily basis. For them, it's a contest between stereotypical downtown lefty elitists and respectable salt of ...
  • The Gun Registry and the NDP
    So the harpercons have decided to use a private members bill to accomplish one of their chief aims, which is to kill the Liberals' gun registry. The NDP has a tradition of not whipping votes on private members bills and several NDP MPs representing rural ridings want to vote their constituents' wish ...
  • Bill Maher on Islam
    Now Bill Maher is an okay guy so far as US-American liberals go. I don't agree with everything he says by any stretch, but for such a backward, indoctrinated political culture he's done a good job of establishing an independent viewpoint. I don't even take much issue with most of what he says in th ...
  • Bleak
    That's all.

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • OSC report due for immigration official protected ...
    Maria Aran is the chief of staff for the Miami district of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), a part of the Department of Homeland Security. When she discovered that a sub-office had mishandled hundreds of sensitive documents, she made a report for the agency's security office. Whe ...
  • Irish bank whistleblower gets second apology
    In 2001, Eugene McErlean was working for the giant Allied Irish Banks (AIB) as an internal auditor. He discovered that his employer had been overcharging customers for exchanges from foreign currencies.  In over 3 million transactions, AIB had run up overcharges now valued at over €34 million ($47 m ...
  • DOL Inspector General finds flaws in most OSHA whi ...
    Last week the U.S. Department of Labor's Inspector General's office issued a report finding that most of the Department's whistleblower investigations are flawed. The IG's office reviewed investigative files of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) which has responsibility to en ...
  • The Petition Clause can avoid the "public concern" ...
    In Connick v. Myers , 461 U.S. 138 (1983), the Supreme Court held that the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause would protect public employees from retaliation only if the employee's speech touched on a matter of "public concern." That is, government officials were free to retaliate against employee ...
  • Burglar takes records from law office of New Mexic ...
    New Mexico attorney A.J. Salazar used to be the director of the elections bureau for Secretary of State Mary Herrera.� He resigned earlier this year and publicly denounced the Secretary of State's office for accepting kick-backs on public contracts and having state employees perform campaign work.� ...

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

  • Google Points Out That Oracle Asked Sun To Open So ...
    NSILMike points out that Google has now responded to the lawsuit Oracle filed against it over Java-related patents that Oracle got when it took over Sun. The response covers all the usual stuff that you find in every response to a patent lawsuit (i.e., "we didn't infringe on any of these patents, a ...
  • Historically Dumb Censorship: Wal-Mart's Refusal T ...
    Singer Jill Sobule recently discussed a story from back in 1997, when Wal-Mart refused to carry the album she released that year -- because of the cover art . I'll let Jill tell the story: When I was about to release my 2nd Atlantic record, "Happy Town", I was alerted that Wal-Mart was refusing ...
  • EU Parliament Members Not At All Happy About ACTA
    We already noted that it's expected that the latest ACTA draft text will finally be released this week (the first time since April that negotiators have decided it's worth letting us officially see the document), which they continue to insist they've been "transparent" about. We've already noted th ...
  • The Difference Between Ideas And Execution -- And ...
    By pretty much all accounts , The Social Network sounds like a fantastic movie (which is what you'd expect from Aaron Sorkin). At this point, it's been made clear a hundred times over that it's a work of fiction, rather loosely based on the truth, rather than an accurate depiction of what actually ...
  • Advertisers Bailing On Murdoch's Paywalls As The C ...
    A few weeks back, we pointed to reports suggesting that Rupert Murdoch's paywall experiments with The Times and Sunday Times in London were a disaster , as nearly everyone -- readers, journalists, advertisers and publicists -- were bailing on the publications. Soon after that, however, Murdoch's Ne ...

VacTruth

  • Hope On The Horizon
    Even though HBOT has been around for about 75 years, not many healthcare consumers are aware of it or how it works. As a result of HBOT treatments, Alexis now can do math problems that she couldn't prior to her treatment with HBOT. How could that be possible when all the medication she received else ...
  • 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.

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Kids can be so incredibly mean.  What would your parents have done if they found out kids at your school were torturing you?  What if they found out you were torturing other kids? Related to that, this post calling the church out for “saving families” by being anti-gay marriage while ignoring the ...
  • 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 [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • E-Bikes to the Rescue - A Six-Month Review
    Photo credit Richard Masoner via flickr and courtesy Creative Commons 2.0 Generic . This post is part of series written by TreeHugger contributors about trading in your car for a bike for trips that are two miles or less in distance. The series is sponsored by the Clif 2-Mile Challenge . Ped ...
  • Graph of the Day: Another Reason That Recycling Is ...
    We have previously noted that recycling is Bulls*!t, little more than a shifting of producer responsibility for what they make to the consumer and the taxpayer. That's why we promote reuse, refill and repurpose. Now MaryEllen of the upcoming ReuseConex Conference sends these tidbits of data tha ...
  • 407 Bicycle Solutions: The Very Versatile Velocipe ...
    Pedal power epitomises the type of solutions we need to embrace for a brighter future: efficient, accessible, human scale, non-polluting, simple, field-repairable, etc. Hence this little homage: 26 different bike round-ups totally some 407 bicycle solutions. We begin with a link to an externa ...
  • Duke University Turns Pig Poop into Power (Video)
    Image credit: Duke University Duke University's Bleed Blue, Live Green campaign created a clamor of attention from fans wanting to get hold of a limited edition shirt. So much so, we had to post a follow up on where to find the green Duke shirts . I'm wondering if the University's latest initia ...
  • The Gap Brings Back Denim-to-Insulation Recycling ...
    Photo: Screenshot via Gap on YouTube If your jeans have seen better days, bring them to a Gap store near you tomorrow through October 20th, where they will be recycled into UltraTouch Natural Cotton Fiber Insulation -- brr ...it's getting cold outside--and donated to communities in need. Si ...

Biosingularity

  • Amino Acid Supplement Makes Mice Live Longer
    When mice are given drinking water laced with a special concoction of amino acids, they live longer than your average mouse, according to a new report in the October issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication. The key ingredients in the supplemental mixture are so-called branched-chain amino ...
  • 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 ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

  • Greens shackle national security - and renewable e ...
    Now environmentalists say we need the minerals that they̢۪ve been locking up for decades. China currently produces fully 97% of the world̢۪s rare-earth oxides, the raw materials needed for a variety of defense and high-tech applications.
  • Federal government's land grab faces growing resis ...
    Fearful that the federal government̢۪s already pervasive presence in their state could expand dramatically, Montanans are rising up against another looming Washington land grab.
  • Using biotech to survive mega-droughts
    The world will need drought and salt tolerant bio-crops in the not too distant future. High-yield farming research is needed to meet growing world food demands.
  • Renewables are unsustainable
    “Renewableâ€Â energy subsidies may sustain the jobs of lobbyists, activists, politicians, bureaucrats and politically connected companies. But they will kill millions of other people’s jobs.
  • 3 billion and counting
    New film challenges DDT myths and lies that have caused millions of needless deaths.

Ria Novosti Online News

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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

  • The War Addicts: the Pentagon and Military Would D ...
    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-Chief into the smallest of Afghan corners. ...
  • Developing Countries Could Sue for Climate Action
    A new study out says vulnerable countries could sue the United States and other industrialized nations for action on climate change. Click here to read this article
  • As EPA Moves to Regulate Perchlorate, Groups Await ...
    Even as they cheer U.S. EPA's first steps toward a drinking water standard for perchlorate, environmental and public health groups are warily predicting Pentagon and industry resistance to proposed limits on the rocket fuel chemical during a behind-the-scenes federal review process. Click here to re ...
  • Fortunes Turn for Monsanto After Problems With See ...
    As recently as late December, Monsanto was named "company of the year" by Forbes magazine. Last week, the company earned a different accolade from Jim Cramer, the television stock market commentator. "This may be the worst stock of 2010," he proclaimed. Add to Portfolio Click here to read this artic ...
  • Nanotech Pesticides? Safety Issues Arise
    Nanotechnology is about to emerge in the world of pesticides and pest control, and a range of new approaches are needed to understand the implications for public health, ensure that this is done safely, maximize the potential benefits and prevent possible risks, Oregon State University and European ...

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

  • Straight Talk About The Risks of Feeding Antibioti ...
    It is time for some straight talk about the risks of using massive amounts of antibiotics in livestock and poultry. I don’t know one infectious disease expert who would disagree that there are direct links between antibiotic use in food animals and antibiotic resistance in people. Period. If you don ...
  • 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 ...

Norwegianity

  • [more]
    It’s been so long since I read anything from Richard Cohen that didn’t turn my stomach, I’d almost forgotten how much I used to enjoy his columns. That was before he sold his soul over Iraq. He lost me when he tut-tutted Clinton for all the wrong reasons, and repulsed me when he embraced Bush. [...]
  • & 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 ...

Public News Service

  • Study: Eating Disorders and Bare Midriffs – ...
    Study: Eating Disorders and Bare Midriffs – Cheerleaders "At Risk" Phoenix, AZ – A recent study cautions that college cheerleaders whose uniforms expose their bare midriffs face a significantly higher risk of developing eating disorders. Comments from the study's author, Dr. Toni Torres-McGehee (tor ...
  • Child Advocates: Governor's AZ Child Health Day Pr ...
    Child Advocates: Governor's AZ Child Health Day Proclamation 'Ironic' Phoenix, AZ – Children’s advocates say it’s ironic that Governor Brewer declared Monday as AZ Child Health Day when enrollment is frozen in the state’s KidsCare health insurance program. Legislative leaders and the Governor are s ...
  • 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 ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Thirteen Days Of October: The Cuban Missile Crisis ...
    In the summer of 1962, the Soviet Union dispatched a fleet of commercial cargo ships filled with nuclear missiles, launchers and anti-aircraft guns all under false manifests across the Atlantic Ocean to Fidel Castro's Cuba. Could history repeat itself??? Submitted by SirRobert THE FIFTH KNIGHT to US ...
  • opit's water Bookmarks
    A Delicious Bookmark/Tagfile Also Search Community,Recent Change display parameters and bookmark across computers,browsers and OS Share bookmarks and 'follow' users Keep articles and stories noted in a personalized sharable Online Index There's a blog Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech ...
  • Multi-National Corporate Shock Troops: Coming Soon ...
    Nigeria Torture Case Decision Exempts Companies From U.S. Alien Tort Law | Companies including Royal Dutch Shell Plcs Nigerian unit arent subject to U.S. lawsuits by foreigners seeking damages for human rights violations, a federal appeals co Submitted by Joseph M. to US Politics & Gov't �|� ...
  • BP OIL SPILL IMPACT #2: All four members of Projec ...
    When Project Gulf Impact was on the boat in the Gulf with us they wore respirators and they were still affected by the fumes.What is developing out in the water is very dangerous to ALL of us, not just the people on the Gulf shores. Submitted by Care For All to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • 15 Shocking Facts Show That the Middle Class is Be ...
    Millions of Americans are slipping out of the middle class and into the devastating grip of poverty.This economic nightmare has taken literally decades to develop. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • New Orleans Judge May Limit Defense Options in Glo ...
    Law and Disorder – New Orleans Judge May Limit Defense Options in Glover Case - ProPublica: "The New Orleans police officers charged with shooting Henry Glover and burning his body might not be... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • In Some States, Incarcerated Kids Get Drugged to A ...
    In Some States, Incarcerated Kids Get Drugged to Alter Behavior, Despite Risks - ProPublica: "Though the use of antipsychotic drugs on children is believed to carry significant risks [1] even when... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Ecuador extends state of alert after police unrest ...
    Ecuador extends state of alert after police unrest | Reuters: "(Reuters) - Ecuador's government extended a state of alert on Tuesday and soldiers replaced the police as the force that guards Congress... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Racial predatory loans fueled U.S. housing crisis: ...
    Racial predatory loans fueled U.S. housing crisis: study | Reuters: "(Reuters) - Predatory lending aimed at racially segregated minority neighborhoods led to mass foreclosures that fueled the U.S.... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • 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...]]

Farm Wars

  • Seed Savers Exchange and the Svalbard Doomsday Vau ...
    Seed Savers' members' heirloom seed collection is being pirated into the Svalbard seedbank, under the UN FAO treaty.
  • Barry Soetoro In the Crosshairs!
    Poor Mr. Obama and Congress must be all tuckered out from all that reading before passing all those wonderful bills that they so graciously foisted on the public.
  • 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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Times Square bomb plotter predicts defeat of U.S.
    ShareThis Times Square bomb plotter predicts defeat of U.S. --'Soon the bailout money which is holding up your fragile economy will run out, and soon you will not be able to afford the war costs.' 06 Oct 2010 Expressing no remorse and predicting the "imminent" defeat of the United States at the hand ...
  • Yemen rocket attack targets UK embassy car
    ShareThis Yemen rocket attack targets UK embassy car 06 Oct 2010 Militants have fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a British embassy car in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa. The UK Foreign Office said one member of staff was slightly injured and witnesses say at least three bystanders were hurt. In a se ...
  • Explosion rocks UK embassay in Yemen
    ShareThis Explosion rocks UK embassay in Yemen 06 Oct 2010 An explosion has targeted a British embassy vehicle in the vicinity of the UK embassy in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a, leaving at least three people injured. The blast took place on Wednesday morning when a rocket landed near a British diplo ...
  • Police Make 12 Terror Arrests In France
    ShareThis Police Make 12 Terror Arrests In France 05 Oct 2010 Police have arrested 12 people and seized guns and ammunition following two separate anti-terrorism raids in southern France. Those arrested are suspected of having links with Muslim extremists, it has been reported. Nine men were detaine ...
  • No pay, no spray: Firefighters let home burn
    ShareThis No pay, no spray: Firefighters let home burn --Tennessee house in ashes after homeowner forgot to pay $75 fee 05 Oct 2010 Firefighters in rural Tennessee let a home burn to the ground last week because the homeowner hadn't paid a $75 fee. Gene Cranick of Obion County and his family lost al ...

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

  • Chicago faith leaders issue statement in support o ...
    Chicago anti-war and international solidarity activists whose homes were raided by the FBI last month publicly declared their decision to resist government intimidation and harassment today in Chicago.��The Chicago activists decided to invoke their Fifth Amendment right not to testify in front of a ...
  • Chicago group brings campaign to end US aid to Isr ...
    � Beginning yesterday, the Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine has posted signs like the one above in Chicago Transit Authority “el cars” for the next month. The campaign website explains:The “Be on Our Side” media and education project promotes a positive, productive U.S. policy tow ...
  • The latest entries for the Israel Project photo co ...
    We're helping to collect photos for the Israel Project's ‘Best Shots of Israel’ contest. Here are some more entries:� David Ehren sent the above photo to the Israel Project with the note, "I took this in Hebron last year. The flag, security camera, and machine gun nest, together with the national sl ...
  • Gideon Levy in NYC: Israel is ‘the only occu ...
    I was fortunate enough to see Gideon Levy speak on Tuesday at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. The discussion was organized to promote his new book, The Punishment of Gaza, which covers Israel’s policy and actions there from 2005 to 2009. While Levy told a numbe ...
  • What does effective solidarity with Palestinians l ...
    October 2nd couldn’t have been a more beautiful day for a rally. I had gotten on a bus at 11pm the night before to travel to Washington D.C. for the One Nation Working Together rally. Over 400 organizations endorsed the rally’s platform of Jobs, Justice and Education. By the end of the [...]

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

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

  • To Follow these Steps
    I first met Steve Shaulis about 27 years ago during Special Forces training.� We’ve been friends ever since and have traveled many places together. Back in 2001, six months before the 9/11 attacks, we were at his U.S. home in Vero Beach, Florida.� We were preparing to swim out into the night in ...
  • 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.  ...

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

  • E-Bikes to the Rescue - A Six-Month Review
    Photo credit Richard Masoner via flickr and courtesy Creative Commons 2.0 Generic . This post is part of series written by TreeHugger contributors about trading in your car for a bike for trips that are two miles or less in distance. The series is sponsored by the Clif 2-Mile Challenge . Ped ...
  • Graph of the Day: Another Reason That Recycling Is ...
    We have previously noted that recycling is Bulls*!t, little more than a shifting of producer responsibility for what they make to the consumer and the taxpayer. That's why we promote reuse, refill and repurpose. Now MaryEllen of the upcoming ReuseConex Conference sends these tidbits of data tha ...
  • 407 Bicycle Solutions: The Very Versatile Velocipe ...
    Pedal power epitomises the type of solutions we need to embrace for a brighter future: efficient, accessible, human scale, non-polluting, simple, field-repairable, etc. Hence this little homage: 26 different bike round-ups totally some 407 bicycle solutions. We begin with a link to an externa ...
  • Duke University Turns Pig Poop into Power (Video)
    Image credit: Duke University Duke University's Bleed Blue, Live Green campaign created a clamor of attention from fans wanting to get hold of a limited edition shirt. So much so, we had to post a follow up on where to find the green Duke shirts . I'm wondering if the University's latest initia ...
  • The Gap Brings Back Denim-to-Insulation Recycling ...
    Photo: Screenshot via Gap on YouTube If your jeans have seen better days, bring them to a Gap store near you tomorrow through October 20th, where they will be recycled into UltraTouch Natural Cotton Fiber Insulation -- brr ...it's getting cold outside--and donated to communities in need. Si ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Supreme Court hears arguments on NASA background c ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF; merit briefs] Tuesday in NASA v. Nelson [oral arguments transcript, PDF] on informational privacy. The issue is whether the government violates a federal contract employee's constitutional righ ...
  • Sweden prosecutor brings war crimes charges aginst ...
    [JURIST] Sweden's international prosecutor Magnus Elving unveiled war crimes charges Tuesday against Swedish citizen and former Bosnian prison guard Ahmet Makitan. Makitan is accused [AP report] of violating the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War [text, PDF] by kidnapping people ...
  • Dutch court rejects bias allegations in politician ...
    [JURIST] A panel of Dutch judges on Tuesday rejected claims of judicial bias, ordering the trial of politician Geert Wilders [personal website; JURIST news archive] on charges [prosecution materials, in Dutch] of making anti-Islamic statements to resume. The panel considered [CSM report] the accusat ...
  • NYC car bomber sentenced to life in prison
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website] on Tuesday sentenced Pakistani-born US citizen Faisal Shahzad [BBC profile] to life in prison for attempting to detonate a car bomb in New York City's Times Square in May. Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarba ...
  • Pakistan judges resign in protest over treatment b ...
    [JURIST] A dispute among the Pakistani judiciary worsened on Monday as more than 1,300 civil judges resigned in protest over the treatment of judges by lawyers and to express solidarity with Lahore District and Sessions Judge Zawar A Sheikh. The resignations come amid nationwide demonstrations by la ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Countries Sharing Intel Key to Terrorism Arrests
    Within the past several weeks, scores of suspected terrorists have been arrested or killed in Pakistan, France, and North Africa. Counterterrorism officials in the United States are focusing on the immediate threat, which appears to be a plan to attack European cities simultaneously with explosives ...
  • Obama's Televised Town Hall
    It was a no-brainer: the White House and Viacom have negotiated a deal to televise a town hall meeting featuring President Obama on October 14. Broadcast from Washington, it will air live on MTV, MTVu, CMT, and BET. CMT's inclusion is curious because its demographics aren't necessarily the Presiden ...
  • Race of the Day: Ethnic Politics Erupt in Californ ...
    Up until Election Day, we'll preview a series of races across the country. Check in with The Atlantic Politics Channel for a new race each day. In 1996, Democrat Loretta Sanchez shocked the political establishment when she defeated long-time incumbent Bob Dornan, a Republican, by less than 1,000 vot ...
  • Why Christine O'Donnell's New Ad Might W ...
    It begins with the candidate, to camera, announcing to voters that she, Christine O'Donnell, is not a witch. One's temptation at this point would be to stop right here and begin to laugh like a hyena at a comedy show featuring the Dave Chappelle of hyenas. Your average media personality or political ...
  • Are Democrats Really Doing Better?
    Are Democrats doing better? Are they closing the enthusiasm gap? Why are Republicans exuding less confidence about the Democratic Party's scheduled root canal on November 2? There is some obvious perception-framing here. Republicans want to make sure that a 45-seat pick-up is seen as a "win" for t ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Dennis Ross Prepares U.S. Goodie Basket for Bibi i ...
    Just read an interesting piece by a N.Y. Times reporter who, when he writes about U.S. Israel-Palestine policy, doesn’t make me wince (as Ethan Bronner does).  Among the points that Mark Landler’s featured experts make is the incredible giveaway that Obama is offering Israel as an inducement to ser ...
  • Seeking WordPress Technical Assistance
    For the past few years, I’ve had the excellent WordPress technical assistance of someone with whom I strongly disagreed politically, but who nevertheless was able to put aside his political differences with me in order to help me maintain my blog and fix issues as they arose.  Now, for some reason ...
  • Seeking: WordPress Font Plugin
    This is for the techies among you. I am seeking a WordPress plugin that would allow me to change the font for my posts and titles without having to manually update the css.  There are several plugins which work in different ways.  I’m trying to wade through them and figure out which will do what [ ...
  • IDF Convicts Soldiers of Using Palestinian Boy as ...
    They say justice delayed is justice denied, but not if you’re Israel and the subject is Operation Cast Lead.  Justice would have certainly been denied in this case were it not for Judge Richard Goldstone and his report documenting potential Israeli (and Palestinian) war crimes.  But Goldstone and ...
  • IDF Abuses Bound, Blind-Folded Palestinian Woman b ...
    This new YouTube video documenting a deranged IDF soldier belly-dancing in front of a blind-folded, bound Palestinian woman shows that the Israeli army definitely needs to exploit such branding opportunities and create a YouTube channel featuring more of such distinctive aberrant behavior.  Though I ...

