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Thomas Paine

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

Thursday, November 4, 2010

1 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt 1

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Slow Food Picks Up Steadily
    It's been a steady, even if slow growth for the Slow Food movement around the world.
  • DEVELOPMENT: ‘Vulnerable' Asia Seeks To Redu ...
    Even as Asian ministers discussed ways to reduce disaster risks here, news broke of a twin tragedy in Indonesia – a tsunami triggered by a 7.7-magnitude earthquake, and the eruption of the country's most active volcano, Mount Merapi, whose name means "mountain of fire".
  • ZIMBABWE: Uncertainty Over Women's Place in Police ...
    Women continue to join the Zimbabwe Republic Police, despite mixed reactions to their presence in law enforcement and allegations of abuse by fellow officers.
  • China Finds a New Gateway in East Europe
    When China's new ambassador to Bulgaria assumed his post in mid-September he made headlines reminding the nation of a fact that may have been intentionally neglected by Bulgarian governments in the post-communist years of reform. Bulgaria was only the second country after the former Soviet U ...
  • BURMA: Poll A Showdown between Dead Strongman and ...
    The ghost of military-ruled Burma's first strongman, Gen Ne Win, has returned to haunt the South-east Asian nation's current junta leader, Senior Gen Than Shwe, as the country heads for its first general election in two decades on Nov. 7.

Scoop - NZ

  • Public interrogation forces Fonterra to abandon so ...
    Since Fonterra decided to chew off its own facebook , Greenpeace has made it a new one. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • 12 ideas for the Wellington mayora4s first 100 da ...
    At almost the same time as Mayor Celia Wade-Brown was being sworn in last night, the Prime Minister was announcing the success of his negotiations to keep the two Hobbit movies in New Zealand. The Hobbit decision ensures the continued growth of Miramar, where Sir Peter Jackson's activities are centr ...
  • Gordon Campbell on the Hobbit Finale
    Grodon Campbell on the Government's deal with Warner Bros over The Hobbit, and where to from here. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Helen Clarka4s chances of becoming the next UN Se ...
    Even before Helen Clark left New Zealand to take up her post in New York as chief of the United Nations' development programme, there has been speculation that this would be only a career stepping stone, and that Clark is a serious contender to succeed Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon who may - or may ...
  • Profiteering From Prisons: The Government's Case F ...
    The government plans to open up prison construction and management to the private sector in order to drive innovation and cut expenditure. But does anyone know the real cost? Rory MacKinnon investigates the global evidence -- and learns private prisons are no more efficient and no less expensive for ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Bridge Building
    You’ve seen them, driven over them, walked through them, but you’ve probably never given them a second thought. Yet culverts — those corrugated steel arches buried under roads that allow rivers and streams, vehicles, people and animals to pass through — are a critical piece of infrastructure that we ...
  • Better infrastructure, better results
    In 2001, when the Canadian Rivers Institute (CRI) opened on the campus of the University of New Brunswick (UNB), CRI researchers knew where many of its students would have to go to conduct experiments and analyze their findings — elsewhere.While the CRI was theoretically a 21st-century effort to mea ...
  • Crime and rehabilitation
    When Hugh Brody embarked on an experiment to interview aboriginal youth in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley in 2005, spending three years in prison was the last thing he expected to do. But that all changed when he met Angela George, a member of the Chehalis First Nation near Chilliwack, who was wor ...
  • Sheer treasure
    Katherine Soucie gives hope to misfits. Like other eccentric adolescents, she discovered that being different can be an asset in adulthood, especially for an artist. Today, the Vancouver-based textile and garment designer collaborates with world-renowned designers, showcases her diaphanous garments ...
  • Clean Green Electric Machine
    A small Jeep-like truck that runs entirely on an electric battery may soon offer a cleaner alternative to the diesel vehicles currently used to transport people and tools deep into Canada’s mines.The four-passenger vehicle, which can hold up to 225 kilograms of cargo, was recently developed with the ...

Signs of the times

  • EU Bows to German Call for Permanent Debt Mechanis ...
    German Chancellor Angela Merkel won European Union backing for a rewrite of EU treaties to create a permanent debt-crisis mechanism by 2013 to prevent a repeat of the Greece-led shock that jolted the euro. As the biggest contributor to 860 billion euros ($1.2 trillion) in loans and pledges to stem ...
  • Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law
    Last year, two men showed up in Benson, Ariz., a small desert town 60 miles from the Mexico border, offering a deal. (Listen to story here) Glenn Nichols, the Benson city manager, remembers the pitch. "The gentleman that's the main thrust of this thing has a huge turquoise ring on his finger," Ni ...
  • Crash Scene in the Asteroid Belt
    Planetary scientists have known for decades that there's no neat division between comets and asteroids. Some objects look rocky and inert when discovered, only to develop big, obvious gas-and-dust emissions later on (2060 Chiron comes to mind). Then again, occasionally a fuzzy, cometlike object ends ...
  • Chinese Supercomputer Claims World Speed Record
    While most Americans still associate China with cheap, knockoff electronics, the Middle Kingdom's indigenous computer industry has advanced so far that they now host the world's fastest supercomputer. The Tianhe-1A is 1.4-times faster than the previous record holder, and is the first computer to cla ...
  • Smart cards for highway tolls mandatory for all ve ...
    Highways and Road Transport Minister Kamal Nath on Wednesday said it would be mandatory for all vehicles to have a prepaid chip for toll payments within eighteen months. Nath, while addressing the annual conference of Economic Editors in national capital New Delhi, said the prepaid Radio Frequency ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • At it again...
    First it was Airshow and Red Dawn . Now it's Conservative MP for Nanaimo-Alberni Dr. James Lunney , seen here all dolled up like a sailor on HMCS Calgary .� Ok, to be fair, this was part of a program where members of the upper and lower houses get to go play sailor, soldier or pigeon for five days: ...
  • Thanks, Dan . . .
  • Canada tightens sanctions on the moon...
    Or the foreign policy ninjas in our government might as well have for all the impact they'll have .� Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon announced the new restrictions on Thursday in Ottawa, saying Canada is taking a "principled stand against those who recklessly commit acts of aggression i ...
  • Now that it's over, let's get started. BC Rail ain ...
    The sudden termination of the BC Rail trial, convenient in that it comes just days before BC premier and convicted drunk driver Gordon Campbell addresses the citizens of British Columbia while they're washing up from supper on 27 October, doesn't mean it's all over. As The Gazetteer points out, wi ...
  • Today is the day Stockwell Day celebrates as the D ...
    Don't be bugging Stockwell Day for anything today. He will be wrapped up in Genesis 1 - 2 marveling at how some entity out there in... wherever, got bored and decided to invent a planet complete with a few dozen species of plants, some animals (dinosaurs included, although they aren't mentioned in t ...

Media Matters for America

  • Beck rails against millions of jobs that wouldn't ...
    Glenn Beck attacked President Obama over job creation, claiming that the stimulus was ineffective. However, independent and private analysts agree that the employment levels are significantly higher than they would have been without the stimulus. Beck declares the stimulus a failure at creatin ...
  • Fox News has long history of airing deceptively c ...
    Fox News deceptively cropped a statement from Sen. Harry Reid's spokesman to support Fox's claim that Reid was facing a "political scandal." This is only the latest episode in a long line of examples of Fox News misleadingly doctoring video in order to smear progressives. Fox crops Reid statemen ...
  • Bill Sammon: Washington managing editor of the "vo ...
    Bill Sammon is exactly the Washington managing editor you'd expect from Fox News: a former reporter for conservative newspapers who bragged of his access to President Bush and used that access to write several fawning books. Under his leadership, Fox News correspondents and shows based out of Washi ...
  • Day 2: Fox continues its relentless GOP GOTV effor ...
    Fox continued its relentless campaigning for Republicans this week by hosting three more GOP candidates as well as the campaign attorney for Nevada GOP senatorial candidate Sharron Angle. Fox had kicked off the week before the election by hosting eight Republican candidates in the course of 24 hour ...
  • Fox trumpets misleading GOP report on health care ...
    Promoting a report published by Republican senators Tom Coburn (OK) and John Barrasso (WY), Fox News forwarded the false claims that the health care reform law "will kill 800,000 jobs - perhaps more" and "8 in 10 small businesses could lose their health care plans." Health care experts have said Fo ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Obama and the Story of the Great Recession: Rejoin ...
    I'm glad to see that Bernard Avishai decided to respond to my criticism of his attack on Paul Krugman. For my rejoinder, I will stick to defending points that I made, since Krugman is a smart guy who can defend himself if he chooses. Avishai makes a number of different points; I will deal with the o ...
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  • Defending Obama II: A Response To Dean Baker
    Tucked away in Dean Baker's rejoinder to my post on Krugman's column is this (remarkable) aside: "He [Krugman] even has repeated the nonsense about preventing a second Great Depression." Baker meant to seal the point that Krugman has been fair, even generous, to Obama at times. Presumably, my posts ...
  • Can There Be Sagacity Without Sincerity?
    Glad though I was last summer (and am now) to see ex- war hawk Peter Beinart indict much of American Jewish leadership for corrupting the American republic and Israeli democracy out of misplaced enthusiasm for bad Israeli strategies, I've always found Beinart's conversion a bit less than convincing. ...
  • Economic Disaster, Krugman and Avishai, and Redefi ...
    The economy is a goddamn disaster and President Obama deserves much of the blame. Sorry, I am not on the Dems' payroll so I couldn't contain myself when I read Bernard Avishai's trashing of Paul Krugman. Avishai's basic narrative is about 150 percent wrong. He describes the differences between Kr ...

TruthOut

  • Pennsylvania's Senate Race: The Very Definition of ...
    York, Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania has a reputation as a political swing state, but even the savviest students of politics are scratching their heads in confusion over which way the U.S. Senate race between Democrat Joe Sestak and Republican Pat Toomey will swing on Tuesday. Looking at polls in this ...
  • The Health Care Debate: Social Reflections
    In a recent Nation magazine forum in which participants responded to Eric Alterman's account of the structures that bind the political possibilities of the Obama administration ("Why a Progressive Presidency is Impossible for Now") and that articulated Alterman's notion that "the system is rigged .. ...
  • US Economy Grows for Fifth Straight Quarter
    Washington - The U.S. economy grew at an annualized rate of 2 percent from July to September, the government reported Friday. The data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis was in line with forecasts from mainstream economists and marked the fifth straight quarter of growth since the end of the Gre ...
  • David Sirota | It's the Stupidity, Stupid
    Redistributionist - as epithets go, the moniker is so mild, so...2008. Today, we're hammered by screeds against Democrats' alleged socialism and President Obama's supposed Marxism. The class war is clearly on -- the paranoids and royalists of the world have united, seizing the means of propaganda pr ...
  • Eugene Robinson | The Mondo-Bizarro Campaign
    Washington - With their "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" this weekend, political satirists Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are late to the party. This weird campaign has been Comedy Central all along. read more

Planetsave

  • West Virgina Activists Risk Arrest, Plant Trees on ...
    Mountaintop removal is something we cover on here pretty frequently. It is the horrible process of blowing the tops off mountains to get out dirty coal to burn for electricity, which then contributes greatly to global warming, water pollution, air pollution, and other problems. Luckily, we are not t ...
  • 10 More Cool Bike Stories [& VIDEOS]
    Last Friday, I posted 10 cool bike stories I had collected over the last couple months. I actually had more than those 10 in my queue and I’ve picked up a few more since then, so I’ve decided to post 10 more cool bike stories here for your reading pleasure. Enjoy! 1. The Beauty of Bikeshare Andy ...
  • Trees Not the Carbon Sinks We Need
    A new study suggests that, despite the fact that trees grow larger or faster with increased levels of carbon dioxide, they are not necessarily going to be able to store an equally growing amount of the carbon dioxide. The report, to be published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
  • Whales Great Biological Oceanographers
    In a research paper to be published online Saturday in the Journal of Geophysical Research, Oceans, scientists report that Baffin Bay off West Greenland has continued to warm since wintertime ocean temperatures were last able to be measured in the early 2000s. And they used whales to measure the tem ...
  • Island Nation to Create Massive Marine Mammal Sanc ...
    In a rare win for protecting the beautiful creatures of the sea and biodiversity as a whole, the small Island nation of Palau is acting big. Yale Environment 360 reports: The Pacific Island nation of Palau has announced the establishment of a 230,000-square-mile marine mammal sanctuary that will pro ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Tariq Aziz faces judicial murder in Iraq - World N ...
    28 October 2010 The sentencing of former Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz to hang is a barbaric act of political vengeance by the US puppet government in Baghdad and yet another in the litany of war crimes committed by Washington since the 2003 invasion. Aziz, for decades Iraq’s chief ...
  • Michigan: Washtenaw Community College faculty face ...
    28 October 2010 Hundreds of Washtenaw Community College (WCC) employees face the imminent privatization of their jobs by the school administration. The move, which will have a devastating impact on the already low-paid WCC workforce, is part of an escalating nationwide attack on teachers’ compen ...
  • Are emergency water supplies safe? Fed and states ...
    Are emergency water supplies safe? Fed and states can't tell for sure Federal EPA urges tougher inspections, tighter guidelines It took years for Illinois officials to discover that southwest suburban Crestwood was pumping contaminated water to its residents, in part because the state ...
  • French strikes continue as parliament approves pen ...
    28 October 2010 Strikes continued yesterday against President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension cuts, despite the National Assembly’s approval of the final pension bill passed Tuesday by the Senate. Polls showed that 63 percent of the population approves continued mobilization against the pension “re ...
  • Cambodians beaten, raped and killed at illegal det ...
    Cambodians beaten, raped and killed at illegal detention camp funded by UN 'Undesirables' are swept from the streets before being detained without trial, say human rights groups   UN funding is being used to run a brutal internment camp for the destitute in Cambodia where detainees ar ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Mama Grizzly and the Witch
  • Vote to Save Yourself and the Country
    Mad as you are at the Democrats, excellent as your reasons may be, it all pales to insignificance beside the catastrophe teabaggers will visit on this nation if you don't vote against them. From Digby: Voting isn't just about making good things happen for yourself and your family. It's about voting ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Another day, another male teabagger assaults a female protester "A 72-year-old man was arrested for allegedly assaulting a 23-year-old activist protesting Dino Rossi's Republican campaign for Senate in Washington state yesterday, according to local reports. ... The incident occured outside GOP headq ...
  • How a Real Democratic Candidate Talks About Health ...
    Via Jake: As Media Czech wrote: Ed Marksberry might not beat incumbent 2nd District Congressman Brett Guthrie, but any Democrat who proudly defends the great progress in the new health insurance reform deserves The Carrot. Here's his campaign site. Have you made calls for your Democratic Congress ...
  • The Missouri HRCC steps in it with homophobic robo ...
    Previously: HRCC robocall in the 121st Legislative District: desperation and homophobia (October 27, 2010) The Missouri HRCC has stepped in it with their desperate and homophobic robocalls in legislative district races across the state and the story has gone national: Robocall Attacks Missouri Dem F ...

