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Thomas Paine

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Friday, October 8, 2010

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  • CHINA: Resentment Rises With Widening Wealth Gaps
    In the rich depository of Chinese expressions dealing with the issue of unrest, none is more sensitive than the word ‘qiyi' or rebellion. After all, Chinese imperial dynasties have lost mandates because of peasant rebellions and the mere mention of the word in China brings associations wit ...
  • Liberian Women Find Their Voice
    "Voice for the voiceless" is the slogan adorning the walls of Liberia's first and Africa's second radio station for women.
  • Hope for Expanded Protection Against TB
    Despite the availability of a vaccine, 1.3 million people worldwide died from tuberculosis (TB) in 2008, according to the World Health Organisation. Most of them lived in Africa and Southeast Asia.
  • MIDEAST: Arabic Comes to Jewish Schools
    "As a democracy Israel aspires to complete equality of all its citizens," said Dr. Shlomo Alon, head of the education ministry's Arabic and Islam education division as he launched a programme at the beginning of the new school year to make classes in Arabic compulsory in all Jewish public sc ...
  • Scrambling for a Solution on IMF Governance Reform
    Among the topics expected to be discussed at the annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) that started this week and will continue through the weekend is the reform of the IMF's governance.

Scoop - NZ

  • Fraud Factories: How Banks Profit From The Foreclo ...
    US Congressman Alan Grayson talks about the fraudulent home foreclosures being carried out by the US Banks. Even Mortgage free homeowners are being fraudulently foreclosed on. There is one set of rules for the banks and another set of laws for everyone else. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • 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 ...

Independent - London

  • Danube 'neutralising toxic sludge'
    The River Danube was apparently absorbing Hungary's toxic red sludge spill with little immediate harm, officials reported today.
  • China dissident wins Nobel peace prize
    Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize today for "his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights" — a prize likely to enrage the Chinese government, which had warned the Nobel committee not to honour him.
  • Crew rescued after Channel ships collide
    All 13 crewmen from a chemical product tanker were safely rescued today after they abandoned ship in the English Channel following a collision with a cargo vessel.
  • Experts debate lining as rescue shaft nears miners
    The tunnel that rescue workers hope will transport 33 trapped Chilean miners to safety is due to be completed some time before dawn tomorrow, meaning the men could begin returning to the surface as early as Monday morning, the country’s mining minister has announced.
  • Is Pakistan falling apart?
    Is Pakistan disintegrating? Are the state and society coming apart under the impact of successive political and natural disasters? The country swirls with rumours about the fall of the civilian government or even a military coup. The great Indus flood has disappeared from the headlines at home and ...

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • A whale of a mystery
    What’s the next thing a graduate student should do after his master’s thesis solves a biochemical mystery that has befuddled zoologists for generations? This is a problem that 28-year-old Lawrence Szewciw recently faced after he and his professors at the University of Guelph determined the physiolog ...
  • Illuminating bones
    David Cooper wants to know more about your bones. Specifically, the assistant professor of anatomy and cell biology at the University of Saskatchewan is trying to answer a chicken-and-egg question about osteoporosis: do changes in the density of cells within bones cause the disease, or does the dise ...
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • India: 9,000 Cargo Workers on Strike in Mumbai Air ...
    The cargo operations at the Mumbai airport were severely affected Friday after around 9,000 cargo workers went on a flash strike, protesting lack of basic amenities and infrastructure, reported the Press Trust of India. The strike by around 9,000 contract cargo workers, belonging to multiple cargo ...
  • Washington food co-op overturns boycott plan
    A food co-op in Washington state will not boycott Israeli goods. The board of the Food Co-op in Port Townsend voted 4-2 Sept. 21 against a boycott of Israeli goods, which had been urged in July by supporters of the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.
  • Nationwide Israeli army PR campaign visits M ...
    With the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel gaining momentum nationwide, especially on campuses, it's no surprise that some corporations and pro-Israeli groups are concerned about the growing pro-Palestinian movements. In an effort to combat these movements and polish th ...
  • Cosmic Bombardment Leaves Saturn's Moon Scarred
    Experts from NASA announce that new data on Saturn's inner moons seem to indicate that the large amount of scars they have on their surfaces was produced by a cosmic bombardment. These cosmic events mostly affected the gas giant's inner, mid-sized moons, including Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione ...
  • Indonesia: Earthquake Magnitude 6.3 - Halmahera
    Date-Time: Friday, October 08, 2010 at 05:43:10 UTC Friday, October 08, 2010 at 02:43:10 PM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location: 2.754°N, 128.198°E Depth: 144.9 km (90.0 miles) Region: HALMAHERA, INDONESIA Distances: 235 km (145 miles) NNE of Ternate, Moluccas, In ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Our mollycoddled monstrosities
    A thought occurred to me in the wake of Dave's post . Zijad Delic is not just director of the CIC. He is also a refugee of a particularly vicious war. A war where Canadian Forces members sacrificed blood, treasure, and often sanity in an attempt to safeguard the lives of Delic and millions of other ...
  • Canadian government policy based on the First Crus ...
    Dawg , Pogge and Balbulican have covered this nicely. Suffice to let me add that Stephen Harper, Peter MacKay and Charles McVety are a� national disgrace beyond sufficient description. I expect MacKay is now feeling powerful enough to direct Canadian Forces Expeditionary Command to make plans fo ...
  • Dear Globe and Mail
    Have I told you how much you are not a national newspaper and nothing but another Toronto tabloid? No? Must have been busy that day. You can't cut what you can't see. I'm with POGGE .
  • Comments... sort of policy
    Normally I would simply ignore and move on, but today I received nine emails about the "change" in comments policy. How odd. The whole visual format has changed but, policy? No. The policy has always been that if you choose to attack the author of a post or you are just some kind of dirt bag pric ...
  • Wherein the Liberal leader
    ...deftly rebuts the patriarchal folk wisdom that possessing a pair correlates with a tendency for competent and decisive action in the face of a problem. Michael Ignatieff’s Liberals have helped kill an NDP motion that would have required Speaker Peter Milliken to decide whether the Harper gove ...

Media Matters for America

  • Damage control: Fox defends Rove's GOP slush fund ...
    Fox's Megyn Kelly hosted Dana Perino to portray calls for an IRS audit of a Republican slush fund promoted by Karl Rove as a politically motivated "conspiracy," ignoring that such calls have been issued by non-partisan organizations that called for similar audits of Democratic-leaning groups i ...
  • Right-wing smear machine falsely declares Dem cong ...
    Conservative media are pushing a deceptively cropped video of Rep. Phil Hare (D-IL) to claim he "doesn't believe the national debt is real." In fact, the context of Hare's remarks make clear he was referring to the "myth" that you can't "just can't spend" to put "people back to work" because "t ...
  • Reality need not apply: Fox continues to deny aid ...
    Fox News hosts and contributors have recently dismissed estimates of food stamp programs' stimulative effect on the economy as "some strange multiplier effect study," "liberal math" and a "complicated economic multiplier theory." In fact, economists agree that food stamps are one of "the most effec ...
  • Beck's historian delivered talks to racist, anti- ...
    According to the Anti-Defamation League, David Barton, a self-described historian promoted by Fox News' Glenn Beck, has twice spoken to groups affiliated with the racist and anti-Semitic Christian Identity movement. Beck himself has promoted the work and ideas of anti-Semites. ADL: Barton has t ...
  • Like clockwork: Conservatives return to baseless ...
    Continuing a pattern in which media conservatives stoke fears about election fraud by Democrats, Bill O'Reilly baselessly raised the specter of voter fraud in Washington state and Illinois in the midterm elections. In fact, voter fraud occurs infrequently, and many of the past claims by the co ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • The Secret Big-Money Takeover Of America
    Not only is income and wealth in America more concentrated in fewer hands than it's been in 80 years, but those hands are buying our democracy as never before - and they're doing it behind closed doors. Hundreds of millions of secret dollars are pouring into congressional and state races in this ...
  • Sufis, Imam Rauf's People, Blown Up in Pakistan
    The least noticed fact about Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, of the notorious Cordoba House/Islamic Cultural Center/Park 51 proposed in lower Manhattan, was that he is a Sufi--a devotee of the mystical strand in Islam. I wrote about this in blogposts here , here , and here . I wish I could say many others ...
  • Wiesel Persuades Axelrod: Dump The Mosque
    Ben Smith had a late night scoop on Politico Wednesday night. (Smith doesn't sleep). Elie Wiesel and David Axelrod came to a public agrement that the Islamic Center in lower Manhattan should not be a mosque but rather an "interfaith center." That's cool because I just decided that St. Patrick's ...
  • Bending Toward Justice
    If President Obama is looking for a way to excite us with an American vision for a Palestinian state--one that can be started on even before core issues are (entirely) resolved, and which implies what is plausible about peaceful integration with Israel and Jordan--he could do worse than publicly ...
  • The Emerging Anti-Trade Coalition, And Its Dangers
    Smoot-Hawley here we come. Willis Hawley and Reed Smoot, you may recall, sponsored the Tariff Act of 1930 that raised tariffs to record levels on more than 20,000 imported goods. The duo said this would protect American jobs and revive the economy. It did the reverse, plunging the nation into an ...

TruthOut

  • Tennessee County's Subscription-Based Firefighters ...
    As ThinkProgress has noted, there are currently two competing visions of governance in the United States. One, the conservative vision, believes in the on-your-own society, and informs a policy agenda that primarily serves the well off and privileged sectors of the country. The other vision, the pr ...
  • Finance Committee Chair Demands IRS Investigate Ro ...
    Contributors to these groups beware - you may not be anonymous for long. A big victory Wednesday, September 29, 2010, for democracy as the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus, called for an investigation of corporate front groups and asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to cond ...
  • A Long History of America's Dark Side
    Editor’s Note: Many Americans view their country and its soldiers as the “good guys” spreading “democracy” and “liberty” around the world. When the United States inflicts unnecessary death and destruction, it’s viewed as a mistake or an aberration. read more
  • On Ninth Anniversary of Afghan War, Veteran-Led Ca ...
    To mark the ninth anniversary of the Afghanistan war, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Against the War are marching in Washington, DC today to launch the first veteran-led campaign to stop the deployment of soldiers traumatized by multiple tours of duty.� read more
  • New Poll Shows California Tilting Against Legalize ...
    Los Angeles - As the nation’s first state vote on whether to legalize marijuana for recreational use nears, a new poll has introduced fresh uncertainty into the race. read more

Planetsave

  • Republican Clouds (cartoon)
    Obama announced recently that he plans to add solar panels to the White House. I can’t see anyone or anything standing in the way. Related Stories: U.S. Commander-in-Chief Orders Solar Panels for White House Obama: âNo industry with more potential to create jobs now than clean energyâ Follow Joe ...
  • To Swiss Banking Giant UBS: Get Out of Mountaintop ...
    Mountaintop removal coal mining is one of the most horrendous things on the planet in my mind. It decapitates precious, beautiful mountains; pollutes rivers and communities with mercury, arsenic and other harmful waste; and helps accelerate global warming (or global weirding). Luckily, people have b ...
  • Hungary Toxic Sludge Reaches Danube River [VIDEOS]
    After streaming through and contaminating smaller rivers and streams, toxic sludge from a Hungarian factory has now reached the Danube River. The Danube is Europe’s second-largest river and experts from the European Union (EU) fear that if the toxic red sludge contaminates the Danube it could affect ...
  • BBC Has Covered Climate Change, No More Need&#8230 ...
    Have you ever felt like US and British media are doing an extremely poor job of covering climate change. You know we have. A former BBC correspondent recently gave us a good insider’s perspective on why this is the case, as well as letting us know that it isn’t expected to get much better. Mark... R ...
  • 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 Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Threatened bumblebees make a comeback - World News
    The five most threatened bumblebees in England have made an unprecedented comeback in the South East this year thanks to environmental work by farmers.  A Shrill carder bumblebee Photo: RSPB The large garden bumblebee, the shrill carder bee, the red shanked carder bee, the moss carder bee and the ...
  • Israel pressures Lebanon to cancel Ahmadinejad vis ...
    JERUSALEM: Israel has stepped up efforts to persuade Lebanese officials to cancel a visit next week by the Iranian President, which it has branded an act of provocation. With Mahmoud Ahmadinejad due in Beirut next Wednesday for a two-day state visit to Lebanon, his first since he became President ...
  • Spain’s Upside Down World. Judge Garzón fired. Jud ...
    Last May Spanish “super judge” Baltasar Garzón was suspended from his duties for trying to open an investigation into the crimes perpetrated during the fascist era of Spain’s infamous dictator, Francisco Franco who died in 1976. The Franco period is something which most Spanish would prefer to wi ...
  • Perspective: UAW expands drive to cut auto workers ...
    7 October 2010 United Auto Workers officials walked into a local union meeting Sunday afternoon in Lake Orion, Michigan and announced that they had agreed to a 50 percent wage cut for workers with less than 11 years seniority at GM’s assembly plant in the Detroit suburb. UAW Local 5960...
  • US banks fake documents to rush foreclosures - Wor ...
    7 October 2010 Major US banks systematically faked documents in order to speed up foreclosures for hundreds of thousands of homeowners, a mounting body of evidence shows. It appears likely that federal and state laws were broken in the process. The scandal speaks both to the dimensions of the ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • "Common Good" an Important Economic Metric, Too
    What if the going rate for snow shovels is $15. �Would the owner of the corner hardware store be within his rights to raise the price to $20 on the morning after a crippling snowstorm? Would it be right for him to do so? And what about a zero sum economy, one where the financial gains for one indivi ...
  • Mexican Immigration Nothing Like You've Heard
    We know that the racist crazies in Arizona are making up ridiculous shit about Mexican illegal immigration to justify their fearmongering. But now it seems that even the supposedly reasonable aspects of the War on Immigrants are as self-defeating and removed from reality as the futile War on Drugs. ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    It drives home the point just how screwed we really are when we read the Onion and agree that, "yep, it has indeed come to this." "Citing a desire to gain influence in Washington, the American people confirmed Friday that they have hired high-powered D.C. lobbyist Jack Weldon of the firm Patton Bogg ...
  • Unequivocal Cheers for Obama
    It's a good thing I didn't actually make the big-money bet I was planning to make that Obama would sign this. �Of course he would sign it: the bill would help all the Wall Street fraudsters he's been fellating for the last two years, and fuck over all the struggling middle-class homeowners he's been ...
  • Repugs Fan Voter Fraud Hysteria While Committing E ...
    The examples of both false accusations against Democratic voters and accurate cases of fraud by repugs are coming fast and furious. Karoli at Crooks and Liars: If you can't win the vote fairly, suppress voters. This has been a Republican tactic for years, and it's running rampant in Wisconsin. Whil ...

Care 2

  • Freezer Burn: Six Misleading Frozen Meals
    The convenience of frozen food is a hard lure to resist, even among those of us who try to eat well. A million other responsibilities often take priority over planning nutritious, delicious meals, and food that requires merely unwrapping and nuking Submitted by Michelle Matthews to Health & Wellness ...
  • 10 Body Parts You Can Live Without
    Although no one likes having surgery or complications from a "useless" body part, it's nice to know that you can live without these body parts. Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Why the discovery of Gliese 581g is really a big ...
    There is a planet in orbit around a red dwarf star, roughly 20.5 lightyears from Earth.It's larger than our home world. But not by much, relatively speaking. Computer models predicted that it was probably a rocky planet, or at least one ... Submitted by Michelle Matthews to Science & Tech �|� �Note ...
  • Graphene speeds pair to Stockholm Nobel win
    Sheets of carbon with the potential to revolutionize electronics and materials science have bagged this year's Nobel Prize in Physics. Submitted by Michelle Matthews to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Powerful supercomputer peers into the origin of li ...
    Supercomputer simulations at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are helping scientists unravel how nucleic acids could have contributed to the origins of life. Submitted by Michelle Matthews to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

  • A Party of Refuseniks and Obstructionists: Republi ...
    Under the Republican Party's new blueprint for America, BP will no longer be required to clean up the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the F.D.A. will not restrict the new diabetes drug Avandia just because it's unsafe, and donors will be required to keep their contributions to political cam ...
  • Attention Left, Liberal and Radical Groups: Pennsy ...
    by Bill Quigley and Rachel Meeropol Thank you, Institute of Terrorism Research and Response (ITRR), for reminding us how many bad-ass, dedicated, and creative groups we count as allies in our efforts to create a more just world! Our friends at MoveON.org, the Ruckus Society, Immokalee Workers, the n ...
  • Everybody Knows Times Op-Ed Columnists Are Lazy
    Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That’s how it goes Everybody knows - Leonard Cohen and Sharon ...
  • Economics 101 for Deficit Hawks
    The same Washington policymakers who inveigh against the deficit want a strong dollar - clueless about the contradiction There are few areas of economics more boring than accounting identities. This is really unfortunate, since it is virtually impossible to have a clear understanding of economic pol ...
  • Ben Bernanke Wants Your Social Security Money
    Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke took another swing at Social Security and Medicare today, saying yet again that they'll need to be cut to protect our nation's financial health. Based on his record, any roadmap Bernanke lays out for the future is worth following ... as long as you hold it up to a ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Is Barack a Socialist?
    * Bumped up * You know the old saying, “if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck it probably is a duck.” Same can be said of a socialist. Here’s a recent video suggesting that this particular shoe fits Barack Obama like Cinderella’s missing glass slipper: The term [...]
  • Afghanistan, Pakistan and Charles Dickens
    Charles Dickens, if still alive today and writing about the war in Afghanistan, would probably be able to lift the introductory sentence from his classic, A Tale of Two Cities–”it was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” It has been nine years since CIA operators led by Gary Schroen and a ...
  • Wild & Woolly Election! * Open Thread
    Holy smokes! BARNEY FRANK is “facing a credible Republican challenger for the first time in many, many years”? (NOTE: Add more interesting races in the comments below.) WHAT? The GOP’s Dino Rossi is pulling ahead of Sen. Patty Murray in Washington state? (48 percent to 42 percent). BUT ALAS! OH ...
  • Ham Smear
    � The Democrats are trying to lose? Lee Fisher appears to be a ham actor from the 19th Century portraying a Shakespeare character playing a senator from the Wild West. Fisher needs a string tie and half-boots; and it would be easy to see him as a sharpie running a rival saloon. [...]
  • Is Barack a Socialist?
    You know the old saying, “if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck it probably is a duck.” Same can be said of a socialist. Here’s a recent video suggesting that this particular shoe fits Barack Obama like Cinderella’s missing glass slipper: The term “socialist” is both [ ...

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

  • The Limits of Internet Organizing
    One reason the Green Movement never quite became a revolution.
  • U.S. Scrambles to Save Peace Talks
    With a key Arab League meeting delayed until Friday, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is scrambling to keep one-month-old direct Israeli- Palestinian peace talks alive.
  • The War Addicts
    Sometimes it's the little things in the big stories that catch your eye.
  • Nigeria @ 50
    The direction that Nigeria takes -- towards a future of hope and growth, or one of backsliding and defeat -- depends, to a great extent, on the country's future leadership.
  • Middle-East Peace Talks: Thin Pickings for Abbas
    Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has yielded little, but has bolstered his own political standing without jeopardizing U.S. support.

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

  • Lawless Nation – Congress
    By Michael Collins Part II of III (Part I) WASHINGTON – Placed in office through legalized bribery, supported by public funding for their every need, protected against the laws that we’re expected to obey, Congress represents the epitome of lawlessness; lawmakers who have no regard for the law. (Ima ...
  • 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 ...

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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

  • Hinerwadel's Grove sickens sixty with Campylobacte ...
    The Onondaga County Health Department says 60 people have become ill by Campylobacter because of raw clams served at an event at Hinerwadel's Grove in North Syracuse. The Health Department says so far, all of the illnesses have been linked to a clambake September 15th for the CNY Builders Exchange. ...
  • Raw Milk Satirized on Colbert Nation
    Several weeks ago when the producer of the Colbert Show was searching for information on raw milk, he stumbled on to several of my blog posts and www.realrawmilkfacts.com . �I urged that he take a hard look at some of the videos and to contact David Gumpert at the Complete Patient as well as a few o ...
  • Wired seems to be paying attention to all sorts of ...
    After my stint as the "Toxic Avenger" in this month's Wired Magazine, I thought the techies were done with me - apparently, they have a lot of interest in all types of bugs - Re: C diff: What’s really interesting, though, is that microbiologists aren’t the only ones noticing this accumulation of ev ...
  • Casa de Chicken Coop Completed
    Well the coop got painted yesterday afternoon. �Frankly, after $5,000 in cost I am going to stop counting. �The eggs I am sure will be the best. �Friday I will be meeting with the lab who will start testing my chickens for Salmonella and Campylobacter. �And, the chickens have been let out of the c ...
  • 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 10.07.10
    Popular Mechanics names Chevrolet Volt, Nissan Leaf 'Breakthrough Products' They'll probably fare better than 2008's winner, Aptera. Renault Zoe is a stylish battery-powered hatch done right ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 10.06.10
    This is America's best plug-in vehicle deal: get $15,000 off your Leaf or Volt It's only available for a few, but it's a darn good deal. Video: Ex-Stig says Nissan Leaf is a driveable iPod I ...
  • 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Xmarks CEO: Knight-in-shining-armor rescue likely
    The company isn't going to make it, but the popular browser sync tool is likely to live on.
  • Reporters' Roundtable: The Internet vs. Hollywood
    Today: The movie and TV industries vs the Internet! Who will win -- Studios, internet companies, consumers, manufacturers, or some combination? The entire entertainment industry is, of course, in the middle of shedding its skin. The old ways of distributing and charging for entertainment conten ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable: How game mechanics are infe ...
    Today we're talking about game mechanics. Check-in apps like Foursquare use philosophies of game design to pull users deeper into engaging with them. The success of this concept has begun to infect other technologies, from consumer Web services to business applications. Software and services are ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable: Deciphering Apple's develop ...
    On September 9, Apple rewrote its rulebooks for developers . In its revised developers agreement , it reversed a ruling that blocked developers from using all but a very few programming languages for iPhone apps. And it also made public for the first time the guidelines it uses for deciding if ap ...
  • Foound launches Foursquare of the future
    Demo Fall 2010 sees the excellent demo of Foound, a clean mobile app for planning "hangouts" with friends.

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

  • Glenn Beck Mocks Fire Victims, Reaches New Depths ...
    I’ve probably written and rewritten this opening paragraph about Glenn Beck and his morning zoo sycophantic sidekick Pat Gray four or five times with various sequences of compound obscenities and ad hominem insults. But I’m opting for more restraint at this point, even though neither of these jackal ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Rawesome Foods Raid on The Colbert Report
    On June 30th, federal, state and local authorities raided Rawesome Foods in Venice, CA. The Colbert Report just did this piece about it. The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Rawesome Foods Raid www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election March to Keep ...
  • Money & Markets Charts ~ 10.7.10
    View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, October 7, 2010. Click here to view all charts as a pdf file. See previous Money & Markets Charts blog posts here. Currency ch ...
  • Microsoft Proposes Government Licensing Internet A ...
    State should have power to block individual computers from connecting to world wide web, claims Charney. By Paul Joseph Watson A new proposal by a top Microsoft executive would open the door for government licensing to access the Internet, with authorities being empowered to block individual comput ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • The mills of justice creak into action – fig ...
    Summary:   After two years of reports about foreclosure fraud by banks, resulting in millions of families kicked onto the street, the issue finally gets attention from the news media, representatives, and law enforcement officials.  The sparks have kindled a small fire, which might grow in ways diff ...
  • The insurgency widens – another crack in civ ...
    Summary:  An important step in the evolution of an insurgency comes when it steps out of the shadows.  When its members assert their beliefs in public — going from assertion of special circumstances to statement of specific rights.  That’s necessary for it to bid for the widespread support needed ...
  • Evidence that liberty and the rule of law still ex ...
    Summary:  Fear rules our hearts, allowing our government to slowly strip away our rights.  We revere the Founders but as cowards find their words incomprehensible.  Perhaps we can find inspiration from recent deeds, such as this ruling from a Judge who still values liberty and the rule of law.  ...
  • Our growing domestic insurgency: revolt of the gen ...
    Summary:   A sign of our ovine nature is the torpor with which we watch alarming events, such as the inevitable consequences of a long war.  Our  forefathers warned us, but we didn’t listen.  Now come the consequences. Slowly over the past five years evidence has accumulated that our military ...
  • “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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Australia No Tiger Island party for gun company
    AAP – Dreamworld won’t host a Christmas party for a gun company on its Tiger Island because the firm’s website shows photos of exotic animals being killed for sport. The Gold Coast theme park is refusing to back down after angry correspondence from Nioa, one of Australia’s largest firearm and ammuni ...
  • Australia Capsicum spray use growing because more ...
    Australian – Police admit more officers are using capsicum spray, but say it coincides with a growth in the number of young people carrying weapons. Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Kieran Walshe has defended the practice of using capsicum foam after it was used to subdue two Victorian children w ...
  • Forbes most powerful women: top 10
    Daily Telegraph – Forbes had announced its top 100 of the world’s most powerful women. They are… Read article
  • School installs £9,000 facial recognition cameras ...
    Daily Mail – It could make the time-honoured tradition of taking the school register a thing of the past. Cutting-edge cameras are being used to scan childrenâs faces as they enter school. The face-recognition technology makes sure they have turned up, records whether they were on time or late and ...
  • Climate Fact Of The Day – The Holocene Period
    “The last 10,000 years (the Holcene period) has been quite unusually warm. To find a comparable time we would have to go back to the Eamian period some 120,000 years ago….the Holocene has been privieged in a further respect: its extraordinary climatic stability…if we look at the Eemian, it is made u ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • A. Iwanow – Walka klas dotyczy także kultury
    A. Iwanow – Walka klas dotyczy także kultury (trzeciswiat.wordpress.com) Niestety Towarzysz Marchwicki nie zrozumiał podstawowego celu mojej krytyki jego tez i dalej propaguje rewizjonistyczny pogląd na kulturę. Nie wystarczy wyrwać z kontekstu z mojego tekstu  zdania „Po zdobyciu dwóch podstawowych ...
  • Wiele dróg do socjalizmu?
    Wiele dróg do socjalizmu? (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (English) (Polski) “Drodzy Trzecioświatowi Maoiści, Nie ma proletariatu w Pierwszym Świecie. Tylko durnie fantazjują o rewolucjach w Pierwszym Świecie. Pierwszoświatowcy to żart. Rozumiem to. Nie jestem tylko pewien strony maoistowskiej z ...
  • 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 ...