Ode Magazine

  • The anatomy of an ecolodge
    By: Annika_Hipple Everyone wants to say they're green these days, so how can you be sure that you're choosing a travel or hospitality business that truly walks the talk? What does it really mean - or what should it mean - when a hotel calls itself an "ecolodge?" ...
  • Ton's Musical Musings: The Cutting edge of squeeze ...
    By: Ton Maas The diatonic accordion, quite often chromatized and then named "melodion," has been a popular instrument in the realm of folk music for quite some time, but thanks to pioneers like Riccardo Tesi , its popularity is spreading to much wider circles. The ...
  • Live the life you have
    By: VictoriaKlein You’ve probably already read the classic Peanuts comic included above this post. Charlie Brown is his usual melancholy self, seeking advice from the often aggressive and rude Lucy at her psychiatric booth. “What can you do when you don’t fit ...
  • How teaching peace creates peace
    By: PeaceCorso I saw this article in YES! Magazine - so powerful! "Earlier this year, I walked into the university classroom where I teach a course in Peace Studies. Seated in a circle around the room were seniors just shy of graduating. They would soon become ...
  • 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 ...

OpEd News

  • On Punishing the Dems
    Many progressives want to "punish the Dems" by refusing to vote, or by voting for a third party candidate this November. I can respect such progressives, because I too am upset with Obama. But I wonder: have these hardcore progressives really thought through the costs of their choice? Moreove ...
  • Don't Let the Russ Feingolds Go Down For the Sins ...
    One-time Obama supporters often lament: "The Democrats have sold us out. I'm tired of their spinelessness. I'm staying home to teach them a lesson." Not everyone responds this way, but enough do to worry me: If these people don't show up and work to get others to vote, it could make the difference. ...
  • UAW, GM slash workers' wages by half at Michigan p ...
    Setting a new wage-cutting precedent, the United Auto Workers (UAW) on Sunday announced that 40 percent of current workers at the General Motors Lake Orion plant will work at about $14 per hour, half the standard wage, once the temporarily idled Michigan factory begins production on a new line of sm ...
  • Could a Solar Green White House Finally Face the N ...
    Team Obama is clearly responding to the anger of the Democratic base.Those who worked to put them in the White House want it green.The Democrats have stumbled into the mid-term elections void of a vision that can excite our nation with real hope for an economic turn-around. Restoring solar power to ...
  • How, exactly, did banksters swindle trillions from ...
    Over the last decade our government has essentially "de-supervised' America's financial sector and turned it over to the perpetrators of one of the largest swindles in history. This swindle originated with the securitization of tens of thousands of fraud-based mortgages, i.e. near-worthless mortgag ...

Switchboard

  • Gulf Coast Disaster - Tuesday, October 5
    Highlights in this issue - Contractor: BP interfered with stopping oil spill - Coast Guard couldn’t stop the rig from sinking - Mabus: Billions in oil spill penalties should go to region - Feinberg: Proximity has no role in payment - Oil industry has yet to adopt BP spill lessons - Bi ...
  • The Tianjin Climate Talks: A Dose of "Conventiona ...
    At the outset of this new round of UN climate negotiations in Tianjin, it seems that no high-level speech is complete without a dose of traditional Chinese wisdom.  The UNFCCC Executive Secretary, Christiana Figueres, sprinkled proverbs in her speeches throughout the first day. “If we ...
  • Our New Book Offers a Roadmap for Making Change an ...
    Forty years ago, a very distinguished group of lawyers fought to stop Con Edison from building a power plant on Storm King Mountain in the Hudson Highlands.  They soon realized that a public interest law firm should be established so that ordinary citizens could fight the wealth and po ...
  • Gulf Coast Disaster - Monday, October 4
    Highlights in this issue > National Incident Commander Thad Allen steps down, joins Rand Corp. > Claims fund will pass $1 billion to oil spill victims this week > Separating fraudulent from valid claims an ongoing and difficult job > BP names oil fields in Gulf as collateral for Claim ...
  • In the wake of the spill, planning for resilience
    Last week, Alabama governor Bob Riley issued an executive order creating a Coastal Recovery Commission for his state.  The Commission’s task is “to shape, in the wake of BP’s Deep Water Horizon oil spill, a roadmap to resilience for South Alabama.”  The three deeply interconnected subj ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • State Secrets and CIA Drone Attacks
    This is interesting: The CIA has declined comment on allegations that its drones have a targeting margin of error of up to 40 feet, a malfunction that could be contributing to civilian deaths in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The allegations have surfaced in a complex suit over intellectual property thef ...
  • Annals of American Injustice
    Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the question on whether prosecutors can be liable if they violate the constitutional rights of the accused. The background of the case is, in addition, very instructive about the functioning of the death penalty, even before we get to the fact th ...
  • A Summers Moment
    Ah, prescience: Summers remained close to Rubin and to Alan Greenspan, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve. When other economists began warning of abuses and systemic risk in the financial system deriving from the environment that Summers, Greenspan, and Rubin had created, Summers mocked and di ...
  • Baseball Challenge Victor!
    And we have a winner! M. Ricci has won the LGM Baseball Challenge for the second consecutive year.  Mr. or Ms. Ricci should contact me regarding prize info (e-mail address is on the first right sidebar).  Congratulations! 1 free leonard, M. Ricci 8356 98.9 2 HeadlessThompson Gunner, S ...
  • You Can?
    Longtime readers will recall Ann Althouse constructing a fantasy-world moderate Sam Alito based on one (exceptionally weak) piece of evidence. Streamlining her apologism, she is now making claims about the moderation of the Roberts Court…with no evidence at all!    Responding to Lithwick and Frie ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Toyota plaintiffs add counts under Japanese securi ...
    Lawyers for Toyota shareholders who suffered losses tied to massive recalls and claims of sudden acceleration of its vehicles have filed a consolidated complaint alleging that Toyota issued false and misleading statements in conference calls with investors, filings with the SEC and in interviews wit ...
  • NASA scientists, government face off over privacy ...
    Lawyers for the federal government clashed with lawyers for a group of California scientists at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday over how much information the government can demand in background checks on potential employees before violating their privacy rights.
  • Wisconsin retains practice privilege for in-state ...
    Graduates of the University of Wisconsin Law School and Marquette University Law School won't be forced to sit for the state bar examination anytime soon. The Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld the state's diploma privilege rule, which allows graduates of the two local law schools to be admitted to prac ...
  • Group lacks standing to challenge state's drugging ...
    A nonprofit law firm opposed to administering psychotropic drugs to children without consent has lost an appeal in its case against the state of Alaska.
  • 'User fees' complicate former inmates' return to s ...
    States are heaping ever more fees on people who have been convicted of crimes, making it more difficult for them to successfully re-enter society. That's the conclusion of a report from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

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

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 ...
  • Human Impacts on Rivers Threaten Water Security Wo ...
    More than 5 billion people — nearly 80 percent of the planet’s population — live in regions where water security is threatened because of mismanagement and pollution of rivers and watersheds, according to a new study. This degradation of the planet’s waters also threatens the existence of thousands ...
  • U.S. Home Energy Use As High as in 1970s, Despite ...
    The average American household uses the same amount of energy it did in the early 1970s , despite significant improvements in the efficiency of household appliances, according to a report in the Washington Post . Even though appliances such as dishwashers and refrigerators now use half the amount o ...
  • A High-Risk Energy Boom Sweeps Across North Americ ...
    Energy companies are rushing to develop unconventional sources of oil and gas trapped in carbon-rich shales and sands throughout the western United States and Canada. So far, government officials have shown little concern for the environmental consequences of this new fossil-fuel development boom. ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Darpa’s Self-Aiming "One Shot" Sniper Rifle Schedu ...
    A sniper crouches near an open window and zooms in on his target, who sits a half-mile away. He peers through a scope and holds his breath, preparing to squeeze the trigger. But it’s windy outside, and he can’t afford a miss. What to do? A new DARPA-funded electro-optical system will calculate the b ...
  • The October Crisis - Martial Law in Canada
    In October 1970, the nation held its collective breath as events in Quebec unfolded. The October crisis, initiated by the kidnappings of James Cross and Pierre Laporte by the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ), was one of the most stunning events of the period, and the subject of intense discussion ...
  • Virulent stem rust could wipe out world’s wheat
    A form of stem rust, known as Ug99, is threatening the world’s wheat crop - with wheat in Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Iran and South Africa already affected. Scientists fear the virulent strain is on the move and may show up soon in India and Pakistan. Once there it could be blown by the winds to North ...
  • Neurosurgeons use lasers to ’cook’ brain tumors
    A team of neurosurgeons from Washington University are using a new MRI-guided high-intensity laser probe to "cook" brain tumors that would otherwise be completely inoperable. "It offers hope to certain patients who had few or no options before."
  • What Kind Of Top-Secret Assassination Tech Does $5 ...
    Under Cover The Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel, an unmanned reconnaissance drone, is the most recent aircraft to emerge from the military's "black" budget. Not since the end of the Cold War has the Pentagon spent so much to develop and deploy secret weapons. But now military researchers have turned ...

Russia Today

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

  • Dolan on Malstrom
    Author and UFO researcher Richard M. Dolan has a take on the recent Malstrom Controversy between former Air Force captain Robert Salas and James Carlson,  the son of Eric Carlson, who was the Echo Flight Commander the night the incident in question happened (at Malstrom AFB). Both Carlsons contend t ...
  • Ancient Australians and the Americas
    There has been a theory during the past decade that stated that the ancient Olmecs of Mexico were descended from Africans or Australians because of statuary that was left over from their civilization. Now there has been a discovery of a skeleton of an ancient woman that may provide an important link ...
  • 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 ...

Tippers News

  • Construction crews unearth fossil 'treasure trove'
    A Riverside County site yields camels, llamas, horses and saber-toothed cats, some well over 1 million years old.It happened more than a million years ago, but the fossilized evidence preserved the scene. A horse not much different from modern horses.... Submitted by Chris V. to Offbeat �|� �Note-i ...
  • Street Talk Commentary: The BLM Censoring Wild Hor ...
    What next, will they start stashing wild horses down in the bowels of Area 51, right there with the corpses of extraterrestrials? Will mustangs become the black budget equivalent of stealth drones and death rays? The BLM doesn't want the public to see Submitted by Chris V. to Animals �|� �Note- ...
  • Wild horse awareness song released by Grey Beard B ...
    Americas wild horses are on the brink of extinction. With the federal governments escalated roundups with thousands and thousands of horses being removed, their total disappearance may be much closer than we fear, adds Grant. Submitted by Chris V. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • A Closer Look at Wild Horse Roundups - Help stop t ...
    Despite the publics concern over wild horse roundups, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) continues to blaze forward with roundups across the western United States. Tragically, these roundups often result in the death of and injury to the horses..... Submitted by Chris V. to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...
  • This is the text of the petition. If you agree tha ...
    Mr. Dutcher has tweeted that felony charges 'are a bit much' in a local animal cruelty case, states that the reinstatement of horse slaughter facilities in the United States 'is a very good thing' and mocks further legislation to regulate puppy mills. Submitted by Chris V. to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...

The Freeman

  • CS – I Don’t Think So!
    Those attractive, incorruptible lab technicians on "CSI" might make good television, but they are a poor substitute for reality.
  • The Freeman on Kindle!
    Kindle owners: The Freeman is now available from Amazon.com on your e-reader. Single issues cost $4.99. An annual subscription (ten issues) is $2.49 per issue. Check it out!
  • Obama Says Tax Cuts Not Best Way to “Spend” Money
    “Intending to talk about colleges and worker training, President Obama on Monday suddenly found himself in a spirited election-year debate with a business advisory group about whose tax cuts should be extended and for how longâ¦. âIf we were going to spend $700 billion, it seems it would be wiser ...
  • Obamacare Problems to be Aired before Officials
    “Doctors and hospitals eager to pursue a new model of health care being promoted by the Obama administration are raising concerns that they could run afoul of antitrust and anti-fraud laws, and insurers are warning that the new arrangements could lead to higher prices for medical care.” (Washington ...
  • Control Deficit, Fed Chief Admonishes
    “The nation’s economic future would be endangered if the government does not rein in budget deficits in the years ahead, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said Monday, and Congress should consider new budgeting rules to try to make that happen.” (Washington Post) Would he say the same thing a ...

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

  • GOP poised to gain clout in South due to surging L ...
    When Hispanics vote, most choose Democrats: In 2008, two out of three Latinos voted for Barack Obama over John McCain for president. And a Pew Hispanic Center survey released today finds that 65% plan to vote Democratic this November . But the rapid growth of Latinos in Southern states will likely ...
  • VOICES: One Nation Working Together, under a groov ...
    By Kerry Taylor For a few hours on Saturday, they were one nation under a groove as thousands of labor and progressive activists rallied for jobs, peace, and affordable education at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall. With little time to spare before the November elections, more than 400 org ...
  • Following protest, EPA board upholds finding that ...
    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 Appalachia Rising , a nationwide gathering of citizens organizing to end to the destructive form of coal mining that's ravaging mining communiti ...
  • 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 ...

Worldpress - Africa

Canadian Encyclopedia

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle conkers?
    Well, this isn’t so much as “reuse or recycle” question as saying “instead from leaving them there to rot, can conkers be used for anything fun or practical?” It is kinda a “reduce this” question too – can I reduce my use of something else by using conkers instead? I picked up some conkers on [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle silica gel crystal sach ...
    The other week when I asked how people make their home baked goods last longer, Dani suggested using little packets of silica gel crystals to a biscuit jar to draw the moisture away from the munchables. (I’ve heard rice can be used in the same way.) Dani’s comment got me thinking about other ways th ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle a wicker washing basket ...
    Over on the Suggest an Item page, Cate B asked: I have an old ali baba wicker laundry basket that is unravelling itself after years of use. Do you think I could grow potatoes in it and would I have to line it to stop soil falling out? If the wicker is made from natural [...]
  • What’s more important: less packaging or reu ...
    At one point during the cheese course thing at the weekend, the topic of conversation turned to packaging. For us hobbyist cheese makers, it’s not an issue but for the guy running the course and the woman hoping to set up a small scale cheese company, it’s an important thing to consider: balancing a ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle mouldy bread?
    We’ve had an email from Milly: I know about making breadcrumbs with stale bread but is there anything that can be done with bread that’s gone a bit mouldy? I don’t mean eat it of course but compost it? Obviously the best thing to do is avoid it going mouldy in the first place – [...]

Mondoweiss

  • Chicago faith leaders issue statement in support o ...
    Chicago anti-war and international solidarity activists whose homes were raided by the FBI last month publicly declared their decision to resist government intimidation and harassment today in Chicago.��The Chicago activists decided to invoke their Fifth Amendment right not to testify in front of a ...
  • Chicago group brings campaign to end US aid to Isr ...
    � Beginning yesterday, the Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine has posted signs like the one above in Chicago Transit Authority “el cars” for the next month. The campaign website explains:The “Be on Our Side” media and education project promotes a positive, productive U.S. policy tow ...
  • The latest entries for the Israel Project photo co ...
    We're helping to collect photos for the Israel Project's ‘Best Shots of Israel’ contest. Here are some more entries:� David Ehren sent the above photo to the Israel Project with the note, "I took this in Hebron last year. The flag, security camera, and machine gun nest, together with the national sl ...
  • Gideon Levy in NYC: Israel is ‘the only occu ...
    I was fortunate enough to see Gideon Levy speak on Tuesday at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. The discussion was organized to promote his new book, The Punishment of Gaza, which covers Israel’s policy and actions there from 2005 to 2009. While Levy told a numbe ...
  • What does effective solidarity with Palestinians l ...
    October 2nd couldn’t have been a more beautiful day for a rally. I had gotten on a bus at 11pm the night before to travel to Washington D.C. for the One Nation Working Together rally. Over 400 organizations endorsed the rally’s platform of Jobs, Justice and Education. By the end of the [...]

Media Consortium

  • New Voices: What Works
    A report on how to fund community-based journalism startups--worth a read!
  • Maximizing the Value of Digital Editions - Digital ...
    The iPad is a game changer and the release of other tablets in the future will continue to advance digital publishing. But it remains early days (a recent FOLIO: blog quoted editors of The New Yorker as saying "writing for the iPad is like producing TV after WWII") and the "traditional" digital edit ...
  • Putting the 'Ad' in iPad - Digital Editions @ Foli ...
    Some have referred to the current marketplace as the ‘golden age’ of online advertising, with the advent of 3G technology and the iPad craze. But the publishing industry seems to be missing out on at least part of what could be a $50 billion ad spend. Time spent with print media accounts for 12 perc ...
  • Building Mobile Newsstands and Subscription Models ...
    Good news for the magazine industry: Apple is developing a digital newsstand that would allow publishers to sell magazines across the iPad and possibly other Apple devices. The bad news: negotiations with Apple are anything but certain, and Apple’s insistence on controlling customer data could be ...
  • 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 ...

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 )

  • Nobel 2010: Chemistry prize awarded for catalysts ...
    In recent years, many chemists have grumbled that the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to people they've never heard of, for work that looks more like biology. This year's prize should please them, as it rewards some good old-fashioned organic chemistry. The award has gone to Richard H ...
  • Comet impacts recorded as ripples in Jupiter's rin ...
    Posted on behalf of Rick Lovett Mysterious ripples in Jupiter's rings, first observed when the Galileo spacecraft passed by in 1996, were caused by the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 into Jupiter in 1994, scientists reported on 5 October, at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Socie ...
  • Livestock growth could imperil planet
    Posted on behalf of Ewen Callaway. Humans' growing hunger for meat and dairy will gobble up natural resources and produce unsustainable amounts of greenhouse gases and nitrogen without changes in consumption, concludes a new projection of the global impacts of livestock in 2050. Though lacking ...
  • Nobel 2010: Graphene bags physics nobel
    Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov have won the 2010 Nobel prize in Physics for their experiments on graphene: atom-thick sheets of carbon atoms that have become the darling of physicists and materials scientists since the Nobellists created them in free-standing form six years ago. Touch-scree ...
  • Sanofi gets hostile in Genzyme takeover bid
    Sanofi-Aventis chief Chris Viehbacher has lived up to his threat: this morning the French drugmaker told investors he had launched a hostile takeover of Genzyme, a biotechnology company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This means Sanofi will try to bypass Genzyme's board of directors, whic ...

new geography

  • Decade of the Telecommute
    The rise in telecommuting is the unmistakable message of the just released 2009 American Community Survey data . The technical term is working at home, however the strong growth in this market is likely driven by telecommuting, as people use information technology and communications technology to pe ...
  • The Great Deconstruction: Competing Visions of the ...
    During the Great Recession, America’s wealth has diminished while indebtedness has increased. This is simply a matter of fact. How the United States will marshal its resources and deploy its wealth in the future is a matter of great public debate. Previous installments of the Great Deconstruction se ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • Passat BlueMotion Enters Record Books: Travels 1,5 ...
    This is impressive, but you don’t need to own a fancy car to improve mileage by slowing down: Slow down. Air resistance goes up as the square of velocity. The power consumed to overcome that air resistance goes up as the cube of the velocity. Rolling resistance is the dominant force below about 40 m ...
  • Reminder: Possible DX Support Ahead
    Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Gold is sharply higher today, with the spot metal reaching a new record high of $1342.30. Let’s look ahead a few days to a couple of weeks. Gold may pull back a bit if DX sees the support ahead, but the [...]
  • Super-Rich Investors Buy Gold by Ton
    Via: Reuters: The world’s wealthiest people have responded to economic worries by buying gold by the bar — and sometimes by the ton — and by moving assets out of the financial system, bankers catering to the very rich said on Monday. Fears of a double-dip downturn have boosted the appetite for physi ...
  • September Earnings
    Earnings in September came to a spectacular $1919.64. The U.S. Amazon commissions alone totaled $794.79, or a whisker under 80% of the monthly earnings goal of $1000. This was the best Amazon result ever. There were several unusually large purchases on Amazon in September; high end audio gear, expen ...
  • James Corbett: The Truth About Terrorism
    Research Credit: mja

The Economic Collapse

  • 12 Ominous Signs For World Financial Markets
    Can anyone explain the very strange behavior that we are seeing in world financial markets right now?  Corporate insiders are bailing out of the U.S. stock market at a very alarming rate.  Investors are moving mountains of money into gold and other commodities.  In fact, there is su ...
  • 11 Long-Term Trends That Are Destroying The U.S. E ...
    The U.S. economy is being slowly but surely destroyed and many Americans have no idea that it is happening.  That is at least partially due to the fact that most financial news is entirely focused on the short-term.  Whenever a key economic statistic goes up the financial markets su ...
  • Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations ...
    Back in 1983, approximately 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the United States.  Today, ownership of the news media has been concentrated in the hands of just six incredibly powerful media corporations.  These corporate behemoths control most of what ...
  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • Qatar’s massive shifting sand dunes contain biolog ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=390120&version=1&template_id=57&parent_id=56 Qatar study points way to taming the desert Arid regions make up about 41% of the earthâs land area and desertification puts 2bn of the worldâs ...
  • Project GreenHands has mobilized over 1 million pe ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/isha-foundations-project-greenhands-grasps-the-sport-for-the-environment-award-at-the-beyond-sport-summit-in-chicago-104266723.html Isha Foundation’s Project GreenHands Grasps the ‘Sport for the Environment’ Award at th ...
  • Environmentally-friendly sprays that help plants s ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100928171559.htm Growing Drought-Resistant Plants: Research Could Offer Alternative to Genetically-Engineered Crops to Combat Global Food Shortages ScienceDaily (Oct. 1, 2010) â New findings from Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) scientists ...
  • Researchers might be able to genetically alter pla ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101001105205.htm Could Genetically Altered Trees, Plants Help Counter Global Warming? ScienceDaily (Oct. 2, 2010) â Forests of genetically altered trees and other plants could sequester several billion tons of carbon from the atmosphere each y ...
  • Desert Rhubarb (Rheum palaestinum): a self-irrigat ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090701102904.htm World’s First ‘Self-Watering’ Desert Plant: Desert Rhubarb ScienceDaily (July 5, 2009) â Researchers from the Department of Science Education-Biology at the University of Haifa-Oranim have managed to make out the “self-irrigat ...