Care 2

  • Behold: 1,200 New Species Discovered In The Amazon
    The WWF report reveals that a new species was discovered every three days from 1999-2009. Joining the jungle are 637 plants, 257 fish, 216 amphibians, 55 reptiles, 16 birds and 39 mammals. One of the most visually bizarre is the so called "Glass Frog," Submitted by Tarequl I. to Animals �|� �No ...
  • Tests warned of cement troubles before BP blowout
    Tests performed before the deadly blowout of BP's oil well in the Gulf of Mexico should have raised doubts about the cement used to seal the well, but the company and its cementing contractor used it anyway, investigators with the president's oil spill-> Submitted by Kit B. to Environment �|� �Note ...
  • Picture: new monkey discovered in Myanmar
    Hunters' reports have led scientists to discover a new species of monkey in the northern forests of Myanmar. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Koch Footprints Lead to Political Powder Keg: Expo ...
    A secretive libertarian nonprofit bankrolled a fear-mongering effort to get McCain into the White House. Until now, where the money came from has been a hotly debated mystery. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • PayPal rolls out mobile software - The Boston Glob ...
    PayPal Inc., the online-payments processor owned by eBay Inc., introduced a mobile version of its checkout software yesterday as it tries to capitalize on surging smartphone use. Submitted by Sagar Satapathy to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

  • America's Happy News Media
    When I lived in China back in the early 1990s, it was entertaining to read the Chinese newspapers, all of them state-owned. In them, China's government was always making excellent decisions, the economy was always improving, the leaders of other nations were always praising China's leaders, and the ...
  • Getting Medieval On Your Assets: Four Reasons Fore ...
    The current debate over foreclosure fraud has been a revelation, even for those of us who have become familiar with the power of moneyed interests to influence the national dialog. Despite overwhelming evidence of widespread lawbreaking and deception, there's still a popular point of view that says ...
  • Philly Corruption...Bucks County Style
    Frank Farry is an incumbent candidate for Pennsylvania State House Representative in the 142nd District of Lower Bucks County. He is a life-long resident of the area, an attorney, chief of the local fire department and can be found Friday evenings at the local high school football game or hobnobbing ...
  • Xbox versus WikiLeaks
    "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." --Opening line in William Gibson's "Neuromancer" I recently took a tour of Best Buy to see what's going on in the world of consumer electronics. Technology was on my mind. I had just been reading up on computer hacking a ...
  • Washington Post's Blinders on Afghan War
    Sometimes when perusing the Washington Post’s editorials, you have to wonder if the editors read their own newspaper’s reporting or perhaps they just look at what reinforces their preconceived opinions – as just occurred regarding Afghan War progress. On Thursday, the Post’s neocon editorial wri ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Broadway
    Bronwyn’s Note: The video below is fun to watch. Especially if you’ve ever listened to John Batchelor’s radio show, which I find a true treat. While John is a conservative, he invites all kinds of guests, from congressmen to journalists to novelists to filmmakers, from the left to the right. His sho ...
  • Elections: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
    Only a few days now until we see what we will have to live with for at least 2 more years. In the meantime, we have been so soaked in “ugly” that some of us feel like getting in the shower and not getting out until it is over. But, below the fold is [...]
  • Counting Down * Open Thread
    As we count down the days until Tuesday … both Lisa Murkowski and the Democrat Scott McAdams are the beneficiaries of Joe Miller’s big lie and ethics violations (what a disappointment, eh?) … a WaPo story is pointing fingers at the Tea Party’s distracting, negative effects on GOP … Barney Frank is a ...
  • ObamaCare’s Biggest Success Maybe Outsourcing Expe ...
    While most Main Street Americans have yet to get a glimpse of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) in action, states and private employers are already discovering it harbors more than a few challenges for our already complicated and expensive employer sponsored health insurance ...
  • Barack Obama, Barry Soetoro and Barry Manilow [VID ...
    He’s been up, down, trying to get the feeling again. Pop lyricist Barry Manilow prophetically captured the current mood and yearning of Mr. Barry Soetoro, who we know by the more familiar name, Barack Obama. Barack ain’t singing the blues–he’s channeling Barry Manilow. More about that in a bit. ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Silver Fox: The Friendliest Fox on Earth
    Tame foxes selectively bred in Siberia are friendly enough to enter our homes. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Cat that Lures its Prey by Imitating Infant An ...
    A jungle cat that uses a trick to hunt, so cunning it could have come from Little Red Riding Hood. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Incredible Art Woven from Recycled Materials
    Weaving recycled objects into artworks requires a special talent and Elizabeth Lundberg Morisette is a shining example of how truly wonderful 'green' art can be read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 7 Magnificent Old Castles Around the World
    Fabulous buildings bring our adventurous spirits to life: castles that make history come alive and bring smiles to the faces of cartoonists. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Hidden Photographic World of Micrographs
    These microphotographs are very important scientific contributions to life sciences and bio-research. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Governor's Aide Steps In for Ousted Environment Ch ...
    A new acting commissioner will face some hard choices at an agency facing layoffs after already-deep New York State budget cuts.
  • Bay Area Maps Out Bike-Sharing Effort
    A plan calls for strategically locating up to 100 bicycle kiosks with a total of about 1,000 bicycles to provide commuters with an alternative to single-occupancy cars, particularly in traveling to and from urban transit centers.
  • Halliburton and BP Knew of Cement Flaws
    In the first official finding of responsibility for the blowout, which killed 11 workers and led to the largest offshore oil spill in American history, the commission staff determined that Halliburton had conducted three laboratory tests that indicated that the cement mixture did not meet industry s ...
  • On Our Radar: Record Salmon Run in British Columbi ...
    One hypothesis is that volcanic ash created an algae bloom in the Pacific that led to a population explosion.
  • A Nano-Solution to Energy 'Vampires'
    Like a leaky faucet, today's transistors may be in the "off" position but are never fully closed, allowing small amounts of energy to be steadily siphoned. But with nanotechnology, a far tighter seal can be achieved.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • FBI investigated American Trucking Association lin ...
    Wellstone plane crash was super sketchy. There was no icy condition that it was spun as. Fortunately MPR got the Wellstone FBI files, a lot of redacted materials. There is an interesting logical flow - including "justice center" ... Service Transportation Act - expose board members of ATA - DOT t ...
  • Rap News vs the News World Order - gotta see this ...
    Any friend of this site pretty much is required to watch the latest rapnews: Marvelous work! As posted: Who let the Logs out!? Wikileaks drops 400,000 classified documents shedding new light on the Iraq war — the biggest leak of classified military documents in history — sending shockw ...
  • Facebook Twitter HTTP security shown as hosed by t ...
    Sound advice (to the extent anything on the internet is really secure ha): Change your passwords , and logout of everything Do not use open WiFi to login to Facebook, Twitter or anything else Use only a hard-wired connection until this subsides Do not check the “remember my password” ...
  • FedWire and Wachovia / Wells Fargo = Pipeline for ...
    "It would be important for this task force to have access to records of the Federal Reserve and the central banks of cooperating nations to find out which financial institutions are depositing large amounts of American dollars. (If investigators had had such access years ago, it would have been easy ...
  • Currency turbulence and FEMA cyberwarfare exciteme ...
    The Savings & Loan scandal; Stock market manipulation and money laundering; Iran-Contra Affair; The October Surprise and Iran hostage crisis; Iraqgate-BNL and the rise and funding of Saddam Hussein; Pakistan’s nuclear program and the selling of bomb- ...

Daily Censored

  • Just Deserts
    A guy who calls himself “Keith in Seattle” posted this comment on my blog: “New numbers posted today on the Treasury Department website show the National Debt has increased by more than $3 trillion since President Obama took office. The National Debt stood at $10.626 trillion the day Mr. Obama was i ...
  • Coups, Destabilization, & Disavow
    Coups, Destabilization, & Disavow: American as Apple Pie By: Solomon Comissiong “The propaganda system allows the U.S. leadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality; in fact, major war criminals like Henry Kissinger appear regularly on TV to comment o ...
  • FRAQ! I Voted For A Republican
    I actually did it, but he is not really a Repubican anymore.  I could have voted for a Democrat who is guaranteed to lose or a raving, lunatic Republican.  Instead I voted for Charlie Crist.  He was a centrist Republican who was too far left for the scary, foot shooters who live around here.  Meek, ...
  • The FIX: Let No Crisis Go To Waste
    The deficit is a ruse.  First, this deficit was created by the Republicans over the last ten years—Yes, ten years.  They used the war to create an endless pit and spent like crazy with the bulk of the money going to their friends.  Then they used the last two years to prevent anyone from doing [...]
  • Heathens Hold the Line as Californians Reject Corp ...
    Michael Collins The corporate takeover of California is on hold according to the latest polls out of the nation’s largest state. Just nine days before the election, the Los Angeles Times and University of Southern California poll shows a nearly impossible uphill battle for the big business ticket of ...

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Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Listeria Recall - Small Raw Milk Cheese Producers ...
    Boy, have I heard it from the raw milik, locavore, anti-government folks over the last few days.� I now agree with them.� Big agribusiness and small local farmers should be treated the same.� Any company with several months of Listeria problems and an inspection report like this, should be shut down ...
  • Possible Listeria Risk Causes 54,000 Pound Pork Re ...
    Autentico Foods, a Hawaiian Gardens, Calif., firm, is recalling approximately 54,000 pounds of ready-to-eat pork products that were not produced in accordance with its food safety plan for its Listeria prerequisite program, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Oct. 27. The ...
  • Minnesota Links Campylobacter and Cryptosporidium ...
    Minnesota state health officials reported today that routine disease surveillance has detected additional illnesses linked to consumption of raw dairy products from the Hartmann dairy farm in Sibley County. According to epidemiologists with the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), the illnesses in ...
  • Valley Farm Meats Recalls Product Due to Listeria ...
    Valley Farm Meats , also known as Strasburg Provision, has expanded a voluntary recall of ready-to-eat meat items, bringing the total recall to 3,600 pounds of product that may be contaminated. The recalled products include: trail style bologna, smoked snack sticks, smoked ham varieties, smoked por ...
  • Wright County Egg Sued by Three-year-old Hospitali ...
    We filed another lawsuit today against Wright County Egg in Federal Court in Iowa. This time on behalf of J.T. On or about July 7, 2010, the minor plaintiff, J.T., began to suffer from severe fevers, including abdominal cramps, nausea, diarrhea and vomiting. J.T. continued to be ill with gastroint ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 10.29.10
    At Witz' End: Observations after driving the Chevy Volt (and getting 26.1 and 81.5 mpg) Not a "pure" EV, but a car with game-changing potential. Tesla SUV coming in 2014, will be called Model X ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 10.28.10
    Editorial: GM's Chevy Volt advertising might work today, but it's incredibly shortsighted Why GM may want to re-think its PR strategy. Converted Audi A2 claims new electric vehicle distance record: 372 mi ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 10.27.10
    GM director: Fuel cell vehicles will be cost competitive with hybrids by 2025 Yes, that's 15 years away. Still. Video: Focus Designs introduces SBU V2.0; a one-wheeled electric wonder Segway ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 10.26.10
    Vegan Juice: PETA to advertise on EV charging stations? Consumer crossover nirvana or not? San Francisco's green taxi fleet and how it got there Thanks to one determined cabbie. ...
  • EPA issues first-ever fuel efficiency and emission ...
    Filed under: Truck , Government/Legal , Work , Specialty , Diesel As expected , the EPA has released its first-ever proposal for greenhouse gas and fuel efficiency standards for heavy-duty vehicles. The proposal, and that's all it is at this point, would create three new categories for heavy truc ...

Rafe's Radar

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

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Farming Pathogens

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

Suzie-Q

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

Solari

  • Chris Powell: Piercing The Mystery of The Gold Mar ...
    By Chris Powell The precious metals markets have tremendous potential for investors. But they are also wrapped up in great mystery — deliberately so. Gold is the worst understood financial market. Most official data about gold is actually disinformation. Years ago GATA disclosed that the Internatio ...
  • Fed Surveys Dealers on QE2
    By Rebecca Christie and Craig Torres The Federal Reserve asked bond dealers and investors for projections of central bank asset purchases over the next six months, along with the likely effect on yields, as it seeks to gauge the possible impact of new efforts to spur growth. “If they buy too much, ...
  • Here is a Candidate to Support!
    Thicke For Agriculture YouTube Continue reading the article . . . Related reading: The Biggest Election Showdown is WHERE The Huffington Post (24 Oct 10)
  • Morgan, HSBC Sued Over Silver Price Suppression
    By Jonathan Stempel JPMorgan Chase & Co. and HSBC Holdings Plc were hit with two lawsuits on Wednesday by investors who accused them of conspiring to drive down silver prices and reaping an estimated hundreds of millions of dollars of illegal profits. The banks, among the world’s largest, were acc ...
  • Riki Ott: People Dying In the Gulf
    Continue reading the article . . .

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

  • Polarization and hot rhetoric conceal two similar ...
    Summary:  The second in the series about the American people’s struggle to adjust to the new century.  Here we discuss American politics:  the increasingly hot rhetoric and polarization — and the similarity of policies between parties. In many ways Obama resembles Carter, both unable to functi ...
  • Which is better? Rioting in France and Greece or ...
    Summary:  Riots in France and Greece.  Calm in the United States.  Which shows clearer vision and greater willingness to institute reforms?  As usual, the media coverage gets it backwards.  First in another series about the end of the post-WWII era, and our preparations for it. Rioters in Franc ...
  • Our geopolitical experts will destroy America, if ...
    Summary:  Our foreign policy has been a shambles since the fall of the Berlin Wall.  But our mistakes have been made on the basis of expert advice.  Here are some examples, most ranging from ineffective to crazy. The geopolitical experts at Foreign Policy magazine have some free advice:  “A Pl ...
  • Will the Taliban Give us a Taste of Armageddon?
    Summary: Many comparisons have been made between the War on Terror, AKA “The Long War”, and Vietnam. Needless to say, our leaders prefer to think about happy counterinsurgencies, like the Philippines, Malaysia, and… the Philippines. Since fantasy is so much more appealing than reality (and makes for ...
  • Killing the leaders of our enemy. Is this the fast ...
    Summary:  To compel the Taliban’s leaders to negotiate US forces (and the CIA) have begun intense efforts to kill them.  While superfically logical, have they research to suggest that it will work?  The long history of such programs suggests the odds of success are low.  Also, what of the danger ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • JPMorgan, HSBC sued for alleged silver conspiracy
    Reuters – JPMorgan Chase & Co and HSBC Holdings Plc were hit with two lawsuits on Wednesday by investors who accused them of conspiring to drive down silver prices, and reaping an estimated hundreds of millions of dollars of illegal profits. The banks, among the world’s largest, were accused of mani ...
  • US Treasury Sees Escalating Risk to Home Prices
    NY Times – The uncertainty over the legal status of foreclosed homes in the nation could further depress home prices and delay the recovery of the housing market, the Obama administration said on Wednesday. The warning came at the first Congressional hearing since the magnitude of the problem gained ...
  • BP dispersants ‘causing sickness’
    Al Jazeera-Investigation by Al Jazeera online correspondent finds toxic illnesses linked to BP oil dispersants along Gulf coast. Two-year-old Gavin Tillman of Pass Christian, Mississippi, has been diagnosed with severe upper respiratory, sinus, and viral infections. His temperature has reached more ...
  • Australia: Flu vaccine approved despite children’s ...
    ABC – A flu vaccine that triggered fits at nine times the usual rate in young children last season looks set to be rolled out next winter. The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Federal Health Department has recommended the vaccine for approval, but with conditions. Read article
  • German Leader Pushes E.U. Treaty Change
    New York Times – After eight years of bickering over the latest rewrite of the European Unionâs labyrinthine treaty, the last thing most of its 27 nations want is to do the same thing again. The question is whether they dare tell that to Angela Merkel, the German chancellor. Mrs. Merkel, with the su ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

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

PakAlert

  • Video: Uncovered 9/11 Footage Shows FBI Director A ...
    An intriguing video has appeared on You Tube that appears to show a FDNY film crew being interviewed in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks by the the director of the FBI’s New York office, who has suspicions that one of the World Trade Center towers took a “secondary hit” before collapsing. The video ...
  • Who’s the Conspiracy Theorist Now? Gov’t Scaring t ...
    Pandemics, Aliens, and Asteroids -- Oh My! It appears that the corporate-government-media has recently become the number one propagator of conspiracy theories. That is, of course, as long as the fear campaign pushes the right buttons for the agenda. The dumbed-down public will always be led by fea ...
  • 12 Crime Statistics That Make You Wonder What Is H ...
    As the economy continues to unravel, things are not going to get any better. In fact, people who are suffering are only going to become more desperate. Already, there are quite a few troubling signs out there. The following are 12 crime statistics that make you wonder what is happening to America ...
  • Trigger Points, Black Swans, And Other Unpleasant ...
    There is absolutely no guarantee that life tomorrow will be anything like life today. Expectations of continuity and safety are a crutch for those who lack the ability to adapt to changing circumstances. Accepting the reality of possible upheaval is the first step in preparing one’s self to weather ...
  • Video: Time Traveler With Cell Phone In 1928 Film?
    Irish filmmaker George Clarke thinks he has spotted something unusual -- a woman talking on a cell phone in a 1928 Charlie Chaplin film.