PakAlert

  • Video: Gold and Silver Prices Signal the Destructi ...
    On CNBC they often point to the dollar index and state that a weaker dollar is good for the export economy. Currently US Dollar index looks bad - but it actually means nothing because it is being compared to other world wide fiat currencies undergoing massive debasement. Worldwide central banks, see ...
  • Karachi Blasts: Targeting Pakistan
    On October 7, 2010 at least 9 individuals have been killed and more than 85 injured in two successive blasts near a prominent shrine in Karachi .The blasts occurred within minutes of interval at the gate of the shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi in Clifton, where a large number of people gather everyday. ...
  • The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence. The World i ...
    Every citizen of the world community has the right and the duty to oppose the existence of nuclear weapons systems by whatever non-violent means are at his or her disposal. Otherwise the human race will suffer the same fate as the dinosaurs. And the planet earth will become a radioactive waste-land. ...
  • Satanist Mentions False Flags And Vaccines
    The economic collapse will be this year - 2010! I'm still awaiting word as to whether it will be sooner or later. When it happens we're talking days, not weeks. Kazuhiko-san (our little Queen Himiko: "the double-wanded one" Liber Al III:34) has contacts who have advised that the Japanese economy is ...
  • Video: Chinese Scientists Taped UFO For 40 Minutes
    The UFO world is alive with speculation that China is about to reveal details of startling and detailed footage of an unidentified flying object taken during the solar eclipse on July 22.

Andy Worthington

  • Guantánamo Uighur Brothers “Happy” in Switzerland, ...
    Six months after arriving from Guantánamo to a new life in the Swiss canton of Jura, Arkin Mahmut (46) and his younger brother Bahtiyar (34), seen for the first time in the photo here, have spoken publicly about their release, stating that they are “happy” in their new home. However, as the Swiss we ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Charges Against We Are Change Leader Belie Group&# ...
    We Are Change (WAC) is an organization that likes to quote Martin Luther King Jr., Einstein, Gandhi and others talking about the evils of war. It describes itself as a nonviolent âcitizens based grassroots peace and social justice movementâ and reacted angrily this year when the Southern Poverty ...
  • Suicides and gay-bashings: More of the same for LG ...
    Gay-rights advocates are describing two attacks against gay victims in New York City communities normally considered LGBT-friendly, and a month in which at least five teenagers nationwide committed suicide as a result of anti-gay bullying or outing, not as a surge in anti-gay hate but merely a sudde ...
  • Right Wingers Take on ‘Liar in Chief’
    MIAMI, Fla. — To many of the far-right speakers and people attending the three-day “Taking America Back” conference here, President Obama doesn’t just espouse policies and ideology they loathe. They’re convinced he’s a Muslim, a communist or both. Not only is Obama a communist, but the Democratic Pa ...
  • Anti-Government Dad, Son Blame Each Other in Bank- ...
    The trial of Bruce and Joshua Turnidge begins its sixth day of testimony in a Salem, Ore., courtroom Wednesday, Oct. 6, where the father and son face nearly 20 counts ranging from aggravated murder to assault stemming from a December 2008 bank bombing that killed two police officers and seriously in ...
  • 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 ...

change: org.

  • Ex-Research Subject Starts New Life as Family Dog
    Stewie the beagle spent the last three years of his life in a cage at Professional Laboratory and Research Services, one of nearly 200 dogs and 54 cats who were the subjects of toxicity testing, abuse and neglect. An undercover PETA investigation revealed that the PLRS staff held a malicious hatred ...
  • Alcohol Companies Advertise Fighting the Breast Ca ...
    Would you like a dash of hypocrisy with your drink? It's October, which means Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and pink ribbons everywhere say: Hey! I'm not just a fashion accessory. I want you to think pink, girls, breast, cancer. But whatever your thoughts on the pink ribbon politics of raising awar ...
  • Should We Stop the Poor from Purchasing Soda?
    Folks enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (S.N.A.P.) — otherwise known as food stamps — can't buy certain groceries like wine, beer, and prepared foods with their benefits. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to add one more item to the do-not-buy list — soda. According ...
  • Failing with Flair at SoCap10
    (Ed. Note: This is a guest post from SoCap10 by San Franista author Emily Goligoski) There are two things to be expected from startups, if you follow IDEO’s Jocelyn Wyatt’s thinking: they’ll change their names and business models. And, if that second or third name sticks long enough for people to kn ...
  • Homophobia: It Hurts Straight People, Too
    Celebrities have been talking about the gays a lot this week. Kathy Griffin. Bette Midler. Jason Derulo. Sarah Silverman. Jewel. The list goes on and on of celebrities getting their gay on this week, with most of them addressing the tragedy of suicide among the LGBT community. One celebrity who spok ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Special Report: The Pentagon's New Cyber Warriors
    by Jim Wolf WASHINGTON - 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 t ...
  • Enbridge Investors Told Pipelines Feed Fossil Fuel ...
    by Cameron Fenton and Maryam Adrangi As Enbridge holds its investors meeting in Toronto's financial district, Environmental Justice Toronto sent them a message about their dirty investments in fossil fuels. Grassroots organizers sent up a banner attached to helium balloons that read "Enbridge Invest ...
  • Daschle Admits -- Then Denies -- That White House ...
    by Brian Beutler In a candid interview with the Center for American Progress [on Tuesday], former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle acknowledged that the public option didn't survive the health care debate because of a "understanding" that the White House reached with health care industry stakeh ...
  • Taliban in Talks with Karzai Government: Report
    WASHINGTON — The Taliban and the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai have begun high-level talks over a negotiated end to the war in the country, the Washington Post said .Citing unnamed Afghan and Arab sources, the Post said the talks are believed, for the first time, to involve repres ...
  • Barack Obama Accused of Exaggerating Terror Threa ...
    by Simon Tisdall and Richard Norton-Taylor A US terror alert issued this week about al-Qaida plots to attack targets in western Europe was politically motivated and not based on credible new information, senior Pakistani diplomats and European intelligence officials have told the Guardian. read mo ...

Lifehacker

  • Security Essentials Screensaver Scans Your Compute ...
    Windows: Many utilities, such as JkDefrag , jazz up their routine scans by presenting them as screensavers. Security Essentials Screensaver turns your computer idle time/screensaver activation into malware and virus scanning time. More�� ...
  • HTCSense.com Now Online, Brings Remote Wipe and Ot ...
    HTC announced their new portal for Android phones last month, and today it's up and fully functional, bringing remote contact backup, phone wipe, ringing, and GPS location to new HTC phones. More��
  • Microsoft Expression Encoder Captures Surprisingly ...
    Windows: Among the screen capture and encoding tools, Microsoft's name probably doesn't come up. Too bad, because their Expression Encoder offers a free, high-resolution screen capture tool that works great for how-to recordings, demonstration ...
  • Break Down the Barrier Between WebOS and Your Comp ...
    We recently rounded up the best ways to sync files, web pages, and generally everything else between your main computer and an Android or iPhone . One enthusiastic Palm WebOS user took it upon themselves to write up a counterpart guide. Mor ...
  • Gmail Security Checklist Takes a Comprehensive Wal ...
    Google now offers a security checklist for Gmail users, a five-part process with multiple steps in each designed to reclaim the feeling that nobody can get into your inbox. It starts out obvious (security updates, plug-ins, passwords) then get ...

Water Privatization

  • SABMiller Uses `Holy Water' to Target Entry Into E ...
    SABMiller Plc , the world’s second- largest brewer by volume, is using its success with Ethiopian “holy water” to encourage the country’s government to sell it state-owned breweries.
  • City leaders eye privatization
    HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - The Hattiesburg City Council on Wednesday will decide whether to take the first step to privatize the wastewater treatment plants and collection system.
  • Privatization In Ghana: The Good, The Bad And The ...
    There has been an extensive, sometimes heated, debate on whether public companies should be privatized. The proponents of privatization argue that government is normally not an efficient executive and hence should be stripped off all duties which could otherwise be executed by private bodies.
  • How to avert a global water crisis
    A dearth of data on water resources is holding up improved management practices.
  • School kids learn value of water during festival
    ALBANY, GA. — Hundreds of school children went through stations at the Flint Riverquarium recently, learning the value of water as a part of the annual Water Festival.

Guardian

  • Miliband names Johnson as shadow chancellor
    Yvette Cooper, who topped poll of MPs for cabinet posts, is shadow foreign secretary, while husband Ed Balls gets home affairs Alan Johnson has been appointed shadow chancellor in Ed Miliband's first shadow cabinet. Neither Ed Balls nor his wife Yvette Cooper – who topped the ballot of Labour MPs fo ...
  • Chinese fury at Liu Nobel peace prize
    Chinese authorities say awarding peace prize to 'criminal' will hurt relations with Norway China's best-known dissident, Liu Xiaobo, today won the Nobel peace prize from the prison cell where he is serving 11 years for incitement to subvert state power. The announcement provoked a furious reaction f ...
  • Man Utd reveal loss of £83.6m
    • Deficit is despite club making record turnover of £286.4m • Figures likely to spark fresh anti-Glazer protests by United fans Manchester United today posted record losses of £83.6m despite increased turnover, largely due to interest repayments and one-off financial charges relating to the bond iss ...
  • Abattoir video shows animal abuse
    Charity's secret video shows pigs being kicked and stamped on – prompting calls for CCTV cameras in all abattoirs The government is calling on nearly 370 slaughterhouses in Britain to install surveillance cameras to help enforce legislation against cruelty to animals, following a controversial campa ...
  • Toxic sludge fails to damage Danube
    Hungarian officials say alkaline levels in river remain normal so far, as fifth death reported One of the people injured in Hungary's sludge spill has died in hospital, Hungarian media reported today, as new evidence of environmental damage emerged. The fifth victim was an 81-year-old man who died i ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Bluefin numbers shift in murky waters
    A fascinating document has fallen into my lap from a meeting now going on in Madrid looking at tuna stocks and catches. Tuna in fish market The question it asks - perhaps without intending to - is this: can the Mediterranean bluefin industry ever be properly monitored? With the bluefin having becom ...
  • 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 ...

The Wonk Room

  • Rep. Kendrick Meek Calls Crist The ‘George W ...
    Governor Charlie Crist (I) tried to run away from his support for Florida’s ban against gay adoption during yesterday’s ABC Florida senate debate, portraying himself a social moderate who only supported the ban because it was the law of the state. But during a heated exchange in the last minutes of ...
  • Do Republicans Think American Diplomacy Is Best Se ...
    Our guest blogger is David Halperin of the Israel Policy Forum. he biggest challenge to U.S. diplomacy today is just showing up. U.S. Ambassadors in Syria, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan (and the Czech Republic too) are all missing — held up in Congress or in transition. In total, ...
  • First Ever Decision On Constitutionality Of Health ...
    Today was a victory for the Affordable Care Act. The first court decision to render a verdict on the constitutionality of the landmark health reform package upheld a key portion of law. Earlier today, Judge George Caram Steeh of the Eastern District of Michigan handed down a twenty page order dismis ...
  • The Specifics Of ACA Defunding
    Proponents of the health reform are starting to worry that if the Republicans can’t practically repeal the Affordable Care Act, they can do a lot of damage to the law by defunding it. Henry Aaron has a good piece in New England Journal of Medicine about what exactly the GOP can do: Repeal of [...]
  • McCarthy Finally Finds Programs He Would Cut, Redu ...
    A few weeks ago, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) — one of the self-styled GOP “Young Guns” and the lead architect of the House Republicans’ “Pledge to America” — was pressed on MSNBC to name one single program he’d cut from the federal budget to reduce spending. After dodging the questions for a minute, ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Tony Blair and Glenn Beck
    There's a nauseating combo 'eh? But this post is just about two quick separate reflections on these two assholes. About Tony Blair, I'd like to review Heather Mallick's review of Tony Blair's latest exercise in self-pity and hypocrisy, My Journey: Andrew Rawnsley, whose recent The End of the Party ...
  • Suppression of the Left
    From CommonDreams, Lydia Howell's "Is Progressive Dissent Public Enemy #1? " The pretext for the raids was investigating “material aide to terrorists”, resulting in grand jury subpoenas and confiscation of computers, books, music CDs and from one home, a Martin Luther King poster. The targeted Mi ...
  • 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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Fall 2010 interns dazzle in new roles
    We are pleased to host a new group of interns here for the semester: Pictured here are (from the top) Matt, (next row) Afshin, Caroline, (middle row) Nobuya, Breann, Juliana, (front row) Liz, Saki and Leigh. We already appreciate how these interns can dive into a firehose of work so quickly.� We co ...
  • Charleston Gazette calls for modernizing whistlebl ...
    In an editorial yesterday, the Charleston Gazette of West Virginia called on Congress to pass a law to modernize the legal protections for workplace health and safety whistleblowers. "Whistleblowers protect the health and safety of working Americans by exposing unsafe conditions," the editorial begi ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Bogus DMCA Takedown Knocks Out Yet Another Politic ...
    We were just discussing how the DMCA interferes with political speech , and the EFF brings up another example. Apparently, John Kasich, who's running for governor in Ohio, put out a commercial that purported to show a local steelworker talking about how unhappy he was with the current governor, Ted ...
  • Reuters Dumps Anonymous Comments: Throwing Out A B ...
    This probably isn't a surprise. Lots of traditional journalism folks have been busy slamming "anonymous" commenters online, often falsely blaming them for things they did not do. Earlier this year, we pointed to an excellent defense of anonymous commenting , by the Washington Post's Ombudsman, And ...
  • Facebook Patents Foursquare?
    A bunch of folks have sent in the news that Facebook has apparently been granted a very broad patent covering all sorts of location-based "check-in" type services. The patent in question ( 7,809,805 ) almost certainly would cover what Foursquare, Gowalla, Google Lattitude and others have done. Of ...
  • More Stories Of People Following GPS Blindly Into ...
    We've had tons of stories over the years of people blindly obeying their GPS devices way too far, leading to dangerous results... and yet it keeps on happening. Here are two more examples, with one leading to a car stuck atop a mountain, and the other at the bottom of a reservoir. The first, sent ...
  • Eli Lilly's Reliance On Patents May Be Its Downfal ...
    Copycense points us to a NY Times piece about how pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly is facing some tough times ahead . Why? Because the patents on the drugs that make up most of its revenue are all set to expire soon, and their pipeline of newly patented drugs is pretty far behind. Of course, what t ...

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

  • Fascinating New Species Found in Papua New Guinea
    Photo: Piotr Naskrecki, Conservation International When it comes to finding fascinating species previously unknown to science, it turns out that forests of Papua New Guinea are a darn good place to look. Researchers have recently disclosed their discoveries from a two-month long expedition to th ...
  • Paris to Launch Electric Car-Sharing Program Next ...
    Photo via Buildaroo There's long been talk about a electric car-sharing program in Paris -- but it looks like it's finally going to become a reality. In a recent announcement, Mayor Bertrand Delanoë revealed that the famous city will see the beginning of Autolib. The pioneering program will mak ...
  • The Global Work Party Begins: Maldives President F ...
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  • Lagoons Bursting Out: At The Intersection Of Clima ...
    Image credit: NOAA Atlas 14, Vol 2 (2004) (pdf file) Wastewater or sludge storage lagoons are designed, in part, based on statistical probability of annual precipitation and evaporation amounts. The data behind these estimates generally don't take into account contemporary or projected weather ...
  • GOP Candidates Pledge to Kill High Speed Rail
    The high speed rail lines at stake -- red has partial funding, gray is proposed. Image via the Transport Politic As a dreamer of the American high speed rail dream, this news just makes me sad: the Republican candidates running for governor in Ohio, Florida, California, Wisconsin, and elsewhere ...

Biosingularity

  • Low Carb Diet Rich in Animal Fat and Protein Incre ...
    Those who adhered to a diet low in carbohydrates but rich in animal-based fats and proteins increased their risk of death – especially by cancer, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, led by Simmons College nutrition professor Teresa Fung, Sc. D. This study is the first ...
  • Olive Oil May Cut Risk of Ulcerative Colitis
    Two or three tablespoons a day of olive oil may help protect against ulcerative colitis, preliminary research suggests.In a new study, people with the highest consumption of oleic acid — a monounsaturated omega-9 fatty acid found in olive oil, peanut oil, and grapeseed oil, as well as in butter and ...
  • You Are Your Bacteria
    Variation in our microbial inhabitants could help tailor efforts to treat illness. via Technology Review: You Are Your Bacteria.
  • Weird, Ultra-Small Microbes Turn Up in Acidic Mine ...
    In the depths of a former copper mine in Northern California dwell what may be the smallest, most stripped-down forms of life ever discovered. The microbes — members of the domain of one-celled creatures called Archaea — are smaller than other known microorganisms, rivaled in size only by a microbe ...
  • Multiple personal genomes await
    Genomic data will soon become a commodity; the next challenge — linking human genetic variation with physiology and disease — will be as great as the one genomicists faced a decade ago, says J. Craig Venter. via Multiple personal genomes await : Article : Nature.

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Assassination is the new torture
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Andrew Sullivan recently posted a brief defense of Barack Obama’s assassination program and received a sharp response by Glenn Greenwald. The ensuing debate (I believe this and this are the latest) at times has felt depressingly fam ...
  • Excerpt from Lies by Al Franken
    Linked from here . Franken notes the first World Trade Center attack happened 38 days into Clinton’s first term. More from pp. 109-10: The way Clinton responded to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center was to capture, try, convict and imprison those responsible. Ramzi Yousef, Abdul Hakim Mura ...
  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Transgenic Corn Trickles into Mexico Despite Fears
    Genetically modified corn is trickling into Mexico after overcoming years of legal barriers, but where some farmers see the promise of reduced imports others see a threat to their heritage. Click here to read this article
  • Recommended Video: Pig Business
    Focusing on factory farms in Poland and the US, Pig Business reveals how we should avoid buying meat from a system which damages human health, pollutes the environment, destroys rural communities, and causes unacceptable suffering to the animals. Click here to read this article
  • Climate Finance Can’t Afford Carbon Markets
    A high-level advisory group to the United Nations will outline its draft proposals this week for financing efforts to combat global climate change. Carbon emissions markets are expected to be central in their recommendations. But carbon market prices would likely be too volatile to provide a reliabl ...
  • Detroit Grows Its Own Good News Story
    Finding himself unemployed and living back in the blighted neighbourhood that he had grown up in, Mark Covington decided to improve things by turning vacant lots into vegetables plots. Not only did the work improve the look of Georgia Street it also started to change local people's lives: reassertin ...
  • Local Alternatives to the Green Revolution in Afri ...
    Thousands of grassroots, African-led efforts are building locally rooted alternatives to the chemical agriculture promoted by the Gates Foundation and Monsanto. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • 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

  • 7 words
    George Carlin’s list grew quite a bit over time, and after this morning’s rant I was curious to do a count. Not of how often I’ve actually said this or that word in a post (uncountable, I think), but of Google search results for some of my favorite words. Here’s the basic baseline search: That [...]
  • The links you were waiting for
    It’s not often I put a link on hold because I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop, but I gave Obama a pass on the Interstate Recognition of Notarizations Act (H.R. 3808) because I was afraid he was going to sign the fucker. He has instead announced he’ll be vetoing it. Unless you’ve been [...]
  • A day that starts with Fred Phelps is fucked up fr ...
    ALL the newspapers are editorializing about Snyder v Phelps, aka sick fuck Fred Phelps’ self-anointed right to send his cult/family to funerals of our troops to protest gay rights. Phelps’ actions make sense only to himself and the pain he causes to mourners is immeasurable. The newspapers all expre ...
  • ¡Viva Victor Perez!
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, Randy Moss is back with the Vikings. In real news, Bristol survived because Margaret Cho is (apparently) an even worse dancer. That and the Chamber of Commerce is getting spanked by everyone for investing money from foreign governments into the campaigns of Republicans who deny the ...
  • [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. [...]

Public News Service

  • Families USA: Health Care Reform Means Largest-Eve ...
    Families USA: Health Care Reform Means Largest-Ever Middle Class Tax Cut Phoenix, AZ – A consumer group has analyzed the impact of the health care reform signed into law this spring, and they contend it’s going to result in an enormous tax cut for the middle class, with at least 600,000 Arizonans be ...
  • Other States Long for AZ's Redistricting System
    Other States Long for AZ's Redistricting System Phoenix, AZ – After the November elections, states will start the process of redrawing their political boundaries. A Wisconsin activist wishes his state would follow Arizona's approach. Comments from Mike McCabe, executive director of the Wisconsin Dem ...
  • Mortgage Delinquencies: Less Stigma, More Walk-Awa ...
    Mortgage Delinquencies: Less Stigma, More Walk-Aways? Phoenix, AZ - Some Arizona lenders are aggressively pursuing homeowners who deliberately let their mortgages fall into delinquency – but a new survey from the Pew Research Center says in this economy, a growing number of Americans think it's acce ...
  • Debate Continues on the Impact of Merit Pay on Tes ...
    Debate Continues on the Impact of Merit Pay on Test Scores Phoenix, AZ – A study released last week by Vanderbilt University shows no link between test scores and bonus pay for teachers. An Arizona school boards official says the report was too limited to draw any conclusions. Comments from Janice P ...
  • AZ Voters to Decide Repeal of Early Childhood Prog ...
    AZ Voters to Decide Repeal of Early Childhood Programs Phoenix, AZ – Lawmakers are asking Arizona voters to reverse their 2006 approval of the “First Things First” early childhood health and development initiative. Money raised by the initiative’s cigarette tax would be diverted to the state’s gener ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Canadian troops are 'cannon fodder': group
    Put an end to the military's efforts to sign up new recruits in Quebec schools.Withdraw Canadian troops from Afghanistan.New anti-war video designed to shock. It's an approach that's trying to provoke a debate that the government doesn't want to have. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it ...
  • Eric L. Wattree: The American Propaganda Machine
    The American propaganda machine tells us that Muslims are a hostile people who hate American freedom. The most cursory examination of that claim reveals that the evidence the claim is based upon is highly flawed, yet the American people have been persuade Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & G ...
  • U.S. Spends $180K To Promote Pesticide Residues On ...
    The Environmental Working Group, is asking the California Department of Food and Agriculture to reconsider a $180,000 grant given to the Alliance For Food and Farming to combat the negative public perception of pesticide residues on fruits and vegetables. Submitted by Kathy B. to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Will the Physics of Graphene Show that 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 Submitted by Hans Mueller to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Fight the #DreamAct & Save #Latino Lives
    I once thought the Dream Act was a worthy pursuit, although I was sickened by how many in the Latin@ community seemed unconcerned about the provisions Congress attached to the bill. Wrong. It was a putrid, rotten, racist scheme from its very inception.. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Go ...

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Europe Faces Persistent Terror Threat, Warns US Se ...
    ShareThis Europe Faces Persistent Terror Threat, Warns US Security Official 08 Oct 2010 Days after the United States issued a travel advisory, cautioning its citizens traveling to or residing in European countries of potential Islamist terrorist attacks there, European Union (E.U.) ministers said a ...
  • US-led airstrike kills 6 in Afghanistan
    ShareThis US-led airstrike kills 6 in Afghanistan 08 Oct 2010 A US helicopter has claimed the lives of at least six members of Afghan security forces in Khost province in eastern Afghanistan, officials say. Deputy Chief of Khost province Youqib Khan said that the men were killed on Friday in retalia ...
  • Inquiry Finds Guards at U.S. Bases Are Tied to Tal ...
    ShareThis Inquiry Finds Guards at U.S. Bases Are Tied to Taliban 08 Oct 2010 Afghan private security forces with ties to the Taliban, criminal networks and Iranian intelligence have been hired to guard American military bases in Afghanistan, exposing United States soldiers to surprise attack and con ...
  • Security contractors in Afghanistan 'fund Taliban'
    ShareThis Security contractors in Afghanistan 'fund Taliban' 07 Oct 2010 Heavy US reliance on private security in Afghanistan has helped to line the pockets of the Taliban, a US Senate report says. The study by the Senate Armed Services Committee says this is because contractors often fail to vet lo ...
  • Imam from Nazareth suspected of supporting terror ...
    ShareThis Imam from Nazareth suspected of supporting terror groups --Police arrest head of famous Nazareth mosque; court issues gag order on details of investigation 06 Oct 2010 Shin Bet forces arrested two Israeli Arabs, residents of Nazareth, on suspicion of supporting terror groups, illegal union ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • Conspicuous by her absence
    Forbes magazine today released its list of the top 100 most powerful women in the world. It features notables like Singapore's Ho Ching at #30, Finland president Tarja Halonen at #62, Icelandic leader Johanna Sigurdardottir at #80, and even reformed...
  • 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...