The Paper Trail

  • ENVIRONMENT: OSHA Says Inspection Program Fine-Tun ...
    An Occupational Safety and Health Administration program meant to ferret out employers that under report workplace injuries is honing its focus on more large manufacturing sites, the agency’s No.2 official told reporters today.
  • Recommended Reading – No Prosecutions, No Ex ...
    A roundup of recent news articles to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law
  • Non-Profit Led by Ex-Bush Official Criticizes Gov& ...
    While many of the independent groups trying to shape the outcome of the November election expressly endorse or criticize a candidate, some aim to highlight issues. Readers in both Grants Pass, Ore. and St. Paul, Minn. report seeing an independent ad run by BankruptingAmerica.org , a project paid for ...
  • MasterCard, Visa Settle Antitrust Case with DOJ; A ...
    Visa and MasterCard today agreed to sweeping changes that will allow merchants to offer discounts to customers who pay using the least-expensive credit and debit cards. The changes, announced in a Justice Department consent decree with the companies, could have far-reaching implications for consumer ...
  • 6 Digital Commandments for New Consumer Agency to ...
    The folks over at the Cambridge Winter Center -- a nonpartisan think tank that does its thinking about U.S. financial services policy -- have offered up a new paper that lays out "Six Commandments" to help the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau be successful in its first year.

backofthebook.ca

  • The Librocons’ favoured tax haven
    By Alison@Creekside A week ago Stephen Harper pledged to go after some 1,800 Canadian foreign bank accounts in Switzerland in a crackdown on off-shore tax evasion, amounting to an estimated $1 billion in lost federal tax revenues. The Cons -- tough on white collar crime. Meanwhile back in the ...
  • 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 ...

Worldnews

  • For Those Near, the Miserable Hum of Clean En ...
    VINALHAVEN, Me. — Like nearly all of the residents on this island in Penobscot Bay, Art Lindgren and his wife, Cheryl, celebrated the arrival of three giant wind turbines late last year. That was before they were turned on. AC = 1234 --> “In the first 10 minutes, our jaws dropped to the ground, ...
  • Shooters' medal spree: Gagan Narang, Anisa Sa ...
    Shooter Anisa Sayyed bagged the gold medal in the individual 25m pistols event on Wednesday. Rahi Sarnobat bagged the silver. Sarnobat and Sayyed together had bagged the gold in the 25m pairs event on Tuesday. Earlier, ace Indian rifle shooter Gagan Narang beat Olympic gold medallist...
  • Little difference between SIMI and RSS: Rahul ...
    In remarks that may trigger a controversy, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said he felt there was not much difference between the banned outfit SIMI and RSS...
  • Sensex soars in early trade
    Mumbai, October 06: A benchmark index of Indian equities on Wednesday shot up in early trade and was ruling 239 points higher within minutes of opening bell. The 30-share...
  • Mamata upset with people rebuffing Maoists ...
    Mumbai, October 06: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Tuesday alleged that Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee was demanding withdrawal of the joint forces from Maoist-affected areas in West Bengal as she was "upset" with people there for mobilising themselves against the Le ...

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Common Dreams

  • Sanders: GOPs 'Do Not Want Americans to Succeed'; ...
    by Bridget Johnson Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Sunday that Republicans "do not want Americans to succeed" in laying out his case for energizing the liberal base to go to the polls in November. Sanders, a self-proclaimed Democratic socialist who caucuses with Democrats, discussed President O ...
  • 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
  • Malaria Threatens 2 Million in Pakistan as Floodwa ...
    by Declan Walsh in Islamabad More than 2m cases of malaria are expected in Pakistan in the coming months in the wake of the country's devastating floods, aid workers have warned. Two months into the crisis, large areas remain submerged in southern Sindh province, creating stagnant pools of standing ...
  • Anti-War Activists Whose Homes Were Raided To Refu ...
    by Michael Tarm CHICAGO  - Anti-war activists whose homes or offices were raided as part of an FBI terrorism funding investigation will refuse to testify before a grand jury as ordered, in a show of defiance that could land them in jail. Attorneys for the 14 activists called to testify have coordin ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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Energy Collective

  • Locking In Gas Prices
    I recently received an offer from my household natural gas supplier, Washington Gas, to lock in my gas purchases for the next 12 months at a price of $0.699/therm. They reminded me that I had paid as much as $0.96/therm and as little as $0.68/therm over the last 12 months, before distribution charge ...
  • The Obama White House Goes Solar
    Energy Sec Steven Chu & CEQ Chair Nancy Sutley announcing White House plan to "go solar" (Photo: William Atkins, the George Washington University)
  • The Tianjin Climate Talks: A Dose of "Conventiona ...
    At the outset of this new round of UN climate negotiations in Tianjin, it seems that no high-level speech is complete without a dose of traditional Chinese wisdom.  The UNFCCC Executive Secretary, Christiana Figueres, sprinkled proverbs in her speeches throughout the first day.
  • Renewables provide 11.14% of US energy
    The US Energy Information Administration reports that renewable energy sources provided 11.14% of the nation’s electricity from January to June of 2010.
  • When bad economics and climate science collide
    One of my favorite economists, Stephen DeCanio, has a good piece at Real Climate Economics, reprinted below.  In addition to his many awards and publications, DeCanio was Senior Staff Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1986 to 1987.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

  • This is Keith Dayton's Fatah's fiefdom
    by Khalid Amayreh The United States and to a lesser extent Europe never stop praising the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA) regime. Indeed, upon hearing the never-ending commendations of the Ramallah Junta, one would think that "the police-state without a state" is a paragon of good governa ...
  • AN ARMY TOO NEAR THE EDGE
    By Gordon Duff "THE SUICIDE BLUES ARE BREAKIN' UP THAT OLE GAME O' MINE" They always march off to war, fanfare, flags, speeches, parades. There's always an enemy, an evildoer, torpedo boats in the Tonkin Gulf or mystery airplanes and dissolving buildings in Manhattan. The "armchair pundits" and " ...
  • In Defense of Christian Nonviolence – The Pe ...
    by Gary G. Kohls, M.D. Pastor Lon Weaver wrote a fine editorial, titled “Christian history has its own sins” in a recent Sunday edition of the Duluth News-Tribune. In the essay he lamented the fact that there was so much unfair, blanket demonizing of Muslims from self-righteous Christians who conv ...
  • A CONVERSATION WITH ROBERT WYATT ABOUT CULTURAL RE ...
    By Gilad Atzmon From River to Pond The legendary British music icon Robert Wyatt is a big supporter of Palestine. A few days ago he came down to London to promote For the Ghosts Within (Wyatt/ Stephen/Atzmon, Domino Records), a new album we produced together with violinist Ros Stephen. We had a ...
  • We Need an Alternative to the Democrats and GOP
    By Timothy V. Gatto When I attended the One Nation Rally on October 2, I was gratified that the public has become so aware of the corporate control that has gripped both political parties. The graft, the campaign financing using practices such as “bundling” donations, the offers of employment at lo ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • What we're reading: Spark
    Here at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, we’re voracious readers.� Our latest favourite is Frank Koller's Spark (2010), from Public Affairs Books. CCPA Research Associate Jim Stanford’s read on it: This extremely readable book was written by Frank Koller -- one of the most thoughtfu ...
  • Coincidence? Indigo-sponsored survey concludes par ...
    A new commentary by Erika Shaker asks whether an Ipsos Reid poll indicating overwhelming public support for corporate sponsorship of public school libraries has anything to do with the sponsor of the poll: Indigo Books.� Click here to read about the campaign.
  • 3rd Annual CCPA-NS Fundraiser with Judy Rebick a h ...
    Our 3rd Annual Fundraiser held at the Italian Centre last Thursday night (Sept 23) with Judy Rebick was a wonderful sold-out event. We want to thank everyone who bought tickets and our table sponsors for their generous contributions. Great food and a great speaker! Using the backdrop of a photograp ...
  • Ending Government Stimulus, The Irish Experience
    The federal government seems hell-bent on stopping stimulus spending on April 1st 2011 even if it means saddling municipalities with unpaid bills and hobbling the already weak recovery. �The Irish experience may be instructive. �Ireland is even more committed to stopping stimulus spending. �Unfortun ...
  • What we're reading: The Spirit Level
    Here at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, we’re voracious readers. Find out what we’re reading. The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett Penguin 2009 � CCPA-BC Senior Economist Marc Lee’s read on it : � When I first heard the ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Nuke Plants Next Target?
    Suspected al-Qaida terrorist’s access to nuclear plants prompts increased security | Penn Live Nuclear power plants are beefing up security checks on workers following a report by the Nuclear Regulatory Commissionâs Office of Inspector General, according to NRC spokesman Neil Sheehan. The report w ...
  • Trump for Prez?
    Donald Trump ’seriously’ considering running for president in 2012 | NY Post Donald Trump said today he’s “seriously” considering running for the presidency in 2012. “For the first time in my life, I’m actually thinking about it [running for president],” Trump told Fox News Channel. He added, “I see ...
  • White House To Become Green House?
    White House to install rooftop solar panels | CNET The White House residences will run with the aid of solar power, the Obama administration said today. Solar panels are scheduled to be installed on the roof of the White House Residence by the spring next year to provide hot water and electricity to ...
  • Wall Street Madam: CEOs, Bankers Used Corporate Cr ...
    ABC: Wall street lawyers, investment bankers, CEOs and media executives often used corporate credit cards to pay for $2,000 an hour prostitutes, according to the madam who ran one of New York’s biggest and most expensive escort services until it was busted last year.
  • Bridging The Enthusiasm Gap
    How pervasive is Democratic dissatisfaction? | Salon I understand that some people who hold themselves out as “journalists” are going to be Party loyalists and apparatchiks whose overarching goal is to dutifully serve Party officials. Still, just for the sake of credibility and efficacy if nothing ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • “This October has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and ...
    Well, isn’t that an amazing little factoid? I read that on line and did what everyone else did, passed it along to delight and edify my readers. And it’s posted all over the Internet, often with dozens of comments and jokes about how cool it is and how it’s a great month to enjoy the [...]
  • 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 [...]

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Oil Infrastructure and Terrorism – Part I
    Join the forum discussion on this post In light of the recent attacks by militants on tankers carrying oil for NATO and U.S. troops, the series that I am posting this week is especially timely. When we consider the dependence of the U.S. and the western world on the Middle East, the potential for t ...
  • 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 ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • [video] Rock In Peace, Isola Fenice Act 2
    Comments: Videomessaggio e lettura dell’appello del Comitato Diritto alla Salute di Lavello (Pz) agli Assessori all’Ambiente e alla Salute della Regione Basilicata sulle morti e l’inquinamento ambientale del Vulture - Alto Bradano. - OLA Channel Tags: basilicata , fenice , lavello , melfi , acqua , ...
  • Collaboration Tools | 15 Free Online Collaboration ...
    Comments: Several of these 15 free collaboration websites are rather interesting and new to me. - Dean Mantz Tags: Resources , education , collaboration , tools , web2.0 , apps , productivity , web by: Dean Mantz
  • Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Top ...
    Comments: Create digital comics using 1 of these 10 options. - Dean Mantz Tags: comics , technology , digital , learning , comicbooks , literacy , education , teaching by: Dean Mantz
  • CSD-iAchieve
    Tags: ipodtouch , ipod , iachieve , Creightonschools , resources , apps by: Dean Mantz
  • 7 Simple Rapid E-Learning Tips & Free PowerPoint T ...
    Tags: PowerPoint , elearning , Presentations by: Tim Childers

Rodale News

  • 5 Recipes for Robust, Antioxidant-Rich Oregano
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Though aromatic oregano is most often associated with pizza, there are many culinary traditions around the Mediterranean and the Middle East that honor this herb. You may want to start doing so, too, not only as a matter of taste, but also for the many health benefits of ore ...
  • 7 Unexpected Children's Health Threats Hidden in Y ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The entire month of October is Children's Health Month , and this year the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is urging parents to focus on environmental hazards that could spell trouble for children's health. Some are obvious and well-known hazards, such as rado ...
  • Play Soccer? Do This to Avoid Injury
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Soccer is booming in popularity here in the United States, and with it comes more soccer-related injuries. Now, if you're someone who thinks soccer isn't much of a contact sport, think again. A New Zealand study published this month in the American Journal of Sports Medicine ...
  • How to Escape the Loneliness Epidemic
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—It hurts to feel lonely. But loneliness is more than a psychological discomfort. Researchers believe that, like thirst and hunger, loneliness alerts us that we’re low on something essential and prompts us to relieve our discomfort by seeking what we lack—in this case, human ...
  • How Common is Genetically Altered Food? Go GMO-Fre ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Numerous polls and studies from The New York Times to Consumers Union have showed that Americans don't want genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our food supply. Yet biotechnology firms have pushed them so vigorously that GMOs are in roughly 80 percent of the packaged fo ...

big think

  • Former Court Official Confesses to Rape of Teen Pr ...
    Here's a horrific miscarriage of justice: Tony Simmons, a former counselor in the New York City juvenile justice system, pleaded guilty to raping a handcuffed 15-year-old girl in the elevator of the Manhattan Family Courthouse, and sexually assaulting two other teenagers in his custody. He was ... R ...
  • How Meditation Reshapes Your Brain
    In 2006, filmmaker David Lynch—a poet of the sublimely bizarre and the surreally normal— wrote a book on transcendental meditation . Describing his experience, he writes: "It takes you to an ocean of pure consciousness, pure knowingness. But it's familiar; it's you . And right away a sense of happin ...
  • Heavy Artillery: Ab Ex-travaganza at the MoMA
    When the Cold War ran red hot, the United States government reached for any weapon available against the “Red Menace.” It’s hard to believe today, when federal funding for the arts is so tight, but in the 1950s the powers that be used art to fight the ideological war against Communism. Looking for a ...
  • To the Victors Go the Orgasms, Says Study on Post- ...
    Basketball games, elections and other head-to-head contests seem to affect the testosterone of people who care about them. Some studies have found that testosterone production goes down in fans of the losing side (for example, among male McCain supporters after the 2008 Presidential vote ). And ... ...
  • A Library For Guantanamo
    Give them stories. Let them read Henry James, Edith Wharton, Sherwood Anderson, Theodor Dreiser. Let them read Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald . And Styron, Roth, Didion, Bellow, Franzen. Open the treasure chest of the finest American authors, and let the prisoners at Guantanamo have access to ...

Information Liberation

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Is Cancún Still Happening?
    I ask this because I have read precisely zero about it lately in all the mainstream media. Even the Wikipedia article on it is confined to four terse paragraphs. I get the impression governments, business and the MSM have pretty … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

FAS - Secrecy News

  • Army Seeks Increased Awareness of Subversion, Leak ...
    A U.S. Army regulation (pdf) issued yesterday requires Army personnel to report any incident on a newly expanded list of possible indications of “espionage, international terrorism, sabotage, subversion” as well as “leaks to the media.” “The Army is a prime target for foreign intelligence and intern ...
  • Operation Dark Heart: The Aftermath
    The Pentagon’s heavy-handed attempt to censor the new Afghanistan war memoir “Operation Dark Heart” by Anthony Shaffer has predictably turned a volume of narrow, specialized interest into a mainstream bestseller. It has also focused attention on just what information the government was seeking to co ...
  • The Helium-3 Shortage, and More from CRS
    Noteworthy new reports from the Congressional Research Service include the following (all pdf). “The Helium-3 Shortage: Supply, Demand, and Options for Congress,” September 21, 2010. “China’s Steel Industry and Its Impact on the United States: Issues for Congress,” September 21, 2010. “Authority of ...
  • 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 ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2010
    Watch the announcement of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Chemistry live: Winners: Heck, Negishi, Suzuki – carbon coupling (real chemistry). Three chemical reactions of major importance. Given that a chemical won the Physics prize this year, perhaps it will be something entirely physical that wins chemistr ...
  • Blood pressure anxiety
    Is it a sign of hypochondria to get white coat syndrome when measuring your own blood pressure? I asked this question on my personal Facebook page as a little joke with a hint of seriousness. My doctor and I are currently re-evaluating my blood pressure medicine, and I have been instructed to keep t ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • Estimating Marginal Cost of Quality Improvements: ...
    University of Cambridge, Electricity Policy Research Group / Tooraj Jamasb, Luis Orea and Michael G. Pollitt http://tinyurl.com/39c7c6w Abstract: The main aim of this paper is to develop an econometric approach to estimation of marginal costs of improving quality of service. We implement this method ...
  • EPA Toxics Release Inventory Program: 2009 Invento ...
    EPA Toxics Release Inventory Program http://www.epa.gov/tri/tridata/preliminarydataset/index.html From program homepage and dataset website:  The Toxics Release Inventory Program compiles the TRI data on toxic chemical releases and waste management activities reported annually by certain industries ...
  • Novel indicators of the trade and welfare effects ...
    World Bank Policy Research Paper WPS 5404 / Kym Anderson and Johanna Croser http://tinyurl.com/2vzfzys Summary:  Agricultural markets in OECD countries have long been highly distorted by government policies. Traditional weighted average aggregates of the price distortions involved, such as producer ...
  • Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey: Co ...
    DOE, Energy Information Administration http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cbecs/contents.html From report home page:  The Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) is a national sample survey that collects information on the stock of U.S. commercial buildings, their energy-related building cha ...
  • Census of Marine Life
    Census of Marine Life, Office of Marine Programs, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography http://tinyurl.com/3ypd7ze In the late 1990s, leading marine scientists shared their concerns that humanity’s understanding of what lives in the oceans lagged far behind our desire and need ...

Scientific American - News

  • Nobel Prize in Chemistry Honors Technique For Synt ...
    The 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Richard Heck of the University of Delaware, Ei-ichi Negishi of Purdue University and Akira Suzuki of Hokkaido University in Japan for developing chemical reactions that enable the building of complex organic compounds with wide application in medicine ...
  • A surge in CT and MRI Scans Has Not Boosted Diagno ...
    As medical imaging technology has increased in sophistication and accessibility over the past decade, it is little wonder that the number of scans has also been on the rise. [More]
  • Graphene Researchers Geim and Novoselov Win Nobel ...
    The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to two research pioneers working on graphene, a material that could have myriad high-tech applications, which they first produced by decidedly low-tech means. Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, both of the University of Manchester in England, won ...
  • How Wind Turbines Affect Your (Very) Local Weather
    The giant wind turbines cropping up on ridges, shorelines and other windy locales across the world affect more than the wind--they are also changing local temperatures, notes a new study. That's likely because the enormous blades chop up the incoming wind and thereby more thoroughly mix different ...
  • 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 ...

RAWA News

  • An Excess of Corruption and a Deficit of Toilets: ...
    RAWA News: Afghanistan might be characterized as having a paucity of toilets and an excess of corruption. These two aspects capture the post-Taliban essence of the country. The “achievements” of Hamid Karzai the de facto mayor of Kabul, the United States and NATO in Afghanistan after more than eight ...
  • Afghan Media Freedoms Erode
    The Wall Street Journal: President Hamid Karzai's government is taking a series of steps to chip away at the country's media freedoms, one of Afghanistan's few success stories since the Taliban regime's downfall nine years ago. In the past week, the government ordered the shutdown of Benawa.com, a p ...
  • Laghman civilian deaths spark protest
    PAN: Protestors in eastern Laghman province said on Saturday civilians were also among 30 people killed in an ongoing coalition operation in the Alishang district. More than 250 Afghan army, police and coalition personnel conducted the air assault in the Alishang district on Friday after they came u ...
  • UK defence chiefs silent on Afghan civilian deaths ...
    The Guardian: The Ministry of Defence yesterday refused to disclose any details of its investigations into the shooting of innocent civilians by troops in Afghanistan. This follows the disclosure in the Guardian of the existence of 21 separate such cases which have apparently been covered up. The ca ...
  • Twin blasts injure 19 in E. Afghanistan
    Xinhua: Two bomb blasts in a span of few minutes in Jalalabad city, the capital of Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, Wednesday night left 19 people injured, provincial administration spokesman said Thursday.

frogblog

  • What would you spend the fuel tax on?
    So, you might have missed it in all the fuss about GST but the government tax on petrol rose by 3 cents/litre on of the 1st of October. I wouldn’t mind paying this increase if it was going to improve our rail, bus, walking and cycling options. But instead it will mainly be used to ...
  • More questions than answers over ACC cost shifting
    A couple of months ago, following ACC Minister Nick Smith’s u-turn on counselling for ACC sexual abuse claimants, I called for an independent review of the wide-ranging cutbacks to ACC imposed by the Government. I have now asked some questions about people being moved from ACC to welfare benefits. ...
  • Employment inspiration in Mental Health Awareness ...
    This morning I attended a very positive event in Thames hosted by the Like Minds Like Mine team from Te Korowai Hauora O Hauraki. It was a breakfast for employers to network with agencies like Workwise and Workbridge on the theme of the benefits of employing people with impairments. ...
  • Trade Me joins the fight to protect rainforest!
    You may recall back in May, I and a group of NGOs went to Trade Me to ask them to stop the sale of unsustainably and illegally logged kwila furniture and decking on their site. Today we have great news! Since then Trade Me have worked with us to change their rules, so that all new d ...
  • 23 things they don’t tell you about capitali ...
    Ha-Joon Chang writes in his latest book: Economists are not some innocent technicians who did a decent job within the narrow confines of their expertise until they were collectively wrong-footed by a once-in-a-century disaster that no one could have predicted. Far from being an inwa ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • AfPak Update
    Today's war news: Afghan president Hamid Karzai is apparently trying to run the entire country with members of his extended family. Obama is finally getting serious about dealing with the Taliban, but Pakistan continues to undermine talks. A new administration report says bluntly th ...
  • 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 ...
  • Yet Another Palin Feud
    Politico reports that Sarah Palin is already feuding with Obama's new chief of staff, Pete Rouse. That's no surprise, I guess. Is there anyone who's ever lived in the state of Alaska that Palin doesn't have a grudge against? But this is truly looking glass territory: Palin appears to have been n ...
  • ACA Once Again Working As Intended
    Stephen Spruiell writes: Janet Adamy of the Wall Street Journal has become the administration’s worst nightmare — a writer for a major newspaper who calmly, straightforwardly, without spin or bias, reports on the unintended consequences of Obamacare as they unfold. Oh for chrissake. Another "u ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 1 October 2010
    I have fresh new pictures of the furballs this week. Unfortunately, it's been pretty hot in Southern California this week, which means the cats were even more lethargic than usual. Basically, they roused themselves briefly when they heard food being dumped in the food bowl, and then immediately conk ...