Andy Worthington

  • Omar Khadr’s Statement at Guantánamo, Octobe ...
    On Thursday, at Guantánamo, Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen who accepted a plea deal on Monday in his trial by Military Commission, and is now facing sentencing hearings so that a military jury can deliver a sentence in his case, made a statement that, as the Globe and Mail described it, was “the f ...
  • Andy Worthington Discusses Omar Khadr’s Depressing ...
    On Monday, after former child prisoner Omar Khadr accepted a plea deal at Guantánamo, nodding his assent to a vast list of crimes (PDF), including membership of al-Qaeda and the “illegal” killing of a US Special Forces soldier, I responded to an urgent request for an interview and spoke to my old fr ...
  • Moazzam Begg Interviews Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Ade ...
    Over the last 18 months, as part of the slow-moving process of closing Guantánamo, the Obama administration — having refused to offer new homes on the US mainland to cleared prisoners who cannot be repatriated because they face the risk of torture — has prevailed on other countries to help out. To ...
  • The Betrayal of Omar Khadr – and of American Justi ...
    Yesterday morning, wearing a dark suit, a white shirt and a dark tie, Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen who was just 15 years old when he was seized after a firefight in Afghanistan in July 2002, ended an eight-year struggle — first by the Bush administration, and then by the Obama administration — t ...
  • No Justice for Omar Khadr at Guantánamo
    Exactly two years ago, when I began writing a weekly column for the Future of Freedom Foundation on Guantánamo, torture and other crimes and abuses committed as part of the Bush administration’s “War on Terror,” I focused on the story of Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen who was just 15 years old whe ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Party like it's Orwell's 1984
    This summer, I read George Orwell’s paranoid dystopia novel, 1984 . I have no idea how I managed to graduate from high school, let along college, without reading it, but, there you go. (And, all literary genius aside, I’m so glad I wasn’t friends with Orwell. Somehow I doubt he was ever the life ...
  • Landmark Ruling Last Week that YOU may not have he ...
    Zach Carter takes note of recent ruling in a case that shows pretty clearly how the banks, not just Wells Fargo BUT all banks, purposely rigged their overdraft system against you: Wells Fargo Overdraft Scam Makes Elizabeth Warren More Important Than Ever A landmark court ruling on Wells Fargo's ou ...
  • Throwing a Real Tea Party
    Funny or Die pretty much sums up what we are dealing with when we talk about the Tea Party: A slightly misogynist message (Probably a bit NSFW , too) to another aspect of the Tea Party that we have to deal with below... Passed around on Facebook ... Composer By: Ben Schmit
  • Just between Bluegal and me...
    I'd still say Bluegal and her own blogging Wonder Woman personae wins hands down regardless of her twitter note and in almost any photoshop contest up. My effort, a much deserved kick at The Economist can be found at ePluribus Media (+++ a bit more) while Bluegal's vastly superior effort can ...
  • Reaganing - Even Liberals will Drink to This!
    For a little levity during this political season, watch the 30 Rock episode titled "Reaganing." If you don't have access via on-demand, check it out: http://www.nbc.com/30-rock/video/reaganing/1255493\ There are tons of laughs, but the jelly bean bit will make any politico crack up! Enjoy...

SPL Center

  • Antigovernment Dad, Son Blame Each Other in Bank-B ...
    The trial of Bruce and Joshua Turnidge begins its sixth day of testimony in a Salem, Ore., courtroom today, 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 injured two ot ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 is, of c ...
  • Anti-Semitic Activist Now Into ‘Liberty Villages,’ ...
    The last few years have been trying for New Mexico anti-Semite and militia proponent Clayton Douglas , but that hasn’t dampened his entrepreneurial spirit — or the high esteem in which he holds himself. Douglas, 64, is a motorcycle aficionado who used to publish a biker magazine called Thunder Rider ...
  • White Supremacist Group Backs Private Academies in ...
    Old times certainly are not forgotten in some parts of the South. Two private Mississippi academies, set up in the 1950s for white children facing the unacceptable (to their parents) prospect of sharing their classrooms with African Americans, are still being enthusiastically funded by white suprema ...

change: org.

  • Marie Claire's "Fatties" Column Isn't the Real Pro ...
    By now I assume you've seen the column by MarieClaire.com columnist Maura Kelly entitled, " Should 'Fatties' Get A Room? (Even on TV?) " If you did miss it, Kelly ruminates on whether the title characters of television show "Mike & Molly" should be allowed to kiss, because some people expressed disc ...
  • Sudan's Fate: Sitting on the Floor of the US Congr ...
    They call it 'compassion fatigue', a staple of conversations surrounding civilian activism and charitable giving, referring to the feeling one gets when overwhelmed by the enormity of humanitarian crises, ranging from natural disasters to violent conflict. The sense that the situation is bigger than ...
  • A Solution to Fix Our Nation's Broken Water System ...
    Have a leaky faucet? Dripping shower? You may (or may not) call a plumber. But what if those problems were magnified to a grand, national scale? That bill is going to get expensive. Our country’s antiquated water system is like that found in many homes: one giant dripping, leaking mess. And, when I ...
  • Schools Exploit Girls Who Report Sexual Assault
    Ah, school. A place to enrich the mind, strengthen the body, and … get used as rape bait by your teachers? School should be a safe space for all, and victims of sexual assault are certainly no exception. But a rash of stories detailing how girls are not only assaulted by schoolmates, but taken advan ...
  • Political Animals: What's on the Ballot Tuesday fo ...
    Come Tuesday, it'll be over — the election, that is. Millions upon millions of dollars have been spent, the various candidates have more or less effectively demonized their opponents, and the pundits are on standby to rub their hands together and chortle about how they were right all along. (Regardl ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Terrorism Suspect Given 'Victim' Status by Polish ...
    by Matthew Day in Warsaw The status gives credence to allegations by Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi citizen suspected by the US of involvement in the bombing of the warship USS Cole in 2000, that he was held at an airfield in Poland and subjected to harsh interrogation tactics, including ...
  • Drones Spur Yemenis' Distrust of Government and US
    by Khaled Abdullah WADI ABIDA, Yemen - An afternoon tribal meeting in a remote desert valley in Yemen is interrupted by the unmistakable hum of an unmanned drone. The men, gathered in their chieftain's courtyard, rise to look at the sky. "I wish I had a weapon that could reach that aircraft," tribes ...
  • Border Guards Profiting from Haitian Child Smuggli ...
    by Gerardo Reyes and Jacqueline Charles OUANAMINTHE, Haiti -- The long-legged young man in a black jacket and shorts carries a child under each arm, given to him on the Haitian side of the border. He steps into the calm waters of the Massacre River and in less than 10 strides, without getting wet ab ...
  • UN Assembly Calls for End to US Embargo on Cuba (A ...
    UNITED NATIONS — The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly voted Tuesday for a resolution calling on the United States to end its five-decade old embargo of Cuba. The 19th straight annual condemnation of the embargo was supported by 187 countries, with only the United States and Israel against and ...
  • Pack Assange Off to Guantanamo, US Conservatives T ...
    by David Usborne in New York The White House and the Pentagon have failed to confront and contain the threat to national security posed by WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange who should be arrested as an "enemy combatant", voices on the US conservative right insisted yesterday. Frustratio ...

Lifehacker

  • Sparked Links Volunteers and Charities Together in ...
    Sparked links talented professionals with non-profit organizations for micro-volunteering opportunities. Have five minutes a day to copy edit? Five minutes to help with a web design problem? Sparks matches you to a non-profit that shares your ...
  • Decode a Laptop BIOS Password Using a Simple Check ...
    Whether you bought it on eBay and it came pre-locked or you set your BIOS password so long ago you can't remember it, for most laptop manufacturers resetting your BIOS password is as easy as decoding the checksum error code. More�� ...
  • Craft a Last Minute DIY Tombstone Prop for Cheap H ...
    If you've got some last minute Halloween decorating to do, don't limit yourself to some cotton spider webs and plastic spiders. These fake tome stones are shockingly easy to create. More��
  • Live Matrix Is a Massive Event Schedule for Live V ...
    TV schedules are great for checking out upcoming live television events, but little attention is paid to live streaming. Live Matrix catalogs live streams—whether you're looking for a simulcast network event or an totally web-based streaming e ...
  • FBReader Plus Dropbox Keeps Your Ebooks Synced on ...
    Android: FBReader is a snappy ebook reader for Android phones that, when combined with a free Dropbox account, becomes an effortless ebook synchronization tool. More��

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Linda Norgrove's parents refuse to blame US forces
    Parents give US credit for admitting kidnapped aid worker was probably killed by grenade thrown during Afghanistan rescue The parents of Linda Norgrove, the aid worker killed during a failed rescue attempt in Afghanistan, said today that her kidnap was their worst nightmare but they did not blame US ...
  • Iran 'willing to restart nuclear talks'
    Tehran ready to hold talks 'in a place and on a date convenient to both sides,' says letter Iran today told the EU that it was willing to restart negotiations over its nuclear programme after 10 November, potentially reviving talks that foundered a year ago. In a letter to the EU's foreign policy ch ...
  • US economy shows 2% growth
    While the US economy has grown in each of the past four quarters, unemployment has remained high, with the jobless rate stuck for the past two months at 9.6% The US economy grew at a faster pace in the third quarter than in the second, but the F ederal Reserve is still expected to pump more money in ...
  • Fine for failure to reveal child benefit
    Treasury to write to all 4 million higher rate taxpayers asking if their partner receives child benefit Government plans to fine higher rate taxpayers if they fail to declare that their partner receives child benefit were dismissed today by a senior Tory as "unenforceable". Ministers are planning le ...
  • EU leaders agree to revise rulebook
    Changes are intended to underpin multibillion-pound bailout of Greece European leaders agreed in the early hours of this morning to embark on a limited revision of the EU's rulebook to underpin the multibillion-pound bailout of Greece. In what was described by one official as "classic horse trading" ...

McClatchey

  • Concerns grow about election fraud, voter intimida ...
    WASHINGTON — As if this election season weren't already tense enough, fears about voter fraud — and some of the steps that are being taken to combat it — have created more worries.
  • Rand Paul says Civil Rights Act 'properly provides ...
    The landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act "properly provides" that no business should be able to discriminate against minorities, Republican U.S. Senate nominee Rand Paul said Thursday, bringing greater clarity to his position on a controversial issue.
  • U.S. soldier's widow speaks at Omar Khadr's Guanta ...
    GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- The Army wife left widowed by teen terrorist Omar Khadr and the Canadian "child soldier'' finally spoke to each other on Thursday, across the war crimes tribunal.
  • Poll: Boxer leads Fiorina by 8 points in Californi ...
    With stronger backing from women and independent voters, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer has jumped to an eight-percentage-point lead over her GOP rival, former businesswoman Carly Fiorina, according to the latest Field Poll.
  • Alaska's Miller tells Murkowski 'you lie' about NR ...
    Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller accused Sen. Lisa Murkowski Wednesday night of lying in a recent campaign flier about a National Rifle Association endorsement. Murkowskis camp defended the flier this morning, saying it's accurate and that Miller is the one who can't tell the truth.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Banking on innovation for green shoots
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya, Japan: � Maybe you thought it was all about the science of losing species and ecosystems, and the ethics of doing something about it. But as the final phase of this meeting is making clear, it's largely about money. Everyone here ag ...
  • Raiders of the lost bark
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya: The second Tuesday of this meeting was the day glamour came to town - in good and ugly guises. On the good side, I had the chance to sit down with Harrison Ford - an actor whose oeuvre looms large for anyone of my generation, from Wit ...
  • Obstacles to nature protection emerge as stakes ri ...
    � From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting in Nagoya: It's fair to say there's a deal of concern here that what emerges at the end of this fornight's meeting could amount to less than it was supposed to. � Mind you, it was supposed to amount to quite a bit - a pretty comprehens ...
  • Bushmeat - ending the monkey business
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting in Nagoya: Many westerners would view the idea of eating monkeys with deep distaste. But for people raised on bushmeat, in Africa and elsewhere, the equation is different. "Forbidding hunting [bushmeat] is not a solution for the Baka," Mes ...
  • Green dollars to save the planet?
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya: If there are any youngsters in your neighbourhood who are looking to you for career advice, environmental accountancy might be a good thing to recommend. Forget studying iconic animal species - forget plants - even forget fungi and so ...