Mondoweiss

  • There are two transformative Jewish communities in ...
    The other day Weiss responded to a piece in Commentary by Daniel Gordis that said that if Iran got the bomb, Israel would cease to represent a transformation of Jewish history. Weiss said America represents that transformation. One of the more substantive comments was from Wondering Jew, a regular c ...
  • When will apartheid greater Israel arrive?
    �In John Mearsheimer's latest, he says that in the future Israel "will" be an apartheid state, and "will" be a greater Israel, "and when that happens, we'll be on the road to a binational state." [quotes paraphrased] My question for Mearsheimer: when will that date arrive? What more does Israel have ...
  • Which is it, Dershowitz?
    While admitting that Jews are all over the media, Alan Dershowitz says that you can't generalize about their views, at Huffpo. Emphasis mine:Yes, there are many individual Jews in positions of influence in Hollywood, in network television, in sports and entertainment, and in many other areas of Am ...
  • Full speed ahead on settlement construction!
    and other news from Today in PalestineLand/Property/Resource Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing���� Jerusalem eyes first new gate in Old City for 112 years (AFP) AFP - Planners in Jerusalem are considering creating the first new "gate" into the Old City in more than 100 years, settlement watchdo ...
  • WP: Dennis Ross is Netanyahu’s man in the Wh ...
    Here's a shocking/obvious story (my emotional terrain alas) from yesterday's Washington Post by hardworking Glenn Kessler about how Dennis Ross is now the "back channel" between Obama and Netanyahu.Dennis Ross, a longtime Middle East expert, has emerged as a crucial, behind-the-scenes conduit betwe ...

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

  • Fascinating New Species Found in Papua New Guinea
    Photo: Piotr Naskrecki, Conservation International When it comes to finding fascinating species previously unknown to science, it turns out that forests of Papua New Guinea are a darn good place to look. Researchers have recently disclosed their discoveries from a two-month long expedition to th ...
  • Paris to Launch Electric Car-Sharing Program Next ...
    Photo via Buildaroo There's long been talk about a electric car-sharing program in Paris -- but it looks like it's finally going to become a reality. In a recent announcement, Mayor Bertrand Delanoë revealed that the famous city will see the beginning of Autolib. The pioneering program will mak ...
  • The Global Work Party Begins: Maldives President F ...
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  • Lagoons Bursting Out: At The Intersection Of Clima ...
    Image credit: NOAA Atlas 14, Vol 2 (2004) (pdf file) Wastewater or sludge storage lagoons are designed, in part, based on statistical probability of annual precipitation and evaporation amounts. The data behind these estimates generally don't take into account contemporary or projected weather ...
  • GOP Candidates Pledge to Kill High Speed Rail
    The high speed rail lines at stake -- red has partial funding, gray is proposed. Image via the Transport Politic As a dreamer of the American high speed rail dream, this news just makes me sad: the Republican candidates running for governor in Ohio, Florida, California, Wisconsin, and elsewhere ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • France constitutional court approves burqa ban
    [JURIST] The French Constitutional Council [official website, in French] ruled [judgment, PDF; in French; press release, in French] Thursday that a bill [materials, in French] making it illegal to wear the Islamic burqa [JURIST news archive], niqab or other full face veils in public, conforms with t ...
  • US announces record number of deportations in 2010
    [JURIST] US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) [official website] Secretary Janet Napolitano [official profile] and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) [official website] Director John Morton [official profile] announced Wednesday that the US government has deported a record number of il ...
  • ACLU suing South Carolina prison over banned books
    [JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF; press release] Wednesday challenging a South Carolina detention center rule that bans all books, including magazines and newspapers, from being sent to prisoners. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the Pr ...
  • Former Guantanamo detainee suing US government ove ...
    [JURIST] A former Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the US military alleging that he was subjected to torture. Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak Al Ginco, a Syrian national who prefers the surname Janko, filed suit in the US District Court for the District of Colu ...
  • Nations unveil draft of international anti-counter ...
    [JURIST] The Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) [official website] and other participating countries on Wednesday released a draft [text, PDF] of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) [USTR backgrounder], an international pact to defend intellectual property rights from counterfei ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Race of the Day: Will Local or National Politics W ...
    In the opening seconds of a campaign spot she's running titled "Independent," freshman House Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick is seen giving an interview on Fox News touting a bill she introduced that would cut the salaries of members of Congress. This is proof, if needed, that her geographically vast Arizo ...
  • Santorum Forums Iowa PAC
    He's serious, folks. Former Senator Rick Santorum is abetting speculation that he's planning a presidential run 2012 in a serious way. Today, he's formed a political action committee in Iowa, called the Iowa Keystone Political Action Committee, " that will allow him to assist candidates running for ...
  • Todd Palin Was Right To Be Angry
    The media has many theories about Sarah Palin and family, and one of them is that she is thin-skinned, and that the�tiniest�lancet can puncture it. There is some evidence to support this theory. But Todd Palin's e-mail to Joe Miller is not evidence of that. The media ought to resist the temptation t ...
  • Being Bob Woodward
    By Bob Woodward * "Who the hell am I," thought Marc Ambinder, "to criticize Bob Woodward for anything? I'm a chump. He's won Pulitzer Prizes. ZES. Plural. He gets people to photocopy classified documents and send them to him, violating Title 18 of federal law. I can't get anyone to tell me what the ...
  • Clapper: Obama Angered by Intelligence Leaks
    In a meeting yesterday, President Obama vented his frustration about the spate of recent leaks of classified intelligence, leaving James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, by his own admission, "ashamed." "Yesterday, I was ashamed to have to sit there and listen to the President express ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Links for 2010-03-30 [Digg]
    Overseas Media Begins Reporting Kam Case An Israeli journalist disappears into the maw of the intelligence services. A gag order prevents newspapers reporting the story. Only overseas media can do so, but they hesitate since so little is known. That's why blogs exist and that's the role that ...
  • AFP Identifies Palestinian Abuse Victim in YouTube ...
    UPDATE: Now we know the identity of not only the Palestinian woman degraded in the IDF YouTube video which I’ve been posting about for the past few days.  We also know the name of the abuser.  He is Avi Yaakobov.  More about this lug later.** French-speaking Tikun Olam reader, Deir Yassin, brings ...
  • Links for 2010-05-04 [Digg]
    Dershowitz Incites Hate Against Michael Lerner It is absolutely no accident that Alan Dershowitz singled Rabbi Michael Lerner out for special opprobrium in his most recent Jerusalem Post and Huffington Post column...
  • Links for 2010-03-21 [Digg]
    Happy Passover: Settlers, Immigrants, and Jewish Values "You shall not oppress the stranger because you know the soul of the stranger for you yourselves were immigrants in the land of Egypt (Exodus 23:9)"
  • Aftermath of IDF Belly-Dancing Sex Abuse Video: Ne ...
    In the aftermath of the revelation by Israel’s Channel 10 that an IDF soldier sexually abused a bound and blindfolded Palestinian woman (see video) by belly-dancing and rubbing his body against her in a suggestive manner, the IDF has reacted in a classical fashion.  No, it hasn’t scheduled any sens ...

Ode Magazine

  • Make mine a co-op
    Joining a cooperative is one small step toward bringing locally sourced and organic groceries to your community - and one giant step toward food activism. At some co-ops, like Park Slope in Brooklyn, New York, shopping is restricted to members who work in the store for a couple of hour ...
  • Art for art's sake
    Art makes Maria, from Lebanon, feel happy and free. Photo: Mimo Khair “They all seem to be going through something that makes them happy, free, uplifted, dreaming of a better future and feeling well because of it.” That’s what Shanghai-based photographer Mimo Khair sees when she ...
  • Bring the outliers inside
    "Positive deviants" - innovative individuals who do things differently and succeed against the odds - can help communities solve seemingly intractable problems. By experimenting with seedlings that thrive in water, Rosario Costa Cabral showed that agriculture in the Amazon delta is possi ...
  • 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 ...

OpEd News

  • A Senseless War Begins Its 10th Year ...an address ...
    Michael Moore channels the president...as only he (Yes, we) can, on the 10th(!) anniversary of the Afghanistan war. Are we safe yet? From whom?
  • A Senseless War Begins Its 10th Year ...an address ...
    Michael Moore channels the president...as only he (Yes, we) can, on the 10th(!) anniversary of the Afghanistan war. Are we safe yet? From whom?
  • Obama's Courageous Stand on Foreclosure
    President Obama today made good his pledge to use the power of the Oval Office to help American homeowners. Obama refused to sign legislation specifically crafted to protect lenders involved in record numbers of home foreclosures, and stymie efforts by homeowners and their attorneys to challenge do ...
  • Dems Come Alive!
    Just four weeks to go and I'm feeling that maybe, just maybe, we may prevent the All Souls Day Massacre. The pundits, who are essentially tools for the Corporate States of America, may have to eat a lot of crow. And if the Dems escape death's door, they had better not let this nonsense happen again.
  • "Collect" the Dots: Uncovering and Publicizing Lo ...
    "Collect" the Dots: Free Software to Capture and Publicize Local Election Glitches

Switchboard

  • New health research about the risks of living near ...
    I’ve blogged in the past about the need for better research when it comes to the human health impacts of oil and gas operations, the desires of local communities to have more information, and our support for an analytical tool called Health Impact Assessment . Three new health studies ...
  • Installing Solar Panels Is A Start, But What Comes ...
    The White House became the latest to announce the installation of an on-site solar system , adding to a now-constant stream of announcements from universities , sports teams , other government agencies and too many companies to link to.  The news followed a weekly address from the Pres ...
  • Corn ethanol industry acknowledges tax credit must ...
    Rumors are swirling that the White House may announce support (subscrip req'd) for some sort of change to the main corn ethanol tax credit. In preparation for meeting with the White House, the major corn ethanol associations--RFA, Growth, NCGA, ACE--apparently swallowed their differenc ...
  • SWP Predicts Future Deliveries Greater Than During ...
    Yesterday, I wrote about the new State Water Project Delivery Reliability Report’s conclusion that ESA protections increase dry year State Water Project deliveries.  The report contains more surprising news, like this table on page 43: This table shows that, as a result of new scienti ...
  • Gulf Coast Disaster - Thursday, October 7
    Highlights in this issue - White House pushes back against critical Gulf oil report - Tests not yet started on blowout preventer - Corexit still in use in Gulf - Judge postpones assessing percentage of fault in oil spill - Is another deepwater disaster possible? Today’s summary The w ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Explosive Arguments
    Sparks are flying at Duck of Minerva over Landmine Action’s claim that “explosive violence” is a humanitarian problem. In a recent essay Stephanie Carvin makes “the case against the case against blast weapons,” by which she means “explosive weapons” as described by Landmine Action’s recent report: ...
  • Vetoed!
    Good. Related posts:‘"I Used To Be A Democrat, But Since the ‘Malaise’ Speech I’m Outraged That Truman Vetoed the Taft-Hartley Act" Related posts: ‘"I Used To Be A Democrat, But Since the ‘Malaise’ Speech I’m Outraged That Truman Vetoed the Taft-Hartley Act"
  • Er…
    If you’re going to yank your healthy number 2 starter down only 2-0 (1 earned) with two on in the fifth…he probably shouldn’t be your #2 starter. It’s too bad for the Rays that Hellickson’s name doesn’t rhyme with “game.” Related posts:Safe! Safe! Deep Thought Oooooh, My Arm! Related posts: S ...
  • What Happens When States Vote Republican
    Shorter Chris Christie: “Forget it, feds I don’t need your phony baloney job. I’ll take your money, but I’m not gonna plow your driveway!” [Via] …see also. Related posts:White States Vote Like That, But Black States Vote Like This Going John Galt! "But I’m Not Gonna Plow Your Driveway" Rel ...
  • In the Tank
    Liberals, nominal liberals, and man who in exchange for fifty bucks would write op-eds supporting companies selling cyanide to schoolchildren Lanny Davis sell out to the worst of the for-profit education racket. An instructive, if depressing, lesson on how American politics functions. Relate ...

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.

  • 1st Circuit considers claims of FBI brutality agai ...
    A second appeal in a politically charged case alleging FBI brutality against a group of journalists in Puerto Rico got an airing on Thursday at the 1st Circuit. At issue was how much the Fourth Amendment restricts law enforcement officers from using force against journalists peacefully gathering new ...
  • California sues companies, attorneys over bogus 'f ...
    Seeking to recover $60 million in civil penalties, California Attorney General Jerry Brown has sued three lawyers accused of helping to file predatory lender lawsuits for homeowners struggling to make their mortgage payments.
  • Demand expected to increase for court reporters
    The economy has hit lawyers and paralegals hard, but one legal area is poised for growth: court reporters. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that the number of court reporters will grow by 18% over the next eight years, due in part to increasing demand for closed captioning services.
  • Court reinstates verdict against former county att ...
    A Texas criminal appeals court has reinstated a jury verdict against a former county attorney who tried to use his influence to help his aunt beat a charge of evading police after running a red light.
  • 2010: THE PLAINTIFFS' HOT LIST
    The fallout from the financial system collapse features prominently in this year's edition of our annual spotlight on firms who've done exemplary, cutting-edge work on the plaintiffs' side.

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

  • Fungus-Virus Combination Eyed as Cause of Honeybee ...
    The interaction of a fungus and a virus may be a factor in the large-scale die-offs of U.S. honeybee populations since 2006, according to a new study. While scientists had already identified the fungus N. ceranae as a possible factor in so-called colony collapse disorder, a team of researchers from ...
  • How One Small Business Cut Energy Use and Costs
    How significant would it be if America’s 29 million small businesses increased their energy efficiency and reduced their emissions? Judging from the example of one California entrepreneur, the impact could be far greater than you might expect. BY TOM BOWMAN
  • More Fresh Water Flowing Into the World’s Oceans, ...
    The amount of freshwater streaming into the world’s oceans has increased significantly since 1994 as the planet warms and the acceleration of the planet’s hydrological cycle has caused more frequent and intense storms, according to a new study. Using satellite technology to track sea level rise, pre ...
  • Most Productive U.S. Farmland Disappearing at Fast ...
    More than an acre of farmland is lost per minute in the United States, with about 1 million acres being developed annually , according to a new federal report. From 1982 to 2007, more than 23 million acres of agricultural land were converted to developed land, with each state losing significant area ...
  • The White House Goes Solar
    A quarter-century after President Ronald Reagan dismantled the solar panels placed on the White House roof by his predecessor, Jimmy Carter, the Obama administration has announced that it will install solar energy panels and a solar water heater atop the White House. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu ...

Red Ice Creations

  • DARPA develops Helmet of Obedience
    It looks like our ever-diligent friends at DARPA have been busy creating a contingency plan for the OathKeeper movement. Thanks to a newly-developed pain modulator and behavior modification helmet, any US troops who decide they will obey the Constitution rather than the commands of the global puppet ...
  • In a Computer Worm, a Possible Biblical Clue
    Deep inside the computer worm that some specialists suspect is aimed at slowing Iran’s race for a nuclear weapon lies what could be a fleeting reference to the Book of Esther, the Old Testament tale in which the Jews pre-empt a Persian plot to destroy them. That use of the word "Myrtus" - which can ...
  • The Esoteric Interpretation of "Pan’s Labyrinth"
    "Pan’s Labyrinth" is a profound movie telling the story of a young girl’s quest to escape the cruelties of Spanish Fascism. The movie also contains a great amount of occult and archetypal symbols telling another story: one of esoteric illumination through test of character and ritual initiation. We ...
  • Japanese Company Hopes to Deploy Fleets of Submari ...
    Typhoons threaten the western Pacific relentlessly year-round, dogging coastal cities along the eastern coast of Asia and sometimes unleashing devastating power that can cost human lives. But even as Taiwan and China clean up after Typhoon Fanapi flooded streets and claimed a handful of lives earlie ...
  • An account of the worlds biggest, deadliest hailst ...
    In 1942 a British forest guard in Roopkund, India made an alarming discovery. Some 16,000 feet above sea level, at the bottom of a small valley, was a frozen lake absolutely full of skeletons. That summer, ice melt revealed even more skeletal remains, floating in the water and lying haphazardly arou ...

Russia Today

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

  • Those evil, soul harvesting ETs
    As a kind of continuation of my previous post (Dolan on Malstrom), the possible interference of UFOs/inhabitants in the US nuclear missile force is a meme that is gaining traction in our culture and ties in with another meme that is also getting attention; the idea that UFO beings are demonic in nat ...
  • 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 ...

Tippers News

  • Domestic violence
    The statistics are startling: It's estimated that every 18 minutes a woman in the United States is beaten. Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Yes, trafficking happens right here
    A common misconception about human trafficking and modern slavery is that it does not happen here. But it does. It's a documented fact. Take the case of two girls, ages 15 and 16, who ran away from a juvenile home in Fremont in 2007. Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment ...
  • Human smuggling
    THERE is no doubt that rampant poverty, unemployment and a bleak future stare young Pakistanis in the face. The situation invariably provides a breeding ground Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Why Did Aggie Boys Buy Sex at the Chicken Ranch?
    The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the Texas A&M football team celebrates a win with a visit to their local brothel, the Chicken Ranch. The Aggie Boys are f Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Two survivors of human trafficking share their sto ...
    She fiddles with her cell phone. In mid conversation, she holds it out, showing off whos on the screen. Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Presidential Hubris
    “If we were going to spend $700 billion, it seems it would be wiser having that $700 billion going to folks who would spend that money right away.” -- Barack Obama
  • Government Appeared Incompetent or Dishonest about ...
    “A commission set up by President Obama to scrutinize the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has released preliminary reports that say the administration created the impression that it was ‘either not fully competent’ or ‘not fully candid with the American people about the scope of the problem.’” (Washington ...
  • Administration Boasts Record Deportations
    “The Obama administration announced Wednesday that in the past year it has deported a record number of unauthorized immigrants — more than 392,000, about half of whom were convicted criminals.” (Washington Post) The other half simply lacked a bureaucratâs permission to be here. FEE Timely Classic ...
  • Have Pro-Deregulation Economists Been Bought?
    In this weekâs Chronicle of Higher Education, Charles Ferguson offers up the latest version of the argument that the financial crisis was caused (at least in part or perhaps significantly) by deregulation — and claims that deregulation was pushed by economists who were on the consulting payroll of ...
  • Military Keynesians Are the Worst Keynesians of Al ...
    From the National Journal this week: Two wars are not enough. America’s economic outlook is so grim, and political solutions are so utterly absent, that only another large-scale war might be enough to lift the nation out of chronic high unemployment and slow growth, two prominent economists, a conse ...

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

  • Oil spill commission hits feds on flow rate, dispe ...
    By Marian Wang, ProPublica After the release of four reports by the presidential commission investigating BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill, much of the attention has been paid to criticism that the administration had inaccurately estimated the amount of oil involved -- both in gauging flow rate ...
  • POPE THE VOTE? Conservative NC benefactor steps up ...
    Ask a casual political observer to name the nation's biggest Republican operatives, and a few would come readily to mind. Most could you tell you about Karl Rove -- the legendary Bush adviser and GOP strategist who this year aims to spend $52 million by November to help elect conservative candidate ...
  • Coal companies charged with massive violations of ...
    A coalition of environmental advocates took the first step today toward bringing a lawsuit against three mining operations in Kentucky for a staggering number of alleged violations of the Clean Water Act -- more than 20,000 in all. The companies targeted are ICG Hazard and ICG Knott, subs ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Debtors' prisons rise again in th ...
    The Brennan Center for Justice and the American Civil Liberties Union released reports this week documenting the growing problem of criminal justice debt and the considerable costs it's imposing on communities, taxpayers and indigent people convicted of crimes. The following figures come from those ...
  • 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 ...

Worldpress - Africa

Canadian Encyclopedia

  • New France
    France was a colonial power in North America from the early 16th century, the age of great European discoveries and fishing expeditions, to the early 19th century, when Napol�on Bonaparte sold Louisiana to the US. From
  • Native People: Eastern Woodlands
    Major Language and Tribal GroupsEastern Woodland Indians spoke languages belonging to 2 unrelated families, Iroquoian and Algonquian. At the onset of the historic period, Iroquoians occupied much of southern Ontario, northern
  • Fur Trade
    Fur trade in Canada began as an adjunct to the fishing industry. Early in the 16th century fishermen from northwest Europe were taking rich catches of COD on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and in the Gulf of St Lawrence (
  • Canadian Pacific Railway
    Commencement of a transcontinental railway within 2 years and completion within 10 years were conditions of British Columbia's entry into Confederation in 1871 (seeRAILWAY HISTORY). Competition for the lucrative contract for the
  • Group of Seven
    The Group of Seven was founded in 1920 as an organization of self-proclaimed modern artists. The original members - Franklin CARMICHAEL , Lawren HARRIS , A.Y. JACKSON , Franz JOHNSTON , Arthur LISMER , J.E.H.

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle tea towels?
    We’ve had an email from Louise W: Our church hall has accrued dozens and dozens of tea towels over the years, I don’t know where they come from. We usually tear the tatty ones in half and use them for cleaning rags but I was wondering if you had any ideas for other things we [...]
  • Have you ever stopped buying something because of ...
    Following on from the discussion we had the other week about whether people would prefer less packaging or more packaging that was easier to reuse/recycle, I’ve been wondering: have you ever stopped buying something because of its packaging? One of the purposes of packaging is to attract us to buy t ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle apple peels & cores?
    Frequent commenter on Recycle This, Linda, the bookstorebabe, emailed to tell us about a recipe for using up apple peel and cores: I just read this on Craftster, about making jelly from the peels and cores of apples. Seems like a nice way to use something that otherwise would be composted. Especiall ...
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make a dog/puppy to ...
    Recycle This regular Anna left a question on the Suggest an Item page: What could I use to make dog toys? My friend got a puppy and I’d like to make him some toys. I’ve made cat toys for ages, but puppy toys definitely need to be stronger and bigger. Dog toys do typically need [...]
  • 5 fantastic recycling ideas for used tyres
    Just because a tyre is too old and worn to use on a car, it doesn’t mean that it’s useful life is over. Here’s our top five reuses for used tyres. 1. Planters for the garden Used tyres can be used as instant planters in a garden – either wide and low containers on their [...]

Mondoweiss

  • There are two transformative Jewish communities in ...
    The other day Weiss responded to a piece in Commentary by Daniel Gordis that said that if Iran got the bomb, Israel would cease to represent a transformation of Jewish history. Weiss said America represents that transformation. One of the more substantive comments was from Wondering Jew, a regular c ...
  • When will apartheid greater Israel arrive?
    �In John Mearsheimer's latest, he says that in the future Israel "will" be an apartheid state, and "will" be a greater Israel, "and when that happens, we'll be on the road to a binational state." [quotes paraphrased] My question for Mearsheimer: when will that date arrive? What more does Israel have ...
  • Which is it, Dershowitz?
    While admitting that Jews are all over the media, Alan Dershowitz says that you can't generalize about their views, at Huffpo. Emphasis mine:Yes, there are many individual Jews in positions of influence in Hollywood, in network television, in sports and entertainment, and in many other areas of Am ...
  • Full speed ahead on settlement construction!
    and other news from Today in PalestineLand/Property/Resource Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing���� Jerusalem eyes first new gate in Old City for 112 years (AFP) AFP - Planners in Jerusalem are considering creating the first new "gate" into the Old City in more than 100 years, settlement watchdo ...
  • WP: Dennis Ross is Netanyahu’s man in the Wh ...
    Here's a shocking/obvious story (my emotional terrain alas) from yesterday's Washington Post by hardworking Glenn Kessler about how Dennis Ross is now the "back channel" between Obama and Netanyahu.Dennis Ross, a longtime Middle East expert, has emerged as a crucial, behind-the-scenes conduit betwe ...