Insanity Report

  • FacePalm of the Week: No Officer…That’s Not My Cr ...
    Remember when Paris Hilton was arrested for cocaine possession?  She tried to claim that the purse wasn’t her’s even though her credit cards and money  (everything minus the crack) were hers.  We all got a great laugh at how stupid it sounded right?  Well Raymond Roberts has decided to do one be ...
  • 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

e!Science News

  • Light drinking during pregnancy does not harm chil ...
    Light drinking during pregnancy does not harm a young child's behavioural or intellectual development, reveals research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health . read more
  • New fossil suggests dinosaurs not so fierce after ...
    A new species of dinosaur discovered in Arizona suggests dinosaurs did not spread throughout the world by overpowering other species, but by taking advantage of a natural catastrophe that wiped out their competitors. read more
  • Oldest evidence of dinosaurs found in Polish footp ...
    The oldest evidence of the dinosaur lineage—fossilized tracks—is described this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society B . Just one or two million years after the massive Permian-Triassic extinction, an animal smaller than a house cat walked across fine mud in what is now Poland. This fossilized t ...
  • Persistently noisy workplace more than doubles hea ...
    A persistently noisy workplace more than doubles an employee's risk of serious heart disease, suggests research published online in Occupational and Environmental Medicine . read more
  • Limited number of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotyp ...
    Contrary to current thinking, the group of serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae responsible for most invasive pneumococcal disease worldwide is conserved across regions. Streptococcus pneumoniae is the leading bacterial cause of pneumonia, sepsis, and meningitis in children, which together compris ...

unEarthed

  • Something's Cooking Under West Virginia's Surface
    Geothermal project at The Geysers West Virginia is synonymous with coal mining, but a new study suggests the Mountain State is also a prime location for geothermal energy production. A subsurface map produced by Southern Met ...
  • Stranded Convoys in Afghanistan Spark Push for Ren ...
    You may have seen pictures of hundreds of huge fuel transport trucks stranded on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The border was closed by the Pakistani government following a drone attack that killed several suspect ...
  • The Latest Yin and Yank Over World Carbon Emission ...
    We are all familiar with the North-South divide that prevented agreement on a new climate treaty at Copenhagen last year. Relying on the principles of "Common But Differentiated Responsibility," the developing countries led by ...
  • It's Back to Solar Future for Obama White House
    What's the chance that President Obama was inspired by Tom Turner's blog item a few weeks ago, in which Tom noted that Obama's folks refused to re-install solar panels on the White House? Put up by President Jimmie Carter, the p ...
  • Monday Reads: The Bear vs. Zucchini Edition
    The zucchini. Image provided by the Missoula County Sheriff's Office Bears, you’ve had it tough this past year. Out in Yellowstone, the grizzly members of the family are being thwarted by voracious mountain pine beetles, wh ...

Brave New Climate

  • IFR FaD 8 – Two TV documentaries and a new f ...
    Want to know more about the Integral Fast Reactor technology from the comfort of your lounge room chair? Then these two fascinating videos, recently transcoded and uploaded by Steve Kirsch to the “ifr.blp.tv” website, are for you. You can watch online, or download in .MP4 format (choose the format a ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Building An Army In Somalia, Teaching It To Fight
    European soldiers are training 2,000 Somalis to help build a national army to defend a weak, Western-backed government in Mogadishu, Somalia. Here, a European soldier participates in the training of a Somali recruit at a training camp in remote Uganda.
  • Just Creepy: The Ratcar!
    A strange creature, half robot, half rat, has been seen scuttling across a laboratory in Japan. It's RatCar, a rat-vehicle experiment that scientists hope could lead to improved mobility for people with disabilities.
  • Oopsie!:Barclays Bank Barclaycard System Glitch Di ...
    Back in August, Barclays Bank, Europe's sixth largest bank by market value, suffered a power outage that kept its customers from accessing the bank's ATM machines or their bank accounts. Barclays said that the outage lasted twenty minutes, although its impact was felt for most of the day. Since the ...
  • Pot raid at school turns up tomatoes
    Police last month raided an Espa�ola-area school looking for marijuana growing in a greenhouse, but all they found there were tomatoes.
  • In Some States, Incarcerated Kids Get Drugged to A ...
    Most states, when surveyed, either could not or would not demonstrate that they were even monitoring the use of these drugs on incarcerated juveniles, Youth Today reported. Of the 34 states that provided no answers when queried, 16 refused to answer.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • The Qantas Media Awards, TVNZ and reporting on Ira ...
    Summary: Misleading media reporting is fuelling misperceptions of Iran, and even the BSA has recently backed me in that claim. source: Pundit read more
  • New Poll Finds Little Support for War with Iran
    Summary: It may be a hot campaign topic, but Laura Rozen reports that when asked by CBS's News Election and Survey Unit, "Which would cause you to support a U.S. war with Iran?" just two in ten Americans would go to war if Iran either tested a nuclear weapon or attacked Israel. source: Before ...
  • Iran Self-Sufficient in Gasoline Output, Begins Ex ...
    Summary: Iran, which aims to counter U.S. sanctions by halting gasoline imports and supply its own needs, has started exporting the fuel, the Oil Ministry said. source: Bloomberg read more
  • U.S. Hypocritical Imposition of Sanctions On 8 Ira ...
    Summary: US signs Iran sanctions Until the United States puts its own house in order, it does not have the moral authority to chastise others for human rights abuses. Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. source: Opednews.com read more
  • After years of animosity, Iran, Egypt talk peace
    Summary: Cairo: Egypt and Iran, considered on not-very-friendly terms for three decades, are making moves towards economic rapprochement and cooperation. The two countries are exchanging delegations to discuss means to take business and economic ties forward. An Iranian delegation headed by the ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • "Will the Physics of Graphene Show the Space-Time ...
    Space-time -that plastic fabric whose geometry can be changed by the gravity of stars, planets and matter - may be no more than a mirage, according to Peter Horava. Horava, who is at the University of California, Berkeley, wants to...
  • Dark Matter Found Key to Birth of Galaxies
    Researchers using supercomputer simulations have exposed a very violent and critical relationship between interstellar gas and dark matter when galaxies are born -- one that has been largely ignored by the current model of how the universe evolved. The findings,...
  • Graphene Carbon (The Basis of All Life on Earth) P ...
    The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics yesterday to University of Manchester professors Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for their work isolating graphene from graphite and identifying its behavior. Graphene, a one-atom thick sheet of...
  • Supercomputer Simulations Unravel Mystery of How R ...
    A research team led by Jeremy Smith, who directs the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Center for Molecular Biophysics used molecular dynamics simulation to probe an organic chemical reaction that may have been important in the evolution of...
  • Image of the Day: A Phantom-like Void in Space
    Why the unsettling phantom-like black space in the fabric of the universe? What used to be considered a void in the sky is now known to astronomers as a dark molecular cloud - a high concentration of dust and molecular...

Natural News

  • Genetically engineered salmon, if approved by FDA, ...
    (NaturalNews) As the world awaits the FDA's decision on whether to approve genetically modified salmon as "safe enough" to allow into the food supply, it seems that not enough people in the existing fishing industries have really thought this through. As you'll see here, approval of GE salmon could ...
  • You don't have to hurt as you age! Eat broccoli an ...
    (NaturalNews) Over 21 million people in the U.S. alone suffer from the most common form of arthritis -- osteoarthritis. Primarily associated with growing older, the condition is marked by the wearing away of cartilage, the cushioning between the bones in the joints. As osteoarthritis gets worse, the ...
  • Help manage stress, blood pressure with walnuts
    (NaturalNews) Nuts in general are a great whole food packed with protein, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, fats and other important nutrients that the body needs to maintain good health. And a new study out of Pennsylvania State University (PSU) further confirms this, having found that walnuts -- and wa ...
  • Government collusion in human medical experiments ...
    (NaturalNews) It used to be that when you talked about Big Government conspiring with Big Pharma to use human beings as guinea pigs in bizarre medical experiments, people would look at you as if you were some kind of loon. "Oh, the American government would never do that," they'd say, smug in their ...
  • Big Pharma hired ghostwriters to distort truth abo ...
    (NaturalNews) When medical journals and journal supplements publish scientific information about drug research, you know the information has been carefully reviewed and is accurate and factual, right? Wrong. It has now been documented that Big Pharma has literally paid writers to twist the truth abo ...

Threat Level

  • Secret-Spilling Sources at Risk Following Cryptome ...
    Secret-spilling site Cryptome was hacked over the weekend, possibly exposing the identities of whistleblowers and other confidential sources, according to a hacker who contacted Wired.com and claimed responsibility for the breach. The hacker said two intruders from the group Kryogeniks breached the ...
  • Voting System Pwned by Michigan Wolverines
    It’s a win for the University of Michigan Wolverines, . . . if not for anyone else. After election officials in Washington, D.C., egged on hackers to have a go at their new internet voting system, they did just that. The result was Michigan’s fight song “Hail to the Victors” played to voters after ...
  • Stop. Think. Create a Better DHS Cybersecurity Slo ...
    The Department of Homeland Security kicked off its new computer security campaign called “Stop. Think. Connect.” on Monday as part of National Cyber Security Awareness month. Computer security is a nice thing and having more of it is good, but “Stop. Think. Connect.” easily counts as one of the mos ...
  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Conservatives Proclaim Year of the Black Republica ...
    This spring, the New York Times , the Washington Post , The Week and The Grio (among others) pointed to the new crop of African-American GOP candidates and pondered, " 2010: The year of the black Republican? " And on Sunday, RealClearPolitics contributor Jack Kelly touted the candidacies of Tim Sco ...
  • Christine O'Donnell Channels Linda Tripp, Declares ...
    This week, Delaware Republican Senate candidate and sworn enemy of masturbation Christine O'Donnell unveiled a new ad declaring, " I'm you ." But if that formula to reposition herself as an average American sounds hauntingly familiar, it should. After all, it was Linda Tripp , opposed as she was t ...
  • For Tea Party, Being Loud the Next Best Thing to B ...
    By some estimates, the progressive One Nation Working Together march in Washington drew twice the audience of the Tea Party conclave on August 28th. But when it comes to media coverage, there's no comparison. While the massive gathering of 400 union, church and other progressive groups barely regi ...
  • 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 ...

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

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

Unexplained Mysteries

  • UFO sparks airport chaos in China
    A Chinese airport had to be closed last month to avoid collisions with an alleged UFO. A mysterious bright light was sighted in close proximity to the...
  • ET contact game plan detailed
    Experts have devised a game plan to determine how we should go about first contact with aliens. The International Academy of Astronautics' SETI Perman...
  • Human waste used to power homes
    A new project by Centrica is aiming to turn ordinary human household waste in to renewable gas. The process involves the sewage being broken down by b...
  • Newly discovered planet "just right" for life
    An Earth-like planet only 20 light years away has been tipped as having the perfect conditions for life. Known as Gliese 581g, the planet is the right...
  • Giant airships could carry whole buildings
    Australian firm Skylifter is developing an airship that could carry huge loads hundreds of miles. The technology could one day enable emergancy field ...

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 6, 2010
    U.S. Says Climate Talks Failing to Make Headway (Reuters)  The U.S. said on Wednesday U.N. climate talks were making less progress than hoped, with a rift over poorer nations' emission goals, and that other avenues might be needed to tackle climate change. Europe, Asia Call for Urgent 'B ...
  • October 5, 2010
    China Says Climate Talks Must Tackle Rich CO2 Cuts (Reuters) Greenhouse gas cuts vowed by rich nations remain far from enough to escape dangerous global warming, a top Chinese climate official said on Tuesday, urging climate talks to confront the shortfall. Delegates Told to ID Achievab ...
  • 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 ...

GreenBiz

  • Sustainable Innovation
    �Flooring company InterfaceFLOR shares seven lessons it has learned as it works toward having zero impact by 2020.
  • Humans Caused $6.6 Trillion in Environmental Damag ...
    A new report uses data from Trucost to find that the cost of environmental damage equaled 11 percent of Gross Domestic Product, and was 20 percent larger than pension fund losses from the financial crisis.
  • Bridging the Gap Between Green Business Research a ...
    The Network for Business Sustainability, based at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, has as its mission bringing the most pressing questions on sustainability to the research agenda -- and feeding the results back into practice.
  • Molson Coors Workers Pledge to Save 700K Gallons o ...
    During Molson Coors Brewing Company's second annual Water Stewardship Month, employees in three countries participated in volunteer work and the company launched an online tool to help employees conserve water at home. �
  • 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.

Reuters Global

  • Will China make the world green?
    Joscka Fischka, former German foreign minister and Green Party leader, reckons China will force Green policies on the world economy.
  • America takes the war deeper into Pakistan
    A series of incursions by NATO helicopters into Pakistan along with a sharp rise in missile strikes by an unmanned drone aircraft has set America and its conflicted ally Pakistan on a collision course.
  • 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 ...

Booman Tribune

  • The Republican House of Horrors
    One of the odd things about the current crop of Republicans is that they're all scoundrels to one degree or another. Now, I expect a bit of questionable history from politicians who work their way up the ranks from the school board to the state legislature to Congress. You have to make and keep a ...
  • Alarmed Observation
    We are so screwed.
  • Appealing to Swing-Voters
    Mike Lux lays down some truth: In Washington, being a moderate means being for raising the retirement age and cutting benefits for Social Security. In the rest of America, fighting to preserve Social Security is a huge plus for voters. In Washington, being a moderate means being for "free trade" ...
  • I Hate Republicans
    Why do we have to put up with this crap? A bill introduced by Sen. Don White, R-Indiana, would prohibit private health insurance plans sold in Pennsylvania's state "exchange" -- created under the new federal health care law -- from offering abortions and require rape victims to report the crime w ...
  • Donate Some Time
    One of our saving graces this year might be the increase in early voting. I was watching MSNBC this morning and they were suggesting that early voting helps the Republicans because they tend to vote early more often than Democrats and they have more enthusiasm. That's nonsense. The bigger the ele ...

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Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Providing Follow-Up Mental Health Care for Suicida ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline For many adolescents who struggle with thoughts of suicide, their first step toward getting mental health care is not by finding a therapist or counselor to talk to, but rather admission to the emergency department of a hospital. For teens admitted to the ER, 30% are ...
  • German City Lowers Suicide Rate through Public Awa ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline In 2003 Regensburg, Germany, had the highest depression and suicide rates of any city in that country. To attempt to change this statistic, the city partnered with the German Alliance Against Depression on a community education and public awareness campaign. The depre ...
  • Permission to Exist Part I: The Guilt of Getting B ...
    By Darren Haber, MFT, Addictions & Compulsions Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Darren and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile I’ve been surprised in my clinical work by the phenomena of guilt in relation to becoming psychologically healthier within a dysfunctional or codependent relati ...
  • Marriage/Couples Counseling
    By Kelly Gorsky, LMHC, CCP Click here to contact Kelly and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Many couples come into marriage counseling or couples counseling with numerous uncertainties, however they all have one common theme: an expectation. An expectation, an unrealistic expectation, a hope that ...
  • Who is in the Driver’s Seat of Your Life?
    By Inge Dean, MS LMFT, Life Purpose/Meaning/Inner Guidance Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Inge and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Who’s driving your life? We make decisions everyday. Decisions that effect the directions of our life and how we feel about it. If asked why we did ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Thousands to Converge in DC to Call For End to Mou ...
    Thousands to Converge in DC to Call For End to Mountaintop Removal Common Dreams (press release) 27 for 'Appalachia Rising,' the largest national protest to demand the end to mountaintop removal coal mining. Appalachia Rising is being led by citizens of ... Mainers urged to help stop mountaintop re ...
  • Gov. Manchin expected to sue EPA over efforts by O ...
    RTT News Gov. Manchin expected to sue EPA over efforts by Obama to reduce mountaintop ... Charleston Gazette (blog) This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at 6:58 pm and is filed under Legal actions, Mountaintop Removal , Politics. You can follow any responses ... Manchin expected to sue ...
  • Drew protests mountaintop removal - Acorn
    Capitol News Connection Drew protests mountaintop removal Acorn Mountaintop removal is the method of surface strip-mining that involves the demolition of mountains to expose thin deposits of coal beneath the sedimentary ... Appalachian Activists Protest Mountain Top Removal Mining Capitol News Conn ...
  • Healthcare Wednesday - The Hill (blog)
    Healthcare Wednesday The Hill (blog) Mountaintop removal mining — in which companies blast away mountain peaks and push the debris into adjacent streams — is popular in Appalachia, ...
  • Manchin expected to sue EPA over mining permits - ...
    Manchin expected to sue EPA over mining permits Charleston Gazette Cecil Underwood and helped the state win an appeal of a ruling by the late US District Judge Charles H. Haden that would have limited mountaintop removal . ...

Memeorandum

  • Daschle: Public Option 'Taken Off The Table' ... ( ...
    Igor / Wonk Room : Daschle: Public Option ‘Taken Off The Table’ In July Due To ‘Understanding People Had With Hospitals’   —  Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD)'s new book Getting It Done: How Obama and Congress Finally Broke the Stalemate To Make Way for Health Care Reform comes o ...
  • Internal Email Suggests Palin to Run for President ...
    AKMuckraker / The Mudflats : Internal Email Suggests Palin to Run for President   —  ~Sarah Palin addresses the Conservative Patriots Group rally in Wasilla, Alaska on 9/11/10  —  by Jeanne Devon  —  It has long been speculated that former Alaska governor and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Pali ...
  • After Firefighters Watched Home Burn, Obion County ...
    Zaid Jilani / Think Progress : After Firefighters Watched Home Burn, Obion County Expands Subscription-Only Fire Service To More Towns   —  As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, South Fulton Fire Department firefighters from Obion, Tennessee, last week stood by and watched as a family's home burned ...
  • TRENDING: Obama-Clinton ticket 'on the table,' Woo ...
    CNN : TRENDING: Obama-Clinton ticket ‘on the table,’ Woodward says   —  (CNN) - Some called a Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton pairing the “Dream Ticket” in 2008.  It didn't happen.  —  But what about 2012?  —  “It's on the table,” veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward told CNN's John King in a ...
  • Internal Emails Suggest Palin to Run for President ...
    Jeanne Devon / The Huffington Post : Internal Emails Suggest Palin to Run for President   —  What's Your Reaction:  —  ~Sarah Palin addresses the Conservative Patriots Group rally in Wasilla, Alaska on 9/11/10  —  It has long been speculated that former Alaska governor and Vice Presidential candida ...

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China Dialogue

  • The fight to protect China’s cats
    Guangdong’s taste for cat meat drives a brutal trade, laid bare in a new documentary from filmmaker and animal rights campaigner Guo Ke. Zhou Yiyan reports. Every day before dawn, there is a flurry of activity in the alley behind Shanghai’s Jiangsu Hotel. One by one, scooters laden with heavy sacks ...
  • Tinkering at the edges
    The launch of a socially responsible investment index in China is welcome news, says John Elkington, but it is naïve to believe it will power real change without stronger political action. Speaking at the World Economic Forum's “ Summer Davos ” in Tianjin in September, premier Wen Jiabao reaffirmed ...
  • “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 ...