The Wonk Room

  • DADT STUDY: Majority Of Troops Would Not Object To ...
    Tonight, NBC News’ Richard Engel has learned some early results from the Pentagon’s Working Group study of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. According to military sources who have seen the report, a majority of American troops would either not object to serving alongside openly gay troops or would raise any co ...
  • The Top Secret Plan For Repealing Don’t Ask, ...
    Servicemembers United’s Alex Nicholson — who attended Tuesday’s high-level meeting between President Obama and advocates of repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell — has laid out the group’s strategy for passing legislation to gradually repeal the policy during the lame duck session of the Senate. In a vide ...
  • Bank Of America’s Robo-Signer Comes Clean: & ...
    Bank of America, to its credit, was the only bank to freeze foreclosures in all 50 states as a result of revelations regarding the “robo-signers”: bank employees who were approving thousands of foreclosure without verifying basic information. However, BofA restarted its foreclosure machine just ten ...
  • RI-01: ‘No Climate Tax’ Candidate John ...
    State Rep. John Loughlin, the Republican candidate for Rhode Island’s First Congressional District, is part of the radical science denial movement that is a core plank of Tea Party ideology. When asked why he signed the Americans for Prosperity “No Climate Tax” pledge at an October 19 debate, Loughl ...
  • Lawmaker Behind Uganda’s Anti-Gay Bill &#821 ...
    David Bahatai, the Ugandan Member of Parliament behind the country’s controversial anti-gay legislation, told CNN International today that he is “confident” that the law will move forward, dispersing hopes that that the bill was shelved in response to wide-spread international pressure and condemnat ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Yes, It's Utter Contempt For Parliament
    Dale at Hill Queeries calls it: The Conservatives’ contempt for Parliament apparently knows no bounds as they are expected to deliver their fall economic update today, in Mississauga of all places. No, you’re not mistaken – the House isn’t sitting this week. For them to deliver it outside of the ...
  • Another Excellent Post on Dying Canadian Democracy
    Go read .
  • More Random Thoughts About Rob Ford and His Stupid ...
    Thirty-nine percent of uber-moron mayoral candidate Rob Ford's supporters like him A LOT. And why shouldn't they? Stupid people have to stick together. Big surprise: Fuck-head Ford's budgetary numbers don't add up. They're nonsense. In this he shares a lot with Fuck-head Finance Minister Flaherty. ...
  • Condoleeza Rice Coming to Toronto!!
    Yayyy!!! The moron, the scum, the corrupt, lying, stupid sack-of-shit will be gracing our fair nation and this fair city with her noxious presence !!! The Event Group is proud to announce the presentation of Condoleezza Rice on November 2, 2010 at the Metro Toronto Convention Center in Toronto, Can ...
  • Burma VJ
    Watched the movie Burma VJ (VJ="video journalist") and I've got mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, it's the real deal. A black-and-white struggle between an unpopular, corrupt, military dictatorship on one side and incredibly brave, civil rights-democracy champions on the other. More than thi ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Archive Of Geocities Released As A 1TB Torrent
    In early 2009, Yahoo announced that it was going to put Geocities out of its misery and finally shut down the site entirely, even as it was still getting 11 million unique visitors per month. Soon after the announcement, we had heard about some projects to try to archive the entire site (with some ...
  • New Cable Talking Point Against Cord Cutters: They ...
    We already noted that the cable industry is really trying to stick its head as far in the sand as possible when it comes to the fact that many customers are starting to drop their cable TV subscriptions. First, they pretended it wasn't happening at all, and that they had somehow "beat" the internet ...
  • For All The Cyberwar Talk, Turns Out There Have Be ...
    For all the recent talk of "cyberwar," with particular emphasis on the idea that hackers in foreign countries were bombarding US gov't and military institutions with constant internet attacks, it now turns out that "incidents of malicious cyber activity" against the Pentagon have been on the decline ...
  • If Spotify Is Making Labels So Much Money In Europ ...
    For a few years now, people have talked about Spotify as the "next great hope" for the recording industry. For those who haven't seen it, it's effectively an "iTunes-in-the-cloud." I've played around with it, and it's definitely a hell of a lot nicer than most other things out on the market and th ...
  • Lawyer Sues Facebook Claiming Other Users Defamed ...
    It's always impressive when you see lawyers file lawsuits which suggest they're not entirely familiar with the law. Eric Goldman points us to a lawsuit filed by a Nevada lawyer, Jonathan Goldsmith, suing Facebook and two Facebook users for defamation, due to some mean Facebook comments. ...

VacTruth

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

BroadSnark

  • Food, Water, Air and Care
    Remember Maslow’s hiearchy of needs?  Sure you do. It is usually presented something like this. You start at the bottom with the most basic needs.  As basic needs are met, you go up the pyramid.  I’ve seen a few of these pyramids.  They usually list the same stuff for basic needs – air, water, ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Let me kick things off with this excellent piece by Tony Karon.  You do not speak for me Netanyahu.  Israel is not my homeland. If you have been following this blog for any length of time, you probably know that my university studies focused primarily on human rights violations related to the drug w ...
  • Solidarity?
    I am really beginning to despise the word solidarity.  I’m constantly hearing calls for solidarity – with women just because they’re women, with anarchists just because they’re anarchists, with workers just because they’re workers. Do you know what I think of when someone asks for solidarity?  I t ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    This is going to be a short one, as I just got back from New Orleans and haven’t been reading much the last few days.  Also, tonight is my fourteenth anniversary and I have to get back to the bfriend. While I was in NoLa, I ran into some people who had just visited DC and [...]
  • Intellect as Evasion
    Normally, I like Jay Smooth.  But this video really irritated me. I understand why people are critical of the anti-intellectualism displayed by right wing populists who seem so disdainful of reading books, processing facts, or critical thinking of any kind.  But it amazes me when otherwise observ ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • Graffiti Rabbit Under Threat But Beaver is O.K.
    Photo: flickr hive mind When it comes to graffiti, a beaver is o.k. but a 12 foot high rabbit isn't. That's the decision by a local council in London who have decided that a huge graffiti rabbit has to go. They have deemed it a "blight on the local environment." That's a big disappoin ...
  • Thoreau Had The Right Idea
    Five blog-years or so after this tree hug began, amidst an increasingly dark political backdrop, the gush of digital media had become almost paralyzing. And so, while Botox-laced pundits spoke over videos of angry-faces, I made my Wilderness Escape to a place where only Chickadees "tweeted" and ...
  • Hungry Russian Bears Feasting on Human Remains
    Bear photo: AndyeMcee /CC . Cemetery photo: infomatique /CC Imagine a troubling future where heat waves and wildfires sweep across the globe,... Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • Today on Planet 100: The BP Spill's Unexpected Leg ...
  • Another BP Oil Rig is a "Ticking Time Bomb": Whist ...
    Photo: West Orlando News While there's still some fuzziness around what precisely caused the Deepwater Horizon oil rig to explode -- a series of malfunctions, design flaws, and human errors all played a role -- we can agree all agree on one thing: Poor oversight and shoddy regulation enabled th ...

Biosingularity

  • New virus ‘jumps’ from monkey to scien ...
    A never-before detected strain of virus that killed more than one-third of a monkey colony at a U.S. lab appears to have ‘jumped’ from the animals to sicken a human scientist, researchers report. Although it’s an unusual move for that type of virus and does warrant further monitoring, the researcher ...
  • Cancer Drug Zeroes In on a Genetic Mistake
    At some point in Karen Pihl’s life, one of her lung cells made a potentially fatal misstep. As the cell duplicated its DNA in preparation to divide, part of the gene for one protein became erroneously attached to part of the gene for another. The genetic malfunction bestowed the cell with the abilit ...
  • Cancer’s hiding spots revealed
    After receiving chemotherapy, many cancer patients go into a remission that can last months or years. But in some of those cases, tumors eventually grow back, and when they do, they are frequently resistant to the drugs that initially worked. Now, in a study of mice with lymphoma, MIT biologists hav ...
  • Insulin-producing Cells Can Regenerate In Diabetic ...
    Replacements for some diabetics’ missing insulin-producing cells might be found in the patients’ own pancreases, a new study in mice suggests. Alpha cells in the pancreas can spontaneously transform into insulin-producing beta cells, researchers from the University of Geneva in Switzerland report on ...
  • Prostate Cancer Results While You Wait
    In an office park in Woburn, MA, a volunteer presents his fingertip for a quick finger stick. A phlebotomist wicks up the small drop of blood with a specially made square of plastic, then snaps the plastic into a credit-card sized microfluidics cartridge and feeds it into a special reader. Fifteen m ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

  • Dead Aid: Is foreign aid killing Africa?
    Dambisa Moyo's book, Dead Aid, demonstrates an inverse relationship between receipt of foreign aid and economic growth and prosperity. She proposes alternative paths to economic growth for African nations that include freer trade, foreign direct investment, and the infusion of private capital.
  • Land war in the West heats up
    Uintah County in Utah is suing the Interior Department, alleging that the federal government is illegally withholding federal lands in the county from oil and gas exploration. The land is within the boundary of a proposed wilderness area that has never been approved by Congress.
  • Greens shackle national security - and renewable e ...
    Now environmentalists say we need the minerals that they̢۪ve been locking up for decades. China currently produces fully 97% of the world̢۪s rare-earth oxides, the raw materials needed for a variety of defense and high-tech applications.
  • Federal government's land grab faces growing resis ...
    Fearful that the federal government̢۪s already pervasive presence in their state could expand dramatically, Montanans are rising up against another looming Washington land grab.
  • Using biotech to survive mega-droughts
    The world will need drought and salt tolerant bio-crops in the not too distant future. High-yield farming research is needed to meet growing world food demands.

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

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

Pruning Shears

  • State-run Iranian media beats the NY Times on Wiki ...
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The latest document dump from WikiLeaks would seem to be one of those massive, stop the presses, drop everything and throw all available resources at it stories that dominates news cycles for weeks on end. One of the first revelatio ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims .The latest WikiLeaks document dump is remarkable: A man who was detained by Iraqi soldiers in an underground bunker reported that he had been ...
  • Banks created the foreclosure crisis - they should ...
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post On Tuesday Prairie Weather linked to this episode of the Diane Rehm show on the foreclosure crisis. Representing the mortgage industry was Tom Deutsch of the American Securitization Forum, and his oily insincerity positively oozed o ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims .Those links came from the Citizens for Legitimate Government daily email. You can sign up by writing Editor-in-Chief Lori Price (signup at l ...
  • Why not a Nobel for Western dissidents?
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post In recent years the Nobel committee has been willing to wade into controversies. A couple of years ago it awarded its economic prize to Paul Krugman, in what appeared to be a swipe at a sitting president and the still (inexplicably) ...

Organic Consumers.org

fotoFrontera

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

Norwegianity

  • Only 6 more vote suppressing days left until the e ...
    More: Obama pleads his case to Jon Stewart Latest poll shows huge drop for Miller with Murkowski leading (and the AK Supreme Borks make damn sure Murkowski’s got a shot at winning) [Mudflats] [Immoral Minority] Big Insurance has dumped over $100 million into anti-healthcare reform ads since health r ...
  • A great wind is blowing
    One way the right is getting away with their moneybombs is that local newspapers simply aren’t explaining what’s happening to their readers. From today’s NYTimes: Bruce Braley, a Democrat from northeastern Iowa, has been a popular two-term congressman and seemed likely to have an easy re-election un ...
  • As plebeian as I wanna be
    I thought I’d take the Charles Murray “elitist” quiz, courtesy of Ricochet. 1. Can you talk about “Mad Men?” No. 2. Can you talk about the “The Sopranos?” Yes. 3. Do you know who replaced Bob Barker on “The Price Is Right?” Yes. 4. Have you watched an Oprah show from beginning to end? No. [...]
  • Norm the Coleman
    Thanks to TPM Muckraker, here’s the text of Norm Coleman’s latest fundraising letter (red emphasis mine, pink emphasis for funny): George Soros Wants to Buy America’s Elections He’s spending Millions Again on his Secretary of State Project You Can Help. Dear Friend: Every Vote Counts. You know that ...
  • Cognitive hypocrisy / shitsliding away
    It turns out that the jackass with his boot on Lauren Valle’s head was one of Rand Paul’s county coordinators. [more on Valle] [still more on Valle] [more on cognitive hypocrisy] [more] [criminal summons] [Rand & Profitt together] Still it’s really hard to believe that Rand Paul is a bigger asshole ...

Public News Service

  • Study: Beware of Junk Science on Education Reform
    Study: Beware of Junk Science on Education Reform Phoenix, AZ – When Arizona, and the rest of the nation, make decisions on how to improve the education system, a Midwest research group is warning policymakers against using what they have discovered is "biased information." Comments from Teri Battag ...
  • Nat’l Conservation Landscape Check-Up: Popul ...
    Nat’l Conservation Landscape Check-Up: Popularity Increases Phoenix, AZ – It’s been five years since the first “check-up” on the health and management of the National Landscape Conservation System – which includes the Agua Fria (AH-wah FREE-ah) and Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monuments in Arizo ...
  • AZ Latinos Dispute "Apathetic" Voter Label
    AZ Latinos Dispute "Apathetic" Voter Label Phoenix, AZ – A national survey last week painted Latino voters as “less motivated” to go to the polls this fall. Arizona Latinos say that may be true elsewhere, but not in the Grand Canyon State. Comments from “One Arizona” spokesperson Tania Marquez (MAR- ...
  • AIDS Walk Reflects Changing Attitudes Toward Disea ...
    AIDS Walk Reflects Changing Attitudes Toward Disease Phoenix, AZ – The annual AIDS Walk Phoenix will be held Sunday morning. One local activist says such events have attracted more mainstream support as understanding of HIV/AIDS has grown. Comments from Barbara McCullough-Jones (muh-CULL-uh Jones), ...
  • Watchdog Group: AZ Needs Health Reform Ombudsman
    Watchdog Group: AZ Needs Health Reform Ombudsman Phoenix, AZ – With federal healthcare legislation taking effect, an Arizona consumer watchdog group wants to see the state ombudsman’s (OM-buds-mun’s) office expanded to deal with complaints and concerns about the new law. Comments from Serena Unrein ...