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 )

  • Miners prepare for life after dark
    To the 33 men trapped in a Chilean mine, recent news that they might be rescued as early as 10 October must bring great cheer. But the effects of living underground for so long still need to be carefully managed. "As soon as the miners comes out, they will get some introduction to a family member ...
  • FDA unveils plans to modernize regulatory science
    The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has developed a $25 million per year programme to update the science underlying its safety evaluations, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg announced yesterday . The new Regulatory Science Initiative will tackle projects such as modernizing ways to track b ...
  • US genetics advisory committee closes shop
    A panel that advises the U.S. government on health and genetics met for the final time yesterday, amid questions surrounding its dissolution as well as concerns that its absence will be missed at a time when genetics is set to flood into healthcare. "I am a bit puzzled about the decision," says J ...
  • Heroic Hayabusa may have delivered asteroid dust
    Researchers at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are raising hopes that they may have dust from an asteroid. At a press conference on Wednesday, they announced that they had "scraped up" a hundred or so new grains—possibly dust from the asteroid, Itokawa—in the recovery capsule of the Ha ...
  • Israel’s education ministry dismisses chief scient ...
    It was hardly a surprise when Israel's minister of education, Gideon Sa'ar, fired his ministry's chief scientist, Gavriel Avital, on Monday. Avital has taken vocal stands against evolution and global warming since he was appointed in December 2009. An aeronautical engineer and a politician - his nam ...

new geography

  • The World's Fastest-Growing Cities
    The evolution of cities is a protean process--and never more so than now. With over 50% of people living in metropolitan areas there have never been so many rapidly rising urban areas--or so many declining ones. Our list of the cities of the future does not focus on established global centers like ...
  • Religious Freedom or A Tax-Free Ride?
    The furor over a mosque in Manhattan has swirled around issues of personal freedom and collective tolerance. But very little of the discussion has focused on the pros and cons of construction of places of worship in our cities and suburbs, or on their tax status. In a country that displays high ra ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

spiked

Cryptogon

  • Obama “Town Hall Meeting” Casting Call
    Via: Backstage: PRESIDENT OBAMA TOWN HALL, DC MTV, BET, and CMT (prods.) are casting the audience for a town hall meeting with President Obama. Shooting Oct. 14 at 4 p.m. in Washington, DC. SeekingâAudience Members: males and females, 18+. To apply, email townhallaudience@mtvnmix.com and put “Town ...
  • Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker ...
    “Me and my friend went to the mechanic today and we found this on his car.” Via: Wired: A California student got a visit from the FBI this week after he found a secret GPS tracking device on his car, and a friend posted photos of it online. The post prompted wide speculation about whether [...]
  • Big Picture Gallery: A Flood of Toxic Sludge
    Via: Boston Globe / Big Picture: On Monday, October 4th, a large reservoir filled with toxic red sludge in western Hungary ruptured, releasing approximately 700,000 cubic meters (185 million gallons) of stinking caustic mud, which killed many animals, at least four people, and injured over 120 – man ...
  • California: State Cancels Access to Welfare Benefi ...
    I should have a California category to complete with Florida. Via: Los Angeles Times: California officials are cutting off use of state-issued welfare debit cards at casinos across the country and on cruise ships, in the wake of Times reports that the aid cards have been used to spend or withdraw mi ...
  • UK Home Prices Plunged Record 3.6% in September
    Via: Bloomberg: U.K. house prices plunged in September by the most since at least 1983, adding to evidence that the housing market faces a renewed slump as the government readies the biggest spending cuts since World War II. The average cost of a home fell 3.6 percent from August to 162,096 pounds ( ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Where Are The Jobs?
    Most Americans don't really care about the economic minutiae that many of us who study the U.S. economy love to pour over.  When it comes to the economy, the typical American citizen just wants to be able to get a good job, make a decent living and put bread on the table for the fam ...
  • Federal Reserve Officials: Americans Are Saving To ...
    Some top Federal Reserve officials have come up with a really bizarre proposal for stimulating the U.S. economy.  As unbelievable as it sounds, what they actually propose to do is to purposely raise the rate of inflation so that Americans will stop saving so much money and will star ...
  • Globalism Destroys America: 10 Reasons Why The Wor ...
    In 2010, education has been so "dumbed down" in America that most Americans don't even know what the WTO is, and even fewer understand why the WTO is important. The truth is that the World Trade Organization is essentially a global government for world trade.  It is a "contract" tha ...
  • 27 Signs That The Standard Of Living For America&# ...
    If you still have a job and you can put food on the table and you still have a warm house to come home to, then you should consider yourself to be very fortunate.  The truth is that every single month hundreds of thousands more Americans fall out of the middle class and into poverty ...
  • 15 Shocking Poverty Statistics That Are Skyrocketi ...
    The "America" that so many of us have taken for granted for so many decades is literally disintegrating right in front of our eyes.  Most Americans are still operating under the delusion that the United States will always be "the wealthiest nation" in the world and that our economy ...

Desertification

  • Looking for food aid
    Anywhere on this planet, the beauty of plants and animals in a garden is food for the soul. Therefore, from time to time, I post pictures of flowers and animals in my own garden. I like to share these with … Continue reading →
  • Chronic hunger and food insecurity is the most com ...
    Read at : http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=36352&Cr=FAO&Cr1= UN urges solutions to help countries with protracted food crises recover   6 October 2010 â Natural disasters, conflict and weak institutions have thrust 22 countries into recurring food crises and high prevalence of hunger, ...
  • Alarm for farmers of the less developed world (Foo ...
    Read at : http://farmlandgrab.org/16112   Down on the farm   BBC World Service | 4 October 2010 Business Daily âBuy land,â said US writer Mark Twain âthey are not making it anymoreâ. Investors are taking his words to heart. Both … Continue reading →
  • A call for a profound turnaround in international ...
    Read at : http://farmlandgrab.org/16088 Land grabbing and nutrition: Challenges for global governance The Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2010 | 7 October 2010 Press Release   Heidelberg/Stuttgart/Utrecht, October 7, 2010 â On the occasion of World Food Day 2010, … Continue reading →
  • Need to consider water consumption when evaluating ...
    Read at : http://www.emwis.net/thematicdirs/news/water-consumption-green-energy-production-should-be-considered Water consumption of green energy production should be considered A recent study highlights the need to consider water consumption when evaluating low-carbon energy production systems, suc ...

The Paper Trail

  • Reform Watch Calendar: Credit Rating Deadline on T ...
    A calendar of events to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
  • Obama Won’t Sign Notary Bill That Might Spee ...
    The White House announced this afternoon that President Barack Obama would not sign a bill to ease restrictions on interstate commerce, which some consumer advocates feared would also make it more difficult for homeowners to fight fraudulent foreclosures.
  • Boiler Rooms, Foreclosure Mills: The Story of Amer ...
    The news about the nation’s foreclosure scandal has been coming fast and furious, driven by tales of backdated documents , false affidavits and “rocket dockets” that push families into the street.
  • Chamber of Commerce Ad Slams California Democrat
    Among the best-known independent expenditure groups attempting to shape the November election is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce , which has decided that defeating California Sen. Barbara Boxer is in the best interests of its 3 million business members.
  • Elizabeth Warren’s Hands Tied in Payday Lend ...
    The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is given broad powers to regulate non-traditional financial institutions. But it can't cap the exorbitant interest charges on loans made by payday lenders.

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

  • Gov. Bredesen's book takes on health care ref ...
    TOTAL ELEMENTS IN ARRAY: 5 TOTAL CHARACTERS IN ARRAY: 1174 TOTAL CHARACTERS IN PAGES: LAST PAGE CONTAINS: 1174 -->--> Gov. Phil Bredesen is reentering the fray over health care reform, with a new book that calls for a fundamental overhaul of the nation's medical industry. Three months before he ...
  • No candy this Halloween: Healthy treats
    Thinking about what to get for hand-outs this Halloween? You’re wanting something that the kids will like, but lets face it some of the candy out there just doesn’t cut it. Not only is it unhealthy there is a lot of it that the kids just dont like. Also you will want to stay away from peanut bu ...
  • Good for you food of the week: celery
    Celery is the good for you food of the week. It’s a favorite of many dieters, because it is so low in calories that you actually burn more calories eating it than you consume. But even if you’re not trying to lose weight, there are a number of reasons to include celery in your diet. Rich in vit ...
  • Smart snacking and dining: top 10 restaurant ...
    Dining out healthfully can be accomplished. However, with approximately 50% of our meals eaten away from home it is necessary to implement healthy strategies. Restaurant portion sizes can often feed 4 people and has led to a "portion distortion". There can be the feeling of getting our money’s ...
  • POLITICAL INSIDER: Women's group targets Boeh ...
    J. Scott Applewhite, File FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2010 file photo, House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, right, accompanied by House Minority Whip Eric Cantor of Va., speaks at a lumber yard in Sterling, Va. If you don't like the economy, blame President Barack Obama and Democrats_ they' ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Zuma’s flight details remain under w ...
    President Jacob Zuma's air travel details have remained classified so as not to endanger his life. (Source: IOL: Health)
  • A sweet path toward tolerance in the gut
    Uncovering how the immune system of the mucosa surmounts allergic reactions may open new avenues to treat inflammatory conditions in the gut. New findings in mice now show that a C-type lectin receptor in dendritic cells (DCs) protects against food antigens that cause systemic anaphylaxis—promoting ...
  • Random Samples
    Three Q's | Disgraced, Dismissed, But Still Herr Doktor | They Said It | What, Us Bitter?
  • Nothing to sneeze at
    A hundred years after scientists first linked histamine molecules to allergies, the study of histamine pathways is in the midst of a revival, thanks in part to the discovery of a new type of receptor. This fourth known histamine receptor now provides an attractive drug target for seasonal allergies, ...
  • Health Tip: Are You Deficient in Vitamin B-12?
    Title: Health Tip: Are You Deficient in Vitamin B-12? Category: Health News Created: 10/5/2010 8:10:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 10/5/2010

Common Dreams

  • Special Report: The Pentagon's New Cyber Warriors
    by Jim Wolf WASHINGTON - 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 t ...
  • Enbridge Investors Told Pipelines Feed Fossil Fuel ...
    by Cameron Fenton and Maryam Adrangi As Enbridge holds its investors meeting in Toronto's financial district, Environmental Justice Toronto sent them a message about their dirty investments in fossil fuels. Grassroots organizers sent up a banner attached to helium balloons that read "Enbridge Invest ...
  • Daschle Admits -- Then Denies -- That White House ...
    by Brian Beutler In a candid interview with the Center for American Progress [on Tuesday], former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle acknowledged that the public option didn't survive the health care debate because of a "understanding" that the White House reached with health care industry stakeh ...
  • Taliban in Talks with Karzai Government: Report
    WASHINGTON — The Taliban and the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai have begun high-level talks over a negotiated end to the war in the country, the Washington Post said .Citing unnamed Afghan and Arab sources, the Post said the talks are believed, for the first time, to involve repres ...
  • Barack Obama Accused of Exaggerating Terror Threa ...
    by Simon Tisdall and Richard Norton-Taylor A US terror alert issued this week about al-Qaida plots to attack targets in western Europe was politically motivated and not based on credible new information, senior Pakistani diplomats and European intelligence officials have told the Guardian. read mo ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • To Lead or Not to Lead: The Results of Prop 23 Wil ...
    California is America's shining beacon for clean energy development; however, proposed legislation -- Prop 23 -- could threaten the future of this burgeoning renewable energy market.
  • Oil Infrastructure and Terrorism – Part III
    The secretary of Russia’s National Security Council is now warning that militants have joined forces with pirates to carry out attacks on key maritime oil transport hubs like the Strait of Hormuz and the Suez Canal.
  • New Report Shows Growing Chinese Dominance in Clea ...
    Yesterday, in an article titled “China’s Global Dominance in Green Jobs Growing,” Reuters reported on Clean Edge’s latest “Clean Tech Job Trends 2010.”� The report yet again confirms China’s growing dominance in clean tech industries, due in large part to direct federal investment:
  • Maldives President Installs Solar Panels on Nation ...
    President Nasheed installing solar panels on his Maldive residence.
  • California Prop. 23 vs. A.B. 32
    Aside from the question of which party will control the House and Senate for the next two years, next month's mid-term elections also feature a number of important state contests, including California's closely-watched Proposition 23, a ballot initiative that would suspend enforcement of the state's ...

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

  • FORECLOSUREGATE AND OBAMA'S 'POCKET VETO'
    Ellen Brown Amid a snowballing foreclosure fraud crisis , President Obama today blocked legislation that critics say could have made it more difficult for homeowners to challenge foreclosure proceedings against them. The bill, titled The Interstate Recognition of Notarizations Act of 2009, pa ...
  • Want To Strike Back Against Politicians? Here&#821 ...
    By Kevin Zeese "end these ineffective and expensive marijuana laws" California’s Proposition 19, the people vs. the politicians – which side are you on? The great divide between politicians and the people is showing itself in California where polls show the voters support Proposition 19 and wher ...
  • IPC rules in ATI case at U of O: Dean, VP-Academic ...
    By Denis G. Rancourt Dean caught lying in cover up INTRODUCTION The Denis Rancourt case at the University of Ottawa (Ottawa, Canada) is a major ongoing academic freedom case being presently investigated by a Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) Independent Committee of Inquiry and ...
  • Lawless Spying in America to Obstruct First Amendm ...
    by Stephen Lendman The ACLU has released numerous reports of illegal spying. They include federal, state and local SARs (suspicious activity reporting) programs that encourage police, intelligence and homeland security officials, emergency responders, and members of the public to spy on neighbor ...
  • Lawless Nation - Congress
    By Michael Collins Part II of III ( Part I ) WASHINGTON - Placed in office through legalized bribery, supported by public funding for their every need, protected against the laws that we're expected to obey, Congress represents the epitome of lawlessness; lawmakers who have no regard for the la ...

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

  • Lou Dobbs, American Hypocrite
    Isabel Macdonald | The Nation In Lou Dobbs’s heyday at CNN, when he commanded more than 800,000 viewers and a reported $6 million a year for “his fearless reporting and commentary,” in the words of former CNN president Jonathan Klein, the host became notorious for his angry rants against “illegal al ...
  • Poland okays forcible castration for pedophiles
    (Reuters) – Poland on Friday approved a law making chemical castration mandatory for pedophiles in some cases, sparking criticism from human rights groups. Under the law, sponsored by Poland’s center-right government, pedophiles convicted of raping children under the age of 15 years or a close relat ...
  • Pittsburgh in the 60’s
    Searching for a topic Usually I have little to no problems coming up with something to write about. This last week though, well it has been chock full of so much stuff that I could write about that it became a tangled mass of emotions in me. One that I was not brave enough to try [...]
  • “There’s class warfare, all right. But it’s my cla ...
    Trifecta of Torment | New York Times Republicans are gaining yardage on their immigration play! The Tea Party is stealing second base! A bench-clearing brawl over health care! Look at the politicians and pundits mud-wrestle! So let’s try an experiment: Let’s treat this midterm election as if it migh ...
  • The Iron Triangle – The Carlyle Group Expose ...
    RageAgainstTheEstablishment-The rise of one of the most powerful and influential and secretive firms in Washington. The company is called The Carlyle Group. And in the wake of the events of September 11th and the invasion of Iraq, its power and influence have become significantly stronger. The compa ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • No brainer, it’s just common sense that maki ...
    “It’s just common sense” is probably one of the most seductive and deadly false arguments out there. When someone says “it’s just common sense” what they are really saying is “reality conforms to my idea of what makes sense.” Yes, often times reality does indeed operate in a perfectly “sensible” mat ...
  • A Hard Act to Follow
    Well, my last post has turned out to be my most successful post ever, more than 40,000 hits so far. So now what do I do? Rest on my laurels? Sounds painful, don’t laurels have thorns? It’s especially curious in that it wasn’t a particularly well thought out or researched post, it was just something ...
  • “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 ...

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 III
    Join the forum discussion on this post The secretary of Russia’s National Security Council is now warning that militants have joined forces with pirates to carry out attacks on key maritime oil transport hubs like the Strait of Hormuz and the Suez Canal. According to the EIA, the Strait of Hormuz “ ...
  • Oil Infrastructure and Terrorism – Part II
    Join the forum discussion on this post Yesterday’s New York Times contained a story that depicts the vulnerability of the U.S. military’s fuel supply chain: U.S. Military Orders Less Dependence on Fossil Fuels In Iraq and Afghanistan, the huge truck convoys that haul fuel to bases have been sit ...
  • 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 ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Secret to Raising Food-Smart Kids: A School Garden ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—It’s true! What Michelle Obama has been saying at the White House garden —and everywhere else—for the last year and a half: Connecting kids and gardens increases their appreciation for fruits and vegetables. But planting the school garden is just the first step. A three-yea ...
  • GMOs in Your Food: Hidden Ingredients, Unknown Con ...
    RODALE NEWS, NEW HOPE, PA—This Sunday, 10-10-10, has been designated by the climate-change nonprofit 350.org as a day for people around the world to install solar panels, plant gardens, and make their homes more energy-efficient . But if you don't have the time or resources for a major project, the ...
  • An Angry Boss Might Bring Out the Best in You
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Got a boss that blows his or her lid every once in awhile? Depending on a factor called your "epistemic motivation"—that is, the motivation to have accurate perceptions of the world, to understand the way things really are—an occasional run-in with an angry boss may actually ...
  • Organic Coffee Taste Test: The Results Are In!
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Conventional coffee growing—that is, clear-cutting forests to grow coffee in full sun, and using pesticides—is a major factor behind plummeting bird populations. The good news: More and more people are brewing up organic coffee. Organically grown coffee plants do better i ...
  • Losing Sleep Means Gaining Weight For Kids
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—According to 2007–2008 data, almost a third of young people aged 2 to 19 are overweight or obese: 21.2 percent of 2- to 5-year-olds; 35.5 percent of 6- to 11-year-olds; and 34.2 percent of kids 12 to 19. Bad diets, too many sugary drinks, and not enough exercise are well-kno ...

big think

  • Steven Rattner: Letting the Auto Industry Fail Wou ...
    Financier Steven Rattner saved the U.S. auto industry. Or he didn’t. It depends on whom you ask. But either way, without government support, Rattner says the collapse of the auto industry “would have been the economic equivalent of an atomic bomb for the Midwest ." "You would have seen a million . ...
  • Bullying PSA: It Gets Worse
    You may have heard about Dan Savage's video outreach campaign, "It Gets Better." The campaign was inspired by a spate of news stories about gay teens committing suicide in the face of bullying, and by Focus on the Family's bizarre assertion that anti-bullying programs are a conspiracy to turn kids . ...
  • 4 Million Babies and a Nobel Prize
    Last week, 85-year old obstretician Robert G. Edwards was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his breakthrough treatment of infertility commonly known as IVF (in-vitro fertilization).  Edwards’s idea was revolutionary and went against everything most people considered normal, natural and even . ...
  • LONGREACH Lifesaver Bazooka Wins 2010 James Dyson ...
    Over the past few months, we've been covering some noteworthy contenders for the prestigious James Dyson Award for student design innovation. This week, the global winner was finally announced – the LONGREACH Buoyancy Deployment System , best described as a lifesaver bazooka. The Australian entry ...
  • The Real Failure of The Baby Boomers
    In Britain, there is much talk of something called the ‘Big Society’. This in essence is a set of ideas being promulgated by the Prime Minister, David Cameron and the less hard edged supporters of his Government. As such it is something of an improvement on an infamous intervention by one of his ... ...

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

  • Current science news
    A few grabs from the current science news: My interview with Lucy Marcus on funding blue skies research – My interview with Lucy Marcus on why blue skies research should receive continued funding is now online in The Euroscientist magazine Tabloid reporting goes pear-shaped – The newspapers have ext ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • Well Within Reach: America’s New Transportat ...
    Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia David R. Goode National Transportation Policy Conference 2010 http://tinyurl.com/26m3et5 [From Executive Summary] Transportation systems are the backbone of America: They keep our nation strong and moving. But we have not been taking good care ...
  • 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 ...

Scientific American - News

  • Graphite Novel: Nobel Prize Thrusts Graphene into ...
    For years researchers have held out hope that graphene would be the material to pick up the mantle in the electronics industry when silicon hits its limits as the material of choice for making devices smaller, faster and cheaper. Yet, turning graphene's promise into a reality has been difficult to ...
  • Does a Weaker Sun Mean a Warmer Earth?
    The sun controls Earth's climate, bathing us in light ranging from ultraviolet to visible that warms the planet and drives the heat engines we know as weather systems and ocean currents. The sun is changeable, cycling from maximum to minimum outputs over a roughly 11-year cycle, increasing or decrea ...
  • Comet-Chasing Rosetta Spacecraft Gets an Up-Close ...
    The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is doing a little sightseeing on its decadelong cruise through the inner solar system and beyond. Rosetta (launched in 2004) will not reach its primary target, Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko, until 2014 , but in the meantime it has been checking up on s ...
  • Making miniature machines, with Hamilton Smith
    Noy Bassik draws inspiration from origami to engineer miniature tools that he envisages as the surgeons of the future. Hamilton Smith is also in the business of making things. Working with Craig Venter, Smith recently created a bacterial cell controlled by a synthetic genome. As Hamilton and Noy tal ...
  • Parkinsonian Power Failure: Neuron Degeneration Ma ...
    In the past researchers have observed an association between poor mitochondrial function and Parkinson's disease, a neurodegenerative disorder of the central nervous system that impairs speech and motor functions and affects five million people worldwide. A new meta-analysis suggests that low expres ...

RAWA News

  • Afghanistan’s Reservoir Dogs: security firms ...
    The Guardian: The two Afghan warlords were referred to as “Mr White” and “Mr Pink”, the characters from Quentin Tarantino's movie Reservoir Dogs. They were well named, every bit as ruthless and bloody as their namesakes in the 1992 film. Their activities are documented at length in a US Senate commi ...
  • Protesters rally against war in Afghanistan
    Washington Square News: Peace activists held an anti-war press conference at the CUNY Graduate Center yesterday, marking the ninth anniversary of the U.S.-NATO invasion of Afghanistan. The group of veterans, community groups and global justice organizations said U.S. military presence in Afghanistan ...
  • Afghanistan, US “in contact with Haqqani ins ...
    AFP: The Afghan and US governments have recently made contact with insurgent group the Haqqani network, one of the most feared foes of NATO forces in Afghanistan, a British paper reported Thursday. The government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai took part in direct talks with senior members of the H ...
  • Australian soldiers charged over civilian killings ...
    World Socialist Web Site: Three special forces’ commandos were charged this week by the Australian Director of Military Prosecutions (DMP) over the killing of five Afghan children on February 12, 2009, in the village of Sur Murghab, in Afghanistan’s southern province of Uruzgan. One soldier has been ...
  • Taxpayer money funneled to Taliban
    Global Post: A year-long probe into USAID funding in Afghanistan found that Afghan subcontractors have been funneling millions of dollars in taxpayer money to the Taliban, according to a report obtained by GlobalPost. The report concludes that Afghan subcontractors implementing a Local Governance an ...

frogblog

  • The milk ad they don’t want you to see
    Warning: starts out nice, ends badly. For phil
  • Paul Henry an international embarrassment to New Z ...
    Indian TV station NDTV reports: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna has described as “totally unacceptable” the remarks made by a TV talk show host in New Zealand against Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. The minister said that the High Commissioner of New Zealand has been asked ...
  • Support 20 October Fairness at Work meetings
    The NZ Council of Trade Unions is organising numerous Fairness at Work meetings around the country on Wednesday 20 October to work towards stopping the Government’s attacks on employee’s rights and to build a New Zealand where we all enjoy fair rights at work, decent wages and access to strong publi ...
  • Mixed signs for rural health services
    New developments are encouraging for the future of primary care in rural areas, but the signs for hospital-based care suggest a bleak future is in prospect.
  • 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 ...

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

  • 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 ...
  • The Output Gap
    The financial crash of 2008 has produced lots of grim looking charts, and Neil Irwin has another one today. It shows our current output gap: the difference between where the economy is and where it would be if growth had been normal. At the far left you can see the positive output gap of the late 90 ...
  • How the Taliban Does It
    Dion Nissenbaum of McClatchy reports that although the Pakistanis have blocked U.S. military convoys passing through Torkham to Afghanistan, they're letting everyone else through, including Taliban fighters: "Every day, 40,000 to 70,000 people pass through the border, we can't handle it," said Ge ...
  • Software Patent Insanity Continues Apace
    Software patents need to be done away with. Congress should just ban them. Now. Is there any other solution to this continuing insanity? � � � �
  • Bubble Candidates
    "Do politicians need the media anymore?" I asked a few months ago. Politico's Jonathan Martin reports that the answer is apparently not: It’s mostly, but not entirely, a Republican phenomenon....As of Friday, Colorado Republican Senate hopeful Ken Buck had gone nine consecutive days without holdi ...

Insanity Report

  • Michael Steele the Sellout
    “As the first congressional election during his party chairmanship approaches, Michael Steele is dancing as fast as he can, trying to charm independent voters and tea partiers while never losing sight of his real master and paycheck provider: the Republican National Committee” That’s what Lawrence O ...
  • 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 [...]

Simple Climate

e!Science News

  • Scientists trick bacteria with small molecules
    A team of Yale University scientists has engineered the cell wall of the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, tricking it into incorporating foreign small molecules and embedding them within the cell wall. read more
  • Life-saving in the bacterial world: How Campylobac ...
    Many a holiday is ruined by food poisoning, frequently caused by the bacterium Campylobacter jejuni . Although Campylobacter infections are rarely life-threatening they are extremely debilitating and have been linked with the development of Guillain-Barré syndrome, one of the leading causes of non- ...
  • Saturn's icy moon may keep oceans liquid with wobb ...
    Saturn's icy moon Enceladus should not be one of the most promising places in our solar system to look for extraterrestrial life. Instead, it should have frozen solid billions of years ago. Located in the frigid outer solar system, it's too far from the sun to have oceans of liquid water -- a necess ...
  • Notre Dame researcher helps discover 'walking' pro ...
    Talk about a walk on the wild side: University of Notre Dame researcher Joshua Shrout is co-author of a new paper that shows that bacteria are capable of "standing up" and moving while vertical. read more
  • 3-way control of fetal heart-cell proliferation co ...
    Heart muscle cells do not normally replicate in adult tissue, but multiply with abandoned during development. This is why the loss of heart muscle after a heart attack is so dire—you can't grow enough new heart muscle to make up for the loss. read more

unEarthed

  • Why Does Stephen Colbert Hate Earthjustice?
    Failed presidential candidate/mock talk show host Stephen Colbert wants to rumble When Stephen Colbert's ultra conservative Comedy Central character declares you as being part of the nanny state, you know you're doing somethi ...
  • Global Work Party Could Be The Ultimate Answer
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  • Governor Manchin: Picking the Wrong Battle for W.V ...
    Gov. Joe Manchin Today, we learned that West Virginia's Governor, Gov. Joe Manchin, is suing the EPA for its policies to strengthen watch over the state's biggest polluter, the coal mining industry and to ensure that mining�d ...
  • California's Terminator Takes On Texas Oilmen
    A couple of Texas oilmen carrying carpetbags full of cash are being met at the California border by a couple of powerful Republicans who don't like what they're up to. And what those fossil-fueled rascals are up to is killing C ...
  • Noisy compostable bag is, like, totally annoying
    SunChips, the solar-inspired snack with an environmental conscience, has announced it will discontinue its new compostable bag at the behest of consumers who complained the packaging housing the snack with “ 18 grams of whole gr ...