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Threat Level

  • Secret-Spilling Sources at Risk Following Cryptome ...
    Secret-spilling site Cryptome was hacked over the weekend, possibly exposing the identities of whistleblowers and other confidential sources, according to a hacker who contacted Wired.com and claimed responsibility for the breach. The hacker said two intruders from the group Kryogeniks breached the ...
  • Voting System Pwned by Michigan Wolverines
    It’s a win for the University of Michigan Wolverines, . . . if not for anyone else. After election officials in Washington, D.C., egged on hackers to have a go at their new internet voting system, they did just that. The result was Michigan’s fight song “Hail to the Victors” played to voters after ...
  • Stop. Think. Create a Better DHS Cybersecurity Slo ...
    The Department of Homeland Security kicked off its new computer security campaign called “Stop. Think. Connect.” on Monday as part of National Cyber Security Awareness month. Computer security is a nice thing and having more of it is good, but “Stop. Think. Connect.” easily counts as one of the mos ...
  • 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Gunmen attack NATO supply trucks in Pakistan
    QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Gunmen in Pakistan attacked and set fire to 20 trucks transporting supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan on Wednesday, police said, the latest in a series of attacks on the supply chain for the war in Afghanistan.
  • Gunmen attack NATO supply trucks in Pakistan
    QUETTA, Pakistan, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Gunmen in Pakistan attacked and set fire to 20 trucks transporting supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan on Wednesday, police said.
  • Soros blames Germany for Europe "deflation spiral"
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire investor George Soros blamed Germany for leading the implementation of austerity measures that will throw the euro zone into a "deflation spiral."
  • Fed, ECB throwing world into chaos: Stiglitz
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ultra-loose monetary policies by the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank are throwing the world into "chaos" rather than helping the global economic recovery, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said on Tuesday.
  • Democrats hang on to leads in California
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic candidates hold a narrow advantage in the run-up to November's U.S. congressional elections in California where big-spending Republican Meg Whitman is struggling in the race for governor, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found on Tuesday.

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #438 (Stuxnet edition)
    Stuxnet cyber superweapon moves to China. The Stuxnet computer virus, dubbed the world’s “first cyber superweapon” by experts, and which may have been designed to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, has found a new target: China. The computer worm has infecting … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

After Downing Street.org

  • Wrecking the American Dream
    Wrecking the American Dream - by Stephen Lendman Long planned, the current economic storm erupted violently in late 2007. It wasn't by accident. It was engineered years back, so financial racketeers could profit from wrecking global economies and destroying their middle class, including America's. O ...
  • Warren Sees Transparency
    NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW AIR DATE: Oct. 5, 2010 Consumer Czar Warren Sees Transparency in Banking as Top Priority � SUMMARY Elizabeth Warren, the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, talks to Jeffrey Brown about the goals of her new agency and how she plans to empower Americans to make bette ...
  • Hey! No Droning in Connecticut
    Please set aside mid-day Saturday, October 23rd for the WAR PROFITEER: STOP THE WARS march that will start at 12:30 pm at the US Post Office in downtown Greenwich Connecticut, located at Arch Street and Greenwich Avenue, and proceed through the downtown and then to the neighborhood of Stephen R. ...
  • The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence Today: Inter ...
    By Professor Francis A. Boyle XVIIIth Conference “Mut Zur Ethic”: Direct Democracy, Feldkirch, Austria I am very happy to be speaking with you this evening. I want to express my gratitude to Zeit-Fragen for publishing the German language edition of my book The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence (Cla ...
  • Political wish list: Honest talk about economics, ...
    by Robert Jensen There’s no shortage of political blather in this year’s mid-term election campaigns, but most of us yearn for substantive discussion of the serious problems we face. What should the politicians be discussing? The University of Texas at Austin asked faculty members who teach about po ...

Grist - News

  • Seattle and Portland leaders don’t want to b ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Seattle has a Portland-inferiority complex. Portland is hipper, friendlier, greener, less corporate, less formal, less hurried than its larger Northwest cousin, the regional mythology goes. You can pick up on stereotype from any number of young semi-professionals who settle ...
  • Population four times more important than climate ...
    by treehugger.com. We're well aware of the fact that humans have a significant impact on water supplies -- from groundwater pumping to altering the course and flow of the world's rivers, we are no small player in how much fresh water exists on the planet. However, would we ever have guessed that ...
  • China hopes ‘eco-city’ will prove a mo ...
    by Agence France-Presse. TIANJIN, China -- At a construction site in northern China, a billboard boasts of a "liveable city" where residents can drink tap water, travel on clean energy public transport, and enjoy acres of parkland. For now, the ambitious "eco-city" covering 11.6 square miles o ...
  • 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 ...

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Washington Independent

  • No Stranger to Thankless Tasks, Oil Spill Compensa ...
    In an interview with TWI, Feinberg admits that some of the confusion and anger surrounding the payments to victims of the spill is "my fault" but pledges changes to streamline the process.
  • Five Lawmakers Call for Establishment of Climate F ...
    Five House lawmakers sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today calling for the Obama administration to push for the establishment at climate talks in Cancun at the end of the year of a climate fund to help poor nations adapt to the impacts of climate change. The letter comes midway t ...
  • Angle Attacks Reid on DREAM Act
    Sharron Angle, the Republican opponent to Sen. Harry Reid in Nevada, released an ad today bashing Reid’s support for “preferred college tuition rates” for illegal immigrants, a reference to his support for the DREAM Act, a bill that would allow some undocumented students and military service members ...
  • Where the Jobs Are, and Who’s Getting Them
    Mike Mandel posts a useful chart showing where college-educated young folks are getting jobs: The big picture is that government and professional services (think white-collar jobs like accounting, law, consulting) are absorbing as many workers as the manufacturing and financial industries are shedd ...
  • Months After Mining Disaster, More Deaths
    The Washington Post has a great piece today on mining safety. According to the story: Federal regulators have increased their inspections at 89 coal mines with poor safety records, including Loveridge. They have also upped their use of orders to shut down mines until safety problems are fixed. But ...

Digg Green

  • White House to Install Solar Panels After All ...
    Later today the White House is expected to announce that solar panels will be installed on the White House living quarters by spring 2011. The AP reports that they will be used to both heat hot water and provide electricity.
  • Alarming Increase in Flow of Water Into Ocean ...
    Freshwater is flowing into Earth's oceans in greater amounts every year, a team of researchers has found, thanks to more frequent and extreme storms linked to global warming. All told, 18 percent more water fed into the world's oceans from rivers and melting polar ice sheets in 2006 than in 199 ...
  • 5 Popular Safety Measures That Don't Make You ...
    It's so hard to think logically about safety. We figure that any time our health or the safety of our children is at stake, it's better safe than sorry. Unfortunately, this leads to a whole lot of well-publicized and often expensive safety measures that are often worthless, or downright dangero ...
  • Up Close and Personal With Active Volcano (Vi ...
  • Science Creeps Even Closer To Quantum Computi ...
    Kiss your ones and zeros good-bye. Maybe. The new edition of _Nature_ is announcing big news in the slog toward quantum computing, e.g. the holy grail of computing, that thing that will make this box on my desk right now look like an abacus in the not-too-distant future. Very recently, two team ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • 9/11: Bin Laden Not Wanted ‘Dead or Alive&#8 ...
    by Enver Masud The FBI’s “Most Wanted Terrorists” web page does not state that Bin Laden is wanted for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The FBI page states: “Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States Embas ...
  • IS ISRAEL CONTROLLING PHONY TERROR NEWS?
    By Gordon Duff and Brian Jobert Who says Al Qaeda takes credit for a bombing? Rita Katz. Who gets us bin Laden tapes? Rita Katz. Who gets us prettymuch all information telling us Muslims are bad? Rita Katz? Rita Katz is the Director of Site Intelligence, primary source for intelligence used by news ...
  • The Impending Collapse Of Israel In Palestine
    By Francis A. Boyle 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 about 130 states. Palestine ha ...
  • Remote viewing Tibetan monks see Extra Terrestrial ...
    N.K. Subramanium, Special Correspondent December 26, 2004 Remote viewing is nothing new in Tibetan monasteries. For thousands of years remote viewing in the middle of other spiritual activities have dominated Tibetan culture. What some Indian tourists came to learn from a few Tibetan monasteries und ...
  • More Problems with Genetically Modified Foods
    By Jeffrey Smith 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 are dangerous, he became the biotech industry’s bad-boy poster child, setting an exampl ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

  • Big Oil and Big Coal’s Favorite Toy (cartoon)
    Find me a liberal in the Big Coal and/or Oil biz and I’ll never draw another cartoon again! Republican governor candidates deny climate change On climate change, it’s the Republicans versus reality Follow Joe Mohrâs cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons Related p ...
  • Wrong Way for Right Whales
    Mysterious whale die-off is largest on record Gandhi quotes Follow Joe Mohrâs cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons Related posts:Dances With the Moon: Earth Day is Coming! Can’t Spell HATE Without T-E-A (cartoon) Tea Partiers and Suicide Bombers (cartoon) ...
  • Can’t Spell HATE Without T-E-A (cartoon)
    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)
    Bill McKibbenâs New Book: The Old Economy is Killing the Earth; Itâs Time for a New Living Economy Don’t Let Experimental Genetically Engineered Salmon Reach Your Plate Follow all of Mean Joe Green’s environmental cartoons on JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons. Related post ...
  • Water: Nature’s Wonderdrug–Now with Wonderdrugs! ( ...
    Between 2006 and 2007, the Southern Nevada Water Authority in Las Vegas screened tap water from 19 US water utilities for 51 different compounds. The 11 most frequently detected compounds are highlighted in the cartoon and described below. 1.used to treat cardiovascular disease, 2.an herbicide ba ...

Inhabitat

  • Undulating Croatian Sports Center is an Urban Desi ...
    Read the rest of Undulating Croatian Sports Center is an Urban Design Masterpiecehttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: ceramic tile faca ...
  • Freitag Store is World’s Tallest Shipping Containe ...
    Read the rest of Freitag Store is World’s Tallest Shipping Container Structure!http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Freitag, green desi ...
  • Lakewood Church Wins 2010 Energy Star Congregation ...
    Recently the United States Environmental Protection Agency awarded Lakewood Church with the 2010 Energy Star Congregation Award for excellence in energy efficiency for implementing energy management improvements over the last two years. Through planning, education of staff, and scheduling they have ...
  • Street Swings Are a Great Way to Spruce Up Sidewal ...
    You know what the problem with sidewalks is? Aside from the concrete, it’s that they’re boring. Seeking to add some life to the drab grey pedestrian paths, artists Akay and Peter went around Stockholm, Sweden hanging 65 fun, ninja-like swings for the public to play with. The swings are made from rop ...
  • Adorable Brick Habitats Are Mini Homes for Birds a ...
    When we spotted these adorable Brick Habitats at this year’s London Design Festival, we thought they looked awfully familiar. Upon further investigation it turns out we were right – we had see them before but at the time, they were just a glimmer in designer Chooi-leng Tan’s eye (or computer, rather ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Nobel Worthy: Best Graphene Close-Ups
    See Also: Graphene Defects Could Lead to Smaller Electronics Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded: Fair or Foul? Graphene memory makes Flash looks huge and ungainly
  • Top 10 Deep-Space Photos From Infrared Telescope’s ...
    Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team. Unless otherwise noted, blue and cyan represent light emitted at wavelengths of 3.4 and 4.6 microns, which is predominantly from stars. Green and red represent light from 12 and 22 microns, respectively, which is mostly emitted by dust. See Also: New NASA Sky Map ...
  • Retrograde Planets Could Survive Around Binary Sta ...
    By Alisdair Wilkins, io9 Astronomers believed that binary star systems were too volatile to support many planets, because the overlapping gravitational forces of the two stars would pull most planets apart. But one exoplanet 69 light-years away survives just fine… by orbiting the wrong way. The Nu ...
  • Neanderthals Had Feelings, Too
    For decades, Neanderthal was cultural shorthand for primitive. Our closest non-living relatives were caricatured as lumbering, slope-browed simpletons unable to keep pace with nimble, quick-witted Homo sapiens. In recent years, however, anthropologists have found evidence suggesting considerable Ne ...
  • Anger Management for Online Trolls
    Browse through a few typical online comment threads, and the need for anger management quickly becomes clear, likely sending sane people scurrying off to more pleasant corners of the internet. Now scientists at Yahoo and their colleagues are devising ways to automatically flag inordinately irate co ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Blackwater: Still Doing Just Fine
    Spencer Ackerman has been doing yeoman’s work uncovering the ways by which Blackwater – despite its horrific record of law-breaking and wrongdoing – is continuing to secure significant portions of multi- billion dollar government contracts (see also ): Never mind the dead civilians. Forget about the ...
  • India’s Workforce Growth and Education Challenge
    Amy Kazmin has a very interesting FT piece about the promise and peril of India’s rapidly-growing workforce which, thanks to major differences in demographic structure, will soon far exceed China’s. The challenge, like in Brazil , is to provide enough upgrading of the workforce’s skill level to mak ...
  • The Long Road to Iraqi Government Formation
    In an article I wrote for Foreign Policy last Friday, I discussed the announcement that the main Shiite parties had selected sitting Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as their nominee to form the next government of Iraq. (I also did an interview today for NPR’s Morning Edition on the same topic): It wa ...
  • Peter King's Odd Definition of "Luck" in Terrorist ...
    Following would-be Times Square Bomber Faisal Shahzad receiving a sentence of life imprisonment, Ben Smith asked Rep. Peter King , an opponent of using civilian trials to prosecute terror suspects, what he thought: "The case worked out well. I had questions about it. There was a bit of luck involved ...
  • Neocons Fudge Numbers, Lose Party on Defense Budge ...
    It’s pretty tough to keep track of all the attempted sleights of hand being slung around the Beltway by establishment republicans about the defense budget right now, but one thing’s for sure: it’s a desperate attempt to enforce party dogma on an increasingly fissured movement. First, the numbers s ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: The First Rule of Seriously Balan ...
    I appreciate the list of reasons Nate Silver has compiled for why we can't dismiss the possibility of a third-party candidacy in 2012, but one that he emphasizes -- "a candidate who presented a 'serious' plan to balance the budget could possibly gain traction" -- doesn't ring true. After all, a "se ...
  • The Male Face of Facebook.
    Stephen Colbert mentioned something my review �of The Social Network �last week missed when he asked screenwriter Aaron Sorkin what happened to all the "ladies in the film." Truth is, there are some, but they're basically portrayed as partying groupies intoxicated with -- or as Jezebel points out , ...
  • The Little Picture: Soros Against the Deficit Hawk ...
    (Courtesy of the World Economic Forum) George Soros , a major funder of progressive causes, criticized President Obama today for giving in to deficit hawks amid an economic recession. "To cut government spending at a time of large-scale unemployment would be to ignore the lessons of history," he ...
  • Black People Have Other Things to Worry About.
    Jeffrey Goldberg wants to know two things: First, do Republicans actually believe they can win African American voters while supporting politicians who endorse Confederacy-worship, and second, how can African Americans in the South live surrounded by a culture that regularly and unapologetically ven ...
  • Why Doesn't the Fed Know What Its Job Is?
    According to the Federal Reserve Board's self-published guide to the Federal Reserve, the first duty of the central bank is "conducting the nation’s monetary policy by influencing the monetary and credit conditions in the economy in pursuit of maximum employment , stable prices, and moderate long-te ...

Buzzflash

  • Supporting Republicans is Like Putting Your Trust ...
    PATRICIA A WELLER FOR BUZZFLASH read more
  • The Trapped Chilean Miners: A Metaphor for Our Pre ...
    JAMES McENTEER FOR BUZZFLASH/TRUTHOUT Today is sunny and warm where I happen to be, with a light breeze, perfect for riding bikes with the dogs, enjoying a cool swim and eating lunch outside under the trees. But for thirty-three Chilean miners trapped more than two thousand feet below the earth's su ...
  • When Hollywood Types Embrace Right Wing Politics
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH This is how has-beens and never-weres Get another shot at fame By coming out & telling everyone there's An "R" after their name.   The bad actors still can't act The bad comics still aren't funny But they can feel important now And maybe even make some money.   Lo ...
  • National Organization for Marriage's Anti-Gay, Pro ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH   Over the past week, the anti-gay organization founded by Maggie Gallagher has been on a bus tour across California stumping for the GOP's Senate Candidate, Carly Fiorina. Similar to its nationwide anti-same-sex marriage bus tour last summer, this one is also drawi ...
  • Is Obama’s Department of Justice Protecting BP?
    JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH   I appreciate President Obama's efforts to strengthen the middle class economy through health care reforms, tax breaks for small businesses, funding for schools/colleges, and bringing to a close a four trillion dollar oil war in the Middle East.  My central conce ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2010
    Watch the announcement of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Chemistry live: Winners: Heck, Negishi, Suzuki – carbon coupling (real chemistry). Three chemical reactions of major importance. Given that a chemical won the Physics prize this year, perhaps it will be something entirely physical that wins chemistr ...
  • Blood pressure anxiety
    Is it a sign of hypochondria to get white coat syndrome when measuring your own blood pressure? I asked this question on my personal Facebook page as a little joke with a hint of seriousness. My doctor and I are currently re-evaluating my blood pressure medicine, and I have been instructed to keep t ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Former BP Boss Tony Hayward Wins 2010 Rubber Dodo ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 4, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity The Center for Biological Diversity today awarded former BP CEO Tony Hayward its 2010 Rubber Dodo Award. The award is given annually to the person who has done the most to drive endangered species extinct. Previous winners include ...
  • Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Wiretapping Case, Go ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 4, 2010 Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Today, the Supreme Court said it would not take up a warrantless surveillance case, Wilner v. National Security Agency (NSA) , filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). The lawsuit argued that the Executive Branc ...
  • Corporate Accountability Statement on Passage of ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 4, 2010 Corporate Accountability International Last Thursday, the U.N. Human Rights Council passed a resolution that further recognized the rights to water and sanitation, an important step towards making these rights legally binding.  This action underscores the import ...
  • New Article Highlights Widespread Nature of Drug-I ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 4, 2010 Public Citizen A new article published in WorstPills.org highlights the widespread nature of drug-induced Parkinsonism and the need for patients and doctors to be aware of the potential to be misdiagnosed. The article includes a list of 49 prescription drugs kno ...
  • Human Rights Watch Honors Six Activists
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 4, 2010 Human Rights Watch (HRW) Six relentless and courageous advocates of human rights will be honored in November 2010, with the prestigious Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism, Human Rights Watch said today. All six have faced substantial threats of v ...

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 ...
  • The 2010 Commonwealth Games – A Systemic Indicator ...
    by Koustubh Parulekar The 2010 Commonwealth Games, hosted in Delhi this October 3-14, are touted to be India’s answer to Beijing’s 2008 Olympic extravaganza; a vehicle to announce India’s arrival on the world stage as an economic, cultural and political powerhouse. However, reports trickling out rev ...
  • 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 ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Getting To War With Pakistan By Increments?
    By Steve Hynd Fred Hiatt and the editors of the Washington Post have a couple of demands for Obama's Af/Pak policy: Pakistan's punishment of NATO for the border incident is arguably an inevitable response to domestic political opinion. But its resistance to a more muscular U.S. campaign in North Waz ...
  • A Hollow, Compromised, Afghan Security Force
    By Steve Hynd The BBC reports on allegations by a former UN official that the Afghan security forces are hopelessly compromised: Dr Antonio Maria Costa, former head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said Taliban sleeper cells had been set up inside the security forces. They had already carried ou ...
  • 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 ...

Water Wars

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Israel deports nobel peace laureate
    RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Irish Nobel Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire was deported from Israel Tuesday after spending more than a week in detention at Tel Aviv Airport ...
  • Palestine boycott committee calls on US pension fu ...
    The Palestinian BNC calls upon the US non-profit pension fund TIAA-CREF to live up to its motto of providing "Financial Services for the Greater Good" by divesting its funds from c ...
  • Towards accountability: John Dugard interviewed
    Last month, Professor John Dugard, former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, chaired a meeting on universal Jurisdiction in the Hague. A ...
  • The mendacity of "restraint"
    As Israel's self-imposed and largely irrelevant settlement freeze ends, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked settlers to show "restraint." It is an interesti ...
  • For Palestinians in Israel, "transfer" threat noth ...
    Nora Barrows-Friedman reports on the response of Palestinian citizens of Israel to the Israeli Foreign Minister's plan proposed to the United Nations to strip Palestinians ...

Afghanistan Sun

  • Taliban, Afghan government hold talks to end war - ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Representatives of the Taliban and President Hamid Karzai's government have started secret talks to negotiate an end to the war in Afghanistan, the Washington Post reported ...
  • Karzai’s Kin Use Ties to Gain Power in Afgha ...
    Qayum Karzai served as a member of Parliament from Kandahar and then as President Karzai’s intermediary with the Taliban. But today, Mr. Ayubi’s specialty is foreign policy. He is the senio...
  • Taliban commander suspected in reporter's kid ...
    A Taliban leader in northern Afghanistan believed to have been involved in the kidnapping of a New York Times reporter as well as the intimidation...
  • Military confirms one sex assault at Afghan base
    OTTAWA — The Canadian military has investigated just five reports of sexual assault in Afghanistan since 2004, with only one investigation leading to a guilty verdict — a number that contrasts sha...
  • Afghan Serial Blasts Claim 9 Lives
    (RTTNews) - As many as nine Afghan civilians were killed when a series of powerful blasts tore through the city of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday.At least 25 people were also wounded in ...