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

  • Blog from Cuba: At the birthplace of Celia Sanchez ...
    Sierra Maestra Walk | Blog from Cuba: At the birthplace of Celia Sanchez | An Phoblacht : "Friday 22nd October TODAY we travelled through Granma province, making our way to the historical landing site of the Granma boat. This was the boat commanded by Fidel which set sail from Mexico in 1956 thus ...
  • Columbus statue vandalized with red paint
    Columbus statue vandalized with red paint | Turn to 10 : "PROVIDENCE -- Portions of a statue of Christopher Columbus in Providence were covered in red paint, police said. The statue stands at the fork at Elmwood and Reservoir Avenues. A sign that read 'murderer' was also put around the statue's w ...
  • China must abandon censorship
    China must abandon censorship | Open letter | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Dear members of the standing committee of the National People's Congress: Article 35 of China's constitution as adopted in 1982 clearly states that: "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of ...
  • Christopher Columbus Day Is a Crock
    Christopher Columbus Day Is a Crock | The Stir : "It's easy to ignore this. It was a long time ago and who doesn't like the day off? But, his crimes against humanity are not easily forgotten. In other words, we don't celebrate Adolf Hitler Day or Pol Pot Week for a reason. Here are some of the thin ...
  • Killing Reconciliation
    Killing Reconciliation | War Is A Crime .org : "By Jeremy Scahill On March 26, 2009, Mullah Sahib Jan, a militant Taliban imam from the Mohammed Agha district in Afghanistan's Logar province, walked into the office of the Independent National Reconciliation Commission, the main body encouraging the ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Delicous Organic Pumpkin Halloween Soup!
    Today is Halloween… such a beautiful day to make a delicious organic (glossary/food-drink/organic-food.html) pumpkin soup! Eating healthy and making faces out of pumpkins is a great and fun way to celebrate Halloween. Of course there is a lot more delicious produce to eat this season. Just take ...
  • Less Pollution? I Am In
    Together we have to participate in making the world a better place to live. Less pollution is key! If we all help the environment as much as possible by doing simple things to reduce energy consumption, water use, oil etc the world will become better. Take a look at our article ’10 Ways to Celebrat ...
  • Uluru
    Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock, is often used as a symbol for Australia (glossary/categories/lifestyle/green-australia.html). It is sacred to the Yankunytjatjara and Pitjantjatjara, the Aboriginals of the area. Uluru and Kata Tjuta are the two major features of the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park ( ...
  • Second hand shops
    You may think that living green is not suitable for people with a small budget. Think again! There are many ways to be green, even when you don’t have that much money. Take shorter showers, walk (climate-change/vote-with-your-feet-walk-against-warming.html) or ride a bike and shop in secondhand sho ...
  • Environmental News 21/10/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Anti-terror stop-and-search: 101,248. Terror-relat ...
    ShareThis Anti-terror stop-and-search: 101,248. Terror-related arrests: 0 29 Oct 2010 Not one person involved in more than 100,000 stops and searches by police under controversial anti-terrorism powers last year was arrested for a terrorism-related offence, figures showed yesterday. The revelation w ...
  • One million cubic tons of garbage dumped in Tigris ...
    ShareThis One million cubic tons of garbage dumped in Tigris River 28 Oct 2010 The Tigris River, which bisects Baghdad and several other major Iraqi cities, has about one billion cubic meters of polluted materials dumped into it, according to a senior environment expert. Kamel al-Saadi, Baghdad Prov ...
  • Iraq war logs: 'The US was part of the Wolf Brigad ...
    ShareThis Iraq war logs: 'The US was part of the Wolf Brigade operation against us' --Omar Salem Shehab tells of torture at hands of notorious Iraqi police unit and says US forces were involved in his capture 28 Oct 2010 During the foreboding months of 2005, one police unit struck more fear into Ira ...
  • Halliburton used flawed cement on BP well: panel
    ShareThis Halliburton used flawed cement on BP well: panel 28 Oct 2010 Halliburton Co. used flawed cement in BP Plc's doomed Gulf of Mexico well, which could have contributed to the blowout that sparked the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, a White House panel said on Thursday. Halliburton's ...
  • Alaska judge's order deals blow to Murkowski's wri ...
    ShareThis Alaska judge's order deals blow to Murkowski's write-in bid 27 Oct 2010 Calling it a "clear violation of Alaska administrative regulation," a judge on Wednesday ordered the state Division of Elections to remove a list of certified write-in candidates from polling places statewide. State Su ...

Daily Loaf

  • Jealousy in the age of social media
    Years ago jealousy stemmed from too many stray glances, a simple flirtation with the waitress, or a partner’s sudden tendency to keep coming home late.  Today things are much more complicated. The internet has opened up a whole new realm of infidelity and jealousy. I recently received this emai ...
  • Meek denies he was set to quit Senate race, though ...
    Well, there certainly was a lot of drama last night, wasn’t there? The Kendrick Meek dropping out of the Senate race story? No, the first 7 1/2 innings of Game Two of the World Series.  But the drama ended in an endless bottom of the eighth inning when the Texas Rangers bullpen collectively couldn ...
  • Dining Guide: Downtown Clearwater (and beyond)
    Here are some of the culinary treasures you don't want to miss, plus a few more just outside the downtown area that deserve a mention.
  • PETA says they’ll help fund Lindsay Lohan’s rehab ...
    Members of PETA threw flour at Lohan for wearing fur in 2008, but are now saying they will pay $20,000 of her rehab if the leopard promises to change her spots.
  • Meek denies Politico story that said Bill Clinton ...
    When asked about that paltry 15% of support he garnered in yesterday's Quinnipiac poll, Meek disputed that's where he's really at in the race.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • PIIGS financial crisis is back. Ireland wobbling, ...
    Irish bond yields just hit an all-time high, a sure sign that the financial crisis in the EU is back. In classic denial, they are blaming the other PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy,Spain, Greece) for making things bad for them.
  • Tea Party leader booted for anti-gay comments, hea ...
    From an email conversation with reader Craig Woodward. Not sure you heard yet, but the guy that got booted from the “Big Sky Tea Party” for asking for and “instruction manual” on how to lynch gay people, just got picked up by the Montana Tea Party as their new president. So much for not being [...]
  • Protect yourself from Firesheep with a VPN
    Surfing on open wi-fi is no longer secure. Someone using Firesheep on the same open net can grab your cookies and even login as you on sites like Facebook and Twitter. A virtual private network will solve the problem. Mashable profiles several VPNs and also has info on how to install a VPN on your [ ...
  • Far right violence and the lack of response from p ...
    The lack of condemnation from politicians about far right violence speaks volumes as to their cowardice and duplicity, especially the silence from Democratic politicians. They could use this to their own political advantage if they wanted to. But that would require taking a stand regardless of conse ...
  • The crazy old uncle now has commanding lead over t ...
    Jerry Brown is now 10 points ahead of Meg Whitman, in what is a quite extraordinary resurgence.

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

  • Marijuana Will NOT Be Legal In California Regardle ...
    October 28, 2010 MSNBC
  • Aspartame – It’s a killer
    Aspartame Best use for it – ant killer. That’s the only benefit I can think of if I didn’t like ants! Where do we start with this? Go to http://www.sweetremedyradio.com and buy Cori Bracketts “Sweet Misery a poisoned world”. As a CHEK, MT, FDN practitioner I think this woman’s passion and purpose is ...
  • This Day In History – October 29
    1390 – First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people. 1886 – The first ticker-tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated. 1901 – Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of US Presi ...
  • Deadline Live – October 28 2010
    Jack Blood’s commentary on the news & topics of the day in the first hour. Hour 2 welcomes Jon Schaffer to Deadline LIVE. He is a heavy metal guitarist and songwriter from ‘Iced Earth’, ‘Demons & Wizards’ and his newest project ‘Sons of Liberty’.
  • Electronic Voting and Stealing Elections With Medi ...
    I don’t trust establishment politicians. I don’t trust the establishment media. I don’t trust that the two groups don’t have unwritten agreements to scratch each others backs. I don’t trust the establishment, period. The establishment is not out to look after my best interests, your best interests, ...

The Air Vent

  • All Cost, for No Benefit
    As we head into elections, liberals are going ahead with ever more government and ever more regulation as though there is no bottom to the cash they can print.  To solve global warming, they are now proposing regulations on semi trucks to limit fuel usage.  Semi’s already limit fuel usage in an ex ...
  • Weight of Water and Wind, Hurricane Pro’s We ...
    An email from Dr. Kerry Emanuel reproduced with permission from him and George Bryan.  It took a little while to get permission, but this is what I was receiving behind the scenes during the recent wind scuffle.  It sent me down another multi-hour adventure of reading. —- Kerry Emanuel: All:  The ...
  • Remarkable Heretic
    Guest post Dr. Judith Curry.  I asked permission to repost this here in it entirety because it is a perfect description of the current climato-political situation.   There is so much nuance and reality in it I promise that you will be impressed, unless you are TCO. Honesty and reality all balled up ...
  • Independence
    M10 linked again here, starts with the following equation. dQ = CvdT + PdV  + L dλ   — Eq 1, from first law of Thermo. From this equation many on and offline comments were sent to me which claimed heat release was a far greater concern, gavin placed one here although his latent heat [...]
  • Scientific World
    Scientific American on Judith Curry. Climate Heretic: Judith Curry Turns on Her Colleagues Certainly, it’s not surprising that media is not making money these days, they blame the internet but check out that gorgeous title for an otherwise reasonable article. For most of her career, Curry, who heads ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Looks to Hire Global Head of Agency Relat ...
    Facebook posted a job this week looking for a Global Head of Agency Relations to work in either Palo Alto, Calif. or New York City. The person filling the position is set to be responsible for defining the company’s “global agency strategy and developing relationships with our key agency partners.” ...
  • Informal Survey: “The Social Network” Polarized Us ...
    The Social Network, the new movie about the founding of Facebook, has gained enough positive reviews that it’s being cited as an Oscar contender. It’s a financial success, too, having already reached the $100 million revenue projections that its creators were aiming for. So did the movie have any ef ...
  • Facebook Testing Places Check-In Incentive Deals a ...
    Facebook is testing a new Places check-in rewards system called Deals which allows companies to incentivize check-ins to a Place. The system was discovered when AllFacebook received a copy of an email confirming approval of a social check-in Deals promotion from Facebook to one of the limited partne ...
  • Facebook Users in Brazil and India Can Syndicate T ...
    Facebook users in Brazil and India can now connect their profiles with their account on Orkut, Google’s existing social network. Those who link their profiles can choose to syndicate status updates, photos, Events and more to Orkut upon posting the content to Facebook. The Profile Link product allow ...
  • Walmart Opts-In to Group Deals Market Via Facebook ...
    Walmart looks to be getting into the group deals game. We’ve written previously about companies like Groupon and LivingSocial that work with businesses in different geographic areas to create special offers for potential customers. These offers spread via social networks in order to gather a critica ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Israeli police shoot "hated" Arab legislator in ba ...
    Jonathan Cook reports on the shooting in the back of Israeli Arab MP Haneen Zoubi by Israel police who used special paramilitary forces against an Arab demonstration provoked by ultra-right-wing Jewish extremists staging a march through an Arab town in northern Israel.
  • American democracy: Pro-Israel Tweedledum and Twee ...
    Maidhc Ó Cathail views the US mid-term congressional election campaign in a district of Illinois where two rabid Israeli stooges, Democrat Jan Schakowsky and Republican Joel Pollak, are vying with one another not over what they can do for the American people, but over which of the two cares about Is ...
  • Wikileaks for dummies: exposing the Iraq war crime ...
    Mamoon Alabbasi views some of the disinformation and spin propagated by the mainstream media regarding the leaking of the US’s secret Iraq war files by the whistleblower website Wikileaks.
  • Obama puts political expediency ahead of US Consti ...
    Lawrence Davidson argues that by upholding the principle of immunity from prosecution for senior officials who commit crimes – a principle that was established during George W. Bush's era – President Obama is undermining the Nuremberg principle that following orders is no excuse for criminal behavio ...
  • Israel's US propaganda machine at work
    Paul J. Balles views one of Israel's mouthpieces in the United States, the American Jewish Committee, and debunks some of their propaganda lines on peace, Iran, human dignity, energy security and the nature of Israel.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

  • BBC Radio Uses Industry Funded “Expert&#8221 ...
    I like the BBC. It manages to do a very difficult job being the national, public-funded broadcaster of the UK, while at the same time generally refusing to kow-tow to the demands of the state and it’s corporate owners. On the other hand there is a lot to criticise the BBC for, in particular its [... ...
  • After The Yes Men’s Chevron Spoof, What Next ...
    Strike while the iron is hot, or take a breather and think about your next move. The feelings of an Underminer during a hot spoof are often confused, but in some cases a retrospective look is necessary in order to understand what effective action really means. Case in point, the action by the Yes Me ...
  • BHP Billiton: New Chair, Same Old Story
    From the wonderful London Mining Network comes this report of the BHP Billiton. I have emphasised key phrases that demonstrate the hypocrisy of one of the most destructive companies ever to grace planet Earth. At today’s London AGM of the world’s biggest mining company, BHP Billiton, new company cha ...
  • NAU Receives $1 Million to Teach Native Kids How G ...
    Northern Arizona University have been given $1 million by the National Science Foundation to create a program to teach rural and indigenous people (you know, those people whose land was stolen from them in order to extract minerals and oil, and grow industrial scale crops) science and technology. Th ...
  • Million Letter March: Just Say No!
    If anyone sends anything to you asking to join the Million Letter March, treat it like spam. Look, I’m being serious: it’s the idea of Lester Brown, head of the Earth Policy Institute, who’s primary driver doesn’t appear to be saving the global ecology or humanity in general, but saving civilization ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

High Country News

  • Big rigs and rural roads don't mix
    A plan to let gigantic rigs travel Montana's winding rural roads for the sake of a tar sands project in Alberta, Canada, is insane.
  • Voting at the dump
    In rural Idaho, determined voters head out to a muddy dump to cast their ballots.
  • When voting, listen to the grass
    At the Land Institute's Prairie Festival in Kansas, the glory of the short-grass prairie is remembered and celebrated.
  • Solar spree
    New solar energy projects are coming to California and Nevada.
  • Fields of dreams
    "Farmworker Reality Tours" teach citizens about the lives of California's migrant farmworkers.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Meet Dustin M Dominiak The Creep Who Wrote Gawker ...
    I don't care what your political affiliation is, what Dustin Dominiak did in Gawker is disgusting.� Dustin wrote an article for Gawker talking about a supposed tryst he had with Delaware Senatorial candidate Christine O' Donnell on Halloween three years ago (sorry I refuse to link to the Gawker arti ...
  • Understanding Islam, Islamism, and Jihad: A Practi ...
    By Barry Rubin An Egyptian Islamist cleric named Ibrahim al-Khouli is interviewed on television, with translation by MEMRI. What can we learn from his words? A lot. "What is the nature of our relations with [the West]? They are relations of Crusader aggression against the land of Isla ...
  • Bill Clinton Convinced Florida Democrat Meek To Qu ...
    Three weeks ago we reported on a rumor that Florida� Democratic candidate for Senate, Kendrick Meek may soon drop out of the race and throw his weight behind former Republican, Independent Charlie Crist, which would have been a major blow to the real GOP candidate Marco Rubio. At the time I doubte ...
  • Interview With David Bossie Head of Citizen's Unit ...
    David Bossie is a conservative fighter for truth. During the Clinton administration, he served as chief investigator for the United States House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Where he led investigations such as the Whitewater land deal and the� foreign fundraisi ...
  • New Rassmussen Poll--Throw All The Bums Out
    It was John Adams who said, "In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress." According to the latest Rasmussen poll most Americans agree with the second President. In fact 65% of likely voters say if they had that opt ...

The Real Agenda

  • Halliburton and BP knew risk before spill
    Gulf of Mexico well had ‘unstable’ cement FT.com Halliburton and BP had data weeks ahead of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that showed the cement mixture the companies used to seal the well was unstable, but did not act on the information, according to a report by the US National Commission investigat ...
  • 56 percent of likely voters want Obama fired in 20 ...
    65% Favor Getting Rid of Entire Congress and starting over. US News and World Report Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, rapped by the White House for pledging to make Barack Obama a one-term president, seems to have the support of a majority of Americans. A new poll provided to Whispers says th ...
  • Fraude en uso de Placebo agita Ciencia Médica Mode ...
    NaturalNews.com Traducido por Luis R. Miranda Usted sabe todos los miles de ensayos clínicos realizados durante las últimas décadas comparando productos farmacéuticos a las píldoras de placebo? Bueno, resulta que ahora todos los estudios deben ser completamente descartados como desecho científico. ¿ ...
  • Placebo Fraud Shakes Modern Medical Science
    NaturalNews.com You know all those thousands of clinical trials conducted over the last few decades comparing pharmaceuticals to placebo pills? Well, it turns out all those studies must now be completely thrown out as utterly non-scientific. And why? Because the placebos used in the studies weren’t ...
  • Jack Conway Involved in Investigation Cover-up
    Courier-Journal.com A Jefferson County prosecutor was tipped off by Louisville narcotics detectives twice in the past two years that he was under investigation for possible drug use or trafficking, according to police records obtained by The Courier-Journal. When investigators learned of the leaks a ...