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

  • Think Republicans Are On Your Side?
    If you think Republicans are on your side, you are either a billionaire, in which case it is true, or you are mentally retarded, and you should be in an institution.
  • No Income Tax = 83 Of America’s 100 Largest ...
    83 of the nations largest 100 companies paid zero income tax last year. When the teabaggers to to Washington to try to take their country back, who is it that truly controls their country? I haven’t seen any anti corporate control, anti lobbyist signs at their rallies. Do they even know who their re ...
  • Tea Bagger Zombies Will Be Disappointed!
    Do you want to know what is sad? After the billionaires and Corporate America pour hundreds of millions into the campaigns of “conservatives” do you think when push comes to shove they won’t get their handouts? Their tax cuts? Their loopholes? Their subsidies? When the tea baggers work so hard to ge ...
  • 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 [...]

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

  • Inside the Global Banking Intelligence Complex, BC ...
    Here is Part II of David DeGraw’s new book, “The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War III.” The BCCI scandal gave citizens of the world a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the covert global banking intelligence power structure, revealing power politics in its purest form.
  • Bill Moyers on The Economic Elite Vs. The People o ...
    On March 1st, Bill Moyers gave his first public speech in three years, as the final speaker in the Dowmel Lecture series. In his speech, he addressed what he feels is "the greatest threat" to our country: the staggering inequality of wealth and the death of the middle class.
  • WAKE UP MEDIA! Lehman Report is Further Evidence o ...
    How much more evidence of a financial coup and the theft of trillions of dollars do we need before the media and our politicians do something, anything , to restore a rule of law in this nation? What is it going to take?
  • Jon Stewart & Dylan Ratigan: How Wall Street Robs ...
    Why are Jon Stewart and Dylan Ratigan the only two sources on US television who consistently report on the biggest theft of wealth in history? Consider this a devastatingly accurate introduction to the economic coup, or the Daily Show's Economic Coup for Dummies.
  • 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...

    Blacklisted News

  • Ariz. gov. slams 'foreign interference' in immigra ...
    In a new twist in the fight over Arizona’s immigration law, Republican Gov. Jan Brewer on Tuesday asked a federal court to disallow foreign governments from joining the U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit to overturn the law.
  • Panel: Gov't blocked scientists on spill estimate
    The Obama administration blocked efforts by government scientists to tell the public just how bad the Gulf oil spill could become and committed other missteps that raised questions about its competence and candor during the crisis, according to a commission appointed by the president to investigate ...
  • Should the U.S. Help Break Up Somalia?
    Last month, the United States announced a new policy toward Somalia. In a September 24 press briefing in New York City, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson said that the U.S. would "work to engage more actively with the governments of Puntland and Somaliland," two autonom ...
  • Report: 1 Million Haitians in 1,300 Squalid Camps
    A refugee-advocacy group said Thursday that more than 70 percent of camps in Haiti, home to an estimated 1.3 million earthquake victims, lack proper international management nearly nine months after the disaster, leaving them at increased risk of sexual and gang violence, hunger and forced eviction. ...
  • Russia’s Machiavellian Support For Democracy
    Russia has been labelled as an ‘autocracy promoter’ in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region. Colliding with EU and US democracy promotion efforts, Russia has supported antidemocratic regimes among the CIS countries. Yet it is also showing another, curious face as an avid democracy pro ...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • The criminality of nuclear deterrence. The world i ...
    Summary: US nuclear weapons in Europe Today the world is at a precipice of another world war. The United States government has committed acts of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, and has authorized, armed, equipped, and supplied Israel to commit acts of aggression, ...
  • Iran War Propaganda on NY Local News
    Summary: "I was shocked at this piece by Larry Mendte, an apparent ‘news commentator’ at WPIX. Watch for yourself, and be amazed at Mendte’s utter lack of knowledge about any of the following areas: Iran, the name of its president, military strategy, what U.S. troops are even doing in Afghani ...
  • Iran Hawks Dissapointed With Obama On Sanctions
    Summary: The State Department’s announcement on Thursday that the U.S. would impose sanctions against only one firm for violating U.S. sanctions against Iran has raised heckles from both right wing pundits and members of Congress who have called for the United States to take highly punitive m ...
  • Lebanon's President Sleiman: Israel can't protest ...
    Summary: President Sleiman Lebanese President Michel Sleiman said during Monday’s meeting with cabinet that Israel does not have the right to object to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's upcoming visit to Lebanon. President Sleiman said receiving heads of states is part of every nation's ri ...
  • 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

The Daily Galaxy

  • No title
    In 1979 the Voyager 1 spacecraft saw that Jupiter has rings like Saturn too, albeit a much fainter system primarily made up of dust. The particles in Jupiter's ring are smaller than those in Saturn's rings and do not reflect...
  • Did the Massive Comet Shoemaker-Levy Impact the Ri ...
    In 1979 the Voyager 1 spacecraft saw that Jupiter has rings like Saturn too, albeit a much fainter system primarily made up of dust. The particles in Jupiter's ring are smaller than those in Saturn's rings and do not reflect...
  • A Mystery Object Impacted Jupiter's Rings: Was It ...
    In 1979 the Voyager 1 spacecraft saw that Jupiter has rings like Saturn too, albeit a much fainter system primarily made up of dust. The particles in Jupiter's ring are smaller than those in Saturn's rings and do not reflect...
  • Quasars Violently Transformed the Universe in 11 B ...
    A team of astronomers who used the new capabilities of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to probe the invisible, remote universe have conculded that 11 billion years ago the entire universe underwent universal warming resulting in fierce blasts of radiation from...
  • WMAP Space-Mission Survey of the Universe After t ...
    "WMAP data support the notion that galaxies are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky." "To me, this is one of the marvels of the modern scientific age." Physicist Brian Greene of Columbia University. "We discovered what the...

Natural News

  • Ginger effectively relieves even severe muscle pai ...
    (NaturalNews) Forget the aspirin and Big Pharma pills for your muscle pain. According to a new study just reported in the Journal of Pain , published by the American Pain Society, daily doses of raw or heat-treated ginger effectively relieve muscle aches and discomfort -- and that includes even seve ...
  • Fruit and vegetable carotenoids protect women from ...
    (NaturalNews) Achieving good health and avoiding disease involves eating a variety of nutrient-rich foods on a regular basis, particularly those that together provide the full spectrum of phytonutrients that each contribute to a different aspect of good health. Unfortunately, many people are not ge ...
  • Buy alcohol for breast cancer!
    (NaturalNews) It seems that everything has turned pink these days in support of breast cancer awareness, including even alcoholic beverages like Mike's Hard Lemonade and Chambord Vodka which now sport the ribbons and color changes. But many breast cancer survivors are up in arms over what they say i ...
  • NaturalNews now available in Mandarin Chinese, rea ...
    (NaturalNews) Expanding its push into world languages, NaturalNews.com has announced the launch of its website in Mandarin Chinese. Offering both Simplified Chinese (http://chs.naturalnews.com) and Traditional Chinese (http://cht.naturalnews.com), the sites offer selected natural health articles, sp ...
  • Monsanto's super GMO corn fails
    (NaturalNews) The tides may be turning for agri-giant Monsanto, the multi-national company most recognized for the propagation of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) around the world. According to a recent New York Times article, Monsanto's new "SmartStax" variety of GMO corn has failed miserably, ...

Threat Level

  • Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker ...
    A California student got a visit from the FBI this week after he found a secret GPS tracking device on his car, and a friend posted photos of it online. The post prompted wide speculation about whether the device was real, whether the young Arab-American was being targeted in a terrorism investigat ...
  • Expert: ACTA No Longer Gutting Internet Freedom
    The United States is caving on the internet section of a proposed international intellectual property treaty, meaning its one-time quest to globally dictate Draconian copyright rules has come to an abrupt halt. That’s what Michael Geist, an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement expert at the Universit ...
  • Hacked Voting System Stored Accessible Password, E ...
    An internet-based voting system that was hacked last week by researchers at the University of Michigan stored its database username, password and encryption key on a server open to attack. Alex Halderman, a computer scientist at the university, has detailed the vulnerabilities and hacking techniques ...
  • Army Updates Espionage Rulebook Following Leaks to ...
    The Army has updated a 17-year-old rulebook on espionage following internal leaks of classified information to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks. The update, released Monday, now requires troops to alert authorities if they suspect someone is leaking classified information to the media or any other ...
  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Sorry, Newt: Democrats are the Party of Paychecks
    In his latest effort to rebrand both the Republican and Democratic parties, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has also rewritten history. Labeling his GOP " the party of paychecks " and Democrats " the party of food stamps " in advance of his upcoming campaign swing, Gingrich declared "we have his ...
  • Poll Reveals Democrats' Working Class White Out
    Somewhere, Wall Street Journal columnist and What's the Matter with Kansas author Thomas Frank is shaking his head. In 2004, Frank detailed how the GOP successfully turned to divisive social issues and fear-mongering to persuade working class whites in his home state to consistently vote against th ...
  • 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 ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

  • A Long History of America's Dark Side
    The "dark side" of American counterinsurgency warfare has a long and grim history, according to Peter Dale Scott and Robert Parry. October 7, 2010
  • Indian Genocide and Republican Power
    The post-Civil War army and business greed combined to slaughter Indians and build Republican power, notes Thomas J. DiLorenzo. October 7, 2010
  • What a GOP Majority Would Mean
    Republican obstructionism may be rewarded in November, but the new political reality may prove costly, writes Don Monkerud. October 6, 2010
  • Petraeus's New Afghan War Ploy
    Gen. David Petraeus suggests that his Afghan War "surge" is forcing the Taliban to the peace table, but is it so, asks Ivan Eland. October 5, 2010
  • An Inside Look at the Afghan War Debacle
    Bob Woodward's new book reveals President Obama's national security team adrift on the Afghan War, says Melvin A. Goodman. October 5, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Pedernales Board Votes for More Transparency
    Pedernales Electric Cooperative.  The name used to be synonymous with closed-door meetings and conjured up images of a good ol’ boys club and the smoke-filled room, where the public was shut out of the decision-making process. Today Pedernales Electric Co-op (PEC) board members voted for a proposed ...
  • EPA’s New Program to Fix Texas’s Broken Flexible P ...
    It has been about half a year since the battles started between the EPA and TCEQ over the Texas’s flexible air-permitting program. Unfortunately, the Governor has taken advantage of this issue to use to attack the Federal Government in his bid for the Governor post. Many have us have forgotten that ...
  • Is my property ripe for the TAKING?
    As you may have read in an earlier blog, Texas landowners who live in the path of the proposed Keystone Pipeline route may be dealing with the threat of eminent domain to force them into a contract.  If the landowner doesn’t come to an agreement with the entity intent on “taking” their land, then ...
  • Smitty’s statement on former PEC/AE GM Juan Garza’ ...
    Statement of Tom “Smitty” Smith: We are shocked to hear the news that former Austin Energy and Pedernales Electric Cooperative General Manager Juan Garza has taken a job promoting nuclear power with New Jersey-based NRG Energy. While Garza rightfully acknowledges the danger climate change poses to T ...
  • P2080110 [Flickr]
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Has Hayabusa picked up alien life?
    Japan's Hayabusa space probe has picked up particles that could contain alien life. Scientists studying the particles picked up during the probe's mis...
  • Scientists work to create elixir of life
    A new experiment using a mixture of amino acids on mice has yielded promising results. The research found that mice given drinking water laced with th...
  • Is Titan causing a gap in Saturn's rings ?
    Data from the Cassini spacecraft has shown that Titan's gravity lifts up part of the ring in a 'tidal wave'. The rings of Saturn contain many gaps how...
  • 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...

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 7, 2010
    Climate Talks Struggle as China, U.S. Face Off (Reuters) The U.S. and EU said on Wednesday that U.N. climate talks were making less progress than hoped due to rifts over rising economies' emission goals, while China pushed back and put the onus on rich nations. Climate Change Not Right ...
  • 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 ...

GreenBiz

  • Cleantech Remains an Economic Engine in California
    California collected 24 percent of global cleantech VC dollars, which translates to roughly $11.6 billion since 2006. In a promising sign, the state received 40 percent of worldwide cleantech VC in the first half of 2010, a 246 percent jump compared to the same period a year before, according to ...
  • Oracle Folds Carbon, E-Waste Management Features I ...
    Oracle has added features to two products in a bid to make it easier for companies to manage their energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and e-waste. The moves are part of Oracle's long-term goal of providing a common set of metrics and analytics across a range of sustainability data sources.
  • 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. �

Reuters Global

  • In Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez, new police are ch ...
    Residents in Mexico's most violent drug war city Ciudad Juarez are desperate for an end to the killings. Authorities say a new police force is the answer.
  • 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?

Booman Tribune

  • Infinite Cynicism
    Remember back when we were trying to pass the health care bills? Remember how the House had to pass the Senate's version of the bill and then make all the fixes in a separate budget reconciliation bill? Okay, here's a refresher. The Senate passed their version of the health care bill on Chris ...
  • David Plouffe is Wrong
    David Plouffe says that any moderate or centrist Republican who is thinking of running for president should have their head examined. I know what he means. No moderates need apply to the current Republican Party. Making the attempt would be an effort in futility and wasted time and money. But, P ...
  • Not Even Shrill
    This is kind of funny (via email): Dear Martin, Apparently, Newt Gingrich loves a good stoning. Because he has joined in the stoning of our campaign. When he saw Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and Mike Huckabee casting stones, Gingrich just couldnt resist. Huckabee called me a nutcase. Gingrich ...
  • Obama Signs Intelligence Authorization Bill
    President Obama has been most disappointing on issues related to the Intelligence Community, so it's good to have some good news to report: President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill designed to strengthen oversight of sensitive spy operations. Top intelligence officials in the Bush admi ...
  • Serious Question
    Why is Pat Toomey spending money to advertise on nearly every liberal blog?

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Is Your Neighborhood Making You Depressed?
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline It’s not just the thoughts and feelings we experience internally that are involved in depression. A study from Iowa State University suggests that living in certain neighborhoods makes depression far more likely. Crime and poverty are two environmental stressors that ...
  • Mental Health Courts Mean Better Recovery, Fewer R ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline For people who deal with the most serious and life-altering mental health issues, being sent to prison for crimes committed typically results in little to no improvement once the prison sentence is over. Often, people are re-arrested and re-incarcerated shortly after ...
  • Medical Professionals Often Fail to Recognize Depr ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Two new studies have come out in the past week exploring medical professionals (doctors and nurses) who fail to recognize depression in the patients they work with. While these professionals specialize the health of the body itself, they are often the central or only c ...
  • Adults and Children: The Positive Consequences of ...
    By Beverly Amsel, Ph.D., Individuation Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Beverly and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile When confronted with your three year old’s “I hate you, mom”, it is not easy to step back and consider that, if you respond with curiosity or acceptance, you may be g ...
  • Grief Decisions and Depression
    By Cynthia W. Lubow, MS, MFT, Depression Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Cynthia and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Sometimes, when people experience a terrible loss, especially if it’s a traumatic loss, they make a life-changing decision in the middle of the intense emotional pai ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • One man's fight against mountaintop removal - Los ...
    Lexington Herald Leader One man's fight against mountaintop removal Los Angeles Times Protesters rally at the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington to call for an end to mountaintop removal . (Carolyn Kaster, Associated Press ... "Mountain Justice: Homegrown Resistance to Mountaintop Remova ...
  • Governor Pushes for Mountain-Top Removal Ban - New ...
    Governor Pushes for Mountain-Top Removal Ban NewsChannel5.com Governor Phil Bredesen wants to ban mountain-top removal for some 500 miles of the North Cumberland Plateau area. The request is an effort to preserve the ... Bredesen Moves to Limit Mountaintop Removal Knoxville Metro Pulse (blog) Shiel ...
  • Independent Science Advisory Board Draft Review Su ...
    Independent Science Advisory Board Draft Review Supports EPA Science on ... U.S. EPA.gov (press release) ... previous and new studies performed by EPA, show significant damage to local streams that are polluted with the mining runoff from mountaintop removal . ... Review supports EPA science on min ...
  • To Swiss Banking Giant UBS: Get Out of Mountaintop ...
    To Swiss Banking Giant UBS: Get Out of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining! PlanetSave.com Mountaintop removal coal mining is one of the most horrendous things on the planet in my mind. It decapitates precious, beautiful mountains; pollutes rivers ... Mountaintop removal column full of fallacies Virgin ...
  • "Appalachia Rising" demands end to mountaintop rem ...
    Tennessee Journalist "Appalachia Rising" demands end to mountaintop removal Tennessee Journalist The most extreme form of strip mining is known as mountaintop removal . As the name suggests, MTR essentially decapitates the mountain. ... COMMENTARY: The Rising HNN Huntingtonnews.net all 4 news arti ...

Memeorandum

  • Christie Halts Train Tunnel, Citing Its Cost (Patr ...
    Patrick McGeehan / New York Times : Christie Halts Train Tunnel, Citing Its Cost   —  The largest public transit project in the nation, a commuter train tunnel under the Hudson River connecting New Jersey to Manhattan, was halted on Thursday by Gov. Chris Christie because, he said, the state could ...
  • Christine O'Donnell's Second Ad Debuts (Jim Geragh ...
    Jim Geraghty / National Review : Christine O'Donnell's Second Ad Debuts   —  I liked Christine O'Donnell's opening ad line of “I'm not a witch,” for lumping all of the criticism of O'Donnell together and labeling it with the wackiest and most ridiculous one.  —  Here's the follow-up, which . . . w ...
  • Rory Reid: Healthcare reform could end up hurting ...
    Bob Cusack / Ballot Box : Rory Reid: Healthcare reform could end up hurting Nevada   —  Gubernatorial candidate Rory Reid (D) said Thursday that the new health reform law could hurt Nevada.  —  During a televised debate, Rory Reid, the son of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), said he does ...
  • An associate of Jerry Brown calls Meg Whitman a "w ...
    Seema Mehta / PolitiCal : An associate of Jerry Brown calls Meg Whitman a “whore” over pension reform (AUDIO)   —  In a private conversation that was inadvertently taped by a voicemail machine, an associate of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown can be heard referring to his Republican o ...
  • Sharron Angle ad: Harry Reid gives Viagra to preda ...
    Andy Barr / The Politico : Sharron Angle ad: Harry Reid gives Viagra to predators   —  Nevada Republican Senate nominee Sharron Angle is out with a harsh new ad Thursday, accusing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of approving funds to give Viagra to child molesters.  —  The ad begins with Angle a ...

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China Dialogue

  • Stepping up the fight for life (1)
    Ahmed Djoghlaf is the executive secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. In the run up to a key summit on species protection, he tells Olivia Boyd and Joydeep Gupta why failure to reach agreement is not an option. Olivia Boyd: Remarkably few people seem to know there is a ...
  • 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 ...

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Threat Level

  • Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker ...
    A California student got a visit from the FBI this week after he found a secret GPS tracking device on his car, and a friend posted photos of it online. The post prompted wide speculation about whether the device was real, whether the young Arab-American was being targeted in a terrorism investigat ...
  • Expert: ACTA No Longer Gutting Internet Freedom
    The United States is caving on the internet section of a proposed international intellectual property treaty, meaning its one-time quest to globally dictate Draconian copyright rules has come to an abrupt halt. That’s what Michael Geist, an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement expert at the Universit ...
  • Hacked Voting System Stored Accessible Password, E ...
    An internet-based voting system that was hacked last week by researchers at the University of Michigan stored its database username, password and encryption key on a server open to attack. Alex Halderman, a computer scientist at the university, has detailed the vulnerabilities and hacking techniques ...
  • Army Updates Espionage Rulebook Following Leaks to ...
    The Army has updated a 17-year-old rulebook on espionage following internal leaks of classified information to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks. The update, released Monday, now requires troops to alert authorities if they suspect someone is leaking classified information to the media or any other ...
  • 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • NJ governor kills Hudson River tunnel due to costs
    TRENTON, NJ (Reuters) - One of the biggest U.S. transport projects ended on Thursday after New Jersey's governor said the state could not afford the risk that a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River could cost billions more than planned.
  • Analysis: Commodities poised to ride central bank ...
    NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Commodities could extend a rally that has lifted prices more than 10 percent since late August, if central banks pump billions more dollars into the global economy to prop up the sputtering recovery.
  • Afghan security contractor oversight poor: Senate ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate inquiry into private security contracting in Afghanistan concluded on Thursday that funds had sometimes been funneled to warlords who were linked to the Taliban, murder and kidnapping.
  • China's Liu leads Kohl and EU in Peace Nobel race: ...
    OSLO (Reuters) - Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo is the leading candidate to win the Nobel Peace Prize with the European Union and former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl also among the contenders, Norway's main television networks said on Thursday.
  • States to receive $1.5 billion for small businesse ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Treasury Department on Friday announced a $1.5 billion lending initiative to promote small businesses at the state level.

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

  • Poland Investigating CIA Black Site Prisons
    Polish prosecutors to investigate CIA black site torture allegations {The CIA allegedly detained and tortured suspects in Europe} 07.10.2010 - The public prosecutor's office in Poland has opened an investigation into claims by a Saudi national that he was tortured in a CIA secret prison in Poland. ...
  • Canada's War on Islam: The Case of Mahboob and Mom ...
    Canada's War on Islam: The Case of Mahboob and Momin Khawaja - by Stephen Lendman Canada, like other Western countries and Israel, is partnered in America's War on Islam - a post-9/11 "war on terror" scheme to vilify Muslims as culturally inferior gun-toting terrorists for political advantage. As a ...
  • Dear Mr. Geithner; Yours, Alan Grayson
    Read this letter ( PDF ). "When lenders - many of whom are now out of business - originally lent money to borrowers, they often did so knowing that the terms of the loans could not possibly be honored. They sought fees, not repayment. These lenders put people in predatory loans, they induced massi ...
  • Lawless Nation - Congress
    By Michael Collins Part II of III ( Part I ) WASHINGTON - Placed in office through legalized� bribery, supported by public funding for their every need, protected against the laws that we're expected to obey, Congress represents the epitome of lawlessness; lawmakers who have no regard for the law ...
  • "Inside Job" the Movie!!
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Grist - News

  • White House dismisses critical report on oil spill ...
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- The White House on Thursday rejected a preliminary report into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, which charged that the government hid worst-case estimates on the disaster and was incompetent in dealing with it. President Barack Obama's aides pushed back agai ...
  • Scathing report on BP oil disaster from presidenti ...
    by Brad Johnson. Cross-posted from the Wonk Room . On May 22, 2010, President Obama  established the National Commission  on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, to investigate the  Gulf of Mexico disaster  and recommend policies to guard against future offshore disasters, a ...
  • Anti-GM-crop petition tops million signatures
    by Agence France-Presse. BRUSSELS -- More than one million signatures have been gathered in a legal bid to "freeze" genetically modified (GM) crop cultivation in the European Union. Environmental campaigners Greenpeace and Avaaz announced that the target for their online petition had been met ...
  • U.S. says little progress made at climate talks in ...
    by Agence France-Presse. TIANJIN, China -- The United States said on Wednesday that talks in China aimed at laying the foundations for a global climate change treaty had so far failed to make significant progress. Chief U.S. negotiator Jonathan Pershing said time was fast running out to reach a ...
  • 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 ...

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Washington Independent

  • Undeterred by Government Reversal, Communities Kee ...
    Several cities that planned to opt out of Secure Communities, an initiative that leads to illegal immigrant deportations, were surprised when federal officials announced the program was mandatory. But local officials aren't about to give up.
  • Rep. Miller: No New TARP for Banks Hurt by Foreclo ...
    Rep. Brad Miller (D-N.C.) tells The Washington Post that there will be no new bank bailout if financial companies suffer serious losses due to the recent foreclosure fraud scandal. It’s kind of easy to take pleasure in all this and think the banks are being hoisted on their own petard, but it’s all ...
  • Obama to Veto Notarizations Legislation That Might ...
    Today, President Obama announced he will not sign H.R. 3808, the Interstate Recognition of Notarizations Act of 2010, quietly passed through the Senate with no debate on Sept. 27. Instead, the president will return the bill to the House, effectively killing the legislation. White House Communication ...
  • Republicans Push Back Against Requests to Investig ...
    After a spate of requests by Democrats and campaign finance groups for an IRS investigation of a number of section 501(c) organizations accused of abusing their status by engaging primarily in political advocacy, some Senate Republicans are pushing back: Such a review threatens to “chill the legitim ...
  • Reid Calls for Foreclosure Moratorium in Nevada
    This afternoon, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the majority leader, released the text of a letter he sent to mortgage servicers in Nevada, asking them to stop foreclosing on homes until the legal fiasco around botched foreclosure documents is cleared up. Here is the full text: I write to request that you ...