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • Obama Signs SEC Secrecy Repeal into Law
    We just got word that President Obama has signed into law a bill to strike language from the financial reform legislation that had given the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sweeping new powers to hide its records from public scrutiny....
  • Insiders: Watchdog Lacks Resources to Protect Clas ...
    POGO has obtained an internal email indicating that employees at the Defense Security Service (DSS)—the Pentagon agency that oversees the protection of classified information in the hands of defense contractors—have felt that they don't have the resources to do their...
  • Are Federal Contractors a Bunch of Scrooges?
    The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has just released a study of the extent to which federal contractors violate federal laws ensuring workers receive fair wages, have the right to join unions and are safe from workplace hazards. Despite its narrow...
  • Congress Compromises with Executive Branch on Over ...
    The Senate last week approved the FY 2010 Intelligence Authorization Act, signaling that Congress has reached a compromise with the executive branch on the issue of oversight of the intelligence community. But did the legislative branch give up too much?...
  • Morning Smoke: Labor IG: OSHA Whistleblower Protec ...
    Watchdog: OSHA whistleblower protection program still falls short by Emily Long [Government Executive] Labor law violators raking in federal contracts by Robert Brodsky [Government Executive] Witnesses in Defense Dept. Report Suggest Cover-Up of 9/11 Findings by Catherine Herridge [FOXNews] Are...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Police Trash Another Tent City?
    I guess the cops in Riverside, California haven't heard about the cops in Grand Junction, Colorado. The ones who trashed a tent city and got fired for it . Because Riverside's finest allegedly just tore up an encampment in a particularly vicious way. The department is currently investigating the cla ...
  • Kermit the Frog Does Homeless Advocacy, Sort Of
    Sometimes, the best advocacy for the homeless has nothing to do with homeless people. Take, for example, this video that's taking the Internet by storm. In it, a man who appears to be panhandling is filmed doing a truly rousing lip dub of Queen and David Bowie's "Under Pressure," with two Kermit the ...
  • It's Cops vs. Volunteers on L.A.'s Skid Row
    How would you handle the desperate homelessness on Los Angeles's Skid Row ? Would you do what many community groups do, and go hand out food and clothing to people in need? Or would you cut off this sort of ad-hoc assistance in an attempt to get Skid Row's residents to accept long-term help from she ...
  • Pregnant and Panhandling
    This new video comes from Mark's InvisiblePeople.tv 30-city, 11,000-mile, 75-day road trip , going on now. We still use the phrase "American Dream," yet for so many people any chance of a dream has turned into a nightmare. I met Mike and his wife Taren "flying a sign" in Bend, Oregon. Taren never im ...
  • 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 ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Opposition fears conflict of interest in PM’s new ...
    The appointment of Nigel Wright as Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s new chief of staff has added a new dimension to the debate over the purchase of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Opposition critics are questioning the selection of Wright because of his employment with Onex Corporation, which has fin ...
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 10-5-10
    Today, LIVE from Germany, Kevin reveals the latest steps the government is taking to oppress your freedoms and constitutionally protected rights! Plus, find out what big companies are doing to get you addicted to their products and how celebrity-endorsed charities are a complete scam! Self Help: The ...
  • Rick Sanchez Fired For Blowing The Whistle
    October 2nd, 2010 Politics Daility By: Melinda Henneburger No, not the anti-Semitic part, no word of which deserves defending. But there is a sad, circular pattern to the bigotry that Sanchez obviously experienced and was scarred by, embittered to the point that even as a successful cable anchor, it ...
  • Bono’s Charity Scam
    September 20th, 2010 NY Post By: Jeane MacIntosh Nothing says, “Wipe out AIDS and poverty” like Band-Aids and a black-and-white cookie. That’s what Bono’s $15 million nonprofit the ONE Campaign — which gives only a pittance of proceeds to its hunger and health causes — bombarded New York newsrooms w ...
  • Truth About Gardasil Revealed
    August 26, 2010 Natural News By: Ethan A. Huff Merck & Co., Inc., manufacturer of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil, continues to get away with pushing the dangerous drug on both young girls — and now boys — as a supposed prevention method for avoiding cervical cancer. But concerned mo ...
  • FDA Ignored Evidence That CT Scans Are Killing Peo ...
    August 26th, 2010 Natural News By: David Gutierrez FDA administrators sought to brush aside evidence that CT scans may be killing thousands of patients a year, say agency scientists. “I was first ignored, then pressured to change my scientific opinion, and when I refused to do that, I was intimidate ...

Pambazuka News

  • Black Congress to convene in D.C. to set black age ...
    As criticisms of President Obama’s war and economic policies mount, the group that first questioned his intentions regarding the concerns of the black community is holding a national Congress to define a black agenda to serve the interests of black p...
  • Haiti: Women demand role in reconstruction
    Women's civil society groups were noticeable by their absence from the landmark Haiti donor conference on 31 March, which secured pledges of US$5.3 billion over the next two years to support the country’s post-quake recovery. Their lack of a presenc...
  • African diplomats reject anti-Cuba resolution pass ...
    The ambassador of the Republic of Congo to Cuba, Pascal Onguemby, rejected the lies included in an anti-Cuba resolution recently approved by the European Parliament. Addressing participants in the inauguration of the Eleventh International Conference...
  • USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. war ...
    A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...
  • Brazil: Bloggers on why there is still racism in t ...
    Two weeks ago, Global Voices Online reported the story of Januário Alves de Santana, a black man who had been beaten and punched by security guards of one of the largest international retailers in Brazil. He was waiting for his family in the car park...

War in Context

  • Obama grovels for Netanyahu’s approval
    Jonathan Cook reports: The disclosure of the details of a letter reportedly sent by President Barack Obama last week to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, will cause Palestinians to be even more skeptical about U.S. and Israeli roles in the current peace talks. According to the leak, ...
  • Washington Post calls for escalation of the war in ...
    After three Frontier Corps soldiers were killed in a NATO helicopter attack on a Pakistani border post last week, the Pakistani government cut off supplies to Afghanistan by closing the Torkham border crossing. It was the easiest way of sending a message to Washington that killing Pakistani soldiers ...
  • The terrorist threat to rational thinking
    Is the word “terrorism” a secret terrorist weapon? It appears that when US government officials try to think about terrorism their brains stop working. It’s a word that has become a piece of neural malware and everywhere it spreads, rational minds sputter and then cease to function. Who could have ...
  • 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 ...

Watts Up With That?

  • I’ll Trade You Cuccinelli For Splattergate W ...
    Guest Post by Thomas Fuller When peripheral issues dominate the climate news agenda, it’s normally a sign that not much is happening on the scientific, political or legal front. So the fact that the blogosphere (and increasingly the mainstreamhttp://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?po ...
  • ABC interview wrongly torches skeptic position
    This is rather stupid, in my opinion. Not one person I have ever professionally associated with in the cause of climate skepticism has ever said anything at all like what you are about to read below. For the record: Yes, … Continue reading →
  • Study: Wind farms affect local surface temperature ...
    For those of you that know anything about frost prevention, or have even seen aircraft engines like these mounted on poles in an orchard, this paper will make perfect sense to you. It makes perfect sense to me. According to … Continue reading →
  • Antarctic sea ice increase not linked to ozone hol ...
    From the AGU Weekly Journal Highlights While sea ice extent has declined dramatically in the Arctic in recent years, it has increased slightly in the Antarctic. Some scientists have suggested that increased Antarctic sea ice extent can be explained by … Continue reading →
  • Josh on 10:10′s Splattergate Goregate
    Oh golly, karma comes full circle with this one. Cartoon by Josh, of www.cartoonsbyjosh.com BTW,  note to other bloggers: Josh encourages distribution of this cartoon, just cite it as I’ve done above – Anthony

Dandelion Salad

  • The Audacity of Blame: The Politics of Put-down By ...
    by Robert S. Becker Featured Writer Dandelion Salad rbecker@cal.net October 6, 2010 Well, exxccuusse us doubters. Mr. President, for assessing real-world results of your major decisions (or non-decisions). Is the left responsible for the jobless recovery, too?  Afghan quagmire?  Oil spill fiasco? ...
  • The dust not settled on the last 9/11 victim famil ...
    By Jerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at Online Journal www.jerrymazza.com Oct. 6, 2010 It’s been nine years since September 11, 2001, and almost all the family claims for loved ones lost in the tragedy have been resolved. Thousands of families have received more than $7 billion ...
  • Evidence Refutes BP’s and Fed’s Deceptions by Dahr ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Dahr Jamail and Erika Blumenfeld T r u t h o u t (lots of photos) October 4th, 2010 In August, Truthout conducted soil and water sampling in Pass Christian Harbor, Mississippi; on Grand Isle, Louisiana; and around barrier islands off the coast of Louisiana, in ...
  • Just Some Notes On Lily Pads and Military Bases by ...
    by Gaither Stewart Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 4 October, 2010 The lily pad fits in with its surroundings, as does the frog. Like most of nature its camouflage saves it. Human beings are the only creatures who do not fit in with the rest of nature. Nature is simple. But mankind rejects simple li ...
  • 9/11 Commissioner’s Turkey Baste: Chicken or the E ...
    by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad originally published by Boiling Frogs Post 4 October, 2010 The Roots of Lee Hamilton’s Six Figure Earnings We all know the relevance and importance of a solid and sound background check when it comes to our elected and appointed officials and commissi ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Nobel Worthy: Best Graphene Close-Ups
    See Also: Graphene Defects Could Lead to Smaller Electronics Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded: Fair or Foul? Graphene memory makes Flash looks huge and ungainly
  • Top 10 Deep-Space Photos From Infrared Telescope’s ...
    Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team. Unless otherwise noted, blue and cyan represent light emitted at wavelengths of 3.4 and 4.6 microns, which is predominantly from stars. Green and red represent light from 12 and 22 microns, respectively, which is mostly emitted by dust. See Also: New NASA Sky Map ...
  • Retrograde Planets Could Survive Around Binary Sta ...
    By Alisdair Wilkins, io9 Astronomers believed that binary star systems were too volatile to support many planets, because the overlapping gravitational forces of the two stars would pull most planets apart. But one exoplanet 69 light-years away survives just fine… by orbiting the wrong way. The Nu ...
  • Neanderthals Had Feelings, Too
    For decades, Neanderthal was cultural shorthand for primitive. Our closest non-living relatives were caricatured as lumbering, slope-browed simpletons unable to keep pace with nimble, quick-witted Homo sapiens. In recent years, however, anthropologists have found evidence suggesting considerable Ne ...
  • Anger Management for Online Trolls
    Browse through a few typical online comment threads, and the need for anger management quickly becomes clear, likely sending sane people scurrying off to more pleasant corners of the internet. Now scientists at Yahoo and their colleagues are devising ways to automatically flag inordinately irate co ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • 10 days after settlement freeze expires, 350 new u ...
    A Haaretz investigation reveals that since the building freeze in the West Bank was lifted ten days ago, bulldozers have been working furiously on the construction of 350 new housing units in various... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • NYC event, Oct 16: What If Antigone Were A Refugee ...
    Celebrate the Freedom Theatre Jenin on October 16th, in the Church of St. Paul the Apostle (Columbus Avenue at W 60th St., NYC) at 2pm! A symposium with Prof. Alain Badiou, Prof. Slavoj Zizek, and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Amira Hass: Punishing the sick, shamelessly
    What is delaying treatment of a 47-year-old Palestinian woman, if not punishment of someone who opposes her foreign rulers? MORE by Amira Hass Where has the hypocrisy gone? What Hamas is... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • 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 ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

Natural Health News

  • Employees Caught Dancing on the Job
    From cops to school kids, people are getting caught on camera dancing on the job. Watch this video for a sample of how to make a desk job less sedentary, then click on the links to see six more examples of making a boring job more interesting.
  • Nearly 1 in 10 US Adults Depressed
    According to a nationwide survey conducted by the CDC, 9 percent of US adults have at least some symptoms of depression, and people in some states are more likely to be depressed than others. As reported by CNN Health: Mississippi had the highest depression rate in the nation, with 14.8 percent of ...
  • Food Rules for Healthy People and Planet
    Michael Pollan has written a book that makes food choices simple. With wit and wisdom, he talks about what the simple food rules for healthy people and the planet should be, from packaging to labeling to contents, in this video. So what does low-fat really mean when you’re looking for a good yogurt ...
  • More Deception: Rebranding of Popular Food Items
    What’s in a name? Everything, if you’re trying to sell a product. But what happens if that product has a name that turns people off – or a name that’s gotten a not-so-good reputation lately? Answer: rebrand it with a new name and pocket the profits. Corn sugar, canola oil, AminoSweet, kiwi, prunes ...
  • Court OK’s Hormone-Free Label on Dairy Products in ...
    A federal court has struck down Ohio’s law banning labels on dairy products that say they’re made with milk that’s free of hormones. As reported on NPR.org, that means companies that want to say their products are "rbGH free" and "rbST free" and "artificial hormone free" are now free to do so. “But ...

Antemedius

  • What Scares Fox and Other Neocons: War Brings Dir ...
    Here is a lesson from the neocons at Fox and elsewhere. If you cover up a war rather than covering it and refuse to show the direct results of conflict then you are a patriot. Let us say that someone chooses to cover that same war and shows the bloodshed that resulted. To do so is giving aid and c ...
  • It's Obama vs Infinite War
    Originally published at Asia Times One may be tempted to evaluate American foreign policy as concocted by some deviant disciple of cinema exploitation genius Russ Meyer - of Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill! fame - minus the profusion of breasts, of course. And so as that self-appointed court stenographe ...
  • Yes, Jonah Goldberg, The Supreme Court Is Supposed ...
    Noted Conservative Hack Jonah Goldberg posted a little article tearing into the idea that the Supreme Court is the place where we define what is and is not constitutional. He is defending the new radical Republican talking point that all legislation should have a constitutional justification attache ...
  • GOTV, Mr. Obama
    There is a enormous and powerful difference between millions of people not voting for a particular party, and millions of people saying loud and clear to that party: "we guarantee we will give you millions of votes, more than enough to tip the scale...... once you have done a or b or c or d or any ...
  • Dark Curtain of Totalitarianism Descending on Amer ...
    You might give the FBI the benefit of the doubt that it had some incriminating evidence when it raided the homes of eight antiwar activists in Minneapolis and Chicago September 24th except for the fact that its past record in such cases is stinko. The F.B.I. broke down Mick Kelly's door around 7 a.m ...

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

  • No More Non-Citizen Law Clerks?
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro That appears to be the upshot of section 704 of Public Law 111-117, a doorstop appropriations measure enacted last December: SEC. 704. Unless otherwise specified during the current fiscal year, no part of any appropriation contained in this or any other Act shall be ...
  • Freedom from Religion—Rights and National Se ...
    by Amos Guiora by Amos Guiora In response to the previous comments, I very much appreciate the justified concern raised regarding my identification of the danger posed by religious extremists. Prof Movsesian is, of course, correct that non-religious terrorism (the groups he identifies) is also a ...
  • How to Write a Book in 674 Easy Steps (Part One)
    by Kevin Jon Heller So, I finished my book on the Nuremberg Military Tribunals last Friday. Okay, that's a lie.  Or at least an exaggeration.  I still have about 2,500 footnotes to fix (literally).  And a few thousand precious, perfectly crafted words to cut.  But I have a very polished first ...
  • Motives, Metaphors, and Religious Speech
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen One aspect of Amos’ proposal that I think needs to be emphasized is that he suggests curtailing certain types of speech because of certain hoped-for practical advantages in counter-terrorism. It is, essentially, a utilitarian argument. However, taking his suggestio ...
  • Religious and Non-Religious Extremism
    by Mark Movsesian by Mark Movsesian I thank Professors Guiora and Cliteur for their thoughtful interventions. As I see it, the basic distinction Prof. Guiora draws is between terrorism motivated by religious convictions – “religious terrorism” – and terrorism motivated by non-religious conviction ...

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

  • Google TV Arriving Soon
    I am angry that the MPAA and RIAA punish the world by creating a byzantine bureaucracy in their licensing…which leaves us who live outside the US in the dark. Hopefully Google TV will figure out a way to break that. If it did, it could sweep Apple TV away completely. Related posts:Google Chrome is n ...
  • La Trampa de Lobo (‘Wolf”s Trap)
    Photo by CescoMad President Porfirio Lobo has opened a forum to debate the now infamous constituent assembly in Honduras. His reason, this is the condition that Jose Miguel Insulza gave him for Honduras re-inclusion in the OAS. This is Machiavellian of Insulza, because should te assembly go forward, ...
  • 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 ...

Green Times

  • Reuse, recycle or freecycle
    If you have some things that you no longer want or need, don’t throw it in the garbage bin straight away. Maybe someone else can still use it and would be very happy with it. Reusing, recycling (glossary/categories/recycling-waste/recyclable.html) or freecycling (glossary/categories/recycling-waste ...
  • Love nature
      Love nature! Go for a walk in the woods or the (national) parc (glossary/wildlife/national-park.html) and enjoy what you see and hear. There are somy many amazing trees, plants, flowers and animals to discover. Getting some fresh air and some exercise is good for your health too. Photo by: Ilse ...
  • Environmental News 06/10/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Send your kids outside
    Instead of letting them watch TV or playing computer games, send your kids outside to play. They can play sport or you can go to the park with them. The fresh air will be good for all of you! And of course, turning off the TV or computer is more eco-friendly and saves energy. Find businesses that s ...
  • Grow your own fruit and veges
    Get rid of the pesticides (glossary/wildlife/pesticide.html) in your food and the loads of plastic that it comes wrapped in. Go outside and grow your own fruit and vegetables. No garden to use? You can try small pots in your kitchen to grow herbs or small plants, or join a community garden. Find bu ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Times Square bomb plotter predicts defeat of U.S.
    ShareThis Times Square bomb plotter predicts defeat of U.S. --'Soon the bailout money which is holding up your fragile economy will run out, and soon you will not be able to afford the war costs.' 06 Oct 2010 Expressing no remorse and predicting the "imminent" defeat of the United States at the hand ...
  • Yemen rocket attack targets UK embassy car
    ShareThis Yemen rocket attack targets UK embassy car 06 Oct 2010 Militants have fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a British embassy car in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa. The UK Foreign Office said one member of staff was slightly injured and witnesses say at least three bystanders were hurt. In a se ...
  • Explosion rocks UK embassay in Yemen
    ShareThis Explosion rocks UK embassay in Yemen 06 Oct 2010 An explosion has targeted a British embassy vehicle in the vicinity of the UK embassy in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a, leaving at least three people injured. The blast took place on Wednesday morning when a rocket landed near a British diplo ...
  • Police Make 12 Terror Arrests In France
    ShareThis Police Make 12 Terror Arrests In France 05 Oct 2010 Police have arrested 12 people and seized guns and ammunition following two separate anti-terrorism raids in southern France. Those arrested are suspected of having links with Muslim extremists, it has been reported. Nine men were detaine ...
  • No pay, no spray: Firefighters let home burn
    ShareThis No pay, no spray: Firefighters let home burn --Tennessee house in ashes after homeowner forgot to pay $75 fee 05 Oct 2010 Firefighters in rural Tennessee let a home burn to the ground last week because the homeowner hadn't paid a $75 fee. Gene Cranick of Obion County and his family lost al ...

Daily Loaf

  • Is climate change speeding up animal evolution?
    This is something that people today might be witnessing. For example, global warming is causing rapid-fire climate change, including the early arrival of the seasons.
  • Major Senate debate tonight, more dirt on Jim Norm ...
    Political writers and commentators are notorious for hyping up political debates that more often than not turn out to be duds.  Let’s hope that’s not the case with tonight’s U.S. Senate forum scheduled for 7 p.m. tonight, moderated by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. Yesterday morning we hung out wit ...
  • Tampa Bay food, wine and beer events
    Plan your eating and drinking to-do list with our comprehensive calendar.
  • Celebrating my bi-versary: A diary of my first yea ...
    ...but something allows her to casually lean over and tell me, "Yeah, so one time when I was dating this couple..."
  • New Trib article more potential bad news for Jim N ...
    How about taking a quick look at a few events going on in the news? In the latest on the Jim Norman-Ralph Hughes imbroglio, the Tampa Tribune’s Mike Salinero has a story on court documents filed yesterday by his Republican opponent in last month’s Senate primary in District 12, Kevin Ambler.  Tho ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Israeli court welcomes pre-1948 land claims, from ...
    By Jesse Bacon It has been pointed out repeatedly, but now it’s official, the Israeli Supreme Court will accept your pre-1948 claim, if you are Jewish that is. In one of those cases that is a testament to presumably intelligent people’s ability to ignore the larger implications of their actions, the ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Incendio
    DJ heard Incendio at the Zion Canyon Music Festival. He thinks they’re amazing. I agree.
  • Chickenocrats prepare for battle
  • Search Google with your iPhone camera
    Google Goggles is now available as an iPhone app (for 3GS running iOS and 4) as part of the Google Mobile App. Just tap the camera button and it will analyze the image and return search results. Right now it works mostly for landmarks, logos, and books, but in a couple of years, it will [...]
  • Nutty old uncle now ahead in California. Boxer too ...
    Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer now have good-sized leads in their respective races for governor and senator of California. I never had any doubt about Boxer. Every time she runs there are dire predictions that this time, wow, she’s really vulnerable and could well lose. Well, she’s never lost a major ...
  • Eddie Vedder, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins at antiw ...
    (Sue’s post on Susan Sarandon got me remembering) Check these photos I took at an anti-war protest in March 2003 in Hollywood. It was an impromptu demo. Eddie Vedder, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins spoke on the sidewalk in front of the CNN building. I was pushing the portable sound system, which is why ...