Wind Watch

  • Oregon county tells wind farm to quiet down
    HEPPNER, Ore. � An Oregon county is telling the owner of a big wind farm to quiet down so neighbors can sleep at night. The operator of the Willow Creek Energy Center southwest of Boardman objects to the unusual noise enforcement. Another wind farm developer active in the area has reportedly paid ne ...
  • 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, which ...
  • 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 ...
  • Wind farm developer cancels meetings
    The developer of a proposed wind farm in St. Cyprien de Napierville cancelled two public meetings scheduled for yesterday, citing the possibility of violence. “We would have preferred to meet the residents and present our project in a fully transparent way, but we have heard that certain people, who ...
  • Road closed after blaze at North Wales windfarm
    A wind turbine burst into flames, shutting a rural road for hours. The blaze at the 25-turbine Tir Mostyn and Foel Goch windfarm in Nantglyn, Denbighshire, lasted for about two hours. Debris left behind by the fire forced North Wales Police to close Drws-y-Buddel, between the site and Pentrellyncyme ...

Not My Tribe

  • I’m voting early, and I vote NO
    I’ll show you an absentee ballot. As the election nears, so loom the dramatic lights on the Tea Party bogey-persons. Talking heads are harping about how close the polls will be. Now Michael Moore is rationalizing his best, suck it up for the Dems. Medea Benjamin defends activism’s promise, that its ...
  • Who decided Ghurkas make good peacekeepers?
    So the Haitian cholera outbreak is being investigated by the U.N. and the suspect so far is a Nepalese “peacekeeping” base with sewage issues, in a blunt and literal sense. This is the device they’re most famous for perfecting and using. It’s a machete, really, with the bent-forward blade, which can ...
  • Rap News and Wikileaks thumb noses at US junta and ...
    I’d say Juice Media’s Hugo Farrant and Wikileaks’ Julian Assange are showing up the powers that be. Catch today’s episode of Rap News: Some may imagine kindred discontents at MSNBC and the Daily Show, but Jon Stewart’s Obamafest tonight couldn’t make the facade plainer. Developments this week with t ...
  • Brownshirt attacker demands apology from victim
    In the attack on Lauren Valle. Three attackers and one demanding an apology from Ms Valle. They’re also claiming they were just “restraining” her and “accidentally stepped on her”. It’s on the same level of Sarah Palin telling people “don’t sit down and don’t shut up” while having the Arizona cops v ...
  • In Iraq, willful killing, torture and forced disap ...
    Former Iraq Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz has been sentenced to death by the US Iraqi puppet regime. Pending an automatic appeal, the internationally popular diplomat will hang with other henchmen/assistants of Saddam Hussein for the crimes of “willful killing, torture and enforced disappearance ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • LOWKEY - TERRORIST? (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
    GlobalFaction YouTube.com September 10, 2010 Brand new track Produced by Red Skull taken from the highly anticipated album Soundtrack To The Struggle by Lowkey. Follow his progress on www.twitter.com/lowkeyuk and http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lowkey/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBanBpnAS2s ...
  • What I usually think of when I visit JREF...
    Related Info: JREF Forum posts: "Comprehensive characteristics of the pseudoskeptic"
  • How NWO shills are compromised ...
    "Attorney Steven Eggleston was suspicious when his boss pressed him to attend a weekend male retreat , but refused to tell him what would be happening there, saying participants were sworn to secrecy . So he did a Google search and found out why. Men would be holding hands and walking naked, blind ...
  • Aussie Trades Unionist Exposes 9/11 Cover-up
    alawson911 YouTube.com October 27, 2010 Listen to an overbearing gatekeeper, Jon Faine, attempt to rubbish the genuine concerns of an Australian trades unionist, Kevin Bracken, in an attempt to stifle any debate about the many anomalies in the official 9/11 story. Seldom have I heard anyone, who o ...
  • Top Ten Signs Your Country May Be Going Fascist

Fooducate

  • Snack Binge: It’s Not Your Fault, It’s the Package ...
    There’s an interesting study published in the October issue of the Journal of Consumer Psychology. The researchers, Adriana Madzharov and Lauren Block of Baruch College, CUNY, wanted to observe the effect of product package information on consumer behavior. More specifically, they wanted to see if a ...
  • “Grapples” – Apples that Taste Like Grapes
    We love apples. We love grapes. Kids do too. Great natural snacks. That’s why we were very intrigued to learn about the existence of Grapple (pronounced Grape – L). Grapple is a new fruit, or so we thought, that combines the look and mouthfeel of apples with the taste of grapes. After taking a clos ...
  • Trick or (tiny) Treat
    With Halloween coming up this weekend, you’re probably reading and viewing lots of advice regarding chocolate choices and snack strategies. While some may go out of their way to prepare and receive only healthy snacks, we’re of the mass market camp, allowing the kids to enjoy whatever is handed to ...
  • Whole Foods Market Pilots Non-GMO Labels
    Heard about GMO? Genetically modified organisms are plants or animals that have had their DNA altered through gene splicing techniques. This enable scientists to insert the DNA from one species into that of another in order to obtain a certain desired effect, for example resistance to pests. From a ...
  • Which is Healthier for Me – Tea or Coffee ?
    Inhabitants of earth can be roughly divided in to 2 groups: tea lovers and coffee addicts. Some countries are home to many more of one kind than the other. The US is a coffee nation, but the UK and many parts of Asia are firmly rooted in tea culture. That said, many people enjoy both drinks.  [...]

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Boy wounded in ‘attack by uncontacted Indians’
    Shelters built by members of an uncontacted tribe along the Curanja River, south-east Peru. © C Fagan/Round River Conservation Studies A fourteen-year-old Indian boy has been seriously wounded in an apparent attack by uncontacted Indians near his home in Monte Salvado, an indigenous settlement ...
  • Cyberterrorism knocks out tribal rights organizati ...
    Visitors to Survival's website see a temporary message. © Survival Human rights organization Survival International has been targeted by a massive cyberattack, knocking its website offline. Survival believes the attack is likely to originate with the Botswana or Indonesian authorities, or thei ...
  • Indians demand answers as Amazon is sold
    Oil exploration in Peru's Amazon has generated wide-scale indigenous protests. © David Dudenhoefer Peru’s latest Amazon auction has been challenged by indigenous groups after it emerged that they may not have been consulted before their land was sold off to foreign oil companies last week. An ...
  • Survival’s new petition for Botswana Bushmen goes ...
    Survival's petition has gathered signatures from more than 80 countries. © Survival A new petition calling on controversial holiday company Wilderness Safaris to move its luxury lodge off Bushman land in Botswana is gathering support from all over the world. While the Central Kalahari Bushmen ...
  • Richard Long designs T-shirt for Survival
    Actress and Survival supporter Gillian Anderson models our Richard Long T-shirt © Survival World-renowned artist Richard Long has designed a new t-shirt for Survival Internationalâs 2010 Christmas catalogue, modelled by actors Gillian Anderson and Sophie Okonedo. The design inspired by nature ...

Greg Palast

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • France and luxury expenses
    Expeditionary militaries engaged in COIN are expensive and seldom advance the national interest to a degree sufficient to offset the costs when hard trade-offs are being made:
  • The Blogger Meeting With Obama
    What Sean-Paul said, pretty much.  Overall the questions were less hard hitting than I would have liked, but I can understand why folks might be intimidated by the President of the US.  I expected nothing of Oliver Willis, and like Sean-Paul, I don’t read Kos. However, I’ll say publicly what I’ve ...
  • China’s entire military budget about equal to US s ...
    China’s 2010 military budget? About 78 billion. US’s 2010 spy budget?  About 80 billion. Both China and the US are on unsustainable trajectories, but the Chinese are betting the US hits the wall first.  I’m betting they’re right.
  • Gulf Dispersants Still Making People Sick
    The Obama administration and BP were warned, but they kept using Corexit (h/t: T-Bear): “I was with my friend Albert, and we were both slammed with exposure,” Matsler explained of his experience on August 5, referring to toxic chemicals he inhaled that he believes are associated with BP’s dispersant ...
  • The insurgency, the Iraqi army and unity kill rate ...
    Gary Farber at Obsidian Wings is pulling out numerous bullet points from the Wikileaks Iraq Warlogs. One of the points concerns casualty figures that the US military attributed to insurgents and the US military’s count of Iraqi government security forces casualties. The database records the followin ...

Age of Autism

  • The Age of Autism Mercury Medicine and a Manmade E ...
    By Julie Obradovic Last week I had the privilege of introducing Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill as they stopped by Naperville, IL on their book tour. As I've mentioned before, their book had a profound impact on me; it's not...
  • Two Great Interviews for The Age of Autism with Dr ...
    Here's a video interview with Mark conducted by Andy Wakefield that delves deeply into the issues the book raises for the medical community: Autism File Interview HERE . In addition, Wade Rankin interviewed Dan and Mark on Autism One Radio,...
  • The Age of Autism Book Tour Heads SouthEast
    From Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill: We're back from two terrific weeks in California and a jam-packed weekend in Chicago, and we'll be in Durham Wednesday night and Atlanta this weekend, pleased to share the stage with Andy Wakefield. This...
  • Dr. Bob Sears on Mandating Flu Vaccine for Healthc ...
    Read and comment on Dr. Bob Sears' Flu Vaccines: Should They Be Mandatory For Health Care Professionals? on Huffington Post HERE. The American Academy of Pediatrics issued a statement on September 13, 2010, supporting a policy of mandatory flu vaccination...
  • Jake Crosby on Having Asperger's and Being a Brand ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Below is Jake Crosby's article from the Brandeis University Magazine, see the original HERE. It’s not easy being a student at Brandeis with Asperger Syndrome — an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In ninth grade, however, aspiring to...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • JPMorgan, HSBC sued for alleged silver conspiracy
    Reuters – JPMorgan Chase & Co and HSBC Holdings Plc were hit with two lawsuits on Wednesday by investors who accused them of conspiring to drive down silver prices, and reaping an estimated hundreds of millions of dollars of illegal profits. The banks, among the world’s largest, were accused of mani ...
  • US Treasury Sees Escalating Risk to Home Prices
    NY Times – The uncertainty over the legal status of foreclosed homes in the nation could further depress home prices and delay the recovery of the housing market, the Obama administration said on Wednesday. The warning came at the first Congressional hearing since the magnitude of the problem gained ...
  • BP dispersants ‘causing sickness’
    Al Jazeera-Investigation by Al Jazeera online correspondent finds toxic illnesses linked to BP oil dispersants along Gulf coast. Two-year-old Gavin Tillman of Pass Christian, Mississippi, has been diagnosed with severe upper respiratory, sinus, and viral infections. His temperature has reached more ...
  • Australia: Flu vaccine approved despite children&# ...
    ABC – A flu vaccine that triggered fits at nine times the usual rate in young children last season looks set to be rolled out next winter. The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Federal Health Department has recommended the vaccine for approval, but with conditions. Read article
  • German Leader Pushes E.U. Treaty Change
    New York Times – After eight years of bickering over the latest rewrite of the European Unionâs labyrinthine treaty, the last thing most of its 27 nations want is to do the same thing again. The question is whether they dare tell that to Angela Merkel, the German chancellor. Mrs. Merkel, with the su ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Calico solar installation approved
    In two months, the California Energy Commission has blazed through seven solar power plant proposals, giving them the go-ahead to start construction in the desert. The most recent, the 664-megawatt Calico Solar Project planned for San Bernardino County, was unanimously...
  • EPA fuel economy labeling: Is there a better metri ...
    The U.S. Department of Transportation and Environmental Protection Agency face twin and equally daunting tasks as they revise the fuel economy labels as mandated by the 2007 Energy and Independence Security Act. Not only must they incorporate accurate fuel economy,...
  • Red palm weevil spotted in Southern California, al ...
    Palm tree lovers, look out. The California Department of Food and Agriculture says the red palm weevil -– which it has dubbed "the world’s worst pest of palm trees" –- has been spotted in the Laguna Beach area. The insect,...
  • Fifty species move closer to extinction every year ...
    Agricultural expansion, logging, over-exploitation and invasive alien species are pushing an average of 50 species closer to extinction every year, according to a study published this week in the journal Science. Unveiled as the conference on global biodiversity began in...
  • Brightsource's Ivanpah solar project breaks ground ...
    The weather was nippy and the casinos of Primm were looming within eyeshot, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was still in a jolly mood Wednesday morning. After all, the largest solar thermal project in the world was breaking ground on his...

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Hold mining companies Barrick and PJV responsible ...
    The livelihoods of families living alongside the Porgera gold mine have been attacked. Last year, local police burned down over 100 homes, slaughtered livestock and reportedly raped women all for the sake of corporate business..Please help them Submitted by beatrice d. to World �|� �Note-it! � ...
  • ACTA - People Before Profits: PLEASE TAKE ACTION!
    Millions of people rely on generic medicines to treat diseases like malaria and HIV. If the so-called Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) goes forward, they could find themselves unable to afford the drugs that keep them alive. Submitted by beatrice d. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Just Knock It Off
    Given what Obama has done, and is trying to do, it is hardly an act of hostility for him to ask Israel to continue its now-expired 10-month partial moratorium on settlement-building in the West Bank in order to take away any excuse from the Palestinians.. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �N ...
  • Please, don't send your kid on a Birthright tour ( ...
    Birthright, by invoking a sense of emergency, conveys the implicit message that whatever happens in Israel- without question- is a true emergency, and through this sense of urgency pressurizes your child into becoming a Yes-Man to any policy... Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Palestinian school set on fire, vandalized with 'r ...
    It appears to be the latest action in a campaign that extremist settlers,who live on hilly outposts nearby, call the price tag. They say it is their response to moves by the Israeli government to remove unauthorized settlements or settlement construction. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �N ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Historical Notes

libcom

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Help Separate Oil Companies and Elected State Offi ...
    On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Steve Kretzmann, Oil Change International wrote: Dear Scotts Contracting, The only way we’ll beat the power of their money is with the power of people, including you. Weâve built an amazing … Continue reading →
  • Kitchen Project Photos
    Kitchen Project Photos Before and After Kitchens Photos provided by Scotts Contracting. Click Here to Email Scotty for a Free Estimate for your Next Project Green and Eco Friendly: Products, Options, and Choices Available Make cooking, dining, and entertaining easier … Continue reading →
  • Carnahan Election News-Message to Roy Blunt
    On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Robin Carnahan wrote: Dear Scotts Contracting, Congressman Roy Blunt has been getting a little hot around the collar lately. … Continue reading →
  • Webinar:Strategies to Cut Energy Use by 50% in Com ...
    On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: On 10/27/10, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (DOE) wrote: > U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Building > Technologies Program > > … Continue reading →
  • 2010 November Election Ballot Measures-Sample Ball ...
    On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: 2010 November Election Ballot Measures-Sample Ballot [Copied from the St. Louis City Board of Elections Website] Scotty encourages everyone to vote this November on the issues and People … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

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

Iranian.com

  • When the Truth is Inconvenient:
     A new documentary, directed by Lucy Walker and produced by Lawrence Bender, entitled Countdown To Zero , is set for wide release on July 23, 2010. read more
  • علی شکوری راد آزاد شد
    علی شکوری راد، نماینده مردم تهران در مجلس ششم و عضو جبهه مشارکت دقایقی پیش با قید وثیقه آزاد شد. وی بیستم مهرماه بدنبال انتشار مطلبی در پاسخ به ادعاهای محسنی اژه ای احضار و بازداشت شده بود.
  • U.S: Syria, Iran and Hezbollah undermine Lebanon
    Syria, Iran and the militant group Hezbollah are undermining Lebanon's independence and are endangering its stability, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Thursday.
  • A nuclear offer Iran can't refuse?
    The United States and its allies are readying an offer to Iran that supports the peaceful use of nuclear materials but denies Tehran the ability to build a nuclear bomb. The international community went through this a year ago and failed. Will this time prove any different?
  • Is the U.S. Bullying Europe Into Cutting Ties with ...
    Tougher U.S. and European sanctions against Iran might be hitting its economy, with fears of looming inflation and cuts in food and gas subsidies. But that doesn't mean the Islamic Republic is out of friends; far from it. Even the U.S.'s close allies in Europe have stopped short of cutting their rel ...