Digg Green

  • Google's Next Project Will Organize Earth's S ...
    A research project in West Virginia, funded by Google, predicts geothermal power could provide the coal state with all the energy it needs, and help feed the energy hungry giant as well.
  • Exoskeletons, Robo Rats and Synthetic Skin: T ...
    In less than 10 years, Darpa's Revolutionizing Prosthetics program has transformed artificial limbs. Prosthetic arms, like the DEKA model, are already wired to respond to toe movements. Next up? Arms that are fully integrated with a wearer's neural signals.
  • Death of the Colorado River (PHOTOS)
    For centuries, the Colorado River flowed from the Rocky Mountains to the Sea of Cortez. Photographer Brain L. Frank roamed northern Mexico and the American Southwest, documenting the human toll of the river's disappearance.
  • Chilean Island Turned Into Huge Marine Preser ...
    Marine preserves are one of the most significant ways a government can help keep its coasts and marine species safe from the negative impacts of overfishing, pollution and other problems. Still, only a minute fraction -- about 2% -- of the ocean is considered protected. That's why every move a ...
  • Nobel physics prize for ultrathin carbon disc ...
    Two Russian-born scientists shared the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for "groundbreaking experiments" with the thinnest, strongest material known to mankind—a carbon vital for the creation of faster computers and transparent touch screens.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Global Warming video misses the mark
    Here’s the latest propaganda from the global warming cabal.  This is supposed to pass as humor, but misses the mark in a big way.  We leave it to you to judge, but we suspect this is a sign of how far the cabal will go to sell the propaganda and it is not working…
  • Bill Gates sells MSFT, takes Prozac
    By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Bill Gates has sold almost half a billion dollar’s worth of Microsoft stock this year, and begun to invest heavily in big pharma. In the second half of this year he bought 2.5 million shares in Eli Lilly, manufacturer of Prozac, and also made major investments in ...
  • Bill Gates and Big Pharma
    05/17/2002 The Wall Street Journal THE BILL AND MELINDA Gates Foundation has purchased shares in nine big pharmaceutical companies valued at nearly $205 million — an investment likely to attract attention more for its symbolism than its size. The foundation, the nation’s largest with an endowment of ...
  • Bill Gates: Killing Africans For Profit & Mr. Bush ...
    By Greg Palast Monday July 14, 2003: Bring back Jayson Blair! The New York Times has eliminated the scourge of plagiarized journalism by eliminating journalism altogether from its front page. Check this Sunday’s edition: “Bill Gates is no ordinary philanthropist,” gushes a Times reporter named Steph ...
  • British document: Israel initiated Entebbe hijack
    The state of Israel was behind the hijacking of an Air France plane to Entebbe in 1976, and cooperated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in staging the affair, a UK government file compiled at the time of the occurrences and published by the BBC Friday revealed. According to the ...

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

  • Green-Roofed Long Cove House Melds Form and Functi ...
    The bitterly cold Atlantic winds have met their match with in this well-insulated green roofed home in Nova Scotia. The project’s southern orientation give the house a big bump up in efficiency, and the wonderful roof system and unique skin provide it with a rich personality. Richard Kroeker Design ...
  • 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 ...
  • Have a Brilliant Design? Enter A’ Design’s Latest ...
    If you have on a brilliant design you’d like to share with the world, then the A’Design Award & Competition just may be the venue you’ve been looking for to grab some recognition. The A’Design Award & Competition has been created for designers, innovators and companies that are looking to attract ne ...
  • Rainbow Colored Lounger Made from Used Ikea Lack T ...
    This modern bench/lounger was created by San Diego-based Crawford Creative Studio using sustainable, up-cycled materials. Unable to find any pre-made outdoor furniture to fit their small urban patio space, the designers chose the ubiquitous Ikea “Lack” coffee table as a building block. âThey’re av ...
  • Recycled Suitcase Chair Perfect for Globe-Trotting ...
    Nothing says “it’s time to get away” better than a packed suitcase – so when we spotted this awesome chair made from a recycled suitcase we couldn’t help but be enamored. Part of an extraordinary range of furniture designed by green enthusiast Katie Thomspon, the suitcase chair is made from an old S ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Change in Mexican Irrigation Can Be Seen From Spac ...
    This area of Mexico recently underwent a change in agricultural practices that has had an impact on the region so great that it can be seen from space. These images, taken by the Landsat satellite in 1992 (left) and 2010 (right) show how increased use of water from a major reservoir has affected th ...
  • Wild Seals Work as Oceanographers’ Lab Assistants
    Seals diving for their dinner near Antarctica have surfaced with an extra morsel: information, gathered by electronic tags on the animals’ heads, about the shape of the seafloor there. The work has revealed previously unknown undersea channels, through which warm water might flow toward fragile ice ...
  • Best of a New Trove of Mind-Blowing Space Photos
    The European Southern Observatory is a veritable factory of mind-blowing space photos, and now they’ve compiled their top 100 images ever all in one place. Some of these have already appeared on Wired Science (and spent weeks as this reporter’s desktop background), but many are new to us. ESO compri ...
  • Lab-Sized Earthquakes Challenge Basic Laws of Phys ...
    A model earthquake on a lab bench shows that a basic assumption of introductory physics doesn’t hold up at small scales. The finding could have a wide variety of implications for materials science and engineering, and could help researchers understand how earthquakes occur and how bad they might be ...
  • Drunks More Likely to Think You’re a Jerk
    By Kate Shaw, Ars Technica If you’ve ever had one (or 10) too many drinks at a bar, you’re probably familiar with this scenario: a drunk guy stumbles past you, spills a beer all over you, and you get angry. You’re convinced he did it on purpose, and you start fuming. According to a new study [...]

The Progressive Realist

  • Pakistan’s Incentives
    Whenever I read reports about US government officials being frustrated by Pakistan’s cooperation in fighting militant groups, I always wonder what it is policymakers are expecting will happen. Our current policy, after all, is to give the Pakistani military a lot of aid that’s predicated on the exis ...
  • Repairing NATO-Pakistan Relations
    Recent attacks on NATO supply lines in Pakistan and Pakistan’s official suspension of access through the Khyber Pass really underscore the challenges facing NATO in Afghanistan. Shuja Nawaz recently explained This situation could easily careen out of control. The Obama administration, which is unhap ...
  • Torture and the Ghailani Ruling
    From the government's perspective, Judge Lewis Kaplan 's ruling that a key witness in the trial of former Gitmo detainee and alleged Tanzanian embassy bomber Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani , Hussein Abebe , wasn't allowed to testify because his identity was initially extracted through a torture is something ...
  • Where the Surge Really Succeeded
    I was only partly kidding when I tweeted the other day that the point of the Iraq surge was to enable editorials like this howler from National Review : Obama came into office determined to declare the Iraq War over and come home. We engaged in a mad rush to go from 100,000 to 50,000 troops, which d ...
  • Iran Campaigns to Thaw Relations with Arab States
    As international pressure on Iran continues to take its toll on the Islamic Republic, Iran has begun a quiet yet sweeping campaign to ease relations with Arab nations. In recent months, the number of diplomatic visits by Iranian diplomats and officials to Arab nations has dramatically increased, as ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: America Is Exceptional for Real A ...
    The notion that there's a silver lining for liberals in a Republican-controlled Congress is not terribly convincing,�but it's worth focusing on one aspect, highlighted by Ed Kilgore : "The real stakes this November are about which party will preside over congressional gridlock, and be held accounta ...
  • The Little Picture: Tuition Hikes.
    (Flickr/ J. Iannone ) The University of Colorado, Boulder. Today, the Colorado Department of Higher Education released details about planned tuition hikes that included increases at some schools of up to 25 percent.
  • Mario Vargas Llosa: "Through writing, one can chan ...
    Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature today. Why should you read him? The committee praised Vargas Llosa for "his cartography of the structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt and defeat." His first novel, The Time of th ...
  • Bloomberg Says "No" to Soda for Poor People.
    Michael Bloomberg wants to keep poor New Yorkers from buying soda: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg sought federal permission on Wednesday to bar New York City’s 1.7 million recipients of food stamps from using them to buy soda or other sugared drinks. [...] The mayor requested a ban for two years to st ...
  • Fake Diplomas and Politics.
    Tim Griffin , a former attorney general from Arkansas who is the Republican candidate for Congress for the district that includes my hometown, Clinton, recently made another Clinton resident -- a man named Johnny Rhoda -- a campaign adviser. Griffin introduces Rhoda as a "doctor," but it turns out h ...

Buzzflash

  • Drone Warfare on Trial
    BOB KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH Drone warfare - assassination by unmanned aircraft - is arguably one of the most hellish spawns of the modern military-industrial era, and its use is becoming routine in the Af-Pak war, yet (what else is new?) there's no debate about it at the level of national policy, ...
  • America Aping Britain's Decline Through Free Trade
    IAN FLETCHER FOR BUZZFLASH/TRUTHOUT   One of the most inexcusable things about America's ongoing economic decline by means of free trade is how clear the historical portents are.  For example, we are today treading the same path trodden by a nation that Americans know reasonably well: Great Britain. ...
  • CNN’s Jack Cafferty Asks: Why Do Presidents Cooper ...
    This idea makes about as much sense as A show biz celebrity who fell all Over Kitty Kelly hoping her book Would be a flattering tell-all. read more
  • Christine O'Donnell Witch Costumes Already On Sale
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH I emailed friends that this might happen; It could become a sensation And give her a chance to say Republicans Are good for job creation. These outfits didn't just appear out of thin air For our kids' enjoyment. Halloween entrepreneurs, thank the GOP for Fighting unempl ...
  • Locking and Loading: Heritage Foundation Gearing U ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH The conservative foundation's sister organization, Heritage Action for America, is looking for $200,000 to launch the mother of all campaigns to kill health care reform. Whether it is sports, dating, politics, or even health care reform, timing is everything. For t ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Unlocking nano secrets
    An open or shut case for nanotechnology secrets Should nanotechnology R&D be more open to allow it to thrive in the commercial world, or should companies working in this field be more secretive? Paradoxically, the answer seems to be that keeping secrets stifles innovation and reduces patent success. ...
  • Current science news
    A few grabs from the current science news: My interview with Lucy Marcus on funding blue skies research – My interview with Lucy Marcus on why blue skies research should receive continued funding is now online in The Euroscientist magazine Tabloid reporting goes pear-shaped – The newspapers have ext ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Greenlining Institute Calls For Foreclosure Morato ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 6, 2010 Greenlining Institute The Greenlining Institute today called for a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures in California and asked Attorney General Jerry Brown to join the push to halt foreclosures until it can be confirmed that California consumer protection laws are ...
  • On War Anniversary, California Democratic Leaders ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 6, 2010 Peace Action West Tomorrow, on the 9th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, a letter from more than 160 California State Democratic Party delegates will be delivered to the entire California Democratic congressional delegation. The group, which includes state ...
  • Peace Action: On 9th Anniversary of Invastion of A ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 6, 2010 Peace Action With the 9th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan tomorrow, Peace Action continues to voice its opposition to the war and pressure elected officials for a ceasefire, negotiations and the withdrawal of all NATO and U.S. troops. read m ...
  • NRDC Sues Federal Housing Regulators for Blocking ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 6, 2010 NRDC Federal housing regulators must stop obstructing programs that make energy efficiency upgrades and renewable energy projects affordable for American homeowners, according to a lawsuit filed today by the Natural Resources Defense Council.   read m ...
  • ACLU Lawsuit Charges That Jail Policy Banning Book ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 6, 2010 ACLU The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit challenging an unconstitutional policy at the Berkeley County Detention Center in Moncks Corner, S.C. barring all books, magazines and newspapers - except for the Bible - from being sent to prisoners. ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Hard Times After Hard Time for the Formerly Incarc ...
    by Michelle Chen Once the cell door slams shut, a life is severed. For the individual, a prison sentence imposes a "social death" in the form of isolation from family, social networks, and the economy. Less visible is the collective punishment that prison metes out against the families on the outsid ...
  • Israel Is Now Punishing Palestinians Shamelessly
    by Amira Hass Behind a modest desk with a view of Beit Jala sits a nameless Shin Bet security service officer who is very pleased with himself. He has just saved the Jewish people in Israel from yet another grave security risk by preventing a 47-year-old woman, for five weeks now, from going abroad ...
  • Executive Excess
    by Jim Hightower Look out, they're angry. Foaming-at-the-mouth angry. And they're lashing out, saying they won't take it anymore. As one of their leaders angrily cried, "It's a war." Indeed — they're on the move to take their country back. Forget the tea party rowdies, this is the champagne party! ...
  • Is Progressive Dissent Public Enemy #1?
    by Lydia Howell Is free speech worth the constitutional paper it’s written on? After the September 26 FBI raids on peace activists’ homes in Minneapolis, Chicago and North Carolina, it appears to depend on who’s speaking and what they’re saying. read more
  • Really 'Making It Right' on the Gulf Coast
    by Mark Cohen BP is everywhere in the media vowing "We will make it right." Pardon my skepticism, but BP has a long and dishonorable history of greenwashing, even prior to its Deepwater Horizon disaster. Remember BP's highly touted rebirth a few years ago as "Beyond Petroleum”? Well, five million r ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • The Tenth Year In Afghanistan
    By Steve Hynd Today is the anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan. Welcome to the tenth year of occupation. Afghanistan became a nine year war under an exceptionalist, colonial interpretation of the Pottery Barn Rule - we broke it, so we get to fix it - that allows Americans to ask questions lik ...
  • Afghan Peace Talks: The Soap.
    By Steve Hynd Today's announcements about talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban read like a script for the old sit-com "Soap". Basically, the White House supports but says it is not participating in - and the U.S. military does not support but credits the "surge"(tm) for creating the o ...
  • 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, ...

Water Wars

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Electronic Intifada

  • Interview: Palestine's red lines of struggle
    The National Committee for the Protection of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People is a newly-formed body that upholds the red lines of the Palestinian struggle. Hazem J ...
  • No justice for slain laborer
    SHUAFAT, occupied East Jerusalem (IPS) - A peaceful morning is interrupted by the sounds of an Israeli helicopter circling overhead -- often a sign of trouble on the ground. Later ...
  • Boy used as human shield by Israeli soldiers speak ...
    Majid Rabah, age 11, had a broad smile on his face as he relaxed at his family's apartment in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City on Monday, 4 October. He had just heard the ...
  • 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 ...

Afghanistan Sun

  • Security was compromised at US war bases
    A United States Senate investigation has found that US soldiers have been subject to surprise attacks because Afghan private security forces with ties to the Taliban were hired to guard American military bases in Afghanistan.
  • Pakistan-US tensions unlikely to abate soon, says ...
    The rise in tensions between Pakistan and the US 'is not likely to abate any time soon', a leading daily here said editorially as a key route to Afghanistan remained closed following a NATO helicopter attack that killed three Pakistani troopers.
  • US 'extremely concerned' over ISI role i ...
    Top US defence officials have expressed concerns that some elements of Pakistan's spy agency may be involved in improper interactions with the Taliban and other insurgent groups, Pentagon spokesman Colonel David Lapan has disclosed.
  • Afghan president opens council to coax Taliban int ...
    President Hamid Karzai Thursday inaugurated a peace council designed to coax militants into talks with his government.
  • Chinese, Afghan activists favorites for Nobel
    FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2009 file photo, pro-democracy activists hold pictures of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was arrested after co-authoring a bold manifesto urging civil rights and political r...

Futurismic

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

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on Government Oversight

  • Morning Smoke: Important Context for Suspension of ...
    Suspension of IT contractor has roots in 2008 bid protest by Robert Brodsky [Government Executive] California Pipeline Blast Puts Focus on Oversight by Rebecca Smith [The Wall Street Journal] AIG's Real Numbers Still Shrouded in Secrecy by Jonathan Weil [Bloomberg]...
  • Chat with Daniel Ellsberg at 2:00 PM
    We thought POGO readers might appreciate the chance to participate in a live chat with Daniel Ellsberg. Ellsberg's story was captured in the film The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, which POGO devotees might...
  • Morning Smoke: Lockheed's Cost and Schedule Tracki ...
    by Suzanne Barlyn []
  • 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...

Digital Journal

  • Alleged Toronto voyeur used mini cameras to video ...
    A man has been arrested in Toronto for alleged voyeurism that took place from August to the end of September on Consumers Road.
  • Study: 81% of 2-year-olds have online presence
    According to a survey from Internet security company AVG, a whopping 81 percent of children around the world have an online presence by the time they are two years old. In the U.S., that number is as high as 92 percent.
  • Child sexually assaulted, man sought in Toronto
    A young boy, 6, was allegedly sexually assaulted last week after entering a public washroom in Toronto by a man who approached the child.
  • Evergreen Brick Works Opens in Toronto
    The Evergreen Brick Works site recently unveiled its surroundings with a weekend open house for all of Toronto to explore. The property has been transformed from barren land and dilapitated buildings to one of the most inspiring complexes in Toronto.
  • Canadian protesters fight to ban horse meat
    Animal rights protesters are fighting to see an almost unknown Canadian industry closed. The protesters, many with fake bullet holes decorating their foreheads, want to have the slaughter of horses for meat banned in Canada.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • The 50 Best Homelessness Blogs
    Ok, we're not posting this list of the 50 best blogs about homelessness just to toot this blog's horn, even though it's exciting to be included. (We don't even understand why the website, "Masters in Public Health," created the list, unless it's to attract Google searches.) It presents a master list ...
  • Homelessness Is a Symptom, We Must Address the Dis ...
    Back in August the Los Angeles Times ran a story about a formerly homeless man named Steven Schulman who was run over by a semi-truck while sleeping on the streets of skid row in Los Angeles. Schulman lived, sued and was awarded a large cash settlement. His tale was supposed to be one of triumph. ...
  • Do Not Disturb: Neighbors Oppose Plan to House Hom ...
    NIMBY alert! A plan to convert an empty, run-down hotel into a shelter for the homeless has some residents in Irvington, Indiana, an Indianapolis neighborhood, practicing their best "not in my backyard" arguments. The location in question is the Indy East Motel, which was shut down two years ago aft ...
  • Clean Socks, For the First Time in Two Weeks
    This new video comes from Mark's InvisiblePeople.tv 30-city, 11,000-mile, 75-day road trip , going on now. Elizabeth sure does not look like what we all imagine a homeless person to be. Then again, most people don't look "homeless" when they're new to the streets. (She arrived in Portland from Tenne ...
  • "No Pay, No Spray": Tennessee Home Burns to Ground ...
    A home in Tennessee recently burned to the ground as firefighters watched. Sounds too unbelievable to be true, yet unfortunately for  Gene Cranick of Obion County , it was all too real. On September 29th, a fire broke out at Cranick's rural home. He called 911, but the fire department from the nearb ...

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

  • Food Stamp Recipients Hit All Time High
    October 5th, 2010 Bloomberg By: Alan Bjerga The number of Americans receiving food stamps rose to a record 41.8 million in July as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government said. Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program subsidies for food purchases jumped 18 percent ...
  • American Women Growing Richer
    October 7th, 2010 The Telegraph By: Alex Spillius According to figures from the new United States census, in 2009 one in 18 women earned more than $100,000 (£63,000) per year, a rise of 14 per cent over two years. In the same period the number of men earning over that amount rose by just four per ce ...
  • UK School Installs Face Recognition Cameras
    October 5th, 2010 Mail Online By: Andrew Levy It could make the time-honoured tradition of taking the school register a thing of the past. Cutting-edge cameras are being used to scan children’s faces as they enter school. The face-recognition technology makes sure they have turned up, records whethe ...
  • Group Out To Yank Toys Out Of Happy Meals
    October 6th, 2010 Daily Finance By: Jonathan Berr In June, the Center for Science and the Public Interest (CSPI) threatened to sue McDonald’s (MCD) over the use of toys to promote Happy Meals. Now, it looks like it will finally happen. CSPI had originally threatened to file suit against the world’s ...
  • Noisy Workplace Doubles the Risk of Heart Disease
    October 5th, 2010 Bloomberg By: Michelle Fay Cortez People who work amid constant noise have twice the risk of heart disease as those with quieter jobs. Men younger than age 50 and smokers are the most vulnerable, U.S. government data shows. Researchers tracked 6,307 Americans who took part in the U ...

Pambazuka News

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

War in Context

  • The rock upon which our nation no longer rests
    In a landmark case, the first trial of a former Guantánamo detainee, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of United States District Court in Manhattan made a ruling that presents a major setback for the Department of Justice. He barred the key witness from testifying because he had been identified and located thro ...
  • A real Afghan exit strategy
    Anyone who carefully read the Washington Post’s report on talks between the Karzai government and the Taliban should have been struck by this detail: “discussions with the Quetta Shura [Taliban leadership] do not include representatives of the Haqqani group.” The Waziristan-based Haqqani network ha ...
  • Stephan Salisbury: keeping an eye on everyone
    Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com Let H. David Kotz put American surveillance activities in context by focusing our attention on what this government hasn’t spent much time looking at while it was putting its 24/7 efforts into watching the rest of us.  Kotz is the inspector general for t ...
  • Chip Ward: A West raised by wolves
    Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com The long vacation season of 2010 is, by now, a distant memory.� But Chip Ward, who has covered everything from the�aridifying of the West�to the�Tea Partying�of the same territory for TomDispatch, reports from his tourist haven of a home in the backlands ...
  • Did the Taliban clock just start ticking?
    “You have the watches, but we have the time,” the Taliban like to say. But now the Washington Post reports that the Taliban’s top commanders are “very serious” about finding a way to end the war. Their eagerness is driven by fear that their power will be usurped. The leadership knows “that they ar ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Global Tropical Cyclone activity is at 33-year low ...
    Dr. Ryan N. Maue’s 2010 Global Tropical Cyclone Activity Update With the 2010 North Atlantic hurricane season winding down without a United States hurricane landfall, Drudge posted a headline suggesting that the seasonal hurricane forecasters blew it. Indeed, he has … Continue reading →
  • Worse than we thought: “unpredictability of ...
        From the University of Leeds, the Met Office Hadley Centre and University of Exeter via Eurekalert. No mention of the blueberry crop though. Crop failures set to increase under climate change Large-scale crop failures like the one that … Continue reading →
  • BREAKING: SFO Chronicle says “Faulty science ...
    I wouldn’t have believed it if it were in any other newspaper but the very liberal San Francisco Chronicle – h/t to WUWT reader “crosspatch” who writes: Was AB32 based on any data provided by the Air Resources Board? According … Continue reading →
  • Franny’s “guilty pleasure”
    I was link surfing today over at Dellers, and I found myself looking at the long list of bios for the 1010 team on their website. I noted something curious in the bio posted on Splattergate’s designer Franny Armstrong, because … Continue reading →
  • Roger Sowell: Pro and Con on California’s AB ...
    Our commenters have been on a roll lately. Yesterday we had this excellent point-counterpoint by commenter D Patterson on the Cucinelli issue. Today commenter Roger Sowell put forth the arguments on AB32 related to the Prop 23 to repeal it, … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Keiser Report №84: Oscar León
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RussiaToday | October 07, 2010 This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at Larry Summers and your mom, the toxic yes votes on Tarp and a second American Revolution. In the second half of the show, Max goes to Arizona to talk to Oscar Leon, director a ...
  • Ecuador: Failed Coup or Institutional Crisis?
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ TheRealNews | October 07, 2010 Ecuadorian filmmaker Oscar León presents his take on his country’s history that led to the crisis that left the President teargassed and pitted the army against the police. Part one of two. For more visit www.therealnews.com see E ...
  • Energy crisis: Turning-point of humanity By Rudo d ...
    By Rudo de Ruijter Guest Writer Dandelion Salad Independent researcher www.courtfool.info Netherlands July 2008, updated 4 October 2010 After more than 150 years of constant increases in the availability of energy and an explosive growth of the world population, we are now entering an era of declini ...
  • Yemen: The Covert Apparatus of the American Empire ...
    by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad September 10, 2010 In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered one of his least known and ultimately one of his most important speeches ever, “Beyond Vietnam,” in which he spoke out against the American war in Vietnam and against American e ...
  • More B.S. Charges Against Me by Cindy Sheehan
    by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehanâs Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehanâs Soapbox October 5, 2010 photo from Cindy Sheehan’s Facebook profile In November 2009, I joined a caravan of peace activists that gathered at Travis AFB in Fairfield, Ca to head to Creech AFB in Nevada w ...

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

  • Change in Mexican Irrigation Can Be Seen From Spac ...
    This area of Mexico recently underwent a change in agricultural practices that has had an impact on the region so great that it can be seen from space. These images, taken by the Landsat satellite in 1992 (left) and 2010 (right) show how increased use of water from a major reservoir has affected th ...
  • Wild Seals Work as Oceanographers’ Lab Assistants
    Seals diving for their dinner near Antarctica have surfaced with an extra morsel: information, gathered by electronic tags on the animals’ heads, about the shape of the seafloor there. The work has revealed previously unknown undersea channels, through which warm water might flow toward fragile ice ...
  • Best of a New Trove of Mind-Blowing Space Photos
    The European Southern Observatory is a veritable factory of mind-blowing space photos, and now they’ve compiled their top 100 images ever all in one place. Some of these have already appeared on Wired Science (and spent weeks as this reporter’s desktop background), but many are new to us. ESO compri ...
  • Lab-Sized Earthquakes Challenge Basic Laws of Phys ...
    A model earthquake on a lab bench shows that a basic assumption of introductory physics doesn’t hold up at small scales. The finding could have a wide variety of implications for materials science and engineering, and could help researchers understand how earthquakes occur and how bad they might be ...
  • Drunks More Likely to Think You’re a Jerk
    By Kate Shaw, Ars Technica If you’ve ever had one (or 10) too many drinks at a bar, you’re probably familiar with this scenario: a drunk guy stumbles past you, spills a beer all over you, and you get angry. You’re convinced he did it on purpose, and you start fuming. According to a new study [...]