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

  • Teen has ‘seizures’ after drinking Red ...
    An 18-year-old man who drank two cans of Red Bull on an empty stomach appears to have experienced seizures, according to Health Canada. In a case presentation in Health Canada’s adverse reaction newsletter, released on Tuesday, the agency examines one instance of a teen who appears to have experienc ...
  • This Day In History – October 6
    1582 â Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. 1889 â Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture. 1927 â Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie. 1961 – President John F. Kennedy advises American ...
  • The New Green Fascists Threaten Everyone
    I used to argue in favor of using green technologies. I used to believe that green technology was the way of the future and that taking steps to conserve energy was good for the planet. I no longer believe such things. Want to know what changed my mind? It was Greenpeace. It was others who [...]
  • Deadline Live – October 4 2010
    Jack Blood uncovers the news of the day , The new Al Qaida attack hype, Rahmbo Emanuel going back home, Obamacare, Ahmadinejad on 911, Chavez wants civilian militia, Rick Sanchez vs zionists, Lush Limpbaugh on Family Guy, Judge Sotomayor, The Clevelend Show, Army embedding active duty psy-op soldier ...
  • Global Cooling and the New World Order
    Bilderberg. Whether you believe it’s part of a sinister conspiracy which will lead inexorably to one world government or whether you think it’s just an innocent high-level talking shop, there’s one thing that can’t be denied: it knows which way the wind is blowing. (Hat tips: Will/NoIdea/Ozboy) At i ...

The Air Vent

  • Out of this world vs Hard Science.
    They haven’t stopped demanding “action” and they never will.  We’ll hear it well past the point when the general public realizes that dangers of AGW and certainty of understanding have been systematically  exaggerated.   I mean we just had a lengthy discussion (on a skeptic blog) of how it is po ...
  • SPPI report on Illinois Climate Change
    Bob Fergusen has forwarded me a report on climate change in Illinois ,which is of course, where I live. Full report is here – illinois_state_report[1] Now Illinois is a liberal state, which means that we have a large number of people who spend a great deal of time thinking of ways to commit industri ...
  • Science Blogging
    Steve Fitzpatick left this comment on the Conversation with a climatologist thread. Well, there have been a lot of comments, a lot of detail, a lot of information exchanged back and forth…. and no snark. Has to be a skeptic blog. The discussion Steve refers to was not an overly warm discussion, it w ...
  • 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 ...

Focal Point

  • Former Court Official Confesses to Rape of Teen Pr ...
    Here's a horrific miscarriage of justice: Tony Simmons, a former counselor in the New York City juvenile justice system, pleaded guilty to raping a handcuffed 15-year-old girl in the elevator of the Manhattan Family Courthouse, and sexually assaulting two other teenagers in his custody. He was sente ...
  • Pioneer of IVF Wins Nobel Prize; Anti-Choice Tantr ...
    Biologist Robert G. Edwards has won the Nobel Prize for his work on in vitro fertilization. Edwards and his late colleague, gynecologist Patrick Steptoe, helped an infertile woman give birth to the world's first "test tube baby" in July of 1978. According to the New York Times , the initial controv ...
  • 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 ...

Inside Facebook

  • Friend Lists Updated With Suggestions and Characte ...
    Facebook has updated its Friend Lists feature with suggestions of people to add to lists, and a method of sorting friends by common characteristics. The frequently forgotten feature lets users create groupings of their friends, which they can then use to filter the news feed and determine who will s ...
  • Social Gamers Are Most Familiar, Comfortable With ...
    [Editor's Note: The following article presents analysis and data excerpts from Inside Facebook Gold, our research and data membership service tracking Facebook's traffic growth and demographic landscape in global markets.] When it comes to web payments, Facebook is unique, giving games and other app ...
  • TheFind Lets Users Refine Shopping Results by Like ...
    TheFind, the second largest shopping website in the world behind Google, today launches a new social shopping feature called Shop Like Friends. It allows users to see product search results limited to brands and stores Liked by a specific friend or a professional entity such a Facebook Page or a blo ...
  • Top 20 Growing Facebook Pages: Beyoncé, Oprah, Har ...
    Television shows joined Harry Potter, YouTube, Coca-Cola and music on our list of Top 20 Growing Facebook Pages this week. Our list is generated by our PageData tool, which counts the number of Likes added to a Page on any given day. It took between 1 million and 392,000 Likes to make the list this ...
  • Facebook’s Security Page Launches Security Quiz Ta ...
    Today, the official Facebook Security Page launched an application tab called Security Quiz in hopes of helping users learn to avoid common web security pitfalls. Including questions such as âWhat’s the best way to ensure a strong password?â, the quiz covers issues like suspicious links, providi ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Gilad Atzmon in conversation with UK music icon Ro ...
    Gilad Atzmon talks to legendary British jazz icon Robert Wyatt about music and “people power” as facilitators of change, support for the Palestinian cause and the fear of democracy and the truth.
  • Israeli Bar Ilan University sacks top academic for ...
    Neve Gordon describes how Israel’s Bar Ilan University denied tenure to a brilliant, world-class philosophy professor, Ariella Azoulay – in effect sacking her – because “a significant part of her work offers a critique of Israeli rights-abuse policy and of Zionism”.
  • Obama’s cave-in to Israel: letter suggests US not ...
    Jonathan Cook considers the significance of a leaked letter from US President Barack Obama to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu which undermines Obama’s claim to be an honest broker and confirms suspicions that Netanyahu’s professed desire to establish a Palestinian state is insincere.
  • Shooting from the Mavi Marmara: time for Israel to ...
    Richard Lightbown looks at the continuing Israeli disinformation about the murder of aid workers aboard the Gaza-bound Turkish ship, the Mavi Marmara, on 31 May 2010 and challenges the Israelis either to produce the evidence to back up their version of events or to shut up and accept responsibility ...
  • 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?

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

  • American Conservative Magazine Beats UK Papers in ...
    UK-US Media Reports⦠Only When itâs Safe to Publish? Yesterday this made the headlines in UK: Britain Held Secret War Talks With US Generals 11 Months Before Iraq Invasion America’s most senior general flew into Britain for top secret talks on the invasion of Iraq 11 months before the attack on ...
  • 9/11 Commissioner’s Turkey Baste: Chicken or the E ...
    The Roots of Lee Hamilton’s Six Figure Earnings We all know the relevance and importance of a solid and sound background check when it comes to our elected and appointed officials and commissioners. Of course we all want to know about that big ‘conflict of interest’ factor. Okay, not all of us, espe ...
  • 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 ...

Afro Spear

  • Can We Blacks Uplift Ourselves? A Tribute to Dr. ...
    The communities of Oakland, California, Harare, Zimbabwe and Mutoko Zimbabwe were blessed with this beautiful servant,  Dr. Robert C. Scott who was a tireless warrior in the fight against AIDS.  In late 2000, Dr. Scott along with a group of workers attended the International AIDS Conference in South ...
  • sat’day riddymz
  • 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 ...

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

  • Reveal Handbags : Revile Fashion
    > Dear Keith, > For your next high-fashion piece, consider REVEAL, the hottest eco-luxury handbags. made of recycled plastic bottles. REVEAL just launched their new Recycled Collection, and it’s perfect for women who are SEXY with SUBSTANCE. You know which women we are referring to. it’s your super ...
  • 10 Things That Will Actually Make a Difference On ...
    As I write, thousands of activities are being planned around the world to coincide with the date 10 October 2010, which has been fortuitously chosen for its parallels with the aim to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 10% by the end of 2010 (well that’s one plan blown, then). Anyone on any ma ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • LocalWiki to Create Collaborative, Community-Owned ...
    So much of the unique knowledge and experiences we acquire through years of living in a community gets spread only by word of mouth, or worse it just stays "locked up" in our heads. But this is great stuff, valuable expert knowledge that can benefit everyone. After all, when it comes to the communit ...
  • '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 ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Authors on Tour - Author Edwin Black Kicks Off Whi ...
    Renowned investigative writer and journalist, Edwin Black, the author of numerous books and investigations including War Against the Weak , is kicking off his multi-city book tour to launch his latest work: The Farhud: The Roots of The Arab-Nazi Alliance During the Holocaust , which promises to rock ...
  • Travel on the Edge - Travel Safety Recommendations ...
    Americans are exposed every day to risks in highway, air, rail and water travel that could be reduced if federal regulatory agencies and states moved faster to carry out recommendations made by the National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates accidents and proposes ways to prevent them. ...
  • China's Energy Future - China Gambles on Oil-free ...
    Thomas Friedman makes a very important point in his excellent column published in the New York Times on September�25. The gist of the article, "Their Moon Shot and Ours,"�is that China is looking decades into the future and building the world's biggest network of ultra-modern airports, creating a we ...
  • Edge on Mideast Peace - Obama's Efforts to Keep th ...
    With Israel's ten-month moratorium on West Bank settlement construction now expired, Arab League foreign ministers are expected to convene on October 4 to discuss whether the Palestinian Authority (PA) should continue the peace talks. These developments have created a flurry of behind-the-scenes act ...
  • Safety in the Workplace - Congress to Consider Leg ...
    For an agency so widely feared and demonized by American business, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is a relative pushover. True, OSHA occasionally hits employers with big fines, like the $50 million BP recently agreed to pay for failing to fix the sorts of problems that led to a re ...

High Country News

  • Frack forward
    Wyoming's tough new hydraulic fracturing rules are meant to keep federal regulators at bay.
  • Salvage logging speeds up
    With the Forest Service’s Biscuit Fire salvage logging program acknowledged to be a failure, Oregon Reps. Greg Walden and Gordon Smith want to speed up future post-fire logging
  • The Western Lit Blues
    A Western writer is tired of being typecast as a Western writer.
  • Computer model slices and dices mountain climates
    In Oregon's H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, scientists study climate patterns.
  • Dancing with Climate Change
    In California's White Mountains, scientists ponder the fate of beardtongues, bristlecone pines and butterflies in a rapidly warming world.

CounterCurrents

  • US Agency Exploited Guatemalans For Lethal Medical ...
    By Rafael Azul The exposure of a 64-year-old secret study conducted in Guatemala on human subjects by the US Public Health Service has created an international uproar, forcing the US government to issue a belated apology
  • Eight Reasons Why You Should Oppose Unique Identi ...
    By Kalyani Menon-Sen The National Identification Authority of India Bill approved by the Union Cabinet on Friday has sidestepped critical privacy aspects relating to profiling and function creep - a term used to describe the way in which information is collected for one limited purpose but gradual ...
  • India Says Is Now Third Highest Carbon Emitter
    By Gopal Sharma Indias environment minister said on Monday the country could not have high economic growth and a rapid rise in carbon emissions now that the nation was the number three emitter after China and the United States
  • Obama Is Going Solar
    By Bill McKibben The Obama administration announced this morning that they are going to put solar panels on the First Familys living quarters, returning to a tradition begun by president Jimmy Carter and abandoned by Ronald Reagan
  • Vulnerable Nations Could Take Industrialised Count ...
    By Marianne de Nazareth Climate-vulnerable developing nations could use international law to break the current deadlock in the intergovernmental negotiations on climate change by taking industrialised nations to court, says a paper published on 4th Octoberby the Foundation for International Environ ...

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

  • 3M Obamacare Massacre: Another One Bites The Dust
    During the long heath care debate the President kept saying over and over � "No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people, If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep ...
  • Life in an American Fifth Grade: Political Correct ...
    By Barry Rubin Clearly the teacher is much better this year than�last year�regarding indoctrination. His main goal seems to be avoiding trouble.�And the students even learned a patriotic song, "This is my country, land that I love...." Yet what can you say when your child reports how hi ...
  • Global Warming ALERT: Scientists Predicting Coldes ...
    Moscow is already known as a cold city, average lows during the winter months ranges from 14-18 degrees Fahrenheit. But if Muscovites and other Russians thought the weather was cold before, just wait because its going to get worse, much worse, and they will have company because Polish scientists are ...
  • Judge Rules Terrorist-Linked CAIR Must Face Fraud ...
    A federal judge in the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia has denied a motion to dismiss complaints by five former clients of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). � It was almost two years ago (Nov. 2008) that four clients of the Council on American-Islamic Relations ( ...
  • Gillian Anderson Was a Y2K Moonbat Before She Was ...
    There has been much controversy over a video created funded by the British Government and created by the group 1010. The controversy over this anti-global warming video (now called splattergate) stems from the fact that the opening scene shows children blowing up. In fact everybody who is a climate ...

The Real Agenda

  • Facebook y Redes Sociales: Medio Conveniente para ...
    Facebook realmente explotó después de su segunda ronda de financiamiento -12.700.000 millones de dólares de la empresa de capital de riesgo Accel Partners. Su director, James Breyer, fue anteriormente presidente de la National Venture Capital Association y trabajó en el consejo con Gilman Louie, CEO ...
  • Facebook & Social Media: A Convenient Cover For Sp ...
    By Ralph Forbes Longtime AMERICAN FREE PRESS readers may recall that DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has some creepy tentacles: the Information Awareness Office (IAO); TIA (Total Information Awareness, renamed Terrorism Information Program); and TIPS (Terrorism Information and Prev ...
  • The Royal Society: Planetary Warming Uncertain
    The new guide, entitled ‘Climate change: a summary of the science’, concedes that there are now major ‘uncertainties’ regarding the once sacred ‘scientific consensus’ behind man-made global warming theory, admitting that not only is it impossible to know for sure how the Earth’s climate will change ...
  • A New Ice Age to Begin in Europe
    Polish scientists say that it means the stream will not be able to compensate for the cold from the Arctic winds. According to them, when the stream is completely stopped, a new Ice Age will begin in Europe.
  • Experimentos Médicos de E.E.U.U. en Guatemala son ...
    Los experimentos médicos de EE.UU. a los ciudadanos guatemaltecos, apenas arañan la superficie de los experimentos criminales que el gobierno de EE.UU. y la industria médica han llevado a cabo en víctimas inocentes en el último siglo.

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

  • Paradigm, Buzzword, Keyword, and persuasion
    Paradigm is a “consciousness” term. One of the best known ways to demonstrate it is visually, not verbally, there’s a really famous illustration of three forms, if looked at one way, the form in the middle would be the first thing you see, a lamp with a fancy shade. Looking at it from the two [...]
  • Contaminants in the runoff water
    Seems they predate the Homeless Camping debate by at least a decade. One of the problems that was present when the City and County of Pueblo sued Colorado Springs for fouling their water, e-coli. Seems Colorado Springs and Springs Utilities reached a plea-bargain mitigating the judgment against the ...
  • 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 ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • An Open Letter To Ryan Owens
    Mr. Owens, Let me start off by saying that the purpose of this message is not meant in any way to insult you as a researcher or as a person in general. The purpose of this message is meant to simply inform you of errors that you have made in your 9/11 research, and my sincere hope that you will cor ...
  • Building What? is up...
    And according to Joseph Nobles , there's a lie on every page. I have just recently looked through the website myself, and while I admittedly have some differences with it, Mr. Nobles seems to think that almost everything on the site is either false or misleading. Mr. Nobles' responses to the evidenc ...
  • Debunking Screw Loose Change: The Movie
    A detailed rebuttal to the film Screw Loose Change- Not Freakin' Again Edition. Note: This critique only addresses the WTC, as many issues about the Pentagon, Shanksville, and the hijackers are geniuely misrepresented in Loose Change. Related info: Constructive Criticism of the Films Loose Chan ...
  • 9/11 Debunkers Violate The Official 9/11 Report
    Steeper33 YouTube.com August 25, 2010 9/11 debunkers violate the official 9/11 report while defending the official report. Getting a bit desperate are we? The Bush administration failed to provide proof of osama bin ladens guilt, so the burden of proof is still and always will be on them . NIST ...
  • Thank You Mr Curley: "Debunker" PROMOTES the "Buil ...
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog was nice enough to help promote the " BuildingWhat? "campaign recently by posting their ad. Pat, your strategy of posting their video to help out and then inspiring truthers to donate more by insisting that the campaign is failing is brilliant, simply bri ...

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

  • Mapuche hunger strike ends
    Mapuche protests are often met with a violent police response © Flickr user antitezo, Creative Commons license Many of the 34 Mapuche prisoners on hunger strike in Chile have ended their protest, after reaching an agreement with the Chilean government. Around ten of the prisoners, however, sa ...
  • US Congress’ historic hearing on Papuan human righ ...
    The US Congress held an open hearing last week to hear testimonies from Papuans and academics about human rights violations in West Papua. The hearing, hosted by the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment, was titled, ‘Crimes against humanity: When will Indonesia’s military be ...
  • 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 ...

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

Ian Welsh

  • Waiting for a ‘decent interval’
    By Dave Anderson: Joel Hafvenstein at Registan has an interesting piece on the incompatibility of the Karzai governing and patronage style that has so far cemented his personal and broader coalition’s hold onto power, and legitimacy.  As long as Western money, Western troops and Western air power i ...
  • 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
    If you value what they do and you can afford to help, you should give. Stuff that’s free, isn’t.
  • Corrente is fundraising
    If you value what they do and you can afford to help, you should give. Stuff that’s free, isn’t.

Age of Autism

  • Win A Free iApp: Autism Track from HandHold Adapti ...
    Our friends from HandHold Adaptive have kindly offered to give NINE Age of Autism readers a free copy of their newest app, Autism Track. We'll be giving away 3 apps in October, November and again in December. Just leave a...
  • Autism, Stress and Can We Prevent Tragedy?
    By Julie Obradovic The first time I heard that someone had killed their child with Autism was several years ago. I was actually surprised there weren't more murder-suicides by that point in time, but I was certainly thankful there weren't....
  • Pediatrician Dr. Bob Sears Discusses Vaccine Dose ...
    You can send an email to Fox to share your story at friends@foxnews.com. Dr. Bob Sears was on Fox & Friends today talking about the safety of the combined pediatric vaccine schedule and more. Tomorrow the American Academy of Pediatrics,...
  • My Wife, My Daughter, and XMRV
    By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. My wife has tested positive for XMRV, otherwise known as the xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus. My daughter with autism has also tested positive for XMRV, a new human retrovirus that was recently found to be...
  • FDA Sees Bowel Risk In Rotavirus Vaccine Data
    Rotavirus vaccines have been plagued with this side effect called intussusception - where one portion of the bowel slides into another like a telescope (HERE) causing great pain and leading to the point where the infant can die from bowel...

Global BDS Movement

  • Open letter to UK Trades Union Congress General Se ...
    4th October 2010 Brendan Barber General Secretary Trades Union Congress Congress House Great Russell Street London WC1B 3LS   Dear Mr Barber,   The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), of which all of Palestinian trade union federations are members, war read m ...
  • TIAA-CREF: Divest from Injustice
    Occupied Palestine, October 4th 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, calls upon the US non-profit pension fund TIAA-CREF to li read more
  • 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

Farm Wars

  • Seed Savers Exchange and the Svalbard Doomsday Vau ...
    Seed Savers' members' heirloom seed collection is being pirated into the Svalbard seedbank, under the UN FAO treaty.
  • Barry Soetoro In the Crosshairs!
    Poor Mr. Obama and Congress must be all tuckered out from all that reading before passing all those wonderful bills that they so graciously foisted on the public.
  • 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Get ready for new big chill as forecasters predict ...
    Dailymail-Britain is set for another winter of Arctic conditions with blizzards and temperatures as low as -20C, forecasters have warned. The prediction could mean back-to-back ‘white-out’ winters after last year’s proved to be the coldest for 31 years.The worrying forecast came as bad weather struc ...
  • Japan cuts interest rate further
    BBC – Japan’s central bank has cut its benchmark interest rate to almost zero as it tries to stimulate the county’s faltering economy. Rates had been held at 0.1% since the end of 2008, but have now been trimmed further. Falling prices and the strong yen – which eats into the value of overseas earni ...
  • Doctors rights to ‘refuse abortion on consci ...
    Daily Telegraph – The right of doctors to refuse to refer women for abortions on conscientious grounds is under threat from the Council of Europe. A draft resolution would end the opt out and compel medical staff to carry out the procedure itself against their wishes if patients have nowhere else t ...
  • Rocket fired at British embassy vehicle in Yemen
    Reuters – A rocket attack in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday targeted a vehicle carrying the deputy chief of the British mission in Yemen and a gunman opened fire at an Austrian oil and gas firm, killing a Frenchman. Read Article
  • Coldest winter in 1,000 years on its way to Russia
    RT-After the record heat wave this summer, Russia’s weather seems to have acquired a taste for the extreme. Forecasters say this winter could be the coldest Europe has seen in the last 1,000 years.