Most Revolutionary Act

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

Doug's Darkworld

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

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Can You Grow Organic Marijuana?
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The state of California is abuzz with, well, the possibility of getting legally buzzed. On Tuesday, Golden State voters have a lot more than a new governor to consider as they decide to pass or nix Prop 19, a measure that would legalize marijuana use for people 21 and older. ...
  • Secret Ingredient in Energy Drinks: Caffeine!
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Ever wonder what it is in those B-vitamin energy drinks and supplements that really pep you up? The people who make them want you to think it’s the B vitamins. But ConsumerLab.com, an independent testing company, has released data showing that it's actually caffeine, the sam ...
  • 10 Real-Life Monsters that Threaten the Planet
    RODALE NEWS, EEEEEEEK!!MAUS, TRANSYLVANIA—Sure, vampires, werewolves, and ghosts are fun. But in the real world, there are even bigger, scarier monsters on the loose. Which is why Rodale.com compiles this annual list of 10 Monsters that Threaten the Planet. Some are creepy, some are kookie, some ar ...
  • Skipping Breakfast Linked to Heart Disease, Diabet ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—If you think skipping breakfast isn’t a big deal—who has the time, right?—you might reconsider that after hearing about some new research. In the study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition , Australian researchers examined whether breakfast skippers are s ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: How to Clean Up after Hallowee ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—In a perfect world, kids who love donning costumes and trick-or-treating on Halloween night will never turn into teenagers who love to use the occasion to vandalize their neighbors. But it seems an eternal rite of passage and one that can leave you with a serious mess to cle ...

big think

  • What Women Think Of When Thinking Of Keith Richard ...
    It is not often that a celebrity memoir makes the leap from the front page of the New York Times Arts section to its Op-Ed page, but then what less would we expect from Keith Richards , at least when “we” is defined as those of us who have loved and followed him and his Stones for an age. Here is a ...
  • Are Americans in Denial and "Mad As Hell" about Cl ...
    Have you noticed just how ubiquitous the phrase "mad as hell" has become in news coverage and commentary, the catchphrase used to support a narrative that anger is what is driving the uncertainty and shifts in the electorate or opposition to issues such as climate action?� The term is an allusion to ...
  • The 1000 Genomes Project Will Help Us Understand G ...
    It initially cost $3 billion to fully sequence all of the 25,000 or so genes that describe a human being. The resulting data is essentially an "owner's manual" for our body, giving us invaluable insight into our genes. From this genome, we can determine our chances of coming down with certain ... Re ...
  • Outside Money and the Elections
    The Democrats are bracing for big losses in next week’s election. While the Democrats may, as Nate Silver argues , still have some modest chance of retaining both houses of Congress, Republicans have already started to prepare an agenda for next year. But in the end this election may be remembered . ...
  • Filtrete: Revolutionary Real-Time Water Filtration ...
    While reusable bottles and tap water filters are by far the best alternative to bottled water, they can be, to use the highly scientific term, a hassle. To address this, design consultancy IDEO has partnered with 3M to develop Filtrete Water Station – a sleek and revolutionary tap water filtra ...

Information Liberation

  • Rap News vs News World Order (The War on Journalis ...
    Who let the Logs out!? Wikileaks drops 400,000 classified documents shedding new light on the Iraq war*the biggest leak of classified military documents in history*and sending shockwaves across the Fourth Estate. Rap News marks the occasion by invi...
  • Imperial Gangbangers
    Florida Republican congressional candidate Allen West has been accused of consorting with bad company, in the form of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club. Whatever else can be said about the Outlaws, they are a far more reputable outfit than the gang Lt. Col...
  • 65% Favor Getting Rid of Entire Congress and Start ...
    Let's face it: Most Americans don't have much use for either of the major political parties and think it would be better to dump the entire Congress on Election Day. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 65% of Likely U.S. V...
  • Foiled or Faked: FBI 'entrapment' tactics fuel hom ...
    A Pakistani-born American has been arrested for carrying out surveillance on the Washington DC metro as part of a suspected terror plot. Farooqe Ahmed is accused of working with people he believed were members of Al-Qaeda * but who were actually FB...
  • If You Ask The Question In A Certain Way, 61% Of A ...
    Slashdot points us to a story claiming that 61% of Americans "support an internet kill switch." Of course, this is a topic that's been hotly debated lately, with some attempt at passing laws that aren't really a "kill switch," but merely a coordinat...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

FAS - Secrecy News

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Boiling sun, alchemist, freewill
    The boiling Sun – In case you woke up today feeling important…there's a rather humbling picture that shows the scale of a plume of gas erupting from the surface of the Sun that would literally engulf the whole planet. More to the point, you could fit the Earth into the sun a million times over…and [ ...
  • When is yawning contagious?
    When is yawning contagious? – Apparently, yawns are most contagious at 7:30 pm. But, why? No one knows for sure even why we yawn, let alone why we yawn after seeing someone else yawn or even simply after seeing someone pretend to yawn. (If it were a change in air pressure or CO2 levels in [...] When ...
  • Six sexy science books
    Six sexy science books at least one or two of which would make perfect holiday gifts for the science geek, nerd, dweeb, or dork in your life. Remember Science is Vital and so are books. Science: The Definitive Guide by Piers Bizony – As a kid, I devoured books like this, you probably did too, [...] ...
  • Progress or PR
    Progress or PR? – SciDev.net recently published a “guide” for journalists on separating real progress from PR hype surrounding clinical trials. It’s a well-written and quite timely piece given the backlash against medical reporting in recent years. Unfortunately, this kind of advice is only ever tak ...
  • Scientists dodge Osborne’s axe
    Scientists dodge Osborne’s axe – The Science is Vital campaign has turned UK Chancellor George Osborne who recognised at the 11th hour that the £4.6 billion science budget should be maintained over the next four years. He accepted that research will be key to long-term economic growth. More to the p ...

RFF Library

  • Technoeconomic Analysis of Biofuels: a Wiki-based ...
    Biomass and Biofuels (article in press) vXXX pp.1-8 / by Daniel Klein-Marcuschamer, Piotr Oleskowicz-Popiel, Blake A. Simmons and Harvey W. Blanch (open access) http://www.lbl.gov/tech-transfer/publications/2678pub.pdf (paper) http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2010/10/28/biofuels-wiki/ (pres ...
  • California’s National Parks in Peril: The Th ...
    Rocky Mountain Climate Organization / Natural Resources Defense Council http://www.rockymountainclimate.org/images/CalifParksInPeril-full.pdf [From report website] Human-caused climate disruption could make Yosemite National Park hotter this century than Sacramento has been, according to a new repor ...
  • Newsweek’s 2010 Green Rankings
    http://www.newsweek.com/feature/2010/green-rankings.html NEWSWEEK’s 2010 Green Rankings is a data-driven assessment of the largest companies in the U.S. and in the world. Our goal was to cut through the green chatter and quantify the actual environmental footprints, policies, and reputations of thes ...
  • Increasing Energy and Resource Efficiency Through ...
    World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE), Session: Potential Impact of Climate Change Policies on Competitiveness and Economic Performance / by by Klaus Rennings, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) http://www.webmeets.com/WCERE/2010/Prog/viewpaper.asp?pid=79 Energy an ...
  • The Ripple Effect: Water Risk in the Municipal Bon ...
    “A Framework for Assessing Water & Electric Utilities” PriceWaterhouseCoopers for Ceres and Water Asset Managerment/ by Sharlene Leurig, PwC http://www.ceres.org/Document.Doc?id=625 [Press release]Growing water scarcity in many parts of the United States is a hidden financial risk for investors who ...

Scientific American - News

  • A Cut-and Dry Forecast: U.S. Southwest's Dry Spell ...
    Lake Mead, the massive reservoir created in the late 1930s by Hoover Dam on the Arizona–Nevada border, has dropped to its lowest level ever, it was reported earlier this month. The lake has been steadily growing shallower since drought began reducing the flow of its source, the Colorado River, start ...
  • Everyday BPA Exposure Decreases Human Semen Qualit ...
    The common industrial chemical bisphenol A (BPA) has been linked to many ills , including reproductive abnormalities, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Much of the evidence for these associations, however, has been drawn from animal or in vitro research and has been somewhat controversial as ...
  • Polio in Retreat: New Cases Nearly Eliminated Wher ...
    The world's largest, most intractable source of polio may be on the brink of elimination. In India the states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have produced more polio cases this decade--nearly 5,000--than any other location worldwide that has an active immunization campaign. Nigeria saw a handful more ca ...
  • Hard-Core Astrophysics: Massive Neutron Star Hints ...
    An extremely dense celestial object thousands of light-years away is serving as a natural nuclear physics experiment, providing clues to processes that cannot be reproduced in the lab. [More]
  • Plastic from Plants: Is It an Environmental Boon o ...
    More than 2.5 billion plastic bottles--partially made from plants--are already in use around the world in a bid to replace petroleum as the fundamental building block of everyday plastics. The so-called PlantBottle from the Coca-Cola Co. is made by converting sugars from sugarcane farmed in Brazil ...

RAWA News

  • AFGHANISTAN: More war victims, fewer landmine casu ...
    IRIN: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has opened its seventh prosthetic and orthotic centre in Afghanistan to help rehabilitate permanently disabled people, but the man leading the programme says more centres are needed. Alberto Cairo, who has led ICRC’s orthopaedic programme in ...
  • Iraq, Afghanistan among “most corrupt” ...
    AFP: Iraq and Afghanistan on Tuesday came near the top of a closely watched global list of countries perceived to be the most corrupt, despite efforts to stamp out graft in the war-torn nations. Nearly three-quarters of the 178 countries in Transparency International's annual survey scored on the sl ...
  • Iranian Weapon Shipment to Afghan Taliban Raises A ...
    Fox News: Two weeks ago Afghan officials intercepted a shipment of Iranian weapons en route to the Taliban in the Afghan province of Nimroz. “The police chief of Nimroz announced that they had intercepted a couple tons of Iranian explosives marked as food and toys,” said Michael Rubin of the America ...
  • Taliban schools to brainwash us: suicide bomber
    Samaylive: The Taliban have established schools on the outskirts of Pakistan's Karachi city where sermons are delivered to woo youths, said a teenaged would-be suicide bomber arrested Monday.In urban centers, the Taliban recruit from ow-income neighborhoods.
  • Afghanistan to develop $3 trillion in mining poten ...
    Reuters: Afghanistan is estimated to be sitting on $3 trillion worth of untapped mineral deposits, but poor infrastructure and investor caution are inhibiting development of its mining industry, its mines minister said. "This estimate is based only on 30 percent of the country's area; there is still ...

frogblog

  • Fonterra’s discharge into the Manawatu
    I’ve been looking into Fonterra’s discharge of condensate into the Mangatainoka River in the Wairarapa, which leads to the Manawatu. You can read it about it here. [UPDATE - Fonterra just announced that they are reconsidering their application and "decided to look at alternatives, s ...
  • Another podcast with a transcript
    Yay, the momentum is building and we have a transcript for another of our podcasts, thanks once again to a very awesome writer who’s been transcribing them for us! This one’s from a few weeks back, but it’s been super-popular, so click through to listen or download the transcript of ...
  • To queer youth: It gets better! (Now with video!)
    We admired the American “It Gets Better” campaign so much that we decided to make our own: The point of these videos is to reach out to young people who may be feeling alone and scared to provide hope, let them know that there are people who understand what they’re going through an ...
  • Greens hosting conference on Sustainable Economics
    How can we have an economy that works over the long-term, creating prosperity for our children and theirs? The Green Party is organising a cross-party economics conference next month to explore how to make the New Zealand economy truly sustainable. The conference will cover econo ...
  • The Hobbit Bill or Employment Relations (Film Prod ...
    For those of you who were having trouble earlier accessing the The Hobbit Bill [Employment Relations (Film Production Work) Amendment Bill] , it is now up here.

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Coddling the Rich
    A couple of weeks ago I sort of vaguely intended to write a bit about the extreme sensitivity of the American business community. I had just read someone (I forget who) saying that he had been out in the world chatting with business folks and had fully expected their anger with Barack Obama to rate ...
  • Quote of the Day: Secret Campaign Cash
    From Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing earlier this year about corporate campaign donations in the Citizens United case: With the advent of the Internet, prompt disclosure of expenditures can provide shareholders and citizens with the information needed to hold corporations and elected officials a ...
  • Public vs. Private
    Are public employees paid more than equivalent private sector employees? Several recent studies suggest they aren't, but AEI's Andrew Biggs thinks those studies are flawed. He's willing to accept their conclusions about basic wages, but thinks their estimates of future retiree benefits are off. Cali ...
  • Did a Small Stimulus Doom the Democrats?
    Yesterday Paul Krugman argued that if Democrats had enacted a bigger stimulus in 2009, they'd be looking at manageable losses next week instead of huge ones: Could the administration have gotten a bigger stimulus through Congress? Even if it couldn’t, would it have been better off making the case ...
  • How Plebe Are You?
    Claire Berlinski, after reading Charles Murray's Washington Post op-ed about out-of-touch elites, translates his criteria for eliteness into a "How Plebe Are You?" quiz. I think this deserves meme-dom, so I'm passing it along. Here are my answers: 1. Can you talk about "Mad Men?" No. 2. Can you ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 206: Ignorance
    Topics for the show: Ryce brought a 6 pack of beer…awesome Lebron makes a new commercial and kinda wants us to feel sorry for him Baracka Flocka Flame, Wacka Flocka Flame and other ignorance Satire sometimes makes you look dumber than the ones making you dumber than the people you make fun of Democr ...
  • “Just Stop Spending”
    So I’m going through my morning wake up routine of getting pissed off at the world to get my day started by watching Morning Joe when a discussion during one of the segments made me more frustrated than usual.  Joe Scarborough (you know the guy who starts every other sentence with “Back in 94 when [ ...
  • The Tea Party is About Civility
    …except when you protest/mock their candidate. I mean really…what the fuck?  Is this what male Tea Party supporters mean when they say they want their country back?  “I want my country back to the way it used to be…when women knew their place”. Come on.  Not only do the guys put their hands on th ...
  • IC 205: In This Economy?
    Topics for the show: Brandon from Where’s My 40 Acres is in the studio (PhenomBlak on Twitter) The Worst Concert Ever Kanye makes a 34 minute movie/music video and now we’re talking about the Illuminati…again Meth lab found in Georgetown University dorm room Relationships are like a full time job Jo ...
  • IC 204: Penis Trading Cards
    Topics for the show: We’re moving the show to Thursday now We hate fat people Part Deux Why are we fat? Just check out the nutrition facts on the Fast Food menu Steven Seagal & his “elite team” of doughnut eaters The NFL enforces the “illegal hits” rule but in the end it won’t matter [...]