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Livni tells UN to mind its own business over floti ...
    Livni: "Any international intervention in military operations carried out by Israel is unacceptable, just as it would be unacceptable to any other country fighting terrorism." IOA Editor:... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • 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 ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Arizona State Presents Shoemaker Award to NASA's M ...
    Steve Squyres, the principal investigator for the science payload on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission, will receive the 2010 Eugene Shoemaker Memorial Award Oct. 7 at Arizona State University.
  • Climate Change Remains a Real Threat to Corals
    Hopes that coral reefs might be able to survive, and recover from, bleaching caused by climate change may have grown dimmer for certain coral species, according to new research by University at Buffalo marine biologists published this week in PLoS One.
  • Modeling Pakistan's Flooding- A Fact Sheet on DSS- ...
    New computer model software is being used to simulate Pakistan's flooding, estimate the drawdown of the floodwaters, and predict how long it will take the waters to recede.
  • New Study Shows Benefits of Bt Corn to Farmers
    A group of agricultural scientists reported in today's issue of the journal Science that corn that has been genetically engineered to produce insect-killing proteins isolated from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) provides significant economic benefits even to neighboring farmers who gr ...
  • ORNL Has Key Roles in DOE Cybersecurity for Energy ...
    With the transition to a smart grid comes new opportunities for hackers, but researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are working to stay at least one step ahead.

Natural Health News

  • Clay Dyer – the Most Inspirational Fisherman Ever
    The next time you think life’s handed you a hard knock, take a look at this video and learn what it means to have the spunk and determination to overcome hard knocks – and the rewards that can come from simply putting adversity aside and doing your best.
  • Scary Symptoms that Are (Really!) No Big Deal
    It could be just a little twitch or an irritating itch, but whatever it is, when it’s happening to your body and you don’t know what’s causing it, it can be downright scary. The good news is that lots of scary symptoms are really no big deal. As listed on CNN Health, here is a list of symptoms tha ...
  • Many 'All Natural' Foods Are Actually Heavily Proc ...
    If you think as food is “all natural” just because the label says it is, think again. So which foods really aren’t as natural as they claim they are? When it comes to ice cream, as reported by Change.org, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has outed Ben & Jerry’s, Edy/Dreyers, Brey ...
  • Code Red: FDA Approves Another Dangerous Gout Drug
    The FDA just approved IV drug Krystexxa for gout treatment, but according to Health Science Institute, they couldn’t possibly have looked at the trial results. Fewer than half the people in the trial actually ended up with a positive result, the Institute said. On top of that: On top of that, Kryst ...
  • How Many Drug Companies Are Ranked in the ‘Top 100 ...
    On August 19, Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller issued a call for whistleblowers to step forward and help the state and federal government crack down on health care and pharmaceutical industries that defraud the government of billions of dollars. Announcing that the Indiana Medicaid program wo ...

Antemedius

  • Research Study: Most Americans, Poor & Rich Alike, ...
    A new research study (PDF) carried out by Associate Professor of Business Adninistration Michael I. Norton of Harvard Business School and James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics Dan Ariely of Duke University finds that most Americans generally underestimate the degree of income inequality in ...
  • You Want Better Choices? Better Start Working Now
    This election cycle does not look very good for Democrats. There are structural problems of having won seats in the House that we might not have taken if we had not had the massive outpouring of support for President Obama’s campaign. There is the issue of the economy where voters tend to punish the ...
  • People Power: European Activism & Constitutional C ...
    All across Europe recently there have been wave after wave of co-ordinated general strikes and massive demonstrations showing a solidarity and a unity across unions representing different kinds of workers in different countries, different levels of skill, against austerity proposals by governments, ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • International Law Weekend 2010: Oct 21-23
    by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness The American Branch of the International Law Association will be hosting its annual International Law Weekend in New York City, October 21-23.  The full program can be found here, and includes some great panels on a range of topics under the theme “Internat ...
  • Drones as Force Protection in AfPak, and the Dream ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Adam Entous, Julan E. Barnes, and Siobhan Gorman have an outstanding piece of national security reporting on the front page of the weekend Wall Street Journal, “CIA Escalates Campaign in Pakistan: Pentagon Diverts Drones to Afghanistan to Bolster Campaign ...
  • Coded language
    by John Lentz by John Lentz I am interested in the issue of “coded language.”   As a protestant minister who preaches from sacred texts often using theological language concerning, for example, “sin” “redemption” “judgement,” etc., am I to interpret that this theological language is “coded?”  ...
  • More on Incitement
    by Mark Movsesian by Mark Movsesian Thanks to Professors Guiora and Cliteur, and my colleague and friend Chris Borgen, for their helpful responses to my posts. I find that I can agree with some important aspects of Prof. Cliteur’s most recent response. For example, he advocates a theoretical appr ...
  • Apologizing to Guatemala — and Perjury at Nurember ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Obama apologized on Friday for experiments conducted in Guatemala between 1946 and 1948 in which American scientists deliberately infected prison inmates, prostitutes, and mental patients with syphilis without their consent.  The apology is a striking remin ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Conspicuous by her absence
    Forbes magazine today released its list of the top 100 most powerful women in the world. It features notables like Singapore's Ho Ching at #30, Finland president Tarja Halonen at #62, Icelandic leader Johanna Sigurdardottir at #80, and even reformed...
  • 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...

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

  • More Evidence of Nuclear Cover-Up in Venezuela
    Photo by Daniella Zalcman Hugo Chavez seems to believe the clichéd proverb: “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. For years there have been underreported accounts of Chavez’s collabroation with Iran’s “secret” nuclear program. Venezuela has the world’s largest uranium deposits in the mountains where ...
  • 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 [...] ...

Green Times

  • Enjoy the market
    Going to a market is a good way to spend some spare time. Buy yourself some organic (glossary/food-drink/organic-food.html) vegetables or some oranges to make a fresh orange juice (food-drink/why-organic-juice-is-good-for-you.html). It’s also a great place to take nice colourful pictures. Picture ...
  • Plastic Soup
    This sticker refers to The Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean. It says: ‘In some parts of the ocean there is more plastic than plankton.’ Watch the video about the Plastic Soup (videos/plastic-soup.html) or read the article Midway to... Disposable Hell (wildlife/midway-to-disposable-h ...
  • Stop Your TV Ending Up In Landfill
    Australians generate 140,000 tonnes of e-waste each year. And with the rapid introduction of 3D TV, it’s likely to become an even bigger pile…
  • Environmental News 28/09/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Visit the park
    If you’re asking yourself what to do on your day off, visit the park. Invite your friends and bring some nice eco-friendly (glossary/categories/lifestyle/eco-products.html) food and drinks for a picnic. Getting some fresh air, lying on the grass and talking with your friends… it will be good! Phot ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Europe Faces Persistent Terror Threat, Warns US Se ...
    ShareThis Europe Faces Persistent Terror Threat, Warns US Security Official 08 Oct 2010 Days after the United States issued a travel advisory, cautioning its citizens traveling to or residing in European countries of potential Islamist terrorist attacks there, European Union (E.U.) ministers said a ...
  • US-led airstrike kills 6 in Afghanistan
    ShareThis US-led airstrike kills 6 in Afghanistan 08 Oct 2010 A US helicopter has claimed the lives of at least six members of Afghan security forces in Khost province in eastern Afghanistan, officials say. Deputy Chief of Khost province Youqib Khan said that the men were killed on Friday in retalia ...
  • Inquiry Finds Guards at U.S. Bases Are Tied to Tal ...
    ShareThis Inquiry Finds Guards at U.S. Bases Are Tied to Taliban 08 Oct 2010 Afghan private security forces with ties to the Taliban, criminal networks and Iranian intelligence have been hired to guard American military bases in Afghanistan, exposing United States soldiers to surprise attack and con ...
  • Security contractors in Afghanistan 'fund Taliban'
    ShareThis Security contractors in Afghanistan 'fund Taliban' 07 Oct 2010 Heavy US reliance on private security in Afghanistan has helped to line the pockets of the Taliban, a US Senate report says. The study by the Senate Armed Services Committee says this is because contractors often fail to vet lo ...
  • Imam from Nazareth suspected of supporting terror ...
    ShareThis Imam from Nazareth suspected of supporting terror groups --Police arrest head of famous Nazareth mosque; court issues gag order on details of investigation 06 Oct 2010 Shin Bet forces arrested two Israeli Arabs, residents of Nazareth, on suspicion of supporting terror groups, illegal union ...

Daily Loaf

  • A green solution to reduce wasted water and energy ...
    The Chilipepper reduces the amount of water wasted, cuts down on the amount of sewage output because it reduces the need to run water, and it also means that you are saving tons of energy.
  • Chinese dissident wins Nobel Peace Prize, rebuffin ...
    Early this morning in Norway, the Nobel committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to pro democracy advocate Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident imprisoned last year for subversion, for helping to spearhead a campaign for more freedom in China. In a statement, the Nobel Committee said Liu, 54, deserved ...
  • The CEO of eFlirt Expert VIP: a personal trainer f ...
    Laurie Davis, founder and CEO of eFlirt Expert VIP, was an early adopter of online dating; she wrote her first profile ten years ago when she was 18. Davis soon pushed her friends to try this new way of flirting but quickly discovered that many needed a virtual dating coach. Davis didn’t see the bu ...
  • Meek beats back rumors of him dropping out of camp ...
    Over the last year and a half, even though Charlie Crist has in many ways reversed himself on his very progressive pro-environment agenda over the first couple of years in his administration, I've found environmentalists in this state, and specifically some Sierra Club members, who fall all over th ...
  • Dining Guide: Eating (and drinking) Ybor
    This week, we’re giving you a guide to dining and drinking in Ybor City.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Their First and Last Day of School
    A school in Omer asks two Bedouin students not to come back after their first day of school. Omer is a suburban community near Be’er Sheva, an elite escape in Israel’s destitute south. Of course the golden quote cannot be found in the English Haaretz article, only in the Hebrew one. In the past I ha ...
  • Israeli McCarythism 2010: Now with loyalty oaths
    By Jesse Bacon When I was guest-editing over at our  sister blog Muzzlewatch, I was struck by the extent that “McCarthyist” had gone from a crude epithet, like “That’s fascist, man” to an actual blueprint for advocating for Israel’s policies. The writer I was responding to was the brother of forme ...
  • Demonstrating still a crime: Military night raids ...
    from the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Four people, 17 to 45 year-old, were arrested by the army in Ni’ilin tonight, in the first pre-dawn raid operation in months. The renewal of night raids and arrests may signal a return to their use as a scare tactic to quell demonstrations an ...
  • 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Brian Posehn. More Metal Than You
    This is a hoot.
  • Happy sad
    I’ve been in transit all day. Happy to be back in Hawaii, a place Sue and I love. And sad because it’s for the funeral of our sister-in-law who died at 40 after 5 years fighting cancer
  • Foreclosure-gate. Rampant criminality and fraud
    Obama vetoed the odious save-the-banksters foreclosure bill. See Mr. President, it’s just not that hard to oppose the banksters. You should do it more often. Grayson sends letter to Geithner, Bernanke demanding foreclosure freeze, warns of systemic bank failure risk The bank failure could happen bec ...
  • Rocket-propelled life preserver
    The Longreach Buoy fires a bullet-like projectile which expands into a foam buoy in fifteen seconds upon contact with water. It can be shot up to 500 feet, allowing rescuers to potentially save more people. This won the 2010 James Dyson Award for design. Fast Company features it and two runners-up; ...
  • Cameron’s increasingly shaky coalition
    There is the strong possibility that the existing fault lines within the Coalition will begin to open up as resistance grows, with more and more Lib Dems and Lib Dem supporters starting to feel decidedly uneasy. Presently, the polls indicate that support for the Lib Dems has plummeted to around 15 p ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

The Air Vent

  • Another Mathematically Honest Reconstruction
    I learned a little more today.  Behind the scenes, Steve McIntyre had a polite conversation with Dr. Ljungqvist who has recently performed a temperature reconstruction from proxies with remarkably similar results to Craig Loehle and Hu McCulloch’s work. Dr. Ljundqvist was kind enough to share the d ...
  • Yet another study I don’t believe without ev ...
    Click the link at your own risk. A little climate change goes a long way in the tropics In hot places, even minor warming could rev up metabolism in animals that don’t generate their own heat and “It’s taken a while for people to start applying the thinking of climate change to the tropics,” says [. ...
  • 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 ...

Focal Point

  • Bullying PSA: It Gets Worse
    You may have heard about Dan Savage's video outreach campaign, "It Gets Better." The campaign was inspired by a spate of news stories about gay teens committing suicide in the face of bullying, and by Focus on the Family's bizarre assertion that anti-bullying programs are a conspiracy to turn kids g ...
  • Sen. Jim DeMint Doesn't Think Gays and Loose Women ...
    That's funny , because I don't think that bigots should be senators. [Photo: Gage Skidmore , Creative Commons.]
  • 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 ...

Inside Facebook

  • TrialPay Launches DealSpot to Serve Flash Sale, Gr ...
    Offers provider TrialPay is making it easier for publishers to serve deals from Flash sale sites like Rue La La and group buying startups like Groupon within games. It has launched DealSpot, a way to have targeted deals appear in games, that expands some of the company’s earlier experiments in movi ...
  • Facebook Groups Spam and The Notifications Dilemma
    The aggressive default notifications and opt-out nature of Facebook’s new Groups feature are causing many users to see their email boxes fill with low-content alerts. However, while users can turn off these notifications, they should consider waiting until the initial flurry of notifications generat ...
  • How to Use Facebook’s Application Settings Dashboa ...
    Facebook announced yesterday a new Application Settings dashboard which lets users better control how Facebook apps, games, and Open Graph API-enabled websites use their data. The dashboard lets users see exactly when and how their data has been accessed through the Facebook Platform. Users have the ...
  • Facebook’s Second-Tier Country Markets Show Promis ...
    Editor’s note: The following analysis is based on data from Inside Facebook Gold, our research and data membership service covering Facebook’s platform and advertising ecosystem. Facebook’s top 10 country markets with the most monthly active users get a lot of attention — countries like the US, UK, ...
  • The Facebook Global Monitor, October 2010 Edition, ...
    We’ve just released the October 2010 edition of the Facebook Global Monitor through Inside Facebook Gold. The Facebook Global Monitor is our data report tracking Facebookâs audience growth around the world, and now includes an expanded leaderboard and country profiles for over 60 new country marke ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Jazza Music Festival for Palestine
    Musicians Sarah Gillespie, Gilad Atzmon and at least 40 other leading artists from UK and Palestine try to achieve the impossible in London next week. They will play together in a massive music festival for Palestine. They are flying musicians to London for the event, mixing jazz with folk, hip hop ...
  • Recognition of Israel as Jewish state poses existe ...
    Jonathan Cook argues that Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, as demanded by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, would destroy the campaign by Israel’s Arab citizens to reform Israel into a true democracy and would mean that Netanyahu will have Palestinian backing to label th ...
  • 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.

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

  • ChocQuibTown–Somos Pacificos! Hip Hop Ain&#8 ...
      NO, THIS IS NOT ABOUT SHAKIRA, NOR HER HIPS, OK?  Did I ever tell you all how much I love black culture?  Allrightee then!  So imagine my excitement to find this fantastic rapping group from Colombia!  Thanks to my young friend, Sojourner Ahebee of Sojo’s Trumpet Blog!  A few weeks back, I d ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Climate of denial
    An Alaskan wilderness ranger wonders how tourists can look at melting glaciers and not believe in climate change.
  • How I learned to love logging
    The writer takes an ironic look at the Thunderbolt timber sale in Idaho, and at Boise Cascade's conviction that only logging can save the endangered chinook salmon.
  • Who can capture the Forest Service?
    The national forests are in such terrible shape that it's worth trying a few experiments in collaborative restoration work.
  • Landlocked in New Mexico
    There's great hiking in New Mexico’s new Sabinoso Wilderness -- if you can find a way to get into the place.
  • Frack forward
    Wyoming's tough new hydraulic fracturing rules are meant to keep federal regulators at bay.

CounterCurrents

  • Support Groups For Hard Times
    By Chuck Collins How can Transition Towns and Common Security Clubs help us navigate a changing economy and environment?
  • The BBC Is On Murdochs Side
    By John Pilger John Pilger says that while the dangers of Rupert Murdochs dominance are understood, the role played by the respectable media, such as the New York Times and the BBC, notably in the promotion of colonial wars, is at least as important
  • The Criminality Of Nuclear Deterrence Today: Inter ...
    By Prof. Francis A. Boyle Every citizen of the world community has the right and the duty to oppose the existence of nuclear weapons systems by whatever non-violent means are at his or her disposal. Otherwise the human race will suffer the same fate as the dinosaurs. And the planet earth will beco ...
  • PA: Latest Israeli Soldier Video Deeply Offensive
    By Maan News A personal film showing an Israeli soldier dancing around a Palestinian woman uploaded to YouTube on Monday is a disgusting illustration of the sick mentality of the occupier,a Palestinian Authority statement said
  • More Nato Trucks Burnt In Pakistan
    By Aljazeera Armed men in Pakistan have burned 22 tankers carrying fuel for Nato forces in Afghanistan, killing a lorry driver, according to police

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

  • Scary Rumor: Democrat To Drop Out And Endorse Cris ...
    With more than three weeks left before election day there is still plenty of time for bad things to happen and there is a pretty solid rumor going on in Florida that something bad may indeed happen. According to some reports the Democratic candidate for Senator, Kendrick Meek may soon drop out of th ...
  • Muslim Brotherhood Declares War on America; Will A ...
    By Barry Rubin This is one of those obscure Middle East events of the utmost significance that is ignored by the Western mass media, especially because they happen in Arabic, not English; by Western governments, because they don't fit their policies; and by experts, because they don't mesh wit ...
  • Shocker!!! New Study Says Global Warming is Caused ...
    Uh-Oh here it comes!� Al Gore and his fellow members of the Church of Global Warming� are about to build a giant fire hose so they can put out the Sun. They haven't announced it as of yet, but they will once they read this new study published in Nature Journal� which indicates changes in the Sun's e ...
  • NY's Soda Ban For Food Stamps: First Step on Slipp ...
    Yesterday both New York City and New York State sent requests to the Department of Agriculture asking for permission to ban food stamp from being used to purchase sugared sodas. According to Thomas Farley the New York City health commissioner and Richard Daines is the New York State health commissio ...
  • Israel-Palestinian Talks: It’s the U.S. Election S ...
    By Barry Rubin The New York Times tries to figure out the answer to the question I asked : Why is President Barack Obama not only putting so much prestige into quickly resolving the Israel-Palestinian conflict but doing so at a moment when the prospects for success look so minimal? And ...

The Real Agenda

  • Microsoft Proposes Licensing Internet Access
    State should have power to block individual computers from connecting to world wide web, claims Microsoft´s Executive Scott Charney
  • Establishment Preparing Public for another Terrori ...
    Suggestions from the main stream media and the intelligence community that credible but non-specific threats exist as well as suggestions by members of the establishment that a new terrorist attack is basically imminent are a game we have seen before.� Who would benefit? Breitbart A US security offi ...
  • Iraq: The Age of Darkness
    The destruction of Iraq has produced 2 million refugees but they’re not welcome in Europe. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on Friday expressed its concern and objected to the continuing forced returns of Iraqi citizens from Western European countries soon after 61 people were flown back to Baghdad.
  • 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 ...

Wind Watch

  • Frasers looking for relief from wind turbines
    LINGAN — Sitting at their kitchen table Bruce and Janet Fraser stare out the window to see five sleek giants just beyond their backyard, churning in a counter-clockwise direction and changing line with the wind speed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It’s become the couple’s nightmare. “It’s in you ...
  • Proposals for National Forest draw questions
    VERONA — The U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday night outlined the six proposals for management of George Washington National Forest that have divided conservationists, industry, localities and the public. The forest service is scheduled to decide on a comprehensive plan of action for the 1-million-acre ...
  • Italy supervisor sees progress in lawsuit
    Italy, N.Y. — Town Supervisor Brad Jones says he’s satisfied with the way things went during a Sept. 27 courtroom session in Rochester before Judge John J. Ark. Ark is presiding over the case filed by Ecogen LLC against the Town of Italy. Ecogen is trying to force the town to permit the construction ...
  • County sets tight standards on large wind
    Goodhue County commissioners agreed to impose rigid new standards on commercial wind developers Tuesday, in a narrow vote aimed at influencing the stateâs upcoming permitting decision on the proposed Goodhue Wind project. The County Board voted 3-2 in favor of an updated county wind ordinance, whi ...
  • For those near, the miserable hum of clean energy
    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. “In the first 10 minutes, our jaws dropped to the ground,” Mr. Lindgren said ...

Not My Tribe

  • Tennessee Firefighters watch house burn down
    This is what we can expect when Mayor Lyin’ Hell Rivera and his cronies privatize city services like the thieving bitches are going to tell us at next Monday’s budget announcement. One of the fire-non-fighters said that it’s an example of “robust Christianity, rather than that sappy effeminate versi ...
  • Dit Fromage!
    Ah, photography and cheese, together again. In French. New concept, Calendar Girls posing with … CHEESE! It doesn’t translate very well, culturally, or didn’t. “Say Cheese” becomes “Dit Fromage! Dit Fromage!” Warning, the webpage is in French. So for those right wing types who are still pissed off a ...
  • 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 ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • To all the mentally deficient Christians and Musli ...
    Stop falling for the obvious Rockefeller/CFR provocateured controversy and think about what you're about to do! Stop giving the Dawkins cultists the moral high ground! September 11 should be a day of remembrance and truth-telling, not fighting! Or don't blame me when the globalists say "This is ...
  • "Sometimes we do it to ourselves..."
    "Sometimes we do it to ourselves" NIST bluntly admits cyber false flags!
  • 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 ...

Fooducate

  • Partially vs. Fully Hydrogenated Oils [for Dummies ...
    We all know trans-fats are bad, and if you’ve been following this blog, you also know that if partially hydrogenated oil appears in a product ingredient list, that means it contains trans-fats. But what about FULLY hydrogenated oils? What you need to know: To understand this hydrogenation stuff, let ...
  • Cool Whip. Not Cool
    October’s nippy mornings and the orange tones of autumn are a perfect vehicle for spending a few bucks on a pumpkin spice latte at Starbucks. At 380 calories, it’s a big treat. And part of it includes the whipped cream on top. Tasty… But what exactly is whipped cream, and what has it morphed into w ...
  • “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? [...]

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

  • Objectively worse off under Obama
    I keep hearing people saying that Hispanics are angry with Democrats because comprehensive immigration reform hasn’t been pushed. That’s part of it, but in suggesting that Democrats sins are passive, it is effectively a lie.  Under Obama deportations have actually increased, and this is entirely an ...
  • 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.

Age of Autism

  • The AAP and Paul Offit Speak Out on Parental Vacci ...
    At a time when its own Journal of Pediatrics reports that a quarter of parents believe vaccines are linked to autism, and an equal number are concerned about vaccine adverse events, the American Academy of Pediatrics has turned itself into...
  • Bono Means "Good" for a Reason
    By Katie Wright I am taking a break from my usual posts focusing exclusively on institutional ineptitude in the world of autism research in order to acknowledge the incredible and pioneering work of one of my heroes, Laura Bono. Laura...
  • Jenny McCarthy on Larry King Live
    Here's a snip from CNN of Jenny McCarthy on Larry King Live Friday night. Her new book Live, Lust & Faking It continues to do well at Amazon, and we're happy for her success.
  • Kim Stagliano Talks Halloween and Autism on CafeMo ...
    Thanks to Julie Ryan Evans for asking me some questions about what's Halloween like when you have a child on the spectrum. Please pop over to her blog The Stir at CafeMom to leave your own suggestions and thoughts, won't...
  • Dr. Peter Bearman, Autism and the House of Nonsens ...
    Bearman answers: “genes, old parents and possibly a virus.” This is the best he has got? The NIH gave this guy millions to come up with that? By Katie Wright Dr. Peter Bearman, a professor of sociology at Columbia University,...