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Pot plants worth $52 million seized in Sequoia Nat ...
    In what is becoming an increasingly common announcement, officials said that last month law enforcement rangers at Sequoia National Park raided an illegal marijuana plot, seizing more than 13,000 plants with a street value of $52 million. Park officials believe...
  • BP pays travel writers to 'make it right'
    Sometimes with major news stories it takes time and distance for the truth of something to come out. Often, that requires tenacious reporting by dedicated reporters. Take the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, for example. Sure, national...
  • Abalone protections proposed for California shores ...
    More than a year after putting the black abalone on the endangered species list, federal wildlife regulators have published their proposed plan for setting aside critical habitat to protect the once-common marine gastropod. The proposal, published in the Federal Register...
  • Prop. 23 campaigns go head-to-head in TV spots
    The battle over California’s global warming law moved to the airwaves Tuesday with both sides launching TV commercials. Backers of Proposition 23, a November ballot measure to suspend the law that would clamp down on greenhouse gas pollution, aired a...
  • Global warming: a rise in river flows raises alarm
    The volume of fresh water pouring from the world’s rivers has risen rapidly since 1994, in what researchers say is further evidence of global warming. The study, led by a team at UC Irvine, is the first to estimate global...

water.org

  • Write a post for clean water (Mashable)
    Write a Post for Clean Water [Blog Action Day 2010] (Mashable) – On October 15, thousands of bloggers across more than 100 countries will participate in Blog Action Day to debate, brainstorm and raise awareness around clean water. Blog Action Day has set up its very own Twitter account, @blogactiond ...
  • Reducing poverty through water, sanitation (MediaG ...
    Reducing poverty through water and sanitation (MediaGlobal) – Nicole Wickenhauser, senior manager at Water.org, told MediaGlobal, âClose to half of all people in developing countries are suffering at any given time from a health problem caused by water and sanitations deficits. Lack of access to c ...
  • 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 ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • 10 days after settlement freeze expires, 350 new u ...
    As the end of the freeze approached, the settlements have made great efforts to launch a massive building campaign in response. The Yesha Council has expressed satisfaction at the large amount of construction that has taken place so far. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • Israel is now punishing Palestinians shamelessly
    A democratic society that gives those wonderful fellows from the Shin Bet a blank check to act like the last of the great dictators and juggle with their subjects' lives - without elections, without oversight, without supervision. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Commen ...
  • Soccer / Arab press: UEFA mulls banning Israel ove ...
    The head of European soccer's governing body told a senior Palestinian Authority official that Israel is in danger of eviction from UEFA if its government does not change its policies limiting the freedom of movement for Palestinian athletes Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
  • Who Owns Congress? A Campaign Cash Seating Chart
    What if members of Congress were seated not by party but according to their major business sponsors? We gave it a try. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Mormon leader gives anti-gay sermon after suicides ...
    Please add your name to our open letter showing the Mormon Church hierarchy that it has risked further alienating vulnerable LGBT youth with potentially devastating consequences and after you sign the letter, please post it on Facebook and share... Submitted by Kathy B. to Society & Culture �|� � ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

libcom

  • Organizing for America and the “Enthusiasm Gap”
    enthusiasm.JPG WASHINGTON — Democrats desperately need other Democrats – to vote. – Liz Sidoti, of the Huffington Post The 2010 Senate elections are barely a month away, and Democrats across the country ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • James Cameron (Oct 2, 2010)
    He's one of Hollywood's most powerful figures, and, he's been one of the oil sands most vocal critics. That combination had the oil industry on edge when Avatar director, Canadian James Cameron visited Alberta.
  • 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, ...

Scotts Contracting

  • Taking Advantage of Expiring Fed Tax Incentives
    On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: This is the year. If you’ve been sitting on home fixes, waiting for the right time, it’s 2010. Lucrative federal tax incentives are set to expire at the … Continue reading →
  • Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Third Lowest Point
    On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Third Lowest Point By LiveScience Staff posted: 04 October 2010 05:23 pm ET Arctic sea ice extent for September 2010 was 4.90 million square … Continue reading →
  • Ultrathin Carbon Discovery-Nobel Prize
    On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Nobel physics prize for ultrathin carbon discovery AP â This undated image made available by the University of Manchester, England Tuesday By KARL RITTER and LOUISE NORDSTROM, Associated … Continue reading →
  • DOE, NREL Release Reports on Cutting Energy Use in ...
    On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: September 24, 2010 The U.S. Department of Energy and its National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have released two technical reports that provide recommendations on how to achieve 50 … Continue reading →
  • A musing about Roy Blunt
    Once upon a time Republicans had no doubt They said a personâs character Was what itâs all about Character used to matter If a man was true to his wife How seriously he took his vows Was reflected in his … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

  • The Careerist: First, Take a Shower
    Check out some of the latest posts on the lawjobs.com blog, The Careerist. First, Take a Shower: Advice for the Unemployed Lawyer on Staying Disciplined And Think Firms Care About Morale? Also Time for a Lawyers' Tea Party?
  • Justices Consider Limits on Employer Background Ch ...
    Lawyers for the federal government clashed with lawyers for a group of California scientists at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday over how much information the government can demand in background checks on potential employees before violating their privacy rights. The government wants the Court to o ...
  • Toyota Shareholders Invoke Japanese Securities Law ...
    Lawyers for Toyota shareholders who suffered losses tied to massive recalls and claims of sudden acceleration of its vehicles have filed a consolidated complaint invoking Japanese securities laws against the company and several of its officers and directors. The complaint, filed Tuesday in Los Angel ...
  • Survey Shows Summer Associates Still in Recession' ...
    For this year's summer law clerks, 2010 is likely to go down as the year of the even leaner, meaner summer program. Like their predecessors last year, this year's summer class got a stark reminder of the heavy toll the recession has taken, as many top law firms continued to reduce the length of summ ...
  • Harvesting Evidence From the Sea of Text Messages
    The explosive growth of text messaging presents litigators with new opportunities and challenges. To understand the utility of text messages as an evidentiary tool, say attorneys Alan Winchester and Russell Maines, it is important to understand what text messages are, and how they work.

Iranian.com

  • Shirin Ebadi: “Nokia Siemens’ Action A Major Accom ...
    Following publication of a press release by Nokia Siemens Networks about the company’s halting all its activities in the area of monitoring technology with Iran, Shirin Ebadi who has had an active role in the negotiations with the company told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that ...
  • با این افتضاح قضایی، محسنی اژه‌ای باید برود!
    چکیده : گزارش روز گذشته روزنامه ایران و شرح روند صدور حکم آقای صلواتی، به تنهایی و بدون توضیحات اضافی، خود حکایت از یک افتضاح قضایی می نماید که در پیش چشمان حیرت زده حقوق دانان، وکلا، قضات، مدیران دستگاه قضایی و مردم و ناظران حقوقی بین المللی نمایش داده شده است.
  • After currency crash, more worries for Iranian eco ...
    President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government, already faced with growing opposition from competing political forces within Iran, is confronting new pressure brought on by severe economic problems, including some triggered by international sanctions.
  • 'Bushehr reactor gets fuel load in Oct.'
    About the delay in the fuel injection process, Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), said: “During the Bushehr power plant's washing process, a leak was discovered at the side pool of the reactor and it was plugged. This leakage postponed the activities of the pla ...
  • Iran backs negotiations recognizing its nuclear ri ...
    Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Tuesday that Iran will support talks with the West which leads to the recognition of its nuclear rights. Iran has reiterated that it will only endorse the talks with the West which lead to the recognition of the country's nuclear rights, M ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Population and Resource Wars: Lessons from the Old ...
    In the 18 th century political, economist Thomas Malthus made the observation that human beings have always outstripped their food supply. He also observed that when populations reach the limit of their ability to provide for themselves some external force – usually famine, epidemics, or war – inter ...
  • 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 ...

Free Movement

  • Winding down
    I have taken the surprisingly easy decision to wind down Free Movement. For reasons that continue to escape me and which have never been explained by John O, formerly of NCADC, he left that organisation in April 2010 and set up a website called, imaginatively enough, Free Movement. It can be found a ...
  • 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 ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Forensic Scientist to Present New Evidence of Comm ...
    October 5, New York City, NY – On October 9th &10th, 2010 filmmaker Michael Moore will again livecast the hearings of the Kent State Truth Tribunal (KSTT), streaming real time accounts of participants, witnesses and family members of the 1970 Kent State shootings that left four students dead and ...
  • 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 ...

Salon

  • Pilot makes emergency landing on South Carolina hi ...
    Authorities say the pilot of a small plane made an emergency landing on a highway west of South Carolina's capital city after being forced to abort a flight to Georgia.
  • Todd Palin's angry e-mail to Joe Miller
    Alaska politics blogger Mudflats presents an e-mail, apparently sent from Todd Palin to GOP Senate nominee and former Papa Grizzly Joe Miller. Todd is not very happy with Joe!
  • The face of America's lost generation
    Sometime in early June -- he's not exactly sure which day -- Rick Rembold joined history. That he doesn't remember comes as little surprise: Who wants their name etched into the record books for not having a job?
  • Rand Paul: Intergenerational con man
    This originally appeared at� Hullabaloo
  • Howie Kurtz moves to the Daily Beast
    Here's another recent bit of media news that Howard Kurtz missed : Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz is quitting the Post for Tina Brown's Web magazine, the Daily Beast. This is terribly exciting news for fans of thrilling, new-media journalism experiments run by old magazine and newspa ...

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

Energy Collective

  • Locking In Gas Prices
    I recently received an offer from my household natural gas supplier, Washington Gas, to lock in my gas purchases for the next 12 months at a price of $0.699/therm. They reminded me that I had paid as much as $0.96/therm and as little as $0.68/therm over the last 12 months, before distribution charge ...
  • The Obama White House Goes Solar
    Energy Sec Steven Chu & CEQ Chair Nancy Sutley announcing White House plan to "go solar" (Photo: William Atkins, the George Washington University)
  • The Tianjin Climate Talks: A Dose of "Conventiona ...
    At the outset of this new round of UN climate negotiations in Tianjin, it seems that no high-level speech is complete without a dose of traditional Chinese wisdom.  The UNFCCC Executive Secretary, Christiana Figueres, sprinkled proverbs in her speeches throughout the first day.
  • Renewables provide 11.14% of US energy
    The US Energy Information Administration reports that renewable energy sources provided 11.14% of the nation’s electricity from January to June of 2010.
  • When bad economics and climate science collide
    One of my favorite economists, Stephen DeCanio, has a good piece at Real Climate Economics, reprinted below.  In addition to his many awards and publications, DeCanio was Senior Staff Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1986 to 1987.

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

  • Your Child Has A Learning Disability. So What's Ne ...
    From my Factoidz page : Learning Disabilities was included in the 1975 authorization of the federal law Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) after an organization of parents formed the first Association of Children with Learning Disabilities (Heward, 2009). In the text, Exceptional Chil ...
  • Dumbing Down Society Pt 2: Mercury in Foods and Va ...
    According to Vigilant , "Even though mercury is known to degenerate brain neurons and disrupt the central nervous system, it is still found in processed foods and mandatory vaccines. In this second part of the series examining the intentional dumbing-down of society, this article will discuss the pr ...
  • Waking up Teens
    According to Science Daily, "Teenagers' morning drowsiness is often caused by out-of-tune body clocks, in a condition known as "delayed sleep phase syndrome." Scientists now say that timing exposure to blue light -- avoiding it during the first two hours of being wake, then getting a good dose of it ...
  • The Special Education Profession
    From my Factoidz page : Persons who desire to become special educators do so for numerous reasons. Whether making a decision to become a special educator as the initial step into the educational system, or move to special education from the ranks of general education, the teacher that chooses this f ...
  • Health Benefits of Safflower and Sunflower Seeds
    According to Ron Siojo , "The sunflower flourished in Mexico about 4,000 years ago. In the 16th century, the galleon trade brought the plant to Europe where it became very popular as an ornamental flower plant. It was then established as an oilseed crop in Eastern Europe in the 18th century when Rus ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • PTSD in War Veterans: 5 Questions for Psychiatrist ...
    Col. Charles C. Engel is the Director of the Deployment Health Clinical Center, a branch of the U.S. Department of Defense, and an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Throughout his career he has... Tags: depression vietnam ...
  • What F1 Fanatics say about… Suzuka
    Suzuka is of the most popular tracks among drivers and fans alike. But it’s not the easiest race track for fans outside Japan to visit. Those who have visited Suzuka speak highly of it and a number of F1 Fanatic readers are heading to the track for this weekend’s race. Here’s what... Tags: schumache ...
  • Alofe African Cape Aloe Skincare: an Introduction
    Alofe (say it aloe-fay) is a new one on me and an interesting proposition for anyone who likes their skincare to be on the natural side of things. But lets add in a dose of performance too, shall we? While this isn’t a 100% natural, organic certified line, it does contain something... Tags: aloe sou ...
  • Unique Content Article: Perfumes: Stylish Promotio ...
    Perfumes: Stylish Promotional Products To Amaze Clients by Aya Wilkinson Loyal customers are the backbone of a company & of newly started struggling companies. Promotional products are key players, which launch a positive picture of a brand in the commercial world. Companies always... Tags: return o ...
  • tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito
    I suppose I have always followed the advice "you should not give in to evils, but proceed ever more boldly against them" Maybe it was that which led to my choice of employment in HM Forces and, briefly, as a civilian. My early years were in the late 1930s when there was a strong... Tags: paedophilia ...

Groklaw

  • Holy Timing, Batman: Apple Wins Coverflow Design P ...
    In what may have been intended as a flambouyant exercise of bureaucratic irony, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office granted Apple a design patent for Cover Flow, one week after the company was found guilty of violating someone else's patents for the very same technology. - MacObserver
  • NPE Makes Offer Some Companies Can Refuse
    What makes the suits by Tenneco and Novartis particularly intriguing is that they offer the opportunity to read Webvention's demand letters, which are attached as exhibits in both instances. The letter sent to Tenneco [ PDF , see page 2], dated April 8, and signed by C. Graham Gerst of Chicago-base ...
  • Microsoft, Motorola Patent Battle: A Lose-Lose-Los ...
    Microsoft is taking Motorola to court with allegations that its Android smartphones violate a number of Microsoft patents. It is hard to tell if the real target is Motorola, or Android itself, but one thing seems certain--patent suits as a product strategy are getting old, and ultimately it seems t ...
  • Microsoft's Android lawsuit -- payback for Mot's W ...
    Google responded to Microsoft's patent infringement lawsuit against Motorola over Android smartphones, saying the legal action "threatens innovation." Meanwhile, analysts speculate on the timing and target of the lawsuit, with one analyst calling it payback against Motorola for abandoning Windows Mo ...
  • Ballmer: Android ain't free. Microsoft gets paid.
    That HTC Android phone you bought made Microsoft a few bucks in license fees. On the back of the news that Microsoft (MSFT) is suing Motorola (MOT) for patent infringments related to Android, Steve Ballmer tells the Wall Street Journal that HTC is paying a license fee for its use of Android...and t ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

  • Incendio
    DJ heard Incendio at the Zion Canyon Music Festival. He thinks they’re amazing. I agree.
  • Chickenocrats prepare for battle
  • Search Google with your iPhone camera
    Google Goggles is now available as an iPhone app (for 3GS running iOS and 4) as part of the Google Mobile App. Just tap the camera button and it will analyze the image and return search results. Right now it works mostly for landmarks, logos, and books, but in a couple of years, it will [...]
  • Nutty old uncle now ahead in California. Boxer too ...
    Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer now have good-sized leads in their respective races for governor and senator of California. I never had any doubt about Boxer. Every time she runs there are dire predictions that this time, wow, she’s really vulnerable and could well lose. Well, she’s never lost a major ...
  • Eddie Vedder, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins at antiw ...
    (Sue’s post on Susan Sarandon got me remembering) Check these photos I took at an anti-war protest in March 2003 in Hollywood. It was an impromptu demo. Eddie Vedder, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins spoke on the sidewalk in front of the CNN building. I was pushing the portable sound system, which is why ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • When is an act of war not an act of war?
    The inimitable Matt Duss has a great post on Wonk Room today in which he notes that recent polling data from CBS News and Vanity Fair "indicates pretty strongly that Americans are not in favor of a U.S. war with Iran ." He adds, however, that supporters of a U.S. war on Iran realize that a "war", a ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • South America for South Americans
    Lessons from the crisis in Ecuador On the morning of Thursday September 30th, a small number of police revolted in Quito, as well as in Guayaquil and Cuenca, in opposition to the Public Service Law that, according to the protesters, put their ...
  • Three women arrested for occupying police station ...
    Community members continue to call for justice for missing and murdered women October 5, 2010. VANCOUVER, Coast Salish Territories- As part of a national day of action for missing and murdered Indigenous women, community members in Vancouver’s ...
  • Freedom, Safety and Revolution: Native Women Stand ...
    On October 4th, proud and indignant indigenous women and those in solidarity rallied in 81 cities across Canada. Organized by the Sisters in Spirit initiative of the Native Women’s Association of Canada, this day’s events honour the lives of the unacceptable number of missing and murdered women and ...
  • Enbridge’s Dirty Oil Habit Put on Display for Inve ...
    Toronto Organizers Confront Pipeline Giant Over Tar Sands Projects TORONTO - As Enbridge holds its investors meeting in Toronto’s financial district, Environmental Justice Toronto sent them a message about their dirty investments in fossil fue ...
  • Vigil for Ashley Machisknic - three arrested for " ...
    Day of Action for Ashley Machiskinic - three arrested DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE  - A vigil was held in the alley behind the Regent Hotel for Ashley Machiskinic, the 22-year-old Indigenous woman found  murdered in the alley on Sept. 15. It it believed she was thrown from a hotel window. The vigil was follow ...

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

  • 50 Groups Challenge Government Grant to Pro-Pestic ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 OAKLAND, Calif. – More than 50 organizations concerned about the risks of pesticides to human health and the environment have joined forces to fight California officials’ award of a $180,000... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Few Sunscreens Shield From UVA Rays
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org Washington, D.C. â With fall here, millions of Americans are outside at football and soccer games, cross-country meets, school fairs, picking apples and raking leaves. As temperatures lower and bathing suits go in ...
  • Three Top Scientists Honored with Prestigious Hein ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. -- Among this year’s recipients of the prestigious Heinz Family Philanthropies Global Change Awards are three preeminent scientists working to advance our understanding of the impacts that chemical exposures hav ...
  • 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 ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Depression Breakthrough: A Proven "Better Than Dru ...
    Here, medical journalist and Pulitzer Prize nominee Whitaker discusses how the widespread use of psychiatric drugs has contributed to the increase in mental illness. Tens of millions of Americans have been made crazy — due to their use of or withdrawal from psychiatric drugs. That’s the conclusion ...
  • If You Love Eating Fish - Now is the Time to Stop ...
    The first genetically modified animal destined for the U.S. market – a GM salmon – will still have to wait awhile. A federal advisory panel recently made its recommendation to the FDA on whether the salmon would be safe for consume ...
  • Is This Nutritional Deficiency Ruining Your Heart?
    Low levels of vitamin D have again been linked with reduced survival rates in patients with heart failure. The study, conducted at the University Medical Center, Groningen, in the Netherlands, also suggested that low levels of vitamin D are associated with activation of the Renin Angiotensin System ...
  • Hard-Hitting TV Ad Hits McDonald’s Squarely in the ...
    A new television advertisement produced by the nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine that singles out McDonald’s for obesity-related deaths is causing quite the stir. McDonald’s responded with the following: “This commercial is outrageous, misleading and unfair to all consumers. M ...
  • Don’t Eat These Beans If You’re Thinking of Having ...
    By Jeffrey M. Smith If you’re still eating genetically modified (GM) soybeans and you plan on having kids, a Brazilian study may make you think again about what you put in your mouth. Female rats fed GM soy for 15 months showed significant changes in their uterus and reproductive cycle, compar ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Mapuche hunger strike ends
    Mapuche protests are often met with a violent police response © Flickr user antitezo, Creative Commons license Many of the 34 Mapuche prisoners on hunger strike in Chile have ended their protest, after reaching an agreement with the Chilean government. Around ten of the prisoners, however, sa ...
  • US Congress’ historic hearing on Papuan human righ ...
    The US Congress held an open hearing last week to hear testimonies from Papuans and academics about human rights violations in West Papua. The hearing, hosted by the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment, was titled, ‘Crimes against humanity: When will Indonesia’s military be ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Prosecution of David Chen amounts to persecution
    The Toronto shopkeeper is charged, with two of his clerks, with assaulting and forcibly confining Anthony Bennett, a notorious shoplifter with 43 convictions. One day in May 2009, just an hour after videotape showed Bennett stealing potted plants from Chen's Lucky Moose market, Bennett retur ...
  • Nuclear-waste fears are just hysteria
    Invisible but highly dangerous, the emanations start from a seemingly benign source but if uncontrolled can spread, undetected and unchecked, until serious damage has been done. Truly, nuclear hysteria is an insidious menace.
  • 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 ...

Food World Order

  • blackwatering the crops
    monsanto hired notorious 'security' firm blackwater from grist : Oscar Wilde once described the traditional English gentleman's pastime of fox hunting as " the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible ." I thought of that great line when I caught news that Monsanto, probably the globe's most rev ...
  • obama taps food-industry exec for top ag-research ...
    from grist : The long-simmering debate about Obama's ag policy - whether it represents a new paradigm, agribusiness as usual, or some enigmatic combination - has a new data point to consider. Earlier this month, Congress approved Obama's nomination of Catherine Woteki , the USDA's undersecreta ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • 2nd Annual Leeds Exopolitics Expo - 7/8 AUG 2010
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  • The Elephant In the Room Needs A Good Slap. Boy ...
    Today another 19 people lie dead, murdered by an outrageous military massacre on neutral vessels of an humanitarian flotilla in international waters; yet more unarmed innocent victims of yet more Israeli aggression. These brave people had joined others from no less than 50 countries to try to bring ...
  • News Release: Hollie Demands Justice
    Hollie and Anne Greig have recently been on holiday with friends, during which time their knowledgeable supporters advised Anne to serve Shropshire County Council with a ‘Notice of Claim of Right’ under Common Law. This was done on May 20th and has since caused Shropshire Social Services ’serious i ...
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  • The Exopolitical Revolution continues at the Unive ...
    The european leg of the global exopolitics initiative comes to the Yorkshire city of Leeds on August 7th 2010.

The Economic Collapse

  • 12 Ominous Signs For World Financial Markets
    Can anyone explain the very strange behavior that we are seeing in world financial markets right now?  Corporate insiders are bailing out of the U.S. stock market at a very alarming rate.  Investors are moving mountains of money into gold and other commodities.  In fact, there is su ...
  • 11 Long-Term Trends That Are Destroying The U.S. E ...
    The U.S. economy is being slowly but surely destroyed and many Americans have no idea that it is happening.  That is at least partially due to the fact that most financial news is entirely focused on the short-term.  Whenever a key economic statistic goes up the financial markets su ...
  • Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations ...
    Back in 1983, approximately 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the United States.  Today, ownership of the news media has been concentrated in the hands of just six incredibly powerful media corporations.  These corporate behemoths control most of what ...
  • 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 ...

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