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Researchers use math, maps to plot malaria elimina ...
    Two University of Florida researchers and their international colleagues have used mathematical models and maps to estimate the feasibility of eliminating malaria from countries that have the deadliest form of the disease. read more
  • Is the ice at the South Pole melting?
    The change in the ice mass covering Antarctica is a critical factor in global climate events. Scientists at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences have now found that the year by year mass variations in the western Antarctic are mainly attributable to fluctuations in precipitation, which are ...
  • Cancer's hiding spots revealed
    In a study of mice with lymphoma, MIT biologists have discovered that a small number of cancer cells escape chemotherapy by hiding out in the thymus, an organ where immune cells mature. Within the thymus, the cancer cells are bathed in growth factors that protect them from the drugs' effects. Those ...
  • FAK inhibitor effectively blocked colon cancer cel ...
    Researchers are one step closer to providing a new therapy for colon cancer, after findings revealed that a small molecule focal adhesion kinase (FAK) inhibitor known as Y15 effectively blocked cell viability, promoted detachment and apoptosis, and decreased tumor growth in mice. These findings were ...
  • Atlantic sea turtle population threatened by egg i ...
    An international team of Mycologists and Ecologists studying Atlantic sea turtles at Cape Verde have discovered that the species is under threat from a fungal infection which targets eggs. The research, published in FEMS Microbiology Letters , reveals how the fungus Fusarium solani may have played a ...

unEarthed

  • Why Wait? Vote Now To Defend The Earth
    With the national election less than a week hence, we at Earthjustice are asking readers to practice their voting skills in advance—by voting now for our project idea at Free Range's Youtopia Contest . Like many other groups tr ...
  • Couch Potatoes: A Little Yellow Sticker Can Save Y ...
    The familiar EnergyGuide label comes to TVs near you The best part about energy efficiency—aside from its amazing potential to cut national energy use by 23 percent according to McKinsey by 2020 (that’s the amount of energy c ...
  • Radioactive Water Is Fracking Dangerous
    Bombs, nuclear power plants and groundwater. What do they all have in common? Well, according to a new study published by the University at Buffalo (UB), the answer could soon be uranium.   The study conducted by UB geologist T ...
  • Massive Sockeye Salmon Run Blows Away Estimates
    Ever throw a nice little dinner party for a few close friends and have it balloon into a full-blown, packed-house rager? Well, for British Columbia’s Fraser River, this year’s sockeye salmon run has exceeded all expectations and ...
  • Gulf Oil Spill Seems A Fading Memory To The Public
    BP's Tony Hayward (f) and Bob Dudley Today's health headline is about how cigarette smoking causes Alzheimer's, but after reading the latest diatribe from BP's latest CEO, I wonder if there isn't another culprit -- oil. Just ...

Brave New Climate

  • Open Thread 7
    Open Thread 6 is getting overly bloated in its old age, at 650 comments, and is taking too much time to load. So it’s time for new one. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like â there is nothing âoff topicâ here â within reason. So [...]
  • SNE 2060 – can we build nuclear power plants fast ...
    The nuclear scenario I describe here requires around 10,000 GWe of nuclear capacity by 2060, to replace most of our current fossil fuel use. (For further justification of this 10 TW target, read this TCASE post.) My next step is to look critically as some of the critical underpinning assumptions — u ...
  • Pebble Bed Advanced High Temperature Reactor at UC ...
    When I visited California earlier this month, Tom Blees and I paid a visit to Prof Per Peterson and Prof Jasmina Vujic at the Nuclear Engineering Department of UC Berkeley. After chatting over lunch, Per took us on a personal tour of his lab, which was quite an experience. Per’s research focuses on ...
  • Peak Oil Discussion
    Given the flurry of heated discussion on the topic of ‘peak oil‘ on another BNC post, I invited one of the protagonists, Dave Lankshear (a.k.a. “Eclipse Now” — see here for his blog), to write up a summary piece which described his position on the topic. This is given below, and should provide a goo ...
  • Does wind power reduce carbon emissions? Counter-R ...
    About 1 year ago, I posted on BNC two important pieces by Peter Lang – “Does wind power reduce carbon emissions?” and a follow-up reply. Together, these stirred up considerable discussion (about 500 comments to date) and raised important questions about the ability of wind-energy to reduce emissions ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Blog from Cuba: At the birthplace of Celia Sanchez ...
    Sierra Maestra Walk | Blog from Cuba: At the birthplace of Celia Sanchez | An Phoblacht : "Friday 22nd October TODAY we travelled through Granma province, making our way to the historical landing site of the Granma boat. This was the boat commanded by Fidel which set sail from Mexico in 1956 thus ...
  • Columbus statue vandalized with red paint
    Columbus statue vandalized with red paint | Turn to 10 : "PROVIDENCE -- Portions of a statue of Christopher Columbus in Providence were covered in red paint, police said. The statue stands at the fork at Elmwood and Reservoir Avenues. A sign that read 'murderer' was also put around the statue's w ...
  • China must abandon censorship
    China must abandon censorship | Open letter | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Dear members of the standing committee of the National People's Congress: Article 35 of China's constitution as adopted in 1982 clearly states that: "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of ...
  • Christopher Columbus Day Is a Crock
    Christopher Columbus Day Is a Crock | The Stir : "It's easy to ignore this. It was a long time ago and who doesn't like the day off? But, his crimes against humanity are not easily forgotten. In other words, we don't celebrate Adolf Hitler Day or Pol Pot Week for a reason. Here are some of the thin ...
  • Killing Reconciliation
    Killing Reconciliation | War Is A Crime .org : "By Jeremy Scahill On March 26, 2009, Mullah Sahib Jan, a militant Taliban imam from the Mohammed Agha district in Afghanistan's Logar province, walked into the office of the Independent National Reconciliation Commission, the main body encouraging the ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

  • Izzie in HolyLand – Part 15: The Chinese are ...
    The Israeli army will be collaborating with the Chinese, and Izzie wants in on it Bzzzzzz! Izzie: What is it Ruthie. Ruthie: Ms. Holyland, the IDF spokesperson is here to see you, Brigadier General Avi Benayahu. Izzie: Right, I almost forgot about that one. Thanks Ruthie, send him in. Ben ...
  • The Q’aadan Curse
    How and why Zionist discrimination against non-Jews is made legal Our story begins with a middle class couple, who wanted to build themselves a house in a country settlement. The time was the early 1990s, and the couple was facing one major problem. ‘Aadel and ‘Iman Q’aadan were not, as their names ...
  • Oct 28: A Vote for Segregated Communities
    The Headlines: Jim Crow > The Knesset’s constitution committee voted today to proceed with a final vote on a bill, which would allow small localities to establish “acceptance committees” to screen people who wish to live in that locality. Despite the law’s insistence that discrimination would not b ...
  • “Every Jewish community needs its nigger”
    I hope that headline pissed you off. I really do. Because that’s how I pretty much felt this morning, when I picked up the paper. I was reading the coverage of the approval of a bill proposal to allow small communal settlements in the Negev and the Galilee to reject would-be newcomers, if they are u ...
  • Images: violent clashes in Umm el-Fahm
    Israeli police fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse Arabs who were protesting against a rally by ultranationalist Kahane supporters in the Israeli-Arab town of Umm el-Fahm on Wednesday, October 27th. 1,500 policeman, some of them undercover, escorted the rightwing Jews into Umm el-Fahm. —— ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • 1800 new affordable homes for Victorian communiti ...
    Eight new affordable housing projects in Docklands, Cheltenham, Dandenong, Footscray, Frankston and Ringwood are underway thanks to the partnership between the Gillard and Brumby Labor Governments.
  • Boost to Snowy River flows
    Environmental flows in the iconic Snowy River will start ramping up next week after the finalisation of a deal between the NSW, Victorian and Australian Governments to provide an additional 24 billion litres of water this year.
  • Australia’s biodiversity conservation strategy se ...
    Tony Burke, Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, today released Australia’s new strategy for biodiversity conservation on behalf of the Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council.
  • Gillard government welcomes forestry agreement
    The Australian Government today welcomed the landmark agreement between industry and environmental NGOs in Tasmania on the future of the Tasmanian forestry industry and the future of the state's native forests.
  • Coalition’s hypocrisy on Murray Darling Basin
    For the last two weeks the Coalition has been shouting from the roof tops that they oppose the Guide to the Draft of the Murray Darling Basin Plan.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Interview of Attorney Dustin A. Zacks – Fore ...
    The consters and Wall Street Fat Cats are not slowing down with their fraud and abuse in the face of all this scandal….to the contrary, they’re speeding it up.  We need our local judges to stop all this.  We must demand that they stop it. We are all in very dire straits, it impacts not just [...]
  • BOMBSHELL- FREE HOUSE (sorry David J. Stern)!
    The bombshells are going to start falling like infantry fire on a battlefield….there are consequences for lies and fraud and open deceit…. Judges can either ignore the blatant lies, fraud and deceit or they can enter the Orders just like this one.  If they enter Orders like this it will be a sign t ...
  • BOMBSHELL- Tampa Tribune Article on Service of Pro ...
    Fraud, sidestepping and abuses permeate the entire foreclosure process.  And oh yeah, inflated and billing and charges for services that were not performed.  But none of that matters because it’s foreclosure right?  And who cares about homeowners in foreclosure anyway?  Well how about all  of u ...
  • A Brilliant Order From Judge Shack- Quoting Florid ...
    Everyone in Florida knows Ice Legal is the very best in foreclosure defense.  I find it so incredibly significant that Ice’s work is now being quoted verbatim by judges in foreclosure cases all across the country. Read the attached Order that was just released by New York Judge Arthur Shack.  Like ...
  • Congressional Testimony on FraudclosureGate- Scary ...
    There is massive, systemic failures throughout the foreclosure process….our financial markets are in real trouble. Watch the Live Testimony Here Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Love In A Time of Cholera
    As if Haiti hasn’t faced enough since the devastating earthquake earlier this year, the island state now is under onslaught from a cholera epidemic.  In many ways it was inevitable. While many have criticized the humanitarian response to that initial Haitian disaster as being too slow (partly true) ...
  • A Day For Peace
    A special day and a special opportunity.  Wearing a bow tie in honour of Lester Pearson, I was privileged to speak in the House in honour of United Nations Day and peacekeeping. Filed under: Personal, Politics, The New Internationalism
  • Hope In a Time of War
    It’s like something put away in a cupboard, to be dealt with another time.  But for our troops in Afghanistan there is no such luxury.  Nor is it for Afghan community leaders (including women), NATO commanders or world leaders. The conflict in that remote part of the world, and from whence the 9/1 ...
  • Grading Badges
    An odd article by Andrew Coyne in Maclean’s, in which he laments the usefulness of the United Nations and maintains that even if this country lost the Security Council seat because of the government’s pro-Israel stance, it was, in effect, a “badge of honour.”  Judging from the response to his observ ...
  • The Life of Brian
    For so many citizens, Brian Mulroney represents the past in this country.  This is what Stephen Harper is counting on.  Yet Mulroney’s personal difficulties aside, his nine years in office represented a kind of era that was one of this country’s crowning achievements in internationalism.  In a phras ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • What happens when you cross a spider with a goat? ...
    Complete the following: Setting: A well known and sometimes off-beat technology commentator explores new breakthroughs on a popular TV science and tech show. Story: Spiders’ silk is incredibly strong, but in short supply (ever tried harvesting silk from a spider?). So why not take the gene responsib ...
  • Beyond the obvious – lessons from the Deepwater Ho ...
    The immediate lessons from the Deepwater Horizon disaster are pretty obvious – we (or at least somebody) messed up!  But what about the less-obvious lessons – especially those concerning technology innovation and how it’s handled?  The Fall 2010 issue of Findings – the University of Michigan Schoo ...
  • ASME launches a new series of nanotechnology podca ...
    ASME – the organization that used to be known as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers – has just launched a series of educational podcasts on nanotechnology that are well worth checking out. Between now and next February, the ASME Nanotechnology Institute will be posting new video and/or aud ...
  • Scientist listen to the public? Surely you’re joki ...
    With apologies to Chris Mooney, and all the many scientists that really do get the need to listen to people.  And also with a rather large tongue in my cheek: Dear Mr Mooney, I’ve been way too busy this week doing important sciency stuff to engage with the trivialities of the popular press.  But t ...
  • I’m A Scientist 2010 ends, and the winner is…
    An hour or so ago, the final winners of I’m A Scientist, Get Me Out Of Here were announced.  To my surprise, I made it to the last two standing in the Silicon Zone yesterday, and have been on the edge of my seat today waiting to see whether I was going to be ousted [...]

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  • Tea Party Driving Some Republicans Left
    Excerpt: "Similar groups can be found in heated races elsewhere nationwide, often those featuring Tea Party-endorsed candidates, attacked by Democrats and some moderate Republicans as extreme." A supporter at a Sarah Palin/Tea Party rally, Boston Commons, Massachusetts, 04/14/10. (photo: Brian Sn ...
  • Halliburton, BP Knew Wellhead Cement Casing Was Fl ...
    The report begins: "Halliburton knew weeks before the fatal explosion of the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico that the cement mixture they planned to use to seal the bottom of the well was unstable but still went ahead with the job, the presidential commission investigating the accident said on Th ...
  • Obama's Daily Show Defense
    "Though there was laughter interspersed throughout Wednesday's show, the big jokes typically seen on the Daily Show were few and far between." President Obama made a historic appearance on Comedy Central's 'Daily Show with Jon Stewart,' 10/27/10. (photo: Roger L.Wollenberg/Getty Images) Sor ...
  • Christine O'Donnell Nosediving in Delaware
    Excerpt: "Republican Christine O'Donnell, whose September 14 upset of veteran moderate Rep. Michael Castle in Delaware's Republican primary was considered the tea party's biggest coup yet, is far behind in most polls, raising questions about the movement's clout among more mainstream voters." US ...
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    UN Human Rights Chief Navi Pillay: "The US and Iraqi authorities should take necessary measures to investigate all allegations made in these reports and to bring to justice those responsible for unlawful killings, summary executions, torture and other serious human rights abuses" WikiLeaks found ...
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