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • U.S. Farmers Realize Disadvantages of Genetically ...
    Dailytech-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 anticompetitive ...
  • Tasers now the weapon of choice for police and pri ...
    Australian – Tasers are fast becoming a standard-issue weapon for law enforcement agencies across Australia. Almost 7000 of the electro-shock guns have been purchased in the past three years. Despite mounting concerns about the misuse of Tasers — with at least four deaths linked to the weapon — poli ...
  • Video shows Israeli soldier dancing around prisone ...
    ABC – The Israeli military is investigating a video which has surfaced on the internet showing a soldier dancing around a Palestinian woman prisoner who is bound and blindfolded. The video shows a soldier gyrating to music as the woman sits against the wall with her hands tied and her eyes bound. Th ...
  • US hate church tests limits of free speech
    ABC – The United States Supreme Court is testing whether the right to free speech protects a religious group that pickets the funerals of American soldiers. The Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas says US military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan are punishment for the immorality of Americans, including ...
  • Scientists and Soldiers Solve a Bee Mystery
    NY Times-It has been one of the great murder mysteries of the garden: what is killing off the honeybees? Since 2006, 20 to 40 percent of the bee colonies in the United States alone have suffered “colony collapse.” Suspected culprits ranged from pesticides to genetically modified food. Now, a unique ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • BLM approves Brightsource's Ivanpah solar project
    And we’re off to the races: Brightsource Energy Inc. of Oakland was cleared by federal regulators Thursday to begin construction on its desert solar power installation, joining two other solar plants approved this week. Unlike most other planned facilities of...
  • Honda bests Toyota, and all of Detroit, in green a ...
    American Honda Motor Co. received top honors in the Union of Concerned Scientists' annual rating of "green" automakers, for the fifth time in a row. This might come as a surprise to Prius owners, whose image of Toyota is tinted...
  • Solar panels for the president ... of the Maldives
    Not long ago, the White House turned down an offer from Oakland-based Sungevity to install donated photovoltaic solar panels on the roof. But the company has nonetheless managed to land some presidential presence -– in the Maldives. Sungevity on Thursday...
  • Shell proposes to move forward in Beaufort Sea
    With the BP oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico successfully contained, Shell Alaska announced that it has filed an application to proceed with exploratory offshore drilling in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska. The Obama administration suspendedall offshore operations...
  • California condor population hits 100
    The number of wild, free-flying condors in California has reached 100, the most in half a century. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service announced the landmark Wednesday, crediting a captive breeding program started in Southern California in 1982, when there...

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

  • The Jews sang We are not afraid as 8 Israeli war ...
    I have to look into your faces, to assure myself that you are human beings. Isnt it crazy that we are afraid of each other? This soldier, he too, nods (did I hear a "yes?) and I see his face changing from a rigid expression to a more relaxed one. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it ...
  • Israel-bound submarines banned from testing in Nor ...
    This is not Norway's first security boycott on Israel. A year ago the Norwegian State Pension Fund announced it was dropping Elbit Systems due to the manufacturer's involvement in building the West Bank separation fence. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Enough Already: Let the Europeans Handle Israel
    Mr. Obama instead decided to bribe Mr. Netanyahu with a huge package of diplomatic, political and U.S.-funded additional military equipment commitments to Israel. So far, that ludicrously one-sided bride has been rejected by Mr. Netanyahu. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� �No ...
  • John Mearsheimer on the State of the Israel Lobby ...
    John Mearsheimer, professor of political science at the University of Chicago and co-author, along with Stephen Walt, of 'The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy ,' spoke with IPS about the Israel lobby. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Labor expects new settlement freeze as payoff for ...
    "The decision is outrageous and irresponsible," said Minority Affairs Minister Avishai Braverman, calling on Labor leader Ehud Barak to convene an immediate debate in the party with the aim of blocking the move. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Historical Notes

libcom

  • New Zealand: Direct Action vs Burger Fuel
    burgerfuel 2.jpg After protests in Auckland and Wellington, and further planned protests outside Burger Fuel fast food stores across the North Island and in Sydney, Burger Fuel has recently backed down a ...
  • New Zealand: Secondary School Teacher's Strike
    PPTA Strike 15th Sept 2010 001.jpg On September 15th over 1,000 teachers and supporters from Wellington, Hutt Valley and Kapiti Coast marched from Wellington High School to Parliament as part of a nation ...
  • New Zealand: A Mini Strike Wave?
    PPTA Strike 15th Sept 2010 029.jpg If you believe the media, there seems to be heaps of unruly workers going out on strike at the moment. And yes, it appears so – the recent teachers’ strike of up to 16, ...
  • Topy Top mass sacking sparks Zara protests call
    Topy Top strike.jpg The mass sacking of 35 trade union organisers at Topy Top, Peru's most profitable textiles exporter, has prompted a callout for worldwide protests against near slave-labour conditions ...
  • 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 ...

Free Range International

  • Meet a Couple of Hero’s
    Hero is one of those terms which comes up often in reporting about the military.  Not every service member is a hero nor is every hero we encounter in our lives associated with the military.  I point this out because the label “hero” is at risk of becoming a meaningless cliche as we approach the [ ...
  • Five Hundred Meter War
    Herschel Smith at the Captains Journal has put up a great post which addresses a topic near and dear to my heart; infantry tactics. The post is The Five Hundred Meter War which had the video below from James Foley, a professional journalist writing at Global Post embedded in it.  His full report ca ...
  • 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 Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • 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: Lawyers Gone Rogue
    Check out some of the latest posts on the lawjobs.com blog, The Careerist. Lawyers Gone Rogue: A roundup of misbehaving lawyers Plus Morale Is in the Money Also First, Take a Shower: Advice for the Unemployed Lawyer on Staying Disciplined
  • Boies Schiller Sued by Former Client Over Fees
    A disgruntled former client is suing Boies Schiller & Flexner, claiming the firm "shirked" its professional duties by breaching an agreement that David Boies would serve as lead counsel in a commercial dispute, which was instead given to less experienced counsel and more junior associates. The f ...
  • Government Oversight Chairman Seeks Nationwide For ...
    Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, on Thursday called on top U.S. mortgage lenders and banks to voluntarily halt home foreclosures in all 50 states and the District of Columbia until the banks' legal departments review their companies ...
  • Justice Breyer on Originalism, the Media and the C ...
    On the opening day of the Supreme Court's term this week, Justice Stephen Breyer sat down for an interview in his chambers to discuss his new book "Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View." Breyer insists that the public needs to understand how the Supreme Court works, or eventually citizens will ...
  • The Price of Discovery in New York Courts
    Because New York litigants must finance their own suits, they have a strong incentive to formulate minimally burdensome discovery requests. However, Steptoe & Johnson's Michael Miller, Evan Glassman and Anthony Onorato note that cost allocation can also be used as leverage against one's opponents.

Iranian.com

  • "Despotism's Palace is Shaking on Its Foundations"
    Once again fall has come. It’s back to school time. Yet, there’s no sign of kindness on the autumnal horizon. Once again, the spring of knowledge has coincided with the fall of nature. Yet, awaiting our aspirations to bear fruit, we remain, amongst stories of sadness and madness, hopeful in our expe ...
  • Dominique Strauss-Khan IMF chief's warning of curr ...
    Global currency wars pose "a real threat" to economic recovery, the head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has warned. read more
  • Are Bitter Foes Egypt and Iran Burying the Hatchet ...
    In what many see as a calibrated rapprochement between two of the Muslim world's most powerful and long-embittered foes, Iran and Egypt this week announced an agreement to resume direct flights after more than 30 years. read more
  • In pictures: Lebanon awaits Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadin ...
    Photo essay and commentary about Ahmadinejad's upcoming trip to Lebanon.
  • اذعان ایران به کاهش صادرات نفت ‌خام
    صنعت نفت ایران تحت تاثیر تحریم‌ها و کاهش سرمایه‌گذاری خارجی با مشکلات روزافزون روبروست. کارشناسان کاهش صادرات نفت ایران را ناشی از همین شرایط می‌دانند. سال گذشته صادرات نفت‌خام با بیش از۱۳ درصد کاهش روبرو بود. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Dropping Fertility Rates: A Capitalist’s Wo ...
    The most famous “involuntary” solution to population explosion is China’s infamous “one-child” policy, accompanied by mandatory abortion for women who conceive a second child. The main problem I see with such a policy in western democracies is achieving majority support for it. Without majority su ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Emails offer new details in firing of Ag. official
    Internal emails show the panicked thought process of top Department of Agriculture officials who hastily pressured Shirley Sherrod to resign in July after a misleadingly edited video was released by Andrew Breitbart that purported to show her admitting to racism. Sherrod was quickly vindicated -- ...
  • Carl Paladino says campaign should be about "issue ...
    Angry Buffalo developer/racist e-mail forwarder/Republican New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino told reporters that he had a "major announcement" planned for today. He was in "seclusion" preparing for a three-minute address to New York voters, to be aired with time paid for on network a ...
  • The war in Afghanistan: Year 10
    In January 1863, President Abraham Lincoln's charge to a newly-appointed commanding general was simplicity itself: "give us victories."�President Barack Obama's tacit charge to his generals amounts to this: give us conditions permitting a dignified withdrawal. A pithy quote in Bob Woodward's new ...
  • "Good neighbor" corn fights borers at home, nearby
    This corn turns out to be a very good neighbor.
  • Why we shouldn't wait for Superman
    The new documentary "Waiting for Superman" has unleashed a long overdue national debate on the dire state of America’s public schools. Unfortunately, it’s too narrow of a debate.

SMB News

  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, believed ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage to t ...
  • Nato’s 27 fuel tankers torched in Shikarpur
    For SMB News Nato’s 27 fuel tankers torched in Shikarpur SHIKARPUR: More than 27 oil tankers, meant for Nato’s fuel supply and three other vehicles, have been torched after some unidentified attackers fired rockets, which resulted in eruption of raging ablaze, meanwhile two men suffered injuries in ...
  • 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 ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • Welcome plan for home care
    If Canadians want to take time off work today to care for an elderly or sick relative, they must provide employment insurance with a doctor's note stating that their loved ones are on the brink of death. No family member wants to think that way; th ...
  • Upholding laws of war
    Has a military judge dealt overly “harshly” with Capt. Robert Semrau by demoting him and drumming him out of the army for shooting a wounded enemy insurgent in Afghanistan two years ago?
  • A healthier campaign
    There are welcome signs of a political thaw in Mississauga, with long-serving Mayor Hazel McCallion participating in a televised election debate on Tuesday. In previous elections, McCallion repeatedly won by landslides without bothering to campaign ...
  • Six new faces for shaking up Toronto city council
    Closer to election day, the Star will list its choices for city council. But today we focus on six potential new faces that merit special attention.
  • MacKay’s speech ban: Message of intolerance
    The motives remain murky for Peter MacKay’s decision to cancel an invitation to Iman Zijad Delic to speak at a defence department conference.

Energy Collective

  • To Lead or Not to Lead: The Results of Prop 23 Wil ...
    California is America's shining beacon for clean energy development; however, proposed legislation -- Prop 23 -- could threaten the future of this burgeoning renewable energy market.
  • Oil Infrastructure and Terrorism – Part III
    The secretary of Russia’s National Security Council is now warning that militants have joined forces with pirates to carry out attacks on key maritime oil transport hubs like the Strait of Hormuz and the Suez Canal.
  • New Report Shows Growing Chinese Dominance in Clea ...
    Yesterday, in an article titled “China’s Global Dominance in Green Jobs Growing,” Reuters reported on Clean Edge’s latest “Clean Tech Job Trends 2010.”� The report yet again confirms China’s growing dominance in clean tech industries, due in large part to direct federal investment:
  • Maldives President Installs Solar Panels on Nation ...
    President Nasheed installing solar panels on his Maldive residence.
  • California Prop. 23 vs. A.B. 32
    Aside from the question of which party will control the House and Senate for the next two years, next month's mid-term elections also feature a number of important state contests, including California's closely-watched Proposition 23, a ballot initiative that would suspend enforcement of the state's ...

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

  • Washington State Fathers Network Annual Conference
    The Fathers Network is a group of men who have children that have a disability. According to Roseberg & Wilcox (2006), “The Washington State Fathers Network (WSFN) has served over 1,000 families in the past 20 years. Founded on the belief that men are crucial in the lives of children, WSFN is a pow ...
  • Your Child Has A Learning Disability. So What's Ne ...
    From my Factoidz page : Learning Disabilities was included in the 1975 authorization of the federal law Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) after an organization of parents formed the first Association of Children with Learning Disabilities (Heward, 2009). In the text, Exceptional Chil ...
  • 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 ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Need A Certified Dog Trainer For Your Pet? Certifi ...
    Training your dog is possible to be very difficult, especially if your dog has bad habits. You must be fully aware of the fact that if you had it as a little dog, and nowadays the dog’s behaving unusual, and it’s not sick, you should have need of a qualified dog trainer. The main... Tags: training p ...
  • Weblinks for Friday 8th October 2010
    ToryDiary : Five problems with the Big Society Philip Booth on Platform : John Hutton's report on public sector pensions is a step in the right direction - but he needs to go much further Local Government : St Edmundsbury Borough Council puts up conkers warning posters... Tags: shadow cabinet politi ...
  • What Is The Essence Of Forex Trade With The Help O ...
    Forex is the system of stock trade with money assets, or the speculation of a price of one currency regarding a price of other currency if to be more exact. Before the development of Internet traders had to be present on the stock, as the trade took place at a current location and... Tags: internet
  • Unique Content Article: Successful Network Marketi ...
    Successful Network Marketing Depends On A Great Support System by Jeff Frankenfield Anyone searching for an opportunity will find thousands available on the Internet. The MLM or ( http://www.thefinancialresourcegroup.com ) network marketing industry has become a marvelous... Tags: internet network m ...
  • Wine and dine in cork
    A bumper Weekend Catch, fresh from the Net. THE WEEKEND CATCH Restaurant & Bar Scene in Cork via Twitter & Facebook Control and click to follow the links and find out more . Cafe Paradiso The October recipe of the month has just gone up on the Paradiso website, a very... Tags: wine cork ireland kins ...

Groklaw

  • Boies Schiller Sued by Former Client Over Fees
    In a lawsuit filed Oct. 1 in Manhattan Supreme Court, G.K. Las Vegas Limited Partnership is seeking to force Boies' firm, Boies Schiller & Flexner, to arbitrate a fee dispute before the American Arbitration Association and to place more than $5.04 million in disputed fees in escrow. G.K. claims tha ...
  • Argument preview: Protest vs. privacy
    Matthew's father took the case on to the Supreme Court on Dec. 23, 2009, raising three questions: whether the Hustler Magazine precedent, protecting harsh speech not based on provable facts, applied when the speech was by a private person about another private person "concerning a private matter"; w ...
  • 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
  • ABC News receives Gates Foundation support
    ABC News' highly unusual arrangement with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help fund its coverage of health crises in the Third World has raised red flags among journo watchdogs. [PJ: So now, if you're rich enough, you can buy all the news just the way you like it? Blech.] - Variety
  • Analysis of the new ACTA text
    The scope of the agreement is still incredibly broad. The criminal chapter has been narrowed to willful trademark counterfeiting and commercial scale copyright piracy. This is a welcome narrowing. But the entire agreement should be narrowed to these original intentions of the negotiation. Instead, m ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

  • Brian Posehn. More Metal Than You
    This is a hoot.
  • Happy sad
    I’ve been in transit all day. Happy to be back in Hawaii, a place Sue and I love. And sad because it’s for the funeral of our sister-in-law who died at 40 after 5 years fighting cancer
  • Foreclosure-gate. Rampant criminality and fraud
    Obama vetoed the odious save-the-banksters foreclosure bill. See Mr. President, it’s just not that hard to oppose the banksters. You should do it more often. Grayson sends letter to Geithner, Bernanke demanding foreclosure freeze, warns of systemic bank failure risk The bank failure could happen bec ...
  • Rocket-propelled life preserver
    The Longreach Buoy fires a bullet-like projectile which expands into a foam buoy in fifteen seconds upon contact with water. It can be shot up to 500 feet, allowing rescuers to potentially save more people. This won the 2010 James Dyson Award for design. Fast Company features it and two runners-up; ...
  • Cameron’s increasingly shaky coalition
    There is the strong possibility that the existing fault lines within the Coalition will begin to open up as resistance grows, with more and more Lib Dems and Lib Dem supporters starting to feel decidedly uneasy. Presently, the polls indicate that support for the Lib Dems has plummeted to around 15 p ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Chas Freeman book: Buy it on Amazon!
    We've done it! The paperback version of Amb. Chas Freeman's book, America's Misadventures in the Middle East , is now available for purchase through Amazon . The paperback, hardcover, and e-book versions of the book will all be available through other sales channels in the near future. But for now ...
  • 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 ...

First Truths

  • Sounding Off
    In a society that fully and consistently honors individual sovereignty, observing the nonaggression principle, an independent right to free speech is unnecessary and redundant. By making the coercive land monopolization of government impossible, libertarian anarchism preempts free speech as an issue ...
  • 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 ...

Media Co-Op

  • Grassy Narrows Clan Mothers block MNR enforcement ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 6, 2010 Slant Lake, Asubpeeschoseewagong - The site of Grassy Narrows' high profile logging blockade saw action again today as grassroots women blocked passage for Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR ) enforcement officers interfering with back-road repair work by the no ...
  • Three Mapuche Imprisoned in Temuco to join Hunger ...
    This morning in the capital of the Araucanía (IX Region) other three inmates would have joined the eleven Mapuche who continue to hold the measure of pressure in Angol and Chol Chol. Meanwhile, the strikers will meet again with Archbishop Ezzati and their spok ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Glenn Beck done by a duck
    It is some of the best well made propaganda I have ever seen…We are looking into this gentleman and this incredible propaganda against me – Glenn Beck David Seaton's News Links Here is a marvelous video by Jonathan McIntosh of Rebellious Pixels that explains the Tea Party, Beck and Fox better than ...
  • Lenny Bruce, Picasso, Christine O’Donnell and the ...
    Picasso: (Children don't try this at home) Lenny Bruce: (Children don't try this at home) Once upon a time a� proud samurai of legendary ferocity approached an elderly zen master famous for his wisdom and asked him if heaven and hell existed. The ancient monk looked at the warrior with withering ...
  • 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 ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • EWG Asks FDA Advisors to Back Sunscreen Regulation ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs – 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, -- Environmental Working Group (EWG) asked a prestigious expert advisory panel to urge the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue long-awaited regulations for... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • 50 Groups Challenge Government Grant to Pro-Pestic ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 OAKLAND, Calif. – More than 50 organizations concerned about the risks of pesticides to human health and the environment have joined forces to fight California officials’ award of a $180,000... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Few Sunscreens Shield From UVA Rays
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org Washington, D.C. â With fall here, millions of Americans are outside at football and soccer games, cross-country meets, school fairs, picking apples and raking leaves. As temperatures lower and bathing suits go 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 ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Eliminate This Everyday Food and Watch Your High B ...
    By Dr. Mercola It’s important to understand that uncontrolled high blood pressure is a very serious health concern that can lead to heart disease and increases your risk of having a stroke. The good news though is that following a healthy nutrition plan, along with exercising and implementing ef ...
  • World's Scariest Job?
    If you thought YOUR job might be causing you nightmares, how about this one?
  • Why Did Officials Approve this Toxic Corn Chip tha ...
    By Jeffrey Smith The biotech industry is fond of bragging about their genetically modified (GM) crops that “resist pests.” This conjures up images of insects staying away from GM fields. But resisting pests is a euphemism for contains its own pesticide . When bugs take a bite of the GM plant, t ...
  • Mild Memory Loss is Not a Part of Normal Aging
    Getting older, in and of itself, is not the cause of so-called “senior moments”. A new study found that even these mild memory lapses are caused by the same brain lesions associated with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Researchers found that in the last four to five years of life, people’ ...
  • GM Foods More Dangerous for Children than Adults
    Excerpted from Jeffrey M. Smith’s Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods “Swapping genes between organisms can produce unknown toxic effects and allergies that are most likely to affect children.” --Vyvyan Howard, expert in infant toxico-pathology at Liverp ...

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

  • Keyboard Kops swoop to French's defence
    The Office quebecois de la langue francaise has reached new depths with its demand that English-language school boards get rid of English computer keyboards in their administrative offices. Every single dollar needed for compliance with this requirement is a dollar less available to improve ...
  • Quebec's elderly deserve much better
    It was a timely promise, given our aging population. The government also had to react to reports in recent years of several appalling cases of ill-treatment of seniors in nursing homes. Most such accommodations operate in a satisfactory way, it appears, but there is significant public demand ...
  • City and its workers bury the hatchet -we hope
    In 2004, the city of Montreal's blue collar workers had a contract imposed on them, after a long and acrimonious process. That contract expired Aug. 31, 2007, and since then "les bleus" have had no contract. So yesterday's news of a signing ceremony at city hall should be intensely welcome.
  • Bombardier deal the antithesis of free trade
    The courts stopped the government from handing the fat contract to Bombardier Inc. by fiat, so now Premier Jean Charest and his ministers will do so by legislation.
  • Police can't ignore Internet threats
    Montreal remains traumatized by its dark history of school shootings. Fourteen young women were murdered at the Ecole Polytechnique in 1989; Concordia University teacher Valery Fabrikant shot and killed four people in 1992; and four years ago, Kimveer Gill went to Dawson College where he sho ...

Food World Order

  • 8/26 binge & purge: bypass, filthy, inflation
    obama bypasses congress again: recess appointment for dr. elisabeth hagen to usda post * flashback: decider-in-chief bypasses congress, then visits his afghanisurge * letter from the editor: dr. hagen * obama dines at critically filthy miami restaurant * jamie oliver's food revolution ...
  • gmo crop sabotage on the rise: french citizens des ...
    from food freedom : Early Sunday morning [aug22], French police stood helpless as sixty people, locked inside an open-air field of genetically modified grapevines, uprooted all the plants . In Spain last month, dozens of people destroyed two GMO fields. On the millennial cusp, Indian farmers burne ...
  • bottled teas may not deliver on antioxidants
    20 bottles to get the polyphenols of one home-brewed cup from healthday : When you buy a bottled tea, you may not be getting the health boost you expect. A new study finds that these increasingly popular beverages may contain far lower levels of antioxidants called polyphenols than green or black ...
  • 10/7 binge & purge: sick, soda, studies
    study: 63% of restaurant workers handle food while sick * politics of food in the pacific northwest * coffee prices rise as futures hit 13yr high * 3-course meal in stick of chewing gum now a possibility * new york seeks food-stamp ban on soda * study shows drop in retail food prices ...
  • food scandals prompt organic growth in china
    from food safety news : Food safety scandals have helped propel rapid growth in the the organic food sector of China's economy , according to the Telegraph. " Interest has been promoted by a series of scares including toxic beans, contaminated milk and pork, pesticide-laced dumplings, chemicall ...

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Where Are The Jobs?
    Most Americans don't really care about the economic minutiae that many of us who study the U.S. economy love to pour over.  When it comes to the economy, the typical American citizen just wants to be able to get a good job, make a decent living and put bread on the table for the fam ...
  • Federal Reserve Officials: Americans Are Saving To ...
    Some top Federal Reserve officials have come up with a really bizarre proposal for stimulating the U.S. economy.  As unbelievable as it sounds, what they actually propose to do is to purposely raise the rate of inflation so that Americans will stop saving so much money and will star ...
  • Globalism Destroys America: 10 Reasons Why The Wor ...
    In 2010, education has been so "dumbed down" in America that most Americans don't even know what the WTO is, and even fewer understand why the WTO is important. The truth is that the World Trade Organization is essentially a global government for world trade.  It is a "contract" tha ...
  • 27 Signs That The Standard Of Living For America&# ...
    If you still have a job and you can put food on the table and you still have a warm house to come home to, then you should consider yourself to be very fortunate.  The truth is that every single month hundreds of thousands more Americans fall out of the middle class and into poverty ...
  • 15 Shocking Poverty Statistics That Are Skyrocketi ...
    The "America" that so many of us have taken for granted for so many decades is literally disintegrating right in front of our eyes.  Most Americans are still operating under the delusion that the United States will always be "the wealthiest nation" in the world and that our economy ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Quote of the Day: 27th September 2010
    "Labour's Greek Tragedy continues in Manchester as we all wait to see what the defeated brother will do next. Sophocles or Aeschylus could not have written a better drama." - Sky's Glen Oglaza uses Greek mythology to mull over the labyrinth of complexities facing the dull as dishwater Marxist Bro ...
  • UKIP Leader Nominations Closed (updated)
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Ulysses Diversified Holdings Subsidiary to Expand into Renewable Energy Field
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- Oct 08, 2010
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CHICAGO, Oct 08, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- With government incentives and energy efficiency monopolizing the media, JNS Power & Control Systems, Inc., ...
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Q and A with: PUC energy director Jack Ruderman
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A. The renewable energy fund is an offshoot of the state's renewable portfolio standard law, which requires our electricity providers to purchase certain ...
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Brookfield Renewable Power Raises $443M
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Brookfield Renewable Power has raised $442.6 million in a sale of medium term notes. The wholly owned subsidiary of Brookfield Asset management may use the ...
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India, Germany may cooperate in biotech and renewable energy
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The Department of Energy and Washington State Department of Ecology have reached agreement on a consent decree that sets new court-enforced deadlines for ...
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Ecology Department fines B&G Farms for illegal burning
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Thousands cycle to work and school Thursday
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- Oct 08, 2010
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By BELLE ISLE BLOG The water is rising in South Beach south of Seventh Street on West Avenue and Alton Road, as high tide approached Friday morning. ...
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WV Water Conference examines gas drilling, TDS
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- Oct 08, 2010
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By Ben Adducchio October 8, 2010 · The conference comes in the midst of changes being proposed to state water quality standards. Drilling into the Marcellus ...
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Dunkin' Donuts Robber In "Scream" Mask Terrified of Water
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Groups claim mines polluting water in eastern Ky.
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